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JUST before Google first sold its shares to the public in 2004, Larry Page, one of its founders, excited the nonprofit world with a bold commitment to philanthropy.
In the philanthropy world, many people have a more skeptical view of Google’s experiment.
NOTHING illustrates DotOrg’s approach better than Google Flu Trends, an innovative tool that uses data collected from searches about flu symptoms to predict the location of flu outbreaks. In April 2009, Dr. Brilliant said it epitomized the power of Google’s vaunted engineering prowess to make the world a better place, and he predicted that it would save untold numbers of lives.
Public health officials say the tool is undoubtedly useful.
But “on an individual basis, does Flu Trends save lives? No,” said Ashley LaMonte-Fowlkes, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which helped Google test and develop it.
Instead, she described it as “a really nice adjunct” to other tools that the agency uses to understand the spread of flu. One major shortcoming of Flu Trends is that in poor regions of the developing world, where devastating pandemics are most likely to start, computers are not widely available, so Google has little data to feed into the tool. Even in the United States, during the swine flu outbreak of 2009, Flu Trends had difficulty detecting the relatively small number of H1N1 infections.
Some veterans of DotOrg say Flu Trends is an example of how Google’s engineering-centric approach frustrated and limited them.
Those solutions also had to be something that Google engineers, who represent the cream of the world’s elite universities, believed that only they could create.
For instance, in early 2008, some DotOrg staff members with traditional nonprofit backgrounds proposed a system to track drugs for diseases like malaria and tuberculosis through the supply chain, in order to combat drug counterfeiting and theft. Fake drugs, which can be toxic, are an enormous problem: the World Health Organization has estimated that more than 30 percent of drugs sold in developing countries in Africa and parts of Asia and Latin America can be counterfeit.
The team’s idea was to engineer a FedEx-type system, relying in part on text-messaging, that would track drugs from the moment they left a manufacturer’s control until they reached a patient.
The plan never went anywhere, however, because text-messaging was not sophisticated enough to challenge Google’s engineers, several former DotOrg executives said. The culture clash between the engineers — caustically referred to by former DotOrg executives as “the Brahmin” — and those from development organizations was exacerbated by DotOrg’s leader, Dr. Brilliant, according to a dozen former employees of DotOrg.
Even Dr. Brilliant’s fans — and they are legion in Silicon Valley and the global health arena — say he lacks management skills. A spokesman for Dr. Brilliant’s current employer, the Skoll Global Threats Fund, said last week that he was unavailable for an interview because of a death in his immediate family. Dr. Brilliant did respond to some questions by e-mail, though he did not reply to a question about his management.
He was hired on a whim after he won the coveted TED Prize, awarded annually to someone with a world-changing “wish,” in 2006 for his idea to build a global early-response system to identify new diseases and disasters as soon as they emerge, thus heading off pandemics. Dr. Brilliant was invited to speak to Google employees about his idea, and Mr. Page and his Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, happened to attend.
They were smitten, and Dr. Brilliant was hired almost immediately. It took DotOrg almost two years to define the five areas in which it would work, and they were announced with much fanfare in January 2008: predicting and preventing diseases; growing small and midsize businesses; increasing access to information and public services; developing renewable energy; and helping to commercialize plug-in hybrids. Google.org vowed to spend $175 million in those areas over the next three years.
It troubled several DotOrg executives that the largest grant announced that day, accounting for 20 percent of the $25 million committed at the time, went to InStedd, the organization that Dr. Brilliant had founded with his TED prize money.
“No one seemed to understand that this looked like a tremendous conflict of interest,” said one former DotOrg employee who oversaw programs and asked for anonymity because Google’s severance contract included a confidentiality clause.
During Dr. Brilliant’s tenure as executive director of DotOrg, InStedd received $11 million from the institution, while the Seva Foundation, another nonprofit that he had co-founded, received $2.5 million.
In an e-mail, Dr. Brilliant said the grant to Seva illustrated Google’s “don’t be evil” mantra: Mr. Brin ordered it up to make Seva whole after Google hired Dr. Brilliant away.
Dr. Brilliant also had to deal with other issues. On a personal level, he was distracted during part of his time at DotOrg because two family members were critically ill.
It didn’t help that Sheryl Sandberg, a Google executive who was the architect of DotOrg as it was first conceived, left to join Facebook in early 2008. Ms. Sandberg’s first job out of college was with the World Bank in India, and many DotOrg executives considered her their champion.
When she left, DotOrg became isolated. It operated out of San Francisco, rather than from Google’s campus in Mountain View, Calif. And with its executives spending most of their time in the developing world and thus unable to cultivate allies at the company, DotOrg all but ground to a halt.
Dr. Brilliant lacked Ms. Sandberg’s access to the Executive Management Group, which comprises about a dozen senior Google executives close to Mr. Page, Mr. Brin and Eric E. Schmidt, Google’s longtime chief executive, who is moving to a new role as executive chairman in April. (Mr. Page, meanwhile, will become C.E.O.) Members of this group were usually too busy to attend meetings where grants were presented for approval, so Dr. Brilliant worked out a system of e-mailing the proposals to Mr. Page and Mr. Brin. If they did not respond within 48 hours, he made the decision himself.
LAURENCE SIMON, a professor at Brandeis University and a friend of Dr. Brilliant’s who took a sabbatical to work at DotOrg in 2007, said that in his view, Google’s top executives grew frustrated with DotOrg when they were not being presented with clearly defined problems and solutions.
“I think they expected there would be the same kind of ‘launch early and often’ approach demanded on the business side, but that’s not the way development works,” Mr. Simon said.
When the Google founders did attend a meeting about DotOrg, they spent most of their time fiddling with their BlackBerrys. At one meeting, former DotOrg executives said, they were stunned when Mr. Brin dropped to the floor and started doing push-ups.
“DotOrg was like quicksand — every time you thought you’d found your footing, a sinkhole opened,” the former Google.org program officer said.
Jacquelline Fuller, a spokeswoman for DotOrg, said Mr. Brin, Mr. Page and Mr. Schmidt were not available to discuss the organization.
By the end of 2008, many of the DotOrg executives hired from the outside had left in frustration, and morale ratings were among the lowest in the company, according to an employee survey. Mr. Schmidt was prodded by other Google executives to review and restructure the operation.
After the review, Google suspended all grants that were not quite final. Grants were canceled to institutions like Harvard and Stanford for research projects in Africa even though Google’s senior management had approved them and they lacked only a final signature on the contracts.
Mr. Schmidt moved DotOrg to the Mountain View campus in early 2009. That February, Dr. Brilliant was given the title “chief philanthropic evangelist,” and left the organization soon after to join the Skoll Global Threats Fund. Ms. Smith took over DotOrg.
Engineers from outside DotOrg were assigned to review all of the grants it had made. Not surprisingly, they wanted to know why there wasn’t more engineering in, say, a grant made to assess the quality of basic education in Tanzania’s schools. They also wanted to know why DotOrg wasn’t working more to “scale” up small projects to have a broader impact.
“They never understood that technology is a means to an end, and that in the developing world, sometimes basic technology, like the collection and compilation of data, can have enormous impact,” said another DotOrg program officer, who resigned after the reorganization.
In the end, many grants were labeled “legacy” and discontinued when they expired.
IN devising what DotOrg would become after Dr. Brilliant, the company went back to the Flu Trends model. It has developed a series of tools based on existing Google technologies, including PowerMeter, which lets people track their home energy use in real time, and Earth Engine, which uses Google Earth and satellite imagery to monitor aspects of the earth’s environment, including deforestation.
So far, PowerMeter has failed to gain widespread adoption, in part because there are a number of competing products and many utilities did not get behind the idea.
Earth Engine, which Google released last month, offers more promise. It includes years of satellite imagery of the planet, and lets scientists use Google’s cloud-computing infrastructure to analyze it.
DotOrg’s projects related to green energy have received more attention from Google’s top brass, since they are pet projects of the founders and fit with the company’s broader, for-profit investments in clean energy technologies.
The organization’s engineers are working on technology that would make solar energy less expensive and more efficient as part of an initiative to develop renewable energy cheaper than coal. Another effort, to accelerate the development of plug-in cars, has its roots in the original DotOrg. The company worked to modify a fleet of hybrids to draw power from the grid and set up charging stations on its campus.
Google says it cannot easily separate the impact it has had in bringing plug-in hybrids closer to reality from that of others, like General Motors and Toyota, that are also promoting the technology. “Google was one of the entities helping to create the meme that plug-in hybrids are coming,” Ms. Smith said.
