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On how perceptions and
interpretations of Sai Baba get
By: Robert Priddy
From: http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/enigma/index.htm
With a preface from Brian Steel:
"Two more new pieces from the keyboard of Robert Priddy - with many more
promised!
On: http://www.saibaba-x.org.uk/enigma/index.htm
'On How Perceptions and Interpretations of SB get developed'
'On Para-normal Phenomena ...'
As we have come to expect from Robert: more excellent and original material,
well structured essays, rigorous analysis, objective scholarly treatment, and revelations!
Brian Steel"
Sathya Sai Baba has said many fine words, more sensible than many a philosopher or other religious personality. I spent my adult life studying most of the world's known thinkers past and present – and not least mystics. That is why I studied Sai Baba's teachings very deeply and tried for about 20 years to follow some of the many alternative practices he advises, throwing myself into this at the expense of most other things in my life so as to test my learning through further personal experience. I have read all Sai Baba discourses twice, and have cross-indexed them in much detail, besides writing at least 23 articles about him and his teachings in his journal Sanathana Sarathi. That I am now stepping back to reconsider Sai Baba, his teachings and actions - and am examining the movement he has generated and him too much more critically than before, is as much due to Sai Baba's own fairly recent actions and words as to the behaviour of many persons around him.
In the approach to any charismatic figure, such as Sai Baba, a great deal of what one experiences and perceives can be put down to the 'self-fulfilling' or 'positive thinking' thesis. By becoming fascinated due to some circumstance, we concentrate more and more on the person, hearing others' accounts, reading about him and what he teaches, seeing films, thinking, praying, singing, going to meetings and talks and so on. This forms a basis for how we perceive and how we interpret whatever we see and hear... or experience altogether. Though even more than 90% of all this is not out own experience or ideas, we make them our own through belief, general faith and especially hope. Much is promised by Sai Baba, he claims to be able to give more than anyone else ever can possibly give. He even claims already to be giving us everything we are and have, that he is the Creator of the Universe and all in it! Once we have had some inexplicable paranormal experiences connected to him, his claim can be a very powerful motivating factor and his teaching a tremendously difficult doctrine to question or disprove, especially before one has plunged in, for SB holds that the only valid test of anything is personal experience.
In my own experience, many small events that I once was convinced were due to Baba's personal will, I now realise could well have been self-created through the more elusive and intricate workings of the mind, especially at the various subconscious levels. Yet the question remains; can all my personal experiences of extraordinary coincidences, inexplicable events, inspiring dreams, healings and observed manifestations of remarkable and large objects be put down to a kind of self-deluding mindset, a mistaken openness lacking critical sense and observation? My answer still cannot be other than 'No!'
This is my conviction, even were I to discount all the many hundreds of accounts I have heard, from first-hand eyewitnesses to writers of books about miraculous experiences with and through Sai Baba. And I do discount a quite considerable amount of both what I have been told by honest, open persons and a lot of what I have read, usually for specific reasons in each case. Being scientifically and philosophically trained, I was critically-minded before I came to Sai Baba and was thus given to examination and analysis rather than unquestioning acceptance of testimony. Much of the testimony did influence me, and there was a great deal of it - virtually all positive - from perons both literate and illiterate, from the extraordinary to the fantastic (and the laughably absurd). The story of Sai Baba's childhood and youth had been written up by N. Kasturi, a charming persons who also seemed to me to be a creditable and reasonably well-informed, and by other early witnesses... and there was also quite impressive film material showing physical manifestations etc. which tended to bear out the fabulous storied of SB's early days. Above all, as I have detailed accurately in my book 'Source of the Dream, My Way to Sathya Sai Baba', I experienced otherwise totally inexplicable events connected to the Sai Baba form, of the sort one cannot but classify as 'miracles', including an amazing distant removal of my mothers' intense chronic pains.
Despite my questioning attitude, especially as to spiritual matters of which I had accumulated considerable knowledge both scholarily and from personal experience, it was only when I became disaffected about the extent of Baba's knowledge and powers due to the building up of unavoidable doubts about some of his contrary actions and words, that I was able properly to question certain matters that I had accepted previously. The rather soul-shaking shift in mindset made a difference - I went from the tendency to accept in the main what certain people whom I considered reasonable and sane said, towards a more questioning, investigative and psychologically evaluative attitude. Though Sai Baba claims to be the God of all Gods, he may rather be a person wielding exceptional powers (of yogic, tantric or other superhuman agency), an exceptional medium, a catalyst for deep psychological projection (at both conscious and unconscious levels) and other things besides… all surrounded by a mass movement of dependent persons who extend his influence, all too often by exaggerating the stories about him and his nature so that eventually almost anything that happens seems to be done by him rather than anyone else.
People who visit Sai Baba invariably do so because of things they have heard, read or seen on film and video. However little they may know of the massive complex of incredible accounts of miracles and more surrounding him, there will usually have been some incident or experience that led them to expect the inexplicable and wonderful of him. Such anticipations make it possible to read many extraordinary things into what otherwise would be commonplace events and ordinary behaviour. I have seen many, many examples of this - sometimes sheer wish-fulfilling interpretation, sometimes even against one's inclinations... but always motivated by looking up to Baba as divine and miraculous, his every word and gesture packed with holy significance.
It is most valid to ask whether such an approach to the phenomena as a follower invariably adopts removes further possibility of keeping any 'objective' angle, or even thereafter to make common-sense and cool judgements about ordinary events. This is an extremely complex and subtle issue in theory of knowledge and the psychology of perception... where some of the greatest human dilemmas arise. The dilemma here is how much we create our own reality through our mental set, hopes and desires, and how much it is forced upon us by events that arise independent of our psyches.
The key to the whole 'Sai Baba mentality' and all that follows from adopting it, is the belief that he is not merely human, but is also wholly Divine and can therefore do no wrong, knows all and is the prime mover in everything. Acceptance of this, even as a possibility, conditions almost every perception, decision, evaluation and social contact thereafter. The teaching has massive built-in restraints on any serious examination or questioning of Sai Baba's divine nature or anything he says or does. It blames everything bad or evil that can possibly occur on those who choose to see anything other than the good... a psychological impossibility, but one which the follower has to strive to maintain and who thus have to perform the most absurd mental acrobatics to do so when events that do not fit the theory arise, as they do constantly. The teaching is not open to any modification by future discoveries, for it is presented as the absolute eternal truth from the mouth of God the Creator... what is known as a 'closed total theory' in the study of ideologies.
As soon as that belief is questioned by anyone who has come to hold it at all firmly (i.e. as soon as the mind tentatively 'uncreates' Sai Baba as the single, exclusive living God incarnate), a very basic shift in mindset necessarily follows. The radically questioning mindset considers the possibility that Sai Baba's human aspect is the predominant one and that the various powers he undoubtedly possesses - from wherever they arise - are not necessarily always used in our true interests. In short, for such people, Sai Baba can actually be guilty of impure acts, even involvement in major crime. But one is told to wear rose-tinted glasses and that then your world will become so in reality. The 'glasses' that Sai Baba's teaching about himself represents would also make murder and pedophilia look rosy.
People get drawn further and further in to Sai Baba in terms of social contacts, prestige, habituation to lifestyle and environment, places of residence, personal economy... not to mention emotionally and mentally, the most powerful of binding forces. The further in one is drawn in these ways, the more impossible it seems to extricate oneself, were that even desirable when in such a position and without too serious doubts. One's entire perception of most matters remotely connected to this focus of one's existence is usurped by the underlying needs so created. Going against one's basic needs for security, faith, well-being and social contacts and activities - or accepting a radical change in them for an uncertain alternative - is something that awakens feelings of confusion and insecurity, often leading to anxiety and fear, even in the most normal and well-balanced of people. In this way, a seat of power is provided for those in the top position, and all such power can by its very nature be abused… and most often is. The power structure begins to use illegal or immoral means to sustain itself, especially when seriously attacked from outside… but even more so when the attack comes from within, as has occurred with the defection of so many Western followers, including a long list of leaders in the Sai Organisation and other long-term devotees. That invariably undermines the worldly power of the movement more quickly and fully than any external 'enemy'.
The Sai movements' "critical mass": All in all, there are very large numbers of people who have become so attached to Sai Baba emotionally, mentally, socially and even in material terms, that the movement has developed a strong inertial impetus. The belief system has reached 'critical mass', certainly among Indians world-wide, and so the chain reaction works to increase numbers among millions who have no means whatever of testing anything, but only of believing whatever they have heard or are told 'officially'. The number claimed by Sai Baba, however, and parroted by all who reckon themselves believers, are certainly inflated by anything up to the power of ten! (See 'exaggeration of numbers by SB')
The prevalence and predominance of any belief system - including the many-headed Sai Baba doctrine - is more dependent on its having attained critical mass than on the likelihood of their being in accordance with historical facts or other truths. As to what distinguishes the success of one belief system from the failure of another, there are obviously numerous factors at work. One factor that seems obvious is the achievement by a belief of a 'critical mass' of supporters. Once critical mass is reached, chain reaction starts, sometimes fast, sometimes slower. As soon as a belief is ramified by enough other beliefs and putative evidence to spread to a sufficient mass of people, it tends to spread further. Some beliefs are unable to make much ground, such as the flat-earth theory, say. Others, apparently equally misguided, become hugely widespread, such as the belief that extra-terrestrial beings have visited earth. One major poll in USA found up to 80% of the population believing that UFOs are inter-planetary vehicles!
When a belief or system of such achieves critical mass, however, it may often be unstoppable except by major disturbances or even drastic world events, as history repeatedly demonstrate both in the spread of religions and political ideologies. That beliefs can be shown to have real substance, however, is not itself any guarantee that it will continue until reaching critical mass. One factor that helps in this is what might be called 'the mushrooming miracle effect.' This refers to that social phenomenon we observe whenever miraculous events, such as healings, manifestations or other inexplicable and beneficial events are believed to take place... as word spreads, more and more instances are invariably reported. It's a case of 'nothing succeeds like success'. However, close observation and analysis usually shows that many of the increasing claims are bogus or - in the case of 'miracle cures', they are mainly of the nature of a placebo effect or sheer imagination interpreting a natural healing process. The problem of investigation always becomes whether any of the original or early reports sound and based on indisputable evidence?
Even when some reports are based on substantial testimony that can be followed up by interviews, by analysis and cross-checking, there is a tendency for all kinds of bogus claimants and unsubstantiated 'stories' to sneak in and become part of the main body of beliefs. There are any number of such instances in connection with Sai Baba, some of which he himself and/or his various servitors have seen necessary to quash by public pronouncements. The investigator is faced with a tantalising and beguiling mixture of fact and fiction, truth, half-truth and lies. To penetrate into these and come through with a relatively balanced overview takes deep engagement and certain qualities or abilities of the personality that have to be developed through rigorous work and often painful experience.
The bait and the hooks: One of Sai Baba's most-quoted sayings is "Take one step towards me and I will take twenty towards you". Sometimes Baba has promised a hundred steps in return instead. This is obviously a figurative invitation and its meaning is so diffuse as to be able to embrace almost any human action or thought. There are two general ways of interpreting this:
The first interpretation is that mundane activities done for the benefit of Sai Baba, his organisation and various worldly works and projects will be rewarded by Sai Baba in tangible ways - by attentions, interviews, success in one's undertakings, one's health and well-being and fate in life etc. I can think of very few followers who do not subscribe to this kind of attitude - at least in part. This approach is the least subtle of the two, but is obviously very powerful because such a promise would - if fulfilled - answer many a need, problem and desire.
Because Sai Baba often insists that we are but deluded by our egos into thinking that we do things when, really, "only He is the Doer", people attribute to him all manner of event. Many strange ideas about what is caused by Sai Baba are held. I know an amateur yachtsman who believed that Baba caused him to win a yacht race against top professionals, due to a stroke of luck he had in finding a shorter passage through some reefs. Another close devotee told me that Baba was himself causing the national strike of Federal Government workers in the US. The credulous leader of the Sai movement in the USA, Michael Goldstein, stated that SB had saved the lives of all those World Trade centre workers who were NOT killed, including all believers in himself! He alleged that SB told him so. (A pity about all those killed, though, SB couldn't do anything about them, it seems? Or those Afghan civilians bombed as a consequence?) So it goes on, to be consistent, everything that is ever done should be attributed to Sai Baba... should we then forget all science, technology, medicine, even work and leave it all to divine providence? The absurdity of all this is startling, but that there is confusion is hardly so surprising in view of the many inclarities of the doctrine that Baba repeatedly expresses in mostly ambiguous, general or veiled terms.
The second kind of interpretation of 'taking one step etc.' is about intangibles... if you worship Sai Baba and accept him to be God - or, failing this, if you are not sure whether he is God Himself, but try to follow what he teaches - he will help you in ways that you are most likely unable clearly to observe or prove, due to the veil of human ignorance about things eternal. If one is unable to find any indications that this is taking place, one projects the reward into a very uncertain and unknown future - he will look after you after death, give you a good rebirth or - if you are ripe enough - save you from the tiresome round of pleasure and pain, life and death altogether. In this way, the followers' imagination can puzzle out the most unlikely and unfounded significances in anything whatever that happens to them. Suppose one wins a lottery… it is SB's grace. Suppose one breaks one's back and is confined to a wheelchair existence… it is all SB's grace, teaching you a lesson, causing you to avoid some worse fate, and so on ad infinitum. This is the dark labyrinth that those who take his teaching seriously have all entered, despite themselves.
As to the first view of Sai Baba's guarantee; to evaluate it in real terms is extremely difficult because of its vagueness. What constitutes taking 'one step' on our part and what does not? For some it would be a small Armstrong-like step, for others a giant step. Sai Baba gives an example of this imponderable relativity in telling of a lady who sacrificed the very little she had (money?) to give to him, which he considered greater than (the millions?) offered by another. For some it would have to be something tangible like donating time, energy, and (not least) money to Sai Baba's organisation or other good works, for others only a mental change like improving how one thinks of other people, feeling gratefulness, having a worshipful attitude primarily to Sai Baba - whose form he himself recommends strongly and very often (even though, he also points out, other forms of God will do just as well).
Quite another matter is what can possibly constitute the twenty (or hundred) steps that Baba takes in return? Most committed followers are clearly motivated to a large extent by the desire for 'grace,' or at least 'signs of grace'. There is no catalogue available recording what these are or may be, it is a very individual matter depending on how one interprets what Baba does or does not do towards oneself, or what one wishes to think and believe. However, there are a number of outward signs of grace that many reckon on. One of these is being invited to as many interviews as possible. Another is being chosen by Baba for some office in his various organisations or institutions. Other less prominent signs are Baba's recommendation to write a book about him, make a film or video of him, hold a lecture for visitors to the ashram or for students at some of his colleges. Apart from these, are the many signs that people experience in the form of healing of difficult or sometimes apparently incurable ailments, materialisations of holy ash, nectar and the like on pictures of Baba (or other divine images).
The psychic unavoidability of having some belief-structure: Experience shows, again and again, that a majority of people will believe just about anything that suits them... if it fits in somehow with their whole world of preconceptions and desires. Experience and knowledge can be side-lined and diminished in significance by new strong beliefs, and especially those connected to Sai Baba. This cuts both ways, of course, both as to believers and unbelievers. When the facts cannot be established and an issue is still in the balance, most people far prefer a certainty to a continued state of uncertainty... even if it is a false certainty. The desire to escape ambiguity or incongruity in one's experience, somehow or even in any way, is a strong psychological tendency, as shown by many controlled and laboratory experiments. The psychic need for belief is also seen operating in how many people immediately believed in the accusations against Sai Baba on rather insubstantial evidence at the time. Most of us are very poor at questioning our own beliefs, especially those held dear to us. But any genuine search for truth is most demanding and calls for a patient condition of inconclusiveness and tolerance of the uncertainty caused by reservation of final judgement until certain knowledge is attained. This is not a natural psychic condition and it requires repeated effort to avoid falling into unfounded attitudes or leaping to conclusions.
