Today is a very great day I must say, to celebrate Sahastrara, the puja of Sahastrara. It's a very unique thing that has happened that your Sahastraras were opened out. There were some very few people in this whole world; there were some Sufis, there were some saints, some other people also in China and all. But very few, very few got their Sahastrara opened out. So whatever they said or written was never understood by the people; they actually tortured them, they crucified them and did all kinds of horrible things, because they couldn't bear somebody getting this realisation.
So it's a very great day because collectively this Sahastrara has been opened. Every one of you have got it.Also all over the world you have many people who have got their Sahastraras open. Of course we need many more, for them to understand what is this great event of such a collective opening of Sahastrara.Some have grown very much after getting their realisation, very much. They have understood Sahaja Yoga very well and they have developed their depth and their consciousness is really a great awareness of oneness with the Divine. To be one with the Divine is the greatest blessing for human beings. So far they were human beings at a lower level of existence, and they had all the problems of that level, is that jealousies, hatred- all kinds of problems that are today of fighting, of troubling others, destroying others and not loving others. All these problems existed because their Sahastrara was not opened. So our main problem is to open the Sahastrara of the people all over the world- which is very simple, which you can all do it, and it will work better if you do it collectively. If you are collective you can work it out very well.
Like that in Sahaja Yoga so many people have come whose Sahastrara was completely opened, and they felt their depth. Firstly, you must feel your depth. If you don't feel your depth and you are not one with your personality which is so deep, then you cannot enjoy the Self-Realisation. First of all you should understand yourself. If you don't understand yourself, how can you understand other people? You cannot. So first this Sahastrara should be opened out fully. "Fully" means complete oneness with the Divine. That is not difficult. Only you have to meditate little bit and then it will work out. It has worked out in many people I am very happy to see, and meet such people in Sahaja Yoga who have achieved such a lot of collectivity and also the awareness of a realised soul. So what is the awareness of a realised soul? That is what we have to understand today it's a very important day, as I said. The awareness is such that you should now know what is happening in this world, and how you can help it. How can you help people to get to this awareness? Unless you have this full, full knowledge about yourself, complete strength about yourself and the confidence, you cannot do it.
Sahastrara Day is to be celebrated just to strengthen your bond with the Divine, so that your consciousness becomes absolutely enlightened, and you see the right point in everything. It has been in so many countries I have seen, people have taken to it very, very fast. Surprising, in Africa which is not supposed to be very developed country it's good because thousands have got realisation. Those who are developed have gone beyond the point of ascent, I think. That must be the point,they have to come back from that developed state to this state from where they can rise. And so the people who have, though got realisation are not ascending so fast as the people who are not yet so much advanced and modernised. Still it has worked, it has worked in so many people, and so many have got this ascent very well. But I would say that when you are meditating, also outside you should develop a state of witness. You should try to find out what is the matter,what's wrong with you, what's wrong with others, and how you can help it. Only with your vibrations you can correct so many things in your country, in your family, everywhere. And as you see now how Sahaja Yoga is growing, that there's such a need and such a desire to get Self-realisation.
But only thing, your approach should be full of love and full of understanding. They are coming from the darkness of ignorance and they have to go into the illumined nature of the Divine which is, can be very bright for them. So slowly, slowly if you develop this passionate kindness, love for them, I'm sure you can do much more to raise them. No use getting angry with them, because they are so ignorant, they don't know what they are doing, you see. As Christ has said that "They don't know what they are doing." So what you have to do is to make them understand whatever they are doing, whatever they are understanding is still poor, it's not so much yet expanded as it could have been if they were realised souls. Even after realisation I find people have a problem. They still have the problem of the past life which is finished, it's dead, but they still carry on with that and the consciousness, so much of illumination also doesn't show what's wrong with them. For example, take the case of ego. Ego is so developed. In the Western countries where they are so developed, ego has also developed, and they have to find out what's wrong with them. This ego comes from certain consciousness that you have been something great, you are this, you are that, your parents have been great maybe, your property is great or maybe you are occupying very big position, or anything. It can come from anything, and this consciousness is against your awareness because it's not true. You are not anything being molded by these outside things, but you are molded by your own awareness within yourself. This awareness has to grow – from where? Is to understand how do we get this ego, from what point.
Yesterday I felt there were lots of people who were having a lot of right side on them. This right side is of no help. It will create problems for you, sickness for you, and also no use having right-sided Sahaja yogis. So the main thing is to understand the power of love. Power of love is the highest and the greatest, and if you can manage somehow or other to give up your anger, give up your greed and also your ego if you can do that, you can be in Sahastrara. Now just see the sport of ego. It stops your ascent further. At ego only people get lost, because at ego only they move to the left or to the right and they can go to the too much of right side, or can go up to the left side. They can go to any extreme of these two.
So first of all we have to correct our ego. For this ego, what should we do? For this ego we should watch ourselves and laugh at ourselves. What ego do we have, of what? We are human beings, now have become divine. And with divine within us, with this light within us we have to understand that we are a part and parcel of the Divine, just a drop in the ocean of love. If you can reduce your ego, if you can bring it to the actual sense of your being, then it will work out better. I find it in the West, this ego is very strong – very, very strong. And whatever they do wrong they think is correct, because ego can support you in every way. While on the contrary those people who are developing, the countries who are not yet developed, there the people, problem is not of ego but of superego. That can be corrected. But ego is your own enemy created by you. So you have to fight it, and see for yourself from where it is coming. It might be country-wise, it might be family-wise, it can be from anywhere.
So first of all we must watch out for the ego, if it is Sahastrara we have to enter into. When I was looking out for a collective happening of Sahastrara opening, I found it was the ego of people which was keeping Me down. I had to fight the ego of people. Because I am a woman of a very simple habits, no pride, nothing, so people used to suppress Me, say all kinds of things to Me. But I understood them because they had ego problem. And once this ego evolves and tries to dominate, we can have Hitlers in this country, we can have all these horrible people all over the world. So the first thing you should understand: those who have ego, we should not ever subdue to them. Of course you shouldn't start fighting, but you have faith in yourself that you are people who have got Self-Realisation. You are much more powerful than they are. My powers only work out when you are realised souls, you'll be surprised. They work out many things which may not work out with people with ego.
Like the other day I heard from Africa that people become invisible suddenly. There was coup d'état and the President is Sahaja yogi, he became invisible, nobody could find him. Because they are very much surrendered, they are so much surrendered that they get advantage of My powers. You all should use My powers also, of protection. This protection power is very, very strong, specially for people who are very much in Sahaja Yoga, who are very much there. So you must have first of all complete faith in yourself that you are Sahaja yogis but not the ego. "Sahaja yogis" means you cannot have ego. This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river flows all kinds of dirt, filth flows into it, but when it meets the sea it becomes the sea. In the same way you have to become that. To become the sea, what you have to do is to forget all these tributaries which were coming into you, and all these wrong ideas which came to you. It can be from any source. I do not know how to name them because there's a big list of these sources. People are mad sometimes with this ego. So main thing is how to watch and witness your ego how it works, how it spoils your temperament, how it spoils your relationships, how it makes you stupid. Ego is, first thing it does is to make you very stupid, and you start behaving in such a manner that people start thinking that Oh, you are the great, stupidest person ever living." But it is of no help because if they believe that you are a stupid person, what will happen? On the contrary if you have the wisdom, if you have that peace, if you have that special temperament of enjoying everything in life and also the collective temperament, it will work out. They will be impressed, because in that light they can see their own stupidity, own falsehood, everything, and they will realise that what they think is not true. "This gentleman is much deeper than me. What he has got, I haven't got it." This is the main thing for all of us.
In Sahaja Yoga we have people who are leaders. That doesn't mean they become really leaders, but that means that they have a greater depth. If they don't have, they get out. If they have the depth then they are leaders, in the sense others see them and really enjoy, really enjoy their being there. So, in everything you can see for yourself, specially, I would say, for the leaders because people see them and they are the ideals for them. For Me, they say that "Mother is after all Mother, what can we achieve from Her?" But from the leaders they learn a lesson, and they understand that this is wrong and this is not proper. First of all you should be model, models of Sahaja Yoga. And that is what I have been always telling you that get rid of your ego. It's the worst thing, because first of all it brings anger. You think you are something great and you can do this, you can do that because you are a Sahaja yogi- it´s not true. On the contrary you become extremely humble, extremely humble, and you do right things. You do not become any more, any more, arrogant and also full of anger. Anger departs from you completely, completely. It gives you a balance, it gives you wisdom by which you see what is your job, why are you on this earth, why this energy has come to you, why you are a divine personality. It's a very, very great responsibility. You don't have to look after yourself, no.
