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Are Republicans grasping at straws? Their latest poster boy is Fred Thompson. An ex-senator turned actor. On Law & Order he probably insisted on the role of �Boss� over Sam Waterston to whom, as an actor, he cannot hold a candle, and doubtless corralled, by contract, all the best exit lines. Republicans shouldn�t let their irritation over being beaten lead them into a desperate gamble. They have time to select another more reasonable choice if they are, quite understandably, dissatisfied with the present stable of conservative presidential contenders.
Let�s face it. Can we expect any open-minded legal decisions from one who �shepherded� Roberts onto the Supreme Court? Do we really want to put the country back into the hands of another wayward Rightist, especially those of an overweight, trophy spoused, cigar-chomping, back-room boy like Mr. Thompson?
Stick with John Edwards. He makes all his decisions up front.
Joan Pike
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I am an alumnus of Winnacunnet High School. I played in the jazz band for four years under Stan Bednarz. Recently, some of us were e-mailing on �classmates.com� and we decided that we would like to have a reunion concert of as many students as we could find next summer at the Shell with Mr. Bednarz.
I really need some help letting people know about it, so please help spread the word.
E-mail me at email@example.com. I am contacting the current WHS band leader to see if we can get together on this as well as, Sheila Nudd who was our student Teacher when I was at WHS. I really feel this would be a great concert and tribute to the music program at WHS. I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.
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This letter is to thank the Legislature, the governor and the Department of Education for saving the Cocheco Arts & Technology Academy, the Franklin Career Academy, and the Seacoast Charter School. Without bipartisan leadership action these three charter schools would have been forced to close their doors. The real and immediate beneficiaries are the students of the schools. Longer term we are all winners because of the superior education results that charter schools afford some students.
All of New Hampshire�s charter schools are public schools, authorized by the Legislature. We have two types of charter schools. Both offer valuable alternatives for parents and students, many of whom do not thrive in the larger scale of our typical public schools. Some of the charter schools are set up within existing town or SAU education districts and receive funding directly from local tax sources. Others such as the three cited above, are free standing and do not receive local tax dollars. They are prohibited from charging tuition to residents of New Hampshire, and require substitute funding sources.
The near extinction of these three fine schools occurred at the completion of the three year start up period during which the schools received federal start up funding as well as state adequacy money. The schools have demonstrated their ability to make a significant difference for their students and to help them succeed educationally while keeping costs lower than the larger customary public schools. We all owe a debt to our civic leaders for taking the time to understand the unique benefits that charters offer.
The legislation passed provides a one-year reprieve for these charters, which allows time to put in place permanent funding for free standing charters. Everyone associated with the schools appreciates the effort by our elected and appointed leaders� to understand the unique challenges and significant benefits offered to the state�s students by charter schools. It is critical that work toward legislation to provide permanent funding begin now. It is unfair to the students, teachers and others to leave this matter until the last minute. We are confident that a timely and enduring solution will be devised and implemented early in the next legislative session.
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Globalization and inter-dependence have pushed Naga rebels to reassess their goals. Is peace within reach, asks Avalok Langer
FOR 64 YEARS, the Naga struggle for sovereignty has been based on the idea of 'urra uvie (our land belongs to us)'. Over the years, a sense of a collective Naga identity has been instilled and the idea of sovereignty based on their historical rights and cultural identity has become real. Warring factions created a sovereignty hyperbole, something akin to the idea of Kashmir's azadi, where the fight for independence was about "all or nothing" and the cause that justified the violence was sovereignty.
However, at the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) meeting on 29 February in Dimapur, Nagaland, addressing thousands of Nagas from all walks of life and all Naga-inhabited areas (Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Myanmar), National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Kitovi-Khole) Chairman Gen Khole Konyak explained that independence for Nagas in the present international context was not possible nor was Greater Nagaland. "It is a practical reality, necessitated not because of the aggressive posture of the Government of India but a realization that Naga nationalism must be evoked in the right spirit through practical wisdom as opposed to idealist views on sovereignty and independence," he said.
A statement that, for the first time, touched on the issue of sovereignty in a public forum and gave an inkling of what the future might hold.
"Sovereignty, or the denial of it, has been a bone of contention between the Nagas and the Government of India since 1947," says Father Abraham Lotha, a Naga intellectual. But what has resulted in this changing definition? A change that is being seen as a progressive and positive step.
Over the past six decades, there has been a paradigm shift and the idea of globalization and inter-dependence has taken root not only in India but among the Nagas as well. Exposed to the idea of a global village, young Nagas aped the hairstyles of their favorite Korean movie stars and political stands of the 'underground' softened. Sovereignty underwent an adjustment.
