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NDH Cinematography, those authentic Newsreel videos are covering mostly all aspects of Croatian community. Cultural aspect, an every day life of Croatian people and Croatian soldiers struggle on the fronts.
In January 1942, the ZNDH formed a parachute unit, known as the 1st Light Infantry Parachute Company (Croatian: 1 Padobaranski Lovacki Sat) or 1 PLS. It had a strength of 120 men and was based in the northern Croatian town of Koprivnica, near the border with Hungary. An Avia Fokker F.7 tri-motor transport aircraft was assigned to the unit on a permanent basis, with other transports assigned as required. The paratroops were equipped with rifles, sub-machine guns, light machine-guns and light mortars. After a period of training, 1 PLS made a demonstration mass tactical jump on 6 July 1943 at Borongaj airfield, Zagreb. 45 paratroopers made a successful jump from 3 Avia Fokker transports.
On 6 November 1943, three brigades of the Yugoslav Partisans, supported by artillery and heavy machine-guns mounted an attack on the town of Koprivnica, which they took on 9 November. The paratroops of 1 PLS held out at their base for three days before withdrawing into Hungary and continuing the battle with other NDH and German defending forces until 29 November. They received direct air support from ZNDH Dornier Do-17Ks, as well as supplies from light aircraft, but were unable to prevent the loss of their base, together with 20 men, all of their parachute equipment and their transport aircraft. The ZNDH also lost a Dornier Do 17 bomber and a Bucker Bu 131 bi-plane shot down during this period.
The unit was re-deployed in 1944 to Borongaj airfield in Zagreb and in June 1944 grew in strength with the addition of 3 further companies and was re-designated as the 1st Light Infantry Parachute Battalion (Croatian: 1 Padobranska Lovacka Bojna) or 1 PLB. They were responsible for the ground defence of this important air base and also performed ceremonial guard duties in Zagreb itself.
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Croatian Armed Forces (NDH), 1944.-1945.
The Croatian Armed Forces (Croatian: Hrvatske oružane snage, HOS) was the armed force of the Independent State of Croatia which were formed in 1944 with the uniting of the Croatian Home Guard and the Ustaše's forces. These forces operated until their surrender to the British Army in Bleiburg in 1945.
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Paul Thorn On Mountain Stage The Mississippi-born songwriter has appeared on Mountain Stage nine times since 1997. In this appearance, Thorn performs songs from his latest album, Don't Let The Devil Ride.
Raised by a fundamentalist preacher father in Tupelo, Miss., Paul Thorn has legitimate claim to being second only to Elvis as Tupelo's most famous son.
A strict upbringing didn't allow much secular music in Thorn's life, so he would visit the houses of friends' and listen to secular music and comedy albums that forbidden in his parents' home.
After moving away from home, Paul brought in income through working in a furniture factory, playing small shows throughout Tupelo and boxing professionally.
Since his first appearance on Mountain Stage in 1997, Thorn has released nine albums, including his latest release, Don't Let The Devil Ride. In this performance recorded in Charleston, WV in the fall of 2017, Thorn embraces his Mississippi gospel roots. Accompanied by the Mission Temple Fireworks Revival, which includes Thorn's longtime road band and Nashville-based gospel singers The McCrary Sisters, Thorn runs through songs new and old. The set includes Thorn's version of "Love Train," the Gamble and Huff composition made popular in the early 1970's by The O'Jays which is on Don't Let The Devil Ride.
Thorn's the Mission Temple Fireworks Revival takes its name from the final number in this set, an outrageous story song about a man "with a bible and a sparkler in his hand. He was holding a tent revival, and runnin' a fireworks stand."
Don't Let the Devil Ride is available now, and Paul Thorn and his band are on tour in the U.S. through late September.
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Simon says … NBA Playoffs – Conference Semi-finals Preview Pt. 3
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(1) Cleveland Cavaliers v (4) Atlanta Hawks
The Atlanta Hawks' celebrations after easily dispatching the Miami Heat in Game 7 of their Eastern Conference first round series on Sunday must have been somewhat muted.
After all, with that win came the right, the honour even, of trying to find the answer to the biggest question in the NBA these days: how do you stop Lebron James? And the Hawks only 48 hours to figure that out.
James, who was yesterday named the league's Most Valuable Player, will be a hard cover for the Hawks.
The most obvious solution would be for Mike Woodson to put Josh Smith on James. The former Slam Dunk Contest champion can match the All-Star in terms of sheer athleticism…but lacks the strength and power to slow down the "L-train".
Marvin Williams? Too undersized and still recovering from injury? Al Horford? Big and strong enough but too slow and also not 100 percent healthy after suffering an ankle sprain against the Heat.
So it looks like it will take a combination of Smith's, Williams' & Harford's best attributes as well as having Zaza Pachulia clogging the lane to slow down James.
And if the Hawks do succeed in this mission, there is no guarantee that will result in a win.
For the first time since his arrival in the league, James boasts a supporting cast worthy of his talents and skills.
His right-hand man Mo Williams is the perfect example of this. Long underrated in his time with the Utah Jazz and Milwaukee Bucks, the guard has made defenses pay for double and triple-teaming James with his dead-eye shooting.
And while he no longer takes care of the playmaking duties (James still handles the ball most of the time), his presence allows the Cavaliers to rest their star player and not suffer as big of a drop in level of play in the process.
If you look at the rest of Cleveland's roster, they have every possible area covered: Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Anderson Varajeo, Joe Smith and Ben Wallace combine to provide the scoring, rebounding, shot-blocking, overall grit and intensity generally expected from your low post players.
On the perimeter, Delonte West, Daniel Gibson, Wally Szczerbiak and Sasha Pavlovic can make sure defenses are made to pay if they choose to close down on James, Williams or Ilgauskas.
Checkmate.
On paper, the Atlanta Hawks are a good team, but they do not match up well against Cleveland.
The loss of Josh Childress last summer has affected their versatility at the 1-2-3 positions. Flip Murray and Maurice Evans are good pick-ups, but don't provide the same intangibles.
Despite all of his highlight reels, Smith has failed to show signs of maturity and still hasn't made the best of his potential. He has stagnated and his poor shooting is the Hawks' Achilles Heel.
The backcourt of Mike Bibby and Joe Johnson will be Cleveland's main concern. If Mike Brown's crew can stop them, they can already look ahead to the next round.
Trivia: The Atlanta Hawks last reached the Eastern Conference semi-finals in the lockout shortened 1999 season…LeBron James should take note of this stat: no MVP has gone on to win the title in the same season as he took home the prestigious award since Shaquille in 1999-2000.
Verdict: Cleveland in 4.
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A posh toff at one of the world's top universities set fire to a £20 note – in front of a freezing homeless person.
A shocked passer-by watched while a drunk University of Cambridge student in a white bow tie and tails attempted to burn the banknote in front of the vagrant.
Video of the incident was seen by hundreds of students after it was shared on Snapchat.
In the video the student struggles to light the note, while the film-maker panned to the homeless person.
The student says "some homeless shelter", and the video cuts out, which was allegedly taken in the early hours of February 2.
It has been rumoured that burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person is one of the initiation ceremonies of Oxford's notorious Bullingdon club.
It is understood that the attempt was by a member of Cambridge University Conservative Association who has since been expelled from the group.
Speaking to student newspaper The Tab, a Cambridge resident who saw the student soon after the incident said: "I was blocked from getting into my college as some chap in white tie was being excluded by the porters.
"I saw the videos of what he did the next morning, and am utterly shocked and appalled that someone would do such a thing.
Cambridge University Conservative Association said the student has been expelled from the association but added that the burning of money was not done before or after a CUCA event.
The spokesman added: "The CUCA committee became aware of serious allegations against a member late last week concerning his private behaviour.
"There is no room for people who behave like that in our Association, any other University Association, or frankly our University.
White tie is the most formal dress code, even more so than Black tie and is usually reserved for the highest of high profile events – like state dinners with the Queen, Nobel Prize ceremonies, and Magdalene May Ball.
Some members of the Cambridge University Conservative Association are known to regularly wear white tie to CUCA dinners.
Ex-cabinet minister Ken Clarke is a former chairman, while ex-chief whip Andrew Mitchell and Lord Speaker Lord Fowler are both still Honorary Vice-Presidents.
The Honorary President is prominent historian Andrew Roberts, author of 'Napoleon the Great'.
This is not the first time in recent months CUCA have been embroiled in scandal.
In June last year CUCA had to defend themselves against multiple allegations of sexism after varsity revealed that the women's officer felt she had "faced open ridicule" and "aggressive sexism".
Expelled not for burning the £20, but for getting caught doing it by the plebs.
You should publish his face, chances are he will end up being the leader of the Conservative party or chancellor.


