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June | 2013 | Onemonkey.org Onemonkey.org 1 monkey + 1 keyboard != shakespeare Skip to content look old site about onemonkey Operation Clone Jesus Contact me whale'n'bass Help Yourself Monthly Archives: June 2013 Deja vu.. tous Posted on June 25, 2013 by caspar A barely believable story about a slightly deranged American intelligence worker who goes AWOL knowing everything? Haplessly pursued by the NSA & GCHQ? I’ll clearly never work in intelligence because it has taken me until now to rememeber that I … Continue reading → Posted in onemonkey, science | Leave a comment Search for: Archives May 2020 May 2016 March 2016 December 2015 June 2015 February 2015 August 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 October 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 January 2013 November 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 September 2011 August 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 December 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006 December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 June 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005 December 2004 November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 February 2003 November 1998 June 1998 May 1998 Meta Log in Onemonkey.org Proudly powered by WordPress.
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If Cashman Field becomes a soccer field, MLS is interested
A Major League Soccer exhibition next month at Cashman Field won’t get Las Vegas closer to landing an expansion franchise.
But if it Jason Ader’s vision comes true, that could change. Teams such as the Los Angeles Galaxy and San Jose Earthquakes, who play Feb. 13, would make regular stops here to play against the Las Vegas’ MLS entry.
Ader, a New York-based investor and Las Vegas Sands Corp. board member, is leading the latest charge to lure the league to Southern Nevada. His group — Bob Schulman and Scott Watt of Watt Cos., Laus Abdo of AGP Capital and Las Vegas investment manager Roger Tabor — last summer proposed a $350 million plan to convert Cashman Field into an expanded soccer venue and bring an MLS team to Las Vegas.
The MLS announced in December that it would expand from 24 to 28 teams.
Ader said this past week the group wants to either significantly revamp, or completely tear down and rebuild, Cashman Field to have a capacity of at least 18,000. Cashman Field, which was built for baseball in the early 1980s, has a capacity of about 10,000.
“We’re definitely past the first steps, but we have a long way to go,” Ader said. “It’s important to put forward something that’s not only good for Las Vegas, but something that can compete with the many other cities that also want an expansion team.”
The plan also includes redeveloping the half-mile stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard from U.S. Highway 95 to Cashman to include residential buildings, offices, restaurants and shopping, according to a seven-page proposal letter sent from Abdo to Bill Arent, the city’s economic development chief.
Abdo, who Ader describes as his “man on the ground in Las Vegas,” said the group has spoken with all of Cashman’s stakeholders, including the city, the Las Vegas 51s baseball team and the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, and hopes to submit a formal proposal to MLS in “early” 2016.
The 51s’ ownership has been working the past two years to build a new stadium in Summerlin.
“Really, it’s a matter of the 51s deciding if they want to move to Summerlin at this point,” Abdo said. “But we’re ready to go, we’re ready to move into the proper arrangements with all of the proper stakeholders.”
Since the expansion announcement, groups in more than 10 new potential markets have expressed interest, said MLS spokesman Dan Courtemanche, speaking on behalf of MLS Deputy Commissioner Mark Abbott, who handles league expansion.
But Las Vegas’ latest proposal, which would include the privately funded renovated Cashman, keeps it at the “top of the list” for future consideration, Courtemanche said.
“We’re a young, diverse millennial fan base and certainly that also matches up well with Las Vegas,” he added.
Last February, it was different story because there was no stadium to host a team.
Major League Soccer passed on a bid from Findlay Sports & Entertainment and the Cordish Cos. for a franchise to play in a $200 million, 24,000-seat proposed stadium at Symphony Park downtown. The rejection came, in part, because the city allotted $56.5 million of the stadium’s costs to be publicly funded, Courtemanche said.
Although Vegas’ latest MLS proposal is designed to meet the league’s goal of securing a “comprehensive stadium plan where the ownership controls the venue,” Abdo said the city and development groups must act fast to avoid being beat out by the latest potential MLS markets.
“Unless we get something organized and finalized quickly, there won’t be any opportunities for Las Vegas to secure an MLS team,” he said.
Regardless, there will be soccer in February when the Galaxy and Earthquakes play “California Clasico” at Cashman. It’s the fourth straight year MLS has staged on exhibition game in Las Vegas, with Sam Boyd Stadium also hosting matches.
Earthquakes President Dave Kaval said his team enjoys playing at Cashman Field for its natural grass surface. He said he could see the venue eventually hosting an MLS team.
“I don’t see why not, especially with the passion that Las Vegas fans have for our sport,” he said.
San Jose played at Cashman Field last year just days after the MLS passed on the Findlay group's proposal. Even with the uncertainty, Kaval said returning for another exhibition this February remained attractive — a good sign for the new hopeful owners.
“I think there was some doubt, but we love coming to Vegas and it was our objective to make it back here,” Kaval said. “We moved some dates with our games in Tucson, and found a Vegas date that worked with the Galaxy’s schedule, too.”
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s personal wealth has taken a hit, knocking him off the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which ranks the top 40 billionaires in the world.
Since his company went public on May 18, the social network co-founder’s personal wealth on paper has dropped to $14.7 billion from $16.2 billion, Bloomberg reported after the company’s shares fell nearly 10 percent in Tuesday trading. The stock closed Tuesday at $28.84, and was trading slightly up Wednesday morning at $29.33.
It was the first time that Facebook shares had fallen below $30. The initial public offering earlier this month, one of the largest in U.S. history, is now also one of the worst-performing, having lost over 20 percent of its value in seven trading days.
Zuckerberg’s wealth is now $800 million below the last person on the list, Colombian banker Luis Carlos Sarmiento.
Trading at $29 per share, Facebook’s price-earnings, or p/e, ratio is high, at about 62.9 — and investors don’t see justification for paying such a high price for such a small return.
According to Bloomberg’s data, the stock price would have to drop to $23.07 to have the same average p/e ratio as other technology companies on the Nasdaq index, based on estimated earnings in the next 12 months. For example, midday Tuesday, Google’s p/e was significantly lower at 17.7, and Apple’s was at 13.9.
Questions about Facebook’s revenue model have plagued the company, particularly as it audience shifts the way it views the site. The social network has made it clear that it’s trying to figure out how to secure its revenue stream over mobile devices.
Many analysts had said ahead of the initial offering that the stock was overvalued, though they believed that the stock would do well in its debut. But technological glitches delayed Facebook’s debut and forced the company’s underwriters to prop up the share price on its opening day; shares closed just 23 cents above issue price on the first day of trading. After that, Facebook stock never recovered.
Analysts have pointed to a number of other factors in the disappointing market performance. Shares are now trading in the original $28-$35 price range the company had set for its IPO, an indication that those handling the deal’s offering may have been too ambitious when they raised the price to $38 for the debut. Analysts also criticized the decision to release more shares to the public than originally planned, which lowered demand for the stock.
Zuckerberg, who has been away on his honeymoon after his surprise marriage to his long-term partner Priscilla Chan, hasn’t made a public comment on the stock’s performance since the company’s May 18 debut.
He has largely avoided media coverage of his honeymoon, though blogs made a lot of hay out of the fact that, as the Daily Telegraph reported, he didn’t tip the waitstaff following a lunch in Rome.
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(Reuters) - A car plowed into the outdoor terrace of a pizzeria in the small town of Sept-Sorts east of Paris on Monday, killing a 12-year-old girl and seriously injuring several other people.
The driver deliberately targeted the diners, said a local prosecutor who announced he was ruling out terrorism and opening a murder investigation.
“There is no doubt that he voluntarily decided to create what happened,” prosecutor Eric de Valroger told reporters at the scene of the incident.
No weapon was found in the vehicle, the prosecutor added.
Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet told Reuters the driver was a “depressive” aged 32 and described him as an unstable character.
The incident occurred on a warm summer’s evening on the eve of a national holiday and witnesses said the outdoor eating area was busy.
A photograph published on social media showed a gray BMW car surrounded by upturned tables in the outdoor seating area of a restaurant. Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity of the image.
Brandet said five victims were being treated in hospital for life-threatening injuries. Eight others suffered minor injuries and seven were treated for shock.
“Everyone on the terrace was hit,” one witness told BFM TV.
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A police source said the driver lived in a neighboring village to Sept-Sorts, about 41 km (25.6 miles) to the east of Paris, and had tried to commit suicide on Sunday.
The incident occurred less than a week after an Algerian national was arrested on suspicion of deliberately ramming a hire car into a group of soldiers on a patrol in the Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret, injuring six of them.
The soldiers were part of Operation Sentinel, launched in the wake of Islamist attacks in Paris in early 2015. The Levallois-Perret attack was the 15th on troops and police in the last two-and-a-half years, many of them Islamic State-inspired.
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The Track of the Jew through the Ages
INTRODUCTION
[*Today Tallinn, capital of Estonia. **All references are to the present edition.]
[*The first edition of Die Spur des Juden im Wandel der Zeiten was published in 1920 in Munich by Boepple (Deutscher Volksverlag). I have used for my translation Rosenberg's slightly improved edition of 1937 which was published by the Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Publishers, Munich.]
[*At the end of the war, Koch went into hiding and was not found by Allied forces until May 1949. He was judged and sentenced to death in 1959, though his sentence was commuted to life-imprisonment, perhaps because the Russians believed he might have information regarding art confiscated by the National Socialists from Tsarskoe Palace.]
National Socialism was the European answer to a century-old question. It was the noblest of ideas to which a German could give all his strength. It made the German nation a gift of unity, it gave the German Reich a new content. It was a social philosophy and an ideal of blood-conditioned cultural cleanliness. National Socialism was misused, and in the end demoralised, by men to whom its creator had most fatefully given his confidence. The collapse of the Reich is historically linked with this. But the idea itself was action and life, and that cannot and will not be forgotten. As other great ideas knew heights and depths, so National Socialism too will be reborn someday in a new generation steeled by sorrow, and will create in a new form a new Reich for the Germans. Historically ripened, it will then have fused the power of belief with political caution. In its peasant soil it will grow from healthy roots into a strong tree that will bear sound fruit. National Socialism was the content of my active life. I served it faithfully, albeit with some blundering and human insufficiency. I shall remain true to it as long as I still live.
[*See Memoirs of Alfred Rosenberg, tr. Eric Posselt, Chicago: Ziff-Davis, 1949.]
The war against Jewry came about because an alien people on German soil arrogated the political and spiritual leadership of the country, and, believing itself triumphant, flaunted it brazenly. Today, however, the mere protest against such a phenomenon places anyone demanding a clean-cut differentiation between these opposing camps under so much suspicion that nobody dares raise the issue without being accused of preparing another Auschwitz. And yet, history does not stand still. The forces of life and blood exist and will be effective.
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[*I have in my edition divided the text into three parts to facilitate reading and comprehension.]
"Let the Jews continue not to believe in Jesus Christ, let them not believe in any god at all, as long as they do not believe in two different moral laws and a god hostile to humanity". (p.25)
This spirit which leads the troops of anarchy diplomatically and brutally at the same time, conscious of its goal, is the religious, economic, political and national spirit of fundamental intolerance that has developed from a racial foundation; it knows only universalism of religion (that is, the rule of the Jewish god), Communism (that is, slave states), world revolution (civil war in all forms) and the internationalism of all Jews (that is, their world-rule). That is the spirit of unrestrained and unscrupulous rapacity: the black, red and golden International are the dreams of the Jewish "philosophers" from Ezra, Ezekiel and Nehemiah to Marx, Rothschild and Trotsky.
The priestly codex is the basis of Judaism which exists unchanged from the introduction of the Law by Ezra and Nehemiah in 445 B.C. to the present day, with all the crimes and monstrosities, but also with the goal-oriented, ruthless energy that has been inherent in it from the beginning and that produced, along with Judaism, its complement, hatred of the Jews. (p.41)
The men of those times dealt on the basis of bitter experience and did not allow themselves to be led by obviously stupid slogans and effusive lack of criticism as our present-day "civilised" public in Europe allows itself to be without resistance. Only immigration laws can save us too from the present-day Jewish rule or we must decide to become more efficient and unscrupulous than the Jew. (The National Socialist state has, of course, for the first time done that).
Let us imagine the situation: in Christian states there live a foreign people who bitterly revile the founder of the state religion in their books, who all week in the synagogue utter the curse of their god on the Christians and in other ways too make no secret of their hatred. Even a less self-conscious Church than the Roman would have had to take up mass measures to put an end to this situation.
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Why is there also no trace in the entire Masonic ritual of Church Christianity? Why do the Masons not talk of the birth of Christ but, like the Jews, of the creation of the world? Why is there no Christian symbol in Freemasonry? Why the circle, the square and the scales? Why not the cross and other instruments of torture? Why not, instead of Wisdom, Strength and Beauty, the Christian trio: Faith, Charity, Hope? (p.110)
The most important thing is to isolate man from his family and to make him immoral ... When you have instilled aversion to family and religion in a number of minds then let fall some words exciting a desire to enter into the lodges. The vanity of the bourgeoisie to identify itself with Freemasonry has something so banal and universal that I am always delighted at human stupidity. I wonder that the entire world does not knock on the doors of the most eminent and requests to be one more laborer in the reconstruction of the temple of Solomon. (p.113)
Already the peoples, led by the societies for the regeneration of progress and enlightenment (i.e. the Freemasons), begin to bow before Israel. May the whole of mankind, obedient to the philosophy of the Alliance Universelle Israélite, follow the Jew, who rules the intelligentsia of the progressive nations. Mankind turns its gaze to the capital of the renovated world; that is not London, nor Paris, nor Rome, but Jerusalem, which has risen from its ruins, which is at once the city of the past and of the future.
Does not the evident thought strike you that, if you give the Jews, who are, regardless of you, citizens of a state that is stronger and more powerful than all yours, also citizenship in your states, your other citizens will be fully under their feet? (p.135)
In the name of fraternity and peace the Bolshevists lured to themselves unthinking hordes and set to work immediately with a raging hatred against everything "bourgeois" and soon with a systematic slaughter and civil war, if this one-sided massacre can be called that. The entire Russian intelligentsia, which had for decades striven for the Russian people and had gone to the gallows or were exiled for its welfare, were simply killed wherever they could be got hold of ... The workers and soldiers were pushed to such a degree that there was no return for them any more, they became the will-less creatures of the tenacious Jewish rule which had burned all bridges behind it. (p.143)
Today railways and poetry, aeroplanes and philosophy, warm-water heating and philosophy belong to culture; here a methodical differentiation is required. With the word 'culture' one should designate only the expressions of man that are the product (whether it be a felt or a thought one) of a world-conception. To this belong religion, philosophy, morality, art and science insofar as they are not purely technical. The rest is trade, economy and industry, which I would like to designate as the technique of life. Now it seems to me to be an important insight into the essence of the Jewish mind when I name it a predominantly technical mind. In all the fields that I have counted as belonging to the technique of life, it has, as we have seen, always been active with a tenacious energy and with great success. But even there, whence culture springs, it is only the external technical side of it in its different forms that it has left its mark on or possessed. (p.152)
[*These observations of Rosenberg's should render the contemporary discussions of Jewish IQ (see, for instance, G. Cochran, J. Hardy, H. Harpending, "Natural history of Ashkenazi intelligence", Journal of Biosocial Science 38(5), 2006, pp. 659-693, and Richard Lynn, The Chosen People: A Study of Jewish Intelligence and Achievement, Washington Summit Publishers, 2011) rather worthless except as academic exercices.]
The more clearly and definitely the feeling for justice and injustice is rooted in a people, the less it requires a complicated juristic technique, and so much more spiritual culture will it possess. Thus it is a totally misleading judgement to see in the minute enumeration of the permitted and prohibited activities of daily life an expression derived from a higher ethos.
Quite on the contrary: it is a sign that the main focus of morality does not lie within man but this is determined merely externally, wherein reward and punishment for its observation are decisive. And here it is characteristic of the Jewish mind that the simple morality of good and evil has led to a tangle of laws and to a commenting on the same lasting hundreds of years. (p.153)
... the knowledge of the Indians arose from the longing for the interconnectedness of the universe and led to purified and symbolical knowledge, that thus this knowledge served only as a means to a goal going beyond the same. The Jew has shown throughout his history a search for knowledge in itself, avoided every metaphysical like an infectious disease, and instinctively persecuted the few exceptions who flirted with philosophy. The knowledge of the Law was for the Jew a goal in itself. (p.154)
When the Jews heard of the immortality of the human soul for the first time from the Persians, when they heard of a messiah, a Saoshyant, who would deliver the world from the power of the evil principle to establish a heavenly kingdom into which would enter not only the holy but finally also, after severe punishment, all the countless penitent sinners, they understood of this principle of a world-liberating love only the idea of a world-ruling messiah. (p.155)
... as a genuine Jewish technician ... accomplished the stunt of bringing these opposites [Descartes and Giordano Bruno] to a common denominator and to combine them in an ingenious 'system'. That he could do this shows that he understood neither. (p.160)
It is now not hard to outline the sphere of the Jewish mind with total strictness. It has always mastered that field of science which is possessed only through the understanding. The lack of imagination and inner quest, which damned the Jew to sterility in religion and philosophy, emerges also in science. Not a single creative scientific idea sprang from a Jewish mind, nowhere has it pointed out new paths. (p.162)
If, thanks to the efforts of self-sacrificing men, science had been brought so far as to be on the track of the fundamental laws of the cosmos, now there emerged a factor that could not easily earlier: the technical processing of the collected knowledge that promotes immediate usefulness. Man began to become increasingly the slave of his creation, of the machine, the technique of life established itself more and more. And that meant the breach through which the Jew rushed into our culture! (p.163)
[*Nowadays called Cultural Marxism.]
[*Rosenberg detects the same characteristic also among their fellow-Semites, the Islamic Arabs. **Indeed both Alberich in Wagner's Ring and Klingsor in Parsifal are vivid portraits of the eternal Jew.]
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The German mind, left to itself, would have soon established its own equipoise, but through the Jewish power in the press, theatre, trade and science it was made almost impossible for it. We ourselves were to blame; for we should not have emancipated the Jews but should have created insurmountable exceptional laws for the Jew as Goethe, Fichte, Herder had demanded in vain. One does not leave poison lying round unobserved, does not give it equal importance with antidotes, but preserves it carefully in black cabinets. That has finally happened – after 2000 years – in the National Socialist Reich! (p.165)
... every European must become aware that it is a matter of everything that our mind, our character has handed over to us as an inherited tradition to be fostered and administered and that here humanitarian tolerance in the face of aggressive hostility signifies plain suicide." (p.187)
They must have human rights, even if these do not belong to them as to us . . . but to give them civil rights I see no means of doing so, at least, other than cutting off one night all their heads and placing on them others in which there is not a single Jewish idea. In order to protect ourselves from them I see no other means than to conquer their extolled land for them and to send them all there. (p.188)
1. The Jews are recognised as a nation living in Germany. Religious faith or the lack of it play no role.
2. A Jew is one whose parents, father or mother, are Jews according to this nationality; a Jew is from henceforth one who has a Jewish spouse.
3 . Jews do not have the right to engage in German politics in words, writing or actions.
4. Jews do not have the right to occupy state offices and to serve in the army either as soldiers or as officers. Their work performance here comes into question.
5. Jews do not have the right to be leaders in state and communal cultural institutions (theatres, galleries, etc.) and to occupy professorial and teaching positions in German schools and universities.
6. Jews do not have the right to work in state or communal test-, control-, censorship-, etc. commissions; they also do not have the right to be represented in the directorships of state banks and communal credit institutions.
7. Foreign Jews do not have the right to settle permanently in Germany. Acceptance into the German state federation should be forbidden to them under all circumstances.
8. Zionism must be actively supported in order to transport a certain number of German Jews yearly to Palestine or generally over the borders. (p.189)
We must cast the Jew from our presence,
and ALL kikejews from our realm!
Alfred Rosenberg was born in 1893 in Reval* in the Russian Empire and studied architecture in the Riga Polytechnical Institute where he obtained his diploma in 1917. In his youth he read with avid interest the works of Kant and the German Idealists, as well as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wagner and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. But it was his discovery of Indian philosophy that served as the deepest spiritual inspiration of his life. As he comments on the primacy of the contemplative life in Indian thought, "How far we are here from all greed for power and money, from all rapacity and intolerance, all pettiness and arrogance." (p.40)**In 1918, Rosenberg emigrated to Germany, at first Berlin and then Munich, where he met Dietrich Eckart and contributed to his magazine. It was through Eckart that Rosenberg met Hitler. Rosenberg had already in January 1919 joined the NSDAP, that is, before Hitler, who joined only in October of that year. However, Rosenberg was not very close to Hitler as a political aide, and was more or less restricted to the editorial office of the newspaper(Nationalist Observer) to which he contributed several articles. Thewas the name given to thewhen the latter was acquired by the Thule Society in August 1919. In December 1920, the paper was bought by the NSDAP and edited by Dietrich Eckart until his death in 1923, when Rosenberg assumed an editorial position.Influenced both by his reading of anti-Semitic authors and by his first-hand experience of the involvement of the Jews in the Russian Revolution, Rosenberg turned his mind to the Jewish question already during the end of the first World War. In 1919, he composed the present classic study of the Jews.* In 1929, he instituted a 'Kampfbund fur deutsche Kultur' (Militant League for German Culture) which lasted until 1934. The members and supporters of this society included the publishers Hugo Bruckmann and Julius Lehmann and leaders of the Wagner Society such as Winifred Wagner, Houston Stewart Chamberlain's widow, Eva, and Richard Wagner's friend, Baron Hans von Wolzogen. The society's main aim was to combat modernism in its manifold forms as Expressionist art, Bauhaus architecture and atonal music. In 1930, Rosenberg became a National Socialist member of parliament and published his cultural historywhich he designed as a continuation of Chamberlain's(1899). In 1933, after Hitler's accession to power, Rosenberg was named leader of the foreign political department of the NSDAP but he did not exert much influence in this position. In 1934, he was placed in charge of the intellectual and philosophical education of the NSDAP.During the war, in July 1940, there was established the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (the Rosenberg Task Force) which was responsible for the collection of art materials that were considered as belonging rightly to Germany's European Reich. In 1941, after the invasion of the USSR, Rosenberg obtained a ministerial appointment, as Minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories, though he ran into regular conflicts with the brutal Gauleiter Erich Koch who was made Reichskommissar of the Ukraine.* At the end of the war, in May 1945, Rosenberg was captured by Allied troops and tried at Nuremberg. Unlike Albert Speer, he did not plead guilty and refused to distance himself from National Socialism itself – even though he had clearly been opposed to many of its leading personalities, especially Goebbels, Bormann and Himmler, who had had greater influence on Hitler and consequently greater executive power in the Reich. Rosenberg was found guilty by the Nuremberg Tribunal and hanged on 16 October 1946.In his memoirs called(Final Notes), written during his imprisonment between 1945 and 1946, Rosenberg described the entire National Socialist movement as a response to the Jewish question:As for the Jewish question itself, he explained that:The depth of Rosenberg's understanding of the dangers of a Jewish rule of European society is evident already in his first major work on the Jews, The Track of the Jew through the Ages . Focussing on the defects of the Jewish mind itself as the source of these dangers, Rosenberg outlines, in the first part of this work,* the formation of the Jewish mind from the earliest times to the present. In the second part, he surveys the history of Jewish involvement in European politics, especially in Portugal, France, Germany and Russia and also examines the contribution of the Masonic societies, from the 18th century onwards, to the revolutionary movements that brought about the fateful emancipation of the European Jews. In the last part, he analyses more carefully the special characteristics and limitations of the Jewish intellect and proposes his own solution to the Jewish question.Rosenberg begins by pointing out that the Jewish diaspora antedated the Babylonian Exile of the 6th century B.C. The Jews, who are essentially marked by financial talents and ambitions, had been tempted by commercial possibilities to disperse throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa long before they began to move eastwards after the Exile. What is significant about their earliest commercial activities is that they were invariably marked by usury and deception, while in mediaeval Spain and Portugal they flourished on slave-trade as well. By lending money to princes for their military adventures as well as for their private luxuries, the Jews acquired a significant power at the courts that resulted in the acquisition of preferential rights and privileges. It was the rise of this ill-gained Jewish power that drove the local populations into the anti-Semitic agitations and persecutions that finally erupted in many European countries. Guilds of craftsmen that were, up until the 13th and 14th centuries, open to the Jews began to close their doors and the Jews were soon forced to live in ghettos for their own safety to avoid the periodic outbursts of anti-Semitic violence. Attempts on the part of governments to forbid usury and to force the Jews to take up manual labour came to nothing since the Jews always found ways of getting round these laws.Rosenberg reveals that the main reason why the Jew was so successful in his commercial undertakings was the fact that Jewish moral laws blatantly permitted dishonesty in transactions with non-Jews. This is indeed what forced the German philosopher Fichte to exclaim:Coupled with this moral ambivalence of the Jews is their intolerance of any religion apart from their own. This intolerance extended even to Jewish apostates like Uriel d'Acosta and Spinoza. Rosenberg perceptively notes the essential similarity between the intolerance of Talmudic Judaism and the dogmatic rigidity of the Marxist system which "gives an answer to all questions and excludes debates". As he puts it:This is in marked contrast to the tolerance of the ancient Indians and Germans. Indeed, it is to the tolerance of the Persian Achaemenid rulers that the Jews owe their present existence since it was Darius I who allowed the Jews to return to their homeland after their exile in Babylon.On the other hand, the Judaism that was crystallised in this period was itself marked by what the historian Eduard Meyer calls "the arrogant denigration whereby all other peoples in comparison to the people chosen by the world-ruling God became heathens destined to destruction". Thus Meyer concludes:The ghetto which came to characterise the Jewish existence in later times was indeed originally formed by the desire of the Jews themselves for cultural separation from their host peoples. Later, when the resentment of the local population turned violent, the ghetto served also as a protection against injury. Gradually, ghettoisation and various limitations of property and immigration were seen to be necessary to protect the local population itself from the Jewish influence. As Rosenberg points out:One of the most characteristic and significant signs of the hostility of the Jews towards the Europeans is their hatred of Christianity. Rosenberg gives samples of this hatred from the Talmud as well as from the work called Toledot Yeshu which purports to give an account of the life of Jesus. Indeed it is not surprising that the Church increasingly proscribed Jewish works:It is interesting that the burnings of Jewish books that began in the 13th century were in fact initiated by Jews themselves who opposed the "heretical" writings of Moses Maimonides. Similarly, the burnings of the Talmud that followed were instigated primarily by converted Jews, who showed the same intolerance in their new-found Catholicism as in their previous Judaism. Rosenberg goes so far as to ascribe the anti-scientific persecutions of the Roman Catholic Church against thinkers like Galilei and Bruno as being due to its adoption of a Jewish intolerance within its own ecclesiastical system. Indeed, during the Inquisition, the most feared persecutors, including Torquemada, were converted Jews: "The symbolism of the Catholic faith they naturally left aside but the joy in religious persecutions found in the converted Jews its most typical representatives."The second part of the work considers the history of the Jews in Europe and studies the cases especially of the Jews in Portugal, France, Germany and Russia. In so doing, it also notes the importance of the involvement of the Jews in the developing Masonic movement in Europe. Rosenberg begins by noting the similarity of the experiences in different European states where Jews were admitted. At first they are accepted by their host nations with little reserve, then they begin their inborn exploitative usurious business to hold princes and populace under their control and finally they suffer anti-Semitic persecutions or expulsions. In Portugal, the Jewish history begins already in the 11th century and the Jews are seen to profit greatly from the growing slave-trade and to lend these profits to the local population at ever higher interest until popular revolts finally break out in the 16th century. In France, the presence of the Jews in the land can be detected from as early as the 6th century but it was especially under Charlemagne and the Carolingians that they achieved a high status in France as commercial agents. As in most countries, their worldly ambitions knew no bounds and, in the 9th century, Bishop Agobert of Lyons undertook a long and arduous official campaign against their commercial cunning and arrogant mistreatment of Christian slaves. But he found that the Jews had protection in high places and his efforts bore little fruit. It was not until the beginning of the 14th century that popular agitations succeeded in driving them out of Lyons. In central France, the economic situation after the Crusades was extremely favourable to the usurious activity of the Jews and they exploited it to the utmost – until they were driven out in the late 14th century.Only in Pamiers at the foot of the Pyrenees was the Jewish conduct more tolerable since the rabbis enforced strict rules of moderation among their people. As a result, there was hardly any persecution of the Jews in this region. During the French Revolution, however, the Jews worked fervently for their emancipation through such agents as Herz Cerfbeer in Alsace and Moses Mendelssohn in Berlin. And the barriers that separated their usurious existence from that of the Gentiles gradually began to be removed.Although the Jews formed from earliest times an international network that aided Jews in different countries through mutual contacts, the rise of Masonry in the early 18th century helped them operate more effectively and clandestinely through the various lodges of Europe. At first the Jews were not accepted in the Masonic lodges on account of the prevailing aversion to them. But, gradually, movements like the Martinist in the 18th century began to accept Jews in large numbers and lodges that were primarily Jewish too began to be established.The anti-royalist and anti-clerical aims of the Masons are clear in the part played by them in the French Revolution. Rosenberg points particularly to the role of the Jew Cagliostro in initiating the calamity. Later, when the Revolutionary Army decided to expand its ideas in other parts of Europe through military expeditions, it was aided by the fact that there were Masons among the German generals as well who allowed the French to conquer German territory with little difficulty. Rosenberg explains the conquests of Napoleon too as being due largely to Masonic support, a support that was withdrawn when he decided to use Masonry for his purposes rather than let it use him for theirs.In the 19th century the development of Jewish lodges proceeded steadily until Masonry became identical with Jewish ideas of revolution. As Gotthold Salomon of the Frankfurt "Rising Dawn" lodge aptly remarked:Soon there sprung up revolutionary nationalistic movements all over Europe such as Young Germany and Young Italy and Young Europe. The subversive anti-European aims of the revolutions of the 19th century are revealed in a message written by the Jew Piccolo-Tigre:After the Paris Commune of 1871, the revolutionary movements fostered by Masonry gradually transformed themselves into socialist and communist ones. Marx and his colleagues saw to it that the socialist movement would not be a purely workers' movement but one always led by Jewish intellectuals such as Trotsky, Kuhn and Leviné. At the same time, the core of the anti-European conspiracy was crystallised in such exclusively Jewish societies as the B'nai B'rith Order founded in New York in 1843 and the synagogues themselves. The chief rabbi of Frankfurt, Isidor, for instance, declared in 1868:Zionism was the culmination of this Jewish ambition and it achieved its great victory in 1917 when Britain conquered Jerusalem from the Turks. As regards the relationship of the Jews to the Germans and the German Empire, Rosenberg is careful to highlight first of all the essential incompatibility of the Jewish mind, with its abhorrence of mystical religion and anything falling outside the realm of rational calculation, with the German, for "there is in Europe perhaps no nation that has explored and explained the inner mystery of man as the German?" (p.94). Rosenberg perceptively observes that the "depth of feeling and tenderness" that Schiller praised in Goethe indeed constitutes the very essence of the European soul. This is the reason why, whereas the Jews were able to live fairly comfortably with Frenchmen and Englishmen, they positively hated the Germans – as they did the Russians also, whose spiritual inclinations stood in stark opposition to the Jewish existence. It is not surprising then that, when the Jews realised that the British Empire served the Zionist internationalist dream more effectively than the German imperial one, they decided to back the English against the Germans in the first World War. Organised through the 'Alliance israélite universelle', the Jews embarked on a single-minded enterprise of destroying Germany. It is true that there were some anti-Zionist Jews in Germany who feared that the recognition of the Jews as a nation would mean that they could no longer hide as "state citizens" when accused of commercial or political treason in their adopted nations. But the solidarity among the Jews internationally was paramount and Fichte's early fears in his(1808) were fulfilled:The horror of a total Jewish rule over European society was first realised in the Russian Revolution, when the Jewish Bolsheviks took over the reins of government from more moderate elements and established a Jewish Russian government. Rosenberg had in fact witnessed at first hand the Jewish control of the Soviet state when he travelled in 1917 and early 1918 from St. Petersburg to the Crimea. As he reveals:The problem with any Jewish rule of the world is the defective and dangerous quality of the Jewish mind itself. This is what Rosenberg explores in the last part of the present work.* He focuses at first on the Talmud as an exemplar of the Jewish intellect and points to the complete lack of any metaphysical or religious value in it. Rather, everything is cut and dried: "The world has been created out of nothing by the god of the Jews, the people who should rule the world and to whom every created thing belongs by right." Around this fundamental premise is woven a vast tissue of sophistical hair-splitting and moral casuistry that is sometimes incomprehensible and at other times obscene. The other basic defect of the Jewish mind, its technical tendency, is exemplified in the various manifestations of modernism itself. As Rosenberg points out:Similarly with the Jewish obsession with laws. As Rosenberg explains:This is in contrast to the quintessential Indo-European mind:That is why, Rosenberg points out, Christ's teaching of a kingdom "within us" is essentially repugnant to the Jew.All the myths that the Jews learnt from the Sumero-Akkadians and, later, the Persians, they turned into historical facts that justified their single political aim of ruling others. ThusThose myths and symbols adopted by the Jews into the apparently mystical Kabbalistic work, the Zohar, have turned into "the driest magic".The technical tendency of the Jewish mind is displayed equally in Moses Maimonides'and in the works of Spinoza, whoSimilary in science:The dangerous influence of the Jewish mind on modern technological society is summarised by Rosenberg thus:As for their contributions to the arts, Jews can only produce virtuosos who substitute quantity of performance for quality, composers like Mahler who seek technical special effects and impresarios like Reinhardt who produce all manner of entertainment circuses. Jewish art critics abjure form for technique and favour Artistic Bolshevism* and Futurism – and nevertheless dare to speak all the same time of the "soul" and "inexpressible inner experiences". In the literary field, Rosenberg points to the case of Heinrich Heine who, despite his veneer of European culture, was typically Jewish in his hatred of Christianity. Kant's attempt to show that faith is beyond reason was particularly annoying to the reason-bound mind of Heine. In fact, at the end of his life, Heine gave up all attempts to emulate European philosophy and said on his death-bed: "I do not need to return to Judaism since I have never abandoned it". Finally, the inveterate Jewish hatred of Christianity has appeared in a new political guise in the doctrine of Marx, who preached materialistic atheism to get rid of all religions and internationalism to get rid of all nations so that the world could be more easily ruled by the Jews.In the final analysis, the essential characteristic of the Jews is a sheer nationalistic version of the Schopenhauerian Will-to-live, the concept that Nietzsche reinterpreted as a Will-to-power.* Thus "the basis of [the Jew's] character is the unchecked instinct, his goal world-domination, his means cunning utilitarian sense and energy." Incapable of love and the creative instinct linked to it, he has devoted his entire existence to the acquisition of the means of world-rule – symbolised in Wagner'soperas by the gold of the Rhine.** In contrast to other world-conquerors, such as the Romans, or Napoleon, the Jews are marked by a total cultural sterility behind the religious fanaticism that compels them to represent themselves as "the chosen people". But, like the slave who wishes to play the lord, the Jew will only succeed in riding his master's horse to death.A solution to the problem of Jewish intellectual influence on, and control of, European society can only be achieved by revoking the emancipation of the Jews:The alarming expansion of Jewish power can only be checked by the immediate cessation of tolerance, sinceOne crucially important step in this direction was suggested already by Fichte in the 18th century:Following Fichte, Rosenberg suggests his own plan for the curtailment of Jewish power in Germany which would ensure that:While these legal restrictions can only provide the conditions for the natural development of German culture, care must be taken to foster German culture at the same time. It will be necessary in this regard to cultivate a Christianity that is equally free of the noxious Jewish influence of the Old Testament: "The Christian spirit and the 'dirty Jewish' spirit must be separated; with a sharp cut the Bible is to be divided into Christian and Anti-Christian." Instead of considering the ancient Hebrews as the forebears of Christian Europeans, it would be much more appropriate and rewarding to study, and absorb, the spiritual achievements of the ancient Indo-Europeans, Indian, Persian, Greek and German.Although Rosenberg's goals of European nationalism may today – after the military defeat of the National Socialists – seem insuperably difficult in the face of the growing American-Jewish globalisation of the world, one may derive a certain encouragement from the following remark made by Rosenberg regarding the campaign of the National Socialists to end the financial slavery of the international Jew: "If this could be achieved even only partially the axe would have been laid to the life-tree of the Jew." (p.189)
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In the world of Minecraft, mining is essential to a player's progress. However, mining can be dangerous and time-consuming if not done well. Below are some tips provided by the community for performing this underground work.
Choosing which layer to mine [ edit ]
Levels <5: bedrock
Levels <30 lava, although Lava has been found elsewhere.
Levels <14-5 diamond and redstone
Levels <30 gold and lapis lazuli
Levels <60 iron
levels <70 coal
Gravel generates between layers 1 and 111.
Note: If you are in a mesa biome, you would want to look for gold near the surface.
Due to being the safest layers to mine where all ores exist in reasonable quantities (especially diamond), Y-coordinates 10 to 15 are usually considered the best area in which to start mining. The single best layer for mining is highly debated and is not agreed on. Using the debug screen (F3) is the easiest way to find your altitude. You can also look for lava pools, all air blocks between level 1 and 10 are turned to lava during world generation. (Mining at this layer ensures that the floor remains intact if you pour water). You can even find and stand on the uppermost layer of bedrock, then climb up 6 blocks. Once you have located your desired layer, you can begin mining using one of the techniques listed below.
Preparing yourself to mine [ edit ]
It is helpful to bring food, wood, coal, torches, swords and a water bucket. You may want to bring a bed if you are spending several days underground so you do not have to go back to your house to sleep. Also, if you can spare the iron, it's recommended to bring iron pickaxes instead of stone pickaxes as they mine faster and have a higher durability. If you are looking for obsidian, then you need to have a diamond pickaxe.
Getting lost in a cave without food may result in starvation. Without a sword you are defenseless to the large number of mobs that spawn in the darkness underground.
If you are prone to losing your way or simply want to be more safe, try marking your path with torches or a another unique entity, such as signs, birch planks or colored wool. This also helps you to recover your items should you die. Carving out a safe room containing furnaces, a crafting table, a bed and a chest might be well worth your time. If you spend lots of time underground you may want to bring resources for a more sophisticated base with.
Lava is highly dangerous and becomes quite common on lower levels, so remember to bring two water buckets when mining. Two buckets allow you to create an infinite water source to replenish your water supply. Dig a 2x2 hole and place water in two opposing corners and now you have infinite water. This can also be done by placing water at both ends of a 3x1 hole. This can help the player get to ores above lava. Just place the water next to the lava source, and the water will convert the lava blocks on top of the pool to obsidian.
Armor is essential for reducing the damage taken by hostile mobs and lava.
There are three basic ways to start off your mine, though they can be combined:
Find one of the many caves that opens to the surface, and start exploring that, generally working your way downwards. Even shallow caves offer plenty of coal and iron, and later gold and other ores. Caves offer the advantage that a great deal of stone has already been excavated for you, exposing many ore veins. On the flip side, they often contain a large amount of hostile mobs, and both water and lava can be troublesome. If, rather than a proper cave entrance, you have a shaft or ravine, you can start with that. Use a water bucket to create a waterfall that you can swim down (and back up), then continue as above with the caves that open off the ravine. Watch out for monsters falling off high ledges! You may want to pillar jump to light those ledges and look for high tunnels. Alternatively, you can make your own entrance to the underworld: dig a vertical or diagonal mineshaft wherever is convenient (such as a back room in your base), and start digging horizontal shafts at suitable depths. This takes more tools (since you're digging everything out yourself), but with proper lighting you'll hardly ever see monsters. Your mineshaft probably will also open into caves, which you can explore as above. There's a good deal of discussion about which methods are best for mining ores, but for the initial mineshaft, the safest method is probably a 1×3 shaft equipped with a ladder down the middle, and occasional ledges in case you fall off the ladder. Regardless of how you arrange things, you'll need to light your shafts properly to avoid monsters spawning. You can also turn to mineshafts when your cave is mined out. It is a good idea to mine everything out including coal as you never know when you might be lost and need more torches.
Cave Mining [ edit ]
Also known as cave hunting, caving, or spelunking, cave mining is simply the practice of exploring caves and extracting the ores found on its walls, floors and ceilings. Exploring a large cave system almost always results in finding large quantities of ore, though you probably will find bigger veins of ore unexposed, because cave generation sometimes cuts off the vein generation. Cave mining has a high return on investment, yielding more ore per unit time and requiring fewer tools (less pickaxe and shovel durability is lost mining stone, dirt, and gravel) than other approaches.
On the other hand, cave mining is also quite dangerous. Unexplored caves are dark and tend to contain many hostile mobs. Swords, bows and armor are necessities. The player should carry a large supply of torches to light up the cave to prevent hostile mobs from spawning. Large cave systems can become confusing and dangerous. Special attention must be paid to navigation, lest one quickly gets lost. Moving through a cave too quickly makes it easy to miss unlit passages around you (where monsters can come out), and increases the chance into a hole. This becomes extremely dangerous when you are stuck in there and encounter mobs. You can also fall into a lava pool which will result not only in death but in all of your items being destroyed in the lava. All air blocks are converted to lava during generation below layer 10. Because of these factors, players usually carefully explore and light a cave before extracting ores.
The cave article contains tips on dealing with large cave systems, while the Navigation tutorial has a section on caverns.
It is a good idea to carry a bucket of water. Caves often contain random lava flows, and cave areas below level 10 are filled with large lava pools. A bucket of water serves as both a fire extinguisher, if you fall in; and as a way to form obsidian surfaces over lava pools (pour water onto a solid block adjacent to a lava pool; do not stand between that spot and the lava). If the monsters are too much trouble, you can also go to options and change the difficulty to "peaceful" to prevent mobs from spawning. However, you could still die from lava, so don't forget that water bucket!
Caves often contain dead-end passages and shafts, or masses of gravel and dirt blocking your way. Many of these dead ends are actually thin barriers that, if removed, reveal continuing passages, sometimes into entire adjacent cave systems. 'Drifting' is a term for simply searching for adjacent caves by digging beyond apparent dead ends. Drifting can be effective in finding dungeons if there are mob sounds audible at a dead end. Once you can make pistons, those can also help detect nearby caves, even through rock: Set one up facing against a wall, and power it with a lever, redstone torch, or whatever. If there's an open space within 12 blocks ahead of the piston, it will push a hole into the wall.
Abandoned mineshafts [ edit ]
Abandoned mineshafts are often found intersecting caves, but your own mineshafts may well tunnel into one of these. Dealing with them is similar to ordinary cave mining, but resources are more plentiful, especially wood and string obtained from shears and swords (from cobwebs). The string can also be crafted into wool for markers. The special hazards here are that it's easier to get lost in mineshaft tunnels: they look dangerously similar, and pre-placed torches make it harder to know which places you have already explored. As well, abandoned mineshafts contain cave spider spawners which are rather difficult to reach and destroy. Often, there can be more than one in a small area, so even if you do defeat a spawner, be alert of the possibility of more spawners being in the area. There can be two, three or (very rarely) even four cave spider spawners side-by-side within 16 blocks (or less) of one another, but usually, there is only one spawner within 16 blocks of you.
For upsides, due to pre-placed torches, the presence of hostile mobs is a little lower. Since supports of tunnels are largely made out of planks, the need to surface due to wood shortage is also lower. In addition, mineshafts contain broken sections of rails and minecart with chests with loot. These rails can be reassembled into complete tracks for transporting loot. One method to avoid getting lost is simply to remove everything (supports, rails etc.) from the tunnel, leaving only a plain 3×3 tunnel. This makes it much easier to recall where you've been, although it takes quite a bit longer (and lots of axes). Signs and other markers are also very helpful here. Since fences are plentiful (those supports again), you can use them to block off unexplored or dangerous areas or cave spider spawners.
Caves under sand [ edit ]
If you are mining in an area with sand or gravel, like a desert biome, you can break the sand or gravel blocks and see if any others fall. If any DO fall you know there is something beneath. This can be rather dangerous if blocks fall beneath you, but you can place ladders or dig your way out. If done during the day, hostile mobs will mostly burn or go neutral in the sun, but as always, watch out for creepers. Also, the fallen sand or gravel can cover ores. Another (unlikely) event is that there will be lava under the sand. This is most common under mountains. There could also be a dungeon under the sand, so be prepared to fight or retreat.
Cave mining checklist [ edit ]
A pickaxe. If it is your first mining trip, use your wooden pickaxe to mine some cobblestone and make a stone pickaxe. If you are further along in the game, and expect to mine for a while, bring two iron pickaxes and at least 12 stone pickaxes. If you have found diamonds, you can also use a diamond pickaxe. Once you have reached diamonds, if you have an efficient style of mine at a depth where diamonds are found, you can use a diamond pickaxe, which lasts a long time and is capable of mining obsidian. Even a partial vein usually provides enough diamonds to replace your pick when it does break, or repair it when it's about to. If you prefer to save valuable materials, take a few stone pickaxes for mining stone and one iron pickaxe only for mining ores. A shovel. Having at least one iron shovel can get through cumbersome patches of dirt and gravel quickly without using your hands. Just one or two stone shovels also works if you want to use your iron for other things. Later, a diamond shovel is a nice convenience. Torches. Light is the key to survival. At least a full stack is recommended, and the more you can carry, the better. Lighting the area around you can help you know which areas you have explored and not get lost, keep monster spawns down to a minimum, and find hidden ores in the shadows. Torches can also be used to disable mob spawners, allowing you to convert them into drop farms later on. Wood. If you run out of tools or torches, you can make a crafting table and sticks to replenish your supplies of pickaxes, shovels, and torches (you can get more coal for them from mining). You can take the crafting table with you when you're done, or leave it and turn it into the core of a mini-base. As for torches, if you run out of coal as well, you can burn wood to make charcoal as a substitute. A water bucket. This is useful in saving your life and your items, should you run afoul of lava. Also, if you come across a lava lake or pool you want to cross, you can flood it to turn the lava into obsidian. Water can also be placed to create a waterfall, to descend any shafts or ravines you come across. More experienced players may also substitute a water bucket for ladders. An empty bucket. A spare bucket is useful for collecting lava to use as fuel in a furnace, to block or slaughter monsters (you'll lose most of their drops), or just to get the lava out of your way. You can also use it to pick up more water from a spring, perhaps after placing a waterfall. A second bucket of water also lets you create a perpetual water pool, from which you can then refill either or both buckets whenever you want. The easiest way to make an infinite water source is to make a 2×2 pit one level deep, then empty two water buckets into opposite corners. This lets you refill your bucket(s) from any of the pool blocks. Food. Prolonged visits in mines wear away your hunger bar. Bringing food allows you to spend more time in your cave system, and keeping your hunger bar full is important for healing. If there are mushrooms present, you might carry or make a bowl to make mushroom stew. Weapons: A sword (stone or better), a bow, and plenty of arrows (except if your bow has the Infinity enchantment, in that case bring only one arrow.) These help you defend yourself against monsters. Upgrade to a diamond sword as soon as you can, as it makes fights noticeably shorter. Armor. It protects you from the monsters you may encounter, and even from lava. In general, you want at least iron armor — if necessary, you can smelt ore and craft your armor in the caves. Chests are invaluable when exploring lava caves since you can store your items in case you die; instead of losing a whole stack of iron and half a stack of gold along with all of your food and weapons, you can drop a chest and a crafting table nearby, and lose only your current tools and whatever you hadn't stashed yet. It's worth writing down the coordinates of your stashes, just in case. Ladders. For when you've fallen down, and can't get up... Also useful for reaching high tunnels and blocking off flooding water. Signs. These are useful to mark your way in a cavern. Leave messages or ASCII arrows for yourself, such as "EXIT -->", "Base with Bed ^", "Zombie spawner this way", or "mind the holes!". Signs can be stacked, which makes carrying a supply much easier. Signs can also block water and lava. (Optional) Fences. Useful not only for blocking off unexplored passages, but for containing waterfalls and rivers when you can't bucket the source. As noted above, you can also harvest these in abandoned mine shafts. (Optional) Markers of various kinds. Aside from the above-mentioned signs, wool is available early, and redstone turns up when you get deep enough. If you have pumpkins available, jack o'lanterns provide both light and direction. (Optional) Dirt, cobblestone, gravel. You'll certainly be picking some of these up along the way, but starting off with some cheap blocks lets you plug holes, make quick staircases, block off lava and bridge your way across pits and ravines if staircases are too expensive or time-consuming. (Optional) Seeds and saplings. You can create an underground tree farm to replenish your supply of wood and a small wheat farm to continuously grow wheat for bread, allowing you to stay underground for an infinite period of time. These should both be built in a safe, well-lit area, to prevent spawning of hostile mobs and to encourage growth. (Optional) Doors. In conjunction with solid blocks, wooden doors can be used to temporarily block off unexplored caves and prevent hostile mobs entering a secured area. The crafting recipe for wooden doors creates three doors from six wood planks, hence each door uses two wood planks - the same as what would be required to block a 2 x 1 hole but with the ability to pass through with ease, and return in a hurry if there are a large number of mobs on the other side. Some zombies can break through wooden doors on hard, and consideration should be given to this when playing on this difficulty level. After an area is neutralized the doors may be mined and placed deeper in the cave system, or left as a marker/decoration as well as giving protection against a surprise creeper explosion making a section of cave unsafe again. (Optional) Bed. Having a bed around might be useful when you could be trapped in a cave or ravine if you surface during night time. Having a bed can help you set up a base camp if you're far from home and the surrounding area is filled with hostile mobs or other dangers. With the bed, you can sleep and avoid the danger of the night and return home safely in one piece. (Optional) A shield. Can be used to block attacks.
