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Before Serena, There Was Althea
On a sweltering day in the summer of 1957, a slender young woman from Harlem became the first Black player to win the hallowed Wimbledon tennis tournament in England. After receiving the Venus Rosewater Dish from Queen Elizabeth II, Althea Gibson, 29, attended the Wimbledon Ball that evening, spinning around the dance floor in the arms of the Duke of Devonshire.
The celebration continued in Manhattan, where Ms. Gibson was feted with the first ticker-tape parade up Broadway to honor a woman of color.
But the following day, the illusion that the new queen of tennis had ushered in a chapter of racial equity shattered. When Ms. Gibson arrived in a Chicago suburb for her next tournament, she was refused a room at all of the upscale hotels, one of which also rejected a request to book a luncheon in her honor.
Ms. Gibson, left, broke the color barrier to the sport in 1950 when she became the first Black person to compete in the U.S. Open. By the decade's end, she had amassed a total of 11 Grand Slam titles.Credit…Carl T. Gossett Jr./The New York Times
"Midnight had come for Cinderella, not in some small Mississippi town, but in liberal Greater Chicago," a reporter wrote in Saturday Review magazine.
Back in London, the fairy tale disappeared overnight. Lew Hoad, the Wimbledon men's singles champion who had danced with Ms. Gibson at the ball, awoke the next morning to a pile of angry messages, according to his widow, Jenny Hoad. "There were just hundreds of letters from people who accused him of breaking the rules, saying, 'You have no right to dance with colored people,'" she recalled. "We didn't even read most of them."
But Ms. Gibson had no intention of letting the discrimination she had battled for most of her life stop her rise and imminent reign. Two months later, she became the first Black tennis player to win the tournament now known as the U.S. Open, and by the end of the year, she had become the first Black woman to be ranked No. 1 in the world. Her fortitude and perseverance paved the way for the Black tennis players to come after her, like Arthur Ashe, Zina Garrison and the Williams sisters.
Although largely overlooked after the 1950s, Ms. Gibson is at long last starting to get her due. On Thursday, which would have been her 95th birthday, the block of 143rd Street in Harlem where she first held a racket will be renamed Althea Gibson Way. A life-size statue of a teenage Althea, intended to be erected near the block, is currently in the making.
Neighborhood children greet Ms. Gibson upon her return to Harlem after winning Wimbledon in 1957. Credit…Carl T. Gosset Jr./The New York Times
Later that day, Ms. Gibson will be honored in a program at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, home of the U.S. Open, as the tournament begins its 142nd consecutive year. The event, called Divine Nine, is a celebration of fraternities and sororities at historically Black colleges and universities. (Ms. Gibson attended Florida A&M.)
Next year, the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, the former home of the U.S. Open, where Ms. Gibson braved racist taunts in her first appearance in the majors, plans to honor her at its stadium centennial. There is also the possibility of a quarter bearing her likeness in 2025.
All the recognition might come across as cold comfort to Ms. Gibson, according to Michael Giangrande, whose father was an executive at the sporting goods store that provided her with free rackets. Mr. Giangrande, who is scheduled to speak at the street renaming, remembers Ms. Gibson lamenting that her trophies were the only things of value she got out of tennis, which at the time did not offer cash purses. "She and my dad often joked about it, calling the trophies 'tin cups,'" he said. "Everyone was making money off the sport except for the players."
"Althea was a tough girl," said Bob Davis, a tennis champion himself and one of Ms. Gibson's hitting partners. Just rallying with her could be intimidating, he said.Credit…Allyn Baum/The New York Times
To understand how much that has changed, consider Serena Williams. The second Black woman to win a Grand Slam singles title, Ms. Williams would go on to win 22 more, becoming themost decorated athlete,male or female, to play competitive tennis in the past 20 years. As such, she has also become a top earner, with a current net worth of $260 million.
When Ms. Williams recently announced her probable retirement following this year's U.S. Open, she had already started a professional pivot involving venture capital, among other projects. Ms. Gibson, on the other hand, left tennis only to struggle financially for most of her life, making ends meet by touring with the Harlem Globetrotters and working as a community representative for a national baking company, at times dabbling in acting and singing, until her death in 2003.
(Both Serena and Venus Williams are known admirers of Ms. Gibson. In 1999, Serena, then 17, faxed Ms. Gibson a list of questions in connection with a school project, and the sisters used a photo of Ms. Gibson on the back cover of a Black history newsletter they created.)
Ms. Gibson struggled with poverty for most of her life. A part of the Great Migration, her family left South Carolina in 1929. She arrived in Harlem as a toddler months before the stock market crashed. Making matters worse, her family wound up on 143rd Street, which bordered what was known as "the lung block," because the death rate from tuberculosis among residents there was twice that of other Manhattan neighborhoods, according to the 1939 New York City Guide.
Claude Brown, Ms. Gibson's first cousin and the author of the best-selling autobiographical novel "Manchild in the Promised Land," also grew up in Harlem, surrounded by alcoholism and street violence, which he wrote about in the book. By age 9, the protagonist of "Manchild" had been "hit by a bus, thrown into the Harlem River (intentionally), hit by a car, severely beaten with a chain," and had set the house on fire.
After her 1957 victory in Wimbledon, Ms. Gibson is greeted by her mother at Idlewild Airport in New York City.Credit…Carl T. Gossett Jr./The New York Times
Ms. Gibson was no stranger to such hardships. A towering girl from her earliest days, she spent much of her time on the street shoplifting and fighting with street gangs. Her father, Daniel Gibson, a garage worker, hoped that his daughter would become a competitive boxer, and regularly took her to the rooftop of their building for training. But when his lessons sometimes turned into beatings, she headed to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, as she wrote in her autobiography, which gave her shelter.
Another haven for Althea was the Apollo Theater. She loved to sing and play the saxophone, and routinely played hooky to attend the performances there. In 1943, she won second prize in a vocal competition on the Apollo stage. But instead of a week of singing engagements there, which she had been promised, Althea was awarded a prize of $10. "I couldn't complain," Ms. Gibson wrote in her autobiography. "That $10 bought a mess of fried chicken, collard greens, and root beer."
For Althea, competition was a way of life. She took to just about any sport involving a ball. Basketball was one of her favorites, and she was the fastest member of the Mysterious Girls Athletic Club, the prizewinning Harlem basketball team. Once, she and her teammates ran into the champion boxer Sugar Ray Robinson in a bowling alley, and she promptly challenged him, declaring, "I can beat you at bowling right now!"
In 1937, when the Police Athletic League cordoned off 143rd Street to provide a safe play space for children, Althea, 10, discovered paddle tennis. Two years later, she became the city's paddle tennis champion. Not long after, Buddy Walker, a Harlem bandleader and a supervisor for the league, bought Ms. Gibson a pair of used tennis rackets.
By her own account, Ms. Gibson did not originally feel like tennis would be a natural fit for her. "I remember thinking to myself that it was kind of like a matador going into the bull ring, beautifully dressed, bowing in all directions," she wrote in her autobiography. "And all the time having nothing in mind except sticking that sword into the bull's guts and killing him dead as hell."
Mr. Walker also introduced her to the Cosmopolitan Club, the local Black tennis club where the most prosperous Harlem residents played. Soon, she was beating everyone she played. Club members took up a collection and sent her to tournaments around the country sponsored by the American Tennis Association, a league for Black players.
Ms. Gibson, center, at the Cosmopolitan Club, where Black tennis players used to train and compete in Harlem.Credit…Layne's Studio of New York/Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/New York Public Library
By 1947, at the age of 20, Ms. Gibson won her first A.T.A. title and went on to win 10 national championships, a record that still stands. Bob Davis, one of Ms. Gibson's hitting partners, remembers that she was so aggressive on the court that just rallying with her could be intimidating.
"Althea was a tough girl," recalled Mr. Davis, himself a four-time A.T.A. champion and 2006 United States Tennis Association (U.S.T.A.) mixed doubles champion. "She would be perfectly happy to knock you down with the ball. She did hit me. Every time we played, she would try and hit me."
