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This is Part 3 in a series of posts about the murder of Catherine Aurelia Vermilyea (nee Farley), mother-in-law of my wife Ellen's second cousin, twice removed. The murder case and the ensuing murder trial of Mrs. Vermilyea's son, Harold Vermilyea caused a sensation in 1934 southern Ontario that was followed across North America.
Catching a Killer
On the night of Thursday, October 4th, 1934 the normally quiet town of Belleville, Ontario was shaken to learn that a long-time, prominent member of the community, Mrs. Catherine Aurelia Vermilyea had been found murdered. The crime had in fact taken place on the lawn of her daughter's Bridge Street home.
The Belleville police force immediately began their investigation. First they fond the murder weapon, a lather's hatchet, near the murder scene and next they believed they had the discovered the identity of the killer, the victim's son, Harold Vermilyea. Police later testified that they had narrowed their search for the killer to Harold within three hours of the crime. However, the mystery to solve was that Harold lived about 3,000 miles away from Belleville in Ontario, California. Undaunted, Belleville police contacted the police in California and requested their assistance in apprehending the suspect.
Harold Vermilyea was the oldest of four children born to Nathaniel and Catherine Aurelia (nee Farley) Vermilyea. Nathaniel was a prosperous farmer who provided for his family in the village of Thurlow, just east of Belleville, Ontario. According to the 1901 Census of Canada, the Vermilyea household included the parents, children, a lodger and a domestic servant. According to the 1930 U. S. Census, Harold indicated that he left home and made his way to California in 1909 where he was employed in the citrus fruit industry as the manager of a fruit packing operation.
All was well for Harold, his wife Clarise and their two children, a daughter Catherine Aurelia (after his mother) and a son Douglas Than until the Great Depression era took hold. Harold lost his job and for the first time was unable to pay the bills.
In June 1934, Harold wrote to his mother what he later described to be the "begging" letter. In his letter, which was printed in it's entirety in the October 6, 1934 edition of the Toronto Star newspaper, Harold explained his financial predicament to his mother, how he consulted with several prominent people about even broaching the subject with her, and asked for her help by giving him some money. He wrote, "If you could spare $1,000 now, it would be a life saver for this family. But whatever you do for us, should be done for others of the family. In other words, nothing is settled unless it is settled right."
His mother did not send any money and in fact, it was his sister, Mrs. Helen Faulkner, who replied to his letter offering some advice.
The Belleville, Ontario police sent a telegram asking about the whereabouts of Harold Vermilyea to the Ontario, California police on October 5th, 1934. California police went to Harold's residence and were told that he was away on an auto trip in northern California. So they did what was to be expected, they staked out his house and on October 6th, Harold returned, was met by the police and arrested.
Harold, a U. S. citizen since 1922, was held in custody at the Los Angeles County jail awaiting an extradition hearing. The process was shortened considerably however when on October 13th, Harold voluntarily agreed to waive extradition and return to Canada. Harold maintained his innocence stating that he was in northern California seeking employment at the time of the murder.
His trip back to Belleville, Ontario began on October 17th when he boarded a train, as Transcontinental Western Airlines reportedly "refused to carry a manacled man," handcuffed to Detective Frank Izard of the Belleville police force and accompanied by Inspector Gardner of the Ontario Provincial Police force.


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Career Development is a process wherein an organization provides a supportive environment in terms of inputs which the employee uses to develop competencies i.e. knowledge, skills, attitude and values for realizing his/her full potential in consonance with the organizational vision.
This implies that Career Development is a joint responsibility of the employee and the organization. The organization provides inputs which are used by the employee to enhance his/her effectiveness.
The Objective of Career Development Process is to help employers plan his / her career in a personally satisfying and productive manner and realize his / her potential by making systematic use of various organizational inputs. This will result in the organization having a pool of competent employees to meet future corporate needs.

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A 23-year-old Beijing game addict was rushed to a hospital after swallowing five pieces of saw blades in an attempt to commit suicide, the Beijing Legal Times reports.
The man "kept talking incoherently about how to win his favorite computer games, even after being sent to a Beijing hospital ICU" on Sunday.
According to the report the man has been addicted to computer games since early in junior high school, but his condition worsened recently.
I wonder if there is something about the culture or politics of China that seems to make people more pre-disposed to game addiction there, or at least makes the results more extreme.
It could be an issue of the media in China writing more about the issue because it's become very high profile recently, but even if that were the case, I still think it's worse there than in other parts of the world.
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JOSHUA BELL – Grammy award-winning violinist and subject of a Pulitzer prize-winning media story
A world-renowned violinist, Joshua Bell is thoughtful about the role his music plays in society. In a cultural experiment turned Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post story, it is Bell's humility, not his virtuosity, that most inspires. In suspending his fame to explore the true meaning of his work, Bell exhibits Montessori thinking at its best.
"Pearls Before Breakfast" (Washington Post article)
Wikipedia profile
JEFF BEZOS – Amazon founder
Amazon's founder, who proudly cites his Montessori roots, is a study in contradictions: analytical and intuitive, careful and audacious, playful and determined. Critics note his extraordinary ability to learn from others, one hallmark of Montessori education.
Business Week article
Wikipedia profile
DAVID BLAINE – Illusionist & magician
David Blaine was a four-year old Montessori student when he fell in love with magic. Today he's called "the modern day Houdini" by The New York Times, which says, "He's taken a craft that's been around for hundreds of years and done something unique and fresh with it… [His magic] "operates on an uncommonly personal level."
David Blaine proifle
Wikipedia profile
T BERRY BRAZELTON – Pediatrician, child psychiatrist, author and harvard medical school professor emeritus
Dr. Brazelton's positive, child-oriented philosophy of parenting has influenced countless families to raise
children who are "confident, caring, and hungry to learn". Brazelton attended a Montessori school as a child and now supports Montessori philosophy through his lectures and publications.
The Brazelton Institute
Wikipedia profile
JULIA CHILD – Celebrity chef & author
A student of Mrs. Davie's Montesorri School in Pasadena California, Ms. Child exuded a sense of fun and inspired others to try new things in the kitchen. She credits a Montessori background with her manual dexterity—a key feature of her mastery as a chef—and with the love and joy she found in her work.
Wikipedia profile
GEORGE CLOONEY – Academy award-winning actor, director, producer, humanitarian, United nations messenger of peace
Good pre-school pays off: Harvard economists say kindergartners with great teachers earn more later (and are more likely to attend college and own a home) than others. So what defines "good"? Turns out Montessori's approach—unfolding students, not molding them—guides the most successful teachers. George Clooney? Montessori pre-schooler.
WHYY story (audio)
SEAN "P Diddy" COMBS – Grammy award-winning musician, rap recording artist and ceo of bad boy records
The multi-talented hip hop artist Sean "P Diddy" Combs says he feels fortunate to have attended Mount
Vernon Montessori School during his childhood, recalling that, "I feel like I was nurtured into wanting to be somebody special".
Wikipedia profile
JOHN and JOAN CUSACK – Actor and screenwriter, and Academy award-nominated actress, respectively
This sister-brother team, each of whom also has a hefty solo reputation, are not conventional heroes. That the former Montessorians' work is described as "idiosyncratic", "offbeat" and "fiercely original" is consistent with their belief in "a kind of Joseph Campbell theory of pursuing bliss. Whatever excites you is what you should be doing".
Wikipedia profile (John)
Wikipedia profile (Joan)
ANTHONY DOERR – Author
This internationally-acclaimed American author was once a Montessori student of Post Oak's Head of School, John Long. The sense of wonder that infuses his luminous, precisely-crafted prose is evidence of the gifts, and the love of nature, that were nurtured in him from childhood.
Am I Still Here? (video)
Wikipedia profile
PETER DRUCKER – Author, Management consultant, "social ecologist", awarded the presidential medal of freedom
Peter Drucker, once a Montessori child, is one of the most influential management gurus in history. His work focuses on human relationships as opposed to numbers-crunching; his books are filled with lessons on how organizations can bring out the best in people, and how workers can find dignity and community in their work.
Wikipedia profile
ERIK ERIKSON – Psychologist & author
The Danish-German-American psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on human social development, Erikson may be most famous for coining the phrase "identity crisis". He found Montessori ideas so compelling that studied them as an adult, acquiring a Montessori teaching certificate but never teaching in a classroom.
Wikipedia profile
DAKOTA FANNING – Actor
This youngest-ever Screen Actors Award nominee, history's youngest Academy member, recalls: "I learned to read at two…in a Montessori school where they teach you to read really, really young." Montessori kids are not technically taught to read (reading skills just emerge in the right environment, we think), but they work at their own pace in age-diverse groups—not in curriculum-dictated lockstep with same-age peers. For Fanning, autonomy led to early achievement throughout her life.
Wikipedia profile
ANNE FRANK – Memoirist & author
Anne Frank's famous diary is a natural extension of her school experience. She—like all Montessori students—learned to cultivate observation skills and record her thoughts in a journal early on. Diary of a Young Girl has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the best loved books in the world today.
