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Herzliya-based Frutarom Industries, one of the world's 10 largest companies in the field of flavors and specialty fine ingredients, has fully acquired the Hong Kong companies Inventive Technology and Prowin International (collectively known as "Inventive") for $17 million.
Frutarom thus finishes 2015 with 12 acquisitions in as many months. The previous buyout, in November, put the Polish company AMCO into its portfolio.
"We have made it a main goal to expand our activity in the emerging markets of China and Southeast Asia with their high rates of growth, both through internal growth and by means of acquisition. The acquisition of Inventive, one of China's leading local companies in flavors and flavor inclusions, is another important step towards attaining this goal," commented Ori Yehudai, president and CEO of Frutarom Group.
Frutarom has production and development centers on four continents and employs approximately 3,500 people globally. It markets and sells more than 43,000 products to some 19,000 customers in 150 countries for the food and beverages, flavor and fragrance extracts, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical, health food, functional food, food additives and cosmetics industries.
Yehudai noted that processed food consumption in China is growing rapidly due to the urbanization of Chinese society, the entry of women into the workforce, and changes in the lifestyle and spending habits of the Chinese consumer.
In keeping with this trend, Frutarom recently finished building a state-of-the-art plant in China with laboratories for development and applications.
"The acquisition of Inventive is the 12th acquisition we have made this year, and we are continuing to seek out and perform further strategic acquisitions of companies and operations in our fields of activity while strengthening our position as a leading global player in the field of natural solutions for taste and health," Yehudai said.
Frutarom's first acquisition of 2016, of savory flavorings companies Sagema of Austria and Wiberg of Germany, has already been set in motion.

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If you haven't noticed yet, I have a thing for skulls...and camo. Sometimes you just need to put a few of your favorites together. I like overall that this outfit looks polished—a blazer, skinny pants, and loafers—but upon further inspection the character shines through and you can see it's roughed up a bit. Otherwise, it might not be so 'me.'
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Episode Forty-Five: Maria Ridulph
On the evening of December 3, 1957, 7-year-old Maria Ridulph begged to be allowed to go outside as it had started to snow. After finishing dinner, Maria and Kathy Sigman went outside in the dark near Maria's house. The girls were approached by a man who called himself Johnny. He gave Maria a piggyback ride, after which she went back to her house and got a doll to show him. After Maria returned, Kathy ran back to her house to get her mittens, leaving Maria alone with the man. When Kathy returned, Maria and the man were gone.
The case was reopened in 2008 based on new information about one of the Ridulph's neighbours, a man named John Tessier. Tessier matched the description of Johnny and had a history of crimes against women.
During the trial, the prosecution argued Tessier had the means and the time to commit the crime. The defence argued the timeline made it impossible for Tessier to be responsible. In April 2012, John Tessier was convicted for Maria's kidnapping and murder, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Can it be the lack of simple human contact that is slowly destroying modern society? It's certainly one of the major elements that contribute to loneliness. And it's getting worse.
We – those of us living in industrialised societies – have been conditioned and trained for over two hundred years to live with a minimum of touch, and to regard societies who touch their children from birth to adulthood as 'primitive' and unsophisticated. This is not just wrong, not just a shame, but dangerous.
Touch deprivation sets us up for mental and physical illness throughout our lives. It's socially divisive and encourages aggression, instils fear, separates people. And creates loneliness. Not being touched – simple, friendly, kind, loving, no-strings touch – is an all too common cause of unhappiness and illness. But the good news is that it's simple to remedy.
The earliest medicine
Hippocrates, father of Western medicine, said that only three things are necessary for prolonged health: regular exercise, sensible diet, and regular massage.
Early on in my year's training in massage, our teacher stated what seemed like an outrageous opinion: 'If each of us had a massage every day or even every week, hospitals would soon be out of business.' He talked about touch deprivation, the lack of simple human contact that means that most of us crave touch, although we probably don't even realise it. We might call it loneliness – we all know that it's perfectly possible to be lonely in a crowd, lonely in a marriage. It's not solitude that gets you, it's being – literally – out of touch.
Deprived of touch
Remember the shock of seeing TV pictures of young children in Romanian orphanages? Almost catatonic, standing behind the bars of their cots, faces devoid of emotion, they were starving, not from lack of food, but from lack of human contact. Too many children and not enough staff. No-one with time to play with them, talk to them, hold them.
The medical term is marasmus: failure to thrive – at worst, dying for no apparent reason.
Harry Harlow's famous study touch deprivation in the 1950s showed that of the five basic senses, touch was the one essential to life. Harlow took newborn monkeys from their mothers and put them in a cage with two surrogate 'mothers' made from chicken wire round a wooden frame, one wrapped in soft terry cloth, the other bare wire. In every way the monkeys were well cared for, except they had no contact with other monkeys or even the scientists. The baby monkeys clung to the soft cloth surrogate and refused to move away even though the feeding bottle was attached to the other surrogate. Touch was more important than food. Skin hunger is worse than starvation.
Ever wonder, these days, about babies lying in incubators, row on row of them, in maternity hospitals sometimes long after their mothers have gone home? Untouched, abandoned in a plastic box, crying for their mothers…
Ever wonder about the elderly, who have lost touch with spouses and children, isolated and lonely?
Ever wonder about the young, disconnected and out of touch as they face a crowded, lonely world?
Splitting body and mind apart
Tony Cawley, a psychotherapist based in Liverpool, is frustrated by the lack of attention to the importance of touch given by his profession. "It's obvious to me how incredibly powerful touch is to the mind, but mind doctors aren't allowed to touch their clients. Therapists don't even talk about touch: it's extraordinary.
"The response of the psychotherapy profession to the work of Harlow and John Bowlby is conspicuous by its absence. Why? Are we so shy of touch because it leads to the thorny subject of sexuality?"
Taboo touch
Western society is now obsessed with what is termed 'inappropriate touching'; the paedophile is the modern Beelzebub, and judging by the legal measures to 'protect' children from the risk of sexual abuse, every British adult is a prospective paedophile. And children are closed off from simple, social touch, which is potentially disastrous for society as a whole.
