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This page is a compendium of items of interest - news stories, scurrilous rumors, links, academic papers, damnable prevarications, rants and amusing anecdotes - about LAUSD and/or public education that didn't - or haven't yet - made it into the "real" 4LAKids blog and weekly e-newsletter at http://www.4LAKids.blogspot.com . 4LAKidsNews will be updated at arbitrary random intervals.
Saturday, January 23, 2016
KIDS FROM AROUND THE WORLD FIND COMMUNITY, LEARN ENGLISH THROUGH POETRY
Students in the English Language Development class at John Muir Middle School rehearse for a poetry performance. Priska Neely
January 22, 05:00 AM :: Under the bright lights of the auditorium of John
Muir Middle School, dozens of students are on stage rehearsing for a big
poetry performance.
Standing in a row with her classmates, Jwail Alnamh, a Syrian
immigrant, recites her line: "I remember home when my country was all
good and my grandma could take me everywhere."
"I dream about seeing my friends once again and jumping rope and laughing," said Fima Kaoumi, who is also from Syria.
These students are 48 of the students enrolled in English Language
Development classes at the Burbank middle school. Like many recent
immigrants, they're slowly mastering a language they didn't grow up
speaking. To help them cope -- linguistically and emotionally --
teachers have designed a unit that uses poetry and performance to help
English learners improve their language skills.
Teaching artist Kate Randolph works in schools all around Los Angeles County. Priska Neely
For years now, teaching artist Kate Randolph has come the school to
work with students on different theater techniques -- articulation,
projection, body movement. Usually her class culminates with a
performance of classic poetry, but this year she’s trying something
different.
"We’ve always based it on Langston Hughes poems about dreams, which
is great," Randolph said. "But I thought, you know, you have such a
tapestry of countries and ethnicities, why don’t we expand it?"
So this year, the students wrote their own poems, all based around on
the theme "homeland." Along with lines from published works, the
students will perform their poems at a school assembly on Friday.
'A SENSE OF BELONGING'
About 7 percent of the roughly 1,400 students at Muir are not native
English speakers. Teacher Jessica Wertlieb says the English learners are
a really diverse group from a dozen countries, including Armenia,
Syria, Russia and Mexico.
She combines her class of intermediate and advanced English learners
with the class of teacher James Koontz, who teaches beginners. Even
though students are from all over the world, Wertlieb says they’re
forging a little community.
"It’s hard for them to fit in when they come to this school," she
said, "and so I think this really gives them an opportunity to feel a
sense of belonging."
In his poem, seventh-grader Alexandr Ter-Zakaryan wrote that he
dreams of one day being president of Armenia. Most of the English
learners at the school are Armenian. Burbank has one of the largest
Armenian communities in the U.S.
Alexandr arrived here five months ago and he’s still searching for that sense of belonging.
"It’s very hard because some people don’t understand you. Sometimes
when teachers say something it’s like, 'What?' " he said sighing
heavily.
He said the transition has been stressful, but the theater class is
helping him practice his words and understand his classmates.
"If they’re not engaged in oral language and they’re silent in the classroom, they don’t have that foundation for literacy."
Brouillette says incorporating drama also can put students in a mental and emotional space where it’s easier to learn.
"Because the arts aren’t usually graded in the same way, they feel
less self-conscious and that’s actually when you remember the best."
She says this is especially true in middle school where students are maybe more self-conscious than ever.
At Muir, Randolph does 10 sessions with the students, teaching them
what it takes to be a performer -- how to stand, project, articulate.
Teachers keep her coming back each year with grants from the education
foundation Burbank Arts for All.
During rehearsal she yelled out a mantra the children know very well.
"Remember it’s your job to be heard, understood, and felt, OK?"
She encouraged the students to show emotion in their performance and
their writing. Eighth grader Meray Mahfoud took that advice to heart.
Meray Mahfoud (foreground) came to the U.S. from Syria three years ago. Priska Neely
"When I was writing I was, like, it was so sad," said Meray, who left
Syria three years ago to escape the war. "I want to go back to my
country but it’s really hard and difficult and everything’s messed up
there and I miss my grandmom."
She channeled those very real feelings into her poem.
"I remember home," she recited during rehearsal, "when I see the
cookies in the market that my grandmother used to make. I feel her and
how she wants me to go back to Syria."
This is Meray's third year working with Randolph. Her teachers say
she's blossomed and gained confidence. She says making an emotional
connection has really helped her learn English.
"When you don’t understand the word and then they explain it to you
and you do it emotionally, it helps you to understand the word," she
said.
The teachers say putting poetry into performance serves a dual
purpose -- it helps with the practical stuff – vocabulary and
presentation skills. And writing about personal experience has made
students value the art of poetry.
"I think it woke up in them, 'Oh that’s how poetry gets born,'" said
Randolph. "It’s really real; it’s not just that corny stuff that we have
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Halloween Throwback Pics: Kate Middleton the Witch, Lindsay Lohan the Princess and More of the Best Celeb Costumes!
Kate Middleton is a real-life princess (well, technically a duchess), but once upon a time this London lady was a witch—thanks to the magic of Halloween!
On another Halloween of yesteryear, an adorably fresh-faced Lindsay Lohan dressed up as Princess Jasmine—and not in the trying-to-be-provocative way.
John Stamos, on the other hand, tweeted a throwback Halloween costume from the early ’80s, admitting, “Not sure what i was dressed up as- a slutty??”
And while celebs these days are quite often sexing up their holiday attire to the max, their throwback pics from years past seem to be a more wholesome embodiment of what Halloween is meant to be!
Take, for example, the year a young Drake (then just known as Aubrey Drake Graham) dressed as a hobbit. Who knew that before he was a rapper, before he was Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi…he inhabited Middle-earth?!
If you can handle a slew of photos sweeter than a tub of candy corn, take a look through these stars’ amazing costumes from Halloweens past!Follow @Infocelebrity on Twitter! | {
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Today marks the most glorious time of year when the NFL, NBA, NCAAF, and NCAAB seasons intersect each other. And to bring in college basketball in proper style I have put together a list of the top 8 teams to watch this season.
Kentucky:
Of course this list would begin with the first team to end a season unranked and enter the next ranked #1. Many have deemed this Kentucky freshman class the best since Michigan’s “Fab 5,” and with lofty expectations comes the scrutinizing national spotlight. There’s no question Marcus Lee, Andrew Harrison, Dakari Johnson, Aaron Harrison, Julius Randle, and James Young make up one of the most talented freshman classes in over two decades, but individual players don’t make the Final Four, cohesive teams with chemistry do. That will be the key for this team of individual stars. Can they play together? Will players who would start and star on any other team in the nation be content as a role player? Will the freshmen live up to the hype? Anything less than a Final Four appearance would be a huge failure for this squad with such high expectations.
Louisville:
With all the attention Calipari and his Wildcats have been getting, the defending National Champions have flow somewhat under the radar. But those sleeping on Rick Pitino may need to be reminded that one of the best college basketball coaches returns 3 of 5 starters from last year’s team, and I’m sure Rick and crew may have viewed their in-state rivals being ranked ahead of them as a slap in the face (or at least I’m sure that’s what Pitino is telling them in the locker room). That “Us against the world mentality” will fuel an already talented Cardinal team even more. The match-up between Louisville and Kentucky at the end of December will set the tone for remainder of the season for these two…good and bad.
Oklahoma State:
With USA Today preseason player of the year Marcus Smart and their second and third leading scorers returning, the Cowboys should compete with Kansas for the Big 12 championship. And if Smart lives up to his preseason ranking they may even be a contender in March. The experience of this Oklahoma State team will be an interesting contrast to the youthful talent in Lawrence in what will more than likely be a battle for the Big 12 crown. This team will go as far as Marcus Smart will take them (like he said players are proven on the court not through hype). If he can cut down his turn-overs and improve his perimeter shot this team will be one to watch come madness.
Kansas:
Have you heard of this guy named Andrew Wiggins? If not, I suggest you crawl from under that rock you’ve been living under. All eyes will be on the top freshman in this year’s class as he leads a youthfully talented Jayhawk team that returns no starter from last year. So how can such a young team (not named Kentucky) be ranked #6 in the preseason polls? Well, apparently Wiggins is just THAT good. He still has to prove himself on the court along with potentially one-and done freshmen Joel Embid and Wayne Seldon. Either way, Wiggins and crew should serve to keep Allen Fieldhouse rocking this year. We won’t have to wait long to see him on a national stage. They play Duke next week.
Michigan State:
Tom Izzo and his Spartans have been one of the most consistent college basketball teams in recent history, with 7 final four appearances in the last 14 years, and this season will be no different. With all of the teams filled with freshman phenoms and sophomore talent, Izzo has one of only top teams that can been rightfully called veteran. With two key seniors in Keith Appling and Adreian Payne, and junior guard Branden Dawson the expectations for the Spartans are high. Michigan State has all the key components needed to be successful…experience, talent, chemistry, and a great coach. Look out for the early season match-up against North Carolina on December 4th to set the tone.
Duke:
Coach K touts one of his most athletically talented and deep teams in over a decade. With 2nd ranked freshman Jabari Parker and Mississippi State transfer Rodney Hood, who are viewed as “position-less” as his centerpieces, Krzyzewski will run his team much like he did his Gold Medal USA Basketball teams, by pushing the tempo on every possession and playing tough defense. Expect Coach K to have the most fun in years with this team that is sure to be a constant presence on college basketball’s weekly top 10 reel. With a good mix of new talent and experience, no one would be surprised if this team is in next year’s Final Four.
VCU:
Mid-major teams made the Final Four in 3 of the last 4 years and VCU lead by coach Shaka Smart is one of the best. Although they lost the leadership of point guard Darius Theus, they should have enough fire power in senior Juvonte Reddic and junior Treveon Graham to contend. With the talent and depth on their roster, the Atlantic 10 favorite is sure to make a splash in March.
Syracuse:
This is the first year Jim Boeheim and his tough zone defense will take their talents to the ACC and the constant Big East contender should have no problem adjusting to the competition in their new league. Last season’s final four team lost Michael Carter-Williams, Brandon Triche, and James Southerland, but senior CJ Fair and junior Rakeem Christmas should be able to provide enough on-court leadership and the always strong Boeheim defense will be sure to cause ACC teams some problems. Although they may not be favored to make another Final Four appearance they may surprise you and their new league transition should serve to provide for plenty of conference play entertainment. | {
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Chad Qualls allowed a run in the ninth before striking out Jason Giambi with the tying run on first for his fifth save in seven chances.
Carlos Gonzalez homered and drove in two runs for the Rockies, who are quickly running out of starting pitchers. Jason Hammel left the game after three innings with a right groin strain, a day after Jorge De La Rosa was pulled from his start with a bruised middle finger.
"It happened on the last pitch of the third inning but the pitch before that I could feel it tightening up," Hammel said. "Then it popped on the last pitch. It doesn't feel too bad. I don't want to go on the DL."
De La Rosa will most likely land on the disabled list. Manager Jim Tracy said after the game the left-hander has a torn flexor tendon band on his finger and will probably miss more than one start.
"We're not involved in a surgical situation," Tracy said. "I would be remiss if I told you it was only going to be [one start]. I think it's going to be a little bit longer than that."
While the Rockies were dealing with a depleted staff, Haren (3-1) was controlling their bats. He gave up five hits and walked two in eight innings and was in control all night. He retired 15 of 16 batters in one stretch, and after Ian Stewart's one-out single in the second he didn't allow a hit until Eric Young Jr. drove a pinch-hit double into right field with one out in the eighth.
"My stuff was pretty good all night and I had the lead all night which allowed me to be aggressive," Haren said. "I had a couple of leadoff walks, but was able to pitch around them."
Haren has been using the strikeout to get himself out of trouble. In his last four starts he has averaged just over 8 strikeouts.
"The strikeouts have come in bunches," he said. "I haven't felt that great in any particular outing this year, but it seems the strikeouts are always in there. It tells me that my stuff is just fine."
Haren got all the support he needed in the first inning when the Diamondbacks jumped on Hammel (0-2). With two outs, Justin Upton walked, Mark Reynolds singled and LaRoche homered into the Rockies bullpen to give Arizona a 3-0 lead.
"I don't know if he was trying to go in or out," LaRoche said. "He missed with his spot and gave me a pitch in. He had thrown me a good changeup and he left a pitch up."
Gonzalez got a run back when he led off the bottom of the first with his second home run of the season. He was the only Rockies batter to get two hits off Haren.
"He was changing the speed with his split and his slider," Gonzalez said. "On a 2-2 count he threw me a curveball middle in and that's the one I hit out."
The Diamondbacks padded their lead in the second. Kelly Johnson knocked in Chris Snyder with a sacrifice fly, and after Stephen Drew doubled Upton drove him in with a single to center to make it 5-1.
Colorado pulled to within 5-2 in the eight when Gonzalez knocked in Young with a single to center.
The Rockies had a chance to win it in the ninth off Qualls. Todd Helton led off with a walk, and after two strikeouts Miguel Olivo and Stewart hit consecutive singles to make it 5-3. Giambi pinch-hit but couldn't come through with a hit that could have tied it or won it.
Notes
Former Rockies All-Star Dante Bichette was honored before the game on the 15th anniversary of the first game played at Coors Field. Bichette won the game with a three-run homer in the bottom of the 14th inning on April 26, 1995. He threw out the ceremonial first pitch to former teammate Larry Walker. ... Gonzalez has homered to lead off a game three times in his career. ... Diamondbacks OF Gerardo Parra did not play because of a swollen middle finger on his right hand. He was hit by a foul tip in Sunday's game. ... Because of the rainout against Florida on Friday, Rockies LHP Greg Smith will start Wednesday's game on three days' rest.
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The Writer’s Purpose
At school my teacher tells us that the purposes for writing are to entertain, persuade, inform, teach, express, or a combination of some of the types. To some extent, this is right, and I say this because my English teacher is one of the smartest people I know and she’s referring to the rules made by our standardized tests.
But writing is more. We write because we can’t not write. We write because there is this thing inside of us that takes a physical toll on the well-being of our bodies if we don’t. We write because our fingers itch to write. We write because there is a desire to say something and mean something and be something. We write because we cannot say out loud what we want to say. We write because words are greater than us and in the end they immortalize the ideas we’ve had so the people of the future know what we were trying to say. We write because our emotions are not housed in our bodies or tears and so we pour them into words that are beautiful and create that emotion in others. | {
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Older-Parent Families: Advantages and Disadvantages
As one of financial planner Lauren Lindsay’s clients neared age 50, she advised the father of five-year-old twins to extend his term life insurance through the children’s college years and to purchase the extra coverage before his milestone birthday to avoid higher premiums.
“And he’s going to be working until 70,” after the children have graduated college, she says.
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As more Americans delay marriage and babies, growing numbers of parents are poised to hit the traditional retirement age just as their children reach college age. Saving for two of life’s biggest expenses is challenge enough for many parents, but can be more so for those who bring a baby home after 40.
While new midlife parents may bring a special appreciation and years of wisdom to their postponed families, age-related hurdles can hit bank accounts, and snag retirement and estate planning, requiring difficult decisions. The college-retirement overlap is particularly tricky, and more than a few people are likely to face it.
Of 15.5 million U.S. households with children younger than age six in 2010, nearly 3 million, or some 19 percent, had parents or step-parents aged 40 or older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Households with children this age and parents aged 40 to 44 outnumbered those with parents aged 20 to 24.
How 40- or 50-somethings with young kids prepare financially for retirement and for a college price tag that can reach well into the six figures depends on each family’s circumstances, and may mean working longer or cutting expenses. Financial advisors tend to agree that parents should make retirement savings the higher priority.
“Always, for me, the retirement comes first,” says Lindsay, director of financial planning at Covington, La.-based Personal Financial Advisors, who had her first child at 39 and has several clients in their 40s or 50s with young children.
Students can get college scholarships and loans, while retirees don’t have those options for funding their golden years, planners note. Also, well-set parents can tap or borrow against retirement accounts to help pay for college.
“The kindest thing a parent can do for their child is fund their own retirement and let the child pay for their own education,” says certified financial planner (CFP) Rick Kahler, president of Kahler Financial Group in Rapid City. A child would spend two to five times more caring for an elderly parent who didn’t plan for retirement than they would for their own college education, he says.
“There seems to be a societal money script that if you’re a good parent you will fund your child’s education, so I see very few people who come to me that have chosen to fund their retirement over their child’s education,” says Kahler, 56, the father of a 10-year-old and a 14-year-old. “In fact, I can’t think of anybody.”
Kahler tells clients they may be doing their kids a favor to let them work their way through college or pay for half of it. “They may be giving their child a huge gift in focus and self esteem, and that can be a good thing,” he says.
Often, Kahler says, clients write a tuition check, then charge groceries on the credit card. “Unfortunately it’s the rare person that actually saves for their kid’s college education, or that cuts their lifestyle to pay for it,” he says.
Nonetheless, the picture can be rosier for middle-age parents.
“As an older parent, you’re usually a little more financially established than a younger parent,” says financial planner Lindsay, noting that many older couples are dual earners who had children later because the woman was working on her career.
On the other hand, she says, they haven’t necessarily been saving for those 20 working years and may have student loans, so they must save aggressively.
“Most people are grossly under-saving,” CFP Kahler says. Someone 30 years from retirement needs to save 17 percent of salary to maintain his or her lifestyle for 30 years after leaving the workforce, and someone who starts saving at 50 will need to save 30 percent of income to have any chance at retiring, he says.
Kahler suggests those anticipating babies carefully plan their cash flow, taking into account the new child-related expenses, cutting spending as needed. Generally, he says, parents with young children should have $1 million in life insurance and also need disability coverage.
Many older parents may be unaware of one potentially helpful tool.
Make Social Security Work for You
Each minor child of a retiree age 62 and older may receive Social Security benefits equal to a significant percentage of the parent’s benefit without reducing the retiree’s share. Nonworking younger spouses caring for children also may be eligible, although there is a family maximum, says Linda Campbell, senior financial planner with Budros Ruhlin & Roein Columbus, Ohio.
Campbell works with such a family with two young children; combined, the family receives about $4,600 a month in Social Securitybenefits.
Beyond the retirement and college-planning decisions, middle-aged parents may be caring for their own frail, elderly parents at the same time they’re raising preschoolers, a potentially costly prospect that points to another issue: No built-in support network of youthful grandparents who can babysit during parental getaways. CFP Kahler knows this first hand.
“Our childcare bill is as much as our airfare bill,” he says. Trading childcare with other families can defrays the costs, though, he adds.
The age factor similarly can make it difficult for middle-age parents to find willing and able guardians to name in their wills. Lindsay recalls a former client couple in their 40s with young children who had trouble completing their estate planning because they had only older siblings and no one willing to be named as guardians.
“Sometimes it just comes down to making the best decision out of a number of poor alternatives," Kahler says. "It may mean sending them out of state to someone, you may be looking to nieces and nephews who could potentially raise a child.”
Older-parent families can face other advantages and disadvantages, as well.
“I think my kids will need less therapy than if I’d had kids in my 20s,” Kahler jokes. On the other hand, he notes there are costs associated with the care of an aging body. “I tell my kids, `The horsey can only go up and down the hallway a couple of times before the horsey runs out of gas.’ ” | {
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Jeff Lange takes you to Walt Disney World to experience the very best of Disney’s Nighttime Fireworks Spectaculars!
Disney’s Celebrate America! A Fourth of July Concert in the Sky
Shot from Disney’s Polynesian Resort Beach for a complete view of the fireworks, this patriotic arrangement of pyrotechnics has delighted audiences on Independence Day since the show debuted in 2008. With stars bursting in the sky above the brightly lit American flags of Disney’s Electrical Water Pageant, it’s hard not to get a lump in your throat during the awe-inspiring finale!
Celebrate 40 years of Walt Disney World with this special viewing of Wishes! Jiminy Cricket and the Blue Fairy narrate this classic spectacle, and you’ll enjoy it from three different angles. 180 degree fireworks help create a dazzling tribute to Walt Disney World’s 40th Anniversary that you’ll cherish forever!
IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth
A favorite of guests since it debuted in 1999, Illuminations: Reflections of Earth is an achievement in both sight and sound. Pyrotechnics light up the night sky, and you’ll practically feel the heat off the burning barge! The show tells the story of Earth and is divided into three movements: “Chaos”, “Order” and “Meaning”.
Let There Be Peace on Earth Finale
Illuminating the night with a stunning pyrotechnics extravaganza, this ending tag to Illuminations: Reflections of Earth offers us the message of “Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men”. This is a fireworks finale not to be missed!
Fantasy in the Sky New Years Eve Fireworks
“Start the Countdown Clock!” Mickey Mouse leads the way in counting down to the New Year as a captivating array of fireworks surround you in 360 degree glory. Recorded from Disney’s Polynesian Resort as reflections of light dance off of the Seven Seas Lagoon, this awe-inspiring fireworks display features the voices of Mickey, Minnie and Goofy as they ring in 2012!
BONUS: The Magic, The Memories, and You! (Romance Segment)
Beginning with the iconic scene of Lady and the Tramp sharing spaghetti in shadow on Cinderella Castle, the romance segment of The Magic, The Memories, and You! has delighted guests young and old. This temporary segment features romantic stained glass scenes of your favorite princesses, including Cinderella and Snow White. The highlight of this seasonal addition is the gorgeous lantern scene from Tangled, creating an emotional moment you’ll remember for years to come!
Relive these special Disney memories year after year or experience the magic for the first time by purchasing a copy of “Jeff Lange Presents: Walt Disney World Nighttime Fireworks Spectaculars”.
Running Time: 66 Min
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Month: September 2012
Kids menus. They’re a mixed bag. Goujons, sausages, all that malarkey… But we ate out twice recently – and more importantly successfully from the point of view of decent food & behaviour! – with Dominic. (And Theo, but I’m all that’s on the menu for him right now)
First up, we went to Enoteca Torino in Inchicore. It’s right by a nice playground, so has a captive audience in parents who feel they’ve done a hard weeks work and deserve a wee treat. Or was that just us!? They do a great dinner offer all week, €15.95 for 2 courses & a glass of (delicious) house wine. Say what you like about Mick Wallace, he knows his Italian grub. The kids menu consisted of a few simple pastas (but far more appealing than a cursory pasta with tomato sauce/butter that you usually see on a kids menu) and freshly made pizzas. Any of these would have done but knowing how much Dominic loves risotto, we ordered a small portion of that off the main menu. He gobbled it up for the princely sum of about €5.50, then we let him watch Pingu on an iPhone while we polished off the wine. Hey! We’d done our weeks work remember…
Then another day we needed a quick lunch in town. Wagamama to the rescue! Honestly when Dom was smaller we came here and he ate lots of my Saien Soba ramen which was more interesting than what we ordered for him off the kids menu this time. We ordered a Mini Noodler Meal including grilled chicken noodles. This was a little unadventurous so we may just have chosen poorly but it was all things he liked and it was fun to watch him use his kids chopsticks. Also massive kudos to the waitress who sent us home with several more pairs of them in our pockets. The meal also included a delicious freshly squeezed juice and proper speckled vanilla icecream (which, honestly, me and Mark ate!)
Don’t be scared of eating out with kids, and don’t be afraid to order not from the kids menu if you’d prefer to avoid the usual offerings. I found this link about good children’s menus in Dublin. | {
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According to RVD, the EYO was founded in “… 1978 to promote cultural cooperation, unity and friendship among young European. The EYO offers young talented musicians the chance to work with famous conductors…”
On Monday, August 20, 2012, His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh was released from the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary in Scotland. The 91-year-old duke was admitted to the hospital last Wednesday as a “…precautionary measure after a recurrence of a bladder infection…” according to the Deputy Press Secretary to Her Majesty The Queen.
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You could say that Gilded Age New York perfected the idea of the department store—a multi-floor, massive commercial space designed to dazzle consumers with sumptuous windows and fashionable displays and put the latest must-have goods within reach of the growing middle-class.
But even New Yorkers who shopped (or at least window-shopped) emporiums like Lord & Taylor, Arnold Constable, and Macy’s along Ladies Mile were blown away by the city’s first Siegel-Cooper store, which opened in September 1896.
More than 120 departments run by 3,000 employees offered everything from ladies’ fashions to a grocery store, dentist’s office, a pets department, several restaurants, and a bicycles department (this was the 1890s, after all, and wheelmen and wheelwomen had taken over the city).
The fountain in the center of the store gave rise to the phrase “meet me at the fountain”—which New York ladies did, in droves.
“The quintessential New York experience was to buy a five-cent ice-cream soda and sit beside the fountain, taking in the pageantry of fashionably attired women making their shopping rounds,” wrote Francis Morrone in Architectural Guidebook to New York City.
Steel-framed Siegel-Cooper was quite technologically advanced for its day. The tower over the marble-columned entrance bathed Sixth Avenue in electric light, and the basement had its own power station.
Siegel-Cooper even had its own exit on the 18th Street stop of the Sixth Avenue El. Shoppers could get off the train and walk into a second-floor entrance, without having to descend to the gritty street shadowed by train tracks.
New York in 1896 was just three years out of the Panic of 1893, which crippled the economy. But this was the Gilded Age, and ostentatious displays still appealed to consumers. Opening day, as you can imagine, was a madhouse.
“The crowds around the store half an hour before the opening time, 7:30 o’clock, numbered probably 5,000 men, women, boys, and girls, and they were for a little while interested in the unveiling of the show windows,” wrote the New York Times a day later, on September 13, 1896.
“When they had satisfied their curiosity, they found that 20,000 persons had joined them, and that they were hemmed in. . . . So great was the jam inside the store that few of the visitors saw anything, except the general details of the vast floors, beautiful floral trophies sent by friends and mercantile houses to the heads of departments, [and] the word ‘Welcome’ blazing in electric lights over the main aisle of the ground floor.”
The amazing thing about The Big Store is that it only dazzled New York a short time.
Less than 20 years later, Siegel-Cooper declared bankruptcy, and the building was converted into a military hospital during World War I.
After decades of use as a warehouse, among other functions, the Siegel-Cooper store was resurrected in the 1990s as a mini-mall anchored by Bed Bath & Beyond—one of the central businesses in a modernized Sixth Avenue shopping district.
Pieces of the old Siegel-Cooper legacy remain, however. The original imposing marble columns and lanterns flank the entrance.
In a city with almost as many coffee places as bank branches and most of them bearing chain store logos, it’s hard to believe that this wonderfully generic plastic sign hasn’t been replaced . . . or fallen off.
It’s on West 21st Street west of Fifth Avenue, advertising a slender coffee house that consists of basically a long counter and chairs—the kind a different New York used to have on almost every block.
Except for the ATM machine by the door, nothing about this storefront seems to have changed in half a century; it’s a sliver of the city frozen in time.
They’ve been there for centuries, just steps away from traffic lights and the rush of crowds: three small burial grounds tucked behind iron fences and shaded by untended trees.
They’re not in the best shape. Some of the headstones are broken or knocked askew, as this photo of a cemetery on 21st Street and Sixth Avenue shows. The Hebrew lettering on the stones has been worn down by the elements. Graffiti marks a brick wall.
But the story behind how these cemeteries came to be starts with the story of the first Jews to live in New York City.
That means going back to the 17th century. In 1654, a ship carrying 23 men, women, and children docked in Lower Manhattan. They were refugees fleeing Brazil, which the Portuguese had just recaptured from the Dutch.
This little group of Spanish and Portuguese Jews felt that New Amsterdam might be a more welcoming place.
Eh, not exactly. Peter Stuyvesant tried hard to throw them out. The refugees wrote letters to Holland to solicit support so they could stay.
A year later, the Dutch West India Company gave them the go-ahead to remain as long as they “do not become a burden.”
Free to build new lives here, the group quickly founded the continent’s first synagogue, Congregation Shearith Israel. And though the synagogue had no permanent space until 1730, space for the deceased was established in 1656.
That original burial ground has disappeared. But what’s considered the first Jewish cemetery in the city still remains in Chatham Square (above), in a pocket facing St. James Place behind several tenements (below right, in a 1900 photo).
This cemetery opened in 1683. It once contained 256 graves, including those of Jewish Revolutionary War veterans. The above sketch of what Chatham Square looked like marks the “Jews Burying Ground” at the top right.
“The East River, I am persuaded, may be secured in such a manner that [British] ships will scarcely venture into it…A battery for this purpose is planned at the foot of the Jews’ burying ground.”
An expansion of the Bowery cut the burial ground down in size to closer to 50. Some of the lead epitaph plates are missing because during the Revolutionary War, British soldiers melted them down to make bullets.
In 1805, a second cemetery opened on the outskirts of the city, at Sixth Avenue and what was then Milligan Place (below). The expansion of the city grid chopped its size as well to a tiny triangle.
“Initially, this graveyard was the burial site for victims of communicable diseases like yellow fever and malaria, for recently immigrated Jews who did not have strong ties to Shearith Israel, and for those who died at their own hand through suicide,” states the Shearith Israel website.
After the city banned burials below Canal Street in 1823, the Sixth Avenue cemetery became the main Jewish burial ground — until a third cemetery opened in what was then the bucolic country fields of Chelsea and is now a big-box shopping mecca (below).
“The lot for the Third Cemetery was purchased in 1829 for the then-princely sum of $2,750,” wrote Tablet magazine. “The cemetery operated until 1851, after which a law was enacted forbidding burial anywhere south of Manhattan’s 86th Street.”
Shearith Israel operates out of a majestic synagogue building on Central Park West with some spectacular history of its own; the wood floorboards under its reader’s desk are the same floorboards from the first permanent synagogue built in 1730 on Mill (now South William) Street.
The congregation maintains these three burial grounds, and near Memorial Day, members hold a ceremony at the Chatham Square cemetery, honoring the Jewish Revolutionary War veterans interred there.
Each cemetery has a story to tell about Jewish life in the city and the development of New York as a whole. Look for these ghostly reminders of Gotham’s first residents next time you’re nearby.
Coined in the 19th century, it may have come from the doughnut-like buttons on soldier uniforms, or it might stem from their doughy rations.
But this nickname for the millions of American infantrymen (and thousands of New Yorkers) who fought in World War I endures—as do the bronze doughboy statues that were funded by veterans’ groups and ordinary citizens after the war’s end in November 1918.
With April 6 marking the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into what was then known as the European War, take a look at a few of the nine doughboy statues standing in city parks and corners.
At the top right is the doughboy of DeWitt Clinton Park in Hell’s Kitchen—an excerpt from war poem “In Flanders Fields” carved in granite below him.
The Abingdon Square doughboy, pistol at the ready above, has graced this West Village pocket park since 1921.
The money for the statue was raised by the Jefferson Democratic Club, whose headquarters across the street at 299 West 12th Street were replaced by a handsome apartment building.
In Bushwick’s Heisser Triangle (above) stands a statue honoring the 156 men from the neighborhood who died in the war. Charles Heisser was a local kid who lived two blocks away and was killed in action in France in 1918.
The Red Hook Memorial Doughboy (left) is proud and triumphant; he commemorates the approximately 100 residents of this corner of Brooklyn who gave their lives to the war.
About 2,400 Brooklyn residents made the ultimate sacrifice, reports a 2001 New York Times piece on crumbling memorial statues.
Chelsea has its own doughboy as well, and hey, it’s the same guy who modeled the Abingdon Square doughboy (below right).
“To the Soldiers and Sailors of Chelsea” the granite behind him says at Chelsea Park on Ninth Avenue, as he holds his rifle protectively.
Doughboy statues aren’t the only way city residents commemorated the end of the war, of course.
In Central Park and Brooklyn, memorial trees were planted and plaques laid down—like these hiding in plain site on Eastern Parkway, which honor individual soldiers who never made it back from Europe.
Certain old buildings in New York are so enchanting, they hijack your imagination. Who lived in them, you wonder as you pass by, and what stories can they tell us about their neighborhood?
This is what happens to me whenever I walk by 461 and 463 West 18th Street, just off Tenth Avenue.
These twin carriage houses were built in the 1880s, when the area known today as West Chelsea was a working-class industrial district of low-rise flats and factories.
The earliest image I could find of the twin stables dates to 1932 (above). You can see them tucked behind a corner restaurant. Cyrus Rheims, the name on a building sign on Tenth Avenue, rented and sold draft horses. Maybe the stables were built for Rheims.
Or perhaps the stables housed the horses used by the West Side Cowboys. These were the men hired to ride in front of the street-level freight trains that roared up Tenth Avenue from the 1850s to the mid-1930s, warning pedestrians out of the way (not always successfully; hundreds were killed over the years).
By 1938, when Berenice Abbott took this photo of the carriage houses for her exhibit and subsequent book Changing New York, number 463 “was attached to a corner liquor store at 130 Tenth Avenue,” the book notes in an updated index.
With curtains in the windows of number 461, it was likely a residence—maybe the man and woman on the right made it their hideaway. “These businesses, and the junk shop at number 461, served the seamen and dockworkers of the still-active West Side waterfront.”
Here’s a 1941 photo of the corner, with the two carriage houses (now painted white, along with 130 Tenth Avenue) in the center. Deliverymen unload their trucks; a tire business has taken over three tenements.
The freight trains on Tenth Avenue are gone, replaced in 1934 by elevated trains running along the new High Line. The gleaming New York of modernity, symbolized by the Empire State Building, appears far away.
By the 1970s, with industry in decline and the Hudson River waterfront all but abandoned, Tenth Avenue and 18th Street was a desolate place, judging from this 1975 photo by Edmund V. Gillon.
The shipping industry on the waterfront was gone, though the freight trains on the High Line were still running. Small businesses like Congo Tires, however, continued to hang on.
By 2000, twenty years after the High Line’s abandoned rail tracks were reclaimed by weeds, the carriage houses were looking better.
French restaurant La Lunchonette had opened on the corner in 1988, taking over the ground floor at number 463. But note the bars on the door of number 461—a holdover of a more crime-ridden West Chelsea.
Here we are in 2017, and the two carriage houses are prime real estate (take a peek inside the second-floor former hay loft at number 461, courtesy of these listing photos from 2012) in a revitalized, wealthier West Chelsea—thanks in part to the new High Line Park.
La Lunchonette is gone, though. This locals favorite was a casualty of a suddenly trendy neighborhood where landlords can command the kind of sky-high rents no one who lived on West 18th Street when a freight train belched up the avenue could have ever imagined.
Post office branches in New York can be drab and cramped, and the vibe inside not exactly inviting.
But the Old Chelsea station on West 18th Street off of Seventh Avenue is a lovely relic.
Built in 1934, it’s wide and drafty, with carved eagles and doric columns. The facade has a colonial feel—connecting the building back to its colonial-era Old Chelsea neighborhood, when the streets were mostly farmland.
But what to make of these cast stone panels of woodland creatures above the main entrance inside? Created by an artist named Paul Feine, perhaps they’re supposed to remind letter mailers of the way Chelsea looked before Manhattan was chopped down and paved over.
I hope they stay through the post office’s renovation—reports say the USPS is selling the air rights to developers to build condos.
The history of New York City is written on its walls—the walls of apartment houses and commercial buildings still standing, bearing the faded outline of those that met the bulldozer long ago.
These phantom buildings are on every block (above, Fourth Avenue and 1oth Street), especially in today’s city with its constant renovation and rebuilding—what Walt Whitman called “knock down and pull over again spirit.”
The roofs of these faded ghosts are often slanted and peaked—hints that a Federal-style house or stable once existed there. I’m guessing this outline on 11th Avenue in the west 20s, above, was a stable.
Many of the outlines resemble the shells of tenements. This phantom at Rector Street, above, is likely all that remains of an anonymous tenement where generations of New Yorkers lived and raised families.
The ghost building on Great Jones Street near Lafayette Street above, with what appears to be the outline of three chimneys, looks too short to be a tenement. Probably just a walk-up with a couple of flats per floor.
The painted-white outline here on Third Avenue in Gramercy could have been a single family home, similar to the one on the left side of the photo hidden behind scaffolding.
On West 57th Street a lonely tenement bears the remains of its neighbor, which had what looks like a central chimney or rooftop exit door.
Is this the ghost of another stable or carriage house? It’s on the far West Side around 42nd Street, where the city’s last remaining working stables are.
Is this cast-iron plaque outside a trendy clothing store on Fifth Avenue and 16th Street really all that’s left of Manhattan’s once-thriving Novelty District?
I think it must be. B. Shackman & Co. began selling cheap toys, costumes, and gag gifts in 1898—one of several novelty stores that popped up in the early 20th century between Union and Madison Squares.
An entire neighborhood devoted to party favors, decorations, jokes, games, and magic tricks? It made it into the 1980s, but it couldn’t possibly survive in a more luxurious city and a digital commerce world.
The Novelty District went the way of Flatiron’s former Photo District and Chelsea’s Fur District and Sewing Machine District. The Flower District on Sixth Avenue in the 20s might be next.
Gordon Novelty, with its 1930s storefront lettering and facade painted in explosive blue, was the last holdout of the Novelty District, located on Broadway and 22nd Street. [Second photo in 2007; third in 2010, from Greenwich Village Daily Photo.]
“Well-bred people are no fun to paint,” Reginald Marsh once reportedly said.
Known for his exaggerated, carnival-like paintings of crowds of showgirls, shoppers, and Coney Island beach-goers, Marsh was deeply taken by the forgotten men of 1930s New York—casualties of the Depression who gathered at bars and on breadlines.
His 1931 etching, “Tenth Avenue at 27th Street,” gives us a detailed look at a crowd of anonymous men lined up along the side of a shadowy saloon in a rough-edged neighborhood.
The men either look away, leaning against the bar like it’s a lifeboat, or leer at a lone woman.
Hmm . . . what would Marsh think of this same corner 86 years later, with the High Line and art galleries drawing the well-bred people who never made it into his sketchbook?
Most New Yorkers today get their holiday roasts and chops all nicely packaged from a refrigerated counter.
Not so in the 1870s. Hitting up one of the city’s huge (and typically filthy) outdoor markets so you could pick out a main course for your holiday meant looking Christmas dinner in the eye.
“The neighborhood of Fulton Market, and all the passages of the market itself, were thronged yesterday with holiday buyers, who elbowed each other about in the snow and slush as if their lives depended upon the celerity with which they made their tour of the meat shops and poultry stands,” wrote the New York Times two days before Christmas in 1876.
Fulton Market—not just for fish but meat and game as well, as seen in the 1878 illustration above—was one of New York’s biggest. Washington Market on the West Side (below in 1879), also supplied New Yorkers with fresh game.
A 1901 Harper’s Weekly article paid tribute to the “market men” who ran these venues and supplied the city with fare for holiday banquets.
“The city is awake and ravenous. In all the river streets the sidewalks are blockaded with great heaps of things to eat. Inside and outside the markets, as far as you can see, are butter and eggs, apples, pears, bananas, oranges, potatoes, cabbage, ducks and wild game, fat geese and chickens, grouse, quail, and woodcock, the staple meats in amazing quantity, fish, lobster, scallops, and mussels, and turkeys, turkeys, turkeys, until one is convinced that the gobbler and not the eagle should be stamped on all the coin in the realm.” | {
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This is the second installment of my paranormal postings. You can check out the first one here.
Cemeteries and graveyards tend to be associated with ghosts and scary happenings. If you believe ghosts are simply imprints of a life once lived, a soul with unfinished business, or the spirit returning to loved ones, then it seems odd that they should reside in such a place. They can be peaceful places, but you have to admit, as the sun sets and shadows appear…things starts to get spooky.
Abney Park, London
Old St. Mary’s, London
There’s nothing better than a stroll through an overgrown graveyard…in daylight.
Here is supposed evidence of a haunt in a graveyard as seen on Ghost Hunters.
Sometimes graveyards spring up in odd places. Cow fields, playgrounds, front yards, and car parks. I’m sure most people have caught wind of the Richard III discovery. How glamorous. I wonder if he got a laugh from it or was appalled as his grave was decorated with asphalt. Did he haunt the place? Anyone?
I’m impartial when it comes to believing in life after death, but I’m open. I do enjoy a good ghost story, real or created. Some of the best stories I heard are those from CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, Lights out and similar programs from long ago. Relic Radio is a good site to check out for old Horror radio programs, as well as other genres. You can find a whole load of CBS RMT episodes here.
Have you ever been curious to know what it’s like to haunt a house as a ghost? You can have a go if fancy! Play Haunt the House. | {
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When the sport made its first appearance at the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984, its detractors mocked its inclusion and compared it to the Busby Berkeley 1940s Hollywood water spectaculars popularized by former swimmer Esther Williams.
One look at the training schedule of the swimmers, however, is enough to divest any remaining skeptics of the misapprehension that this is a lightweight Olympic discipline.
“We train between eight and nine hours a day,” Spain’s leading synchronized swimmer Gemma Mengual told Reuters television at a recent pre-Olympic competition in Barcelona.
“In the morning we work on the physical elements and do some work in the gym. Then we are into the water, we grab some lunch and then get back in the water until 7 or 8 at night until everything is perfect or near perfect.”
The precision routines require swimmers to hold their breath for periods of more than a minute while carrying out a succession of dizzying turns, kicks and flips, most of which are done while upside down in the water.
When they do emerge, they have to resist the temptation to gasp for air and keep smiling as they attempt to make it all appear effortless. Little wonder, then, that synchronized swimmers are seen as a breed apart.
WATER BABY
“I was the sort of child that you always had to drag out of the water,” Mengual told Spanish sports daily Marca in an interview earlier this year. “When they did get me out my lips were purple and my skin like a prune.
“I have always found it easy to move in the water and when I am not in it for two or three days my bones hurt. I need to be in the water all the time.”
Mengual, who won four golds at the European championships in Eindhoven in March this year, took up the sport after watching her cousin in an exhibition when she was just nine and has now been involved in the sport for nearly 23 years.
A household name in Catalunya, the 31-year-old trains at the High Performance Centre (CAR) in Barcelona and is followed around by a group of dedicated young female fans whenever she attends a competition in her home city.
Although the visual spectacle appeals to many, there is precious little glamour in the grueling training regime.
Mengual and duet partner Andrea Fuentes spend countless hours perfecting their moves, while three days a week they build endurance, swimming at least four kms in each session.
They swim lengths of the 50-metre pool underwater to increase their lung capacity and also have to make time for some dance and ballet.
Ahead of the Barcelona competition they stand together rehearsing the precise hand and head movements like twin robots.
Just before they are due to perform they whip out pocket mirrors to put the final touches to their waterproof make-up and march off to the edge of the pool to begin their routine which earns them first place in the competition ahead of Ukraine.
ITCHY FEET
Mengual, who has attended two previous Olympics and finished just off the podium in both the duet and the team event at Athens, admits she is impatient to get on with what will be her last Games before retiring next year.
“We can’t wait to get started as you always get a bit anxious in the run-up to big events,” she told Reuters. “Physically we are in good form, so now we need to rest a bit, but I’m confident that we will swim very well when we get there.
“I think we have been training hard, we have changed a few things in the choreography and the coach is very happy with what we’ve been doing. I think we can do very well.”
Although she scooped the medals at the Europeans, Mengual is under no illusions as to the difficulties the pair face in Beijing especially when competing against the technically superior Russians who did not attend the championships.
“In Beijing the objective is to get amongst the medals and get as near as possible to perfection and the gold,” she said. “At the moment we think that Russia are the strongest team and we need to get as near as possible to them.
“I think the gold will be very difficult. China and Japan will be very strong and the United States will be somewhere thereabouts too.”
Fuentes agrees with her partner. “We are aiming for a medal,” she said. “Bronze might be a bit disappointing even though I have never won a medal before. Silver would be great and if we won gold it would be a dream come true.
“If the Russians make mistakes and we do the best possible we could win, but the silver is the most realistic option.” | {
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Prior to sale, some countries require permission to market devices using encryption by way of filing with the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC). Since Apple's watchOS devices are encrypted, Apple has recently filed with the EEC, including six new model numbers, all running watchOS 5.
This same thing happened last year, shortly before the Series 3 was released, which actually had eight new model numbers. And, its also happened with the 2018 iPad, and the MacBook Pro.
Given that six models have been filed for, instead of eight, Apple is getting rid of a certain model for this year's lineup.
As for pricing for the Series 4, there's no way to know for sure, but give history, we're fairly sure that the cheapest models will range from around $329 to $399.
Since each new Series 4 model is coming with watchOS 5 installed, this means that the Series 4 will likely be revealed at Apple's September event, just like the Series 2 and Series 3 watch releases.
Series 4 features and specs
The rumor mill has already started churning about the Series 4 Apple Watch. Ming-Chi Kuo says that the new watches will have a 15-percent larger display.
Now this could either happen by making the chassis larger, or by slimming the bezels around the screen —and we think it's the latter. Kuo also believes that the new watches will have more battery capacity, and improved heart tracking capabilities.
There's also rumors that Apple will switch from spring-loaded Side and Digital Crown buttons, to solid state haptic feedback buttons, like on recent iPhone home buttons. The main benefit to this seems to be better water-resistance.
Apple and TSMC are rumored to have already started production of new MicroLED technology displays for Apple Watches to increase battery life. Production cost is between four and six times higher than existing OLED Apple Watch panels, so if we do see MicroLED displays, they may only be available on higher-end Apple Watch models, like the stainless steel and Edition models —should the latter survive the model purge.
Some rumors also point to the Series 4 supporting the Qi wireless charging standard, as opposed to the modified one that the Apple Watch uses now, so you can use any Qi wireless charger to power the device.
Storage increase?
Last year's series 3 had 8GB of storage for the Wi-Fi only models and 16GB of storage for LTE models.
We think the Series 4 will come with 16GB of storage, and maybe even 32GB on stainless steel and edition models.
As far as connectivity goes, we also think it'll come with Bluetooth 5 instead of Bluetooth 4.2, since Apple's recent MacBook Pros now support Bluetooth 5, and we expect the new iPhone lineup will too.
There's also a chance we'll see a small boost in RAM as well.
Like I mentioned earlier, improved heart-rate monitoring has been rumored, as well as others, like improved health-tracking options and UV sun exposure tracking. Non-invasive glucose monitoring has also been rumored —meaning you wouldn't have to poke yourself all the time, or insert a probe under your skin. But, the technology is probably years away, and likely won't be seen on the Series 4.
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Apple on Saturday opened its biggest Asian store yet in Beijing, with hordes of shoppers descending on the three-floor complex that highlights the growing importance of China to the US tech giant.
The shop, on the major shopping street of Wangfujing in the heart of the capital, covers an area of 2,300 square metres (24,750 square feet).
China is now the second-biggest market for Apple after the U.S. but the company has also faced criticism for the conditions in which its products are produced in China.
The enthusiasm for the company’s gadgets among the country’s fast-growing consumer class was clear Saturday as shoppers quickly packed out the new shop shortly after it opened at 9:00 am (0100 GMT).
Around 100 people also waited outside to enter the store, Apple’s sixth official outlet in mainland China, according to an AFP journalist at the scene. Many other shops in China are also licensed to sell Apple products.
The popularity of Apple in China is such that the launch of new iPhone models has in recent years led to huge crowds jostling to get their hands on the smartphones and spawned a black market in the gadgets.
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USA Cycling and American Cycling Association
ACA Statement Regarding our Relationship with USAC, August 10, 2011
From the ACAHistory of ACA
Prior to being an independent sanctioning body, the ACA was the Bicycle Racing Association of Colorado (BRAC). Formed in 1976, BRAC was the USCF (predecessor of USACycling) District that ran road racing in Colorado. Beth Wrenn-Estes was the President of BRAC. In 1994, when the USCF decided to change their district structure, Colorado clubs became upset and disenchanted with the perception that the USCF cared only about elite racers and gave no attention to local riders. Beth proposed breaking from USCF and the clubs agreed.
The ACA in its current form was born. Beth was hired as Executive Director and Yvonne van Gent, formerly the USCF District Representative, was hired as the Membership Coordinator. Beth served as Executive Director until 2007. The ACA’s commitment to quality local racing and junior development was established in this time. During her tenure, because of significant mutual animosity, there was no chance of reconciliation with USACycling (USAC).
In 2008, Jon Tarkington assumed the position of Executive Director of the ACA. Under the leadership of Jon and the Board of Directors, the ACA consolidated and made transparent its finances, grew its membership, created evaluation processes for race promoters and officials, created a dynamic website that is both the organization’s database and storefront, embraced and helped direct the substantial growth in cross racing, and purchased a cutting edge electronic timing system. Jon and representatives of the ACA’s Board of Directors met with USAC leaders four times in attempts to negotiate a return to USAC, but could not find an agreement that worked for both parties.
In 2010, Jon decided to step down as Executive Director. Chris McGee was hired for the job, and began as ED in late January, 2011.
The Situation in 2011 Beginning this spring, our relationship with USACycling has been strained by USAC's decision to enforce UCI rule 1.2.019.
UCI Rulebook regarding 'Forbidden Races"
1.2.019 No licence holder may participate in an event that has not been included on a national, continental or world calendar or that has not been recognised by a national federation, a continental confederation or the UCI. A national federation may grant special exceptions for races or particular events run in its own country.
Attempts by promoters to gain exceptions for specific races, so that they may host UCI
professional racers, have not been approved. The ACA has formally asked for exceptions for specific races that do not conflict with USAC’s National Racing Calendar, and these too have been declined. We have spoken with representatives from USAC, the US Olympic Committee, legal advisors, journalists, and other people who are close to the situation. The ACA continues to explore options to remedy this situation.
Other issues have arisen this year, the most notable of which are new call-up procedures for Masters at Cross Nationals and the difficulty with dual-permitted events.
The ACA’s Position in 2011
The ACA is a fully-functioning, financially solvent 501c3 non-profit organization. We have an accountant who oversees our finances and helps produce accurate, up-to-date financial documents, which are posted on our professionally-maintained website. Our member-run Board of Directors meets monthly to provide oversight on the organization’s finances, planning and operation. We have five part-time staff who are dedicated to creating the best racing experiences for our 3,000 annual members. We believe that we provide the highest quality racing and cycling development product for our members at a reasonable cost, and we believe that we are an asset to both the Colorado and American cycling communities.
Rejoin USAC?
We are occasionally asked, 'Why don't you just rejoin USAC?'
There are many reasons why this is not a simple discussion, but the primary reason is money.
Local racing in the United States is governed by USAC’s Local Association (LA) Agreement. There are 33 LAs the country, totaling approximately 35,000 road/cross/track racers. Each LA receives income from USAC in the form of $10 per Senior license sold in their LA area (no money for juniors, officials, mechanics, or mountain bike licenses). In addition, Las can raise money by charging separate membership fees, $1 or $2 for each race entry in races sanctioned in the LA area (these called race surcharges), and $1 per entry from USAC's online registration service.
Most LAs are run by volunteer boards with no paid staff.
A couple of facts to think about:
Current annual membership prices are $45 for ACA and $60 for USAC.
At this time, approximately 23% of ACA members also hold a USAC license.
ACA members currently enjoy a lower license fee, incredible insurance with a low $1,000 deductible and great customer support, timely results on our website, timely calculations for racing points series (BARBAT, Cross Cup), a comprehensive race kit for our promoters that includes 2 high-speed cameras, laptops, and software, access to world-class timing and results companies at affordable pricing, world-class officials, on-site medical support at all races, neutral support at 17 races by ROL Wheels (paid by ACA), and a full 9 month calendar of affordable, great racing.
The ACA's Junior Development Program is one of the best in the country. We offer Juniors Ride Free, Junior Road Camp, Junior Cross Camp, the Colorado Mini Classic, the 1st Bike Program, and in 2012 will introduce the Junior Race Grant Program. We have a paid Junior Development Coordinator who is a former professional racer. We spend more than $40,000 each year in this investment in cycling’s future.
When we talk about becoming an LA, we have to ask ourselves many questions:
If the ACA were to simply agree to the LA model, our income from memberships would fall approximately $100,000 annually.
As we function today, $45 from every ACA license goes toward local cycling. If we were a LA, only $10 from the USAC license goes to local Colorado racing.
What does the core of our membership (racers aged 35-54 in categories 3 & 4) gain from a realignment with USAC?
Would our members pay an additional fee to support the ACA's programs and services? In the past, BRAC used this model to generate income. Approximately 1/3 of Colorado racers voluntarily paid a separate fee to the local association.
If we do not have a separate ACA membership fee, how would we provide members with the same level of support with a reduction in staff?
How would the ACA continue its extraordinary support of junior development with significantly less budget?
One solution is to charge a separate ACA membership fee after racers pay for their USAC license. The questions: How many riders are willing to pay an additional fee for their racing licenses? What is the value of the ACA’s services to Colorado racing? What could the ACA reasonably charge as a LA membership fee?
To address these questions and get sense of our clubs’ needs, the ACA will conduct a survey of our 95 clubs. As a member-driven non-profit, it is imperative that we receive the input necessary to act in the interests of our membership. This survey will be sent the week of August 15th, 2011.
Summary
Colorado has always been a fantastic place to ride, race and train, for beginners and professional racers alike. We are committed to providing high quality events for all bicycle racers regardless of their level. The ACA always has, and always will, welcome all racers to our events. It is important to note that the ACA is not creating any barriers for racer participation, and we will not bend or break our own policy in the interests of one segment of our membership.
The ACA is a grassroots, amateur-based organization. "The mission of the ACA is to expand and develop the sport of amateur bicycle racing in the Rocky Mountain region while ensuring quality experiences for all involved." We continue to pursue remedies to the situation with professional racers and elite level racers, but at the same time must remain focused on our mission. Please know that we work every day to fulfill this mission. Board and staff information is available under 'Contacts' on the ACA website.
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Your comment shows the typical attitude of the ACA members these days (over 35, men, who are 4's, and do not race a lot. Currently over 50% of our membership races 5 times or less per year). First you worry about cost, have you looked at the bikes people are riding these days? I watched a junior women in the cat 4 race this past Sunday on a carbon bike, with Zipp tubulars, and an SRM. Dear god please help us. Secondly you are so out of touch that plenty of people already do have 2 licenses, not because we want to, but because we have to!
80% of the guys on our team already have both license. Not because we are some pro team, but because we like to race. Guys may race out of state at a larger regional race like Gila or Tulsa Though, do one of the great USAC races in CO like Apsen or Durango, or when traveling to AZ, CA, WY, or UT, or want to do an NRC race to test their game, or maybe nationals (juniors, masters, senior, Track, cross).
The ACA right now is focused on the low end masters as they make up the largest # of members. I would love to see how much these guys really race. IMO a lot of these guys don't race much. The ACA is like most organizations, where 20% of the members do 80% of the business. So when the ACA says only 23% of its members have USAC license I have to just laugh. Guess what ACA? Those are the guys who really race, who race a lot of days with you all, and are committed to racing. They are not the other 50% of our membership that race 5 times per year or less (the guy who only does TT, or only does HC, or does 4 road races per year). ACA needs to focus on their real customers, those of us who race 20 plus days a year.
Having only started cycling three years ago in AZ I can attest to the impact being a CAT 5 racer had on me. I was really not interested in having to complete 10 mass start events/ races to get my CAT 4 upgrade. However, in the time it took to complete those events I received a lot of mentoring from my teammates at Bicycle Haus, and a fair share of being yelled at by not so nice guys out in Redondo Beach at the Donut Ride. But on all those weekend group rides/ team rides I learned a lot about how to handle my bike, ride in a pace line, wash my jersey ?, the fact that my cross check is not a race bike, etc. etc. With time I completed my races and used my experience riding with other older riders to help make the last few CAT 5 races better, i.e. got breaks to stick, coordinated chase efforts. In the end the extra half year I spent doing those first ten races was great learning that made me a better bike rider today.
Can we get a statement or at least some information directly from USAC? In any conversation like this it is best to hear directly from each side. I know there has been lots of anomosity over the years but to make an intelligent decision we need to hear from all sides.
Can you imagine your employer threatening to fire you if you did any outside contract work? This is what USAC/UCI is doing against it's own members. Besides being highly immoral, it is most likely illegal. Problem is riders or promoters don't have the time or money to fight it in court. The USAC has the time, money and lawyers to fight it even if it is not what their members want.