Shaft Mining [ edit ]
Also known as Vertical Mining and Shafting, Shaft Mining consists of digging your own tunnels to expose hidden resources. The usual warning for digging applies: Watch out for uncorking lava or water or for digging into a deep drop or inhabited cavern. While doing this, make sure to be careful as you might remove a block holding back lava or separating you from a drop or hostile mobs.
Staircases [ edit ]
A staircase mine.
The advantage of a staircase is that you can always trivially climb back up, without need to place ladders. Crafting some of your harvested stone into stairs makes getting down and up even easier (no jumping!), though you'll need to carve out an extra block of headroom. Any such staircase drops at most 1 block for each 3 blocks excavated (without the headroom). There are several sorts possible:
Straight Staircases [ edit ]
A straight staircase heads down, but also over. This may or may not be useful—with a map, you might learn about more of the surface you're going under, but if you need to dig your way back up a different way, you may come out in unknown territory. Also, a long staircase from your base may take you out of chunk-update range from your base, or at least far enough out that further exploration will take you out of range. Then your crops won't grow and so forth while you're mining. All of these can be 1, 2, or even 3 blocks wide.
The most basic strategy is to mine in a straight line at a 45° angle downwards, moving one block across for every block down. If you dig out four blocks above each step instead of three, climbing back up is easier, since you won't "hit your head" with each jump up the steps. Placing a torch every 5th block helps you keep track of your elevation, and maintain a decent light level.
Alternatively, you can dig diagonally. Face a corner, and imagine that the corner block is the missing block of a 2×2×2 cube. Now dig that cube. Repeat, adding torches at every step. This takes more effort for each level dropped, but exposes more blocks along the way.
You can also dig a shallower stair, two blocks ahead for each block down. This takes you even farther away horizontally, but makes it much easier to run minecart trains up the stair.
Spiral [ edit ]
Spiral staircases are slightly more complicated since they have frequent turns, but have the advantage of leading straight down, thus staying in the same chunk(s). This gives you a more targeted dig, and can often reach bedrock quicker and more safely than straight staircases.
2×2 Spiral Staircase [ edit ]
Starting from a flat floor, dig one block ahead of you, then dig 2 blocks down to the right of that. Then move forward into the first place you dug, turn right to face the second step, and to its right dig 3 blocks down from the floor. The fourth step puts you below your original floor—leave the floor block to become a ceiling, and dig the three blocks below it down to the new step. Continue with this pattern—note that each turn of the stair becomes the ceiling for the next turn. This design drops 4 layers per full turn, but if you run into gravel, you need to place dirt or cobblestone to replace it for your stairway. Turning right gets you a clockwise spiral, you can of course go the other way for a counter-clockwise stair.
3×3 Spiral Staircase [ edit ]
One design is a 3×3 horizontal grid. By digging one block down at a time, and moving around the perimeter of your 3x3 area, you leave enough head room as you move down the staircase. You can also add stair blocks to this setup as well. You can optionally leave the central column for a barrier, or mine it out to place ladders for speedy transit. Instead of ladders, you could use a waterfall, but you'd have to place that after "finishing" the stair (dig an extra pit beneath the bottom of the column to prevent flooding). You'll also have to dodge out of the water column occasionally to breathe.
The basic design drops 8 layers per full turn. You could build this as a shallower stair (4 layers per turn) for minecarts, but minecarts have trouble with the corners anyway, because of the rock around them.
5×5 Spiral Staircase [ edit ]
This is similar to the 3×3, except that you dig out the edge of a 5 by 5 grid. The center column is cleared, acting as a supply of light on the way down. The middle acts as a safety barrier, and the outer ring has the staircase itself. The middle can also be hollowed (digging straight down should be safe so long as you didn't find any caves or lava pools as you made the staircase) out and a ladder or waterfall can be placed in it, with openings at different levels to allow for quick and easy access. Note that climbing ladders does not deplete hunger, unlike walking and jumping used to travel the outer ring. Swimming does deplete hunger, but since you have less distance to travel, you still come out ahead.
This design drops you 16 layers each full turn, and provides an exploratory dig over a wider region. At the same time, it has a bigger chance to miss things in-between the spirals.
Additional Staircases
With a shaft of 4×4 or more, two staircases on opposite sides of the shaft going in the same clockwise direction can be added, allowing horizontal 'satellite shafts' to be added on each flight of stairs on opposite sides if the shaft, allowing for extremely efficient and exhaustive mining, and in shafts of 5×5 or more, a staircase can be added on every side of the shaft for an even more productive mine.
Room Spiral [ edit ]
This is variation of the spiral which consists of a spiral of 5×5 rooms leading down. Simply dig a straight staircase down for a short while, then dig out a 5×5 room and add a torch or two. Turn right or left, and dig another staircase for a short while, and dig out another 5×5 room, add a torch, and so on. Remember to always turn the same way. This method allows you to find a large number of ores and such. If you hit bedrock, don't worry — go back up to your first room and turn the opposite direction this time. It is very helpful if you want to avoid lava and such. It also has the tendency to open up underground caves, which are always well-stocked with ores and gems. Just remember to be careful of monsters, so always bring a sword when using this method.
Vertical shaft mining [ edit ]
Vertical shafts are mined vertical tunnels used to gain access to underground mining sites. They can be of any width starting from (if you're crazed) 1×1 blocks. Don't forget to keep a water bucket *and* a stack of blocks in your hotbar, to deal with lava quickly.
Aka, "Digging straight down". Do not do it.You will fall into a cavern or lava. If you absolutely must be the crazy one, try this: Put a bed and a chest at the top. Sleep in the bed, and put everything from your inventory into the chest except for pickaxes, ladders, a stack each of gravel and cobblestone, and perhaps some torches. Dig down until you die or reach your target depth, placing ladders above you as you go. Every 5 levels or so, cut a 2-block high foothold opposite the ladder. If you fell into a cavern and survived, pillar jump back to the hole you fell out of, and/or build a cobble pillar in front of you, and put ladders on that. If you fall into a cavern and die, the footholds might let you break the ladders below it so you can drop gravel for a pillar, and perhaps retrieve any ore you found on the way down (watch out for mobs). If you fell into lava, you can forget about the ore, but perhaps you can drop water to quench the lava.
It is possible to do this method safely, but it is very time consuming. It's the same as before, except hold ⇧ Shift to cling to your ladder while mining straight down. This way, if you mine into a pit or lava, you won't fall into it unless you let go of shift (shift won't let you move down the ladder, but makes you mine slower). If you do find a cave, you can climb up a little bit, remove the last ladder you put down, and put a bucket of water there instead. Now you can swim down, and if there was lava under you, it will turn into obsidian, and will be harmless. You can also dig 1 deep/2 wide alcoves in the side, giving you a place to put a torch, rest, and most importantly dig the hole deeper (as far as you can reach) without having to hold onto the ladder.
Note that mining upward in a 1×1 shaft can actually be safer, if you are placing ladders as you go up. Lava will be blocked by the ladder, which can't burn (and even if it could, there's no place for a fire block to appear).
Pick a place where you want your shaft Mine a first block adjacent to the block you are standing at Step down Mine a block you were standing at and one below it Place a ladder every block (as of Beta 1.5 you cannot go up ladders with gaps) Go to 2 Continue in above pattern until you reach desired depth. From then on use a horizontal mining method of your choice
Simpler variant
Pick a place where you want your shaft Stand on the dividing line between two blocks Mine the two blocks you are standing on, being ready to stop if need be Place a ladder every block Go to 1 Continue in above pattern until you reach desired depth. From then on use a horizontal mining method of your choice
Similar to 1×2, but you have more room to place torches, ladders, or footholds in case you fall off the ladder. You also get more warning of gravel masses, caverns, or lava, and an extra block of room to deal with them. This is relatively safe, and is a good way to start a mine from within your base.
The more common version runs the ladders down the middle of the wide side (put blocks to break your fall on both sides every few levels, and at your mining levels), but another way to do it is to put ladders on one end, and put a waterfall on the other. You can then put a few blocks in the middle to prevent falls, but leave plenty of spaces to pop out of the waterfall for a breath.
You want to excavate one level at a time, placing ladders down one corner of the block. This technique is relatively safe.
Vertical mineshaft with water drop [ edit ]
Cutaway of the top of the mineshaft. (1) Entrance passage (2) Ascent shaft (3) Descent shaft.
Cutaway of the bottom of the mineshaft. Note the placement of torches in the ascent and descent shafts. (1) Ascent shaft (2) Descent shaft (3) Water pit (4) Side passage to utility room/mining area.
A vertical mine shaft can be built quickly and allows safe, fast access to the deepest regions of the map. To descend to the bottom, simply walk into the shaft. You will pass over the ascent shaft, fall into the descent shaft, and land in the water pit. To ascend, climb the ladder and hop out.
This guide describes the construction of a vertical mine shaft with the following properties:
Provides quick access to the lowest mining levels
Fast construction
Requires a decent amount of wood
Drawbacks:
Unsuitable for minecarts
Materials:
The wood requirements amount to approximately 60 blocks of wood.
Construction [ edit ]
Overview:
Gather all materials Dig 3-wide pit to bedrock Dig utility room Dig and fill water pit Place ladders in ascent shaft Fill in center of shaft
Details:
First, gather and manufacture the materials. Be sure to fill the buckets with water. The shaft will be constructed to the side of an existing room. Start by excavating a 3-block deep alcove. If the top of the shaft is above ground, it should be surrounded by fences or walls with only one entrance on a narrow side. Place one torch in the end of the alcove as illustrated.
Next, a 3-block wide pit will be dug all the way down to the bedrock. Do not dig out the block you are standing on. Dig out a 3-high by 2-wide section, then hop down into it and dig out the 3-high column that you were standing on. Place torches on both sides (ascent and descent) at regular intervals, excavating 1 block to place them in. In the ascent shaft, torches should be placed in the wide sides so they don't interfere with the ladder. In the descent shaft, torches should be place in the narrow side, primarily so that you can keep track of which side is ascent and which is descent.
Be on your guard when digging out any blocks beside you! Lateral breaches into lava pools or monster caves can be hazardous. Be ready to plug the hole, or hop up and throw blocks down so you can escape upwards. Also, be sure that the 3x2 section hasn't opened into a cavern before you hop down. Keep the pit well-lit. When you reach the bedrock, make a 3-deep pit on the descent side. Fill in the middle and ascent sides as needed, as in the screenshot.
The water trough in the utility room.
In the middle of the shaft, cut a side shaft. Due to the fact that the landing pit must be 3 deep, you may want to stairstep downward a few blocks in this shaft. Next, dig out a utility room. Cut a 3×1 horizontal trough in this room for water. Empty each bucket into the end of this trough. The water should fill it in and become still.
Fill the buckets again from the center of the water trough. Use the water to fill the pit at the bottom of the descent shaft. Be sure that the pit is 3 deep, and each block is filled with water.
Now it's time to place the ladders and to fill in the center of the shaft. Stand in the ascent shaft and face away from the descent shaft. Place ladders on the wall in front of you and climb. Build the ladder all the way to the top.
Descend to the bottom again using the ladder. Be careful, because the center of the shaft is not filled in yet, and it's possible to fall to your death. Once at the bottom, stand in the middle of the shaft and fill it with blocks. Hop upward and place blocks beneath yourself. When you reach the top, leave the central pillar 1 block below the surface (see screenshot). Leaving it 1 block lower allows you to enter the descent shaft simply by walking in.
Alternate landing
Instead of a 3-block deep water landing pit, if you place a single block of water (use two blocks if the drop is greater than 60) at the bottom of the shaft in the ceiling of your utility room at the bottom and "hold it in place" with a sign on the wall below the shaft, it will break your fall as you fall through it and you will land without damage on the bottom of your utility room area. Beware this may be taking advantage of a bug in the code but it is the fastest and easiest way to go down a deep shaft.
Horizontal Mining (or Resource Mining/Stratifying) [ edit ]
Safety:
Horizontal mining is not as dangerous as vertical. But there are some similar suggestions. Carry a water bucket and some blocks of some disposable, NON FLAMMABLE material (ex: sand, gravel, cobblestone) somewhere on your hot bar. A block can be used to quickly plug the leakage in cases of lava, and water can be poured over source lava to turn it into obsidian, as well as to put out fires. (Flowing lava will usually turn to cobblestone, occasionally smooth stone, if the water is a source block.)
Terms and Definitions
Main shaft/access shaft: a 1×2 or 2×2 tunnel use accessing other tunnels.
Efficiency: how many ores you get for the amount of effort you put into the mine, or how many ores you get/how many cobble you dig to find them.
Thoroughness: how many of the ores you extract per chunk.
The tradeoff: a mine can be made more thorough at the price of efficiency, or vice versa.
Layout: the top-down view of the mine.
Branch: the tunnels dug purely to gather ores.
Branch-length: how many blocks you dig your branches out. One recommendation is to measure a length with the durability of a stone pickaxe.
Spacing: how far apart the branches are.
Completely Thorough: a mine that reveals 4 new blocks/block dug, and reveals every block within a chunk, is completely thorough.
Tiering: "stacking" one branch mine on top of another, in order to obtain a much greater degree of thoroughness without sacrificing too much efficiency.
Efficiency vs Thoroughness
Efficiency in Minecraft mining is defined as how many ore blocks you mine, relative to the time spent reaching them. Thoroughness is the percentage of the ores you extract from a given chunk. Efficiency is approximated by blocks revealed per blocks mined, while thoroughness is approximated by blocks revealed per blocks in a chunk. Since both include "blocks revealed", they are often confused.
If we assume that all ores spawn in 2×2×2 cubes or larger, then there is no need to reveal every block. Mining three spaces wide, with four blocks between each shaft will be completely thorough. If we assume that 90% of ores are 2×2×2, but 10% are 1x1x1; while obtaining 100% unitary thoroughness then requires a spacing of 3 and a tiering distance of 2, the original mine (the 3-space 4-tiering) maintains a thoroughness of 98%. The 100% thorough mine requires mining twice as much stone while only increasing the total yield by 2%, resulting in half the efficiency.
In order to give an actual number for efficiency, we can use efficiency=100*(number of ores collected / number of blocks mined)-or, equivalently, %efficiency = (number of ores collected/number of blocks mined)
Several assumptions must be made:
Ore is distributed randomly Ore is orientated randomly Ore occupies a certain width, whereby two tunnels running too close to each other would intersect the same orebody twice.
In Minecraft these assumptions are essentially true, though there is some distortion since diamonds only spawn once per chunk.
So we reach the crux of the argument; tunnel spacing. In the traditional "efficient" mining methods, tunnels are spaced close together in order to "observe" the maximum number of blocks possible, therefore removing all of the ore from an area. So, let's consider a spacing of 1; that is one tunnel separated by one block from another tunnel. During the digging of the first tunnel, several ore bodies are encountered. This tunnel has a high efficiency (in fact, the maximum efficiency possible, as we shall see later). The second tunnel has a very low efficiency because almost all of the ore bodies it encounters have already been removed by the first tunnel. This causes the efficiency of the mining operation to plummet. A spacing of 1 is incredibly inefficient. Now we move to a spacing of 2. This is a spacing that a lot of people use because it leads to 100% observed blocks in a single layer. However, with a spacing of 2, the second tunnel still encounters several ore bodies that have already been removed, so it is also quite inefficient. We can go on like this; as long as the second tunnel has a chance of encountering ore bodies which have already been removed by the adjacent tunnel, it will have a less than maximum efficiency. It follows that the most efficient way to mine is to place the second tunnel far enough away from the adjacent tunnel that there is no chance of encountering ores that have already been removed.
I have modeled the problem in matlab using a 2D slice of a real Minecraft level and a virtual mining procedure. The model mines a 1 block wide tunnel through the 2D layer and removes all diamonds it encounters, just like a real player would do. The model is limited to diamonds but the principle applies to all ores. It repeats the mining for different tunnel spacings, from 1 to 10. The model then records how many diamonds were mined for each case, how many blocks were removed, and calculates the efficiency of each spacing. A simple graph is produced:
The results indicate what is expected — that when tunnels are close together they are not efficient because the miner will encounter diamonds which were already removed by the adjacent tunnel(s). A maximum efficiency is reached at a spacing of around 6 blocks (that is, 6 solid blocks left in-between the tunnels). At this spacing, efficiency is about 0.017, corresponding to 1.7% of blocks removed being a diamond. At this spacing, the tunnels effectively become independent of each other and so, statistically speaking, the chance of encountering an ore are maximized because there is no chance the ore has been removed by an adjacent tunnel. Above a spacing of 6, efficiency does not increase greatly because ore collection rate is simply a function of the distribution of ores within the level. Note: in the above graph, efficiency appears to drop-off at a spacing of 10. This is simply a limitation of the size of the level used to model the process, resulting in a large error at high spacings. If a larger level were used, the line would smoothly come to a maximum efficiency and stay there.
In summary:
The term "efficiency" is often applied to the practice of making every block observable, however this is not usually the objective of a miner. A more practical definition of "efficiency" describes the percentage of blocks removed that are ores, in other words efficiency = (ores removed / blocks removed). Maximum efficiency is reached when adjacent tunnels become independent of each other, since there is no chance that an adjacent tunnel has already removed an ore. This maximum efficiency, for diamonds, is reached at a spacing of 6. Since other ores are usually collected in copious amounts compared to diamonds, this spacing is recommended for every-day mining operations.
Branch Mining [ edit ]
Branch mining consists of mining out side tunnels from an access shaft to expose as many blocks as possible with a minimum of blocks removed.
Creating a Branch Mine is simple. First, dig deep underground until 0-16 blocks above the bottom level. To keep track of this, press F3, and the Y-Axis tells the level of depth the player character is currently at (It is best to mine at level 11 because it is easier to deal with lava lakes on that height). Upon reaching the desired level, begin to dig at least 20 blocks into a wall to create a shaft. Come out of the shaft, move at least 3 blocks to the left or right, and do the same again, digging 20 blocks into the wall. Each shaft made will almost always contain a resource block ranging from coal, iron, redstone to even gold and diamond.
There is a tradeoff between the distance chosen for each branch of your mine. A distance of 2 blocks per branch means that you will end up exposing almost every block, but at the cost of a lot of work. A distance of 5 blocks per branch will give you a wider distance covered but there is the possibility of missing some ore veins, especially diamond or lapis lazuli which can appear in veins of less than 4 blocks. Using the diagram titled Better 3 Space leaves no ores hidden, however requires you mine more stone. It is recommended to use this method if you don't mind mining a bit extra and really need the gold, redstone, diamond, iron, and coal.
Layout 1 [ edit ]
The trade-off for distance can be minimized by making a branch mine a level above and below the branch mine that is offset. (This is a side view) For example:
Layout 2 [ edit ]
Another option is the per-chunk branch mine. This is a 2 space branch mine, but is constructed over the space of a single chunk, and is capable of ensuring that every ore deposit is found, while still only mining around 45% of the chunk's stone. For the initial shaft to bedrock for this mine, a 1×2 shaft will fit lengthwise in the central corridor. Also, considering in most cases each chunk have one diamond ore vein, if your only priority is diamonds, you can place the top most branches at level 14 & 15 and dig branches from top to bottom until you strike a diamond vein and then skip the rest of the chunk.
Layout 3 [ edit ]
Antennae layout
An effective technique if you want to find rare resources with minimal effort. It is basically mining down to any level, usually to bedrock, and then mining outwards to the sides, much like a tree with a trunk and branches.
Use the staircase method to dig down to bedrock. Go up 2 blocks and fill any space below you mined out. Dig a 3×3 room. Dig a straight 2×1 tunnel in a straight line then dig out 32 blocks every 4th block. (Optional) If you don't want to count to 32 every branch,dig out a "Marker" 1×1 tunnel 4 blocks in and stop by it in the next branch. To further increase efficiency, you can end the 20-block tunnel by digging 4 blocks of an 1×1 tunnels as each of the mined block reveals more than a 2×1 tunnel.
This method is based on the relatively low probability of desirable blocks being created without any neighbors, so it will occasionally miss small/narrow ore deposits that fall entirely between the branches, but it covers ground faster, so you'll usually get more ore for your time. If you'd rather be sure of 100% coverage, simply place the tunnels closer together. It is also meant to be done quickly.
Diagram:
X = Tunnel "Trunk" B = Branch S = Staircase Y = Outpost (for supplies, etc.) - = (Optional) 1×1 block tunnel B-------B B-------B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B YYY B B X X X X X X X X X X X X X YYY X X X X X X X X X X X X B B YYY B B B B S B B B B S B B B B S B B B B S B B B-------B S B-------B
Each branch can be any length, but about 32 blocks long is a good length to begin with, as it can be measured with the durability of a stone pickaxe.
Layout 4 [ edit ]
a pinwheel mine with a spacing of 2
Pinwheel Mining System.
The Pinwheel Mining layout:
The Pinwheel Mining layout is designed to cover large squares of land, over long periods of time.
Get to the diamond layer by your preferred method, Dig out a room-as large as 10×10×8 if you want to set it up as a self-sufficient base, or as small as 4×4×2 if you just want to get mining. (use even numbers if you like 2×2 access shafts; odd numbers if you prefer 1×2 access shafts) Mark the access shafts into the middle of the walls; the picture shows 2×2 tunnels. (if you do not use the wide tunnels, mark the main shafts with signposts.) Dig a given access shaft out until your inventory is full. (you'll have plenty of chances to get the ores out of the access shafts) Note: If you use a simple straight staircase to get down, you may need to leave off the south tunnel for a while. Mark the branches at the desired interval. The picture shows a spacing of 2, which is 100% thorough but inefficient. Dig out each branch until your inventory is 3 spaces away from full, then turn around On the way back, place torches in any dark spots, and collect any missed ores—collecting all the coal is advised, but not required.
As always, you can use any spacing; a spacing of three provides both reasonable efficiency and reasonable thoroughness.
This layout can compete with the phoenix mine in terms of efficiency, and is easier to modify if necessary, but it does require a lot of time for each trip.
Layout 5 [ edit ]
Room and fork layout
Dig a room that is 7 blocks long, 10 blocks wide and 3 blocks high. Have your stairway/ladder in the middle of one of the 10 block walls, preferably 2 spaces wide. Starting in one of the corners, dig parallel to one of the walls of the room you just dug, for 20 spaces, placing a torch every 5 blocks. Then, dig another 20 block tunnel that has two blocks between it and the previous tunnel. Continue until you reach the other side of the room.
Diagram (dirt: tunnels, stair blocks: a staircase):
By utilizing this variant properly you can uncover all the blocks in quite a large area, and the mineral yields are quite high. Having the stairs 2 blocks wide allows for thorough strip mining as they can be strip mined around. Also, a good length for each tunnel is 20 blocks long.
Layout 6 [ edit ]
A branch mine with pokeholes (top view)
The spacing between the branches (11 blocks)
Branch mining with "pokeholes".
A branch mine with pokeholes is a variation on a traditional branch mine, but designed to have a better blocks-revealed to blocks-mined ratio. Like a traditional branch mine, branch mines with pokeholes have several parallel 2×1 shafts that branch out of a main trunk shaft. However, they are much further apart than in a branch mine (11 blocks as opposed to 3). The reason for this is that as you dig the 2×1 shafts, every 4th block forward you go, you dig a 1×1 hole to the left and the right, revealing many previously hidden blocks. This technique used to be called "feather mining", but after Xisumavoids video covering this method, it's more commonly known as "branch mining with poke holes", or simply "pokehole mining". The mine got its old name from its feather-like shape when viewed in a cave map or with an x-ray resource pack.
Tiered Branch Mining [ edit ]
Advanced branch mining is one of the most efficient way to mine 100% of the ores on multiple levels.
This setup allows for linear navigation along tunnels by first selecting depth, then choosing an appropriate tunnel at that depth.
Tiered branch mining is the art of stacking shaft mines on top of one another.
If you decide to stack your mineshafts, however, you should use an odd-spacing, or you'll get inefficiency AND blind spots.
For instance, the following tiering has the advantage of being very thorough, while finding any 2×2×2 cube of valuable ore. It has the disadvantage of missing some of the smaller veins, though it doesn't miss as many as you might expect-it yields somewhere between 80 and 90% of the ores in a region.
(mine at y=12, y=16, and y=8) oxoooxoooxooo oxoooxoooxooo ooooooooooooo ooooooooooooo oooxoooxoooxo oooxoooxoooxo ooooooooooooo ooooooooooooo oxoooxoooxooo oxoooxoooxooo ooooooooooooo ooooooooooooo (bedrock begins.) (x=branch, o=stone)
This is a good mine for single player if you can't stand the mere possibility of leaving a 2x2x2cube of diamonds just below or above your initial mineshaft-this will find them.
The next one has a tiering distance of 3, and is noticeably less thorough, but it finds at least 90% of the diamonds in a chunk:
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This is a good mine for somewhat crowded multiplayer, where thoroughness is actually worth something.
Should you be willing to sacrifice efficiency in exchange for revealing every last block, you can use a tiering distance of 2:
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This particular tiering, however, is not only inefficient, but requires one of the access methods shown in the pictures-either an 8 tall, 2-3 wide tunnel with staircases as shown in the gray picture, or with one access shaft for 2 sets of layers. This should be used only in ridiculously crowded multiplayer servers, when what matters is finding that one redstone vein that got missed by all the random-miners.
However, nearly any spacing and layout can be used with a given tiering distance., as it is fairly thorough, only slightly less efficient than a straight shaft, and it can be transformed into nearly any level of thoroughness without wasting effort.
Nearly any layout, spacing, and branch-length can be combined with any tiering distance, though doing it with a phoenix mine on the compact spacing is NOT recommend for anyone who gets headaches easily.
Windmill mining [ edit ]
Note: you will need a basic understanding of Japanese to watch the video.
Windmill mining is an efficient mining technique invented by Japanese minecrafter てりぃ (pronounced like Terry).
Pros:
You don't need to count a large number of blocks. You won't get lost in your own labyrinth. You can easily predict biomes that you are going to mine. If you want to mine emeralds, just choose the center of mountains for your start point. It is relatively easy to suspend and resume mining. It has the same efficiency as 3 space branch mining.
Preparation [ edit ]
Descend to Y=11, which is 6 blocks above the highest bedrock layer. This is the start point denoted by the grass block.
Dig a 1x2 tunnel of 4 blocks long from the start point, then put a mark there denoted by the gold block. Don't make it 1x3. That will only reduce the efficiency.
Turn right, dig 4 blocks, then put another mark denoted by the redstone block.
Turn left, dig 4 blocks, then put a mark.
Turn back, return to the previous mark, dig 4 blocks, then put a mark.
Dig 4 blocks and put another mark.
Turn left, dig 4 blocks, then put a mark.
Turn back, return to the previous mark, dig 4 blocks, then put a mark.
Dig 4 blocks and put another mark.
Repeat the previous step.
Repeat the previous step but while you are doing so, you'll reach the mark you put before. Now you completed your first lap.
After the first lap [ edit ]
Choose one of four corners and go there. Go to the "gold" mark you previously put.
Turn right, dig 4 blocks, then put a mark.
Turn left, dig 4 blocks, then put another mark.
Turn back, return to the previous mark, then dig a tunnel until you reach the "gold" mark you previously put.
Dig 4 blocks, then put a mark.
Turn left, dig 4 blocks, then put another mark.
Turn back, return to the previous mark, then dig a tunnel until you reach the "gold" mark you previously put.
Repeat the previous step.
Repeat the previous step. Now you completed your second lap. Repeat the entire steps until you are satisfied.
Speed Mining [ edit ]
Speed mining is a technique of mining in which a player randomly mines out a 50 block radius around them. Using an Efficiency V diamond pickaxe, along with beacons for Speed I/II and Haste II, minerals can be acquired rather quickly. It is at first expensive, but pays off quickly. It is suggested that you do this at diamond level.
Best results are obtained by using an Efficiency V Silk Touch I diamond pick to mine and collect ores, then smelting the gold and iron and using a Fortune III pick to mine the other ores.
Simple Strip Mining [ edit ]
This technique is to take off the top 6 layers of a mountain completely. Continue until your mountain is entirely flat. TNT is useful for the first 5 layers, since the explosion will destroy grass and dirt for the most part.
Diagram:
Key: A = Air B = Block L = Ground Level
Step 1:
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First 5 layers are gone when you start mining.
Next couple steps are as shown:
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This time consuming method is a useful tool for when you need minerals or a flat area.
Quarry Mining [ edit ]
Quarry Mining is very similar to strip mining, sharing the prospect of taking all resources within an area. These mining methods are used very commonly in Minecraft. The difference between quarrying and strip mining is that the process of quarrying involves a large rectangular or square strip, continually mined downwards with a staircase running along the side. This method got its name by its similarity to real world quarry sites. Quarries are typically ceased when a large cave is discovered (This does not directly stop the excavation, it just makes it difficult to continue), the miner abandons the quarry for another project, or bedrock is reached. A way to deal with large caves is to block the cave with Creeper-resistant materials, like Obsidian. One can place a minecart track(powered) in a spiral, to allow ease of access.
A finished quarry with obsidian and lava at the bottom.
A quarry in construction.
A recently begun quarry. There is a convenient, easily accessible ledge with chests, furnaces and a crafting table.
The inside of a quarry.
An elaborate 64 by 64 blocks quarry in the making.
A 16×16 quarry being looked at from the top.
Looking up from the bottom of a quarry mine.
An unfinished 20×20 quarry.
A 25×25 quarry to bedrock.
The Construction of a Quarry is as follows:
Determine the size of the project. There is no standard, so simply choose how big you want it to be. However it is advised that you make the area large, to maximize resources within a single quarry. (A typical quarry can be 20×20 or 20×30, for example) Once you have found a large enough space, dig down one space at the corner of your site. Next, mine the block adjacent to it. Continue this around the perimeter of your site until you have a 1-block-deep trench around the perimeter of your site. Now that you've set your perimeter, mine all of the surface blocks within your site. When this is finished, you should have a large, square, 1-block-deep hole in the ground. Next, head back to the first corner that you dug in, and dig down one more block. Repeat what you did in step 1, but now you will be one level lower. Upon completing this level, you can begin placing your staircase/ladder/vines as well. Continue the process of mining a layer, and then another, until you hit bedrock. This may take a few days of vigorous playing to accomplish, but your earnings will make it well worth it. For reference, 20×20 quarries (down to bedrock) typically yield 3 - 10 stacks of coal, 1 - 7 stacks of iron ore, up to half a stack of gold ore, perhaps 50 redstone dust(lower down), and a few Lapis Lazuli and diamond gems, though these results vary with the width, depth and location of your quarry. Various game mods may also provide tools for quarrying or similar rapid-mining techniques.
Really reckless miners have been known to make HUGE quarries, some giant ones are 50×50, 64×64 and 80×80, yielding a staggering 2200 stacks of cobblestone/stone. To put that in perspective, that many cobblestone blocks in a tower would be a whopping 140,800 meters tall, or an unrealistic 170 times the height of the Burj Khalifa, which is the tallest building on earth. These will take a couple weeks of 24/7 gameplay, given their size, but the stone payoff is gigantic.
Example:
Key: - = Air B = Stone block S = Staircase
Top of mine:
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Next few levels down:
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Although the yielded amount of cobblestone, dirt/sand, coal, iron, and to some extent gold, will be enormous, and the possibility of lava is very high, this is not the best method for mining diamond and lapis lazuli, because they're found only at the bottom of the map (Note: Diamonds and Lapis Lazuli CAN be mined using this method, but due to their rarity the placement of the quarry along with its size will determine the amount). This type of mining is suggested for getting large amounts of cobblestone, iron and coal, besides the ability to gain large amounts of resources, this type of mining exposes many caves for further exploration/mining.
Besides mining, quarries also offer some non-resource related benefits, such as keeping the area clean and fresh (not ruining the nature), as well as serving as a handy trap.
Warning: Be extremely careful around this mine, as a fall will surely be fatal, unless you covered the 2 bottom levels of it with water. Make sure the shaft is either covered up by a layer of blocks or a fenced perimeter. The shaft should also be well-lit to avoid being a mob pit.
Once a quarry is finished, you will have a large, deep hole. There are many ways to utilize a spent quarry, but some choices are as follows:
Underground Base
Due to the open nature of a quarry, many players choose to build an intricate base floating in the quarry, and then fill in the unused space with dirt, gravel, sand and stone. If done correctly, an underground base will be undetectable from the surface, especially when grass grows on the surface above it. For extra stealth, consider planting trees in the open area. You can deter miners by placing a large lava lake over your base. This will also decrease hostile mob spawns around your base.
Structure space
When your quarry is complete you can fill the area with a structure such as a skyscraper or a tall building. This is more effective than building at sea level as some buildings can be taller than 256 blocks, so you can build from bedrock level and make larger structures.
Underwater Base
These are made by the same method as an underground base, except the open area is filled with water from artificial springs, lakes, rivers, etc. For additional effect, a lot of players build underwater bases from glass blocks, and build airlocks for extra stealth. Most quarries are square or rectangular, so it is hard to disguise an underwater base as a natural lake or pond, but with a little bit of work, you can make it look like a natural body of water.
Multi-level Grinder
After finishing your quarry, the large area mined out can make a perfect space for creating a large multi-level grinder.
This involves digging a long tunnel. You will need a lot of wood (for sticks), and optimally, crafting tables, chests, and furnaces. The simplest tunnel is 2 high by 1 wide, but the wider and higher the tunnel, the more cobblestone you get per chunk you explore (you will not gather cobblestone any faster, also you will get less ores). Dig at about level 50 if under land; 40 if underwater; or 12 if for precious ores. You may want to use the cobblestone to seal off caves already explored. This is like a quarry — but more useful since less resources are spent going through the dirt/sand layer, and it can also be used in conjunction with minecart tracks to go from one base to another. A 4×3 tunnel that is 1800 blocks long will yield as much as an 18×18 quarry to bedrock, though arguably safer as you won't hit the lava layer, and it will yield more diamond/redstone if at layer 12, as well as the fact that falling in is completely non-lethal!
A 2×1 shaft is probably the highest-yielding way of mining... for ores that is. Mathematically, a 2×1 shaft reveals 8 blocks for every 2 blocks mined forward, so the basic premise of this system is that digging little 10-block deep side shafts off of your main tunnel, as in branch mining, does not yield any more ores than digging straight as your yield will be highest if you simply keep moving forward and mine endlessly instead of stopping a 2×1 shaft will also lead you into plenty of caves, which could be good or bad depending on how you feel about those. A good strategy for cave run-ins is to make a quick run-down and nab any visible ores, then find your shaft and keep moving. If you don't want to walk all the way back home after digging this, just dig in a "U" shape until a little less than half of your pick is used up, move 8 blocks to the side, and go back. The 2 biggest problems with this kind of mining are: A. It takes a lot of torches, though your coal yield is way higher than the amount you spend on torches, and B. You cover a lot of distance, therefore your chances of having lava run-ins are pretty high.
A variation on this kind of tunnel-mining is to drill a finger tunnel into the stone for 20 blocks, placing torches as you go; retrieve any ore found; then recover the torches as you exit, plunging the tunnel back into darkness; then block up the entrance to the finger tunnel with just two blocks of surplus cobble. By leaving the finger tunnel unlit, (and unfilled in), it's true that monsters may spawn later, but they are trapped in the walled-off tunnel. Be careful not to mine back into the same area later and, yes, there is a low chance that monstrous noise might become disconcerting later.
The name fits any combined mine such as the following:
Quarry-Branch Mine [ edit ]
This involves digging a quarry and adding ledges every few blocks down around the outside while digging. The sides of the quarry have to be a certain length, for example with a two-space branch mine, you need each side to be 3n+1 [(something divisible by 3) + 1] blocks long. The result will vaguely resemble a shopping mall atrium with one massive open space and then a bunch of "shelves". Then, dig the shafts to at least 20 blocks for a ton of ores, including quite a few diamonds (about 3 veins) down on the lower levels. For a 10×10 quarry, you will get about 150 stacks of cobblestone, while for larger mines (e.g., 40×40) you will get around 2000 stacks, handy for massive building projects.
Quarry-Cave Mining [ edit ]
Dig a quarry down to under Y-level 25, and attempt to unearth a cave. If you do, you can explore that cave. Many of the deeper caves have no surface entrance, and being able to expose a cave that is otherwise sealed to the outside world through a quarry can garner you both large amounts of cobblestone, dirt, and gravel, as well as the rewards of mining out a deep cave. If you don't want to hold on to the stone that is excavated, you can use it to fill in dead ends, allowing you to navigate the remainder of the cave more easily
Quarry-DropShaft Mining [ edit ]
This involves basic quarry technique but in small squares. First you decide how large you want your mine to be. For example I would use a 2 by 2 square quarry, so I would make a 3 by 3 hole then go over 1 block and repeat. And this allows for maximum ore exposure. But you would need at least a 3 by 3 squares, going all the way to the bedrock. WARNING: this can be very dangerous, as you can run into hidden caves, dungeons, lava pools, and abandoned mines.
For those who favor mining in a straight path but try to not make it very long. Once you reach bedrock level, go up a few blocks and start mining and make it a large corridor. If you reach a cave, continue to make the large corridor (but secure the cave first). This will give you large stores of cobblestone and more of a chance of finding lava. Find ores that are nearby that would be hidden if you did another technique and did not get lost in your mine. This a very basic technique yet a tiring way of mining. It is suggested to use a diamond pickaxe with max efficiency enchantment and unbreaking enchantment so that the pickaxe doesn't break during the process and also consumes less time compared to using a non-enchanted stone pickaxe.
Special techniques [ edit ]
TNT mining [ edit ]
TNT mining is dangerous and can destroy the ores you're looking for. If you must do it, you can use the 3-in method: Find a solid stone wall, mine 3 blocks inward, and then you place 1 block of TNT on the 3rd hollowed out space. Once placed, with flint and steel in hand, you right-click it with the flint and steel and back up a few steps and QUICKLY block off the front of the hole with one block of stone. The explosion should create a perfect 4×3×3 hole. Repeat as desired.
A much faster (but risky) technique is mining in a small alcove, filling it with multiple units of TNT, and igniting it, creating a fairly large cavern. While this variation uncovers a large number of blocks at once, the explosions destroy most of the blocks, potentially including valuable ores, and the explosion can let a large amount of lava to leak in, making the cave hard to access and burning any blocks spared by the explosion.
TNT is expensive to manufacture (requiring 4 sand and 5 gunpowder to make 1 TNT), thus another mining technique to maximize the use of each TNT is to dig a 2x1 tunnel 4-5 blocks into the wall, then at head height mine 2-4 blocks (depending on desired size of hole) to your front, right, left, up and down. Place 1 block of dirt to act as a stand for the TNT to explode in the middle. The explosion should create a roughly spherical shaped hole averaging 8 blocks in diameter. This method destroys more blocks per TNT but requires more use from the pickaxe in order to carve the space around the TNT. Since this only creates a single explosion unlike the previous technique, the items dropped from the broken blocks will survive.
Silverfish Mining [ edit ]
You can use silverfish to clear a lot of stone away to reveal the valuable stuff. To do this, get a bunch of silverfish in a hole, and position yourself above the hole. Most of the silverfish will go into the stone, but make sure there are at least some left visible. While standing above the leftover silverfish, throw a splash potion of poison, then a splash potion of regeneration immediately after. Every time the poison hurts the silverfish, it will call any nearby silverfish out of the stone, then it will get healed by the regeneration potion, so it can keep getting hurt (instead of being pinned at 1 health). Soon, all of the silverfish will come out of the stone, and you can kill them at this point, then mine all of the minerals left behind.
The easiest way to transfer silverfish to different places is by leading them through the nether. You can do this by putting a nether portal by a silverfish spawner (easy enough to lure them through, but you'll need a path of blocks they can't enter), and another portal for yourself, farther away with a different exit. After luring a batch of silverfish through their portal, you go through yours. You will have made walls and a trail in advance. The walls and trail contain the silverfish, but lets you see them and them follow you without being able to reach you. Two levels with a glass walkway for you (above their path) can do this, just make sure they can't reach your level (and none of the blocks are stone they can enter). Also, they may need to see you once without glass, so they know where you are. Then lead them to a third portal leading to your mine, and voila, you've transported them to where you want to mine at.
Silverfish Mining in action (go to the 18 minute mark) (view on YouTube)
Wither Mining [ edit ]
Another way to get many resources acquired from mining very quickly without having to use up tools or TNT, is to use the wither. The wither, unlike most other mobs, has the ability to break any block that can be mined by the player. In addition, if a block is destroyed by the black or blue skulls of the wither, it will drop itself (see "Explosion" for more details). However, be very careful when attempting to mine by using the wither when in Survival mode, as the wither has many defenses, and is able to deal a great amount of damage to the player. So, make sure to either have high quality weapons and armor, or make the wither mine so that it is impossible for the wither to attack the player.
Piston Mining [ edit ]
Piston mining is a technique for safely extracting small amounts of valuable ores, usually diamonds, and for inserting 'windows' into potentially dangerous spots.
Start by digging a 1×2 hole in a safe spot a few blocks to one side of the target area. If no truly safe spot is available, pick a location where the risk is least. Place a block and a piston in the hole. Any block moveable by a piston will do. Glass would allow you to see hazards without triggering them. An efficient method is to place one block of glass, then use 'filler' material for the subsequent blocks. Dig another hole a few blocks to the other side of the target area, ideally in another safe spot. When doing this, don't forget that the maximum distance a piston can push is twelve blocks in a straight line. Activate the piston using a redstone torch, lever, button or pressure plate as you prefer. Insert another block, re-open the 'receiving hole' if necessary and reactivate the piston. Repeat until the ore can safely be collected, or your glass block has revealed a hazard or confirmed all is safe. Note that you may need to check several rows before you can be entirely sure there is no danger. Retrieve the piston for reuse.
This mining method is only practical for collecting very small amounts of ore, but it can be useful for collecting diamonds from dangerous spots or when you suspect a natural hazard is nearby and you want to locate it precisely.
Aesthetic Mines [ edit ]
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This section is for mines that focus more on aesthetics rather than efficiency.
Vertical design [ edit ]
A mine of mine (No pun intended) I decided to talk about, seeing as how few aesthetic mine designs there are it should be a welcome change. Mind you don't expect to do all the connections, let alone open/maze connections (Variations section) unless you're on a server, or you have a will you can break diamond on.
Design [ edit ]
This design consists of a Hub and a Push leading into another Hub.
Key:
B - Block _ - Air
Hub: Top view:
BBBBBBB BB___BB B_____B B_____B B_____B BB___BB BBBBBBB
Side view:
BBBBBBB BB___BB BB___BB B_____B B_____B B_____B BBBBBBB
Each push is basically the design behind it (The side view) dropped a square repeated several times, the amount is dependent on the miner but an even number is preferred due to torch placement (Discussed later) The central hub (The first hub made in the mine) will have 4 pushes in each of the cardinal directions, eventually, if you are in need of ores you may choose to go down in one direction until you have what you need. I recommend you check your y coordinate about now, you may want a push length that will allow you to get your y value as close as you can to 12 (Lava spawns in caves at 10, and your y is up 2 for the positioning of your head) After you've decided on your length and finished a push you make another Hub in the same size as above. Continue until you reach the last of your hubs (You should end it before you hit bedrock, otherwise it won't be very nice looking).
Torch Placement [ edit ]
Torch placement is simple in this design. You will have 8 torches in each hub, on both sides of the bottom of the corners. If you want you may add a torch to the center floor to add more light, but it is enough to prevent mobs spawning as it is now.
For every push you put two torches on every other left and right hangs.
Connections [ edit ]
After you finished all of the cardinal pushes you'll be wondering what next to do, considering the amount you've mined you may want a place to store away items, connections are great for this.
Each connection is a hub formed by two of the cardinal branches intersecting, meaning if you went to the first north hub down, you'd have to mine one push/hub to the left and connect to it from the first west hub down by pushing right. It's the same as the hub but it leaves two walls with nothing to do, if you try to continue with them you will get intersections that are hard to make aesthetic unless you're looking for a large open mine, or a maze mine. Instead, you can use it for chests, and it works well for its purpose. Very hard to describe with letters, so here's a picture instead: Picture
Continuations [ edit ]
After your cardinal directions are done, you have your as many connections as you care for, what's next? You continue adding onto your bottom hubs, only with straight pushes. The bottom hubs will branch in all directions except backwards (Unless you're going with an open/mine variation) and each of those hubs may spread in the same direction so long as it's not backwards for the original hub. If you positioned well in the first central hub and push size, you'll be scraping a long in a fairly wide tunnel along the same height you find diamonds. It's easy sailing from here on.
Variations [ edit ]
Central Drop shaft:
Central hub is under an area of flat ground, you put a three deep hole where torches will go, ladders go on the bottom and top, torches in the middle, you go above the hub as normal only there will be a 2 high gap under the hangs on this first hub to allow for the ladders as a way up. Due to update you will need the ladders to go all the way down, and such won't have a place for a torch. You can circumvent this by putting them on the middle of part left over at the top of the next section, the lighting is the same and you won't need an extra torch to prevent mobs spawning. This also works particularly well if you want to replace the top with glass.
Open Mine Connections:
Same as original, only every connection you make splits off in all four directions. It goes up with a 1 wide path in the center in all four directions and the both of the two wide paths go down until they merge (Which is when it can do so without getting rid of the upward path)
There are two variations, one where you will go up when you make a connection, so you will have a stack of hubs in all directions, another where you only dig down in the connections, where they intersect you build the 1 central path down to the hub. The latter is more efficient as all of it will eventually lead to the bottom and therefore be mining ore.
Maze Mine Connections:
The same as an Open Mine except your down path is one wide, not your up path. Same two variations, same correlation in efficiency.
Lava lights:
You can replace the torches in the center (If you placed them at all) of the hubs with a piece of glass and lava under it and it gives only one light less. You can change it for a 3×3 if you feel so inclined and have enough lava.
Drop Shafts:
This combines the Central Drop Shaft and optionally the Open and Maze Mine Connections. It requires close tallies if you don't want to combine them though.
At your Hub you mine down the same as if you were going to make a Central drop Shaft, but continue until you are on the same level as your next hub (Depends on the size of your push, like a 8 push would be 8 blocks down) After you reach the bottom you make another hub in the same style as a Central Drop Shaft. This will require more ladders, so it's not a very good idea if your short on wood, but it allows a certain maze quality that I find welcome.
There are two places where you can put the ladders, but the two per corner type of the Central Drop Shaft style is preferred, however the other style uses less ladders. You mine your shafts in the blocks directly north/south/east/west of the center so that you have 4 shafts all the way to the next hub, this require 5 blocks to hang down from the hub, some like it, others don't.
