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I left Microsoft a little over a year ago for an opportunity to lead an awesome consulting company as the COO of Exsilio Solutions. The last year has been an awesome whirlwind filled with rapid growth and some good opportunities to get better. One of the great opportunities to get better presented itself very early on in this journey. Since the beginning I've been very quiet about the opportunity, now it's time for the grand opening of our awesome new co-working space, Orange Studios US in Redmond, WA this Friday 1/30/2015 from 4pm to 6pm!
It's been over a year of incredibly hard work. Started as just an idea and a defunct envelope manufacturing building. We gutted the building down to the support beams and built up from scratch what we passionately believe is one of the most awesome co-working / shared spaces in the Pacific Northwest. This space is purpose built for innovation. Complete with 24/7 card key access, gym, shower, kitchen with soda fountain, event space, pet friendly, free parking, shared printers, community 3d printer, meeting and conference rooms, offices, cubes and hot desks. Starting in February we'll be running community education events with attorneys, accountants, marketing, creative and technology specialists.
For my colleagues in the Seattle area, please come by anytime to check out the space. I will be in town Wednesday through Saturday this week and will of course be there to give you a tour at the grand opening. If I'm not there, our Space Manager Kaitlyn Williams will take good care of you.
You can learn more at:
The web site: http://www.orangestudios.us
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/orangestudiosus
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/orangestudiosus
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Microsoft has started showcasing applications built by the community on some very influential blogs as well as other Microsoft owned properties. Take a look at some of the applications that Microsoft is showcasing right now below. If you have built and application please contact your local evangelist about opportunities for showcasing your great work. If you haven't built an application yet, now would be a great time to get started. Click HERE to start building application for FREE right now.
While this may not be one of the deepest posts you've ever seen, it could be one of the most useful. My team consists of some of the smartest most Microsoft tech savvy people you could ever meet AND they want to meet with you! They have blogs, they tweet and they hold office hours that you can schedule with them. If you're in the western USA they probably are in an office close to you OR visit your city at least a couple times a year. If you ever have any questions about the Microsoft platform for developers or infrastructure, reach out to your local evangelist and they will point you in the right direction.
Find them here: http://aka.ms/wrteam
Microsoft Virtual Labs for both Developers and IT Pros have been around for a very long time, they are a hidden gem to ramping up on new technologies. With Windows 8, Windows Phone, Azure, Windows Server 2012 and all of the other new technologies hitting the market this year, who has the time to setup, configure and test it all. That's where virtual labs come in, you log in, follow the instructions and learn the new technology. No fuss, no muss, just get in there and explore. To find the virtual labs specifically designed for developers you go here:
We can't leave the infrastructure behind and the virtual labs team definitely hasn't. With labs targeted at Windows Server, System Center, Exchange Server, SQL Server, Forefront Security, Microsoft Lync server and others, there are lots of vlabs available to learn the infrastructure side of the technology. You can find the IT vlabs here:
In addition to the vlabs, for Windows 8 and Windows Phone specifically we have setup a site that helps you walk through getting up to speed with development that should fit your already busy schedule. Once you get setup on the Genapps site, you get a roadmap for learning that will get you up to speed in 30 days, access to help and overall some great learning content.
Finally, If you have made the jump to WIndows8 and want to see some sample code, here are some of the samples that have been built for WIndows 8: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps
If something is missing or you would like to see some additional content (documentation, samples, videos, etc…) please just leave me a comment.
Take a look at this great little document on migrating your web-site to Windows8 Metro style. The document shows a cool side by side of a web site and what it should look like and how it would work with Windows Metro Style.
Design case study: Website to Metro style apphttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/windows/apps/hh868264
Let me know what you think of this document and when you'll be ready to develop your own Metro Style app.
There is a lot of buzz around the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and the new Metro style application environment. The other aspect of the next release of Windows is the server component that also has new capabilities. There are a host of new IIS enhancements that make it easier to manage your web applications. Also, Hyper-V now has an extensible switch that is ripe for developers who want to create add-ons. If you haven' t had a chance to explore the next release of Windows Server, please take a moment to download and install the FREE Windows Server 2012 Beta now. If you would prefer to have a preinstalled VHD, you can also download that from the download site. My team mate, Harold Wong recently wrote a blog post with steps needed to take that VHD and configure your system to boot from it without having to install or repartition your hard drive giving you a no touch way to check it out.
Check out PC Magazines article on 10 Killer new features of Windows Server 8.
Most developers are probably aware of Windows Azure and the benefits offered by a Platform as a Service public cloud offering. As environments mature, more and more organizations are exploring hybrid cloud solutions. There are definite benefits that a private cloud offers that may not be available in a public cloud offering. Would you like to use a self-service portal to request a fully configured development environment that can be deployed quickly without any intervention from you? Would you like to have insight into how your application is running during QA with direct integration with Visual Studio? This is absolutely possible with System Center 2012! I would encourage you to work with your IT folks to explore the Microsoft Private Cloud offering and how it can also be used to seamlessly manage an Azure environment using App Controller in addition to the afore mentioned items. Download the evaluation bits for System Center 2012 today.
One of my colleagues Jeremy Foster created a blog post with some GREAT resources like Metro Tiles, Visual Studio Add-In, and Art Tools. Check it out if you are trying to ramp up on Windows 8 Development.
During the end of May and June in 2012, Michael Palermo and Alice Pang will be hosting Windows 8 developer events at the Microsoft Stores in SoCal and Phoenix for an exciting evening of development with Windows 8. What better way to wind down from work than learning about developing on Windows 8?
Check them out here: http://bit.ly/win8msstore
Learn everything you need to start building Metro-style apps for Windows at our VIP free full-day Windows Developer Event.
Learn about the Windows Store and what you need to do to be considered for early access to the store long before it opens to regular developers! Also learn how to use Visual Studio to code fast, fluid, immersive and beautiful Metro-style applications in HTML5/JavaScript, XAML/C# and C/C++. Your investments in these languages carry forward, making Windows a no-compromise platform for developers.
Whatever language you choose, your app gets deep integration with the Windows shell, including notifications, live tiles, deep links, and contracts with other apps. And now you can build once and support all Windows customers, no matter what type of PC they have—from tablets to laptops to convertibles to desktops.
Seating is limited and registration is not guaranteed. Secure your spot today!
Date: April 23, 2012 Time: 9:00AM – 5:00PMLocation: Club Nokia @ LA Live, 800 West Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90015
Tweet any questions about the event and Windows8 Development at any time #Win8AppDev
Notes - This free event is brought to you by Microsoft. However, you are responsible for booking and funding your own travel and accommodations. Please note that there is limited space available for this event, so be sure to register early.
Why is it the cell phone companies are always unable to help me find my phone when I lose it? It can't have to do with privacy, that's a lie, because it's my phone with my account that has my data on it so privacy laws do not restrict me authorizing anyone to find my own property. It can't be that they can't find it because in an emergency they can find my phone very quickly, if I get kidnapped or in an accident or call 911 they can pinpoint me and my phone within a very small distance . It can't be because the technology doesn't exist either because if, for example, I lose my Windows Phone, I can go to "find my phone" at http://devices.live.com/ and locate it within 30 seconds (just another reason to have a windows phone).
So why can't cell phone carriers help me locate my phone and instead are only capable of saying, sorry, which new phone would you like to pay full price for to replace your old phone. Now I remember, cell phone companies are unethical and use you losing your phone as an upsell/profit opportunity. It's not that they CAN'T find your phone, it's that they WON'T find your phone.
Do yourself a favor and buy a phone, it doesn't have to be a Windows Phone, but buy a phone that YOU can locate over the internet if you lose it and make learning how to locate it quickly one of the first things you learn how to do on your phone. If you how to do it quickly before the battery dies right when you realize it's missing, you will never have to depend on the call carriers and their unethical practices again.
In the meantime, someone should start a petition to the FCC requiring all carriers to provide online phone locating tools for all subscribers.
If you do happen to have a Windows Phone, here is a 4 minute video by my colleague Daniel Egan on how to locate your Windows Phone.