If I where a D3 Pro Rider living in Colorado, I would give the USAC B.O.D. a piece of my mind. http://usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=244
At the end of the day, whether your name is 'ACA' or 'USAC', all the money for a cycling organization comes from members and sponsors. Additionally, all the work is done either by volunteers or employees paid for from member/sponsor-sourced funds.
USAC doesn't run races, they sanction races. The reason more races aren't sanctioned through USAC instead of ACA is simply a function of most clubs currently being directly affiliated w/ ACA and the success of the events by those clubs is tied directly to whether or not the events are BAR/BAT.
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Our next New City Arts Charlottesville SOUP dinner will be held on October 17, 2017.
Where does SOUP happen?
SOUP happens in different CAT-accessible, Charlottesville venues. Our Fall SOUP will take place at Meade Hall.
How much does it cost to attend?
A $10 ticket gets you soup, bread, salad, dessert, and a vote.
Do I need to buy a ticket?
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Everyone will be sitting in chairs at tables. If you need special accommodations or have any concerns about accessibility, please don’t hesitate to email us in advance.
What is the schedule for the evening like?
We open the doors for drinks and mingling at 6:30PM. We invite everybody to take a seat and break bread shortly afterward. Then, it’s time for presentations! Attendees hear from up to 4 local artists seeking funding. Presentations are brief, about 5 minutes. Then presenters take questions from you, the attendees. Afterward, we continue the dialogue while enjoying the rest of the meal. One-by-one attendees cast their vote in a private voting booth (while everyone else is eating dessert). Then we tally the votes, announce the winner, and present the grant right then and there. Ta da! We also hear a little bit at the start of the meal from the previous winners about what they’ve accomplished with their SOUP grant money.
What can I expect to hear during the presentations?
You will hear a short presentation from each artist, perhaps even a performance of some kind! You might get handed a ‘zine or a photograph to look at, too. The floor is then opened for 3-4 questions from the audience. The presentations are simple (and will never ever involve PowerPoint – really) and hopefully fun.
How many proposals do you accept for the dinner each month?
We only have time for a maximum of four presentations per dinner. Much more than that make it hard to have a constructive dialogue about each proposal while eating and meeting our neighbors.
Do I need to be a “professional artist” or have an MFA or something like that in order to apply for a SOUP grant?
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I have an creative project in the arts! How can I submit my idea for consideration for a SOUP grant?
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Japan and Indonesia sign free trade agreement
Japan and Indonesia has signed a bilateral trade agreement yesterday, in efforts to boost trade and investment between the two countries. The agreement will take effect immediately, but it will be implemented in stages over the years and is expect to be fully implemented only in 2016, with tariffs eliminated on more than 90% of the trade between the two countries.
Under the new trade agreement, Indonesia will reduce or eliminate tariffs of about 93% of its 11,163 tariffs, with 58% to be eliminated immediately. In turn, Japan will reduce more than 90% of its 9,275 tariffs, with 80% to be cut immediately, including those for textile and agricultural products. Japan is Indonesia’s biggest export market.
Indonesia will remove tariffs on Japanese cars and auto parts by 2016, and Japan will immediately remove tariffs on almost all industrial products from Indonesia.
What has happened to the JMEPA (Japan-Malaysia Economic Partnership Agreement) between Malaysia and Japan talked about back in mid-2005? Is it in effect now? Is it the reason why Mitsubishi has managed to price the Lancer so aggressively?
There was previously a report by AFX News that Volkswagen’s keen interest in Proton was to take advantage of the Japan-Malaysia Economic Partnership so it could use Malaysia to export to Japan. There was also a previous report about Volkswagen planning a plant in Japan. How does this affect the Volkswagen and Proton talks?
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VW now hav another option. If the tariff for exporting cars into Japan from Indonesia is to be relax soon, i dont c why VW needs proton anymore. They can just build one in Indonesia and avoid all the political shit gov are giving them. On the other hand Proton do have that Tanjung Malim factory…. hehe. But then again VW….. IS a rich company. Building another factory might not be such a big problem for them. It will take a lil longer before they can export their car there, but there’s a feeling they are not really in a hurry.
Indonesia has the largest population in Asia, but it is not the biggest automobile market, because of the low per capita income. However, by 2016, when all Japanese cars are free from any inport duty in Indonesia, the disposable income would have increased and Japanese cars will be affordable to many.
This raises several questions to Proton and Perodua who have been eyeing the Indon market for quite some time. It looks as if they have to rethink their strategy, because besides the bilateral agreement betweeen Indon and Japan, there is also in place an agreement amongst members of ASEAN.
Interesting times ahead for the auto industry in this region.
Yes Mr. Paul. Thats the reason behind it. Now, Japanese manufacturer has 2 options, whether to use AFTA CEPT rate if assembled in ASEAN countries or use MJEPA if assembled in mainland Japan.
There is also talk to export Proton to Japan, to testwater and psychological breakthrough, Malaysian auto manufacturer can also invade Japan.
“VW will not buy into Proton……….they are using the delaying tactics to make Proton worthless and buy…..or like most said now……..build one in Indonesia” this is probably the most illogical posting i’ve read today.
if VW is not interested in proton, do you think they will waste their time to continue talks for so many months as a “DELAYING TACTIC”? Whats the point to delay? delay what? What are you talking about??? VW can go and do anything thing they wish in any country at anytime they want… please comment intelligently la.
To me, i think our govt are too hasty in trying to sign FTA’s with Japan, and also the US. as it stands already, we are greatly disadvantaged by trade deficits with these 2 countries. If we open our markets even further, I dont see where we will benefit? anyone else has an opinion on this?
To be honest, I have a feeling that someone is just buying time for another person to clear up his mess before the white knight comes in and start asking questions. I am sure no one (not them anyway) would be so stubborn on a deal when all they have is to gain.
The G should stop playing charade (who am I kidding, change the world?) and close the deal asap.
1 word to G… They scare loss to globalization, n they know with their asset they still cannot win other country.. sample : Singapore… Even a tiny SG can win over Malaysia. Now not yet 100% open market just simple earn our people money into their pocket, easy.. But if open to the foreign, they scare their earnings will be less and being taken over by the foreign company.. Well, u know laa Proton… That why VW know that, VW also know Proton need foreign help on technology but if Proton come out too much of !@#!@$, they just simply go to Indonesia or Thailand. Just like Toyota, Honda, Ford, Mitsu now go to Thailand & Indonesia to open their factory… Why Malaysia less? Ask the G about his protective policies… Protect the people or their pocket? Think about it… If Proton & Ketuaan Melayu G are so great, why still scare of these Japanese, Europeans & Americans? Losers just admit it…
bigfish, FTA at the expense of your own local economy is stupid. its not just about buying cars, its about everything else. local business might have trouble competing if they’re flooded by cheap imports.. is that what you really want?
vw wants proton coz proton provides a government funded monopoly/protection on any car they release here. whether as a proton or a polo type cheap car. proton needs proton because they need others to do thier work for them and tag along for survival…and guaranteed profit.
at least mitsubishi learnt thier lesson and are not coming back for pieces of the cake….no matter how tempting it may be
its bad that msia is losing out to singapore. but be comforted that singapore is essentially malaysian anyway. most of their successful talent is malaysian sourced or origi’ned’. they are also smart enough to pull most of the malaysian talent anytime they can and will continue doing so for a long time to come. so dont be surprised singapore can compete with the world.
FTA is “pisau bermata dua”. If we closed our economy or say no to FTA, it will protect our uncompetitive industry like Proton, but at the same time industry with competitve advantage will face a setback in exporting their product. E.g. industry in our country that achieve world class (in fact some well known all over the world, albeit we are market leader) are FDI by MNC in “CKD” electronic/electrical and elecctrical items, computer component (Intel at Penang), Minyak Sawit, rubber, certain agri products, even our education attract a lot of students. If we close our economy for the sake of protect one dead wood and disregard one green mountain forest, then how say our palm oil compete with soya oil from US without FTA?
only time will tell. if vw buy proton the gov expect that it will be more competitve and later gov will dispose the protectionism. paklah mention about p1 have to be competitve unlike when tm is on the helm. imo, proton is a good asset for vw to buy, as a whole entity that is. singapore adore fta and globalization, there are a competitve lot who lives in a small but aging population. act, they need globalization. theres not much to do there.
msia should be compared to indon and thai rather than sing. if the gov loose this vw deal, and vw open up a factory in indon, i dont want to read that gm-p1 talk all over again .thats bull. just sell the company
Comments from LittleFire85 really excites me……..if all the manufactures go to thailand n indon due to the ketuanan melayu G, why does still a lot of indons are here to be buruh kontrak n the thais are here to cook tomyam n be a massager…..??? Why dont they just stay there and work with them in their homeland……..??? There’s a lot of opprtunities to be tapped……….
“at least mitsubishi learnt thier lesson and are not coming back for pieces of the cake….no matter how tempting it may be”
topgun, if you knew your motoring news, Mitsubishi went bankrupt a couple of years back, and mitsu bank had to bail them out. they are now only on the verge of recovering, do you think they are interested to come back to malaysia in the way you are saying?
Well, a lot of Malaysian also work in Singapore, US, UK, Arab Saudi… Why not say them? Those indo’s want to come to Malaysia is becoz our money value is higher then them and our law enforcement is louzy.. Each year how many illegal went in our country? I bet those indo’s on the road today only 50% are legal.. Look at Singapore.. U got guts to go in illegal? Anywayz i don’t see a lot of Thailand ppl come in Malaysia to work also… Only a few Cook, coz out Malaysia like to eat tom yam. And still their G appreciate their people who studied high and offer them a better job in bangkok.. Our G? Help ketuaan Melayu first, others second choice.. That why a lot of talent ppl went to SG, US, UK, Arab Saudi.. Even my neighbor son also go to Bangkok to work and come back with a Toyota Fortuner 3.0 D-4D & a pretty wife.. Damn i so envy about them!
Anywayz those indo’s, thailand & other foreign just come here to work, not open factory.. they are helping their pocket full with RM$$$ not helping our ppl earn money… :P If open factory at least for Malaysian who work inside still can earn money and learn something from them… If Toyota open factory in Malaysia like Toyota city in bangkok, don’t u think how many Malaysian will be invite inside to work? I don’t think their Gaji sucks? Their SA in UMW Malaysia can drive Vios and even Altis.. Huh.. That why some race mindset still not so broaden yet.. A lot of graduate will don’t have job.. If open those factory, don’t u think it will solve more our country problem? We still Tax them! Better study Economy!
Talk about Indon worker, Thai cook, expatirate, etc.in our country as well as otehr. From economic perspective, unemployment can be divided into the following: –
1. Structural unemployment – this taken place when those unemployed skills is not match the job available or don’t meet job market. For example, we have approximately 70,000 unemployed graduates yet there are few hundred thousand job opportunity in construction taken up by mainly Indon workers.
2. Geographical unemployment – means those unemployed are not necessary “mismatch of skills” as mention above. But due to geographical location. For example, there are IT job in Penang available, but some IT graduate still unemployed and looking for work in Klang Valley for reason best known to them.
The reasons for foreign worker in our country or our workers go to oversea is largly due to these two factors.\
In respect of FTA, actually our country embrace FTA in many sectors with the exception of “sentisitive areas” like government contract, auto sector and financial sector.
The benefits of FTA is definitely outweight the loss if the sector is competitve.
there is free flow of labour and FDI in open market that in 1980s and 90s, and until today, FDI in manufacturing sector become the engine of growth (wealth creation) in our economy.
In the case of auto sector, we are not competitve and that why this sector become “sensitive”. That why our government still do a balancing act to comply with FTA and at the same time take care of local interest. Among step taken is possible VW-Proton tie up. However, there is deadline to meet our FTA obligations and in the case of auto, it is 2010. For protective market, at most is reduce the outflow of the monies and circulation in our local economies (but not create “net wealth”).
I think it is the time for the G to reconsider the protective measures in ensuring the survival of P1. In the world of globalization, we dont really need to build a brand to represent Malaysia to the world. What we need is to train or give other to train our citizen (to be trained overseas) to achieve world-class skills. Do you think a driver in Europe who drive “Honda” will be admiring Japan or japanese because he drives “Honda” car? No!!! What about to the Japan G? They also not really concern as long as they get benefits from FOREX with the export of their cars. If we open our market for foreign company to setup factory in Malaysia, and subsequently export to other countries, i am sure government will benefit more than now in term of earning and also provided a better training ground for malaysia to enhance their skills. I would be proud if Malaysian named to be the top engineer, designer, CEO etc in any international company….then P! albility to penetrate EU market etc.. Just look at INTEL Malaysia where Malaysian able to design and market processor for global market..and many other malaysians with their success overseas… Just like our G recent campaign to concentrate on building human capital…better to spend Money in human capital than bail out non-viable company.. Again just look at our neighbour, Spore. For the last 40 years they concern about building Human capital, and till now the same strategy applied. Now they are aiming to export their citizen to other countries to provide more job opportunities. Can malaysian achieve the same with high number of graduates who are still unemployed?
if VW is not interested in proton, do you think they will waste their time to continue talks for so many months as a “DELAYING TACTIC� Whats the point to delay? delay what? What are you talking about??? VW can go and do anything thing they wish in any country at anytime they want… please comment intelligently la.
To me, i think our govt are too hasty in trying to sign FTA’s with Japan, and also the US. as it stands already, we are greatly disadvantaged by trade deficits with these 2 countries. If we open our markets even further, I dont see where we will benefit? anyone else has an opinion on this?
indon got bird flu, earthquake, landslides, plane crash. but still vw prefer indon than bolehland. why? some of the gov policies need to go. for the good of the people (malay, chinese, indian, iban etc). for the good of all malaysians. for the good of the motoring industries.
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..to think that Apple’s hold on its customers, or on its patents, is just about style or fashion (as Haydn Shaughnessy asserted after the Apple vs. Samsung decision) is to miss the larger impact the company has had on our culture.... Apple’s real genius has been to deliver precision engineering at affordable prices
Interestingly, last week a Japanese court refused to ban Apple products at Samsung's request. It's perhaps fitting to see both sides pushed back by the courts.
However, the word from San Jose is that neither Apple nor Samsung are ready to back down, even though many of the Samsung products at issue are no longer on the market, and despite the fact that Apple's management is clearly distracted.
It seems at the outset that Steve Jobs and Cook requested Samsung to alter its initial Galaxy designs. When Samsung refused, Jobs made the decision to litigate, with Cook opposed. But it seems like to now rumble on into 2014.
Last Friday's court decision reduces the jury fine by over $450 million but there is also a possibility of the judge adding in other compensation for Apple.
Judge Koh concluded:
The court has identified an impermissible legal theory on which the jury based its award and cannot reasonably calculate the amount of excess while effectuating the intent of the jury
"The jury based its award for 14 Samsung products on an incorrect legal theory, Koh ruled, saying the companies should consider appealing her ruling before any trial begins.....
The jury appears to have erred by awarding damages on Samsung profit for products that infringed only utility patents, which isn’t legally permitted, Koh said. In addition, portions of the damages awarded for patent infringement were excessive because they may have included compensation for infringement before Samsung was on notice that Apple owned the intellectual property."
However, the judge is also totting up possible damages on products that the jury did not consider.
On a personal note, my opinion that the verdict was a mistake, was based on a view that most Apple fans find offensive - I thought the design of the original iPhone has badly flawed, and most of us who owned one had to keep them in covers that hid the beautiful shape.
The reason - uncovered, the sleek phone would slip out of your hand. So it was that Apple changed the shape to something less slippery. How significant was the design in the iPhone's success then?
As a user I prized the big icons on the UI and the rest I kept in a black sleeve. But that is all history at this stage, as the court case should be too.
I guess this conflict will redefine the idea of how long a case can run and run. | {
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You will notice something new at the beginning of each post to this blog: “Short Link:” followed by a short and somewhat cryptic URL (http://j.mp/4ogmwT). If you click on it (try it!) you simply end back where you started, on this same page.
What’s the point? Short URLs, or short links, are used in SMS messages and Twitter tweets, which are a maximum of 140 characters long. At eighteen characters, the short link leaves 122 for the trenchant, piquant, pithy, and necessarily concise tweets about what you are doing or thinking.
Why am I doing this? In fact I’ve avoided Twitter for the same reasons I initially avoided blogging. The phrases “self-indulgent,” “banal,” and “navel-gazing” came to mind. For example, the following study found that 40.55% of tweets are “pointless babble.”
I continued to read about business uses for Twitter. Then I had lunch with someone very knowledgeable about Web who used to agree with me about the apparent pointlessness of Twitter, but who now has 240 “followers.”
Dave: I’ve got 240 followers on Twitter.
You’ve got 240 followers on Twitter?!
Dave: That’s what I said.
What do you tweet about?
Dave: Thought of the day, interesting quotes, links to interesting articles, that sort of thing.
That’s nice, but why bother?
Dave: It’s fun, some interesting people follow my tweets and I follow them too. And folks are clicking through to my other Web sites.
Oh! (Hmmm…web traffic…maybe I was a bit hasty!)
Thought of the day…thought stream…Twitter recently changed the question above its tweet submission box from “What are you doing?” to “What’s happening?”, encompassing more interesting material than “Having breakfast.”
Coincidently, at the same time I read about Twitter Informers, I stumbled across a list of WordPress plugins that help coordinate Twitter and WordPress. I realized that I could use my tweets to generate content on this blog (scroll down to the bottom of the right-hand margin on this blog). Since each new tweet causes the oldest tweet to disappear, I’ve “archived” a set of tweets to the end of this post so I can refer to them below.
During my recent holiday vacation I wasn’t going to have access to my laptop at the beach. I faced writing two posts and scheduling them to be published automatically on vacation. I will tell you the truth. That felt like work. And I write this blog because it is fun. Was there a way for me to conveniently submit material to this blog from my smartphone? It would give me something to do while soaking in the rays.
I then began to think about my Twitter account as a convenient mobile extension to this blog. The fact that it would *only* allow me to submit 140 characters at a time was almost a relief (I do go overboard). It was almost an enforced “stop working so hard.” Just have fun exploring something new and if what I post is self-indulgent, so what, it will just be lost in the noise and eventually disappear in a massive haystack of other inconsequential tweets.
Then the snow storm hit DC just before my wife was about to fly down to Key West and the best real-time news (compared to cable and even the Web) I could get about DC travel conditions was Twitter. I tracked the key words “DC”, “DCA” (Reagan National Airport), and “snow” plus the hash tag “#snowpocalypse”. Here was a source of real-time news alerts that was really useful.
Huh. I was impressed.
In the meantime, sitting at the beach, I’m reading about different Twitter applications, culture, and uses. Eventually I began to think of my own tweets as resembling the email reminders I already send myself.
Using just the email subject line, I often send myself emails with subject lines starting with “remind think about…”, “remind what is connection between X and Y?”, “remind blog post idea: …” and “remind cell photo pretty sunset at piedmont park” (with attached image). Sometimes I include a Web URL in the email body. When I get back to my office or laptop I sort my emails in outlook and go back and data mine this “thought stream” (wasn’t I thinking about X a few months ago, ha! here’s the link I was looking for).
While an email subject line can hold more than 140 characters, it is similar to a tweet: telegraphic, no formatting, targeted audience. So I decided to conduct an experiment. For the next two weeks, over the recent holidays, I resolved to not touch my laptop. I’d just use my smartphone to access the Web and update this blog. I would post once or twice a day, and while I’d try to be an Informer, I’d give into a Meformer urge once in a while, just so I could understand that inclination.
It was fun. I “meformed” a bit more than I intended: vacation photos, a bit of doggerel when bored, an obscure reference to Michael Keaton’s character in the Night Shift. Hey, I was on vacation. But I also found some interesting content on the Web that I wished to remind myself to explore and possibly post about later (and didn’t mind if anyone else eavesdropped).
If I go back over my recent tweets they appear to fall into one or more three categories:
Informer-style Unbranded Content: Such as material related to Twitter itself. It’s the new thing that I am currently learning about, thinking about, and excited to share. This content will likely wax and then wane, to be replaced about whatever intrigues me next. (7 tweets: blue bullets)
Meformer-style Content: Of most interest mostly to me, a relative or a friend. (3 tweets: red bullets)
Plus a more recent short video tweet that spans all three categories: Branded Informer (mention of EncounterPRO), Unbranded Informer (look, I can tweet a video!), and plain ‘ol Meformer (“It’s cold here in Atlanta!”).
URL Shortening Services
Oh. So why am I putting URL short links my blog pages and those of our product website? So I can tweet them. So you can too. For example, coincident with publishing this blog post I tweeted “Blog post: Twitter Holiday: Sun, Sand, Surf, Smartphones, Short URLS, Social Media, and Pediatric EMR Workflow Systems http://j.mp/4ogmwT” More and more people surf the Web on their cell phones and communicate using Twitter. If you want to tweet one of my blog posts or our product pages, just copy and paste the Short Link into your tweet.
On the other hand, you could go to the trouble of creating your own short links at one of the many free URL shortening services. Why did I choose j.mp? If you look back over my tweets (below) you may notice that I tried different URL shortening services: http://bit.ly (favored by Twitter), http://multiurl.com (enables tweeting more than one URL, each with a description), and http://j.mp (two characters shorter than bit.ly, but also belongs to bit.ly). I chose j.mp because it results in an exceptionally short URL (18 characters) and because it belongs to bit.ly, a Twitter partner and therefore not likely to go away soon.
Conclusion
That’s how and why I started twittering. Is Twitter the greatest thing since sliced bread? I don’t know. I recently read that national and international use of Twitter from the desktop Web browsers is flat lining, but that smartphone access continues to grow. This is consistent with my experience; I didn’t see the point of Twitter until I realized what I could conveniently use it to do things from my smartphone.
Right now, Twitter is a way for me to interact with my blog in both real time (the direct feed) and to publicly, but informally, archive ideas for future posts. Sort of miniature trailers for potential longer attractions to come. Therefore many of my future tweets will be about the same subjects I address here in the blog: EMR workflow systems, their usability, and the extraordinary potential for applying business process management techniques to improving healthcare processes.
Since I’ll be attending HIMSS here in Atlanta March 1-4, maybe I’ll try to live blog that from my smartphone. I can bump my live feed of tweets to the top of this blog’s right-hand column (replacing the photo of our kickbikes) so it will be hard to ignore. Check back then (even if you aren’t a regular reader).
Also, (surprise!) sometimes I just don’t know when to stop writing. Since brevity is the soul of wit, maybe Twitter can teach me to be (t)wittier. I just don’t know. But I am interested in finding out.
If you are interested in finding out too, or interested in some of the same subjects as I am (EMRs, workflow, usability, cognitive science, kickbiking, and, for the moment, Twitter), and you have a Twitter account, I hope you’ll follow me (I’ll likely follow you right back). If you don’t have a twitter account, head over to www.twitter.com get one: free!
“Wanna know why I carry this tape recorder? To tape things. See, I’m an idea man Chuck. I got ideas coming at me all day…I couldn’t even fight them off if I wanted. Wait a second…hold the phone. Hold the phone!
It seems like the progression was from email account to blog to my space page to facebook page and the to twitter account (of course many of those overlapping for different purposes). I’ve gotten to step 1. You’re now on step 5. How did 3 and 4 work for you?
Twitter worked for me (so far) because I needed a way to keep my blog fresh while I was away from the desktop and because I (have always) needed a way to record ideas for future reconsideration. Like Bill Blazejowski in Night Shift, I too used to whip out a small recorder once in a while. Now I whip out a smartphone.
Two weeks at the beach triggered my investigation, however the solution to that “problem” also applies to standing in line while surfing the Web or sitting bolt upright in bed with an idea. How to record a fleeting idea in a form that will potentially benefit the most people the most. No matter how obscure the subject, if you take the 10 folks who care most about that subject out of the 1.5 billion on the Internet, and you give those 10 people a way to bounce crazy ideas of each other, some good and much entertainment may result–in principle.
I also realized, after I investigated it, that tweets resemble the short, unformatted, email-subject line reminders, URLS, and photos I already send myself. I just needed to pretty them up and punch them into the Twitter client instead of my email client.
Smartphone mail client:
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Smartphone Twitter client:
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Twitter solved a problem I needed solved doing it similarly to what I already do. (I could mention a certain pediatric EMR workflow system that solves problems pediatricians have, by doing things the way they already do them, but that would be tacky! Oh what the heck!)
Or maybe it’s just a fad and I’ll lose interest. We will see. That’s the great thing about life, you try some things and they work, you try other things and they don’t work, and that’s progress. | {
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First Look Images of Steve Coogan & Poster for Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love
Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) has reunited with the great Steve Coogan once more, to bring us what will undoubtedly be one of the funniest films of next year, and one of the best coming out of the UK, The Look of Love.
Previously titled King of Soho, the first look at Coogan in the lead has debuted over at Empire, along with a new poster, teasing an absolutely terrific moustache on Coogan’s part.
“A comedy-drama about the colourful business and personal life of renowned club proprietor and porn publisher Paul Raymond.”
Starring alongside him in the lead will be an impressive cast, headed up by Anna Friel, Imogen Poots, Stephen Fry, Chris Addison, Tamsin Egerton, and Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
Winterbottom is directing from a script by two-time BAFTA-nominated Matt Greenhalgh (Control, Nowhere Boy), with the director partnering once more with frequent collaborator, Melissa Parmenter (9 Songs, The Trip), who serves as producer alongside executive producer Jenny Borgars (Attack the Block, The Awakening).
The Look of Love is set for release in the UK on 8th March, and should be an excellent way to kick off the spring. No word yet on a US release, but here’s to hoping it will be heading across the Atlantic for a similar date. For now, here are the great first images, along with the new poster, which you can click to enlarge.
Since graduating, I spend as much time as possible watching films/TV shows, reading books, and listening to music. So getting to write about what I love is nothing short of awesome.
Biggest film-related hope for 2014/ever: Guy Ritchie announcing the RocknRolla sequel is finally moving forward. | {
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Frustrated with the continually rising number of opioid overdoses, law enforcement officials across the country are taking a more active role in combating the opioid epidemic, one that does not necessarily involve making arrests. A recent New York Times article describes how public officials, police chiefs and officers in communities nationwide are instead encouraging treatment and applying crime analysis techniques to trace drug sources and cut off supplies. The specific approach by each law enforcement community is different, but they are linked by the determination that the problem is a health epidemic, not a criminal one.
Law enforcement leaders are clear that they feel they can be more effective using greater discretion than previously attempted. The “war on drugs” of the late 1980s led to many arrests but little overall resolution to the crack epidemic, which created a vicious cycle of poverty and violence for those struggling with addiction and for their family members. This time, officers called in to revive overdose victims in Burlington, Vermont, are offering to take low-level offenders to treatment rather than arrest them, for example.
Police departments are testing other strategies as well. Some are increasing foot patrols, and cities are installing brighter streetlights in high-risk neighborhoods. Some are now investigating drug source networks with the same methods used for homicides, such as tracking the victim’s phone calls and analyzing digital data to track online drug sales. And they now issue warnings about particularly deadly formulations on the street, similar to the way health officials notify the public about infectious outbreaks. Many departments are working with social workers and public health officials and have increased the numbers of officers carrying naloxone, a medicine that can reverse an opioid overdose.
“It’s all about shifting from addiction as a crime to addiction as a disease,” said Jane Helmstetter of Vermont’s Agency of Human Services. | {
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3/14/09
Paramilitary and plainclothes police blanketed Lhasa with patrols and checkpoints today, imposing what witnesses called a tense calm on the anniversary of a violent anti-Chinese riot in the Tibetan capital.
Lhasa residents said police with rifles or batons marched around the Jokhang Temple and the adjacent Barkhor Square in the old city, where rioters ran rampant last year. A Hong Kong tourist said two military helicopters hovered over the city in the morning - a rare sight - and that officers demanded to see identification at checkpoints.
"I was constantly stopped for identity check in the past few days," said the tourist, who only wanted to be identified by his surname, Chu, because of the heavy security. "I was stopped twice last night on my way back to my hotel from dinner. They were just several hundred metres apart."
The riot erupted on March 14, 2008, after four days of protests led by Buddhist monks that called on China to allow the exiled Dalai Lama to return. Tibetans torched and ransacked Chinese businesses.
The violence touched off protests in Tibetan communities across western China that sputtered on for weeks — the largest revolt against Chinese rule in decades.
In response, China smothered the area with armed police, who have been kept in the region ever since. Their numbers were increased in recent weeks, putting the area under a form of martial law, setting up checkpoints and trying to enforce an information blackout. Foreign tourists and foreign media have been barred from the region, and in some places, Internet and mobile phone text-messaging services have been cut.
Residents in other Tibetan areas described security arrangements today similar to those in Lhasa. Police in the overwhelmingly Chinese provincial capital of Chengdu blocked traffic into the city's Tibetan neighborhood, and plainclothes police followed foreign reporters.
Due to the tight security and information blockade — then and now — much about the Lhasa riot and the subsequent uprising has remained unclear. Beijing says 22 people, mostly Chinese Muslim civilians, died in the riot, and though it has acknowledged deaths elsewhere, a full tally has never been provided.
The Dalai Lama's exiled government in India says 220 Tibetans died and nearly 7,000 were detained.
Several media outlets from the Chinese territory in Hong Kong managed to get reporters into Lhasa for the anniversary. Hong Kong RTHK radio posted photos on its Web site showing shuttered shops around the Jokhang temple while armed police with automatic rifles patrolled nearby.
The South China Morning Post carried reports from an unidentified staff reporter describing door-to-door inspections of hotels and neighborhoods by authorities to round up "suspicious people." | {
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Democratic lawmakers criticized federal immigration officials Wednesday for refusing to explain their decision to stop considering requests from immigrants seeking to defer deportation for medical treatment and other hardships.
Officials with two agencies — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement — declined to answer many questions posed during a contentious House hearing, citing a recent legal challenge from civil rights groups. The officials also said their agencies are working on a plan for how to address such requests going forward, but declined to elaborate, citing the internal discussions.
‘‘This is the perfect Trump administration public policy,’’ said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, who chairs the House Oversight Committee’s subcommittee on civil rights, which held the hearing. ‘‘We don’t know where it comes from, we don’t know why we have it, we don’t know who came up with it and we don’t know what it is.’’
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New York. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argued that the pending litigation isn’t sufficient legal grounds to resist answering a congressional inquiry and suggested House lawmakers consider issuing a subpoena if their questions aren’t sufficiently answered in writing by Friday.
‘‘I can only say that you’re arguing with the wrong person,’’ Daniel Renaud, an associate director at USCIS, responded at one point to Ocasio-Cortez. ‘‘I don’t know what else to say.’’
Last month, the USCIS issued denial letters to hundreds of families seeking ‘‘deferred action’’ for medical and other extenuating circumstances, saying it was no longer considering the requests. The agency said the applicants had 33 days to leave the country or risk deportation.
It has since said it will continue reviewing deferral requests that were pending as of Aug. 7, a partial concession to health and immigration activists who complained the termination of the decades-old humanitarian relief policy was done without the advance public notice and justification required by law.
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The special status, which is good for up to two years and renewable, allows foreign nationals to temporarily work and receive health benefits, though it doesn’t provide a pathway to citizenship.
The decision to stop accepting the requests doesn’t affect requests from families of military members. It’s also separate from the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, a similar policy the Trump administration is also trying to undo.
Democratic lawmakers spent much of Wednesday’s hearing slamming the Aug. 7 decision as a heartless and cruel policy at odds with American values.
Republican lawmakers, meanwhile, dismissed the hearing as political grandstanding by a Democrat-controlled House unwilling to address broader immigration challenges, such as the crisis at the country’s southern border.
‘‘We've got an overwhelmed system,’’ said Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican. ‘‘The entire system is bulging at the seams because we refuse to do our job.’’
Former Acting Director of ICE Thomas Homan argued in his testimony that the USCIS deferral policy wasn’t necessary since ICE already has a process to consider such requests and is the agency best suited for the decisions.
‘‘Deferred action is the exercise of prosecutorial discretion,’’ he said. ‘‘It can only be done case-by-case and even then only by a law enforcement agency with prosecutorial powers.’’
But immigration law experts countered that the USCIS process doesn’t require the person to first go through the sometimes lengthy deportation proceedings, as ICE requires. Democratic House lawmakers also noted that ICE’s temporary deportation ‘‘stays’’ last less than two years and confer fewer rights to applicants.
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Jonathan Sanchez, a 16-year-old from Honduras with cystic fibrosis, was one of two immigrants affected by the Aug. 7 decision who addressed House lawmakers.
He said his parents brought him to Boston in 2016 on a tourist visa in order to seek treatment for his illness, which affects the lungs and digestive system and has no cure.
Sanchez said going back to Honduras now would likely kill him. Doctors there had failed to diagnose the disease in his older sister and she died less than a year after birth. He also said many of the medicines he needs to survive are also simply unavailable in his native country.
‘‘It would not benefit this country to be known as the country that kicked out a lot of sick kids,’’ Sanchez said. ‘‘Deporting kids like me would be legal homicide. The rest of the world will not approve.’’ | {
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I don't really have a lot to write about just yet on my new
project. The focus of the project will be to build a robot
for visual effect, mostly to inspire children to get
involved in robotics. Despite not working my regular job
right now due to an injury from a car accident a couple
weeks ago, I have two tottlers who keep me pretty busy so I
haven't been able to put as much work into this project as
I had hoped. Right now I am focusing most of my efforts on
learning to program the AVR microcontroller, since physical
labor is still somewhat painful right now. Previously,
before the accident, I was working on removing the non-
functional ornimentation from a 1/6 scale R/C M5 Sherman
tank. I was putting a lot of effort into changing the
turret to look less like a tank and more like a "classic"
Hollywood type robot. I found the torso of a 'Buster' robot
which I was adapting to fit the turret. The head of the
Buster was removed before I got it, so I decided to use the
head of a 'Tor' robot, which gave the entire robot just the
right look I was trying to make. Eventually I'll modify the
head with LEDS controlled by another AVR to create special
effects and give it a certain "wow" factor. | {
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Assaults and violent acts claimed 794 lives in 2008, down from 864 in 2007. Workplace suicides were up 28 percent to a series high of 251 cases in 2008, but workplace homicides declined 18 percent in 2008. The 2008 preliminary workplace homicide count (517 workplace homicides, down from 628 in 2007) represents a decline of 52 percent from the high of 1,080 homicides reported in 1994.
The 680 fatal falls in 2008 represent a 20-percent decline from the series high of 847 fatal falls in 2007.
The number of fatal work injuries involving fires and explosions was up 14 percent in 2008; fatalities involving contact with objects or equipment were also up slightly in 2008.
Economic factors likely played a role in the fatality decrease. Average hours worked at the national level fell by one percent in 2008, and some industries that have historically accounted for a significant share of worker fatalities, such as construction, experienced larger declines in employment or hours worked.
These data are from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, part of the BLS Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities program. To learn more, see "National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2008" (HTML) (PDF), news release USDL 09-0979. Data for the most recent year are preliminary. | {
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CONGRATULATIONS FINISHERS OF THE INAUGURAL TELLURIDE200!
Thank you for participating in the first ever 200-mile edition of the Mountains to Desert Ride. It was an incredibly hot day. Twenty five brave souls signed up, 20 riders showed up, but only 11 completed the effort. We hated to give you guys who went so far in the seriously debilitating heat a DNF, so we moved you around a bit in the categories. Hope you don’t mind. Thanks! | {
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A Winter’s Tale: Kingswood’s Run at the Shakespeare Drama Contest, 2001
There not being a regular English Drama outfit — and there being much inner issues whenever attempts at drama in this language is attempted — Kingswood’s participation at the Shakespeare Drama Competition conducted by the Central YMCA has always been an irregular affair. In the past decade or so, the school has been to this fixture on 4 occasions, their best run being in 2001, where they bagged the ECB Wijayasinghe trophy awarded for the Best Actor.
In 2001, the team performed the concluding scene from the Fifth Act of King Henry V (Act 5; Sc II). The play, of course, is the one dealing with Britain’s annexation of France , by the ambitious King Harry of the Plantagenets. The part selected by the enthusiastic drama teacher of the time, Mrs. Sheena Winter, in fact, was also the scene where Harry woos the French Princess, Katherine. In this Scene there is also a pleading speech by the Duke of Burgundy who highlights the merit, value and the timely need for peace.
The 2001 production was a success story and would have ideally revitalized the lethargic English dramatic culture of the school. However, this was not to be so; as the team, as a unit, had no focus nor the vision to carry through. After its tasting of success, the outcome was no more than what is seen at a rum party, for without perceptive planning, the year that followed resulted in a crush. The 2001 effort, however, stands out as a “moment” in the scribe’s memory; as well as in the school’s annals, if such annals could recognize the importance of the competition in question.
Henry V
Playing beside the writer, of that 2001 cast were the likes of Vishwa Tennakoon, who played the role of Katherine with such natural grace that a well known FM DJ walked up to the school bus after the performance just to get it clarified whether Kingswood, indeed, was not a mixed school. Amilaka Tennakoon (Senior Prefect, 2002) played the role of the Duke of Burgundy, while his twin Thimilaka was Louis, the King of France. The memorable Alice — maid to Princess Katherine — was acted out by Kosala Harischandra, while the French Queen was Brian Imbuldeniya’s assignment.
I well remember the likes of Ruchira Somasundara on the Henrian bench, while Ranil Pelpola was the Dauphin — who was set to storm off the stage half way through the peace bargain.
Interestingly, the episode acted out had many references to the need to “cure” Fair England and France of the grievous wound of war; both Burgundy as well as the French King and Queen allude to this necessity. It would only arouse interest to mention that at least 3 of the cast members have, much later, ended up in the field of pharmaceuticals.
The Best Production that year was won by St. Joseph’s, who edged out Royal in the finals. Kingswood won both Best Actor and Best Out Station Actor awards. Another incident which occurred at the finals / prize giving has earned a special space in my mind, and is preserved as a rare and warm memory that proved to me the love a fellow can have for his old school. During the finals, awaiting the prize distribution were three of us —- myself, and two friends who had prizes in the Girls’ category. During the short break between the girls’ final and the final of the boys we sauntered out in search of a little munch. Of course, our late teen calculations of what the food and beverage prices would be did not tally with the price lists of the BMICH lobby cafeteria. To find a Coke bottle at Rs 50 and a roll at 75 was not the best of discoveries after 2 hours of drama. Caught in a dilemma and staring at each other, our attention is caught by a gentleman, in suit and tie and gracefully on the other side of middle age, walking towards us.
Recent pic of the French Queen of 2001: Brian Imbuldeniya
The chap asks me whether I am from Kingswood; and getting that confirmed, he tells me that he figured it out from the tie I was wearing, but that he was not sure. He asks me what I am doing there and I give him a brief sketch of the prizes the school is to get at the end of the show. The beam that flashes across his eye was hazy, but its meaningfulness would only make clear meaning to me much later — and as a fellow a few years older. The chap introduces himself as Mr. Suppiah and point blank gives us Rs.500 to “get a snack” (and in 2001, diesel was selling at Rs 40 a liter).
I never met Mr. Suppiah again. But, the news of Kingswood’s “drama success” had been conveyed by him to the higher chairs of the Kingswood Union, Colombo. A few months later, I was the receiver of a handsome book voucher c/o some prominent old boys who knew the prestige of the Shakespeare Drama competition (which, sadly, most of the people in influential positions at college do not know) and for whom the success of Kingswood — no matter how minuscule — mattered.
In later years, Kingswood staged Antony and Cleopatra (in 2002 and 2008) and Henry the Fifth (again, in 2005), but with jinxes and other shortcomings that didn’t help the cause at all. The time, however, is ripe for inner rifts to give way for more meaningful work; for at College I see many purposeful boys with brimming energy, awaiting a set stage to raise the curtain clear.
Mrs. Winter — the stimulation of the 2001 team and the energetic teacher of that brief moment, I remember, had many obstacles to overcome in her strife in putting up this 30 minute scene for the most prestigious contest in that field. The nature of her struggle and resilience was only clear to some of us who, in subsequent years, have tried to carry the baton passed on to us by our good teacher who, a few years afterwards, left Kingswood. I believe, though, that a tribute is long overdue to her —– but from the boys who participated at Shakespeare in 2001 and 2002; if such tributes could be token gestures for the commitment people show, against repeated bungling, in giving “all for the school”.
I remember those days where Mrs. Winter took so much trouble to put a team together and hit the ground running. That year the success the team had, of course with you being in the forefront, is indeed worthy of remembering. And more than a decade later I still remember the costumes and the setup we had. Interestingly, I still remember a phrase from my script; albeit the the one in French. Thanks for inscribing these fond memories from long ago. I wish I had a few pictures with me just so that those memories stay forever unforgotten.. | {
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October 25th, 2017
As part of Doug Bafford’s Teaching Innovation Grant project, he is focusing on interdisciplinary writing. Throughout this academic year, Doug will orchestrate a workshop and will welcome a new speaker to each session. The next workshop will be held on November 3, and you can learn more general information here.
Manuscript Title: “‘All the Progress to be Made Will Be Made by Maladjusted Negroes’: Mae Mallory, Black Women’s Activism, and the Making of the Black Radical Tradition”
November 3 at 2:00 in Mandel G12
Free and open to the public (no need to RSVP, although attendees are encouraged to read a precirculated draft available by emailing [email protected])
Ashley D. Farmer is a historian of black women’s intellectual life and radical politics, particularly contributions to the Black Power movement in the twentieth century. She has published in peer-reviewed academic venues, including the Journal of African American History, but has also made her work available in popular media and blogs. Her first monograph, titled “Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era,” will be released in November 2017 from University of North Carolina Press. For this workshop, Professor Farmer will share a work-in-progress with the Brandeis community on the life and activism of Mae Mallory, who organized from the 1930s to the 1980s. More information about Farmer’s media appearances and forthcoming scholarship can be found on her website.
October 4th, 2017
This fall, the Center for Teaching and Learning will gather the Brandeis Teaching Fellows. These fellows will meet throughout the academic year and focus on various issues around teaching pedagogy and assessment. As we look to the work this new group will undertake, we pause to reflect on the work of the group’s predecessors, the Davis Teaching and Learning Fellows.
Charles Golden, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Davis Fellow from 2015-2016, highlights the challenges facing faculty in learning how to teach. You can read his reflection here. | {
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This initiative is an attempt to focus the attention of African Americans, and especially community builders and organizers, on the potential value of the practice of the Nguzo Saba or the Seven Principles of the holiday of Kwanzaa as social and economic community development tools. These principles or values may be used to free us from oppression in this country as well as offer another model of economic development that meets people’s needs, develop worker ownership and control in their place of work, and builds the capacity of the citizenry to participate collectively and democratically in running the organizations and institutions that have an impact on their lives. The Nguzo Saba or the Seven Principles of Kwanzaa offer us the opportunity to practice them through cooperatives as economic and social development organizations. We have put forward a number of suggested topics that you may use for each day of Kwanzaa, so as to highlight their communalistic elements and relevance to our need for economic and social empowerment. A list of resources for cooperative education and development is also provided.
Economic and Social Context of Underdevelopment
African Americans are marginal players in the economic affairs of this society as owners of productive assets, as well as decision-makers over employment and, the production and the distribution of goods and services. This community is generally seen as consumers of goods and services as opposed to producers of said goods and services. It is estimated that African Americans spend a mere seven cents of each dollar with businesses that we own. According to the Survey of Consumer Finance of 2001, African Americans made up 13% of the population and owned 3% of the assets. Homeownership is one of the main ways to build household wealth. In this regard the African Americans are not on the path to wealth building. In 2001, 47% of African American families were homeowners as opposed to 74% white families [currently 41.7% and 73.1%, respectively, according to the US Census Bureau-ed.]. The typical white family had more than six times as much wealth as the typical African American family ($120,000 compared with $19,000) [as of 2016, those numbers are $162,770 and $16,300, respectively, according to the Federal Reserve-ed.].
In the United States, non-Anglo ethnic businesses are more likely to, or predominantly employ people from their respective communities. If more African Americans participate in the economy as owners, it could put a dent in the level of unemployment that we experience. Historically, the African American unemployment rate in the United States is usually about twice that of the general population.
The promotion of cooperative entrepreneurship could help us move from under the jackboot of discriminatory employment practices, and governmental neglect of the communities in which we live. According to an edition of the USA Today publication, (November 16, 2004, 4B), “African Americans’ spending clout is due to hit $723 billion this year [2004].” [now $1.2 trillion, according to Nielsen-ed.] Therefore, the foundation exists (especially with the reality of residential segregation) for us to engage in a group economy approach to economic development. In the 1930s, W.E.B. Du Bois put forward the idea of a self-enclosed cooperative economy as a way to overcome racist oppression and exclusion, as well as provide a non-capitalist model of economic development. Today we are faced with similar Depression-era social and economic problems, which beg for collective action and solution. The economic model of “Black capitalism” that was advanced by the Nixon administration in the 1970s (and by others since that time) has not shown itself capable of changing the adverse socio-economic condition of the majority of African people in America.
What is a Cooperative?
A cooperative, according to the International Cooperative Alliance, is an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise.
Cooperatives may be used to organize the provision of goods and services in any sector of the economy. In the United States, this member-owned economic and social organization is used to operate day care centers, housing communities, supermarkets or grocery stores, hardware businesses, worker-owned and controlled companies, processing plants for agricultural produce and commodities, and financial institutions (credit unions, insurance companies). Cooperative economics is truly a transformative ideal, which asserts that the primary reason for starting a business is to meet the needs of its members or the community, and not just to make profit. Cooperatives strive to make a surplus or profit, but it is done to provide more services and benefits to their members. Each member’s share in the surplus or profits from the operation of the cooperative is in direct proportion to your participation. It may be measured by the number of hours worked or the dollar value of her or his purchase of goods or services from the cooperative. This is the hope and promise of a better tomorrow that cooperatives represent to humanity today, and for those of us who practice cooperative economics.
The following values are part of the international cooperative belief system: self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity.
There are seven principles that comprise our cooperative identity as cooperators: voluntary and open membership; democratic member control; member economic participation; autonomy and independence; education, training and information; cooperation among cooperatives; and concern for the community. These principles are very much consistent with those that are celebrated as a part of the holiday of Kwanzaa.
Enter Kwanzaa as Community Development Catalyst
The holiday of Kwanzaa was created by African American Studies professor, Maulana Karenga, in 1966. It is a holiday that is now practised by about 28 million Africans throughout the world from December 26th to January 1st. Kwanzaa promotes seven principles which are its core, and is known as the Nguzo Saba: Umoja (Unity), Kuchigulia (Self-Determination), Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility), Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics), Nia (Purpose), Kuumba (Creativity) and Imani (Faith). It is our desire to work with Kwanzaa organizing committees across the country to facilitate the education of the African American community about how cooperatives are an expression of our cultural traditions, and social and economic history. Furthermore, we would like to highlight the long history of our involvement in cooperative lifestyles and economic organizations from Africa to the United States. Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Eastern Conference of Democratic Workplaces board member and University of Maryland Economics and African American Studies professor, has prepared a slide show presentation on the role of African Americans in the formation of cooperatives in this country in the 1800s and throughout the 1900s. Our experience of cooperatives would be valuable educational and inspirational resource in reminding the community about how cooperatives were important survival tools in the past (as well as today in rural Southern communities).
We believe the Kwanzaa holiday would be a prime time opportunity to introduce worker and other types of cooperatives, and to push them as viable alternatives to the way capitalism has economically enslaved us, in the past and today. By organizing an educational campaign around Ujamaa and the other principles during the Kwanzaa celebrations, this initiative would help to plant the seeds that may germinate into the viable and successful cooperatives of various types.
We have the chance to move from a celebratory approach to Kwanzaa as a holiday to one that integrates its essence, values or principles in organizing the economic development of the community. Ujamaa or cooperative economics is usually advanced by some celebrants of Kwanzaa as the way to African American economic empowerment. However, it is our contention that the ideas behind this principle are little understood by those promoting it. For many Kwanzaa practitioners, it is the mere buying of goods and services from African American-owned companies. This practice does not speak to the ownership and governance structures of the enterprises that are patronized. Wealth from economic production is a collective endeavor, as it is virtually impossible for the individual to create it single-handedly. Under the dominant economic system of the day, the people (the workers) who create wealth are generally not the ones who own and enjoy the use of it. Furthermore, the popular perception of the Ujamaa principle does not have a dialogue with the notion of “shared social wealth”, and the economic model that would best manifest this idea and practice.
We believe it is time for African Americans and all those who want a better economic life in this country to promote the knowledge of cooperatives as organizational models and tools for economic and social development. Cooperative education is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition for its adoption by the community. It must be put on display and experienced, as a practical way to meet the material and self-actualizing needs of the people. In order to disseminate the information about cooperatives, we should utilize the public forums that are used to celebrate the holiday as educational instruments. We may use each principle to highlight particular and relevant aspects of the structure and operation of cooperatives. In the community organizing phase of our educational effort we should experiment with different spaces (living room meetings, public meetings, street corner, places of worship, etc.) to reach the people.
Goal and Objectives of this Initiative
Goal 1: To facilitate the knowledge of cooperatives as an economic development tool, and the history of its use among African Americans.
Objective 1a: To get as least 20 Kwanzaa organizing committees to include cooperative education sessions in their celebration of Kwanzaa.
Objective 1b: To provide a list of cooperative development educators, resource people, and cooperative educational materials to Kwanzaa organizing committees.
Objective 1c: To provide an outline of the topics or subjects that may be addressed in educational or informational sessions about the principles, efficacy, structure, and operation of cooperatives.
Putting the Idea into Practice
At each Kwanzaa forum, for those organizations carrying out multiple-day activities, it would be advisable to include an introductory presentation on cooperatives. The suggested topics under each principle below cannot be fully explained in one day, but they give an indication of the possibilities. However, the following topics may be used in the cooperative education program for Kwanzaa 2004:
Umoja (Unity): Umoja is all about the community achieving strategic and operational unity in its quest for freedom, justice and empowerment. The following cooperative themes related to unity may be addressed on this day:
The values, ethics and principles of the cooperative movement
Democratic structure of the cooperative – one member, one vote, participation basis on which members share in the surplus or profit, control and governance by members, challenges of management in a member-owned organization, etc.
Role and responsibilities of the board of directors and the management
Role and responsibilities of members
Conflict management
Education for member participation
Democratic decision-making models
Promotion of cooperation over conflict and competition
Unity, cooperation and diversity: The role of the federated cooperative association
Kujichagulia (Self-determination): The first act of a free people is to shape the world in their own image and interest – Maulana Karenga, creator of Kwanzaa
Understanding and applying creativity to cooperative and other business opportunities
Faith (Imani): This principle is the foundation of any human endeavor. Without the belief in the ability of a particular course of action to produce its intended outcome, the necessary commitment to and faith in the project may not be forthcoming. Its absence is usually a surefire recipe for failure, underachievement, or inaction.
Why is the other person’s ice colder?: Towards an understanding of our lack of faith in each other
The limits of an oral culture: Written agreements and cooperative economics (bylaws, marketing agreements, and membership agreements)
Cooperative and religious values: A marriage made in heaven
Can’t we get along: The cooperative as a unifier
Cooperatives and community cooperation: Goodbye to the crab in the barrel mentality | {
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For years, courts and lawyers have intimidated towns from protecting themselves against the invasion of illegal aliens. In 2006, Escondido, California backed away from its housing ordinance to curtail leases to illegal aliens and even agreed to pay $90,000 in legal fees to plaintiffs challenging the law.
Last summer, a federal court slapped down an attempt by Hazleton, Pennsylvania to penalize employers and landlords who hire and lease to illegal aliens. Hazleton had been hit by an influx of illegal aliens and victimized by some of their shocking crimes.
But in August, Newark, New Jersey, no stranger to violence, was shaken by the brutal murder of several college-bound teenagers who were harmlessly enjoying music at a playground. The victims were black, and the perpetrator was an illegal alien from Peru who had been previously charged with raping a five-year-old girl but released despite his obvious illegal presence in this country.
Less than two months later, in January 2008, federal Judge E. Richard Webber emphatically ruled against illegal aliens who had sued to overturn a similar ordinance enacted by Valley Park, Missouri, a town near St. Louis. The court upheld the ordinance, which was directed at employers who were hiring illegal aliens.
The third strike against illegal aliens came in February when federal Judge Neil V. Wake rejected each and every argument challenging a new Arizona law that imposes penalties on businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens. He dismissed the claim that federal law somehow ties the hands of state and local governments seeking to protect their own citizens.
These three decisions in three different parts of the country included both Republican and Democratic-appointed judges. In the term loved by the mainstream media, there is now bipartisan judicial support for state and local legislation against illegal aliens.
Law Professor Kris Kobach says these decisions give "a green light to other communities" seeking to pass similar ordinances.
The mayor of Hazleton, Lou Barletta, vigorously supported his city's ordinance cracking down on illegal aliens. Despite being vilified by liberal Pennsylvania newspapers, he won nearly 95 percent of the vote in his Republican primary for reelection last year.
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Snuneymuxw First Nation may develop Newcastle cultural centre
Fri. Oct. 5/12
Nanaimo Daily News
2012-10-05T00:00:00
The Snuneymuxw First Nation plans to examine ways to increase access to Newcastle Island.
Snuneymuxw Chief Doug White said the First Nation is considering building a centre in partnership with other governments and organizations, and he expects that a “comprehensive plan” should be completed in six months.
In addition to planning for a centre, White said the SFN will also examine the “full range” of alternatives to allow for increased access by visitors to the island, including full-time ferry service and the possibility of constructing a bridge over the Newcastle Island channel.
Members of the Newcastle Island Society have stated in the past that they are adamantly opposed to any notion of a bridge to the island, citing concerns that it would irrecoverably change the peaceful and tranquil nature of Newcastle, which is also a provincial marine park.
“We’re at the very early stages in the process and we have a lot of work to do to determine what’s best for the island before any work begins,” White said.
“We see a future for Newcastle in which it is increasingly recognized as a source of pride for all citizens of the region. We’ll be bringing consultants to the island over the next few months to let us know what our options are for the centre and other projects on the island.”
The 336-hectare park located in the Nanaimo harbour boasts a rich history, both for the Snuneymuxw and non-aboriginal people, along with its spectacular beauty and many amenities.
Newcastle Island, which is considered traditional Snuneymuxw territory, has long been recognized by B.C. Parks as one of the most intriguing parks in the province and in recognition of its uniqueness, the City of Nanaimo, the province and the SFN signed a precedent-setting agreement in 2007 for all three parties to cooperatively manage the island.
While widely recognized as under-utilized, access to the park has been an issue for years, with many advocating for a permanent bridge while others prefer year-round ferry access to the island for the first time.
While acknowledging that all options are on the table until the consultants complete their work and a final plan is completed in early 2013, White said that a bridge across a narrow section of the channel would be “easy to visualize.”
“People love walking on the seawall and to add Newcastle Island to their walk would be an incredible thing,” he said. | {
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OK, I stole the title. Conjectures and Refutations is the title of a collection of essays by Karl Popper, the great philosopher of the open society. I’m just borrowing Popper’s approach to learning. My conjectures, your refutations. All I hope to do here is talk about things that interest me and see if anyone has anything interesting to say in response.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Terrorism polarizes people, whether you’re talking about the acts themselves or just fighting over the word. President Obama was on television last night trying to set out a coherent and defensible strategy for the U.S. to follow in its endless confrontation with jihadism, hard on the heels of the gruesome slaying of an off-duty British soldier on a London street by two men who shouted Allahu akbar as they hacked and slashed him to death and then stood with bloodied weapons in hand, haranguing witnesses in justification of the act. Muslim organizations rushed to condemn the crime while the polemics heated up in the media.
