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Carreras earnings jump
CARRERAS' net profit jumped 83 per cent during the last quarter of 2013.
The cigarette company's bottom line increased from $1.2 billion during the three months to December 31, 2012, to $2.2 billion during the quarter under review.
Revenue fell from $3.74 billion to $3.66 billion over the periods, but gross profit climbed from $1.7 billion to $1.75 billion.
Importantly, the cigarette distributor's other income stream jumped to $1.8 billion during the quarter, up from $476 million during the comparative period in 2012, although Carreras didn't say what the increase was attributed to.
True to its aggressive dividend policy, the company last week announced its decision to pay shareholders $786 million in dividends next month, following a $573 million special cash distribution three weeks ago.
Shareholders on record as at February 20, will receive a $1.62-a-share interim payment on March 13.
The combined payout this quarter will exceed the $1.26 billion the company distributed to shareholders during the first three months of 2013.
Over the last few years, Carreras has maintained an aggressive dividend policy, whereby it pays shareholders close to the equivalent of the net profit made in the previous quarter.
For instance, the company paid out $485.4 million in the last quarter of 2013 following a $485.8 million net profit for the September quarter, much like the dividend payment and profit in the previous quarter.
Similarly, during the three months to June 30 last year, it paid out $1.08 billion in dividends following a $1.4 billion profit in the January to March quarter of 2013. Albeit, that dividend payment reduced the company's capital base from $3.7 billion at the end of March 2013 to $3.1 billion at the end of June, given that Carreras's profit declined during the end-June quarter.
The cigarette distributor has been experiencing a fall- off in sales since a public smoking ban was implemented last July, and its profit has been squeezed for that reason.
What's more, the share price on the Jamaica Stock Exchange has been trending downwards since last June, when it traded at its 52-week high of $61.
Last Friday, the stock closed at $35 a share, up by a dollar since Carreras announced the new dividend payout.
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The head of a well-known real-estate management company is accused of stealing millions from the Commonwealth. 51-year-old Billy Gene Jefferson has been arrested and charged with eight counts of forging public documents.
According to Virginia State Police, the charges stem from the submission of false documents to the Virginia Department of Historic Resources.
Police say, the submission of the false documents has resulted in over two million dollars in tax fraud to the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Jefferson runs River City Real Estate, which is known for revamping two historic properties on Stockton Street in Southside Richmond: the Parachute Factory and Tobacco Factory.
In the Fan, River City's sister company, Historic Properties Management, rents out dozens of apartments.
Now, the future of this prominent corporation is uncertain after Jefferson's arrest.
Jefferson was arrested by Virginia State Police Wednesday morning in the 3000 block of West Cary Street. He was arraigned Thursday morning and was released on a $10,000 secured bond.
NBC12 went to Jefferson's Monument Avenue mansion but there was no answer. We also went to his company's office but their employees had no comment. An email to Jefferson's attorney went unanswered.
Jefferson's River City Real Estate is not without controversy. The Better Business Bureau gives the company an F for the number of unresolved complaints.
Last year, a man killed two people in the Tobacco Factory over dog feces.
In 2011, Jefferson's former business partner Justin French was convicted of fraud, after doing then what Jefferson is accused of doing now.
The next time Jefferson will be in court is for his preliminary hearing on May 14.
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Alabama Sports Reporter Britton Lynn
So what kind of sports reporters are currently prowling the sidelines of Alabama sports? I don't know, I don't live in Alabama or have ever actually been to Alabama, but fortunately someone has, which is how we know all about the pretty Miss Britton Lynn, the sports reporter for WBRC Fox 6 in Birmingham, Alabama who also doubles as a traffic reporter. A woman of many talents!
Here's her bio via WBRC Fox 6:
Good Day Alabama traffic anchor/sports reporter, Britton Lynn, was born and raised in Dallas, Texas.
Before joining WBRC, she worked as a Texas Field Reporter for FOX Sports NEXT interviewing the nation's top recruits and doing reports with the FOX Sports Interactive analysts in Austin, Texas. In college, Britton served as an SEC Correspondent for ESPNU for three years. While there she worked as a sideline reporter, conducted exclusive player and coach interviews, covered press conferences and did reports for the network's "SEC Weekly" Show.
Britton has covered everything from the BCS National Championships, the ESPY Awards in LA, ESPN's 30for30–Pony Exe$$, to working as a news correspondent during the breaking coverage of the April 27th 2011 Tuscaloosa Tornado for Dallas television station Channel 33. Britton also has a passion for the NFL and has worked for both Dallas Cowboys Television's "Blue Star Media" and the Atlanta Falcons.
After graduating from the University of Alabama in May 2011 and being away from "Sweet Home Alabama" for a year and half she jumped at the opportunity to join the FOX6 team.
When she's not working in television, Britton is very passionate about Major League Baseball's RBI (Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities), a non-profit organization she worked with for two years alongside her church in Austin. Britton has worked with a number of high school ministries in the Austin area and hopes to get plugged into a place to serve in Birmingham, as well. You can find her running, paddle-boarding on the lake, kayaking with her dog, Rudy, and trying out new recipes for her food blog.
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Hello everybody, this is my first fanpost, and I thought that I might share my predictions going into this season with you all.
This is a very positive outlook, a lot of you might say this is out of reach and that I'm just biased (which is totally true by the way) but I think I really can see this happening.