UPDATE 4/12/2012: Not even one week after I created this amazing post, the federal government has reacted! The FCC will be building a "massive" database of lost cell phones World-Wide and "cracking down" on those people who are stealing phones by forming a taskforce of stakeholders to solve the real problem of robberies involving cell phones. ;-)
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Pupils from Cherhill Primary School sang out during a concert at the O2 Arena in London yesterday, organised by Young Voices.
The pupils, who have been practicing since September, joined the African Children's Choir and Britain's Got Talent finalist Connie Talbot on stage for a performance watched by 12,000 people.
The Young Voices Concert is the largest children's choir concert organised in the world. Schools are invited to perform at a number of venues across the UK.
This is the third year children from the primary school's Sing-Up Club have taken part. Yesterday, 39 of them were due to take part in a two-and-a-half hour rehearsal before the concert, finishing at 9.15pm.
All the schools learn the same songs and sing in unison with each other on the night. The band is placed on the stage and the schools are placed below, taking up half the arena.
This year they performed Beatles classic Let It Be, with Connie Talbot, and Sing, the song created by Gary Barlow for the Diamond Jubilee, as well as a mixture of disco, rock and pop medleys.
Children from the school, aged seven to 11, have to audition for the choir as it is so popular, and they rehearse every Wednesday evening after classes.
For the past three years, they have won the prize for the best primary school choir at the Wootton Bassett Arts Festival.
Deputy head teacher Helen Williams, who leads the choir, said the children had practiced every lunchtime for the past couple of weeks before the concert.
She said: "This is a big highlight for us in the school year. We got the songs in September and we've spent the last couple of months drumming it into them.
"They are so excited, one little boy has been on countdown for the last two months.
"The children in Years 4, 5 and 6 have been already, but it will be the first time for the seven to eight-year-olds.
"You never forget their faces when they walk into the arena and see the size of it. I'm very proud, they all work so hard and they're all really dedicated. It's like a community – the children who are seven mix with the children who are 11."

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Coaster Set Winner Announced
Hi all,
I am pleased to announce that Sandra Drayer (screen name SID) is the winner of our first Blog Cabin 2013 Gimme Gimme Giveaway. She is the proud new owner of our reclaimed wood coaster set. Don't forget to stop by on August 9, when we launch our next giveaway, the complete bedding set used in the master bedroom.
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Fundraiser for Faith in Action lots of fun
If you missed it, watch for your chance next year to attend the Evening in Tuscany Spaghetti Fundraiser for Faith in Action for Cass County.
Held March 19 in Hackensack, around 100 people were treated to a delizioso spaghetti dinner with choice of sauces — regular or Mike's specialty — and serenaded with lively guitar music by John Puleo. With the everlasting snow, it was great to have a night out.
Faith in Action thanks Cindy Paulsen of Lucette's Pizza and Pub of Hackensack for donating its kitchen and dining room for the evening, John Puleo of Pine River for his wonderful music, and Mike Bohanon of Hackensack for his "special sauce."
Thanks to the board members and Friends of Faith in Action for providing helpful hands for the evening. And thanks to everyone who came out to support Faith in Action and learn more about community needs, the importance of volunteering and "Neighbors Helping Neighbors."
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NEWPORT County AFC could face old rivals Cardiff City in the Capital One Cup first round after the seedings were announced this morning.
The Exiles are unseeded in the southern section of the first round draw, which takes place on Tuesday, June 17 at 10am.
But the Bluebirds, fresh from their relegation from the Premier League, are among the 18 seeded teams in the southern area.
That means that Justin Edinburgh's men could be on collision course with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side from the capital, rekindling a rivalry that last saw them play in the FAW Premier Cup in 2008.
County won that clash on penalties at Ninian Park but the last time they met in English competition was in April 1988 in the old division four where Cardiff won 4-0.
County, who dumped Championship club Brighton & Hove Albion out of the competition last year, could also face the Seagulls again or the likes of AFC Bournemouth, Birmingham City, Ipswich Town and Reading.
And there is also the possibility of a reunion with former players Lee Evans of Wolverhampton Wanderers, Conor Washington at Peterborough United or Sam Foley at Yeovil Town.
The full list of County's possible opponents is: AFC Bournemouth, Birmingham City, Brentford, Brighton & Hove Albion, Bristol City, Cardiff City, Charlton Athletic, Ipswich Town, Leyton Orient, Millwall, Milton Keynes Dons, Peterborough United, Reading, Swindon Town, Walsall, Watford, Wolverhampton Wanderers and Yeovil Town.
County are among the unseeded teams in the south alongside: AFC Wimbledon, Cambridge United, Cheltenham Town, Colchester United, Coventry City, Crawley Town, Dagenham & Redbridge, Exeter City, Gillingham, Luton Town, Northampton Town, Oxford Untied, Plymouth Argyle, Portsmouth, Southend United, Stevenage and Wycombe Wanderers.
Live TV games have will be on Monday, August 11, at 7.45pm and Wednesday, August 13, at 7.45pm and these games will be selected directly following the draw.


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The bank¹s total assets grew by 13.6% from December
2011 to August 2012 to $7.67 billion, with consumer credit
growing by 19.6% and commercial credit by 18.8%. But the
bank¹s profitability was down, to give a return on equity
of 13.8% from 15% and a return on assets of 1.3% from 2.1%.
In fact, the profitability of the entire financial system
declined, as changes to the regulatory environment hit balance
sheets and forced banks to become more adaptable.
ROE for the sector dropped from 18.9% in December 2011 to
14.9% in 2012.
This has called for nimble planning and strategy, says
Chiriboga. Measures have included price ceilings on interest
rates and fees on financial services, as well as tax reforms,
and divestment of assets.
³These levels of performance are the result of a
strategy that favors efficiency and strict cost control, and
whose focus is to generate adequate levels of profitability and
solvency,² says Chiriboga.
As part of regulations introduced this April, financial
institutions are limited in which services they can charge for.
This, added to another layer of restrictions announced in
July 2011 but which came into force this July has
prevented private sector financial institutions from holding
stakes in insurance and brokerage companies.
The bank has sold off its Fondos Pichincha, Seguros del
Pichincha, Pichincha Casa de Valores and Consorcio del
Pichincha units.
Pichincha plans to increase its national presence and to
attract more customers to the formal banking sector. It is
looking to expand its non-bank network to some 5,000 so it can
cover more ground, Chiriboga says.
The bank bought Lloyds Bank¹s assets and liabilities
for $20 million in 2010. It bought GMAC¹s assets in 2011
for $38.5 million. The Lloyds acquisition heightened
relationships with corporate clients, and the latter helped
Pichincha consolidate in vehicle financing, says the bank.
Further expansion through M&A remains a possibility,
though the bank indicates that it ³does not rule out the
evaluation of opportunities that may be of interest in the
country and the region.² Pichincha is weighing up issuing
a dollar bond possibly for $100 million in the
international markets, though timing has yet to be determined.
(The bank has issued shorter-term dollar debt domestically but
has yet to sell long-term debt internationally.) Presidential
elections next February will play a large part in determining
the future regulatory environment for banks and analysts
say a win by incumbent Rafael Correa could mean yet more
controls on financial institutions. LF
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shel wrote:seeker242 wrote:It seems to me just that he is correctly noticing the fact that not everything written in the scriptures should be taken literally nor is it intended to be taken literally.
He's saying that his beliefs or experiences (nothing holy or unholy, etc.) are "real" and "beautiful," and that they are more magical and fantastic than anything a "storybook writer could cook up." He's calling the people who wrote the sutras "storybook writers," which is slanderous. Why does he do that instead of just saying as you do that not everything written in the scriptures should be taken literally?
I don't think he is saying any of that in this video. I think you are completely missing the point of what he is saying, attaching to the words while missing the real meaning behind them. Similar to how a cat will only look at your finger if you were to point at something across the room. He is a zen teacher. More than one zen teacher has shredded/burned the scriptures. Furthermore, why does it even matter what he says? Is it relevant to your personal practice? It seems to me that the only reason you posted this is to criticize him. What benefit comes from doing that other than bolstering your own ego? I don't see any! You asked what people think of it. That's what I think of it. I really don't have an interest in arguing over why, because that's pointless.


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Just tweeted this whole "mini-article" through my @postgameonline handle, and wanted to share the information here. Please remember these are tweets, so there are short, possibly strange grammatical statements, much repetition, and various stats. However, when I rewrote it, I tried adjusting some points of interest for journalistic integrity.
