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 There's your fur.

WDCS is at the forefront of efforts to end commercial whaling for good; to stop the needless and cruel slaughter of small whales and dolphins for commercial purposes; and to end trade in their meat and other products.

Commercial whaling is cruel, unnecessary and unsustainable. Yet, in defiance of an international ban on commercial whaling, Japan, Norway and Japan continue to kill whales for commercial purposes. As pro-whaling countries step-up their campaign for a full-scale resumption of commercial whaling, we have a dedicated team working to counter their arguments. Much of our work takes place behind the scenes. We arm governments with the legal and scientific arguments they need to tackle attempts to justify ever increasing hunts at diplomatic and government levels and at critical international meetings.

Every year tens of thousands of small whales and dolphins are slaughtered around the world. In Japan, in shockingly cruel drive hunts, dolphins and small whales are driven into shallow bays and slaughtered with knives every year. Some dolphins are slaughtered for their meat and now, increasingly the aquarium industry pays larger sums for dolphins captured alive. We research and document these hunts, exposing the link between drive hunts and the captivity industry and highlighting the terrible suffering endured by dolphins captured and killed

 What did whales ever do to us?

Would you rather see this or this

Peter Ross, a toxicology specialist at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney, said his main fear is that killer whales will inhale fumes from the fuel, which spilled into the sensitive area Monday when a barge carrying logging equipment turned turtle.

About six pieces of equipment, including a fuel truck that contained 10,000 litres of diesel fuel, are now sitting in about 350 metres of water, just outside the area where threatened northern resident killer whales feed, forage and rub themselves on the pebbly beaches. var addthis_pub = 'canada.com'; function textCounter(field,cntfield,maxlimit) { if (field.value.length > maxlimit) // if too long...trim it! field.value = field.value.substring(0, maxlimit); // otherwise, update 'characters left' counter else { var divLabel = document.getElementById("divLabel"); divLabel.innerHTML = maxlimit - field.value.length + " characters remaining"; } }

"We would be worried about eye contact and mouth contact, which could lead to some lesions, ulcerations or infections," Ross said. "There are a lot of vapours at the water/air interface, and if they inhale the fumes, it can lead to systemic and possibly fatal toxicity."

There are also concerns about the effects on salmon, which the whales eat, and, in the longer term, thicker residue that could get into the sediment or shoreline, Ross said.

"That may take years to improve," he said.

There are about 230 orcas in the northern resident group, and between 50 and 60 are believed to be in the immediate area of the spill. That includes Springer, the whale that, five years ago, was captured in Puget Sound as a sickly orphan and taken to rejoin her family in Johnstone Strait.

Bill Mackay of Mackay Whale Watching spent Monday night in his boat monitoring which whales swam through the oil. About 14 from the A30 group twice swam through the thickest part of the spill, Mackay said.

"They took a double hit," said Mackay, who, in common with environmental groups, is wondering why it took so long for crews to get to the site of the spill and why local offers of help with booming were not accepted.

Burrard Clean started booming areas around Robson Bight yesterday, in an effort to contain the slick which, by yesterday afternoon, was about 14 kilometres long and 20 metres wide and washing ashore at Robson Bight, said Canadian coast guard environmental response coordinator Jamie Toxopeus.

About 199 litres have spilled so far, Toxopeus said.

"There is not a lot of product surfacing today," he said.

Ted LeRoy Trucking of Chemainus, which owns the equipment and barge, is responsible for organizing and paying for the cleanup.

John Ford, a Department of Fisheries and Oceans senior marine mammal scientist, is considering whether noise should be used to discourage whales from entering the contaminated area. "Whales don't have any sense of smell, so they can't detect the oil," he said.

Although the provincial Robson Bight ecological reserve is officially closed to all vessels, large ships sometimes have to enter the zone, which is one kilometre from the shore, for safety.

"For commercial traffic, it is such a narrow waterway [that] you wouldn't be able to restrict them from travelling through the reserve. It's a very busy waterway," Ford said.