Week 1: Rams at Lions: W 37-24 - While we come out on top, this game is closer than anybody expected, but we seal the game with a late touchdown. 1-0
Week 2: Lions at 49ers: W 27-19 - I think we will win this game pretty easily, I don't think the 49ers will be anywhere as good this year as last, and we will hold them touchdown-less until about only 1:30 is left in the game. 2-0
Week 3: Lions at Titans: W 17-14 - We will play a close game vs Jim Schwartz's old team, but never really fall behind, as Stafford's two 3rd quarter touchdown passes put us ahead for good. 3-0
Week 4: Vikings at Lions: W 42-20 - Last year we played two very close games against the Vikings, this year they won't be anywhere near as close. Broyles has his first good game finishing with 2 touchdowns. 4-0
Week 5: Bye 4-0
Week 6: Lions at Eagles: L 42-38 - What can I say, the Eagles just plain beat us. While Stafford out-duels Vick, McCoy proves to be the X-factor. 4-1
Week 7: Lions at Bears: W 34-28 - With 50 yards separating us from the endzone with 20 seconds left, Stafford has a great moment in NFL history finding Megatron in the endzone. 5-1
Week 8: Seahawks at Lions: W 31-24 - Matt Flynn proves that his first start vs Detroit was a fluke, playing more like he did in 2010, than on new years day in 2012. 6-1
Week 9: Lions at Jaguars: W 23-13 - While the Jags do have a good defense, there offense is still weak, and the lose a game that is actually pretty close until the end, when Gabbert implodes. 7-1
Week 10: Lions at Vikings: W 34-21 - While its close than the first time, like I said, we let the Vikings play really close games vs us last year, and it won't happen again. 8-1
Week 11: Packer at Lions: L 38-35 - I can't see us beating the packers (yet), although, I do see Green Bay going only 13-3 at the best this year. 8-2
Week 12: Texans at Lions: L 38-28 - Not much to be said here. Our Thanksgiving woes continue as Foster and Tate run all over us, and the Texans much improved defense gets stops when they need to. 8-3
Week 13: Colts at Lions: W 52-10 - We get back to winning as we dismantle the colts, intercepting Luck 5 times, sacking him 7 times, and allowing only 1 touchdown pass. Stafford throws 6 touchdowns and +450 yards. We just dominate. Although, our old friend Drew Stanton gets to play for a little while. 9-3
Week 14: Lions at Packers: L 27-35 -So close, yet so far as another game vs the Packers falls just out of our reach. Despite our best efforts, the Pack sweeps us again this year. 9-4
Week 15: Lions at Cardinals: L 20-23 (O.T.) - Arizona is a tough team this year, they come in first in the NFC west going 9-7. I see them starting Jon Skelton by this point in the year, and what can I say other than I love that guy. 9-5
Week 16: Falcons at Lions: W 36-30 (O.T.) - You guys know how Stafford has a rocket of an arm? Well, he shows it off in overtime in primetime in week 16. 10-5
Week 17: Bears at Lions: W 38-17 - This is our most important game of the season, win and in scenario. We go out and prove who wants it more. We intercept Cutler 4 times, and limit Forte to 37 yards on 19 attempts. Stafford throws 4 touchdowns, and tops off an awesome season. Pretty much a repeat of us vs the Charges, but we do more awesomeness. 11-5
Wildcard Weekend: Lions at Cardinals: W 28-24 - We win this time, intercepting Skelton 3 times, returning 2 for touchdowns. Stafford only has to throw 1 touchdown, but it's the biggest of his career with 32 seconds remaining. 12-5
Divisional Round: Lions at Packers: W 41-31 - We New York Giant the Packers. We come out with explosive plays at the start of the second half and never look back. 13-5
Conference Championship: Lions at Eagles: L 20-27 - All I can really say is that I'm glad we lose, because we aren't ready to win a Superbowl (yet). Vick throws 2 touchdowns, runs one, while Stafford throws 2 touchdowns, but as many costly picks. 13-6
Overall, we have great year, and prove a lot by winning two road playoff games. Stafford has a great year, Calvin doesn't put up as good of stats, but only because of the emergence of Titus and Broyles (not the madden curse), our defense plays great most of the year, and Jahvid Best has a huge comeback year (even wins comeback player of the year), rushing for +1,100 yards, +6 touchdowns, and catching +500 yards, +4 touchdowns.


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By Katy Kreitler at Everyday Feminism Millions of people in the US identify as transgender. And yet, most people know almost nothing about them. Even many feminists have trouble distinguishing identity from identity, term from term, myth from reality. How many of your friends and family can properly define the term … [Read more...]
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By Chelsey Anderson Whether you're a seasoned body image activist or an average consumer of Western media, no doubt you've noticed the battle between the "curvy" and skinny body ideal. After decades of being bombarded with images of extremely thin models and starving ourselves to fit the waif-mold many women and … [Read more...]
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MUMBAI: India's largest radio network, superhits 93.5 RED FM, has added another feather to its cap by gaining an opportunity to represent India at the International Radio Festival (IRF), Zurich.
RadioandMusic.com (from Indiantelevision.com) ran a contest called 'Sound of India' along with IRF and Swiss Tourism to search for a radio jockey that would represent India at the festival from September 12-16, 2012. RJ Malishka, the host of the popular breakfast show – 'Morning No.1' in Mumbai, emerged the winner from over 100 entries including radio jockeys and radio show producers belonging to around 70 private and public FM radio stations across India.
RJ Malishka and her show producer Naheed will go live with their radio show from the magnificent castle of Schloss Sihlberg, Zurich to entertain the international audience in Europe. The show will also be aired on RED FM 93.5 in India.
Commenting on the opportunity, Nisha Narayanan, senior VP - projects and programming, RED FM 93.5, said, "Selection to represent India at the International Radio Festival at Zurich only reflects the quality and innovative programming our jocks at RED FM deliver. We are extremely happy on Malishka winning the contest and would like to congratulate her on this feat. She has completed 7 years with us recently and is one of the best jocks the country has presently."
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As we've seen over the past few months, people like ESPN's Trade Machine. And why not? It's a lot of fun to figure out ways to trade Chris Paul to the Rockets, after all. But we have this new directive to stop posting threads about it and instead focus on discussion. Obviously, that's quite the roadblock to showing off your latest brilliant idea to your fellow Dream Shakers. What's a fan to do?
Well, I was inspired by Bill Simmons' latest mailbag and a letter contained therein:
Q: Ever messed around with the NBA Trade Machine and tried to determine what trade would give the absolute highest possible increase in John Hollinger's projected wins to a team? Ultimately, I was able to add 58 projected wins to the Knicks by sacking Portland, Cleveland and the Lakers of their valuables. Please don't ask me how long that took. My challenge to you is simple: TOP THAT.
-- Jon, Edison, N.J.
SG: Jon, Jon, Jon, Jon, Jon … you made two ginormous mistakes here. First, you brazenly challenged the Picasso of the Trade Machine. Never a smart move. Second, you challenged someone whose profession allows him to waste copious amounts of time figuring out dumb things to, as you so foolishly put it, "TOP THAT." Your big mistake was not pillaging the Zombie Sonics; for my fake four-team deal, I used the Zombies, Cavaliers and Magic to "TOP THAT" and ended up adding 66 projected wins to the Knicks. Good news, Knicks fans: Not only did I get you LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Rashard Lewis, Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, Jeff Green, Mo Williams, Delonte West, J.J. Hickson, Jordan Hill and Wilson Chandler on next season's team, but you're projected to go 96 and minus-14. Things are looking up! As always, never challenge the Trade Machine Picasso.
Frankly, Simmons' trade is pretty easy to top. The Trade Machine's projection system takes into account positional requirements, so overlaps (like having both Durant and LeBron) don't help as much.
So, here's my challenge to you: come up with the most ridiculously lopsided trade you can imagine and improve any team (the Knicks are really the easiest, thanks to their horrible contracts) by the most wins you can.
