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Alright, listen up—This week on *The Rotten Horror Picture Show*, Clay and Amanda are diving into F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent horror classic *Nosferatu*, the original unauthorized adaptation of *Dracula* that introduced the world to Max Schreck's eerie, claw-fingered, sunken-eyed Count Orlok. They'll talk about the film's German Expressionist style, its haunting atmosphere, and its place in horror history. And yeah, that's all great—but can we take a second to talk about the *rats*? No one warned me there'd be *this many rats*. Scurrying all over the place, spreading the plague, being generally shifty. And I *know* they're after my cheese. Now don't get me wrong. I'm not saying *Nosferatu* isn't a masterpiece. I'm not saying it's not one of the most important horror films ever made. What I *am* saying is that this movie has *way* too many rats. And I don't trust ‘em. Not one bit. See, I left a perfectly good block of sharp cheddar in my cooler on the porch, and ever since I watched *Nosferatu*, I can't stop looking over my shoulder. Those little creeps are organized. They see me watching the movie, they know I'm scared, and now they're probably coordinating some kind of tiny rat heist as we speak. I respect *Nosferatu* as a horror film, I do. But I'd respect it *more* if it had fewer disease-ridden, cheese-hungry vermin in it. So if you're here for the horror history, the incredible cinematography, and the discussion of silent film artistry, you're in luck. But if you're here for a movie that *doesn't* make you paranoid about rodents infiltrating your food supply, well… maybe keep a close eye on your cooler. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go buy a lot of traps. Enjoy the episode, not the rats. Rats are gross.patreon.com/thepenskyfile

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3486 – October 7, 2024 – 29 Days and Scurrying… This is the time for all of us… America… to take a good look at what we want in our government. You should seriously question the reasoning behind the rhetoric of democrats (and their RINO buddies) when they say… they believe the 1st and 2nd Amendment need to altered, controlled, ... The post 29 Days and Scurrying… appeared first on CSC Talk Radio.

Are you in scurrying mouse mode, expecting everyone else or some guru to solve all of your problems? Or are you working for someone like that? "At 9am do this, at 2pm do this, at 4:55pm get on the phone with me and talk me off the ledge..."

