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What's happening in this administration regarding military secrets and compromise of valuable intelligence is a disgrace.
Not only is it a disgrace, it's putting our brave military and intelligence professionals at risk. It needs to stop. Whatever selfish motive these leakers have, it translates to treason. To bring attention to this serious matter, a number of our veteran Special Operations heroes, who have served our proud military in remarkable ways, are coming to this area to speak out. The participating organizations are Special Operations for America, Special Ops Operational Security Education Foundation (OPSEC), and Veterans for a Strong America.
This outstanding presentation will be held at Sandestin's Linkside Exhibit Hall on Sunday, Oct. 28, at 3 p.m. Their voices will tell us how concerned and disturbed they are with the current administration and the direction of our country with regard to its many security leaks and compromised intelligence that betray our military and intelligence communities.
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Svelte as the iPhone 4/4S is, Apple's decision to go with chemically-strengthened glass for its back case has left many shattered iPhone owners down in the dumps. Rumor has it the next sixth-gen iPhone will be crafted from scratch-resistant Liquidmetal.
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ETNews cites the use of Liquidmetal as a possibility because of the material's strong resistance to scratching and light weight that could lead to thinner iPhones.
History lesson: Apple bought exclusive worldwide rights to use Liquidmetal's alloy technologies in 2010. Apple's since only used only used Liquidmetal to build its SIM card ejector pins. BORING. Liquidmetal is strong and light. It's perfect for iPhones, iPads and MacBook Pros.
MacRumors cautions that ETNews has been incorrect on iPhone rumors before, so take the news with a grain of salt.
I've discussed the benefits of Apple using Liquidmetal before as well as using other materials, but until Apple reveals a new iPhone, it's all speculation.
What do you want from the next iPhone? What kind of casing? Aluminum? Liquidmetal? Titanium? Carbon fiber? Plastic again?


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Tesla is laying off thousands of workers in an effort to turn a profit. CEO Elon Musk confirmed that 9% of the electric car maker's workforce would be given pink slips. That amounts to about 4,000 people. Musk explained in an email to employees that being profitable hasn't been the company's goal, but it's necessary if they hope to drive the world into a new era of clean energy. Tesla has never made an annual profit in its 15 years of existence.
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Today, Carnegie Mellon University published a research study titled "A Survey of the Use of Adobe Flash Local Shared Objects to Respawn HTTP Cookies." I referenced this study in a blog post in December on the topic of the Federal Trade Commission's preliminary privacy report released on December 1, 2010.
Some Background Behind the Study
Let me provide some background: Over the last 18 months, there have been a number of discussions around the alleged misuse of Adobe Flash Player local storage (or local shared objects, LSOs, in the public often referred to as "Flash cookies") and the potential impact of this misuse on consumer privacy. The allegations have been that certain websites or ad networks use LSOs to restore browser cookies after users have chosen to clear their cookies (a process referred to as "browser cookie respawning").
Adobe has actively participated in industry discussions on the topic and submitted an official comment to the Federal Trade Commission in preparation for the second FTC roundtable discussion on privacy last year, clearly stating our position on this misuse of local storage and the steps Adobe is taking to provide better privacy protection for consumers. In the comment to the FTC, we also confirmed our commitment to supporting research into the types and extent of the misuse of local storage. The Carnegie Mellon University study released today reflects that commitment.
About the Carnegie Mellon University Study
Adobe commissioned the Carnegie Mellon University research study in 2010 to follow up on the findings about misuses of Flash Player local storage detailed in a research paper released by the University of California at Berkeley in 2009. The Carnegie Mellon University study, performed by Aleecia M. McDonald and Lorrie Faith Cranor with assistance provided by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), was designed to determine the prevalence of the use of Flash Player local storage to respawn browser cookies. The study examined 600 websites based on Quantcast's ranked list of the million most popular websites visited by United States Internet users—the 100 most popular sites and 500 randomly selected sites.
Study Results: Browser Cookie Respawning May be Waning
The study results suggest respawning is not increasing and may be waning. No instances of respawning were found in the randomly-selected group of 500 websites, and only two instances of respawning were found in the 100 most popular websites. The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) followed up with the two companies, whose websites showed HTTP cookie respawning using LSOs. Both companies have stopped the practice—one on their own and one as a result of this study.
This is good news! Adobe proactively encourages our customers to use all Adobe products in responsible, ethical ways. While the nature of providing tools for an open platform means that we cannot, in practice and on principle, control how developers and content producers use our products, these results demonstrate that the vast majority of websites, developers and content producers use local storage capabilities for their intended purpose—to provide a better user experience.
The study found LSOs with unique content and made the assumption that it could be storing user IDs; however, it notes that not all unique content is used for identifying computers. Unique content could be benign, for example, uniquely identifying where a user paused a specific animation or music clip. Tracking users is of concern from a privacy perspective, but further insight would be needed to understand the extent to which local storage is used for the purpose of uniquely identifying and tracking computers or individuals. The study does conclude that even assuming a pessimistic worst case scenario in which all websites showing LSOs with unique content were using it to track users, the absolute number of websites doing so would be small and the overall percentage of all sites studied using LSOs to track users would be low.
Stakeholder Recommendations
The Carnegie Mellon University study also examines which steps stakeholders—Adobe included—might be able to take to further reduce privacy-sensitive practices. Privacy has become an increasingly significant topic. It's important to recognize that privacy is not a static concept. As technology and the way we engage with it evolve, the privacy discussion will evolve. Adobe is committed to the consumer's right to privacy, and we have taken and will continue to take appropriate steps with regards to safeguarding user privacy in our tools and policies. Our goal is to put consumers in control by enabling informed choices. The recently introduced privacy-related enhancements in Adobe Flash Player demonstrate that commitment.
Adobe Initiatives to Improve Privacy Options for Users of Adobe Flash Flayer
In June 2010, we released Adobe Flash Player 10.1 with support for the private browsing feature found in many Web browsers. When users activate private browsing in their browser, Flash Player will not save any of their information from that session.
Adobe has also been working with major browser vendors to develop effective approaches that allow users to control local storage in Flash Player directly from their browser privacy settings. Today, Google Chrome already provides access to Flash Player local storage settings from within the browser's privacy controls. Our collaboration with representatives from several key companies—including Mozilla and Google—to define a new browser API for clearing local data takes this effort a step further: A new API for clearing local data (NPAPI ClearSiteData) was approved for implementation on January 5, 2011. Any browser that implements the API will be able to clear local storage for any plugin that also implements the API. The capability to clear Adobe Flash Player local storage from within the Google Chrome browser should be available on the Google Chrome dev channel in the coming weeks. Similar controls for other browsers should be available in the coming months. Once the browsers have included this feature in their settings, users will be able to control the clearing of their HTTP cookies and their plugin local storage in one place. This should also discourage the use of LSOs to respawn or to track users.
Additionally, we are currently working on aredesign of the Flash Player Settings Manager, which is expected to be available in the first half of the year. This redesign will make it simpler for users to understand and manage their Flash Player settings and privacy preferences. In addition, we will enable users to more easily find the Flash Player Settings Manager by providing access to it directly from the computer's Control Panels or System Preferences on Windows, Mac and Linux.
For details on these upcoming privacy enhancements in Adobe Flash Player, see a recent blog post by Emmy Huang, group product manager for Flash Player, titled "On Improving Privacy: Managing Local Storage in Flash Player."
The Carnegie Mellon University study released today recognizes some of our initiatives and introduces additional suggestions, which we will carefully evaluate. Privacy is an important topic. We are dedicated to including privacy controls in our products and services. And we look forward to continuing to play an active role in the privacy discussion as it evolves.
