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Readers Summary
- How much water does an American drink and is it enough?
- What is bulk water compared to coherent water?
- How did Plato affect evolution?
- What is the shape or your liquid crystals when you are leptin resistant?
- Does your microcosm equal your macrocosm?
The average American chugs nearly 30 gallons of bottled water a year, making it the second-most consumed commercial beverage in the United States. Sadly, it is not the right kind of water most of the time. The environment we evolved into is also in a rapid state of change and decline.
The air, the water, the earth is going to be wasted. The damages can be seen everywhere. Contamination, poisoning, plundering of the earth´s raw-material all break down the life-processes and destroy the energy sources. Our forest's are dying, the food that we are eating is being destroyed. The quality of our lives is decreasing. This we can see daily, this is a fact well known to everybody even to those who are "vampiring" the nature and to the scientists who are "thinking one octave to low" regarding the natures way of functioning and do not see the large energy-crises that are emerging.
When most people think of water they think of liquid water coming from their tap. Coherent water is a different animal altogether. It is water that is structured to be supremely cooperative in a living biologic system. It allows water to have local interactions with other molecules of water or something else so that the local interactions can have global effects, and this coherence means it is also bidirectional. That means the global effects can effect local interactions. Coherent water is best thought of as the whole of its actions being much greater than the sum of its molecular parts. This is how life uses water.
Bulk liquid water is therefore a two-fluid system consisting of a coherent phase. Close to 40 percent of total volume of water at room temperature is actually capable of being coherent. The remainder 60% is present as an incoherent phase of water.
Key Point: In the coherent phase, the water molecules oscillate between two electronic configurations in phase with a resonating EMF.
Moreover, close to 65 years ago, the father of biochemistry, Hungarian born U.S. scientist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi had already highlighted the importance of water for life, and proposed that organized water existing close to surfaces, such as found in cell membranes, is able to induce a very long lasting electronic excitation via resonant transfer of the different molecular species present in liquid crystals, thereby activating them and enabling their mutual attraction for reactions to take place. When electrons are added to surfaces they become more hydrophilic and they for an exclusion zone (EZ) in water. This EZ has a large net negative charge and becomes a battery in water for electromagnetic radiations from the sun. Quantum coherent water = water in its exclusion zone formation.
We saw in QB- 3, that ice forms tetrahedron molecules that are arranged in hexagon (6 sides) rings. X-ray and neutron diffraction have showed us this to be factual. At the poles on earth, ice takes on another form in gas clathrates. In trapped methane gas at the bottom of the Arctic and Antarctic oceans water molecules form pentagonal arrays (5 sides). The thing that may shock you is that polar ice from the North and South poles actually has been shown to communicate with one another!
Welcome quantum water to the stage of life
Physic Geeks: Roger A. Klein (QED chemist) at Bonn University has found evidence (2006) of coherence from electronic and quantum chemical computations in the formations of six and five membered rings of ice. He also found that there is a greater stabilizing energy and much higher electron density at critical bond points for each hydrogen bond in the 5 and 6 membered rings compared to the single hydrogen bond between two liquid water molecules called dimers. The greater bond strength comes from hydrogen bond shortening within the clustered rings compared to the liquid forms. This is another property of water that really should have caught the attention of the biochemical world because it shows how water can act coherently from sub atomic level to the macroscopic level on Earth in nature. It showed chemistry that cooperativity is more due to the increased tetrahedron bonds in water more than cluster sizing alone. This was no accident of nature. The hexagonal motif of ice and liquid crystalline water and the edge fused pentagonal motif in gas clathrates occur because of QED interactions. We now have firm evidence that these large clusters of water exist in liquid water under ordinary conditions on Earth as well. This implies that liquid water is fully capable of becoming a liquid crystal and enables coherent energy transfer to take place in cells.
Resonant energy transfer happens via hydrogen bonds in H2O
Some of this is going to fly way above your head but I will give you the take aways as we go. This is where the quantum dance of life happens folks.
Chemistry Geeks: at 300 K (27 C) 90% of water molecules are H-bonded normally. The structure of the hydrogen bonding network however fluctuates on time scales measured in femtoseconds to picoseconds. The network bonds change molecular orientations, distances, with many bonds breaking and reforming, and their is experimental evidence to show slower rotational motions as well. Water is very dynamic even at rest because of its molecular structure. The normal O-H bond stretching vibration is 270 cm -1 wide band centered at -3 400 cm-1 in the infrared region (in a wavenumber or frequency). As the temperature decreases, the maximum band shifts to lower frequencies and the envelop changes shape showing an enhancement of H-bonding. The O-H bond stretching vibration is an indication of both structural and dynamic changes possible in a water network. What causes the vibrations in the molecular bonding to alter?
Here is the take away: Temperature, pressure, and EMF resonant energies from the environment, is the short answer. (think Schumann)
We know this is true because of two dimensional infrared photon echo spectroscopy studies that have been done on water. I also learned that researchers at Max Born Institute and the University of Toronto discovered that ultrafast resonant energy transfer takes place in water via dipole coupling in the H-bonded network. This was proven in their work on heavy water (deuterium oxide).
Traditional bulk water is considered homogenous by most biochemists, and by most people, but this is not true and was first described by 1901 Nobel laureate Wilhelm Roentgen who discovered X-rays. He believed water existed in two states and that at ordinary conditions it was at equilibrium as a mixture of both. Later, Wilse Robinson at Texas Tech University breathed life back into Roentgen's initial work on water in the 1980's. In the early 1990's he showed that water had several densities over -30 to 70 degrees C, proving water clearly has a structure and many iso-forms and densities depending upon the environment water is in. His experiments also showed that water could be supercooled as we mentioned in the last few blogs. It is no longer arguable unless you are uninformed about the science. His work left more questions for us to answer for sure. This is especially true when we look at the quantize math around the formation and reorganization of the hydrogen bonding network in ice. We know it exceeds 95% of the bonds in ice but it is not as well worked on a space time scale using picoseconds as it is for liquid water. We will get to the magic of liquid water and its quasicrystalline structure here soon.
