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Call Waiting
When you are on the phone, hear when another caller is trying to reach you. When a second call comes in, the caller hears normal ringing while you hear a special tone.
Caller ID
Caller ID Number shows who is calling before the call is answered. After the first ring, the name and telephone number of the person calling will automatically appear.
Call Waiting ID
When you're on the phone and another call comes in, you can see who is trying to reach you. A special tone alerts you when a second call comes in, and you see the name and number of the caller.
Call Forwarding
Call forwarding is a service that automatically fowards all calls to any number you choose.
Three Way Calling
Speed Dialing 8
Speed Dialing 8 is a service which shortens up to eight frequently called numbers to a single digit.
Repeat Dial
Repeat Dialing is a service that repeatedly redials a busy number for you until the call goes through. Customers will be notified by a special ring and can simply pick up the reciever to put the call through.
Return Call
Return Call is a service that will automatically dial your last incoming call, even if the call wasn't answered.
Selective Call Acceptance
Selective Call Acceptance is a service which permits you to specify up to 12 numbers
from which you can recieve calls. All other calls will be screened out.
Selective Call Forward
Selective Call Reject
Selective Call Reject is a service which permits you to specify up to 12 numbers which can be screened out. all other calls will ring through.
Anonymous Call Rejection
Anonymous Call Rejection blocks calls from unidentified numbers. Calls that appear as unknown or unavailable will not be blocked.
Selective Call Ring
You can identify your most important calls with a distinct, shuttered ring tone. It even works when you're on the phone, via the Call Waiting feature. This service permits you to specify up to 12 numbers from which you can hear the selective call ring tone.
Text Message Alert
With this feature, your cell phone recieves a text message alert each time you get a new voicemail on your home phone.
Three way calling is a service that permits you to talk to two people at the same time. As the call initiator, once you hang up, the call will be terminated.
Selective Call Forward is a service which permits you to specify up to 12 numbers
which can be forwarded to a second number. All other calls ring through.
Do Not Disturb
Do not disturb is a feature that allows you to send all calls directly to voicemail.
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The Oligodendroglioma Research Fund was launched in June of 2011 through the leadership of several families, including Spencer and Zach Greene. The brothers – both in their 20s – were each diagnosed with an oligodendroglioma (oligo) brain tumor within two years of each other in 2008 and 2010, respectively. The Greenes contacted the National Brain Tumor Society and together established the Organization's first Community Research Fund, with a goal of raising $300,000 (the minimum amount needed for a grant to conduct significant research) specifically for oligo research projects.
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TEL AVIV (Aug. 7)
An El Al Boeing jet which left this morning for Rome, returned to Lod Airport from midway after one of its engines developed signs of malfunctioning. The emergency equipment at Lod was alerted but the plane made a perfect landing. The passengers were transferred to another plane while the Boeing was taken to a hangar for inspection. This is the fourth case in the last month of El Al planes landing with technical troubles.


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Commission discusses future of Downtown Kirksville
Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:56:08 GMT —
The Tax Increment Financing Commission met Thursday for their annual open meeting.
The committee members addressed many ways to fund the implementation of the Kirksville Downtown Improvement Plan, and discussed how current projects are moving forward.
Kirksville City Manager Mari Macomber tell us a majority for phase one of the Franklin Street Project is completed.
"Much of the work has been done," Macomber said. "We've done sidewalk replacements, and we have put in new curbing and there will be some lighting improvements that go along with that. So Ameren and an electrical contractor have been working to basically do all the work underground. So they can remove the overhead wires."
Macomber tells us phase two of the Franklin Street Project was originally set to begin in 2014. However, after applying and being awarded for the grant from MoDOT, they're able to start the second phase this year.
The second phase will run south of Normal Street to Patterson Street, through Truman's campus.
The commission expects the project to be completed this year, and working on other projects and advancements in Kirksville's downtown.


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Decorating By LizzieAylett Updated 14 Jun 2013 , 12:21pm by johannap_73
Hi, does anyone know of a good source for an all-purpose petal veiner in the UK? I don't want to have to buy several different styles, as I don;t really make many gumpaste flowers. However, the cheapest all-purpose veiner I could find cost about £16 from Amazon. Are there any better UK suppliers? Or another way I could vein my petals? Thanks!
Try here: https://www.sugaricing.com/ProductPage.aspx?productGuid=e3eb2033-6320-47af-a57f-7d1e1d649cca&allowAddToBasket=True This set will do various types of petals and leaves. Have a look on their site for other options, they are very reasonably priced.
You may have checked already, but you could also try eBay.
You can use a dried corn husk leaf (the green outer covering of a corn cob)...I still use these for some flowers/leaves I make. Costs nothing (if you're already eating the corn!)
the inside of a coconut shell works ok too :-)
You could try making your own with homemade airdrying clay and just press leaves into it (the oven-bake clays will distort the delicate veins - dont use fimo its not foodsafe) Homemade clay recipes: http://www.homeschooling-ideas.com/how-to-make-clay.html#airhardening
...I've not tried the clay but might give it a shot at the weekend :-)
Great ideas! Thanks. I'll have a wee investigate...
get onto ebay ...i have just bought a heap of cake decorating tools and cutters and moulds all for a lot less than any cake decorating store i have ever been to, i did see a universal corn husk veiner floating around in ebay...you just might have to wait for postage as they sometimes take upto 20 days but that is not too bad considering some of them dont charge for postage......i bought a set of sled cutters for christmas cost me $2.50 with free postage...cant beat that anywhere else


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-344747172016-10-01T15:36:19.270-04:00Rolf Gates: Thoughts on YogaRolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-4764572918292012242007-09-15T23:51:00.000-04:002007-09-15T23:53:34.817-04:00The Important ThingDefending an idea or a position is not important. Justifying or explaining the way things are is not important. Feeling more or feeling less is not important. T he movement of the mind to an imagined past or an imagined future and the feelings we feel when we follow the mind's wanderings are not important. All of the reasons we can only be a little of who we are, and all of the ways we try to prove them to be true, are not important.

The important thing is to be awake now, to feel the transparency, to feel the universal shining through the individual, and then to allow life to express itself though us.Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-12325220028058969312007-07-26T22:05:00.000-04:002007-07-26T22:06:23.923-04:00Our Center"The larger quantum field-the universe- is your extended body. Not only is the human nervous system capable of becoming aware of the information and energy of it's own quantum field, but because human consciousness is infinitely flexible through this wonderful nervous system, you are able to consciously change the informational content that gives rise to your physical body. You can consciously change the energy and informational content of your own quantum mechanical body, and therefore influence the energy and informational content of your extended body-your environment your world-and cause things to manifest in it." Deepak Chopra

In one of the most remarkable passages of a remarkable book "The seven spiritual laws of Success", Deepak Chopra defines the means by which we are able to effect deliberate creation. The mechanics of creation are an aspect of the nature of the universe. Creation happens; things arise out of non-existence into existence. What is needed to guide that process, to make that process deliberate, is to become self aware.

Jesus' last words are reported to be "Forgive them for they know not what they do." This teaching is reflected in the yogic concept of Avidya, or spiritual ignorance. In Buddhism it's described as Samsara or a veil of delusion. The great teachers of Buddhism, Christianity, and Yoga believe that we live as one lost in a dream. In this dream we have forgotten who we are. The aim of spiritual practice is to experience the truth of who we are, to become self aware.

