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Top-Selling Self-Published Titles**6 The bestselling self-published books last week as compiled by IndieReader.com: 1. Zodiac Academy 8 by Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti 2. Tis the Season for Revenge by Morgan Elizabeth 3. He Who Fights with Monsters 8 by Shirtaloon and Travis Deverell 4. The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose 5. How the Grump Saved Christmas by Claire Kingsley 6. Untying the Knot by Meghan Quinn 7. Magical Midlife Challenge by K.F. Breene 8. Sweep of the Heart by Ilona Andrews 9. Tangled in Tinsel by Trilina Pucci 10. Magic Tides by Ilona Andrews [Many thanks to IndieReader.com!]

Is Jan Cox forgotten

Not

at 

this

moment

where the light comes from

  https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/24/bright_light_from_black_holes/?

Don't forget: Marsha is OFF twitter

I do not watch violence on television

 but Steven Seagal has a rescued puppy in his front seat

HOW could someone dislike ME?

 

I mean, if the best to be said is that she knew Jan Cox, the WORST, is being called a 

harmless biddy.

Quoting Jan Cox

 

"If you feel okay, you are okay"

Single brown leaf swirling up wards

Magpie Murders on Masterpiece

Exceptionally nice graphics in the opening  

On November 9, synagogues and churches around the world will keep their lights

 On November 9, synagogues and churches around the world will keep their lights on to commemorate Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany’s “Night of Broken Glass,” in which dozens of Jews were murdered and hundreds of synagogues were set ablaze in 1938.

Jan Cox spoke highly of his music: Jerry Lee Lewis obit link

 

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending/rock-n-roll-legend-jerry-lee-lewis-dies-87/QYZBGB2QABEDPLUBZPRAPS3KRA/?

we must not forget

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-finds-anti-israel-incidents-on-us-campuses-harming-jewish-student-life/?

Greek mayor Loukas Karrer + metropolitan bishop Chrysostom, REF protecting Jews

 

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Eleftherios Tserkezis

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What is the most badass thing a historical figure has done?

It was late 1943. Greece had been occupied by the Axis since 1941. The Ionian Islands were initially under Italian control, but after Italy’s capitulation, they passed to Nazi Germany. Soon, the new occupiers started the procedure for the transportation of the local Jewish population to the concentration camps. They took 2,000 from Corfu, 400 from Cephalonia and then came for Zakynthos (Zante) and its 275 Jews.

The German commander of Zakynthos called the Greek mayor Loukas Karrer and ordered him at gunpoint to prepare a list of all the local Jewish families. Karrer complained arguing that they were law-abiding citizens, but was angrily dismissed. In his despair, he turned to the local metropolitan bishop Chrysostom, who also tried to reason with the German authorities but, again, to no avail.

The two men decided to take matters into their own hands. First, they arranged for most Jews to be scattered and sheltered all over the island with the help of local resistance groups. Then, they went to the German commander, and Chrysostom handed him the list he had asked for. Except that inside the envelope, there was a paper with only two names written in Greek and German:

Metropolitan Chrysostom of Zakynthos.

Mayor of Zakynthos Loukas Karrer.

The commander was astounded, and there was an exchange of telegraphs with the German authorities. At some point, Chrysostom intervened and said he wanted to contact Hitler directly. He claimed to have met him in 1924, when both were living in Munich. A message was indeed dispatched, but I doubt Hitler ever saw it. To this day, it’s uncertain whether Chrysostom was telling the truth or simply bluffing.

Apart from the mayor and the bishop, other influential people of Zakynthos, such as the writer and politician Dionysios Romas, were also doing their best with direct and indirect acts. Their combined efforts accomplished the unimaginable. A few days later, there came an order for the total exemption of the Zakynthine Jewish community from the deportation. All 275 of them survived WWII and the Holocaust.

After the war, most of the Jews of Zakynthos emigrated to Israel, but kept some traditions and contacts with the island. Loukas Karrer and Chrysostom were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations. In 1953, when a series of earthquakes devastated Zakynthos causing hundreds of casualties, Israel was among the first international agents to send humanitarian aid.

Image above: Metropolitan Chrysostom (left) and Mayor Loukas Karrer (right).

Image above: A memorial honoring Metropolitan Chrysostom and Mayor Loukas Karrer in the place where the Jewish Synagogue of Zakynthos once stood.

Amazon Drive will no longer be available beginning December 31, 2023

 

Amazon Drive will no longer be available beginning December 31, 2023

mark Yom Kippur this evening

Millions of Jews will mark Yom Kippur this evening by beginning a 25-hour fast while reflecting on the year seeking God's forgiveness.