Britain has been a very disconnected nation since Victorian times, at least; touch is conducted under strict but unwritten rules. Even families of my generation – my parents got married during World War 2 – didn't touch. A clash of cheekbones at greeting and parting were about it, and handshakes between men. The next generation is better, but now it's the law that prevents touch rather than some cultural taboo.
Touch deprivation and violence
In many academic and clinical studies, touch deprivation is linked to aggression and violence. In the 1970s James Prescott studied 400 human societies and found that those who lavished affectionate touch on their children, and were tolerant of teenage sex, were the least violent societies on earth. He also found the converse true.
Child development
Touch is the first sense to develop in the human foetus. The skin is the body's largest organ, and develops from the same stem cells as the brain. Frequent pleasurable touch for infants results in positive change in brain tissue, while chronic touch deprivation or trauma results in measurable brain damage. Many studies have shown the critical importance of good touch to the developing infant and the growing child. It remains vital – touch-deprived adults may turn to food, alcohol or drugs to make up for the lack of physical contact, or adopt behaviours from promiscuous sex to shop lifting.
The simplest way to health
Touch, or the lack of it, can dramatically affect emotional, mental and physical health. It has huge implications for society, let alone the family and the individual. So my massage teacher's claim doesn't seem so outrageous after all. It begins to look as though touch could be the philosopher's stone of human health, so perhaps the NHS should sack a lot of managers and hire some top notch bodyworkers.
The corporate health industry wouldn't like it. If massage were to be more widely used, the need for drugs and surgery would drop, which would not go down well with investors.
But why can't we use what we already have to heal and comfort and reconnect our society? Who's to say we can't?
The research points to Hippocrates having it right 2,500 years ago. Let's learn from history, for once, and put more trust in the innate ability of humans to heal with the tools we were born with: head, hands and heart.
Related articles
- Why have we lost the need for physical touch? (psychologytoday.com)
- Medical Massage and Cancer: Healing with a Human Touch (omtimes.com)
- The story of a lonely brain (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- A touching remedy for the lonely (banishloneliness.org)
- The Dangers of Isolating Social Creatures (asolitarytorture.wordpress.com)
- Cuddling – How Important Is It (and Should We Pay for It)? (psychologytoday.com)
- The Doctor Will Hug You Now (roxcell.wordpress.com)
- The importance of touch (courierpress.com)


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I will do another post after this as these photos I want to share with you are only half as the other half are on another camera. I am extremely busy with revision but recently I have been keeping on top of posting much more frequently, I am trying to do a post atleast every 2 days. I tried everyday but with revision that turned out to be quite hard.
These pictures are from the skiing trip I went on with my family in February to The Dolomites- you can read my post about it here; Skiing The Dolomites ! Hope you enjoy these pictures! Let me know if you like posts like this- primarily pictures and I will make sure to do them more often!
Thanks for reading / looking at these images. This place really was paradise< Katy x


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Fabricut recently introduced it's latest collection for kids. The collection is appropriately called "Kid's Corner III." This youthful, spirited collection is bursting with colors and patterns that you and your child will love. These cotton fabrics feature an array of patterns that vary from classic stripes and florals to travel inspired toile's. One of these toile's, called "Sightseeing" depicts international landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Big Ben, The Statue of Liberty and the Pyramids of Giza. There is also the "Top of The World" print which includes these landmarks in a more cartoon style. Keepingwith the international theme there is a colorful postcard inspired print, entitled "Return to Sender" that has a vintage feel to it, as does the two classic Atlas prints, depicting the world in either an Azure or Antique finish. This collection has simple patterns such as a colorful zigzag that looks like paint, there are colorful stripes, and traditional polka dots in navy and red, heart shaped dots in soft pinks and sky blue. This collection also has one animal pattern. "Escape" features water color inspired zoo animals and the alphabet. There is also "Elsie" a petite floral print that features reds, blues, pinks and greens perfectly. The "Kids Corner Collection III" is a perfect place to find functional, affordable, durable fabrics for your space. The use of color and fun, youthful patterns will be ideal for both you and your child.
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Marvelous has released a new trailer for upcoming busty schoolgirl ninjas beat-em-up Senran Kagura: Shonovi Versus, which focuses on the students of Gessen Academy.
Below you can see the 5 playable girls of Gessen Academy fight, have their clothes torn off and as they transform into other clothes for power and defence boosts.
Senran Kagura: Shinovi Versus releases exclusively on Vita on 14th October in North America, and the day after in Europe. It'll be digital-only in Europe, and mostly in North America unless you decide to buy the Let's Get Physical limited edition.


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Thank you for your interest, there are a few ways that you can get involved on varying levels:
- Firstly, and most simply, spread the word. This project has evolved organically and authentically (with little – to no budget), and therefore could use any word of mouth advertisement that you can give.
- Go on the trail; explore this city, view it through the eyes of people that have struggled (at some points) due to their sexuality, gender, etc. and then, tell others to do the same.
- Write for us; we will be accepting short (or long) pieces about LGBTQ representation, history, marginalisation; really any topic to do with LGBTQ people.
- Share your experience; if you're willing, we endeavour to continue our interviews, with the aim to release podcasts in the future. If you, or someone you know, has any anecdotes, or personal experiences about LGBTQ Norwich, please do come forward.


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Book Country member Charles Dyer is an incredibly prolific and varied writer—he has published 12 books with Book Country, in Fantasy, Romance, Historical Fiction, and Science Fiction. Hailing from South Africa, Charles has many interests and hobbies, including archery, gardening, computer programming and gaming, and visual art. We caught up with him to find out more about his creative process, as well as to hear his perspective on self-publishing and its challenges.
LS: What led you to join Book Country? Has it helped you?
CD: I can't remember the details but I saw the site on the Web and it had more appeal than many others. Especially as I considered the possibility that it might expose my work to the editors at Penguin. My ultimate goal is to have best-selling paperback books out there in preference to eBooks. Book Country has helped insofar as exposure goes. My work is now distributed to a wider range of retailers than before.
LS: 12 is a lot of books! You must have some kind of brilliant time-management technique! Share with us how you are able to accomplish so much writing.
CD: Ha, ha, I wish that I did have some brilliant technique. Some of these books were written in the last century, starting in 1996. All of them have been polished several times.