Wikipedia profile
KATHARINE GRAHAM – Pulitzer prize-winning author and Former owner & editor of the Washington Post
Crisis forced Katherine Graham to assume control of the Washington Post. Her confidence faltered but—remembering that what matters is how people learn, not what they know—Graham said, "The Montessori method, learning by doing, once again became my stock in trade." Her reign at the highly-regarded paper lasted more than two decades.
Wikipedia profile
FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER – Viennese artist & architect
This world-renowned Austrian painter and architect attended a Montessori school in Vienna, which influenced both his affinity for vibrant colors and his love of nature. He collected pebbles and pressed flowers as a child, demonstrating an early interest in small, precious things—which later manifested itself in his work.
Wikipedia profile
HELEN HUNT – Academy award-winning actor
Helen Hunt, winner of some big time honors (Oscar, Emmy, and Golden Globe all one year—a feat nearly unmatched in history) is one cool Montessorian. Which makes her observation all the more interesting: "If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool."
Wikipedia profile
HELEN KELLER – Political activist, author, lecturer, awarded the presidential medal of freedom, one of gallup's most widely admired people of the 20th century
Maria Montessori said that if, deaf and blind, Helen Keller became "a woman and writer of exceptional culture, who better than she proves the potency of [the Montessori] method?" In her tribute to Montessori, Helen's teacher observes, "Only through freedom can people develop self control, self dependence, willpower and initiative. This is the lesson Helen's education has for the world."
Anne Sullivan's tribute to Montessori
Wikipedia profile
BEYONCE KNOWLES – Singer, songwriter, actress and fashion designer,16-time Grammy award-winner
In Houston, at St. Mary of the Purification Montessori, Beyoncé's talents first emerged. In a school that valued both art and academics, a top student and world-class performer was born. Today Beyoncé has been nominated for more Grammys than anyone in history and is one of pop music's most highly-regarded figures.
Wikipedia profile
YO YO MA – United nations Peace Ambassador, winner of 15 Grammy Awards, Presidential Medal of Freedom & National Medal of the Arts
A child prodigy cellist and Montessori student, Yo Yo Ma learned to early to follow his own interests and think outside traditional definitions. Today, critics call his artistic style "omnivorous" in reference to his versatility, his notably eclectic repertoire and his musical iconoclasm.
Wikipedia profile
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ – Nobel prize-winning author
Marquez said his Montessori education gave him "the desire to kiss literature" and states, "I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life."
Wikipedia profile
HM QUEEN NOOR of JORDAN – U.N. Advisor, humanitarian activist, memoirist and wife of the late king hussein of Jordan
Her Majesty Queen Noor is an international public servant and an outspoken voice on issues of world peace and justice. Her orientation toward peace directly reflects Maria Montessori's—herself a three-time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee whose "education for peace" philosophy underpins our approach.
King Hussein Foundation profile
Wikipedia profile
JACQUELINE KENNEDY ONASSIS – Former first lady and doubleday editor
As a child, the former First Lady attended Miss Chapin's School for Girls in Manhattan. Miss Chapin was a pioneer in education for girls; she attended Dr Montessori's New York lectures in the 1930s and enthusiastically included Montessori methods in her classrooms.
Wikipedia profile
SERGEY BRIN & LARRY PAGE – Google founders
"You can't understand Google," says Wired, "unless you know [its founders] were Montessori kids… In a Montessori school, you paint because you have something to express or you just want to… not because the teacher said so. This is baked into Larry and Sergey… it's how their brains were programmed early on."
Wired article
Wall St Journal article
Breakthrough Learning in the Digital Age (video)
Barbara Walters interview (video)
DEVI SRIDHAR – Youngest-ever American Rhodes scholar, author, oxford research fellow, oxford lecturer on global health politics
At 18, Devi Sridhar (a former Montessorian) spoke five languages, played both tennis and the violin expertly, and co-wrote a book on Indian mythology. In 2002 she became the youngest Rhodes Scholar in the program's 100-year history. Interested in health as a young person, she now directs CEG's global health governance project.
Devi Sridhar profile
TAYLOR SWIFT – Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter
Taylor Swift, country music's youngest-ever Entertainer of the Year, attended Alvernia Montessori School in Berks County Pa. The singer is widely described as "the product of homegrown values"; New York Times calls her "one of pop's finest songwriters, country music's foremost pragmatist, and more in touch with her inner life than most adults".
Wikipedia profile
WILL WRIGHT – Video game pioneer, creator of the Sims
The videogame innovator says Montessori was the "imagination amplifier" that prepared him for creating The Sims, Sim City, Spore and Super Mario Brothers. "SimCity comes right out of Montessori… It's all about learning on your own terms."
Montessori: Inspiration for Spore (video)
New Yorker article
Wikipedia profile
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Cyclades Olympia Cashmere Blend Scarf in Beige SALE
A Gorgeous cashmere blend scarf inspired by Greek Mythology and history. A Cyclades accessory that can be worn as a scarf and as a pashmina. Soft, rich and luxurious, this could be your every day scarf that can accompany you on all seasons.
- 20% Cashmere 80% Silk Modal
- Dry Clean recommended
- Made in Italy
- 90 x 200 cm
Frayed edges on all sides
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Gourmet Gift Baskets are so nice! I received The Hitting the Range™ -Golf gift basket and it was packed to the top with goodies.
The "Hitting the Range" Gift Basket was so attractive and it came with delicious treats.
My grandpa and I are the golfers in the family, so we truly appreciated this for what it really is. All the snacks inside are perfect for a day on the course.
Instead of the plain jane basket, they actually used a golf ball range basket (what a cute idea!)
And inside it comes with 4 Golf tee's, a fun-facts-for-golfers book, a wide variety of gourmet snacks, including delicious trail mix, Divine Bovine gourmet beef jerky, Brent & Sam's cookies, peanut butter pretzel nuggets, Partners deli style crackers, and hot pepper cheese.
When I got the gift pack I realized that this would be perfect as a Father's Day Gift Basket. Unfortunatly I have never met my father, and have never truly experienced a Father's Day. But, I've come close! My grandpa has been here for me forever, and he likes golf. So Perfect.
I waited for him to be very unsuspecting. (He was watching golf on TV) As soon as a commercial came on I jumped out there with my Gift Basket. I told him Happy Early Father's Day and you should have seen the smile on his face.
I haven't seen him that happy in quite some time. His initial thought was wow, she got me something for Father's Day! Then of course.. He had to know what was in the basket. He pulled the ribbon off and tore open the plastic, and he was all over it.
I am sorry to say that the contents of the Gift Basket did not make it to the golf course. The farthest they went from the Living room, was actually to the kitchen.
He was happy enough to share, and I can honestly say all the goodies inside were delicious. My favorite was the Artisan Hors D'oeuvre Crackers, they were so good! If I had to pick a least favorite it would be the Hot Pepper cheese, and thats only because I don't like spicy things too much. My grandpa on the other hand loved the cheese and it was the first thing to disappear.
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Kindergarten - 2nd Grade
Why Knowledge Matters
Is it really important that kids know things? Shouldn't they just learn to think?
It's natural to assume that teaching lots of "stuff" isn't important anymore when students can simply Google anything they need to know. But you probably take for granted how much "walking-around knowledge" you carry inside your head—and how much it helps you. If you have a rich base of background knowledge, it's easier to learn more. And it's much harder to read with comprehension, solve problems and think critically if you don't.
The idea that we have to choose between knowledge and thinking skills is a false choice. Kids need both. "The richer the knowledge base, the more smoothly and effectively cognitive processes — the very ones that teachers target — operate," notes University of Virginia cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham. "So, the more knowledge students accumulate the smarter they become."
An education grounded in shared knowledge of history, science, art and music is also the great equalizer. The Core Knowledge Foundation believes that for the sake of academic excellence, greater equity, and higher literacy, elementary and middle schools need to teach a coherent, cumulative, and content-specific core curriculum.
Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to a superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.
— E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
The Core Knowledge Sequence is predicated on the realization that what children are able to learn at any given moment depends on what they already know—and, equally important, that what they know is a function of previous experience and teaching. Although current events and technology are constantly changing, there is a body of lasting knowledge and skills that form the core of a strong preschool–grade 8 curriculum. Explicit identification of what children should learn at each grade level ensures a coherent approach to building knowledge across all grade levels. Every child should learn the fundamentals of science, basic principles of government, important events in world history, essential elements of mathematics, widely acknowledged masterpieces of art and music from around the world, and stories and poems passed down from generation to generation.
The Core Knowledge Sequence provides a clear outline of content to be learned grade by grade so that knowledge, language, and skills build cumulatively from year to year. This sequential building of knowledge not only helps ensure that children enter each new grade ready to learn, it also helps prevent the repetitions and gaps that so often characterize current education. No more repeated units in multiple years on the rain forest, with little or no attention to the Bill of Rights, world geography, or exposure to other cultures. Core Knowledge sets high expectations for all children that are achievable thanks to the cumulative, sequential way that knowledge and skills build. Teachers in Core Knowledge schools have assurance that children will emerge well prepared with a shared body of knowledge and skills.
