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Yes, they are hurtful - but not so much to me... I've become a little desensitized and maybe even thick skinned. But certain statements are indeed hurtful and even damaging to others and the community in general.
I was going to ignore it, and I even posted on Facebook that I didn't care about a particular comment which came in for moderation today. But after thinking more, I allowed the comment to publish just so that I could focus on the fact that there are still some haters and intolerant people out there - usually, like this particular man or woman, they use the anonymity of the Internet and social network to hide behind and shield their cowardly ways.
The comment I refer to reads 'Whites are filthy monkeys. I spit on them because they deserve it.'... So goodie for you, my cowardly and ignorant little friend! I really do pity you and feel sorry for you.
The good thing, is that most people in this wonderful world are peace loving and caring people - colour, religion or any other differentiators are often put aside for the sake of social harmony. So the haters and racists become the minority - ironic, isn't it, when often it's other minorities towards which they vent their ignorance.
So, enough said. I didn't delete the comment... Let this drop-kick carry on, and one day if he or she decides to gather the courage to expose their views publically, they might find themselves facing the wrath of the majority!!
Peace and harmony to all!!


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Tractate Pesachim
Pesachim 6
Asking questions is a sign of faith.
By Rabbi Johnny Solomon
What Is the Torah Portion?
Today we learn that questions and answers aren't just for the Passover seder:
It was taught: One asks about and teaches the laws of Passover thirty days before Passover.
Because this is the Talmud, this is no abstract assertion, but something the rabbis learn from the Hebrew Bible. Here's how:
Moses was standing at the time of the first Passover, on the 14th of Nisan, and warning the people about the laws of the second Passover (Pesach Sheni), which occurred a month later, on the 14th of Iyar.
Wait a minute — Passover only comes once a year! What is this second Passover about?
Numbers 9 records that when Israel went to celebrate the first Passover in the wilderness, some of them were in a state of ritual impurity. (At that time, celebrating Passover was primarily about slaughtering a Paschal lamb, which had to be done in a state of purity.) Moses quickly consulted with God who explained that those who had to sit out Passover due to impurity were required to hold a second "make-up" Passover exactly a month after the first, slaughtering and eating the Paschal lamb on the 14th of Iyar in accordance with all the usual Passover laws.
Since Moses was effectively teaching these men the laws of Passover 30 days before Pesach Sheni (the make-up Passover), the rabbis learn from this that one should always teach the laws of Passover for 30 days before the holiday, whether one is in shape to observe Passover in its proper time (Nisan) or on the make-up date a month later.
There's more though! From this passage in Numbers, the rabbis understand that it's not just about teaching, it's also about asking. After all, the people who were impure came and asked Moses a question about what they should do. And Moses, in turn, asked God. Asking and answering go hand-in-hand.
What we see from here is that Jewish practice is not only based on the words of our great leaders and teachers like Moses, but also on the questions and requests of men and women throughout our history who, though often not remembered by name, have significantly contributed to the shaping of Jewish thought, Jewish law and Jewish practice.
The Jewish people have always sought to promote questioning. The Talmud itself is a series of questions and debates. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks z''l reminds us, in an essay titled "The Art of Asking Questions," that the Nobel prize-winning Jewish physicist Isidore Rabi learned to be a scientist from his mother in this way:
"Every other child would come back from school and be asked, What did you learn today? But my mother used to ask, instead, Izzy, did you ask a good question today?"
Sacks further explains: "In the yeshiva, the home of traditional Talmudic learning, the highest compliment a teacher can give a student is Du fregst a gutte kasha, 'You raise a good objection' … asking a question is itself a profound expression of faith."
Because they believed there was an answer, the small group of unnamed people in Numbers 9 asked Moses a question. Moses, through faith, turned to God for an answer. And through Moses, God gave that answer. This is why the rabbis encourage asking questions — for the month leading up to Passover, at the seder table, and all year round — because by doing so, we reflect on our faith in God, and on the faith God has in us.
Read all of Pesachim 6 on Sefaria.
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Disembodied Eyes: An Investigation into the Ontology of Entheogenic Entity Encounters
by Dr David Luke
All that glitters is not gold. Such a maxim might well serve any psychic voyager on a journey into the weirder realms that psychedelics can serve up. After all, out here on the edges there is seldom firm evidence that the beatific or hellish visions beheld whilst chemically neurohacking your wetware have any basis in consensus reality. Indeed these visions are often so extravagantly strange and terrifyingly ineffable that reminding yourself they are not real can serve to keep your sanity on a short leash when madness looms. Nevertheless, as John Lilly put it, how does one recognize one's in-sanity from one's out-sanity? And in any case, how would one even begin to try and prove the ontological credibility of the psychedelic experience of visiting some other world or meeting some alien entity?
No one has yet put forward a solid method for testing these supposed realities within the domain of science, despite some admirable attempts recently, so all we have left to rely on is anecdote and phenomenology. This story lies somewhere between the two, but it also takes on a new dimension that has urged me to depart momentarily from the fruits of science into the "foamy custard" of folklore and myth, cultural studies and related disciplines. Yet it seemingly has enough semblance of objectivity to warrant a whisper of truth – whatever that may be.
A Brief Glance at the Truly Forbidden…
I'd taken a full DMT dose (~50mg smoked) about forty or fifty times, but always with some trepidation and reverence for its power. True to form, I met a variety of extraordinary entities on these excursions. (As Terence McKenna once said, "You get elves, everybody does.") Sometimes I saw unknown god-like beings, sometimes shape-shifting mischievous imps – but increasingly I kept getting the feeling I was intruding upon a cosmic gathering to which I wasn't invited. Occasionally the effects failed to go any further than an ego-dissolution and a swim through a fractal explosion of pulsing light with the usual wild array of colors. Yet I often felt as though I was being blocked from whatever lurked beyond these multiple geometric dimensions, as well as not being allowed to revisit places to which I had been previously. A couple of times I felt so uninvited and intimidated by the entities I met that I did not wish to return, regardless of my curiosity.
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On my last DMT session I was determined to return to the mystic bliss I had once known. I travelled to a secluded beach on the banks of the River Ganges. I prepared myself with an improvised ritual, hoping to gird against whatever lay beyond, and I inhaled a pipe-full of vapors from the foul plastic-tasting resin. Sucked into the space between the pipe and my brain, I found myself breaking through the veil like a gatecrasher into a party of swirling, smiling eyeballs all attached to snake bodies, which were as startled to see me as I was to be there. The whole ordered assortment of eyes and snakes acted as one being. In the brief moment before it reacted to my arrival, I managed to catch a glimpse over what might loosely be described as the 'shoulder' of this strange entity and instantly realized that I had seen something I should not have – a brief glance at the truly forbidden.
Afterwards I could not remember what this was exactly, having somehow blocked it out. I only recall that it was a scene that seemed both ineffable and highly illegal for mortal minds. Then the multitudinous eyes of the being before me suddenly and quite deliberately blocked my curious consciousness's further explorations by mesmerizing me with its squirming, rhythmic eyeball hypnosis. I mean, this thing really scared me! It had acted with utter surprise at my being there; and then, alarmed, the ominous numinous proceeded to let me know that I should not be there and that I should certainly not be peering into the hallowed space beyond it, which it clearly guarded. I opted against defying this terrifying entity and attempted to remain as passive as possible while it pulsed and gyrated intimidatingly at me for the next ten minutes (though it seemed like an aeon). I finally came out of it all – a bit shell-shocked – and decided that this would be my last DMT experience…for a long time, at least.
Like many of my psychedelic encounters with seemingly discarnate beings, I didn't know quite what to make of this experience, which had rocked me to the core. Yet some time later, after a few years had passed, I began to piece it together with some other visionary fragments. In a dream once, quite naively, I had a mind-blowing encounter with Azrael – the Islamic angel of death. The angel told me its name (which I hadn't heard before), but unfortunately it never showed itself. Among Muslims the archangel Azrael is considered to have ten thousand eyes and it is the holy psychopomp who ushers souls into the realm of the dead. A similar character, Azrail – the god of death – belongs to the Huasa people of western Africa. I also stumbled across Ezekial's vision of the cherubim guarding a throne in the bible (Ezekial 10:12). They, too, were covered in a multitude of eyes, all over their hands, backs, wings, etc., much like the multi-eyed beasts guarding the throne of God in heaven mentioned in Revelations (4:6). These descriptions struck a cord of recognition, although the being I had met on DMT had not seemed quite so angelic.
It wasn't until several years later that I made a surprising discovery, when I accidentally came across a reference in Stephan Beyer's The Cult of Tara: Magic and Ritual in Tibet to an ancient deity by the name of Za (or gza'), who is known to appear with half the body of a snake, no less, and is covered in a thousand eyes. Interestingly, like the cherubim guarding the throne, the Tibetan Za functions as a "protector of the law" and is a guardian deity belonging to a class of demongods called Lu or Lhamayin (associated with the Indian nāgas), who appear with snake bodies. In Beyer's words: "These lu are undisputedly the spirits of the [underworld], found in those places where their realm impinges upon ours, such as in springs, wells, and rivers…" This struck an even greater chord when I realized that on the last occasion I had smoked DMT, I was on the banks of the River Ganges near the Tibetan border, which in retrospect would seem like a sure way to meet this Tibetan deity.