This is a remarkable understanding of the role of traditional spiritual practice in the evolution of human potential. Techniques like Meditation and Asana train us to be able to steady the mind and thereby access its profound powers of discernment. We are able to experience ourselves not as an idea, a story, a past, a future, but directly, as form, energy, and consciousness. We become self observant and are able to receive guidance from the fullness of our being. The moment this process begins the duality we have taken for granted begins to unravel. Initially we believe we are feeling into the fabric of our being, but as we hold our attention on the inner dimensions of ourselves we discover that there is no point at which "in here" stops and "out there" begins. Eckhart Tolle defines enlightenment as "felt oneness with being".

We are the at once the individual and the universal. The duality with which we have seen the world is a feature of a moment in the evolution of human consciousness. Einstein famously described it as an "a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness." The assumption of a dualistic perspective is that there is a part that is somehow separate from the whole is and there is a whole that is not made up of its parts. Or that an aspect of infinity can be separate from infinity. Accordingly our conscious will, or intention, is contained within our separate self and has no power or influence on the universe in which we find ourselves. The teachers of deliberate creation challenge this view. They say that the universe is an unbroken wholeness of which we are all a part and that our consciousness communicates with that wholeness. What is needed is a change of perspective.

A great teacher wrote "We see the world not as it is but as we are." In a state of disconnection we see a disconnected world. In state of felt oneness with life we see oneness. Meditation and Asana are a means for seeing oneness. Like a mountain climber whose view changes as she climbs higher what we see has everything to do with where we are seeing from. The dualistic perspective views the world from the outside in. This view is deconstructed through meditation and asana so that we come to see the world from the inside out. Our perspective is grounded in our inner experience, our center.

Our center is the intersection between the individual and the universal. It is the alive, vibrant, experience of the truth of who we are. At this metaphysical crossroads we do not grasp the truth so much as embody it. Like the pilot who flies a plane from intuition and feel, we find we are able to extend our consciousness into a larger field of consciousness. Here existence and non-existence communicate and fulfill one another. Plugged into this larger understanding we do not loose our sense of self rather we experience it in the fullness of its potential. Our heart's desire moves from a vague sense that fills us with longing to a clear vision the fills us with inspiration. This vision at once inspires the individual to right action and enlists the universe's infinite organizing power. Creation, evolution, love in action flow. On earth as it is in heaven.Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-14447996231512492082007-07-06T10:36:00.000-04:002007-07-06T10:38:38.542-04:00Center of GravityIn May my son and my daughter celebrated their birthdays, his first her fourth. My wife and I celebrated our ninth wedding anniversary. I also celebrated 17 years of sobriety. All in all it was a wonderful month. In June we went to Mexico where Mariam and I led a week long intensive. Both of Mariam's parents were there as well as one of her sisters. Two of the staff members brought their husband's and children along so the whole event had a dreamy pinch me quality as family and friends spent a week at the beach under the palm trees. My daughter Jasmine and I swam with dolphins and some students spent a starry night in a sweat lodge. When we got back the summer weather was in full swing and life has felt very precious.

My meditation practice has taken on a life of its own. There was the initial work to make it a consistent part of my life but that time past very quickly and now it has become the center of gravity in my life. As I surrender to it everything flows into and out of that center. Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-73688120611754830982007-05-01T14:24:00.000-04:002007-05-01T14:25:19.792-04:00Being a StudentIt's been three weeks since I completed a nine day meditation retreat. On the last night someone asked how long we should meditate each day to continue the work we had started during the retreat. The answer came from a teacher who I had come to trust and admire during the course of the retreat. He said that rule of thumb was that in order to avoid the build up of "tensions" between now and the next retreat the figure was two hours a day. It was a silent retreat so we all took that in quietly. Mine was the silence of incomprehension.

Once I got back to family and work I made my first forays into home practice. Although I could not really wrap my mind around two hours I could not bring myself to rule it out either. The teachers at the retreat had been exceptional and it seemed foolhardy to think I knew better. I began with one hour and was happy to find out that I could now sit quietly and fairly comfortably for an hour. The training I had received was fresh on my mind and I found myself able to pick up where we had left off. The hour meditation period combined well with an hour Asana practice. I just needed to go to bed a little earlier and get up a little earlier for it not to interfere with the "rest of my life". As the days turned into weeks I began to find opportunities for a second meditation period. By eliminating periods of emptiness in online or in front of the TV., I found that I had just enough time to meditate for an hour every day and meditate for two hours every other day.

This organizing/experimenting period went on for a couple of weeks and I am now in a pretty proactive routine. Having dealt with the logistics of my new life I began to feel it's effects. There was the matter of the "tensions" at the time I really had no idea what my teacher was talking about. As my practice has settled into my life I began to observe the compulsivity with which I and everybody around me seeks to get the world to satisfy their demands. This compulsivity is a tension within us born from a disconnection from our true nature. What we have come to call normal is a profound alienation from the day to day moment to moment experience of our true nature. It is as though we have a vibrant sun within us that we no longer can feel because our mind is in perpetual agitation. Meditation and asana quiet the mind and train us to bring our attention inward. Initially we just get glimpses of the sun which we experience as peace and well being. Committed practice has the ability to invert "normal" perception so that we come to experience ourselves from the inside out rather than the outside in. We begin to be able to abide calmly in this profound sense of who we are. As we experience the difficulties of life, the wanting, the not wanting the self-centeredness, we are less likely to get lost in them because we have been slowly releasing our resistance to life as we have been getting to know who we are.

As I embark on my fourth week I have noticed an enthusiasm for life building within me.Rolf Gateshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-287871502817405862007-04-16T00:12:00.000-04:002007-04-16T00:14:06.994-04:009 Days in Barre, MAThe essence of Deliberate Creation is faith that our true nature is unlimited. The Yoga Sutras and the teachings of the Buddha lead one from a limited sense of self to an unlimited one.

When I sit in meditation and bring my attention to the consciousness/energy light within me all of the other "understandings" that I have held about who I am fade like shadows before the rising sun.

Peace is what happens when we stop fightingRolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-67536298752355245672007-04-16T00:09:00.000-04:002007-04-16T00:11:55.836-04:00JFKA Zen teacher was asked what the benefit of long term practice is, and his answer was, "An appropriate response." I came across a photo of JFK with Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal. It is 1948, three years after the end of World War II. They are young, glamorous, happy and in Rome. The joy and vitality of that picture says it all.
Life is short
Things change
Have funRolf Gateshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-17633771783699464142007-03-27T00:40:00.000-04:002007-03-27T00:45:20.933-04:00The Indigo GirlsFor my birthday this year my sister in-law offered to buy me and my wife tickets to a number of shows. The offer came with a a free night of baby-sitting, so last night my wife and I kissed the kids goodnight and hoped on a train into the city to see the Indigo Girls and their opening act Kaki King, a freakishly gifted guitar player who appears destined to make endless Oscars creating sound tracks for movies. I chose the Indigo Girls because they have been teachers and role models for me and my wife for the last twenty years. Their music has reflected the joys and sorrows of my adult life. Here are five reasons I love the Indigo Girls:

1) They are unambivalently committed to being good at what they do.
2) They wear their hearts on their sleeves
3) They are able to both challenge us to wake up and hold us in their hearts
 with great love at the same time.
4) They have stood the test of time. Despite all of the ups and downs of the last
 couple of decades they have continued to show up and burn brightly.
5) They are able to give voice to the sadness and fear in the human heart and in
 so doing make clear that it is in our connection to our darkness, not
 repression or denial, that our capacity for light is realized.