Last time we spoke about the Siege of Myitkyina. General Vinegar Joe made huge gains in northern Burma. Myitkyina's airstrip was taken, now the main town was under siege. The Japanese resistance around Kamaing was greatly reduced. However setbacks were also seen, such as the Chindits abandonment of the Blackpool stronghold, prompting Stiwell to toss a new attack at Mogaung. Likewise American officers embedded with the Chinese units were sending reports of how the Chinese were suffering very heavy casualties and utilizing far too much ammunition for their objectives. Regardless, it seemed the Ledo Road to China was going to pan out. Calvert chose a new stronghold location, this time at Lakum, where his Chindits faced heavy resistance. Over on New Guinea, the allies were advancing west of their new beachheads to assault Lone Tree Hill. Soon assaults against Arare and Biak would also be made. This episode is the Landing against Biak Welcome to the Pacific War Podcast Week by Week, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about world war two? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on world war two and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel you can find a few videos all the way from the Opium Wars of the 1800's until the end of the Pacific War in 1945.  In the last episode, plans were made for an amphibious assault against Biak, yet there were some hiccups. The Hurricane Task Force staged at Humboldt Bay, were facing issues with terrain. Terrain considerations forced most of the task force to assemble on the southern of the two sand spits dividing Humboldt and Jautefa Bays. On this spit the beach had a steep slope which made it impossible for more than a very few LST's to be held against the shore line long enough to load bulk stores. The LST's had to beach on the northern spit, where clearing and salvage after the fires and explosions which had ravaged that beach during the early phases of the Hollandia operation had not been completed. In addition, the northern spit was being used to unload supplies destined to be used at Hollandia, to load supplies being sent to the Tornado Task Force at Wakde-Sarmi, and to unload cargo for the Hurricane Task Force. No road connected the northern and southern sandspits. Consequently, most of the supplies and equipment, as well as many of the troops, had to be transported by water from the southern to the northern loading area. There were only a few LCT's available for this work and only by working twenty-four hours a day, were all the troops and supplies transported to the loading beach in time for departure on the 25th.  Finally, General Fuller's task force would depart the bay on the evening of May 25th, covered by Admiral Fectheler's cruisers and destroyers. Taking the most direct route, the convoy would be able to arrive off Biak on the morning of May 27th. At the time, Biak was held by the Biak Detachment, under Colonel Kuzume Naoyoki. It consisted of the 222nd Regiment; the 19th Guard Unit; and some rear echelon, service, and construction units. There were 10000 IJA personnel, 4000 were combat troops in total and 2000 IJN personnel, 125 were combat troops in total. In view of the intense enemy concentration on the Sorido-Mokmer airfield sector, Colonel Kuzume decided on May 22nd to shift the operational center of gravity of the detachment to the west. The 1st Battalion, 222nd Infantry, was relieved of its mission in the sector east of Opiaref and sent to replace the naval garrison unit in the Bosnek sector. The naval troops were, in turn, shifted westward into the Sorido airfield sector, while the tank company was brought over from Arfak Saba and assembled in the area northwest of Mokmer airfield. Although most of the Japanese efforts had been directed to the construction of airfields, Kuzume had ably managed to build a system of strong cave positions.  In this amphitheater-like terrain and along the low ridge, both of which were covered with thick growth, the Biak Detachment emplaced many field artillery and antiaircraft weapons. There were also many automatic weapons and a few mortars. All these weapons were located within range of Mokmer Drome and most of them could also fire on Borokoe Drome. The key to Colonel Kuzume's defenses in this area was the West Caves area, located about 50 yards north of the low ridge and about 1200 yards north of the western end of Mokmer Drome. The West Caves were actually three large sumps, or depressions in the ground, which were connected by underground tunnels and caverns. The caves were ringed with pillboxes, bunkers, and foxholes, and an extensive system of coral and log emplacements was built along the spur ridge above Mokmer Drome. Biak naval headquarters was originally located in the West Caves, which could shelter 1000 men, and Colonel Kuzume planned to move Biak Detachment headquarters to the caves for the final defense of the airdromes. As long as the West Caves and the positions along the low ridge were occupied by the Japanese, Allied planes could not safely use the airfields. Chief of Staff of 2nd Area Army, Lieutenant-General Numata Takazo and Rear-Admiral Senda Sadatoshi, Commander of the 28th Special Base Force, with HQ at Manokwari had come to visit the garrison just as the Allies were preparing to invade, with Numata choosing to stay on the island to direct the battle alongside the resourceful Kuzume. Yet all of the Japanese at Biak were about to be caught with their pants down as many of their troops were scattered about the island. The Biak Detachment would not be in their defensive positions on Z Day but were apparently being held mobile. Detachment headquarters, the 1st Battalion of the 222nd Infantry about half of the 19th Naval Guard Unit, and miscellaneous service organizations were all located in a cave and garden area on the inland plateau about 3,000 yards north-northwest of Bosnek. Outposts at Saba and Opiaref were held by the 1st Company, 222nd Infantry, and a platoon of the 2nd Company was stationed along the main ridge behind Bosnek. The bulk of the 2nd Battalion, the rest of the naval guard unit, and some naval antiaircraft organizations were located at the East Caves. Naval headquarters, various naval service units, and the 6th Company, 222nd Infantry, were at the West Caves. Most of the army service units were at Mokmer Drome or disposed along the low ridge north of that field. The bulk of the 3rd Battalion was posted at the west end of the same airfield. One platoon of the 10th Company was at Sorido, guarding the southern terminus of a trail which led north across the island to Korim Bay. The tanks had not yet moved to Saba but were assembled on the terrace north of the eastern end of Mokmer Drome. On the morning of May 27, Fechteler carried out his naval fire support as planned and General Kenney's bombers also launched their air bombardment, receiving little answering fire from the surprised Japanese shore installations. Yet there was a westerly current off Biak that would push the transports over 3000 yards to the west, which would complicate the landings. A rocket-equipped LCI, which began firing on the beaches about H minus 4 minutes, led the first LVT wave toward the shore. The LCI fire, consisting of rockets and fire from automatic weapons, continued until H plus 2 minutes, when it was lifted because it began to endanger the troops who were unloading and pushing inland. The first waves of LVTs then formed rapidly and crossed the line of departure; but because of the westerly current and the smoke and dust raised by the preliminary bombardment, they would end up landing on a mangrove swamp almost 3000 yards west of Green Beach 4. Nevertheless, by 7:30, the 2nd Battalion, 186th Regiment had successfully landed and was pushing beyond the swamps to the main coastal road connecting Bosnek and the airfields. Five minutes later, Companies I and K of Colonel Newman's 186th Regiment also landed about 700 yards east of the 2nd Battalion. Realizing about the westerly current, Fechteler then started to turn succeeding waves eastward to the proper beaches, with the troops coming ashore in disorder for the next thirty minutes.  With more than half of his regiment already far west of the proper landing beaches, and knowing that the landing had become disorganized and that the rest of the boat waves were being delayed, Colonel Newman asked the task force commander if the 186th Regiment should continue with its original mission or whether it might be feasible to switch missions with the 162nd Regiment and start moving west toward the airfields. General Fuller, the Task Force commander, ordered the 186th Regiment to continue with its original mission. As events turned out, it might have been better had the regiment continued west, and it is possible that a great deal of time might have been saved if the missions had been switched. In the first place, the maps with which the task force was supplied were so inaccurate that both regiments soon came upon terrain features that threw much planning out of gear. Secondly, most of the 186th Regiment had landed so far west that both it and the 162nd consumed much valuable time getting to their proper locations. Finally, an exchange of missions might have been executed without much difficulty, for, in amphibious training, the 41st Division had learned to switch missions when such mistakes were made. Luckily, the landings would face no opposition, though the confusion would give Kuzume time to prepare his defense. By 8:00, the rest of Newman's 3rd Battalion had landed to secure the jetties; and by 10:30, Companies I and K arrived to take their position west of Old Jetty. Entangled with the landed artillery and tanks, the 2nd Battalion would only be able to reach the area east of New Jetty by noon, then sending patrols to the north and east to secure the Bosnek perimeter. The face of the coral ridge behind Bosnek was found to be rough and honeycombed with small caves. Companies F and G, aided by elements of the Support Battery, 542nd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment, sent patrols along the steep slope and to the top of the ridge to investigate many of the caves, most of which proved to be unoccupied, though three Japanese were killed near caves directly north of New Jetty. The companies moved over the first slope to a second ridge line which was parallel to and about seventy-five yards north of the first. Company G started looking for a trail which was thought to lead over the ridges to the plateau north of Bosnek, but it was Company E which, shortly after noon, found the ill-defined track. A few Japanese from the 2nd Company, 222nd Regiment in a pillbox temporarily prevented the two companies from securing the trail, which was not cleared until 2:00 hours, after the pillbox had been destroyed. During the late afternoon, patrols were sent north of the ridges to the area which the Japanese had surveyed for an airdrome. A few Japanese , most of whom fled upon being sighted, were found at the airdrome site, but there were no signs of large organized enemy groups north, northeast, or east of Bosnek insofar as the 186th Infantry could ascertain. The only enemy action during this day would be an air attack by four Japanese bombers.  A few enemy planes which flew over Biak around noon fled before anti-aircraft guns from ship or shore could be brought to bear. But all anti-aircraft crews were on the alert to expect further Japanese air action late in the afternoon. Because of the difference in time of sunset at the closest Allied and Japanese bases, Japanese aircraft could remain in the Biak area about half an hour after Allied planes had to leave. The expected attacks developed shortly after 4:00, when four Japanese two-engined bombers, accompanied by three or four fighters, approached the beachhead from the north, flying low over the ridge behind Bosnek and thus escaping radar detection. Some excellent targets were ready for the Japanese. Admiral Fechteler had permitted four LST's to tie up side by side at one of the jetties. Although he knew this move to be tactically unsound, he considered it justified because of the importance of the cargo aboard the LST's and because the jetty provided the only good spot for LST beaching. The Japanese bombing was accurate, but the LST's were lucky. None of the Japanese bombs exploded! Though the Japanese planes also bombed and strafed the beaches, none of the bombs dropped ashore exploded, while the strafing runs killed only one man and wounded two others. All four bombers were shot down by ground or ship-based antiaircraft, and the Japanese fighters were driven off by some Allied fighter planes which had remained late in the area. One Japanese bomber crashed into the water, sideswiping an SC which was standing offshore. Two of the ship's crew were killed and nine wounded. The SC had to be towed away for repairs, and a few other naval vessels suffered minor damage from strafing. There was negligible damage to supplies and equipment ashore. Total Allied losses as a result of the air raid were three killed and fourteen wounded, most of them naval personnel. Unloading also progressed satisfactorily, with 12000 men, 12 medium tanks, 29 artillery pieces, about 500 vehicles, and an estimated 3000 tons of bulk cargo being landed by 5:15. Meanwhile, Colonel Haney's 162nd Regiment had begun landing shortly after 9:00 and immediately started moving west along the main coastal road towards Biak's three airdromes. Moving with speed, the 3rd Battalion passed through Ibdi village at 10:30 and then began to traverse the difficult Parai Defile. At 11:15, the regimental Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon discovered an enemy position on the face of the cliff west of Ibdi, that the 162nd Infantry first learned of the existence of the Parai Defile. At 1:00 the 3rd Battalion, with six tanks of the 603rd Tank Company leading the advance, arrived at the eastern entrance to the defile. There was no large Japanese force stationed along the cliff, but the few Japanese had such a tactical advantage over troops moving along the coastal road that they were able to delay the 162nd Infantry's advance for some time. Meanwhile Company E, which had been attempting to advance along the ridge north of the rest of the regiment, had found that the terrain and thick vegetation made progress along that route next to impossible. Since the company was lagging far behind the rest of the advance and since strong enemy opposition had not yet been encountered either inland or on the coastal route, it withdrew to join the rest of the 2nd Battalion on the beach, and by the time that battalion had reached Parai, Company E was back in place.  By 3:00, the 3rd Battalion had successfully pushed through the defile and had secured Parai and a large jetty at that village. Progress west of the Parai Defile was without noteworthy incident during the rest of the afternoon, so Haney's 2nd and 3rd Battalion would be able to dig in at Parai by nightfall. On the other side, Kuzume was surprised by the landings, but he was expecting the enemy to land exactly there, where the extreme narrowness of the beach and the few entrances inland would make deployment difficult. Deciding to seize this momentary advantage, he thus ordered his 1st and 3rd Battalions to carry out an attack all along the Bosnek beachhead during the night. On the 3rd Battalion front, after an unsuccessful raid against two batteries near Ibdi. Then the 3rd Battalion, 222nd Infantry , renewed the attack with grenades and rifle fire, some circling to the north around Battery C and a few others moving against Battery B, located 200 yards to the east. Attacks on Battery C continued until daylight, when the last Japanese withdrew. The action cost Battery C 4 men killed and 8 wounded, while a near-by antiaircraft detachment lost 1 man killed and 1 wounded. Over 15 of the enemy had been killed during the night and an unknown number wounded. The 1st Battalion also raided the beachhead, suffering many casualties as a result.  On the morning of May 28th, the 162nd then resumed its westward advance, with its 3rd Battalion rapidly proceeding through Mokmer village without opposition. By 9:30, however, the Americans began to face stiff resistance at a road junction nearly 1500 yards west of Mokmer. Supported by artillery, Company K would be able to push to within 200 yards of Mokmer Drome; yet Kuzume would rapidly counterattack them with his 2nd Battalion. Charging repeatedly, the Japanese would eventually force the Americans to pull back by noon, with Lieutenant Yokoyama Hideo dying heroically during these attacks. Emboldened by this success, Kuzume then launched an all out assault from the East Caves area. On the main ridge north of Mokmer the Japanese had another strongpoint east of the West Caves, which was called by the Japanese the East Caves. Behind Mokmer the ridge rose to a height of 240 feet. It was not so steep a cliff as the Parai Defile barricade, but it could not be climbed without the use of hands. About three quarters of the way to the top was a flat ledge from which two large caverns, similar to those in the West Caves area, could be entered. The Japanese constructed pillboxes on the ridge both below and above the ledge, and in the caverns they emplaced mortars, 20-mm. guns, and heavy machine guns. Observation posts were also set up at the East Caves, from which an unobstructed view of the coast from Parai to the west end of Mokmer Drome could be obtained. The Biak Detachment used the East Caves principally as living quarters, supply dumps, and as a connecting link between the Ibdi Pocket and the West Caves. Continued Japanese occupation of the East Caves would endanger Allied troop and supply movements along the coastal road from Parai to Mokmer Drome. The enemy threw more troops into the battle from the East Caves area until the attackers were coming not only from the west but also from the northwest and north. The Japanese split the 3rd Battalion by driving a wedge along the cliff between the troops on the shore and those on the terrace. Companies L and M were cut off. The 2nd Battalion, attempting to get on the terrace to the north of the 3rd Battalion, was pinned down by Japanese fire from the East Caves and was unable to advance. Company G, on the terrace north of the main road and between the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, was also cut off. In response to the attacks, Haney ordered the 1st Battalion to move north from Parai onto the main coastal ridge to outflank the enemy positions, but efforts to do so were halted by enemy fire from the East Caves. Two companies patrolled in the broken terrain along the main ridge but were unable to move westward. Most of Company L and the Company M detachment which was also on the coral terrace managed to find a covered route back to the rest of the 3rd Battalion on the shore, but one platoon, initially surrounded, had to fight its way eastward into the lines of the 2nd Battalion, north of Mokmer village. Company G, on the terrace north of the main road and between the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, was also cut off and withdrew to the 2nd Battalion only with difficulty, and after it had suffered many casualties from Japanese fire. During the afternoon the 3rd Battalion stood off two more concerted enemy counterattacks, one at 12:00 and another shortly after 2:00, and suffered more casualties from the enemy mortar and artillery fire. During the latter attack, the Japanese began moving some light tanks forward from the Mokmer Drome area. The 3rd Platoon, 603rd Tank Company, engaged these tanks at a range of 1,200 yards and, with the aid of fire from destroyers lying offshore, drove the enemy tanks back into defilade positions. Three tanks of the 603rd were damaged by Japanese artillery fire and three men of the same organization were wounded during the action. Meanwhile, General Fuller had decided to reinforce the 3rd Battalion, 162nd Infantry. The 1st Platoon, 603rd Tank Company, moved west along the coastal road. At the same time small boats manned by the 542nd Engineer Boat and Shore Regiment were also sent forward with ammunition and medical supplies, both dangerously low. The small craft moved along the shore out of range of Japanese mortar and artillery fire until opposite the 3rd Battalion's position and then shot inshore at full speed, one by one. Supplies were replenished and the worst casualties evacuated despite continued shelling of the 3rd Battalion's position by the Japanese. The 1st and 2nd Battalions continued their efforts to clear the Japanese from the terrace behind the 3rd but met with little success. By late afternoon, just as the 3rd Battalion's position was becoming untenable, Fuller gave up plans for further attempts at reinforcement and ordered Haney to withdraw his 3rd Battalion. The withdrawal started slowly because communications difficulties still prevented concentration of supporting fires. However, at 5:00 the regimental commander finally ordered the 3rd Battalion to start moving back along the coastal road. Tanks were to act as point, and rear guard and close-in artillery fire was substituted for a disengaging force. The battalion was to continue eastward until it had passed through the 2nd, which was setting up a new defensive position east of Mokmer village. The men of the 3rd Battalion moved in small parties along the beach and main road, which was intermittently swept by Japanese mortar, machine gun, and rifle fire. Many troops were unable to use the main road, but had to drop down to the beach below the overhanging cliff. Four tanks brought up the rear and protected the north flank. Between 1830 and 1900 all elements of the 3rd Battalion reached safety beyond the 2nd Battalion's lines and began digging in for the night east of the latter unit. Casualties for the day, almost all of them suffered by the 3rd Battalion, were 16 killed and 87 wounded. Facing strong resistance, he also decided to commit his tank company to the attack. At around 8:00, new waves of Japanese infantry, now supported by four tanks, appeared west and north of the 2nd Battalion, thus beginning the first tank battle of the war in the Southwest Pacific Area. The 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry, with the 1st Platoon, 603rd Tank Company, in support, was astride the main coastal road 1,000 yards east of Mokmer. The battalion's left flank was on the beach while its right was against the coastal cliff and less than forty yards inland. Between the beach and the cliff was a coconut grove. The main coastal road crossed the rise of the cliff at a point about 475 yards west of the 2nd Battalion's lines. Shortly after 8:00 the Japanese tanks, followed by an infantry column, advanced down the incline where the main road crossed the cliff and deployed in echelon left formation in the coconut grove. The Japanese vehicles were light tanks, Type 95, weighing about nine tons, carrying a crew of three men, and armed with one 37-mm. cannon and two 7.7-mm. machine guns. They were opposed by two General Sherman M4A1 medium tanks, the heaviest armament on which was the 75-mm. Each Japanese tank was stopped by one round of 75-mm. armor-piercing ammunition, while the enemy infantry was literally mowed down by the machine guns and mortars of the 2nd Battalion, 162nd Infantry. Armor-piercing 75-mm. shells passed right through the Japanese light tanks, and the Shermans followed with a few rounds of 75-mm. high explosive, which tore holes in the Japanese vehicles and blew loose their turrets. During this action several hits scored on the Shermans by the Japanese 37-mm. guns caused no damage. About thirty minutes after the first attack the Japanese sent in a second wave of three tanks, which used the same route of approach and the same formation in the coconut grove. These three were quickly destroyed by three Shermans. One enemy 37-mm. shell locked the 75-mm. gun of one Sherman in place, but the American tank backed part way into a shell hole to obtain elevation for its weapon and, despite the damage, managed to destroy one of the enemy tanks. The Japanese tanks having been stopped and the leading elements of the second infantry wave killed, the attack disintegrated and the enemy withdrew. For an hour or so the Japanese were quiet, but late in the morning, under the cover of machine gun fire and mortar barrages, they began to circle north of the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, 162nd Infantry. New infantry attacks began about 12:00. The enemy was unable to dislodge the 162nd Infantry, but his mortar fire caused many casualties within the regimental perimeter and the Japanese managed to cut the coast road east of a large T-jetty at Parai. Company B and the Cannon Company counterattacked the Japanese roadblock behind close-in mortar support and succeeded in dislodging the enemy by fire and movement. During the afternoon of May 29, the 162nd thus moved back to Parai, where the 2nd Battalion and two companies boarded some amphibious craft back to Bosnek while the rest of the regiment moved overland through the Parai Defile and took up positions at Ibdi The 162nd Infantry's casualties during the day were 16 killed, 96 wounded, and 3 injured. The regiment estimated that it had killed over 500 Japanese during the day. Though Kuzume's forces had suffered massive casualties, they had heroically managed to stop the enemy advance and would subsequently push troops forward to Parai and into the cliffs along the Parai Defile. They would however also lose most of their armor during these attacks. Only five tanks survived and were withdrawn to the West Caves. Pending the arrival of reinforcements, General Fuller planned to use his available troops to hold the west flank at Ibdi and expand the beachhead at Bosnek. The 162nd Infantry was to establish a semicircular perimeter beginning on the beach west of Ibdi, reaching north to the main ridge, and returning to the beach at the village. The 1st Battalion, 186th Infantry, would maintain a perimeter around Mandom, where the Hurrican Task Force HQ was located, while the 3rd Battalion moved over the ridge behind Bosnek to set up defenses on the inland plateau. The 2nd Battalion, with part of the 3rd attached, would remain at the Bosnek beachhead. During this period, the 800 well-armed men of the 3rd Battalion, 222nd Infantry in the Ibdi Pocket, made only harassing attacks with small groups against the positions of the 162nd Infantry. On 30th and 31st of May the 162nd Infantry patrolled around the main ridge near Ibdi for a route over which large bodies of troops might move north to the inland plateau in preparation for the second attack westward. During the course of this patrolling, it was discovered that the main ridge from Bosnek to the Parai Defile actually comprised a series of seven sharp coral ridges, the crests of which were 50-75 yards apart and separated by gullies 50-100 feet deep. These separate ridges were honeycombed with small natural caves, potholes, and crevices. There was little soil on most of the coral, yet the area maintained a cover of dense rain forest containing trees 8-20 inches thick and 100-150 feet high. The 162nd Infantry discovered two native trails over the ridges. The most easterly of these, designated "Old Man's Trail," began on the beach road about 1,200 yards west of Mandom. It was a fairly well defined track which swung north over the seven ridges along a comparatively easy route. Another track began 1,200 yards to the west, near Ibdi. Called "Young Man's Trail," the latter followed a very difficult route over the ridges to the inland plateau. Both of these trails ran through the outer defenses of the Ibdi Pocket, into which the Biak Detachment, on 30 May, moved the 3rd Battalion, 222nd Infantry. On 30 and 31 May the 162nd Infantry's patrols along the ridges north of Ibdi and Mandom were harassed by the Japanese in the Ibdi Pocket, which had not yet been recognized as a major enemy strong point. On 30 May the 162nd Infantry located a water hole near the beach terminal of Old Man's Trail. A regimental water point established there was constantly harassed by Japanese rifle fire from the Ibdi Pocket area or by small enemy parties which moved down out of the ridges north of Ibdi and Mandom. The Cannon Company, 162nd Infantry, was therefore assigned the missions of clearing the enemy from the water point area and protecting that important installation from Japanese attacks. Halfway through the Parai Defile, a little over a mile west of the 162nd Infantry's main perimeter, an underground stream ran from the base of the cliff into Soanggarai Bay. At the point where the main road crossed the stream, the 162nd Infantry set up an ambush