Our perception shapes the lives we lead because the universe adjusts itself almost instantly to our expectations. When we look for negativity, we are bound to come across it in abundance. Conversely, we create positive energy when we endeavor to see the goodness around us. As easy as it is to criticize the people and situations that frustrate or hurt us, we do ourselves a disservice in the process. It is important to see the good in all as there are blessings hiding in every aspect of our outer-world reality, and the potential for grace exists in all human beings. When our lives are flooded with challenges, grief, and pain, we may be tempted to believe that some individuals or incidents are simply bad. But if we look for the good in all, good reveals itself to us, easing our doubts and reminding us that the universe is a place of balance.


There is a perceptible energetic shift that takes place when we choose to see the good in all. The unnecessary tension that came into being when we dwelled on negativity fades away and is replaced by sympathetic tolerance. We can forgive those that have wronged us because we recognize in them traits we admire, and we may even discover that we can bring out the good in one another. Though loss still grieves us, we recognize the beginning of a new phase of existence that abounds with fresh opportunities. Each new challenge becomes another chance to prove ourselves, and we learn to show great patience in the face of difficulty. There are few pleasures greater than gazing outward and seeing beauty, wisdom, and harmony. These are the attributes of the universe that help us to cope when we encounter their opposing forces.


Since you create your reality, you make your world a better place each time you acknowledge the good in your circumstances and in the people you encounter. As you draw attention to the positive aspects of the world around you, your understanding of the affirmative nature of all existence will grow. There are few lessons you will learn in this life that will prove as instrumental to your happiness and satisfaction. In appreciating the all pervasive goodness that exists in the universe, you internalize it, making it a lasting part of your life.


What do you think?

Since our lives are constantly in motion energetically, change is a constant element of our existence. As dynamic as that energy is, it is not random or haphazard in nature—the shifts in energy that are constantly taking place are the result of our choices. The formulation of intention, a change in perspective, or the creation of a goal can transform our lives in blink of an eye. We think positive thoughts and the world becomes a brighter place. Or we decide who we want to be and become that person. With each passing moment, we are given innumerable opportunities to create change using nothing more than our awareness.

In the span of a single second, our lives can change immeasurably because energy moves at a pace more rapid than anything we can consciously fathom. Though we may not at first be sensitive to the vibrational shifts taking place, our choices are ultimately at the heart of these transformations. We can typically recognize the consequences of key decisions because we anticipated the resultant energetic shifts. But many, if not most, of the choices we make each day are a product of instantaneous reactions, and these still have a significant impact on the energy of our existence. It is for this reason that we should learn to wield what control we can over these shifts. If we bear in mind that all we think and all we do will shape the existence we know, we can deliberately direct the energetic motion of our lives.

Each day, you make an infinite array of decisions that cause energy shifts in the world around you. In many cases, these transitions are almost imperceptible, while in others the change that takes place is palpable not only to you but also to those in your sphere of influence. Your awareness of the immediate energetic consequences of your thoughts and actions can guide you as you endeavor to make the most of the autonomy that defines you as an individual. The myriad choices you make from moment to moment, however inconsequential they may seem, represent your personal power, which sanctions you to transform the energetic tide of your existence with nothing more than your will.

What do you think?

There are times when our whole world seems to be falling apart around us, and we are not sure what to hold onto anymore. Sometimes our relationships crumble and sometimes it's our physical environment. At other times, we can't put our finger on it, but we feel as if all the walls have fallen down around us and we are standing with nothing to lean on, exposed and vulnerable. These are the times in our lives when we are given an opportunity to see where we have established our sense of identity, safety, and well-being. And while it is perfectly natural and part of our process to locate our sense of self in externals, any time those external factors shift, we have an opportunity to rediscover and move closer to our core, which is the only truly safe place to call home.

The core of our being is not affected by the shifting winds of circumstance or subject to the cycles of change that govern physical reality. It is as steady and consistent as the sun, which is why the great mystics and mystical poets often reference the sun in their odes to the self. Like the sun, there are times when our core seems to be inaccessible to us, but this is just a misperception. We know that when the sun goes behind a cloud or sets for the night, it has not disappeared but is simply temporarily out of sight. In the same way, we can trust that our inner core is always shining brightly, even when we cannot quite see it.

We can cling to this core when things around us are falling apart, knowing that an inexhaustible light shines from within ourselves. Times of external darkness can be a great gift in that they provide an opportunity to remember this inner light that shines regardless of the circumstances of our lives. When our external lives begin to come back together, we are able to lean a bit more lightly on the structures we used to call home, knowing more clearly than ever that our true home is that bright sun shining in our core.

What do you think?

Had a good friend of mine talked about the devil today and it made me think about my beleifs on the "devil" aka "satan. This is my take on it.

I consider myself a christian, non-denominational. "Religions are man's inventions not God's intentions." But as a Christian I also do not believe in Satan, per say.