Ms. Gibson smashed and lobbed her way to the top ranks of tennis, breaking the color barrier to the sport in 1950 when she became the first Black person to compete in the U.S. Open.By the decade's end, she had amassed a total of 11 Grand Slam titles, including multiple championships at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open and the French Open, where, in 1956, she won titles in both singles and doubles. But for Ms. Gibson, even that wasn't enough. As soon as she retired from tennis, she jumped into another sport, and in 1964 became the first Black woman to join the Ladies Professional Golf Association.
"Everything Althea had to do was three times harder than it was for a non-person of color," said Katrina Adams, a former professional tennis player and the first Black person to serve as the president of the U.S.T.A. "For me, what she did was transcendent."
Sally H. Jacobs is the author of the biography "Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson," which will be published next year.
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For the twelve million members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints worldwide (six million in the United States), The Book of Mormon is literally the word of God, a companion volume to the Bible that contains the everlasting gospel. With the faith now of one of the fastest-growing religions in the country, Doubleday is proud to publish this first official trade edition of The Book of Mormon by special arrangement with the Church.
According to Mormon belief, The Book of Mormon was inscribed on golden plates by generations of prophets, quoted and abridged by the prophet-historian Mormon, and buried in the ground by Mormon's son, Moroni. Fourteen centuries later, in 1823, the angel Moroni led Joseph Smith to the plates hidden in a hillside in upstate New York. Smith translated the ancient language into English through divine revelation.
The Book of Mormon narrates the historical, religious, political, and military events that shaped and continue to inform the Church's teachings. The publication of this edition offers the opportunity to explore one of the largest denominations in America today.
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My interests goes from exoplanets to asteroseismology radial velocity studies for M dwarfs. I am also actively involved in instrumentation, in particular I am part of the team which is developing the Radial Velocity Corrector (RVC), an alternative to the scrambling methods for fiber-fed high-precision RV spectrographs which are non thermally stabilized.
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Correct pink foam is what is used for 95 percent of dioramas you see at tamashii nations etc. They will all be hand made. If there is enough interest then i would have an original and use it as a mold . what material i would use? i have no clue since ive never done it before. That wont be the case for a while though. Also dont worry about them this is the site to be in lol. They blew that out of proportion!
It only got worse when we took it to PMs. A lot worse.
If you wanted to make a mold of one, you could use something like alumilite mold rubber to make the mold, and alumilite resin to cast it. I went that route because it offered a lot of advantages. Consistency, durability, and allowed for built in features that require sturdy firm material like stand compatibility.
The downside is that molding and casting can get pricey. $20 a pound for mold rubber and some of those molds I was making were 6-8 pounds.
There's also a lot of prep and nuance to the whole process that is really important, otherwise you get defects.
Yea if it gets to the point of casting, it would be a learning experience and i would have to see if its even worth doing because of the cost.
I would be all over these. Will be keeping a close eye on your progress. And If you're open to commissions, would you be interested into making more larger, dynamic scenes for the right price (perhaps $100 and up)?
I'm a huge sucker for stuff like this. I would definitely buy stuff like Namek, Cell Games Arena, Over 9000, etc!
the issue wirh larger pieces would be shipping it. I would worry on damage if i send it put together. Also they take a while so price would depend on how large. My first one which can be seen on youtube was a while a go and will be updated. I am currently working on 2 more as i like my figuarts on a diorama. One day you guys will see. But for now here is a wip of the new piece.
Looking good! I'm not sure if you're familiar with Liquitex Gloss Gel but you can do some really cool things with it to make water. I've been experimenting with it and it's really neat.
im trying out the realistic water from woodland scenics. ill look into the gel thanks.
Those dioramas are awesome! I would love to have one but the price kind of kills it for me (although its very reasonable considering the time and craftsmanship involved).
Yea the main thing is time and material. WE will see though if i see a few more likes i might do a 10 piece run or something, but for now here is a sneak peek at my finished diorama, i will be showing everything when my next one is done.
Please let me explain why what you're doing is wrong, why it looks bad, or worse than it would have if you had done it properly - and please allow me to do so without everyone trying to chew my arse out for not immediately approving of mediocrity. Now, normally I wouldn't have even bothered to comment at all if you were otherwise content with your handiwork and it was destined, exclusively, for your own personal use. However, seeing as intended to sell these for profit please allow me to explain why I personally wouldn't be interested, and for what reason - I at least owe you that much.
To me, your inexperience doesn't exactly bode well for your enterprise. Especially since you your reservations regarding your own abilities and admitted ignorance to the creative processes required to create said product doesn't go to instil your potential customers with confidence. It's like in all things; confidence exudes success and success perpetuates unto excess. Before you can sell a product you must first sell "yourself". With you, in this particular instance, I didn't perceive that minutia of self belief needed for me to personally invest in you, or your vision. Please don't take it too personally. It's merely a statement of fact, and not meant as an insult.
Lol. I dont get where you got the whole you have no confidence in your work from. I've been customizing for a while. My work is usually highly complimented, my first diorama was a great success and that is said by people on multiple forums and on the youtube video. Yes i said ive never casted before and obviously i would have to experiment with it, and no i would not sell anything that looks crappy etc.if the casting doesn't turn out well enough to meet my expectations then it would continue to be made by hand. The reason i asked if people were interested is not because i doubt my ability to make dioramas but because i want to know what fellow collectors want. Hence why frankie said when he made them they didn't sell well. That all being said i was doing this for anyone who was interested in them, after all the positive comments ive received.There is plenty of easier ways to make money and not getting my hands dirty, like buying and re selling these figures. Thanks for your opinion im always open to critiques and reasonings on why you wouldnt want it.
It's strange. I feel like you genuinely believe you might know enough about model making to warrant an attempt, but in reality you still know too little to actually yield the results that you might come to expect or desire. You are unsure of the proper techniques and processes to achieve the aesthetic you intended and it really does show in your work. As you are unsure in yourself, and so - your work is unsure in its design. To me it looks like something a child might produce in trying to replicate that which he has seen with the limited skills and know how he possesses. The result, a naive rendition that fails to adequately emulate the design of the original. Knowledge is power, and knowledge much like power can be dangerous to wield, if not first properly mastered.
Again, to be taken with a grain of salt. This is my impression of your work and is designed to be taken constructively - not as an insult.
Man, your command of the English language is awesome!!
lmao what original am i trying to copy? I swear the dioramas i've made arent base on anything specific. Second the materials im not used to are rubber and resin to cast and ive said its a learning process.... eveyone has done it. once its mastered then u can sell if you please. 3rd the vast majority disagree with your view on my work. To say a child can produce it is rediculous and i see your lame attempt to diss me but i won't be falling for it. If its so simple i'd like to see your grown self give it a try and then you can come back and talk to me.


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GREEN BAY — Matt LaFleur watches countless hours of film each week.
The Green Bay Packers first-year coach has digital reel after digital reel playing on the 65-inch flat-screen television mounted to the wall of his Lambeau Field office, which is perfect for breaking down his own team's games, upcoming opponent's past games, cut-ups of plays that have worked against that team's defense and all the best explosive plays from around the NFL each week in search of new ideas he can integrate into his own offense.
But this week, there'll be another video he'll be dissecting on that TV: His team's 37-8 loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Nov. 24— as painful as it might be to watch.
"I've got to go back and watch that tape again to really try to grasp what happened and why it happened and how can we adjust and what are we going to do to ensure it doesn't happen (again)," LaFleur said Monday, one day after his team's 28-23 NFC divisional playoff victory over the Seattle Seahawks at Lambeau Field sent them into Sunday's NFC Championship Game against the 49ers at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif. "That'll happen over the next couple days."
Some coaches might've sent the game film from that loss straight into the digital dumpster. LaFleur and his staff watched it in the immediate aftermath of the loss, just as they would with any other game. And now, the coach will watch it again in an attempt to discern what went awry with his offense — and himself.
