More than 6,000 corpses found in Iraq in five months

Baghdad - Every morning as ambulance cars and police vehicles rush to
the hospital in Bab al-Mo'adham carrying corpses of unidentified
victims. teenagers and elderly men forms in front of
the morgue as people search for their relatives. fearing they might be
found among the bodies.
one of their family member is lost or kidnapped by gunmen and
then turns up after a week or so later as a corpse with gunshot wounds
on the body. a further victim of the latest wave of sectarian violence
that has swept through Iraq in recent months.
Iraq's main morgue had never received that huge number of corpses on a
daily basis - not since modern Iraq was established in 1920s.
According to statistics by Iraq's morgues institute. Morgues institute officials said that since the institute was
established in 1927. it had never received such a huge number of
corpses as currently. Before the US-led coalition invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam
Hussein in 2003. the institute used to receive only seven to 10 corpses
per day.
In occupied and conflict-ridden Iraq. the morgues have become the daily
destination for at least 100 Iraqis looking for their relatives who
were kidnapped by militiamen or who were killed in explosions.
'I came from al-Mada'en in search of my son Saad who was lost 12 days
ago and we could not identify him in the photos that we saw inside the
hall.' said Ahmed Ibrahim. I have been visiting here in search of my husband whom
I don't know anything about since he left for work in al-Shorja
marketplace in Baghdad. An official at the morgues institute said that unclaimed corpses are
buried in the state cemetery. Najaf cemetery and
Mohammed Sakran cemetery in Baghdad.
He said that the burial procedures take place following judicial
authorization that requires maps for locating the burial sites in the
event that the bodies need to be located later on.
'Most of the corpses we receive are brought in by police patrols who
usually find the corpses in far-off and waste areas and at the gates of
the cities. some with gunshot wounds and torture marks. Spokesman for the Iraqi Health Ministry said that the ministry has
required health officials in Baghdad not to receive any unidentified
corpses and that unidentified corpses should only be received by the
morgues institute.
'This will make it easier for citizens seeking their lost relatives. adding that the institute keeps information and pictures of
the corpses. He said most of the corpses were males.
Sectarian-based violence has mounted in Iraq since the bombing of
al-Askary mosque in Samarra last February. The formation of a new
government with 37 ministers last month had raised hopes that the
violence might end.
But the key posts of interior. defense and national security ministers
who are expected to play a key role in tackling sectarian violence.
have not yet been agreed on and their duties are currently only being
performed by interim ministers.

More than 6,000 corpses found in Iraq in five months

Baghdad - Every morning as ambulance cars and police vehicles rush to
the hospital in Bab al-Mo'adham carrying corpses of unidentified
victims. teenagers and elderly men forms in front of
the morgue as people search for their relatives. fearing they might be
found among the bodies.
one of their family member is lost or kidnapped by gunmen and
then turns up after a week or so later as a corpse with gunshot wounds
on the body. a further victim of the latest wave of sectarian violence
that has swept through Iraq in recent months.
Iraq's main morgue had never received that huge number of corpses on a
daily basis - not since modern Iraq was established in 1920s.
According to statistics by Iraq's morgues institute. Morgues institute officials said that since the institute was
established in 1927. it had never received such a huge number of
corpses as currently. Before the US-led coalition invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam
Hussein in 2003. the institute used to receive only seven to 10 corpses
per day.
In occupied and conflict-ridden Iraq. the morgues have become the daily
destination fonot so very far apart after all.

Reunion Question

Robin D. Nix
Electronic Data Systems
2600 Tower Oaks Blvd Suite 620
Rockville.
I don't even know who that is. Is there some way that we can maybe put an ad in the Gazzette or something?
Can we put a message on the PB Message Board out front of the school? I'm just trying to think of a place to put an ad or message where a lot of people would see it. There are usually community message boards in Supermarkets. maybe a flyer could be pposted at neighborhood markets(Safeway.
Meagan Greene was going to try to get a hold of her. but I think that was you who told me that come to think of it.
love like you've never been hurt. &
dance like nobody's watching!
everyone looks so different it's hard to recognize folks. I did a my space search and found some folks. Even there I can only recognize a few people. Search using high school and it should bring up the people that lostedPB as their high school.


