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Pence skips Faith & Freedom conference. Is attacked by Trump anyways. – POLITICO
Posted: June 18, 2022 at 1:46 am
This year, Pence has taken on a new persona among the crowda Trump era castoff who is probably better off not showing his face. And he seems to know it. The former veep was invited to the conference but decided not to attend. It was the first time Pence had missed the conference in five years.
I was such a big fan of his but that part of the Republican Party is the educational elites the old horses are on their way out, said Mary Obersteadt, the immediate past president of Nashville Republican Women. She wore rhinestone Trump and DeSantis pins on her conference lanyard. I respect him for what he did and how he served this nation but hes so disappointing when he - he should have communicated and stayed with Trump with Jan. 6, they should have been on the same level.
Pences absence from this years conference was due to a scheduling conflict, according to the conference organizers and Pences team. On Thursday, he attended a roundtable with Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.
But while he still is rooted in the Christian conservative community, having attended an event with the Coalition in North Carolina to engage Chrisitan voters in the Charlotte area, his decision to skip the Faith & Freedom gathering underscores the crossroads he currently finds himself in politically.
I think hes seeking Gods direction for his decision on what to do next, said Dr. Robert Jeffress, pastor at First Baptist Dallas, who is close to both Pence and Trump, and sits on the advisory board for Pences political group, Advancing American Freedom.
At a time when Pences main ideological causes are on the cusp of historic successwith the Supreme Court set to overturn the landmark abortion rights case, Roe v. Wade he finds himself in the thick of intra-party drama. This week, the House select committee investigating the riots on Capitol Hill zeroed in on Pences decision to resist Donald Trumps pressure for him to block certification of the Electoral College vote count.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump points to the crowd after giving the keynote address at the Faith & Freedom Coalition during their annual "Road To Majority Policy Conference" on June 17, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee.|Seth Herald/Getty Images
While Pence has, so far, dodged discussing the committees proceedings, Trump used his own appearance at the Faith & Freedom conference to attack his veep.
Mike Pence had a chance to be great, he had a chance to be frankly historic, Trump said. But Mike did not have the courage to act.
It was a remarkable moment for a conference that in past years served as a celebration for the former vice president as a top conservative Christian leader. But things have changed since Trump left office. Last year, in the shadow of Jan. 6, Pence was jeered by the crowd and called a traitor while on stage. Now, when asked about what they think of Pence or how they view his political future, attendees sighed or visibly shrugged.
Thats a good question, said Sandi McGuire, a Christian minister from Raleigh, North Carolina. I havent seen him much. I dont like speaking adverse toward anyone, he did great work. He came here last year and a percentage booed him. Im not sure in fairness where he is. I wish him the best but he hasnt been anywhere to be found.
Its kind of hard, its a hard one, said Emily Hinojos from Rutherford, N.C. when asked about Pences political future. I dont know where hes at since Jan 6. Its hard to tell youre not in their shoes but we would have liked him to support Trump better.
The mood of the crowd at Faith & Freedom reflected the degree to which Republican politicians are judged not so much by their ideologies but by their relationship to Trump. Ralph Reed, a Republican strategist and founder of the Faith & Freedom Coalition, is close with both Trump and Pence. But when asked if he was surprised by Trumps attacks, he would only say he consulted with Trumps speechwriters yesterday.
If Mike Pence wanted to come and wanted to offer a rejoinder to these folks, he could have done it. Im not saying he should have done it. I told him when I saw him a couple weeks ago, no harm no foul, but I said I want you here next year and hell be there, Reed said to a small group of reporters after Trumps speech.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump exits the stage after giving the keynote address at the Faith & Freedom Coalition during their annual "Road To Majority Policy Conference" on June 17, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee.|Seth Herald/Getty Images
Pences own relationship with Trump is deeply complicated. For a few months after leaving the White House, the two would occasionally speak. But they havent talked for a year now even though their paths have occasionally crossed, including when both men addressed top Republican donors at a retreat in New Orleans in March. Trump continues to admonish his former vice president in public, while Pence has remained firm in his decision to certify the election.
In recent months, Pence has turned his focus to the midterms. Hes offered endorsements in key midterm races like Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and held a fundraiser for incumbent Rep. Steve Chabot on Thursday. On Monday, he is set to deliver a speech on the economy at the University Club of Chicago.
Our path is a little bit different than everybody else is at this point, said a person close to Pences political operation, who defended Pences decision to not go to the Nashville cattle call. And whether he decided to do this thing or not, he doesnt have to go there to get coverage.
But its unclear how Pence can build up a national profile if he were to lose the full support of his bedrock constituency: Evangelicals. Not everyone in his camp is worried. Aides to Pence say he holds appeal across the Republican party.
Vice President Pence checks the hawk lane. He checks the traditional GOP lane. And obviously probably the biggest one is the Evangelical lane, said the Pence ally.
And Bob Vander Plaats, president and CEO of The Family Leader, a conservative Christian parent organization for the Iowa Family Policy Center, said Pences support remains strong among social conservatives and Evangelicals in Iowa, especially as support of Trump wanes.
Not to play Bob Seger on you, but I think theyre looking to turn the page, Vander Plaats said of Iowa voters he talks to. Take the best of Trump, and lets see if Ron DeSantis can carry on that fightor Mike Pence or Mike Pompeo or Ted Cruz or whoever you throw into that match.
