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Discover the Mystery in the Hidden Dimensions of Your LifeBy Deepak Chopra in Mystery on March 12th, 2007 / One Comment
The greatest hunger in life is not for food, money, success, status, security, sex, or even love from the opposite sex. Time and again people have achieved all of these things and wound up still feeling dissatisfied – indeed, often more dissatisfied than when they began.
The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found.
The pearl is also called essence, the breath of God, the water of life, holy nectar – labels for what we, in our more prosaic scientific age, would simply call transformation.
Transformation means radical change of form, the way a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly. In human terms, it means turning fear, aggression, doubt, insecurity, hatred, and emptiness into their opposites. Can this really be achieved? One thing we know for certain: The secret hunger that gnaws at people's souls has nothing to do with externals like money, status, and security. It's the inner person who craves meaning in life, the end of suffering, and answers to the riddles of love, death, God, the soul, good and evil. A life spent on the surface will never answer these questions or satisfy the needs that drive us to ask them.
Finding the hidden dimensions in yourself is the only way to fulfill your deepest hunger.
After the rise of science, this craving for knowledge should have faded, but it has only grown stronger. There are no new "facts" to discover about life's hidden dimensions. Nobody needs to peer at more CAT scans of patients undergoing a near-death experience or take more MRIs of yogis sitting deep in meditation. That phase of experimentation has done its work: We can be assured that wherever consciousness wants to go, the human brain will follow. Our neurons are capable of registering the highest spiritual experiences. In some ways, however, you and I know less about the mystery of life than our ancestors.
We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all, to be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature.
That presence, which is found in every particle of creation, suffuses your life, too. You are a book of secrets waiting to be opened, although you probably see yourself in totally different terms. On a given day, you are a worker, a father or mother, husband or wife, a consumer combing the mall stores for something new, an audience member waiting impatiently for the next entertainment.
When you are living the truth of one reality, every secret reveals itself without effort or struggle.
It comes down to the age-old choice of separation or unity. Do you want to be fragmented, conflicted, torn between the eternal forces of darkness and light? Or do you want to step out of separation into wholeness? You are a creature who acts, thinks, and feels. Spirituality fuses these three into a single reality. Thinking doesn't lord it over feeling; feeling doesn't stubbornly resist the higher brain; doing occurs when both thought and feeling say, "This is right." The one reality can be recognized because once you are there, you experience the flow of life without obstacles or resistance.
In this flow, you encounter inspiration, love, truth, beauty, and wisdom as natural aspects of existence. The one reality is spirit, and the surface of life is only a disguise with a thousand masks that keeps us from discovering what is real. A thousand years ago, such a statement would have met with no argument. Spirit was accepted everywhere as the true source of life. Today, we have to look with new eyes at the mystery of existence, for as proud children of science and reason, we have made ourselves the orphans of wisdom.
Therefore, this book must work on two fronts. First, it must persuade you that there really is a mystery lying in the hidden dimensions of life. Second, it must inspire you to feel the passion and dedication required to get there. This isn't a project to postpone until you are ready. You have been ready since the day you forgot to keep asking who you are and why you are here. Sadly, most of us keep shutting out thousands of experiences that could make transformation a reality. If it weren't for the enormous effort we put into denial, repression, and doubt, each life would be a constant revelation.
Ultimately you have to believe that your life is worth investigating with total passion and commitment. It took thousands of tiny decisions to keep the book of secrets closed, but it takes only a single moment to open it again.
I take it literally when the New Testament says, "Ask and you will receive, knock and the door will be opened." It's that simple. You will know every secret about life when you can truly say I must know. I can't wait a moment longer. Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree and Jesus wrestling with demons in the desert are symbolic of the same drama of the soul that you were born to repeat. Never doubt this: You are the most significant being in the world, because at the level of the soul you are the world. You don't have to earn the right to know. Your very next thought, feeling, or action can begin to uncover the deepest spiritual wisdom, which flows as pure and free as mountain waters in spring. It isn't possible for the self to keep secrets from itself forever, no matter how thoroughly we've been trained to believe otherwise.
Secret #1: The Mystery of Life Is Real
The life you know is a thin layer of events covering a deeper reality. In the deeper reality, you are part of every event that is happening now, has ever happened, or ever will happen. In the deeper reality, you know absolutely who you are and what your purpose is. There is no confusion or conflict with any other person on earth. Your purpose in life is to help creation to expand and grow. When you look at yourself, you see only love.
The mystery of life isn't any of these things, however. It's how to bring them to the surface. If someone asked me how to prove that there really is a mystery of life, the simplest proof would be just this enormous separation between deep reality and everyday existence. Ever since you and I were born, we've had a constant stream of clues hinting at another world inside ourselves. Haven't you ever fallen into a moment of wonder? Such moments may come in the presence of beautiful music, or in the sight of natural beauty that sends a shiver up your spine. Or you may have looked out of the corner of your eye at something familiar – morning sunlight, a tree swaying in the wind, the face of someone you love as he or she sleeps – knowing in that moment that life was more than it appears to be.
Countless clues have come your way, only to be overlooked because they didn't form a clear message. I have met an astonishing number of people whose spiritual beginnings were nothing short of amazing: As children, they may have seen a grandmother's soul leave at the moment of her death, witnessed beings of light surrounding on a birthday, traveled beyond their physical bodies, or come home from school to see a beloved family member standing in the hallway, even though the person had just died in a terrible auto accident. (One man told me he was a "bubble boy" for the first ten years of his life, journeying in his bubble high over the city and away to unknown lands.) Millions of people – this is no exaggeration but testimony from public polls – have seen themselves bathed in a pearlescent white light at times. Or they heard a voice they knew came from God. Or they had invisible guardians in childhood, secret friends who protected them while they slept.
Eventually, it became clear to me that more people have had such experiences – truly secret voyages into a reality separated from this one by a flimsy veil of disbelief – than not. Parting the veil means changing your own perception. This is a personal, totally subjective, yet very real shift.
Where would you begin to solve a mystery that is everywhere, yet somehow never forms a whole message? A great sleuth like Sherlock Holmes would start his search from one elementary deduction: Something unknown wants to be known. A mystery that doesn't want to be known will just keep retreating the closer you come to it. The mystery of life doesn't behave that way: Its secrets are revealed immediately if you know where to look.
But where is that?
The body's wisdom is a good entry point into the hidden dimensions of life, because although completely invisible, the body's wisdom is undeniably real – a fact that medical researchers began to accept in the mid-1980s. The former view was that the brain's capacity for intelligence was unique. But then signs of intelligence began to be discovered in the immune system, and then in the digestive system. In both these systems, special messenger molecules could be observed circulating through every organ, bringing information to and from the brain, but also functioning on their own. A white cell that can distinguish between invading enemy bacteria and harmless pollen is making an intelligent decision, even though it floats in the bloodstream apart from the brain.
Ten years ago, it would have seemed absurd to speak of intestines being intelligent. The lining of the digestive tract was known to possess thousands of nerve endings, but these were just remote outposts of the nervous system – a way for it to keep in touch with the lowly business of extracting nutrition from food. Now it turns out that the intestines are not so lowly after all. Their scattered nerve cells form a finely tuned system for reacting to outside events – an upsetting remark at work, the threat of danger, a death in the family. The stomach's reactions are just as reliable as the brain's thoughts, and just as intricate. Your colon, your liver, and your stomach cells also think, only not in the brain's verbal language. What people had been calling a "gut reaction" turned out to be a mere hint of the complex intelligence at work in a hundred thousand billion cells.
In a sweeping medical revolution, scientists have stepped into a hidden dimension that no one had ever suspected. Cells have been outthinking us for millions of years. In fact, their wisdom, more ancient than cortical wisdom, could be the best model for the only thing more ancient than they, which is the cosmos. Perhaps the universe has been outthinking us, too. No matter where I look, I sense what cosmic wisdom is trying to accomplish. It is much the same as what I myself want to accomplish – to grow, expand, and create – the main difference being that my body is cooperating with the universe better than I manage to.
Cells have no problem fully participating in the mystery of life. Theirs is a wisdom of total passion and commitment. So let's see if we can link the qualities of bodily wisdom with the hidden dimensions we want to uncover: the wisdom you are already living.
Excerpted from 'The Book of Secrets' by Deepak Chopra, M.D. Copyright © 2004 by Deepak Chopra, M.D.. Excerpted by permission of Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Elizabeth Olsen Film 'Avengers' with a Bunch of Stunt Doubles!
Elizabeth Olsen and Aaron Taylor-Johnson get into character while heading to the set for their movie The Avengers: Age of Ultron on Monday (June 23) in London, England.
