Kathy Davis’s 7 Principles to Inspire Success

Kathy Davis’s 7 Principles to Inspire Success From her book, Simple Secrets During an interview, I was once asked, “What’s the secret to your success in such a competitive field?” The answer I gave is that there really is no secret at all. But, as I reflect upon my life, I believe there are seven principles which have helped guide my journey. And I believe they can help anyone, whether you are a stay-at-home mom, a nuclear physicist…or a designer and writer like me. 1.  Believe in yourself. Always stay true to what makes you unique and trust your gut. See your differences as strengths rather than handicaps. And, instead of comparing yourself to others…be inspired by them! 2.  Work hard. Pure and simple. Ideas aren't worth anything unless you put them to work. You have to beresponsible, dependable, disciplined and never stop learning or growing. 3.  Take risks. It's O.K. to be afraid but you just have to plunge in anyway. This isn’t easy, especially when it feels like the tide is against you, but it’s just necessary to take risks in order to stay fresh and relevant. Youwill make mistakes but your efforts will also make a difference. Just take a deep breath and step out of that comfort zone! 4.  Keep an open mind. Be willing to adapt and change when you need to. Adjust your sails to catch that wind. Be strong…yet flexible and resilient…like bamboo…and bend rather than break. 5.  Accept your limitation. Be willing to ask for help…and be able to say “no”. There’s no way you can be everything to everybody all the time! Surround yourself with good people amd enlist their help when you need it most. 6.  Treat others with respect and kindness. That golden rule never, ever goes out of style. 7.  Never stop dreaming. Your visions can guide you to great things…but you need to be patient and don’t give up on yourself or on an idea that might seem slow in coming. It just might need a little more time to germinate and become strong. I hope that Simple Secrets: 7 Principles to Inspire Success will encourage you to pursue your own path with passion. To a joy-filled life, Kathy Davis

Good Philosophy

A wise man once sat in the audience and cracked a joke - all of them laughed like crazy.

After a moment he cracked the same joke again & a little less people laughed this time...

He cracked the same one again & no one laughed !!!

Then he smiled and said ''when you can't laugh on the same joke again & again then why do you keep crying over the same thing over & over again''
  FORGET the past and MOVE ON ... 


6 PRINCIPLES OF LIFE

1. No point using limited life to chase unlimited money. 
2. No point earning so much money you cannot live to spend it.
  3. Money is not yours until you spend it.
  4. When you are young, you use your health to chase your wealth; when you are old, you use your wealth to buy back your health. Difference is that, it is too late.
  5. How happy a man is, is not how much he has but how little he needs. 
6. No point working so hard to provide for the people you have no time to spend with. 
  Remember this -- We come to this world with nothing, we leave this world with nothing!

Gandhi: The apostle of peace and non-violence

Gurjit Singh, Jakarta | Opinion | Tue, October 02 2012, 9:09 AM
The writer is Ambassador of India to Indonesia.

Today we remember a great human being, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, or Mahatma Gandhi. As we commemorate the 143rd anniversary of the birth of this apostle of peace and non-violence, we also mark the 106th anniversary of the launch of Satyagraha, a movement of peaceful resistance, which was founded in South Africa on Sept. 11, 1906.

This movement created a sequence of events that had hitherto not been seen in human history and it ultimately led to the political liberation and creation of representative democracy in India, South Africa and in many post-colonial and other developing countries.

Mahatma Gandhi came from a family of modest means, which lived in the state of Gujarat of India.  He was the son of a senior government official. Born on Oct. 2, 1869, he studied in a local school and college. He traveled to London in 1888 to study law at University College and trained as a barrister at the Inner Temple.

He returned to India in 1891 after being called to the Bar and made efforts to establish a legal practice in Bombay and subsequently in Rajkot. He accepted a 12-month contract from an Indian company near Durban in South Africa and sailed there in what turned out to be a major voyage of political discovery.

Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa where his political skills were honed. He suffered discrimination in its full force.

The incident where he was forcibly removed from a first-class compartment of a train at Pietermaritzburg, and landed with a thud on the platform, led to a blow against the discriminatory political system in South Africa.