The night was full of tears, singing and laughter. Amy and Emily played without a band behind them. Two women on a stage playing their guitars and singing the songs they wrote to express how they feel.Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-10494688742449509732007-03-27T00:39:00.000-04:002007-04-04T00:36:30.670-04:00VictoriesWe cannot achieve victories over one another. The only victories available to us are the ones we achieve over our own fear.Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-41277203386538432202007-03-02T11:44:00.000-05:002007-03-02T11:45:31.581-05:00Minding your own business "You are here to create the world around you that you choose, while you allow the world-as others choose it to be- to exist also. And while their choices in no way hinder your own choices, your attention to what they are choosing does affect your vibration, and therefore your point of attraction." The Teacher Abraham

Growing up I often encountered a scolding suggestion "to mind my own business." Sometimes it was directed at me and other times it was directed elsewhere. Either way it did not sound like a good thing. The "business" I was minding was interesting to me and I was being told that I should not want to be interested. This just did not add up. As I grew up and developed more autonomy, it became possible for me to mind as much "business" as I wanted. I could gossip, I could read newspapers, I could watch 24 hour news broadcasts, I could even fill up the spare moments at work going on-line to read about the mostly unfortunate "business" of others. Now that I am all grown up I am free to mind other people's business as much as I want. In fact I am free to place my attention anywhere I please.

This freedom however is being encroached upon by the effects of my Yoga practice. Over the years I have begun to feel and to take note of how and what I feel, which is to say I am becoming one who notices. For example if I am embellishing a story to be funny or make myself look good I am now noticing that I am lying. If I silently judge someone I am now noticing that I have the sinking feeling that I am probably just accusing someone of behaving the way I do. If I leave trash on a train or in a cab I am aware that I am doing harm. Similarly I have started to notice that there is a profound difference between the way I feel when I put my attention on what I want as opposed to placing my attention on what I don't want.

I am coming to believe that there is in fact my business and not my business. For example every time I reflect on the 200 million dollars Paul Newman's company has donated to charities I feel so proud of him, and happy for him, and inspired by him. The same goes for Jimmy Carter whose organization is preventing 10 million people a year from going blind from disease. Just writing this makes me happy and excited. I feel genuinely connected to the beauty of life and the innate dignity of humanity. This is my business. When I think about gun lobbies and tobacco lobbies I feel sad, frustrated, alone, powerless; I feel like a victim. This is none of my business.

Having established what is and is not my business has not prevented me from falling into the pitfall of believing that others' choices had the capacity to hinder my own. I have spent what feels like many lifetimes in this lifetime worrying about how others choices effected me only to discover that it was the vibration of worry that was the problem. What I am learning is that I cannot be against something and for something at the same time. What I am learning is that when I take my attention away from what I am for I lose touch with the vision that lights my way. What I am learning is that it is my business to make my dreams come true.Rolf Gateshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1172243311327658712007-02-23T10:05:00.000-05:002007-02-23T10:08:31.336-05:00Time in the ClassroomMy wife and I share a workspace and over the desk we have each placed a vision board that holds images of the future we wish to create for ourselves. At the center of mine there is a drawing that depicts the synergizing of the various areas of my life. In the picture there is a flower coming out of the earth and a blue sky over it. The earth represents the essentials in my life like family, learning, and yoga practice. Time in the classroom is also an element of the soil of life. All of the good I wish to do in this lifetime is directly affected by the skill and heart I can bring to a classroom.

Time in the classroom means many things for me. It means the willingness to accept a discipline, the willingness to take part in a process that has no finish line, the willingness affirm my belief in the essential goodness of humanity everyday, every class. Above all, time in the classroom comes down to two things: Honoring my intuition, and honoring the individuals who pass through my classes. Honoring my intuition is essentially listening. I am learning to listen. Honoring the students that come to my class is about seeing them as they truly are. I am learning to see. I am like someone who has been asleep and a loved one is calling them awake.Rolf Gateshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1171466697903590742007-02-14T10:24:00.000-05:002007-02-14T10:24:57.913-05:00LOVEFor Valentine's Day I thought I would take the plunge and share what I know about love:

1) After my first date with Mariam, I went home and told my roommate that I would ask her to marry me. This places me firmly in the camp of when he or she is the one you know.

2) On May 21st 1990, I prayed without any sense of who or what I was praying to for help with my alcoholism. I immediately felt better and knew that everything was going to be ok. I have been sober every moment since then and the desire to drink has never come back. At about the same time an overwhelming desire to express my thanks took root in my heart and this desire has proven to be two or three times the strength of any negativity I can muster. Day after day year after year I have found that love is stronger than fear. Much stronger.

3) Over the last few years I have watched my son and my daughter come into the world. I have looked into their eyes countless times. Their eyes are always filled with love for me a love that I have not earned, they just shine their love on me
 because they know of no other way to be. Love is what we are born with.Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1170733641334568142007-02-05T22:46:00.000-05:002007-02-05T22:47:21.346-05:00Habits of MindIn the pantheon of the parenting Olympics taking young children to Disney World is definitely in the running for best time, worst food, and most physically demanding. It is also a time in my family when I and several generations gather around and try to make decisions. It's as if Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini, were all living in the same retirement home forming the old alliances, airing the same grievances. Hitler would invade everybody's space, Churchill would make speeches about fighting him in the hallways, the anterooms, the bathrooms. Mussolini would be trounced by a maid while coming to Hitler's aid, Stalin would do all of the real fighting, and Roosevelt would jump in at the last minute and make it possible for them all to get to lunch on time. Only in my family they would do it day after day year after year.

The great saint Ramana maharshi was once asked what causes human suffering, his reply was short and to the point, "Habits of the mind." The Buddha described suffering as being stuck in our point of view like a wheel stuck in mud. Some of this stuckness gets externalized in the form of addictive behavior like smoking or drinking which makes it readily identifiable and treatable but most of it is seen "as just the way things are." There is a famous scene in "Archie Bunker" in which Archie argues with "Meathead" about whether or not you put on both socks then your shoes, or you put on one sock one shoe then the other sock then the other shoe; neither Archie nor "Meathead" can imagine that there could possibly be another way of seeing things. As someone who worked for years as an addictions counselor and now for years as a Yoga teacher I honestly believe that we are far too identified with the mental habits that cause suffering to be able to effectively deconstruct them intellectually. The habits of mind that cause our suffering are embedded in the logic with which we make sense of our world.

Then we go to Yoga class or sit in meditation and for a time we suspend compulsive thought. Compulsive thinking is like the scroll of "News" at the bottom of a "News" broadcast repeating the same stories over and over again coming to the same unhappy ending over and over again. Time on the mat or the meditation cushion wakes us from the spell. We start to spend moments out of the trance, out of the matrix. It may be barely perceptible, we may only know that our day is better if we get to yoga or if we spend a few minutes in prayer and meditation. But it is better. We find that we are able to get unstuck. We find that we are able to see our life with new eyes. Over time we learn to distrust the stories, the beliefs, the fears that make us unhappy. If we find ourselves in a conversation about socks and shoes we are open to new information and, once in a while, are able to refrain from defending our point of view. We have this new freedom because we are coming to understand that the love and peace we seek has nothing to do with intellectual positions or external circumstances.