The ancient Tibetan deity Za
The idea that I had been interloping into the sacred realm of the dead, the underworld, and was blocked by a powerful guardian spirit sat well with my experience, which had me wishing I hadn't turned up unexpected and obviously not on the guest list. Knowing I shouldn't be there, I clearly recall spending the duration of the trip trying to keep my tryptamined mind inconspicuous. And so I focused on the mesmeric rhythmic eyes and nothing more, realizing that I'd stolen a glance at some holy grail when I had burst through the veil. The entity responded quickly and I couldn't have been more compelled to not mess with it. This feeling was further corroborated by Beyer who wrote that, in relation to Za and the other fierce protector gods, they:
…are the powerful deities who symbolize currents of cosmic force to be tampered with only at one's peril. They constitute the monastic cult [of the Nyingma yogin – the oldest Tibetan sect] because they are best left to the ritual experts. It is not that their cult is particularly secret, just as there is nothing esoteric about the workings of a television set; but in both instances the forces involved are too potent to be played with by a layman, and in both instances the same warning applies.
The same sentiment was echoed by the noted scholar of Tibetan demons, René Nebesky-Wojkowitz, who offered that the Nyingmapa consider the planetary god Za (Rahu) to belong in the highest trinity of deities and that he "guards the religious teachings, and his thousand eyes watch the happenings in the three worlds." Worryingly, Nebesky-Wojkowitz indicates that the elaborate propitiatory cake (gtor ma) made to honor Rahu (Za) is constructed of a large red serpentine pyramid dotted geometrically with numerous eyes and bearing stakes "arranged around the base of the 'gtor ma' on which dough effigies of men and animals have been impaled as offerings." (Strangely, this eyed-pyramid bears some resemblance to the be-tentacled pyramidal monster of Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's Illuminatus! Trilogy, the Leviathan). Beyer even submits that a lama led him to believe that Nebesky-Wojkowitz died accidentally before his time because of his careless interest in these fierce protector deities.
Gtor ma
Reading Beyer's account made me feel particularly alarmed that there had been some objective reality to my encounter and that, seemingly, I had actually run into this Tibetan underworld guardian. But these few coincidences barely constitute enough to convince most folks of the objective reality of DMT entities or Tibetan deities. Nor should they, particularly those folks like James Kent who argue that these entities are merely the imaginary output of our neurochemical meddlings. Others have suggested that these entities cannot be considered either real or fictitious but are better thought of as just a part of ourselves. It might have ended there but, soon after, I discovered that my "unique" experience was not so unique after all. And this discovery threatened to bolster the tentative argument that our particular DMT entity, who we could call Za, might have some objective reality – and then so too might all those other beings we encounter along the way to Chapel Perilous, be they mischievous dwarves, machine elves, ancient gods, or praying mantis aliens.
Only a few days after reading about Za, I chanced across an article in which the following account appeared:
I noticed what seemed to be an opening into a large space, like looking through a cave opening to a starry sky. As I approached this I saw that resting in the opening was a large creature, with many arms, somewhat like an octopus, and all over the arms were eyes, mostly closed, as if the creature were asleep or slumbering. As I approached it the eyes opened, and it/they became aware of me. It did not seem especially well-disposed towards me, as if it did not wish to be bothered by a mere human, and I had the impression I wasn't going to get past it, so I did not try. [Emphasis added.]
That this creature was also quite intimidating and appeared to be guarding the way to something beyond matched my own experience; but it doesn't end there. I was conducting a web survey of paranormal psychedelic experiences at the time, and found that one of my respondents also had a similar experience, but with psilocybin rather than DMT:
I was convinced I was [dying], I saw another dimension, one filled with eyes in a fibonacci vortex/dome… I've explained this to so many people and regardless of how many things I see, be it in art or biblical references, they all say I'm nuts.
Encouraged by finding these chance reports, I began searching through psychedelic journals and on the Internet for similar stories and found a few more corresponding accounts. This first one occurred with psilocybin-containing mushrooms and appeared in The Entheogen Review:
I began seeing a peculiar phenomenon during low dose mushroom sessions: a pattern of threatening eyeballs. I intuited that the mushroom was trying to scare me, and I marveled at the workings of the mind, feeling humored rather than frightened. …In spite of my scientifically-orientated worldview, I was being visited by a spirit which seemed to be anticipating a deeper encounter.
…I took about five grams… This is when I felt the strange spirit enter me: the many-eyed apparition that had already been haunting my consciousness. The difference was that this time the "creature" seemed to be inside of me… I instinctively began questioning its intentions – who was it, what did it want, and was it a demon? I received no answer, and so, not being certain it belonged in my head, [I] forcefully commanded it to leave, which it apparently did…I had the creepy feeling that I was either going crazy or was infected with a spooky denizen of hyperspace… Perhaps, like an insect under a magnifying lens, I have difficulty fathoming this mysterious being of a thousand eyes. Interestingly enough, one of my companions later commented that at one point he perceived my forehead to be covered with eyes.
This next one, posted to Erowid.org, occurred on LSD:
Countless numbers of eyeballs were looking at me. They were the most evil things I have ever seen. They were all on these snakelike bodies that were weaving back and forth. I reopened my eyes and saw the eyes and the worms all over me and on the ground.
Although I only found these three isolated reports on LSD and psilocybin, I found numerous DMT reports that mentioned eyeball-riddled snake entities in variously weird or disturbing sequences. I needn't quote them all, as this last one offers some kind of "radical empirical" mystical triangulation of my own experience and a tentative interpretation of it:
I remember the veil, like rubber, or the surface of jelly stretched in front of me… I leaned forward to touch the surface of the membrane and then what happened next I swear nearly killed me from its sheer bizzarity… A creature emerged. It was not a happy, smiley elf… It had [innumerable] tentacles, like a cross between some weird octopus or jellyfish…and the EYES! OH MY GOD THE EYES!!!
I froze on the spot thinking shit that's it. I've gone and done it now. I'm fucking toast. I never believed. I should have believed. And now. Now I am at the mercy of [something] much, much, bigger and complex, and clever and definitely [more] malevolent than myself.
I asked it [its] name. I wish I had not asked. [Its] voice utterly destroyed me. It was like being caught in a storm of [psychic] noise – a whirlwind of deadly electrical shrapnel…With its innumerable eyes, It gazed at me steady and extended a tendril. At the same moment it fired a beam of light directly between and above my eyes. The alien laser was pinkish-green. It hurt. I begged it to stop. I whimpered. please stop. you're hurting me. I'm fragile. Please be careful – I am sentient and mean you no harm…
It seemed to consider this; the laser was withdrawn but the tendrils (there were more now) still held me in place. I was trying to make out details of its shape or structure but the closer I looked, the more it slipped away from me. It seemed to tell me in some weird non-verbal fashion not to struggle and to stop making noise with my eyes. I took this to mean 'be calm. do not struggle. clear your head. See but don't look'.
Then it became a little clearer. It seemed to be cloaked in some way – some sort of organic hood and covering was wrapped around it – some sort of armour or protection. The tentacles had no substance as we know it and the eyes were the most awe-inspiring/terrifying thing I have ever beheld. They defied counting. They defied reason. The whole thing was [too] much and I felt myself losing my mind.
I…JUST…LOST…IT…goooooooooonnnnnne.
I guess this account really did it for me. There seemed to be at least a degree of objective reality to all these reports (including mine), because they had historical precedent, shared experience, and – most importantly – some apparent meaning. On a level playing field of explanation, where all theoretical perspectives hold equally convincing – or perhaps equally unconvincing – positions, the notion of meaning can provide the greatest intuitive appeal to one's understanding. For instance, a physiological or neurotheological explanation might suggest that the highly similar visions are due to similar neurochemical reactions; but this will be seen by some to devalue the complexity and cultural significance of the experience, and it also extends itself much further than the current explanatory power of neuroscience. Alternatively, a parapsychological explanation might suggest that these similar visions all belong to a particular morphogenetic field (a field of consciousness that contains imprints of past experiences which can be accessed by others) activated by chemically-induced near-death-type experiences. Yet there is little understanding of or evidence for morphogenetic fields of this kind, even if they may be possible in principle. Any number of other theories might be put forward. But with all such explanations appearing as equally uncompelling, the possibility of this entity somehow being real as an independently sentient discarnate being – whatever that may be – has comparable explanatory power. However, beyond other ontological speculations this level of explanation – an acceptance of the experience at face value – also has esoteric and cultural meaning because it fits with a mystical understanding of the universe in which the existence of supernatural beings is accepted.
Sentient Entities