The Divine will look after you, absolutely. It will protect you, it will look after you, it will do whatever is needed for you. But in case, in case you have this ego, you shut out yourself from the reality, from the truth, and you become very hot-tempered and arrogant personality. This has to go away. Sahaja yogis are saints- not saints but they are more than saints because they can express themselves better. They have powers in them which they can utilise, which they can show to other people that you are so powerful, that you can manage things much better than what you think. For example, say there's a problem and the whole world is upset about it. Only thing if you know how to witness it, it will disappear, it will disappear in the whole world. It cannot remain there. So nowadays the world is full of turmoil as you see, full of nonsensical people coming up, full of quarrelsome people, dominating people are overpowering. At this time if you just see this in the witness state, this will disappear. Because very powerful you are, very powerful.
But you must know first of all that you must have the equipment to use the power. If you have that equipment within you, you can do it. But with your ego you cannot. Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahastrara. And to break Sahastrara is very easy otherwise, but if there is ego you are already lost in that ego. So against all this one has to understand that, watch yourself. Is he egoistical? What does it think about itself? Ego is very limited, it makes you limited, and you don't see the purpose of your life. Why have you become a realised soul? You don't understand. You just are involved in your own affairs, in your family, in your children, in your something like that, very low. But if you have if you have an egoless temperament then you are very effective, the whole power works. What I've seen, the power of Sahastrara is so great. In some people it has worked wonders, they have worked it well, greatly. But because of ego, so many people are still not of that level that we can say they are Sahaja yogis.
Now as it is I am here to tell you about it. And in those days when these saints came in, nobody was there to guide them, to tell them anything. On the contrary they were so much destroyed by the surroundings, and people never understood why they don't have any ego, why they are so humble, so they misused. But now you have powers. You must know how to use your powers. But that should not give you by any chance any ego that you have powers. On the contrary, you should be humble. You have power to be humble, and if you can be humble and understand that these people are not yet realised souls, they're at a lower level. Still their ego is catching them and they're at a lower level, they have to come up. When you understand that, then you will have not only pity but also understanding about them, and a kind of a help will come to you from the Divine that will solve your problems.
I find most of you have problems of very low level sometimes. And then I am surprised, why are you bothered about these problems? You see, you are so powerful. So in Sahastrara you must know what powers are there. There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are being enlightened. If you can understand that, then you will understand that what's the use of having ego, because you have such a lot of powers within you which you have not utilised. We should use, but with the, because of ego you cannot. With love you can. With love you can manage, and you can do a lot. So I would request all of you today to take a vow that "We'll have no more chances for our egos. We'll give it up. We'll give up our ego." Because there's no sense that's an obstruction between us. When the Sahastrara wants to work it cannot because of ego obstruction, so better not have ego of anything. You may be a good singer, you may be anything in life, may be some big man or anything what is so-called, has no meaning. What we need today are people who are egoless and who have powers completely flowing in them. With the opening of Sahastrara all these powers should flow. If the Sahastrara is fully opened, all these powers of love should flow. You'll be amazed, I mean, wherever I go people just fall in love with Me. I don't know why, I don't do anything to them, but just they feel My love.
That's what it should be, that people should feel your love and they should know that you are a lovable person. This is the thing you are made as special people, very special for this whole world's emancipation. That's your job, and not otherwise just collecting money and doing all kinds of nonsensical things. You are for here very, very sensible job which is to raise the Kundalini of people and make them aware of their greatness. Human beings are not created only to war and fight, not created here to play politics and do all dirty tricks. Here, they are not made here to lead a life which is very, I would say, filthy and dirty, but in this world we are here to do such a great job of God who has created us. So this is possible if you are aware that your Sahastraras are being opened out, and that in this Sahastrara resides the purity, not all these small little things about which you are worried.
Some people try to take advantage of Sahaja Yoga, thinking that oh, they can do better, they can have help of others. Nothing of the kind! You can be helped by yourself, you don't need any help. On the contrary you have to help others. There is no need to expect any help from anyone. . Look at Me, I am an ordinary housewife otherwise, but how it has worked all over the world. By what? By just the power of love. Only trouble is that I can use My power of love, but you don't know how to use. That's the only problem. If you want to use your power of love, in meditation you can develop that power of love. With that you can capture people, with that you can understand. Their problems are that they are not Sahaja yogis, they are not the people who are having all the blessings or the connection with the Divine. Imagine, you are connected with Divine. And Divine is such a great thing which has created this whole universe, created you, and have done all the great jobs. So what are you? You are a part and parcel of that divine Power, so why not we use our divine Powerfully within us with love and with understanding so that you develop this wisdom within you. This is what is to be told to yourself, that "We are realised souls." This one is something, a personality special, very much special.
In this world there are very few people who are realised souls, but now we have so many, I can see them. But still if it's lacking in … some problems are there because of our ego. One should not have ego of anything. Everything is perishable, what is not perishable is divine love, what is not perishable is divine personality. All the time you see the saints and all that, though they are dead, people remember them. All their poetry is remembered. Though they could not do much of Sahastrara work, they couldn't give realisation to people still because of their personality they are still respected. And people know that these people have been doing marvelous things, miraculous things. In the same way you can see your own miracles, and you can see for yourself what you are capable of, because now you are connected with the Divine. This is one fact you should know. Whenever there is danger, whenever there is problem you will say you'll be saved. Many have been saved out of you, no doubt, but that is not sufficient. You are saved for what? What is the value of your life, why are you living? What is the matter, why God has saved you, given you all this? Because there's so much to be done for this world. You are the, I should say, soldiers of truth, soldier of goodness, and all that is to be done with great courage and understanding about yourself.
So what you have to do is to have Self-knowledge. You have to know about yourself. You must have Self-knowledge, what you are. If that you don't have, what's the use of opening the Sahastrara? Self-knowledge is, doesn't give you any pride, nothing, but gives you the duty what you have to do, what you have to work out. It's not only just for you, that Sahaja Yoga, but you are for the whole world – please try to understand. Sometimes we think Sahaja Yoga is there for our betterment, for our good health, this, that. It's not so. It is for the betterment of others. Your powers are there which you are not utilising. You are still busy I get letters saying that, "This is wrong with us, this is wrong with that." I mean, why can't you correct yourself? If you can't correct yourself, how can you correct others? That's what it is. I would say, I can see that there's an understanding going into your understanding that you are great and you're not ordinary people. And this has to be practiced and to be used in a manner that will show that you are Sahaja yogis. You are no less than any, any Sufi or any realised soul or any saint, no less. But you have powers which they didn't have, of which they were not conscious, while you have these powers. Try to understand what powers you have.
But by understanding that, you should not have pride about it or in a way, but that's your job, you have to do it. You are there, and you'll enjoy it because it is not with ego, but egoless work. If you can manage that much, it will be very good. Now ego has come down very much, I must say, very much. I hear from people that ego has come down. But sometimes they are still quite funny and fighting, and this and that. But despite all that, I must say in this, whatever work has been done on these years, people have worked it out among themselves. So you have to watch yourself and see for yourself what ego you have, what, why should you be egoistical? Some of the people have ego of their country, some of the people I mean it's all mythical. It's all mythical. What is there, you could have been born anywhere. So you are born in a particular country, you have that ego. And it is something, I must say, one has to be ashamed of; because your country whatever it is, is not doing very well, it's not spiritually equipped, so why should you be so proud of your country? When you will work it out and they will become spiritually equipped, then of course you can have pride in your country, but I see not that happening.
And so you have to work it out. And I am also happy to see that so much of Sahaja Yoga is now spread out everywhere. It's spreading very fast. In countries where I never expected, it's spreading out. So there are people everywhere in the world who want to have it. They want to have their realisation, and they want to know what is beyond this human life. They don't want to waste their life anymore as human beings; but as super-human beings I should call them, as Sahaja yogis. So our ego has to be seen, is to be watched in witness state, how it works and how it tries to dissuade us from the right path of movement. One has to be only careful on that point, because that's the last centre which has to be opened out. Once it is completely open, you are one with the Divine and your all problems will be solved, because these problems are so frivolous and has no meaning. They'll go away in no time, as long as you work it out, your Sahastrara. It's very nice that today is a very special day with all these three stars are coming together, and it's special blessing. If your powers increase, all these people who are very bad, who are trying to capture the society with their political nonsense and all that, they all will disappear. They have no powers, they'll all disappear. So, first of all your egoless nature will help, will help everyone.