He extended his stay in South Africa, and worked with Indians facing discrimination there. He founded the Natal Indian Congress in 1894 and continued his work there experimenting with Satyagraha till he returned to India in 1915.

Upon his return home, Gandhi slowly and carefully transformed the movement for the freedom of India into a people’s movement by applying the principles of Satyagraha and taking it out of the drawing rooms and courtrooms and on to the streets.

Until he took the leadership, the Indian freedom movement had largely followed the legal process and worked within the political institutions in colonial India. The sheer momentum of the popular expression of unwillingness to be governed by the unequal and oppressive laws of colonialism led to cracks in the seemingly solid edifice of colonialism in India.

Satyagraha was an important element of Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy and action. It initiated political processes to challenge injustice without violence, without hating the administrators and challenging the system on its own terms. It is interesting to remember that he held a contest in South Africa to give this movement a name and from various suggestions that he obtained, he chose “Sadagraha” which translated into “insistence on truth”.

Satyagraha propounded non-violence and non-aggression as a means to an end. Essentially, it altered the terms of power and authority and provided ordinary people with the ability to challenge the system without resorting to violence or accentuating divisions within segmented societies.

Between his experiments in South Africa and his leadership of the national movement in India, Gandhi created a spirit of participative democracy which held people in both these countries and many others in good stead.

Satyagraha and its political dimensions were clearly manifested in Gandhi’s own insistence on ends and means being inseparable, he believed firmly “as the means so the end”. Gandhi said that if a person pursued change with hatred in the heart towards anyone, the person would only get hatred in return and if injustice was to be fought with violence and other injustices, it would mar the results obtained.      

In 1925, when the transformation of the national movement into a mass movement had already taken place, Gandhi wrote “No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is ‘making sacred’.  He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice”.

Gandhi as a person was deeply religious though socially he promoted harmony among various religions and religious entities. It was his belief that spiritualism could be attained through prayers and fasts and that could create people with an absence of fear, hatred or greed. His own spirituality was based on religion generating the belief that many people, in spite of their extant differences, were all members of one family and that is what the new nation state could strive for.

It was his firm belief that individual religiosity could contribute to the creation of good people and such people would be the cornerstones of good societies. He was appreciative of many religions and faiths because he affirmed that tolerance and acceptance of this diversity of faiths was an instrument for the development of good society and for good governance.

One of the greatest attributes of Mahatma Gandhi was the simplicity with which he spoke, wrote and communicated. In his time, there was no Internet or its offspring, like Twitter and Facebook, to spread a message. Yet, his message travelled rapidly within India and abroad, each time he undertook a fast, a protest or a campaign.

In many ways, Gandhi was what today we would call a blogger for he wrote every day, whether he was incarcerated in a jail or traveling. He wrote for Young India and Navjivan, newspapers that carried his thoughts on a daily basis and some other publications in addition to which he wrote daily letters to people and newspapers, whose message was widely circulated and these contributions were looked forward to every day much like the blogs of today.

Gandhi remains an immortal symbol of love and understanding all over the world. The two aspects of Gandhi as a human being and Gandhi as a political leader were summed up by him in 1922, “The only virtue I want to claim is truth and non-violence. I lay no claim to superhuman powers. I want none. I wear the same corruptible flesh that the weakest of my fellow beings wears and is, therefore, as liable to err as any. My services have many limitations, but God has up to now blessed them in spite of the imperfections.”

Oct. 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, is celebrated in India as Gandhi Jayanti and is one of the three national holidays. In January 2007, a Satyagraha Conference was held in New Delhi to mark the centenary of the launch of Satyagraha in South Africa and a resolution at the Conference called for the day to be observed as an International Day of Non-violence.

This was accepted by the United Nations General Assembly on June 15, 2007.  The resolution by the General Assembly requests all member countries to commemorate Oct. 2 in a fitting manner to disseminate the message of non-violence including through education and public awareness.

This year, the Embassy of India will commemorate Gandhi Jayanti and the International Day of Non-Violence by instituting the annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture, the first of which will be delivered by Boediono, the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia.

Several Indian cultural associations will organize events to increase people-to-people exchanges and enhance philanthropic activities, including a blood donation camp, donation of wheel chairs, and artificial limbs, cataract operations and the like.

