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Michael Jackson's eldest nephew testified Thursday that his uncle was a father figure to him and his brothers who helped them not only with their music, but with life lessons.
"He was definitely our mentor, and everything we did in life we'd kind of gear it toward what he was doing, whether it was music or how he was as a person," Taj Jackson said during his testimony in the wrongful-death suit his uncle's mother and three children have brought against AEG Live, the company that was promoting and producing his comeback concerts when he died.
Taj Jackson, 39, is the son of Michael Jackson's brother and fellow Jackson 5 member Tito. His younger brother TJ, who with Michael's mother is guardian of the pop star's children, testified about two weeks ago.
Taj, TJ and a third brother made up the singing group 3T.
Their uncle encouraged them, but told them they would have to work hard. Taj read one of the many notes Jackson wrote him as a youngster. "I love you all and am proud of you. P.S. please rehearse."
Taj Jackson said he and his brothers would have been foolish not to ask for their uncle's musical advice. "He always let us know we could ask him anything about music, whether it's songwriting or song selection," he said.
"He was always right."
Michael Jackson, he said, was a perfectionist, who told him "study the greats, study the classics." His uncle followed that advice not just for music but also in their shared passion for film. Michael would watch old movies with the sound off so he wouldn't be distracted, to study the camera work. He knew the opening scene of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" shot by shot, he testified.
Michael Jackson persuaded his nephews to record one of their hits, "I Need You," even though they thought it was old-fashioned.
"Once he heard it, he said, 'You need songs like that, that touch the world,'" Taj Jackson said.
Their uncle popped into the studio while they were recording it and added his voice to the track.
"What was most amazing about it is it was all in one take," Taj Jackson said. "That's when I realized he was in another league than we were."
He also suggested using a choir that gives the song the feel of "We Are The World."
The producer, Max Martin, cried when he heard the pop star sing. "He said it was a dream come true," Taj Jackson said. "He never thought he'd be producing Michael Jackson."
Michael Jackson also tried to teach them the secrets of songwriting, although the nephew said he didn't want to give away too many of them during his testimony. In one instance, he said, his uncle played a tape of the Fine Young Cannibals singing "She Drives Me Crazy" over and over, telling him to listen to a different instrument each time.
"He would constantly tell us we had to carry on the legacy, carry on the torch when he retired," the nephew said.
Taj Jackson said his uncle was constantly working on new material and was working on an album shortly before he died. "I know he wanted an album to come out," he said.
Michael Jackson also believed in writing down his goals and posting the notes where he could see them. "What you can conceive and believe you can achieve," was his motto, the nephew testified.
He said he saw it firsthand for the "Thriller" album. "I saw the note on his mirror, "'Biggest-selling album of all time,'" Taj Jackson said.
"I learned to never underestimate my uncle. When he put his mind to something, it usually happened."
The Jacksons say in their lawsuit that AEG negligently hired and controlled Conrad Murray, the doctor who gave Michael Jackson the fatal dose of the anesthetic propofol to help him sleep on June 25, 2009. AEG says that the doctor worked for Jackson and that any money the company was supposed to pay Murray was an advance the singer would have to repay.
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(1) The law of karma is the most stupendous law of the system and one which it is impossible for the average man in any way to comprehend, for, if traced back along its central root and its many ramifications, one eventually reaches the position where causes antedating the solar system have to be dealt with, and this point of view can only be usefully grasped by a high initiate.
This law really concerns, or is based on causes which are inherent in the constitution of matter itself and on the interaction between atomic units, whether we use this expression in connection with an atom of substance, a human being, a planetary atom, or a solar atom.
. . . All atoms are always controlled by the following factors . . .:
The influence and quality of the organ or unit in which it finds a place . . .
The life influence of the entire physical body of which any atom is a corporate part . . .
The life influence of the desire or astral body, the strongest karmic agency which has to be considered.
The life influence of the mental body, or of that principle which imposes upon the atom the quality of activity in form, which governs the reaction of the atom to its group life, and which enables the quality of its life to be demonstrate. . .
The life impulse of the Thinker functioning in the causal body who . . . is nevertheless a potent and active factor in the imposition of rhythm upon the atom in every body . . .
In these thoughts, we have but approached the study of karma from a fresh angle, and endeavoured to show the sources of the "influences" which play upon all atomic lives.
. . . We are but seeking to emphasise the fact of the interdependence of all atoms and forms, to lay stress upon the reality of the variety of influences which play upon all that is manifesting, and to call attention to the fact of the karma of the past aeons, kalpas and that unknowable period in which the initiatory impulses were set up which are still persisting, and which God, man and the atoms are still working out and off . . .
The liberation from karma about which would-be occult students so [Page 231] glibly talk, is after all but the freeing of the atom from its own personal problem (the problem of response to unitary sensation), and its conscious acquiescence in group response and work. . . . Man is no longer the slave of the rhythm of matter per se, but controls it in the three worlds of his endeavour; he is still nevertheless controlled by the group karma of the planetary centre, by its influence, life and vibratory impulse . . .
It will be apparent that when man speaks of karma, he is dealing with something much wider than the interplay of effect and cause within the sphere of his own individual routine. . . . Finally he is governed by the will of the solar Logos as it demonstrates itself in initiatory activity. Beyond this we need hardly go, but enough has been said to show that every human atom is under the dominance of forces outside his own consciousness, which sweep him and others into situations from which there is no escape, and which are to him incomprehensible . . .
Nevertheless, within limits, man definitely does "control his destiny", and can initiate action which produces effects recognisable by him as being dependent upon his activity along a particular line. . . . Though he may be the meeting place of forces outside his control, yet he can utilise force, circumstance and environment and can turn them, if he so will, to his own ends.
The working out of karmic law in a man's own life might be broadly divided into three divisions, in each of which a different type of energy is demonstrating, producing effects upon the lower and higher bodies of a definite nature.
In the very early stages, when man is scarcely more than an animal, the vibratory activity of the atoms of his three sheaths (and of the lowest primarily) governs all actions on his part. . . . The centre of attention is the physical body and only faintly are the two subtler bodies responding . . .
During the second stage, the law of karma or karmic influence . . . turns its attention to the working out of desire, and its transmutation into the higher aspiration. Through experience, the pairs of opposites are recognised by the Thinker, and he becomes no longer the victim of the vibratory impulses of his physical body; the factor of intelligent choice becomes apparent . . .
In the third stage, the law of karma works through a man's mental nature, and awakens in him recognition of the law, and an intellectual apprehension of cause and effect. This is the shortest stage but is also the most powerful; it concerns the evolution of the three inner petals shielding the "jewel", and their ability to disclose at the right moment that [Page 232] which lies hidden. It covers the period of the evolution of advanced man, and of the man upon the Path . . . When the will and purpose of the Ego are realised by man in his waking consciousness in the physical brain, then the law of karma in the three worlds is becoming neutralised, and man is on the verge of liberation. (3 - 798/807).
(2) When I point out that the Law of Karma, rightly understood and rightly wielded, can bring that which produces happiness, good, and freedom from pain more easily than it brings pain, with its chain of consequences, do you feel able to grasp the significance of what I am saying?. . . The Law of Karma is not the Law of Retribution, as one would surmise as one reads the current books upon the subject; that is but one aspect of the working of the Law of Karma.
. . . Men interpret these dimly sensed laws in terms of finality, and from their little point of view. The idea of retribution runs through much of the teaching on karma, for instance, because men seek a plausible explanation of things as they appear to be, and are themselves fond of dealing out retribution. Yet there is far more general good karma than bad, little as you may think it when immersed in such a period as the present. (17 - 20/2).
(3) The Law of Karma is today a great and incontrovertible fact in the consciousness of humanity everywhere. They may not call it by that name, but they are well aware that in all today's events the nations are reaping what they sowed. This great law - at one time a theory - is now a proven fact, and a recognised factor in human thinking. The question "Why?", so frequently asked, brings in the factor of cause and effect with constant inevitability. The concepts of heredity and of environment, are efforts to explain existing human conditions; qualities, racial characteristics, national temperaments and ideals, prove the fact of some initiating world of causes. Historical conditions, the relationships between nations, social taboos, religious convictions and tendencies, can all be traced to originating causes - some of them most ancient. Everything that is happening in the world today, and which is so potently affecting humanity - things of beauty and of horror, modes of living and civilisation and culture, prejudices and likings, scientific attainment and artistic expression, and the many ways in which humanity throughout the planet colours existence - are aspects of effects, initiated somewhere, on some level, at some time, by human beings, both individually and en masse.