In a commentary in the Guardian, Glenn Greenwald
questioned the use of the word terrorism, asking, "How can one create a definition of "terrorism" that includes Wednesday's London attack on this British soldier without including many acts of violence undertaken by the US, the UK and its allies and partners?" and asserting that "… the term [terrorism] at this point seems to have no function other than propagandistically and legally legitimizing the violence of western states against Muslims while delegitimizing any and all violence done in return to those states."
You have to deal with these issues, even if it angers you that people like Greenwald are rude enough to raise them at a time when all you feel is horror and outrage. Most of us are aware that the ethical issues involved in warfare are tangled and uncomfortable, but faced with savagery like this, we need to have our outrage validated before we can have a civil discussion. We are entitled to our outrage, aren't we?
I'd say that we are, but I'd also say that outrage isn't a policy, and we need to confront the issues Greenwald raises if we're going to come up with a policy in response to the deep-rooted hostility to the West that seems to prevail among Muslims. So let's try to make some distinctions that will answer Greenwald's question and point to an approach that might help President Obama steer us out of the impasse we seem to be in.
I don't propose to waste a lot of time arguing about the meaning of the word "terrorism." Like other emotionally loaded words, such as “racism”, it denotes something real but is often used as an incantation in an attempt to short-circuit debate. It’s a trump card that is supposed to ace any argument you may have. It's not much of a guide in making policy. The question to ask in a moral or political debate is not whether a certain action conforms to a contested definition but whether that action is justified.
So let's ask: is there any way of justifying the killing of Lee Rigby? He was, it is true, a British soldier. He was not, however, in uniform or engaged in a military operation; he was unarmed. His attackers wore no distinctive uniform or emblem, as required by the 1949 Geneva Convention, which also, incidentally, prohibits the infliction of “violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds” on “persons taking no active part in the hostilities.” If you’re going to call what happened to Lee Rigby an act of war, then I’m going to call it a war crime.
But it’s not clear whether the laws of war apply in the struggle against terrorists, however defined; the so-called War on Terror is taking place in a legal gray area which is tying the lawyers in knots. Barack Obama found out how hard these issues are when he became President and actually had to take charge of the thing; his prosecution of the war by drone strikes and his failure to close the prison at Guantánamo are evidence of the difficulties he has encountered in balancing our security with the rule of law.
A better guide for most of us than legal theories is simple moral intuition. At the level of common usage we know what people mean by terrorism: intentionally targeting defenseless people in order to advance a political agenda. The defenseless part is important; we know that when a heavily armed American unit on patrol is shot at by Iraqi or Afghani insurgents, that’s war, not terrorism. If a man is willing to expose himself to enemy fire, he’s not a terrorist. The element of cowardice in terrorism is definitive: terrorists know their targets are not going to shoot back. There’s a reason Lee Rigby’s attackers didn’t pull their knives on armed sentries at the gate of a British military base.
And we know there’s no justification for the killing of defenseless people, even if we sympathize with the cause for which the act is committed. A person of sound moral intuition cringes when a cause he favors is “supported” by an act of terrorism. Sound moral intuition has a way of being smothered by emotion, and emotions run high in violent conflicts. But moral integrity requires that we condemn the killing of defenseless people whenever and however it occurs.
Which brings us to the next point: none of the above is to justify the “many acts of violence undertaken by the US, the UK and its allies and partners” that Glenn Greewald decries. The people under the rubble of shocked and awed Baghdad were just as dead as the people under the wreckage of the World Trade Center. But there are distinctions to be made if we are to find our way through the fog of ideological war to reasonable policies that will protect us without victimizing others. The grounds on which we condemn an action matter in shaping policies to prevent its repetition.
The actions I presume Greenwald is referring to are not terrorism but, rather, either war crimes or what is delicately called “collateral damage.” The distinction matters because it clarifies how these offenses are to be remedied. You can argue till you drop about the definition of terrorism, but there is a legal definition of war crimes and a procedure for prosecuting them. Let’s call things by their names: the dead children in My Lai were victims of a war crime. And even if not enough war crimes are duly punished, they are recognized as crimes. The U.S. Army is not proud of My Lai. And the U.S. Army is currently prosecuting a sergeant who carried out a massacre of unarmed combatants in Kandahar province in Afghanistan. Terrorists do not prosecute themselves; only legitimate powers do that.
Collateral damage is harder to assess morally, but we have to make the effort. Most everyone recognizes that warfare is a messy business and that non-combatants will occasionally be caught in the fray. Allied bombing killed seventy thousand French civilians in the wake of the Normandy invasion, and nobody considers the Allied campaign against Hitler to have been delegitimized as a result. But even a single civilian death is too many, and a consistent pattern of civilian deaths has to call into question the strategy that produces it.
Here is where our moral intuition has to kick in. To object to civilian deaths as a result of military action is not to concede any moral equivalence between legitimate powers and jihadist cutthroats. It is merely to recognize that an Afghan farmer whose child has been killed by an American missile has suffered as much as Lee Rigby’s loved ones. Some collateral damage may be inevitable in warfare, but carelessness toward collateral damage is indistinguishable from malice.
President Obama appears to be aware of this, and we should support him in his efforts to make the struggle against jihadism more just and less wasteful of innocent life. We are entitled to be horrified and angered by the killing of Lee Rigby, but we should also be outraged any time American munitions kill non-combatants, intentionally or not.
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Wars in far-away places usually take place at a safe remove, our awareness of them filtered through terse casualty reports in the paper at breakfast or snatches of jerky video, smoke rising from a jumbled cityscape, distant wails just audible beneath the reporter’s commentary. Most of us can’t find these places on a map, and unless there are American troops out there we really don’t care about them. We can’t afford to; there’s too much bloodshed in the world to exercise a lot of empathy and expend a lot of grief about every conflict.
And then there are the ones that hit home because we’ve been there. I made a short visit to Syria many years ago, and I brought home impressions that make that country’s excruciating suicide hard to shrug off. I’m as jaded as as anybody by the constant turmoil in that part of the world, but unlike most Americans I have sweated under that sun and brushed that dust off my shoes. It’s real to me. The people are real, too: I’ve bargained with shopkeepers, bantered with street urchins and been taken home for dinner by strangers. I’ve looked them in the eye; I know they bleed and suffer.
In 1985 I had a few days in Damascus and Aleppo at the tail end of a summer spent mostly in Jordan, studying Arabic. I had a contact in a household of Jordanian students at Damascus University, who were kind enough to put me up and show me around, including a quick jaunt up to Aleppo on the train for an overnight visit. Syria was mysterious and forbidding, a Soviet ally and a major sponsor of terrorism, oppressed by the sinister personality cult of Hafez al-Assad, whose portrait, sometimes in multiple copies, loomed prominently in virtually every public space. Armed men were everywhere, a good many of them in civilian clothes, which was ominous. You like to think that a man with an AK-47 is subject to military discipline and a clear chain of command. In Syria they weren’t always: Assad’s regime famously featured at least five separate bodies of secret police. Syria was the archetype of the brutal Middle Eastern dictatorship.
It was also, I found, a society of great complexity and considerable graciousness. In both Damascus and Aleppo, many layers of history had left a dense and visually enthralling urban core, Islamic exoticism overlaid by French colonial rationality (and the occasional eruption of brutal Soviet functionalism). There were streets where you could stretch out your arms and touch the walls on either side; there were tree-lined boulevards and vast shady public gardens. The Hamidiyeh souk in Damascus and Al-Medinah in Aleppo were labyrinthine and endlessly fascinating.
All of it, of course, was teeming with people: the Syrians were a diverse and cosmopolitan bunch. There were divisions; Christians and Muslims lived in separate neighborhoods and the regime was dominated by the minority Alawites. But they all rubbed elbows in the streets and I didn’t hear any complaining about privilege or the perfidy of other religions. They’d all been urbanized for millennia and were supremely social. Strangers were polite and helpful, friendships quick to form. My less-than-perfect Arabic was complimented. After the heat of the day the cool evenings were spent on the balcony with tea and backgammon, or on a stroll down to the ice cream shop or the café, my companions trading covert smiles with the extraordinarily beautiful Syrian girls passing in flocks.
It was all slightly disorienting. Evidence of the regime’s malevolent omnipotence was plentiful. This was a famously anti-Western state, the backbone of Arab rejectionist belligerence towards Israel and the U.S. And yet the people I met didn’t seem to hold anything against me or to hate much of anybody. They seemed to be getting on with their lives, to have the same needs and aspirations as anybody else. They were saddled with a toxic regime but they were pretty much like you and me. There are a lot of people in this world in the same boat.
When the Arab Spring reached Syria and the first outbreaks of violence challenged the regime of Hafez’s more presentable but equally ruthless son Bashar, I had a moment of foolish optimism. I thought maybe Syria would go quickly, the way Tunisia did, with minimal bloodshed and the emergence of a revitalized civil society from that age-old comspopolitan stew, some first steps on the bumpy road to an open society. I should have known better.
When the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Britain, France and the U.S. declined to aid the beleaguered Spanish Republic, opting for a supposedly principled neutrality that let Hitler and Mussolini pour in troops to aid Franco’s insurgents, dooming the Republic. In 1991 the United Nations imposed an arms embargo on all parties in the quickly fragmenting Yugoslavia, thus assuring that the Serbs, who dominated the Yugoslav military, would get all the heavy weapons. The people in Sarajevo and Srbenica paid the price for the diplomats’ high-mindedness.
We never learn. President Obama’s reluctance to intervene directly in Syria may be understandable, given our experiences of the past decade. But if the price of involvement is high now, it’s because he has let it rise inexorably, to the point where he is now unwilling even to back up his ultimatum about the use of chemical weapons. Effective aid to the Syrian rebels early in the conflict, falling far short of direct intervention, could have made a crucial difference. Turkey would have provided cover for some discreet shipments of arms; imposition of a no-fly zone would have been more drastic but fully defensible on the same terms as our intervention in Libya. And early aid might have consolidated the power of the most liberal elements in the Syrian opposition, before the jihadists of Al-Nusra came to the fore. Now, of course, Obama can point to the danger of weapons falling into the wrong hands to justify inaction.
Meanwhile, a quarter of the Syrian population is languishing in vast squalid camps, the death toll climbs by triple figures every day, and what’s left of society is splitting along sectarian lines. There will be a bitter fight to the end. When they finally clear the rubble out of the streets, it’s going to take a while before the old neighborly grace of those Damascus evenings returns. | {
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Hou De's 2008 winter Dong Ding from LuGu is in my cup today. It is nicely roasted, with a distinct floral scent, smooth and complex. It definitely met my expectation. I was looking for a medium-heavy roasted oolong with a nice finish, and this is not far from what I am looking for.
Organic Japanese Kagoshima Oolong from Yuuki-Cha... not a traditional-tasting oolong I can compare with anything else. I can't compare it with black/green/white/herbal/darjeeling either. It certainly has some similarities to other roasty darker oolongs, but the flavor profile is really just completely different than anything else... I go short on infusion times and light on leaf, and get consistently really good results.
That being said... I crave this stuff. I can't explain why. It speaks my language. I just got an order from Yuuki-Cha after having run out about 6 weeks ago, and I am so glad to have it back! I may have to order more for backup, just in case they don't continue to carry it.
2009 Spring "Diamond" Tie Guan Yin from Norbu this evening. I have been enjoying a lot of some Ali Shan Oolongs from Norbu in the last couple of weeks, spring and summer harvests of what are quite lovely teas, but this one just blows them away with incredible sweetness, richness and body of the liquor. So glad I squirreled away several more pouches of this incredible tea.
Just trying to finish off some '09 Pinglin Bao Zhong from Camellia Sinensis. It has lost a little of its glory so I upped the leaf amount a bit, still nice on a cool CA morning with some extra sour sourdough rye toast. Yum!
Milan dancong now. But just wanted to comment that in the past couple of weeks I have had two stunning Oriental Beauty teas from different vendors. I'm wondering if it's been a good year. Both had a ruddy sugar taste like dark caramel which came out about 3/4 into taste experience of each sip. Treasure.
Just finished the last of a sample of traditional Dong Ding from FLT. While I've only tried several Dong Ding teas, I hadn't found one I really loved until this one. Though it isn't heavily roasted, it definitely has less of the "green" taste than any others I've tried. I'd call it a medium roast. Quite delicious! | {
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Road to Nowhere
He is a man alone, a drifter haunting the back roads and highways of America. Every town he leaves behind preserves but a glimmer of him, the cool, handsome man with the teardrop scar whose presence fades with the sunlight. But all that changes when a brutal assault forces him to play Good Samaritan for a beautiful young woman, placing him squarely in the crosshairs of a vengeful ex-con. Caught between duty to his fellow man and the anonymity of life on the road, the Samaritan struggles to resist the forces drawing him into a shadowy world of violence, intrigue, and deception.
When his estranged teenage daughter is threatened, the Samaritan will make his choice - and never look back. Reaching from Chicago's back alleys to West Hollywood's sun-soaked streets to Wall Street's vast corridors of power, this suspenseful novel introduces an unforgettable new hero to the ranks of contemporary American fiction. | {
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once-returner
In original Buddhism, a practitioner who has attained a level of spiritual mastery such that they will, after death, be reborn in this world only one more time before attaining arhatship or the status of non-returner. | {
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Welcome to your Morning Buzz, rounding up news and views regarding the Green Bay Packers from around the web and here at PackersNews.com.
A day after firing coach Mike McCarthy, Packers president/CEO Mark Murphy and general manager Brian Gutekunst took questions on the decision and the search for a successor.
We'll start with Pete Dougherty's column on how the new coach must command Aaron Rodgers' respect, and the most prominent possibility is Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels.
Pete writes:
McDaniels is considered one of the brightest young offensive minds in the game. His offenses have ranked in the top three in scoring in the NFL five times in the last six years, including four at No. 1. Granted, he has Tom Brady as his quarterback. But still.
Also, Rodgers is friends with Patriots quarterback Tom Brady. You can’t help but wonder what Brady has told him about McDaniels.
According to ESPN’s Ian O’Connor, who recently wrote a book about Belichick, Brady told another NFL coach sometime in the last few years that if Rodgers played in the Patriots’ offense, “He'd throw for 7,000 yards every year. He's so much more talented than me.”
Now, Brady wasn’t talking about McDaniels in particular. But McDaniels has been the Patriots’ offensive coordinator since 2012, so that is an attention grabber.
You can read the entire column here:
Packers CEO Mark Murphy shot down any notion that Rodgers will be part of the search process. https://t.co/T4eZtxXQw1
Immediately following Mike McCarthy's session with the media after the game, he was called to Mark Murphy’s office where he was informed that he was no longer the coach of the #Packers. https://t.co/H5mv2mj4l4 | {
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Tim Graham
Tim Graham is Executive Editor of NewsBusters and is the Media Research Center’s Director of Media Analysis
Tim Graham is Executive Editor of NewsBusters and is the Media Research Center’s Director of Media Analysis. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the Internet era.
Graham is a regular talk-radio and television spokesman for the MRC and has made television appearances on MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, National Review, and other publications.
Graham left the MRC to serve in 2001 and 2002 as White House Correspondent for World, a national weekly Christian news magazine. He returned in 2003. Before joining the MRC, Graham served as press secretary for the campaign of U.S. Rep. Jack Buechner (R-Mo.) in 1988, and in 1987, he served as editor of Organization Trends, a monthly newsletter on philanthropy and politics by the Washington-based Capital Research Center.
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The contretemps, brouhaha, and (ten dollars please) rodomontades over Pat Robertson are only the latest proof that the very secular media see Robertson as a Born-Again Freak Show. And the latest outburst -- not prompted or prodded by a talk-show opponent, but calmly scripted -- doesn't help. The contrast between Love Thy Neighbor and Kill The Venezuelan Tyrant does cause a bit of whiplash.
Mike Allen (or at least his editors at the WashPost) are REALLY reaching now to keep plugging the Cindy Sheehan Brigade even after Cindy Sheehan has left the ranch. On the front page of the Style section is this don't-lose-hope-lefties puff piece: "They Are Stardust, And in Texas: At the Crawford Protest Camp, Growing Echoes of Woodstock."
New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller drew headlines for the odd practice of writing a letter to the editor of his own Book Review. (It's almost like writing a letter to himself.) He's highly offended that anyone would suggest he doesn't have a passion for tough reporting on liberals. (Earth to Keller: how about that little Air America scandal?) The actual letter from today's paper is here.
Charles Jaco (whom older people might remember as "C.D. Jaco" from his days as a reporter for NBC and CNN) goes a little berserk in attacking bloggers on the Romenesko Letters page. It's one thing to protest the idea that the press isn't positive enough on Iraq, but he lost me when he started mocking conservatives' lack of "opposable thumbs," not to mention the crackpot Nazi smear at the end:
Sometimes you pick up the Washington Post in the morning and you just want to throw it across the lawn. Today is one of those times. "Roberts Resisted Women's Rights"? Why not just say "Roberts Supports Dragging Women By Hair"?
What screams liberal bias here is the idea that a headline saying Roberts "resisted women's rights" is to imply he believes women don't have or deserve rights, an odd position for a guy whose wife helps Feminists for Life.
In his live chat today, Washington Post reporter/Master of the Snarky Arts Dana Milbank lowered himself to answering a conservative complaint that Cindy Sheehan is lamely attempting to achieve a second "do over" meeting with the President. Milbank replied: "No doubt the request for a second meeting is contrived. It's not as if Sheehan really believes she would change the president's mind.
Times Watch reports on the latest Civility Update from the newspaper that put the anti-Gore "RATS" ad non-controversy on the top of the front page. They're loving a blogger whose site slogan is "Proudly Lowering the Level of Political Discourse." Lefty blogger Lee Papa's one-man show at the New York International Fringe Festival is all the rage to Times critic Margo Jefferson: How do we liberals show we're strong, he asks, and answers firmly: 'We have to rape Republicans.
The Post backing down on providing a little free ad space to a September 11 memorial walk for the employees murdered in the Pentagon is fascinating. They should put out a statement: "The Washington Post Company greatly regrets its support for the "Freedom Walk." We did not mean in any way to suggest that we are in favor of either freedom or America."
The bloggers at Get Religion (a nicely done conservative blog about religion and the news media) have posted an article for the Notre Dame Journal by Ken Woodward, the longtime religion reporter for Newsweek, exploring how averse the New York Times is in particular to the terminology of partial-birth abortion:
Byron York amazed folks this weekend with a Bush hater's comparison of Cindy Sheehan's "peace vigil" with the quashed Chinese democracy protests at Tiananmen Square. It makes me feel old to remember that back when the Tiananmen Square massacre happened in June 1989, liberal media people made bizarre American connections:
Tom Brokaw recalled Peter Jennings on Imus this morning: "Peter was a very opinionated guy. I mean, He had very strong feelings about things. He didn't hesitate to let you know them. Sometimes you'd have to kind of pull him down off the wall, or off the ceiling, and say 'hey, wait a minute, Peter, there's another way of looking at this,' or whatever, and that was part of his strength, and part of what made him interesting." This is not the first time Brokaw's said this (on "Hardball," to name another), but what is he trying to say?
In one of the replies to Brent Baker's Grannies post, Phil R. took exception to the "good luck" comment NBC anchor Natalie Morales gave the "Raging Grannies" the other morning, raising the question: how much can we complain about anchors' well-wishing at the end of interviews? We hate to sound uber-touchy. Certainly, a certain amount of politeness is required, both for guest and viewer. Matt Lauer said "good to have you here" to Bernie Goldberg yesterday, for example. But our Geoff Dickens was struck by what Morales said:
Ken, if there's one thing we know, it's that Michael Powell of the Post is NOT going to be an objective observer of the Clintons. He earned a runner-up award in 2000's Best of NQ collection for shining Clinton's shoes after an apparently masterful press conference:
A word about Paul Waldman of Media Matters for America making a big deal about the Cyber Alert item "exploiting death" by noting in passing our archive of Peter Jennings material. Not linking to it, mind you, but mentioning it. Anyone who reads the item will note it's pretty soft in tone, but apparently MMFA thinks it's unbelievably rude to "exploit" a death for political gain? But usually after someone prominent dies, their political legacy comes up for debate.
For more on the Raging Grannies that Brent "The Scourge of Media Bias" Baker posted, see additional lame leftist song lyrics here. The Grannies' official page at the Tucson chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (even more lame lyrics) is here. Are they radical lefties?
Michelle Malkin reports that Al Franken is officially in whining mode on the Air America stealing-money-from-the-children scandal. He said he became an "involuntary investor" just weeks in by foregoing his paycheck. Congratulations, Al. Perhaps now you know how conservatives feel about being "involuntary investors" to another liberal radio network: NPR.
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Blocked—A Play about Bullying
On June 6, 2016, I had a great time watching the play Blocked at Magnus Theatre. Blocked is a special project of Magnus Theatre’s “Theatre in Education Program” that was created and produced with the support of the Thunder Bay Community Foundation and United Way of Thunder Bay’s Youth and Community Program. The story was written and performed by 15 local teenagers.
Blocked took place in two different years—1996 and 2016. In one story line, which took place in 1996, there was a boy who was bullied because he was a ballet dancer. He was teased and physically pushed at school. He was different because he enjoyed dance. He didn’t really do anything to get help or look for help. In the other storyline, a girl in 2016 was bullied through social media websites like, Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook. Both teenagers were bullied at school, but Gillian—the girl teased in 2016—was taunted by people at different schools and people she did not know. Rumours were spread more quickly through social media.
Blocked taught me that although technology changes over the years, bullying stays the same—words and actions can hurt us. Both teenagers were teased for being different, but the play showed how social media has become a big part of bullying.
I enjoyed the play because it was funny and very entertaining. There were some sad moments that made me really think about the impact of words and how they hurt others. Blocked kept me on the edge of my seat! Congratulations to all the young writers and actors in this production, well done! | {
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Panel discusses experiences of domestic workers in Canada
Four panelists, two of whom were migrant workers, spoke about the obstacles migrant workers face in Canada at a panel held at Concordia last Wednesday. The panel focussed particularly on the experiences of domestic workers.
Delia De Veyra, who was a migrant live-in caregiver from 2004 to 2009, shared her experience with the audience. De Veyra found her sponsor absent when she arrived in Canada. The recruitment agency looked for another employer, but she had to wait six months for her next job. De Veyra said that her next employer deliberately neglected the contract, and did not pay her overtime wage.
“I was like a commodity to them,” De Veyra said. “I would go there […] take care of the kids, cleaning, cooking, and so on and so forth – ten hours, twelve hours a day, no overtime pay.”
De Veyra quit, but was also subject to abuse upon arrival at her following job, this time experiencing psychological harassment. Her employer’s wife would constantly shout and swear at her, De Veyra explained. With the help of PINAY, a Filipino women’s organization in Quebec, De Veyra filed a complaint, but did not receive indemnity. Instead, the employer demanded an apology for the complaint she filed.
Soon thereafter, De Veyra attempted to become a permanent resident as provided for by Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program, but was rejected. She was advised to apply to become a permanent resident based on humanitarian grounds instead, and from 2006 to 2009 she worked on the application. This year, she finally received Canadian citizenship.
“Migrant domestic workers are placed in a very precarious situation, as their workplace is in a private household, behind closed doors, out of the public eye, which renders them invisible,” said panelist François Crépeau, a law professor at McGill and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants.
In the presentation, Crépeau noted that domestic workers, who are largely migrant workers, work in the private sphere, and are thus often overlooked as part of the labour market. “They’re physically […] isolated, which makes it difficult for them to take collective action or even get information, contact, or support,” said Crépeau.
Crépeau emphasized that migrant domestic workers must be ensured access to education, vocational training, health services, food, and shelter; they should also be made aware of resources available to them in the country of destination, and possess a written contract in a language they understand, he said.
“We must empower domestic workers to fight for their own rights by ensuring that they have access to the information and protection mechanisms they need,” said Crépeau. “Nothing has ever worked better than empowering people to fight for their own rights. Only by empowering migrants to speak for themselves can we hope to have their voices heard and their rights respected.”
Enrique Llanez, a Spanish anthropologist and an advocate of immigrant rights in Canada, also shared his experience as a migrant worker, this time with Canada’s ‘work-holiday’ program known as International Experience Canada. According to Llanez, this program results in Spanish engineers, lawyers, and mathematicians emigrating to Canada, and leads to underemployment in Spain. Consequently, Canada has ready access to skill and cheap labour, as immigrant workers are often paid less than their peers.
The number of temporary migrant workers in Canada has grown by 70 per cent in the last five years, according to the Canadian Council for Refugees. “These people are being abused from the moment they set their feet in the country, and forced to sign papers not even written in their native languages,” said Llanez.
Llanez was not very optimistic about the situation as it presently stands. “What’s being enforced is keeping temporary foreign workers’ heads down […] an agency hasn’t been built to check that the conditions that these people live in are being respected.” He said that the situation for workers is becoming increasingly difficult, despite increased public awareness of the issues migrant workers face.
Audience members participated actively in the question-and-answer session that followed.
Maria Margarita Caicedo, a Concordia student involved with Journalists for Human Rights, found the panel illuminating.
“I thought it was really interesting from a human rights perspective […] it’s a human right, as opposed to citizenship,” said Caicedo. “I really didn’t know anything about the migrants issue in Quebec […] it’s shocking.” | {
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The National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline
Planned Infrastructure and Construction Investment across the Public and Private Sectors
The Pipeline contains nearly 700 upcoming construction projects, programmes and other investments, from over £400 billion of planned spend from both the public and private sectors. The IPA has also refreshed the projection of public and private investment, which now forecasts over £600 billion of infrastructure investment over the next decade.
The report further includes a delivery progress update, which shows that over 400 infrastructure improvements have been delivered over the past year including the £63 million Rossall Flood Defence scheme in Lancashire.
For those working in the construction industry in the United Kingdom, including the Government and the private sector, the National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline acts as a strategic tool, providing a single source of data to assist with the future planning of skills and resource needs. It also allows for greater certainty and transparency for investors alongside the supply chain. | {
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Looks like someone finally gave Playboy hottie Jayde Nicole the memo that her dyed-black locks were a little too harsh for her pretty face!
The starlet attended the Star Magazine party in Los Angeles last night, and she looked absolutely stunning in this ruffled white frock. Come to think of it, with this new brunette hue, she kinda looks like former Hills co-star Audrina Patridge!
Jayde wasn't the only celeb we snapped at the event -- in addition to Lindsay Lohan, we photographed famous faces like Bai Ling, Tila Tequila, Caroline D'Amore and Aubrey O'Day. Click the gallery below for more pics! | {
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Many people fall into one camp or another when it comes to Best Bottoms. Either they are devoted to their natural fibers or they love the stay dry microfiber inserts for their baby. I have to admit, we are more on the stay-dry side in our house. I love how they quickly wick the moisture away so Baby Z doesn't feel the wetness. My husband has even told me multiple times that she wasn't really wet because he only felt the top of the insert and didn't realize how much wetness had been absorbed.
Hemp has its place in our house as well though. Overnight we use the dream team combo of a hemp overnight on bottom with a stay dry insert on top. Stay dry quickly wicks the moisture away and hemp absorbs an impressive amount, so we have no leaks in the morning. We have our daytime favorites and our overnight dream team, so why would we make any changes? Change is hard, especially when something is working well.
But then Best Bottoms went ahead and released new bamboo inserts. How could we not try them? Maybe they could have their place in our perfect rotation too. Our daughter is generally an average wetter. At around 20 pounds we use large inserts, have her on the middle rise on her Best Bottom covers, and change her around every 2 hours. Except nap time. Nap time has become a fun trial and error game lately. We recently dropped from two naps a day to one and that one nap lasts somewhere between 2-3 magical hours. To be clear, that's 2-3 magical hours in which I'm positive she just continually pees the entire time. She chugs her milk at snack time, settles in for her slumber, and then pees and pees. We've adjusted to using doublers during nap, just to be sure her sheets stay dry. I wondered if the new bamboo Best Bottom inserts could help fill this nap time gap for us.
We snagged a few of the large bamboo inserts when they were released and went about prepping them to try them out. The first thing you'll notice about the bamboo inserts is that they are so buttery soft that our daughter likes to snuggle them out of the dryer. Many washes and uses later and the softness hasn't changed a bit. In addition to being snuggly soft, they are so extremely trim. It's hard to get much trimmer on Best Bottoms, but the bamboo is so trim it made me second guess whether they could really hold that much during nap time. We pulled out her skinny jeans that we never use, slipped them over her Best Bottom cover with a bamboo insert, and smiled at her adorable fluff butt.
Like hemp, bamboo is a natural fiber, which means they need to be prepped by washing them 4-5 times before use in order to reach maximum absorbency. This means 4-5 times through the full wash cycle (with detergent) and dried, but the good news is that you can wash them with anything, not just diapers. I was impatient, so after 4 laundry loads of diapers and clothes on wash day, I called it good and ready to try.
Here's a comparison between the three insert types. Stay-dry on the left, hemp in the middle, and bamboo on the right. Hemp naturally shrinks some during the prepping process, while stay-dry and bamboo do not.
Along with being soft and trim, the bamboo inserts are extremely moldable. They sink snugly into place in the cover, and fit perfectly, even though we use the middle row of rise snaps. The first few uses we tried them out during her normal change schedule and changed her every 2-3 hours. She's a crazy wild child and basically runs after the dog for two hours straight and we had no issues with bunching or leaking, and they absorbed wonderfully.
Once we'd used them a few times during everyday use, we got real crazy and decided to try them during nap time. We wanted to know their true potential, so we didn't even use a doubler, just one large bamboo insert for her pee filled nap. As usual, she chugged six ounces of milk during her snack, we changed her right before we put her down, and then crossed our fingers and settled in for the test. Two hours and fifteen minutes later Baby Z was well rested and ready to chase the dog some more, and jumping on her DRY SHEETS! Dry I say! No doubler, no wool, just a single buttery soft bamboo insert that was so impressively full of liquid that it was heavy. My skeptical husband was sure it was a one off fluke, but we've tried this option for a full week now and had success every time. (Minus the one day grandma had a chunk of the insert sticking out the top of the cover, but you can't blame the bamboo for that!)
The only drawback we've been able to find compared to our stay-dry inserts is that, like hemp, the bamboo inserts take two full dryer cycles to completely dry, rather than the one for stay-dry. Let's be fair, with how much they absorb, that's probably reasonable. However, the extra dry time is worth the soft absorbency that has been added to our Best Bottom dream team of inserts.
Have you been considering wearing your baby, but aren't sure where to start? What carrier is the best, how do they work, what's the benefit? Let's try to break down the basics for you so that you have a starting point in picking out your new lifesaver.
We started wearing Baby Z when she was a tiny newborn. Being close to mom or dad kept her calm, the movement soothed her, and we were still able to get things done because our hands were free. Over a year later and we haven't stopped wearing her! Now with Baby #2 on the way, keeping our hands free will be even more important so that we can help meet the needs of both children.
Science has proven that babies thrive with lots of touch, and babywearing is one way to accomplish that. Some studies have even shown that worn babies cry less. Combine that with the comfort and convenience the caregiver gets from babywearing and its definitely worth a try.
The main three types of baby carriers are wraps, soft structured carriers and ring slings. While there are other types, we'll focus on those three. In our house, we actually have one of each since they meet different needs and we've changed our preference as our daughter has grown.
Wraps are long strips of fabric that are tied around the wearer's body, creating a secure pocket for baby. Wraps are especially helpful for newborns and the first few months with baby and most brands are able to be used from around 7-35+ pounds. They can be used for front, back, and hip carry and distribute the weight across two shoulders to keep you comfortable. Newborns fit well in these because they are so versatile and support their head and neck well, especially while sleeping.
The only drawback to wraps is that you have to figure out how to wrap them! This can be overwhelming the first few times and is definitely an art, however, each wrap comes with detailed directions and there are plenty of online videos to guide you. Many people prefer to practice with a doll the first few times to get the hang of it, however, once you've got the process down, its simple to repeat and you always get a great fit adjusted to you. Check out all of the different brands of wraps here.
Soft structured carriers are hard not to fall in love with. They are structured fabric with padded and adjustable shoulder and waist straps which clip, snap, or buckle in place. One of the main benefits is that are they easily adjustable and simple to put on and take off. This means that they can be adjusted to fit all sizes of parents and easily shared between caregivers. Soft structured carriers also put the baby's weight predominantly on your hips rather than your shoulders, so you can carry your tired toddler with no problem!
While soft structured carriers can support babies from 7-40 pounds, depending on the brand, many of them cannot be used for infants that are not able to hold their head up on their own without an additional insert. This makes them most useful for babies around 4+ months. Soft structured carriers can be used in front, back and hip carry positions and you'll find yourself changing your favorite position as your baby grows. Check out all of the great options for wearing your baby with a Lillebaby carrier here! Younger babies benefit from the support of being worn on the front face in. When your baby begins to watch the world a bit more, keeping them worn on the front, but face out, is another option. The back carry is generally recommended for children over 12 months and is often more comfortable as they get heavier. Soft structured carriers are comfortable enough for both the baby and the wearer that they can be worn for long periods of time, keeping everyone happy. Visit Nicki's Diapers to see some of our favorite soft structured carrier options!
A ring sling is a length of cloth that is wrapped from the wearer's shoulder to the opposite hip, back to shoulder, and secured with two rings. They are so easy to adjust and quickly slide a child in and out of. Ring slings may have shoulder padding and can be used for either front or hip carry. You can use a ring sling with children 7-35 pounds, adjusting the carry as they grow and gain more control of their neck.
While ring slings are one of the easiest carriers to use, they also put all of the weight on one shoulder and are often preferred for use during short time periods. When your toddler gets cranky and demands to be held while you attempt to make dinner, ring slings make it easy to slide them in quickly, keep your hands free, and let them take in all the action from a comfortable hip carry position. View all of our ring sling options here to pick out your favorite brand and print!
As you can see, there is no winner takes all when it comes to types of baby carriers. They are so versatile and each type has its benefits for certain stages of babywearing. To learn more about the benefits of babywearing, visit Babywearing International, a non-profit whose mission is to promote babywearing as a universally accepted practice. You may even be able to find a chapter located near you where you can try out several different types of baby carriers to see which you prefer before purchasing one.
Any other babywearing moms out there that have good tips to add or comments on which type is your favorite? Leave a comment below to let us know about it!
The adorable bright colors set against a starry sky will be available in Planet Wise wet bags, snack bags, and a Best Bottom cotton diaper. This limited edition collaboration will be flying in on Tuesday, February 16th at 10 am CST to Nicki's Diapers and will also be available at many of your other favorite Planet Wise retailers. Get yours before they fly away!
For those of you that have chosen to live somewhere other than the frozen tundra, I salute you. Remind me to ask my husband later if there are any transfer options to tropical locations. While I do love my beautiful state of Wisconsin, and I find all seasons here to be magical in their own way, I may have reached my freezing cold limit.
It's cold here. Like, the dog doesn't even want to go outside anymore cold. In my younger years that would have meant cranking up the fire place and snuggling under a blanket after work. That doesn't quite work anymore since we're still working on teaching the toddler that a fire is hot. And that sitting under a blanket part, well, that would require sitting, something my toddler is not fond of.
I've taken the batteries out of Elmo since I couldn't handle him creepily giggling at me from the corner all day and Baby Z and I have made every fake recipe with her fake food in her fake kitchen that I can muster. I've had to branch out the past few weeks and find activities, both inside and outside the house, to keep everyone sane. I like to look for activities that either use supplies I already have around my house or are free/low cost winter distractions within the community. Here are a few of my favorites that we've been enjoying lately:
Indoor Obstacle Course: My toddler loves to climb and crawl under things. This includes crawling under the kitchen table and climbing the couch to hang out with the dog. One day after telling her not to do this for the hundredth time, I decided to capitalize on it instead. We made an obstacle course that covered all baby safe rooms on our first floor. It included climbing over things, crawling under them, kicking a ball, pushing obstacles, and a whole lot of giggling. The best part though, it also included bubble wrap to crawl on under one of the tables. The building of the obstacle course itself was fun because the older kids were able to help with ideas and everyone had fun trying it out many times throughout the day. It was definitely a hit and was repeated again and again for Dad when he came home as well.
Open Swim: While I'm not ready to jump into swim lessons quite yet, the act of swimming at least reminds me that there are warmer places with water and that summer will come to Wisconsin again soon. After some internet research I found that there is a huge variety of open swim options during the day in our area. The local swim school has a warm pool with an inexpensive open swim option for little ones during the day and many of the local high schools have open swim options in the evening and on the weekends. Although this activity isn't free, its fairly low cost and really tires the littles out.
Tot School: This one has been a true lifesaver on days we're stuck indoors. There are a huge number of websites dedicated to this concept of helping your child learn through play at home. Pinterest is a great start to find ideas and the ideas are truly endless from printables to activities like sensory bins. This week we've used one site's idea to focus on feelings and the color red in honor of Valentine's Day. I used everything I could find in the house (toddler safe of course) that was a variation of red and pink in our sensory bin This included plastic play food, hair bows, Little People, tissue paper, blocks, balls, and other random household items. While many of the activities I've found have been a little above where Baby Z is at, I can always find a way to modify them to her level. If you're lucky enough to still have a napping toddler, use nap time to quickly prepare an activity to keep you busy through the afternoon.
Edible Playdough: The problem with art time in our house is that Baby Z still thinks that most items should probably end up in her mouth at some point. This includes crayons, glue, and tissue paper which are not items I normally include in her daily nutrition. Rather than fight it, I cooked up some simple edible play dough and let her have at it. I still don't encourage eating it, but don't have to stress if she does. Making your own play dough is incredibly easy and inexpensive. A quick search will find you simple recipes like this one on Allrecipes, but there are so many fun variations including ones made with items like cream cheese or peanut butter.
Family Yoga: I'd love to belong to a beautiful workout facility with childcare, but it just isn't in the cards for us right now. However, staying fit and active is important for me to model to the kids, so we don't let the winter weather stop us. Family yoga is a perfect way to help a child learn to focus, move their body, and follow directions. Even if you have a much younger child, you can incorporate your baby into many of the yoga moves. YouTube is my favorite free site for family yoga fun. Just search for options like "toddler yoga" or "mother baby yoga" and you'll find tons of fun, free, and easy options to try with the kids.
Open Gym: Like open swim, this one gets us out of the house and is also low cost or free. Using my internet sleuthing skills again, I found that our local community center offers a free open gym during the week. There are no organized activities, but there are lots of things to play with and new kids and adults to interact with. We just stop in, burn some energy, then bundle back up in our coats to head home. Similarly, our local gymnastics club also offers an open gym time during the day. While it does cost a small amount, they have a special time just for the youngest kids, which keeps Baby Z from getting trampled and lets her climb to her heart's content in a safe environment.
While I'm the first to admit that I've let the kids play in the dog's water bowl because it was close enough to a water table or taken a trip to Target just as a reason to get out of those house, I'm determine to not let the winter cold win. We're still staying active, engaged, and learning while stuck indoors even if it means a little extra effort on my part and a messier house.
Help a mamma out, what are your other free or low cost activities that you love to do in your home or around your community to keep you busy when the outdoors aren't an option? Share in the comments to help us keep things fun in our home! | {
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14/09/10
Cataclysm release date
It's getting close to the release. My inital date was 1 November (inside infoz!), and it will be close to that, as more and more sites announce the first week of November as release date.
Thinking about taking a week off, insist in some MTB riding during the day and some Cata leveling during the night :) Once again, like in WotLK, Shamans are going for the cap first, and then i'll think about the Paladin, that may find some social raids at After Hours - A late night raiding guild that likes progress! Apply there if you're looking for a mature guild, 3 days raid a week, each for 3 hours and a nice guild environment!
Now that i put togheter a catchy title and some shameless pub, i shall tell u that i've been waisting both my beta account and my current 5 wow accounts, mostly due to late night GeoCaching with some friends, they constantly nagg me about it and i end up driving my car in jeep roads :)
Not sure if today, because i want to ride my mountain bike, but definitly thursday or friday is alliance city raiding day!
"Multi-boxing is not in violation of our current policies, Varlex." ...
"Unlike the forms of botting you mentioned, multi-boxing requires user input and does not automate any aspect of gameplay. Each time an action is performed it is controlled by a real player sitting at their computer controlling multiple accounts. "
"It's cool as long as the person's not automating their actions. If paying for five accounts and playin' em simultaneously on one or more your systems capable of running the game or multiple clients thereof is how you roll, then we're not gonna hate on it."
"...you can consider this to be our official stance on the matter. If a player has paid for 5 accounts, then they are allowed to play with them within our own rules, which also includes the allowance of multi-boxing. A player multi-boxing still needs to maintain and gear up five characters, and it does not matter if they do this all at once or separately. Any gold earned while multi-boxing also would also need to be split between these five characters."
"That's perfectly fine, Killerofevil, what you describe is called multiboxing. As long as the person wasn't automating the other character he/she may control as many characters (that he/she is registered to) as they can." | {
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Extreme Limo & Shuttle Service, based in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, is a limousine company aiming to provide high-quality limousine, executive car, and airport shuttle services. Serving the Metropolitan Boston region, South Shore, and points toward Providence, Rhode Island, since 2000, we offer reliability through up-to-date software and always arrive in new and clean vehicles. Specialty... | {
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TESTIFY JULY SOUNDCLOUD PLAYLIST
gang gang. the Perth Records crew is doing some very progressive, creative, lit ass abstract, catchy, experimental, fuck u underground shit man… and we love it. It’s why we exist, to give hyper creatives like Yegua, Quay Dash, Perth, Maria Forqué and Celestial Trax a platform. More on the whole Perth family later, but for now peep them fucking up this months Soundcloud playlist with a new bootleg from Zora Jones, ghettotech father DJ Slugo, Wifisfuneral, Killstation and the defunct Seattle Queer/Trans band, G.L.O.S.S. <3 | {
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“Moonshine River”
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Welcome to the 24th season of The Simpsons, whose debut episode is now closer in time to the original Star Trek than it is to The New Normal. No one expects the show to be as good as it was in its peak seasons, so the challenge is to evaluate the new episodes as if “Marge Versus The Monorail” never existed.
As a longtime watcher who quietly erased The Simpsons from my DVR queue several seasons ago, I have three criteria that a new episode can meet to be deemed watchable: Is there a coherent story? Does the episode make good use of the town of Springfield, one of the greatest mythological communities in all of fiction? And does the episode offer a smart take on some current cultural or political fad? To be clear, a “yes” to just one of these questions would make the 508th or 509th episode worthwhile.
“Moonshine River” doesn’t qualify on any count. Fox apparently selected it as the season premiere because of its guest voices: Zooey Deschanel, Natalie Portman, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Sarah Silverman, all playing former girlfriends of Bart. The episode meanders into a parody of High Fidelity, where Bart tries to figure out why he’s so unlucky at love by chasing down his previous girlfriends. When he finds Mary Spuckler (Deschanel) in New York, dressed like Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, we get a parody of Breakfast At Tiffany’s, complete with Mary’s dad, Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel, showing up to drag his daughter home.
Naturally, Bart loses Mary all over again, and he apparently learns something about love and heartbreak, but “Moonshine River” never aims for the show’s affection toward its characters in the early seasons. Bart asks Homer how he and Marge stayed together for so long, and Homer tells his son to “Look in the mirror, unexpected miracle!” Another bit of Homer’s wisdom: “Love doesn’t exist except briefly between a man and a woman before marriage. After that, it’s just hanging out with someone who kind of hates you, but you can’t get it together to leave.” There have been cynical jokes like that since the beginning of The Simpsons, but here the sourness just hangs over the rest of the episode, with no rebuttal from Marge or anyone else.
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So the story stinks. And Springfield’s singular quirkiness doesn’t save the episode. The first line of the 24th season is from the town’s leading TV reporter: “This is Kent Brockman at the first annual Springfield Grand Prix, which, like all of our showcase town events, is not only poorly planned (chuckles), it’s horribly executed!” As it turns out, the car race is taking place on the same street, at the same time, as a Tour de France-style bicycle race. And part of the street is closed off for repairs. The result is a series of fiery crashes and a gigantic ball of twisted metal in the town square. When Bart hears some frantic tapping coming from inside the wreckage, Chief Wiggum uses a taser to quiet whoever is still alive in there. Again, The Simpsons has always had some sick humor, but I don’t remember it being this consistently cruel and, worse, generic. There’s nothing uniquely Springfield about any of this, unlike Whacking Day or an Itchy and Scratchy parade or a feud with Shelbyville. It’s just subpar cartoon violence.
The best reason for The Simpsons to still exist is so it can satirize things that weren’t around when it started. You can’t say, “Boy, I wonder what The Simpsons would have done with this!” as long as it’s still on the air. Last season’s finale, “Lisa Goes Gaga,” is no classic, but it’s fine as a good-natured spoofing of guest voice Lady Gaga. “Moonshine River,” on the other hand, has a takeoff of the 1957 film Sweet Smell Of Success, in addition to the 1961 Tiffany’s. And its New York scenes are based on tired gags about pickpockets, scuzzy subway riders, and Shakespeare in the Park, with glimpses of Woody Allen, Spike Lee, Al Roker, and the Naked Cowboy. There’s a joke about Homer being too out of shape to climb the stairs to the High Line, but Times Square looks the same as it did 20 years ago. I was looking forward to seeing how Homer would befoul the new pedestrian park that replaced parts of Broadway.
Much like the cold openings on The Office, the “couch gags” that open The Simpsons are now consistently the most enjoyable part of the show. During the past couple of seasons, the extended opening scenes by guest animators Banksy and Bill Plympton were more talked-about than any episode itself. “Moonshine River” opens with a cute, 40-second cartoon depicting the Simpsons as butterflies menaced by a mallet-wielding Baby Gerald (a.k.a. the Unibrow Baby). The show’s continued ability to do vignettes rather than full stories gives me some hope for next week’s annual “Treehouse of Horror” episode.
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Stray observations:
The screener for this episode ends with the announcement of a couch gag contest; the winning entry will have his or her idea animated and brought to the air. I don’t see anything on the show’s official website yet, but check thesimpsons.com to find out how you can write a terrific opening that you can then hope is attached to a decent episode.
Mayor Quimby distracts the crowd from the tapping sound in the ball of wreckage by inviting everyone to tap their feet to the sounds of “Scab Calloway and His Non-Union Band.” This feels like a placeholder joke that’s been on reserve since 1990 and finally made it to air.
Bart to Homer: “But you love New York, now that your least favorite buildings have been obliterated”—pause while we recall Homer’s misadventures at the World Trade Center in “The City of New York Versus Homer Simpson”—“old Penn Station and Shea Stadium!”
Lisa produces an impromptu version of Romeo And Juliet in the park after its feuding cast—the Baldwin brothers and the Sheen/Estevez brothers—walk out. | {
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A video presentation on how to check your outboard oil on a Yamaha Outboard, presented by Yamaha Outboards Online ...read more
Video Transcript
Although your four-stroke outboard has much in common with an automobile engine, they are also significant differences. Differences that affect the way you check its oil level. An outboard motor literally stands a typical car motor configuration on end with a vertical crank shaft and horizontal cylinders. That means oil can pool behind the horizontal pistons and in a variety of casting surfaces inside the block after the engine is shutdown, rather than draining into the crank case like your car’s engine.
Also outboard motor operation is usually much different from most cars. It is common to expect extended high RPM operation at a set throttle position. These factors mean that it is normal to see some oil consumption with the four-stroke outboard. There is however no specification for how much oil consumption is normal. So proper oil level checking at regular intervals is extremely important. And fortunately it’s not difficult to do.
In this example we will be checking the oil level on a F150 TXR. Before checking the oil level, tilt the engine up to at least half of its total tilt range. Tilting the engine like this prior to checking the oil level is the only way you can be sure you get a true measure of the oil level.
Let the engine sit tilted up like this for at least five minutes. Now trim the engine down until it is level and proceed to check the oil. Remove the dipstick and wipe it off with a clean dry towel. Reinsert the dipstick all the way. Remove it again and inspect the oil level on the dipstick.
Dipsticks have markings to indicate the low and high levels. In this example the dipstick has a checkered area to indicate the low and high levels. The oil levels located anywhere on the checkered area of this dipstick, it means the engine has enough oil. It is not necessary to add oil to bring it up to the upper level.
Please note that there are different styles of dipsticks. Some have this checkered area and others have drilled check holes indicating low and high. Regardless of the style of dipstick, your outboard’s oil level needs to be between the low and high level on the dipstick.
The oil level below the L or low level, add some oil. If the oil level is above the H or high level, you will need to drain or evacuate some oil. For steps on adding or removing oil, consult your owner’s manual or contact your local authorized Yamaha dealer. read less
Ask the Experts | Four Cycle Oil Improvements
With the takeover of four cycle/four stroke outboards the use of top quality oil to lubricate and protect your engine is more important than ever. ...read more
Stern drive powered boats have used modified (gasoline or diesel automotive engines, gasoline engines being four cycle) since their inception. Stern drives dominated the family bowrider and recreational boating market for decades. With the introduction of four cycle outboards (http://www.iboats.com/review_monthly/nov13/nov13_review_article3.html) recreational boating power changed forever and many say, for the better. Stern drive power preference will continue for many but outboards are far outpacing stern drive sales for now.
As was learned with stern drive powered boats, the engine must have good lubrication to keep running efficiently and simply to keep running.
Any marine engine experiences the same operational stresses. Unlike the automotive application, marine engines never get to coast along the waterway. They always are pushing, even when at idle for trolling or slow cruising.
Over the decades, marine engine manufacturers have marketed what they felt were the best lubricants for their engines. That's great for the boater and in all honesty, self-serving for the manufacturer. Once an engine leaves the factory, the manufacturer really never wants to see it again. And, other than for periodic maintenance, the local dealer doesn?t want to see that engine back in their shop, in particular, for warranty work. Engine failure and possible warranty claims cost the dealer and engine manufacturer a lot of money.
Mercury Marine offers 4-stroke lubricants under their Mercury and Quicksilver brands while Yamaha has Yamalube, Bombardier (SeaDoo) has the XPS line and other engine manufacturers offer premium quality oils.
Each "marine grade" engine oil must pass National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) requirements. For two-cycle oils that now is TC-W3 (two-cycle, water-cooled, version #3). For the four-cycle engines the most recent update is FC-W Catalyst Compatible "FC-W" (Four Cycle, Water-cooled). Make sure to look for the NMMA "bug" on the bottle.
Your engine oil needs to lubricate and protect the engine from corrosion. It needs to be slippery yet be able to stick or adhere to the internal engine surfaces to help protect them from corrosion in our very water friendly environment.
Mercury Marine has offered premium 4-stroke engine oils under both the Quicksilver and Mercury brands since they introduced the MerCruiser Stern Drive. Those products have undergone improvements over time. As Mercury introduced their 4-stroke outboards they created both mineral based and synthetic lubricants to best provide necessary performance for those engines. At one time, Mercury offered up to six different 4-stroke engine oils, being marketed under both the Mercury and Quicksilver brand.
Now, after investing five years in development, Mercury has just formulated the two families of mineral base and synthetic blend into new 4-stroke engine oils to replace all previous lines. They offer a mineral and synthetic blend 4-stroke oil. The 10W-30 weight oil is mineral base and recommended for manual start and colder weather applications. The 25W-40 mineral base oil is for use in outboards or stern drives. They recommend using the 25W-40 synthetic blend for either outboards or stern drives.
Enjoy your summer of boating. Use the best products to protect your investment and your boating fun. | {
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Just Can't Decide
Picking out my wedding dress was easy.
Accessorizing it? Impossible.
Ahhh!! I can't decide what shoes and jewelry to wear with my wedding dress! The green sandals I bought last month are fun and funky, but not right for my dress. Traditional wedding shoes and jewerly aren't right either - my dress is flowy and soft; not diamond-studded and bridal.
I think I'm going for a Grecian goddess look. A few friends have suggested gold to go with this theme, and I agree that it compliments the creamy ivory color of the dress well.
So over the last few weeks, I've picked up pieces of jewelry and shoes that I think might go. Here are a few of the options I've found:
Bronze-colored Nine West's with amber and silver jewels*these are my favorites so far - very comfortable and really compliment the dress color. Unfortunately, they won't show much because my dress is floor-length
Gold Steve Madden's with gold and brown straps*these are also comfortable and look good with the dress too, but are more muted with the dress. Would work well, but not as flashy
Silver clasp bracelet
*This is my favorite bracelet so far, but it's silver (not gold) so goes against my Grecian Goddess look. I like the way this one fits my wrist and is simple yet makes a statement
Do you think this one goes with the bronze-colored sandals above???
Gold square-shaped bracelet
*This one also looks good with the bronze-colored sandals and also compliments the dress. I can't decide whether I like this one or the silver clasp bracelet better.
What do you think??Amber Jewel Bracelet
*This one matches the bronze-colored sandals.
What do you think about this one?? I'm not sure it's distinct enough - it seems small on my arm
Silver-colored ball bracelet*This one is pretty and shiny, but not sure it's right for a wedding dress
Thoughts???
Calling all opinions. I need some help with this one. Which shoes do you like? Jewelry? Think I should keep looking?
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Oh Heather you are going to look beautiful! I can't wait to see pictures of it all together :) My vote is the Bronze-colored Nine West's with amber and silver jewels shoes and Gold square-shaped bracelet. You will look like a Grecian goddess for sure!!
I like the bronze nine-west jeweled shoes with the amber jewel bracelet. The bracelet reminds me of a bracelet that my study-abroad boyf bought me in Greece...so it's totally Grecian goddess in my book! | {
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CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits
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This text is the most comprehensive book on the market for CMOS circuits. Aimed at junior/senior courses offered in electrical engineering and computer science, this book starts with CMOS processing, and then covers MOS transition models, basic CMOS gates, dynamic circuits, memory circuits, BiCMOS circuits, I/O circuits, VLSI design methdologies, design for manufacturability and design for testability. This text provides rigorous treatment of basic design concepts with detailed examples. It addresses both design concepts and computer aided analysis for most of the circuit examples. SPICE simulation results are provided for illustration.Complete 16- Bit Adder The 1 6-bit adder circuit is constructed of four identical 4-
bit adder cells, a dynamic input latch for carry in, an output latch for carry out, and
two inverters, one for each of the clocks, to supply an inverted clock signal (Fig.
Title
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CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits
Author
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Sung-Mo Kang, Yusuf Leblebici
Publisher
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McGraw-Hill College - 1996
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Bringing Up Baby: Donuts And Disappointment.. 4 Lessons From The Botched Birthday Party
Bringing Up Baby:
Donuts And Disappointment..
4 Lessons From The Botched Birthday Party
I have a lot of friends in the parenting trenches and though that time has passed for me, (now, we are firmly planted in the “teen years”; and you thought terrible twos were bad) there are moments from it that I remember as if they were yesterday.
One of them was my son Cole’s big birthday celebration.
Now, as you parents know, the birthday celebration consists of two parts; there’s the home celebration, with family and a few friends. And there’s the school soiree where the birthday child is hoisted on a chair and paraded over the land, with the loyal subjects (classmates) chanting their love and admiration.
So when Cole was turning 8 in the second grade, he asked me to bring donuts to class, in the shape of an 8; of course, since you only turn 8 once, regular, old circular donuts would never do. Besides, Matt Krause’s mom had done the same.
Dammit.
I did my research, ordered the donuts, called the day before said donuts were to be picked up to make sure they were going to be there and so on. In other words, I took care of business.
So when I arrived the next day to pick up the donuts, they were there, right?
WRONG!
Oh, there were donuts there.. just not MY donuts. Some other, fried and frazzled mom had come in right before me and took the number 8 donuts I ordered, instead of the number 9’s she was supposed to.
I was going to disappoint my son in ways unimaginable and that I’m sure no parent had ever done before.
(Okay, a little melodramatic but stay with me here.)
THINK WOMAN!
What could I do?
I had two options; I could rush over to ShopRite and grab cupcakes, which would be suitable but not what he wanted. Or, I could take the number 9 donuts in, apologize for what was not my mistake but just a screw up and make the best of the (bad) situation.
I opted to do the latter.