I grew up going to Disney World because we have family in the area. One day it rained and everybody left. We came back a couple hours later and had the Magic Kingdom to ourselves. That night we watched the fireworks. It was a warm summer evening after a perfect day. Thirty years later there are many more "Kingdoms." Dino Land is in Animal Kingdom and was a big hit. They have a play ground there designed like an archeological dig complete with bones to be dug up. My daughter showed me how she can climb up a rope bridge all by herself. At the top there was a rubber pad as long as she is tall. It gave her no traction and as she paused to negotiate it I was afraid for her. She hesitated for only a second then scrambled across it with the same skill she displayed climbing across the ropes. She is three and a half and could almost fit into a detergent bottle. I am now forty three and will never forget that moment. Thank you Disney World and thank you Jasmine for reminding me that life is too beautiful to be afraid to change your mind.Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1169484083359005242007-01-22T11:40:00.000-05:002007-01-22T11:41:23.373-05:00Eddie VedderI recently discovered Youtube and have spent the last few days watching live footage of my favorite singer songwriters. It is an authentically enjoyable thing to do. On September 30th 2004, David Letterman had Pearl Jam on his show to sing their rendition of Bob Dylan's song "Masters of War". The context of Bob Dylan's song was the Vietnam War but it resonated perfectly with the second year of our second war in Iraq. Eddie Vedder's performance is extraordinary, he is Bob Dylan and he is himself; the song he sings is from another time and it is from his heart now. David Letterman put's a lifetime of work behind sharing this moment with the world. All in all, anyone associated with this performance, in the weeks before to the 2004 presidential election, has to have felt that they were making a difference. The spiritual power and political relevance of Pearl Jam's performance that night is palpable even years later on Youtube.

Reflecting on that night, I could imagine the sense of excitement and purpose, a sense of the power of truth, the power of art, the power to affect the collective consciousness in the name of love. Then the election comes and with it confusion, disappointment, disillusionment. Maybe what we felt that night was not real. We were there, we felt the power of what we did, why do I know doubt that power? We often find ourselves like someone who sows a field and a week later, looking out over an open field asks: Where's the corn? I worked hard, I planted the seeds at the right depth, at the right time of year, time of day, just enough shade, just enough sun. I even said a prayer for each seed, I felt the power of what I was doing, where is my corn!

We feel the power of love often. What we must learn is to trust it.Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1168917026319888852007-01-15T22:08:00.000-05:002007-01-15T22:10:26.333-05:00MLK DayMLK day and Easter are days of reflection for me; Easter because of my own experience of resurrection from addiction and MLK day because of my own experience of American racism. As a black child being raised by white parents in the 1960's and 1970's the topic of racism in America could not have been more personal, more painful, or more confusing. In adulthood I have found resignation rather than peace. Martin Luther King Jr. represented a spiritual destiny beyond resignation. He embodied the possibility that the word community could extend beyond the boundaries of our personal preferences. He stood for the possibility that unconditional love could be our future. He championed the tenderness that makes our hearts jump and gives us goose bumps. He dreamed of a life worth living.Rolf Gateshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1167673218599863802007-01-01T12:39:00.000-05:002007-01-01T12:40:18.610-05:00Al Gore and the New YearThe New Year ended for my daughter Jasmine around 845 pm after doing a little "Bear Yoga" with dad and snuggling with mom. My son, Dylan celebrated the New Year by sleeping and eating in turns. My wife and I spent the last hour of 2006 watching "An Inconvenient Truth" which is now on pay per-view. As the year came to an end I was drawn to this documentary because I wanted to finish the year watching someone live up to his potential.

 Whatever one might feel or believe about global warming or the former vice president/almost president one cannot help but be impressed by the sheer follow through of Al Gore when it comes to this issue. "An Inconvenient Truth" documents a lifetime of work whose legacy, for now at least, is a film of tremendous importance. I have watched this documentary five or six times over the last six months and I never tire of it because of its extraordinary nature. It is a film that simultaneously outlines a global crisis and depicts, in the response of an individual to that crisis, the human capacity to rise to the challenge. It never fails to stir the heart. I watched Al Gores film as the new year approached to be reminded that we are the ones we've been waiting for.

Happy New Year to all of you, God bless and Namaste RolfRolf Gateshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1166501193951328062006-12-18T23:05:00.000-05:002006-12-18T23:07:16.296-05:00Appreciation Part IIA few years ago my wife and I became parents. We are, for now, to a large extent responsible for the world our children are growing into. This responsibility threw into stark relief a central question on the spiritual path: "Who creates your reality?" Were my wife and I at the mercy of the world around us? Was our job simply to teach our children how to be a savvy victim of circumstances? And if that was not the case we realized that it was not about talking the talk or even walking the walk. Our children are looking a lot more closely than that. If we were to raise empowered children we would have to be empowered.

What is empowerment? Empowerment is the experience of the truth of who we are. Empowerment is felt oneness with source energy. Empowerment is connecting to the vibrancy of our spirit before choosing how we will respond to whatever is occurring, whether it is in our world or in our mind. Empowerment is the certainty that how we are being will always be more important than what we are doing. Empowerment is a choice that we make concerning what warrants our attention.Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1165813830054915722006-12-11T00:08:00.000-05:002006-12-11T00:10:30.063-05:00Appreciation, Part IThis week I woke up in the middle of the night and as my eyes opened a voice my head said "May you live forever in the high, fast, energy of appreciation." It was the kind of experience you don't forget and the kind of advice you are inclined to follow. In the ensuing days I have been an enthusiastic appreciator. What I have found is that appreciation is very fun and the people around you tend to join in.

Marianne Williamson wrote "The world we see is a reflection of the people we have become." What we are seeing tells us more about ourselves than about our situation. Like someone climbing a mountain the view changes as you get higher. To make this concept helpful we need only take responsibility for our point of view. What we are seeing is not "how it is" what we are seeing is what we are choosing to see.

Try it out for yourself. How does it feel to ruminate on the utter lameness of another human being or situation? How does it feel to doubt your ability to be, do, or have something that you want? Can you turn that around? Can you move up the mountain a little and see the world differently? How does that feel and what happens to your world?

Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1165032138509446142006-12-01T22:56:00.000-05:002006-12-01T23:05:17.186-05:00PeaceMy mother-in-law, Ilona, grew up in Germany after World War Two. As a teenager she discovered that her father had been drafted into and fought with the combat arm of the SS. Her life has been to some extent devoted to resolving for herself the implications of that knowledge. As an adult she helped found an organization that recognized the clinical similarities between the children of Nazis and the children of their victims. And for the last many years she has worked to bring together these two groups as well as similar groups from other conflicts. The aim of their work is peace.

 Ten years ago the South African government created special courts where perpetrators of racial violence under apartheid could confess their acts and receive a pardon. The aim of these courts was peace.

