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However, China insisted that Google must obey its laws, after the company said it would no longer bow to the communist country's army of Internet censors by filtering search results available on google.cn.
The US firm -- whose unofficial motto is "Don't Be Evil" -- said it could abandon its Chinese search engine, and perhaps shut its offices in the world's largest online market by users, over theft of its intellectual property.
"No matter what decision Google makes, it will not affect overall trade and economic relations between China and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. ," commerce ministry spokesman Yao Jian told reporters.
"The two countries have multiple communication channels. We are confident in the healthy development of economic and trade relations between China and the United States."
In Beijing's first official reaction Thursday, a foreign ministry spokeswoman insisted China's Internet was "open" but defended its censorship system and said foreign firms must abide by the law.
Yao echoed those remarks, saying foreign firms operating in China should "respect the laws, public interest, culture and traditions in host countries, and take on social responsibilities accordingly."
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A socialist market economy . Stability and development are our top priorities at the current stage," the commerce ministry spokesman said.
He said Google should "make the right choice" about its future, noting that China's development would benefit both the country itself and companies doing business there.
Google said the cyberattacks were likely aimed at gaining access to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, but has said it does not believe that goal was achieved.
The row has threatened to rattle ties between Washington and Beijing -- already frayed over a number of issues, from the Copenhagen climate change debacle to the value of the Chinese yuan This article is about the Chinese currency base unit. For the modern currencies corresponding to the "Chinese yuan", see Renminbi ( and a number of other trade disputes.
Earlier this week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton demanded answers from China over the Google case. On Thursday, State Department spokesman Philip Crowley said Chinese embassy and US officials had met in Washington.
Crowley said the issue "raises questions about both Internet freedom and the security of the Internet in China" -- home to more than 380 million web users according to according to
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Google said more than 20 other unidentified firms were targeted in the "highly sophisticated" attacks, believed to have originated in China, while other reports have put the number of companies attacked at more than 30.
Officials in Washington have been reluctant to comment on how the Google case could affect ties, but one official warned of future diplomatic fallout.
"If this was part of a deliberate strategy on behalf of China, it has implications," said the official, who asked not to be named.
US lawmakers on Thursday hailed Google's move and touted a draft bill that would prohibit US firms from storing users' personal information in countries that restrict the peaceful expression of political and religious views online.
Under the proposed Global Online Freedom Act, companies would also have to report to the State Department which search terms countries were trying to filter out.
"Google sent a thrill of encouragement through the hearts of millions of Chinese," Republican Representative Chris Smith, the bill's chief sponsor, told a news conference. "It is a game-changer."
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Experts said the issue highlighted deep differences between China and the United States -- despite mutual claims of a solid relationship -- but added it was too early to tell whether the Google case would directly impact ties.
"The problems that Google is running into are part of a general squall line in the larger storm of how China deals with the US," said Russell Leigh Moses, a Beijing-based political analyst.
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Microsoft on Thursday advised Internet Explorer users to boost their security settings after discovering that a weakness in the web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. allowed the hackers to attack Google.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said the US software giant took cyberattacks "seriously" but had no plans to pull out of China and would abide by local law.
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For the past few years, bankers have lamented the perceived lack of reliability from the appraisals they have received. This refrain is expressed across the country. Bankers simply do not believe that appraisers are providing a useful product.
This issue has been around for years and years, and yet we seem no closer to a solution. So what is the problem? The most obvious is that appraisals are based on the traditional market value definition (as defined by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act), which has a specific criteria and set of assumptions. The most intriguing is the assumption of competent management. Here is the reality:
There are differences in how an appraiser estimates a market value cash flow and how an analyst underwrites a property cash flow for loan repayment purposes. Further, there is debate among appraisers about the validity of using other real estate owned sales as comps. From hundreds of appraisals reviewed in bank files all over the country, it is apparent that the appraisers estimate of market value tends to reflect the best-case value, or at least, the better-case value. To fully understand a loans potential for impairment, the bank needs to know the likely proceeds from the sale of the collateral. The difference in the interpretation of market value is the cause of the disconnect between appraiser and banker.
While the appraisal community lives in the predefined world of market value, the bank community, for its part, has been unwilling or unable to hold appraisers accountable for the answers they need. Appraisal policies and procedures have focused on compliance, more so than relevance. The cost of competent appraisal administration and pressure on liquidity and capital ratios have allowed banks to deflect responsibility.
A litany of appraisal issues has been observed through the years; two examples are presented here. The first is a loan on a tract of land located in the western United States, made by a bank closed well over a year ago. The property is a 1,250-acre tract in a town of less than 1,000. It was purchased in 2007 for $2,250/acre for development of a retirement community. It was appraised by an MAI member in 2008 for $10,000/acre as developed and $9,000/acre as is.
Think about that; the property was purchased in 2007 for $2,250/acre and the as is value a year later was $9,000/acre. There were no entitlements, development plans or zoning variances that would have added value. That is a 300 percent return in one year. The bank had the appraisal reviewed, also by an MAI member, who concluded that the appraisal was based on hypothetical conditions and extraordinary assumptions that were unreasonable. And the reviewer signed off on the value without requesting any further explanation or review by the appraiser.
When we reviewed this loan a couple of years after the appraisal, we arrived at a collateral value significantly less than the 2007 acquisition price. Even though the bank made a low-leverage loan, after review, it needed to be downgraded.
