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Trends in Religiosity in America

Gallup started collecting data in 1948 relating to religious trends in the United States. In that year the percentage of Americans stating they are Protestants was 69%, Catholics made up 22%, and no religion was at 2%. The high point in these studies for Protestants was in 1954 and 1956 when the percentage of Protestants reached 71%. The high point for Catholicism was in the 80's when it reached 28% and 29%. The Jewish populace has hovered pretty consistently between 2% and 4%. Mormonism wasn't really measured until the 80's and remains about 2%. Skip ahead to 2016's figures. Protestants are down to 37%. Catholics remain at 22%. Jewish is at 3%, Mormonism is at 2%, and non-specific Christian at 10%. No religion is at 18%. So, while the number for Catholics, Jews, and Mormons has remained fairly stabled over the 60+ years, the two major trends is the decline of Protestantism down from 71% to 37%, and the rise of no religion from 2% to 18% It appears given this data t

Eve Online: How I Run My Fleets

-- WORK IN PROGRESS -- When considering fleets, I first decide the purpose. If it's to plex, I design the fleet around that purpose. Every member of fleet has a role. This may include ECM, Logi, Dps, getting Point, etc. Before heading out callers are decided on. E1 is the primary target caller, E2 is secondary caller, E3 is tertiary caller. If the E1 goes down the E2 immediately promoted as primary caller. If E2 also goes down, E3 is the primary caller. Plexing Philosophy: I prefer to take systems as quickly as possible. This means that we run multiple plexes at the same time, and assign members to plexes in proportion to our numbers. When a plex is almost finished, all members that are in other plexes and wish to share LP go to that plex for completion and then return to the one they were plexing. If everyone does this it means that everyone will end up with the same LP. When deciding to plex, it's to plex, not use it as an excuse to find fights. The fights will co

Eve Online: FW - Why Choose 60 Squadron?

If you're a newbro Faction Warfare can be overwhelming. You came for various reasons from meeting up with and hanging around a bunch of guys (or gals) and make some friends, to get into some pvp action, or find a means of making ISK. The more you learn about Eve the more you find how expansive the environment is. What we can do for you What is your primary reason for joining Faction Warfare? If it's to get into fights, there's always pvp opportunities and small roaming fleets available. If it's to learn fleet operations, several times a week small and medium-sized fleets are organizing. Our fleets tend to be either frigates or destroyers as they are cheap and you'll lose a lot of them, but in the meantime you'll get into a lot of fights and in so doing will learn and become better at pvp and fleet ops. We sometimes venture into wormholes and at other times we may venture into high-sec for ops there. Primarily, our focus is on the Ammar/Minmatar warzone. Th