But among those in Nashville this weekend, Pence seemed more a relic of the past than an element of the future. None of the merchandise stalls that lined the entrance to the conference ballroom featured Pences name, while there were piles of red, white, and blue Trump and Trump 2024 t-shirts and hats for sale.
I feel like he was mistreated so long he wanted to give his soul a break and his family. I dont think its political, its personal he doesnt want to get attacked right now, said Krista Kiepke from Clarksville, Tenn. Jesus himself removed from the disciples to refresh so he could do his job so I look at it as that.
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Could Donald Trump Have Issued Jan. 6 Pardons to Allies? – TIME
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The lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump on how to overturn the 2020 election requested a pardon from him in the days after Jan. 6, the committee investigating the Capitol attack revealed on Thursday.
At the committees third public hearing on June 16, law professor John Eastman emailed Trumps personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, asking for executive clemency. Ive decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works, he wrote, according to an email obtained by the House panel.
The revelation came a week after Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the panel, alleged that multiple Republicans in Congress had also requested pardons from Trump before he left office for their roles in trying to block the transfer of power to Joe Biden. She only mentioned one lawmaker by name: Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.
As you will see, Rep. Perry contacted the White House in the weeks after Jan. 6 to seek a presidential pardon, said Cheney, a Wyoming Republican. Multiple other Republican congressmen also sought presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the 2020 election. (Perry quickly denied ever seeking a pardon, calling it an absolute, shameful, and soulless lie.)
The mentions of presidential pardons have set off a whirlwind of speculation on Capitol Hill about which members of Congress might have sought pardons and why. Committee members plan to flesh out what they have learned about the pardon requests in an upcoming hearing. Legal experts say such pardon requests could be construed as demonstrating a consciousness of guilt or recognition that they might have committed a crime by the members who sought them. Less damningly, their entreaties could also reflect concern that they feared unfairly becoming targets of investigation or prosecution.
The disclosure of multiple Trump allies seeking pardons in the wake of the attack on the Capitol has also raised questions about the extent of a presidents pardoning authority, including whether Trump may have issued secret presidential pardons that have yet to come to light. (Answer: maybe.)
Here is what you need to know.
According to one former prosecutor, the reason is simple. It tells us that they fear theyre going to be charged, or more generally, that theyve engaged in conduct thats a federal crime, Harry Litman, a former U.S. attorney, tells TIME.
Since Jan. 6, 2021, the Department of Justice has been conducting its own investigation of the attack. Thus far, more than 800 people have been charged for storming the Capitol, and nearly 300 have entered guilty pleas on charges ranging from civil disorder and theft of government property to obstruction of an official congressional proceeding and seditious conspiracy.
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani speaks to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House, in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021.
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So far, no lawmakers or government officials have been charged, nor is there evidence that any are targets of the DOJ investigation.
One of the challenges prosecutors face is untangling criminal behavior from constitutionally protected political protests.
If the speech is likely and intended to incite imminent criminal action, then its not protected, says Elie Honig, a former federal and New Jersey state prosecutor. But, he notes, theres a difference between someone saying We need to throw these bums out and Lets go in there, smash up the windows, and beat the crap out of the first representative we see.
So its a spectrum between those two poles, he adds. Theres no automatic formula for that. It ultimately comes down to the prosecutors judgment and what the prosecutor believes would be convincing to the jury.
Several right-wing Republican lawmakers were reportedly involved in the planning of Jan. 6 protests. Several also vociferously challenged the certification of Biden as president on the House floor. Others cheered the crowd that day. On Wednesday, the Jan. 6 committee released surveillance footage of Rep. Barry Loudermilk, Republican of Georgia, giving a tour of the building to people later spotted in videos breaching the Capitol. None of those actions is a crime. (Loudermillk criticized the committee for what he called a smear campaign, adding that the Capitol Police already put this false accusation to bed.)
If a member of Congress did knowingly commit a crime like those the Justice Department is prosecuting related to the Capitol attack, they would of course have a reason to ask for a pardon. But from a practical standpoint, if any lawmakers thought they could be at risk of criminal prosecution, requesting a pardon from a sympathetic president is not necessarily unreasonable, says Margaret Love, former U.S. Pardon Attorney from 1990 to 1997 under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Why not? Love says of members of Congress seeking clemency. A little insurance policy? Theres no reason why they shouldnt have asked.
In his final days in office, Trump did pardon many people close to him, such as Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law and special adviser Jared Kushner. But in all of those cases, Trump pardoned individuals who had already been charged with or convicted of crimes. If any members of Congress asked Trump for a presidential pardon, they were presumably asking for a preemptive one.
The short answer is yes. Generally speaking, the president can pardon federal crimes and people can request clemency, Jeffrey Crouch, a government professor at American University and an expert on presidential pardon power, wrote in an email to TIME. Even though a pardon usually comes at the end of the legal process, the president can short-circuit that process if he wants.
Past presidents have issued blanket pardons, such as Jimmy Carter who exonerated everyone who dodged the Vietnam draft. Its much rarer, though, for presidents to pardon individuals who have not yet been charged with a crime or not knowing the precise charge, if any, they were expected to face. A rare exception was when former President Gerald Ford pardoned his predecessor, Richard Nixon, in 1974 for whatever crimes he may have committed against the United States as president.