And he only has 4 1/2 fingers on his right hand.Originally Posted by Postgame OnlineThis quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteIn his 23 games since returning to the NBA from a three-year hiatus, the New Jersey Nets Gerald Green has had six 20+ point games, including tonights 32 against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Greens last season in the NBA spanned 44 games, which he played for the Dallas Mavericks in 2008-09. His five 20+ point games are the most since his sophomore season with the Boston Celtics in 2006-07.
In his sophomore season, Green had fifteen (15) 20+ point games, including a career-high 25 points in a loss to the Dallas Mavericks (a future Green-holder). He later topped his career-high with 33 points in a loss to the Atlanta Hawks, a game during which Paul Pierce was injured.
The starting lineup for the Celtics for the Hawks game was: Rajon Rondo, Ryan Gomes, Allan Ray (not Ray Allen), Kendrick Perkins, and Green.This game occurred in an 8-game stretch where Green averaged 19.25 points per game. However, the Celtics won only one game in that stretch, in which Green matched his then-career high of 25 points to beat the Cavaliers.
After a breakout 2007 season, Green was infamously traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Kevin Garnett (the second trade to occur that would assist in finally sending the Celtics back to the Finals). He was overshadowed in Minnesota for 30 games, and requested a trade thusly. By late February, Green would be traded to his hometown Houston Rockets, only to be released a week into March.
Green spent a very lackluster season in Dallas in 2008-09, and eventually signed with a Russian team in December 2009, for the 09-10 season. He saw some NBA Summer League action in 2010 with the Los Angeles Lakers, but signed with another Russian team after Summer League ended. He moved to China in October 2011 to play for the Foshan Dralions, but was released shortly after in December.
After Boston, Minnesota, Houston, Dallas, Russia, and China between 2005 and 2011, Green signed with the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA D-League on December 28, 2011 (my 21st birthday). It is with the D-Fenders that Green made the NBDL All-Star team, and was awarded the 2012 NBDL All-Star Game MVP.
Mere weeks after his MVP honors, Green would sign back-to-back 10-day contracts with the New Jersey Nets in late February 2012, and would later sign for the remainder of the season.
With the resuscitation and resurrection of his NBA career, Gerald Green has earned his role on a struggling, rebuilding, and possibly tanking Nets team. Hes proven he can still compete with NBA talent, and with Gerald Wallace out with a hamstring injury, look for Green to receive starting minutes for the Nets, and more responsibility and freedom as he develops.
Green has deserved starting minutes to this point, and if he does so, he would be standing on the court at tip-off with Deron Williams, MarShon Brooks, Kris Humphries, and Shawne Williams; not an awful crop of players, but definitely one of potential. Williams, Brooks, and Green could be an incredible trio looking toward the future of the Brooklyn Nets.
With positive results, Green could be a huge piece for the Nets next year, and coming years. Or he could earn a good contract for another team, becoming a valuable asset and a product of the potential that he seeped in his first two years in the NBA. Green showed a lot of promise prior to his unfair trade and bench burial, and then failed to please any team enough to find him worth the money to keep.
Similarly, the Indiana Pacers own Paul George has shown slivers of this same kind of development: topping, matching, and topping career-highs, exhibiting massive amounts of potential, and even performing with a relative skillset. However, George was removed from his own burial with the firing of former coach Jim OBrien. After proving himself in two seasons, dont expect the Pacers to pass on him as easily as Boston passed on Green.
Even if a Kevin Garnett-at-that-time-level player is available, Larry Bird understands the importance of a young mans development, and is likely to ensure that he can continue to flourish in the hands of Frank Vogel. Unfortunately, Green did not receive the same amount of respect, nor freedom.
But Green is on his way back to fame in the NBA. His American professional career has been resuscitated and resurrected, so expect for him to prove his worth, earn his place, and turn a very lucky team into a very happy team.


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If your bed needs a makeover and you want the result of that makeover to be "burger," this awesome burger duvet and pillow cover set by Spanish designer Davidelfín might be for you. It started making the Internet rounds last November, but I'm 99 percent sure it was sold out sometime in December. Not only is it now back in stock, it's on sale for €63-€91 ($82-199) instead of the original €90-€130 ($118-$170). (The bottom of the website also notes "For non EU customers 20% discount for exempted tax.")
[Thanks to AHT reader Daniel L. for the heads up.]
About the author: Robyn Lee is the editor of A Hamburger Today and takes many of the photos for Serious Eats. She'll also doodle cute stuff when necessary. Read more from Robyn at her personal food blog, The Girl Who Ate Everything.
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Just think about this world for a minute. How many diverse groups of people are there? People are spread all over this planet with widely differing belief systems and experiences of the world. People go on and on arguing for their version of reality over another's. Scientists are especially troubling in this regard, as they have become the new Church; the gatekeepers of reality. It is now the scientific establishment who gets to dictate what we believe as reality. Supposedly they are the objective, rational, harbingers of true reality, as opposed to that fiction of religion.
Subjective Reality
However, as I intend to show: no one or no group of people is "objective" or even can be. This is because we live in a subjective reality. The scientific establishment is resistant to the paranormal (or any data that doesn't fit within their present belief system) and the idea of an intelligence that forms and evolves the universe. Scientists have constructed a box of beliefs that shapes their view of the world, and what's possible and not possible in that world. This belief in only material objects and energy blinds them to the true nature of reality even when the evidence for it is staring them in the face.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to science. Scientific experimentation is wonderful and has led to many advances. What I'm railing against is a certain scientism that has grown up around the halls of academia. It is a scientific fundamentalism that dictates what kinds of theories are acceptable in science, and subsequently about what kinds of studies are acceptable to undertake. Any findings that might upset the dominate beliefs of the scientific establishment are attacked or just simply ignored.
Materialistic Worldview
It is not an environment that is open to any and all inquiry. Precisely the opposite, what you can and cannot believe is determined by the scientific establishment based on the dominating paradigm, or worldview, under which they operate. And by "scientific establishment" I don't mean all scientists, but the majority of scientists, especially the high ranking and influential ones. Things like telepathy, communicating with the dead, or a guiding intelligence underlying the universe, to name just a few, are not open for discussion. They are impossible based on the materialistic worldview of many scientists. Even when scientists study these things, their science is labeled pseudoscience and simply ignored by the establishment.
We live in the confines of the box of our beliefs about reality, trapped by a worldview whether it's a scientific or religious one; it doesn't matter. There may be "objective" facts. This person did this experiment and found this result. That's an objective fact. However, our beliefs come to define which facts we accept, which we ignore, which we ridicule, and which define our reality. Science is no exception to this rule.
As an example, just look at research into psychic phenomena performed in laboratories all around the world. Parapsychologists have been actively looking for evidence of the paranormal (think telepathy, clairvoyance, and telekinesis) for over 100 years. For over 100 years they've been setting up experiments and conducting tests for these things. And they've been finding statistically significant results.
Ganzfield Protocol
Nowadays, a typical telepathy experiment operates on what is known as the ganzfeld protocol. This involves two people: a sender and a receiver. The receiver goes into an acoustically sealed room, dons a pair of headphones, and relaxes in a comfortable chair. Ping pong or tennis balls are halved and placed over the subjects eyes and a red light shines down from above. The receiver is then taken through a progressive relaxation routine for 15 minutes. Then for the next 30 minutes white noise is played through the headphones and the receiver is asked to articulate any thoughts or images that come to his/her mind.
You see by the design of the experiment that the idea is to eliminate any outside sensory stimulation. All you can see is soft red light and all you can hear is white noise. So there's not much to stimulate the mind in this situation, which in theory makes one better able to pick up on subconscious images or ideas relayed by the sender. Because if telepathy is real it operates on a higher/deeper level of mind that we are usually not conscious of. Some people call this the subconscious mind, but we'll talk more about the multi-level nature of mind in the coming chapters.
In what's known as the autoganzfeld, which is the kind used today, a computer randomly chooses a picture or video clip from a vast library of such pictures and clips to show to the sender. The sender is in another room with a one-way audio speaker which allows him to hear the receiver, but the receiver cannot hear him. This is so the sender can receive feedback about what the receiver is mentally experiencing and make adjustments to his/her thought processes accordingly. For 30 minutes the sender concentrates on sending the picture or video clip to the receiver in the other room.