That said, I have little problem, then, assuming that entities – be they dream angels, DMT encounters, or mythical beings – have at least the possibility of independent sentience or some kind of objective reality, because I ultimately don't confine myself to any one ontological perspective. So, as clearly as I can make sense of it, it seems that smoking DMT can lead temporarily to some kind of death realm – an idea championed by Rick Strassman and supported by shamanic concepts of ayahuasca states – and in such a place the traveler might encounter one of the (archetypal) guardian deities of the underworld. One such guardian is the angel of death, who appears with thousands of eyes, much like Alex Grey's painting called Dying. Yet it seems that sometimes this multi-eyed being also assumes the tentacled or snake-bodied appearance of Za. And like a guardian of the underworld no doubt should be, this being is not to be trifled with. It holds those who encounter it in the grip of utter fear, compelled to obey its hypnotic glare – to just "see but don't look" – because it seemingly guards the sacred way on after death.
On reflection, my encounters with both Za and Azrael have resonance with each other and possibly represent the same psychic atavism or Jungian archetype (albeit an archetype that may have independent sentience), which may become activated by tryptamines such as DMT, or by dreaming or other altered states. This entity is the archetype of the guardian of the realm of death and the doorway to occult knowledge. In considering this, I was lucky enough to find a book by two occultists who offer an argument that the Islamic Azrael, the angel of death, is synonymous with the Hebrew Azazel, the fallen angel of light and the serpent of the Tree of Knowledge (who, as the Promethean prototype, stole the Gnostic fire from God and gave it to man – in much the same way that psychedelics can). They also associate the Persian fallen angel Azza, or Shemyaza with the Luciferian Azazel, who in similar Promethean style swapped the name of God for sexual favors with the mortal Ishtahar, thereby making her immortal.
Many-eyed Azazel, as depicted in Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman'
Jackson and Howard likewise associate Azazel, the great watcher, with the Persian dragon serpent Azhadaha, the black serpent of light and leader of the Inri, the fallen angels known – appropriately – as the watchers. Interestingly, they link the etymology of the common root az with the Hebrew letters ayin (or ain in Arabic) meaning eye, and zayin (zain in Arabic) meaning sword, which represent the all-seeing eye, and the flaming sword of initiation (the guardian of the Garden of Eden in biblical and cabalistic tradition). Jackson and Howard suggest that, "The secret significance of the Zayin Sword is typified by Azazel as Master of Metals and Lord of the Forge" because smithcraft and fireworking were the crafts first taught to humans by the watchers, much like the myth of Prometheus. They note that:
The Hebrew letter-form of Zayin, z, the sword blade, is the supracosmic fire that, like a shining lightning flash or thunderbolt, "cuts" through the veil of material nescience.
Assembling all these links, it didn't take a huge cognitive leap to also associate the Tibetan eyeballed serpent of my DMT encounter, Za, with these anarchic archangels of other cultures. Without making any great claims to the exclusive resemblance of any of these myths to each other – for these legends have both similarities and differences – further comparisons to Za and Azrael from elsewhere can also be made, such as the Persian Zahhāk, also known in Iranian mythology as Aži Dahāka the serpent or dragon, who was struck down by the divine Frēdōn and snakes issued forth from the wounds. Like Prometheus he was condemned to be chained to the side of a mountain for eternity. The likely etymological link here between the interchanged ayin (a) and zayin (z) of za and az is itself compelling, especially in the case of the Zahhāk/Aži Dahāka, but the myth story of Za himself has further resonance with the other fallen archangel and Promethean myths.
In Tibetan mythology, Za (known as Rahu in the Indian tradition) features in the Dri Med Zhel Phreng version of the Buddhist "churning of the oceans" story about the origins of the original entheogenic ambrosia par excellence, amrita, or soma. Having been left in charge of the Buddha's newly made water of life (the amrita) before its supposed dissemination to humanity, Vajrapani (associated with the great soma-fiend Indra) carelessly left the sacred amrita unguarded and returned to find the demon Za, the Lhamayin, had drunk it. In further offence to the gods, Za urinated what remained of the processed amrita back into the vessel. As penance, Vajrapani was made to drink what had now become poisonous, permanently turning blue as a consequence. The similarities here between the methods of enjoying amrita and psychedelic Amanita mushrooms have not gone unnoticed, and furthermore the link here between the psychedelic and the Promethean features of the myth is clear.
As just punishment, Vajrapani finally caught up with Za, wounded him many times, and then sliced him in two with his vajra, the lightning bolt. But because Za had drunk the amrita, the water of life, he survived; "amrita" translates from Sanskrit as "deathlessness," and it seems appropriate that this guardian of the underworld himself should become "deathless." As further punishment, the Buddha replaced Za's severed legs with the tail of a serpent or dragon (much like the Iranian Aži Dahāka above) and fixed eyeballs upon his numerous wounds, giving him his unique appearance.
It's here that I saw a further transcultural myth emerging with the legend of the Greek Lamia, the serpentine daimon and prophetess. The Lamia is somewhat similar in character to the Lhamayin, the class of Tibetan serpent spirits to which Za belongs. However there is some contention, not least from the Tibetan scholar, psychedelicist, and etymologist, Mike Crowley, that the Tibetan language has no roots in Middle-Eastern and Mediterranean languages because it is uniquely related to Mongolian. Nevertheless, in the same vein with which Robert Graves (who tipped off Wasson to entheogenic mushrooms) makes more poetic than precise associations between cultural myths, there is a resonance between the legend of Za – the Tibetan serpentine Lhamayin – and the Greek serpentine Lamia, whom we may also associate with Python, the serpentine prophetess of Delphi.
Accordingly, Python was responsible for maintaining the secret of prophecy and the wisdom of the underworld (similarly to Za), was struck down by the sun god Apollo, heralding what Graves describes as the usurpation of the goddess for the rights over divinatory power, and henceforth recasting Python in the role of demon. Something similar also resounds in the Greek myth of the Medusa and Perseus, and perhaps with the Luciferian Norse Loki and the Assyrian-Babylonian Zu (or Azu) too – Zu was struck down by a lightning bolt for stealing the tablets of destiny from Tiamat the dragon queen (but that's another story). With the dawning of the age of patriarchal theism that occurred two to three thousand years ago, the Promethean-type tale of Python retells the same story of the divine maverick: a chthonic being betwixt this world and the underworld, the all-seeing serpent divinity holding the key to man's enlightenment, who steals that wisdom or shares it with mankind and then becomes re-branded as a demon, a fallen angel, a trickster or a deceiver, much like Za, Azazel, and the rest. The Aryan demon Rahu (Za) had once been a Dravidian god and it's clear that an old culture's gods often become a dominating culture's demons, and the archaic tools with which the old culture accessed their divine, be they psychedelic or otherwise, become heretical.
Subsequently, the old chthonic sacramentals, such as amrita, or henbane – called "pythonian" by the ancient Greeks in honor of Python – fell out of grace as easily as Lucifer fell from heaven, or Adam and Eve fell from the Garden of Eden. But like poor old Frank Olsen, did they fall, or were they pushed? The identity of amrita was completely lost, and remains a matter of debate. Although few soma hunters have proposed tryptamines as the culprit – save perhaps McKenna, who championed psilocybin-containing champignons – what the Tibetan lama Chögyam Trungpa says about it fits happily with the various tryptamine visions mentioned above:
…amrita is the principle of intoxicating extreme beliefs, belief in ego, and dissolving the boundary between confusion and sanity so that coemergence can be realized.
Perhaps a report of a multi-eyeballed Za-like entity being induced by Amanita muscaria might say something more for the favored identity of amrita; and yet, even though there's some certainty that the ancients of the East never smoked DMT, perhaps any old entheogen will do.
But is there anything that can be found in this wayward meandering through myth and vision that offers a case for the genuine reification of "the other" encountered in psychedelic spaces on the far side of the psyche? Knowing that speculation is the vice of the precise and the virtue of the poetic, I have no doubt that those wearing their left brain today will already have departed company with me somewhere along the line here. As a scientist myself, I have deeply questioned this temporary departure from so-called rational thought. But as an explorer of the weirder realms of the mind, I have also been forced occasionally to leap the fence at the edge of my field of expertise and traverse unknown territory. I don't offer any of this as "fact" beyond the phenomenological, but merely as "possibility" in a psychic landscape as "off the map" as that provided by DMT. Indeed, here be dragons. And yes, beware that among the dragon's treasure, all that glitters is not gold. Yet who can resist occasionally inspecting a few gems in case they are of any real value?
David Luke is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Greenwich and President of the Parapsychological Association. He has published over 50 scholarly articles on anything from pirate utopias to paranormal phenomena with psychedelics. One day he will write a book. He hosts the Ecology, Cosmos and Consciousness lecture series in London and is co-editor of www.brainwaving.com.
This article first appeared in The Entheogen Review, Volume XVII: I
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Friday, October 18th fxlx Log in to Reply
This is an awesome read! My DMT experience was one of most important of my life. It brought me to the Kabbalah. I also saw eyes everywhere & felt that the entity didn't want me there. It snarled at me, it was pretty scary! I had to hold it together while the effects wore off. It was still a most incredible experience, however. I don't doubt there are entities out there outside of ourselves now.
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It's all your vibration.
The reality one encounters on psychedelics is as objective as any reality can be. What you are able to perceive is a result of your state of mind, your karma.
Your biochemical state going into the experience is important. DMT trips are not unlike every day life.
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I found your blog because I googled for what I saw yesterday.
After I saw the eyes, I had to fight for life. I knew that consciousness was immortal, likely, but our world wasn't.
Earlier, I also saw the praying mantis alien. That was on a pleasant DMT (pharma) trip.
Yesterday, I managed to take golden teacher with harmaline. I will never do it again.