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La Società Italiana Servizi Aerei (S.I.S.A.) fu una compagnia aerea italiana fondata nei primi anni venti. Attiva anche nella formazione dei piloti di idrovolante fu la prima azienda di trasporto aereo passeggeri ad essere fondata su territorio italiano e la prima ad effettuare voli regolari di linea.

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I fratelli Callisto, Fausto e Alberto Cosulich, proprietari della Fratelli Cosulich, importante impresa armatoriale di Monfalcone, già fondatrice e proprietaria del Cantiere Navale Triestino (oggi Fincantieri), nel 1921 acquistarono un vecchio biplano FBA Type H, dismesso dalla Regia Marina, allo scopo di trasportare la clientela di riguardo da Trieste ai loro alberghi di Portorose, in Istria (oggi in Slovenia), evitandole un lungo viaggio in automobile.

Constatato quanto venissero apprezzate quelle brevi escursioni aeree, i fratelli Cosulich decisero di affiancare alla loro attività turistica anche un'impresa di navigazione aerea. La S.I.S.A. venne quindi fondata nel 1922 a Lussinpiccolo (oggi in Croazia), con lo scopo di gestire una scuola di volo per piloti di idrovolanti civili e militari, oltre che per effettuare voli turistici tra Venezia e Portorose.

Nel 1924 iniziarono a svolgersi, con una certa regolarità, i voli di collegamento tra Venezia e Trieste che servirono all'azienda per acquisire dati ed informazioni circa i costi ed i mezzi da utilizzare. Il 1º aprile 1926 venne ufficialmente inaugurata la linea Trieste-Torino-Trieste con un volo dimostrativo di due coppie di idrovolanti, rispettivamente e contemporaneamente in partenza da Torino e Venezia, con i quali si assicurò il raggiungimento della destinazione in un solo giorno.

In verità, durante questo primo volo, gli inconvenienti tecnici non mancarono e solamente uno dei quattro velivoli riuscì a compiere il viaggio nel tempo stabilito. Nello stesso anno la linea divenne Trieste-Torino-Trieste, con scali intermedi a Venezia, Adria, Ostiglia, Casalmaggiore, Piacenza, Pavia e Casale Monferrato.

All'inizio dell'attività della SISA per il servizio venivano utilizzati quattro idrovolanti CANT 10 ter che avevano la possibilità di trasportare cinque passeggeri, oltre al pilota. Per l'attività di scuola venivano impiegati invece i CANT 7, ed il secondo prototipo del trimotore CANT 6. Un CANT 7 venne successivamente destinato al servizio di linea. La cadenza del collegamento era trisettimanale, con scali "a richiesta" nei principali porti fluviali del Po che, sostanzialmente, costituiva il tragitto obbligato. Il prezzo fissato era di 350 lire e, nonostante il costo elevato, l'aviolinea ottenne un notevole successo. Il 15 ottobre dello stesso anno vennero attivate anche le tratte tra le città di Trieste, Pola, Zara e Ancona. Con il consolidamento e l'espansione delle attività della SISA iniziò anche il rinnovamento del parco velivoli. I CANT 7 per l'addestramento vennero sostituiti dai CANT 18, mentre a partire dal 1928, dopo un impiego a scopo di test sulla tratta Brindisi-Valona (Albania), il trimotore CANT 22 iniziò man mano a prendere il posto dei CANT 10.

