The Association of Nigerian Authors, ANA, in the wake of gale of defections that has arrested the Nigerian political space, has said that these 'prostituting' politicians have only squandered the goodwill they won in hey days of this administration.
In a statement jointly signed on Thursday by the National President of the association, Denja Abdullahi and his Assistant General Secretary, Maik Ortserga, lamented that instead of reforming Nigeria, these politicians now chose to fight over power, blocking each other's personal ambitions at the expense of the common good.
According to the statement, the panics caused by politicians rationalizing their conducts, yelling so loudly about biases meted out on them has led many to wonder whether the leadership class in Nigeria will ever get it right.
The statement reads in part: "As the 2019 general elections beckons, the media has recently been inundated with news of Nigerian politicians switching lines, disconnecting and connecting new political cables and raising new convertors to ignite their political luminosities.
"The big question, therefore, remains where do all these leave the people? This question is very apt because one does not need a crystal ball to see that the recent gale of defections and shenanigans coupled with the brazen display of impunity by security services are being done within the narrow confines of individualistic concerns instead of the broader concerns of the people.
"The bad news in all these is that these political inadequacies are stretching our democracy to a breaking point. It is sad that politics in this country is still not in the interest of the people several years after the country's return to democracy.
"Corruption and impunity are still rife and institutions are still dysfunctional. The current defections are not driven by fundamental ideological consideration.
"Thus the practice of politics by our leaders has fallen short of the standards of democratic governance.
"When an individual no longer feels a sense of responsibility to his society, the content of democracy is emptied.
"As the umbrella body of writers in this country, it is not just important that we point out the non-progressive nature of these defections and shenanigans by politicians.
"We feel bold to remind the actors in these new direction of events in the country to be wary of the anger of the people which has been inflated to a bursting point.
"To borrow Chris Okigbo's words, '…Let them remember thunder when they share the meat.' They should remember that they are accountable to the masses and that the day of account will soon come in 2019 when they will realize how impossible it is to say no to the thunderous will of the people.


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Will Millennials Be the First Generation to Stop Fearing Death?
Why an increasing number of young people are writing their wills and arranging their funerals
May 29, 2019 July 6, 2019 - by Sam JuricSam Juric Updated 10:58, Jul. 6, 2019 | Published 12:58, May. 29, 2019
Morgan Harrietha was sixteen when she gathered around the kitchen table with her brother and father to plan for the one thing in life she knew would happen: her death. Three years before, Harrietha's mother had come to watch her perform at a figure-skating competition. It was like any other competition until suddenly, from across the ice, Harrietha saw her mother slump over in the stands. A stroke. At the hospital, her mother slipped into a coma. Two days later, she was dead.
At forty-eight, Harrietha's mother had no life-insurance policy and no end-of-life arrangements in place. Her family was forced to guess what she would have wanted. Her funeral, her burial, whether she wished to donate her organs, which keepsakes would go to whom—all question marks. It wasn't until after the family had already decided to donate her mother's organs that her health card was found, which listed her as a donor. It was a relief to know that one of her family's best guesses, at least, was right. Harrietha resolved that she would leave no unanswered questions for the people she will inevitably leave behind.
Since that day at the kitchen table, Harrietha, now twenty-one, has made adjustments to her initial end-of-life plans. When I last spoke to her, she was in the process of updating arrangements she made in January 2018 to include what she affectionately refers to as her "zoo"—two Siberian huskies and a cat. She has also had a long-term relationship dissolve and has found love again with a new partner. All those changes will be reflected in her new plans. Today, her last will and testament doesn't focus on financial or material assets as much as it strives to connect all the dots for the people she might leave behind: how she'd like to be laid to rest, who is in charge of executing specific arrangements, how her digital imprint should be managed.
For instance, she no longer wants to be cremated and dispersed in the ocean. Now, with the environment on her mind, she's decided she would like to be buried in a biodegradable burlap sack beneath a tree. She's asked that her brother write a digital obituary for both her Facebook and Instagram accounts. She'd also like him to post a commemorative slide show on both platforms. Instead of announcing her death through the newspaper, her family, Harrietha has said, should announce it on social media. People attending her funeral should leave their black mourning garments in their closets and bring their friendly pets. She wants whoever comes to celebrate her life rather than grieve its loss.
Harrietha is also far from the only young person planning their end-of-life arrangements far in advance. Tim Hewson was thirty-two when he co-founded Legal Wills, in 2000, after he realized how ill prepared he and his friends were: one night while out for after-work drinks, his group realized not one person at the table had a will. He soon left his job at a tech company and cofounded his web service, where clients can pay to have their wills prepared online.
From the start, his main customer demographic has been people between the ages of fifty to fifty-nine. But, within the last decade, Hewson says, the company has also seen a growing number of young, healthy adults—likely far away from death—use the service to proactively plan for the end of their lives. In 2009, only 0.5 percent of the site's customers were under thirty years old. Now, ten years later, that demographic represents 12 per cent of the site's users. Faced with the knowledge that, one day, we all must die, these young people have decided to face the end not with fear and trepidation but with control, care, and even celebration.
Like many other industries here and around the world, Canada's $2 billion funeral business is in the midst of a digital shift toward the world of social media and apps. In addition to online services such as legalwills.ca, a whole host of death-planning sites have emerged in recent years. Everest, which serves both Canada and the US, calls itself a funeral concierge. The company's main form of advertisement is a YouTube video of a young man named Will who tells the audience he's dead: "It happens. I'm fine." American site Everplans, which was founded in 2012, keeps arrangements active for an annual fee of $75 (US).
Then, there are services, like the app SafeBeyond, that are designed to help clients both work through their feelings on death and organize their death-care plans. One option lets a person leave messages and photos for loved ones, which are then posthumously distributed. Another site, Cake, says its goal is to "empower people to live in accordance with their values all the way to the end." People who have the app WeCroak on their phones are reminded five times a day that they're going to die. Then there are video games like A Mortician's Tale. Released in 2017, the game takes players through a day in the life of a mortician. Its goal is to normalize the work of those who care for the dead and dying but also to help address the reality that many of us will end up on a mortician's table.
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Offline, death cafés have become places for strangers to share their thoughts and fears about death. Conversations often range from the practical to the philosophical, and all of them take place in safe and confidential space over tea and treats. The not-for-profit chain has brought together communities across the globe, including in places such as India, Thailand, Bulgaria, and Brazil. Anyone can start a death café in their community so long as they agree to the principles and guidelines on the non-profit's website. They're typically run by local volunteers or facilitators who welcome death-curious strangers to literal cafés, apartments, and other venues to ask questions and chat freely about death. Founder Jon Underwood ran the non-profit from its original location in the UK until his sudden death in June 2017. Even so, more and more café locations continue to pop up on the site's world map, a reminder that death is not always the end.
The popularity of such cafés, apps, online services, and games are all part of the larger, emerging death-positivity movement, which is changing the landscape of death and dying—especially among young people. The movement seeks to reclaim the care of the dying and dead and return it to the hands of individuals and families. Rather than getting stuck in the bureaucracy of big corporations and the funeral industry, death positivity argues that individuals should have an intimate, autonomous relationship with their own death. They should have a say. That means that, at the end of a person's life, their family will also feel control over the process of both mourning and celebrating—all of it approached with a defiance to the usual painful helplessness that can define a death.
The movement began gaining traction in January 2011 with the emergence of the Order of the Good Death, an organization founded by Caitlin Doughty, a young, Los Angeles–based mortician. Doughty has since become the cocreator of the YouTube channel Ask a Mortician and the author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Her organization has sought to change the morbid or fearful relationship people have with the ideas of death and dying and to encourage people to instead see death as a natural, inevitable part of life. We didn't, after all, always feel this way about death.
Before the twentieth century, in the West, funerals were arranged by families and neighbours. Funerals were intimate. They were held at home. Although community graveyards existed, people were often buried on family property. As populations grew, funeral homes emerged to relieve families and communities of the logistical elements of caring for the dead. But, in removing ourselves from carrying out these tasks, advocates like Doughty say, we made death taboo. We stopped talking about it. We started to fear it more. It became morbid. It fell away from the regular rhythm of our lives and into the abstract. We disconnected ourselves from a fundamental truth of being human. Now, in 2019, we're furiously trying to reconnect with death to better understand it. In so many ways, though, what we're really trying to do is understand ourselves.
In December 2009, Cassandra Yonder was working as a grief counsellor in St. Ann's Bay, a rural community swathed by thick woods in Nova Scotia, when a friend of hers died. She arrived at the family's home to find her friend's wife, cradling him in her lap while waiting for his body to be collected by the coroner's transport team. While there, Yonder watched his wife say goodbye to her partner with surprising grace. She spent the next five hours by her side, witnessing something she described as being similar to a home birth: her friend leaving the world in an intimate setting, his home, in the arms of a loved one.
The experience, and her work as a grief counsellor, transformed her ideas about death and dying. Previously, when she'd think about death, she'd picture almost cliché images of groups of people dressed in black gathered around a dead body caked in makeup and pumped with formaldehyde, resting inside a coffin. But the experience with her friend truly showed her how exiting life could be embraced with the same compassion, respect, and celebration as being born. Soon after, Yonder began her full journey into the death-positivity movement or, as it is also known, the community death-care movement. She trained at Final Passages Institute of Conscious Dying, Home Funeral and Green Burial Education, a non-profit organization in the US, specializing in alternative funeral and death practices. Yonder emerged from the institute as a death midwife (also known as a death doula). She now considers herself a community death-care educator, someone who teaches ordinary people how to care for their own dying family members.
In much the same way a birth doula or midwife supports women during labour, a death doula or midwife supports people in the process of dying. Today, Yonder likens the death-positivity movement to the slow-food movement, which aims to preserve regional food sources by encouraging the farming of plants, seeds, and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem. It also champions the reclamation of food production from the corporatized mass assembly lines that make the food most of us consume. Just as many people are disconnected from the process that brings their grocery products to the store, they are also disconnected from death and dying.
Many people do not care for their dying and the dead, explains Yonder. Loved ones often die in hospital beds and are then transferred to a morgue before they are taken to a funeral home. Like the millennials who find comfort and control in determining the details of their final days and beyond, Yonder is working to help reconnect families with death and place them back at the centre of their own experiences. For her, that means reconnecting to the process of grieving. It also means greener, more intimate, and less costly burials. Families who take part in funeral planning and those who decide on home funerals, she adds, often navigate grief with a healthier mindset and are able to better relate to the person who has passed. "I think people are going to funerals and having this same response, this weird disconnection," she says. "We're realizing we are putting our aging, our dead, out of sight and out of mind."
In the end, that is what this new movement is all about: connection. For some, that means planning their end of life with as much care as a they plan for the beginning of life, for births. For others, it means sitting down in death cafés or installing an app on their phone. For millennials like Harrietha, that connection means figuring out how death fits into their lives now. Most of her friends are under twenty-five, and although conversations about death don't yet happen regularly, she's noticed they're now more willing to discuss the topic. She says watching her friends trying to figure out and accept the intricacies of death is like watching them pick up a ball and turn it over in their hands. Over and over. They chuck it across the room to see how hard it will bounce back. They bring it up close and inspect it with fear and curiosity in equal measure before setting it down. She knows they'll pick it back up. She suspects many of them will have an end-of-life plan in place by the time they're thirty.
As a society, we've thrown the ball across the room. We set it down, handed it over to a thriving funeral industry, we stopped feeling comfortable talking about it, we removed ourselves from the processes of grieving and dying. Increasingly, there is an urge to hold it in our hands, to see what the ball is made of, and to see what we can do with it. As we pick the ball back up, we may just discover how death shapes us and connects us as human beings. We may discover that endings can be beautiful too.
Sam Juric
Sam Juric is a writer and journalist based in PEI. She has been published in This Magazine and the CBC.
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Carsten Maschmeyer (* 8. Mai 1959 in Bremen) ist ein deutscher Finanzunternehmer. Als Geschäftsführer der Maschmeyer Group investiert er in Unternehmensgründungen aus verschiedenen Branchen. Davor baute er die Finanzvertriebsgesellschaft AWD Holding AG (heute als Swiss Life Select zu Swiss Life, der früheren Rentenanstalt, gehörend) auf und war Vorstand der gemeinsam mit Bert Rürup gegründeten MaschmeyerRürup AG. Maschmeyers Geschäftspraktiken und seine engen Kontakte zu Spitzenpolitikern riefen Kritik hervor.