I use spreadsheets to ensure that I don't inadvertently change hair or eye color halfway through the story or any other little detail. Typically, a spreadsheet will have plot, synopsis, timeline, character details, world details, chapter details, etc. As I write, I update the spreadsheet and cross-reference it to ensure consistency.
One might say that it pays to be a methodical plodder– a plodder is a person who dogmatically knuckles down and works at whatever they are doing until it's done.
LS: With each book, at what point did you know you were ready to publish?
CD: When I was satisfied that it was finished. That point being decided by doing a spelling and grammar check and reading it again to check story flow, credibility, continuity, etc.
LS: After you decide you are ready to go ahead with publishing your book, there's still work to be done: formatting, last-minute edits, proof-reading, and, of course, choosing a cover. Tell us about that process for you.
CD: Every publisher and agent has their own unique set of rules for formatting. That is frustrating for authors because some formatting can take a long time to implement. Generally, it's not advisable to rely entirely on the MS Word 'Replace' function alone. I always re-read a manuscript after re-formatting just to be sure that everything is perfect.
I've seen unsatisfactory covers for which authors have paid hundreds of dollars to so-called professionals. I do my own and try to ensure that the title and my name stand out in thumbnail size. The important thing about covers is that they appeal to the target readers and that is really difficult. Obviously, a cover should reflect at least some elements of the story and genre. The old saying 'don't judge a book by its cover' doesn't work because buyers are strongly influenced by covers. A cover needs to stand out in a crowd of thousands of similar ones to attract interest. The second most important thing is the blurb, which can make or break sales. I'm still learning how to write a good one.
LS: Can you tell us about the things you do to promote your books and help them to find an audience?
CD: That is my downfall; I'm no salesman. I'm no good at blogging or social networking. Facebook, GooglePlus and Twitter simply do not work for me. I cannot seem to muster a following at all. None of the people I know even read eBooks. That makes it very hard for me to get any feedback on my work. I love writing but I detest the insincerity of spamming, bootlicking and salesmanship in general. I guess we tend to dislike what we can't do. Many years ago, I was assured by an editor at Macmillan that my writing was good but his office was not publishing fantasy.
LS: You create 3D models, as you say in your bio, "to help with visualization and realism" in your writing. Tell us about that process and how it contributes to your writing process.
CD: I'm fortunate enough to have a vivid imagination but a daydream or a vision can often be fleeting. A 3D model can be seen from different angles and used to interact with other models to provide realistic perspectives that might otherwise elude me. Perhaps it is not an ideal solution but the time spent making the models gives me thinking time to develop scenes, items, characters and plot. It is useful in highlighting details that add colour and reality to the story.
For some books, I only use the models for cover art or not at all. In others, the models help me to live the part of my characters. Above all, I enjoy making the models and the fact that they serve a dual purpose is an added bonus.
LS: Many people are afraid to genre-jump as you do. What advice can you give about taking the plunge into a new genre?
CD: Writing fiction is all the same to me regardless of the genre. My approach to each is exactly the same and in fact not much different from non-fiction. I research whatever I write. The only difference with fiction is that I can bend the rules and be more creative than is possible with non-fiction.
As a member of the Book Country community, you can read & review ACCIDENT (a Paranormal Romance) and give Charles feedback. Connect with him on Book Country and check out his books in the Book Country Bookstore, including BRIMSTONE, a Science Fiction novel about a group of humans who must settle on Mars after Earth has become uninhabitable.
You also might like: "Member Spotlight:
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Richard Pearson, editor of the book "Flowers and their messages", the first book published by the ashram on spiritual significance of flowers, speaks on this very subject. Recording of 1990.
Talks by Other Disciples and Devotees
Talks of Disciples and Devotees, Related to the Integral Yoga.
To listen off-line, download in MP3 from the ZIP ARCHIVE
The Traveller and the Worlds in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri
The 4th Dr M V Nadkarni Lecture by Shraddhavan. Recorded on 13-08-2013 at Savitri Bhavan, Auroville, India.
Interview of Prof Arabinda Basu to the Global Oneness Project
A 25 minute long interview from 2005, an excellent video of Arindam-da in terms of covered topics and in quality of video and audio recording.
"In Service Of the Sun" – Chamanlal and Shipra Gupta
Two materials, related to the Mother's child, internationally known expert in solar energy, teacher, philosopher and mentor Dr. Chamanlal Gupta, and his wife and collaborator Shipra, – a short video and an article.
"Experience with Flowers (2)" + "The Mother's Work with Flowers"
Sri Aurobindo has reportedly written that "There are three ways of blessing of the Mother: by sight, by touch and through flowers. And it is through flowers that Her blessings are most effective."
"Experience with Flowers (1)" – Richard Pearson
This is an audio recording of the first of two talks on flowers, which were delivered at Savitri Bhavan in December 2006 and January 2007. An excerpt from interview with Richard by Anie Nunnally is also posted.
My association with The Mother – Prof. Kireet Joshi
A group of friends who have long been associated with Kireet-Bhai have asked him to speak about his years with Mother. The result is a cascade of gems from this very great and gentle Soul.
Interactions with The Mother and other memories
Questions and Answers with Tara Jauhar at the Sourcing Our Oneness Camp, which was organised at the Nainital Center of Sri Aurobindo Ashram-Delhi Branch in October 2016.
Reminiscences of The Mother by Richard (a talk and an article)
Remembrances of The Mother by Richard Pearson – an audio recording of one talk at the Hall of Harmony, and a transcript of another talk at Savitri Bhavan, both from 2001.
Children of The Mother – A Talk by Arabinda Basu (audio)
A Talk at Matagiri Sri Aurobindo Center, USA, in 1998.
The Descent of the Immortal – A Talk by Arabinda Basu
An audio recording of a talk by Prof Arabinda Basu at the 2001 All USA Meeting (AUM) in California, USA
Udar – Recollections and Savitri Recitation
A portion of the audio recording of the talk at Savitri Bhavan (1999) with recollections and Savitri recitation. A full transcript of the talk is offered.