Paradise : Where is it?

In the bible at Genesis chapter it's written :

Gen 2:8

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Gen 2:9

And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

Gen 2:10

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Gen 2:11

The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Gen 2:12

And the gold of that is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

Gen 2:13

And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Kush (Ethiopia).

Gen 2:14

And the name of the third river is Tigris : that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

Based on that text Eden Garden should be in Iran / Iraq. But until today the location of Eden Garden is not found. That's because the river Gihon and the river Pison are not exactly found. So where is the true location? It's still not concluded yet.

The late Prof. Arysio Santos said in his book that he knew the location of Eden & the four rivers surround it. A few of the rivers were in the ocean right now. He didn't write the name of the rivers in his book "Atlantis : The Lost Continent Finally Found". But he did make the sketch describe the four rivers. The location is in Indonesia that he believed was the location of Atlantis, the lost continent. The location of Eden in the bible might be the replica of the original location. It's not proven yet, but who knows it can be true. He believed the Sundaland was the location of Atlantis.

Below is his answer of a question "What are indeed Atlantis and Lemuria?"

Atlantis was a continent of the Atlantic Ocean where, according to Plato, and advanced civilization developed some 11,600 years ago. Plato affirms that, as the result of a huge volcanic cataclysm of worldwide extent, this continent sunk away underseas, disappearing forever. Official Science - the one you learn at school - rejects the actual existence of Atlantis, as it has so far been unable to find any traces of its reality. But the reason for that is simple to explain. Everybody has been looking in the wrong locations, as Atlantis indeed lies in the opposite side of the world.

Lemuria, on the other hand, is an even older version of Atlantis. Lemuria is indeed the same as the Garden of Eden and other such Paradises that in fact existed and were the actual birthplace of Mankind and Civilization, precisely as the Bible and other Holy Books affirm. From there, civilization spread to Atlantis and other parts of the world, in the dawn of times, some 20 or 30 thousand years ago, during the Ice Age.

The word paradise came from the word "para + desa"(Dravidian). "Para desa" means a village that very far. In Indonesia a village is called "desa". The word "desa" came from Sanskrit languange. It's one of language that enrich Indonesian language. Hinduism were widely affected this country in 4th century until 13th century. Sanskrit is a languange developed after the dravidian language. So Dravidian languange is older than Sanskrit.

Bali is well known as paradise island in the world. I have an American friend called Phoenix said that " Ubud is a paradise on earth". That's why she like to live there.

Paddy : A Plant that Change Man History

In Indonesia paddy (Oryza sativa) is a very important plant. Almost 70% of Indonesian eat rice. Rice is made from paddy added with water and cooked. Mostly Asians also consume this food such as Japan, China, Korean, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippians etc.

In ancient time, mankind were live nomad-en. Mostly our ancestors were hunters. After they found plant & able to grow it then the civilization started. Recently the scientist found rice in ..... which came from 15,000 BC. When did paddy firstly find? Maybe older than that time. The word "rice" was came from the word "sa ricci" (Dravidian). It means a plant in the

swamp.

After men were able to make plantation they made civilization such house, irrigation, etc. Knowledge start to develop until today. But when & where did it found is remain a mystery. Only time & new discovery will provide more accurate data.

Until today paddy field are found in Indonesia, especially in Java & Bali. In Bali the irrigation system called "Subak" is very important for this plant. Paddy will be grow in 3 (three) months. It needs water very much, that's why irrigation system will have significant impact to the result. Because Indonesia is located in equator, harvesting could be 2 times per year or more. Depend on agriculture system.

In Bali the "terasering" paddy rice fields is very beautiful. "Terasering" means the rice field are not in the same level, it in the different levels such stairs. You can see it in the movie "Eat, Pray, Love".

Did Hitler Live & Die in Indonesia?

Who doesn't know about Hitler, the Germany leader in world war 2. With his obsession & pride he wanted to conquer the world and make Aryan race (In-do German) become the supreme race. In the end after allies bombed Japan in Hiroshima & Nagasaki the German also defeated. Many of German leader fled across many countries. Even Adolf Hitler was running out of the country but never found until today.