to prevent Japanese infiltration from the west along the beach. The ambush site was also used as a patrol base from which small parties reconnoitered along the cliffs of the Parai Defile to discover enemy dispositions in the area. Patrolling on 30th and 31st of May cost the 162nd Infantry 6 men killed, 17 wounded, and 4 injured. On the main coastal ridge between the village of Ibdi and the Parai Defile the Biak Detachment developed another center of resistance which came to be known as the Ibdi Pocket. The terrain in the area was a series of knifelike east-west ridges separated by depressions and crevices up to fifty feet deep. These ridges were connected in places by cross-ridges, and the entire area was covered with thick rain forest and dense jungle undergrowth which had found a foothold in the coral. Pillboxes of coral and logs, hasty emplacements of the same materials, small caves and crevices, and foxholes at the bases of large trees were all utilized by the enemy to defend the area. Back to the Wakde-Sarmi area, General Patrick was preparing to launch another assault on Lone Tree Hill. On the morning of May 27th at 7:00 two destroyers, firing on Lone Tree Hill and the Maffin Strip area, started scheduled fire support for the day's advance. Artillery and infantry action on this morning was much more closely coordinated than on the previous day. The destroyer fire lasted until 7:45, at which time the field artillery and all the 81-mm. mortars of the 158th Infantry laid concentrations on suspected and known enemy positions in the defile, on Lone Tree Hill, and on Hill 225. After this Colonel Herndon sent his 1st Battalion against the defile between Lone Tree Hill and the eastern nose of Mount Saksin and his 2nd Battalion against Hill 225. At 8:30 Company F, moving around Company E on the south flank, started its attack. Behind close artillery support, apparently controlled by artillery liaison planes for the most part, Company F pushed up a terrain feature initially believed to be Hill 225. It was not discovered until late the next day that F Company was actually on the eastern nose of Mt. Saksin and about 700 yards east of its reported location. Since artillery fire had knocked out two enemy machine gun nests which had been delaying the advance, patrols of Company F were able to reach the top of the eastern ridge. The rest of the company moved up the hill at 10:00; encountering scattered rifle fire from enemy positions to the southwest. Company E, just before noon, arrived atop the same hill on F's right. Company E had orders to secure the southern slopes of the defile between Hill 225 and Lone Tree Hill. Company B, still at the eastern entrance to the defile, was again unable to make any progress and during the morning was held up by machine gun and mortar fire from concealed enemy positions on the southern and southwestern slopes of Lone Tree Hill. No sooner had some of these positions been eliminated by American artillery and mortar fire than Company B was subjected to enemy machine gun and mortar fire originating from the northeast side of Hill 225, the reported location of Companies E and F. Actually, the artillery fire had not been entirely effective, because it had not reached into deep draws or caves in which many of the Japanese weapons were emplaced. Company E, attempting to move down the northern slopes of the eastern ridge to Company B's aid, was soon forced back by enemy rifle fire and infantry counterattacks from the west. At the same time small parties of Japanese, under cover of their own machine guns, started a series of minor counterattacks against Company B. Company F did not become engaged in this action. Instead, the company dug in on the ridge it was holding and sent patrols to the south and west to probe Japanese defenses. It was soon discovered that the combination of rugged terrain and Japanese machine gun and rifle fire limited patrolling to a very small area. North of Company B, Company A patrolled along the west bank of the Snaky River and on the eastern slope of Lone Tree Hill during the morning and early afternoon. About 4:30 the company moved in force up Lone Tree, finding the eastern slope of the hill to be unoccupied. Most of the fire that had harassed the company during the morning had apparently originated on the beach below the northern face of Lone Tree Hill. For the night the unit dug in at the crest of the hill. Again, little ground had been gained, although the eastern nose of Mr. Saksin and Lone Tree Hill had been at least partially occupied. At the same time, Patrick was informed that two battalions of the 163rd Regiment would be shipped to Biak to reinforce Fuller on June 1st, with General Krueger also preparing the 6th Division led by Major General Franklin Silbert  to be dispatched to Wakde to replace the 163rd. Yet before this could occur, Colonel Matsuyama crossed the Tementoe River and launched a surprise night attack against Toem. During pitch-black night at 8:30, an estimated 100 Japs struck 1st Battalion's area. Divided into small groups, but in two major commands, they carried grappling hooks, knives, grenades, knee-mortars, and rifles. Their grappling hooks had two prongs, like anchors and were attached to long ropes by which they could pull to explode booby traps harmlessly. A knee mortar barrage began the attack. While their mortars drove the men to ground, their grappling hooks caught booby trap wires and exploded attached grenades. They struck from southeast and southwest, two different commands about 150 yards apart. First command shouted wildly and threw grenades. They fired a light machine gun down A Company's street and holed up their tents. But this command's howling rush with grenades was just a feint to cause confusion. The second command, around 35-40,  made the main drive. Easily they broke through 1st Battalion's far-spread perimeter holes. An estimated 25 made the serious penetration. They were trying to reach the Regimental command post to kill the top officers. Some of the staff officers were actually cut off outside their holes in a tent and actually unarmed. Ten Japanese almost reached the command post before they were cut down. Such was the official report, but 163rd men said that they tried to blow up the motor poo, nearly 100 of them. From a slit trench, four blazing M-1s stopped them, from the motor pool chief Staff Sergeant Burton, Staff Sergeant Engbretson, T/4 Switzer, and T/5 Donakowski. They piled up 13 dead Japanese, the last just 20 feet away. On a whistle signal, all Matsuyama's men withdrew. The wild attack prompted Patrick to not to ship the 163rd towards Biak. The following morning, after another well-timed preliminary artillery bombardment, Herndon once again threw his forces against the Ilier Mountains, yet the result was the same as before. Nonetheless, his troops would be able to cover the amphibious arrival of two tanks to aid in further attacks; but with the situation soon becoming untenable because of strong Japanese counterattacks, all his companies ultimately had to withdraw to the Snaky River line. On May 29th, Krueger finally notified Patrick that the two battalions of the 163rd would have to leave for Biak the next day, so this would force Patrick to cease offensive action and withdraw the 1st Battalion, 158th Regiment back to Arare. Yet further Japanese counterattacks also forced Herndon to withdraw his remaining forces to the Maffin area as well, where he would form a new defensive line.  Patrick ultimately disagreed with Herndon's decision to retreat, judging the withdrawal to be unwarranted and would relieve Herndon of his command, replacing him with Colonel Earle Sandlin. Colonel Herndon's fears of attack along his line of communications had been well taken, for the Right Sector Force had begun flanking movements designed to recapture the entire Maffin Bay area. However, the combat engineers quickly proved their versatility by driving off the enemy force with rifle, carbine, and machine gun fire. Five of the engineers were killed. Enemy casualties could not be estimated since the Japanese removed their dead and wounded during the night. The remainder of the night was more quiet, and the next morning the defenses along the Tirfoam were improved. There were a couple of minor attacks during the afternoon and desultory rifle and 70-mm. or 75-mm. artillery fire was directed against all American units still west of the Tor. The 147th Field Artillery Battalion, withdrawing to the east bank of the Tor late in the afternoon, was struck by some of this enemy artillery fire and lost one man killed. A new defensive line along the Tirfoam was being developed on May 30th as the bulk of the 163rd Regiment would depart for Biak. This left Patrick's forces spread out over almost twelve miles of coastline, just as Colonel Yoshino was about to launch his night attack. After the difficult river crossing, the 223rd Regiment had spent three days moving into the jungle southwest of Arara, from where they launched a series of simultaneous attacks against some anti-aircraft positions along the beach.  A 6:05 on June 30th, a guard at B Battery's Position No 6 challenged two men in the jungle across the beach road. Other Japanese were moving west down the road. When they did not answer his challenge, he fired, and hit the ground. Instantly, Japanese machine guns, rifles, mortars, and even grenades hit the B-6 position. The anti-aircraft men killed 10 Japs, but one heavy machine gun jammed. The second gun became overheated and had to cease fire. The Japanese were hard to hit in the dark. They were heavily camouflaged with leaves and nets down to their hips. After one American was killed, the anti-aircraft men left their emplacement and fled 500 yards east on the beach road to Battery A's Position 7. Joined with the men of A-7 - they had already stopped one attack - the B-6 men helped fight about 15-25 Japanese. From 6:40 to 4:30 next day, the Japanese struck intermittently, but rifle and machine guns fire repelled them. About 500 yards west of the B-6 position where the first attack had occurred, Battery A-6 also endured harassment from Japanese mortar, rifle, and machine gun fire. At least twice, the gunners repulsed attacks. A fourth position, Battery B-8, which was 400 yards west of A-6, was assailed about 6:30 also. The anti-aircraft men's .50 multiple heavy machine gun became overheated and jammed. Rifle ammo was running out. Scurrying from the gun-pit, they took cover in the shore brush until the Japanese left at 4:30. All attacks began about the same time, about 8:30, and some men glimpsed a Jap officer with his saber who was giving orders. All Japanese dead had rolls of white gauze in their mouths, and the Japanese officer had completely covered his lower face. The Americans thought that they used these means to prevent them from shouting or screaming when they were wounded. While they attacked the anti-aircraft batteries, Yoshino's men also tried to storm 1st Battalion 158 Infantry protecting Task Force Headquarters and the supply dumps. About 7:00, rifle and machine gun fire began impacting 1st Battalion positions. A captured heavy machine gun fired also. At 10:00 came a furious suicidal attack against B Company - beaten off with rifles, grenades, bayonets, pistols, and even knives. They failed to fire the supply dumps with demolition charges and Molotov cocktails. In the end, the Americans miraculously only lost 12 killed and 10 wounded while inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. But fearing more enemy attacks, Patrick would decide to reduce the number of separate perimeters along the beach, from 21 to only 8.  The bulk of the 158th had to withdraw behind the Tor, leaving only its 2nd Battalion west of the river to secure the bridgehead. Facing little resistance, the Japanese recaptured Maffin, though they would be unable to push Sandlin's troops behind the river. Yoshino and Matsuyama were unable to coordinate their efforts however, allowing the Americans to continue to strengthen their defenses for the next few days, with the Japanese only able to launch nightly raiding attacks that were easily repelled. On June 5, the first units of Major-General Franklin Sibert's 6th Division then began to arrive, freeing up the 158th to continue with its offensive.  Sandlin then launched an attack with his 1st and 2nd Battalions supported by tanks crossing the Tor to attack Maffin on June 8, meeting increasingly strong enemy resistance from a line of hastily-repaired bunkers and pillboxes. The tanks were able to reduce the Japanese defenses due to their strong firepower, but not before the Americans had to dig in by nightfall.  The night passed without incident and early on June 9th patrols began to probe westward toward the Tirfoam. Scouts reported that the Japanese were holding another defense line, including reoccupied bunkers, on a slight rise at the west bank of the river. About 10:00, tank-infantry teams began to destroy the Japanese-held positions along the new line. While tank 75-mm fire was destroying bunkers or forcing the Japanese to seek cover, infantrymen crept forward to toss grenades into bunker gun ports or shoot down Japanese who tried to escape from the area. While these tank-infantry team operations were taking place, the rest of the two infantry battalions rested. Japanese 75-mm. fire, from a weapon emplaced on the beach between the Snaky River and Lone Tree Hill, harassed the 1st Battalion for a while, but this fire was summarily stopped when a 155-mm howitzer of the 218th Field Artillery Battalion scored a direct hit on the enemy piece. By 11:30 the enemy defensive positions had been cleaned out and the 1st and 2nd Battalions resumed the advance westward. Aided by fire from the 147th Field Artillery, which had supplanted the 167th in the close support role, the two infantry units probed cautiously forward, and it was not until 3:30 that both reached the east bank of the Tirfoam. Opposition was scattered, but the American units lost 6 men killed and 6 wounded. It was estimated that 50 of the enemy had been killed and one was captured. At this point, the 158th would have to stop its advance because they received new orders from Krueger, who planned to employ the regiment for an assault on Noemfoor Island, 300 miles northwest of Sarmi, in late June or early July. As such, advances west of the Tirfoam would be postponed until a second combat team of the 6th Division could arrive in the area to relieve the 158th in mid-June.  General Sibert assumed command of the Tornado Task Force on June 12th. On 10 and 11th June the 158th Infantry limited its activities to patrolling, consolidating defensive positions, and driving Japanese outposts westward. One outpost, lying southeast of the 2nd Battalion, was manned by about a hundred Japanese and had to be cleared by tank fire and infantry assault. The Japanese, who were members of a 223rd Infantry company assigned to the Right Sector Force, fled toward Mr. Saksin, leaving behind 4 heavy machine guns, 1 light machine gun, 2 70-mm. howitzers, and 1 37-mm. antitank gun. On 14 June the 20th Infantry, 6th Division, relieved the 158th Infantry at the Tirfoam. The 158th recrossed the Tor and went into a defensive perimeter on the west bank of Tementoe Creek. Patrols sent south and east during the next week encountered a few stragglers from the Japanese garrison at Hollandia or from the Matsuyama Force. On the 22nd the entire regimental combat team was relieved of all combat responsibility in the Wakde-Sarmi area and began final preparations for the Noemfoor Island operation. During its operations in the Wakde-Sarmi area the 158th Regimental Combat Team lost 70 men killed, 257 wounded, and 4 missing. The unit took 11 Japanese prisoners and estimated that it killed 920 of the enemy. With their supply line compromised, Yoshino and Matsuyama would also decide to withdraw from their present positions about this time, which would allow the 36th Division to establish better defensive positions in the Ilier Mountains line. Yet that is all for Operation Tornado and Hurricane for now, as we now need to head over to the Imphal-Kohima front. By June, the situation at Manipur saw General Slim's 14th Army losing all of their advantages. Despite the extreme odds, with a slim chance of success, General Mutaguchi continued his wild attacks against Imphal. As it was, the two armies had been battling it out in difficult terrain and conditions. There were the steep and often jungle-covered hills, the heat for men not accustomed to it, the risk of tropical diseases like malaria and the leeches – not to mention the weeks and months of both physical and psychological strain from fighting a formidable enemy. The monsoon rains that began later in May only made matters worse. As the days passed by, the low-lying areas in the Imphal Valley would flood because of the downpours, while the streams and small rivers everywhere would become raging torrents. The water level of Loktak Lake would also rise, making it especially uncomfortable for the units of both sides dug in at some of the lakeside villages on the Tiddim Road. Dysentery and diarrhea became an ever-greater concern. Foot rot would start to set in for men in their flooded positions. The slopes in the hills became slippery and that much more treacherous to navigate. The incessant rains would dissolve stretches of ‘fairweather' roads and ‘jeepable' tracks into mud and slush everywhere, while triggering landslides in the hills. For the units on higher altitudes like the Shenam Saddle, Point 5846 and the Ukhrul area, the nights would become shockingly cold and damp, adding to their misery. Yet things were undoubtedly harder for the Japanese, who had carried few supplies and didn't expect to be strung out fighting for so long.  To the north, General Sato's 31st Division were withdrawing from Kohima towards Ukhrul, defying Mutaguchi's orders, with General Miyazaki providing rearguard at Viswema, whileGeneral Grover's 2nd Division pursued them. Miyazaki's men held out at Visweman until June 12th, before withdrawing to Maosongsang. Then they held out at Maosongsang until June 16, before retreating to the last holding position at Maram. Over to the south, General Brigg's 5th Division was engaging Colonel Matsumura's 60th Regiment, fighting brutally for control over the Imphal-Kohima road. The battered Japanese defenders were fighting tooth and nail to prevent the opening of this vital supply line.  The 9th and 123rd Brigades pushed on, they would only be able to capture the Zebra hill on June 7. The following day, the 3/14th Punjabis made a wide hook and arrived on the road behind Japanese lines by nightfall, where they would repel three heavy counterattacks. This would allow the 123rd to clear the hill positions near Modbung and link up with the Punjabis on June 11th. The 9th Brigade made great progress during these days, pushing on to Satarmaina by June 13th. General Gracey's 20th Division was also attacking towards the Ukhrul Road during this period, with the 80th Brigade advancing northwards from Kameng up the Iril River Valley on a wide encircling move towards Litan while the 100th Brigade attacked up the road towards Kasom. Though the 80th faced little resistance, the 100th would struggle to progress against the fierce counterattacks of the recently-arrived 67th Regiment. By mid-June, the 51st Regiment was also ordered to abandon its positions and support the 67th on the Ukhrul Road.  Over in the southwest front, the arrival of reinforcements in the form of the 2nd Battalion, under the command of Colonel Yanagisawa Kanji at the end of May, gave General Tanaka a gleam of hope that he could launch another offensive in early June. On June 6th, four battalions under Colonel Sasahara attacked the 63rd Brigade's hill positions, applying such great pressure, General Cowan was forced to withdraw his brigade to Bishenpur the following day. On June 7th, Tanaka ordered his recently-arrived reinforcements to clear Ningthoukhong and retake Potsangbam, yet their first coordinated attack would end in failure. The attack was almost single-handedly held by Sergeant Hanson Victor Turner of the 1st West Yorks. Defending his platoon's position on the perimeter, Turner grabbed some grenades and charged forward, throwing them at the Japanese. He did this five times, going back to gather grenades each time and returning to the attack in the face of Japanese grenade and small-arms fire. He was killed on the sixth occasion while throwing a grenade. For his bravery, Turner was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. The Japanese eventually captured some ground in North Ningthoukhong, but withdrew after being struck from the air and shelled. In the meantime, after the Japanese defeat at the Gibraltar Box, the Yamamoto Detachment would continue to harass the British-Indian positions from Nippon and Scraggy Hills in early June. On the evening of June 9, the Japanese put in their last major attack on Scraggy, starting with a heavy artillery bombardment. Artillery concentrations were directed at the Japanese and an airstrike was made on their part of Scraggy and Lynch. The Gurkhas followed up with an advance. Although some ground was recovered, the Japanese maintained their grip on Scraggy's crest. Having suffered many casualties and feeling that the Gurkhas' new position was sufficiently strong, General Roberts then decided to halt the counterattacks, thus leaving General Yamamoto in control of Scraggy up until the end of July. Concurrently, as a last hope to break through towards Imphal, Mutaguchi was planning to conduct a desperate offensive on Palel with some reinforcements that would fail to arrive in time. Due to these delays, he would end up sending some of Yamamoto's exhausted troops to recover Langgol and advance to the hill northeast of Palel. The Japanese managed to get beyond Langgol and attack some positions in the foothills near Palel Airfield, but were soon rebuffed. They finally sent in a commando raid on the airfield in early July, which succeeded in blowing up eight planes. Over in Ningthoukhong, Tanaka launched another heavy assault on June 12th. Though a salient on the other side was initially captured, a ferocious counterattack would ultimately evict them. This action was performed by units of the 48th Brigade, including reinforcements sent from Potsangbam.  Rifleman Ganju Lama of the 1/7th Gurkha Rifles who earned a Victoria Cross in this action. To the west, Tanaka ordered the newly-arrived 151st Regiment of Colonel Hashimoto Kumakoro to attack the British picquets overlooking the Silchar Track. After a wave of assaults, Water Picquet would fall on June 21; yet the 32nd Brigade would respond immediately with a series of counterattacks that developed into confused fighting as positions were won and lost by both sides.  On the night of 25 June, no less than a company of Japanese began attacking Mortar Bluff, a picquet position bereft of cover and a short distance away from Water Picquet. It was held by a small garrison of some 40-odd men of the 2/5th Royal Gurkha Rifles who had replaced the 7/10th Baluchis. In pouring rain, the Japanese first bombarded the position with mortars and guns at point-blank range. For the next few hours, the infantry repeatedly attacked the surrounded and dwindling garrison. Subedar Netra Bahadur Thapa defended the besieged position almost through the night, organizing counter-attacks with whatever ammunition and grenades his unit had left. The Japanese finally overran Mortar Bluff the next morning, with Netra Bahadur Thapa fighting to his death. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. A few hours later, a company of the same unit formed for a counterattack on Mortar Bluff. In the face of heavy fire, Naik Agan Singh Rai led his section in charging a Japanese machine-gun post and killing its crew. It then recaptured Mortar Bluff and neutralized a 37mm gun position and crew. Rai now advanced on a Japanese bunker and killed its occupants, after which his company also recovered Water Picquet. For his actions that day, Rai won the Victoria Cross, the second for the 2/5th Royal Gurkha Rifles the same day. Faced with such counter-attacks and intense artillery fire from Gun Box, the last throw of the Japanese 33rd Division around the Silchar Track ended in failure. This left Hashimoto and Tanaka empty-handed for all the losses they had suffered. Tanaka was forced to withdraw units before they were annihilated. On July 2st the 214th Infantry, with only 400 effectives remaining, completed its withdrawal to the area south of Nouyangtek and the 151st was directed to move back to Laimanai. Having been decimated by sickness and straggling en route to the front, the strength of the entire 151st Infantry Regiment was, at that time, less than 100 men. Back in the north, Briggs' units continued to struggle for control of the Satarmaina area. The struggle over the next week centered on the main feature east of the road, the hill named Liver. The 3/9th Jats attacked repeatedly to try to dislodge the Japanese from this feature. One such attempt was made on June 15th, when Hurribombers strafed the hill, followed by heavy artillery concentrations from 25-pdrs, 3.7in  howitzers and 3in  mortars. A Jat company climbed the hill, but had to withdraw some 100 meters from its objective because of heavy machine-gun fire. At the same time, the 1/17th Dogras were sent off on a wide hook left of the road and the 3/14th Punjabis were able to secure the Octopus position by June 20.  North of them, Grover's troops would also be able to break through Maram and continue south down the road on June 20, finally meeting the Dogras two days later. Beaten, Miyazaki had nonetheless fulfilled his task and could now withdraw east towards Ukhrul. Sato's rearguard fought determinedly. Often a few men with an artillery piece, grenades and a machine-gun would take up positions on the high ground above tracks, ambushing the British advance guards before melting away to repeat the performance a few km further back or, as was often the case, remaining obstinately in their positions until they were killed. Few were free from disease and fatigue, but surrender played no part in these men's vocabulary; they fought on till overtaken by a British bullet or bayonet or, more often, by starvation and exhaustion. But the 31st Division had literally fought itself to death. Exhausted men lay in pits unable to defend themselves, suicide squads with anti-tank mines tottered towards the advancing Lee Grants and Stuarts to be mown down by accompanying infantry, or obliterated by shellfire Although the battered 31st Division would manage to survive the Kohima disaster, General Sato would be relieved of his command as he had refused to carry Mutaguchi's orders numerous times. As a result, Miyazaki was promoted to Lt-General and given temporary command of the division by the end of June. Meanwhile, though his men had resisted like demons, Matsumura now had no choice but to abandon the road and retreat east towards Ukhrul with what remained of his command due to this new threat to the north. On June 21, the Liver position would fall at last. Again, the Japanese positions were bombed and strafed from the air, this time by three squadrons of Hurribombers for half an hour. The 4th and 28th Field Regiments, as well as a troop of the 8th Medium Regiment, fired a concentration on Liver that covered it in dust and smoke. Three companies of the Jats now went in, and yet this attack was also held by the Japanese on and around Liver. They had had enough, however, and by the next morning were found to have withdrawn from the feature. The Jats suffered around 150 casualties that week, including 33 killed. The 15th Division would adopt new defensive positions at Ukhrul to cover the withdrawal of Miyazaki and Matsumura. The main force of the 15th Division then went into defense positions in a line extending generally from Ukhrul through Tongou, Shongphel and Aishan to the 3524 Pass in order to be in position to cover and pick up the Right Assault Unit and the Miyazaki Detachment as they withdrew to the east. In order to hold the new defense positions, all available men, including all those in the rear service units, were thrown into the line. Finally the Imphal-Kohima road was reopened. Slim knew while the battle was not yet over, it had already been won. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. The landings at Biak was another allied success. The first tank battle of the war in the Southwest Pacific Area saw the American Sherman's absolutely devastate Japanese Type-95's. Within the Burma front, General Slim had finally reopened the Imphal-Kohima road spelling doom for Mutaguchi's failed offensive.  

