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Connecting Americans to Health Insurance Coverage Overnight
By Gary Lauer
The House passed its health reform bill earlier this month, and the Senate is considering similar legislation. Under either bill, how will the 46 million uninsured Americans — 6.7 million in California alone — be brought into the health insurance marketplace?[IMGCAP(1)] One hopes the answer is quickly and smoothly, but there are reasons to have doubt. What, if anything, can be done to speed up delivering on health reform's promises?Our nation's track record in implementing large-scale programs suggests we move deliberately down the field but rarely achieve the goal. For example, in the four years since the start of Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program, nearly 90 percent of seniors are enrolled in a sub-optimal (read: wrong) plan. About 10 percent of seniors still have no drug coverage. Medicaid and the children's health insurance program known as CHIP have similar troubles, leaving millions of eligible Americans unenrolled.In his address to Congress on health reform in September, President Barack Obama suggested an online marketplace for Americans to find, compare and buy health insurance could be up and running in four years. Waiting until the end of 2013 would feel unbearable to those in need — like the life preserver that's just out of reach.There is room for the private sector to help. We can transform delivery, the same way FedEx did for overnight mail and Domino's did for 30-minute pizzas. Add in the high-tech power of California and the health marketplace will look dramatically different. Indeed, the technology to build the president's online marketplace — called "health insurance exchanges— — already exists today.The concept of health exchanges was little known before 2008. Now it is widely accepted in policy circles that uninsured Americans will need such portals. Just as Orbitz does for travelers, private sector companies like mine have spent the last decade pioneering ways to create more competition among insurers and connect Americans to high quality, affordable insurance coverage.In Massachusetts, the state developed the Commonwealth Connector, which, along with other services, helps connect Bay Staters to coverage. In August, just as the president was speaking out about exchanges, the state of Utah launched its own. Today Utahans are going online to shop for health insurance through a number of technology solutions including those developed by eHealth Inc., the company I lead.It is important to note that while these two state efforts are significant developments, it was the private sector that initiated this movement and other important revolutions in health care and delivery. Indeed the private sector is answering the call of President Obama and others to develop cutting-edge technologies that reduce costs, increase efficiency and, most importantly, connect people to quality coverage. More than a decade ago, the first Web-based sale of a health insurance policy was made at eHealth.com.As federal policymakers hammer out health reform, it is essential that they continue to consult with innovative players in the private sector. With health exchanges and in other arenas, experience is a great teacher, and companies that operate at the intersection of health and technology have much to offer.Additionally, I believe that one exclusive national health insurance exchange would be an unwise approach. The bill just passed by the House gives states the opportunity to continue to create their own exchanges, which makes sense in such a diverse nation, and also allows consumers to access exchange-participating plans from eHealth and other enrollment avenues. The United States, with so many different communities and populations, requires many paths to coverage, including those that are online, in person, through affinity programs, schools, community centers, churches, brokers and agents — no single approach serves everyone's needs. Sophisticated online exchanges like eHealth should be part of the solution. But we are only a part.With this in mind, policymakers have the opportunity to let government set the minimum rules for insurance policies, distribution channels and exchanges, and certify them. They can then empower states, independent brokers, online exchanges and others to display their different strengths in presenting choices and enrolling the uninsured.Passage of health reform is only the first step in helping those without coverage. It must be followed up with an aggressive, diverse and comprehensive enrollment plan — lest universal health coverage remain a promise, not a reality. With the right ground rules set by Congress, delivering quality coverage to 46 million Americans truly can happen overnight.Gary Lauer is chairman and CEO of eHealth, Inc., based in Mountain View, Calif.


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Jean-Claude Juncker: I have high trust in President Iohannis, I hope he will bring Romania even closer to Europe
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President Klaus Iohannis has stated in Brussels on Thursday that the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, has assured him of his full support in what regards Romania's accession to the Schengen Area., reports the Agerpres special correspondent in Brussels.
"We have discussed and found that we have the same point of view on the topic of Schengen. Mr. President assured me of his full support for Romania in the matter of Romania's accession to the Schengen Area", said Iohannis in a joint press conference with the head of the European Commission, held after the meeting between the two.
He showed that he has also discussed with Juncker on the topic of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM), mentioning that in only a few days we will have a new report on the matter.
"We have agreed that this encourages to say that in the coming years during our mandates we will successfully finalize this procedure because Romania has made significant progress, consolidating the state institutions in implementing structural reforms, consolidating the rule of law and consolidating the independence of the judiciary. We had practically identical views in this matter", said Iohannis.
Iohannis: Complete Europeanisation of Romania, one of the most important objective of my mandate
Romania's head of state emphasized that an important topic for Romania if it wishes to be in the EU core is the accession to the Eurozone, a desideratum of our country.
"Without going into too much detail, in a first discussion we agreed that it is a very good thing, to be wished and that we will together in this matter", said Iohannis.
Iohannis also expressed joy that he "found not only understanding, but a point of view that was almost identical" to his own in the EC President in many important topics for Romania.
"I have emphasized my and our wish (…) to finalize the complete integration process to the EU, so to become a member not with full rights, because we have full rights right now, but a member that is accepted and respected as a member of the core of the European Union", said Iohannis.
The complete Europeanisation of Romania, added the President, is one of the most important objectives of his mandate.
European funds: EC promises support for increasing Romania's absorption rate
President Klaus Iohannis said also that he asked European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker for support with increasing the absorption rate of EU funds and with the implementation of the projects proposed by Romania, adding that he also got the promise of the requested support.
"We had the opportunity to discuss European funds and I asked for Mr. President's support – and also got the promise of it – with increasing Romania's absorption rate, and with implementing the projects proposed by Romania," President Iohannis told the joint conference delivered with Jean-Claude Juncker after the meeting with the EC head.
The Romanian head of state said that he and the EC President also discussed the latest agreement concluded in Romania on increased defence spending.
"I informed Mr. President that we have this agreement in place and the news was met with appreciation," Iohannis added.
President Iohannis said that European Commissioner Corina Cretu was also present during a part of the meeting with the EC President.
Juncker: Under certain circumstances a state in the Schengen area can chose to introduce border check-ups
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Thursday said that under certain circumstances a state in the Schengen area can choose to introduce border check-ups.
"Reintroducing border check-ups, in fact, doesn't represent anything else but the implementing of the Schengen agreement. Under certain circumstances, the state in question can choose to introduce such procedures, if the situation requires it," Juncker explained in the joint press conference with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, when asked about the reintroduction of the border check-ups, required by some states.
Juncker also added that he places high trust in the Romanian President, Klaus Iohannis, expressing his hope that he will bring Romania even closer to Europe.
"I have high trust in Mr. President of Romania. I hope that he will bring Romania even closer to Europe. Romania is an important member of the Union. Europe would not be complete without Romania and I have always been proud of the fact that in 2005, when I was President of the European Council, we signed in Luxembourg Romania's accession treaty and I really feel close to this country," said Juncker after meeting the Romanian President.
He showed that he has known Klaus Iohannis for many years, since the latter was mayor of Sibiu, and that his country, Luxembourg, has had privileged relations with him, referring to the fact that Sibiu held the title of European Culture Capital in 2007, at the same time as Luxembourg.
Juncker added that he met on Sunday with President Iohannis in circumstances that did not allow the evoking of the matters discussed on Thursday, namely at the Paris march held in the memory of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack, Agerpres correspondent in Brussels also reports.
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Heuschrecke 10 (нем. Саранча 10) — прототип немецкой самоходной гаубицы времен Второй мировой войны. Орудие разрабатывалось фирмой «Крупп-Грузон» в 1943-44 гг. Официальное название орудия — 10.5 cm leFh 18/1(Sf) auf Geschützwagen IVb (105 мм легкая полевая гаубица 18/1 L/28 на шасси Geschützwagen IVb). Отличительной чертой Heuschrecke 10 была съёмная башня, которая могла буксироваться другим транспортным средством, а также быть установлена в виде дота.

Фирма «Крупп» изготовила только три прототипа. Для Heuschrecke изначально использовал укороченное шасси от Panzerkampfwagen IV, но затем было решено использовать шасси Geschützwagen IVb, разработанное для САУ Хуммель. Массовое производство Heuschrecke было запланировано на начало февраля 1945 года, но так и не было начато.