The stars, who play the sister-brother duo of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, were joined on set that day by a bunch of stunt doubles for characters such as Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, and more!
You may recognize the stunt double for Thor as Bobby Holland Hanton, who was seen hanging out with Chris Hemsworth last month in London.
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Late night hosts reflected Tuesday on the comedy gold Donald Trump cost them when he scuttled his own, er, trumped-up GOP debate — and they seemed weary of the debates still to come.
"The Donald the Trump has pulled out of his own debate that all but two of the candidates had already pulled out of," Stephen Colbert explained.
Trump said he chose to cancel the debate because his refusal to rule out a presidential run as an independent posed a conflict of interest for the Republicans.
"Folks, this would be hugely embarrassing for Trump if that were an emotion he were capable of feeling," Colbert said of the decision.
He managed to get in a dig at The Donald's distinctive hair, too.
"It might make more sense if he ran as a Whig," Colbert said.
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David Letterman had his own crack at Trump's hair's expense, wondering: "How much does it take every year in cash to feed that thing on his head?"
And the "Late Show" host devoted his "Top Ten" to the GOP debate season — 17 debates down, 12 to go — with a list of the "Top Ten Signs the Candidates Have Debate Fatigue."
Number 10: "Most frequent question from moderators: 'You awake?'"
Number six: "Last night, Romney challenged Perry to a $10,000 game of 'Words with Friends.'"
And number three: "Jon Huntsman tried to… Wait, who the hell is Jon Huntsman?"


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Will 'Moneyball' Philanthropy Work?
One Houston couple plans to give away $4 billion–but only to projects with data to prove they'll work. Former N.J. Attorney General Anne Milgram, who now works for the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, discusses with WSJ.Money's Brad Reagan.
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Enron trader and lost some hedge fund the making ... may you the most successful hedge fund in recent years serving one of ... his wife with a successful executive their own right ... and ... they just ... he retired at thirty eight and suddenly there was this money away ... and that when they started ... the kind that all the way most people ... know that when ... you get something out of one make sure their money does some good ... but then the candle above frustrated by that and and so you must be borne ... in mind into their local hospital or ... local school for the homeless shelter just to make sure their mind in ... the least alone to go ... they wanted to pursue things but that John calls and high leverage opportunities so ... things that may be overlooked for ... a variety of reasons politicians or other social services where their money ... can really have the maximum effect ... aam ... and one reason to believe that Spitzer study on right you know they they are really looking that deliver live or die ... 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everyday better among the most important society which some people thought about people's lives which defendant should be incarcerated JAL which one should be released supervision or other community corrections and ... those decisions are overwhelmingly made naturally ... without access to any doubt that without access to who the individual offenders up ... and so that's a great example where ... we're not measuring individual risk individuals close to society ... and in doing so we're spending ... billions of dollars nationally ... thirty nine jailed nations in year nine billion dollars to our street people pre-trial ... yet we're not making decisions that that's when ... he put it sometimes a baseball team no backup shortstop that a judge will know that it's ... and I think the judges are doing great out there trying to get the best account information have but historically this outages hasn't been collected in years and it hasn't been ... what we're doing is building was just built 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contests is that people have an answer ... and I think they are also the first ones to really be willing we got ... to Cali about ... health center a research studies that will come out on taxes for the next few months ... those are all geared towards answering questions like ... what does specifically supervision work for Brent what impacts is assessing how people long-term terms of ... committing war crimes trading so ... those are the kind of questions as a society we have to be asking rate would be safer ... aam and how clean the safer ... so ... here it in the education ladder and some backlash to the teacher didn't not everybody's lot it's ... right yet won twenty up stunts on ... some people ... might ... mistake summon ... the unions have ... not been great and so what the Arnold's some has some things done on pension reform and ... am not ... you know holding teachers accountable this is the way the on off button ... aam ... but I think one of things that Tom ... and with 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Four seasons in one day.
Beautiful Irish weather.
As an Irish woman, Mother and wife packing for a family holiday within Ireland involves strategic planning, facilitation skills and logistics. All vacuum packed into 3 suitcases in what my Father calls a girls city shopping car.
It's been a while since I lived in a city, so after giving away, for a song, my Honda 4 x 4 in the country in which I could have fitted my kitchen sink in the boot, this internal family holiday with my city car was without doubt a challenge. Look, I have never been a refugee from the country adopting the princess 'D4' attitude and accent.
Ireland has developed a strange breed of non-Dublin Irish born immigrants who developed the Howth accent more colloquial than Howth natives themselves during the boom years and it's roots probably born within the Yuppie years and bless these country folk for not feeling worthy.
Being more a post Corkonian and London student I now have the ability to laugh at myself back then thinking I was a tremendous intellectual with '100 Years of Solitude' bible by Marquez constantly in my rucksack with its wife (ouch) 'The Green Room' by Marilyn French.
However I did lose the weekend accent. Yes false accents are a pet hate, you might have gathered. I'm digressing. Tsk.
I had been used to packing a rucksack practically for essentials, if you can imagine the bohemian hippie student writer type.
Well not really.
Below is part of the four pages of lists I made to visit a Wexford holiday house for one week, if it is of any help to any souls.
I thought it would get easier after having two babies under 12 months a few years ago and of course it has, although we didn't bother with a family holiday in those early years…..
If you need to ask why – here's a non patronising smile 🙂
We did have a fabulous time though with crab fishing in Cahore really being the highlight. Lil Diva screaming on the pier after catching her first crab and entertaining the crowds when it escaped and chased her slowly..
Rugrat Angelica vocals.
Children X 2
- Wellies
- Kangaroo Raincoats
- Wetsuits
- 16 pants and socks
- Welly Socks
- Sandals
- Trainers / Runners
- Good Shoes
- 6 Pairs Shorts
- 6 T-shirts
- 4 Fleece Hoodies
- Summer PJ's
- Winter PJ's
- Winter bedsocks
- Dress outfits
- Wetsuits
- Swimsuits
- Floats, armbands, surfgear
- Teddies, dollies, dollies dresses
- Hairbands, brushes, clips
- Toiletries, suncream
- DS3, games, books, crayons
- DVD's
- Lego
- jigsaws
- Buckets, spades, sun hats
- Medications & thermometer
- (The – 'Ive a feeling I've forgotten something important)
Mammy & Daddy
- Whatever room is left in the boot
- Hardline essentials
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Mo. GOP Considers Party Loyalty Statement
KANSAS CITY - Top Missouri Republicans are looking for ways to ensure greater party loyalty after a supermajority in the GOP-led House recently failed to enact an income tax cut.
Meeting Saturday in Kansas City, the Missouri Republican State Committee proposed a new requirement for candidates registering to run as Republicans. They would be asked to sign a statement saying: "I have read, understand and fundamentally support the platform of the Missouri Republican Party."
Supporters of the measure noted that tax cuts ought to be a central Republican philosophy.
Fifteen Republican House members defected from party leaders this week to help sustain Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of an income tax cut. Some echoed his concerns about the effect on education funding.
The GOP committee took no action Saturday on the proposed policy.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Finding production out of tight ends in college football is always a challenge, but for Tennessee State it's no problem finding big plays out of their unit.
This season, the tight group has totaled 544 yards with eight touchdowns. As a whole, this unit has been pivotal to the success of not only the offense but the team as a whole.
"After Jacksonville State, we kind of nicknamed ourselves the Tight End University, and to have the numbers to back it up makes us feel even more like 'Tight End U,'" sophomore Joe Bowens said.
In the Jacksonville State game Bowens is referring to, the tight ends scored three of TSU's four touchdowns. A.C. Leonard led all receivers with five receptions with one touchdown and Wesley Samuels finished second on the team with 3 receptions for 37 yards and two touchdowns.
"It's good to have a big target you can go to down in the redzone and I think those guys are great targets," coach Rod Reed said of his unit.
Which is exactly what the group strives to be, especially in the redzone and on third down.
"That's what we work for - to be the first target for the quarterback," said All-American A.C. Leonard. " It's great to have a lot of passes thrown our way, and hopefully that will continue and we keep making plays."
The group has been a huge part of the offensive turnaround; after the first three games the group had totaled just 109 receiving yards. During the three game span TSU averaged 20.7 points per game and was aided by strong defensive and special teams play.
In the weeks following, the tight end unit came alive, totaling 436 yard in four games along with eight touchdowns, for an average of 109 receiving yards and two touchdowns per game.
With the jump in tight end production, Tennessee State has seen a boost in the offense's point totals. Big Blue is averaging 46.3 points in its last four contests, more than double the average from the first three games.