DotOrg has also developed tools to respond to disasters, such as a database to track missing people after the earthquake in Haiti. There is also Resource Finder, a map-based tool set up after Pakistan’s floods that helps relief workers locate available hospital beds.
Just as important as the projects themselves, Ms. Smith said, is the formal process for reviewing DotOrg proposals. The ideas, which can now be proposed by any Google employee, are handled very much the way Google handles any idea from its staff — with a rigorous product review. The process lays the foundation for many more projects in coming years, she said.
Google puts its overall giving last year at $184 million, including in-kind contributions. Roughly half that amount went to nonprofit groups as cash. An additional 20 percent went to universities under a program that also gives the company an inside track on promising young engineers and research. Just 15 percent went to DotOrg projects.
“We have ramped up our charitable giving, but it is now being done outside of DotOrg by other teams, which has allowed DotOrg to focus on developing engineering solutions,” said Ms. Fuller, the DotOrg spokeswoman who was recently named Google’s director of charitable giving, in an e-mail.
THE reorganization has made it hard to assess whether Google is living up to its original promise. Many of the grants Google makes to organizations like Citizen Schools, Landesa, Ashoka and Unicef seem more like conventional corporate philanthropy than the revolutionary social innovation that Mr. Page pledged.
Indeed, Ms. Fuller measures the philanthropic success of Google by comparing its giving with that of other companies. “I think the big picture is that relative to its peers, Google has been generous with its time and resources,” she wrote.

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just before google first sold its shares to the public in 2004, larry page, one of its founders, excited the nonprofit world with a bold commitment to philanthropy.
in the philanthropy world, many people have a more skeptical view of google’s experiment.
nothing illustrates dotorg’s approach better than google flu trends, an innovative tool that uses data collected from searches about flu symptoms to predict the location of flu outbreaks. in april 2009, dr. brilliant said it epitomized the power of google’s vaunted engineering prowess to make the world a better place, and he predicted that it would save untold numbers of lives.
public health officials say the tool is undoubtedly useful.
but “on an individual basis, does flu trends save lives? no,” said ashley lamonte-fowlkes, an epidemiologist at the centers for disease control and prevention, which helped google test and develop it.
instead, she described it as “a really nice adjunct” to other tools that the agency uses to understand the spread of flu. one major shortcoming of flu trends is that in poor regions of the developing world, where devastating pandemics are most likely to start, computers are not widely available, so google has little data to feed into the tool. even in the united states, during the swine flu outbreak of 2009, flu trends had difficulty detecting the relatively small number of h1n1 infections.
some veterans of dotorg say flu trends is an example of how google’s engineering-centric approach frustrated and limited them.
those solutions also had to be something that google engineers, who represent the cream of the world’s elite universities, believed that only they could create.
for instance, in early 2008, some dotorg staff members with traditional nonprofit backgrounds proposed a system to track drugs for diseases like malaria and tuberculosis through the supply chain, in order to combat drug counterfeiting and theft. fake drugs, which can be toxic, are an enormous problem: the world health organization has estimated that more than 30 percent of drugs sold in developing countries in africa and parts of asia and latin america can be counterfeit.
the team’s idea was to engineer a fedex-type system, relying in part on text-messaging, that would track drugs from the moment they left a manufacturer’s control until they reached a patient.
the plan never went anywhere, however, because text-messaging was not sophisticated enough to challenge google’s engineers, several former dotorg executives said. the culture clash between the engineers — caustically referred to by former dotorg executives as “the brahmin” — and those from development organizations was exacerbated by dotorg’s leader, dr. brilliant, according to a dozen former employees of dotorg.
even dr. brilliant’s fans — and they are legion in silicon valley and the global health arena — say he lacks management skills. a spokesman for dr. brilliant’s current employer, the skoll global threats fund, said last week that he was unavailable for an interview because of a death in his immediate family. dr. brilliant did respond to some questions by e-mail, though he did not reply to a question about his management.
he was hired on a whim after he won the coveted ted prize, awarded annually to someone with a world-changing “wish,” in 2006 for his idea to build a global early-response system to identify new diseases and disasters as soon as they emerge, thus heading off pandemics. dr. brilliant was invited to speak to google employees about his idea, and mr. page and his google co-founder, sergey brin, happened to attend.
they were smitten, and dr. brilliant was hired almost immediately. it took dotorg almost two years to define the five areas in which it would work, and they were announced with much fanfare in january 2008: predicting and preventing diseases; growing small and midsize businesses; increasing access to information and public services; developing renewable energy; and helping to commercialize plug-in hybrids. google.org vowed to spend $175 million in those areas over the next three years.
it troubled several dotorg executives that the largest grant announced that day, accounting for 20 percent of the $25 million committed at the time, went to instedd, the organization that dr. brilliant had founded with his ted prize money.
“no one seemed to understand that this looked like a tremendous conflict of interest,” said one former dotorg employee who oversaw programs and asked for anonymity because google’s severance contract included a confidentiality clause.
during dr. brilliant’s tenure as executive director of dotorg, instedd received $11 million from the institution, while the seva foundation, another nonprofit that he had co-founded, received $2.5 million.
in an e-mail, dr. brilliant said the grant to seva illustrated google’s “don’t be evil” mantra: mr. brin ordered it up to make seva whole after google hired dr. brilliant away.
dr. brilliant also had to deal with other issues. on a personal level, he was distracted during part of his time at dotorg because two family members were critically ill.
it didn’t help that sheryl sandberg, a google executive who was the architect of dotorg as it was first conceived, left to join facebook in early 2008. ms. sandberg’s first job out of college was with the world bank in india, and many dotorg executives considered her their champion.
when she left, dotorg became isolated. it operated out of san francisco, rather than from google’s campus in mountain view, calif. and with its executives spending most of their time in the developing world and thus unable to cultivate allies at the company, dotorg all but ground to a halt.
dr. brilliant lacked ms. sandberg’s access to the executive management group, which comprises about a dozen senior google executives close to mr. page, mr. brin and eric e. schmidt, google’s longtime chief executive, who is moving to a new role as executive chairman in april. (mr. page, meanwhile, will become c.e.o.) members of this group were usually too busy to attend meetings where grants were presented for approval, so dr. brilliant worked out a system of e-mailing the proposals to mr. page and mr. brin. if they did not respond within 48 hours, he made the decision himself.
laurence simon, a professor at brandeis university and a friend of dr. brilliant’s who took a sabbatical to work at dotorg in 2007, said that in his view, google’s top executives grew frustrated with dotorg when they were not being presented with clearly defined problems and solutions.
“i think they expected there would be the same kind of ‘launch early and often’ approach demanded on the business side, but that’s not the way development works,” mr. simon said.
when the google founders did attend a meeting about dotorg, they spent most of their time fiddling with their blackberrys. at one meeting, former dotorg executives said, they were stunned when mr. brin dropped to the floor and started doing push-ups.
“dotorg was like quicksand — every time you thought you’d found your footing, a sinkhole opened,” the former google.org program officer said.
jacquelline fuller, a spokeswoman for dotorg, said mr. brin, mr. page and mr. schmidt were not available to discuss the organization.
by the end of 2008, many of the dotorg executives hired from the outside had left in frustration, and morale ratings were among the lowest in the company, according to an employee survey. mr. schmidt was prodded by other google executives to review and restructure the operation.
after the review, google suspended all grants that were not quite final. grants were canceled to institutions like harvard and stanford for research projects in africa even though google’s senior management had approved them and they lacked only a final signature on the contracts.
mr. schmidt moved dotorg to the mountain view campus in early 2009. that february, dr. brilliant was given the title “chief philanthropic evangelist,” and left the organization soon after to join the skoll global threats fund. ms. smith took over dotorg.
engineers from outside dotorg were assigned to review all of the grants it had made. not surprisingly, they wanted to know why there wasn’t more engineering in, say, a grant made to assess the quality of basic education in tanzania’s schools. they also wanted to know why dotorg wasn’t working more to “scale” up small projects to have a broader impact.