MeMe Jacobs Rasmussen
Chief Privacy Officer
Adobe Systems Incorporated


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|I think this is 'Cinco de Mayo' with Clematis 'Nellie Moser.'
|Phygelius 'Cherry Ripe'
|Pelargonium 'Apple Blossom'
|Rosa 'Purple Tiger'
|Verbascum 'Southern Charm'
|I think this is 'Cinco de Mayo' with Clematis 'Nellie Moser.'
|Phygelius 'Cherry Ripe'
|Pelargonium 'Apple Blossom'
|Rosa 'Purple Tiger'
|Verbascum 'Southern Charm'
Seriously, hasn't this weather been crazy! I was annoyed that the heavy snow last night (with the rain) really did a number on the garden...most of the plants I leave up for winter interest were bent...many snapped cleanly off! Oh well. I love that Verbascum...it's totally on my seed list for this year...so perfect with those subtle, muted colors!ReplyDelete
That's a relief. I thought that rose was still blooming in your garden.ReplyDelete
Grace girl thank you for the "tag" and I think I will have to post more flowers from last year too .. even though this winter started late .. it's affects are impacting to say the least?
My goodness I love your flowers girl !
That pelargonium is gorgeous , the shot makes it look like a multitude of tiny roses .. the variation in colour for each flowerett ? is amazing .. I am going to have to find this one for sure !
'Cinco de Mayo" rose is also a stunner .. this has put me in a FLOWER Power mood for sure : )
Thanks girl !
Joy : )
More beautiful blooms from your gardens. Pretty soon they will be blooming for you again this year.
Wish we would get some rain, we really need it.
Have a great weekend ~ FlowerLady
I hadn't been over here for a little while, still trying to catch up. I did a little changing of things on my blog page and I think we are both using the same script font for the post title, nice look! ;-)
The weather the PNW has been getting has been quite newsworthy. Know Texas would love a little of your water now!!
Love that Apple Blossom Pelagorium
Hi Grace - sorry to hear about the wet weather. We're having a crazy winter also - hardly any snow and when it does arrive, it's rained out a couple days later. Really bad for our perennials because they are used to a thick covering for insulation against the cold.
And I'm with Kelly (above) - thought that rose was still blooming. Shame, it's a beauty as is the verbascum.
This weather is pretty challenging, all right! I just posted about a few injuries to my garden from Wednesday night's snow — luckily, none of them fatal, I think.
So thank you for lightening things up with this taste of summer. I'm generally not much of a pelargonium fan, but 'Apple Blossom' is stunning and you captured it at a perfect point. I do like verbascum, and 'Southern Charm' is exactly that!
Grace, this sure is wacky weather we are having. Thanks for the lovely flower pictures to remind us of the wonderful color we have to look forward to.ReplyDelete
We've been hearing about your weather here Grace! At least every day we are inching our way toward spring, right?
Your flower photos are beautiful ~ can't wait till it's time to see them IRL!!! Stay dry!
I was trying to think who all I knew that was in the path of that snow storm. Hope you enjoy it. LOL! I know not do much huh?
What a beautiful picture of the Cinco de Mayo rose. I wondered also what those Purple Tiger roses looked like. Now I know and I love it.
Do you still have your Apple Blossom geranium? So far my red Rosebud double like it is still growing in the kitchen window. Would you like a start off of it when it warms up?
Well if it warms up and rains I hope you do not get any old ice.
So nice to see such cheerful blooms in winter. Loved seeing the flower photos! I'm anxious for spring.ReplyDelete
I just read not more than 5 minutes ago that more bad weather is headed to th PNW, is that right? Your flower photos are gorgeous Gracie...do be careful out there on those roads!ReplyDelete
Grace I can't get over the verbascum...summer is the only time to see it here...we are fine with water...we finally have a bit of snow cover and lots of cold...warm here is 40. Stay dryReplyDelete
Just stopping by to make sure you aren't one of those up in the PNW without power and hating it, with a tree on your roof. Whew.ReplyDelete
yeah, it's sort of a must to check the weather these days for us too! I always love your photos of flowers. :)ReplyDelete
Gorgeous, Grace! Thanks for adding color and warmth to my dreary, grey day!!ReplyDelete
Lots of weather weirdness here, too. Ice one day, almost 60 the next. I love your Apple Blossom geraniums. Beautiful!!!ReplyDelete
Yes, the winter weather has been wacky. I am ready for spring to arrive and be done with wanting the cold get here so the warm can follow. I enjoyed seeing your blooms.ReplyDelete
Such a cheerful post for a rainy week! Beautiful flowers!ReplyDelete


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Last week, leaders from the CFP Board, including CEO Kevin Keller, board of directors chair Nancy Kistner and chair-elect Ray Ferrara, traveled to the FPA Retreat conference and NAPFA's national spring conference. The purpose of the visit was not just to participate in the conference itself or check out the latest growth of the organizations; instead, it was to gauge support from these gatherings of the experienced planner community for a potential new initiative: the CFP Board is considering whether it should begin to offer CFP Continuing Education (CE) credit to its certificants, going into direct competition with the CE sponsors it is simultaneously responsible for overseeing, in an effort to raise the quality of CFP CE.
Not surprisingly, given the fiduciary focus of both FPA and NAPFA members and the efforts of the respective organizations on the Financial Planning Coalition—which is currently making the lobbying case for why a conflicted organization like FINRA should not be allowed to oversee registered investment advisors—planners from both groups were negative on the proposal, citing the blatant conflict of interest involved if the CFP Board were to compete with those it regulates.
While at this point, the reality is that this is just a preliminary discussion, and not even a substantively drafted proposal issued for comment, it nonetheless raises a more substantive question. Specifically, is this really the best idea the CFP Board has regarding how to improve the quality of CFP CE? Or does this proposal rather represent a strategic first step towards something more far reaching, like going into direct membership association competition with the FPA and NAPFA themselves?
Will the CFP Board back away from the proposal given the nearly unanimous negative feedback thus far, or will it further tip its hand in pursuing a new strategic initiative?
The Current State of CFP Continuing Education
Unfortunately, the reality is that the current state of CFP continuing education is far from ideal. In recent years, the CFP Board has increased its scrutiny when reviewing presentation materials submitted for consideration, but arguably the net result has simply been to frustrate a lot of well-intentioned educators and conference organizers, while actually punishing few wrongdoers.
After all, while the CFP Board may reject a presentation for questionable or overtly product- or sales-centric material on a presenter's slides, there's nothing to stop a speaker from presenting with a "clean" slide deck and just using the microphone to sell directly from the podium. In fact, savvy product sponsors have long since figured out that as long as the slides are simple and apparently objective, there are few repercussions if any to delivering a thinly veiled sales pitched—sometimes, hardly veiled at all— in the middle of a presentation. At worst, the event organizers simply don't invite the company or speaker back again, which is of little concern since there are dozens and hundreds of either CE events to abuse.
This problematic state of affairs was echoed clearly during the comment period in response to the CFP Board's proposal to increase the number of required CFP CE credits from 30 every two years up to 40; the organization received a record-breaking 1,100 comments in response to the proposal, of which 85% opposed the increase.
The dominating theme of the negative feedback was clear when perusing the public comments themselves: certificants saw little value in an increase in the continuing education requirements when the current state of CE was already of such low quality. That suggests that if the CFP Board wants to lift the number of required CFP CE hours—arguably necessary if financial planning will ultimately be recognized as a profession, as the CE requirements for planners are woefully behind other professionals like CPAs—it first needs to clean up the quality of the education itself.
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May 23, 2013
By Kenneth Miller
Assistant Managing Editor
Los Angeles City Councilman Eric Garcetti's two-year campaign to become the next mayor became reality Tuesday when he defeated Controller Wendy Greuel in the most expensive race in city history. Greuel was denied the opportunity to be the first woman elected mayor in the city of Los Angeles.
As neither candidate clearly distinguished the differences they had in policy making, the election hinged on the voter turnout and the African American vote, but ultimately the deciding factor was the swing Republican or conservative voters who rallied behind Garcetti after the endorsement of primary Republican opponent Kevin James.
