(229) Twin Peaks: The way of the head and the way of the heart. Worlds in Harmony
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In September 2006 I recalled Charles Ingram's plan to journey on behalf of the Charity SENSE to visit His Holiness, The Dalai Lama at his base in Northern India.
I reaffirmed it on September 14th by checking at his site, and in reply to an e mail, even mentioned it to him. I knew that he had raised funds for Charities through various endeavours, including journeying to Maccu Picchu. I myself had sponsored him running the 2006 London Flora Marathon to raise funds for SENSE.
On September 13th 2006 I had been thinking about the war between science and spirituality, and had affirmed to myself that, perhaps, Love lay at the apex of each!?
Alternate ways to the same truth!? I may be wrong. I claim to be neither sage nor guru.
In an e mail to Ingram on the morning of September 15th (my son ́s birthday) I mentioned this idea.
He cynically responded that, after his treatment at the hands of Celador, he thought that it was more likely to be love of money which lay at the peak. Then he set off for the Himalayan foothills of India.
iOn the afternoon of September 14th, a bookshop in town rang to say that a school textbook for my son had just arrived. So we decided to tie in picking it up with a vist to a nearby Moroccan restaurant. In the bookshop window I was to notice a few books on display under the heading Spirituality and Growth.
Five were by The Dalai Lama. I was unaware that he was an author, although not wholly surprised.
One was entitled Mundos en Armonia (Worlds in Harmony) It was subtitled Dialogues on Compassionate Action .
I bought a copy. Then, immediately above I noticed a section headed Ensayo (Trial or Experiment in Spanish).
I noted there a book in Spanish by Charles van Doren. The name jumped out at me as he was the guy played by Ralph Fiennes in Robert Redford's 1994 film, Quiz Show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiz_Show_%28movie%29
The film is the depiction of a true story from 1959 where the makers of a TV quiz show gave contestant van Doren the answers to some of the questions he was to face. I had never come before across his name in any other context.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren
The title read Brevia history of Saber. I opened it to see that it was a Spanish translation of van Doren ́s History of Knowledge, a book by him that I had never heard of.
http://www.amazon.com/History-Knowledge-Past-Present-Future/dp/0345373162
His book was published in 1991, but this translation, by Claudia Casanova for Planeta, was only published in January 2006. For Charles van Doren, the scandal was that the cheating was ORGANISED by the TV Show ́s makers themselves. Charles Ingram had been (falsely) done by the makers of his show for cheating for his own benefit. They thereby made a fortune for themselves.
After the scandal, van Doren had continued to work as a distinguished academic, even editing the Encyclopedia Brittanica, but for many years he used a nom-de-plume.
On the day Brain Fitness Week began, reports appeared in the press that Tarrant's wife was unhappy with him for canoodling with a blonde in a local bar. On the day Brain Fitness Week ended, Tarrant announced that his 15 year marriage was over due to his 7 year relationship with a trustee of Headway - a Charity for victims of brain injury of which he was a Patron.
On September 19th I chanced upon a response from a webchat with Tarrant which had occurred on September 15th. It was an inquiry posed by James Sorrie of Northampton about memorable contestants and Tarrant mentioned top prize winner, Ingram Wilcox. He then mentioned the coincidence of his writing out checks to two different Ingrams. One on a show that aired that very week.
In response to a question about Major Charles Ingram at the same webchat, Tarrant referred to him as a cheat.
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Also on the 19th James Sorrie (who is a club chessplayer and with whom I had exchanged comments at quizzing.co.uk, but whom I met for the first time at the studios in Nov 2004, when I was a player and he a reserve - see Entries 224, 189 and 186) e mailed me to say that he had just had a call from Celador to say he was through to the last 50 candidates for a show to be recorded on Sep 27th. He e mailed me on the 25th to say that he was on.
In September 2006 I recalled Charles Ingram's plan to journey on behalf of the Charity SENSE to visit His Holiness, The Dalai Lama at his base in Northern India.
I reaffirmed it on September 14th by checking at his site, and in reply to an e mail, even mentioned it to him. I knew that he had raised funds for Charities through various endeavours, including journeying to Maccu Picchu. I myself had sponsored him running the 2006 London Flora Marathon to raise funds for SENSE.
On September 13th 2006 I had been thinking about the war between science and spirituality, and had affirmed to myself that, perhaps, Love lay at the apex of each!?
Alternate ways to the same truth!? I may be wrong. I claim to be neither sage nor guru.
In an e mail to Ingram on the morning of September 15th (my son ́s birthday) I mentioned this idea.