“they never understood that technology is a means to an end, and that in the developing world, sometimes basic technology, like the collection and compilation of data, can have enormous impact,” said another dotorg program officer, who resigned after the reorganization.
in the end, many grants were labeled “legacy” and discontinued when they expired.
in devising what dotorg would become after dr. brilliant, the company went back to the flu trends model. it has developed a series of tools based on existing google technologies, including powermeter, which lets people track their home energy use in real time, and earth engine, which uses google earth and satellite imagery to monitor aspects of the earth’s environment, including deforestation.
so far, powermeter has failed to gain widespread adoption, in part because there are a number of competing products and many utilities did not get behind the idea.
earth engine, which google released last month, offers more promise. it includes years of satellite imagery of the planet, and lets scientists use google’s cloud-computing infrastructure to analyze it.
dotorg’s projects related to green energy have received more attention from google’s top brass, since they are pet projects of the founders and fit with the company’s broader, for-profit investments in clean energy technologies.
the organization’s engineers are working on technology that would make solar energy less expensive and more efficient as part of an initiative to develop renewable energy cheaper than coal. another effort, to accelerate the development of plug-in cars, has its roots in the original dotorg. the company worked to modify a fleet of hybrids to draw power from the grid and set up charging stations on its campus.
google says it cannot easily separate the impact it has had in bringing plug-in hybrids closer to reality from that of others, like general motors and toyota, that are also promoting the technology. “google was one of the entities helping to create the meme that plug-in hybrids are coming,” ms. smith said.
dotorg has also developed tools to respond to disasters, such as a database to track missing people after the earthquake in haiti. there is also resource finder, a map-based tool set up after pakistan’s floods that helps relief workers locate available hospital beds.
just as important as the projects themselves, ms. smith said, is the formal process for reviewing dotorg proposals. the ideas, which can now be proposed by any google employee, are handled very much the way google handles any idea from its staff — with a rigorous product review. the process lays the foundation for many more projects in coming years, she said.
google puts its overall giving last year at $184 million, including in-kind contributions. roughly half that amount went to nonprofit groups as cash. an additional 20 percent went to universities under a program that also gives the company an inside track on promising young engineers and research. just 15 percent went to dotorg projects.
“we have ramped up our charitable giving, but it is now being done outside of dotorg by other teams, which has allowed dotorg to focus on developing engineering solutions,” said ms. fuller, the dotorg spokeswoman who was recently named google’s director of charitable giving, in an e-mail.
the reorganization has made it hard to assess whether google is living up to its original promise. many of the grants google makes to organizations like citizen schools, landesa, ashoka and unicef seem more like conventional corporate philanthropy than the revolutionary social innovation that mr. page pledged.
indeed, ms. fuller measures the philanthropic success of google by comparing its giving with that of other companies. “i think the big picture is that relative to its peers, google has been generous with its time and resources,” she wrote.


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In-Line Drip Drip irrigation delivers water slowly to a vegetation’ roots, permitting the soil to absorb water fairly than creating runoff onto the freeway or sidewalk. To receive a rebate, use qualifying in-line drip merchandise with emitters constructed into the plastic tubing.
A spectacular lake view existed. We added a salt-water lap pool, and patio that related the home and once more garden. Earlier than we even met the consumers (they had been away for the winter), we designed and put in a giant blue stone patio that supplied a number of areas for entertaining and relaxation. So as to not impede the lake view, we lowered the pool grade by two ft. In doing so, we not only maintained the consumer’s view, we additionally ensured they didn’t have to try a dormant pool throughout winter, an important consideration when designing swimming pools throughout the Northeast.
While daylight is just not at all times simply managed by the gardener, it’s a essential ingredient of garden design. The quantity of obtainable mild is a important think about determining what vegetation may be grown. Daylight will, as a consequence of this truth, have a considerable affect on the character of the garden. For instance, a rose garden is often not successful in full shade, whereas a garden of hostas could not thrive in scorching solar. As another instance, a vegetable garden might have to be positioned in a sunny location, and if that location shouldn’t be glorious for the overall garden design targets, the designer may have to vary different sides of the garden.
This 6-week on-line course (7.5, including the introductory week and Spring Break week) gives a chance so that you can design your own garden. If, nevertheless, you should have already removed the sod, equal to utilizing a sod cutter or digging with a spade, then you definately probably can till the soil to break it up, after which until in pure matter, equal to compost or aged manure. (Eradicating the sod will take away these vitamins from the grass, and can take away topsoil, so you will need to replenish it with soil amendments.) It’s often a good suggestion to test the soil pH presently and add what’s required to stability it. Rake the soil to remove rocks and debris, then let it sit for per week or two earlier than planting.
Browse our assortment of more than 2,000 vegetation and seeds, which can be ordered straight from our favourite shops and growers. This design course has given me validation that it’s okay to trust your soul and give authentic voice to your garden house. Thanks.
He took us to the nursery to pick the vegetation and trees we wished in our yard and was open to us rejecting a number of of his plant decisions. At the related time, he also explained why among the vegetation we wished weren’t nicely suited to our yard. I most popular this personal touch.

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terra verde garden design cultivates garden areas that encourage life out of doors. that is a computer rendering of a rooftop patio we designed on the brand new apex at 290 luxurious rental building in elmsford, new york. the home homeowners of those luxurious condominiums asked us to design an area for barbecuing, eating, and lounging. our custom-made-designed planters and freestanding pergola shall be put in in the course of the spring of 2017, with plantings, furniture, and equipment to observe shortly thereafter. copyright rendering, nicole ashey, burlock interiors.
in-line drip drip irrigation delivers water slowly to a vegetation’ roots, permitting the soil to absorb water fairly than creating runoff onto the freeway or sidewalk. to receive a rebate, use qualifying in-line drip merchandise with emitters constructed into the plastic tubing.
a spectacular lake view existed. we added a salt-water lap pool, and patio that related the home and once more garden. earlier than we even met the consumers (they had been away for the winter), we designed and put in a giant blue stone patio that supplied a number of areas for entertaining and relaxation. so as to not impede the lake view, we lowered the pool grade by two ft. in doing so, we not only maintained the consumer’s view, we additionally ensured they didn’t have to try a dormant pool throughout winter, an important consideration when designing swimming pools throughout the northeast.
while daylight is just not at all times simply managed by the gardener, it’s a essential ingredient of garden design. the quantity of obtainable mild is a important think about determining what vegetation may be grown. daylight will, as a consequence of this truth, have a considerable affect on the character of the garden. for instance, a rose garden is often not successful in full shade, whereas a garden of hostas could not thrive in scorching solar. as another instance, a vegetable garden might have to be positioned in a sunny location, and if that location shouldn’t be glorious for the overall garden design targets, the designer may have to vary different sides of the garden.
this 6-week on-line course (7.5, including the introductory week and spring break week) gives a chance so that you can design your own garden. if, nevertheless, you should have already removed the sod, equal to utilizing a sod cutter or digging with a spade, then you definately probably can till the soil to break it up, after which until in pure matter, equal to compost or aged manure. (eradicating the sod will take away these vitamins from the grass, and can take away topsoil, so you will need to replenish it with soil amendments.) it’s often a good suggestion to test the soil ph presently and add what’s required to stability it. rake the soil to remove rocks and debris, then let it sit for per week or two earlier than planting.
browse our assortment of more than 2,000 vegetation and seeds, which can be ordered straight from our favourite shops and growers. this design course has given me validation that it’s okay to trust your soul and give authentic voice to your garden house. thanks.
he took us to the nursery to pick the vegetation and trees we wished in our yard and was open to us rejecting a number of of his plant decisions. at the related time, he also explained why among the vegetation we wished weren’t nicely suited to our yard. i most popular this personal touch.


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While I would have liked to see them pick up someone just for the sake of picking someone up, it’s probably the best move. I assume the rumor of trading Al/space for a 1st + bad contract would have resulted in a contract with more than the 1.5 years left on Al’s contract. Probably the best to stand pat. If anything we have 5 mil+ in cap space and an exception to possibly add someone that gets released.
No need to take on bad contracts to risk any flexibility we do have.

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while i would have liked to see them pick up someone just for the sake of picking someone up, it’s probably the best move. i assume the rumor of trading al/space for a 1st + bad contract would have resulted in a contract with more than the 1.5 years left on al’s contract. probably the best to stand pat. if anything we have 5 mil+ in cap space and an exception to possibly add someone that gets released.
no need to take on bad contracts to risk any flexibility we do have.


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your kitchen and bath in miami, fl is an authorized dealer of blanco products. family-owned since 1925, blancos humble beginnings included making copper galvanized parts for cookers and hot water bottles with a team of 30 loyal employees. today, their company has produced more than 40 million sinks, and is recognized as a world leader in quality, innovation and unsurpassed service. blanco commits itself to respect ethical business principles and since 1994 has been a member of the caux round table (crt), an international network of principled business leaders and companies working to promote a moral capitalism.