As the ballots began to come in, Greuel spurted to slim early return but as the night grew long the margin had vanished after more than 14 percent of the precincts were tabulated. Garcetti overcame a 50 to 49 percent deficit to take a commanding 51.1 percent to 48.9 percent advantage and continued a positive trend with 110,186 and 52 percent to Greuel's 98,007 and 47 percent. The lead continued to widen to as much as 54 percent to 46 percent for the councilman.
Greuel had the backing of political heavyweights such as former President Bill Clinton for whom she was once a staffer, Congress icon Maxine Waters, Supervisor Mark Ridely Thomas and basketball great Earvin 'Magic' Johnson.
Garcetti countered with the support of City Council colleagues President Herb Wesson, 9th District Councilwoman Jan Perry and 8th District Councilman Bernard Parks, in addition to rising star Congresswoman Karen Bass.
The son of former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti also won the support of acclaimed actor Danny Glover.
Greuel also had massive backing from unions that fueled her campaign war chest to the tune of more than $4.1 million.
With an estimated 160,471 ballots mailed in before Election Day, the official total numbers were expected to be low.
At the end, the night campaign parties for both candidates were upbeat and predicting a win. Greuel was at a nightclub in downtown Los Angeles, and Garcetti supporters rallied at the Hollywood Palladium.
Garcetti represents a new era of politics and was among the first local politicians to support Barack Obama's bid for president.
He was elected four times by his peers to serve as president of the Los Angeles City Council from 2006 to 2012 and has continued to serve as a councilmember representing the 13th District, which the L.A. chamber of commerce ranks as number one in job growth.
Voters appeared to have been inspired by Garcetti's stewardship of Council District 13 his stint as council president, he worked behind the scenes to awaken his colleagues to the depth of the city's financial crisis and to take action they did not want to take.
Raised in the San Fernando Valley, a region that was critical in the election, Garcetti earned his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University. He studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and the London School of Economics and taught at Occidental College and U.S.C.
A fourth generation Angeleno, the Silver Lake resident is married with a one-year-old daughter. He is a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy reserve and is an avid jazz pianist and photographer, and now he is the mayor of Los Angeles.
Said outgoing Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, "Eric is a true leader who I trust to guide our city into its bright future. I know I am leaving Los Angeles in good hands."


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entronix brauchte ein neues Website Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
3 Gewinner wurden aus 36 Designs von 13 Designern ausgewählt.
Need website/brochure/ and biz card designed with a clean unified feel between the 3 projects.
Spiffy Sparrow
Desired Color Scheme:
use colors of logo, open to other colors would like to see some black.
Desired Style:
Clean and Neat
Accepted File Formats:
Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
Spifffy sparrow requires 3 projects to be completed. We need an uncoded website, a trifold brochure, and a 2 sided business card. You can download our logo at:
We will divide the prize between the 3 projects as noted. We would much prefer for one designer to complete all 3 of these projects for us, and if someone is able to come through with a really really good design on the web design or brochure we will likely give them all 3 projects, but we do reserve the right to divide the payment between different designers.
With that being said you may submit designs for any of the 3 projects.
Website guidelines:
The website should have our logo and phone number(336-510-9729).
We are looking to have 8 links or tabs total on the front page. We want to have something that says "premium brochures" and then near it in a way that you think will look good needs to be 4 tabs that say writing/design/printing/mailing. We basically want to quickly show people that we are a service that does premium brochure writing, design, printing, and mailing and have links for them to find more info when they click these. We want this to be the main focus of the site.
There will need to be 4 other tabs that are less important than the first 4. These will be pricing/examples/get started/contact.
There will need to be about 2 or 3 paragraphs of text on the home page, which will change when people click the different links.
 Brochure guidelines:
The brochure will be a 8 1/2 x11 2 sided tri fold brochure. We will break down what should go on each panel.
The exterior side of the brochure is what people see before they open it. The right most side will be the front of the brochure, the middle panel is the back of the brochure and the left most panel is the first thing you see on your right when opening the brochure. Briefly I will go over what needs to be included on the exterior side of the brochure, then the interior.
Exterior right panel(front of brochure) Needs to have our logo Premium brochure writing-design-printing-mailing. As with our website you need to come up with a way to show that we are a company that deals with 4 aspects of brochures, writing them, deisigning them, printing them, and mailing them. The front if obviously the most important part of the brochure, you must do a good job on this if you wish to win this contest.
Exterior middle panel(back of brochure) This will be reserved for contact information, please fill in 'dummy' contact info here and we will provide the winner with the correct info to put here.
Exterior left panel (right most panel when opening the brochure). This panel will be a brief 2 paragraph summary of what our company does. There is no real need for us to see the actual text in the brochure designs, dummy text is fine.
Interior panels: On the interior panels we will break down our 4 main services with descriptions about each of them along with pricing. Again these are brochure writing-design-printing-mailing. This will take up all of the interior of the brochure. And again there is no need for everyone to type all the actual info in so dummy text is fine.
Business card:
Front of card should have logo and standard contact info. We will provide the winner the actual info to put on the card.
Back of the card should have similar theme to the other 2 projects, to reiterate it should simply have the same info as the front of our brochure. If you missed it we need to have our logo and premium brochure and then break it down to the 4 services we offer writing-design-printing-mailing. The person that can do this the best will win the project.
To reiterate the designers that do the best job of showing in a good way that we are a company that writes, designs,prints and mails brochures will have the best chance to win this contest.
Good luck and don't hesitate to ask any questions. I have included our logo.
Prize breakdown is :
web site $400
Brochure $275
Business card $125
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
- Web Page Design
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In these couple of weeks, my website marketing have been taking all my times. Even in my dreams at nights, I've been submitting my website links to search engines.
You know, in last February, Google changed their search algorithm for what they calls "high-quality" content, which has dramatically shaken up the businesses of websites that moved up or down its search rankings.
What dose it mean?
I believe this comment I've found in Websites to Google; "You're killing our business!" would tell you all;
"My God. I just lost 40% of my traffic from Google today," said commenter DickBaker. "Referrals from Yahoo, Bing, direct sources, and other sources are the same, but Google dropped like a rock."
Actually, this is never other people's problem to me. As an artist, who's been working on my art exposure in this internet world, I am also the one who got some negative impacts from there.
In these past some months, the numbers of the inquiries from my Online Gallery Shop had dropped a lot. I was wondering what's going on.
At first, I naturally thought it was because of the current severe social situation being caused by the recession of the world, but after all, I had found that my website Google page ranking had got dropped so my shop website was not getting shown on the top of Google search as before anymore.
It was a shocking discovery, but on the other hand, it brought me a new hope.
If the silence of my online gallery was caused by the world economical depression, it would be a little hard for me to control it, but it seems like this problem was being caused by the bad effect of this website ranking status. Then why not to learn about this new SEO things a bit more?
The brighter news was that it was something which I could manage by myself for the better change. Fortunately or unfortunately, I am not a rich fat world famous artist who could afford to hundreds and hundreds dollars to hire professional SEO people, but time is always on my hands. Besides, I love playing with those new information and puzzles.
I lost no time in getting to work!
OK, so now let's see what I've got….
Regarding to the complicated references of the new SEO techniques for improving website rankings, you could find thousands of suggestions from other smart internet experts in "Google search", such as 'Google Challenging SEO Rules', 'SEO rules have changed. Do you know the new rules?', so I am not going to give you more tortures to keep reading my funny English on and on, but I could add a couple of tips which I can share from my actual experiences here.
Firstly, please take a peek at my page;
"URL submission resources for website marketing".
Here is the list where you can submit your website URL for free or a little fee or reciprocal Link. I also have listed some pay services which you can use for your website marketing.
I made this SEO list
originally for my personal use, but since it made an useful list, why not to share with friends who support my art?
One tip for search engine submissions here is that some search engines keep the links for lifetime by one time submission, but some drops in some months, so it is important to keep submitting your URL to them constantly. I will also keep adding new links, so I would like to encourage you to book mark this page to add your SEO references. *thanx*
Secondly, What I would suggest is listing you and your art in 'quality' artist profile listing websites.