On the year, Leonard leads all pass catchers with 27 receptions for 378 yards and five touchdowns. Samuels ranks fourth on the team, compiling 128 yards with three touchdowns. Bowens has battled injuries this season but to show how dangerous the unit really is, as a freshman Bowens tallied 348 yards receiving with two touchdowns.
During the 2011 season, the unit's total weren't where they're at right now. That year the unit totaled just 16 receptions for 164 yards and just a single touchdown. A year later, with the arrival of dynamic tight ends Leonard and Bowens, paired up with Samuels provided TSU with one of the best years out of a tight end group.
The offensive production from tight ends went from 6.3% of the total receiving yards in coming from the position to 41.7% a season later.
Behind the scenes the transition off the field wasn't as smooth. Samuels was coming into his junior year in which he believed he would see a bump in playing time and production, but with the arrival of Leonard and Bowens the playing time was spread out.
"Last year was rocky but we've grown together," said Samuels on the transition the group made from competitors to a unit.
"We all feel that we are equally talented so we all want to be on the field, and rightfully so," Bowens added on the dynamic in the group. "When we all just accepted our roles, and did what was best for the team it made it really easy to coexist and made us more successful."
Instead of competing with each other, now the unit competes against their fellow pass catchers.
"The receivers say they're the best but the tight ends, we say we have the best core," Samuels said. "We have eight touchdowns and they have nine, but we're going to catch them."
If the group continues to make catches in the process coach Reed will be happy, as for the nickname, "Tight End U?"
"Hopefully it'll get us some more recruits to come in here," coach Reed said with a laugh.


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Judge: Defense can subpoena Trayvon Martin's school records, Facebook records
Defense files motion to sequester state witness
The judge in the second-degree murder case of George Zimmerman has ruled his defense team can subpoena Trayvon Martin's school records, Facebook records and Twitter records.
Zimmerman's attorneys had filed a motion to release the records.
"Although it sounds horrible to say we're going after the victim's reputation, but because of the 6th amendment, that's what we have to do," said Zimmerman's attorney Mark O'Mara.
After the hearing, O'Mara said actually getting the social media records will be difficult.
"They're multi-billion dollar companies. I'm not prepared at all to take on Facebook and Twitter," he said.
O'Mara said he hopes the companies realize the importance of turning over the records. He said he'll be looking at whether some records show Martin had a history of violence, which Judge Debra Nelson said could be relevant in the case.
During Friday's hearing, Nelson also allowed the prosecution to review Zimmerman's medical records but said they must keep them private.
"The medical records may indicate he has a broken nose but there are no x-rays, that he actually had that," said prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda.
It is yet to be determined if any of the records will be allowed as evidence at the trial.
Zimmerman's defense filed a motion to sequester a state witness and prevent them from talking to the prosecution before their deposition. Nelson said she would need time to review the motion to determine if she had the authority to do that.
Nelson said the prosecution would have the opportunity to respond to the motion.
Zimmerman claims the shooting on Feb. 26 was in self-defense.


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SOA Policy, Service Gateway, and SLA Management
An IBM Redbooks publication
Published 01 April 2013
IBM Form #: SG24-8101-00
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Authors: Robert Barron, Joel Gauci, Jayanthi Krishnamurthy, Robert Laird, David Shute, Stephen Willoughby, Peter Xu
This IBM® Redbooks® publication teaches you how to automate your runtime policy by using a centralized policy management system. The SOA Policy Solution provides a centralized policy administration, enforcement, and monitoring for runtime policies that enable traffic management for service level agreement enforcement, service mediation, and other customized policies. Policies can be defined once and reused among multiple services, thus enabling a standardized, consistent approach to a runtime policy that saves time and money for implementation and maintenance of non-functional requirements for the enterprise and assists with faster time to market.
Business users can use the SOA Policy Solution to help create the service level agreements for their business services to deliver on promises for business performance. IT Architects can use the SOA Policy Solution to architect the policy solution patterns that standardize the runtime policy usage at their organization. Developers select specific policy patterns to implement the non-functional requirements that are associated with their projects. Operations groups provide information about operation needs and create standardized monitoring policy for operational action at run time.
Table of contents
Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. The SOA Policy Solution
Chapter 2. Business case for using the SOA Policy Solution
Part 2. Policy examples
Chapter 3. Policy traffic management, provider only, with operations
Chapter 4. Policy traffic management and consumer provider pairs
Chapter 5. Versioning with custom policy
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Chapter 12. DataPower policy enforcement point configuration
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UNDP sets record straight on drugs debateMar 14, 2013
Mexico City – A Reuters article published today wrongly states that UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Helen Clark believes the "U.S.-led war on drugs" has failed.
Helen Clark at no point criticized U.S. policy on the so-called war on drugs during her interview with Reuters in Mexico City today.
She was speaking about the negative effects of the drug trade on development in some Latin American countries in the context of the 2013 Human Development Report, released here today.
The Report shows that more than 40 developing countries have made greater human development gains in recent decades than would have been predicted.
These achievements, it says, are largely attributable to sustained investment in education, health care and social programmes, and to open engagement with an increasingly interconnected world.
The 2013 HDR does not go into detail on issues related to the control of illegal drugs.
UNDP supports the position of the UN International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which calls for concerted action by States to prevent the manufacture, trafficking and abuse of psychoactive substances, which constitute a serious threat to public health worldwide.
According to the INCB, the global nature of the drug problem was the driving force behind the creation and adoption of the three international drug-control conventions that today form the basis of the international drug-control system.
UNDP shares the view that existing drug-control treaties are among the best available tools for addressing the world drug problem and for protecting humanity from the suffering caused by drug abuse and its impacts, such as drug-related crime and violence, of trafficking and of the illicit cultivation and production of drugs.


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Aditya Birla Sun Life AMC Ltd, a subsidiary of Aditya Birla Capital Limited, today said it plans to expand its market share in Odisha.
www.odishanow.in which hit the computer screens on the auspicious day of Sri Panchami of 2009 is the news and feature service of Suravi Art International.
Suravi Art International is an independent organization dealing with various activities such as production of audio visual programmes including fiction and non-fiction films, taking up of assignments pertaining to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Communications, events, helping NGOs in their Information Education Communication (IEC) activities and handling news related programmes.
Mrs Suravi Mishra is the Chief Executive of Suravi Art International. Sri Bijoy Ketan Mishra is the Editor-cum-Chief Correspondent of www.odishanow.in.
Mrs. Suravi Mishra, a post graduate in Political Science has been the recipient of the Best Producer of films award from Orissa Government. She has produced a number of feature and non-feature films both in video and celluloid format. Her film "Ahalya" (What the Silence Said) was in the prestigious section of Indian Panorama of International Film Festival of India in 1999.
Sri Bijoy Ketan Mishra is a seasoned journalist and an accomplished filmmaker settled in Bhubaneswar, Orissa. A post graduate in Psychology and graduate in Law, Mishra stepped in to the field of Journalism in 1983 after completing his higher studies in Delhi University. He has worked for The Telegraph, Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Sambad, Chhapte Chhapte, The Business and Political Daily and www.orissauncensored.com.
Sri Mishra too is a well known filmmaker. He has won wide appreciation for his films in international, national and state level forums.
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Parliament will be the venue today for a ground-breaking event on forgiveness, 25 years after the Provisional IRA bombed a Brighton hotel during the Conservative Party conference.
People on both sides of the incident will come together, including Patrick Magee, a former IRA member jailed for planting the bomb, who will speak alongside Jo Berry, whose father, Tory MP Anthony Berry, was killed in the blast.
The event is being run by the Forgiveness Project and hosted by the All Party Group on Conflict Issues.
It aims "to open up a dialogue about forgiveness and promote understanding through awareness, education and inspiration".
Magee was released from jail in 1999 under the Good Friday Agreement. He met Berry the following year and they have since worked together on issues of peace and forgiveness, speaking at meetings in Britain, Ireland and beyond.
This is the first time they will speak together in Parliament.
"For both of us, it's not always easy" explained Magee, "But the spur to continue comes from the feedback we get."
Magee's invitation was criticised by Norman Tebbit, whose wife was severely injured in the bombing. "I really cannot see why he should be invited to talk in the House of Commons" he said.
However, the event's organisers emphasise that they understand that forgiveness is a difficult and challenging process.
"If it were easy to forgive, we would all do it" explained Conservative MP Gary Streeter, chair of the All-Party Group on Conflict Issues, "It is not easy. That is why we are hosting this event".