In October 10, 2010 I went to Gramedia, a book store in Denpasar, Bali. My eyes catch the book which Title : "Hitler Mati di Indonesia" it means "Hitler Died in Indonesia". While waiting my wife selecting books at other section I read this book. For me it's quite interesting, but odd & strange. Is it real? That's the first question in my mind. So I read the book in a glimpse around 15 minutes.

It's very interesting, a few important information is written in the book. Hitler used the name doctor Poch entered Indonesia via Dompu, Sumbawa Besar, Indonesia. It's a clever move, he didn't enter big cities. I think he afraid to be found. So he chose East Indonesia region.

He had second wife, the name is Sulaesih, a sundanese woman. Sunda is a tribe from West Java. I think it's also a clever chose. I believe he did it on purpose, not just falling in love with a new woman. The capital city of Indonesia is Jakarta (Batavia), it's located in West Java. So when

he visit his wife families, he will be able to monitor & get important news. Or his wife keep contact with her familes & doctor Poch would receive the news too. As husband & wife they would keep communicating, didn't they?

The key witness was doctor Sosrohusodo. He was graduated from University of Indonesia. Once he wrote his opinion in one article on "Pikiran Rakyat" News on 1983. When I was in elementary school I heard about this, but I didn't concern about it that time.

He was also interviewed by media on February 24, 1994. The result of the interview was written on "Pikiran Rakyat" News. This article is posted in many blogs or websites today.

Eventually doctor Poch was died and burried in a public cemetery at Ngagel Street, Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.

The puzzle of Adolf Hitler came out again & became hot news after on September 28, 2009 The Daily Telegraph made a report that the skeleton assumed belong to Hitler and kept in Russia was discovered not belong to him. In a Program History Channel Documentary, that England News explained that the skeleton is belong to a woman who died under 40 years old.

More interesting huh? Is it possible that Adolf Hitler died in Indonesia? It's possible, but who will take the DNA test of the skeleton? And recently, early November 2013, a U-boat (submarine) was discovered in Java Sea. It's emphasize the existence of Nazi in Indonesia during World War II. Just wait & see.

If you want to know more about the news, article or the book (only availabe in Bahasa Indonesia) simply klik the link below :

1. http://news.okezone.com/read/2010/07/29/285/357851/hitler-mati-di-indonesia

2. http://nasional.vivanews.com/news/read/131304-hitler_meninggal_di_indonesia_

3. http://indobestseller.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/sejarah-terungkap-adolf-hitler-meninggal-di-indonesia/
4. http://ahmadsamantho.wordpress.com/2013/07/16/hitler-kabur-ke-indonesia-dan-kirim-senjata-buat-penjuang-indonesia-via-soekarno/
5. http://www.republika.co.id/berita/nasional/umum/13/11/19/mwhiqq-bangkai-kapal-selam-nazi-jerman-ditemukan-di-laut-jawa
6. http://www.republika.co.id/berita/nasional/umum/13/11/21/mwhk94-ini-identitas-bangkai-kapal-selam-jerman-yang-tenggelam 

If you have any comment, please do not hesitate to write a comment or contact me.

A New Human - Story of the "Hobbits" of Flores, Indonesia

In the Middle of 2010, during lunch together with friends in Nusa Dua, my England friend told me he had an interesting book. This book is is a story about exploration by a team from Australia, England, Indonesia etc. that discover a new human species in Flores, Indonesia. It's very interesting for me. Soon I read this book, this is the brief story inside it.In 2004 there was publication for exploration discovery of a new human species "Homo Floresiensis" in Liang Bua.

Liang Bua is a huge cave with dimension around 50 x 100 m2 with the height 50 metre. The Cave is located at Flores Island, Indonesia.

The team from "ARKENAS" cooperate with the researchers team from Australia, England and other countries discovered fosils from a new human species they called "Hobbit" from Flores Island.
 

  It's 1 (one) metre tall with brain volume around 380 cc. A normal

human has brain volume around 1000 up to 1500 cc.After examining the fossils with many methods such carbon, magnetic, fusion, geology, etc. the team found out the age of the fossils is 840.000

years. This was the second biggest discoveries after water discovery in Mars planet. Unfortunately the publication in Indonesia was not big enough. Even

National Geographic &Discovery Channel already made the film of the exploration discovery.

