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By 2009, more than one third of IT organizations will have one or more environmental criteria in their top six buying criteria for IT-related goods. Initially, the motivation will come from the wish to contain costs. Enterprise data centres are struggling to keep pace with the increasing power requirements of their infrastructures. And there is substantial potential to improve the environmental footprint, throughout the life cycle, of all IT products and services without any significant trade-offs in price or performance. In future, IT organisations will shift their focus from the power efficiency of products to asking service providers about their measures to improve energy efficiency.
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Education in Two Cultures
A team-taught course leaves Linda Brigham considering the inadequate interactions between the humanities and the sciences.
On December 20, 2005, U.S. District Judge John Jones ordered the Dover Pennsylvania Area School Board to put science back in its place -- protected from intelligent design and other religious ideas. In Kansas, where we have had no such luck, I participated last semester in a new interdisciplinary college course also designed to put science in its place -- separate not only from religion, but from the humanities in general.
DAS 333 (the numerological implications are coincidental but amusing) -- Human Life and the Universe -- was the work of faculty in physics, geology, the life sciences, philosophy, and English, affiliated with the new Center for the Understanding of Origins at Kansas State University. The course was explicitly developed in the context of the evolution controversy to educate students about the fundamental constitution of science as a discipline. As the sole representative of the non-sciences in the course (the philosopher was a hard-nosed philosopher of science, no fuzzy humanist), I did not expect my contribution to come off as particularly consequential; I was merely there as a reminder of the Other to science, providing a sketch of non-scientific disciplinary thinking. All the action would take place in science's bailiwick. But, by the end of the course, I realized that I had not anticipated the dramatic though inchoate demand for what science cannot deliver. In a twist on C.P. Snow's classic criticism of the emerging chasm between science and the humanities, DAS 333 demonstrated both the necessity of their distinction and the urgent need for both.
A rigorous and reflexive approach to science education is the best way to manage the evolution controversy. The recent Fordham Institute report, "The State of State Science Standards," indirectly but forcefully underscores the wisdom of such an approach; Paul Gross et al in the introduction to the report conclude that the state of science in public schools does not so much reflect the impact of religiously-driven anti-science or intelligent design so much as a demonstrate a correlation between the weak handling of evolution and a general weakness in disciplinary content for science across the board. It follows that the most powerful redress to the resurgence of creationism is a strengthening of disciplinary content in the sciences. Anticipating this connection, DAS 333 provided serious although introductory college-level academic content in its science disciplines. Students calculated luminosities, grappled with the data responsible for the emergence of plate tectonics, and managed some of the microbiology involved in gene suppression. The philosopher of science then used this science content as a source of examples for demonstrating the interaction between theories, their auxiliary hypotheses, and observations, both clarifying the boundary between science and non-science and making the definition of a scientific "theory" clear -- and distinct from mere "opinion."
However, it became increasingly evident to students that the constraints on science, enabling progress in understanding nature, are disabling in other areas. Science cannot, for example, pronounce on the truth or falsehood of propositions like intelligent design. Essentially, the products of science are predictions of new observations consistent with the explanation of existing data. The product of science is not meaning. This set up my work; science: prediction; literature: meaning. I tried to counterpoint the science units with topical fictions, for example, H.G. Wells' "The Star," Burroughs' The Land that Time Forgot, and Crichton's Jurassic Park, in order to demonstrate how the use of language, including figures of speech and fabricated scenarios, elicits feelings and desires in order to construct meaning -- in contrast to what scientific accounts do in response to the same world. This was, more or less, fine. But it was not enough. I discovered at the end that these forays into the literary formation of meaning sidestepped the real force of the humanities in a course like this.
It was during a final class on the implications of the limits of science in the Terri Schiavo case that the greatest challenge to the non-sciences emerged. All students saw the controversy over Schiavo's care as a dispute in which the person whose wishes should have been paramount, Schiavo herself, had no reliable input. They had no idea of how we might achieve greater consensus and resolution on this life-issue as a society. Nor do most of us. The problem with that case, for college students, the general public -- and most of us -- is that, like the issue of abortion, it requires navigating waters murky with emergent technologies, religious tenets, strong feelings, and massive distrust.
Yet this is precisely the miasma into which students must plunge as citizens and decision-makers, and it is for these eventualities they need better and more intelligent preparation. The humanities cannot be content with just developing and promoting the ethical imagination for private use; they must also do much more to connect minds so enriched (all minds, not just those of future lawyers and bioethicists) to complex situations that demand such resources be put into action. The humanities must do more to offset the temptation to either authoritarian or excessively personal solutions for solving complex problems that science often creates, but whose solution is beyond the its reach.