 In recognition of her work, Ilona was invited to participate in the ten year anniversary of the reconciliation courts in South Africa. It is a singular and historic honor. I was at her house the day before she left and could feel the greatness of this moment for her and for all of us. The Government of South Africa and Ilona Kuphal have learned something that often only great suffering can teach, that War and Peace are matters of the heart, and that there is no Peace without unconditional Love.Rolf Gateshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1163861766611879512006-11-18T09:54:00.000-05:002006-11-18T09:56:06.620-05:00Moving Mountains"If you are to live the joyous life that you came forth to live you must allow yourself to be that which you have become." Abraham-Hicks

My daughter Jasmine has gotten me in touch with the teacher "Barbie" who says at the end of one of her movies: "Big or small, there is a difference only you can make." Another teacher Joseph Jaworski wrote that "One of the most important roles we can play individually and collectively is to create an opening or to 'listen'…then to create the dreams, visions, and stories that we sense at our center want to happen." Abraham is a "family of teachers" from another dimension, Barbie is well, Barbie, and Mr. Jaworski is a former corporate lawyer turned leadership visionary; but whether you are a plastic doll, an ethereal being from another plain or a high powered lawyer it seems that everybody is talking about the same thing. That we are the ones we've been waiting for.

 And where does this happen, this unfolding of our true self into an ever expanding realization of all of that which we are? Yoga would say, along with all of the other truly sensible entities who've ever said anything, that this unfolding happens in only one time and one place ever. If we are to allow ourselves to be that which we have become the time is now. This explains to a large extent why the contemplative traditions place so much emphasis on learning to bring ones attention into the present. It also explains why defending and enhancing a false self is such a self defeating proposition.

 According to Yoga the second of five afflictions that humanity suffers is a habitual maintenance of a fictitious persona; a maintenance that requires all of our energy. The hallmark of our fictitious persona is that it is a mind made story that comes to us from the past. It is never about who we actually are in this moment In fact who we are now, and who anyone else is now, is irrelevant to the story that is our persona. Does anyone whose job entails potentially dropping bombs on children really go around saying I have thought this through and I am o.k. with causing the occasional innocent child's death? Even when my job entailed killing and I had made peace with it, it never occurred me to consider my actions from someone else's point of view; to consider the families. Wrapped up in what Eckhart Tolle calls the "story of me" we are to a large extent divorced from reality.

 An aspect of reality is our emerging self that is constantly being born. To be in the story of me is to be stuck, like a wheel in mud, in a lifeless static dimension. Present moment awareness has the capacity to free us immediately from this condition. The consciousness freed from propping up our persona is now available to experience directly the deeper aspects of our existence. That which we have become vibrates powerfully within us and is encountered immediately upon becoming still. Getting still is the beginning and it is experienced as grace. Allowing takes faith, courage, and love; the faith, courage, and love that moves mountains. Big or small there are mountains only you can move and the time is now.Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1163270154635862292006-11-11T13:29:00.000-05:002006-11-11T13:38:53.700-05:00The gentlest thingThe weather today in Tarrytown, New York is perfect. The fall leaves and the blue sky combine with gentle breezes to create a sort of heaven. I am sitting on a sweet little bench in the middle of a sweet little town remembering what happiness is. For the previous 48 hours I felt that happiness was winning an election. It certainly felt that way. For a while unhappiness and doom was losing an election and then later happiness was gloating over winning an election. There was a moment there when I gave heartfelt thanks to all of the millions of people who gave of themselves to make their country a better place and that was real, and that gratitude will stay with me . The rest of it was like a snow storm in April melting away the morning after.

I am already free, I am already at peace, I am already happy. Nothing can alter that in any way not birth, not death. The deepest peace, the most moving sense of connectedness, the contentment of all questions having been answered with a yes, this is source energy which is who we are. And occasionally we get distracted, we start to think something could enhance or diminish who we are.

I knew this had happened because as I sat on my bench I could feel the emptiness of the last couple days. Once it was actually election day I began living in a world of Ideas. This idea could bring fulfillment, this idea could bring sorrow, and then there was all of the ideas I had about my ideas, positions, opinions, accusations, observations, even a few stipulations. I stayed in my head checking websites, reading papers, telling everybody I knew about my thoughts about everyone else's thoughts. And each thought generating and emotion, and each emotion obscuring my connection to source.

The sky, the clouds, the leaves are all brilliant, and feel like love. The bench underneath me, the movement of breath through my body, the feeling of the air on my skin brings me back and I begin again. I am happy as I get up and walk into the morning sunlight as though I have come home from a journey. "The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world." Lao-TzuRolf Gateshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1162655874865310162006-11-04T10:55:00.000-05:002006-11-04T11:05:59.096-05:00The beginning of freedom...
"When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice-the thinker- but the one who is aware of it.

Knowing yourself as the awareness behind the voice is freedom."--Eckhart Tolle

At approximately five o'clock this morning my three and a half year-old daughter Jasmine was up and making a concerted effort to convince my wife to move my five month old son Dylan from his spot on our bed and let her sleep there. This was not a problem for Dylan, but my wife and I could not agree with Jasmine as to the merits of the plan. The voice in my head-the thinker-commented to me-the groggy awareness-that "she has no concern for the needs of others." There was a time not so long ago when I would have experienced that comment as an astute observation that simply had to be shared ensuring that my daughter, my wife, and possibly Dylan had the sort of unpleasant experience that gives rise to egos in the first place. Steady effort in my yoga practice and the teachings of people like Eckhart Tolle have lead me to a different understanding of that comment.

Today I experience a comment like that as a classic egoic statement. The ego in its permanent state of poverty consciousness feels constantly threatened and justifies its desire to "defend" itself by projecting its own negativity onto those it would attack. In fact, if you really want to know what the ego is up to just listen very closely to what -the thinker-is accusing others of doing, saying, or being. We can therefore accurately assess who was "having no concern for the needs of others" at five this morning.

This awareness that we are not our thoughts is freedom. In that moment I was able to observe the compulsive reaction of the thinker and make a choice; a choice that was not driven by past conditioning, but rather a drawing in to my core values and beliefs, an evaluation of my wife's needs, my daughters needs, and the decision to act accordingly. In this case I kept my mouth shut which at the very least did not make my wife's job harder and provided my daughter and me with one less regrettable incident to resolve through arduous spiritual practice and therapy. Silence also provides the space for people to find there own way.

Growth in Yoga can be charted by our relationship to the thinker. Initially I thought I was the thinker. Then, once I became aware that there was thinker and a me who was observing it, I felt at the mercy of its untamed ways. Meditation was often an exhausting exposure to the thinker in all its glory. As I have deepened my relationship with myself as consciousness, energy, and form existing in a timeless now I have felt less and less threatened, controlled, and defined, by the content of my mind, and I have felt more and more free.
Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1162005087363859932006-10-27T23:08:00.000-04:002006-10-27T23:24:47.516-04:00Second Blog
Last Friday I found myself on a plane to Cleveland reading the paper. In the editorial section there was a story about the "string theory" which claims that the smallest constituents of the physical universe are tiny filaments whose vibrations give rise to the different kinds of particles that make up our world. This is to say that energetic vibration precedes manifestation. Yoga would take that one step further and say that consciousness gives rise to energetic vibration and energetic vibration gives rise to form. Still it is heartening that state of the art physics is verifying that if we want our outsides to change we have to change our insides. That life works from the inside out.

I was in Cleveland to teach a workshop at a beautiful studio called Evolution Yoga which was a powerful example of this theory in action. Sandy Gross, the founder of this studio, has held the intention to provide a certain kind of space for her community, the students had all held an intention for their own growth, and I had held an intention to be of service, and there we all were living out the fullness of our dreams.