Sure, there are homeowners who are still underwater. And this is a problem and sad situation.
However the situation is improving!. Deeply underwater homeowners – with a loan-to-value ratio on their properties of at least 125% — represented 23% of U.S. residential properties with a mortgage in September, according to RealtyTrac. That number is down from 11.3 million deeply underwater homeowners – about 26% of all residential properties – in May. A year ago, there were 12.5 million deeply underwater properties. That is a tremendous improvement! More details here.
A significant factor is the rebound of home values. As home values are steadily increasing it is helping homeowners realize "the glass is half full" and they may have a solution!
We have a long ways to go before we see values of the early 2000's so there are excellent values in our communities.
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Troy Aikman admits misogynistic 'take the dresses off' comment was 'dumb'
"My comments were dumb. Just shouldn't have made them, just dumb remarks on my part"
ESPNBy Brandon Contes on 10/13/2022
Troy Aikman shouldn't be reprimanded for the recent controversy he caused on Monday Night Football, but that doesn't excuse his comment from being "dumb."
Monday night, Aikman assessed a questionable roughing the passer call during the first half of the Kansas City Chiefs matchup with the Las Vegas Raiders. Aikman condemned the penalty flag being thrown after Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones hit Raiders quarterback Derek Carr, adding, "My hope is the competition committee looks at this in the next set of meetings and, you know, we take the dresses off."
Troy Aikman: "My hope is the [NFL] Competition Committee looks at this in the next set of meetings, and you know, we take the dresses off." pic.twitter.com/5DqdLJ8Ccx
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) October 11, 2022
The comment garnered some backlash as Aikman could have conveyed his belief that the penalty was soft and egregious without using terminology to imply women are inferior to men. Thursday morning, the ESPN Monday Night Football analyst joined The Musers on Sportsradio 96.7 FM/1310 The Ticket in Dallas to address his controversial comments.
"Yeah, I mean, my comments were dumb. Just shouldn't have made them, just dumb remarks on my part," Aikman told The Ticket according to The Dallas Morning News.
"But the other part of … what came from that, what I said was that it implied that I'm not in favor of protecting the quarterbacks, which could not be further from the truth," Aikman continued. "I'm totally in favor of the protection that the quarterbacks are afforded, and all players for that matter. But there's no question there has been over-enforcement of the protection for quarterbacks."
What Aikman said did not deserve public punishment from his employer. What Aikman said was dumb and it was called out as such. Most reasonable people are able to understand that line of demarcation. Some outlets, however, began drooling when they saw the social media criticism of Aikman and used it as an opportunity to boast their delusive idea of the "woke mob," even though no one was really calling for his job.
Aikman portrayed an outdated mentality by implying football players are strong and women are weak, therefore the NFL shouldn't act like ladies. It's an expression that should have already been retired, Aikman was late to the retirement ceremony, but he seems to recognize that now.
The comment was dumb, Aikman admitted it was dumb, hopefully, the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback doesn't use similar terminology in the future, and we can move on.
[Dallas Morning News]
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Beyoncé Donates An Additional $1 Million to Small Black-Owned Businesses
Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton September 4, 2020 September 4, 2020 3721
(Image: Beyonce.com)
Mega-superstar and philanthropist Beyonce has made an additional donation earmarked for Black-owned small businesses to the tune of $1 million according to Billboard.
Beyonce announced, through her BeyGOOD foundation this past Wednesday (Sept. 2), that she is partnering with the NAACP by donating $1 million in additional funds to help Black-owned small businesses. This is round 2 of the funding that both organizations started in July.
"Proud to announce $1M in additional funds from Beyoncé to help Black-owned small businesses. Round two of funding opens this month, with our partner NAACP."
Beyoncé adds $1M to help Black-owned small businesses.
A post shared by BeyGOOD (@beygood) on Sep 2, 2020 at 12:33pm PDT
Back in July, The NAACP had announced on its website that it will be distributing a number of grants valued at $10,000 grants to Black-owned small businesses in Houston, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis that have been impacted by the COVID-19 health crisis.
"Over the last couple of months, the pandemic and outpours for justice throughout the Black community and across the country has been felt in every imaginable area of our lives, including in how our local businesses continue to operate," said the organization in a press release."The challenges of Black business owners navigating in the climate cannot be understated, as the effects of uprisings across the nation have led to many businesses being placed in dire straits due to damages and other small business needs."
Earlier this year, the singer released her a surprise single, "Black Parade" on Juneteenth. Along with the release of the single, she launched an initiative that supports Black-owned businesses. The talented artist and philanthropist had listed a directory of Black-owned businesses that was created and curated by @ZerinaAkers with @black.owned.everything on her website. The site lists several hundred Black-owned companies.
Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton
Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton, is the co-founder, and owner of TheIndustryCosign.com.