 If you want to know more details about the discovery, please read the book with title : A New Human, The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the "Hobbit" of Flores, Indonesia. The writer was the team leader of the scientists. The name is Mike Morwood.

This book is available in English version, the Bahasa Indonesia version is not available yet. It's concerned as one of Smithsonian Books".He excavated "Liang Bua" and found artifacts in the same deposits as Stegodon fossils.

The team were following the steps of Father Theodor Verhoeven. He was a missionary there. He used "Liang Bua" as a teaching room. Everyday he teachs and educates the native children there in 1963.

It's amazing that he can estimate the age of the fossils using old technique but could conluded that the age of the fossils was 800.000 years ago.

But that time the archeological establishment refused to accept his findings or conclusion.

If we checked the Bible, from Adam to Abraham is around 2000 years. From Abraham to Jesus is around 2000 years. From Jesus until today is 2011 years. So totally from the first human until today is around 6000 years. Our ancestor has a very big gap with the fossils of the human from Flores Island which is 840.000 years old.

In the book page 187, I read a sentence below :
"The discovery also generated all sorts of interpretations of philosophical, biological, anthropological and archaelogical issues. Prominent anthropologist and author Desmond Morris, presumably an atheist, claimed that "the discovery of a human 'hobbit' on Flores would force many religions to

examine their basic beliefs."

Press Conference

There was also a press conference in Jakarta on March 28, 2004 to mark the first Indonesian edition of National Geographic, to come out in April. By happy chance, the cover story for 10 million copies of the magazine produced in nearly 30 different editions around the world just happened to be an Indonesian story --- the finding of Homo floresiensis and its implication --- with an article by Thomas Sutikna, Bert Roberts and Mike Morwood.

The Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, senior people from the National Geographic Society in Washington and Asia, members of the press, researchers from ARKENAS and about 200 dignitaries attented the launch. It began at 7 p.m. at the Gedung Arsip Nasional with a children's choir, musicians, a banquet dinner and an archeological display organized by ARKENAS.

The display featured the LB1 lower jaw;skull and arm bones;the second, damaged lower jaw;a range of stone artifacts and animal bones; and in pride of place there was an anatomically accurate, lifelike model of the head of Hobbit.

Speeches were made emphasizing the importance of the new Indonesian magazine for promoting education, conservation and research---during which Terrance Adamson, the executive vice president of National Geographic, described Homo floresiensis as "the most astounding finding in world paleoanthropology in the last 50 years." After also speaking, President Yudhoyono signed a large poster of the first cover of the Indonesian version of the magazine featuring the depiction of a wild-eyed LB1, and was then presented with a framed photograph of the same. On the way out, President Yudhoyono and a large entourage visited the display to see LB1, guided by Thomas Sutikna, Rokus Awe Due and Harry Widianto. It was a great night for Indonesian archaeology.

Sponsor :

Australian Research Council, the University of New England & the University of Wollongong dan National Geographic Society. Prof. Michael Macklin (UNE Dean of Arts) & Dr. John Francis (National Geographic) helped greatly in obtaining additional financial backing. Craig Robinson of Melbourne made a private donation.

Associated fieldwork was undertaken in collaboration with two Indonesian counterpart organizations. The team leader thank to Dr. Haris Sukendar, Dr. Tony Djubiantono & Prof. Raden Pandji Soejono of the National Research Centre for Archeology (ARKENAS);and Mr. Bambang Dwiyanto, Dr. Djadjang Sukarna, Mr. Didik Kosasih & Dr. Fachroel Aziz of the Geological Research and Development Centre in Bandung.
Collegues contributor to the project :Abraham Gampar, Adam Brumm, Bert Roberts, Bill Jungers, Carol Lentfer, Chris Turney, Doug Hobbs, Gert van den Bergh, Harry Truman Simanjuntak, Iwan Kurniawan, Jack Rink, Jacqueline Collins, Jatmiko, Jian Xin Zhao, Jose Abrantes, Kerrie Grant, Kira Westaway, Mangatas Situmorang, Mark Moore, Michael Bird, Netty Polhaupessy, Paul O'Sullivan, Peter Brown, Rokus Awe Due, Sri Wasisto, Suminto, Susan G. Larson, Thomas Sutikna, Tular Sudarmadi, Victoria Paine, Wahyu Saptomo & Yani Yuiawati.
The team leader also acknowledge the generous support of local authorities, particularly staff from the Manggarai, West Manggarai, Ngadha & Nusa Tenggara Timur administrations, as well as local participants in the surveys and excavations, including Agus Mangga, Alex Gadhu, Andras Mali, Ansel Musa Ganda, Benyamin Tarus, Dius Nggaa, Domi Ben, Domi Deo, Ferri Bali, Flori Bali, Gaba Gaur, Ginus Denga, Kornelius Podha, Kristo Fores, Minggus Siga, the late Musa Bali, Petrus Mangar, Pit Ludu, Rikus Bandar, Rius Laru, Sius Sambut & Willem Lewa Nau.