Sri Aurobindo in Savitri – a Talk by Georges van Vrekhem
"… we are turned towards that light, and we read Savitri with veneration and devotion, and it gives us a great deal. So we have some work to do, a whole programme to work out, and we all share in the promise of which this Book of Promise is full. And we know what to do for the rest of our lives. Happy travels!"
Introduction to the Integral Yoga – a Talk by Georges van Vrekhem
An audio recording of a lecture, delivered by Georges van Vrekhem (Sri Aurobindo Ashram / Auroville) in Philadelphia in 1998.


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Work is a funny thing really isn't it? Its something most of us have to do and a place where we spend more time than at home and yet so many of us dislike what we do.
The first thing we need to get straight is that most people do not work for any reason other than they have to and very rarely do people choose their careers they just kind of 'happen'. This is a very important fact as it is going to help back up the statement I am about to make:
Your job is just what you do, it is not what defines you and does not change who you are. Your work provides with the funds to do what you enjoy doing and there is no reason to be miserable in a job you hate when you could be actively looking for something you love.
How depressing would it be if someone were to ask your friends what the greatest thing about you was and they all replied that you were a great worker? Wouldn't it be brilliant if they said you were adventurous, happy, generous or kind? There are so many other things to aspire to that are more important than being really good at your job. If you are in the medical profession please ignore this statement and continue to be really good at your job – that could really backfire on me couldn't it?!
I'm not saying that people shouldn't work. I just think if you find that what you do for work makes you unhappy then find something else – life is short and incredibly precious so why waste 40 hours each week doing something you detest?
Not all you career ambitions are within your reach for example if you really fancy the idea of being an astronaut but know this isn't going to happen why not learn more about the universe, the stars and planets – no it won't make you any money but you would be as close to it as you could be and the chances are you'd be a happier person for focussing on something you love.
If you are unhappy in your job please look for something else – I hear people everyday telling me that they don't like their job so don't follow the crowd, be a trend setter and take a step closer to what you love.
There are 168 hours in every week and you spend 40 of them at work which leaves you with 128 hours to do what you want! Doesn't it seem daft to do something you don't like when you could spend those same hours being happy?


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Then There Were Four – Possible Super Bowl Matchups
New England's relatively easy victory over Tennessee earned them a seventh straight trip to the AFC title game. The wild finishes in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Minnesota set the rest of the field for this weekend's conference title games. Only four remain leaving four potential Super Bowl matchups. Here's a look how each might play out.
New England vs. Philadelphia
A Patriots-Eagles Super Bowl matchup would likely be similar to a Patriots-Vikings tilt. The Eagles have been very good on defense all season, especially against the run where they finished first in the NFL during the regular season. New England has had plenty of recent success running the ball with Dion Lewis rushing for 60-plus yards in each of his last four games. Lewis has 896 for the season.
Belichick and Patricia would scheme a way to make things very difficult for Philadelphia QB Nick Foles. Foles is 3-1 since taking over as the starter for the Eagles after the injury to Carson Wentz. The Philadelphia offense has been far from the Eagles offense of midseason. Last week in a win over Atlanta, Philadelphia struggled its way to 15 points on a one-yard run by LeGarrette Blount and three Jake Elliott field goals.
While the Eagles run defense is the league's best, the pass defense is a little more suspect. Playing against possibly the best quarterback in the history of the game, that pass defense would have to play almost perfectly in order for Philadelphia to have a shot at beating the Patriots. Either that or the Eagles would have to force a few New England turnovers and steal a possession or two.
The second in line for most popular betting tradition in offices today in the U.S. is Super Bowl Squares. Winning with Super Bowl Squares is entirely luck so anyone has a chance of winning. This is probably why it's so popular.
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Jacksonville vs. Minnesota
A Jags-Vikings Super Bowl would feature the two best defenses in the NFL and two extremely powerful running games. Both teams play the type of style that can get teams to Super Bowls – excellent defense, strong running game. The result might come down to which quarterback makes fewer mistakes.
Minnesota's Keenum threw for 3,547 yards and 22 touchdowns. He tossed just seven interceptions. The Vikings didn't need him to come up with huge plays – that is until last week's TD pass on the final play – during the regular season. Keenum just needed to manage games, hand the ball off, and make a couple third down throws each game. Keenum played the majority of the season with the Vikings leading games. He threw only 9.4 percent of his passes with Minnesota behind in the fourth quarter.
The same is true for Jacksonville's Blake Bortles. The Jags have been able to hide Bortles behind their defense and a ground game led by rookie Leonard Fournette. Fortunately, those facets of the franchise have allowed Jacksonville to overcome some awful Bortles' performances. There was the 12-for-23 for 87 yard-performance in the 10-3 win over Buffalo in the wild card round. Then, there's the Bortles who was aided by Fournette's 109 rushing yards in last week's win over Pittsburgh. The Jacksonville QB completed 14-of-26 passes for 214 yards and a touchdown. He did not throw an interception nor was he sacked.
The quarterback that plays better in a Jags-Vikings Super Bowl ultimately would determine the winner.
Jacksonville vs. Philadelphia
It is probably the least likely Super Bowl LII, but it could happen. The Jags and the Eagles would again feature a pair of really aggressive defenses and offenses that would turn to their respective running games to control the football.
Philadelphia with Carson Wentz was a definite Super Bowl contender and if the second-year QB was able to play picking the Eagles would be a no-brainer. Unfortunately, the Eagles will have to rely on Nick Foles and relying on Foles means that the Eagles must run the football. It is how Philadelphia beat Atlanta in the divisional round. Foles, like his counterpart Bortles, is at his best when not asked to do too much.
A Jags-Eagles matchup would also pit the NFL's best rushing offense, Jacksonville, and the league's best run defense, Philadelphia. The Jags, who averaged 141.4 yards rushing during the regular season, have upped their game in the postseason and have rushed for 159.5 yards per game thus far in the playoffs. The Eagles gave opponents just 79.2 rushing yards per game. They limited the dynamic Atlanta duo of Tevin Coleman and Devonta Freeman to just 86 rushing yards last week.
Like a Jags-Vikings Super Bowl LII, a Jags-Eagles matchup would likely be decided by the quarterback who makes fewer mistakes and that may be decided by which defense plays better and which team runs the ball more effectively.