A typical state or district curriculum says, "Students will demonstrate knowledge of people, events, ideas, and movements that contributed to the development of the United States." But which people and events? Which ideas and movements? The Sequence is distinguished by its specificity. By clearly specifying important knowledge in language arts, history, geography, math, science, and the fine arts, the Sequence presents a practical answer to the question, "What do our children need to know?" Teachers are free to devote their energies and efforts to creatively planning how to teach the content to the children in their classrooms.
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Expeditionary Learning is committed to creating classrooms where teachers can fulfill their highest aspirations and where students can achieve more than they think possible.
The Expeditionary Learning curriculum gets students excited about learning through great books, compelling topics and ownership of their learning. At the same time, teachers get a vision of the instructional practices that support a Common Core-aligned classroom and the tools to create it.
Expeditionary Learning helps students…
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- Learn and practice collaborative structures and protocols to use throughout the module.
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[Update] Sega Claims Toy Fair Poster Revealing New Sonic Game 'Incorrect'
Update: Sega has weighed in on the rumors of a 2015 Sonic game headed for Wii U, Xbox One, and PS4. The publisher has identified the information as "incorrect."
Senior community manager Kellie Parker shared the news on the Sega forums. "The recent information coming out of Nuremburg Toy Fair was incorrect," she writes. "SEGA has yet to announce details of upcoming console video games for Sonic the Hedgehog, or further details regarding the new Sonic CG TV series." A similar statement was provided to Eurogamer.
Sega and Nintendo are currently two games into a three-game exclusivity deal, which has so far included Sonic: Lost World, and the most recent pairing with Mario for a winter olympic game title. If this information were to be true, an intermediary Nintendo-exclusive title would be missing from the list.
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Sonic has had a rough few years. His latest action outing, Lost World, didn't do so well last year on Wii U or 3DS. Sonic Generations didn't fare much better in 2011. But it's not all bad news.
Sonic Colors was a competent platformer, and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed gives Mario a run for his money. It looks like the blue blur is getting another chance at multiplatform success next year.
Fan site Spindash captured the image above of a poster touting a 2015 Sonic title on Wii U, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. Of course, we have no idea yet what type of game this might be.
Will it try to redeem the series' often unsuccessful 3D platforming? Will it be another kart racer? Perhaps with the success of 2D platformers like Rayman Legends, we'll see a return to classic Sonic horizontal speed.
Our Take
While I've never been hooked by Sonic's gameplay, I hold out hope that Sega is able to deliver for fans. And if this 2015 game happens to be a new kart racer, you can count me in. Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed has set a high bar for Mario's upcoming release.


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This icon is in the pattern or type of icons known as "Hodegetria" or Directress, showing the Virgin Mother leading, by the gesture of her hand, the souls of all mankind to the Author of our Salvation, Our Lord Jesus Christ. As she directs us to piety and love for Our Lord, He blesses us with the blessing of His right hand for all of our endeavors that are brought to Him in faith, for He will help us do all that we wish to do in goodness, and for the Glory of God. The Lord is good, truly Good indeed, and so all that He touches and blesses becomes good also.
Christ here is shown with an awareness and perception beyond that of a child, which is the reason that His face is usually depicted older than His physical years in the icons, but with the full understanding that He is the God of Heaven and of earth. As we learn to treat Him thus, we really become His loving children. This egg-tempera masterpiece icon is a remarkable blend of Russian and Byzantine iconography in modern times, and was painted by Father Andrei in 1992 for the chapel dedicated to the Elders of Optina at Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, New York.


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In 1902 St. Louis patent attorney Halcolm Ellis and mechanical engineer Nathan W. Perkins, Jr. took out a patent for an adding machine. Ellis then patented a combination adding machine and typewriter, and tried to manufacture it in Massachusetts. When his funds dried up, he returned to St. Louis and organized the Ellis Adding-Typewriter Company. The firm soon moved to New Jersey, with Perkins managing the company's engineering division. By 1911, it was selling the Ellis adding typewriter.
The Inventions Department at National Cash Register Company developed the firm's first bookkeeping machine, the NCR Class 2000. It went on the market in the early 1920s. While some customers used it, the machine lacked a typewriter that could describe transactions in detail. In 1928 NCR purchased rights to the Ellis adding typewriter. It soon introduced the successful Class 3000 bookkeeping machine.
NCR expanded its offerings in 1943, when it purchased the Allen Wales Company in 1943. Allen Wales offered a much less expensive bookkeeping machine, as well as an adding machine. Modifications of these machines would sell even after the introduction of NCR's first electronic accounting machines in the mid-1950s.


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Five years after the events of the first film, the Ghostbusters have been plagued by lawsuits and court orders, and their once-lucrative business is bankrupt. However, when Dana begins to have ghost problems again, the boys come out of retirement only to be promptly arrested. The Ghostbusters discover that New York is once again headed for supernatural doom, with a river of ectoplasmic slime bubbling beneath the city and an ancient sorcerer attempting to possess Dana's baby and be born anew. Can the Ghostbusters quell the negative emotions feeding the otherworldly threat and stop the world from being slimed?
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U.N. climate chief urges radical clean-up of oil, gas industry
Oil and gas firms say they are addressing global warming by focusing on energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies
The U.N.'s climate chief called on the oil and gas industry on Thursday to make a drastic shift to a clean, low-carbon future or risk having to leave three-quarters of fossil fuel reserves in the ground.
"The time for experimentation, for marginal changes and for conditional response is now over," Christiana Figueres told the International Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA) in a speech in London.
She urged an "urgent transformation" to greener production after top scientists warned on Monday that climate change would damage food supplies, slow economic growth and aggravate the underlying causes of armed conflicts.
Limiting global warming to an agreed U.N. ceiling "means that three quarters of the fossil fuel reserves need to stay in the ground, and the fossil fuels we do use must be utilized sparingly and responsibly," she said.
Oil and gas firms say they are addressing global warming, for instance by focusing on energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies.
In a report on climate change risks on March 31, Exxon Mobil said that all energy sources, including fossil fuels, had to be exploited to meet growing world demand.
"All of Exxon Mobil's current hydrocarbon reserves will be needed, along with substantial industry investments, to address global energy needs," William Colton, vice president of corporate strategic planning, said in a statement.
Figueres has become more outspoken in criticizing the fossil fuel industry in recent months as part of efforts to promote renewable sources such as solar or wind power. In November, she called on the coal industry to clean up.
Carbon capture
She said oil and gas firms should start by reporting risks to their business after governments agreed in 2010 to limit warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.
Temperatures are heading to breach the ceiling.
Figueres, the head of the U.N.'s Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, noted the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the world has already burnt more than half a budget of a billion tonnes of carbon if it wants to stay below 2C.
Companies should also take measures such as cutting methane leaks, lobby for an effective price on carbon emissions and invest in carbon capture and storage (CCS), she said.
CCS, which includes technologies to strip carbon dioxide from the flue gases of power plants, would allow continued output by eliminating most carbon emissions.
So far, however, there are few projects.
Saskatchewan Power in Canada will start its $1.35 billion Boundary Dam coal-fired CCS project this year, capturing a million tonnes annually of carbon dioxide in what it says is the world's first post-combustion coal-fired CCS project.
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Paul stumps with Cuccinelli
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Michael Bloomberg has become the Republicans' favorite punching bag in the closing days of the Virginia gubernatorial race.
Rand Paul seized on the New York City mayor's new $1.1 million TV ad buy, which attacks Republican Ken Cuccinelli for opposing gun control, during a Monday afternoon rally here.
"Once he takes your guns, he's coming after your Big Gulp," the Kentucky senator said.
Cuccinelli told the crowd of several hundred people that he and Paul stopped for Slurpees on the way to the Filipino Cultural Center, their second of three stops together.
"You want to get at the problem, don't take away people's constitutional rights to defend themselves," Cuccinelli said. "Go after the problem."
Paul said that Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who has said in recent days that he does not care about his "F" rating from the National Rifle Association, does not understand the Constitution.
"Some of you get the Second Amendment, but he gets to decide," said Paul. "What I would like to see for Virginia is a candidate who defends the Second Amendment and will be a champion of the Second Amendment."
"And you can't have the Second Amendment unless you're going to defend the First Amendment and the Fourth Amendment," he added.
The billionaire is attacking Cuccinelli for not wanting to close the so-called "gun show loophole," and the commercial he's running in the Washington market highlights the mass shootings at places like Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook and Aurora.
"Every single one of them would have still happened," said Cuccinelli, who advocates better mental health care..
The talk about guns is intended to activate conservatives to volunteer and work for him in a low-turnout election that could be decided by which candidate gets more of his base vote out.


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[Editor's note: This piece was first published in Middle East Matrix http://mideastmatrix.wordpress.com/.
It's becoming increasingly common to assume that Naftali Bennett and Jewish Home will join a Benjamin Netanyahu-led coalition government after the election. I'm not sure it's a done deal, and this piece from Open Zion explains why:
Last week Jonathan Tobin wrote a piece in Commentary explaining the rise of Israel's right. He focused on Jewish Home, the religious Zionist party set to become the third largest party in the Knesset, and its leader Naftali Bennett. After listing Bennett's "advantages" (including being "savvy"), Tobin assumed that Bennett, because he was in a powerful position, would be brought into the next government coalition and "demand and get" a Cabinet position.