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Der Río Lobos (manchmal auch Río Ucero genannt) ist ein Nebenfluss des Duero. Er entspringt im Südosten der spanischen Provinz Burgos. Rund 75 % seines Flusslaufes befinden sich aber auf dem Gebiet der Provinz Soria in der Autonomen Region Kastilien-León.

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Der Río Lobos entspringt auf der Südseite der Sierra de la Demanda. Er fließt zuerst eine kurze Strecke in südöstlicher, danach – abgesehen von einigen Schleifen – in südlicher Richtung und mündet etwa 15 km südlich von El Burgo de Osma in den Duero.

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 Río Abión
 Río Sequillo

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 Ucero
 Sotos del Burgo
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 La Olmeda

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Eine große landschaftliche Attraktion ist der im Jahre 1985 eingerichtete und ca. 9580 ha große Parque Natural del Cañon del Río Lobos. Südlich des Parks liegt die kleine Ortschaft Ucero mit der nahegelegenen Ermita San Bartolomé. Sowohl in historischer als auch in kultureller Hinsicht bedeutsam ist die Stadt El Burgo de Osma. Südöstlich von La Olmeda steht ein mittelalterlicher Wachturm (atalaya) aus der Zeit der maurisch-islamischen Besetzung (8.–11. Jahrhundert).

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Feature : For such an advanced, secular nation, the people of Japan have a very active dialogue with the fates and the mysterious, invisible forces that govern our lives, luck and health. Fortune tellers are near ubiquitous on the streets and you can't move home, get married, buy a new car, have a baby, do an exam, go on holiday or sneeze without visiting a shrine to propitiate the relevant deity. Home life and a simple meal are similarly subject to more dos and don'ts to add to the already labyrinthine set of social mores. This month KS takes a brief a look into the obscure but influential business of fixing luck and divining fate.


Substance abuse negatively affects employers through lost productivity, absenteeism, low morale, higher turnover, increased accidents and increased health costs. The Working Partners Report, a study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, and the SBA, and Office of National Drug Policy Control, estimates that 38 percent to 50 percent of all workers compensation claims are related to substance abuse, and substance abusers file three to five times more workers compensation claims than the average employee. The White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy estimates that U.S. companies lose billions of dollars each year due to substance abuse issues.
Despite these statistics, over the last few years, 23 states, including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine and Vermont, have authorized or decriminalized medicinal use of marijuana, and four states have legalized its recreational use. With the changing landscape of the law, now is the time for employers to update and implement a comprehensive workplace substance abuse policy.
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Weekly Review — November 5, 2019, 11:46 am
Trump gloated over the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi; thousands protested across Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Algiers, and Hong Kong
By Harper's Magazine
During a visit to Washington, Ilham Ahmed, president of the executive committee of the Syrian Democratic Council, the Syrian Kurdish civilian government, accused Turkey and its forces of continuing their offensive into northern Syria and conducting ethnic cleansing against Kurds, despite the Trump Administration's claims that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan had halted operations.1 Ahmed stated that, since the start of the incursion, 509 civilians and 412 Syrian Democratic Forces soldiers had been killed in the area by Turkish drones, artillery, and militias.2 Turkey's defense ministry blamed Syrian Kurds—who have been holding almost 12,000 Islamic State members from 54 countries, including Syria, Iraq, the United Kingdom, and Germany, in prisons across northern Syria—for a car bomb explosion in the town of Tal Abyad that killed 13 and wounded at least 20 people; the Turkish advance has led to the displacement of about 200,000 people.3 4 Hours before President Trump tweeted "ISIS has a new leader. We know exactly who he is!," the group identified the successor to former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed during a U.S.-led raid, as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi.5 6 At a rally in Tupelo, Mississippi, the president said that the Delta Force had "punched out [al-Baghdadi's] ticket to hell," and ridiculed the Academy Awards' low ratings.7 Alaska representative Don Young headbutted a camera in response to a reporter's question about election meddling.8 Trump announced that he and wife Melania were moving their statutory residence from New York, where he said he has "been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state," to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which does not levy personal income taxes and has no estate tax.9 The cofounder of Students for Trump, who had posed online as a lawyer, pleaded guilty to $46,000 in fraud charges.10
In Beirut, tens of thousands of people gathered to protest government corruption and also in response to a destructive Hezbollah rampage through a recent protest site that helped force the resignation of Lebanon's prime minister, Saad al-Hariri.11 12 In Iraq, mass anti-government and anti-Iran protests in Baghdad and Kut shut down major roads, and President Barham Salih said that Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi would resign if his replacement could be agreed upon, while security forces who have been cracking down on the insurrection killed at least 250 people.13 Hundreds of people on Yemen's island of Socotra demanded that the United Arab Emirates withdraw from their land; India revoked Kashmir's constitutional autonomy and split it into two federal territories, in a bid to integrate it fully into India, setting off protests in Pakistan and diplomatic battles with both Pakistan and China; the Ethiopian prime minister's spokeswoman said that at least 78 people were killed in protests against the treatment of the activist Jawar Mohammed; in Algiers, thousands calling for government reforms and accusing leaders of corruption converged as Algeria marked the 65th anniversary of its war of independence from France; a knife-wielding man shouting pro-Beijing slogans bit off the ear of a pro-democracy politician during a flash-mob rally in Hong Kong.14 15 16 17 18
Australian prime minister Scott Morrison threatened to outlaw climate boycotts because they hurt the economy.19 A koala named Corduroy Paul that escaped a bushfire in New South Wales is recovering in a koala hospital.20 Delhi's chief minister likened the city to a gas chamber as pollution levels reached almost 400 times the amount deemed healthy.21 A swingers' club in western Germany was evacuated when a carbon monoxide alarm went off and guests reported feeling sick.22 Higher than normal rainfall has affected more than one million people in East Africa, where in Somalia alone more than 180,000 people have been displaced.23 New research shows that by 2050 rising sea levels will erase southern Vietnam.24 McDonald's apologized for using the slogan "Sundae Bloody Sundae"—a reference to a day during the Troubles when the British killed 14 demonstrators in Northern Ireland—in a Halloween campaign for its ice cream, and the chain's CEO was fired because he dated an employee.25 26 A new study found that fact-checking is less convincing when "truth scales" are used.27 According to U.S. Department of Education research, two out of three of the nation's children did not meet reading-proficiency standards on a federally administered exam. A man wearing a shirt that said "It's not a crime unless you get caught" was caught on camera vandalizing and robbing a laundromat.28 29—Justin Stewart
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Q: How can I stop/pause a WebAudio ScriptProcessor node? I can generate sounds using only createJavaScriptNode(...) on my HTML5 app. I need to generate white noise on the fly. The issue that I am having is that I can not stop/pause the generation for example setting null to the processor or the context.
I have seen this post: How can I stop a Web Audio Script Processor and clear the buffer? and I was wondering if there is a better solution than setting zero to a gain Node.
Do I have to worry about leaving the processor running if I don't need it? I wouldn't like to have "ghosts" in my code. It would be great if I can null the objects that I won't use anymore.
Thank you.

