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When Army Pvt. Ethan Melzer found out in April that he was deploying to Turkey, U.S. prosecutors say, he began to plot. He allegedly browsed jihadist propaganda, including an ISIS account of attacks on American forces. In it, militants referred to a "harvest of the soldiers."
But the ambush 22-year-old Melzer was planning, authorities say, was driven by a different ideology. A federal indictment unsealed in June accuses Melzer of passing sensitive military information to fellow members of a Satanic neo-Nazi network, the Order of the Nine Angles. The target: Melzer's own unit.
While the case hinges on contacts with white supremacists, jihadist references are laced throughout. In May, prosecutors say, Melzer slipped information to someone he took for an al-Qaida operative. Court papers show a conversation where an alleged neo-Nazi asked Melzer if they were "literally organizing a jihadi attack," to which he replied, "Yes probably."
"They didn't draw a distinction, didn't really see a problem with adhering to tenets of violent white supremacy, Satanism and jihad," said Colin P. Clarke, a terrorism researcher at The Soufan Center. "The lines are blurrier than ever before."
Analysts say Melzer's alleged plot is emblematic of today's extremist threat, one inspired by a mash-up of radical beliefs. It's a threat that is international in reach, and nihilistic and violent in nature – part of the destroy-the-system "accelerationist" vein. One researcher noted that the old left-right terrorism spectrum now looks more like a circle. A Justice Department statementdescribed Melzer's motivations as "a diabolical cocktail of ideologies."
Even the federal case against Melzer is muddy when it comes to which brand of extremism forms the legal basis of the terrorism component. After several email exchanges between NPR and Justice Department spokespeople, it was still unclear whether the charge Melzer faces for material support of terrorism is linked to his alleged association with the neo-Nazi group or to the jihadists. Or, potentially to both.
"It's all become muddled together and it's very difficult to disaggregate," Clarke said. "As researchers, we're looking for that kind of clarity, and it's not there very often now. This is not your old-school Aryan Nation guy."
The fluidity makes it even harder for security officials and terrorism researchers struggling to "turn the ship," as Clarke put it. They're moving from years of an almost single-minded focus on Islamist extremism – namely al-Qaida and ISIS – to theresurgent far-right, now the deadlier and more active threat in the United States, according to the FBI.
Plus, the country is in the throes of the coronavirus pandemic, an economic crisis and a polarizing election year, creating fertile ground for radicalization.
"I think we're going to look back at the first half of 2020 and see this as a watershed moment for far-right extremists, in terms of recruiting new members and infusing new lifeblood into these groups," Clarke said.
The concept of accelerationism — the promotion of violence to hasten the collapse of failed governmental systems - isn't exclusive to the far-right. And the vision of a post-collapse new order varies from faction to faction. The heavily armed, Hawaiian shirt-sporting "boogaloo boys" say they're prepping for a second Civil War, but they're all over the place on ideology and governance for the day after.
For hardcore racists, the goal is more clear-cut: a white ethno-state.
"What defines white supremacist accelerationists is their belief that violence is the only way to pursue their political goals. To put it most simply, accelerationists embrace terrorism," wrote researcher Cassie Miller in a recent report for the Southern Poverty Law Center.
"Accelerationists aren't part of a new movement," Miller added. "They're just an iteration more inclined toward terroristic violence than has existed in recent decades."
The attacks often draw from a hybrid of ideologies. One trend blends white nationalism with the misogynistic incel movement, another uses the left's climate concerns to stoke right-wing paranoia over racial competition for resources. Mass shooters in Christchurch, New Zealand, and El Paso, Texas, both included environmentalist themes in their white-nationalist manifestos.
Melzer's case is among a handful involving both white supremacy and militant Islamism, sometimes based on a melding of ideologies, sometimes just a borrowing of tactics.
Another example comes from the Justice Department's crackdown on The Base, a small neo-Nazi group agitating for a race war. As Miller of the SPLC wrote, The Base's goal was "system collapse." The network was disrupted in January with the arrests of seven members ahead of a gun rally in Virginia. Authorities say The Base planned to target the event.
Extremism trackers roll their eyes at the attention to the name of the group – yes, they all know "The Base" translates as "al Qaida" in Arabic. That might be coincidental, researchers say, but they do see the jihadist influence elsewhere. The Base's black flag is reminiscent of the ISIS banner. The group's propaganda follows the cinematic style that was another hallmark of ISIS, down to a group photo with a decapitated ram's head.
Art Jipson, a University of Dayton professor who's studied white racial extremists for decades, said neo-Nazis and jihadists don't stand a chance of working out a power-sharing agreement after the imagined system collapse. The disparate camps are interested in one another only as a means to an end. For now, Jipson said, they share an obsession with "purity and pollution" and a penchant for guerrilla warfare.
"There is a respect for the tactic, the devotion to cause, the devotion to the group, but obviously not accepting the ideology or the goals of those movements," Jipson said. "The willingness to die for your cause is held in some esteem."
The portrait that emerges from the court papers of Melzer, the Army private charged with plotting to ambush his own unit, is of an extremist who wanted to sow chaos by any means necessary.
When Melzer found out in April that he was being deployed to Turkey, prosecutors say, he passed details about his unit's location, strength and defenses to the Order of the Nine Angles; prosecutors say he also gave information to a purported al-Qaida operative. An attorney for Melzer, Jennifer Willis, declined to comment on the charges.
Melzer realized the ambush plot was a suicide operation and didn't care, according to the indictment. His goal was bigger – he wanted to "leave a mark." The indictment says Melzer reasoned that his death was worth it because "the after effects of a convoy getting attacked would cover it ... It would be another war."
In the court papers, one exchange shows Melzer and his neo-Nazi comrades using Arabic phrases about Melzer's deployment to Turkey, as if mimicking jihadists: "inshallah my brother, allahu akbar." In another transcript, an alleged co-conspirator tells Melzer that his neo-Nazi group "is officially chill with the hajis," a pejorative reference to Muslims. Melzer allegedly replied that they were "not the only one." The other member wrote back that what the group was planning "is already similar to jihad."
"There's a kind of flippancy with the language, a tongue-in-cheek humor to it: 'They're on the wrong side of history, we're on the right side of history, but if they're attacking the federal, international cabal, then that is not necessarily a bad thing,' " Jipson said, summarizing the white supremacists' take on jihadists.
Counterterrorism authorities disrupted the alleged plot in May and arrested Melzer on June 10. A Justice Department news release referred to him as "the enemy within" and said he was "motivated by racism and hatred as he attempted to carry out this ultimate act of betrayal."
Melzer is in custody, but researchers warn that his alleged apocalyptic mission, informed by guerrilla movements around the world, remains a serious national security threat. The pandemic makes it even more timely to understand and address it, said Cynthia Miller-Idriss, who runs the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University.