The problem with Tobin's assumption about Bennett is just that—it's an assumption. In fact, the evidence suggests the opposite of what Tobin concluded. There's every reason to believe that its Bennett's very strength that will make Bibi nervous and therefore just as likely to exclude Bennett from any coalition. Tobin neglects to mention, for instance, that Netanyahu and Bennett had a major falling out a few years ago, and only recently started speaking again. It's not clear their personal relationship is a strong enough foundation to build on.
Of course, in politics personalities alone don't founder political alliances. But Bibi is in Likud, and he wants his party to maintain control over whatever coalition emerges from the election. A powerful Jewish Home serving in the government, with its own agenda, could derail Bibi's efforts to maintain a stable coalition and endanger his own position.
There is also the image problem. David Horovitz correctly notes that—despite popular misconceptions—Bibi hasn't been building settlements throughout the entire West Bank. But Bennett would—at least throughout Area C, which he wants to annex—while maintaining security control over the rest of the territory. And unlike Bibi, who has publicly said he supports the two-state solution, Bennett has been explicit that the Palestinians won't get their own state.
Bringing Jewish Home into the government will also distract from other issues, particularly social and economic ones—which Israelis have said are their top concerns. Expending resources on settlements at this time might even bring back the ghost of Yitzhak Shamir to haunt Bibi. In the 1992 election, Shamir insisted on defending expenditures on settlements even while Israelis were telling pollsters they wanted the government to focus on issues within the Green Line. Shamir's West Bank focus cost him the election.
Because of all this, Bibi is less comfortable with Bennett than Tobin, and others, assume. He's always had other coalition options, but it's been hard for Bibi to directly attack Bennett. Bennett is very popular, and many among the right and religious Zionist community see him as a savior-type figure. And Bibi's own Likud party's shift to the nationalist right has constrained him.
But Bibi now has his opening. Last Thursday, Bennett said in an interview that if given an order from the army to evacuate settlers from their West Bank homes, he would ask to be excused from carrying it out on the grounds of conscientious objection because "to kick people off of this land is a terrible thing." Bennett added that he wasn't calling for widespread disobedience, but if he personally could ask for an exemption on these grounds, others could as well. He opened the door to mass refusal of IDF orders.
Reactions across the political spectrum came quickly. The leader of a Zionist party contending he'd ignore orders from the military set a dangerous precedent—alternate sources of power and refusal to acknowledge the authority of the state are some of the components that make for a failed state. It's also an unpopular position among rightists and the national-religious for whom the state is an important vehicle for realizing (their understanding of) the Zionist dream.
It took some time for Bennett to fully clarify that he wouldn't disobey the order if his request was rejected. But the point was already made, and for Bibi this was a bigger opportunity: to castigate Jewish Home, and Bennett himself, for its extremist priorities and the damage they would cause Israel in the international arena.
"Anyone who upholds insubordination will not serve in my Cabinet," Netanyahu responded in an interview. Some of his ministers took more direct aim at Bennett. But Bennett then gave Bibi further opportunity by reacting harshly to the criticism, accusing Likud of being behind a series of ads attacking Bennett (and comparing his comment on IDF orders to a similar one made by Labor candidate Merav Michaeli), and claiming Bibi himself opened the "gates of hell" on him.
Painting Bennett as an extremist who will undermine the state itself while strengthening international condemnations of Israel will probably be a new Likud tactic in the days to come. Since Bibi can't attack Jewish Home or Bennett for their lack of dedication to the Land of Israel, hitting them for their lack of dedication to the State of Israel appears to be the next best thing.


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Vasquez, Gordon lead Hornets past 76ers
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The young New Orleans Hornets are growing up in the new year.
Greivis Vasquez scored 23 points, Eric Gordon added 19 and the Hornets beat the Philadelphia 76ers 111-99 on Tuesday night. After losing 13 of 16 in December, New Orleans has won five of eight in January.
Ryan Anderson had 14 points, Xavier Henry scored 11 and Anthony Davis 10 for the Hornets, who are still last in the Western Conference at 12-26 -- including matching 6-13 records at home and on the road.
"We're getting healthy now, and we are becoming a team now," said Vasquez, who added nine assists. "We have guys who can just get out there and go. And I think our best weapon right now is our energy, because we're so young."
Jrue Holiday led the Sixers with 29 points and 11 assists. Nick Young and Evan Turner added 14 points each while Thaddeus Young scored 12.
The Sixers have been inconsistent all season and this game was further proof following a resounding 107-100 victory Saturday over Houston. Philadelphia still hasn't won consecutive games since a three-game streak from Nov. 25-30.
"The disappointing thing for me is night to night, I don't know what I'm going to get," Sixers coach Doug Collins said.
The Sixers began a stretch of 12 of 13 at home with the victory over the Rockets, and appeared to have a good chance to string together a winning streak -- especially with sub-.500 teams New Orleans and Toronto (Friday) coming to town.
Plus, Philadelphia received a dose of good news Monday when All-Star center Andrew Bynum took shots during practice with the coaching staff. Bynum, who has yet to play a game for his new team this season, is currently on a six-step rehabilitation process that he hopes will get him back into the lineup around the Feb. 15 All-Star break.
Bynum has been lifting weights, and he began running on Monday while saying his knees were pain-free.
But the lift from seeing Bynum work out didn't transfer into this game against New Orleans.
"We can't let teams jump on us in the first quarter," Thaddeus Young said.
The Hornets outscored Philadelphia 33-21 in the third quarter, extending a six-point halftime lead to 86-68. New Orleans pushed its lead to 20 following Henry's dunk with 11:26 remaining and the fans vehemently displayed their displeasure with a cascade of boos throughout the arena.
"Third quarter, we got control of the game and our defense really carried us," Hornets coach Monty Williams said. "To come out with that kind of energy, we haven't had a lot of those nights. This is a major step for us and it says a lot about our team."
Collins tried to jump-start his team by putting Nick Young in the lineup to open the fourth. Young was benched against the Rockets and sat for the first three quarters against the Hornets.
But Young sparked the Sixers with 14 points in the fourth and they got within eight on a 3-pointer by Dorell Wright with 5:25 left.
It was too little too late.
"I can't find answers," Collins said. "It's not like I'm not trying."
The Hornets responded and quickly pushed the lead back to 105-91 after a 3-pointer by Vasquez.
"We have raised the expectation level for us," Gordon said. "When we have consistent play, and you combine that with the chemistry we now have, it is something to build off."
New Orleans was strong throughout the first half and took a 53-47 halftime lead thanks to 57-percent shooting (24 for 42).
NOTES: The Hornets shot 16 of 21 (76.2 percent) in the first quarter. . The Sixers knocked down six 3-pointers in the first, a team high for any quarter this season. . Holiday recorded his 10th double-double of the season.


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In the aftermath of the US election, proudly progressive Israel-haters have been happy to tell everyone who'd listen that they have been right all along – alt-right, to be precise. About a week after the election, Ali Abunimah informedhis Electronic Intifada readers that Trump might be "bringing 'white Zionism' to the White House." He explained what "white Zionism" is supposed to be by citing the – in my view well-deserved– criticism of Steve Bannon's leadership role at Breitbart News, which "regularly published materials designed to stoke fears about African Americans, Latinos, Muslims and other groups, and to explicitly normalize white nationalist and white supremacist beliefs." Abunimah then declared triumphantly: "This so-called alt-right ideology has been described by one of its key promoters as a form of 'white Zionism.'"
Well, to Ali Abunimah it must have seemed like a golden opportunity: when half of America was in shock about Trump's unexpected election victory and appalled by the prospectof an empowered alt-right, why not seize the moment and come up with a spin that might convince all these people that Zionism was just as bad and despicable???
But Abunimah was by no means the only one to demonize Zionism as the Jewish version of white supremacism: at the hate site Mondoweiss, Phillip Weiss accusedrenowned Holocaust scholar Deborah E. Lipstadt of "advocating a double standard" if she was denouncing "white nationalism as a white supremacist ideology" without condemning "Jewish nationalism" in the same terms.
A more recent post at Mondoweiss gloats about the widely reported failure of Hillel rabbi Matt Rosenberg at Texas A&M University to respond to alt-right leader Richard Spencer's claim that Jews refused to assimilate and thus remained "a coherent people with a history and a culture and a future," and that he just wants the same for whites. As Mondoweisscontributor Jonathan Ofir concludes, "Spencer masterfully put Rosenberg in a checkmate" by exposing "how Zionism and white-supremacy in fact dovetail."