A: You should be using the ScriptProcessorNode, since JavaScriptAudioNode is deprecated. Disconnecting the node from the graph should cause onprocess to no longer be called back.

A: Actually, you should EXPLICITLY remove the onaudioprocess event handler from the object; otherwise it may not get garbage collected.

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It is hard to imagine something more romantic than a wedding in Italy. From the charming beaches of the south to the mysterious canals of the north east, Italy has no shortage of incredible regions for a romantic wedding. With so many gorgeous spaces for a wedding, it's not hard to find Inspiration for your Wedding in Italy. But first, where will it be? Will you choose the romantic city of Rome or the beaches of Positano? Or will you opt for a classic city like Florence or a fashion-forward spot like Milan? The options are seemingly endless and each just as perfect as the next for a fine art wedding in Italy.
One of our favorite locations for a destination wedding in Italy is Tuscany. Known as the wine region of the country, Tuscany is home to rolling, golden hills, vineyards and sleepy towns trapped in time. The weather is amazing and the food even better. For a destination wedding, Tuscany is the perfect spot. It is home to hundreds of quaint villa venues that are perfect for an intimate, fine art celebration. From the romantic florals to the Tuscan textures, our Italy editorial is the perfect Inspiration for Your Wedding in Italy.
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Throughout the year, PCHA partnered with the Community Service Foundation to offer free Household Budgeting Seminars at Pinellas County Housing Authority's Central Office, located at 11479 Ulmerton Road in Largo. The last set of the two-part seminar workshops for 2012 will be held from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm on Thursday, November 8, 2012, and from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012.
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Devised, written and composed by Ivor Novello
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There is no entry for Ivor Novello in the massive 1231-page Cambridge Guide to Theatre, which is surprising since Novello was a national favourite in British theatre from the 1920's to the 1950's. Born in 1893 he died at the early age of 58. His funeral in 1957 drew huge crowds. The Pathé newsreel of the crowds can be seen on YouTube.
He is best known for his musicals (Glamorous Night, The Dancing Years, King's Rhapsody) rather than his plays and film roles; though he did act the lead in the Alfred Hitchcock silent classic, The Lodger.
In his day Novello was one of the biggest box office attractions, the epitome of glamour, and famous for his beauty and profile. He became a household name when he wrote Keep the Home Fires Burning, one of the most memorable songs of World War 1. He caught the nation's mood once again in 1945 with We'll Gather Lilacs in the Spring, the hit song in Perchance to Dream and forever identified with Olive Gilbert.
There has been no full-scale revival of any of his works since his death. The only West End acknowledgement he has had was when Cameron Mackintosh in 2005 renamed The Strand Theatre the Novello Theatre in his honour. (He had lived in a flat above the theatre.)
Perchance to Dream wasn't considered that good when it was premiered; but its old-fashionedness and its nostalgia for a bygone era was exactly what war-weary, Austerity Britain wanted. It opened in April 1945 just before VE Day (Victory in Europe) in May and ran for 1,017 performances. It was his only musical for which he wrote the lyrics. His regular lyricists, Christopher Hassall, was still on active service. The war did not end till September.
The ingredients for its success were his usual mixture of romance, spectacle, tunes and himself in the leading role. Here he played three roles in three different periods: a bankrupt gambling Regency buck who leads a double life as a highwayman; a Victorian choirmaster who is about to elope with his mistress when she learns that his wife is pregnant; and very briefly as a young man living in 1943. The surprise is that the hero in a musical is given no songs. Novello didn't think his voice was good enough.
James Russell, a tall and handsome actor, has his best opportunities during the Regency scenes. Claire Redcliffe (who appeared opposite Russell in the Finborough revival of Quality Street) plays the spirited heroines. Annabel Leventon is well cast as a witty aunt, a role created by Margaret Rutherford.
Perchance to Dream is a collector's item, which is not worth collecting, except for the sake of collecting. Max Peppenheim's revival makes the embarrassing mistake of trying to recreate the totally unnecessary Triumph of Spring dance numbers on the Finborough's tiny stage.
PS. If you saw the film, Gosford Park, you may remember Jeremy Northam's impersonation of Novello at the piano in the drawing-room and Maggie Smith (in her role of caustic dowager) begging her companions at the bridge table not to clap and encourage him to sing more of his songs.
Performances: Sundays and Mondays only: 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26 September
Reviewer: Robert Tanitch