"I'd like to think that we've improved throughout the course of the season, especially the last six weeks," said LaFleur, whose team is 6-0 since that loss. "Certainly, I don't think we played our best that day. You've got to give them a lot of credit. That was probably the reason for that — that's a really talented football team. We know that. But in order to compete with them, in order to have a chance to beat them, we're going to have to be at our best — and that's everybody, all 11 on that field. And it is a big challenge, but certainly one that I think our guys will prepare for and be ready to go."
Facing the four people he's closest to in football — 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan, defensive coordinator Robert Saleh (LaFleur's former roommate), offensive run-game coordinator Mike McDaniel and his own brother, 49ers offensive passing-game coordinator Mike LaFleur — he said Monday he might've gotten too caught up in the cat-and-mouse game of knowing what those guys tend to do and overthought how to attack them.
"I think that tends to happen at times," LaFleur said. "Maybe."
The result? In their worst loss of the season, the Packers offense managed just 198 net yards, converted only 1 of 15 third-down situations and watched as wide receiver Davante Adams (seven catches, 43 yards) and quarterback Aaron Rodgers (20 of 33 for a season-low 104 yards and a 75.8 passer rating) had one of their worst games of the year. Rodgers also lost a first-possession fumble that led to a 7-0 deficit, and the Packers never really recovered.
"I'm going to look at everything," LaFleur said. "And everything that anybody that's had success against them (has done). I mean, that's a really good team. In all three phases. They've got obviously one of the top defenses, I think it's one of the top offenses and they're really solid on special teams. So I've got a lot of respect for everybody over there.
"Richard Hightower does a great job with the special teams. You all know my relationship with Robert and what I think about him not only as a person but as a football coach, and I think Kyle does as good as anybody drawing up plays and scheming people as there is in the National Football League.
"So we have a big challenge in front of us. But it's something that I think our guys are going to roll up their sleeves and come in and prepare the right way and be ready to go."
Meanwhile, Shanahan spent his Monday talking about the dangers of putting too much stock in that regular-season victory. His message? "Don't be stupid," Shanahan told his team.
"We know it'll be different. That game got away from them early," Shanahan said, referring to the 23-0 halftime lead his team built in the first meeting. "That's definitely not the team we're going to see this week.
"Everyone knows how good Green Bay is, how good the coaching staff is, how good their players are, how good their quarterback is. I don't think they've lost a game since then. That game really holds zero relevance as to what will happen Sunday."
That's certainly the approach the Packers players are taking, too.
"We know we played our worst game of the season that game," wide receiver Allen Lazard said. "They're obviously very good and they played a really good game. We know we're not going to go out there and lay an egg this time. We're going to have a good game plan and go out and execute."
Added veteran center Corey Linsley: "From top to bottom, whatever was wrong with the plan, it didn't work and we didn't execute well enough. I didn't play well enough, a lot of guys didn't. Overall, we know this time coming around, we've got to learn from our mistakes.
"We knew there was a possibility of (this rematch). We want to win the game, regardless of whatever you want to call it — revenge or however you want to paint it. We want to win the game. We want to go in with a strong game plan and execute, play fast and do whatever we can to win the game."
LaFleur, who challenged Packers fans this summer to create a better home-field advantage than had existed in the years immediately before his hiring, began his new briefing by thanking fans for delivering. "I thought they really created a home-field advantage for us through the course of the year," said LaFleur, whose team finished 8-1 at home on the year. … LaFleur said starting right tackle Bryan Bulaga, who missed Sunday's game with an illness, was feeling better and that what he was battling wasn't the same bug that sidelined some of his teammates throughout the week. "We tested all these guys and in a lot of the cases it wasn't the flu," LaFleur said.
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Race Synopsis: Fiesta bounced back fresh up after a disappointing run in The Thousand Guineas (Gr.1, 1600m) last October to add win three and almost double her previous earnings in this rich sales incentive race. She was midfield soon after the start but widest of all down the back, edged closer to the leaders near the last corner but turned in five wide. She was one of four to co-lead at the 300m then she and last year's Golden Slipper Stakes (Gr 1, 1200m) winner Estijaab broke clear after leading and knuckled down to a great battle to the line with Fiesta just managing to do a little better in the last few strides. Mizzy sat three wide in third to the last corner, was one of the for co-leaders at the 300m then battled hard for a good first-up third.


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No Lessons Learned: Campus Intolerance Intensifies in the Trump Era
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At this year's Association of American Colleges and Universities meeting, held in late January in San Francisco, a sense of misgiving filled the conference hall.
Panelists raised, implicitly, the question whether higher education has become out of touch with Donald Trump's America. They fretted over their belief that the current social and political climate is a threat to the liberal arts and, in a time of "fake news," to the pursuit of truth itself.
The Association's president, Lynn Pasquerella, concluded that it is the average American—giving in to the alleged anti-intellectualism of the day—who is misguided.
Higher education leaders, she argued, must therefore work to "destabilize the cultural attitudes at the basis of proposals that devalue liberal education."
While there were some speakers who called for tolerance and understanding—including Wesleyan University president Michael Roth, who advocated greater respect for "traditional conservative religion and thought"—they were a mere footnote during the four-day gathering.
Rather, workshops such as "Reclaiming the Racial Narrative," case studies on implementing progressive agendas on campus, and strategies on how to engage students in support of "racial and social justice" dominated the conference's agenda.
Unfortunately, in these early days of Trump's presidency, similar politicization seems to persist throughout much of academia. Many leftist students, faculty, and administrators pay only lip service to the notion that higher education should be a marketplace of ideas. They now seem to view themselves as combatants in an ideological war.
The recent rash of protests and temper tantrums in response to the President's inauguration and policy proposals reveals continued allegiance not to civil discourse, but to identity politics and an intolerant strand of progressivism. Columbia University humanities professor Mark Lilla, writing in the New York Times last November, forcefully argued that such allegiance likely contributed to Democrats' embarrassing defeat in the 2016 elections.
"[It] has produced a generation of liberals and progressives narcissistically unaware of conditions outside their self-defined groups, and indifferent to the task of reaching out to Americans in every walk of life," he wrote.
In North Carolina, where progressive activists seem to control much of the campus political dialogue, it appears that the election offered no learning lessons. For example, when UNC-Chapel Hill students walked out of classes to protest President Trump's inauguration, it was a struggle to keep the seemingly like-minded group members focused and united, as students argued over who had the right to be the most outraged.
One organizer was quoted by the Daily Tar Heel complaining about "problematic people" who "co-opted the space at times and didn't really understand that it was not for them at this particular moment." And when students began giving short speeches to voice their concerns about a Trump presidency, criticisms of "white America" and calls for dismantling "systems of oppression" were common refrains.
Furthermore, identity-obsessed lectures and workshops remain popular events across the University of North Carolina system. For example, at UNC-Chapel Hill, the Anthropology Department is hosting a "Race, Difference, Power" colloquium in early March.
At NC State, the GLBT center recently conducted two identity-based workshops: "What is racial justice?" and "Recognizing and Responding to Microaggressions." A third, "Sitting With Privilege," is scheduled for the end of March. And Duke and NC Central are partnering in late March to host a day-long conference titled "Let's Talk Racism: Recognizing, Resisting, and Revising."
To be sure, some in the campus community appear to be striving to understand alternative viewpoints and avoid the divisiveness of identity politics. For instance, the diversity office at NC State is hosting a workshop next week titled "Controversial Issues and Civil Dialogue," which is designed to help participants "disagree without being disagreeable."
Similarly, the Professional Development Center at Wake Forest University held a "Let's Talk: A Current Political Dialogue" workshop at the end of January. However, for every workshop designed to help students engage with those with whom they disagree, there seems to be a dozen more teaching them about, for example, "correcting" microaggressions.
If there is a silver lining for North Carolinians, it is that the situation could be a lot worse, as evidenced by the ridiculous turns radical progressivism has taken elsewhere in the country. Barnard College, for instance, recently announced a promise to begin hiring professors based on skin color as part of its ongoing efforts to become a "more representative, inclusive, and equitable campus."
