STORYTYMES The shaman of Unreality: The balancing apprentice
1 shaman apprentice narrowly escaped death of apprentice trial designed to kill
1 lazy dove
2 spiders in a hole
1 world portal
1 army of gigantic proportions is reported
1 bicycle
1 lost love
1 mountain
1 fox with two tails
1 snake with one tongue
sheep up a tree
a lot of persuasion going unrewarded
1 normal person with lots of power
many other persons claiming they are normal, but not in that way
1 grandmother (seemingly) without baking (or any other social) skills
great emotions, distict feelings
great fear, no angst
long and hard speculations about the no angst
1 minister who cannot fly
1 who can
1 expecting brown bear
1 tricycle
1 happy ending for some
several unhappy endings for others
Read Quote of James Walker's answer to Life: What are the top 10 things that we should be informed about, in life? on Quora
- You spend a third of your life asleep, nearly as long on your feet, and are constantly digesting food. As such invest in a good bed, good shoes, and good quality food.
[Don't know, if Windows users will have any use of this. Sorry.)
I use this on a Mac OSX.4.11 installation, and it should work all the way up to OSX.8.
The Cyberduck FTP upload AppleScript, which chrispie.com had modified, I have further modified and now very flattering call AutoUpload2FTPwCyberduck. This means it does not sync - it simply auto-uploads things, which are added to a designated folder.
Once you have placed the script in (HD)/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts, and attached the script to a folder of your choice via Folder Actions (Ctrl+Folder Actions), AU2FTPwC goes to work.
WHAT IT DOES
--
Open a new document in Script Editor and insert the following. Edit the info in bold, and then save it in (HD)/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts:
-- > From here
-- Copyright (c) 2004 David Kocher. All rights reserved.
-- http://cyberduck.ch/
--
-- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
-- (at your option) any later version.
--
-- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-- GNU General Public License for more details.
--
-- Bug fixes, suggestions and comments should be sent to:
-- [email protected]
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
delay 300
set theServer to "your.FTP.server"
set theUser to "yourlogon"
set thePassword to "yourpassword"
set theProtocol to "ftp"
set theUploadFolder to "youruploadfolder"
-- NB: Create the upload folder on your server, before using the script.
set the item_count to the number of items in the added_items
if the item_count is greater than 0 then
with timeout of 300 seconds
tell application "Cyberduck"
set theBrowser to (make new browser)
set miniaturized of window 1 to true
tell (theBrowser)
set encoding to "UTF-8"
connect to theServer with protocol theProtocol as user theUser with initial folder theUploadFolder
repeat with theFile in added_items
upload item theFile
end repeat
disconnect
end tell
tell (theBrowser) to close
end tell
end timeout
end if
end adding folder items to
Personalize your cut-out and braid X-mas hearts with a message of your own. Generator page is in Danish, but give it at try anyway; it's straight forward.
http://www.cs.au.dk/~gerth/julehjerter/
Start easy with one letter on one side and none on the other. Some letters become like barbs, which make the heart hard to braid... :-)
. and : creates a one-character space and line shift, respectively
Grey area in the template indicates cut-out. Full lines indicate where to cut. Fold between the dottet lines, so the full lines are folded inwards. The two parts of the heart are placed with the two x's on top of each other, with the circled x not visible inside the heart. (It is important to begin in the right way, due to the holes in the letters "A", "B", "D" etc.).
Remember: Have fun.
PS: You need a browser with SVG capabilities to see the final design.
Limitations of both access and bandwidth today constitute punishment. "Three strikes and you're out" and the Syrian national internet turned off are nasty examples of this kind of control. But exclusion tactics, isolation and repression of possible-media-shared are just the beginning of what Internet control is about.
Basically putting surveillance on everyone means mistrusting human communication - a belief that human communication is detrimental to human survival. Is that plain stupid, an expression of power hunger, or just a very, very fearful way of looking at the world?
Imagine the worst kind of surveillance you can, and you will have people out there negotiating to make it happen. The strive to control the Internet and your doings on the net is very real.
IF we want a world, where understanding of human differences and similarities is passed on to our children, we need a globally connected world, where openness and responsibility is the first order - and not fear of isolation, censorship or incarceration for speaking our mind.
Global communication DOES come with a price - the demand that each and every one of us stay critical of our joint communication. But if I or you do nothing about the plans to control global communication, in effect we prevent everyone prsent and future from learning about everyone. Learning how to become a global person will stop being an exploration and a thing of freedom and joy. And become a thing of fear.
Please sign this avaaz petition and pass on the email below or all of it. Doing so is part of assuming the responsibility of global communication that these power-brokers say we cannot handle ourselves.