All the bad and evil on earth is not created by satan,  it's created by man. Satan is a figment of man's imagination.

We have the choice of right and wrong, we have the choice of thoughts and control over them. There are  people born with a chemical imbalances that are evil and then there are evil people who are just plain ol' evil. This could be because of their environment and/or their upbringing. Having no morals or values is learned. Just like knowing right from wrong and the difference between black and blue.

To me satan is man's way of blaming someone or something for behaviours, thoughts and emotions that we can not explain, refuse to understand or make reason of.

 

It's like the old saying..."The Devil made me do it." NOT!

That's me on satan. What ur opinion?

Peace

When we learn to enjoy the diversity that is a natural quality of humanity as a whole, we are more apt to reach out into the vast unknown to explore how people from other lands and other cultures perceive and respond to the world around them. Though these differences can divide us from one another, they also provide us with a means of coming together in friendship. The curiosity we feel when contemplating alternate or opposing attitudes and beliefs can prompt us to reach out to others so that we may learn more about these variations. If we respond with tolerance when confronted with diversity, we learn that there are many equally successful ways of understanding existence and coping with the rigors of occupying our earthly forms. Today your unbiased view of humanity will help you relate to a wide variety of people so that you can effectively broaden your horizons. What do you think?

NA Na Hey Hey say goodbye to free email service.

I am totally outraged! How can ISP service providers now start charging for  "guaranteed" email delivery? They set up the consumer to get use to free email service, which most of us now depend on to get letters from relatives, loved ones, friends and for business, then they turn around and start charging. Greed, like ISP providers aren't making enough money already? This is a bunch of horse manure!!!!

Goodmail Systems Announces Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, Verizon to Support Certifiedmail

Five of Nation's Top Five ISPs to Provide Email that Visibly Marks Real Messages from Known Senders

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 7, 2007 — Goodmail Systems, Inc. today announced that Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner and Verizon are supporting the company's Certifiedmail trusted class email for users of their email services. Certified Email messages are certified to be authentic email from legitimate senders and are specially marked with a blue ribbon envelope so that consumers know which commercial and non-profit emails in their inbox are real. Already in operation at AOL and Yahoo!, the addition of these new partners means the Certified Email standard will be in use at all five of the nation's top five ISPs.

Introduced in 2006, Certified Email is a trusted-class delivery option offered only to qualifying, legitimate commercial and non-profit emailers for messages to existing customers and users who have specifically opted in to receive such communications. Once accredited by Goodmail, these senders' email messages are delivered with cryptographically secure tokens which participating ISPs detect. Certified Email messages are labeled with a unique blue ribbon icon in the email program, enabling consumers to immediately distinguish the legitimate messages they want to receive from messages of unknown authenticity or safety. Today's announcement follows a national poll that indicated the majority of consumers would be more likely to open and read email if the sending company displays a certified icon in the email program.

"With spam and phishing hitting historic highs even in the last six months, we have seen the limits of technologies which attempt to filter out the bad email," said Goodmail co-founder and CEO Richard Gingras. "Consumers want their email system to let them know which email is real and safe to open and act on. They want an end to the frustration of having to guess whether an email is real or not. These ISPs – and the senders that send Certified Email – care about their customers' safety."

Users of participating ISPs need do nothing extra to receive Certified Email. Their existing webmail programs that they currently use to read email will simply show a new icon, a blue ribbon envelope, that means a message is a Certified Email. The icon appears in both the inbox list view and in a special pane above the message when opened. The blue ribbon icon is universal across all ISPs and mailbox providers supporting Certified Email.

"As the nation's leading residential broadband Internet service provider, Comcast has always provided state-of-the-art, comprehensive security solutions as a valuable benefit to its customers and Certified Email now offers a unique means of assuring consumers of the legitimacy of their email being generated by Certified Email senders," said Mitch Bowling, SVP and General Manager of Online Services at Comcast. "We are delighted to be working with Goodmail Systems, as Certified Email will be a great addition to the SmartZone communications center that we'll be launching later this year."

"Protecting Cox High Speed Internet users from phishing scams and email fraud is an ongoing challenge," said Dallas Clement, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Product Management at Cox Communications. "Certified Email is a vital piece of the spam filtering solution – the special marking of known 'good' messages in the inbox. Rolling out the Goodmail service is just another way that we're providing the innovative tools and resources Internet users need to make the most of their online experience."

"The users of Time Warner Cable's Road Runner email service need an easy, standard, reliable way to determine message legitimacy," said Steve Cook, Group Vice President, High-Speed Online & Road Runner for Time Warner Cable. "Goodmail Certified Email provides just that. Our users want us to take the initiative in determining which messages are safe, and this solution enables that."

"Certified Email is part of an extensive suite of services that Verizon uses to help protect its customers from spam and other email abuse," said Peter Castleton, director of Verizon Consumer Broadband Services. "The problem of phishing and fraud erodes trust in email. A certification service, such as Certified Email, enables us to help restore that trust and makes it easier for consumers to identify legitimate email messages."