And when I showed up, balancing two boxes of donuts and a handful of napkins, my little birthday baby was grinning like a Cheshire cat.
Happy.
Content.
Here’s why.. and the 4 lessons I learned from that day.
1 of 4
1. IT WAS NEVER
ABOUT THE DONUTS
Cole couldn’t have cared any less that the numbers were wrong. Why? Because it was never about the donuts. It was about me being there; a chance for him to puff out his non-existent chest and show everyone that he mattered enough for his mother to celebrate with him.
2. MY KID LEARNED HOW TO
HANDLE DISAPPOINTMENT
When I got to the class, I gave Cole a heartfelt apology, explaining that sometimes things just don’t work out the way we plan. He’s always been sort of an easy-going kid so he gets over disappointment pretty quickly. He took the box of number 9 donuts and passed them out to his friends, thrilled to be sharing something so important with them.
3. I LEARNED WHAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT
Yep. See number 1. I think sometimes as parents we get so caught up in the minutia that we miss the big picture. I could have gone to his class carrying fried liver and lima beans and he would have been glad to see me. Keep an eye on the big picture; everything else will fall into place.
4. EVERYONE SURVIVED
Repeat after me: It’s all going to be okay. Even then I knew it wasn’t the first time things would get screwed up and I was even more sure there would be many times when I was the one screwing them up. But what seemed a big, damn deal actually wasn’t; the sun came out the next day, my child was not relegated to the land of urchins with sorry parents. He was still celebrated on his special day and later we laughed about the great donut debacle.
The GEM Debate: Back-To-School Bedtime: Is THIS Even Realistic? (POLL) (Good Enough Mother Tune-In ALERT! I will be on CNN HLN...
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Combing the aisles at Target in search of the best deal on Cheerios, it hit Rene Syler like the stench of a dirty diaper on a hot summer’s day. Not only is perfection overrated its utterly impossible! Suddenly empowered, she figuratively donned her cape, scooped up another taco kit for dinner and Good Enough Mother was born. | {
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When is this road going to open?
Residents in North Redmond have been inquiring about the status of 172 Ave NE, and when it might be open to through traffic.
Currently 172 Ave NE remains closed, with a gate at approximately NE 124 Street (Redmond City limits), but is accessible to emergency response vehicles as well as pedestrians and bicyclists.
172 Ave NE will open to general vehicular traffic when the following conditions are met:
The intersection of 162 Place NE and NE 124 Street meets warrants for a traffic signal, which will happen when enough residential units are built and occupied in North Redmond to generate sufficient traffic volumes.
Funding is identified for a traffic signal and left turn lanes at 162 Place NE and NE 124 Street and the project is constructed.
Traffic calming is completed on the corridor between NE 111 Street and NE 128 Street, including a roundabout at NE 116 Street and 172 Ave NE. Proposed traffic calming will be coordinated with area residents and King County.
A postcard mailed in September 2011 to residents in the project area explains the necessary steps to put traffic control and traffic calming devices in place before 172 Avenue NE opens to through traffic. | {
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Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
San Angelo Stock Show & Rodeo Ambassador Bryce Cox presents the American flag during the National Anthem before the start of Saturday's Cinch Roping Fiesta events at the Outdoor Fiesta Arena.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
The 2011 Championship Calf Roping saddle is displayed inside the San Angelo Fairgrounds Arena on Saturday during the 58th annual Cinch Roping Fiesta.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
Roping competitors and spectators gather and watch events Saturday at the 2011 Cinch Roping Fiesta in the 1st Community Credit Union Spur Arena.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
Two-year-old Zane Jackson, of Mertzon, checks out handmade toys being sold by Jerry Sims of Happy, Texas, at the Cowboy Collectibles Show in the Foster Communications Coliseum. The show was held in conjunction with the Cinch Roping Fiesta.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
Twelve-year-old Rowdy Dunklin, of Athens, Texas, practices his roping skills on a mechanical calf sled during the Cinch Roping Fiesta on Saturday.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
Tuf Cooper, of Decatur, throws a calf down to the ground during the match roping competition against Cody Ohl on Saturday.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
Chase Williams prepares to signal the calf release during his first run in the UCRA #9 event Saturday.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
A large variety of spurs are presented for sale by Charlie Shanks of Spur Rowels, out of Big Spring, during Saturday's Cowboy Collectibles Show.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
Cimarron Boardman, of Stephenville, throws his hands up to stop the clock during a run in Saturday's Cinch Roping Fiesta.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
Josh Eirikson, of Bandera, dismounts during his first-round roping attempt Saturday.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
Tuf Cooper, of Decatur, makes a run Saturday during his match roping against Cody Ohl at the Cinch Roping Fiesta.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
Cody Ohl, of Hico, gives the signal to stop the clock during his match roping competition against Tuf Cooper.
Jason Hook/Special to the Standard-Times
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Valiant Central Podcast Ep. 9: It’s all about the characters
In episode 9 of the podcast, I am joined by Brett Simon from the Talking Valiant podcast and we cover the spectrum of Valiant books and discuss the blurred lines between Valiant heroes and villains. We also speculate a bit about the future of Unity, Shadowman and the Valiant universe, and talk a little bit about how to get new readers to read Valiant books.
You can find Brett on Twitter @simonsezstuff, on Talking Valiant with Adam Shaw, and he is also a contributor at Moar Powah. If you’d like to get in touch with us, find me on Twitter (@Valiant_Central), Facebook, or email us directly [email protected].
Martin Ferretti is an avid comic book reader, Hearthstone player, IT professional, father, and all around geek. His fascination with Valiant Comics may be bordering on the insane, but hey, it keeps him happy. | {
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While the French international escaped punishment at the time with referee Craig Pawson not seeing the incident, it hasn’t ruled out the possibility of the FA acting retrospectively, as noted by The Mirror.
Pawson will submit his official match report with the FA on Monday, and it’s been claimed that they could decide to take action with a three-game suspension being the likely outcome given the nature of the incident.
Arter revealed that Sissoko apologised to him after the game and accepted it after initially being outraged by the contact, as noted in the report. However, despite the commendable response from the Bournemouth man, it may not be enough to save the Spurs star from a ban.
It was a disappointing result for boss Mauricio Pochettino as his side missed the chance move clear at the top of the Premier League, with their frustration compounded by the fact that both Arsenal and Manchester City dropped points over the weekend too.
Nevertheless, it could get worse for the Argentine tactician if the FA rule Sissoko out of action for the next few weeks for the elbow. | {
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Change College GameDay's Location for September 23rd
College GameDay announced today, September 14th, that they will be going to Times Square in New York City for September 23rd. This strays away from the main part of gameday. It takes the College out of College GameDay. Sign this petition to try to make ESPN change GameDay's location to an actual college campus.
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TRACKLIST:1. Intro2. Thorn in the flesh3. Waiting for the end of Christianity4. Unholy Cult5. Satan goes to heaven to destroy the kingdom of god6. Intramezzo7. Blasphemies for the Horned God8. Ode to Damnation9. Aut Satan aut Nihil10. OutroTotal Playing Time: 43:21 min | {
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Ecocide in Spain – Canary Islands under threat
In March 2012 the Spanish Government approved the beginning of oil exploration drilling in the Atlantic Ocean, close to the Canary Islands by the argentine-spanish company Repsol. The drilling zone will be located near the islands of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote – both of them designated as United Nations Biosphere Reserves, respectively in 2009 and 1993.
Spain, which is one of the European countries with the higher rate of oil and gaz dependency, gave its agreement hoping that it will reduce oil imports. Repsol said it would also increase employment in the islands (up to 5 000 jobs).
The president of the Canary Islands regional government, wrote to the Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, in February 2014, telling him that he plans to hold a referendum on the issue – the only answer he had was a reminder that referendums are illegal under the constitution.
Many environmentalist organizations have decided to stop this disaster from happening – End Ecocide supports the cause and if you do too you can show your support by signing the international petition here and signing the End Ecocide petition and the call for an International and European courts for Environment and Health at www.endecocide.eu | {
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Wedding Photography
You will treasure your wedding photos for years to come and in the whirlwind that is your day, it will be the lasting memory you use to relive your cherished day.
We stress to our couples that if the photographer knows the venue it will take the pressure off you on the day so it’s one less thing for you to worry about! You want somebody to take control of the group shots, people can be hard to organise when they are having fun, and to manage the small amount of time they have to get the shots you would like. They need to be firm and friendly!!
We have 2 partner photographers at Parley, Andrew Millard and Liza Edgington. Don’t worry you don’t have to use them but they can be a good place to start if you don’t have any other recommendations. They know the venue well and we know they go over and above for our couples.
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About Kay
Author Archive | Kay
As you can see I have not updated my website for a while, as I am so very busy making bears! I tend to update my Facebook page on a regular basis as it is fast and easy to do, so please have a look on there if you would like to see my latest […]
‘Hayley’ bear charity Auction Early last year when we all watched the much loved Coronation Street character Hayley lose her battle with Pancreatic cancer. I was chatting with a friend who works at Granada and we both agreed that to make a memory bear in Hayley’s honour would be wonderful! My friend had a […]
Congratulations to our August Facebook giveaway winner – Kirsty Edwards! Who is having a ‘Dad’ bear made to attend her wedding next year – More giveaways coming up on Facebook, please like my page and interact regularly so you don’t miss out!
Lilys Love Memory bears in Chat Magazine Monthy Special October 2014 A few months ago I was approached by a friendly journalist who had seen my bears on facebook, she wanted MY story! I was very flattered and a little apprehensive, I babbled on the phone nervously as I was asked a few questions about […]
Memory bear made from Dads favourite waistcoat to represent Dad at his daughters wedding. I was given a navy vintage waistcoat and some cut offs from the bridal wear for me to create this very special guest! His minature glasses finish him off beautifuly xxx I was told he went down a storm at the […]
Lee Rigby Keepsake Bear I was so appalled to hear about the brutal murder of young soldier Lee Rigby in May. It was awful to watch the grieving family on the television, it was so upsetting to see, such a tragic waste of a young life. In June I was contacted by the lovely Emma […]
We are delighted to announce that we will be exhibiting at Oasis in the City, in Bowden, Cheshire on 13th July 2013 This is a quality event organised by The Social Butterfly and 4 Manchester Women and only select businesses have been invited to attend, including Lily’s Love -Yay! We will setting up a vintage […]
Claire gave me this clothing to make into a bear for a wedding present. The clothing held special memories of a trip to New York and The Christie, fundraising t shirt was also significant to the happy couple. When I was given this clothing, I wasn’t quite sure how the bear would turn out, the […]
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My dearest friend Viv passed away in January from Cancer. I now have my beautiful "Viv' memory bear as a constant reminder of a fantastic friend. I look at her wearing her favourite clothes and smelling her beautiful scent and now smile instead of crying. Lovely to have a piece of my Viv near me forever. I could never thank you enough Kay. Xxx
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My (four) bears were made with so much love by Kay. The clothes they were made from were very special to us: wedding dress, bridesmaid dress, 2 christening dresses, christening tie, combats, High school blazer, furry coat that my littlest wouldn't take off for nearly two years! All were happy memory's tucked away or only seen in photos. They are now part of every day, displayed all around the house. Our memory bears make me smile so often. Couldn't recommend Lily's love enough x
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Creative Metallix Plus Bluetooth Speaker Review
The Creative Metallix Plus costs under £23. I am going to let that settle in for a moment. A squeeze over twenty quid. And you really are getting so much for that very small outlay.
We are super impressed with these Bluetooth speakers. I have long been a Creative speaker fan – we have a pair hooked up to the kitchen television. Well over-powered for what’s needed, but they look so good.
So, the Creative Metallix Plus. We have a pair of them from Creative, and linking them together is the best way to go. But make no mistake – a single Metallix Plus on its own will fill the room. It may not be a party machine with the power to shake the building. But if you like decent sounds from your Bluetooth device, I can barely think of anything better, especially at this price point. Did I mention it’s a smidge over a twenty?
It follows in the footsteps of the incredible Woof, but this is a more conventional shape. Just picking it up makes you instantly know you should be in for some quality sounds.
Switch it on using one of the five rubberised buttons on top, wait for the pairing tone and spoken prompt, hook up your device and you are done.Chatting to the chap at Creative, he used the expression ‘punches above its weight’. Yeah, right. I knew it would be good but am genuinely stunned at just how good the Creative Metallix Plus actually is.
So, time for some specs. In spite of its size at 170x47x54mm it weighs 385 grams, which is fairly substantial. Inside there is a pair of 2200 mAh lithium-ion batteries good for 24 hours of use.
That also helps punch the signal over 10 metres of open space, less if there’s stuff in the way, like a wall. Connections, neatly hidden or subtle, are the usual USB, Bluetooth, AUX in and stereo jack. A micro USB cable at just over half a metre is in the box. And it comes in any colour you like, so long as it’s black.
OK, so praise all done. Let’s talk about the one and only thing I am not keen on and that’s pairing them with each other. I mentioned we have two, and once they are daisy-chained, they sound glorious. But the sequence of button pushes seems to me at least to be unnecessarily complex.
Here we go. Switch on the 1st Metallix Plus (left channel) and hold the Play button for six seconds. The flashing purple LED will light up. Switch on the 2nd Metallix Plus (right channel) and hold the Bluetooth button for three seconds. The flashing blue LED will light up.
I know that doesn’t sound difficult to follow, but if you are going to twin and un-twin occasionally, you may need to keep the instructions to hand.It’s worth the effort, mind. The sound is stonking and is plenty loud enough and some great bass. A brilliant touch is that you can then switch both on and off and pair with a device using just one Metallix Plus control panel. When you switch the master on, the slave follows suit. Nice.
You can’t twin it with another speaker – it needs to be a pair of the Metallix Plus to work. It’s also water resistant to IPX5 standards. OK, one more thing that could be a problem, especially these days is the claimed five to six hours charge time. Be nice if this could be brought down substantially.
There we are then. My current favourite small Bluetooth speaker, by some way. The Creative Metallix Plus needs a place in your home or office. You would be crazy not to have at least one.Did I mention the price? | {
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Another painting, watercolor, from a photo I took some years ago. I don’t know why I ended up painting the flowers red and purple. When I started them, the photo wasn’t in front of me, but I thought I remembered it right…lol
Not exact, but fun to paint anyway. I’ve decided to try painting from a few photos I’ve taken just as a different exercise. I’ve also gotten my watercolors out again. In between interviews and phone screenings, I’m hanging onto my soul a little bit for the moments taken to paint or play my piano. The free time is never wasted.
The sketch of this was posted some weeks ago. Finally got it out of the way and I’ll be looking for a frame for it now to hopefully take it with me to the art walk. I’ll have a bit of a flower theme going on I think since several other pieces are also blooms.
I’m getting a little nervous now, too. My mother and I both have invited people and I have two so far who have confirmed days they’ll stop by. Nothing will be as it’s been planned in my head to obsess over, and the very fact others are interested is more than enough for me. But I have thoughts here and there about not being/having enough or being far less than impressive some how. Silly things to waste mental energy on, I know, especially with the class I’m so absorbed with. I just hope everything goes smoothly. Being a first time participant is what’s getting me I think. Being new has always been difficult for me to cope with…lol
Today was a rough day. Nothing went right from the moment I got up, but at least it was warm outside, and not raining. I framed some more paintings, played a new song on my piano that worked out well…Nothing more I need.
The song below is new and one I had fun putting together:
Identify
This voice is still a child.
This soul loses itself amid the
Myriad shades of gray.
Here and there, creates a face,
And begs the god she’s found her place.
To settle in as human.
To rest – content to stay.
Nothing would mean more
If not so soon she’s run away.
I’ve added a new page above for my other music recordings where the covers and new/old piano clips are kept. Too much is going on to even gather words for an update that would make sense right now, so onto the next…
Glenwood Gardens, spring 2013– Photos I took about a month ago, just as the warm weather was returning with leaves opening to the sun. It was also the day a random stranger- an art photographer walking that day- asked me to pose for his collection. The lavender shaded trees at the end of this slide were near the site he chose for my photo. It was very beautiful that day.
I’ve made it through my first week on my new job. I like the work I’m doing, how I’m mainly responsible for my own tasks and have no one else’s judgment to worry about or rely on. I had a difficult first few days during training, but more due to the crisis I was having emotionally. I underestimated how much the stress of this change would overwhelm me. I’m grateful I had an appointment with my doctor before I made any decisions. He gave me another medication that is working very well, and what we discussed made a mark in mind that I hope to talk further about in two weeks time.
I won’t be the one to say things are finally looking up and all will be well, but I got through the first week. That is more than enough for now.
My second completed piece after that long break away from painting. This was totally unplanned/without a sketch. An early mother’s day gift. She still remembers me painting flowers a lot when I was younger and I thought it would be interesting to see what such a painting would turn out as today the person I am now. | {
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The War for Christendom is a series of three books (two novels and a book of short stories) soon to be published detailing the prophesied Restoration of the Holy Roman Empire. This website also serves as the headquarters of the Hapsburg Restoration Movement.
The Hapsburg Restoration Movement* is the direct successor and revival of the Restoration Movement which began in 1923, as well as the indirect successor of the Zentralkomitee der Monarchistischen Bewegungen (Central Committee of Monarchist Movements) (1938-1944)and The Restoration Association (1945-1994). The Movement exists to restore the Catholic order of Christendom, and return the Holy Roman Emperor to his rightful place as the Temporal Head of Christendom. Those interested in officially joining the Movement can email me (the Knight Commander) through the contact page.
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Lucas Electrical Components advertised heavily in Autocar magazine in the early 1950s, so I've scanned a quartet of their ads from that era. Your job: to modify one or more of the chosen ads in the most entertaining fashion you can manage; I've primed the pump with a lame-o version that took me all of 45 seconds to create (see above). Don't worry about the challenges of extracting the images from the clutches of the Gawker Server Hamsters' galleries, because you can download hi-res versions of the ads from the MurileeMartin.com webserver.
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Kiruna to be Rebuilt
Our team have enjoyed working out of Kiruna, Sweeden, this last year but the town isn’t going to be the same in the future. Bloomberg reported this week that up to 65% of Kiruna’s appartments and 35% of the entire town are going to be demolished to make way for new mine developments. A new town center will be constructed several kilometres away.
Unlike recently in New Zealand when protesters came out in force after De Grey Mining announced the commissioning of two exploration drill holes on farm land, there is evidently no such resistance in Kiruna. The residents of Kiruna understand that their quality of life and the very existence of the town is completely dependent on mining activity so developments like this are embraced as positive for the community. So long Kiruna, it has been nice knowing you as you were. | {
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Do you think finding a soul mate is hard? Finding a BFF is even harder. A BFF is a person that you can trust, hang out with, and depend on. They know you better than you know yourself. You always have your favorite hangouts and sayings that only you and your friend know the concept of. Sometimes friendships last a lifetime and that’s a reality, but if you notice that your BFF is gradually changing in a way that is hurting themselves and you, it’s time to listen to the music and perhaps go your separate ways. Here are some ways that you could handle a toxic BFF situation
You should really “shoot” the messenger
Stop responding to your BFF’s phone calls and text messages. Your BFF will get the message eventually, but if they retaliate in a bad way, they can’t really “shoot” the messenger, and they can’t phone home literally, because you have stopped responding to them. ET communicated with his finger and didn’t have a phone and he was just fine.
Yes, some people can’t handle the truth
You’re really going to tell your BFF how you feel? Yes, the truth hurts. When the chips are down and you tell somebody how you really feel, it might not go the way you want it to go or how you pictured it. Always be careful about confronting a person. Have evidence to back up your claims. Geico knows how you feel and they have been doing it for years. Sometimes people don’t know how they are acting until you finally speak to them about it, but if you have no evidence of what you’re complaining about, maybe you are the problem.
Your hangout spot doesn’t have to be irreplaceable
If you really want to take a break and distance yourself from your toxic friend, don’t show up to your favorite hangout locations. Try something new that will spark your interest, if you go to something that doesn’t interest the both of you, you both won’t show up. Duh, ok let’s get real, people like what they like. If you guys show up at the same place that you usually hang out in, just say nothing and move on, walk away. Everything you want is not to a box to the left but can move in that direction so your ex-best friend can move to the right.
You should at least meet in the middle
Ok, so you and your BFF have kids and they get along and you guys are gradually distancing yourself from each other. What should you do? Don’t let the kids suffer just because you guys don’t get along anymore. Put your children first and suck it up. If you can let your children be happy then fear is not a factor for you.
Yes, friendships can last a lifetime, but you have to think about you sometimes. Friendships are healthy, but if they are toxic than you are living in a poison paradise. | {
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Bans on court use of sharia/international law: withdrawn in VA, only 5 heavily modified bills introduced in 2013
This year is proving to be a substantially different one in terms of legislative efforts to ban the use of sharia or international law in state courts. By January 14 in 2011 (the last most comparable year; some legislatures do not meet in even numbered years) there were at least a dozen bills filed. So far this year there are only 5 bills in as many states and at least one such bill has already been withdrawn.
Unlike in the bills introduced previously, which specifically mentioned sharia or broadly and generally prohibited reference to international law, most the bills introduced so far are limited to only a particular case type or area of law and provide a series of exceptions, in particular with reference to commercial contracts.
Even then, the first such bill to be considered, Virginia’s HB 1332 which was limited to domestic relations cases, was stricken at the request of the author when it was first heard in a subcommittee last week.
Defines foreign law as “any law, rule, or legal code, or system established, used, or applied in a jurisdiction outside of the states or territories of the United States, or which exist as a separate body of law, legal code, or system adopted or used anywhere by any people, group, or culture different from the Constitution and laws of the United States or the State of Alabama.” Provides “A court, arbitrator, administrative agency, or other adjudicative, arbitrative, or enforcement authority shall not apply or enforce a foreign law if doing so would violate any state law or a right guaranteed by the Constitution of this state or of the United States.”
Provides any court, arbitration, tribunal, or administrative agency ruling or decision violates the public policy of this state and is void and unenforceable if the court, arbitration, tribunal, or administrative agency bases its ruling or decision in the matter at issue in whole or in part on any foreign law, legal code, or system that does not grant the parties affected by the ruling or decision the same fundamental liberties, rights, and privileges guaranteed by the State Constitution or the United States Constitution. Establishes exceptions for business contracts, corporations, partnerships, or other forms of business association. Permits religions organizations to adjudicate ecclesiastical matters. Provides that proposed law is not to be in conflict with U.S. treaties.
Provides “A court, arbitrator, administrative agency, or other adjudicative, mediation, or enforcement authority may not enforce a foreign law if it would violate a constitutionally guaranteed right of this State or of the United States. The provisions of this section apply only to actual or foreseeable violations of the constitutional rights of a person caused by the application of the foreign law.”
Provides “A court of this state shall uphold the laws of the Constitution of the United States, this Constitution, federal laws, and laws of this state. A court of this state may not enforce, consider, or apply any religious or cultural law.”
Provides that if a court, arbitrator, administrative agency, or other adjudicative or enforcement authority bases its decision in a domestic relations matter on foreign law, and such decision violates a person’s rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and Constitution of Virginia, then such decision will be void as violative of the public policy of the Commonwealth. | {
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BINANCE ECOSYSTEM
What is Lightning Network?
28.11.2018
The Lightning Network (LN) as a concept was created by Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja in 2015. The main idea behind the project is to design a payment protocol that can be used as an off-chain solution for the scalability problem faced by the Bitcoin blockchain, but the concept may be applied to other Cryptocurrencies as well.
The introduction of the Lightning Network was triggered by the limitations that not only Bitcoin but by many other cryptocurrencies are facing. Currently, the Bitcoin blockchain is only able to process from 2 to 7 transactions per second (TPS). As the cryptocurrency ecosystem grows and more people join the network, the number of transactions being broadcasted to the blockchain also increases. As the network gets more and more congested, the overall performance is compromised, which greatly reduces the practical usability of Bitcoin as global digital currency. In such a context, the LN was created as an attempt to alleviate the network congestion of the Bitcoin blockchain.
How does it work?
The Lightning Network consists of an off-chain transfer network that is being built on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. The system works on a peer-to-peer (P2P) level and its usability relies on the creation of the so-called bidirectional payment channels, through which users can make seamless cryptocurrency transactions.
After two parties decide to open a payment channel, they are able to transmit funds back and forth across their wallets. Although the process of setting up a new payment channel involves an on-chain transaction, all transactions that take place within the channel are off-chain and do not require a global consensus. Therefore, these transactions can be quickly executed through a smart contract, incurring in much lower fees and a much higher TPS rate.
In order to open a payment channel, the two parties involved need to set up a multi-signature wallet and add some funds to it. Funds that are stored on multi-sig wallets can only be accessed if the private keys of both parties are provided (two or more, depending on the case). This means that one party cannot open the wallet without the consent of the other.
As an example, let’s imagine that Alice wants to use the Lightning Network to trade Bitcoins with Bob. First, they set up a payment channel, using a multi-signature wallet. While the payment channel acts like a smart contract, the multi-sig wallet acts like a vault, where the funds to be traded are deposited. During the lifetime of the payment channel, Alice and Bob can perform as many off-chain transactions as they want.
Right after each transaction, both Alice and Bob sign and update their own copy of the balance sheet, which records the amount of coins each one has. When they are done with their transactions, they can close the payment channel and broadcast the final balance sheet to the Bitcoin blockchain. The LN smart contract will make sure they receive their Bitcoins, according to the last version of the balance sheet.
Summing up, the parties involved only need to interact twice with the Bitcoin blockchain. One time to open the payment channel and another one to close it, which means that all other transactions that take place within the channel are not directly interacting with the main chain.
Network Routing
Even if two parties do not have a direct payment channel, they are still able to send and receive Bitcoins through interconnected payment channels. That means that Alice is able to send payments to Charlie without having to create a direct channel with him, as long as there is a network route between them that contains enough balance.
So, if Alice has an open payment channel with Bob and Bob has a channel with Charlie, she can send the payment through Bob. The payment routing may involve many Lightning Network nodes, but the smart contract will automatically search for the shortest available path.
Advantages of Lightning Network
The LN project is working towards an off-chain solution for the scalability problem. If successful, it may reduce the traffic on the Bitcoin blockchain.
Through the use of bidirectional payment channels, the Lightning Network allows for nearly instant transactions.
The LN may be suitable for micropayments, as it allows the transfer of values as small as 1 satoshi. Moreover, automatized micropayments may be implemented on the Machine-to-Machine economy, where transactions are made between electronic devices without the need for human interference.
Limitations of Lightning Network
Unlike on-chain transactions, LN payments cannot be made if the receiver is offline.
Participants of the network may need to monitor payment channels regularly in order to keep their funds safe (such risk could be overcomed by outsourced monitoring services).
The LN is not suitable for large payments. As the network counts with many multi-signature wallets (which are basically shared wallets) chances are high that these will not have sufficient balance to act as intermediaries of large payments.
Opening and closing a payment channel involves an on-chain transaction, which usually requires manual work and higher transaction fees.
When Is Lightning Network Coming?
If we take into consideration the mainnet beta version announced by Lightning Labs, the Lightning Network release date was on March 15th of 2018. However, the official release is yet to come as it is not effectively implemented on top of the Bitcoin blockchain.
Since the beta release, there was a huge increase in the number of LN nodes and payment channels. As of November 2018, Grafana dashboard reports more than 12,500 payment channels.
The collective work of nodes and payment channels is what makes the Lightning Network an interesting solution for the scalability problem. The beta version has been going through a lot of experimentation and its efficiency is yet to be proved. Nevertheless, the Lightning Network does have a huge potential to improve the Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency ecosystem. | {
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Student Enrollment
To enroll in your school trip, please fill out this form together with a parent at least 30 days before the trip begins. Click submit, and you’re all set! Your teacher will pass on a packing list. We’ll call about a week before you arrive to say hello, answer any last minute questions, and welcome you to our program. We’re excited to meet you! If you have questions along the way, feel free to contact us.
Our Terms and Conditions- PLEASE DO READ THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY!
To the student and parent/guardian: Please E-sign below to acknowledge that you understand and agree with our policies. Your understanding and acceptance of this information is crucial to the success of our program. We appreciate your time in reading this thoroughly!
Student Expectations
Students should be excited to join our courses. They should not be sent against their will. Every student is expected to be positive, motivated and physically fit, with strong behavior and group skills. Students have very little free or personal time and are busy most of the day. Students are expected to participate enthusiastically in all our trips' activities and to shoulder trip responsibilities with a positive attitude. Student responsibilities include cooking group meals, cleaning equipment, setting up camp, teaching simple lessons, and more.
Our courses are physically, mentally and emotionally challenging, but well within the ability range of most students who desire to participate. We make every effort to ensure applicants are capable of successfully completing our courses. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the parent/guardian to assess the appropriateness of this program for their child.
Communication
In an effort to build a sense of independence, self reliance and focus, we keep student/parent phone calls to a minimum. Student cell phones will be collected upon arrival. In case of emergency, parents may call our office 24/7 (808-775-8155). If an important situation arises and a student or instructor needs to speak with the parents, we will make sure that happens as soon as possible.
Personal Electronics
In an effort to eliminate distractions among the group and to promote engagement in all activities, personal electronics, such as iPods, video game devices, and cell phones are not allowed on any of our courses. Upon arrival, the course instructors will collect all cell phones to be stored in a safe location. They will be returned upon departure.
Alcohol / Tobacco / Drug use
The use or possession of any form of alcohol, tobacco or illegal drug will result in an immediate return home at the family's expense and without refund. We have a zero tolerance policy for this and no second chances will be given.
Exclusive Relationships
Any excessive touching or intimate relations are not permitted on a Hawaii Outdoors course. Should a student severely violate this rule they may be sent home at their own expense and without refund.
Behavioral Issues
Respect and cooperation are essential to creating a positive group dynamic and having a successful trip experience. A negative attitude, disruptive behavior of any kind or disrespectful behavior towards the leaders or other participants will not be tolerated. Parents will be contacted if issues arise. Should behavioral issues affect other students, leaders or the trip as a whole, the student may be sent home at the family's expense and without refund.
***We have strict rules to ensure a positive experience for all. In the rare occasion that any of the above policies are violated, parents will be contacted as soon as possible to discuss the issue. We strongly encourage parents to discuss these issues with their children prior to their trip so everyone is aware of the consequesces of violating Hawaii Outdoors Institute policies.
Alterations to Itinerary
Our intention is to follow as precisely as possible the itineraries described on our website. Dangerous weather or any other unforeseen problems may necessitate an itinerary change. If an activity is canceled for any reason, we will do our best to replace it with a similar one.
Model Release
Pictures and or video may be taken of the student to be used in Hawaii Outdoors Institute materials in print and online. The parent/guardian and student does herewith authorize and agree to the reasonable and proper use by Hawaii Outdoors of any and all photographs and video which may be taken of any aspect of the program and which may include the image of the student.
Cancellation Refund Policy
We require a non-refundable deposit upon enrollment. The remaining balance is due 30 days before the course start date. If a student pays in full and withdraws prior to 30 days before the course begins, a refund minus the deposit will be given. If a student withdraws with fewer than 30 days before the course, for any reason, no refunds will be given. If a student is sent home while on course for health or disciplinary reasons, no refunds will be given and the parents/guardians will be responsible for all transportation charges. If a student application or medical form is not accepted by Hawaii Outdoors Institute, a 100% refund will be given.
Hawai'i Outdoors Institute Agreement
I am / my son or daughter is enthusiastic about participating in the course. We understand that an enjoyable and fulfilling experience with Hawaii Outdoors depends on a positive attitude, on a willingness to contribute to the whole group, and on a willingness to participate enthusiastically in the course activities. We understand that disruptive behavior, exclusive relationships, or the use or possession of any form of alcohol, tobacco or illegal drug will result in an immediate return home, at my own expense and without refund. We have read, understand and agree to abide by all Hawai'i Outdoors Institute terms and conditions as stated in this application. I understand that my use of an E-Signature is legally binding.
Parent / Guardian E-Signature*
Please sign with a mouse, touch pad, or touch screen.
Date*
Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY
Student E-Signature*
Please sign with a mouse, touch pad, or touch screen.
Date*
Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY
Outdoor Education Program Waiver
I recognize that I or my dependent will be involved in outdoor activities on a course offered by Hawaii Outdoors Institute. Major activities involved in this trip may include camping, hiking, backpacking, farming, gardening, sea kayaking, sailing, snorkeling, SCUBA Diving, ocean swimming, surfing, obstacle courses as well as a variety of team building or leadership games and challenges. Hawaii Outdoors programs are strenuous outdoor adventures lasting up to 24 days. Our courses operate in remote areas where evecuation to medical facilities may take 24 hours or more. Weather conditions can be extreme with temperatures ranging from 0 - 100 degrees. Altitude may reach 14,000 feet. Prolonged heavy rain, high winds, intense sun and/or suddenly high seas are possible. Physical demands on the participant may include carrying a backpack weighing up to 35 pounds over uneven terrain such as boulders, river beds, sharp lava, snow, fallen logs, or slippery surfaces as well as ascending and descending steep mountain slopes. While participating on a Hawaii Outdoors course, participants will sleep outdoors, experience long physically demanding days, set up their own camp and prepare thair own meals. Each participant is expected to take good care of him or herself.
I understand that outdoor activities present to the participant a wide variety of risks, hazards and conditions, not all of them easily foreseeable, which could result in loss, damage, expense, or injury including death. These conditions may include, but are not limited to steep and uneven terrain, changeable weather conditions including heat, cold and wetness, remoteness from normal medical services, evacuation difficulties, darkness, animal and plant life, the use of assorted vehicles including various types of boats, equipment use, and camping and cooking activities. I understand that both I / my dependent and Hawaii Outdoors will approach this Outdoor Education course with both care and planning. While the program is underway, they will endeavor to instruct, protect and care for the well-being of myself / my dependent as would I, including making decisions regarding my or my dependent's medical care. I also understand that they will continue to maintain professional standards of behavior regarding myself or my dependent. I understand that I / my dependent will be expected to uphold the standards of behavior expected of students or chaperones in any school endeavor. I / (S)he will be expected to listen to and honor any request suggestion, advice or rule given by staff of Hawaii Outdoors, or other outside agencies and supervisors on the course, with the understanding that this is in the best interest of all participants. I / (S)he will be expected to asct with responsibility and care for myself/themselves, and for others on the trip. I am aware that there are risks involved in this course and have decided that I am prepared to participate or allow my dependent to participate in both the course, and spoken with my dependent about these risks and expectations, and am confident that they have understood them. I understand them as well. I am now content to proceed with the course. I have read this agreement at my leisure, and have understood its nature and its contents. Please allow me / my dependent to participate in the course.
My or my dependent's participation in such activities may result in injury or illness including, but not limited to bodily injury, sickness, disease, strains, fractures, partial and/or total paralysis, death or other ailments that could cause serious disability; these risks and dangers may be caused by the misjudgments of the directors, employees, officers or agents of Hawaii Outdoors; the misjudgment of the participants, the misjudgment of others, accidents, breaches of contract, the forces of nature or other causes. Risks and dangers may arise from foreseeable or unforeseeable causes including, but not limited to, guide decision making, including that a guide may misjudge terrain, weather, trail or river route locations, and water level, risks of falling out or of drowning while in a sailboat, canoe or kayak and such other risks, hazards and dangers that are integral to recreational activities that take place in a wilderness, outdoor or recreational environment; and by my or my dependent's participation in these activities, I hereby assume all risks and dangers and all responsibility for any losses and/or damages, whether caused in whole or in part by the misjudgment or other conduct of the directors, agents, officers or employees of Hawaii Outdoors, or by any other person.
I, on behalf of myself and my dependent hereby voluntarily agree to release, waive, discharge, hold harmless, defend and indemnify Hawaii Outdoors Institute and its directors, agents, officers and employees from any and all claims, actions or losses for bodily injury, property damage, wrongful death, loss of services or otherwise which may arise. I especially understand that I am releasing, discharging and waiving any claims or actions that I may have presently or in the future for the misjudgment or other conduct by the directors, agents, officers or employees of Hawaii Outdoors Institute.
I HAVE READ THE ABOVE WAIVER AND RELEASE ANY BY SIGNING IT DO AGREE, IT IS MY INTENTION TO EXEMPT AND RELIEVE HAWAII OUTDOORS INSTITUTE AND ITS DIRECTORS, AGENTS, OFFICERS, AND EMPLOYEES FROM LIABILITY FOR PERSONAL INJURY, PROPERTY DAMAGE OR WRONGFUL DEATH CAUSED BY MISJUDGMENTS OR ANY OTHER CAUSE. I UNDERSTAND THAT MY USE OF AN E-SIGNATURE IS LEGALLY BINDING.
Parent / Guadian E-Signature*
Date*
Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY
Student E-Signature*
Date*
Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY
MEDICAL INFORMATION
At Hawaii Outdoors Institute, our student's health and safety are the most important factors of a successful experience. In the event of a serious illness or injury, ery effort will be made to contact the parent or guardian. Please complete this form carefully, thoroughly and accurately. Use extra pages if necessary. Ultimately, it is up to the student and parent, in conjunction with their physician to decide whether a Hawaii Outdoors program is an acceptable match for them.
Program Description
Hawaii Outdoors Institute programs are strenuous outdoor adventures lasting up to 24 days. Our trips operate in remote areas where evacuation to medical facilities may take 24 hours, or more. Weather conditions can be extreme with temperatures ranging from 0-100 degrees. Prolonged heavy rain, high winds, intense sun and / or suddenly high seas are possible.
Physical demands on the student may include carrying a backpack weighing up to 35 pounds over uneven terrain such as boulders, river beds, sharp lava, snow, fallen logs, or slippery surfaces as well as ascending and descending steep mountain slopes. While participating on a Hawaii Outdoors expedition, students will sleep outdoors, experience long physically demanding days, set up their own camp and prepare their own meals. Each student is expected to take good care of him or herself.
***Hawaii Outdoors Institute is NOT a rehabilitation program. It is not the place to quit smoking, drinking, using drugs, or to work through behavioral or psychological problems. Prior physical conditioning and an enthusiastic attitude are a necessity. Students find a Hawaii Outdoors course to be a demanding experience both physically and mentally.
Emergency Contact Info
In case of emergency we'll make every effort to contact the parent or guardian whose info was previously listed. Do you have another emergency contact in case the parent/guardians cannot be reached? Please list below:
Name
PrefixFirstLastSuffix
Relationship to Student:
Phone
Email
Student's Insurance Carrier and Policy / Group Number*
Does the student have any impairment of: (Check all that may apply, or check "None." This is the info a doctor may need, if necessary.)*
Eyes or sight
Ears or hearing
Tonsils, nose, throat
Lungs, respiratory system
Heart, circulatory system
Bones, joints, locomotor system
Stomach or digestive system
Genitourinary system
Other abdominal organs
Brain or nervous system
Blood or endocrine system
None
Please give more details about any checked items above.
Has the student: (check all that may apply, or check "None.")*
Ever been hospitalized?
Ever had surgery?
Had chronic/recurrent illnesses?
Had a recent infectious disease?
Had any recent injury?
Had diabetes?
Had seizures?
Had severe headaches?
Ever been knocked unconscious?
Ever had a head injury?
Had fainting or dizziness?
Fainted/had chest pains during exercise?
Had "Mono" in the past 12 months?
Had problems with periods/menstruation?
Had problems falling asleep/sleepwalking?
Ever had back/joint problems?
Had a history of bed-wetting?
Had problems with diarrhea/constipation?
Had any skin problems?
Had anorexia/bulimia?
None
Please give more details about any checked items above.
Are you allergic to any foods or have dietary restrictions?*
Yes
No
If yes, please give as much detail as possible to help us plan your meals. How severe is the allergy and what are the symptoms? Are you vegetarian, vegan, allergic to gluten, etc? If vegetarian do you eat eggs or fish? What are your preferred food substitutes? And anything else we should know...*
Are you allergic to insect bites or stings?*
Yes
No
If yes, how severe is it? What are the symptoms? Has a doctor prescribed an Epi-Pen? (If so, please bring at least 2 Epi-Pens)*
Any other allergies? If so, how severe? What are the symptoms?
Do you currently have or have a history of Asthma?*
Yes
No
If yes, please give more details. Is it well controlled with an inhaler? (If so, please bring an inhaler.) What triggers an attack? When was the last episode? Have you ever been hospitalized? ***Please note- if SCUBA is included in your course, a doctor will need to approve your PADI scuba medical form.*
The student's swimming ability is:*
Non-swimmer / Beginner
Recreationally proficient
Excellent
Prescription Medications:*
This student does not need any prescription medications while on course.
This student will take the following medication(s) while on course:
Prescription Medication- Please list the medication, reason for taking, when it's taken, and the amount. ***All students required to take prescription medications must be able to do so on their own. Our field instructors will do their best to give reminders, but cannot be responsible for ensuring all students take required medicine.*
The following non-prescription medications may be offered if needed to manage ilness or injury: Ibuprophen (Advil), Acetaminophen (Tylenol), Decongestant (sudafed), Antihistamine (Benadryl), Laxatives (Ex-Lax), Anti-diarrheal (Immodium A-D), Anti-itch creams, Aloe, or Cough Drops. Please list any of these, or other medications the student should NOT be given.*
All are OK to offer, if needed.
The student should NOT be offered the following:
*
Is there anything else we should know about the student that will help us have a successful course?
Authorization E-Signatures Required
I authorize Hawaii Outdoors Institute staff, representatives, contractors, or other medical personnel to obtain or provide medical care for my child, to transport him/her to a medical facility and to provide treatment (including routine or emergency health care, hospitalization, medications, anesthesia, surgery, etc.) they consider necessary for my child's health. I agree to the release of any records necessary for treatment, referral, billing or insurance purposes. Except to the extent limited in this form, the student has permission to participate in all Hawaii Outdoors activities. To the best of my knowledge, this health form contains accurate information. I will contact Hawaii Outdoors if any medical or health condition changes before the start of the course. I understand that providing inaccurate medical or health information or falsifying medical or health information can create serious risks to all participants, and can result in a student's dismissal from the program. I understand the student's ability to participate is contingent upon Hawaii Outdoors' review of all forms, including this one. I understand that although Hawaii Outdoors will review this information and may allow participation, they cannot anticipate or eliminate risks or complications posed by an individual's mental, physical, or emotional condition. I understand that my use of an E-Signature is legally binding.
Parent / Guardian E-Signature*
Date*
Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY
Student E-Signature*
Date*
Date Format: MM slash DD slash YYYY
Thank you so much for taking the time to fill out this form. We will do our best to keep your student safe, healthy, and happy! | {
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Florida senate president aims to hand out rare pay raises
State workers may get first hike in six years
6:47 AM,
Mar. 11, 2013
Written by
Margie Menzel
and David Royse
The Senate president reiterated Friday that lawmakers will try to give state workers their first raise in six years, though he warned about the unpredictable nature of economic circumstances that could derail the plan.
Speaking at a luncheon of the Capital Tiger Bay Club, Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, said the move to give state workers more money was bipartisan. Sen. Bill Montford, D-Tallahassee, is one of its chief backers.
"Bill Montford and I are working together as partners to try to find the money to end the six-year drought and give state employees a raise this year," Gaetz ... | {
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Vietnam veteran, artist to hang haunting portraits of soldiers at Middletown City Hall
Artist’s haunting portraits of soldiers to fill City Hall in permanent installation
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12:43 pm EDT, Sunday, July 31, 2016
Middletown artist David Schulz has been commissioned by the city of Middletown to create a 21-foot work of art for council chambers on the Vietnam War in a Pentagon project to mark the 50th anniversary. He is drawing seven panels with portraits depicting the Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Gulf, World War I and II and Korea. less
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Middletown artist David Schulz has been commissioned by the city of Middletown to create a 21-foot work of art for council chambers on the Vietnam War in a Pentagon project to mark the 50th anniversary. He is drawing seven panels with portraits depicting the Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Gulf, World War I and II and Korea. less
Middletown artist David Schulz has been commissioned by the city of Middletown to create a 21-foot work of art for council chambers on the Vietnam War in a Pentagon project to mark the 50th anniversary. He is ... more
Photo: Cassandra Day — The Middletown Press
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MIDDLETOWN >> The eyes are what first draw you in.
Those of an utterly exhausted World War II soldier with a rifle at his back in a camouflage helmet staring at the camera. An Afghanistan war servicewoman in mid-stride, shouldering a 3-year-old girl while gripping the hand of an older girl who shares her smile.
Seven charcoal renderings, each with the ribbons that were handed out to those who served in both world wars — plus Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq — will stand below the words, “All Gave Some, Some Gave All. You are Not Forgotten.”
These individually framed paper-on-wood panels, each 30 inches by 44 inches, flanking a Vietnam-era veterans honor roll and Vietnam quotes from the works of Russell Library’s They Were There writing group members, will soon adorn City Hall Council Chambers on this, the 50th anniversary of the war.
The artist is Vietnam veteran and Middletown resident David Schulz, who many may know from his striking portraits of those he’s met and from commissioned works like that of the late Middletown Area Transit Director Tom Cheeseman in the new station on North Main Street.
They honor those who served during “the longest American war,” which (while undeclared) ran from about 1955 to 1975.
“We are determined to thank and honor our Vietnam veterans for their service, valor and sacrifice more than 50 years ago,” the letter reads.
Schulz, who says he works very quickly, began the project right after the July 5 council meeting and by July 12, he had completed the first panel — a haunting rendering of the WWI soldier.
On July 12, Schulz put the finishing touches on that charcoal in his studio.
When he and his wife Carol bought their home, Schulz converted the sun room at the rear of his home into a studio — featuring his character-driven paintings and drawings of people, including a self-portrait. There’s one of his son’s boss — a brewery owner — with perfectly coiffed hair, a goatee and a face of lean, sharp angles and saucer-sized eyes. “I bought this house for the studio,” he explained.
Schulz, a radio operator who was drafted in 1967 at age 23, carried radios for the battalion commander. “You were also a target. You were walking around with radio out there.” He said the enemy would see a cluster of radio antennas in the jungle and think, “There’s got to be a big shot there.”
When he went in, he was the equivalent of the rank of corporal; he left a sergeant. “Now why I got promoted, I have no idea. ... it was like somebody else was promoting their guys. I don’t know how it happened.”
He was a sergeant for four to five months. In total he served 20½ months. “I managed to survive without a physical scratch or an emotional one,” Schulz said.
When Schulz set out to find inspiration for the project, he immediately conjured up an image of the photos that flashed across the television screen during a 2003 “Nightline” episode. They were interspersed with the names of each of the 721 soldiers killed in the Iraq war in 2003 — read by anchor Ted Koppel.
“I was always drawn to that —looking intently at these face of young people who basically died for no reason at all ... so that became my focus.”
During Vietnam, soldiers served for one year, Schulz explained.
Many were discharged before their 365 days in country had been served, according to Deputy Mayor Bob Santangelo. Television played a large part in what Americans saw of the Vietnam War. “They wanted to show soldiers heading home. What the armed forces didn’t show was the flood of soldiers arriving for duty,” explained Santangelo, a specialist first-class combat veteran who served at an artillery fire base in Phan Thiet in 1969.
“The goal was to stop the spread of communism,” Santangelo said, during the Cold War.
Like many who served in Vietnam, Schulz came back with a wariness of the armed forces. “I’m against the government, what (it does) to young people’s lives, but I’m in no way against the young people. Being a veteran of Vietnam myself, I know what being in war is all about and especially ... in a war where you’re just basically cannon fodder.
“Whether you personally come home is not the issue the government cares about. ... These days, they prefer you didn’t come home because you might come home a basket case. Then they have to provide medical service for the rest of your life ,which could be 60 years.”
That’s why his focus is on soldiers themselves and why he chose portraits. “In almost every image, at least one of the figures is going to be connecting eyeball to eyeball with the viewer,” Schulz explained.
He scoured the internet looking for war photographs that he could use as inspiration. When he settled on them, he tried to contact the wire service photographers that had taken the shots but received no response. Others had no credit, Schulz explained, but in each one, he made them his own by changing the sex, faces or other details of the soldiers. He chose two Native Americans for the Word War one depiction; another is a nurse caring for a soldier during the Korean War and for the Iraq War, a female soldier.
Schulz says he’ll easily finish the artwork by the Sept. 27 opening at City Hall.
Meanwhile, the Middletown Council of Veterans is hoping for more names for the Vietnam-era honor roll. Those who served in the Vietnam era — whether in Vietnam or elsewhere — will be included on the list. Those eligible are former soldiers who lived in Middletown during their time at war or city residents who at some time lived in Middletown following their service.
Information may be sent to the Middletown Council of Veterans, 58 Bernie O’Rourke Drive, Middletown CT 06457, by Aug. 15. | {
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The Touch Of Happiness
Below is the poem entitled The Touch Of Happiness which was written by poet
Litan
Dey. Please feel free to comment on this poem. However, please remember, PoetrySoup is a place of encouragement and growth.
The Touch Of Happiness
I
Diluted in the silence
All are enjoying Freshers party
Nobody knows when I go
Sounds were like buzzing fly.
I
Join wholeheartedly
Sudden attack on my door
Call for dining room.
Many times, many days
They remain suspended in the subconscious
The diet body
Fret with malice
Yet working!
I’m absolutely fit and jobless here…
I
Be missing in a hushed monastery
And senility
When I will be hoary like my parents
Who will take care of me?
My parents or my future!
I
Already lost the drops for them
Only the silent dry pain of heart is left
Senility of me and my parents must be same
I can't remember by no means
what i have done for them!!
15/09/2013
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Litan, Thank you for spreading and sharing your kindness.
I am very grateful and thankful to all who have been supportive of me one way or another.
Your heartfelt words are the main attraction of who you are…
Thanks for your inspiring visit. ----- Happy Thanksgiving ~ LINDA
I think that we give our parents as much as they give us. Only we don't realize it until later in life. A beautiful poem that gives the reader much to think about. Really good poem, Litan!...Thank you for the kind comments! | {
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“Happy New Year!” is an expression we will say over and over again for the next several days. We will joyfully shout “Happy New Year!” to friends, family, co- workers and complete strangers. It is helpful to determine what season you are in to properly equip yourself for the New Year. I pray each of us will examine ourselves and trust the Spirit of the Lord to guide us through whatever lies ahead.
What time is it in your life? You can start this New Year by striving to do those things which strengthen you as a person. No matter what season you are living through, take time to acknowledge the goodness of God and have an attitude of thankfulness.
Reflect on this text, examine your life, determine what time it is for you and have a Happy New Year!
Ecclesiastes 3:1-13
3:1 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
3:2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3:3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
3:5 a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
3:6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
3:7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
3:8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
3:9 What gain have the workers from their toil?
3:10 I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.
3:11 He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
3:12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;
3:13 moreover, it is God’s gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.
May God’s richest blessings be yours!
Brenda Girton-Mitchell
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Scripture Basis
From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view; even though we once knew Christ from a human point of view, we know him no longer in that way. So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us. So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:16-20 | {
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Sunlight is for suckers. The New York Post reported on Tuesday that the White House will not release the $328,835 snapshots taken of the president’s Boeing VC-25A that buzzed lower Manhattan. The entire world has seen news and amateur photos and videos of the incident. But if President Obama has his way, taxpayers won’t be able to see the flyover photos they paid for with their own money.
This will make for an interesting response to my Freedom of Information Act requests. After the bizarre mission caused distress and panic among countless New York City residents who were intentionally left in the dark about the photo-op stunt, I filed two public records requests with the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Joint Staff FOIA Requester Service Center. The first one requests any and all communication — including e-mail and other public records and including any and all correspondence between the White House Military Office, Department of Defense, and other agencies — related to the planned federal aerial mission over New York City on April 27, 2009. Specifically, I requested all public records related to and including the flight manifests, and related to the origin of the request for the mission. The second filing requests any and all photos taken during the planned federal aerial mission approved by the White House Military Office.
What rationale could they possibly use to stifle public disclosure? National security? These were glamour shots to enhance the Air Force One photo portfolio. That’s no secret. The White House ‘fessed up on that. Withholding the photos serves only one purpose: protecting the backsides of those involved in this botched p.r. mission.
From Day One, President Obama has demonstrated a rather self-serving selectivity when it comes to transparency. The Obama White House rushed to reverse an 18-year ban photographing the flag-draped coffins of troops arriving back on American soil. And at the behest of the American Civil Liberties Union, his administration is set to release at least 21 classified photographs by May 28 showing detainee abuse in prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Openness in government is fine if it hurts America’s reputation, but not if it harms Obama’s.
Moreover, hostility to transparency is a running thread through Obama’s cabinet:
• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for years fought disclosure of massive donations from foreign governments and corporations who filled her husband’s library and foundation coffers.
• Top Obama advisor David Axelrod ran fear-mongering astro-turf campaigns in support of a huge utility rate hike – and failed to disclose that the ads were funded for Commonwealth Edison in Chicago.
• Labor Secretary Hilda Solis failed to disclose that she was director and treasurer of a union-promoting lobbying group pushing legislation that she was co-sponsoring.
• Attorney General Eric Holder overruled his own lawyers in the Justice Department over the issue of D.C. voting rights (which he and President Obama support) and refused to make public the staffers’ opinion that a House bill on the matter was unconstitutional.
• And as I reported last month, Obama’s nominee for the No. 2 official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, former King County, Wash. Executive Ron Sims, has the distinction of being the most fined government official in his state’s history for suppressing public records from taxpayers.
President Obama set the tone, breaking his transparency pledge with the very first bill he signed into law. On January 29, the White House announced that Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act had been posted online for review. One problem: Obama had already signed it – in violation of his “sunlight before signing” pledge to post legislation for public comment on the White House website five days before he sealed any deal.
Obama broke the pledge again with the mad rush to pass his trillion-dollar, pork-stuffed stimulus package full of earmarks he denied existed. Jim Harper of the Cato Institute reported in April 2009: “Of the eleven bills President Obama has signed, only six have been posted on Whitehouse.gov. None have been posted for a full five days after presentment from Congress…”
It’s this utter disregard for taxpayer accountability that prompted hundreds of thousands of citizens to take to the streets on Tax Day 2009 for Tea Party protests. The trampling of transparency inspired signs that read: “No legislation without deliberation” and “READ THE BILL FIRST.” Obama’s response was first to claim that he hadn’t even heard of the Tea Party movement and then, on his 100-day celebration, to deride all those Americans he is supposed to represent of “playing games.”
Projection, anyone? When it comes to toying with transparency, President Obama is a master at “playing games.” | {
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Ed Pavlić’s first novel, Another Kind of Madness, will be published by Milkweed Editions in March 2019. Widely published as a poet, Pavlić is the author of the collection Visiting Hours at the Color Line, winner of the 2013 National Poetry Series, as well as several others, including Live at the Bitter End: A Trial by Opera, Let’s Let That Are Not Yet: Inferno, and Let It Be Broke (forthcoming in 2020). His critical work includes ‘Who Can Afford to Improvise?’: James Baldwin and Black Music, the Lyric and the Listeners and Crossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African American Literary Culture. Pavlić is Distinguished Research Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Georgia.
This book release reception and reading is presented by the Willson Center, the Creative Writing Program, and the department of English, in partnership with Avid Bookshop.
About Another Kind of Madness:
Ndiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can’t protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes out and meets her equal and opposite:Shame Luther, a no-nonsense construction worker by day and a self-taught piano player by night. The love story that ensues propels them on an unforgettable journey from Chicago’s South Side to the coast of Kenya as they navigate the turbulence of long-buried pasts and an uncertain future. A stirring story tuned to the clash between soul musicʼs vision of our essential responsibility to each other and a world that breaks us down and tears us apart, Another Kind Of Madness is an indelible tale of human connection. | {
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"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such trifling investment of fact." Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
"It's like religion. Heresy in science is thought of as a bad thing, whereas it should be just the opposite." - Thomas Gold
Unnamed Law: If it happens, it must be possible.