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В конце сентября 1939 фирма Круппа разработала «первую настоящую самоходную артиллерийскую установку» под названием Sd.Kfz. 165/1 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 165/1 — Боевая машина специального назначения 165/1). Sd.Kfz. 165/1 был внешне похож на Heuschrecke, но не имел механизма для снятия башни. На прототипе был установлен 6-цилиндровый двигатель Maybach HL66P, мощностью 160 л. с. Серийная модель должна была оснащаться 12-цилиндровым двигателем Maybach HL90, мощностью 360 л. с. Была заказана постройка 200 установок, но было построено всего 8 прототипов, которые, впоследствии, прошли боевые испытания на Восточном фронте.

Прототипы
Разработка Heuschrecke началась в 1942 г., когда Крупп проектировал новый тип самоходной артиллерии. В 1943 г. было построено три прототипа (серийные номера от 582501 до 582503), которые получили обозначение Heuschrecke 10 или Heuschrecke IVb. Проект САУ фирмы Круппа оказался похожим на орудие, построенное концерном «Рейнметалл-Борзиг» — 10.5 cm leFH 18/40/2 auf Geschützwagen III/IV, которое было готово в марте 1944 г. Сравнение двух моделей выявило незначительное превосходство орудия «Рейнметалла». Однако к модели «Рейнметалла» было решено приспособить шасси от PzKpfw IV. Производство должно было начаться в октябре 1944 г., но в декабре 1944 г. было предложено использовать шасси Geschützwagen IV. Срок начала массового производства в Магдебурге был установлен на февраль 1945 г., но ни одна машина так и не была построена.

Дальнейшая судьба
Нацистское командование считало, что производство Heuschrecke помешает выпуску необходимых на фронте танков. К тому же, количество материалов, необходимых для постройки данной САУ было столь велико, что Круппу и другим фирмам было дано указание прекратить выпуск Heuschrecke. Большая часть САУ так и осталось на стадии сборки. По мнению главного инспектора бронетанковых войск Гудериана САУ Heuschrecke оказалась достаточно интересной, однако в то же время он признавал, что развитие этого орудия не оправдывает возможных помех в производстве танков. Разработка Heuschrecke была прервана в феврале 1943 г.

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Башня
Отличительной особенностью САУ Heuschrecke была съемная башня. С помощью специального крана башню можно было снять, чтобы использовать её в качестве стационарного орудия. Хотя имелась возможность стрелять с установленной башней, но компоновка САУ предполагала именно перевозку орудия и снятие его перед стрельбой. Оставшуюся таким образом без башни установку можно было использовать для перевозки боеприпасов или эвакуации. Прототип был вооружен 105 мм легкой гаубицей 18/1 L/28, серийные САУ предполагалось оснащать 105 мм гаубицей leFH 43 L/28.

Двигатель и шасси
САУ Heuschrecke имела сварной стальной корпус. Броневые листы имели толщину 10—30 мм и были расположены под углом для лучшего сопротивления огню. Отсек для боеприпасов был достаточно большим, поэтому машину предполагалось использовать также для перевозки снарядов, особенно тяжелого типа. На прототипе был установлен 12-цилиндровый двигатель Maybach HL90, а для серийных моделей предполагалось использовать Maybach HL100.

Сравнительные характеристики

В массовой культуре

Стендовый моделизм

Heuschrecke 10 ограниченно представлен в стендовом моделизме. Сборные пластиковые модели-копии Heuschrecke 10 в масштабе 1:35 выпускаются фирмами «Драгон» (Китай), «Трумпетер» (Китай).

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Ссылки
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 The Shadock's website
 SVSM Image 1 and SVSM Image 2

См. также
 PzKpfw IV
 Sd.Kfz 165/1

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Compsmag Team November 30, 2017
Nowadays , we are enjoying the feel of sparkly new rose gold iPhone 6s in our hand, it's stylish design, and the joy of 3d touch. We want to take this love affair on a big path but Apple is already working on iPhone 7(a series of iPhone) and as we all know the market is full of about its rumors.
A rumor that came earlier this year's iPhone refresh was also one that would upset many Apple fans. According to early reports, Apple decided to remove the standard 3.5mm headphone jack from the new iPhone series 7 and 7s because they want to make the phones as thin and as reliable as possible.
Here is what we think and what we know about Apple's next-generation major smartphone release so far.
There are still many months of developing ahead because Apple would not release its next generation iPhone until the fall of 2016.In the current situation, Apple flagship is based on the iPhone 6s and the iPhone 6s Plus, which was released to the public in September of 2015.
The time from when the 3GS launched in 2009, Apple has used a basic "s" named formula to mark that year in which the iPhone does not receive a grant redesign, savings its numbered upgrades for years where design changes are introduced to the market.the releases are as follow as:
2007 – iPhone
2008 – iPhone 3G
2009 – iPhone 3GS
2010 – iPhone 4 (new design)
2011 – iPhone 4s
2014 – iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus (new design)
2015 – iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus
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There are a number of reports which gave us a hint that Apple will move its display screen from LCD to OLED screens in the nearby future. On the other hand, some reports say that the iPhone 7 will get OLED, but some say that the new screens would not be ready in time, and they will arrive on later iPhones versions.
Though the iPhone 6S, Apple's phones are supported one GB RAM, while many other Andriod competitors used 3 or 4GB RAM in their flagship phones.Now may reports hint us that the iPhone 7S will get even more RAM than the older version, there is an another rumor of 3GB RAM popping up for the iPhone 7 Plus. We all knows that the claim has made more than once or twice, and the TrendForce is the latest to join this fray.
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Serie A fans listened to a passage from Anne Frank's diary before kick-off during midweek.
Italian police on Friday issued stadium bans to 13 Lazio fans for spreading insulting images of Nazi Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Lazio fans had placed images of Anne Frank wearing a Roma jersey at their rivals' end of the Stadio Olimpico.
A passage from The Diary of Anne Frank diary was read out before each of Wednesday's Serie A fixtures in an effort aimed at tackling anti-Semitism in Italian football, However, while the moment of reflection was impeccably observed in the majority of stadiums, the current rising tensions overshadowed the action in some of them.
Club president Claudio Lotito has been vocal in criticising the actions of a select group of Lazio fans.
Lazio's players sent out a clear message to their fans by wearing white T-shirts adorned with a photo of Anne Frank and the message "no to anti-Semitism" before and during their warm-up on Wednesday. However, that did not prevent the Irriducibili ultras from marring the moment by singing fascist songs while the diary extract was being read, as well as during the minute's silence that followed.
Following the incident in Rome, Lazio President Claudio Lotito was quoted by Gazzetta dello Sport as referring to a small group of "fools who don't know what they've done". The message though, did little to deter the Irriducibili.
In the match itself, the Biancazzurri collected a 2-1 win over Bologna to remain level on points with reigning champions Juventus, who were one of two other clubs that will have to answer for their fans actions.
In Turin, a small section of ultras turned their backs on the pitch and began singing the Italian national anthem, while in Rome, where AS Roma played host to Crotone, the reading was drowned out by club chants.
Italian publication La Stampa commented that the actions were "anything but a homage to the victims of the Holocaust," while Gazzetta dello Sport ran with the headline of "new shame".
While, the efforts of the Italian football association to combat anti-Semitism may have been a step in the right direction, there is clearly stil plenty of work to be done, as the views – and actions of some of the fans remain in stark contrast to those their clubs.


a Feast of Mercy. I want this image, which you will paint with a brush to be solemnly blessed on the first Sunday after Easter, that Sunday is to be the Feast of Mercy.
Personified – and to recall to our minds the streams of Blood and Water gushing forth from His pierced heart to be a Fount of Mercy for us. Grant to all who invoke Your Mercy with this picture before their eyes, the grace of true repentance, pardon and peace. Shield them from every danger to soul and body.
Loving Savior, establish in this picture the Throne of Your Mercy. Pour out upon all who approach it with faith and trust, the purifying, healing and sanctifying rays of grace ever emanating from it as from a blazing sun; Gaze upon them from it as you did from the Cross with irresistible love and compassion.
Through this image may Your Diving Mercy triumph over all the powers and wiles of Satan the world over. May all who venerate it never perish. May it be their joy in life , their hope in death and their glory in eternity. This we ask through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
Father, fill me with Your mercy, that I may be merciful. Father, I ask for mercy not only for myself, but for all Your Bishops, Your priests and deacons. Father, fill us with Your mercy that we may be merciful. Make us icons of Your mercy that others may see Your mercy and be drawn into Your mercy. Make us intercessors of Your mercy, imporing Your mercy on us and on the whole world. Make us vessels of Your mercy, to bring mercy to others that they may experience Your mercy. Make us preachers of Your mercy, to tell others of Your mercy that they may hear of Your mercy and be converted. Make us teachers of Your mercy to explain and take away obstacles to receiving Your mercy. Make us writers of your mercy that many may read of Your mercy and open their hearts to You make us apostles of Your mercy sent by You to proclaim Your kingdom of mercy, Your time of mercy and Your plan of mercy. Lord, fill us with your mercy, that we may be as merciful as you are merciful.
Most merciful Jesus, They goodness is infinite and the treasure of They grace inexhaustible. I have infinite trust in Thy mercy which is above all Thy works (Ps.144-9). I surrender myself to Thee entirely and without reserve that I may thus live and strive for Christians' perfection. I desire to spread Thy mercy through the performance of both spiritual and corporal works of Mercy, particularly in converting sinners, in consoling and aiding the needy, the afflicted and the sick.
Guard me then as They possession and Thy glory, for while I have everything to fear from my human weakness, at the same time I have everything to hope for from Thy mercy. May all men come to know the fathomless depths of They mercy to confide in it and to glorify it forever.
Through your most holy heart we ask for your intercession.
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and beg you to make us taste the truth and love with which you love us.
and to make us like unto you.
and to interceded for us and for the ones we present to you.
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which you experiences upon this earth.
And the Virtue and Wisdom of the Holy Spirit.
thank You for Your countless graces and blessings.
be a new hymn of thanksgiving to You, O God.
Let every drop of my blood circulate for you Lord.
My soul is one hymn in adoration of Your mercy.