The more people view systems as failing to protect them, she said, the more the tear-it-down approach resonates.
"There's a lot of fantastical and even mythological thinking here, a phoenix rising from the ashes, a way of believing in some kind of mythical rebirth and restoration," Miller-Idriss said. "That becomes more attractive in times where we're experiencing a lot of instability and uncertainty."
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Vault 7 is the name given to the latest and biggest leak in both Wikileaks and CIA history. Learn the top 15 discoveries & implications so far.
Vault 7 has been the subject of a curious and cryptic set of tweets from Wikileaks over the course of the past month or so. Now we know why. In bombshell news, in the greatest leak in Wikileaks history, in the greatest leak in CIA history, a total of 8,761 documents has been released in a series that has been dubbed Vault 7.
Even for seasoned conspiracy researchers, the documents are fascinating and horrible at the same time. It confirms the suspicions and knowledge of many investigators. Now we have the proof to substantiate our hunches and intuition.
The CIA has been caught with its pants down: spying on its citizens, bypassing encryption to steal their messages, hacking into their electronic devices to listen on their conversations, using US consulates abroad to conduct spying operations, remotely hacking into vehicles (to perform undetectable assassinations) and much more.
Some will be shocked, but really, let's remember the true nature and purpose of the CIA: a rogue agency that overthrows foreign leaders, install puppet regimes, imports drugs, runs guns and assassinates anyone who gets in the way of its agenda, including US presidents. Wikileaks has stated that it has only released less than 1% of its Vault 7 series, so this is literally the tip of the iceberg. Imagine what else is to come …
Here are the top 15 discoveries and implications of Vault 7 so far:
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #1: CIA = Virus & Malware Factory
The CIA is not just a rogue agency that runs illegal drugs and weapons, assassinates people, starts wars and conducts regime change. It has also spent untold millions or even billions of dollars developing what is probably the most sophisticated cyber warfare/hacking/spying department on the planet, equalling or even surpassing that of the NSA. Wikileaks reveals that the CIA has its own "hacking division" that is run by its CCI (Center for Cyber Intelligence) which by the end of 2016:
"… had over 5000 registered users and had produced more than a thousand hacking systems, trojans, viruses, and other "weaponized" malware. Such is the scale of the CIA's undertaking that by 2016, its hackers had utilized more code than that used to run Facebook. The CIA had created, in effect, its "own NSA" with even less accountability and without publicly answering the question as to whether such a massive budgetary spend on duplicating the capacities of a rival agency could be justified."
Snowden's leaks were already bad enough, showing that the NSA was an agency above the law that monitored, surveilled and spied upon just about anyone it wanted, since most people on the planet are within its reach in one way or another. Now, we have confirmation that the CIA is engaging in exactly the same kind activity, or perhaps even worse. Could there be any possible doubt left by anyone that the MIC (Military Intelligence Complex) runs the US Government and the world?
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #2: Bypassing Encryption
You know how all these companies promise encryption and some even charge more for the service? Guess what? It doesn't matter! Vault 7 leaked docs shows that the CIA is getting audio files before they get encrypted. The CIA can hack into your phone, compromise your operating system and suck up your messages before they're encrypted and sent. It doesn't matter what precautions you've taken. Encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and many more are vulnerable.
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #3: Bypassing Computer Operating System
The CIA can hack your computer. In fact, every part of your computer can be bypassed, including your operation system. Per Wikileaks:
The CIA has developed automated multi-platform malware attack and control systems covering Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, Linux and more, such as EDB's "HIVE" and the related "Cutthroat" and "Swindle" tools."
VAULT 7 DISCOVERY/IMLICATION #4: Smart TVs become SPY TVs
It was obvious to anyone with half a functioning brain cell that smart TVs were basically spy TVs (see The SMART Deception), but now we have the proof. In the Vault 7 docs, the CIA has a program called Weeping Angel (read 'em and weep) that it developed with the MI5/BTSS (British Security Service).
It details how the CIA can hack Samsung smart TVs and then place them in fake-off mode so that an unsuspecting owner falsely believes their TV is off – when really it is on, recording all sounds in the room and transmitting them via the net to a covert CIA server.
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #5: MicroSoft MicroSpy Software
Bill Gates is the agenda-man for the New World Order. Clearly he sold out a long, long time ago. Kim Dotcom has been particularly vocal, calling for Gates to come clean (ain't gonna happen) and admit how much he helped the CIA (and the MIC in general) by helping them build backdoors in the software.
The CIA turned Microsoft software into spyware, using exploits that were built into the system:
The CIA also runs a very substantial effort to infect and control Microsoft Windows users with its malware. This includes multiple local and remote weaponized "zero days", air gap jumping viruses such as "Hammer Drill" which infects software distributed on CD/DVDs, infectors for removable media such as USBs, systems to hide data in images or in covert disk areas ( "Brutal Kangaroo") and to keep its malware infestations going.
Many of these infection efforts are pulled together by the CIA's Automated Implant Branch (AIB), which has developed several attack systems for automated infestation and control of CIA malware, such as "Assassin" and "Medusa".
Vault 7 Dicovery/Implication #6: SKYPE is Vulnerable
Vault 7 reveals that conversations on Skype are converted to text then uploaded to a CIA cloud for data assortment and analysis.
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #7: iPhones and Androids are Vulnerable
Both Apple iOS and Android systems are vulnerable. Snowden already told us this, but Vault 7 re-confirms that iPhones and Android are easily hackable. The CIA has been creating all kinds of malware to spy on practically every piece of electronic equipment you own.
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #8: Breaking "Zero Day" Commitment by Hoarding Vulnerabilities
Wikileaks notes that Obama had promised the technology industry (after much lobbying) that the US Government would disclose any vulnerabilities as soon as it had discovered them (thus the term "zero day"). Yet the CIA stockpiled these vulnerabilities because it wanted to retain the advantage of knowing how to hack into systems and devices, which endangers everyone else who uses them:
Year Zero" documents show that the CIA breached the Obama administration's commitments. Many of the vulnerabilities used in the CIA's cyber arsenal are pervasive and some may already have been found by rival intelligence agencies or cyber criminals.
As an example, specific CIA malware revealed in "Year Zero" is able to penetrate, infest and control both the Android phone and iPhone software that runs or has run presidential Twitter accounts.The CIA attacks this software by using undisclosed security vulnerabilities ("zero days") possessed by the CIA but if the CIA can hack these phones then so can everyone else who has obtained or discovered the vulnerability.
As long as the CIA keeps these vulnerabilities concealed from Apple and Google (who make the phones) they will not be fixed, and the phones will remain hackable."
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #9: Hijacking All Sorts of Vehicles – for Assassination
Of all the discoveries, this one is explosive – literally. Vault 7 exposes that the CIA has the ability to remotely hijack all kinds of vehicles (including cars and planes), which means it can carry out undetectable assassinations.
