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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT. by W. O. E. Oesterley, D.D., Litt.D.,& T. H. Robinson, D.D., Litt.D. Hon. D.D. (Aberdeen), Hon. D.Th. (Halle Wittenberg). © W O E Oesterley & T H Robinson 1934. First published SPCK. 1934. - This edition prepared for katapi by Paul Ingram 2003.
THE BOOK OF MALACHI
HOME | Authorship of the Book. | Date of the Book. | Contents of the Book. | The Hebrew Text and the Septuagint.
I. AUTHORSHIP OF THE BOOK
We are accustomed to regard the name of the writer of this book as Malachi; but "Malachi" is not a proper name, as can be seen by the Septuagint rendering of i.1:
"Oracle; the word of Yahweh unto Israel, by the hand of his messenger" (angelos autou).
The idea of Yahweh's messenger who is sent to prepare the people for His coming is taken from Isa.xl.3-8. "Malachi" is simply the Hebrew for "my messenger".
The writer of the various literary pieces of this book is anonymous like so many others whose writings have been preserved in the prophetical books. (See above, p.232.)
But if we do not know his name, we learn from his book something about the personality of the writer. He has the spirit of the true prophet in him in his denunciation of insincere worship. He believes in the necessity of the sacrificial system, but he insists upon the right spirit in offering, otherwise it is a dishonouring of God (i.6-8). Better no sacrifices at all than the kind of offerings that were being presented on the altar by priests who by doing so were despising the name of God (i.6). He says:
"O that there were one among you that would shut the doors, and that ye might not illuminate mine altar to no purpose" (i.10).
He wishes that there were even one priest who had sufficient strength of character to keep the Temple gates shut so that the mockery of the altar fire might cease.
But this prophet is equally zealous for the honour of the sanctuary in another direction. He finds that the people have been neglectful in paying tithe, which was so necessary for the upkeep of the Temple and its services. He speaks in very strong language to the people on this subject:
"Will a man rob God? Yet ye rob me (he speaks in the name of God). But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and heave offerings (cp. Deut..11). Ye are cursed with a curse, for ye rob me, ye, the whole nation!" (iii. 8, 9).
This is all in the spirit of the true prophet.
Another striking trait is his universalistic outlook. When speaking in the name of God, he says to the priests,
"neither will I accept an offering at your hand;"
and he goes on to say:
"For from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place a pure offering is burned to my name; for great is my name among the Gentiles, saith Yahweh Sebaoth." (i.11).
A word of explanation for this rendering is demanded.
The point is that the prophet wishes to set in contrast against the polluted sacrifices of the Jewish priesthood and the insincere worship of the people (or a section of them), the religion of the Gentiles. The prophet holds that the God who is inadequately worshipped in Jerusalem is the same who is acknowledged by the Gentiles, who did revere "the highest God".
For a monotheistic tendency was beginning to show itself in many quarters, as Wellhausen has shown. The "highest God" worshipped in the Gentile world is, the prophet maintains, Yahweh. It is extremely doubtful whether there is any reference to incense.
The word used for "incense" in the RV is not a noun formation, and never occurs as such; but the form is a past participle (Hophal), and means, as in Lev.vi.15, making the smoke of sacrifice. (The Oxford Heb. Lex. In one place calls it Hoph. Part., in another, a substantive.)
In any case, the passage exhibits an extraordinary universalistic attitude on the part of the prophet.
One other point must be mentioned as showing the type of man this prophet was. His ethical sense makes him regard divorce with abhorrence, and this not because the men who divorced their wives married daughters of "strange gods" (ii.11), but because divorce in itself is an evil thing.
His words are:
"Yahweh hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, though she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant." (ii.14).
The next verse, is difficult because the Hebrew text is obviously corrupt. Emended, we must read:
"Did not One (i.e. God) make us and preserve our spirit alive? And what does the One desire? A godly seed! Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal faithlessly with the wife of his youth. For I hate divorce, saith Yahweh, the God of Israel. ... "
That is very fine, and shows an infinitely higher ethical ideal than Ezra.
Altogether this prophet, whose name we do not know, was an exceedingly admirable man. Some of his ideas, it is granted, were naive - he was a child of his time - but that makes his fine ideas all the more remarkable. Note especially that his teaching on the indissolubility of the marriage-tie is quite out of harmony with the Judaism current at the time. It has its only parallel in the teaching of the Gospels.
II. DATE OF THE BOOK
There are not many books in the Old Testament, which can be dated with more certainty than this one.
That it is post-exilic cannot admit of doubt. Thought, teaching, and diction make this self-evident; and the land is ruled over by a pekah or "governor".
It was written after 516BC, because the Temple has been rebuilt and the full sacrificial system is in vogue. Thus, in iii.1 it is said:
" ... and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple".
And in iii.10 "mine house" is spoken of. Besides, the offering of sacrifices in the Temple is assumed all through (i.7-14, and elsewhere); and the gates of the Temple are mentioned in i.10, as we have already seen. On the other hand, the condition of the priesthood and of a large section of the people is such that the reforms of Nehemiah and Ezra cannot possibly have taken place yet. This necessitates a date before 444BC.
In passing it is worth noting: in Malachi no distinction is made between priests and Levites (ii.4-9, iii.3), all the sons of Levi are priests; but in the Priestly Code there is a great difference between them, the Levites being quite a subordinate order.
On the other hand what Malachi says about the temple-tithe (iii.7-10) agrees with Nehemiah and the Priestly Code (Deuteronomy knows nothing of a tithe for the Temple, but only for the Levites every third year). But this is no argument for the book having been written in the time of Nehemiah or of the Priestly Code, because the Priestly Code has preserved a number of ancient laws, much older than Deuteronomy, many of which do not appear in that book.
"Malachi" therefore belongs to the period between 516BC and 444BC, towards the end of it rather than at the beginning, so as to allow time for the development of the sacrificial system.
III. CONTENTS OF THE BOOK
i.2-5. The prophet opens his book with asseverating that Yahweh loves His people. They had doubted this probably on account of some calamity that had fallen on the land (see iii.10, 11). So the prophet cites a concrete example to show the people that God loves them. Yahweh's love for Jacob, he says, is shown by his hatred of Esau. He has made their land a desolation, and even if the Edomites (the descendants of Esau) build the waste places, Yahweh will destroy them again. Then the people of Israel will recognize that Yahweh is great beyond the borders of Israel.
The argument cannot, of course, appeal to us; but we must remember the time and that "Malachi" was the child of his age. It makes it all the more remarkable that he exhibits such exalted traits, as already pointed out.
i.6-ii.9. The prophet rebukes the priests because the offerings they bring are dishonouring to God. They think that anything is good enough for the purpose of sacrifice. Herein they show themselves, however, inferior to the Gentiles, who offer pure offerings to the name of God. Since the priests are guilty in this respect it is small wonder that the people in general follow their example; they bring animals with blemishes instead of a male from the flock. A prophecy of punishment is then uttered. The prophet, further, contrasts the conscientious way in which, in the past, the offerings were made with what is now done by the priests.
ii.10-16. The prophet then condemns the marriages with "daughters of a strange god"; and this for two reasons: The practice involves disloyalty to Yahweh; And it has also meant that the lawful wife has been divorced. Such faithlessness is an abomination to Yahweh.
ii.17-iii.5. The prophet now addresses himself to those impatient ones who, illogically enough, conclude that because the day of Yahweh does not come, therefore God is not really zealous for what is right -
Where is the God of judgement? - Everyone that doeth evil is good in the sight of Yahweh!
But Yahweh will send His angel before Him, who will prepare the way; and then He will Himself come to His Temple with the angel of the covenant. Then there will be a purging of the sons of Levi, i.e. of the priesthood; and offerings will be brought as of old. But punishment shall overtake all evildoers.
iii.6-12. The paragraph division in the RV is wrong. This section begins at verse 6 (not 7). Because of the troubles of the times (verses 10 11) the people say that Yahweh has changed, and is not as He used to be in His treatment of His people. This idea the prophet combats: "For I, Yahweh, change not"; it is the people who have changed; this they have shown by not bringing the tithes and offerings. If they will bring the whole tithe again with the proper offerings, the curse that is upon them will be taken away, and the people will be happy again.
iii.13-iv.4 (Hebr. iii.13-22). This section is in part parallel to ii.17-iii.5. The prophet denounces those who say it is useless to serve Yahweh, and who assert that the wicked are to be envied because they are prosperous. But, says the prophet, Yahweh has a book of remembrance wherein are inscribed the names of those who fear Him. These shall be His when His day comes; and He will be a Father to them. In that day the eyes of the wicked will be opened, and they will discern between the righteous and the wicked. Then there will be a burning, and those who have done evil will be burned up like stubble. The God-fearers, on the other hand, shall bask in the sun of righteousness, which shall bring -healing to them. Then shall they tread upon the wicked, "for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet" (iv.3, iii.21 in Hebr.). The prophet concludes with an admonition to remember the Law of Moses.
Some commentators regard this verse iv.4) as a later addition, joining it on to the last two verses, because, it is said, it is incongruous to call upon the righteous, who have just been mentioned, to keep the law, which is just what they have been doing. It seems, however, to be an appropriate final reminder; yet, it must be noted what is to be said presently.
In any case, the mention of Horeb points to its having been written before the Priestly Code, because - in this it is always Sinai, while in Deuteronomy it is always Horeb, which is the scene of the giving of the law.
iv.5, 6 (Hebr.iii.23, 24). With iv.4 the book would have had a fitting close, and doubtless this did originally conclude it; but some scribe added these two verses, which are evidently intended as an allusion to iii.1, "Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me".
Elijah was the most obvious man to choose because he was taken up in the fiery chariot, i.e. he never died, and therefore his return might be expected at some time; and what more appropriate time than the eve of the day of Yahweh?
Some modern commentators regard these last two verses (and also iv.4) as a later addition on account, mainly, of the difference of function of the messenger in iii.1 and here. But otherwise the integrity of the book is not seriously questioned.
The reference to the "law of Moses" - it occurs in no other prophetical book - and the conjunction of Moses and Elijah certainly point to a late date. (ii Kgs.xi.25, where the words "according to all the law of Moses" occur, belongs to a very late edition of the book.)
Both belong to developed Judaism; the expression "law of Moses" always refers to the whole of the Pentateuch, and therefore belongs to a time after the final redaction of the Priestly Code; and Elijah legends arose also in later days. Elijah would never have been given this precedence over all the great prophets had it not been for the traditional legend of his having gone up to heaven in a fiery chariot.
IV. THE HEBREW TEXT AND THE SEPTUAGINT
The Hebrew text has been well preserved. In only two passages are there corruptions that make emendation difficult (ii.3, 15); minor corruptions are more frequent (e.g. i.13, ii.12, 15, iii.6, 8), but they are not serious.
The Septuagint is often helpful, sometimes it supplies an additional word that seems to have fallen out of the Hebrew text (e.g. i.6, ii.2, 3, iii.5), and makes a better reading.
The only omission of any note is iv.3 (Hebr.iii.21), though not all MSS omit it.