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Anthony Weiner Got Paid By DNC 'Satellite Office'
Anthony Weiner was hired by a public relations firm that effectively served as a satellite office for the Democratic National Committee during Hillary Clinton's run for president, according to insiders and leaked emails.
It has been revealed that classified information ended up on Weiner's laptop through his wife Huma Abedin. This opens Weiner, Abedin, and potentially Abedin's boss Hillary Clinton up to even further criminal scrutiny.
Weiner, who is in prison for a sexting relationship with an underage girl, was inexplicably hired at the New York public relations firm MWW in July of 2015. It struck many people as odd that Weiner, who bungled his sexting scandal and resigned from Congress, would go to work doing public affairs for the likes of Tysons Food, Southern Comfort, and Jack in the Box.
Weiner only lasted two months at the firm.
It turns out that MWW was operating as a veritable satellite office for the Democratic National Committee in 2016.
The New York Post reported: "The batch of nearly 20,000 emails includes entries showing DNC regional fund-raising director Zachary Allen doing business at the Park Avenue South office of the MWW group. MWW is headed by Michael Kempner, a top fund-raiser for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, President Obama and the Democratic Party. Many of the 18 emails involving MWW show the firm's staffer Dawn Porters e-mailing Allen to let him known that his ordered food has arrived. A source said Allen was treated like a top company executive."
The DNC and MWW officials were colluding on food purchases, according to DNC emails leaked by Wikileaks.
Dawn Porter of MWW emailed Zach Allen at his DNC account on May 17 with the subject line "Hi: Food," which was marked as a "High" importance message.
"Shoot, I am out – I forgot. Does it smell? I will be back in 15 minutes!," Allen replied on his DNC email account.
"Nope not at all. I planned to order it! lol Let me know how it is. I have to tell them "no spice" when I order b/c they KILL me!!!," Porter of MWW told Allen of the DNC.
Oftentimes in politics, radioactive figures who nevertheless have a lot of dirt on powerful people (such as, classified information) are routed to informal satellite offices, where they can continue to get paid without actually showing up on the powerful people's payroll forms.