This principle that, as Deepak Chopra wrote, "What we put our attention on grows in our lives," is an extremely strong argument for having an asana and meditation practice. At a level we can not see we are creating constantly. Our attention is creating energy and that energy is giving rise to form. Unfortunately most of us believe we are at the mercy of a mind lost in compulsive thinking which croaks endlessly about things we do not want, like, or have and then about the fact that we keep on getting what we don't want, experiencing what we don't like, and lacking what we really want. Asana and meditation are a world class means for turning this around.

Steady effort in our Yoga practice reveals to us that we have the ability to bear witness to our own thoughts, that we are not our thoughts, rather the witness to them. As we come to know ourselves as the witness a freedom from our thoughts develops. We can experience the same egoic trains of thought, "sure the rich get to live in those kinds of houses", "she only has that career because of her looks", "the driver is #%*!" and on and on without them becoming who we are. Over time we begin to smile at the absurdity of the ego, we begin to pay less and less attention to it, to give its arguments less and less weight.

As less and less of our conscious attention is being absorbed by our compulsive negativity we become capable of experiencing what is true for us. Steady effort in our Yoga practice brings us in touch with the truth of who we are. As once we lived in the din of compulsive thinking we begin to live in the vibrant presence of well being. As we spend more and more time giving our attention to the sweetness, beauty, and sacredness of life, more and more time feeling the presence of grace in our lives, this becomes our reality; a reality which possess its own momentum.

Many of us have created a world of lack, but the same ability that creates lack can create abundance.
Rolf Gateshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-34474717.post-1160628360293887082006-10-12T00:32:00.000-04:002006-10-12T00:58:47.470-04:00First BlogA feature of my new life here in New York is that I often find myself walking through crowds, crowds that are talking. If you close your eyes it is as though you were in a sea of conversations. A sea that is at once painfully fleeting and eternal. Walking through Grand Central I imagine the people hurrying through twenty years ago, thirty years ago, busy in their busyness talking urgently about the same things people are talking urgently about now; friends, lovers, family, work, sports, nothing, everything. Five years from now there will be other crowds walking urgently, talking urgently, embodying for a moment the timeless momentary now of rush hour in New York.

Recently as I emerged from a train onto a platform somewhere underneath Manhattan, a woman behind me told her friend "So I said to myself..." I did not catch the rest but I pondered what I had heard as I moved through New York City at 5pm. We really think we have a "my" self like we have a my car or a my handbag. That somehow we have been able to detach a separate self out of the fabric of the universe which now owns itself. What are the implications of this? With a tree is there a myself that is the wood part and a separate myself that is the leaf part? And what about the sunlight that is photosynthesized by the leaf to feed the leaf, and the tree--how does that go down? Is there a stock exchange within the tree to facilitate the myriad of tree to leaf transactions? And what about the relationship between the sunlight and the sun?

My walk to work is about twenty-five blocks and I miss the traffic light at about half of them, this is always the case but I still feel triumphant and savvy each time I don't have to wait at the curb. The other half of the time I am usually waiting at the curb beside someone smoking whose using their cell phone. On that particular day the cell phone conversations felt more urgent then usual. I could hear in them a separate self trying to get the world to cooperate. It was like listening to a bunch of leaves on their cell phones complaining about their lack of autonomy. What's wrong with just enjoying the magnificent reality of being a leaf?

Having a myself means that we have a "My pain", "My past", "My future", "My children", "My wealth", "My disease", "My girlfriend", "My boyfriend", "My victory", "My failure", "My country", "My religion", "My race", "My people", in total we have a separate self; we have a yours and a mine, and we have a lot of reasons to be angry, sad, and afraid. What I am learning is that we are consciousness the way a wave is water. Consciousness does not have rain it just experiences rain and there's a big difference.Rolf Gateshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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The criminal investigations and prosecutions are different from the administrative problems of the Midford Paramount affair that triggered the last round of major reforms in the early 1990s, but it's an ongoing battle to clean out the dark side of Customs.
Clare is the fourth Labor minister to occupy the cabinet secretary's position. Traditionally occupied by the Secretary to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet [PM&C],
Meanwhile, Metcalfe took up his position as secretary of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry last week, no stranger to the rural life having been raised on a farm. His minister, Joe Ludwig, launched a new wheat industry advisory task force this week.
Metcalfe is no stranger to task forces either, having served at PM&C under Max "the Axe" Moore-Wilton, who preferred the finite business of set task forces to open-ended bodies.
Peter Varghese has, as expected, slipped seamlessly into the role of Foreign Affairs secretary where he'll be welcomed by anyone who might have found Dennis Richardson's style a little too bracing. Richardson is already ensconced in Defence with a big year ahead.
Both the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) have new faces at the top – former tax advisory board chairman Chris Jordan as tax commissioner and Robert Bromwich SC as the new DPP, one of Roxon's last appointments.
The position of Director-General of the Office of National Assessments is still open, following Allan Gyngell's decision to go.
Some uncertainty around the ATO continues over the sudden departure of
The Remuneration Tribunal has, by the way, given Jordan an instant salary boost with total remuneration of $740,000 now, instead of $665,000 rising six-monthly to $740,000 in mid- 2014.
Finally, staff at the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy still wait to find out who will be their next secretary.
Gillard's office says the appointment will be made "in due course" – Peter Harris leaves in mid-March. He will follow his predecessor Patricia Scott to the Productivity Commission, albeit as its chairman. There's no mention on the Remuneration Tribunal website as to whether he'll drop a shedload of money to go to that job, or will retain his secretarial salary.
All will no doubt be revealed.
The Australian Financial Review