New England vs. Minnesota
Both the Patriots and Vikings are the early favorites to win their respective conference, but favorites don't always win. Just ask Pittsburgh which lost to Jacksonville as a seven-point favorite last week. A Patriots-Vikings Super Bowl would pit the NFL's best defense against the league's best offense. Tom Brady and company managed 394.2 total yards per game, tops in the league. The Patriots were also second in scoring averaging 28.6 points per game.
Minnesota was the NFL's best defense limiting opponents to just 275.9 yards and 15.8 points per game. The Vikings did have some difficulty with Drew Brees and New Orleans in the second half of last week's divisional round playoff game. Brees ended up throwing for 294 yards and three touchdowns leading a Saints comeback that was thwarted only by a Case Keenum-to-Stefon Diggs last second touchdown pass. The Patriots passing game could give Minnesota trouble. On the other side of the ball, you have head coach Bill Belichick and defensive coordinator Matt Patricia drawing up ways to slow down the Vikings offense. You know they will try and get after Keenum and stop the Minnesota running game. It is what they did in their divisional round playoff win over Tennessee. They held Derrick Henry to 28 yards rushing and sacked Marcus Mariota eight times.
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Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom about sisters Tracey Stubbs (Linda Robson) and Sharon Theodopolopodos (Pauline Quirke) who are brought back together when their husbands are sent to prison for armed robbery. Sharon, who lived in an Edmonton council flat, moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green (Lesley Joseph) is a middle-aged married woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men.
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We represent clients who seek compensation for the pain, suffering and loss they have endured as a result of hospital acquired infection.
Hospital acquired infections (nosocomial infections) is defined as any infection acquired while in hospital. Most of these infections become obvious while the patient is still in hospital, but some are not recognised until after the patient has been discharged.
Such infections occur most frequently in emergency rooms or surgical clinics. The most common hospital acquired infections are UTI's , respiratory tract infections, surgical wound infections and bacteremia (septicemia). The most important bacterial causes include, among others, Gram-positive cocci (staphylococci and streptococci) and Gram-negaive rods (like E. coli and Pseudomonas. Infection with the MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) is cited as a most common occurrence.
Hospitals should impose and enforce to staff strict hygiene controls in their facilities in order to ensure that infections are unable to spread. In practice however, this is not always the case and it is quite common for patients to develop an infection such us MRSA as a result of medical and / or hospital negligence while in hospital.
When Can I Seek Compensation for a Hospital Acquired Illness (nosocomial infection)?
You should be able to establish in court, on the balance of probabilities, that you acquired the infection while in hospital. This is a matter of expert evidence and an appropriate microbiologist and or pathologist with specialization in infectious diseases should provide expert opinion on point. You will need to prove that you have suffered this infection as a result of the negligence of the hospital and / or the responsible doctor's negligence and that because of this you have suffered damage.
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Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) is expected to maintain the positive performance on Wednesday, analysts told Mubasher.
Ayman Fouda, head of capital market committee at the African Economic Council, forecasted the EGX to see a positive performance during this week's session.
The benchmark EGX30 is still seeing a short-term resistance at 14,270 and 14,386 points and had support at 14,100 and 14,050 points, Fouda added.
The EGX70 index has short-term resistance at 773 and 777 points and support at 765 and 758 points, he highlighted.
Fouda recommended investors to monitor stocks and get ready for partial profit-takings at resistance levels of each separate stock, noting that quick traders should trade on active stocks through margin trading.
Moreover, technical analyst at Mubasher International for Securities Shahd Rafaat said that the EGX30 index ended Tuesday's session at 14,132, pointing out that "the weakness is in the inability to approach new high and we still keep our conservative look on the market as the next support now is 13,950."


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I have a friend who is fighting a very courageous battle with a not particularly friendly kind of cancer. She keeps us updated on Facebook and recently reported that her current labs are all "within normal limits," and I'm so grateful for that news on her behalf. That's doctor-speak, of course, for "everything is pretty much okay": you want your blood pressure, your temperature, your weight, your bone density, etc. to be within those normal limits that the medical profession views as healthy. It basically means there's nothing out of the ordinary, and when my friend sees her doctor, that's what she hopes for; it's what I hope for at my doctor's office, too. People with illnesses, or with ill loved ones, want nothing more than for someone to say the test results are within normal limits.
The term "within normal limits" has kept coming back to me, though, and I try to pay attention when a word or phrase challenges me as this one did. "Within normal limits" in the context of education connotes comfortable and safe; it's good enough, an average, what is expected. We likely want our students, though, to be more than average and more than they themselves often think they can be, or we wouldn't push them so hard. Are you challenging yourself as well? Because I started thinking that as teachers, maybe "within normal limits" is no longer the kind of standard by which we should measure ourselves. My brain kept riffing on the phrase and came up with variations: Outside normal limits. Not within normal limits. Unlimited. But "without normal limits" is the phrase that stuck.
When I think of a class without normal limits, as a technology geek, I first think of all the opportunities that technology can provide to students. I had a great conversation yesterday with an acquaintance, a non-teacher. As we were standing around chatting after yoga class, I told her what I did for a living, and she expressed a bit of concern regarding kids and their overuse of technology. I absolutely agreed with her that it is a disturbing sight to see kids with their noses pressed up to screens when they could be playing outside, or to see a mom distractedly shove a smart phone instead of a book into her baby's hands. However, so many technologies offer incredible opportunities for our students to truly become digital and global citizens; to be without the normal limits of their classroom walls.
Without normal limits, teachers and students can...
- learn the computational thinking that is involved in computer programming
- create meaningful artifacts using 3D printers
- have videoconferences with authors or subject matter experts
- use augmented reality to experience 3D renditions of artifacts
- use Twitter or Voxer to connect to other classrooms or industries
- when using Twitter or Voxer, practice digital citizenship skills in real-world situations
- identify digital literacy skills that they will need for the rest of their lives
- participate in Hour of Code or Global Read Aloud
The list goes on and on, but I hope you get the idea. If you need any ideas on how to get going on these limit-expanding suggestions, give a shout to an Instructional Technology Specialist near you! (Have I mentioned we love to help?)