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Maschmeyer lebte zunächst mit seiner alleinerziehenden Mutter, die als Sekretärin in einem Schulamt arbeitete, in einem Mutter-Kind-Heim in Hildesheim in einfachen Verhältnissen. Später wurde er von ihr und seinem Stiefvater, einem Ingenieur bei Blaupunkt, streng erzogen. Maschmeyer war in seinen Jugendjahren Bezirksjugendmeister im Mittel- und Langstreckenlauf. 1978 endete seine Schulzeit mit dem Abitur an der Robert-Bosch-Gesamtschule in Hildesheim.

Nach dem Abitur verpflichtete er sich als Soldat auf Zeit (SaZ2) für zwei Jahre bei der Bundeswehr. Er wurde zum Reserveoffizier beim Sanitätsdienst der Bundeswehr ausgebildet. Danach begann er ein Studium der Medizin an der Medizinischen Hochschule Hannover. Um es finanzieren zu können, arbeitete er nebenbei im Vertrieb bei OVB Vermögensberatung. Er absolvierte zahlreiche Fortbildungen und widmete sich intensiv der Finanzberatung, mit der Folge, dass er im Frühjahr 1982 aufgrund zu hoher Fehlzeiten zwangsexmatrikuliert wurde.

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Die Verkaufstätigkeit verlief für Carsten Maschmeyer wirtschaftlich erfolgreich; 1983 stieg er zum Landesdirektor auf. 1987 kündigte Maschmeyer bei der OVB und erhielt eine Abfindung.

Wenig später stieg er mit 900.000 DM in den vermutlich 1987 von seinem späteren Schwager Kai Lange gegründeten Allgemeinen Wirtschaftsdienst (AWD) ein und übernahm Mehrheit und Leitung des Finanzvertriebs, der das Ziel hatte, unabhängig von Versicherungsunternehmen und Banken zu beraten und zu agieren. Ab 1991 begann Maschmeyer mit der Auslandsexpansion des AWD. Er gründete ein österreichisches Tochterunternehmen, den AWD Österreich mit Sitz in Wien. Es folgten Markteintritte in der Schweiz, Großbritannien sowie Mittel- und Osteuropa. 2000, als die Aktienkurse an den Börsen nach der Hausse bereits nachgaben, brachte er den AWD an die Börse. Bei einem Ausgabekurs von 54 Euro pro Aktie wurde ein Emissionserlös von etwa 500 Mio. Euro erzielt.

Im Dezember 2007 unterstützte Maschmeyer in seiner Funktion als Vorstandsvorsitzender die Übernahme des AWD durch den Schweizer Versicherungskonzern Swiss Life (früher Schweizerische Lebensversicherungs- und Rentenanstalt). Die Swiss Life bot den Aktionären einen Preis von 30 Euro je Aktie. Im Zuge des Übernahmeangebots veräußerte auch die Familie Maschmeyer ihren rund 30-prozentigen AWD-Anteil an Swiss Life, welche damit 97,71 Prozent am AWD hält. Im August 2008 verkaufte Maschmeyer der Swiss Life ein Aktienpaket von 26,75 Prozent Anteil an der AWD-Konkurrentin MLP AG, das er zuvor zusammengekauft hatte. Im Gegenzug hatte er sich mit Aktien im Wert von 300 Mio. CHF an Swiss Life beteiligt, wodurch er größter privater Aktionär des Unternehmens wurde.

