104 years old
Today I held the hand of a 104 year old woman....white hair...slender with constant shaking....still understands a lot of what happens around her...she is a total care..."help me" is an almost constant utterance she cannot inhibit...the setting she is in is just exceptional...all the staff are most caring and are able to take time to help this lady...Last nite I baby sat a 14 month old...Isabella...Oh how I love Isabella (just learned to blow kisses)...both Isabella and the 104 year old are similar in that they both are total care...also both are not far from their real home...Isabella just arrived a year ago and the 104 year old will be returning shortly I am sure.

Loved ones we come to this planet to learn all our spiritual lessons...only thru the experience of it all can you really exercize your will power, your ability to focus and your unconditional love.
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Enclose these Israeli and Syrian men in White Light
Loved ones when an enemy extends his hand...as one brother to another...recognize we all are children of the same God...the God who made this planet and the universe in which it is located.

"The president of Iran extended his hand to me, I shook it and told him in Farsi, 'May peace be upon you'," said Katsav.

No immediate comment was available from Iran.
Katsav said he later shook Assad's hand a second time during the funeral. "The second time ... was his initiative -- he extended his hand to me," Katsav said.

But Katsav said: "I don't think there is any political significance to this. We are cultural people and say hello nicely and shake hands."

Israeli and Syrian negotiators last held peace talks in 2000 that foundered over the future of the Golan Heights occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war.

Israel has accused Iran of supporting anti-Israeli militants and has been a fierce critic of its nuclear program.

Loved ones...visualize these two leaders...visualize these two free willed individuals enclosed with the unconditional love...the White Light of the Holy Spirit...
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John Paul forgave this man = knowledge about love
Loved ones as John Paul provided a living example....he experienced and learned and obtain knowledge...about compassion...about unconditional love as we all are children of our Divine Parents.
06.04.05 10.20am
ISTANBUL - Turkish authorities have rejected a request from Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who shot and gravely wounded Pope John Paul in 1981, to leave prison to attend the pontiff's funeral, his lawyer said.

The Pope forgave his would-be killer two years after the shooting that would mark the start of his slow decline in health.

"Our application was denied. It appears to have been a government initiative. We don't have enough time before the funeral to appeal," Agca's lawyer Mustafa Demirdag told Reuters.

"Mehmet Ali will be very sad when he learns this."

Agca, 47, is in a maximum security prison in Istanbul, having been extradited for murder and robbery after serving 19 years in Italy for the assassination attempt.

Italian authorities pardoned him at the Pope's behest in 2000.

Agca had applied for a short compassionate release, which Turkish law allows for some prisoners, usually so that they can attend the funerals of family members.

"I have lost my spiritual brother. I share in the mourning of my Christian Catholic people," Agca wrote in a rambling "open letter to the world", in which he also repeated his claim to be the "second messiah".

Agca's family members may still attend the funeral on Friday, Demirdag said. The Pope had received Agca's brother and mother at the Vatican over the years.

Agca shot the Pope in the abdomen during a general audience in St Peter's Square on the anniversary of the 1917 apparition of Jesus' mother, the Virgin Mary, near Fatima in Portugal.

The Pope said he believed the Virgin Mary had intervened to save his life. Agca has over the years insisted this made him part of a divine plan, which the Vatican has rejected.

"The divine plan has reached its conclusion. So we are at the end of the world," Agca wrote in the letter. He also said he was rewriting the Bible and would soon reveal "Fatima's secret".

Over the years, Agca has given conflicting reasons for his attempt on John Paul's life, including allegations of a conspiracy with Bulgaria's communist-era secret services and the Soviet KGB.

Agca belonged to a right-wing militant faction in Turkey in the late 1970s and was sentenced to prison for the 1979 murder of a liberal newspaper editor.

A year before travelling to Rome, he escaped from jail with suspected help from right-wing sympathisers in the Turkish security apparatus.

Turkish authorities have always denied any connection with Agca and have dismissed him as mentally unstable.

- REUTERS
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Gov. Arnold, include your next nurse in your prayers
Following is an open letter to Maria....the wife of our Gov. in California.

Dear Maria,

You and I know who is the boss in your family...so I am writing directly to you...asking for your wise consult...too...to whisper in his ear that loving suggestion to be nice to nurses...and therapists...and the army of loving people in the war zone of health care today....we all are trying to help....all of us.

I also petition Maria for you to continue your strong representation for the disabled.

Maria you and all your loved ones are always in my prayers
Samuel Joseph Bell
P.S. Maria read this and tell Arnold about it....
Boston Herald June 1, 2001

Nurses strike is life, death

by Beverly Beckham


Imagine this: A pilot flies from Paris to Boston, an eight-hour flight. Then instead of getting some time off, he's told he has to reboard the plane and fly back to Paris.

Would you want to be a passenger on that plane? Would you even fly that airline, if you knew that forcing bleary-eyed pilots to work double shifts was routine?

Nobody can work 16-hour days without showing fatigue.

Nurses at Brockton Hospital work 16-hour days regularly. That's why 429 of them walked off their jobs last Friday and that's why they're picketing today. They're tired of being told they can't go home when their shift is over. They're tired of being forced to take care of critically ill people when they can hardly keep their eyes open.

And they're tired of worrying about being so tired they'll make a tragic mistake.

``Every day 15 to 20 shifts aren't covered. So there's a list of people who have to work overtime. It's mandatory. The names rotate. When yours comes up, you have to stay,'' says Kathy, a nurse of 20 years. ``It doesn't matter if you're up 24 hours.

It doesn't matter if you say you don't want to work. You have to. It's required.''

Karen is an emergency room nurse. Brockton has the third busiest ER in the state.