"How we defined sovereignty 50 years ago does not fit into today's context," explains a Naga rebel. "Both sovereignty and self-determination are still key, but we will adjust our demands to the needs of a modern world."
'Shared sovereignty' is the new catch-phrase in Nagaland, says Father Lotha. "We aren't very sure what 'shared sovereignty' means. We don't know what we will give to India and what India will give us. But what we do know is that no country is sovereign in the old understanding of the word; we are all inter-dependent."
Another contributing factor was the military stalemate. As the decades passed, the death toll mounted. The Indian government's military response to a political problem created a deadlock. While it contained the 'insurgency', sporadic violence continued. "The harsh and sad reality of India is that for every soldier killed, there are a hundred waiting to take his place," explains a senior army officer. "Yes, you can create an irritant, but you cannot win in a battle of attrition."
The implication of this mindset is that violence cannot provide any solution. Whether it is in Kashmir or the Northeast, the Centre has shown its willingness to take on losses and bide it's time for an opportune moment.
'The demand for complete sovereignty has vanished from the younger generation,' says 28-year-old Zakie
But the protracted violence in Nagaland and other parts of the Northeast has created 'conflict fatigue'. The local population — the support base of the movements — has grown wary of the violence, extortion, lack of normalcy and development. They are stuck between the cause: sovereignty, which is close to their heart, and the reality, which falls horribly short of what was promised.
"The demand for complete sovereignty has vanished from the younger generation and the Naga intellectuals," says businessman Zakie, 28. "Complete sovereignty is neither possible nor will it be to our advantage. Though there is a sense of optimism after the recent FNR meeting, many people are jaded. We have heard these promises before."
Former Union Home Secretary GK Pillai believes that, "When the Naga groups came to the negotiation table; the understanding was that sovereignty is something that the Indian government cannot give. However, the negotiation must result in a win-win situation, an honorable solution. The first step is for the Naga groups to go back to the people and explain to them, we were fighting for X, but we are getting Y, which is an honorable solution and in the best interest of both parties. They need to get the people to support the agreement. Then we will have a lasting solution."
A young member of the Naga underground very candidly expresses, "This political struggle has been on for many years now, but there is a growing feeling that if we don't do something now and seize the moment, it will not be wise on our part. We will talk to the people, understand what they want and then go ahead with the negotiations."
The FNR meeting, in which four resolutions were passed and a desire expressed to create a common platform, is being seen as the 'first step'. Though there are still hurdles, the progressive approach provides hope that the contours of a lasting peace could be seen by the end of this year.
KASHMIR TOO has reached a military stalemate and life in the Valley is anything but normal. Azadi is the war cry and various separatist leaders rally around the cause to assert their dominance. Does the Naga movement hold a lesson for India's other longstanding dispute?
Pillai feels that though the Pakistan factor makes Kashmir a different ballgame, "the idea of globalization, soft borders and being exposed to what is happening in Pakistan has resulted in a shift". "Pakistan is no longer an option; the options are azadi and India. This shift has taken 50 years. You have to give it time," he says.
The longer the movement lasts, the graver the consequences are for the local populace. So, is a shift in mindset required from both sides?
Dilip Padgaonkar, one of the interlocutors sent to Kashmir last year, believes that the solution lies within the idea of India itself. "In the Valley, sovereignty is co-equal to a 'State'. When that is the understanding, in a region where people feel oppressed, the demand for sovereignty comes up. Realpolitik or armed conflict is a nonstarter. The idea of India allows for people to follow their political aspirations. We have seen that the Constitution of India has proven to be very flexible and allowed space for this kind of aspiration. The most recent example of this space is the creation of Gorkhaland, a purely constitutional solution to people's aspirations."
Hurriyat (G) leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's visit to New Delhi and interactions with different civil society members are being seen as a softening of his otherwise hard line stand. Could this be a step in a new direction?
Over the years, there has been one constant, the Indian government will not give complete sovereignty. This is the stark reality facing the rebel outfits: Is prolonged conflict in pursuit of an outdated idea of sovereignty worth it, especially when New Delhi is comfortable with protracted deployment? Maybe there is a lesson to be learnt from the Naga rebel outfits — to stay relevant, you must evolve.
At the end of the day, the groups have to realize that in a people's movement, the mandate is in the hands of the people.
*The opinion is written by Avalok Langer
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If there were a place where the written word was priceless, where a painting or a sculpture was worth more than diamonds and where a song could inspire a love that lasts for centuries, would you go there?
If there existed a city where genius and beauty were one and the same, where invention and ambition were prized above martial skill and where dragons and mortals lived together in eternal harmony, would you visit there?
If there existed a city where magic in service to beauty was the highest ideal and where illusions revealed the greatest truths, would you live there?