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Though I grew up a Sicilian-American Catholic, my family now is a blended one: my wife grew up celebrating Christmas and later converted to Judaism while I no longer adhere to any one particular religious belief. We celebrate the Jewish holidays, and Christmas in a secular way.
When my wife and I were figuring out how to reinvent the holiday season in a way that was meaningful to us, I decided to revisit the Italian-American Christmas Eve celebration called the Feast of the Seven Fishes. The traditional version of this belongs to Italian American Christians — they prepare and serve a huge seven course meal, with each dish made with fish, celebrating the religious aspects of Christmas. Even though I no longer adhere to the religion, I will forever be a Sicilian American (who doesn't happen to like fish) — so I created a new twist: the Feast of the Seven Dishes. For the last two years, I've woken up at about 5am on Christmas Eve morning and started cooking my seven dishes — the centerpiece of which is an Italian dish called Braciole (pronounced bra-jo-le.) Braciole is thinly sliced beef filled, rolled, and slow braised in homemade tomato sauce for about six hours. When it's done, the meat is fork tender and literally melts in your mouth. Preparing the feast together has become a tradition we all love.
Starting at age two, even my youngest daughter has helped to cook it. Obviously, kids can't do much in the way of real food prep at that age, but I would typically prepare some items that she could drop in a bowl (pre-cut garlic, herbs, etc.) and mix without danger of injury. The easiest recipe is my Olive Tapenade, which is just a mix of green and kalamata olives, some garlic, olive oil and a small touch of salt and pepper, blended in a mixer until finely minced. She loves dropping the ingredients in and holds her ears when the mixer buzzes away. The Tapenade is great as an appetizer (1 dish down) and is also an important part of my Eggplant Caponata (second dish). Caponata is a chutney of diced vegetables, slow cooked with some tomato sauce. I use eggplant, celery, some sundried tomatoes, a few capers and my tapenade. Add some lemon juice and the dish elevates to a yummy, butter mixture that is great on pasta, under some over-medium eggs or just a spoonful on its own. I've found that getting the kids into the kitchen to help prepare dishes offers the opportunity for them to taste what they've helped to create. My 11 year old was once a very picky eater at 8 years old — I got her into the kitchen with me and it made her much more adventurous when it comes to food.
Rounding out this year's menu is my Eggs Francesco (dish 3), Spinach and Parmesan Stuffed Mushrooms (dish 4), Stuffed Rigatoni (dish 5), the Braciole (dish 6) and for dessert, homemade Cannoli (dish 7).
I still think about the crispy exterior and warm soft interior of the sliced pizza rolls my Sicilian grandmother would make for me since she knew I didn't like fish. But Christmas, for me, is now all about my Feast and the fun and joy of preparing it with my wife and daughters.
4 Slices of Chuck Steak (Thin and wide, about the size of dinner plates, ask your butcher to cut special)
2 Cups Breadcrumbs
1 Cup Fresh Spinach (chiffonade)
1 Cup Fresh Basil (chiffonade)
2-3 Cloves of Garlic, minced
1/3 Cup Fresh Parmesan, Shredded
1 Tsp Salt
1 Tsp Black Pepper
2 Tblspn Olive Oil
Pinch of Red Pepper Flake (optional)
Salt and Pepper
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First prepare the mixture of breadcrumbs, spinach, basil, parmesan, garlic, salt, pepper and olive oil in a bowl and set aside.
Layout one of the slices of chuck steak on a clean counter and sprinkle with salt and pepper on both sides. Take two to three tablespoons of the mix and place it in on the meat, about two to three inches from the edge, then roll until the meat is in a tube shape. Use the twine to tie the meat until a good seal is in place and the stuffing can remain intact for cooking. Repeat process for each steak.
In a medium skillet, brown each of the rolled meat steaks until a good sear on each side. About three to four minutes per side is a good measure. Remember that the browner the meat, the more flavor. Once all the steaks have been browned, remove them from the pan and place in an oven safe pan. Take a ladle full of sauce and add to the skillet to remove all the brown pits at the bottom. This will add additional flavor to the dish as we are now changing cooking vessels.
Pour the sauce from the skillet over the meat and add additional sauce until the sauce just touches the bottom edge of the meat. Putting too much sauce will boil the meat and it will not cook properly. You can always add sauce along the way if necessary.
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by Christoph Czernik, Stefanie Rhode, Boris Metze, Gerd Schmalisch, Christoph Bührer
Elevated pulmonary vascular resistance occurs during the first days after birth in all newborn infants and persists in infants at risk for bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).It is difficult to measure in a non-invasive fashion. We assessed the usefulness of the right ventricular index of myocardial performance (RIMP) to estimate pulmonary vascular resistance in very low birth weight infants.
Prospective echocardiography on day of life (DOL) 2, 7, 14, and 28 in 121 preterm infants (median [quartiles] gestational age 28 [26]–[29] weeks, birth weight 998 [743–1225] g) of whom 36 developed BPD (oxygen supplementation at 36 postmenstrual weeks).
RIMP derived by conventional pulsed Doppler technique was unrelated to heart rate or mean blood pressure. RIMP on DOL 2 was similar in infants who subsequently did (0.39 [0.33–0.55]) and did not develop BPD (0.39 [0.28–0.51], p?=?0.467). RIMP declined steadily in non-BPD infants but not in BPD infants (DOL 7: 0.31[0.22–0.39] vs. 0.35[0.29–0.48], p?=?0.014; DOL 14: 0.23[0.17–0.30] vs. 0.35[0.25–0.43], p<0.001; DOL 28: 0.21[0.15–0.28] vs. 0.31 [0.21–0.35], p?=?0.015).
In preterm infants, a decline in RIMP after birth was not observed in those with incipient BPD. The pattern of RIMP measured in preterm infants is commensurate with that of pulmonary vascular resistance.


