Do you want a better tomorrow? Do you desire positive change for yourself, your community and your nation? Then Saint Germain is the one to get to know. Saint Germain is a master of wisdom who can teach you the path of soul freedom. He is known as a diplomat, expressing the godly qualities of dignity, grace, gentility, poise and true statesmanship. Saint Germain teaches the science of alchemy (transformation and change) in his book Saint Germain On Alchemy. He brings us the gift of the violet flame—a miracle elixir of light that can transmute and lift your burdens. The violet flame is an invisible spiritual energy that appears violet to those who have developed their spiritual vision. The violet flame revitalizes and invigorates us. The violet flame changes negative energy into positive energy. By transforming negative thoughts and feelings, the violet flame provides a platform for our healing. Saint Germain initiates our souls in the science and ritual of transmutation through the violet flame. He is intimately tied to the destiny of America and the nations of the world. He is the sponsoring master of the United States of America and George Washington. Saint Germain inspired the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. He also inspired many of the labor-saving devices of the twentieth century. His goal is to liberate mankind from drudgery so that they might devote themselves to the pursuit of the path of the ascension. Saint Germain says: “You are mortal. I am immortal. The only difference between us is that I have chosen to be free, and you have yet to make the choice. We have the same potential, the same resources, the same connection to the One.”
WORLDWIDE EVENTS: Saturday and Sunday, November 13 & 14
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Labelled? Sure. But let's not have it at all! Playing with the food chain is risky business that will impact the planet (yours and mine!) for generations to come!
GE Salmon: Coming for Dinner? Tell FDA If GE Salmon Is Approved, It Must Be Labeled
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on August 25, 2010, that it will potentially approve the long-shelved AquAdvantage transgenic salmon as the first genetically engineered (GE) animal intended for human consumption. The GE Atlantic salmon being considered was developed by AquaBounty Technologies, and genetically engineered to produce growth hormones year-round, creating a fish the company claims grows at twice the normal rate. This could allow factory fish farms to crowd the salmon into pens and still get high production rates. To make matters worse, FDA argues that these GE salmon don’t even need to be labeled!
We have only a short window to tell FDA to reject these GE fish, and at the very least label them. Can you send a comment today?
Each year millions of farmed salmon escape from open-water net pens, outcompeting wild populations for resources and straining ecosystems. Any approval of GE salmon would represent another serious threat to the survival of native salmon populations, many of which have already suffered severe declines related to salmon farms and other man-made impacts. Research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences notes that a release of just sixty GE fish into a wild population of 60,000 could lead to the extinction of the wild population in less than 40 fish generations. Wild Atlantic salmon are already on the Endangered Species List in the U.S.; approving these GE Atlantic salmon will be the final blow to these wild stocks.
The human health impacts of eating GE fish are entirely unknown, but some scientific research raises cause for alarm. For example, these GE farmed salmon will carry with them all of the health hazards of other farmed salmon, but transgenic fish may be more susceptible to disease than fish currently grown in aquaculture facilities because transgenic fish are identified as “macro-mutants” with a reduced ability to survive. Consequently, the amount of antibiotics given to transgenic fish may be higher than the amount currently given to farmed fish; already farmed salmon are given more antibiotics than any other livestock by weight, threatening the health of those who eat them and the continued efficacy of these antibiotics to treat human disease.
Tell the Food and Drug Administration not to approve GE salmon AND, if the Obama Administration insists on approving these genetically engineered fish, it should require the fish to be labeled when marketed to fish farmers, fish retailers and food companies, restaurants, and when marketed to consumers.
Please take action today! The comment period on labeling of GE salmon is only open through November 22nd
Halloween (Hallowe’en) is observed on October 31, primarily in English-speaking nations. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holiday All Saints’ Day.
The ascended masters teach that, eons ago, early root races on Earth were pure, innocent and peaceful. They knew they were gods in manifestation. They learned about good and evil from the archangels and angels who would perform in profound Shakespearean-like dramas. They learned about the consequences when the angel actors chose maya (illusion), chose evil or chose good. They could see the repercussions of poor choices without actually having to make the mistakes (and karma) themselves.
At the end of their cycles of reincarnation and self-mastery, these early root races attained union with God through the ritual of the ascension.
And this is the divine intent: That in each lifetime, we put on more and more of the consciousness of God until—at last—things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.
The culmination of the experience of all of our lifetimes is to become one with God and make our ascension in the light.
But, some of the angels portraying evil in these great dramas began to so identify with their theatrical roles that they forgot their divine estate and took on the negatives of their characters. As their consciousness was no longer able to identify with God, they took on human bodies and continued to reembody with their indulgence in all manner of perversions.
Over the millennia, mankind identified more with the fallen angels than the holy angels. Most people believe they are animals and miserable sinners instead of being sons and daughters of God. At at soul level, the morale of the entire civilization has been lowered. The collective unconscious gives people a helpless sense of limitation.