That is something governments should look at changing, said Lance Barrett-Lennard, head of whale research at Vancouver Aquarium.

"It couldn't have happened in a worse place," he said.

Capt. Brian Lewis, senior regional marine investigator with the Transportation Safety Board, said the accident is being assessed. Once investigators have talked to all parties involved, a decision will be made whether to launch a full investigation.

While some of the deaths are unsurprising (particularly an old female and calves), the group also lost two female at the height of reproduction. "When you see adult, reproductive-age females die, then you start to get a bit more concerned about what might be going on," said Brad Hanson, a federal marine mammalogist. So what's killing the whales?

Scientists think falling salmon stocks are to blame. Salmon make up about 80% of the orcas' diet. Although salmon stocks in Washington have been in trouble for some time, Puget Sound orcas are known to range as far south as Monterey Bay in California to feed. Now the salmon in California and Oregon are suffering, too, meaning the whales are traveling hundreds of miles for minimal rewards.

"We've noticed that the drop is coincident with the crashing of king salmon supplies," said Ken Balcomb III, executive director of the Center for Whale Research. "Coastwide, there's a [salmon] problem. They used to be able to swim from Alaska to California and find plenty of fish. Now, nowhere in that range are they finding enough," Balcomb said.

What exactly all this means for the whales is uncertain. Killer whales have been known to switch to feeding more heavily on sea otters to survive. Of course, otters have their own problems to deal with, and as they disappear, so, too, do the productive kelp forests which support a staggering amount of life (for a summary, see this page). Otter declines have also been fingered in changing Bald Eagle diets - so if killer whales feed more and more heavily on them, we can expect a huge ecosystem shift.

One of the missing females was found. She was emaciated. Biologists took a biopsy before she disappeared, and will be analyzing it over the next few months to determine what happened - did she starve due to a lack of food, or was there something else (disease, etc) that led her to stop eating?

Even if there is less food resources available to the orcas, it may not be starvation that is killing them. They may not be getting enough food, sure, but they might not be starving to death, either.

It's likely that, as mammals, orcas burn fat when their low on food. Their fat, however, could be storing toxins like methyl mercury, PCBs and other long-lived industrial chemicals that act as endocrine disrupters. It is possible that, by burning fat reserves, orcas are exposing themselves to higher levels of these compounds, which have been shown to cause reproductive problems, diseases and a myriad of health issues.

Hanson and other scientists are trying to assess the health of the orcas by collecting their waste and what's in the breath they exhale through their blowholes. "We're really trying to look at what sorts of stressors are these animals up against," Hanson said, "because right now the animals disappear and we really don't understand what's happening."

The orcas are counted each year on my birthday (July 1). We won't know how many are truly missing until next summer, and some may be born or die before the next count. But it's likely that these seven are dead, since orcas rarely stray from their family packs. With this loss, the population of orcas in that area is down to 83, with less than twenty reproductively active females.

With salmon stocks still declining, the future doesn't look good for the Puget Sound orcas. In the initial review of their endangered status, the federal government predicted the extinction of Puget Sound orcas within 100 years, and with the way things are going, that is exactly where the whales are headed.

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Heaven, Paradise, Nirvana. All of these words describe the "Other Side." It is the place of eternity, where our experience of God and others is direct and unfettered by the limitations of time and space. All beauty and wisdom awaits us there. Life's pain and trauma pales to a dim memory, where only the soul's perfection is the badge of having lived. Continuous joy pervades our home, with the total comfort of our Lord caring for us. There is no separation from Him or Her. Home at last. Does the above description make you want to go there? Hopefully it does. Which is precisely why we retain only the dimmest remembrance of the Other Side (our eternal home). The problem lies in having to stay in the physical world until your work is done. If we carried a clear and ever present knowledge of home, we literally could not stand to live. The pain of separation is too great. To prevent mass suicide, God deprives us of certain memories. Among them is the Other Side and, oddly enough, the full scope of God's love for us. To fully feel His love is more addictive than any drug. Some souls are known to lose themselves within the "beatific vision" upon returning home.