Now, I would also direct your attention to Martin Chaplin. He is a scientists at London's South Bank University. He has an outstanding web resource for water called "Water Structure and Science." He really looked the X Ray diffraction data, vibration spectra and the presence of big water clusters and their special interactions with the hydrogen bonding network of water as it exists and it phase transitions. His work on low density water in gels is particular interesting to me.
The reason is in low density water the amount of disorder (entropy) is experimentally much lower than what is found in a random hydrogen bonding network in water. This might explain why water has the ability to "supercool" before its freezing point at 32 F, when it is pure from impurities. Supercooled water will not turn to ice as one would expect until -20 degrees. Medicine can take advantage of this effect once they understand how to use it best. This super cooling phenomena releases a high heat of fusion when it freezes. This implies a large amount of energy is lost when water turns from a liquid to a solid. We see this anytime the climate changes cold or in an ice age. Any time there is a phase transition of water on Earth or in the Universe, there is a massive change in total energy and with water. I should you the Total energy equation in detail in the EMF series, so review it. Interestingly, that change in energy is often unique and based upon the current water quantized ability or effects. Those are directly tied to how much low density water is present, as you will soon see. Evolutionary biology seems to take full advantage of these effects when it evolution acts. It is why, extinction events and cold are intimately tied together to allow life to survive when there is a loss of energy for any reason.
Chaplin's work can be summarized by saying he showed that computer modeling of the hydrogen bonded networks in water fluctuate locally into an icosahedron molecular forms.
The shape of the water molecule determines is molecular density and its ability to be coherent for energy transfers. Shape of these molecular networks is directly tied to the temperature that water finds itself in.
Coherent water at a glance
One small detail going wrong in a semiconductor is all it takes in a quantized state to change energy efficiency; I showed this to you when I asked you to visualize a clean room at an Intel semiconductor plant. We have the same need for molecular detailing in biology. The problem is, you and your doctor do not know that yet. You will if you keep reading this blog. It turns out, details matter big when you first begin to realize biology is quantized. One small detail about water is that when it loses the ability to supercool or super conduct, you become vastly energy inefficient. This is another way to say you are leptin resistant. When you are leptin resistant, your hormone panel is also suboptimal. When you lose water super-conduction you must mostly exist upon ATP for energy which is only efficiently made as we sleep. If you can not use water you do not sleep well either. Many other things happen. For example this is where most spine disease comes from.
Loss of energy poses a major problem for your mitochondria. They can never can catch up quickly recycling ATP fast enough to offset the energy production of semiconduction when water conduction is lost. Therefore for that cell and all its mitochondria, quantum time speeds up rapidly for your telomeres, and what happens then is first your labs get trashed and then you first get ill, and eventually you die earlier than you should have.
Liquid water at an ambient temperature is traditionally thought of as a homogenous liquid with the same average structure of it chemical bonding. Roentgen (discovered X-rays) was the first of many to question this belief about water, as I mentioned above. Up until very recently, this was the dogmatically held belief concerning water. Wilse Robinson at Texas Tech work showed it and it was later backed up by Martin Chaplin's work in London.
Chaplin found that water formed a quasicrystal as a liquid in an special shape called and icosahedron. This was postulated in the 1960's by Roger Penrose. You have heard me mention him before in the Brain Gut series for his work on consciousness and microtubules and gamma coherence. Penrose's ideas and work has now been verified, when in 2011, Daniel Shechtman won the Nobel Prize for his work on quasicrystals and their abilities to do things that we believed were not possible, just two years ago.
A quasicrystal is an ordered structure that is not periodic. It can fill all available space, but it lacks a translational symmetry. Formal crystals have rules that govern their chemistry. This is covered by crystallographic restriction theorem. It says crystals can have first through fourth order symmetry in nature. It turns out that quasicrystals can have forbidden orders of symmetry such as fifth and sixth order symmetry. Water is a quasi crystal and these orders of symmetry are what allows water to have coherent properties. It turns out that Roger Penrose, discovered quasicrystals in his work in mathematics called aperiodic tilings. Penrose is a very famous mathematical cosmologist/physicist who has worked on describing the physics of consciousness for many years. Aperiodic tilings were first discovered in the 1960's by mathematicians. Penrose originally described a two dimensional tiling with a five fold symmetry mathematically, and he was able to draw it out as you have seen if you already clicked on the hyperlinks above. You should. These quasicrystals are now considered a new class of solids.
This implies that liquid water you all know and love, is now considered to be both a liquid and a new kind of solid. How is that for a surprise!
The most impressive feature of quasicrystals is that they hold a mathematical irrational constant. It is consider this way, because this constant can not be formatted as a formal fraction. Therefore it is given a symbol in a Greek letter phi () or referred to as the golden ratio or golden proportion. This constant is embedded in the structure of the quasicrystal itself. This in turn underpins a number sequence worked out by Fibonacci in the 13th century, where each number is the sum of the preceding two. Fibonacci math is tied directly to fractal patterning of all things found that are living on this planet. This math shows us humans that everything that is used in our microcosm is patterned after the great design of our macrocosm. All one needs to do is look for the pattern and you will find it everywhere. It is really used in the molecular structure of water, especially coherent water. Make sure you watch the hyperlink on fractals above. Evolution is found to use fractal patterning over and over again using this aperiodic tilings found in things made from or with quasicrystals.