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Southwest Gas in stand-off with activist investor Carl Icahn
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Please be in prayer for Eva Perez Project Hannah's Prayer coordinator and translator and one of the "Women of Hope" Ilocano team members in the Philippines. She fractured her wrist and has surgery on Tuesday. She is in much pain.


Jl. Kedondong Dalam V No.14, Lamper Tengah, Semarang Sel.
With GREAT OF SEMARANG, we have been around European country most of times, now how about getting to know another Asian country: Myanmar?
Our own volunteer Jagad Wijoyo will share his experiences as an exchange student in Myanmar for 4 months. Plus, he will give some tips about traveling in Myanmar.
You are all welcome to join us. It's FREE!!!
Address: Jalan Kedondong Dalam V no 14, Lamper Tengah, Semarang Selatan.
International Class is a weekly event held by our local volunteers community, GREAT of Semarang that offers various topic of discussion and/or activities. Every Wednesday an individual who have had foreign experiences can voluntarily share it to the attendees who are mostly Indonesians that eager to find out more about other cultures, languages of other countries, international opportunity such as scholarship, voluntary service, etc. The event is free of charge for everyone who joins. It is also open for public, means you do not have to be a GREAT member to attend. However, an arrival confirmation is mandatory prior to the event start, as we have limited space at the venue.
Look back to some international classes that GREAT of Semarang has organized in the past here.
Address: Jl. Kedondong Dalam V No.14, Lamper Tengah, Semarang Sel.


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Kate, Pete, Jackie and Diane try to piece together the events of Christmas Eve when they wake up, hung over, with the house in a disastrous state.
Diane and Jackie agree to let the kids be with Kate on Mother's Day.
When the costume Jackie made for Bert doesn't work out, Kate hijacks the holiday; Pete holds a teenager hostage.
How many episodes of Trophy Wife have you seen?
Q: How can I audition for Trophy Wife?
Kate (Malin Akerman) is a former party girl who has married Pete Harrison (Bradley Whitford). He has two kids (Bailee Madison, Ryan Lee) with his hard nosed surgeon first wife Diane (Marcia Gay Harden). He has an adopted son Bert (Albert Tsai) with flaky second wife Jackie (Michaela Watkins). And Kate's party friend Meg (Natalie Morales) keeps dropping by.
It's a really busy modern family that has misadventures together. She grows to be a better person and they grow to be a closer family. Blah. Blah. Blah. Malin Akerman is a hot woman with some comedic skills. She's better than most and is able to maintain likability throughout. Everybody is doing a good job, and it's a functional family sitcom. I wouldn't call it anything outstanding. It got canceled after its first year run of 22 episodes.