This casts a new light on the suspicious death of Michael Hastings, whose car burst into flames and ran into a tree at high speed. It also makes one wonder about the deaths of JFK Jr. (son of John F. Kennedy) and former US senator Paul Wellstone, both of whom died in suspicious plane accidents.
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #10: Using US Consulate in Germany as a Spy and Hacking Base
You can imagine how impressed the Germans are with the US now. Remember when it was revealed that Obama was hacking the cell phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel? Now we learn that the CIA, in flagrant violation of international law, has been using the US consulate in Frankfurt, Germany, as a base for its spying and hacking activities, many of which in this case required a close physical proximity to the target. From Wikileaks:
CIA hackers operating out of the Frankfurt consulate ( "Center for Cyber Intelligence Europe" or CCIE) are given diplomatic ("black") passports and State Department cover.
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A number of the CIA's electronic attack methods are designed for physical proximity. These attack methods are able to penetrate high security networks that are disconnected from the internet, such as police record database. In these cases, a CIA officer, agent or allied intelligence officer acting under instructions, physically infiltrates the targeted workplace. The attacker is provided with a USB containing malware developed for the CIA for this purpose, which is inserted into the targeted computer. The attacker then infects and exfiltrates data to removable media."
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #11: CIA-Electronics Supplier Collusion
Another aspect to consider with this is CIA collusion with electronics manufacturers and suppliers. We know the CIA owns the MSM, Hollywood, the Communication Industry, etc. Wikileaks reports that the CIA's Mobile Device Branch created technology to infect and control smartphones. Do they possess a backdoor into the software and hardware of all smartphones?
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #12 Fiscal Damage
The CIA has caused worldwide damage that can be estimated in millions or maybe even billions of dollars, since they can't now control the malware they have created.
The CIA has lost control of the monster it created. We are all vulnerable. How much data will be hacked, how much privacy stolen and how much money will it cost to prevent and repair this breach?
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #13 PROJECT UMBRAGE: The Framing of Foreign Nations like Russia, by hacking the CIA does itself!
Well well well. Remember all that brouhaha about Russia hacking the US elections? It was all lies and propaganda, but many people fell for it. Now look at this.
The CIA has been using a program called Project Umbrage under which it manipulates code to make it look like it comes from somewhere else like another nation. You could call it false flag cyber terrorism.
In other words, the CIA clones the hacking procedures of Russia to create false flag hacking attacks, and then says with a straight face that the attacks "are consistent with what we would expect from Russian hackers".
That may be technically truthful (but what deceit!) – however only because the CIA has first intentionally mimicked those techniques with a motive to frame an innocent party or country. As YouTuber Joe in General writes:
The CIA's Remote Devices Branch gathers and maintains a large library of attack techniques stolen from malware produced in other countries, including Russia. One particular attack technique is the ability leave behind fake digital "fingerprints" that make it look like a CIA initiated cyber attack was done by someone else. At this early stage, its unclear if this is WikiLeaks' interpretation of one thing the CIA could do, or if there's a specific place in the document where the CIA mentions this use of UMBRAGE.)
This is HUGE. The ability to create a digital false flag calls into question anytime in recent history that the CIA has accused another country of hacking. "We have proof that Russia hacked the U.S election.""
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #14: The CIA-NSA Turf War
For some time, we have known about the rivalry or turf war going on between the CIA and NSA in their struggle to become the preeminent military intelligence agency. Another implication of Vault 7 is that we now know for sure that the CIA has a hacking system that is at least equivalent to, if not better than, that of the NSA.
The spying, criminality and illegality of the NSA is already miles past the line of what is acceptable in a free, open and just society. Now the CIA has doubled the criminality? Where's the line here? What are the other 16-17 agencies doing?
What's the DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency) doing to us? What about the creepy NRO (National Reconnaisance Office), who sports mottos such as "Nothing is Beyond Our Reach" and "We Own the Night" (see above)?
Are all these agencies in some kind of selfish, macho competition to see who can enslave us the fastest?
Vault 7 Discovery/Implication #15: CIA Above the Rank of President
JFK found out the hard way that presidents don't tell what the CIA to do. The CIA tells the president what to do. The image above is interesting proof showing that the CIA is further up in the hierarchy that the Executive Branch.
The timing of this release is interesting, given it occurred right after Trump accused Obama of wiretapping – an accusation in itself which is totally unprecedented. When has a sitting president ever even come to close to accusing a former president of any crime like that? Trump has been vindicated, but only in a certain sense. The CIA has no need to single him out when it can literally spy on anyone who owns a smart phone, smart TV or computer, or who uses Skype or WhatsApp.
Melissa Dykes of Truthstream Media suggests the leak may cause more apathy or learned helplessness, and that may be true, but it really depends on people's attitudes in response to this information. Sadly and predictably, many US Government officials have reacted by scampering to find who did the leaking, rather than address the magnitude of the content of the leaks themselves.
Live by the Sword, Die by the Sword
The CIA has lived by the sword ever since its inception. It has always played with fire. Now it has lost control of a big chunk of its weapons – its cyber weaponry. The implications of Vault 7 are monumental yet hard to comprehend at this point. What this means is that any nation hostile to the US (and there's a long list of invaded and subverted nations the CIA has left in its wake since 1953) can now use these weapons against America. It also opens the door to genuine criminal thief-hackers who are just out to steal information and money.
What the CIA has done is not just negligent. It's not even just reckless – it's brazenly criminal and utterly unaccountable.
They Want TOTAL INFORMATION CONTROL
The CIA is just another tool for the people who run the world. They want total information control. They want to know what you're thinking. And they may already have the capacity to do that. This is just the beginning. Wikileaks has only released 1% of Vault 7. Multiply the revelations so far by 100. What do you get?
They want to know what you're thinking and control your every act. They want you to be a completely controllable slave.
No one could be that evil? Oh yes they could, or rather, the dark force controlling them could.
Have a critical mass of people finally awoken to this horrible fact yet?
Can Vault 7 help us fact this REALITY??


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Before starting an international relations degree, young wildlife photographer Daniël Nelson wanted to embark on an epic adventure. It was Africa that had sparked his passion for photography – his father took him to Zambia aged just six to see wildlife in their natural habitat – so he decided to return to Africa. Armed with his Canon EOS 6D and two lenses, he travelled the length of the continent by public transport, uncovering conservation and wildlife stories along the way.
"I wanted to do a really big trip, going to places that are not frequently visited and see things that haven't been documented much," Daniël says. "I came up with the idea of going from Amsterdam to Cape Town by public transport, along the west side of Africa. There are so many countries such as Sierra Leone, Togo, Cameroon, Congo or Angola that have interesting wildlife and cultures but are seldom photographed, or are under-reported compared with countries such as Kenya and South Africa. So, I took my rucksack and spent eight months traversing the African continent."