Trump himself waded into similar territory with his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, whom he pardoned in 2020 for lying to federal investigators but also for any and all possible offenses he may have committed related to Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation.
For the most part, however, pardons are issued for specific offenses, Litman argues. In theory, its well understood that a pardon is for specified conduct, he said. Its not just a get-out-of-jail-free card.
Nonetheless, Trump had the authority to issue very broad pardons to some of his allies in Congress, Crouch says. President Trump could have pardoned people without spelling out exactly what offenses he was pardoning, he says. The president has leeway to fashion the type of mercy he is offering and how broad it can be, but recent presidents are usually specific about pardons.
There are two glaring exceptions, though, to that power: if the pardon itself was part of a criminal act or the cover up of one. Most scholars would agree that even though the presidents pardon power is broad, it cant be used as part of a crime, Litman says. So its possible to grant a pardon in a way that is an obstruction of justice, for example.
Representative Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat from California, from right, Representative Liz Cheney, a Republican from Wyoming, and chairman Representative Bernie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, exit following a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., US, on Thursday, June 16, 2022.
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In the June 9 primetime hearing, Cheney suggested that the committee had evidence that GOP members of Congress requested pardons from Trump. Yet some veteran prosecutors and pardon lawyers say that has left them wondering whether the president might have issued any in secret.
The Justice Department has a page on its website listing every pardon it knows of that was issued by Trump. When asked by TIME whether Trump may have issued pardons not on the list, Dena Iverson, a DOJ spokesperson responded, All of the pardons are on the website.
Love, however, says Trump still could have granted additional pardons and never informed the Justice Department about them.
The president could have signed a cocktail napkin and put it away in a bottom drawer only to be revealed after he left office, Love says. Its just that this has never before happened, at least since the Civil War. And after January 20, he could have called up and said, Oh, by the way, Joe, look in the bottom drawer there. Youll find a bunch of paper there. He could have given them to the beneficiaries of these acts of grace. A pardon doesnt have to be published right away to be valid, or even published at all.
Its not the first time the prospect of Trump issuing secret pardons has come up. In September 2017, a Democratic congressman introduced a bill that would have forced the White House to publicly announce any presidential pardons within three days of their being granted. With Republicans then in control of both houses of Congress, the legislation went nowhere. But it underscored the reality that theres nothing forcing a president to publicly disclose every pardon they issue.
The Jan. 6 committee appears to be preparing to show the public how Perry and other members of Congress at the very least sought pardons from Trump. Everything were doing is documented by evidence, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, recently told CNN regarding the pardon requests. Everything that we are doing is based on facts.
When asked by TIME on Thursday about the possibility that Trump may have issued pardons in secret, Raskin said the committee had not considered it.
The question prompted Raskin to think back to when the committee deposed Eastman. He was not particularly forthcoming, pleading his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 100 times. But the committee had focused on the paper trail showing Eastman seeking a pardon, and not the possibility that Trump may have agreed to the request without ever formally announcing it.
We should have asked him, Raskin says, Do you have a pardon?
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John Krull: Donald Trump and the art of the grift – Terre Haute Tribune Star
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So, the U.S. House of Representatives Jan. 6 Select Committee has revealed that former President Donald Trump used his baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him to fleece his followers.
What.
A.
Shock.
Who could have predicted that a man who built his business, such as it is, by slapping his name on everything but used tissues and then selling those products, such as they are, at inflated prices would resort to yet another con when he was under pressure?
Who would have thought that a guy who ran for president primarily to restore some luster to his fading brand wouldnt leap at one more chance to bilk the faithful?
And who possibly could have seen that a fellow who spent at least a third of his time as both presidential candidate and president staying at Trump properties, thus lining his own pockets with taxpayer funds and campaign contributions, would not be able to resist one more grab at the cookie jar?
Clearly, such grasping chicanery on the part of the former president comes completely out of left field because, up until this point, nothing Donald Trump ever has done in his life would indicate that he is either greedy or mendacious.
Yeah.
Right.
When the history of this period is written presuming the republic survives and Americans still are permitted to express themselves freely and honestly one question will be at the center of all the studies and scholarship.
Why and how did so many Americans allow themselves to be gulled by a con artist who views them the way a rat does pieces of cheese?
I understand why so many working-class Americans turned to Trump in the first place. Their concerns werent being addressed by either political party.
Still arent, for that matter.
The traditional Republican Party always has favored the wishes of capital over the needs of labor, elevating the interests of the haves over those of the have-nots. The GOP also has a history of pitting working people against each other.
Were seeing that again now.
After years of encouraging tensions and resentments between working-class U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants, some Republicans now have begun quietly arguing that relaxing immigration restrictions would help ease inflationary pressures.
By driving down wages.
Once again, in the GOPs world view, the burden of solving an economic problem must fall on the shoulders of working people.
Not that the Democrats cant be just as clueless. Their solution to the problems of the working class is to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
There are at least two problems with that.
The first is that the real minimum wage in this country now already is between $15 and $17 per hour and its likely to climb higher than that as the worldwide labor shortage deepens in the coming years. Democrats want to close the barn door not just after the horse fled but at one of the few times in history when the horse might have some power to choose which barn it likes best and under what conditions.