Karma is therefore that which Man . . . has instituted, carried forward, endorsed, omitted to do, or has done right, through the ages until the present moment. Today, the harvest is ripe and mankind is reaping what [Page 233] it has sown, preparatory to a fresh ploughing in the springtime of the New Age, with a fresh sowing of the seed which will (let us pray and hope) produce a better harvest. (17 - 262/3).
(1) This is knowledge: to rightly direct force currents, first in the three worlds of human endeavour, and then in the solar system. (3 - 881).
(2) Exoteric and Esoteric Knowledge:
"Why do we consider certain aspects of knowledge esoteric and other aspects as exoteric?"
The answer to this practically involves the realisation that some knowledge deals with the subjective side of life, and the other type of knowledge is concerned with energy and force (hence the danger of undue hasty revelation) and another with that which is energised. Therefore it will be apparent that until the faculty of ascertaining subjective information is achieved, whole ranges of facts will remain outside the scope of the consciousness of the majority.
As we have been told, the goal of evolution is the attainment of consciousness on all planes; owing to the small evolutionary attainment of the race, only the physical plane is as yet in any way brought under conscious control. The knowledge which deals with that plane, the information which is concerned with densest objectivity, the sumtotal of facts connected with the five lower subplanes of the physical plane, are (from the occult standpoint) considered exoteric . . .
Information and knowledge of the life evolving through the forms will for a considerably longer time be considered esoteric, as also will the apprehension and comprehension of the matter aspect, and the laws governing energy on the astral and the mental planes.
All that can be acquired by instinct and by the use of the concrete mind functioning through the physical brain can be considered as dealing with that which we call exoteric. It is thus evident how the range of fact will differ according to:
a. The age of the soul.
b. Experience developed and used.
c. Condition of the brain and the physical body.
d. Circumstances and environment.
As time progresses and man reaches a fair state of evolution, mind is [Page 234] more rapidly developed, and a new factor comes gradually into play. Little by little the intuition, or the transcendental mind, begins to function, and eventually supersedes the lower or concrete mind. It then utilises the physical brain as a receiving plate, but at the same time develops certain centres in the head, and thus transfers the zone of its activity from the physical brain to the higher head centres, existing in etheric matter. For the mass of humanity, this will be effected during the opening up of the etheric subplanes during the next two races. This is paralleled in the animal kingdom by the gradual transference of the zone of activity from the solar plexus to the rudimentary brain, and its gradual development by the aid of manas.
As we consider these points, it will become apparent that the esoteric aspects of knowledge are really those zones of consciousness which are not yet conquered, and brought within the radius of control of the indwelling Entity.
The point to be emphasised is that when this is realised, the true significance of the esoteric and the occult will be appreciated, and the endeavour of all KNOWERS will be to draw within the zone of their knowledge other units who are ready for a similar expansion of consciousness. In this thought lies the key to the work of the Brotherhood. They attract by Their force into certain fields of realisation and endeavour and by that attraction and the response of those human atoms who are ready, the group soul on the upward arc, or a particular centre of a Heavenly Man, is co-ordinated. (3 - 285/8).
(3) Beyond a certain point it is not safe nor wise to carry the communication of the facts of the solar system. Much must remain esoteric and veiled. The risks of too much knowledge are far greater than the menace of too little. With knowledge comes responsibility and power - two things for which the race is not yet ready. Therefore, all we can do is to study and correlate with what wisdom and discretion may be ours, using the knowledge that may come for the good of those we seek to help, and recognising that in the wise use of knowledge comes increased capacity to receive the hidden wisdom. Coupled also with the wise adaptation of knowledge to the surrounding need must grow the capacity for discreet reservation, and the use of the discriminating faculty. When we can wisely use, discreetly withhold, and soundly discriminate, we give the surest guarantee to the watching Teachers of the race that we are ready for a fresh revelation. (1 - 6).
(4) (A disciple) can nevertheless rest assured that, until the path of Knowledge has been added to the path of Love, he can never take the [Page 235] major initiations, for these are undergone on the higher levels of the mental plane. (4 - 120).
(5) Material gain in knowledge for the individual, causes stagnation, obstruction, indigestion and pain, if not passed on with wise discrimination. (2- 343)
(6) Knowledge when given must be used; it must be made of practical application in the daily life. Upon all of you who read these words . . . rests a duty of doing three things, which I give
to you in the order of their importance:
1. The moulding of your daily lives upon the basis of the imparted truth, if it is to you indeed a truth. It is perhaps to you simply interesting, a fascinating sideline of study; perhaps it is something which it pleases you to get, because it is a novelty, and because it is a little different from the general run of teaching; perhaps it pleases you to get these instructions a little ahead of the rest of humanity. All these reactions are of small importance, being those of the personality. They are perhaps the most probable reactions for the majority. If there is nothing deeper in your reaction than those I have mentioned, then these teachings are not for you, for the responsibility upon your shoulders is thereby very great; but if you are attempting, no matter in how small a way, to apply the truth as you see it to your own life, then they are for you.
2. The building of that structure of thought, which will embody this newer teaching. You can - if you so desire - help construct the thought-form of the New Age teaching. You do this, above all, by your thought; by your practical application of any truth, which you may have understood, to your personal life at any cost; by your sacrifice and your service to your fellow men, and by the constant dissemination of any knowledge which you may possess.
3. Distribution of the teaching over a long period of time. Have you done anything along this line, thus shouldering your responsibility? (15 - 711/2).
See also: (6 - 279, 394).
What is law my brother? It is the imposition (upon both the lesser and the more important) of the will and purpose of that which is superlatively great. Therefore, it lies beyond man's ken. Man has some day to learn that all the laws of nature have their higher, spiritual counterparts, and of these we shall shortly be in search. Our laws today are but secondary laws. They [Page 236] are the laws of group life, and they govern the kingdoms of nature, and find their expression (for the human kingdom) through the medium of the mind, of the emotional nature, and through a physical plane agent. (17-30)
(1) Advanced groups in every nation are beginning to respond to the Law of Understanding. This is a law which will eventually emphasise the eternal brotherhood of man and the identity of all souls with the Oversoul. This will be recognised in the racial consciousness, as well as the oneness of the Life which pours through, permeates, animates and integrates the entire solar system. This Life functions in and through all planetary schemes, in all their kingdoms of forms and with all that can be included under the phrase "form life" . . .
The functioning of the Law of Loving Understanding will be greatly facilitated and speeded during the Aquarian Age which we are considering; it will eventuate later in the development of a world-wide international spirit, in the recognition of one universal faith in God and in humanity also as the major expression of divinity upon the planet, and in the transfer of the human consciousness from the world of material things to that of the more purely psychic. This will lead in time and inevitably, to the world of spiritual realities. (9 - 47).
(2) Today there are many thousands coming under the influence of this Law of Loving Understanding. Many in every nation are responding to the broader synthetic brotherly note, but the masses as yet understand nothing of this. They must be led in right ways gradually by the steady development in right understanding of their own nationals. Bear this in mind, all of you who work for world peace and right human relations, for harmony and for synthesis. (9 - 48/9), (14 - 381).
Leaders have to learn to stand alone, and can ever do so if they love enough . . . What are the lessons that all true leaders have to learn? . . .
The first lesson is the lesson of vision. What are your goals? What is the spiritual incentive which will be and is strong enough to hold you [Page 237] steady to the purpose and true to the objective? No one can formulate the vision for you; it is your own personality problem, and upon the strength of the vision and the beauty of the picture which you paint with your imagination, will depend much that you do and become.
The second lesson is the development of a right sense of proportion. This, when truly developed and correctly applied, will enable you to walk humbly on the Way. No true leader can be anything but humble, for he realises the magnitude of his task; he appreciates the limitations of his contribution (in the light of the vision) and the need for constant self-development and the cultivation of the spirit of steady inner spiritual learning, if he is ever to make his proper contribution. Therefore, keep learning; keep dissatisfied with yourself and your attainment, not in any morbid sense, but so that the principle of growth and of pushing forward and onward, may be fostered in you. We help others through our own effort to attain; this means clear thinking, humility and constant adjustment.
The third lesson is the development of the spirit of synthesis. This enables you to include all within the range of your influence, and also to be included within the range of influence of those greater than yourself. Thus is the chain of Hierarchy established . . .