My friends, as you think about expanding the walls of your classroom through the wonder of technology, I know you will continue to excel in patience, encouragement, belief in your students' abilities, and most of all: love. You've likely never had anything close to normal limits on those qualities anyway. What are some additional ways that you are leading others in a life without normal limits?


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The task of the relativistic oscillator in a non-inertial frame of reference
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In this paper the analogues of the Lorentz transformations for non-inertial reference frames have been obtained. A common case when the movement speed of one coordinate frame in relation to another one can have time derivatives of higher orders. The obtained transformations conserve invariance of the space-time interval, and in the particular case of inertial frames become the well-known Lorentz transformations. It is shown that the transition from classical mechanics to the theory of relativity is analogous to the consideration of the vibrating system described by the equation of the sine-Gordon type. In this case, if the amplitude of the elliptic functions is $k\to 0$ the fluctuations can be considered small, and that leads to classical mechanics. With $k\to 1$ time depends on the vibration amplitude, which leads to the theory of relativity. In the case of inertial frames the amplitude is $k=\beta ={v}/{c}\;$.


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The Trump Administration Allegedly Had A Proposal To Use 100,000 National Guard Troops For Immigration Raids!
The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The 11-page document calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement as far north as Portland, Oregon, and as far east as New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Advice For Learning To Say No
Matthew 5:37 says "But let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No.' For whatever is more than these is from the evil one."
Letting your "No be No" can be tough when you are a doer at heart or, for some of us, people pleasers. Jill Savage, from Focus On The Family shares some excellent advice on learning to say no. Click here to read her article.


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Most of our politicians and mainstream media clearly want us to think any concerns about the Bilderberg Group are a big joke.
But in my opinion, there are many recent developments in our society and in those that surround us which are far from being a joke, and to simply ignore the role that high-powered secret summits like the Bilderberg Group could be playing in all this would be extremely complacent.
The introduction of secret courts is one example. In this BBC radio programme, Ken Clarke, the Minister Without Portfolio and a member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee, puts forward the case for secret courts, saying that they are necessary to prevent other countries and terrorist organisations from learning our secrets, for example about the possible involvement of our secret services in torture.
The leader of the racist English Defence League was interviewed twice on the BBC yesterday. The BBC is meant to be a public interest broadcasting service.
A man who works for Scottish Water has launched a group that aims to revive Oswald Moseley's violent Blackshirts, who terrorised Jewish people in the East End of London in the 1930s. Incitement to racial hatred and violence is a crime that can lead to imprisonment and extradition for some – this has unfortunately failed in the case of Abu Qatada, despite the government's efforts. Yet a man who operates a website proclaiming his revival of the violent Blackshirts is allowed to operate freely and is employed by a taxpayer-funded public body.
In the radio programme "Disability, A New History", episode 6, the presenter Peter White described the parallels between the 19th century and today as "striking" in that disabled people were having to make a case for the severity of their infirmities in order to receive welfare or be allowed leave to visit the doctor. White's reaction shows how quickly even some people who have a disability, as White himself does, have come to see this situation as normal, when it is really an example of how sharply the political clock has been turned back to the days when disabled people were forced to either work or beg on the streets. Programmes like this effectively normalise drastic political change.
Perhaps most worryingly, Greece is to convert military camps into debtors' prisons for people who are unable to pay their tax, even if those taxes are emergency property taxes. Imprisonment could be the penalty for those who owe 5000 Euros or more in tax, who might be incarcerated for up to 12 months.
This sets a very worrying precedent. Once the measures are in place, the penalty threshold could be reduced.
Greece's deputy justice minister Kostas Karagounis said that the special prison for debtors would improve their detention conditions, and would be more humane as they would not be held in the same prisons as murderers, drug dealers or robbers.
In the 1930s the Nazis claimed that the concentration camps were simply work camps. "Arbeit Macht Frei" – "work brings freedom" is the famous slogan that was placed at the entrances to some of the Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz 1.
I am not trying to suggest that the Greek debtors prisons will be concentration camps, but that the Greek government may be trying to play down the true significance of these prisons. They could evolve into tax-debt-slave camps, where people who are brought down into indebtedness through excessive taxation become fodder for cheap labour programmes.
When the Nazi concentration camps were liberated at the end of the Second World War, people said "How could we have allowed this to happen?"
Let's not be fooled again. Let's hold our politicians to account and refuse to allow them to casually brush aside our serious concerns about where our society might be heading with a scornful smirk.


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Today seems like a good day to write about my recent trip to Edinburgh, after all the referendum is happening today and history is being made. When I went to the castle referendum fever was definitely in the air especially considering all the history in a place like that.
Like every other day of my trip to Scotland, the weather was glorious, the queues minimal, and the views spectacular. I have been to many historic buildings, both here and abroad. Never somewhere quite like this though. Just look at these views.
You can see our hotel in this picture. that was really cool.
It has to be one of the coolest places I have ever visited. And as an added bonus the Crown Jewels are also housed in the Castle, though we weren't allowed to take pictures of them. I love Edinburgh Castle and have to mention the gift shop. They had some amazing Scottish honey for sale, but as I flew into Scotland I couldn't take any liquids back and honey counts as a liquid. So I already want to go back via train or car so I can bring some food stuffs back home.


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Royal Vancouver Yacht Club has been very successful in developing World and Olympic/Paralympic sailors, thanks in part to the support of the Corinthian Fund. RVYC accomplishes this by supporting a base (starting at 8 years old) of young sailors who start their sailing career in Optimist dinghies; they're the little sails you see off the Club in all kinds of weather. As our sailors develop, new challenges provide the incentive to hone their skills by attending a number of regattas over the year on a local, regional, or even international level.
After Optimist, our sailors consider the Royal Van Racing Team - our coaching supports Laser, 29er, as well as the 420, but there's more to sailing than that. For the ones who decide to become professional athletes, we can tell you two of our elite sailors have teamed up to race the Nacra 17, a 29er team has gone 49er for a year, and we even have a kite-surfer and Olympic windsurfers in our ranks.
RVYC's sailors receive assistance from the Fund based on established criteria.