There are always pros and cons in any matter, increasingly so the larger and more important the subject. To keep in the mind all of them from both sides, yet not to conclude in favour of one side or the other is a feat of conscious tolerance of uncertainty that few people can sustain for long... at least when the issue is at all crucial. Belief is endemic, but it takes many different forms which also often shift as experience proceeds. Whether secular or religious, personal or political, idiosyncratic or collective, some basic beliefs are held by everyone. There are believers in atheism and scepticism, which always have to be backed up by a large assortment of sub-beliefs. Many of these belief structures are adopted without reflecting over them or even quite realising that one has inherited them or picked them up in some way. Others are conscious of the basis of their belief system, but are then often quite unaware of how it is to be on the 'opposite side of the fence' and see everything from a completely other and equally rational perspective.
Philosophy requires a measure of dispute and any sane and healthy religion needs a measure of irreverence, for these are ways provided to us for testing our society, our universe, as well as ourselves. Human civilisations are always prone to mystiques... heroic, messianic, scientific, supernatural and so on. The prevailing mystique at any time or place first tends to colour the mind and, if conditions allow, often eventually becomes all things to the observer. This is seen most clearly of all, perhaps, in the ways religions or spiritual cults take over the personality. Whether such a mystique operates more for better or for worse, it remains a limiting distortion of the mind and often possesses the psyche to the exclusion of all contrary reason and experience. This kind of alienation from oneself can clearly be seen in the movement around Sathya Sai Baba, and not least in the organisation bearing his name, whether or not it sometimes leads to real personal transformations and improvements, at best and most usually only in an initial phase, it appears.
It is crucial to realise that the kinds of para-normal contacts experienced in relation to Sai Baba's form and name are not exclusive to him… very far from it! The slightest acquaintance with world spirituality shows that all the kinds of 'miracle' witnessed from or in connection with Sai Baba have been described countless times. Even specific events, such as the production of lingams from the mouth, the materialisation of ash (vibhuti) and other substances, the appearance of a person at great distances or in two places at once and the manifestation of objects and events at a distance are not at all exclusive to Sai Baba. World literature shows that all phenomena we might class as 'miraculous', especially healings, appear to occur in connection with any number of quite other persons and images, wholly independently of Sai Baba. The history of religions are packed with such incidents, while nowadays one can observe statues that shed tears of blood, marble and even metal Ganesh statues that drank milk in gallons and so on. That many do not believe these are facts does not affect those who have had such direct genuine experiences, whether they sought them or not. That mainstream 'modern science' is wholly unable to cope with even the thought of such things - due to its underpinning physicalistic bias and method - does nothing whatever to explain away the incidence of these observable facts.
The "sightless faith brigade": Those persons relatively close to Baba who have most to lose by questioning anything Baba does are obviously very largely those who find it most difficult to entertain the doubts that still surely and unavoidably intrude. Some of those who are able to be closer to Baba are doubtless also unable to rid their minds of serious doubts, for they evidently witness more doubtful events than relative outsiders. This is my experience of a number of long-term and close followers I have known during the past 20 years. Most of those who live in the ashram and have given up or donated their homes and/or wealth would fear losing faith in Baba, even partly so. It is remarkable that one never (except informally from V.K. Narasimhan) heard a breath of critical comment about Baba himself within the ashram, unless it was a raw newcomer or some such 'misguided seeker'. To even speak of one's doubts, it seems, one must 'go underground' to the privacy of a room or restaurant outside the ashram, or to any neutral place. Never have doubts been voiced in talks or discourses, let alone in front of Sai Baba, as far as I have observed or ever heard. To doubt is a cardinal sin, and one which Baba descries often. This proves extremely effective in covering up almost anything… as is known from many ashrams and all kinds of other self-contained 'total institutions' and totalitarian states.
Then those who have the status of a veranda place, some VIP office in the Sai organisation, a private room at one of the ashrams or the kudos of being able to tell of repeated interviews and grace will feel they have a lot to lose, and mostly are made to know to a nicety under what circumstances they risk losing these benefits. Add to them all those who, having found faith after much suffering or meaninglessness, want to sustain it rather than go through a very painful and often traumatic experience.
It is observable that those to whom Baba grants most privileges and frequent interviews are invariably ostentatiously humble. In his close presence they always creep about in a lowly fashion and grovel at his feet, and some if possible lay flat on the ground to do so, kissing them whenever given the chance. After about 60 years, these practices were at last been largely discontinued by Sai Baba's order on the grounds that they put his devotees lower than himself, and this is wrong. Perhaps it took so long for him to realise this because he had not realised that such practice will never be widely accepted in the Western world. Another possible reason is to avoid any danger to himself by allowing people to approach so close to him: for he related in a bizarre discourse (of May 6, 1998) about a night visitation by the ghost of his long-dead mother to him and the boys sharing his locked rooms. He claimed she had warned him that people might apply poison to him through touching his feet.
Public submissive behaviour was the rule and are were virtually unavoidable requirements for most people to make actual contact with him, such as by being invited to an interview. Similar kinds of subservient attitude - however agreeable or not to those who behave so – are still practised, only the grosser outer demonstrations of kow-towing have been reduced. There were and are exceptions, some of the most regular staff, persons upon whom Baba certainly depends for the running of his considerable empire of institutions, dispense with any marked formalities, though they will usually hold their hands in prayer greeting (naamaskaar) while talking to him. These people are usually the 'almost indispensable' figures that surround Baba.
It is evident that some people who are very rich and donate enormous sums get many interviews. One case is that of the US donors of hundreds of millions of dollars, the Sinclairs, who had a private interview each day for about a week before darshan (most unusual) at Kodaikanal in 1994. While waiting and waiting at darshan, I watched them come out of Baba's villa each day. There are exceptions, as in most things to do with Sai Baba. Isaac Tigrett, for example, was not given interviews for 14 years, whereupon he donated a massive sum for Baba to build the first Super-Speciality Hospital. He then received copious interviews for some while. Later he was again only given one interview over a period of quite a few years. Baba personally visited Mr. Reddy, the liquor baron who donated a considerable sum of money and who was murdered in Madras some weeks later. Narasimhan told me that he was taken to that interview in Baba's car. The question arises, why would Sai Baba take so much time visiting a criminal, when he has so many thousands of good people who do much good in the world and are his devoted followers, but who hardly ever get any personal contact with him? The standard devotee answer to this amounts to 'God knows what is needed better than we do'. This is no answer, but a non sequitur to avoid the awkward observable facts, any reasonable explanations of them and to stop further questioning.
Those who do not conform to the many behavioural rules and the worshipful attitude towards Sai Baba are unable to get anywhere near to him, even to observe him. Sai Baba has occasionally spoken of 'separating the grain from the chaff', by which those who do not accept him as being pure and divine, or who do not conform to certain of his teachings and follow the regimes of his various institutions, are kept away at a distance and/or fall away of themselves. Other words for this is purging or excommunicating. Office-bearers who disagree with the Indian leaders and Indian chain of command or who want more openness, greater accountability and frankness, and some are sacked without any recourse to further discussion. I know some of those who were so treated and consider them to be truly honest, actively self-sacrificing and upright people. Once they fell into disfavour, the were treated as completely non-existent! This is the rule with all people who leave the Organisation, the leaders never thank them for anything they have done or contact them. This has caused suffering and even prolonged mental illness where persons have sacrificed their whole lives to the cause. The ashram staff also pronounce lifetime bans on people, sometimes for the most absurd 'reasons'. Some of those who dare to go against Baba's explicit wishes as regards to marriage are literally excommunicated. One well-known case among a number of similar ones is that of the long-standing American follower Al Drucker, whom Baba threw out of the ashram on short notice because he would not remain unmarried, telling him never to return.
The hub of the world? Many ashramites have grown up never doubting that Sai Baba is everything that he says he is, and they form the backbone of the community of believers. For them to entertain doubts would be like submitting to a personal earthquake, a soul-shaking catastrophe that leaves the survivor in a state of depression, sometimes suicidal. This is well known from those who have disowned or been disowned by strong sects the world over, like Jehovas Witnesses, Pentecostals, Seventh Day Adventists, Moonies and any number of others. But in Prashanthi Nilayam it becomes feasible even for outsiders to come to believe that it is the real hub of the world - no, the Universe, where God Himself resides and from where he steers everything, without the tiniest exception. However, to my knowledge there have been several independent suicides in Prashanti Nilayam, including one by a whole family (a few survived). Allt such events are hushed up immediately if possible, such as by sending all visitors away immediately and without explanation.
It is not surprising that intellectual thought is virtually non-existent in such a place, (Baba has no respect or patience whatever with genuine intellectuals, which concurs with his advice to rid oneself totally of the mind as quickly as possible). So even the many persons who sport rows of more or less obscure letters after their names and work as professors or scientists are actually second-rate thinkers, which usually becomes obvious soon after they have opened their mouths. Paradoxically, very much fuss is made of anyone who claims to be a scientist, a doctor, and educator or the like there... but those who remain there almost always turn out to be rather naive persons who have a tendency to publish books that fail to meet even the lowest standards of accuracy, fact and intellectual insight of comparable kinds of Western publication. Westerners who become Sai devotees very seldom demonstrate anything like excellence in their talks or wr itings, rather the contrary. Baba has invited certain Westerners to hold lectures for foreign visitors - but these are not lectures in any known sense of the word, more like declarations of faith backed up by anecdotes and often by simple-minded theological chestnuts or parroting of Baba's own words.
One astute observer of this fact was V. K. Narasimhan - not himself a scientist or philosopher, as he freely admitted - but an economy graduate and world-travelled journalist. He told me that the students that come out of Sai Baba colleges and 'university' are not capable of a single independent thought. Pose them a problem that they have not learned the answer to and they are simply at sea. This is also rather the norm in Indian education, with its origins in Macaulay's "clerk-factory" educational methods, influences which are still potent and a dead weight on Indian life, along with the total subservience towards those above one's station that lived on unaltered after the British left and which kind of hierarchical nepotism marks the whole Sai Baba movement through and through, as the liberal-minded Narasimhan was painfully aware.
Sai Baba's teaching & 'Mission': Whatever else one may think about Sathya Sai Baba, and however one may judge his actions to be for good or ill, there is a moral basic in his teaching, which is as full of high ideals and good intentions as one will find in the established religions or mass spiritual movements. This is actually where practically the entirety of his teaching comes from in the first place. His chief aim, stated through seven decades, and often quite poignantly, is to see the reestablishment of ancient Indian values, which include moral conscience, unselfish service to others and the community, non-violence in all walks of life, due respect and care for all living beings and nature, and non-discrimination as to race, colour, and faith. No one should argue with that. But these values have very largely been lost very long ago in most of India, as current events keep demonstrating to the full. One can only hope that a world renaissance of values will take place, and as soon as possible, whether or not one believes that Sathya Sai Baba is the motivating force, or just a more or less fallible part of it.
Sai Baba's teaching can be distinguished from Sai Baba's rationale for that teaching. The difference is the fundamental one between morality and knowledge about what is factual and true (i.e. between 'ought' and 'is'). SB teaches what we ought to do or not to do, how we best should live and behave for our own good and that of all others. The teaching itself may still be accepted as morally right by many for whom SB's account of man and nature are not even half-believable, consistent or even understandable. Faith in the teaching is strengthened if one can accept the explanation of its background - the order of all things including the laws of human life (karma).There is much of value in it, vague though it often is. But he explains and justifies his teaching as valid by giving an account of how everything is constituted... the make-up of the human being, the nature of the cosmos and of the Divine reality or God - as universal being of infinite love and super-consciousness. All this, without notable exceptions, is very traditional Indian thought and much of it is highly questionable, while much of it has been shown by science to fall far short of the truth.
There are many documented errors in Sai Baba's descriptions and explanations of how the world works. His language is often vague and unspecific, and is always packed with sweeping generalisations that are primitive from the viewpoint of balanced thinking or linguistic-philosophical analysis. (See Brian Steel's website: http://bdsteel.tripod.com)
Sectarian tendencies in the teaching and its practice: What is "universal religion"? Is it possible? Sai Baba's answer to this is that the essence of all true religions express the same basic human values and the same faith in the existence and benevolence of divinity, in whatever form it may be represented or worshipped... or as it is thought to be as formless.
Many would deny that there can be any universal faith, or even core of common faith, so diverse are the religions and the countless sects into which they always seem to splinter through time or across differing cultures and nations. Sai Baba ignores these differences, however, by concentrating very much on the positive and unitive aspects of religious teachings and almost completely ignoring any examination of the differences. At the same time, in the face of incongruous beliefs and warring sects, Sai Baba always asserts the Vedantic view as the most inclusive and ultimate. This is an implicit denial of universal religion, as is his insistence on being the God Avatar, which claim is flatly rejected by Islam and mainstream Buddhism, the former regarding the idea of God having any form whatever as sheer blasphemy. Little wonder that only a mere handful of Muslims are ever seen near Sai Baba. In the detail of his teachings, the difference of what he teaches from what is believed in other mainstream religions becomes evident on many controversial points. Just compare his accounts of Jesus' boyhood and many subsequent travels and spiritual education in India with the official belief of about 1 billion Christians. Sai Baba also has asserted that Jesus did not actually die on the cross, but survived to travel eastwards and live long. Whether true or false, this just shows how non-universal any religious-historical teaching unavoidably soon becomes.
Sai Baba is set up by devotees in public as the supreme teacher representing the truth of all religions and the actual full embodiment of their God, however they conceive Divinity. He refers to himself as the God of all Gods, the only One behind all divine forms, hence implying strongly that he is actually the one whom all should follow, even while denying that he wishes everyone to worship him. This cannot be other than a divisive social and political idea. To hold that Sai Baba is 'in actual fact' nothing but the only existing divinity - as so many Sai followers do even after decades of listening to his denials of this in discourses - is about as exclusive of other faiths and as misguided as all those Christians who wrongly insist that the only way to God is through Jesus Christ and that all others are misguided, even calling them 'unredeemed', 'lost souls' and so on.
The way the Sai Baba doctrine turns out in actual practice in the various Sai organisations around the world indicates some of the fundamental contradictions inherent in the claim of avatarhood combined with an ideal of universal spirituality. The organisation has to be steered centrally, and in this case it is led by Indian Hindus. It therefore invariably takes on the character of Hindu religion, however many efforts are made to ameliorate this and incorporate other beliefs and persons of different spiritual inclination. In all countries where I have observed attempts to 'universalise' the Sai Baba teaching, the groups soon gravitate towards an exclusive membership, of which the first requirement is belief in Sai Baba and at least the basics of his teaching. Non-members are tolerated, but room is never made for them within the heavily Hindu-oriented doctrine that prevails in both the Charter, in the nature of all central conferences and festivities and in devotional gatherings … however much one tries to involve other faiths. There is also an inbuilt inertia towards Indian rituals rather than those of any other faith. This is not an inclusive practice, though it is highly natural and probably unavoidable in any culture… one sticks mainly to one's own time-worn symbols and behaviour. The only persons of other faiths who interact with the Sai organisation are those who also accept or tolerate silently the claim that Sai Baba is nothing short of the Divinity Itself. One does not have to be much of a deep thinker to see what limitations this sets upon the spread of the doctrine preached by Sai Baba, though faith also can have great power in clouding sensible judgements… and such beliefs can and do often stultify human moral conscience.