Dear Avaazers,
Authoritarian regimes are pushing for governmental control over the internet in a binding global treaty. If they succeed, the internet could become less open, more costly and much slower. We've stopped threats like this before, and we can again -- but only with a massive global outcry. Sign the petition and share with everyone you know:
Right now at a UN meeting in Dubai, authoritarian regimes are pushing for full governmental control of the Internet in a binding global treaty -- if they succeed, the internet could become less open, more costly and much slower. We have only 2 days to stop them.
The Internet has been an amazing example of people power -- allowing us to connect, speak out and pressure leaders like never before. That's largely because it's been governed to date by users and non-profits and not governments. But now countries like Russia, China and United Arab Emirates are trying to rewrite a major telecom treaty called the ITR to bring the Internet under its control -- the web would then be shaped by government interests and not by us, the users. Tim Berners Lee, one of the "fathers of the Internet," has warned that this could increase censorship online and invade our privacy. But if we object with a massive people-powered petition, we can strengthen the hand of countries fighting this power grab.
We have stopped attacks like this before and can do it again before the treaty text is locked this week. A wave of opposition to a new ITR is already building -- sign the petition to tell governments hands off our Internet! and then forward this email to everyone you know -- when we hit 1 million signers, it'll be delivered straight to the delegates at this cozy meeting:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/hands_off_our_internet_i/?bdOyaab&v=20018
The meeting to update the ITR (International Telecommunication Regulations) is being convened by a UN body called the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Normally, it wouldn't merit much attention, but Russia, China, Saudi Arabia and others are trying to use the meeting to increase government control of the Internet through proposals that would allow for access to be cut off more easily, threaten privacy, legitimize monitoring and traffic-blocking, and introduce new fees to access content online.
At the moment, our Internet has no central regulatory body, but various non-profit organisations work together to manage different technological, commercial and political interests to allow the Internet to run. The current model is certainly not without its flaws. US dominance and corporate influence highlight the need for reform, but changes should not be dictated from an opaque governments-only treaty body. They should emerge from an open and transparent, people-powered process -- putting the interests of us users in the center.
The ITU does extremely important work -- expanding affordable access for poor countries and securing networks -- but it's not the right place to make changes to how the Internet operates. Let's ensure that our Internet stays free and governed by the public and show the ITU and the world that we won’t stay silent in the face of this Internet attack. Click below to sign and then share this email widely:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/hands_off_our_internet_i/?bdOyaab&v=20018
Avaaz members have come together before to save the free web -- and won. More than 3 million of us demanded the US kill a bill that would have given the government the right to shut down any website, helping push the White House to drop its support. In the EU, the European Parliament responded after 2.8 million of us called on them to drop ACTA, another threat to the free net. Together, now we can do it again.
With hope,
Pascal, Ian, Paul, Luca, Caroline, Ricken, Kya and the rest of the Avaaz team
SOURCES
Cerf and Berners Lee Criticize ITU Conference (IT Pro Portal):
http://www.itproportal.com/2012/12/05/sir-tim-berners-lee-joins-criticism-of-un-internet-regulation-talks/#ixzz2EDlH06f5
ITU and Google face off at Dubai conference over future of the internet (Guardian):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/dec/03/telecoms-unitednations
Keep the Internet Open (New York Times):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/opinion/keep-the-internet-open.html?_r=1&
Proposal for global regulation of web (Financial Times):
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/1b114d8c-422e-11e2-bb3a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2EdnmBAXI
Who controls the Internet? (Guardian):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/17/who-rules-internet
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In today's ListServe Claire wrote of dealing with fear in her life.
Lately I’ve been digging into some deeply rooted fears and thought patterns that were established long before I can remember. It’s been a terrifying, humbling, hilarious and enlightening process. I’d like to encourage you to notice your fears when they arise and spend some time thinking about what fears and fear mean to you.
Do your fears inspire you, challenge you or leave you feeling stuck?
Is fear something to be conquered, managed, ignored or befriended?
How does fear impact your relationships, goals and health?
Her advice for looking at fear rang a bell, an old bell, which inspired me to write her back:
Would you ignore, conquer or manage a person in your life, who has always been there for you; who knows what you are good and bad at; who has protected you and helped you survive ordeals physically, emotionally and mentally, to give you pause, so you could return stronger and more aware, better rehearsed, better prepared, better balanced, more in tune with yourself?
Don't make the mistake of confusing fear with angst - Fear is the sum of your ambitions, desires, needs, dreams and their fulfillment in the world, which you (continously) grow up in. Angst is the result of never having had the space to pull back from danger.