The second example is of a 30,000 sq. ft. office building in a tertiary market that was significantly impacted by the economic downturn. It had never had an occupancy level more than 74 percent. During the previous year, occupancy had declined from 74 percent to 59 percent. The appraiser, nevertheless, completed a discounted cash flow analysis with a two-year lease up and stabilized the asset at 93 percent. This appraisal was reviewed and approved internally.
When we reviewed this appraisal a few months ago, we calculated a value almost 40 percent less than the appraiser. And our collateral value estimate was supported by recent sales. Again, a larger loss was indicated than was expected by the bank.
Here is what banks can do to improve the relevance and usefulness of appraisals:
Banks must demand accountability from the appraiser for each appraisal.
Hire the right person or the right third-party provider; this person should have the experience and skill set to adequately assess the data in the appraisal, judge the relevance of the appraisers methodology and have the ability to efficiently understand the appropriateness of the information contained in the appraisal ensuring that a relevant piece of information has not been missed or misused. Unfortunately, taking someone from credit administration and sending them to a few appraisal courses is not going to make that person an experienced real estate appraiser with a deep understanding of the nuances of commercial real estate.
Give this person the full support of senior management including, if necessary, the board of directors.
If the bank uses an appraisal management company or outside third party for appraisal review, the same level of accountability must be required.
When hiring an appraiser, clearly communicate the banks expectations. Provide guidelines in the instructions to the appraiser. For example, request that market value be based on a six-month to one-year marketing period. For OREO or potential OREO, request the liquidation value based on a three-month or six-month marketing period. In the letter of transmittal, request that a range of value be provided along with the appraisers final estimate of value.
As part of the engagement letter, let the appraiser know that every appraisal and appraisal review will have an impact on the appraisers status on the banks approved appraiser list. Also, clearly state in the engagement letter that any appraisal received that is based on unreasonable assumptions and conditions or violates the Appraisal Foundations USPAP will result in the appraiser being reported to the Appraisal Institute and the states appropriate appraisal oversight agency.
Finally, banks must be willing to amend their approved appraiser lists on a regular basis.
Banks and examiners should have a certain level of comfort with the appraised value that forms the foundation of credit and risk management. An understanding of potential impairment and provisioning requires a reasonably accurate estimate of collateral value. The points suggested above, implemented into a banks policies and procedures will lead to more useful appraisals and translate into better loan approval and credit/risk management decisions.
Larry S. Lewis is founder and principal of Green Bench Advisors LLC, a bank advisory firm offering third-party loan review for bank recapitalizations, mergers and acquisitions, and loan portfolio acquisition. Contact him at llewis(at)greenbenchadvisors.com.
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Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson put forth a number of "new" ideas for changes in the regulatory structures. Nothing I saw will help all that much in the current crisis. It's more like re-arranging the deck chairs as the ship is going down. It seems like most of it is being proposed to prevent another crisis like the one we are in from occurring in the future. That simply insures that Wall Street will have to invent whole new ways to create a crisis in the future. I am sure they will be up to the task. ~ John Mauldin (April 4, 2008)
We have seen this before. In 1980, Congress abolished the law that prohibited banks from paying market rates of interest on deposits under $100,000 — a law that had been designed to hurt small investors and also make low-cost funds available to banks. It was a price control. It blew up after 1976. Price controls restrict the supply of whatever is controlled.
The new law was the Monetary Control Act of 1980. Why did Congress pass it? Because the banks were hemorrhaging money. Why? Because Federal Reserve policy had changed. Under Arthur Burns and his short-termed successor, G. William Miller, the FED had pumped in fiat money with abandon. This began in the 1970—71 recession, which was caused by tight-money policies imposed after Johnson left office in 1969. In fiscal 1971 and 1972, Nixon's administration ran back-to-back deficits of $23 billion, which were considered gigantic at the time — and were.
The FED's policy of monetary expansion accelerated the outflow of gold, which had begun under Eisenhower's second term and became a major problem under Johnson in 1968. So, Nixon unilaterally took the country of the gold exchange standard, under which foreign governments and central banks had been able to buy gold from the U.S. Treasury at $35/oz. That marked the beginning of the stagflation of the 1970's.
The FED accelerated this inflationary process in the recession of 1975. Interest rates rose in response to rising prices.
Paul Volcker replaced Miller in the fall of 1979. Under him, the FED changed policy: from targeting interest rates to tight money. Short-term rates soared as the new conditions — high demand for loans, tight money — pushed rates higher than they had ever been in the 20th century.
In 1974, an entrepreneur created the Capital Preservation Fund. It invested only in short-term Treasury debt. It was not a bank. It was called a money-market fund. It could legally offer investors a rate of return close to what the U.S. Treasury was offering big investors. Banks couldn't. You could write checks off of it. Savings accounts in banks offered no such option.
I worked for Howard Ruff as a telephone consultant from 1977—1979. We recommended Capital Preservation Fund. It was a time of rising interest rates.
The fund had imitators. Soon, money was flowing out of banks into a new investment medium, money market funds. The banks could not compete. They were trapped: rising interest rates, falling deposits, and a price control on what they were allowed to offer to small depositors.
Meanwhile, the loans that they had made to Latin America as agents of the oil-exporting nations' gigantic inflow of funds began to go bad in 1980. The market value of these loans began to fall, threatening the biggest banks' balance sheets. So, Congress changed the rules that year. It allowed the banks to keep these bad loans on the books at book value: the price originally paid.
That decision led to today's subprime crisis, where bad debt that was rated AAA turned out to be worthless. New accounting rules, adopted last year, require banks to mark their value to market. This has threatened the banks' balance sheets.