Manny Ramirez of the Red Sox gestures towards the dugout after getting on base in the first inning against the Athletics at Fenway Park in Boston Tuesday.
Tim Wakefield pitched seven innings of three-hit ball for his first win in six weeks, and Johnny Damon singled five times Tuesday night as the Boston Red Sox rebounded from a horrible trip to rout the Oakland Athletics 11-0.
"This is the 2004 Red Sox that you see," Boston first baseman Kevin Millar said. "This is the first time we're back in our house with our lineup."
Wakefield (5-5) allowed only two batters to reach second base. He struck out six and walked one.
"It was huge for all the guys in the clubhouse in there," said Wakefield. "We needed to win this one."
Bill Mueller hit a three-run homer in the second, and the Red Sox scored four times in the fourth off Barry Zito (4-6).
Zito allowed seven runs -- six earned -- on nine hits and three walks in four innings, walking in two runs in the fourth.
The Red Sox returned to Fenway Park after going 1-5 on the road, including a three-game sweep by the American League East-leading Yankees.
In New York, Jason Johnson pitched eight dominant innings and Rondell White and Bobby Higginson hit two-run homers to help the Detroit beat New York and five game losing skid.
Dmitri Young had three doubles and scored two runs, Carlos Guillen had a two-run single, and White added an RBI single against his former team as the Tigers won for the first time at Yankee Stadium since Sept. 7, 2002.
Johnson (6-7) retired his first 12 batters. He allowed six hits and a run without walking a batter. He struck out four.
Mike Mussina (9-6), working on three days' rest, gave up seven runs on nine hits and a walk while striking out eight.
In Baltimore, Mark Hendrickson pitched eight shutout innings as Tampa Bay halted a three-game losing streak with a win over Baltimore.
Hendrickson (6-6) allowed six hits, struck out two and walked one. He allowed only two runners to reach third base. Danys Baez pitched the ninth for his 17th save in 19 chances.
Rodrigo Lopez (6-5) gave up three runs on eight hits in 6 innings.
In Toronto, Carlos Delgado doubled in his first at-bat off the disabled list, and Reed Johnson and Josh Phelps homered in a six-run first inning as Toronto defeated Seattle.
Delgado, who missed 33 games because of a strained ribcage, went 1-for-3. Toronto went 13-20 while he was sidelined.
Miguel Batista (8-5) won this fourth straight start despite allowing four runs, six hits and six walks in six innings. Rookie Jason Frasor pitched the ninth for his ninth save in 10 chances.
Randy Winn and Scott Spiezio homered for the Mariners, who have lost four straight and six of eight. Jamie Moyer (6-5) lost his third straight decision, allowing seven runs and 10 hits in five innings.
In Cleveland, the Indians halted a three-game losing streak and relief pitcher Bob Wickman pitched for the first time in almost two years as Cleveland downed Texas.
Wickman allowed one hit in the eighth. He hadn't pitched in the major leagues since Aug. 10, 2002, after undergoing "Tommy John" surgery.
Starter Cliff Lee (8-1) allowed four hits, struck out five and improved to 7-1 in starts following an Indians' loss. David Riske picked up his third save.
Texas starter Nick Bierbrodt (1-1) allowed three runs and just one hit, but walked seven. Mark Teixeira hit his 16th homer for the Rangers.
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Are NFTs the Future: All You Need to Know About Non-fungible Tokens
November 18, 2021 by Matthew Du
If you've been on the internet in the past couple of months, you'll probably have heard of NFTs. Wait, no - you'll 100% have heard of NFTs. It's just one of the biggest projects to date. It's been almost a year since NFTs entered the mainstream and headlines continue to pop up about people, celebrities, and normal folk alike, paying house money for clip art photos of rocks or apes - yet many people continue to wonder what an NFT is.
Don't worry, we'll explain this concept to you right now.
What are NFTs?
NFT's stand for "Non-Fungible Token".
Let's break this down a bit more.
The expanded notation of NFTs can be broken down into two parts: "Non-Fungible" and "Token".
"Non-fungible" more or less means that the token is one of a kind and can't be replaced with something else. If you had a pen, for example, that is fungible - trade one pen for another and you'll have the exact same thing. An art piece, however, is non-fungible, where the serial codes separate the different variants of the same card. The fact that that they are logged on a digital ledger means that they offer unique signatures of ownerships that cannot be replicated.
"Token", on the other hand, means that these items are more than just collectible pieces of pixel art. By being tokens, they represent whatever underlying value their creator writes into them. If you have, for example, photos of your house or lot for sale, you could turn that into an NFT.
Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs | Photo from newyorker.com
In effect, a non-fungible token is a token that we can use to represent ownership of unique items. They let us create a unique stake in art, collectibles, and even real estate. Above all, no one can modify the record of ownership or copy/paste a new NFT into existence.
NFTs solve some of the problems that exist on the internet today. As everything becomes more digital, there's a genuine need to replicate the properties of physical items like scarcity, uniqueness, and proof of ownership.
What are NFTs built on and how do NFTs work?
NFTs are built on the Ethereum network. One advantage of having your digital asset built on a network is the transferability afforded to you. An NFT ticket for an event, for example, could be traded on every Ethereum marketplace, for an entirely different NFT.
It's important to note, however, that other blockchains (like Flow and Tezos) also support NFTs.
So how do they work?
The NFT system is based on public digital records where everything remains easily verified and traceable, although the person or entity that owns the token can remain pseudonymous.
Almost all digital assets can be tokenized, including but not limited to artwork, in-game items, and stills or video from a live broadcast. If you've heard of NBA Top Shot, one of the largest NFT marketplaces right now, you'll know what we're talking about.
Though the NFT community is a year old now, there continue questions surrounding the replicability of the assets you purchase. Depending on the NFT, the copyright or licensing rights might not come with the purchase, meaning that the company that sold your asset could make more using the same image. Similar to how purchasing a limited-edition item doesn't necessarily grant you exclusive rights to the image.
NFT Marketplaces | Photo from blog.gilded.finance
How do you buy NFTs?
You can purchase NFTs through Ethereum or other crypto blockchains - this depends on where the NFT was built.
To purchase using Ethereum, for example, you could follow these three steps:
1.) Purchase Ethereum on a crypto exchange. (You can purchase ethereum on exchanges such as Coinbase)
2.) Transfer your crypto to a crypto wallet. For this step, you could opt to use the built-in wallet features that are available on exchanges like Coinbase but there also exist other options for dedicated wallets like MetaMask.
3.) Connect your wallet to an NFT marketplace. This is the most obvious step, you can't purchase an NFT without being involved in a marketplace somehow.
Here's a list of the most popular NFT marketplaces:
1.) OpenSea
The largest NFT marketplace that also supports more than 150 other payment tokens.
2.) SuperRare
A peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling single-edition digital artworks. With top sellers such as Time Magazine covers going for well over $300,000, the site is well-trafficked and currently home to a curated selection of artists and brands.
3.) Rarible
Rarible is quite different from the other NFT marketplaces we've mentioned before as it allows you to buy, sell, and mint digital collectibles ranging from everything from gummy bear GIFs to animated videos commemorating sports milestones. Rarible is also attempting to become a decentralized autonomous organization, so it will soon be governed by the Ethereum blockchain, with a token known as RARI allowing the most active buyers and sellers to vote for platform upgrades and participate in moderation decisions.
4.) Foundation
First launched on February 2021, the site has hosted the sale of viral internet assets such as the Nyan Cat, Pak's Finite record, and works of other creators.
The sign-up process for these organizations can vary depending on the marketplace. Generally, however, you'll continue to buy NFTs using a cryptocurrency despite the dollar price tag associated with the asset. The fees will also vary depending on the marketplace.
Are NFTs safe?
There are many practical applications for NFTs in the future, like licensing of your lot for sale, for example, although they're primarily used with digital art today.
"For creators, NFTs create a seamless way to sell digital art that might not have much of a market. Additionally, there are ways in which creators can get paid fees for each subsequent sale of the art," says Solo Ceesay, co-founder and COO of Calaxy. "On the flip side, collectors are able to speculate on digital art as well as have bragging rights on rare collectibles on the chain."
The question of the safety of NFTs is quite easy to answer. In general, buying and owning NFTs are as safe as buying and owning cryptocurrency. But, while the technology behind NFTs are thought of as being secure, here is a list of things you'll probably want to do to ensure that your investment is safe:
1.) Choosing a secure wallet
With NFTs being stored and used via a cryptocurrency wallet, it becomes that much more important to choose wallets that are more reputable and secure than others. After all, you wouldn't trust just any old bank, would you?
Ideally, you'd want a wallet that stores private keys only on that device with strong unique passwords and two-factor authentication. You'd also want this wallet to encrypt your data and require you to set up a recovery passphrase. Some common examples of these wallets once again include MetaMask, Binance, and the Nano Ledger.
2.) Using a complex password
A huge mistake that many people make is the use of the same password for different accounts. At that point, you're begging people to steal your information. A lengthy, unique, complex password is an absolute must if you want to secure your wallet.
Two-Factor Authentication | Photo from malwarebytes.com
3.) Enable two-factor authentication
Requiring verification before completing any activities will go a long way in reducing the chances of an NFT being stolen or even accidentally sent to someone else. The process here is extremely simple and should be used by everybody.
4.) Back up your wallet regularly
With everything moving online, it's only natural to be afraid of your hardware failing you or a system failure occurring. That said, in the event of any of this occurring, you can have peace of mind that you can recover your data eventually if you have multiple backups.
5.) Update your software regularly
Can I Make My Own NFT?
If you want to create your own NFT, it's surprisingly easy.
OpenSea and Rarible are the leading platforms for NFT creation and while Rarible dominates total sales figures, OpenSea was created to provide more related services including the ability to create your own NFT Webstore powered through the OpenSea exchange. Regardless of the platform you choose, both platforms will allow you to upload your art and create collections without needing any technical blockchain knowledge.
There's a consensus process of creating your NFT, we'll cover them below:
1.) Set up your software wallet
The first thing you'll need to do to create your own NFT is to set up your software wallet, like MetaMask. The wallet can not only hold your NFTs but also any other cryptocurrency that you might own. You'll also need this to pay blockchain gas fees later on.
The wallet will then have two key pairs: private keys and public keys. A public key is derived from the private key and will serve as the address used to send crypto to the wallet. A private key is like the key to a safe deposit box as anyone who has access to the private key of a wallet can take control of the balance held there.
2.) Tokenize your art
Once you have your wallet created, you'll be able to create your own NFTs.
Again, the two options you have are OpenSea and Rarible. For this example, we'll be using Opensea and photos of your lot for sale.
First, navigate to opensea.io and click the create button in the menu bar. You could now connect your MetaMask wallet with OpenSea and get to work.
Upload your photo files to your NFT collection and give each file certain properties and stats to distinguish each from the rest of your collection.
3.) List them on the marketplace.
Finally, you'll need to enable OpenSea to sell items from your account. This will require a blockchain transaction so you will have to pay a gas fee.
Now that you've given OpenSea to sell your NFTs, anyone can find and purchase them on the OpenSea marketplace. At this point, it might serve you well to market your NFTs on social media accounts or even create your website for it.
Are NFTs the future?
That leaves us with the final question: are NFTs the future?
Well, innovative ideas are being built on the blockchain at a rapid clip - yet at this point, most new businesses are either creating or selling digital goods or are creating infrastructure to host or display digital goods. What that means is that while there exists a high volume of organizations, differentiation is relatively non-existent.
There are still ripe opportunities in these areas and the technology behind NFTs can be more broadly applied to the real world.
Gary Vaynerchuk put it best when he said "I don't care if you own a home-brokerage firm or a dental office, there's an NFT offering that makes sense for you and your customers. If you sell anything, it's a natural fit."
Will NFTs be limited to art?
As mentioned earlier, because blockchain technology has such widely applicable case usages, NFTs will not be limited to art and can be used for other purposes.
Because blockchains create permanent ledgers of transactions, ownership of an NFT can be tracked over time and professionals like musicians and photographers, who have struggled to keep track of the case usages of their art, for example, now have a pretty applicable and diverse means to track their work.
That said, it makes sense that artists have been some of the earliest adopters of the technology but NFTs have a wide array of applications, like memberships to licensing lots for sale or houses for rent.
NFTs could even be transformed to control medical records and other personal data.
Is it a good thing to invest in NFTs?
Interestingly, there's no one correct answer to this question. It depends on your current situation and your risk tolerance. It's a lot like asking yourself: should I buy this lot for sale? It depends on your current situation.
NFTs are a gold rush - plenty of folks are going to make foolish investments and lose money. To truly innovate rather than getting caught up in a frenzy, what you could do is to join communities working on NFT projects and learn as much as you can from them.
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BANNER ELK, N.C. – The Lees-McRae College swimming teams will compete in their first-ever meets Saturday in Bristol, Virginia. The Bobcats will compete against fellow Conference Carolinas foe King University and Milligan College in a tri-meet. The events are scheduled to get underway at 9:30 a.m. from Virginia High School.
About the men's team – The first-ever men's swimming team currently consists of six swimmers with three being juniors and three freshmen. LMC has a trio of swimmers from North Carolina and they are joined by student-athletes from Iran, Florida and Tennessee.
Last week the Bobcats were selected to finish fifth in the Conference Carolinas Preseason Poll. John David McCray, Arsham Mirzaei and Javier Sanchez were all picked as swimmers to watch for the Bobcats in 2018-19.
About the women's team – The women's team, meanwhile, has eight swimmers on its current roster. Six of the eight swimmers are freshman with one sophomore and one junior as well. The squad has swimmers from Alabama, Indiana, South Carolina, North Carolina and Texas on its roster.
Last Thursday the Bobcats were picked to finish sixth in the Conference Carolinas Preseason Coaches' Poll. The duo of Kayla Fleming and Jennifer Paul were tabbed as swimmers to watch for LMC in its inaugural season.