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A safe and adequate connection was made between the tow equipment and the bus by chaining the tow bar to the axle.
A front tow lift was performed.
A front tow lift was performed. No problems with the towing interface was encountered during testing.

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a safe and adequate connection was made between the tow equipment and the bus by chaining the tow bar to the axle.
a front tow lift was performed.
a front tow lift was performed. no problems with the towing interface was encountered during testing.


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About half the dry weight of your body is We obtain our amino acid building blocks, from protein. There are thousands of different kinds of which our cells build our proteins, from dietaryprotein molecules, performing a variety of protein. Plants and animals like us are built from functions. Most protein is structural – it makes protein. We don’t use dietary protein molecules up skin, hair, bone and teeth. Enzymes – directly - rather they are broken down in the molecules which drive chemical reactions in the process of digestion into the constituent amino body – are mostly proteins. Other examples are: Haemoglobin – found in red blood cells, it is Actually the body can make several amino acids vital for transporting oxygen to cells.
from others, but eight of the twenty-two are Insulin – a hormone or signalling molecule.
acids are semi-essential meaning they can’t be A protein molecule is made up of a sequence of basic building blocks called amino acids, joined Fully meeting the body’s protein needs requires end to end. (The chemical bonds between aminoacids are called peptide bonds.) Protein i You eat adequate amounts of the amino acids, molecules differ in terms of the number of ii Your body can successfully break down the specific sequence. Most proteins are able to protein you eat and absorb the amino acids serve their particular purpose by virtue of the 3D shape of the molecule, which is likewise a function of the specific number and sequence ofamino acids.
proteases. If you don’t produce enough of these, Your body manufactures proteins to order. The blueprints for proteins are found in the genes.
compromised. Stomach acid insufficiency, a That’s essentially what a gene is - a blueprint for condition known as hypochlorhydria, isone or more protein molecules. If the relatively common. Stomach acid production manufacturing process goes wrong, the result is naturally declines as we age. Furthermore, many often a protein with the wrong sequence of people take acid suppressing medications.
amino acids. Because these faulty molecules Conversely true cases of stomach acid excess are form unexpected 3D shapes, they can’t perform rare - often what is perceived as an excess of their intended functions. In the genetic disease acid is actually an inability of the stomach lining sickle-cell anaemia, haemoglobin molecules turn to withstand its own acid - a problem with theout wrong in just this way, with the consequence stomach lining not the acid. Alternatively if thethat the blood cannot transport oxygen in the acid gets to places where it shouldn’t (notably the oesophagus) it is treated as excess acid.
blood, which can cause problems if it’s too fast.
Breakfast is for many people is protein-light – As stated, we need the full range of amino acids although milk is a source of good quality protein in the right proportions – especially the eight it doesn't have large amounts (as it's a liquid).
essential amino acids. This idea is quantified as An egg at breakfast time is a good way to get the Biological Value (BV) of a protein source - a your protein.
high value source has all the essential amino Snacks are also commonly lacking in protein.
acids in the right proportions. It turns out that Ideal snacks are nuts and seeds, which have a animal sources in general have higher BV. Many variety of healthy nutrients besides protein. Oat plant sources such as brown rice, are missing cakes with cottage cheese, tinned fish or one or more of the essential amino acids.
hummus also make easy snacks or even light However, soya beans and quinoa do contain all eight (they are known as complete proteins).
is probably not healthy for other reasons, so Protein is not just used structurally by the body, plant sources, which have other health-giving it can also be burned to release energy. Whilst properties besides, should not be neglected.
this is a natural process happening to some Here are some BV scores of some typical high extent all the time, in conditions of starvation, protein can become the major source of energy.
Muscle wastage is the result of the bodymetabolising its own protein for energy. This isone reason why semi-starvation diets are a badidea - some of the weight loss is not fat loss butmuscle loss.
Evidence suggests that different people’smetabolisms are tuned to burn carbohydrates andproteins with more or less efficiency. Thepractical consequence is that some people willdo much better on a diet relatively high inprotein, while others a relatively low protein dietserves them best. This idea is behind the conceptof metabolic typing, covered in a separatearticle.
Estimates vary. The World Health Organisationsuggests around 10% of your total calorie intakeshould come from protein, or around 35g a day.
The UK Department of Health suggests 36g forwomen and 44g for men. Some weight loss dietssuggest much higher amounts.
Too much protein is not a good idea. It can cause amino acid called tryptophan. In one study,osteoporosis and can put excessive strain on the subjects who ate a diet devoid of tryptophan kidneys. Modern farming methods mean that developed symptoms of depression (2). Thus we many animal sources of protein contain high can conclude that adequate protein in our diet is levels of hormones such as oestrogen. Contary to important for mental and emotional functioning.
popular opinion, you don’t need high levels or protein to build muscle mass, even if you are a 1. Source: 'The Insulin Factor' by Antony The right level is really an individual matter - it 2. This study was published in the Lancet in 1997.
depends on your individual biochemistry.
Neurotransmitters are molecules that transmitsignals between nerve cells, and as such are avital aspect of brain functioning. Examples ofneurotransmitters are serotonin and dopamine. Itis thought that neurotransmitter imbalance playsa role in mood disorders such as depression, andcognitive disorders such as ADHD.

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about half the dry weight of your body is we obtain our amino acid building blocks, from protein. there are thousands of different kinds of which our cells build our proteins, from dietaryprotein molecules, performing a variety of protein. plants and animals like us are built from functions. most protein is structural – it makes protein. we don’t use dietary protein molecules up skin, hair, bone and teeth. enzymes – directly - rather they are broken down in the molecules which drive chemical reactions in the process of digestion into the constituent amino body – are mostly proteins. other examples are: haemoglobin – found in red blood cells, it is actually the body can make several amino acids vital for transporting oxygen to cells.
from others, but eight of the twenty-two are insulin – a hormone or signalling molecule.
acids are semi-essential meaning they can’t be a protein molecule is made up of a sequence of basic building blocks called amino acids, joined fully meeting the body’s protein needs requires end to end. (the chemical bonds between aminoacids are called peptide bonds.) protein i you eat adequate amounts of the amino acids, molecules differ in terms of the number of ii your body can successfully break down the specific sequence. most proteins are able to protein you eat and absorb the amino acids serve their particular purpose by virtue of the 3d shape of the molecule, which is likewise a function of the specific number and sequence ofamino acids.
proteases. if you don’t produce enough of these, your body manufactures proteins to order. the blueprints for proteins are found in the genes.
compromised. stomach acid insufficiency, a that’s essentially what a gene is - a blueprint for condition known as hypochlorhydria, isone or more protein molecules. if the relatively common. stomach acid production manufacturing process goes wrong, the result is naturally declines as we age. furthermore, many often a protein with the wrong sequence of people take acid suppressing medications.
amino acids. because these faulty molecules conversely true cases of stomach acid excess are form unexpected 3d shapes, they can’t perform rare - often what is perceived as an excess of their intended functions. in the genetic disease acid is actually an inability of the stomach lining sickle-cell anaemia, haemoglobin molecules turn to withstand its own acid - a problem with theout wrong in just this way, with the consequence stomach lining not the acid. alternatively if thethat the blood cannot transport oxygen in the acid gets to places where it shouldn’t (notably the oesophagus) it is treated as excess acid.
blood, which can cause problems if it’s too fast.
breakfast is for many people is protein-light – as stated, we need the full range of amino acids although milk is a source of good quality protein in the right proportions – especially the eight it doesn't have large amounts (as it's a liquid).
essential amino acids. this idea is quantified as an egg at breakfast time is a good way to get the biological value (bv) of a protein source - a your protein.
high value source has all the essential amino snacks are also commonly lacking in protein.
acids in the right proportions. it turns out that ideal snacks are nuts and seeds, which have a animal sources in general have higher bv. many variety of healthy nutrients besides protein. oat plant sources such as brown rice, are missing cakes with cottage cheese, tinned fish or one or more of the essential amino acids.
hummus also make easy snacks or even light however, soya beans and quinoa do contain all eight (they are known as complete proteins).
is probably not healthy for other reasons, so protein is not just used structurally by the body, plant sources, which have other health-giving it can also be burned to release energy. whilst properties besides, should not be neglected.
this is a natural process happening to some here are some bv scores of some typical high extent all the time, in conditions of starvation, protein can become the major source of energy.