C H A R T I N G   Y O U R   L I F E

The Other Side, or Home, is a very active place. Full of loving, learning, and laughing. It is also where we plan for life. The process of planning lives is quite complex. There are a great many factors to consider for each one, such as: Who your parents will be Body structure What time frame you want Where you want to live Race and culture to be raised in Level of education Wealth or poverty Occupation Marriage and children Health problems to endure Major adversities Contingency plans Exit points, when you will die Your one life will touch many others. It is vital to plan it and live it to the end. Many other souls have made plans based upon you. If you flub-up, the plans of others must change. The house of cards image applies here. Kick out one card; it will all tumble. We have many advisors available during the planning phase. These people are known as the Council. They are not exactly like the rest of us, for they seem to carry a more direct knowledge from God, especially as it relates to personal abilities. The Council will review your list of "things to accomplish" and provide guidance on its feasibility. Life planning begins when you feel a need to complete some facet of experience. This is the, "I am not content with myself" syndrome. This feeling leads to generating a list of experiences you feel are needed to fill the void. That list is then taken to Council. They will advise whether you have taken too much, or perhaps too little. They then help you decide if one or more lives is required to complete your list. With them, you map out the major events (some listed above) needed to reach your goal. Consider how much effort is needed to coordinate all of the people involved in just your life. Start with parents. You need two people who agree to bear you, which will determine many of your physical and mental attributes. So getting a set of parents to fill your requirements may be difficult. If you need to be a very large, muscular male, then certain genetics must be found. And what about race? If you need to be black, your choices are again limited. So assume you found parents with the correct genetic structure. Now you need to ensure they will be in the correct continent for your requirements. If not, perhaps you need to be abandoned and found by others from the proper area. Or maybe you will run away from home to get where you need to be. The possibilities are endless. Oh, did we forget to ask what time period you require? Well, living in a high-tech society will restrict your choices. Or a life as primitive man has only a narrow time-slice to use. Perhaps you needed to witness the life of Christ? Oh fine, now you want kids! Sure, piece of cake. Just arrange a spouse who is willing to endure your perfection scheme and get a couple of others to be the children. Do not forget to allow these entities a separate path toward perfection which you will have to endure. Lets see, anything else? Ah! You want to be poor this time. You better tell the kids, they will not like it much. And your spouse, better toss "born to shop" out the window (assuming shops and charge cards even exist). And on and on it goes. Now the above items do seem complex, yet a decent computer could sort it all out. However, add the complexity of any one person aborting early and the contingency planning becomes endless. It seems that only God can really coordinate the life plans for everyone. Fortunately He has done so. The Council acts as His mouthpiece in such matters.

F R E E   W I L L

Is anyone free to act as they wish? No, not in this world. The simple fact of civil law prevents action without consequences. How about freedom in the spiritual sense? Well, not quite. Here we also find limitation, but of a different sort. You have preordained a path for yourself, and within that path you are limited. During the planning for life, you have freedom of choice. However, this does not mean that every facet you desire will be available. For example, you may trade off on certain desired traits to ensure a needed time frame. If being a tall person is important, but living a pygmy life is more important, then you may wait for tallness in another life. This accounts for some of us feeling like "Why is this happening? It isn't me." It may be a surprise that you chose all of your problems. You may ask, "Was I drunk when I agreed to all of this?" In one sense, you were. On the Other Side you are the best person you can possibly be: no fear, no weakness of faith or body, full intellect, and infused with the strength of our Lord. In that state you feel certain that any adversity can be easily met and overcome. In fact, the Council will usually advise reducing the amount of trauma you initially plan. The best analogy is dieting. Eat a very large meal. Immediately after eating, plan to go on a diet. There is no question you can do it. Simple, just do not put food in the mouth. No problem. You can do it. Until tomorrow comes, then you face the reality. Free will then, is two fold. Prior to incarnating we have free will. After getting into the life, it's too late. No major changes allowed. (Azna has been known to intercede - if, and only if - it is for a greater good for all concerned.) Please notice that this is logically consistent with your own plan. Your free will has placed adversity in the chart and you must fulfill that plan. To make any major change is to defect on your own perfection scheme, something which is not done. Even if you could change something in this life, then you would later have a life in which the problem was again presented. Eventually you will experience those items which seem fearful now. Free will is why suicide is not a solution to your problems. Suicide is not an escape; it merely complicates the process through having to do it all over again. In fact, a suicide is dealt with immediately by the Other Side. The soul is literally forced back into life, with no rest period. The first available body is located, and you must take what you get. You forfeit most of your choices via suicide. Eventually you will be in the same despair, same trouble, same frame of mind, and will experience the same hopelessness, all over again, from the start.