Im Rahmen des weiteren Ausbaus des AWD wurde Maschmeyer ab dem 1. September 2008 Manfred Behrens, bisher CEO Deutschland von Swiss Life, als Co-CEO zur Seite gestellt und der AWD-Vorstand von bisher drei auf acht Mitglieder erweitert. Im Mai 2009 schied Maschmeyer aus dem AWD-Vorstand aus und Manfred Behrens übernahm die alleinige Führung. Maschmeyer selbst wechselte von Mai 2009 bis Dezember 2011 in den Verwaltungsrat der Swiss Life.

Im Januar 2010 gründete Maschmeyer gemeinsam mit dem ehemaligen Wirtschaftsweisen und Ökonomen Bert Rürup die MaschmeyerRürup AG. Das unabhängige, international tätige Unternehmen beriet Banken, Versicherungen und Regierungen bei Fragen der Alters- und Gesundheitsvorsorge; es wurde nach dem Ausscheiden von Rürup 2013 liquidiert.

Unter dem strategischen Dach der Maschmeyer Group sind alle Tätigkeiten von Carsten Maschmeyer aufgehängt. Mit seinem Investmentvehikel Alternative Strategic Investments GmbH (Alstin) investiert er in Wachstumsunternehmen aus verschiedenen Branchen. Neben Alstin finanziert er über seinen Fonds seed&speed ventures frühphasige Investments. Daneben befinden sich innerhalb der Maschmeyer Group Beratungsaktivitäten, Gemeinschaftsunternehmen und Investitionen, die Maschmeyer gemeinsam mit seiner Familie, Partnern und Kollegen tätigt.

Ein weiteres Unternehmen Maschmeyers ist die HMNC Brain Health, ein Biotechnologieunternehmen, das er gemeinsam mit dem ehemaligen Direktor des Max-Planck-Instituts für Psychiatrie, Florian Holsboer gegründet hat und das sich auf die Erforschung und Entwicklung von neuen Medikamenten gegen Depressionen und Angsterkrankungen spezialisiert hat. Zur Maschmeyer Group zählt ebenso die Paladin Asset Management GmbH, eine Vermögensverwaltung in Hannover, die mit langfristig orientierten Aktieninvestments eine nachhaltige Wertsteigerung anstrebt. Maschmeyer war zudem an der MIFA (Mitteldeutsche Fahrradwerke AG) beteiligt, welche im Oktober 2014 Insolvenz anmelden musste, und an der GCI mit ihrer Hauptbeteiligung an der Maschinenfabrik Spaichingen.
Maschmeyer übte heftige Kritik an den damaligen Restrukturierungsberatern und Wirtschaftsprüfern der MIFA, indem er ihnen vorwarf, Kapital aus der Notlage des Unternehmens zu schlagen. Außerdem war er bis 2015 an der Biofrontera AG beteiligt, die mit Ameluz ein Mittel gegen den Basalzellenkrebs auf den Markt gebracht hat.

Maschmeyer ist an mehreren Startup-Unternehmen beteiligt, darunter Blacklane, nu3, barzahlen, orderbird, pflege.de oder crealytics. Im Mai 2013 investierte er einen hohen siebenstelligen Betrag in das Veranstaltungsführer-Startup Mobile Event Guide und hält damit 25 Prozent der Unternehmensanteile. Darüber hinaus erwarb Maschmeyer 2013 erstmals Anteile am Medizintechnik-Startup Syntellix und erweiterte seine Beteiligung in der Folgezeit auf 43 Prozent. Ab 2015 kam es daraufhin zwischen Maschmeyer und Syntellix-Gründer Utz Claassen zu einer Auseinandersetzung im Aufsichtsrat über die Kontrolle des Unternehmens. Diese wurde schließlich Ende 2016 dadurch beendet, dass Maschmeyer seine Anteile an Claassen verkaufte.

Weitere Aktivitäten
Maschmeyer ist Mitglied des Kuratoriums der Internationalen Stiftung Neurobionik. Die Stiftung fördert die Forschung auf dem Gebiet der Neurobionik. Maschmeyer war zudem Kuratoriumsmitglied der Initiative Deutschland – Land der Ideen.

Im August 2010 positionierte sich Maschmeyer als einer von 40 prominenten Unterzeichnern des Energiepolitischen Appells, einer Initiative der vier den deutschen Markt dominierenden Stromkonzerne, welche die Laufzeitverlängerung deutscher Kernkraftwerke befürwortet. Maschmeyer vertrat einerseits die Ansicht, dass der Ausstieg aus der Atomenergie ein Wagnis sei, solange die erneuerbaren Energien noch nicht leistungsstark und ausreichend wettbewerbsfähig sind; andererseits ist er heute der Überzeugung, dass erneuerbare Energien die Zukunft sind.

Im März 2012 veröffentlichte Maschmeyer sein Buch Selfmade – erfolg reich leben. Im Februar 2016 kam sein zweites Buch Die Millionärsformel – Der Weg zur finanziellen Unabhängigkeit auf den Markt.

Seit der dritten Staffel der VOX-Fernsehsendung Die Höhle der Löwen, die 2016 ausgestrahlt wurde, ist Maschmeyer einer der Investoren. Die ersten Ausstrahlungen der dritten Staffel erzielten hohe Einschaltquoten.

Im Juli 2017 gab Sat.1 die Verpflichtung von Maschmeyer bekannt. Er moderierte im Frühjahr 2018 die Existenzgründungs (Startup)-Show Das ist deine Chance. Nach Ausstrahlung der ersten drei Folgen wurde das Ende der Show wegen zu geringer Quoten bekannt gegeben.

Privatleben

Maschmeyer lernte seine spätere Frau Bettina bei dem Finanzvermittlungskonzern OVB kennen, wo sie seine persönliche Assistentin war. Aus der Ehe gingen zwei Söhne hervor. Die Ehe wurde Anfang 2009 nach 20 Jahren geschieden.

Seit 2009 ist Maschmeyer mit der Schauspielerin Veronica Ferres liiert, seit September 2014 ist das Paar verheiratet. Seine Stieftochter ist somit Lilly Krug.

In einem Interview mit dem Medium The Pioneer sowie auf seinem Instagram-Profil gab er am 6. September 2021 bekannt, in den Jahren 2003 bis 2010 schwer tablettensüchtig und dadurch am Ende nicht mehr arbeitsfähig gewesen zu sein. Als Nebenwirkung der Medikamente war Maschmeyer nach eigenen Angaben zeitweise schwer depressiv. Erst nach mehreren gescheiterten Versuchen gelang ihm eine erfolgreiche Entzugstherapie in einer psychiatrischen Klinik.

Vermögen
Maschmeyers Vermögen wurde Ende 2010 auf 650 Mio. Euro geschätzt. Die Tageszeitung Die Welt gab Maschmeyers Vermögen im Jahr 2020 auf ihrer Liste der "1001 reichsten Deutschen" mit 1,3 Mrd. Euro an, womit er Platz 166 der reichsten Deutschen belegte, für 2021 lag die Schätzung des Finanzmagazins Forbes bei rund 1,1 Milliarden US-Dollar.

Kontroversen

Wahlkampffinanzierung
Maschmeyer finanzierte 1998 vor der Landtagswahl in Niedersachsen eine 650.000 Mark teure Werbekampagne mit dem anonym in Tageszeitungen geschalteten Text . Damit wollte er nach eigenen Aussagen nicht direkt Gerhard Schröder unterstützen, sondern Lafontaine als Kanzler verhindern.