While I have listed some of them in my page above, in internet world, you could find hundreds artist listing websites which also providing the service of selling your art with. I think it is a good idea to list your information on them as long as they offer you to add your website links.
By the way, most of them offer artists profile placements for free, but if you want to sell your artwork with them, you may be asked for some fee.
But wait! Before you take your credit card out from your pocket, I would encourage you to take a little time to make some research.
Check their Google page ranking.
Even the website looks very neat and cool, if their monthly fee is high and their page ranking is low, they could be making money rather from artist registration fee than actually selling art there.
Also you can check Google search results, putting some keywords like "buy art online", not "sell art online". You know what I mean?
Your target is the art buyers who are checking search engines to find and buy art, not the artists who are looking the places to sell their art, right? Then you have to list your art on the places where art buyers check up on first.
When you fish, you put a bait which fish likes, not the bait which you like. Marketing is the same. To scatter baits in the right places, you must always think from the side of your target.
Here, as one of the effective artist listing websites for your art prints sale, personally, I would recommend Fine Art America.
I've been on their website for more than three years now, and they are the only artist website who is actually selling my art prints to bring me checks constantly.
Besides, their fee is very reasonable. You just need to pay thirty dollars once in a year. It's not the monthly fee.
Once you get your gallery page up, you may need some marketing to let the world know about your art and your shop. I usually place my ads on free classifieds, also social networks service page, such as my facebook fan page.
Also, if you want to be more serious, you could open your own online art gallery shop linking those outside services as the extension of your online shop. In that way, you can own your shop online without worrying about shopping cart, customer support and any other complicated works to deal with the sales. You just need to work on building the traffics. Rest are taken care of by the printing service website people.
In that meaning, this Fine Art America is a very reliable service where I can send my customers to with my confidence.
Isn't this an impressive story?;
One day, I've got contact from them. They said that they got an order of my art print, but my digital artwork image I uploaded to them had 'slightly' unnatural light spot and they made me fix it for three times until they gave me their OK to put it on their printer.
It was some extra work, but it gave me confidence on their sense of responsibility to provide better products to their customers.
I hope those tips would be some helps for your successful website marketing.
In this current uncool world economical situation, most artists' lives are struggling. Even some art galleries where I've shown my art at had to close their doors in San Francisco, too.
I do not blame people if they wanted to buy food rather than art which dose not fill their stomachs in these days.
But after all, this situation rather opened my eyes for the new possibilities of my art marketing in internet world.
Compare with the old time maestros who did not have so many options for their art exposure other than depending on the connections of professional art dealers, we are lucky to live this cyber society where we could develop new markets as wide as we want without relying on those traditional methods so much. We just need ideas, knowledge, times, patience and challenging spirits.
In fact, the traditional way of the art exposure at physical gallery shows are fancy and cool, but honestly, it could have brought too much works to an artist like me, who do not speak language here so perfectly, who do not know even how to start car engine to transport my art, and in the bargain, who is a single mom with a little wild one who's been really good at messing up my schedule.
As you may already know, to make a show at a gallery takes a lot of energy and times of artist. Starting with art submission, interview meeting, preparing for information, art transportation, sending out invitations, hanging (depend on the type of galleries), attendance to art opening reception, etc, etc…. And the greatest thing is that there is no guarantee that your art could actually sell in the show. Time to time, I could not help but feel like what I was doing was just decorating galleries pretty for free labor?
Ofcause I understand you say that it is important to have your art out in front on people's eyes constantly. But in my experiences, unless you got a chance to show at famous or well-known galleries, the show at 'some' galleries would not leave you so much credits. I have shown at several places in San Francisco till now, but not so many special things left on my hand which I could add to the developments of my art career here.
In those wander, I've started being infused with new hopes in this modern generation tool where you can keep spreading your information to all over the world 24 hours 7 days without respite.
If you established original connections of your art in internet, the effect and possibility could be limitless.
Moreover, the best part of this 'independent' internet marketing is that you do not need to worry about the reactions of art galleries who mostly like to have art that can sell. As long as you market your art by yourself, you are the boss. You don't need to worry about making any "compromise" on your artistic calling to modify your works to suit other people's market conditions.
To be known in the world is a very important job for artists. Marketing art in internet makes it possible to spread your name and art as wide as you wish. The wider you spread your art, the more chances you could get to have them reach to various buyer's eyes. Actually, my art has been selling more actively online than physical gallery shows these days, having my paintings get "adapted" by the art patrons from many different places in the world, whom I could have never met if I was just showing at San Francisco local galleries.
My future dream is, I hope that someday comes when these two ways, traditional way and modern way, meet together. I mean, spreading my art in internet to the world widely, I want to have a cosy base here in San Francisco where I can make my art showing them at a few relaxing regular galleries who truly love my art.
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A report by the Rev. Dr. Ed Hird,
Past National Chair of ARM Canada
In 1991, I had the wonderful privilege of attending the Episcopal Renewal Ministries(ERM) Leadership Training Institute (LTI) in Evergreen, Colorado. Since then, I and others encouraged Anglican Renewal Ministries Canada to endorse the LTI approach, reporting in the ARM Canada magazine with articles about our helpful LTI experiences. ARM Canada, through our LTI Director, Rev. Murray Henderson, has since run a number of very helpful Clergy and Lay LTIs across Canada, which have been well received and appreciated.
Through listening to the tapes by Leanne Payne and Dr. Jeffrey Satinover from the 1995 Kelowna Prayer Conference, I came across some new data that challenged me to do some rethinking about the Jungian nature of the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Temperament Indicator) used in the current ARM Canada LTIs. Dr. Jeffrey Satinover's critique of Jungianism came with unique credibility, given his background as an eminent Jungian scholar, analyst, and past President of the C.G. Jung Foundation. I began to do some reading on Carl Jung, and mailed each ARM Board member a copy of the two audio tapes by Payne and Satinover. The ARM Board at our April 1996 meeting took an initial look at the Jungian nature of the MBTI, and whether we should continue to use the MBTI in our LTIs. Our ARM Board agreed to do some investigating on this topic and report back with some information to discuss at the November 1996 ARM Board meeting.
Currently approximately two and a half million people are 'initiated' each year into the MBTI process. [1] According to Peter B. Myers, it is now the most extensively used personality instrument in history. [2] There is even a MBTI version for children, called the MMTIC (Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children)[3], and a simplified adult MBTI-like tool for the general public, known as the Keirsey-Bates Indicator. A most helpful resource in analyzing the MBTI is the English Grove Booklet by Rev. Robert Innes, of St. John's College, Durham, entitled Personality Indicators & the Spiritual Life. Innes focused on "the two indicators most widely used by Christian groups – Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram."[4] One of the key questions for the ARM Board to settle is whether the MBTI is an integral part of Jungian neo-gnosticism, or alternately, that it may be a detachable benevolent portion of Jung's philosophy in an otherwise suspect context. To use a visual picture, is the MBTI the 'marijuana', the low-level entry drug that potentially opens the door to the more hard-core Jungian involvement, or is it just a harmless sugar tablet? To get at this question, I have broken my analysis down into smaller, more concrete questions.