The success of this program is evident. In recent Olympic Games appearances, members of RVYC represent well over one third of the Canadian National Sailing Team. In 2010 Mike Leigh was ranked Number 1 in the World rankings for Laser sailors, Paul Tingley, a former member and part of David Williams's Bronze medal team in the Sydney 2000 Games won Gold in Beijing. In London 2012 Nikola Girke, Zac Plavsic, Hunter Lowden, Ricardo Montemayor, Bruce Millar, Luke Ramsay and Mike Leigh all had great results in their respective boat classes. Our sailors have the next Olympic Games in their sights and there are a number of potential Olympians amongst the groups. To continue assisting these athletes of all ages achieve sailing excellence, the Corinthian Fund needs your support.
We have been successful in obtaining the facility to issue a tax receipt for every donor who gives in excess of $100 per calendar year (and more than $100 will certainly be accepted!) to the Fund.
To make donating easy, amounts over $100 are written as cheques payable to the National Sport Trust Fund (and accompanied by a filled out National Sport Trust Fund Donor Contribution Form) and submitted to the Front Desk at the Club.
Cheques in amounts less than $100 can be made payable to Royal Vancouver Yacht Club.
Members - to make things even easier, we can add an amount to your monthly bill if that is more convenient.
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National Digital Literacy Mission ndlm franchise Programme is a dynamic and integrated platform of digital literacy awareness, education and capacity programmes that will help rural communities to take lead in the global digital economy and help them in maintaining the competitiveness and also shape a technologically empowered society. NDLM is an effort to complement the objectives of National Optic FibreNetowrk (NOFN) plan to transform one from each household as digitally literate. Under NDLM, we pledge to work with multi-stakeholder to Digitally Literate at least One adult from each of 147 million rural household of India.
NDLM will be an ecosystem of digital literacy awareness, education and training that will help India take a lead in the global digital economy and help us maintain the competitiveness and also shape a technologically empowered society. DLM is an effort to extend NOFN objectives to empower rural citizens by making them digitally literate.
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2003 Colloquium on Consciousness Studies
Gainesville (Florida, USA) 02nd August 2003: Residents of this Florida city and students and faculty of the University of Florida were presented with the opportunity to attend and participate in a meeting convened at Williamson Hall on the university's campus. Representatives of a number of consciousness research organizations delivered presentations on a variety of subject related to consciousness. Circa 20 individuals were in attendance and the discussion, organized by the new Science of Self Club was engaging and reported reward by participants.
The University of Florida is amongst the largest and most prestigious in the United States; multidisciplinary, multicultural and research-funded, the UF features substantial liberal arts, engineering, and medical colleges as well as the Shands Hospital, the McKnight Brain Institute, and the Center for Health and Spirituality. Located in Gainesville, north central Florida, the University is within striking distance of Orlando (Disney world), Tampa Bay and the Busch Gardens, NASA's Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral and "Spring Break Capital" Panama City, as well as Miami.
The Science of Self Club was established as an official student organization of the University of Florida in May 2003 with support from the University's counseling and clinical psychology faculty. Shortly thereafter, the Club launched its maiden event, inviting speakers from a number of organizations engaged in consciousness studies to deliver a lecture on campus. On 2nd of August 2003, the Colloquium on Consciousness Studies took place, featuring representatives from the International Association for Near Death Studies (Diane LaRoe, Panama City, Florida); the International Academy of Consciousness (Patricia Sousa, Miami, Florida); Florida Institute of Noetic Sciences (Sharon Kleitsch, Saint Petersburg, Florida) and the American Holistic Medical Association (Carol Roberts, MD, Saint Petersburg, Florida).
The event was aimed at illuminating recent breakthroughs in consciousness related research and at stimulating debate on the subject of the study of the consciousness, discussing the potentially earth-shattering implications of this work.
Consciousness studies integrate a variety of established sciences such as psychology, sociology, physics, medicine, and neuroscience. Its scope encompasses a myriad of interrelated topics, a brief selection of which might include artificial intelligence, cloning, alternative medicine, abortion, teen suicide, racism, criminal justice, complementary alternative medicine (CAM), ethics, military intelligence, missing individual searches. Many of these are hotly debated by the laity, scientists, philosophers and religious scholars and feature regularly in contemporary media.
This medley of consciousness-related subjects appeals to individuals curious regarding scientific studies of anomalous phenomena and altered states of consciousness. It is also likely to attract those with a professional interest in psychology, especially those engaged in clinical and cognitive psychology, as well as other health professionals. Popular interest in the subject by the general public at large appears strong and growing; a wealth of popular, silver screen paranormal thrillers and increasing frequency of subject inclusive radio and television production suggest a new all-time high.
Certain individuals recognize the potential impact of these studies on spirituality and human culture and cite the positive effects that often arise from near-death experience(s) as an initial example.
Such a colloquium as convened by the Club has the potential to generate lively discussion, including within its scope unconventional but nevertheless scientifically-sound research into epistemologically-challenging and controversial subjects – each with wide-ranging, potentially earth-shattering consequences.
"What is the consciousness (what are we)?" is the age-old 'hard question" of both science and spirituality.
Nelson Abreu, president of the Science of Self Club, introduced the audience to the subject at hand. Abreu began by explaining that after centuries of avoidance, a 'new' science of consciousness[1] appears to be emerging in human society a notion supported by the rapid and apparently widespread increase in scientific activity in this area. Abreu went on to describe the substantial spectrum of interpretations and assumptions regarding the precise nature of the consciousness and the variety of contemporary scientific approaches to the 'hard problem' of science and spirituality.
Abreu asserted that whilst the majority of scientists work to demonstrate that consciousness arises from neural processes, alternative, non-conventional studies and theoretical models are also under consideration. The cover article of the latest issue of Scientific American (as at August 2003) referred to the Holographic Universe Model, a theory derived from quantum physics that may fundamentally affect the way we think about the nature and origin of humankind. Professor Sir Roger Penrose of Oxford University has meanwhile proposed a model of consciousness in which 'consciousness information' is encoded in 'nanotubules' in the brain at the quantum mechanical level. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research lab has similarly employed quantum mechanical non-locality and wave mechanics as analogies for a theoretical model of consciousness following 20 years of research into precognitive remote viewing and consciousness-physical process interactions. Nobel laureates Francis Crick and Christof Koch's Nature Neuroscience article describes a framework to develop a theory of consciousness in terms of competing cellular assemblies.