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Comparing LA Lakers' 2013-14 Opening Day Roster vs. Start of Last SeasonOctober 22, 2013
The Los Angeles Lakers' roster is a far cry from what it was one year ago.
Heading into last season, the summer acquisitions of Dwight Howard and Steve Nash had the Purple and Gold perched atop the "on paper" power rankings (at least in the West) even though depth was a serious concern.
A year later the depth is there, but the star power is nowhere near as bright. Howard is gone, Nash looks his age, Pau Gasol is coming off his worst season in a decade and Kobe Bryant is rehabbing a devastating injury.
Let's dig deeper and see how this year's complete roster stacks up against last year's version at various positional groups beginning with the point guards, transitioning to the wings and finishing up with the big men.
Point Guards
The top two point guards on the depth chart are still held down by the two Steves—Nash and Blake, but their perceptions coming into this season are wildly different.
Nash arrived in L.A. to a lot of fanfare last season. He was fresh off an All-Star campaign and carried the aura of being ageless. It took less than two games to shatter that narrative, as a leg injury in the season's second contest sidelined Nash for nearly two months. He had his worst season since 2000, even after being reunited with coach Mike D'Antoni.
Steve Blake's season, meanwhile, trended in the opposite direction. He was terrible in his first two seasons in L.A., but turned it around last year, shooting a sizzling 42 percent from three-point range and competently running the offense in Nash's absence. Unfortunately, Blake battled injury issues of his own which limited him to just 45 games.
Going into 2014, Nash's stock has plummeted while faith has been restored in Blake. Their combined value is probably the same as it was on opening day last year, but because Nash is no longer one of the elite players at his position, the result is a net negative for the Lakers.
Behind the Steves last year were the illustrious duo of Darius Morris and Chris Duhon, who were pressed into duty far too often. Morris and Duhon had the fewest win shares of any Lakers players who played at least 250 minutes and were generally a disaster on the court.
Replacing them this season is former Lakers first-round draft pick Jordan Farmar, back in the league after a year playing abroad. When last seen in NBA action, Farmar was an above-average guard who showed he was capable of playing either backcourt position with aplomb.
That will be key for the Lakers because, barring more injury woes, there aren't too many point guard minutes left over after accounting for Nash and Blake.
Expect to see Farmar playing off the ball quite a bit, like he did next to Deron Williams in 2012. He's a massive upgrade over the likes of Morris and Duhon, neither of whom were reliable shooters or playmakers.
Adding Farmar to the mix—and dropping Morris and Duhon—means an upgraded point guard rotation on the whole for the Lakers in 2014.
Wing Players
In 2013 the Lakers had a starting wing pairing of Kobe Bryant and Metta World Peace. Bryant, a fixture on the All-NBA First Team, performed up to that level yet again.
World Peace was a past-his-prime lockdown defender whose offensive game fell off a cliff after joining the Lakers. He had arguably his best season in L.A., but still rated as a below-average starter.
Behind those two was Jodie Meeks, who provided outside shooting and little else. Earl Clark cracked the rotation and had quite a stirring stretch midway through the season but was nowhere on the radar heading into the year.
The Lakers overhauled their wing rotation this offseason, waiving World Peace via amnesty and letting Clark sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers.
To fill in the holes, the Lakers raked through the bargain bin and came up with some intriguing finds.
Microwave scorer Nick Young was signed to a very agreeable two-year deal, and L.A. also took fliers on failed lottery picks Wesley Johnson and Xavier Henry.
Young is a known quantity. He can absolutely light it up (he once dropped 43 points in a game), but his shot selection is one of the worst in the league and he can be an inefficient, ball-stopping chucker who shoots his team out of games.
With the Lakers desperately needing some scoring punch, his merits outweigh his deficiencies. He's looked good in the preseason, not taking too many bad shots outside of the offense's flow.
Johnson looks good on paper. He's a former top-five overall pick in the draft who's got great size for his position. Unfortunately, he hasn't improved his jump shot since coming into the league. If he can become a decent corner-three shooter and tough perimeter defender, he can add value to L.A.'s wing core.
Henry has been a pleasant surprise in the preseason. He's relentless when it comes to attacking the rim off of pick-and-rolls and practically lives at the foul line.
Like Johnson, Henry's shooting has also been his biggest liability. Though his outside shot is still a work in progress, he has shot the ball much better from the line in the preseason. He can spark the offense off the bench as one of the few Lakers who is a threat to penetrate all the way to the rim.
Overall, the Lakers are in far better shape on the wings than they were heading into last year. Young and Henry can give the offense a boost and Johnson can at least be used to guard the opposing team's top perimeter scorer.
The big question mark, ironically enough, is Bryant.
Achilles tears are one of the most career-threatening injuries a basketball player can suffer. It's naturally assumed that Bryant can come back from any knock quicker and stronger than anybody in the game, but a return to last year's sublime form shouldn't be taken for granted.
If Bryant gets back to being 90 percent of what he was last year, the Lakers should enjoy far more production from their wing spots than they did in 2013.
However, if Bryant is noticeably hindered or suffers setbacks throughout the season, L.A. would lose their most dangerous quality.
Big Men
The twin towers of Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol never lived up to the hype in 2013. Both men battled injuries all season long. Howard persevered through 76 games, but was clearly limited. Gasol, meanwhile, missed nearly as many games (33) as he had the previous five seasons combined (35).
In the rare instances they did share the court, the results were less than stellar. The Lakers were actually outscored on a per-possession basis when Howard and Gasol played together, per NBA.com, and never seemed comfortable being on the floor at the same time.
Backing them up were Jordan Hill and Antawn Jamison.
Hill was a great energy guy off the bench, but an injury (surprise, surprise) kept him out of action for 53 games.
Jamison had value on offense as a guy who could stretch opposing defenses as well as score intuitively around the basket. But he always seemed to give up two points for every one he scored himself. That's probably why he's playing across the hall with the Los Angeles Clippers now.
Howard has also (as you may have heard) moved on, leaving a yawning hole in the middle for L.A.
The Lakers addressed that void by signing Chris Kaman to a one-year deal for the taxpayer's mid-level exception. Kaman is nowhere near Howard's level, but he is a stabilizing presence who can play both ends of the floor.
He is one of the best mid-range shooters in the entire league. Last season, he was second in the NBA in field-goal percentage on shots between 16 and 24 feet, according to NBA.com.
Kaman is also an above-average rebounder and shot-blocker. He doesn't possess the lateral quickness of Howard, but he can still be a factor around the rim.
Hill is back healthy and ready to contribute off the bench. The Lakers also signed Shawne Williams and drafted Ryan Kelly to take Jamison's spot as a stretch 4 who can play next to either Gasol or Kaman.
Jamison's reliable offense won't be easy to replace though, and neither Williams nor Kelly is projected to be much of an upgrade over Jamison defensively.
As competent as Kaman is, the downgrade from Howard is steep. Without one of the game's premier rim protectors as the last line of defense, the Lakers could wind up being one of the league's worst defensive teams.
The Lakers' core of big men isn't as strong as it was entering last season.
On the whole, this year's roster has more depth, but the NBA is a star-driven league, and L.A.'s "stars" have lost a lot of their shine.
That could prove to be the difference between a spot in the playoffs and a spot in the lottery in 2014.


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Egypt's President Mohammed Mursi has ordered parliament to reconvene, a month after it was dissolved.
Mursi, whose Muslim Brotherhood won most seats, said the chamber should reconvene until a new election is held.
The military had enforced a court order last month dissolving parliament because party members had contested seats reserved for independents.
The military council held emergency talks on Mursi's decree but did not decide on any action.
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In addition to an outdoor tennis court, Hôtel Notre Dame features ski-in/ski-out access and a fitness center. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. Business-related amenities consist of a business center and a meeting room. This business-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, ski storage, and a garden.
- Total number of rooms - 7
- Number of floors - 2
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- Year Built 1930
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Police are investigating after burglars broke into her Bolton West constituency office early on Thursday and glued locks shut and put slogans on the wall.
Fathers 4 Justice have claimed responsibility for the attack.
The group is believed to blame Ms Kelly for government policy that they say prevents parents from being able to see their children.
Elaine Risk, co-ordinator for the group in Greater Manchester, said: "I believe that she was locked out - the door was sealed and the letterbox was sealed and other posters were put up.
"We thought that maybe she would like to know how it feels to be denied access to her most beloved."
On Thursday night Greater Manchester Police confirmed officers are investigating the attack at Ms Kelly's office.


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Adjusting the Carb on a Briggs and Stratton 8 hp
The Briggs and Stratton 8 horsepower (HP) engine uses a horizontal shaft output. The carburetor is a Flo-jet type that suctions gasoline into an air mixture chamber from the lower float bowl. Gasoline is regulated into the float bowl from the fuel tank by a brass float. There are two adjustment valves on the Flo-jet carburetor, the needle valve and the idle valve. The needle valve regulates the amount of gasoline pulled into the mixing chamber for high-speed operation, while the idle valve regulates fuel for lower speed operation.
Fresh gasoline
Slot screwdriver
Fill the fuel tank half-full with fresh gasoline. Ensure the fuel filter is clean and free of any foreign obstructions. Improper fuel flow to the float bowl reservoir inhibits the carburetor adjustment.
Turn the needle valve and idle valve in a clockwise direction to seat the valves close with the screwdriver. Do not over tighten as damage will result to the seats. Open the lower needle valve 1 1/2 revolutions in a counterclockwise direction. Turn the idle valve 3/4 of a full revolution in the same direction.
Start the engine according to the manufacturer's operational instructions. Some devices may require mechanical levers to be placed in neutral positions for starting.
Allow the engine to reach operational temperatures, generally 3 to 4 minutes.
Move the acceleration lever to full speed. Turn the needle valve in a clockwise direction until the engine begins to loose speed. Back the needle valve slowly in the opposite direction, counterclockwise, until the engine runs smooth.
Reduce the speed of the engine by lowering the acceleration lever to the idle position. If the engine stops, open the idle screw a 1/4 turn in a counterclockwise direction. Start the engine. Move the acceleration lever from high speed to idle several times. Adjust the idle valve until the engine no longer dies when speed is reduced.
Operate the engine under a full load condition. Make minor adjustments to the carburetor if needed.
Words to the Wise:
The needle valve is located on the lower left hand side of the round float bowl. Some models use a thumbscrew while other's have a slot type screw. The idle valve is located on the right hand topside of the carburetor. It is strictly a slot type screw head.
If the engine operates erratically after the above adjustment, inspect and replace the sparkplug. The sparkplug may have become fouled from improper adjustment and operation to the engine.


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- July 28, 2009, 10:15 AM
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