In other words, we have forgotten that we can become God. As Teilhard De Chardin wrote, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
So the greatest Halloween costume of all may be the one that you see in the mirror.
Remove the mask. Become your Real Self. And, step by step, as you make progress on your spiritual path, you will become more of God each day.
[from http://TSL.org] The traditional costumes of Halloween are characters from horror movies and freak shows. Over the last few decades it’s expanded to include famous Hollywood characters, living, dead, and animated.
In the science of energy flow, whether you call it “The Secret” or “The Intention Experiment” or you read “where your treasure is” in the Bible, it’s true that you become what you place your attention upon.
The ascended masters teach that on Halloween the fallen ones (fallen angels, demons, discarnates, entities, witches, etc.) use this science to channel their destructive energies through those who don the costumes of the damned. Through the increased attention on evil (even in a supposedly “fun” way) waves of darkness are spewed forth from the astral pit on an unsuspecting mankind. Some of the energy is overt, some is more subtle, pernicious and subliminally destructive.
In the same way, when people wear costumes of the angels, nature spirits, fairies, knights and ladies of the Round Table, or saints, it’s an heavenly attraction.
The ascended masters have said that they will place their light body, their electronic presence, over those who put on the costumes depicting ascended masters, angels and elementals (costumes of a higher vibration) thus anchoring their Light on earth to the benefit of all.
Read more about good and evil in Elizabeth Clare Prophet’s bestseller Fallen Angels and the Origins of Evil: Why Church Fathers Suppressed the Book of Enoch and Its Startling Revelations.
Lynn McTaggart (The Intention Experiment and fictional heroine in Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol") weighs in on the ponderous plot to eliminate alternative medical treatments including time-honored Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese herbal medicine and homeopathy. Big Pharma is watching European consumers to see how much backlash there is to the WHO plan to stop all non-allopathic medicine. Unless there is sufficient opposition, within the next year or two, laws will come into effect in Europe that will drastically restrict the access of all Europeans to high-dose vitamins and herbal medicine. The near identical intern ational laws that have been drafted within the United Nations suggest that a well organized and concerted effort is under foot to finish off any alternative to orthodox medicine.
In 2002 my magazine What Doctors Don’t Tell You first learned about plans within the European Union to radically restrict natural medicine across all member countries, starting with laws that would create a very low ceiling of ‘safe upper limits’ in vitamins. Although the laws were ostensibly to create a level playing field within the European supplement market, the proposals bore the heavy hand of Big Pharma. At the time, the solution appeared simple. The majority of people in the UK use some form of natural medicine. All we needed to do was to band together, whip up a national protest, and the laws would be stopped in their tracks. In early 2003, we invited all the heads of the largest vitamin companies and representatives from all the leading natural medicine organizations – homeopathy, herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and many others – to a meeting in central London. Many of the organizations never showed up. Of the 50 or so who did, many groups felt that our concerns were alarmist. Others welcomed the new moves as good for business. A few attempting to fight the legislation were busiest fighting each other. No group seemed able to see the bigger picture. Each organization was mainly concerned with whether their own business was under fire. If it wasn’t – and at the time it wasn’t for many of the disciplines – they weren’t interested. Not my problem. Big Pharma had big plans all those years ago. Unless there is sufficient opposition, within the next year or two, laws will come into effect in Europe that will drastically restrict the access of all Europeans to high-dose vitamins and herbal medicine. Most therapeutic herbal medicine, plus forms that are new to the West, such as Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese herbal medicine, will effectively be banned. And although homeopathy has emerged unscathed from future EU law, the British Medical Association is working to eliminate funding for NHS homeopathic hospitals. This pogrom will not end in Europe. The near identical international laws that have been drafted within the United Nations suggest that a well organized and concerted effort is under foot to finish off any alternative to orthodox medicine. The plan is to watch Europe closely to assess the level of consumer protest. Thus far, that protest has been minimal. The two consumer groups that have maintained any sort of consistent attack – the Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) and Consumers for Health Choice who have challenged the law and lobbied parliament are starved of funds. The individual organizations to this day remain isolationist. Not my problem.
This attitude reminds me a bit of the speech given by Pasto Martin Miemoller about the passivity of many German groups to the purging by the Nazis of group after group. First they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for me for me and then there was no one left to speak out for me. For all of us wishing to maintain alternatives to drug-based orthodox medicine, these laws are all of our problem, and every last one of us has an obligation to speak up now. Here’s what you can do: Right now, in the absence of collective consumer action, our best hopes in the UK rest with the CHC and the ANH. Both need funds desperately in order to continue their fight. Contact information: Alliance for Natural Health, The Atrium, Curtis Road, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1XA. Tel: 01306 646 600. Website: www.anhcampaign.orgreposted from http://www.theintentionexperiment.com/not-my-problem.htm
Lynne McTaggart, author of The Intention Experiment, Featured in Dan Brown’s New Book – The Lost Symbol “…human consciousness, as Noetic author Lynne McTaggart described it, was a substance outside the confines of the body. A highly ordered energy capable of changing the physical world. Katherine (Solomon) had been fascinated by McTaggart’s book ‘The Intention Experiment’, and her global, Web-based study – theintentionexperiment.com - aimed at discovering how human intention could affect the world.” - Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol (Random House, 2009).