muscle wastage is the result of the bodymetabolising its own protein for energy. this isone reason why semi-starvation diets are a badidea - some of the weight loss is not fat loss butmuscle loss.
evidence suggests that different people’smetabolisms are tuned to burn carbohydrates andproteins with more or less efficiency. thepractical consequence is that some people willdo much better on a diet relatively high inprotein, while others a relatively low protein dietserves them best. this idea is behind the conceptof metabolic typing, covered in a separatearticle.
estimates vary. the world health organisationsuggests around 10% of your total calorie intakeshould come from protein, or around 35g a day.
the uk department of health suggests 36g forwomen and 44g for men. some weight loss dietssuggest much higher amounts.
too much protein is not a good idea. it can cause amino acid called tryptophan. in one study,osteoporosis and can put excessive strain on the subjects who ate a diet devoid of tryptophan kidneys. modern farming methods mean that developed symptoms of depression (2). thus we many animal sources of protein contain high can conclude that adequate protein in our diet is levels of hormones such as oestrogen. contary to important for mental and emotional functioning.
popular opinion, you don’t need high levels or protein to build muscle mass, even if you are a 1. source: 'the insulin factor' by antony the right level is really an individual matter - it 2. this study was published in the lancet in 1997.
depends on your individual biochemistry.
neurotransmitters are molecules that transmitsignals between nerve cells, and as such are avital aspect of brain functioning. examples ofneurotransmitters are serotonin and dopamine. itis thought that neurotransmitter imbalance playsa role in mood disorders such as depression, andcognitive disorders such as adhd.


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A mercenary and wilderness hunter, Janus had no part in the conflict for free Urik, joining the Wayfarer’s Rest Caravan only for the promise of solid pay. A massive brute of a Dragonborn, he is physically imposing and a terror on the battlefield.
Janus’s most prized possession is his enchanted Maul, “Truth,” which is of exquisite craftsmanship.
Dragonborn Fury: +1 racial bonus to attacks while bloodied.
Draconic Heritage: Add Con modifier to healing surge value.
Bludgeon Expertise: +1 feat bonus to weapon attacks with hammers or maces. +1 feat bonus to distance of push or slide effects from hammer or mace attacks.
Dragonborn Frenzy: +2 to damage rolls while bloodied.
Hide Armor Expertise: Use +2 instead of Dex or Int modifier for AC while wearing Hide.
Barbarian Agility: +1 bonus to AC and Reflex when not wearing heavy armor.
Feral Might: Thaneborn Triumph: Gain Roar of Triumph power. Whenever you bloody an enemy, next attack by your or an ally against that enemy gains a +3 bonus to the attack roll.
Rage Strike: You gain the Rage Strike power.
Rampage: Once per round, when you score a critical hit with a Barbarian attack power, make a melee basic attack as a free action.
Inherent Bonuses: +1 enhancement bonus to attacks, damage, defenses.
Hit: 2d6 + 1d8 + 7 damage.
Effect: Until the start of your next turn, unless you are raging, all attackers gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls against you.
Effect: Before the attack, shift 2 squares. You can move through an enemy’s space, but can’t end there.
Hit: 2d6 + 7 damage, and you push the target 2 squares. If you are raging, deal 1d6 extra damage.
Hit: 4d6 + 7 damage and you push the target 3 squares and knock it prone. Then one enemy adjacent to the target takes 1d8 + 7 damage.
Hit: 4d6 + 7 damage, and you push the target 3 squares. Target and each enemy adjacent to the target at the end of the push are slowed until the end of your next turn.
Hit: 4d6 + 7 damage. Until the end of your next turn, all allies within 5 squares of you gain a +3 bonus to damage rolls against the target. If you take damage before the start of your next turn, you gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls for your next attack.
Hit: 1d6 + 3 acid damage.
Targets enemies in burst you can see.
Hit: 2d6 + 7 damage, and you knock the target prone.
Effect: You enter the rage of the Macetail Behemoth. Until the rage ends, whenever you hit with an attack, gain 5 temporary hit points.
Special: You must be raging. Expend an unused Rage power and make this attack.
Hit: 6d6 + 7 damage (Macetail’s Rage), or 8d6 + 7 damage (Silver Phoenix Rage).
Hit: 4d6 + 7 fire damage, and ongoing 5 fire damage (save ends).
Effect: You enter the Rage of the Silver Phoenix. Until the rage ends, you gain Regeneration 3, and the first time you drop to 0 hp or fewer, you can spend a healing surge as an immediate interrupt.
Trigger: You bloody an enemy or reduce an enemy to 0 hp with a melee attack.
Effect: Each enemy within 10 that can see you grants combat advantage to you until the end of your next turn.
During your turn, mark each enemy adjacent to you until the end of your next turn.
Trigger: You would roll initiative in a natural environment.
Effect: Roll Nature in place of your initiative check. In addition, you and your allies gain a +4 bonus to all defenses during the first round of the encounter.
Trigger: Your attack reduces an enemy to 0 hp.
Effect: Each enemy in burst takes a -2 penalty to all defenses until the end of your next turn.
Spend a healing surge and regain hit points. You gain a +2 bonus to all defenses until the start of your next turn.
+2 item bonus to damage rolls of melee basic attacks.
+1 to Strength and Athletics checks.
Power (Daily) Add a +5 power bonus to the damage roll of a successful melee attack.

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a mercenary and wilderness hunter, janus had no part in the conflict for free urik, joining the wayfarer’s rest caravan only for the promise of solid pay. a massive brute of a dragonborn, he is physically imposing and a terror on the battlefield.
janus’s most prized possession is his enchanted maul, “truth,” which is of exquisite craftsmanship.
dragonborn fury: +1 racial bonus to attacks while bloodied.
draconic heritage: add con modifier to healing surge value.
bludgeon expertise: +1 feat bonus to weapon attacks with hammers or maces. +1 feat bonus to distance of push or slide effects from hammer or mace attacks.
dragonborn frenzy: +2 to damage rolls while bloodied.
hide armor expertise: use +2 instead of dex or int modifier for ac while wearing hide.
barbarian agility: +1 bonus to ac and reflex when not wearing heavy armor.
feral might: thaneborn triumph: gain roar of triumph power. whenever you bloody an enemy, next attack by your or an ally against that enemy gains a +3 bonus to the attack roll.
rage strike: you gain the rage strike power.
rampage: once per round, when you score a critical hit with a barbarian attack power, make a melee basic attack as a free action.
inherent bonuses: +1 enhancement bonus to attacks, damage, defenses.
hit: 2d6 + 1d8 + 7 damage.
effect: until the start of your next turn, unless you are raging, all attackers gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls against you.
effect: before the attack, shift 2 squares. you can move through an enemy’s space, but can’t end there.
hit: 2d6 + 7 damage, and you push the target 2 squares. if you are raging, deal 1d6 extra damage.
hit: 4d6 + 7 damage and you push the target 3 squares and knock it prone. then one enemy adjacent to the target takes 1d8 + 7 damage.
hit: 4d6 + 7 damage, and you push the target 3 squares. target and each enemy adjacent to the target at the end of the push are slowed until the end of your next turn.
hit: 4d6 + 7 damage. until the end of your next turn, all allies within 5 squares of you gain a +3 bonus to damage rolls against the target. if you take damage before the start of your next turn, you gain a +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls for your next attack.
hit: 1d6 + 3 acid damage.
targets enemies in burst you can see.
hit: 2d6 + 7 damage, and you knock the target prone.
effect: you enter the rage of the macetail behemoth. until the rage ends, whenever you hit with an attack, gain 5 temporary hit points.
special: you must be raging. expend an unused rage power and make this attack.
hit: 6d6 + 7 damage (macetail’s rage), or 8d6 + 7 damage (silver phoenix rage).
hit: 4d6 + 7 fire damage, and ongoing 5 fire damage (save ends).
effect: you enter the rage of the silver phoenix. until the rage ends, you gain regeneration 3, and the first time you drop to 0 hp or fewer, you can spend a healing surge as an immediate interrupt.
trigger: you bloody an enemy or reduce an enemy to 0 hp with a melee attack.
effect: each enemy within 10 that can see you grants combat advantage to you until the end of your next turn.
during your turn, mark each enemy adjacent to you until the end of your next turn.
trigger: you would roll initiative in a natural environment.
effect: roll nature in place of your initiative check. in addition, you and your allies gain a +4 bonus to all defenses during the first round of the encounter.
trigger: your attack reduces an enemy to 0 hp.
effect: each enemy in burst takes a -2 penalty to all defenses until the end of your next turn.
spend a healing surge and regain hit points. you gain a +2 bonus to all defenses until the start of your next turn.