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Posted by victoriaperpetua in Don Quixote, Emily Dickinson, Hamlet, Lao-tse, Leo Tolstoy, Paradox, R.H. Blyth, Robert A. Johnson, Self-actualization, Shakespeare, Three-Dimensional Man, Two-Dimensional Man, Zen
Johnson calls Hamlet the darkest chapter in his book. "Don Quixote," he says, "with his roots deep in instinct and faith, is the man of courage who redeems anything that befalls him. In Hamlet, we find a man of tragedy, he who makes chaos and failure of everything he touches."
The opposite of Don Quixote in nearly every respect, Johnson says Hamlet is the "most profound example in all of literature of the divided man."
To understand Hamlet, Johnson explains, is to gain insight into the emptiness and loneliness of modern existential life. As a three-dimensional man, Hamlet has neither roots in the instinctive world nor is his head yet in the heavens where he might gain enlightenment.
Modern man, in general, is at a point where he must heal the paradox of masculine and feminine,doing and being.
As Lao-tse said, "He who understand the masculine and keeps to the feminine shall become the whole world's channel. Eternal virtue shall not part from him and he shall return to the state of an infant."
Johnson says that Hamlet only touches this design state before making division and tragedy, rather than paradox and synthesis, of it. Because time and again, in refusing to act and make a choice, Hamlet loses the value of both.
Hamlet's troubles begin with the murder of his father by his uncle who then marries Hamlet's mother. The ghost of Hamlet's father tells him to take revenge and thus begins the internal debate–to kill the uncle and take his rightful place as king or decide that enough blood has been shed and be at peace with what has happened.
Instead he does as Emily Dickinson put it,"wavered for us all." Vacillation in one of the characteristics of the three-dimensional man.
"A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom and ever three parts coward," Hamlet thinks. He can see that together the four parts make for wholeness, but only three parts function for him. He cannot listen to his internal wisdom.
"There is no peace in such a man," Johnson says. "He knows too much to be simple, but not enough to be whole."
Because Hamlet's need to act and his abhorrence of violence are in conflict, he descends into depression and madness, and out of this comes the most famous soliloquy in literature:
To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep–
No more–and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh in heir to; 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep–
To sleep–perchance to dream–ay, there's the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
Johnson explains that this is the despair that causes conflict in every three-dimensional man–while he cannot live, he dare not die. He then begins to torture everyone around him, especially those who love him, and he makes life unbearable for himself.
As Tolstoy wrote, "He was suffering the anguish men suffer when they persist in undertaking a task impossible for them–not from inherent difficulties, but from its incompatibility with their own nature."
When challenged about what he is doing, Hamlet cries, "Words, words, words." It is the cry of the three-dimensional man who is so caught up in words he cannot act.
Literary critic R.H. Blyth describes it this way: "This 'words, words, words' has a deeply tragic meaning in the play. It is, in fact, the secret of Hamlet's character, the cause of the tragedy. Hamlet is the Zen-less man, whose energy, like a mouse in a wheel, goes round and round inside him and issues, not in action, but in talking."
As Johnson says, "It is a characteristic of complex man, caught between functioning by instinct and acting by enlightenment, that he often destroys everything feminine within his grasp. . . . All feminine elements wither in the face of the three-dimensional consciousness."
Next Week: The Poisoned Rapier
Posted by victoriaperpetua in Don Quixote, Robert A. Johnson, Sancho Panza, Self-actualization, Shadow work, Two-Dimensional Man
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza set out to search for Dulcinea and experience a number of adventures. While these adventures will seem like failures to a three-dimensional, complex man, to the two-dimensional man there is always a reason because the fantasy is his inner reality.
The most famous of Don Quixote's exploits is his battle with the windmills. It is truly amazing, when you think about it, how many of our sayings and even how we look at life have come about through fiction. In this case, we say someone is "tilting at windmills" when they are engaged in behavior that is clearly out of the realm of reality.
So, despite the fact that Sancho Panza tries to warn him that he is about to battle windmills, Don Quixote sees only giants. When he loses the battle and is thrown from his horse, the giants become windmills through the magic of Quixote's nemesis Freston. Don Quixote is more upset about the loss of his lance than his defeat.
Tilting at windmills today, according to Johnson, may be no more than dealing with unresolved psychological dynamics, but it is still a very real part of life. This is why it is so easy to empathize with Quixote, Johnson says, "he is our selves served up to us in palpable form."
He sees and hears what he wants to see and hear—a shepherd's horn becomes a page announcing his arrival; prostitutes become ladies; pub food, a sumptuous feast. Don Quixote's inner reality is so strong that it translates to the outside world. You can see this today most particularly in children who feel certain they are the thing they want to be—the ballerina, the super hero, etc. And, admittedly, there are even the few adults who have not made the transition to three-dimensional man and still live in a fantasy world.
At the end of the book, Don Quixote lies dying having failed in his search to find Dulcinea. Quixote finally makes the transition to three-dimensional man while Sancho Panza reverses his normal position and tries to talk Don Quixote into setting forth on another quest. In a sense, the true journey of knighthood and chivalry they have taken was to draw the ego and shadow sides together, Johnson explains. Cervantes doesn't dwell on it, but Johnson says we will see that shadow/ego split intensified in Faust and Mephistopheles. And Hamlet, he says, will spend the last moments of his life in the next higher stage of consciousness—four-dimensional man.
Interestingly, Cervantes and Shakespeare lived during the same time period and both died on the same day—April 23, 1616. Don Quixote was published in 1605, Hamlet in 1603 or 1604.
"It is as if," Johnson says, "the two men stood back to back, Cervantes looking backward and Shakespeare looking forward."
Cervantes was illuminating the medieval consciousness that was ending in Europe while Shakespeare looked forward to the modern man who was to come.
"Cervantes spoke of the childhood of Western man," Johnson writes, "man who had not yet suffered the shock of being expelled from the Garden of Eden. No better description of the two-dimensional man can be found."
Next Week: Hamlet
Posted by victoriaperpetua in Don Quixote, Miguel Cervantes, Opposites, Robert A. Johnson, Sancho Panza, Self-actualization, Shadow work, Two-Dimensional Man, W.H. Auden
The two-dimensional man.
According to Jungian analyst Robert Johnson, Don Quixote is a "near-perfect representation of two-dimensional man—the simple peasant man."
For those unfamiliar with the tale, Miguel Cervantes, when he was in his 50s in the early 17th century, wrote the novel while living in squalor in a single room. Other than having written Don Quixote, Cervantes lived what could essentially be called a failed life. He lost an arm in battle, was captured and served a slave to the Moors for five years, he couldn't hold down a job once he returned to Spain, he fathered an illegitimate child, married a girl of 19 when he was 50 and then left her to live in poverty while writing Don Quixote.
And while the book was wildly popular, he never made much money off it and died soon after writing a second volume, which wasn't quite as good. The main character of the book, Don Alonso, has read so many books on chivalry by the time he is 50 years old that he decides to set off on a romantic quest of his own. Don Quixote (essentially Sir Codpiece as he names himself for the piece of armor that covers the thighs and genitals) genuinely believes that his impossible dream will come true.
He hires a squire, Sancho Panza (Mr. Paunch) who is indeed the opposite, perhaps the shadow of Don Quixote—short, fat and practical, and ruled by his appetite. According to Johnson, this is a common pair—from the Bible's Jacob and Esau and David and Jonathon to today's Mutt and Jeff or Abbot and Costello or any buddy cop pairing. They are ego and shadow—the parts of us that are opposite yet inseparable.
Johnson quotes W.H. Auden on Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, including: "Don Quixote needs Sancho Panza as the one creature about whom he has no illusions but loves as he is; Sancho Panza needs Don Quixote as the one constant loyalty in his life which is independent of feeling. Take away Don Quixote and Sancho Panza is so nearly pure flesh, immediacy of feeling, so nearly without will that he becomes a hedonist pagan who rejects everything but matter. Take away Sancho Panza, on the other hand, and Don Quixote is so nearly pure spirit that he becomes a Manichee who rejects matter and feeling and nothing but an egotistic will."
Don Quixote purchases an old horse, Rocinante (she-whom-one-follows) and they set off on their adventure to find Dulcinea, the sweetness of life, whom even the Don admits might not exist though he will give his life for her. Needless to say, they never find her. Dulcinea exists only in the heart of the searcher, which Johnson says is all that matters to the two-dimensional man.
"The two-dimensional man lives constantly in the realm of fantasy and imagination," Johnson says. "They are the Garden of Eden, perfection, total reliability." But, fantasy and imagination don't translate to the outer world.
"Don Quixote is creating poetry, not reality," says Johnson. "Heaven, love, idealism, hope, justice, chivalry, eternity—all are inner realities as palpable and real as any outer realities our world holds in such high esteem. Don Quixote's optimism ruins everything around him. . . . He loses every time he relies on his sword; it is 'pure spirit disguised as fantasy,' as Thomas Mann once wrote. This is the vision of two-dimensional man and is the stuff of nostalgia and fantasy for every three-dimensional man."
Next Week: The Adventures
Posted by victoriaperpetua in Robert A. Johnson, Self-actualization, Zen
Consciousness, Enlightenment
On whom, then, my God, am I the onlooker? How many am I? Who is me? What then is this gap between myself and me?
~~Fernando Pessoa
A recent email informed me that one of my favorite authors, as far as self actualization is concerned, had an ebook available for only $1.99. How could I resist? So I downloaded Transformation by Robert A. Johnson because frankly, it sounded as fascinating as his other works.
According to Johnson, Transformation is "a study of the evolution of consciousness through its three main levels of development." While the book is masculine in character, using fictional male characters as a way to examine this development, it is just as applicable to women. Because English pronouns are limited to either the masculine or the feminine, Johnson sticks with masculine to avoid confusion.
So, what are these three levels of consciousness? Johnson claims that man is born with a simple consciousness before progressing to a complex consciousness. Unfortunately, this is where most of us remain. Only the rare few can attain an enlightened consciousness.
As Johnson explains, "A Zen proverb states: 'When I was young and free, the mountains were the mountains, the river was the river, the sky was the sky. Then I lost my way, and the mountains were no longer the mountains, the river was no longer the river, the sky was no longer the sky. Then I attained satori (enlightenment), and the mountains were again the mountains, the river was again the river, and the sky was again the sky."
If you want to see if from a Biblical standpoint, we go from the simple perfection of the Garden of Eden through every imaginable chaos until we reach the heavenly Jerusalem.
"Man evolves from acting instinctively to putting his psychic energy under the control of his ego," he says. "Then he must evolve further, to place his psychic energy under the control of the Self."
In our complex state, in between simple and enlightened, we remain trapped by our nostalgia for the past and our anticipation of the future. When enlightened, we find happiness living in the moment.
"Complex consciousness is so highly prized in our society that no cost is thought too high to gain freedom, self-determination, and choice, the qualities of this level of consciousness," Johnson says. "We are so jealous in championing complex consciousness that we will export its way of life to any other less-advanced country, free of charge!"
Because our society revels in complex consciousness, and because we essentially force it on our children, it is very difficult to move beyond it. And, unfortunately, impossible to move backwards to simple consciousness. Essentially, we've been expelled from the garden and there are cherubim with flaming swords to prevent us from returning. The only way is forward.
In this book, Johnson will use Don Quixote, Hamlet and Faust as examples of the progression from simple consciousness to enlightenment.
Next Week: Don Quixote, the Two-Dimensional Man.