One of the most revealing features of the evolution controversy, as well as so many of the controversies that, properly or improperly, connect religion to public life, is the degree to which it subtly relegates non-science to the personal and the private, to a space beyond the pale of public education. And so it is with the text of the now-infamous statement that Dover, Pennsylvania Area School District science teachers were required to read to students in ninth grade biology. The statement portrays the difference between science and non-science as a distinction between publicly-acknowledged fact and private opinion. Essentially, the creationist strategy is to eliminate the teaching of evolution by privatizing it. "Because Darwin's Theory is a theory," the statement reads, students should be encouraged to explore other views--specifically, "Intelligent Design ... an explanation of the origin of life that differs from Darwin's view."
As a result of the mere theory-status of Darwinism, "students are encouraged to keep an open mind. The school leaves discussion of the Origins of Life to individual students and their families." In other words, given that evolution, as theory, does not have the form of other scientific propositions constituting or based on laws (gravitation, thermodynamics, and so forth), determination of the origin of species is left to the individual and family, that is, to those realms beyond the institution and beyond the state and its laws. In essence, according to this line of reasoning, scientific "fact" is law, in contrast to mere theory. In the absence of scientific law, the formulation of beliefs about the world is essentially beyond education. Ironically, perhaps, it is now against the law in Dover, Pennsylvania, to exempt evolution from the authority of science that the anti-evolution forces narrowly equate with scientific law.
In any case, for creationists and their teach-the-controversy fellow travelers, "theory" on the one hand, and "authority," "fact," and "law" on the other, exist at opposite ends of the spectrum. Furthermore, where authority, fact, and law end is precisely where "each individual must decide for him or herself" begins; there is no controversy, no public arena in which private individuals, informed by science, by traditions religious and secular, by rational ethics and embodied sentiment and compassion can use their wisdom and knowledge to work out a course of action, and it appears that even the possibility of such deliberation is an alien concept to our students -- as it is to the Dover Area School Board. It was clear to Judge Jones, moreover, that the appeal to individual opinion on the part of the Dover Area School Board was a thinly-disguised effort to support religious authoritarianism; he opined that by reminding school children they can maintain beliefs taught by their parents, critical thinking is stifled, not promoted.
While it is conceivable, even likely, that science will succeed in reasserting methodological naturalism as its fundamental feature, and so reduce the inroads of creationism into science curricula to occasional nuisances easily parried by existing institutions, this is not enough to restore the integrity of public education generally. Just as the weakness of science education accompanies avoidance of evolution, the weakness of humanities education emerges as an avoidance of a host of issues that polarize American social and political life. It is hard to calculate the greater omission.
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Dividend growth stocks provide investors with a rising stream of passive income, which grows over time. The consistent nature of dividend increases protects the dividend income against inflation. However, many dividend growth stocks actually tend to deliver dividend growth which typically exceeds the rate of inflation. Historically, US stocks have managed to boost dividends above the rate of inflation by 2% – 3%.
There is typically a trade-off between dividend yield and dividend growth, that investors have to put up with. Generally, companies with the highest current yields tend to distribute most of their cash flows to shareholders, which leaves little room for investment in the business. This leads to low earnings growth, that trickles down into low dividend growth. Companies with low and medium sized yields however tend to disitrbute a low portion of their earnings to shareholders, with the rest reinvested in the business, thus providing fuel for future dividend increases.
There are a few companies which meet both criteria, when purchased at the right times:
Philip Morris International Inc. (PM), through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells cigarettes and other tobacco products. The company expects to generate 10%- 12% annual growth in earnings through its cost reduction programs, acquiring companies internationally as well as innovating in growing markets in order to position itself favorably. Phillip Morris International will be able to keep increasing dividends at the high single digit percentage points in the foreseeable future, while paying an above average yield of 3.60% today. (analysis)
ONEOK, Inc. (OKE), a diversified energy company, engages in the gathering, processing, storage, and transportation of natural gas in the United States. The company operates through three segments: ONEOK Partners, Natural Gas Distribution, and Energy Services. The company enjoys strong performance in its ONEOK Partners (OKS) segment, which has resulted in increased distributions to ONEOK from the partnership. In addition, the company has been able to generate strong cash flow from its natural gas distribution segment. ONEOK indicated in September 2011 that it expects to increase its dividend 50 percent by 2014 and affirmed a long-term dividend payout target of 60 percent to 70 percent of recurring earnings, subject to board of directors' approval. ONEOK announced today it is considering increasing its July 2012 dividend above the 4-cent-increase it provided in September 2011. Yield: 3% (analysis)
Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) owns and operates energy transportation and storage assets in the United States and Canada. The company operates in six segments: Products Pipelines-KMP, Natural Gas Pipelines—KMP, CO2—KMP, Terminals—KMP, Kinder Morgan Canada—KMP, and NGPL PipeCo LLC. The company expects its acquisition of El Paso to be completed by May 2012. This combination will lead to synergies and cost savings of approximately $350 million/year. As a result of this transaction and KMI's normal expected annual growth, KMI still expects its dividend per share to grow at an average annual rate of around 12.5 percent through 2015 from its budgeted 2011 dividend per share of $1.16. The growth of KMI is being driven by Kinder Morgan Partners (KMP), which expects to declare cash distributions of $4.98 per unit for 2012, an 8 percent increase over the $4.61 per unit it will distribute for 2011. Yield: 3.30% (analysis)
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The 17 year Cicada infestation has begun here in Maryland. This evening, I was working my hive. It is located under a tree, and as I was finishing up, one dropped off a limb and into the hive. It was dusk, and I was losing my light. I couldn't find the cicada to remove it.
