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2016: The year Pope Francis finally showed his hand
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ROME, January 3, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) – 2016 marked a dramatic turning point in the pontificate of Pope Francis. It may be called the year of the great awakening, as more and more faithful Catholics and prelates, Cardinals included, came to a frightening understanding that there is a major problem with the current Pope.
For the beginning years of his papacy, most, including LifeSite, gave Francis the benefit of the doubt. They repeatedly told themselves and others not to believe the media; that his words were being taken out of context or mistranslated; that he was just plain poor at doing interviews; that he wasn't often aware of the consequences of his words; that he wanted to be pastoral and thus overstated things at times; and that off-the-cuff interviews are not official expressions of the Church's teaching authority.
Many of these hopes were pinned on the outcome of the two controversial Synods on the Family. It was hoped that the final document by the Pope would finally set things straight after he had allowed many bishops to express themselves freely, even in ways contrary to Christ's own words. In the end, they thought, it would be as it was with Pope Paul VI who, after two years of deliberation and being intensely urged by numerous close advisors to alter the Church's constant teaching against contraception, nevertheless proclaimed Humanae Vitae and confirmed perennial, authentic Catholic teaching.
However, with Amoris Laetitia it has not been so. The confusion has been allowed to fester and only increase as Pope Francis himself has made known his personal views on the grave matters under consideration. He showed himself to be, at least in hard cases, open to altering the teaching of the Church, or as he would call it, being open to the "surprises of the Holy Spirit."
While the shift can most clearly be seen in the dubia by the six Cardinals, four of whom went public, it can also be seen in the growing concern expressed by official and powerful Catholic entities such as EWTN. The Catholic media empire founded by the saintly Mother Angelica has in their television programming with Raymond Arroyo, in their newspaper the National Catholic Register with Ed Pentin, and in their UK blog run by Deacon Nick Donnelly, taken to accurately and unapologetically reporting on the controversies caused by Pope Francis.
Other Catholic officials and entities have also begun to express dismay and grave concerns but, after witnessing the demotions of Cardinal Burke, the brutal dismantling of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate and many other such harsh actions, their dismay has so far mostly been expressed in only whispered tones.
It is instructive to watch what is not being done in order to appreciate the situation. Historically, with some very few exceptions, when a Pope has been openly questioned by Cardinals, a majority of course lept to his defense. However, in the matter of the dubia, we see, in addition to the four Cardinals that have gone public, several others expressing their sympathy and desire that the Pope would answer the questions and end the confusion. Yes, there are a bevy of bishops and a handful of Cardinals that have jumped to the Pope's defense, many of them with personally derogatory remarks directed at the four Cardinals. However, where are the majority of the 120-strong College of Cardinals leaping to the defense of the Pope?
The gravity of the present situation can best be understood by a look at the evidence. So in order to demonstrate the concern over Pope Francis, LifeSite here presents many of the more disturbing developments in the Francis papacy during 2016.
For brevity, most of the incidents are presented with only a few words of description and a link to a fuller explanation for more careful study. This is not meant to be a comprehensive listing for the year, but only the most grave of incidents. We pray this compilation may serve to awaken more Catholics to the need for ardent prayer, sacrifice and productive action for the Church and the Pope at this grave time in the Church's history of two millennia.
Pope: Catholics who say "it's always been done that way" have a "closed heart," "will never reach the full truth," and are "closed to the surprises of the Holy Spirit."
Pope Francis changes Holy Thursday foot-washing ritual to include women. Christ washed the feet of his all-male apostles at the Last Supper.
Pope calls Italy's foremost abortion promoter one of nation's 'forgotten greats'. In an interview with Corriere Della Sera Pope Francis praised Italy's unrepentant leading abortionist and proponent of abortion, Emma Bonino, as one of the nation's "forgotten greats," comparing her to great historical figures such as Konrad Adenauer and Robert Schuman.
Pope Francis' uncorrected remarks on contraception interpreted worldwide as a shift in Church teaching. On his return flight from Mexico Pope Francis was asked about "avoiding pregnancy" in areas at risk of Zika virus transmission. "Paul VI, a great man, in a difficult situation in Africa, permitted nuns to use contraceptives in cases of rape," he said. After reiterating that abortion is never morally justified, he said, "On the other hand, avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, such as the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear."
Vatican confirms that Pope Francis was approving use of contraceptives and condoms in grave cases. (However, to do so would contradict the clear teaching of previous popes.)
Pope changes Vatican protocol to allow for Catholic Heads of State in irregular marital unions to be able to meet the Pope along with their partner.
Pope issues apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia, creating an ongoing storm in the Church.
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Pope Francis warns against those who resist the Spirit with "so-called fidelity to the law."
Pope visits migrants on Greek island of Lesbos, then takes 3 Muslim families back to the Vatican, but no Christian families.
Pro-abortion U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks at Vatican event on adult stem cells.
Archbishop close to Pope says Pope wanted to conceal his support for communion for remarried divorcees. Archbishop Bruno Forte, the Special Secretary for the synods on marriage and family, claims publicly that Pope Francis said, "If we speak explicitly about communion for the divorced and remarried, you do not know what a terrible mess we will make. So we won't speak plainly, do it in a way that the premises are there, then I will draw out the conclusions."
Pope says the Church should study ordaining women as deacons.
Pope Francis compares radical Islam to Catholic evangelization: "It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam. However, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew's Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest."
Pope Francis gives award to Hollywood pro-abortion, anti-marriage advocates Richard Gere, George Clooney, and Salma Hayek.
Pope laments too much focus on Christ's words to adulterous woman "go and sin no more": "Sometimes I feel a little saddened and annoyed when people go straight to the last words Jesus speaks to her: 'Go and sin no more'. They use these words to 'defend' Jesus from bypassing the law."
Pope Francis: "Rigid… this or nothing" Catholics are "heretical" and "not Catholic."
Pope Francis: Cohabitations are "real marriage" and "have the grace of real marriage."
Pope Francis says there's an absolute ban on the death penalty: "The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' has absolute value and applies both to the innocent and to the guilty…. One sign of hope is that public opinion is manifesting a growing opposition to the death penalty, even as a means of legitimate social defence... It is an offence to the inviolability of life and to the dignity of the human person; it likewise contradicts God's plan."
Pope says all of Amoris Laetitia is sound doctrine: "For your own peace of mind, I have to tell you that everything that is written in the exhortation [Amoris Laetitia] – and here I refer to the words of a great theologian who once was a secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Schönborn, who presented it [Amoris Laetitia] – everything is Thomistic, from the beginning to the end. It is sound doctrine."
Pope Francis named Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich to serve as a member of the Congregation for Bishops.
Pope Francis distances himself from 'very conservative' bishops.
Vatican issues quick dismissal of Cardinal Sarah's call for Mass facing East.
Pope: Martin Luther's intentions were not mistaken, he was a reformer.
At World Youth Day, Vatican releases teen sex-ed program that leaves out parents and mortal sin and includes sexually explicit photos and films.
Pope's deaconess commission includes women's priesthood supporter.
Leaked e-mails show George Soros paid leftist groups to influence Pope's USA visit. The e-mails name key papal adviser Cardinal Maradiaga as a potential contact.
Pope Francis: Go to confession for not recycling, repent of excess plastic and paper, ecological conversion and new works of mercy.
Pope: There's "no other interpretation" of Amoris Laetitia than allowing communion for divorced/remarried in some cases.
Pope Francis: "Division is the weapon the devil employs most to destroy the Church from within."
Report reveals that some of the 45 signatories are feeling the heat over their letter urging clarification of 'Amoris Laetitia'.
Pope Francis says it is a "very grave sin" to try to convert the Orthodox: "There is a very grave sin against ecumenism: proselytism."
Pope Francis calls woman with sex-change operation a "man" and calls partners "married".
Pope: True doctrine is not a rigid attachment to the Law, which bewitches as ideologies do.
Pope to replace Cardinal Sarah for speech at John Paul II Institute's inauguration, and the Cardinal is not permitted to speak at another event.
In "seismic shift" Pope appoints very liberal Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich and 2 more U.S. progressives among 17 new cardinals. He also appoints the liberal Belgian Jozef de Kesel as cardinal.