It's good to know that alt-leftanti-Israel activists would feel so elated to have their demonization of Zionism validated by the 'masterful' leader of the alt-right… The intellectual depth displayed here reminds me of Rania Khalek's excuse when she was caught linking to a Holocaust denial site and then claimed it had just been "an error," insisting at the same time that the book she had recommended from the site was "completely factual." As I wrote at the time, Khalek was apparently convinced that a site devoted to minimizing Nazi crimes and defending people "not believing in the existence of gas chambers" can be trusted to feature a "completely factual" book that presents Zionist Jews as Nazi collaborators – which is obviously an idea that deserves as much ridicule and contempt as the notion that a white supremacist site would be a good place to find a "completely factual" book on blacks.
What anti-Israel activists who feel that the alt-right's supposed affinity for Zionism validates their own "anti-Zionism" really tell us is that their view of Zionism has little to do with realities in the world's only Jewish state.
Let's look first at what Spencer means by "White Zionism". This is how he put it at an alt-right gathering in 2013:
"For us 'immigration' is a proxy for race. In that way, immigration can be good or bad: it can be a conquest (as it seems now) . . . or a European in-gathering, something like White Zionism. It all depends on the immigrants. And we should open our minds to the positive possibilities of mass immigration from the White world."
More recently, Spencer told the notorious alt-right gathering in Washington D.C. something very similar as he told Hillel rabbi Matt Rosenberg at Texas A&M University:
"The Jews exist precisely because they were apart, precisely because they had, maybe you could say, a bit of paranoia about trying to stay away — please don't quote paranoia," Spencer said."
Right, let's not quote "paranoia" – it's perhaps not the best word to describe the results of more than a thousand years of antisemitism…
But in any case, others at the gathering agreed that the Jews provided an excellent example for white nationalists. As one participant put it: "The opposition to intermarriage. The creation of their own state. The recreation of their language. This is the greatest triumph of racial idealism in history."
So let's start with intermarriage (and leave aside that I'm writing this as a naturalized non-Jewish Israeli citizen who "intermarried" with a Jew). While the alt-right hopes to be able to mainstream their ideas under President Trump, they presumably know that Trump's daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism and married a Jew. So if white nationalists want to emulate Jews, they've surely developed some ideas about how non-Whites can convert to being white? And another interesting question: what language do white nationalists plan to recreate?
Anyway, to clarify things a bit more, I thought white nationalists might find it useful to contemplate this image before praising Israel for any supposed "greatest triumph of racial idealism in history"…
Mhm, you think this is how white nationalists would want their army to look? And, incidentally, how do you think white nationalists would feel if they knew the storyof former Israeli president Moshe Katsav, who was found guilty of sexual offenses and sentenced to a lengthy prison term by a well-respected Christian Arab judge? If white nationalists see Israel as their example, maybe we should expect that they'll have well-respected Black Muslim judges in their state?
I could go on, but I agree with Gilead Ini's recent remark on Twitter: taking the alt-right's professed admiration for the world's only Jewish state seriously, and trying to show how insincere and uninformed it is, may not make more sense than countering other libels, like "arguing that Zionism isn't Nazism or that Jews don't drink blood."
But the alt-left's eagerness to embrace the alt-right's fantasy of Israel as a validation of campaigns aimed at eliminating the world's only Jewish state shows how alike both fringes are: the alt-right wants a white state without Jews, the alt-left wants a world without a Jewish state – and if their respective visions were to come true, the alt-right couldn't care less about the fate of Jews in the diaspora, while the alt-left couldn't care less about the fate of Jews in Israel.
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Wernlin, Jörg (d. ca. 1559)
Jörg Wernlin (Wern, Werlin, Werner), (d. ca. 1559), called Scherer, the son of Georg Wernlin of Esslingen, who was a student at the University of Heidelberg in 1483 and was in 1523 the notary and secretary of the monastery at Adelberg. Jörg Wernlin studied the profession of barber-surgeon in Ulm, presumably with Nikolaus Launer, a physician suspected of Anabaptist sympathies. In 1530 Wernlin was arrested as an Anabaptist and chained in the hospital; then he was transferred to the prison as a dangerous preacher who led many astray; and finally, in spite of the pleas of his pregnant wife, he was expelled from the town because he refused to render the required oath. As Jörg Werlin Gunzenhofen (?), probably from Gunzenhausen, he tried to return to Ulm in 1531-32; he probably succeeded. He then became the doctor of the poor in the hospital and almshouse. In 1533 he apparently went to Moravia, but finding himself in disagreement with the Hutterites he returned to Ulm. In 1537 he was again expelled because of his Anabaptism. He betook himself to the Remstal, lived in the hamlet Wieler zum Stein, district of Marbach, in 1539, and as Jörg Schere served as a wound doctor. In 1540 he was in Esslingen and Stetten in the Remstal, which belonged to Hans Konrad Thumb of Neuburg, who sheltered Anabaptists and Schwenckfelders. In 1544 Wernlin became acquainted with Pilgram Marpeck and Schwenckfeld. He worked zealously in the Anabaptist cause. He was in Kirchenkirnberg in 1552. As Vorsteher of the Swiss Brethren he gathered from 70 to 100 people once a month for religious services in the woods around Esslingen, baptized, and in isolated homes served communion as late as 1557. He joined Pilgram Marpeck in resisting Schwenckfeld's attacks on the Anabaptists.
Blätter fur Württembergische Kirchengesch (1897): 118.
Bossert, Gustav. Quellen zur Geschichte der Täufer I. Band, Herzogtum Württemberg. Leipzig: M. Heinsius, 1930.
City Archives of Ulm, Rats- und Religionsprotokoll.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. IV, 495-496.
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We're never short on "fallen starlets." Britney, Lindsay, and now, Mischa, have all been providing lurid headlines for years, tales of their struggles with addiction and mental illness pushing them from one end of the celebrity spectrum to the other.
The Fallen Starlet story is as old as Hollywood itself: drug addiction, drinking problems, and mental illness are all "exciting" story lines that capture the public's attention, if only because they poke holes in the glossy facade of celebrity, and provide proof that even the most beautiful, the most famous, the most admired can be just as screwed up—if not more so—than the rest of us.
And yet, with all of the cautionary tales, the Hollywood machine continues to suck young women in and spit them out once they're past their "peak." Our response, as an audience to all of this—and we are an audience, mind you, following these very real people through very real problems via secondhand reports, paparazzi shots, and orchestrated interviews with "friends" and publicists—is usually to blame the actress herself. She's an addict! She's wasting her talent! She's wasting her opportunities! She's replacable! She's an embarrassment! She's worthless! And so on and so forth.
I came across a particularly nasty article this morning written by a female college student at Michigan State University, who decided to use the very public career troubles of both Mischa Barton and tabloid punching bag Tara Reid to write a "humorous" post titled "Celebretard Showdown." The author begins by expressing her delight at Barton's recent psychiatric hospitalization: "I gotta admit, I really do enjoy watching a mediocre TV actress fall from grace (and she fell hard!)," she writes, before comparing Barton and Reid in various categories to determine which of the two is the ultimate "Celebretard." Ugh. Just a helpful tip: if you are going to write an incredibly nasty article about two actresses who have succumbed to the pressures of Hollywood in fairly depressing ways, it is probably best to avoid attacking them for their lack of "class."
The article goes on to determine that Barton, though a "fail" as an actress, has a shot at recovering her career. As for Reid? "Maybe if she worked more and spent less time romping around random beaches she'd be less of a whore. Maybe." As gross as this article is, it's also a pretty good representation of the types of articles written every time a young actress has a public breakdown. Instead of taking shots at the industry and the pressures placed on these young women to look and act a certain way, we go after the actresses themselves, with claws out and guns blazing, ready to punish them for having highly publicized problems.
This is not to say that we need to hold Mischa Barton Rallies around the country just because we happen to share genitalia. Nor do I think we need to light a candle for Lindsay Lohan every time she's photographed drinking or walking around without pants. I'm sure many of us have friends who have gone through similarly dark times with alcoholism or drug addiction, and have experienced the same kind of exasperation as the illness seems to swallow the person we knew, but with Lohan and Barton, two women who have been acting since childhood, the problems are magnified and handed out to the general public for judging and speculation, and we all tend to point fingers at the women for "screwing up," rather than the system for screwing them up.
Perhaps, in a way, we make jokes and write nasty pieces in order to distance ourselves from the reality of the situation. And perhaps it's easier to blame a select few than to blame society in general, or the way women are packaged, pushed, and ultimately disposed of in Hollywood. In mocking the sad stories, we find a sense of distance and peace; the more ridiculous the story becomes, the less real at seems. We're not attacking fellow women in that way, then—we're attacking characters that Hollywood has created and destroyed for our personal amusement.
It's easy for us to crack jokes about the soap-opera esque nature of these women's lives: Britney's pink wig days, Lindsay's drunk driving, and Tara Reid's sad drunken tours around the world have spawned millions of nasty zingers over the past few years. These were young women who, we believe, had everything: money, beauty, fame, and opportunities, and they squandered such things in favor of drugs, drinking, and shitty ex-husbands. But does anyone really believe that any of these women wanted to let go of such things in order to become a tabloid joke? Does anyone really think that the decisions these women have made were based on rational thought patterns? Probably not. And yet we still insist upon kicking them when they're down, just in case the fall from their pedestal wasn't painful enough.