I'm not going to be able to visit my hive again till Sunday (it's Friday night). Will the bees zap it and move it out? I know it won't damage the hive, but I'm not happy about some guy crashing into my girls' house.


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Consisting of a selection of rotating best sellers and recently published fiction and non-fiction, the collection is located on the first floor of the library past the reference desk. Browse the current collection in our online library catalog.
Willamette University's mission statement includes the belief that education is a "lifelong process of discovery, delight, and growth, the hallmark of a humane life." Without a doubt, reading is a fundamental part of this process. While the Hatfield Library is primarily focused on serving the scholarly needs of students and faculty, we also support lifelong learning and wish to foster a culture of reading through this new collection.
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IF you've ever wondered how you would look with Paris Hilton's pout or with
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software that can show you.
'Realtime face substitution' was created by software developer Arturo Castro
and allows users to morph other people's faces on to their own.
In this video called 'Faces', Arturo demonstrates his technology and is seen
with the facial features of leaders Barack Obama, Chairman Mao and Fidel
He also seemingly transforms into beauties Paris Hilton and Marilyn Monroe,
and Jacko and Lenin also come back to life on his face.
Arturo was inspired to produce the video after thinking about identity theft
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He said he tried to use cartoons but they didn't work as well as images of
His application, which works in realtime, produces some slightly bizarre
results – but the resemblance is clear.
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On the first anniversary of the introduction of smoking restrictions in workplaces and public places in England, the TUC says today (Tuesday) that the ban's success is because the law change was backed by strong, simple regulation.
Commenting on the smoke-free regulations, TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: 'As with other safety issues such as the use of seat belts or crash helmets, the use of a voluntary approach had failed to make any real difference. It was only when a legally enforceable ban was introduced across the whole of England that we saw exposure to second-hand smoke cut out at a stroke. Quite simply, the ban has made a world of difference to the health of millions of workers.
'Introducing smoke-free laws in the workplace was one of the biggest occupational health measures the UK had seen for decades. Before the ban came in, it was estimated that every year up to 700 workers died as a result of having to breath in other people's tobacco fumes. Now that bars, clubs and restaurants are no longer full of toxic cigarette smoke, around 700 lives will be saved every single year thanks to this effective piece of legislation.'
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Check this out - I think I'll be OK.
This article discusses some Marlin lever action conversions. The author was actually able to stuff a .50 AE round into a Marlin - WOW!
What is Possible with the Marlin?
The big issue seems to be the behavior of a thin-walled chamber that causes bulging - due to the fact that the threads are inherently weaker than other designs. That will be eliminated because I'll lathe off the threads to prepare for a sleeve of 4130 steel. For a 1" AK trunion, that will mean I'll have about .4" around the radius of the chamber.
That thick a collar of steel in itself should have enough mass to eliminate bulged/burst chambers. It would certainly take 50,000 CUP and since it appears the barrel itself is made of a high-tensile steel, I should be OK even with those 500 grain slugs.
The only question that remains is whether or not I need to obtain a throating reamer to open it up for those larger slugs.


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Fujitsu-Siemens' LifeBook P1610 may have held some pretensions of being an ultra-portable tablet PC, but compared to the U2010 it's positively ungainly. Of course the latter does have the advantage of being powered by an Atom CPU, and almost certainly isn't supposed to be a fully-featured system ??" so far as we can tell from Vietnamese site Tinhte, where one has been snapped and specced.
Nonetheless, the specs aren't all too shabby. Curiously the 5.6in screen sports a 4:3 aspect ratio, with a 1,024 x 768 resolution, and is of course, given the LifeBook's tablet-nature, touch sensitive. A 1.6GHz or 1.8GHz Atom processor will power the device, coupled with 1GB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive.
Connectivity-wise the U2010 should boast WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G, as well as a GPS module. All this fits into a chassis weighing 680g, although that figure is probably without the battery fitted. Speaking of which, Fujitsu will have its work cut out to get a decent operating span from a unit small enough to fit flushly into this system.
Price-wise the U2010 will apparently hit the $1,300 (~£750) mark when it's launched, which is significantly more than any other Atom-based netbook/UMPC, the Panasonic ToughBook U1 excluded. Given the different target market the LifeBook is undoubtedly aimed towards, that may no be a problem.