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When last we left dinosaurs on television, they were starring in ABC's "Dinosaurs," an early 90's family sitcom with talking dinosaurs that you don't remember and are all the better for it. But when Steven Spielberg says he wants to make a TV show about big freakin' dinosaurs, you tend to cast lessons of history aside and ride the man's coattails.
In early 2011, Fox will debut "Terra Nova," a new series exec produced by Spielberg that is set in both the future and in prehistoric times. Cue the angry cro-magnon dude chucking a bone up into the air and seeing it turn into a spaceship. The folks at io9 got a hold of the press release for the show. Are you ready for an ambitious plotline? Here you go:
In the year 2149 the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped, overcrowded and overpolluted. With the majority of plant and animal life extinct, devotion to science has brought mankind to the brink of destruction, but has also provided its only hope for salvation. Knowing there is no way to reverse the damage to the planet, a coalition of scientists has managed to open up a fracture in the space-time continuum, creating a portal to prehistoric Earth. This doorway leads to an amazing world, one that allows for a last-ditch effort to save the human race ... possibly changing the future by correcting the mistakes of the past.
I don't really know how going back to dinosaur times will help you with things like overpopulation and pollution, unless you brought everyone with you and just started history all over again. (Note to self: NOT A BAD IDEA!) Why not just go a few years back in time, lay some money on the ponies, and use your riches to develop an anti-pollution machine? It's a flawless plan.
Anyway, the show is being pitched as "Land of the Lost" meets "Avatar," and only one of those things is good. To me, this show smells an awful lot like "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles," another Fox series that was epic in scope and hugely expensive. This isn't always the best way to go in the world of TV. You don't need big special effects and dinosaurs and stuff like that. TV is not spectacle. What's critical to the success of any TV show is character. Are these characters I want to hang out with every week? Are they complex enough that watching the show for years will uncover new layers and dimensions to who they are? That's the thing that has driven the success of every great TV show ever made. So we'll see if Spielberg has characters in mind that match the ambition of his concept. Cause it's a doozy.


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I finally got round to processing the pine 'catkins' – or 'pollen-bearing male cones' to be more precise – which I harvested back in the latter stages of November or the beginning of December from a client's garden (shh, don't tell anyone!) and which have been sitting patiently in a cardboard crate in various warm, dry places waiting for me to do something with them. So, with apologies to them and to H who has to put up with the clutter of my various projects (which, to my shame, I occasionally fail to ever follow through) here's how I went about it:
Step #1 – Harvest. Following Feral Kevin's advice I picked mainly immature cones which hadn't yet shed all their pollen in the wind and put them in my plastic lunch box to avoid spillage. These were then left to 'ripen' in the aforementioned cardboard crate, laid out in a thin layer on newspaper to maximise contact with the air and provide a surface to gather the pollen grains.
Step #2 – Sieving. It turned out there was a great deal more pollen still attached to the cones so I ended up by crushing them individually by hand which, with the help of a basting brush, got pretty much all of it. Only a few bits of chaff managed to get past the sieve, with the pollen getting variously shaken, tapped or brushed into the bowl beneath. This took me the best part of an hour, but I figure it's possible to do it much faster with practice or if you don't mind making a mess (eg: by rubbing all the cones at once with both hands).
Step #3 – Re-sieving and final storage. I decided to keep my pollen in a jam jar to avoid the possibility of paper bags breaking open. Hopefully it was dry enough by this stage that it won't spoil, although I may store it in the fridge for good measure. That's a funnel you can see in the above photo. The pollen flour was incredibly fine and dusty at this stage, swishing around almost like a liquid in a way which I found strangely satisfying. I ended up sifting it gently in a side-to-side motion through the sieve while holding the funnel directly under with the same hand because other methods were causing it to puff out little clouds up & out of the sieve and onto the surrounding surfaces.
Step #4 – Eat! It's supposed to be edible raw, but otherwise I guess I'll mix it in with other flours to make bread, scones, cookies… although I won't want to use it all in one go.
Unfortunately I've been unable so far to identify the specific species of pine tree these 'catkins' came from, so I'm breaking an important foraging rule in eating the pollen regardless and don't recommend you follow my example. However I feel quite secure personally, having established beyond reasonable doubt that the tree was from the Pinacea family and come across several sources saying that all species of pine produce edible pollen, with no warnings of toxicity from the family other than the pollen allergies people sometimes suffer, which I've never had a problem with. Anyway, I've managed to narrow it down to a non-native ornamental which self-pollinates towards the end of the year, as opposed to springtime which is most usual. My best guess would be a Cedar of some kind, though I don't think it was a Cedar of Lebanon as I didn't see any of the distinctive cones (ie: the female ones which grow big and woody and eventually bear the seeds/nuts) and the bark didn't have the same strong smell or stickiness that I've experienced on park specimens. The branches did the same helpful downward-hanging thing as F.Kevin's 'Cedrus Deodara' or Himalayan Cedar, and the male cones pictured on the wikipedia page look pretty similar to mine, but the overall shape of the tree doesn't seem to match my memory. Although '[t]he male cones are 4–6 cm (1.6–2.4 in) long, and shed their pollen in autumn' and apparently it 'is widely grown as an ornamental tree'… Answers on a postcard!
Finally a bit more reading which may be of interest, Green Deane 'Pining For You':
[Pine pollen] has over 200 identified elements from vitamins to proto male hormones… yeah, it's a guy food. It's been called the natural testosterone, androstenedione, but that is a marketing exaggeration. It has about 27 nanograms per 0.1 grams of dry weight, not suitable for the bulking up weightlifters want, but available none the less. Putting the pollen under the tongue keeps it from being destroyed by the digestive system.
Androstenedione is an adrenal hormone produced in humans. Reduce androstenedione by one molecule and you have testosterone, which both men and women have in different amounts. Androstenedione can raise testosterone levels. The effect lasts about a day. And this is how the Native Americans used it, for extra energy when they needed it. So when on the run, grab a little pine pollen. Pine pollen also seems to have a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular system as well.
And one to maybe take with a few pinches of salt (too many extravagant 'super-food' claims for my liking): 'What is pine pollen and why should I consume it?'
Oh, and here's the late great Frank Cook talking about pine pollen as a potential 'man medicine' for helping to balance out all the oestrogen-mimicking compounds in the modern environment:
I'll let you know if I sprout any new chest hairs 🙂


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Flames' Wilson earns national wrestling title
|Flames wrestler Andrew Wilson claimed the 235-pound national title Saturday, leading Liberty to a third-place team finish at the NCWA championship tournament.
Senior wrestler Andrew Wilson claimed the 235-pound national title at Saturday's 16th-annual National Collegiate Wrestling Association championship tournament, held at the Allen Event Center in Allen, Texas.
Including Wilson, the Liberty University wrestling team nabbed seven all-American nods and finished third place as a team overall, repeating its standing from last year.
This was a fruitful four-day harvest for the Flames in their second national tournament of the year, after placing second at the NCWA national duals, Jan. 18 in Georgia. They reaped one national champion in Wilson, two runner-up medalists, two third-place consolation prize winners, one fourth-place finisher, and one seventh-place showing to amass 130.5 points and finish third behind California Baptist (145.5) and McKendree (Ill., 139). Liberty's total was just two points ahead of fourth-place Lindenwood-St. Charles (128.5), the team that defeated it in the national duals final.
Liberty junior Aaron Thompson (22-6), the Flames' only returning national champion and a Mid-Atlantic Conference winner at 197 pounds, came one point short of defending his crown, falling to McKendree's Julian Smith (32-6), the Great Lakes Conference champion, 3-2 in the final.
Flames freshman Marcus Miller, a Liberty Christian Academy graduate, was one of the biggest surprises in the tournament, also claiming second-place honors with an extremely close match in the 157-pound title bout.
Liberty junior 184-pound wrestler Royal Brettrager, another returning runner-up from last year, was one of two third-place finishers along with Bobby Clymer at 165.
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Surgery Overview
Breast-conserving surgery removes the cancer and surrounding tissue. The goal is to take just enough tissue so that the breast looks as normal as possible after the surgery but the chance of the cancer coming back is low.
The size and location of tumours differs from one person to another, so the amount of tissue removed during surgery also varies. To make it simple, you can think of two general breast-conserving surgeries: a lumpectomy and a partial mastectomy.
- Lumpectomy is the surgical removal of the breast lump and some of the tissue around it. The lump is removed in one piece and sent to the lab for examination.
- Partial mastectomy is more extensive. It is the removal of the area of the breast that contains cancer, some of the breast tissue around the tumour, and the lining over the chest muscles below the tumour.