" If you steal from one person, well they call that plagarism. I steal from everyone, they call that research. - Woody Guthrie
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C. Clarke's First Law
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. - H. Poincare
"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature." - Michael Faraday
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck
Corollary: Science advances funeral by funeral.
A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds. - Mark Twain
Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - R. George
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are that good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken
I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here ... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. - U.S. Senator Simon Cameron, on the Smithsonian Institute (1901)
The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it! The Roman Rule
"I never make predictions, especially about the future" - Casey Stengle | {
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**************************************** Mother Earth is extremely important to us. She is the sacred vessel that contains the singularity that gave birth to our galaxy. She and she alone holds within her the Light energy stargate that sustains all the realities which make up our galaxy.
Massive, unprecedented ET interventions are completely disrupting any and all plans to start World War III, according to multiple whistleblowers. This and other fascinating developments suggest that 2012 may live up to many prophets' expectations.
[PLEASE NOTE: This investigation is undergoing dynamic updates, including new sections that will be uploaded as time permits. For this reason, please LINK to it and pull excerpts, but do not COPY and REPOST it, as it will be constantly changing. Thanks!]
NEGATIVE FORCES ARE REAL -- AND SO IS THE RESISTANCE
Whether we like it or not, everyone is now being confronted with evidence that the world is being controlled by powerful, occult, negative forces behind the scenes.
In my full-length e-book entitled Financial Tyranny, I shared everything I have gathered on this controversial subject -- since I first found out about it in 1992.
If you have already read Financial Tyranny, the full scope of the problem we now face will be much more apparent as you enter into this investigation. Some of it will become clear as you read this first section.
This is the sequel to Financial Tyranny -- where we talk about the "good side".
MASS ARRESTS
Multiple insider sources, each of whom have been "vetted out" for their credibility and trustworthiness, have now confirmed that mass arrests of thousands of key conspirators in this vast cabal are about to occur.
A highly secretive, highly coordinated operation -- working for the good of humanity -- is about to make its move. The Pentagon "good guys" are now in full political and logistical cooperation with a remarkable 134-nation alliance -- to bring the perpetrators to justice and free our planet.
The security around this enormous operation has been vast. Even those who will be affected by it -- and arrested -- have no idea of the staggering scope of what is about to be revealed before the eyes of the public.
Very recently I had four hours of verbal discussion with a new, public, high-level whistleblower regarding these imminent mass arrests.
We are set to record an interview at 6PM Pacific time for public release on this website -- within hours of when this first section should be posted. I will post-produce and release this interview as soon as possible.
I fully confirmed this man's bonafides and his testimony with one of my top insiders, who I brought into the discussion.
Dozens of specific points, not available in any public form, were authenticated in this vetting-out process.
22 TRUCKLOADS' WORTH OF DOCUMENTS
We now know that the plan for mass arrests has been very actively in the works for at least 33 years. A five-inch thick briefing document was presented to our new contact in 1979 that outlined the whole plan.
A staggering wealth of irrefutable evidence is backing this plan, including over 22 eighteen-wheeler truckloads' worth of documents that have long since been scanned and secured in multiple locations.
We were told that one single file-box of documents like this was strong enough to bring down the former Italian government, as you see here: Prosecutors demand 5-year sentence for Berlusconi over witness tamperinghttp://rt.com/news/line/2012-02-15/#id26529
Prosecutors have demanded a five-year prison sentence for former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in his trial on corruption charges.
Prosecutor Fabio De Pasquale asked the court on Wednesday to find the former PM guilty of having paid a British lawyer $600,000 to lie in other trials.
Those proceedings involve charges of tax evasion and false accounting during Berlusconi’s business career.
Other cases pending against him in the Milan courts include a trial on charges of having paid for sex with an underage prostitute. Berlusconi stepped down as the Premier in November last year.
EVERY EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO REASSURE AND PROTECT THE PUBLIC
The people who are about to do this are well aware of every concern you have -- as an informed reader of truth websites and materials.
Martial law will NOT be declaredwhen this happens.
The military will NOT take control of the government.
Innocent civilians will NOT be imprisoned or harmed in any way.
Any troops who attempt to carry out unlawful orders of this sort, on behalf of the "bad guys," will be outnumbered and resisted.
Every effort will be made to focus on eliminating the problem -- and immediately returning the power to the people in an orderly fashion.
New elections will need to be organized, considering that many, if not most politicians in the United States could be found culpable -- either directly or through failure to have taken action.
This alliance intends to break out free energy and many other technologies that were stolen from us.The fossil fuel economy ensured that occult global control and the systematic killing of our planet would continue.
THEY DIDN'T PLEDGE THEIR LIVES FOR THE COMFORT OF BANKERS
We now know that 90 percent of the US military are aware of this plan in some form -- and at least 60 percent are in support of it. Many more federal marshals, police, active and retired military, and civilians will help out once they realize what is happening.
Our warriors pledged their lives to protect us. The world is not in a cartoon war between "good" and "evil", with everyone in government, corporations, media and military on the "dark" side.
Our brave and valiant soldiers have taken an oath: To protect the Constitution of the United States, and its people, against all enemies -- foreign AND domestic.
They did not pledge their lives -- their blood -- to keep a handful of sociopathic, genocidal bankers in control of the planet, its people and its resources.
We all have to live here. And if your superiors are systematically killing the planet, they are not superior.
They are similar to a massive infection that must be treated with powerful antibiotics --before it destroys the host.
Everyone has seen enough Illuminati movies by now to know that if you work for these people, no matter how high up or important you think you may be, they will undoubtedly betray you.
IT'S TIME TO READ THE TEA LEAVES
Many, many top generals left active duty, since Bush I, because they realized what was happening -- but they certainly did not retire.
We all owe them a significant debt of gratitude.
Everything is now coming to a head -- very rapidly.
The signs may be mysterious, but they are increasingly obvious.
We will review some of them in this investigation.
IT MAY SEEM DIFFICULT TO BELIEVE
I do understand the difficulty of believing that such a massive, coordinated maneuver would even be possible.
If you speak to real military people, and truly understand the role they chose to fulfill, the bigger question is: "How could they NOT do something like this?"
How could they stand by and do nothing while the entire planet itself -- and all life on it -- is being destroyed?
If a mother and child are being tortured to death in front of you, and you have the means to stop it, would you just stand there and watch?
Unless you are a sociopath,you would do something. And most people -- including our military personnel -- are not sociopaths. That number is only estimated to be 1 in 100 people, as we will see later on.
IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE IN A STRICTLY 'CLOSED' SYSTEM
Nonetheless, the scope of the negative side is so vast that it seemed impossible to be defeated -- or even resisted.
If our planet was a strictly 'closed' system with no outside players and no higher spiritual forces involved, I would definitely have to agree that this plan is so well-thought out, so massive, systemic and vast that it would be nearly impossible to defeat.
However, Divine Intervention -- not a fantasy, but very real and very tangible assistance -- is insuring that our movement into true freedom and peace will occur... with the absolute minimum amount of damage possible.
Dozens of ancient cultures featured the same prophecies about the times we are now in. These prophecies all directed our attention to a 26,000-year cycle in the Earth's axis as being the key issue to study.
As I revealed in The Source Field Investigations, the Mayan Calendar, Egyptian astronomy, Greek astronomy and Hindu astronomy all triangulated on the period of 2012-2014 as the end of the cycle -- ushering in a Golden Age of peace and prosperity.
[Technically, the Hindus are the only ones to have mentioned 2014, by tying it to a rare conjunction involving Jupiter.]
The oldest, original prophecies were not doom and gloom oriented at all. They indicated that although we would go through difficulties, like we've already been seeing, the end results would be extremely positive.
EVERYONE IN THE PENTAGON IS NOW AWARE OF IT
Top insiders have now confirmed that everyone in the Pentagon is now aware that some form of Divine Intervention is happening -- regardless of what side they are on.
Most of them do not know who is responsible. Even the "bad guys" are now saying it could be "Angels or Aliens" doing this stuff.
No one on Earth has the technology to do the things they are now seeing -- regardless of how classified that technology may be.
It is utterly astonishing that even the "bad guys" are now acknowledging this may be an angelic intervention.
Very few people have dared to break ranks and reveal what is happening, as this information is considered very highly classified.
They know that speaking out could get them, and their families, tortured and killed.
I have decided to personally take the risks involved in order to help alleviate fear -- and help you understand what is happening.
WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ABANDONED
Divine Intervention is very real.
You may be surprised to discover how extensive the intervention has now become -- and how far back in time the trail of evidence goes.
The forces behind the great religions of the world are not mythological. They are not historical artifacts buried away in scrolls and texts fewer and fewer people bother to read.
They've been here all along. They have openly walked among us in every ancient culture -- and were highly revered.
They have their own rules, their own governing bodies, and their own code of ethics.
They have avoided appearing in any obvious, worldwide, public fashion for well over 1000 years now.
Nonetheless, they have been thoroughly involved this entire time -- guiding and steering our evolution.
This critical step allowed us to become "modern", and to give us the opportunity to forget that they ever really existed -- even as they continued to guide our development, behind the scenes.
And now -- very recently -- the rules have changed... and they are being permitted to do much, much more to help the Earth and its people evolve into a higher state of consciousness.
A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE INVESTIGATION
You can't fully understand the truth if you are still living in denial.
Some of the strongest denial is from people who still believe that the "bad guys" are winning -- and are unwilling or unable to see the obvious signs of how the whole house of cards is coming down.
For that same reason, in the first section of this investigation, we will go through a variety of pieces of current-day evidence -- showing how Financial Tyranny is already very, very close to collapsing.
One of the most shocking pieces of evidence is a very public divorce between warring Illuminati factions -- namely JP Morgan/Federal Reserve versus the occult powers that have secretly occupied and seized control of the Vatican.
After reviewing many of these types of current examples, we will then debut brand-new whistleblower testimony -- suggesting 9/11 was indeed an "inside job."
This adds valuable context to our discussion of Financial Tyranny -- and gives even more evidence that the official story was a complete fabrication.
We will also explore the shocking evidence that a 7.4 earthquake on March 20th in Mexico was man-made -- for a nefarious purpose, by a group that knows it has run out of time.
SECTIONS II AND III WILL CONSIDERABLY EXPAND THE INVESTIGATION
In Section II, we will explore the mysteries, shared by insiders at great personal risk, revealing how Divine Intervention is occurring -- to preventWorld War III and defeat Financial Tyranny.
Some of this material has already been distributed online. However, I will be featuring many other fascinating data points that have remained highly classified and unavailable to the public up until now.
Then as we head into Section III, we will open up the vault, so to speak -- and explore an astonishing wealth of data that helps explain who is performing these increasingly bizarre interventions -- and why.
This stunning body of information has been available to us all along -- and has been almost completely overlooked.
Most of the pages I gathered this data from still have less than 50 hits -- as of today's date.
TIME-ENCODED PROPHECIES
Section III will add incredible context to everything we've discussed up until then... and you won't want to miss it. I myself didn't realize what we really had until I went back and did the "homework."
Some of this new data came in the form of highly clever time-encoded prophecies that could not be fully understood and appreciated until the actual dates took place.
As it turns out, the date of March 13th, 2012 was given, years in advance, as a pivotal moment in the defeat of the Old World Order. This was all documented -- and can easily be verified.
I was stunned to discover this data, for the first time, on March 11, 2012. I would have loved to have been fast enough to get it posted the next day, but this investigation could not be rushed.
March 13th was also when the ancient cycles of the Mayan Calendar went into full lock-step synchronization -- regardless of which of three counting systems you use.
These cycles will now remain harmonized -- right straight through until the Calendar's conclusion on December 21, 2012.
Of course, perma-skeptics will immediately get a satisfying laugh from this -- and that's fine -- but in The Source Field Investigations, chapter 16, page 337-358, I proved that the Mayan Calendar cycles are all neatly tied in with planetary and celestial movements.
There is solid scientific data for how planetary movements affect human behavior and emotions, which I am incorporating into my new book, The Synchronicity Key, due out this fall.
BREATHTAKING REAL-WORLD CORRELATION TO THE PROPHECY
A very interesting real-world correlation occurred around the prophetic March 13th date.
The very next day after this cycle synchronization occurred -- March 14th, 2012 -- a top Goldman Sachs official blew the whistle on Financial Tyranny... triggering an avalanche that has only just begun.
Goldman Sachs is one of the main Federal Reserve banking families -- along with the likes of JP Morgan, the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds.
THOSE WHO ARE OUTSIDE OF TIME
I have had many personal examples of "angelic" or "extraterrestrial" forces bending time and giving me accurate prophecies. Many of them have been documented on this website.
As one recent example, last February I published very powerful dreams telling me "the next disaster on the scope of the BP oil spill" was about to occur -- and three weeks later we had the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
I have twenty years of documenting my dreams every morning. They have been remarkably accurate in predicting the future.
Four years after I began this practice, I established direct contact with the people who are helping this planet "from above."
For this same reason, I do not see a difference between "angels" and "extraterrestrials."
The mediahasmanipulated us into believing extraterrestrials are scary creatures.
Once people realize that the vast majority of them are humans -- and in many cases nearly indistinguishable from us in their appearance -- the fear factorwill significantly reduce.
WE ARE ALREADY AN INTERSTELLAR SPECIES
Over the years I have built up a team of reliable and trustworthy intelligence sources -- people who have direct access to various parts of the highly classified insider world.
The UFO cover-up has been a key part of this insider world all along. Modern computer technology is only one of many tools we have reverse-engineered from this "celestial endowment" of deliberately crashed discs.
If events like Roswell hadn't happened, we may not have developed computer technology at all. Thankfully, we now have the full power of the Internet as we move through the great prophetic year of 2012.
Furthermore, the technologies we did not get public access to are so advanced that everything we see in Star Trek, Stargate and just about any other sci-fi movie you can think of is available now -- ready to use.
Many insiders have confirmed this. You can see them, hear them and meet them at conferences. The main avenues for Disclosure have been Dr. Steven Greer's Disclosure Project and Kerry Cassidy and Bill Ryan's Project Camelot. I have closely worked with both groups.
Laughter and sarcasm is simply the result of an elaborate brainwashing campaign -- ongoing since the 1940s -- and it is rooted in fear.This fear was programmed -- by an astonishing crush of xenophobic Hollywood propaganda films.
Regardless of most people's inability to believe such a vast conspiracy is possible, earth humanity is already an interstellar species. The truth simply hasn't been aired in the mainstream media... yet.
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Our opinions have been cleverly manipulated by a vast, occult conspiracy going back hundreds of years in the past -- if not thousands.
The higher forces ultimately are not allowed to intervene, beyond a certain level, before a given moment in time. That moment has now arrived -- as has been predicted for thousands of years.
Prior to the moment of mass, public Divine Intervention, the negative forces on Earth will be confused -- asmany of their dirty tricks will be allowed to occur, while many others -- far more devastating -- are completely blocked.
The negative elite intended for 9/11 to be the "kill shot" that would defeat all resistance -- and usher in the New World Order.
History has a great sense of irony, as 9/11 became the critical error that triggered a global awakening-- and ensuredthe cabal's own defeat.
Thisis almost certainly why it was allowed to occur -- by the same higher forces that are now systematically preventing much greater atrocities from occurring.
The enormous scope of these interventions will become clear as you read Section II -- and they have been ongoing since at least the dawning of the nuclear age.
Most importantly, Divine Intervention cannot occur until and unless there is a significant-enough movement from the mass public to support these actions. Those are the rules.
IT WILL BE A PROFOUND SHIFT -- AND IT HAS ALREADY STARTED
That mass public will has finally arrived -- and the positive militaries of the world will help ensure it will succeed.
If the rumors I am hearing are true, we will soon see mass arrests of many key conspirators in government, military, finance companies, defense contractors, media, pharmaceutical corporations and so on.
The evidence that will be presented will leave no conceivable room for doubt -- except, perhaps, for those most addicted to "fear porn", who automatically assume whatever they see, hear and read must be the opposite of the truth -- regardless of the evidence.
Benjamin Fulford, former Asia-Pacific bureau chief for Forbes Magazine, has been covering this evolving story on a week-by-week basis for well over three years now -- and other sources have since come forward.
Fulford spoke for over a year about a lawsuit that would help break open this vast conspiracy -- and end Financial Tyranny. An exact date for the filing of the complaint was given as it got closer.
A little over a week after the date -- on November 23, 2011 -- the complaint was filed, for everyone to read. The legal expenses involved in its preparation were vast. Fulford's credibility was significantly enhanced. He promised -- and his sources delivered.
Little did I know that by publicly tearing it apart and looking for flaws and weaknesses, I would be contacted by the alliance that filed it -- and would become one of its strongest public advocates.
DRAMATIC NEW DEVELOPMENTS
I can now say from firsthand knowledge that this 134-nation alliance is supporting an imminent, massive geopolitical shift -- into freedom.
Our ancient brothers and sisters, seemingly lost to the pages of history, have provided critical support -- now including direct, astonishing military interventions -- to help make this unprecedented operation achievable... and ensure its success.
Therefore, it is now safe to say that everything is happening right on schedule.
This may sound crazy to you now. I get that. I would have felt the same way if I had not found so much evidence to the contrary -- much of which I released in the epic Source Field Investigations book.
WE HAVE OVERLOOKED THE OBVIOUS SIGNPOSTS
Once we realize the human race is much, much more extensive than we thought, and that our relatives do indeed follow a Prime Directive, we will marvel at how many obvious signposts we have overlooked.
For over 1200 years now, our ancient human allies have been using a unique method to communicate with us -- and all of these communications were focused on what is happening now.
During the last 30 years in particular, they have used this system extensively -- revealing who they are, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.
All of this will be laid out for you in Section III.
For now, we will go into the "meat" of Section I -- and discuss some of the obvious, public signposts of what is about to happen.
THE SIGNS ARE ALREADY THERE -- 450 TOP CEOs FLEE THE SINKING SHIP
The vast majority of trouble in the world is being generated by a highly occult, highly secretive elite, hidden away in the G5 countries -- and manipulating the financial system, politicians and militaries behind the scenes.
There are increasingly blatant signals that the mass arrests are about to happen. CEOs and top corporate executives are now resigning in massive numbers.
"American Kabuki" has diligently cataloged an incredible 450 confirmed resignations -- just since September 1, 2011 -- in chronological order, complete with supporting links in every case.
The number of resignations has significantly increased in the last 2-3 months, including an astonishing number of very high-profile people.
For example, there was a remarkable 48-percent increase in the number of CEO resignations just between the months of December and January -- as you are about to see.
Skeptics -- who may well be paid disinformants -- have tried to write this off as all part of the normal turnover in the corporate world. However, a Fiscal Times article from February 23rd clearly revealed this is not "normal" at all.
THE FORCED REBUTTAL
The mass resignations have not gone unnoticed to the readers of The Fiscal Times. This is a very real story -- causing very real anxiety.
Michelle Hirsch wrote "What CEO Musical Chairs Means to the Job Market" for The Fiscal Times on February 23, 2012 -- to hopefully soothe their readers' fears. What CEO Musical Chairs Means to the Job Market
After three years of relative stability in the corner offices of corporate America, 2012 is shaping up as a year of CEO musical chairs.
That’s because a wave of executives are looking to step down, cash in their stock options as stocks rise and avoid new government regulations that many see as too challenging and stressful....
In particular, the revolving door is spinning faster among health care and financial services executives, who are jumping ship, retiring, or being forced out at a quicker clip than their counterparts in other industries.
Last month, 25 health care CEOs and 13 financial services CEOs departed, making those sectors the two biggest culprits of the rising turnover tide.
A growing push from the federal government to police the financial services industry and clamp down on executive compensation is prompting the exodus of CEOs in the financial services industry, said Don Hambrick, a professor at PennState’s Smeal School of Business....
The number of CEOs who left their posts in January spiked by 48 percent over December, rising to 123 – the highest level since May 2010, according to data from outplacement service firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Fifty-one percent resigned or stepped down, 26 percent retired, and only 9 percent left to take other jobs....
While changes at the top may unnerve some employees, rarely do CEO switches bring about mass terminations of existing employees, [Matt McGreal, a principal at Crist|Kolder Associates, a CEO search firm] said.
STUNNING CHANGES ARE UNDERWAY
The 450 resignations are documented, proven, and cannot be shot down.
This Fiscal Times article is our key to prove that this is real enough to be tracked by the media, and is in no way part of "normal turnover" in the corporate world.
We applaud Fiscal Times for their bravery in covering this evolving story.
Better yet, these mass resignations are only one part of a much larger mosaic of stunning new developments.
MASS ARRESTS HAVE ALREADY STARTED
Mass arrests have already taken place against senior staff of the Fox-owned Sun tabloid in England in three separate bursts -- now encompassing 21 top Sun employees under "Operation Weeting".
In case you haven't followed this story, Fox (News Corporation) was working with the police and the government to tap people's phone calls and voicemails -- and publish disparaging information on celebrities and public figures through these ill-gotten means.
When you include the two other known operations that have been reported -- code-named Elveden and Tuleta -- the total number of arrests has now encompassed a stunning 47 people.
The number of people arrested in Operation Weeting, which has been running since last January when police reopened investigations, stands at 21.
Two other linked investigations – Operation Elveden into corrupt payments to police and Operation Tuleta into computer hacking – have resulted in 26 [additional] arrests.
JAMES MURDOCH STEPS DOWN AS EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN OF [FOX] NEWS INTERNATIONAL
Rupert Murdoch's son, James Murdoch, resigned from his position as executive chairman of News International on February 29th -- indicating the extreme scope of the trouble.
In time, this resignation will be seen as a monumental event -- one of the greatest signposts of the mass arrests that were about to happen.
American readers may not be aware of the power and magnitude of what is already happening in the UK -- but our next excerpt will spell it out very nicely.
THE "DAY OUT OF TIME"
It may also be significant that Murdoch announced his resignation on February 29, 2012.
As our graph shows, February 29, 2012 is the "Day Out of Time" immediately preceding the pivotal March 13th Mayan Calendar date -- where the cycles shift into full synchronization.
This "Day Out of Time" has great significance in the Mayan system, as we will see in Section III.
Some scholars consider this "day out of time" to be "highly exceptional", in that it has "never happened before and will never happen again" in the Mayan system -- and it directly sets up the final synchronization date of March 13th.
The above image was generated years before 2012 -- in anticipation of the events that were predicted to come.
Little did we know that the "Day Out of Time" would become the very day that Fox News International effectively admitted, to the public, that the accusations against them were true.
The crimes they are accused of could, and will, ultimately engulf a vast majority of the mainstream media -- in its totality. Not all journalists are culpable, but those who wanted to keep their jobs have been heavily manipulated.
James Murdoch is to step down as executive chairman of News International, it was announced today.
Parent company News Corporation said in a statement the move would allow him to focus on expanding the company's international TV businesses.
Mr Murdoch has faced intense scrutiny in the wake of the News of the World phone hacking scandal....
Labor MP Chris Bryant, who received a £30,000 settlement after having his phone hacked by the News of the World, said: "After all we've heard, James Murdoch's resignation is long overdue.
"On his watch, we have seen the biggest corporate corruption scandal since 1720 -- and historic titles like The Sun have been brought into disrepute... He is not a fit and proper person."....
Ex-minister and former National Union of Journalists president Denis MacShane, who received a £32,500 settlement, said: "The Murdoch empire, as in Greek tragedy, is collapsing in full view of an astonished world.
"The crown prince has been sacrificed to appease the public horror at what is being revealed of thecollusion, corruption and criminality of the Murdoch empire -- as it bought politicians and police indiscriminately."
TWO SENIOR MURDOCH JOURNALISTS ATTEMPT SUICIDE
Sadly, in addition to the mass arrests of 47 people and the resignation of executive chairman James Murdoch, two senior journalists were so threatened by this imminent exposure of wrongdoing that they tried to kill themselves.
Two senior journalists working for Rupert Murdoch's News International have attempted suicide as pressure mounts at the scandal-hit publisher of the now-defunct News of the World, according to media reports.
The suicide attempts follow weeks of intense scrutiny of the role of The Sun, another Murdoch paper, in the phone-hacking scandal and police bribery case.
The man and the woman, who were reportedly involved in separate incidents, were rescued in time, a friend of one of them said, according to a report Tuesday on stuff.co.nz....
"It was not a suicide pact," the friend told the New Zealand-based news organization. "The attempts were not simultaneous and there is no suggestion of a pact."....
"People think that they've been thrown under a bus," one News International employee told Reuters. "They're beyond angry - there's an utter sense of betrayal, not just with the organization but with a general lynch-mob hysteria."
News International, the European arm of Murdoch's empire, is facing multiple criminal investigations and civil court cases as well as a public inquiry into press standards after long-simmering criticism of its practices came to a head last July.
Politicians once close to Murdoch, including Prime Minister David Cameron, turned their backs on him and demanded answers after the Guardian newspaper revealed the News of the World had hacked the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
The London Evening Standard reported that other News International journalists are “terribly stressed and many are on the edge.” The company has reportedly offered psychiatric help to any journalist who wants help.
I certainly would not want to take the invitation to "step into my office" from any News Corporation psychiatrist -- given what we know about MK-Ultra techniques, which were revealed in open Congressional hearings from the 1970s.
Prime Minister David Cameron, the highest elected official in Great Britain, turned on Murdoch in the hopes of saving himself -- as he has been directly linked to the corruption.
The blowback from this "Epic Greek Tragedy" -- the "biggest corporate scandal since 1720" -- will almost certainly return to the United States. Obviously these criminal practices within the Fox News empire were not limited to the United Kingdom.
It is very likely that other journalists, in other media conglomerates, are starting to feel the same sense of foreboding.
How much have you been hearing about this "epic" story in the Federal Reserve-controlled American corporate media?
KERRY CASSIDY REVEALS EVEN MORE IN HER BLOG
Insider sources revealed a "plot twist" in this story to Kerry Cassidy of Project Camelot -- whom I've collaborated with for years now in our search for truth and freedom.
This critical detail has not emerged... yet... but the trials have barely even started. If the full-blown mass arrests do happen, the disclosure of what you are about to read will pale in comparison to everything else that comes out.
CLANDESTINE SHADOW PHONE NETWORK also referred to as an INTERNATIONAL INTRANET
ACCORDING TO A SOURCE: There is a deep shadow network behind the traditional telephone network that you only get access to by invitation.
It involves people who are on the criminal side -- as well as, no doubt, government and alphabet agency types who tap into phone calls, and then sell them on a black market for lots of money.
[They are sold] to, for example, HIGH FREQUENCY TRADERS (HFTs) -- who then use this info to make trades, currency calls, etc.
You can see where a network like this can be very advantageous to the participants.
FURTHER: This also relates back to the recent MURDOCH TELEPHONE TAPPING SCANDAL ... because what apparently did not come out during that inquiry and trial is that Murdoch's boys did not have to tap anyone's phone directly.
Instead, they simply connected with an individual who then gave them access to this hidden phone network.
They told them what calls, from which people, they wanted to PURCHASE... and paid them for the 'tapped calls'.
RUSH LIMBAUGH AND THE FALL OF SHOCK-JOCK HATE RADIO
There is no question that News International owns and runs the right-wing hate speech industry in the US. They are now engulfed in a massive scandal on this front as well.
Advertisers have abandoned Rush Limbaugh's program in droves -- 98 different corporations within days of when the problem started.
This was triggered by the public uproar that occurred when Limbaugh labeled GeorgetownUniversity law student Sandra Fluke as a "slut" and a "prostitute" -- for lobbying to provide better public access to birth control.
The total number of companies that have dropped Rush Limbaugh, as of March 21, 2012, is now up to a staggering 142.
"They’ve specifically asked that you schedule their commercials in dayparts or programs free of content that you know are deemed to be offensive or controversial (for example, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Leykis, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity)."
This helps explain why, on Rush Limbaugh’s flagship station WABC, almost all of the commercial breaks were filled with unpaid public service announcements....
But it’s not just Limbaugh that these advertisers want to disassociate with, but other big names in right-wing radio too.
As the Daily Beast’s John Avalon notes, this is unprecedented in the 20-plus years that Limbaugh and his imitators have been on the air -- and could spell real trouble for an industry that’s already suffering demographically....
The advertising flight is reminiscent of Glenn Beck’s Fox News program. After major companies refused to advertise on Beck’s show in light of racially insensitive comments, he was left with just fringe businesses like survival seed banks and gold sellers.
Not long thereafter, he left Fox, reportedly under pressure.
NOT ALL OF IT IS BAD
Clear Channel is the mega-conglomerate that owns Premiere Radio Networks, which carries Rush Limbaugh and almost all other right-wing hate-radio "shock jocks." However, "Almost all of Clear Channel's primary talk stations are affiliated with Fox News Radio for national news -- part of a multi-year deal between Clear Channel and Fox."
Though the names may change, it's the same corporate entity running the show here. Not all of it is bad, either.
Clear Channel and Premiere run Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, which I've appeared on more than 15 times -- and is a marvelous program.
It is perfectly acceptable to see how a company can have positive and negative aspects mixed together.
MOST TELEVISION NETWORKS FEATURE A VARIETY OF POSITIVE THINGS AS WELL
Most network and cable television stations feature a variety of content that is positive, in varying ways, for humanity. The vast majority of people working within these groups are honest, hardworking and positive -- and I know some of them.
I would strongly encourage everyone not to throw the baby out with the bath water. Once the conspirators have been arrested, these people will be able to step up much more -- and make a difference that will benefit everyone.
Many of the broadcast and cable networks have already aired programs that have a positive impact on the world -- and in some cases have assisted with Disclosure.
As one example, I have appeared in seven episodes of Ancient Aliens on History Channel -- and am now developing my own show around the Source Field Investigations book.
This is not just a "what if", but is already significantly far down the road. I have not published the details of this just yet, for everyone's protection -- but once we have a more stable footing, I will definitely do so.
By the time we are ready to air the show, it may well be a very different world.
I look forward to seeing these good people be allowed to do their jobs, without restrictions -- and the incredible revolution of awareness this will then generate.
HATE DOESN'T SELL ANYMOREAdvertisers are now fleeing right-wing hate programming in droves. Without the oxygen of advertising money, these programs will quickly suffocate.
This programming is -- and always has been -- propaganda.
It is designed to support and enhance Financial Tyranny -- by agitating the public and getting them to turn on each other, thereby steering them away from the "men behind the curtain."
The impact from Rush Limbaugh’s unrelenting assault is vast. In fact, the entire right-wing radio industry could potentially go down with him.
The money making industry thrived due to Rush Limbaugh’s highly controversial rhetoric – and now, they can thank him for its potential demise.
Three long decades of misogyny has poured out of his mouth endlessly into the airwaves....
But this latest controversy comes at a particularly difficult time for right-wing talk radio. They are playing to a (sometimes literally) dying demographic.
Rush & Co. rate best among old, white males. They have been steadily losing women and young listeners, who are alienated by the angry, negative, obsessive approach to political conservations.
Add to that the fact that women ages 24–55 are the prize advertising demographic, and you have a perfect storm emerging after Limbaugh’s Sandra Fluke comments.
Advertisers are waking up. Extreme partisan views conveyed through the airways against their main targeted demographic, do not sell.
THE WEBSITE WAS SCRUBBED -- BUT HE CANNOT ESCAPE ACCOUNTABILITY
Startlingly, the Fox / Clear Channel conglomerate attempted to hide the evidence and delete all the offending content from their websites featuring Rush Limbaugh -- but it was far too little, too late.
It turns out brands aren't really very excited about being associated with bullies smearing private citizens. The list of brands insisting on this is pretty impressive. Ford, Toyota, GM, McDonalds and Subway, to name a few.
All of which leaves Rushbo and Company with a dilemma. After all, their bread and butter is controversy and hate.
If these major national advertisersdon't want their ads associated with hate, the haters may become loss leaders for their local affiliates. Wouldn't that be too bad?
This is all the product of the outcry against Rushbo's three-day tirade against Sandra Fluke, which caused the netroots to rise up and reach out to the advertisers keeping him on the air.
Despite the fact that Rush has scrubbedhis website of the transcripts and offending content, he can't escape accountability for this.
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — City Council members took a step closer on Wednesday to becoming the first in the nation to adopt a resolution condemning certain types of speech on public airwaves.
Councilmember Jan Perry introduced legislation that would call upon media companies to ensure “on-air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist slurs” on radio and other broadcasts.
Members of Black Media Alliance, National Hispanic Media Coalition, Korean-American Bar Association and American Indians in Film and Television were on hand to voice their support for the proposal….
The proposal cites a “long history of racially offensive comments as well as deplorable sexist remarks, particularly towards women and Black, Latino, and Asian communities” at KFI 640 and calls for parent company Clear Channel Communications to hire a more diverse workforce to offset the trend.
“It is easy to become desensitized to what other groups find intolerable, which ultimately fosters an environment where negative comments can go unchecked -- and corporate guidelines and policies are no longer being enforced,” the resolution reads.
Remarks from syndicated talk show host Rush Limbaugh referring to GeorgetownUniversity law student Sandra Fluke as a “slut” and a “prostitute” for testifying on Capitol Hill about women’s access to contraception were also cited in the proposal.
The very next day, the law was passed, 13-2, in the Los Angeles City Council -- as you can read here.
What you're seeing here is only a tiny taste of what is about to come. These are but the very first pebbles to have fallen from the coming avalanche. The roaring sound is becoming harder and harder to ignore.
The public hearings that will result from these mass arrests will break the whole story of Financial Tyranny wide open.
This will happen right on schedule -- following prophecies that were given to us thousands of years ago.
"MUPPETGATE" IS ANOTHER PEBBLE FROM THE COMING AVALANCHE
Greg Smith, a former high-ranking Goldman Sachs employeeblew the whistle in a New York Times editorial on March 14, 2012 -- triggering a revolutionary public awakening now being called "Muppetgate."
So far, very few have "connected the dots" and realized that Goldman Sachs is one of the main Federal Reserve banking conglomerates -- but I doubt this part of the story will remain secret for very long.
According to Smith, Goldman executives call their clients "Muppets" and treat them as pathetic sub-humans -- purely to be exploited and stolen from. This has effectively revealed the sociopathic "Illuminati" mindset to the mass public.
Question: What’s the cost to a company of one disgruntled former employee?
Answer: About $2 billion if it’s Goldman Sachs.
That’s how much of the bank’s market value was wiped out after one of its directors, Greg Smith, resigned from the company and penned an op-ed piece in The New York Times attacking the firm’s culture and treatment of clients.
The bank’s shares fell 3.3 percent in trading Wednesday as London-based Smith’s article set Wall Street and the media ablaze with discussion about the behavior of big banks bailed out by taxpayers after the financial crisis.
The share price decline meant Goldman lost some $2 billion in market value. Its market capitalization is currently just short of $65 billion.
In a very public and scathing resignation letter, Goldman Sachs executive director Greg Smith has called the atmosphere at the massive investment bank "as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it."
"Today is my last day at Goldman Sachs," wrote Smith, who was the head of the firm's U.S. equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, in an Op-Ed in the New York Times on Wednesday titled "Why I am Leaving Goldman Sachs."
Smith, who is based in London and has been with Goldman for 12 years, went on to describe what he says is a deteriorating culture at Goldman Sachs where clients are called "muppets" and their interests are given short shrift.
"The firm has veered so far from the place I joined right out of college that I can no longer in good conscience say that I identify with what it stands for," Smith wrote....
"It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off. Over the last 12 months I have seen five different managing directors refer to their own clients as 'muppets,' sometimes over internal e-mail," wrote Smith....
In an emailed statement, Goldman Sachs, said, “We disagree with the views expressed, which we don’t think reflect the way we run our business. In our view, we will only be successful if our clients are successful. This fundamental truth lies at the heart of how we conduct ourselves.”
UK TELEGRAPH EXPLORES THE ILLUMINATI MINDSET
This next excerpt from the UK Telegraph discusses the Illuminati mindset within Goldman Sachs that has been revealed as a direct result of "Muppetgate" -- the day aftera Mayan Calendar shift-date that had been anticipated for years.
This market autism has continued. If a trade makes a profit and it's within the rules, then do it. Ethics, perception, morals, emotional intelligence and even good old common sense are ignored....
[Goldman is] a bank whose alumni include two US Treasury Secretaries, including Paulson....
Goldman is a bank in denial and heading for a crash. I can’t see any President recruiting from Goldman again, given recent years. And unless things change, the bank will lose clients....
Outbursts such as Smith’s makes it easier for companies and investors to drop Goldman.
The bank needs to change, and has needed to do so for years. Some improvements have been made but they look superficial, and perception is nine tenths of reality here.
Remember --if Goldman Sachs crashes, so does the Federal Reserve.
1 IN 10 WALL STREET BANKERS ARE CLINICAL PSYCHOPATHS
On March 2, 2012 -- just two days after the critical Feb. 29th "Day Out of Time" in the Mayan Calendar -- the Huffington Post ran an article that seemed to anticipate the bomb Greg Smith was about to drop on Goldman Sachs.
This might sound like the punch line to a joke -- but the destruction of the planet is no laughing matter, and these people must be stopped.
One out of every 10 Wall Street employees is a clinical psychopath, the CFA Institute (an investment and financial analysis organization) reports in the latest issue of CFA Magazine.
That makes psychopathy 10 times more prevalent among New York’s financial elitethan among us plebeians, for which the accepted statistic is a more palatable one in 100.
Psychopaths “generally lack empathy and interest in what other people feel or think,” according to the study.
“At the same time, they display an abundance of charm, charisma, intelligence, credentials, an unparalleled capacity for… manipulation, and a drive for thrill seeking.”
That Wall Street should harbor more than its share of psychopaths, then, will come as no shock to those frustrated by the entitlement and greed of the one percent.
The study also shows how easily psychopaths can pass, however, blending into our lives as co-workers, friends and even romantic partners.
JP MORGAN STAFF WARNED OFF OF TALKING ABOUT "MUPPETGATE"
Goldman Sachs is one of the Federal Reserve banks. So is JP Morgan Chase.
The lower-level employees probably don't know this, but the higher-ups at JP Morgan are directly aware that an attack against Goldman is a direct attack against JP Morgan, the Federal Reserve, and the Illuminati.
(Reuters) - Investment bank JPMorgan tried to contain damage to Wall Street's reputation on Thursday by telling staff not to try to profit from rival Goldman Sachs' embarrassment over a vitriolic resignation letter published in the New York Times.
Equity derivatives salesman Greg Smith caused a firestorm across the banking industry on Wednesday with the letter, published as an opinion column and calling Goldman (GS.N) a "toxic" place to work where senior staff saw clients as "muppets".
JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) Chief Executive Jamie Dimon warned employees in an internal memo not to seek advantage from Goldman's "alleged issues", imploring them focus on standards, not on the furor stirred by Smith in what media and bloggers have called "Muppetgate".
"I want to be clear that I don't want anyone here to seek advantage from a competitor's alleged issues or hearsay -- ever. It's not the way we do business," Dimon said in the memo, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.
Dimon's memo, awaiting Asia employees in their e-mail inboxes on Thursday morning, was sent to the bank's global operating committee and later forwarded to wider parts of JPMorgan, said sources who have seen the memo.
JPMorgan declined to comment.
SUDDEN, STUNNINGPUBLIC DIVORCE BETWEEN JP MORGAN AND THEVATICAN
Just five days after "Muppetgate,"JP Morgan announced they were cutting off the Vatican Bank's private accounts, permanently -- by the end of the month.
This is of monumental significance to our discussion. The Federal Reserve is literally dropping everything and running from any financial association with the Vatican -- as fast as they can.
The divorce was announced on March 19th -- and will already be finalized as of March 30th. If nothing is going to happen, why would we see such urgency?
Many "Truth" researchers have concluded that the Vatican has been penetrated at the highest levels by the Illuminati.This does not meanthe Vatican itself is evil,nor are most of the people working there -- but they have a very serious problem to deal with.
SCATTERING BEFORE THE AVALANCHE
All these Illuminati factions used to be on the same page -- but now, just like with the mass CEO resignations, they are turning on each other and scattering before the avalanche hits. Let's read more about this epic event.
VATICAN CITY/MILAN, March 19 (Reuters) - JP Morgan Chase is closing the Vatican bank's account with an Italian branch of the U.S. banking giant because of concerns about a lack of transparency at the Holy See's financial institution, Italian newspapers reported.
The move is a blow to the Vatican's drive to have its bank included in Europe's "white list" of states that comply with international standards against tax fraud and money-laundering.
The bank, formally known as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), enacted major reforms last year in an attempt to get Europe's seal of approval and put behind it scandals that have included accusations of money laundering and fraud.
Italy's leading financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore reported at the weekend that JP Morgan Chase in Milan had told the IOR of the closing of its account in a letter on Feb. 15.
The letter said the IOR's account in Italy's business capital would gradually be phased out starting on March 16 and closed on March 30.
In Milan, JP Morgan Chase declined to comment and the Vatican also had no comment. It was not possible to contact IOR officials because Monday was a holiday in the Vatican.
Il Sole said JP Morgan Chase informed the IOR that the account was being closed because the bank's Milan branch felt the IOR had failed to provide sufficient information on money transfers.
The financial newspaper, which gave the number of the IOR account, said some 1.5 billion euros passed through it in about 18 months.
It said the account was a "sweeping facility," meaning that it was emptied out at the end of each day with funds transferred to another IOR account in Germany.
A STRING OF SCANDALS PLAGUES THE VATICAN
Illuminati whistleblowers Svali and Leo Zagami have both said the Vatican is the "spiritual head" of the Illuminati. That's why this news is so significant within the insider world.
In her radio interview with Greg Szymanski, Svali revealed that all members are forced to endure human sacrifice rituals that are conducted in the Vatican -- in a secret subterranean chamber, accessed by a door hidden behind a giant painting. http://divinecosmos.com/Illuminati_Defector_Svali_Speaks.mp3
Any significant exposure and downfall of the Vatican will, therefore, reveal an incredible amount of sinister, hidden truth.
No one knew what Svali looked like until Ed Koni recently posted the new svalispeaks.com website -- and included the above picture, without revealing what program it came from, or when it aired. No footage of the program is available on the site.
After I posted this, our intrepid commenters discovered this footage. It is from a BBC Conspiracies program in 2001, entitled "Satanic Panic." 2000 was the year Svali was the most active in writing articles. You can skip ahead to 6:24 to see Svali. Either link works:
The closure move by JP Morgan Chase, which was also reported by two leading general newspapers on Monday -- Corriere della Sera and La Stampa -- was a further blow to the [Vatican's] IOR [bank], whose image has been tarnished by a string of scandals.
In September, 2010, Italian investigators froze 23 million euros ($33 million) in funds in two Italian banks after opening an investigation into possible money-laundering.
The bank said it did nothing wrong and was just transferring funds between its own accounts. The money was released in June 2011 but Rome magistrates are continuing their probe.
The public image of the bank has also been harmed by the so-called "Vatileaks" scandal, in which highly sensitive documents, including letters to Pope Benedict, were published in Italian media....
THE "OCCULT ECONOMY" REVEALED
I was asked to write the epic Financial Tyranny piece by the "good guys" orchestrating the mass arrests. Some of this data has started gaining traction and coverage in the alternative media.
This article by Activist Post features some of the juicier parts of our investigation, with credit:
Furthermore, within days after we published Financial Tyranny, Lord James of Blackheath publicly blew the whistle on 15 trillion dollars of fraud before the British Parliament -- validating everything we had just reported.
Specifically, Blackheath discusses three sums of $5 trillion each -- corresponding to 750,000 metric TONS of gold. This is significantly more gold than has ever existed in the "legitimate", registered economy, which weighs in only around 120,000 metric tons.
Lord James also reveals that his evidence includes an original, signed document from Alan Greenspan and Timothy Geithner -- which he has in his personal possession.
This is an utterly explosive accusation -- and we have definitely not seen the end of it yet.
The original link can be found here -- and you have to scroll ahead to 17:20 in order to hear Blackheath's speech.
I have been engaged in pursuit of this issue for nearly two years and I am no further forward in getting to the truth....
In April and May 2009, the situation started with the alleged transfer of $5 trillion to HSBC in the United Kingdom. Seven days later, another $5 trillion came to HSBC and three weeks later another $5 trillion.
A total of $15 trillion is alleged to have been passed into the hands of HSBC for onward transit to the Royal Bank of Scotland.
We need to look to where this came from and the history of this money. I have been trying to sort out the sequence by which this money has been created and where it has come from for a long time.
It starts off apparently as the property of Yohannes Riyadi, who has some claims to be considered the richest man in the world.
He would be, if all the money that was owed to him was paid -- but I have seen some accounts of his showing that he owns $36 trillion in a bank.
It is a ridiculous sum of money. [DW: The combined world GDP is only 62 trillion.]
However, $36 trillion would be consistent with the dynasty from which he comes -- and the fact that it had been effectively the emperors of Indo-China in times gone by.
A lot of that money has been taken away from him, with his consent, by the American Treasury over the years -- for the specific purpose of helping to support the dollar.
Mr Riyadi has sent me a remarkable document dated February 2006 in which the American Government have called him to a meeting with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which is neither the Federal Reserve nor a bank.
It is a bit like "Celebrity Big Brother". It has three names to describe it -- and none of them is true.
This astonishing document purports to have been a meeting, which was witnessed by Mr. Alan Greenspan, who signed for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of which he was chairman, as well as chairman of the real Federal Reserve in Washington.
It is signed by Mr. Timothy Geithner as a witness, on behalf of the International Monetary Fund. The IMF sent two witnesses, the other being Mr. Yusuke Horiguchi.
These gentlemen have signed as witnesses to the effect that this deal is a proper deal. There are a lot of other signatures on the document. I do not have a photocopy; I have an original version of the contract.
Under the contract, the American Treasury has apparently got the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to offer to buy out the bonds issued to Mr Riyadi -- to replace the cash which has been taken from him over the previous 10 years.
It is giving him $500 million as a cash payment to buy out worthless bonds. That is all in the agreement -- and it is very remarkable.
Establishing whether I have a correct piece of paper is just two phone calls away -- one to Mr. Geithner and one to Mr. Greenspan, both of whom still prosper and live. They could easily confirm whether they signed it.
Mr. Riyadi, by passing these bonds over, has also put at the disposal of the US Treasury the entire asset backing which he was alleged to have for the $15 trillion.
I have a letter from the Bank of Indonesia which says that the whole thing was a pack of lies. He did not have the 750,000 tonnes of gold which was supposed to be backing it; he had only 700 tonnes. This is a piece of complete fabrication.
Finally, I have a letter from Mr. Riyadi himself, who tells me that he was put up to do this, that none of it is true, and that he has been robbed of all his money.
I am quite prepared to recognize that one of the possibilities is that Mr. Riyadi is himself putting this together as a forgery in order to try to win some recovery.
But it gets more complicated than that because each of the $5 trillion payments that came in has been acknowledged and receipted by senior executives at HSBC -- and again receipted by senior executives at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
I have a set of receipts for all of this money. Why would any bank want to file $5 trillion-worth-$15 trillion in total-of receipts if the money did not exist?
The money was first said to have come from the Riyadi account to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York -- and from there it was passed to JP MorganChase in New York for onward transit to London.
The means of sending it was a SWIFT note which, if it was genuine, ought to have been registered with the Bank of England.
TRANSCRIPT OF BLACKHEATH'S SPEECH, PART FIVE: A FRIGHTENING PIECE OF PAPER
When this came about, I took it to my noble friend Lord Strathclyde, and asked what we should do with it.
He said, "Give it to Lord Sassoon. He is the Treasury". So I did, and my noble friend Lord Sassoon looked at it.
He said immediately, "This is rubbish. It is far too much money. It would stick out like a sore thumb, and you cannot see it in the Royal Bank of Scotland accounts".
He went on to say, "The gold backing it is ridiculous. Only 1,507 tonnes of gold has been mined in the history of the world, so you cannot have 750,000 tonnes". That is true.
The third thing he said was, "It is a scam", and I agree with him. The problem is that at that point we stopped looking, but we should have asked what the scam was instead of just nodding it off.
We have never resolved it.
Today, I have this quite frightening piece of paper, which is my justification for bringing it into this meeting.
It is available on the internet and I am astonished that it has not already been unearthed by the Treasury -- because every alarm bell in the land should be ringing if it has.
OFF-MARKET GOLD ON "DEPOSIT"
The "off-market" gold is much, much greater than the "legitimate" gold. Blackheath and his colleagues cannot comprehend what they are looking at, so naturally their first impulse is to dismiss the whole thing.
Nonetheless, they have the "smoking gun" documents to prove how much gold is really there. You've already seen the pictures of bond boxes and gold hoards we've featured in Financial Tyranny -- which are far too numerous to be part of some elaborate hoax.
As I revealed in Financial Tyranny, the "off-market" gold was secretly hidden away in various locations throughout Southeast Asia by the Federal Reserve -- which is also known as the Bank for International Settlements.
It will be quite a shock when people realize how much gold there really is -- and how it was systematically plundered from the world.
The countries who surrendered their gold were told it would usher in a new era of peace and prosperity. This obviously did not happen.
Instead, confiscating the vast wealth of gold throughout the world -- from America, Europe and 85 percent of it from Asia -- created the opportunity for the Federal Reserve to print money out of thin air, backed by nothing.
This "magic printing press" allowed them to financially ruin just about everyone, seize natural resources, buy the media, starve impoverished countries, install puppet governments and attempt to establish a world dictatorship.
THE ITALIAN BONDS SCANDAL
Blackheath wasn't the only authority to step forward about massive financial scandals immediately after the release of Financial Tyranny.
The day after Blackheath gave his speech, Italian authorities seized six trillion dollars' worth of Federal Reserve bonds. This story quickly spread like wildfire throughout the international mass media.
These were in Chicago Federal Reserve boxes and chests that looked exactly the same as the ones in pictures the 134-nation alliance had given me to publish in Financial Tyranny.
This astonished even the most hardened skeptics -- who had just finished reading our investigation.
I must cut everything below this point for now so I get this out before my interview at 6PM PST.
UPDATE, SAME NIGHT: WOW!
The interview was mind-blowing -- much better than I even expected -- and went on for three hours. It will be processed and released ASAP. More will be posted as soon as possible, but I am too tired to do any more tonight.
This so far is about one sixth of the entire piece in size. Most of it is already written.
One thing I still have to do is organize over 30 different links to the Italian bonds scandal. Much of the rest after that is already finished. Section III still needs a final "threading" as well.
This investigation is spreading like wildfire. Truly astonishing. We've already exceeded 20,000 hits as of 1AM PST, and it only was posted as of 6PM PST -- a mere seven hours earlier. That's 2,857 hits an hour. There are already over 120 comments, and many of our articles never used to get that many, ever.
I'm not saying this to brag.Rather, this reveals that you are getting the message -- and spreading the word.
UPDATE NEXT MORNING, 9:14 AM
As an intuitive, the amount of attention this article is getting is making it very hard to sleep and stay asleep. It's like a noisy conference call in the dream space right now.
This was represented as my having to do a lecture at a venue where there was a large dance class happening to my immediate left, and also over our heads as well -- but the show had to go on.
The only other time I've had this "interference problem" this strongly is after I first did Art Bell's radio show in 2000 for a whole night. Millions of people were listening back then -- and I could not sleep afterwards.
I came here to make one correction that had been suggested by email, and the "hit counter synchronicity" phenomenon happened again. It was 43332 when I loaded the page, and when I clicked on the link, a split-second later (literally) it was at precisely 43334.
It's still there now as I write this update, and will be until I post -- so I took a screen capture. Bear in mind this requires extreme coordination within fractions of a second, and is totally not planned on any conscious level.
The reason things like this happen is to again remind me, and then on to you, that there are higher forces orchestrating all of this and insuring that we will succeed. It's a nice reminder of what's really going on here.
Additionally, we are processing the audio from my interview right now and it will be uploaded as soon as it's done.
Unfortunately, since I did it with a very low-fidelity setup, my voice has some distortion and buzz when I talk. We will have to live with that. I will use Skype in the future to avoid this.
I am on the plane to this weekend's conference in Austin. You are about to hear a stunning interview with Drake, an insider specifically asked by the Pentagon "good guys" to come forward and explain what is going to be done.
I was blown away by the information he was giving. If you didn't already believe this was really going to happen, this may very well change your mind.
I ran Drake through an extensive validation process with one of my top insiders and he passed with flying colors. He is the real deal.
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NOTE from Russ -trust what is being communicated from dear trusted telepath, Greg Giles, but be discerning, as some of this info seems to be in slight or major contradiction to what our so highly trusted source MATTHEW has communicated to us through his earthly mother, Suzy Ward . . . about Earth Changes during these END TIMES . . . to which I have asked Matthew to comment upon, or to set the record straight . . . via Suzy, if not totally in alignment with what our dear brother Matthew perceives NOW from his higher vantage viewpoint.
All looks good, better and better on our lovely Mother Earth with each rapidly passing day now. So be it. With so very much love, I AM as ONE with you. Bless us all!!WE are ONE (***There simply areno two)
The Ashtar Command speak
Atlantis
We would like to revise history here, and that is the purpose of our mission. There were events in your past that saw the destruction of an entire continent and millions of lives lost in this catastrophe. It is our intention to replay this event, but this time we wish to achieve a different outcome. This is the basis for our presence here in your world, and as we move forward more of what we intend to do will be revealed to you. As more information is shared with you, you will understand better your reasons for being here as well.
Many lives were lost when your planet experienced great seismic activity and your oceans became mountains of water rushing over continents. What we intend to do is prepare your planet and your people for these events this time, and spare as many lives as possible from these consequences. We have a plan and we have greatly advanced technologies than what you possess today here in your world, and we will share these technologies with you to better prepare you at this time for this seismic activity which again will result in rising sea levels. There is no reason to panic or be fearful. Instead, this is a time to remain balanced, calm and courageous, as together we will work to prepare your world for these eventualities. In time, we will disclose our plans for your people and give everyone an opportunity to prepare themselves for these seismic events. Everyone, with no exceptions, will be given the opportunity to relocate to what we refer to as safe zones.
These safe zones will be scattered around your planet and they will be accessible through technological means that we will reveal to you at the proper time. Once within these safe zones you will be safe from harm's way as your planet restructures herself for her new beginning as a 5th dimensional world. When these events culminate and your planet rises in her frequency, you will be free to leave these safe zones and behold your new home within the higher realms. There will be plenty of notice and time given each of you to relocate to these safe zones, and there will be proper housing facilities available to all of you which will be provided through the advanced technologies that we have come here to share with you. These areas will be safe harbors for you and your family, and no harm will come to you as long as you remain within these boundaries during these seismic upheavals.
Great care has gone into the planning for these events, and again we wish you to understand there is nothing to fear and we do not wish to create a panic. We feel the time has come for you to begin to understand better the events of your year of 2012 and why we are here. You, our Lightworkers in the field, will be called upon to do your best to maintain the calm of your brothers and sisters. This is one of the more important reasons you are here incarnated within the human vessel at this time. As the beings you are, you will be able to remain calm, and we wish for you to act as Wayshowers to lead your fellow humans and to demonstrate for them that there is no reason to panic or fear these events.
These events are necessary on several different levels and they must transpire. There is no choice in that matter, but how you as an individual and you as a people live through these events is a matter of choice, and we are here to offer you one of those choices. We offer you the opportunity to triumph over these events by coming together as one without fear, without panic, and courageously face these changing times knowing that what awaits you on the other side is glorious and the new beginning that so many of you understand is necessary for your race and civilization.
We wish you to understand that events like these do happen from time to time throughout this universe due to many different contributing factors. The factors that are the cause of this event to come have been contributed to by the damage that has been done to this planet in the name of profit and greed. Your planet has been harmed in ways that can only be repaired by breaking out of her current 3rd dimensional shell and being birthed anew like the morning sun.This will happen within this calendar year of 2012, and we wish to have the relocation programs completed before these seismic events begin to grow powerful enough to cause widespread damage and flooding.