And if you came to such a place, could you ever leave again?
Stonebridge is a city like no other, an oasis of renaissance culture, home to art obsessed copper dragons and an impassioned race of gnomes whose blood sings with the twin fires of magic and dragon spirit. Stonebridge is home to the greatest geniuses of the age, men and women who have seized greatness and embraced innovation, who have slipped the boundaries of conventional thought for the endless vistas of imagination.


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I want to set each new tab to open in Google which is my homepage, how do I do this?
When I open a new tab I want it to open in my homepage which is google. I cannot seem to change this unlike IE which allows me to change this to what ever settings I choose. How do I set all my tabs to google? Instead of it coming up as blank page (untitled)?
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Install one of the following: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2221 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777Read this answer in context 15
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Install one of the following: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2221 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777
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Its simple, no addons at all. Type about:config in the adress bar and seach for browser.newtab.url and you will find the string you need. Change it to the page you want to open as the newtab. and thats it.
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To My last reply: I found out that this sting dose not always exsist, if you have not yet updated then its a good idea. A link on how to update: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Updating%20Firefox#Manually_check_for_updates
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Is there a config setting that would tell Firefox to open my new tab url with the cursor on the web page and not in the Firefox location bar?
For example, I've entered www.google.com as my new tab url, and new tabs now open to google. But I can't start typing right away as the cursor is in the url field and not on the google page.
No. If you change the setting of the new tab URL then the focus appears to be set to the location bar and not to the web page.
An alternative is to use the toolbar Home button or create a bookmark on the Bookmarks Toolbar and middle-click that button to open the link in a new tab.


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Isn't it fun to live in an expressive world?
This is awesome.
Library and Archives Canada posted an amazing April Fools Day image to Facebook and its official website recognizing the famous Marvel comic book character's contributions to Canada.
In a fake news release, they announce that "Library and Archives Canada's major acquisition of the declassified journals and military records of Canadian supersoldier James "Logan" Howlett."
The post continues saying that, "Logan was born in 1882 in Cold Lake, Alberta, Canada, to wealthy landowner Elizabeth Howlett and her grounds-keeper Thomas Logan.
Logan's journals provide valuable insight into his early life in Canada, including work as a miner in a British Columbia stone quarry, a fur trader for the Hudson's Bay Company, and a homesteader in the Canadian Rockies. His military career spanned multiple conflicts, making his personnel records an unprecedented study in Canadian military history. Logan was gravely wounded in action many times, and gained a reputation as a gritty survivor."
Also included are a series of 'quick facts' which can be viewed at this link.
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Starting tomorrow the 2011 Panamera and Panamera 4 featuring the company's all-new, fuel efficient 300-horsepower V6 engine will begin arriving at Porsche's nearly 200 dealerships across America.
These new models come just eight months after the successful launch of the V8-powered Panamera S, Panamera 4S and Panamera Turbo. Since then, Porsche has sold more than 4,000 Panamera Gran Turismos to U.S. customers.
The new Panamera models feature an all-new, Porsche-designed 3.6-liter, 90-degree V6 engine with Direct Fuel Injection (DFI) that develops 300 horsepower and 295 lb-ft of torque. Built on the same line as the normally aspirated and twin-turbocharged 4.8-liter V8 engines found in the Panamera S, 4S and Turbo, this new engine propels the Panamera and Panamera 4 from 0 to 60 mph in 6.0 and 5.8 seconds, respectively (5.8 and 5.6 seconds with the Sport Chrono Package Plus option). Top test track speeds are 160 and 159 mph, respectively. read more


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The Economist writes about trends in University funding, especially France, in an article which celebrates the growing autonomy of educational institutions and increased funding from the private sector. No surprise there: encouraging free markets or, in the case of education, operating models based on free market mechanisms, is their self-confessed raison d'être (full disclosure: I also kneel at the altar of Milton Friedman). The famous generosity of the American philanthropic system comes in for praise. In the past, this has been credited to Europe's deep-seated belief that the role of government is to provide social services (In 1948 over 90 percent of Britons 'felt there was no longer a need for charities in the country'!). The Economist associates this state of affairs with a grim but oft-quoted statistic: only 2 of the top 20 Universities in the world are in Europe (Cambridge and Oxford) according to Shanghai Jiao Tong University's rankings. They also point out 'Only 24% of working-age Europeans have a degree, compared with 39% of Americans.' Has Europe's and, of more concern to us, Great Britain's welfare state put them miles behind America?
Not so fast.