The Fibonacci sequence is a sequence of numbers, 1, 1, 2, ,3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, where the ratio of the number in the sequence to the previous number approaches the Greek letter phi () of the golden ratio asymptomatically. That means more and more as the sequence goes on with bigger numbers the closer we get to the golden ratio or golden proportion. That ratio is approximately 1.61803398874989. It carries out infinitely and never stops, and therefore it can never be found as a round number. This completely jives with Heisenberg principle of uncertainty as well I have mentioned many times on this blog and on the forum.
Here is where nature and math meet. The icosahedron and dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides) are the last two Platonic solids. The first three Platonic solids being the tetrahedron, the cube, and the octahedron. The icosahedron and dodecahedron are the only ones associated the golden proportion or golden ratio in its dimensions. Interestingly, Plato associated the icosahedron with water, and the dodecahedron with the universe in his writings. Once again, we see the microcosm of water meeting the macrocosm of the universe.
The golden ratio was the Greek ideal of beauty and harmony in all life. It had a tremendous influence their architecture, art, and design and it persists even today. Plastic surgeons still use it at times for facial surgery. Physicists have remarked that it is significant that quasicrystals do represent the minimum energy structures, and hence a kind of equilibrium between harmony and tension in just the correct degree where the beauty of nature lies. This place is where life took its form and from this form comes some of its amazing functions. Water is the ultimate liquid quasicrystal.
The two state model of water was postulated, first by mathematicians and it has now been confirmed by X-ray scattering and X-ray Raman scattering at Stanford University. Researchers were able to show clearly that water at ordinary temperatures has two distinct states with no intermediate states. Low density water (LDW), where water molecules are hydrogen bonded like ice in tetrahedron bonding patterns, and high density water, (HDW) which has molecules linked by more distorted hydrogen bonds. These two density states fluctuate occur over the length scale of −1.2 nanometers. For visualization purposes, −1.2 nm contains 160 molecules of water stacked together next to one another. At 24 degree Celcius, the proportion of LDW bonding is 28.6%, and it only disappears completely when water gets to its boiling point.
Why should this complicated math and physics be important to you?
Well it appears that LDW is how water is able to superconduct photons and electrons. This is when water is really coherent. Dr. Gerald Pollack has confirmed these findings in the 2000's with his experiments on exclusion zone water. His recent book on the subject makes this difficult math and physics simple to understand. The more LDW water has in its quasicrystallline form the more energy life has to evolve and adapt. The closer water gets to it boiling point the more HDW is present and the less LDW is present.
When a human being has a fever (higher protons and lower pH), their metabolic rate increase 13% for ever degree their temperature rises. Do you see the congruency why this is true now given what you are learning about water here? Let me pose another thing for you to think about? When one is leptin resistant, it means their inflammatory levels are raised. We have shown that in many blogs. What do you suppose that means for the ratio of LDW to HDW? What does it mean for the EZ in water? When one is leptin resistant your EZ is small because you are lacking electrons in your cell membranes and tissues. If you don't think this matters to you, consider the following research. Realize that its results are drawn from the new work on the two state model of water.
In a German study, by Franz Volhard Clinical Research Center, Michael Boschmann MD tracked energy expenditures in men and women who were healthy. After drinking 17 oz of water the patients metabolic rates increased 30%. The increase began ten minutes after drinking and maxed out at 30 to 40 minutes post drinking. Rates, however, did differ in men and women. In men, they burned more fat after drinking the water, while in women, they tended to break down carbohydrate substrates better with water ingestion. In fact, it also appears the colder the water is, the better the effect for women. These implications should make a lot of sense if you are beginning to understand the role of leptin in women and in epigenetics.
In 2002, the Journal of Epidemiology found drinking more than 5 glasses of water a day reduced fatal heart attack by 50% in both sexes.
Doing that math, if you increase your water consumption 1.5 liters a day you will burn 17,400 calories and lose about 5 pounds.
You should never rely on thirst to dictate water consumption, because it lags the real effect. Calculating your total body water deficit is another way to try to measure how badly your engine is working. We covered this in the April webinar. By the time thirst kicks in your serum osmolarity is already impaired. Dehydration is a major cause of day time fatigue as well, and dehydration slows your metabolism by 2-3%. As time goes on this imbalance can steepen dramatically in a person in an altered environment. In fact, just a 2% drop in total body water can cause neurologic changes to show up. How do I know this? I am a neurosurgeon, and we see these swings all the time in trauma cases and and brain tumors that are associated with syndromes called SIADH, cerebral salt wasting syndrome, and diabetes insipidus. Now think about what I mentioned in the April webinar for our members. Are you beginning to connect any dots?
So drink your water un-fluoridated and COLD! You might be beginning to understand how the quilt is built now. Limiting fluoride increases the EZ in water. Water than is cold carries more oxygen and electrons in it to enlarge the EZ in water. Mitochondria needs oxygen and electrons for their inner mitochondrial membrane. Water is a repository of electromagnetic radiations. Water is designed to work wirelessly with the sun, but its abilities can be usurped by man made EMF's. In a blue lit microwaved world EZ water is the ultimate Faraday cage for mitochondria in a cell.
Water allows the quantum dance to happen in all life, not just us. We are just beginning to unfold its mysteries and why it is vital to all life on this planet. Beta oxidation in mitochondria not only makes CO2 but it creates water!!! Water is the stage life is built upon.
Water is what makes all plants grow via photosynthesis. All animals need water to survive. When water falls from the sky as rain, it is distilled; at least it used to be before our atmosphere was polluted by modern chemicals and EMF's in the ionsophere.