I've been able to improve the Knicks by 71 Wins. LeBron, Delonte West, about half of the Blazers, Chris Paul, Tyson Chandler, and David West give New York a 103 win, -21 loss season. Do better than that. Bonus points if you can do it with an already legitimately good team.


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The annual Canstruction competition has returned to Chicago's Merchandise Mart for another display of masterfully built structures designed out of canned foods.
You can view this year's winning sculptures and competing teams at www.chicagofoodbank.org/canstruction. Led mainly by architects and engineers, teams have worked over the course of three months designing and assembling these remarkable structures made entirely out of canned foods, each within a 10-ft x 10-ft space, up to 8 ft high.
This photo is of the winning sculpture in the Crowd Favorite and Jurors' Favorite categories. Titled "A Healthy Balance," the sculpture was designed and built by KJWW Engineering Consultants/VOA/Berglund Construction and is made up of 4,030 cans. Photo: ThinkLeigh Photography
This year's sculptures were built from a total of 94,436 cans (equaling more than 85,000 lbs of food). All of the sculptures will be on display to the public through May 31. After the exhibits are taken down, all of the cans will then be donated to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. If you'll be in the area and want to check out these creative sculptures in person, you can also bring your own canned food items for donation.
You can find photos of all of this year's sculptures on Flickr at http://bit.ly/JyWKVd or at Canstruction Chicago's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/ChiCANstruction.
This Chicago event is part of the international Canstruction competition, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and is annually held in numerous cities throughout the world. For more information, visit www.canstruction.org.


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News: Q-Tip Snubs A Tribe Called Quest Documentary, "Respect The Band"
Thursday, Dec 2, 2010 5:54PM
Rap veteran Q-Tip has called out the makers of an upcoming A Tribe Called Quest documentary reportedly being put together by director/actor Michael Rapaport.
Tip hit up his Twitter page to express his frustrations over leaked footage from the film.
"I am not in support of the a tribe called quest documentary," Tip tweeted Thursday (December 2).
"The filmmaker should respect the band to the point of honoring the few requests that's was made abt the piece"
"The filmmaker shld respect the band enough to honor our request regarding the the film" (Q-Tip's Twitter)
Footage of the documentary hit the Internet this week.
Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White together as A Tribe Called Quest greatly "defined [our] adolescence." So we applaud Michael Rapaport and Nas for creating this documentary. From the out-of-sync/2-years-old promo trailer--which leaked--we see commentary from fellow '90s hip-hop pioneers and never-before-seen footage of the members reflecting, arguing, and performing. Although the video doesn't represent what the film's about in its current shape or form, we have to admit: This still looks dope! Lookout for the OFFICIAL trailer hitting the 'net before the Sundance Film Festival, and make sure to rock your dashikis at the premiere. (Complex)
Although Tip is against the film, he is currently putting together a book about his life experiences next year.
The A Tribe Called Quest frontman talked about Industry Rules, the guidebook he's working on with writer dream hampton, who also worked with Jay-Z on Decoded. Due out in 2011, Q-Tip said Industry Rules is not a memoir, but a "cautionary tales of the industry. My little stories and each one will have a rule to it. I don't want to give to much up but it's gonna be like 'There's rules to this sh*t I wrote me a manual,'" he said referring to The Notorious B.I.G.'s classic song "The Ten Crack Commandments." (XXL Mag)
Industry Rules contributor dream hampton recently hit up SOHH and discussed the project.
"I'm writing [Industry Rules] now, it should be done [soon]," dream told SOHH. "Q-Tip is an incredible storyteller. I think that people will be surprised about that. I really want to video tape him telling some of these stories as kind of a companion piece [to the book]. He's a really, really good storyteller and he's incredibly animated. I have footage back when I was shooting my documentary class at NYU and I was going around shooting different stuff. He'd be everywhere. I'm in a session with Mobb Deep when they were working on The Infamous, just shooting them working and there's Tip. He's just friggin' everywhere. [laughs] He pops up on Jay-Z's 'Girls, Girls, Girls,' he's a dude from Queens so there's a lot that goes with that that people don't know about, like the whole Southside, hood sh*t. His stories are incredibly interesting and he spans so many different eras of hip-hop and he's probably one of the better storytellers I've spoke with." (SOHH)
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With Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton's promised resignation only two days away, foes and friends have taken to Facebook.com to air their views.
A search of Herenton pulls up close to 30 groups on Facebook, ranging from "Although I'm not a big fan, I don't necessarily hate Willie Herenton" to "Willie Herenton for Mayor of Lexington, Ky."
"Lexington took our coach. It's only fair for them to take our Mayor, too. Don't you agree?" reads the group's description, in a knock to former Tiger's Coach John Calipari, now head basketball coach in Lexington.
Most of these groups - which date back to his reelection in 2007 -- tend to attract like-minded members.
"Goodbye Willie Herenton" says now that Herenton has decided to resign and run for congress "let's hope that his ego doesn't make him want to change his mind....AGAIN!"
The group lists a vintage video of The Sweet rocking "Little Willy." ("Willy, Willy, won't go home!")
"Memphians against Herenton" lists 1,171 members "united to remove 'King Willy' from office." One member links to a special Willie Tribute page. "We won't miss you, not one bit; Hey, Ho! You Need To Go!"
In response to that page, another Facebook user created a "Memphians for Herenton" - with 13 members - that reads "I saw there was a group called 'Memphians Against Herenton,' and I couldn't help but become uncontrollably enraged. Willie Herenton has done wonders for this city. Personally, he is a role model."


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What do HP Sauce and a Notebook have in Common?
When I was a kid, a bottle of HP Sauce was a common sight on our dining room table. My Dad loved it, and his Dad did too. Subsequently, I've never bought another brand of brown sauce – ever. It's a purchase habit that's been ingrained and passed down across three generations. (more…)
Like any major brand, it started with humble beginnings. In this case, it was a one-day rail excursion from Leicester to Loughborough.
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What are you Selling?
I got a call this week from a customer of mine. He was ecstatic. His company had just scooped IBM's prestigious Business Partner of the Year award; a real testament to the sheer grit, determination and passion that his entire team brings to work every day.
As part of collecting the award, he got some time with one of IBM's Marketing Execs.
The Exec shared a story of getting his bathroom redone. The usual happened. Plenty of workmen came; some huffed, some puffed, some quoted sky high, some quoted rock bottom. But the one he selected didn't talk about baths, sinks, or even price. (more…)
Why Don't You Drink It?
When it comes to advertising claims, the majority of us are sceptics. And it's no surprise. From beauty creams that make our wrinkles vanish, pills that make our hair grow back, or chocolate bars that are actually good for us. We've heard it all before.