The second problem with the Democrats minimum-wage policy is that it isnt grounded in any recognizable reality.
How many of them would like to try to raise a family of four on $31,000 a year? Thats what 40 hours per week of $15 per hour pays for a years labor. How many Democrats in Congress and state legislatures across the country think they could build better lives for their own children and pursue the American dream on those wages?
Donald Trump became a force in Americas political life because neither party seemed to care or grasp the challenges millions of Americans faced.
In their desperation, they turned to a grifter who saw them as lemons to squeeze for the juice they might provide him.
Now, even as evidence overwhelmingly mounts that Trump has done little but use and abuse those who gave him their devotion, many, many Americans remain faithful to the man who has misled them at every turn.
Why?
Perhaps Mark Twain said it best.
Its easier to fool people, Twain wrote, than to convince them they have been fooled.
John Krull is director of Franklin College's Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students. The opinions expressed by the author do not reflect the views of Franklin College.
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A simple protest that got out of hand: Trump defends role in Capitol attack – Sydney Morning Herald
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Many other Trump advisers, including former attorney-general Bill Barr, had revealed earlier in the week how they repeatedly tried to debunk Trumps claims of a stolen election.
Former US vice president Mike Pence.Credit:AP
But in a grievance-fuelled address lasting almost 90 minutes, Trump said he simply wanted Pence to send the votes back to state legislatures because of the electoral fraud he claims took place.
He had a chance to be, frankly, historic, Trump said of Pence. But just like Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people he did not have the courage to act.
The former president also took aim at the committee itself, accusing the group of editing video depositions and taking witness statements out of context in order to create a fake and phony narrative and a chilling attempt to weaponise the justice system against their political opponents.
What happened on January 6 was a simple protest that got out of hand, he said. And they never show the size of the crowd. I believe it was the largest number of people Ive ever spoken to. Im not talking about the very small percentage of people who went down to the Capitol, many of whom did nothing wrong ... Im talking about the crowd I spoke to before [at the rally that preceded the attack].
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Trumps speech was the seventh time he appeared at the Faith and Freedom conference, an annual conservative gathering that bills itself as Americas premiere pro-faith, pro-family event and is designed to empower conservative activists to fight for their values at the polls.
The former president has repeatedly said he would wait until after the midterms when the Republicans are expected to regain control of Congress to announce if he would run for president again.
The findings of the committees probe could end up having an impact on such an announcement, particularly if it leads to a criminal investigation into Trump by the Department of Justice.
Others in Trumps orbit have already found themselves in legal turmoil as a result of the committees work, such as former White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who pleaded not guilty to contempt of Congress charges on Friday after not co-operating with the January 6 investigation.
The committees fourth hearing will take place on Tuesday and is likely to feature testimony from Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his top deputy Gabriel Sterling.
Raffensperger is the electoral official who famously rebuffed Trumps pressure to simply find enough votes to help reverse his defeat in Georgia the once Republican state that ultimately handed Biden control of the White House after it flipped to the Democrats in 2020. Sterling, meanwhile, was an outspoken critic of Trumps claims of fraud.
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Opinion | The Future Criminal Case Against Donald Trump – The New York Times
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Public hearings serve a subtle function. They permit the minds of the American people to acculturate to the facts and evidence. By laying out the facts that explain what Mr. Trump did, the Jan. 6 hearings can, in advance, help acclimate the public to why the Justice Department has to take criminal action against the former president. The hearings may afford the department a deeper and public explanation of its reasoning than an indictment out of the blue would offer. Public sentiment of this kind could help insulate the department against a claim that it is politically motivated. These hearings may prove to be a bridge between the Justice Department and the public.
Now consider that elusive third audience: the eyes of history. On the one hand, Mr. Garland has to fear being seen as political, and on the other, he knows that the rule of law requires him to bring an indictment if the evidence shows Mr. Trump committed one of the most serious crimes against the United States in our history. Trying to game history is a notoriously fraught enterprise, but it seems certain that if Mr. Garland is to be the first attorney general to bring criminal charges against a former president, having the facts surfaced first by a bipartisan congressional committee would be enormously helpful and provide an evidentiary record that the public today, and historians in the future, could examine.
Of course, critics will complain about the composition of the committee and the like, but those complaints, relatively speaking, are likely to be weaker than they would be if the Justice Department just investigated and prosecuted the case against the former president by itself. Here, Congress has a unique voice because the attack occurred on its members, on their soil.
What would criminal charges against Donald Trump look like? Obstruction of an official proceeding is a serious offense that requires the prosecution to show that a defendant obstructed, or attempted to obstruct, an official proceeding and that the defendant did so corruptly. The official proceeding part of this is clear by law, on Jan. 6, Congress and the vice president must certify the votes. There appears to have been an orchestrated plot by some to try to interfere with that certification the question is really whether the former president was part of that plot. The committee has presented evidence suggesting that Mr. Trump, along with the lawyer John Eastman, and perhaps others such as the former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official, attempted to interfere with the election certification on Jan. 6. Before the hearings, it was thought that Mr. Trumps defense against this charge is that he genuinely believed that he had won the election and wasnt acting corruptly.