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A Lake Charles man was killed in a single-vehicle accident at the intersection of Enterprise Boulevard and Third Street, authorities said.
Clifton Harmon Jr., 33, 1834 Rena St., was killed when his 2003 Pontiac Grand Prix hit a tree in the median of Enterprise Boulevard, Deputy Chief Mark Kraus, Lake Charles Police spokesman, said.
Prior to the crash, the Grand Prix was involved in a minor hit-and-run with another vehicle at the intersection of Enterprise Boulevard and 12th Street, Kraus said.
The car was traveling north on Enterprise at a high rate of speed, when Harmon lost control of the vehicle, Kraus said. After hitting the tree, the vehicle came to rest east of the road, Kraus said. Harmon died at the scene, he said.
"There were no witnesses to the crash itself, only a witness who stated that the vehicle passed him at a high rate of speed headed northbound on Enterprise Boulevard and ran the traffic light at Enterprise and 7th Street," Kraus said.
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A day in the life of Brazil's subway and bus commuters.
200,000 people took to the streets Monday to oppose political corruption and inferior public services.
Demolished and rebuilt, Brasilia's Mane Garrincha National Stadium is almost ready.
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In 1883, New York State Assemblyman Theodore Roosevelt pushed through a bill that established a civil service system whereby government hiring was based on merit and fitness, not on favoritism and patronage, as had been the case under a succession of governors and mayors. It was the model for the entire nation and it still exists today. It might not, however, exist next year, if Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way. Last week, the Bloomberg administration called for far-reaching changes to the city's workforce, including de-emphasizing civil service exams when hiring city workers and doing away with the seniority system that is the heart and soul of the public sector. Bloomberg calls it "an effort to modernize" the workforce, making it easier to lay off senior city workers and to end the Civil Service Commission's sway over who gets hired and who does not. "The system is stodgy," said Martha Hirst, the chairwoman appointed to the investigative committee that was authorized and funded by the mayor. "We wanted to find ways to get it moving and make it work better." Union officials were not as sanguine. "It sounds to me that they want to handpick the people who work for the city," said Sanitation Union president Harry Nespoli. "That's not what civil service is about. It's about equal opportunity when you take an exam to get a civil service job." We agree with Nespoli. Bloomberg badly wants to bust the unions. He wants to get rid of older, more experienced teachers not because they are worse than new teachers, but because they cost more. In order for his plan to move forward, the State Legislature has to vote to do away with the civil service system. We urge them not to do that. The system was necessary in 1883 and it is still necessary today.


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Thanks for the info. I'd love to see a picture of yours. I know it has the shuttle. I have other machines that I can wind the bobbins on.Originally Posted by Miz Johnny
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Thanks for the info. I'd love to see a picture of yours. I know it has the shuttle. I have other machines that I can wind the bobbins on.Originally Posted by Miz Johnny
Thanks Tammy. This made it so much easier to figure out my Modle 12 Singer.Originally Posted by tammy cosper
Those tables will still be there in a month I'm sure...
I worked on those Elna's before I had internet and before I had manuals... One of them is recently acquired off CL - it was already like that... they really are a great machine - they do things the Singer doesn't do. They do hold up pretty well - I just was REALLY hard on mine. The place I was getting the motor serviced was putting in the wrong parts and charging me as much as to buy a different machine. So, I got the green ones at at yard sale and tried to get parts off one to another. Maybe now that I have a service manual I can get one going....
Miz J.... love that 50's table. lol. My husband has a tricksy, cute, 50's craft/dining table that collapses to coffee table height, or unfolds to dbl size and rises to dining table height. Same funky laminate finish. It's a 'CastroConvertables' table.
Meanwhile A QUESTION!!! whoo hoo!
I know where there's a Singer 101, very little rust if any, some bed wear, nothing serious, scroll face, funky twist off motor cover is intact... in a Deluxe Library cabinet #40. Cabinet is all scratched up, but intact. lady wants $20.
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It is a Golden Stitch-n-sew with a Number of A709-5 13351 on it. Off to see what she was given. Never know what you find and where you might find it and it is one HEAVY machine. Love the hunt!
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Okay, Billy has spoken!!!! I'm ON IT! Oh wait, I'll have to go get it tomorrow... lol.Originally Posted by Lostn51
BTW, I'm very very glad that you and your family are 'okay'. Hope the damage can be fixed up real soon...