Celebretard Showdown: Mischa Barton Vs. Tara Reid [College Candy]
Did Mischa Barton Try To Kill Herself? [NYDN]


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The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR)
The brainchild of Robert G. Jahn, who, in 1979, when he was Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, claimed he wanted "to pursue rigorous scientific study of the interaction of human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes common to contemporary engineering practice." In short, he wanted to be a parapsychologist and test psychokinesis (PK) and remote viewing (called remote perception by the PEAR folks). The PEAR folks are best known for their study of the mind influencing the behavior of machines, so this entry will focus on that work.
Scientists have been unable to find any clear and decisive evidence for psychokinesis. Those who claimed to move objects with only the power of their mind use tricks such as blowing on objects, moving them with thin threads, and using static charges to move objects. Some parapsychologists have not given up the chase, however. They began searching for micro-psychokinesis (MPK), minds affecting machines in ways that can't be detected except by statistics. Just as significant variance from chance in an ESP experiment is taken as evidence of ESP (the psi assumption), so a statistically significant deviation from chance in an MPK experiment is taken as evidence of MPK.
The PEAR lab shut down in February 2007 to a yawning scientific community.
In the 1960s, physicist and parapsychologist Helmut Schmidt started using random event generators to do MPK experiments. According to Dean Radin (1997), over the years Schmidt provided solid scientific support for the MPK hypothesis (or precognition, since there does not seem to be any way to tell the difference between MPK and precognition. Is the mind affecting the outcome of a random event generator or is anticipating what the outcome will be?)
In 1986, Jahn, Brenda Dunne, and Roger Nelson reported on millions of trials with 33 subjects over seven years trying to use their minds to override random number generators (RNG). Think of the RNG as producing zeros and ones. Over the long haul, the laws of probability predict that in a truly random sequence, there should be 50% of each produced. The subjects in the PEAR experiments tried to use their minds to produce more zeros (or ones, depending on the assignment). In short, the PEAR people did what many drivers do when they try to use their thoughts to make a red light turn green.
Radin thinks the PEAR group replicated Schmidt's work in 258 experimental studies and 127 control studies. C. E. M. Hansel examined the studies done after 1969 and before 1987 that attempted to replicate Schmidt's work. He notes: "The main fact that emerges from this data is that 71 experiments gave a result supporting Schmidt's findings and 261 experiments failed to do so" (Hansel 1989: 185). That is the beauty of meta-analysis: you can transform a failure rate of nearly 4 to 1 into a grand success.
In 1987, Dean Radin and Nelson did a meta-analysis of all RNG experiments done between 1959 and 1987 and found that they produced odds against chance beyond a trillion to one (Radin 1997: 140). This sounds impressive, but as Radin says "in terms of a 50% hit rate, the overall experimental effect, calculated per study, was about 51 percent, where 50 percent would be expected by chance" [emphasis added] (141). A couple of sentences later, Radin gives a more precise rendering of "about 51 percent" by noting that the overall effect was "just under 51 percent." Similar results were found with experiments where people tried to use their minds to affect the outcome of rolls of the dice, according to Radin. And, when Nelson did his own analysis of all the PEAR data (1,262 experiments involving 108 people), he found similar results to the earlier RNG studies but "with odds against chance of four thousand to one" (Radin 1997: 143). Nelson also claimed that there were no "star" performers.
However, according to Ray Hyman, "the percentage of hits in the intended direction was only 50.02%" in the PEAR studies (Hyman 1989: 152). And one 'operator' (the term used to describe the subjects in these studies) was responsible for 23% of the total data base. Her hit rate was 50.05%. Take out this operator and the hit rate becomes 50.01%. According to John McCrone, "Operator 10," believed to be a PEAR staff member, "has been involved in 15% of the 14 million trials, yet contributed to a full half of the total excess hits" (McCrone 1994). According to Dean Radin, the criticism that there "was any one person responsible for the overall results of the experiment...was tested and found to be groundless" (Radin 1997: 221). His source for this claim is a 1991 article by Jahn et al. in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, "Count population profiles in engineering anomalies experiments" (5:205-32). However, Jahn gives the data for his experiments in Margins of Reality: The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World (Harcourt Brace, 1988, p. 352-353). McCrone has done the calculations and found that 'If [operator 10's] figures are taken out of the data pool, scoring in the "low intention" condition falls to chance while "high intention" scoring drops close to the .05 boundary considered weakly significant in scientific results."
According to McCrone, the "size of the effect is about .1 percent, meaning that for every thousand electronic tosses, the random event generator is producing about one more head or tail than it should by chance alone" (McCrone 1994). Jahn says that the measured effect of MPK was "not large enough that you're going to notice it over a brief experiment, but over very long periods of study, we see a systematic departure of the behavior of the machine in correlation with what the operator wants it to do" (Park 2000: 198). Most experiments in medicine or psychology use fewer than 100 trials, or perhaps a few hundred at most. Big trials will have 25,000 or more subjects. Massive prospective studies might survey 250,000 people. The most commonly used P-value in the social sciences and medical studies is P<0.05, where there is a one in twenty chance that the result is a statistical fluke. The 95% confidence interval, used as a standard in most of these studies, is arbitrary, however. It can be traced back to the 1930s and R. A. Fisher. There is nothing sacred about the standard, but it was not introduced to be used with studies having millions of data points. The RNG studies go into the millions of trials, allowing a very small effect to generate a very large statistic. When we're dealing with small effects and millions of trials "even the slightest departure from the assumptions might suffice to produce artificially significant outcomes" (Hyman 1989: 151). The main assumption that Jahn and his colleagues made may not be warranted. "It is not clear that any of these machines is truly random. Indeed, it is generally believed that there are no truly random machines. It may be that lack of randomness only begins to show up after many trials" (Park 2000: 199).
These data should remind us that statistical significance does not imply importance. Science that claims to have identified barely detectable causal agents observed near the threshold of sensation, which are nevertheless asserted to have been detected with great accuracy and be of great significance, is one of the signs of what Irving Langmuir called pathological science and Bob Park calls voodoo science.
Furthermore, Stanley Jeffers, a physicist at York University, Ontario, has repeated the Jahn experiments but with chance results (Alcock 2003: 135-152). (See "Physics and Claims for Anomalous Effects Related to Consciousness" in Alcock et al. 2003. Abstract.) And Jahn et al. failed to replicate the PEAR results in experiments done in Germany (See "Mind/Machine Interaction Consortium: PortREG Replication Experiments," Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 499–555, 2000).
Based on the results of these experiments, Radin claims that "researchers have produced persuasive, consistent, replicated evidence that mental intention is associated with the behavior of …physical systems" (Radin 1997: 144). That sounds like a hasty conclusion to me. He also claims that "the experimental results are not likely due to chance, selective reporting, poor experimental design, only a few individuals, or only a few experimenters" (Radin 1997: 144). He's probably right except for the bit about it being unlikely that the experimental results are due to chance or to only a few individuals.
Jahn, six of his associates, and PEAR even have a patent (US5830064) on an "Apparatus and method for distinguishing events which collectively exceed chance expectations and thereby controlling an output." The PEAR people are so convinced of the breakthrough nature of their work that they have incorporated as Mindsong Inc. They claim their corporation "is developing a range of breakthrough products and research tools based on a provocative new technology—proprietary microelectronics which are responsive to the inner states of living systems." One of their breakthrough products is some software "that allows you to influence, with your mind, which of two images will be displayed on your computer screen." They also sell a device for several hundred dollars that lets you do your own testing of mental influence on randomized outputs.
On their website, PEAR states that after more than twenty-five years they are shutting down and moving on. "Over the next few years, PEAR will be concluding its experimental operations at Princeton University," says the notice on their "Future" tab.* It seems that Bob Jahn and Brenda Dunne are not quitting, however, for they are looking for a number of like-minded folks who want to spend their time or money on the study of minds interacting with machines. They've set up a new outfit called International Consciousness Research Laboratories. As their first fundraiser, they are selling "a multi-DVD/CD set entitled The PEAR Proposition" for a mere $62, including psychic shipping and handling. The replication studies are available on a blank DVD disc, available at no cost to true believers.
Perhaps the most disconcerting thing about PEAR is the fact that suggestions by critics that should have been considered were routinely ignored. Physicist Bob Park reports, for example, that he suggested to Jahn two types of experiments that would have bypassed the main criticisms aimed at PEAR. Why not do a double-blind experiment? asked Park. Have a second RNG determine the task of the operator and do not let this determination be known to the one recording the results. This could have eliminated the charge of experimenter bias. Another experiment, however, could have eliminated most criticism. Park suggested that PEAR have operators try to use their minds to move a "state-of-the-art microbalance" (Park 2008, 138-139). A microbalance can make precise measurements on the order of a millionth of a gram. One doesn't need to be clairvoyant to figure out why this suggestion was never heeded.
See related entries on confirmation bias, ESP, experimenter effect, ganzfeld experiments, law of truly large numbers, meta-analysis, occult statistics, parapsychology, pathological science, psi assumption, post hoc fallacy, psychokinesis, and A Short History of Psi Research by Robert Todd Carroll.
further reading
books and articles
Alcock, James E., Jean Burns, and Anthony Freeman (2003). Editors. Psi Wars: Getting to Grips with the Paranormal. Imprint Academic.