The testimony in last weeks hearing cast immense doubt on that claim. Mr. Trumps close ally, former Attorney General William Barr, testified that he told the president that arguments claiming he had won the election were bullshit. Mr. Trumps daughter Ivanka testified that she believed Mr. Barr. Mr. Trumps own election data people told him the same. Mr. Trump might try to claim he still believed the nonsense, but such an argument would be difficult to make given the array of people who told him in no uncertain terms that he had lost. Mr. Trump persisted, despite the warnings, to try to interfere with the lawful transfer of power. This looks very much like an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding.
The Justice Department could also bring the charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States. A charge of conspiracy requires proof that two or more people agreed to defraud the country. A key feature of conspiracy charges is that the plot need not succeed charges are tethered to the agreement to do something illegal, not to actually pull it off. Prosecutors need not wait until the bomb goes off (or in this case, until the election results are wrongfully thrown out) before bringing charges.
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Dislyte Staff of Immortality: Is It Worth the Grind? – eXputer
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Dislyte is a turn-based style battle game. It is an RPG that is set in a modern mythological world. The Lone Star event in Dislyte got released a few days ago. Dislyte released Staff of Immortality in this event as a rare Namecard. While youre at it, why not go through our Donar, Catherine, and Drew esper guides.
Dislyte has well over 60 heroes known as Espers, and our Dislyte Tier List ranks them all. If you are interested in the builds of Espers, then consider reading our Meredith, Nicole, Unas, Triki, and Lin Xiao guides. All of these Espers are divided into four Elements in Dislyte that define their abilities.
If you dont know how to make up a team, we have a guide on how you can prepare the Best Dislyte Team. In which, you can choose any of the Best characters. If you feel like the options are limited, check out the five Best Support Espers guides. You can use Esper Fusion to make your Espers strong.
You might be wondering what exactly is the Staff of Immortality. Youll find that in Dislyte, the Staff of Immortality is a Profile Banner in the game; meaning the Staff of Immortality is the background display of your profile. It is like the Profile Banner that you get by buying the Welcome Pack III. But that one is animated, unlike the Staff of Immortality banner. It is a name card designed for Ollie, the Osiris in the game.
During The Lone Star event in Dislyte, you can get the Staff of Immortality. Youll have to collect 1000 Ancient Coins to buy it by completing different tasks in-game. And to get a total of 1000 Ancient Coins, youll need to play the game regularly and complete the tasks.
Once you have 1000 Ancient Coins, you can head over to the Ancient Coin Shop. There are several different items that you can buy using Ancient Coins. Some items of the Event are,
You can get only 1 Staff of Immortality from the event. And that is all you need. You dont need another Namecard or profile banner as it wont have any use. To get the Staff of Immortality in Dislyte, tap on it, and confirm the payment of 1000 Ancient Coins, and there you have it.
The question arises, is it worth it? Before we answer it, one thing to keep in mind is that it is a limited-time event item. Chances are there wont be any event with Staff of Immortality. So if youre a collector of limited-time event items, then the Staff of Immortality is for you. Well get on that in a while.
Anyways, for all the players, whether youre a collector or a Free-to-Play (F2P) player, you need to consider a few things. First of all, the cost of Staff of Immortality in Dislyte is 1000 Ancient Coins.
Put it this way, you can get 2x Golden Record for 800. Or, you can go for the Lengendary Abilimon, or Legendary Starimon by adding 500 Ancient Coins over the 1000 Ancient Coins.
One thing to keep in mind is that Starimon promotes Espers in Dislyte. It might be a tough choice for players whore starting new to choose Staff of Immortality over Legendary Starimon.
Using Starimon is one of the best methods, but it isnt the only method to Promote Esper Star Rating. If you want to take it slow, check out our Dislyte Best Leveling Guide for Espers.
Although it is a limited-time banner, it has nothing special. It doesnt even have any animations. If it had any, then wed have recommended getting one. Youll be spending time and stamina for this casual Banner. But if youre a collector, then the choice is yours.
If youve decided to get the Staff of Immortality banner in Dislyte, heres how itll look in-game.
The Staff of Immortality is one of the limited-time event items. Thats why it is good to have items if you want to flex on your friends in the future. But to get it, youll either have to use up a lot of gems for the stamina. Or youll have to spend lots of time getting the Ancient Coin.
And if youre a free-to-play player, there are better options for you. Again, this is based on our personal opinion, its totally up to you to decide if the limited-time Namecard Staff of Immortality in Dislyte is worth it or not.
With the Best Team prepared, you can test yourself in the Sonic Miracle or Ritual Miracle. Here, youll get to face different bosses. Talking about bosses, if youre having a hard time beating Siegfried, check out our Best Strategy & Espers to Beat Siegfried in the 12-8 Dislyte guide.
Did you miss getting the Pre-Register Rewards? Then here are Dislyte Codes to help you get started. With these codes, youll get tons of free stuff to make early-game easier for you. You can check out our Dislyte Beginners Guide where we have jotted down some important information for new players. You can Create Dislyte Clubs and get Friendship Points from players you make your friends.
Got any more related to Dislyte? Check out our Dislyte Wiki, where weve covered almost all of the questions might have.