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In every job there are irritants, sometimes things that you just can't like. That's normal, but it can make a good job a lousy one if you allow yourself to be distracted by these things. The fact is that irritating people, situations, and conditions have to be dealt with. Complaints and stress usually don't do much but make things worse.
Unless the working conditions are so unbearable that they're a real health issue, you need to adapt your mindset and working style to reduce these problems to their true sizes. Irritations amplify themselves into looking like bigger problems than they are. Their real effects are slight, but they grate on the nerves, and it's your reaction, like an allergy, that's causing the response.
There are a few classic normal causes of irritations on the job that are a lot more manageable than they might seem.
Unless you're the supervisor, they're not your problem. Many supervisors are happy to get rid of them, or offload them on other sections, and in chronic cases it's just a matter of when that happens.
Each of these people can step over a line on the job quite easily, and most of them do. Any work-related issues can remove them. Do your job properly, and any problems are all theirs.
You can simply adapt your social approach. You can make sure you put some social distance between you and them. With people who are also getting on management's nerves, make it clear you don't associate with them.
Irritating working conditions: The bigger problems can be OHS issues, and the nuisances are things like badly maintained amenities. Hygiene on premises is sometimes a real irritant. You're within your rights to find these things offensive, but there are some things you should consider.
Unless management is totally apathetic, the usual situation is that the building owner or agent isn't doing their job. Management will be well aware of the OHS issues, because they are legally sensitive. They also don't want to be reminded, in the form of a complaint, about something that makes them look inept. You can shoot yourself in the foot, and achieve nothing about the situation, by creating a federal case out of something they can't fix.
That doesn't mean you should have to put up with it, but it does mean be constructive in your approach. Suggest an alternative solution. Experienced people often know a fix for situations that management might not know. Just ask if anyone's noticed the problem, raising the topic neutrally, not acting as an advocate. See if this gets the ball rolling on taking care of the issue.
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Are you a medium? Yes! All you have to do is ask and believe. Anyone, anywhere, any faith, any age or sex, can hear their spirit guides, angels and late loved ones. "There are no secrets to become a medium," says Ms. Rhame-Brock. "You needn't wrap your legs around your head, subsist on a diet of grass or survive a near-death experience to hear spiritual messages. It is an ability given to all at birth." In How To Be A Happy Medium, Rhame-Brock explains in simple trms and with practical lessons, advice, exercises and guided meditations how you can connect to the universe beyond the five senses. Written for those who want a direct line to their late loved ones, spirit guides and angels but don't know where to begin, How To Be A Happy Medium starts you on this life-altering journey to the unconditional love and guidance available to us all!
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Break In Case Of Censorship: What Are Our Free Speech Fail-safes If SOPA Passes?
As I'm writing this, Congress is getting ready to vote on the single most destructive piece of legislation that the internet has ever faced.
As I'm writing this, Congress is getting ready to vote on the single most destructive piece of legislation that the internet has ever faced. SOPA, penned by a team of corporate shills who now have swell lobbyist jobs to show for it, is a bill aimed at combating online piracy in the worst conceivable way possible: By giving copyright holders and the government overreaching, due process-circumventing powers to shut down entire websites based on the mere suspicion that they might contain infringing material.
Worst of all, it's already happening. Even before the bill has come to vote, censorship shenanigans have already been demonstrated by Universal, who fraudulently removed a music video by Will.i.am that voiced opposition to SOPA. Now, imagine what will happen when SOPA is in full-swing and all of YouTube is held liable for bogus copyright claims … or Etsy, or Flickr.
The first is an extremely simple and dirty hack: Because SOPA's provisions call for the re-routing of DNS (the web's addressing system that links browsers with the computer hosting a site), the websites will still be there — you just won't be able to get to them via the usual "www dot com" method. If a site gets blocked, typing the IP address of the host directly (eg: 192.168.1.1) would connect you to that site. The downside: This creates a lot of security risks for the site in question. The fact that DNS exists in part to mask these addresses from the average user should tell you something.
Tor is what some would call a "darknet," a network that runs under the radar of the normal internet and can only be accessed using special client software. By connecting to the Tor network, you are anonymizing and encrypting your browsing activity by making your IP address appear as that of a random node somewhere else on the network. And since that random node will typically be outside of the United States, you won't be getting routed away from sites the copyright elite have deemed "infringing."
It's scary to think that Tor might become an option for some Americans, seeing as how it's been previously used to subvert censorship in places like China and Syria. But even with web traffic fully anonymized and virtually untraceable, it's not merely a "censorship off" button and there are risks involved if you don't know what you're doing. Additionally, securing the means of connecting to (and obtaining information about) the Tor network could become a lot more difficult for newcomers if Tor's website gets blocked. And moreover, doing so would likely be illegal under SOPA on grounds that it is exists to subvert the filtering system being put in place.
This seems like a great idea, but even .bit domains run the risk of being targeted under SOPA. If the law requires ISPs to block access, it would be a simple matter of cutting off the ports that those domains run on. And if those domains are involved in shady black market dealings like the rest of the Bitcoin network, they'll have ample reason to do so.
All in all, the options are either incredibly abstruse, risky or likely to become illegal anyway. But one thing is for certain: SOPA and PROTECT-IP's 'killing spiders with a sledgehammer' strategy isn't going to smash piracy — it's just going to make the internet a lot messier.
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GOP opposition to net neutrality takes farcical turn
Republicans have opposed net neutrality for a while, but the right's latest efforts are unexpectedly bizarre.
Reporters take notes during a panel discussion at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 19, 2012.
Feb. 10, 2015, 4:20 PM UTC
By Steve Benen
During his tenure as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) made few friends. Democrats found his partisan antics offensive; reporters found his habit of leaking deceptive information infuriating, even Republicans tired of Issa's ineffectiveness.
When the gavel was passed to Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), many hoped the transition would be for the better. Those hopes are being dashed.
Chaffetz and his Senate counterpart, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), are predictably unhappy about the FCC's newly announced support for net neutrality. But the far-right committee chairmen aren't just upset about the policy; they're alleging some kind of White House conspiracy.
Two congressional committees have launched investigations into whether the White House improperly influenced the net-neutrality proposal released last week by the head of the Federal Communications Commission. [...] Although the president nominates the chairman and other FCC commissioners, the agency is independent and not supposed to be subject to White House control. [FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler] is a former lobbyist for the cable-TV and wireless industries and was a major fundraiser for Obama, who nominated him to head the FCC in 2013. Republicans have charged that Obama unduly influenced Wheeler's proposal.
Chaffetz and Johnson, the L.A. Times report noted, "cited a Wall Street Journal article last week that reported that two White House aides led a 'secretive effort' to build support from outside groups for tough net-neutrality regulations."
Kevin Drum noted in response, "Chaffetz must really be desperate. Does he seriously think that the president of the United States isn't allowed to try to mobilize outside support for his policy proposals? Or even that the White House isn't allowed to lobby FCC commissioners? That's just crackers."
I heartily agree, though when it comes to Republican opposition to net neutrality, it's arguably the second most bizarre story since the FCC's big announcement.
My colleague Will Femia gave me a heads-up on this striking report, which may be hard to believe, but which is entirely legit.
A nameless entity with money to spare has created a truly bizarre attempt to discredit net neutrality with a porn parody. The video, which has fairly strong production values, begins as a riff on the cliched porn plot of a sexy man coming to install cable at a sexy woman's house. They're quickly interrupted, though, by a series of government bureaucrats who begin monitoring her every online habit. The porn parody, it turns out, is the least strange part of this tale -- one that climbs to the upper echelons of the U.S. government.
Here's the deal: a brand new group called Protect Internet Freedom sprung up to oppose net neutrality. How new? Its existence references the FCC announcement that was made six days ago, so it really hasn't been around long.
But Protect Internet Freedom has nevertheless had time to put together a porn parody and made a series of odd allegations about net neutrality, including assertions that the policy may lead the government to monitor Americans' online activities and slow download speeds. There's no evidence to support any of the claims.
The story took an odd turn, however, when Daily Dot reported that the Protect Internet Freedom was created in part by Jordan Gehrke, a senior adviser to freshman Tea Party Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), a staunch opponent of net neutrality. In other words, the organization is connected to Capitol Hill in a rather direct way.
As a substantive matter, the campaign to derail net neutrality is probably too late, but it doesn't make the conservative efforts any less strange.


