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 2 May 2007 @ 20:37, by jhs. Children, Parenting
Well, at 7:28 on a beautiful morning, our first grandchild arrived safely in our midth with a big smile and a contagious serenity!
Vesakh, the first full moon in Taurus was at 7:09am here in Brazil. He nearly got out at that time but then decided to retract and wait another 20 minutes.
He wanted to stay in his bag (amnion) when entering this world, like any decent Buddha would do, but the umbilical cord was twice around his neck, so our daughter's midwife decided to make the maneuvers to help the amnion to open in order to remove the double-strangle, and, all the time with the help of Heloisa Helena, she managed to do so.
Statistics:
Time of birth 7:28am BRT
Place: in a Sacred Grove in the Alta Serra forest near Sao Roque, Brazil, elevation 1050m.
Weight: 3,340 grams
Length: 50 cm.
Name: Anthony.
Constellation: Sun, Mercury, Ascendent in Taurus, Neptune and Chiron in Midheaven with Saturn lurking from below. Together with Lilith nearly a Star of David. Uranus and Mars, two wild guys on the loose, challenging the establishment already, opposing Jupiter squarely. Venus, Lilith, and Neptune are forming a triangle, with Jupiter Retro a 'kite'.
Big smiles everywhere around here. A great thanks to Dr.Leboyer for his inspirations and promotions of Natural Child Birth, to Gary Craig, creator and relentless promoter of EFT which played a vital role in today's success story, to Vilma Nishi, considered the 'top-of-the-line' midwife in Sao Paulo, and to the daddy of Anthony who helped immensively.
Did I mention Heloisa Helena's heroic role in all of this? A work of Hercules. Beyond words.
Thanks to the Orisha who worked overtime to ensure a safe arrival (all of them!), and to all our friends in the world who called or e-mail with their best wishes!
And, of course, new Mama Maira who laboured all the time throughout Labour Day (May 1st) to deliver in time for Vesakh 2007! More >
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2 May 2007 @ 00:58, by swanny. Knowledge Management
May 1, 2007
Tuesday
Earth
Evening
I guess in the end there is only this sad truth...
that we, humanity, the human race, were never really a worthy
or fit species for such wonderous and beautious place
such as this Earth.
It is over.
Alfred G. Jonas More >
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1 May 2007 @ 16:35, by vaxen. Philosophy
Eureka! (as the ancients put it)
When a medieval scribe 'recycled' ancient manuscripts to make a prayer book, his pious work obscured significant texts. Now yet another jewel has been revealed, reports Andy McSmith
Published: 30 April 2007
If you must write a book, and have no access to a computer, you really should start on a blank sheet of paper. But paper, or papyrus, was in short supply when a scribe named John Myronas, was compiling a prayer book, 778 years ago. So he took some old books that nobody seemed to need any more, scrubbed off the text, and recycled the pages.
His prayer book, or Euchologion, is moderately interesting to students of ancient manuscripts. But with all due respect to Myronas, it is nowhere near as significant as the old texts that he wiped out, whose traces are just about legible in the parchment. Those hidden works have now turned his book into one of the most valuable and extraordinary literary properties in the world.
To the astonishment of experts, the old Greek prayer book has thrown up yet another unique buried treasure. More >
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 29 Apr 2007 @ 20:10, by skookum. Farming
In my wild back yard grew an amazing assortment of things that 'volunteered' as my dear mother would have said. I made a passing wish that I had a fig. Voila...there is a fig growing...and I didn't even plant it. My Cherry tree is laden, my grape vines are meandering everywhere. More >
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29 Apr 2007 @ 10:24, by swanny. Spirituality
April 29, 2007
Sunday
Earth
Is Humanity Insecure?
What is humanity trying to proove or gain by all its exploits or are we simply fumbling in the dark of our insecurity or are we perhaps simply insignificantly complex or then again are we simply insecure because we seem alone in the Universe and have all our eggs in the basket of the earth.
This thread sort of ties three previous ones together. The consumer identity one. The new Earth one and the Human stupidity one.
I quess if I were to analyis the situation I would say yes human nature and humanity itself is basically insecure and perhaps or perhaps not with good reason. Or maybe its all of Mammality but we do the things we do in a sort of blind groping to gain some sense of our own value, power and worth. We make good and bad inventions in efforts to claim some kind of authority and credibility in the world and in the Universe because looking at us we see our aloneness and insignificance in the board Unverse. We are stupid out of blind insignificance, we surround ourselves and identities with material things to nullify our insecurity. yet at the same time we or some reach out to find ? some affirmation or confirmation in the Universe.
Hence the significance of Aprilla or Gliese 581c, the New Earth.
It is not totally necessary any longer to be totally insecure because we have a sign or affirmation of a sort that we are not alone here. Mammality is not alone in the Universe or less alone than it was.
So what does that mean... well it should be like finding a long lost brother we have now an opportunity to see ourselves in this. To find the sense of security we may have unconsciously been groping for. We have a new mirror of sorts and new place or companion in the Universe so we no longer need to be stupid or blind or materialistic or consumptive. We don't have to continue in our insecure and such ways.
Does anyone sort of grasp or understand this?
ed More >
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 28 Apr 2007 @ 17:45, by jhs. Economics, Financing, Banking
Antonio Gramsci died yesterday, 70 years ago, in Rome.
A post of Mino reminded me of that.
Gramsci realized already in the 30's of last century that the public meme are equally, if not more important, than the distribution of means of production and the memes of the 'historic process' and the 'economic determinism'.
He postulated that any class to survive must form its own 'historic bloc' via a cultural hegemony to survive the values impounded by the 'ruling class' on the masses.