After the 30 minutes is up, the session ends and a set of four pictures or video clips, including the target one, is shown to the receiver who then has to guess which one the sender was trying to telepathically send to him/her. If it were merely a guess we should expect people to guess the right picture 25% of the time. However, as it turns out when the experiments are run the average hit rate is around 33%.
You may think this is a relatively small effect and wonder why the hit rate is not much larger. But think about the fact that we are not taught to believe in such abilities, much less to utilize them. So, very few people have much practice with this ability, and not surprisingly telepathy is relatively foreign in our everyday experience. Another way of putting it is that our society's belief system, dominated as it is by the scientific establishment, does not include telepathy as real, much less important. In fact, the typical response is to fear or ignore such abilities even when they are experienced. Therefore, it is likely that there are strong mental blocks to experiencing such things. Our belief system shapes how we experience reality.
It is quite telling that when gifted artists were tested, their hit rate was found to be a much higher 47%. So, people who often utilize their right brains and are very imaginative seem to be able to tap the subconscious much better than those that are predominantly left-brained. It would be interesting to see if they have a much higher belief in psychic awareness or if they have had more experience with this ability than the general population, who are the test subjects in normal ganzfeld experiments.
In any event, 33% is getting right one out of every three, a significant deviation from the chance expectation of one out of every four. In fact, Mario Beauregard, in his book Brain Wars, reports that "a meta-analysis of the replication studies [of the autoganzfeld] conducted by Radin, Bierman, Bem, and Parker has revealed a hit rate of 33.2 percent with odds against chance beyond a million billion to one." That means that it's not just a fluke. The odds are astoundingly stacked against this result happening by chance. Telepathy is operating, not perfectly, but it's definitely there.
Hypnotic Commands
In actuality, today's telepathy experiments are just a formality, trying to prove under the strictest of conditions what has been experimentally verified by competent researchers for over 100 years. The great Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis de Puységur (really, could a name be longer?), for one, put a subject named Victor in a hypnotic state. From there Puységur was able to give unspoken mental commands to Victor, which he would dutifully obey.
Paraspychological researcher Brian Inglis explains, "Victor would behave as he was willed to behave, talk as he was willed to talk; and if willed to stop talking, he would 'stay his thoughts, his phrases, in the middle of a word.'" This was all done without speaking a single command, but through the transmission of Puységur's thoughts to the subject.
Puységur explicitly states:
"When he is magnetised [a form of hypnosis], he is no longer a simple peasant who can barely answer a question; he is something I cannot describe. I have no need to speak to him, I think in front of him and he understands and answers me. If somebody comes into the room, he sees him if I want him to, and speaks to him, saying what I want him to say, not always in the same words, but true to their meaning. When he wants to say more than I consider fit to be heard, I stop his ideas and sentences in the middle of a word, and I change his mind completely."
In complete rapport with his subject, who is himself in a higher sphere of mind, it is as if they are together of one single mind. Many other researchers also found that they could influence a subject under hypnosis mentally, even when they were separated by great distances to preclude any other type of influence. There is really no other explanation for this type of phenomenon than a telepathic communication between hypnotizer and subject.
In the past, it was sometimes attributed to a hypersensitivity on the subjects part, so that they could pick up subtle muscular clues or drafts of air and somehow deduce what was in the hypnotists mind. However, this type of explanation stretches credulity and cannot possibly be taken seriously, especially when the hypnotist is not even in the same room as the subject. This suffices to show that experimentation with telepathy is nothing new and in no way are the modern day ganzfeld experiments necessary to prove its existence. Telepathy has simply been demonstrated time and time again, as well as reported by people the world over, to be beyond doubt.
Experimental Proof of Telepathy
However, considering there are modern day experimental proofs of telepathy we should ask the question: Do you remember that New York Times article proclaiming how scientists have found telepathy and it will enter the school curriculum next year and be taught as an established principle to all grade school children? Probably not because it wasn't there. Do you remember learning about telepathy as a serious scientific study when you were in school? Again, I doubt it. Unless you took specialized classes in parapsychology in college you probably never heard a word about the subject. And if you did it was probably in a passing reference to "pseudoscience." As if the controlled laboratory experiments I described are somehow less scientific than normal experiments just because they study something that's not supposed to exist!
Indeed, telepathy is still excluded from most scientist's belief system even though the data is overwhelmingly in favor of it. The key point is that facts themselves don't matter, beliefs matter. When the facts don't fit into your belief system there are a few options: ignore them, try to explain them away, or change your belief system. The first is the easiest and most common, followed by the second and third. Let's take a look at some more examples.
Astrophysicist Jacques Vallee
Astrophysicist and computer scientist Jacques Vallee studied the UFO phenomenon for many years and wrote a series of books on the subject from the 1960s up until the early 1990s. He was a very open minded man who wanted to understand what these UFOs were, if they were physically real, and how they affected human populations who came in contact with them. But to his surprise, his astronomer colleagues were for the most part only interested in ignoring the phenomenon. He complains:
"On two occasions I have tracked some unknown objects, using small telescopes. A few of my astronomer colleagues made similar observations, and, after making inquiries, we became aware of sightings kept confidential by professional astronomers the world over. The objects we were tracking were not spectacular, but the reaction they elicited among French scientists fascinated me. Instead of asking if these seemingly maneuverable and "impossible" objects could be a manifestation of some advanced technology (and in some cases they may well have been terrestrial), they thought only of suppressing the records. They did this by denying every observation, by blaming it on airplanes or planets when the documentation was unassailable, and by destroying the data when it was demonstrated that no airplane could have behaved as the objects did."
So much for objective scientific inquiry. I do have some sympathy for these astronomers who were suppressing, ignoring, and even destroying data because I realize that we live in a closed-minded society, especially among mainstream scientists. I can just imagine one of these astronomers coming out and saying that he tracked a UFO by telescope and releasing the data that it couldn't have been a planet, airplane, or conventional phenomenon. This poor astronomer would be immediately subjected to ridicule by his colleagues who would propose some absurd theory about what he saw (think swamp gas). If he were at a university, they might marginalize him and make sure he never gets tenure. It's not easy to challenge the orthodoxy. It's much easier not to push the boundaries of belief, just better to stay quiet, shut up and do real science!
Physicist Bruce Maccabee
Sometimes scientists are even barred from publishing in a journal solely because their conclusions about the phenomenon are on the wrong side of the ideological fence. Such was the case with optical physicist Bruce Maccabee. He went to Kaikoura, New Zealand to investigate some well documented UFO sightings involving multiple witnesses, movie footage, and radar tracking. He spent a good month in Kaikoura analyzing the data and interviewing the witnesses. To his surprise, "an article appeared in the Journal of Atmospheric and Terrestrial Physics concluding that refracted lights from Japanese squid boats were responsible for the sightings."
Having done his own in-depth research, Maccabee had reached the opposite conclusion, namely, that it was an unidentified phenomenon and couldn't be explained on the basis of mirages or other terrestrial phenomena. So, he decided to submit a rebuttal to the Journal explaining his position. UFO researcher Thomas Bullard sums up what happened nicely: "The editor rejected his article, saying it contained no 'real science,' in an apparent demonstration that a study based on extensive investigation did not merit publication if it arrived at an unacceptable answer, while a study based on nothing more than newspaper reports breezed into print as long as its results conformed to proper scientific opinion."
Is this not the case with all belief systems though? You readily accept findings that fit nicely within your preexisting belief system even if the evidence is flimsy, while rejecting or ignoring strong evidence to the contrary. Science, the supposed objective arbiter of truth, turns out to be no different. It's not about the evidence. Belief system comes first, evidence second.
Another UFO-related scandal
Let's take a look at another UFO related scandal involving the Condon Committee, which was a group formed at the University of Colorado headed by physicist Dr. Edward Condon and commissioned by the Defense Department to study UFOs in the late 60s. Given a healthy sum of money to the tune of half a million dollars, their investigation into the UFO matter was strikingly short. Thomas Bullard reports that investigations started early in 1967 and wrapped up in the spring of 1968. Another intriguing detail to clue us in to possible bias in the final outcome is that Condon, who "never thought very highly of the subject," made a public speech in January of 1967 stating that he "thought there was nothing to UFOs — but I'm not supposed to reach that conclusion for another year."