If you use the photoelectric effect of the sun to enlarge the charge in cell water, and add grounding to Earth, your needs and want for water will begin to approach your aquatic ancestors and your brain will repair and re-grow faster. This is quite important in diseases like Autism and Alzheimer's disease. Signs of leptin sensitivity begin to appears and labs start to improve. Eventually, your thinking improves and your life re- evolves. I left some details out in this blog post on purpose. As series goes on you will see where this is all headed. It is time you begin to fill them in with the other lessons you have learned at this blog. The April webinar is a big clue in this path to Optimal. Enjoy!
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15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split, with the modernists breaking off to form their own organization, the 15, which included Jean Charlot, Mina Conant, Angelo Di Benedetto, Vance Kirkland, William Sanderson and Frank Vavra. Eventually, many more joined. The exhibit was put together by collector and art history sleuth Deborah Wadsworth and museum director Hugh Grant. One interesting revelation is how tepid these early modern works were and that, despite the fact that the traditional artists (and the Denver Post) thought of them as "radicals," the members of the 15 were pretty conservative. As a result, the exhibit proves beyond any doubt that Colorado Springs — and not Denver — was where modernism was happening in the state in the '40s. Through July 31 at the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art, 1311 Pearl Street, 303-832-8576, www.kirklandmuseum.org.
Boardman Robinson. The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the construction of its building, a modernist masterpiece. Among the various exhibits and events associated with the festivities is Boardman Robinson: History of Commerce, an exhibition of a set of ten murals installed in the large gallery on the second floor. Each of these murals measures 8' x 15' and depicts trade through the ages with vignettes that act as parables. Robinson, who was an important regionalist painter, had a distinctive style in which the volumetric character of figures is exaggerated, and in which the different elements of the pictures are clearly defined and separated. These incredible murals, which haven't been shown together in decades, were created for Kaufmann's department store in Pittsburgh in 1929. The next year, Robinson came to Colorado to take the art director's job at the Broadmoor Academy, the predecessor of the CSFAC. Robinson also led the CSFAC's art school and spent 1930 to 1947 in the Springs. Through June 12 at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 30 West Dale Street, Colorado Springs, 1-719-634-5583, www.csfineartscenter.org.
Her Gaze/Su Mirada. Curated by Museo de las Américas director Maruca Salazar, this show brings together five Latina photographers. The idea implicit in the title is that women have a different perspective on photography than men do, but the exhibit itself doesn't really bear that out. The work includes photo enlargements of skin and wood grains by Yesika Felix; traditional black-and-whites of village life by Graciela Iturbide that focus on women and on transsexuals; retro, 1930s black-and-white nudes by Flor Garduño; and Kathy Vargas's altered overlapping images with touches of color and an altar-like installation about her mother. But the star of the show is Delilah Montoya, who does scenic shots in color of the trails made by Mexican migrants coming to the U.S. as well as a group of unforgettable portraits of Chicana boxers done in crisp black and white. One shortcoming is the design of the exhibit, which doesn't make sense, because the artists are all mixed up instead of each having been given her own space. Through May 27 at the Museo de las Americas, 861 Santa Fe Drive, 303-571-4401, www.museo.org.
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Homare Ikeda, Michael Clapper, Amy Metier. A key figure in the contemporary scene in Denver for the past several decades is the subject of a large and impressive solo, Homare Ikeda: Time Is Floating, which covers the walls of the main floor at William Havu Gallery. Ikeda, who was born in Japan, is known for his distinctive abstract paintings and works on paper, which have an awkwardly balanced and idiosyncratic approach to forms and compositions. The Ikedas are supplemented here by a handful of sculptures from noted Colorado sculptor Michael Clapper. Upstairs is a group of recent abstract paintings by another important local artist, Amy Metier, who lives in Boulder. At first glance, Metier's lyrical paintings apparently refer to abstract expressionism, but there are other stylistic references, too. Since the beginning of this year, Havu has been mining the state's abstract scene to great effect. Through June 4 at the William Havu Gallery, 1040 Cherokee Street, 303-893-2360, www.williamhavugallery.com.
What Is Modern? Department of Architecture, Design and Graphics curator Darrin Alfred has put together this large show dedicated to furniture and decor from the early nineteenth to the early 21st century. Alfred has included groundbreaking tables, storage units, lighting and — no surprise here, considering Alfred's specialty — graphics. Laudably, Alfred takes a chronological look at how technological advancements informed the development of modernism, starting with a bentwood chair from 1808 by Samuel Gragg. Its overall form is very sleek, with a gracefully curving back, but the details are very different, being almost precious, like the little hooves that mark the termination of the legs. One of the newest pieces in the show is "Roadrunner," a chair from 2006 by Colorado's own David Larabee and Dexter Thornton working together as DoubleButter. Made of a cheap synthetic, the chair is nonetheless elegant. In between the two chairs, Alfred has installed a wide assortment of classics from the annals of modernism. Through November 30 at the Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, 720-865-5000, www.denverartmuseum.org. Reviewed December 23.

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Many innovative styles emerged throughout the 1850s and 1860s, with the rougher techniques of realist painters blazing the way toward the informal compositions and loose brushwork that characterized much output from this period forward. Artists explored new methods of applying paint and color to generate vivid, compelling effects. Edouard Manet began capturing the public's attention with his Spanish-themed works, influenced in part by frequent trips to the Louvre where he copied old masters like Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Goya. But critics soon began attacking his treatment of paint – calling it inartistic and unfinished – and his subject matter – deeming it inappropriate or inconsequential. Fazed, but determined, Manet developed his technique and painterly brio, distinguished by bold and spontaneous brushwork and paint that was not blended, but rather laid down in touches side by side. He became a leader of the avant-garde and a critical figure in the development of modern art in Paris.