The Guardian points out that 'annual spending by Europe's top 25 corporate foundations last year outstripped the US by over €500m (£335m), distributing €1.7bn (£1.14 bn) compared to €1.1bn (£738m) in the US'. Furthermore, America's hyper-rich distort the picture: although 'US charitable foundations as a whole still give more than the Europeans - €7.3bn (£4.9bn) compared to €4.4 bn (£2.9bn) ... The Bill Gates Foundation alone accounts for more than $1bn (£527m).'
Meanwhile, in the UK, education is increasingly the beneficiary of private donations. Of the causes for individual charity in the UK, 'Education is the only cause to see a significant growth in the share of total amount given' between 2004/5-2006/7, according to the Charities Aid Foundation.
More important, some are questioning whether increasing funds from charitable organizations can have an adverse effect, especially in primary education. Here America serves as a deplorable example. According to executive Director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Rick Cohen, 'in President Bush's proposed budget for the fiscal year 2007, the administration justified proposed cuts in its small schools programme by citing the availability of funds for the same purpose from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. That made a foundation programme, where the decisions are made by a few administrators and the foundation's two trustees, a potential substitute for a federal government action. The foundation programme was not delivered uniformly nationwide, and unlike the education department programme, there are no mechanisms for complaint or administrative review.'
It seems the UK is stumbling toward a middle ground between the stifling environment in France and the problematic American model. As students at the Courtauld, I think we can agree on the need to keep moving toward the latter; perhaps we should let others know how they can help us get there.-Joanna M.


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Homage to Madame Blavatsky — Mother of the New Age
July 2004
The following text is lifted from the website www.Blavatsky.net quote:
"Checklist of Some Principles of Theosophy"
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Quote 1: (www.Blavatsky.net — Article excerpt by Henry T. Edge)
"In the 19th century, imperialism had reached its height. Western nations were so convinced of the superiority of the white races that they had no compunction about exploiting their colonies. In this environment, Madame Blavatsky taught the first principle of occultism — the brotherhood of all humanity, the unity of all races. She presented ideas and concepts that unified science, religion and philosophy; ideas showing a spiritual purpose and design behind the facts of science, as well as giving spiritual depth to religion and philosophy." (End of quotation)
Quote 2: (www.Theosociety.org : "H.P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Movement" by Charles J. Ryan)
"HPB saw that the essential truths in all the great religions had been deeply honeycombed with error, and that for this reason religion had become an element of contention and division in the world. A return to an understanding of the ancient wisdom- religion — Theosophy &dmdash; the spiritual center from which the rival faiths all diverged, is the only way to produce harmony among their followers, and thereby to take an immense step toward universal brotherhood. — In the words of G. De Purecker: "She saw how humanity had been drifting through the ages unaware of its birthright and unconscious of its dignity, how the indefiniteness of modern ideas had confused the minds of the people and engendered everywhere uncertainty and helpless doubt, and she left for posterity a body of teachings with power in them to change the whole world, and as it were to raise from the dead the Immortal Part of man." (End of quotation)
Quote 3: (www.Theosociety.org — article excerpt by Charles Johnston)
"She was the most perfect aristocrat I have ever known. There was something in her personality, her bearing, the light and power of her eyes, which spoke of a wider and deeper life, not needing lesser miracles to testify to it, because in itself miraculous. That was the greatest thing about her, and it was always there; this sense of a bigger world, of deeper powers, of unseen might; to those in harmony with her potent genius, this came as a revelation and incentive to follow the path she pointed out. To those who could not see with her eyes, who could not raise themselves in some measure to her vision, this quality came as a challenge, an irritant, a discordant and subversive force, leading them at last to an attitude of fierce hostility and denunciation. When the last word is said, she was greater than any of her works, more full of living power than even her marvelous writings. It was the intimate and direct sense of her genius, the strong ray and vibration of that genius itself, which worked her greatest achievements and won her greatest triumphs. Most perfect work of all, her will carried with it a sense and conviction of immortality. Her mere presence testified to the vigor of the soul." (End of quotation.)
I also learned that by the time of her death in 1891 Madame Blavatsky had worldwide 100,000 followers of her Theosophy movement. She was seen as The Light Bringer to the western world. Her admirers named her the Sphinx of the 19th century and for contemporaries she is the Mother of the New Age.
Also I remember reading that it was through Madame Blavatsky's teaching of Theosophy that Gandhi was induced to study his own heritage and that Albert Einstein kept "The Secret Doctrine" on his desk.
The Practical Applications — Walking the Talk
Madame Blavatsky stated in "The Secret Doctrine", "The conditions of evolution are within and not without, and by fortune are independent of circumstances and conditions of earthly life. That is why all shall awaken at some point, climbing and conquering peak after peak, and cooperating with nature by accomplishing the true purpose of life."