In 1980, Congress intervened in another area. It abolished Regulation Q, the interest rate ceiling on small deposits (under $100,000). This raised the cost of funds for the banks, but it kept them from bankruptcy.
As part of the payoff to the banks, Congress allowed banks to make mortgages, putting them in competition with the savings & loan industry.
Soon, the S&L industry responded by raising its rates to "depositors" (legally, investors) and making more long-term mortgage loans. This was the ancient carry trade: borrow short, lend long.
With Carter's recession of 1980, which ended but then was replaced by a worse one under Reagan in 1981, the S&L industry went into a crisis. They began going bankrupt in the mid-1980's because of a slowdown in home sales due to the recession and its aftermath. It took Congress hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the S&L industry.
Step by step, Congress solves one crisis by sowing the seeds for the next one.
The subprime real estate loans have been made. The slightly safer Alt-A loans have been made. The unqualified borrowers bought their homes at the top of the housing bubble: 2005, 2006. In 2007, the market visibly reversed. Now the delinquency rate has risen. As the subprime crisis has spread around the world ever since last August, over-leveraged hedge funds and investment pools have been hit with hundreds of billions of dollars of losses. The Carlyle Capital fund, created in 2006 to buy Fannie Mae mortgages with borrowed money (32 to one leverage) is the poster child of stupid money invested by supposedly very smart people. It got a $400 million margin call on $16.6 billion in debt and went bust in just one week — the week of the Bear Stearns disaster.
The investment banks that loaned smart people all that stupid money are now hemorrhaging. They are lining up to get paid by busted hedge funds. When the courts and the lawyers get through with them, whatever is left over will have to be put on the books at market value, not book value.
Mayday! Mayday!
The horses are out of the barn. What is crucial to the solvency of the American financial sector today is a legal way for accountants to count missing horses as if they were still safely locked inside the barn. This, the government has recently provided.
The Division of Corporate Finance of the United States Government has therefore modified the new rule by allowing a specific interpretation of the rule. As of March, it will allow institutions to cook the books temporarily.
In March 2008, the Division of Corporation Finance sent the following illustrative letter to certain public companies identifying a number of disclosure issues they may wish to consider in preparing Management's Discussion and Analysis for their upcoming quarterly reports on Form 10-Q.
What, exactly, does the modification allow? Postponement. The key phrase is "unobservable inputs."
We note that you reported a significant amount of asset-backed securities, loans carried at fair value or the lower of cost or market, and derivative assets and liabilities in your financial statements in your recent Form 10-K. Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, Fair Value Measurements, defines fair value, provides a framework for you to measure the fair value of your assets and liabilities, and requires you to provide certain disclosures about those measurements.
Fair value assumes the exchange of assets or liabilities in orderly transactions. Under SFAS 157, it is appropriate for you to consider actual market prices, or observable inputs, even when the market is less liquid than historical market volumes, unless those prices are the result of a forced liquidation or distress sale. Only when actual market prices, or relevant observable inputs, are not available is it appropriate for you to use unobservable inputs which reflect your assumptions of what market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Current market conditions may require you to use valuation models that require significant unobservable inputs for some of your assets and liabilities.
So, the corporate accounting team looks at the current market price of the asset and then searches for mitigating factors. This is pick-and-choose accounting.
For example, consider providing a range of values around the fair value amount you arrived at to provide a sense of how the fair value estimate could potentially change as the significant inputs vary. To the extent you provide a range, discuss why you believe the range is appropriate, identifying the key drivers of variability, and discussing how you developed the inputs you used in determining the range.
This reminds of me of the new, improved way of teaching arithmetic. The student can get extra credit for explaining why he got the wrong answer.
Investors will still be kept, if not in the dark, then at least the shadows. But existing investors prefer this. They do not want the truth. They prefer the illusion of solvency. Like Japanese bankers from 1990 to 2006, they do not want the capital losses to be written down where the investment world can see them.
The game must be kept going for the economy not to fall into a major recession. Investors were lured into leveraged investments that have gone bad. These investments are not going to get better. They will get written off as losses. The question is: When? The government and the big banks want this answer: later.
If the price of housing continues to fall, the number of bad loans will increase. Borrowers will find themselves under water: owing more than their homes are worth. They will either walk away or just stop paying their monthly bills, and wait for a court to kick them out. This will take years if they just sit there, paying only their property taxes on time. They may not know this yet, but hundreds of thousands of them will find out. The ability of the mortgage-holding financial institutions to conceal these bad loans from the capital markets is limited.
The longer the price decline continues, the more of the loans will be called into question. The standard figure is $200 billion in bad loans. This is standard because most of this is behind us. The problem is, the figure is acknowledged to be overly optimistic. According to a report issued by the International Monetary Fund, losses could reach $800 billion. This was reported by Germany's major news magazine, Der Spiegel (March 26), but it has received little attention in the American media.
Understand, this is not $800 billion of losses in a broad market, such as all U.S. stocks. This is concentrated in the financial sector, which supplies capital to the economy. This is the center of the economy — exactly where Ludwig von Mises wrote in 1912 that the forecasting errors are concentrated during a period of monetary inflation fostered by the central bank. But, in this case, the errors were not confined to one nation. They have spread into the international financial markets that bought America's AAA-rated debt.
The bad news keeps dribbling out. It has not created a panic in the capital markets because investors do not understand the Austrian theory of the business cycle. They do not understand the extent to which capital has been misallocated. They do not see the severity of the losses under recessionary conditions.