Pope receives a statue of Luther in the Vatican and gives a new definition of "lukewarm." Pope Francis told pilgrims to the Vatican "it is not licit" to "convince [non-Christians] of your faith." "You must give testimony of your Christian life; it will be your testimony that will stir the hearts of those who look at you," he added. And he concluded: "It will be the Holy Spirit that moves the heart with your testimony – that is way you ask – and regarding that you can tell the 'why,' with much thoughtfulness. But without wanting to convince."
In that meeting, the pope also offered a novel definition of "lukewarm," which according to Pope Francis is when Christians "are keen to defend Christianity in the West on the one hand but on the other are averse to refugees and other religions."
Pope Francis said '…beneath rigidity there is something hidden about a person's life. Rigidity is not a gift of God.
Pope Francis again elevates Church progressives in a complete overhaul of the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship.
Pope proposes 'new beatitudes for a new age'.
Pope Francis again welcomes visit from Italy's leading abortion advocate.
Pope: Pontifical Academy for Life members no longer required to sign pro-life declaration.
Pope Francis on the young who like Latin Mass: 'Why so much rigidity?' Pope Francis said he wonders why some young people, who were not raised with the old Latin Mass, nevertheless prefer it. "And I ask myself: Why so much rigidity? Dig, dig, this rigidity always hides something, insecurity or even something else. Rigidity is defensive. True love is not rigid."
In an interview Pope Francis said, "What we want is a battle against inequality, this is the greatest evil that exists in the world."
Eugenio Scalfari reports Pope Francis' response to a question, "It is the Communists Who Think Like Christians". The Vatican, as usual, does not issue any clarification.
In wake of 4 Cardinals letter, Pope Francis rebukes 'legalism' of Amoris Laetitia critics.
Vatican expert: Sources say Pope Francis 'boiling with rage' over Amoris criticism.
Pope publicly uses the scatalogical terms coprophagia and coprophilia.
Pope launches an investigation of the Knights of Malta after they fired top official over condom scandal.
In his annual Christmas address to the Roman Curia, Pope Francis says that 'malicious resistance' to his reforms that 'takes refuge in traditions' is from the devil.
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Clare A Archangels
As I was reading Padraig's posts, words came into my mind: "Destroying Angel". A white mushroom that grows in woods and forests, often mistaken for the edible variety. This one looks a bit like a 'mushroom cloud'.
How will all this end?
Clare A, Feb 11, 2017
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Seeing it all laid out..... I feel sick
DivineMercy, Feb 11, 2017
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I'm feeling the same Divine Mercy....this are not "nit picking" grievances . It's an avalanche.
SteveD Archangels
True 2016 was a bad year for Papal quotes but 2015 was a problem too. E.g.
(from The Remnant website).
"Scalfari: What happens to that lost soul? Will it be punished? And how? The response of Francis is distinct and clear (netta e chiara): there is no punishment, but the destruction/annihilation of that soul. [The Italian word is annullamento, literally, "turned into nothing", meaning here the same as the more usual Italian word for annihilation, annientamento] All the others will participate in the beatitude of living in the presence of the Father. The souls that are destroyed/annihilated will not take part in that banquet; with the death of the body their journey is finished. And this is the motivation of the Church's missionary activity: to save the lost. And it is also the reason why Francis is a Jesuit to the end."
I translated this from Italian myself, having lived in Rome for many years and knowing Italian well. This annihilation of the wicked has been a popular thesis among liberal Jesuits in recent decades. And, yes, it is heretical – directly contrary to many Gospel passages (e.g., Mt. 25: 46) and the constant teaching of the Church's magisterium. Scalfari says this response of Francis to his question was "netta e chiara" -- "clear and distinct".
So if it's not quickly denied by the Vatican (no denial in the 11 months since publication) I think we can take it as probably authentic – although Scalfari has not always been exact in past reports of interviews with Pope Francis. (Denial of Hell and annihilation of the wicked is also the Jehovah's Witnesses' doctrine!)
SteveD, Feb 11, 2017
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Exactly. I was a teenager under Pope St John Paul II and loved him. I wanted nothing more than to be able to go to a world youth day, and cried the day he died. Then when Pope Benedict was elected I felt peace and joy, and embraced our new papa. When he announced his "retirement" (sorry, that's what I compare it to) I was confused, and felt abandoned. I couldn't and still don't understand why he did that. John Paul stuck it out through all his illness, all his pain. It was inspiring and I felt loved. I also couldn't help but feel uneasy. I listened to all the experts say that it was ok, that there was no schism, that there was still only one pope, and told myself that I was being ridiculous and needed to accept and love whoever was elected. When Pope Francis came to the balcony - I will never forget the sinking feeling in my heart. I didn't know who he was, but I felt sick. Over the next few years I told myself that I was being silly, he was our papa and to embrace him. I read and defended Laudato Si to many people, and "explained" away his rabbit comment and many others over the next few years. But here we are almost 4 years later, and that sinking feeling is still there, and my heart has no thought of him as "papa." I've told myself for years that "feelings" should always be dismissed because exorcists say that Satan is usually the culprit, so I continued defending him despite it all. But now with AL and the fallout with the bishops and cardinals pitted against each other with different interpretations, I'm done. Something is wrong, and I don't know for certain that it is with evil intentions, or from evil persuasions, but it's evil nonetheless. Many prophesies have talked of this, and because of that I am at peace. I know Mary's Immaculate Heart will Triumph in the end. But I will no longer defend the things Pope Francis says.
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View attachment 6100 I could not agree more. You expressed my sentiments exactly. Very close friends have been expressing these concerns over the last year and I've back off. So afraid to be wrong. But as you said, there is little to no ambiguity with the most recent controversy. I'm not making any other judgement than that I believe he is wrong...I'm not saying why he is doing what he is doing. My discernment stops short of reading hearts, but I know right from wrong.....and he is wrong.
These photos after he was elected sent chill up my spine. Looking back on it now, it was a for shadowing....
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This has symbolic meaning now as I look back on it...sadly.
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The picture and video above are chilling.
Absolutely nothing happens by accident. This is part of Catholic theology.
There are in reality no "coincidences".
Praetorian, Feb 11, 2017
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I think seeing this when it happened gave a lot of us pause....but we all wanted to hope for the best....
We really tried to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Hope our Lord directs our hearts and minds going forward....I'm always worried about taking such a strong stand.
Im equally worried about not taking one at all....silence is consent. God knows our hearts.
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We need to trust in Our Lord and Our Lady. In the end all we may have left is the Rosary and the Scapular. Our faith is going to be tested to the limits. Fr. Martin said what is coming will be so difficult it would test the faith of the greatest Saints.
Imagine trying to make it through this storm without access to the sacraments. That is going to be a nightmare.
We are a blessed group to be allowed to see the problems and have time to prepare ourselves spiritually and physically for what lies ahead.
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I am so thankful for this, and feel truly blessed that Jesus has brought me to know these things in advance. I think my faith would feel devastated and demoralized without this knowledge. Thank you Jesus!
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I feel the same way as well.
Though I must admit though it can be disconcerting at times.
All these dumb a** comments, I half heartedly excused through it all as it does not deal with doctrine, but discipline, but when he openly supported adultery and people living in adulterous situations in his document AL it became fully apparent that he is in clear apostasy to the truth of God.
Anyone who cannot see this at this point will be judged for their sin of apostasy as well. There is simply no other way to say it.
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I remember back during the two synods when everyone here was saying Holy Communion would never be given to active adulterers.
Even the most liberal elements here were saying this would never be allowed.
That is could never be allowed.
Go back and look at the synod threads they are still there.
And let's give credit where credit is due. Brian and Mac were singing from the rooftops back then about this issue. Many people said they were just making a big issue where there was none.
Remember that time?
That was just over a year ago everyone.
Where will we be a year from now?
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Yes they were right, but IMHO they could have been just as wrong back then before clear apostasy became apparent as it is now. For me, I had learned not to knee jerk my reactions, especially when talking about the vicar of Christ. The light is clearly brighter now than it was a year ago. The next question is when does the formal schism take place. Will it be during PF reign or during the confusion after global crisis?