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Greece bans music in bars over rising COVID cases
* Until January 16, 'restaurants and entertainment venues will only be able to host tables of six people and music will be banned,' he said
Greece on Wednesday banned music in bars and restaurants in a bid to limit New Year's Eve parties as the government attempts to fight the highly contagious Omicron coronavirus variant.
"Omicron is now the dominant strain and the public health system is under pressure," Health Minister Thanos Plevris said in a televised address.
From Thursday and until January 16, "restaurants and entertainment venues will only be able to host tables of six people and music will be banned," he said.
"Bars and restaurants will close at midnight, but will be authorised to stay open until 2am on December 31 – still without music," he added.
Greece has been forced to implement new measures earlier than expected as daily cases soar, announcing on Wednesday a new 24-hour record of 28,828 Covid-19 infections.
As part of the new restrictions, initially planned for January 3, 50 percent of employees in the public and private sectors should work from home, up from 20 percent previously. Catering staff and people who want to go grocery shopping or take public transport must wear either a FFP2 face mask or two medical masks one on top of the other. All public New Year's Eve events have been cancelled, and the minister urged Greeks to test for COVID before any necessary family gatherings.
Greece has recorded 1,134,713 coronavirus cases and 20,636 related deaths since the start of the pandemic.
On December 14, the country said a record 130 people had died of COVID in 24 hours, but that daily figure has since dropped below 100. On Wednesday, Greece announced another 72 people had died of the virus.
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Further supporting this, the ncaa handed down a "death penalty" to Morehouse in 2003 for what it deemed "a complete failure" to comply with ncaa rules and regulations, even though it was Morehouse's first major infractions case. 48 Additionally, in the Penn State case, the ncaa said that the death penalty was primarily reserved for repeat violators that neither cooperated with the ncaa nor made any effort to implement corrective measures. The New York Times. According to the United Methodist Church investigation, Hitch, Collins and Parker were each paid 850,000 to maintain their silence on the matter. As for Sean Stopperich and David Stanley, the players who were at the center of the controversies that led to the ncaa's imposition of the "death penalty both fell victim to their own addictions. "Coach Who Revived.M.U. The little payments of 20 dollars turned into 500 dollars, Buddecke asian singles dating site was said to have handed out 100-dollar bills to recruits when meeting them at airports.
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Q: GNU Simulated Annealing I'm working from the template program given here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/html_node/Trivial-example.html
The program as they give it compiles and runs perfectly, which is nice. What I would like to do is generalise this method to find the minimum of a function with an arbitrary number of parameters.
Some cursory reading suggests that the metric function (M1) is only used in certain diagnostic and printing situations and so can more or less be ignored. All that remains is then to define E1 and S1 appropriately. Unfortunately my knowledge of using pointers and void is incomplete, so I'm stuck trying to upgrade the configuration 'xp' to be an array of parameters, rather than a single double.
In my naivete tried moving from
double x =  *((double *) xp);