Am 13. Juni 1998 kündigte die Initiative Handwerk und Mittelstand für Gerhard Schröder der SPD-geführten niedersächsischen Staatskanzlei mit einem Schreiben an, für Schröders Bundestagswahlkampf 1998 eine Maschmeyer-Spende von 150.000 Mark weiterzuleiten. Durch die Herkunftsverschleierung wäre dies ein Verstoß gegen das Parteispendengesetz gewesen. Mit der Spende sollten nach Angaben des ARD-Magazins Panorama ganzseitige Wahlkampfanzeigen in der FAZ, der Welt und der Welt am Sonntag finanziert werden. Maschmeyer selbst dementierte 2011 die Zahlung dieser Summe an die Initiative.

Im Dezember 2011 wurde bekannt, dass Carsten Maschmeyer während des niedersächsischen Wahlkampfs im Herbst 2007 die Anzeigenkampagne für Hugo Müller-Voggs Interviewbuch mit Christian Wulff Besser die Wahrheit mit knapp 43.000 Euro aus seinem Privatvermögen finanziert hatte. Das Buch, in dem Wulff sein privates und politisches Leben beschreibt, diente laut Recherche der Boulevardzeitung Bild auch zu Wahlkampfzwecken. Christian Wulff erklärte, nichts über die Hintergründe der Finanzierung der Anzeigenkampagne gewusst zu haben, was von einem Sprecher Maschmeyers bestätigt wurde. Maschmeyer habe den Vertrieb des Buchs unterstützt, da er mit dem Buchverlag Hoffmann und Campe in einem Geschäftsverhältnis stand. Wulff, der mit Maschmeyer befreundet ist, hatte im Juli 2010 einen Sommerurlaub in Maschmeyers Villa auf Mallorca verbracht.

Rufmordkampagne
Im Dezember 2003 bot der ehemalige AWD-Mitarbeiter Stefan Schabirosky der DVAG-Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG nach eigener Aussage an, mit einer Verleumdungskampagne gegen Carsten Maschmeyer und dessen Finanzvertrieb AWD vorzugehen. Die DVAG habe dieses Angebot angenommen und schloss mit ihm einen Beratervertrag als Controller, der dann bis Ende 2008 verlängert wurde. Im Nachhinein bestritt die DVAG, in eine Rufmord-Kampagne verwickelt gewesen zu sein, und wies alle Vorwürfe "entschieden zurück". Seine Vereinbarungen mit der DVAG und seine Aktivitäten bei Journalisten veröffentlichte Schabirosky im August 2017 unter dem Titel Mein Auftrag: Rufmord. Seiner Rolle als alleiniger Informant der Redaktionen widersprach insbesondere Panorama. Demnach sei das seinerzeit von Schabirosky berichtete umstrittene Geschäftsgebaren der AWD durch andere Quellen belegt. Schabirosky habe nach eigenen Angaben insgesamt 513.500 Euro Honorar erhalten, was ihm aber nicht genügt habe. Seine Forderung auf Zahlung von drei Millionen Euro als Erfolgshonorar wurde wiederum von der DVAG zurückgewiesen, und so wandte er sich an Carsten Maschmeyer, der sich, so Schabirosky, nach Streichung einiger Passagen mit persönlichen Angriffen mit der Veröffentlichung einverstanden zeigte, zumal er die von der Konkurrenz finanzierte Verleumdungskampagne nunmehr als Begründung für den Verkauf seiner AWD-Anteile an die Swiss Life und seinen späteren vollständigen Rückzug darstellen konnte.

Geschäftspraktiken
Obwohl Maschmeyer den AWD 2007 verkauft hat und nicht mehr operativ dort tätig ist, wird er noch immer mit dem AWD verbunden. Das Unternehmen AWD sowie Maschmeyer waren lange Zeit mit einem schlechten Image behaftet. Nach seinem Ausscheiden bei AWD veränderten sich Medienberichterstattung und Image. Zusammen mit seiner Partnerin Veronica Ferres wird er neuerdings insbesondere in Boulevardmedien häufig erwähnt. Die Financial Times Deutschland schrieb im Januar 2011 zu seiner Außenwirkung: "Nach der Gründung von AWD im Jahr 1988 war Maschmeyer jahrelang der Aussätzige der unbeliebten Drückerkolonne."

Einige Beiträge brachten Maschmeyer als Unternehmenslenker und Verantwortlichen, aber auch mit umstrittenen Geschäftspraktiken des AWD in direkte Verbindung. Im September 2010 strahlte die ARD in der Sendung Panorama einen Beitrag über Maschmeyer mit dem Titel Abzocker Maschmeyer: Liebling der Politik, Freund des Bundespräsidenten aus. Darin wird über Tausende von Kleinanlegern berichtet, die ihr Geld mit beim AWD erworbenen Finanzprodukten verloren haben sollen. Der NDR griff die Vorwürfe danach erneut auf und produzierte die Dokumentation Der Drückerkönig und die Politik aus der Reihe ARD-exclusiv; diese wurde am 12. Januar 2011 ausgestrahlt.
Maschmeyers Anwalt hatte zuvor versucht, die Ausstrahlung der Sendung zu verhindern.

Eine nach Ausstrahlung der Dokumentation erwirkte einstweilige Verfügung am Landgericht Berlin untersagt dem NDR, eine bestimmte Szene weiterhin zu zeigen.
In der Folge ging Maschmeyer anwaltlich sowohl gegen den NDR als auch gegen einige an den beiden ARD-Beiträgen beteiligte Journalisten vor. Diese erhielten Abmahnschreiben an ihre Privatadressen und wurden von Wirtschaftauskunfteien telefonisch detailliert über ihre Beschäftigungsverhältnisse befragt. Außerdem beauftragte Maschmeyer einen Strafrechtler, ein Gutachten über die Frage zu erstellen, ob sich Journalisten im Zusammenhang mit den NDR-Beiträgen strafbar gemacht hätten. Als mögliche Straftatbestände kämen Nötigung, politische Verdächtigung und die Verbreitung von Bildern ohne die Zustimmung der darauf Abgebildeten in Frage.

Der FAZ-Journalist Michael Hanfeld schrieb in diesem Zusammenhang von einem Zurückschlagen "mit allen Mitteln" und einem "veritablen Angriff auf die Pressefreiheit und den freien Journalismus".
Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband (DJV) stellte zu Maschmeyers Vorgehen fest, dass er  hätte, und verlangte von ihm, .

Maschmeyer begründete sein Verhalten gegenüber dem NDR und die Inanspruchnahme eines Medienanwalts sowie eines Strafrechtlers damit, dass er die mehrfachen Interviewanfragen eines "übereifrigen Journalisten" als "Nötigung" empfand und sich insoweit auch "verfolgt gefühlt habe". Seine Maßnahmen vor dem Hintergrund eines nicht zustande gekommenen bzw. auch nicht im Vorfeld abgesteckten Panorama-Interviews rechtfertigte er unter anderem mit seiner Auffassung, dass er nicht habe zulassen können und dürfen, dass Tausende seiner ehemaligen Mitarbeiter diffamiert würden.

Im April 2011 stellte der Verein für Konsumentenschutz-Informationen (VKI) in Wien Strafanzeige gegen Maschmeyer wegen des Verdachts auf gewerbsmäßigen Betrug und Gründung bzw. Mitgliedschaft einer kriminellen Vereinigung. Bis März 2012 hatten sich 2300 Kleinanleger dem Strafverfahren angeschlossen. Im März 2013 war der Prozess für fünf Sammelklagen für 2500 Anleger aufgrund der Verzögerung durch die AWD noch nicht in Gang gekommen. Im August 2013 zahlte die vormalige AWD (umbenannt in Swiss Life Select) im Rahmen einer einvernehmlichen Einigung über die Sammelklagen sieben Millionen Euro Entschädigung und damit 30 % des erlittenen Differenzschadens an die Anleger.

Im Juli 2011 gab der NDR bekannt, dass Maschmeyer und der NDR sich geeinigt haben, sämtliche Rechtsstreitigkeiten im Zusammenhang mit der NDR-Berichterstattung über Maschmeyer nicht mehr weiterzuverfolgen.