1. Is the MBTI actually connected with Carl Jung?
The Rev. Canon Charles Fulton, President of ERM, commented in a June 17th, 1996 letter that "We have certainly had some concerns over the MBTI over the years and its Jungian nature". Rev. Fred Goodwin, Rector of National Ministries for ERM, commented in a September 18th, 1996 letter that "…we (ERM) no longer use the MBTI in our teachings…we've not included it in the last couple of years – believing that there are many other models and issues that need to be discussed with clergy and lay leaders." In Isabel Briggs-Myers' book Introduction To Type (1983), she comments that the MBTI is "based on Jung's theory of psychological types."[5] In the book People Types and Tiger Stripes written by Jungian practitioner Dr. Gordon Lawrence, he states that "The (MBTI) Indicator was developed specifically to carry Carl Jung's theory of type (Jung, 1921, 1971) into practical application."[6] In the Grove Book on personality indicators, Robert Innes comments that "Carl Jung's psychology lies behind…the MBTI".[7]
The Buros Mental Measurement YearBook (1989, 10th Edition) notes that the MBTI "…is a construct-oriented test that is inextricably linked with Jung's (1923) theory of psychological types."[8] As to the evidence of validity, Buros characterizes the stability of type classification over time as "somewhat disappointing."[9] The Jungian/MBTI stance, as expressed by Dr. Gordon Lawrence, former President of the Association for Psychological Types, is that MBTI "types are a fact", not a theory.[10] After reviewing the statistical evidence relating to the MBTI, however, Dr. Paul Kline, Professor of Psychometrics at Exeter University, commented that "There has been no clear support for the 8-fold categorization, despite the popularity of the MBTI."[11] Mario Bergner, a colleague of Leanne Payne in Pastoral Care Ministries, observed in a July 2nd, 1996 letter that "of all the different types of psychological testing, forced choice tests (such as the MBTI) are considered the least valid." More specifically, Bergner noted that "the validity of the MBTI is at zero because the test is based on a Jungian understanding of the soul which cannot be measured for good or bad." The official MBTI view, as expressed by Dr. Gordon Lawrence, is that MBTI personality designations are "as unchangeable as the stripes on a tiger".[12] Bergner, in contrast, does not believe that all of humanity can be unchangeably boxed into 16 temperament types, and is concerned about cases where people are being rejected for job applications, because they don't fit certain MBTI categories.
2. What is Carl Jung's Relation to Neo-Gnosticism?
Carl Jung is described by Merill Berger, a Jungian psychologist, as "the psychologist of the 21st century".[13] Dr. Satinover says "Because of his great influence in propagating gnostic philosophy and morals in churches & synagogues, Jung deserves a closer look. The moral relativism that released upon us the sexual revolution is rooted in an outlook of which (Jung) is the most brilliant contemporary expositor."[14] One could say without overstatement that Carl Jung is the Father of Neo-Gnosticism & the New Age Movement. That is why Satinover comments that "One of the most powerful modern forms of Gnosticism is without question Jungian psychology, both within or without the Church".[15] Carl Jung "explicitly identified depth psychology, especially his own, as heir to the apostolic tradition, especially in what he considered its superior handling of the problem of evil."[16] Jung claimed that "In the ancient world, the Gnostics, whose arguments were very much influenced by psychic experience, tackled the problem of evil on a broader basis than the Church Fathers."[17] Dr. Satinover notes that "Whatever the system, and however the different stages are purportedly marked, the ultimate aim, the innermost circle of all Gnostic systems, is a mystical vision of the union of good and evil."[18]
Jung, says Satinover, "devoted most of his adult life to a study of alchemy; he also explicated both antique hermeticism and the 'christian' gnostics; his earliest writings were about spiritualism…"[19] In his autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung claimed: "The possibility of a comparison with alchemy, and the uninterrupted intellectual chain back to Gnosticism, gave substance to my psychology."[20] Most people are not aware that Jung collected one of the largest amassing of spiritualistic writings found on the European continent.[21] Dr. James Hillman, the former director for the Jungian Institute in Zurich, commented, "(Jung) wrote the first introduction to Zen Buddhism, he…brought in (Greek Mythology), the gods and the goddesses, the myths,…he was interested in astrology…"[22]
In 1929, Jung wrote a commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower, which he said was "not only a Taoist text concerned with Chinese Yoga, but is also an alchemical treatise."[23] He comments that "…it was the text of the Golden Flower that first put me on the right track. For in medieval alchemy we have the long-sought connecting link between Gnosis (i.e. of the Gnostics) and the processes of the collective unconscious that can be observed in modern man…"[24] Dr. Richard Noll comments that "the divinatory methods of the I Ching, used often by Jung in the 1920s and 1930s, were a part of the initial training program of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich in 1948, and its use is widely advocated today in Jungian Analytic-Training Institutes throughout the world."[25]
During the hippie movement of the 1960's, the Rock Opera Hair boldly proclaimed the alleged dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Once again Carl Jung foreshadowed this emphasis in a 1940 letter to his former assistant, Godwin Baynes: "1940 is the year when we approach the meridian of the first star in Aquarius. It is the premonitory earthquake of the New Age."[26] In Jung's book Aion, he holds that "…the appearance of Christ coincided with the beginning of a new aeon, the age of the Fishes. A sychronicity exists between the life of Christ and the objective astronomical event, the entrance of the spring equinox into the sign of Pisces."[27] In a letter written by Jung to Sigmund Freud, he said: "My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I made horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth…I dare say that we shall one day discover in astrology a good deal of knowledge which has been intuitively projected into the heavens."[28]
Jung's family had occult linkage on both sides, from his paternal Grandfather's Freemasonry involvement as Grandmaster of the Swiss Lodge[29], and his maternal family's long-term involvement with seances and ghosts. John Kerr, author of A Most Dangerous Method, comments that Jung was heavily involved for many years with his mother and two female cousins in hypnotically induced seances. Jung eventually wrote up the seances as his medical dissertation.[30] Jung acquired a spirit guide and guru named 'Philemon'[who was described by Jung as 'an old man with the horns of a bull…and the wings of a fisher']. Before being Philemon, this creature appeared to Jung as 'Elijah', and then finally mutated to 'Ka', an Egyptian earth-soul that 'came from below'.[31] It may be worth reflecting upon why Jung designated his Bollingen Tower as the Shrine of Philemon.[32]
Jung himself was the son of a Swiss Pastor caught in an intellectual faith crisis. When younger, Carl Jung had a life-changing dream of a subterranean phallic god which reappeared "whenever anyone spoke too emphatically about Lord Jesus."[33] Jung commented that "…the 'man-eater' in general was symbolized by the phallus, so that the dark Lord Jesus, the Jesuit and the phallus were identical."[34] This "initiation into the realm of darkness"[35] radically shaped Jung's approach to Jesus: "Lord Jesus never became quite real for me, never quite acceptable, never quite lovable, for again and again I would think of his underground counterpart…Lord Jesus seemed to me in some ways a god of death…Secretly, his love and kindness, which I always heard praised, appeared doubtful to me…"[36] The next major spiritual breakthrough in his life was what Jung described as a "blasphemous vision"[37] of God dropping his dung on the local Cathedral. This vision, said Jung, gave him an intense "experience of divine grace".[38]
3. How serious is the Jungian Reconciliation of Good and Evil?
Leanne Payne says of Dr. Jeffrey Satinover that "like (C.S.) Lewis, he knows that we can never reconcile (synthesize) good and evil, and this synthesis is the greatest threat facing not only Christendom but all mankind today."[39] Dr. Satinover sees the temptation facing our generation that"…on a theological plane, we succumb to the dangerous fantasy that Good and Evil will be reunited in a higher oneness."[40]
One of Jung's key emphases was that the "dark side" of human nature needed to be "integrated" into a single, overarching "wholeness" in order to form a less strict and difficult definition of goodness.[41] "For Jung", says Satinover, "good and evil evolved into two equal, balanced, cosmic principles that belong together in one overarching synthesis. This relativization of good and evil by their reconciliation is the heart of the ancient doctrines of gnosticism, which also located spirituality, hence morality, within man himself. Hence 'the union of opposites'."[42]
Jung believed that "the Christ-symbol lacks wholeness in the modern psychological sense, since it does not include the dark side of things…"[43] For Jung, it was regrettable that Christ in his goodness lacked a shadow side, and God the Father, who is the Light, lacked darkness.[44] He spoke of "…an archetype such as…the still pending answer to the Gnostic question as to the origin of evil, or, to put it another way, the incompleteness of the Christian God-image"[45] Jung sought a solution to this dilemma in the Holy Spirit who united the split in the moral opposites symbolized by Christ and Satan.[46] "Looked at from a quaternary standpoint", writes Jung, "the Holy Ghost is a reconciliation of opposites and hence the answer to the suffering in the Godhead which Christ personifies."[47] Thus for Jung, says John Dourley, the Spirit unites the exclusively spiritual reality of Christ with that which is identified with the devil, including 'the dark world of nature-bound man', the chthonic side of nature excluded by Christianity from the Christ image.[48] In a similar vein, Jung saw the alchemical figure of Mercurius as a compensation for the one-sideness of the symbol of Christ.[49] That is why Jung believed that "It is possible for a man to attain totality, to become whole, only with the co-operation of the spirit of darkness…"[50]