to
double x =  (*((double *) xp))[0];

where appropriate, but obviously that didn't work. I'm sure I'm missing something stupid, so any hints would be nice! I will obviously be defining my own E1 output function which will take these N parameters and return a number.

A: The underlying algorithm, gsl_siman_solve() from the link provided, is generalized to work with any data type. This is why the ubiquitous xp parameter is always being cast to a double pointer before use. It should be straightforward to use any struct or array or array of arrays instead of simply doubles provided all the callbacks are coded properly.
The problem is that gsl_siman_solve() only seems to support a scalar double step size, initial guess, and 'uniform' value (from gsl_rng_uniform()), so you would need to map scalar double values into what are naturally multidimensional quantities. This can be done, but it is messy and not very flexible. In your case, the mapping would be done in S1().
This is akin to mapping the digits of a decimal number into a multidimensional space: the ones digit represents the X axis, the tens digit represents the Y axis, and the hundreds digit represents the Z axis, for example. By incrementing an integer, one can walk the entire 3D space from (0, 0, 0) to (9, 9, 9). You don't have to use integers and powers of 10, and the components don't even have to have the same range, but there is an inherent limit in the range of each component of the packed value. You would actually do this in reverse: taking a scalar double and unpacking it into multiple quantities.
Lastly, your code double x = (*((double *) xp))[0]; won't work because you are attempting to dereference a double as an array, not a pointer to a double, which would be OK. In other words, it's that first * that is the problem.

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Hans Ring (19 June 1928 – 9 April 2015) was a Swedish middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 800 metres at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

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The excitement is building as we approach Sunday, November 8! That's the date of our premiere fundraising event as an art promoting, creativity inspiring, art education nonprofit. Almost 200 prominent NWA community members have personally experienced The Magic of Terra Studios by participating in sculpting clay trolls that will be auctioned at the event. Additionally, we will be showcasing over 100 works by many of Northwest Arkansas top artists. Theses works will also be available through the silent auction.
Join us for this opportunity to mingle with these "local celebrities" and meet the artists. A live auction will take place after 4:00 p.m. with select pieces of original art and a few of the celebrity trolls. Don't miss the fun that is sure to ensue!
The Magic of Terra Studios will be held at The Chancellor Hotel in Fayetteville, November 8, 2 – 5 p.m. Tickets are $25 in advance or $35 at the door, and are tax-deductible. Light hors d'ouvres will be served; cash bar. Musical entertainment provided by Great Soft Day – Brenda Bowen-Cox and Carol Widder, Traditional Irish, harp and cello; Gregorio Salerno, classical guitar; and Stephen and Bonnie Turner, jazz duo. Dress is casual.
Pictured below: one of the more than two dozen "Celebrity Troll Parties" (Richard Berquist – Scarpino's, Stacy Wietes – Dark Star Visuals, Val Gonzalez, Maeve Courteau – Terra Studios, AJ and Myria Allen – UA Communication, Kelly and Donna Mulholland – Still on the Hill Music.


There's one in Antipolo stretching to Marikina City but not as long and scenic as the one in Baguio. Marcos Highway starts from Agoo, La Union, and slowly ascends through several curved roads leading to Baguio City. Compared to Kennon Road, this is a longer but safer route as the roads are much wider. Also there is a long tunnel along the way.
Here's a video of the highway taken from my trip to Baguio late 2007.