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Immerse yourself in the transformative spirit of Ganesha as our Ashram resonates with the joyous celebrations that extend from personal realms to the universal. Delve into the symbolic journey through the story of Mushaka, Ganesha's mouse, illustrating the release of karmic obstacles and the surrender to Shakti's play, guiding us toward union with Shiva. Join us in expanding awareness beyond the five coverings, inspired by the wisdom of Ganesha and the transformative power of surrender. Om Gam Ganapataye Namah! The Mouse of the Mind: Embracing Ganesh through the Story of Mushaka It is that time of year - Ganesha pervades our Ashrams and pujas, our lives and is everywhere! The celebrations spread in a widening circle to envelop ourselves and our families, then our friends & relatives, next the people in our public lives, then the arts & artistes enriching our lives and finally, encompassing all beings in all Lokas. It feels like a wholesome practice expanding my awareness past five aspects of my karma - from the physical and personal to the subtle and Universal. These aspects are reminiscent of the five kanchukas in Kashmir Shaivism (or even the five koshas of Advaita) that limit the experience of Universal consciousness. The five heads of Ganesha seem to symbolize His help for the progress of my awareness through these five coverings. In our practices, we surrender to the play of Shakti (i.e., Parvati) which moves our ordinary awareness into union with Shiva (Universal consciousness). Ganesha's energy helps the surrender by removing obstacles manifested in these karmic covers. The story of Ganesha's vehicle, the mouse, illustrates the nature of these blocks. The story begins in Indra Loka where Krauncha was an accomplished celestial musician. His artistry however inflated his ego leading to pride and jealousy. He became miserly in praise of others, often absent when others performed or, preferred to sulk in the back or linger behind pillars in the hall. One day, Indra called on him to perform for the assembly of sages and Devas. As he sashayed to the dais, he thought he heard rapturous applause from sage Vamadeva on the way. In reality, however, he had stepped on the sage's feet and the furious sage had cursed him “Enough of your false pretenses! May your outer form reflect your inner nature!” Krauncha was immediately transformed to a huge mountain-sized rodent to match the size of his pride! Why a rodent? It loves dark places and prefers corners and edges to open spaces which are seen as threatening or negative. Our pride is invisible to us and operates in the dark recesses of our mind, delighting in gossip and thriving on the failures of others. This negativity bias is a survival instinct that causes us to blame others when they reflect our limitations back to us. Back in the story, as the mouse-mountain moved, it trampled and destroyed the dwellings and all beings in its path. A desperate Indra ejected Krauncha from the heavens to the earth. Scurrying on earth, it destroyed forests, mountains, lakes, farms and families eventually reaching the Ashram of sage Parashara. Ganesha who was visiting the Ashram decided to end the rampage and collared the mouse with his lasso. This yanked the mouse off his feet and landed him, stunned, at Ganesha's feet. The shock of the event flashed Krauncha's behavior past his mind's eye. He felt remorseful and begged Ganesha for forgiveness. Ganesha saw that Krauncha's negative nature had dissolved. So he decided to employ Krauncha's skills and talents and made him his vehicle. And, this is how Ganesha snagged a mouse for his ride. And like tiny mice, all kinds of thoughts scurry about the mind and pull it away from our practice. Unless we surrender them, we function from our mind and ego, much like Krauncha, the musician. This is the nature of the blocks manifest in our karmic coverings. As Babaji had said at a recent Satsang, ”… The Shakti will take you through every insecurity, every illusion, and every obstacle that exists in you, on the way to that state of perfection. You have to be willing to face it and move beyond all of it …” As we practice to expand our awareness past the five coverings, the Shakti will present our karma to us. Our heartfelt wish to grow draws Ganesha's energy to all parts of our mind - through the smallest openings and darkest areas like riding a mouse! To help us surrender past the karmic blocks to union with Shiva. Om Gam Ganapataye Namah!