A few years back, American entrepreneur Eric Ryan was in London launching his new product; a line of toilet cleaner.
As expected, the audience heard the usual spiel about amazing cleaning qualities. But Eric also claimed something else. He reckoned his product was harmless too. Unlike others, his contained no poisonous nasties. (more…)
Gone in a Flash
It started life over 130 years ago as a single chemists shop in Leicester. After years of trading, its owner Frank began to see an unusual demand from customers; they wanted to buy raw ingredients for photographic chemicals.
Frank's son Alan immediately spotted an opportunity. In 1930's Britain, photography was a pastime solely for the wealthy. Alan's dream was to make it accessible to the masses.
He set about transforming his father's chemists into a haven for photography. With prices at an average of 25% below his nearest competitor, Alan attracted immediate attention. The idea grew, and it wasn't long before the father and son duo had opened a huge facility in Hinckley Road; later crowned the largest photography store on earth by Guinness World Records.


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Remember the View Master invitations that the internet collectively lost their minds over? Were you one of the many that thought "Holy crap, I want those to be MY wedding invitations." Then you took one look at what it took to DIY and thought "JK, that's way too much work." Well, think again y'all, because our sponsor Image3D has come to your rescue!
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Barbe senior tight end DeSean Smith is headed to LSU next year, but before he heads east to Baton Rouge, he will take a trip west to San Antonio.Today, during Barbe's Veterans Day Program, Smith was recognized as one of 90 American football players who are invited to the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio next January.Smith will join players like Andrew Luck, Marc Sanchez, Tim Tebow and Ndamukong Suh who made their national television debuts at the Army All-American Bowl.The annual East vs. West game is the biggest and highest-profile all-American game for high school football players in America, and Smith said he could hardly believe it when he found out he had been picked.The 2013 U.S. Army All-American Bowl will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, from the Alamodome in San Antonio, and you can watch it live on KPLC.
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GATLINBURG (WATE) -- A Georgia man arrested in Sevier County on charges of kidnapping and raping a woman tells Atlanta investigators he had consensual sex with her.
Investigators say David Jansen, 46, kidnapped a 24-year-old woman while she was jogging in her Atlanta neighborhood and drove her to a rental cabin at Stony Brook Chalets on Donna Allen Way near Gatlinburg. That's where he allegedly raped her.
But Jansen tells investigators he was a client of the woman's at a club her husband owns in Atlanta.
The Sevier County Sheriff's Department incident report says Jansen claims he and the woman were on a romantic getaway from their spouses and they found bondage arousing.
Jansen also says the woman asked to be tied up as part of a plan they agreed to previously.
Pizza delivery man Chris Turner saw the woman tied with rope on a couch at the cabin and said she mouthed for him to call 911. He went to a neighbor's and had them make the call.
When officers arrived, the woman was still tied on the couch. She was taken to a hospital.
Apparently, the woman initially agreed with the story, but once she and Jansen were separated by investigators, she said she was being held against her will.
"I couldn't believe it. This is Gatlinburg. We don't have that kind of stuff here. That happens in big cities and happens to other people, not to us," says Pam Hill, owner of Stony Brook Chalets.
Jansen is charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape. He's been released on an $800,000 bond.
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Roland Emmerich Blames Fox, George W. Bush for the Lack of an Independence Day 2
German director Roland Emmerich, aka the man who made death porn on a global scale (aka disaster films) popular again, blames the lack of a sequel to "Independence Day" on the studio's unwillingness to pay Will Smith his due. And oh yeah, that guy George W. Bush is also to blame, too. In a roundtable interview with critics, Emmerich tells CinemaBlend that the reason why he hasn't been enthusiastic about making an "ID4″ earlier is that Bush was in office at the time and, apparently, he didn't want to make a movie about a heroic President rallying the world against evil alien invaders.
Says the Master of Disaster:
"In Independence Day, it was about a king who leads his country into a fight against an outside invader. I didn't want to make that movie during the Bush years. It was not thought that George W. Bush would have made a great king. Now with Obama, it's another story."
Because, obviously, when you think "great warrior", you think Obama.
Actually, Emmerich, like most of Hollywood, can't see beyond the prism of their political ideology. In the real world, if aliens were to invade you'd actually want a buckle belt wearing Texan like Bush leading the resistance, not a pansy Chicago politician prone to letting two-bit dictators use him for photo ops.


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The control of infectious diseases such as the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza hinges on handy analytical tools that can rapidly and accurately identify infected patients at the doctor's office or at an airport.
For this reason, there has been much interest in technologies that could enable replacement of the bulky instruments used at present with point-of-care testing devices. Linus Tzu-Hsiang Kao and co-workers at the A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics and the Genome Institute of Singapore have now developed a silicon-based microfluidic system that is able to sense and differentiate the H1N1 virus from other seasonal influenza strains in ultrasmall specimens ("Multiplexed detection and differentiation of the DNA strains for influenza A (H1N1 2009) using a silicon-based microfluidic system").
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The spectacular 2013 Shrine Circus is coming to Janesville, Wisconsin on May 20th at the Rock County 4-H Fairground.
Tickets will be available at the Rock County 4-H Fairground box office on the days of performances and online here. Get your tickets early for the best available seats!
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Softball teams with East Tennessee State for special cause at Friday's doubleheader
April 12, 2007
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The JU softball team will assist the East Tennessee State Lady Buccaneers in its collective effort to raise support for the Bluffton University baseball team in Friday's Atlantic Sun Conference doubleheader at the JU Softball Complex.
At the doubleheader, the Dolphins are helping the Lady Buccaneers accept donations for the Bluffton University baseball players and families, who lost five members of its team along with the bus driver and his wife in a traffic accident on I-75 in Atlanta, Ga., on March 2.
The Lady Buccaneers started raising support and money for the team after visiting the Bluffton players and families at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Ga., just two days following the accident. The East Tennessee State players were so impacted by the people they met that day, they decided to play the season in remembrance of the people that lost their lives in the accident.
The Lady Buccaneers have also chosen to wear a purple "B" on their helmets in honor of those players and staff involved in the tragic event.
"We commend East Tennessee State for its efforts in raising support and money for this terrible tragedy," said JU head coach Amanda Lehotak. "Our team is happy to help any way we can."
Fans can make donations at the press tent located behind the main stands at the JU Softball Complex. The East Tennessee State team asks if you write a check then to please make it payable to Bluffton University and place baseball team on the memo line. Donations of $5 or more will receive a bracelet.