Another lesson which in reality grows out of the above, is the avoidance of the spirit of criticism, for criticism leads to barriers and loss of time. Learn to distinguish the spirit of criticism from the ability to analyse and make practical application of the analysis. Learn to analyse life, circumstances and people from the angle of the work, and not from the angle of your personality point of view; analyse also from the angle of the Ashram, and not from the angle of the executive or the schoolmaster upon the physical plane . . .
Can your imagination picture to you your reaction when - because you are the leader - you have to shoulder all the blame for any failure, even when not personally responsible; you have to accept without retaliation the attacks of those you are trying to help, who expect too much from you and who force you to live in the blaze of public opinion; what will you do when your chosen workers fail to understand, or prove disloyal, or criticise without warrant, or pit their ambition against you, and wilfully refuse to see your point of view, and talk about you among other people and whip up resentments against you - resentments which are probably without foundation? These are not the kind of things that your personality easily accepts, and your creative imagination had better begin dealing with these problems, so that the emerging principles of conduct may stand clear [Page 238] before you. Have you the inner grace of heart to admit error and weakness, or to say that you made a mistake in technique or method of approach, in judgement or speech, should need arise to heal a breach and in the interests of the work? (6 - 704/7).
(1) Each of us is recognized by the brilliance of his light. This is an occult fact. The finer the grade of matter built into our bodies, the more brilliantly will shine forth the indwelling light. Light is vibration, and through the measurement of vibration is fixed the grading of the scholars. Hence nothing can prevent a man's progress forward if he but attends to the purification of his vehicles. The light within will shine forth with ever greater clarity, as the refining process goes on, until - when atomic matter predominates - great will be the glory of that inner man. We are all graded, therefore, if it may be so expressed, according to the magnitude of the light, according to the rate of vibration, according to the purity of the tone and the clarity of the colour. (1 - 68).
(2) Through his meditation, discipline and service, man fans into radiant light, illuminating the three worlds, that point of light which flickered into being at the time of his individualisation in past ages. (4 - 98).
(3) Humanity is the planetary light bearer, transmitting the light of knowledge, of wisdom, and of understanding, and this in the esoteric sense. (4 - 100).
(4) Frequently students speak of a diffused light or glow, this is the light of the physical plane atoms of which the brain is composed; later they may speak of seeing what appears to be like a sun in the head. This is the contacting of the etheric light, plus the physical atomic light. Later they become aware of an intensely bright electric light; this is the soul light, plus the etheric and atomic. When that is seen, they frequently become aware of a dark centre within the radiant sun. This is the entrance to the Path disclosed by the "shining of the light upon the door".
Students must remember that it is possible to have reached a high stage of spiritual consciousness, without seeing any of this brain radiance. This is altogether in the nature of phenomena, and is largely determined by the calibre of the physical body, by past karma and achievement, and by the ability of the aspirant to bring down "power from on high" . . . (4 - 107).
(5) "In that Light shall we see LIGHT". A simple paraphrase of these [Page 239] apparently abstract and symbolic words, could be given as follows: When the disciple has found that lighted centre within himself, and can walk in its radiating light, he is then in a position (or in a state of consciousness, if you prefer), wherein he becomes aware of the light within all forms and atoms. The inner world of reality stands visible to him as light-substance (a different thing to the Reality, revealed by the intuition). He can then become an efficient co-operator with the Plan, because the world of psychic meaning becomes real to him, and he knows what should be done to dispel glamour. It might be stated, that this process of bringing light into dark places falls naturally into three stages:
1. The stage wherein the beginner and the aspirant endeavour to eradicate glamour out of their own life, by the use of the light of the mind. The light of knowledge is a major dispelling agent in the earlier phases of the task, and effectively eliminates the various glamours which veil the truth from the aspirant.
2. The stage wherein the aspirant and disciple work with the light of the soul. This is the light of wisdom, which is the interpreted result of long experience, and this streams forth, blending with the light of knowledge.
3. The stage wherein the disciple and the initiate work with the light of the intuition. It is through the blended medium of the light of knowledge (personality light), and the light of wisdom (soul light), that the Light is seen, known, and appropriated. This light puts out the lesser lights through the pure radiance of its power.
You have, therefore, the light of knowledge, the light of wisdom, and the light of the intuition, and these are three definite stages or aspects of the One Light. They correspond to the physical Sun, the heart of the Sun, and the Central Spiritual Sun. In this last sentence you have the clue and the key to the relation of man to the Logos.
These stages and their corresponding techniques, are apt to be misunderstood if the student fails to remember that between them lie no real lines of demarcation, but only a constant overlapping, a cyclic development, and a process of fusion, which is most confusing to beginners. (10 - 191/2).
(6) Disciples will reach a point in their development, where they will know whether they are reacting to the light of the soul, or to the intuitional perception of the Triad. (10 - 195).
(7) What does concern us here, is how this light is recognised, appropriated and used, in order to dispel glamour, and render a deeply esoteric service to the world. It might be said that the inner light is like a searchlight, swinging out into the world of glamour and of human struggle, [Page 240] from what one Master has called "the pedestal of the soul and the spiritual tower or beacon". These terms convey the idea of altitude and of distance, which are so characteristic of the mystical approach. Power to use this light as a dissipating agent, only comes when these symbols are dropped, and the server begins to regard himself as the light and as the irradiating centre. Herein lies the reason for some of the technicalities of the occult science. The esotericist knows that in every atom of his body is to be found a point of light. For aeons, he walks by means of the light engendered within his vehicles, by the light within the atomic substance of his body and is, therefore, guided by the light of matter. Later, he discovers the light of the soul. Later still, he learns to fuse and blend soul light and material light. Then he shines forth as a Light bearer, the purified light of matter, and the light of the soul, being blended and focussed. The use of this focussed light, as it dispels individual glamour, teaches the disciples the early stages of the techniques which will dispel group glamour, and eventually world glamour. (10 - 196).
(8) "Lead us, O Lord, from darkness to light; from the unreal to the real; from death to immortality". (10 - 198).
(9) The fact of the soul will eventually be proved through the study of light and of radiation, and through a coming evolution in particles of light. Through this imminent development, we shall find ourselves seeing more and penetrating deeper into that which we see today . . . The quality of the light which promotes and nurtures growth, vitality and fertility in the kingdoms of nature, has changed several times during the ages, and as it has changed, it has produced corresponding mutations in the phenomenal world. From the standpoint of the esotericist, all forms of life on our planet are affected by three types of light substance, and at the present time a fourth type is gradually making its presence felt. These types of light are:
1. The light of the sun.
2. The light of the planet itself - not the reflected light of the sun, but its own inherent radiance.
3. A light seeping in (if I may use such a phrase) from the astral plane, a steady and gradual penetration of the "astral light", and its fusion with the other two types of radiance.
4. A light which is beginning to merge itself with the other three types, and which comes from that state of matter which we call the mental plane - a light in its turn reflected from the realm of the soul.
An intensification of the light is going on all the time, and this increase in intensity began on the earth at about the time when man discovered the [Page 241] uses of electricity, which discovery was a direct result of this intensification. The electrification of the planet through the widespread use of electricity, is one of the things which is inaugurating the new age, and which will aid in bringing about the revelation of the presence of the soul. Before long this intensification will become so great, that it will materially assist in the rending of the veil which separates the astral plane from the physical plane; the dividing etheric web will shortly be dissipated, and this will permit a more rapid inflow of the third aspect of light. The light from the astral plane (a starry radiance), and the light of the planet itself, will be more closely blended, and the result upon humanity, and upon the three other kingdoms in nature, cannot be over-emphasised. It will, for one thing, profoundly affect the human eye, and make the present sporadic etheric vision a universal asset. It will bring within the radius of our range of contact the infra-red and ultra-violet gamut of colours and we shall see what at present is hidden. All this will tend to destroy the platform upon which the materialists stand, and to pave the way, first, for the admission of the soul as a sound hypothesis, and secondly, for the demonstration of its existence. We only need more light, in the esoteric sense, in order to see the soul, and that light will shortly be available, and we shall understand the meaning of the words, "And in Thy light shall we see light".
This intensification of the light will continue until A.D. 2025, when there will come a cycle of relative stability and of steady shining, without much augmentation. (14 - 101/3).