Born in Belgrade in 1957. Graduated art history from Belgrade's Faculty of Philosophy in 1982. Between 1977 and 1980 he sojourned in Munich on a scholarship awarded by the Goethe Institute. After his return to Belgrade, he has worked as writer and director of both feature and documentary films.
He is a member of the European Film Academy, Berlin and Film Artists Association of Serbia.
Currently works as guest professor at EICTV (International Film and Television School), San Antonio de los Banos, Cuba.
Retrospective of documentary films of Goran Radovanovic took place in Barcelona 2006, 2007, Havana 2010, Vienna 2011.
Goran Radovanovic's films have been shown in the official programmes of ex-Yugoslav and numerous international film festivals (Montreal, Locarno, Mannheim, Moscow, Amsterdam, Torino, Havana, Tampere, Cracow, Vancouver, Hamburg, Lisbon, Bombay, Potsdam, Trieste, New York, Geneva, Oberhausen, Jerusalem, Barcelona, Rome, Seattle, Toronto, Basel, Milan, Kyoto, Prague, Thessalonica, Zurich, Prague, Istanbul, Boston, Tokyo, Chicago, Singapore, Sarajevo, Sofia, Los Angeles, Madrid, Vienna, Kiev, Bucharest, Brussels, Trivandrum, Bangalore, Oxford, Philadelphia, Washington D.C, Tel Aviv, Taiwan, Mexico City, Antalya, Montpellier etc, ).
$11. Second prize for the screenplay of the feature film "Oktoberfest" at National Feature Film Festival in Vrnjacka banja, 1987.
$12. First prize for the screenplay of the TV film "Vizantija 1988." at the Yugoslav competition organized by Sarajevo TV in 1987.
$13. Gold medal of the city of Belgrade as best director for the documentary "Columba urbica" at the Festival of Documentary and Short Metre Film in Belgrade, 1994.
$14. The best short film at Cinema Giovani for "Columba urbica", Torino, 1995.
$15. Special prize for "Columba urbica" at the VII Documentary Film Festival Malaposta-Lisbon, 1996.
$19. National documentary prize for "My country (for internal use only)", Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee, 2000.
18. "Festival International of Video and Multimedia", Canaria, Spain, October 2000.
The Best documentary Film for "My country (for internal use only)"
Documentary Film for "My country (for internal use only)"
for "My country (for internal use only)"


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William Joseph Seymour (2 maj 1870- 28 september 1922) var en amerikansk predikant och en av pionjärerna inom den moderna pingströrelsen.

Han föddes i Centerville, Louisiana, som son till de tidigare slavarna Simon och Phillis Seymour, som var katoliker.
1883 köpte de ett stycke land i Verdunville där man byggde ett hus mittemot en baptistkyrka på vars kyrkogård fadern begravdes sedan han 1891 dog efter en tids sjukdom.

William Seymour flyttade samma år till Memphis där han först jobbade som portier och sedan som kusk. 1893 flyttade han möjligen till St Louis i Missouri och tog jobb som bartender.

1895 jobbade han som servitör på hotell i Indianapolis. Under tiden genomgick Seymor en personlig omvändelse i Metodistkyrkan. Sedan kom han i kontakt med helgelserörelsen och gjorde en helgelseerfarenhet ("Second Blessing") inom Church of God (Anderson).

1901 flyttade han till Cincinnati där han också arbetade som servitör. Under sin vistelse där drabbades han av smittkoppor vilket ledde till att han miste synen på det ena ögat. I Cincinnati kom William Seymour i kontakt med "God's Revivalist movement" . Dessa kristna, som var övertygade om att de levde i tidsålderns avslutning då Andens utgjutande förebådade församlingens uppryckande, gjorde ett djupt intryck på den unge Seymour.

Mellan 1903 och 1905 reste Seymour en hel del, möjligen i egenskap av försäljare. Han vistades under denna tid bland annat i Columbus, Ohio, Houston, Texas och Jackson, Mississippi. På den sistnämnda platsen kom Seymor i kontakt med Church of God in Christ och i Chicago träffade han predikanten John G Lake.

Bethel Bible College

1904 flyttade han igen, denna gång till Houston i Texas, där han 1905 tillsammans med Lucy Farrow besökte en väckelsekampanj som hölls av den kände predikanten Charles Fox Parham. Farrow fick tillfällig anställning i Parhams organisation "Apostolic Faith" i Kansas. Under hennes tvåmånaders frånvaro tog Seymor över ledarskapet för den församling i Houston där Farrow var pastor. Farrow hade under sin tid i Kansas anammat Parhams undervisning om andedop med åtföljande tungotal, en lära som även Seymour kom att ta till sig efter Farrows återkomst till Houston.

När Parham startade en tioveckors bibelkurs i Houston i januari 1906, så började Seymour där.

Los Angeles

Seymour hoppade av skolan efter halva tiden sedan han kallats till pastor i Julia Hutchins nybildade helgelseförsamling i Los Angeles. Han höll sin första predikan där den 24 februari men hans pingstförkunnelse mötte motstånd såväl hos den lokala äldstekåren som inom samfundsledningen för Holiness Church Association of Southern California, som församlingen tillhörde. Redan nästa söndag, den 4 mars, fann Seymour kyrkan låst när han kom dit för att predika.