Nachdem schon im Frühjahr 2011 spekuliert worden war, ob eine 154 Jahre alte "ehrwürdige Institution" wie die Rentenanstalt derartige Presse wolle, schied Maschmeyer im Dezember 2011 aus dem Verwaltungsrat der Swiss Life aus und reduzierte seinen fünfprozentigen Aktienanteil auf unter drei Prozent.

In seinem Buch Selfmade und auch in einem TV-Auftritt in der Sendung Menschen bei Maischberger im März 2012 räumte Maschmeyer ein, im Bereich Kommunikation in der Vergangenheit "einiges falsch gemacht" zu haben.

2014 titelte der Stern, dass Maschmeyer und andere Prominente Geld in sogenannte Cum-Ex-Fonds bei der Schweizer Bank J. Safra Sarasin investiert hatten. Maschmeyer forderte von der Bank sein Investment zurück, erhielt anfangs aber nur einen Teil davon, sodass ein Rechtsstreit zwischen ihm und der Bank folgte. Während dieser Zeit erhielt Maschmeyer zwei Morddrohungen, die er aus dem Umfeld der Bankiersfamilie vermutete. Durch einen Vergleich zahlte die Bank schließlich Maschmeyer den Großteil seines Investments zurück.

Schröder-Memoiren
Im November 2014 meldete der Stern, dass Maschmeyer für die Rechte an Schröders Memoiren 2 Millionen Euro gezahlt habe. Das Geschäft sei im Sommer 2005 angebahnt worden, nachdem im Januar 2005 das für den AWD sehr lukrative Alterseinkünftegesetz in Kraft getreten war. Nach Erkenntnis der Autoren seien 2 Millionen Euro ein "absurd hohes" Honorar gewesen, das durch den späteren Buchverkauf nicht annähernd wieder hereingeholt werden konnte.

Ehrungen
Die Universität Hildesheim verlieh Maschmeyer an seinem 50. Geburtstag am 8. Mai 2009 den Titel eines Ehrendoktors. Zuvor hatte er eine dortige Professur am Institut für Psychologie mit einer Spende von 500.000 Euro gefördert. Die Laudatio hielt Christian Wulff.
Die Verleihung der Ehrendoktorwürde auf Grund seiner "Verdienste um die Förderung der Wissenschaften" stand in der Kritik und wurde bei der Staatsanwaltschaft Hannover angezeigt. Das Verfahren wurde jedoch nach Vorermittlungen von der Antikorruptionsabteilung mangels nachweisbaren Zusammenhangs zwischen Spende und Ehrenpromotion eingestellt. Zudem erklärte die Staatsanwaltschaft, die Verleihung eines Ehrendoktortitels an einen Spender liege ohnehin im rechtlich zulässigen Beurteilungsspielraum der Universität.

Veröffentlichungen
 Selfmade – erfolg reich leben. Ariston Verlag, München 2012, ISBN 978-3-424-20067-6.
 Die Millionärsformel. Der Weg zur finanziellen Unabhängigkeit. Ariston Verlag, München 2016, ISBN 978-3-424-20108-6.
 Die sechs Elemente des Erfolgs. So verändern Sie Ihr Leben. FinanzBuch Verlag, München 2021, ISBN 978-3-95972-478-4.
 Die Start-up Gang. Unser größtes Abenteuer – von der Idee zum Erfolg Edel Kids Books, Hamburg 2022, ISBN 978-3-96129-242-4.

Literatur
 Andreas Matern; Maria Marschner-Martin: Deutschlands Milliarden Magier: Das Parallel-Universum des Finanz-Messias Carsten Maschmeyer. Hamburg: WWA, 1994. ISBN 3-928991-09-4.
 Christoph Lütgert: ARD-exclusiv "Der Drückerkönig und die Politik", ARD, 2011.
 Christoph Lütgert: Abzocker Maschmeyer: Liebling der Politik, Freund des Bundespräsidenten, NDR, 2009.
 Panorama: Korruptions-Netzwerk der Versicherungen und Politiker – Beispiel AWD / Carsten Maschmeyer, ARD
 Robert von Lucius: Erbfreundschaften in Hannover. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 11. August 2010, S. 3
 Die Zeit Nr. 6/2011: Ich verstecke mich nicht. – Ein Film im Ersten unterstellte Carsten Maschmeyer üble Methoden. Der Gründer des Finanzdienstleisters AWD setzt sich zur Wehr. Ein Interview (3. Februar 2011)
 Porträt Carsten Maschmeyer Der großzügige Freund In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 21. Dezember 2011

Weblinks

 Offizielle Webseite von Carsten Maschmeyer
 Webpräsenz der Maschmeyer Group
 Sybille Zehle: Mann von Geld. Manager Magazin vom 22. Februar 2002
 Anna Marohn: Carsten Maschmeyer – Schein und Sein zeit.de, 4. November 2010
 Fall AWD: Die Chronologie Webseite von Panorama, mit Dokumenten zum Download

Video
 Der Drückerkönig und die Politik ARD-Dokumentation, 12. Januar 2011, Mitschnitt auf Youtube (28:23 Min.) Siehe auch Berichterstattung zu diesem Film: bei spiegel.de, 11. Januar 2011, bei faz.net, 12. Januar 2011
 Neues vom Drückerkönig NDR-Dokumentation vom 9. März 2011 (27:14 Min.)
  (Über Carsten Maschmeyer)