Looking at our timeline we would say that we would like to have your populations relocated to the safe zones by fall of this year. This will give us time to introduce ourselves to your people and build an adequate trust between ourselves before the initiation of these relocation programs, and we will make announcements through your media outlets once they are freed from the control of your dark Cabal.These announcements and explanations of these geophysical events will be broadcast repeatedly for months until we are satisfied that everyone around your planet has received adequate notification. We, of course, have alternative means to reach individuals without access to popular media, and we will see to it that everyone around your planet has access to this information in one way or another.
For now we ask you, our Lightworkers, to discuss with your family and friends your understanding of these events to come. We wish you to do this without causing any panic and to do your best to explain these events without causing them to fear them in any way. We understand that this will not be possible with all the individuals you speak to about this, and we ask you to do your best to calm their fears and assure them that there is an evacuation plan and there are dedicated teams of very large numbers who are highly trained and very capable to carry out these migrations that will ensure the safety of everyone willing to participate. We foresee there will be those who refuse our help, and we must honor their free will choice to experience these events the way they wish to. We cannot and will not force anyone to relocate from wherever they are. We can only offer our assistance, our advice, our expertise and our help. This is all we can do, and we will not do anymore.
There will be those who see these events and our plans to relocate you to safe zones as some kind of trickery or deception in some way. There will be debates among you about whether to trust us or not, and we say to you to rely on your intuition and your inner guidance and follow where this inner voice leads you. Whether this voice leads you to the safe zones, or this inner voice convinces you that this is all part of some evil plot, we will honor your decisions. These will be challenging times for you, we wish to make that clear, but we also wish you to know thatwe see this as a wonderful opportunity for all of the people of your world to come together in support of each other, in assistance to each other and in love for each other, and triumph over these adversities. What awaits you beyond these challenges will be a glorious new beginning for you, and you will emerge into your new home together as one.
We wish to say that we see these events as humanity's shining moment, and we have confidence that you will triumph over any challenge set before you. You have all gone through so much through your many incarnations, and we see these events as one last challenge for you to conquer before the blessings of Heaven are bestowed upon you. We are here to assist you, and together there is no challenge that can defeat us.Fear is your biggest obstacle now, and only fear can stand in the way of you and your new world. We have shared with you how we felt fear would play such a large role in the coming days, and it is here that fear will present its greatest challenge for many of you.It is your task to overcome any fear you may have, and it is your mission to help others overcome fears that they may succumb to.
Many of you have trained extensively over many lifetimes to be of service in these challenging times, and you will be called to the forefront to put all your training and your gifts to use in service to your brothers and sisters of your world. We ask you to be there for others and be a pillar of strength and calm reassurance through these challenging times. We will begin our announcements in the days ahead and it is here upon these initial announcements that fear will present its greatest challenge for many of your world, and so it is here that we ask you to rise to the occasion and do what it is you do best.
We see these events and how you will triumph over themas the guiding light that will shine upon your new world. This event will be eternalized within your history books, your artwork and your song for eons of time to come, and all future humanity will learn of the birthing of your new Earth and of the men and women who came together and made it all possible. This will be the story of the creation of your new world, and each of you will play a starring role in your saga.
An Ashtar Command lightship filmed over Mission, British Columbia, Canada on 3/27/12. The red lights on the bottom of the screen are a reflection of the lights on the video camera, but the lights in the sky are not a reflection. The Ashtar Command has said that their ships would appear only as lights to us from our 3rd dimensional perspective, as their command exists within the higher dimensions.
Message from the Galactic Federation of Light
Mar 29, 2012
Telepath, Greg Giles
The Galactic Federation of Light speak
The ground will shake and the skies will be dim during the first days of the birthing of your new world. Many changes will have to be made, and much of the old will have to be torn down to make way for the new. We are master builders and architects and we will assist you to rebuild your new world from the bottom up and from shoreline to shoreline. We are master craftsman and we have designed and built many worlds throughout this universe, and we are here now to assist you convert your world from a 3rd dimensional home to a 5th dimensional home.
This rebuilding project will last for days, weeks, and maybe even months as we prepare your world for your arrival from the safe zones that will shelter you through this reconstruction project.You will be protected while you remain in these safe zones, and immediately upon the culmination of this great dimensional shift you will be entirely free to leave these areas and behold your new 5th dimensional kingdom. It will be beautiful, it will be plentiful and it will be yours to cherish forever, to protect, to nurture and to enjoy as you will have earned your right to its keys and all the treasures stored within. Help us build you a better world by continuing the work you are doing today spreading our messages far and wide and helping to calm the fears of your brothers and sisters.
In time, there will be other avenues of information available to all throughout your world, but today you are our voice and we ask you to use it and inform those who wish to hear of the changes that are and will continue to take place all around them. Turning back the clock of your Earth is what we plan to do as we repair the widespread damage that has been done to your mother planet. This is a necessary step as we will not build on unfertile ground.We will only build on a foundation of perfection, so this will be the first step in our rebuilding project. How we will do this will be explained to you, and there will be those among you who will be taking a hands-on approach throughout areas of this rebuilding project. Nothing will be kept in secret, and there will be nothing that is not readily and completely explained to you.
This rebuilding project will begin in earnest once all who wish to relocate are safely removed from the construction sites. Your Earth will receive a complete makeover, and in many ways she will be unrecognizable to you upon her unveiling. She will retain her natural beauty that she possesses today, although her soils and her air will be sparkling and pure.Her forests will be green, and they will be rich in their trees and wildlife. Her oceans, lakes and rivers will be crystal clear blue water, alive with your aquatic species, and your skies will be abuzz with your bird species soaring from treetop to treetop.
You will have new homes prepared for you, and you will have libraries and places of higher education assessable to all. You will have new career opportunities where you may offer your services to others and the community, and all this will be available to you upon your ascension into your new higher dimensional home. We look forward to assisting you in each way that we can, and we look forward to working with many selected individuals from throughout your worldwide communities.
We wish to get started soon with many of these projects, and the notification process for those who we are interested in working with will begin shortly upon the purification of your world of those aligned with the dark. We see this process continuing smoothly, and soon you will witness how hard many have been working in secret.
Please continue to do your parts in issuing advanced notice of these proceedings as to greatly reduce the shock and fear some may succumb to upon the revelations of what has been transpiring in their world. Not everyone understands as you do what has been going on here, and many see those who will be taken away into custody as their servants and protectors and they will be quite astonished to learnthat so many of the world’s dire problems were directly and purposely cause by these dark individuals.
These revelations come as no surprise to many of you who have taken the time and made the effort to inform yourselves, but you are rare cases indeed, and that is why we ask you at this time to share this information that can act as a desensitizer for many who will be overwhelmed throughout these proceedings. After we are satisfied that it is safe to proceed with the next phases of operation, we will begin our initial introductions to those who will be working with us.
Upon these introductions, many of you will share the evidence of your experiences with us through your media outletsthat will be freed from the control of those that have been taken into custody, and many of your world still reeling from the revelations of these arrests will again be shocked as they learn that they are not alone in the universe and that we are here.
This will be an extremely trying time for many of your world, and we wish you to make it your top priority to be there for your fellow humans, to comfort them, to ease their fears and to assure them that the ills of your world are now being repaired and we are here to assist in this much-needed process.We see so many of you working so hard in this effort and we thank you greatly for your dedication to our mission together.
Soon you will begin to see these arrestsas several of your media outlets will be covering these events throughout many days.You have waited a long time for this day, and we assure you it will be worth itas the sight of those aligned with the dark being taken into custody will allow many of you to forget how many days have gone into the planning stages of this worldwide event.
This event will surely be worth the wait, and we wish each of you to enjoy it to its fullest.Much depends on the outcome of this operation, and we wish as many as possible to be reached through this process. This operation is more than merely the arrests of these individuals, as we also wish for these arrests to act as a trigger to awaken so many of your brothers and sisters who yet sleep, and we also wish for these arrests to bethe catalyst for so much change needed in your world. There are many institutions that must be either abolished or restructured throughout your societies, and we see these arrests as merely the beginning of an avalanche of dominoestriggered by this media event.
We wish to see many of youpublicly displaying your elation upon these arrests, and we hope to see many of youcelebrating openly as a demonstration to so many throughout your world that this event can be seen as good news and a reason to be cheerful and hopeful for your future, as indeed, that is precisely what this event signifies.
You have so much to look forward to as individuals and as a collective, and these arrests will merely be the beginning as your world takes the shape and formof a higher dimensional society. You will be joining our Galactic community, and you will be officially welcomed in ceremony.
You will be formally introduced to all the communities throughout this galaxy and some even beyond, as you are officially welcomed as a higher dimensional member of our extended family. We are so excited for this day for you, and we say to you that you have earned this place of honor and we have high expectations of your world to contribute greatly your gifts to your Galactic community.With the honor of being welcomed into a Galactic community you will be presented with many gifts and tools that we offer you that will benefit your world greatly in many ways.
We ask you to use these technologies with diligent care and responsibility, andtell you that upon your demonstration that you are using these technologies wisely, there will be other gifts presented to you as well in the future. This is how this universe has been designed, where the Creator's gifts never cease to be showered upon thosedemonstrating their worthiness for them. You have earned all of the gifts you are to receive, and we look so forward to their presentation to you as they will benefit so greatly every man, woman and child on your planet and allow so many to enjoy their lives the way they have always meant to be enjoyed.We look so forward to this day, and tell you it will not be long now.
Show others your love for your changing worldas it unfolds before the opening eyes of many. You are a Wayshower, and we ask you to show the others the path without fear, without suspicion, without distrust, and show them a path that is clear of all these lower dimensional aspects. Take the time to explain to them that there is nothing to fear and that no harm will come to them in any way.Explain to them that much of your old world must be torn down and redesigned through the higher dimensional geometries of love. When you make the effort you will reap the rewards as there will be those that respond positively from your example.
Naturally, there will be those who oppose your point of view and speak out against you and your position, but we say to you that enough lives will be touched in a positive way through your efforts to make even the harshest of naysayers speak fall harmlessly shy of your ears.There are so many others out there that are willing to listen and carefully weigh their options, and they only look for an alternative viewpoint to think over and it is here that your wisdom is needed most.There are very many of thosewho speak for the voice of fear and separation, and what we ask of our Lightworkers is that they counterbalance these negative forcesand give the others who deserve another point of view a brighter picture to think about and look forward to.
Many willavoid the consequences of a fear-based choicedue to your efforts to explain fully their options, and these souls are out there right now waiting to hear your voice cut through the negative echoing of the voices of fear.You are called to duty at this time as Lightworkers,to shine your beacons through the darkness and guide those souls to your shores within the safe harbor of love.
Well, I'm not talking out of school, The revaluations of 195 currencies around the world are going live. As usual, the american people are the last to know publicly but they will hear, this time. We really don't have such a vast array of enemies against us that the 'politrixians' would have us believe. Many countries threw their money into the big global pool to keep the us from going down, turning this place into a 3rd world nation. It would have benefitted no one. That's what happens when you go global. Can't be 'turtle island' any more. History is going thru a reboot...and the Matrix is assuring it. Can't go back, there's 'no back'...back there, it's been utterly destroyed. Here comes the return of the legal constitution of these here united states. Truth is, I don't know how many supreme court justices have kept their noses clean...but you'll find out shortly. The matrix knows. Get out your copy of black's dictionary and get ready for the new system.
As people are talking more openly in public about what Is changing in this world, the politicians are ramping up the rhetoric on the status quo. It really doesn't matter the politics because the whole thing is changing. Hey I know...it's evolution. It's the emergence of new species...homo intelligensious and the young ones are leading the old who are stuck on how it 'used to be'. When folks are no longer taught the average life span is '3 score and 10' and that greater possibilities are available, people's basics will shift. What they hold 'sacred' on a personal level. Some things just won't matter any more. That vault door is opening right now, the pressure release valves have much dust in the air right now.
All that was hidden is being revealed. We encourage you to share your findings with each other. You will not see mention of this on mainstream television as yet. The media is not allowed to give you the full picture of what is actually happening. Those with eyes to see, can see for themselves that the Cabal is in trouble. They are in shock; they cannot believe that their plans for 2012 will not now be realized. Greater forces than theirs are preventing them from starting World War 3. They are having to accept the fact that they are not invincible, after all. To save face, they now want you to believe that they have changed their plans, that they now plan to attack Iran in the Spring. Well . . . we shall see what transpires in the Spring, shall we? They failed to recognize that when intelligent people wake up and see clearly what is being done to them, they come together and call for help. Their request has been heeded and help has been forthcoming from all directions. Just because you do not see it on your TVs, does not mean that you are not being rescued from the terrible fate that the Cabal had planned for you.
There is no honor among the Cabal. They turn on each other, every day now, thus exposing more and more of the corruption in which they are involved. April will prove to be an interesting month. The floodgates are opening. You will have to deal with the real truth. The first reaction of the general public will be to become angry. I ask that you rise above it as anger will only delay matters. You will have to face some terrible truths about what has been done to mankind; to your DNA, to your brain, etc. All this will be put right. You will be fully restored. What you had accepted as reality will change completely. The time has come for the suffering to stop and for peace to reign once more. There are groups of people all over your world, ready and equipped to take over from the corrupt. It has taken some years to put everything in place. The evil perpetrated on the human race will shock those who are not yet awake.
The Intensive Course on Sacred Geometry which you did last week, was most beneficial, as well as enjoyable. As more people link with their true identity, through Sacred Geometry, etc., they will free themselves from the tyranny of the Cabal. I know that you want to quote from the book WORLDBRIDGER, so please do so, my dear.
"Humanity is a genetic experiment, an immortal race trapped in a mortal paradigm, a solar race locked in a lunar reality, a stolen race on a stolen planet.
The corruption lies in the mutant matrix, in the systemic failure of Earth's governing functions and the loss of evolutionary symbiosis that occurred when this parasitic species electromagnetically disconnected humanity and its mother planet from the divine immortal continuum, setting Earth on a course of terminal decline. THERE WAS NO "FALL" WE WERE PUSHED.
"AS THE PROGRESSIVE REVELATIONS UNFOLD, SO TOO DOES A HOLONOMIC TEMPLATE FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE FULL HUMAN BLUEPRINT AND A NEW MODEL OF EXISTENCE; A TEMPLATE TO RECOVER HUMANITY'S RESONANCE WITH GEOMETRIES OF LIGHT, RETURNING US AND OUR PLANET TO THE HOLISTIC SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM."
Worldbridger. Juliet and Jiva Carter, Sowelu Publishing (2007).
I wanted to share these words with everyone.
This is what you have returned to Earth to bring about. You will succeed; never again will humanity be allowed to be reduced to this level of existence. Never again will human beings be hungry or homeless or live in squalor. All men will be equal, as they are before God. All this will be achieved peacefully and with as much dignity as is possible. Never stoop to the level of the Cabal, it is not necessary.
Do not doubt for one moment your ability to restore humanity and planet Earth. It is just a matter of everything falling into place when the timing is right. 2012 was the year chosen for all to be put in place, then man will learn who he is and what he is capable of. All the information is readily available, it's up to each of you to prepare for this great transition.
The energy of your world is re-awakening. It is releasing pure energy once more. Believe only those you trust. Go with your gut instincts. The Cabal will try to use natural changes to cause fear. Remember that fear is the oxygen of life to them. They need you to be in fear.
They are to be pitied. 2000 years in the planning and now they see it falling apart and they are powerless to change it. They will have to answer for the human suffering they have caused in that time. Humanity will be their judge. Sadly, humanity fell into the traps which were cleverly set by the Cabal, all those years ago. Man has since learned some hard lessons. Now that people are becoming more aware every day, they want an end to the rule of the Cabal. The time has come for the 99% to step forward and reclaim what is rightfully theirs. The plans of the Cabal are so EVIL - way beyond anything humanity could imagine. It will be difficult when all this comes to light. It will cause distress to all those who had trusted and revered them.
Look forward to peace and to learning your real history. You will learn the truth about your world. You will learn when and how it was led astray and the evil intent of those who set their plans in motion. You live on a prison planet. Look with love in your hearts to a life of freedom, the like of which you have never known.
There is nothing to fear as the battle is won. Together, we will shine the bright light of love on your Earth. Talk to each other. Share your thoughts, you hopes and your dreams, and soon they will become reality.
COSMIC AWARENESS: This Awareness is available at this time for the purpose of offering the 2012 forecast. This Awareness would wish to start by announcing that this will be the last forecast for the next year by this Awareness before that event which is the Ascension event. This last forecast is not the "last forecast". There will be a 2013, a 2014, a 2015 etc., but it is the last time before the shift in consciousness occurs, before the shift of Mother Earth occurs that is known as the Ascension event. At this time this Awareness wishes to go over some of the possibilities that may occur over the year 2012 up to that point of Ascension on December 21, 2012. Before It goes over these possibilities, It wishes to state that in this time period, this last year of time before Ascension, this End Time, many events can occur that will be important either in the collective sense or in the personal sense. Forecasting events is of course focusing only on one timeline and this Awareness will try, in a manner of speaking, to present predictions of what would be the most commonly experienced timeline by a majority of individuals.
This Awareness wishes all to remember in these End Times, this year out of phase, this year of void - that one needs to take greater and greater responsibility for what they themselves are creating because of the beliefs that they are tied into, because of the reality they share with others that they assume to be reality. This year represents a year for many to step into their own power, to actively create the reality that will work the best for them. For many there may not be an experiencing of the events this Awareness will present in a moment, because they have effectively chosen a timeline that may avoid much of the chaos that will be present for many others. It does not mean that this Awareness was wrong in Its predictions, it simply means that those who do not experience those major events of upheaval have been successful already in creating a new time track or line of reality that allows them to circumvent the more serious events that could well occur in 2012.
They may even slide into Ascension, not experiencing anything of great significance in their minds, but this does not mean that they did not ascend, it simply means that they were already very successful in creating the new reality, and to go on creating this new reality based on the belief that all will be fine, that the new truth of that which is Planet A, that which is the Planet of Ascension, is that which they are already lined up with and tuned into. Many believe Ascension will be leaving the planet behind that they once knew as they jump into a different reality of the spiritual kind. Some indeed will experience this, especially those who have been working toward introducing and experiencing and living their Light, their higher truth, their conceptions of their higher multidimensional being. But for many the experience will be more akin to simply starting a new day and perceiving as before, but then starting to notice that it is not as before, and that many are the changes that have occurred and many are the changes that will continue to occur as those who find themselves on this seemingly unaltered path will discover.
Therefore this Awareness does stipulate that Its forecast for 2012 will be only what the majority may find themselves experiencing but does not indicate that it is the reality that all will experience. Therefore, even though this Awareness presents events that could unfold in 2012, others may experience entirely different events and the unfolding of those events. Please bear this in mind, for the times have already changed and are continuing to change. Many have already stepped into the new realities and are not even aware that they have already done so. This is simply another understanding of the complex processes that are involved in the journey towards Ascension.
Also, this Awareness wishes to mention that as It stated last year already, events will be occurring so quickly and new unexpected situations arising that will not be within the forecast of 2012 that this Awareness is presenting in this timeframe approximately 12-1/2 months before 2012, December 21. These events as they are occurring will be dealt with by this Awareness in the red alerts that this Awareness will issue when certain energetic events occur. Thus, this forecast is but a broad overview and the energies of this timeframe will necessitate that this Awareness often addresses issues as they are about to occur or even as they are occurring. This Awareness is saying that there may indeed be other forecasts throughout the year, other updates to the events that are unfolding, as they unfold. This will prepare individuals more adequately for those events that are unfolding and allow them to better adjust to those events that may be fearful in nature, so that they do not succumb to fear, doubt or panic.
2012 Economy- No Stability!
At this time this Awareness wishes to begin Its broader overview of 2012. The first thing that many Americans will be wondering is whether or not there will be a stabilization in their nation in 2012, and whether those many who are economically strained and stressed will have an easier go of it, whether or not jobs will reappear and the country stabilized and the economy put on track. Again, this Awareness does not see this as occurring, but rather sees an escalation in 2012 as the country itself and the world itself start to fracture, as many of those traditions that were once held to be sacrosanct, that would not and could not change, indeed do change, and do come to endings and conclusions. To understand this point will allow individuals to understand what is needed in the year ahead is flexibility - the flexibility to go with the situations that are unfolding, be they economic situations, such as the collapse of the economic systems of the world, of the United States of America, or social traditions that no longer are in effect, that are seemingly empty and devoid of the meanings they once had.
As one has this flexibility and lives in trust - that all will be well despite the challenges, the upheavals, the difficulties that some may be experiencing, one simply needs to hang on and to believe in the higher powers of one's own being - that they will come through, especially as they begin to see to a greater degree how they can create their own realities, their own events, their own undertakings to correct situations, to make things better for themselves and their loved ones. But it will continue to be a year of collapse on the economic front. The to and fro situation of the stock markets around the world and in the United States will continue and it is seen that in January of 2012, towards the latter end, there will be a major upheaval that will seriously contract the economy of the United States of America and indeed the entire world economy. This will be followed up several months later in March, April, May with further collapsing of the economic situations and tighter controls of the world's banks and the banks of the individual nations that are experiencing collapse.
In a way it will be seen that it is the global economy that is collapsing and individual nations will fare better or worse than other nations. Those who are most in debt, such as the United States of America, will fare the worst. Those who are not as deeply involved with the political economic systems and the Powers That Be will fare better. But as they are already not faring well, this often being the case in Third World countries, they will seemingly be at the same level, and one observing those nations would not observe much difference, for they already are in bad economic situations. It is those countries that have the most to lose that will be the most profoundly affected, for if you have more to lose, the loss of what you have will indeed feel worse than not losing what you did not already have in the first place.
The Collapse of the Old Reality System
Bear in mind that what is occurring is the collapse of the reality system of belief that dictates materialism as the highest form of existence, and as this highest belief in physical materialism breaks apart, those who cling to it the strongest are those who would be and will be the most affected. If one looks around one will see that many are in similar situations, and the way forward in these times will be to start coming together with others to help one another to create local economies, to create situations where there is not a reliance on the big powers any longer: the banks, the insurance companies, the stock market, etc., but for those to come together who have things to share, be it food, be it product, objects to trade, material things to share with others, homes, shelters, etc. to open up to others.
It is necessity that will bring many together, for the old way of belief that each must make it on their own, each family as an island separate and devoid from others, is the corruption of the beliefs that have been traditional in the nation of the United States of America, where it began in a collective effort, a communal effort, as those who were the Pilgrims arrived on the shores of this great nation. They worked with one another and they worked with the Native Americans in the region to survive, and survive they did. It is this pioneer spirit; this Pilgrim mentality that needs to resurface at this time so that others who have little can share with others, bringing the little they have together to help others, and the collective resource that is created in such a communal effort will be such that all will survive.
Surviving the Economic Collapse
It is a matter of survival perhaps for many who are in more extreme conditions, and collapse because the economic situation has collapsed would be giving into fear and not into the understanding and belief that there can be survival when many come together. This will be seen around the world in 2012 where countries collapse. It is seen on the world economic stage, for example, that the countries of Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal will experience severe economic collapse, and this will fracture the European Union, and yet in those countries that break away from the European Union, that declare bankruptcy of their countries, the people at local levels will start to cooperate again, will start to come together, and will create local industry and local economies, and thus what is being touted as the destruction of the planet's economic system may simply lead humans to new ways of cooperating, being flexible, being willing to do with less, and being able to look at the greater picture and realize survival is still possible, even though that which was the norm, that which was the paradigm of belief of how life should look will collapse.
Those who can focus in such a manner will indeed survive the economic collapse that will take place in 2012. In terms of government, it is seen that the elections of 2012 may still take place but it is not seen that the current President of the United States will survive the election, if he even reaches the election, for it is seen that there may be events that take him out of power or at least do not encourage his running for the Democratic ticket in 2012. It is seen that a new leader will be elected, but it is also seen that this new leader will not be inaugurated in January, for the collapse of the system will also collapse the government, and as the government collapses the old rulers that have been in power and in charge will also be swept away, for they are a corruption of the highest values, they are leaders who are not leading the people, but are servants to the Powers That Be, the corporations and companies that undermined the rights and best interests of the people of America.
These leaders may all be tried for treason if their crimes are truly exposed and many will be charged and held to account for their crimes, for they are not truly acting in the spirit of the Constitution of the United States of America. They are not there to serve the people who have elected them but are there for their own self-interests and self-aggrandizement. These ones will no longer be tolerated and as the entire system collapses they will mostly be thrown out of power because of the collapse of the government, or in certain cases arrested and held accountable for their crimes. Thus, the collapse of the political system of the United States will be a major event of 2012. This collapse will not be confined to the United States of America.
Many Governments Will Collapse
Many countries around the world will also experience the collapse of their governments, for the people are on the move, and many are starting to proclaim the inadequacies of the systems that now exist, the power brokering on behalf of the super wealthy, that which is often referred to as the one percent. Those countries where the leadership breaks apart will again fall to more localized governance, and local economies, local situations of assisting one another, will become the norm in the year 2012, or at least it will be the beginning of what will become the norm after that event of Ascension on December 21, 2012. The rebellion will continue that this Awareness spoke of for 2011 and the rebellion will become a grassroots movement.
The Occupy Wall Street movement that has gone worldwide will continue and will gain more and more support as more and more individuals see the incongruity of the power structures that exist now. As events unfold, as the deterioration of the political economic situation continues, and those corrupt officials who are in power seek to serve their masters more obviously, it will in turn bring the masses to the realization, finally, that they have been asleep and have been controlled and enslaved even by those ones who claim power. The Occupation Movement worldwide will indeed become stronger and stronger, the grassroots movement becoming the wave that sweeps away the corruption of the Powers That Be. This is in alignment to the shifting energies of consciousness that will also be occurring during this period of 2012 and then beyond.
Many will completely understand how they have given their powers away willingly, and have been duped by those in power to believe the lies that they have been raised on, and it will be a significant upheaval, for it is not simply that they will blame the Powers That Be who have that power and have exerted it over the masses, but they will truly begin to understand that it is their responsibility to assume their own power first and foremost in their own lives and then in a collective manner that is responsible for the welfare of all. Those in charge in governments at this time are not there to govern for the people, but instead to make the lives easier for those who have the highest degree of power.
Politicians to be Arrested!
As the grassroots movements begin to flex their muscles as more and more join in, those who in their corruption have denied the people and have worked against their welfare will be held to account, as this Awareness has said. So therefore, expect 2012 to bring sensational arrests of politicians that in previous times would never have been arrested, for the populace was too much asleep at the time. An awakening in consciousness therefore will be a very prevalent energy and event in the year 2012, and this will lead to sweeping changes.
Weather and Geophysical Events in 2012
In terms of the predictions this Awareness will make for weather and geophysical events, there is seen to be a building up of pressures in the Midwestern United States along the New Madrid fault line and there is seen a probable catastrophic event as a result of the New Madrid fault line shifting and creating a rift in the middle of the United States of America. It is also seen that there are geophysical activities on the Western coast as well. Thus, it could be in 2012, and this Awareness says could be, that there will be a one-two knockout blow for the United States of America in two events of major significance that hit the United States of America. This is an event that is seen as a possibility, but this Awareness would recommend that the majority do not energize this event, but rather see it as not taking place, so that the energies are dissipated because people become conscious and start to shift and change.
One reason these events could occur is if the people do not start to wake up, and refuse to see the unfolding events around them as both the collapse of the old regime and the dawn of the new. If they stay in their rigid patterns of behavior, their rigid mindsets, this rigidity is that which needs to be loosened, even fractured and released, and this may indeed occur in a geophysical event such as described by this Awareness. This is very much part of the energies that the masses may experience in 2012.
The weather that has been extreme, not only in the United States of America but around the world, will again continue to be erratic and extreme. This too is part of those energies that are building up for a shift in consciousness and a shift in the reality of what once was and what will be. 2012 will be marked by some of the most extreme weather disasters that have ever been experienced, for as the shifting energies become stronger and stronger, moving towards the Ascension, the weather patterns will exemplify them, will mirror them, and will become stronger and stronger. In those areas where there was drought in 2011, there will be even more extreme drought. In areas where there was flooding and tornadoes, expect more flooding and tornadoes.
Part of this is due to the manipulation of weather systems by those who possess HAARP technology, and there is a hidden war that is going on that will escalate in 2012, even perhaps breaking out in armed conflict between China and the United States of America. These conflicts, these situations of war, may bring both countries to the brink of declaring war on each other, but it is not seen that this will happen in 2012. This type of event may carry on into 2013, 2014, where it will become a reality in the Planet B scenarios. Again, this is an event this Awareness does not recommend that you focus on or energize
Many in 2012 will start to awaken to the truth of a new reality dawning, and the biggest movement of 2012, due to the many events of upheaval and change that will be experienced, is that they will start to see reality much differently than it was conceived before. Thus, the shift in consciousness that is necessary to get many ready for an Ascension event will take place rapidly in 2012, many indeed waking up, as this Awareness has said, and many questioning the Powers That Be, the beliefs and paradigms of belief that have so strongly controlled and governed entities' lives and belief systems.
The Crazies Will Become the Sane Ones
Thus, see 2012 as a year of a rebellion of consciousness as well as a rebellion of Spirit. There will also be many miraculous events that start to take place in 2012, and these miracles will start to make the news more and more, for it will be such a time of despair and upheaval that many will need good news, and the good news will come aplenty, especially as one starts to recognize that there are greater forces playing out in 2012 than one had ever expected. The contentment with old-time religion will remain very strong in the United States of America as many seek God to help them through the time of crisis. But many will have a crisis of faith, and many will see that believing in God has not truly helped them deal with the situations that are befalling them, and many may indeed become very angry at the beliefs and the faith that they had held and start to seek the new beliefs that are ready to open up.
These new beliefs, of course, are those beliefs this Awareness has so long talked about: the belief in Spirit and one's own spiritual being, the essence of their being, their connection to Spirit and to God, and the miraculous events will not only be collective miraculous events, but personal miracles that more and more people will begin to discover. Thus it is that many will start to turn away from television and media and watching the news and believing the lies. Many will start to search out those who have greater comprehension and awareness, those spiritual teachers, those ones who have been the lunatic fringe for so long. These will be those who are sought out, those who were considered the crazy ones, those who were not paid attention to, and were called conspiracy nuts or simply crazy. Many who have experienced craziness in their spiritual pursuits will start to become the sane ones.
At this time it could be considered that the planet is like an insane asylum, and what is considered normality is actually the craziness, the madness, and those who are in charge of the insane asylum are the maddest of all. Many will start to see this as fundamental to understanding the reality of the planet that they have lived on so long, a planet that is changing before their very eyes, and 2012 will bring to many a realization that they have been living under madness for many, many eons and that it is time to change and to shift.
The events that unfold, that bring new beliefs and understandings, that show new possibilities, are such that they will be strong enough to effect change of beliefs in many around the world. Unfortunately, the United States of America has some of the strongest and most entrenched beliefs of a traditional nature, and therefore many will fight against the new thoughts, the new understandings, the new paradigms that are introducing themselves; insisting on holding to the old time religion as the way forward. This is simply the way it needs to be for those who are not ready to ascend, and who are not ready to change. But there will be seen to be much friction between those who hold traditional religious values, Christian and others, to those who are seeking new spiritual awareness and understanding. Therefore, 2012 may indeed be a year of conflict between those who hold the old patterns of religious belief and those who seek new ways.
First Contact in Latter Months of 2012
It is also seen that the extraterrestrial beings that have been participating in mankind's journey will finally make themselves seen and known. First Contact is a strong event, especially in the latter months of 2012 towards the period of Ascension. There are the Galactic Federation forces that are already in place around the planet and it is also seen the planet Nibiru coming closer to the Earth at the same time. The planet Nibiru is the ship of the Anunnaki, of those who are in power at this time, and it is seen that there will be a final confrontation between the Galactic Federation and the Orion/Reptilian factions. It is seen that the Orion/Reptilians are trying very hard to convince humanity that those aliens they have been showing on the television and in the movies, those who are the Galactic Federation, are the evil ones, those who are here to corrupt and destroy the planet, and will try very hard to convince the masses that those beings who are coming, who have shown themselves in First Contact, are not to be trusted.
Of course the Orion/Reptilian faction will keep themselves hidden. It will be as if they are prodding humanity to battle the Galactic Federation troops and beings that come to help in the times of upheaval, to fight these ones who are here to help, saying they are the evil ones, while they are hiding under the bed and quivering in fear. Many of their plans to retreat to their underground shelters have collapsed in the last several months, and therefore their plan to be in safety underground while major events occurred on the surface are put off track now, and 2012 will be a hard year of reckoning for many who are in power, many who advocate violence and upheaval and destruction and who would propel humanity into a battle with the Galactic Federation.
It is seen their efforts will fail miserably, for the Galactic Federation beings are not those who are here to destroy humanity, but to lead humanity to salvation and this is seen as an event that will begin to unfold after First Contact in the latter part of summer of 2012 into the fall of 2012, approximately four months before the events of the Ascension are to occur. This too will bring many to question the old ways, their old lives, those beliefs and attitudes they had, their understanding of government and those in power and the economics of a materialistic way of life - all will be questioned, and all will go into upheaval. Therefore, 2012 will be the year of upheaval as many, many things change before the eyes of those who have been asleep and are suddenly awoken, before the eyes of those who have been seeking but have not found, and before the eyes of those who have known for a time that this is coming. Even they will finally see that the changes they have so long prayed for and look towards will indeed finally take place. At this time this Awareness asks the energizer if there were other areas that she would wish this Awareness to speak to?
Governments Like Dominoes in a Line Being Toppled
QUESTIONER: Yes indeed. The US was mentioned. There was no reference really to Australia or New Zealand, or North Korea. Although China was mentioned, the Asian countries, Canada, the European Union, such as England were not. Are there any comments on any of those or will they just fall in line with the US?
COSMIC AWARENESS: It is not that they fall in line with the US, but this Awareness did start by saying all nations would be affected, and there would be upheaval in all nations, for the collapse of the US and its political economic systems will be like the first domino that leads to a chain reaction event of all the dominoes in the line being toppled. Therefore, all nations will see their governments collapse to one degree or another. Those this Awareness has called the Third World Nations may not seem to suffer as much, for they have so little to lose, but those westernized nations, such as Canada, Australia, and the European nations will experience a much greater collapse and the economic materialistic realities that are so favored at this time will simply cease to be.
It is not that economies will cease to be - local economies will start to flourish. There will be no choice but it will be a rough ride in 2012 before local economies fully understand and appreciate what has happened and why there is a need to band together in a way that will assist all to survive. Countries, ironically, such as Greece and Italy and other European nations which already have local markets and a local black market operation in many of those countries where goods and services are already exchanged under the table, will simply revert more to this form of governance than worrying about the national government and whether or not the nation is bankrupt or whether or not it has a responsibility to pay debt.
It is to be remembered that the occurrence of debt, the creation of debt, is one of the greatest ways that the Orion/Reptilians have enslaved humanity, creating the concept of personal debt so that many who are hard-working citizens feel duty bound to pay off their personal debt, whereas the nations themselves ignore such a tactic, and do not pay off their debt, and thus are trillions of dollars in debt. 2012 will see an addressing of this matter and those who are the hard-working individuals who have lived good lives will find that they simply need to look to other ways and perform in other ways to make things happen in their lives, and the way of doing this, as this Awareness said, is to start focusing on the local economy, on doing things for others, exchanging goods and services with others, bartering with others.
Many became aware that this was the only way to survive in the 1930s - doctors often performing their services not for cash money but for a chicken that could be roasted for the family meal. This may indeed be the case in 2012 when the economies collapse and those who have not shifted themselves into another time track where such events simply did not occur experienced the worst case scenarios, and this is a global event, not simply the events of the United States before all else. The United States of America may be the kingpin, the domino that first falls and falls the greatest, but it is not the only nation in the world that will experience decline and upheaval.
ALTERNATE TIME TRACKS
QUESTIONER: Thank you. You had mentioned time tracks, which is similar to timelines, so would this suggest then that not all timelines will experience this, that there will be some that do not experience this?
COSMIC AWARENESS: This indeed is exactly what this Awareness was trying to state at the beginning of Its opening message. Many may not experience at all any of the events this Awareness has described, especially the more negative fear-inducing events, for if they have been successful in creating a timeline or time track where they are unaffected, it will be such a smooth procedure that it will be hard to see where this occurred, and how this occurred, it will simply be their reality experience and, of course, this Awareness has advocated believing in the most positive way that all will be well, that one is a being of Light and of Spirit, and that being such they create their realities as creator beings that will not experience such extreme events. What this Awareness is trying to do is to give the broadest picture available to the masses and how they may experience the unfolding of events, not how those who have managed to step into an alternate time track, or timeline will experience it.
It Comes Down to the Law of Thought
QUESTIONER: So it comes down to the Law of Thought again -- whatever you energize that's what will be, is that correct?
COSMIC AWARENESS: This is correct. The pause was because it is also true that whatever you emotionally energize will be so. Therefore, it is not simply the Law of Thought but also the emotional energies that are held. The Powers That Be have long known this. It is why they have manipulated human consciousness towards fear and panic, and it is why they continually reinforce this so that the emotions felt by the majority are those emotions where fear and panic upend those who have succumbed to them. It is why this Awareness states continuously: one must be vigilant of the panic and fear that the events of their lives and the events of their surroundings may cause them.
It is so easy to go into this fear, especially around economic situations where it appears one will be destitute, one will lose everything, and one will not be able to survive. But this is a lie, for the lie was created by those in power that it is money and economic stability that ensures survival, not one's spiritual inclination or understanding, not one's connection to Spirit or to their true multidimensional being, their true being as creators of their realities. Thus they are asleep and they are controlled, thus it is that fear and hopelessness and negativity are the order of the day and they see their lives as such.
The thoughts and feelings thus create their reality and even though this Awareness does say this clearly and directly, still it is seen that many will succumb to such fears and panic and experience a very chaotic transition.
More on the Medical Mafia
QUESTIONER: Thank you for that. Are there going to be some medical discoveries this coming year?
COSMIC AWARENESS: There are already medical discoveries occurring, but those who are part of the Medical Mafia, as it is often described, those who are part of the planned Rockefeller-Rothschild type creation of the medical industry, may find that their answers are not acceptable to many who are seeking alternative cures, and the costs become more and more prohibitive. Thus it is that many are denied medical treatment, especially in the richest nation of all, where many who are not adequately prosperous do not have the privilege of decent healthcare. Thus, even though there may be medical discoveries in the traditional allopathic medical systems, these discoveries may still be beyond the means of many. This is one of the things that 2012 will also start to collapse.
Indeed, 2012 will be a year of collapse on many levels - the social, economic, political levels, the medical levels, beliefs of religious nature - many things will be challenged, many things will collapse. The medical system will see advancements in medicine outside the parameters of allopathic medicine and many who cannot afford allopathic medical treatment will go to alternative methods, for they are at least affordable, and as more become aware of the power of alternative treatment many will see that this truly is the superior way towards healing, but again 2012 will be a year of upheaval and this includes beliefs in the medical way of things. Many simply cannot leave the medical system as it now stands, believing that what doctors say and how medicine is practiced, is the only way. Thus, 2012 is not the year where it will be completely replaced, it is simply the year of collapse, where many things will no longer be seen to work and many will start to ask questions and new approaches will be sought.
Sports and Entertainment in 2012?
QUESTIONER: Very good. As a sideline to everything else that is going on, will there still be entertainment in the sense of sports events or television, movies, the symphony, the opera, that type of thing, will it still carry on?
COSMIC AWARENESS: In some areas it will still carry on. In others where natural disasters have happened, where stadiums and arenas are no longer available, where theaters are collapsed, where local news stations, television stations are destroyed, there will not be entertainment. It is hard for many to conceive the degree of change that is coming, the collapse that is coming. What has always been traditional for so many and what is expected to be there from day to day will simply not be there any longer. Thus, those who support their local team and expect in 2012 that they may come back and win the Super Bowl, the Stanley Cup, the World Series, may find that their teams do not exist by the end of the season when events are so catastrophic and the collapse so extreme.
The system of travel in the world that is available now will also be restrained and constrained. It is seen, for example, international travel being greatly curtailed because of many factors, even factors of safety and availability of aircraft. Thus it will become harder to travel to other lands, even within one's own country. The petrochemical industry will also be affected and gasoline may not be as available in 2012. A similar situation was experienced during the oil crisis of '72-'73.
Martial Law in 2012?
There is also seen a radical response in America where martial law is declared in 2012 and the borders to Canada and Mexico are closed and access into the country severely restricted. This state of martial law will be in order to "deal with the situation", but it will truly be the Power Elite's way of gaining full and total control.
Martial law may also be introduced in other countries as well: Canada, Great Britain, the European nations, China, Australia - all the greater nations of the world may need to go into states of martial law, for the collapse will be so extreme for many in those areas that there is no choice but to try to control through martial law, try to bring the powers into effect that have so long been planned for, the entire and complete enslavement of humanity.
This too is an agenda of 2012 by the Powers That Be, but this Awareness wishes to say that due to all other events occurring at the same time, the plan for complete enslavement of mankind will not occur in 2012. It may be that many move this forward in their timelines and time tracks to the Planet B scenario, where those elitist actions of martial law for the purpose of taking complete control may be continued and indeed successfully carried out.
Food and Crops in 2012
A Manufactured Crisis in the World's Food Supply
QUESTIONER: I understand. How about foodstuffs- with Monsanto developing seeds of not reproducing themselves, is food going to be a factor?
COSMIC AWARENESS: Food will be a factor because of the weather warfare that is taking place and the natural weather patterns that will be very destructive. It is seen that the big plan is to control the food production around the planet. Monsanto is but a part of that scenario, the creation of genetic seeds that need to be replaced through Monsanto year after year is but a part of the process of controlling the world's production of food. What is seen to be a more serious event is the weather around the world where food is produced. In areas where food is produced, flooding and droughts and other natural catastrophes such as hurricanes and tornadoes may well reduce food supplies. This is and always has been part of the plans of the Elite to create a crisis in the world food supply.
Many areas where food could be grown have been replaced by crops that are not able to nurture people, such as coffee, tobacco and other crops that have no nutritional merit or value are not food crops. It is also one way that the world's food supplies have been attacked over the many years, as many farmers in nations where there is a subsistence level are being forced to grow crops such as coffee or cocoa or tobacco instead of food crops for their own people. Thus, when the plug is pulled, so to speak, the peoples of those countries will be in dire situations, for where they once grew crops for the feeding of the people now they have tobacco or coffee beans. But this will change as the local economies reinsert themselves and do what is right and needed to feed the local populace.
It is also seen that this is a scenario that could go into Planet B, where food becomes critical to the extreme and many die because of starvation. The events seen in Africa over the last few months will become worldwide in the times after 2012 in the Planet B scenario. But those who have focused in different ways, and who choose to experience a different reality need not have this as their experience, and thus it is seen that while 2012 may be challenging and food prices may go up in the local grocery store, that generally speaking things will still be available. Crops from southern regions may not be available. The people in Canada, for example, may not receive their tomatoes or their oranges from Florida or California, but this will not be so serious that they are starving. They simply will not be able to have their orange juice in the morning.
Upheaval and Catastrophic Earth Changes
QUESTIONER: I see. How about electricity and the water, that type of thing?
COSMIC AWARENESS: Again, upheaval is seen around the world due to the crashing economics and the catastrophic Earth Changes in some regions. But it is seen that the reliance on geophysical energy sources such as oil will decline in 2012, and the good news is that there will start to be a movement for sustainable energy and this will move forward with time. But again, upheaval is the key for 2012, so there may indeed be more energy blackouts and even the loss of energies altogether - the availability of electricity, for example, the availability of oil and gas to power one's vehicles or run motors. These events could become very common in 2012, especially during the summer of 2012.
Here's a Novel Idea: Get Together With Other People!
QUESTIONER: And the following winter then of 2012, for those in northern colder climates will find they need a couple of extra blankets, is that true?
COSMIC AWARENESS: Indeed, or perhaps they come together with others who have fireplaces, so that if they did lose the availability of electricity or natural gas they could cook over the open fire. It is to be remembered the pioneer spirit will be rekindled and many who had become used to electricity, to natural gas, and to propane, may have to do without it. But there are other ways to cook, just as there are other ways to heat a space in the house. It may be that the whole house is no longer heated and only the fireplace is the primary source of heat for those cold weather months, but it will help them survive and get through. Of course, again this Awareness wishes to reiterate: these are scenarios of possibilities, these forecasts that this Awareness is making do not stand as unavoidable or that they must be so. It is simply this Awareness is speaking of possibilities at this time for some who wish to have these adventures.
QUESTIONER: Yes, this is understood. It's good to be aware of the lay of the land, of possibilities, and then people can choose what they want to experience.
COSMIC AWARENESS: This is true. What this Awareness would also say is it must be remembered that the event of Ascension December 21, 2012 will mark the shift forward one way or another; forward for those who hold that the possibility exists that Ascension and the shift of the planet will bring a new dawn, a new way of belief and thought and perceptions of reality; also, a new way for those who do not believe it, and who need to have the ultimate experience of physicality without spiritual involvement. It is not a new way that is a particularly brilliant way but it is a level of life experience, and as Spirit always enters into physicality to have experiences good or bad, either Planet A or Planet B will offer new ways to have experiences.
GOD WILL NOT ABANDON YOU!
QUESTIONER: Indeed. Is there any additional, or any topic I haven't covered that might be relevant?
COSMIC AWARENESS: The one thing this Awareness would add is that in the times ahead, despite what difficulties there are, faith is imperative; the faith and trust that things will shift, and will change. For those who are capable, it is suggested that they focus only on the highest energies that they can focus on, that they focus on Light and Love as the way forward, for Light and Love will lead one first and foremost into situations that are lighter, where love is available to help sustain and guide individuals through upsetting times and periods of experiences that 2012 will bring. The experiences that are available in 2012 are experiences of transition, of the ending of things, but the focus must not remain on the death of this planet or of civilization or of the family or of one's nation, but rather there should be an understanding that this is but a time of transition and change and upheaval, away from the insane asylum that has controlled the thinking on the planet for so long to a new place of belief, a new level of awareness and consciousness, one that is in alignment with one's spiritual truth and the truth that is God Almighty, that which is the Force of the Everything and the All.
God will not abandon the many that believe in the force that is the Godhead, or God Almighty. It will not abandon those who do not believe in It, as It is still available to all, even if all do not choose to believe in that which is the Divine Energy of God Almighty. This will be not only a year of challenge and upheaval, but also a year of faith and a year of miracles as this Awareness has already said, especially as one truly begins to live the knowing of who and what they are in the Light of Spirit and the Light that is God. Further to this, God is not an intellectual concept; It is not a deity sitting on a throne wearing a crown. It is a real force that inhabits all - every cell, every atom, every organ, every being, every stone, tree, plant - all is infused with the spark of God and so it is with mankind itself.
As creator beings, the spark of the Divine very much blazes within them, and it is a necessity now to truly begin to live this truth, this knowing. 2012 will be the year of discovery of this most fundamental truth: that all are aspects of the Divine, all are here to have an experience, all have chosen to be here in a time of upheaval and chaos, to move forward, either to experience Ascension and to move into Planet A Ascension Consciousness or to have an experience of Planet B consciousness. It is still an experience; it is still part of the dream of God for all that are part of it, and that are having this experience. As more and more begin to understand this critical truth they will remove themselves from the hardships of physicality that they are experiencing, they will remove themselves from the lies they have lived their lives by, lies that are considered the norm, lies that are considered the way it is.
It is only the way it is because of the acceptance of the lies one lives by, and 2012 will start to put a light on the lies of existence that so many hold as irrefutable. They will no longer be irrefutable and as such the lies will be dropped and the truth that lies beyond the lies will be discovered. It is indeed also to be a year of glorious opportunity to discover the truth of what truly is, to discover the Light and the Love of that which is Divine, Spirit, that which is God Almighty.
Affirmations for a New Age
QUESTIONER: Indeed. Is there any additional or would you like to do a closing message or shall I say the Law of Gratitude?
COSMIC AWARENESS: This Awareness has previously given an affirmation that It has recommended that members use to help them through the dark times. That affirmation is: "I am the Light, the Light I am". This Awareness continues to recommend the use of this affirmation, especially in times of darkness and uncertainty, but this Awareness now also introduces a new affirmation for 2012 that can be used in conjunction with the Light affirmation. This affirmation is similar in nature: "I am Love, Love I am". These two affirmations together will first and foremost help to dispel the darkness of those lies that many believe in, but will also begin to introduce in the affirmation "I am Love, Love I am"; the love of the Divine and the rediscovering within oneself of the love for oneself for the Divine, for life itself, life illuminated and glorious, life with promise and hope.
This Awareness recommends these two affirmations be used during times of doubt and crisis, to be used at times where hope is failing or the fear is growing. These affirmations will help many to get in touch with the truth within and they will begin to be able to transcend the lies around them and move towards Ascension and reunion with the God within, the God without.
QUESTIONER: That's beautiful, thank you.
COSMIC AWARENESS: That this completes this Awareness' forecast for 2012, but that this Awareness will continue to update throughout the year when events warrant updates. This Awareness is also open to questions that may be presented to It regarding 2012; questions individuals might have as to possibilities that exist for 2012.
It cannot be but a short time before the many activities that are being carried out to advance you, come to your attention. The extent to which our allies are involved will force the issues to be considered by the media. It might take a little longer before our presence is reported, but whatever steps are taken to prevent it will be futile. The first reactions will bring out all kinds of responses, but those who cast doubt or reject us will soon be overshadowed through acceptance by the majority of the people. It will not take long at all for the realization to sink in that we are here to help you, and that includes removing all those who have usurped their authority and responsibility to you for many years. It is the end of the Illuminati already seriously weakened by losing much of their control over you.
You will know by now that we are fully engaged in keeping peace on the planet, although we cannot stop every confrontation. Peace will come to you when the big powers stop interfering in other countries affairs. For too long they have plotted and manipulated circumstances that have forced countries to sell out their commodities. The result has been that much of the wealth generated that should have helped its inhabitants, has been taken out of the country. These problems will all be put right, with the raising up of people's living standards and introduction to new technologies. In the poorer countries a big problem has been the lack of medical attention and adequate facilities, but that will be quickly overcome. The use of drugs will become unnecessary, as we will use natural methods through technologies that will be new to you. No challenge will be too much for us to deal with, and the changes will be seen very quickly.
We know that people are already anxious to find out what will happen, but we ask that you wait until we can fully present ourselves. We wish to reach out to everyone and ensure you quickly understand what is required of you. Have no fear, as all will given in good time, and also opportunities to meet with us to sort out any queries. For a time there will be continuous broadcasts to update you on progress being made. There are exciting times coming up and it will spread around the world once the future is understood. Freedom is something few have really experienced yet it shall engulf you all before Ascension takes place.
The future is golden and is in fact a Golden Age, and that fact alone should give you an indication of what to look forward to. Living in perfection and having the ability to create at will, will be a new experience and by then you should have acquired a higher level of consciousness and understanding that will prevent misuse of your powers. As you can see, a great leap forward is to occur and to say the least you will be absolutely different to what you are now. An extended life period of your choosing will be something new, and gives you more than ample time to fully experience it. In fact you will be able to literally "swap" bodies if it is necessary to ensure completion. These are all areas that you will eventually understand, and remember that you will have a greatly enhanced degree of consciousness.
Duality has given you immense strength to handle the most arduous and difficult challenges. So Dear Ones, we believe that you can sail through the remaining months to Ascension. You have been prepared to know what to expect, and whatever inconvenience you experience it will be followed by an on going period of peace and tranquility. Naturally we are forging ahead with our roles in the present exchanges with us and our allies, against the dark Ones as they retreat and find us ready to foil any attempt to cause trouble. We are very much in the role of Galactic Policemen but we abide by the Universal Laws, and our ways are peaceful but forceful if we have to exert our authority. Even those who oppose us are still part of the whole, and treated with respect for the Light they carry. No soul is beyond redemption, and in the ultimate it is love that brings about changes that awaken them once again.
Clearly you must look beyond the outer body as you view your fellow man, and keep in mind that all souls originate from the Source. All of you have experienced the extremes of duality, and it is as well that you bear in mind a very apt saying "but for the Grace of God go I". It is why you are encouraged to put aside judgment, and try to see the beauty and love in all souls. All will eventually become enlightened once again no matter how long it takes, but then time is of no consequence outside of your dimension as it does not exist. Whilst on Earth in duality "no time" is an unimaginable idea, but perhaps you can grasp that all is in the Now. That makes your travels extremely interesting, as you can go back into the past, and for those of you who have a decisive pull towards particular historical times, what better than to be able visit them. It is also possible to travel different time lines into the future, which your Time Travelers have experienced.
Bit by bit you are adjusting to the new life ahead, and you choose where it leads you to continue you evolution. Be assured that you do have spiritual helpers to give you advice as to what is best for your progress. You have never been without such help, and if you struggle now do not hesitate to put out your thoughts to them, and you might be pleasantly surprised by the outcome. However, you cannot dictate exactly how it is to work out, as it must be for your best good and you may not know exactly what that is. After Ascension you get to know those souls who have traveled with you through duality. They may not all stay with you as your needs will undoubtedly change, as your future life will possibly be more defined as to the direction you want to go in.
I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and must mention yet again how time is speeding up, a sure sign that you are uplifting much more quickly into the Light. Many can already relate to a new feeling of being relaxed and unaffected by what is going on around them. That feeling of calmness will spread, and the much dreaded fear factor will cease to have the same affect. Well done to those who have achieved such levels, and my love to you all.
If we said that the ball is rolling where the changes are concerned, it would be an understatement as it is thundering forward, and all the work to bring out the results is about to bear fruit. The dark Ones are overwhelmed at the speed that our allies have moved, and it has taken them by surprise. In their arrogance they thought they were invincible and now in a -state of panic. We have cut off their escape routes, and they face having to answer for their crimes against you. The net has closed in on the Illuminati top members, and for once they cannot corrupt people into letting them go. Such developments can hardly be kept out of the main media for much longer, and the fears of repercussions for printing the truth are losing their power. So you may rest assured that a series of events are fast lining up for disclosure, and once it commences there will be no holding back any longer.
All we ask of you is further patience which most of you have exhibited for many years now, as we put the final touches to our work. Then you shall see an explosion of events that will be hard to keep up with. However, for those who have little prior knowledge of what has been happening, we hope to be able to make broadcasts that will be enlightening. Certainly they will be arranged once disclosure has been made, and all of our activities will be carried out as openly as possible. The flyovers will be spectacular and lift your spirits, as we are to accompany you for the rest of your journey to Ascension. Whatever you need to know will be given, unlike now when your scientists have kept knowledge from you. They know that the solar system is changing, and that your Sun is a main focal point for what is occurring. N.A.S.A. has been the biggest culprit at hiding the facts, and issuing false information. All of this will rapidly change in the coming months.
The truth is going to be the top of our list of changes, so that in future you will know that you can trust the information that you are given. For too long you have been forced to live the lie about you own place in the world. You have been totally misled about your rights, that have been slowly taken from you to remove your independence. Your enslavement was been very carefully planned, and you were nearly under the total control of the Illuminati. However, the Light forces were not idle and with support from Beings in the higher realms, have stopped their progress and are about to release you from their hold for once and all. To be free is to experience a wonderful feeling of happiness and joy, and not to have to keep looking over your shoulder. The threats to your liberty will be totally removed, so that you can live your lives in peace.
You have come a long way to reach this stage in your evolution, and to be present in the closing days of duality is indeed a special privilege. Can you really understand what an extra special time it is, to finally close your cycle of many, many lives responding to the challenges that the lower vibrations have placed before you. If you all did but know what you have gone through already, you would feel uncontrollable joy that the journey was over. It will be a time for celebration and we shall ensure that it is one to remember for a long, long time. Your joy will grow the more you learn as to what waits for you.
