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By Rev. Sun Myung Moon, tparents.org

Why is parental love precious? Parental love is vertical, but it doesn’t conclude as just vertical. Vertical love embraces horizontal love and helps it settle down. Parents play the role of beacon to dissuade children from wrong habits in life.

Vertical love exists surely to create the horizontal love. In this principle, parental love is established by the intensive integration of vertical and horizontal love centering upon God’s love. Because parental love is responsible for both the vertical and horizontal elements, parents naturally want to give their precious things to their children. By letting the children receive these gifts in their purity, parents want them to expand horizontally. This is the essence of love.

Parental love is the greatest love in the world. Even people in the top rank of the world are nothing in front of their children. Parental love is unconditional and unlimited in the presence of children. Parental love is the origin of love. That’s why orphans who never received parental love long for it most of all. Even if orphans have something to eat and a house in which to sleep, their hearts always hunger and are full of longing because they lack parental love. Even if they lead a joyful life in an orphanage, their time is not truly happy. The little orphans always long for parents even while they sing and dance, are awake or asleep. That’s because every human being is supposed to grow up in the bosom of love.
Parental love of a thousand years ago and that of the present time is identical. In the fluctuating course of history, parental love never changes.

Parental love is the primary love. A sound man who grew up with parental love understands what love is. Because children love their parents, they come to learn love from their experience of loving parents. That is the highest joy for children. Without having parents, we never experience love.

One son can receive both man’s love and woman’s love through the parents. The father represents all the men in the world and the mother represents all the women in the world. In the historical view, the parents are an historical man and woman.

When children want to praise a woman, they compare her with their mother, and when there is a handsome man, children compare him with their father.

Is there a limit to parental love? Parents want to love their children not only for their childhood but for their entire lifetime and for eternity. If a father- and son-relationship is established centering on absolute love, through it will come infinite power, infinite stimulation and something infinitely new. If a father- and son-relationship lacks such a bond, their relationship will surely stop at certain time.

Mr Williams viewed the cancellation as a “personal failure”. (Image courtesy: Still from The Crazy Ones)

Indo-Asian News Service | August 16, 2014 (Los Angeles)

When TV show The Crazy Ones was cancelled after one season, the late Robin Williams, who hanged himself at his home earlier this week, was reportedly left “devastated”.

The news that the show wasn’t going to return for another season was a setback to the actor, who is said to have been in deep depression before committing suicide. Tmz.com reports that Mr Williams viewed the cancellation as a “personal failure”.

As Mr Williams had said before the show debuted, “My face is all over the town (on billboards) and it’s all on my back.”

So, it was no wonder that the cancellation left him upset.

“It hit him hard,” said a source, adding that this was the reason why the iconic actor entered the Hazelden Addiction Treatment Center last month.

Also, he was increasingly depressed that he was older, and good roles for him were few and far between, said another source.

With the new release of the iPhone 5C and the iPhone 5S. Everyone expected something magical with iOS7. But Apple decided to once again play it safe. There is so much Android can do that it is becoming apparent that iOS is no longer a threat. Here is a SMALL list of 100 things that iPhone 5S and 5C running iOS 7 still can’t do that most newer Android phones can.

Whatever task that you undertake, do it with all your heart and soul.
Always be courteous, never be discouraged. Beware of him who
promises something for nothing. Do not blame anybody for your
mistakes and failures. Do not look for approval except in
the consciousness of doing your best. ~Bernard M. Baruch

Fun Turtle Facts for Kids

• Turtles are reptiles.

• Turtles have a hard shell that protects them like a shield, this upper shell is called a ‘carapace’.

• Turtles also have a lower shell called a ‘plastron’.

• Many turtle species (not all) can hide their heads inside their shells when attacked by predators.

• Turtles have existed for around 215 million years.

• Like other reptiles, turtles are cold blooded.

• The largest turtle is the leatherback sea turtle, it can weigh over 900 kg! (2000 lb)Turtles lay eggs.

• In some species of turtle the temperature determines if the egg will develop into a male or female, lower temperatures lead to a male while higher temperatures lead to a female.

• Some turtles lay eggs in the sand and leave them to hatch on their own. The young turtles make their way to the top of the sand and scramble to the water while trying to avoid predators.

• Sea turtles have special glands which help remove salt from the water they drink.

• Many turtle species are endangered.

 Source: Science Kids

Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart …
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.

~Carl Jung

This season on American Horror Story is taking a page from the record books. E! News has confirmed, the FX anthology series has just cast Jyoti Amge, the world’s smallest living woman. The 20-year-old Indian woman proudly holds that title, standing at 2′ 0.6″ according to the Limca Book of Records and Guinness Book of Records, and now she’ll hold a new title: AHS: Freak Show cast member.

By Daniel Piotrowski For Daily Mail Australia, August 14, 2014

Lucky he wasn’t feeling peckish.

A young swimmer in Sian Ka’an, Mexico must be thanking his lucky stars after quick-thinking onlookers narrowly managed to rescue him from the jaws of a huge crocodile.

The paddler scrambled for the shore as the crocodile gave chase.

Thankfully, a panicked onlooker standing on a nearby bridge hurled an object at the creature, stopping the giant reptile’s pursuit.

Manuel Cerrara, who filmed the terrifying footage, was quoted by Nine News saying the boy was lucky the croc is fed regularly by tourists and fishermen.


“Unfortunately, that crocodile already associated us with food and as the video shows the boy was saved because the crocodile is well fed and chased at a pace that allowed him to reach the shore,” Mr Cerrara said.

Locals consider the water too dangerous to swim in.

Onlookers hurled an object at the well-fed American crocodile to deter it from munching on the tourist.

Robin Williams’ Daughter Zelda Deletes Twitter Account Due to Trolls, Abandons Instagram “While I Heal”

By Raechal Leone Shewfelt
Yahoo Celebrity, August 14, 2014

Not even Michael J. Fox knew Robin Williams had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.

Fox, who’s become the public face of the disease, took to Twitter on Thursday after it had been revealed that Williams was struggling with the early stages of Parkinson’s. Williams, who had been open about his issues with depression and addiction, was found dead on Monday after hanging himself in his northern California home.

Williams was a philanthropist who gave his time to numerous organizations such as the USO and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He also supported The Michael J. Fox Foundation. The two friends — who both got their start on TV sitcoms (Mork and Mindy for Williams and Family Ties for Fox) — were photographed together (see photo above) at a 2004 benefit for Parkinson’s research.

Williams’s widow, Susan Schneider, broke the surprising news about her late husband in a statement on Thursday. She also addressed claims that Williams, who dealt with drug and alcohol addiction for decades, was using again in his final days.

“Robin’s sobriety was intact and he was brave as he struggled with his own battles of depression, anxiety as well as early stages of Parkinson’s disease, which he was not yet ready to share publicly,” Schneider said. “It is our hope in the wake of Robin’s tragic passing, that others will find the strength to seek the care and support they need to treat whatever battles they are facing so they may feel less afraid.”

Fox, 53, stayed silent about his 1991 Parkinson’s diagnosis for seven years before speaking about it publicly. Last September, he described the tough period that followed.

“My first reaction to [the diagnosis] was to start drinking heavily,” he told Howard Stern on Stern’s Sirius XM Radio show. “I used to drink to party, but now I was drinking alone and … every day. Once I did that it was then about a year of like a knife fight in a closet, where I just didn’t have my tools to deal with it.”

Fox credited his wife, Tracy Pollan, as well as therapy and Alcoholic’s Anonymous with helping him through. He went on to found his nonprofit, which the New York Times has described as “the most credible voice on Parkinson’s research in the world,” in 2000.