Some of the lymph nodes under the arm may also be removed during breast-conserving surgery. This is done with a separate incision. If cancer is found in those lymph nodes, more lymph nodes may be removed.
Most people who have breast-conserving surgery also have radiation therapy. You may also have chemotherapy, hormone therapy, or both.
What To Expect After Surgery
A lumpectomy can be done with local anesthesia if you are not having lymph nodes removed. If you are having lymph nodes removed or are having a partial mastectomy, you will have general anesthesia.
After your surgery, you will be taken to a recovery room. A nurse will be able to help with any nausea, pain, or anxiety you might have.
Many people go home the day of the surgery, but you may stay in the hospital for a day or two. Your doctor or nurse will give you instructions on pain control and caring for the surgical wound. Typically, you can remove the bandage and take a shower on the day after surgery. Women can wear a bra if it is comfortable. Some doctors recommend wearing a bra day and night for a few days for support.
Most people are able to get back to normal activity within a few days. But be sure to wait for your doctor to tell you when you can start with more strenuous physical activity. This will depend on the extent of the surgery and on other treatment you might be having.
If you are going to have radiation therapy, it will not start until the wound heals. This usually takes at least 4 to 6 weeks.
Why It Is Done
Breast-conserving surgery is done in early-stage breast cancer to remove as much cancer as possible and give the greatest chance of a cure.
How Well It Works
For early-stage breast cancer, breast-conserving surgery with radiation therapy has the same survival rate as mastectomy.footnote 1
Complications of breast-conserving surgery are unusual but include infection, bleeding, poor wound healing, or a reaction to the anesthesia used in surgery. Blood or clear fluid may also collect in the wound and need to be drained. You may have breast pain and feelings of pulling, pinching, tingling, or numbness.
Compared to women who have a mastectomy, women who have breast-conserving surgery have a slightly higher chance of the cancer returning.
What To Think About
The more breast tissue that is removed during this surgery, the more likely it is that there will be a noticeable change in the breast afterwards. Experts suggest that before having breast-conserving surgery, women talk with their doctors (and possibly a plastic surgeon) about what their breasts might look like after the surgery.
Breast-conserving surgery can be considered after the cancer has been staged. Breast-conserving surgery may not be the best choice in some cases, depending on the size of the tumour or if there are several tumours that are too far apart.
Breast-conserving surgery is usually followed by radiation. If you don't want to have radiation therapy or if you cannot have radiation treatment, breast-conserving surgery is not usually a good choice.
Radiation therapy has to be done on a set schedule and takes several weeks. If you do not think you can go to every appointment, talk to your doctor about other treatment options.
Surgery is almost always recommended to treat breast cancer. If breast-conserving surgery is not a good option for you, then one of the three types of mastectomy may be a better treatment choice.
- Fisher B, et al. (2002). Twenty-year follow-up of a randomized trial comparing total mastectomy, lumpectomy, and lumpectomy plus irradiation for the treatment of invasive breast cancer. New England Journal of Medicine, 347(16): 1233–1241.
Other Works Consulted
- Weber ES, Sherk SD (2009). Lumpectomy. In B Narins, ed., Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery and Medical Tests: A Guide for Patients and Caregivers, 10th ed., vol. 3, pp. 1013–1017. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale.
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Medical Review: Sarah A. Marshall, MD - Family Medicine
Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine
E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine
Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine
Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine
Douglas A. Stewart, MD, FRCPC - Medical Oncology
Laura S. Dominici, MD - Surgery, General Surgery, Oncology
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Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Sarah A. Marshall, MD - Family Medicine & Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine & E. Gregory Thompson, MD - Internal Medicine & Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine & Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine & Douglas A. Stewart, MD, FRCPC - Medical Oncology & Laura S. Dominici, MD - Surgery, General Surgery, Oncology


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The Seagull cheap tickets and show information. Get discount tickets, special offers on dinner and hotel packages with LondonNet's guide to theatre in London for The Seagull.
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. The first of Chekhov's great works, The Seagull is celebrated as one of the most important plays of the nineteenth century.
"Young love, enchanting, poetic love, the sort that transports us to the land of dreams that's only happiness life has to offer us".
The Cast
Joining double Olivier Award-winner Janie Dee, Poldark's Sabrina Bartlett and Evening Standard Award-winner Matthew Tennyson, director Matthew Dunster has assembled a remarkable cast including: Colin Hoult (Being Human, BBC), Fraser James (Liberian Girl at Royal Court / Law & Order, ITV), Lisa Palfrey (Best Actress, Theatre Critics of Wales Award for Before it Rains at Bristol Old Vic/Sherman Cymru and the film Pride directed by Matthew Warchus), Ian Redford (Antigone at the Royal Exchange, Manchester / New Tricks, BBC) and, as Boris Trigorin, Alex Robertson (who recently starred as Matthew Thorogood in the film The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: The Tie That Binds, and The Village, BBC).
Weather Policy
The auditorium and stage are completely uncovered. Regent's Park Open Air Theatre will make every effort to complete the performance, and reserves the right to stop and start the action as necessary. Performances are never cancelled or abandoned before the advertised starting time and then only in the event of very bad weather.
If cancellation or abandonment is unavoidable, ticket holders will be entitled to equivalent seats for any other performance in the main repertoire (excludes one-off comedy, music and film events), subject to availability. Refunds are not given for cancellation or abandonment as a result of the weather. In any event, personal arrangements including travel, accommodation or hospitality relating to the event which have been arranged by you are at your own risk and not refundable by us.
Where tickets were purchased at a promotional rate, alternative performances will still be offered but may be restricted. Music, comedy and film events (which are one-off events and not part of the main repertoire) take place regardless of weather conditions.
Venue: Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park, London, NW1 4NU.
Directions: (10 mins) Exit onto Marylebone Road and turn left. Past Madame Tussauds turn left into York Gate and follow York Bridge to the end. Pass through the large gates into the park and walk straight until you reach the theatre on your left.
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Reviewed by Jack, grade 6
The Gregor Series is an awesome series. Suzanne Collins is a very good writer. If you like Big Bugs and mamals, your gonna like The Gregor Series. Gregor is a normal a boy who lives in New York with his mom, his 7 year old sister, Lizzie, his grandma, and his 2 year old sister Boots. And his Dad was missing. One day he and Boots went to the laundry room and fell into the underland. Will they ever get back to the Overland?


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A small group gathered at the Pine Island Art Association in Matlacha Thursday night to talk about the Matlacha Chamber of Commerce.
Matlacha Chamber President Leoma Lovegrove began the meeting by sharing the chamber's tag line "Spend a day in Matlacha" and "Come play in Matlacha" for the whole weekend.
The mission statement is "to promote Matlacha as a destination for shopping, business, ecotourism, fishing and the arts district, and to foster and maintain the favorable relationship with local government community groups and local residents while preserving the unique and artistic qualities of the historic fishing village of Matlacha through the business community."
She explained to the group that the Matlacha Chamber of Commerce is not looking to have an office, due to it staying viral with a large online presence to promote the businesses and activities of Matlacha.
"We really want to be a cutting edge viral," Lovegrove said.
She explained that the idea is to catch individuals before they get to Matlacha.
"We want to become a destination," Lovegrove said.
Although there are only five benefits listed for when members join the the Matlacha Chamber of Commerce, Lovegrove said that list will only keep growing.
Those benefits include a directory listing on the new Matlacha Chamber of Commerce website, which will include hyperlinks to the business website and social media channels; up to 25 pictures posted in a member specific album on the Facebook page; listing in the directory that is given to all members; recognition of becoming a new member on the chamber's website and Facebook page; as well as access to marketing programs created through Lee County VCB and Visit Florida.
Lovegrove's husband, Mike Silberg, shared why it was important to start a Matlacha Chamber of Commerce.
"Matlacha is something that 99 percent of other villages don't have," he said. "We have a historic district. We represent historic Matlacha."
Silberg went on to say that the Edison Ford Estates has partnered with the Matlacha Chamber of Commerce to help promote the area.
He said with the help of various groups, they will have the ability to further promote the niche that Matlacha has to offer.
"This is an experimental chamber," Silberg said. "It has never been done before."
The nice thing about the Matlacha Chamber of Commerce, he said, is it helps those who are not social network savvy.
"This would be a perfect opportunity for them," Silberg said, because all a member has to do is send his or her information in and the chamber will take care of the rest.
Secretary and Treasurer Karen Moran said the website will include an optimized Google search for members.
The service is free for Matlacha businesses and non-profit organizations and a $35 fee for businesses outside of Matlacha to become a member.