We are now living in this time where 'all shall awaken'. As the Explorer Race we have come far indeed. The Earth has been mapped, cities and nations built. We have acquired a highly evolved technology and are exploring outer space. Over the last few years the human family has become a global village where information can be spread around the globe within seconds. Obviously the era of discovering our planet Earth required a human species with a frontier spirit, that is, with male attributes such as aggression, assertion, physical strength, and a desire for conquering. Subsequently, all cultures of our civilization evolved as systems of patriarchy, and our history is the story of change through violence and war.
Dear Reader, in switching back to the present, if you follow the political events on television, notice that in the centers of upheaval the female half of the population is excluded from public rights; in the worst areas of violence the females live under blankets, which they call burkas. Notice also that today — 130 years after the founding of the Theosophical Society — our male world leaders choose to focus on separation, not on the ideal of a Brotherhood of Man. It may soon become apparent to many that the cause for the global War on Terrorism is the imbalance of male and female energies on Earth. The human family will come to the realization that it is our male-logical, left-brain thinking that created the great crevasse between the human intellect and the human heart which we are facing.
However, taking on a broadened perspective enables us humans to perceive the returning of the female energy. As we all transition through the Shift of the Ages it will bring the necessary upgrading of consciousness to re-balance the energies on Earth. While standing at the crossroads it would serve us well to take inventory about what of the Old World is worth taking with us for the new beginning in the New Millennium.
Madame Blavatsky was a forerunner, seen as the single Light Bringer of her time. At this crucial time of the Shift we are many Bringers of the Light, this time we call ourselves Lightworkers, for it is us who chose to hold the Light and usher our brothers and sisters through the coming changes. By now there are hundreds of thousands of Lightworkers transmitting messages from our non-physical friends and counterparts; the Ascended Masters are now interacting with thousands.
The seeds of theosophical ideas have flowered abundantly throughout the New Age movement. Individually and globally, we as the global Lightworker community have come far in our journey to enlightenment. We are celebrating great diversity among us, yet the essence is always the same, our concern is for the upliftment of humanity. We see ourselves as spiritual beings having human experiences on Earth. We now know that we are the creators of our own reality and that we have the power of the Universe at our fingertips.
Some of us focus on new languaging; for example, instead of 'Karma' we use "Law of Attraction", since the word Karma often has attached the judgment of right and wrong, good and bad.
We now meet in global online peace meditations. We created the Universal Crystal Grid or Christ Consciousness Grid. We have Master Healers who are specialists in DNA activation. Without spaceships we interact with ETs.
We all are learning to claim our mastership as divine creators on Earth.
From the New Millennium Viewpoint
Dear Reader, let me briefly touch on the three main subjects of Theosophy:
"Brotherhood of Man"
The 130-year old New Age Movement towards awakening and enlightenment needs to integrate a new language of energy awareness. As humans we use thoughts, words and script to contour and guide the energies towards our creative endeavors. For example, with globally fifty million Lightworkers, most of them in women's bodies, the axiom "Brotherhood of Man" requires adding the "Sisterhood of Women", in order to balance the energies as the first step to greater awareness. Our present time is all about the influx of feminine energy on planet Earth and its overall integration.
As a person Madame Blavatsky must also be seen as a citizen of her time. As a Russian noble woman she was born to be a leader; she inherited power, influence, and resources. She certainly embodied the big exception in her role as a woman in society; she obviously claimed for herself the privileges of a wealthy male, subsequently doors opened wherever she went. Being an occultist it was not her mission to question the gender roles. The emancipation movement was perused by the suffragettes as a political issue around that same time.
It is only now that the Divine Feminine comes back into balance on Earth; her return will bring the gift of spiritual enhancement for the entire human family. The ongoing influx of female energy will lead us into the era of peace and community building. Instead of "Brotherhood of Man" we are speaking of reaching Unity Consciousness, for we now know in our hearts that we are all one, Spaceship Earth and we are one.
The human family now has the gift of the Internet, this marvelous tool for global communication, a tool Madame Blavatsky could not even have dreamt of 130 years ago. For us the Lightworkers the time has come to put things into practice, to walk the talk by openly living in new ways, as examples for others. This is known as the process of spreading the great grassroots movement. The 21st century will mark the shift from outside exploration to inner exploration. The time to develop the divine powers latent in man has come.
Science - Philosophy - Religion
At the time of the founding of the Theosophical Society modern science was in its infant stages; in 1879 the light bulb was just invented. Meanwhile our high technology has reached the level of genetic engineering; we are creating clones with potential for good or bad. However, a New Science has emerged which focuses on the interconnectedness of all life and the bridging of the physical and non-physical realms. Their scientists learned to access the non-physical worlds and to retrieve new information, leading to new inventions towards human "Self-Sufficiency". The keyword for the future is "Self-empowerment and empowering others" and will be reflected in all areas of life.