En av församlingsmedlemmarna, Edward S Lee öppnade då sitt hem för Seymour som började att hålla bibelstudier och bönemöten där.

Bonnie Brae Street

Efter en kort tid flyttade Seymour sin verksamhet till Richard och Ruth Asberrys hem, på 214 North Bonnie Brae Street i centrala Los Angeles. Den 9 april 1906, efter tre dagars fasta, blev Edward S Lee andedöpt och började tala i tungor. Människor strömmade till mötena och Asberrys hem blev snart för litet. Många fick göra samma erfarenhet som Lee, bland andra Seymour själv (den 12 april).

Azusa Street

Den 13 april flyttade man mötena till en nedlagd metodistkyrka, byggd 1888.
Kyrkan var 13 gånger 20 meter stor, belägen på 312 Azusa Street och skyltades "Apostolic Faith Gospel Mission".
Namnet Apostolic Faith togs från Parhams organisation, som Seymour såg sig som en del av. Han hade till exempel ett rekommendationsbrev med sig från Parham då han först anlände till Los Angeles.

Den församling som stod bakom mötena där kallades inledningsvis för the Divine Apostolic Faith Movement men kom att kallas Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) då den officiellt konstituerades våren 1907.

Väckelsen bröt fram med väldig kraft och människor med olika hudfärg strömmade till från olika delar av landet och världen, och från olika trossamfund, för att uppleva andens dop i "övre salen" i kyrkolokalen. Väckelsen pågick i tre och ett halvt år med möten sju gånger i veckan, tre gånger dagligen och nästan dygnet runt.

Innan 1906 års utgång hade många av ledarna inom AFM på Azusa Street lämnat församlingen för att bilda egna församlingar (som 51st Street Apostolic Faith Mission, Spanska AFM och Italienska pingstmissionen) riktade till specifika etniska grupper. Andra församlings-bildningar uppstod kring predikanter med stark karisma. De flesta nya pingstförsamlingarna bildades bland fattiga, invandrare och socialt utslagna.

1908 gifte Seymour sig med Jennie Evans Moore, som när anden föll på, inte bara plötsligt kunde spela piano utan också sjunga på både franska, spanska, latin, grekiska, hebreiska och hindi.

Splittring

När Parham kom till Los Angeles i oktober 1906 kom det snart till en schism mellan denne och Seymour. Parham ogillade att Seymours verksamhet var rasintegrerad och tyckte inte heller om den fria och i hans tycke alltför känslosamma gudstjänstformen. Parham startade sin egen församling med samma namn, Apostolic Faith Mission, bara några kvarter från Azusa Street och lyckades locka över en del av Seymours medlemmar dit.

Snart uppstod även ledarskapsmässiga och teologiska strider inom Seymours rörelse, som på kort tid spridit sig över landet.
I november 1907 hoppade pastor Florence Crawford av och bildade sin egen "Apostolic Faith Mission" med huvudkontor i Portland, Oregon.
Många församlingar som hon grundat följde henne och 1908 tog redaktören för Seymours tidning, Clara Lum, med sig prenumerantregistret och anslöt sig till Crawford.

1915 bildade en annan avhoppare, biskop F W Williams, sitt eget AFM Church of God.

Men Seymour fortsatte att tjäna sin lokala församling som pastor fram till sin död i en hjärtattack 1922, då han var 52 år gammal.

Seymour var enligt vissa forskare den mest inflytelserike afro-amerikanske religiöse ledaren någonsin. Den rörelse han var med om att starta har över en halv miljard efterföljare världen över idag.

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Garett Lee was born into Karate though his father who was a national competitor for over forty years. He has been competing on the state level and national level for fifteen years and has achieved a reputation that has been impressive to his peers and fellow Black Belts.
He was the youngest competitor to be on the National Sherman Oak Raiders Black Belt Team at age eight, then Hawiirock productions picked him up on a national level also. In 1997 when Wade Kirkpatrick and Gary Lee won the Golden Greek Award (Texas Sport Karate MVP Award) Garett was beside them at most of the events. Then as a junior Black Belt in State and National competition, he won Texas State Championships and a World Championship for Universal's Black Belt Hall of Fame Tournament.
Testing at a young age in 1999, way before children were looked at Black Belt quality, he was tested alone for three and half hours in front sport karate legends Allen Steen, Al Garza, Royce Young, James Toney, Dan Anderson, Jimmy Tabares, Ed Daniel, Miriam Kirby, Glenn C.Wilson, Chris Gallio, Scott Holman, Joe Poindexter, Joesph Pruiett, , Zulfi Amed, Perry Smith Ishmael Robles, Pablo Mejia, Stacy Mejia, Tim Kirby, Jim Harrison, Richard Jenkins, George Minshew , Jim Butin, Ronnie Al, Matshibushi Ward, and slew of others, and his father ran the test. It looked brutal and and cruel to the non martial artist watching, but Garett did well and there is no doubt that he earned his rank.
Garett's most important wins in national level competition are 1st Place US Open, Florida, 1st Place Battle of Atlanta, Atlanta Georgia, 1st Place United States Championships, Dallas, Texas, TKO State Champion, Houston, Texas and Texas State Champion, many times.
Garett excels in Japanese Kata winning many Grand Championships also. He now represents the PKKA National Team, Team Century Fitness and America's Best National Karate Team.
He teaches private lessons to many of the Texas State competitors and is a sought after instructor in seminars around the State.
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U S .Championships 1st Place , U S. Open 1st Place ranked Number one in fighting AOK, PKC (Texas region) and NBL for the year 2009.
Garett Lee earned his Nidan in Shorin-Ryu Japanese Karate which was presented by his Bushiban Family and Godfathers Dr. Maung Gyi and Matshibushi Ward (Mabo) and his father Professor Gary Lee.
It had been ten years since Garrett Lee's last black belt test in front of a legendary board, at eight years old. it all seems surreal, but after ten years of in your face fighting and kata, wins at The Battle of Atlanta, five Texas State titles, and PKC and AOK number one fighting seed and U S Open and U S Championships, Garett had the opportunity to prove his abilities and love for true karate do. Garrett's mentor Grand Master Zulfi Amed gave him a birthday present he will always remember!
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John peacefully passed away, surrounded by his family at home on Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 81 years of age. Beloved husband of late Doreen. Loving father of late Julie (John) Czako, Gary (Diane) Bruyns, Donna (Tim) Rainey, Margaret Bruyns (Ward), late Ron (Diane) Bruyns and Wayne Bruyns. John will be lovingly remembered by his grandchildren, great grandchildren, siblings and their families. A celebration of John's life will be held at a later date. In John's memory, donations may be made to the Simcoe Muskoka Regional Cancer Centre at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre.