No 747s, no package deals, no mass-marketing tourism. Anguilla is as remote and private as you can get. Well, almost. There is one Anguilla off-island cay so seductive in its idyllic-tropical-paradise beauty, taking you even further away from stress, hustle and bustle... A visit to Sandy Island is a must-do Anguilla activity.
One of my favorite memories at Sandy Island was with the warm company of my Mom and two of our close friends. We rode on their boat. Together, the four of us popped in on the crew at Sandy Island and they were prepared to feed us.
We were the only ones there that particular day. What a treat! Stepping off on to a small piece of ground in the middle of so much blue was so appealing.
Swimming, sunning and sipping on rum punches, the memory of that day is burned into my memory.
Sandy Island was calling my name, one lazy Sunday in Anguilla. With 9 friends (it's recommended to make reservations), we were ready to go.
We met next to Johnno's on Sandy Ground. You can park there, or down the street at The Pumphouse.
We then made our way to the Sandy Ground wharf and boarded "Happiness," a small motor boat that takes you over and brings you back. The boat ride is a fair $10 per person, round trip.
"Happiness" leaves Sandy Ground every hour on the hour starting at 11am. We took the noon boat.
(You can also take a private Anguilla charter to Sandy Island).
This is part of the fun of Sandy Island, especially if you like to be on boats, like I do. It's a pretty quick ride, almost too quick!
... And we're off. Departing Sandy Ground for Sandy Island!
The crew helps you step down on to the beach and suddenly this tinier piece of paradise feels all your own, at least for the afternoon.
Unlike my first visit, this particular Sunday was busy.
Some had come over on "Happiness" and some were from boats anchored off Sandy Island.
This off-island cay is particularly popular with boaters visiting from St. Martin.
I quickly put in my order for "JoJo's Rum Punch," which I received promptly.
The High Tide is another favorite Sandy Island exclusive cocktail. This one is Janice's (Nori's Mom's) favorite!
Sandy Island now serves their drinks in nice, hard plastic stemmed "glasses," a nice upgrade from the plastic cups.
This certainly gives the experience a "greener," more environmentally friendly feeling, and a certain a heightened feeling of elegance.
I also ordered my lunch of crayfish which arrived about 45 minutes later, as the main menu items are grilled to order.
The crayfish lunch consisted of two crayfish (split), pasta salad, a side salad, cole slaw, and rice and peas and was priced at $50.
The crayfish that day was a little over-cooked but it was still good enough to eat every bite. Some others in my group ordered lunches of ribs and chicken and they cleaned their plates too.
Sandy Island also serves lobster, grouper and snapper.
Since I was with a larger group, I brought my dominoes, hoping at least one other person would want to play a little as we "limed" the afternoon away.
There are plenty of nice picnic tables to hang out it, shaded or not.
We laid our towel on the sand and chatted and relaxed. There were some beach lounge chairs stacked up for use, but the soft warm sand felt good.
It was a windy day (in mid-February) and we were entertained by a nearby kite surfer with some skills!
I watched snorkelers out in the distance. I've been told the sea life is particularly special. You can read more about snorkeling in Anguilla, here.
What a way to spend a day in Anguilla! Explore, nap, snorkel, read, eat, sunbathe, swim, all with a true sense of secludedness. It doesn't get much better than that.
I'm sure Michael Jordan can attest to that. He has visited Sandy Island too. He actually bumped into his basketball buddy, Shaquille O'Neal, who was in Anguilla at the same time, and at Sandy Island too!
You can read more about Michael Jordan in Anguilla, here.
Even ABC's popular show called "The Bachelor" came to Anguilla held a private date on Sandy Island. The main difference was, "Happiness" wasn't running that day and they had to be dropped off via helicopter!
Sandy Island is certainly a celebrity favorite!
It's no wonder why... It's just about as private as you can get.
This island paradise has been in business since 1984. They even host private events!
NOTE: There is a 5% charge when paying via credit card.