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Just off the top of my head, the weight loss experienced by females during the reproductive process (onset of gestation to just after parturition) ranged from around 33% to about 56%. Mean weight loss is probably around 45% in relation to the female weight at the beginning of the gestation period for female that fast throughout gestation.
The females of our local NW. Oregon boas fast during gestation whereas females from other boa populations will consume prey during the gestation period.
In determining the total investment a female Rubber Boa undergoes during a reproductive event, I devised a method whereby I could determine the contribution of each component of weight loss during the reproductive process. These components are 1) total loss of body reserves between onset of gestation to parturition, 2) biomass of neonates / undeveloped ova passed during parturition, 3) weight of all embryonic membranes passed and, 4) weight of lost fluid during parturition.


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It is not enough to be good. It is not enough to wish the world were a better place. Miraculous and well-meaning as it is, it is not even enough to send your thoughts and prayers to people who need them. If you want to change the world, you have to actually do something; you have to be a philanthropic advocate—someone who speaks for those who can't speak for themselves.
And, before you commit to doing anything, there are some 3 questions that philanthropic advocates must ask themselves.
Is This Philanthropic Work Sustainable?
Swooping in and fixing the way things are may seem like a noble act. You've built a school in a community that sorely needed access to education. You've just improved the lives of these people in this impoverished part of the world! Time to pat yourself on the back? Not even close.
How will the people of the village utilize the school? Who will stick around to make sure that it doesn't get torn down or turned into something other than what you intended to build it for? In order to be helpful, philanthropy must first be sustainable. The good work you do must be able to carry on—even long after you're gone. The next time you plan to embark on a philanthropic journey, make sure you plan out ways to make your work sustainable in the long run.
You can build a school in a rural village, but if 'school' doesn't mean anything to the community, then all you've done is force meaningless ideas on a culture you don't understand. For philanthropic advocacy to be as effective as possible, you must first listen to the voices of the disenfranchised.
What are their wants? What are their needs? What's meaningful to them as a community? Discover the answers to those questions, and you'll encounter the key to success as an advocate.
What Are My Intentions for This Advocacy?
As with anything else in life, if you don't have the best of intentions behind your actions, you're bound to fail at some point. Wanting to help others solely because it makes you look good or feel good will inevitably lead you to pursue the wrong kinds of philanthropy.
The best philanthropic acts aren't the ones that loudly announce themselves. They're not boastful or proud. They're quiet, unassuming, and miraculously impactful.
When you have the best of intentions, you make the best of the world and its boundless opportunities.
Is There an Age Requirement to Be a Mentor?
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Someone's intentions are the core of a persons character. If action is relevant, you are either impacting positively or negatively. And that is entirely a choice. I love that both Trevor and Lexi have chosen to impact people in a positive way across the world. Love this!
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This is amazing! Sometimes people think that giving in a single moment in time is all it takes. Here Trevor and Lexi truly show how they are lifelong givers and they want there actions to become sustainable and grow well into the future. Thank you Trevor and Lexi for your amazing leadership!
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What an incredible mindset regarding philanthropy. It is no wonder that Trevor and Lexi are creating so much impact in the world around them. They've clearly been mentored to see life through a different lense. It's incredible of them to be willing to mentor others long after achieving phenomenal success in their own lives.
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Blessed to have such incredible examples and friends in life. Love you guys!
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This was a very simple and informative breakdown of how to look at the change you want to make in the world. It will make sure that it is lasting and holds legacy long after you are gone. Great post!
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This is such an important issue to think through and consider. It's so easy to want to go out and "change the world", but we must make sure that we do things in a sustainable and responsible way. Thanks for talking about this!
I really like this blog post about not just swooping in and try to fix things because some people don't want help if a community doesn't want a school or utilize it why build it and waste the resources in doing so. Also, I really like what you wrote about not being boastful because in truth being a kind or good person doesn't need to be publicized because I believe that God always intended for us to show love to eachother. Everyone deserves to be loved and having that hope that miracles are real and that's were magic really comes from. The belief that anything is possible. It is a bummer when people take the magic/miracle out for selfish reasons but hey we can change that by more posts like these. Love you.
I am excited to learn how to teach people how to fish, and for those who can' t fish, give them a fish. Thanks for the awesome article!
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So excited to continue to gain your incredible mind set through mentorship!
This issue is so important and something I can personally relate to. I always grew up wanting to make a difference, I just couldn't figure out how that was going to happen. I thought about going into the peace corps, then about being a missionary but I hated how so much of it involved fundraising and asking for money! This opportunity made all of my hopes and dreams come true! It actually made my desires possible and multiplied the potential impact by ten fold! Wet so blessed to have met this couple, Trevor and Lexi Baker, who actually live their lives by their values and who are everything they say they are. They are the true embodiment of what living a life for others really means.
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Amazing example of a couple who has holistic success in their lives, when I saw that was available to my fiancé and I , I couldn't walk away from them. Trevor and Lexi Baker are the fruit on the tree that I want in my life.
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SPACEX DENIES ANY OVERSIGHTS IN CLASSIFIED SATELLITE LAUNCH
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Yesterday, you'll recall, I blogged about those ship collisions that have been occurring, this time not to American warships and civilian freighters, but to Chinese and Russian ships. While most of the focus has been on the Chinese collision with an Iranian tanker, and with the fact that tankers usually don't suddenly go up in flames just because another ship collides with them, I focused on the collision with the Russian ship of a ship under the flag of Sierra Leon, which collision as reported by RT is at the very least suspicious. I raised the possibility yesterday that we might be looking at a variety of technologies covertly in play:
1) cyber-warfare, via
a) hacking or
b) defective hardware/chips;
2) electromagnetic technologies capable of targeting specific electronic systems remotely and taking them out, or taking them over, remotely (for the UFO cognoscenti out there, think of the Malmstrom AFB incident, and Boeing's ability to reproduce the effect supposedly done by the UFO);
3) Mind control technologies capable of manipulation of the behavior of the crews of the ships
4) global positioning spoofing technologies.
I also advanced two possible scenarios as to who was utilizing one or more of these technologies and doing this and why:
1) The West and the East(i.e., Russia and China) were doing it to each other in a tit-for-tat covert warfare that appears to have begun around the time of the USS Donald Cook incident; or,
2) A third actor, a non-territorial actor, perhaps a non-state actor(in the conventional sense) was doing it to both sides to manipulate and escalate tensions for its own purposes.
So now consider the recent launch of the Zuma classified US satellite by Elon Musk's SpaceX corporation:
Highly Classified Spy Satellite Is A "Total Loss" After SpaceX Mission Fails
Musk Satellite Mystery Deepens: SpaceX Denies Doing Anything Wrong
Concentrating on the first article, take note of the following paragraphs:
It isn't clear what job the satellite was intended to perform, or even which U.S. agency contracted for the satellite. As usual for classified launches, the information released by SpaceX before liftoff was bereft of details about the payload. A video broadcast Sunday night narrated by a SpaceX official didn't provide any hint of problems, though the feed ended before the planned deployment of the satellite.
The WSJ admits that the lack of details about what occurred means that some possible alternate sequence of events other than a failed separation may have been the culprit. And since this is another Musk project/failure, which means the eccentric billionaire will certainly not be tweeting up a storm explaining what went wrong, we may not know the exact reason for the failure for some time.
As of Monday night, nearly 24 hours after the launch, uncertainty surrounded both the mission and the fate of the satellite, the WSJ reports. Notably, the Pentagon's Strategic Command, which keeps track of all commercial, scientific and national-security satellites along with space debris, hadn't updated its catalog of objects to reflect a new satellite circling the planet.
Neither Northrop Grumman Corp., which built the satellite, nor SpaceX, as Elon Musk's space-transportation company is called, has shed light on what happened.
A Northrop Grumman spokesman said, "We cannot comment on classified missions."
A SpaceX spokesman said: "We do not comment on missions of this nature, but as of right now reviews of the data indicate Falcon 9 performed nominally." That terminology typically indicates that the rocket's engines and navigation systems operated without glitches. The spokesman declined to elaborate.