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Probably taught during childhood that each new-born baby equals one brand new soul whose performance by the end of that physical lifespan will be judged by God, for many newcomers to the path the idea seems odd and rather pointless of a pendulum existence between the Astral Vortex levels and physical life spans. For that reason I'm delighted that the Past Lives group has been formed on OV.
Everyone in the group will have their own ideas and beliefs about the purpose of reincarnation and so newcomers will be able to sample those ideas and be drawn to those that give them truth chills. Below are a few pages from a book I wrote while resident in France that I hope would help and encourage newcomers to the spiritual path. The book: THE GENTLE ART OF TRAPPED SOULS RESCUE / RELEASE WORK AND MEDITATIONS AROUND, "PAYES du CATHARE
BY YVONNE BRITTAIN (Psychic Medium and Past-lives Regression Therapist)
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The path of self-discovery
We all have to live in a world full of contradictions, widespread uncertainty and widely encouraged self-doubt. Everyone around us seems to believe that individually humans are nothing unless banded together as a majority with a leader. Because of that insidious belief each of us is left to feel that we must be wrong if we disregard majority beliefs and choose our own paths to follow. Sooner or later disenchantment with the majority and its leaders, or some event in our personal life, triggers something inside us and firmly sets us upon our individual path.
The path gradually leads us far away from majority thought, and teaches us more and more to value our selves as unique and priceless individuals. When we step onto the path it changes us so that there is no going back to what we were previously. But as we take that first step we have no idea where the path will lead us. First the years and then the decades pass us by, and by then with hard experience we have learnt to separate golden wheat from a great deal of useless chaff. Also by then by our own efforts we have discovered the destination to which the path will lead us.
On the path there is great knowledge and personal experience for the seeker to gain. But also there are many tests to pass, and traps and diversions to avoid. The new seeker knows nothing of what might lie ahead for him or her on the path. For that reason, as once I was in exactly that same position, I have written this little book to share some of my experiences so far since I first stepped onto the path long ago. There are a few golden rules or guidelines that the seeker will find it wise to always follow. Each rule is as important as the next and so there is no significance attached to the order in which I offer them.
The first is complete honesty with self and with others.
The next is complete faith in yourself and in what you believe is your truth.
The next is flexibility of thought that will allow your truth to unfold layer by layer to always reveal deeper truths.
The next is genuine humility that allows you to refrain from being judgmental, and also allows you to regard being of service as a great privilege that you have to earn.
The next is discernment firmly backed by your developed intuition. This replaces the judgmental role with the patience and tolerance that allows you to discern what is not your truth without the need to judge others for who for now it is their truth. The most important rule of all is simplicity because the path will lead you in your own timing through a world of profound knowledge and thought. Because it is profound many seekers become confused and become locked in by their own complicated interpretations of that knowledge. Often they will then teach those interpretations to other seekers. If you examine the inside of a wristwatch you will see a mechanism with many intricate parts. Only when you look more closely do you realise that each of those many parts has a simple function. Keep it simple because one day you will have to teach new seekers who have just stepped onto the path. This is your freely chosen path, and you have now left all majorities and their judgements behind you.
The gentle art of trapped souls rescue/release work
True accounts of our rescue work at the Rennes le Chateau and Aude Valley area of southern France and elsewhere.
Yvonne Brittain.
For the benefit of those who are unfamiliar with the field of trapped soul rescue work, it may be helpful if I first briefly explain how and why a soul may become trapped. Most readers will be familiar with the descriptions of 'Near-death' experiences. After observing one's physical body surrounded by surgeons and nurses; one next is faced with variations of a dark tunnel filled at its far end with light. Obviously for the patient to be able to relate the experience afterwards, the doctors must have successfully drawn the patient back into physical existence. But let us suppose that the doctors have failed. The patient is now an ex-patient minus his or her physical body, and is now alone and faced with a mysterious tunnel lighted at its far end.
The tunnel may be the very opposite to what this soul had previously been conditioned from birth to expect. The soul is faced with a simple freewill choice that only he or she can make. The choice is to move along the tunnel and into the light, or move away from the tunnel and the light. To the soul the tunnel and the light represent the unknown. With what attitude the soul has faced the unknown during physical existence will greatly influence the choice the soul will make now. But why should this be so?
Each soul enters his or her next physical life totally devoid of memories of past physical and astral existences. At the end of that physical life span the soul only has that last life span of experience to use as guidance. The Soul often is unaware that he or she previously left the light and moved down the tunnel to re-enter physical existence. The light represents this soul's total achieved power level of the astral vortex.
The tunnel simply reduces the energy power level of the soul to that of physical existence. At the end of that physical life span the same tunnel increases the power level to that of the achieved astral energy power level of the same soul. On that achieved power level all past-lives memories return to the soul, but only if the soul chooses to move towards and into the light. The soul has arrived at the Interlife Zone between astral and physical existence. If life has filled the soul with self-confidence and optimism he or she will move into the light.
Equally, if people and events have previously crushed all self-confidence and optimism, the soul will probably not dare to feel welcomed into the light. From this description the reader will realise that after physical death every soul is just an ordinary person without a body, faced with an extraordinary situation that alone he or she must deal with.
Trapped souls are trapped by their own fears, instilled uncertainties and doubts of self. Also souls may become trapped by their obsession with physical life.
The tunnel is there and the light is there but the soul may refuse to see them. Other souls on the astral may choose to re-enter the Interlife Zone from their different achieved astral power levels to meet and re-assure this soul.
If the soul accepts their re-assurances and accompanies them into the light, then all is well. But if the soul refuses to believe or trust these souls, no one may force the soul to enter the tunnel. Instead the soul remains in a timeless limbo of uncertainty in the Interlife Zone.
There the soul would remain totally immersed in an insulated world of self-created fantasy. Fantasies are thought structures created by each of us when our individual reality becomes too painful or too fearful to bear. We all at times fantasise during our physical lives. When faced with the Interlife Zone, in our ignorance of its real nature, we may well seek refuge in somewhere that for us represents safety.
During our physical life the house, that was our home, may also have been our refuge from a harsh, uncaring world. What could be more natural for a fear-filled disembodied soul in the Interlife Zone, than to re-create as a thought structure that refuge to return to? The original house may still physically exist on which to superimpose the thought structure. Or maybe the house was demolished centuries ago.
Maybe now other buildings on the original site have replaced the house. To the soul the self-created refuge and its surroundings will be located exactly where it was and as it was, in physical life. Thus the soul's thought structure refuge may overlap to just be impinged upon and within only part of a modern building. The bewildered, unfortunate soul remains indefinitely, trapped by the inertia of self-doubt, within this refuge. This poor soul simply doesn't know what to do or where to go, and so she or he remains in the refuge. The residents of the more recent building may then find that certain rooms have a heavy depressing atmosphere. The greater sensitivity, of children, and of experienced psychics may allow them to sense or even to see the trapped soul, and also even the refuge created by the soul.