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Archive for the theology Category
Examples of Scriptural Immorality
Posted in Abraham, Agnostic, Atheist, belief, biblical "values", ethics and morality, religion, scriptures, theology on December 1, 2016 by chouck017894
For some two to three thousand years the Holy Scriptures have been promoted through western cultures as being the ultimate in moral guidance for mankind. But anyone with genuine respect for moral conduct and ethical behavior toward their fellow man often stagger away in bewilderment after reading a few holy accounts.
Indeed, the opening chapters of Genesis brusquely kick things off with a highly questionable take on common ethics. The naive couple, Adam and Eve, the last of the Creator's handiwork, were seemingly fashioned only for fun and games. Naked and clueless, they were placed in a deceptively paradisiacal setting–a setting which featured two breathtakingly beautiful fruit bearing trees as its focal point. Ah, but these trees were declared to be off-limits as a food source for the Creator's not-too-bright last creations. This is clearly a case of crafty entrapment, not omniscient wisdom. But God was supposedly outraged when the innocent pair find the trees too alluring, and God declared that death is to be their punishment–just not for Adam and Eve, but for all matter-life forms! The first two humans within the walled-in Eden had absolutely no experience as to what self-aware life meant, so how could they have possibly comprehended what the sentence of death meant?
Ethics and compassion (qualities of conscience) soon got another below-the-belt attack in the "revealed" record of Adam and Eve's sons Cain and Abel. Cain had become a farmer and Abel was a sheepherder. For the bounty that God had supposedly allowed them God expected both boys to gather from their hard work and bring him offerings in gratitude. That seems a tad materialistic for the Creator of all things, but what the heck. Abel slit a sheep's throat and God found that to be extremely pleasing, but Cain's gift, taken from the laboriously tended fields, was scorned by the Creator. Cain, of course, smarted at this bald-faced discrimination and in a jealous rage killed his brother. There were no actual criminal laws established in Paradise, nor had there been need for such in a family of four. So the homicide of Abel cannot be termed murder or even manslaughter. As punishment the testy Omniscient One banished Cain from his native land and Cain was commanded not to till the ground anymore. Apparently Cain was expected to starve himself to death. Or perhaps that was the Omniscient One's plan for evolutionary success, for Cain became wonderfully successful as a builder of cities after that.How he populated them is never explained. Still we can't help but wonder–is infinite punishment for "sins" committed by a finite being's brief life really the caliber of an Omniscient Creator's justice?
The same slack concept of holy moral/ethical conduct is continued throughout holy word accounts. Aggression is highly praised in divine tales, and war crimes pass as acceptable practice–if carried out for the security of a man-invented faith system. For example, under Moses' generalship the Israelites are glorified for having killed off all the Midianite men, their kings and their prophet Balaam. Joshua, in turn, reveled in holocaustic violence in which even thousands of noncombatant women, children and aged were slaughtered. Deceitful David exterminated men, women and children in various stories, even sawing victims in half or hacking them to pieces.
In a number of holy stories characters are admired for indulging in homicide. The alleged "prophet" Elijah, for example, who allegedly killed 450 priest of Baal to "justify" Jehovah is held to be exemplary. And there is Elisha, Elijah's successor, who called upon God to send two bears to kill children who had dared to mock his bald head. And there is the woman Esther who is praised for scheming the mass murders of Persians. And there is Jezebel who trumped up false charges against a father and his two sons so they would be slain.
Sexual misconduct, as long as it is strictly heterosexual, is routinely sniffed over. Lot and his two daughters, for example, merit no chastising for acts of incest. The maltreatment of Sarah whom her husband Abraham loaned out to the king for material benefits is brushed over. Isaac, their son, followed dad's example and passed his off wife to the king as his sister. Good old David indulged himself in adultery and had the women's husband set up for assassination at the war front. Dinah, Jacob's daughter, too young to give legal consent, was defiled by her half-brother, Prince Shechem. How do these, and many similar holy examples teach seekers how they are to achieve a personal state of grace?
Strangely, impurity of spirit is a constant counterpoint played upon in holy tales, but the "impurity" is always about not following some man-invented routine of pretentiousness and mannerisms as being the only method to approach the Omniscient One. The impurity angle of one's commitment to a man-made faith system is made the major concern in the three western corporate style faith systems. This springs primarily from the claim that just being born–expelled from a woman's body–renders a person impure. It is never explained why, if the Creator is omniscient (all-knowing) and supremely merciful, "he" could not have devised a more practical way and less painful manner for multiplying new life. Nonetheless, that little oversight broadly allows for his self-appointed representatives to have steady employment in their self-devised theatrics. For example, to make up for their original impurity a man-made faith system may insist that one's hair must be trimmed in a strict prescribed manner; or other faith systems demand certain foods must be avoided or prepared in a ritual way; and of course in all systems certain theatrics (rites, rituals ceremonies, etc) must be performed by those who aver to be God's selected representatives.
Such is the enticement and lure of man-written "holy" books. The emphasis is commonly based upon following some man-devised routine as though it was magically set down in stone and perchance delivered on some mountain top. That, however, does not reflect the varied and all-inclusive nature of true spirit. Rigidity and inflexibility just happens to be the condition of something that is dead.
Questioning Bible Style Creation
Posted in agnoticism, Atheist, Bible, days of Creation, faith, Hebrew scripture, life, prehistory, random, scriptures, theology on October 16, 2016 by chouck017894
God's revealed word assures us that God merely had to say "Let there be…" this or that and then this and that appeared. Thus, without any recipe or formula or thought-out blueprint all the varied components of whatever he commanded magically appeared. No trials, no errors, just zap. Although Earth seems to be God's center of focus, not only was Earth thus conjured up but all of infinity was set in place in only seven "days." However, the authors of "revealed wisdom" never bothered themselves to clarify which of the two differing Creation specifics (Genesis l and/or 2) are to be considered most proper. And, of course, we are instructed to never ask how God himself came into existence. This is what some Bible fanatics (in the USA) insist must be taught in our schools!
In order for all of God's varied and diverse forms which were thus allegedly brought forth by God talking to himself, some form of regeneration also had to be put in place for the continuation of manifesting such diverse and varied handiwork. That renewal system of each and everything created by word of mouth required a recipe or formula or blueprint for its continuation. Scientific sleuthing has managed to discover one vital part of that blueprint, and we know that reproduction diagram as DNA. Life, whether micro or macro, each follows specific developmental (evolutionary) processes, and even galaxies and the universe itself follow the same constant motions of re-creation.
Social cultures that preceded the "revealed word" of God by thousands of years, and therefore not privileged to biblical enlightenment, apparently had to grope about in ignorance of how everything became created. It was up to the self-appointed priests in Jerusalem in the much later 8th century BCE to explain the revealed facts of Creation. In that later timeframe the entire population of the world, which has been guesstimated to have been around seventy to one hundred million persons, the Creator was apparently interested only in enlightening a tiny percent of those humans in regard to his acts of Creation; and those "chosen" ones just happened to live around Jerusalem. Oddly, God chose not to bother himself with any specifics, such as what went into his creative process—things like the chemical compounds and such which he utilized for manifesting everything and which continues the re-creation process. Again the authors and devotees of those revealed words counsel us not to question God ways.
Still, we can't help but wonder. Planet Earth is heavy with chemical components, and it is this chemical heaviness which stands as a major argument against biological life having originated on this planet, as "revealed word" implies. But that fact of our planet's chemical makeup, in itself, does not negate the Genesis explanation. However, scores of years of scientific research has projected that Earth was formed around four billion five hundred million years ago. Within only a few hundred million years the simple life forms were already in existence on Earth–an incredibly short time in Creation terms. To science a few hundred million years after Earths's formation and simple life forms were already appearing ? It seems a case of too much too soon. Ahh, but all that was just one "Day" in the Genesis account.
If the oldest and simplest life forms were indeed present well over three billion years ago, and these simplest life forms had, as science has shown, molecules of biological origin, some dimension of Creation seems to be overlooked. Life on this planet seems to have arisen and developed from some source other than a combination of inert gases and chemicals that were then predominant on the infant planet. Some of the most abundant chemical elements of Earth's composition are nickel and chromium. If biological life originated in such an abundant chemical composition, wouldn't it seem logical that these more plentiful elements (like nickel and chromium) would figure in the composition of any life forms that developed in that primeval stew (the "dust" in biblical vernacular)–if not prominently, then at least moderately? But nickel and chromium play practically no role whatsoever in the biochemical structure of the life forms that thrive on this planet. Of course, they are not needed in the Genesis account.
