Padlocked Masseuses a Problem in Indonesia

post from Offbeat News on 10 April 2008 11:44:30 PM. © Offbeat News

A local government in Indonesia's East Java province tried to curb prostitution - by having masseusses wear a padlock on their pants.

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Sponsor A CBGB Kid

post from RC Edrington on 10 April 2008 10:21:00 PM. © RC Edrington

12-year-old Savannah is the daughter of a former CBGB employee of 18 years, and spent much of her childhood as a part of CBGB.
Savannah also suffers from a form of juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
Every year The Arthritis Foundation holds an Arthritis Walk to raise money and awareness for their cause.
CBGB's own Savannah has been chosen as one of the honorees in this year's walk.

Please join us in donating to this worthy cause.
The link below will take you to the Arthritis Walk page for donations in Savannah's name.
For further information on the Walk and on the Foundation click the links on that page.
If you choose to join us in donating, we ask that you donate on Savannah's page to show the Foundation what one little girl and a bunch of old rockers can do to help.

Team Savannah
The walk is Sunday, April 27th in Battery Park
All are welcome, but you don't have to walk to donate.RC Edrington

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Man upset over lack of beer shoots family goat!

post from Odd Planet on 10 April 2008 08:55:45 PM. © Odd Planet

A Wis. man, Peter W. Mischler, 48, came home on a Saturday after he’d been out hunting. He was upset with his 22 year old daughter, who was talking on the phone with her mother at the time, as she had let the goats out and they’d made a mess.While the daughter was still [...]

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Talks Al Gore: New thinking on the climate
crisis

post from Nexus of Science/Spirituality/Politics on 10 April 2008 06:55:00 PM. © Nexus of Science/Spirituality/Politics

In Al Gore's brand-new slideshow (premiering exclusively on TED.com), he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of "generational mission" -- the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement -- to set it right. Gore's stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is asked for his verdict on the current political candidates' climate policies and on what role he himself might play in future.

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Coalition to Block the North American Union

post from Nexus of Science/Spirituality/Politics on 10 April 2008 05:45:00 PM. © Nexus of Science/Spirituality/Politics

Coalition to Block the North American Union, headed by Howard Phillips, Chairman of The Conservative Caucus (TCC), Dr. Jerome R. Corsi, and Phyllis Schlafly [1], was created in an attempt "to bring attention to what it calls a 'stealth plan' to merge the U.S. with Mexico and Canada to create a 'North American Union." [2]

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New Meditation CD - Cosmic Consciousness

post from Nexus of Science/Spirituality/Politics on 10 April 2008 05:31:00 PM. © Nexus of Science/Spirituality/Politics

We were given the Mantra last august in Mt. Shasta, and it's amazing. I can't guarantee you will like it, but I did. I listen to it fairly regularly (couple times a week for an hour or two).

Steven M. Greer MD, widely regarded as one of the true leaders in the science of consciousness, has shared in these two CDs the complete understanding of how to attain higher states of awareness through meditation.

It is the culmination of 35 years of experience as a meditator and teacher of meditation, and brings forth a completely new understanding of the ancient Vedic knowledge of mantras, their unique tonality, and how to properly use the mantra.

The first CD describes how to meditate using the mantra in the correct way, so it is essential that it be listened to very carefully before beginning meditation. If the mantra is used improperly, its effect will be greatly reduced or negated. The mantra is a subtle thought/sound which is to be gently repeated with a light, effortless focus, not hard concentration.

The unique quality of this mantra - and how it emerged within deep cosmic awareness in July of 2007 - is described in the first CD, along with how to meditate properly with the mantra. This mantra emerged from Unbounded Mind as three pure distinct tones which became the specific mantra. This occurred shortly after the meditation shared on the second CD from the Zen Dome in Crestone, Colorado. CD number 2 contains both the meditation from the Zen Dome and the exact tonality and sound of the mantra itself.

The mantra was directly perceived as it spontaneously manifested from the deep Unbounded Cosmic Mind that is folded within each of us - and within all things. Its specific tonality gives it form, movement and ease of use unlike any mantra we have ever perceived. Through this experience, Dr. Greer realized that - while mantras and thought/sounds have been used for centuries in meditation - the specific tonality of the mantra is as important as the mantra itself. It is this knowledge that has been lost for many thousands of years, until now...

With this new mantra, the mind is able to relax and follow its tone and in so doing enables you - the meditator - to arrive easily into the deepest realm of pure cosmic awareness. This mantra is like a vehicle that carries the mind to its Source - silent, deep, peaceful, eternal Mind.

It is our hope that the gift of this meditation technique will enable many to attain the state of perfect inner peace and enlightenment and from that state of consciousness join together to create the long awaited time of Universal Peace!

With special thanks to Charlie Balogh for the music and production.

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Honey Bee Collapse Now Worse on West Coast

post from Earthfiles.com Articles on 10 April 2008 04:12:58 PM. © Earthfiles.com Articles

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Advocate of Increased School Zone Speeding Fines
Caught Speeding - in a School Zone

News surfaced of Sen. John Goedde speeding ticket on Wednesday. He's the sponsor of a bill to increase Idaho's fines for speeding in school zones - and he was caught speeding in a Boise-area school zone on Feb. 28. Naturally, it turns out that was the very day his bill was being debated in the state Senate.

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Ocean mud yields secrets of past Earth impacts

Traces of vaporised asteroids have been found in ocean mud, providing a new way to study impacts whose scars have long since vanished

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