+2 item bonus to damage rolls of melee basic attacks.
+1 to strength and athletics checks.
power (daily) add a +5 power bonus to the damage roll of a successful melee attack.


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Rather than living in an apartment in Oregon, why not rent a duplex? This is a good way to start a family, especially for newly-wed couples or those who are having their first baby but are still unable to get their own house. Duplexes in Oregon offer an easy transition from apartment life to living in a house. It is also a smart choice for those who are planning to invest and become a landlord.
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rather than living in an apartment in oregon, why not rent a duplex? this is a good way to start a family, especially for newly-wed couples or those who are having their first baby but are still unable to get their own house. duplexes in oregon offer an easy transition from apartment life to living in a house. it is also a smart choice for those who are planning to invest and become a landlord.
what's great about renting a duplex in oregon is that residents need not worry about maintaining the structure. the landlord has the obligation to repair damages and take care of other building problems. it is also beneficial to those who want to have a backyard. although the two tenants have to share the space, it is much better than having no backyard at all. in apartments, most residents can only see towering buildings. it is quite rare to find apartment units that have good outdoor spaces for children to play. on the other hand, most duplexes for rent in oregon often come with backyards, making them great places to raise growing kids.
in addition, when renting an apartment, residents may have to deal with having lots of neighbors. a duplex only has two units in the building. this simply means that people living in duplexes can have their own peace of mind. whether it is in portland or any other part of the state, you can always find a duplex to rent. portland is among the best places to rent a duplex. tenants can either choose long or short-term rentals. there are also many units available for those who want to purchase a duplex and join the rental business.
duplexes in oregon are structures that look exactly like houses but have similar functions to that of an apartment. it is like a house split into two units for two different renters. the structure is divided into two living spaces. there are units with additional garages, and others are newly renovated to welcome new tenants. a typical duplex in oregon is comprised of two bedrooms and a bath with a yard outside.
renting a duplex in oregon is like living in your own home where you can have enough space for a growing family and easy access to the world outside. a duplex is the best choice next to having your own home and far better than renting an apartment.


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Once again, beloved friends, we join together with you because we remain as committed as you are to discovering ever greater depths of God's presence, ever greater depths of our own presence, ever greater depths of what alone is true always, of what alone is unchanged, unchanging, and unchangeable, forever.
Indeed, beloved friends, we would speak unto you in this hour of that which deepens the understanding of abiding in Perfect Knowing, in Perfect Knowledge. We want to address for you a theme that you have heard before, though from a slightly different perspective. That theme goes by a term that most of you are familiar with, and that term is "karma." Karma, as popularly considered, means that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. For everything you put out, a similar energy returns.
Now, I have said before that karma can exist only where unconditional loving does not. This means that to the degree that your mind has not been purified of fear, that the mind has not been purified of need, that the mind has not been purified of its tendency toward idolatry - that is, creating something which is a substitute for Love, mistaking form for content - wherever this is occurring you are, indeed, experiencing the creation of karma. What do we mean by that? Each time you hold an unloving thought, you are going to experience the effect or the fruit of that thought. In reality, there are two levels at which this occurs, or two ways in which it occurs. The first is immediate. The second is mediated through the forms of time.
In the first, in that which is immediate, the very moment you think an unloving thought, as you are as a physically-embodied being, you immediately alter the electrical flow of energy throughout the physical system. You immediately alter the chemical balance of the body and, thereby, experience tightness in the body, sadness perhaps, depression, an overall ill-at-ease feeling. For every negative thought, not just the big ones that you really get your attention wrapped about, but even the small ones, this is still true. Depression can only occur in a mind that has been denying its pathway to joy.
Depression, then, is the result of a resistance to the true flow of Life throughout the body-mind. This resistance occurs in many ways. It can result as the result of not feeling a feeling to its completion, withholding a simple truth, and - more often than not - from denying the impulse of the heart. And as you begin to walk a spiritual path, and realize you need to be open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit - that, in fact, you cannot awaken yourself, because if you could you would have already done so - and then the opportunities are presented that contain within them all that you need to awaken from your illusions... but you resist it because it doesn't conform to your image of yourself.
So, you see, there are many ways in which you can resist and create a blockage in the flow of energy through the system. It is all around some form of a negative thought. And all negativity is an expression of fear. All attempt to control another is really fear. Anger is merely a form of fear. So, the very moment in which the mind is used to think a negative thought, there is a very immediate karmic effect. Given that effect over a period of time, an illness is created in the body, depression is created in the emotional field.
Now secondly, there is a mediated form of karmic response - namely, that the world around you will, over a period of time, coagulate, create itself in a context that will mirror to you that which seems to prove the negative thought that by now you have forgotten you even created. And then you will have the negative thought again and you will mistakenly believe that the negative thought is there because of the conditions outside of you.
Yup, I've always known that that's the way it is. You cannot trust a single politician.
I knew it. I think I must have been right all along. See what they did? This means that politicians can't be trusted.
When in fact, the politicians are merely the manifestation that fulfills the prophecy.
In this way, I want to invite you to look at your life. How are the events that are occurring, the quality of life you are living, how could they possibly be reflecting a self-fulfilling prophecy? Or how, in other words, could it be merely the fulfillment of the karma of how you are using the mind?
What must I have believed previously for this effect to be showing up?
What were the beliefs about money that my parents held?
For indeed, as we have touched on before, each soul drops, in a sense, into this world through the context of the parents. There is a context of perception, belief, and attitude that you begin to be colored by because you are accepting that coloration into the field of your own energy, as a means of making contact with this world and emerging into it. If, for instance, the parents believe that spirituality and material wealth cannot go together and, therefore, to be spiritual means to do without, materially, then look at how your life has evolved. Do you find a block at receiving moneys for being of service to others, but no block in receiving money for doing something you dislike?
Live in that question, beloved friends, and begin to apply it to the whole of your life. Begin to look at your life, look at the effects you experience as your surroundings and your context. Are you alone, with no lover or friends, hmm? What have you believed about the world previously? For somewhere, it is the nature of your thought, the agreements you've made unconsciously or consciously about what things mean, the agreements you have made with the culture in which you have been birthed, the family into which you have been birthed, that has actually generated the energy that is showing up as the effects you experience as your life. What thoughts or beliefs were you holding within the mind?
Oh, I just can't really make it on my own. I need to be taken care of. I don't believe I have what it takes.
Then, twenty-five years later, you wonder why you feel resentment toward the mate. The resentment is merely the recognition that you thought a negative thought about yourself, acted upon it, and have created the effects of someone who is controlling and provides you with all your money. You think there is a fault in them because you have forgotten to see the pebble that you dropped into the pond of omnipotent creativity which is the domain of the mind.
Karma, then, is an effect of how the mind is used.
Now, I have, indeed, said that karma can only exist where unconditional loving does not. What does this mean? When the mind unconditionally loves, it loves first itself and places no conditions upon what it receives as ideas from the universe.
There are many in your world that look up to those who take the greatest chances in life - the actor or the actress who waits on tables at some cheap hamburger stand, sleeps on a park bench, keeps taking acting classes and, finally, gets the part and becomes rich and famous. And yet, that one who became rich and famous is one who received the impulse of a desire to act, and followed up on it, and was willing to do whatever it took to be in the contexts in which something may or may not occur - the willingness to take the risk. Such a one is living, actually, in a state of unconditional Love of the self. And whether they think about it or not, they are carrying the subtle belief that the universe will somehow arrange itself and will support them to follow their heart.
In unconditional loving, karma does not exist. The example I have given you is just a rudimentary phase of unconditional loving. In its mature state, in its spiritual state, unconditional loving means that the mind has awakened and seen that nothing that occurs in life can cause it to contain or withdraw its Love. In the perfection of Unconditional Love, the mind simply loves. Karma, then, cannot be said to exist, because that mind is no longer experiencing effects coming back at it. It has transcended the world of cause and effect and, regardless of what arises, it merely loves. And who can be imprisoned who simply loves?
So there is a transcendence of karma through Unconditional Love. And Unconditional Love is always the fruit of the decision to love oneself - not because it's a duty to do so, not because it will make your husband love you more. You love yourself because you finally recognize that you might as well. That's all. You love the Self because your Creator loved you enough to create the Self.