He cynically responded that, after his treatment at the hands of Celador, he thought that it was more likely to be love of money which lay at the peak. Then he set off for the Himalayan foothills of India.
iOn the afternoon of September 14th, a bookshop in town rang to say that a school textbook for my son had just arrived. So we decided to tie in picking it up with a vist to a nearby Moroccan restaurant. In the bookshop window I was to notice a few books on display under the heading Spirituality and Growth.
Five were by The Dalai Lama. I was unaware that he was an author, although not wholly surprised.
One was entitled Mundos en Armonia (Worlds in Harmony) It was subtitled Dialogues on Compassionate Action .
I bought a copy. Then, immediately above I noticed a section headed Ensayo (Trial or Experiment in Spanish).
I noted there a book in Spanish by Charles van Doren. The name jumped out at me as he was the guy played by Ralph Fiennes in Robert Redford's 1994 film, Quiz Show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiz_Show_%28movie%29
The film is the depiction of a true story from 1959 where the makers of a TV quiz show gave contestant van Doren the answers to some of the questions he was to face. I had never come before across his name in any other context.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren
The title read Brevia history of Saber. I opened it to see that it was a Spanish translation of van Doren ́s History of Knowledge, a book by him that I had never heard of.
http://www.amazon.com/History-Knowledge-Past-Present-Future/dp/0345373162
His book was published in 1991, but this translation, by Claudia Casanova for Planeta, was only published in January 2006. For Charles van Doren, the scandal was that the cheating was ORGANISED by the TV Show ́s makers themselves. Charles Ingram had been (falsely) done by the makers of his show for cheating for his own benefit. They thereby made a fortune for themselves.
After the scandal, van Doren had continued to work as a distinguished academic, even editing the Encyclopedia Brittanica, but for many years he used a nom-de-plume.
On the day Brain Fitness Week began, reports appeared in the press that Tarrant's wife was unhappy with him for canoodling with a blonde in a local bar. On the day Brain Fitness Week ended, Tarrant announced that his 15 year marriage was over due to his 7 year relationship with a trustee of Headway - a Charity for victims of brain injury of which he was a Patron.
On September 19th I chanced upon a response from a webchat with Tarrant which had occurred on September 15th. It was an inquiry posed by James Sorrie of Northampton about memorable contestants and Tarrant mentioned top prize winner, Ingram Wilcox. He then mentioned the coincidence of his writing out checks to two different Ingrams. One on a show that aired that very week.
In response to a question about Major Charles Ingram at the same webchat, Tarrant referred to him as a cheat.
.
Also on the 19th James Sorrie (who is a club chessplayer and with whom I had exchanged comments at quizzing.co.uk, but whom I met for the first time at the studios in Nov 2004, when I was a player and he a reserve - see Entries 224, 189 and 186) e mailed me to say that he had just had a call from Celador to say he was through to the last 50 candidates for a show to be recorded on Sep 27th. He e mailed me on the 25th to say that he was on.
I had left a copy of Coincidences for Tarrant when appearing on Millionaire? in 2000.
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I note -
a) ́Ensayo ́ means trial, attempt, or essay. Of these three direct translations, essay is the broadest and most profound definition. Essay is closely related to assay, which in turn, also describes the word ensayo well. Assay is the process of checking or appraising the state of affairs or a certain entity.
Trial is the general world for the act of trying anything. It is also used in criminal law, but Trial in the ensayo context means the testing of a particular tool, principle, or application so as to properly evaluate its results.
́Ensayo ́ is also closely related to practice, or the process of learning something to be better at it. Given
that same definition, ensayo directly relates to rehearsal as well. The Millionaire Three were tried for the offence of attempting to defraud Tarrant himself into signing away £1,000,000.
b) The name of the translator of van Doren ́s History of Knowledge is Casanova. The translation was for a company called Planeta .
c) The National Brain Fitness Week blurb referred to Tarrant as "The grand quizmaster himself..."
a) ́Ensayo ́ means trial, attempt, or essay. Of these three direct translations, essay is the broadest and most profound definition. Essay is closely related to assay, which in turn, also describes the word ensayo well. Assay is the process of checking or appraising the state of affairs or a certain entity.
Trial is the general world for the act of trying anything. It is also used in criminal law, but Trial in the ensayo context means the testing of a particular tool, principle, or application so as to properly evaluate its results.
́Ensayo ́ is also closely related to practice, or the process of learning something to be better at it. Given
that same definition, ensayo directly relates to rehearsal as well. The Millionaire Three were tried for the offence of attempting to defraud Tarrant himself into signing away £1,000,000.
b) The name of the translator of van Doren ́s History of Knowledge is Casanova. The translation was for a company called Planeta .
c) The National Brain Fitness Week blurb referred to Tarrant as "The grand quizmaster himself..."