Artists had new subject material close at hand: a fresh and revitalized Paris. In 1853, Napoleon III appointed a new city official, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, who initiated a renewal project that turned Paris into a modern urban center. From an essentially medieval city, Paris became, in a matter of years, a well-organized capital with wide boulevards, regulated architecture, new parks and standardized public areas, and extended railway lines. The transformation intrigued many artists, including Camille Pissarro and Auguste Renoir, who were inspired and dazzled by the crowded streets and metropolitan scene. Some, like Manet, were more ambivalent about the modernized city, noting a sense of anonymity and dislocation that came along with the transformation.


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Access all areas: Vauxhall's open door policy
Convenience counts for a lot when choosing a family vehicle – a factor that's making Vauxhall's Meriva a winner in its class.
The key is the clever touch of rear-hinged back doors that swing in the opposite direction to normal, at an angle of almost 80 degrees – providing dramatically enhanced access for rear seat passengers. It's clever and unique, except that is on the ridiculously expensive and very rare Maybach, which costs more than 30 times as much.
There are further benefits when transporting children as the larger door opening and free space around the B-pillar mean parents can lift children towards the rear-mounted, second-stage child seats without having to contort themselves around the door. The Meriva's high roofline helps too.
A lot of thought has also gone into interior design. Vauxhall's FlexiRail system provides owners with a variety of modular storage and comfort solutions, swallowing up variety of everyday items, from handbags and magazines to MP3 players, CDs and colouring books.
The latest Merida's count of cubbyholes and storage bins, with such features as a 1.5-=litre bottle-holder in each of the front doors, make it one of the most practical offerings in the small MPV class that it defined when its first version launched, back in 2003.
Rear seat comfort has also been enhanced, now offering the biggest range of adjustment in class.
New for this latest model is a panoramic sunroof that comes as standard on SE versions.
Engine choices are between three 160-valve 1.4 petrol units of from 75 to 140 PS output and four diesel variants, including a 1.7-litre CDTI. Two versions are available with six-speed automatic gearboxes.
The 1.3-litre Meriva Exclusiv CDTi ecoFLEX I drove has fuel-saving stop-start technology making for a highly economical 68.9 sec combined cycle fuel consumption figure yet still offering a 104-mph top speed potential.
The £19,845 base price of the test car was swollen to a still competitive £21,700 by the addition of such extra cost options as 17-inch five spoke alloys, a sat-nav system, electrically heated front seats and steering wheel and a sliding centre storage module between the two front seats – the parking brake now being operated by a space-saving electric switch rather than a lever.
Now with a longer wheelbase, the latest Meriva lifts itself out of the small MPV sector to become a five-seat compact MPV ready to do sales battle against such rivals as the Citroën C4 Picasso, Renault Scenic and Ford C-Max.
In six years. UK buyers have turned the keys of more than 112,000 Merivas. Given its entry into a wider market sector, Vauxhall are convinced they can expand substantially on such success.
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Neil Skene got the call out of the blue.
It was early February, and Department of Children and Families Secretary Bob Butterworth needed help.
The department was in peril after the arrest of its press secretary, Al Zimmerman, on child pornography charges. And that was on the heels of a scathing report on the department's foster care system.
Butterworth wanted to reform the department and institute a new way of thinking — something he called "the two senses: a sense of urgency and sense of common sense."
He needed outside help.
"I needed people on the outside to look into the agency with an outside perspective," Butterworth said. "The agency itself was beaten up."
Skene, a journalist-turned-media consultant, was hired as a temporary employee at $43 an hour. He began writing speeches, handling special projects and creating a more "open" department overall.
"They've been trained for years to keep their mouths shut, but there are things they can say," Skene, a columnist for Florida Trend, said of the changes he's trying to make. "They can help people find the information to the extent we can release it. Training is a lot of that."
Skene, who previously worked for the St. Petersburg Times, is one of four outside "special counsel" people Butterworth has tapped since 2007 to serve in managerial roles.
He hired Jim Sewell, a former assistant commissioner for the Florida Department Law Enforcement; Florence Snyder Rivas, a well-known First Amendment lawyer; and Nancy Barshter, a former lawyer for the Attorney General's Office.
The "fab four," as Butterworth calls them, have been paid a total of $201,046.42 as of May 15, according to the department. All are temporary employees and paid hourly.
Butterworth took over in 2007 at the request of Gov. Charlie Crist. It was a low period for the department that oversees a wide range of services for the state, including foster care, help for the mentally ill and child abuse prevention.
Previous DCF Secretary Lucy Hadi had been charged in late 2006 with contempt of court and fined $80,000 for letting mentally ill people linger in the prison system. Months after Butterworth's placement, a state review revealed major flaws in the Sarasota YMCA, the agency hired to manage more than 3,000 foster children in Pinellas and Pasco counties.
Inside the department, morale and professionalism were low, Butterworth said. Child welfare lawyers, for example, had gained a reputation for showing up to court unprepared.
The DCF was considered the most ineffective agency in the state, Butterworth said. Shortly after he took over, the Legislature gave him approval to reorganize.
Butterworth said he sought people with experience in areas that needed the most improvement, including organization, legal matters and communication.
He called on Sewell, a longtime acquaintance. The two first worked together in the 1980s, when Butterworth oversaw the state's highway safety department and Sewell chaired a committee that looked at the department's management.
Sewell has helped reorganize the DCF. He moved to align its circuit offices with judicial circuits. Previously, a local DCF office could have court cases in three different court jurisdictions.
Butterworth also drew on his past when he enlisted Barshter, a former assistant attorney general who once sat on the Florida Child Abuse Death Review Committee. The pair worked together when Butterworth was attorney general.
Barshter and Sewell have worked to revamp the DCF's legal system. Previously, its lawyers were not properly versed on the background of the children they were representing.