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Q: how to change the quantity of an item added to magento cart during checkout steps I have developed a module for a group of tourist to buy trips in a magento store. During the billing step of the checkout, the user fills the form of other partecipant, and according to the number of partecipants i have to change the quantity(qty) of the product to be bought.So it has to be shown in the review step(last step) in checkout, and the grandtotal has to be calculated according that value.
I have tried all the ways but nothing is useful.Can someone help me please.Thanks in advance!

A: Your question is pretty unclear to answer, I'll still try my best.
What you can do is write a js wherein on the form submit or probably on a filling a particular field you hit an ajax to a controller with the field or form fields details.
In that controller write the below code:
//get Product
$product = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->load($pid);
//get Item
$item = $quote->getItemByProduct($product);

$quote->getCart()->updateItem(array($item->getId()=>array('qty'=>$qty)));
$quote->getCart()->save();

Then refresh your reviews. Your order totals should be updated accordingly.

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73801	 CVE-2004-1110 2005-01-10 2017-07-10
None Local Low Not required None Partial None
The mtink status monitor before 1.0.5 for Epson printers allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the epson temporary file.
73802	 CVE-2004-1109 DoS 2005-01-10 2017-07-10
The FWDRV.SYS driver in Kerio Personal Firewall 4.1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and system freeze from infinite loop) via a (1) TCP, (2) UDP, or (3) ICMP packet with a zero length IP Option field.
qpkg in Gentoolkit 0.2.0_pre10 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary directory.
dispatch-conf in Portage 2.0.51-r2 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on temporary files.
73805	 CVE-2004-1106 XSS 2005-01-10 2017-07-10
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Gallery 1.4.4-pl3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML via "specially formed URLs," possibly via the include parameter in index.php.
Nortel Networks Contivity VPN Client displays a different error message depending on whether the username is valid or invalid, which could allow remote attackers to gain sensitive information.
MailPost 5.1.1sv, and possibly earlier versions, when debug mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to gain sensitive information via the debug parameter, which reveals information such as the path to the web root and the web server version.
MailPost 5.1.1sv, and possibly earlier versions, displays a different error message depending on whether the requested file exists or not, which allows remote attackers to gain sensitive information.
73809	 CVE-2004-1101 DoS XSS +Info 2005-01-10 2017-07-10
None Remote Medium Not required Partial None Partial
mailpost.exe in MailPost 5.1.1sv, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash), leak sensitive pathname information in the resulting error message, and execute a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack via an HTTP request that contains a / (backslash) and arbitrary webscript before the requested file, which leaks the pathname and does not quote the script in the resulting Visual Basic error message.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in mailpost.exe in MailPost 5.1.1sv, and possibly earlier versions, when debug mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML via the append parameter.
Midnight commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via "use of already freed memory."
Midnight commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by causing mc to free unallocated memory.
Midnight commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering a null dereference.
Midnight commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via "a corrupt section header."
None Local Low Not required Partial Partial Partial
Unknown vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.6 server, when using Kerberos authentication and Cyrus IMAP allows local users to access mailboxes of other users.
Terminal for Apple Mac OS X 10.3.6 may indicate that "Secure Keyboard Entry" is enabled even when it is not, which could result in a false sense of security for the user.
None Local Low Not required None None Partial
Human Interface Toolbox (HIToolBox) for Apple Mac 0S X 10.3.6 allows local users to exit applications via the force-quit key combination, even when the system is running in kiosk mode.
73818	 CVE-2004-1084 Bypass 2004-12-02 2017-07-10
Apache for Apple Mac OS X 10.2.8 and 10.3.6 allows remote attackers to read files and resource fork content via HTTP requests to certain special file names related to multiple data streams in HFS+, which bypass Apache file handles.
Apache for Apple Mac OS X 10.2.8 and 10.3.6 restricts access to files in a case sensitive manner, but the Apple HFS+ filesystem accesses files in a case insensitive manner, which allows remote attackers to read .DS_Store files and files beginning with ".ht" using alternate capitalization.
None Local Low Not required Partial None None
The Application Framework (AppKit) for Apple Mac OS X 10.2.8 and 10.3.6 does not properly restrict access to a secure text input field, which allows local users to read keyboard input from other applications within the same window session.
Citrix Program Neighborhood Agent for Win32 8.00.24737 and earlier and MetaFrame Presentation Server client for WinCE before 8.33 allows remote servers to create arbitrary shortcuts on the client via a full UNC path in the AppInStartmenu directive.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in standard_error_message.dtml for Zwiki after 0.10.0rc1 to 0.36.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via a malformed URL, which is not properly cleansed when generating an error message.
The binfmt functionality in the Linux kernel, when "memory overcommit" is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel oops) via a malformed a.out binary.
The open_exec function in the execve functionality (exec.c) in Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.27, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.8, allows local users to read non-readable ELF binaries by using the interpreter (PT_INTERP) functionality.
None Local High Not required None None Partial
Race condition in SELinux 2.6.x through 2.6.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via SOCK_SEQPACKET unix domain sockets, which are not properly handled in the sock_dgram_sendmsg function.
73826	 CVE-2004-1068 +Priv 2005-01-10 2017-10-10
Admin Local High Not required Complete Complete Complete
A "missing serialization" error in the unix_dgram_recvmsg function in Linux 2.4.27 and earlier, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.9, allows local users to gain privileges via a race condition.
None Local Low Not required Partial None Partial
The cmdline pseudofiles in (1) procfs on FreeBSD 4.8 through 5.3, and (2) linprocfs on FreeBSD 5.x through 5.3, do not properly validate a process argument vector, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) or read portions of kernel memory. NOTE: this candidate might be SPLIT into 2 separate items in the future.
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in ViewCVS 0.9.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via certain error messages.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Bugzilla before 2.18, including 2.16.x before 2.16.11, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via forced error messages, as demonstrated using the action parameter.
Multiple TCP/IP and ICMP implementations, when using Path MTU (PMTU) discovery (PMTUD), allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (network throughput reduction for TCP connections) via forged ICMP ("Fragmentation Needed and Don't Fragment was Set") packets with a low next-hop MTU value, aka the "Path MTU discovery attack." NOTE: CVE-2004-0790, CVE-2004-0791, and CVE-2004-1060 have been SPLIT based on different attacks; CVE-2005-0065, CVE-2005-0066, CVE-2005-0067, and CVE-2005-0068 are related identifiers that are SPLIT based on the underlying vulnerability. While CVE normally SPLITs based on vulnerability, the attack-based identifiers exist due to the variety and number of affected implementations and solutions that address the attacks instead of the underlying vulnerabilities.
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in mnoGoSearch 3.2.26 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML and web script via the (1) next and (2) prev result search pages, and the (3) extended and (4) simple search forms.
None Local High Not required Partial None None
Race condition in Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to read the environment variables of another process that is still spawning via /proc/.../cmdline.
Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver in Linux kernel 2.6 does not properly check the DMA lock, which could allow remote attackers or local users to cause a denial of service (X Server crash) and possibly modify the video output.
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in phpMyAdmin 2.6.0-pl2 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via (1) the PmaAbsoluteUri parameter, (2) the zero_rows parameter in read_dump.php, (3) the confirm form, or (4) an error message generated by the internal phpMyAdmin parser.
73835	 CVE-2004-1049 Exec Code Overflow 2004-12-31 2018-10-12
User Remote High Not required Partial Partial Partial
Integer overflow in the LoadImage API of the USER32 Lib for Microsoft Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .bmp, .cur, .ico or .ani file with a large image size field, which leads to a buffer overflow, aka the "Cursor and Icon Format Handling Vulnerability."
73836	 CVE-2004-1043 Exec Code 2004-12-31 2018-10-12
Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by using the "Related Topics" command in the Help ActiveX Control (hhctrl.ocx) to open a Help popup window containing the PCHealth tools.htm file in the local zone and injecting Javascript to be executed, as demonstrated using "writehta.txt" and the ADODB recordset, which saves a .HTA file to the local system, aka the "HTML Help ActiveX control Cross Domain Vulnerability."
The NFS mountd service on SCO UnixWare 7.1.1, 7.1.3, 7.1.4, and 7.0.1, and possibly other versions, when run from inetd, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a series of requests, which causes inetd to launch a separate process for each request.
73838	 CVE-2004-1036 Exec Code XSS 2005-03-01 2017-10-10
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the decoding of encoded text in certain headers in mime.php for SquirrelMail 1.4.3a and earlier, and 1.5.1-cvs before 23rd October 2004, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary web script or HTML.
73839	 CVE-2004-1035 DoS +Info 2005-03-01 2017-07-10
None Remote Low Not required Partial None Partial
Multiple integer signedness errors in (1) imapcommon.c, (2) main.c, (3) request.c, and (4) select.c for up-imapproxy IMAP proxy 1.2.2 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) and possibly leak sensitive information via certain literal values that are not properly handled when using the IMAP_Line_Read function.
Fcron 2.0.1, 2.9.4, and possibly earlier versions leak file descriptors of open files, which allows local users to bypass access restrictions and read fcron.allow and fcron.deny via the EDITOR environment variable.
fcronsighup in Fcron 2.0.1, 2.9.4, and possibly earlier versions allows local users to delete arbitrary files or create arbitrary empty files via a target filename with a large number of leading slash (/) characters such that fcronsighup does not properly append the intended fcrontab.sig to the resulting string.
fcronsighup in Fcron 2.0.1, 2.9.4, and possibly earlier versions allows local users to gain sensitive information by calling fcronsighup with an arbitrary file, which reveals the contents of the file that can not be parsed in an error message.
73843	 CVE-2004-1027 Dir. Trav. 2005-03-01 2017-07-10
Directory traversal vulnerability in the -x (extract) command line option in unarj allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an arj archive with filenames that contain .. (dot dot) sequences.
Kerio Winroute Firewall before 6.0.9, ServerFirewall before 1.0.1, and MailServer before 6.0.5, when installed on Windows based systems, do not modify the ACLs for critical files, which allows local users with Power Users privileges to modify programs, install malicious DLLs in the plug-ins folder, and modify XML files related to configuration.
Kerio Winroute Firewall before 6.0.7, ServerFirewall before 1.0.1, and MailServer before 6.0.5 use symmetric encryption for user passwords, which allows attackers to decrypt the user database and obtain the passwords by extracting the secret key from within the software.
The addslashes function in PHP 4.3.9 does not properly escape a NULL (/0) character, which may allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files in PHP applications that contain a directory traversal vulnerability in require or include statements, but are otherwise protected by the magic_quotes_gpc mechanism. NOTE: this issue was originally REJECTed by its CNA before publication, but that decision is in active dispute. This candidate may change significantly in the future as a result of further discussion.
The scm_send function in the scm layer for Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.28, and 2.6.x up to 2.6.9, allows local users to cause a denial of service (system hang) via crafted auxiliary messages that are passed to the sendmsg function, which causes a deadlock condition.
statd in nfs-utils 1.257 and earlier does not ignore the SIGPIPE signal, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (server process crash) via a TCP connection that is prematurely terminated.
Midnight commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via unknown attack vectors.
The quoted-printable decoder in bogofilter 0.17.4 to 0.92.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via mail headers that cause a line feed (LF) to be replaced by a null byte that is written to an incorrect memory address.
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New on Netflix Streaming: January 2015
With the new year comes a slew of new movies and TV shows on Netflix, and everyone's favorite streaming service is adding some great titles in January 2015.
On the movie side, a bevy of box-office heavyweights are being added to the instant mix, including Disney's live-action "101 Dalmatians, " Jim Carrey's "Bruce Almighty, " and Michael Bay actioner "Bad Boys II." Some smaller favorites are also coming to Netflix: Internet obsession "Mean Girls" returns (to stay?! Please!), Reese Witherspoon dark comedy "Election" gets a run, and this past summer's little-comedy-that-could, "Chef, " makes its subscription service debut.
"Friends" fans have been dying for the series to come to Netflix, and now that dream is coming true! Beginning January 1, subscribers will be able to watch every single episode, catching up with Monica, Joey, Chandler, Ross, Rachel, and Phoebe whenever and wherever they want. Other great shows being added in January 2015 include TNT's "Dallas": Season 3, USA's "White Collar": Season 5, and Syfy's "Being Human": Season 4. But what we're most looking forward to is the January 16 premiere of Season 2 of the Netflix Original "The Fall, " starring Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan. Season 1 was so good, we watched it twice.
Available January 1
"101 Dalmatians" (1996)
"Bad Boys II" (2003)
"Batman & Robin" (1997)
"Bruce Almighty" (2003)
"Cast Away" (2000)
"Dallas": Season 3 (2012)
"Get Low" (2009)
"Election" (1999)
"Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" (1998)
"Fort Bliss" (2014)
"Friends": Complete Series (1994 2004)
"Jeepers Creepers 2" (2003)
"Mean Girls" (2004)
"Shall We Dance?" (2004)
"To Be Takei" (2014)
"The French Connection" (1971)
"The Quiet Man" (1952)
"The War of the Worlds" (1953)
"Wayne's World 2" (1993)
"Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit" (2014)
"White Collar": Season 5
"Brick Mansions" (2014)
"Frank" (2014)
"Psych": Season 8
"Z Nation": Season 1
Available January 13
"Being Human": Season 4 (U.S.)
"Wolfblood": Season 3 (2014)
"The Adventures of Puss in Boots": Season 1
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18 Octagon Examples in Real Life
Octagon is a two-dimensional geometric shape that consists of eight sides, eight vertices, and eight internal angles. The word octagon has been derived from two Greek words 'octa' meaning eight, and 'gon' meaning side. It falls under the category of polygons. The area of a regular octagon is given as 4.828427 times the square of the length of its side.
Types of Octagon
1. Regular Octagon
2. Irregular Octagon
3. Concave Octagon
4. Convex Octagon
Properties of Octagon
Examples of Octagon
1. Street Signs
2. Clock
3. Window
4. Tiles
5. Glass
6. Buildings
7. Plate
8. Spectacles and Sun Glasses
9. Ornaments and Accessories
10. Medal
11. Umbrellas
13. Cookie Box
14. Boxing Ring
15. Spider Web
16. Table
17. Star
18. Musical Instruments
If all the eight sides of an octagon are equal in length and all the internal angles are equal in magnitude, then such an octagon is known as a regular octagon. The sum of the exterior angles of a regular octagon is equal to 360°. The magnitude of each of the interior angles of a regular octagon is equal to 135°. The angle formed at the centre of the regular octagon is equal to 45°.
If at least two sides of an octagon vary in length, then it is known as an irregular octagon.
If at least one of the internal angles of an octagon is greater than 180°, then such an octagon is known as a concave octagon. Usually, concave octagons have a dent in their closed structure.
All the internal angles of a convex octagon have a magnitude less than 180°. Usually, the convex octagons tend to have an outward bump.
1. An octagon has a total of 20 diagonals.
2. The sum of interior angles of an octagon is equal to 1080°.
3. Each interior angle of a regular octagon has a magnitude equal to 135°.
4. The exterior angles of a regular octagon are congruent to each other and have a magnitude equal to 45°.
Street signs such as the stop signs are typically constructed in the shape of an octagon. The octagon shape is usually preferred to create road warning signs to ensure that the driver facing the back of the sign is also able to understand what the signboard indicates.
Clocks are manufactured in a variety of shapes and sizes such as cube, cuboid, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, etc.
Some of the windows are shaped like an octagon to add uniqueness to the household.
One of the most popular two-dimensional geometric shapes used to manufacture tiles is an octagon.
Some of the drinking glasses are often shaped like an octagonal prism. If you look at the base of such a glass, you can easily visualize the two-dimensional octagon geometric shape.
Architects generally make use of the octagon geometric shape to construct buildings, homes, apartments, offices, temples, and other infrastructures.
Some of the plates and dishes are also manufactured in the shape of an octagon.
Octagon geometric shape is widely used to construct frames for spectacles and sunglasses.
A number of ornaments and accessories such as earrings, pendants, rings, etc., are shaped like an octagon.
Medals are usually awarded to a person as a token of appreciation for his/her deed. Some of the medals are shaped like an octagon.
The octagon geometric shape can be visualized by looking at an open umbrella from the top view.
The frame or the outer structure of a trampoline usually consists of eight sides, eight vertices, and eight internal angles, thereby forming a prominent example of octagon-shaped objects present around us.
A cookie box is generally shaped like an octagon.
The boxing ring is a classic example of an octagon because it has eight sides, eight vertices, and eight internal angles.
Spider webs are yet another example of octagon geometric shapes.
Study or dining tables are constructed in a variety of shapes out of which octagon shape is quite common.
A four-pointed star pattern is a prime example of an irregular octagon because it has a total of eight sides, eight vertices, and eight unequal angles.
A number of musical instruments such as a drum, tambourine, etc., are shaped like an octagon.
17 Parallel Lines Examples in Real Life
15 Rhombus Examples in Real Life
10 Real Life Examples Of Triangle
20 Cylinder Examples in Real Life
9 Pyramid Examples in Real Life
11 Nonagon Examples in Real Life
5 Octahedron Examples in Real Life
12 Crescent Examples in Real Life
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Серге́й Па́влович Козло́в (16 января 1952, Калуга — 25 апреля 1993, Виноградов, Закарпатская область) — советский офицер-десантник, участник Афганской войны, гвардии старший лейтенант, командир десантно-штурмовой роты, 56-я гвардейская отдельная десантно-штурмовая бригада, 40-я Армия, Ограниченный контингент советских войск в Афганистане. Герой Советского Союза.