I am a grandmaster.
d) The day after I conclude that Science and Religion each have at their summit the same thing, Love, I am fined for parking outside a clinic for the Mentally Ill as I lacked the proper authorisation to be there.
e) Tarrant was Patron of a Charity for people with brain injuries called HEADWAY. The story breaks of his having an affair with a woman trustee of the Charity prompting HEADWAY to ask for his resignation.
f) Tarrant and his wife appear in a TV commercial to promote a Nintendo product as part of National Brain Fitness Week in which she banishes him from their bed to a couch because he has forgotten their wedding anniversary. Chris Tarrant Brain Game Ad
In reality, during that very week he was banished from their bed as his marriage publicly fell apart.
d) The day after I conclude that Science and Religion each have at their summit the same thing, Love, I am fined for parking outside a clinic for the Mentally Ill as I lacked the proper authorisation to be there.
e) Tarrant was Patron of a Charity for people with brain injuries called HEADWAY. The story breaks of his having an affair with a woman trustee of the Charity prompting HEADWAY to ask for his resignation.
f) Tarrant and his wife appear in a TV commercial to promote a Nintendo product as part of National Brain Fitness Week in which she banishes him from their bed to a couch because he has forgotten their wedding anniversary. Chris Tarrant Brain Game Ad
In reality, during that very week he was banished from their bed as his marriage publicly fell apart.
At the month ́s end I mentioned those events re Tarrant ́s private life in an e mail to Ingram, who reacted with surprise.́ I responded that was proof enough that he had spent the previous two weeks in the Himalayas, for he would have to be almost the only person in the country who needed to be informed!
g) On December 16th 2006 my wife and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary. Ironically, I was to discover the next day, at a chess tournament 50 miles away in Cieza, that although Fiona had told me to check the Murcian chess calendar in the hope that I might spot the occasional less well-advertised local one day or weekend event, I had overlooked that on December 16th there had been a chess tournament in my own town!
I joked that I was reluctant to play events in my own street. Yet it turned out that that was indeed exactly the road in which it had been held - 70 metres from my front door!!
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It was remarked by fellow Grand Masters in Cieza that I had remembered the most important thing.
h) Tarrant was the Patron of HEADWAY, a Charity for victims of brain injury. Ingram raised money for SENSE, a Charity for those who, because of their mothers contracting rubella in pregnancy, suffered various degrees of combined deafness and blindness. I used money given to me by Tarrant for successfully answering some Quiz questions he had posed me to sponsor Ingram as he raised money for SENSE Sense, The National Deafblind and Rubella Association - Wikipedia
Ingram was raising money via an organisation called the Charity Challenge.
i) Also - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=411529&in_page_id=1773
Twin Peaks....
As I conclude that the traditional enemies of science and religion may be no more than two different paths to the same truth, Tarrant comments on the coincidence of his writing out, on a show that aired that very week, a second cheque for £1,000,000 to an Ingram.
Also, in the week that Ingram set off to the foothills of the highest mountain, another Ingram is presented with the highest prize Tarrant could bestow.
A family name is given; a formal appellation. But the christian name is chosen.
Ingram means 'ignorant'.
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In an interview he gave within a year of the Ingrams' conviction, Tarrant said, to icBerks, that he would play himself in any film of the crime, but the reality would be hard to improve upon.
He added that he might like to do a bit of acting in the future, "... perhaps in a soap opera as a gangster...", as a shift from his ́Mr NiceGuy ́ image, and had already received a few such offers.
He said that he would be trying a few things over the next couple of years.
In 2009 he reiterated contemplating such a move.
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i) Also - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=411529&in_page_id=1773
Twin Peaks....
As I conclude that the traditional enemies of science and religion may be no more than two different paths to the same truth, Tarrant comments on the coincidence of his writing out, on a show that aired that very week, a second cheque for £1,000,000 to an Ingram.
Also, in the week that Ingram set off to the foothills of the highest mountain, another Ingram is presented with the highest prize Tarrant could bestow.
A family name is given; a formal appellation. But the christian name is chosen.
Ingram means 'ignorant'.
... ... ... ... ... ...
In an interview he gave within a year of the Ingrams' conviction, Tarrant said, to icBerks, that he would play himself in any film of the crime, but the reality would be hard to improve upon.
He added that he might like to do a bit of acting in the future, "... perhaps in a soap opera as a gangster...", as a shift from his ́Mr NiceGuy ́ image, and had already received a few such offers.
He said that he would be trying a few things over the next couple of years.
In 2009 he reiterated contemplating such a move.
... ... ... ... ... ...
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