And at Santa Clara University, the student government denied recognizing the campus's Turning Point USA chapter as an official club, saying that the group's pro-capitalist message was in conflict with the school's mission and against its "humanity."
Though one might be tempted to write off such narrow-minded thinking as representative of just a small percentage of campus leftists, it becomes hard to ignore when it turns dangerous.
For example, a planned appearance by the conservative Brietbart provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at the University of California at Berkeley resulted in violent protests, leading to the event being canceled and over $100,000 in damage. Among some of the chants repeated by the roughly 1,500 protesters was "No safe space for racists." And at New York University, eight protesters were arrested outside of a speaking event by conservative comedian Gavin McInnes.
The apparent breakdown of higher education's marketplace of ideas seems to be spilling over more and more into the broader culture. For example, some conservatives in the San Francisco area are having to meet in secrecy, fearing even to tell their friends or family. As Bay Area resident Robert Ward described it, being a conservative is like "being a heretic" in some areas of California—a sad indication of how inhibited free and honest discussion has become.
At any rate, the more the intolerant Left ratchets up its efforts to censor and reproach those with alternative viewpoints, the more the general campus community—the reasonable majority—becomes alienated from them.
Speaking as a current UNC-Chapel Hill student, I can attest that most students—which even includes some of my friends who used to "Feel the Bern"—find the constant policing of "problematic language" and the progressive outrage machine to be tiresome and off-putting.
Any hope campus leftists have in terms of frustrating the goals of the Trump presidency relies on their ability to branch out to the reasonable majority. Unfortunately, they seem to be heading in the opposite direction, often with the tacit support and even direct involvement of faculty and administrators. One would think that all of their hysteria—which is truly anti-intellectual—would have to end someday. As of now, that time appears to be a long way off.
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I Went to a Donald Trump Fundraiser Last Night
"Who likes the idea of the wall?"
By Luke O'Neil
There's a pool and hot tub supply store about 25 miles outside Boston. It's nothing much to look at, a long, squat brick building slumped alongside an empty parking lot. But finding myself stalled in traffic on Route 1, on the way to the Norwood mansion of auto magnate Ernie Boch Jr. for a fundraiser held in honor of presidential hopeful Donald Trump, I couldn't help but take note that it's going out of business, a monument to promised luxury forestalled.
Not far down the road, just beyond Norwood's Auto Mile, home to dozens of car dealerships, many of which bear the name and grinning visage of Boch—whose face, and catchphrase "Come on down!" will be familiar to anyone who's spent more than a few minutes in Massachusetts —is his sprawling, ornate home. On Friday night police directed dozens of cars to a series of nearby parking lots, while throngs of attendees made their way along the quiet side street. A helicopter buzzed overhead as protesters lined either side of the road. "Immigrant rights are human rights!" one group shouted. Counter-protesters and curious gawkers, many of whom hadn't ponied up the $100 ticket price for the event filled out the ranks of the extras for what had the feel of the run up to a concert at the Xfinity Center in nearby Mansfield. Soon enough, headliner Trump would take the stage for a whirlwind set of his greatest hits: immigrants, the weakness of our standing on the world stage, immigrants again, and a rousing medley of insults directed at everyone from John Kerry to Jeb Bush to governor Charlie Baker.
Christian Miron, political director with NARAL Pro-choice Massachusetts, said his group had had about 80 members here for hours waiting for the guest of honor. "We're here to hold Donald Trump accountable for his extreme positions on women's rights and reproductive rights," he said. "Donald Trump opposes a woman's right to a legal abortion, he opposes funding to Planned Parenthood, and we're here to make sure he knows it's unacceptable that his views on women's health, and women in general, are so far outside mainstream values."
Later during a press conference Trump would deny much of that, assuring us that he "cherished women." I asked Miron if he thought their message might fall on deaf ears when it comes to the notoriously defiant candidate. "I think what Donald Trump cares about more than anything else is the Trump brand, and our message was heard loud and clear, if not by Trump himself, but by hundreds of people, the news media, and I think the voters are going to hold him accountable for these extreme positions," he said. "I think Donald Trump has a little P.T. Barnum to him, but what we don't think is funny is women's health and reproductive rights."
Across the road a woman named Linda, an unemployed resident of Norwood, had been waiting for his arrival for about an hour. "I just like him because he speaks his mind, he says what he feels, he doesn't let anybody intimidate him, and everybody else is afraid to say what he does," she said, asking if she could bum a cigarette. "I really love him." Does she really think he cares about average people like her? "I do think he cares about people, I do. Otherwise I don't think he'd be doing this, and just him speaking his mind is enough for me… I don't know."
Gerry Callahan, who described himself as a "100 percent disabled, combat-decorated Vietnam veteran," was likewise eager for Trump to arrive, if for no other reason than he presented a stark contrast to the current administration. "Who do you have in there now? He avoided the draft. He was at Harvard at the time. What an idiot," he said, referring to president Obama. "You know who's even worse than him? Joe Biden. He's dumber than I am." So what did he like about Trump? "He's honest. Good eye contact. He doesn't need a teleprompter," he said.
Through the gates and towering shrubbery setting Boch's estate apart from the street, a decidedly more well-heeled crowd mingled at what felt like the reception for your least likable rich uncle's third wedding. The group were a curious mix: aging rockers—Boch himself performs in an outfit called Ernie Boch and the Automatics—and mustachioed middle-aged men with permanent Disappointed Dad scowls. Fountains and meticulous landscaping provided scenic alcoves for wolfing down lamb pops with bee honey rosemary dijon and assorted carved meats. It would be a great setting for incestuous banker cousins to stage a croquet match in which they were all cheating, obviously and poorly. A tranquil bronze Buddha sat cross-legged with its eyes closed as if it didn't want to see what was going on, while a man in a bright blue plaid suit had people stopping to ask if they could take his picture. It was a remarkable suit, you couldn't argue with that. At one point I saw a black person.
"I like how he's very vocal about his stance and is taking a different style with his politics," Jonny Arakelian, who I was disappointed to learn wasn't Julian Edelman when I got closer, explained. What about some of Trump's more controversial stances? "I think it's a PR thing; everything he says, if anyone else said it, they would not be able to even be in the conversation for president. From a PR standpoint it's genius." Around the corner a cover band ripped into Kansas's "Carry On My Wayward Son."
I went to the bar and ordered a scotch and then didn't tip in order to try to fit in. Not everyone here was gung ho about Trump, I learned. "I don't know that he'd necessarily make the best president, but I like his personality," one fella told me, before we skipped politics and moved onto the more important issue of beard maintenance.
"Well, I'm a Democrat, so I don't think he's the worst possible candidate, because he's not looking to just eliminate programs," Walker Lane, a long time teamster and laborer told me in line at the bar. He often jokes to his Republican friends that he and his wife, who works for the government, are their worst nightmare. "I'm a union thug and my wife is a government hack!"
"I'm amazed he's lasted this long," he said of Trump's surprising lead in the polls, but he had a theory why that is. "There's so many candidates, and none of them are dropping out, so the other side hasn't been able to unite to get him out."
Trump was set to arrive soon, and the throng of press was seated patiently in a tent toward the front of the home. Every political fundraiser is a variation on Waiting for Godot, with the added existential nightmare that the bastard usually shows up. "This is not a fundraiser tonight," Trump explained when asked about his avowal that he was not accepting outside campaign contributions. The $100 ticket was meant to offset the cost of feeding everyone at the event, he said. "I'm turning down millions of dollars for the campaign. Everybody's offering me money and I don't want it," he harrumphed to a roar of cheering and clapping from the assembled media.
Asked about the protesters outside, he scoffed.
"I don't see many protesters, I see thousands of people, and there's a few people … and I figured you'd ask that question," he said to a reporter from CNN. "You do not cover us accurately at all. There's a few protesters outside, and we have thousands of people, and the first question from CNN is about the protesters." Those assembled, again, in the media tent mind you, erupted into applause.