In a similar vein, Jacques Vallee tells us that within a year of beginning their study, "field investigations were nonexistent. Questionnaires were sent out to witnesses, but only one assistant was available to encode the results for the computer file. . ." This prompted a minority faction of the committee to rebel and publish a memorandum to the effect that "the Condon Committee had never intended to look seriously into the UFO problem." Afterwards Dr. Condon fired the minority group and proceeded to run the project his way, which according to Vallee was essentially to not take the phenomenon seriously.
Of course, the final report stated that the official study of the UFO phenomenon should be abandoned. But the more intriguing part of the scandal involves what happened to the committee's files afterwards. Were the files opened to the public and the scientific establishment for independent review? Far from it. Vallee reports that after the committee released their report stating that UFOs were not worthy of study, the University of Colorado locked up the project's files, which were later "transferred to a private home and were burned shortly thereafter."
This last event is really telling that they were not serious about studying UFOs and UFO related events. It's fine if you want to conclude that there's nothing to the phenomenon. But the least you can do as a respectable body of scientists is release the data you've collected so that other scientists and scientific bodies can do their own analysis. For example, they could have said, "Here you go, take a look at these files and you'll see that it's just a bunch of hallucinating farmers and truck drivers staying up too late popping caffeine pills. Take a look; I'm sure you'll come to the same conclusion." Releasing the data and giving a statement like that would have been ok, although it would have angered farmers and truck drivers. But burn the data? Is this a scientific committee or a medieval Catholic Church?
In the 1700s, people were also seeing things in the sky. Not only that, they were claiming that these rocks in the sky were falling to Earth. We call them meteorites today, but in the 1700s the suggestion of space rocks falling to Earth was just plain ludicrous. I can hear the scientists of the day wailing, "What? Rocks falling from the sky! What are these peasants smoking?" Of course, the scientists of that time may have employed a slightly different linguistic style in their thought processes, but I think I've captured the meaning of what they would have thought.
It was in France that this whole fiasco came to a head. Thankfully, the scientists at the prestigious French Academy of Science were up to the task of putting these rumors of rocks falling from the sky to rest. So, in 1772 this prestigious group of distinguished pipe smoking scientists (I'm guessing on the pipe smoking) studied reports of rocks falling from the sky; what we now refer to as meteorites. What was their conclusion? You guessed it:
"There are no such things as hot stones that have fallen from the sky because there are no stones in the sky to fall. Reports of the phenomenon must have other explanations —delusionary 'visions,' stones heated after being struck by lightning, stones borne aloft by whirlwinds or volcanic eruptions, and so forth."
Here we come to the central problem; the problem which faced the prestigious French Academy. That is, how could it be possible? You see, they had no way to understand how meteorites could exist, as their scientific belief system was still primitive in terms of understanding space. If you had no conception of an asteroid belt or meteorites in space, how could you possibly believe in rocks falling from the sky? It just seemed so absurd at the time, so impossible.
No Scientific Way to Understand Alien Craft
The same is true for the astronomers tracking UFOs, or poor professor Condon who got himself deep in UFO data and didn't know what to make of it. Science just can't fathom how an alien spacecraft would get here. The distances are too vast and wormholes require too much energy to create and keep open to be plausible. There's just no way to understand them. (And theorizing UFOs popping in from other dimensions is still way outside the box for most scientists to venture.) It also doesn't help that aliens don't land on the White House lawn like good aliens should. That, or immediately attack us and take over our planet like the movies suggest. Many scientists just can't wrap their heads around intelligent beings who would come here and not do one of these things. But you have to ask yourself: Are we really in a position to judge the actions of a higher intelligence? They may have a meta-logic all of their own. Instead of openly manifesting and giving us all the solutions to our problems, maybe they want to covertly guide us in ways that we are only beginning to piece together.
Telepathy and other psychic phenomena are no different. Scientists just can't fit it into what they know to be true. They have no idea how telepathy could exist. In fact, most scientists still think that the brain produces the mind as an epiphenomenon, or that the mind is reducible to neural firing in the brain. The former is the view that somehow the complex workings of the brain give rise to the mind, which exists as a secondary phenomenon not reducible to brain activity, but still dependent on it for existence. The latter is the view that all mental events are just patterns of neural activity in the brain; in other words, we can reduce the mind to the physical activity in the brain. Both of these views require the brain for the mind to exist and neither can explain how one mind could transmit information directly to another mind. Since mind, in these views, is limited to a person's brain and nervous system functioning, how could one person's brain send a nerve (or neural) impulse across space to affect another person's brain?
New Belief System Needed
So you see, we need a new belief system that can allow for what is now considered the paranormal. In order for science as a whole to accept the data, they need to be able to understand it within a broader system of thought. We need to have a belief system that makes the paranormal normal. Otherwise we'll go on living in our nice little box and fearing and ignoring major aspects of reality. In essence, we will stifle further advancement of knowledge by shunning the very phenomena we should be most interested in.
Daniel Neiman holds a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He is currently an independent researcher with a focus on altered states of consciousness and life after death. He currently lives in Seoul, South Korea where he teaches English and researches in his spare time.


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Interesting idea, but your main objective with this is simply to get the title off of RVD; not to promote the X-Division. Or it would be better phrased as the idea you presented was geared more towards taking the belt off of RVD and not the elevation of the X-Division, as I understand it. Like him or not, RVD has a certain name recognition that will help someone like Kenny King, Zema Ion, or Jesse Sorensen (who I see taking the belt off of RVD because it will elevate him past just "the kid who broke his neck" to "the kid whose return was a win over a superstar in RVD"). If they are to give RVD that belt, only to peel it off of him 2 months later, it does more damage to Zema than it does establish King's elevation.
Let's say we're going to give it to King as you would have it. A better way to book it would be to have the Kash/Ion interference as you called for (which I don't like because coming off of the comment Kash made to Hogan @ Night of Champions, Kash could be used as a revolutionary leader of the X Division which "could" spur off of this interference in this match, but since you want King to win, he would just give the belt to Kash a month later, and we don't want that) but the result of the following months 4 way is to have RVD hold onto the belt. Have King petition that he hasn't been given the fair shot. After pleading long enough, and doing everything he can to get under RVD's skin, have Hogan make the match with the stipulation that Rob picks the match type for Lockdown.
Of course, Rob goes for his bread and butter in a ladder match, but with the Lockdown stipulation already in place, the match is a bit more interesting. At Lockdown, they have a brutal match (no barbed wire though since Rob isn't known for those kinds of matches; Hardcore IS his moniker, but he is heavy Ladders and Chairs) in which King wins a clean and decisive victory over RVD to take the belt. This will result in King holding the belt for a while (at least until a month before Destination X when I see Aries sneaking his way back to the WHC title show, or Styles securing his loophole).
Why do it this way? Because giving the belt to RVD, only to have him drop it 2 months later would cause the X Division to regress, not progress. They are only 2 title holders away from their longest reigning champion and already took the belt off his following act 2 months after he got it at Dest X. By giving the "proper" build to an actual story for King vs. RVD, and allowing it to be a decisive payoff in the end, King gains the notoriety of being an up and comer who took out RVD at his own game, thus becoming a "King of the Cage" so to speak. The other reason is that the X Title has been a stepping stone for rising stars, but hasn't had a truly "established" wrestler hold the belt outside of maybe Jerry Lynn and "Syxx-Pac" (sorry Kendrick, Divari, and Kash); all the others have been up and comers who used it to venture upward (most didn't make it past mid-card), which is why the belt changed hands every 3 months or less. With a name like RVD, you can use it to help give the X-Division that star power (even if you don't like RVD, he's pretty well known among the common wrestling fan) which will be rubbed off on whoever takes the belt off of him. If they pull the trigger too quickly, it doesn't allow a star to be born as much as it allows one to die a little more.


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What word sums up the market for Corvettes, judging by some of the auction results this year?
How about "strong." That's what we're seeing, judging by the collector-car auction results in the first half of 2010.