On the other hand, the element molybdenum, a metallic element of the Chromium group is quite rare on this planet, but nonetheless that rare element plays a pivotal role in enzymatic reactions that are vitally necessary to all biological life! Furthermore, if biological life arose on this planet, whether from the "dust" of Eden or in a simmering primeval stew, logic suggests that a variety of genetic codes would have resulted. But that did not happen either. Instead, all life forms on Earth developed from a single genetic code–and all life forms on Earth share this single genetic composition. To those who idolize the biblical tales this genetic singularity can be easily brushed aside as proof of God's verbal commands as related in Genesis.
Long before the authors of sacred writ were around, some ancient Sumerian cuneiform texts provided more authoritative information in regard to the puzzle of life's appearance on primal Earth. According to the deciphered texts, life on this planet developed billions of years ago from an outer space source; from a huge planet that made at least two passes through our developing solar system. The Sumerians did not confuse that rogue celestial object with any comet, asteroid or other space object, and that roving planet was defined with the name Marduk. The Sumerians also referred to this planet, which was obviously not affiliated with our solar system, as "the planet of crossing." This information later became reworked by the succeeding Babylonians, and was the basis for personification of the Babylonian god Marduk. This god is known in the Bible as Merodach (Jeremiah 50:1-2), who was credited by the Babylonians with bringing the chemistry of life to planet Earth. Could that possibly be the inspiration for the god that the post-Sumerian story tellers in 8th century BCE Jerusalem referred to in Genesis as commanding the activation of all life?
Oddly, in recent modern science a theory has been advanced that is remarkably similar to the ancient Sumerian account. A minority of scientists, risking reputation and government financial support, dared to offer the theory that life on this planet may have been seeded from minuscule organisms given off by some free-wheeling planet that once brushed close to the primordial Earth. Perhaps that planetary lovemaking is what took place over the biblical six "days" of Creation? Or was God simply playing a solo game of billiards those "days"?
Spiritual Vanity, the Sin of Fundamentalism
Posted in Atheist, belief, culture, faith, Fundamentalism, humanity, random, religion, theology, thoughts on October 1, 2016 by chouck017894
It must be a terrible burden for fundamentalists of any faith system to confront all the diversity and variety and multiplicity in this life—a lavishness which typifies the radiance that is Creation. The "conservative" outlook of hard-nosed fundamentalists obliges them to advise the Creator that "he" made a vulgar blunder by having indulged in such a prolific assortment of potentials.
One characteristic of a religious fundamentalist is that they seem to always wax with hatred toward a hell of a lot of life's manifestations. However, it is that astonishing diversity, variety and multiplicity that assures the awesome radiance that we refer to as Creation. Another characteristic of the "fundies" is their unending attempts to impose their manufactured belief system upon anyone they can. This vanity of spirit is indulged in despite the fact that genuine spiritual enlightenment always proves itself as authentic by an enfolding sense of inner serenity and compassion that is experienced. Such an inner warmth is rendered impossible when cultivated hatreds for all the intentional differences that sustain Creation are encouraged. And yet, like any other man-contrived faith system, the fundies claim that it is only through their hard-line approach alone that anyone can attain the Creator's favoritism.
Reason and knowledge are seriously constrained when any faith system representative labors to advance preconceptions of any sort to hover over seekers interactions with others. In tightly structured faith systems, for example, seekers are routinely indoctrinated and continuously conditioned with claims that it is only through their particular man-made faith system that anyone can ever attain the favoritism of the Creative Principle which they like to personify as "God." But, curiously, the universe and nature do not happen to reflect that narrowly restrictive disposition toward the diversity and multiplicity of life which the Creative Principle formulated, made manifest and steadfastly maintains.
The creative and unifying force which is commonly personified as "God" is too often imagined in scriptural texts to be mainly concerned with the dilemma of only one certain representation of human species in one small region on planet Earth. Ignored in such "holy" tales is the fact that those characters just happened to be from the author's locale and also happened to be subscribed to his faith system. That narrow understanding of life and spiritual significance in relation to the rest of the world population has resulted only in a setup for persistent and unnecessary conflicts.
Such old locally focused writings which are honored as "revealed word" leave us with fundamental questions. Such as: When a person feels they must indulge in devilish scheming to impose their faith upon others can that really be assessed as one's "higher calling?" Why would an omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful) Creator find this to be the only way of making "his" intentions known among men? In a universe that has been created with such lavish diversity and multiplicity, we are left to wonder over the Where, When or Why did the Creator of that diversity and multiplicity suddenly judge himself/herself/itself to have been too liberal and/or too excessive? And if that hypothetical self reevaluation was the case, what caused him/her/it to decide upon picking and choosing favorites out of that multiplicity and give only to those "chosen ones ones" or "saved one" the all-clear for them to indulge in what amounts to spiritual brutality? Would it not have been easier and wiser for him/her/it to have simply have resorted to the alleged original method of Creation and simply just say, "Let there be no more variety and diversity in Creation?" Certainly that would have erased all the virulent spiritual egotism which all man-made faith systems demonstrate.
Regimentation and/or strictly controlled adherence to man-invented rites, rituals, ceremonies, taboos, cultivated hatreds and contriving to exert authority over others is not the means into genuine spiritual enlightenment. That means, bluntly, that no man-contrived faith system can sincerely promise or officially grant a stamped passport into what they may fantasize to be a heavily regimented and snooty Heaven. All that the "fundies" of any faith system can conceivably offer seekers is only a lottery ticket for an all-expense paid future flight into what is actually another dimension of creative energy. (Energy does not cease; it simply transforms.) Few faith system seekers, it seems, ever notice the tiny print at the bottom of their frail proffered ticket stub where it is grudgingly admitted that the voyage and destination are the same for each and every matter-life form, and that no purchase or contribution is necessary to gain that award.
Rise of Holy Agitators (in USA)
Posted in Atheist, belief, biblical "values", Christianity, Fundamentalism, politics, religion, Social, theology on September 1, 2016 by chouck017894
In the early 1950's in the USA television was a new craze. Quick to note the craze some enterprising guys still clutching their freshly printed Bible studies diplomas sought to serve the Lord by preaching their revealed word using that promising medium. The Lord seems to have been well pleased. For example, by May of 1985 the evangelical marketer Pat Robertson was even being featured in a cable magazine called On Cable. Filled with boundless self-righteousness and vanity Robertson declared that he sought to remake America into a "biblically based Nation" .His fiery right-wing politics was characterized by him as "conservative, religious, and a biblical point of view." He did't mention that the authors of those biblical views had written their point of view in the Bronze Age. Blissfully unconcerned, Robertson latched onto their point of view and it was so slickly packaged that by 1985 his organizational effort was siphoning in more that $70 million a year from bedazzled followers.
The long-standing Constitutional ideals and values placed upon diversity, variety and plurality by the American people were regarded by Robertson as being "extreme dangers" to a secular state. Respecting the rights of minorities was being threatened in his lofty view of how a "biblically based nation" was supposed to be run. Robertson pontificated that children in public schools were being taught "a collective philosophy that would lead citizens away from God toward Marxism, socialism, or a communistic type of ideology." Oh he was talented at scaring the be-Jesus out of the gullible. In his humble opinion, therefore, he found it logical to denounce the Department of Education as being "unconstitutional.
Not shy about telling the nation what God wanted for it, Robertson asserted that the United States Supreme Court had departed from history and the constitution. He reasoned and worried publicly about the "encroachment" of the judiciary. they just didn't seem favorable to the idea of a theocracy. Thus Robertson charted course to "engage" in what he termed "advocacy journalism," and his Christian Broadcast Network news teams began spewing out reams of propagandist mini-documentaries with heavy "conservative" (read theocratic) messages. (He must have been delighted some years later when the Supreme Court became composed with five of the nine Justices being Republican and staunch Catholics. And it was a Republican dominated Supreme Court that would later tell the nation that our redeeming leader was to be the Born Again George W. Bush. Hallelujah!)
Robertson's Christian Broadcast Network news teams were headed by a man who was once editor of The Washington Times, which just happened at that time to be owned by the "Reverend" Sun Myung. This strange bedfellow happened to be loaded down with questionable North Korean connections. Not to fear. The "born again" population, Robertson averred, was seriously under-represented in our national government. Posing as a caring messenger, he declared, "The basic thing people do not understand is that evangelicals in America are not plotting to take away the rights of everyone else." (Trying to eliminate the Department of Education would therfore simply be a god-inspired money saving move.)