To be able to release the trapped soul requires me to mentally enter that self-created-from-thought, refuge. To then re-assure and persuade this very real and frightened person to accompany and allow me to lead him or her into the light. For the trapped soul, my psychic presence represents a helpful and sympathetic newcomer that has entered the refuge. From the aspect of different power-levels of spiritual energy my role is this. I have to use my developed energy level to uplift and boost the energy level of the trapped soul. I have to boost it just enough for that soul to see and to accept what I can see. From this description readers will realise that the rescue release of trapped souls has everything to do with showing respect and compassion. It should never be regarded as getting rid of resident psychic nuisances for clients.
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That may be for the case of those who have some kind of understanding of where you are coming from and I wouldn't doubt it. But know this my friend, very few souls in my experience would have any idea of your preamble above and so, would view you as an anomaly that must be avoided. I could not agree more that the basis of your rescue work is as it is but, for me, I have dealt only with 'ordinary' everyday people such as myself who, from experiences that they have encountered, have been caught in a (admittedly their own of course) a kind of 'bubble' of existence of their own making which, to them, is every bit as real as any other 'bubble' on any other level of existence in or of any dimension.
I want to site here one particular case if may...
A woman has just been raped and beaten to death. To hide her body, two men, keelhauled her (tied under a rowing boat) so tightly that it would be a long time before she would be discovered. Before this occurred, her two year old daughter was thrown overboard and left to drown.
What do you imagine is the very first thing on her mind - the only thing on her mind?
Ascension? The Light? I doubt that very much. And so it was that, even after this terrible episode yet, the only thought on her mind was, of course, her daughter.
In reading 'into' what you have written elsewhere here, I am assuming that, to be enlightened, to be 'good enough' or 'understanding enough' - to be able to 'control emotion and energy' then, I am of the understanding that, the best thing she could have done was to, just let go and 'let God' or her higher being, remove her from this situation, to allow her two-year old baby to find her own way in her own time. (Is this correct? Forgive me if I have misunderstood or am mistaken).
Ok. So, what do we do. As 'Spirit Rescuers' - what do we do for the best? Let go? Don't be there? Take no notice and just 'trust'?
If not the above then why am I there at all?
I do not hold any store in 'luck' 'happen-stance' 'coincidence' or 'accidents'. I hold all my store in synchronicity in that, if I was not supposed to be there then I wouldn't have been. Thus, in being a 'spirit rescuer' I am there for one reason only - to help her home.
One can easily imagine what this young mother must have felt and experienced - not to mention a 'then' (in conscious mind) two-year old daughter. To have been summarily thrown overboard and, in that confusion, to have suddenly found that, as she flapped her arms in utter terror, she could not breathe water. She obviously panicked; was extremely fearful and then 'died'. Speaking for myself, I would have expected one so young to have easily 'slipped' into her recent past existence and found it very easy to just swim to the shore or to simply 'float' out of that situation. But she did not. Her body sank and her soul still flapped anyway.
Her mother would have known this... and felt it.
At such a moment, one would *never* expect a mother in such a situation to be thinking 'God' let alone her own higher self. Indeed, she would also not give a second thought to her own tragedy either. Her ONLY thought would be her baby. Would you agree?
And so, I can well imagine turning up, as you have outlined here, as my 'wonderful real self' (Light), to quietly ask her to follow me into the light where she will find that, far from what she may 'think' yet she, like me, are really a Sovereign Entity and can be, do and create whatever we wish.
What do you imagine her words to me would be? Indeed, would they even be civil?
No wonder those in such tragic circumstances are often mistaken for demons.
At a time like this, I can assure that, though I can be yet the notion of 'being clever' and 'wonderful' completely eludes me. Instead, I take on board, her situation completely. In short, I become her. Then, when I have 'become her, I then give her exactly what she wants - regardless of whatever it may be. In this case, it is her daughter. "Never mind 'the light'" she would say (and did) - "Where is my baby?" Never mind that she is still 'tied' to that boat and cannot breath herself. "Where IS my Baby?"
And so, where is her baby?
I am going to be complete honest with you. I am going to say something now that I have never said before in over 25 years of spirit rescue. As I do so, I am fully aware that VERY high beings can see, here and feel me as I speak.
So be it.
It was when I first began my work that it came to my knowledge that this other place of being (often referred to as, 'The Lower Plains') is so vast as to be almost unimaginable. Here was I back then, thinking that all it needed was to rescue a few souls, maybe a few hundred at most and my job would be done. Oh but not so... Throughout those years, I have discovered that, not only are there NOT just a'few hundred' and that The Lower Plains are not 'just' 'lower plains' but are, in fact, whole *solar systems* and whole planets too and that the number of actual souls down there are utterly countless.
In having discovered this, I then became very angry indeed with the 'high' entities and that anger has never left me and nor will it. Why am I angry with 'them'?
In my view, they were/are there, way before we are/I am. They are already at the place that I aspire to become. (Such as say, Buddha, Jesus, Mohamud, Abraham etc. etc.). Now, I am completely unaware as to when I first entered consciousness. I may know that I was there at first creation - and probably was, but even then, even this is not good enough for me. Why isn't it? Because, in all that time, they *ALL* saw how those plains came into existence. What is more, they still ignore it/they/them.
I will repeat what I have just said.
I said, there are *countless* souls trapped down there.
And so, I often asked myself, if an enlightened being is 'enlightened' - that is - actually in a state of constant love, growth and understanding then, how could they be so when so many particles of themselves exist in such a dismal place? How is it possible to feel so wonderful knowing full well that so many of us are suffering and will remain to suffer until someone like me comes along - that is - without the fluff but is every bit as 'human' as they?
You know, I have often though of say, The Buddha and of his kind of consciousness...
How does a *Buddha* own such a consciousness *knowing* that so many are nowhere near his level of being; who are good people, good souls, but who have no idea where to go or what to be?
How can something so good be so bad?
I have found that ignorance is a terrible thing and, once caught in that spiral, if not brought out of it (and yes, often without asking them as well) they, those who belong to me, could remain within that spiral for all eternity.
But ignorance, I have also found, knows no levels either. And what a surprise that was to me too. I did not expect such a thing and nor dreamt it possible. But it is. Indeed, aren't ALL things possible?