Alco was a distributor who bought the Necchi name rights. Your sister's loaner is Japanese made and similar to the 15 clones. Still a good machine, but the Necchi people only recognize Italian made machines. Can we say snob or is it just being a purist?
lol.... cute. I don't know which it is... but I believe it to be a lovely, good stitchin' machine.Originally Posted by irishrose


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The convenience is very nice in the single package but I only can remove one hand worth of polish. One mitt isnt capable of removing polish on all 10 of my fingers. I could see this would be nice if you were out and needed to fix one nail but dont expect to be able to remove all 10 nails on the go.2


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finished. In my book, a module is finished when all the test cases pass, period. However, it is generally accepted wisdom to say that a program is ready for beta testing when approximately 85 percent of the test cases pass. And, although you theoretically need a 100 percent success rate for a module to be production-ready, our client will generally accept going to production with a small number of non-critical issues which can be fixed at a later date. So we also defined a "pre-production" state for modules with at least a 95-percent success rate and no critical issues.
Finally, I find it's motivating for the troops to distinguish modules on which coding has begun from truly new modules.
We distinguish five states representing five development stages, which are objectively measured by the number (or percentage) of test cases which pass:
- Planned: coding hasn't started yet.
- In progress: coding has started.
- Beta: 85 percent of the test cases pass.
- Pre-production: 95 percent of the test cases pass, and there are no critical open issues.
- Production-ready: 100 percent of the test cases pass.
Once you have the percentage of passing test cases, you get a pretty good idea of module progress and stability. We present this data graphically in weekly progress reports via graphs, such as the one in Figure 2.
Figure 2: A typical project progress report showing progress per module based on test results
An arbitrary 10-percent, violet bar (e.g., the eighth bar down in Figure 2) is used to indicate that work has started on a module. This is primarily to encourage developers and to give sponsors a clearer idea of work in progress.
The progress of each module can be followed at a glance, using a color-coded schema:
Figure 3: The work progress color coding
Test-based progress overview
We get a high-level overview of project progress by representing, in terms of number of test cases, the relative weight of modules in each state (see Figure 4). This graph is easy to understand for an outsider and particularly useful for an executive summary chapter in a progress report.
Figure 4: Test-based progress overview
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The iterative development cycle we use is provides a convenient basis for tracking defect data We try to target client-deliverable versions every one to two weeks, and an internal version on a weekly basis or sometimes every few days. The regularity of new versions is more important than the number of new modules or bug fixes in each new version. However, QA personnel do like to test the same version for a reasonable length of time before receiving a new one. Delivery target dates are decided together. Before each delivery target date, we decide whether a delivery is feasible (presence of critical issues), and what new modules (and bug fixes) can be announced to the client.
To do this, we use defect data taken from the defect database to measure product quality and reliability. Overall-defect-status graphs show the number of defects for each defect status (open, to-be-deployed, pending validation, etc.).
We also measure defect status--recording the number of open issues and total issues--for each deliverable. This is important for delivery scheduling:
- The number of open issues gives an idea of the current stability of a given module. Is a module presentable to the client in the next iteration?
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The PATH to Illumination: Free Opening Talk on Sufi Illumination Practices with Yaqin Aubert, Fri., Nov. 2 from 7-8:30pm
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Join us on Friday, November 2 from 7-8:30pm for a free opening talk on Universal Sufism exploring the path of Illumination with Senior Sufi Teacher Yaqin Aubert.
Through the use of sacred sound, breath, meditation and contemplation of light we begin to efface the small self, and let our luminous Self breathe with new life.
Yaqin Joseph Aubert was initiated into the Sufi path by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan in 1972. He is a founding member and former director of the Abode of the Message Sufi community. He's been a retreat guide and Cherag since 1978, a story teller, and teacher in the Suluk Academy, the core esoteric training of the Sufi Order International.
Venue: Temple of the Inner Self, 2964 Hardman Ct. N.E., Atlanta, GA 30305
For more information: http://mahavatar-babaji-ashram.org/eventcalendar.html
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The Temple of the Inner Self™ is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the evolution of human consciousness. Our Mission is "Evolution of Humanity through Personal Transformation." Our core teaching is that God dwells within the human Heart, and every human being can experience Enlightenment through self-love and self-discipline. We are a school of Ancient and Ageless Wisdom teaching in the mystical traditions of the East and West. Our spiritual practices and instructional programs include meditation, metaphysics, Eastern philosophy, the Western Mystery Tradition, energy healing, mysticism, mystical clairvoyance, medical intuition, shamanic healing and devotional chanting. Our path is open to everyone. We teach that Union with God is a personal, subjective experience. We offer private and group instruction and online home study courses.


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Systems Biology Opens New Research Pathways
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Activiomics Inks Cell Signaling Research Agreement
Activiomics signed a research agreement with the Japanese pharmaceutical company Kyowa Hakko Kirin to apply its TIQUAS phosphoproteomics platform to elucidate signaling mechanisms of lead compounds in relevant cell-based systems. This agreement was signed as part of Activiomics' strategic partnership with BioFocus, which was forged back in July.