Robertson worked hard at presenting himself as the modern age version of a biblical prophet. For sure the biblical prophets had dared to mix it up with politics–which was always in regard to a very select group of people. True to form, Robertson declared, "God is going to thrust his people (meaning fundamentalists) into positions they never dreamed they were capable of taking on." (George W. Bush & Company certainly did seem to fulfill that prediction.) If the heavy tilt of religiously obsessed persons in governmental positions today is any indication, and if their corruption of true democratic principles is an example of a "biblical based nation", can we truthfully say that their sly take over of the Republican Party in 1996 was "fairly benign"?
Well, today, several decades later, Robertson's Christian Broadcast Network and Regent University is pulling in over $400 million a year peddling the same old far-right political propaganda and implications of heaven's special favoritism. But his empire is upstaged now by an old rival from the same earlier era which is now marketed as the Jerry Falwell Ministries/Liberty Counsel/Liberty University. That deceptive use of the word "liberty" is to sabotage the US Constitutional safeguard of church-state separation–the guarantee of religious freedom (liberty) for everyone. Peddling this anti-democratic baloney the Falwell empire today rakes in over $600 million a year.
Amazingly there are other claimers of God's especial favors who wage war on every person's freedom to worship as they choose–all of which rakes in multimillions a year for being staunchly un-American and pro theocratic. Take the so-called Focus on the Family that has the gall to endorse.Right Wing political candidates; it is lucrative and nets the Dobson "family" over $92 million a year. And there is the so-called Family Research Council (an off-shoot of Focus on the Family) that holds an annual "Value Voter Summit" and draws in over $14 million for their un-American stance. And there is the American Family Association that is against about everything that grants civil freedoms. The Reverend Donald Wildman who heads this "Association" boldly proclaims that separation of church and state was invented by Hitler, no less. Duh! For that heavenly enlightenment his anti-Constitution bias nets over $17 million.
Other grandiose named outfits include American Center of Law and Justice/Christian Advocated Serving Evangelism. That imposing mouthful defines the purpose, which is to force–force–fundamentalist beliefs into all public schools. Allied with the Pat Robertson empire in spirit and money-love it pulls in over $57 million a year. Justice is again implied with the so-called Alliance Defending Freedom, but the only Council for National Policy aimed for is to allow them to axe the federal law which bars tax-exempt churches from actively intervening in partisan elections. God, it seems favors that antidemocratic stance to the tune of over $47 million a year.
Ahh, but there are even more would-be religious oppressors out there. It is all strictly spiritual guidance, of course. Take the bewildering Concerned Women for America (affiliated with the Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee) which indulges in heavy prejudices against the Creator's intentionally wide-ranged diversities of life. This anti-feminist lobby was founded by Beverly (!) and Tim LaHaye, who (in 2015) raked in over $14 million for their discriminatory activities. Not content with that, Tim LaHaye also headed up the Council for National Policy which presumes to evaluate prospective GOP candidates. This membership-only outfit drew only a little more than $2 million. Still another agitator operation is Ralph Reed's Foundation and Freedom Coalition whose primary purpose for existence is to attract more fundamentalists to vote. Their holy reward—over $3 million per year.
Oddly, these material obsessed, self-appointed faith merchants seem to have little appreciation for what Jesus is alleged to have preached. .For example, in Matthew 6;5 (King James version–among the many translations): "And when you pray do not be like the hypocrites for they pray standing…so that they may be seen of men. They (in that manner) have their reward." And in Matthew 7:1-3 (KJ): "Judge not, that ye be judged. For with what judgment ye judged and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you."
Perhaps those faith merchants of fundamentalism should get their greedy noses out of their elaborately constructed feeding troughs and actually follow the teachings they claim to epitomize.
Creation Truths vs. Religious Myths
Posted in Atheist, belief, Bible, days of Creation, faith, Hebrew scripture, logic, prehistory, religion, scriptures, theology on August 13, 2016 by chouck017894
The principal theme of literature that is distributed as sacred writ throughout the world is commonly in regard to the origin and interactions of energies which we perceive as the universe. In the study of "holy" myths there is commonly a distinction made between Creation myths (elemental cosmology) and myths of origins, which focus more on the later evolved features within Creation such as animals, humans, social orders, etc.
Study of the origin of anything is properly only a continuation of Creation's activity which marks the progress of the original creative energy outpouring. And this continuation of Creation activity accounts for the progressive arrangement of scriptural myth presentations. The mythic style is useful for instructing minds which are not fully capable of grasping the theoretical complexity and multidimensional characteristics which we speak of as Creation. The technique of myth-telling and the use of sacred language was originally the attempt to bridge the abyss of comprehension by personifying creative energy dimensions and their involvement as being characteristics of god, demigods, heroes, and/or divinely favored mortal beings.
The tragedy of this means of instruction is that the original scientific understanding behind the stories easily became sidetracked and the accounts then became accepted as authentic reporting. Even more dangerous for those whom the myths were invented to aid them comprehend primal energy actions, the stories were restructured as having been actual historic ancestors. Once the bogus "history" technique for teaching became the standard our role within Creation became trapped in the dark theological maze that has no off-ramp by which one could return to rationality.
Creationists, those Bible-thumping fanatics incapable of abstract thought who insist that Creation took place literally in six 24 hour Earth-time days, remain oblivious to pertinent clues provided within the tale itself. The clues reveal that the Genesis version of Creation was based upon an older and broader understanding of the true involution/evolutionary development of primal energies-into-matter. There is a telling peculiarity in the writing style of the Genesis account of Creation which is consistently disregarded by Creationist fanatics concerning the measurement method of those "days" of Creation. It is perhaps too subtle for those incapable of abstract thought. By verse 5 of the first chapter of Genesis, immediately after God created light, the account declares: "And God called the (initial) radiance Day, and the darkness (primal energy conditions) Night. And the evening and the morning were the first Day." Interestingly Day is emphasized by a capital D, and Night is similarly stressed with a capital N, and the emphasis is for a reason.
In man's standard time measurement practice, a solar-centered day is not reasonably calculated or defined as being "the evening and the morning." Nonetheless, the "holy word" extremists happily ignore the fact that in the priest written sacred account Earth was not even conjured up until verse 10; so the first "Day" obviously is not supposed to be calculated from how our puny little planet would measure time. This is the complex reckoning by which each "Day" of Creation is erroneously interpreted in scriptural terms, however. Creation of the "firmament" is the subject in verse 6 (the second Day) and is accentuated by the division of "waters" within which. scientifically speaking, creative energies involve with specific frequencies. Then in verse 8 the "firmament" itself was allegedly labeled "Heaven" by God. With the establishment of the "firmament," verse 8 sums it up, and again "…the evening and the morning were the second Day." The account is worded in this manner in an anxious attempt to convey to non-technical minds the understanding that everything that was/is made manifest out of a void (primordial or virginal) condition.
Creation's primal energy dimensions of what we may here term quantum activity are not involvements of Creations's energies that can be assessed in terms of solar-reckoned days. This period of Creation activity, defined in scriptures as "Days," is often circumvented by literal minded faith merchants by referring to the immeasurable time of Creation activity as "days of the Lord." That elusive attempt to sidestep explanation of the immense progressive phases of Creation's energy involvements and expansion into defined forms necessitated the familiar day/night sequence they personally experience. Thus the Days of Creation–or each primordial energy dimension of involvement (or involution)–which progresses out of a virginal void–was conveyed in allegorical style and presented as "holy word."
But what did the priest-authors mean in verse 8 by a "firmament" being established? The Hebrew word which is translated as "firmament" is rakia, which actually means a vast expanse–or what we think of as space. The word "firmament" is traceable back to the Latin word firmare, which happened to mean something that supported or strengthened something (from Latin firmus, "firm"). And thus was holy word rendered into a stew pot of mismatched ingredients.
The priest authors of "holy word" were intent upon obtaining and maintaining their control over the tribal setup (Hebrew) and in order to this they had to mask what they did not know. Thus did they assert that a strangely human-like God labored six days over Creation. This has served western cultures as "holy revelation" for around three thousand years, during which many bright youngsters have innocently asked, "But where did God come from?" The common response to that childish rationality has been, "We must never question God." Unfortunately, by adulthood too many formerly bright kids have been thoroughly brainwashed and their inclinations to question such things are directed to the No-No list. And the trusting believers now committed to the literal presentation of "holy word" are understandably traumatized when their taught assumptions are challenged by archaeological research that uncovers evidence of a totally different picture of true history.