Elsewhere Trump touched on his tax plan, which he said would be rolling out in the next few weeks, Massachusetts's casino morass, his good friend Tom Brady—please stop saying that, as a Patriots fan, I implore you—and women's health. What would he say to a female voter looking to support him? "You know, I think the female voters, Ivanka my daughter, and my wife, they feel so strongly about the women's health issues, and they said to me, 'There's nobody that feels more strongly than me about women's health issues,'" the newly evolved feminist champion assured us. "Jeb Bush was against it, it was terrible. … He didn't want to fund women's health issues. I will tell you we will work together and we are going to take care of women. I cherish women. My daughter and my wife said you have to talk about that because they know I care."
Some of my best wives and daughters are women, in other words.
After another of his typical swipes at Jeb Bush, he was asked why he focused so much on the lower polling candidate. "Well I would say Jeb Bush is a frequent target because when this whole thing started I thought he was going to be the main competition," he said. "But he's drifted very much to the middle of the pack and is rapidly disappearing, so we're going to have to start looking at somebody else."
More laughs ensued. It may have been too many lamb pops from earlier, but I was beginning to feel sick to my stomach. The contrast of the laugh track with the decidedly unfunny context brought Rodney Dangerfield's scenes from Natural Born Killers to mind. Speaking of killers, I asked Trump what, if anything, he would propose to do about the problem of gun violence in the country. "Well you have a problem of mental health in this country, and we have to take care of these people and we have to find out who these people are," he said. "We have to do something about it, because we have a mental health problem more than anything."
Blaming gun violence on the red herring of mental health has become coded language for "I'm not going to do anything about guns" among the right. Everyone throughout the world wants to eat cheeseburgers every day, but obesity isn't a problem in countries without McDonalds everywhere.
Seeing an opening to pivot toward his standard talking points, Trump shared his favorite spooky campfire story: "You used the word gun violence. Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the world, they say, and certainly in the U.S. and look what's happening over there. You take a look at Baltimore, tremendously strict, so many places so strict, those are the places that have the biggest problem. … We also have an illegal immigrant problem. A lot of the gangs in St. Louis and Ferguson, the gangs in Chicago, the toughest and meanest, the worst dudes in Baltimore, you've seen it, they're illegal immigrants. And I tell you one thing, if I get in, they're going to be gone so fast out of this country."
How exactly he would do that he didn't say. How exactly he would do anything he didn't mention either. For all his reputation as a straight talker who speaks his mind, Trump's solutions sound about as plausible as Bojack Horseman's Vincent Adultman conducting business transactions—prevaricating children stacked on top of one another in a trench coat hoping no one will call them out on their ruse.
"Who likes the idea of the wall?" he asked to, yet again, riotous cheers. "Somebody said you can't build a wall. You know, the Great Wall of China is 13,000 miles, this wall is 2000 or less. … 2000 years ago you could build the Great Wall of China, then they say, How do you [do it today]? It's so easy, and it will be great."
Shortly thereafter Trump took to the stage in the main tent to address the rest of the crowd of paying supporters, where he took swipes at John Kerry for being a "bicyclist" (if you know what he means), and talked about our relationship with Mexico and North Korea. "When our friend from North Korea, that wonderful young man ... I've never seen that; he inherited a dictatorship. That's pretty tough. How do you inherit a dictatorship?" he went on, an interesting question for a man, like Trump, and for Boch, who stood just to the side of the stage—both men inherited their own successful businesses from their fathers.
"I have great respect for the people of Japan, for the people of Mexico," he went on. "I love Hispanics. Nobody loves Hispanics like I do. I probably employ more than anybody else working for me. They rent my apartments, they give me a fortune. I love them. I love them."
Before long, Trump was off into the night, departing in his police-escorted motorcade. Outside the gates, a young boy was ecstatic about getting a shot of Trump's head sticking out of the window of his SUV, as a group of us marched back toward the parking lots. As he was showing off his photo to his mother, he tripped over a discarded Audi hubcap tossed into the dirt on the side of the road, as the brake lights from Trump's car glowed just up the street.
Luke O'Neil Luke O'Neil is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Boston Phoenix, New York, and HuffPost.
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Mary Macleod MP: Night Flights 'a lot of pain for not much gain'
THE future of Heathrow is a hot topic in the media at the moment, with the end of the Operational Freedoms Trial, the Airports Commission and the Night Flights consultation all in the news.
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I thought it would be timely in my column this month to review what's going on, what I am doing on this and how you can get involved.
The Operational Freedoms Trials finished at the end of February. The CAA is currently considering the outcomes of this trial. The good news is that Heathrow airport are unconvinced about the benefits of mixed mode operations, describing it as "a lot of pain for not much gain". In our fight to maintain runway alternation and the critical half day's respite it provides local residents from aircraft noise, this is welcome news indeed.
The Government has also set up an independent Airports Commission, headed by Sir Howard Davies to look into the scale and timing of any requirement for additional aviation capacity in the UK. The Airports Commission is due to present interim findings by the end of this year. Last week, I had two key meetings to discuss the work of the Airports Commission.
Firstly, I organised a cross-party meeting of west London MPs to meet the Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt Hon Patrick McLoughlin MP and the Aviation Minister, the Rt Hon Simon Burns MP to ensure that the combined voices of residents from west London are being heard. Secondly, I met with Sir Davies to discuss the progress and timing of the Airports Commission and, in particular, whether the interim report will clarify fully the preferred option for future aviation development.
I am also delighted to be working with fellow MP from Richmond Park, Zac Goldsmith to hold a Heathrow Mega Rally to say no to further expansion of Heathrow. This will be a visible and vocal display to the Government of the scale of opposition there is to further expansion at Heathrow. The event will take place on Saturday 27th April at Barn Elms from 9:30 to 10:30am and I would urge as many of you as possible to come along to support this event. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London will join us at the event and be the first to cast his vote against Heathrow expansion. Please contact my office on 020 7219 7023 if you need more information or directions.
Last month, I spoke at a meeting of Bedford Park residents on the issue of Heathrow expansion and listened to a fascinating presentation on the proposal for the Thames Hub Estuary airport. I also visited Terminal 2 at Heathrow to view the progress being made towards the opening of the new terminal. Terminal 2 is due for completion in 2014 and brings with it the potential for up to 38% more passengers without a single extra flight – if the existing flight slots and capacity are managed more efficiently.
Finally, I would like to draw your attention to the Department for Transport's Night Flights consultation currently underway and encourage you to take part in this ahead of the deadline on 22nd April (details can be found at www.gov.uk ).
The consultation document is very technical in nature, however I have been assured by the Secretary of State for Transport that the second phase of the consultation (expected towards the end of this year) will encourage a broader range of views from residents affected by night time noise. I firmly believe the time is right to take action on night time noise from aircraft and I will continue to campaign for a ban on night flights at Heathrow.
Patrick McLoughlin


The Berkeley Heights-based Wharton Institute of The Performing Arts has received a HEART Grant from the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
The Union County HEART (History, Education, Arts Reaching Thousands) Grant program provides funding for artists, historians and local nonprofit organizations. WIPA received $1,500 for its CAFE (Creative Aging for Everyone) Choir, a 12-week choral program for adults ages 55 and older that explores musical themes chosen by the participants. The program provides opportunities for intergenerational arts engagement and exchange with members of the New Jersey Youth Symphony.
At the cello, Gail Bayse, a student at the Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts.
The freeholders established the HEART Grant Program in 1998 in recognition of the importance of culture and the arts to the Union County economy and quality of life.
The program supports projects that directly benefit the residents of Union County, that enhance appreciation for the arts, history, and the humanities, and raise awareness that cultural assets are a vital part of community well being, economic development and cultural heritage tourism in Union County.
The Wharton Institute for the Performing Arts' mission is to provide "quality performing arts education to a wide range of students in a supportive and inclusive environment."