What we do know, is that the secretive spy satellite was worth "billions", which makes this the second billion-dollar satellite Musk has managed to lose up in two years; Facebook's internet satellite was strapped on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, which it spontaneously blew up on the launch pad in September 2016.
And from the second article, Space X is denying that it did anything wrong:
But the mystery around the launch and the payload continues, as in an emailed statement, company President and COO Gwynne Shotwell, said that the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that took off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Sunday "did everything correctly."
"For clarity: after review of all data to date, Falcon 9 did everything correctly on Sunday night. If we or others find otherwise based on further review, we will report it immediately. Information published that is contrary to this statement is categorically false.
In other words, what Space X is really saying by not saying it, is either that (1) the government or Northrup-Grumman did something wrong with the payload and the loss is their fault; or (2) the loss is no one's fault, but is the result either of deliberate sabotage or an attack. Obviously, for the sake of our high octane speculation, we're going to consider the second possibility. What becomes immediately apparent, once one considers this possibility, is that it fits the wider pattern of speculation about ship collisions and the various technologies that might possibility be behind them. One can at least imagine similar technologies in play both in a sabotage and "attack" scenario against the satellite.
It's the who that is once again the interesting question, and with it, the why. As for who, one can easily imagine a corporate competitor to Musk's SpaceX vying for lucrative government contracts in the billions. Would jeopardizing national security by an attack on a classified multi-billion dollar satellite be of any consequence? Sadly, in today's world, I would have to say no. But I suspect in this case that corporate sabotage might have to take second place to the hypothesis of another state actor, or an extra-territorial non-state actor (in the conventional sense), for I strongly suspect that the object of attack was not Musk's SpaceX corporation and its lucrative launch contracts, but the satellite itself. A multi-billion dollar satellite suggests that it was packed with electronics platforms of a variety of natures, suggesting that it was either a spy satellite, or a weapons platform of some sort, possibly both (the latter disguised as the former). And that suggests in its turn that someone did not want whatever capability that the satellite represented to be deployed, and that suggests - as I have averred- a state actor or non-territorial actor. With respect to the last possibility, one must remember that weapons platforms cum-spy satellites may not necessarily be targeted on anything terrestrial. Such platyforms could so to speak, be designed for "double duty" against both terrestrial and non-terrestrial targets.
What I am suggesting in yesterday's and today's blogs is that we are, perhaps, viewing a massive covert war of some sort taking place just behind the scenes of today's headlines. The real difficulty appears to be deciding just who the combatants are.
22 thoughts on "SPACEX DENIES ANY OVERSIGHTS IN CLASSIFIED SATELLITE LAUNCH"
Peter Sazonoff
Hi all, what part do you figure the ongoing chemtrail/geoengineering activity plays in all this?
Maggan
Oh heck, face it… it's the aliens that did not let this satellite take off. Of course govt. has to spin all kinds of language to make them sound smart & efficient, but the aliens are the ones to cause this failed launch. Maybe too much space junk floating around up there anyway for their liking.
The word "alien" can mean many things. A parasitic intrusion into a healthy body. A subversive takeover of a country. A propaganda meme in information warfare. A unknown factor in a system. A pre-civilization influence. A spooky part of a ghost story.
There are multiple layers to all thinking. A branch on a tree, that is alienated to another branch, would be unknown to the fact, that they are both rooted on the same tree. The structural retrieval of origin is tracking the source.
Point is, that nothing is what is seems, and mind is an open window into insights that are hidden. It is basically Sherlock Holmes smoking cigars.
To throw "spying rocks" into space, does not change the fact, that papacy is now falling short, into its own memory hole.
Today, the Runes are being reclaimed, and geopolitical shift from Rome to Britain will gradually take place, in the millennia struggle.
The Runes are original Christianity and Druid ABC. Geopolitically, they hold square-footed and rock-steady position in the Pyramid.
A few 'incidents' for background:
Back in 2008, the USS Lake Erie used a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptor missile to destroy a big classified payload (NRO launch 21) in orbit that had malfunctioned shortly after deployment. (While PR spun that the destruction was for our safety, the likely reality is that the NRO did not want to risk anything 'classified' reaching the ground intact.)
en.wikipedia dot org/wiki/Operation_Burnt_Frost
Back in 2016, SpaceX had a Falcon 9 explode on the pad during fueling exercises. Some may remember the 'flap' when pad cameras caught a swift object firing a beam into the rocket. The payload was a communications satellite which would (public reason) have been used by Facebook as part of its effort to extend internet access in Africa. As Facebook has been outed as an intelligence-collection ploy, the true 'users' of this satellite were likely CIA/NRO/DIA/LBJ…
theguardian dot com/science/video/2016/sep/02/spacex-rocket-explodes-on-the-launch-pad-at-cape-canaveral-video
mirror dot co dot uk/news/weird-news/conspiracy-theorists-claim-footage-proof-8762665
Back in 1964, there was a missile allegedly destroyed in-flight after launch by a UFO as described by USAF cameraman Robert Jacobs.
ufology dot wikia dot com/wiki/Robert_Jacobs
And now, the Falcon 9 functioned correctly, but the "Zuma" classified payload failed-to-deploy in some manner.
military dot com/defensetech/2018/01/09/spacex-or-northrop-blame-lost-spy-satellite.html
As I connect the dots, Someone is taking-out 'intelligence' payloads in a plausible deniability manner. My guess sways to the 'visitor' side, but who knows?
Reminds one of space junk that is not space junk. Does the others side now have pseudo space junk! Or worse, does NK now have space junk bigger than Donalds!
I suspect the world has an invisible fleet of high altitude stealth drones equipped with not only above high tech spy ware but also secret energy weapons. Probably vacuum lifted craft that absorb energy from the sun and ionosphere and never have to land. Terrors to the Russian, Chinese, and North Korean launch pads but now does the other side now have their own fleet?
Boy if only Ian Fleming was around today he would really sink his teeth into this issue in one of his James Bond novels. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction it has was and is.
I'm inclined to put my bets on the Nazi International. Somewhere, or all along the launch pipeline; they were keeping abreast of the ongoing strengthening of certain private interests, that were counter to their own.
Either way, various private powers and their private mercenaries are making digitized ink[although A.I. framed, and/or with human spin].
I wonder if public power is even getting billing anymore; other than the private concerns given to support illusions of self governance? After all, one needs the public side of the ledger to socialize the costs for those private profit$. Satellites are expensive, after all.
If, indeed, this was the "real" launch and not a decoy.
Or, if they already launched it years ago, and this is just another red herring.
Because, I'm getting to the point where even square one is suspect; especially when it comes to digitized information, via the normal distribution routes.
My term for the Non-State element has always been SPECTRE. I do believe Ian Fleming was attempting to warn us in his Bond series. IMHO BCCI of 90's fame morphed into a SPECTRE class organization and possibly has a foothold on the S. Pole and possible space.. If there is now in your face warfare occurring i.e. Vegas shootings, CA fires / floods and now disappearing satellites. Then what other hostilities can we expect? Are any of the combatants better than the other? My analogy has always been Corleones vs. the Barzinis vs the Gambinos, etc… No matter what side wins it's still Organized Crime.. Sometimes, I feel as though I'm living in Britain at the end of the Roman Empire and corruption is the business plan..
It does look like it's straight out of James Bond.
Agree Spectre. db
Bluenose
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-launch-russia-angola/kremlin-says-russian-satellite-launch-failures-being-investigated-idUSKBN1EM11Z
"The situation is being analyzed" – love that diplomatic language!
"Contact restored with Angosat-1 after post-launch blackout
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2017, 9:30 AM ET (1430 GMT)
Zenit launch of Angosat-1, Dec 2017 (Roscosmos) Controllers have restored contact with the Angosat-1 communications satellite, which was unresponsive for a day after its launch Tuesday. A Zenit rocket launched the satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 2:00 pm EST (1900 GMT) Tuesday and released the Russian-built satellite into geostationary transfer orbit about nine hours later. However, controllers were unable to maintain contact with the satellite shortly after its deployment, restoring communications only on Thursday. Russian sources suspect a battery issue on the satellite may have caused the loss of communications. The satellite, built by RSC Energia for the government of Angola, carries 16 C-band and 6 Ku-band transponders and will operate from 13 degrees east."
http://www.spacetoday.net/Summary/6891
Helden Spirit
Maybe we should consider the scenario that the the failed billion-dollar satellite did not fail but that it was 'taken control of', remotely hacked and commandeered. In the recent massive drone attack on the Russian base in Syria, I think just as many drones were commandeered/taken control over and safely landed as were shot down.
So the Russians now have the latest USSA/Israel space weapons in their hands?!!!
In a Wi-Fi matrix…
whose ultimately in control?
Of course you have to take the Pentagram's word for it that the spy satellite didn't reach orbit. Space X says nothing went wrong on their end. Maybe nothing did.
And what about all those sightings – with and sometimes without night visor equipment – of what look like some kind of battles in the sky. The space lanes between here and the Moon seem to have a LOT of traffic.
Kahlypso
any links to show?