Belief in Godly Favoritism
Posted in Abraham, Atheist, belief, Bible, Easter, faith, Passover, religion, scriptures, theology, Zodiac on August 1, 2016 by chouck017894
The Jewish festival of Passover and the Christian observance of Easter occur in the same general timeframe each year following the vernal equinox. Neither of these self-focused faith systems extend any recognition to the obvious seasonal transition that dominates the Northern Hemisphere of our planet in its orbital movement. Instead, each faith system has fashioned self-serving myths to present the illusion that they hold exclusive position with the Creator-God.
For Judaism, the seasonal changes are disguised and celebrated for eight days, allegedly in honor of the Israelites escape from Egypt. In encyclopedic and most reference material the explanation of Passover will say the festival commemorates the escape of the Jews from Egypt under the leadership of Moses. In the timeframe in which the Moses saga is traditionally placed, c. 1576 BCE, Judaism as a ritualistic faith system certainly did not yet exist; indeed, Jews as followers of a ritualistic faith system are not even referred to in scriptural tales until 2 Kings (12:26). Interestingly, that first mention of a Jew is not even favorable (the implied insolence). Nonetheless, in typical revisionist fashion it has become common practice to use the words Israelite, Hebrew and Jew as meaning the same thing, which is intentionally and tragically misleading.
Originally the priest-authors writing the alleged "history" of their nomadic forebears cast them as "Israelites," implying the descendants of an alleged historical patriarch named Jacob who, for no clearly defined reason, had his named changed to Israel by God. This, however, is a heavily mythologized version anchored in ancient teachings once illustrated with imagined figures outlined upon different constellations. Jacob characterizes the Life Principle within which self-aware consciousness becomes activated as a matter-life form out of primal energies. Hence the name change. Therefore, the use of the word Israelite is always in reference to the primal energies out of which life is made manifest. As such the story character of Jacob/Israel actually represents the "forebear" of all self-aware life forms, not just some "chosen" group of faith system believers.
In older reference books the habit of lumping Israelite, Hebrew and Jew as one-and-the-same allowed for the implication that Hebrews appeared more or less out of nowhere. In actuality they seem to have emerged out of the polytheistic Semite people who probably originated in the northeastern regions, and who became widely scattered due to their searches for grazing lands for their herds and flocks. And Judaism, as such, arose as a splinter sect among those polytheistic tribes people, and the fact is that one of the tribal gods, Yahweh, whose division settled around Jerusalem, was never the sole god of all the Hebrew people–a fact that is now disregarded.
Even before the priests of Yahweh, in Jerusalem c. 9th-8th century BCE, set the time for observance of Passover, the ancient Egyptians and Persians (to name a few) had celebrated the same equinox period with a sacred feast. This was prepared prior to the occurrence of the full moon at the spring equinox. In Egypt, on the 14th day of that moon phase, the nation joyfully celebrated the Dominion of the Ram, the sign of Aries. This same general time of the full moon in Aries associated with the Vernal Equinox is now celebrated in Jewish adaptation as Passover (and in Christian lore as Easter–so-named after a Pagan goddess of Spring). Aries became symbolized as the "Pascal Lamb" that is slain and eaten in recognition of the mythical Passover story.
From the ancient lessons once given with constellation Aries, there arose the sacred interpretation of the "lamb slain from the foundation of the world," and this became personified as Jesus in the Christian faith system. It is from this dimension of creative primal energy involvement that energy-as-life is "redeemed" through transition of this dimension of energy to be, in effect, "resurrected" (evolved) as a more refined energy form. Jesus thus personifies the Life Principle that is within all matter forms, and he is thus acknowledged as Angus Dei, Latin meaning Lamb of God.
The worldwide use in prehistoric times of the Ram/Lamb as a symbol of sacrifice comes directly from ancient lessons once given with what we now refer to as the zodiac, which actually taught scientific principles of creative energies being readied to begin manifestation into matter life (the real reason for Jacob's name change). This understanding was widely understood in more ancient times, and even into late BCE times in a few areas. Certainly Confucius (about 551-479 BCE), who spoke of this Ram/Lamb sacrifice was not thinking of an alleged ram sent to any foreign person named Jacob as a sacrifice substitute for his son Isaac. Nor could he have been referring to some future sacrifice of a Jew named Jesus in Roman Empire times. Confucius' assertions came from understanding the ancient lessons with constellation Aries which taught scientific principles of where creative primal energies are bound into a prototyptic form which commits it to its manifestation as an energy-matter life form.
Religion and Social Ills
Posted in Atheist, belief, faith, logic, monotheism, random, religion, scriptures, theology, thoughts on July 12, 2016 by chouck017894
Mankind's many, many faith systems are each self-advertised and promoted as the positive method that inspires people to live their lives with more respectfulness and righteousness. But are practices which are formulated to pivot upon judgmental and prejudicial behavior toward "God's" intended diversity really the untainted "narrow path" to attain Heaven or Paradise?
When faith systems teach seekers that all human entities skate on thin ice at the edge of the black hole of "sin" the minds of the faithful are persistently maneuvered into a submerged fear-based emotional state. Faith system merchants often lace their promotional spiels with heavy condemnation over minor differences which human entities are prone to. The "flock" has then been "blessed" with inappropriate belief that their faith system holds some especial and exclusive favor with the all-inclusive Creative Source. It's an excellent tactic for the faith merchants, but it is hell on a devout person's rationality. The sly inference of never quite measuring up to God's expectations for you tends to fester in the subconscious, and that negative energy is inclined to gestate over time and give birth to little deformed demons of resentment.
Since personal consciousness rests within a god-ordained animal configuration during its limited matter life experience the natural response to all the subtle negativity packaged into faith system merchandising is a stimulation of the hypothalamus which often triggers an inbred fight or flight response. But the crafted "religious" dictum is that you are allowed to do neither. The internal physical/mental mechanism then must adjust something like this: The blood vessels become constricted and blood pressure rises; stomach acidity increases; and body muscles remain tense to get ready for physical confrontation. The most immediate result of all this built-in internal defense activity is that it serves to suppress the immune system which is the body's defense against genuine life-threatening conditions.
Western organized by-the-book faith systems prosper because they have always sermonized that there is a constant threat which allegedly exists between each persons's soul and the possibility of oblivion. Cultivation of fear for the unknown makes for an easy target for faith merchants to hit. And the built-in advantage is that it also keeps the faithful suspicious of any minor but natural (God ordained) differences which individualizes each person's interests or lifestyle. It is a scientifically proven fact that over eighty percent of all human dysfunctions have been traced to emotional stress. So is mankind's higher potential really being served by such cultivation of fanaticism, suspicion and intolerance as is religiously churned out by man-invented faith systems?
Organized faith systems regularly stand guilty of emphasizing and passing judgment on what are but minor natural differences rather than counseling tolerance and inspiring understanding of God-intended diversity and variety. These by-the-book faith systems generally give much lip service to tolerance and charity, but this is too often disproved by their typical attitude that their faith system alone–and it alone–holds some exclusive position with the Creative Source which they personify as "God." The inappropriate cultivation of belief that their faith system possess some exclusive expressway into an imagined Creator's favor generates only inappropriate expectations, both of others and of self. The indulgence in such belief programming brushes extremely close to what may be termed true sin, for it sets believers upon a path of negative life occurrences–i.e. judgmental attitudes, feelings of guilt over natural desires, practicing conditional love, avoidance of personal responsibility, lack of forgiveness, lust for material things, and a host of other favorite themes of faith system merchants.
The concept of monotheism is actually a practice of personifying the all-inclusive Creative Source as a principled, judgmental human-like being (God). This allows for the conducting of corporate-style business under the assertion that the powers which created and sustains everything is human-like and plays favorites with the diverse and varied energy combinations that are manifested as the human species. This is a conman tactic which is then slyly intensified by grafting a foreboding of death and judgment into their sales pitch. This further allows those claiming to hold the moral high ground to peddle their faith system's insurance which promises a glorious afterlife. Unfortunately mankind can never attain its higher potential through such ego-stroking indulgence.
Such faith system practices will never ensure that peace, tolerance and brotherly love will actually be achieved by followers of hard line faith systems. Any acceptance and true charity for the intended diversity that is active as life would deprive those self-appointed god-ambassadors of their pretense of god-blessed authority. Thus man-made faith systems commonly teach judgment passing, hairsplitting, self-serving rites and rituals, spiritual exclusiveness, and similar ego-stroking propaganda. For seekers it all comes at a steep price: loss of the true access into higher alignment with universal power which is gained only through tolerance–which then flowers as enlightenment.


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