An old-fashioned scavenger hunt, using modern technology, sends teams traveling around town next week in search of the most clues to win.Haverhill Exchange Club's annual Hillie Hunt offers prizes for first, second and third place as well as for best Halloween costume. There's also an after-party and 50/50 raffle. Exchange Club member Michael Joy, a recent guest on WHAV's “Win for Breakfast” program explains participants will be using a phone app.“You just log into the app and then the questions start to pop up. You can do trivia questions. You can do GPS questions—everyone has to be recorded on the app. Then we have the Command Central, which this year will be at the Bradford Country Club, and they will be looking at who is getting what for points. (The app) does a lot of the work for you, which is great,” he explains.Joy says the annual Hillie Hunt is organized by a number of Haverhill Exchange Club Committees, including one for the after-party, one for sponsorships and one for creating the clues.“And, the Clue Committee has to keep everything very super-secret. They get together separately and they think of 40 to 50 clues to find, and the point of the game is to get as many of the items right and not to try to get them done too quickly. You don't want to have people racing around town and getting into accidents,” he explains.Admission for scavenger hunt teams or by the car, up to six people, is $200 and includes entrance to an After Party at Bradford Country Club, featuring heavy hors d'oeuvres, cash bar, DJ, prizes and more. The hunt takes place Friday, Oct 27, between 5:30 and 10 p.m. Tickets are available online at givebutter.com/HillieHunt. A portion of the proceeds benefiting the Michael B. Christensen Community and Family Support Center.Joy says the timing of the Hillie Hunt works out well for the Halloween season.“It's great, in a way, for parents, especially for kids, because they have to go trick-or-treating the next night. It's sort of their night out, before they take the kids out,” he says.Support the show