Fear you listen to as you would to a dear friend - as an adult you need not take your friend's advice - but to deal with Angst you need to break down age-old walls and set a trapped younger version of yourself free to follow her fear's advice.
Fear is your friend; it shows you which world CAN protect you, based on your mutual experience. Angst is your cage, a fixed world, which fear cannot help you escape.
Your Fear is always there with advice. You can regard Angst as Fear plus Desperation, but as it is often without voice or reason, there is rarely a chance to communicate directly with your Angst. Diminishing Angst relies on your whole being being comforted and shown and entrusted with personal power to help yourself. Diminishing Fear you just have to take responsibility for your actions, respect what you do and have done, and need to do in order to survive - at present.
You can always learn. You can always grow stronger and more in tune with your ideals. But first you must reside in the present; this is what Fear provokes and is provoked by, and which Angst prevents.
In 20+ tiny videos you will see the reactions of the people, who are subjected to "Emily's video".
"Emily's video" itself escapes finding. By and by that is enough. Which is cool. Humanity and empathy outshines curiosity.
In order to see the whole series, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGatMdAIQqQ&feature=relmfu
For me this proves that ART means "being alive in the world of people" - for who makes ART, when you really look at it?
The West subsidize industries (f.ex. cotton) with more than they earn - in order to maintain standards of living in their respective populations - in simultaneous and total disregard of the effects of these subsidies on developing countries and the people depending on these industries.
It's ever more "OUR cuture and the culture of those NOT like us".
The Indian journalist P. Sainath is struggling to - among many other causes - create awareness about the thousands of Indian farmers since 1995 committing suicide from desperation with their inability to provide for their families by (unsubsidized) farming, the only work for millions of illiterate people in India - while the Indian government pays the already rich millions to create jobs for the educated in the big cities.
Like HE says, WE could mime: Our western capitalism has maintained a standard in our way of life for almost 80 years, but the cost is a growing divide between us and the immobile illiterate poor. Basically we are killing them by being a bad example to our selves, because we want to live at least as well as our neighbours, if not better.
The thing is we are growing to be neighbours with everyone on this planet. The 80-year old habits may soon need to die hard - if not by voluntary action on an individual basis, then by proxy from inequality adjusting itself the way all imbalances adjust themselves in Nature. The survival-ready will be the favoured ones.
Rich people in all the countries of the world are taking steps to be those favoured ones. Not the middle-class. Not the intelligentsia. Not the creatives. Not the business builders. But the rich in money and influence. Those, who can buy you, because you have no influence.
Can you see it coming? Will you let it happen? Will you be the poor?
THE SECRET HISTORY OF CULT MOVIES - a Biblical tale of the Holy Unlikely
Based in Copenhagen since the early 90's Jack Stevenson among other subjects from the weird and wonderful world of people abusing celluloid to it's finest has written an unusual book about Danish Lars von Trier. But before Jack Stevenson came to notoriety, he wrote a lot of very personal and intense essays on film, which are dead links today. Due to the verisimilitude of thewaybackmachine most of these essays are preserved for posterity.
For example
THE SECRET HISTORY OF CULT MOVIES
- a Biblical tale of the Holy Unlikely
can be located at wayback.archive.org/web [still in Beta] - where you can also locate all of his other brilliant essays on seldom seen aspects of films and film genres - or by clicking here:
If an URL comes up empty, try searching for that specific URL directly at the archive homepage. It's possible you have arrived at a link page, after the site has been shut down, but before waybackmachine has stopped coming by.
On an internet page in a forum-like environment make a Claim of concern affecting everyone, as you see it. Then pin-point your cause for alarm with your choice of evidence, give advice as to a solution and have the rest of the world contest or support it.
This is a World Council.
*****
IF you are interested in developing this idea, or you want to use the idea, please pool your energies with your peers. I will gladly work with you, if the frame stays as simple as below: "A Body of Advice", nothing more, nothing less. If you want to just develop the idea as a National Body of Advice, or a local, company, or institutional BoA, be my guest.
krabat at menneske dot dk
*****
TWC, The World Council of 12.12.21
TWC is not a World Government, it is a Council. A Body of Advice consisting of all the people in the world interested in arguing the importance and relevance of a specific conflict, occurrence, plan or methodology to the World as a whole - a CLAIM pin-pointed to and argued by a named individual.
Location: Web server
Access: All
Participant Claim [in a forum like over-view, but very easy to get the gist of every single-line entry]:
- Name the essence of your claim [eg. Palo Alto dam, Locust, AIDS, Child Soldiers, Fascism, Internet LockDown, X-country, Education, US Security Policy, Crude Oil etc.] Be very precise.