Extensive editorial changes to previous drafts by Penny Jordan, Gert van den Bergh, Kathy Morwood, Mark Moore, Tim Whiting, Catherine Hill & Sara Foster (Random House) & Thomas Kelleher (Smithsonian) helped pull the book together, while Bert Robers, Colin Groves, Dean Falk, Doug Hobbs, Fachroel Azis, Iain Davidson, John de Vos & Thomas Sutikna checked sections.

Penny van Oosterzee, the co writer would like to offer special thanks to a number of people for help with key insights into the sections on biogeography and sea currents. These include Robert Hall at the Royal Holloway Institute, London, for new information on plate tectonics and currents during glacial periods;Lars van den Hoeke Ostende from the National Museum of National History, Leiden, for his expertise on rodents and their origin, for directing her to Antoni Alcover from the Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avancats, Mallorca, and for the pivotal information on the Balearic Islands and the sea currents surrounding them. Finally, Lawrence Heaney from the Field Museum, Chicago, enthusiastically provided valuable information on island biogeography, generally, and that relating to the Philippines in particular.

Bali & Atlantis-The Lost Continent

After two weeks I finished reading the book written by a researcher from Brazil. It's title : Atlantis-The Lost Continent Finally Found. The writer, Prof. Arysio Santos Ph.D. dedicated 30 years of his life to research the location of Atlantis. I read the book that already translated in Bahasa Indonesia. The book contain 677 pages, I enjoy reading it. Even it's quite thick but I felt like addicted and couldn't stop reading till the end.

There is one interesting part written in the book about Bali Island. The writer said Bali Island was the edge of Atlantis (around 11,600 years ago). The strait of Lombok was the entry to the Atlantis. Mt. Agung in Bali island and Mt. Rinjani in Lombok island were the first pair of Pillar Hercules. It's called Pillar Hercules because when the mountain erupted the lava & ashes would be in high sky & forming a big pillar. It's interesting isn't it? If you have any comment please let me know.

Indonesia & Atlantis-The Lost Continent

In the night at the end of July, 2010 when I was taking rest at my house in Denpasar, Bali, I saw a TV news program from a local TV. A few men were interviewed about the possibility that Indonesia might be the location of Atlantis-the lost continent. Most of the people interviewed had positive attitude about the news. As Indonesian citizen I could feel the same way of what they felt. Surprised but happy & pride inside. But how could it be? What I knew so far the word Atlantis means the civilization should be around Atlantic Ocean.

The TV program also broad casted a video clip showing a researcher being interviewed by a reporter. Almost at the end of the interview the researcher said the ancestor of ancient Egyptian said Egypt was the "second home" for them. So, where was the first one? It should be somewhere out of Egypt and it's in Indonesia or what the ancient people called East Indies.

A Professor from Brazil, Dr. Arysio Santos, Ph.D is the researcher who discovered it. He made research for about 30 years. But he never went to Indonesia, that's what I heard in the news. The documentary film that show an interview with Prof. Arysio Santos' was broad casted that time. It's very interesting to me. Driven by curiosity I search the website and found the website link at http://www.atlan.org/
After browsing the website, I started to know the logical thinking of the researcher. He made a checklist (a total of 32) and the area that 100% match is the East Indies (area from India to Indonesia). We can find the Atlantis checklist in the Free Articles/The Scientific Evidence section in the website.