Two variations on top of that, you may use the drop shaft for all your hubs, thus any hub with a hub above will be able to ascend, or you can only use the shafts for the central hub, adding 'terraces' to your mine.
Where does open/maze mine connections come in? After you get down to the bottom level you may continue to stretch out and connect with the original push/hubs. Once you connect you may use the open style, leaving 1 wide path up or the maze, leaving 2×2 wide up.
Other Aesthetic Mine Ideas [ edit ]
Central Mine [ edit ]
Once every 34 blocks you should change the rail/torch/rail combination for a Powered Rail/Redstone torch/Powered Rail
You will have a central rail system with smaller hallways for pedestrian traffic. On interesting locations, you should add some kind of rail station with access to the rail.
Side Mines [ edit ]
Connections [ edit ]
(From the top)
Random Mining [ edit ]
Mining randomly is very simple: dig, dig, dig wherever and however you just happen to feel like digging at the moment.
Very simple, and potentially the most rewarding type of mining around: you can find dungeons, massive cave networks, and maybe the enemy base. However, it is also potentially the least rewarding; it's possible to miss all the ores, as this method offers little consistency.
Random mining can very well be the most dangerous method. You can get lost, mine your way into lava (and thus lose your items), into a ravine, into a skeleton spawner with 5 angry skeletons, or even into your own 40 block drop. Alternatively, you could embarrass yourself by mining straight up into a patch of gravel or sand, or flood your mine by digging into the ocean.
That being said, there is one major benefit to random mining; it will confuse potential griefers. Surrounding a main base with all kinds of twisty passages is a viable option, though it won't ultimately stop a determined griefer from finding you or your base.This was the most used technique in Pocket Edition, before the update that introduced cave generation.
Space/Portion Mining [ edit ]
Not to be confused with Strip Mining; however, this does involve a similar method.
Room Mining [ edit ]
This form of mining involves someone to make a hall way and then make a small opening in the wall. From there, one must simply dig out a portion of the block to create a space. This method is repeated many times down the hall on either side to create rooms for various purposes, while finding several ores and valued materials in the process. This method is useful for the creation of houses, barns, indoor-gardens, storages, and in the creation of hard-to-find/secret places as it offers a variety of places one may go to in order to find something, but they may likely give up in the process unless they are determined.
Tunnel Mining [ edit ]
This is highly similar to Room Mining, except that instead of building rooms, you build tunnels. However, this takes much longer to do and tunnels are usually much larger than rooms. Because of this, Tunnel Mining is lesser to be used as the tunnels take up many tools in the process of making them as well as the mining process may dig into a body of water and flood the tunnel. However, if the player wants to make an artificial river for boats, this may not be a problem. Despite the fact that they may yield many resources, players may use up several pickaxes or shovels in the process of making them as well as torches to light up the tunnel. Players may get bored of doing this and may abandon the tunnels while still in the process of making them. Some may not consider beginning construction on future tunnels due to lost supplies and the tunnel not being rewarding enough to continue. This method is useful for making minecart subways, large indoor-gardens, art galleries, tree farms, boat rivers, large barn(s), mazes, doing construction on vertical and horizontal structures, constructing strip mines, and secret/hard-to-find areas by making tunnels that seem to go nowhere.
Clear Mining/Safe Mining [ edit ]
The general purpose of Clear Mining (or Safe Mining, whichever one may prefer to call it) is a variation of Box Mining and other simple techniques. A player first finds a suitable area, preferably one block above the bedrock layer so that the player can easily obtain diamonds and other rare minerals. The player must also have at least 5 to 6 stone picks, one iron pick for rare minerals such as gold, and 3-4 shovels for gravel. A sword is optional depending on the players preferred difficulty settings. Once the player has found a suitable and deep area that they are confident in they may either begin or set up a small chamber near the area to store minerals and construct tools to further their mining. To begin, make a simple 1 block wide and 2 blocks high that spans roughly 8-10 blocks in length. Once this has begun, the player then uses their stone picks to mine directly in front of them where their tunnel ends, but, there is a catch. The player does not move once they make their initial 8-10 block tunnel, and mines only the above block of the two block height making a small box, 4 blocks long. Once the player makes a half tunnel 4 blocks long, the turn to their left or right and do the same; not breaking any of the blocks below the first block. (when done the concept is much more simple) After the player makes a reversed "T" shape, then the player can start to mine out the remaining areas around the tunnels, only using their reach length to clear away stone and any materials. Once the player has maxed out their reach length, they will be in small "box" that reduces risks of being suffocated by gravel or possibly lava. The player then should have a clear area, and then mines out the remaining second blocks, still avoiding the "edges" of the safety box. Once all materials are mined, the player can then break the box and gather the resources in one quick run. Once the player is done in this, there will of course be small "edges" that they not reach, and these should be mined out making a clear box. To further the effectiveness of this strategy, one may then place torches in the "frontal" corners of the area and repeat the process on each side, however this time, rotating their view to clear away all areas of their reach, so long as they are away from their initial entrance tunnel. The end result should be a very fast, resourceful, and safer approach to mining at bedrock. However, mobs may spawn in areas of the mine that are poorly lit, and lava is a factor, along with tediousness, so the player must make a commitment to a clear mine, leaving when satisfied with their bounty of materials. Like parenthesized above, this strategy is best played out rather than explained.
Amphitheater Mining [ edit ]
Start with a basic U-shaped mine, and make an "amphitheater" down the levels until you have a one-block space. Then, make a doorway ahead to make another amphitheater mine. This is very useful, and you can even make it decorative by adding staircases as stairs or chairs.
Wanderer mining [ edit ]
This is a simple mining technique, but isn't used much because of the risk of getting lost. Start by making a staircase down until you reach the level where the desired ore is most commonly found, and begin mining. Occasionally change directions and make multiple branches.If there is a rise, plow through it. If there is a fall, bridge it with cobble. The point is to cover as much area without changing your y coordinate.
OCD Mining [ edit ]
This form of mining is relatively simple. Find or make a cave. When you find ores, dig it out. Then, measure the longest side of the ore. Turn the small hole into a perfect cube and you'll probably find more ores.
Shovel Mining [ edit ]
Simply create staircase to desired depth and make tunnel to find pocket of dirt or gravel. With your shovel mine all dirt/gravel and look at sides of created cave. It is very similar to caving, except you are making your own cave. This technique is very useful on older server where all caves had been explored. The advantage is that you don't need to spend too many resources on tools, because you mainly use shovels, a cheap and reasonably fast tool most of the time. On the other hand yields are smaller than from caving or strip mining.
Worst Case Scenarios [ edit ]
If you fall into lava, do not panic; swim upward to get out, then try to get far away from the lava (to water if you can). This way even if you die, your items won't be destroyed by the lava. If you need to heal, eat golden apples or drink some Potions of Healing or Regeneration and hide in a corner/away from Mobs, and make sure you use a bucket of water if you have one. If you know you are going to die anyway, press F3 and F2 (and also press fn together if the F2 or F3 button has other functions) to take a screenshot of your coordinates. If you're burning to death, trapped, close to the lava, stand in a corner and encase yourself in a dirt (or other hand breakable) shell. Once you die your items will be contained safely in the shell.
If you are trapped in blocks and are suffocating, try to dig looking downwards. This could assist you in getting out of the trapped pit.
If you are fighting and are going to die, press F3 then F2 .
Whatever happens, you should look back upon what you did, and analyze how you died, and what you could do to improve.
If your pickaxe breaks and you've stumbled into a cave and you have lost your way the only option is to punch your way out and this could take a while. If there are any nearby abandoned mine shafts, check them out, you can use the wood to make a crafting table and tools or there might be a spare iron pick floating around.
If you can, get an Ender Chest and start to put in your stuff from the most expensive/important to the cheapest/least valuable. When you spawn back to your house, put another Ender Chest and take out your stuff.
Best Case Scenario [ edit ]
Should you happen to accumulate a large amount of resources, such as, perhaps, 2 stacks of iron ore and 10 diamonds you may be tempted to delve further into the cavern. Resist this urge and return to your base to empty your loot. Dumping off your goodies instead of trying to explore longer may help in the long run, and will reduce the chance of losing your loot. Having a bed at the base of your mine is also helpful; if you die, you will spawn at the base of your mine, hopefully surrounded by your chests full of goodies!
If possible, carry an Ender Chest with you to store your valuable resources, or put down a chest where you are at, put your loot in it, and write down the coordinates of the chest. You can come back to the chest later. Find your current coordinates by pushing f3 .
Safety [ edit ]
When going for a mining trip, make sure that you take proper precautions to not die because of sand or gravel. Use your best judgement and be careful when digging. When going mining, after you are finished and you make your way back, try to go out the way you came. That way, you know you are safe and there is no risk of lava, water, gravel, or sand falling on you and killing you. Digging a new shaft to escape the underground could result in sand falling on you when it turns out you dug your exit below a desert biome. Or you could be drowned when the entire ocean floods your exit shaft. If you do get lost, you can dig up in a stairs pattern so that sand and gravel won't kill you and you won't be drowned if water comes through. If gravel does happen to fall on you, do not panic and immediately hold down the left mouse button to dig the gravel out. This will save yourself from suffocating.
Stairs pattern: A=Airspace B=Block
A AB AB AB AB
Never take valuable items when going mining. You don't want to delve into dangerous caves while carrying tons of iron and diamonds, for if you lose them while mining, you will be sorry. Carry more supplies for longer trips, but don't carry more than you can afford to lose to lava. Normally, you'll want to use stone picks for economy, but carry at least one iron pick for advanced ores (gold, redstone, and of course diamond). If you have tons of iron and are impatient, you might use iron picks in general, but while those are faster, they only last twice as long (block-wise) as stone tools, and you'll be going through a lot of picks regardless. Take a diamond pick if you want to be fast and efficient for its durability, or to collect some obsidian. Make sure to bring a sword, or at the very least, a bow and some arrows.
Supplies to bring while mining: Crafting table, furnace, sticks, cobblestone, water bucket, picks, swords, food, armor and fishing rod.
ABBA Rules [ edit ]
ABBA Rules is a style of caving introduced by VintageBeef where two or more members go caving for a set period of time, collecting ores with silk touch. Each ore is assigned a certain number of points. At the end the participants tally their points and the winner takes all the loot gathered by all parties. This competitive style of caving was inspired by a song called "The Winner Takes It All" by the Swedish band ABBA, hence the name.
PvP is not allowed and participants typically make use of potions or Ender Pearls if they so choose.
Point System [ edit ]
Ore/Item Points Emeralds 7 Diamonds 5 Gold 3 Lapis Lazuli & Redstone 1 Name tags 7-10 Horse Armor 7-10 Golden Apple? 10
Iron and coal ore are not worth any points. Gold ingots found in chests may or may not count for points. Name tags, Horse Armor and other loot chest items may or may not count for points - they are usually worth between 7-10 points. Guude found a golden apple in a chest once which counted for 10 points?.
Mine Defense [ edit ]
One method for defending your mine is a tunnel collapse system. This essentially has the miner press a button to retract Sticky Pistons in the walls, pulling Torches off the walls. These Torches are supporting Sand or Gravel in the roof, preventing it from falling. When the Sticky Pistons retract, the Torches are no longer attached to the walls, and so they disappear. This allows the Sand or Gravel to fall, blocking off the tunnel. This can be used in a network style mine to block off the assaulted tunnels while still allowing movement past the blockages. It can also be used to trap assaulting mobs in a "Quarantine Area" and prevent them getting loose in the mine.
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When I was given a free review copy of The Elder Scrolls Online, I wasn't sure what to do with it, since I had already bought the game and was intending to use my own copy for the purposes of writing about it. Instead, I offered the review copy to the other staffers at TenTonHammer.
The first respondent to my email was none other than Lewis B. Naturally, I was nervous about giving it to him since he had been so displeased with the game in an earlier beta event. He wouldn't even listen to reason when we went head-to-head in a debate about the game. However, I sent him the key anyway, hoping he would be won over by the product at launch, and it wasn't long after that Lewis began eating his words in his Twitter feed. Obviously, I wanted to gloat, but we both felt that a more in-depth analysis of his newfound appreciation for the game was in order.
GUNKY: So something has obviously changed between your first impression and now. What is different?
LEWIS B: I honestly can't put my finger on why my feelings towards ESO have changed- the combat hasn't improved (though it's so much better post 15), animations are still poor in comparison to the competition and some dialogue is awful. But - and this is a big but - something, somehow, has clicked for me. No Elder Scrolls game has ever captured my imagination or attention because on a personal level I could never overcome the buggy mess that most of them are. With ESO, I've reluctantly modded to fix many things and have found myself playing the game for the story and the world: I want to see what's around the next corner.
I probably sound like a walking contradiction at this point but I'm enjoying the fact I can lose myself in the world and to a large degree ignore all the things that irritate. Don't get me wrong, there is a lot that does (lack of dyes, lack of cloaks, lack of an auction house, poor guild functionality and poor chat systems to name but a few) but it's not stopping me having fun through the leveling process.
On that topic, leveling in ESO is a lot of fun - a genre first for me to really enjoy quest text. Not only that but to not have a million quests at once is a joy as you actually concentrate on what you're doing...
GUNKY: I'm actually finding ESO to be a little more challenging in terms of immersion, for a number of reasons - mostly because I am being constantly reminded that I'm playing a MMO and not a single-player game.
For example, all previous Elder Scrolls games used strength-based weight limits to manage carrying capacity. When you were over-burdened, you couldn't run or swift-travel. ESO uses slots. You can carry 50 iron breastplates and still have room for 20 greatswords, and run and jump and roll around without hindrance.
There's also the ceaseless stream of rude idiots one encounters in every MMO - the gold-sellers, the node-ninjas, the corpse-jumpers, the advice-trolls, etc. Normally, these people don't bother me and they don't prevent me from enjoying a game because I've grown to accept them as par for the course. But they do serve as a constant reminder that my character is one of literally thousands, all embarking on the exact same journey. That never once happened in Skyrim or Oblivion.
I actually followed your advice and tried a couple of mods. At this point, most of them seem kind of pointless or cheat-y, but I like Wykkyd Framework. It has the auto-loot notification and a bunch of other minor tweaks and things - essentially, it supposedly has the tools to remedy the few problems I have with the game. Not perfect, maybe, but my needs are few and simple.
Have you noticed that combat feels more responsive now than it did back when you hated the game? Enemies react to being hit now!
LEWIS B: It's funny you should mention that, as I've been playing ESO as if it's a single player game and just when I'm getting into the story or a particular quest I'm doing, some idiot decides to jump about in front of my cutscene or kill the important enemy I needed before I arrive. It's unavoidable (without instancing everything of value) but it's heightened by the fact it's so close to launch. If we were to wait a week or two you wouldn't really have that problem.
The thing that has royally pissed me off though, on multiple occasions, is the phasing. I'm not keen on phasing, but I can live with it. Elder Scrolls is a lovely looking game so one can expect some measures to be taken to reduce latency and frame rate issues and yet I feel ZeniMax Online have been hugely conservative in the number of players they permit and worse - failed to provide a functioning interface to tell me what phase I'm in and what phase my friends are in. My friends and I wasted hours trying to meet up without success. Would it be so hard for ZeniMax Online to tell us what phase we're in and just allow us to swap to a different one like Guild Wars 2 or Age of Conan? (if you can do this, please tell me how!).
On the subject of playing it like a single player game - I've yet to group with anyone once. Is that not a big problem for a game supposedly multiplayer? I might as well be playing Skyrim.
Oh and yes, the combat feedback is MUCH better - enemies actually react now which resulted in me rejoicing when I saw it the first time.
GUNKY: This just means that ESO is following the current trend of MMOs - a solo leveling experience with optional forays into group content along the way, and then changing horses and offering mostly repeatable group content and PvP for endgame. This isn't really a terrible thing - obviously it works well enough that essentially everyone is doing it - but I would have liked to see this game break the mold.
I haven't done any "official" grouping yet, either, but I have taken part in some group-required open-world content - taking out the Daedra at the anchor sites. I actually really like those fights. You can more or less just wander in by accident and help save the world without having to submit to the collective will of a bunch of strangers by joining a group. You can earn assist XP without having to belong to a group. I liked it a lot when they introduced this concept to The Lord of the Rings Online with the Riders of Rohan expansion - they call it "open tabbing" there, and it was so successful in Rohan that they added it to everywhere else in the game as well. I can barely remember how we got by without it for so many years.
Of course, LotRO has the phase-switching button that ESO lacks. So does Star Wars: the Old Republic - you can see which shard you are on and how many shards exist on the map, and which shard your group-mates are on when they talk in group chat. You can transfer to the group's shard as soon as you join via a pop-up, or you can hop between shards via a drop-down on the map.
These other games have gotten me used to private dungeons, though, and I still find it weird running into a dungeon and finding people already fighting the dude I'm in there to kill. It's not so bad when I can get a few shots in and throw out enough heals to get credit for the kill, but I'm not keen on standing around waiting for the respawns.
LEWIS B: The thing is, Elder Scrolls Online is straddling a weird line between group and solo play. With the exception of dungeons (which I'll get to shortly) there is no necessity to ever group - heck, even the bosses out in the game world I've been able to solo without trouble because enemy AI routes are so basic. Perhaps it's easier as a bow-user. The lack of an auction house leaves only the physical dungeons for a need to interact with other players.
On the subject of dungeons, I'm very disappointed in them so far. They're incredibly linear with no tactics other than tank and spank and as a result they feel incredibly old fashioned. Although I've fallen in love with the game world and my character, it all feels very "thin" as though ZeniMax Online have got the very basics - and only the very basics they can get away with - before shipping the product and only then with the intention of fattening up the game's depth.
I didn't realise until this morning that there were so many Soul Shards in the game - doesn't that entirely undermine the Skill Point system of making difficult choices as to where you spend your points? My guild and I recently spent an evening getting every Soul Shard in AvA which transpired to be 45 in total (15 extra skill points). Combined with 50 from leveling and another hundred or so from the zones you level in, you literally can Just have everything - I find that a little annoying.
GUNKY: Considering that these character builds are more narrow in scope than a standard Elder Scrolls character, the ability to "just have everything" kind of makes sense. You and I tend to play games a little differently than the average gamer, and getting everything like that takes a kind of focus that not everyone has. Also, you still need to exercise some kind of skill-point economy in the lower levels, because there are a lot of different skill lines. If you spend your points on, say, the crafting skill lines early on, or you do things like buy the next-tier Soul Trap way before you can realistically use it, you end up being somewhat ineffective elsewhere. I discovered this during my first beta experience - I spread my points out too thin and couldn't do stuff at level 10 that my next character, which was a more focused, economical build, could do several levels earlier.
You're exactly right, though: Elder Scrolls Online straddles a weird line. For some players accustomed to one type or the other, that's going to feel alien and off-putting at first. The MMO bits they added to the single-player game may not be the most complex or original bits, but they are generally the most fun bits. Linear tank-and-spank dungeons have been around for a long time because they work. I don't mind a challenge now and then, but sometimes it's good to get back to the basics and not have to Google a bunch of belligerent forum posts and YouTube videos to figure out the mechanics for one boss fight.
To be honest, I kinda like the idiosyncrasies. The weird hybrid really makes the game feel unique. Most other games I've played over the past few years, I can say "well, it plays like X with a dash of Y." I feel that, even though it draws heavily from a number of different sources, ESO defies this kind of simple comparison. It plays like The Elder Scrolls Online.
LEWIS B: I think you're totally right there - because it has the name of Elder Scrolls, comparisons are inevitable. People just aren't willing to let it be its own spin off. I appreciate that's more difficult than it should be considering it shares many similarities to the likes of Skyrim. Overall I think its a good stab at attempting to make a multiplayer Elder Scrolls and while I've had fun (mostly in AvA) it feels too thin and too buggy at this present time. If players stick around there's every chance I'll be where it needs to be, but in the mean time I still think it needed another 6 to 12 months of development time to apply much needed fixes and to implement a variety of things the game lacks.
GUNKY: The game has changed a lot since your terrible first impression, and it has the potential to mature very quickly. In the end, would you call yourself a convert?
LEWIS B: I wouldn't call myself a convert, I'd say my dislike of the product has lessened. It's so heavily flawed that it's a game I could never love, but I have found limited enjoyment from certain areas of it. Hopefully in the months to come it'll iron out some of the issues and be a stronger product. For now though, I think WildStar is leagues ahead in terms of polish and content.
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Donald Trump has hired a former top aide to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) who’d been caught up in the so-called Bridgegate scandal to serve as his campaign’s national field director, according to multiple reports.
GOP operative Bill Stepien is expected to help Trump coordinate voter turnout in the run-up to the Nov. 8 election, NBC News reported.
Stepien twice served as campaign manager for the New Jersey governor, who is currently advising Trump’s campaign. He also served as deputy chief of staff for intergovernmental affairs during Christie’s first term.
Though Christie is serving as the chief of Trump’s transition team, the New York Times reported that the governor was not involved in the hiring decision and is no longer close with Stepien. According to the Times, Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was behind the push to bring Stepien onboard.
The Republican operative fell from grace in January 2014, when Christie asked him to withdraw his name for consideration for chairman of the New Jersey GOP amid the fallout from what prosecutors now say was a politically-motivated plot to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge. In September 2013, a senior Christie aide had allegedly coordinated with senior Christie appointees at the Port Authority to orchestrate a massive traffic jam near Fort Lee, New Jersey in order to punish the town’s Democratic mayor for not endorsing Christie’s re-election bid.
Emails providing evidence of the scheme were made public during investigations into the incident. Christie said in the January news conference that he had “lost confidence in Bill’s judgement” because those emails showed Stepien referring to Fort Lee’s mayor as “an idiot.”
Stepien’s consulting contract with the Republican Governors Association, which Christie ran at the time, was also terminated.
Stepien was never charged with any wrongdoing in the lane closure scheme.
This month, transcripts of a text message exchange between two Christie staffers were made public in which one former staffer alleged the New Jersey governor “flat out lied about senior staff and Stepien not being involved.” Christie disputed that claim.
This post has been updated.
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With budget negotiations on the horizon, a buzz is building around Social Security, from Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats calling for an expansion of benefits to The Washington Post arguing that seniors must be sacrificed for the good of the “poor young.” Ad Policy
Two of the biggest players in the debate are largely behind the scenes: Business Roundtable and Fix the Debt, corporate lobbies that use deficit fear-mongering to sell benefit cuts. These groups are made up of CEOs of America’s largest corporations—people with retirement accounts that are more than 1,000 times as large as those of the average Social Security beneficiary.
Each of the 200 executives of Business Roundtable has retirement savings averaging $14.5 million, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Effective Government. That’s compared to the $12,000 that the median US worker near retirement age has managed to put away. Once Business Roundtable CEOs start drawing Social Security themselves, they’ll be cashing a monthly check that is sixty-eight times larger than an ordinary retiree’s, ensuring that they’ll never bear the burden of the cuts they’re advocating.
“I find it hypocritical to see CEOs sitting on massive retirement fortunes of their own saying that the solution to the country’s fiscal challenge is to put an even greater burden on retirees, many of whom already struggling,” said Sarah Anderson, director of the Global Economy Project at IPS and one of the report’s authors.
One of those CEOs is David Cote, the vice-chair of Business Roundtable and a member of the steering committee for Fix the Debt. After eleven years at Honeywell where he’s now the chief executive, his retirement assets are worth $134.5 million. That means that as a retiree he’ll draw a monthly pension of nearly $800,000.
Cote is a deficit hawk, and claims to be worried about the long-term stability of Social Security. A member of the Bowles-Simpson commission and President Obama’s debt committee, Cote has called for $3 to $4 trillion in spending cuts over the next decade, “especially when it comes to entitlements.”
To make some of those reductions via cuts to Social Security, Business Roundtable has proposed raising the retirement age to 70, restricting benefit growth and changing the way inflation is calculated in a way that amounts to a benefit cut for seniors. (Read George Zornick on why this change, called Chained CPI, is a bad deal.) At the same time, Business Roundtable and Fix the Debt are calling for more corporate tax breaks.
“If Congress approves of proposals like ones that Business Roundtable are pushing, we could see severe cuts that could mean the difference between any kind of dignified retirement and absolute poverty,” Anderson said. Two-thirds of retired Americans rely on Social Security for the majority of their income, and more than 40 percent would be in poverty without those benefits.
These CEOs aren’t just trying to short the average American retiree; they’re throwing their own under the bus. While raising alarm about the federal debt, Business Roundtable CEOs have run up massive deficits in their employees’ pension funds. According to the report, ten companies led by members of Business Roundtable have shortfalls in their employee pension funds of between $4.9 and $22.6 billion. The largest of those belongs to General Electric, run by Business Roundtable and Fix the Debt member Jeffrey Immelt, the prospective beneficiary of a $59.3 million retirement fund.
GE stopped offering traditional pension plans for new employees in 2011, forcing workers to switch to 401(k) plans. Many other companies have shifted the burden of retirement savings to their employees in this way in recent years, and that’s been a significant driver of the retirement crisis. Just 18 percent of workers can expect traditional pensions today, compared with 38 percent in 1985. Instead of getting a fixed check, retirees are at the mercy of the market—making the assurance of Social Security benefits even more essential. But Business Roundtable continues to put the responsibility for the retirement crisis on retirees themselves. “[T]rue retirement security will be achieved only if Americans save more,” reads the group’s 2013 CEO Growth Agenda.
Saving more is an increasingly unworkable solution for the millions of workers whose wages and benefits are being undercut by some of the same CEOs directing them to do so. As the report lays out, many of the most effective ways to strengthen Social Security involve asking more of executives, not employees. Eliminating the cap on wages subject to Social Security taxes (currently set at $113,700) would eliminate 95 percent of the projected shortfall for seventy-five years, according to the Congressional Research Service. That’s three times the deficit reduction achieved by raising the retirement age to 70. Subjecting stock-based compensation to Social Security taxes would raise billions more.
Don’t expect to hear about those proposals from Business Roundtable, however. “I do think that it is a real weakness of these corporate lobby groups, that they’re making the public face of the agenda to cut Social Security these CEOs that are sitting on massive nest eggs of their own,” said Anderson. “It undercuts their credibility and influence in these debates, and I’m hoping it will make it difficult to achieve the cuts they’re proposing.”
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Harvey (right) and his brother Robert.
I know, I was shocked too. I grew up putting eyeliner on all the gay kids before they went out to dance on stage, I didn't expect Harvey Milk to be a total
And he was in the U.S. Navy, too. The man was born to mess with people's heads. Harvey Milk, one of the most famous LGBT leaders in America, admired throughout the political world for his amazing style of witty self-promotion, beloved by many as "The Mayor of Castro Street"... was an all-American football player.I know, I was shocked too. I grew up putting eyeliner on all the gay kids before they went out to dance on stage, I didn't expect Harvey Milk to be a total Karofsky ! But yes, the man played football.And he was in the U.S. Navy, too. The man was born to mess with people's heads.
Is it wrong that I think he looks hot in his uniform? Probably...
Seriously though, Harvey Milk was born on May 22nd, 1930 in Woodmere, New York. He came from a Jewish family—his grandpa actually started the very first synagogue in the city where they lived. Harvey was a nice kid, teased by the other kids for his stuck-out ears and big feet. Harvey responded by acting like a goofball a lot, basically trying to get people to like him. This pattern would continue for the rest of his life.
Like I mentioned earlier, Harvey joined up with the Navy after graduating from New York State College for Teachers (it's now the State University of New York at Albany). He served aboard a rescue submarine, then a diving instructor, and was then discharged (though probably not for being gay, despite some of his public statements). Harvey realized he was gay in his teens, but kept it a very close secret until he grew older.
After exiting the Navy, Harvey kinda floated around for a while. He was trained as a teacher, and also worked in banking. The guy was a nerd as well as an all-American boy (which just makes my head explode. Lovingly, of course). But perhaps most important to his own personal development was the hippie phase that started around the time he was 39. That was when Harvey went to San Francisco.
I'm not one for idealizing the dead. By the sound of it, Harvey could be an annoying-a*s man to be around at times. He was a spaz. He was loud. He was probably an attention hog. He once thought about marrying a lesbian, beard style, so he could have a cover and just go about his life. He It was, initially, for a man. But Harvey fell in love with the city, and everything it meant for gay men in the 1970s. You think it's a gay city now? It was friggin' Oz back in the day, with gay people moving into every nook and cranny. There's nothing like being around a bunch of people just like you, isn't it? It empowers you. Heck, it helps create you. It's safe to say that Harvey was never the same again after discovering San Francisco. He would go on to defend it as a safe place for gay people, eventually spreading a gospel of equal rights from its hilly streets.I'm not one for idealizing the dead. By the sound of it, Harvey could be an annoying-a*s man to be around at times. He was a spaz. He was loud. He was probably an attention hog. He once thought about marrying a lesbian, beard style, so he could have a cover and just go about his life. He challenged every gay person in America to come out, to show the heteros in their lives that gay people are everywhere, and he didn't even hold to that himself. But Harvey had guts. He said and did things people only imagined were possible. He knew the value of getting people to like you if you wanted to get anything done in the world. And maybe that was Harvey Milk's legacy: Getting everyone to like him. Because he was indeed the "gay candidate" in the public's mind. But he spoke about gay rights in a way that everyone could relate to . That's a miracle. That's progress.
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<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <![endif]--><!--StartFragment-->Apparently, expansion of the A-League is back on the agenda. No, really. That being the case, the fault lines of a debate which excites the football public like no other are about to reach a sharper focus. Derbies, or regions? New markets, or existing ones? Ultimately, that's the conversation which matters most.
Last week, semi-pro Canberra Olympic hosted Sydney FC in the FFA Cup semi-finals. More than 5,000 fans poured into Viking Park on a chilly midweek night. Cue the 'Canberra for the A-League' stories. Trouble is, we've been reading them for years. Every time the FFA bandwagon rolls into town - whether it's the Asian Cup, a Socceroos game, an A-League fixture, or the FFA Cup - the signal comes from Whitlam Square that the locals need to turn up in force to prove they deserve a seat at the top table.
In the case of Canberra, the locals have never let them down. They even raised $5 million at one stage to fund an A-League bid. The FFA treated the bid with contempt. Is that what head office really thinks of the smaller regional markets? Has anything changed?
For Canberra, read Geelong, Hobart, Wollongong. All these cities have heard the same empty rhetoric over the years. And then there's Townsville. The FFA are still public enemy no.1 in town, five years after they effectively killed off North Queensland Fury. Incredibly, the FFA point to the Fury as a reason why the A-League can't grow in regional areas, completely ignoring their own culpability in the process.
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SANTA MONICA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Activision Publishing, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), announced today that Kit Harington will be featured in the upcoming Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare, scheduled for release November 4th. The role marks a dramatic shift for the popular actor, as he portrays the face of the enemy in the new Call of Duty game in development by Infinity Ward.
“Kit is an amazing talent, and the consummate pro,” said Taylor Kurosaki, narrative director, Infinity Ward. “Our story is about an epic showdown of opposing forces, and Kit immersed himself into the role and truly became the embodiment of the enemy, the Settlement Defense Front. We can’t wait for fans to see Kit play an entirely different kind of character.”
To lend additional support to the production, Activision and Infinity Ward worked closely with director Guy Ritchie, who is familiar with the Call of Duty® franchise, having helmed the acclaimed live-action trailer “Surprise” for Call of Duty®: Black Ops II.
“Guy Ritchie is a friend of the franchise, so it was great to have him back to work with us, assisting in bringing Kit Harington’s character to life in Infinite Warfare,” added Dave Stohl, studio head, Infinity Ward. “It meant a lot to us to develop the role into everything it could be. We’re excited about the performance Kit delivered and can’t wait to get it out to the public. We’re committed to delivering a compelling story with rich character depth, and this was a special opportunity to add to our fantastic cast.”
“Gathering this level of talent together for this role speaks to our studio partner’s drive to deliver a powerful narrative in Call of Duty,” said Tim Ellis, chief marketing officer, Activision. “We challenge ourselves to constantly be fresh and expansive in creating gripping, immersive experiences that are exciting to play for our fans every year.”
Last year’s Call of Duty®: Black Ops III had the biggest entertainment opening weekend of 2015, and was the #1 console game globally for the calendar year. For the seventh consecutive year, Call of Duty was the #1 video game franchise in North America.
See the face of the enemy with this sneak peek from the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare production set – https://www.facebook.com/CallofDuty/videos/1152103818184674/.
About Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Award-winning studio Infinity Ward breaks new ground in storytelling, by exploring the weight of leadership and the responsibilities that come with it in an emotional, character-driven narrative. Players are thrust into wartime leadership as Captain Reyes, a Tier 1 Special Operations soldier, who takes the helm of the Retribution, one of Earth’s last remaining warships. In a time of unthinkable hardships, Reyes must lead the remnants of coalition forces against a relentless enemy in a war that stretches to new terrains across the vast expanse of our solar system beyond Earth.
Infinite Warfare introduces new weaponry, new player abilities and stunning new settings to the Call of Duty franchise. In addition to a riveting single player campaign, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare will also deliver a robust multiplayer mode, and a unique cooperative zombies experience. More details will be released at the upcoming Call of Duty fan celebration, Call of Duty XP, in September.
For the latest intel, check out: www.callofduty.com, www.youtube.com/callofduty or follow @CallofDuty and @InfinityWard on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is scheduled for release November 4th on PlayStation® 4 system, Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, and PC. The title is not yet rated.
About Activision Publishing, Inc.
Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Activision Publishing, Inc. is a leading global producer and publisher of interactive entertainment. Activision maintains operations throughout the world. More information about Activision and its products can be found on the company's website, www.activision.com or by following @Activision.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking Statements: Information in this press release that involves Activision Publishing’s expectations, plans, intentions or strategies regarding the future are forward-looking statements that are not facts and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Factors that could cause Activision Publishing’s actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements set forth in this release include unanticipated product delays and other factors identified in the risk factors sections of Activision Blizzard’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. The forward-looking statements in this release are based upon information available to Activision Publishing and Activision Blizzard as of the date of this release, and neither Activision Publishing nor Activision Blizzard assumes any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements believed to be true when made may ultimately prove to be incorrect. These statements are not guarantees of the future performance of Activision Publishing or Activision Blizzard and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond its control and may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations.
© 2016 Activision Publishing, Inc. ACTIVISION, CALL OF DUTY, CALL OF DUTY BLACK OPS, and CALL OF DUTY INFINITE WARFARE are trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc.
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Daylon Claasen: Interesting QPR again
Sky Sports understands that Queens Park Rangers are set to rekindle their interest in South African starlet Daylon Claasen.
Mark Hughes first looked at the 22-year-old back in January, but a deal failed to materialise.
But QPR are now ready to make a fresh move for his services, and with just a year left on his deal with Belgian outfit Lierse, he is unlikely to be priced out of a move.
Highly-regarded Claasen is rated very highly in South Africa and many consider him as their new Steven Pienaar.
The midfield schemer had an impressive campaign for Lierse last season scoring seven goals in 30 games, and now he could be set to be offered the chance of a move to the Premier League.
A number of English clubs are believed to be keeping a close check on him, but QPR are very much at the head of the queue.
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Isis can "flood into Iraq as it pleases" says John Simpson
The Iraqi government appears to have lost control of its western borders after Sunni militants reportedly captured crossings to Syria and Jordan.
Officials said the rebels took two key crossings in Anbar on Sunday, a day after seizing one at Qaim, a town in the province that borders Syria.
The strategically important airport in the northern town of Tal Afar has also reportedly fallen to the rebels.
Isis-led militants have cut a swathe through parts of Iraq.
US President Barack Obama warned of the risk of the insurgents destablising other countries in the region.
"We're going to have to be vigilant generally," he told the US TV network CBS, in case the militants "spill over into some of our allies like Jordan".
"Their extreme ideology poses a medium and long-term threat, " he added.
Since the fall of Mosul in early June, Isis - the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant - have helped win large areas in the west and north.
They have taken four strategically important towns in the predominantly Sunni Anbar province - Qaim, Rutba, Rawa and Anah - in the last two days.
Gunmen reportedly captured the border posts of al-Waleed, on the Syrian frontier, and Turaibil, on the Jordanian border, on Sunday after government forces pulled out.
The capture of frontier crossings could help Isis transport weapons and other equipment to different battlefields, analysts say.
Image copyright AP Image caption Sunni fighters, among them the jihadists of Isis, have taken large swathes of western and northern Iraq
The BBC's Jim Muir in Irbil
After a bit of a pause and some patchy fighting in a belt around 70km (45 miles) north and north-east of Baghdad, the Sunni rebels seem to be on the move again.
The focus has shifted partly to Anbar, the vast, mainly Sunni-populated province to the west of Baghdad, an area where the tribes are particularly strong.
The reported fall of two more border posts, one on the main road to Jordan, and the other to Syria, means that the government has lost control of all its western borders.
One tribal leader said that 90% of the province is now in rebel hands.
Even before the current crisis began, the city of Falluja, barely 30km from Baghdad's western edge, had been held by rebels since January, along with half of the provincial capital Ramadi.
In many places, troops and police seem to have left their posts after being given safe passage by the militants, to avoid bloodshed.
If reports of the capture of the important airport at the strategic northern town of Tal Afar are confirmed, it would be bad news for the Baghdad government, which had been hoping to use the airport as a launching-pad for an attempt to recapture the nearby city of Mosul.
The funeral of a senior army officer who was killed in the fighting for Qaim on Friday was targeted by a suicide and car bomb attack in Ramadi. At least six people were killed as they gathered to mourn Brig Gen Majid al-Fahdawi.
US 'stooges'
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday he opposed any US intervention, and accused Washington of "seeking an Iraq under its hegemony and ruled by its stooges".
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption John Kerry: "Isis is a threat not only to Iraq but to the entire region"
"The main dispute in Iraq is between those who want Iraq to join the US camp and those who seek an independent Iraq," he said, dismissing talk of sectarianism.
The US, which pulled out of Iraq in 2011, is deploying some 300 military advisers to Iraq to help in the fight against the insurgents.
Analysis from BBC Persian's Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
The Obama administration is signalling that it wants a new government in Iraq without Prime Minister Nouri Maliki before launching any attack on Isis, but Iran's Supreme Leader has rejected both ideas.
Ayatollah Khamenei strongly opposed "the intervention of the US and others in the domestic affairs of Iraq", and said the US is not pleased with the results of the new election and "is seeking an Iraq under its hegemony and ruled by its stooges".
Khamenei's anti-US remarks weaken the possibility of co-operation. Iran feels it has the upper hand in Iraq and would try to resolve the crisis by the help of "Iraqi people, government and Shia clerics".
US Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking in Cairo on Sunday, urged Iraq's leaders "to rise above sectarian motivations and form a government that is united in its determination to meet the needs and speak to the demands of all of their people".
He said it was a "critical moment" and warned that Isis' "ideology of violence and repression is a threat not only to Iraq but to the entire region".
Sunni tribal leaders in Anbar say Isis militants make up only a small number of the fighters involved in taking over the province - most are tribes people and former security personnel from the Saddam Hussein era.
Shaikh Raad al-Suleiman, a senior figure in Ramadi, said the reason they had captured so much territory was because soldiers in the Iraqi army were not prepared to fight.
"Most of the officers and men came to their senses, left their arms, guns and vehicles and fled out of Anbar," he said.
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Chevy has a new racing version of its Camaro called the GT4.R. As the name suggests, it’s built to international GT4 class rules, so it can race in a variety of series in the United States and Europe against a variety of cars. One of those cars will be the GT4 version of the Mustang Ford unveiled last year. So does the Camaro GT4.R have what it takes to compete with its eternal rival?
To create this race car, Chevy basically combined two road-going versions of the Camaro. The body is based on the recently unveiled ZL1 1LE, arguably the most hardcore version of the Camaro available to people who don’t have a racing license. Working off that base, substantial modifications were made, including a change in engine.
The stock ZL1 1LE has Chevy’s LT4 6.2-liter supercharged V8, which produces 650 horsepower. But GT4 class rules prohibit the supercharged engine, so the Camaro GT4.r uses the naturally-aspirated LT1 6.2-liter V8 from the Camaro SS, tuned to about 420 hp. The GT4.R uses a six-speed sequential transmission, along with an Xtrac limited-slip differential at the back.
The job of turning a Camaro into a race car belongs to Pratt & Miller, the shop that builds Chevy’s Corvette race cars. In addition to the drivetrain swap, major changes are made to the suspension, including the installation of Ohlins two-way adjustable dampers. The stock electric power steering is also replaced with an old school hydraulic system, and virtually everything is stripped out of the interior. The GT4.R weighs 3,150 pounds, compared to 3,820 pounds for a stock ZL1 1LE.
The Camaro GT4.R made its racing debut over the weekend, in the Pirelli World Challenge round at St. Petersburg, Florida. It will continue to compete in that series, as well as the Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, where it will go head to head with the Ford Mustang. Because it’s built to GT4 specs, the Camaro is also eligible to compete internationally.
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Image copyright EPA Image caption Raids continued in Gaza throughout Monday evening
A 72-hour truce between Israel and Palestinian groups in Gaza is due to come into force shortly.
The ceasefire, brokered by Egyptian mediators late on Monday, will start at 08:00 local time (05:00 GMT).
Meanwhile, Israeli media reports quote military sources as saying they have achieved the main aim of the conflict - to destroy militants' tunnels.
Gaza officials say the four-week conflict has killed 1,800 Palestinians. Some 67 Israelis have also died.
A Thai national working in Israel was also killed.
'Without preconditions'
There have been several truces called during the conflict but few have lasted, with each side accusing the other of violations.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption There were chaotic scenes at the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City after an air strike on Monday morning, as Orla Guerin reports
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption James Reynolds reports from Jerusalem after Israeli police shoot a man who allegedly attacked a bus with a stolen digger
The latest was discussed on Monday by various Palestinian groups in Cairo, although Israel did not attend.
But all sides said they would respect the ceasefire.
Later, Reuters news agency reported several Israeli broadcasters as claiming that Israel's main war aim of destroying tunnels used by militants had been achieved.
Reuters also reported that Israel would withdraw all of its troops before the start of the ceasefire.
The claims have not yet been confirmed.
Image copyright EPA Image caption Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank demonstrated in support of Gaza on Monday
Image copyright Reuters Image caption At the same time Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem were burying a man killed in the city on Monday by a Palestinian man who had stolen a bus
Egypt negotiated a similar truce earlier in the conflict that was accepted by Israel but rejected by Hamas.
The new agreement proposes that delegations from all sides then attend further talks in Cairo.
The main Palestinian demands remain on the table, notably a full Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, the end of the blockade of the territory and the opening of border crossings.
US Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken welcomed the ceasefire but told CNN that it was up to Hamas to maintain the truce.
"This is a real opportunity. We strongly support the initiative," he said.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has also welcomed the ceasefire, and he called on both sides to hold talks in Egypt to begin as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, in Washington, President Barack Obama approved legislation to provide a further $225m to help Israel run its "Iron Dome" anti-missile shield.
Image copyright AP Image caption Palestinians accused Israel of launching an attack during its unilateral truce on Monday
The BBC's Mark Lowen, in Cairo, says that news of the latest ceasefire came against expectations as there was little optimism in Egypt that any deal could be struck.
Our correspondent says there are many pitfalls before any long-standing agreement can be thrashed out.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said again on Monday that Israel's main goal was to "return quiet and security to the citizens of Israel".
Speaking after a seven-hour truce ended on Monday, he also said that the military operation would not end until all tunnels used by militants to infiltrate Israel were destroyed.
Israel launched Operation Protective Edge on 8 July with the stated aim of ending rocket attacks.
Jerusalem attacks
Israel's seven-hour "window" generally slowed the violence on Monday, although Palestinian officials said Israel broke it shortly after it began by hitting a house in Gaza City.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Mark Lowen asks what Egyptians make of the crisis in Gaza
A young girl was killed and at least 15 other people injured, many of them women and children.
Israel said a number of rockets were fired from Gaza during the window.
And in Jerusalem, a construction vehicle driven by a man, identified by police as a Palestinian from east Jerusalem, overturned a bus in an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood.
A passer-by was killed and several people were injured before police shot dead the driver.
Later a soldier was seriously injured in a suspected drive-by shooting in Jerusalem's Mt Scopus area.
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There were several questions regarding Laghu Krama Diksha, and I attempt to answer the same below.
There are three ways to initiate a disciple:
महादीक्षा तथा दीक्षा उपदेशस्ततः परम् ||
Upadeśa is the least recommended but easiest of all, where a Guru gives upadeśa of a mantra to his disciple. This seems to be the most commonly followed method in Southern India especially among worshipers of Srīvidyā.
Dīkṣā refers to Pūrṇadīkṣā within a specific Mahāvidyā such as Srīvidyā which, for example, is taught variously by Tantras such as Paramānanda and Paraśurāma Kalpasūtra. This is considered madhyama or average.
Mahādīkṣā is known as Kramadīkṣā and involves various Mahāvidyās, with the primary focus on either Tripurasundarī or Kālikā. This can be taught only by a Siddha Guru.
There are three main Sampradāyas of Srīvidyā Krama Dīkṣā and they are:
1. Mahāmanthāna Bhairava Krama
2. Unmatta Bhairava Krama of Gauḍas (elaborated by Tantras such as Bṛhadbaḍabānala etc.)
3. Svacchanda Bhairava Krama (detailed in Tantras such as ūrdhvāmnāya Tantra, Shaḍanvaya Mahāratna etc. followed by our lineage)
Our lineage, traced back to Bhagavatī Bimbāmbikā, only teaches Pūrṇa Krama consisting of 360 mantras and there is no Laghu (brief) krama taught. However, The Unmatta Bhairavīya Krama does teach a laghu-krama, which seems to have been co-opted by some in my our lineage as well. For example, Muktakeśānandanātha, who authored the manual Nīlakālī Saparyā (centered around the Krama procedures for Nīlasarasvatī and Ucchiṣṭa Mahāgaṇapati) discusses Laghu-krama for Srīvidyā. Another medieval work, Upāmnāya Ratnakośa, dealing mainly with the vidhi for Triṣakti Chāmuṇḍā also known as Chaṇḍī colloquially and as Ugracaṇḍā in Krama system, also discusses this Laghu-krama of Unmatta Bhairava school.
सर्वाम्नाय प्रभेदेन षड्धा विद्याक्रमः स्मृतः |
The system detailed below is mainly for Kādi Srīvidyā. There are similar systems for Kālī that include both Kādi (Dakṣiṇā) and Hādi (ādyā). And for Tārā that include both Hādi (Nīlasarasvatī) and Sādi (Ugratārā & Ekajaṭā).
पूर्वाम्नाये चोन्मनी च पूर्णेशी भुवनेश्वरी |
द्वीपशाम्भवकं दिव्यं लिङ्गमूले व्यवस्थितम् ||
The deities of Purvāmnāya meditated upon in Svādhiṣthāna Chakra are: Unmanī, Pūrṇeśvarī, Bhuvaneśvarī and Dvīpeśvara - Dvīpeśvarī.
There are certain differences in opinion regarding Mūlādhāra, Svādhiṣṭhāna and the order of contemplation for Adharāmnāya and Pūrvāmnāya. Some lineages worship Bauddha deities such as āryatārā and Vajraprastāriṇī in the nether āmnāya whereas those such as mine propitiate Ugratārā. In any case, Laghu Krama does not include this lower āmnāya. A detailed discussion on this topic is quite irrelevant here.
आद्या श्यामा दक्षिणा च दक्षिणाम्नायवर्त्मनि |
संवर्तशाम्भवं दिव्यं मणिपूरे व्यवस्थितम् ||
The deities of Dakṣiṇāmnāya meditated upon in Maṇipūraka Chakra are: ādyā kālī, Shyāmā kālī, Dakṣiṇā kālī and Samvarteśvara - Saṃvarteśvarī.
पश्चिमे कुब्जिका वज्रकुब्जिकाऽघोरकुब्जिका |
सर्वाधिकारविद्याख्यं शाम्भवं चतुरन्वयम् ||
The deities of Paścimāmnāya meditated upon in Svādhiṣthāna Chakra are: Samayakubjikā, Vakrakubjikā, Aghorakubjikā and Chaturanvaya-śāmbhava.