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A Dyson Sphere Could Hold they Keys to Immortality – Popular Mechanics
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In 1960, British theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson published a one-page paper in the journal Science that offered perhaps the most hopeful vision ever conceived of humanitys technological future. Dyson imagined that an advanced civilization would meet its heightened energy needs by building a sphere around a star to absorb its energy output.
The paper focused more on theory than engineering, and Dyson provided scant details on what such a megastructure might look like or how we might build one. He described his sphere only as a habitable shell encircling a star. But that was enough to captivate and inspire astrophysicists, scientists, and sci-fi writers. In some depictions, the Dyson Sphere, as it became known, appears as a massive ring encircling a star and reaching nearly to Earth. In others, the Sphere completely encases the sun, a hulking megastructure capturing every bit of that stars energy. In addition to scientific works, Dyson Spheres have appeared in novels, movies, and TV showsincluding Star Trekas a home for advanced civilizations.
Dyson himself understood the challenges of constructing such a massive structure, and he was skeptical that it might ever happen. Nonetheless, his Sphere has stirred ambitious ideas about the future of our civilization, and it continues to be offered as a solution to some of humanitys most dire dilemmas. Harnessing the total energy of our sunor any starwould solve our immediate and long-term energy crisis, but when civilization gains access to the complete energy output of a star, meeting our terrestrial energy needs is just the beginning.
With so much energy available, we could direct high-powered laser pulses toward exoplanets that we think may contain life, immeasurably expanding our chances of communicating with distant civilizations. These Dyson-powered beams could travel farther into the universe than anything currently possible, penetrating the higher-density areas of space, such as dust clouds, which decay the signals we send now.
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Alternatively, we could use that power to help reach exoplanets directly by harnessing the energy we need toas some astrophysicists postulatemanipulating the space-time continuum to shorten the trip via experiments in quantum gravity. One intriguing option relies on creating so-called Kugelblitz black holes with pure photons, which have already been theorized to power the interstellar starships of the future. By warping space-time itself, we might be able to travel faster than light or create wormholes that provide shortcuts for crossing the galaxy.
More enticing still, the near-limitless energy made available by Dyson Spheres could solve some of the most perplexing barriers to life extension. Proponents of cryogenics recognize that widespread and longer use could create energy demands that far exceed whats currently available. And in 2018, researchers Alexey Turchin and Maxim Chernyakov posed that artificial intelligence might be able to digitally reconstruct people in a simulated world using DNA and other information from the deceased. Creating simulations rich enough to satisfy a race of near immortals would require huge amounts of energynot to mention clearing the many ethical and philosophical hurdlesbut the researchers proposed that Dyson technology could deliver the needed power.
Dysons ambitious vision seems more relevant than ever today. If technology continues along its current growth curve, global energy demands could increase by 50 percent in the next 30 years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources will help in the near term, but a long-term solution will require more daring engineering. Dysons Sphere could be a bold solution, but it comes with obvious physical and mechanical problems, and its not clear whether these could be solved even by a civilization many thousands of years more advanced than ours.
As a professor at the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Technical University Berlin, Ive devoted decades to understanding the possibilities related to advanced alien civilizations. Ive coauthored five books on extraterrestrial life, and my interest in this science inspired me to study Dyson Spheres as a possible form of advanced alien technology. Around a decade ago, I became intrigued by the kinds of large engineering projects an alien civilization might undertake.
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In 2010, I looked at the feasibility of building a Dyson Sphere. Working with Brooks Harrop, a former physics student of mine at Washington State University in Pullman, we found numerous problems with the common conception of a Dyson Sphere, the most important of which was the spheres risk of collapse. A rigid concentric sphere around a star would experience a gravitational pull on every point. No material known today could resist that force. Engineers might counter this with a complex thruster system that keeps the shell in place via a counteracting force, but given the enormous mass of the shellmost conceptions imagine the structure to have a radius of 93 million miles, the distance between Earth and the sunsuch a system would consume a huge fraction, if not all, of the energy collected by the shell in the first place.
But say we could overcome these problems and manage to build the sphere far into the future: How would it survive meteors, asteroids, or radiation and solar flares? An object with the mass of Halleys comet would crash into the structure with a kinetic energy of more than 1 million hydrogen Tsar bombs, the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated.
Dyson foresaw those risks and acknowledged that a shell or ring surrounding a star would not likely be feasible. But the physicist proposed a solution: A loose collection, or swarm, of objects traveling on independent orbits around a star, harvesting its energy while avoiding most of the physical and mechanical problems of a solid Dyson Sphere. The satellites could be built over time and delivered gradually to the network, increasing the swarms energy production over time.
A Dyson Swarm of about 10 million satellites could fulfill humanitys energy needs. Thats a lot, but modern satellite constellations are creating precedence for such an engineering feat. SpaceX can launch 240 Starlink communication satellites a month, and as of February 2022, it already has more than 2,000 in space. The fleet could number in the tens of thousands by its completionnot Dyson Swarm amounts by a long shot, but enough to fuel our imagination.