Ehrlich, Robert (2003). Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of Homosexuality to the Benefits of Global Warming. Princeton University Press. (Ehrlich, a physicist, considers the proposition that we can influence matter by mind alone to be highly preposterous, meriting four flakes (out of four) on his flakeometer.)
Hansel, C. E. M. (1989). The Search for Psychic Power: ESP and Parapsychology Revisited. Prometheus Books,
Hyman, Ray (1989). The Elusive Quarry: a Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research. Prometheus Books.
Hyman, Ray. 1996. "The Evidence for Psychic Functioning: Claims vs. Reality." Skeptical Inquirer.
McCrone, J. (1994) "Psychic powers: What are the odds?" The New Scientist. November 1994, pp. 34-38.
Park, Robert L. Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Oxford U. Press, 2000).
Park, Robert L. (2008). Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science. Princeton University Press.
Radin, Dean (1997). The Conscious Universe - The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. HarperCollins.
Critique of the PEAR Remote-Viewing Experiments (1992) by George P. Hansen, Jessica Utts, Betty Markwick, Journal of Parapsychology, Vol. 56, No. 2, June, pp. 97-113.
Evaluation of Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena (1995) by Ray Hyman
Slashdot - News for Nerds, IBM and Mind Input Devices
The Princeton Engineering Anomalies
STATS - Statistics and the Media (This site had nothing to do with PEAR but since PEAR's claims are based upon statistical analysis of data, I thought some readers might like to look at a site that does nothing but look at statistical data and examine what some people try to do with that data.)


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This may change the way dyslexia is diagnosed : Stanford brain imagingstudy shows physiological basi
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have used an imaging technique to show that the brain activation patterns in children with poor reading skills and a low IQ are similar to those in poor readers with a typical IQ. The work provides more definitive evidence about poor readers having similar kinds of difficulties regardless of their general cognitive ability.
Schools and psychologists have historically relied on a child's IQ to define and diagnose dyslexia, a brain-based learning disability that impairs a person's ability to read: If a child's reading achievement was below expectation based on IQ, he would be considered dyslexic, while a poor reader with a low IQ would receive some other diagnosis. But these new findings provide "biological evidence that IQ should not be emphasized in the diagnosis of reading abilities," said Fumiko Hoeft, MD, Ph.D, an instructor at Stanford's Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research, who is senior author of the study, which will appear in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science.
The new results come in the wake of recent behavioral studies showing that phonological deficits — that is, difficulties in processing the sound system of language, which often leads to difficulties in connecting the sounds of language to letters — are similar in poor readers regardless of IQ. Indeed, the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act mandated that states no longer require school districts to use IQ tests in identifying individuals with learning disabilities such as dyslexia.
"There's a disassociation between what is established in research and what is happening in practice," said Hoeft, explaining that many U.S. schools still rely on a discrepancy between reading achievement and IQ to define and diagnose dyslexia. At first glance, she added, it would seem to make sense that poor readers with typical IQs would have different learning challenges than those with low ones.
The use of IQ in diagnosing dyslexia, which affects 5 to 17 percent of U.S. children, has real implications for poor readers. If children aren't diagnosed as dyslexic, they don't qualify for services that a typical dyslexic does, and they're not taught strategies to overcome specific problems in the way they view and process words.
To further understand what happens in the brains of poor readers with different IQs, Hoeft turned to imaging. She and her colleagues expected poor readers with typical IQs to exhibit similar patterns of brain activation as poor readers with low IQs. Their experiments, she said, were intended to confirm that the two groups had the same neurophysiological basis for impaired phonological processing and that their reading problems were not related to IQ.
The study involved 131 children, ranging from 7 to 16 years old, from Allegheny County, Penn., and the San Francisco Bay Area. The children were put into three groups: poor readers with typical IQ, poor readers with low IQ and typical readers with typical IQ. The children then took a reading test and underwent a brain-imaging technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, as they completed a task that involved judging whether two visually presented words rhymed (e.g., bait and gate) or not (e.g., price or miss).
In both samples, the typical readers had significantly higher reading-related scores and more accurate performance on the rhyme-judgment task than the two other groups. And there were no significant differences between the two groups of poor readers on these measures.
In the fMRI analysis, researchers found that both groups of poor readers exhibited significantly reduced activations relative to typical readers in the left inferior parietal lobule and left fusiform gyrus. The researchers also used a sophisticated analysis to determine that the brain patterns of each group of poor readers looked liked those of the other group of poor readers more than 80 percent of the time, and did not often resemble the patterns from the normal readers.
Hoeft noted that the results are timely. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the standard diagnostic guide for mental illnesses and brain disorders, is currently being revised, and there is a proposal to change it so that IQ wouldn't be taken into consideration when diagnosing dyslexia. (The new version, DSM V, will be released in 2013.) This work, she said, is the, "first study reporting biological neuroimaging evidence to support" that change.
"Convergent psychological, educational and now neurobiological evidence suggests that the long-standing and widely applied diagnosis of dyslexia by IQ discrepancy is not supported," the researchers wrote in the paper.
Hoeft and her colleagues also point out that these and other findings indicate that, "any child with a reading difficulty, regardless of his or her general level of cognitive abilities (IQ), should be encouraged to seek reading intervention."
Hoeft said she will continue her work in this area and is hoping to use imaging to predict outcomes of poor readers. She also plans to look at younger readers to see if imaging can be used to diagnose children at younger ages.
### The study's two lead authors are Stanford graduate student Hiroko Tanaka and Jessica Black, Ph.D, of Boston College. The other Stanford co-authors are graduate student Leanne Stanley; Shelli Kesler, Ph.D, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences; and Allan Reiss, MD, the Howard C. Robbins Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, a professor of radiology and the director of Stanford's Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are also co-authors.
The work was supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Richard King Mellon Foundation, Ellison Medical Foundation, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, Spectrum Child Health & Clinical and Translational Science Award, Dyslexia Foundation and the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression.
Information about the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, which also supported the research, is available at http://psychiatry.stanford.edu/.
Image credit : famouspeople-dyslexia, a photo by aeckel on Flickr.


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So adorable. I would love to make one but I know that I would have to have you sit next to me and show me step by step.ReplyDelete
Sooooo love it! You think Size 14 in womens is too large?ReplyDelete
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OMG, I'm in looooove! You're so creative, Julie! Hmm...I've got plenty of jeans to cut up, but what are the chaces I could learn to sew by the 4th?! LOL!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness! That is soooo getting copied. Thanks for the idea!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousJune 25, 2009 at 4:41 PM
I think that is the cutest little assistant I have ever seen. Awesome tutorial!ReplyDelete
TUTU Cute! I love these and I wonder if I can crank out 2 before the 4th!?!?! Hmm, better go fabric shopping!ReplyDelete
I love that pic of Janey grabbing the tulle! cracks me up!ReplyDelete
I would love to make this but not enough time for me. Maybe next year! (Love the assistant!)ReplyDelete
Oh my this is so cute! I love the entire outfit. Maybe I can pull it off by next week.ReplyDelete
super cute idea! :) love it.ReplyDelete
If only I had a girl. Love love love them! Someday maybe. Maybe for my neice next year when she is a wee bit bigger. You seriously are such a fun Mom! And I bet that firecracker will be LOVING to show it off on the 4th of July!ReplyDelete
Here is me being INSANELY jealous of all your amazing talent! My sweet girl would look DARLING in one of those. If only I knew how to sew...ReplyDelete
TUTU cute for sure!
very cute! i think I might make one for Canada Day (July 1st)ReplyDelete
Cute pictures! The reluctant model in your photoshoot did a great job. :-)ReplyDelete
what an absolutely fantastic idea! It took me a while to realize (6 pairs of jeans later)that one of my daughters WILL NOT wear jeans either. That is a great use for them!ReplyDelete
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Your pictures are great. :) And putting the tulle skirt on a jean waistband is ingenious!!! You're brilliant. :)ReplyDelete
if only I had the time as well... I have plenty of jeans!! I can't wait to try this idea out. Thanks julie!ReplyDelete
Ok, that is tutu cute (ha ha!!!) I love it!ReplyDelete
What a cute idea! I like your way of gathering the tulle. I've made a tutu before by knotting it on elastic, and I really didn't like how it turned out.ReplyDelete
I have a question: How do you get this on? Does it close at the snaps? Or do you slip it on?ReplyDelete
It doesn't look like it is open at the snaps in front, but I would think it would be hard to slide on a non-elastic tutu.
Very cute!!! Love your assistant. My girls wont wear jeans either but I'm sewing machine challenged so I will just have to drool over your creations :)ReplyDelete
Darling, darling, darling! And your assistants? D-A-R-L-I-N-G!ReplyDelete
Does your baby ever frown? Even when she's in attack mode she is smiling!ReplyDelete
so cute joy! love it!ReplyDelete
oh my gosh...i so just called you joy....ReplyDelete
I swear I know your name...i am so blaming it on my baby blues brain mushiness...somebody slap me...
but it really is a very cute tutu!