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2018-2019 Day 22
First note of importance is the A Bracket tournament is happening on Saturday April 20.
Last night was mostly about seeding. There was only one game with significant importance, and that was the match between Garrett and I to see who gets the final spot in B. Also, I have a major presentation at Disney tomorrow to show them our clip licensing system at Fox in advance of the merger, and I've spent my entire morning and early afternoon prepping it today, but I need a small break from that to write this. But it'll be short.
Player 1 2 3 Sets
Andy 21 21 21 3
Yosh 16 11 18 0
Playing against lefties always throws me even though I'm a lefty myself, because one of my favorite shots against righties doesn't work against him at all. This is the most lefties in the league ever this year with myself, Yosh, Cedar, Tim, Clint, Brian and Grant if you count him as a lefty since that's how he plays Ultimate. We could almost have an all lefty league.
Garrett 21 21 21 3
Dot 16 7 19 0
wp;ds (Was playing. Didn't see.)
Player 1 2 3 4 5 Sets
Andy 19 21 15 21 21 3
Dot 21 17 21 13 13 2
Dot was noticeably tired from playing hours of pick-up in the closed tryout for the new club mixed team, and that's after playing all day Saturday for Winter League and partying super late that night. So I had a big advantage. But he still went up 2 games to 1. I just had to outlast him with his fatigue and fortunately I was able to do it.
Player 1 2 3 4 Sets
Garrett 19 21 21 21 3
Yosh 21 19 18 8 1
wp;ds But I certainly perked up when I saw that Yosh had won the first set. If Garrett lost game, it would significantly help my chances in our match-up. He must've thought the same thing when Dot was up 2-1.
Yosh 15 21 17 21 21 3
wp;ds. Certainly sounded intense though. Lots of crashing into the garage door back there. Dot definitely is not afraid of walls or garage doors, and if he isn't black and blue today I'd be shocked.
Andy 14 21 10 16 1
The big match-up of the night. Only one spot open in B, but I had already established I kinda had to sweep Garrett to ensure a spot because of a circle of winning with Alex if I had won this. That ended quickly when Garrett handily took game 1. It sucks when you go up against somebody who's doing the exact same things you want to do. He moved me side to side. Changed speeds on me. Played strong D. But I made adjustments to win game 2. He did the same to win g3. In g4 we were tied 15-15 when it was my serve and I plotted out how I was gonna play these 5 points. First serve normal. Second serve would be the first of the entire match from my forehand side. Then back to normal. Then try topspin serve to get him to under hit it, and finally the low fast liner. It all went to shit. Lost the first point. Missed the table on the forehand serve. Lost another point. Whiffed on his easy return on the topspin serve. And hit the low liner serve smack into the net. 15-20. And then it was done. I might have overthought it.
After the game, when they were leaving, Chloe bit Garrett through his sweat pants and drew blood. We decided she was extracting revenge for my loss. Very loyal dog.
So now let's get into the seeding for B.
#1 – Corey
This one is the most obvious. Not only was Corey one of only 2 B players to beat an A player this year, he went 4-0 against B players including wins over Van and Steve. Corey did not play Matt, but in addition to having a 120 point higher PPI, Corey won the Record Against Common Opponents (RACO) 3-3 to 2-4.
#2 – Steve
Just going by PPI, Steve would be the highest, 75 points over Van and 112 points over Matt. But Matt beat Van and Van beat Steve, and Matt and Steve didn't play each other. So PPI is completely reversed from the head-to-head results. We have to go deeper, cause this is a mess.
It's not hard to see why Steve led in PPI. He played most of his matches against A opponents since he's always been in A as long as he's played in the league. In fact, he only played 3 B opponents, and went 1-2 against them. But he's the only person other than Corey with wins over A opponents, beating both Feeney, the #1 seed, and Haynes, the #8 seed, which is another reason why his PPI is so high. Steve also has the lead over both Matt and Van in RACO 2-2 to 1-3 in both cases. It would very difficult to justify placing Van over Matt due to Matt beating Van twice this season. So with that in mind, then does it make more sense to put Steve over Matt since he beat him in RACO and is the highest PPI of the three, or below Van who he lost to head-to-head? In my opinion, it's most logical to put Steve above Matt. Those wins over Feeney and Haynes can't be ignored.
It's also worth mentioning, as I broke down in the A Bracket, that as much as I value head-to-head, I put a lot more emphasis on head-to-head in recent match-ups, particularly last round where the stakes are more obvious. So Van's 2nd round upset of Steve, although still a valuable marker, gets a little less emphasis than I would usually give head-to-head.
#3 – Matt
Now we have the same situation essentially between Matt, Tim and Van. Matt beat Van twice, and Van beat Tim, but Tim beat Matt. Looking at RACO, it doesn't help anything. Van beat Tim but Tim wins RACO 3-1 to 2-2. Matt beat Van twice. But Van wins RACO 3-2 to 2-3. And Tim beat Matt but they tied RACO 2-1 to 2-1. Even if you look at Games Against Common Opponents (GACO) it's relatively even. Tim is 7-5 and Matt is 8-5.5 (averaging the two matches he won against Bama.)
Of course, I'm ignoring the fact that Tim had the only forfeit of the season. If I include those as actual losses, then this isn't a question. It would go Matt, Van, Tim. Since everything is so close, and PPI has it Van and Matt separated by 36 points, but Tim is lower at 62 below Matt (and PPI does not factor in ties) then it makes the most sense to include those forfeits to resolve the closeness here and drop Tim down. Once you do that, then it's easy Matt beat Van twice so he gets this spot.
#4 – Van
And then since Van beat Tim head-to-head and it happened in the last round, then we give Van this spot.
#5 – Tim
Tim beat Bama head-to-head, and wins RACO over Clint 3-2 to 1-4.
#6 – Bama
Bama beat Clint head-to-head and beat Garrett head-to-head twice.
#7 – Clint
Clint beat Garrett head-to-head. It's possible Alex could make this interesting if he wins his last round game against Clint on the 26th. That would create a circular thing where Alex beats Clint, Clint beat Garrett and Garrett beat Alex. For now I'm keeping Clint in this spot because Alex is so far down in PPI that it would take a lot more than just a win against Clint to grab a spot in B.
#8 – Garrett
And because Garrett beat Alex and myself head-to-head he gets the final spot in B.
I'll send out a separate email to the B players to find a time to do this tournament.
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To save a schoolhouse — and history
– June 18, 2012Posted in: Inspiration
A desk from the Rosenwald school with graffiti from past students carved in it
Courtesy of CNN
The little white building with tall windows is off a main road, miles from the busier patches of town. This was the school where Marian Coleman sang nursery rhymes, the same school where her parents met when they were just kids.
For about 30 years, any black child in this northwest Georgia community came here to learn to read and write, to understand math, geography and health. They shared books, brought their own lunches and shared those, too.
At recess, kids played in the woods just outside. In the morning, those who arrived first lit the stove with wood parents donated.
But the Noble Hill School shut down in 1955 — after four teachers and seven grades had been crammed into the two-room schoolhouse that lacked electricity and water and the Supreme Court had ruled against segregated education for white and black students. It was more than 10 years before the local public schools integrated, Coleman remembers, but there was no pretending the 1923 building was equal.
For decades, the little white building sat empty. It became a storage garage and then a memory. Grass and weeds grew tall around it. The paint chipped away and wood sagged. Windows disappeared.
So it went for most Rosenwald schools, a collection of about 5,000 schoolhouses built between the early 1910s and early 1930s. Their creation stemmed from philanthropy and community cooperation that were rare for the time — matching funds provided by Sears, Roebuck and Co. leader Julius Rosenwald, educational direction by Tuskegee Institute leader Booker T. Washington and financial support from local black families and white-led school districts.
Their purpose: Educate black children in the rural South.
They were modern schoolhouses for the time, designed by Tuskegee Institute architects with ventilation, gathering space and windows large enough for reading light.