Vice President Mike Shevlin said the Matlacha Chamber of Commerce is something that has been talked about and brought up over the years. He said the chamber is good because it gets people together and provides them the ability to talk about things that are needed and going on.
"A great communication for us," he said of the Matlacha community because it keeps everyone in the loop of what is occurring. "I think it is a wonderful thing, it can only be a benefit for us all and our community."
The first event for the chamber, Merry Matlacha, will be held throughout the month of December on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
In addition, on Dec. 15, the chamber partnered with Captiva Island and the Edison Ford Estates for a tour that will come to Matlacha. Lovegrove said the day-long trip will bring 140 people to Matlacha.
"Give them a walking tour, serve them lunch and then they are here for 2 1/2 hours," she said.
Merry Matlacha will provide businesses with the opportunity to create specials and offers. Lovegrove Gallery & Gardens will feature Christmas music with Jim Tucke every Sunday from 1-4 p.m., as well as holiday night lights in the garden from 6-9:30 p.m.
Other events during Merry Matlacha include Kip Lawrence's kids concert, Matlacha night lights show, Bridgewater Christmas tree raffle and an 18-foot Christmas tree on display at the Edison Ford Estates throughout December.
Diane Martini of Bridgewater Inn said they are contributing to the Merry Matlacha effort by raffling off a 4-foot tree that bears ornaments from different businesses in Matlacha. She said the proceeds made from the raffle will benefit the chamber.
Tickets are three for $5 and the winner will be drawn on Dec. 15. Tickets can be purchased at Bridgewater Inn and Tropical Treasures.


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As I write this, I'm staring down at my cat, who is fast asleep on my lap and farting from all the pancake batter he managed to slurp up when my back was turned. This badass croc-fighting cat clearly has way more utility than Mr. Binx, whose pest control talents range somewhere, depending on his state of engorgement, between poor and asleep.
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Taiwan Company News Reports on KTV Launch
The successful launch of the KTV went off with a bang in Taiwan, and the media was there to capture it, party and all. The Taiwan Company News reported on the big event, and although the entire thing is printed in Taiwanese, it can be viewed by either clicking the above graphic or below thumbnail. Lezyne's Sam Chau provided a gist of it right here:
"So the 'KTV' name has already raised a lot of questions, so if we wanted to be provocative, it's working. We also added a lot of interest by doing the KTV launch party. The media has been asking me why it's named 'KTV', we can't deny it has an innuendo attached to it but here's what I'm trying to convey:
The KTV light was created to bring a 'unique personality' into our LED line, challenging the norm and conventionality of what's currently in the market. When people think of the word KTV there are all sorts of thoughts and emotions that come up – and having a large operation in Taiwan, we fully understand the various insinuations of this name. There can be a lot of interpretations but in the end it should all conclusively be blissful and happy.
Going to a KTV is like going to a sanctuary – it can be a place to relax, a place to have fun, and a place to celebrate. Similarly, we believe that when one takes their bicycle for a night ride they experience the same emotions. When a consumer purchases this product for their night ride, we hope they can bring this positive energy with them – just be happy."
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Florence Auto Glass – What Should I know?
Simply put, this is glass that you would find in an automobile. Not too many know that in Florence there are two major forms of auto glass. Each one is used on certain windows in the automobile. Both types of auto glass are more impact resistant and stronger than regular glass.
What Are the Different Kinds Of Windshield Replacement Florence Services that are Available?
Laminated safety glass-this glass is generally used on a car's windshield. It is comprised of a couple of pieces of glass that has a slim layer of vinyl. The glass is then heated and pressed together in an autoclave, which is a type of oven. When this glass receives a tough impact it will shatter also but usually the shattered pieces will stick to the vinyl and not fall on the ground.
If the windshield just has a tiny vein or nick, the auto glass professional may be able to repair the tiny vein or nick to keep it from spreading further. The repair will generally take fewer than thirty minutes in Florence. The vein or nick is cleaned thoroughly and dried. Resin is injected and a material like Mylar is used to hold it in place. The professional cures the resin by using an ultraviolet light.
Windshield Replacement: What Everyone Needs To Know
In today's society, many people have a very hectic lifestyle between work and family that it is hard to get some things done during other people's workday. For example, if you come out to get into your car to go to work and find that you have a broken or cracked windshield but have a full day of meetings that are going to last past the time the car window repair shop is open. In most states it is illegal to drive with a cracked or broken windshield so what are you going to do. In this case, you need to find shop that offers mobile windshield replacement. Not all shops offer this service, which is where a technician comes to your place of business or residence and replaces the windshield. In addition to replacing a broken or cracked windshield, the technician can try to fix the crack with resin and smoothed out until you can no longer see the damage.
With a cracked windshield, there is a possibility of having a serious accident if the glass collapses before you can get it fixed. In many instances, your car insurance will cover mobile windshield replacement or repair without paying a deductible. Take the time when you get to your office, call a repair shop, and make an appointment to come to your place of business to take care of the problem.
To make sure that your insurance company will pay for this service you should call them before making an appointment to have your windshield fixed. It is very easy to submit a claim for this service. Once you have found out if the service is covered or not, let the insurance company know that you have windshield damage. There are usually no forms to fill out. Once this is done, you call and schedule an appointment to have this taken care of.
When you call the repair shop they will ask for the model and make of your car so they will bring the correct windshield to your place of business or residence to fix the problem. Once the technician arrives at your place of business, they will let you know they are there. After looking at the windshield, the first thing that the technician does is remove the outer lining around the windshield. Then special suction cups are attached to the windshield to lift it up and remove it. The broken windshield is put into the repair truck and a new one is put back in the same way it was removed. Once the windshield is replaced and set in place, your car is ready to drive. The process will usually take no more than fifteen to thirty minutes to complete.
What Should You Look For in a Windshield Service Specialist?
But I Thought You Said This Windshield Was Original Equipment?
Here is a common story for a consumer. A person has a brand new or leased vehicle and a piece of glass becomes damaged. They call an auto glass company and the consumer is told OEE is an original equipment equivalent replacement piece for their vehicle. But when the auto glass technician shows up to complete the replacement, the piece of glass does not actually have the vehicle makers OEM manufacturer logo.
OEE - Parts produced for installation in the "aftermarket" by third party companies.
What Is OEM Auto Glass? (Original Equipment Manufacturer)
When a new vehicle is designed the vehicle maker can use an existing windshield part from an older model vehicle, or they can create a whole new windshield and part number. If the decision is made to create a whole new windshield the vehicle maker contracts a glass manufacturer to create the part. The glass manufacturer and vehicle maker create a unique mold and a unique molding/firing process to produce the OEM windshield (Original Equipment Manufacturer). The parts are installed when the vehicle is assembled at the vehicle makers factory.
6. Rear View Mirror Brackets And Sensors - Aftermarket windshields (OEE) use a different process to adhere the mirror brackets to the glass. I find that their quality of adhesion and location is not as accurate as OEM parts. In fact, aftermarket distributors repeatedly drip glue on the glass below the bracket which may stain the black ceramic band on the interior side of the glass. When it comes to sensor components such as a rain sensors, the problem it not as rampant. But on a BMW windshield, a mirror bracket not correctly aligned may hinder the re-installation of the mirror's plastic cover assembly which hides the sensor and bracket.
So Which Windshield Should I Choose, OEM or OEE?
The biggest impact on your decision will be budget. OEM parts are almost always higher priced. Most consumers simply choose OEE because they have no choice, everyone needs to save a few bucks. Don't be scared of choosing aftermarket glass though because safety is mostly impacted by the technician installing the windshield correctly, not the glass itself. But if you really love your vehicle and expect the best quality, you should choose OEM. And if you are leasing your vehicle, your dealer may have restrictions on what type of glass is acceptable upon returning the vehicle. You may get a fee added if you have an aftermarket glass installed. Call your dealer for more information.


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It's hard to talk about heirloom seeds without a little end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it creeping in. With Monsanto pushing a genetically modified agenda; with the USDA approving genetically modified Roundup Ready alfalfa, which could kill organic dairy practices; with organic giants like Whole Foods and Stonyfield Farm surrendering to Monsanto; and with cross-contamination from GMOs threatening the foundation of food as we know it, where's a person to turn?
Well, Petaluma, actually.
With a proliferation of heirloom seed companies, Petaluma has become ground zero for a growing revolution in farming. Unlike many hybrid and genetically modified varieties, heirloom variety plants—generally more than 50 years old and open-pollinated—contain viable seeds. Before WWII, most plants would have been considered "heirloom," and while many "new" heirloom varieties are becoming available to consumers, there are several varieties lost each year via cross-pollination or other means. Saving and protecting heirloom varieties, especially in light of Monsanto's raid, is more important than ever.