उपमार्गे महापूर्वा काली लक्ष्मी सरस्वती |
चामुण्डा च महाविद्येश्वराख्यं शाम्भवं हृदि ||
The deities of Upāmnāya meditated upon in Anāhata Chakra are: Mahākālī, Mahālakṣmī, Mahāsarasvatī and Mahāvidyeśvara mithuna.
उत्तरे सिद्धिलक्ष्मीश्च महासिद्धिकारालिका |
कामकला गुह्यकाली हंसशाम्भव कण्ठजम् ||
The deities of Uttarāmnāya meditated upon in Viśuddi Chakra are: Siddhilakṣmī, Mahāsiddhikarālī (which is a code name for a specific form of Guhyakālī), Kāmakalā Guhyakālī (not to be confused with aṣṭādaśākṣarī) and Haṃseśvara mithuna. There is a less popular version that involves Hiraṇyakaśipūpāsitā Guhyakālī which is rarely practiced on account of it being a Krodhavidyā or Pralayavidyā.
ऊर्ध्वे बाला पञ्चदशी षोडशी परशाम्भवम् |
आज्ञा चक्र स्थितं दिव्यं श्रीविद्या क्रमसंयुतम् ||
The deities of ūrdhvāmnāya meditated upon in ājñā Chakra are: Bālā, Shuddha Pañcadaśī, ṣoḍaśī and Pareśvara śāmbhava kūṭa.
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A four-year-old Chechen boy has been brought back to Russia after living with his jihadist father, who was fighting alongside ISIS in Mosul. Russian authorities are now seeking the return of several dozen such children from Iraqi orphanages.
Bilal Tagirov’s mother hadn’t seen him for two years. In October 2015, the child was kidnapped from his native Chechnya by his father, Khasan Tagirov, who went to fight alongside Islamic State jihadists, first in Syria and then in Iraq.
“For the past two years I had cherished the hope that my son would come back,” Bilal’s mother, Zalikha Ashakhanova, 24, said.“There have been attempts to bring him home. Finally, my dream came true.”
After two years of unsuccessful searches, Zalikha finally saw her son for the first time in a video from the liberated city of Mosul, uploaded on the internet.
“After watching the video with my boy, I was in shock. I hadn’t seen him for two years, but immediately recognized him. He almost did not change… I definitely recognized his voice. The mannerisms remained the same. On this video, there was his father in the background. Everyone recognized him, my mother and his relatives," the boy's mother recalls.
The woman immediately turned for help to the prosecutor's office. The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, helped organize the boy’s search and rescue operation.
Last week, Bilal finally came back home from Baghdad to Grozny.
“He had lived through so many tragic days it would be enough for a hundred lives. Mosul lies in ruins. Bilal and his father were found half alive in the city's ruins. The boy needed immediate help, otherwise he would not have survived,” Kadyrov wrote on Instagram.
Russian authorities are now trying to bring back home other children stuck in Mosul.
READ MORE: Children still trapped in Mosul in dire need of protection – UNICEF
According to Samih Beno, a Jordanian politician of Chechen origin, 48 minors, presumably children of Russian citizens, are now being held in different Iraqi shelters. Beno, also the head of the Chechen Republic’s Friends Association in Jordan, helped begin the evacuation and serves as a mediator during talks between representatives of different countries and international public organizations. No concrete date as to when minors could be brought back home can be set at the moment, as the process of their return is full of legal complications. To bring the children back, it must be confirmed they are all Russian citizens, which is not easy as the minors lack documents proving their identity and can hardly tell the authorities anything about themselves or their family aside from a name. According to Beno, the kids will have to undergo a DNA test to prove they are relatives with people who claim so.
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The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Mr. Mohamed Shiaa Al-Sudani, told RT that some of the children had arrived in the country along with foreign fighters, and others were born in Iraq.
The Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has developed an extensive program to take care of children from the IS-liberated areas in coordination with several ministries, civil society groups and international organizations like UNICEF.
“We have accepted a large number of children from the province of Nineveh. A lot of children. Some of them are of unknown origin, some got lost. Others were abandoned by their parents for various reasons,” Dr Abeer Mahde Alchalabi, Director General of Social Special Needs, and Office Director of the Child Welfare Commission, told RT.
“Before being placed in the shelter, their health condition was depressing. They suffered from mental and skin diseases as a result of a long stay in those [Islamic State] camps…
Some children have broken legs or hands. This is because they were abandoned by their parents and for a long time had stayed without any further care. Among them there are Iraqi children of Yazidi mothers. There are Chechen children, Chinese, there is one French child. All these children have been placed in the shelters… We consider them to be the victims. They are not guilty of anything. Of course, if the child’s father is from ISIS, the child is not to blame,” Dr Alchalabi said.
READ MORE: ‘Collective punishment & war crimes’: HRW condemns forced relocation of ISIS families in Iraq
The Russian Foreign Ministry, the Chechen Republic, the Federation Council, as well as Jordanian and Iraqi politicians are involved in negotiations to return children to their homeland. Before rejoining their families, some of the children will have to first receive medical and psychological help in special rehabilitation facilities, according to Russia’s children’s ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova.
Last month Mosul was declared liberated from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists. Iraqi and US-led forces have faced severe criticism from human rights organizations and the international community for the eight-month-long operation to retake the city, as it caused civilian casualties and massive displacement.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in mid-July that forced relocations of alleged IS terrorists’ families to a “rehabilitation camp” in Iraq are an act of collective punishment. HRW said that at least 170 families of suspected ISIS fighters, mainly women and children, were relocated against their will to a closed “rehabilitation camp” in Bartalla, 14 kilometers east of Mosul, Iraq, recently retaken from terrorists. Belkis Wille, a senior Iraq and Qatar researcher for HRW’s Middle East and North Africa division, told RT that she visited the camp, describing it as “incredibly bleak.”
“[There are] almost no humanitarian services, and hundreds of families of women, kids, who have no understanding of how long they’re going to be there and why they’re essentially being held prisoner,” Wille said.
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This is my take on the retro-futurist lettering used in the "Liberty Island Security Station" for the Manhattan Island Maximum Security Penitentiary in the film "Escape From New York."
It's not used in the credits or advertising for the film, but in the "Liberty Island" sets themselves. I strongly suspect that it was never an actual "font," just some stencils, cut out and used as needed. A great deal of searching has turned up no more info.
I replicated the letters I could by looking at screenshots of the movie, and designed the rest myself to impart the same goofily future-cool vibe.
Put on your camo stretch pants and eyepatch, brew up a cup of Chock Full O' Nuts, and look forward to the future police state of 1997 from the safety of 1981!
EDIT: added a photo of my first project: a sign for Splatspace's new "Fabrication Annex" (the room down the hall where we keep all the big noisy tools.)
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Whether the topic is Libya’s rebels or Afghanistan’s “reconciliation” with the Taliban, the pivotal question is, or should be: What about the women?
During my brief tenure as a CNN anchor, I insistently raised this question and was consistently disappointed by the answer, which more or less went like this:
“Yes, well, the women. Too bad about the women. They’ll suffer.”
Women, and by extension children, suffer what too many have come to accept as “collateral damage” in theaters of war. We hate it, of course, but what can one do? It isn’t in our strategic interest to save the women and children of the world. Or, as an anonymous senior White House official recently told The Post:
“Gender issues are going to have to take a back seat to other priorities. There’s no way we can be successful if we maintain every special interest and pet project. All those pet rocks in our rucksack were taking us down.”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, no stranger to the importance of advancing women’s rights, promptly repudiated the comment. Even so, the anonymous spokesman’s opinion, though inartfully expressed, is hardly isolated.
But what if this is a false premise? What if saving women from cultures that treat them as chattel was in our strategic and not just moral interest? What if helping women become equal members of a society was the most reliable route to our own security?
One needn’t be a visionary to accept this simple tenet as not only probable but inescapably true. Without exception, every nation that oppresses women is a failed and, therefore, dangerous nation.
This is not the stuff of stunning revelation, but it is often overlooked or minimized in importance. More typically pressing are armies and artillery. The real fight is in the trenches, where men historically have clashed to resolve their differences.
Ironically perhaps to those still waiting for the oceans to recede and the planet to heal, President George W. Bush and Laura Bush always understood the necessity of including women in the peace equation. Hence, the historic U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council established in 2002 by Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
At a conference last week hosted by the former first couple — “Building Afghanistan’s Future: Promoting Women’s Freedom and Advancing their Economic Opportunity” — the Bushes reiterated their commitment to the women of Afghanistan and their belief that protecting women should be at the core of our foreign policy.
“We liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban, because of providing a safe haven for al-Qaeda,” George Bush told Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren. “I believed then and believe now we have an obligation to help this young democracy in Afghanistan survive — and thrive. And one of the best and most effective ways to do so is to empower women.”
Such a simple concept, empowering women. Except that in a country where men feel free to throw acid in the faces of little girls trying to attend school, it is not so simple. In a nation where child marriage and “honor killings” are still accepted custom, it is not so easy.
No one underestimates the challenges of helping women become equal participants in a civil society only recently concocted. But allowing progress to recede shouldn’t be an option. Recent negotiations between the Karzai government and the Taliban, in which women’s rights could be diluted, should have all of us worried.
It is too bad, meanwhile, that we are restricted in these discussions by terminology that rings of cliche. “Women’s rights” sounds too much like debates about abortion and subsidized day care. What we’re really talking about is basic human rights. The freedom to work, to make decisions about one’s own life, to seek an education and to be safe to walk on the streets without a male escort. To be fully human, in other words.
Anything less is terrorism by another name. The insanity that sends jihadists to rain hell on civilized nations is the same that stones women to death for failing to comply with primitive norms of behavior.
As Clinton wrote in Time magazine in 2001, “The mistreatment of women in Afghanistan was like an early warning signal of the kind of terrorism that culminated in the attacks of September 11.”
Women are not collateral damage in the fight for security. They are not pet rocks in a rucksack, nor are they sidebars to the main story. They are the story — and should be the core of our foreign policy strategy in Afghanistan as elsewhere.
kathleenparker@washpost.com
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Where to Look for Rocky Planets
If you were trying to identify the kind of star that should produce Earth-like planets, you’d think the task would be straightforward. Our theories of planet formation focus on a circumstellar disk around a young star out of which planets form, and we’ve already gathered evidence that gas giant worlds are more likely to form around stars that are rich in iron. Since rocky planets are rich in iron and silicon, doesn’t this mean their stars should be rich in metallic elements?
New work out of the Carnegie Institution for Science suggests that the answer is surprisingly complex. As presented by Johanna Teske at the Extreme Solar Systems III meeting in Hawaii, the team’s work has revealed that smaller planets do not require high iron content in their parent stars. In fact, looking at the abundance of 19 different elements in seven stars orbited by at least one rocky planet (these are drawn from the Kepler catalog), the team finds that rocky worlds do not preferentially form around stars rich in metallic elements like iron and silicon.
The data were taken as part of the Kepler Follow-up Observing Program and supplemented by independent observations using the 10-meter Keck telescope and the HIRES echelle spectrometer. From the paper:
The metallicities of the seven stars range from [Fe/H] = −0.30 to +0.15, further demonstrating that small planets form around stars with both low and high metallicities… The abundances of 15 elements are compared to those of a Galactic disk population that includes stars with and without known planets. The abundances of the Kepler planet host stars fall along the Galactic trends, suggesting that stars with small planets have compositions that are typical of the Galactic disk.
Stars with small planets, then, are nothing exceptional in terms of their metallicity. This implies they are common throughout the galaxy. The paper goes on:
Moreover, comparing the abundance distributions of the Kepler planet host stars to a sample of stars with no detected planets, a sample of Neptune- and super-Earth-size planet hosts, and a sample of Jupiter-type giant planet hosts, reveals that the former three – Kepler host stars, stars without known planets, and the Neptune and super-Earth-size planet hosts – may have similar compositions, whereas the Kepler host stars appear to have compositions that are less enhanced than those of Jupiter-type planet hosts.
Image: This figure from the paper shows the abundance of different elements in stars versus their abundances of iron. In each square, you can see a plot of the abundance of one element (represented by [x/Fe]) against the abundance of iron (represented by [Fe/H]). Each red dot, black square, or blue X represents a star. The red dots are the small planet-hosting stars studied in this new work. You can see how they do not stand out from the rest of the stars, which were studied in other publications, some of which host planets and some of which have no known planets. The green dashed lines show these values for our Sun. Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/Tim Pyle.
Small, rocky planets appear to form around stars with a wide range of elements, whereas gas giants are more likely around stars rich in iron. Teske adds in this Carnegie news release that the results are exciting “…because they mean that small planets are very common and chemically diverse.” What we don’t yet know is whether the planet formation process depletes stars of some of the elements that become concentrated in the planets. None of the seven stars the team studied show a depletion signature, but if subsequent work does uncover such a trend, then looking for stars with specific chemical depletions could be a useful planet-hunting tool.
Does the architecture of a solar system play a role in these trends? With the exception of two planets, the planets of all the stars investigated have semimajor axes smaller than Mercury’s. As the paper notes, the small sample size here limits the statistical significance of the results, so the obvious next step is generating a larger sample of stars with small planets and performing abundance analyses on this set. We’re fortunate that the Kepler mission has identified numerous small planets whose host stars can now be subjected to this kind of study.
The paper is Schuler et al., “Detailed Abundances of Stars with Small Planets Discovered by Kepler I: The First Sample,” accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (preprint).
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Purple People Watch - The American Prospect Skip to main content Search Become A Member My Account Money, Politics and Power Supply Chain Prospects 2032 Working in America The Alt-Labor Chronicles: America’s Worker Centers Housing and Transportation Building Back America Energy and the Environment Climate of Opportunity Coronavirus Civil Rights in America Health and Social Policy Day One Agenda Law and Justice America and the World Economic Policy The Prospect Archive 15th Anniversary 20th Anniversary On The Web Home Article Purple People Watch Purple People Watch by The American Staff September 9, 2004 8:33 PM RSS Print INDIANA. This is a race worth watching, thanks in part to a quirky cast of characters and the Hoosiers' unpredictable voting patterns. Will they keep a Democratic governor and vote for a Republican president? That's what happened in 2000. That governor, Frank O'Bannon, suffered a massive stroke and died last September while visiting Chicago. His popular lieutenant governor, Joe Kernan, had already decided to leave politics; at the time, there was talk of him buying a minor league baseball team in his hometown of South Bend. But O'Bannon's death changed all that, and Kernan eventually changed his mind and announced his candidacy for the Democratic ticket. Enter “The Blade.” Mitch Daniels earned his, er, sharp nickname as the Bush administration's director of the Office of Management and Budget. Daniels is the man behind the Bush tax cuts -- as well as the man who watched a $236 billion annual surplus turn into a $400 billion deficit during his 29-month tenure with the administration. After he resigned, Daniels headed home to the Midwest, where many expected he'd run for governor. Pennsylvania-born Daniels had earned his Indy cred as an executive at Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly & Co in the nineties. Both men are running on the economy, as Indiana has seen job losses and weak economic growth in recent years. Daniels is preaching the gospel of job creation and efficient government while hoping that Hoosier voters don't connect the dots between the candidate and the budget mess in Washington. Kernan, on the other hand, won recognition as lieutenant governor for his successful efforts to pass major tax restructuring and economic development packages through a divided legislature. Indiana's political pundits breathlessly claim that the governor's race is too close to call, but the fact is that nobody has bothered to poll voters in the Hoosier state since May. In state politics, candidates are lucky if voters are paying attention by August. But May? That's light-years too early to expect an accurate read. MISSOURI. The last month has largely served to reaffirm Dems in their August 3 primary decision to dump poor Bob Holden, Missouri's beleaguered and charmless Democratic governor, in favor of State Auditor Claire McCaskill to face Republican challenger Matt Blunt in November. A personally appealing and energetic campaigner with a reputation as an effective auditor for this cash-strapped state, McCaskill has moved quickly to unite the party behind her -- “One-Term Bob” included. She raised $2.2 million in August alone, compared to Blunt's $650,000 (although the Republican still maintains a cash-on-hand advantage of nearly $200,000). This is sure to be the most expensive gubernatorial race in Missouri history. It also seems guaranteed to be close. The most recent Survey USA poll, taken in mid- August, gives Blunt a 4-point lead, within the margin of error. Blunt is only 33, but he sports quite a connection to real political power: His dad is the formidable Roy Blunt, majority whip of the U.S. House of Representatives. The senior Blunt hasn't played much of a visible role in his son's campaign so far -- one of the campaign's ads says only that Matt was “born the son of a schoolteacher and homemaker” -- but dad's influence in the party and access to purse strings will surely become assets in the next two months. So far, Blunt has highlighted his business-backed plans for tort reform and stricter workman's comp rules, while McCaskill makes much hay of her proposals as auditor to streamline and cut waste from government agencies. She's also making a real bid, unusual for a Democrat, to court rural voters with plans to boost ethanol subsidies and establish an “Office of Rural Missouri” in the statehouse. (McCaskill did well in rural areas against Holden in the primary.) The thinking appears to be to rely on the presidential race to spur major Democratic turnouts in the St. Louis and Kansas City metro areas and instead take the fight to the GOP's turf by targeting conservative Dems and independents in the outer counties. Much hinges on this election. Given the near-certainty that Republicans will maintain control of the state House and Senate this year (and thus maintain their current, ruthlessly hardnosed and right-wing leadership), a Blunt victory would mark the first instance of unified GOP control of Missouri government in 84 years. MONTANA. States don't get much redder than Montana -- and yet no less a political observer than Charlie Cook has called the state “Democrats' best opportunity to pick up a GOP-held governorship.” How is it that after 16 relatively uncontested years in the statehouse, Republicans are in danger of losing power to a rancher from Whitefish who has never held elected office? It started with current governor Judy Martz, whose single term has been plagued by so many scandals that her approval rating had dropped to 20 percent by August 2003, when she decided not to run for reelection. Then there was the fierce, four-way Republican primary that finished up in June, won by Montana Secretary of State Bob Brown -- but won with only 39 percent of the vote. The moderate Brown, who has refused to rule out future tax increases, still may face a challenge from his fiscal right in Libertarian Party candidate Stan Jones. But none of that would matter without the determination of the Democratic candidate, Brian Schweitzer. Schweitzer nearly unseated Senator Conrad Burns in 2000, and has been preparing for the current race almost since that loss. Schweitzer has been on the campaign trail since January 2003, won over 70 percent of votes in the Democratic primary, and went into the general election with 10 times the cash-on-hand that Brown had. This past Sunday, Brown's campaign manager, Jason Thielman, even intimated to the Great Falls Tribune that Brown may be “trailing” Schweitzer. Schweitzer can also look to the success of moderate Montana Senator Max Baucus for reassurance. The four-term senator most recently won re-election in 2002, scoring a satisfying 30-point victory. And Democratic governors currently oversee such conservative strongholds as Kansas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming, so there's no reason to rule out the acquisition of Montana as well. VERMONT. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Peter Clavelle will face an uphill battle in his efforts to unseat the Republican incumbent, Gov. James Douglas. For starters, Douglas has quite a bit of history on his side. Voters in the Green Mountain State have only thrown out one incumbent governor in the past 130 years. Douglas is also well known throughout the state as a moderate Republican with very few political enemies. He kept a low profile during the Republican primary and political observers don't predict that he will ever seek a higher office. Peter Clavelle, the long-time mayor of Burlington, is expected to easily win next week's Democratic primary. In true Vermont fashion, his three challengers include two pro-marijuana candidates and a socialist. This election is Clavelle's first stab at state-wide office, though, and he is still relatively unknown in southern parts of the state like Brattleboro. Despite the obstacles before him, Clavelle does have some advantages. First, Clavelle is well known in Burlington and can expect favorable coverage in the state's largest media market. Clavelle's most important advantage, however, is none other than George W. Bush himself. According to University of Vermont political science professor Garrison Nelson, Vermont is probably the most anti-Bush state in the Union. Governor Douglas' biggest fear, and Mayor Clavelle's biggest hope, is that Vermont's anti-Bush fever flows down the Democratic ticket to the gubernatorial race. WASHINGTON. Washington state Democrats go to the polls on Tuesday to nominate a candidate for governor in the open seat being vacated by long-serving Democrat Gary Locke. According to late August polling, state Attorney-General Chris Gregoire has a daunting 61-28 lead over her rival, King County (that's Seattle) Executive Ron Sims. In what is perhaps a sign of desperation, some of Sims' leading supporters in the African-American community (Sims himself is black) have been raising allegations of racism against Gregoire on the grounds that as a student at the University of Washington in the late 1960s, Gregoire was a member of a whites-only sorority. Gregoire's defenders note that, in fact, after graduation she traveled twice to the sorority's national headquarters to condemn the exclusion of black students. The winner will face Republican Dino Rossi, a former state senator with a dog named Dubya (apparently, Rossi told his kids they could have a dog if the president told him to buy one; they wrote to the president, who, apparently, wrote back telling Rossi to get one, so he did) and a Dubya-esque platform of deregulation, tort reform, and opposition to gay marriage. His campaign is hyping a methodologically bizarre poll which shows him "leading" a three-way race for governor with 35 percent support compared to 26 for Gregoire and 15 for Sims. If running behind the combined Democratic vote is the best Rossi can point to, he's going to have to start doing better. Already, the Rossi-backing Building Industry Association of Washington is running ads condemning Gregoire for favoring an unpopular new closed primary system that, in fact, she opposed and was mandated by federal courts anyway. Compiled by the Prospect staff. 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Subscribe here. Try the SaltWire News app Atlantic Canada > Federal Election Wellington crash kills teen girl, elderly man Francis Campbell · Multimedia Journalist | Posted: June 12, 2018, 7:39 a.m. | Updated: June 12, 2018, 7:39 a.m. | 3 Min Read RCMP STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOS A two-vehicle accident Sunday evening in Wellington has claimed a second life. A 15-year-old girl who was a passenger in one car died after being transported by LifeFlight, an Emergency Health Services helicopter, to the IWK Health Centre in Halifax with serious injuries, the RCMP reported Monday morning. An 87-year-old man driving the other car died at the scene, on Highway 2 at Abilene Avenue. “It’s horrible, it was a horrific night out here,” said a neighbour who wished to remain anonymous. “We did hear the crash,” the neighbour said. “We heard a loud crash that I assumed had something to do with the train.” A railway track runs parallel to the highway. RCMP said the 87-year-old man was the lone occupant in a 2005 Chevrolet Impala. The 15-year-old girl and three other youths were travelling in a Ford Focus. The driver, a 19-year-old man, was transported to the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax by LifeFlight with serious injuries. A 13-year-old girl was transported to the IWK with non-life-threatening injuries and a 19-year-old man was taken to Dartmouth General Hospital with minor injuries. “The gentleman in the Impala, I assume his foot was on the gas,” the neighbour said. “He was up against a guardrail and the car was revving. That was the noise we could hear, was the engine revving and revving and revving, and it caught fire. “Our neighbours, we all ran for household fire extinguishers and tried to do what we could but the flames just took over. 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What was the Kennedy administration’s “besetting sin”—doing too much or doing too little?
So what was the Kennedy administration’s “besetting sin”—doing too much or doing too little? And doing it too quickly or too slowly? The president seemed to want to operate in both modes. He was hyper-confident and ambitious and at the same time deeply anxious about being trapped in some too-risky enterprise. He sought a balance between these impulses in protracted and inconclusive consideration of his options. When he failed to find the right answer, he typically postponed choice or launched a secret search for compromise. His decisions were complicated by his deep distrust of his advisers, especially those in uniform. But the tensions that made finding the right course so difficult were present in his own ideas and instincts. These shaped every major foreign crisis of the Kennedy administration—those that would end successfully and those that would not.
Like many others, Dallek, Sachs, and Clarke treat the Bay of Pigs fiasco as a chastening early experience for the young president, proof of how dangerous it was to rely on the CIA and the Pentagon for advice. Kennedy did blame them—and he was right. Even so, his own haphazard decision-making greatly contributed to the outcome. What happened at the Bay of Pigs was not that hard-charging military and intelligence officers concocted a bad plan that then misfired. The president was skeptical of the plan from the outset and did not approve it. But he wanted it re-examined and refined. For weeks his national security adviser, McGeorge Bundy, assured him that the operation was being improved. When he was asked to give the final go-ahead, Kennedy realized that endless meetings had failed to produce a viable alternative, but even then he neither accepted it nor rejected it. Instead, he and Bundy scaled it down further, canceling American air cover for the émigré fighters who were trying to establish a Cuban beachhead. When this doomed halfway plan produced disaster, Kennedy was shocked and appalled. (Robert Kennedy had a different reaction. He wanted an activist response: the United States had to find some quick way to increase pressure on Castro. Walt Rostow wrote later that he had to suspend a meeting to take Bobby aside and calm him down.)
A year later, when Khrushchev put missiles in Cuba, the president himself remembered the earlier crisis differently. “It shows the Bay of Pigs was really right,” he said. “If we had done it right.” Whatever lessons Kennedy learned from this first failure, it did not dampen his interest in the CIA’s shadow wars. In three years as president, he authorized almost as many covert operations as Eisenhower did in eight. Nor did it keep him from using military tools to gain cold war political advantage. In the foreign policy crises that defined each year of his administration—Berlin in 1961, Cuba in 1962, Vietnam in 1963—the president repeatedly brought to bear the overwhelming power and influence, both overt and covert, of the United States. To this, of course, he added intricate behind-the-scenes diplomatic moves, designed to give him a way of avoiding the use of force. Yet the striking thing about Kennedy’s handling of all these problems is how the two halves of his strategy played out. His military threats were extremely successful; his nuanced diplomacy, much less so. And when his diplomacy did produce results, it was because American power gave him more leverage than he realized.
Berlin set the pattern. When Kennedy met Khrushchev in Vienna in June 1961, he warned him not to challenge the status quo in Germany. “We are in Berlin not because of someone’s sufferance,” he said. “We fought our way there.” A Soviet challenge to Western occupation rights, the president made clear, risked war. In what was otherwise a disastrous personal encounter between the two men, this tough American talk stood out—and it worked. Khrushchev never carried out his key threat—to sign a treaty with the East German regime and drive the United States out of West Berlin. Still, Kennedy worried that he had not gotten his message across. The Soviet leader, he told Harold Macmillan after the summit, was “much more of a barbarian” than he had expected. To reinforce his message, the president announced a host of military measures, including a quick boost to the Pentagon budget, six new army divisions, emergency improvements in airlift capability, and more. (The contrast to Eisenhower is revealing: Ike responded to Khrushchev’s threats by proposing to cut American forces in Germany.)
For decades Khrushchev’s low opinion of—even contempt for—Kennedy was thought to have emboldened Moscow, first over Berlin and later over Cuba. This is almost certainly not correct. The Soviet leader had no trouble heeding a nuclear threat even if he did not respect the American president who made it. What changed Khrushchev’s calculus was probably what Kennedy did when tensions began to subside. The president told his advisers that he wanted to explore a deal that would keep Berlin from being a permanent source of East-West friction. He envisioned a diplomatic settlement in which the United States would give up its rights in the city as a whole in exchange for Soviet guarantees not to squeeze West Berlin.
To the French and the Germans, this was a terrible idea. (De Gaulle thought it absurd to negotiate just because Khrushchev “had whistled.”) Hearing their objections, Kennedy decided not to keep working with them but to bargain secretly with Moscow. If agreement was reached, America’s allies would be obliged to accept it. The president wanted to be sure that other governments would not find out what was under discussion. “We must not put on paper,” Kennedy told Secretary of State Dean Rusk, “things which might shock our Allies if presented without prior consultation.” In a letter to Khrushchev, he described this arrangement as “a considerable departure from normal diplomacy.” Kennedy’s secret probes did great damage to trans-Atlantic solidarity. They surely signaled to Khrushchev that Washington was ready to leave its allies in the lurch. And they produced no diplomatic progress of any kind.
Once we understand how Kennedy handled Berlin, it is obvious that his management of the Cuban crisis a year later was not a case of unprecedented and improvised nuclear diplomacy, but a by-the-book repetition of the earlier confrontation. It was the Cuban missile crisis that gave us the terms “hawks” and “doves,” and for the first part of it John Kennedy was an unquestioned hawk. He believed that all Soviet missiles had to be withdrawn, that military force would probably be necessary to achieve this result, and that the primary goal of American policy was to make the Soviets worry that their actions might lead to war. In a week of secret deliberations before he announced a naval blockade of Cuba, no American official was more firmly opposed than Kennedy to doing anything that would enable Khrushchev to stall his retreat. He repeatedly overruled advisers who suggested compromise. McNamara felt that demanding the removal of all the Soviet missiles increased the likelihood that the United States would have to invade Cuba. Rusk suggested that Khrushchev might find it easier to freeze construction of the missile bases than to remove them outright. Kennedy ignored both ideas. And when he discovered that Theodore Sorensen had slipped a suggestion for an emergency Soviet-American summit into the draft of his nationwide speech, the president personally took it out.
Any hint that the United States wanted to negotiate an end to the crisis, Kennedy felt, would convey “panic.” American policy had to be unrelenting. He was also indifferent to the idea that Washington should mobilize international opinion as a source of pressure on Moscow. The Organization of American States (OAS) would not be of much help. “I don’t think we ought to do the OAS,” he said. “I think that’s a waste of time. I don’t think we ought to do NATO.” Sure, it would be nice to have other governments endorse American actions—but if they refused to do so, the president told senators, he would ignore them and proceed “illegally.” He would not let multilateral consultations keep the United States from striking Cuba if necessary. “We’re going to do it anyway.”
Travis Schwab
In the Cuban missile crisis Kennedy followed his own Berlin model, making chest-thumping threats, putting military muscle behind them—and then repeating the search for a hidden deal to resolve the standoff. As the crisis approached a climax, Khrushchev tried to extract an additional concession from Washington, demanding the removal of American missiles from Turkey. Most of the president’s advisers told him he should not agree. The United States had already offered Khrushchev the face-saving assurance he had asked for just the day before: a pledge not to invade Cuba. That should be enough, they said. The New Frontiersmen gave their approach a hifalutin label: the “Trollope ploy,” so named because it echoed one of the British novelist’s plot twists. Though the future of the world was hanging in the balance, the president’s team wanted to be firm. They would take Khrushchev up on his earlier offer, ignore the later one, and hang tough. Even Robert Kennedy told his brother this was the way to go.
The president didn’t buy it. He was “certain” Khrushchev would also hang tough. For this reason, he said, the real American choice was between military action and making more concessions. So he proposed to do the latter. Any open compromise at the expense of a NATO ally would have triggered a rebellion among his advisers. (Paul Nitze said it would be “appeasement.”) But perhaps a hidden deal might work? On this basis Kennedy authorized secret assurances to Khrushchev that the Turkish missiles would soon be removed. The Soviet archives long ago confirmed what the president’s advisers believed: that this last bit of bargaining was not needed to resolve the crisis. Even before Kennedy’s message reached Moscow, Khrushchev had told the politburo that the jig was up. The danger of war was too great. The missiles had to come out.
Kennedy’s adversary had folded under pressure, but Kennedy failed to see what was happening. It was the much-maligned Dean Rusk who explained clearly why Khrushchev would back down: “We don’t really live under fear of his nuclear weapons to the extent that he has to live under fear of ours.”
The president had been sure that the only way to get the Soviets to back down was by military force or by significant concessions. When muscular diplomacy began to do the job instead, he was unable—unwilling, even—to recognize how much American power had achieved. Being sure that a good outcome carried a very high price, Kennedy was determined to pay it even though others told him he was wrong.
Only thirteen months separated the Cuban missile crisis from the assassination in Dallas. In this brief interval, the president and his advisers redoubled their efforts to wind down the cold war. Sachs, Dallek, and Clarke are right to see Kennedy as full of new purpose in 1963. He was more confident of re-election and surer of his standing with Congress. When he said, in his American University speech, that his goal was “not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time,” he clearly had a specific to-do list in mind.
Yet the picture of a president about to take flight as a peacemaker is incomplete, and not just because it focuses so much on what might have been. Kennedy was indeed more attentive to nuclear risks in his last year, and he did seem eager to pull back from exposed positions. But there were other changes in this period, too, and they pointed in the opposite direction—toward greater dominance by the United States and less deference to others. In the entire history of the cold war there were few moments when America’s advantages were as pronounced as they were in 1963. Having the high ground in the global balance of power shaped every element of Kennedy’s policy.
Consider the one-sided proto-“détente” that he pursued with Khrushchev. In Cuba, the Soviet leader had been on the losing end of the most dramatic military showdown of the cold war. He was politically on the defensive at home. Within the Soviet bloc, he had been denounced and ridiculed by Mao Zedong. The United States retained a six-to-one edge in the size of its nuclear arsenal. Nothing makes the strength of Kennedy’s hand clearer than comparing it with the far weaker one that Nixon and Kissinger held at the end of the 1960s, as they pursued their own détente with Khrushchev’s successors. By 1969, it was American policy that was foundering (in Vietnam); it was Moscow that had given Beijing a bloody nose in military clashes on their border; it was Soviet strategic nuclear programs that were booming. In 1963, by contrast, when American negotiators began hammering out the details of the nuclear test ban, they felt their advantages immediately. Khrushchev, they concluded, would agree to “almost anything.”
Kennedy’s approach to the Western alliance reflected the same sort of confidence. The president, one senior American diplomat told colleagues, “believed the United States could push its allies harder following the Cuban crisis.” Shoving would have been a better description. On issue after issue, Kennedy demanded deference to Washington. He wanted the French to sign the test ban treaty even though they complained that it undermined their security. He wanted the Germans to accept that national reunification was a long-term goal, if it was a goal at all. He wanted both of them to accept Britain into Western Europe’s Common Market. And he wanted all three allies to accept the primacy of the United States when it came to nuclear doctrine and decision-making.
On all these matters, years of trans-Atlantic squabbling, especially with De Gaulle, were ahead. But American policymakers had stopped listening to European leaders, friendly or not. Rusk considered the French leader “a devil with horns and a tail.” It made no sense, the secretary of state grumbled to senators, to negotiate “with our Allies looking over our shoulders.” Ball—as devoted an enthusiast of Europe as anyone who has ever held a senior position at the State Department—also dismissed the allies. For him, they simply lacked “adequate vision.” Kennedy and his advisers believed that successful management of foreign policy could not really be shared. From the New Frontier on, no American president allowed his European colleagues to play more than an ornamental role in East-West relations.
Kennedy’s handling of smaller allies reflected even greater impatience and exasperation. In the last hundred days of his life, no foreign policy problem consumed more of the president’s time than South Vietnam. Fed up with the weak but autocratic rule of Ngo Dinh Diem and his family, the administration looked for ways to distance itself from them. It wanted the Saigon leadership to modernize itself—to build support among the peasantry, to reach out to the non-communist opposition, to present themselves more agreeably to Western journalists. But in the course of 1963, Kennedy and most of his advisers concluded that Diem was a near-hopeless barrier to American success. Bundy claimed it was “the first time the world had been faced with collective madness in a ruling family since the days of the czars.”
Just as they had a year earlier during the Cuban crisis, the president and his team met incessantly on Vietnam, sometimes more than once a day. And they dramatically turned the heat up on Diem. Kennedy himself went on television to warn the Saigon government that it was “out of touch with the people.” He suspended aid programs that accounted for more than 60 percent of South Vietnam’s imports. The American embassy was instructed to increase contacts with the opposition to Diem. The White House even announced a target date of 1965 for withdrawal of American advisers (then totaling 16,000 troops). This was an astoundingly open and unfriendly confrontation with an American client.
In the months before November 1, when South Vietnamese generals finally overthrew Diem, murdering him and his brother, Washington policymakers moved steadily closer—inch by inch—to outright support for his removal. Although many senior officials were strong supporters of a coup (skeptics tended to say only that they were unsure it would “succeed”), Kennedy and his advisers never reached a full consensus on the question. When Diem was overthrown, many in the White House were taken by surprise.
The administration’s actions had signaled unmistakably to the South Vietnamese generals that Washington wanted a change. Even so, Washington thought that because it was, in its usual anxious way, still deliberating, the world was on hold. The president’s horror on hearing that Diem and his brother had been killed showed how little he and his advisers understood the impact of their own actions. “Kennedy,” recalled General Maxwell Taylor, “leaped to his feet and rushed from the room with a look of shock and dismay on his face which I had never seen before.”
For most American officials, the coup was an unalloyed success. John Kenneth Galbraith dashed off a note to Averell Harriman praising the outcome as “another great feather in your cap.” Henry Cabot Lodge, the American ambassador in Saigon, thought that Diem’s overthrow might be a model for the future. It showed that inflexible, retrograde Third World clients need not hamper American policy. Kennedy himself quickly overcame his discomfort. Recording his reflections on the coup three days later, he claimed Washington had actually “suggested” it.
Why is John Kennedy still so hard for us to understand? One reason, which has not figured in most of the anniversary discussion, is that he and his advisers did not understand their achievements—or their failures. And they understood their own power even less. In 1961, Kennedy safely navigated the Berlin crisis because his warnings to Khrushchev were more credible than he realized. By contrast, the secret talks in which he invested so much hope yielded nothing at all. The Cuban crisis of 1962 was a still more dazzling success, but the crucial factor was the atmosphere of extreme danger that Kennedy created, not the hidden concession that he offered up. And when their own intense pressure caused an important American client to be murdered in 1963, Kennedy and his advisers did not at first see how much they had done to bring him down. Hadn’t they said they wanted to keep their options open?
It was a commonplace of this year’s anniversary observances to lament the fact that fifty years after Kennedy’s death historians have not yet arrived at a clear view of him. Lots of good books have been written about him, it was said, but none that reconcile his seeming contradictions. The frustration is understandable, but it may be a sign that something is wrong with the entire enterprise. We are looking for answers in the wrong places.
When it comes to foreign policy, the contradictions that we find in Kennedy and his policies are not first and foremost matters of personality. They are not necessarily about him at all. Kennedy and the people around him were responding to the challenge of being the dominant global power. They had sought, and been given, a mandate to do better than Eisenhower had done. In implementing it, they faced enormous opportunities and enormous risks. They revised almost all the previous administration’s policies, military and diplomatic. They used more confrontational rhetoric—and more conciliatory rhetoric, too. They were more ideological—and more pragmatic. They wanted to win the cold war outright—and to end it in a tie. They were more ambitious—and more anxious about their ambition. They wanted to increase American power—and to discipline it as strictly as possible.
John Kennedy had visionary but contradictory ideas about how to conduct American foreign policy. Like many activist presidents, he believed (in Schlesinger’s words) that “the world was plastic, and the future unlimited.” He was committed to boldness, but hyper-conscious of the need to keep boldness in check. As inspiring as his legacy was, it was also confusing and dangerous, and its lessons, as his successor soon learned, were far from easy to apply.
An American president who wanted to apply these lessons today would have to begin by understanding them better than did Kennedy himself. Barack Obama would be right to recall our thirty-fifth president’s firm hold on the global imagination, his strong belief in diplomatic problem-solving, and his conviction that the United States can work most productively with those who are proponents of political reform in their own societies. Yet these elements of the Kennedy legacy are hard to separate from the enormous edge that America then enjoyed in all the ingredients of global power. That power was so great that Kennedy took it almost for granted. It involved high cost and great risk, and made possible achievements and innovations that we admire to this day. It also made possible a great deal of foolishness. In our time, a president with similar aims as a peacemaker cannot afford to take American power for granted or to understand its results so poorly. He has to reckon with both halves of John Kennedy’s legacy.
Stephen Sestanovich is a professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His new book, Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama, will be published by Knopf in February.
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South Africa - An Artizen Experience - Raine Dawn Valentine Skip to the content Search Raine Dawn Valentine Indigenous Intuitive Artist Menu Home Calendar of Events Contact About Blog Artwork Drawings Paintings Mixed Media Wood Burnings Dream Catchers Cart Checkout Henna Live Wedding Painting Creative Classes Retreats Revive, Refill, Refresh Art & Nature of the Soul Donate Search Search for: Close search Close Menu Home Show sub menu Calendar of Events Contact About Blog Artwork Show sub menu Drawings Paintings Mixed Media Wood Burnings Dream Catchers Cart Show sub menu Checkout Henna Live Wedding Painting Creative Classes Retreats Show sub menu Revive, Refill, Refresh Art & Nature of the Soul Donate Categories Existence Art South Africa – An Artizen Experience This is powerful medicine. Out of oppression, we found creation. Peace Love Unity Harmony and Joy. #cultureisthenewcurrency Post author By Raine Dawn Post date November 17, 2021 1 Comment on South Africa – An Artizen Experience On November 4th we arrived in Johannesburg South Africa. The day we had been planning and fundraising for was finally here! The airport was big and gray, as thunderstorm rolled in. We met with our fellow Artizens, the Tanzanian Magomamoto Theater Group, along with a new friend Bonface from Kenya. South Africa The drive from the airport to the hotel was a beautiful sign of the power of the arts to bring people together. We shared songs and drums, and sang together in our different languages. When we arrived at the hotel, we were greeted by two local South African women who just so happened to be at the hotel for breakfast, which neither had ever done before. The universe brought us angels to help us accomplish our tasks! The one woman Hanna, my newest friend, assisted us in so many things…. from finding a local woman to purchase fabric from, to taking us to the store two days in a row to gather materials for our workshops. She even took me to the airport on my last day. Artizen Conference Day 1 – Creation Our first day of the Artizen – Art for Social Transformation conference was amazing. Jennifer Foylan presented the keynote speech about her journey through the life cycle of the butterfly. While she shared her story, I created a live intuitive painting for her, in front of the group. This was a powerful time to show how art can express our experiences and emotions. I was apart of the group that presented on the birth of the caterpillar and the transitional stage in the cocoon. Linda M and Raisa J were my team mates, and we each shared pieces of our indigenous knowledge with those who attended. Day one was the birth of the caterpillar, where Linda shared the creation story and the medicine wheel knowledge and Raisa presented the tradition of ribbon skirts and how each is connected through creator. I assisted the students that attended in creating a mandala based off of a workshop Linda does through her art therapy presentations. The mandalas were a collaborative group project that started with 4 questions: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where and I going? Participants were asked to create a visual representation of their answers to these questions using the mandala template that was pre drawn. Each group member had a task of completing a section, while they worked together on the meaning. After the students created their mandalas, each group shared what it meant to them. This was powerful because students in South Africa do not get the arts in school. This showed them how powerful of a tool art is to help share your stories and connect with one another. Day 2 – Begin Ribbon Skirts Day 2 of the Artizen 2021: Turtle Island to South Africa conference we traveled, with our new friend Hanna, to find fabric, ribbons and sewing machines for the ribbon making workshop we presented for a group of women from South Africa who are domestic abuse survivors. Along the way we met a beautiful soul at Spirit of Stone and were gifted amazing stones and medicines. Stuart does amazing energy work in South Africa and I look forward to returning again soon to participate in experiences with him! We were also so blessed to have found a local woman who had traditional fabric from Kenya, Mo_Fabrics_More. It was such a blessing to purchase fabric from her and support a local small business entrepreneur. The workshop was wonderful. It was at the Turquoise Harmony Institute. Jennifer shared her story and journey through domestic violence and sexual abuse, and Raisa discussed how ribbon skirts are a form of traditional art that is healing. Even though we weren’t able to begin sewing the skirts, we had each woman pick a fabric they wanted to make their skirt from, and we measured and cut the fabric to prepare for the next day, when we worked with the women to add their ribbons and sew their skirts. We selected fabric with the color purple intentionally, as is the color for domestic violence awareness. The women who were participating in the workshop are survivors of gender based violence, and sexual abuse. They are working with Disele May, who has created the Disele May Foundation to help women overcome these struggles. Constitution Hill Gala After the workshop we attended a gala… all I can say is… amazing powerful work was being done there… doors opened… and I am ready. The gala was held at Constitution Hill in the old women’s prison. There were speakers from the beginning of the apartheid, and those that worked to bring democracy to South Africa. The speakers were powerful, the performances were divine, the food was delicious and I was asked to share about my White Buffalo painting “Hope”, which was donated for silent auction. Our day even included another rainbow! Our work is blessed… as we remind each other through art that we are all connected. Day 3 – Performance Art and Sewing This day began with a beautiful tour of the only constitutional court in the country of South Africa. It was amazing seeing the structures of the holding cells for the jail used during the apartheid. Getting to spend time in such an historic place that was FILLED with art was super inspirational. It reinforced the need to tell our stories through art to heal past traumas. After our tour we participated in the keynote speech, and addressed students from another school. Linda, Raisa and I shared our teachings and stories with the students. And they were blown away by our spirit names. After the keynote, we continued to work with the women who have survived domestic violence, to create healing ribbon skirts. They LOVED it!! After completing day 2 of 3 for ribbon skirt making, I participated in a performance with Shanna and 12 other amazing artists. It was such a powerful experience to dance free as an Indigenous person from Turtle Island on the land of South Africa. Lastly there was an art tank competition, where Teaching Artist Institute awarded one local artist with a small stipend and free business coaching for a year. It was amazing to see all of the local talent. Arie Squires also was apart of the conference and she selected one young woman to personally mentor in branding and business! Day 4 – The last day of the conference Before heading to the conference, we visited the Tanzania Embassy with our new Tanzanian friends of the Magomamoto theater group. It was the first time Indigenous people visited with the Ambassador. We made history! We sat and talked with the ambassador about using art for social transformation, and we even got to sing the Tanzania anthem together! After the embassy, we ended the conference at Amajika Performing Arts center. The ladies from Disele May Foundation were able to complete their skirts. It was so powerful to hear their stories and witness the beginning of beautiful transformations, from victims of gender based violence to superheroes reclaiming their power! Thank you Disele May for following your heart so others might thrive. Shanna taught performance dance to the kids and women there. It was powerful hearing them sing and seeing them do their traditional dances! While there I created a flower of life community mural to symbolize the connections we all have to one another. Art to remind us we are all connected. The kids who attend the art center on Saturdays painted it in! Children in South Africa do not get art in school, so Tu Nokwe has different art lessons for them at the center on Saturdays. The children love it so much, they try to come other days as well! It was such a blessing blessing work with them and hear them say how soothing and fun it was to paint! So blessed to bring Creative Balance to South Africa!! Thank you Kim Poole, Haki Shakur Ammi, and Firdoze Bulbulia for organizing such an amazing event. This was history in the making and I am so excited about the partnerships we’ve created and what change will come from them. This experience was life changing for myself and so many others. I am humbled and honored to have been able to attend and participate. Thank you to everyone who donated and supported this trip. This is only the beginning. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Like Loading... Related Tags Arie Squires, Art, Constitution Hill, creative balance, Disele May Foundation, Indigenous, Magomamoto Theater Grou, Native American, Native American Heritage Month, South Africa, TAI Tours, Tanzania ← Orange Shirt Day → Meta vs. Uni – Verse One reply on “South Africa – An Artizen Experience” Grateful for Gratitude - Creative Balance Studiosays: November 22, 2021 at 1:35 pm […] have to say I am grateful for the ability to share my story with the world. Being able to travel to South Africa and work with the people there has really been such a […] Loading... Log in to Reply You must log in to post a comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. 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Ballroom Dance – Belpre Shrine Club, Sunday Feb 26, 2012 – Mid Ohio Valley Ballroom Dance Skip to content Mid Ohio Valley Ballroom Dance Ballroom Dancing in the Mid Ohio Valley * Parkersburg WV * Marietta OH * Belpre OH Ballroom Dance – Belpre Shrine Club, Sunday Feb 26, 2012 Due to the success of the January dance, the Belpre Shrine Club is sponsoring another dance Sunday, February 26th. Music will be provided by George Hall. Food and soft drinks will be available. $24.00 per couple $12.00 per single. Belpre Shrine Club George Hall Dance Feb 26, 2012 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Directions to the Belpre OH Shriners Club coming from I-77 Belpre Shrine Club 1225 Blennerhassett Ave. Belpre OH 45714 Coming from I-77 take the Emerson Ave/ Rt 68 Exit and turn Right stay on Emerson Ave. it will lead you to the Memorial Bridge $.50 to Belpre OH Get in the Left lane and turn left onto Main St. go several blocks and turn Right onto Washington Blvd. drive about 3 lights when you see Mc Donalds on the right /// get in the Left lane to turn left onto Lee St. drive 2 blocks then turn Right on Blennerhassett Ave. you will see the Shriners Club. Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Related Author Nancy MPosted on February 23, 2012 Categories Uncategorized Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here... Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: Email (required) (Address never made public) Name (required) Website You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Δ Post navigation Previous Previous post: Rivercities dance cancelled Feb 11 Next Next post: Tempo Dance Saturday March 3, 2012 Ballroom Dance Lessons Learn more about ballroom dancing lessons in Marietta, Ohio and surrounding areas. Click below to read more. Ballroom Dance Lessons Calendar Click for Current Schedule! Pages About Us Big Band Dances Dance Directory Dance Lessons River Cities Dance Club Shopping Tempo Dance Club Links AllAboutDancing.net Ballroom Dance Videos Cambridge Social Dance Club Dance Calendar Email Signup Facebook Page Mid Ohio Valley Shaggers MillerPO.com WV Dance – Charleston, WV Lessons Sponsor This website is provided courtesy of Miller Prosthetics & Orthotics. Please visit www.MillerPO.com, we can help you take a step toward comfort. Email Subscription Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Email Address: Sign me up! Join 33 other followers Search for: Search Admin Register Log in Entries feed Comments feed WordPress.com Mid Ohio Valley Ballroom Dance Blog at WordPress.com. Follow Following Mid Ohio Valley Ballroom Dance Join 33 other followers Sign me up Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now. Mid Ohio Valley Ballroom Dance Customize Follow Following Sign up Log in Copy shortlink Report this content View post in Reader Manage subscriptions Collapse this bar %d bloggers like this:
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Shortly before IRIN’s regular contributor in Yemen, Almigdad Mojalli, was killed in an airstrike, he took a trip to Jordan and had a disturbing realisation.