"You need a schoolhouse," Washington told his Tuskegee students. "You cannot teach school in log cabins without doors, windows, lights, floor or apparatus. You need a schoolhouse, and, if you are earnest, the people will help you."
With seed money from Rosenwald, the rural school building program led to significant educational gains for rural Southern blacks, Federal Reserve of Chicago researchers wrote last year, with great effects on cognitive test scores, literacy and years of schooling. As the black-white education gap narrowed between the World Wars, educated African-Americans were more likely to move to areas with stronger labor markets — mostly cities in the North — which helped to shape the Great Migration and the 20th century economy.
When the school building program ended in 1932, it had served more 660,000 students in 15 states, according to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
"People were so hungry for schools," said Stephanie Deutsch, author of a book about Rosenwald Schools, "You Need a Schoolhouse." "There were so many places in the rural South where there just weren't any schools."
But the history was forgotten by those who didn't know or ignored by those who didn't care. Some Deep South communities tore down the schoolhouses to make room for larger buildings they hoped would sustain separate-but-equal education, preservationist said, or to make room for cities and suburbs that sprang up on old farmland.
It has been 10 years since the National Trust listed Rosenwald schools among the most endangered historic places. Since then, the National Trust launched the Rosenwald Schools Initiative to help school groups share resources and channel millions in grant money. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African-American History and Culture has been acquiring Rosenwald school artifacts. The broader history of the schools has become better known, leading more alumni and communities to question whether their rickety old buildings are part of a bigger story.
There's renewed energy in the fight to restore the old structures, preservationist said. Their current status, as far as the National Trust is concerned: Favorable.
That doesn't mean it'll be easy.
National Trust for Historic Preservation officials estimate about 800 Rosenwald schools still stand. But just like when they were built, their survival requires broader community support.
First, they need help finding them.
The schools were built to serve rural students and often went without addresses, or even roads. Local government and school records are sparse, if they exist at all, preservation workers said. Even those still standing are sometimes so worn by weather and time that they aren't recognizable; it's tough to prove a wooden structure in an overgrown field matches a decades-old memory and the Rosenwald Fund's school records.
The Noble Hill school was among the first Rosenwald schools to be preserved. Its alumni and their descendents began talks to restore the school in 1982, decades before the story of the schools spread. It took years to secure the land and building, gather support from local and state officials, prove historic significance and raise $200,000 needed for improvements.
"A lot of people would have given up," said Coleman, the one-time student.
Coleman is now curator of the museum inside the schoolhouse. It re-opened in 1989 as the Noble Hill-Wheeler Memorial Center, a museum of black culture that hosts hundreds of school children every year.
"It's part of our history, so we can look back and see where we came from, how far we've progressed," said Coleman, who never attended integrated schools and eventually went to Atlanta to further her education. "I tell a lot of the kids they're blessed. Some things that happened in history time, you wouldn't want repeated."
Since Noble Hill's restoration, Georgia preservation officials have located 50 more Rosenwald schools — a sliver of the 242 built there, but more than many other states have found, said Jeanne Cyriaque, African-American programs coordinator for the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Historic Preservation Division. Cyriaque has sent people tromping through fields to check out rumors of buildings, she said, but the search had changed in recent years. As the story of the Rosenwald schools spread, she began to hear from alumni who'd just realized their schools had a history beyond their small towns.
"People would call in and say, 'I think I have a Rosenwald School. Can you help me?'" Cyriaque said.
The struggles they face now can be even greater than Noble Hill's — buildings are older and deeper into disrepair. Restoration money is hard to come by. Even the most well-meaning alumni are rarely prepared to babysit a historic building.
African-American history only sparked the interest of historians in recent decades, preservationists say, and many communities are now trying to make up for lost time.
"It has to do with the understanding — the mainstream America understanding — that our histories are all interwoven. You can't separate the strands and shouldn't separate the strands of our collective history," said Tracy Hayes, field officer with the National Trust's Rosenwald Schools Initiative. "Everyone can have their own individual experience, but it's not individual at all; it's all part of the larger tapestry.
"It crosses the boundaries of African-American history, Jewish philanthropic history, Northern philanthropic history. It takes us into the history of education, of rural areas, the whole population of people becoming educated, the population that became the leadership in civil rights movements and moving people forward in gaining equality."
Some communities aren't interested in the saving the Rosenwald schools or the memories they represent. For a long time, black and white communities struggled with emotions dug up by the old buildings.
"We're trying to get communities to recognize these are not just African-American stories. It's their community's history," Cyriaque said. "In the African-American community, if a building was associated with slavery or Jim Crow, it was somewhat devalued."
It's no coincidence, she said, that Atlanta's Sweet Auburn district, once known as "the richest Negro street in the world," appeared on the National Trust's list of most endangered places released last week, she said.
But the memories of the safe, loving community around the Rosenwald schools is exactly what drives some local preservation groups.
"It took a while for me to understand that affection, that it was a loss," said Deutsch, the author, who is married to a descendent of Julius Rosenwald. "'Everything in this little town was segregated. We couldn't go to the library or do anything. This was everything. There's solidarity in being together, facing something difficult together."
This weekend, preservationists, historians, alumni and builders gather in Tuskegee, Alabama, for the National Rosenwald Schools Conference. It's their chance to share what they've learned and consider how other rural communities manage their Rosenwald schools. For some, it's a crash course in preservation: How to pay for it? What's the maintenance like on an 80-year-old building?
Most importantly, preservationists said: What can the building do to sustain its own survival?
"I hear it all the time. I'll go visit a school, 'We want our school to be a museum,'" Cyriaque said. "I say, 'What else is it going to do?'
"A lot of people, when they first get into it, think the hardest part is saving the building. Really, it isn't in the end. It's how you're going to keep it alive."
Many museums struggle to stay open, staffed and funded. Some school buildings are successfully used now as preschools or private residences. The 1929 Carroll School in Rock Hill, South Carolina, is used by fifth-graders doing field studies about life during the Depression. The former Walnut Cove Colored School in Stokes County, North Carolina, is used as a senior center. The six-classroom Highland Park School in Prince George's County, Maryland, opened in 1928, and is now part of a larger elementary school.
Most of the usable buildings in Georgia serve as community centers, although some have served as town offices, libraries and studios for dance classes, Cyriaque said.
At the Noble Hill Wheeler Memorial Center in northwest Georgia, Coleman has heard it all. Kids are shocked by the idea of outhouses and three-mile walks to school, but older folks come there to reminisce. Even if they grew up somewhere else, older visitors recognize the wood floors, the blackboards, the high block of windows and wonder what happened to their old school.
"When they come in and we start talking, and it starts bringing back a lot of memories, I get a lot of information that way," Coleman said.
"Sometimes, it just takes something to stir it up."