"Vettes are doing very well," says Tom Christmann, marketing manager for the Mecum Auction Company. "At our most recent auction [the Spring Classic in Indianapolis] we sold 64 percent of the Corvettes offered. Our total auction average was 66 percent."
And it wasn't just the high-dollar Corvettes that were selling. "It was the whole range-that was the interesting thing," Tom adds. "We had more than 200 Corvettes offered [at Indianapolis], and it was a little bit of everything, from the AAT conversion to late-model stuff, Midyears, a '67 400 air car and a '56 restomod. It was a little bit of everything, and all of them were selling well." That's especially true of driver-quality Corvettes, ones that have spent more time being appreciated on the road than in the show field. A quick look at the results of Mecum's 2010 auctions shows that they've been selling when they cross the block, just as the big-money cars have.
Speaking of the quality-and big-money-cars, Tom says the market for them hasn't changed. "If you've got a high-end car that's Bloomington Gold certified, or an NCRS Duntov Award winner, those cars still command all the money and do extremely well. The '67 400 air car that sold for $155,000, that's strong money in anybody's book for that kind of car. It shows that good quality cars will still bring the money, and the regular cars will bring the regular money."
Tom says the strength in the Corvette market is likely to continue through the rest of this year and beyond. "There's no reason to think it won't," he says. "Last year, at the beginning of the year, the market was just a tick soft, and what we saw was that Corvettes were the very last to be hit by the recession. They seem to be the last ones hit, and the first to rebound."
Does that mean if you're looking to buy your first Corvette that now is a good time to do it? Tom says without hesitation, "It's a very good time to be buying. The market would still be on the rebound, so all of the prices are going to go up as a rule. So, yes, it's a great time to try out your first Corvette."
Tom's comments echo what we heard from Mecum Auctions President Dana Mecum earlier this year, at its Kissimmee, Florida, auction. "We hosted a packed house at Kissimmee, which grew immensely in both bidder registration and sales this year. Compared to our 2008 Kissimmee event, our gross sales increased more than 60 percent." He also said that, despite the heavy coverage of the Arizona auctions each year, they aren't the be-all and end-all of winter collector car events. "There are collector cars east of the Mississippi in January," he said. "It's a natural thing. For 40 years, people west of the Mississippi have gone to the Southwest for the winter, and people east of the Mississippi go to Florida for the winter."
Checking the results from Indy, Misterl's Midyear, the '63 specially built for Harley Earl that we brought you in our July '09 issue, was the top seller at Mecum's Spring Classic, selling for $925,000. Other Corvettes reached that Indianapolis event's top-sellers list, with the ex-Doug Bergen/Bob Johnson 8-Ball '66 L72 coupe (with an extensive-and successful-SCCA race history) bringing a $305,000 hammer price, the '67 427/400hp air-conditioned convertible that Tom mentioned finding a new home for $155,000, a '67 Sting Ray two-top convertible (a COPO car with a rare Sunfire Yellow paint/tan interior color combo) going for $130,000, and a restored '68 L88 coupe selling for $150,000.
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SANTA ROSA -- Two Lake County students, Liliana Edwards and Christopher Thompson, were among 100 graduates at Empire College's semi-annual commencement exercises.
The ceremony took place Jan. 21 at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts.
Edwards, who spoke on behalf of the graduating class, received the California Medical Assistants Association award for medical assisting. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran, she graduated with Dean's Honors from the clinical medical assistant program. A 2005 graduate of Clear Lake High School, she is the daughter of Maria and Martin Diaz of Lakeport. She and her husband, Matthew Edwards, live in Santa Rosa and have one child, Landon Edwards.
Thompson graduated from the clinical medical assistant program. He lives in Hidden Valley Lake and has two children, Alex and Jayde. He is the son of Geraldine Thompson.


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SU5416 in Patients With AIDS-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma Who Have Not Responded to Treatment
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|Sarcoma, Kaposi HIV Infections
|Drug: SU5416
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|A Multicenter, Open-Label, Phase II Study of SU5416 in Patients With Therapy-Refractory Cutaneous AIDS-Related Kaposi's Sarcoma
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Patients are given SU5416 via twice-weekly intravenous infusions in 4-week treatment cycles. Any patient who has not experienced unacceptable toxicity and who is deemed to be responding to the study drug (no evidence of disease progression) is permitted to continue receiving SU5416 in 4-week treatment cycles (up to a maximum of 1 year of therapy) until that patient experiences either unacceptable toxicity or tumor progression, as defined in the protocol.
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Patients may be eligible for this study if they:
- Are at least 18 years old.
- Have KS.
- Have taken paclitaxel, DaunoXome, or Doxil for KS and they have either not gotten better or could not tolerate treatment therapy.
- Have 1 of the following symptoms for KS: 5 lesions (sores), generalized KS-related edema (swelling) without sores, or KS-related edema of the arms and legs.
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Greetings all ewrestlingnews.com bloggers and forum members. The 26th Anniversary of WWE Survivor Series is now officially behind us. With that being said, we now have the WWE's go-home Pay-Per-View of 2012. That event being a tribute themed Pay-Per-View to one of the most brutal matches in wrestling history. Tables, Ladders, and Chairs.
Mr. Jay wrote a blog last week about how he would book this event. With all due respect to Mr. Jay, it wasn't a believable card. He was creative and I'll give him credit where credit's due, but if WWE was going to have CM Punk go one-on-one with Mick Foley in the near future, it'd have to be done on RAW. Not at a Pay-Per-View. An ideal time to do it would be the main event of the very first RAW of 2013. Reminiscent of the main event of RAW IS WAR on their first episode of 1999, and The Rock would be the one to who would play Stone Cold Steve Austin's role from 1999 in that match. With that being said, how would be the ideal way to book such a prestigious event such as this?
Now granted, I know that this event isn't as prestigious of an event as say a Survivor Series is, but it's still a chance to make hundreds and thousands of profitable dollars, and a good chance to make people, especially the hardcore wrestling fans want to give their two cents about a Pay-Per-View event that is just thrown out on the annual calendar just for the heck of it. Nowadays, the annual Pay-Per-View calendar (and keep in mind that this is just one man's opinion) is just one big giant cluster of events that are nothing but horrible tribute PPVs, and wannabe In Your House rip-offs. Needless to say, I am not a fan of Pay-Per-Views such as Elimination Chamber, Hell In A Cell, and Fatal 4 Way among others. Names such as No Way Out and Armageddon are far better names that Hell In A Cell. With that said, here is how yours truly, would book the last WWE Pay-Per-View of 2012; Tables, Ladders, and Chairs.
(Before you read the card, I finalized this before RAW began on Monday. So keep that in mind.)
WWE Presents: TLC: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs
Date: December 16, 2012
Location: Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York U.S.A.
Theme Song: "Been Away Too Long" – Soundgarden
Ring Announcers: Justin Roberts and Tony Chimel
Ringside Commentators: Michael Cole, JBL, and Jim Ross
Backstage Interviewers: Josh Matthews and Scott Stanford
YouTube HEAT:
Alberto Del Rio (w/Ricardo Rodriguez) vs. Ted DiBiase
Match Card:
01: WWE Intercontinental Championship Match:
Kofi Kingston vs. Damien Sandow
02: Fatal 4 Way Tag Team Elimination Match (Winning Team Receives a WWE Tag Team Championship Opportunity at The Royal Rumble)
The Prime Time Players vs. Rey Mysterio and Sin Cara vs. Team CoBro vs. Justin Gabriel and Tyson Kidd
03: Ladder Match for The United States Championship:
Antonio Cesaro vs. The Miz
04: Ladder Match for The WWE Diva's Championship:
Kaitlyn vs. Eve Torres
05: Triple Threat Tables Match for The World Heavyweight Championship:
Sheamus vs. The Big Show vs. William Regal
06: Chairs Match:
John Cena vs. Dolph Ziggler
07: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs Match for The WWE Championship:
(Special Guest Enforcer: Mick Foley)
CM Punk vs. Kane vs. Daniel Bryan
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Press Release: New Paper Makes Case for Cap and Trade
Press Release
July 26, 2010
Contact: Tom Steinfeldt, 703-516-4146
Despite Senate Delay, Cap and Trade Proves Most Effective Approach to GHG Reductions
Pew Center on Global Climate Change Paper Makes Case for Market-Based Climate Policy
Washington, D.C. – While the U.S. Senate has decided to delay consideration of comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation, a new Pew Center on Global Climate Change paper makes the case that cap and trade continues to be the most effective policy option for reducing global warming pollution and spurring innovation in clean energy technologies. When policymakers turn their attention back to this issue—as they must—they should make cap and trade a foundational element of the policy response to climate change.