Welcome to the feathered brotherhood who join me today for Episode 47 of the Radio Owlsnest syndicated blockbuster world dominating songwriter podcast series … Ahhh - not really. In truth, it's remained an intimate, small, close knit village concern which has been lovely for me to host over the last few years. So thank you to you “OwlHeads” who have given me your ears so consistently and graciously. I'll start proceedings off by playing a very rare demo I wrote with fine female lyricist Terry Cox, which surprised me how ‘Elton John' it sounded after all these years. I was beginning to write with Bernie Taupin at that time and I think the aesthetic was rubbing off on me a little. Dusting this demo off after all these years was illuminating to me. I'll spin a track I'm preparing for volume 3 of my, “The Poetry of Collisions” demo/odds and sods compilation series/releases; a song title that refers to the suffering-laden cyclic nature of death and reincarnation - no beginning no end … Bugger me, that sounds heavy and fun! But have no fear my friends, my song relates to a beautiful woman and lover. And it's my great pleasure to play a track in progress - an unheard song I was writing with the great Wang Chung man Jack Hues. I was watching the Beatles, “Get Back” documentary recently (again), and was fascinated at how Paul McCartney conjured up the song, “Get Back”, from nowhere; It made me remember a track I was writing with Jack - how we were creating it ‘live' and organically on the spot. It's called “Big Cathedral” and it's a great track we never finished; I'll play you it's very birth, warts and all. It's a great illustration of how inspiration hits as you jam - improvise - perform. My motivational talk this month is about just that, ‘Motivation'! What motivated me to be a songwriter? What drove me on, what inspired me to dig deep and to make my dream materialize; what made me never give in when disappointment reigned - what was the essence of my desire. I think a few of you budding song crafters out there might find this section of the show a touch interesting. Scurrying around the dark song archives, I found a terrific demo I wrote and recorded with the mighty Clif Magness, a track eventually recorded by Eric Martin for a movie soundtrack. It's hard to believe it's an 8 track analog demo - such is Clif's magnificent production values and lead singing. Sometimes the demo beats the master! And amongst other ditties from my demo song vaults, I'll play a brand new song I've just finished for a forthcoming solo album I'm preparing. I'm very proud of this new piece - it has a personal psychological spirit about it ... I hope you like it. It's time for you to become an “OwlHead” again. Settle back - enjoy the show. Martin

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Our 122nd episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news! Read out our text newsletter and comment on the podcast at https://lastweekin.ai/ Email us your questions and feedback at contact@lastweekin.ai Check out the No Priors podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/lastweekinainopriors Check out Jeremie's new book Quantum Physics Made Me Do It Outline: (00:00) Intro (05:20) Response to listener comments / corrections (07:20) News Preview Tools & Apps (07:50) Microsoft 365's AI-powered Copilot is getting more features and paid access (11:26) Informatica goes all in on generative AI with Claire GPT (15:11) LinkedIn's new AI will write messages to hiring managers (17:30) Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix and continues growing in San Francisco Applications & Business  (20:58) "We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI" (27:30) AI will create ‘a serious number of losers', DeepMind co-founder warns (31:37) IBM takes another shot at Watson as A.I. boom picks up steam  (34:11) IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do (36:30) Peter Thiel's Palantir is seeing ‘unprecedented' demand for its military A.I. that its CEO calls ‘a weapon that will allow you to win' (38:42) Palantir Demos AI to Fight Wars But Says It Will Be Totally Ethical Don't Worry About It (40:42) Chegg CEO calls 48% stock plunge over ChatGPT fears 'extraordinarily overblown' (43:03) Microsoft Working With AMD on Expansion Into AI Processors  (45:35) Generative AI startup Runway just raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from a cloud service provider (47:50) Top ex-Google AI researchers raise funding from Thrive Capital Projects & Open Source (51:22) Meta open-sources multisensory AI model that combines six types of data (54:45) No Cloud Required: Chatbot Runs Locally on iPhones, Old PCs (57:15) Hugging Face and ServiceNow release a free code-generating model Research & Advancements (59:27) Meet LLaVA: A Large Language Multimodal Model and Vision Assistant that Connects a Vision Encoder and Vicuna for General-Purpose Visual and Language Understanding (01:04:29) Language models can explain neurons in language models (01:11:55) A.I. Is Getting Better at Mind-Reading (01:14:27) AI could run a million microbial experiments per year (01:15:54) Scurrying centipedes inspire many-legged robots that can traverse difficult landscapes  (01:17:38) Little Robots Learn to Drive Fast in the Real World (01:20:03) Latest pitch for AI: DeepMind-trained soccer robots Policy & Safety  (01:21:47) China's AI industry barely slowed by US chip export rules (01:26:10) Anthropic thinks ‘constitutional AI' is the best way to train models + Claude's Constitution (01:32:45) An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic (01:36:16) ‘Mom, these bad men have me': She believes scammers cloned her daughter's voice in a fake kidnapping (01:39:18) Bill would require disclosure of AI-generated content in political ads Art & Fun Stuff (01:40:46) Unions Representing Hollywood Writers and Actors Seek Limits on A.I. and Chatbots (01:44:56) Inside the Discord Where Thousands of Rogue Producers Are Making AI Music (01:46:45) Spotify removes thousands of AI-generated songs (01:49:19) Amnesty International Uses AI-Generated Images of Colombian Human Rights Abuses (01:53:20) Midjourney 5.1 Arrives - And It's Another Leap Forward For AI Art Indiana Jones 5' will feature a de-aged Harrison Ford for the first 25 minutes (01:55:20) Listener Question - AI as a career + what to do in college

There's more to life than the usual sighting of the entity with long black hair and a white gown. According to some confessions illustrated by our guest Syed Wilson from Dark Arts of Syed Wilson, there are some really odd and scary looking humanoid. This episode celebrates three of these unusual sightings. Think that it's impossible for such creatures to exist? Just look at the Japanese Yokai mythology for some of the weirdest looking monsters this side of the world. The one that I have trouble taking seriously if I ever met one is the Shirime. It has an eye in place of its anus. Legend has it that a long time ago, a Samurai was walking at night down the road to Kyoto when he heard someone calling out to him to wait. He turned around and asked “Dare ga iru ka“ - Who is there? He then saw a man bent over spreading his butt cheeks and a huge glittering eye opened up where the strange man's anus should be. But don't worry if you ever met one. Despite its startling appearance, it means you no harm. Its joy comes from scaring people. Unfortunately none of our confessions are anywhere close to the level of the Shirime, but they can get pretty freaky and these are the ones I do not want to meet. Hand drawn Images of these creatures can be viewed on the standalone confessions are available on our YouTube channel. Look for Excerpt from 17 Feb 2023 Friday Night Live.  For all SC fans who have reached out to us asking when the podcast will be back, thank you. You have been my motivation and the reason I found so much joy spending hours in producing these podcasts. I hope you enjoy this episode and the ones to come. If you have any encounters to share or know someone who does, get in touch with us at www.supernaturalconfessions.com. Be our patron and unlock perks at www.pateron.com/supernaturalconfessions.

The guys react to a loss in Miami; the Steelers are next... and why is Marc Bertrand nervous?

On the latest episode of the CavsCorner Podcast, preseason football has finally arrived at the McCue Center and we get into some (very) early observations about how the Wahoos looked in Practice No. 1 of fall camp before we turn our attention to some of the things that have been sticking in our craw lately.   Credits: Brad Franklin (@Cavs_Corner) David Spence (@HooDaves) Justin Ferber (@Justin_Ferber)   Visit CavsCorner now!   SIGN UP TODAY  and  check out our message board  to talk with hundreds of fellow Wahoo fans about all things UVa sports!   Visit MyPerfectFranchise.net for more information on how you can find freedom in your next venture and discover the perfect franchise for you.    Links: CavsCorner Video: Lavel Davis   Rudzinkski eager to get UVa's revamped D back on track   Three-star Richmond guard Cosby excited by UVa offer   Three-star ATH Coleman talks about picking the Hoos   Kitchings is excited by all of the option on UVa's offensive table

The script's not working. What's an intellectual insurrectionist to do?

James Roguski returns to SGT Report with a call to action for all Patriots - the rats are scurrying as the Americans wake up to the Biden administration and the W.H.O.'s treachery.   James' site: https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/turn-up-the-heat?s=r STOP THE W.H.O. POWER GRAB: https://interestofjustice.org/ WATCH this episode HERE: https://www.bitchute.com/video/R1l9vourq3wk/

As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him.  They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was.  Mark 6:54-55Jesus caused the people to “scurry.”  That's an interesting word to use and an interesting response from the people.  What does “scurried” mean and what does it tell us about the people?To “scurry” means one moves quickly and intentionally with short and hurried steps.  It's a very specific word identifying a very specific action.  The people are not just moving toward Jesus in a quick way, they are scurrying.When you think of this image of scurrying, it seems to reveal a certain intensity with which people were seeking out Jesus.  The description of them hurrying to Him with these short and rapid steps reveals that they were intent on getting to Him while they seemed to have something else on their minds.  What was on their minds?  Healing.  They knew that Jesus would be a source of true healing for those who were sick and so the people, with great intensity, brought them to Jesus wherever He was.In a sense, this must be our approach to Jesus in regard to our life of faith.  We must recognize Him as the source of all healing, especially spiritual, and we must keep our minds focused on Him as the Divine Physician.  Our longing and intensity with which we seek Him out must consume our full attention. Reflect, today, upon this interesting image given to us in these Holy Scriptures.  Try to put yourself into this scene of the Gospel, pondering whether you need to be more intentional and intense in your desire to be with Jesus.  He is the source of all grace and mercy, and He is the Divine Physician who waits for you to come to Him with your every need.  Scurry toward Him and let Him pour forth His grace.My healing Lord, increase my longing for You and my desire to be with You.  Help me to know that You are the Divine Physician my soul desires.  Help me to trust in You always, coming to You for the fulfillment of all my needs and longings.  Jesus, I trust in You.Source of content: catholic-daily-reflections.comCopyright © 2022 My Catholic Life! Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission via RSS feed.

Beneath the stasis city of Halasar, the Faust of the Furious have discovered the University Arcanum's undercroft and have unearthed lost knowledge regarding the history of the world of Del'nasra and the events tied into its creation, and how those events have been creating ripples to this day. --- Quoin (Kobold Paladin) - Played by Caleb Kena Peshan (Aasimar Druid) - Played by Kate Ven Khihalis (Tiefling Wizard) - Played by Sam Dax (Goliath Barbarian) - Played by Brittany Druck (Bugbear Rogue) - Played by Garrett Mimics & Monstrosities Twitch - [https://www.twitch.tv/mimicsnmonstrosities](https://www.twitch.tv/mimicsnmonstrosities) Mimics & Monstrosities Twitter - @MimicsNMonstros Mimics & Monstrosities Discord - [https://discord.gg/kMyeYRt](https://discord.gg/kMyeYRt) Mimics & Monstrosities Patreon - [https://www.patreon.com/mimicsnmonstrosities](https://www.patreon.com/mimicsnmonstrosities) Donate to help us keep this up! - [https://streamlabs.com/mimicsnmonstrosities](https://streamlabs.com/mimicsnmonstrosities) Also, huge thank you to CD Projekt Red & Blizzard Entertainment for allowing us to use the following tracks in our stream: Pre-stream and Break Song: Kaer Morhen (Witcher III Soundtrack) The Witcher III - Tavern Theme (Witcher III: Blood and Wine Soundtrack by Marcin Przyblowsicz) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There seem to be an influx of stories coming out of Punggol. Though you can't tell from the modern facade today, Punggol has a very dark past. Maybe the spirits have grown restless and started to surface. Other stories in this episode include the Scurrying Hand Incident and other kampong tales.

The story of Zacchaeus - The Chief Tax Collector

In this episode, we discuss the "boring, useless" skills that as teenagers we cringed if we got when we rolled up Traveller characters, and explore the possibilities of these skills with a little creativity. We also do a quick recap of the online Mayday! even run by Cyborg Prime, Greg Caires and Ken Patterson, and Patrick Kanouse, as well as internet and rules finds. We also found ourselves in the midst of a tornado warning! We're OK. North Texas is like that.  Relevant links for this episode:  Cyborg Prime’s Youtube channel Patrick Kanouse's Two Brothers Gaming Robert Pearce's Hammer class 100 ton merchant Michael Brown's Angle of Incidence Felbrigg Herriot's Vacc Suit: the New Spaceman The Carcinoid Cancer Foundation Classic Traveller - One Shot Saturdays Wayne Peters - Deviant Art Page Interview with Christopher Rice, a GURPS guru, on the Roleplay Rescue podcast. A Random Subsector Generator for Cepheus Engine and a Subsector Editor Getting started in Classic Traveller blog post - Alegis Downport Value of Vacc-1 in Behind the Claw Podcast episode 3. New issue of Freelance Traveller New issue of Cepheus Journal StarForce: Alpha Centauri MayDay! 2022 - a weekend-long Celebration! of Traveller through online roleplaying Quarter Share - a novel (audiobook link) the Speculative Machines Podcast

Scurrying up your legs, and right into your ears.

My stomach churned as I drove north and the guilt worsened as I read "Fire, Flood, Plague", a book-length series of articles edited by Sophie Cunningham. Conscious of the causes of the climate crisis, I felt guilty driving from Victoria to Queensland and then the guilt really settled in when reading the words of the Australian writers who told of their experiences with the year that has just ended, 2020. The podcast begins with the audio being recorded using the internal microphone on my Macbook Air as I had intended to post the episode while still in Queensland. However, that didn't eventuate and I finished it off sitting back at my desk in Shepparton. I left the original part untouched as I felt it added some sort of "bookend" to what has been a somewhat dystopian year, and this being the first episode of 2021, as it turns out, I must say "welcome!" to Climate Conversations. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Discuss the panic by the democrats as the hunters become the hunted. 

Joe gets into the origins of coffee and where it came from. Justin gives us the low down on the mysterious lady he found on the golf course stealing everyones golf balls and we theorize why. We then close it off talking about haggling in Bali. Are we really getting ripped off if we don't haggle or should you just give them the money. You did just spend $600 on at ticket to fly there and now you're worried about talking down a $7 fake Nike shirt.