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Rashid Masharawi (b. 1962, Gaza), known to MoMA audiences for his 2003 New Directors/New Films debut, Ticket to Jerusalem, returns with his most recent feature, Laila's Birthday. Set in the filmmaker's chaotic current hometown of Ramallah, the film follows a Palestinian judge turned taxi driver as he navigates the corruption, hassles, constantly changing political winds, and pervasive Israeli checkpoints in and around the city. Trying to arrange a birthday cake and gift for his young daughter's birthday turns out to be an epic task. Masharawi provides a lively and revealing portrait of both a city and decent man at the breaking point.


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Jerry Lewine, K6QU, began his career in radio as a young ham in 1959, that led to a career as a broadcast engineer, first as a teenager in his native Pennsylvania, through the Air Force, and later to markets in Hawaii and California. While Jerry's broadcast radio career sidelined his ham radio adventure for a number of years, Jerry is back with a passion for CW and FT-8 while the current solar cycle is at its low. K6QU is my QSO Today.


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Centerfield è un brano musicale di John Fogerty, estratto come singolo dall'omonimo album del 1985. È il brano più noto a livello internazionale della carriera solista di John Fogerty, anche grazie alla diffusione tramite il baseball; la canzone è infatti dedicata a Joe Di Maggio. Nonostante fosse originariamente solo il lato B di Rock and Roll Girls riuscì comunque ad entrare in classifica negli USA, piazzandosi al quarto posto, superando il lato A che arrivò al quinto. Nonostante ad oggi The Old Man Down the Road rimanga la sua unica hit ad aver raggiunto il primo posto nella classifica di Billboard, Centerfield resta quella più conosciuta.

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Q: Tomcat is running in eclipe but can't access http://localhost:8080/ or can't run my webapp I am facing a peculiar problem, i can see my tomcat is running but then when i run http://localhost:8080/, i am getting error.
I have seen lots of solution which sort of tries to resolve this issue but i am unable to solve it.
Below screen print shows, that there is nothing running on port 8080 when tomcat is stopped.

Indeed my tomcat is stopped and i can't connect to localhost:8080 from browser.

Now, i will start my tomcat inside eclipse from "Servers" project and by right clicking on "Servers" tab.
Below screen print you can see Tomcat v9.0 is started.

Now this can be verified from seeing the process running on port 8080 from command line.

But when i run http://localhost:8080 in browser i get error which say like below :-
Message The requested resource [/] is not available
Description The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists.

Now you will be interested to see my config page for my tomcat, below is what i have.

someone even suggested to change server location to "Use Tomcat installation ...." but for me it's not highlighted.
I am struck on this from last 2 days, can someone help?