Here, Daniël tells us about his travels with his Canon EOS 6D, the technical photography challenges he encountered on the road and his top travel photography tips and techniques.
Daniël has always loved wildlife photography, capturing nature across the globe and closer to home in the Netherlands. After being catapulted into the public eye as winner of 2017's coveted Young Wildlife Photographer of the Year award at the age of 18 (with an image taken when he was just 16), Daniël has achieved levels of success that many photographers twice his age dream of reaching.
"As a young photographer, it is the biggest thing you can get," he says. "It brought me exposure. People started approaching me and knew my work, which you don't usually get as a photographer under 18 because you don't have a career yet, so that was a very nice platform."
"Wildlife is the biggest focus of my photography and the thing I like most. During this trip, I wanted to explore what the wildlife is like in this part of the world," says Daniël, pointing out that conflicts in the last few decades have meant that many countries remain relatively unknown to tourists.
His epic journey took him through 22 African countries in 238 days, by whatever means of transport he could find – including buses, trains, motorbikes and hitchhiking. From the deserts of Morocco through the jungles of central Africa to the coast of South Africa, the trip took in the diversity of the continent's landscapes, wildlife, cultures and history. Daniël photographed voodoo in Benin, rehabilitation in former war-torn Sierra Leone, conservation efforts in Guinea-Bissau and more.
Documenting conservation efforts formed the backbone of the trip, and Daniël worked with the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) to photograph their anti-poaching units' missions from Angola to the Republic of the Congo. "I shot stories on how the anti-poaching units go into the jungle to try to track down poachers," he says. "I also wanted to see what motivates poachers to take part in the ivory and bushmeat trades. I was able to photograph the poaching patrol, how a poacher is captured and the whole process behind that."
One stark image shows a poacher being held by a unit in Cameroon, having been arrested on suspicion of hunting elephants in Dja National Park. Another shows the scale of the problem as a storage room is piled high with the tragic spoils of poaching – around 200 tusks seized in Ouésso, Congo.
"Unfortunately, in many places there is very little wildlife because much of it has been poached," says Daniël. "But the parks are stunning and there's beautiful potential, with many native species. Pendjari National Park in Benin is one of the real success stories, and has the 'Big Five' wildlife that you'd expect to see in more well-known African parks." Across the 20,000km he covered, Daniël photographed primates including chimps and gorillas, 'Big Five' African animal species including elephants, lions and buffalos, as well as more unusual animals such as servals, plus insects, birds and stunning scenery.
Many of his photographs from the trip capture people's stories uncovered along the way, including Mauritania's famous iron ore train. "The world's longest train goes into the desert to collect iron ore, so I photographed the barren desert with this huge train cutting through it. There's a nice story behind that because it's an artery of that country's economy."
A particular highlight was Guinea. "It's one of the least visited countries in the world, but the nature is absolutely stunning – there are huge waterfalls, amazing mountains, and chimpanzees," he says. "Everywhere you go, you're among the first to go there, so it was a nice surprise – a hidden gem."
Although many countries in west and central Africa have little tourist infrastructure, Daniël found himself regularly welcomed into people's homes and offered lifts, meals and guidance. "Many places in these countries will surprise you," he says.
While he was joined by friends and family members at points during his journey, the majority of the eight months were spent traveling solo with just a 25kg rucksack containing a sleeping bag, food, medicine and just three shirts and two pairs of trousers. Travelling this light meant he took just his Canon EOS 6D, which he's been shooting on since 2014, and two lenses, a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM and a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM.
"The Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM was a great lens," he says. "I needed a longer telephoto lens because obviously in parks where animals are not used to humans, you can never get close to them. So it's nice to have a telephoto lens for long distance. For the scenery and people, I used the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM. Conditions often actually made it challenging to take photographs, but when I got the opportunity, the Canon EOS 6D meant I could take very good pictures."
Based on his experiences shooting in often testing conditions, Daniël has some advice for travellers hoping to get the most out of their photography in the field…
1. Care for your kit when on the move
"You shouldn't underestimate how important it is to take care of your camera when working in harsh conditions. When I was in the rainforest in Congo, I spent three weeks hiking. With the humidity and rain, my gear would get wet. Every morning I would wake up and there would be condensation in the camera, so for the first 12 hours of the day I couldn't shoot any pictures until it dried. At other times there was dust or dirt. My camera became my baby. I had to clean it every day and really take more care of it than I normally would. This worked – it held out throughout my trip."
2. Take your time to understand wildlife
"When it comes to photographing wildlife, especially in places where the wildlife isn't used to people, take your time to capture pictures. Unlike animals in frequently visited parks, most of the wildlife I tried to photograph was unhabituated to humans. An animal could seldom be approached and usually fled once it noticed my presence. My advice is to familiarise yourself with the species and its environment, and plan how the picture will look in advance. If I know where an animal likely feeds, what trails it uses, where it nests and what habitat it prefers, I can position myself out of sight and let the animal walk into my frame undisturbed. It can take up to two hours just to set up the perfect shot, with the lighting, composition and waiting for the animals to become sufficiently used to you being there. You need to wait until you're not a distraction any more so you can really shoot them in a natural way."
3. Improvise with lighting hacks
"You can often find yourself working in places with bad lighting. Under the dense canopy of the jungle, in a dusty slum, or during the middle of the night, it is difficult to take pictures. I never had the time to wait for a pretty sunset or good lighting, so I had to improvise. I also did not have things like a flash, tripod or remote shutter as I was travelling so light. In situations like these, it's important to know your camera well and to be creative. If the lighting was poor, I often made makeshift tripods using rocks and used a flashlight to light my subject. Other times I included moonlight, street or shop lights in my frame. Quick improvisations like these enabled me to take quality photos in poor conditions."
4. Find focal points in landscapes
"Landscapes are often homogeneous, making them tricky to photograph. I usually focus on a snippet of the large panorama in front of me. I scan the environment and look for an eye-catching feature such as a strange shape, interesting pattern or striking colour. I make that the focal point of my image, so that my audience has something to focus on in an otherwise unvarying landscape."
5. Make subjects part of their own story
"Photographing people can be challenging. For me, many people were fearful or suspicious of me taking their photo in areas where there was little tourism. I even had people coming up to me saying: 'I don't want to be another one of those skinny Africans in Western brochures,' so there was that element as well. I would have a proper conversation with people to explain what I was trying to do with the pictures, including showing the nice parts of their country. It's important to always be kind and have a conversation with the person you're trying to photograph and to really make them feel comfortable before taking a picture."
