The Scientology Handbook has a wealth of information that anyone can use to improve relationships, communication, work, marriages, raising children and more. www.scientologyhandbook.org

Mr. David Miscavige is humanitarian whose scope is huge - effectively using the technology of Scientology to change conditions for the better throughout the world. Here is a page with information on this remarkable man. www.scientologytoday.org/bio

Scientology Volunteer Ministers

There is something pretty amazing about people who are oriented so thoroughly to helping people. Not for any personal reason - just to help them.

One reason the Scientology Volunteer Minsiters are so active in disasters is that they know they can help. It makes a world of difference, when you are confident in your abilities and you know how much better you can make it for someone in need of help.

Scientology Berlin

There's been a lot of talk about the new Church of Scientology of Berlin, I guess what I like best about it is the new public information panels. Anyone can just walk in and take their own time to find out what Scientology is really all about.

One of my favorite blogs described it this way:

Explained at a Scientology event by Mr. David Miscavige — Chairman of the Board of Religious Technology Center, which is the holder of the Scientology & Dianetics trademarks — this organization includes panels that literally let anyone walk in, touch a screen, and then by themselves — with no input from others or person trying to explain anything — get a full explanation of the various facets and practices of Scientology.

Mr. David Miscavige exemplifies a true humanitarian - driving forward actions that effectively help people on a factually worldwide scale. His dedication to this can be seen in an interview that was done on him by the St. Petersburg Times, which can be found at www.sptimes.com/TampaBay/102598/scientologypart1.html

David Miscavige going to Berlin?

Do you think David Miscavige will be attending the grand opening of the Church of Scientology of Berlin this weekend?

This is going to be such an exciting event!

Random Acts of Kindness

You know the fish story? The one about - if you give a person a fish it can feed him and his family for one day. But if you TEACH him to fish it can feed him, his family, friends and community for the rest of their lives?

That's why I put my volunteer time into Scientology project like the Scientology Volunteer Ministers -- because I know that by giving people tools to help themselves and their families I am really making a difference.

Kofi Annan Completes 10-Year Term as UN Secretery General

Annan's 10 years at the head of the UN are described in a story in the LA Times today, including:

"Annan, the son of a chieftain from Ghana, was christened 'Anthony' but was known by the name Kofi, which means 'born on Friday.' He joined the bottom ranks of the U.N. in 1962 and didn't plan to stay longer than four years, he said. But he quietly rose through the institution to head the peacekeeping department. In December 1996, the Clinton administration pushed him as its candidate to replace Boutros-Boutros Ghali, the outspoken Egyptian secretary-general it deemed a liability to U.S. interests.

"Annan was chosen because he was an African who knew the U.N. system, and had proved that he was pragmatic and effective and could work with the United States when he oversaw peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Haiti. But most important, he did not have a political agenda or an overweening ego that could put him in conflict with the U.S. By the end of Annan's decade, however, he grew to be a quiet but compelling challenger to Washington."

The article goes on to say:

"In 2002, President Bush challenged the Security Council to confront Iraq or stand aside, and while the U.S. attempted for six months to gain the U.N.'s stamp of legitimacy for its long-planned invasion, it ended up going into Iraq without it.

nnan cited the failure to stop the Iraq war as the worst moment of his career.

"'I really did everything I could to try to see if we could stop it,' he said, including desperate rounds of phone calls and meetings with every leader he could reach, with every proposal he could think of. In April 2003, weeks after the invasion began, Annan literally lost his voice.

"He seemed to lose his nerve as well, taking weeks off with what was described as 'a very bad cold,' but what aides described later as a sort of depression or 'paralysis of despair. ' He returned, somewhat diminished but determined to make the U.N. the kind of institution that the U.S., or any other country, would find indispensable.

"Washington went into Iraq without the U.N.'s blessing, but it also had to do without significant U.N. help in rebuilding the country, an essential piece of postwar planning that the administration had assumed the world body would take on. Annan did send a team of his best and brightest, including his close friend and diplomatic icon, Sergio Vieira de Mello. Another one of the most painful moments of his career came in August 2003, when the bombing of the U.N.'s headquarters in Baghdad killed 22 people — many of whom he had personally asked to go. De Mello was among those slain.

"Those deaths 'hit me as much as the loss of my twin sister,' Annan said this month. His sister, Efua, died in 1991 after an illness.">>>