T H E   G O A L

Simply put, reincarnation provides the means to experience many lives in pursuit of perfecting the soul. It explains how God can be all loving and still "allow" all of the horrors we face upon this world. We see that God loves us enough to provide the best school possible, and forces us to complete our lessons, so that we can graduate and fulfill our own dreams of becoming more like Him and Her. Reincarnation is the glue among humanity, perfection, and our all loving God.

How do I even start meditating?
Sit in a comfortable chair, with head support if possible, or lie down somewhere. If sitting, do not cross your legs or arms, and leave your hands open with the palms facing up. First thing is to ask for your Guide to protect you and say, "In the name of God I ask for the White Light of the Holy Spirit to enter me, cleanse me, and heal me."
 
Now simply begin by relaxing the body one part at a time. In your mind focus on the feet, demand that they relax, then focus on the lower legs and demand that all tension and stress be gone, then up to the thighs and again demand full and complete relaxation. Do this up through the whole body demanding that all stress is relieved and every muscle group is relaxed, and ask that the White Light purge any darkness within the body, mind, and soul. Do not forget to relax the neck, face, and brain. Be sure to force the White Light into your mind to eliminate any trace of darkness or worry that you hold in your head.
 
Having done this alone is a great meditation. It only takes five minutes but you will feel like you just had a good two-hour rest. Then you can begin the journey to your special place discussed above to rejuvenate the soul.

Other Examples:

How to Contact Your Spirit Guide

You have one, perhaps two, Spirit Guides who have been with you since the day you were conceived, watching over you and ready to offer helpful advice whenever you call on them for help.

If you haven't already contacted your Guide, this meditation will help you to meet each other. This is such a wonderful opportunity for you because from this point on your Guide can help you with every aspect of your life.

Spirit Guides are people on the Other Side who at some point in time lived on the Earth and therefore have life experience. Now they happily live in Spirit and selflessly devote themselves to helping us once we learn to communicate with them.

Your Guide can help you with every aspect of your life: career, health, relationships, spirituality, finances, decision making...you name it. If you can think of a question, your Guide will more than likely give you an answer to help you with your situation.

You can think of your Spirit Guide as your very wise best friend on the Other Side. Once you meet, your life will become incredibly exciting as you gain advice that helps you with all aspects of your journey.

Allow yourself time to get to know your Guide well. Practise this meditation whenever you can and you will soon become accustomed to your Guide's voice.

Connecting with your Guide suddenly makes you feel much more knowledgeable and inspired, and your Guide will often give you helpful insights that you know don't come from your own mind.

Once you have met your Guide you have begun a wonderful relationship that will hold for your entire life. So if you haven't yet met your Guide, now is an excellent time to formally introduce yourselves!

How to Contact Your Spirit Guide

1. Go to a quiet place where you won't be distracted by anyone. Close your eyes, and take your attention to your breath, following the path of every inhalation and exhalation you make. Begin to relax and release all tension in your body and maintain your focus on your breathing.

2. After 2-3 minutes of deeper breathing, begin to visualise a protective bubble of white light surrounding you. Now that you have asked for this protection you will only attract positive energy and you will repel any negativity that may be spiritually around while you meditate.