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Last year I started blogging on a weekly basis and made it my goal to talk about all the hints and tips on holding a market stall.
Well, I think I want to start 2014 with stock management, and time management. How do these 2 things fit together in the scheme of things you ask?
To take advantage of the Christmas season last year, I booked 5 market stalls in 3 weeks from mid November to mid Dec. That does not sound to bad some of you say. Well, being a newbie at all this, not having a lot of stock, unsure about my target market, and being a one person show, I was just a TAD over committed!
I started my Christmas stock design and making in Oct. After each market I was spending the whole time restocking and designing for the next market. I spent many late nights creating more stock for the next market.
With November markets, I had one week in between my markets to create enough stock, and come up with some new designs before the next market. Talk about having a creative block! Stress is number one killer for creative block for me.
I had several offers to do markets and often would get 2 week notice for the market stall dates. This gave me precious little time to think about my target customers. I had not researched the market, what type of items customers would buy at these markets, how many people came to the market, etc. My sales were way down. One market I did not sell enough to meet my costs!
Lesson 1, Research the market before booking a stall at that market.
Ask other stall holders about the market. Visit that market, look at the people who are buying from the stall holders. Does your product fit in with what people are buying at the market?
Are any of the stalls very busy? Busy stalls and markets mean more stock needed in your stall and more sales.
What are the prices of similar products you sell? If there are really cheap products there at the market and your items are more expensive, what incentive to buyers have to buy your product over the other cheaper product?
Lesson 2, Set aside time each week for new designs.
There is nothing worse than trying to come up with a new product the week or two before your market. I spent way to much time trying to create new Christmas items for my stall in Nov and Dec. Plan out your holiday items months in advance. Create a few items to put online and get feed back from your potential customers. What is it about the product they like?
Always make several of the same item, especially if it is a product you know people like. I had several customers commenting on a particular image I sell on my market stall. When I first came out with the product I only had one image at one price point for them. I later created cards with a smaller image on it so customers who did not want to buy the framed photograph could buy a card with that same image on it.
Seems like you have a nice way to get into those markets.. Keep on plugging along and you will find very nice success!
Thanks for the wonderful advice! All your weekly blogging tips are very interesting and helpful!
Thank you Felicia. I try to keep my posts interesting just have to get over the writers/creative blocks that come sometimes.
I've thought about this on occasion, but never knew how to go about doing it. I've also thought about those cart kiosks in the mall and if I could sell cake pops out of something like that. Thanks for the tips!
Start with one market and go from there. I learned a lot just from the one market. Each market I learn more and more about what sells and how to talk to people who come to my stall to browse without putting them off. My next post..
Like Kung Phoo said - keep on plugging away! The great thing about markets is you never who who is going to be there or what you are going to find!
I have been wanted to do that to sell my sewing and craft items. Great tips.
Great advice! I'm sure people wanting to sell they products at markets will find this very useful.
That is part of where my failures were when I tried things like this.
It is very hard to keep up the momentum.
i used to sell all the time at Craft shows but now I dont think i could do it. Between putting up a tent, making things to sell and setting up and taking down. Its exhausting, I need a buddy or two to help!
It is a lot of lifting and setting up. My struggle is keeping stock I know people are going to like.


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Killer Instinct with Chris Hansen spotlights the murder of Susan Bauer
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Killer Instinct with Chris Hansen examines the murder of Susan Bauer
Killer Instinct with Chris Hansen examines the murder of Susan Bauer, the mother of three killed in her own home.
St. Paul, Minnesota, in March 20, 1996, and the body of Susan Bauer was found in her home, she'd been strangled to death.
The body was found by her estranged husband Vincent S. Bauer who told police he was dropping off some clothes for their kids, though he actually had a court order against him banning direct contact.
Initially the police suspected the ex-boyfriend of one of Susan friends. She'd been staying with Susan and she'd called police to report his threats and when he came round and damaged his girlfriend's car. He blamed Susan for the two of them splitting up.
However, it eventually emerged that her estranged husband was the culprit, though Vincent still claims he is innocent. The evidence against him included some DNA on his underwear and bruising on Susan's body that matched up with the brace polio sufferer Vincent wore on his leg.
In 1998 Vincent S. Bauer was sentenced to life in prison.
Killer Instinct with Chris Hansen airs on Tuesdays at 9:00 PM on Investigation Discovery.
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Lo chiameremo Andrea (also known as We'll Call Him Andrew) is a 1972 Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica.

Plot
The story is of Nino Manfredi as Paolo Antonazzi and Mariangela Melato as Maria Antonazzi, teachers at the same school who although they love each other, are childless.