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Q: The error says that user_input is undefined, what to do? The code is below. Please help.
num1 = float(raw_input("Enter a number"))
num2 = float(raw_input("Enter another number"))
while True:
    print("Select one of the following options")
    print("'Add' for addition")
    print("'Subtract' for subtraction")
    print("'Multiply' for multipication")
    print("'Divide' for division")
    print("'Quit' for closing the application")
    user_input == raw_input("Enter your choice: ")

if user_input == 'Add':
    print num1 + num2
elif user_input == 'Subtract':
    if num1 < num2:
        print num2 - num1
    else:
        print num1 - num2
elif user_input == 'Multiply':
    print num1 * num2
elif user_input == 'Divide':
    print num1/num2
elif user_input == 'Quit':
    break

The image shows the code and the error

A: you are using incorrect equality assignment. == instead of =
user_input == raw_input("Enter your choice: ")

should be
user_input = raw_input("Enter your choice: ")

A: user_input == raw_input("Enter your choice: ")

should be
user_input = raw_input("Enter your choice: ")

with only one equal character

A: Change
user_input == raw_input("Enter your choice: ")

to
user_input = raw_input("Enter your choice: ")


Congratulations to Brett Young and Taylor Mills! The pair have decided to tie the knot after 10 years of dating on and off. Now, they've decided to definitely remain "on!"
People writes that Young proposed at the Graduate Hotel in Oxford, Miss. near where he went to college.
"We met in Arizona while she was at school at ASU, and we will likely get married there, so I thought it would be romantic to propose where I went to school," he said. "We were able to get a suite with a large covered patio and the hospitality staff at the hotel set it up while we were at dinner, so it was waiting for us when we got back."
Brett Young and Taylor Mills met in Scottsdale completely by chance and fell in love. The two moved to Los Angeles together and stayed together for six solid years, but Nashville called to Young, and the two were separated due to circumstance.
Young notes that nothing was ever sour between the pair, it just took a little time for life to settle and form the perfect path for the two to be together. "We recently got back in touch and realized that we were both finally in the same place and knew it was right," Young said.


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Suspect Arrested In Toddler's Shooting Death In Hermosa
Filed Under:attempted murder, Chicago, Crime, Hermosa, Julien Gonzalez, Local TV, Murder, shooting, Vi Nguyen
CHICAGO (CBS) — A purported gang member has been charged with murder, for allegedly ordering a Hermosa neighborhood shooting that left a 2-year-old boy dead and an 18-year-old man wounded.
Alexander Varela has been charged with one count of first-degree murder, one count of attempted murder, and one count of aggravated battery. He was due to appear for a bond hearing Monday afternoon. Police said they are still searching for the gunman and others involved in the death of 2-year-old Julien Gonzalez.
Alexander Varela, 27, is charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated battery. (Credit: Chicago Police)
The shooting happened around 10:15 p.m. on Oct. 6, during a house party in the 2200 block of North Kilbourn Avenue.
Two women got into a fight that night, and it spilled out into an alley.
Julien was standing on the sidewalk with an 18-year-old man at the mouth of the alley, when Varela allegedly ordered a fellow gang member to start shooting.
"There was a petty argument between a couple of women, and this offender – who lives on the block, who's a gang member – he's the one who chose to insert himself into the argument," Chicago Police Deputy Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan said. "He wasn't at the party. He wasn't invited to the party, but he's a gang member, and he thinks he owns the block. So he's going to come down there and insert himself into the argument. 'I don't want you arguing on my block. This is my territory.' And then what happens, right? This escalates."
A bullet struck Julien in the neck, and the 18-year-old was shot in the leg.
Gonzalez was taken to Stroger Hospital in critical condition, and later was pronounced dead. The 18-year-old was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was stabilized.
Police said both victims were innocent bystanders who had nothing to do with the fight.
Detectives spent the past two weeks investigating the shooting, and finally got a break in the case when someone in the community came forward with information. They described what witnesses did as brave and courageous.
Ald. Gilbert Villegas (36th) said Julien's slaying marks the first murder of the year in the Hermosa neighborhood.


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Woodall: 'Dads Not Welcome in Post-Separation Family Life'
November 9, 2015 by Robert Franklin, Esq, Member, National Board of Directors, National Parents Organization
This article on fathers and the family court system is by far the best I've read in ages (Huffington Post UK, 11/5/15). It's by Karen Woodall and directly concerns courts in the United Kingdom, but is equally applicable to those in all parts of the English-speaking world. Woodall nails it and nails family courts and the lawyers, social workers, custody evaluators, guardians ad litem, etc. who make their living there as well.
Woodall says she "work[s] in the field of family separation." Her thesis is blunt: in family courts, fathers are considered to be disposable. It matters little how much they love their children, how much their children love them or how important they are to their kids. To the courts and the various practitioners therein, they're disposable. Yes, British law now encourages meaningful relationships between children and both parents post-divorce, but judges and mental health professionals see the matter differently.
These days, in the shadow of Section 11 of the Children and Families Act 2014, children are regarded as being best served by having a relationship with both of their parents after separation. The problem being that in order to achieve that many dads face obstacles to achieving that. Obstacles in the shape of Family Court Practitioners whose own belief system does not allow them to conceive of a father wanting to care for his children and obstacles in the shape of other people who believe that when it comes to post separation care for children, mum knows best.
We see this in the United States as well. Despite reams of data on the importance of fathers to children following divorce or separation, the actual data on how many fathers get sole or primary custody varies statistically not at all from one decade to another. In 1993, 83.8% of custodial parents were mothers, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Eighteen years later, the number stood at 81.7%, i.e. no statistical change. Six different studies that surveyed family court judges and family lawyers in 11 different states found anti-father bias to be routine with many judges frankly admitting to never treating fathers equally to mothers.
Now, Woodall's focus is on fathers and their well-being. She rightly points out that fathers are doing far more of the hands-on parenting than did dads of generations gone by. These fathers whom she sees in her practice are then blindsided by a family court system that continues to see them as a distant second in the horserace for the prize of primary parent.
Dads after separation were once described by the CEO of Gingerbread (the single parenting charity) as 'secondary resources, most effective when strategically employed.' Translated this means, dads are useful to mums after separation because they can babysit and be included on the rota for the school run. Dads as helpers, are acceptable so long as they are doing as they are told. Dads as hands on active parents, sharing the care, the chores, the long nights of tummy aches and sickness are not routinely acceptable. In fact as a practitioner working with dads who have been evicted from their children's lives after separation, I have witnessed dads being told that their desire to care for their children is 'aggressive and upsetting' to their children's mother.
And it's that mother about whom the system cares.
I work in the field of family separation and I meet disposable dads every day. These men, who appear at times to me to be nothing more than the ghostly imprint of what a father is, are suffering. Not that you would know it, so unpopular is their plight. Gaslighted by the system which surrounds the family as it separates, these dads, who were pregnant with their partners (in that most modern approach to sharing all of the experience of bringing forth life), now find themselves routinely cast out of the family after separation. Dads are not welcome in post-separation family life, especially if they are going to cause trouble by wanting to actually parent their children. For those modern men who gave their all to fatherhood, the injustice of such a swift eviction from the lives of their children after separation, is a bewildering attack on their very sense of self.
When I talk about 'the system' I am talking about those family services which are likely to become involved in supporting the family as it separates and adapts to changing times, CAFCASS (the Family Court Practitioners who assess the needs of children in post separated family life and Social Services, who may also be involved). All of these services are routinely delivering their services around mother and children first, with father coming a very poor second. There is no such thing as gender equality in family services it seems, or if there is, it is the commonly held approach of women and children first. Pity those dads who go into the family courts expecting fairness, equality and justice, for what they receive is far less than this.
On one hand we excoriate fathers for not being more involved in their children's lives, even when they're almost as involved as are mothers. (Please see yesterday's post on data from the Pew Research Center on exactly that topic.) But then comes divorce and our legal system, our society and our culture all of a sudden begin singing an entirely different tune. That song may be called something like "Pay Up and Get Out." Fathers who've invested every emotional sou they have in loving, caring for, providing for and protecting their children are suddenly told that they're utterly unimportant except as a source of cash for their ex.
In the process of investing so much in their sense of fatherhood, those men, as Woodall has seen up close, experience the process of divorce and child custody as a blow to their sense of who they are. Unsurprisingly, the suicide rate for newly divorced fathers is many times that of other dads.
Woodall is again correct in pointing out that this system of divorce and child custody is an anachronism. It never made sense to separate children from their dads, but, back in the 1950s when fathers were far less involved with their kids on a daily basis than they are now, perhaps an argument could be made for it. But not now, not when fathers from all walks of life are stepping up and doing their share of childcare as never before.
There is a popular notion that after separation dads are either absent or angry and that their presence in family life is not necessarily an essential part of what a child needs. From the changing of the divorce laws in 1973 to the current day, several generations of dads have found themselves disposed of after family separation. An outcome which is nothing less than brutal for those so affected and which is, in these days of modern men and masculinities, so ridiculously outdated that it can sometimes feel as if we are living in a bygone era, where children and their fathers were on head patting terms before bed but nothing more.
Which brings me to my only (and very minor) quibble with Woodall. To the extent she believes that children need and experience the loss of fathers who are very much of the hands-on variety and not those who emphasize their role as resource providers, she's incorrect. She never says that outright, but some of her words suggest it.
But the simple truth is that kids don't place greater value on fathers who do more of the diapering, bathing and feeding than they do fathers who do less of that and more of the wage earning. Kids bond with their parents on the deepest and most elemental of levels long before they can distinguish what type of dad they have. And it is that bond that's destroyed when a court decides that, from here on out, little Andy or Jenny only gets to see Daddy every other weekend.
Family courts tell us that they act in the best interests of children. They don't. And they won't start doing so until they start ensuring real, meaningful relationships between children and both parents when the adults split up. The act of designating one parent the custodial one and the other a visitor is a body blow to the child that often hurts lifelong. Woodall rightly reminds us that it's a blow to dads as well.
#divorce, #childcustody, #fathers, #bestinterestsofchildren


Welcome to the Clevedon Conservation Volunteers' website and blog.
This website is dedicated primarily to the work of two wildlife conservation groups in Clevedon, North Somerset, both of which run a regular programme of practical volunteer work throughout the year. Our volunteers are of all ages and abilities, some coming along for the fresh air and exercise, some to gain useful work experience, others to work alongside nature and give back something to the place they love.
The Friends of Poets' Walk – In cooperation with North Somerset Council, this volunteer group plays an important role in the practical management of Clevedon's Local Nature Reserve, helping to maintain the delicate balance between visitors to the area and native wildlife.
The Clevedon Woodcutters for Wildlife – This independent group has been established for over 20 years and offers its volunteers practical work in woodland and orchard. The Woodcutters are always happy to assist other groups around Clevedon.
There are many other conservation and environment groups in and around Clevedon and under Other Groups you will find links to some of these with brief descriptions of their activities as well as contact information.