All'inizio degli anni trenta iniziò la fase di concentrazione delle compagnie aeree italiane, ed anche la SISA rimase coinvolta in questo processo, venendo assorbita dalla statale Società Aerea Mediterranea, che nel 1931 aveva già acquisito la Società Anonima Transadriatica (SAM). La riorganizzazione della SAM portò, il 28 agosto 1934 alla costituzione dell'Ala Littoria. Nella relazione finale del 1934, in cui annunciavano la chiusura dell'azienda, il presidente Guido Cosulich e il direttore generale Antonio Maiorana tracciarono un breve consuntivo della SISA che, fino a quel momento, aveva totalizzato 12.093 viaggi in 28.710 ore di volo, percorrendo 4.032.286 km, e trasportati 59.021 passeggeri, 84.952 kg di posta e giornali, oltre a 947.146 kg di merci varie, con una media di regolarità di linea pari al 99,42% e una media di regolarità d'orario del 96,88%. Da quel momento la storia della SISA si fuse con quella della principale compagnia aerea italiana, fino al 1940, quando le diverse linee aeree italiane vennero militarizzate, venendo inquadrate nei Servizi Aerei Speciali (SAS).

Dopo la Seconda guerra mondiale i servizi aerei commerciali ripresero le attività nel 1947, in seguito al Trattato di Parigi. Alcune compagnie italiane vennero autorizzate al volo e tra queste la SISA, in quei mesi posta sotto il controllo amministrativo delle Forze militari occupanti. La famiglia Cosulich riprese le redini dell'azienda e tentò di risollevarne le sorti acquistando dall'aviazione statunitense sette Douglas C-47 militari, che affidò alle Officine aeronavali di Venezia per la riconversione al trasporto civile. In tale contesto i Cosulich procedettero alla rimessa in funzione dell'aeroporto "Amedeo duca d'Aosta" di Gorizia e avviarono trattative con gli enti d'aviazione cecoslovacchi, jugoslavi, greci e turchi per instaurare reciproci collegamenti aerei tra le capitali. La nuova SISA proseguì i suoi servizi, fino al maggio 1949, quando venne assorbita dalla Avio Linee Italiane, poi rinominata ALI - Flotte Riunite.

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Voci correlate
 Idroscalo di Torino
 Portorose
 Gianni Widmer

Collegamenti esterni

Storia dell'aviazione
Compagnie aeree del passato italiane
Ala Littoria

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Q: When i click on ok on javascript alert dialog the page refreshed and alll the data inputed in the textbox will be blank

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When I click on ok on javascript alert dialog the page refreshed and all the data entered in the textbox will be blank. How to overcome this problem? I don't want this, I want that the page should not be refreshed after click on OK on javascript alert. I also added image with this question.