To overcome the challenges of Dysons original concept, Harrop and I set out to find a realistic design for its replacement, the Dyson Swarm. We called our idea Solar Wind Power Satellites (SWPS). While traditional solar panels use the energy of visible light, our satellites would harvest the electrons that make up half of the solar wind. (The other half consists of protons and alpha particles.) Fast solar wind has a velocity of ~750km/s-1making these electrons richer in energy than those in the visible light hitting a solar panel. The heart of our SWP satellite is a long metal wire pointed at the sun, which would be charged to produce a magnetic field and then direct incoming electrons into a spherical metal receiver. These electrons would produce a current, which would in turn maintain the magnetic field in the wire and create a self-sustaining system between the two.
Most of the current would remain to power an infrared laser beamed toward receiving stations on Earthinfrared is optimal due to the transparent infrared window in our atmosphere, which allows wavelengths between roughly 8 and 13 microns through without absorption. After the laser sends its electrical energy to the receiving station, the remaining electrons would fall back onto a ring-shaped sail, where incoming sunlight can excite them enough to keep the satellite in orbit around the star.
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Each SWP satellite would have a mass of about 3.7 metric tons (about three times the weight of a GPS satellite) and would provide a continuous power output of about 2 megawatts per 24-hour day, meeting roughly the energy needs of 1,000 U.S. single-family homes. A full swarm of SWP satellites could fulfill all of humanitys energy needs.
These satellites could be built with relatively simple, inexpensive materials; the major construction expense would be 950 feet of copper wire per satellite. And because they use solar wind as their energy source, these satellites would absorb a minimal amount of heat and operate at nearly 100 percent efficiency. Traditional solar cells, by contrast, are expensive to produce because they require high-purity silicon for their semiconductors, and they have a notoriously low efficiency, about 20 percent.
A few technical hurdles stand in the way of a Dyson Swarm. While SWP satellites require little maintenance, theyre not self-cleaning. If positive ions rather than electrons from the solar wind get caught in the sail, they would reduce the efficiency of the satellite and, over time, degrade the system. We also didnt solve how to maintain a steady location in space amid variations in the solar wind, or how to arrange the orbits of millions (or eventually billions) of satellites around a star. And while small-scale, power-beaming laser systems have made large strides in recent years, a system that works in space is still a challenge. Small temperature changes of less than a degree Celsius would result in large changes to the lasers wavelength and output efficiency. Keeping a constant temperature in space is a headacheits difficult to transport heat from hotter to colder bodies where there is no atmosphere. We havent solved every problem of the Dyson Swarm yet, but maybe another civilization has.
In my book The Cosmic Zoo: Complex Life on Many Worlds, coauthored with William Bains, a senior research fellow at Cardiff University, we argued that once life arises on a planetary body, it will eventually evolve to become intelligentassuming the planet stays habitable long enough. The basis of this argument is that all major transitions in the evolution of life on Earth seem to have occurred several times independently from each other, or via different biochemical pathways. That would suggest that some of the trillions of other planets in the universe could have experienced this same evolutionary process, and a subset of life forms on those planets could have evolved to become intelligent. Have they advanced enough to build a Dyson Sphere? Freeman Dyson hypothesized that if they did, we could detect it.
Traditional Dyson Spheres with a solid shell might emit waste energy in mid-infrared wavelengths, detectable by current human instruments. At least one research team has looked for such a signature. Jason Wright, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, and Matt Povich of California State Polytechnic Universitys Physics and Astronomy department, used data from NASAs Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to search for a strong infrared signal in space, which would be expected from a Dyson Sphere. That search failed to find a Sphere, but perhaps the reason our telescopes havent seen any megastructures in space is that the aliens have come to the same conclusion we did in our paper: A gigantic, solid Dyson sphere is impractical, even for a civilization more advanced than our own.
Though we might never see our sun encased in a megastructure, or draw our energy from millions of satellites orbiting around it, the scienceand science fictioninspired by Dysons Sphere continues to animate some of our most ambitious thinking about life on this planet and beyond. That might be its most valuable contributiongiving us an ambitious target to aim for, and making way for a revolutionary discovery in the attempt.
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The Nike Giannis Immortality 2 Shines In Orange Blaze – Sneaker News
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Although Giannis Antetokounmpo would much rather be vying for his second NBA championship, the former back-to-back MVP has been enjoying this extra time off by taking his family to Disney World among other family-focuses activities. Its a well-deserved vacation for the Milwaukee Bucks megastar, but soon enough hell be back in the lab honing his game as he yearns for a return to the big show next season.
Assisting him in his offseason workouts will be his upcoming new signature shoe, the Nike Giannis Immortality 2. The Immortality line is a budget-friendly version of Giannis footwear, and this second iteration carries over the cushioning and midsole package of the the first model and adds a newly-designed upper that features a breathable mesh and an ankle containment structure. Noted for its reverse Swoosh perhaps a nod to the first Zoom Freak sneaker the Giannis Immortality 2 will be available soon on Nike.com in this new orange/black colorway and several others.
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I WooHooed an alpha wolf and then betrayed him in The Sims 4 Werewolves – PC Gamer
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No Twilight dunks. No Teen Wolf gags. No tired references to any supernatural teen fiction of my bygone youth. Those are the promises I made to myself when I agreed to write about the new Sims 4 Werewolves game pack. And yet I accidentally wound up mating with an alpha werewolf, joining up with the rivals to his pack, and making plans to bite his new toddler.
The fanfic is writing itself and I am powerless to stop it.