There truly are no effects that are occurring as the result of a source of power outside of you. In other words, nothing is being done to you. Nothing. And you are free, in each and every moment, through the Power of Love, to free yourself of what looks like the effects of the world. In Truth, you are never at the effect of anything but the illusions of thought and belief that you have learned to project onto the world.
Many of you feel somewhat fearful of telling your friends and neighbors that you listen to tapes in which a human being is channeling the guidance of Jesus, or Jeshua. That very fear that you feel, that constriction, is karmic. Somewhere a long time ago, you decided that following your own pathway must stay concealed and isn't worth very much - that nobody will agree, and that their opinions decide your worth.
Could there be fear in simply sharing with your friends that you listen to channeled tapes of Jesus of Nazareth? Could there be fear of sharing that, if there was no prior belief that the opinions of others have the power to decide whether you are good or bad, worthy or unworthy?
If that was not in place, there could not be the fear. So, somewhere you have believed that there is a world outside of you whose opinions matter. Where, then, in your life do you limit your expression of your joy and your fun of simply being alive because you are concerned about the approval of others?
Karma is a most interesting concept and it shows up in many, many ways.
Where are the effects I experience in my life the result of karmically-induced thought, as opposed to thoughts of unconditional self-acceptance?
Beloved friends, the fact that you are experiencing yourself as a body-mind is, in many ways, karmic. That is, it is the result of the vast expanse of mind to dare to think a tiny, mad idea - and take it seriously - that I could separate myself from the Love of God and create an experience that convinces me that I have succeeded at achieving separation.
And yet, Unconditional Love transforms the experience of the body into something quite different. Unconditional Love of Self translates the life of the body-mind - the life of paying taxes, the life of keeping your car well oiled... all of it is translated so that the world becomes not something that proves your unworthiness, your separation, but rather, as a medium of communication in which magic, in a sense, is always at play, miracle-mindedness is always at play.
Oh, I'm just here pumping my gas. I looked up and saw you. You've got a great smile. You've made my whole day. Thank you!
And then, a conversation is struck and it is discovered that they are looking for someone in their corporation who happens to have your skills. And you're looking for a new job.
The things of the world become translated into that which supports your ever-increasing joy, success, fun, pleasure, material improvement, new friends. It supports all of it when you see through the Eyes of Love. When you literally look at the world around you and finally get that it was never what you thought it was, because you failed to separate yourself from God. And everything you see is there to support your happy experience. You are free to live in your highest joy, to ask for what you want, to open the heart and love - and the universe will respond according to the beliefs you hold about yourself, within yourself.
What must I have believed is true about the world to be living the life I am living now?
Where in the effects I'm experiencing now can I bring a greater degree of unconditional, loving acceptance?
Where am I looking through the eyes of boredom instead of appreciation?
Where can I bring a greater depth of Unconditional Love?
Where can I let go of resistance?
Where can I give up trying to direct my own life and allow the Love of God to direct my life?
I choose to allow these very conditions to be those conditions under which I now learn to choose Love.
What can I appreciate in this moment?
What can I give forgiveness unto?
Where can I overcome fear of speaking out and share a truth with a friend?
What have I been avoiding that I can now embrace?
In that very means, any set of conditions, created as the effect of fear-based thinking, now becomes the very pathway that will lead you to transcend the negative thinking and enter a domain of the use of the mind that will create effects far more enjoyable, far more expansive, than you've ever imagined.
Oh, why did I do that? I should have done this other thing.
No. Appreciate what you have created. Find what can be appreciated within it. Wrap the arms of your Love around it. Bring Unconditional Love to it. And thereby, you will find a window, a doorway, the creation of a new use of the mind that must necessarily require the Universe to rearrange Itself to accommodate the new vibration. Appreciation and Love and unlimitedness require the Universe to show up in a different way.
Why did I buy that stock? It was so silly. I didn't get enough information and now the company has gone bankrupt and I just lost ten thousand dollars. Ah-h-h, let me be in appreciation of this very effect. Yes. Well, this is fantastic! I create experience for myself. I can do more of this. This is great! Oh, I just love myself so much! I can decide. Oh, this is great! I just learned a valuable lesson. Next time I'll get more information. Ah, I'd like another opportunity for a great stock opportunity to make money. Ah, yes! Oh, I'm going to be an expert at this - I can see it coming - through my Unconditional Love. Yes, yes!
In fact, every time you think you've failed, celebrate!Celebrate your so-called failure as though it were a success. For remember, it is up to you to decide what you will perceive. Events are just neutral. Therefore, you are free to celebrate what you call your failures. And when you celebrate them, they are your successes. Any successful person knows that they never fail. They merely learn and become wiser.
Become one, then, who is no longer at the effect of karma. But rather, become one who uses karma wisely by looking honestly at their life, learning what needs to be learned - without judgment, but rather in celebration. Become one who translates their karma into the doorway to an ever-increasing awareness of God's Presence and Perfect Love - spread across the face of the Earth, permeating everything you see, translating the world into the very means that can uplift you, awaken you, care for you and heal you.
And so, beloved friends, again we ask that you listen well to the theme of this hour, to the questions that have been given unto you, that you spend time with them. For you see, in The Way of Knowing, the mind that abides in a perfectly liberated state knows that the world of effects that that mind is experiencing contain within them the very secrets to an ever-increasing delight in the presence of God's Love, that there is no such thing as failure. There is only ongoing success, as Life evolves from good, to better, to best - as the mind learns to be the Presence of Love.
Freedom is Love under all conditions.
And with that, peace be unto you always.

lowercased:
once again, beloved friends, we join together with you because we remain as committed as you are to discovering ever greater depths of god's presence, ever greater depths of our own presence, ever greater depths of what alone is true always, of what alone is unchanged, unchanging, and unchangeable, forever.
indeed, beloved friends, we would speak unto you in this hour of that which deepens the understanding of abiding in perfect knowing, in perfect knowledge. we want to address for you a theme that you have heard before, though from a slightly different perspective. that theme goes by a term that most of you are familiar with, and that term is "karma." karma, as popularly considered, means that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. for everything you put out, a similar energy returns.
now, i have said before that karma can exist only where unconditional loving does not. this means that to the degree that your mind has not been purified of fear, that the mind has not been purified of need, that the mind has not been purified of its tendency toward idolatry - that is, creating something which is a substitute for love, mistaking form for content - wherever this is occurring you are, indeed, experiencing the creation of karma. what do we mean by that? each time you hold an unloving thought, you are going to experience the effect or the fruit of that thought. in reality, there are two levels at which this occurs, or two ways in which it occurs. the first is immediate. the second is mediated through the forms of time.
in the first, in that which is immediate, the very moment you think an unloving thought, as you are as a physically-embodied being, you immediately alter the electrical flow of energy throughout the physical system. you immediately alter the chemical balance of the body and, thereby, experience tightness in the body, sadness perhaps, depression, an overall ill-at-ease feeling. for every negative thought, not just the big ones that you really get your attention wrapped about, but even the small ones, this is still true. depression can only occur in a mind that has been denying its pathway to joy.
depression, then, is the result of a resistance to the true flow of life throughout the body-mind. this resistance occurs in many ways. it can result as the result of not feeling a feeling to its completion, withholding a simple truth, and - more often than not - from denying the impulse of the heart. and as you begin to walk a spiritual path, and realize you need to be open to the guidance of the holy spirit - that, in fact, you cannot awaken yourself, because if you could you would have already done so - and then the opportunities are presented that contain within them all that you need to awaken from your illusions... but you resist it because it doesn't conform to your image of yourself.
so, you see, there are many ways in which you can resist and create a blockage in the flow of energy through the system. it is all around some form of a negative thought. and all negativity is an expression of fear. all attempt to control another is really fear. anger is merely a form of fear. so, the very moment in which the mind is used to think a negative thought, there is a very immediate karmic effect. given that effect over a period of time, an illness is created in the body, depression is created in the emotional field.
now secondly, there is a mediated form of karmic response - namely, that the world around you will, over a period of time, coagulate, create itself in a context that will mirror to you that which seems to prove the negative thought that by now you have forgotten you even created. and then you will have the negative thought again and you will mistakenly believe that the negative thought is there because of the conditions outside of you.
yup, i've always known that that's the way it is. you cannot trust a single politician.
i knew it. i think i must have been right all along. see what they did? this means that politicians can't be trusted.
when in fact, the politicians are merely the manifestation that fulfills the prophecy.