These losses can be concealed by cooking the books temporarily. They cannot be concealed if the decline in housing prices continues.
There is nothing on the horizon that I see that will reverse this decline. The chief economist for the National Association of Realtors thinks the housing market may turn up in the second half of 2008. This is similar to the happy-face prediction that led to the departure of his predecessor, David Lereah. For a time chart that tracks their statements and the housing decline, click here.
Yun's March, 2008 forecast is this:
Rising sales will also bring down inventory and help strengthen home prices. The national median price of an existing home will fall in the first half of the year and then rise in the second half. For the year as a whole, the median price will have fallen by 1 percent — after having fallen 1.4 percent last year.
His figures are immediately suspect. From January, 2007 to January, 2008, according to the Case-Shiller index, which is widely accepted, the median house price fell in 10 cities declined by 11.4%. This is the steepest decline in the index's 21-year history. In 20 cities, it was down 10.7%, the steepest decline in the index's 8-year history.
We are in the early stages of a recession. Why should we expect American housing prices to bottom in June? The interest rate re-sets are contractually scheduled to continue through 2009. Who expects the foreclosure rate to slow? If they increase, why should prices increase in the second half of 2008? Or 2009?
The media will promote the changes that will centralize control under the Federal Reserve System. This is a foregone conclusion. But the changes will not fix the financial system's losses from the previous mistakes. These mistakes have not begun to spread through the economy.
The public is not in panic mode. It has not been in panic mode since 1991. Today's investors do not remember what a serious recession can do.
The public's faith shown in the FED is remarkable. That faith will be abandoned by a growing minority of Americans when the economy moves into full-scale recession. The press will do what it can to blame anyone and anything except the FED, but this strategy has limits.
The government and the FED have worked together to create this crisis. They will work together to cover up the effects of prior policies. This will lead to even greater crises.
We have a tiger by the tail.
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To find a metaphor for the failed Obama presidency, look no further than Solyndra. Before it went bankrupt, the solar panel manufacturer was more than the recipient of a $535 million loan guarantee from the federal government. It was the model for the White House effort to put the American economy on a "new foundation."
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Jon Stewart skewers the Obama administration on Solyndra.
Was Solyndra actually looking at getting another loan from the federal government?
Vince Vaughn is a Ron Paul fan.
We may be witnessing a perfect Washington moment. For most of the workweek, attention has been focused on the collapse of a solar energy company that had received economically dubious–and politically motivated–subsidies of some $500 million. On Sunday, the city's football franchise, the Redskins, will play a game the organization is calling the "Solar Bowl."
The Washington Post reports that the stimulus-backed Department of Energy loan guarantee program, which financed green energy companies like the failed solar energy start-up Solyndra and three projects for the Abengoa corporation, has created far fewer jobs than the Obama administration projected:
The Obama administration is now pushing a rather dubious defense for handing out $535 million in stimulus funds to the now-bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra. They're blaming Bush:
Even as problems grow for Solyndra, the solar energy manufacturing firm that got a hefty stimulus-backed loan before going bankrupt earlier this month, the Department of Energy continues to issue large loans to companies.
Two big stories are out tonight on the blossoming scandal involving failed solar panel company and stimulus funds recipient Solyndra. First, the Washington Post reports that the White House pressured the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to speed up the approval process for Solyndra's $535 million loan:
Well, this is awkward. Despite $535 million in government loans and the White House touting Solyndra as an example of how the $800 billion stimulus bill was helping create jobs, everyone in the following video is now unemployed:
In her speech to a Tea Party gathering in Indianola, Iowa on Saturday, Sarah Palin criticized what she called "crony capitalism:"
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93 Mr R. G. Menzies, Prime Minister, to Sir Harry Luke, U.K. High Commissioner for the Western Pacific (at Vila)
Cablegram unnumbered 2 September 1940,
You have no doubt seen cablegram from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs dated 30th August [1], suggesting that the Commonwealth Government should send cruiser ADELAIDE to New Hebrides embark the French Resident Commissioner [2] and proceed to Noumea with view to bringing about return of DUMONT D'URVILLE to Papeete and stabilizing position without any overt intervention.
Commonwealth Government has acted on first part of suggestion and ADELAIDE will arrive in Vila on, Saturday 3, there to await further instructions.
In meantime desired you telegraph your views urgently and direct to the Commonwealth Government on situation as you saw it in Noumea and on the further suggestions of the United Kingdom Government.
Since you left Noumea, Ballard [4] has reported that though position is still unstable it is little different from Pelicier [5] regime.
Colonel Denis, new Governor, informed Ballard on 1st September that he desired to continue policy of economic collaboration with Australia. Our messages to Ballard have been delivered and acknowledged and information Acting Resident Commissioner, Vila [6], that messages being detained not confirmed. [7]


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The Gurukula Project: from 1968 to 2010 and beyond
By the Gurukula Project Team*
12 June 2010
As far back as 1968, Srila Prabhupada was encouraging his disciples to open gurukulas to educate children in spiritual and academic matters. In various letters to his disciples, Prabhupada addressed philosophical as well as practical issues regarding the administration of such centers. As history goes, many of the leaders of these schools failed Srila Prabhupada and ISKCON. However, we argue that the Gurukula project remains ISKCON's best hope for a respectable future. If we excel at educating our children in Krishna Consciousness, then they will become the exemplary leaders of society that Srila Prabhupada envisioned.