To create an Internet space as an experiment to facilitate the vision of a new society, Flemming (and I) created the New Civilization Network in 1995, hosting the first server in my home in the Hollywood Hills. It was running Linux, which one could call a powerful expression of 'technological hegemony', as, in general, the Open Source movement.
We see the power of a new 'cultural hegemony' realized today, 60 years after his death, in the from of the Internet, and especially the BLOGs which have developed a power of its own, bypassing the manipulation via the controlled 'media'.
If he would live today, I am SURE, he would have one of the best BLOGs around.
I'll have a toast on him tonight :-) More >
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 28 Apr 2007 @ 07:49, by skookum. Ideas, Creativity
one for the road...
pic (c) by my daughter Krystal More >
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27 Apr 2007 @ 19:17, by a-d. Counseling, Psychology
Hi all friends on NCN. I am posting this article on Autism, since so many people are affected by this MAN-induced disorder,forced upon Children, in the name of Pharma Profits -and Mind Control, mind you!.....
I found this Report/Article here:
[link]
Throwing children into oncoming traffic: The truth about Autism
By: Kenneth Stoller, MD, FAAP with Anne McElroy Dachel
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007
I have been a practicing pediatrician for over 20 years. I saw my first child with autism in the early 90’s – before that I had never seen an autistic child, and I never saw an autistic child in all my years at school. The boy was 4 years old and you could see the frustration in his face as he wanted to speak but nothing intelligible would come from his mouth except shrieks of anguish.
As I studied his tortured face, it was as if there was an old time telephone switchboard operator inside his head trying to plug in the correct phone cables but not being able to complete the call. This family had known me from an old practice I worked at in another city, but they had traveled to see me because they trusted me and were looking for answers that no one seemed to have for them, but I too had no answers and I could see the mom was greatly disappointed. After the family left my office I poured over a few dusty textbooks and wondered if I had just seen a very rare disorder, a disorder that affected one child in 10,000 children…autism.
I had been involved in pediatrics for a decade by the time I saw this boy and it wasn’t as if I had no experience working with rare disorders. I had been able to identify a boy with Fragile-X syndrome and his mom ending up starting the Fragile-X support group at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles.
I had noticed there was a strange upswing in children with attention disorders and impulsivity problems. I wasn’t a neurologist, but had studied with one of the finest at UCLA. While I was still a pediatric resident I spent time in his office where he helped me study the parade of unusual maladies that was starting to afflict children. I considered myself a closet neurologist, because that was what I had really wanted to specialize in – not pediatrics, but during my neurology rotation in medical school I learned some discouraging news. The attending neurologist, whom I greatly admired, had taken me on rounds for the first time and I watched him brilliantly explain to the family of a stroke patient how he had figured out where in the brain the blood clot had lodged. Then he stood up and walked out of the room and I asked him what therapy he was going to prescribe for the patient so he could recover from his stroke, “therapy?” he said, “there is no therapy.” More >
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26 Apr 2007 @ 16:23, by bushman. History, Ancient World
Another intresting find, pointing out that climate change is a natural process. That humans are not suposed to stay in one place. If you could see over time humans are like the Sandpipers, chasing the waves and running away from the waves.
Yes, it must of been anciant man and his camp fires that started the end of the iceage 10,000 years ago, lol. What Im saying is that in this artical link below, they want to preserve what has already been distroyed, when man has to realize that he must move, and rebuild his civalizations on top of far more anciant ones of the past. We must move with nature but not forget we are humans. 2 schools of thought, live like animals with no fire no tech at all, or evolve the tech so we can one day, live in space.
[link] More >
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 26 Apr 2007 @ 15:56, by ming. Technology
Earlier I was lamenting my lack of success in having a browser that works for me on my Mac. But I hadn't seriously tried OmniWeb, and it was sort of the only remaining browser after Firefox, Opera and Safari. I hadn't given it much attention, because it is the lesser known, and it isn't free. Only $14.95, which is perfectly alright, but that was enough of an obstacle that I hadn't seriously tried it.
And, as it turns out, OmniWeb is the only browser that solves my showstopping problems. Mainly that if I use the other browsers the way that comes naturally to me, at the end of the day my machine would have slowed to a grinding halt, and I see the spinning beachball for several seconds no matter what I push. There are other things that are nice to have, but that in itself far outweighs all the other concerns.
Part of the secret is that OmniWeb has several separate Workspaces. That is, one can have collections of windows and tabs, and they're kept separate from one another. So, I can have 30 sites open without them all showing at the same time and the one with bad javascript slowing everything down. I see just the windows and tabs I'm working on. When I switch out of a workspace, it still keeps running for an hour or so, so if I went back to it, it would be there instantly. If it is longer than an hour, it would need to load the pages again, but everything would still come back like I left it, rather quickly.
After two weeks of using it, I haven't had that slowdown experience at all. So, they must be doing something right in terms of managing resources.
OmniWeb has a system of "tabs" which aren't like tabs in the other browsers. Not little folder tabs along the top. Rather, they're small snapshots showing in a sidebar to the left. Which is a bit odd as far as tabs go, but it actually works very well.
There'd still be a bunch of things I'd miss from FireFox, like the FireBug javascript debugger, and various other plugins and add-ons for dealing with pictures, showing Google PageRank and things like that. But the other thing that really irritated me with Firefox - that a download of any file would take 10 seconds to start, freezing all activity in the meantime - no problem like that in OmniWeb. Opera and Safari don't have that problem either.
OmniWeb uses the same engine for rendering pages as Safari, the built-in Apple WebKit, which seems to work fine. More >
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