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DESIRE FOR HORIZONS
FIGNINTO
CLAMOR OF THE ARENA
PRINCESS STREET MEMORIES
BLOOD'S DUST
DOUBALEY THE MIRROR
UN CARRE PISTE
CDC LA TERMITIERE
TERRITORIES & AUDIENCE
Since its installation in Languedoc-Roussillon and the creation of the company perpetual movements in Montpellier in 2010, the choreographer Salia Sanou is constantly developsing projects. Step by step, they establish, support and consolidate his artistic line : Always develop a choreographic writing to better understand the complexity of our contemporary world.
"Desire for horizons", will run from the 29th of June until the 1st of July at the Théâtre de Chaillot, in Paris. A new show drawing from workshops conducts in Burundi and Burkina Faso, with the support of the African Artists for Development Fund.
Montpellier and Languedoc-Roussillon : a place to be anchored to. The financial support of the State and the Region Languedoc-Roussillon has allowed a strong inclusion of his work in the territory.
Associate Artist at the Theatre of Narbonne (2011-2014), Salia Sanou will maintain an ongoing dialogue with production and artistic diffusion partners, as Montpellier Dance.
From a creation to another, the company maintains and develops a significant presence within the territory.
The three latest creations by Salia Sanou have appeared in the departments of Aude, Herault and Lozère.
Large shapes ("Beyond borders", "Clamor of the arena" or coming from "Desire for horizons"), projects ("Scope of the body", "Sweet France") performative creations combining public ("Princess street memories") or duo, as "Doubaley the mirror".
In the course of his creations, he is committed to share with the audience the sources of his choregraphic writing.
With his choreographic ballads, proposed in 2016 and 2017, Salia Sanou questions forms of representation. To meet the public in order to reach out to a wider audience, which does not usually visit performance venues. To explore locations far away from the city. Meet a wider audience to discover the streets with the power of dance, meeting. Meaning of party and trance. Where art comes to the other and associates it in a festive shape.
An artistic line, always sustained by a humanity from shore to shore. Between the Languedoc-Roussillon, the company Mouvements Perpétuels and the town of Ouagadougou and the Termitière, a centre of choreographic development. First of its kind in Africa. A true springboard for young dancers.
Educate the glance, make spaces sensitive, in a theater, in the great outdoors, in a village centre or on a square. An artistic line, always sustained by a humanity from shore to shore.
Between France, his adoptive land, ans his native country, Burkina Faso. Belonging to two different choreographic cultures means Salia Sanou is always looking for sharing and knowledge. Access to culture should be within reach for all. «The flow of ideas and cultures are personally very important to me, making us see, hear and understand the creative power as a vehicle of tolerance».
To stay tuned in with his audience, Salia Sanou always shares with others after the show.
Attentive to all and especially to youth. Many discussions were held with schoolchildrens, college and high school students.
Since 2011, the company Perpetual movements provides artistic workshops in schools, artistic performances in a library. To meet audiences, who do not have access to arts.
Information campaigns and training sessions as fantastic tools to facilitate the understanding of a major art form: dance, as the keystone of his engagement process.
"Princess street memories" enables us to better understand Salia Sanou's interest in the work of the hobby artists . A meaningful gateway to cultural facilities and places for the creation.
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Energy & Environmental Science, 2022.
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid Encoded and Size-Defined π-Stacking of Perylene Diimides.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 144:368, 2022.
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Spin-spin interactions and spin delocalisation in a doped organic semiconductor probed by EPR spectroscopy.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 23:13827, 2021.
P. J. Budden, L. R. Weiss, M. Müller, N. A. Panjwani, S. Dowland, J. R. Allardice, M. Ganschow, J. Freudenberg, J. Behrends, U. H. F. Bunz, R. H. Friend.
Singlet exciton fission in a modified acene with improved stability and high photoluminescence yield.
Nature Communications 12:1527, 2021.
A. A. Vereshchagin, D. A. Lukyanov, I. R. Kulikov, N. A. Panjwani, E. A. Alekseeva, J. Behrends, O. V. Levin.
The Fast and the Capacious: A [Ni(Salen)]-TEMPO Redox-Conducting Polymer for Organic Batteries.
Batteries & Supercaps 4:336, 2021.
B. Wegner, D. Lungwitz, A. E. Mansour, C. E. Tait, N. Tanaka, T. Zhai, S. Duhm, M. Forster, J. Behrends, Y. Shoji, A. Opitz, U. Scherf, E. J. W. List-Kratochvil, T. Fukushima, N. Koch.
An Organic Borate Salt with Superior p-Doping Capability for Organic Semiconductors.
Advanced Science 7:2001322, 2020.
M. Arvind, C. E. Tait, M. Guerrini, J. Krumland, A. M. Valencia, C. Cocchi, A. E. Mansour, N. Koch, S. Barlow, S. R. Marder, J. Behrends, D. Neher.
Quantitative Analysis of Doping-Induced Polarons and Charge-Transfer Complexes of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) in Solution.
J. Phys. Chem. B 124:7694, 2020.
S. L. Bayliss, L. R. Weiss, F. Kraffert, D. B. Granger, J. E. Anthony, J. Behrends, R. Bittl.
Probing the Wave Function and Dynamics of the Quintet Multiexciton State with Coherent Control in a Singlet Fission Material.
Physical Review X 10:021070, 2020.
C. E. Tait, A. Bedi, O. Gidron, J. Behrends.
Photoexcited triplet states of twisted acenes investigated by Electron Paramagnetic Resonance.
S. Wagner, H. Auerbach, C. E. Tait, I. Martinaiou, S. C. N. Kumar, C. Kubel, I. Sergeev, H. C. Wille, J. Behrends, J. A. Wolny, V. Schunemann, U. I. Kramm.
Elucidating the Structural Composition of a Fe-N-C Catalyst by Nuclear- and Electron-Resonance Techniques.
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 58:10486, 2019.
Sam L. Bayliss, Felix Kraffert, Rui Wang, Chunfeng Zhang, Robert Bittl, Jan Behrends.
Tuning Spin Dynamics in Crystalline Tetracene.
J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 10:1908, 2019.
Leah R. Weiss, Sam L. Bayliss, Felix Kraffert, Karl J. Thorley, John E. Anthony, Robert Bittl, Richard H. Friend, Akshay Rao, Neil C. Greenham, Jan Behrends.
Strongly exchange-coupled triplet pairs in an organic semiconductor.
Nat. Phys., 13:176, 2017.
Robert Steyrleuthner, Yuexing Zhang, Lei Zhang, Felix Kraffert, Benjamin P. Cherniawski, Robert Bittl, Alejandro L. Briseno, Jean-Luc Bredas, Jan Behrends.
Impact of morphology on polaron delocalization in a semicrystalline conjugated polymer.
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 19:3627, 2017.
Patrick Pingel, Malavika Arvind, Lisa Kölln, Robert Steyrleuthner, Felix Kraffert, Jan Behrends, Silvia Janietz, Dieter Neher.
p-Type Doping of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) with the Strong Lewis Acid Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane.
Adv. Electron. Mater., 2:1600204, 2016.
Felix Kraffert, Robert Steyrleuthner, Christoph Meier, Robert Bittl, and Jan Behrends.
Transient Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy applied to Organic Solar Cells.
Appl. Phys. Lett., 107:043302, 2015.
Felix Kraffert, Robert Steyrleuthner, Steve Albrecht, Dieter Neher, Markus C. Scharber, Robert Bittl, Jan Behrends.
Charge Separation in PCPDTBT:PCBM Blends from an EPR Perspective.
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(49):28482-28493, 2014.
M. Schubert, B. A. Collins, H. Mangold, I. A. Howard, W. Schindler, K. Vandewal, S. Roland, J. Behrends, F. Kraffert, R. Steyrleuthner, Z. Chen, K. Fostiropoulos, R. Bittl, A. Salleo, A. Facchetti, F. Laquai, H.W. Ade, D. Neher.
Correlated Donor/Acceptor Crystal Orientation Controls Photocurrent Generation in All-Polymer Solar Cells.
Advanced Functional Materials, 24(26):4068-4081, 2014.
J. Behrends, I. D. W. Samuel, A. Schnegg, and D. J. Keeble.
Persistent spin coherence and bipolarons.
Nature Nanotechnology 8:884-885, 2013.
B. M. George, J. Behrends, A. Schnegg, T. F. Schulze, M. Fehr, L. Korte, B. Rech, K. Lips, M. Rohrmuller, E. Rauls, W. G. Schmidt, and U. Gerstmann.
Atomic Structure of Interface States in Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110:136803, 2013.
J. Behrends, A. Sperlich, A. Schnegg, T. Biskup, C. Teutloff, K. Lips, V. Dyakonov and R. Bittl.
Direct detection of photoinduced charge transfer complexes in polymer fullerene blends.
Phys. Rev. B 85:125206, 2012.
J. Behrends, A. Schnegg, K. Lips, E. A. Thomsen, A. K. Pandey, I. D. W. Samuel and D. J. Keeble.
Bipolaron Formation in Organic Solar Cells Observed by Pulsed Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 105(17):176601, 2010.
A complete publication list can be found here:
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There is no point discussing freedom of choice before a person acquires spiritual forces, and the ability to operate above his nature. Freedom of choice is the freedom to operate against one's desires. That is the only time one is able to decide freely.
The Light that comes from the Creator created the desire for pleasure in four phases. Those phases constitute the creature. This creature then gradually begins to materialize until it comes to our world, where it is shattered into a multitude of little fragments. Each fragment is called a "soul". As souls ascend to higher levels, they gradually change their attributes, using a special system that constantly moves the souls from one place to another, so that they will help one another correct.
The Torah, the Kabbalah, and all the Holy Scriptures were written by people who climbed the spiritual ladder and wrote their instructions from there. Many Kabbalists climbed these steps, but there are conditions that limit the amount of people permitted to write. There are only three Kabbalists who attained the very last degree and were permitted to describe the system. They are Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochay, author of The Zohar, the Ari, author of The Tree of Life, and Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, author of The Sulam Commentary on the Zohar and The Study of the Ten Sefirot.
These books were all written after their authors ascended to the degree of the Creator in every property and capability. If a person acquires the attributes of the Creator, he becomes free. Such a person is not limited in any way, he is above everything.
Kabbalah rarely mentions one's ascent in the degrees, though it is the most important thing for us. The books speak primarily of one's descent from the worlds Above. The descent is described in detail in the Zohar, in the writings of the Ari, and in The Study of the Ten Sefirot. We learn about the ascent from below from letters and articles that Baal HaSulam and Rabash (Rabbi Baruch Ashlag) wrote to their students.
There seems to be a shortage of material that describes the ascent. But the reason is that the complementary material should only serve to encourage a person to attain the state of "this world," and act as a springboard for the ascent to the spiritual world. Once we are in the spiritual world, the books that speak of the worlds from Above downward, their structure, the Partzufim and the Sefirot, serve as "manuals" for ascent, because the path from Above downward and from below upward is the same.
If a person who studies The Study of the Ten Sefirot is at a certain spiritual degree, and that person learns about the attributes of a higher degree, it makes no difference to him if he is studying about the concatenation of the worlds from Above or the ascent from below. The important thing is for one to study the attributes of a higher degree to know what to equalize with and then aspire to it, determine what requires correction, and so on.
A world is an empty state of the soul. Consequently, "this world" is only a concept. A world is Malchut, a vessel, a soul. The term "this world" indicates that the soul is completely empty, in utter darkness.
There are only five spiritual worlds. And although "this world" is not considered a spiritual world, it is however, a conscious, pseudo spiritual state that precedes the entrance to the spiritual world. In that state a person already acknowledges his irrelevance with regards to the spiritual world.
It is most important for us to push ourselves from our current state to the state of "this world," which is the descent to the state of Egypt. The acute sensation of that state is called the "exile in Egypt." Then we will push ourselves into the spiritual world. Once in spirituality, his troubles are over because we will have the Creator to guide us.
At that stage, we will already have a close connection with the Upper Force; we will be in close contact with it and connect with it as we connect with each other in this world. All the questions of this world disappear instantly the minute we cross over to the spiritual world.
The word Olam (world) comes from the word Ha'alama (concealment). It means "the inner state of the soul". There is nothing in reality except the soul, the "self," and the Creator. Every thing that we perceive as real is only a reflection of our attributes on our senses. If our attributes were corrected, we would feel nothing but pure Light filling the vessel. This is the state of Ein Sof (infinity).
A world is a transition phase, when the soul is only partially corrected. The soul perceives the Creator according to its measure of correction. Its corruption makes it feel that there is something that can go against the Creator. This apparent "power" or "influence" is called the Sitra Achra (Other Side). In such a state, the soul is called Olam, meaning "concealment".
It occurs when the Creator is only partially revealed. This partial revelation is necessary because there cannot be a sensation of concealment if there is not some disclosure, there is no way to know you're in the dark without knowing there is Light.
The greater the disclosure, the greater the sensation of the Creator; the greater the concealment, the greater the sensation of the Sitra Achra. If the Creator is totally concealed in our world, then all our forces turn against Him. The truth is that these forces are very weak compared to the spiritual impure forces. Our egoism, our evil force is tiny. The higher we climb and the greater the disclosure the Creator becomes, so grows the force that opposes the Creator.
These dark forces continue all the way from this world through the world of Atzilut. The Pure Forces (the Creator) and the impure forces (the Sitra Achra) remain parallel throughout the climb from bottom to top.