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Rivas, who primarily represented media companies for 25 years, has been training DCF employees to be more open with the media — a challenge considering the department legally can't provide many details about cases involving minors.
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The outgoing Pakistan Peoples Party-led government put off Sarabjit's execution for an indefinite period in 2008.
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OAKDALE − Oak Valley Bancorp, the bank holding company for Oak Valley Community Bank and Eastern Sierra Community Bank, for the three months ending Sept. 30 reported consolidated net income available to common shareholders was $1,535,000, or $0.19 per diluted common share.
DETROIT (AP) - The U.S. government's auto safety agency, responding to criticism of its slow response to safety issues, told the manufacturer of millions of potentially faulty air bags to make replacement parts faster and do more testing to find the cause of the problem.
OKEMOS, Mich. (AP) - A Michigan woman who wanted homebrewed Starbucks coffee - described by her attorney as "gold" - will accept $250 to end a lawsuit over the company's decision to stop making discs for a specific single-serve machine.
PALO ALTO (AP) - A Silicon Valley startup is hoping an upcoming transition to smarter credit and debit cards will persuade millions of U.S. merchants to buy savvier payment terminals for their stores, too.
REDWOOD CITY (AP) - Shutterfly Inc. (SFLY) on Wednesday reported a loss of $46.2 million in its third quarter.
ATLANTA (AP) - UPS expects to deliver more than 34 million packages on the busiest day of the holiday season, double the amount on a normal day.
WASHINGTON (AP) - AT&T is being sued by the government over allegations it misled millions of smartphone customers who were promised unlimited data but had their Internet speeds cut by the company - slowing their ability to open web pages or watch streaming video.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PCG) on Tuesday reported net income of $811 million in its third quarter.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - After seven years of emphatic campaign promises, Senate Republicans demonstrated they didn't have the stomach to repeal "Obamacare" on Wednesday when it ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - House and Senate Republicans have worked out a deal to move quickly on a package of new financial sanctions against Russia, Iran and ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Most LGBT-rights activists never believed Donald Trump's campaign promises to be their friend. But with his move Wednesday to ban transgender ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded in a shooting at a baseball practice last month, has been discharged from a ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man was arrested on federal smuggling charges Tuesday after customs officers intercepted a shipment with three live king cobras hidden inside ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gov. Jerry Brown and his predecessor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, stood side by side Tuesday to cheer the extension of one of the most ...
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A model who accused Bill Cosby of sexually assaulting her at a Playboy Mansion party in 2008 has been arrested on suspicion ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The caller who rang Valerie Sobel's cellphone had a horrifying message: "We have Simone's finger. Do you want to see ...
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In a recent development in equal pay law, the Supreme Court has ruled that equal pay claims may be brought in the civil courts up to six years after the end of a claimant's employment, even though they would be out of time in the Employment Tribunal. This means that individuals who realise they may have equal pay claims after the six month time limit in the Tribunal, can still bring a claim in the civil courts.
The case involves 174 former employees of Birmingham City Council (all women bar four) who brought equal pay claims in the civil courts. They claimed that they were employed to carry out work rated as equivalent to male colleagues, but did not receive the substantial bonuses and additional payments to which their male colleagues were contractually entitled.
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It is settled. Toyota will pay $1.2 billion criminal penalty, the largest ever received by any automaker in the world.
Eric H. Holder Jr., the United States attorney general, said that during the 4-year investigation the department discovered that Toyota has kept from government officials and customer information regarding the defects which caused unintended acceleration in several of the automaker's models.
Another US automaker which deals with a similar situation is General Motors, which faces a Justice Department inquiry regarding the company's failure to recall vehicles with an issue that might have caused 12 deaths. Mr. Holder said that the Toyota case should be seen as an example for its new, vigilant and aggressive approach towards automotive safety.
"Other car companies should not repeat Toyota's mistake," Mr. Holder said at a news conference in Washington.
"A recall may damage a company's reputation, but deceiving your customers makes that damage far more lasting."
Regarding GM, the officials are currently investigating the automaker's failure to fix several models, among which the Chevrolet Cobalt, fitted with defective ignition switches which could disable air bags and shut off engines.
Last month GM said it is recalling 1.6 million vehicles and chief executive Mary T. Barra has apologized for the delay and promised to cooperate with NHTSA and the two congressional committees to fix the issue.


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'Welcome to Football Season' – Bill Belichick is Bright, Shiny, and Filled with Good Tidings
Humidity has enveloped Foxborough, its oppressive presence dampening the resolve of an otherwise pleasant summer day. The clamminess invited itself into the morning slowly, sneaking into the misleading, sunrise breeze, its threatening arrival heeding a warning that this environment, once tranquil and serene, would soon succumb to a stifling influence all-too-familiar in these parts.
Then Bill Belichick waltzed to the press conference podium at Gillette Stadium and made everything all right.
"Welcome to football season," he said. "We're here."
Well, sort of, kind of. The New England Patriots opened training camp Wednesday, one of the hottest days of the year thus far, with little more than a handful of press conferences, physicals, meetings, and conditioning exercises in advance of hitting the practice field for the first time on Thursday morning. But more or less, it is officially here.
Welcome back, football.
Boy, did the head coach bring the sunshine with him Wednesday morning to help brighten a vanilla summer highlighted by Stephen Drew, a farewell to Jarome Iginla, and a Celtics draft that might as well have been accomplished by having Danny Ainge slip on the auto-select tool for "Best Available." But in about 10 words, delivered with a trademark, underwhelming triumph, Belichick essentially announced that there will mercifully be no Gronkwatch 2.0 in the summer of 2014, and that just sort of puts an end to the percolating question everybody had in regards to the health of Tom Brady's most dangerous weapon.