SO adorable! I love how you used jeans for the waistband!ReplyDelete
Too adorable!!! I can't wait to have kids of my own and make some adorable outfits like that! (hopefully I have girls so I can play dress up!!)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the tut. Very sweet - here is a question. Any tip on washing tule?ReplyDelete
from the vintage pearl...love theReplyDelete
4th of july tutu!!!
What a cute tutu! I know my friends little girly girl would love that!ReplyDelete
Oh that is SO CUTE!! I'm with your girls, I would actually rather where dresses everyday too. But, I have to admit - that some days, I DO enjoy wearing my jeans :)ReplyDelete
Your 'assistant' is too cute! I have the perfect assistant, too, now I just need to learn how to sew! :) What a great tutorial, thanks!ReplyDelete
What a great idea!! You are so crafty!! Love it.ReplyDelete
Very cute! What a great project! My girls didn't like jeans either - I think it's from those years of wearing easy up-and-down pants while potty training! Imagine my oldest daughter's chagrin when I told her she had to start wearing jeans because I couldn't find anything but jeans at the store last fall for 9 year olds.ReplyDelete
I love it! And, I love that candy can make your lil flash such a sweet smile!ReplyDelete
Love the patriotic style! So cute!ReplyDelete
What a fun tutorial! I'm linking up to you from the Vintage Pearl, hoping to win one of your sweet flower clips for my daughter. I LOVE them. Too cute! (and your daughters are too cute modeling them!)ReplyDelete
Great idea! I am going to make one right away!! I love your etsy shop! Great stuff! :)ReplyDelete
you have the cutest little firecrackers around!ReplyDelete
Found you through vintage pearl and I'm glad I did...love that tutu!!ReplyDelete
I love your tutu idea!! Super cute!!ReplyDelete
Love this...making it this weekend. I so saw you on Momtog and bookmarked you, then my computer crashed and I hadn't found you again, yet!! Now I have! I have 2 firecrackers that enjoy their tutus as well.ReplyDelete
cute idea.ReplyDelete
i'm glad to see your employees don't always cooperate too. :-)
OMGOSH this is the cutest tutu I have seen! I found your blog from Erin and your etsy shop- your stuff is awesome!!ReplyDelete
Your girls are TOO MUCH! Simply adorable!!!ReplyDelete
Love the tutu too!
i've recently started reading your blog...and then saw you had a giveaway at vintage pearl!! i so hope i win! i so had to show some blog love to you!!ReplyDelete
love your style girl...
so very creative!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh! Thank you for the amazing tutorial. And your messy flowers are just GORGEOUS! I may need one to celebrate July 4th! :o)ReplyDelete
Cute - thanks for the tutorial!ReplyDelete
Love it...you are SO creative! I wish I had an oz of your creativity!ReplyDelete
So talented!ReplyDelete
SO adorable! I came here from Vintage Pearl... love your work! :-)ReplyDelete
Cute idea to use a waistband from a pair of pants!ReplyDelete
I love your blog! Your girls are BEYOND precious!ReplyDelete
What an adorable idea. Know if only I knew how to use a sewing machine :)ReplyDelete
How nice of you to share this tutorial. I made one for each of Da'Gorgeouses for their 3rd birthday, it wasn't sewn like this one, but it was a BIG hit!ReplyDelete
Hugs & Blessings!
so stinkin' cute!!! i love your stuff and the tutorial.ReplyDelete
The Vintage Pearl sent me your way! I love your signs and super cute tutu!!ReplyDelete
What a great blog...I LOVE the bows and the simple signs. Could you do names? Great work :)ReplyDelete
That's great! My 5 year old sister would love that. Thanks for the instructions and such! =)ReplyDelete
very cute. I entered your giveaway on Vintage pearl.ReplyDelete
So adorable. I wish I was that talented.ReplyDelete
I love the tutu idea, and the entire patriotic outfit is adorable!!ReplyDelete
This is so cute...Your headbands are way cute too.ReplyDelete
Oh my Gosh this is so very cute!ReplyDelete
LOVE your blog, I will be bookmarking the pattern for the tutu!!ReplyDelete
You, darling, are one of the most talented and creative women that I have known! Well, I don't know you, but you know what I mean :)ReplyDelete
LOVE it!! Wow. It's gorgeous!!
I love your 4th of July outfit, so cute!!ReplyDelete
Sew fun!!! I love all of your stuff!!!ReplyDelete
That is such a cool idea. I know my daughter would have been in love with that when she was younger. Red, white and blue are her favorite colors. Soooo neat and creative. I am jealous.ReplyDelete
I hope my daughter is a "girly girl" and only wants to wear dresses and skirts! The tutu is adorable!ReplyDelete
so cute- I'll have to keep these directions for when my little pumpkin gets a bit older!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 1, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Oh my gosh this is soooo adorable! I am really wishing I had a daughter to make one for. Don't think the 4 boys would appreciate it. :)ReplyDelete
Just found your blog and I am loving it!
This is so precious!ReplyDelete
I just adore this. My daughter is 2 months old & I cannot wait to make her one of these.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 2, 2009 at 7:52 PM
Ya see. Projects like this make me wish I had a little girl.ReplyDelete
That is an absolutely darling outfit! I linked to this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.comReplyDelete
Thanks for the inspiration...posted pictures on my blog today: www.whatcanmakemefeelthisway.blogspot.comReplyDelete
Wow! A jean waistband and a tutu? Brilliant! I am linking back to you at my blog! Thanks!ReplyDelete
I have been looking every for intructions to make these..ReplyDelete
Thank you !!
Now I'm off to search ebay for CHEAP jeans to cut up !!
What a great idea. I am sewing challenged and I think I could actually make this . Thanks for making it look so easy. OHHHHH and your assistant is BEAUTIFUL.ReplyDelete
Girly girl but with a twist.Cute!ReplyDelete


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The following is an excerpt from The MacArthur New Testament Commentary on Revelation 2-3.
the church in Ephesus (2:1a)
Perhaps no church in history had as rich a heritage as the congregation at Ephesus. The gospel was introduced to that city by Paul's close friends and partners in ministry, Priscilla and Aquila (Acts 18:18–19). They were soon joined by the eloquent preacher and powerful debater Apollos (Acts 18:24–26). Priscilla, Aquila, and Apollos laid the groundwork for Paul's ministry in Ephesus.
The apostle Paul stopped briefly in Ephesus near the end of his second missionary journey (Acts 18:19–21), but his real ministry in that key city took place on his third missionary journey. Arriving in Ephesus, he first encountered a group of Old Testament saints, followers of John the Baptist (Acts 19:1–7). After preaching the gospel to them, he baptized them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 19:5). That began Paul's work of building the church at Ephesus—a work that would last for three years (Acts 20:31). Later, on his way to Jerusalem near the end of his third missionary journey, he taught the elders of the Ephesian church the essential principles of church leadership (Acts 20:17–38), the gist of which he later expanded in his pastoral epistles. Paul's protég é Timothy served as pastor of the church at Ephesus (1 Tim. 1:3). Onesiphorus (2 Tim. 1:16, 18) and Tychicus (2 Tim 4:12), two more of Paul's fellow laborers, also ministered at Ephesus. Finally, according to the testimony of the early church, the apostle John spent the last decades of his life at Ephesus, from which he likely wrote his three epistles in which he calls himself "the elder" (cf. 2 John 1; 3 John 1). He was no doubt leading the Ephesian church when he was arrested and exiled to Patmos.
Dramatic and remarkable events accompanied the birth of the Ephesian church. Paul's ministry profoundly affected not only the city of Ephesus, but also the entire province of Asia (Acts 19:10). As previously noted, it was undoubtedly during this time that the rest of the seven churches were founded. God supernaturally affirmed Paul as His spokesman through a series of spectacular miracles (Acts 19:11–12). Attempting to emulate Paul's success, a group of Jewish would-be exorcists were beaten and humiliated by a demon-possessed individual (Acts 19:13–16). Their debacle spread consternation and fear throughout the city, causing "the name of the Lord Jesus [to be] magnified" (Acts 19:17). Shocked into realizing the futility of trusting in pagan practices, "many also of those who had believed kept coming, confessing and disclosing their practices. And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver" (vv. 18–19). That staggering sum, equivalent to 50,000 days of workers' wages, reveals the magnitude of Ephesus's involvement in the magic arts.
The striking conversions of large numbers of Ephesians posed a severe economic threat to the city's pagan craftsmen. Ephesus was the center of the worship of the goddess Artemis (known to the Romans as Diana), whose ornate temple was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. At the instigation of a silversmith named Demetrius the craftsmen, who saw their lucrative business endangered, reacted violently. The ensuing riot threw Ephesus into chaos (Acts 19:23–41).
By the time of this letter, four decades had passed since the Ephesian church's tumultuous birth. The apostle Paul was gone, as were many of the first generation of believers converted under his ministry. A new situation called for another inspired letter to the Ephesians, this one from the Lord Himself, penned by the apostle John.


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