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(466) Ovaali kirkas rubiini kuvallisella aitoustodistuksella
The red variety of the corundum family, ruby has been the world's most valued gemstone for thousands of years. |
Known Facts | |
Color Key: | red, orangey red, violetish red |
Refractive Index: | 1.759-1.778 |
Chemical Composition: | AL2O3 |
Hardness: | 9 |
Density: | 4.00 |
Crystal Group: | Hexagonal |
Ocurrence: | Burma, Thailand, East Africa, Vietnam, Madagascar. |
Sign of the Zodiac: | Leo |
Month of the year: | July |
Anniversary: | 15th and 40th |
Planet: | Sun |
Fine rubies, especially Burmese stones over 3cts, are among the rarest and most expensive gemstones in the world. Prized for their beauty, durability, and rarity, it is the quality of the color which most determines the value of the stones. The ideal color is that of a traffic light -- a highly fluorescent red of high intensity. Demand for gem quality rubies has always been strong and some mining records from Burma date back almost 500 years. Rubies and sapphires are both members of the corundum family with the same hexagonal crystallographic structure. The basic chemical formula is AL2O3 .. the same for both ruby and sapphire. It is the presence of trace elements like chromium, iron, vanadium and titanium which are responsible for the wide range of colors in which the mineral occurs. The red color in rubies is primarily a result of the presence of chromium. A red corundum is known as ruby and any other color is called a sapphire. In practice however, the determination is not always so straightforward because there are no internationally accepted standards for the color of a ruby. Gemologists could describe the same stone as a purplish red ruby or a purplish red sapphire and borderline cases are not uncommon. The heating of rubies and sapphires is a widely used and accepted enhancement process which can improve the transparency and/or the color of the stones. Techniques range from simply throwing gems in a fire to be cooked or burned to employing sophisticated electric or gas furnaces at specific pressures and atmospheric conditions. The treatment is permanent and heated stones do not require special care. Gem quality rubies are never common and rarely large. Clean stones are always a rarity. The most notable deposits of ruby occur in Burma, Vietnam, Tanzania, Kenya, Thailand, and Cambodia. Ruby is also found in Colombia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and in the U.S.A. We stock rubies three from several localities: Burma, Tanzania, Madagascar and Mozambique. A brief description follows: Burma The most famous locality for rubies is the in the district around Mogok in upper Burma. Burmese rubies are known for their fine fluorescent red color in any kind of light. The color of Burmese stones is often said to be "pigeons blood". Many of the rubies are bright red and may contain traces of blue or pink. The stones are rarely clean but the prices are still higher than the rubies from any other deposit. Another important Burmese ruby deposit occurs at Mong Hsu about 250km east of Mandalay. Indeed, Burmese rubies can be much more expensive than diamonds! Less than a year after its previous record-setting ruby sale, Christie's has almost doubled the top price-per-carat paid for a ruby. According to Bloomberg, on February 15, 2006, "Laurence Graff, a London jeweler, paid a record $425,000 a carat for a ruby ring in the Swiss resort of St. Moritz..., smashing the previous record of $275,000 and indicating demand for precious stones is still increasing." The cushion-cut ruby weighing 8.62 carats was set in a rectangular-shaped diamond bomb? mount, mounted in 18k gold, ring size 3-1/4; Signed Bulgari." Tanzania Tanzanian rubies from the Songea deposit are darker and more garnet like in color than Burmese rubies and as a result are also much more affordable. They look best in incandescent and late afternoon light. In morning light they are somewhat darker. The rubies from this mine are usually more clean and less flawed than rubies from other mines. Their garnet like appearance can be misleading and even jewelers can be confused. The color of most gems tends to lighten as the size is reduced and the color of Songea rubies is frequently best in the smaller sizes. Although the colors are somewhat more uniform than the rubies from other mines, the subtle variations in color can markedly affect the resulting valuations and a brighter stone could easily be worth five times more than a darker stone of a similar size. A small percentage of the stones from this deposit can be also be exceptional in terms of color. Madagascar The most recent discoveries of rubies have occurred in Madagascar at Andilamena and Vatomandry. Indeed, the discoveries are only months old. The deposits differ significantly with respect to their mineralogical and gemological properties. The deposit in Vatomandry produces crystals of nice natural orange/red and pinkish color which do not require heating. The deposit is secondary and the material appears to have been transported from the original source rock. The deposit in Andilamena is more substantial and seems have been the focus of most of the recent production. The rough is generally somewhat violet and not very clean. Heat treatment can dramatically improve the color and many of the resulting stones will show a pure red similar to rubies from Thailand and Burma. The actual mining is about 85 kilometers to the north near the national park but Andilamena is the only town in the area. Like many parts of Madagascar, there are gems but no roads to go get to them and most people just walk. The deposit is of a primary character and probably igneous in origin. Madagascar will probably continue to be a major source of ruby rough. Other deposits in uninhabited areas of north central and eastern and western Madagascar have also been reported. Mozambique Mozambican rubies are comparable with the legendary "pigeon blood" rubies of Burma, which have in the past commanded the highest prices per carat of any colored gemstones. The new deposit in Montepuez is located in the northeastern part of Mozambique in the Cabo Delgado province. Covering approximately 33,600 hectares, it is the most significant recently discovered ruby deposit in the world. Almost all of the mining is controlled by UK based Gemfields plc, one of the world's largest colored gemstone producers. The first Mozambique ruby auction took place in Singapore in 2014, and generated US$33.5 million. Some 100 traders were invited to participate and the auction has since become a regular event and is the only important auction for unprocessed ruby in the world. Because the treatment and processing of ruby is such a long and arduous process, the auctions allow Gemfields a quick and easy source of cash for funding their operations. The Montepuez ruby mine lies about 150 km to the west of the coastal city of Pemba. The mining concession is within the wedge-shaped Montepuez Complex. The concession is located at a geologically critical junction between the north-south trending Mozambique Belt and the east-west trending Zambezi Belt. These "treasure-bearing" Neoproterozoic belts are approximately 800–500 million years old. Unlike the alluvial deposits in Sri Lanka and many of the other deposits in Africa, portions of this deposit are primary and the stones are still in the original location where complex thermal and deformational events provided the ideal temperatures and pressures for forming ruby. Primary rubies are formed when fluid derived from the parental magma interacted with the host rocks under a silica unsaturated environment. The most significant of secondary ruby has been mined in 'Ntorro' and 'Mugloto' which are approximately six kilometers to the west of the core sector, both of which fall within the Montepuez license area. Ruby has been the world's most valued gemstone for thousands of years. It was said to be the most precious of the twelve stones God created when he created all things and this "lord of gems" was placed on Aaron's neck by God's command. Ruby brings you serenity, and protect against injury. |


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And It's begun!
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OSX on a phone *dies*
Many devices have comparable features, but none come close to the awe factor of the iPhone, while it has many pitfalls (tied to Cingular, $$$, mediocre camera, no voip, Apple made apps only no third party!!! etc) I think It's a tremendous starting point into a diverse and vast market.