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Dude! You're Getting an LCD: What to Consider When Shopping for a Flat Screen
By Bryan Hoff
Like Apples and Oranges
Taking it to the Mat: LCD vs. CRT
To LCD or not to LCD: Is that a question?
You know it's time to get a new monitor, but you can't decide between an LCD or CRT screen. Buck up, because you're not facing this dilemma alone. Bryan Hoff compares the Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW 24-inch LCD to his aging high-end Sony CRT. Find out which one emerges as the winner — at least in Bryan's heart.
Leo Laporte's 2006 Gadget Guide
When the telltale flickering started again, I knew my Sony CRT was on its way out. I'd been through this three times already, exchanging somewhere in the neighborhood of five monitors since 1999, starting with a 19" Sony GDM-F400 and ending with my second (or is it third?) 21" GDM-F520. Back in 1999, the Sony was the end-all-be-all in monitors. It had a flat screen, .22mm dot pitch, and used enough electricity to power a small town (OK, maybe not that much electricity). A CRT of that class was prohibitively expensive, but I justified purchasing one because of the design work I was doing. Of course, back then LCDs started at around $1100 for a 15" display, and 17" LCDs weighed in at around $2000 as recently as 2001. So, as you can see, $2000 for a 21" CRT seemed like a no-brainer.
Once the time came to replace my aging CRT, Dell's series of wide aspect ratio LCD monitors seemed like another no-brainer. I'd heard all about them through a mailing list I belong to, and drooled over them from the first time I clicked on the accompanying link. I did a lot of research on the 24" UltraSharp 2405FPW model, and read lots of reviews, both online and in print. Then came the hard part: convincing my wife that I needed a new monitor when the old one was still putting out a picture. I'm not sure whether she's getting soft or my arguments are getting better, but I had my order in with Dell the same night I saw the 2405FPW on sale. I also managed to talk the agent into giving me a better price than the one they were advertising. The important questions to consider are whether it's worth the price, and how today's LCDs compare to CRTs, many of which are going for a song these days.
Figure 1 The Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW
Obviously, it's difficult to do a direct comparison between an LCD display and a CRT, but I'll do my best to point out the advantages and disadvantages of each. (Just to clarify, CRT stands for cathode ray tube, those big picture tubes in older style televisions and monitors.) The two major differences between a CRT and LCD are price and physical size. My Sony GDM-F520 CRT monitor took up a huge amount of real estate on my desk, with the back of the monitor being mere inches from the wall. But now that I've switched to the Dell LCD, I've been able to add a shelf on behind it, which adds even more desk space.
While my Sony isn't typical, it did cost me a small fortune to buy. It's a little depressing to think that for what I paid for the Sony, I could have not one but two 24" Dell LCDs. The UltraSharp 2405FPW has a retail price of $1199, but Dell and its partners often offer it on sale for under $1000.
Figure 2 The Sony GDM-F520
It's possible to purchase a 22" CRT from ViewSonic or NEC for about $600 or $700, but the truth is that these 22" CRTs only offer a 20" viewable area. So what about Sony's 24" wide-aspect model CRT? Sony has discontinued most of its CRT-based displays (including my GDM-F520, and the 24" GDM-FW900), but you can still find them for sale online, albeit often in refurbished form. However, the GDM-FW900 probably makes a fairer comparison between a CRT and this particular LCD.
Figure 3 Sony's wide aspect GDM-FW900. Presumably the "FW" stands for "Freakin' Wide"
The Sony GDMFW900 24" CRT has a 22.5" viewable screen size, a .23mm aperture grille pitch and retails for $1,928.99 or thereabouts. Weighing in at 92.6 pounds and drawing a maximum of 170 Watts power, there's nothing slim about it. The Dell UltraSharp 2405FPW, on the other hand, weighs only 22.1 pounds and draws a maximum of 80 Watts power. It has a dot pitch (technically pixel pitch) of .270 mm. For your reference, the GDM-F520 has a 0.22mm aperture grille pitch, costs approximately $1,631.99 online, weighs 67.4 pounds, has a 19.8" viewable area and draws a maximum 145 Watts power. Both of these Sony models include a powered 4-port USB 1.1 hub. The 2405FPW includes a 9-in-1 flash card reader, 4-port USB 2.0 hub, a plethora of video connectors and ships with both digital and analog video cables.
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Q: Проверить данные из файла, для каждой строки питон Может кто-нибудь и подскажет, дан файл txt. 10000 строк. В строке содержится информация об имени, электронной почте и возрасте человека. Нужно проверить данные из файла, для каждой строки:

*

*Присутствуют все три поля,

*поле имени содержит только буквы,

*поле email содержит @ и .,

*поле возраст является числом от 10 до 99.