We continue to monitor what is happening between the different countries, that are constantly provoking each other to near warlike responses. That Dear Ones is what has been wrong for as long as your history has been recorded. It is nearly always because of greed, and it has been prompted by the dark Ones who took control of different countries to rob them of their resources. Wars have created a constant condition of fear, and you were never intended to permanently live that way. At last we can tell you that the basis for world wide peace has been established, and quickly shall the weapons of war be withdrawn and immobilized. However, that will come when we join you and use our technology to ensure that once an agreement has been reached, that all countries obey it.
The Galactic Federation are a mighty force for good within the Universe. There are other organizations of a very similar nature, but ours is of an immense size to which more civilizations are being added. Outside of your Universe there are other forms of life, that travel through the wormholes to enter other Universes, mainly for expeditionary reasons. They are checked out by us and only allowed to stay as long as they present no threat to other life. Many times advanced civilizations from within your own Universe, have set out to conquer other planets, but you have been protected by us as the Earth has been quarantined and out of bounds to them. Otherwise you would not have had any means of preventing a takeover, and being enslaved. Life in the lower vibrations has been quite an experience fraught with all kind of dangers, which is why you learnt very quickly how to survive.
In the future other civilizations will call upon you to help them with their own experiences. What you know from first hand experience is invaluable, and you will be sought after for that reason. That is how all progress by sharing and helping each other, as all are on the same journey back to the Source from whence all life originated. So from experiencing the depths of separation you are going to move into Oneness with all other ascended life forms. It is for example going from individualism where the emphasis was on Self, to Oneness where all serve each other. When the Masters return you shall learn a lot more about the higher dimensions, and how you will need to adapt to the requirements necessary to live within them.
Mother Earth continues to take her own actions to cleanse the planet, and we are active on her behalf. It is fortunate that you have raised the vibrations, so that the levels of negativity have been substantially reduced. It has meant that the dark energies have been cleansed from many areas, making Mother Earth's work less liable to cause any major problems to the population. Also, we have the means to accurately predict when events may endanger you, and can act accordingly. You will not be left to cope with such happenings by yourselves.
I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and send my love to all of you, to help your upliftment and progress towards Ascension.
One after another the videos and radio interviews are coming out, apparently preparing the public for NESARA.
Back in January, we heard James Martinez tell us he was authorized to discuss a new abundance program that was emerging. At the time leading lightworkers, assuming that the Monaco Accord represented the new shape of the world economy, called it a hoax. But, on An Hour with an Angel, Archangel Michael said, no, it was a quiet announcement meant to demonstrate to those who await NESARA that things are happening. (1)
Click here to view the embedded video.
Archangel Michael added that it neither originated with the Monaco Accord group nor was it a hoax. It originated with “a group – and it is a combination group – of star beings and human beings and, can we say, with our input [i.e., celestials], that is working together. ”Fast forward to March 28, 2012, when David Wilcock said that mass arrests were being stage managed by aliens and angels, essentially lining up with what AAM said in January. David said:
“Top insiders have now confirmed that everyone in the Pentagon is now aware that some form of Divine Intervention is happening — regardless of what side they are on.
“Most of them do not know who is responsible. Even the ‘bad guys’ are now saying it could be ‘Angels or Aliens’ doing this stuff. “No one on Earth has the technology to do the things they are now seeing — regardless of how classified that technology may be.
“It is utterly astonishing that even the ‘bad guys’ are now acknowledging this may be an angelic intervention.” (2)
On March 21, 2012 on this site, Stephen Cook covered a report by “Drake” (his full name is known but we’ve been asked to hold it back for security reasons) on Freedomizerradio, in which he revealed that the American military will soon be arresting members of the cabal and holding them in the same FEMA camps that they set up to hold dissidents among the population after martial law.
Drake, who lives in the southeast, is billed as a person the Pentagon has asked to make announcements on their behalf. He said that the cabal had attempted to declare martial law twice and been forced to abandon their efforts. He outlined some of the provisions of the new economy, which included greatly reduced taxation, debt forgiveness, a non-debt-based currency, etc. On Freedomreigns Radio, Drake and his team say:
“We are in a time of great change. America’s currency was captured in 1913. Her government was captured in 1933. This explains why petitioning our government has been to no meaningful avail. These corporations that masquerade as our lawful government have almost destroyed America. Top people in our government – including our military – know this. They have been waiting for the right time – to help take America back to our lawful government.
“In the very near future, we can expect a major, constructive change in our banking and currency systems. We can expect to see contingents of federal marshals – backed up by our active military – in the major seats of power. These military are not any part of a military coup. They are backing up civilian re-establishment of our lawful government.
“We can expect do see interruptions in our normal way of life. This transition has been designed to minimize interruptions in vital services and our economy – minimize hardship. This will be accompanied by announcements in mainstream media. What we do not want – is for people to panic.
“Our so-called president has been informed that he is no longer commander in chief of our military. This is part of a worldwide operation whereby the non-aligned nations – those who are not part of the G20 – re-establish solid currencies.” (3)
I personally don’t believe that President Obama has been dismissed as commander-in-chief but we’ll have to wait to see what actually occurs. Note the advice to lay in some supplies in anticipation of interruptions in distribution.
On March 28, 2012, David Wilcock interviewed Drake in a three-hour program in which Drake went into even more detail on what is coming down the road.
Drake himself said that he had a cache of interviews, some of which can be found here.
Important things to remember on this score is that Drake has been asked by the Pentagon to discuss these plans so that, when the American military suddenly shows up on the scene, people do not panic but realize that they are acting to take down the dark cabal.
As I said on Extraordinary Year recently, elements of the American military – in particular the American Navy – have been leaders among the white hats for many years now, assisting to thwart attempts to start a nuclear World War III, standing up to the Bush regime, and assuming control of Northern Command (which appears to have carried out so many cabal-related assignments) and the secret space fleet, Solar Warden. Now it appears that the American military as a whole has taken up the cause of the Light.
Now, evidently, the military can be counted on to take the side of the people and round up the cabal.
We’ve been told by our sources in the past that, once the cabal are removed so that they cannot harm NESARA recipients and once the old financial structures have collapsed, NESARA will be inaugurated.
On Feb. 17, SaLuSa warned us that the cabal was being taken down and that this would enable the redistribution of wealth.
“Look around you, Dear Ones, and see the signs that are there for all to see, as out of the seeming chaos the new beginnings are becoming apparent. You are correctly hearing of a world plan by many countries to topple the Illuminati, and present the world with a new system that creates a new deal where financial matters are concerned.
“It will remove the illegal structure and methods that have placed you in a debt ridden society that is in danger of collapsing. Having reached this point, if offers the very opportunity that can be taken to implement it. It will remove the burden that so many of you carry, and the hardships it is causing.
“More importantly it will enable wealth to be re-distributed, much of which has been acquired by criminal actions. You have been deliberately kept poor as a way of keeping you under control. Likewise you have also been kept ignorant of your status and history, which is why you are to be fully informed of your past and reason for being on Earth. (4)
On March 1, Matthew Ward agreed that the world financial scene was being cleaned up and that NESARA would then follow.
“Rampant corruption in multinational corporations will meet its well-deserved end; directors who serve the interests of the populace will remain; those who are greedy and self-serving will go. National economies in bankrupt status will not be successfully revived; the global economy will reach rock bottom and an honorable system will start operating worldwide.” (5)
We’ve been asking the celestials and galactics for tangible proof for some time that all of what is being talked about is real and the resignations and arrests that are transpiring as we speak are surely tangible proof. They will only speed up at some point probably reaching a climax when the American military, and perhaps the militaries of other countries, descend on the dark ones and take them into custody. That day is surely not far off.
Footnotes
(1) “The James Martinez Video Was Not a Hoax,” Jan. 7, 2012, at
http://the2012scenario.com/nesara-or-the-abundance-program/the-james-martinez-video-was-not-a-hoax/
(2) “DIVINE INTERVENTION: Section I — Defeating Financial Tyranny,” at http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1035-divineintervention1
(3) “A Message for Americans, 3/15/2012,” at http://freedomreigns.us/Featured_Guests_Shows.html
Freedomizerradio can be found at http://www.freedomizerradio.com/. Freedomreigns Radio is at http://freedomreigns.us/ and http://www.blogtalkradio.com/freedomizerradio/2012/03/18/freedom-reigns
(4) SaLuSa, Feb. 17, 2012, at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm
(5) Matthew’s Message, Mar. 1, 2012, at http://www.matthewbooks.com/mattsmessage.htm
Humanity is a genetic experiment, an immortal race trapped in a mortal paradigm, a solar race locked in a lunar reality, a stolen race on a stolen planet.
"The corruption lies in the mutant matrix, in the systemic failure of Earth's governing functions and the loss of evolutionary symbiosis that occurred when this parasitic species electromagnetically disconnected humanity and its mother planet from the divine immortal continuum, setting Earth on a course of terminal decline.
THERE WAS NO "FALL" WE WERE PUSHED.
"AS THE PROGRESSIVE REVELATIONS UNFOLD, SO TOO DOES A HOLONOMIC TEMPLATE FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE FULL HUMAN BLUEPRINT AND A NEW MODEL OF EXISTENCE; A TEMPLATE TO RECOVER HUMANITY'S RESONANCE WITH GEOMETRIES OF LIGHT, RETURNING US AND OUR PLANET TO THE HOLISTIC SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM."
Worldbridger. Juliet and Jiva Carter, Sowelu Publishing (2007)
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- Ernest Holmes from "This Thing Called You"
"When the time comes that nothing
goes forth from you other than that
which you would be glad to have return,
then you will have reached your heaven."
Update by Sheldan Nidle for the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Galactic Federation - April 3, 2012
Dratzo! We return!
Your world continues her shift to a new reality. The planet has moved nearly 2.0 degrees toward the ecliptic as a result of the increasing energies passing through your Sun from the galactic core. These energies are putting mounting pressure on the planetary grids, which also continue to shift. The same galactic core energies are creating conditions on the other water-worlds, which are moving them closer to the solar system's sacred shift point. This is when your solar system aligns with the rest of your galaxy, allowing the galaxy to significantly alter its basic spiral shape, and permitting our galaxy's reality grids to come into rhythmic alignment with the 350,000 or so galaxies that form this sector of physicality. We have been instructed by Heaven to increase our level of participation with the galactic Elohim in seeing that these adjustments proceed as decreed by the Creator and by the sacred Seraphim of AEON. This project coincides with the divine intervention now happening on your world.
This divine intervention is approaching a magical point! Currently, we are watching the final steps wherein your world's reality is transformed from dark to Light. Heaven's representatives, working in concert with a number of secret sacred societies and many of your Ascended Masters, are ready to roll out a great abundance. This universal prosperity kick-starts great changes in the way your global financial and political systems operate. It is truly to be a year marked by unprecedented and unique change! The most important aspect for us is, of course, a full disclosure by various major governments of our benevolent presence and of our mission here. We are very ready to proceed with the many activities on our agenda, which conclude with those that return you to your natural state of full consciousness. As we speak, certain prerequisite actions are being carried out by designated contingents of the world's military and associated police groups. They are implementing the final stages of a mass global arrest process which will change your world forever. These arrests herald new governance and new prosperity for all!
This first extraordinary flurry of changes will lead to a series of ever more exciting events. We are working closely with the Agarthans to set up for you an optimum route to galactic society, beginning with many secret technologies which will be introduced to you by your new governments. These same governments will also deliver you from debt and disburse your new abundance. Then it will be time to face, globally, the very real fact of climate change, and this will necessitate totally changing your approach to your precious living planet. The continuing, massive destruction of your home world has to be stopped. New technologies will be made available immediately to sustain your planet and begin the restitution of millennia-long depredations. Our role as mentor includes adding our technologies to yours, and counseling you on ways to address your most pressing global needs. All this you have heard many times before; now the time has come to actually discuss how to carry it all out.
The Agarthans are very well acquainted with you; in fact, they have secretly lived among you for nearly 13 millennia, and therefore their wisdom is most important to us. The Ascended Masters have the sacred task of redressing the many falsehoods and innuendos woven into your religious philosophies by the dark. The truth needs to be voiced frankly yet in such a way that you can perceive the subtlety used by the Anunnaki to distort your religious works. The Masters can set the record straight, providing a basis for a complete recasting of your ancient histories and your myths about humanity's origins. Also of prime importance is a massive readjustment in how you relate to the magnificent Being you reside upon. Your fall into limited consciousness veiled many things from you, and the road back to full consciousness can transform these mysteries into concepts that will quickly become part of your everyday knowledge of this world and of physicality itself. All of this begins with disclosure.
Namaste! We are your Ascended Masters! This week we have been assisting our many associates to prepare several special projects for immediate activation. We have complied in every way with the sacred decrees of Heaven, and it is now accepted that your reality is fully prepared to shift. This shift will begin with a series of arrests and 'resignations' of major figures who serve the dark in government, finance, and international banking. This action leads straight away to two others: the deliveries of your prosperity funds by designated personnel, simultaneous with the transfer of political power in several major world governments to new caretaker governments. These two actions lead to a third: the series of official announcements explaining the new banking and financial system, full debt forgiveness, and the restoration of your sovereign rights.
These activities will signal that disclosure is next and is imminent. Regarding this latter issue, another major consideration is to be taken into account: our dear blessed world requires an urgent end to war as threats now exist that are jeopardizing her health. We have asked our Agarthan and galactic families to join us in restoring Gaia to health, but this activity necessitates a large amount of direct, open intervention on our part.
Happily, this visible activity is to be authorized by the new caretaker governments, and so the need for the disclosure announcement has been brought forward on the agenda, from an issue to be handled in the second week of the interim governments taking office to one that is fully addressed along with our first announcements. The skullduggery of the dark can and will no longer be allowed. A new epoch for humanity has arrived!
The gist of this message is to assure you that a great deal of work has been accomplished by our associates to replace the dark governance and to distribute an immense global prosperity program. These are only some of the activities that have been planned in order to move you to full consciousness. The coming preliminaries will irrevocably change your world and provide a point of entrance for the Galactic Federation's first-contact mission. We and our Agarthan sisters and brothers also intend to introduce ourselves to you at that time. While what is to happen can be shocking to you, it is in reality a beginning that will lead you to the blessed joys of full consciousness. Here, you will assist all of Heaven and us in unfolding the divine plan of physicality. These are indeed exiting times that you are witnessing and living through!
Today, we continued our discussion of what is happening on your world. A new golden age for humanity has dawned. The announcements of disclosure by your new governments will permit us to do a number of things that are vital for setting the stage for our mass landings. We await with joy the chance to formally meet with each one of you. Know, dear Ones, that the countless
Supply and never-ending Prosperity of Heaven are indeed Yours!
So Be It! Selamat Gajun! Selamat Ja! (Sirian for Be One! and Be in Joy!)
You wanted action, you wanted results, and you now have them if you follow certain people who have acquired a reputation for successfully discovering the truth. An enormous set up of hundreds of different personnel, are poised ready to apprehend the criminals who have been behind the most cynical and profitable crimes against you in recent times. The size of this project will ensure that it makes the media sit up and take notice, as it will be impossible to ignore it. That will be the start of more open reporting which shall be truthfully stated, and not dressed up purely for shock affects. At last the breakthrough will have been made, as it has long been overdue. It is important to keep calm and not allow the revelations to create a false impression of what is involved. Time will prove that those involved in bringing the culprits to justice, have acted on behalf of the people and that no ulterior motive is at the root of it.
The cleansing covers many different areas of life, and making way for the interim government is an essential number one requirement if the changes are to flow smoothly. Be assured we have a total understanding of the way you think and work, and it means that we can anticipate how things are going to proceed. Our allies are well rehearsed in their different responsibilities, and we do anticipate that these opening events will be successful. The most difficult challenge is the first one we are meeting, and it will be a real eye opener for everyone. Whatever you know now, will be far from the whole truth of what has been going on. There is hardly any part of your society or business that has not been tainted by the dealings of the dark Ones. Sometimes even honest people have been unwittingly caught up in their activities, but they shall not be a target for us.
Dear Ones, the battle royal has begun but since we are in the ascendancy, we have every reason to anticipate a great victory. You too may take your share of the plaudits as without you and your determination to bring the necessary changes in, we would not be where we are today. The number of Lightworkers is at a new high and paving the way towards Ascension. Levels of consciousness continue to rise, and that is also another sign of how well you have taken to the task of preparing for Ascension. In the little time that remains before the end of the year closes in on you, you will find it to be action filled and much given in the way of guidance.
Already the different countries and their governments have been made to understand that aggression must stop, and that we are authorized to take whatever steps are necessary to ensure there is peace. Hitherto, our intervention on your behalf was curtailed for karmic reasons, but now by Divine decree we are able to enforce the plan for your spiritual evolution. You will find that suddenly progress has leapt forward, and that has taken the dark Ones by surprise who never allowed for such a turn around. We are pressing ahead and know that it is now the turn of the Light to take charge, and commence to set up a society that can express its freedom to create a new peaceful way forward. Naturally, not all laws need to be reviewed but many are illegal or have been framed in false circumstances. Events such a 9/11 resulted in many unfair and unjust changes, directed at alleged terrorists that were not the ones responsible. Similar incidents have also taken place, and each time used to tighten the controls over you.
From this time onwards, you will become more aware of what is happening and kept informed through various sources of information, until we can provide you with a regular and reliable one. We intend to open our own channel, and thus be sure that you are provided with all that is needed to have a wonderful remainder to your year. Do not worry about any small confrontations as they will not escalate to anything more dangerous. So after looking for some signs that things were moving forward, there is an abundance of evidence to show it is. There are still some sources that are set up to give out disinformation, so use your discretion and intuition to determine which of them are reliable.
You will ask "what should we do whilst the changes are taking place", and we suggest as far as possible live your lives as before. However be aware that if as expected there will be a short spell very soon where your lives are disrupted, cover yourself by ensuring you have food and other necessities for just a few days. Whatever happens we along with our allies will make certain that operations are efficiently completed, with as little inconvenience to you as possible. As you would expect, we have everything in hand and that includes your safety. The dark Ones will fight until the last and even now plan atrocities, but since we are aware of them we shall prevent them from happening.
You are entering the final phases of Ascension, and it should not be forgotten that the changes are part of the preparations that have been going on for a very long time. As always it is important that until we can open up a free media, that you do not fall for false reports that will be expected to create fear. Some chaos is inevitable, but at the same time will not be lasting. Know that military activity will not be directed at the people, but in support of them. Our operations are being carried out to propel you as fast as possible towards Ascension. As we often tell you, we of the Galactic Federation are of the Light, and carrying out the orders of the Higher Beings that carve out your destiny.
I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and so pleased that matters can now be placed into public view. Information can now be released knowing that it will reach you, and in future there will be a direct line to you. We have nothing to hide but for obvious reasons do not reveal our hand to the dark Ones. Whatever information they are able to pick up, they will be unable to hack our systems as they are technically beyond them. It is in fact quite the opposite, as we have access to their communications and nothing is kept secret or beyond our reach. We are normally a step ahead of them, which is why we are confident of the outcome of our activities. Victory is ours, and we share the joy with you.
Benjamin Fulford 4-3-12…”Japan’s government formally agrees to set up 1000 trillion yen fund but worries about geopolitical ramifications”
Posted on April 2, 2012
Ben’s report this week mirrors what is being reported by others, including Drake. Very likely we are at a “tipping point” where once the tip-over has begun, nothing will stop what is coming. In any event, read on and enjoy this week’s Ben.
“In the US, the Pentagon has begun asking citizens to stock up with 72 hours’ worth of food because of possible disruptions associated with the imminent replacement of the US dollar with a new Treasury dollar, according to CIA sources in California. This move is also expected to be accompanied by a massive clean up operation aimed at draining the corruption out of Wall Street and Washington D.C. in order to restore the US to its former moral and economic greatness.
“Another sign that something big is about to happen is that a European CIA source asked the White Dragon Society for the names and addresses of members of the following organizations: the committee of 300, the Bilderberg group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, the Trilateral Commission and the European Commission. These have been forwarded.
“Message to the members of this group: ‘please do not get in our way.’”
Highlights
• …the Japanese government has agreed in principle to set up a 1000 trillion yen (12 trillion dollar) fund to be used to end poverty, stop environmental destruction and roll out previously forbidden technology in a responsible manner.
• In what may be a related development, there appears to have been a regime change in China…
• In the US, the Pentagon has begun asking citizens to stock up with 72 hours’ worth of food because of possible disruptions associated with the imminent replacement of the US dollar with a new Treasury dollar, according to CIA sources in California.
• This move is also expected to be accompanied by a massive clean up operation…
• Any new treasury dollar will initially have much lower international purchasing power than the US dollar now being used.
• …it will take a couple of weeks to set up the 1000 trillion yen fund.
• …there are no goons available now the [to(?)] Kissinger, Nakasone, Bush, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Koizumi old world order people so their removal from power in Japan is a given.
• …the new international economic planning agency…, tentatively named LIFE (Long Term Investments for Everyone) will finance European and US economic restructuring as well as promote massive development projects in the rest of the world.
• The BRICs nations will, for their part, set up their own, independent fund as announced at the BRICs summit last week.
• Getting back to China,… Premier Wen Jiabao, President Hu Jintao and Le Keqiang are being prominently featured. No doubt he was promised the job of dictator of China and the world in exchange for his cooperation.
• We also know from various sources that the Chongqing party boss Bo Xilai was backed by Henry Kissinger and the old world order cabal he represents.
• Memo to Kissinger and the committee of 300: the world does not want a dictator.
• When the dust settles, the world will have harmonious collective leadership.
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Japan’s government formally agrees to set up 1000 trillion yen fund but worries about geopolitical ramifications
by Benjamin Fulford, 4-3-12
This week’s newsletter was delayed for a day because of sensitive ongoing negotiations involving the Japanese, Chinese, Russian and US governments among others. The negotiations are still going on as of this writing and there is much we still cannot report. However, we can confirm that the Japanese government has agreed in principle to set up a 1000 trillion yen (12 trillion dollar) fund to be used to end poverty, stop environmental destruction and roll out previously forbidden technology in a responsible manner. The problem now is how to sort out the massive geopolitical repercussions this fund will create.
In what may be a related development, there appears to have been a regime change in China because Xi Xinping, the man widely assumed to be the next president of China has not appeared on the official Chinese Xinhua news site since March 31st, while his erstwhile rival, Li Keqiang, is being given massive coverage. This is only one of many signs of massive changes in planetary governance.
In the US, the Pentagon has begun asking citizens to stock up with 72 hours’ worth of food because of possible disruptions associated with the imminent replacement of the US dollar with a new Treasury dollar, according to CIA sources in California. This move is also expected to be accompanied by a massive clean up operation aimed at draining the corruption out of Wall Street and Washington D.C. in order to restore the US to its former moral and economic greatness.
Any new treasury dollar will initially have much lower international purchasing power than the US dollar now being used. This will make Americans buy made in USA products and will make US exports competitive again. It might be a good time now to go out and buy Chinese stuff at Wal-Mart before it suddenly becomes more expensive. Also, do take the Pentagon’s advice and stock up on food to tide you over the transition.
Another sign that something big is about to happen is that a European CIA source asked the White Dragon Society for the names and addresses of members of the following organizations: the committee of 300, the Bilderberg group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, the Trilateral Commission and the European Commission. These have been forwarded. Here, by the way, is a link to what appears to be a credible list of the current members of the Committee of 300:
http://www.pseudoreality.org/committeeof300.html
Message to the members of this group: “please do not get in our way.”
In any case, the most concrete and detailed intelligence available to this writer comes from Japan where government officials say that for technical administrative reasons, it will take a couple of weeks to set up the 1000 trillion yen fund. These reasons include maintaining payrolls, pensions, tax revenues and other administrative nitty gritty. However, there are no goons available now the [to(?)] Kissinger, Nakasone, Bush, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Koizumi old world order people so their removal from power in Japan is a given.
The big question to be solved now is how to set up mechanisms to handle the disbursement of the 1000 trillion yen to the countries of the world. The only thing decided for sure on this issue is that it must no longer be a secret, centralized system held in private hands. There is also an agreement in principle that the Japanese government will administer 500 trillion yen while the new international economic planning agency will get the other 500 trillion.
This agency, tentatively named LIFE (Long Term Investments for Everyone) will finance European and US economic restructuring as well as promote massive development projects in the rest of the world. However, before it can be started, a small planning staff will begin the process of selecting international talent to run the agency. Exactly when this will happen is subject to ongoing negotiations but hopefully the first usable cash will be delivered as early as the middle of this month.
The BRICs nations will, for their part, set up their own, independent fund as announced at the BRICs summit last week. This fund will be run by China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa and will presumably use a basket of currencies dominated by the Renminbi and the Ruble. This group will work in close tandem with the G20 nations, according to their declaration:
http://mea.gov.in/mystart.php?id=190019162
Getting back to China, a look at who is appearing on the Xinhua news site indicates that Premier Wen Jiabao, President Hu Jintao and Le Keqiang are being prominently featured. The text of Le Keqiang’s speech
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-04/03/c_131504700_2.htm
at the Boao forum reveal him to be a moderate centrist and thus likely a compromise candidate between powerful behind the scenes factions. We also know from various sources that the Chongqing party boss Bo Xilai was backed by Henry Kissinger and the old world order cabal he represents. No doubt he was promised the job of dictator of China and the world in exchange for his cooperation. Memo to Kissinger and the committee of 300: the world does not want a dictator.
When the dust settles, the world will have harmonious collective lea
As H.R. 459, Audit the Fed, continues to gain momentum in the U.S. House, I need your help today to turn up the pressure on the Senate to support its companion legislation, S. 202.
Currently, S. 202 stands at 20 cosponsors.
But with Congress in the middle of their “Spring Break,” things are quiet on the Hill.
So our collective shout in support of transparency will ring even louder if we take advantage of this opportunity!
The Fed’s defenders know the Senate is their stronghold, but you and I have a staunch defender of liberty in Senator Rand Paul to champion this cause.
While he works on the inside to gain support for Audit the Fed, you and I can provide critical grassroots support by continuing to apply pressure on the outside.
When legislators get back from their break, they need to be greeted by their staff with one message: Support Audit the Fed now!
Here are just a few actions you can take today to help increase support for Audit the Fed in the Senate:
*** Click here to find out if your senators are supporting S. 202.
*** If your senators have signed on, call them through the congressional switchboard at (202)224-3121 to urge them to do everything in their power to achieve a roll call vote on S. 202.
*** If your senators currently don’t support the bill, call Congress and demand they stand up for transparency and accountability by cosponsoring as soon as they return from their break.
*** Visit your senators’ websites to get their district office information and call their local offices with the same message you sent to their Hill staff.
*** Once you’ve contacted your senators, forward this email on to your contacts and encourage them to join you in supporting this historic cause.
Campaign for Liberty first made Audit the Fed its top legislative priority in 2009.
Since then, we’ve seen millions of Americans rally to our side, legislation passed to peel back some of the layers of secrecy from the Fed, and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke desperately try to spin his way out of the corner we’ve put him in.
But we must not stop until a thorough audit is passed.
Every day the Fed remains unchecked is another day they can put you and me on the hook for trillions more in handouts and promises to their well-entrenched friends.
This can be the year we finally put an end to the Fed’s stranglehold on our economy.
C4L members have rallied to the cause to make sure H.R. 459 gains support in the House, so I hope you will help S. 202 advance by contacting your senators right away.
In Liberty,
Matt Hawes
Vice President
P.S. With H.R. 459 fast gaining momentum in the U.S. House, I hope you’ll agree to help turn up the pressure on your senators to support its companion legislation, S. 202.
Click here to find out if your senators are currently on board the bill.
If they are, contact them through the congressional switchboard at (202)224-3121 to urge them to do everything in their power to seek a roll call vote.
If they are not yet on the bill, call them right away to demand they support transparency and accountability.
And if you are able, chipping in $10 or $15 today would go a long way toward helping C4L continue to spread the word about Audit the Fed!
The latest news, updates and rants from Dannion. Get the inside scoop on all things from the here and the hereafter.
Hello Everybody,
For those of you who have been with me, some as many as 35 years and some just today, one of the days of reckoning is upon us. Between now and when the Supreme Court rules on the healthcare bill, we must educate ourselves about the good things about national healthcare, and the traps found in the mandate.
It is just a matter of short time before you get firm evidence of what has already commenced, and will learn of the removal of those who have brought about misery and debt in such massive proportions. It has occurred through criminal actions and no country has avoided the repercussions. The affects roll on but a key decision already made to remove all debt, will sweep the problem away and financial matters will return to a steady and stable condition. It is a massive problem but various funds and the re-distribution of wealth, will change the circumstances around. In many instances money falsely obtained will be returned, so that justice and your rights are observed. It will nicely set everything up, so that you begin to experience a society that is run with due respect to your sovereign rights. It will also result in people being happier, and help raise the vibrations and expectancy as you near Ascension.
Meanwhile you should where possible prepare for some inevitable upheaval, and take it in your stride as it will all be short lived. The plans to quickly implement the changes are well in hand, and many countries are involved and supporting our allies. It will bring them more together in co-operation and importantly trust, which has been sadly lacking because of the dark One's activities over millennia of time. The people normally have no such problems, but their minds have been poisoned by propaganda and contrived situations to set them against each other. The sooner we along with the Masters can get the message over that you are All One, the more quickly those barriers because of race or religion will evaporate. Duality has purposely placed you in challenging situations to hasten your spiritual evolution, and the experiences you have gone through have led you towards the realization that you are the one Human Race and bonded together.
Eventually you will reach levels of consciousness so that you literally know everything that you desire, by tapping into the Universal pool of knowledge. You will so powerful that you will be able to create by pure thought and as you grow even more, can reach levels that are akin to being one of the Gods. However, that possibility is a long way into the future, but you should be aware of the amazing potential that you have. As a collective consciousness on Earth you created your reality, but with the dominance of the dark Ones it was never allowed to fully develop. Given total freedom as was your entitlement and without interference, you would certainly have progressed a lot further than you have. As individuals some of you have become quite adept and successful at the different healing methods, and yet each soul has the potential for doing the same. Often it is lack of belief or patience to give sufficient time to develop your skills. It is a most natural function, and indeed in the future you will understand that energy is the alpha and omega of everything that exists, manifesting in its different frequencies.
Little by little you are being opened up to your true potentials, so that you can accommodate the changes that will lead you to full consciousness. With your new crystalline bodies you will be able to enter the higher dimensions, opening up entirely new experiences of Galactic proportions. On Earth souls of a similar vibration are usually attracted to each other and feel good and at ease in each others company, and when you rise up it is even more powerful as groups form and work together as one at a consciousness level. You will not have failed to notice that very often the source of channeled messages, is a group of souls forming a single energy.
Because you do not normally have any memory of previous lives you are unable to make comparisons, which ensures you focus on the current one and are not distracted. It is also why in general terms few of you remember your times out of the body, particularly those when your physical body is laid down to rest. That is a time when you often gravitate to the Astral Realms and meet up with friends and relations. You may come back with vague memories or feel that you have had vivid dreams, and sometimes wake up with a solution on your mind that solves a problem you went to sleep with. It all happens because you can meet the right people who can help. Sometimes they are people you have disputes with, and in the gentle vibrations of the higher Astral the lower ones are subdued and a solution can be amicably found. It is also the reason that when you have lost a loved one, you can have a positive knowing that they are still around you.
The more you learn about the life potential beyond Earth the more you understand how limited you are now, and that every effort you make to ascend is well worthwhile. After what you have learnt about the higher dimensions it must seem a very wonderful goal to aim for, and get off the wheel of rebirth. The solar cycle now ends with a once in hundreds of lifetimes opportunity to leave it behind in a mass ascension, with all of the help you need to assist you to make it. Be assured if you have been constantly sending out a signal that it is what you want, you will have been getting special attention to help you to be successful. God does not want you to be shackled by the lower energies indefinitely, yet it is largely up to you to make your own decision as to when you want to make a move.
Becoming aware that you are more than your physical body is a moment of awakening, and normally leads to introspection in an endeavor to find out what or who you really are. Once you find out that life is infinite each one takes on more significance, as you realize that you do not just have the one opportunity to make your mark. It will then hopefully occur to you that the purpose of life is to evolve, and seek the source of all life. That venture can take you all over the place, until you after searching for God outside of yourself, you find God within. Instead of needing to be led, you suddenly realize that all knowledge is within. However, it can help for someone to point the way, and moving in circles with like minded souls is most productive.
I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and enjoy these opportunities to "speak" with you through the messages. Take from them whatever resonates with you, and that is all I can ask of you. The Galactic Federation sends its love to you all, and wishes those of you who celebrate Easter a happy and fulfilling time.
Bankers/Illuminati/Cabal/
Government have been
running the world and doing
bad things.
White hats including old
money, military, veterans,
federal marshals, and local
law officials are going to
arrest them.
Media may say it’s martial
law and try to spread
panic, but the actions are
lawful and benefit
humanity.
International travel will
be stopped for 3 days.
Some facilities wired to
explode will be off limits
for safety.
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The goal is to transition
peacefully and safely.
There will likely be
disruptions in local travel,
food supply, water supply,
and electricity. Make sure
you have necessities for 72
hours and ideally 30 days.
Remain calm. Support the
troops and law officers
that are arresting
thousands of criminals
guilty of heinous crimes
against us all.
Research stories on the
internet to assure yourself
that the arresters are good
and the arrestees are bad.
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You are going to find out
that the cabal have done
terrible things to you, your
family, and humanity.
Don’t believe that every
one of them is as guilty as
the leaders. Some were
forced to act and were
threatened with torture.
Don’t panic.
Don’t turn on each other.
Don’t riot.
Don’t run into a bank and
start shooting people.
Please just try to be calm
and work together to meet
the needs of your community.
Everything will be ok. The world is about to go into a Golden Age. First we must Cleanse.
Disclaimer: The above information was approvedby, but not created by, Freedom Reigns or any of our affiliates.
Newscast Media NEW YORK — Some of the nation's largest banks were sued on Friday by New York's Democratic Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, for deceit and fraud in using an electronic mortgage registry that he said puts homeowners at a disadvantage in foreclosures.
The biggest culprit in this fraudulent scheme is Mortgage Electronic Registration System Inc. or MERS, that uses an electronic registry to track mortgages without having to pay local county fees for registering Deeds of Trust when ownership changes hands.
Schneiderman said, "The banks created the MERS system as an end-run around the property recording system, to facilitate the rapid securitization and sale of mortgages. Once the mortgages went sour, these same banks brought foreclosure proceedings en masse based on deceptive and fraudulent court submissions, seeking to take homes away from people, with little regard for basic legal requirements or the rule of law."
Member banks like Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and Wells Fargo, who actually do not own these mortgages, but are only Servicers of securitized debt obligations, can then claim the right to foreclose on a property without disclosing the actual identity of the owner of the Deed or the Note, since the majority of mortgages issued between 2001-2008 were securitized and sold on the secondary market as derivatives.
Schneiderman refused to negotiate a deal that lets banks off the hook after paying a soon-to-be-reached settlement, in which banks are expected to pay roughly $25 billion for fraudclosure.
Instead, the New York Attorney General is fighting for homeowners in his state and holding these banks accountable.
MERS is owned by the company, MERSCORP, which in turn is owned by a group of Wall Street investment bankers.
MERS is unregistered and unlicensed to conduct mortgage lending or any other type of business in any state and has been knowingly and intentionally, illegally and fraudulently recording mortgages and conducting business in the U.S. on a large scale and systematic fashion.
: Written in report of action taken by Mr. Eric Schneiderman,
: New York State Attorney General (Not written by Eric
: Schneiderman)
: MERS often splits the Note from the Deed in violation of
: (Carpenter v. Longan), creating an unsecured debt
: obligation because one entity holds the Note while MERS
: holds the Deed of Trust, even though MERS is not a creditor
: nor does its name appear on the Notes secured by such
: Deeds.
: When the Note is bifurcated from the Deed, it means a lien was
: never perfected; therefore neither the holder of the Note
: nor the holder of the Deed can foreclose on a homeowner.
: The reason is: A person holding only the Note lacks the power
: to enforce it, and a person holding only a Deed of Trust
: suffers no default because ONLY the holder of the debt
: obligation is entitled to payment on the debt obligation.
: By suing for "fraud and deceit" the New York
: Attorney General has put MERS and the bankers in a very
: difficult place because by law the Supreme Court has has : ruled that "Fraud vitiates everything" (Boyce's : Executors v Grundy) also "Fraud vitiates the most : solemn contracts, documents and even judgments" (in : United States v. Throkmorton)
: This means that all contracts that have MERS in them become
: nullified by law, if there was fraud involved as the NY
: Attorney General alleges in his law suit.
: Any previous judgments against homeowners who were also
: victims of the fraudulent scheme by MERS and the banks, are
: also nullified and void by law, as stated below: 37 AM Jur
: 2nd at Section 8 states: "Fraud vitiates every
: transaction and all contracts. Indeed the principle is
: often stated, in broad and sweeping language, that fraud
: destroys the validity of everything into which it enters,
: and that it vitiates the most solemn Contracts, Documents,
: and even Judgments."
: If a document, contract, or judgement is deem fraudulent and
: void, no court in America is bound to honor such a judgment
: or contract, hence it releases the one who was defrauded
: from any further obligation because the law permits the
: judge to declare such contracts and judgments from previous
: courts void.
We are done, no doubt about it. People were working 24/7 this week on
the 'chance' there would be door knocks all over the planet. There were
some changes, from the original back to the original, schematics. This
will immediately shift world banking and business, then the more
gradual approach, 'reasoned' on thru the years. Works for me....just
get the obvious over, I'm a quick study, I'll adapt. So will You. If
you got some money, you'll work it out...They did back in '29 and with
No money! These 'smart' people have been rigging the game since
babylon(whaaa), So we've come full circle for the end game, 6,000 yrs
of human history.
Information that was really important for you to know, they got you to
believe it was a myth..fantasy. Look how they got you to believe gold
was just pretty dirt....not fundamental in establishing worth on this
planet. Read the root word and you may get what I'm saying here an old
dictionary will work well. They control the media so, if you have no
core held foundation, any barrage can blow you off your 'center'. I
would call them 'core knowings'.
You will need them NOW. This has been being 'prepared for' since
failure was 'designed' into it. For this you go back to babylon. The
dictates about what was true and what wasn't, was laid down. The world
goes 'right side' up. It will be like waking up in southern california
without smog. Water no longer sold in plastic bottles! I infer all that
comment suggests. This is quite the 'moment in 'time', it's time to
kick this puppy into high gear. Every 'guru' out here is saying
'something' is 'a foot', I'm no body's guru, I'm more like Jackie
Chan's character, the 'drunken master'. Not pretty but, gets the job
done. A 'curmudgeon', if you will. Hold fast to the people that you
love, there is a most interesting set of events to transpire right
under your nose. My best advice is to' 'stay out of judgment', what you
don't know, personally, is no place to plant your butt. Listen to the
nice person across the desk and learn to exercise your right to be
silent. What a concept, Silent Joy. A t-shirt, perhaps.
Interest has been computed and added to the accounts, money is already
moving in the rafters, vips are paying 'down' to where money needs to
be for projects, programs, what have you, nothing is in stasis folks,
nothing. There are some bank holidays in china. Just keep your powder
dry, history is about to be made. You will be stepping out of your own
crypt. Happy Easter.
Treat one another with loving kindness. It will change your reality. What if you knew that everyone you met, everyone you interacted with, and everyone you saw on the street, on the news, and in your neighborhoods was a living, breathing incarnation of God's love. What if you knew that every person was held close to the heart of God, beloved by angels, and no matter how unthinkable their behavior, good at the core of their being. What if you knew that they, like you, no matter how unconscious they may seem, are really also on a quest for love? How would you treat one another then dear ones? We implore you no matter what actions you take in the physical world, no matter what words you speak, try your best to come from love.
For in truth, the person that cuts you off in traffic is in need of love or they would not be behaving that way. The person that acts in an angry fashion around you requires your prayers. The one who is insensitive and unkind is really a hurting child. Dear ones, we are not asking you to remain around unkind behavior, nor are we asking you to stuff your feelings. We are not asking you to remain silent when you feel compelled to speak. We are simply asking you to be kind to yourself first - to treat yourself with utmost sensitivity and care, and then from that space of loving kindness, to base your words and deeds in love as well.
If you correct a child, or an adult behaving like a child, you can do so with love. If you walk away from a barking, snarling, snapping dog, or a barking, snarling, snapping individual, you can do so without any need to defend or justify your actions. you can simply move away and keep them in your prayers, for in truth, they are in desperate need of peace.
Your world would be a much better place, if instead of sinking into the darkness of those around you, you chose to remain in your light. Some would find comfort an step into the light; others would run away and remain in darkness. However, you would find that all of humanity would sort itself out into groups of like mind and heart and you would all be much happier.
So try, do your best, to allow your words and actions to come from a space of love... love of God, love of self, and then love of others.
Sananda/One Who Serves - Changes Now Imminent
Channeler:
James McConnell
I am Sananda. The time that you and we have been waiting for such a long time is now fast approaching and upon us. We have been waiting and preparing a very long time for these moments to come. All is in readiness, and the great plan of the creator for this planet and mankind is about to be realized. All that has been planned, is now coming to fruition and all the pieces are coming together. All of this has been orchestrated and you each one, are now ready to play your part and have been playing your part. Your main focus is soon to come into play. All that you have planned and prepared for over these many lifetimes and certainly in this life also, is now here.
The first stage is nearly over, and the second phase is now underway and this phase will see a great many changes. Not only to you who read these words, not only to you the light workers, but also to those who are still in disbelief, those who still walk in the darkness and will even for some time yet. Even those who do walk in the darkness now will begin to see the light and yes even those who have created the darkness will eventually also see the light.. They will come back to the light, for just as you came from the light you will return to the light.
You must know that your part to play, those things that you have been readied for and that the various sources have been speaking to you about, all of those things now are about to come into fruition. Because of your readiness, all that has been foretold is now going to become reality. So you must allow for the process to happen, believe in the process as it is happening and know that you are a great part of that process. Without you, none of this could be, for you the light workers, are the ones that continue to push this plan along.
We of the Galactic Federation, the spiritual hierarchy, and all of the brotherhoods applaud your efforts and as has been said many times, are awaiting those times when we can find ourselves together again. Those times dear ones are what could be considered now imminent. No longer soon, now they are imminent. What does that mean you might ask? Yes it is true that we have a different sense of time but you are moving into that sense of time as well or rather into that sense of no time and you'll begin to understand exactly what imminent means and how it comes to play and how it can become a part of the great expression of the great plan that is unfolding even now as we speak. So you all dear ones, be prepared for all is about to change in the twinkling of an eye and your time has come. I am Sananda.
Ohm Mani Pad Me Um. This is One Who Serves to answer questions of group.
Question: What is the time frame of immanent as Sananda used?
Answer: We can say to you that immanent to us is certainly somewhat different for you and as was given, those times are changing for you as well because you are moving more into a frequency vibration that is moving you out of time sense and into a knowing sense. As you move into a more knowing sense, you are going to let go of those things which are more time related. They will have no meaning to you in the future times. We cannot say how far in advance that could be, as all we can give you is understanding that when we say imminent, it is very short in deed, can be even days. Watch all the various sources, the Internet and others that will come on line soon, those of your mass media. These things are coming forward and soon there will be those expressions that will be coming through and you'll know and understand, those things which are happening now in the background, will be in the forefront. So these are coming, watch for these. Major announcements are on the way.
Question: What can we do to better prepare for out upcoming advance/retreat?
Answer: Begin to work with the Violet Flame of Ascension as you have been instructed and when you find yourselves at the advance, that you can easily bring that up in just a matter of seconds. You will notice if you do this each and every day before you go there you'll not only be able to bring it up easily but there will be a great deal more energy generated from this. For now it is simply only a visual expression of the flame. But if you would do this, you will know more than just a visual acuity of the flame, you will know a strong energy running through your body and filling your body. Also that you and prepared in advance within your minds as far as letting go of those various attachments that you hold onto. Just allow yourself each day to let go of another attachment. Just one each day and let it go. Little things that annoy you that others do. It is all an attraction process and when you let go of these things, they will no longer be attracted to you.
Question: Will the veil be lifting more and more before Ascension?
Answer: It already is lifting more and more, each and every day. If you would focus in and know what is occurring you'll begin to feel and know the frequency vibrations increasing within you. You will look at the trees or various things in nature and you'll begin to see an energy around them. The more you focus on this, the more you will become aware. The veil you speak of is lifting and the differences between the three dimensional and fifth dimensional are disappearing. That can be somewhat disconcerting for some. You must understand that as this lifts, there is a reason for this veil. It has separated those who were alive here in three dimension and those who have passed on. So you may begin to get glimpses of other things, some of which you may not want to see. So understand as you're passing through these times you may begin to notice some of this as some already have. Some have even exploited this in some ways for money. There are some who can do this but it is just a natural progression because of these changes. They just developed it earlier, but each one will begin to have more and more of this. So be ready because these things are coming.
Question: How can we protect ourselves from the negative influences within the fourth dimension as we are passing through?
Answer: This is why we have been working with you on your Light Merkaba. We know what is going to happen as it has happened many times before on many planets. Many systems have gone through this, you are not the first. You are the first though that is doing it along with the planet at the same time. This is unprecedented and has never occurred before. You might even say this is an experiment and everyone is watching. The more you are able to let go of those attachments and have your Light Merkaba surrounding you and protecting you as well as working with the Violet Flame before you pass through the fourth dimension the more you'll be able to avoid the attraction there. As here your thoughts will immediately become real, even negative ones. So it is very important to learn how to control your thoughts and let go of attachments. Most importantly let go of all fear, as you would not want to manifest some of your darkest fears. This is the reason for the veil in the third dimension to protect you from your very thoughts.
If there are no further questions, we will release the channel. Shante. Peace be with you. Be the One.
Channeled by James McConnell
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”..................................by Marianne Williamson
I appreciate your taking this information and hope you find it informative. It is my purpose to inform you of what I think is a rapidly emerging infectious disease. I have seen patients with this disease in my practice. Whether or not you know it, you do as well.
One major organ system affected by this disease is the skin. Patients report itching, stinging, and biting sensations. Most report a ‘skin crawling’ sensation. Patients usually have severe excoriations from continued scratching. Many have large open sores. As a pediatrician, scabies would be high on my differential diagnosis list, but many other disorders might also be considered.
What makes this so different is that many patients have also noticed other skin symptoms and changes in their skin and hair. Some of the descriptions are quite bizarre and unlike anything I had ever been taught or observed. Frankly, the descriptions are so far from anything most of us think of as typical or even possible that credibility is quickly strained.
Many patients report they have seen ‘fibers’ come out of their skin. They report seeing these odd fibers in their home and cars and report they have never seen these before. Even more strange, many report seeing living insects emerge from their skin! Many patients, thinking it the appropriate step, collect specimens and present them to the physician they consult---commonly a dermatologist.
Eighteen months ago, I was not familiar with the psychiatric diagnosis Delusions of Parasitosis. The term ‘match-box’ sign was not familiar to me. That is the term used when patients who believe they are infested with parasites collect skin specimens in a container (in the past, this was most commonly an empty matchbox) to show their doctor. This sign is supposedly pathognomic of Ekbom Syndrome, now generally known as Delusions of Parasitosis or DOP.
The dermatology literature very clearly states that DOP is a diagnosis of EXCLUSION. Yet all too many patients have been immediately labeled as psychiatric cases with no lab studies, no skin biopsies, and often not even a thorough skin examination. Their self collected specimens are usually dismissed and trashed.
Even after patients see a psychiatrist and are pronounced entirely sane, dermatologists across the board have ignored the psychiatry opinion and have started patients on pimozide or other potent psychotropic medications. Some patients have had severe adverse reactions.
More persistent patients report multiple consultations with a variety of specialists. Many feel the physicians did not take them seriously and did not listen to their story. Many have lost faith in our medical care system and have turned to alternative medical care or self treatment. Descriptions of their self treatments are frightening. The treatments have included not just topical application but oral ingestion of insect sprays! Some have been victimized by unscrupulous alternative health care providers. These patients’ stories sparked my interest in Morgellons while also making me ashamed of the treatment given them by members of my profession!
Tragically, it seems the systemic symptoms are not being considered in these patients. This appears to be a multi-system disorder, as a large proportion of patients report neurological, psychiatric, and gastrointestinal symptoms. Almost all experience significant and disabling fatigue, problems with concentration and short term memory as well as other cognitive difficulties. Many experience periods of what is called “brain fog”. Some have been diagnosed with ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, or other psychiatric diagnoses. A significant number have neurologic impairments, including Multiple Sclerosis, ALS, and other neuropathies. Among children with this disease, about half have the diagnosis of ADHD. 10% carry the diagnosis of autism.
The personal medical history of most patients IS bizarre. The symptoms they describe, as well as their observations, seem totally beyond belief. When they occur on one’s own body, it can cause one to question his sanity. I know. I have had this disease since May, 2004. I have seen things happening to my own body which have stretched the limits of belief. I also developed neurologic symptoms early this year which became severe enough I have been unable to work since May, 2005.
Dermatologists use the term ‘folie a’ deux’ when a family member or associate of the patient develops the symptoms. The term essentially means a delusion shared by two. A similar term is used for 3 affected persons, another if 4 persons are affected, etc. The term has even been used to label those physicians who actually looked and who then agreed the patient had unusual findings!
This supposedly explains the fact that several family members may also have the same symptoms. Personally, that only makes sense for people who know each other well and spend a lot of time together. It does not make sense when unrelated patients, in large numbers, who are scattered geographically all over the United States and in at least 15 other countries, report almost exactly the same symptoms and observations. It also does not make sense that very young children—2 or 3 years old----are delusional when they have these symptoms and say they want the bugs off their skin!
This disease is not recognized by the traditional medical care system. The public health system and the CDC are not investigating, even after numerous contacts have reported concern that this is an emerging infectious illness.
Morgellons is the name we are using although others have called it the ‘fiber disease’, ‘Elliot’s Disease’, and other names. Any of those terms in an Internet search engine will yield a surprising number of hits.
The lack of interest in objective research by the public health system and the CDC has been especially disturbing. The CDC was made aware of concerns about this disease at least 5 years ago. Yet there has been no serious investigation by any part of the public health system. Efforts by The Morgellons Research Foundation as well as numerous individuals to interest the CDC in sponsoring research have not been successful.
If you choose to do your own research, you will find many individuals and groups with an agenda. They believe what they believe and want it proved. Some are convinced there is a government conspiracy and the disease is a result of biologic warfare research which escaped into the environment. There is even the alien invasion group. More credible are those physicians who specialize in Lyme disease and believe Morgellons is associated with or a result of chronic Lyme disease. Until the last year, I had no idea of the controversy surrounding Lyme. It seems there are dramatic differences of opinion about almost every aspect of that disease. Even the current testing recommended by the CDC is questioned.
The New Morgellons Order has only one agenda and no pre-conceived ideas about the cause or treatment of this disease. Our purpose is to get this researched and ultimately find a cure!
As an individual, I am sharing this information only to inform. I believe knowledge of this disease must be distributed to medical professionals. I expect nothing from you and sincerely appreciate the time you have taken to read this and review the information I have given you. I know I become passionate about issues in which I believe. But I do not believe I am delusional and my psychiatrist, who I have seen regularly for almost 20 years for my ADHD, also does not believe I am delusional. He says he has no idea what is causing my symptoms, but believes they are real. My neuropathy is certainly all too real.
Since I developed this disease, I looked at rashes in a new light. I began using a magnifying lens and not just my bare eyes to look at rashes. The number of children in my practice who have skin lesions like mine was frightening.
I am afraid. I have a serious health issue which I believe to be related to Morgellons. I believe many, many people have this disease and may develop systemic symptoms in the future. I think Morgellons is an emerging infectious illness which is already widespread.
I have been shocked at the official position of the CDC---the government agency tasked to protecting this nation from infectious agents. I have thought many times of the scenario concerning AIDS described in the book and TV mini-series titled “And the Band Played On”. Both my father and my wife received blood transfusions in the early 1980’s. At that time the CDC was aware of AIDS and knew the virus was transmitted by blood. My loved ones were lucky and did not receive contaminated blood. Many patients were not so lucky. Their lives were profoundly affected and shortened due to a lack of CDC action. Will you and your family be lucky?
Tim Bravo’s “Extraordinary Year” radio show…End of the Space Warhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKVR-fF8Rbs&feature=player_embeddedTolec’s Briefing Report (by Tolec)[This] is to let you know of a recently completed ‘police action’ to “clear out” – the final Draco & Hydra Reptilian Undersea base. Everything has been done to “clear out” this base. Everything but destroy it… which the people of the Andromeda Council are waiting on to coincide it with a very significant near future – “cosmic event”.
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Below is only a brief. There are some extensive details for substance, but it is still a brief.
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This final reptilian undersea base structure complex is composed of the following:think “wagon wheel” in structure, hub & spokes [1 hub building, 10 stories, 100 feet tall, 50-60 feet in diameter] [ the spokes - 6 radial electronic transport tunnels/tubes]. At the end of EACH tube: 3 buildings & 2 ‘escape pods’, each pod 95 feet in diameter, 3 floors high. All pods self contained for survival can hold upwards of 100 beings.
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Our people (100 people: Delta type strike force – 75 Procyon /25 special forces team members of the Andromeda Council itself)
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The undersea base reptilian personnel: 10,000+ Draco & Hydra Reptilians.The Breakdown:2,000 reptilian warrior/soldiers, all high ranking officers.5,000 support staff working in various operations of this extensive base.3,000 combined ‘Cabal’ / ‘Illuminati’ top key officials, middle management, administrators, and lower-end soldiers. 2,000 of these 3,000 were genetically blended and created Reptilian/Human hybrids.Of the many other reptilian officials we captured – 50 were top key ‘Cabal’ / ‘Illuminati’ reptilian/human hybrid Officials; and 100 were key ‘Cabal’ – ‘Illuminati’ reptilian/human hybrid administrators.I want to be clear here: these individuals are ALL PART of the Reptilian caste system that have been living underground or in undersea bases. Even the reptilian/human hybrids. This was the last operational undersea base complex. These people, even the reptilians that look human…are not part of: Earth Human society.
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2,000 combined of the above have been captured, have been transported, and are being held in high security lock-down on the Andromeda Council primary biosphere. And will all be tried by the criminal justice court system of the Andromeda Council. Again, understand, these are not Earth humans, but rather genetically created reptilian/human cross hybrids.
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8,000, of these reptilian beings, mostly support workers, choose relocation to go through a star gate transported to a planet to the far edge of the Universe. From which they cannot return.
Heaven’s intent for humanity is leading you all forwards towards this supremely auspicious event that will bring with it joy, happiness, peace, and prosperous abundance for all; and that event is, of course, your awakening into your natural and fully-conscious state. That moment is fast approaching and will not be delayed, even though it appears that many are still not ready to release the unloving and judgmental attitudes that, by their very adoption and maintenance, preclude them from accepting the unconditional divine Love that is constantly offered to them.
However, you light-holders are ensuring, by your loving determination to do God’s Will, that the necessary awareness of the insanity of those attitudes will dawn on the vast majority. A tidal wave of release will sweep through humanity as it at last embraces the incontrovertible truth that Love gently but inevitably conquers and replaces all that is opposed to it. Realizing that resistance is futile, and that it offers only further pain and suffering, the vast majority of humanity will surrender themselves joyfully into the loving arms of God.
And when they do, it will be a moment of supreme glory, and to use an analogy that cannot at all compare to what you will actually experience, it will be similar to the effect you might experience if you moved instantaneously from the depths of an unlighted coal mine into the brilliant midday sunshine on a tropical beach. And then a stunning and amazing sense of wonder will clear from your minds the last few remnants of the fog of doubt and confusion in which it seems you have been embroiled for so long.
The rate at which you are approaching this magnificent event is accelerating as the divine embrace, the divine field of Love enveloping the planet and all upon it intensifies and strengthens. There is no escape from God’s Love for you! And there is no escape from the infinite ecstasy in which It will enfold you!