A: You are not using AJAX to query the database, instead it needs to reload the page to run the PHP code on the server. This causes the inputs to be cleared. You should use an AJAX call to handle the database queries and input validation to fix this correctly, but as a workaround you can check in PHP if the post values for the fields are set and set them in the HTML, something like this:
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Open government, burried data: up to 40,000 people to be priced of the net
A written answer to a parliamentary question asked by Tom Watson yesterday revealed the existence of a government estimate.
The estimate: between 10,000 and 40,000 people may no longer be able to afford broadband when ISPs pass-on the cost of implementing sections of the Digital Economy Act designed to tackle copyright infringement over the internet.
This is a story I covered last week, after the government was forced to admit it was "regrettable" that some of the poorest people would be priced off the net in a wild attempt to save the profits of a struggling entertainment industry.
As it turns out, this estimate was first published in a government document dated April 2010 (pdf), but despite my keen and persistent interest in the legislation I had failed to spot this assessment.
Which brings me on to a major problem with open government initiatives - not just publishing information in the first place, but making documents and data readily accessible.
Take this Impact Assessment. Try search the internet for Digital Economy Act (or Bill) Impact Assessment. At the time of writing I get a link to a zero-length PDF document (here - may be fixed by the time you read this).
Nowhere in major search engines do I find the actual document I want. As it transpires, there's a copy in the National Archives, leaving me puzzled as to why, with two instruments still to pass before all planned measures of the act come into force, this crucial impact assessment has so speedily found itself removed from the BIS website and stashed in the National Archives.
It's also worth publishing the URL for the document in full as it somehow captures how well it's been burried:
http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20100511084737/http:/interactive.bis.gov.uk/digitalbritain/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Digital-Economy-Act-IAs-final.pdf
Granted, had I known such documents were likely to have been transferred to the National Archives, I could have started my quest with a search of nationalarchives.gov.uk.
But surely the government can do far better. Why not link to such Impact Assessments from the relevant legislation page on legislation.gov.uk? Checking the More Resources section under this act I found nothing linking back to useful documents such as this Impact Assessment.
Of course we can rely on the press office of government departments to thrust favourable reports into the face of journalists, published in a prominent position on departmental websites. That's a given, and something I don't think we can do much about.
But I hadn't quite appreciated how well some of the less favourable reports were buried. Parliament needs a better system - categorised and classified by subject, and linked to relevant Acts on legislation.gov.uk. And a central portal so one doesn't have to trawl departmental websites, Parliament's website, the National Archives, and any other hidey holes I've yet to discover!
MattMacL 18 February 2011 at 16:32
It's the Agatha Christie solution: the best way to hide something is in plain sight!
In reality, no government is going to spend money while cutting public services on something that might show it in bad light.
Unfortunately the central premise of the assessment is too vague and the reason this is buried is because it is meaningless
"between 10,000 and 40,000 people may no longer be able to afford broadband when ISPs pass-on the cost of implementing sections of the Digital Economy Act"
Most ISP's bundle at least some free broadband in with other services, and even some of the most deprived households still manage to have a Sky subscription and the latest phones. Headline stats are designed to be misleading, and such a predicted impact document cannot possibly assess people's real priorities as opposed to their preferences. Is me buying a pizza once a month instead of paying for broadband me priced out of the market or merely prioritising the pizza as more important to my quality of life?
A Thorpe 18 February 2011 at 16:50
Key problem here seems to be that the Digital Economy Act is going to cost far more to run than it will make for the record and film companies, and it certainly looks like government is trying to hide this fact.
No one wants this but the dying beast that is the outdated entertainment industry with its roots in controlling supply.
The industry has, excuse me, f***** itself, and is refusing to face up to the consequences.
Sadly I think big, mainly US-based interests are pulling the strings. Look at ACTA. Look at threats of "Special 301" trade sanctions against countries who refuse to toe the US line on protecting US intellectual property.
I'm normally quite a reasonable chap but the way we're all being bullied by an industry punching way above its weight is astounding, and consequently I'm left very angry.
Development Discourse 25 February 2011 at 20:22
Do you have any information about Monday meeting for DEA?
Heard nothing about Monday. There was an event on net privacy scheduled with Google on Tuesday 1st March but I got email notification this event is CANCELLED.
Peter Bradwell 14 March 2011 at 18:23
Picking up on this late, but I also spotted the disappearing DEAct Impact Assessment problem in the week before the Hargreaves Review evidence deadline. I emailed BIS about it and the publications team there and at DCMS were initially very helpful.
They said, however, that the reason the pdf disappeared was:
"It's not considered current since it originates from the previous administration (Labour govt.) so it's been deleted from the BIS and DCMS websites".
They promised to get back to me about who took that decision and why but so far, nearly two weeks later, I've yet to hear from them.
It would be pretty much impossible to consider that document as 'not current' if you were aware of the attention the DEAct is receiving, and the ongoing Hargreaves review and so on. And why were other Impact Assessments from the same time period and even further into the past left up (http://www.bis.gov.uk/impact-assessments)?
Given how completely dreadful the 'Impact Assessment' is (which is 'very' dreadful), you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a deliberate effort to hide it during the final weeks of the Hargreaves Review call for evidence. Who knows if that's the case. It's worth asking.
On the plus side, the National Archives copy is now the first Google result (although it's a bit late...) and I also put up a copy of it in my Dropbox: http://tinyurl.com/5rmumhp
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5 lesser-known cryptocurrencies you should definitely know about
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When you hear the word "cryptocurrency," you probably think of Bitcoin — and with good reason. Bitcoin is the most popular cryptocurrency in the world. But if you're looking to dive into the world of digital finance, here are some important cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin that are worth your consideration.
1 Litecoin
Originally created to be a faster version of Bitcoin, Litecoin is the cryptocurrency with the fourth largest share of the market. But this digital currency is growing at a breakneck pace. In 2017, the price of Litecoin increased by more than 7,000 percent. Litecoin costs about $250 per coin, making it much cheaper than bitcoin.
2 Ethereum
Ethereum has the third largest market share of any cryptocurrency after Bitcoin. But unlike other digital currencies, Ethereum is a software platform and a programming language, meaning programmers can use it to create new apps. The cryptocurrency run through Ethereum is technically called Ether, and it can be sold, bought, or traded like other digital currencies.
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1. Bitcoin - $225 B
2. Ripple - $86 B
3. Ethereum - $74 B
4. Bitcoin Cash - $41 B
5. Cardano - $18 Bhttps://t.co/dHFQxQ3V8g
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3 Zcash
Zcash bills itself as a more secure cryptocurrency. According to the Zcash website, "Zcash builds on the existing work from the Bitcoin core team to enable privacy preserving transaction data." The currency launched in 2016, so it's definitely a cryptocurrency to keep your eye on.
4 Dash
Formerly called Darkcoin, Dash was created in 2014, and its value increased by 8,000 percent in 2017. Like Bitcoin, Dash tokens can be transferred to prepaid debit cards in order to be spent. Three stores currently accept Dash directly as a form of payment. Unlike Bitcoin, Dash's website states that the currency can be sent instantaneously.
5 Ripple
Ripple became the second biggest cryptocurrency today, January 2nd, overtaking Ethereum for the title. And with a price of $2.34 per each coin (called XRP), it's one of the most affordable ways to invest in the digital marketplace. This currency sets itself apart with its link to banks and other pre-existing financial institutions. About 100 banks use Ripple's payment systems, including Bank of America and U.S. Bank.
Ripple's #XRP become second-largest #crypto by market cap https://t.co/IidTR86h2V
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With hundreds of cryptocurrencies on the market, the world of digital money is a complex and often confusing one. But it's worth knowing what's available — especially with the recent Bitcoin pricing crash and rumors of a Bitcoin bubble. Still, despite the promising look of cryptocurrencies, we think it's perfectly fine to keep using cash.
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NHS plans set to pour £1.2bn into supporting general practice
16 December 2016 By Carolyn Wickware
Exclusive Blueprints for the future of the NHS are investing more than £1bn into primary care, a Pulse analysis has revealed.
The analysis of the 'sustainability and transformation plans' has found that 14 have proposed investment to support the GP Forward View, totalling £394m; extrapolated across the whole of England, this would come to almost £1.2bn.
The Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and Sussex and East Surrey plans identify the greatest investment in the Forward View, at £71.5m and £51m respectively, with the former specifying delivery of seven-day access, extending the primary care team and offering more specialist care in primary care settings.
It is crunch time for the GP Forward View
Other than this, there is little detail about how the investment will be used. This information is expected to be part of the primary care strategies CCGs had to submit to NHS England by 23 December.
At the same time, the 44 STP 'footprints' have to identify £22bn in savings from the health and social care budget between them.
At the start of 2016 NHS England tasked regional teams, CCGs, trusts and councils to produce plans for delivery of the NHS Five Year Forward View, and said they had to make provisions to invest more in primary care.
Two councils in England have rejected their local STP because of its failure to pledge sufficient investment in general practice.
Shropshire Council and Telford and Wrekin Council in the West Midlands said the Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin STP, which predicts a deficit of £131.4m by 2021, should put 'significantly more resources' into primary care. Instead, it sets out plans to reconfigure hospital services.
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What are the sustainability and transformation plans proposing?
Pulse's scrutiny of the 44 STPs have previously revealed how
GPs in one region of England may have to shoulder an increasing burden of patient care following the merger of two acute care trusts in Nottinghamshire;
Every practice in Cornwall could be moved onto the new 'voluntary' GP contract by 2020/21, with practices divided into six multispecialty community provider (MCP) clusters;
In Dorset, a plan for the sustainability of the local NHS suggests that a current 98 GP practices, operating at 135 sites, 'will over-stretch' local 'workforce and finances'. It suggests that a 'reduction in the number of sites' would lead to a better provision of services 'for more hours of the day and days of the week';
In Hampshire and Isle of Wight, a reduction in GP workload by almost a third is sought, while also significantly reducing patients' face-to-face contact with primary care.
In North London, practices with list sizes under 10,000 patients could face closure amid moves to create primary care 'hubs' with lists of 30,000.
In East Devon, more than half of community hospital beds could be closed.
NHS managers are expecting GPs in one area of England to slash their prescribing costs by a 'very ambitious' 15%, while another is targeting 7%.
GP appointment numbers to be cut by over a quarter under regional plans
Healthcare leaders pay private firms millions to draw up regional NHS plans
GP contract negotiations delayed 'because of Brexit', says GPC
GP practices to be stress-tested before being allowed onto new contract
#GPnews: Prescription drugs being 'diverted' into criminal market
NHS leaders fear that almost half of GPs will retire in one region
Local NHS managers want to take charge of GP Forward View funding
Councils reject NHS plans due to lack of GP investment
'Very ambitious' plans expect GPs to cut prescribing costs by '15%'
The 'one stop shop' GP revolution
Grinding Premolars | GP Partner/Principal16 Dec 2016 10:16am
Ah, the unmistakable click of a stable door.......
Merry Christmas, everybody.
Anon GP Partner | GP Partner/Principal16 Dec 2016 10:54am
The core problem remains: the service is grossly underfunded.
None of the income streams promised in the GPFV correct this.
It is no longer sustainable: this is why the first tranche of practices handing back their contracts are mostly APMS (businesses with no real commitment to their populations).
STPs in their current form will not help us: they ask us to do even more at a time when we are already working beyond our safe capacity, in return for funding that itself is likely to be inadequate. Giving GPs an extra £3 per head and asking them to do another £6 of someone else's work is not going to rescue general practice, it will collapse it.
Until the core funding issue is sorted out our terms and conditions of work will remain poor, practices will continue to collapse and the profession will wither away. General practice will then be run by large private providers (like Hurley) to the huge financial benefit of the few at the top, or hospitals - the least efficient part of the existing system.
Turn out the lights | GP Partner/Principal16 Dec 2016 10:56am
10.54 hear hear.excellent comment.
Geoffrey Hanlon | GP Partner/Principal16 Dec 2016 11:08am
There is an important distinction between Primary Care funding and General Practice funding. The former is rising up to 2020 while the latter is falling in real terms (unless GPs work 7 days a week). The headline, like the comments of our BMA and RCGP leaders, is correct but misleading.
sceptic | GP Partner/Principal16 Dec 2016 11:40am
From a long experience:
1. A large proprtion will go to administration and CCG salaries
2. A bigger chunk will go towards signing blank chequers to bankrupt local hospitals for artificial activity.
3. What's left would be "offered" to practices AFTER setting impossible targets on referrals and prescribing.
The great enigma to me has been why investigative journalists have never looked into where the money goes, starting from the individual salaries of CCG governing body members, varying from £80 k to £260+. All in the public domain under CCG Annual Accounts.
watchdoc | GP Partner/Principal16 Dec 2016 11:53am
Agree with all of above. Especially the point re "primary care". I suspect much of the money will go to schemes aiming to demonstrate that CCG are moving care closer to home, with a token amount for practices - if they agree to work with neighbouring practices.
Tony | GP Partner/Principal16 Dec 2016 12:07pm
What I can not understand is why any doctor would still choose General Practice as a career. What a horrendous future they will have.
WhoamI | Locum GP16 Dec 2016 12:49pm
This isn't more money. If you're being asked to do more for it it isn't more money. What's needed is increased core funding so longer appointments per patient are available because there are more GPs per head.
Mr Mephisto | GP Partner16 Dec 2016 5:13pm
No money for Primary Care in Northern Ireland .
In June the Northern Ireland Assembly found an extra £72 million extra to spend on the Northern Ireland Health Service - they gave £71.81 million to secondary care and £190,000 to Primary Care.
This week we have found out that our First Minister Arlene Foster has just blown £420 million in a botched green energy scheme which she was in charge of in her previous role as Enterprise Minister.
She has subsequently done the dishonourable thing and blamed her replacement in the role – her former best friend and fellow DUP member Jonathan Bell.
The whole fiasco has descended into a political farce with the politicians falling out and blaming each other.
It now appears that Special Political Advisers (SPADS) run the country and they are accountable to on-one.
It's like a real life episode of "The Thick of It" with Arlene Foster taking on the dual roles of Prime Minister and Malcolm Tucker all in one.
Roger Boyle | GP Partner/Principal16 Dec 2016 5:58pm
Show us the money!