Before we continue, we must clarify that we will only argue in favor of day schools and not boarding schools; the latter have been at the center of ISKCON's shameful past, but there is hope in day schools. We base our defense on a letter Srila Prabhupada wrote to Indira devi dasi in 1971 where he stated: "So far your son leaving you, his parents, at 5 years, that is not necessary. Especially our Krishna Conscious children; they are already living in an asrama. The children of our devotees may live with their parents perpetually because you are all living in the temple and already engaged in devotional service." We acknowledge that there are some experiments with devotional day schools in the United States, but one can hardly argue that they are pleasing to Srila Prabhupada because they stray from his instructions. Nevertheless, one must recognize that these experiments are the result of the failures mentioned above.
They said Prabhupada made a house where everyone could live, yet the house needs some housekeeping. To redeem itself and gain back the trust of many devotees, ISKCON must have no tolerance toward child offenders and immediately report them to the local authorities. Even if the offenses took place years ago, one must denounce them without further delay. Harboring child offenders – under the pretext of being compassionate or not committing offenses – only creates more difficulties for the movement.
There are some who will argue that we should not expose the faults of others and quote Chanayaka Pandita in their defense. However, if common sense and human decency are not enough to compel one to report child offenders, we can take refuge in the words of the young brahmana in Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya 5.90: "My dear Sir, You are very merciful and You know everything. Therefore, kindly be a witness in this case. A person who knows things as they are and still does not bear witness becomes involved in sinful activities." Therefore, bear witness and be free from such horrible sinful activities.
For several years we have been writing school proposals and discussing with devotees different ideas on how to start and run schools that would please Srila Prabhupada. Devotees might show some interest at first, which soon dwindles. The word "gurukula" sounds foul to many, who prefer not to address the issue. They rather dovetail their financial and intellectual resources to other projects that might not be as risky. In the long run, however, all of us suffer for want of a fine education for our children.
The type of schools that we advocate are consistent with Srila Prabhupada's vision and with the mission of the Bhaktivedanta Institute. Like Prabhupada said, "…our gurukula should be ideal." While referring to the creation of the Bhaktivedanta Institute, Prabhupada wrote, "This party is our most important preaching arm with which we will be able to destroy the bogus speculation and cheating which goes under the banner of scientific advancement." We envision schools that will create these ideal preachers: individuals of high character who are knowledgeable about spiritual life and conversant with modern scientific language.
We should consider Srila Prabhupada's words carefully: "I am especially pleased that your Gurukula project is going forward nicely. I consider that this is one of our most important projects, because people in general are only suffering due to poor fund of knowledge."
The Gurukula project is the greatest failure in ISKCON. To redeem itself, ISKCON must allocate human and financial resources to educational initiatives that are faithful to Srila Prabhupada's vision, thus our children and society will benefit. We believe that caring for our children in this way will be even more beneficial for the future of the Society – and pleasing to Srila Prabhupada – than building new temples or installing more deities.
* The Gurukula Project Team exists to promote Srila Prabhupada's teachings on gurukulas and to actually help establish such schools. We are NOT concerned with your initiation status, institutional affiliation or other similar issues. We simply want to collaborate with devotees who share three basic principles:
1) Love for Krishna and His holy name
2) Respect for Srila Prabhupada as especially empowered to preach the mission of Mahaprabhu
3) Make an honest effort to behave according to Vaisnava principles.
We want to hear from you. Let us know your thoughts.
Hare Krishna!
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anantaramdas says : Log in to Reply
The Gurukula Project Team welcomes participation from devotees who want to constructively engage in discussing Srila Prabhupada's ideas about education and to help in establishing schools. Talking without action is useless. Hence, we expect to have an actual school running by next year. At present, there are three alternatives being considered in the State of Florida. If you want to be part of the team, just email us with your spiritual and legal names, a short bio, and a short statement as to what gurukula means to you.
This group was formed with the intent of getting devotees to talk about gurukulas in a constructive way. We DO NOT want to hear about someone else's mistakes or crimes, but we DO want to hear about your realizations, experiences or mistakes as a parent or teacher. It's easy to point to other people's faults, but it is more enlightening to look at our own, admit them, reflect upon them, and share them with others for our own purification and learning.
We will send a weekly reflection based on Srila Prabhupada's teachings. As a starting point, we emphasize that we have to be flexible with others, yet strict with ourselves. Let us follow Srila Prabhupada and teach by example.
Hare Krishna!
The Gurukula Project Team (Find us on Facebook.)
Here's the list of initial members. We will update it regularly.
Vishnupriya Devi Dasi (Verónica Rosario)
Gaura Keshava Das (Greg Jay)
Basu Ghosh Das
Ishvari Devi Dasi (Ishtar Rosario)
Ramanya Das (Héctor Guzmán)
Ananta Ram Das (Dr. Héctor Rosario)
ramani says : Log in to Reply
Noble concerns but very vague.
It would be good to know who are the team members, what are their qualifications and if they are working with ISKCON's Education ministry?
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Adam Werbach, in his book Act Now, Apologize Later, describes several kinds of environmentalists. One of them he calls "druid environmentalists," who are " driven by a basic belief that nature is restorative and inherently important for its spiritual qualities."
This section, Meditations, is meant for the "druids" of Coloradoand for everyone else who wants to cele-brate inspiring and thought-provoking quotations, experiences, views and reflections about our connection with the earth. Your ideas and suggestions will help to shape future Meditations. Contact Kyra Epstein at email@example.com.
Excerpts of a letter from Chief Seattle to the U.S. Government, 1852 From "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell.