The churches' work of promoting the charities serves to bridge the gap between "Haves and Have Nots"; it is the Old-World method of soothing the suffering of the exploited masses who live the lives of economic slaves.
In this century the different religions, science, and philosophy will be able to find bridges for a new understanding and cooperation.
The shortage mentality on Earth is a result of the Old-World-thinking of running out of resources, meant to manipulate the masses. As more and more people awaken to the awareness that they are conscious Creators on Earth we will be able to change the habit of lack-full thinking. We will spread the image where we all go to the quot;Niagara Falls of Abundance"with our buckets instead of teaspoons. (smile)
Connection with Nature
Since the sixties, co-creation with Nature has been practiced and taught in the spiritual Findhorn Community in Scotland. The subject has been taken to the next level and elevated to the "Co-Creative Science with Nature" by Machaelle Small Wright of Perelandra- Ltd.com. It is about bringing humans and the forces of Nature together to consciously co-create. This area of inner exploration and further expansion of consciousness is the next adventure for me. I plan to delve further into the study of the co-creation with Nature and write about my experiences.
The Religions
Madame Blavatsky spoke of the organized "Churchianity" and called the church institution "a wealthy and domineering colossus." "No religion higher than truth", she proclaimed. As was then, today's church fathers still control the masses through the guise of religion. In their efforts to maintain the status quo they preach that the truth has been set in stone thousands of years ago. That is why the church is still mostly about moral judgments of right and wrong. I watch on television that the churches in America as a Christian-dominated country are being haunted by their own dogmas, shaken by sexual scandals.
On the other hand, out of the contrast provided by the Christian fundamentalists, as an example the wonderful "What Would Jesus Do" — Movement has emerged, declaring Jesus as the authority of their lives, but not church dogma. As an observer I have to say that the people in old Europe are more liberated than Americans in their relation to the religions. Since medieval times the church is known for "preaching water and drinking wine", that is why many choose not to put their lives into a religious framework.
I learned from my online study that practical theosophy can be explained as "a way of life, a standard of thought and action, a position assumed and retained throughout life." Being a self-made person I have been following my own, yet similar path of awakening to my potential.
The driving force of my life has been my desire to be of value to my brothers and sisters. As I said before, I have chosen two contributions to the great paradigm shift on Earth: 1) My handbook "Who Wants To Be A Lightworker" for the spreading of a new career as a "Lightworker for America" and 2) the initiation of a Heaven-on-Earth Community called The Isle of Light Jacumba.
In my chapter "Open Letter to the Local Community" I lined out the framework for this model community with its specific orientation. I think my guidelines are in resonance with what Madame Blavatsky presented 130 years ago in her teachings of Theosophy.
I am grateful for the opportunity of gaining an overview of Madame Blavatsky and her teachings of Theosophy through the WorldWideWeb. I have great admiration for her, in fact, Madame Blavatsky has become one of my role models. It was a pleasure to tune into such glorious high-level information over several weeks, and it brought me much clarity for my own projects.
For years I have been receiving insights that my family of origin is that of the Promethean Spirit and that I am part of the continuation or perpetuation of this particular stream of consciousness. At this crucial time of the Shift we are many avatars and prophets of the Promethean Spirit walking the Earth. We are here to usher our brothers and sisters through the coming major changes. It is my present state of comprehension that the "Sons of the Fire- Mist" were the avatars and prophets of the Promethean Spirit, and so was Madame Blavatsky, the Light Bringer. What I have in common with Madame Blavatsky, the Russian noble woman, is that I do have an inner knowing of the Russian soul, but I have no way yet of expressing it outwardly.
With my Homage to Madame Blavatsky I want to contribute to the revival of the ancient principles of Theosophy. My campaign for the elevation of the Lightworker status into a new occupation on Earth serves the same goal of creating a better future for the human family.
Being the type of the 'lone servant', it will suit me best to follow the statement I read on the "United Lodge of Theosophists" website, which says, "The true Theosophist belongs to no cult or sect, yet belongs to each and all."
In Service,
|Picture taken from the Blavatsky Archive's picture gallery
showing Madame Blavatsky with Kuthumi (Koot Hoomi), El Moraya (El Morya), and
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By Renita Kalhorn
Do you ever catch yourself thinking that maybe all of this – this pace of relentless change and uncertainty – is really just temporary? That we simply have to ride it out and, eventually, we'll go back to the way it used to be. You know, pre-9/11, before the financial meltdown, without the weekly slew of disasters, natural and man-made.
Well, enjoy the fantasy because this is the new normal.