Millennial Pagan Podcast Episode 46! This episode. Jera and Autumn talk with return guest Tasha about the world tree Yggdrasil.    to follow Tasha’s blog: https://tashabaker.wordpress.com/ To follow Millennial Pagan Podcast https://www.facebook.com/MillennialPaganPodCast/, https://twitter.com/MillennialPagan, and Instagram @paganpod. Email us at millennialpaganpod@gmail.com   To find Jera: https://twitter.com/JeraStone.   To find Autumn: https://twitter.com/AutumnIronWolf, https://www.facebook.com/autumn.wolfe.9216, and https://ironwolfcircle.wordpress.com/.   #millennialpaganpodcast #millennialpaganpod #millennialpagan #mpp #paganpod #heathenry #odin #asatru #vanir #vikings

The ALARMING & DISTURBING CLINTON COVER UP That Has the Terrified DOJ, IRS, FBI, & D.C. Elites Scurrying. A Concerned DOJ & IRS Seal, Lock Down a Dangerous Lawsuit that Promises to Blow The Roof Off of One of The Biggest Public Thefts in U.S. History. Support us @ FBIPajamas.com Support this podcast

As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him. They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. Mark 6:54-55Jesus caused the people to “scurry.” That’s an interesting word to use and an interesting response from the people. What does “scurried” mean and what does it tell us about the people?To “scurry” means one moves quickly and intentionally with short and hurried steps. It’s a very specific word identifying a very specific action. The people are not just moving toward Jesus in a quick way, they are scurrying.When you think of this image of scurrying, it seems to reveal a certain intensity with which people were seeking out Jesus. The description of them hurrying to Him with these short and rapid steps reveals that they were intent on getting to Him while they seemed to have something else on their minds. What was on their minds? Healing. They knew that Jesus would be a source of true healing for those who were sick and so the people, with great intensity, brought them to Jesus wherever He was.In a sense, this must be our approach to Jesus in regard to our life of faith. We must recognize Him as the source of all healing, especially spiritual, and we must keep our minds focused on Him as the Divine Physician. Our longing and intensity with which we seek Him out must consume our full attention. Reflect, today, upon this interesting image given to us in these Holy Scriptures. Try to put yourself into this scene of the Gospel, pondering whether you need to be more intentional and intense in your desire to be with Jesus. He is the source of all grace and mercy, and He is the Divine Physician who waits for you to come to Him with your every need. Scurry toward Him and let Him pour forth His grace.Lord, increase my longing for You and my desire to be with You. Help me to know that You are the Divine Physician my soul desires. Help me to trust in You always, coming to You for the fulfillment of all my needs and longings. Jesus, I trust in You.Source: catholic-daily-reflections.com

They have nothing. POTUS rolls on to victories. Dims not invited to ceremony as NAFTA nightmare ends. Handicapping the witness probabilities. Who hates the dirty and nasty most? Rallies intimidate the swamp. Billions to Ukraine for what? Bidens are the key. It's what they fear most. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode I address the liberal media’s latest panic attack over devastating new information about this prominent Democrat. I also discuss Jim Comey’s disturbing appearance on CNN yesterday. Finally, I address the latest revelations about the FBI’s spying operation and an interesting piece on inflation.  News Picks:Former AG Jeff Sessions stands by Bill Barr’s spying statements. The FBI claims they “lost” notes from the Clinton email investigation. The FBI’s story is falling apart.  The Democrats in Congress look absolutely ridiculous with their contempt of Congress stunt. Either Christopher Steele lies to the FBI or the Russians played the FBI.  Copyright Dan Bongino All Rights Reserved.

They live underground and gorge themselves in dumpsters. This hour, we’re taking a long, hard look at creatures you’d probably rather not think about: RATS! We hear about how the city of Hartford is fighting these unwelcome rodent residents, and we ask a researcher why are these scurrying creatures so successful at living alongside humans? And later, we take a look at another rodent's impact on our health, as we learn why scientists are trying a new strategy to fight Lyme Disease. Researchers in Connecticut have been vaccinating tiny white-footed mice against Lyme Disease in an effort to reduce the number of ticks carrying the illness. Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

GIVEAWAY LINK:  https://gleam.io/competitions/JqeAa-1-year-anniversary-giveaway T'was the day after we entered the sewer and all through the halls,Scurrying was heard, Over the sound of the water falls,We rolled out initiative and prepared for a fight,As a small army of rats came into our sight! -------------------------------------------------- For show notes, including player bio's, character sheets and more head over to doordicepodcast.com Join in the community on Discord: https://discord.gg/pGaDRwbConnect with us on Twitter:twitter.com/doordicepodcastFind us on Facebook:facebook.com/DoOrDicePodcastSupport the show:https://www.patreon.com/doordicepodcastCheck out our swag:https://www.teepublic.com/user/doordice Don't forget to jump to our sponsors websites' and use our codes at checkout for great savings and to support the show! https://easyrollerdice.com/ - code: "DDP15" for 15% off your entire order!  wyrmwoodgaming.com - code:  "doordice" for free domestic shipping!  

They live underground and gorge themselves in dumpsters. This hour, we're taking a long, hard look at creatures you'd probably rather not think about: RATS!We hear about how the city of Hartford is fighting these unwelcome rodent residents, and we ask a researcher why are these scurrying creatures so successful at living alongside humans?Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trump Derangement sends Democrats scurrying to Socialism even as Venezuela collapses and Nicaragua explodes. Top thriller writer Daniel Silva talks in-depth about Russia and his new novel "The Other Woman." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump Derangement sends Democrats scurrying to Socialism even as Venezuela collapses and Nicaragua explodes. Top thriller writer Daniel Silva talks in-depth about Russia and his new novel "The Other Woman."

Nobody Knows features the voice of Nobody, with sound design by Somebody. Jerold “Papa” Rosenthal asked these questions in conversation with Benjamin “Ace Mensch” Rosenthal. Klezmer music recorded in 1939 by the State Ensemble for Jewish Folk Music of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Romany music recorded c. 1930s by a group of unknown musicians, “Old Time Blues” recorded in 1921 by Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds. Scurrying dog recorded by Kat7777 in 2017 and made available via freesound.org.This special episode is dedicated to the memory of Papa Rosenthal and all the tails he shared.Got questions for Nobody? Send yours in at www.themediums.org. Nobody just might answer them.

As politicians scurry off the sinking ship named USS Corruption, it is obvious that rats always save themselves.  

(In which we consume a lot of culture...proto and otherwise...) - Scurrying from rotating work schedules and expanding projects, John E.O. Stevens, Jeff Patterson and Fred Kiesche convene in the tubes that make up the internet as well as the tubes that make up Ceres Station to discuss the second season of The Expanse, Lois McMaster Bujold, hermetic poetry and more! The Expanse: Season 01 Amazon Prime DVD The Expanse: Season 02 Amazon Prime Official Site on SyFy (includes full episodes) Wait, what? Science! Host Fred Kiesche, John E.O. Stevens and Jeff Patterson.

During his historic address to Congress, Pope Francis called out Dorothy Day. Scurrying to figure out why, reporters duly described Day as the co- founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, which feeds and houses the urban poor. It may take her being canonized to fill in the whole picture. Day was also a pacifist, a radical journalist, a socialist, a single mom. Her life story would make for a good superhero movie. In the meantime, it's worth pointing out that decades before the crisis of today, Day named our economy as the number one threat to the planet and people, to which she proposed alternatives: not charity but food power. "It may be a sentimental notion," she wrote in 1925, "but I think it would be wonderful to live entirely off the land and not depend on wages for a livelihood." Famous for shelters – she called them "houses of hospitality" -- Day was clear that soup lines weren't the answer to poverty. The “real step,” she wrote, were farms. In the thirties, inspired on a trip South to organize tenant farmers, Day founded Maryfarm, in northeast Pennsylvania which she hoped would become the heart of her movement. The city's streets pulled her away, but her belief in farming stuck: "I still think that the only solution is the land," Day wrote in 1957. She remained committed to organizing and was arrested in her seventies with striking Farmworkers in California. As Thanksgiving rolls around and many - even in the media - are struck with the urge to do do something for the poor, it's worth remembering that at least as far as Dorothy Day was concerned, it's not food pantrys that will change things. It's workers with rights, autonomy and food power. You can watch my interview with Jalal Sabur and Ray Figueroa on food power to unearth the school to prison pipeline, this week on The Laura Flanders Show on KCET/LINKtv and TeleSUR and find all my interviews and reports at LauraFlanders.com. To tell me what you think, write to Laura@LauraFlanders.com. http://ncronline.org/news/peace-justice/its-time-rediscover-dorothy-days-voice-land

The apocalypse happened, but no one knows how. What’s left is a barren world ruled by a high-powered caste of bookies, The Odds. Scurrying around underneath is our hero, Eldridge—a big-hearted, bumbling drifter with an estranged family he loves dearly. He’s deep in debt and deathly sick, so he places a bet predicting the day he’ll die. If he wins, he can go to his grave knowing that his family will be safe, but when he returns to his hometown to collect, he gets some bad news: He’s going to live. So it’s on to plan B—a high-stakes battle-tournament that pits real-life chess avatars against each other in random-chance brawls-to-the-death. But Eldridge doesn’t know that someone’s gamed the tournament to pit him against an old friend who’s now a bitter enemy.   All in the new book from California Coldblood publishing:The Odds.Learn more from author Robert J Peterson not only about this book but about the other great things coming from Califorina Coldblood.The Odds is available atAmazon.com,Barnes and... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Scurrying, skittering, and scampering into your ears, it's the Caustic Soda rats episode! Toren, Joe, and Kevin look at the brown rat and black rat. Infanticide, rat-based murder and torture, and the "Ratamari Damacy" gruesomeness of "Rat Kings", and rat-baiting! Music: "Muskrat Ramble" by Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby. Images Videos Movies Willard (Remake) Toren: 5/10 Ratatouille Joe: 8/10 Toren: 8/10 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Joe: 7/10 Kevin: 7/10 Toren: 7/10 The Princess Bride Joe: 10/10 Kevin: 9/10 Toren: 10/10 The Secret of NIMH Kevin: 7/10 Toren: 7/10 The Sweet Hereafter Kevin: 10/10 Toren: 7/10