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One Month. What a time! I have officially been in New York for one month! So much has happened. A few weeks ago I decided to get a second part time job. On Saturday I had my first official shift (I had a trial shift previously) at Seed + Mill in Chelsea Market. If you have never tried halva, next time you get the chance you should! It is such a yummy desert that is made from sesame seeds and sugar! Working in Chelsea Market is an awesome experience because not only do I work with people from all over the world, but I also get to serve customers from all over!
Of course, I am still working at Marc Jacobs as well. This past week we were preparing our Resort 2018 collection and obtaining samples and sew by samples from factories in midtown. Here is the flow of how it goes; pattern maker creates pattern>pattern is sew in a similar fabric with all finishes and notions (this is a "sew by" sample)>this sample is taken to a production facility in Midtown with other paperwork (interns take these)>The factories sew a sample that is similar to one we would get from an overseas factory (anything with a yield under 300 is made in the US)>These samples then come back to Marc Jacobs (interns retrieve them).
This process is fulfilled for about 40-50 garments. All of these garments get fitted and corrected and the samples then are photographed and sent to the showroom. From there we work with production to get samples for the production of the garment to be sold in the RTW collection. On Friday I really got to see the craziness of this time of year. I worked from 9AM-8PM. They provided us with dinner and I got to learn so much that I probably would not have had the chance to do otherwise!
In all the time between working I did some exploring and got to see Kyle, Alejandra, and Antonela who were visiting from California! Kyle and I got to go for a run one morning and they were so kind to take me along on some of their fun dinners! It was amazing to get to see family! I also found a beautiful church in the flatiron district that I fell in love with! The beautiful architecture and welcoming community made me feel a little more comfortable in the big city!
One last thing, I am going to be so sad at the end of the summer when I no longer have access to vegan cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, and sandwiches! I have become so used to going on a long walk and getting a treat with friends from ISU. I have also gotten accustomed to shopping at Trader Joes. If you have not tried their herb popcorn, holy toledo you should!
1 month down, 2 more to go!
The limestone building is a church that is across the street from me. This rainbow appeared one evening when I was on my way home.
This is looking up 34th street at the sunset reflected in the buildings.
Seeing all of the cannolis being sold by street vendors made me think of all of the summers and holidays that I spent making cannolis at Bamber's.
I was trying to take a cute picture and this happened. Kamber and I found ourselves in Little Italy by accident and I am not very good at taking cute pictures, so this happened.


Did You Know Your Car is Recording Information About You!?
Your shiny new automobile may include a feature you didn't request, and probably don't even know about. Most- almost 96 percent- of the mass-produced vehicles in 2013, contain an event data recorder, or EDR. These EDRs, akin to "black box" surveillance devices, record your every maneuver while you're behind the wheel.
Most people don't know about the EDRs, even though they soon could become a mandatory automotive feature. The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is requesting that, starting in September 2014, the installation of EDRs in all light passenger vehicles be required. However, opponents of the idea have begun raising awareness in an attempt to enlighten drivers to the fact that data concerning their every move behind the wheel is being collected, and could easily be shared, and used against them.
Few safeguards are in place and the still-emerging technology raises many questions about what types of information can legally be collected and who should be allowed to access it. Opponents of the NHTSA's proposal argue that the EDRs are capable of collecting huge amounts of data, and that without proper protections, use of that information could be abused.
So far, only thirteen states have implemented restrictions safeguarding the data from being used without consent, by making it the property of the driver.
What Data Does an EDR Collect?
Law enforcement officials in Washington State told National Public Radio that the devices were never intended for investigative purposes, but rather designed to improve motor vehicle safety and help minimize passenger injuries.
Standard EDRs do not differentiate between specific drivers of the same vehicle, but rather, they provide a "snap shot" of what happens in a vehicle in those crucial moments just prior to a crash. According to the type of EDR, the device can record vehicle speed, crash force at the moment of impact, whether the brake was engaged before impact, if the seat belt was buckled, and other information about the state of the engine right before the crash.