I pulled the picture up on myspace and that is Catey Miller. Thanks Kim for sending this information.
Robin D. Nix
Electronic Data Systems
2600 Tower Oaks Blvd Suite 620
Rockville.
For those of you who don't know me or rememeber me... I graduated in
1996. I currently work at Paint Branch as well. I spoke to Catey Miller
over the weekend. and she said she is willing to work on the reunion.
but would like help. Judging by the amount of emails that have been sent
out. there are people who are willing to work on the reunion. There are
alot of people from our class who have recently registered on an alumni
site... if you have not done so. mass emails can be sent and information can
be shared easily on the site. Once you register on the site. please
refer other people from our class as well.
Jared Fribush
Paint Branch High School
Mathematics Teacher
Swimming & Diving Coach
Assistant Athletic Director
(301)989-5622
Meagan
Greene was going to try to get a hold of her. but I think that was you
who told me that come to think of it.
work like you don't need the money.
love like you've never been hurt. &
dance like nobody's watching!
I left a message for your principal to call me back about the message bd. Imma email Catey and see if she is in touch with those who aren't on the site.

Free People Search

I am trying to track down a friend of mine. I used the people searches
and they say they have found her in Tacoma WA but that her info is
unpublished and I have to pay to get the info. Since I do not know much
about the info available (e.g. whether the info is current or not) I
hate to fork over the money. Are there any services that can do this
for free?
I tried both of these search engines plus several others. I always get
the same naswer. that she has been found but that I will have to pay
$$$ for the info.

Why Google Makes Everyone Else Nervous

Calif. - Google Inc. first gained notice early in the
decade. as a small and quirky start-up with a disarmingly simple
Internet search engine and an idealistic slogan. Today the maverick company. adored by online shoppers and Internet
surfers. has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces in the
business world. Its secret sauce: a technology that lets business
customers link targeted ads to search results and Web content.
By rolling out a spate of free search products. from Google Maps to
Google News to Google Calendar. the company is doing more than building
its consumer base. It's also building an alternative environment for
software. and Internet content that is challenging the
business models and eroding the revenue of everyone from publishers to
software makers to Internet service providers.
"Google is causing disruption in a variety of areas." said Anthea
Stratigos. cofounder and chief executive of Outsell Inc.. research firm. "It's pushing advertising revenue online. It's
creating a model where software can be hosted by ad funding. Because of
Google. things that have long been fee-based now have the potential to
be free to consumers and supported by ads."
The effect can be seen in falling profits. and
programming changes in the media industry. but the changes brought
about by the Google model may be only beginning. "As they go forward.
you're going to see the corporate jets disappear for the executives of
NBC and the Internet service providers." predicted John Katsaros.
principal at the Internet Research Group in Los Altos. Calif. "You're
going to see slow. agonizing deaths or reevaluation of businesses."
At a Google press day held earlier this month at the company's
Googleplex campus here. the presentations focused almost entirely on
new search products and services the company is offering at no charge
to consumers: Google Co-Op for specialists. Google Trends for
researchers. Google Notebook for people who like to scribble notes.
Google executives avoided talking about their competitors. other than
to profess that there is room for more than one company in the
expanding Internet market. "I do believe the winner. or winners if
there's more than one. will be those companies that innovate most
rapidly." said Eric Schmidt. the company's chief executive.
whose rapid-fire product releases have dazzled and
dizzied computer users. has been the clearest winner. At the same time.
many of its rivals - from Microsoft Corp. to traditional print media
companies - have seen their growth rates flattening.
while down from their peak. have more than quadrupled
in the less than two years since its initial public offering. which was
a celebrated event from Wall Street to Silicon Valley.
With its profits enjoying double-digit growth. up 26 percent in the
first quarter. Google has grown into a financial juggernaut. Last year.
its operating income climbed 33 percent to $2 billion. and its employee rolls 88 percent to 5. The once cuddly image of its founders. Sergey Brin and Larry Page. the
Stanford University grad students who developed their search technology
in dorm rooms and incorporated Google in 1998. has been largely erased
by their newfound success and assertiveness.
That assertiveness was notable at the press gathering at Google earlier
this month. when Brin addressed his company's concern that Microsoft
would use its operating system to unfair advantage by steering
customers to Microsoft's search engine. Brin said that Google
recognized it was dealing with "a convicted monopolist" with a history
of "behaving anticompetitively."
In lobbying to prevent Internet service providers from charging content
companies for access and refusing to apologize for bowing to Chinese
government restrictions on Internet content. Google has been
demonstrating a greater willingness to throw around its weight in the
political arena and put its commercial interests front and center.
Research firms are only now beginning to take the measure of the
company's influence. A recent study by Outsell showed that 80 percent
of advertisers now use the Internet. with the adoption rate projected
to hit 90 percent by 2008. While search engine advertising is expected
to increase 26 percent this year. with Google raking in the largest
share. spending is projected to grow 2 percent for newspaper and
magazine ads and 2.4 percent for radio and television ads.
the Google effect has reduced Internet service companies -
who'd once hoped to be gateways to the Internet that profited from
Internet services - to "pipe companies" that build networks and charge
businesses and consumers for access.
and word-processing products are
pioneering an ad-supported Internet delivery model that threatens the
desktop licensing model of Microsoft and other proprietary software
companies. and could appeal to their "enterprise" market of businesses
and other organizations. Aiding Google's efforts to deliver robust
software on the Internet. and faster search results. is a worldwide
network of between 300. according to
analysts' estimates; Google itself declines to specify its number of
servers.
Microsoft and Yahoo Inc. are working to counter Google. with Yahoo
concentrating more on original content and Microsoft developing its own
search capabilities and ad-supported Internet software. But the biggest
threat to Google could be the proliferation of local and smaller
vertical search engines - in fields like travel. and retail -
that could offer even more targeted advertising. Many newspapers. are developing local search technology.
"If you want to attack Google. you're more likely to succeed by peeling
off searches that are vertically oriented." said Fredrick Marckini.
chief executive of search engine marketing firm iProspect of Watertown.
a division of London-based Aegis Isobar Worldwide.
Marckini said Google is fighting back by deputizing "contributors."
specialists who can provide niche-oriented searches. and by offering
advertisers more information on what people search for.
Google's newest product offerings could be especially attractive to
advertisers. said Sapna Satagopan. search analyst for JupiterKagan
Inc.. a San Francisco research firm. "Every one of these new releases
seems to be going in that direction of creating small groups of
consumers so they can offer them to advertisers.