(10) The registering of this inner light often causes serious concern and difficulty to the inexperienced person, and the intensity of their concern and fear, leads them to think so much of the problem that they become what we occultly call "obsessed with the light, and so fail to see the Lord of Light and that which the Light reveals". I would point out here that all aspirants and occult students do not see this light. Seeing it is dependent upon several factors - temperament, the quality of the physical cells of the brain, the nature of the work which has been done, or of the particular task, and the extent of the magnetic field. There never need be any difficulty if the aspirant will use the light which is in him, for the helping of his fellowmen. It is the self-centred mystic who gets into difficulty, as does the occultist who uses the light which he discovers within himself, for selfish purposes, and personal ends. (15- 609).
(11) Many of the hallucinations, the glamours, the ambitions and the errors of the modern mystic, can all be traced to the early stages, and the embryonic beginnings of these developments. They are indicative, there-[Page 242] fore, of unfoldment. But unfortunately they are not understood for what they are, and the available light and energy are misapplied or turned to selfish and personal ends. This cannot as yet be avoided by any but the more advanced and experienced disciples and occultists; and many aspirants must continue for some time destroying themselves (from the personality angle, and in this life) in what has been called the "fiery light of their misunderstanding, and the burning fire of their personality ambition", until they learn that humility and scientific technique, which will make them wise directors of the light and power which is pouring into and through them all the time. (15 - 613).
(12) In all the teaching given to the aspirant and to the disciple, in the early stages of their training, the emphasis has been upon the "point of light" which must be discovered, brought into full illumination, and then so used that the one in whom the light shines, becomes a light-bearer in a dark world. This, the aspirant is taught, becomes possible when contact with the soul has been made, and the light is found. This is familiar teaching to many, and is the essence of the progress to be made by aspirants and disciples in the first part of their training. (18 - 49).
See also: "Sight", "Illumination", and "Light in the Head" (6 - 52) (18 - 73/9, -142/3), (6 - 436/7).

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FREDERICKSBURG, VA – The York College men's basketball team dropped a 73-67 Capital Athletic Conference decision at the University of Mary Washington on Saturday afternoon in Fredericksburg, VA. The Eagles remain in first place in the conference as they improve to 5-0 in the league and 10-4 overall. The Spartans are now 7-7 overall and 2-3 in the conference.
York jumped out to an early 9-4 on the power of a trio of three pointers, two from senior Mo Oursler and one from junior Jeremy Skoloda. The Spartans retained the lead until the Eagles tied the game at 12 on the first of two free throws from Henry Brisibe with 12:32 left in the first. Those free throws were part of a 19-8 run that allowed UMW to take a 27-20 lead late in the first half. The Eagles pushed the lead to nine at the break as they took a 30-21 advantage to the intermission.
Mary Washington increased the lead to 14 with five points to start the second half. However, the Spartans answered with a prolonged 15-2 run, cutting the Eagle lead to just one at 37-36 with 13:07 left in the game. The run was capped by a pair of Oursler threes as the Green and White worked themselves back into the game. The Eagles worked their advantage back to six before York made another charge, trimming their deficit back to one on a pair of Andrew Pawlyk free throws with 9:04 remaining.
The Eagles answered York's challenge with a 12-0 spurt that pushed their advantage back into double figures. York continued to battle, getting the margin back down into single digits but the Green and White couldn't get any closer than four the rest of the way.
The game was very sloppy as the teams combined for 46 turnovers while they had just 43 field goals combined. The Spartans committed a season-high 25 turnovers. That was six more miscues than their previous high which came against Gettysburg earlier in the year. Mary Washington held a significant 21-12 edge in points off turnovers.
Mary Washington placed three players in double figures led by Ryan Farrar as the guard tossed in 16 points as he was 4-for-9 from the floor including 4-for-8 from three while he also made 4-of-6 at the line. Tad Dickman contributed 15 points, eight rebounds, and two blocked shots in his 32 minutes of work. Taylor Johnson was the third Eagle in double figures with 10 points on 3-of-3 shooting including 1-of-1 from three and 3-of-3 from the charity stripe.
Oursler and fellow senior Paul Kouvaris led the Spartans with 18 points each. Oursler drained a career-high six three pointers while he also had six rebounds in 37 minutes of play. Kouvaris also had six rebounds as he was 5-for-7 from the floor and 8-for-13 from the free throw line. Junior Julian Watson was the third Spartan in double figures with 12 points while he also had five rebounds and five assists.
York finished the game shooting 44.4% from the floor including 52% (13-of-25) in the second half. The Spartans tied a season-high with 10 three pointers as they shot 43.5% from beyond the arc.
Mary Washington converted 46.9% of their attempts from the floor while they shot 45.5% (10-for-22) from distance. The Eagles converted 17-of-26 (65.4%) from the stripe in the win.
The Spartans conclude their three-game road trip with a Capital Athletic Conference contest at Hood College on Wednesday evening. Tip time in Frederick, MD is set for 8:00 pm.
Mo Oursler photo courtesy of Zach Clabaugh (www.sharpedgefoto.com)


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Merging with Brian Jeremy?
I think this article could do with merging with Brian Jeremy, for a few reasons. Mainly because almost all of what is on this page is already covered over there, and the things that aren't could be added there and be made into its own subsection on that page. I don't feel like the small amount of info available on this subject needs its own article. Also, there is no official name for this either which would make it harder for people looking for it as they won't know what to look and search for. A natural starting point in their search would be Brian Jeremy's article and as I said, this information is already there. For these reasons, I think that this page should be made into a redirect and that the information on the two pages should be merged on Brian Jeremy's page. Opinions? Andreaz1 (talk|edits) 22:51, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
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Midway through the first season of The Sopranos, the protagonist's psychotherapist, Jennifer Melfi, has a not-exactly-traditional family dinner with her middle-class Italian parents, son and ex-husband Richard. She lets slip (hmm!) that one of her patients is a mobster, much to Richard's consternation. An activist in Italian anti-defamation politics, he is incensed at the opprobrium the Mafia has brought on all Italians. What is the point, he protests, of trying to help such a person? In a subsequent scene he contemptuously dismisses Jennifer and her profession for purveying "cheesy moral relativism" in the face of evil. His challenge boldly proclaims what until then has been implicit: The richest and most compelling piece of television–no, of popular culture–that I've encountered in the past twenty years is a meditation on the nature of morality, the possibility of redemption and the legacy of Freud.
To be sure, The Sopranos is much else as well. For two years (the third season began March 4) David Chase's HBO series has served up a hybrid genre of post-Godfather decline-of-the-mob movie and soap opera, with plenty of sex, violence, domestic melodrama and comic irony; a portrait of a suburban landscape that does for northern New Jersey what film noir did for Los Angeles, with soundtrack to match; a deft depiction of class and cultural relations among various subgroups and generations of Italian-Americans; a gloss on the manners and mores of the fin-de-siècle American middle-class family; and perfect-pitch acting, especially by James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano; Edie Falco as his complicated wife, Carmela; Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Melfi; and the late Nancy Marchand as the Sopranos' terrifying matriarch, Livia.
Cumulatively, these episodes have the feel of an as yet unfinished nineteenth-century novel. While the sheer entertainment and suspense of the plot twists are reminiscent of Dickens and his early serials, the underlying themes evoke George Eliot: The world of Tony Soprano is a kind of postmodern Middlemarch, whose inhabitants' moral and spiritual development (or devolution) unfolds within and against the norms of a parochial social milieu. This era being what it is, however, the Sopranos' milieu has porous boundaries, and the norms that govern it are a moving target. In one scene, the family is in mid-breakfast when Tony and Carmela's teenage daughter, Meadow, apropos a recent scandal brought on by a high school classmate's affair with her soccer coach, declaims about the importance of talking openly about sex. Yes, Tony agrees, but not during breakfast. "Dad, this is the 1990s," Meadow protests. "Outside it may be the 1990s," Tony retorts, "but in this house it's 1954." It's wishful thinking, and Tony knows it. What 1950s gangster would take Prozac and make weekly visits to a shrink–or, for that matter, have a daughter named Meadow?