Petaluma is home to two separate seed houses that do just that, specializing in cataloguing, propagating and protecting heirloom variety seeds.
In downtown Petaluma, Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company occupies some of the best real estate in the city with its Petaluma Seed Bank. A former bank, the building is stately and imposing, an amusingly ironic place for a company with a mission-before-profit attitude. Paul Wallace, manager, says the location is perfect.
"When you go to any city," Wallace says, "it's like the bank is the focal point. In San Francisco, you have the Bank of America building, and it's the same here. In this town, the bank is the focal point, but for a different reason."
Baker Creek Seed Company was founded in Missouri and expanded into the Petaluma location in 2009. This fall, it holds the first-annual National Heirloom Exposition in Santa Rosa. Christian Dake recently joined the company to plan events like the expo, and says the renewed interest in heirlooms is natural, given the state of agriculture in the United States.
"People are realizing what we have right now, and what we have to lose," Dake says. "It appears that corporations want to have control over what we grow. Once a corporation owns your right to plant a seed, you lose a lot of freedom."
Like many in the heirloom movement, Baker Creek and its founder Jere Gettle are concerned about just such a corporate takeover of food; genetically modified crops, particularly corn, have been known to cross-pollinate with non-GMO varieties, often rendering them sterile and unsellable. Because of this, the company tests every batch of corn that comes in, and has taken a stance that every heirloom seed is valuable, from marshmallow flowers to the African jelly mellon.
"We're not gong to get rich selling African jelly melons in Petaluma," Wallace quips.
A couple miles away, in an old barn on a three-acre farm, employees at the Sustainable Seed Company are filling orders that come in through their online-only catalogue. Founders John Fendley and Theo Bill say they started the company in 2009 because they saw a space in the market for preserving heirloom varieties.
"I looked out there," Fendley says, "and there just weren't very many companies selling seeds that were open-pollinated. It really made me nervous."
Fendley says the company's focus is on preserving and developing the right seeds for California growers. His company has taken to resurrecting grains developed by Luther Burbank—barleys that require little water to grow, for example—and other crops that can tolerate foggy nights in coastal regions or dry summers in the Central Valley.
"You try to take a tomato that is grown in the hot parts of China," Fendley explains, "and try to move it here. It's not going to do well with the foggy nights."
Proponents of heirloom varieties say that's one of the great things about old strains. They were developed by generations of people who farmed in the same area, who selected for traits that made certain plants desirable for specific locations. Fendley says that today, many seeds are grown outside the United States and sold to consumers without much thought to matching varieties with optimum growing locations. Also, he says, it's hard to monitor overseas farms. Even crops with organic and heirloom labels may be grown using destructive slash-and-burn agriculture techniques, he says.
"We've been trained in California to ask where our food is coming from," Fendley says. "But we're not yet asking where our seeds are coming from, or were they grown sustainably?
"We're supporting American farming," he adds. "American farm families are going extinct."
Within blocks of Sustainable Seed Company's farm, yet another major seed house is scrambling to fill orders, during what's the busiest season of the year for seed companies. The Natural Gardening Company sells both live plants and seeds, mostly organic with some heirloom varieties. It has another distinction—the company's owner, David Baldwin, claims the Natural Gardening Company is the oldest certified organic nursery in the United States.
Started in 1986 in San Anselmo, the company moved to a half-acre Petaluma farm in 1993. Baldwin may have been ahead of his time, but he doesn't quite fit the conventional image of an organic pioneer. He wears a cordless phone earpiece and slacks, and doesn't sing the same gospel of dying bees, corporate Frankenfoods and vanishing heirloom strains that's so common in the modern organic food movement.
"The heirloom thing has gone through cycles. In my lifetime, this is probably the second cycle," Baldwin says. "When I was young and I thought I was hip, it was rock and roll. Now, if you're young and hip, you want to have a garden. I think it's great."
Of the 300 or so varieties sold through the Natural Gardening Company, Baldwin says 20 to 25 are grown on-site. "I didn't go into this because I wanted to rage against the machine," Baldwin says. "I guess you could say it's more of a personal interest. We don't go around trying to proselytize. We try to offer good products and offer compelling information."
Baldwin says Petaluma was a natural choice for a location, with a rather plain explanation. "It was affordable," he says, "at a time when we needed space for additional greenhouses."
All three seed companies had similar rationales for choosing their home base. Why Petaluma? Good weather, affordable land and the area's agricultural history all play a role. "Honestly, we were looking for something that had enough structures on it," Fendley says. "Petaluma, because of the history of agriculture, it was perfect."


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This is just coming in and I'll follow up with any developing news.
Here's a recap meanwhile:
Former employees of Plantation attorney David J. Stern agreed to a preliminary $502,000 settlement after he fired them without giving the required 60-day notice as business at his foreclosure law firm began to dry up.
U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola Jr. found the settlement "sufficiently fair, reasonable, adequate and in the best interests" of the former workers, according to a preliminary order. There will be a June 8 final hearing.
Workers in the class-action settlement now have until May 3 to opt out of the settlement, while papers in support of it should be filed by May 29.© 2010-19 FORECLOSURE FRAUD | by DinSFLA. All rights reserved.


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Geoffrey Rush is certian audiences will have a good time watching "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," but the fun of playing Barbossa – a role he almost turned down – is his real booty.
"Look, whatever fun is generated off the screen for the enjoyment of the audience is a great bonus," the Oscar-winner – who reprises his role as Captain Jack Sparrow's devious rival for the fourth "Pirates" outing – tells PopcornBiz exclusively. He admits that at this point the role is less work and more play.
"Certainly that spirit exists on the set," says Rush. "It's a pretty big, happy creative family. We've been doing this since 2002 – not only the principal actors but the stunt team, the makeup team, wardrobe team. We've been hanging out with each other for a long time. So we don't have to keep reinventing the wheel. Plus we've had the bonus of a new dynamic with Rob Marshall coming in as director, and having Ian McShane and Penelope Cruz. This ups everyone's game."
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Rush says he was relieved to learn that while the latest film offers something of sea change from the original cast lineup, the writers found a character in the 1987 source novel On Stranger Tides that could be easily morphed into Barbossa so he could keep bedeviling Johhny Depp's Captain Jack.
"It's fundamental in my mind to keep Barbossa in the whole four chapters, because the bitter argument and the rivalry over the ownership of the pearl has been there right from the beginning," says Rush. "It's kind of like a Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner relationship."
"Johnny's just a great performer to spar with because we know who Jack Sparrow is, and we now carry various onscreen experiences," he says of his onscreen nemesis. "But there's always a couple of hidden wild cards up Johnny's sleeve. You never quite know where a scene is going to go, and that keeps you on your toes."


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World's First All-Electronic Programmable Computer (ENIAC) (Apr, 1946)
It's interesting that for all of their excitement about ENIAC and future computers, people still only thought of computers as giant calculators. I guess that's because they hadn't been paired with a reliable storage mechanism yet. It's hard to have an airline database without a place to store the fares and tickets…
Lightning Strikes Mathematics
By ALLEN ROSE
SOME day, travelers may step out of a plane in San Francisco 10 minutes, by local clocks, before they left New York. That day has been brought closer by the work of two brilliant young engineers at the Moore Electrical Engineering School, University of Pennsylvania. Dr. John W. Mauchly (38) and J. Presper Eckert, Jr. (26) have designed and built, with an assist from Army Ordnance, the world's first all-electronic computer. The speed and scope of this digital wizard will revolutionize methods of modern industrial design. It is expected to put mathematics back into industry as an economical, rapid tool, saving months of figure work and accomplishing part of the presently impossible. The plane, rocket, or wing, in which a passenger may travel well over 1,000 miles per hour is now just a ghost on a blueprint. Engineers at Republic Aviation Corporation say it is hidden somewhere under a huge mass of highly complicated mathematical equations. The engineers believe that those equations must be completely analyzed before any promises can be made about super-sonic speeds. The Eniac (Electronic Numerical Integrater and Computer) has made complete mathematical analysis of that kind feasible for the first time.
Such computations involve the handling of many numbers as large as or larger than 2,156,789,463. With pencil and paper, the average man can multiply that number by 1,987,437,846 and get 4,286,485,004,620,216,698 in five minutes. He might even be able to turn out 10 such answers in an hour. Working 24 hours a day for 229 years, he might finish 20,000,000 similar multiplications, covering 10,000,000 square feet of paper. He then would have completed only the multiplication involved in solving an equation that engineers say is a "basic" aerodynamic problem. It relates directly to the design of shells. It has never been solved.