• In history lesson when I was in junior high, I was taught by my teacher that Indonesian ancestor came from Yunnan, a highland in South China. They came to Indonesia around 200 BC. It's logical and make sense. I saw a film made by National Geographic shows that half of the minority ethnic in China live in Yunnan. It made Indonesian became multi cultural & tribes because the ancestors also came from many ethnic in China.

• The atlantis civilization was 11,600 years ago (around 9,600 BC). It means the Atlantis people were not the ancestor of Indonesian. But the location of Atlantis might be in Indonesia. There are many earthquakes here because there is intersection between Mediterranean & circum-Pacific ring of fire. Luckily the intersection is in the ocean around Maluku Islands. So the effect of earthquakes there is not severe. Not to mention that there was the greatest volcano eruption around 75,000 years ago at Lake Toba. We can see the illustrated movie from Discovery Channel. There was a huge Tsunami in Sumatra a few years ago. The victims of this nature accident was around 200,000 people died. Maybe this nature power was the one that create huge flood and made atlantis civilization vanished. There are shallow oceans around Java & Sumatra Islands. The depth is around 200 m. Are those places might be the location of the last continent? Let's the scientiests reveal it.

I was quite surprised when I knew that Prof. Arysio Santos passed away on September 9, 2005. It was Frank Joseph Hoff the president of Atlantis Publications Inc. who let me knew about it after I sent an email to him. I thought the Prof. should be very happy if he could go here to continue the research. His research is a great "Gift to the World". He already made a book about his research, the book already translated in to Bahasa Indonesia and is available in many bookstores throughout Indonesia via Mr. Hoff's Publishers in Indonesia Ufuk Publishing House:

• (http://www.ufukpress.com/modules.php?name=Katalog&op=tampilbuku&bid=158)


• There will be INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURE, PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE OF ANCIENT SUNDA CIVILIZATION on October 27, 2010 in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. As the one who has Prof. Arysio Santos' researcher, business & marketing agent for over 12 (twelve) years, Frank Joseph Hoff will speak at that conference. I can only say Good Luck to him & all the team involved, including Indonesian people who will join the conference.

What is Obama stands for? It's only a joke but is it coincident?

O -Originally
B- Born in
A- Africa to
M- Manage the
A- Americans

Cheers

Text of President Barack Obama's inaugural address on Tuesday, as delivered

OBAMA : My fellow citizens:

I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Bush for his service to our nation, as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because we the people have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents.

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable but no less profound is a sapping of confidence across our land — a nagging fear that America 's decline is inevitable, and that the next generation must lower its sights.

Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met.

On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.

On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics.

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted — for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.

For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg ; Normandy and Khe Sanh.

Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.

This is the journey we continue today. We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year. Our capacity remains undiminished. But our time of standing path, of protecting narrow interests and putting off unpleasant decisions — that time has surely passed. Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America .

For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act — not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. All this we will do.

Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them — that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply. The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. Those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account — to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day — because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.

Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control — and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous. The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart — not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.

As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our founding fathers ... our found fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake. And so to all the other peoples and governments who are watching today, from the grandest capitals to the small village where my father was born: know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity, and that we are ready to lead once more.

Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. Instead, they knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint.

We are the keepers of this legacy. Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort — even greater cooperation and understanding between nations. We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan . With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet. We will not apologize for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defense, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus — and non-believers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth; and because we have tasted the bitter swill of civil war and segregation, and emerged from that dark chapter stronger and more united, we cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon di ssolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself; and that America must play its role in ushering in a new era of peace.

To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West — know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.

To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford in difference to the suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and di stant mountains. They have something to tell us, just as the fallen heroes who lie in Arlington whisper through the ages. We honor them not only because they are guardi ans of our liberty, but because they embody the spirit of service; a willingness to find meaning in something greater than themselves. And yet, at this moment — a moment that will define a generation — it is precisely this spirit that must inhabit us all.

For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter' s courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility — a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.

This is the price and the promise of citizenship.

This is the source of our confidence — the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.

This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed — why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent Mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.

So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America 's birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:

"Let it be told to the future world ... that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive...that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet (it)."

America, in the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we di d not turn back nor di d we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

Thank you. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America .