In fact, contemporary reality pervades the Sopranos' suburban manse. A school counselor tries to persuade them that their son, Anthony Jr., has attention deficit disorder. Meadow hosts a clandestine party in her grandmother's empty house that gets busted for drugs and alcohol. Tony's sister Janice, who years ago decamped to Seattle, became a Buddhist and changed her name to Parvati, shows up at his door flaunting her postcounterculture reinvented self. And while Tony displays some of the trappings of the stereotypical Italian patriarch–he is proud of supporting his family in style, comes and goes as he pleases, leaves the running of the household to Carmela and cheats on her with the obligatory goomah–his persona as fear-inspiring gangster does not translate to his home life. Carmela is his emotional equal; she does what she likes, tells him off without hesitation and, unlike old-style mob wives, knows plenty about the business. Nor, despite periodic outbursts of temper, is Tony an intimidating father. Caught between empathy for their children and the urge to whip them into line, the Sopranos share the dirty little secret of nineties middle-class parenthood: You can't control teenagers' behavior without becoming full-time prison guards. "Let's not overplay our hand," Tony cautions after Meadow's party caper, "'cause if she knows we're powerless, we're fucked."


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Grand Island Town Supervisor Mary Cooke said the drug takeback day conducted April 27 at Town Hall was a great success. During a four-hour period, volunteers accepted 374 pounds of unused and unwanted medications from 125 vehicles.
During April 29's joint meeting between the Town Board and the Grand Island Board of Education, Cooke said the total was "the most that we've ever collected on Grand Island." The town has participated in four such events now.
Eventually, a permanent dropbox will be located on the Island, she noted. "And that will help provide a place for 24/7 disposal."
Michael Manuszewski, pharmacist at the Island Prescription Center, 1728 Grand Island Blvd., said during Saturday's drop-off that the event "just takes the drugs out of the home and eliminates one or two possibilities of people obtaining them to abuse them. And also, it will keep the water table safer."
On the latter count, he noted medications disposed into landfills and waste treatment centers migrate back to the population. Studies have identified instances where the level of drugs in the water table is "at a therapeutic level, where people will get effects from medications," he said.
The Island Prescription Center accepts drop-offs in the same manner as Saturday's event at Town Hall. "Every day we're open, we do accept medications for returns, prescription and over-the-counter," Manuszewski said. "We say 'Thank you' and you're on your way."


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Well....Finally got around to opening all of my classics last night since I originally started collecting them back in November. Prime was a waste of money for $20, not a bad toy, but he could have been much better/bigger same with Magnus.... Seekers - LOVE THEM!!! WANT MORE!!! Bumblebee/Cliffjumper - cute!! Mirage - skinny, but okay, Grimlock....Uh...I have no idea how to transform him for some reason. Astrotrain? Train mode is sucky, but I like his bot mode for some reason. Hot Rod (Roddimus).....meh - he was one of my fav's as a kid, but this mold isn't doing anything for me. Megs - still in gun mode...Not ready to transform him - same with Jetfire.
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A new publication explores "Crucial Issues in Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol: Asia and the World", edited by Kheng-Lian Koh, Lin-Heng Lye & Jolene Lin from IUCN Member the Asia Pacific Centre of Environmental Law, National University of Singapore.
The book focuses on responses to climate change in the world's most populous region and provides the most comprehensive insight to the climate change discourse within Asia to date by drawing on the diverse disciplines and experience of legal practitioners, climate change consultants, government officials and academics. Individual chapters address issues such as how the various Asian countries — highly disparate in their cultures, socio-economic conditions and political systems — are responding to climate change, the challenges of mitigating and adapting to climate change, and the effective implementation of the Kyoto Protocol in Asia.
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While Louisiana struggles toward protecting itself from stronger storms and rising seas, a strange debate is unfolding in Washington that could moot the question. To leaders of this debate in both houses of Congress, climate change is not happening; if it is, then humans have nothing to do with it; and even if they do, the phenomenon is God's will, and we have no business interfering with his plan.
If these legislators prevail, Louisiana stands to lose more of its future than any state in America, and most countries of the world.
On one side of the debate are scientists representing thousands of experts in all related disciplines around the world, backed by years of studies and data. Behind them is last week's report from the National Academy of Sciences that without "steep cuts" in carbon emissions, atmospheric contamination will soar "to levels not seen for 34 million years." You need only scan the paper for news that Greenland ice is calving at 10 times predicted rates, that snows are gone from the high Himalayas and Mount Kilimanjaro, that Western rivers are running on dry and that forests in many states are only waiting for the next spark to explode.
U.S. military generals and admirals are now calling climate change a "serious threat to world security." What do we do when several million refugees from Bangladesh start pouring over the Indian border, bomb them?
Congressional leaders, however, know better. One member accuses "nefarious" scientists of "whipping up a global frenzy." Oklahoma's Sen. Jim Inhofe warns of "the greatest hoax ever perpetuated on America." Rep. Joe Barton from Texas reasons that carbon dioxide cannot possibly be a pollutant, because "humans expel it when they breathe." (The thought that we also expel pollutants after we eat does not seem to occur).
A Minnesota congressman explains that God has "given us a creation that is dynamically stable," seconded by a colleague from Illinois who asserts "the Earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over." The stated gospel is that scientists mistake the nature of "God's wise design and powerful sustaining," viewing humans as a threat rather than "the bearers of God's image, crowned with glory and honor." Where does a debate go from here?
Congress summons Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson -- raised in the Lower 9th Ward, schooled in chemical engineering at Tulane University, deeply committed to the survival of this region and deeply aware of the threat -- to bash her in committee after committee about environmental protection in general and the agency's most critical initiative: first-ever controls, long called for by law, on carbon emissions.
You would think she was burning the Bible and the American flag.
What is clear is that the attack on climate change controls, in the name of "sound science," has nothing to do with science except to contradict it. These attacks are driven by faith, funded by carbon industries and fueled by media misinformation that has most Americans now believing, according to a Gallup poll, that they know a great deal about climate change, that much of it is caused by aerosol spray and by nuclear power plants.
There are few combinations more lethal than being convinced about something and dead wrong.
Nor is this coming from a need to balance the budget. These are the same leaders who insist on retaining windfall tax breaks for American billionaires and provide monster subsidies to the carbon industries.
Nor is this truly conservative. Even were there a chance that the world's best scientists are wrong, even if that chance were 50 percent, who would play Russian roulette with global systems in play? What is happening instead is the most non-conservative, risk-taking behavior in the world. You might even call it, its trappings of religion aside, immoral.
Which would mean little more for Louisiana than (mostly) men acting badly, but for New Orleans and our coast. We cannot survive the high end of sea level rise, no matter what we try to do. We cannot afford to trash EPA carbon controls. If others believe that God will save us all, I welcome their prayers. But if they sell our future to this belief and to the carbon industries, we should not follow.
Oliver Houck is a professor of law at Tulane University. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com. This op-ed was originally published in the March 24, 2011 edition of The Times-Picayune.


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Todd writes: "We've developed a new open source tool which provides some of the functionality of personal bibliographic databases like EndNote or Procite. Its working name is Citation Manager. It runs on the server side and provides a database which handles multiple sites and users. The project site is missing important things like, well, everything except a link to the source code repository and the test server... but people at Access liked it and I thought I'd let everyone else see what we're up to. I'll be working on expanding the site into something useful, but in the mean time people are welcome to play around with the test database."
Citation Manager
The new version recognizes Ariel 3.0 files Prospero cannot handle and provides a proper warning. A later version of Prospero will handle these properly; for more info see bones.med.ohio-state.edu/prospero. (sorry for the delayed post)
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provide koha in different languages. Please read the scripts/translator/translator.readme file for more details."
Olivet's Open Source Projects
Craighton writes about three new packages from Olivet Nazarene University Benner Library, all of which are available on their Open Source Projects page:
The Web Access Reserve Program (WARP) is a Perl script that will organize electronic reserve files by professor name and class number, and make uploading files to the web server a click and drag operation.
ILLWizard 1.0 is an ISO-10161-compliant, OCLC-Direct-Request-compatible ILL Web form that is easily customizable by non-technical librarians. This Java applet can be customized by changing the program parameters in the html file.
Joe's ILL OCLC Macro Language macros will move the data in interlibrary loan email requests from email into OCLC ILL module workforms in Passport software.
Larry Wall at Open Source IG Program at ALA
Jeremy writes: "Larry Wall, inventer and maintainer of the PERL language, will be the keynote speaker at this year's Open Source program at ALA in San Francisco. The program takes place Sunday morning, 8:30, at the Marriot Golden Gate Section B. We have a very exciting lineup, with not only Larry, but also Eric Lease Morgan (MyLibrary@NCState), and William Scholten (Executive Director of the Waitt Family Foundation Technology Resource Center)."