Cast
 Nino Manfredi as Paolo Antonazzi
 Mariangela Melato as Maria Antonazzi
 Anna Maria Aragona as Teacher
 Giulio Baraghini as Mariani
 Maria-Pia Casilio as Bruna Parini
 Guido Cerniglia as Arturo Soriani
 Violetta Chiarini as Teacher
 Solveyg D'Assunta as Nino's mother
 Antonino Faà Di Bruno as Schoolmaster (as Antonino Di Bruno)
 Donato Di Sepio as Carlo Alberto Spadacci
 Luigi Antonio Guerra as The janitor
 Alessandro Iacarella as Schoolboy
 Isa Miranda as Teacher
 Enzo Monteduro as Teacher

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1972 comedy films
1970s Italian-language films
Films directed by Vittorio De Sica
Films scored by Manuel De Sica
Films about educators
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Q: Firebase DB HTTP API Auth: When and how to refresh JWT token? I'm trying to make a Python webapp write to Firebase DB using HTTP API (I'm using the new version of Firebase presented at Google I/O 2016).
My understanding so far is that the specific type of write I'd like to accomplish is made with a POST request to a URL of this type:
https://my-project-id.firebaseio.com/{path-to-resource}.json
What I'm missing is the auth part: if I got it correctly a JWT should be passed in the HTTP Authorization header as Authorization : Bearer {token}.
So I created a service account, downloaded its private key and used it to generate the JWT, added it to the request headers and the request successfully wrote to Firebase DB.
Now the JWT has expired and any similar request to the firebase DB are failing.
Of course I should generate a new token but the question is: I wasn't expecting to handle token generation and refresh myself, most HTTP APIs I'm used to require just a static api key to be passed in the request so my webapps could be kept relatively simple by just adding the stati api key string to the request.
If I have to take care of token generation and expiration the webapp logic needs to become more complex (because I'd have to store the token, check if it is still valid and generate a new one when not), or I could just generate a new token for every request (but does this really make sense?).
I'd like to know if there's a best practice to follow in this respect or if I'm missing something from the documentation regarding this topic.
Thanks,
Marco

ADDENDUM
This is the code I'm currently running:
import requests
import json
from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials

_BASE_URL = 'https://my-app-id.firebaseio.com'
_SCOPES = [
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email',
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/firebase.database'
]

def _get_credentials():
    credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name('my_service_account_key.json', scopes=_SCOPES)
    return credentials.get_access_token().access_token

def post_object():
    url = _BASE_URL + '/path/to/write/to.json'

    headers = {
        'Authorization': 'Bearer '+ _get_credentials(),
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    }

    payload = {
                'title': title,
                'message': alert
              }

    return requests.post(url,
                         data=json.dumps(payload),
                         headers=headers)

Currently for every request a new JWT is generated. It doesn't seem optimal to me. Is it possible to generate a token that doesn't expire?

A: Thanks for the code example.  I got it working better by using the credentials.authorize function which creates an authenticated wrapper for http.
from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
from httplib2 import Http
import json

_BASE_URL = 'https://my-app-id.firebaseio.com'
_SCOPES = [
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email',
    'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/firebase.database'
]

# Get the credentials to make an authorized call to firebase
credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name(
    _KEY_FILE_PATH, scopes=_SCOPES)

# Wrap the http in the credentials.  All subsequent calls are authenticated
http_auth = credentials.authorize(Http())

def post_object(path, objectToSave):
  url = _BASE_URL + path

  resp, content = http_auth.request(
      uri=url,
      method='POST',
      headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
      body=json.dumps(objectToSave),
  )

  return content

objectToPost = {
  'title': "title",
  'message': "alert"
}

print post_object('/path/to/write/to.json', objectToPost)