Turning Within

The human mind is bewildered. and it tries to find out where to find
the answers to the questions of life. Some people search in the
external world. but others seek within. These inner-directed people
say that that which is in the cosmos is within. and that which is
within is in the cosmos. So they go within to the source. to that
point which is the universal cosmos.
Those who are trying to research from the gross. and
then to the grossest aspects of reality are called modern. philosophers. Those who try to go within and research in the
interior world are called Eastern philosophers. The Eastern and
Western concepts in philosophy have nothing to do with geographical
boundaries. Eastern philosophers say that if you understand yourself.
then you will understand the whole cosmos. and you will realize that
the individual self is the Self of all. That is the greatest hope and
joy that we receive. One's self is the Self of all: when you realize
this. you can never hate anyone. because you realize that in hating
someone you are hating yourself. Those who hate others are indulging
in self-hatred; those who criticize others are criticizing
themselves. They are not aware of that immortal.
which is the Self of all.
When you turn within. you understand that it is the mind that creates
a barrier between you and the Reality. Many people who study
meditation think that they should try to stop the mind from thinking.
but this never happens. Many students think. what a bad thought
is coming. My method of meditation must not be good." The thought is
not bad. but they become very caught up in it. and they allow those
thought patterns to influence their body language. This does not
allow them to be steady. The mind goes through fluctuations at a very
high speed. and when you try to study the mind. you don't know how to
handle it because no one has helped you train the mind.
What can help you train the mind? Nothing external can help. The
yogis pray. let this external world not trouble me. so that
I can go within." You should adjust your life so that the external
world of objects and relationships does not disturb you when you are
going within. The world can do only one great thing for students of
meditation. and that is to not disturb them.
When you remove the obstacles that you have been creating. then you
are enlightened. Enlightenment is not something that you gain;
enlightenment is a state of mind that is free from pain and misery.
Human beings can be analyzed by understanding all levels of life
systematically. A human life can be compared to a lamp that is
covered by progressively denser shades or sheaths. As you remove the
dense outer coverings. you find more and more light. and finally a
place full of light. with no darkness whatsoever. You are already
enlightened. but you do not realize it because you are constantly
identifying yourself with the outer sheaths and with the objects of
the world.