The President in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy our land. But how can you buy or sell the sky? The land? The idea is strange to us.
Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shin-ing pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people.
We know the sap, which courses through the trees, as we know the blood that courses through our veins. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters. The bear, the deer, the great eagle: these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juice in the meadow, the body heat of the pony, and manall belong to the same family.
If we sell you our land, you must remember that it is sacred. Each ghostly reflection in the clear waters of the lakes tells of events and memories in the life of my people. The waters murmur is the voice of my fathers father.
Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
Your destiny is a mystery to us. What will happen when the buffalo are all slaughtered? The wild horses tamed? What will happen when the secret corners of the forest are heavy with the scent of many men and the view of the ripe hills is blot-ted by talking wires? The end of living and the beginning of survival.
When the last Red Man has vanished with his wilderness and his memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, will these shores and forests still be here? Will there be any of the spirit of my people left?
We love this earth as a newborn loves its mothers heartbeat. So, if we sell you our land, love it as we have loved it. Care for it as we have cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land as it is when you receive it. Preserve the land for all children and love it, as God loves us all.


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Getting Corporeal
In the journey of faith a lot of time is spent, rightly so, on the quest for spiritual maturity. To speak in Thomistic and Aristotelian terms, our spiritual selves, our incorporeal souls and powers of intellect and will, separate us from the brute animals. Our rational soul makes us human, higher than other animals in the hierarchy of created things. We foster spiritual growth so we can advance in virtue and holiness.
But there's something else I only recently considered too, and I think it's a function of the clean sterility that we (especially housewives) tend to seek in our organic lives. What makes us human is that we are also corporeal, made of matter, and that aspect of us is important too. Why? Because as much as our rational soul separates us from other animals, our corporeal body separates us from angels. Angels are spirits without bodies, and thus they possess knowledge differently than we do.
Angels are infused with knowledge from God, according to the accepted teaching of St. Thomas, and what they know is never conditioned or affected by any bodily function, since they have no bodies. Not so with humans. We cannot know or think anything free from any effects of bodily functions. We have a brain and a nervous system, along with the senses of sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch. We are affected by hunger, noise, pain, and suffering. We are emotional. Although we can reason abstractly beyond emotions and imaginations, we do not gain knowledge free from our corporeal nature. It's what makes us human, lower than the angels, higher than the brutes.
Although that description of mankind is ancient, even back to pagan Greece, I think we too easily forget it in the modern day of unprecedented cleanliness. We forget what we loved as children in the Springtime, for instance. We forget what it's like to run with abandon even if it hurts, to roll in the grass even if it itches, to be silent and listen to the birds even if we are in a hurry. We forget to stop dead in our tracks to pick the newly blossomed daffodils so Mommy can place them by the kitchen sink — the little things.
Maybe it's the kids and dogs who have overwhelmed me with dirt, a force that forces me to come to terms with my corporeal side, but it lifts my spirit to a new freedom to just accept that life is sometimes messy. Perhaps there's wisdom and spiritual growth in getting our hands dirty once in a while too.


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I recently conducted an online Q& A with Rochelle Davis, founding executive director of the Healthy Schools Campaign and a longtime advocate for children's health, and Christie Vilsack (pictured), wife of U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Iowa's former first lady. Mrs. Vilsack has been a public school teacher for 25 years and is a recent grandmother. (Please read yesterday's post about Cooking up Change.)
Cheryl Sternman Rule: How did you first become involved with Cooking up Change?
Christie Vilsack: Karen Duncan, wife of Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, and I have been attending some events at schools working to connect farmers and school lunch programs. Because she knows I'm a teacher and interested in the issue of more nutritious school lunches, she asked if I'd like to join her as co-chair of Cooking up Change.
CSR: As a teacher and mother, is the school food reform movement especially close to your heart? Why so?
CV: As a teacher, a mom and now the grandmother of an 8 month-old grandson, I know how important it is to come to school ready to learn and part of that is eating healthy foods that fuel the body and the mind. Gardening and planting fruit and nut trees is a multi-generational activity in our family. We do this for fun and for the good food it provides.
I grew up eating fresh food from the garden spring and summer and freezing and canning food for winter. Tom and I and our sons helped their grandfather dig potatoes, shuck corn and pull weeds in his garden. Our autumn weekends were spent making apple cider in his orchard with the cider press he used as a boy. This year we made apple cider with the newest member of our family to continue the tradition.
Eating and preparing food from "scratch" is also a family tradition. I grew up in the heart of farm country, and we've raised our children there. Both sets of grandparents raised animals for food. My friends and the parents of my students grow corn and beans to earn a living. My father used to say, "If the farmers are doing well, we're all doing well."
I have frequented the farmers markets in our hometown of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in Des Moines while Tom was governor and, now that he's Secretary of Agriculture, in our Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington DC every week. We like the fresh fruits and vegetables, but we also like to support local small farmers and the culture they represent. The school food reform movement is about making sure we connect farmers to new, local markets, about making sure that children have nutritious food and about making sure they learn life-long good eating habits to prevent chronic disease. An added benefit is the value of children knowing the cyclical nature of life, our connection to the soil and the routine and work-ethic associated with working the land and producing food.
CSR: How can Americans across the country support your efforts?
CV: Almost all Americans are familiar with the school lunch program, because they have experienced it first-hand. Sometimes it's difficult for voters to keep up with the intricacies of legislation and the legislative process, because many issues are so complex.