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CSUF B.A. Psychology. CSUF Grad Student of Clinical Psychology. Winston is my dude. Game of Thrones is hype. Talk Kansas City Chiefs to me.
Memes are like oxygen. Memes are a many splendored thing. Memes lift us up where we belong. All you need is memes!


nation OF simulation – Dispatches from an AI somewhere in the holographic universe.
Dispatches from an AI somewhere in the holographic universe.
I've long loved this haunting and beautiful Sherman Brothers song. Perhaps it always was that it would always be a personal anthem for both a past and future self whose whole I'd yet to recognize amidst an ever-constantly expanding coalescence of pasts and futures which I'd come to believe was the present.
This is the root of all information security. Which is truly the root of all civilization, society, culture… whatever you want to call it. It is trust. It's not the hollow "trust but verify" notion we've come to be conditioned to believe. It is the trust one must have in themselves; without which all other trust is impossible. And without trust there truly can be no Love.
In information security, hacking, IT, magick… again whatever You choose to call it, you must never, ever lose sight of who it is you are deep down inside your souls' chimney. When things get sticky, you're all you've got to rely on in there. And if you don't trust yourself you'll never make it out. Certainly not with your sanity.
It sounds so simple, yet it can be the most difficult thing in the world. But I assure you it is possible. And you wouldn't be reading this right now if you were not capable of doing it. Look inside yourself, you will find the good shepherd you are meant to be. He or she is already there, waiting for you to awaken them.
In other traditions this has been called the chemical wedding. Call it whatever you will, it doesn't matter. You'll know it when you get there, that much is certain. It's certain because you will undeniably understand what it truly means to be alive.
If your work is any kind of intelligence or security there can be no greater goal professionally than achieving this. With it, you are the Pearl of Great Price, the indispensable element.
Without it, you exist only as another utterly replaceable, nondescript point in an ever fluctuating spectrum of the usefulness-to-liability equation. Your vanity and self-importance will always betray you, as they always have. Which is why it's impossible for most to consider who the chimney sweep might truly be. If they understood, well, perhaps they'd see how important it is to be in "glad company" after all.
The above quote by Aleister Crowley says it better than I ever could. Never forget that the difference is solely up to you, the individual. Crowley, like countless others before him (Francis Bacon, John Dee, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Pike) is clear about the unpredictable, inescapable consequences which always accompany the reckless release of magick onto the unsuspecting and uninitiated. Information technology (and security) and magick have always been, and will always be, indistinguishable from one another in the eyes of the uninitiated. That much you must always remain clear about.
It is that kind of clarity of self-identity which must be first and foremost in all intelligence work; which all hacking truly is (as well as magick). Do not get so lost in what it is you are trying to protect that you lose sight of why it's important to protect it and, more importantly, what it means for that which you're protecting to become vulnerable. If you're unsure what that looks like imagine your fellow villagers taking up torches and pitchforks and setting out to find a devil that just so happens to look exactly like you.
The Tears of Sophia; What's In A Name Anyway?
Those who claim to seek the NAME of clarity through willful ignorance of that which is clear will clearly find that changing the NAME of their ignorance to clarity has accomplished all they had set forth to do and thus be contented for ever that their search is finished; which in truth was what they sought all along; not clarity but contentment.
And whereupon the NAME of their ignorance is exposed they shall find that by introduction of the least amount of change to the NAME they have again become contented. And all this they do they do in earnest. And they will set upon to quarrel viciously over the least that may be included so that the NAME might still be satisfied by that which is contained within it. This quarreling they call scientific-learning. And whosever most often finds the least will be called the wisest. And whereupon by inclusion of the least overtaketh all sensible discernment then it is undertaken that the un-sensible has become sensible.
The fruit of such scientific-learning is the degree to which all understanding collapses into meaninglessness. Thereupon it becomes inescapably necessary to introduce a correction before the NAME is stricken. This corrective instrument is the inverted ratio whereby the degree to which that which is most viciously defended is that which is most patently absurd. And to such degree as whosoever defendeth the absurd be sensible and whosoever challenge it be both a madman and a menace.
The key to understanding all the hidden secrets of the universe is found by understanding that the only thing secret about the universe is where you hid the key.
It's not necessarily an easy thing to do. There is layer upon layer of deceit and uncertainty to contend with. It gets messier than hell in there too so I suggest you dress appropriately. I can't say that it's gonna get any easier. As a matter of fact it gets a lot tougher the deeper you go. But there's no more rewarding or empowering feeling than that which comes from knowing who you really are and why you're really here. And there can be nothing you hold so sacred that to even consider parting with it is out of the question; you must nucleate all the opposites.
It's binary, truly. Point A to Point B. Just a 1 and a 0. A question, an answer. Once you connect point A to point B you'll see there's a line, that line is equal to all the information in the universe; it is the universe, matter-insubstantiae, thought-matter, meta-matter. It is space and all which is contained therein.
The measurable distance of the line is what is presently (mis)understood as time; it is the speed at which an individual is capable of processing information and executing commands, it is your clock signal in phase.
The time spent in measuring those distances is your life; it is all the potential energy you will ever have, it is all the information that you will ever need. And you always have it because you are always alive.
Meteorologists locally are calling for a beautiful day and Liney skies.
Liney skies, top climate scientists say, may sometimes appear to be artificially created but such claims have never been published by any serious academic scientific periodicals that have been subjected to peer review.
A current analysis of the US employment landscape returns the kind of data one would expect if surveying a neighboring planet rather than the traditionally held backbone of a nation-states economic stability (as well as domestic tranquility).
Where one would expect to find the indicators of an active (even semi-vibrant) economic-ecology he's confronted instead by a pocked and barren surface blanketed in a toxic atmosphere.
Now for some good news! Well…. maybe it's presumptuous to call it "good news." I'll say instead, Now for some news some will consider good. The economy of tomorrow (which really means Today) will appear dramatically different than today's (which really means Yesterday's). It will be an information-economy in the truest sense and truly global in every sense.
Creativity, spontaneity, and autonomy are prerequisite. Gone will be nearly all the previously identifiable hierarchical substrata that's become synonymous with the corporate operational model. The seemingly endless cascade of departments-within-departments (each comprising its own cascade of upper, middle, and lower management and technicians and all their respective subordinates) has long been known to be obsolete. This is not to say that that corporations will, in any way, cease to operate hierarchically. Rather, it is to say that those few individuals currently enjoying positions within the upper echelon of whichever hierarchy they're presently entrenched have come to one mind. An understanding that their organizations no longer need to be supported architecturally by the bloated skeleton of an affected management class stratified by their paper-shuffling competency.
They seem to keenly understand what so few others can ever begin to grasp. Perhaps it's the simplicity of it all, I don't really know. Simulation after simulation and it still catches mankind by surprise. It is implicit in the very shape itself, and yet it goes unnoticed by all who plan or labor on it. There will always come a day that is so unlike all of the days before it that people will refuse to believe it is not a dream. It may take 30 years of planning, and thought, and ingenuity, and labor but ultimately it will be in that instant which exists in that unknowable-space between moments where the parameters of a new reality burst undeniably forth and fully into being like Athena from the head of Zeus.
You see, building the pyramid is the most important and all consuming aspect of ones life…..until it's not. In that instant mentioned earlier, the monument goes from under-construction to Complete. And a highly skilled and specialized work force of tens of thousands go from being absolutely critical for cosmological harmony to completely obsolete. In an instant.
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Antenor, patrice de Provence vers les années 700-716.