This would have been the first problem fed into the Eniac if the war had not ended when it did. The 30-ton numerical monster would have turned out all the answers in 130 hours. No other machine in existence could have done it in less than a year.
The Eniac is 1,000 times faster than its best-known predecessor, the mechanical computer built for the Navy and installed at Harvard by International Business Machines (PSM, Oct. '44, p. 86). Differential analyzers, like the famous machines at MIT and Pennsylvania, widely used during the war, are limited in the kind of problem they can handle. No one has yet found a problem too tough for Eniac. Its accuracy, moreover, is much greater than that of the analyzers, which solve problems by mechanical translation.
Dr. Mauchly first recognized the need for a high-speed computing machine while working with immense quantities of geophysical data at the Carnegie Institution in Washington. "Why not use electrons?" he thought. When he joined the Moore School in 1941 he met members of the Ballistic Research Laboratory of Aberdeen Proving Ground. Their problem was the same—how to turn out mile after mile of figures in a practical length of time. Firing and bombing tables were urgently needed to keep up with advances in weapons. In addition, Army Ordnance experts needed a machine that would enable them to explore the mathematics of their field far beyond the point they could then go.
Captain Herman Goldstine, of Ordnance, a mathematician himself, was enthusiastic about Dr. Mauchly's ideas and fast-talked the Army into pushing the project. Dr. Mauchly and Mr. Eckert, a recent Moore School graduate, started work in 1943 and finished in late 1945. They invented several other electronic counting devices on the way. Dr. Mauchly gave one of these, an elementary gadget, to his young son. Its flashing neon lights made a fascinating crossing signal for the youngster's electric train.
The Eniac is now housed in a 30- by 50-foot room, ventilated to draw off the heat generated by its 18,000 electronic tubes. Entering this room through an inconspicuous door at the end of a hallway in the Moore school, visitors find themselves suddenly hemmed in by dials and cables. Forty panels cover three sides of the room with switchboards.
The machine has 20 accumulators, the panels that add, subtract, and "remember." Three function tables of two panels each also contribute to this memory. By means of these panels, entire series of trigonometric functions, for example, may be applied at electronic speed to any numbers in the machine. There is one panel that does the dirty work of division and square root. The other panels contain the initiating unit, where the first button is pushed; "programmers," which police the circuits and permit any variations of the basic operations: and the cycling unit, which sends out 5,000 pulses per second. Above the panels are trays of wires that carry the numbers. Wires in other trays, below, carry the orders. Connected to the Eniac, a part of the complete installation, are two modified punchcard machines that permit the mysterious device to communicate with the outside world.
The Eniac adds two 10-digit numbers faster than a man can write "1/5,000 of a second," the time the machine actually requires to do the addition. The machine will multiply the same numbers in 1/360 of a second, faster than a man can push the button and get over to the instrument that takes out the answer, 15 feet away.
When using the Eniac, a mathematician must set up the equation, because the machine only does what it is told. The mathematician details the entire sequence of what he wants done. He figures out just how each cable will be connected and to what panel. Care must be taken to see that these sequences are properly timed. Instructions can be typed out and posted at the bottom of each panel. Someone else then can set the dials and do the actual connecting. When everything has been checked, the operator pushes a button in the initiating unit and goes off for a glass of water. The Eniac buzzes, clicks, and the job is done.
The operating pulse is sent out by an oscillator at the rate of 100,000 per second. A counter collects these in groups of 20— the basic impulse. It is this pulse, or one like it, that does the work.
In effect, when two numbers are multiplied in the machine, the impulse travels to the reader and tells it to send a number into the transmitter and then to one of the accumulators. Meanwhile, an order has gone out to the accumulator to accept this number when it arrives, ordering the panel to hold it until it gets another instruction. Another pulse meanwhile picks up the second number and sends it in the same way to a second accumulator. Orders then arrive for each accumulator to send numbers to the high-speed multiplier. This unit has been told to take the two numbers, multiply them, and send the result to the printer. Each panel has incoming and outgoing gates at the top and bottom. These gates are controlled by a series of relays, which determine the time each will be open. Each panel also sends out an impulse when it finishes its job, so the entire machine is self-fed after the chain has been started. Any combination of panels can be used from two to 40. A panel can be withdrawn for repair or testing. But the Eniac operates at such terrific speeds that its working cannot be checked without stopping it, which can be done at any point.
Physically, the Eniac is the most intricate and complex electronic device in the world, with 500,000 soldered connections, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors. Other machines using the same principles need not be so complicated. Scientists have enough unsolved, important problems to keep a hundred Eniacs busy for the rest of time. But there is also a great need for simpler highspeed machines that can handle less complex problems.
The history of science is studded with immensely valuable theories that lie unused because of the arduous calculations needed to put these theories to practical purposes. Astronomers say that in their field alone there are enough problems to keep at least one Eniac busy. The methods of weather predicting are still largely intuitive because no one has had the time to analyze the figures accumulating for decades.
Industry, of course, cannot stand still during the time lags between theory and applied science. The thermodynamic engineer, for example, knows that his best design lies within certain broad limits that he can determine with comparative ease. But, at this point, the mathematics becomes so arduous that he is unable to get all his answers. The manufacturer of gas turbines doesn't stop work, however, when the mathematics of the cylinder design gets too unwieldy for his engineers to handle. He uses other tools. He starts building models —an expensive and time-consuming process that nonetheless had been cheaper and quicker than any other available method of analysis. He may have to build two thousand models before be clarifies one small point that has been holding him up.
The designer of radio tubes builds rubber models of his electrical fields. He rolls steel balls through these fields to represent the flow of electrons. This may have to be done hundreds of times before some slight change can be made in the tube.
Republic's new high-altitude reconnaissance plane, the Rainbow, is estimated to have cost in the neighborhood of $8,000,000, a quarter of which was engineering cost. This plane, of course, is the latest in a long series. It was the end product of all the tests that have been conducted and all the planes that have been built since the Wright Brothers first flew at Kitty Hawk. No one can estimate how many models have been built in that time, or how much those models cost. The model cost of the airplane industry runs up into the millions. A very high percentage of those models might have been unnecessary if the designers and engineers had been able to use a high-speed computer to work out the mathematics of their complicated patterns. Wind tunnels are expensive to build and operate. Yet, sometimes as much as half the time of these tunnels is devoted to solving problems that could be done by the Eniac, in far less time. And this first Eniac cost about $400,000.
Nothing that man has ever built has been possible without the use of numbers. The cost of handling those figures is a part of the price of every product of modern industry. The Eniac, or even better machines that can now be built with this one as a basis, points the way to a faster and more economical way of handling numbers. It promises cheaper air travel, better radios, wider use of micro-waves, and more efficient motors, for example. With the help of lightning-fast computers to do most of the drudgery on problems that have baffled men for many years, today's equation may be tomorrow's rocket ship.
Are We Mathematically Illiterate?
(A Statement by the Editor of Popular Science Monthly)
MEET Dr. Eckert. He is standing in front of the set-up switches of the Eniac— the light-quick electronic calculator he helped to invent. He is holding an abacus— the primitive counting machine.
Most of us know the abacus as a children's toy. Few of us can comprehend the immense scope and usefulness of the Eniac. The picture dramatizes the lag in this country between mathematical accomplishment and public understanding.
It is no secret to scientists, bank tellers, Army and Navy officers, and machine shop foremen that we Americans are poor at figures. The Army found U. S. youngsters high in native intelligence and mechanical competence, but shockingly low in simple arithmetic. The Navy, training flyers to find their way home, had to backtrack navigation into high school mathematics with special catch-up courses.
Why should a nation that is so handy with machines be so backward in the handling of the principles that make modern living possible? Perhaps part of the fault lies less with the subject than with the object of our schooling. For years the three R's have misspelled the personal importance of mathematics. Arithmetic has been used as a whip for the slow-minded, and a discipline to dull the bright. Any mathematics beyond bank statements and tax returns is damned as theoretical.
Certainly, mathematics is anything but theoretical in the remote, never-touched-me sense. Since Einstein projected theory into a cosmic curve that crossed the earth in New Mexico and Nagasaki, it has become frighteningly practical. Digits, these days, are as vital in communication as the alphabet. The world as we live it is conducted increasingly in mathematical terms. We call them kilowatt hours, board feet, miles per hour, pay per day. A better understanding of mathematics means better living in terms as personal as a mattress. We know now that money is mathematics, not metal.
But mathematics in the mind is not only money in the pocket. It is comprehension for the citizen of the otherwise mysterious forces by which he lives—and which he must control.—Perry Githiens