Пример файла:

Ли cgft@ya.ru 58
Волочкова tgnrnmo@mail.ru 9
Ольга fffrdfc@ya.ru 58
Чонгкун ykiuh@mail.ru 84
iflyyvp.ru 73
Чонгкун sibft@ya.ru
Ярослав42 ffcbzhygtt@gmail.com 74
Ли  25 Dgiga mwwtk.mail.ru 95
Тролль65 hrihukodr@ya.ru 31
Ольга zc@gmail.com 99
Яочуан xi@mail.ru 100
snaper fdpqj@gmail.com 16
Зефир jqwpvljxg@mail.ru 7
Хенг  xvupuy@mail.ru 108
Халк mihpuy@mail.ru

и тд.......
Я в начале сделала: каждую строку вогнала в список(код прикрепляю):
with open('registrations.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fh:
    for line in fh:
        print( line.strip().split())

['Джигурда', 'roueomxq@ya.ru', '14']
['Ли' , 'cgft@ya.ru' , '58']
['Волочкова' , 'tgnrnmo@mail.ru' , '9']
['Ли' , '25']

и тд.....
Но дальше не могу понять, как прогонять данные? Понимаю, что можно сделать через классы? Но как? Не могу сориентироваться

A: Весь смысл этого кода в том, что каждая строка проверяется регулярным выражением, и если re.match возвращает None т.е. не находит совпадение то функция возвращает False
import re

file = 'Ли cgft@ya.ru 58\nВолочкова tgnrnmo@mail.ru 49\nОльга fffrdfc@ya.ru 58'

pattern = '\s*[a-zA-Zа-яА-Я]+\s+[\w\.-]+@[\w\.-]+(?:\.[\w]+)+\s+[1-9][0-9]\s*$'

def is_valid(file):
    for line in file.splitlines():
        if not re.match(pattern, line): return False
    return True

print(is_valid(file))

A: 100% будет работать вот на такой простыне. В качестве приятного бонуса, код сформирует два .txt файла с логами, где будут плохие и хорошие строки:)
class NotNameError(Exception):
    pass

class NotEmailError(Exception):
    pass

def check(line):
    name, mail, age = line.split(' ')
    symbols = ('@', '.')
    age = int(age)
    if name.isalpha() is False:
        raise NotNameError
    elif age not in range(10,100):
        raise ValueError()
    else:
        for char in symbols:
            if char not in mail:
                raise NotEmailError
    return line

with open('registrations_.txt', mode='r', encoding='utf-8') as ff:
    for line in ff:
        line = line[:-1]
        try:
            string = check(line)
        except NotNameError:
            bad = open ('registration_bad.log', mode='a', encoding='utf-8')
            bad.write(line + 'Имя содержит цифры' + '\n')
            bad.close()
        except NotEmailError:
            bad = open ('registration_bad.log', mode='a', encoding='utf-8')
            bad.write(line + 'Некорректно указан E-mail' + '\n')
            bad.close()
        except ValueError:
            bad = open ('registration_bad.log', mode='a', encoding='utf-8')
            bad.write(line + 'Неверные данные' + '\n')
            bad.close()
        else:
            good = open('registraton_good.log', mode='a', encoding='utf-8')
            good.write(line + '\n')
            good.close()

ff.close()


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The major benefits of email marketing are; it is cost effective and immediate, easy to track data, helps to automate campaigns and promote sales, etc. As the business grows, it becomes difficult for a company to match the demands of keeping up with email strategy. Hence, it becomes imperative to use the best email marketing software and services.
Email marketing software: This software helps to track all the deletions and subscriptions, manage them well, maintain customer's profiles and use an auto responder that will send a "email received" or "thank you" response to the mail sender. It will also maintain your payments and orders.
Email marketing services: The best option to manage email contacts is to make use of available email marketing services. They are excellent techniques to make sure that your marketing campaign is not considered as spam. The service providers ensure that all your mails are sent with unsubscribe options. They take immediate actions to respond to the requests of receiver.
Email marketing helps in gaining new customers and engaging existing ones. It has proven successful for those who do it right.
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Vitamin D-supplemented yogurt drink reduces Candida infections in a paediatric intensive care unit: a randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial.
J Hum Nutr Diet. 2019 Feb 18. doi: 10.1111/jhn.12634.
Xie J1, Zhu L1, Zhu T1, Jian Y1, Ding Y1, Zhou M1, Feng X1.
Nursing Department, Wuxi Children's Hospital, Wuxi, China.
Sees unlikely that just 300 IU for only 2 weeks would help the intestine.
"Candida is the most common cause of fungal infections in humans"
The prevalence of Candida infections in paediatric intensive care units (PICUs) has dramatically increased as a result of resistance to conventional anti-fungal treatments. Because vitamin D has been shown to exhibit fungicidal activity against Candida infection in an in vitro antimicrobial screening, we aimed to investigate the effect of vitamin D on Candida infections in the PICU.
supplemented with 300 IU day-1 vitamin D (VD group).
Primary outcome was defined as the incidences of Candida colonisation (Candida isolated from rectal swab) 14 days after enrollment. Secondary outcome measures were Candida growth in blood (candidaemia) and urine (candiduria).
The prevalence of candiduria as well as candidaemia was significantly lower in the VD-treated group (26 cases) than in the placebo group (62 cases). The mean (SD) length of PICU stay was obviously lowered in the VD group 11.8 (1.2) days compared to the placebo group 15.2 (2.3 days), whereas cases of patient death were similar between the two groups.
Supplementation of vitamin D effectively reduces infections of Candida in children who were critically ill and on broad-spectrum antibiotic treatment.


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Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined not to enter any WWIII scenarios. Taken that the Kremlin also has access to Tesla-inspired, scalar-wave weaponry, one that hasn't even been conceived by the Military-Industrial Complex, we don't want to imagine what the repercussions of such a scenario will be.
The stock market will continue to fall as a result of a controlled demolition, like the one in2008. The only difference is that this time, the culprits – financial terrorists and economic saboteurs, i.e. the banking establishment, will be prosecuted till justice is reached.
Triggered by the 2000 Dot.com collapse and the 9/11 War on Terror, the Second Great Depressionhas been enduring since 2008. This means that the natural breakdown of the Global Economic & Financial System (GE&FS) can't be prevented in any way.
Although most of you will agree that nothing can be done to prevent the NWO group from executing a complete, perfectly controlled demolition of the Global Economic & Financial System, there's more to the bigger picture than meets the eyes.
Taken that the international banking crime syndicate (aka the banking elite) tries to execute this move once again, the entire system will collapse forever. And that's not all. As the power is in the people, the banking elite might as well face a fate similar to the aristocracy during the worst years of the French Revolution.
One benefit from living in an era of dominant social media is having access to a great amount of raw truth and hard facts about the true workings of the GE&FS. Take for instance the wreck and damage on the planet done by multi-billion corporations including the Rothschilds, and the Rockefellers, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Monsanto and Halliburton, just to name a few. Today, we are all aware of their wicked actions, especially with so many interlocking directorships which incriminate them all.
There are so many extremely incriminating facts that can be found on the Internet since 1995, that those who own and run the GE&FS have never been more exposed in their wrongdoings. Any attempt to destroy the GE&FS to their benefit will lead to their end.
The greatest benefit of the internet, compared to other recorded inventions in human history, is providing a level playing field for all the players. Taken that before the internet, the Illuminati have never tolerated anything but a tilted playing field, today they are forced to learn new game rules. In case a controlled demolition of the banking system was to be executed by the financial engineers and economic architects, the people will rise and put them behind bars for good.
Now, another 2016 event, one of colossal importance, is the election of Donald Trump. This epic event shows more than anything else, including BREXIT, how much things have really changed. This also shows that people have more power now than in the past.
The Internet will be the most powerful police empowering people to put those banksters behind bars. Take for instance the global citizens investigation that has been carried out regarding Washington, D.C. Pizzagate and global Pedogate. It clearly demonstrates the power of people which is emerging in ways and places never seen before.
The Pizzagate revelations, which are rapidly emerging as a result of the power and pervasiveness of the Internet, are creating a very favorable environment for the powerless to regain their power. Similarly, Pedogate has provided an international forum for victims all over the world to speak the truth like never before.
Currently, the only challenge the world has yet to deal with is this establishment of extremely powerful psychopaths who have a tight grip on our society. What gives hope is the fact that this elite will be deprived of their ill-gotten gains and misappropriated wealth, which means that their influence and power over the world affairs will be greatly reduced.
Special Note: TPTB has no power to crash the economy like they used to do according to the Shemitah calendar. In case they attempt a reckless sabotage of President Trump's term in office through a synchronized collapse, then they will lose everything. But, most importantly, they'll never get it back. And, that's not all. The collapse of financial institutions and economic systems will lead to a drastic fall of their age-old power and influence. As a result, the US will be forced to devise a whole new paradigm, one that is free from the endemic corporate corruption and easily manipulated institutional arrangements. The culprits should never again be granted participation in state and world affairs. Plus, they should face prosecution for their continual financial terrorism and economic devastation to both developed and developing nations.
Trump's election following the humiliating fall of Hillary Clinton is a worldwide phenomenon that promises to put an end to despicable globalists all over the world.
Some of the first things on the new President's agenda should include shutting down the treasonous Mainstream Media, as well as getting rid of the numerous traitors from Congress, intelligence agencies, and many other departments within the U.S. Federal Government.
And the sooner he rolls his sleeves up, the better for the nation as Americans, once again will be able to take back their government. This American Republic can rebuild the image of the Founding Fathers like no one before.
And, in reality, the better the demolition, the better the foundation for the new construction to be built upon. At present, the world is but an economic prison for most of humankind, and the first step to be taken to free the people is taking down the present embodiment of the GE&FS.


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