"He's been here," Belichick said about Patriots superstar tight end Rob Gronkowski. "He would be ineligible to (appear on PUP list) because he's been cleared to play."
Of course, Gronkowski underwent major reconstructive knee surgery after blowing both his ACL and MCL in a game last December against the Cleveland Browns. Gronkowski only played in seven games during the 2013 season, chipping in 592 yards receiving and four touchdowns after returning on Oct. 20 against the Jets. It was just last year when he underwent multiple surgeries on his broken arm, and his absence was the second-biggest story in training camp last summer, only to wondering what the hell Tim Tebow was doing here.
Magic pills or not, it's only one step to recovery for Gronkowski, only but six-and-a-half months after surgery in January, but it's certainly a major one, and an pronouncement that came on the heels of a quiet offseason for the tight end, who probably should have purchased stock in Deadspin and TMZ last year. Whether that was a message from the button-down Patriots, or his own realization that his focus needed to be elsewhere, the fact that this year has started on a reversal of positivity is something to note.
"Rob has always worked hard," Belichick said. "He worked hard as a rookie, so he has always worked hard when he's here. I can't speak for the rest of the time, but from what we've seen he has been consistent."
Guard Logan Mankins, one of three Patriots – also including defensive end Rob Ninkovich and safety Devin McCourty – to speak on Wednesday, was just as excited to have Gronkowski's blocking ability back on the field as he was the tight end's constant threat to find the end zone.
"Well, it's a positive," he said. "We were all hoping Gronk would have a good recovery and so far he has. We'll just see where he is, how good he is right now. It's great to have him out there. He's a dynamic blocker. He does a great job in the blocking and he's a big target for Tom to get the ball to and he gets open. Anytime you can have Gronk on the field, it's great."
Only a few hours into this training camp and the Patriots are already giving the lollipop and gumdrop spring training that the Red Sox enjoyed in Fort Myers, Fla., a run for its money. Gronk is healthy. Darrelle Revis is going to sprint out to the practice field on Thursday. Distractions are few. There's a new CVS in the Patriot Place parking lot.
It's all a far cry from how Belichick was forced to begin training camp last summer, with a special press conference dedicated to discussing allegations of murder levied against former New England tight end Aaron Hernandez.
Speaking of the Patriots' pet project gone awry, Belichick was, not surprisingly, tight-lipped when asked about the much-ballyhooed 34 text messages he and Hernandez exchanged last offseason.
"I think that was addressed by a lawyer last week and I don't have any further comment on it," he said.
Is it common to have that sort of interaction with a player?
"I don't have any further comment on it."
Does it now, in hindsight, make him feel any differently about how to handle or approach a certain player.
"No further comment."
Noted. But unfortunately the Hernandez mess may not be as easy to escape in a few months as it was on this blistering, summer day in late July. Jury selection for Hernandez's trial is set for Jan. 9, which translates to during the week when the Patriots should be preparing to face whatever wild card team advances in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. If anyone is a master at avoiding a distraction, it's Belichick, but this could be the mother of all off-field issues affecting a team in its goal of reaching the Super Bowl.
But today? It's all sun and smiles at Gillette, where the Patriots welcome their adoring fans to camp on Thursday to kick off practice sessions in earnest. Welcome to football season, when even a dour Bill Belichick can bring a blaze of brightness to an otherwise drab midpoint of the year.


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Health Benefits of Golf
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The best kind of exercise is the kind where you don't realise that you're actually doing exercise at all. A lengthy trip round a museum or art gallery can mean walking for a good few miles without realising it. Likewise, a hectic day at the office can see you sprinting between cubicles, completely oblivious to the hundreds of calories you're burning off. Golf is much like these activities in that it's also a covert calorie-burner, but has other benefits too. You'd actually be surprised by how much good golf can do for your health; so much, in fact, that a weekend playing golf can be comparable to the benefits of going on one of the many spa breaks in England.
If you warm up correctly for a golf swing, not only do you save yourself from all of the obvious risks, but you also ensure that you make the most out of your muscular movements and stretches. Stretching muscles that are seldom used not only feels good, but preserves your flexibility, dexterity and agility even into old age. Don't, however, expect to emerge from a couple of years of golf with rippling muscles, but do expect your muscles to at least be more toned than the average person's.
As mentioned above, a game of golf can involve walking for miles without realising, due to the plentiful amount of stops and breaks that are typically involved in the game. With proper hydration, you can expect to be able to keep up this steady pace of walking and swinging for the good part of a day. Whilst your heart isn't exactly going to be pumping to burst, it will be pumping at a faster tempo than usual, which is great for its health as well as for burning off those calories.
An overlooked aspect of golf that concerns your general welfare, rather than just your bodily health, is the social aspect of the game. Sure, you can make plenty of friends playing golf, but many people aren't aware that increased levels of social interaction stimulates a higher flow of endorphins, which are pleasant hormones that make you happier, as well as promoting a longer lifespan. Staying in a UK golf hotel can be an alternative to traditional health breaks that's just as healthy!


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New Delhi, Feb 7 (ANI): Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said the army's rigidness against any dilution or amendment to the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), is making it difficult for the government to move forward on this proposal.
"Amending the act will make it more humanitarian, but the army's rigidness was not leaving much for the government," Chidambaram said during the K Subrahmanyam Memorial Lecture here yesterday.
"The armed forces, and especially the Chief of Army Staff, the present one and the previous one, have taken a very strong position that AFSPA should not be amended," he added.
"Now, how does the government move forward in the face of such widely divergent views on the sensitive subject"? Chidambaram asked.
"My view on AFSPA is known, the view of the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir on AFSPA is known. We have the (Justice) Jeevan Reddy Committee report, but yet, if the army takes a very strong stand against any dilution or any amendment to AFSPA, it is difficult for a civil government to move forward," Chidambaram said.