Greenstone 2.35
Gordon writes: "Version 2.35 of Greenstone adds many plugin enhancements, including bzip2 support, improved PDF and Word document handling, an updated ImagePlug (Unix only) and optional XML files for adding extra metadata. A Russian translation of the user interface has been added. Documents are now stored as XML. Greenstone now works on MacOS X (or any POSIX system), and the new CORBA interface gives other programs access Greenstone collections."
MARC 1.13 released
Gregg writes: "New addition of the wonderful marc-record manipulation tool marc.pm. This one has the added feature of being able to name the HTML fields when using marc2html. Thanks MR. Summers!" Complete docs and a line-by-line tutorial example are available at marcpm.sourceforge.net.
Mark writes: "Modular Online Software for Self-Paced Tutorials (MOSST) is a lightweight tutorial builder that provides tools to add naviagational links and pop-up windows to HTML pages, a self-checking quiz module, and a web-based designer interface."
Martha writes: "Thokbook has now been ported to MySQL and DBD::CSV (flat file pseudo-database). Try it out and send me feedback! Note: The database format has changed. If you created a database under version 0.01, you will have to destroy and re-create it."
from freshmeat, changes include "Compatibility with MS Windows NT/2000, removal of duplicate references from searches, stability increases, moving all databases to dbm format, dependency changes from Mail::Mailer to Net::SMTP, and a fix for a bug which allowed username accounts like 'joe '." Go get it here.


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(RNN) - Miley Cyrus, the newly coronated queen of twerking, may have been dethroned by a young woman whose attempt at the dance went down in flames. Literally.
YouTube user Caitlin Heller's video submission - which, as the description put it, was a little surprise for her boyfriend - took a turn for the worst while she was just getting into form.
Another girl walked in while Heller was inverted and dancing against the front door. Heller promptly fell onto a glass table (which shattered, by the way) that held several lit candles. Fiery calamity ensued.
We have to disclose that it has not been confirmed if this video was a prank or a girl's genuine attempt at spicing up her relationship.
But at the very least, it's a valuable lesson to the rest of us. Lock the door when you're about to do something potentially embarrassing - or that will land you in the emergency room.
It begs the question: What would Alicia Keys think about this little stunt?
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Echinocactus grusonii
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Echinocactus grusonii Hildm.
Common Name(s):
|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Hunt, D., Taylor, N. and Charles, G. (compilers and editors). 2006. The New Cactus Lexicon. dh Books, Milborne Port, UK.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Accepted as a valid species by Anderson (2001) and Hunt et al. (2006).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered B1ab(v) ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Guadalupe Martínez, J., Sánchez , E. & Gómez-Hinostrosa, C.
|Goettsch, B.K., Superina, M., Schipper, J. & Hilton-Taylor, C.
|Fitz Maurice, W.A.
|Schipper, J.
Echinocactus grusonii is currently listed as Endangered, considering the subpopulation recently found in Zacatecas, the species has an extent of occurrence of approximately 4,500 km2 and there are two to four locations and it can also be considered severely fragmented (genetic exchange between the two subpopulations is very unlikely). Even though the new subpopulation has thousands of individuals, there is continuing decline in the number of mature individuals due to illegal collection, as it is a very sought after species. Field surveys of the new subpopulation are necessary in order to establish its size, trends, and any threats that might be affecting it.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|There are currently two disjunct subpopulations of this species. The small subpopulation in Querétaro occurs on medium to steep slopes of volcanic rock near Mesa de Léon in a very small area (extent of occurrence is 25 km² and the area of occupancy is less than 10 km²). A new subpopulation has recently been discovered in Zacatecas (not shown on the species' range map to protect it), which is much larger. It grows at altitudes between 1,400 and 1,900 m asl.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Mexico (Querétaro, Zacatecas)
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|The total number of plants in the Querétaro subpopulation is estimated to be less than 1,000, the majority of which are mature. The Zacatecas subpopulation is estimated to comprise several thousand mature individuals. W.A. Fitz-Maurice (pers. comm. 2009) says the number is probably close to 10,000.
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|This cactus grows in semi-desert matorral, among volcanic rocks or calcareous soil on medium to steep slopes. Generation length is 10 years.
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|This species is collected illegally as an ornamental, and fruits are consumed by humans as a source of water.
|Major Threat(s):
|Illegal collecting of the plants for the horticultural trade is the main threat to Echinocactus grusonii. Subpopulations were destroyed in the past through the construction of dams, particularly the Zimapán dam and reservoir built in the 1990s.
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The species is listed on CITES Appendix II, but the laws governing imports in the countries of destination need to be enforced. This is one of the most widely propagated cacti, with literally millions of individuals grown by commercial nurseries and hobbyists, thus making it very readily available throughout the world, but that does not stop the ongoing poaching. There is a need for further research in natural history and ecology and trends in collection and harvest (especially of juveniles) of the species. Both Botanic Gardens of Querétaro and Cadereyta Regional Botanic Garden have propagated the species extensively and run environmental education programmes to promote its conservation.
The Botanic Gardens of Querétaro are developing an in vitro procedure, with which they obtain proliferation of 5x/4 week and 95% soil adaptation (E. Sánchez pers. comm. 2010).
This species is legally protected in Mexico by the national list of species at risk of extinction, NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010, where it is listed under category "at risk of extinction" (P; SEMARNAT 2010).
|Guadalupe Martínez, J., Sánchez , E. & Gómez-Hinostrosa, C. 2013. Echinocactus grusonii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T40962A2947851. . Downloaded on 24 September 2018.
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WORCESTER � When he wrote his homily for 10 a.m. Mass at St. John's Church, Deacon Paul J. Dacri never thought he'd hear his words repeated from the stage of The Hanover Theatre.
But Sunday night from the balcony, he listened as Theresa Caputo of the TLC television show "Long Island Medium" repeated what he'd said: "Faith and hope equal love."
Turns out the tiny blonde firecracker in the glittering stilettos was at Mass Sunday morning and was moved by the homily. She said she'd mentioned that to her husband, Larry Caputo, when church let out.
Mr. Dacri never saw her during Mass, but he certainly saw her Sunday night when, despite the shoes, she climbed the stairs to the balcony to deliver a message from his wife, Patricia, who died 12 years ago from a brain tumor.
"She said thank you for the beautiful life and nothing's left unsaid," Mrs. Caputo told Mr. Dacri, adding that his wife appreciated that he had given her permission to pass and that she is in heaven.
"She said thank you for allowing me to leave with dignity and grace," she said.
While some television shows don't translate well to theater, "Theresa Caputo, The Experience" held the audience captive and had them laughing and weeping.
When she spoke with a young mother whose 5-month-old son had died of sudden infant death syndrome, there was nary a dry eye among the capacity crowd. Mrs. Caputo said that the child's soul had passed through his mother, awakening her just before she went to check on him the night he died.
When she asked about whether the baby's mother had his footprints, the mom, her hands shaking, turned and revealed a tattoo of her son's feet, along with his name and a verse on her shoulder hidden beneath her dress.
Some might find the messages hard to believe, and Mrs. Caputo said she is often asked how she handles skeptics.
"I don't handle anyone," she said. "This isn't about me."
Those who have seen her television show, the new season of which premiered after her Worcester appearance Sunday night, know that she seems unable to turn off the voices of "spirit" that speak to her, not in English but with a sense of "knowing."
When she was younger, she said, she told her parents she felt "different." Her mother's response was, "You're not adopted." Later, she went to therapy and eventually found a spiritual healer who helped her recognize her gift. Now, she has honed her ability to understand the messages she receives, though on Sunday, she was surprised by some of the things she found unusual.
When she asked who in the audience had a child that had been run over in their own driveway, several people raised their hands. Another woman whose adult best friend had been killed as Mrs. Caputo described was given a message by Mrs. Caputo for his mother, who's struggling after hitting her son with her car, "Tell my mom that she can't be with me right now."
Another similar message came to be passed on to the father of a boy struck while riding his bike. The boy's grandmother promised to share it.
Sometimes, Mrs. Caputo recognizes another person who may also be gifted in hearing from "spirit." She said at a recent appearance, she spoke to a 10-year-old girl who often saw her dead sister.
Her parents have brought her to a variety of specialists who suggested medication, but during the show, she got a message from Mrs. Caputo.
"Your sister wants you to know you're not crazy," she said she told the child and she offered some tools "to help her with her gift" then directed the family to some folks who could also assist. The girl is doing well and not taking medications.
A woman whose son died at 16 was told that his spirit conjured for Mrs. Caputo an image of "Field of Dreams," and stunned the psychic when she said a ball field had been named for him.