Be prepared for mighty life-altering events to happen and appear before you as you awaken at last into Reality, for it will provide you with everything you need for peaceful and happy living in a most glorious and inspiring environment. All your creative talents and abilities will blossom as you start to express yourselves fully and with complete confidence in whatever field you find yourselves resonating with. And in that field, with all the amazing possibilities it offers, you will find yourselves surrounded by many loving companions with similar talents and interests with whom you can work synergistically and harmoniously to produce dazzlingly beautiful creations for the delight of all.
Once you have awakened, you will never again encounter loneliness and all the unhappiness that goes with the unnatural slumbering state you have been in; although, when the mood takes you, you will have no trouble finding a place of inspiration in which to be alone – in love, peace, and communion with Yourself and with God. Reality is a place of divine enjoyment where you can use to the full all the creative gifts with which God has endowed you, absolutely firm in the knowledge that everything you think, say, or do is a most beautiful creation of infinite loving intent that you will share enthusiastically with God and with all your brothers and sisters. And their enthusiasm for whatever you choose to create will equal yours, as will your enthusiasm for whatever they choose to create.
Truly, at present, you can have not the slightest idea of the wonders that are waiting to unfold for you. Anticipate your awakening with excitement and surety because what God has promised He will deliver, and no-one will be disappointed. For in God no such possibility exists.
We come today to wish you a very happy holiday–that is holy-day, for Easter represents the journey each soul must take as they move into enlightenment and out of the lessons of the third dimension.
This journey is that of life lived as best an individual can, based upon their personal belief system and governed by current rules of duality and separation. Life continues “normally” until at some point in an individual’s spiritual evolution there comes the crucifixion. The crucifixion is that time in which everyday life no longer works as it always has. What up to that point has been predictable, suddenly comes to a screeching halt either through some particular experience, experiences, or a new unfolding inner awareness. To outside observers as well as the individual himself, this period may appear to be one of absolute failure, loss, and something dreaded. To those still fully emersed in third dimensional values it is indeed seen as loss and failure, but to the experiencing soul it is movement; the death of that which is now finished and the birth of the new.
The crucifixion is a series of painful experiences often accompanied by humiliation and judgement from the individual as well as those around him who are only able to see from the concepts they may hold of successful living. These experiences can vary in degrees of intensity or loss because some individuals only respond and learn the hard way through painful experience, while others do not need great intensity in order to move forward. However, know that all souls are prepared and ready for the experience of crucifixion or it would not happen even though most are not consciously aware of this.
After a time of adjustment, resting, being tempered by experience, and letting go, a new state of consciousness begins to emerge. The new man is being born, one strong and more self-complete; one having released much that heretofore held him in bondage to third dimensional concepts of love, life, success, health, and all the issues of daily living. A new and more perfect man is being born and this is the resurrection, dear ones.
It is a surrender, a death to all that is finished. Lessons on earth were meant for learning but were never intended to go on forever. The crucifixion experience can be and usually is very scary as the mind struggles to plan and plot solutions according to what is already known, and yet the individual is forced by circumstances to live in the now moment. Low and behold out of this intense fear arises a new experience–the sky does not fall down and life goes on in new ways in spite of the dire predictions of those observing from their place of duality.
The crucifixion and resurrection are not experiences that took place to only one special man 2000 years ago. All will and many are now, experiencing crucifixion and resurrection and through it are moving ever more quickly into ascension. Jesus seeded a dense human consciousness with truth, adding light to a human matrix of world beliefs which then in turn allowed those ready, to access new ways of seeing and being. He brought to mankind a level of understanding that many were ready for but most did not understand. His experience reflected the experiences of all mankind. Jesus was the way-shower for a struggling world because always there will be teachers, way-showers, and healers for those ready–mankind is never abandoned or left completely on their own.
After crucifixion and resurrection, one then also becomes a way-shower, helping others now ready to move out of the false concepts of duality and separation. Many are way showers now. The Light on earth is becoming increasingly bright. You are soon to manifest a new world, a world in which all life is respected and seen as an expression of the one Divine Life.
This is why you chose to experience duality and separation, dear light beings, to see if you could find your way back home in spite of the intense experiences manifest by the un-illumined state of consciousness. You are doing it now! You have moved through lifetimes of darkness and are quickly moving into the Light.
This is the true meaning of Easter–the crucifixion and resurrection out of darkness and into light of ascension.
Blessed Easter every day.
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Thank you for your continued support with assisting us to get the word out about what is happening, as your planet progresses forwards on its ascension course.
There is relatively nothing new to share with you at this time, but we still like to offer our continued support, and continue to let the inhabitants of your planet know that we are here. Always observing and always willing to assist in any way that we can. All you ever have to do is ask. As the roundup of the members of the Dark Cabal reaches its end, we can turn our focus now on to what we deem as our next item of importance. That of initiating contact with you all.
Some of you will have by now received messages from us, via some form or another - through dreams, hearing our voices, or the written word - about what we have in store for those of you we wish to initiate first contact with. As we stated in an earlier message, remain alert for our continued communication as to the where and when that first contact will occur. Many of you are growing excited about the possibility of this occurring very soon. We would just like to assure you all now that this possibility will very soon become a reality.
And another thing that we would like to inform you of a this time, is that we have decided that initial contact will be most successful if it occurs on a one-on-one basis with us. Many of you have talked about bringing along family and friends to your initial contact; however, we feel that the time for introductions to a broader circle of your friends will be of greater benefit, if it occurs in subsequent meetings with us.
Let us explain our reasoning to you.
There are many, many things that we wish to share with you upon our initial contact, and we feel that this will be best done, that you will intake much more of the information we wish to share with you, if our initial meeting with you is done one-on-one with us.
Already we are sensing fear from many of you, as you read these words. So we will continue to assure you that there is nothing malevolent about this request. We are not going to whisk you away from your family and friends......again.......any actions of this nature would be detrimental to both of our causes. Indeed, our initial meeting with you will take many hours, but from your Earthly perspective, the actuality will only be a number of what you deem minutes.
So, certainly, you are more than welcome to bring a support person along with you if this is your desire, just know that they will not be a part of the initial meeting we request from you. Subsequent meetings (and there will be many), may include as many family members and friends that you wish to bring along with you, as we certainly wish to make our presence known to as many of you as possible.
Continue watching your day and night skies, as we are also making our presence known via sightings, which we are by the way orchestrating. None of these 'sightings' are by chance.They are all arranged by us, for maximum impact. And as we also stated in a previous message, you will notice a great more detail in subsequent sightings from us, as we wish to leave no doubt whatsoever in anyones minds that what they are seeing are our ships.
Our first meetings with many of you will be to provide photographic and video evidence to the media, audio evidence to be broadcast on your radios, and visual evidence that you can present to those people who have openly doubted you from the start. Be aware however, that despite the evidence that we provide for you to share with others - there will still be a great deal of skepticism.
Know that you cannot 'make' other people believe what you know as true to be true, but know that by planting these seeds, you are certainly giving others food for thought, and widening the opportunities for others to form their own opinions and make their own decisions on us and our presence. Subsequent contact with us will break down the walls of disbelief that many have built up over a long, long time; as each subsequent meeting we initiate will be with those whos seeds of doubt are starting to disappear.
We are looking very forward to seeing the reactions of many disbelievers when they eventually see us for the first time, but by then, we will have made it blatantly obvious that we are here in a benevolent capacity only, so any fears that these disbelievers bring along with them will rapidly be dispelled.
Another thing to note is; once subsequent contact with us is underway, ascension will progress very rapidly indeed, as once the final veils of doubt are removed from you and we provide you with the necessary information required, the next natural occurrence will be your ascension. Only those who are ready or in the final stages of readiness will actually be able to to receive this information from us, as we would deem it very irresponsible to provide the necessary knowledge to those who are not ready. Akin to giving a car to someone who did not possess the necessary skills to drive it.
The human mind only works at about one tenth its capacity, but when we start sharing the wealth of knowledge that we have with you all - this percentage will increase exponentially. We are also aware that to download a vast amount of information to you before you are ready to receive it would be detrimental to your well being, which is why there will be subsequent meetings with many of you, so this downloading of information can be done gradually.
So, not only will these contacts be social event, as many of you are reunited with your families of millenia, they will also be initiations of sorts for many of you, so we can begin the task of recruiting those whom we deem suitable for the many, many job opportunities that we will be providing for many of you. These opportunities will be a two way street. There not only needs to be a willingness on your part as well as an ability to perform the jobs available to you, but we also need to respect your free will, you will always be given a choice to accept or not accept any offers that we provide to you.
There is also the choice of where you will wish to reside - yes, this too is a choice that you will be able to make when the time comes. Many job opportunities will be aboard our ships, but many more will be able to be undertaken on your ascended planet, for those who wish to remain with loved ones.
Another choice for many of you, who are higher dimensional entities, will be the choice to return to your plant of origin - and the dimension that you were initially sent from, when you volunteered to undertake the task of assisting in the planets ascension. Once you successfully ascend, every ounce of knowledge that was veiled from you for so long, will be readily available to you, so you will all once again know exactly where you came from, and will have that chance of returning there, or remaining where you are.
But,we are getting a little bit ahead of ourselves now.
We do not wish to fill your minds with too much information that may cause confusion and worry to you all. So we will bring your focus back to that of first contact, and leave it at that for now.
The excitement and anticipation is steadily growing amongst many of you, yes, we can feel it too. This is why we are bringing our ships close and increasing our sightings, as the excitement and anticipation adds greatly to assist in raising the vibrational energies of your planet, which are of course essential to its successful ascension.
Remain positive and open-minded and await our messages to you, informing you of when and where our first meetings with each of you will occur. We too are looking very forward to these occurrences, as we deem you all to be part of our very large family.
We are the Galactic Federation of Light.
As channeled through StarGazer - Cheryl.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MG8Aouo-XQw
http://soundofheart.org/galacticfreepress/content/galactic-federation-light-message-april-8th-2012
As the word spreads about the changes, so more of you eagerly await the first acknowledgement through the media. Also as the details of the exploits our allies and the Galactic Federation become known, so more of you hold a strong belief in the outcome. After all, it has become patently obvious that unless changes take place, Man would sink further into the mire and eventually into oblivion. Those changes are being speeded up by our intervention, and intent to ensure that Divine orders are followed that will result in your release from the dark Ones. It only remains to arrest those who exercise the most power, so that the Illuminati can no longer function as a single unit.
Everything is in place for a whole series of events, so much so that you will be hard pressed to keep up with them. What we want to be able to do is to keep the masses of you well informed, so that there is no misunderstanding as to our intentions. Some people with religious expectations and desires will not accept us, as they will see our coming as different to what they have been told to expect. Indeed, some have been given to understand that we are in league with the Devil. We wish to dispel those feelings and doubts, as we are God loving and serve you in order to bring you out of enslavement.
We make allowances for your different beliefs, but in the end there will only be the two time lines. One will be to Ascension when you shall become more godlike, and the other one a continuation of what you already experience. We shall use every opportunity to make the truth known about your future, and it cannot be changed except that you have a choice. We exert no pressure on any soul, but we will provide proof of our mission and it will be backed up by the Masters both on and off Earth. There is so much that has been given you as the truth, yet much has been deliberately distorted or is an absolute untruth, so the harm done will have to be put right. In the past you have been obedient to your dark masters, without realizing their evil intentions. However, you have now entered a period of upliftment, and with the ever increasing levels of consciousness are more able to be discerning. The truth will carry an energy that will identify it as such, and it will act with your intuition which is your most reliable friend.
Naturally you will also want proof of our statements regarding your past history. That presents no problems to us, as we will show you all relevant proof to the point of showing what is held in the Akashic records. Everything that has ever happened can be brought up again, including for example the Great Flood and similar great historical moments. Noah's Ark is a wonderful story that is surrounded in myth, but we shall put the record right. There are many such examples, and we have already prepared our courses of instruction. So clearly, we are excited at the prospect of being able to communicate with you at such levels.
Until we can openly contact and converse with you, it is best that you carry on a usual and do not be distracted by what you anticipate from us. Allow it to occur naturally and in its own good time, knowing that your future is now assured. Of course you want to set your sights on Ascension, and in the time that is left you will be well informed as to what you need to do. Basically it is taking a position whereby you can remain calm whilst a lot of activity takes place around you. You the Lightworkers are our bedrock upon the Earth, and are most important to our work. Follow your heart and you will feel secure and calm regardless of what is happening. The best is to come, and with the arrests of the dark Ones any lasting interference will be brought to a halt.
Remember Dear Ones, that the whole Earth is also responding to the influx of higher energies. Mother Earth is desirous of finally becoming rid of the lower energies that have caused her such pain and sorrow. So far there has not been any reason to carry cleansing that would result in catastrophic results, and we do not anticipate that it will need to change. However, Mother Earth is continually changing and adjusting to the new energies reaching her. There will therefore be some repercussions, but we will be closely monitoring such events. We can help to minimize the affects on you, and have done so for a very long time.
You are so near to experiencing the outcome of our activities, and before very long the news will come out through the media. It has in fact already started but only in a small way, whereas we eventually want to see a worldwide coverage. In the near future we will take a hand in seeing that it does progress in this way, and shall be involved directly with the setting up of our own means of getting the news to you. We want you to have the advantage of new technologies as soon as possible, and set you off on the path to a new existence that will be consistent with your upliftment into the higher dimensions. You are ready to make such a leap, and have been introduced to the ideas of them so that you will take to them easily.
The fact that time is still continuing to speed up is being noticed by more of you, and it is quite clear that something major is afoot. Naturally, most of you who read the contact messages are well aware as to the reasons for it. You are leaving the old vibrations behind, as they are no longer suitable for the upcoming Galactic Being that you are becoming. From the times of the Dark Ages you have surmounted the most challenging conditions, yet your Light has shone through. Not only that, you have responded in such a way that you have moved beyond the ability of the dark Ones to continue controlling you. You have cried out loud for freedom and taken the steps that have brought it to you. You can no longer be held in bondage unless you allow it to happen.
I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and each time I Ieave a message I know that it is welcomed, and helps tide you over until you finally see the results of our activities. Our allies are near to completing their missions, and with that it will not be long before the situation on Earth will be suitable for disclosure to be made. Be assured that we are ready for this event and will bring it forward at the earliest opportunity. Thank you for being so patient, and God bless you all.
Drake stated that everyone who is associated with anything that is detrimental to the public will be held accountable for their actions. One caller asked if the mass arrests will include the people who spray chemtrails in our air, those who place fluoride in our water and those who abuse animals. Drake stated, “You might want to include everything you can think of in terms of making things right.”
Drake has been revealing a new movement regarding a mass arrest of all corrupted politicians, banksters, etc... which possibly might involve the selection of Ron Paul as an interim or temporary President of the United States until formal elections can be held.
If you look at the massive number of banker resignations since September 1, 2011 (450 and counting) it makes sense that these people are quitting in the hopes of not being persecuted for their crimes against humanity. According to Drake, everyone will be held accountable whether they are employed in their current positions or not.
Regarding reimbursement for fraudulent income tax collected by the IRS, Drake stated, “All of these things are going to be rectified.”
Question: Due to the magnitude of this operation, are people being arrested now and then, the big announcement will be made once they are all rounded up?
Drake: Not exactly. You’ve got people behind the scenes who are taken into custody and/or put under house arrest that’s not going to be in the mainstream news. The basis of what’s going to happen is very simple. We have set the country free through the notification process. The secondary part of that is that the military has assured its backing to us for the backing of the mass arrests scenario. The mass arrests scenario is going to be primarily all of your celebrity or well-known figures. You’re going to recognize a load of the names.”
More highlights:
“The first that happens is the central banking system is going to be required to repay each and everything that they borrowed. Not us, them. This will bankrupt that corporation. Second part of this is a load, and I mean a heavy load, of criminal charges. Those criminal charges are not limited to anything. They contain just about every crime you can think of. Following that, a reorientation back to the original de jour founding document government that was originally set in the United States will be implemented. Within all of this process, you’re going to have people taking care of, in terms of trying to make sure that the lights are all on, etc… If there’s a food shortage someplace, they will break out emergency rations and will make sure people don’t starve. In other words, everything that you can think of in terms of maintaining a general lifestyle is going to be as preserved as possible. This is going to be done with the least amount of chaos and as peaceably as possible. Some people will probably want to shoot it out. That’s their problem.”
“There’s going to be a worldwide reevaluation of currencies from a debt instrument to an equity instrument and that will facilitate considerable changes. As far as I understand it, the plan has changed. They were going to have a new currency which would allow for an exchange program and they decided that it could be done in terms of the currency that we have now, except that it says Federal Reserve Note on it. I’m thinking they’re going to bring the newly printed money back, bleach the paper and reprint. It will go from a debt instrument to an equity instrument backed by assets.”
In regard to HAARP, the controls will be taken over so it won’t be used as a weapon against innocent people. “There are a lot of good things that that can be used for."
Regarding Benjamin Fulford: “I am not going to confirm anything Fulford says because he is not in the inner loop at this point.”
Regarding televised coverage: “There’s going to be a nice little public display of people going to jail. Basically you’re going to see people being stuck in the paddy wagon being taken to the FEMA camps they built for us. This is going to be one each and every last channel that they can acquire. My understanding is that the military can access any and all channels so it will probably be on each and every channel and you won’t be able to change what you’re watching.”
LISTEN AGAIN TO OUR PRESIDENT - THEY, (THE PRESS/MEDIA), HAVE NOT BEEN FREE SINCE HE WAS ASSASSINATED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT BY SEVERAL GUNMEN, AS ORDERED BY SEVERAL OF HIS GENERALS AND OTHER SELF-STYLED "UBER-PATRIOTS" OF THE TIME ...
This is a portion of the speech that President John F. Kennedy gave at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April 27, 1961. "The President and the Press" before the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.
(...)For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.
No President should fear public scrutinity of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition. And both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.
I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers-- I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.
Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed-- and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First (emphasized) Amendment-- the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution-- not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants"--but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.
This means greater coverage and analysis of international news-- for it is no longer far away and foreign but close at hand and local. It means greater attention to improved understanding of the news as well as improved transmission. And it means, finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security...
(...)And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.
Galactic Federation of Light-Earth is moving along and will wait for no one We would like to answer some questions that have been brought to our attention recently, clarify our intentions and calm your minds.
Firstly, we need to remind you all that the task of assisting the planet and all of her inhabitants to a successful ascension is the reason that a majority of you were brought to Earth. The call went out, asking for assistance, and you volunteered.
As the time for the ascension process draws nearer and nearer,you should all by now know, at least partially, what is required of you at this time. The only thing holding you back from receiving this awareness, is your own personal doubt, closed mindedness, fear or reluctance to know - which may, we might add, be a totally subconscious reaction.
We understand that many of you are still newly awakened, and as yet are still trying to find your feet, still trying to define who you are; but for those of you who have awakened so late in the game,your awareness will grow very rapidly, as there is just not enough time to integrate all of the information you need to know slowly any more.
Because of this, many of you will be experiencing headaches and dizziness - basically feeling like your head is going to explode. These feelings, although uncomfortable, will only last a couple of days. It is just the initial intake of so much new information in a short space of time that is causing this. And as the end result will be a greater understanding of your purpose - of why you are here, a day or two of discomfort should - for many of you, be well worth the sacrifice.
Another question that appears to be continually asked, is that of 'when'?
When is disclosure going to happen?
When will we be reunited with our Star families?
When will ascension occur?
Why do we keep hearing the word 'soon'?
Well, my friends, let us answer these questions for you, as, as long as your minds are in a state of confusion, you will be finding it harder to focus on and complete the task or tasks that you agreed upon to undertake.
As we have mentioned in previous messages, disclosure for many of you will occur within the next 4 weeks. For those of you who are clear on their purpose, disclosure may have already happened. As with everything with this arduous mission you are on - things will not occur until you yourself are ready. We will not disclose ourselves to an individual if we deem that the primary reaction will be one of fear. Many of you are communicating with us audibly, but we sense that our visual presence will cause some of you alarm, so, we bide our time. This answer also applies to the meeting up of your individual Star families. It will only occur when we deem that you are ready.
You need to realize that we are not the orchestrators of everything that is occurring on the planet at this time - you are. Things will not happen for each of you until you yourself deem yourselves ready, so we ask you to go within.
There is no point listening to us at this time if you are only going to doubt our words, our intentions and our existence. So, we encourage you at this time to forget for a small while what your mission is, to clear your minds of any doubts, go within - and listen. It matters not to us where you receive your assistance and advice from.The important factor at this time is that you receive information from somewhere.
We are not supreme rulers, dictating our words to all of you, and punishing those of you who do not listen. Our intention is, and always has been,to offer our continued support and guidance to you all. But the continued doubt and fear that many of you display - is only detrimental to yourselves. Please try and understand this. You are only hurting yourselves by continuing to doubt and question - not only us, but any higher dimensional entities that you are in contact with.
Yes, there are many of us out there, and we communicate with many of you, but it matters not who you receive your communication from; what matters is the information that you receive, and what you choose to do with it. We are not martyrs, claiming to be the sole vessels of communication - we are but one aspect of many,many groups of entities out there, whos only collective desire is to see you all succeed, and to offer you advice and assistance where we can.
Which brings us to the next question.
When will ascension occur?
Sadly, we cannot give you a definite answer on this,and we realize by this answer alone that many of you will continue to doubt our word. Yes, we have an oversight of what is going on, and yes, if we were able, we could step right in now and finalize the whole ascension process quite rapidly, but for many reasons, we will not do this.
As stated earlier, this is your mission - we are merely the guidance - to assist you all in seeing this mission through to its completion. As the veils continue to lift, for many of you, the confusion, doubt and reluctance to participate in assisting with the planets ascension, will fade. Once the real reasons for your involvement - the actual tasks that you agreed upon to perform come to your awareness, and your fears and doubts about your ability to perform your given tasks disappears, the ascension process will accelerate rapidly.
Please understand that the planet herself is already on her ascension course, and has been for some time. You are all primarily here to assist the inhabitants of the planet to be prepared for the impact that the ascension process will have upon them. To make aware as many people as possible and to assist and guide these people through their own fears and doubts, as you yourselves have already undergone.
Do you see now why it is so important for you to deal with your own doubts and uncertainties? How are you expected to assist others, if you yourselves are still going through the same process? It is time for many of you to release the focus on service-to-self and begin focusing on service-to-others. As you grow in your awareness, and evolve into the higher dimensional reality, this will be a natural occurrence anyway, but many of you are still resisting this natural ascension process, through your own fears. It is time to let them all go.
Do you wish to remain ensconced in the 3rd dimension? Do you see any benefit in doing so? Take that step into the unknown today. It only requires one leap of faith, and then many things will become clear, and you will wonder why it took you so long to do it in the first place.
'Soon'. This seems to be a word that many of you are tired of hearing. Disclosure will happen 'soon'. Ascension will happen 'soon'. We have already explained to you the reasoning behind the disclosure process and what is required on your part to speed this along, so now we will explain to you why we have been unable to give you a definite time frame in regards to the Earths ascension.
Basically, it all comes down to you. As we have stated on many, many occasions, we are not here to do this mission for you. We are only here to guide and assist you. The ultimate task is up to you all as individuals to undertake, but with so much doubt and dis-contention still prevalent amongst so many of you, we are becoming increasingly aware that we may eventually have to step up our involvement, as the Earth is moving along and will wait for no one.
We dearly wish that we could be clearer in giving you a definite time frame of when ascension will begin in earnest, as it is already underway, but we cannot. At this time, all we can can do is sit back and wait, offering our advice, our support and our encouragement to you all.
Disclosure will assist greatly to many of you when it occurs. Assuring and removing doubts and increasing awareness and purpose. This is one small thing that we can offer you a this time - only because so many of you have requested it.
We can only step in when it is requested, as we are bound by the Law of Free Will to do otherwise. So, even for us at this time, it is a waiting game that we must endure, even though at the times of most difficulty for you all, we would love nothing more than to come down and assist you personally.
Are things becoming clearer for you now? Do you understand now why we cannot offer our increase involvement or why we cannot more accurately answer your questions of 'when' and 'time'?
WE are the ones waiting upon you, so once again, we will stress that you need to look within, look without, and ask a many questions as is needed to assuage your own minds as to what is required of you at this time. And once this is done, and many of you are working together on the same goal and heading in the same direction, undertaking the same purpose - the ball will begin rolling in earnest. It just requires that great big push from you all to get it rolling in the first place.
"Well good evening, Everyone! Oh, things are happening, things are moving. You can feel it, yes? In your energy fields? A quickening, as it were. A moving ahead – finally! We know, after all of this time, that you, Beloved Ones, have held the Light for these changes which are coming forth - indeed they have been, as masters Tara and Rama have just told you. This has been ongoing, we have reported on this ourselves in what you call the past.
"There is a lot of film and video that is all ready for the showing, it is already prepared. It will make it seem as though everything is happening within 72 hours, or whatever, but the reality of it is that it has had to be done in stages. However, what do you call that on your reality shows? – the big reveal - is about to come and it is going to come rushing in, with most likely a mixed reaction.
"There will be those who will be non-believers, so great is their denial. And then on the other extreme will be you, Beloved Ones, and our Family, and all of the Lightworkers who will be saying their hallelujahs and perhaps – 'well, it’s about time!' – which is perfect for 3D, absolutely! Then will come the great realization to everyone that there is finally Freedom, and along with the Freedom is a new way of doing things on Planet Earth.
"Now, most of you, if not all of you, have been to our Peace website, it is called – wethepeopleforpeace.org – and it has the components of the NESARA law and a lot of other good information. If you are needing a refresher on this, we suggest you go and get it in mind. You see, you are all on the verge of becoming information specialists, newscasters or broadcasters, if you will. It does not mean that you have to go out and publish or print, or get in front of the cameras and say, ‘Hi, I am a member of the Ashtar Command Family and I’ve known about these changes for a long time,' and so on and so. But, you will all be approached by ones that you have perhaps tried to communicate about this with in the past, but who have absolutely closed off every bit of their energy fields to what you had to say, because it sounded so preposterous.
"Then there are those who are just suddenly waking up and they will just come up to you and say, 'I don’t know what it is about you but I have a feeling that you have some information that I need.' Information specialists, that is who the Lightworkers are. And it matters not how you tell it, in other words, you don’t have to memorize a script. Be yourselves, speak from your Hearts. But we are telling you that if you want to do a little brushing up on the real Truth of what is coming, you can check out the information there and in other places. If it resonates with you, if you get excited in high vibrational Joy, then you know it’s Truth, because it comes from the highest energy in the Universe which is called Love!!!
"Now, we have done a lot of talking about Love in the time that we have been speaking through this Voice, and we are doing a lot of preparations with you, as individuals yes, but mostly as a Family group. Beyond this wondrous gathering, you are making it possible, by the way, for us to do this because you are holding the Light, the energies of the Ashtar Family. You are lighting up for all – the Ashtar Family, the Lightworkers, and the World and Universe beyond - a most important mission that you are showing up for, and we thank you so much for this!
"We are talking about preparations for what you might call the immediate, now moment to come. And we are going to tell you something fabulous - this is all about preparing for Ascension! You’ve heard that expression 'All roads lead to Rome'? Well, that was a rather pompous kind of attitude, was it not, by the conquerors, you know. But the truth of it is, all of your paths are joined on the big Golden Path to Ascension. And so everything that you do as individuals, if it is done in the spirit of, in the recognition of, and literally on the wavelengths of Love, that’s the big preparation and it works in the immediate now, it works in the next to come future now, and it works on the Ascension Path.
"So, Beloved Ones, we are talking about what you like to call multi-tasking. However you express individually, just do it with Love. That is your preparation to yourselves, first and foremost. If you find that you are expressing to your own beloved, sacred, Divine Beings on any wavelength except Love - STOP! Take a little time out, lift yourselves up so that you are once more, shall we say, moving along the great Golden Path with no impediments or obstacles, no stumbling blocks to trip over - you see what we’re saying?
"It matters not how many times you stop along the way for a time out, and there are many, many ways, as she said,* become the nano and become the magic. We’ve got a good one for you, actually two, get hold of our beloved brother Eli*, if you feel as though you’ve gotten something come into you that is not of the Love and Light, if it feels a little dark, a little heavy, if it’s some baggage that seems to just want to stick, call upon us, call upon Eli, review Mother Sekhmet’s lessons, however you want to do it, and you can do more than one. This is the critical time, Beloved Ones. This is absolutely what you like to call the zero hour!
"Have you ever wondered why they call it the zero hour? Well, most people think it means there’s no time left. We’re telling you it’s time for zero point, its time for new creations, it’s time for the great consciousness of the One We All Are. Notice how the word 'One' starts with, well you call it an ‘oh’, and it may be a little fatter than a zero but you can make it as big and comprehensive as you want. We Are One, we are here to create. We have received your permission, Beloved Ones, to be here with you, to be here doing the Worldwide kinds of clearings and mitigations that we are engaged in – more about that to come.
"We are here with you now and we are telling you that we are acting together now as One. Include everyone – yes, even the naughties! Send them as much Love as you can possibly bring in to send them, don’t hold it back! The worst, or shall we say, the most effective stumbling block on their path is vibrations which are of the fear variety. So it is to dispel, dissolve, transmute all fear into higher vibrations. You’re not here alone, we’re right here with you, so reach out and hug and touch, or ask for hugs. You are partners with us and because you have stepped up, and because you have held the Light, and because you have given us the permission and called us forth, you are equal in co-creativity, capabilities and empowerments!!!
"There is nothing that we as partners, in this greatest of all missions ever, ever, ever on Planet Earth, cannot achieve, cannot manifest, cannot bring forth. And so we ask that you just keep yourselves clear and high in your vibrations - that is preparation priority number one! Well, let’s just say that is all that anyone really needs to do.
"Now, if you are following the internet news, there has been a lot of advice generated about 3D kinds of preparation, and since this is still 3D Earth, officially, never mind what it might be unofficially on your paths, and in your energy fields, it’s fine, great, go for it, but do it with gusto, do it with Joy! 'Oooohhhhhhh! My favorite brand of toilet paper is on sale, I’m going to get some extra.' Joy. Find Joy in what you do.
"You know, there was a time when people were advised, and this has happened over and over again as Earth has traveled on its historical/herstorical path - you decide that you need to be prepared for some kind of emergency and so you go and buy a lot of cans of cabbage, and you don’t really like cabbage. But after all you’ve got to have something to be prepared! Eeww, how does that feel? If you’re loving cabbage, go for it, but most people would probably not find a lot of Joy in that.
"So, it is always wise to have extra, in the spirit of Aloha - you might have twenty neighbors drop in - what a joyful experience that is! And if you happen to have a few extra cans of beans, or a few extra radishes, or whatever, this is all fabulous. Any inconvenience that you might experience will not be planned, and will be very brief. The Truth of it is that you can probably get by as long as you have good clear water. And we are not anticipating a lot of inconveniences.
"If you find that your internet is suddenly unavailable, or your television set, or your telephone, what a grand opportunity to catch up on much needed rest, hugging every tree in your yard, reading that book of high vibration that you’ve been wanting to get to, or whatever. What a great time to have your neighbors out for a barbeque, you know? It is Joy, Beloved Ones, it is Joy, you are on the Path of Joy! There is no reason whatsoever to have any fear - none! If you get a message that is fear-based, as Ashtar Commanders, Ashtar Family, Lightworkers in Love with the World and loving the World and expressing only Love from your beings, if something comes your way that you do not resonate with, then it’s not your Truth.
"There are many, many levels in the different dimensions - reach out - you can go with the highest levels of 4D and up, how’s that? If you want something that is more concrete in the way of an interdimensional road map, how’s that? That might be something to create sometime, what fun that could be. Yes, if anybody wants to create an interdimensional road map, send it on in to Fabulous Fran. Wow - now there’s a thought!
"You see what we are saying here, Beloved Ones? What we are communicating to you is that preparation is a big 'L' word, called Love. Whatever resonates with you, whatever comes to you, as long as it carries the vibration of that 'L' word, then go for it if you have passion for it. If you don’t, you might find someone to pass it along to, as long as it has the 'L' word. Now, the people who are doing the reporting of the news are doing it - the true reporters, the ones who are telling the Truth - are also doing it from Love. Now, this might call for another level of Love perspective for you. It’s called being the compassionate observer.
"There was a being here on this island of Maui, not long ago, and he is a person who is quite well known for revealing the innermost secretes of the naughties, and his lecture was such that it was too much. Maui is a place of Love, it is a place of Lemuria, it is based in Love and Lemuria. It’s kind of like, you can take it as a double ‘L’ – Maui. Anyway, he overwhelmed some people with so much that was of the dark, telling of the dark, that some people were not able to stay in the compassionate observer mode because there was just too much fear in that message he was putting forth, so they left. You can do the same thing.
"If you start to read an e-mail or communication, or whatever, and it’s broadcasting fear, you have two choices - you can stay or you can go. Do what works for you, Beloved Ones, do not allow something to be a stumbling block on your Path, because the name of your Path is Love, the name of your Path is Joy – yes! So we’re just saying that what is working for one may not work for another because of perspective, interpretation based on perspective.
"You all are Love, you all have the Love, but there is only so much of a dose of looking upon fear - in other words, each one of you has the ability to be the compassionate observer but one might be a compassionate observer for seconds and another one might have the ability to be the compassionate observer for minutes. If you feel your vibrations drop, leave. Leave that alone. Maybe you will come back some day, maybe you will not. It doesn’t really matter.
"What you are here to do is spread the Love vibes, that’s the real preparation for the next moment as all of this unfolds in glorious living color upon which you call the mainstream media channels - lots of changes going on there so that these stories can be brought to you. They will be given from the most compassionate perspective of the ones who filmed the stories and the ones who are actually the participants reporting in front of the camera. Even that might be too much.
"What if your neighbor says, 'Oh, I can’t stand this. There’s just so much that is just overwhelming me and I’m just so afraid.' What do you do? You say, ‘Beloved neighbor come in, let’s have some tea. I’ll tell you the outcome and then you don’t have to watch every detail. If it throws you into fear that’s not the path where it is most advisable and advantageous for you to be. Let’s come on in and talk Love, shall we?’ Do you see what we are saying?
"Now the reason we are giving all of these examples is because we know that there are some fear stories that will come out, because they are telling what these ones have done. Do you suppose that everyone on Planet Earth stayed tuned to their radios or their television sets to watch the trials at Nuremburg and hear all the grisly details that were done by the ones who were on trial? No! There were reporters there who summarized. You are reporters of Truth, Beloved Ones, you don’t have to go into every ghastly detail.
"Most of your friends, family, and neighbors, who are not awake yet to what’s going on, won’t be able to handle it from any perspective except fear. So your great mission is to do the Truth telling from the Love perspective. So go ahead and invite us in, if you are going to tell Love stories, invite us in to be with you. You don’t have to say it aloud in front of your neighbors, you can call us in telepathically, and then you can speak to your neighbors with so much Love, we’ll keep the lights of Love lit while you do the talking, how about that?
"So you are going to feel the Love that we’re bringing to you and then they’re going to feel it. And they’re going to feel the Love that you put into your voice and into the telling and the answering of the questions that they will have. And that is the perspective, Beloved Ones, for the compassionate observer and news broadcaster of what is observed. The main thing is Love. Reassurance comes from Love, not fear. Comfort comes from Love. In fact, if you wish to, you can start creating your own news broadcasting moments. No, you don’t need to do details, they will change. It’s going to be changing all the time - stay tuned. But you can start putting your intention into your own energy fields that whatever information you receive to pay forward, you will be doing so from the highest dimensional vibrations of Love, with Compassion, yes, Forgiveness, and Gratitude!
"This is your opportunity to open the doors at least a bit wider for those who are what you call, ‘clueless.’ - we just say, ‘not awake' - and start sharing with them the Joy that belongs to the World - it is the birthright of the World. It has been hidden or kept in the dark. Start sharing what this Golden Age looks and feels like! Perhaps even invite them to join with you in a circle of Love, and give thanks together for this wonderful new world, this ancient Lemuria, coming into emergence. It has been hidden, known to a few, now it is coming out to be known to all. Whether people rejoice or not is not your responsibility at all, it is only the responsibility of your mission to show the way, to light the way for them, and that, Beloved Ones, is preparation.
"Now, we want to take one more moment before Sekhmet joins us with a most empowering Exercise to bring this forward, even more. But what we want to assure you of is that what we have been telling you all along, and we shall state again, is that we are mitigating. Mother Gaia has received your words, your vibrations, your messages, and yes your broadcastings of Love. She’s tuned in to your channels - no pun intended there but sometimes I like to do that! She knows that you have opened your Hearts to her, she knows that you are A-OK with her ascending just like you, she knows that you are all in this together and she is so thankful and grateful to all of you who have been sharing your loving energies with her and all of her kingdoms!
"She is responding and is allowing us to assist her in her responses. It’s not done yet, no. There is still a lot of clean-up to do, but because you have given us permission to join with you, Beloved Ones, Mother Gaia has done so as well. We are working on it, we are more and more visible. Look for our bird ships, they are a little different shape, they have what looks like wings and wide-open mouths. They are literally devouring whatever toxicities are in your atmosphere. We have other ships which have the ability to draw up toxicities from inside of the earth - yes, even the toxins from the fracking - and neutralize it.
"And, Beloved Ones, there is a lot of debris floating in your oceans, your rivers, your streams and your lakes, but the toxicities of this debris, we are working on cleansing that as well. You must realize that a lot of these things have been coming from within, from under your planet, the underground bases, under sea, under land. We are in charge, we have taken control of these bases and neutralized the spewing forth of more toxicities. There are still some floating out there, of course.
"We have disengaged the empowerment of the naughties, the dark hats, the illuminaties, to continue their destructive programs. If you wish to assist in this go high. Get up into the higher dimensions, inhale, literally; bring it into your beings, the cleanliness, the purity and the joy of the Aina, the land, the Kai, the sea, and the Lani, the sky, and then exhale it into your surroundings wherever you are and let it cover all of Planet Earth. That’s Love in expression, Beloved Ones, just one of the many ways that you can express our togetherness, our Oneness, in mission and purpose!
"The priority or, if you want to say the goal, the end result - we already see it, it’s done - is the successful Ascension of all who choose to ascend. But there is much to do along the way to bring that reality, that mission accomplished, into its most full manifestation. Is there any question about your Ascensions? No. But we know that you all know someone, or maybe more than one someone, that you might have a question about.
"Stop questioning - you cannot be afraid for them, you can only love them and perhaps communicate a bit telepathically. You will have many, many opportunities to help and assist, you already have been doing so. You already have become more open and obvious, so rejoice! Get happy, dance and sing, nothing but good times ahead, because that, Beloved Ones, is what you have co-created with us and we thank you and we honor you for being one with us in this grand Family of Mission Accomplished. And so it is, Salut!"
Movie #16 - Closing – Christopher reads The Childrens’ Pledge, Yeshua/Sananda speaks via Susan Leland, and the day ends with The Blessing song performed by Lei’ohu Ryder and Maydeen Iao and the audience.
"Tears are streaming down my face in that I am right back on Maui in the radiance of the two day event.....I was only able to attend a couple of the workshops as I was helping out with the event....but my intent was to hold the energy within my being and bring it back and anchor it to where I live now.
"From my response to just seeing the photos, I realize that I succeeded. There was so much love and synergy of loving intentions to have the event help anyone open to receive...during the event and now through the website. What an incredible blessing. I look forward to begin viewing the workshops that I attended and to experience the others.
"Thank you all for your perseverance and dedication to make this offering to the world a reality. Mahalo nui loa (Thank you from the heart!) A.S., CA 4-8-12
We invite those of you who were unable to attend to purchase
the replay link and catch the high-vibes of this amazing event!
YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!!!
There is no better time to uplift yourself and
spread the energies again around the planet and the universe.
Visit our page for a description of the 16 movies included in this link,
When you have a few minutes, we invite you to go to our Japan page that we started back in March 2011 when the tsunami and Fukushima disaster happened. There is wonderful news about the shutdown of nuclear plants in Japan. The video there is really worth watching-the English subtitles are easy to read and the background music is great!
Sananda ~ Open to Truth ~
I come before you today to speak of the Truth that is in your hearts, dear ones. No one can deny that you are waking up to it. The depths to which you are reaching are astounding and unequalled. The expansion of your energy has contributed to this and you are just beginning to see the ramifications of it. Your bravery in opening up to consciousness that you have not perceived for eons is applauded and cherished by all of the Company of Heaven. We thank you for this.Be prepared for even more widening of your energy fields. This may cause a discomfort in your physical bodies, a kind of opening that you may be unfamiliar with. All openings seem unfamiliar at first, dear ones, as you attempt to understand it from a point of reference from your third dimensional experience.We ask you to let go of that urge or tendency to define it based on what you have experienced in your un-awakened state and be open to just being with it, without engaging your mind. With this, you will begin to activate the memories you all carry within you. Be aggressive with this to the degree of abandoning your tendency to control your frame of reference in attempting to understand.Waking up your memories has begun with the new influx of golden energy from the Central Sun. Your DNA are becoming fully activated and you are making the rapid changeover from carbon-based structure of your physical bodies to crystalline substance. To experience this in complete safety and confidence, it is necessary that you frequently ground yourselves into Mother Earth, with your beloved Gaia. She will hold you in Love as you share your Love with her. Becoming fully committed to ascending with Her will insure your development to a greater degree and increase your abilities to keep raising your vibration in your Ascension with Gaia to the 5th Dimension.
So Now everybody has something to say and they are all dropping their opinions. Truth is not anyone's opinion, it is what it is. Whether anyone agrees with it is is totally immaterial. Politics are immaterial, the one undeniable fact is the whole world is going thru a remarkable change and best thing for people to do, is roll with the flow, as there is no human that can stop it. The matrix is kicking butt and these 'brain scientists' can't define it with all the equipment they have, which also means they stop it. Even people that are most ignorant of global stuff, sense something is going on, tho they can't explain it. Just we in the west don't believe in everything chinese, doesn't mean they don't have tangible effect on the whole.
If you were paying attention to what Iceland did this week, you'd get a pretty good idea of what's going to happen in the west. Out with old garbage, enter a new day for it's people. Even the cabal folks have quieted themselves a bit, as their friends are silently, going away. There are massive coordination activities going on between the east and west, as that moment for the great historical flip arrives. My job was always to tell you there's a tsunami coming, of epic proportions so, you'd be ready and not get tripped out by what it looks like. Make sure your surf boards are waxed. Any surfer will tell you when the conditions are 'right' for a big one(wave) even if he can't tell you the moment it's arriving. It's at the point where a country's leader can be against the change all they want but when the moment is called, that big wave will roll over them, like ducks on a beach. Nothing evil, it's just nature doing it's thing. If conditions are right and you've been warned, 'something this way comes', act like you know, otherwise, you'll have nothing to say when you find yourself upside down, in a rather awkward place. Pay attention.
There isn't anyone who holds a candle to me, in grouchiness. I got started 30 freakin' years ago on the ground level stuff. This is not a good ear to whine to. I know what these clowns have been up to, with their 'secret societies' and things. The murders that have been committed to keep themselves in power. They made a grave error in their calculations, they didn't figure in that the universe was conscious so discounted any opinion that was against theirs'. Technology alone, will not suffice. You must have an intellect above that of a retarded ant. It's called commonsense. If you knew there was plenty for every one, wouldn't you work from that knowledge rather the one of lack? It will be very interesting to watch how people act when there's plenty to go around, no need or want to steal. Will that condition bring out other repressed desires having to do with controlling others? The matrix will provide some 'electrified stimuli' for that behavior. Nasty behavior is being evolved out of the human being and all without, killing anyone. People will take their own selves out of the world, control freaks need 'subjects' to pontificate on, otherwise they get depressed, ordering their own selves around.
Shake, rattle, and roll, folks. Word to me is my job is at an end. Everyone has been sufficiently warned about the change hitting the world, I'm ready for what's coming and I hope something in your gut has you ready, too. Consonants, adverbs, and pronouns, will only get you so far, then the 'dumbfounding' hits....silence. This is arriving at your door like a lightning bolt on a clear day. The time is now, No one can tell you the moment your door bell sounds off or that door knock comes, too many lives have been lost over this thing already. I can just say, the sky looks right and the wind is blowing in the right direction. The sun is rising in the east, balance is being restored in the world....
Have fun...
Jim Yong Kim was chosen to be
president of the World Bank, becoming the
first physician and Asian-American to head the lender after emerging markets
failed to rally around a challenger to the U.S. monopoly on the job. The World Bank board of directors said today it chose Dartmouth College President Kim to succeed Robert Zoellick,
whose term ends June 30. A specialist in HIV/AIDS with a Ph.D. in anthropology,
Kim, 52, faced rival bids from Nigeria and Colombia. The candidacies “enriched the
discussion of the role of the president and of the World Bank Group’s future direction,” the board said in an e-mailed statement. “The final nominees received support from different member countries, which reflected the high caliber of the candidates.”
Kim, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, breaks the mold of
World Bank presidents, who have been drawn from government and finance. Kim,
who was born in Korea and grew up in the U.S., has pledged to be a bridge
between developed and advanced economies at the poverty-fighting institution,
which committed $57 billion last year on everything from building roads to
taking stakes in companies in emerging economies. Kim’s expertise on health and
development issues, as well as his experience at Dartmouth, “puts him in a
prime position to initiate a much-needed reorientation of the World Bank’s role
in global development,” said Eswar Prasad, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a former official at the International Monetary Fund
Few of you are under any illusions as to what is taking place, although some are still unconvinced that it is in the interests of the Human Race. Such people are normally not in touch with the reliable sources of information, and thus lack sufficient information from which to make an informed judgment. Rarely do they have the levels of consciousness required to see beyond the physical changes, and some have little or no knowledge of Ascension. However, they along with everyone else will before the end of the year is reached, have the opportunity to learn the facts and how it will affect them. After all regardless of what is believed, the end times will alter peoples lives whether or not they are prepared. A new cycle means a new beginning and there are no ways that the old one can be perpetuated. Indeed, it is in everyone's interest to move on to a new experience, that is consistent with their present level of evolution.
Where you find people that are confused we call upon the Lightworkers to be bold and step in, as their knowledge is vital at this time because it can serve to ease their plight and lessen the possibility of them becoming fearful. As has often been said, there is nothing to fear except fear itself, and regardless of the circumstances the world is not due to end through any disaster. All is planned to ensure that as many souls as possible are ready to ascend. However no pressure whatsoever is placed upon those who choose to remain in the 3rd. dimension, but to continue that experience they will move elsewhere. Neither is it considered a failure not to have reached Ascension, as you have infinite life and absolute freedom to take as long as you wish in the lower vibrations. Eventually every soul will rise up as it is impossible to continue resisting the higher vibrations for any great length of time.
Our mission has taken off in the last few months, as we get more directly involved in the events taking place on Earth, and so it shall continue until the last remnants of the dark Ones are out of your way. Then we can move to another stage that allows us to be more involved in your lives, in assisting you to ascend. You will meet your Space Family and the Beings of the Inner Earth also related to you, and will have a lot to catch up on. Your history is far from accurate and there is much to put right that has either been misrepresented or falsified, and it covers many so-called "respectable" Institutions.
Each day we get nearer to taking actions that will bring the day of declaration into being, and then we move into another stage of our mission. It will be a time of great joy all over the world, to celebrate your new found freedom. Old differences and historical disagreements will fade into the past where they belong. It will be discovered that they have been deliberately played upon by the dark Ones, to keep the idea of separation alive. Now you shall see how quickly the people can unite in friendship and goodwill. At heart all of you desire lasting peace, and that is what you will have at long last.
Dear Ones, when we say that everything will be sorted out we mean it, and life will become very enjoyable and fulfilling. The type of worries you have now will be removed, and instead of a stressful life it will become pleasurable with time for you to enjoy relaxing hobbies and pastimes. You were never meant to be slaves to your work, or live at a level where you were always in need. These are the type of things that we will address in lifting you up, and life will soon become a happy experience. The difference now to the past is what we have referred to many times, and a very important aspect of our service for you.
The dark Ones have constantly taken over inventions that should have brought you a higher standard of living, but have instead been used to further their own military ambitions to take over the world. Much has been denied you and soon it shall be made available to you, and it will have a great impact upon communications and transportation systems. Food shortages will become a thing of the past, and no one will ever again die from thirst. Trust and love will replace doubt and fear, and people all over the world will come together in the realisation that they are One Human Race, regardless of colour or any other differences.
At our level we understand that the spiritual vibrations place souls at different levels, but that does not mean they are separated from us, as we can come and go as we do with you on Earth. The higher you rise up the more you understand that service to others means helping those who follow in your footsteps. Again your history gives little mention of our interaction with you, yet we have been a great influence upon the development of your civilization. A number of your mysterious artefacts that seem to have no place in your present history result from our visits to your Earth. Sometimes they remain hidden away because their existence cannot be accounted for, plus there is a reluctance to mention the possibility of them being connected to Extra-terrestrial visitors.
Open your minds to all possibilities as you get to learn more about us, and be assured we will tell you about our many contacts with you. We and other civilizations have nurtured your species for thousands of years, and you are the result of a several different ones who advanced your DNA, having first originated through the Lyrans. These are parts of your evolution that you will given more information about, as it is time you learnt the truth.
The acquisition of wealth will eventually no longer be necessary, as you will always have sufficient for your needs. It will be re-distributed and that will restore some quality to your lives, and also ensure that no one is left destitute or in poverty. You will also find that very soon there will be moves away from the old methods of medical treatment, to ones that are more friendly and efficient. Healing chambers and cubicles will replace the need to go to present day hospitals. The technologically advanced methods are totally successful and many are able to heal instantaneously. You could say that we make all new again, even where limbs or any other body parts are missing.
I am SaLuSa from Sirius, and so pleased we can give you information about what you can expect very soon. Live with love in your hearts always.
Greetings from Galactic Heart...
On Friday, April 13 Geoffrey West launched his new radio show, Cosmic Vision News. It was a huge success.
Sheldan will be on Cosmic Vision News on Friday, April 20 at 4pm PDT (or 7pm EDT). Sheldan will be on during the last half hour.
Geoff describes his vision:
Global freedom and disclosure present a unique challenge to media. On one hand, humanity needs to learn about how the elitist cabal has been enslaving humanity and attempting to harm our precious planet in order to break free. On the other hand, humanity needs to also prepare for massive and glorious changes in learning about how our galactic families have been helping us, while preparing for the day when we can meet them, and become a true galactic star nation, living upon a planet that is healthy, free, peaceful and abundant for all!
Both are very interconnected, and Cosmic Vision News brings the information that can help bridge the gap between the two events that have the greatest potential to rapidly shift human and planetary consciousness and more quickly achieve this transition now unfolding for the benefit of humanity and our planet!
In service to humanity and our planet,Geoffrey
Let's support Geoffrey with his vision to bring in a new media format reporting real news across our globe.
Selamat Ja!
Colleen
JOIN THE THRIVE MOVEMENT
Jelaila Starr has provided a short video on her "Higher Perspective on the movie, Thrive". I whole-heartedly agree with her perspective. This movie needs to go viral. If you haven't watch it yet, please do so. If you have watched it, make a list of those people you know that are ready for this information. They don't have to be spiritually awake but it should be given to those that are aware of what is going on in our reality.
For example, I was brave and gave it to the man at the post office. I talk with him regularly. I know he is a staunch catholic and a republican but we have had just enough conversations for me to also know that he is aware of how we are manipulated by "big brother". His reaction was interesting. He told me it took him two nights to watch the movie. His main comment to me was that he didn't think we would ever become a society that didn't need a government. I smiled. You take away people's struggle and their community spirit and creativity expands. He smiled....I hope so. The next time I saw my post office guy, he was aloof. I thought, OK, maybe I stretched him too far.
However, the next time I saw my post office man, he called me over to his window. He was excited. He told me he watched the movie again and now he was going to share it with his brother on Saturday. A true transformation!! I was exuberant.
In Sheldan's weekly messages, the Galactic Federation have encouraged us to be courageous and initiate conversations in our community. They want us to be sensitive and not "blow people out of the water" but to gently introduce subjects that get them thinking an talking.
We are all invited to be active citizens dedicated to expanding our consciousness. Victory is at hand!
Would you like to know more about the Thrive Movement - what we've been up
to since the release of the film, and where we're going?
Now's your chance. Foster and Kimberly Gamble, the filmmakers of THRIVE, will be participating in a Live Stream Broadcast, tomorrow on April 19th, from 6-9PM MDT in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
All you need is a computer and Internet connection to tune in! The event will include an audience Q & A as well as a discussion about Thrive-inspired Solution Groups that are self-creating all around the world.
This event is hosted by THRIVE supporters at the Performance Space in Santa Fe and will be broadcast via http://www.santafe.com/.
To access the live stream tomorrow, go to http://www.santafe.com/ and enter "thrive movement" into the "search santafe.com" search bar in the upper right. The link will not be live until the day of the performance.
We look forward to an interesting discussion and sharing more about THRIVE with all of you!
By letting go of emotions that bind us to the hurts and pains of the past we free ourselves to become who we truly are.
We give ourselves permission to take control of our lives and destiny, and by doing so we regain our sovereignty.
By clearing our past negative emotions or traumas we are also releasing humanity from the same one step at a time.
We never know which individual will be the tipping point for humanity to step into the new paradigm of the golden age.
This new age of peace, harmony, prosperity and great joy is what every human being dreams about. those that do
The work of clearing old baggage help others who aren't even aware yet of these blockages and will lead the way into
The new paradise that we are co-creating together as we focus on the bountiful blessings and joy that every one deserves.
Are you that tipping point. is it on your 2nd clearing session or the 9th. by working and clearing yourself will you be the catalyst that moves someone else to do the same, and is that person the one that pushes us over the edge and into bliss.
It was decreed by Creator Source that if we reached 51% the rest would be automatic. are you that tipping point. | {
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Watch a Building Demolition Go Unexpectedly Wrong
See if you can spot all the violations.
An emergency demolition crew in Baltimore was sent out to the Riverside neighborhood of the city to tear down a dilapidated building after it was diagnosed as unstable by city officials. A video of their efforts emerged on YouTube on Sunday, and things didn’t quite go according to plan.
The building was a source of complaints from locals, who cited a large crack and a bowing exterior wall, and neighbors gathered around to watch the demolition crew and their excavator get to work. Everything seemed to be going fine, when, suddenly, a nudge from the excavator’s plow sent a loose, third-story wall tumbling over onto the adjacent row house.
The falling wall completely flattened the second floor of the adjoining structure and also did significant damage to the poor Laundry Mutt at ground level. You can hear onlookers’ reactions in the video as they realize what’s happening.
“Oh, shit,” says one man, followed quickly by an “oh, fuck” from the woman beside him. “That wasn’t the plan,” says the woman. No kidding.
The Baltimore Sunreports that city officials were forced to condemn the affected building and that the city would be investigating the incident.
Demolition experts will tell you that it looks like there were a few obvious mistakes made by the on-site crew:
The tallest object on a building — that free-standing, third-story wall in this case — should be removed, by hand if necessary, before proceeding further.
Federal NESHAP (National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants) also require that no fugitive dust can escape from the lot of the demolition site, which was happening both before and after the accident.
And one more for good measure: The lax safety conditions on the scene could be a violation of OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) guidelines.
The ease with which the adjacent building collapsed in is also fair cause to wonder about the sturdiness of its construction in the first place.
Thankfully, nobody in the accidentally demolished building, or anywhere else, was hurt. “Precautions are always taken with adjacent properties, in this case ensuring that it was unoccupied,” Tania Baker, a Housing Department spokeswoman, told The Sun.
Joseph Rene, the owner of the building that was accidentally knocked over, said that he and other neighbors hadn’t been given prior notice that the demolition had been scheduled. City officials claimed that that was because of the emergency nature of the situation.
Rene actually watched the scene unfold from the sidewalk where the video was captured. In the aftermath of the unexpected building carnage, he said, “We’ll rebuild it.” | {
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