in this way, i want to invite you to look at your life. how are the events that are occurring, the quality of life you are living, how could they possibly be reflecting a self-fulfilling prophecy? or how, in other words, could it be merely the fulfillment of the karma of how you are using the mind?
what must i have believed previously for this effect to be showing up?
what were the beliefs about money that my parents held?
for indeed, as we have touched on before, each soul drops, in a sense, into this world through the context of the parents. there is a context of perception, belief, and attitude that you begin to be colored by because you are accepting that coloration into the field of your own energy, as a means of making contact with this world and emerging into it. if, for instance, the parents believe that spirituality and material wealth cannot go together and, therefore, to be spiritual means to do without, materially, then look at how your life has evolved. do you find a block at receiving moneys for being of service to others, but no block in receiving money for doing something you dislike?
live in that question, beloved friends, and begin to apply it to the whole of your life. begin to look at your life, look at the effects you experience as your surroundings and your context. are you alone, with no lover or friends, hmm? what have you believed about the world previously? for somewhere, it is the nature of your thought, the agreements you've made unconsciously or consciously about what things mean, the agreements you have made with the culture in which you have been birthed, the family into which you have been birthed, that has actually generated the energy that is showing up as the effects you experience as your life. what thoughts or beliefs were you holding within the mind?
oh, i just can't really make it on my own. i need to be taken care of. i don't believe i have what it takes.
then, twenty-five years later, you wonder why you feel resentment toward the mate. the resentment is merely the recognition that you thought a negative thought about yourself, acted upon it, and have created the effects of someone who is controlling and provides you with all your money. you think there is a fault in them because you have forgotten to see the pebble that you dropped into the pond of omnipotent creativity which is the domain of the mind.
karma, then, is an effect of how the mind is used.
now, i have, indeed, said that karma can only exist where unconditional loving does not. what does this mean? when the mind unconditionally loves, it loves first itself and places no conditions upon what it receives as ideas from the universe.
there are many in your world that look up to those who take the greatest chances in life - the actor or the actress who waits on tables at some cheap hamburger stand, sleeps on a park bench, keeps taking acting classes and, finally, gets the part and becomes rich and famous. and yet, that one who became rich and famous is one who received the impulse of a desire to act, and followed up on it, and was willing to do whatever it took to be in the contexts in which something may or may not occur - the willingness to take the risk. such a one is living, actually, in a state of unconditional love of the self. and whether they think about it or not, they are carrying the subtle belief that the universe will somehow arrange itself and will support them to follow their heart.
in unconditional loving, karma does not exist. the example i have given you is just a rudimentary phase of unconditional loving. in its mature state, in its spiritual state, unconditional loving means that the mind has awakened and seen that nothing that occurs in life can cause it to contain or withdraw its love. in the perfection of unconditional love, the mind simply loves. karma, then, cannot be said to exist, because that mind is no longer experiencing effects coming back at it. it has transcended the world of cause and effect and, regardless of what arises, it merely loves. and who can be imprisoned who simply loves?
so there is a transcendence of karma through unconditional love. and unconditional love is always the fruit of the decision to love oneself - not because it's a duty to do so, not because it will make your husband love you more. you love yourself because you finally recognize that you might as well. that's all. you love the self because your creator loved you enough to create the self.
there truly are no effects that are occurring as the result of a source of power outside of you. in other words, nothing is being done to you. nothing. and you are free, in each and every moment, through the power of love, to free yourself of what looks like the effects of the world. in truth, you are never at the effect of anything but the illusions of thought and belief that you have learned to project onto the world.
many of you feel somewhat fearful of telling your friends and neighbors that you listen to tapes in which a human being is channeling the guidance of jesus, or jeshua. that very fear that you feel, that constriction, is karmic. somewhere a long time ago, you decided that following your own pathway must stay concealed and isn't worth very much - that nobody will agree, and that their opinions decide your worth.
could there be fear in simply sharing with your friends that you listen to channeled tapes of jesus of nazareth? could there be fear of sharing that, if there was no prior belief that the opinions of others have the power to decide whether you are good or bad, worthy or unworthy?
if that was not in place, there could not be the fear. so, somewhere you have believed that there is a world outside of you whose opinions matter. where, then, in your life do you limit your expression of your joy and your fun of simply being alive because you are concerned about the approval of others?
karma is a most interesting concept and it shows up in many, many ways.
where are the effects i experience in my life the result of karmically-induced thought, as opposed to thoughts of unconditional self-acceptance?
beloved friends, the fact that you are experiencing yourself as a body-mind is, in many ways, karmic. that is, it is the result of the vast expanse of mind to dare to think a tiny, mad idea - and take it seriously - that i could separate myself from the love of god and create an experience that convinces me that i have succeeded at achieving separation.
and yet, unconditional love transforms the experience of the body into something quite different. unconditional love of self translates the life of the body-mind - the life of paying taxes, the life of keeping your car well oiled... all of it is translated so that the world becomes not something that proves your unworthiness, your separation, but rather, as a medium of communication in which magic, in a sense, is always at play, miracle-mindedness is always at play.
oh, i'm just here pumping my gas. i looked up and saw you. you've got a great smile. you've made my whole day. thank you!
and then, a conversation is struck and it is discovered that they are looking for someone in their corporation who happens to have your skills. and you're looking for a new job.
the things of the world become translated into that which supports your ever-increasing joy, success, fun, pleasure, material improvement, new friends. it supports all of it when you see through the eyes of love. when you literally look at the world around you and finally get that it was never what you thought it was, because you failed to separate yourself from god. and everything you see is there to support your happy experience. you are free to live in your highest joy, to ask for what you want, to open the heart and love - and the universe will respond according to the beliefs you hold about yourself, within yourself.
what must i have believed is true about the world to be living the life i am living now?
where in the effects i'm experiencing now can i bring a greater degree of unconditional, loving acceptance?
where am i looking through the eyes of boredom instead of appreciation?
where can i bring a greater depth of unconditional love?
where can i let go of resistance?
where can i give up trying to direct my own life and allow the love of god to direct my life?
i choose to allow these very conditions to be those conditions under which i now learn to choose love.
what can i appreciate in this moment?
what can i give forgiveness unto?
where can i overcome fear of speaking out and share a truth with a friend?
what have i been avoiding that i can now embrace?
in that very means, any set of conditions, created as the effect of fear-based thinking, now becomes the very pathway that will lead you to transcend the negative thinking and enter a domain of the use of the mind that will create effects far more enjoyable, far more expansive, than you've ever imagined.
oh, why did i do that? i should have done this other thing.
no. appreciate what you have created. find what can be appreciated within it. wrap the arms of your love around it. bring unconditional love to it. and thereby, you will find a window, a doorway, the creation of a new use of the mind that must necessarily require the universe to rearrange itself to accommodate the new vibration. appreciation and love and unlimitedness require the universe to show up in a different way.
why did i buy that stock? it was so silly. i didn't get enough information and now the company has gone bankrupt and i just lost ten thousand dollars. ah-h-h, let me be in appreciation of this very effect. yes. well, this is fantastic! i create experience for myself. i can do more of this. this is great! oh, i just love myself so much! i can decide. oh, this is great! i just learned a valuable lesson. next time i'll get more information. ah, i'd like another opportunity for a great stock opportunity to make money. ah, yes! oh, i'm going to be an expert at this - i can see it coming - through my unconditional love. yes, yes!
in fact, every time you think you've failed, celebrate!celebrate your so-called failure as though it were a success. for remember, it is up to you to decide what you will perceive. events are just neutral. therefore, you are free to celebrate what you call your failures. and when you celebrate them, they are your successes. any successful person knows that they never fail. they merely learn and become wiser.
become one, then, who is no longer at the effect of karma. but rather, become one who uses karma wisely by looking honestly at their life, learning what needs to be learned - without judgment, but rather in celebration. become one who translates their karma into the doorway to an ever-increasing awareness of god's presence and perfect love - spread across the face of the earth, permeating everything you see, translating the world into the very means that can uplift you, awaken you, care for you and heal you.
and so, beloved friends, again we ask that you listen well to the theme of this hour, to the questions that have been given unto you, that you spend time with them. for you see, in the way of knowing, the mind that abides in a perfectly liberated state knows that the world of effects that that mind is experiencing contain within them the very secrets to an ever-increasing delight in the presence of god's love, that there is no such thing as failure. there is only ongoing success, as life evolves from good, to better, to best - as the mind learns to be the presence of love.
freedom is love under all conditions.
and with that, peace be unto you always.