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여기, Climate 및 수많은 앱에 대한 모든 정보가 있습니다. 무료로 가입하고 관심 있는 앱들에 대한 정보와 경쟁자의 인사이트, 앱 업계 현황에 대해 알아보세요.
미국에서 Climate 의 다운로드 순위 기록을 확인하세요.
순위 기록은 Mac 앱 스토어에서 Climate의 인기와 시간에 따른 인기의 변화를 보여줍니다. 또한, 국가, 카테고리, 기기에 따른 Climate 의 일일 성과를 추적할 수 있습니다.
NEST INTERFACE UPDATE: Nest updated their interface for the one that you see in the screenshots. Climate supports resizing of its window so that you can adjust the window to better fit the new interface. I plan on getting an update released soon to fix some other compatibility issues (such as temp in the menu bar and some notifications) that occurred with the Nest update. Thanks for using Climate!
NOTICE: Temps in menu bar and notifications on temp changes is currently not functional. This was broken with the last Nest update. I will work on getting an update out as soon as I can.
Climate provides quick and easy access to manage your Nest® thermostat directly the menu bar on your Mac. You no longer need to walk to your Nest in order to change temperature or settings.
Display your temperature settings directly in the menu bar. This allows you to quickly glance and verify that your thermostat is setup just as you like it.
Receive notifications straight to your desktop when your Nest® temperature has changed, has been set to Away and other important events.
Have you ever been home and wished that you could temporarily stop your Nests from getting set to Away? You can allow Climate to ensure that your Nest never enters away mode for up to 8 hours. Then you never need to worry about unwanted changes in temperature when your Nest thinks you are not home when you actually are.
**Configuring Notifications** I am working on preferences to control the notifications. Until that update, you can tweak how the notifications are displayed inside your Notifications System Preference pane.
**Important** In order to use this application, you will need to own a Nest® thermostat and have access to your online account at home.nest.com.
Nest® is a trademark of Nest Labs, Inc. Climate is not affiliated with or endorsed by Nest Labs, Inc.
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App hasn't been updated in a very long time. First window sizing issues others have commented on here. Now login does not stay logged in. I have to manually log in every time I startup my machine. It's disappointing because the app had so much potential. Trashed.
Nest updated their interface and Climate has not been changed. Every time I reboot, I have to resize the window. Additionally, there are some features that just don't work because of the changes made by Nest. When writing to JoeWorkman, the response I received was poor which could be summarized as: it broked because of Nest so resize the window because we have bigger and better things to work on.
Be warned - the developer is not updating this application to keep up with nest api changes. The image on this page that shows the temperature in the menubar is misleading. This feature no longer works.
I've been using "Climate" since its development days as "Nest" does not have an OS X application. At that time it was fantastic; the developer was quick to answer questions, address bugs and kept evolving the application. Unfortunately that isn't the case any more as the application hasn't seen any updates since last November. This is especially troublesome given the overhaul Google has done with Nest after the acquistion. Save yourself the $4.99 and just use the native "Nest" mobile app.
It works great but the menu bar icon does not show the the Nest temperature anymore after the last update. It will only show the leaf no matter what settings I change.
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Guide Confessions: Cast and mend, mend again, mend again. Set the hook!
The Alaska Rainbow Lodge guides are legendary for putting clients on the fish. We guide many of the best fly fishermen in the world as well as first-timers. So why do some fisherman (pros and novices) tend to catch more fish than others? In our home waters, it's all about the drift. The perfect drift is almost impossible for a hungry Leopard Rainbow or Salmon to resist. On the other hand, a poorly presented offering will be ignored again and again, even though you're standing in the river with hundreds of fish literally at your feet! This is absolutely a fact whether you're dry fly fishing or fishing sub surface with nymphs. So let's get sharp on the cast, mend and hook-set techniques you'll want to practice, or just think about, before you come to the Alaska Rainbow Lodge.
Making a long spectacular cast is rarely required. (It's fun, I know, but rarely required) So cast your fly 45 degrees upstream. Mend the fly line upstream immediately. Wait a moment, now mend the line again upstream. If needed, because of fast water, mend the line again. We're looking to create a nice s-curve in the fly line above the fly. This will accomplish two things: a totally natural drift of the fly and minimal slack in the line for a quick hook set.
This process of casting and mending to create an s-curve above the fly is 99% of the technique we use on our home waters. Our guides are experts in this technique and will help you perfect this, if you ask. The bottom line is that you'll catch a lot more fish by getting this drift dialed-in correctly. Just ask your guide. He will help.
One last thing on the hook set. Set the hook downstream and toward the bank. Think about it…the fish are swimming upstream into the current, you don't want to jerk the hook out of the mouth by setting the hook upstream. This is the single most common mistake we see in anglers day after day, year after year. Set the hook downstream folks– you'll catch a lot more fish. And you'll have a lot more great Fish Pictures! The subject of my next newsletter report.


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If you are reading this blog, you get it. You've been there. You've been abandoned, insulted, humiliated, with your mood and dignity wrecked. All this as you try to keep a straight face as to not offend the guests.
I remember one Christmas when my soul came crashing down. It was during my marriage to a personally disordered man. When we were out, he'd praise me to the high heavens. But behind closed doors, it was a different story.
One memorable day the two worlds fused. We were hosting a dinner party for about a dozen friends. I made sure to have a gift for each one. They too came with bags full of wrapped goodies. We had so many boxes under our little tree. When it came to sharing the presents, with only a handful of them remaining unopened, I was hit with the realization that my husband got absolutely nothing for me. It wasn't so much that I needed anything. It was all about the gesture. While the other couples kissed and embraced in gratitude, I felt embarrassed and humiliated. He didn't even think of me!
When I brought it up later that evening — of course he was probing all evening about why I had such a sour face in front of our guests — I told him why. He slammed the doors and left the house. When he returned, he tossed a pair of slippers at me he got at a drug store when he went there to get himself meds for acid reflux. The whole affair would be quite comedic, had it not been so devastating.
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Hindu Symbolism
Posted By: Universal Theosophyon: February 09, 2015
Isaac Myer
The Path, October, November, 1886; February, March, 1887
The student of Hindu metaphysical religious philosophy, will find most of its important formulations, veiled under a mystical symbolism; to understand which, is a key to the hints in the Upanishads and other esoteric writings.
We propose to give those interested, a series of illustrations from Hindu drawings with descriptions; in the latter, our study of the Kabbalah has been of great assistance.
The figure is a symbolical representation of Brahman (neuter) intwined in Itself.1 It is the highest deity of the Hindus, the principle of the universe; the representation is, of It, at the immediate instant of Its revealing Itself in the emanation of the universe, and before Its entrance into any kind of matter and before Its self renunciation. It symbolises the God—dawn between the pauses of emanative creation, its preservation, and the dissolution of created forms. Wrapped in Its cloak-sphere, Brahman conducts Its toe into Its mouth, perhaps to make, an eternal circle of Itself, perhaps to signify the union of the linga and yoni, perhaps to indicate the retrogression of Itself into Itself, or may be the eternity and unfathomableness of Its nature, plunged in the contemplation of Its own essence. Compare with this the great figure of Neith or Typhe, the Heaven goddess of the Egyptian Zodiac of Dendera. Brahman (neuter) or Para-brahma, i.e. the Great Brahma, as an unrevealed deity, has neither temple or image in India. It is in effect considered in Itself without form or figure, but exteriorly It manifests Itself in many figures and symbols. It is the unit and the multiplied in all, at the same instant, smaller than an atom, it is greater than the whole universe, which cannot contain it, and is ineffable and inexpressible in Its essence. The ancient Hindus say of it in the Vedas:—"Brahman is eternal, the being above all others, revealing Itself in felicity and joy. The universe is Its name, Its image, but that first existence, which contains all in Itself, is the soul really existing. All the phenomena have their cause in Brahman, It is not limited by time or space, is imperishable, is the soul of the world and of each particular existence." * * * "That universe is Brahman, it comes from Brahman, exists in Brahman, and it will return to Brahman."