Much like the first iPod (was Mac only) this will only appeal to a small number of people, the upper 1% if you will
No doubt like only Apple can, it will re-itterate the iPhone in years to come and make this first model look as relatively lame as the first iPod now looks today.
I lookforward to see how this develops into a device for everyone! Welldone Apple for making another previously mundane market exciting!
Woop, I've started the new year working late and getting into the worst sleeping pattern yet, a great start!
First Draft to Client has been finished woo
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New Phone + clicker, keep staying up till 8 O-o
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Are you intrigued by artists' multiples? Engaged by innovative typography? Do you want to learn more about the roots of Conceptual and performative art today, and how artists' innovation influences curatorial practice?
If so, then I am pleased to inform you that after several years, and more than a few surprises, the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection Archives are open for research. Scholars will use the archives to study the history of Fluxus and its related artists. But while you might never use the archives, my work as an archivist still has an impact on your experience of Fluxus art at the Museum. The decisions made by myself and the other members of the Fluxus team affect what goes into the galleries, and how those objects are presented to the public.
When Fluxus collectors Gilbert and Lila Silverman donated their vast collection to MoMA in 2008, we didn't know what we were getting ourselves into. Before it expanded into performance, Fluxus was founded as an international publishing company by George Maciunas. Games, printed materials, and other multiples by various artists were united by Maciunas's unique design sensibility and brilliant typography. This amazing collection—the world's largest—had been carefully built for decades by Fluxus scholar Jon Hendricks, who aimed to present a complete history of Fluxus: not just artworks, but documentation and books as well. MoMA decided to split the Silverman Collection into three parts: works of art to the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books, for their facility at handling editions; documentation to the Museum Archives; and publications to the Library.
For the past two years, I've been the archivist responsible for processing the collection's many wonderful manuscripts, notes, letters, and countless other documents into an organized research collection. That day has finally arrived—but getting here has been a long, strange journey.
Fluxus thwarts all attempts at categorization. How can one distinguish "artwork" from "document," when Fluxus artists actively strove to break down the border between art and life? How can we exhibit a work of performance art, when all that remains of it is a few photographs and written accounts? These are the sorts of documentary objects that researchers expect to find in archives, but as curators seek to display ephemeral and other dematerialized artworks, they are increasingly included in art exhibitions.
Such quandaries are essential to understanding Fluxus. But they are particularly troublesome for an institution like MoMA, which is accustomed to maintaining separate departments for different types of objects. It's no secret that MoMA didn't collect many Fluxus works in the 1960s and 1970s, at the time of their creation, which means that the Silverman Collection fills a very significant gap. But in processing the archives, I came to understand our forebears' reluctance: Fluxus is too fluid, too rebellious, too anti-institutional to enter an institution without a fight. It's too many things at once.
That's why myself and the other members of the Fluxus team quickly realized that we'd have to take a cue from Fluxus itself, and learn to be a little more fluid ourselves. We understood that sometimes artifacts need to be considered artworks, and other times works of art function like documents. It means that serious Fluxus researchers may need appointments with all three departments. But it also means that researching Fluxus will be as much of an adventure as processing it was.
To learn more about Fluxus, the Silverman Collection, or its processing, check out the finding aid online.
The Silverman Fluxus Archives can be consulted by appointment at the MoMA Archives reading room at MoMA QNS; open Mondays, 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Appointments can be made through the Archives contact form.


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You think you deal with a lot of bull crap? Allan Sents needs a front-end loader and a dump truck to deal with all the cattle manure he's up against. Literally.
Sents and his wife Deanna co-own McPherson County Feeders, a beef feedlot home to more than 11,000 head of cattle. It's in Marquette, Kan., and it's the penultimate stop for cattle, fattening them up before they head to the slaughterhouse.
Sents doesn't just feed his cattle. He has to dispose of the unending stream of manure his cattle produce every day.
"Realistically, it's as much a part of the job for us as feeding for the cattle and caring for them that way," Allan Sents said.
With more than 2.3 million cattle in Kansas feedlots dropping millions of pounds of waste each year, the environmental challenge is immense. And an increase in bigger, specialized feedlots over the last two decades doesn't make it any easier.
Now, environmental critics worry that a federal program that distributes billions of dollars in assistance to livestock producers nationwide to help them put waste controls in place may be fueling a trend toward even bigger — and riskier — feedlots.
Cattle aren't too picky about where they go to the bathroom, so when thousands of them are raised close together in pens, their manure piles up. When storms come along, rain can wash that manure into streams or rivers or it could seep into groundwater. That can pollute drinking water with bacteria like E. coli, kill fish and other wildlife, and impact water sports.
Sents says he feels the responsibility keenly.
"I honestly worry from time to time that we are doing something that might have an environmental impact that maybe we're not aware of and hope then that the people we work with are keeping us up-to-speed to know what we should be doing in that regard," he said.
Regulating the risk
The Kansas Department of Health and the Environment (KDHE) is charged with ensuring that manure produced by the beef feedlots in the state doesn't contaminate ground or surface water, but it largely falls on Sents and hundreds of other individual beef producers to keep the watershed safe.
"It's really a manager or producer's actions that determine the environmental impact that that facility has," said Terry Medley, section chief of KDHE's Livestock Waste Management Section, one of the state's top regulators.
Feedlots are required by the federal Clean Water Act to ensure that no animal waste leaves the facility. It's Medley's job to make sure that happens. But even he admits, with more than 800 permitted feedlots dotting the Kansas prairie, his inspectors can't be everywhere at once.
And not everyone does the job right.
Documents obtained by Harvest Public Media and The Kansas City Star through an open records request show state health department levied major penalties for monitoring and environmental infractions on 38 feedlots over the last decade. Though that involves a relatively small portion of feedlots operating in Kansas, the documents reveal what an environmental catastrophe could look like – damaging agricultural land, killing fish and aquatic life and contaminating drinking water.
Among recent incidents in Kansas:
· A feedlot owner brazenly discharging 3.7 million gallons of wastewater out of his man-made lagoon and into a public creek.
· A feedlot permitted for over 26,000 head of cattle applying manure to surrounding fields improperly, resulting in the contamination of potable water wells in a sensitive groundwater area.
· An operation pumping excess waste into freshwater streams and ponds resulting in E. coliconcentrations more than 24 times the rate typical of a Kansas freshwater body.
· Runoff from the application of manure from a feedlot permitted for 15,000 head resulting in measurements of ammonia more than 550 times the typical amount just two miles upstream of a creek whose waters are classified for use in drinking water supply.
The potential for more infractions such as these may be growing. Since 2001, the number of permitted beef feedlots in Kansas has grown more than 57 percent and now stands at 844, according to KDHE records.