"The pace of change in our world is speeding up," said Lester Brown, founder of Worldwatch, "accelerating to the point where it threatens to overwhelm the management capacity of political leaders." And he said it back in 1996.
More recently, the 2010 IBM Global CEO Study reported: "Today's complexity is only expected to rise, and more than half of CEOs doubt their ability to manage it. Seventy-nine percent of CEOs anticipate even greater complexity ahead."
This leaves our psyches caught between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand, many of our conventions and belief systems remain rooted in the industrial age- command and control leadership and either-or, linear thinking.
On the other hand (in the developed world at least), we've got retailers offering same-day delivery services, phone apps minimizing the wait for a cab or a date, and movies and TV shows streaming in seconds. We've gotten used to a life of comfort, convenience and instant gratification, and we're thrown off guard when there's the slightest delay, much less hardship.
So here we are, in a growing culture of impatience, facing increasing complexity and uncertainty with "old-world" thinking – not a friendly combo! Take that dichotomy to the workplace and winging our mental preparation just won't cut it: if we want to maintain high performance and competitiveness, training our minds to be "mentally tough" will become more important than ever.
I don't mean, by the way, the stereotypical image of mental toughness — some steel-jawed guy gutting it out with sheer brute force or stoicism.
Rather, it's more like a broad spectrum of mental capabilities that allow a person to adapt and excel in diverse circumstances. Certainly, there are the usual suspects: perseverance, self-confidence, courage and focus. But the repertoire of mental toughness also includes curiosity, agility, imagination to see beyond the current reality – and the meta-ability to learn and master new ways of thinking.
So leaders who want to expand their management capacity need to train themselves to think differently. What does that mean exactly? In my recent Mental Toughness Summit, I interviewed 11 experts on mental toughness in leadership, and these were the recurring themes – the modes of thinking — that emerged:
Adopt a stance of "not-knowing."
In the traditional command-and-control leadership style, the leader has all the answers. Even faced with limitless amounts of information, some are attempting to keep up the ruse. Give it up.
"Not-knowing" is not to be confused with being ignorant.
In fact, Les McKeown, advisor to dozens of founder/owners and CEOs, says: "I've noticed an interesting pattern: The weaker the leader, the more they know… strong leaders know they can't–and shouldn't–know everything about their business," and they build strong teams that they can trust.
In a larger sense, operating from a stance of "not-knowing" means being truly open-minded, listening without automatic judgment or simply to confirm what you already believe.
Do You QuantumThink? author Dianne Collins explains: "Suppose you are having a "problem" with John, a team member who, in your assessment, has a negative attitude and is slowing down the accomplishment of an important business project. If you are attempting to change John's negative attitude, by definition you are already relating to him as if he "is" negative – thereby keeping "negative attitude" in place. If you can relate to John as enthusiastic, creative, and effective, you open the possibility of leaping to a new and vitalizing Intent (i.e., a different context) with your relationship with John."
Imagine the possibilities that would open to you if everything you thought as fixed were actually fluid.
Develop a growth mindset.
One of the critical aspects of mental toughness is the ability to learn and grow from failure. Thing is, leaders who have what Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck calls a fixed mindset, believe their basic qualities, like intelligence or talent, are fixed traits (there's that "f" word again). They see failure as a reflection of their ability so failing means that they inherently don't have the ability – so they give up.
With a growth mindset, however, you believe that your most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work-brains and talent are just the starting point – and you will view failure as an opportunity to learn, and effort as a path to mastery.
Motivational psychologist Heidi Halvorson explains: It's the difference between thinking, "I don't know how to do this," and "I don't know how to do this yet."
Give up resistance.
One of the hardest parts about adversity is not actually the hardship itself but the resistance to accepting that it's there to begin with. That's right, grasshopper. Appreciate constraints. Embrace the suck, welcome the struggle.
As Leadership and the Art of Struggle author Steven Snyder points out: "When you say, "Yeah, I don't know everything and there's a lot to learn and if I could be open to it then I will be so much better off because I can embrace this as opposed to fighting it."
This simple shift in perspective can refuel your motivation and grit – without the circumstances changing.
Control your focus.
Where you place your attention determines how you experience life. You probably know that. But are you consciously paying attention – or just reacting?
In these times of extreme distraction, that's critical — having the ability to focus your attention as easily as you would direct the beam of a flashlight, even under duress or intense emotion.
What's more, psychology is showing us that there are a number of ways to frame focus: narrow vs open; prevention vs promotion; process vs outcome. Being able to distinguish and toggle between them at will is what will give you a sense of control and mastery in the face of growing complexity and uncertainty.
That's where practice and training comes in. In fact, becoming fluent in these various modes of thinking will set the foundation for a mental toughness mindset – and set yourself up for success.