3. Now it is time to meet your Guide. Take your awareness to the area between your eyebrows, your third eye as it is often called. This is the mental space where you will see your Guide or receive visual images from them.

Next, ask your Spirit Guide to come forward and reveal themself to you. Invite your Guide to come close so you can meet. You might see your Guide's face while focussing on your third eye area, or perhaps you have a sense of a tall or short person standing next to you.

If you do not intuitively feel your Guide around you, appeal to them to come closer so you are in mental communication with them. You might hear them speak a word to you, or simply 'feel' a different presence in the room.

4. After your intial contact, ask your Guide who they are, or what they look like. Is your Guide male or female? What is your Guide's name? Ask them.

Allow yourself to be curious, and get to know more about your Guide since you are meeting them for the first time. Socialise with your Guide!

It is important to stimulate discussion and not to passively sit and wait for your Guide to speak or communicate thoughts to you. Start a conversation in your mind with your Guide and really let it flow. Don't get too hung up on being formal or correct; relax and let the question and answer dialogue in your mind take on a life of its own.

5. Ask your Guide if there is anything you should be aware of, or should begin to practise to help you strengthen your connections with the Spirit world. Listen closely and take the first answer you get as from your Guide.

6. When you have finished socialising with your Spirit Guide for the time being, thank them for appearing to you and speaking with you. There will be plenty of other opportunities to continue the interesting conversations you have started with your Guide.

A good litmus test to tell whether you are speaking to your Guide is this: when you ask your Guide a question, if the answer you receive in your mind is very wise, compassionate and caring, it is a message from your Guide. It it doesn't seem inspired or particularly wise, it is probably just your own thoughts bobbing around in your head.

The best way to communciate with your Guide is to meditate beforehand because then your consciousness will be raised to a higher level and you are then ready to receive clear communications from your Guide.

Just as you don't find out everything about someone when you first meet them, please don't expect your Spirit Guide to tell you everything on your first meeting! It takes some time to feel comfortable with your Guide so allow yourself to gradually get to know each other. Don't worry, your Guide isn't going anywhere!

For your Totem (Your animal spirit guide) ( Mine is a wolf ^_^)

What is an animal totem/guide?

An animal totem or guide is an animal that a person spiritually identifies with. In my experience, some guides are “temporary helpers” that come to us when we find ourselves going through particular events, lessons or life challenges, while others remain with us for our entire lives. But regardless, ALL of your guides will instruct, guide, and protect you as you gradually stroll down your spiritual and physical lifepaths.

Animal guides help us reconnect with nature by reminding all of us that we are always spiritually and universally interconnected. BUT! In order accomplish this … you first do need to know what your animal totem is!

How do I meet my animal totem(s)/guide(s)?

There are certainly many different methods of meeting your guides. However, in my own opinion meditation is the best method. Here is a visualization technique that was taught to me (and it worked extremely well!):

Sit on the floor or lay comfortably in your bed and totally relax. Close your eyes, breathe deeply and slowly, and allow all of your muscles to completely relax. Now visualize your Crown Chakra (which is located on top of your head or just above it – and is a large orb filled with the most divine white energy/light). Once you have your Crown Chakra visualized quite clearly, next visualize a chord of this very same light/energy flowing from your Crown Chakra down through the top of your head, traveling down along your spine, all the way down through to the Earth. Visualize this energy moving down even further, deep to the core of the Earth and connecting with it. Feel the warm energy of the Earth flowing through your body and feel its power increasingly strengthen you. Allow this energy and power to surge through your entire body: your arms, legs, fingers, toes, and so on. Allow the energy and power to build within you, until you create a slight “energy/power cocoon” that envelops your entire body (this should be seen as a slight aura (or energy field if you will) made of the similar energy that is now flowing through you – emanating approximately an inch or two in thickness from all around your body). Once you have visualized this, you may now allow the darkness behind your eyelids to envelop you.