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Royal Baby Photo: Baby Sussex Makes His Debut With Parents Harry And Meghan
Get ready to squee.
By Charmaine Noronha
At last, the newest royal baby has arrived. And at last, we have photos!
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex posed for photos with their tiny, newborn son in St. George's Hall at Windsor Castle on Wednesday morning, two days after the baby was born.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex with their baby son, who was born on Monday morning, during a photo call in St George's Hall at Windsor Castle in Berkshire.
Naturally, the new parents are in love with their first child, whom they later revealed was named Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor.
"It's magic, it's pretty amazing," said Meghan. "I have the two best guys in the world so I'm really happy. He has the sweetest temperament, he's really calm."
"I don't know who he gets that from," Harry said, before his wife added, "He's just been the dream, so it's been a special couple of days."
"Everyone says that babies change so much over two weeks, we're basically monitoring how the changing process happens over this next month really," said Harry. "But his looks are changing every single day, so who knows."
When asked how he was finding being a dad, Harry said, "It's great. Parenting is amazing. It's only been two and a half days, three days, but we're just so thrilled to have our own little bundle of joy."
Hello, royal baby! Harry and Meghan's first child's arrival was highly anticipated.
The couple is already learning how quickly babies grow up.
"Everyone says that babies change so much over two weeks," Harry said. "We're basically monitoring how the changing process happens over this next month really. But his looks are changing every single day, so who knows."
When asked how he was finding being a dad, he added,"It's great. Parenting is amazing. It's only been two and a half days, three days, but we're just so thrilled to have our own little bundle of joy."
The littlest royal is getting ready to meet family, the couple said.
"We just bumped into the duke as we were walking by which was so nice," Meghan said. "So it'll be a nice moment to introduce the baby to more family, and my mum's with us as well."
See more photos of Baby Sussex. Story continues below.
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The couple were asked to show more of their son's face to the cameras. Harry joked that "he's already got a little bit of facial hair as well, wonderful."
Meghan and Harry were said to be beside themselves with joy, giggling and looking into each others' eyes as they spoke. Harry gently cradled his son in his arms and couldn't resist sneaking a peek down at him as he slept. "Thank you, everybody, for all the well wishes and kindness, it just means so much," Meghan added.
The first photos follow the couple's non-photo announcement via their Instagram account Monday that they welcomed a baby boy early that morning.
And although many hoped for a glimpse of the littlest Sussex that day, mother and baby did not do a public appearance following the birth. Instead, Harry emerged solo shortly after the announcement to speak to media, saying he was "over the moon" and couldn't comprehend how women do what they do in childbirth.
Watch: Prince Harry gushes about Meghan Markle and his new baby. Story continues below.
Royals fans have been waiting for months for this little bundle of joy to make an appearance. Kensington Palace announced Meghan was pregnant last October and shared that she was due in the spring. At the time of the announcement, Prince Harry and Markle were on their first official royal tour together of Australia, New Zealand, Tonga and Fiji.
As spring rolled around and the big day drew near, the couple dropped a bit of a bombshell: they had decided to keep plans around their first baby's arrival private.
That meant that Harry and Meghan would not pose for photographers and TV crews on the hospital steps with their newborn. The Sussexes broke with the royal tradition followed by Harry's brother, Prince William and his wife Kate, the duchess of Cambridge, when she gave birth to their three children.
Prince Harry, who is sixth in the line of succession, has more leeway in terms of what he's expected to follow regarding royal protocol.
Today The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are delighted to share their first public moment as a family. They are so incredibly grateful for the warm wishes and support they've received from everyone around the world, since welcoming their son two days ago. Photo cred: Chris Allerton ©Sussex royal
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A growing family album
Royal fans have had lots of baby photos to pore over in the past few years, thanks to Will and Kate.
The Cambridges welcomed their first child, Prince George, on July 22, 2013, and Kate made her first public appearance seven hours after delivering their baby boy.
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Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge show their new-born baby boy to the world's media, standing on the steps outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in London on July 23, 2013.
One month after George was born, his first official photos with his parents were released by the palace.
Prince George first official baby portrait with parents Kate Middleton and Prince William, taken by Kate's father, Michael Middleton.
And four years ago, a few days before May 6, The Duchess gave birth to Princess Charlotte. Again, the couple were photographed leaving St. Mary's Hospital on May 2, this time with their baby girl in their arms.
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Kate Middleton and Prince William left St. Mary's Hospital on May 2 with a baby girl in their arms.
Less than 10 hours after her birth, the world was introduced to Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana of Cambridge.
Then, on April 23 last year, they welcomed their second baby boy, Prince Louis Arthur Charles.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge leaving the Lindo Wing at St. Mary's Hospital on July 22.
A closeup of the newborn cutie.
A close-up of Prince Louis as he departed the hospital with his parents.
Three days later, William and Kate shared photographs of all three children, taken by the duchess at Kensington Palace on April 26, 2018.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are very pleased to share two photographs of Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, taken by The Duchess at Kensington Palace. This image of Prince Louis was taken by The Duchess of Cambridge at Kensington Palace on 26th April. The Duke and Duchess would like to thank members of the public for their kind messages following the birth of Prince Louis, and for Princess Charlotte's third birthday.
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Princess Charlotte with her brother Prince Louis on her third birthday in a photo taken by the Duchess of Cambridge last May 2 at Kensington Palace.
Welcome, Archie Harrison! We look forward to many more photos in the future.
See more royal babies through the years:
Photo gallery Royal Baby Photos Through The Years See Gallery
Royal Baby Photos Through The Years
Royal Baby Birth: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle Welcome 1st Child
Prince Harry Is The Sweetest Dad In His 1st Royal Baby Birth Interview
Thank You, Meghan Markle, For Not Doing A Same-Day Royal Baby Photo Op
With files from Amy Packham and Lisa Yeung.
Charmaine Noronha Lifestyle reporter/editor, HuffPost Canada
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Amazon in Holocaust row about 'Hunters' series, anti-Semitic books
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Seventy-five years after the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops, world leaders and activists have called for action against rising anti-Semitism
The Auschwitz Memorial criticised Amazon on Sunday for fictitious depictions of the Holocaust in its Prime series "Hunters" and for selling books of Nazi propaganda.
Seventy-five years after the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops, world leaders and activists have called for action against rising anti-Semitism.
"Hunters", released on Friday and starring Al Pacino, features a team of Nazi hunters in 1970s New York who discover that hundreds of escaped Nazis are living in the United States.
However, the series has faced accusations of bad taste, particularly for depicting fictional atrocities in Nazi death camps, such as a game of human chess in which people are killed when a piece is taken.
"Inventing a fake game of human chess for @huntersonprime is not only dangerous foolishness & caricature. It also welcomes future deniers," the Auschwitz Memorial tweeted.
"We honor the victims by preserving factual accuracy."
The Auschwitz Memorial is responsible for preserving the Nazi German death camp in southern Poland, where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, perished in gas chambers or from starvation, cold and disease.
Amazon, also under fire for selling anti-Semitic books, did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment.
Polish state-run news agency PAP cited Amazon as saying that as a bookseller it was aware of the history of censorship of books and it believed it was important to ensure access to books including those that may arouse reservations.
On Friday, the Memorial retweeted a letter from the Holocaust Educational Trust to Amazon asking that anti-Semitic children's books by Nazi Julius Streicher, who was executed for crimes against humanity, be removed from sale.
"When you decide to make a profit on selling vicious antisemitic Nazi propaganda published without any critical comment or context, you need to remember that those words led not only to the #Holocaust but also many other hate crimes," the Auschwitz Memorial tweeted on Sunday.
In December, Amazon withdrew from sale products decorated with images of Auschwitz, including Christmas decorations, after the Memorial complained. (Reporting by Alan Charlish; Additional reporting by Anna Koper; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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The primary purpose of the proposed research project is to investigate the impact of the philosophical Community of Inquiry (CoI) on fostering children's experiences of empathy and perspective-taking. The CoI has long been used as an inquiry-oriented teaching method since its development in the late 1970s, when the Philosophy for Children Program (P4C) was developed by Matthew Lipman at the Montclair State University. Numerous empirical studies have shown that CoI has a significant and positive impact on critical thinking, cognitive abilities, reading, and communication skills (Daniel et al., 2000; Topping and Trickey, 2004; Lim, 2006; Fisher, 2007; Lyle & Thomas-Williams, 2012). As a result, many countries have devoted considerable resources to developing a CoI curriculum and implementing it in schools and other education programs. The philosophical CoI is now used in over 60 countries, and its curriculum materials (philosophical novels & pedagogical manuals) have been translated into over 40 languages. Above and beyond improving these aforementioned technical skills, the CoI is believed to have a positive impact on children's ability to perspective-take and experience empathy (Schertz, 2007; Sharp, 2009; Gardner, 2011; Weber, 2013 c), i.e. competencies that are likely to lead to an increase of prosocial and altruistic behaviour (Davis, 1983; Batson, 1991, 1997; Batson et al., 1989; Galinsky, 2000; Zhou, et al., 2003; Oberle, et al., 2010; Schonert-Reichl & Oberle, 2011; Schonert-Reichl, et al., 2012).
However, to our knowledge, the impact of CoI on empathy and perspective-taking are largely based on theoretical deliberations. There is only one study that shows the improvement of perspective-taking through the CoI (Gardner, 1998). And while it is intuitive that the more critical thinking-oriented approach of the CoI fosters perspective-taking, the question is, if it also increases a more emotional-based competency like empathy. To advance knowledge in this area the specific objectives of the proposed study are to determine to what degree the CoI helps children a) increase their ability to perspective-take, and b) foster their ability for empathy in the sense of an ethical emotion (i.e. leading to examples of altruistic and prosocial behavior).
This study will involve implementing an established philosophical CoI program to young children (grades 6 to 7) in 12 classrooms in Vancouver (B.C.). Data collection will include pre- and post-test surveys, teachers' reports on students' prosocial behaviour, and video-taped students' classroom discussions of the CoI.
This study will provide insight into the degree to which children participating in the CoI intervention program a) experience greater empathy and improvements in their ability to perspective-take; and b) show more altruistic and prosocial behaviour over time, compared to students in controlled groups. The results of the study will also contribute into the field of social-emotional learning, by demonstrating whether a critical-thinking-based program like the philosophical CoI may have a positive impact on children's emotional development.
Last, but not least, perspective-taking and empathy are competencies that not only improve children's social and emotional well-being, but also help them be capable of communicating and understanding across and despite differences in an increasingly complex and diverse multi-cultural society, such as in B.C. This potential civic benefit provides a strong incentive to include elements of the CoI in B.C. education programs in order to educate and prepare children for a pluralistic society in a globalized world. Thus, a positive result could potentially lead to the implementation of this program more widely in BC schools as well as the Teacher Education Program at UBC.


A Dubai-bound flight from Nepal was delayed by nearly 10 hours after the captain was found to be under the influence of alcohol, according to reports.
The Fly Dubai flight FZ 8018, which was scheduled to take off for Dubai International Airport with 153 passengers at 9:40 am on Sunday, was grounded after the captain failed the pre-flight alcohol test, The Kathmandu Post reported.
The flight was suspended until a new crew arrived and eventually left Kathmandu with the different crew.
Crew members alerted airport officials that the pilot seemed impaired by alcohol less than an hour before the flight was scheduled to take off on Sunday morning, the reports said.
"We received a complaint from the airline's crew about the strange activities of the flying crews. We conducted a preliminary alcohol test through a breathalyzer," said Raj Kumar Chettri, general manager of Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA).
"Medical tests of both the flying crews were conducted and flight captain N Hussain tested positive and he was immediately grounded," he said, adding the civil aviation authority of Dubai and Fly Dubai was immediately informed about the issue.
"Legal action will be initiated against the drunk crew members as per the Dubai's civil aviation law," Chettri added.
Pilots, if found positive for alcohol, will not be allowed to fly the plane and the airline should make alternate arrangements.