How Many Guitar Lessons Do I Need?
I receive a lot of enquiries every month from people who are interested in having guitar lessons and they email me whilst in the process of checking out the local guitar tutor(s).
One of the questions I frequently get asked is "how many guitar lessons do you think I will I need..."?
There are a lot of factors involved in how quickly you can learn the guitar, the main one being how often can you practice? Chances are, if you're already asking me the 'how many lessons…' question then you are quite keen to crack on and will throw yourself into it, which is great but please remember that just turning up to your lessons and sitting near a guitar tutor isn't enough to progress effectively – (I call this phenomenon 'learning by osmosis'…) – you DO need to practice in between sessions.
Little and often is the key here, but if you are a busy working professional, or a self confessed social butterfly then as little as 10 mins a day is acceptable to start with.
Progress is slow and you need to keep practicing, going away then repeating again and again – a bit like learning lines to a play. You simply cannot expect to learn something instantly.
Everybody has 10 mins spare during their normal day to pick up the guitar and practice and quite often once started, those 10 mins will become 15, 20 or 30 mins. However, if that's not possible then anything really is better than nothing!
NOTE – a 2-hour-long cramming session before your lesson does NOT work in the long term and only serves to get you stressed about your lesson, not excited.
It is something you want to do, right?
Another common misconception – please don't expect that after a set amount of time you will be able to do X,Y or Z (or even A, B or Cm7b5 – a music 'in joke', sorry!) because it's not as simple as that. Everybody will learn different things at their own pace.
Please don't begin by putting unreasonable expectations on yourself and your tutor. You could be setting yourself up for disappointment from the start.
There's not a recipe or a set-time for learning something, like baking a cake – we're not uploading guitar skills into our memory, 'Matrix' style.…but wouldn't it be cool?
Anyone who does tell you that after 5 lessons "you will be able to play…" without meeting you is not doing you any favours and they are just selling themselves to you by telling you what you want to hear. What happens if they say that after 5 lessons you will be able to play 'Wonderwall' and you can't – then what? Is it their fault as a tutor? Can you get a refund? Should you get a refund?
If you want to learn, then great – we as guitar tutors are very happy to teach you but one piece of advice every guitarist will tell you is that it's about the journey and the enjoyment of learning and discovering new music as well as being able to play your favourite songs, not the end goal because with music, there isn't one.
I know it's early yet, but with Christmas on the way, you might be donning your battle gear ready to hit the streets in search of that perfect gift for your friends, family, other half or little rascals. Others though, like me, are hiding under the stairs, chewing their nails and breaking into a cold sweat at the thought of the inevitable last minute Xmas eve shopping-spree handing out wads of cash to anyone, ANYBODY who can sell them something that looks remotely thoughtful.
There is one gift though, that will guarantee to show your thoughtfulness and aptitude for a bit of 'out of the box thinking' - guitar lessons!
Has the person you're buying for mentioned guitar lessons before? If not, you might be taking a chance, in which case, 1-5 is perfectly reasonable. If it's a dead cert - up to 10 is great as it's virtually a short course and you might get a discount, if you ask.
At John Wilmshurst Guitar Tuition, I have professionally printed gift certificates that you can give on the big day - it makes a huge difference to the delivery of the gift! Be sure to get something similar from your guitar tutor if it is available - even a print-out.
Like any other business a good reliable guitar tutor will have an internet presence with some online information. They will be experienced and have a good word of mouth reputation. They will also be prepared to take the time to answer your questions and let you know what their waiting list is like, if they have one. Do your research - a bad tutor can put off a promising student for years.
Don't leave it last minute!
If you are looking for professional guitar tuition, you will be paying professional prices, somewhere within the region of $60+ per hour.
If somebody is advertising 'guitar lessons for $30 per hour' then be prepared to get only $30 worth of expertise, experience, reliability and service. $75.00 well spent will save you time, effort and money in the long run. Just think, would you hire a $50 per hour lawyer and expect to get a good service?
There you have it, a few tips to help you find the perfect gift experience this Christmas.
There are some of us in the guitar playing community who just enjoy a strum every now and again (who doesn't?) and then others who like to put a more formal structure around their playing – neither of which are really better than the other.
I do however, think that there is one detail that everyone should pay a little mind to, and that is… timing!!
So, the important words in there are choice and judgement and control.
When we're playing a song to ourselves or are round the table with our friends at a party having a sing-song, the timing (as long as it's roughly in the right place) doesn't overly matter, does it? – I mean, it's more about the fun, right?
Well, maybe – but if you are playing with other musicians or along to a track, or you just want your music to flow timing is EVERYTHING!
If all the musicians have inherently good timing, it allows everyone to settle into a groove, where everyone's rhythm is aligned and the song just flows – have you ever heard a song where you just can't help but nod your head or tap your foot? That my friend, amongst other things, is a groove and of course, your audience gets sucked in too – and that is when you have them – nodding in agreement with your music – look at them in the video!!
Music is primarily about the rhythm as far as I'm concerned, the rest comes after that.
Chords, melodies, solos, drum beats, bass lines… it's got to groove, feel right and of course, be in time.
Next time you practice, put on a metronome, or even better a drum beat and try playing along with it. Listen to the overall picture – are you in time? Does it groove?
Learn twice as fast – Practice at half-speed!!
Well the first approach is to prioritise.
It is much more useful having the ability to play a few things well, instead of having about ten things you haven't quite finished or can play 'sort of'.
"if you practice slowly and accurately, you'll develop your skills properly over a certain period of time.
This is just pointing out the obvious really (it's only obvious once you know) but just stick to one thing, learn it and master it as best as you can. Take your time. Chill out!
I've had people come to me for lessons who've been playing longer than I've been able to wipe my own bottom and they're angry, god they're angry.
If they can't do this, then that's the problem – they're running before they can crawl – if they can, then I keep speeding it up incrementally, 5-10bpm until I find their limit, which is usually 20-30bpm slower than what they're trying to play it at – running before they can walk.
Having been a guitar tutor for over 18 years I have taught many different people of all ages and abilities, from budding professionals, all the way down to absolute beginners; a good portion of whom are children.
The great thing about teaching kids is that they arrive with bags of energy and absolute enthusiasm; the tricky thing, is guiding that enthusiasm and turning it into good practice without having to overuse the word 'discipline'!
It is my belief that a good tutor should inspire and enthuse before anything else can be achieved and this is my main aim in my lessons; especially where kids are concerned. After all, nobody wants to spend 20-60 minutes a week with a boring teacher playing boring music, so I make sure that all the information in the lesson is delivered in a fun and appropriate way. How is this done? In the form of games, fun tunes and keeping things simple enough to be achievable, but hard enough to be interesting.
A reward system is often good, especially in the form of cool riffs and song melodies – "once you've played this scale 5 times, I'll teach you this!" – and I find that a structured system is important too, to measure development and to show the parents, the guys who are usually paying, where their bundle of joy is headed and what is expected of them and also of me, the tutor.
I know a lot of parents who're keen for their child to take exams and I'm all for that, but it is also important to retain the sense of fun. It's always best to talk to the tutor about whether grade exams are appropriate for your child.
This is a requirement for any professional who is to be working with children and should e checked by the parents whether the tutor has one in place (I do!). The tutor will provide their number and you are able to verify it online.
If you are looking for guitar lessons for your child, why not drop me a line at my guitar studio in Berowra Heights to discuss your options.
Have you heard the phrase "repetition, repetition, repetition"?
Of course, this means that by repeating something you can commit it to long term memory, which is useful when we want to remember lyrics or melodies. Sometimes though, when performing technique for example, 'brain memory' just isn't fast enough and is prone to forgetfulness so we need to employ something I call 'finger memory'.
'Finger memory' is really another name for muscle memory, which suggests that your muscles can remember certain actions they perform very frequently. As musicians, this means that if we practice something often enough we should eventually be able to start doing it without having to think about it anymore – it's like our fingers seem to know where they're going on their own! This can help us with fast phrases, scale runs, chords… nearly every aspect of guitar playing.
There is a catch – the reality is that because you have done the same movement often enough your brain assumes that's how you always want it to be done. It will always take the path of least resistance and follow what seems to 'feel' right… even if it's wrong. It's not your brain's fault though, it's only doing what you told it to do! In other words, it's important to practice your movements on the guitar slowly and as technically perfect as you can manage. If you make a mistake your brain will record it as part of the process and therefore you will be prone to making the same mistake. Start again, slow down and take your time. ALWAYS be consistently correct.
This approach to learning can be very frustrating but can yield HUGE results in a relatively short period of time. I've had students who have been playing something the same way for 20 years and never improving at it but after a couple of weeks of slowing down and using 'good repetition', they find that they start to make real progress again.
Next time you see anybody who is a master of their profession, maybe a chef chopping vegetables really quickly , watch their technique and how they make it look easy.
This is because with good practice, it is.
You would think that learning to play the guitar has never been easier, what with the internet and Youtube videos. Music shops have shelves groaning under the weight of 'how to' books and DVDs of poodle-haired rock stars from the 80's promising to reveal THE secret to learning to play the guitar, with little or no effort – like Joey from Friends, "you won't even need a guitar!"?? Based on my twenty years of learning the guitar I can tell you that there is no hidden secret to reveal, nor are there any shortcuts .
No matter how many videos you watch or books you read there will always be unanswered questions which no amount of re-reading or rewinding or will answer.
The truth is that there is simply no substitute for having a real live teacher sitting across from you, tailoring your lessons to your exact needs, structuring and guiding you in the best and fastest way possible to develop your skills.
Eventually the day will come when you decide to stop spending money on books that you'll never read and DVDs which end up propping up a wonky table, and you'll decide to invest your hard-earned cash in booking a lesson with a guitar tutor. A good teacher will inform, enthuse and inspire you to practice day after day, week after week and learn to take control of your own musical journey – not spoon you feed old rock guitar riffs and country songs for months on end. They will ensure you understand what it is that you're learning and show you how to get the most out of your precious practice time. They will structure your learning, motivating you, pushing you.
It's not impossible to learn on your own, but having someone who is experienced guiding you will save a lot of wasted time, space on your bookshelf and importantly, hard earned money! They won't however, be able to prop up your wonky table leg – you can use your old books and DVD's for that.