"Climate change isn't going away," said Pew Center on Global Climate Change President Eileen Claussen. "While the Senate may have avoided taking up meaningful legislation this year, eventually we are going to need a serious climate and energy policy in this country or suffer the consequences of a warming planet, energy insecurity, subdued innovation, and diminished international competitiveness. Done right, cap and trade should be a recipe for attracting the bipartisan support necessary to pass a strong climate bill."
The Pew Center paper examines fundamental questions about market-based approaches to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and reasons why cap and trade is the most promising option to address the risks of climate change. In Meaningful and Cost Effective Climate Policy: The Case for Cap and Trade, authors Janet Peace and Robert N. Stavins rebut a number of common criticisms against using market-based mechanisms to reduce U.S. GHG emissions to show that cap and trade remains the most cost-effective climate policy solution.
A well-designed cap-and-trade system puts a price on carbon which harnesses market forces to reduce emissions at low cost, the paper explains. Moreover, cap and trade policy can be revenue neutral and protect consumers, while providing the certainty businesses need to unleash massive investments in clean energy technologies.
The paper argues that past concerns about how markets operate can be effectively addressed and result in a policy that is environmentally and economically superior to more traditional forms of regulation. For example: strong oversight can prevent GHG markets from being manipulated; allowance value can be distributed to protect consumers and avoid windfall profits for corporations; and overall costs to the economy are kept low due to the flexibility inherent in cap-and-trade programs.
Peace is Vice President of Markets and Business Strategy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. Stavins is the Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Meaningful and Cost Effective Climate Policy: The Case for Cap and Trade can be accessed online at http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/case-for-cap-and-trade-paper.pdf.
For more information about global climate change and the activities of the Pew Center, visit www.c2es.org.
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The Pew Center on Global Climate Change was established in May 1998 as a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. The Pew Center is led by Eileen Claussen, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.


text: Power outage means near-miss for state fish hatchery By John McCoy July 5, 2012 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- If not for quick action by state and power-company officials, the statewide electricity outage might have claimed as many as 300,000 lives Monday morning.As it was, Mon Power crews got the juice flowing in the nick of time to save all but a few hundred trout in the state-owned Reeds Creek Fish Hatchery in Pendleton County."It was close -- way too close," said Curtis Taylor, wildlife chief for the state Division of Natural Resources. "We were within maybe an hour of losing every trout in the hatchery when the power company got service restored."All seven of West Virginia's fish hatcheries were left without power after the June 29 "derecho" windstorm that toppled trees and interrupted electrical service throughout most of the state. All the facilities were operating on generator power until about 9:30 p.m. Sunday, when the generator at Reeds Creek failed."Having power is especially critical at Reeds Creek because it's the only hatchery in our system where the water gets re-circulated," Taylor explained. "If the pumps don't operate, we can start losing trout within just a few hours."The pumps are especially critical during hot weather because warm water holds less oxygen than cold water, and trout require oxygen-rich water. With the water unable to re-circulate at Reeds Creek, the water quickly warmed and lost much of its oxygen.Hatchery supervisor Dave Alt and his crew of workers labored through the night to get the generator's diesel engine restarted. "We got it started, but it only ran about 10 minutes," Alt said. "We thought the engine might not be getting enough air, so we knocked a window out of the little block building that houses the generator. That kept us running for 15 minutes. We took a door off the building and got it to run for about 45 minutes."Alt spent a fitful night at the generator, restarting it when it stopped. At 7:30 Monday morning, it quit altogether."I gave my wife, Tammy, a phone directory and had her start calling people. She called our local [natural resources] commissioner, she called [DNR] director [Frank] Jezioro's office, and she called Curtis Taylor.Taylor vividly remembers the call. "She said Dave had been up all night trying to get the generator started. She was almost in tears because the trout were about to start dying."DNR officials made emergency appeals to the governor's office, the state Office of Emergency Services and the Pendleton County Office of Emergency Services. The appeals worked."We were looking for a generator with enough capacity to power the pumps, and we were trying to get in contact with people who could get a power-company crew out there," Taylor said.In the meantime, Alt and his crew were trying to save as many trout as possible by replenishing the hatchery's water using small gasoline-powered pumps. Word travels fast in small communities, and during the crisis Alt got a visit from a neighbor, Dennis Waggy, who offered the use of two home-sized generators.Taylor called the crews' and the neighbor's actions "heroic.""Our folks worked all night long and into the morning just trying to keep a bunch of trout alive, and the neighbor came over and offered the use of his own generators," Taylor said. "It's amazing -- but that's West Virginians for you."A replacement generator was on its way to Reeds Creek by midmorning, but by then trout were already beginning to die. Taylor said fast action by Mon Power electrical crews saved the day."We were trying to get the generator moved to the hatchery when we discovered that the power company had come out and had gotten the electrical service restored," he said. "It took the crews less than an hour to get it turned back on."Taylor estimated that 200 to 300 fish had already perished by 11 a.m. when power was reestablished, but added that the total could have been much, much higher. "We could very easily have lost them all, from very young trout to large 'brood stock' trout," he said. "If we'd lost that many fish, it would have had a dramatic impact on trout stockings this fall and next spring."Reach John McCoy at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-1231. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Philanthropist Betty Schoenbaum of Shoney's fortune turns 100 2 WVU pulls away from Kansas for 56-34 win 3 'Heroin(e)' spotlights women helping combat Huntington's drug crisis 4 WVU notebook: Defense feeling a bit run down 5 New company planning $73M synthetic fuel plant in Greenbrier County Things to do Friday, July 6, 2012 Previous Story Bulletin board: July 6, 2012 Next Story


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ALUN Rossiter has insisted a play-off spot is there for the taking for his Swindon side as they return from the World Cup break tonight.
The Robins are in action at Poole, who themselves look certain to be involved in the end of season mix, with Rossiter's side sitting a place and two points behind Eastbourne, who occupy the final play-off place.
With Coventry and Lakeside also in the mix for the final two post-season places behind the Pirates and runaway leaders King's Lynn, Rossiter believes taking points off their direct rivals is vital but he is confident his team can make it in.
"Looking at it, it could be four teams fighting for two places," he said.
"We can get three points back from Lakeside on Thursday but we all know Poole is going to be tough so we have to make sure our home wins are all three-pointers.
"We should have no fear in going to Coventry so I'm hoping we can do something there.
"We need to beat the teams around us, that's vitally important, but we have to make sure we keep on doing what we're doing.
"In the last few weeks before the World Cup we beat some good teams at home but we need to keep that going."
Rossiter admitted tonight's match against Poole is going to be a tough one, especially given Neil Middleditch's side go into the encounter on the back of a 59-36 hammering of Wolverhampton on Monday night.
"It's going to be a tough one because Poole are on fire at the moment, but we are due to put in a good performance there," he said.
"We'll be looking for an improved performance by the boys but I'm confident we can get one."
The Robins are without Simon Gustafsson this evening, due to the Swede riding in the qualifying round for his national championship, with Belle Vue's Richie Worrall drafted in as a guest replacement.
Rossiter worked with Worrall, twin brother of Swindon reserve Steve, throughout last week during Great Britain's World Cup campaign and is confident the Belle Vue man will do a good job.
"Our options are very limited for what we can do unfortunately but Richie is definitely a good choice and I'm sure he'll do alright," he said.
"Simon's in the Swedish qualification round which is obviously important to him so we wish him well."


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In Regional Roundup, we've gathered the top stories from each of our eight weekly newspapers each week. Here are the regional stories you don't want to miss from May 22 to May 29, 2014.
Aurora's new fire pumper to be on display May 31 at open house
The city's new fire engine will be on display to the community at an open house May 31 from noon to 3 p.m. at Fire Station No. 2 at 1049 N. Aurora Road, next to the Aurora VFW.