Einzelnachweise

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Unternehmer (21. Jahrhundert)
Ehrendoktor der Universität Hildesheim
Ehrensenator der Universität Hannover
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At the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Werner Bux and Hans Müller in particular worked on the design and development of IBM's token ring technology.
Early work at MIT led to the 1981, Proteon 10 Mbit/s ProNet-10 token ring network.
In 1981, workstation vendor Apollo Computer introduced their proprietary 12 Mbit/s Apollo token ring (ATR) network running over 75 ohm RG-6U coaxial cabling.
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In 1988 the faster 16 Mbit/s token ring was standardized by the 802.5 working group.
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Token ring eliminates collision by the use of a single-use token and early token release to alleviate the down time. Ethernet alleviates collision by carrier sense multiple access and by the use of an intelligent switch; primitive Ethernet devices like hubs can agitate a collision due to repeating traffic blindly.
Token ring network interface cards contain all of the intelligence required for speed autodetection, routing and can drive themselves on many MAUs that operate without power (most MAUs operate in this fashion, with only requiring a power supply for LEDs). Ethernet network interface cards can theoretically operate on a passive hub to a degree, but not as a large LAN and the issue of collisions is still present.
Token Ring was more complex than Ethernet, requiring a specialized processor and licensed MAC/LLC firmware for each interface. By contrast, Ethernet included both the (simpler) firmware and the lower licensing cost in the MAC chip. Interface parts cost (using a Texas Instruments TMS380C16 MAC and PHY) were approximately three times that of an Ethernet interface using the Intel 82586 MAC and PHY.
Initially both networks used expensive cable, but once unshielded twisted pair (CAT3 cable) was standardized for Ethernet with 10-BASE-T and 100-BASE-T, sales of it increased markedly it had a distinct advantage.
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December 2, 2017 / The Moon Society / Publications / Tags: MMM
The Waypaver Foundation and The Moon Society
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The Foundation even has its own version of the Artemis Databook in the form of the Integrated Space Plan (https://integratedspaceanalytics.com/cms/plan). Discussions are underway to move the Index into the Lunarpedia. Future projects include working together on an update to the Moon Society website, targeted economic and financial research, policy statements, and joint funding of lunar surface operations research.
Space Directive 1 and US Space Policy
On December 11, 2017 President Trump signed Space Directive 1 in a signing ceremony at the White House. The Directive made one change to the National Space Policy of 2010 that replaced the paragraph beginning "Set far-reaching exploration milestones" with:
"Lead an innovative and sustainable program of exploration with commercial and international partners to enable human expansion across the solar system and to bring back to Earth new knowledge and opportunities. Beginning with missions beyond low-Earth orbit, the United States will lead the return of humans to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization, followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations;".
Here are some highlights of the talking points release prior to the event:
Instructed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to pursue manned extraterrestrial exploration.
Space Policy Directive – 1 instructs NASA to return American astronauts to the moon.
At its inaugural October meeting, the National Space Council unanimously agreed to lead commercial and international partners above and beyond previous U.S. space policy:
Return United States astronauts to the Moon for long-term exploration and utilization
By refocusing our space program on feasible goals, President Trump will create incentives for private industry that spur 21st century space capabilities.
The Moon is of interest to international partners and is within reach of America's private space industry.
Under the new Space Policy Directive, the United States will help drive the burgeoning domestic space industry, bring new knowledge from the cosmos, and spur incredible technology.
The Society is a non-partisan organization and as such applauds any effort to return humans to the moon permanently and to develop lunar resources for use on Earth and in space.
Details on program changes and funding priorities will begin to become clearer once budget requests begin to be released in February and March. The text of the Directive can be found here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-memorandum-reinvigorating-americas-human-space-exploration-program/
United Launch Alliance's Cislunar 1000 Vision
In 2016 United Launch Alliance released their plan for 1,000 people living and working in Earth-moon space roughly 30 years from now. Called the "Cislunar 1,000 Vision", the plan is based on the simple idea that transportation from Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to anything beyond Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) can have significant cost savings if the fuel necessary to transfer the payload from LEO to the desired orbit is delivered to LEO from the Moon (e.g. down the gravity well) rather than from the Earth's surface up (e.g. up the gravity well).
ULA envisions four major steps:
The interesting development in the past year has been that ULA has publicly acknowledged what many in the industry had only heard as rumors: that the company had signed MOUs for fuel at LEO for the first stage of the plan for around $1 billion. The company felt strongly enough about the plan that it was willing to act as a 'market maker' by signing agreements with fuel developers that those developers could use to raise funds.
Regardless of whether ULA's vision unfolds as they are planning, their economic statement has already affected national space policy and how money is being deployed in the commercial sector. The best summary of ULAs plan can be found in a Youtube video they produced last year:
Moon Village Association Workshop Report
Another development that began in 2016 but saw considerable developments in 2017 was Johann-Dietrich Wörner, the Director General of the European Space Agency, plan for lunar cooperation called the Moon Village. While a difficult concept to pin down, the general idea is that the Moon can handle large numbers of players with different goals who can cooperate in various ways such that the result is more than any one player can afford to do on their own.
Earlier this year ESA and others created an independent organization called the Moon Village Association (MVA) whose mission is to provide a forum for further developing the idea and for cooperation among organizations inside and outside of Europe. The Association has four main working groups: economics & finance, site(s) selection, systems architecture, and association participation mechanisms.
Michael Mealling, President of the Moon Society, attended the first public meeting of the Association at the International Space University in Strasbourg this fall and is a regular participant in the economics and finance working group. It is expected that the MVA will have similar meetings in 2018 in which the Moon Society will participate as an affiliated organization.
Google Lunar XPRIZE Team Update
2017 came and went with no team winning the Google Lunar XPRIZE. The expectation was that the competition would end at the end of 2017 but Google and The XPRIZE Foundation announced that as long as the team landed prior to March 31, 2018 it could still win. The previous cutoff in 2015 was that only those teams that had a verified launch contract prior to the end of 2016 would be allowed to move forward. The current competitors are: SpaceIL (spaceil.com), Moon Express (moonexpress.com), Synergy Moon (synergymoon.org), Team Indus (teamindus.in), and Hakuto (team-hakuto.jp).
As of publication there are only three months remaining for any of the teams to launch. But whether any team actually wins the prize is almost irrelevant at this point. The competition and the progress of the teams has stimulated national policy changes (see Space Directive 1 above), capital access (ispace, the parent company of Hakuto, recently raised a $90M Series A), and changes in laws from various countries around the world. The goal of XPRIZE competitions is to stimulate companies and markets so that they can become sustainable industries. If the current trajectory of lunar development continues the prize can be considered a success regardless of whether anyone wins.
Moon Society, Mars Society, and Mars Foundation Join Together To Form The Marspedia Governing Council
Back in August, James Burk approached our Management Committee with an interesting proposal. Burk is the Mars Society's current IT Director and was our Vice President & Webmaster back when The Moon Society was founded in 2000. Burk's proposal was that we begin working with The Mars Society, and another organization called The Mars Foundation, to form an official Governing Council over the Marspedia.org wiki. Marspedia was originally started by The Moon Society back in 2007 along with Lunarpedia.org and some other space and science fiction-related wikis.
We accepted Burk's proposal and appointed one of our board members, James Gholston, to be our official representative on the new Governing Council. Burk and Gholston worked with Bruce Mackenzie from The Mars Foundation to write official Bylaws for Marspedia, to formalize our working relationship with these other space advocacy groups. At a meeting in October, the Council was formed with former Mars Society Executive Director Susan Holden Martin as Chair, and Burk as Vice Chair. Gholston was joined on the Council by our current Webmaster Rosalie Dieteman and also by Mike Delaney. Several officers from The Mars Society also joined the Council including Lucinda Offer (Executive Director), Carie Fay (Administrative Director), Michael Stoltz (Media & Public Relations), and Nicole Willett (Education Director). The Mars Society also began a major PR push to recruit volunteers and ask for content submissions via Facebook, LinkedIn, and their e-mail Newsletter.
Currently, we have formed Editorial and Technical Subcommittees and we are plugging in volunteers there. Anybody can help grow and manage the wiki, and can request a free account on www.marspedia.org. In 2018, we plan to roll out an atlas of Mars, and add to the stable of high-quality articles on various Mars-related topics. We will also fold in the new learnings and technologies used on Marspedia into the other wikis that the Moon Society maintains, such as Lunarpedia.