Биография и военная карьера
С. П. Козлов родился 16 января 1952 года в Калуге в семье рабочего, бывшего фронтовика.

Со школьных лет он мечтал стать военным, и в 1967 году, после окончания 8-го класса школы, поступил в Московское суворовское военное училище, которое окончил в 1970 году.

В 1974 году окончил Рязанское высшее воздушно-десантное командное дважды Краснознамённое училище имени Ленинского комсомола.

Служил в Краснознамённом Туркестанском военном округе командиром взвода, затем роты 56-й гвардейской отдельной десантно-штурмовой бригады.

С 1979 года находился в составе ограниченного контингента советских войск в Афганистане.

Подвиг
В феврале 1980 года подразделению, которым командовал С. П. Козлов, была поставлена задача взять под охрану стратегически важный мост через реку Кокча. В ходе выполнения приказа десантники вступили в бой с афганскими оппозиционерами. Бой выдался тяжёлым, преимущество было на стороне противника. В один из моментов боя старший лейтенант Козлов, совершив бросок через зону огня, забросал гранатами башню возле моста, уничтожив таким образом укреплённую огневую точку. Это позволило подразделению отбросить противника и закрепиться на объекте. С. П. Козлов лично уничтожил более 20 врагов, но получил тяжёлое ранение.

Звание Герой Советского Союза
Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 28 апреля 1980 года «За мужество и героизм, проявленные при оказании интернациональной помощи Демократической Республике Афганистан, старшему лейтенанту Козлову Сергею Павловичу присвоено звание Героя Советского Союза с вручением ордена Ленина и медали "Золотая Звезда"».

Это был один из первых случаев присвоения высшего геройского звания военнослужащим ОКСВА.

Дальнейшая карьера
После лечения в Ташкентском госпитале в 1981 году С. П. Козлов становится слушателем Военной академии имени М. В. Фрунзе. В это же время его избирают членом ЦК ВЛКСМ. Наряду с учёбой в академии офицер занимается общественно-партийной деятельностью. В центральных газетах — в «Комсомольской правде», в «Красной звезде» появляются его заметки на тему военно-патриотического воспитания.

По окончании военной академии С. П. Козлов продолжил службу в Прикарпатском военном округе. Был военным комиссаром Виноградовского района Закарпатской области Украины, дослужился до звания полковника.

25 апреля 1993 года Сергей Павлович Козлов скончался от инфаркта. Похоронен в городе . Семья героя (жена и сын) переехала в город Хмельницкий.

Награды
 Медаль «Золотая Звезда»;
 орден Ленина;
 медали.

Память

В 1999 году С. П. Козлову посмертно было присвоено звание почётного гражданина города Калуги. На здании калужской школы № 6 (ул. Академика Королёва, 14), в которой он учился, установлена мемориальная доска.