He had been working tirelessly to cover the war that had driven his country from humanitarian disaster to humanitarian catastrophe. He had spared no detail in describing the civilian casualties, nor the survivors so desperate they were eating out of garbage bins.
But in Jordan, he discovered that the war hardly made the news. Locals were shocked to hear what he had to say. Mojalli knew it was a struggle to get an English-speaking audience interested in his country, but he thought in a place with a shared mother tongue it might at least make a few headlines.
Before he fell victim to the war, which has claimed the lives of more than 6,000 people since March, the dogged Yemeni journalist was still struggling to understand why the world found it so easy to turn a blind eye.
Experts ask the same question. "It is absurd,” says Adam Baron, visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “This is one of the most devastating conflicts in the region, but people apparently don’t get it.”
IRIN went hunting for the answer. Here’s what we came up with:
It’s marginalised
In 1996, when the sitcom Friends was in its heyday, Matthew Perry’s character Chandler attempts to evade an on-and-off girlfriend by telling her he’s been transferred to Yemen.
The joke works because it's the furthest, most ridiculous place he can think of, where she can’t possibly follow him. The show’s dunce, Joey (Matt LeBlanc), doesn’t quite get it.
“Yemen, that actually sounds like a real country,” he says.
It’s not only in American sitcoms that Yemen is a byword for backwater. It’s a regional problem too – stereotyped as tribal and traditional, it somehow lacks the cultural standing of countries like Egypt, Syria, Iraq or Jordan. And in a region where oil is king, it has no great reserves. Even before the war, it was by far the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula.
Apart from when the occasional “terror” plot is linked to a group operating in its mountainous hideouts and large wildernesses, Yemen is simply not a priority, regionally or internationally. The war was born of a failed political transition after Arab Spring-inspired protests, a movement dubbed the “forgotten revolution” long before the current fighting became Yemen’s “forgotten war.”
Farea al-Muslimi of the Carnegie Middle East Institute believes the country’s isolation is to some extent its rulers’ doing.
Low spending on education by Ali Abdullah Saleh, who ruled the country for 33 years, meant that contacts with the Western world were more limited.
Until a few years ago, he told IRIN, “it would have been easier to get an AK-47 in Yemen than an English dictionary.”
Lacking the same strong diaspora of an Egypt or a Syria, Yemen “is a country of untold stories,” al-Muslimi says.
It took two decades and two failed attacks against the United States traced to Yemen – including the infamous underwear bomber – to bring a high-ranking US official, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to the country in 2011.
It’s complicated
Those trying to get the word out aren’t helped by the fact that the conflict is incredibly complex. It lacks the clear good guy v bad guy narrative many in the West saw at the start of the Syrian war, for example.
In Yemen, it never felt simple. This is a complicated civil conflict with local and international alliances that don’t appear to make much sense to the casual – sometimes even the studied – onlooker.
The trouble began long before the Saudi Arabia-led coalition began bombing in March 2015. Saleh had been battling a Shiite Houthi rebellion since 2004, but was only forced out in 2011 amid a power struggle with opposition leaders and their tribal militia, as the country was roiled by months of popular demonstrations against his rule.
His replacement, Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, is still the internationally recognised president of Yemen, but he was effectively ousted when the Houthi rebels took the capital in January last year, later fleeing to Saudi Arabia. That he is the leader of a united Yemen is his main claim to legitimacy, but he also happens to be on the same, tenuously allied side of southern separatists, anti-Houthi tribal leaders and Sunni Islamists.
While the Houthis are often portrayed as proxies of regional Shiite superpower Iran, they have their own grievances, leaders, and decision-makers. Confusingly, they are now also backed by Saleh, their former enemy.
Oxfam Airstrikes began last March and have devastated the country's infrastructure
Saudi Arabia entered the fray in March, accusing Iran of supporting the Houthis and forming a coalition of 10 Sunni-majority or Sunni-ruled countries, including all the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, save Oman. In addition to almost non-stop airstrikes in support of Hadi’s forces, the coalition has imposed a naval blockade and put boots on the ground: there are even Colombian fighters sent by the United Arab Emirates.
Islamist groups have meanwhile taken advantage of the chaos to gain new territory. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and so-called Islamic State are both now present in the strategically important southern port of Aden.
No one seems any closer to actually winning the war, so it is harder to become invested in its outcome, especially as neither side has made any real move to negotiate and UN-led peace talks have been postponed.
"The fact that it has long been enmeshed in one conflict or another makes it is easy for people to shrug it off,” says Baron. “They recognise that Yemen is at war, but see it as always at war.”
Vested interests & crisis fatigue
Surely the United States, Britain and France – all of whom either provide logistical support or sell arms to the Saudis – have reason to care?
A report by a UN panel of experts on Yemen, leaked last month, found the Saudi-led coalition had carried out “widespread and systematic” attacks on civilian targets in violation of international humanitarian law.
Human rights groups have been pressuring the UK in particular to reconsider its arms sales to Saudi Arabia, which last year were at a record high – 2.8 billion pounds ($4.2 billion) in the first three quarters alone.
That’s dwarfed by American sales. Since September 2014, US President Barack Obama’s administration has informed Congress of arms sales to Saudi Arabia totaling more than $21 billion. Some members of Congress have spoken out against a proposed $1.29 billion deal on air-to-ground munitions because of how they might be used in Yemen, but the sale appears poised to go ahead.
Last week, US Senator Chris Murphy called for his country to get out of the war, but he is for the most part a lone voice.
"I just don't see any evidence right now that the Saudis are conducting that military exercise in a way that's responsible. It's just feeding the humanitarian crisis inside Yemen," Murphy said.
The fact is that intelligence sharing with Saudi Arabia has been a key part of US and UK foreign policy for years, and they consider the kingdom a stabilising force in the region. With the Houthis attacking its borders and Saudi Arabia raising the threat of Iranian influence, the West is unlikely to rein its allies in.
The media, meanwhile, gravitates towards the bigger regional conflicts in Syria and Iraq, whose impact on the West is so much clearer to define in terms of refugees, extremist attacks, and geo-political dangers.
“Policy makers have limited bandwidth, think in relatively short term, and pay attention to things that generate headlines,” explains Peter Salisbury, an expert on Yemen from the influential Chatham House think tank.
There is also a sense of crisis fatigue, a feeling that the audience can’t find room to process Yemen when their minds are already saturated by so many other, more pressing emergencies.
“It is sadly a forgotten conflict in many ways,” says al-Muslimi. “Everyone is overwhelmed with Syria, the rise of ISIS in Libya, and the world is quite a messed up place to start with.”
Why we should care
The World Health Organization counts more than 6,000 conflict related deaths in the last 11 months. Given that Yemen’s health system is decimated – there’s a lack of supplies, not to mention 69 facilities damaged or destroyed – and 14.1 million Yemenis lack sufficient access to healthcare, it’s safe to say the real number is higher.
OCHCR, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, told IRIN by email that it recorded 318 civilian casualties in January: 118 killed, 200 injured. This brings estimated civilian casualties since March 2015 to 8,437: 2,913 civilians killed, 5,524 injured.
By comparison, after a year of conflict in Syria, the UN was reporting 7,500 deaths.
UN agencies and other aid organisations are struggling to cope with the severity of the humanitarian crisis, with their access to conflict zones restricted and an ongoing siege in the city of Taiz.
See: Smuggling oxygen on a camel
Some 19.3 million people lack access to clean water or sanitation, and almost 320,000 children are severely malnourished.
“The needs are huge, so there is no way that humanitarian organisations can cover all of them,” Julien Harneis, UNICEF’s Yemen country director, told IRIN in December.
See: Fixing Yemen’s aid problem
Maybe, in today’s social media-dominated news environment, Yemen just needs its viral moment. It took a photo of Alan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian toddler lying facedown on a Turkish beach, to bring the world’s attention to the refugee crisis.
But those, like Salisbury, who realised the scale of the humanitarian disaster and the risks of the war in Yemen long ago, are fairly exasperated.
“With the people who know or who have worked on Yemen, there is fatigue from people jumping up and down and saying, ‘Yemen is important,’” he explains.
Ultimately, “people will be asking this question: Why didn't we pay more attention to Yemen? Why didn't we take it more seriously when we had a chance to do something?”
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There’s a great temptation to view body weight as purely a consequence of personal choice, a simplistic perspective to which I subscribed for a long time.
I used to weigh 30 or 40 lbs. more than I do today, but then I took up running and married someone who cooked healthy food. If I could gradually get my weight under control, I figured, almost everyone else could as well. It’s not a complex equation, right? Burn more calories and consume fewer and your weight will go down.
It’s an outlook that dovetails nicely with an aversion to the nanny state. All the ideas proposed to systemically tackle rising levels of obesity through government intervention can be rationalized as unnecessary. As one observer once put it, no one is forcing you to have another piece of cake. So why should the government stop you? We don’t need calorie counts in restaurants, regulations on food production, limits on drink sizes or any other such mechanism that involves the authorities poking their noses into our personal lives.
Maintaining this perspective, however, requires a willful ignorance of the facts. The overwhelming evidence shows that fighting obesity is a multi-faceted problem that can’t be solved only through eating less and exercising more. And it’s not just systemic issues like portion sizes and lifestyle that are conspiring factors. The latest research demonstrates that even our own bodies are working against us.
A new study points to an astonishing consequence of the long-outdated blueprint by which human beings are still constructed. Our ancient ancestors didn’t have a steady supply of food in the cupboard and constant access to the neighbourhood supermarket; they went through periods of feast and famine.
As a result, when they lost a lot of weight over a period of time, their bodies didn’t respond as though this was a healthy outcome. Instead, to correct for the likelihood that it would be a long time before they ate again, their metabolisms automatically slowed down, conserving calories until they built back up to their previous weight. It’s a bit like if there were a program that slowed down your spending when it detected a sudden drop in your bank account.
The very mechanism that saved our ancestors’ lives years ago is killing many of us today. We all know people who have lost large amounts of weight and then put most or all of it back on. How many times have we privately judged them, dismissing the outcome as an erosion of willpower, a return to bad habits, or a natural result of subscribing to unsustainable fad diets?
It wasn’t their character that betrayed them, but their biology.
Combine this with extraordinary changes in everything from activity to the marketing of food and you have a recipe for disaster. Major players in the food industry are contributing to the problem, in some cases willfully. The behaviour of some soft-drink companies is beginning to look remarkably similar to that of tobacco companies decades ago.
So let’s dispense with the idea that we can reduce obesity with education and better individual choices. Without serious systemic change, the problem will only get worse, costing billions of dollars and thousands of lives.
There are many options. Banning the marketing of unhealthy food to children and youth. Putting a tax on junk food. Enacting more regulations about food production, portion sizes, nutritional composition and information. Increasing access to bariatric surgery. Changing the food available in schools and to the economically disadvantaged. Only the ideas supported by evidence of effectiveness should be introduced.
But we must start with a completely different outlook toward the problem of obesity and the rising number of individuals who are overweight. They’re not victims of their own bad decisions but examples of a societal problem that must be addressed with broad solutions.
There are many areas of our lives in which the state should not intervene. Clearly, this is no longer one of them.
Mark Sutcliffe is the host of Ottawa Today, weekdays 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on 1310 NEWS.
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Discussion of the “Singularity” — the moment when computer intelligence surpasses that of humans to such an extent that humans become practically redundant — has been gaining steam across the social spectrum. In 2006, Ray Kurzweil pointed to 2045 as the date of this tipping point, after which anyone unprepared for merging with machines would likely face a very unproductive future.
With the exponential rise of automation, and the announcement that Moore’s Law could lapse within 10 years, the tipping point might already be upon us, with The Singularity arriving as soon as 2029.
With the goals of transhumanists and futurists so close to full realization, the world’s leading scientists are beginning to voice their concern that general humanity might not comprehend the full weight of their discoveries. Scientists like Stephen Hawking have formed a group of “scientific superheroes” who supposedly aim to ensure that humanity does not choose the lethal side of the double-edged sword of technology. Let’s see what they are planning to do to save humanity from itself at the dawn of The Singularity.
Our current position as we head toward The Singularity is being called The Hybrid Age by futurists, as discussed in the candid video below. It is an increasingly synthetic age of bio-computing, enhanced artificial intelligence and the merging of man and machine through augmented reality. Also stated below is the increasing indication that humanity is not the only biology susceptible to The Singularity; nature, too — the climate, for example — will be increasingly manageable and augmented.
The power available is a God-like one, giving us the divergent paths of Heaven or Hell. One slide from the presentation issues this stark assessment about the potential outcomes.
“Heaven”
Re-make the planet (geo-engineering)
Create new life (and new lifeforms)
Re-engineer humanity (values and essence)
Abundance and plenty for all (mastery over energy and material transformation)
Super-intelligence (omniscience)
Super-longevity (death as a disease to be cured, immortality)
Better than well
Transcendental experiences
“The cosmos wakes up” (as a new humanity moves off planet)
“Hell”
Destroy the planet
Plagues and pestilence (arising from genetic engineering)
Enfeeble and divide humanity (as new technological divisions arise)
Environmental catastrophe
Ubiquitous surveillance
Super-dictatorship
Worse than the Dark Ages
Nuclear holocaust (enabled by new weaponry)
“Terminator enslavement” (artificial intelligence decides that humanity itself is the risk)
With these concerns as the backdrop, we need to assess what we see taking place already that might indicate which path we are currently on.
Toward Heaven or Hell?
We have seen some of the negative consequences of robotics, at least in the economic area. There is the possibility that humans will eventually be fully outsourced to robots through the period of The Singularity. Even if this does not come to full fruition, a recent study points to dramatic technological unemployment over the next 20 years.
We have seen major advancements in direct mind control, which also point toward a decidedly negative direction being implemented in an area that also potentially can help enhance the human brain.
A paper published by Cambridge highlighted an extreme example of existential threat when they presented their case that “Terminators” should be listed as one of the greatest threats to humanity. And, yet, technologies like autonomous drones continue to be developed with an increasing miniaturization right down to the insect and nano level. Coupled with advanced artificial intelligence, the military is seeking ways for these systems to make decisions on their own, as well as communicate and replicate at their own discretion.
The technological ability to track, trace and database everyone and everything is already being used as a system of control and pre-crime evaluation that is ushering in a Minority Report-style world.
Control over the climate continues to remain a shadowy and hotly debated topic. One thing we can be certain of is the desire of the military to control the weather for use as a weapon. They issued a document called Weather as a Force Multiplier: Owning The Weather in 2025 – curiously coinciding with the arrival of The Singularity. We also can be sure that elites from societies like the UK’s Royal Society have openly discussed playing God with the climate. Who will this God-like power be given to? Well, themselves of course.
The continued genetic engineering of the food supply is also having negative consequences for humanity’s health as well as the health of the environment.
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Nevertheless, the increasingly open-source nature of access to technologies which are dropping rapidly in cost offers a potential push-back to would-be controllers. This is often presented as a danger in the case of 3D printed weapons, but 3D printing also offers a wealth of solutions for restoring power to the people and creating new means of solving mankind’s most critical issues in the areas of health and the economy. Developments in free energy are also beginning to move beyond the halls of traditional science and elite control. It is even being speculated that DARPA’s efforts to produce a low-cost, portable brain recorder could spark a DIY brain scanning movement.
However, we would be quite gullible not to be aware that science has traditionally been joined at the hip with the military-industrial complex. Whether it is the atomic bomb, drones, or nanotech; the halls of science have not been perfectly available for the general public to walk among. The dangers inherent in the new science as we race toward The Singularity are most likely the same dangers that humanity always have faced: Will technology be used to free humanity or enslave us? And who will ultimately be in charge?
Who’s in Charge?
There is no question that new technologies can and will benefit select people in select ways, but when it comes to the issue of extinction, who has brought us closest time and time again? It is ironic, then, to hear 27 self-appointed superheroes of science assume the role of vanguard for the rest of us.
From crippling cyber-attacks by terrorists using the internet to cause havoc, to the release of engineered diseases and killer computers, they warn the future is far from rosy.
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Dublin city councillors have voted to condemn the jailing of four anti-water charge protesters and call for their release.
They have called for an end to the High Court injunction of a 20-metre exclusion zone around GMS Sierra works.
The motion was proposed by Cllr Bríd Smith of People Before Profit and was supported by Sinn Féin and other left wing groups.
But many Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Labour members voted against.
It was carried by 27 votes in favour to 22 against with ten abstentions and four councillors not present.
Last month the High Court committed Dublin men Damien O'Neill, 46, of Greenwood Park, Coolock; and Paul Moore, of Mount Olive Grove in Kilbarrack, to prison for 56 days.
Bernie Hughes of McKelvey Avenue, Finglas; and Derek Byrne, 36, of Streamville Road, Donaghmede; were sent to prison for 28 days.
Around 200 protesters marched from O'Connell Street to Mountjoy Prison after the jail sentences were handed down.
There were heated exchanges tonight when Cllr Dermot Lacey of Labour labelled some water charge protesters as "fascist".
Cllr John Lyons of PBP said there were four people in prison although they had not intimidated, harassed or assaulted anyone while those guilty of white collar crime had not spent a day in jail.
Cllr Daithi Doolin of Sinn Féin said his party members stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the protesters and said that the water charge issue has changed the political geography forever.
However, Fine Gael's Kieran Binchy said that the protesters had deliberately acted in contempt of court and were delighted to go to prison.
He said without the rule of law, we do not have a legal system and we do not have a State.
'Planning must be seen to be above board'
The sale of public lands to developers who get planning permission as a condition of the contract has prompted a policy review by Dublin city councillors.
The issue was raised by Cllr Damien Farrell after council management sought permission to dispose of a plot of land in Cabra to Lidl Supermarkets for €500,000 plus VAT.
The sale is on condition that Lidl gets planning permission to use the land on Annamoe Road as part of a supermarket development.
But Cllr Farrell said there was a conflict of interest in the council's planning and development department selling the land and also deciding on planning permission.
He said "not only must planning be above board, it must be seen to be above board".
He was supported by a number of councillors and the meeting agreed to a policy review of such deals.
Council manager Jim Keogan said under the Planning and Development Act of 1963 the council had a dual role of both being planning regulator and promoting development.
He said it was open to people to object to An Bord Pleanála but he said the planning permission would be in accordance with due process and the city's development plan, which aspired to bring development to areas affected by dereliction.
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You can apply for a grant if you are a vegetarian (or vegan) and aged under 26. Here's how to do it:
1. Download an application form here.
(Or email grantssecretary@vegetariancharity.org.uk to request a printed version by post.)
2. Read the instructions and the list of supporting documents, and check what you need to send. If you're living with a partner, they will need to add their data to the form.
3. Double check that the people you nominate as referees are willing to do the job for you, and make absolutely sure that the postal address you give for them is complete and correct. Check that they're not going away in the next few weeks.
4. Sign the form. We can't process it otherwise.
5. It's best to send everything in a single batch — sending lots of emails, or partly by email and partly by post can cause confusion and slow things down.
6. Don't just guess the postage rate, and don't request that the pack is 'signed for'. You are posting your application to a PO Box, there is nobody there to sign or to pay excess postage.
7. When your form is received it will be checked and we will let you know if we need anything else from you. We will send letters, by post, to your two referees, to obtain references. Your application will then be sent to our trustees for voting.
8. When the votes are in, we will let you know the outcome. We do not enter into correspondence about the reasons for the decisions made by our trustees. It is possible to apply more than once as long as you are a vegetarian (or vegan) and under 26.
9. The whole process is likely to take around three months. Sending us a lot of emails will not speed up the process.
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The White House has declined to provide details about its new outreach. Obama, tech execs talk surveillance
President Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Google computer scientist Vint Cerf and other tech executives and civil liberties leaders on Thursday for a closed-door meeting about government surveillance, sources tell POLITICO.
The session, which Obama attended himself, followed a similar gathering earlier this week between top administration officials, tech-industry lobbyists and leading privacy hawks, the sources said. Those earlier, off-the-record discussions centered on the controversy surrounding the NSA as well as commercial privacy issues such as online tracking of consumers.
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The White House has declined to provide any details about its new outreach since the beginning of the week. A spokesman didn’t comment Thursday about the high-level meeting with the president — and the companies and groups invited also kept quiet when contacted by POLITICO.
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Obama has promised more public debate about the country’s counterterrorism policies and privacy safeguards amid a deluge of criticism about the NSA’s controversial surveillance programs. As the steady stream of revelations continues, however, the White House has chosen to meet quietly with tech executives and consumer groups behind closed doors.
The administration’s outreach began Tuesday, when chief of staff Denis McDonough and general counsel Kathy Ruemmler convened a privacy-focused huddle in the Roosevelt Room. Joining them were representatives from the Information Technology Industry Council, TechNet and TechAmerica, which together represent a diverse swath of the tech industry — from major defense contractors to companies like Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Privacy Information Center were also present, sources said.
While the White House at the time declined to comment, one administration aide, speaking to POLITICO ahead of the Tuesday session, portrayed it as part of a larger campaign.
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“This is one of a number of discussions the administration is having with experts and stakeholders in response to the president’s directive to have a national dialogue about how to best protect privacy in a digital era, including how to respect privacy while defending our national security,” the official said.
The second meeting Thursday, however, was organized with greater secrecy.
Those invited were mostly senior executives, including Cook, Stephenson and Cerf, as well as representatives of groups like the Center for Democracy and Technology and Gigi Sohn, the leader of Public Knowledge, according to three sources familiar with the meeting. Each declined comment for this story.
As the White House consulted with industry, though, some members of Congress continued their push for legislation adding new checks to federal surveillance programs.
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“Trust and credibility depend on the appearance of fairness and accountability. My fear is that some of those agencies and institutions are in peril of losing it,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) during a speech Thursday at Harvard Law School.
The senator is sponsoring a bill that would create a new, adversarial public-interest defender before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which approves government requests to companies for user data. And Blumenthal also seeks to redo the FISC judge selection process to get more diverse voices on its bench.
“The purpose of the debate is to make sure we have both liberty and security,” he said.
Michelle Quinn contributed to this report.
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The Senate is poised to hold a procedural vote Wednesday on legislation to beef up workplace protections for women who are earning less than male colleagues for doing the same work. The bill is unlikely to get Republican support.
“We’re going to vote on Wednesday on fair pay … legislation, simply saying women should get the same amount of money that a man does doing the same work,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Monday. “Not too absurd, not too radical. But that’s what we’re trying to do. I repeat, this tactic shouldn’t surprise anyone given Republicans’ disregard for women as displayed here in Washington.”
The Paycheck Fairness Act, introduced last year by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), would make it easier for women to sue for sex discrimination in wages, and prohibit employer retaliation against workers for discussing how much they make. For Democrats, it’s a cudgel to hammer Republicans as indifferent toward women ahead of a tough mid-term election.
The bill isn’t expected to get the 60 votes needed to move forward. When a version of it came up in 2012 — also months before an election — Republican senators unanimously filibustered it and dismissed it as a gimmick. If the 55 Democrats vote together, they’ll need five GOP votes to clear the threshold, and they don’t have any yet.
The most moderate of them, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), said in 2012 that existing workplace protections for women were sufficient and argued that the Democrats’ proposal would “result in excessive litigation that would impose a real burden, particularly on small businesses.” Collins’ spokesman didn’t immediately return a request for comment, but the GOP’s approach to the issue hasn’t changed.
Also this week, President Barack Obama intends to sign an executive order enhancing protections for federal contractors who are women.
The White House frequently cites studies saying women earn 77 cents for every dollar men make. That figure rises to about 91 cents when accounting for career choices and time taken off work to care for children. The chart below, via NPR’s Alyson Hurt and based on 2008 weekly earnings from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, tells the story of the pay gap by sex, race and ethnicity.
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Not to be confused with the institute of the same name affiliated with the Heartland Film Festival
The Heartland Institute is an American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank founded in 1984 and based in Arlington Heights, Illinois, in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. The Institute conducts work on issues including education reform, government spending, taxation, healthcare, education, tobacco policy, global warming, hydraulic fracturing, information technology, and free-market environmentalism.
In the 1990s, the Heartland Institute worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to attempt to discredit the health risks of secondhand smoke and to lobby against smoking bans.[3][4]:233–34[5] In the decade after 2000, the Heartland Institute became a leading financial supporter of climate change denial.[6][7] It rejects the scientific consensus on global warming,[8] and says that policies to fight it would be damaging to the economy.[9]
History [ edit ]
The Institute was founded in 1984 by Chicago investor David H. Padden, who served as the organization's chairman until 1995. Padden had been a director of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C., since its founding as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974.[10][11][12] Padden was also a former director of Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Acton Institute, the Foundation for Economic Education, and the Center for Libertarian Studies.[11][12] At age 26, Joseph L. Bast became Heartland's first employee. Bast's wife Diane was Heartland's publications director.[13][14]
In the 1990s, Heartland worked with the tobacco company Philip Morris to question serious cancer risks to secondhand smoke, and to lobby against government public-health regulations.[4] Starting in 2008, Heartland has organized conferences to question the scientific opinion of global warming.[4]:334[15]
After the election of U.S. President Barack Obama in November 2008, the Institute became involved with the Tea Party movement. According to the organization's director of communications, speaking at the sixth International Conference on Climate Change in 2011: "The support of the Tea Party groups across the country has been extremely valuable."[16] Heartland was among the organizers of the September 2009 Tea Party protest march, the Taxpayer March on Washington.[17][18] In support of the Tea Party movement, Heartland offered free literature and other assistance to Tea Party activists,[19] created a website "www.teapartytoolbox.org", and distributed a free book, The Patriot's Toolbox.[20][21]
Heartland says it has a full-time staff of 29, including editors and senior fellows,[22] as well as 222 unpaid policy advisers.[23] Heartland is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity.[22][24] It reported revenues of $4.8 million in 2013.[25]
Policy positions [ edit ]
According to the Institute, it advocates free market policies.[26] The policy orientation of Heartland has been described as conservative, libertarian, and right wing.[14][27][28][29] The Institute promotes climate change denial, advocates for smoker's rights, for the privatization of public resources including school privatization, for school vouchers, for lower taxes and against subsidies and tax credits for individual businesses, and against an expanded federal role in health care, among other issues.[citation needed][neutrality is disputed] In addition to lobbying activities, Heartland hosts an internet application called "Policybot"[30] which serves as a clearinghouse for research from other conservative organizations such as The Heritage Foundation, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the Cato Institute.
According to the 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report (Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program, University of Pennsylvania), Heartland is rated 44 (of 85) for "Best Think Tank Network".[31]
Tobacco regulation [ edit ]
Heartland has long questioned the links between tobacco smoking, secondhand smoke, and lung cancer and the social costs imposed by smokers.[32] One of Heartland's first campaigns was against tobacco regulation.[8] According to the Los Angeles Times, Heartland's advocacy for the tobacco industry is one of the two things Heartland is most widely known for.[33]
During the 1990s, the Institute worked with tobacco company Philip Morris to question the links between smoking, secondhand smoke and health risks.[4] Philip Morris commissioned Heartland to write and distribute reports. Heartland published a policy study which summarized a jointly prepared report by the Association of Private Enterprise Education and Philip Morris. The Institute also undertook a variety of other activities on behalf of the tobacco industry, including meeting with legislators, holding off-the-record briefings, and producing op-eds, radio interviews, and letters.[4]:233–34
A 1993 internal "Five Year Plan" from Philip Morris to address environmental tobacco smoke regulation called for support for the efforts of the Institute.[34][35] In 1996, Heartland president and chief executive officer Joe Bast wrote an essay entitled "Joe Camel is Innocent!,"[8][34] which said that contributions from the tobacco industry to Republican political campaigns were most likely because Republicans "have been leading the fight against the use of 'junk science' by the Food and Drug Administration and its evil twin, the Environmental Protection Agency."[36] In the "President's Letter" in the July 1998 issue of The Heartlander, the Institute's magazine, Bast wrote an essay "Five Lies about Tobacco",[8][34] which said "smoking in moderation has few, if any, adverse health effects."[37][38] In 1999, Bast referenced the essays in soliciting financial support from Philip Morris, writing "Heartland does many things that benefit Philip Morris' bottom line, things that no other organization does."[34] A Philip Morris executive, the firm's manager of industrial affairs, was a member of the board of directors of the Institute.[34] In 2005, the Institute opposed Chicago's public smoking ban, at the time one of the strictest bans in the country.[39]
Global warming [ edit ]
The Institute opposes the scientific consensus on climate change,[40] claims that the amount of climate change is not catastrophic, claims that climate change might be beneficial,[41][42] and that the economic costs of trying to mitigate climate change exceed the benefits.[9] According to The New York Times, Heartland is "the primary American organization pushing climate change skepticism."[43] The Institute has been a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a group dedicated to denying climate change science, since 1997.[44]
In their 2010 book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway wrote that the Institute was known "for its persistent questioning of climate science, for its promotion of 'experts' who have done little, if any, peer-reviewed climate research, and for its sponsorship of a conference in New York City in 2008 alleging that the scientific community's work on global warming is fake."[4]:233 The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society in a chapter "Organized Climate Change Denial" identified Heartland as a conservative think tank with a strong interest in environmental and climate issues involved in climate change denial.[45]:149 Heartland "emerged as a leading force in climate change denial" in the decade 2003–2013, according to sociology professor Riley Dunlap of Oklahoma State University and political science professor Peter J. Jacques of the University of Central Florida.[46] Institute staff "recognize that climate change is a profound threat to our economic and social systems and therefore deny its scientific reality," wrote Naomi Klein in This Changes Everything.[47]:211
Fred Singer is the director of Heartland's Science and Environmental Policy Project,[48][49] and Heartland is a member organization of the Cooler Heads Coalition.[45]:151[50]
"Heartland's influence on national climate policy is at an apex" in March 2017 according to PBS Frontline.[51]
Heartland's list of scientists said to doubt global warming [ edit ]
In 2008, the Institute published a list purporting to identify "500 Scientists with Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares".[52] The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the work of Jim Salinger, chief scientist at New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, was "misrepresented" as part of a "denial campaign".[53] In response to criticism, the Institute changed the title of the list to "500 Scientists Whose Research Contradicts Man-Made Global Warming Scares."[52] Heartland did not remove any scientist's name from the list.[52][53] Avery explained, "Not all of these researchers would describe themselves as global warming skeptics...but the evidence in their studies is there for all to see."[52] The Institute's then president, Joseph Bast, argued that the scientists "have no right—legally or ethically—to demand that their names be removed" from Heartland's list.[nb 1]
Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change and Climate Change Reconsidered [ edit ]
Since 2008, Heartland has published the work of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), an international group of scientists who analyze the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other published, peer-reviewed studies that relate to climate change.[54] The aggregated work of the NIPCC is known as "Climate Change Reconsidered" and concludes, in contradiction to the IPCC and the consensus of the scientific community, that human emissions will not lead to dangerous global warming and climate change.[55]
International Conferences on Climate Change [ edit ]
Heartland's conventions of climate change doubters are one of the things Heartland is largely known for, according to the Los Angeles Times.[33] Between 2008 and 2015 the Institute has organized ten International Conferences on Climate Change, bringing together hundreds of global warming skeptics.[56] Conference speakers have included Richard Lindzen, a professor of meteorology at MIT; Roy Spencer, a research scientist and climatologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville; S. Fred Singer, a senior fellow of the Institute and who was founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at the University of Miami and founding director of the National Weather Satellite Service; Harrison Schmitt, a geologist and former NASA astronaut and Apollo 17 moonwalker; Dr. John Theon, atmospheric scientist and former NASA supervisor; and Wei-Hock "Willie" Soon, a part-time employee of the Solar and Stellar Physics (SSP) Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.[57]
In the first conference, participants criticized the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore.[58][59] In 2010 the BBC reported that the heavily politicized nature of the Heartland conferences led some "moderate" climate skeptics to avoid them.[60] In an article in The Nation, the 6th conference was described as "the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet".[61] The 7th conference (May 2012) was the main subject of the October 2012 documentary, Climate of Doubt, by Frontline, a public television series of original, in-depth documentaries.[62] At the conclusion of the 7th conference, Joseph Bast announced that the organization might discontinue the conferences,[63] but the eighth conference was held in Munich, Germany later the same year (30 November and 1 December 2012).[64] The ninth conference was held during July 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada.[8][65] The 2015 tenth conference was held in Washington D.C.[66][67] Speakers and panelists at the 2017 twelfth conference included Bast, Soon, Christopher Monckton, marketing professor J. Scott Armstrong, retired astronaut Walter Cunningham, policy analyst Indur M. Goklany, physicist William Happer, geologist Don Easterbrook, and U. S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee.[68]
May 2012 "Unabomber" billboard campaign [ edit ]
On Thursday May 3, 2012, Heartland launched an advertising campaign in the Chicago area, and put up digital billboards along the Eisenhower Expressway in Maywood, Illinois, featuring a photo of Ted Kaczynski, the "Unabomber" whose mail bombs killed three people and injured 23 others, asking the question, "I still believe in global warming, do you?" They withdrew the billboards a day later.[69][70] The Institute planned for the campaign to feature murderer Charles Manson, communist leader Fidel Castro and perhaps Osama bin Laden, asking the same question. The Institute justified the billboards saying "the most prominent advocates of global warming aren't scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen."[71]
The billboard reportedly "unleashed a social media-fed campaign, including a petition from the advocacy group Forecast the Facts calling on Heartland's corporate backers to immediately pull their funding," and prompted Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) to threaten to cancel his speech at the upcoming seventh International Conference on Climate Change organized by Heartland.[72] (Sensenbrenner ultimately did speak at the conference.)[73] Within 24 hours Heartland cancelled the campaign, although its president refused to apologize for it.[nb 2] The advertising campaign led to the resignation of two of the Institute's 12 board members,[74] and the resignation of almost the entire Heartland Washington D.C. office, taking the Institute's biggest project (on insurance) with it.[75] The staff of the former Heartland insurance project founded the R Street Institute and announced they "will not promote climate change skepticism."[76]
Following the 2012 document leak and the controversial billboard campaign, substantial funding was lost as corporate donors, including the General Motors Foundation, sought to dissociate themselves from the Institute. According to the advocacy group Forecast the Facts, Heartland lost more than $825,000, or one third of planned corporate fundraising for the year. The shortfall led to sponsorship of the Institute's May 2012 climate conference by Illinois' coal lobby, the Illinois Coal Association, the Institute's "first publicly acknowledged donations from the coal industry," and the Heritage Foundation.[75] The billboard controversy led to the loss of substantial corporate funding, including telecommunications firm AT&T, financial service firm BB&T, alcoholic beverage company Diageo and about two dozen insurance companies, including State Farm and the United Services Automobile Association.[77][78][79][80] Pharmaceutical companies Amgen, Eli Lilly, Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline ended financial support.[81] Heartland's May, 2012 climate conference was smaller than previous years.[63]
The Institute wrote model legislation to repeal mandates on renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, and presented the model legislation to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a nonprofit organization of conservative state legislators and private sector representatives that drafts and shares model state-level legislation for distribution among state governments in the United States. ALEC's board of directors adopted the model legislation in October 2012.[82]
June 2013 Chinese Academy of Sciences [ edit ]
In 2013, the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a report from the Institute in order to better understand the public debate and encourage discussion of other views.[83] The preface included a disclaimer that the Academy did not endorse the views in the report, but in June, the Institute announced that the Chinese Academy of Sciences supported their views, and said the publication placed significant scientific weight against climate change.[84][85] The Chinese Academy of Sciences, responding to the announcement, said "The claim of the Heartland Institute about CAS' endorsement of its report is completely false," clarified that they did not endorse the views of the Institute, and asked for a retraction.[83][86]
April 2015 Vatican Council on climate change [ edit ]
On April 28, 2015, the Catholic Church convened a council to discuss the religious implications of global warming. Held at the Vatican and hosted by the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences, it was attended by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, as well as national presidents, CEOs, academics, scientists, and representatives of the world's major religions. The Institute sent a delegation in an attempt to present a dissenting opinion. It held a "prebuttal" of the conference and argued that climate science does not justify papal recognition of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.[87]
After the council ended, a representative (Marc Morano) from the Institute broke into a press briefing being given by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who was reporting on his meeting with the Pope. He interrupted the Secretary-General and the moderator, asking that global-warming skeptics be allowed to speak. After a few minutes, he was escorted from the premises by Vatican officials.[88] In response to the papal encyclical "Laudato Si'", which outlined the Church's moral case for addressing climate change, and in anticipation of Pope Francis' September 2015 visit to the United States, Gene Koprowski, director of marketing for the Institute, suggested that the Pope's pronouncements on climate change indicate that "pagan forms are returning to the Church this day."[89]
Center for Transforming Education [ edit ]
In March 2017, the Institute's program the Center for Transforming Education began an unsolicited mailing of the Institute's book Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming and a companion DVD to all 200,000 K-12 science teachers in the U. S., with a cover letter giving a link to an online course planning guide. The material is not science and was intended to confuse teachers, according to the National Center for Science Education.[51][90][91]
Budgetary [ edit ]
The Institute is a critic of current federal, state, and local budgets and tax codes. Several of Institute's budgetary views include privatization of federal services to a competitive marketplace, changing the tax code to a more simplified version of the current code, and implementing Taxpayer Savings Grants.[citation needed]
In 1987, the Institute advocated for tenant ownership of the Chicago Housing Authority's Cabrini-Green Homes public housing complex through a cooperative or condominium conversion.[92] In 1990, the Institute advocated for lower taxes in Illinois to foster job growth.[93]
The Institute advocated for the privatization of Illinois' toll highway system in 1999 and 2000.[94][95] In 2008, the Institute opposed state subsidies and tax credits for local film productions, saying the economic benefits are less than the incentives.[96]
Education [ edit ]
The Institute supports increased availability of (public) charter schools, education tax credits to attend private schools, and vouchers for low-income students to attend a public or private K–12 school of their family's choosing, as well as the Parent Trigger reform that started in California. The Institute supports the introduction of market reforms into the public K–12 education system to increase competition and provide more options and greater choice for parents and their children.[97]
In 1994, the Institute criticized the Chicago Public Schools' reform efforts and advocated privatization of public schools and school vouchers.[98]
In 2014 the Institute published Rewards: How to Use Rewards to Help Children Learn – and Why Teachers Don't Use Them Well co-authored by Joseph Bast, which argued that the public education system should embrace incentives and rewards to spur student achievement.[99][100]
Healthcare [ edit ]
The Institute advocates for free-market reforms in healthcare and opposes federal control over the healthcare industry. Heartland supports Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), replacing federal tax deductions for employer-based healthcare with a refundable tax credit to allow individual choice over health insurance, removing state and Federal healthcare regulations aimed at providers and consumers of healthcare, and reducing litigation costs which are associated with malpractice suits.[101]
In 2010 Heartland published the 66 page book, The Obamacare Disaster, by Peter Ferrara, which opposed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[102]
In 2015 the institute filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the petitioner in King v. Burwell, a Supreme Court case challenging income tax subsidies to those who enroll in health insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act via the federal as opposed to the state health insurance exchanges.[103][104]
Hydraulic fracturing [ edit ]
The Institute advocates for hydraulic fracturing (aka "fracking"), a well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by pressurized liquids,[105] publishing essays in support of fracking in various national newspapers.[106][107][108][109] On March 20, 2015, Heartland's science director defended hydraulic fracturing on the Your World With Neil Cavuto program on Fox News.[110][111]
Funding [ edit ]
The Institute no longer discloses its funding sources, stating that it had ended its practice of donor transparency after experiencing the organized harassment of its donors.[112] According to its brochures, Heartland receives money from approximately 5,000 individuals and organizations, and no single corporate entity donates more than 5% of the operating budget,[113] although the figure for individual donors can be much higher, with a single anonymous donor providing $4.6 million in 2008, and $979,000 in 2011, accounting for 20% of Heartland's overall budget, according to reports of a leaked fundraising plan.[114] Heartland states that it does not accept government funds and does not conduct contract research for special-interest groups.[115]
Oil and gas companies have contributed to the Institute, including $736,500 from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2005.[82][116] Greenpeace reported that Heartland received almost $800,000 from ExxonMobil.[53] In 2008, ExxonMobil said that it would stop funding to groups skeptical of climate change, including Heartland.[116][117][118][not in citation given] Joseph Bast, president of the Institute, argued that ExxonMobil was simply distancing itself from Heartland out of concern for its public image.[116]
The Institute has also received funding and support from tobacco companies Philip Morris,[4]:234 Altria and Reynolds American, and pharmaceutical industry firms GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Eli Lilly.[114] State Farm Insurance, USAA and Diageo are former supporters.[119] The Independent reported that Heartland's receipt of donations from Exxon and Philip Morris indicates a "direct link...between anti-global warming sceptics funded by the oil industry and the opponents of the scientific evidence showing that passive smoking can damage people's health."[58] The Institute opposes legislation on passive smoking as infringing on personal liberty and the rights of owners of bars and other establishments.[120]
As of 2006, the Walton Family Foundation had contributed approximately $300,000 to Heartland. The Institute published an op-ed in the Louisville Courier-Journal defending Wal-Mart against criticism over its treatment of workers. The Walton Family Foundation donations were not disclosed in the op-ed, and the editor of the Courier-Journal stated that he was unaware of the connection and would probably not have published the op-ed had he known of it.[121] The St. Petersburg Times described the Institute as "particularly energetic defending Wal-Mart."[121] Heartland has stated that its authors were not "paid to defend Wal-Mart" and did not receive funding from the corporation; it did not disclose the approximately $300,000 received from the Walton Family Foundation.[121]
In 2010, MediaTransparency said that Heartland received funding from politically conservative foundations such as the Castle Rock Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.[122] Between 2002 and 2010, Donors Trust, a nonprofit donor-advised fund, granted $13.5 million to the Institute.[123] In 2011, the Institute received $25,000 from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation.[124] The Charles Koch Foundation states that the contribution was "$25,000 to the Heartland Institute in 2011 for research in healthcare, not climate change, and this was the first and only donation the Foundation made to the institute in more than a decade".[125]
In 2012, a large number of sponsors withdrew funding due to the 2012 documents incident and the controversy over their billboard campaign. The Institute lost an estimated $825,000, or one third of planned corporate fundraising for the year.[75]
According to the organization's audited financial statements for 2014 and 2015 approximately 27% and 19% of revenues, respectively, came from a single unidentified donor.[126]
2012 documents incident [ edit ]
On February 14, 2012, the global warming blog DeSmogBlog published more than one hundred pages of Heartland documents said to be from the Institute. Heartland acknowledged that some internal documents had been stolen,[124] but said that one, the "Climate Strategy memo", was forged to discredit Heartland.[127][128][129]
The documents were initially anonymously sourced, but later found to have been obtained by climate scientist Peter Gleick.[129][130] The documents included a fundraising plan, board of directors meeting minutes, and the organization's 2012 budget.[131][132] The documents were analyzed by major media, including The New York Times, The Guardian, United Press International and the Associated Press. Donors to the Institute included the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, Microsoft, General Motors, Comcast, Reynolds American, Philip Morris, Amgen, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Eli Lilly, liquor companies, and an anonymous donor who had given $13 million over the past five years.
The documents contained details of payments to support climate skeptics and their programs, namely the founder of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change Craig Idso ($11,600 per month), physicist Fred Singer ($5,000 plus expenses per month), geologist Robert M. Carter ($1,667 per month) and $90,000 to blogger and former meteorologist Anthony Watts. The documents also revealed the Institute's plan to develop curriculum materials to be provided to teachers in the United States to promote climate skepticism, plans confirmed by the Associated Press.[114][124][133][134][135][136] The documents also disclosed Heartland's $612,000 plan to support Wisconsin Act 10 and to influence the Wisconsin's recall elections called "Operation Angry Badger."[124][137] Carter and Watts confirmed receiving payments.[134]
Several environmental organizations called on General Motors and Microsoft to sever their ties with Heartland. Climate scientists called on Heartland to "recognise how its attacks on science and scientists have poisoned the debate about climate change policy."[28]
Gleick described his actions in obtaining the documents as "a serious lapse of my own and professional judgment and ethics" and said that he "deeply regret[ted his] own actions in this case". He stated that "My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts—often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated—to attack climate science and scientists and prevent this debate, and by the lack of transparency of the organizations involved."[138] On February 24 he wrote to the board of the Pacific Institute requesting a "temporary short-term leave of absence" from the Institute.[139][140] The Board of Directors stated it was "deeply concerned regarding recent events" involving Gleick and the Heartland documents, and appointed a new Acting Executive Director on February 27.[141] Gleick was later reinstated to the Pacific Institute after an investigation found Gleick did not forge any documents, and he apologized for using deception to get the documents.[142][143]
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^ [52] Heartland's president, Joseph Bast, wrote "They have no right—legally or ethically—to demand that their names be removed from a bibliography composed by researchers with whom they disagree. Their names probably appear in hundreds or thousands of bibliographies accompanying other articles or in books with which they disagree. Do they plan to sue hundreds or thousands of their colleagues? The proper response is to engage in scholarly debate, not demand imperiously that the other side redact its publications." ^ [72] President Joseph Bast issued a statement saying: "We know that our billboard angered and disappointed many of Heartland's friends and supporters, but we hope they understand what we were trying to do with this experiment. We do not apologize for running the ad, and we will continue to experiment with ways to communicate the 'realist' message on the climate."
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Nasa is a major player in space science, so when a team from the agency this week presents evidence that "impossible" microwave thrusters seem to work, something strange is definitely going on.
Either the results are completely wrong, or Nasa has confirmed a major breakthrough in space propulsion.
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British scientist Roger Shawyer has been trying to interest people in his EmDrive for some years through his company SPR Ltd. Shawyer claims the EmDrive converts electric power into thrust, without the need for any propellant by bouncing microwaves around in a closed container. He has built a number of demonstration systems, but critics reject his relativity-based theory and insist that, according to the law of conservation of momentum, it cannot work.
According to good scientific practice, an independent third party needed to replicate Shawyer's results. As Wired.co.uk reported, this happened last year when a Chinese team built its own EmDrive and confirmed that it produced 720 mN (about 72 grams) of thrust, enough for a practical satellite thruster. Such a thruster could be powered by solar electricity, eliminating the need for the supply of propellant that occupies up to half the launch mass of many satellites. The Chinese work attracted little attention; it seems that nobody in the West believed in it.
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However, a US scientist, Guido Fetta, has built his own propellant-less microwave thruster, and managed to persuade Nasa to test it out. The test results were presented on July 30 at the 50th Joint Propulsion Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. Astonishingly enough, they are positive.