- Country of origin of the Claim [if relevant]
- Year/date of Claim
- Year(/date) of origin of Claim
- Claim in brief [reason for relevance to the whole world]
- Evidence [History, Science, Philosophy, Video etc. in links]
--- Evidence synopsis [”Finds pointing to connection between …”, ”Sartre’s position on the matter, etc] You don't have to prove all and everything; just point to the matter with a relevant explanation and let the rest of the world do theirs.
- Advice [in brief]
--- suggested solution
--- perceived consequences of your Advice
--- requisites of execution of Advice
--- timeframe until Claim resolved at best
Opposition to Claim [in brief]
--- Evidence to the opposite [History, Science, Philosophy, Video etc]
--- [no advice from opposition, but the option to make a counterclaim][Possibly deleting opposition? See below.]
Support of Claim [in brief]
--- Evidence to support [History, Science, Philosophy, Video etc]
--- [no advice from opposition, but the option to make a counterclaim][Possibly deleting opposition? See below.]
Counter-Claim
--- It is better to state you own Claim, if you absolutely disagree with a Claim, rather than argue inside a Claim-thread.
*****
DESIGN OF SITE
- you earn more characters to describe support or opposition with (initially 500?)
- you will be peer reviewed on a scale from 1 to 99 [based on: from realistic to hogwash; relevance to the world at large; timeframe realistic; requisites realistic; WAS it support or really a counterclaim]
--- your claim is greyed out on global view, if relevance falls below a threshold relevant to the Globe, but stays visible within your national ISP-sphere (VPN permitted?)
- only 6 claims a year the first year for all
--- if rating rises above xx, more claim reports are awarded from the second year and on.
- reviews of a claim will show to be from supporters or opposition [possibly via a 2 or 3D clickable matrix rather than separate click boxes]
- If you make a counterclaim, your voiced opposition to a claim is greyed out.
--- [how make connection between opposition to a claim and actual counterclaim?][Is it necessary to grey out opposition? Possibly to reduce info load for users?]
- A Claim is never "right" or "wrong". A Claim is initially considered an opinion from a concerned member of the Human Species regarding local/National initiatives of importance or immanent danger to all humans. Peers can come to regard a Claim as of lesser importance/not immediately relevant to the Globe, or as too subjective or just plain silly, or as trolling - all expressed in review by numbers as stated above.
*****
FIXED TAGS, max 2 pr. claim (preferably just one?)
WAR
ENVIRONMENT
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
COMMUNICATION
DISEASE
EDUCATION
LOCAL CONFLICT
REFERENDUM
ELECTION
LAW
MULTINATIONAL
ISOLATION
CONSTRUCTION
DISASTER
MEDICAL
TRANSPORTION
NUTRITION
etc.
*****
* The World Council of 12.12.21 - I believe the world is NOT coming to an end, but a fresh beginning could take its course from this date. You know - sympathetic magic: Input fear, get fear. Input positivity, get positivity. Very simple.
Keith Kenniff writes music for movies. He is also a major mix-master making sample laws obviously redundant in all their stiffling idiocracy. Listen to this mix and tell me if it wasn't worth it. Then go and seek out each individual composer and live their bodies of work.
Here as well as there is art, here as well as there is heart.
0 - 0:30 Henry Purcell - Suite en sol majeur (Z 660) - Prelude
0:30 - 4:22 Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach, Knee Play 1
4:22 - 12:14 Lou Harrison - Symphony No. 2, i. Tears of the Angel Israfel
12:14 - 15:06 Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel 3
15:06 - 16:40 Howard Skempton (perf. John Tilbury) - Toccata
16:40 - 20:19 Henryk Gorecki - 3 olden style pieces, iii.
20:19 - 23:01 George Crumb - Music for a Summer Evening: Music of the Starry Night
23:01 - 30:13 Henry Purcell - When I am Laid in Earth (from Dido and Aeneas)
30:13 - 35:42 John Adams - Grand Pianola Music: Part 1b
35:42 - 38:37 Gyorgy Ligeti - Atmospheres, for Large Orchestra
38:37 - 40:16 Avet Terterian - Symphony no 1, ii.
40:16 - 44:15 Steve Reich - You Are (variations): Ehmore M'Aht, V'Ahsay Harbay (Say Little and Do Much)
44:15 - 45:03 Dimitri Shostakovich - Prelude no. 2 in A minor (op.27)
45:03 - 48:24 Igor Stravinsky - Mass for Chorus and Double Wind Quintet - Sanctus - Benedictus
48:24 - 52:05 Gabriel Faure - Requiem: In Paradisum
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