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Mythos and Stories as Models of Practice
April 22, 2018 By polyphanes in mathesis, occult, philosophy Tags: calendar, fable, grammatemerologion, grammatomancy, hermeticism, myth, mythology, mythos, neoplatonism, pythagoreanism, qabbalah, religion, story	1 Comment
Lately, I've been fiddling around with Python and LaTeX scripts again. For those who aren't as inclined to computers, the former is a very flexible, extensible programming language of no small fame, while the latter is a type of language used to format, typeset, and compile documents (sorta like what HTML and CSS are for webpages). I use Python for all my short, little, experimental research things, like calculating certain astronomical/astrological phenomena or doing a brute-force search of all 65,536 possible geomantic charts for particular patterns, minimums, or maximums of certain qualities. Meanwhile, I use LaTeX for all my document needs, mostly for ebooks but also for letters, résumés, and other things in lieu of a normal word processor like OpenOffice or Microsoft Word (because I'm a crazy fool who loves the commandline and raw power over convenience and ease).
The main impetus for this bout of hobby programming that's been going on this week is so I can make a full calendar in LaTeX that spans from June 23, 2009 through June 23, 2047, complete with dates of eclipses, lunar phase changes, seasonal start and midpoint dates, and zodiacal ingresses of the Sun. It's hard to find that sort of data over such a wide span of time, and much more difficult than that to find it in an easily-obtainable format that I can use for LaTeX compilation. To that end, I wrote the scripts to calculate all the astronomical information from scratch (Jean Meeus' "Astronomical Algorithms" is a godsend of a book for this, so do get yourself a copy for reference) and formatted the output just the way I needed it. It's not exactly an exciting feeling to realize that it's easier to just code and test all the algorithms yourself than trying to find the data you need online, but after two long days of coding, the profound feeling of accomplishment can't be easily described (except, of course, as "fucking awesome and thank god that's over").
For what end would I take on this crazy project, you might ask? Because this unusual span of time is the 69th cycle of 38 years of the Grammatēmerologion, the lunisolar grammatomantic calendar I devised that associates the days of the lunar months, the lunar months themselves, and the lunisolar years with the letters of the Greek alphabet for use in ritual grammatomancy and, more broadly, my nascent theurgic practice of mathesis, a new kind of Hermetic theurgy I'm developing that refocuses on Pythagorean, Platonic, and Neoplatonic influences before introduction of qabbalah. It's been a bit since I've done any mathetic work, given the whole house-buying/house-moving of 2016 and the Year in White of iyaworaje that went on through most of 2017, but I'm preparing slowly to pick it up again. Since a daily observation of the letter of the day is a practice I found great use with, I wanted to have an actual calendar to reference instead of having another one of my scripts calculate it for me each and every morning. (This also means I'll be getting back to my Daily Grammatomancy posts I was doing for a while over on my Facebook page, so if you haven't liked it yet, please head on over and do so!) So, yanno, it's the little gains that help give a sturdy foundation for this sort of work.
The thing is, though, that I'm not setting out to develop this whole new practice and system for its own sake, or for the sake of being able to say "look at me, mister high muckety-muck of my own sandcastle!". I want a way to explore the Neoplatonic and Hermetic cosmos without having to rely on the procrustean bed of qabbalah that we can't seem to escape from, purge, or ignore; Hermeticism and Neoplatonism existed before and did fine without it, and even if qabbalah brought in excellent insights and models and frameworks for the two philosophies to expand with (and it most certainly did!), after a certain point, those same models and frameworks can become a hindrance. If nothing else, taking another look with another system can breathe a breath of fresh air into these things, and allow for opening up new doors and avenues to cosmic exploration, theurgy, and spiritual development.
Going through my old posts and notes on what I've already set up is incredibly useful, but I see something clearly now that I didn't before (time is great for providing experience, after all, no matter how much we might think we have some at the time). Consider one of my favorite quick rituals, the Blessing of the Vessel, first discussed in this 2015 post, which I use as a way for generating a sacred elixir to partake of the blessing of the Divine. This ritual works quite well on its own, though it uses some pretty arcane Judaeo-Coptic symbolism. However, if I were to make a mathetic variant…I ran into a mental wall trying to figure that one out. Sure, I could just replace the names of the angels or godforms, but…that seems hollow to me. While swapping out related concepts from one system to automagically transform it into a new system is definitely a thing, like using a Celtic or Hellenic deities instead of the four archangels to make more pagan forms of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram, I personally find the practice distasteful and it never seems to work as fully, as cleanly, or as effectively as the original ritual in its own context with its own appropriate entities and names. Moreover, I couldn't think of anything comparable to the symbols and metaphors used in the Blessing of the Vessel that could be seen in Hellenic mythology off the top of my head, which…
That reminded me of that post I wrote not too long ago about how the rituals we use are means of reliving myths. La Regla de Ocha Lukumí, more commonly known as Santería, is a perfect example of this. All the ceremonies we participate in, all the things we wear, all the offerings we make, all the songs we sing, and so forth are established not just by tradition, but by the precedents laid out for us in the mythological stories that undergird the entire religion. In this case, as in many religions and systems of faith, "myth" here doesn't just mean a fairy-tale, but a narrative that explains how things become into the world and why we do certain things in a certain way. The mythos of a religion, then, is the collective story of the cosmos from the point of view of that religion; to participate in the religion is to participate in the eternal telling-retelling of that mythos, where we are both a member of the audience as well as an actor on the stage. Every religion is like this: Christianity retells the story of Christ's sacrifice through the Eucharist, which is an eternal event that is played out in discrete instances that participate in the eternal truth of Jesus' sacrifice; Judaism retells the story of the covenants of God with Noah, Abraham, Moses, Aaron, and Aaron and the Exodus through the Passover Seder and the various mitzvot they maintain; Buddhism describes the paths to nirvana through the practices of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas and how we are to understand the Noble Eightfold Path as well as all the discrete, different practices that can more quickly help us achieve our goal; Santeria tells through all the odu and all the pataki about the exploits of the orishas and how they impact our lives and what we can do about the problems through the rites and rituals that the orisha laid down so long ago, and so on. Even in magic, we use stories that undergird our work: Solomonic magicians take on the role of Solomon as primordial gōes, reiki masters take on the role of their initiators going back to Usui-sensi to ply their work, Greek necromancers take on the role of those heroes like Odysseus who went down to the land of the dead and came back alive, and so forth. These aren't just simple stories we tell to children; these are the archetypal foundations of ideology, worldview, culture, faith, and interaction that our societies and civilizations are built upon and grow around.
So, what then of mathesis? I realized that, though I have the basic ideas of Hermetic theurgy within a Pythagoreansim-centered Neoplatonic framework down and a handful of basic tools and methods at my disposal, I lack a story, a myth that explains what the whole goal is and how spiritual practices and methods should be established. It's these stories that not only provide inspiration for new methods to grow and develop, but also point to some of the dangers I might face and flaws I might find in myself along the way, as well as the remedies and precautions to take for when I do face them. Without such a story, all I'm really doing is bumbling around in the dark repeating the same acts over and over with no purpose. I can liken this to an actor on a stage reciting the same soliloquy extemporaneously with neither context nor play; no matter how excellently they might recite it, it has no meaning or purpose except to practice the ability of recitation for its own sake. It's only when such a soliloquy takes place in the proper context of a play that it has meaning. All these practices of purification, meditation, contemplation, initiation, and whatnot don't mean anything if they don't have an overall story to fit into. Like a collection of pieces to build furniture from IKEA, if you don't know what you're doing and have no instructions to fit everything together, that collection is going to remain nothing more than a pile of bits and odds and ends that don't do anything except allow for someone to play at a frustrating adult version of Legos.
Now, I should say that I'm not trying to distill mathesis down to any one myth, any one story that we know of from ancient Greece. I'm not suggesting that I'm doing that, or that I should do that. I'm really talking about something more archetypal and fundamental than any one story, something that takes place time and time again in individual stories. Consider what Leo Tolstoy (or Dostoyevsky, or John Gardner, or others) once said: "all great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey, or a stranger comes to town". This is the kind of archetype I'm talking about: a fundamental action that takes place. Just how the Iliad is an example of the classical "war epic" while the Odyssey is one of the "journey epic", and how the Aeneid is an example of both, and all of which take place in greater and larger cycles of epics and sagas, each with their own stories and subplots that collectively describe how things come to be, what is the sort of high-level framework "saga" that mathesis might adopt as its underlying mythos? That's an interesting thing for me to ponder as a model for mathesis.