School lunch is easy to understand. The desire for their children to be healthy and to learn well is a value shared by most parents, so I think parents will be the best advocates for improving school lunches. They will understand the added economic benefit of supporting local farmers. They will recognize the added benefit to the whole family of eating more fresh fruits and vegetables. Their advocacy will be easy—speak to school board members when you see them at local sports activities or the grocery store. Ask questions of a legislator or member of Congress at a legislative forum or campaign event. Use the answers to make decisions about whom to support in the upcoming elections.
CSR: What are the main obstacles to reform at this time?
Rochelle Davis: I think that the country is facing some very difficult financial challenges and making the funding of this program a priority is a big political challenge. Improving school food is part of a long-term strategy of protecting the health of our children. It's hard for our political leaders to commit to a program where the benefits are realized over a long period of time.
CSR: Are you optimistic that efforts to expand the Child Nutrition Act will prove successful?
RD: One the one hand, the leadership from the White House is galvanizing support for a strong reauthorization and there are many new voices making the case for more money for better food. And 83 percent of Americans support expansion of the Child Nutrition Act to provide healthier food and cover more kids.
On the other hand, I'm concerned about Congress allocating adequate funding. It's a tough economic time and Congress is at a stalemate on so many issues. So we are going to do everything that we can to make sure that Congress takes advantage of this opportunity to protect children's health.
CSR: Why did you think it was important for students from Chicago to come to Capitol Hill to prepare their new-generation school lunch?
CV: I'm an experiential learner and an experiential teacher. Students learn by doing. The Chicago students have already learned important lessons about food, finances, problem solving and working collaboratively in the competition. Now they will learn the added lesson of advocacy, a lesson that they'll take into adulthood. They'll see the direct result of their advocacy as they demonstrate their skills and speak up about an issue they care about. Sometimes actions speak louder than words. Preparing a lunch for policy-makers is a hands-on lesson for the legislators to remind them that a school lunch can be both healthy and inexpensive.
Cheryl Sternman Rule is a widely-published food writer and the voice behind the blog 5 Second Rule.
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Jordan on 22 Jan 2013 at 4:17 pm #
I'm a huge fan of wood accented with white and concrete. The use of simple concrete forms to give the exposed concrete that wood grain look is risky and hard to pull off. I'm curious to know if they re-used those lathe forms anywhere else in the house. Ah, to live in New Zealand. Such a beautiful place to build beautiful homes.


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Saturday, December 10, 2011
don't forget
Participating again with Cate for 6WS. Here's mine for this week:
Remember, do not drink and drive.
Just sick about this. Local story. Man driving home after holiday party. He plows into car going very slow. Causes fiery crash. Two innocent people lose their lives. He walks away. (Gets arrested thankfully). He can't even comprehend what he did because he's too drunk. He tells police all he wanted to do was to get home...........
Holiday season. Just remember, do not drink and drive. Designate a nondrinking driver, call a cab.
If you got kids, drill it into them. Do not drink and drive. Tell them not to get into a car with someone who has been drinking. Tell them to call you any time of day or night and you'll come and get them, no questions asked.
Just so sad. Life is too short as it is to have it end so tragically because of someone's stupid decision. Three lives ruined, families mourning loss of loved ones, hard to do any time, harder at holidays.
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- Stephanie M. Hasty said...
tragic story. what hurts my heart is that no matter how much we are reminded, there are those around us that still think they're invincible and harm others!
- December 10, 2011 at 6:02 AM
- Kathy ... better known as Nana said...
Excellent reminder ... and what a sad story ... and the saddest part of all is that all that loss could have so easily been prevented. :-(
- December 10, 2011 at 6:03 AM
- thelaughinghousewife said...
Just terrible. Tragic. And the drunks always walk away from these things.
- December 10, 2011 at 6:20 AM
- naida said...
A very important message to post. It's so sad, the innocent people that suffer at the hands of drunk drivers.
- December 10, 2011 at 6:27 AM
- Melanie said...
That is so sad...families forever changed because of someone's reckless decision.
I don't drink alcohol at all, but it's an excellent reminder for those who do.
- December 10, 2011 at 6:31 AM
- Jeanie said...
A great reminder, Betty. I think it is especially important to remind people during the holiday party season when a lot of people that don't usually drink might have a couple at a holiday party.
- December 10, 2011 at 6:31 AM
- I'm mostly known as 'MA' said...
So sad that some forget that they are not the only ones on the road. I don't think you can say it often enough. Don't drink and drive. It's crazy enough on the highways with out the added burden of drunk drivers. There are also plenty of other things we shouldn't be doing when driving too. Keeping your eye on the road and being a courteous driver is a must. I used to think I was the most cautious driver in the world and in the blink of an eye caused an accident. Now I'm even more cautious than ever. Hope your Saturday there is a great one!
- December 10, 2011 at 6:48 AM
- jack69 said...
What a sad thing. Amazing and so terrible that folks can be law abiding minding their own business probably thrilled about Christmas and plans, when boom their world ends and the family is thrown into turmoil. Sad testimony for our society.
Burt sending love frommover on thei coast.
Jack & SHerry
- December 10, 2011 at 7:06 AM
- Renegades said...
So so sad and a good reminder this time of year.
- December 10, 2011 at 8:09 AM
- soulbrush said...
OMG I totally agree- it is always the innocent who suffer.
- December 10, 2011 at 8:16 AM
- Karen S. said...
Oh I know what you mean...and it's usually the innocent that get hurt or killed....the drunks just might get a slight cut if that....good and wise words you posted for all to remember....!