Although Google has been playing with some fun image search toys in its lab and the official Google Image Search has recently significantly upped its game, some of its most hyped features — color search, instant scrolling, hover preview — are but mere shadows of sleeker, better versions that geekier, more sophisticated image search tools offer. Here are seven of our favorites.
OSKOPE
oSkope is a visual search assistant that lets you browse images and products from popular sites like Amazon, eBay, YouTube and Flickr in a highly intuitive way. You can skim thumbnails related to your search keywords and save search results from different services to a visual bookmark bar at the bottom of your browser screen.
COMPFIGHT
CompFight is a Flickr search tool tremendously useful for all your comp stock image needs but also doubling as a visual inspiration ignition engine. It lets you search based on tag or text, spitting out a pleasant wall of thumbnails. Particularly useful: The CreativeCommons search option, which filters results by image rights license type. CompFight was featured in the Experimental category of this year’s Communication Arts annual.
FLICKR RELATED TAG BROWSER
You may recall Flickr Related Tag Browser from pickings past — a sleek web app retrieves Flickr images tagged with your search keyword in a neat grid, surrounded by a radial display of related tags. Clicking each related tag produces the same grid of images tagged with it, semantically leading you down the endless image tagging rabbit hole. FRTB is the work of interactive designer Felix Turner, the Flash whiz who helped build the now-ubiquitous Brightcove video players.
TINEYE
TinEye is reverse image search — feed it any image, either by uploading or by pasting the image URL, and it’ll tell you where it came from. We were able to use it on a scan of an obscure German calendar from our childhood and TinyEye proceeded to promptly produce a TinEye can be particularly useful for identifying the artist or original source of photographs and artwork that you happen to stumble upon on Tumblr or another all-too-often unreferenced photo bookmarking service.
COOLIRIS
We first featuredCooliris nearly three years ago, when it was still called PicLens. This fantastic free browser plugin offers an image search interface like no other. It works on the expected image search platforms — Google, Flickr, etc. — but we particularly like its use on Facebook, where the native image browsing is lacking at best.
Cooliris is available for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Internet Explorer. Chrome for Mac is, unfortunately, not supported yet. Soon, they say.
RETRIEVR
From a previous post: retrievr is an experimental image search tool that uses color recognition to retrieve Flickr images that reflect the spatial color arrangement of a digital sketch you draw on a canvas. It’s important to keep in mind that the algorithm doesn’t recognize shapes, but does color and space relationships — so if you doodle the outline of a wine glass in black, you’re more likely to get a lamp post, but if you go with an inverted triangle in blue, you may just get that Cosmo.
MULTICOLR SEARCH LAB
Easily the most useful color-based search tool yet, and also noted in a previous post, Multicolr Search Lab offers a simple yet sophisticated way of finding images based on a color or color combination you’re looking for. Images are pulled from more than 10 million of Flickr’s most interesting photos and you can add up to 10 colors as your search criteria, including multiple swatches of the same color to indicate ratio — say you want an image that’s almost entirely yellow with a bit of blue, you may select yellow four times and blue once. Developed by Idée Labs in Toronto, the tool uses their proprietary Piximilar software which we’re utterly surprised Google hasn’t acquired yet. from: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2010/10/01/best-image-search-tools/ By Maria Popova with thanks to Amrit, Communication Arts annual, Felix Turner, Idée Labs Idée Labs
To their credit, Google provides detailed information with track changes against the previous version of their Privacy Policy.But here's some interesting factoids from their newest Privacy Policy effective October 3, 2010. REMOVED: At Google we recognize that privacy is important. REMOVED: The affiliated sites through which our services are offered may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.REMOVED: Google only processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific services.REMOVED: When you sign up for a particular service that requires registration, we ask you to provide personal information. If we propose to use personal information for any purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the specific service privacy notices, we will offer you an effective way to opt out of the use of personal information for those other purposes. We will not collect or use sensitive information for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy and/or in the supplementary service privacy notices, unless we have obtained your prior consent. REMOVED: We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular term, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.REMOVED: Data integrity: Google processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. KEPT: We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent but REMOVED: and we expect most such changes will be minor.ADDED: When you send and receive SMS messages to or from one of our services that provides SMS functionality, we may collect and maintain information associated with those messages, such as the phone number, the wireless carrier associated with the phone number, the content of the message, and the date and time of the transaction. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our services.ADDED: You can use the Google Dashboard to review and control the information stored in your Google Account.CAN YOU FIX IT? Hardly. But...you can download the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. It lets you choose not to send information about your website visit to Google Analytics from pages (via the Analytics ga.js script). http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/eula.html?hl=enreposted from Google.com info pages