4. How Much Influence does Jungian Neo-Gnosticism have on the Church?
There are key individuals promoting the Jungian gospel to the Church, such as Morton Kelsey, John Sanford(not John & Paula Sandford), Thomas Moore, Joseph Campbell, and Bishop John Spong. Thomas Moore, a former Roman Catholic monk, is widely popular with a new generation of soul-seekers, through his best-seller: Care of the Soul. John Sanford, the son of the late Agnes Sanford, is an Episcopal Priest and Jungian analyst, with several books promoting the Jungian way. Morton Kelsey is another Episcopal Priest who has subtly woven the Jungian gospel through virtually every one of his books, specially those aimed for the Charismatic renewal constituency. Satinover describes Kelsey as having "made a career of such compromise", noting that Kelsey has now proceeded in his latest book Sacrament of Sexuality to approve of the normalization of homosexuality.[51]
Joseph Campbell, cited by Satinover as a disciple of Jung, is famous for his public TV series on "The Power of Myth".[52] Bishop John Spong, who has written two books (Resurrection: Myth or Reality & The Easter Moment) denying the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ, gives Joseph Campbell credit for shaping his views on Jesus' resurrection. "I was touched by Campbell's ability to seek the truth of myths while refusing to literalize the rational explanation of those myths…Campbell allowed me to appreciate such timeless themes as virgin births, incarnations, physical resurrections, and cosmic ascensions…Slowly, ever so slowly, but equally ever so surely, a separation began to occur for me between the experience captured for us Christians in the word Easter and the interpretation of that experience found in both the Christian Scriptures and the developing Christian traditions…"[53] Few people have realized that Bishop Spong's spiritual grandfather is none other than Carl Jung.
"Jung's direct and indirect impact on mainstream Christianity – and thus on Western culture," says Satinover, " has been incalculable. It is no exaggeration to say that the theological positions of most mainstream denominations in their approach to pastoral care, as well as in their doctrines and liturgy – have become more or less identical with Jung's psychological/symbolic theology."[54] It is not just the more 'liberal' groups, however, that are embracing the Jungian/MBTI approach. In a good number of Evangelical theological colleges, the MBTI is being imposed upon the student body as a basic course requirement, despite the official Jungian stance that "The client has the choice of taking the MBTI or not. Even subtle pressure should be avoided."[55]
While in theological school, I became aware of the strong influence of Dr. Paul Tillich on many modern clergy. In recently reading C.G. Jung & Paul Tillich [written by John Dourley, a Jungian analyst & Roman priest from Ottawa], I came to realize that Tillich and Jung are 'theological twins'. In a tribute given at a Memorial for Jung's death, Tillich gave to Jung's thought the status of an ontology because its depth and universality constituted a 'doctrine of being'.[56] It turns out that Tillich is heavily in debt in Jung for his view of God as the supposed "Ground of Being". As well, both Tillich and Jung, says Dourley, "understand the self to be that centering force within the psyche which brings together the opposites or polarities, whose dynamic interplay makes up life itself."[57] As a Jungian popularizer, Tillich saw life as "made up of the flow of energy between opposing poles or opposites."[58]
So many current theological emphases in today's church can be traced directly back to Carl Jung. For example, with the loss of confidence in the Missionary imperative, many mainline church administrators today sound remarkably like Jung when he said: "What we from our point of view call colonization, missions to the heathen, spread of civilization, etc, has another face – the face of a bird of prey seeking with cruel intentness for distant quarry – a face worthy of a race of pirates and highwaymen."[59] In speaking of Buddhism and Christianity, Jung taught the now familiar inter-faith dialogue line, that "Both paths are right."[60] Jung spoke of Jesus, Mani, Buddha, and Lao-Tse as 'pillars of the spirit', saying "I could give none preference over the other."[61] The English Theologian Don Cupitt says that Jung pioneered the multi-faith approach now widespread in the Church.[62]
For those of us who wonder why some Anglicans are mistakenly calling themselves "co-creators with God", the theological roots can again be traced back to Jung: "…man is indispensable for the completion of creation; that, in fact, he himself is the 2nd creator of the world, who alone has given to the world its objective existence…"[63] In light of our current Canadian controversies around "Mother Goddess" hymnbooks, it is interesting to read in the MBTI source book, Psychological Types( Carl Jung, 1921) about the "Gnostic prototype, viz, Sophia, an immensely significant symbol for the Gnosis."[64] Carl Jung is indeed the Grandfather of much of our current theology.
5. What is the connection between 'Archetypes', the Unconscious and the MBTI?
Keirsey and Bates are strong MBTI supporters who have identified the link between the MBTI psychological types and Jungian archetypes. In their book Please Understand Me, they state Jung's belief that "..all have the same multitude of instincts (i.e. archetypes) to drive them from within." Jung therefore "invented the 'function types' or 'psychological types'" to combine the uniformity of the archetypes with the diversity of human functioning.[65] In their best-selling MBTI book: Gifts Differing, Isabel Myers Briggs and Peter B. Myers speak openly about Jungian Archetypes as "those symbols, myths, and concepts that appear to be inborn and shared by members of a civilization".[66]
Dr. Richard Noll holds in his book The Jung Cult that such Jungian ideas as the "collective unconscious" and the theory of the archetypes come as much from late 19th century occultism, neopaganism, and social Darwinian teaching, as they do from natural science.[67] Jung's post-Freudian work (after 1912), especially his theories of the collective unconscious and the archetypes, could not have been constructed, says Noll, without the works of G.R.S. Mead on Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and the Mithraic Liturgy. Starting in 1911, Jung quoted Mead, a practicing Theosophist, regularly in his works through his entire life.[68] Richard Webster holds that "the Unconscious is not simply an occult entity for whose real existence there is no palpable evidence. It is an illusion produced by language – a kind of intellectual hallucination."[69]
Jung was a master at creating obscure, scientific-sounding concepts, usually adapted from occultic literature. Jung held that "the collective unconsciousness is the sediment of all the experience of the universe of all time, and is also the image of the universe that has been in process of formation from untold ages. In the course of time, certain features became prominent in this image, the so-called dominants (later called archetypes by Jung)."[70] [Much of Jung's teaching on archetypes is so obscure that I have placed the relevant data in the footnotes of this report, for the more motivated reader.]
In his phylogenetic racial theory, Jung assumes that acquired cultural attitudes, and hence Jungian archetypes, can actually be transmitted by genetic inheritance. Richard Webster, however, explodes Jung's phylogenetic theory as biologically untenable.[71] Peter B. Medawar, a distinguished biologist, wrote in the New York Review of Books (Jan. 23, 1975): "The opinion is gaining ground that doctrinaire psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the 20th century: and a terminal product as well – something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin in the history of ideas, a vast structure of radically unsound design and with no posterity."