President's Report to Our Members on The State of The Society
(as presented at the Society's 9th Annual Membership Meeting on August 16, 2017)
The state of the Society is that the Society is not where it should be but it has a plan for improvement and we are entering a time where Lunar development is at least not taking a back seat to other priorities in space. An opportunity is presenting itself and the leadership of the Society is working to seize it.
As of 08/09/17, Moon Society membership stood at 89 members, down from 136 a year ago, an 34% decrease.
Treasury Report and Project Funding Proposals
The Society has funds available in the amount of $33,000, approximately flat from a year ago.
The Challenge of Projects
There are several great projects that the Society has approved to be done and many that could be done. The limitation on accomplishing these goals is the volunteer manpower to actually do the work. Increasing the participation by and value returned to our membership is our largest goal for the coming year.
Our website is now running on a Drupal 7 platform and is basically stable. The goal of the coming year is to update the design of both the main Moon Society web presence as well as the Lunarpedia. The Web has changed a lot over the years and many potential members use their mobile devices as their primary computing system. The Society must go to where the members are.
Other Web Assets
Our Facebook page and the Lunarpedia project continue to be one of our most popular portals.
Moon Miner's Manifesto completed its 25th year of continuous publication, ten issues a year, with the November 2011 issue, #250. While individual back issues (in electronic pdf file format # 145 forward) remain username/password protected, all the non-time sensitive articles from the first 21 years are republished in the MMM Classics series, freely available to anyone. Peter Kokh, President Emeritus, has retired, but we will resume publishing soon but only electronically.
There is much going on lunar related in the space industry. Most of it is public but some is being done by private companies.
Our collaboration with the NSS is still strong but NSS has picked up the bulk of the effort, especially programming the lunar track at ISDC recently. This should change during the coming year.
The Waypaver Foundation
Our new President, Michael Mealling, is also the CEO of the Waypaver Foundation. Waypaver is a non-profit foundation working to fund specific scientific, political, and economic work necessary to remove any obstacles to lunar settlement. The proposal on the table to both the Moon Society board and the Waypaver board is to create a closer collaboration to solve some of the Society's volunteer shortfalls. Waypaver also has relationships with the Moon Village effort with ESA, the Lunar Marketplace within the FAA, and other small groups around the world. Waypaver is proposing to help the Society with a site redesign, combining its Lunar Settlement Index with the Lunarpedia, and providing a conduit for sponsored research.
Chapters are a primary way to organize members in support of the Society and its Goals. The past two years has not seen much support for chapters from the Society. This should change over the next year as chapters become involved in fundraising for targeted research, lobbying efforts within Congress, and local outreach.
During the next few weeks the Society will be developing policies, position papers, and announcements concerning:
Moon Village – Providing support and volunteers for efforts within ESA and affiliated groups in support of the Moon Village Association.
NASA Deep Space Gateway – A position paper on the Society's view of NASA's Deep Space Gateway and how best to support commercial development of the Moon.
ULA's cislunar1000 – A paper on ULA's efforts and support from the Society on the technology needed to make that effort successful.
My goal as President is to 'reboot' the Moon Society and give it the resources and stature of other space advocacy organizations. 2017 and 2018 are not about 'rebuilding' but 'reinventing'. What isn't working will be stopped. What is working will be amplified. The Moon Society has some incredible resources and people and it is an incredible time to be focused on Earth's nearest neighbor.
The Lunar Space Elevator, a Near Term Means to Reduce Cost of Lunar Access
The following is the first installment of a serialized paper, copyright of Charles Frank Radley (2017), reproduced with his permission. Charles is founder of the new Moon Society Florida Outpost. This paper was originally published at the AIAA [American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics] Space 2017 Conference proceedings.
Charles F Radley [1]
Leeward Space Foundation, Inc., Palm Bay, Florida, 32907
A Lunar Space Elevator [LSE] can be built today from existing commercial polymers; manufactured, launched and deployed for less than $2B. A prototype weighing 48 tons with 100 kg payload can be launched by 3 Falcon-Heavy's, and will pay for itself in 53 sample return cycles within one month. It reduces the cost of soft landing on the Moon at least threefold, and sample return cost at least ninefold. Many benefits would arise. A near side LSE can enable valuable science mission, as well as mine valuable resources and ship to market in cislunar space, LEO and Earth's surface. A far-side LSE can facilitate construction and operation of a super sensitive radio astronomy facility shielded from terrestrial interference by the Moon. The LSE would facilitate substantial acceleration of human expansion beyond LEO.
The original idea for a Space Elevator was for an elevator from the surface of the Earth up to Geostationary orbit. This idea is attractive since in theory it could greatly reduce the cost of access to space 1,2, however, there are no materials existing or on the horizon which are remotely strong enough to hold their own weight over the distance in the Earth's gravity field. Theoretically Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes [SWCNTs] would suffice3, but so far nobody can manufacture them longer than a few centimeters. Furthermore, SWCNTs have only been produced in tiny quantities in laboratories, and there is no prospect of industrial scale production happening in the foreseeable future. However, there is another planetary scale tether concept which is almost as valuable, and can be built with existing industrial materials, and that is a Lunar Space Elevator [LSE].
A LSE is a very long tether, connecting the surface of the Moon to an Earth Moon Lagrange [EML] point, either EML1, between Earth and Moon (nearside), or EML2, behind the Moon as viewed from the Earth (farside). In order for the LSE system to be stationary with respect to the Moon it is necessary that the center of mass of the LSE be located at an EML point. Therefore, the tether must extend further from the lunar surface than the EML point, and be terminated at a counterweight. The Moon orbits the Earth about once per month, so the LSE is not stationary with respect to the Earth, but it is stationary with respect to the Moon.
The LSE dimensions are larger than any structure in space so far attempted. In a design calculated by T. M. Eubanks the total length of a nearside elevator is 278,544 kilometres [154,747 statute miles], and the total length of the farside elevator is 297,308 kilometres [165,171 statute miles] 5.
On average, EML1 is 326,380 km [203,988 statute miles] away from Earth and 58,019 km [36,263 statute miles] away from the Moon. EML2 is 448,914 km [280,573 statute miles] from Earth and 64,515 km [40,323 statute miles] from the Moon. Hence, in the Eubanks design, the distance from the Lagrange point to the counterweight for the EML1 system is 220,525 km [118,484 statute miles] and for the EML2 system is 232,793 km [124,848 statute miles].
These distances are unprecedented in aerospace engineering, and we can reasonably question whether it is even possible to build structures so large. Yet preliminary analysis indicates it is not only possible, it is relatively inexpensive, and can be done with existing commercial materials5. In this paper we will show how the lunar elevator is both feasible and affordable, and indeed profitable. Of course, there will be many technical and engineering challenges, but as far as we know today, there are no obvious showstoppers.
The idea of a lunar elevator is not new, but until recently has been dismissed as fantasy or science fiction. The first known writing, where the concept of a lunar elevator was described by Tsander in 1910, was in the unpublished notes of the German-Latvian-Russian scientist Friedrich Zander. These notes were posthumously published in Moscow in 19776 and noticed by Dr. Eugene Levin, who has since become one of the leading experts on the concept. Levin joined Pearson and his team at Star Technology Inc., where they have jointly studied the LSE concept, notably for NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts in 2005.
II. Available Materials
The first key technical challenge of the LSE, is to find a material which is both light enough and strong enough to support its own weight over that distance in the lunar gravity field, and still be strong enough to carry a payload. Until the late 20th century, such materials did not exist, but since the 1990's, revolutionary new polymer materials have become commercially available.
The first material which was theoretically capable of supporting a lunar elevator was Kevlar®, but it was only barely strong enough. Fortunately, newer even stronger [by weight] materials have subsequently come on to the market; four in particular are T1000G®, Dyneema®7, Magellan-M5®8 and Zylon®9. Another theoretical material which would be even stronger would be SWCNTs, however they have only been produced in small crystal sizes, about a couple of centimetres in size, suffer from extreme susceptibility to nano-defects10, and are a long way from being commercially viable. Fortunately, the other satisfactory materials are mass-produced in ample quantities and lengths, and we do not need to wait for SWCNTs to begin the construction of LSE. The Magellan M5® material is superior to everything else currently available; however, supplies are very limited on the commercial market. The reasons for this are not entirely clear, but according to anecdotal information, it appears to be twofold. Firstly, M5® is difficult to manufacture, partly because of its extraordinary strength, it tends to destroy the tooling. Secondly, it is in high demand by the US Government, especially for bulletproof vests, and the US Government buys up nearly all of the available production to date. The three other materials, T1000G, Dyneema® and Zylon®, are available in large quantity, and are currently the best candidates for LSE construction, at least until M5® eventually becomes available in greater quantity, or until an even better material become widely available.