The Nasa team based at the Johnson Space Centre gave its paper the title "Anomalous Thrust Production from an RF [radio frequency] Test Device Measured on a Low-Thrust Torsion Pendulum". The five researchers spent six days setting up test equipment followed by two days of experiments with various configurations. These tests included using a "null drive" similar to the live version but modified so it would not work, and using a device which would produce the same load on the apparatus to establish whether the effect might be produced by some effect unrelated to the actual drive. They also turned the drive around the other way to check whether that had any effect.
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Back in the 90s, Nasa tested what was claimed to be an antigravity device based on spinning superconducting discs. That was reported to give good test results, until researchers realised that interference from the device was affecting their measuring instruments. They have probably learned a lot since then.
The torsion balance they used to test the thrust was sensitive enough to detect a thrust of less than ten micronewtons, but the drive actually produced 30 to 50 micronewtons -- less than a thousandth of the Chinese results, but emphatically a positive result, in spite of the law of conservation of momentum: "Test results indicate that the RF resonant cavity thruster design, which is unique as an electric propulsion device, is producing a force that is not attributable to any classical electromagnetic phenomenon and therefore is potentially demonstrating an interaction with the quantum vacuum virtual plasma."
This last line implies that the drive may work by pushing against the ghostly cloud of particles and anti-particles that are constantly popping into being and disappearing again in empty space. But the Nasa team has avoided trying to explain its results in favour of simply reporting what it found: "This paper will not address the physics of the quantum vacuum plasma thruster, but instead will describe the test integration, test operations, and the results obtained from the test campaign."
The drive's inventor, Guido Fetta calls it the "Cannae Drive", which he explains as a reference to the Battle of Cannae in which Hannibal decisively defeated a much stronger Roman army: you're at your best when you are in a tight corner. However, it's hard not to suspect that Star Trek's Engineer Scott -- "I cannae change the laws of physics" -- might also be an influence. (It was formerly known as the Q-Drive.)
Fetta also presented a paper at AIAA on his drive, "Numerical and Experimental Results for a Novel Propulsion Technology Requiring no On-Board Propellant". His underlying theory is very different to that of the EmDrive, but like Shawyer he has spent years trying to persuade sceptics simply to look at it. He seems to have succeeded at last.
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Shawyer himself, who sent test examples of the EmDrive to the US in 2009, sees the similarity between the two. "From what I understand of the Nasa and Cannae work -- their RF thruster actually operates along similar lines to EmDrive, except that the asymmetric force derives from a reduced reflection coefficient at one end plate," he says. He believes the design accounts for the Cannae Drive's comparatively low thrust: "Of course this degrades the Q and hence the specific thrust that can be obtained."
Fetta is working on a number of projects which he is not able to discuss at present, and Nasa's PR team was not able to get any comments from the research team. However, it's fair to assume that the results will be picked over very closely indeed, like CERN's anomalous faster-than-light neutrinos. The neutrino issue was cleared up fairly quickly, but given that this appears to be at least the third independent propellant-less thruster to work in tests, the anomalous thrust may prove much harder to explain away.
A working microwave thruster would radically cut the cost of satellites and space stations and extend their working life, drive deep-space missions, and take astronauts to Mars in weeks rather than months. In hindsight, it may turn out to be another great British invention that someone else turned into a success.
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Both the television show and the comic book for The Walking Dead are money printers the likes of which we've never seen. Both are highly successful, especially for something with such a mature horror premise. The comic book is now in (as of this article) its 13th year, spanning 159 issues with no signs of slowing down or stopping. The television show will premiere its 7th season shortly, and also has a successful spin-off show.
For a number of reasons, there are some dramatic (and minor) differences between the book and show. Be it a creative decision, a financial decision, viewer feedback and pressure, or something else entirely, these changes have the ability to completely alter the complexion of the show if comparing it to the comic. For better or worse, it has become its own animal. As fans of both, we are fine with many of the differences. Some, however, just strike us as poor decisions.
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16 Too monotone
A world overrun by zombies is not a light subject. If you lost your family and were scraping to survive, chances are you wouldn't often feel much like laughing or goofing around. That said, it's a bit difficult to sustain that level of seriousness without coming up for air. There have been lighter-hearted moments in the show (Carl and Michonne and the pudding come to mind), but moments are exactly what they are. Robert Kirkman treated us to a bizarre (and colored!) moment of levity in the back part of issue #75.
The only reason Image signed off on The Walking Dead was because Kirkman pitched the story as having a twist: it would turn out the zombies were being created as part of an alien plot to conquer the world (a la Plan 9 From Outer Space). With no intention to follow the pitch, Kirkman threw in a small story where Rick Grimes was beamed up from Alexandria and thrust into a world where all the dead characters of the comic were fighting for or against the aliens.
Granted it was just one time (so far) that Kirkman did this for us, but it was greatly appreciated. We can only hope that as time goes on we are treated to more of these asides (or even just a continuation of this story). As for the show, it could use a tonal break along these lines to break things up as we're approaching the 84th episode. An annual Christmas special, perhaps?
15 A Tale of two Andreas
Many of the characters in the television show differ, sometimes greatly, from their comic counterparts. In some cases, the characters share little more than a name. Arguably, the characters changed the most was Andrea. In the comics, Andrea seems to be in her 20s. After losing her sister early in the books, she winds up forming a relationship with Dale (yes, the age gap is huge... and no, Dale is not nearly as obnoxious in the comics) and they wind up adopting orphaned twins Ben and Billy (more on that later). Much further down the line in Alexandria, she and Rick become a couple. The relationship becomes so long-standing that Carl has taken to calling her "mom." Andrea is level-headed and resolute, a crack shot sniper, and one of the most respected members of the human communities thriving in the present day after "the jump."
In the television show? Andrea isn't painted so kindly. Time and again she shows, despite her desire to be a decision-maker, that she is not fit to be; culminating in her clipping Daryl with a rifle round by mistake and accidentally allowing Beth to attempt suicide on her watch. Andrea eventually abandons the group and makes a home in Woodbury (shacking up with undercover psycho, The Governor), but flip-flops between Woodbury and leaving with Michonne. Fan ire about Andrea's television portrayal reached a fever pitch in Season 3, and Andrea wound up not surviving the season (although this may well have been coincidence).
14 The CDC Detour
It is bizarre that a group of survivors of the zombie apocalypse wouldn't think to try the CDC as an option for safety and/or answers if they were coming from Atlanta. But that is the way that Robert Kirkman handled things in the comics; ignoring their proximity to the government office and just letting them on their merry way. After Season 1 showrunner Frank Darabont opted to go the CDC route, we came to understand why Kirkman didn't do the same. The detour lasted all of two episodes, but seemed to drag and wound up contributing nothing to the show.
The survivors, on reaching the CDC, met Dr. Jenner... who decided to blow himself and everyone else up when he'd lost hope in discovering a cure for the zombie virus. Originally, Andrea was going to stay and die alongside Jenner, but was guilted into staying a series regular by Dale. Before the big boom, Jenner whispered to Rick that everyone living was infected with the zombie virus; a revelation that would have been much more effective if Rick had figured it out for himself, perhaps after his climactic confrontation with Shane. While going to the CDC maybe took care of one complaint viewers might see with the show's logic, it was handled about as poorly as it could have been. Like in the comic, it should never have even been an issue.
13 Lori's last breath
Lori Grimes, wife of Rick and mother of Carl, is another contentious character for Walking Dead fans. Her portrayal in the show, as with Andrea, was met with complaints and a general contempt. While never a fan favorite in the comics, her character in the television show left many cold and hoping for an early exit. As with the comic, Lori did not survive the prison. While we aren't fond of Lori in the show, as opposed to Lori in the comic, it is a minor contention compared to how she died.
Part of what makes TWD work in both comic and television form is the fact that it can be brutally heartbreaking; even with characters you weren't especially fond of. It was touching and terribly sad that Lori died giving birth to Judith... and that Carl had to put Lori down. Despite the gravity of Lori's TV demise, it couldn't possibly match that of the books. In the comic, Lori successfully survives giving birth to Judith. When Woodbury attacks the prison, Lori attempts to protect the baby and escape, only to be blasted in half by a shotgun... along with baby Judith. This is such a heart-rending moment that it probably is causing a physical reaction just from reading the earlier sentence (as it did having to write it). To ramp up our existential despair to another level, it is theorized too, that Lori fell on the baby, crushing her.
12 Why are dingleberries brown?
Call us hypocrites if you like... but we just aren't nearly as fond of television Abraham as we are comic Abraham. Abraham, in the comics, is a take-no-prisoners type; quick to anger and quick to action. His depth comes from his emotional vulnerability and the bond he forges with Rick after they get together. It is surely a cartoonish and uninformed perception, but comics Abraham is much closer to our idea of a war veteran than television Abraham.
For all our previous talk of wanting some levity in the show, we weren't referring to Abraham's increasingly bizarre and complex folksy sayings that he's been dropping. In some cases, as with our header, they've been wildly inappropriate for the mood of the scene (he drops that winner, pun intended, as he packs up to leave Rosita and follows it up with "that's just the way shit is."). This might not be a popular opinion, as the Twitter hashtag #abrahamlet, indicates. We just prefer our ginger army men gruff, not goofy.
11 The farm is a nice place to visit, but...
Boy, they sure did take their sweet time there, didn't they? The Greene Family farm was featured in 12 of the 13 episodes of Season 2. We don't blame Rick's group for wanting to drag out the time they spent with food and housing and fields and such a nice porch considering the state of the rest of the world, but we didn't really need to see so much of it. Season 1 did a very good job of establishing and explaining the characters on the show without confining them to an oasis like the farm, and so the argument that Season 2 was focused on character development doesn't hold much weight. There was a good deal of infighting and plot development and intrigue in the 2nd season, and it's not as though we dislike it completely, but we really could have done with more scenery throughout those episodes.
The show is arguably at its best, and most dangerous, when the crew is on the road. Attempts to put down roots tend to drag the pace down to nearly unbearable levels... and the farm was perhaps the most egregious offender. That said, without the farm, we wouldn't have had the well walker. And the barn was pretty crucial to the development of the show and characters; it just could have happened a few episodes sooner.
10 Barn burner
Speaking of the farm, we have a minor bone to pick with an incident that happened there. Hershel Greene, a veterinarian and farmer and deeply religious man, initially refuses to see the zombies for what they truly are. Convinced that they are just sick people capable of being cured, he begins to round up any that come near the farm (including his own child in the comic, and wife and child in the show), and locks them away in his barn. Eventually the barn is bulging with the undead and must be taken care of.
In the show, the barn's resolution is used to elaborate on Shane's dissonance with Rick and the rest of the group... and his increasing belligerence and wild behavior. In an attempt to show that everyone is wasting their time on the humane aspect of humanity, Shane unlocks the barn, forcing the survivors to kill all the zombies within. The last zombie to come out of the barn is Carol's daughter, Sophia, who the survivors had been searching for all season. The comic version, too, relies on depressing irony. The zombies in the barn begin to escape, and in doing so, bite and kill two of Hershel's surviving children. While the show's version is by no means a bad one, the tragedy born of delusion and naivete from the comics is too chilling to not prefer.
9 Who dis? New phone
Again, this isn't a gigantic point of contention, but just an instance in which the nuance and the emotional impact of a device was used better by the comic. In the wake of Lori's death, Rick is overcome by grief, manifesting itself as auditory hallucination. In the television show, Rick is in the prison and hears a telephone ring. A man's voice informs Rick that there is a larger group of survivors. The conversation turns to questions about how Lori died, and the man hangs up the phone. Upon hearing about the call from Rick, Hershel picks up the phone and realizes that it is not working... at which time he confronts Rick. Rick receives more calls and discovers he is 'talking' to Lori and other dead folk, and there's eventually a resolution that sees Rick come out more capable of being a father to Judith and being a leader to his group.
In the comics, it is quickly revealed that the phone call is coming from "Lori". Shocked, Rick rips the phone out of its socket, only to have the phone continue to talk to him. Knowing that the conversations are in his head, Rick still takes the phone with him after leaving the house he was hiding in. He later reveals the phone (and his knowing craziness) to Michonne after she reveals that she still talks to her old boyfriend. They agree to keep the information to themselves, resolving this little plot point in a very human way.
8 Dexter becomes Tomas
When Rick and gang find their way to the prison, they find out that they are not the only people there. Nearly all of the prisoners holed up there are different between the two mediums, save Axel (who goes from jolly old biker type to nebbishy tweaker). Our biggest complaint, though, is the downgrade in leaders from Dexter to Tomas.
Dexter is a burly dude who, when Rick bursts into the cafeteria, offers Rick meatloaf. Dexter, helpful and hospitable, admits immediately that he had been convicted for murdering his wife and her side piece. When Hershel's twin tween girls show up decapitated, Dexter is falsely imprisoned as he is the only one who supposedly was put in for murder. Behind bars even in the apocalypse, he decides to arm himself and the rest of the prisoners and kick Rick's group out. In a scrum with zombies that forced Dexter and him to fight alongside one last time, Rick secretly shoots Dexter, ending the power struggle.
Tomas, on the other hand, is a cartoonishly evil prisoner with a nebulous backstory. The acting of the series has always been uneven, and actor Nick Gomez fails to give Tomas what little authenticity the wooden character could possibly have. Tomas is perpetually openly hostile to Rick and his group and only begrudgingly accepts Rick's assistance. After failing to kill Rick twice in clearing out the prison, Rick lodges a machete in Tomas' skull and we're spared from having to deal with him for a third episode.
7 Tyreese-lite
On his own merits, we loved Tyreese from the television show. That he would share the name of the comic book character, however, invites comparisons between the two... regardless of how different their backstories are. The comparisons are not favorable for TV Tyreese.
Both Tyreeses (Tyreesi?) are capable fighters with their hearts in the right place. Both of them favor using a claw hammer for doing damage to zombies up close. But that's about where the similarities end. The television show Tyreese becomes a babysitter to Judith Grimes and twin girls Mika and Lizzie and, after being traumatized, develops a neurotic pacifist streak. He then endangers Judith's life, when she is threatened by Martin, a captive Terminus resident that Tyreese screws up keeping imprisoned. Tyreese lies about killing Martin to the group... only for Martin to come back and kidnap/eat Tyreese's sister's love interest, Bob. Martin also manages to help the Terminus folk break into the church the survivors were staying in for one final showdown. Tyreese dies a heartbreaking death that features a number of hallucinations and Tyreese coming to terms with the latter part of his life.
Comics Tyreese was a stalwart character and capable leader. That he showed himself more than capable of leading the group consistently, created a terrific unspoken dramatic tension between him and Rick. Tyreese was killed in the Governor's assault on the prison, beheaded by the Governor with Michonne's katana (which was extra depressing considering Tyrese and Michonne had been romantically involved).
6 The botched pact
One character-building event in comic Tyreese's tenure in the book has yet to appear, in any form, in the show. Perhaps the opportunity has passed based on the circumstances the survivors find themselves in, and it's a shame because it is a very compelling and disturbing moment. In the comics, Tyreese has a teenage daughter named Julie (TV Tyreese had Sasha for a sister instead). Julie's boyfriend, Chris, was living with her and Tyreese when the zombie outbreak began, and survived alongside them.
In the prison, Chris and Julie decide to form a suicide pact (at Chris' urging) in order to "be together forever". Chris shoots Julie but is discovered alive by Tyreese because Julie fails to shoot Chris at the same time (and for some reason Chris doesn't have the mental wherewithal to shoot himself). It is here in the comics that it is revealed that anybody who dies, bitten or not, returns as a zombie. Tyreese stops Rick from killing zombie Julie, foolishly hoping to reason with her, but Chris instead shoots Julie in the head. Tyreese chokes Chris to death and informs Rick that he will wait for Chris to reanimate in order to kill him a second time, only slower. Needless to say, this is all a very disturbing sequence. We're perfectly happy with how the show revealed all dead people come back, but it is a shame that the show has not yet used a failed suicide pact premise.
5 Didn't hurt the brains
Any way you cut it, the event in question is deeply disturbing and profoundly sad. In the comics, we are talking about twins Ben and Billy. In the show, we are talking about sisters Lizzie and Mika. In both instances the kids (Ben and Lizzie) display symptoms that they are not right in the head. In both instances, the psychotic kids kill their sibling with a knife, expecting them to come back just fine because they left the brains intact.
The tragic story of Lizzie, Mika, and Carol is crushing. There is perhaps no sadder episode in the show. Carol is forced to kill Lizzie to keep Judith safe (with a scene reminiscent of Of Mice And Men) and it adds dimension to Carol and her suffering. In the comics, the adults debate the fate of Ben, and whether he is an irredeemable threat or in need of some care, when Carl sneaks away and shoots Ben. Taking the decision out of the hands of everyone else and shouldering the burden of having to kill a child, Carl shows an eerie and precocious initiative and sense of responsibility. It simultaneously catapults Carl into the category of "capable contributor" and marks him a threat. Ben very clearly represents a funhouse mirror version of Carl, in that both of them are children raised among the horrors and atrocities of a zombie wasteland where the concepts of life and death and right and wrong are more tenuous than ever previously conceivable.
4 Thomas Richards, Tax Evader
Thomas Richards was one of the prisoners found in the cafeteria by Rick's band of survivors. On ascertaining that the little group were prisoners and not prison guards, Lori insisted on knowing the crimes for which the prisoners had been sentenced (as a way of potential threat detection). Richards, doughy, middle-aged, and sporting a wispy comb-over and glasses says he was in for tax evasion. After Rick's group had begun to settle in, Hershel's tween daughters are brutally decapitated. The blame immediately goes to Dexter, seemingly the only prisoner there due to a murder conviction.
Not much time passes before Thomas attempts to murder Andrea, giving her her facial scars in the process. It becomes clear that he is the one who murdered the Greene girls, and is beaten nearly to death by Rick in a fit of rage. Thomas is then imprisoned while awaiting a discussion on his potential hanging. Another survivor, Patricia, attempts to free Thomas in a misguided attempt and is immediately attacked by the demented Richards. Richards is killed by Maggie Greene (the twins' sister) unloading a full clip in him in order to save Patricia. A character like Richards really could have livened up the show's stay in the prison. While the character didn't need to be a prisoner, it did rather artfully touch on the concepts of racial profiling (Richards was white and Dexter was black) and the failings of a post-zombie justice system.
3 Someone like Carol
Despite appearances to the contrary, we really like the television show's version of Carol. She is a layered character, a complete badass (which may no longer be the case), and someone we've enjoyed following. We would not like to trade in TV Carol for comic book Carol. That said, many of the things that Carol brought to the table in the comics are things that we miss. Carol was a severely imbalanced person, desperate for affection and protection in the aftermath of the zombies. Following a failed relationship with Tyreese (he cheated on her with Michonne), she attempts suicide in front of her young daughter, Sophia. In the wake of the botched attempt she proposes a polygamous relationship with Rick... theorizing that society's rules no longer applied. When that attempt failed, she attempted (unsuccessfully) to lobby Lori for the same thing. Rebuffed, Carol goes on to vent to a zombie that was being retained for experimentation. Carol gets close to the zombie and it begins to eat her, much to Carol's delight (pictured above).
Society having been as rudely disrupted as it was, it does open the doors for the show to address the idea that previously restricted scenarios like polygamy are fair game. That the subject hasn't been broached is a missed opportunity by the show (though it may be touched on soon with Negan and his presumed harem). It is also unfortunate that such a grisly suicide hasn't been recreated in the show by some character or another.
2 Rick becomes a southpaw
Early in the comic books, Rick has his right hand cut off by The Governor (issue 28). It goes without saying that this has a major impact on the protagonist of the story. We understand that there are technical and budget constraints to this happening on the show, but it has caused the show to re-align the character of Rick Grimes; making him more mentally fragile and prone to bad decision making than he is in the comic books. A story with an invincible hero is not one that captures the imagination of millions, and Rick's mutilation allowed his character to stay sympathetic and vulnerable even when leading his group more ably than his television counterpart.
Rick losing his hand (especially his primary hand) would throw his world into chaos on the television show. We are rarely treated to a differently-abled (that's handicapped to the less enlightened) hero. Seeing Rick cope with fighting and survival and just daily function without his hand would make for compelling television and we can only (sadistically) hope that showrunner Scott Gimple finds it in his (sadistic) heart to make it so.
1 Blunted trauma
Issue 100 of The Walking Dead featured perhaps the most shocking and stomach-punching death in comics history. The scene, featuring Negan and his Saviors, plays out very similarly in the show, as he captures Rick's survivors. He proceeds to make a statement by making everyone watch as he bashes Glenn's brains in with his barb wire-wrapped baseball bat, Lucille. The images are haunting as Negan brutalizes Glenn, all the while making jokes. Glenn is shown, skull crushed, and screaming for his wife, Maggie. The issue then continues with Negan laying out the new rules of the land to Rick; that Negan will force Rick's group to provide for the Saviors or suffer the consequences. It all makes for a horrific way to end the issue and keep readers waiting a month for the follow-up.
All of this will likely happen when Season 7 premieres. In a highly controversial and contentious decision, the show's creators decided to end Season 6 with a mystery cliffhanger as to which main character is killed by Negan. Negan plays 'Eenie Meenie' to pick his victim and the camera shifts to a first person perspective, replete with a blurry lens and fake-looking blood dripping over the camera for effect. That's where the episode ends; with the absolute corniest way to convey one of the most serious and devastating deaths we're likely to see in the show. In doing so, it managed to cause an immense amount of backlash and fan ire, and cause everyone to wait six months before the resolution. The episode will no doubt replay the last few moments of the previous episode in order to build tension back up, but irrevocable damage has been done to the show and its audience base. Of course, most of us, the author included will still be watching when Season 7 premieres... just to see if the show redeems itself.
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The people of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, have voted to greatly reduce failed asylum seeker social benefits which could see the canton save as much as 10 million Swiss Francs (£7.6 million).
The proposal was put forth to the people in the form of a referendum which was voted on Sunday and passed with a majority of votes. The new amendment will make it so that asylum seekers who do not qualify for refugee status, but the government is unable to deport, will no longer receive full social assistance but only emergency funds from the Cantonal government, Kronen Zeitung reports.
An estimated 5,300 failed asylum seekers live in the Zürich canton with “F Status” meaning that whilst they have failed in their asylum claim, the government cannot deport them back to their home country because of potential dangers to them.
Formerly, migrants with F status received around 900 Swiss Francs (£691) per month but now will receive only the emergency fund amount of 360 Swiss Francs (£276) each month.
Unlike other countries, failed asylum seekers are allowed to pursue full-time work in Switzerland. If an asylum seeker falls ill or is fired from their job they will still qualify for state benefits but at the new lower asylum seeker rate.
In neighbouring Austria, the issue of welfare payments to asylum seekers has been a contentious issue. According to Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka, around 90 per cent of asylum seekers who have their claims approved end up of social assistance programmes.
Sobotka argued against taking in more migrants from the European Union redistribution scheme saying Austria’s welfare system was already strained. According to a report from last year, asylum seekers were making more money from welfare payments than retired farmers who had paid into the system their entire lives.
In Germany, the real numbers are even greater with an estimated half a million migrants on some form of social assistance costing the German taxpayer billions of euros.
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Rob Manfred answers questions from the media after naming Cal Ripken Jr. Senior Advisor to the Commissioner on Youth Programs and Outreach during the MLB winter meetings. (Photo11: Jim Brown, USA TODAY Sports)
JUPITER, Fla. — OK, maybe it’s a little dramatic for Major League Baseball.
Baseball has trouble enough deciding whether the DH should be employed in both leagues, and re-defining the slide rule into second base, without overhauling Abner Doubleday’s original rules.
Still, at a time when Major League Baseball is desperately trying to bridge a generation gap with their fans - 56 was the median age of fans watching nationally televised games last year - the industry is reaching out to the youth of America.
That number is alarming, particularly considering the average age was 34 for those using the MLB At-bat application on their cell phones, tablets and TVs.
As Commissioner Rob Manfred prepares to fan out through spring training, beginning Friday in Florida, he’s intent on spreading a message integral to the sport’s prosperity: If you don’t play baseball, you probably won’t watch baseball.
“The biggest and strongest indicator of fan affinity as an adult," Manfred told USA TODAY Sports on Tuesday, “is if you played as a kid. The relationship was really strong."
So how do you get kids to start playing baseball again, instead of playing video games or other sports?
Introduce a few radical rule changes to pique their interest.
“Let’s forget the traditional mindset," said Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., who was hired in December as a special advisor to Manfred on youth programs and outreach. “We’re not ruining the game. We’re teaching the game. We’re showcasing the game.
“We want to test this out in tournament games, in consolation games, to see how it works."
You ready?
How about starting every inning with a runner on first base? How about starting each inning with a different count? Instead of three outs an inning, how about five batters? What if players are required to steal?
“We want to put out some ideas, and try some things," Ripken said. “Look, if someone doesn’t know how to coach baseball, it can be the most boring sport in the world, sharing one ball with eight players and a pitcher. Let’s try different elements.
“These rules have stood for so long, let’s see how we can create action plays in baseball, let a catcher block balls and throw out runners, let infielders have the potential for double plays, showcase an outfielder’s arm strength.
“You integrate these sort of things, you’re playing the game faster, quicker, and everyone is more energized."
Who knows, you get more kids excited about baseball, maybe the next Mike Trout, Andrew McCutchen, Chris Archer or Bryce Harper ambles over from another sport?
It’s all part of Manfred’s master plan. He introduced the “Play Ball," initiative, hired former Los Angeles Angels GM Tony Reagins to oversee all of the youth programs, reached out to city mayors across the country for “Play Ball Summer’’ and clubs with “Play Ball Weekend" in May.
“Really, this should have been done a long time ago,’’ Ripken said. “This is a big ordeal. Baseball has lost a lot of athletes to other sports. The general feeling is that baseball is too slow, too boring.
“It’s the most dynamic game around. It’s magical and fascinating once you understand it, but for kids, it’s got to be fun. You have to introduce it in the right way. This delivers a country-wide initiative to get people kids to play. It doesn’t have to be in the formal sense, but in all ways, and having fun playing creative versions of it."
Considering how much kids love their gadgets, the Pittsburgh Pirates and 10 other franchises have invested in Diamond Kinetics, a software that allows players to analyze their swing with a sensor on the knob of their bat. It lets them know their bat speed, exit velocity, and everything else you want to know without needing a joystick or video game.
“What really excites me about that is that it’s a technological-driven way to get kids engaged in learning the game in a serious way," Pirates owner Bob Nutting told USA TODAY Sports, “but in a fun and different way. It’s another way to re-energize activity with the declining participation in organized sports. We want to do everything we can as a catalyst to get people engaged in not only youth sports overall, but particularly, baseball.
“I really believe we have that opportunity."
Time is of the essence considering that youth participation in baseball and softball has steadily declined since 2000, plummeting by 40%, according to the National Sporting Goods Association.
“You always see the popularity of some of the other sports, ones that kids are more engaged in," said Reagins, MLB senior vice president for youth programs. “You wonder how these other sports get all of the attention. Well, we have to do some things that are non-traditional to get kids more involved and more appealing across the board, making it a quicker paced-game.
“There are a lot of kids who have never picked up a ball or bat, so now we want that experience to be fun and action packed. Young people are really interested in metrics, so they want to know how fast they can run, how hard they throw, everything.
“It’s going to take some time to see the numbers turn, but I really believe they will."
And, if they do, well, maybe a whole lot more ballparks will start looking like AT&T Park in San Francisco. The Giants sell out every game, playing in front of perhaps the most entertaining and energetic crowd in baseball.
“The games in San Francisco," Manfred said, “don’t look like a typical baseball crowd. Really, we’d like to see younger audiences like that everywhere."
Baseball’s future may ultimately depend on it.
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How To Start Your Own Blog That Makes Passive Income – Life Takes Visa Skip to content Life Takes Visa Menu Close Home Contact About How To Start Your Own Blog That Makes Passive Income Blogging is a great way to make passive income. While you can get paid for your content on the internet, you can also make money from it by setting up a blogging platform and charging people to read your articles. While there are many ways to earn money with blogs, the most popular one is affiliate marketing, which involves promoting products or services on blogs and websites. You can either do it yourself by creating an affiliate site or take an existing blog and start working with it as an affiliate site. Blogging is a popular & easiest way to get your own content and build a strong audience. The best part is that you can do it completely in your spare time. It is a good way to get some exposure, earn money, and be creative. There are many ways to start your own blog. There are thousands of blogs out there with wonderful content, all ready to be consumed, so that can be the perfect platform for you to start building your reputation. What is a Blog? The definition of a blog varies from one site to another. Some definitions include any online platform that allows users to create, maintain, and publish content on it. Other definitions are very broad and include all types of web platforms such as blogs, discussion forums, and social networking sites. A blog can also be defined as an online presence in the form of written material that is available to view by an Internet user or reader at any time they choose. This material may consist of text, images, audio clips, or video files. Popular topics for blogs are home improvement projects, technology-related products and services, travel information, and tips. Blogs may also be used by publishers as a way of promoting their products and services over the web. How To Start Your Own Blog That Makes Passive Income Blogs are an excellent way to build an online presence and get exposure for your products, services, or topics. You can use this platform to generate revenue from affiliate commissions or drive traffic to your website. A blog is a medium for making passive income. It is about creating a community and offering services to the users. I want to talk about the impact of blogging on your passive income. It has a huge potential to be a way for you to earn money from your passion and hobby. It is not only that you can make decent money from your blog – but I want to show you how you can start your own blog that earns you some passive income and, at the same time, contribute to the future development of digital publishing industry. Why Should You Start A Blog? Why should someone start a blog? A blog is a great way to attract people and create traffic. It is an effective marketing tool for your business. It helps you to build a personal brand, which can then help you to find sponsors, build your email list, get better search engine rankings, and much more. It’s not just about the money. Holding a blog is a great way to provide exposure and build brand awareness. The key to making money blogging is to have a plan. It is unlikely to happen if you just create random content and sit back to relax in the hope that it will come back to you with dollar signs. You need to be intentional with your approach – attitude, style, manner, and ethics form the basis of anything you write. You can say that creativity is a question of how much you can feel in your writing. One way to create high-quality output text is by changing the register and the tone of your voice. Your voices can vary due to your age, gender, and background. Using text recognition algorithms, you can alter your voice to make it more persuasive or convincing (or both). Easy enough, right? It’s been done before. However, the bigger challenge is the effort required to produce it. How much effort are you willing to put in? So here is a three-step strategy that will help you start a blog and boost your chances of making money! Step 1: Start a blog Blogs can be launched quickly and easily with the help of our automated services. Leading digital brands are offering their own blogging solutions to help people increase their online presence. So, here are a few things you’ll need to know before starting on your initial efforts: When people start their own blog, they need to prepare carefully for it first. There are four steps that you have to follow when starting a blog. Select your blog name – Begin by picking up a blog name. Often, this name will be related to your topic or your name. It should be descriptive yet simple. While the domain should be relevant to the value proposition of your business, it can still be completely personal if it means that much to you. Blog domains should be one to three words in length and most probably made up of nouns. If possible, you want a top-level domain (TLD) that’s either .com, .net, .org, .in or .co. Get your blog online – The blog you created will probably exist as a static website. The domain name can be purchased shortly after getting the blog up, hoping that someone searches for it first and grabs the spot first. In this case, you’ll need a website hosting company to host your independent blog. You can use a CMS like WordPress to easily create, store and manage your website content. Customize your site – With the ability to choose from many preset templates, you can be sure your website will perfectly fit your brand. Customizing your own website design is both cost-effective and highly efficient. You can save a lot of time doing that instead of hiring someone to do it for you. Publish the first post – Now, this is the time to start with your first post with a personalized post suitable for your target audience. A pillar post is an SEO copywriting resource. We treat our pillars like SEO resources: long, meaty blog posts that are targeted to specific verticals and industries. Once you’ve done that, you can begin to implement existing content into your blog post. Step 2: Monetizing Your Blog Creating the blog was the first thing to do. Now as you have not started a blog just to share your thoughts online but to earn some real passive income. It means you’ll have to monetize your blog, and these are the most popular methods for monetizing a blog is to make money online: Display Ads: Your digital billboard ads are being delivered via AI to your blog readers. The analysis of those analytics is performed by your content marketing team, so the Ads serve exactly what is needed and do not run too long or too short. These include engagement, conversion rate, monthly visitors, and so forth. The more impressively good your numbers are, the higher your chances to earn will be. Affiliate Marketing: Your affiliate links are only as promoted, and your visitors can choose any website to be linked to. There are no restrictions to exclusivity, and you do have the option to promote sites other than your own. Not having to own any products or services saves you a lot of time and effort. You will just need to drive traffic to other people’s products and earn a commission for any sales made. You will just need to drive traffic to other people’s products to get paid a commission for every sale made from your website. Sell Digital Products/Services: Selling any digital services or products can help you build loyal and engaged followers by sharing high-value content. They can also be used in paid advertising and marketing campaigns – in an era that is short on budget. Step 3: Automation and Outsourcing Once you monetize your business, what’s next? You’ll need to get it to scale for any profitability. Being a blog publisher is certainly not easy, and there are many key factors that may limit growth. There’s much more than just monetizing your blog. There are some amazing perks to having an automation system for your blog. You don’t have to worry about being around for four hours a day chatting with your clients and colleagues. And you can whip up content in the comfort of your own home. There are two primary ways you can do this: Automation. Automation tools like Automate.ly allow us to automate the process of capturing good-quality content for our blogs and websites. Not only does this reduce time spent on blogging thanks to automation, but also it improves both quality and productivity by having the ability to focus on other important aspects of daily work. There are several apps available to automate content writing, social media, writing blog outlines, proofreading, list segmentation, scheduling posts, and many more. A tool like Zapier or IFTTT is a great way to automate the process of executing commands that implement the responses. Outsourcing. You have the ability to hire a team of skilled freelancers and not have to worry about what they’re going to write. In this particular case, use a single source of agency to bring your messaging and ideas together and re-use as many resources as possible from the site or agency. Selecting and hiring reliable writers or virtual assistants is important for your business to thrive. Doing so will be a challenge. Therefore, the solution to both problems at hand (time and cost) is to hire an operations person or sales professional to get your revenue numbers moving upward and to the right. You can hire professional SEO specialists to automate the SEO main task and begin outsourcing SEO work to them. 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At the launch of Cambridge University’s Big Data Institute, we recently asked the physicist Stephen Hawking to describe the one idea that would transform our society. He chose nuclear fusion – the process of releasing energy by transforming hydrogen atoms into helium.
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Image caption Vassilis Papageorgopoulos said his trial was politically motivated
A former mayor of Greece's second city Thessaloniki and two other ex-officials have been jailed for life for embezzling almost 18m euros (£15.5m) of public funds.
The court ruled that Vassilis Papageorgopoulos was a key part of a scam that lasted between 1999 and 2008.
It is believed to be the longest sentence given to any Greek politician convicted of corruption.
After sentencing, Papageorgopoulos continued to protest his innocence.
"I declare that I have nothing to do with this case," he told the Thessaloniki court, according to Greek media.
"Some people will go to their graves weighed down by remorse."
He said his trial had been turned into a "political process".
Papageorgopoulos was mayor of Thessaloniki from 1999 to 2010 after serving as deputy sports minister in the early 1990s.
Also sentenced to life were the city's former general secretary, Michalis Lemoussias, and former treasurer Panagiotis Saxonis.
All three are expected to appeal.
Joint account
The court heard that Saxonis was responsible for forwarding to social security funds the contributions from council workers' salaries.
Prosecutors said he kept that money and, after taking a 10% cut, forwarded the rest to Lemoussias who split it with Papageorgopoulos.
The court was told that the funds were initially banked in a joint account in the names of Papageorgopoulos and Lemoussias.
Prosecutors began investigating the city's accounts following complaints that millions of euros were missing.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says the Greek political class has long been perceived as "untouchable", although plagued by scandals and clientelism.
In 2012 the watchdog Transparency International named Greece as the most corrupt country in the European Union.
However, a culture of accountability is beginning to emerge, our correspondent adds, and as Greeks battle with austerity, there is a growing clamour for politicians to be held responsible for their actions.
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Are you ready for a spectacular 2019? – iHope Skip to content iHope distinctly Christian care and counseling Menu Home About Mission & Vision Statement of Faith Location & Hours Counselors & Staff 2021 Annual Report Services Counseling Services Teaching & Training Church & Ministry Support “The Counseling Collective” digital resources Newsletter SignUp Videos Donate Donate Online Other Ways to Give Why give to iHope? Are you ready for a spectacular 2019? January 3, 2019 I am confident that you want to celebrate next New Years – January 2020 – with memories of happiness, peace, comfort, and an overall fun 2019. Of course you do. We all do! I certainly want to enjoy a wonderful 2019. But how do we ensure that happens? How do we set goals, create rhythms, and approach this new year in a way that promises to be spectacular? At the risk of being a buzzkill… We can’t. I certainly can’t. There is nothing we can do to ensure or guarantee a joyful, fun, happy year in 2019. We simply don’t control enough in our lives to make that happen. Even when we know God, serve God, love God, pursue God, and do everything in our power to follow Him well… this does not guarantee us a life of comfort and ease. It does, however, guarantee us a life of meaning. When we know God, we know joy, peace, compassion, and perfection. When we spend time with Him, we experience that peace in inexplicable ways. We are comforted beyond what a human could offer. So, perhaps, it depends on how you define “spectacular” as you think about the new year. While we cannot create a New Year’s resolution that will promise us a happy 2019, we can give this year to the God who promises to do amazing things for our good and for his glory. We can keep our eyes open and watch Him work throughout this year. As we pursue God, spending time and engaging in a relationship with Him, we experience more fully the weight of his glory. Is there anything more spectacular than knowing God and seeing Him work in this world? I can guarantee you that there is not! Look for Him this year. Ready yourself for the inevitability of being surprised, humbled, and awed by who He is and what He does. And in order to achieve this spectacular 2019, may we echo Paul’s prayer for the Ephesians and pray the same for our community today: “I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength He exerted when He raised Christ from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.” Ephesians 1:18-21 Amen. We’re ready to watch God work in 2019! Written by Jessica Hayes iHope Executive Director Share this: Twitter Facebook Like this: Like Loading... Posted in: Personal Growth, Uncategorized | Tagged: holiday, questions to ask yourself, Scripture Post navigation A Christmas Prayer Do you know what your child is doing on their phone? Search Search for: Recent Posts The Power of a Jar Cultivating a life of love: A reflection on 1 Corinthians 13 Dealing with guilt and regret How are coaching and counseling different? Christmas is not about the idol of family Archives April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 July 2019 June 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 August 2016 Contact Us 1414 W. Evans Street Florence, SC 29501 (843) 702-0323 counseling@ihopeflorence.com Privacy Policy please note iHope does not provide emergency care. In the event of a crisis, call 911 or go to your nearest emergency room. No one is allowed into the building without a scheduled appo No one is allowed into the building without a scheduled appointment. Follow Us Facebook Instagram JOIN our E-NEWSLETTER for free resources! %d bloggers like this:
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A federal appeals court Wednesday withdrew its May ruling that ordered sweeping reform of the Department of Veterans Affairs to care for those returning from combat with post-traumatic stress disorder and other psychological injuries.
The full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will reconsider the case brought by two veterans advocacy groups alleging systemic failures to treat mental health injuries and help lower a suicide rate that takes the lives of 6,500 former service members each year, according to court records.
Chief Judge Alex Kozinski had dissented from the May ruling by a three-judge panel, arguing that "much as the VA's failure to meet the needs of veterans with PTSD might shock and outrage us, we may not step in and boss it around."
It was not immediately clear from the court's brief announcement when an 11-judge panel would reconsider the lawsuit brought four years ago by Veterans for Common Sense and Veterans United for Truth on behalf of the nation's 25 million former service members.
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Everybody knows that Donald Trump isn’t conventionally qualified to be president of the United States. But as a candidate, he appealed to people’s distaste for the conventional political system, and a segment of the public had Apprentice-induced faith in his management skills, figuring he would do what any business genius would do — surround himself with talent.
“I am self funding and will hire the best people,” he wrote in April, “not the biggest donors!”
The fact that his national security adviser couldn’t make it four weeks before being forced to resign tells you something about that “best people” claim. So does the fact that his deputy national security adviser is also expected to leave once she gets a new boss. (Also, no matter how many times he said it, his claims to be self-funding weren’t true.)
The hiring problem is bigger than Flynn. The Trump team reflects a consistent preference for judging people based on personal loyalty rather than suitability for the job at hand, leading naturally to a structure of interlocking fiefdoms rather than a coherent, competent team. There are a handful of solid hires in the mix, like a legitimately well-qualified transportation secretary who happens to be married to the Senate majority leader, but these seem to appear more by coincidence than by design. The overall caliber of the hiring is so low that marginal cases appear well-qualified by contrast.
President of the United States is a big time job. When it’s filled by an obviously inexperienced president, he needs to actually hire the best people. Not hire a mix of disastrous people and sort of okay people. The best people. But Trump doesn’t have them — and this could increasingly be a problem for him with voters.
Trump fans really expect solid management
Detailed polling evidence from Survey Monkey suggests that some of Trump’s support is soft, and his supposed management prowess is a key theme among his backers.
It can be easy for cynical reporters to appreciate this, but many Americans take network television shows very seriously. Reality shows are, fundamentally, fake. But not everybody knows that, and, obviously, the marketing purpose of the “reality” genre is to present them as real. The premise of The Apprentice was, for years, that Trump was more than a rich, charismatic playboy with an inherited fortune and a flair for publicity. Instead he was a business expert, sufficiently knowledgeable about management to not only amass a fortune of his own but to sit in judgment of others’ performance.
The reality show that is the first month of Trump’s presidency suggests otherwise. That Flynn, who everyone said was going to be disastrous, was hired and then proved disastrous ought to be the beginning of a wake-up call about the reality of what’s going on in Trumpdom: People are being hired on the basis of trust and loyalty networks, not real skill.
A weak team of loyalists
Conservative think-tanker Christopher DeMuth has gamely tried to defend the chaotic nature of the Trump administration as reflecting a strong leader’s desire for a “team of rivals.”
There’s no evidence of that. Just look at the still-unfilled job of deputy secretary of state.
Rex Tillerson, though almost certainly not “the best” person to serve as the nation’s chief diplomat, is an experienced manager who understands the value of well-informed subordinates. He wanted to hire someone with experience in the State Department to serve as his deputy, and hit upon Elliott Abrams as his choice. But according to the New York Times, Trump vetoed the selection despite “a productive meeting” with Abrams because “after it took place, Mr. Trump learned of Mr. Abrams’s pointed criticisms of the president when he was running for president.”
This is not a team of rivals. Ability to perform the job well does not appear to factor into Trump’s thinking at all.
More disturbingly, Trump’s top advisers and even his Cabinet secretaries appear to believe that the best way to get things done is to attempt to trick the president by giving him inadequate briefings before meetings. Neither Tillerson nor anyone else thought they should talk through Abrams’s campaign season criticisms before the meeting so that Trump and Abrams could bury the hatchet. Their idea of getting things done is to dupe the boss — an idea that, if it worked, would only sow the seeds for later disasters.
Incidents like this are scattered throughout Trump’s personnel decisions. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s appointment as UN secretary was largely welcomed on the basis of her banal, conventional foreign policy views. But she lacks any kind of qualification for the job, which appears to have been given to her as a reward to the state’s lieutenant governor, who replaced her when she left. The lieutenant governor was a rare elected official to endorse Trump in the primaries, and by becoming the incumbent now faces a much easier path to reelection than he would have in a competitive primary.
Trump has tapped his own son-in-law for an extremely senior White House post that he has no qualifications for. Even Chief of Staff Reince Priebus lacks any of the experience in government that should be a prerequisite for the job.
Steve Mnuchin — a former Goldman Sachs executive and an executive producer on the new Lego Batman movie — has no experience in government. One of his stated reasons for supporting Trump during the campaign was “Nobody’s going to be like, ‘Well, why did he do this?’ if I end up in the administration.” It worked. Now he’s Treasury secretary, a job he legitimately could not have gotten any other way.
Trump is really good at television
The reality, of course, is that reality television is a subset of television, not of reality. The shows star “real people,” but they are still acting. Their narrative arcs are constructed by producers rather than screenwriters. But it’s still artifice. Hosting a successful reality television show is a legitimately difficult job that not anyone could do. But playing a management savant on The Apprentice didn’t require Trump to be a management savant any more than the cast of The Big Bang Theory can do theoretical physics.
“Did we think this clown, this buffoon with the funny hair, would ever become a world leader?” Bill Pruitt, a veteran reality producer who worked on the first two seasons of The Apprentice, wrote in Vanity Fair. “Not once. Ever. Would he and his bombastic nature dominate in prime-time TV? We hoped so.”
And, of course, the constant swirl of chaos surrounding Trump has been great for ratings. Circulation is up at the New York Times and the Washington Post, Vox’s web traffic is exceeding expectations, and both Spicer’s press briefings and Saturday Night Live’s satire of them are pulling in great numbers.
It just happens to be a lousy way to govern.
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Can you believe that Halo 3 was released 7 years ago? I can't. I remember putting so many hours into that game back in high school. I can't believe it has been so long since it came out. Since Bungie has a fascination with the number 7 it seems like the perfect time to look back at Halo 3 today on its 7th anniversary.
By today's standards, the graphics in Halo 3 look a bit dated but back in the day the game looked pretty damn beautiful and detailed, hell, the game still looks damn good. The scenic jungle of the first mission, Sierra 117 still stands out to me because of all the beautiful details that might have been missed if you weren't looking closely.
Right from the beginning the game looked so much better than Halo 2 thanks to the increased capabilities of the 360. The rays of light breaking through the trees in the start of Sierra 117 caught really caught my attention and I knew that this game was going to look amazing.
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The waterfall a bit further on in the mission is usually something you would quickly walk right by but when you look at it closely it is quite a beautiful sight. And the later parts of the mission with Mt. Kilimanjaro rising in the distance were quite stunning. I remember glitching outside the map to get this perfect screenshot that served as my desktop wallpaper for a few years,
Mission number three, Tsavo Highway, also featured some great visuals. The wreckage of the Mombasa Tether scattered across the Savannah added a nice level of detail and halfway through you can get a great view of the Forerunner dreadnought waiting for the portal to the Ark to open.
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When you finally go to the Ark in the sixth mission simply titled The Ark, you finally got a good look at one of the beautiful Forerunner installations in a much higher quality than the first two games.
The desert you are dropped in is visually stunning with interesting triangular dunes, Forerunner structures protruding from the rocks, the arms of the Ark in the distance, and the whole Milky Way galaxy up in the sky. The end of the mission brings you to the edge of the desert with a breathtaking vista of a great ocean pouring down into the depth of the Ark in a massive waterfall with the rest of the Ark in background.
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The next mission, The Covenant, had visuals reminiscent of the first mission on the Halo ring in the first game with the tall coniferous trees and grassy hills and cliff-faces.
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And the many islands scattered across the horizon as you look out into the ocean.
The culmination of the whole trilogy sees you returning to a familiar snowy canyon, the control room of the newly rebuilt Installation 04, the first Halo ring. Capturing the fond memories of one of the most beloved campaign missions in the Halo franchise, Assault on the Control Room, the final mission was a great way to end the journey.
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And as if it couldn't get any better, the game concludes with a callback to the last mission of the first game with a race against time in the warthog as the world falls apart around you. Driving across the still-under-construction ring world with the Ark in the sky above brought one last breathtaking view.
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Halo 3 was such a beautiful game all the way through, not just as an epic conclusion to the trilogy but also in terms of it's amazing art. Looking back at this game fills me with nostalgia for the early days of the 360 and with excitement to play through it once more in the upcoming Master Chief Collection.
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As the second of the Big Three to come wagging their tails between their legs to the US Congress, General Motors is asking for a total of $18 billion dollars to avoid imminent bankruptcy. The only problem: nobody gave them the electric car memo.
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Unlike Ford, which in their tail wagging earlier today made a huge shift to focusing on electric car development, GM chose to focus their restructuring plan on the fact that they have a large number of fuel efficient vehicles (defined as 30+ mpg on the highway) already on the road. Plus, they say that by 2012 more than half of their cars will be flex-fuel capable.