WHAT KIND of samadhi are you talking about?
Are you going to differentiate according to the different
specific states of samadhi and make a model for each? It is very difficult to make a precise graphic study when
you have such a broad spectrum of states that fall under
the general specification.
I was referring to ultra-cognative samadhi which involves
the total cessation of the thought process. Is this what
you're talking about?
Whom are you talking to? Those people who are after others can not have
any cognative
mind.... They have only OTHERS` MINDS...They only know to go after.

Sounds like you are not using the generally accepted
difinition of "SAMADHI" but a very limited definition
that is only used within a very small (relatively) community.
If I understand where you are coming from your definition is
NOT the definition used in the yogic community and it is only
used within a restricted sector of the TM community.
Instead of just giving me a knod of agreement when I
mention a (to the best of my knowledge) fairly RARE form
of samadhi. why don't you tell me what YOUR definition is.
BTW: I'm fairly sure that this is NOT the kind of samadhi that
they are talking about! After all... if you are doing a scientific study of any type
the first thing that you need to do is to DEFINE YOUR TERMS!
I am talking about the people who have no their own idea.
but have only their MASTERS` orders...And these people can follow their
masters to see around.as they are
ignorant.therefore they have no light to see around...

therefore they have no light to see around...

My bone of contention with the MMY system (as I
understand it) is that everybody is attempting to use
a single path to get "from hither to yon."
ONE PATH FOR EVERYBODY DOESN'T WORK WHEN:
People have different starting points.
People have different strengths & weaknesses.
People have different personal histories.
People have different cultural backgrounds.
People have different philosophical backgrounds.
People have different objectives.
Yoga is all about finding the way FOR YOURSELF.
not following a path that somebody else has blazed for you.

TURNING WITHIN - Swami Rama

The human mind is bewildered. and it tries to find out where to find
the answers to the questions of life. Some people search in the
external world. but others seek within. These inner-directed people
say that that which is in the cosmos is within. and that which is
within is in the cosmos. So they go within to the source. to that
point which is the universal cosmos.
Those who are trying to research from the gross. and
then to the grossest aspects of reality are called modern. philosophers. Those who try to go within and research in the
interior world are called Eastern philosophers. The Eastern and
Western concepts in philosophy have nothing to do with geographical
boundaries. Eastern philosophers say that if you understand yourself.
then you will understand the whole cosmos. and you will realize that
the individual self is the Self of all. That is the greatest hope and
joy that we receive. One's self is the Self of all: when you realize
this. you can never hate anyone. because you realize that in hating
someone you are hating yourself. Those who hate others are indulging
in self-hatred; those who criticize others are criticizing
themselves. They are not aware of that immortal.
which is the Self of all.
When you turn within. you understand that it is the mind that creates
a barrier between you and the Reality. Many people who study
meditation think that they should try to stop the mind from thinking.
but this never happens. Many students think. what a bad thought
is coming. My method of meditation must not be good." The thought is
not bad. but they become very caught up in it. and they allow those
thought patterns to influence their body language. This does not
allow them to be steady. The mind goes through fluctuations at a very
high speed. and when you try to study the mind. you don't know how to
handle it because no one has helped you train the mind.
What can help you train the mind? Nothing external can help. The
yogis pray. let this external world not trouble me. so that
I can go within." You should adjust your life so that the external
world of objects and relationships does not disturb you when you are
going within. The world can do only one great thing for students of
meditation. and that is to not disturb them.
When you remove the obstacles that you have been creating. then you
are enlightened. Enlightenment is not something that you gain;
enlightenment is a state of mind that is free from pain and misery.
Human beings can be analyzed by understanding all levels of life
systematically. A human life can be compared to a lamp that is
covered by progressively denser shades or sheaths. As you remove the
dense outer coverings. you find more and more light. and finally a
place full of light. with no darkness whatsoever. You are already
enlightened. but you do not realize it because you are constantly
identifying yourself with the outer sheaths and with the objects of
the world.