My Sims 4 Werewolves session started appropriately. I created a young adult werewolf with an undercut, nose rings, the cute new patchwork baggy jeans in the Werewolves game pack, and allowed the randomizer to bestow her the name Margaret Ruff. Folks who have the Pets expansion will recognize the many fur color, pattern, and painting options available to make a rather unique werewolf with the same tools. I still think they look a bit like Jim Carey in a Grinch costume, but they did grow on me.
I expected (wrongly) that I would need to inject a bit of my own drama into werewolf life, so I made Margaret a vegetarian, a kleptomaniac, and set her up with a job as a night shift babysitter. Everything turned tails up very fast. Moonwood Mill's one affordable starter home is actually pretty cute as default homes go, showing off a bit of rustic cabin flare. I originally thought it odd that it came with neither TV nor computer, until I found out how prone werewolves are, even in human form, to wrecking their appliances at random with accidental superhuman strength. Margaret could barely browse the fridge for a snack without breaking it.
I quickly set aside concerns for Margaret's property because I couldn't be bothered with placing her on an eternal sink, stove, and fridge repair routine. Instead, she wandered Moonwood Mill. Frankly, I recommend spending as little time as possible at your own home because Moonwood is stacked with common spaces and community lots. I've always felt "eh" about Live Mode, but these areas actually felt worth spending time in.
There's a library and gym combo in an old warehouse, effectively a community center, where Margaret researched the secrets of werewolf lore. There's a bar with a secret clubhouse bunker beneath it where she snatched many a wolf nap. There are sewer grates full of secrets that she partially explored.
Most important are the Moonwood Collective pack's treehouse and the Wildfang trailer, popular hangout spots for their respective members. Margaret needed to get into one of these packs for a little stability: She couldn't stop breaking her sink and had just three simoleons to her name. Getting sent home from her only joba twice-weekly babysitting gigfor transforming into werewolf form in a rage certainly hadn't helped.
The Moonwood treehouse is where Margaret got to know Kristopher Volkov, chill alpha male of the Moonwood pack. He seemed like a decent guy, immediately choosing to help calm Maraget's rising werewolf fury when she showed up. Every werewolf has a fury meter that fills over time, especially under a full moon (every eight days by default), and when it finally maxes out they'll lose control, transform into a wolf, and go on a rampage around town scaring other Sims or smashing up their own homes.
Kristopher quelled her rage meter and delivered a bit of explanation: the Moonwood Collective wolves are all about mastering their rage and living in harmony with humans, unlike their rivals the Wildfangs who take pride in their wolf strength and see the Collective's attitude as cowardly. Margaret, vegetarian evangelist, babysitter, and lover of a good cable-knit, seemed like a perfect fit for the chill Collective.
The fanfic is writing itself and I am powerless to stop it.
Kristopher thought so too, because he started inviting himself over to her house. Often. Kristopher was so intent on spending time with Margaret, unbothered by her perpetually leaking sink, that I decided, what the hell, let her flirt with him. That one decision launched a drama worthy of a young adult paperback and now I have no idea how to stop it.
As soon as Margaret flirted with Kristopher I was notified that she'd found her fated mate, the one werewolf she's meant to be with. I tested the boundaries quickly, finding that she got tense flirting with anyone who isn't her fatemate. I scoffed. Of course my young adult Sim werewolf was destined to be with the grey-in-his-beard alpha, who was an unknown number of years older than her. Immortality is a high level werewolf skill in the tree, after all.
Though I mock my accidental YA novel setup, I rolled with it. Margaret and Kristopher had a whirlwind courtship the likes of which many Sims have experienced: flirting on the couch until 2am, a first kiss under a waning moon outside the library, and WooHooing in a bush across town.
But Margaret was still a growing wolf. She quickly went from a pup, to runt, to prime wolf. I used her ability points to unlock skills for treasure scavenging, enhanced smell, and night vision, while she gained passive abilities like control over when she entered her wolf form. At each new wolf rank she also gained a trait that I didn't pick. She started out excitable, gaining more fury while in a playful mood, which was fine.
Then she became prideful of her wolf abilities and also developed "wolf brain" making intellectual pursuits more difficult. Uh oh.
Much as I personally appreciated Kristopher's werewolf philosophy, I knew Margaret was meant to be a Wildfang. She made quick friends with the Wildfang alphaconveniently Kristopher's estranged adopted daughterand joined the crew. She got a weekly jerky allotment, a werewolf magazine subscription, and the expectation that she'd start spreading her werewolf prowess all over the world.
It didn't come between her and Kristopher at first, though I was fully intending for her to tell him Wildfangs rule pretty soon, and surely that was not going to go over well. Not two days later, Kristopher called to tell Margaret that he'd adopted a toddler, a little girl named Perry who almost immediately developed a grudge against her. Is Kristopher planning to turn her wolf when she's old enough? Or should I go behind his back and have Margaret do it herself? This furry family tree got pretzel-shaped in a hurry.
Sims 4 Werewolves may be billed as a Game Pack, not expansion, but the new neighborhood, skill tree, super customizable werewolf form, and the built-in drama of wolf life add way more than I expected to the game. I normally turn my nose up at Live Mode and go back to building my little houses, but I need to find out just how unhinged the next chapter of the Margaret Ruff series gets.
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