"I think you should ask the question to the armed forces and ask why are they so opposed to even some amendment to AFSPA which will make AFSPA a more humanitarian law," he added. (ANI)


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Raleigh, N.C. — If a bill clearing the way for medical marijuana in North Carolina makes it past the House Judiciary I Committee on Wednesday, it will beat a set of odds that are less steep than they were two years ago but still imposing.
House Bill 78 would allow people to obtain prescriptions in order to use marijuana. Users would need a state registration card, and they could buy cannabis only from a state-licensed distributor.
"As long as we're getting the bills heard in committee ... that's an indication that members are willing to listen," said Rep. Becky Carney, D-Mecklenburg, one of the measure's primary sponsors.
Carney said she didn't have any expectation as to whether the measure would pass. However, she said the conversation is different from two years ago, when a similar bill met its demise after a raucous committee meeting. More people making the case for legal marijuana, she said, are those seeking relief from various medical problems.
That lobbying effort has been persistent over the past few weeks, lawmakers report.
"We're getting so many calls, for and against, that it's taking our attention away from other priorities," committee Chairman Leo Daughterly, R-Johnston, said Tuesday.
Wednesday's Judiciary Committee meeting, he said, would give everyone a clear indication of whether the bill was going to survive this legislative session or would be done for another two years.
Daughtry said he plans to give the public up to an hour to address the bill and then the committee 30 minutes to discuss it before voting.
"I don't know what's going to happen," Daughtry said.
Typically, a committee will either vote for or against giving a bill a favorable report. In this case, that would mean the medical marijuana measure would either go on to the House's budget committee for more work or, if it fails, stay put in Judiciary. Two years ago, a similar bill ran into such staunch opposition that lawmakers voted to give the bill a rare "unfavorable report," which killed both it and any similar measures for the entire session.
While Daughtry and other lawmakers say they have been inundated with calls, the tone of those calls has been much different from two years ago.
"Unlike the last time, the people who are calling have been very, very, very respectful," Rep. Bob Steinburg, R-Chowan, said. "I am so impressed with their demeanor."
Steinberg said he would listen to all who speak on Wednesday but likely vote "no" barring any new information being brought up.
He said he doubted the measure would pass out of committee, but like Carney, he said that, given the tenor of the national debate, it may not be long before North Carolina's General Assembly begins to shift.
"I think a lot of this is generational," he said.
He is 67 years old, and many lawmakers are in their 50s, 60s and 70s. Their attitudes, he said, were entrenched during the heyday of the drug counterculture of the 1960s, and voting to legalize drugs is a difficult position for them to take.
As younger lawmakers come along, Steinburg speculated, they may be more open to changing the state's stance on medical marijuana.


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The cast of the TNT reboot of DALLAS continues to grow: Jesse Metcalfe (ex-John, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES; ex-Miguel, PASSIONS) has been cast as Christopher Ewing, Bobby and Pam's adopted son. Metcalfe will play a key role in the updated version, which focuses on the rivalry between Bobby (Patrick Duffy; Stephen, B&B) and J.R.'s (Larry Hagman) sons.
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New Zealand pasture has taken a battering from the drought. But under the sea, grass pastures are facing a different threat, and it could impact on our snapper stocks.
The sea grass in the Kaipara Harbour is a crucial feeding ground for snapper. But there are fears the fish numbers will drop as the sea grass is being destroyed by sediment and pollution.
Baby snapper and a host of other fish filmed over the past few days have been having a feed in the Kaipara Harbour.
"We know it's really important for snapper," says Dr Mark Morrison, NIWA scientist. "We know the habits in there support large numbers of snapper and other species as well – travelly, sharks, school sharks, grand mullets. So the harbour itself is really, really important for the West Coast ecosystem."
But scientists are worried that pollution and runoff from nearby farms could kill the sea grass and the fish, particularly the snapper, will start to disappear.
"If those critical habitats were knocked out by an intervention, by man, or whatever, then you're looking at a much reduced number of small fish that migrate to the coast subsequently," says Dr Morrison. "Then you're looking at smaller stock sizes and productivity from fisheries."
That means there would be less fish to catch, and that's worrying locals.
"We have to seriously consider in terms of what's happening on the land and the runoff that comes from farmlands, developments around the eastern shores of the Kaipara Harbour," says Richard Nahi of Ngati Whatua.
Scientists have begun using aerial photos to get a better picture of what's happening.
"What we're doing now is trying to go towards mapping out those habitats and where they are and what extent they are – where the important areas are – and look after them over time," says Dr Morrison.
The sea grass needs light to grow. Without it, it dies. It's already happened in Tauranga, the Waitamata and Manukau Harbours, dramatically reducing snapper numbers. But hopefully it will not happen in the Kaipara Harbour.
Local iwi, council and community are working together to prevent runoff and pollution from reaching the water.
Researchers will spend another few weeks completing their research and the next few months analysing their results.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Slumping Carlos Pena hit a three-run homer during a five-run fourth and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-5 on Tuesday night.
Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon moved Pena up from the middle of the lineup to the leadoff spot in an attempt to help him break out of an offensive funk. Pena, who snapped an 0 for 18 slide on his sixth homer of the season, entered Tuesday hitting just .116 in May.
Pena's homer to center off Drew Hutchison (3-2) was estimated at 452 feet. He finished with two hits in five at-bats.
Drew Sutton had RBI double and Chris Gimenez hit a run-scoring grounder as the Rays took a 6-0 lead in the fourth. Gimenez also had a fifth-inning RBI single.
Reliever Wade Davis (1-0) gave up one run in two innings. Fernando Rodney pitched the ninth for his 14th save.
Source: AP