Cuyahoga Falls postal employee pleads guilty to theft
Postal employee Scott D. Leslein pleaded guilty to theft, a first-degree misdemeanor, on May 15, after an investigation determined he was spending time at home during his assigned work shift, according to a Summit County Prosecutor's Office official.
Company faces $139,000 in fines by OSHA for citations
Kobelco Stewart Bolling Inc., a Terex Road company, faces $139,000 in fines from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for a variety of alleged safety hazards.
Stow Council approves rules governing roadside solicitations
Stow has not abolished soliciting for money, but it has laid out how it expects people who do so to behave.
By a vote of 6-1, City Council approved an ordinance providing rules under which such solicitations can take place.
Sammie's Bar and Grill customer finds 21 pearls in fried oyster at Tallmadge restaurant
A man who was eating fried oysters at Sammie's Bar & Grill on South Avenue May 18 found 21 small pearls in one of the oysters, according to restaurant owner David DeLapa.
Resident challenges Nordonia Hills Schools' Dunham Road land sale agreement
Sagamore Hills — A resident has filed a civil complaint in the Summit County Court of Common Pleas against the Nordonia Hills City School District alleging its agreement to sell 93 acres off Dunham Road for $1.6 million is invalid. School officials say proceeds from the sale, which they expect to close around July 1, are to be used to complete renovation of athletic facilities at Nordonia High School.
Streetsboro boys track team places second at district; girls finish fourth
The Streetsboro boys track and field team placed second with 104 points at the Cortland Division II district meet, which concluded May 24 at Lakeview High School.
Twinsburg resident and soccer coach indicted on eight counts of rape
Gregory S. Kudla, 37, of Gettysburg Drive and head coach and Trustee of the Sagamore Hills F.C. (football club), has been indicted by a Summit County grand jury on multiple counts of rape, sexual battery and gross sexual imposition.


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.There is no doubting that Olympian gold medalist and top overall pick Anthony Davis is the favorite in the clubhouse to win the Rookie of The Year award in 2012-2013. Second overall selection Michael Kidd-Gilchrist looked great in summer league and could have a solid season for the Bobcats. Washington's Bradley Beal is in the perfect situation in Washington to flourish; even Sacramento's Thomas Robinson could shine with the Kings. However there are a few rookies who were drafted outside the top five that either put on a show in Summer League or are now poised to have big roles in the 2012-2013 season that are worth paying attention to, here are a few of them:
Damian Lillard, Portland: Lillard was the co-MVP of the Las Vegas Summer League and truly looked like a man among boys at times running the show for the Trail Blazers' summer crew. Lillard looks like he is the favorite to start for the Blazers and given his knack for scoring the ball and his polish, he does become a Rookie of The Year prospect, mainly because he'll get the playing time and opportunity to showcase his skills. LaMarcus Aldridge is the lead dog in Portland, so Lillard won't be the leading scorer, but if he can put up solid double-figure scoring and hand out the six-to-eight assists per game he says he's capable of, Lillard could be one of the brighter rookies in the class.
Maurice Harkless, Orlando: Mo Harkless was projected to be a bench guy in Philadelphia, but after the Dwight Howard trade landed him in Orlando, things are looking up for Harkless. It's unlikely that Harkless starts the season as a starter, but there is little doubt that Harkless will get every opportunity to speed along his development. A rangy small forward type, Harkless has shown glimpses of having Rudy Gay/Kevin Durant type scoring ability, which will make him a fan favorite for sure. Harkless was a streaky shooter at St. John's, however, he's spent the entire summer re-working his shooting mechanics. If he can drain the three-ball effectively, he will supplant anyone they put in front of him in Orlando. Mo may not start the season as a starter, but the smart money is on him ending the season as one.
Harrison Barnes, Golden State: There really couldn't be a better situation for Harrison Barnes than the Warriors. There is almost no pressure on him and all he'll be asked to do is play his game, not carry a franchise. Barnes was one of the brighter spots in summer league and he is expected to play a big role for the Warriors. The problem for Barnes is he's not going to get nearly the amount of looks it will take to be a real Rookie of The Year candidate, but there is no doubting that the skills are there. The Warriors are so deep with young talent that Barnes day-to-day numbers may be underwhelming, but if you are looking for the guy that could give you 25 on any given night he might be that guy.
Terrence Ross, Toronto: The training camp battle between Terrence Ross and Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan will be one to watch. DeRozan has the bigger, more mature NBA body and he is certainly more explosive as a scorer. However, Terrence Ross is a far better shooter. There has been talk that the Raptors would try and find ways to get both guys on the floor together, but if Ross wins the starter's job in camp or if injury strikes Ross has the ability to be an impact scorer. Like Barnes it's unlikely that Ross gets the minutes and touches to be a real Rookie of The Year candidate, but when you start looking at the Rookies to watch he could be one of the best of the bunch.
Jared Sullinger, Boston: Sullinger proved in the Orlando Summer League that he's not nearly as damaged as the draft process made him out to be and unlike most of the young bigs in summer league, he proved that he was ready to play. The Celtics have a lot of mature veterans in front of Sully, so it's unlikely that he plays a big role as a rookie, but if he does get his shot he has the bulk and the knack for scoring that could make things interesting. He is not a Rookie of The Year candidate, but he should be fun to watch especially after the Celtic vets like Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce get a hold of him and teach him a little nastiness.
Perry Jones III, Thunder Jones won't be starting games, but if he sticks to the plan with the Thunder and his knee holds up he'll have a chance for a regular role. When the Thunder started the draft process they were actually open to trading the pick. When PJIII landed to them late in the first they really couldn't have been happier. Jones is going to have to learn to run the Thunder system and that was a knock on him in the draft process. Everyone knew Jones could play, but the question was could he run a complex system? That's something he'll have to prove in camp. PJIII is not a Rookie of The Year prospect, but he could be a fun rookie to watch. The Western Conference got appreciably better this summer, but adding Jones to the OKC bench crew that will likely feature Eric Maynor, Reggie Jackson and Olympian James Harden makes them better as well. The second unit in OKC added another high volume scorer, as if they were not deep enough already.
Orlando Johnson, Pacers If there is one guy in the second round who could make a name for himself its likely Indiana's Orlando Johnson. With a great mix of perimeter shooting, an attack-the-basket game, and a high basketball IQ Johnson could be a nice addition to a very young Pacers squad. Paul George is the starter at the two spot, but if Johnson gets some extended time he could provide a scoring boost like he did in summer league. There is no scenario short of a major injury in which Johnson will be in the Rookie of the Year discussion, but if you are looking for a dark horse rookie to watch, he might be the guy


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Validation Study for an Unobtrusive Online Sleep Measurement System
This study has been completed.
Beddit.com Ltd
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First received: June 20, 2012
Last updated: September 29, 2013
Last verified: September 2013
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The purpose of the study is to determine the precision of an unobtrusive sleep measurement system. The system measures a force sensor signal under the mattress and analyzes sleep quality. The system measures: time in bed, sleep stages, sleep fragmentation, heart rate, respiration rate, sleep related breathing disorders, and limb movements.
|Apnea Restless Legs Syndrome Sleep Fragmentation
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Validation Study for an Unobtrusive Online Sleep Measurement System
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Precision of sleep measurement [ Time Frame: 7 days ]The volunteers are measured for seven consecutive days. The precision of the sleep measurements output by the ubobtrusive sleep monitoring system is evaluated by comparing the measurements to polysomnography and actigraphy reference measurements.
|Study Start Date:
|June 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|September 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|20 volunteers
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 80 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
A group of 20 volunteers - 10 males, 10 females - is recruited so that their ages are distributed evenly between 18 and 80.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18-80
- Finnish-speaking
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|Helsinki Sleep Clinic, Vitalmed Research Centre
|Helsinki, Finland, 00420
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|Markku Partinen, MD, PhD
|Helsinki Sleep Clinic, Vitalmed Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
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|June 20, 2012
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|September 29, 2013
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Restless Legs Syndrome
Sleep Deprivation
Nervous System Diseases
Sleep Disorders, Intrinsic
Sleep Wake Disorders
Mental Disorders
Neurologic Manifestations
Signs and Symptoms
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