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Chris Gore - Rock Star Film Critic
Forgetting about his final pint of beer, T.J. ran off in search of Luke and one other Boyz once more. He ran for half a block, หนังตลก but had to as can not handle running from now on. The smell of fresh baked bread as well as other baked goods beckoned at R.J.'s nose and his stomach. He closed his eyes and imagined a mountain of cupcakes which has a surrounding fort of sausages. He opened his eyes only discover himself standing directly ahead of of a Hotdog vender.
Paul could be the title of the recent movie that will quickly be released mid-March. Paul is a science fiction Comedy film that presents an ensemble cast led by Simon Pegg and Nick Forst. This film from director Greg Mottola trend. This film is the work of Frost and Pegg scribbling. Watch Paul movie online streaming, and watch a movie that is now the UK's No.1 box office in its first week of the item.
This screenplay is about Daniel Miller who dies in an automobile accident. As they arrives in Judgment City, he enters a waiting room where he then awaits Comedy film to be able to defend daily life he lived on earth and for sure if he is worthy of moving transfer. If he is not wanting to defend his life in front of the court of judgment and offers convincing evidence that he did not live a life ruled by fear, he will have to return to earth and live it all over however. However, during his time in Judgment City, he meets Julia and falls gets interested her.
During Julia's trial, the court is surprised by how she rescued helpless children you are not limited pet cat life from the building ended up being on a fire. Hence, she impresses the court and may well be going to run onto another place as afterlife. Unwilling to be separated from Julia, Daniel Miller does all he can (as his life is replayed back on a large motion picture screen) to convince legal court he effectively overcame his fears because lived remaining. (Internet Movie Database, 2010).
A relationship could grow immensely by these three As: Affection, Affirmation and Admiration. If you're that your relationship Comedy film has become vapid and cold, please water it with affection by hugging before and after working, and a sweet kiss on cheek.
Midnight Express is about Billy Hayes and what happens to him when he is caught aiming to smuggle out two kilograms of hashish from Istanbul, Turkey. Sentence to four years in prison, the sentence was soon extended, with Mr. Hayes experiencing terrifying and unbearable acts of physical and mental torture. While being about the prison's insane asylum where he manages to avoid in 1973. Told with fine skill and detail, director Alan Parker and Screenwriter Oliver Stone, have created powerful film.
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I would like to make thread to sharing Period Photos wearing various Captallies.Hop tis is ok??
On left is Zestörer Anton Schmitt and at right Marinescule Wesermünde.
Thanks for posting these nice Photo.Hope that ALL Contribute.
There are some interesting ones that have been showing up on ebay.de.
Hope some member won some of these and will graciously put them up.
I would bid but I have had some pretty bad luck with the Deutsches Post. Lost several items enroute to the states.
BTW, I am not seeing these photos posted by Bruno or Kreta. Have the photos been removed?
I can't see one single photo in this thread, they all seems to be gone !
BTW,Morten the tally you posted first is from the Kreuzer Nurnberg and not the Zerstorer Nurnberg.
Anyway,here are a few from my collection.
have you got,or ever seen one photo with cap tally from zerstorer Theodore Riedel?
Not yet Alberto,but i am sure they are out there ?
And the last two for now.
A new addition from me.
Thank you for showing your Kreuzer Köln cap tally in wear.
Your collection is still growing and growing.
One more from my Collection.


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OPINION: Community still cares about Cerritos High Football
By Loren Kopff As I was sitting in the classroom of Cerritos High School co-athletic director Robert Adams on the evening of Sept. 19, I was surprised to hear the reaction of the parents and players in response to the varsity football team being moved to the junior varsity level for the remainder of the season.
0By Loren Kopff
As I was sitting in the classroom of Cerritos High School co-athletic director Robert Adams on the evening of Sept. 19, I was surprised to hear the reaction of the parents and players in response to the varsity football team being moved to the junior varsity level for the remainder of the season. But the surprised feeling I had was in a good way because the overwhelming majority of the small gathering in that room was opposed to this decision that was made by first-year year head coach Darin Owens and Principal Janice Peterson.
They were opposed to the movement, and subsequently, the end of this year's varsity season, even though the team had been outscored 234-0 in the first four games of the season. Yes, no one wants to see a team go through such embarrassment on the field or on the court. But as Adams, Peterson and Owens continued to say last week, it was not about the wins and losses. It was about the safety of the players.
The only thing I was waiting to hear was a chant of "let them play, let them play, let them play" which William Devane began and was repeated by a huge crowd at the Astrodome in the 1977 classic movie The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training when the game his baseball team was playing in was nearly called short by the umpires because of time.
That's all everyone wants for the rest of this season-let the Cerritos varsity football team play as the varsity football team. That's what the 49 players listed on the roster I was given prior to the Sept. 7 game against Gahr signed up to do. That roster consists of 12 seniors, nine juniors and 28 sophomores. Nine players from last season's team of 22 players returned from a 0-10 campaign and just two seasons ago, the Dons varsity team had 51 players. To me, that shows the commitment of Cerritos High students who want to play football, especially when there are 37 underclassmen on this season's team and 39 from the 2010 squad. And, three players on this season's team have been on varsity for three years.
Now, I've listened to both sides and I understand that safety is very important for any student athlete, especially in football which is a contact sport. But, if this is strictly because of safety reasons, Cerritos is not the only high school to have major injuries in a football game. Every football team, from Long Beach Poly and Santa Margarita, to the 17 other winless California Interscholastic Federation-Southern Section schools that played 11-man football last season, experiences their share of major injuries.
If it's based on wins and losses, let me remind you that Cerritos went 3-7 in 2010 and played for the Suburban League's fourth and final automatic berth to the playoffs on the last game of the regular season. Granted, Cerritos has not had a winning record since 2003, but the Dons program hasn't come anywhere close to losing 49 straight games, which is a state record held by Ganesha High School from 2003-2008.
The problem doesn't just end with the varsity football program. The varsity cheerleaders suffer. The band suffers. The seniors who had planned on, or knew of, college scouts coming to see them, suffer. And after that meeting on Sept. 19, I was approached by two football players who already knew they were being scouted. The parents who shelled out all of their hard-earned money to buy football related clothing and supplies suffer, even more for those who decided to quit. The student body and faculty who come out and support the program during the highs and low also suffer, as do the members of the community and alumni who live for Friday night football.
The six other Suburban League schools suffer because that's one less game they will be playing. That's one less game to get prepared for the playoffs, for the three teams that will get automatic berths. John Glenn had a bye last week and was to play Cerritos tonight, so that's two straight weeks without football. Norwalk will suffer because it had scheduled Cerritos for its senior night game. Now, those festivities will have to be bumped up a week for its city rivalry game with Glenn.
Bottom line is this. There needs to be a much better strength and conditioning program at Cerritos to avoid the high number of injuries. You're not going to stop having injuries because again, football is a contact sport. But you can limit the number if the players are properly trained. Varsity football should have never been moved at Cerritos. Varsity football is important to every high school across this country. But at least it's good to know there will be a varsity team next season.