В Калуге одна из улиц названа в честь С. П. Козлова

Примечания

Ссылки

Выпускники Московского суворовского военного училища
Выпускники Рязанского высшего воздушно-десантного командного училища
Выпускники Военной академии имени М. В. Фрунзе
Участники Афганской войны (1979—1989)
Советская гвардия
Почётные граждане Калуги
Умершие от инфаркта миокарда

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We discover our greatness when we find ourselves in a situation more significant than we are, and we manage to grow and become bigger than the situation.
– Luigina Sgarro
As the world goes through a pandemic and every citizen in the country is abiding by the quarantine guidelines and staying at home to avoid getting infected, it is understandable that people are getting worried about where they will get food. Supermarkets are now being closed, and many workers are also laid off due to the economic disruption brought by the virus.
In Kuwait, the Ministry of Health announced 55 new COVID-19 cases with no additional recoveries. This brings to a total tally of 910 cases with 111 recovered cases. Within the new cases, 51 had contact with confirmed cases, with 4 of them being Kuwaiti nationals, 36 cases of Indian residents, 6 cases of Bangladeshi residents, 2 cases of Pakistani residents, 1 Iranian resident, 1 Egyptian, and 1 Nepali resident. Four are currently under investigation with two cases of Kuwaiti nationals, 1 Indian resident and 1 Syrian resident. Seven hundred ninety-eight patients are presently receiving medical treatment, while 22 are in the intensive care unit, and no additional coronavirus deaths were recorded. Compared to yesterday's report, the new number of cases decreased.
"Update of COVID-19 cases in Kuwait on April 9, 2020."
Ensuring the Food Supply of Citizens
Today marks the 29th day of quarantine and the 19th day of curfew, and as such, the Government of Kuwait has already laid out initiatives in order to ensure that their citizens, both immigrants, and expatriates alike, do not get hungry during this pandemic. Working together with the Ministries of Interior, Finance, Health, the Flour Mills Company and other charitable bodies, the Minister of Social Affairs and the Minister of State for Economic Affairs Maryam Al-Aqeel said in a press conference that food baskets will be disbursed to the expatriates and citizens in the areas of Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh and Mahboula which are currently under quarantine. The operations will be conducted in 5 places, and Al-Aqeel assures the public that these food baskets will be delivered on a daily basis along with the civil defense. Food and consumer goods will be delivered to ensure the welfare of the citizens in these regions.
Minister of Social Affairs and the Minister of State for Economic Affairs Maryam Al-Aqeel
I am very thankful to the Government of Kuwait, especially to the Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh Al-Khaled Sabah, for his compassion in providing our fellow expatriates with the food supplies and consumer goods that are needed for their survival.
Due to the strain that the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on the government's public health sector, The Ministry of Health released a statement that it is currently opening its doors for nurses, doctors, and other medical staff working in the private sector to volunteer in combating the pandemic. The doctors can apply at the office of the Assistant Undersecretary for Technical Affairs while the nurses can do so at the office of the Assistant Undersecretary for Medical Services. The applications will be open for medical professionals for three days starting this April 12. Each one of them must bring a copy of practicing licenses, the civil ID and a letter of approval of the company that they are currently employed to.
The government of Kuwait has also raised its efforts in the fight against the pandemic and has since then elevated its precautionary measures in containing the virus. These measures include the consideration in implementing a full curfew and hiring more medical workers as they plan on the resumption of state departments in a remote manner.
Online News Conference with Al-Mezrem
Al Mezrem also stated in an online press release that those authorities responsible for making the executive plans during the quarantine should also consider making operational plans on the implementation of a full curfew and also to minimize any hindrances that may obstruct its execution. He also made placed a significant emphasis on with the companies related to security and cleaning who have formed contracts with the Government of Kuwait to ensure the welfare of their constituents by paying them with the proper wages and making sure that they are living in humane and decent housing units. He also warned that the companies who fail to comply with these guidelines would receive legal action.
Since then, he has also approved the Ministry of Health's initiative in expanding its capabilities in handling the pandemic by recruiting medical professionals from the private sector as well as the allocation of medical facilities for the use and isolation of COVID-19 patients. Furthermore, the government has also approved the Ministry of Commerce's request to initiate an electronic application in order to prevent the formation of large gatherings, which contribute to the spread of the virus.
Regarding the status of the lockdown within the areas within Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh and Mahboula, the government has since then ensured the wellbeing of the inhabitants residing therein by providing them with the necessary medical services and food supplies in order for them to make it through the lockdown as well as maintain their health. Furthermore, the Deputy Premier, Interior Minister, and the Minister of State for Cabinet Anas Al-Saleh released a statement that His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah that he has already imposed an order to cut the passes that guarantee the movement of workers by half.
I am simply thankful and in awe of the Kuwaiti Government's express concern for its citizens and expatriates. Not only are they continue expanding their abilities in staving off this pandemic, but they have also made sure that their citizens are also well provided for with both food and medical supplies.
Violations During the Quarantine
The Kuwait Ministry of Interior released a statement this Thursday that the police have recently arrested four expatriate workers for cutting the barbed wire fence in order to break out of the Mahboula Area in the Al-Ahmadi Governorate which is currently under lockdown. After interrogating the individuals in question, they confessed to the charges, and the legal processes to extradite them out of Kuwait are already ongoing.
The Juvenile Misdemeanor Court has also recently sentenced a teenager to 3 months of confinement in a juvenile penal institution for violating the curfew. With this in mind, I call on everyone to abide by the laws that the authorities have set in order to make sure that the pandemic does not spread any further. These laws and guidelines also serve not only to protect its citizens but also to the integrity of public health. Thus, we must show our conviction in respecting the laws of our land and enacting the societal responsibility that is required of us as law-abiding citizens.
Updates from the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait
In light of the current pandemic, the Philippine Embassy in Kuwait has decided to release an online survey appealing to Filipino Healthcare Workers in order to have a better grasp of the situation that our OFW's are currently going through as well as the challenges they face daily.
PUBLIC ADVISORY: Survey Of Filipino Health Care Workers In Kuwait
The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait also joins the Filipino nation in the observance of Araw ng Kagitingan, marking the 78th anniversary of the Fall of Bataan during the Second World War.
President Rodrigo Duterte also released a statement from the Malacanang stating that he is one with the Philippines in commemorating the brave and gallant sacrifices that our soldiers made in Bataan so that we can enjoy the democracy that we have today. With that in mind, we must also draw strength and courage from our valiant ancestors, especially during this pandemic, which threatens the health of the public. We must also comply with the quarantine so that our front liners' sacrifices, doctors, nurses, soldiers, janitors, and public health workers would not go to waste.
Statement from President Rodrigo Duterte
COVID-19 Updates in the Philippines
In the Philippines, the Department of Health announced 206 new COVID-19 cases with twenty-one additional deaths and twenty-eight recoveries. It brings to a total tally of 4,076 with 203 fatalities and 124 recovered incidents. Compared to yesterday's report, the new number of cases increased.
Update of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines on April 9, 2020
The Philippine Embassy in Kuwait also joins the celebration of our Filipino Christian brothers and sisters in the Philippines, Kuwait, and around the world in remembering and honoring Christ's passion this Holy Week.
For us Christians, this Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, the days before Easter commemorating the last days of Jesus Christ's life. The Scriptures say that on Palm Sunday, Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greeted by people who gave him a hero's welcome during the Jewish Passover celebration. For us Filipinos, it is one of the most important celebrations of our Christian faith, for it is one of God's highest expression of love and death doesn't lead to despair, but also to life, abundant life, which leads to everlasting life.
This has never been more relevant, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic as we hunker down our homes, fearing for our lives. Right now, we live in a world full of fear, and a fearful world needs a message of hope, life, and a bright future and that we must always remember that God will provide and sustain us. A lot of our people may not be connected to the internet, so as a Filipinos throughout the world, we must call and pray for each other and make sure that our neighbor's needs are being taken care of,
Datapuwa't tatanggapin ninyo ang kapangyarihan, pagdating sa inyo ng Espiritu Santo: at kayo'y magiging mga saksi ko sa Jerusalem, at sa buong Judasa at Samaria, at hanggang sa kahulihulihang hangganan ng lupa.
Mga Gawa 1:8
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