Atlanta loses only daily newspaper-- leaving a major city with no daily news paper

 

https://saportareport.com/ajc-plans-to-discontinue-daily-print-editions-but-will-keep-a-sunday-weekend-newspaper/sections/reports/maria_saporta/?mc_cid=29e50dedb9&mc_eid=892d1a9a436

Your suspicions confirmed, ---- probably [misc]

 

https://www.propublica.org/article/dark-money-leonard-leo-barre-seid

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https://phys.org/news/2022-08-simple-viral-math-equation-stumped.htm/

A Bigger Picture

 My recollection of Jan's comments about life elsewhere is not precise. The main thing I took away from some chuckles of his when the subject was raised, is that "life" is far rarer than even the most educated suppose. "Educated" here being used in the most ordinary sense, of course.

and back to local news

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/fifa-world-cup-hospitality-site-lists-occupied-palestinian-territories-no-israel/?

American??? Mysticism

 It suddenly occurs to me that my blog title could be confusing. As if I thought there were distinctions to note and classify within "the experience." My intent was to reference Gurdjieff, (quoted by Ouspensky) when he spoke about the future of the Work, and a movement he saw from Russia through Europe and on. 

Google search issues

 https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-is-broken-outages-indexing-missing-33891.html?

People are here for a reason

 I don't know what it is, but that we are here for a reason is a warming and wonderful thing.

 

There ought to be a continent for that

 the color of a cat's eye

a grandmother's love

the silence of a novice

Part of the Mystery

 There is something to which the Work, (as the 20th century called it), points. Something that is rarely directly discussed, and now I wonder if I should elaborate. I refer to the "how", the how of self-observation. And I wonder why, this, the most important thing, is superficially neglected. I say most important thing, even though some could argue the results were the most important. The "how" makes it possible. I do not know the answer. 

item from the Times and churchill joke not connectd

 https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/messengers-from-the-russian-moral-abyss/

[pp[pp

Sir Winston Churchill to Lady Nancy Astor in 1920.

“Having a woman in Parliament is like having one intrude upon me in the bathroom”

Lady Nancy Astor replies to Sir Winston Churchill

“You’re not handsome enough to have such fears!”

great article on Krazy Kat Kartoons xfr cLA

 sent from one of my blogs to Philosopher's Cat (since I cannot now write posts ON that blog-??]

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/07/20/e-e-cummings-and-krazy-kat/?

Among the more specifiable mysteries

 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/07/18/metro/mysterious-radio-signal-has-been-detected-distant-galaxy-mit-says/?*

the state of retail

the toll of 2020: 

https://za.investing.com/magazine/last-call-these-chain-stores-are-closing-locations-in-2021/article/159719

3https://fcced.com/uae-detains-lawyer-for-khashoggi-17-07-2022/?

 click the l**ink

more on "mysterious dark matter" link

 

Huge underground search for mysterious dark matter begins

In a former gold mine a mile underground, inside a titanium tank filled with a rare liquified gas, scientists have begun the search for what so far has been unfindable: dark matter.

Peter Brook obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jul/03/peter-brook-obituary

World War II and French antisemitism

Per:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/legend-innocence-france

"The [Vichy] regime also implemented measures that would aid the Germans in the business of extermination, such as organizing a census of Jews in the southern half of the country and compelling French Jews to receive special stamps on their documents."

Jan would have found this amusing

 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-unique-genetic-variants-linked-ability.html

A difference between religion and the Work

 

  The difference between religion and the Work includes the fact that religion is like a crossword puzzle, but the Work is like a crossword without clues

Old old old and new

 

The following is from Sam Hammill’s translation of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching written some 2,500 years ago:

Beauty and ugliness have one origin.
Name beauty, and ugliness is.
Recognizing virtue recognizes evil.

Only they weren't green

 

quote from Roswell interviewee, and the title of my new blog

Published today : February 2, 2022

 

https://theconversation.com/happy-twosday-why-numbers-like-2-22-22-have-been-too-fascinating-for-over-2-000-years-176093

chatty story---- nothing about WHY though

King Tut Had a Dagger Made From a Meteorite

 

https://gizmodo.com/king-tuts-meteorite-dagger-has-a-mystery-origin-story-1848562565

King Tut's Meteorite Dagger Has a Mystery Origin Story

Based on the dagger's chemistry and a 3,400-year-old tablet, scientists don’t think it’s from Egypt.

[And there are pictures at the link]

The birthday of Robert Burns

 

garbage

 

QUOTING:

https://aeon.co/essays/how-physics-at-the-roots-of-reality-point-to-a-grand-unified-theory?

With the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, every elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model of physics has now been found. 

Yet the field is far from ‘done’. Among the continuing work, physicists are still looking for a grand unified theory that explains the forces that operate at the subatomic level – a common understanding that accounts for the disparate phenomena we observe among the particles we have in hand. 

QUOTING:

Richard Feynman famously said, "I think I can safely say that

nobody understands quantum mechanics." Since Feynman won

a Nobel Prize in physics for his work in quantum theory, he

certainly understood how to use it. Indeed, quantum mechanics

(QM) "has survived all tests" and "we all know how to use it

and apply it to problems," yet Murray Gell-Mann (who also won

a Nobel Prize for his work in quantum theory) agreed with

Feynman, saying, "we have learned to live with the fact that

nobody can understand it."




cit--https://sciencex.com/news/2022-01-quantum-theorists-mechanics.html?