Kansas City-based band Mess, on their debut album Learning How to Talk, prove that they are anything but. This record is eight tightly constructed songs that suffer no detours or distractions. Only two songs stretch past four minutes long and—beyond that—the two outer bookend songs both hover around the two minute mark. These songs are often composed of few raw materials but intent on exploring every nook and cranny of the chord progression, guitar lick, or moment of silence. Each track tends to grow in a hairpin shape much like the post-rock of yesteryear, starting with a little scene-setting and then slowly introducing elements or variation as they go. This will lead to some very rousing climaxes (see lead single "Cave," "Drown," or the penultimate "Whole Again") that don't so much explode but rather wash over you like a pleasant fever.
At the forefront is Allison Gliesman's crystalline voice and plaintive lyricism. The occasional line—like "my eyes are sulking dogs at the foot of your mouth" or "it's a place familiar / like the faces cut out of all the pictures"—will jump out at you from an unsuspecting place, delivered in an entirely unassuming, restrained way. But because the vocal performance does not draw attention to itself in these places the especially emotive lines have the room to really shine and breathe—a mark of very mature songwriting.
There are a few other touches that give the album some noteworthy ornamentation. At the end of the first track "Becoming," a very lo-fi and quiet version of the intro drums to "Dead Space" sneak in, the beat only coming up to full volume when the song itself starts. Also on "Dead Space" during the lines "It's dead space – our bodies hollowed out" everything except the voice stops on the words "dead space," a text painting technique used to good effect.
This record is all about setting up small moments like that here and there—much like the way you might remember a single glance out the window on a spring morning, the way a piece of paper lifts gently in a breeze.


A lot of people associate online anonymity with Tor, however it is a much deeper issue than this and does not relate only to privacy while browsing. In this post, we will learn some of the key concepts to keep in mind when analyzing malware, because when we talk about anonymity, we need to understand the role played by proxy servers and certain protocols used for communication in such cases.
It's important to be aware of these concepts, because when someone is trying to establish an anonymous connection these are the fundamental tools employed.
What is a proxy and what types of proxies exist?
A proxy is nothing more than a tool allocated to act as an intermediary in communications. Depending on what type of proxy is used, it may be possible to identify the information sent by the user—and this may be recorded on some kind of equipment.
They can be used for a variety of purposes: managing bandwidth, applying restrictions on a network (for example on downloading applications or from websites), or blocking access to certain sites, just to name a few.
Transparent proxy: does not modify requests or responses beyond requesting authentication and identification, in other words the fields should not be modified. When the client uses a transparent proxy, all requests sent to the destination server come from the IP address of the server. However, it adds a line in the header to indicate the original IP address from which the query came (i.e. the user's IP address).
Highly anonymous proxy: designed to ensure complete privacy for the user, as it does not reveal their IP address or any other type of information. This is the most highly sought-after type, due to the high level of anonymity it offers.
Anonymous proxy: does not reveal the user's IP address on the server from which queries are being made. Although it may contain the header X-Forward-For, where an IP address is shown, this can be the proxy's IP rather than the client's.
Now that we are clear about the differences between these types of proxies, we need to look at what type of activity is going to be carried out, in order to know which proxy type is best suited to the needs of the investigation.
Protocols are sets of rules that enable communication between entities (client – service) in order to send information. The most frequently seen are HTTP, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5.
HTTP: HTTP proxies (named as such due to filtering connections in this protocol) were designed to receive queries and redirect them to the requested resource. They are generally used for unencrypted connections, although they support SSL and FTP.
SOCKS4: this protocol was designed for managing traffic between the client and the server, via an intermediary (proxy server). SOCKS4 only supports TCP communications, and does not have any methods of authentication. The extension that followed this, named SOCKS4A, was different in that it incorporated support for resolving names through DNS.
How does anonymity help with investigations?
It's important to know what type of information you are sending when you are connecting and interacting with a piece of equipment directly.
Let's suppose you are carrying out a security audit with the relevant authorities, in order to dismantle a network of cybercriminals—you will need to run a lot of processes that interact with the equipment they are using to carry out their attacks. This way, with anonymity, the investigator would disguise their identity (i.e. IP address) constantly, without exposing their real identity.
If your actions were discovered by the cybercriminals, they might find out that you were trying to make connections from a network belonging to a branch of the authorities, due to the availability of records and public information, including that held by registration organizations.
It's also useful if the investigator has instructed a tool to automatically download samples of malicious code from websites. If you wish not to leave any type of record anywhere (whether for reasons of confidentiality, for personal reasons, or the requirements of the situation), having tools with this ability will be of great use to you as an investigator.
In the case of direct interaction, the attacker may receive an alert in their log and suspect that someone—other than a bot—is attempting to connect to the server. When they notice that this activity is coming from a particular IP address, they might try to block it and thus deny access to their control panel, so that the investigator gets a negative response when they try to access it, meaning they cannot continue their investigation.
In the case of having anonymity, the outcome could be very similar, except with the advantage of being able to change the network's identity (the investigator's IP address) and this explains all the aforementioned. In this case, you need to make sure to use a highly anonymous proxyso as not to leave any kind of trail. If the attacker blocks the (anonymous) IP address, in reality they would be blocking the address coming from the proxy server. Furthermore, you are protecting your digital identity, thereby preventing any type of attack in response.
The main thing is to keep in mind the differences between HTTP, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5 In many cases of investigations, including security audits and malware analyses, it's best to leave nothing to chance. Therefore, it's necessary to consider what type of activity you are going to carry out, what type of anonymity you will need, and what type of connection you are going to use (although for better security, SOCKS5 is recommended).
Beyond the concept of anonymity, there are various other issues to keep in mind depending on the requirements of the situation. While Tor is a free network for browsing based on privacy, there are other tools such as Privoxy and ProxyChains, to name just two, which also help in maintaining privacy while using tools.
In the day-to-day running of an investigation, you have to constantly evaluate what type of activity you need to carry out, and whether or not it requires anonymity. If it does require anonymity, you need to analyze what level, and, of course, the higher the security of the connection, the better the conditions will be.
As investigators, it's essential to understand how things work and not to limit yourself to one particular tool. This enables you to develop your own customized tools, and will help you in analyzing malware.


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