"That's it! I just can't make this (expletive) up," she said.
While some of the messages brought up reminders of sad events, most of the times spirits do "not want us to get caught up in our grief." She said most people receive small messages from loved ones that might be passed off as coincidence, but are really signs of love from those who've left.
"Your loved ones give you what you need to make tomorrow a little easier," she said.


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Ekin TV, February 16, 2009
Adnan Oktar:We have squelched those who wanted to make mischief by discriminating between Sunnis and Alevis. We have faced them down so they can't speak from now on. Alevis and Sunnis are brothers. Kurdish and Turkish people are brothers. There is no racial discrimination, no discrimination among religious sects. We will insha'Allah take this case to the end like buildings welded together with concrete. This is destiny; so no one can prevent this. Mischief recoiled on those who sought to make mischief. Allah prevented them. No one would be deceived by this. They can never split Turkish people, and these incidents showed them they could not. This is an outmoded idea now. After now we will continue to move ahead with solid steps insha'Allah. It is another pleasure and blessing to spoil their game. Alevis and Sunnis are people with divine light. Shiahs are people with divine light. Vahabis are people with divine light. However, we are going to establish a good Turkish-Islamic Union insha'Allah, by bringing the Islam world together, with the leadership of Turkish people insha'Allah, with love and sincerity insha'Allah.
Gönen Keşif TV, 11 August 2008
Adnan Oktar:You know I'm Sunni, Hanafi. Four just schools are accepted in Islam. But I love Alevis, Shiahs and Wahabis very much as brothers. I see them as very devoted and sincere Muslims. This a compassion granted from Allah. There can be separate sects, separate cults but it could never have an aspect that could result in conflict, hostility and hatred. There is no such logic because when we look we see that people are really sincere and they live religion with sincerity. I think that those who cause a fit are mischief-makers. We have the same Allah, the same kiblah, we believe in the same Prophets, we are loyal to the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) and believe in the whole of the Qur'an. So what is happening? A person is our brother even if he performs salaat (prayer) once a week or performs only the salaat only on Bairam (religious holiday). If he is saying "La ilahe illallah Muhammedun Rasulullah", then he is again our brother. I don't understand the reason of this depravedness. This is nothing but utterly groundless and evil. There is no need for discrimination. Cults are decent and sacred communities, which conduce to an increase in the strength and livelihood of the Ottoman empire, by Allah's Will. Nakshibendis, Kadiris or Shazelis are just sects and these are very useful as we have seen throughout history. Therefore, it would be wrong to give them the adverse eye.
Timetürk, 10 Nisan 2010
Bardakoğlu, emphasizing that Islam is a religion of unity – solidarity and love – respect, said that "for 14 centuries, Muslims always lived together in love, respect, unity, harmony and brotherhood despite their differences in piety, mystic traditions, culture, region and schools."
"They always performed prayer behind one another, considered one another Muslims and no one tried to assess the devotion of one another. Therefore, we as Turkish people have such harmony in our history in the Anatolia region. Without discriminating as Alevi, Sunni, Hanafi, Shafi'i, Jafari, Shiah, Bektashi, Mawlawi, Nakshi; meaning we loved and respected each other and lived together without attaching importance to beliefs, schools, sub-identities and mystic traditions. In this respect, I believe that the tradition of our Alevi and Sunni brothers to live together in harmony with love and respect will strengthen; and that the provocative efforts of those outsiders to separate us will not give any result. People should respect each other without judging one another, insisting our own belief systems on one another and assessing each other's devotion. They should treat each other with love."


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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State brought a six-game winning streak and a lot of questions into Saturday night's game against No. 8 Stanford. Primarily, how would the Beavers fare in the season's first game against a top 25 opponent?
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State brought a six-game winning streak and a lot of questions into Saturday night's game against No. 8 Stanford.
Primarily, how would the Beavers fare in the season's first game against a top 25 opponent?
Oregon State didn't get the ultimate result, thought it took the Cardinal to the final seconds before falling short in a 20-12 loss.
The Beavers (6-2, 4-1 Pac-12) trailed 20-9 with late, yet nearly forced overtime. After Trevor Romaine kicked a 39-yard field goal with 3:57 left to cut the deficit to eight, Oregon State drove to the Stanford 7 with 30 seconds remaining. However, four consecutive incompletions ended the rally.
"We played a great team, and we lost by eight points. Stanford's a top 10 team. We're going to learn from this," Beavers receiver Brandin Cooks said.
Tyler Gaffney ran for three touchdowns and 145 yards to lead Stanford (7-1, 5-1). Gaffney accounted for all of the Cardinal touchdowns on runs of 4, 9 and 32 yards.
Stanford totaled 276 yards on offense, as quarterback Kevin Hogan completed just 8 of 18 passes for 88 yards.
The Cardinal held Oregon State to 288 yards, well off the Beavers' season average of 515 yards. Beavers quarterback Sean Mannion, the national leader in yards passing and touchdown passes, was 41 of 57 for 271 yards and one touchdown.
Oregon State coach Mike Riley called the outcome "a really tough loss, and it will be even tougher for our team tomorrow, for our team and coaches watching the film. There were a ton of missed opportunities ... but I'm thankful for our team. I just love how they fought."
Stanford's defense came up big in key situations, as it turned back Oregon State on downs four times inside the Cardinal 35. Stanford held Mannion to fewer than 350 yards passing for the first time this season, and sacked him eight times.
Mannion felt Oregon State "left some plays out there that might have been the difference," but disagreed that the Beavers shot themselves in the foot.
"By saying that, it takes away from Stanford, and they definitely earned this win," Mannion said.
The Cardinal win sets the stage for a showdown against No. 2 Oregon at home on Nov. 7. Last year, Stanford handed the Ducks their only loss of the season with a 17-13 win in Eugene.
Stanford led 7-3 at halftime following a defensive struggle in the first half.
Oregon State took a 3-0 lead early in the second quarter on Romaine's career-best 50-yard field goal. The Beavers appeared they would lead hold the lead into the break when a turnover on downs gave the Cardinal the ball on its own 34 with 46 seconds remaining in the second quarter.
Stanford took advantage with a quick-striking drive, finishing when Gaffney bulled into the end zone from 4 yards out 7 seconds before halftime.
The Cardinal capitalized on their momentum by forcing a fumble on the opening kickoff of the second half. Gaffney scored two plays later on a 9-yard run to put Stanford ahead 13-3.
Oregon State bounced back with its best possession of the night, a 12-play, 90-yard drive ending on an 8-yard touchdown pass from Mannion to Cooks. But the Cardinal made it 20-9 just 3 minutes into the fourth quarter on Gaffney's 32-yard cutback run for a touchdown.
NOTES: Terron Ward's 34-yard run midway through the third quarter was Oregon State's longest running play of the season. ... Romaine missed his first extra-point kick in 37 tries this season.


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Both those that have embraced the newest precision farming technology and those that have taken a wait-and-see approach are in agreement on one thing. Both groups, according to one precision farming survey, believe precision farming tools will more profitable in five years than they are now.
The survey of 5,976 cotton farmers in a six-state region, which included Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee, asked growers how much they would be willing to pay for a cotton yield monitor.
"Precision farming may increase cotton production efficiency, reduce input use, and increase yields and profits. However, most producers have made only modest investments in precision farming technologies. We wanted to better understand attitudes toward this new technology, and the likelihood that farmers would consider investing in precision farming at different price levels," said Roland Roberts, an agricultural economist at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and co-author of the precision farming survey.
Not surprisingly, what the group of Extension economists most often found was that the decision whether or not to adoption precision farming practices comes down to a matter of simple economics.
"Adopters reported that profit was the most important factor prompting their adoption of precision farming," Roberts said. "Precision farming early-adopters, on average, reported a perceived lint yield increase of 21 pounds per acre. In addition, 38 percent of adopters said they have experienced some improvement in environmental quality through the use of this new technology."
Even more important, Roberts said, is the fact that both adopters and non-adopters believe that precision farming tools will offer a greater profit opportunity five years in the future.
Of those responding to the precision farming survey, 85 percent of those that have already adopted the technology and 63 percent of those who have not, believe precision farming will be profitable for them to use in the future. When asked to rank the future importance of precision farming technology on a scale of one to five, the adopters gave it a ranking of 3.9, and the non-adopters gave it a ranking of 3.5.
The move to high-tech, the survey found, is greatly influenced by both the price of the precision equipment and the perceived potential for yield increase.