I. The Difficulty of Accepting Change In one of the most beautiful Psalms in the Old Testament (Psalm 103) it is written, "As for man, his days are like grass, he flourishes like a flower of the field. The wind blows over it and it is gone and its place remembers it no more." That is the changeable-ness of human experience, isn't it? Have you ever gone back to some place that you are familiar with in your childhood or in your teen years and you realize that the physical things, many of them are still there, but it's just not your time for that place anymore. Time has moved on and you don't belong there, anymore. I remember returning to my high school, I only did it once to visit all my teachers and talk to them, and I never went back. It wasn't that they were unfriendly. It was more... I just sensed that the time had moved on and it was actually odd for me to be there. And the hymn "Be still my soul", It speaks about how, when change and tears are past we are welcomed into eternity with great joy. Change. Change itself can be very depressing, very discouraging, and yet, this is the very thing we are yearning for... We want to be transformed, and want to be liberated from these bodies of death, don't we? We want to be transformed and be made like Christ. But the process itself can be very painful. I would say there's been no era in history that has seemed more radical changes to everyday life than those that have lived through the 20th century on into the 21st century, spent a time of extraordinary change. Just think about the years that have passed, since the end of World War II, the incredible changes, political changes the rise and fall of communism in that period of time. How for the longest time, it was a beast that seemed unbeatable and now seems to be completely discredited, not entirely gone but on the down spiral of its existence. We've seen technological changes it's even somewhat humorous now, Best Buy where you can buy some of the hottest newest electronic equipment is kind of spoofing their own and actually coming up with a program that if you buy something and it then becomes obsolete in the next six months, you can buy the new improved version. So there's an ad, a guy standing at the front step as they're delivering his 3D TV and there's an ad for 4D TV going by. And he is distressed, and his daughter running around saying you bought the wrong TV, you silly head. And things just transforming right in front of us at every moment. Technology, Twitter, and YouTube, and all of these things. We're just used to change, but it's very destabilizing. It can make us feel insecure. We forget that underneath are the everlasting arms, that we are resting on the eternal covenant of all mighty God and God's intention showed us have never changed. Difficult Changes for First Generation Jewish Christians But for all of the great changes that we have personally experienced that we continue to experience were almost used to it by now, I think there have been no greater spiritual change is no generation ever had to endure greater spiritual changes than the generation that lived around the time of Christ and beyond. The Jews who lived in Palestine and who were completely accustomed to the sacrificial system around the temple to the thrice annual pilgrimages that they were required under the law of Moses to make to go up and render to God animal sacrifices, blood sacrifices. To be told that the temple sacrifices and the Levitical priesthood was now obsolete. And that we have an entirely new way of approaching God is staggering and bewildering. And some Jews even Jewish Christians that had come to faith in Christ, I'm certain reeled at the implications of Jesus's death on the cross. The Point of Hebrews 7: There is a Change of the Priesthood And I believe that that's the whole point of Hebrews 7, is to announce very clearly that there is a change of the priesthood, and if there is a change of the priesthood there must of necessity, be a change of the law, the time has come for change. So if you were to look at Hebrews 7:12, it says, "For when there is a change of the priesthood there must also be a change of the law." So the Aaronic priesthood, the Levitical priesthood had now become obsolete, so also the Mosaic Covenant that had established it, that is the staggering implication of the life, the death, the resurrection, the ascension, of Jesus Christ for centuries, the Levitical sacrificial system with the sons of Aaron as high priest administered by the command of God. Generations of Jews had then born had grown up had lived their lives and had died under the ministrations of the Levitical priesthood. The priest who were the sons of Aaron. Millions and millions of lambs and sheep and goats and bulls had been sacrificed. A river of blood had flowed. In redemptive history, the tabernacle, that movable tent of Moses, of the days of Moses, and of the exodus a given way eventually, to a stable building the temple of Solomon. Because of the sins of the people God had allowed the Babylonians to destroy the temple, flatten it, raise it to the ground. But then in the providence of God under Cyrus the Great of Persia some small number of Jews, 42,000 have been allowed to return to Jerusalem and begin to rebuild their lives and under the leadership there, under Ezra the priest and Haggai the prophet. The temple had been rebuilt smaller, not so glorious, but the animal sacrificial system had been re-established and had resumed. And so they continue to minister from that time until the time of the Book of Hebrews, 1st century AD, the temple had been the focal point of the entire nation spiritual focal point of the nation of Israel. Three times a year, all Jewish men were commanded to go up and to offer sacrifices that that one place that God had chosen out of all the tribes, and they had offered their sacrifices, there but now all of it was obsolete. Book of Hebrew said what is obsolete and aging would soon disappear. From the moment that Jesus Christ stated of those marvelous words, "It is finished", curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom, the doors of Heaven had been thrown open wide to any who believe in Jesus, the time for animal sacrifice was over, there was a new high priest and his name was Jesus. The Remedy: To Prove from Scripture that God Had Planned to Make this Change And this would be incredibly difficult for the Jews to accept more than we can possibly imagine. And so the remedy that the Lord has given us here in Scripture, through the author to the Book of Hebrews was to prove from Scripture that God had planned this all along, that this had been the plan of God all along. That the Levitical priesthood was just temporary. So the argument of Hebrews 7 is that God had established the priesthood of Jesus in the order of Melchizedek before he established the priesthood Aaron; and that this priesthood in the order of Melchizedek, had always been infinitely superior to the priesthood of the house of Aaron. Jesus was the fulfillment of all priesthood, but specifically of this new order, established by his death and his resurrection, his ascension a priest in the order of Melchizedek, and that this had been foreshadowed in the days of Abraham, their father. Way back in Genesis 14, had been recorded, mysteriously had been picked up on by a single verse in Psalm 110. Psalm 110:4, King David had written, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind who are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek." Psalm 110:4. Hebrews 5 has already introduced this theme. Hebrews 5:6 says, "So Christ also did not take upon himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him, 'You are my son today, I have begotten you.' And he said in another place, 'You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.'" So that's in chapter five we've already brushed against this idea. And then in 5:10, Jesus was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek. Suddenly in mid-stride, the author of the Hebrews stops himself says we have much to say about this. This theme of Melchizedek, we have a lot to tell you about Melchizedek we want you to understand about Melchizedek. But it's hard to explain because you become literally lazy listeners to the Word of God. By this time, you should have made further or greater progress, than you have. And so, he stops and he addresses them with great concern with great intensity, with passion and He warns, them of the danger of apostasy in chapter 6, of not continuing to make progress, of keeping step with the Spirit, as God is unfolding redemptive history before their very eyes. And as things are changing, and as things are developing, that they need to keep up with what God is doing is revealed in the written word. So throughout Hebrews 6, he warns them, he encourages, he exhorts them and at the end of the chapter, he returns to Melchizedek, he says that we have through the ministrations of Jesus, the high priest, we have this hope in Jesus hope and the promises of God as an anchor for the soul that enters this hope, this chain that holds us to the promises of God and to hope it enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain, where Jesus has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest in the order of Melchizedek. So at the end of chapter six, He returns to this theme that he'd been wanting to develop but he needed to stop and deal with them personally. And so, we have returned now to Melchizedek. Melchizedek was a type of Christ, who will give them a deeper and richer understanding of Jesus Christ as our great high priest. The Types of the Old Testament Now, what do we mean by the word type? What is a type? Well, a type is in biblical study we use the word type to refer to an Old Testament person or practice or ceremony that has a counterpart technically called an anti-type, I think more simply just a fulfillment because types are prophecies a fulfillment in the New Testament. So in that sense, types are predictive. They are predictive prophecies, but they're acted out in history, they're different from verbally predictive properties in which something's just laid out verbally, and we're told what's going to happen. These things are acted out in history, things are acted out, and then they're fulfilled. And there are many, many examples of types, I think Noah's ark in the midst of that flood was a type, a picture of the salvation that Jesus gives, us rescue from the wrath of God, one place only must be on that arc. And so there is no other name under heaven given to men, by which we must be saved, than Jesus Christ. Jesus is the ark of our salvation. It's a picture acted out or Abraham's offering of his son Isaac, on Mount Moriah, which God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there…" It's a picture of what God would do with Jesus, a picture of Christ. Certainly, the Passover lamb in Exodus Chapter 12, that would be slaughtered and its blood painted over the door posts, etcetera, which delivered them from the angel of death before the right before the exodus a clear picture of the death of Jesus, the blood of Jesus rescuing us from our sins. The Exodus as a whole, the whole movement of the people of God out of bondage out of slavery in Egypt, and through great trials and on into the promised land, a type of the whole salvation of sinners. We are edeemed from slavery to sin, and brought into the promised land of heaven of our Sabbath rest. The bronze serpent is a type how the Jews and their sinfulness were being judged by God with poison of snakes and God commanded them to make a bronze serpent. All you had to do is look at the serpent if you looked you would be saved from death. And so in the same way, God sent his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life, the bronze serpent, a picture of saving faith. So many types and pictures, and this Melchizedek, is a type of Christ. He's a picture of Christ ahead of time. Now, I just think this is marvelous. Isn't it? Isn't this awesome that God plays history, like a virtuoso violin plays a magnificent piece and it's even better than that, because God wrote the piece that's being played, he writes the music and then he acts it out, sovereignly and just put in scatters like diamonds. These types throughout history to show God's in charge of history and history has meaning. It's just a beautiful thing in Melchizedek is a type of Christ. The Goal: to Establish the Infinite Superiority of Christ as our High Priest And God's purpose here in Hebrews, is to establish the infinite superiority of Christ to any other priest you could possibly imagine, certainly superior to the ironic the Levitical priest. And so the author desires to remove uncertainty, and doubt from the minds of these first century Jews who are so tempted and so, afflicted and such a strong pull on them to forsake Christ because they're being persecuted and they're being pressured, by their Jewish neighbors and relatives and authority figures, to give up on Jesus as though he's a cult leader, a deceiver of the people, and turn away from Jesus and go back to Old Covenant Judaism. And what the author's saying is, you can't do that, you can't go back. Because Jesus is the fulfillment of all of that and the priesthood of Jesus is infinitely superior to the priesthood of Aaron and his descendants. His goal then is to free these Jewish Christians from any temptation to go backward, to forsake Christ and to go backward. And it's a message, a timeless message to us who are not Jews, living in the first century were under no pressure to go back to something we never knew. We're under no pressure we're not being tempted sorely to offer a cat or a dog for our sins, in the backyard or a sheep or a goat. We're not under that kind of pressure, but you under the same pressure to forsake Jesus, that they were. You're under the exact same pressure to turn your back on Jesus and go back to your life of sin. And so these words show us the certainty of our faith, and the greatness of our high priest, at the right hand of Almighty God. He was constantly praying for you. And so this message is for us who are Gentile believers as well. II. The History of Melchizedek (Genesis 14) So who is this Melchizedek? When I was growing up in the Catholic church, I was an altar boy and a week after week the priest would say different things in the mass that had been written out, and one of the sections was a prayer centered around the offering. And the priest would say, "look, with favor on these gifts and accept them as you once accepted the gifts of your servant Abel. And the gifts of Abraham our father in faith, and as you accepted once the bread and wine, offered by your servant Melchizedek." I heard about Melchizedek every week of my life. And at least five of you have asked me over the last week and a who is Melchizedek. Today is your day. And mine. Finally get an answer. Now, I must admit, I didn't ever ask, "Who is Melchizedek?" It just wasn't the question wasn't raised and certainly no priest ever explained it, but today we get a clear explanation of who this individual was. Melchizedek was a man, a figure in history, flesh and blood man, not an apparition, not a ghost. I do not believe he was a pre-incarnate Christ. We talk about all that. He was a man who lived at a certain moment in history. His first mentioned in Genesis 14. So put your finger here on Hebrews 7 and go back to Genesis 14, if you like, or just listen but he's mentioned in Genesis 14, with Abraham's involvement in the defeat of King Chedorlaomer around the year 2000 BC, somewhere around 2000 BC. Talk more on this in a moment but I'm just easing into it now. He is next mentioned in Psalm 110, in verse 4, up out of nowhere in the middle of the salter he pops up again. Melchizedek just kind of does it, he just pops up and then he pops up again in Hebrews five and six and seven and then that's it. But in Psalm 110 Verse 4, as we already quoted, "The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind. You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek." David wrote this approximately 1000 years after Abraham and approximately 450 years or so after Moses wrote the account of Abraham. So David wrote around a thousand or so BC Psalm 110. It's a mysterious statement prophecy of strange meaning almost certainly I have to believe that this was uniformly ignored by the Jews as some arcane mystery. So the author to Hebrews picks up this mysterious theme a thousand years later in the first century AD, I think no ordinary Jew living between the time of Abraham and the time of David would have given much of a thought at all to Melchizedek. Ephesians 3, talks about mysteries hidden for long ages past, but now revealed and made known through Jesus. And I just don't think he was a major theme, and I think no ordinary Jew living between 1000 BC in the time of Hebrews would have even tried to figure out what Psalm 110 verse 4 was talking about. Jesus surprised them with Psalm 110 when he said, "How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him [the messiah] 'Lord'"? because it says there in Psalm 110, "The Lord said to my Lord: 'sit at my right hand till I put all your enemies under your feet." "If David calls him Lord, how can he be his son?" Gee, we never saw that before. Scurrying back to the salter, reading and there it is Psalm 110, had never noticed that before. Do you think they noticed Melchizedek too? I don't think they were ready for Melchizedek at that point they weren't ready for verse 1 of Psalm 110. This is a mystery locked into human history, a spiritual mystery that really happened in space and time, but God had a deeper meaning for that, a deeper significance. So as you're there in Genesis 14, look at verses 18-20. "Then Melchizedek, King of Salem, brought out bread and wine, he was priest of God Most High, and he blessed Abram saying, "Blessed be Abram by God Most High, creator of heaven and earth, and blessed be God Most High who delivered your enemies into your hand, then Abram gave him a tenth of everything." That's it. That is the entire account, other than Psalm 110:4, in the Old Testament of this mysterious figure Melchizedek. There is not another mention. Next time he's mentioned after Psalm 110 is Hebrews 5. Context of Genesis 14 So what is the context of Genesis 14? Abram not yet called Abraham had left Ur of the Chaldees by faith, traveled to Palestine to receive the promise from Almighty God, that that land would belong to him, and to his descendants forever. His wife Sarai, not yet called Sarah, and his nephew Lot, traveled with him in the course of time, Lot and Abram could not continue to sojourn together. They had too many heads of cattle, too many livestock too much livestock and so they had to separate Lot went down to live in the fertile grounds around Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abram continued in the promised land. At that time, a mighty king named Chedorlaomer ruled the region in which Sodom was and he demanded that the lesser kings who are subservient to him, vassal kings pay him yearly tribute. He was the great king they were the lesser kings. And this, they did for a long time, but at a certain point, a handful of them rebelled and would pay Chedorlaomer no longer. Well, that's very bad for great king business. Vassal kings need to keep the money coming in, and so, Chedorlaomer has to deal with this. So he gathers together the vassal kings that are still loyal to him, and they rally together and they fight a war, four kings against five. This is the closest thing they had to a World War at that point. Very significant moment in that region of the world. So the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah were defeated by Chedorlaomer and he and his allies, captured Lot and all of his possessions, and hauled them off. Abram, Lot's uncle, heard of this and gathered his own army and rescued Lot helping to defeat Chedorlaomer. After the battle two kings came out to greet the victorious Abraham. The king of Sodom came with plunder from the battle, which Abram refused. But Melchizedek, the king of Salem, came out to bless him with spiritual blessings, which Abram received. This encounter is the focus of Hebrew 7. Now go back to Hebrew 7:1-3, And now let's try to understand the symbolism of Melchizedek. We've seen the history of Melchizedek and that's all we can say. III. The Symbolism of Melchizedek (vs. 1-3) But what is the symbolic significance of Melchizedek ? What is the author to Hebrews telling us? Well, look again in verses 1-3. "This Melchizedek was king of Salem, and priest of God Most High, he met Abraham returning from the defeat of the kings and blessed him and Abraham gave him a tenth of everything first, His name means king of righteousness, then also King of Salem, means King of Peace. Without, father and mother, without genealogy, without beginning of days, or end of life, like the son of God, he remains a priest forever. So we have this individual, and he is significantly a priest-king or a king-priest. Both king and priest. He is king of Salem, and he is priest of God Most High. Now, what the author to the book of Hebrews is going to do with this is say, that this combination was impossible under the Law of Moses. It was forbidden. And what he's going to do in Hebrews 12:7 is make the argument that in order for Jesus to be a priest, you have to have a change of the law, thus the Old Covenant is over. That's what he's doing. I'm telling you, very plainly what the point, the whole point here is the Mosaic covenant is done, the Levitical priesthood is finished, it's obsolete. We have a new priesthood now and we have one priest and that is Jesus, that's where he's going with all this. So the priests were all Levites, they were descended from Aaron, priests were sons of Aaron and kings were sons of David. Kingship was given to Judah, and there was a wall of separation between the two. Priestly duties of animal sacrifice were relegated exclusively to Aaron and his sons forever under the Mosaic covenant. So as long as the Mosaic Covenant endured, the priesthood was theirs. When King Saul dared to offer sacrifice, the kingdom was taken from him. Centuries later, when King Uzziah dared to enter the temple and offer incense he was confronted by Godly High Priest Azariah and 80 other courageous priests who confronted this king, who is otherwise a godly king, but got arrogant, got prideful with his successes, his piety, and went too far. Thought he could offer incense as the king allowed to do that and he was confronted. It is not right for you to be here, Uzziah. Uzziah got angry and thought to throw the burning, smoldering incensor at the high priest, but before he could do it, God struck him with leprosy broke out on his forehead and they hustled him out of the temple and the scripture said he was "eager to go." And he lived the rest of his life as a leper excluded from all fellowship with humanity, as a severe punishment on an otherwise godly king. This is the Uzziah, that is famous in Isaiah 6, who died. And so there is a strong separation between the kingship and the priesthood. But Melchizedek was a picture of this combination, a new order priesthood, in which our king would be our priest and Jesus is the perfect fulfillment of this new order, priest-king in Hebrews 8:1. "The point of what we are saying is this, we do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven." We have a priest-king. That's what we have. And so this man was king of Salem. Now, the word Salem refers to Jerusalem, that ancient city later became known as the city of David, the city, the earthly city is a picture of the future city of God called the New Jerusalem, which will come down as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband, prepared for God and man to live together forever. Jesus will be the first and final king of the New Jerusalem. Melchizedek was the first king mentioned of the old Jerusalem, we don't know that he was the founding king but he's the first one that's mentioned. Melchizedek then as king ruled over his people, his word was law his generosity was their blessing his courage and power was their protection from their enemies. He was king of Salem in verse two, we'll just jump ahead there, I'll go back after talking about this word peace. But, the author tells us that Salem means peace. And so Melchizedek was king over a city whose name is peace. This Violent History of Jerusalem, the City of Peace A bit ironic if you think about the history of Jerusalem, anything but the city of peace. And David conquered Jerusalem from the Jebusites in 1005 BC, from then on it was called, as I mentioned, the City of David, but then the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar conquered it from the Jews, the Persian king, Cyrus the Great conquered it from the Babylonians, Alexander the Great conquered it from the Persians, Roman commander Pompey conquered it from the Greeks and then they ruled over that region for centuries, the Eastern Roman Empire, called the Byzantine empire and they ruled until the Muslims rose up and under Caliph Omar took the city from the Byzantines, for Islam in AD 637. The European Crusaders thought that they needed to get the land back. You know what they needed to do? They needed to have a bible study, instead, man, let's just have a Bible study. It'll save you a lot of wear and tear and a lot of bad blood. They should have studied John four and what Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." Jesus knew what kind of worship was coming and animal sacrifice wasn't going to be any part of it, but the Crusaders came and they conquered it for Christendom from the Muslims in the year 1099. The Muslims under Saladin got it back for Islam in 1187, the Crusaders got it back briefly after that but it didn't last, and then the Muslims got it. Final version of that were the Ottoman Turks, the British took it from the Turks in 1917 in World War I and they ruled it until they gave it over to an assembly of Jews and Arabs who together were kind of going to get along around the administrations of the City of David. That hasn't worked too well. There have been all kinds of wars fought since 1948, as each side seeks to gain control over the city of peace. So that is a brief history, bloody history of the city of peace, but it was originally called peace I think prophetically. Because the final version of Jerusalem, the New Jerusalem that descends out of heaven, prepared as a bride, beautifully dressed for her husband will be the absolute picture of peace. It will be radiant with peace, gloriously so, its walls will be high and mighty more powerful than any foe could ever muster. There'd be no possibility of crumbling those walls, but it doesn't matter because the gates are standing open constantly, and the wealth of the nations streaming in and there's a constant freedom to enter the city of peace. Isaiah’s Vision of Jerusalem And Isaiah had a vision of the future of Jerusalem, Isaiah 2, "This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the last days, the mountain of the Lord's temple will be established as chief among the mountains. They will be raised above the hills and all nations will stream to it. Many peoples will come and say, "Come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His path." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, He will judge between the nations and settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore." And the beautiful prophecy in Zechariah chapter nine. Jesus Christ came to bring this peace, this everlasting peace and to establish a city of eternal peace called the New Jerusalem. And Zechariah 9:9-10 says, "Rejoice greatly oh daughter of Zion. Shout daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your king comes to you righteous, having salvation gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem and the battle bow will be broken, He will proclaim peace to the nations. His rule will extend from sea to sea and from the river to the ends of the earth." Oh, how awesome is that city of peace that is coming? And peace will reign between God and man, we who are at one point, enemies and adversaries Colossians 1 says that because of our evil behavior, he has now reconciled us to God through the blood of Jesus shed on the cross. How Jesus stood under the wrath of God and took our punishment in our place and shed His blood so that we could be reconciled to God, and God could be at peace with us. And therefore Romans 5:1, "since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Priest of God Most High This man, not just the king of Salem. He was also priest of God Most High. He was a priest as well, a priest of God Most High. Now, the title, God Most High is a universal title for God. It's not a tribal title, a focus on one nation, the Jews like Yahweh was their covenant name for God. But this was more of an indication that Almighty God rules over all nations. And isn't it marvelous that God was doing something in the time of Abraham that wasn't connected directly with Abraham? But then God brought them together, and so God is at work all over the world, and revealing Himself in marvelous ways, but you still have to have missionaries to go bring the ultimate son of Abraham, Jesus, the message of Jesus, to them so that they can believe in trust, for the forgiveness of their sins and God brings them what he's doing out in the Gentile world with Melchizedek together with Abraham, the father of the Jews, and they come together. And so he was priest of God Most High. What was the nature of his priestly religion? We don't know, we just don't know much about this man, but he was a priest. And so in some way an intermediary between sinners and God. And he came, it says, and he blessed Abram saying, "Blessed be Abram, by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, and blessed be God Most High who delivered your enemies into your hand." So there he is as a priest, kind of between Abram and God Most High, and from God Most High through Melchizedek, Abraham is getting blessed. And on behalf of Abraham, up toward God Almighty God, God is blessed and so he's just got that priestly ministration. The author of Hebrews is going to comment on the blessing in Hebrew 7:6-7, we'll talk about that God willing next week, but it says that Melchizedek "collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises. And without doubt, the lesser person is blessed by the greater." And so I think the blessing of Abraham is representative of the ministry of Jesus Christ through whom all blessings come to us. Oh, dear Christian brother and sister. You have no blessing in your life that didn't come to you through the cross. It all comes to you through the cross, and through the priestly ministry of Jesus, all of them, your blessings come through Jesus. And so it says in Ephesians one three, "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ." And so he blessed him and Abraham, it says, gave him a tenth of everything. We're going to talk more about the tithe next week, but the author of Hebrews is just following the Genesis account here in Genesis 14, in any case, Abraham's giving of the tithes to Melchizedek is representative of all of our worship and our praise offerings to God going to the Father through Jesus's priestly ministry. Can I say it this way right back up? We can't give anything to God that He'll accept except through Jesus. Every good work, all of your prayers, all of your acts of kindness, all of your money, everything that you give to God would be worthless and unacceptable except through Jesus's blood shed for you. And so Jesus is that perfect intermediary. And so he gives him a tenth of everything. more on that next week, He is called King of righteousness. Literally, this is a straight translation from the Hebrew. Melchi means King. Melchi literally my king. And Tsedek... Tsedek is righteousness, the righteousness of God. And so we have the King of righteousness. This is the deep yearning isn't it, of all governed people? To have a righteous king over us, to have a righteous government. King David, at the end of his life said in 2 Samuel 23, "The God of Israel spoke the Rock of Israel said to me, 'When one rules over men and righteousness, when He rules in the fear of God, he is like the Light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth.'" that's what it's like to have a righteous king. Oh, how sweet is that and if it that's true of the sinner, David, infinitely so is it of our king of righteousness, Jesus. He will reign over us in righteousness, and justice forever more and You will be delighted to obey Him in Heaven, delighted to do it Now on earth, delighted to have a king of righteousness. This is the great tragedy, I think, of all human governments. Proverbs 29:2, says, "When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice when the wicked rule, the people groan." That groan has hurt all over the Earth. Well, Melchizedek, then symbolizes a yearning for what we will actually have in Jesus a perfectly righteous king. But at a deeper level, let me tell you something, you don't need a priest, if you're not a sinner, The priest is an intermediary between sinners and God, Because we have sinned, we need a priest, we need grace, We need sacrifices we need forgiveness, and so the real hungering and thirsting for righteousness is not just that we would have a righteous king because frankly, apart from atonement we're in trouble with the righteous king. Because he would condemn us, but we would like to be righteous ourselves and the beauty of our king of righteousness is that Jesus has become for us righteousness from God. Isn't that wonderful, 1 Corinthians 1:30, said that Jesus is our righteousness. Jeremiah 23, says the branch, from David. Will come and sit on the throne and this will be His name, the Lord our righteousness. He will be our righteousness, He will reign in a righteous kingdom because He loves righteousness and hates wickedness, but He will reign over people who used to be wicked but are now righteous. That is the beauty of the cross of Jesus Christ and of the kingdom that He brings. Without Father or Mother, Without Genealogy Now we get to the interesting stuff without father or mother, without genealogy, I don't know. So let's go on to the next part. Alright? I don't know, but I'm going to take a few guesses. Okay. I have two explanations for this, Okay? I'm at verse 3, "Without father or mother, without genealogy without beginning of days, or end of life, like the son of God, he remains a priest forever." Well, some of our brothers in Christ, Commentators and pastors and others have said this is clear in verse 3, that Melchizedek had to be Jesus, the pre-incarnate Christ. Well, that just fails on the word "like." Okay, I just don't think that Jesus is like Jesus, I just don't think that's much of a statement to say Jesus is like the Son of God just doesn't get us very far. Furthermore, although he would have been pre-incarnate at that point, he eventually did have a father and mother, not a human father but he definitely had a human mother, and he definitely had two genealogies. Matthew chapter 1 and Luke chapter 4. Melchizedek can't be an apparition or a ghost. Because we already learned in Hebrews 5:1 every high priest, is selected from among men, he has to be a human being. We believe theologically, that Adam and Eve are the father and mother of all human beings that God didn't create Melchizedek up out of the dust of the earth or out of some banana leaves or some other thing, God can do anything, but I think he wanted the entire human race to center from Adam and Eve. So, I've cleared out what it isn't. What does it mean, without father or mother? Well, I think the first way I have come to understand this, I don't know if this is true, but the author to Hebrews has a remarkable and unique way of looking at the Bible. You remember how in chapter 4, he said, "The Word of God is living and active," it's a living thing, a living entity, a living world and when you read the Bible, you are stepping into that world, by faith. And if you step into the Genesis 14 world, Melchizedek just pops up without a genealogy, without a father or a mother, and he then just disappears and doesn't die. And so in the Bible, account these things are true. There's no genealogy of this man, there's no father or mother, there's no death, he just seems to go on living forever. It's the way he is going to treat Abel later on in chapter 11, when He says though dead, he still speaks. Again you can understand that two ways, namely he is still alive up in heaven absent from the body, present with the Lord. Okay, that's fine. But I think he's really meaning through the scripture, he speaks by his actions. Anyway, that's my first crack at it. If that's not satisfying. This is my second and final attempt. I think really the best reason is that his priesthood, itself doesn't depend on a genealogy unlike Aaron and his sons. And I think that's the better answer of all the priesthood doesn't derive from his ancestry, it's not a genealogical priesthood unlike the Levitical priesthood. If you came back in the time of Ezra and you could not produce your genealogical records you could not serve as a priest. It was a genealogical priesthood and in the same way, without beginning of days, or end of life. It's the same way, the ironic priest had a very definite beginning to their priestly ministry at age 25 and they had to retire at age 50. I was really struck by the fact that there actually is retirement in the Bible, and it's even more pointed, it's for priests and even worse, it's 50. So I better get going. Whatever dreams or hopes or aspirations I have for my priestly ministry. I have two years. If you're going to hold to that. Thankfully, we're not, we're in the New Covenant, amen. The Levitical priesthood is done. So please, if God wills extend me beyond age 50 if I live that long. But the point is, the priesthood itself, it's not genealogically-based and it doesn't end like there's duties. 50. And even more significantly, ended death, Jesus can never die again, death has no mastery over him, he's finished and so he will go on ministering in this order of Melchizedek until his days end, which will never happen. And so I think that's what it means. Hebrews 7:24-25, "Because Jesus lives forever, He has a permanent priesthood. And therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them." If you have another interpretation come and tell me, and I'll listen it'll probably be very interesting. So I want to hear what you would say about it. Like the Son of God, [Melchizedek] Remains a Priest Forever Final statement he makes here is like the Son of God Melchizedek remains a priest forever. Amazingly Melchizedek who pre-dates Jesus of Nazareth by two millennia is said to be like the Son of God. In this way he's very much like John the Baptist, who said He who comes after me, has surpassed me because He was before me. Jesus opens up the ministry in the order of Melchizedek before the foundation of the world. God the Father and God the Son had worked out, this ministry before God said, "Let there be light" in Revelation 13, Jesus is said to be the lamb, that was slain from the foundation of the Earth. This priesthood pre-dates Melchizedek and so Melchizedek is just like the Son of God, He's compared to Him, Jesus will later be compared to Melchizedek but Jesus pre-dates him just as he said in John Chapter 8, "before Abraham was I am." That's the eternity of Jesus. This is dear friends the true priestly ministry, the only one that has ever really stood before God on behalf of sinners. Jesus is the true the eternal, the first, and the final high priest. So in summary Melchizedek was conformed to the pattern of Christ in some amazing ways set forth centuries before Aaron was established as high priest by the laws of Moses. Melchizedek was a pattern of Christ first as priest of God Most High. Second as a priest king. Third as the king of righteousness. Forth as the King of Peace. Fifth as the one who blessed Abraham. Sixth as the one who received gifts and offerings from God's people represented by Abraham. Seventh as a priest who did not owe his position to genealogy. And eighth as a priest who's ministry is not restricted to 50 years of age, but who continues as priests to the end of his days, which in Jesus' case, is forever. IV. Application That is, Melchizedek. And so what shall we do with this? Come to Christ, I come to Christ, the only priest who can save you. Melchizedek 's a picture, Jesus the reality and fulfillment. Jesus shed His blood once for all, we'll get to that later in Hebrews. What once for all, never again, does a sacrifice need to be offered. Perhaps you were invited here today, you don't have faith, you haven't trusted in Christ, until today, I pray that God would open your eyes, that he would give you a vision of Jesus, such as you've never had before, and I ask that you would come to Christ Jesus is in the person of this message pleading with you, to turn away from your sins, and to come to the cross and receive mercy and forgiveness through faith. Let Jesus be your priest, king, bow the knee to Jesus take his kingly yoke upon you, let Him be your king, of righteousness. Secondly, brothers and sisters, marvel at the depth of scripture scriptures deeper than we can possibly imagine infinitely, and marvel over God's control of history. God controls the unfolding of history and all the types and patterns and thirdly, brothers and sisters immerse yourself in the ministry of Jesus as your great High Priest. Know how completely your sins are atoned for. Just know that you're forgiven in Jesus. If you're struggling with sin, bring it to Jesus bring your weakness, "Cast all your burdens on Him because He cares for you. Don't carry them anymore they're crushing you. If you're discouraged, if you're depressed, if you're weary go to the cross, go to Jesus go to your great high priest, he is a priest forever for you go to him and he'll care for you. Close with me in prayer. Father this passage is really deep infinitely so it's meat the author is told it's not milk. Thank you for the attentiveness of my brothers and sisters in Christ. Take the words that I've said, and press them into our hearts, we pray, in Jesus' name, amen.

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