They make a passing mention of the upcoming Volt and highlight the upcoming introduction of SUV and pickup truck hybrids like the 2009 Saturn VUE, Silverado and Sierra hybrids. By 2012, GM says it will offer 15 hybrid models.
Oh man. Whoop-dee. Where’s the reinvigoration? Where’re the new strategies? WTF? We already know about flex-fuel cars and Detroit has done a piss-poor job of marketing them. We already know about your old-school hybrid technology. Nobody cares about hybrid SUVs anymore. Give me a break GM. Are you really going to hang your hat on the one piece of truly innovative technology you have — the Volt? Have you given up?
I’m sorry, but the writing’s on the wall. These are not the solutions that Americans are clamoring for or excited to support. The fact of the matter is that companies like Nissan, Mitsubishi and now Ford have seen the future of driving for most people, and that future is electric.
Look, as much as I appreciate the fact that current electric car technology won’t fit everybody’s needs — read: rural folks who drive long distances daily and haul a lot — and that clean car technology for those folks involves biofuel powered automobiles, the electric car looks like it’s the best solution for 80-90% of the US’ driving population.
Certainly flex-fuel vehicles are going to be an integral portion of our automotive future (if the manufacturers would just start tuning cars to actually run efficiently on ethanol), but it’s not the best available technology for short distance commuters or city folks.
For GM to come up with this as their best plan shows a lack of initiative and creativity. It’s like they went home and sulked and procrastinated until the night before the big project was due and then did some s@#t piece of BS right before it was due.
Just ridiculous. Didn’t the Big Three talk to each other before presenting their plans? Didn’t GM realize it was going to come off looking like the schmuck? Give me a break. All their plan shows is that they’re as resistant as ever to real change.
You can read the press release here
Download the actual restructuring plan here
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FRANCOIS GAUTIER has a new video up on YouTube on how Brahmins and Upper Caste Hindus have become a minority in India. Once belonging to the priestly class, many now drive taxis, clean toilets, carry headloads as coolies, make tea on the roadside, and work as masons and domestic helps to earn a living.
“Population-wise, Brahmins are a minority. And 80 per cent of Brahmins are financially poor,” is the claim made by Tamil writer Seetharaman in the video.
The video has some revealing and controversial placards:
# 50 per cent of the rickshaw pullers in Delhi’s Patel Nagar are Brahmins. # 70 per cent of people employed in the 1,783 public toilets in Delhi are upper caste Hindus. # 75 per cent of domestic help and cooks in Andhra Pradesh are Brahmins. # 44 per cent Brahmins drop out of primary school and 36 per cent drop out by mariculation. Nearly 70 per cent of Brahmins and Other Upper Castes don’t go beyond 12th standard. # All purohits live below the poverty line, according to a book Brahmins of India, by J Radhakrishna, published by Chugh Publications. And 53.9 per cent of upper caste population live below poverty line. # A priest’s salary in Ranganathaswamy Temple in Tamil Nadu is Rs 300 per month and a measure of rice; the government staff at the same temple earn Rs 2,500. # 52.4 per cent of Brahmins and Other Upper Castes do not own more than 100 cents of land, according to a paper presented by D. Narayana of the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum.
There is nothing called the “other side” in the documentary by Gautier, a French journalist who has lived in India for 33 years, and proudly bats for the Hindutva cause with more fervour than the average Bajrang Dal activist.
Still, the points he throws up in this one-sided documentary are worth debating.
Are Brahmins the new Dalits of India, oppressed and marginalised? Has votebank politics pushed a once proud class to the brink? Do the upper castes deserve this for what they are condemned to have done over centuries? And since nearly a third of India’s population comprises upper caste Hindus, is there an electoral future for a new political party that addresses their needs, issues, and demands?
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Premier Dalton McGuinty planned to suspend the legislature this week — even before he decided to resign — in order to reach a wage-freeze deal with 481,000 unionized public servants, the Star has learned. Sources said the house was to have been prorogued Tuesday because McGuinty wanted to foster secret talks that began a week ago without the supercharged backdrop of a raucous minority assembly.
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced he's stepping down as the leader of the Ontario Liberal Party on Monday, October 15, 2012. ( RICK MADONIK / TORONTO STAR )
“There’s a desire to get a deal . . . through negotiation not legislation,” a senior government official said Thursday. Ironically, McGuinty’s controversial prorogation could inadvertently jeopardize any chance at peacefully resolving the labour standoff. “Any interest we may have had evaporated when Dalton McGuinty prorogued,” Ontario Public Service Employees Union president Warren (Smokey) Thomas said in an interview.
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“I don’t like the notion he shut down democracy to get a deal with labour,” he added, calling it “offensive in the extreme.” Privately, senior Liberals are hopeful Thomas’s stance is posturing because they believe he is sincere and constructive. Indeed, even as he was railing about prorogation, sources say the OPSEU president met Wednesday with Government Services Minister Harinder Takhar to talk. It’s part of an ongoing dialogue stemming from a two-hour meeting in McGuinty’s private boardroom last Friday, where senior Liberal officials huddled with top labour leaders — including the presidents of the teachers’ unions now at war with the government. The exploratory discussions were the result of “back-channel” overtures from Ontario Federation of Labour president Sid Ryan aimed at averting a legislated wage freeze on more public employees.
Earlier this month, Canadian Auto Workers president Ken Lewenza — who is friends with Finance Minister Dwight Duncan, a fellow Windsor native — quietly assured the government “the coals are hot to get a deal.” Lewenza, the most powerful private-sector union leader in Canada, prodded the Liberals to reopen lines of communication with labour after months of tumult that had culminated in last month’s law, Bill 115, mandating a freeze on teachers’ wages for two years.
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Some CAW members who work in the public service would be affected by any new restraint measures. A complicating political factor was the minority Liberal government’s threat to introduce legislation similar to Bill 115 imposing a wage freeze on 481,000 other employees, including nurses, custodians, and professors — possibly with Progressive Conservative support. As long as the legislature was in session, the pressure to actually introduce that bill was mounting on McGuinty. With unions already challenging the teachers’ legislation as unconstitutional in court, the Liberals know similar legal action looms for any other imposed wage freeze law. That’s why — prior to McGuinty’s surprise announcement Monday he was resigning after nine years as premier and 16 as Liberal leader — the decision had been made to prorogue the house and concentrate all energies on a labour deal. The list of attendees at last Friday’s meeting reads like a who’s who of Ontario power brokers: McGuinty’s chief of staff David Livingston, Duncan’s chief of staff Tim Shortill, and Dave Gene, the premier’s top political fixer, met with Ryan, Thomas, Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario president Sam Hammond, Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation president Ken Coran, and Linda Haslam-Stroud, president of the Ontario Nurses Association. Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario president Fred Hahn was the only key player unable to attend the session that one participant described as “pretty rancorous.” “It was a fishing expedition on the part of the government,” insisted another union insider. Not so, argue Liberal sources. “It was part of the reset,” said a Grit, referring to McGuinty’s departure and the house shutting down. “This now dials down things.” One argument the Liberals are using is to remind labour leaders that Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak, who leads in public opinion polls, has vowed to strip unions of some powers and slash public service jobs while unilaterally freezing wages. But some unionists appear willing to gamble that NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, who opposes any legislated freeze, will win an election expected next spring. “I’m not interested in saving the Liberals,” said one labour official close to the talks. Another union insider conceded that if the Liberals call back the legislature and water down Bill 115, they will be more willing to make a deal on framework toward a broader freeze. While Ryan was not available for comment, the OFL’s Joel Duff emphasized: “Sid didn’t go in with any mandate there.” “We’re talking about talking . . . feeling out when and how. Everybody’s reading the tea leaves. We’re trying to figure out where the unions are at.” News of the secret meeting emerged as the Association of Management, Administrative and Professional Crown Employees of Ontario (AMAPCEO) on Thursday ratified a new collective agreement with the government that includes a two-year salary freeze for 10,000 workers. ALSO ON THE STAR: Opinion: Ontario’s teachers must do proper report cards James: Instead of reassurance, Hudak throws a grenade Cohn: Ontario unions might find prorogation works
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Weekend Hatha Yoga Retreat on Softening the Heart - English Yoga Berlin English Yoga Berlin ______________________how to relax in Berlin Skip to content About Us Teachers Types of Yoga We Teach Schedule Schedule classes courses Workshops retreats Prices Business Yoga Alexander Technique RAIN Gift Cards Relaxations Resources EYB-Blog FAQ Find Us Location Contact Us Weekend Hatha Yoga Retreat on Softening the Heart By English Yoga Berlin 24.09.18 06.12.18 retreats Pinelopi is organizing a weekend long Hatha Yoga retreat dedicated to: “Softening the Heart” You are warmly invited to immerse yourselves in a weekend full of yoga, meditation, mindfulness and presence. Photo by Omer Salom on Unsplash When: Friday March 8th, 2019; 15.00 – Sunday March 10th 17.00 Where: Rosenwaldhof – This is a beautiful place in Brandenburg, 1.5 hours South-east of Berlin, on the river Havel, surrounded by nature. What is included: Four yoga sessions Meditation instruction Mindfulness walks to explore the river and nature Bio vegetarian food: breakfast, lunch and dinner Accommodation based on your preference Prices: Prices include all the above plus one of the following accommodation options: Double room 245€ Single room 255€ ** All bathroom facilities are shared. If you have a need for a private bathroom please inquire. Who: Up to 15 yoga students Early registration discount: 15 € discount if you register before January 15th, 2019. To reserve your space, please send an email and deposit 50 Euro by bank transfer or paypal. *The deposit is refundable unless cancellation occurs later than 21 days before the retreat. Space is limited so register early before the spots fill up! For more details, please write to: pinelopi (at) englishyogaberlin (dot) com Tagged English yoga retreat, English yoga retreat Berlin 2019, hatha yoga, Hatha Yoga Retreat in English Berlin, meditation, mindfulness retreat Berlin, mindfulness walks, softening the heart, yoga, Yoga and mindfulness retreat in English Berlin, yoga retreat Berlin. Bookmark the permalink. « Chakra course Berlin – the Details Private Yoga Classes: a teacher’s point of view (Juli) » Comments are closed. For more info about Avital's artwork click on the image. Upcoming Classes & Workshops Sep 25 Sun 16:00 Queer Yoga Vinyasa Flow – Hybrid... Queer Yoga Vinyasa Flow – Hybrid... Sep 25 @ 16:00 – 17:30 Svastha Yogatherapy – Vinyasa Flow Yoga by Juli….. A gentle Vinaysa Yoga Flow class in a queer and trans* positive space where gender binaries are viewed post-structurally and heteronormativity is challenged. Allies are welcome. This Vinyasa Flow yoga is slower than most, focusing on techniques of Svastha Yogatherapy – strengthening … Sep 27 Tue 15:30 Alexander Technique Lessons Alexander Technique Lessons Sep 27 @ 15:30 – 21:15 What is the Alexander Technique? The Alexander Technique is a re-education method that helps you break deeply embedded habits. Through this technique you learn how to recognize habits; how to pause; and help create new neural pathways in the use of your body and mind. Lessons at the studio. Alexander … View Calendar EYB Blog 6 week hybrid Meditation Course in Berlin 03.08.22 Design the meditation Posture that fits your specific body 12.07.22 The Alexander Technique and my Feet 30.03.22 Meet our Hatha Yoga Substitute 23.02.22 2022 Hatha Yoga Changes 20.12.21 Search for: Search Subscribe to our mailing list IMPRESSUM Powered by Parabola & WordPress.
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While it remains to be seen whether President Donald Trump will act on campaign promises to get tough on Beijing, the American public has largely soured on China in recent years. In a January survey by Pew Research Center, 65% said China is either an adversary (22%) or a serious problem (43%), while only about a third (31%) said China is not a problem. And in a separate spring 2016 survey, a majority (55%) of Americans held an unfavorable opinion of their largest Asian rival.
In the United States, negative views of China increased by 26 percentage points between 2006 and 2016. And American negativity toward China has been higher than Chinese negativity toward the U.S. in every year since 2014. By comparison, Chinese unfavorable views of the U.S. remained below 50% for most of Barack Obama’s presidency.
In both countries, those ages 50 and older are more likely than those 18 to 34 to view the other nation unfavorably. But even among young Americans (as among all other age groups in the U.S.), negative views of China increased over time, rising 21 percentage points between 2006 and 2016. However, Chinese youth warmed to the U.S. over the same time period, with unfavorable views falling 12 points.
In the U.S., Republicans have consistently had more unfavorable views of China than Democrats. In the 2016 survey, for example, 63% of Republicans held an unfavorable view of China, compared with 54% of Democrats. But over the past decade, unfavorable sentiment has increased among supporters of both parties by more than 20 percentage points.
As Americans have become more negative on China, they have also become more downbeat about their country’s global stature. In 2016, a 46% plurality of Americans said the U.S. plays a less important and powerful role as a world leader compared with 10 years ago. This figure was up 26 percentage points from 2004, when just 20% believed American power was waning.
The Chinese public, on the other hand, sees its country’s influence on the rise. Three-quarters of Chinese believe their country is playing a more important role in the world today compared with a decade ago.
And when it comes to the global balance of power, two-thirds of Chinese said in 2015 that their nation would eventually replace the U.S. – or had already replaced it – as the world’s leading superpower. Americans, on the other hand, were split. About half (48%) believed China would never surpass the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower, while 46% said that China would eventually replace the U.S. or already had. By contrast, in 2009, a majority (57%) of Americans thought China would never overtake the U.S. as the top global power.
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Collection Buying 103: Selling a Collection
by SaffronOlive // May 06, 2015 Tweet
finance collection buying 101
So a while ago I started a series about collection buying covering where to find and how to analyze collections, along with my rules or process for making it profitable. One question that came up a lot in the comments was "what about selling the cards you buy?" I promised I would finish the series by addressing this topic, but then things like spoiler season, the video series, and real life kept getting in the way. Well, this past weekend I came across a massive collection — 60,000 cards — and I realized that this was my perfect opportunity to finish the series, not just by writing about it, but by actually showing you (with pictures) my step-by-step process to selling the collection.
Friday 9 AM
So Friday morning I'm browsing my local Craigslist and come the above post. I quickly run through the math: 60,000 cards at $5/per thousand equals $300. If we assume the ratio really is similar to that of a booster pack, that would gives us approximately 4,000 rares at $0.10/each which equals $400. Money cards aside, I feel fairly comfortable that I can bulk this out for around $1000 over time. Paying $700 would be ideal, but assuming everything looks legit, paying $1000 isn't out of the question. I text the seller, he responds, we set up a meeting time of noon Friday. The drive for me is about one hour.
Friday 12 PM
No picture for this one because my big beard and massive frame is intimidating enough to people that don't know me. I once had the seller of a $3,000 collection walk right by me at a public meeting outside a Panara Bread only to turn back around, shake my hand and say "I thought about it, what are you going to do? Hit me over the head an try to run away with 20,000 Magic cards?" Asking for a picture would have just added another variable — one that wasn't really necessary — to the process.
Either way, in this case the seller was cool. My "pay $700" plan doesn't work. He won't take less than $1000. I buy the collection anyway, load a ton of fatpack boxes and a stack of two and five row boxes into my car. I almost run into a motorcycle on I-81 driving home; it was in my blind spot.
Friday 2 PM
I finally get everything into the house. While the picture doesn't really capture the enormity of the collection, it at least gives a small taste. Next on the agenda is sorting; this part of the process is going to take a while.
My method for sorting is a bit unique. I know people that will sort all 60,000 cards by set and color, but this is too much work for me. I don't have the time, patience, or outlet to get retail prices for the 20 Chimney Imps I'll find in the collection. My technique is to go through the collection and pull out three things: all the rares/mythics in one pile, all the uncommons in another pile, and any common or uncommon that I can sell (or may be able to sell in the future) in another pile. Everything else will be sold as bulk. I also tend to pull things from odd sets (Portal/Starter, Unhinged/Unglued, Coldsnap rerelease cards), tokens, and basic lands, not so much because they are valuable, but because some bulk-buyers don't like getting boxes full of tokens and basic lands.
I tend to pull aggressively. For instance, I remembered that at one time I could buylist Ambush Vipers for $0.05, so I pulled them all. It is way easier to pull too much and dump some cards back into the bulk than to not pull something and have to go back through 60,000 cards. This is one of the weaknesses of not sorting by set and color, but I still don't think it's worth it for me.
I pack the bulk into medium flat rate boxes as I go. Once a card is in a flat rate, it's gone. Never will I look at, touch, or think about it again. I've sure you've heard the much repeated MTG finance mantra "leave the last 10 percent for the next guy" in regards to selling specs. Well, this is also my theory in sorting bulk. I'm very confident in my ability to pull value from a collection, but I'm sure I miss a small numbers of low-value cards. These are the 10 percent for the next guy, which actually works on two levels. First, going through 60,000 cards a second time looking for a handful of $0.10 cards that I missed just isn't a good use of my time. Second, having a few playable/semi-valuable cards in the bulk actually makes the bulk-buyer happy.
By the time I'm done sorting, every single one of the 60,000 cards will either be in one of the piles I just talked about or be declared bulk and put into a flat rate. There is no in-between. For me this process is basically reflex and memory at this point. I don't type a single card into a website until the sorting is done. Instead my laptop is occupied by Netflix as I re-watch the entire series of Black Mirror, or by Youtube where I listen to Jeffery Lewis and early Tom Waits where he sounds like a drunken pirate.
Speaking of Black Mirror, I really think that this is one of the best/most thought provoking/most important shows to come out in recent years. 2000's television for me really boils down to two shows: Arrested Development, which is basically the perfect sitcom (if you even want to call it that) and Breaking Bad, which I started watching with the first episode and it grew into perhaps the best television show ever made. While Black Mirror only has eight episodes and can be inconsistent at times, at its best, I think it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as the other two.
Friday 7 PM
I finally call it a day; there is more to life than Magic cards after all. I've made it through a quarter of the collection. So far things are looking fine but not super exciting. Rather than being an easy home run where you can sell of a handful of money cards to break even, this one looks like a grind for value.
Saturday 8 AM
I spend all day Saturday sorting the rest of the cards. I take a short break in the afternoon to catch my little brothers AAU basketball game, which happens to be attended by Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boehiem because his son is playing in the tournament. One of my brother's teammates thinks its funny to ask Boehiem how many wins he has, to which he replies "I don't recall, since they just took half of them away" before walking away abruptly. Ouch.
Saturday 6 PM
I finally finish sorting, but not before running out of flat rate boxes. I have seven fully loaded with commons and the cards to fill another four or five. The coverage of GP Toronto makes the day bearable. I think about starting on the singles, but I decide against it. Most buylists update at midnight anyway, so getting a quote on Saturday night doesn't guarantee that it will still be good on Sunday morning. On top of the bulk, I end up with maybe 4,000 cards I plan on moving individually, either to buylists, on eBay, or in trade. This group includes everything from Vampiric Tutor, fetches and shocks, to Llanowar Elves and Lightning Bolts. This will be the project for Sunday.
Sunday 7 AM
So this is what I start off with on Sunday morning: piles of uncommons and commons that I think I can sell, piles of rares and mythics, and a pile of foils topped by the Japanese Radiant Fountain (which strangely enough, is actually worth a few dollars). I quickly do one more sort, this time breaking down each group (rares, c/u, and foils) by color. After I finish this sorting, it's time to start working through the buylists.
I sell a decent amount of the cards I buy in collections to buylists. I've researched it a few times and often the best buylist price isn't much lower (or any) than selling on eBay when you take into account the fees, shipping, and effort it requires to lists cards. This, of course, isn't true for all cards. If I don't like the spread offered by the buylists, I just hold onto the cards to either sell or trade away later.
Another underestimated aspect of collection buying is the ability to acquire specs. As I'm selling the collection, I pull out cards I want to save for the future and stick them aside. There is basically no cost to pulling out bulk rares with upside and sitting on them for a while. Odds are you'll be able to move them for the same price down the road if they don't pan out.
Sunday 8 AM
Part of the trick to buylisting is you need to sell to multiple vendors to get the best price, but also not too many vendors because this can lead to inefficient shipping. To complete this process you really have two options: The first is to type each cards into multiple buylists, see what each is offering, and then sell to the highest bidder. Unfortunately this is a very slow and painful process. With several thousands cards, typing each name three, four, or five times is just too time consuming to be profitable.
The other option is to use a site which keeps track of multiple buylists. At the moment this means using either the QuietSpeculation trader tools or MTGPrice (as an aside, MTGGoldfish has recently started adding buylist prices, and hopefully more will come in the future). From my perspective, trader tools are currently the best on the market, but you also need to pay a monthly fee to gain access. MTGPrice offers both a free and paid version, and while the free versions isn't as in-depth, it is usually good enough if you don't buylist all that often.
As far as the buylist I use, I have full confidence in CardKingdom, StarCityGames, ChannelFireball and ABU. I also recently started using CCGHouse, which seems fine so far. I used to use Troll&Toad regularly, but lately there have been some negative rumblings in the Twitterverse. I decided to send them a small order as an experiment to see how things go. I do not use Strikezone for selling cards from collections. Even though they often have the highest offer, the are also incredibly strict about grading (sometimes illogically so) and ship back rejected cards (sometimes entire orders) at the seller's cost. I have also been waiting a year to get paid for some bulk cards sold to MTGFanatic, so they are off my personal list as well.
I wish I had some great words of wisdom about this process, but it is literally a grind. You type a card, find out who is paying the most, and stick it in the correct pile. Type the card, find out who is paying the most, and stick it in the correct pile. You repeat this for hours, hopefully with some good music or coverage on the TV. This was basically my entire Sunday. Type, pile, repeat, type, pile, repeat. I finally finished going through the singles at about four in the afternoon.
To be fair, I did cheat at one point and submit an order early. I always check Troll and Toad's bulk buylist because sometimes they are buying random things for very good prices — for instance any foil mythic for $1.05 or any non-foil mythic for $0.60. The bulk deal of the day was uncommons for $18.00 per thousand — almost $0.02 each. When I started buylisting they were asking for 57,000. When I checked a couple hours later it was all the way down to 7,000 (Troll and Toad updates their buylist every 15 minutes, which is actually sort of annoying). I quickly entered 4,500 (the approximate number I could fit in a Medium Flat Rate along with the rest of the buylist) and submitted my order. I then immediately started a second buylist.
Sunday 4 PM
I've learned one very important thing about buylists over the years: Just because you put a card on the buylist and submit the order does not mean you have to send it. Buylisting is a tentative process. The vendor offers a price, but it is conditional on their very subjective grading process. Some vendors will actually ship back the cards that don't meet their criteria. There is no 100 percent guarantee here.
Now I'm not suggesting that you should submit false buylist orders — please don't. I ship a huge percentage of the cards I submit. However, the next step in the buylisting process is to sort each individual order alphabetically and by set. If you don't, the vendors will charge a significant shipping fee.
As I go though this process order by order, I do pull cards out on occasion. Sometimes to keep for my personal use (at one point I built a cube by pulling one card from each buylist order I sent), or because I realize I can get more for it somewhere else. I'll often leave Pucatrade up while I'm doing this final sort, and if I run across a card that will trade for significantly more than I'm buylisting it for, I pull it out an ship it through Pucatrade. While I could do this while I'm creating the buylists, having another window to manage, another site to type into, and another pile to keep track of just isn't worth it for me.
Plus, in this case, I really, really, really wanted to get my buylist submitted before Modern Masters 2015 spoilers started. While I didn't expect many of the high-end card to be impacted, I did have a bunch of semi-valuable commons and uncommons (things like Cranial Plating) that could potentially pop up in the set. Even though I haven't shipped the order yet (that will be tomorrow), by getting the order submitted to a reputable vendor I have my price locked in.
Sunday 5 PM
This is my buylist order to ABU, sorted (roughly) by block and ready to be ordered alphabetically and by set. The best thing about ABU is that they are always buying foreign commons and uncommons for significantly above-bulk prices. It doesn't even matter how bad the cards happen to be; if they are from a relatively recent set, they'll buy them for a minimum of $0.04 for commons and $0.06 for uncommons. Easy money.
Along with the foreign cards, I also sold ABU a decent amount of foil basic lands for between $0.30 and $1.00 each, and piles of seemingly bulk rares that they valued at $0.19, which is basically the cut off for me. If a bulk rare will not buylist for at least this amount, it generally ends up in the bulk lot pile which is used to sweeten the deal for the people who will buy my 60,000 commons and uncommons.
Total ABU: $224.03 (since ABU allows you to grade as you go, this should be very close to the final total).
Sunday 6 PM
Every time I go on a buylisting spree, it seems like Card Kingdom ends up being the biggest order. The tend to pay the best for $1 to $5 cards of all rarities and are generally just a pleasure to deal with. This collection is no different — by far the largest pile I'm shipping out is heading to Card Kingdom. It ranges from random bulk commons sold for $0.05 each (presumably because CardKingdom has a low supply) to some shocks and fetches in the $10 range.
The only downside to Card Kingdom is that they don't buy some odd cards; no foils (apart from promos or dual decks) and no foreign cards. This really isn't a big deal assuming you are selling to multiple vendors. Shopping around is extremely important; there are always some cards that one vendor is paying bulk rates for while another is offering $1 or more. This is mostly an issue of supply. If a vendor has many copies of a card, they often drop their price below market value. For instance, say Card Kingdom has 100 Jace, the Mind Sculptors. "Market rate" for buylists is generally around $65. Card Kingdom doesn't want any more Jaces at the moment, so what do they do? The drop their buy price to $45 dollars. If people keep selling at the new price, that's fine because they are getting an extremely popular card for dirt cheap. If people stop selling, that's fine too. It's basically a win-win for the vendor. Of course, once they work their way through the backlog of supply, they will up their buy price again.
CardKingdom Total: $316 (I shipped most of the played cards to other vendors, so I expect this number to be fairly solid as well).
Sunday 7 PM - How I Package Cards for Shipping
Start with a stack of around 100 cards and a piece of copy paper. Scrap paper is fine.
Fold the long side of the paper up under the stack of cards.
Fold in the sides around the stack of cards.
Fold over the last small side of the paper around the flaps, creating a tight paper cube of cards. Stick a piece of tape on the back (open) side for extra security. Write your name, address, order number, and any other important information on the front.
I've used this method for shipping large lots of cards for years and never had a problem. Sending 5,000 cards (as I am to Troll and Toad) basically necessitates a flat rate box. There is just no other way to do it efficiently. As such, using actual card boxes isn't really an option. I do not do this for bulk cards (for instance, the 4,500 uncommons). These are simply packed length ways into the medium flat rate (which is very close to the same size and shape as a 1,000 count long box.)
Troll and Toad Total: $151.61 (I have no idea what to expect after grading. This buylist is for the great deal on bulk uncommons and is also an experiment).
ChannelFireball Total: $165.16 (I expect a slight grading deduction, maybe into the $140 range).
CCGHouse Total: $78.68 (Shouldn't be any major grading issues here).
Singles Total: $940
Grading Deduction: -$25 (I should note that this is lower than usual, but this is a result of the collection being in extremely good shape).
Shipping Costs: -$40 (All flat rates of various sizes).
Grand Total (for singles): $875
I realize this doesn't seem all that exciting, and honestly it isn't. It would much rather than that "grand total" be $1200 or more. This said, it isn't all bad news, because there is one saving grace to this collection: we still have 60,000+ cards to sell.
The Bulk
This is the final step of moving the collection. Currently, I have 60,000 bulk commons and uncommons, maybe 500 bulk foils, and 1,000 bulk rares. Ideally I'll be able to sell these locally. If someone wanted to take all the bulk commons off my hands for $400 I would let them, but the more likely scenario is to piece out "instant collections" either locally or on Ebay.
There are a couple options here. Some people have lots of luck selling 1,000 card sets, mostly commons and uncommons, with maybe 20 rares and a few foils for about $12 per when you consider all the fees. This route will take a while, but offer the best outcome, adding up to an additional $720 in profit. The second option is to sell 5,000 card lots with 50 rares, some foils,, and maybe a deck box or package of sleeves. Online, the profit here is between $35 and $40 per lot, adding somewhere between $400 and $500 to the value of the collection.
Of course, every one of these I can move locally adds a significant amount to the profit, maybe $20 per 5,000 lot and $5 per small lot. Shipping and fees are certainly a killer in this instance, as are the constant packing and trips to the post office. It is generally worthwhile to sell for less to a local just to avoid the fees and hassle of selling bulk online.
Either way, I'm shooting for about $600 from the rest of the cards, which pushes the entire collection into the $1500 range, not to mention a couple hundred cards I kept out for long-term specs (a bunch of Commander rares and some other stuff). These cards aren't super valuable, but given the choice between bulking them out now and setting them aside for a while to see if they grow, the second option is preferable. Overall, the collection is not a home run (mostly because of the amount of work) but reasonable for three days of working at home while watching Netflix or GP Coverage.
Conclusion
Anyway, that's all for today. Make sure to leave any questions in the comments. I tried to cover pretty much everything, but if I missed something make sure to ask and I'll do my best to answer. As always, you can find me on Twitter (or MTGO) @SaffronOlive.
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Some of the Valley’s most ardent Fed-fearing, LGBT-demonizing citizens find a mouthpiece in a headline-grabbing East Valley preacher. Could Steven Anderson just be getting started?
Juan Payan likes to go running with his pastor.
He meets up with him early, between 5 and 6 a.m., when Payan can usually find the lanky, bearded 33-year-old religious leader running barefoot near the Western Canal between Southern Avenue and Baseline Road.
“He’s super cool,” says Payan, a friendly young East Valley man who works as a cable TV installer, though he never watches TV. “When I was going to the Catholic church, the priest was always very distant. But the pastor’s not like that. In church, he can kind of overwhelm me with his biblical knowledge. But outside of church, he’s just a regular, cool guy. That’s the only way to explain the pastor. He’s just like everybody else.”
Few outside of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe would choose those particular words to describe its leader. Payan’s pastor is Steven Anderson, the controversial, hate-spewing holy man who leads a dedicated congregation of about 150 parishioners at Faithful Word, operated out of a large office space anchoring a business park on 48th Street and Southern Avenue. His bigger ministry, however, is online. Reaching thousands of followers worldwide over the Internet, through the videotaped sermons he uploads weekly to his blog and YouTube page, Anderson is perhaps the heir apparent to late Westboro Baptist Church leader Fred Phelps – a fringe provocateur so audacious that he sometimes blips on the mainstream radar.
And yet it’s easy to understand why Payan considers his pastor just a regular guy. Away from the pulpit, and unprovoked to defend his extremist views, Anderson can be almost disturbingly charming and guileless. A friendly family man. Utterly, inexplicably normal.
If the name sounds familiar, it’s probably because you’ve caught clips from Anderson’s incendiary sermons once or twice on the evening news or social media. In August 2009, the day before President Barack Obama’s third visit to Phoenix, Anderson made headlines by declaring, from his pulpit, that he was “going to pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell!” because of the president’s stance on abortion. The next day, one of Anderson’s flock showed up at Obama’s speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the Phoenix Convention Center with a loaded semiautomatic AR-15. (Chris Broughton, who wasn’t arrested thanks to Arizona’s permissive “open-carry” law, later claimed it was just part of a publicity stunt for a conservative radio talk show host.)
Last December, Anderson stirred up his biggest furor yet – including a string of protests and an official designation of his church as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center – by declaring, “We can have an AIDS-free world by Christmas,” and then offering his solution, which he began by quoting Leviticus 20:13 of the King James Bible, the only version he subscribes to: “‘If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.’ And that, my friend, is the cure for AIDS. It was right there in the Bible all along. If you executed the homos like God recommends, you wouldn’t have all this AIDS running rampant!”
Payan was in church that day. He was part of the congregation Anderson whipped into a froth with a fiery sermon comparing gays to the unrepentant sinners of ancient Sodom and Gomorrah, and the words hit Payan hard on a personal level.
“I have a brother who’s a homosexual,” he reveals. “So that was hard to hear. I was fairly new to the church, so I was like, ‘Man, this is crazy!’ But then he described what the Sodomites were, through God’s word, and me and my wife looked at each other after church and I go, ‘That’s my brother. Like, to a T.’”
Payan had never been comfortable with his brother’s homosexuality, but he says he defended him after his brother came out to his parents. “My dad, it killed him to hear that; he’s a proud Latino,” Payan recalls. “But I was telling him, ‘No, no, it’s okay.’ That’s because the world was telling me that. When you hear people talking against gays nowadays, you’re told that’s not right.”
He began running with the pastor, and after a few one-on-one talks along the trail (“He ties it all together – like, ‘This is the biblical side, but it also applies to your regular life’”), Anderson helped Payan reverse all those years of PC conditioning (so long, Ellen) that had softened his gut feelings about his brother’s lifestyle.
“I don’t talk to my brother anymore,” Payan says. “He understands why. I told him my reasoning. I said, ‘I believe in God’s word, and what you’re doing is filthy, it’s wrong and it’s an abomination.’”
Would Payan be comfortable with seeing his brother executed for being gay, though, as Anderson explicitly suggested?
“That’s hard,” Payan says, actually giving the question some consideration. “Because on one hand you’re telling yourself, ‘He’s blood, he’s my brother.’ But then there’s also God telling you, ‘You know what? He’s a reprobate. This is against my laws.’
“Sometimes I have trouble thinking about that,” Payan adds. “But then I think, ‘What would I do if my brother was a murderer, or if he went and raped a woman? How would I feel about that?’ It’d be the same way.”
There’s a certain involuntary behavioral tic shared by many of the people who congregate at Faithful Word Baptist Church. Kind of a stifled, awkward laugh, followed by a quick approving nod of the head.
It appears in a wave across the room each time Pastor Steven Anderson utters one of his patently undiplomatic bombshells, which he constructs from the unvarnished readings of the oft-softened passages he pulls from the old King James and force-fits to contemporary times. This Sunday morning’s sermon is unexpectedly benign. Anderson spends most of the hour talking calmly about humility in the preaching profession – although he still manages to drop in a cringe-worthy line or two about forbidding women as pastors and at one point calls yarmulkes “little Jewish Satan hats.”
Heh, ahem. Mm-hm.
The congregation that packs Faithful Word’s seats each Sunday morning is surprisingly diverse: white, black, Latino, Asian, young, old – and lots and lots of kids. But they all share a common hunger for what many in the congregation call “hard preaching”: an in-your-face reading of the centuries-old doctrine that includes all the dark stuff most contemporary churches water down.
“God doesn’t love everyone,” Anderson preaches in his famous “Why I Hate Barack Obama” sermon (almost 71,000 views on YouTube). “One time I made a list of all the verses where God says he hates people. It’s like 30 verses. Yet people don’t want to accept it, they just wanna believe that God loves everybody. But he doesn’t.”
“I’ve been to other churches where they read versions of the Bible, but mostly they’re just saying what you want to hear,” says a 44-year-old parishioner named Sean who travels from the west side of the Valley to hear Anderson’s sermons. “Here it’s like, he doesn’t change it... I don’t know if I could go from here to anyplace else. It’s like getting the meat and then trying to go back to baby food.”
Most evangelical Christian churches adhere to the New International Version, or NIV, the biggest-selling English translation of the Bible, which critics say glosses over some of the more controversial parts of the original Hebrew and Greek text (the word “sodomite,” for example, is stricken from the NIV).
Anderson is on Team King James – the license plate on his Hyundai reads “KJVONLY” – and he’s emerging as the King James Only movement’s most prolific, and most divisive, voice. His YouTube channel has over 18 million views, and MP3s of his sermons are downloaded about 100,000 times per month. He also writes, directs and produces DVD documentaries, with titles like Marxist Lucifer King and AIDS: The Judgment of God – sometimes without revealing his intent to his interview subjects; the Jewish Anti-Defamation League is currently exploring legal actions against Anderson over his latest DVD, Marching to Zion, which they claim twists the words of local rabbis to present an anti-Semitic message.
On interstate trips to guest-preach at other Baptist churches and promote his wares, Anderson also routinely videotapes his Patriot-style confrontations with checkpoint inspectors and posts them to YouTube, presumably to make a point about federal overreach. In his spare time, he even manages to market his own line of sacred piano sheet music. He’s the Dane Cook of hard preaching.
“He kind of pioneered it,” says Zsuzsanna Anderson, the pastor’s 36-year-old German-born wife and mother to their eight children. (“For us to intentionally limit our family’s size, that is not natural,” she says.) “There are other pastors who preach boldly, including some that he’s mentored and sent out to start their own churches. But he really was the pioneer.”
His boldness can make other Baptist preachers uncomfortable. “Pastor Anderson and I disagree on a few doctrines; however, this is not unusual in our kind of churches,” emails Stephen Nichols, pastor of Regency Baptist Church in Orangevale, Calif., where Anderson spent time as a teenager in the late ‘90s. Nichols declines to comment on his protégé’s strident style, writing only, “Each pastor preaches and teaches the Bible as he believes God would have him.”
“I think he has a personality that people respond to: You either love him or hate him,” observes Roger Jimenez, who was mentored by Anderson in his teens and now serves as pastor of Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento. “Plus, he has a bigger Internet presence than most pastors, and with that comes negative publicity. But even that helps get it into the homes and gets people to hear it. That’s how his mind works.”
People come to an Anderson service to hear the hits. “This is the guy who prayed for Obama to die, sent the homos to be executed, had a run-in with Border Patrol,” says Zsuzsanna, running down the list of what people see first when they Google her husband’s name. With the eight genuinely adorable Anderson kids (five boys and three girls, ranging in age from 1 to 13) in tow, the pastor’s wife commandeers a whole row in the church, which seems to grow in parishioners after each controversy. This morning, her husband is intent on showing a kinder, gentler side.
“I remember in Bible college I was taught, ‘Do not be friends with any of your church people; you cannot interact socially with any of your church members, because they will lose all respect for you,’” he says, stepping away from the podium to get closer to the group. “Now, I don’t believe that. Many of you have gone to eat with me, or gone running or hiking or skiing with me, or have just hung out with me. And I think it’s good for us to have communion and fellowship and friendship. Ninety-nine percent of the people can handle being my friend.”
After the service, taking a quick break in his office, Anderson is friendly and accommodating, even after the newcomer identifies himself as a journalist. Overall, he projects an eagerness to show he’s not the monster the media make him out to be. “People will watch my most extreme clips online, out of context, and they think that’s who I am 24/7,” he says, with an easy laugh. “All they really see is a caricature of the most extreme statements that ever come out of my mouth all strung together, and they’re always put in a bad light by the media.
“Everything you’ve heard about me in the media is true, to the extent that I really did say all those things,” he’s quick to add. “But you’re not getting the complete picture of why I believe what I do. When people actually meet me and get to know me, they realize I’m not the villain that they think I am.”
Anderson started life as a California boy, born the month “Bette Davis Eyes” ruled the Top 40. But growing up in one of the few fundamentalist Baptist households in the Sacramento suburb of Roseville, Anderson says his parents permitted very little secular music around the house. “With one exception: the Beach Boys,” he says.
Anderson remembers listening to early Beach Boys cassettes on his little GE Kid-Corder when he was four or five, and becoming a fan of their earlier catalog, when the group wore matching shirts, sang about surfing and projected a wholesome, all-American image. He stopped listening when he found out, a little later on, about Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson’s brief, misguided friendship with Charles Manson. He rejected the Beatles, too, when he found out John Lennon and Yoko Ono had posed nude on an album cover.
His older brother Clint says Steven rejected all pop culture pretty early on, although he does recall them both watching TV together as kids. “We definitely watched some Clint Eastwood movies,” says the compliance director and part-time guitarist, who still lives in northern California (and swears he wasn’t named after his parents’ favorite Western star). Clint remembers his brother doing the normal boy things – playing Nintendo, riding dirt bikes – but he also recalls him playing preacher early on.
“We had these neighbors who were from the Reformed tradition of Christianity, and he used to get into debates with the father,” he says. “Even from a young age he would be talking to the kids about salvation.”
Steven, who today totally eschews TV, popular movies and music but, like extremists of other ilks, is nevertheless a big fan of the Internet, says he hears from old friends on Facebook. “Old elementary school friends will post, ‘Oh man, I remember in fourth grade when you were debating Calvinism on the playground!’” he says. “I always wanted to be a pastor, ever since I was a little kid.”
No one can pinpoint when the fiery anti-gay stance took; his brother doesn’t recall any triggering incidents. But Zsuzsanna, who met Anderson when he was 18 and visiting a missionary friend in Munich – and married him, in a quickie Vegas ceremony 10 months later – says their first fight was over his “violent” views on the subject. “I grew up in a humanist school in the German education system,” she says. “I was really like a left-wing feminist before I met him. I was even against spanking.” Eventually the lapsed Catholic was won over, or worn down, by Anderson’s unshakable resolve.
“He was the first person I ever met that was just unwavering,” she says. “I didn’t agree with him for weeks, but I was just blown away by the fact that he didn’t waver. And I think that’s what people respond to. Whether you agree or disagree with what he says, at least you know where he stands. You never have to wonder, ‘What does he really believe?’”
The King James Only crowd gravitates to Faithful Word like steampunk geeks to a Maker Faire, and there are lots of beards and prairie dresses at a Sunday service. Along with rejecting homosexuality, advocates reject worldliness – no one here has gotten near a TV since Will & Grace – and contraception, evidently. There are so many kids that FWBC maintains two kids’ playrooms, one on either side of the hall.
What KJOs do accept is Anderson’s no-holds-barred representation of the so-called Authorized Version of the Protestant Bible – especially, it seems, the parts where God puts the beat-down on a population now viewed more favorably by Americans than evangelical Christians, according to a recent poll commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group.
On the local evening news the week of Anderson’s viral sermon on homosexuality, KPNX-12 news anchor Mark Curtis pressed Anderson to clarify exactly what he meant by the word “executed,” which Curtis – who is Jewish – suggested sounded a little Hitlerian. “I believe what the Bible says, that homosexuals should be executed,” Anderson answered emphatically. “Let me make myself clear: I believe that. And I’ve never gone back on that for one second.”
There’s a YouTube mash-up put together by a fan in Rhode Island that pits clips of that broadcast against a CNN interview of Joel Osteen, the televangelist with over 20 million monthly viewers worldwide. Grilled by Soledad O’Brien as to whether or not he thinks homosexuality is a sin, Osteen hems and haws before finally saying, “I think part of my, if you want to call it, success is that I’ve stayed in my lane, and my lane is lifting people’s spirits.” Cut to Anderson banging on his pulpit and screaming, “No homos will ever be allowed in this church as long as I’m the pastor here! Never!”
Relegated to reluctant silent minority status by widespread LGBT acceptance, anti-gay fundamentalists have found their spitting punk rock hero in Anderson, an anti-establishment firebrand who aggressively violates progressive social mores on stage.
But what would happen if a FWBC regular, riled up by Anderson’s rhetoric, actually went out and opened fire on a lesbian bar? What would happen if Juan Payan actually killed his gay brother?
Marc Victor is a Phoenix attorney who defended Anderson in one of his many run-ins with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, when he was forcibly removed from his car, Tasered by agents and thrown to the ground at the Yuma checkpoint for obstinately refusing to submit to an inspection.
“Arizona has some criminal concepts, like all states do, about conspiracy and accomplice liability where one person can be criminally liable for the acts of another person,” Victor says. “But if it’s just one person preaching his religious views and another person on his own deciding to go do things out in the world that are criminal, I don’t think that would be within either of those two statutes. You’d really have to look at the specific facts.” Westboro Baptist Church members, for example, are still allowed to wave hate speech signs outside military funerals. While the pickets always generate unrest, they’re shielded under the Supreme Court’s ruling that “matters of public import” are protected by the First Amendment.
Democratic State Rep. Andrew Sherwood participated in a public protest outside FWBC, which falls within his district, following Anderson’s anti-gay sermon last December. At one point he caught Anderson’s reaction to the demonstrators, observing him snacking outside the front door of his church, taking in the show. “A lot of businesses pay to have sign-wavers,” Anderson cracked to media, looking for laughs. “I’m just glad people know we’re here.”
Seeing the pastor’s showman side, Sherwood says he’d like to believe Anderson’s extremism is all an act. “In the political arena, in the business arena and apparently in this church, it’s becoming a business model to be extreme,” he says. “That seems to be his product. Some people have that personality where they sort of create a character, and once they’re confronted by an issue or see the news cameras rolling, then they sort of transform into that character and they do what they think will be useful for their agenda or profitable for their business model. It may just be his goal to drive more people through the door.”
Victor, though, has had numerous meetings with Anderson and insists the persona is no act. “Whether or not you agree with his convictions and principles, he believes in what he says and does,” he states. “I certainly don’t think he’s a fraud.”
The Andersons live in a modest, four-bedroom house in a 57-year-old neighborhood in Tempe. On this particular Thursday morning, oldest son Solomon, 13, is playing a masterly rendition of Beethoven’s “Für Elise” on the upright piano in the living room while his brothers and sisters play with one of the five hamsters that roam the house (along with a dog and a very pregnant cat). Asked if he wishes his parents would allow him to listen to hip-hop and rock like most other teens, Solomon laughs.
“Not really,” he says. “I don’t like any rap, rock or pop. I’ll hear it when we’re in the store and it’s pretty ugly. The only other music that I like besides sacred and classical is some ungodly techno,” he adds, with a smile.
Zsuzsanna homeschools her children and keeps them under control with enviable authority. At one point the playful noise of all those kids becomes too loud to talk over, and Zsuzsanna calls for them all to step outside on the patio to work on their assignments. Remarkably, the house is hushed in less than 30 seconds. Respect.
Like her husband, Zsuzsanna maintains a blog with a sizeable following of admirers and hecklers. She pulls out a manila envelope stuffed with hostile, threatening emails from people enraged by her husband’s sermons or her blog posts on birth control. Several are from a Texas woman who sent enough complaints to Arizona’s Child Protective Services to warrant a late-night visit from the agency.
“On one level, this could be cause for alarm,” she says evenly, in her faint German accent. “I’m not saying we’re totally unprepared. We’ve got alarms and cameras; I have a gun if I choose to carry it.”
Steven, whose job before running the church was, conveniently, selling home fire alarms, gets mail, too. “I get horrible things sent to me,” he says. “I’ve had human waste, used condoms, white powder spilling out of an envelope with a death threat. It’s crazy,” he adds, with a laugh. “But hey, it keeps me humble!”
“They say they’re tolerant of everybody, but they’re not tolerant of us,” Zsuzsanna says. “Everybody has people that they don’t like or that they hate. It’s just who you choose to be intolerant of, and we choose to draw the line where the Bible draws it.”
Admirably, they’re fearless and transparent about their lives. “Our address has been published online,” Zsuzsanna says. “But not a single person has ever actually showed up to harass us.” They get out in the wicked world, too. “We shop at Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, where a lot of the people who hate me probably hang out,” Steven says. “That’s part of why I do show my face everywhere, so people in the community can get to know me.”
The kids trickle back into the kitchen and living room, the youngest daughter, Anna, cuddling a baby hamster and smiling sweetly. For a moment, you wonder why anyone would find fault with the Andersons, whose children appear so happy and well-adjusted. And then Zsuzsanna begins to talk about “the homos.”
“It’s not that other people don’t believe what we believe,” she says. “Our thing about homos being disgusting? There are 70 countries in the world where it’s against the law to be a homosexual. People believing they should be executed? It’s been in the Bible for 4,000 years and for the vast majority of time, people believed what the Bible said. They’ve definitely been doing it throughout history.”
She pauses for a minute to tell Anna to put the hamster down and gives Solomon a pinch on the cheek, calling her oldest “sweetheart.” “Don’t call me that!” he chuckles, embarrassed.
“You can pull out any belief that we have and there are millions of other people in the world that believe the same,” she says, gently petting the cat. “We are not alone in this.”
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Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake says if the election were held today he wouldn’t vote for the Democratic or Republican nominees and instead implied he would write someone in on the November ballot.
“If the election were held today, for whom would you vote?” CNN’s Jake Tapper asked the Arizona senator Sunday on “State of the Union.”
“I would not vote for Hillary Clinton, and as of now I would still not vote for Donald Trump,” Flake responded.
It sounds unlikely Flake would vote for Libertarian Party nominee and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, either.