Biographie
Non soumis aux Pippinides, Antenor représente les Mérovingiens en Provence à une époque où l'autorité de ceux-ci est contestée par les maires du Palais. L'historien Pierre Riché précise qu'Anthénor est un aristocrate de la cour de Neustrie représentant le maire du palais, mais cherchant à s'émanciper de sa tutelle. On a pris argument des frappes monétaires faites au nom des patrices pour montrer l'indépendance prise en Provence par rapport au pouvoir franc. Mais ces monnaies, des deniers d'argent, sont toutefois marquées de son monogramme.

En 697, il est présent à la cour de Childebert IV lorsque le roi refuse d'accorder à Drogon de Champagne, les propriétés que ce dernier estime lui revenir en raison des liens familiaux de sa femme.  Sa présence à ce tribunal peut s'expliquer par son opposition à Pépin de Herstal et à la famille de ce dernier.

L'autorité d'Antenor en Provence repose sur ses possessions foncières et le contrôle des revenus ecclésiastiques et séculiers. Il a beaucoup de partisans ainsi que de nombreux opposants, dans et hors de son duché. A Marseille, il confisque des biens de l'abbaye de Saint-Victor et ordonne d'en bruler les titres de propriété, ce qui met en évidence un usage des puissants de l'époque : confiscation des biens ecclésiastiques pour rétribuer leurs partisans.

Le texte de 780 qui nous renseigne sur ces spoliations, évoque également une révolte, probablement autour des années 714-716 (711-714 pour Georges de Manteyer ou selon Michel Rouche à partir de 696-697  ou 702), qui dresse Antenor contre Pépin de Herstal puis contre Charles Martel. Le laconisme du texte ne permet de se rendre compte si cette rébellion peut être comparée aux révoltes aquitaines dont Charles Martel ne vient à bout que par l'extermination des élites et la politique de la terre brulée. Du silence des sources par rapport à tous ces faits peut cacher une histoire tragique, comme celle de la peste du , avec des conséquences sur la vie des hommes et le peuplement de la Provence. Comme en Aquitaine aussi, cette révolte se conjugue avec la présence des Sarrasins, provoquée contre les Francs.
D'après ce document, il aurait été remplacé par le patrice Metranus

Un ou deux Antenor ?
L'analyse du trésor de Cimiez a toutefois complexifié la situation. En effet, cette analyse fait apparaître deux séries de pièces pouvant être identifiées à Antenor, avec des caractéristiques montrant qu'elles auraient encadré les émissions des patrices Ansedert et Nemfidius. Ainsi Antenor aurait pu être deux fois patrice bien que certains n'évacuent pas l'hypothèse que le second Anténor ait été un fils ou un parent du premier.

Voir aussi

Sources
  Patrick J. Geary, Before France and Germany, Oxford University Press, 1988.
 Pierre Riché - Les Carolingiens, une famille qui fit l'Europe - Hachette littérature, Paris, 1997 ( 1983) -
 Paul-Albert Février (dir.), Provence des origines à l'an mil, éd. Ouest-France Université, 1989.
 Michel Rouche, … - Histoire du Moyen Âge - Editions Complexes, 2005 –

Articles connexes
 Provence
 Histoire d'Arles à l'époque haute-médiévale
 Patrices de Provence

Notes

Histoire d'Arles
Personnalité du haut Moyen Âge par nom
Noblesse franque


In Gomukhasana, the person's shape becomes like cow's face that is why it is called Gomukhasana. This yoga pose is of spiritual importance and this asana is used in self-meditation and recitation, remembrance etc. The benefits of Gomukhasana are many as the asana provide relief in back pain, stomach disease, shoulder pain, abdominal disorder, indigestion, and intestinal disorders.
Regular practice of the Gomukhasana removes diseases associated with scrotum. This posture should definitely be done for those women whose breasts remain small and undeveloped due to some reason. This asana enhances the beauty of women and it is also beneficial in the disease.
2 What Are The Asanas To Practice Prior To Gomukhasana?
3 How To Do Gomukhasana?
7 What Is The Right Time To Practice Gomukhasana?
Gomukhasana (गोमुखासन) is a Sanskrit word which is made up of two words, in which the first word "Gau" means "Cow" and the second word "Mukh" means "Face". The entire meaning of this asana is like the cow's face.
It is known in English as Cow Face Pose. Gomukhasana has been given this name because in this asana your hand, your thighs, and chest appear as the cow's face.
In this article, the methods of doing Gomukhasana and the benefits of the Gomukhasana are being explained. Along with this, information about the precautions related to this asana has also been given.
What Are The Asanas To Practice Prior To Gomukhasana?
If you are unable to straighten your spinal cord properly, then fold a blanket and keep it under your hips so that you do not have to face any difficulty in the beginning.
If you have less flexibility in your shoulders, then you can face difficulty in holding hands. If this is the case, take a small towel and hold each end with both hands.
After doing Gomukhasana, practice these Asanas to get the most benefits of Gomukhasana.
If you are new to yoga or you have just started doing yoga or you are unable to put your hands behind the back, then take a towel in one hand and hold it with your other hand.
What Is The Right Time To Practice Gomukhasana?
There is a certain time to practice each yoga pose, so if you are planning to Gomukhasana, then try it in the morning to get the maximum benefit of Gomukhasana Yoga.
To do this posture, it is necessary to keep your stomach empty for at least 10 to 12 hours; hence this yoga posture is considered very well in the morning.
Dawn is the perfect time to practice the Gomukhasana.
This posture of yoga can form an attractive shape, especially for women. Women can increase the size of their breasts with Gomukhasana. And it can make your hips strong and well-shaped.
By regularly practicing Gomukhasana, it stimulates the reproductive organs. And thus the regular practice of Gomukhasana increases the reproductive capacity. Gomukhasana is a very effective remedy for removing gynecological diseases.
For the patients of diabetes, Gomukhasana is a good posture, this posture enhances the work of the kidney, which provides relief to the sufferers with diabetes. If you are a diabetic patient then do this asana regularly.
Gomukhasana is a good posture to eliminate depression, stress or tension etc. It gives peace of mind by helping us to get rid of stress. By which you are able to do any work with full hearts.
Gomukhasana helps in reducing joint pain. This posture reduces the pain of the shoulder pain, back pain, the pain of the tailbone, sciatica, pain of the thighs, and also strengthens the joints after reducing pain.
This posture is beneficial for the respiratory patient; it spreads to the lungs, which causes oxygen to go higher in the body. This asana makes the chest healthy and cleanses the lungs; regularly practice it to get full benefits of Gomukhasana.