After all, consider that we can use the word "model" in terms of "framework", but also in the sense of "role model". What sort of character am I playing out by working in this way? What sort of tribulations, conflicts, issues, problems, predicaments, and crises might I face? Where might I look towards for help and succor? To what end do I play out this role, and how does this role pick up and start again (reincarnate, rebirth, renew) in another iteration of the story? After all, the idea of "role model" is played out quite heavily in occult and spiritual work in terms of godforms; the Catholic priest takes on the role of Jesus when he lifts up the host and say "this is my body", the Vajrayana Buddhist takes on the role of their yidam in meditation, the Golden Dawn initiate takes on the role of any number of Egyptian gods for a given ritual, and so forth. In adopting a role, we take on the strengths, weaknesses, abilities, and powers of that form we take; consider the Headless Rite, where the primary mechanism is to become Akephalos, the Headless One, to command the forces of the cosmos for exorcism or banishing or conjuration. Not only do models inform us what our views of the cosmos will be like, but models also inform us how we act within that cosmos and what our abilities and limitations are.
This isn't to say, of course, that we can't, don't, or shouldn't live by our own stories; of course we can, and we must! While there's definitely truth to Ecclesiastes 1:9—"what has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun"—there's a difference between the fundamental archetype which is mythos and the discrete, concrete instantiation of a a story that falls under that mythos. Like with the whole "two stories, journey or arrival" quote from above, consider that, at least under the "journey" header, we have such disparate and varied stories such as that of The Hobbit, Alice in Wonderland, Pokémon, and the Odyssey are all such stories. Under the broader notion of Proto-Indo-European religion, which formed the basis for many of the pagan religions across Europe and some parts of Asia and the Near East, there are high-level archetype stories of divine horse twins, a sky father, a dawn goddess, and a hero slaying a dragon; take a look, dear reader, at Celtic, Greek, Roman, Slavic, Vedic, Nordic, and other Indo-European myths and you'll find countless stories that relate to them, oftentimes many iterations of a single story with different variations. We each have our own story, each of which is unique, and all of which play into the archetypes of the cosmos both as processes and actors.
Come to think of it, that's one of the things that I think we as occultists tend to neglect. It's…it's at least an issue, but I'm unsure whether it's a full-blown problem, that so many of us lack contexts for the things we do. Like the actor reciting a preset soliloquy extemporaneously without context, many of the practices we have are so distanced and removed from the theologies, cosmologies, and philosophies that gave birth to them, and we're at a loss without understanding that collective context. I mean, sure, the Headless Rite will still work for you whether or not you understand the currents of Egyptian, Christian, Jewish, Greek, gnostic, academic, priestly, and folk influences that collectively gave rise to that ritual and its place in the broader understanding of Greco-Egyptian magical praxis and theory, but knowing all the rest of that does significantly help attune oneself better to the ritual, not just by understanding where it came from, but also the role of the ritual, the magician who invokes Akephalos, and Akephalos itself. To put it in modern terms, consider chaos magic with its notion of paradigm shifting. You can pick up any ritual and make it work, sure, but if you can't paradigm shift between them, you can't get the most out of any given ritual you perform because you aren't immersed in the fundamental contexts (the mythos) that allow for that ritual to work.
This is most dangerous for eclectic practitioners that don't belong to any one tradition or practice except "what they feel like, a bit of this and a bit of that"; without a coherent, cohesive, connective mythos that undergirds their worldviews, philosophies, cosmologies, and so on, I find it extremely rare that anything of what they do even comes close to the power and efficacy of someone who has a mythos and has truly integrated themselves and everything they do into that mythos. A mythos as model, then, provides both a skeleton and a skin for one's practices: a skeleton to arrange and structure one's practices together, and a skin to separate out what belongs to it and what does not, filtering things in to and out from one's system of practices. Without a mythos, you're just a jumble of things that you do, some of which may have an immediate use but no overarching purpose; a set of practices without a mythos is no more than a jumble of IKEA parts without instructions that may or may not combine together to form a useful bit of furniture, and even then only if you stumble upon the right combination and order of doing so. If you're just interested in performing and knowing how to perform individual acts for individual needs, more power to you, but if you're looking for purpose and direction and how all these things you do can lead to you it, then you're going to need a mythos to understand how all these things you do play into it.
It's because of this that I'm so interested in setting up a new kind of Hermetic theurgy with Neoplatonic philosophy divested from qabbalah. The central mythos is the same both with and without qabbalah, sure, but the stories that play out would be different. A different story means different actors, different problems, different predicaments, different crises, different climaxes, different resolutions, different conclusions, even if it all fits into the same mythic pattern. With each new difference comes new insights, new abilities, new techniques, new practices that can be developed, refined, and applied, yielding new ways to understand the cosmos and ourselves. Mathesis and qabbalah might both be mirrors made of the same stuff that reflect reality, but they'd present it from different angles, with different views, colors, shadows, and understandings of the thing to be reflected.
Qabbalah works for Hermeticism, to be sure, but almost all that we do is part of the same Hermetic story. I want to tell a new story, and see where else I might end up. What story will mathesis tell, I wonder?
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October 25, 2019 by B Mark Anderson Leave a Comment
Forgiveness in Action–here's one of the most dramatic examples I have ever seen or heard.
In fact, one veteran court reporter admitted he had never witnessed such an event in 40 years of covering courtroom drama.
In October, 2018, off-duty policewoman, Amber Guyger, 31, shot and killed an innocent man, Botham Jean, in what she thought was her own apartment. In October, 2019, Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder.
After Guyger was sentenced, Brandt Jean, the brother of the murdered man, embraced Guyger in the Dallas courtroom and said he forgives her.
Brandt Jean asked permission from the judge to give Guyger a hug. He went over to her and the two embraced. Jean told her he doesn't want her to go to prison. "I love you as a person and I don't want to wish anything bad on you," Jean said before they hugged for nearly 30 seconds.
The power of forgiveness from the brother of the murdered man was so strong many in the courtroom were moved to tears. Including the judge, Tammy Kemp. Kemp rose from behind the bench, came down and talked with Guyger.
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After stepping off the bench to comfort the Jean family, the judge walked over to Guyger, still at the defense table. She bent low and spoke in the young woman's ear. "You understand?" the judge said, barely audible.
The judge appeared to be overcome in the moment, and left the courtroom. She returned a moment later, a small Bible in her hand.
"You can have mine," the judge said to Guyger. "I have three or four at home."
She then began to counsel Guyger. The pair were talking low, barely audible, just the two of them. "This is your job," the judge said, opening the book.
The judge mentioned John 3:16, saying this will strengthen her. Guyger nodded her head.
"You just need a tiny mustard seed of faith," the judge said. "You start with this."
Guyger embraced the judge, who hugged her back. Guyger whispered something.
"Ma'am," the judge said warmly. "It's not because I'm good. It's because I believe in Christ."
"You haven't done so much that you can't be forgiven," the judge told her. "You did something bad in one moment in time. What you do now matters."
The judge told Guyger that she could take the Bible with her as deputies prepared to escort her to the prisoner holding cell connected to the courtroom.
As Guyger left to begin her 10-year prison sentence, the judge let out a deep sigh, turned and left the courtroom.
I showed the video to the Church of the Living Water in Muscatine after this powerful demonstration of forgiveness. Such an impact. The whole church was cast into an awesome silence.
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Q: metro.config.js How to add svg and css transformer? I'm bad in understanding what's happening in metro.config.js file
I already added svg transformer. Now I need to add css transformer.
I have such metro.config.js file:
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In order to have react-native-css-modules I need to place such content in metro.config.js:
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But if I just replace the content svg transformer will not work.
How can I combine two metro.config.js files?