Many feedlots produce more waste than a small city. According to a 2008 study by the Government Accountability Office, an operation of about 3,500 cattle can produce more than 40,000 tons of manure annually – about as much sanitary waste generated each year by a city of about 57,000 people. And many feedlots are larger than that.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the industry overall is continuing to shift toward a small number of very large, specialized feedlots, called Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs.
Though most U.S. feedlots have a capacity of less than 1,000 head, bigger operations house 80 percent to 90 percent of fed cattle. And feedlots with 32,000 head or more of capacity market around 40 percent of fed cattle.
In Kansas, 18 feedlots are permitted for more than 50,000 cattle, two for more than 130,000 cattle — a level almost unheard of two decades ago.
A changing industry
Like many feeders, Sents installed expensive networks of drainage canals and wastewater lagoons to control waste. He also uses heavy machinery to scrape and clean animal pens. That's why you're as likely to hear that dump truck at Sents' feedlot, as you are the cattle.
That kind of effort is necessary to control waste produced by beef CAFOs because of the sheer number of animals they house. JoAnn Burkholder, a professor at North Carolina State University who studies the effects of CAFOs on the environment, says the shift in meat production raises environmental concerns.
"The basic problem with CAFOs from an environmental perspective is that the animal wastes are so concentrated," Burkholder said. "In the traditional way of farming in the past the waste was spread out over the landscape a lot more and so it was more diffuse and the surrounding soil, land and water could absorb the waste much better."
The waste produced by CAFOs can be beneficial. Under the best circumstances, cattle waste is used to fertilize fields that grow feed for those same cattle. That's valuable to the producer, and if it's controlled properly there's no runoff.
Clayton Huseman, executive director of the feedlot division of the Kansas Livestock Association, maintains the strict regulation of feedlots narrows risk.
"Whether you're a feedyard with 5,000 head or whether you're a feedyard with 100,000 head – if you're the larger operation everything that you do from an environmental side is scaled up," Huseman said. "You have the same responsibility to control and to manage all of that waste."
Industry critics also argue that a federal government program launched in 1996 with the intention of helping feedlots control waste is actually fueling the trend toward bigger – and more risky – operations.
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) gives billions in taxpayer dollars each year to help agriculture producers upgrade conservation practices. In most cases it pays up to 75 percent of the projected costs up to $300,000 of implementing certain conservation practices, like the development of plans for the disposal of waste and the construction of waste storage facilities.
Jonathan Gelbard, with the National Resources Defense Council, said EQIP money often goes to huge facilities – even though the USDA program was launched to assist small producers who might not otherwise be able to meet stringent Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
"Keep in mind that one cow produces as much manure, on average, as 20 people. So a feedlot with 35,000 animals produces as much excrement as a city of 700,000 - far more than the current population of Kansas City," Gelbard said. "Yet there is typically no waste treatment facility. Do you think the farmer is even remotely equipped to handle that?"
Since its initial authorization, funding for EQIP has ballooned from $130 million to almost $1.8 billion this year. Sixty percent of total annual EQIP spending nationwide is allocated to livestock practices.
Livelihood and a way of life
Sents' operation is fairly typical. He employs eight to 10 people on his feedlot and says he often devotes one or two of them to manure management.
"All of the runoff is contained and we monitor that closely and are watched closely then too by KDHE to make sure that we do that right," said Sents, who has never applied for EQIP money.
For Sents, doing it right is especially important. He and Deanna raised their family near their feedlot and he doesn't want to pollute waters close to his family's home.
"We recognize that we're just stewards," said Sents, "that while we may have possession and control of this land for the time that we're here, that we want to leave it in a (good) condition for the generations to come as well."
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The 50 Greatest Bassists of All Time
From funk masters to prog prodigies and beyond, we count down the players who have shaped our idea of the low-end theory
"The bass is the foundation," session legend Carol Kaye once said, "and with the drummer you create the beat. Whatever you play puts a framework around the rest of the music."
A great bass line, whether it's Paul McCartney's hypnotic "Come Together" riff, Bootsy Collins' sly vamp from James Brown's "Sex Machine," or Tina Weymouth's minimal throb on Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer," is like a mantra: It sounds like it could go on forever, and it only feels more profound the more you hear it. Guitarists, singers, and horn players tend to claim the flashiest moments in any given song, while drummers channel most of the kinetic energy, but what the bassist brings is something elemental — the part that loops endlessly in your head long after the music ends.
Bassists are often overlooked and undervalued, even within their own bands. "It wasn't the number-one job," McCartney once said, reflecting on the fateful moment when he took over the four-string after Stu Sutcliffe exited the Beatles. "Nobody wanted to play bass, they wanted to be up front."
And yet the instrument has its own proud tradition in popular music, stretching from the mighty upright work of Jimmy Blanton in Duke Ellington's orchestra and bebop pioneers like Oscar Pettiford to fellow jazz geniuses like Charles Mingus and Ron Carter; studio champs like Kaye and James Jamerson; rock warriors like Cream's Jack Bruce and the Who's John Entwistle; funk masters like Bootsy and Sly and the Family Stone's Larry Graham; prog prodigies like Yes' Chris Squire and Rush's Geddy Lee; fusion gods like Stanley Clarke and Jaco Pastorius; and punk and postpunk masters like Weymouth and the Minutemen's Mike Watt. The alternative era brought new heroes on the instrument, from Sonic Youth's intuitive Kim Gordon to Primus' outlandish Les Claypool, and more recently, a fresh crop of bass icons — including Esperanza Spalding and the ubiquitous Thundercat — have placed the low end at the center of their musical universes.
As with our 100 Greatest Drummers list, this rundown of the 50 greatest bassists of all time celebrates that entire spectrum. It's emphatically not intended as a ranking of objective skill; nor does it assign any one set of criteria as a measure of greatness. Instead it's an inventory of the bassists who have had the most direct and visible impact on creating, to borrow Kaye's term, the very foundation of popular music — from rock to funk to country to R&B to disco to hip-hop, and beyond — during the past half-century or so. You'll find obvious virtuosos here, but also musicians whose more minimal concept of their instrument's role elevated everything that was going on around them.
"You grab it, slide around on it, and feel it with your hands," Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea once said of his signature instrument. "You slap, pull, thump, pluck, and pop, and you get yourself into this hypnotic state, if you're lucky, beyond thought, where you're not thinking because you're just a conduit for this rhythm, from wherever it comes from, from God to you and this instrument, through a cord and a speaker."
Here we pay tribute to 50 musicians who have found that same exalted state via the bass, and changed the world in the process.


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Jewish Missionary; Reincarnation
Jewish Missionary?
From: A. M. in England
Dear Rabbi,
One of my work colleagues asked me yesterday why Jews do not missionize, and Christians do. To me it just seems obvious that we would not, but it is difficult to explain this intrinsic notion to him. Could you help me out?
Dear A. M.,
Jews do not missionize among non-Jews. There are two reasons for this.