Visualize a white light shining up ahead of you. Begin to visualize yourself walking toward this light. As you get closer, notice that you are walking towards a doorway to another realm. Interesting... What does that door look like to you? What is it made of? When you open this door, look out and see a beautiful, lush forest and step out onto the ground. Take in your surroundings: look at the trees, shrubs, grass, weeds, flowers, etc. Are there any streams or rivers around? Walk around to enjoy and explore everything that is surrounding you. As you look ahead of you, you see a pathway through the trees. Visualize yourself stepping onto the path and beginning to walk slowly. Walk a while, and then pause. Then listen carefully and wait. Soon you may see your animal guide approach you. Take as much time as necessary … until your guide finds you. When you see this animal, speak with him or her. Ask any question you might have in mind – perhaps even ask him or her what their name is. Or, maybe you just want to say hello at this point. It is your decision.

When your animal guide motions to you that your meeting is finished, politely thank him or her and say goodbye (my first meeting with one of my guides I gave him the biggest hug!). But please, also make sure that you promise your guide that you will return once again (in order for your relationship to flourish with your guide you do need to make it a common practice).

Walk slowly back to the doorway you passed through and visualize yourself walking back through it. Step into the darkness once again, and see another light up ahead. Walk to the light, and visualize it slowly enveloping you and surrounding your entire body. Once the light surrounds you, you may then open your eyes. At this point your journey is complete. I would then perhaps take the opportunity to write down all that you saw, all that was perhaps said between you and your guide. Anything that you feel was quite significant … write it down. Because if it doesn't make much sense to you now, it just might later on down the road!

One important  note  – if you have more than one spirit guide, only one may come through to meet you at a time. Within my own experience (as at one time I had three different animal guides), that was indeed the case. During meditation and a “meeting” with one of my guides, I noticed a rustling in some bushes in the not too far distance. I also got the feeling of being watched quite closely – as well as feeling some sort of “expecting” or “eager” type of energy waiting for me behind those bushes. But all the while, nothing emerged from there. When I ask, even as I write this article, as to WHY another guide refuses to emerge while you are already sitting with one, I just get the very stern message that it is “private” and that it is “polite and respectful to do so.” So, when you meet your first guide for the first time, politely ask him/her if there is any other spirit wishing to meet with you. If the answer is yes, then you will indeed be urged to “set up another meeting” for your other animal guide(s).

I met my animal totem. So what should I do now?

Your animal(s) will "talk" to you on many different occasions … either during meditation, through dreams, or while you're awake. When you're awake, you could very well hear them speak words to you, while at other times you may not hear spoken words at all – but more so only "feel" what they are saying. It is rather hard to explain here. But once you connect with your guide(s), you will then understand what I mean. As you develop your relationship with your guide(s), you will quickly learn the difference and know when they are speaking to you.

The thing is though, they don't manipulate a person's thoughts or actions … they only give reasonable suggestions. Much like your ancestral or other human spirit guides, they can offer you advice and help guide you through many challenging life lessons. Animal guides have special lessons to teach us: they can help us learn how to better utilize our energies, they can teach us how to interact with other people, and they can even guide us towards a certain career path. But by no means are they limited to just these lessons alone! There are indeed as many reasons for guides as what there are guides themselves. But they do have so much to offer, and it is a true blessing to have the companionship of an animal guide. 

Just try to keep in mind that they're not with you to make every move or decision for you … just like your other spirit guides don't tell you how to live your life or make your decisions for you. All guides can merely suggest to you or show you a favorable course of action – all decisions and moves rest within your hands alone.

In other news ^_^ Have you read Sylvia Browne's Books? You should :D

PLEASE GO TO THIS LINK AND WATCH THIS VIDEO!   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaoWS649aaE&feature=related  or i may put it on my page

I think the werewolves are trying to tell us something but what?!

It says The creature looked at him and growled "Gadara" "Gadara" then sneered as it walked away on it's two hind legs.

The video says Gadara was a city near Nazarath named after the hebrew word meaning fence or border