``Most evenings the ER looks like a war zone being cared for by a tired skeleton crew. Add mandatory overtime to the picture and it is a lethal mix.''

She says it hurts her to see the profession she loves ``dictated by business-minded superiors who have no idea what it is like down in the trenches . . . You can't expect one nurse to do the work of three of four. But this is what we do every day.''

Brockton Hospital requires its nurses to work when they're dead on their feet because of the profit-driven bottom line. It is more cost-effective to pay employees time- and-a-half for an additional shift than to hire more full-time RNs and pay them salary plus benefits. This, while Brockton Hospital lines the pockets of CEO Norman Goodman with more than $500,000 a year, plus a Mercedes-Benz, plus free housing.

It's no wonder that on the streets of Brockton, the support is for the nurses.

Motorists passing by beep and wave and give them the thumbs up. Police, firefighters, bus drivers - even the doctors inside the hospital support the nurses, although not openly.

``Patient Care is Our First Responsibility'' reads a poster on the wall of the office where strikers gather. Patient care and patient safety are the reasons for this walkout. In the 4 months before the strike, nurses at the hospital filed 49 official reports of incidents where staffing levels placed patients' care in jeopardy.

Between 1995 and 2000, according to an investigation by the Chicago Tribune, at least 1,720 hospital patients nationwide were accidentally killed and 9,584 others injured ``from the actions or inaction of registered nurses across the country, who have seen their daily routine radically altered by cuts in staff and other belt-tightening in U.S. hospitals.''

``Conditions are getting worse here [at Brockton]. That's why we're doing this now,'' says Barbara, another veteran of 20 years.

``A full hospital should not be considered an emergency,'' says Laurie.

``All we're asking is to staff appropriately. We're worn out. We can't do it anymore,'' says Kathy.

On Mother's Day, before they went on strike, three nurses came to work at 3 p.m. and didn't get off duty until 7 a.m. the next day. ``I wouldn't want someone who has been on duty for 16 hours regulating my dopamine drip,'' says Maureen, a retired nurse from Boston.

They're not looking for a half-million dollars and a Mercedes. They just want more staff to assure safe patient care. And the right to refuse overtime.

Maria this stuff goes on everywhere...and in places where the funding is minimal it is much worse...as you can imagine...whisper in Arnolds ear........
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tolerance
Loved ones....years and years ago and far far away... I was contracted to provide speech pathology services at a non profit speech clinic...the head honcho called me in his office the first day (after I was hired) and clearly said...."Sam we do not want you to see any M.R.'s (mentally retarded), no autistics and no Mexicans...." then the clinic director confirmed it...

At the time they said that I thought he was very slick...he was checking to see if I was intolerant of other peoples...I thought (at the time) he was pretending....

Guess what...am I stupid...he was not joking...he really ment it...

The first client I admitted was a 8 year old Downs syndrome Latina....a very loving girl with a very loving family....

I did not last long at that clinic...
If anyone tells you intolerance no longer lives....tell them it is probably still alive and well.

Loved ones include those individuals in your prayers....
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Lets play chicken with North Korea
Loved ones this is a small planet we all live on...not that big really....so our communication with other countries is most important as all our neighbors are so close...communication from a position of trust can solve our differences better than force of arms....we have learned that haven't we ? Please consider these following statements...first from North Korea and second from the U.S. Sec. of State Condolizza Rice...
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First North Korea..."We have taken a serious measure by increasing nuclear arms arsenal in preparation for any invasion by enemies," the North's Korean Central Broadcasting Station said in a commentary, according to a report by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.The commentary said ongoing joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises were "preparation for war against us."
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Second Secretary Rice...QUESTION: On North Korea. One of the things that's been striking about the last few years is that it hasn't always seemed that the bottom line for the United States is the same as the other parties in the six-party talks. After your trip to China, what do you think that the Chinese value more: stability on the Korean Peninsula or a non-nuclear peninsula?

SECRETARY RICE: Well, my discussion with the Chinese was to suggest to them that those two are indivisible.

QUESTION: And what was their reaction to that?

SECRETARY RICE: I think they understand that a nuclear North Korea on the Korean Peninsula has unpredictable -- potentially unpredictable effects that will not make the Korean Peninsula very stable, will not make the region very stable. And so I didn't find much pushback on that.

QUESTION: Because the sense is that one of the reasons why it would be difficult to, you know, if say the six-party process doesn't continue to work and you wanted to try to move this to a higher level, maybe bring it to the Security Council, it would be difficult to get China's cooperation on that because they have a fear that if you start pushing too hard on the North Korean Government it could potentially collapse, you've got millions of refugees in the Korean border, and that's the thing that's holding them back.

SECRETARY RICE: Well, eventually if we have to cross the bridge where we come to something other than six-party talks, people will have to take a look at the upsides and downsides of the choices between them -- before them. We're not there yet because we're spending as much time and energy and effort right now as possible in making the six-party talks work. We still think it is a really great framework in which to do this because it brings different parties with different incentives and different points of leverage to bear on the problem. So it's a really good design. So, you know, at that point, I suppose people would have to make their choices, but I do not think that it is -- I'm not -- you're saying this -- but stability on the Korean Peninsula and a North Korean nuclear weapon, I think, are not compatible.

QUESTION: And you think the Chinese agree with that?

SECRETARY RICE: I think people understand that.
_____________________________________________________________________________________Loved ones after reading the two perspectives do you think our present leaders will find a peaceful solution ? I petition for the unconditional love, the White Light of the Holy Spirit...to enclose both groups of leaders here and there....that together we all can share this planet.... our home in a loving fashion.
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