The new ISPs bring to a total of seven the number of consumer services supporting Certified Email in North America and represent approximately 60% of consumer email users. The new partners will implement the system over the course of 2007.

Available in North America since May 2006, Certified Email is Goodmail system for enabling a secure class of trusted email that assures consumer recipients of a message's authenticity and a sender's legitimacy, while providing qualifying volume senders trusted-class privileges such as 100% assured delivery of email messages past content and volume filters and automatic rendering of links and images by default.

About Goodmail Systems
Goodmail created and markets Certified Email, a unique trusted class of email, to provide a safe and reliable means for consumers to identify authentic messages from legitimate volume senders. The Certified Email service is the only system of its kind that assures delivery of opt-in email with all links and images automatically rendered intact. Developed to restore trust between volume senders and individuals, Certified Email imprints messages with cryptographically secure tokens that certify email authenticity and legitimacy. Available only to senders meeting strict standards for best email practices and low complaint rates, Certified Email messages are presented to users with a unique blue-ribbon icon, providing a measure of security against phishing. Recent case study data from national online retailers and financial senders show click-through rates and email business results (logins, sales) improved by up to 25 percent when using Certified Email. Certified Email is supported by seven leading mailbox providers in North America and the United Kingdom as well as a wide network of industry leading email platforms, security solutions, and email service providers. For more information, please visit www.goodmailsystems.com.

Schwartz Communications, Inc.
415-512-0770

goodmail@schwartz-pr.com

Here comes the end of using anyone else but photobucket for hosting any comments and/or pictures that are used on myspace.

LAS VEGAS/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - MySpace, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NYSE:news), has reached a preliminary deal to acquire Photobucket, the world's top photo-sharing site, for around $250 million in cash, a source familiar with the deal said on Monday.

Photobucket functions like a kind of Swiss bank for depositing and transmitting photos, helping Web users post their photos on other social networking sites, instead of trying to keep the users locked up on its own site.

Besides MySpace, Photobucket is popular on sites such as Facebook, Bebo, Friendster, eBay, Craigslist, Blogger and Xanga.

While hardly known outside the youthful world of social network sites, Photobucket has become wildly popular with users for providing free, online storage tools for multimedia self-expression, from photos to videos to digital slideshows. Site builders turn to it for images to decorate their sites.

The four-year-old startup, based in Palo Alto, California, has signed up 41 million registered users, up from 32 million at the end of last year and 2 million in 2004. It now hosts nearly 2.8 billion images on the site.

Spokesmen for Photobucket and MySpace were not available to comment on the deal.

The agreement with MySpace, the world's top online meeting place and part of NewsCorp.'s Fox Interactive online business, is tentative and could still fall apart, the source cautioned.

The site was founded in the suburbs of Denver by two young telecoms engineers at Level 3 Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:news), Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, in the wake of the dot-com downturn. The two came up with the idea of providing a simple, less commercial alternative to existing photo sharing sites.

Welch, 30, the chief executive, said in a recent interview he ran the site on credit cards for the first six months until its popularity forced him to borrow money from his parents. He made do without venture capital until it was a proven success.

Eventually, Photobucket raised $2.5 million in initial financing from Trinity Ventures and another $10.5 million from a group of investors led by Trinity a year ago. It eventually moved to Silicon Valley and now counts more than 65 employees.

Photobucket holds a nearly 40 percent share of the U.S. online photo market, nearly four times more than second-ranked Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:news), according to audience measurement firm Hitwise Inc. It was the 22nd most visited U.S. site overall last week.

It recently struck a deal with top design software maker Adobe Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:news) to supply its users with free tools to edit, or "remix," images on its site. Its growth is fuelled by users who link to its photos from 300,000 Internet sites.

But Photobucket's growth has been largely symbiotic with that of MySpace, functioning as a kind of outsourced provider of photo services to MySpace users.

Nearly 60 percent of Photobucket site traffic comes from users leaving MySpace properties, Hitwise click data shows. Photobucket is the third most popular destination for MySpace users after Google and Yahoo, according to Hitwise statistics.

That relationship has proved rocky: Last month, MySpace blocked traffic from its site to Photobucket after a dispute over technical issues led MySpace to accuse Photobucket of violating the social network site's service terms.

On April 10, Photobucket posted a statement on its blog that attacked MySpace for limiting the freedom of its users to connect to outside sites such as Photobucket.

"By severely restricting this freedom, MySpace is showing that it considers you as a commodity which it can treat as it sees fit," the Photobucket statement said.

Two weeks later, on April 23, Welch said his company had talked to MySpace and resolved the dispute.

"We've established open lines of communication and procedures with MySpace to prevent a sudden block of Photobucket content in the future," he wrote at the time. Welch was not available to comment on the sudden turnaround.

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