Before I began my journey upwards, and deep into it was I then, I was happy with my advancements in all things. but when I saw, with my own eyes, our own mess 'down there' and I heard the cries of all the innocent, do you think that *I* could turn my back on them and grow anyway? I tell you, if I ever had a desire to become Buddha myself then, the sudden realisation of what actually is, took that desire away from me immediately. I find that I no longer wish to be one of 'them' but certainly a one of ME because, no way is it possible that I could ever be so ignorant as to ignore the suffering of my fellow souls - and grow anyway. (So ignorant!)
I was an idiot because, surely it is for our forefathers - our blood - our being - those higher than us - to Guide, show the way? Didn't both Jesus and Buddha do the same? Does my Spirit Guide not do likewise? If not then why are they all there at all? Indeed, why are you? Why should any of you exist - as 'guides' - ones who know - when, in real reality, you learn as I do - and often, the very same lessons?
To me, rescuing is not about being clever or wonderful. It is about understanding, loving and being 'one of them' as I already am and will remain so until they ALL come home!
And I have absolutely no time at all for 'higher' entities because, until they all do come home and no solar system or planet exists down there - NO ONE will be high enough for me.
...and I haven't even mentioned what effect all that negativity has on our own planet...
No wonder she's complaining about us. She has every right to in my book. Until they all come home, we will always remain the disease we have allowed ourselves to become for her and ourselves.
Yes - singularly - individually - we can, of course, advance to higher levels of being. By all means do so. But how can this be really achieved if any of our own particles remain where they should never have been?
Until that place does not exist then, how can any Buddha exist either?
...and so, it is my own path I follow...
...to bring them all home.
And, with me at the helm, they certainly will.
Hi Bob,
I'm sorry to have taken so long to reply; domesticana and hospital appointments have taken their toll upon my PC time.
Thank you for your very intelligent and heartfelt input. I absolutely agree with the queries you have raised and will clarify them with answers to the best of my ability.
Quote: That may be for the case of those who have some kind of understanding of where you are coming from and I wouldn't doubt it. But know this my friend, very few souls in my experience would have any idea of your preamble above and so, would view you as an anomaly that must be avoided.
As explained in the above, the preamble you mentioned is simply a sample taken from, and explained further in the full length E-Book: The Gentle Art of trapped souls rescue/release work, written by my wife Yvonne, and it is available for download at www.ascensionsupportteam.com
Quote: I could not agree more that the basis of your rescue work is as it is but, for me, I have dealt only with 'ordinary' everyday people such as myself who, from experiences that they have encountered, have been caught in a (admittedly their own of course) a kind of 'bubble' of existence of their own making which, to them, is every bit as real as any other 'bubble' on any other level of existence in or of any dimension.
I'm sure you would agree that mankind has reached a point of awakening, and that each individual, dependent on individual speed of learning will awaken in his or her own timing. For example, each day in this physical classroom we all are made more and more aware of the greed, lies, corruption, and deceitful behavior of those we were throughout the ages always taught to look up to and respect; both political and religious leaderships. The price of this growing awareness is that we no longer know who to trust, and so eventually in our own timing we are compelled to rely upon our own opinions, ideas, judgments, and leadership of self. As this is a matter of individual timing many will cling to their past loyalties rather than admit their 'bubble reality' (your phrase) has burst. Many others, as we well know, would become seekers of truth, and it is for seekers of truth that Yvonne and I write. We try to offer a logical energy structure that leads down from, and leads us all struggling in physicality up to, a non-physical Creator.
Quote: I want to cite here one particular case if I may...
A woman has just been raped and beaten to death. To hide her body, two men, keelhauled her (tied under a rowing boat) so tightly that it would be a long time before she would be discovered. Before this occurred, her two years old daughter was thrown overboard and left to drown.
What do you imagine is the very first thing on her mind - the only thing on her mind?
Ascension? The Light? I doubt that very much. And so it was that, even after this terrible episode yet, the only thought on her mind was, of course, her daughter.
In reading 'into' what you have written elsewhere here, I am assuming that, to be enlightened, to be 'good enough' or 'understanding enough' - to be able to 'control emotion and energy' then, I am of the understanding that, the best thing she could have done was to, just let go and 'let God' or her higher being, remove her from this situation, to allow her two-year old baby to find her own way in her own time. (Is this correct? Forgive me if I have misunderstood or am mistaken).
We all are born into the physical without a clue as to why we exist. When we leave the physical we leave only with what we learnt from limited knowledge gained from equally baffled others and from our own experiences during that single lifespan. During that lifespan we may choose to believe that when we die we switch off like a light bulb, and if so then the subject needs no further thought. Alternatively we may choose to believe in some sort of afterlife, and then many religions and belief systems offer their various versions of what an afterlife consists; many of which if we are honest are based in conjecture, hearsay, and assumptions that tradition has given to them the status of facts. Thus countless souls such as the mother and child in your example leave the physical with no clear idea of what they will face, and so of course you must continue with your valuable rescue work because your dedication and your light can bring the baby back to its mother and then guide them both to their levels on the Astral.
Quote: Ok. So, what do we do? As 'Spirit Rescuers' - what do we do for the best? Let go? Don't be there? Take no notice and just 'trust'?
If not the above then why am I there at all?
No Bob, never let go because your gift is precious, let me explain. Personally I choose to believe in the logic of Reincarnation but then I want to understand why we need to reincarnate. Reincarnation means that not only will we repeatedly leave and return to this physical nursery and class room having learnt or not learnt at least some of life's lessons, it also means that already we have left and returned countless times. In turn this means that during those countless returns our only threshold into the physical is into the body of a newly-born baby that has been formed and given life by its mother.
So we leave the long or short physical life span maybe as a baffled adult or inexperienced child and then later re-enter the physical into a baby with all our previously-gained memories of past lives left behind on our currently achieved level of the Astral Vortex. This gives us all a fresh, blank sheet start. During this pendulum existence arrival on the achieved Astral Level would seem to be like awakening from a dream as memories of all those past lives and astral sojourns and also real knowledge of the individual soul's ongoing plan would return.
The vital period that involves you in your role of rescuer falls between leaving the physical and arrival on the achieved astral level. During this period the person (or soul if you prefer) suddenly arrives in what you name the lower plains and I describe as the Interlife zone, to be faced with what? So many of the accounts tell us of a tunnel brilliantly lit at its far end. What is this light? It could only be this soul's achieved level on the astral vortex. So the free will choice must be to move along the tunnel and into the light unless pre-instilled fear of the unknown prevents the soul from doing this; and this is where ordinary old you with your mortgage and backache enter the scene.