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My lovely mother, God bless her, is cursed. And having just spent a weekend with her brother, I can safely claim that he's cursed, too. Maybe "cursed" is too soft a diagnosis, as my siblings and I have often jokingly wondered if with Mom it's actually a case of outright demonic possession: does she have a demon who attacks her facility with all things technological?
Computers, cellphones, printers and TVs—you name it. Entertainment systems and the remote controls that come with them? Don't get me started. If it's a demon in Mom, or one with many offspring in all her appliances, it's one that wants to draw the line at her electric toothbrush.
Yes, there's a generational component in play. But might even that be more about generational sin, a legacy of dysfunctionality born long ago when our mechanically challenged ancestors quickly gave up on the frustrating task of turning the family swords into plowshares? Because in lesser but definite ways I, too, have been cursed.
Long before the iPod and iPad came around, I was sold the iCan't and iDon't.
For years I chalked up this quality to my Luddite leanings in a cyberfrenentic world. I was among the last of my friends to adopt e-mail or a cellphone, then among the last to adopt a smartphone. I hated the constant OS updates on my laptop, happy to stick with House Cat or whatever it was called while everyone else moved on to Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion.
Then what should have been a routine exercise turned first into a nightmare, then something of an exorcism.
To make a long and fairly boring story short, I was on the phone with AT&T before a sabbatical overseas when an agent from tech "support" (in this case "abuse") had me restore my phone to factory settings without first creating a backup. Presto! Everything was gone when the phone booted back up, with additional casualties on my laptop in the process. Thus began a downward spiral of increasingly futile proportions, with AT&T in one ear and Apple in the other, each hoping to disown the problem until a series of hand-offs at Apple left me on the line with a man of angelic dimensions fittingly named Michael.
In keeping with the self-evident title of Brett T. Robinson's Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs, this Michael was truly an Archangel assigned to cases like mine. As a Tier 2 Advisor at Apple, he ruled a domain that nine out of ten of our standard tech support calls never ascend to.
And make no mistake: for this Michael, the attempt at restoration and recovery of all that had been lost was nothing short of a battle in ethereal realms on his part, with secondary forces pulled in over the phone from other parts of the country. He was determined to win, much like his biblical namesake when entangled with the Prince of Persia in the Book of Daniel.
At least that's where my mind went over the course of our hours-long call, while his simply went to the problem at hand.But it was the perfect occasion to let my old-man Luddite die off and be replaced with a born-again technophile—or at least the fetal beginnings of one and perhaps only in theory—who has had a revelation of the fascinating parallels between the spiritual and technological realms.
Let's start with sheer semantics, wherein analogues abound. Restore. Save. Submit. Agree. Send. The commands we give on our devices a perfect echo of the ones we are given by our Deity. Restart. Refresh. Force Quit. Return.
Hence the design of computer hardware and software based on human "wetware," our cellular processes that model computer processing and, well, cellular communication. Watch Stephen Meyer's DNA by Design, and whatever your beliefs or lack thereof, you will likely come away amazed to learn that the human genome operates much like the system of folders within folders on your PC, replete with self-correcting enzymes that traverse the endless sequences of DNA to repair bugs in the code.
All of which is to say that if we are made in God's image, then computers are made in ours.
"In the beginning was the code," Jürgen Schmidhuber, co-director of the Swiss AI lab IDSIA, famously proclaimed at a 2012 TEDx talk in which he addressed the increasingly popular belief among scientists that the universe not only operates like a computer, but in a sense is one.
More recently, the New York Times raised the same question with an article titled, "Is the Universe a Simulation?" In it author Edward Frankel summarizes the surreal hypothesis:
But one fanciful possibility is that we live in a computer simulation based on the laws of mathematics—not in what we commonly take to be the real world. According to this theory, some highly advanced computer programmer of the future has devised this simulation, and we are unknowingly part of it. Thus when we discover a mathematical truth, we are simply discovering aspects of the code that the programmer used.
Yet doesn't the very question of such a programmer, small "p," beg the painfully glaring question of a Programmer, capital "P" instead? I go through my doubts about the existence of God, sure; but a teenage gamer from the future playing his philosophical shoot-'em-up called Planet Earth?
If that's conceivable, I would imagine that so is Paul's alternative paradigm as described in his letter to the Ephesians: "For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."
Translate that into the vernacular of computer science, and perhaps you get a program called Free Will—but one overcome with the virus of sin.
Surely we are surrounded by so great an iCloud of witnesses.
Bradford Winters is a screenwriter/producer in television whose work has included such series as Oz, Kings, Boss, and The Americans. His poems have appeared in Sewanee Theological Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Georgetown Review, among other journals. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children.


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