“If you don’t want to vote for either of them, would you vote for Gary Johnson, the libertarian?” Tapper asked.
“You can always write somebody in,” Flake said. “I just know that I would like to vote for Donald Trump, it’s not comfortable to not support your nominee, but given the positions he has taken and the tone and tenor of his campaign, I simply can’t.”
Flake has been one of Trump’s sharpest critics in the GOP. In July he had a contentious exchange with Trump, telling the New York businessman he was the Arizona senator “who didn’t get captured.”
On Wednesday, Flake did, however, praise Trump for traveling to Mexico and meeting with President Enrique Peña Nieto. (RELATED: Sen. Jeff Flake Is ‘Glad’ Trump Is Going To Mexico — Here’s Why [VIDEO])
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Teen Mom 2 fans got a special treat earlier this week as MTV aired a one-hour special titled Being Barbara focused on the life of Jenelle Evans’ mother, Barbara “Babs” Evans. In the special, we got an extended look at Babs’ life and what all she is up to when she is not in a screaming match with Jenelle. In addition to lots of wonderfully joyful moments (with LOTS of wonderfully joyful laughing), we also get to meet Jenelle’s older sister, Ashleigh. (That’s Ashleigh with Jenelle and Babs in the photo above, taken at Kaiser’s 2nd birthday party earlier this month.)
Fans may recall that Jenelle and Ashleigh have a lot of animosity towards one another, and that could be the reason we don’t see Ashleigh on Teen Mom 2. In the scenes where Babs and Ashleigh talked about the custody battle over Jace, Ashleigh had no qualms about tossing her sister under the bus.
“I think that she always has these boyfriends and they really don’t stick around for a long time and then…it’s just constant chaos,” Ashleigh says of Jenelle’s relationship history and its impact on Jace. “I think that Jace should stay with you at least until he’s old enough to make the decision of who he wants to live with,” Ashleigh tells her mom. “You’ve been raising him since he’s been a baby and I know Jenelle has tried to be in his life, but she’s been given like, what, seven years to get her sh!t together?”
Ashleigh later continued: “If anything, she should be commending you for that. Because when you raised us as a single mother, you put up with all the sh!t with her. She got pregnant, [you] took care of her kid. She should at least thank you, but she doesn’t even do that. It’s all about Jenelle, you know? That’s all she cares about.”
Prior to the episode airing, Jenelle seemed very excited about it, and she promoted it heavily on social media. After the episode aired, Jenelle was very angry at how she was portrayed on the show:
Remember everyone… Tonight is the "Being Barbara Special" on @MTV tonight at 10PM !!! Don't miss out… It's hilarious !!!! ??? — Jenelle Evans (@PBandJenelley_1) July 11, 2016
Any viewer of Teen Mom 2, or anyone who reads celebrity websites like this one, would have to agree on some level with Ashleigh’s assessment of Jenelle’s life being a bit chaotic. But, Ashleigh’s life has been anything but stable, and may even be more chaotic than Jenelle’s!
First, here are some of our previous posts covering the public drama between Jenelle and Ashleigh:
Since our last post in January of 2015, things have REALLY gone off the rails for Ashleigh! She left her abusive husband and father of her first son Gabriel, and moved on with a guy named Lee. Ashleigh and Lee got married and had a son together named Atlas (he was the cute red headed boy on Being Barbara), but that relationship didn’t work out any better than the first. Oh, and at some point Jenelle apparently claimed Ashleigh was a prostitute (?!) which cost Ashleigh her job and almost her kid(s).
All of the drama has played out on Facebook, where Ashleigh has been sharing updates for the past year and a half. Here is a selection of her posts and comments from that time period, arranged chronologically. The posts begin with Ashleigh addressing her feud with Jenelle, but eventually move on to her own relationship and custody issues. You will see that Ashleigh appears to have gotten some sort of stability in her life recently, but earlier this week she gave hints that things are getting crazy again.
Jan 11, 2015
It will be okay. After 3 years I don’t care about her lies and drama anymore. I have a great fiancé who treats Gabriel and like gold, a baby on the way cars paid for I have enough saved up to pay for Gabriels daycare for a year and have money left over for all bills and extra stuff and my divorce debt is 80% paid off. So let them talk I was going to have to take time off from work anyways because I’m expecting. My life is great:) I’ve never been so happy before. I feel my life is getting better slowly after everything I’ve been through. Everyone including my mom told me it’s not my fault I lost my job I’m lucky to have lee.
January 21, 2015
Now that my reputation has been destroyed within my personal life, professional life, and my attorney had to push my court date again to revoke visitation from nick (I still can’t move out if state) I’ve decided that I’m going to post on YouTube every month to give everyone an update of my life since I can’t have a FB anymore. I can’t even go out in public without people staring at me or whispering behind my back. I’ve lost all my friends and no one will hire me thanks to her lies. My sister destroyed my life for no reason. Everyone thinks I’m a prostitute. I’ve lost my job so now I can only continue to sell things on eBay like I have. I’m a good girl who’s ex husband hacked my emails etc and posted ads of me online to gain custody last year. My sister knew all about this and what he’s been doing for over a year. I’ve worked extremely hard even as a single mom to get where I’m at now and moved on my from my abusive ex, and hardship in the past 3 years. I met a wonderful guy who love Gabriel and I and will make the greatest father to our new baby. This is the last time she will ever destroy my life. It’s not fair I have to isolate myself from the world because of what she did.
My lawyer said there’s a 80% chance I can loose custody of Gabriel now that my ex knows what she did. If there wasn’t such thing as social media it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. My sister could of ignored what my status said and enjoyed her vacation. She’s the one who kept escalating the whole situation. She makes me sick along with everyone else. My mother said I don’t think lee would ask you to marry him if I was doing something like that. I’m not going to comment here anymore I made the video so when I have time when Gabriel’s in bed and lee is feeling better from surgery i will upload it. I don’t even know what to say anymore. All those times she wrote horrible stories about me for no reason (jealousy) I never told her dirty secrets. I’ve known Jenelle for over 23 years. I know her better than all of her twitter followers and real friends. I’m her sister I know everything about her. She can live in her imaginary world if she chooses to. But in my world I won’t let her do this to me anymore. When I knew when was ‘hooking’ out of hotels with this girl Taylor I never told anymore or like the heroine needle from her bfs house I found in out xmas stuff from my moms house from him doing steroids or drugs in Gabriel’s Xmas bag. (Which I kept) Behind the limelight she’s a really disturbed person. If she’s was an escort I would never expose her. I keep family stuff secret. I have more class, respect and morals than her. It was none of her business to post what she did. She knew what nick did to me.
I’m going to explain everything. I have paperwork and the court order from 2013-2014. My Attorney said she’s going to try to continue the case for 4-5 times so the judge will grant me to move out of state with (military orders) and to have nicks visitation revoked. I have everything written down. I can also face jail time and face contempt again (non visitation like last year) in court because of what the court order says. Here is a photos of it read line 13. This was right after nick framed me in court if being an escort with fake photos and some from my hacked email. Then hacked my FB for spite after I was awarded custody.
My sister stole a copy of the court order from my moms. This court order was signed in April of 2014. That was right after this was filed her baby shower was at my moms. He’s been posting pictures of me online for over a year now. I can’t so anything about it all I have is a po box and my lawyer and 2 private investigators can’t locate him in California.
My moms on my side.
This was filed last year. Everything I’ve told everyone including my lawyer and the courts is true. I’m really scared of loosing Gabriel. Lee can stay here and I don’t post pictures of him anyways so if nick tried to say he is living with me he can’t. He lives in California he’s only seen Gabriel 3 times since he’s been born. Every time he calls he screams, yells and curses at me so I hang up. This is why his visitation is being revoked. I also need permission to move. This is just part if the court order. I have him recorded on several occasions. I was going to get a cease or desist letter but I don’t even know where she lives in SC. The next step is to get a protective order on her if I can find her address.
February 6, 2015
It amazes me that I have photos in FB from 5 years ago no one has ever seen but are so quick to judge because of the crap my sister does to me or because she’s related to me. She just told 1 million followers on twitter that I’m a prostitute last month after my ex hacked my FB, email etc. while he framed me in court with fake photos durning custody/divorce in 2013. I’m not a prostitute. I can loose custody of my son. I have videos already recorded but it takes about 2-3 hours to upload. I have better things to do. What she did was wrong and destroyed my reputation, everyone knows it. I don’t need everyone messaging me with drama. I have nothing to say. It’s my FB and I’m certainly not anorexic I’ve always been thin every pregnancy is different. Stop taking my photos off my FB and posting them on twitter without my consent.
April 24, 2015
I cook, clean, take care of our house Gabriel, pick up your messes, clothes, do all your laundry, pick up Pepsi cans tend to you like I’m your maid and mother. You make more of a mess than Gabriel. What do you do? Break stuff over stupid arguments, yell at me, say hurtful things like I’m taking the baby from you and your a horrible mother, you don’t do sh!t etc. Blackmail me while sending my sister messages on twitter, record our arguments without my consent after what I’ve been through with family and my ex. I’ve given you thousands of dollars carry your baby which I wasn’t ready for, yet you act like a teenage boy with anger issues. might be hormonal and very PREGNO but you don’t deserve me. I might get angry and yell because I’m hormonal, I’m not perfect. I’ve bought everything for this baby. You don’t even want to buy the baby a monitor. You say the hospital tour is a waste of time. You seem more concerned about your motorcycle and cards. It’s a shame a good woman and mother like me always falls for selfish assholes. You can’t even empty the dishwasher or vacuum. You never thanked me for dinner offered to wash dishes for me. Just remember, when you lie karma gets you. There’s always 2 sides of a story. It really hurts that I’ve given 1000% and you took advantage of me. As long as I have my 2 little boys, that’s all I need. I don’t need you. Maybe when you grow a pair you’ll realize what you’ve lost.. Maybe you’ll accept you need to grow up. Maybe, I’ll accept an apology and reconsider, Until then, it’s me and my 2 boys. If I can support 1 being a single parent with no help, I can support 2. I deserve better..
I love him so much I’m really hoping he can take a step back and stop acting the way he has. I’m very hurt, it feels like a knife went through my chest. I want to work things out with him if he’s willing. I need to do what’s best for my little ones first. He’s very good to Gabriel and I when we don’t have arguments . I don’t know if he’s going through some personal changes of his own but that’s no excuse to treat me like he has. I can’t help him if he can’t open up and tell me. I never meant to get him in trouble when I called his c/o on base. With him upsetting me, stressing me out and breaking things it’s not healthy for me Gabriel or the unborn child. I was hoping to move away with him and start a new life together. Regardless I’ll end up moving to start fresh. He’s like he’s my other half. I love him very much I don’t understand what’s going on with him. I know I’ve said mean things but I’m very pregnant and he has no excuse triggering arguments and upsetting me. This post is meant to be public so maybe his family can see my side of things do they can help him or talk to him in a mature rational manner. Maybe he will change his ways. He admitted he broke a tv months ago and blamed me for breaking it because I was upset etc and yelling. Doing what’s best for Gabriel this baby that’s due June 10th. I need to take care of myself. If he wants to be apart of our lives that’s his choice .
November 23, 2015
I’m back on my old Facebook for a while I need some help. Lee left me without a job no money 2 kids to raise alone and a house by myself I’m f**ked. He used me for a baby. He’s a selfish prick. This is a really difficult time. I’m very upset that he did this to me. I need 2 trucks and a few good strong men to help me move stuff into storage if possible Saturday. My old account is deleted so I can spy on him and his family who tried to kidnap my kids.
Yeah he turned into a verbally abusive jerk. He used me for money and a baby. I had to get an emergency custody order to get my kids back be issue my mother in law refused to give me my kids. He’s now leaving and trying to make me loose Gabriel and atlas because he’s selfish. I have an attorney but I need help moving.
November 23, 2015
I shouldn’t log into this account at all. When it comes to my kids I will do everything to fight. I have in laws and a jerk husband who like to steal children away from their mothers. I appreciate all of the messages and help. My husband used for a baby and money. I will never marry again. The other account is disabled.
COMMENT: ❤️❤️ praying you get out of this mess!! You have been through so much take those baby boys and leave ❤️
I will don’t you worry. I have no choice. My husband who I thought was the love of my life who I thought was going to change my life for the better isn’t who I thought he was. I’m very angry and upset very heartbroken.
I had my Baby in June. My husband ended up never changing treating me like crap. He’s doing the same stuff back in April. He needs help for his anger and refuses to seek it. I didn’t want to re activate my old account but the new one I had to delete. I need help because he’s not paying he rent or electricity like a jerk and leaving us with no money. I was suppose to be a stay at home mom but he won’t pay for the kids. He’s more concerned about his 40k truck and trying to make me loose custody of my children so his parents can raise them who live in deplorable conditions who have a history of family violence. It’s a long story I’m very upset and heartbroken. We’re suppose to be a family. I’ve been raising these kids alone since January. I’m used to being a single mom of 2 now. It will be okay. I’m moving out Friday.
I’m tough than nails. Most people wouldn’t have been able to handle what I’ve been through in these last 5 years. Lee will get what he deserves in the end.
December 24, 2015
Society thinks when a man love his children he will stick around with his family no matter what and handle hard times with his wife. But in reality the man leaves for another state to go live with his mother (crazy inlaws) blames wife for his anger manipulates her (his childhood issues) won’t file for unemployment while working on our marriage while raising the kids while finishing up a state investigation so we won’t loose our kids. When the wife asks for money to take the baby to the doctor he yells at her while he left her with a 2000sq house no job and running low on savings and her phone gets cut off. Wife has finished all parenting classes and everything that was asked husband hasn’t done anythingtje state asked. He continues to put her down and teach oldest son to call his mother a f****** bit*. He’s to selfish to care. He doesn’t even care about the home study yet the kids have no beds. Lawyer told me to stay here until the investigation is over with. Husband thinks he’s above he law and doesn’t need to follow case plan. Divorce #2 never trust men and never marry again. Maybe someday I will find a real man not a coward. Merry Christmas. My a account was hacked few feels ago. I won’t log into my new Facebook.
I need prayers right now. CPS has been harassing us for over 8 months they have found nothing we’ve never been charged with anything it all started with a nosey neighbor who heard my husband and I arguing in the yard when I was pregnant. Parents who beat their kids and shoot up can keep there kids but the good parents who raise their kids in loving homes can loose kids. Because of who my family and in tv they assume I’m a terrible parent when they have no solid proof at all. I need prayers.i was so close to moving out of nc to start a new life but cps told me not to leave the state or county with the kids or they will take them from me. I have every twisted lie recorded with everything documented.
February 26, 2016
Just to let everyone know I’m okay. My husband abducted atlas and refuses to bring him back. So I’m getting him back next week in court. Cps is closing the case. Because of my husband selfish stubborn ways I’ve decided to divorce him. I don’t want to but I have no choice. His family has caused me so much emotional distress and he refuses to step up be a man and find a job and look for a place to live for us. He’s let his entire family make the descions regarding our marriage. I’ve done everything for him and these kids and he doesn’t even see it. It sucks to be him. It’s a big mess but I feel at this point after giving 1000% even though we’ve both f**ked up and did the same sh!t to each other I can’t be with someone as f**ked up as him. I can’t keep on giving and get nothing in return. My biggest weekness has always been caring to much while giving to much. I see now selfish people don’t deserve me or my kids. It’s just Gabriel and Atlas and I against the world. I have so many legal options. Even though I’m p!ssed and hurt those who hurt gabreil I along with atlas, will pay for there wrong doing. Those who know me know damn well know not to mess with me or my kids. The balls in my court now.
ive been through this before. everyone i talked to at work said if that was my husband inwould be in jail. the logical thing would of been for him to be emotional there fornme when he left to go to nj and make a plan for us to move up there and let me finish cps case here so hey can go away sooner. instead he came back down took the baby when he wasnt supose too and refuses to give him back. i even iffered to buy ticket and to drive up there to get there to get him. i tired everything in my power to move uo there and make everything work for our marrige. what he did was wrong. his family caused me so much emotional distrsss and messed things up even worse. all he had to do was wait and find a house up there so we can move up there. i even sold half of everything i owned. at this point atlas is my only worry now.i know now I deserve better. I’ve got big plans for the three of us. There’s a lot to what’s been going on and my new account was hacked a while ago so I’ve been chatting on here temporary.
March 25, 2016
Update… Got my Atals back after my husband abducted him and moving to Scranton at the end of May first week of June with gabreil and atlas. My husband refuses to be a part of atlas life and won’t answer my calls or schedule visits. When he does answer he is very disrespectful. So over decided since I refuses to take responsibly for why he’s done and walk away from his wife and two kids I’m moving and starting fresh without him since he can’t man up and blame everything on me. I’m transferring my job up there. I’m still having a hard time finding a place to live due to proof of income in PA. If anyone has a place for us to stay for a few weeks to a month id appreciate it. I can baby sit, clean, cook buy groceries in exchange.
This time I’m moving and never coming back. I’m so sick of everything. I still have hope and faith my husband will try to work on things. But at this point the best thing for us is to move and start fresh. Everything’s sold money’s saved my job is transferable it’s a fresh start.
I’m having a hard time coping with it. He played me and led me on for close to a year. He has been threating to take atlas away since I was pregnant. I always payed for everything. He used me for a baby and money. I still love him hoping maybe he’ll change but he’s not a man. He left me and the kids in a big mess then came back down and abducted atlas from me after he told me he was going to send us money to support us until we got up there because of Gabriels school and stupid cps. All he had to do was work his ass off find us a place to live and then we were gonna move. This is all his fault. He keeps throwing sob stories on Facebook because he’s looking for sympathy and because he feels like sh!t and lies to his whole family and friends about me while distorting the truth. After all he did I still forgave him. Being a good wife and mother isn’t good enough. He refuses to take his meds and he keeps saying I’m keeping atlas away from him which isn’t true. He’s mentally unstable. This is he Bible Belt. He’s f**ked. It’s all his fault.
In the end it will be okay. I haven’t asked him for a dime. A man is suppose to support his family not walk away. Hes a pos. I’ve been through a lot in these past 6 years. It’s time to start fresh out of of NC. As far as my husband he did this to himself. In the Bible Belt things roll differently in the south than north. He did this to himself. It’s sad knowing that he’s going to get what he deserves.
He doesn’t have just deal with what he did while loosing his wife and two kids but the wrath of my mother. No one controls what she’s does. After what him and his family did to me and mother, him and his entire family are all f**ked. My mother told him the day he took atlas she was going to hang him. He was pre warned. Now his family and him have to face it her. If he didn’t take atlas this would of never happened. It’s all his fault. You don’t f**k with my mother.
I tired and tired and tried to make it work, after I did a 180 he hasn’t done anything to change or be a part of our the kids lives or me. I call him morning afternoon and at night he can’t even text me when he’s on lunch and when I do hear from him he yells hangs up and is very disrespectful. I even try to discuss visitation and he refuses to arrange a date time and location. He refuses to do video calls he doesn’t even call to see how the kids are and how things are going. He’s a POS. He refuses to talk about the kids stuff. He doesn’t give a sh!t about us at all. It’s sad as a father he can’t man up and be a good father and be a part of his kids life because he’s stubborn, embarrassed, feels guilty, and regrets what he’s done.
COMMENT: Move to Pittsburgh!! Lots of housing and section 8 if needed.. Pittsburgh is better???
I was going to my there with my husband but he refused to look for work there. That was before everything blew up and found out he was only sticking around to take atlas away. I was just there doing research. My grandma past away and she left me some property that’s worth only $10,000. Lol I’m going to sell it. My job didn’t have any openings to transfer to Pittsburg only to NEPA. Pennsylvania is so much cheaper and the pay is livable compared to here. I’m excited.
March 25, 2016
[Ashleigh posts photos of her sons Gabriel and Atlas]
My two favorite boys.
it’s a shame my husband wants nothing to do with these handsome boys. I’ve tried everything even forgave him after his family did horrible things to me and after he abducted atlas. It’s a shame he abandoned us.
Unfortunately my husband isn’t who he seems. He used me for a baby and money and planned since I was pregnant to run off with atlas so I’d never see him again like a jerk. Found out he was the one feeding cps lies. They are the reason why they are still stalking me. He hurt gabreil and I deeply. I’m glad atlas is just a baby so he doesn’t have to be tramitized like gabreil was. He still thinks atlas is going to be kidnapped. He won’t let him out of his sight. He sleeps next to him every night. He a good big brother.
It’s a horrible situation, but I have my two boys thats all that matters. Everyone was worried about me so i logged back in here as much as I didn’t want too. My other account was hacked. I can’t access it. There’s a lot left in said but for the rest of my husbands life he has to hold that burden, shame and guilt for what he’s done. I admit ice done wrong but I never kept Atla away from him. He know that I even know that so doesn’t everyone else. All he had to do was go back to Nj work or stay here with a friend and get unemployment until we sort thins crapnout and stick together as a family. Instead he abandoned is. He said he going to send us a little bit of money each month. All I asked was for $250 until we got up there. He lied to me abducted atlas tramitized gabreil and hurt us deeply. I’ve been a single mom since gabreil has been born I’ve always paid for her kids stuff. When I was pregnant he didn’t pay for anything I wasn’t even working I bought the crib set all the clothes and essentials for atlas he’s very selfish. It is what it is. Everyman I’ve spoken too friends wives, gf boyfriends told me what he’s done is messed up. He has no one but to blame but himself. I’ll be fine. Ive always had my own apartment and my sh!t together. He’s very irresponsible and can’t manage his own life. I’ve always held my own never asked for anything or help from anyone. I also don’t go begging for food stamps or government assistance. I pay for everything on my own. If if he took atlas and looked for a place for us to live u here it would have been different but he had no intention of ever returning atlas to me. He promised on the 13th of February to return him. His excuse was he was broke he couldn’t. I offered to buy him a plane ticket even offered to drive up there to get him as a result the courts granted that atlas is to be returned back to me.
When gabreil was born I left my first husband because he was a jerk. I dated to see what’s out there but never had any of them live with me or knew my children. When I meet my current husband until things slow then things crumbled. I know I deserve better everyone told me so. I have so much to offer. Someday I’ll find a better guy. I’ve took responsibility for my part and did a 180 he hasn’t changed at all. I should of left him when he pushed me and threw a bowl of chips at me 2 weeks after we got married and went up to NJ and left gabreil and I behind and partied. He used me for a baby and money. I’ve always been the independent type that never wanted to have a lot of BFs. I was alway concentrated on myself. They only guy who truly loved me remained friends after we broke up and tragically died a few years ago. If it wasn’t for his tragic ending and his battle with addiction we would of still been together today. I still have faith and hope hat my husband might change but I don’t think he will. He feels like it’s easier to walk away because he won’t face the fact that what he did was wrong instead of fixing things he ignores the situation.
March 27, 2016
When your a father it’s more than just loving, changing diapers, & playing. It’s about being invested emotionally and financially for that child. The fact that my husband didn’t even call to wish the kids happy Easter or send them Easter baskets shows a lot. It truley shows how much he really cares. I bought them baskets and took them out since its raining. They had lots of fun:)
April 15, 2016
Officially a Hooters Girl
I knew I would get the job. I’m ready to make bank. I’m transferring to another store as soon as they get the opening:)
the other store is full until May. So I have work here for now. I was gonna move to pa and transfer my day job but idk what’s going on with my husband.
Going to the gym paid off. I can start bikini modeling again soon:)
June 19, 2016
Even though she’s crazy sometimes I love my mom. She’s awesome.
He even said My friends are is texting him threats. He’s such a POS. He probably has some fake texting app. Lol glad I have a good lawyer who knows his way around bullsh!t. I’m 100000% positive he knows that it’s a loosing battle. You don’t wanna mess with my mom. She said she was gonna get him when he abducted atlas when he wasn’t suppose to and refused to bring him back. Karma a coming back hard on him. His mother is freaking out because she knows I’m on to her bull and finally stood up to her. They are desparate to make lies and drama because they know they are f**ked royally. You wait until this lawsuit they will loose their house and everything they have. It’s pending. He want road as a pawn nothing more. His mother is controlling him and telling him to do certain stuff. It’s sad a person can be so mentally unstable they can’t see what they are doing and what the other toxic people are doing to them.
June 24, 2016
I want to thank everyone for helping me through all of this with all the support,prayers love and help. I want to thank everyone for the funding and spreading the word. This battle isn’t over just yet. Thanks for all the positive words, prayer, and witnesses, sopena, evidence, and telling my ex he’s a little boy backed in to a corner because he knows he’s loosing control. So his he only tries to hurt me with his family. Thanks for being there when he talked to me on the phone and treated me like dirt!! To all of my non FB too thanks!
COMMENT: It will all work out and he will pay for his actions. Always remember to take the high road, your son will appreciate you for it in the end
That’s what I’ve been doing. It’s been super hard. His lies and manipulation are going to bite hard. I know that God is here directing me to the right path. I always remember “But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, so good for those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you.” Those who do you wrong will eventually face their karma.
After 1 year of emotional abuse I my foot down with my MIL I’ve finally stood up to her and as far as my ex I’m. I’m nothing more a worried mother who is trying to co parent and he refuses he blocks all my calls and alienates Gabriel and I from atlas all because he can’t deal with his personal demons. I don’t want my child in a horrible environment. Everyone knows what him and his family has done its discussing. Im doing everything my lawyers doing and not falling for his emotional abuse from his family. I can’t even check up on my baby because he won’t answer my calls and blocked me.
June 27, 2016
When you leave her, treat her like sh!t, and then hope things will work out you can’t get angry or jelous when she’s moved on, or found someone better. She can’t wait around forever while waiting for you to get your sh!t straight. You’ve hurt her and caused so much grief there’s no looking back or another chance. She tried to save the marriage but you couldn’t save yourself. When you love someone you will do anything to be with that person. Now you see what you’ve lost. She tried. She was nothing but a faithful wife and wonderful mother and you threw it all away because you couldn’t save yourself.
July 4, 2016
When I look back 6 months after all the horrible crap my ex has put me through its amazing how I’ve met so many great people, made new friends, work hard and take care of my kids alone. When I was with him I had 0 friends, always left home alone with kids, he never took me out, never went anywhere with me. Never did anything nice for me. All I did was cool clean and take care of kids and him while he sat in his ass all day/night. It was all about him, he always did what he wanted. Now I’ve moved on and life is much happier. Eventhough I do wish he would of got help and wait to see if things would turn out differently I guess I’m glad I stayed away because he’s never going to get better. I would of never been happy. Im glad I know I deserve better. All I need is my two boys and maybe a good man.
As much as it hurts sometimes I see my life happier now. It’s amazing how one person can tear you down into pieces overtime.
I’m good. I’m too good of a mother and women to put up with crap. Toxic people never win only if you let them. Always stay above.
Just stay above and remember all the good you did out weighs the bad he’s done. Day by day you’ll see you worth and deserve a lot more.
July 9, 2016
Shared a link to the Being Barbara special
COMMENT: Did u watch? You are so sweet
I didn’t see the entire thing I got off work late:/ gabreil had a meltdown too. I’ll have to catch up tomorrow.
COMMENT: Oh no is he ok? Was it about his baby brother? You’re so brave try to have a good night
I don’t wanna comment publicly just yet about what’s going on. All I’m saying is that it’s a big mess.
COMMENT: I’m sorry don’t say anything publicly !!!! You don’t need anyone knowing your business but I really hope it all works out for you and your boys ❤️
Your okay. My ex is acting crazy and I don’t know what’s going on. I’m just trying to stay low.
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Demographers have a name for when a population has more deaths than births: “Natural decrease.” It’s rarely discussed because “it is unusual in the modern era,” according to a recent research paper, but that’s about to change as natural decrease is becoming increasingly common across Europe, and in many parts of the United States.
In an article published in December’s issue of Population and Development Review, authors led by Kenneth Johnson of University of New Hampshire note that, “In Europe today there is virtually no overall population growth from natural increase.” There is only one country—Kosovo—with a population that is naturally growing by more than 1% per year.
By contrast, 17 European countries are experiencing natural decrease, including Russia, Germany and Italy. After analyzing census data from 2000 to 2010, the authors conclude:
“Deaths exceeded births in most counties of Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Czech Republic, as well as in Sweden and the Baltic states. Farther south, natural decrease was also occurring in the majority of the counties of Greece, Portugal, and Italy.”
Natural decrease doesn’t mean a country is in danger of dying out completely, but it can create major economic difficulties. A declining population will tend to grow older, leaving fewer people in the workforce. As the proportion of old people rises, younger workers must pay a higher tax burden to pay for higher retirement, pension, and healthcare costs.
The map below shows population changes from 2000 to 2010, with blue indicating population increase and orange showing population decrease. White is a sign of missing data.
Population and Development Review. Source: Eurostat Overall natural increase or decrease, 2000-2010
Though the US had far fewer areas of natural decrease, there are still plenty. The authors found that 11% of US counties experienced natural decrease every year from 2000 to 2010, compared with 41% of counties in Europe.
Population and Development Review. Source: National Center for Health Statistics Natural decrease is far less common in the US than Europe.
But nearly half of US counties had at least one year of natural decrease from 2000-2010. After experiencing just one year of delcline, the authors note that it’s more than 90% likely to happen again.
“The likelihood of future subnational natural decrease is high in the US, just as it is in Europe,” they write.
The authors determine three major causes within the population for this decline: The percentage of people aged 65 or over, low fertility rates, and the proportion of women of childbearing age.
However they also identify a potential solution. The future of natural decrease is “not entirely bleak” in the US, they write, thanks to Hispanic immigrants, who are often of childbearing age and have high fertility rates.
Europe has received fewer immigrants in recent decades, though there has been a major increase in immigrants over the past few months. But the authors point out that it’s uncertain just how many immigrants will be accepted by which countries.
“Even if the immigrant surge is substantial, our analysis suggests that natural decrease is likely to remain widespread in Europe for the foreseeable future,” they write. In other words: “Natural decrease will certainly persist.”
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The final game in a Manitoba junior hockey league’s championship series turned ugly when a massive brawl broke out Saturday night at the Selkirk Recreation Complex.
The last game of the Keystone Junior Hockey League (Junior B) championship between the hometown Selkirk Fishermen and visiting Peguis Juniors looked more like a battle royale during the third period than a hockey game.
"I was absolutely disgusted in it. I couldn’t believe that they (Peguis) would resort to this," said Fishermen head coach Chris Poponick.
"You have to keep in mind this isn’t every player on the team, but a handful or so and who knows what kind of encouragement they were receiving. But they decided that this is how they wanted to finish things."
Wanna see the deadly fight, my kail doesn’t have fb but she recorded Posted by Marcie Sinclair on Friday, April 10, 2015
As the Fishermen hoisted the championship trophy after a hard fought championship series that went the distance to seven games, the sight of blood-stained ice remained.
The teams began throwing punches, and a line brawl ensued that lead to referees calling an end to the game with 1:18 remaining in the third.
"After the first attempt to start fighting (at the 9:44 minute mark of the third)… I simply told my guys ‘There is no need to run this thing up and try to get them to focus on just finishing this thing up,’" Poponick said. "I gave them clear instruction if someone wants to fight or jump you, just bring them in tight and hold on and wrestle with them because we didn’t want anybody suspended."
Fans from both sides packed the arena and, as the referee and linesmen did their best to break up the two-minute brawl, a number of fans threw objects like drink bottles on the ice.
The penalty box for both teams during the third period was a revolving door as 242 minutes in penalties were dished out. During the third frame, Peguis incurred 23 penalties compared to Selkirk’s 13.
"It got out of hand and I put it on the refs," Juniors head coach Farron Cochrane said. "I try to control my guys and there is only so much you can do."
League commissioner Rick Olson, who is also the director of Junior B hockey, was not available for comment.
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Marijuana Prohibition Is a Moral Scandal Built on a Mountain of Lies Latest Magazine Current Issue Archives Subscribe Video Podcasts All Shows The Reason Roundtable The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie The Reason Rundown With Peter Suderman The Soho Forum Debates Volokh Newsletters Donate Donate Online Donate Crypto Ways To Give To Reason Foundation Torchbearer Society Planned Giving Subscribe Print/Digital Subscriptions Gift Subscriptions Search for: Login Form Username* Password* Remember Me Login Create new account Forgot password Policy Marijuana Prohibition Is a Moral Scandal Built on a Mountain of Lies Why the war on weed is unscientific, unconstitutional, and unjust Jacob Sullum | 5.18.2015 12:01 AM Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on RedditShare by emailPrint friendly versionCopy page URL Media Contact & Reprint Requests (MIS Photography) Next Thursday I am scheduled to debate Robert White, co-author (with Bill Bennett) of Going to Pot: Why the Rush to Legalize Marijuana Is Harming America, on Glenn Beck's radio show. Each of us will get half an hour or so to make his case before taking questions from Beck and each other. Here is what I plan to say: Marijuana Prohibition Is Unscientific A few days before the House of Representatives passed a federal ban on marijuana in June 1937, the Republican minority leader, Bertrand Snell of New York, confessed, "I do not know anything about the bill." The Democratic majority leader, Sam Rayburn of Texas, educated him. "It has something to do with something that is called marihuana," Rayburn said. "I believe it is a narcotic of some kind. That exchange gives you a sense of how much thought Congress gave marijuana prohibition before approving it. Legislators who had heard of the plant knew it as the "killer weed" described by Federal Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger, who claimed marijuana turned people into homicidal maniacs and called it "the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind." Anslinger warned that "marihuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes" and estimated that half the violent crimes in areas occupied by "Mexicans, Greeks, Turks, Filipinos, Spaniards, Latin Americans, and Negroes may be traced to the use of marihuana." Given this background, no one should pretend that marijuana prohibition was carefully considered or that it was driven by science, as opposed to ignorance and blind prejudice. It is hard to rationally explain why Congress, less than four years after Americans had emphatically rejected alcohol prohibition, thought it was a good idea to ban a recreational intoxicant that is considerably less dangerous. It is relatively easy, for example, to die from acute alcohol poisoning, since the ratio of the lethal dose to the dose that gives you a nice buzz is about 10 to 1. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 2,200 Americans die from alcohol overdoses each year. By contrast, there has never been a documented human death from a marijuana overdose. Based on extrapolations from animal studies, the ratio of the drug's lethal dose to its effective dose is something like 40,000 to 1. There is also a big difference between marijuana and alcohol when it comes to the long-term effects of excessive consumption. Alcoholics suffer gross organ damage of a kind that is not seen even in the heaviest pot smokers, affecting the liver, brain, pancreas, kidneys, and stomach. The CDC attributes more than 38,000 deaths a year to three dozen chronic conditions caused or aggravated by alcohol abuse. Another 12,500 alcohol-related deaths in the CDC's tally occur in traffic accidents, and marijuana also has an advantage on that score. Although laboratory studies indicate that marijuana can impair driving ability, its effects are not nearly as dramatic as alcohol's. In fact, marijuana's impact on traffic safety is so subtle that it is difficult to measure in the real world. Last February the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released the results of "the first large-scale [crash risk] study in the United States to include drugs other than alcohol," which it described as "the most precisely controlled study of its kind yet conducted." The researchers found that once the data were adjusted for confounding variables, cannabis consumption was not associated with an increased probability of getting into an accident. That does not mean stoned drivers never cause accidents. One challenge in assessing the extent of the problem is that many of the drivers who test positive for marijuana are not actually impaired, since traces of the drug can be detected long after its effects wear off. That means marijuana-impaired drivers get mixed in with drivers who happen to be cannabis consumers but are not under the influence while on the road, which would tend to mask the drug's role in crashes. Still, alcohol is clearly a much bigger factor in traffic fatalities. Last year, during a congressional hearing on the threat posed by stoned drivers, a NHTSA official was asked how many traffic fatalities are caused by marijuana each year. "That's difficult to say," replied Jeff Michael, NHTSA's associate administrator for research and program development. "We don't have a precise estimate." The most he was willing to affirm was that the number is "probably not" zero. The likelihood of addiction is another way that marijuana looks less dangerous than alcohol. Based on data from the National Comorbidity Survey, about 15 percent of drinkers qualify as "dependent" at some point in their lives, compared to 9 percent of cannabis consumers. That difference may be especially significant given the link between heavy alcohol consumption and premature death. All told, the CDC estimates that alcohol causes 88,000 deaths a year in the United States. It has no equivalent estimate for marijuana. We may reasonably assume, along with Jeff Michael, that marijuana's death toll is more than zero, if only because people under the influence of cannabis occasionally have fatal accidents. But the lack of a definitive answer highlights marijuana's relative safety, which points to a potentially important benefit of repealing prohibition: To the extent that more pot smoking is accompanied by less drinking, an increase in cannabis consumption could lead to a net reduction in drug-related disease and death. The comparison of alcohol and marijuana presents an obvious challenge to anyone who thinks the government bans drugs because they are unacceptably dangerous. If anything, that rationale suggests marijuana should be legal while alcohol should be banned, rather than the reverse. Judging from this example, the distinctions drawn by our drug laws have little, if anything, to do with what science tells us about the relative hazards of different intoxicants. Marijuana Prohibition Is Unconstitutional When dry activists sought to ban alcoholic beverages, they went through the arduous process of changing the Constitution, which prior to the ratification of the 18th amendment in 1919 did not authorize Congress to prohibit the production and sale of "intoxicating liquors." When Congress banned marijuana in 1937, it did so in the guise of the Marihuana Tax Act , a revenue measure that authorized onerous regulations ostensibly aimed at collecting taxes on production and distribution, with severe penalties for noncompliance. But by the time marijuana prohibition was incorporated into the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, there was no need for such subterfuge. Instead Congress relied on its constitutional authority to "regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states." The Commerce Clause, which was part of the original Constitution, did not change between 1937 and 1970. But beginning with a series of New Deal cases, the Supreme Court stretched its meaning to accommodate pretty much anything Congress wanted to do. In the 1942 case Wickard v. Filburn, for example, the Court said the Commerce Clause authorized punishment of an Ohio farmer for exceeding his government-imposed wheat quota, even though the extra grain never left his farm, let alone the state. The Court went even further in the 2005 case Gonzales v. Raich, ruling that the federal government's power to regulate interstate commerce extends even to homegrown marijuana used for medical purposes by a California patient in compliance with state law. That decision, unlike Wickard, applied not just to production but to mere possession. According to the Court, the Commerce Clause encompasses the tiniest trace of marijuana in a cancer patient's drawer. "If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause," observed dissenting Justice Clarence Thomas, "then it can regulate virtually anything—and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers." Many conservatives who pay lip service to the Constitution and the system of federalism it is supposed to protect nevertheless seem comfortable with this audacious assertion of congressional authority. In fact, they complain that the Obama administration is not using the Controlled Substances Act to shut down the newly legal marijuana markets in Colorado and Washington. Either they do not really believe in federalism or they cannot think straight when they smell marijuana. Marijuana Prohibition Is Unjust Even if marijuana prohibition were consistent with science and the Constitution, it would be inconsistent with basic principles of morality. It is patently unfair to treat marijuana merchants like criminals while treating liquor dealers like legitimate businessmen, especially in light of the two drugs' relative hazards. It is equally perverse to arrest cannabis consumers while leaving drinkers unmolested. Peaceful activities such as growing a plant or selling its produce cannot justify the violence that is required to enforce prohibition. In the name of stopping people from getting high, police officers routinely commit acts that would be universally recognized as assault, burglary, theft, kidnapping, and even murder were it not for laws that draw arbitrary lines between psychoactive substances. The main justification for those laws is protecting people from their own bad decisions. The hope is that prohibition will deter a certain number of people who otherwise would not only try marijuana but become self-destructively attached to it. Toward that end, police in the United States arrest hundreds of thousands of people on marijuana charges each year—nearly 700,000 in 2013, the vast majority for simple possession. While most of those marijuana offenders do not spend much time behind bars, about 40,000 people are serving sentences as long as life for growing or distributing cannabis. And even if marijuana offenders do not go to jail or prison, they still suffer public humiliation, legal costs, inconvenience, lost jobs, and all the lasting ancillary penalties of a criminal arrest. Note that the people bearing these costs are not, by and large, the people who receive the purported benefits of prohibition. The person who, thanks to prohibition, never becomes a pathetic pothead goes about his life undisturbed while other people—people who never hurt him or anyone else—pay for the mistakes he avoids. Even paternalists should be troubled by the distribution of these burdens. I am not a paternalist, because I do not believe the government should be in the business of stopping us from hurting ourselves. I am with John Stuart Mill on this: The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant….Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. Marijuana prohibition, along with the rest of the war on drugs, is a flagrant violation of this principle. It is a moral outrage built on a mountain of lies. This article originally appeared at Forbes.com. 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Get in touch to schedule a free consultation. add me to the mailinglist, too additional info EJWP Team Naomi Timmer Director Jennifer Cronick Coach, trainer and consultant Filip Grisar Trainer, coach Matt Luna Communication advisor/ copywriter Rasha Hassan Project Officer Ap Verheggen Creative Stimulator EJWP Community 86 Result(s) Default Date (Newest first) Title A to Z Refine Search Category Ambassador Blue Innovation Track Company EJWP partner EJWP Team EJWP1 EJWP2 EJWP3 EJWP4 European project Events by EJWP Graduation Groups masterclass Participant Project Filter items Loading EJWP Partners: Natuurpunt from Belguim Natuurpunt is the Flemish branch of Eurosite and BirdLife Belgium which is the Belgian Partner of BirdLife International. With over 100.000 members and 6.000 volunteers, Natuurpunt is the largest Belgian nature conservation organization. The long term protection of important habitats, species and landscapes is the main goal. To achieve this, we buy and manage nature reserves, study species and habitats, raise awareness and run educational programs for a general and specific public and lobby local and regional governments. EJWP3 participant from Natuurpunt: EJWP Partners: University of Zagreb from Croatia The University of Zagreb (1669) is the oldest and biggest university in South-Eastern Europe. As a comprehensive public Central European university, University of Zagreb offers education and research and in all scientific fields (arts, biomedicine, biotechnology, engineering, humanities, natural sciences and social sciences) and a broad spectrum of courses at all study levels, from undergraduate to postgraduate. With 29 Faculties, 3 Art Academies and the University Centre for Croatian Studies it is the flagship educational institution in the country, a place where more than 7900 teachers and 72480 students develop knowledge and acquire skills. EJWP3 partici… EJWP Partners: University of Thessaly, Greece University of Thessaly (UTH) was founded in 1984. UTH is a prominent institution of Higher Education aiming to promote scientific knowledge through teaching and research, and to contribute to the cultural and economic development of the local community, and the society at large. It promotes scientific and academic excellence in all fields of expertise and rewards outstanding individual performances, establishing new scientific research units and fostering an environment that supports innovative actions. Today, University of Thessaly, with 37 Departments and 8 schools, is the third biggest University in Greece, with its own identity and with a prominent pos… Meet EJWP3 Participants: Lander Wantens from Belgium Lander has a BSc in environmental awareness, and wrote his thesis on fish migration on the Flemish waterways. At Natuurpunt, Lander is working on the Wetlands4Cities project, with the aim of developing at least five urban wetlands in Flanders over the next two years. He is also involved in the Curieuzeneuzen project, a citizen science research initiative to measure heat and drought, in cooperation with the University of Antwerp. “I believe that networking within the vibrant and diverse EJWP community, including the recognized experts on European water issues, will further improve my skills and knowledge for water research, and in passing on the importance of water resources management to yo… Meet EJWP3 Participants: Mirela Sertić Perić from Croatia Mirela is an Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology in Croatia. Mirela has an MSc in biology and chemistry, and PhD in ecology, environmental and conservation biology. Her research interests cover freshwater ecology, including stream macroinvertebrates; hydromorphological, anthropogenic and global change influences on the structure of aquatic ecosystems; ecology of alpine/glacier-fed streams; and urban stream ecology. She participates in biology education research and developing teaching content for pre-service biology and chemistry teachers, and has been involved in scientific projects on freshwater ecology. Meet EJWP3 Participants: Nikolaos Mellios from Greece Nikolaos (Nikos) Mellios, PhD, Laboratory of Hydrology & Aquatic Systems Analysis, Civil Engineering Department, University of Thessaly, is a postdoctoral researcher who is also supervised by Prof. Chrysi Laspidou. 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India-Pakistan match shifted to Kolkata – Newstrack24x7 Skip to the content B r e a k i n g | N e w s Arvind Kejriwal, Bhagwant Mann to visit Ahmedabad Sunday AAP protest after bulldozers arrive at Vadodara property where Kejriwal held event 19-year old Receptionist Killed by BJP Leader’s Son Pulkit Arya Journalist Upendra Prasad dies at 61 Ashok Gehlot in U-turn Ahead of Last-ditch Effort to Convince Rahul Newstrack24x7 The name you know. The news you need. 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September 18, 2022 CBI moves bail cancellation against Tejashwi Yadav, Court issues notice September 17, 2022 Home Top Lead India-Pakistan match shifted to Kolkata India-Pakistan match shifted to Kolkata RAJEEV RANJAN NAG March 9, 2016 NEW DELHI: The World Twenty20 clash between arch-rivals India and Pakistan was on Wednesday shifted to Kolkata from Dharamsala in view of security concerns, putting an end to the uncertainty and suspense over the fate of the high-profile match. The ICC announced the relocation of the match to Kolkata’s Eden Gardens where Pakistan will stay during the initial stages of the event. “A decision has been taken to relocate the India-Pakistan match from Dharamsala to Kolkata due to security reasons. The match will now be played at the same time and date (March 19, 7:30pm),” ICC Chief Executive Officer Dave Richardson said at a press conference. “The concerns initially arose following alleged public comments recently reported by the Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, warning of demonstration and attempt to disrupt the peaceful conduct of the match. Our concerns relate both to uncertainty as to the level of those threats as well as the level of commitment to implement any security plan developed to mitigate such treats,” he said, explaining the decision. The match ran into trouble after the Himachal Pradesh government expressed its inability to provide security for the match, leaving the BCCI in a bind. “The decision was not taken lightly. The ICC and the BCCI understand the disappointment that is likely to be felt by many over the decision to move the match. But the safety and security of the event is of paramount importance to the ICC and we have taken into consideration the concerns shared with us by our security advisors as well as Pakistan Cricket Board,” the ICC CEO said. Meanwhile , The PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan welcomed the ICC’s decision to shift the venue but kept the Pakistan team’s departure on hold awaiting an assurance from the Indian government. “Both men and women teams [departure] have been deferred. I have also informed this to the government because it has asked for my opinion,” he said at a press conference. “Pakistan government has not talked with the Indian government. This threat is on us so the PCB has talked with the Indian government. It is the PCB that is raising this issue with the BCCI, ICC and the government of India that this assurance should be given by India. We have not given any deadline.” Share on Facebook Tweet Follow us Save Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. 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Samuel Templing d. Between Jan 1816 and Feb 1816 Frederick County, Maryland: NH genealogy Nielsen Hayden genealogy Home Search Find Surnames First Names Search People Search Families Search Site Places Dates Calendar Cemeteries Bookmarks Media Photos Albums All Media Info What's New Most Wanted Reports Statistics Trees Branches Notes Sources Repositories DNA Tests Contact Us Print Bookmark Samuel Templing - 1816 Individual Ancestors Descendants Relationship Timeline Family Suggest Personal Information | Notes | Sources | All | PDF Name Samuel Templing Gender Male Died Between Jan 1816 and Feb 1816 Frederick County, Maryland [1] Person ID I31360 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of ASF Last Modified 28 Nov 2020 Family Hanna, d. Aft 1783 Children + 1. Elizabeth Templing, b. 7 Dec 1767, d. 8 Sep 1847, Middletown, Frederick, Maryland (Age 79 years) Last Modified 28 Nov 2020 Family ID F18612 Group Sheet | Family Chart Notes Also spelled Dembling, Dempling, Templen, Templin, Templinger, Tepling. He appears on a 1796 poll list as a Federalist voter in that year's Presidential election. Sources [S5077] The Derr Family 1750-1986, with Allied Families of Baker, Flook, Hoover, Koogle, Long, Metzger, Smith, Templing, Toms, Yaste, and Youtsey by Roy H. Wampler. Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1987. This site powered by The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding v. 13.1.1, written by Darrin Lythgoe © 2001-2022. Maintained by P & T Nielsen Hayden.
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