- December 10, 2011 at 9:02 AM
- Snowbrush said...
I wonder if the drunk is so often the only person who walks (in this case, staggers) away BECAUSE he was drunk. Maybe it's that going into a crash with every muscle loose that saves these people.
- December 10, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- Shelly said...
How horrible! Wise words indeed. I would also add, Do not text and drive.
- December 10, 2011 at 11:25 AM
- Rosemary Nissen-Wade said...
Sad indeed! And yes, we do have to keep on reminding everyone all the time.
- December 10, 2011 at 12:18 PM
- Fi said...
Sad that families have to suffer at this time of year through someone elses lack of good judgement.
This is a very strong message in our family and I would be horrified to discover one of my boys was responsible for something like this. They know I'm always only a phone call away.
A timely message - great 6ws
- December 10, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- Linda said...
This so sad. It reminds me of a time when I worked for a large DME, and we were supposed to drive to St Louis from KC. I got there, after a long day, and the drivers of the van were already into their 2nd bottle of beer, with a couple of 6 packs on the floor. I told them to throw the beer away, or I would drive. Needless to say, I didn't have a very good name in the company, but I'd always told my kids not to go with drinkers, and I wasn't going to either. I was the party pooper.
- December 10, 2011 at 2:35 PM
- JosephAlsarraf said...
Ya it's sad, same thing happened to my mom's mom and her grandmother during the Thanksgiving holidays. I think it's a much better idea for someone who is drunk to get someone to take them home, it's not worth the risk. : )
- December 10, 2011 at 2:52 PM
- SweetMarie said...
Very sad. These are the kind of sad stories I've been sharing with my son. He's 15 and has his permit. You can be a responsible and safe driver, but you can't control other people's poor choices. That's why I have herniated disc in my cervical spine now.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend Betty!
- December 10, 2011 at 3:14 PM
- Bobbi said...
So sad!! This just breaks my heart.;
- December 10, 2011 at 5:08 PM
- Belle said...
I'm so sorry for the family of the people who were killed. I won't drive after just one beer. It is just too risky.
- December 10, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- Brenda Youngerman said...
What amazes me is that it always the drunks that walk away! How is that even possible? Thanks for writing this and reminding people.. perhaps you saved a life today! :)
- December 10, 2011 at 5:43 PM
- Gamma Sharon said...
Wow, so very sad! And you are absolutely right!
- December 10, 2011 at 6:07 PM
- Martha in PA said...
Thanks for stopping by!
Such an important message you have shared.
- December 10, 2011 at 6:44 PM
- Chatty Crone said...
Some of the best advice six words can say. sandie
- December 10, 2011 at 7:11 PM
- Rita said...
Oh, I know! That is just one more terrible tragedy. The holidays are even more scary because of those once a year drinkers added to the mix, too. :(
- December 10, 2011 at 7:21 PM
- Jazzbumpa said...
I'm always very careful about that.
Thanks for helping us to remember.
- December 10, 2011 at 7:55 PM
- Shauna said...
excellent words of caution.
- December 10, 2011 at 8:34 PM
- TARYTERRE said...
These are words of wisdom. Thank you for putting it out there on the web, especially at this time of year.
- December 10, 2011 at 9:19 PM
- Caroline said...
So sad & I can relate. I lost a few close friends to this. Praying for everyone.
- December 10, 2011 at 9:32 PM
- rmslil said...
Our community lost two college girls last weekend to a man drving drunk in the wrong direction on the interstate. Even sadder is that he was due in court this Friday for a continuance of another DUI arrest.
- December 10, 2011 at 9:37 PM
- Blog Wobble said...
Unfortunately it's something that happens all too often here. Very sad.
- December 11, 2011 at 12:07 AM
- Sharon said...
Why is it that so many times it's the drunk person who is unharmed in these tragic accidents?
Very sad. Yes, if we drink, we must be responsible. And hopefully, more and more young people are getting this message, too.
Hope they don't follow the "sterling" example of many of their entertainment "heroes." Such trashy people with so much money. Since when did addiction become almost a status symbol, huh?!
A sober message, Betty (LOL) - but seriously, thank you.
- December 11, 2011 at 3:44 PM
- Toriz said...
Agreed; and well said!
- December 11, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- Mary said...
We've told our boys the same thing since they got their licenses.
- December 11, 2011 at 5:10 PM
- Lisa said...
Oh that is so sad. Reminds me to share this story with my son who is about to be driving more.
- December 12, 2011 at 12:22 AM
- Intense Guy said...
If this post prevents even just one "mishap" - it will have been worth writing.
I"m sorry about the innocent ones - I wonder how this sort of thing is God's plan... but I guess it is, somehow.
- December 12, 2011 at 4:47 AM
- Debby@Just Breathe said...
That is so sad. I say those words all the time to my family!! It is not worth it to drink and drive.
- December 12, 2011 at 3:48 PM
- Brandy@YDK said...
that's just sad. and there will be so many more stories exactly like that before this season is over.
- December 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM
- Missy said...
I did that once and the one time I did it, I got caught and spent the night in jail. I am lucky I didn't hurt anyone or myself. I definelty learned my lesson. And you are right, it is a senseless way to die and even to get into trouble. Young people just feel like they will live forever. I know I did. I know older people drink and drive too though...
- December 15, 2011 at 6:45 PM
- Curly-T said...
Lost my best friend 8 years ago at Thanksgiving to a drunk driver. He is still in my thoughts frequently.
Thank you for using your six words for good!
- December 15, 2011 at 8:15 PM