First of all, we believe that when a non-Jew keeps the seven Noachide laws, he merits a portion in the World-to-Come, and therefore there is no imperative for him to become Jewish. If, like many Christians and Moslems, we believed that those of other religions are condemned to damnation, then we would also desire to convert people. However, we believe that a person can be completely righteous and merit the World-to-Come without conversion, by adhering to the basic moral laws revealed to Noach. Therefore we feel no compulsion to convert others, unless they show a true desire to convert.
Secondly, since sincerity is one of the criteria for conversion, we can determine that the candidate is sincere by discouraging him from converting. If he persists and does so for the love of Judaism, we accept him with open arms.
From: H. in Florida
Dear Rabbi,
I just read on your website something about reincarnation? Are we not given only one life to live? Are we to come back from the dead in another body and correct any mistakes we made in this life? This was very confusing to me. I have never read about reincarnation in the Torah. Can you give a scriptural basis for this belief? Thank you so much for your time and effort. I read your "Ask the Rabbi" series religiously (pun intended).
Dear H.,
Reincarnation is one of the teachings of the Oral Torah. In the Written Torah there are no explicit references to reincarnation, but there are hints.
Perhaps the closest Scriptural hint to this idea is Deuteronomy 25:5-10 which says that "when brothers are on the earth at the same time, and one of them dies childless, the wife of the dead brother must not marry a man outside the family. [Rather] her brother-in-law shall come to her and perform levirate marriage with her. And he shall be the first-born whom she bears; he shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, and so the name of the dead brother shall not be erased from the people of Israel... But if he refuses to marry his sister-in-law... she shall remove his shoe... His name shall be called in Israel: 'The house of him whose shoe was removed'."
The main reason for reincarnation is for the soul to fulfill its role in the Creation and achieve the spiritual level for which it is destined. If a soul does not manage this in its first life, it may be given another chance, and another. If the soul did not succeed in three times, it will have to settle for whatever it has gained in the everlasting afterlife.
Another reason for reincarnation is to repay a soul for its deeds in a way parallel to its sins; for example, a rich miser might be reincarnated as a poor beggar and be disregarded by a rich man, who was himself one of the paupers disregarded by the rich miser in his previous life.
Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, (the Arizal) writes that Moshe was a reincarnation of Adam's third son, Sheit (Seth), and that Sheit was a reincarnation of Hevel (Abel). (The mem of Moshe's name stands for Moshe, the shin stands for Sheit, and the heh for Hevel). The great mishnaic Sage Shamai was a reincarnation of Moshe, and Hillel was a reincarnation of Aharon.
- Zohar, Mishpatim, Exodus 1:1
- Sha'ar Hagilgulim, Hakdama 36


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- worked from the front (a major advantage, to me, at any rate)
- requires no re-ordering of stitches (the stitches are never taken off the needles and reversed in position--a procedure which, although it leads to good results, I find annoying and time consuming).
- gives a nearly perfect match for k2tog
SYTK, illustrated
Step 1 (below) Slip the first (red) stitch from the left needle to the right needle. Slip the stitch KNITWISE (left arm forward) as shown. This is the SLIP part of the SYTK maneuver--the part represented by the first letter "S."Step 2 (below) Leaving the red stitch on the right needle, insert the tip of the right needle into the next stitch (green) on the left needle. Be sure the tip of the right needle is inserted under the right arm of the green stitch, as shown. Now comes the fun part: making sure that you have enough of each needle inserted to anchor the stitch completely, perform the "Y" part of the SYTK--the YANK! Pull the right arm of the green stitch towards you with the right needle at the same time as you pull the left arm of the green stitch away from you with the left needle, thus opening up the stitch as much as possible. You don't want to bend your needle or stretch the actual fibers of the stitch, but you certainly want to YANK enough to pull all the slack yarn from both surrounding stitches into the green stitch.
Step 3a (below) Begin the TWIST ("T") part of the SYTK decrease by removing the right needle tip, thus returning the now-enlarged green stitch to the tip of the left needle.
Step 3b (below) Using the tip of the right needle, TWIST the green stitch, and return it to the tip of the left needle, as shown. Check to be sure that the formerly right arm lies ON TOP, as illustrated by the little PURPLE ARROW. If the stitch is twisted the wrong way, take it off and re-twist it so that it lays as shown--this is fairly important to the final appearance.
Step 3c (below) Return the much-enlarged, now-twisted green stitch to the tip of the left needle.
Step 3d (below) Slip the red stitch onto the tip of the left needle, taking care that it remains LEFT ARM FORWARD. This ends the "Twist" portion of SYTK, the "T."
Step 4 (below) Insert the right needle into the BACK ARMS of the red and green stitches, as shown, and twitch the standing yarn over the right needle, in position to knit a stitch.
FINISHED SYTK (below) Draw the standing yarn through the red and the green stitches to make a new stitch (blue). This is the final, the KNIT step of SYTK--the "K."
You should now have a rather nice left-leaning decrease looking at you from your right needle. The reason this works is because it mimics the situation you get with a k2tog. Recall from the first post of this series that a k2tog is performed in such a manner as to squeeze the hidden second stitch AND ALL ITS EXCESS YARN behind the first stitch. Recall from the second post of this series that both ssk and psso leave the first stitch on the surface of the fabric, together with all the excess yarn it has accumulated from being manipulated. By adding a YANK step to SYTK, the excess yarn from the surface stitch is all transferred to the hidden second stitch, and by adding a TWIST step, that excess yarn is prevented from slipping out again. Further, the twist step aligns the only visible part of the second stitch (the arm which started off as the right arm, but was twisted forward to become the left arm) to lie in the same direction as the top stitch. In other words, the TWIST step makes the only visible portion of the second (green) stitch follow the left-leaning orientation of the top (red) stitch. Here is the photographic evidence:
A final note: In grabby yarn, the top (red) stitch may not be completely re-oriented by the slip maneuvers you have performed on it in steps 1 and 3d. This lack of orientation reveals itself in a proportionately shorter right arm, and a proportionately longer left arm, and disturbs the appearance of the left decrease column. Therefore, in a grabby yarn you may wish to add one further step.
Per the illustration below, after the decrease has been finished, insert the tip of the left needle under the right arm of the already-knitted top (red) stitch. GENTLY adjust the red stitch to lengthen the right arm while simultaneously shortening the left arm, and you will see that the stitch orientation improves. Be MILD in your adjustment--you only want to redistribute yarn in from the left arm of the top stitch to the right arm of the same stitch. You don't want to tug so hard that you undo all your previous effort--you don't want to drag slack back from the second (green) stitch and dump it back into the top (red) stitch.
Dear readers--have fun with this, and I hope you like it as well as I do!
--TECHknitter (You have been reading TECHknitting on "SYTK (slip, yank, twist, knit), a new method for left-leaning decreases.")


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