"This work Psychological Types (1921), said Jung, "sprung originally from my need to define the way in which my outlook differs from Freud's and Adler's. In attempting to answer this question, I came across the problem of types, for it is one's psychological type which from the outset determines and limits a person's judgment."[72] In words strangely reminiscent of L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology, Jung teaches in Psychological Types (PT) that "The unconscious, regarded as the historical background of the psyche, contains in a concentrated form the entire succession of engrams (imprints), which from time to time have determined the psychic structure as it now exists."[73]
Jung held in PT that "The magician…has access to the unconscious that is still pagan, where the opposites still lie together in their primeval naiveté, beyond the reach of 'sinfulness', but liable, when accepted into conscious life, to beget evil as well as good with the same primeval and therefore daemonic force."[74] Jung entitled an entire section in PT: "Concerning the Brahmanic Conception of the Reconciling Symbol". Jung notes: "Brahman therefore must signify the irrational union of the opposites – hence their final overcoming…These quotations show that Brahman is the reconciliation and dissolution of the opposites – hence standing beyond them as an irrational factor."[75]
My recurring question is: "Do we in ARM Canada wish to be directly or indirectly sanctioning this kind of teaching?" Symbolically, the MBTI can be thought of as a "freeze-dried" version of Jung's Psychological Types (1921). Since PT teaches extensively about Jung's archetypes and collective unconscious, it seems clear to me that to endorse the 'freeze-dried' MBTI is ultimately to endorse Jung's archetypal, occultic philosophy.
6. What is the Relationship between Neo-gnosticism and the MBTI?
Dr. Richard Noll of Harvard University comments that "We know that (Wilhelm) Ostwald was a significant influence on Jung in the formation of his theory of psychological types."[76] Jung mentioned Ostwald's division of men of genius into classics and romantics in his first public presentation on psychological types at the Psychoanalytic Congress in Munich in September 1913. The classics and the romantics corresponded, according to Jung, to the introverted type and the extraverted type. Long quotations from Ostwald appear in other of Jung's work between 1913 and 1921 – precisely the period of Ostwald's most outspoken advocacy of eugenics, nature worship, and German imperialism through the Monistenbund, a Monistic Alliance led by Ostwald. An entire chapter of Jung's Psychological Types is devoted favorably to these same ideas of Ostwald."[77] Is any link, however, between Ostwald's Germanic anti-Semitism and Jung merely an exercise in 'guilt-by-association'? The newly emerging hard data would suggest otherwise. The influence of Germanic anti-Semitism on Jungianism can now be seen in a secret quota clause designed to limit Jewish membership to 10% in the Analytical Psychology Club of Zurich. Jung's secret Jewish quota was in effect from 1916 to 1950, and only came to public light in 1989.[78]
"The book on types (PT)", says Jung, "yielded the view that every judgment made by an individual is conditioned by his personality type and that every point of view is necessarily relative. This raised the question of the unity which much compensate this diversity, and it led me directly to the Chinese concept of Tao."[79] Put simply, the MBTI conceptually leads to Taoism. Jung held that the central concept of his psychology was "the process of individuation". Interesting the subtitle of the PT book, which The MBTI claims to represent, is "…or The Psychology of Individuation". Philip Davis, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of P.E.I. comments, "In this lengthy process of 'individuation', one learns that one's personality incorporates a series of polar opposites: rationality and irrationality, the 'animal' and the 'spiritual', 'masculinity' and 'femininity', and so on. The goal of the (Jungian) exercise is the reconciliation of the opposites, bringing them all into a harmony that results in 'self-actualization'."[80] Once again, it seems that aspect after aspect of this seemingly innocuous personality test leads back to Jung's fundamental philosophic and religious teachings.
Two of Jung's 'most influential archetypes' are the anima & animus, described by Jung as "psychological bisexuality".[81] Jung teaches in PT that every man has a female soul (anima) and every woman has a male soul (animus).[82] Noll comments that "Jung's first encounter with the feminine entity he later called the anima seems to have begun with his use of mediumistic techniques…"[83] Based on the recently discovered personal diary of Sabina Spielrein, John Kerr claims that Jung's so-called anima "the woman within" which he spoke to, was none other than his idealized image of his former mistress, patient, and fellow therapist, Sabina Spielrein.[84] After breaking with both Spielrein and Freud, Jung felt his own soul vanish as if it had flown away to the land of the dead. Shortly after, while his children were plagued by nightmares and the house was seemingly haunted, Jung heard a chorus of spirits cry out demanding: 'We have come back from Jerusalem where we have not found what we sought.'[85]
In response to these spirits, Jung wrote his Seven Sermons to the Dead. In these seven messages Jung 'reveals', in agreement with the 2nd century Gnostic writer Basilides, the True and Ultimate God as Abraxas, who combines Jesus and Satan, good and evil all in one.[86] This is why Jung held that "Light is followed by shadow, the other side of the Creator."[87] Dr. Noll, a clinical psychologist and post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University, holds that "Jung was waging war against Christianity and its distant, absolute, unreachable God and was training his disciples to listen to the voice of the dead and to become gods themselves."[88]
7. What Does the MBTI Prototype Book "Psychological Types" teach about Opposites?
Consistently Jung teaches about reconciliation of opposites, even of good and evil. Jung comments in MDR : "…a large part of my life work has revolved around the problem of opposites and especially their alchemical symbolism…"[89] Through experiencing Goethe's Faust, Jung came to believe in the 'universal power' of evil and "its mysterious role it played in delivering man from darkness and suffering."[90] "Most of all", said Jung, "(Faust) awakened in me the problem of opposites, of good and evil, of mind and matter, of light and darkness."[91] Being influenced as well by the Yin-Yang of Taoism, Jung believed that "Everything requires for its existence its opposite, or it fades into nothingness."[92]
Dr. Gordon Lawrence, a strong Jungian/MBTI supporter, teaches that "In Jung's theory, the two kinds of perception – sensing and intuition – are polar opposites of each other. Similarly, thinking judgment and feeling judgment are polar opposites."[93] It seems to me that the setting up of the psychological polar opposites in PT functions as a useful prelude for gnostic reconciliation of all opposites. The MBTI helps condition our minds into thinking about the existence of polar opposites, and their alleged barriers to perfect wholeness. In the PT book, Jung comments that "One may be sure therefore, that, interwoven in the new symbol with its living beauty, there is also the element of evil, for, if not, it would lack the glow of life as well as beauty, since life and beauty are naturally indifferent to morality."[94] My question for the ARM Board is: "Do we accept Jung's 'polar opposites' view that there can be no life and beauty without evil?"
"We must beware", said Jung, "of thinking of good and evil as absolute opposites…The criterion of ethical action can no longer consist in the simple view that good has the force of a categorical imperative, while so -called evil can resolutely be shunned. Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole."[95] Here is where Jung ties in his ethical relativism to the PT/MBTI worldview: "In practical terms, this means that good and evil are no longer so self-evident. We have to realize that each represents a judgment."[96]
Jung saw the reconciliation of opposites as a sign of great sophistication: "(Chinese philosophy) never failed to acknowledge the polarity and paradoxity of all life. The opposites always balanced one another – a sign of high culture. Onesideness, though it lends momentum, is a sign of barbarism."[97] It would not be too far off to describe Jung as a gnostic Taoist. In PT, Jung comments that "The Indian (Brahman-Atman teaching) conception teaches liberation from the opposites, by which every sort of affective style and emotional hold to the object is understood…Yoga is a method by which the libido is systematically 'drawn in' and thereby released from the bondage of opposites."[98]
While in India in 1938, Jung says that he "was principally concerned with the question of the psychological nature of evil."[99] He was "impressed again and again by the fact that these people were able to integrate so-called 'evil' without 'losing face'…To the oriental, good and evil are meaningfully contained in nature, and are merely varying degrees of the same thing. I saw that Indian spirituality contains as much of evil as of good…one does not really believe in evil, and one does not really believe in good."[100]
In a comment reminiscent of our 1990's relativistic culture, Jung said of Hindu thought:
"Good or evil are then regarded at most as my good or my evil, as whatever seems to me good or evil".[101] To accept the eight polarities within the MBTI predisposes one to embrace Jung's teaching that the psyche "cannot set up any absolute truths, for its own polarity determines the relativity of its statements."[102] Jung was also a strong promoter of the occultic mandala, a circular picture with a sun or star usually at the centre. Sun worship, as personified in the mandala, is perhaps the key to fully understanding Jung.[103] Jung taught that the mandala [Sanskrit for 'circle'] was "the simplest model of a concept of wholeness, and one which spontaneously arises in the mind as a representation of the struggle and reconciliation of opposites."[104]
In conclusion, to endorse the MBTI is to endorse Jung's book Psychological Types, since the MBTI proponents consistently say that the MBTI "was developed specifically to carry Carl Jung's theory of types (1921, 1971) into practical application."[105] Let us seek the Lord in unity as he reveals his heart for us in this matter.
p.s. ARM Canada decided unanimously in November 1997 after much prayer and reflection to no longer use the MBTI in the Clergy and Lay Leadership Training Institutes.