Activiomics, a privately owned spin-out company from the Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), uses its mass spectrometry-based methods to analyze and interpret cell-signaling pathway activity, generating information for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. TIQUAS (Targeted Quantification of Cell Signaling), according to Activiomics, can quantify global kinase activity without the need for labeling or antibody isolation and also profile and cross-compare phosphopeptides.
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text: "We are privileged to have Michael Bublé take the helm as host of CTV's 2013 JUNO AWARDS broadcast," said Phil King, President, CTV Programming and Sports. "Mr. Bublé will no doubt impress Canadian audiences on the biggest and most spectacular night in Canadian music.""This year's show is sure to be second to none with Michael Bublé lighting up the stage with his infallible charm and charisma," said Melanie Berry, President & CEO, CARAS/The JUNO Awards. "I can't wait to see his incredible sense of humour shine!" "Michael is without a doubt, one of the coolest and funniest guys in showbiz," said John Brunton, Executive Producer, THE 2013 JUNO AWARDS. "He's an absolute superstar and truly one of Canada's greatest ambassadors. This year the stars and moon have lined up and we're giving Canadians what they want, Michael Bublé." Airing Sunday, April 21 from the Brandt Centre in Regina, tickets for THE 2013 JUNO AWARDS go on sale on Friday, Feb. 22 at 10 a.m. CST. Tickets range from $59 to $189 (plus taxes and service charges) and are available through the Evraz Place Box Office, by phone at 1-800-970-7328, and online at www.ticketmaster.ca. Nominations for the 2013 JUNO Awards will be announced on February 19, with further announcements on performers, presenters, and tickets to follow in the coming weeks. A four-time JUNO Award performer and eleven-time JUNO Award winner, Bublé's trademark style has taken the world by storm since he first burst onto the music scene. Born in Burnaby, B.C., Bublé had dreamt of being a musician since he was just two-years-old. His self-titled, debut album, released in 2003, featured classic standards, including "Fever" and "The Way You Look Tonight". The album launched Bublé into the limelight, seeing him win New Artist of the Year at the 2004 JUNO Awards. Bublé's second studio album, It's Time, released the following year, again included classic standards, and as well included the original track "Home" which hit the top of the pop radio charts. The album won four JUNO Awards and, that same year, Bublé received his first two GRAMMY ® Award nominations. With the success of his third and fourth albums, Call Me Irresponsible and Crazy Love, he continued his meteoric rise to international acclaim, with appearances on OPRAH, THE X FACTOR, and SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE, as well as taking part in the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games torch relay in Vancouver before the opening ceremony. Since CTV joined forces with CARAS in 2002, THE JUNO AWARDS have travelled all across Canada and back, bringing the biggest show in Canadian music to millions of Canadians live in person and on television. CTV has broadcast THE JUNO AWARDS from St. John's (2002), Ottawa (2003), Edmonton (2004), Winnipeg (2005), Halifax (2006), Saskatoon (2007), Calgary (2008), Vancouver (2009), back to St. John's (2010), Toronto (2011), back to Ottawa (2012) and now, for the first time, Regina (2013). THE 2013 JUNO AWARDS is produced by Insight Productions in association with CTV and The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS). Executive Producers are John Brunton and Barbara Bowlby for Insight Productions, and Melanie Berry and Ed Robinson for CARAS. Lindsay Cox is Supervising Producer. Corrie Coe is Senior Vice-President, Independent Production. Phil King is President, CTV Programming and Sports. Broadcast sponsors of THE 2013 JUNO AWARDS are Chevrolet, Garnier, TD Bank Group and Virgin Mobile. Sponsors of THE 2013 JUNO AWARDS include FACTOR, Canada's Private Radio Broadcasters and The Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage's "Canada Music Fund," Radio Starmaker Fund, the Province of Saskatchewan, Potash Corporation, the City of Regina, the Regina Hotel Association, the City of Moose Jaw and TD Bank Group. About CARAS: The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences/L'académie canadienne des arts et des sciences de l'enregistrement (CARAS) is a not-for-profit organization created to preserve and enhance the Canadian music and recording industries and to contribute toward higher artistic and industry standards. The main focus of CARAS is the exploration and development of ongoing opportunities to showcase and promote Canadian artists and music through vehicles such as The JUNO Awards and other year-round initiatives. For more information on the 42 nd Annual JUNO Awards or The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' (CARAS) website please visit www.junoawards.ca or www.carasonline.ca. About Bell Media Independent Production Bell Media has commissioned and co-produced some of Canada's most-watched and most-acclaimed original programming, while working with the best Canadian independent producers in the country. Hit CTV series include ratings success stories SAVING HOPE and THE LISTENER, and the recently concluded game changer FLASHPOINT. New for 2013 on CTV are the drama series MOTIVE and PLAYED (working title), relationship comedy SATISFACTION, THE AMAZING RACE CANADA, a Canadian-produced, complementary version of the hit international series, and a pilot for the half-hour comedy SPUN OUT. Scripted series on Bell Media specialty channels include two-time Emmy ®-nominated hit DEGRASSI, mythological/action series PRIMEVAL: NEW WORLD, and the upcoming dramas ORPHAN BLACK and BITTEN. 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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ flat ahead of Fed interest rate decision