When asked to list what they believed to be the typical price for a cotton yield monitoring system with a monitor, a GPS receiver and sensors on two chutes of a four- or five-row picker, neither group was accurate in its estimation. "The average purchase price given by adopters was $8,776, while the average price given by non-adopters was $1,215 less at $7,561. The list price for a yield monitoring system at the time was $9,500, so both groups believed the price was lower than the actual purchase price," Roberts said.
Cotton growers participating in the study may have been unsure of the current sticker price for a yield monitoring system, but they were certain as to how much they would be willing to pay to put one on their farm.
As could be anticipated, growers' willingness to purchase a yield monitoring system increased as the purchase price decreased.
When provided with a purchase price over $10,500 to retrofit an existing four-row cotton picker, 59 percent of adopters and 54 percent of non-adopters said they would opt not to buy a cotton yield monitor system. However, when offered a price of $4,500, only 35 percent of all respondents said the price was too high.
"We saw a definite trend downward in the percentage of respondents that would purchase it as the price increased," Roberts said. "We also saw a similar trend when we asked growers at what price they would consider purchasing or leasing an optional cotton yield monitoring system when purchasing or leasing a new four-, five- or six-row picker."
The price trend was more significant for non-adopters, which Roberts attributes to the possibility that early-adopters have obtained more information on what the actual price of a yield monitoring system and what it can do on their farm.
"Overall, the percentage of farmers saying yes to a cotton yield monitoring system certainly trends downward as the price increases, even when they are purchasing a new picker and the yield monitoring system is an option," Roberts said.
A majority of the cotton growers responding to the survey use computers for farm management purposes, and more than 75 percent of them say their primary source of household income comes from farming.
According to the survey, however, there are several notable differences between those farmers adopting precision farming technology and those farmers taking the wait-and-see approach.
The survey found that adopters are younger than non-adopters and, although they have less experience in farming, often farm larger acreage. In addition, adopters, on average have completed one more year of college than their counterparts.
"Most farmers think precision farming will be profitable in the future, and as more information becomes available, cotton producers will have greater opportunities to make more informed decisions about the use of these technologies on their farms," Roberts said.
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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - The city of San Diego and its disgraced former mayor, Bob Filner, have agreed to pay his ex-press secretary $250,000 to settle the sexual harassment suit she brought against them, with the entire sum coming from municipal coffers, city officials said on Monday.
Filner, 71, signed off on the agreement as the principal defendant in the lawsuit brought by Irene McCormack Jackson but will pay nothing to settle the complaint, in keeping with a separate deal he reached with the city before he resigned in August.
"Nothing will come out of his pocket," City Attorney Jan Goldsmith said in announcing the latest agreement at the city's Civic Center Plaza.
"This is a big step towards putting this behind our community," he told reporters. "This is what's called a clean settlement in that there are no hanging issues."
The municipal government admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement, which the City Council approved unanimously in closed session on Monday, Goldsmith said. It was not clear whether Filner acknowledged misconduct in the accord.
Filner, who pleaded guilty in October to criminal charges of false imprisonment and battery involving three other women and was sentenced in December to three months of home confinement, was not present for the news conference.
Neither was McCormack Jackson nor her attorney, Gloria Allred, who scheduled a news conference of her own for Tuesday.
McCormack Jackson was the first of nearly 20 women to publicly accuse Filner of making unwanted sexual advances and other inappropriate behavior during his brief tenure as mayor of California's second-largest city.
As part of her settlement, McCormack Jackson will end her employment with the city on April 1, Goldsmith said. She had served as Filner's communications director for six months and has been on unpaid administrative leave since last fall.
In the lawsuit she filed in July, McCormack Jackson accused her boss of asking her to "get naked" and kiss him, and of placing her in a virtual "head lock" while he suggested they get married and asking, "Wouldn't it be great if we consummated the marriage?"
In subsequent court filings in conjunction with her lawsuit, McCormack Jackson said she was seeking nearly $1.5 million in damages. The city attorney said sexual harassment suits brought by two other accusers against Filner and the city remain outstanding.
The former 10-term U.S. congressman assumed office in 2013 as the first Democrat elected mayor of the traditionally conservative city, seeking to pursue a more progressive agenda.
But he quickly lost the support of his own party, the entire City Council and the public as a growing number of women came forward to accuse him.
A runoff election between two city councilmen vying to succeed Filner - a Republican backed by the city's downtown establishment and a Democrat seeking to become San Diego's first Hispanic mayor - is set for Tuesday.
(Reporting by Marty Graham; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Ken Wills)


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This article titled "Fish discarding ban shunned by MPs" was written by Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent, for guardian.co.uk on Friday 24th February 2012 06.00 UTC
Fishermen should be allowed to continue discarding edible fish at sea, despite public pressure to stop the wasteful practice, a group of MPs has urged.
The proposal, by a parliamentary select committee, is a blow to environmental campaigners who have long argued against the practice.
A high-profile public campaign led by the chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has called an end to the discarding of fish. Fleets sometimes throw fish back, usually dead, because they have exceeded their quota or have inadvertently caught less valuable species.
Partly in response to the campaign, the European commission has proposed a phased-in ban on discards, which the UK government has backed in Brussels.
But the environment and rural affairs committee called in a report published on Friday for the practice to be allowed to continue until 2020 at least.
The MPs said it had not been proved how many fish died after being discarded and called for more research. They cast doubt on whether it was possible to end discards.
"We are concerned that, by deciding to implement a discard ban swiftly and without full engagement with stakeholders, the commission risks creating a scheme that will be unworkable, or worse, will merely shift unwanted fish in the sea to unwanted fish on land," the committee said.
Anne McIntosh, who chairs the committee, said: "Everyone is appalled by revelations about the levels of discarding. We heard first-hand from fishermen in Hastings how frustrating it is for them to have to throw back perfectly good cod into the sea. The commission is right to want to tackle this, but we are concerned that a kneejerk reaction to the public outcry will do more harm than good. The last thing that we want to see is unwanted fish in the sea becoming unwanted fish in landfill."
Some campaigners said this stance would simply result in greater waste of fish.
Ruth Davis, chief policy adviser for Greenpeace UK, said the MPs' stance would lead to further and unnecessary depletion of already dwindling fish stocks. She said: "We cannot accept another decade of discarded fish and devastated fish stocks, and
"Discarding is a perverse consequence of a broken policy that must be addressed in the context of wider radical reforms to the common fisheries policy. There's a painful lack of urgency in what the committee is saying – a radical solution in 10 years' time isn't radical and, by then, it won't be a solution.
"We would like to see European leaders demonstrate that they believe their own rhetoric and have the courage to take the necessary steps to reduce over-fishing and support the small-scale, sustainable fishing sector before it's too late."
WWF-UK said discarding should be allowed to continue. Giles Barlett, fisheries policy officer at the group, said: "There should not be an outright ban. We would like to see plans with measurable reductions in discards and strategies to achieve this. We are saying you should still be allowed to discard fish. We don't expect edible fish to be discarded."
However, research shows that edible fish are frequently discarded under the current rules. Discarding results in as much as two-thirds of the fish caught being thrown back in the water, with about 1m tonnes estimated to be thrown back each year in the North Sea alone.
Discarding is a consequence of the strict quotas in the EU under the common fisheries policy on the amount of fish that boats may land. When fishermen exceed their quota, or catch species of fish for which they do not have a quota, they must discard the excess.
But many fishermen, particularly companies with large-scale industrial fishing vessels, would like to retain the practice, because it enables them to throw away lower value fish and keep the most valuable in order to maximise their profits.
Maria Damanaki, EU fisheries chief, vowed last year to make sweeping reforms to the common fisheries policy that would involve phasing out discards altogether so fishermen would have to land all their catch. To assist this, the EU would encourage fishermen to use more selective fishing gear; would try to develop new markets for less valued fish species; and would seek to find alternative uses for unwanted species, such as fish meal for fish farms. Fleets would receive compensation for loss of earnings.
Damanaki said the reforms were needed to ensure the long-term survival of the EU's fish stocks, which are rapidly dwindling after decades in which member states have fought each other to gain the right to fish more, putting more pressure on stocks than they can bear and defying scientific advice to cut catches in order to allow key species, such as cod, to recover.
Many retailers and food processors support ending discards, but the reform plans have run into trouble, as much of the fishing lobby and some governments with big fishing industries want to water down or delay measures such as the proposed ban on discards.
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