III. Throughput and Return on Investment
The term "Lunar Elevator" is something of a misnomer when applied to the lunar skylift system. That is because, although the system conceptually bears some similarity to a terrestrial elevator, there is a fundamental difference. That is, a terrestrial elevator typically has a single car, travelling up and down a single shaft. We will show that the optimal configuration for a lunar elevator is significantly different. Specifically, a lunar elevator can and should carry multiple cars to maximize throughput within the strength capabilities of the tether. We will show below that a single LSE can ideally carry six cars simultaneously on the section of tether between the EML and the lunar surface. Furthermore, during a two week period, about 80 cars could be lifted from the surface to EML, resulting in an eighty times increase in payload mass throughput.
A key figure of merit is the speed with which the climber travels up and down the tether. From a business standpoint, we wish to maximize revenue, which means maximizing the payload throughput of the system. Throughput can be expressed in terms of mass of payload times speed of climber times number of climbers in a given time period.
The Delta Vee required for a rocket to ascend from lunar surface to EML-1 is 2.7 km s1. Goff[2] showed that the typical payload mass fraction for such a rocket is 34%, ~ 1/3. A rocket which puts the 49 tonnes LSE at EML-1 would otherwise be capable of depositing 16 tonnes on to the lunar surface. So for LSE payload of 0.1 tonnes, this is equivalent to 16/0.1 ¼ 160 payload landing cycles, which is the number of cycles to recoup the LSE launch cost. For sample return, another factor of three applies, so ~ 53 sample return cycles would recoup the launch cost.
The principal benefit of the LSE is that it reduces the cost of sample return by at least nine times, considering primarily the cost of launch, but without considering the capital cost of manufacture, since that has not yet been studied in detail. In any case, we believe the launch cost will be the dominant cost of the system.
In terms of launch cost, we need to make 53 sample return cycles to realize a profit, then we need to complete those 53 cycles as quickly as possible. The 2008 Technion University student team estimated that a velocity of 700 metres per second is feasible, hence the journey from the surface of the Moon to the Lagrange station would take about seven days[3].
Interestingly, it is feasible to have multiple climbers on the tether, without significantly reducing the payload, and this would greatly increase system throughput. At a velocity of 700 metres per second, it is feasible to have 80 climbers along the tether [see Table-1], and that means that 50 payload cycles can be completed within a month. So the LSE can pay back its launch cost in less than a month, giving a total throughput of 8 tons per month in each direction, or ~100 tons per year. The incremental operational cost per payload cycle is negligible compared to the corresponding cost of using chemical propulsion; hence it will rapidly reduce the total cost by orders of magnitude.
Of course if the climber could move even faster, then the revenue stream per year would be even greater, which would be very pleasing to investors. Hence, there is a commercial incentive to maximize the climber speed. It might be possible to increase the climber speed even more than 700 m/s This involves various technical challenges, which have been studied to a first approximation, and will be discussed in this paper.
[1] Systems Engineer, Associate Fellow AIAA
[2] Goff, The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Lunar Transportation Schemes: Part 1 Gear Ratios, Selenian Boondocks, 2013. http://selenianboondocks.com/2013/12/the-slings-and-arrows-of-outrageous-lunar-transportationschemes-part-1-gear-ratios/.
[3] Qedar R. , Grinfeld N. , Bezrodny G. , Reuven O. , Tatievsky A. , Kogan A,. Jacob's Ladder – Lunar Space Elevator http://lunarjacobsladder.webs.com/
Note: A full set of references will be provided at the end of the final installment in a future issue of Moon Miners Manifesto.
1 Swan, P. A, Raitt, D. I., Swan, C.W., Penny, R.E., Knapman, J.M., Space Elevators: An Assessment of the Technological Feasibility and the Way Forward, Virginia Edition Publishing Co, Science Deck, 2013. ISBN-13: 978-2917761311.
2 Swan, P.A, Opening up earth-moon enterprise with a space elevator, New Space 3 (2015) 213e217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/space.2015.0025.
3 Edwards, B. C, Design and Deployment of a Space Elevator, Acta Astronautica, 47, 10, Nov 2000, 735-744
4 Pearson, J, Levin, E., Oldson, J, Wykes, H, Lunar Space Elevators for Cislunar Space Development, NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts, Phase I Final Technical Report, Star Technology and Research, Inc, 2005.
5 Eubanks, T. M., Radley, C. F., Scientific return of a lunar elevator, Space Policy 37 (2016) 97
6 Tsander, F. A., (1977). Selected Papers (in Russian). Riga: Zinātne.
7 Stein, H.L, Ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylenes (uhmwpe), in: Engineered Materials Handbook: Engineering Plastics, Vol. 2ASM International, 1998, pp. 167e171.
8 Cunniff, P, Auerbach M. A., Sikkema D. J.,Vetter, E, High Performance "M5" Fiber for Ballitstics / Structural Composites, 2002: 23'th Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL
9 Wolfe, J.F., Polybenzothiazoles and Oxazoles, in: Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering, Vol. 11John Wiley and Sons, 1988, p. 601.
10 Liyan, Z, Jinlan, W, Feng, D, The Great Reduction of a Carbon Nanotube's Mechanical Performance by a Few Topological Defects, ACS Nano, 2016, 10 (6), pp 6410–6415
Update on the Manifesto and Its Future
This publication was in continuous publication from 1986 until the beginning of 2017. It was written and published by Peter Kokh who retired from publication of the Manifesto at the end of 2016. Issue #301 was his last. During that time it served as the monthly newsletter for the SE Wisconsin Chapter of the National Space Society, the Milwaukee Outpost of the Moon Society, and eventually the Moon Society itself.
The reins have been handed over to the Moon Society leadership, and we apologize for the hiatus. With this issue, we are transitioning from a physical paper format to one published as a PDF and on the Moon Society website. Existing subscribers will receive a PDF by email.
As part of the update the Society will be making all previous versions available publicly and, where possible, will be converting PDF versions into web accessible versions.
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SANDRIDGE MISSISSIPPIAN TRUST I today announced that its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 has been filed with the SEC. The Annual Report on Form 10-K is available in the "SEC Filings" section of the Trust's website at http://sdt.investorhq.businesswire.com/, as well as on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
SANDRIDGE MISSISSIPPIAN TRUST I (SDT) today announced a quarterly distribution for the three-month period ended December 31, 2018 (which primarily relates to production attributable to the Trust's interests from September 1, 2018 to November 30, 2018) of approximately $1.2 million, or $0.0439 per unit. The Trust makes distributions on a quarterly basis on or about the 60th day following the completion of each quarter. During the three-month production period ended November 30, 2018, combined sales volumes were higher than the previous period and natural gas prices increased.
SANDRIDGE MISSISSIPPIAN TRUST I (SDT) (the "Trust") announced today that it has received a notice from the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") that the Trust has fallen below the NYSE continued listing requirement that the average closing price of the Trust's units of beneficial interest be at least $1.00 per share, calculated over a period of 30 consecutive trading days. The Trust received the deficiency notice from the NYSE on December 31, 2018, and on January 4, 2019, the Trust acknowledged receipt of the notice.
SANDRIDGE MISSISSIPPIAN TRUST I (SDT) (the "Trust") today announced that its trustee, The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A. (the "Trustee"), has determined to gradually increase the Trustee's existing cash reserve for the payment of future expenses and liabilities of the Trust, as permitted by the trust agreement. Commencing with the distribution to unitholders payable in the first quarter of 2019, the Trustee intends to begin withholding the greater of $35,000 or 3.5% of the funds otherwise available for distribution each quarter to gradually increase existing cash reserves by a total of approximately $425,000. The Trustee may increase or decrease the targeted amount at any time, and may increase or decrease the rate at which it is withholding funds to build the cash reserve at any time, without advance notice to the unitholders.


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Here is the latest Idaho news from The Associated Press at 9:40 p.m. MDT
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Republican Party elected its former executive director as its chairman. The Spokesman-Review reports Jonathan Parker will be the next Idaho GOP chairman after a vote Saturday. Parker was elected by a secret ballot where voters wrote down a candidate's first name. Parker was unable to attend the GOP general session because he was called away on an urgent family matter. Parker will serve as chairman until the next state convention in 2018.
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — Idaho is teaming up with Utah to protect Bear Lake on the Utah-Idaho border from invasive mussels. Idaho State Journal reports that the states have partnered with the Bear Lake Regional Commission to boost inspection capabilities at two inspection stations run by Utah around Bear Lake.
KUNA, Idaho (AP) — A prosecutor has determined that the eight law enforcement officers who fired shots at a 32-year-old southwest Idaho man were justified in using lethal force. Twin Falls County Prosecutor Grant Loebs announced his findings Friday.
BURLEY, Idaho (AP) — Authorities in south-central Idaho say the finding of two bodies inside a residence in Burley is being investigated as a homicide. The Cassia County Sheriff's Office says deputies were called to a residence on Thursday evening and found a man and woman dead in the basement.


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