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The Hamilton County Commission will vote whether to adopt a nonbinding resolution to the Tennessee General Assembly requesting the state law to be amended to pave the way for liquor distillation. If accepted, the state could choose to include the county in the list of those permitted to decide for themselves whether they will allow distilleries in their borders.
Supporters of Chattanooga-made whiskey bottlenecked into the security line at the Hamilton County Courthouse on Thursday morning.
Sporting pins stamped with the Chattanooga Whiskey Co.'s "Vote Whiskey" logo, about 100 people funneled into the County Commission chamber, which is usually empty for agenda sessions.
They were backing Chattanooga Whiskey Co. leaders Tim Piersant and Joe Ledbetter, who hoped to persuade commissioners to get Prohibition-era laws changed and bring liquor manufacturing back to the county.
When Ledbetter asked all of the company's supporters to stand during the meeting, nearly everyone in the audience got to their feet.
"I think this has been a great first step toward getting whiskey back here," said supporter Lon Eldridge as he filed out of the meeting.
Hamilton County was home to 30 distilleries before they were shuttered in 1915, Ledbetter said.
The county was left out of a 2009 bill that let counties decide for themselves whether to legalize liquor-making, but Ledbetter and Piersant have garnered a loyal and enthusiastic support base since they started Chattanooga Whiskey 13 months ago and started a social media campaign aimed at getting the law changed.
Until then, Chattanooga Whiskey will continue to be made in Indiana.
County commissioners can't change the law on their own, but could ask state lawmakers for the change. It would take six of the nine commissioners approving the request for the letter to be sent.
At the commission, Piersant and Ledbetter outlined potential jobs and economic gains a whiskey distillery could bring the county.
Chattanooga Whiskey could start with 10 employees making $35,000 per year, Piersant estimated, and could initially net the county about $78,000 in property and sales taxes.
He said the company is eyeing a renovated building on Chattanooga's Southside where it could make retail sales to locals and tourists.
"This is not just about Chattanooga Whiskey," Commissioner Joe Graham said. "Looking at this thing as an economic tool, whiskey is already being consumed here no matter what brand it is. Whiskey is already being sold here no matter what brand it is. I do think it's a great novel idea to have our name on the bottle."
Commissioner Warren Mackey also voiced support for the company, saying afterwards that the commission should be cautious about "legislating morality."
"Would we stop making Volkswagens because people could potentially be harmed in the usage of them? Absolutely not," he said.
Commission Chairman Larry Henry said that a letter would be prepared for next Wednesday's commission meeting.
Mark West, the Chattanooga Tea Party leader, said the issue is "moral and ethical" rather than economic.
"What message are we sending to our community, our younger more impressionable minds? Are we not communicating to them that the almighty dollar trumps all?" asked West.
Ledbetter and Piersant said they respected and even agreed with West's concerns, while still advocating for the good a distillery could do.
"It's actually a very respectable business," said Piersant, who added, "I absolutely believe you should vote the way your heart says to vote. I'm never going to disagree with that."
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Some Southern homeowners use their air conditioners year-round to combat humidity. Theo Etzel, CEO of Conditioned Air Corporation of Naples, Inc. in Naples, Florida, has these recommendations for more effective continuous use of your cooling system:
- Set the fan to automatic. (Keeping it in the "on" position actually re-humidifies the space by blowing air over a wet coil when the condenser cycles off.)
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- Take measures outside. ENERGY STAR suggests keeping gutters and downspouts clean, extending downspouts further from the house, watering plants only when needed and sloping soil away from foundations to keep water from pooling.


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Intriguing and/or terrifying news from the world of paintballing today, as it has emerged that an inventor in America has been granted a patent on a fearsomely powerful new paintball gun, powered by the same "bunker buster" principle as secret World War II Nazi superweapons.
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US Patent number 7,665,396 was granted to Dennis Tippman of Fort Wayne, Indiana, last month, and noted by alert local news source the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. It lays out the fearsome details of Tippman's invention in lavish detail.
Essentially the idea is a simple one. Rather than propelling a paintball using old-fashioned compressed gas - for instance carbon dioxide - Tippman's weapon creates a powerful fuel/air explosive mixture within its combustion chamber. The deadly vapour is then touched off by an igniter when the trigger is pulled, generating a fearsomely powerful blast theoretically capable of firing a paintball through a mature pig.
This is the same principle used to power the "Argus" pulse engines which propelled the V-1 "Doodlebug" cruise missiles launched by the Nazis against London in the closing stages of WWII. It is also the same principle employed in military thermobaric "bunker buster" weapons such as Russia's devastating "Father of all bombs" - and in such frightful civilian products as the "Rodenator" burrow-blaster and the "Thunder Generator" sonic riot cannon.
Tippman's patent application suggests that he will regulate his "projectile launcher" so as to keep it in the realms of sub-lethal paintball force, instead exploiting the greater puissance of his technology to offer a much larger number of shots before reloading than compressed gas guns can.
Even so, the patent filing makes disturbing reference to a "Paintball Cannon", and the temptation to go for range, striking power and heavier paint warheads will no doubt be hard to resist. Heavy crew-served doodlebug pulse bomb splatter weaponry is all too likely as the paintball arms race hots up, we fear.
It seems unlikely to be a coincidence that Fort Wayne is also the town famous as the scene of the world's first exploding turnip bomb outrage. Sadly the UK's "Baldrick" bomb-disposal tool was not available on that occasion, and the deadly vegetable was "detonated with a water cannon".
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Now that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has turned down Barack Obama's offer to replace Vice President Joe Biden, Obama is left with but one move to win reelection and remain President, and it will cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
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Obama is watching the Presidency slip away from him.
His fellow Constitution-hating Marxists and socialists, along with his union Communist thugs, are a noisy minority that bullied its way to the front of the class, only to be discovered in the light of day and identified as the enemy within. They are a noisy, inconsiderate, vile, crude, enemy within bought and paid for by the White House.
We see them, we know what they are, and we are leading them to a Reagan-type landslide defeat. A slaughter sponsored by a love we have of Capitalism and Freedom, a love that can only exist unrestrained in the brilliant creation of our forefathers, protected by their Constitution. You know, the one Obama found so distasteful in his quest for a Chavez-style dictatorship in a stripped down, collapsing America.
Now, the only avenue to victory left to him is to start a war. He won't want it to end too quickly, as it has to last at least until the election and seem like it can last longer.
I can see him waiting until about a month before the election and then attacking Iran. More than likely, he will do it by attacking Israel and creating a high death toll, leaving Iran's fingerprints on the attack. That will officially draw us into a conflict, during which Obama will allow for as much death and destruction to reign on Israel as he can possibly manage.
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Most alpinists are happy when they summit two or three peaks during a trip. But then Ueli Steck is not your average mountaineer. Yesterday, the Suunto ambassador embarked on an epic summer challenge – to climb 82 4,000 m peaks in the Alps in 80 days with the German guide, Michi Wohlleben. Even more challenging, the pair plan to cycle between each stage. In all, they'll cycle 1,000 km and climb 100,000 m of altitude.
Amazingly, Steck says the trip is all about calming down, taking his foot off the pedal and not pushing records but just doing what he loves. "It's about a message I want to send, to myself as well," he told Swiss newspaper NZZ. "The message is that striving for records bears risks. If I stay in this routine of always going faster, higher, further I know that it will at some point have a deadly ending."
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