The last thing this confused, uncertain soul needs is a radiant higher being making an appearance. Yes there are countless souls in the Interlife Zone trapped by their own fears and ignorance, but remember you are not alone in your rescue work there are many of us in the physical and on the astral who care and try to help. Also remember that every trapped soul is endowed with freewill choice and has his or her speed of learning. How often has something that is obvious to others completely baffled you until suddenly it also become obvious to you, and then you could kick yourself? I know it has frequently happened to me! The same thing happens to trapped souls who are simply folks that have departed from the physical but don't know where to go next. Keep in mind, that in the tunnel are folks familiar to the mother who have left their individually achieved astral levels to guide the mother and child to their achieved astral levels. Do also keep in mind that both mother and child are adult souls that have reincarnated with blank sheet minds many times.
As to your disappointment with the apparent lack of higher beings' interest in rescue work I can only offer some thoughts that I received using the simile of spiritual progress likened to riding up an escalator: If someone lower down the steps stumbles and falls, who could be better than those around that person to help he or she to his or her feet?
Don't ever lose heart Bob; you certainly will bring them home.
Best regards
David Brittain
As I read this last part of your post, though I agreed with it yet I got a stab in the gut and didn't know why. But, after some though, it has finally come to me. Let us recap. You said...
[As to your disappointment with the apparent lack of higher beings' interest in rescue work I can only offer some thoughts that I received using the simile of spiritual progress likened to riding up an escalator: If someone lower down the steps stumbles and falls, who could be better than those around that person to help he or she to his or her feet?]
However, you don't know who you're in communication with now do you? I don't blame you because I have never sought notoriety for my work so, it's Ok. but though I am not known here on this plain yet I am very well known on the other for being, extremely successful for what I do.
For over 25 years I have rescued the lost - and have *never* failed. In that time, I have rescued over 1 million souls. Not only this but I have not only brought hom 'the one from the bottom' but have also brought home whatever was beneath this man - who happened to be a giant of ancient Biblical times. It was through him that I saw 'our' first footing upon this earth too. Once, there were only giants you see? We were brought here by beings similar in statue to ourselves. In any event, my fame came about because, as I said, I also brought home the 'what' that was beneath even this 'last' *man* too. In short, what I really did, was to remove fear of all 'lower plains' from heaven (and there was a lot of it) by achieving what previously had always been perceived as 'the impossible'. I do not 'believe' in this word 'impossible' and here, I showed that I didn't in a very real way to all the heavens.
What is my point?
Well, not this that's for sure. It really isn't that important to me - but the 'job' is.
No. My point is, how come, after all this time, did 'the heavens' have to wait for an ordinary man such as myself to 'happen along' to achieve what, to me, *should* have been achieved aeons ago by beings much greater than myself?
Our forefathers - The Ancients for example, were here back then. So, why did they not see the vastness of these lower plains (and they *are* real (not imaginary), physical *levels* of being I can assure you whereby if you hit your head on a rock you would feel it?) and do something about it - for their children just as I am doing now? Why did they ignore it or pretend that it isn't there when it was there when they were here and not quite as vast then either.
Why? What IS the excuse for such ignorance as this?
It then brings me to say, The Buddha.
The Buddha, in all his/her enlightenment, MUST have seen these places - or at least a part of them. In being so 'enlightened' why did he/she choose to leave them there when even they remember being ignorant and lost themselves? Whilst on the one hand, I do understand that, so often, it is our ignorance that becomes a vault to our eventual 'enlightened' success. And so, I am thinking that The Buddha, in remembering his/her ignorance and the eventual vaulting of understanding, would look back on 'the lost' and feel that interference may very well slow down or even halt these and their advancement. Yes, I easily understand this. But on the other? Well, how about thinking the opposite as well in that, HIS/HER rescue could *also* become the very thing that launches them too?
So you see, there is not just one answer towards excellence is there for, ultimately, ALL roads lead to God and yes, even rescued ones too.
In being back then the 'one nearest' thus, why didn't they/he/she ALSO rescue those less fortunate?
Perhaps not knowing 'everything' after all that, they, really didn't know HOW to rescue in the first place?
And so, ..maybe its because 'enlightenment' isn't what it is cut out to be eh?
Maybe we should look at this 'enlightenment' thing again because, if it means leaving loved ones behind - or aspects of The One - for ANY reason - then, for me, they can stick it - and yes, they will always make me angry.
To me, it is a parent's soul-born God-given duty to protect and even save their young.
When it comes to protecting and saving their young - or even their equals (as well as this very place we live on taboot) - where we're OUR forefathers in our time of need? Who protected us then so that now, me and people like me, must now clean up their mess - their ignorance too?
Oh you bet I'm angry - angry with the lot of them whoever they are.
And I sincerely hope they heard me too. I really do.
Thank you for listening.
In love and peace always.
(And I will never lose heart not ever until it is done).
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The Power of Good Posture
August 31, 2010 at 10:40 am , by Julie Bain
I'll never forget my first elegant New York dinner party. It was the late 1990s and I was invited to a seated dinner at a posh Upper West Side apartment, attended by a fascinating assortment of writers, artists, photographers and musicians. As I sat down next to a very attractive gentleman, he noted, "You have really good posture." Maybe it wasn't the compliment of my dreams, but it was memorable!
I do have good posture. I don't know if my mom instilled that in me, or if years of yoga classes straightened out my spine. But for those of us who sit at a desk for hours a day, good posture is vital to our health. So I was thrilled when we ran a story in our September issue called "Don't Be a Slouch," and when the Today Show asked me to come on and demonstrate some of my good-posture moves.
Check Out My Posture Moves with Hoda and Kathie Lee on the Today Show
I was in the Today Show studio for a run-through the night before with producer Bruce Lamb, above, and we decided we would demonstrate the old "balance a book on your head" posture move. It's not as easy as it looks! To see how Kathie Lee and Hoda did with their book balancing (and to see my techniques for sitting at a computer, holding a cell phone and carrying heavy bags), watch the Today Show video clip here. It's a blast, and I guarantee it'll have you practicing your dance moves while carrying books on your head—and sitting up straighter, too.
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Written on September 9, 2010 at 6:28 am, by Dr Philip Worthington
Good article. Of course, with so many of us now having sedentary lifestyles at work and home, sitting posture is also important. In particular, if you spend hours each day using a computer at work, school or home, it's vital to remember to sit in a good posture, and to take regular short breaks from your computer, to protect yourself from back pain and other problems.
However, if you're engrossed in what you're doing, your posture is often the last thing on your mind. The result is, if you look around a typical office, you'll see most people sitting in damaging postures because they've reverted to bad old habits.
That was my experience – I'm pretty fit, do plenty of exercise, and also knew how I should sit. But I developed back pain from working in an office for hours on end and sitting in bad postures. As a result, I've developed award-winning PostureMinder software to help computer users correct their posture and adopt healthy, ergonomic working habits. There's a free 30 day trial download on my website
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