"Brahman, the Being existing in Itself, is the form of all wisdom and of all the worlds without end. All the worlds are made only one with It, because they are through Its Will. That eternal Will is innate in all things. It reveals Itself in the emanation (or creation), in the preservation, and in the destruction (which is also a re-creation), and in the movements and forms, of Time and Space." The Atharva-Veda says:—"All the gods are in (Brahman) as cows in a cow-house. In the beginning Brahman was this (universe). It created gods. Having created gods, It placed them in these worlds, viz: Agni in this world, Vayu in the atmosphere, and Surya in the sky.2 And in the worlds which are yet higher, It placed the gods which are still higher. Then Brahman proceeded to the higher sphere." This is explained by a commentator to be Satyaloka,3 the most excellent limit of all the worlds. In the "Taitteriya Brahmana" it is; "Brahman generated the gods, Brahman (generated or emanated) this entire world. Within It are all these worlds. Within It is the entire universe. It is Brahman who is the greatest of beings. Who can vie with It." Brahman (neuter) is the only real eternal true essence; when It passes in to actual manifested existence It is called Brahma; when It develops Itself in the universe It is called Vishnu, and when It again dissolves Itself into simple being, It is called Siva; all the other deities are only symbols or manifestations of the eternal neuter Brahman.4
The Vishnu Purana says: "Glory to Brahman, who is addressed by that mystic word AUM,5 who is associated eternally with the triple universe (heaven, sky, earth), and who is one with the four Vedas. Glory to Brahman, who both in the destruction and renovation of the universe is called the great and mysterious cause of the intellectual principle, who is without limit in time or space, and exempt from diminution and decay, etc. To that supreme Brahman be for ever adoration."
In its highest development, the doctrine of the Vedas is a rational and philosophical pantheism, combined with the most ideal, pure, and absolute monotheism, that the mind can conceive. The doctrines as to Brahman (neuter) in their higher conceptions, arc similar in many respects to the exalted ideas as to the Ain Soph or Non Ego, of the Kabbalah.
Brahman, the Eternal, in Itself, Being, goes out of Its profundity in Its eternity, to emanate the universe of all the things, and undeniably establishes that great law of production, through the opposition and yet a harmonious blending, as to which, all nature offers everywhere a similitude, evidence, and image. Its first emanation is the creating energy, force or potentiality, which manifests Itself in Time, the mother and the matrix of the existences, that is the Sakti, Para Sakti or Maya, the first virgin and first female or plasticity, containing all in germ, symbolized by the Yoni. Its spouse, the spiritualizing, the man-type, is symbolized by the Lingam.
This figure represents Brahma-Maya or Mahat-Maya, Brahma Viraj, or the great Illusion.
The androgene or male-female, the Great Appearance, the first revelation of the Being or Brahman (neuter), under the form of the double-sexed first emanation. The neuter, became male and female, by separation into the male, positive, forming the spiritual—the entities or the noumena, and his sakti or female, the negative, or plastic, matter, the illusionary or phenomenal existence. The sakti, is his developing energy, force or potentiality. This symbol, the divine type of the first male and female, which can be compared with the terrestrial Adam before the final separation of Eve, is really in consonance with this Adam's perfect ideal, the Adam Kadmon or Heavenly Adam of the Kabbalah. The Brahma-half is on the right side, the good side, man's, the Maya-half is on the left, the evil side, the woman's. So according to the Hebrew sacred writings, through Eve the woman, evil was brought into the world. Compare with this the Greek myth of Pandora. Issuing from the linga-yoni is the pearl chain, or connected circle of the existences, looked upon as united atoms, and the symbol of all the existing. It is held up by the hand on the male side.
Brahman (neuter), appears here as manifested in the male in union with the female sakti, of the preformatory imagination, as the nine creative monarch and Pearl King, richly decorated with the circles of the soul-monads and atoms. On his head is the world egg cap. The veil of the existences, upon which are woven the ideas or models of the to-be-emanated existences, flows from the linga-yoni to the highest part of the head and thence down the right side. He as the male, has a tendency to twist himself upon himself and his face bears the stamp of deep meditation. The aureole of fire is on the male side and from it scintillate sparks upon the veil of Maya. On the Maya side, the attitude is that of joy or dancing; the hand raised as if in play, holds up the veil, bells are hanging on her robe and singularly the Egyptian hieroglyphic for the water of life is shown; while the bust is developed. Portrayed upon the veil are the prototypes of the creatures. Compare the symbolism of the girdle of Aphrodite and that of Venus.
As the double spouse of Brahman (neuter) considered apart and in opposition to It. The Brahma-Maya is the life in nature, of which, Brahman (neuter) is the soul. The Brahma-Maya is that blind energy and force, potential and powerful, and eternally fecund, which is incessantly producing under forms which are without cessation renewed; and which is adored in India to-day, as the Great Mother, the Universal Mother, in other words all nature deified. Maya is the mother of Love or Desire, the first principle or affinity of all affection, creation, matter. She is even matter itself, but the primitive subtile matter co-existing with God (Brahman, neuter) from all eternity, contained in It, and symbolized by the three colors, red, white, black; the three qualities or powers of creation, preservation and destruction, consequently the Trimurti, and also the three gunas (qualities), Truth, Action, and Indifference, of the Bhagavad Gita.6 It is Maya, who through the attraction of her beauty, causes the Most High, from the bosom of Its ineffable profoundity, forgetting Itself, to unite Itself, in the intoxication of desire with that divine enchantress.
The mysterious veil, which she had woven with her hands, received entirely from both, and the thought of the Eternal Almighty became fecundated, and fell into Time. The innumerable forms of the creatures, represent the perfect ideals woven upon the magic tissue, the woven warp and woof of all existence, with which veil Maya7 envelops her spouse and
causes the recurrence of the gift of life.
This figure represents the Mystic Brahma espousals with Parasakti. The latter is the divine principle of intellectual emanative potentiality or energy, and the ideal of archetypal womanhood. The Sakti is conceived of as the female part of the energy of Brahma's intellectual, creative power and creative wisdom. Brahma is here the true Para-Brahma, and Para-Sakti a true Para-sarasvadi. The sexless in Brahman (neuter) is here transmuted into the male or energizing power, as the principal symbolic type of the divine emanative, yet immanent, creative power, as the masculine principle of the ideal or Great Androgynic Man or the Makrokosm; and the flaming Sun is here depicted as the flaming sun-face, representative of the male-active deity, also called Purusha. The Sakti or Para-Sakti, the fructifying energy and potentiality of Brahman's wisdom, wears upon her head a bright fire-flaming crown or nimbus.
The veil surrounding them, is the mystic veil produced by the ideation of the eternal thought of the eternal Mind. In the left hand of the sun-figure on the first finger, is carried a bird or perhaps a dove, which is intended to symbolize the flight of the ideal creation from the eternal Mind before the appearance of that which appears to us to be the real world. In the right hand he holds the end of the mystic veil. On the head of Maya—the woman—is the world-egg cap. Below, in the shadow of the spherical cloak of the God-dawn, is seen the world-egg surrounded by the spiritualizing Ananda the snake of eternity, which as if asleep and inactive, is suspended around the egg.
In India the principal general symbols are fire and water, sun and moon, man and woman, bull and cow, the linga and yoni, the lotus and the sacred fig (ficus indica). The lotus is formed of red, white and blue colors; blue is considered the same as black.
AUM symbolized as in unison with the attributes of the Trimurti, as the symbolic foundation of the elementary universe. This has a certain connection with figures Nos. 1 and 2 and 3.
The idea is to represent the mystic body of Brahman (neuter) and the ideal type of the Trimurti. The representation is of a four-handed cloud picture. A wreath of clouds forms the outline of the head which is without any tiara. Two suns indicate the eyes without lids, always open. This symbolism is also found in the Hebrew books, e.g. the Zohar. The nose and eyebrows are formed by a palm tree divided on the top, in the centre. This tree was considered as androgynous. The mouth is merely an opening in the clouds; from it emanate, four principal rays, the four-worlds of the Kabbalah. AUM is winged, Brahman (neuter) is not, for the latter is also AUM—Prana, the breath of the highest life and mystic carrier of the Will of Brahman (neuter). AUM is the bird of the Brahman Desire or Wish.