* Canadian dollar at C$1.3255, or 75.44 U.S. cents * Bond prices mostly higher across the maturity curve TORONTO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar was little changed against the greenback on Monday, trading within a narrow range as investors positioned themselves ahead of the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest rate decision later this week. The Fed had been indicating it planned to hike rates at some point this year, but recent worries about global growth and lackluster Chinese economic data have increasingly raised the possibility that it may delay a rate hike until 2016. A Reuters poll last week showed a small majority of forecasters still expect the U.S. central bank to announce a rate hike at the end of its two-day policy meeting on Thursday, though markets-based models suggest the monetary policy tightening will be delayed. * At 9:56 a.m. EDT (1356 GMT), the Canadian dollar was trading at C$1.3255 to the greenback, or 75.44 U.S. cents, little changed from the Bank of Canada's official close of C$1.3254, or 75.45 U.S. cents. * The currency has traded narrowly between C$1.3225 and C$1.3268 so far during the session. * On the data front, Canadian home prices rose 1 percent in August from a month ago and were up 5.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the Teranet-National Bank Composite House Price Index. * The Canadian dollar, which was outperforming nearly all of its key currency counterparts on Monday, is expected to trade between C$1.3190 and C$1.3290 against the U.S. dollar during the session, according to RBC Capital Markets. * Canadian government bond prices were generally higher across the maturity curve, with the two-year price up 1 Canadian cent to yield 0.454 percent and the benchmark 10-year rising 21 Canadian cents to yield 1.451 percent. * The Canada-U.S. two-year bond spread was -25.6 basis points, while the 10-year spread was -71.6 basis points. (Reporting by Solarina Ho; Editing by Paul Simao)
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Illusion or delusion?
Don't forget to purchase your very own box of "Obama Waffles". Some proceeds will go to his starving/poor family members in Kenya... Remember he also promises to end poverty in America, so give him a hand by buying a box of waffles today! One box at a time and we'll bring an end to American poverty... and throw a few dollars to his kin in Kenya. It will indeed be heaven on earth...one waffle at a time!
Also included in every box... a "Waffle of the Day"Obama Waffles on Same-Sex Marriage
September 24, 2004
I am a Christian, and so although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman. In the same interview, Obama added that this is something each state should determine.
(Obama Opposes Gay Marriage, Nicole Ziegler Dizon, Associated Press)
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Sen. Obama wrote a letter to San Franciscos Alice B. Toklas Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Democratic Club in which he stated he said:
As the Democratic nominee for President, I am proud to join with and support the LGBT community in an effort to set our nation on a course that recognizes LGBT Americans with full equality under the law. That is why I support repealing the Defense of Marriage Act . . . and that is why I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution, and similar efforts to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of other states.
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Just bought an 04 WRX private party. My first. Love the car! Haven't stopped smiling, or finding excuses to to a drive, since I got it.
Some service questions:
It has 42K. It is still running original coolant, fuel filter, and brake fluid. (Engine oil, transmission oil are up to date and I just installed a K+N air filter.) I had car checked out by a mechanic before I bought it and it got clean bill of health. It runs great. So, should I change the other stuff or can I run till 60K? Any priority on what should be changed?
If I do need to change, who should I get to do the work? I won't go to the local Subaru dealer on principle -- bad reputation and tried to sell me a lemon! (Boo-hiss!)
Should I trust a Grease Monkey to do radiater flush and coolant change? Or will some pimply teenager jack my car with the wrong fluid?
Speaking of which ... What coolant should I have on hand if and when it needs topping up. Can I use a generic brand? Neat. Water only. 50/50? (My car didn't come with an owner's manual. Anyone know where I can get one?)
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Early Heart Attack to Teenage Boy does not come as a Road Block
Local Scottsdale 15 year old boy suffered a heart attack at a young age leaving him handicapped and struggling for mobility as a teenage. He will be the guest of honor at K2Adventures upcoming event November 10.
Riding home as a young boy, Brian Rossi's life and the lives of his family were about to be changed in an instant. After being bullied by kids, young Brian road off on his bicycle only to fall tragically of a heart attack and now, due to lack of oxygen to his brain he is left being unable to have full use of his body.
In that moment, the world changed for Brian Rossi. The life of a teenager would be filled with doctor's appointments, wheel chairs and captivity from the world he once knew.
It is what we do with these trials that make us who we are, not what a statistic may state.
Brain Rossi, a 15 year old boy has not taken this set back as a hit against him, but instead has powered through each tribulation. As his mother carries the burden of feeling she is not providing everything her son needs, with the weight of knowing she does not have a vehicle that can transport his power chair to and from school, the Rossi's received a call and huge blessing from Kristen and Kevin with K2Adventures.
Coleen Rossi, mother of Brian states, "Soon after meeting with a friend who wanted me to share Brian's story, the phone rang. Kristen and Kevin with K2Adventures read our story and told me they wanted to pay for the conversion of my car for Brian. (I think you know what that moment feels like – I don't have to explain it to you.) I told them about a conversation I had with Brian about the blind person who had climbed Mt. Everest. That anything is possible – with God.
Kevin then said, "Coleen – I don't know how to tell you this, but I was the base camp manager for Eric Weihenmayer, the blind man who made the summit of Mt. Everest. Injuries are no obstacles, which is why we are the ones that are going to take care of your car. Kristen and I are partners for the K2Adventures foundation."
K2Adventures is hosting their next fundraiser on November 10, 2012 in which Brian will be their guest of honor. Never using his journey as an excuse, Brian is also the owner of BZBoardz (www.bzboardz.com) and will be auctioning off one of his very own skateboards at this event.
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text: i swear i have the worst luck with cadillacs..... was driving today and noticed the check engine light come on and the tranny started to shift kinda funny. stopped and shut it off for a couple minutes when i started driving again it had no power when you step on the gas above 20mph. ran the codes and all that came up was the number 24 which when i looked it up said... 24 (E24) Vehicle Speed Sensor (VSS) Failure


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Rutter to ride Paton S1 in Lighweight TT
Paton joins forces with Ian Loughers Team ILR
MICHAEL Rutter will be spearheading the Paton effort at this year's Isle of Man TT in the Lightweight class, which will be overseen by 10-time TT winner Ian Lougher.
Paton Motorcycles has recruited Lougher to 'oversee the fortunes' of their Lightweight effort, under the banner Paton/Team ILR.
The Paton S1 was homologated last year just in time for the TT and finished sixth in the Lightweight class thanks to Olie Linsdell.
Rutter has achieved four TT victories since his debut in 1994, including three SES TT Zero race wins and a Junior TT win back in 1998, along with numerous podiums. He is currently the 10th fastest rider of all time around the Mountain course with a lap speed of 130.637mph.
Rutter said: 'I am really excited to be asked to ride the Paton in the Lightweight race. Paton is a small passionate Italian company who are steeped in racing history and renowned for building great motorcycles.
'The bike looks fantastic, and considering how little testing time Olie had on it last year, due to the last minute homologation checks etc, he still ended up 3rd quickest in practice, and was able to bring it home in 6th position in the race, so I can't wait to ride it.'
Paton and Welshman Lougher have worked together numerous times and achieved a dramatic win in last year's 500cc Classic TT on-board Steve Linsdell's Team Flitwick 1968 CMM Paton BIC 500, despite a 30-second penalty for skipping the pits in lap two.
Lougher said it was a 'great honour' to be asked to run Paton's Lightweight effort at this year's TT.
'I have been a big fan of the Italian manufacturer for a long time, and followed their racing exploits for many years through the two stroke era in 500cc GP's to the present day, where Olie took a fantastic top 6 finish in last year's race,' he said.
'With so much more development this time around, and with Michael sat in the hot seat, I am sure together we can put Paton back on the rostrum where they belong.'
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Italy entrepreneur defies mafia with tuna and ice cream
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PIZZO CALABRO, Italy (Reuters) - Sometimes Filippo Callipo, one of southern Italy's most successful businessmen, wonders why he is still alive.
Callipo's refusal to play ball with the mob in an area where organised crime forces many businesses to pay extortion money and even dictates which suppliers companies must use has made him somewhat of a local legend.
But it also means he makes the sign of the cross when he leaves home. It is a silent prayer that he will return each day from overseeing four businesses that provide 350 jobs in a region that has one of Italy's highest unemployment rates.
"Sure I'm afraid. Only an imbecile wouldn't be," said Callipo, who drives his own car and has no bodyguards. "But I am a fatalist. If they want to get you they will. It would be so easy in my case," he said in the offices of Callipo Tuna.
The company, which had revenues of about 40 million euros in 2010, sells high-quality tuna to supermarkets and up-market, gourmet specialty shops the world over.
He also owns Callipo Gelati, which produces the Pizzo area's famed ice cream for worldwide export, a 200-bed luxury country resort and health spa overlooking the Mediterranean, and a volleyball team that plays in Italy's national first division.
Achieving all this would be impressive anywhere in Italy. Achieving it in an economically depressed region like Calabria, home of one of the world's most feared and powerful organised crime groups, the 'Ndrangheta, is perhaps unique.
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