The four hands of AUM are holding the archetypes of the four elements, fire, water, air, earth, in their height and depth. The lower are supporting the Himalayan Mountains, the mountains of the gods. From which comes the German Himmel i.e., Heaven. The linga yoni is shown as the symbol of all the creative and emanative powers which lie in the mystic cloud garment of AUM. In this figure are nearly all the principal symbols of the Brahmanical religious metaphysics.
The bond which unites Prakriti to Brahman (neuter) is Prana, the subtile body of Brahman, the form of the Being, the divine breath, the principle of the organism, the respiration so to say, of the Deity; in Sanskrit it also means "breath of man," more correctly it is AUM, the first form of the creator, the Sun engendered before Time, the first Word (the Logos) which went from Its mouth, the 'Hokhmah or Wisdom of the Kabbalah, when It prepared its work, the creative Word. Prana and AUM are confounded in Maya, and as it, they have formed the Cow. AUM is the son of Maya as he is the son of Brahman (neuter), because Maya is Brahman. AUM is the first born Word or Logos of the Deity, the Memrah of the Jews, the Honover of the Persians, the origin of the Vedas. It has revealed and manifested all the emanated things, the so-called creation. It appeared before all things, and contains all qualities, all the elements, and is the name and body of Brahman (neuter), and consequently as infinite as It. The Will, Desire, Word is the master architect and creator of all the things. Brahma meditating upon the divine Word, therein found the primitive water, the common bond of all the creatures, the primitive fire, and the Trimurti of the Vedas, also the worlds and universal harmony of all the things. The image of AUM is the Cow, which is also a symbol of the universe. The universe was concealed and at first was hidden under the waters, and the waters were in Atma. These waters are those without any shores, all that which exists is water, and the water and AUM make but one; these primitive waters are the sea of Maya, the celestial ocean of all existence.
There are to be found further in this symbolical picture many other suggestions flowing from the Ancient Aryan or Hindu system. That system is believed to contain in germ all the others which have since arisen, as: the Hermetic, the Jewish, the Christian and others. Space, however, forbids a more extended explanation at present, and the student is recommended to study the four which have appeared in this magazine.
1. Taken from the Glauben, Wissen und Kunst der alten Hindus, etc., von Niklas Muller, Erster Band, Mainz, 1822.
2. Fire, Aether, Light.
3. Satya-Loka, the place, world, or region of Truth.—[Ed.]
4. See Indian Wisdom by Monier Williams, p. 12
5. This occurs at the beginning of prayers, etc., as our word AMeN occurs at the end. It is so sacred that none must hear it pronounced. Originally its three letters typified the three Vedas, afterwards it became a mystical symbol of Brahma, Vishnu and Siva in unity; See further as to AUM supra.
6. These three qualities are explained by Krishna in the Bhagavadgita, as Satwa good or inactive being purely spiritual; Rajas bad and active; and Tamas inactive or indifferent and bad. They exist in every human mind and are mingled in greater or less proportions at all times, according to the individual and also according to his varying circumstances. His teaching in regard to the Tamo guna is the same as that taught in the Christian Bible, for he says that for the indifferent man there is no salvation—he is as it were "ejected like a broken cloud;" and in I James v, 6, 7, the doubting man is declared incapable of obtaining anything, while in Rev. iii, 16, the Laodiceans are accused of being neither cold nor hot, that is of being indifferent, and they are condemned to be "spewed out of the mouth," which is the same as the fate described as awaiting those in whom indifference predominates, Krishna declaring that they become more and more deluded at each succeeding generation until at last they reach the lowest round of the ladder in the shape of primordial matter. The difference between the two schools is, that Krishna's allows the doctrines of Reincarnation and Karma, while the modern Christians, blind to their own Bible, reject these supremely important laws, or rather ignore them as yet. [Ed.]
7. Maya is the Sanskrit for illusion. [Ed.]
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Elisha, She-Bears, and the Cursing of Children?
By Clarke Morledge
This is up there near the top of "Weird Stories of the Bible," when the prophet Elisha curses a group of young boys, who taunt him. But does this image really correspond to the message that the Scriptural writer is intending to convey?
I was totally dumbstruck, a moment I will never forget. I was doing youth ministry, when a high school student asked me about the weird incident of Elisha and the She-Bears, found in 2 Kings 2:23-25. What is that all about?
I had never seen the passage before, and it left me speechless:
"23 He [Elisha] went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!"24 And he turned around, and when he saw them, he cursed them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys. 25 From there he went on to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria."
What is going on in this passage? I will be honest: Having never read that before, I had no clue how to respond. Over seven years in Bible-teaching churches had never prepared me for that question (Why do most churches skip over these difficult passages????).
Skeptics use these verses to mock the morality of the Bible. It is hard not to blame them, from a quick, surface reading of the text. It sounds like God is sanctioning, even inflicting, violent child abuse.
But this high school student who quizzed me about this passage was not at all trying to ridicule the Bible. It was a honest question. This teenager was sincerely confused… and I was stumped.
I could have simply said, "Well, that is in the Old Testament. No need to worry." But I knew better.
So, what is the Bible really talking about here? Could there be more going on, than what a plain-text, isolated reading of the text indicates?
A theologian who writes frequently for First Things magazine, Peter Leithart, highlights the work of Keith Bodner, that gives a more nuanced, and greatly more compelling answer as to how to interpret this difficult text in the Bible. In short, the story of Elisha and She-Bears is really an event with satirical theological-political commentary, criticizing the apostatizing of Israel's leadership, by their sanctioning of idolatry at Bethel. A careful reading of other biblical texts gives us the clues needed to fully unpack this story (see 1 Kings 12:1-15, 2 Kings 1:8, 1 Kings 14:21, 1 Kings 13:24, 2 Kings 8:12, for additional context).
In this interpretation, the "small boys" in this passage, really are not children at all. Instead, they are a band of idolatrous priests that threaten Elisha, and the true worship of God the prophet represents. The author uses the language of "small boys," not to historically chronicle their age, but rather to criticize the immaturity of these rebellious priests.
The critique of Elisha's "baldness?" Well, this is not really about a loss of hair, but rather the loss of losing his mentor Elijah, as a spiritual covering.
This explanation may not completely remove for you the scandal that this passage raises. Understood, but the shock value maybe the point. Passages in the Bible that sound just plain weird, might be clues that more is going on than what can be picked up by a surface reading. As I wrote about in my review of Andy Stanley's book, Irresistible, perhaps the problem with the Old Testament, is not with the Old Testament itself, but in how we interpret it.
Gospel Coalition blogger, Derek Rishmawy has an older post highlighting Peter Leithart's own commentary on this passage, from Leithart's 1 & 2 Kings commentary. For some other, informed takes on the same story, I would recommend either the following segment of Dr. Michael Heiser's Naked Bible Podcast (Heiser is an Old Testament scholar, for Logos Bible Software, who wrote many of the notes for the FaithLife Study Bible, and author of the groundbreaking book, The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible), or a sermon by Dr. Peter Williams (Williams is a textual critical scholar at the University of Cambridge, and Tyndale House, in England, and a translator for the English Standard Version of the Bible), or the detailed analysis from the "uber-intellectual" Alastair Roberts, MereFidelity podcaster and blogger. Dr. Heiser's treatment is just audio, with no video. But one of Dr. Heiser's key themes is that if it is weird, it is probably important. This passage surely qualifies. The Dr. Williams' video is from a talk he gave at, what I think is, Park Street Church in Boston (Williams takes a more traditional view of the "young boys", summarized in a series of Tweets). Alastair Roberts' video is from his YouTube Question & Answer channel. All three scholars offer great resources on other topics, I might add!:
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