Abreu continued, stating that a group of individuals exist who propose that consciousness does not arise from neural processes and is not a result of matter or energy but rather, that the inverse is more likely – and that compelling non-conventional evidence has been amassed to support this concept. Stating that whilst most researchers appear to ignore parapsychic phenomena, Abreu explained that for others, such phenomena forms the central focus of their research; that whilst some dedicate themselves to efforts to disprove claims of para-psychic occurances, others investigate such abilities of their subjects, still others employing astral projection as a tool for self- and hetero-research.
Commenting on the universality of the occurrence of and interest in the phenomena addressed by the colloquium, Abreu noted that this is considerable. Tens of surveys conducted in many countries around the world suggest that more than 10% of individuals report having had at least one out-of-body experience in their lifetime. Historical evidence accruing since the ancient Egyptian era indicates the out-of-body experience has and continues to be widely experienced, transcending national, racial and other boundaries and classifications.
On December 15, 2001, the highly respected international medical journal, The Lancet, published a 13-year study examining the phenomenon of the Near Death Experience or NDE. Observations were made in 10 different Dutch hospitals in one of few NDE studies to be conducted prospectively, meaning a large group of patients whose heart and/or breathing function ceased were resuscitated during a fixed period of time. Eighteen (18%) of these patients reported an NDE. The majority of these patients felt this was one of the most positive experiences of their life, re-prioritizing their activities to live more purposefully, experiencing a reduced fear of biological death and in some cases, even improving their personality and behavior towards others and themselves. Abreu also mentioned that studies, involving blind human subjects experiencing NDEs but nevertheless making accurate visual observations, have recently surfaced. It was estimated that one in every one thousand patients checked-in to these hospitals experienced an NDE.
During a recent BBC Radio debate, Dr. Olaf Blanke revealed that the epileptic patient - who unexpectedly reported out-of-body perceptions when her right-angular gyrus was stimulated - actually made visual observations of the operating room that the conventional scientific paradigm cannot explain. Even though he understandably excluded these details from the article published in the journal Nature, the Bern neuroscientist did not dismiss the possibility of the objective out-of-body experience, stating his opinion that it would be valuable to carry out further studies. It is worth noting that The American Psychology Association has published Varieties of Anomalous Experience, a move towards placing more rigorous, scientific parapsychological studies onto a more serious footing. Abreu also noted that Dr. Waldo Vieira's seminal volume Projections of the Consciousness had received a positive evaluation in this review.
In his closing comments, Abreu included details of one of the first researchers to perform laboratorial experiments related to the OBE, a psychologist named Dr. Charles Theodore Tart (1937 - ). In 1966, Tart invited a young projector to participate in a series of experiments in the sleep laboratory of the University of California - Davis. The resulting projectiological experiments took place over four nights during which time the projector - "Miss Z" - lay down and was instructed to attempt to depart the physical body whilst connected to a series of devices measuring her physiological conditions. The objective of the experiments was to identify a quasi-randomly generated five-digit number, approximately 1.5 meters above her head that could not be observed physically.
From Monday to Wednesday, the projector reported seeing the clock whilst floating out of body. In coincidence with periods of projective activity reported by Miss Z, the physiological montoring devices recorded unusual brain-wave patterns. An absence of rapid-eye movements (REM) was also observed. On Wednesday night, Miss Z identified the target number: 25132. The brain-wave pattern during conscious projection differed from that of the patterns occuring during the waking state, during sleep and other 'altered states of consciousness' an expression coined by Tart.
Diane La Roe, author of The Awakening, member of the Florida Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) and member of the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS) provided an anecdotal account of her own Near-Death Experience. Ms La Roe described lucid experiences and perceptions 'in another plane' whilst clinically dead following an automobile accident, prior to her medical resuscitation.
The author also provided a compelling account of parapsychic communication with her grandmother. After the two had apparently met in 'the other place,' her grandmother (who was not contacted about her accident) informed La Roe's parents, who were on vacation, about the incident. Even though her lesions interrupted her singing, acting, and television anchor aspirations, Ms. La Roe described this experience as the most positive experience of her life and went on to explain how it transformed her.
A significant portion of the audience seemed unsatisfied with the support for La Roe's claims about physical actions of what she called angels (like hiding an object and then later placing it at an unlikely spot). Certain of the attendees hypothesized these could be mischievous extraphysical consciousnesses, rather than Helpers – highly evolved extraphysical persons with assistantial roles. Most, including a psychology graduate student and the president of the Undergraduate Philosophy Society thought it was more likely that she misplaced it herself without realizing it. La Roe remained firm on this issue, stating as the basis of her belief the fact that these events had occurred on several occasions. In one such instance, La Roe claimed to have laid a towel on a chair, left the room in which it was situated and upon her return, discovered its disappearance.
Some attendees felt that, on certain occasions, the speaker seemed evasive, avoiding questions, and felt an excessive proportion of her presentation was devoted to 'self-healing' foods and methods. La Roe later explained that she wished to avoid overlapping into the next speaker's subject. However, most agreed that hearing a first-hand account of an NDE was indispensable and that if parapsychic abilities exist, training to develop them should be available to the general population. Ms. La Roe's NDE has not apparently motivated frequent lucid projections, but Diane recommended a practice described in her book The Awakening of "quieting the mind" and relaxing, which leads one to an altered state of consciousness after which the 'answers will come.' Amongst other roles, Ms. La Roe is currently a religious minister.
Patricia Sousa, officer of the Miami and Mexico City offices of the International Academy of Consciousness (IAC) entertained more probing questions regarding parapsychic phenomena, mainly the out-of-body experience (OBE, projection of the consciousness, astral projection) and described how such an experience can function as a tool for self-research. As prescribed by that organization, the audience was advised 'not to believe in anything' but rather to 'Experiment - Have your own experiences'.
Ms. Sousa, who like all IAC instructors is a volunteer, argued that ideas and experiences of others - as powerful and convincing as they can be - provide no real change in another individual. A policy of '99% practice and 1% theory' encourages each individual to have OBE's through the application of their own will and subsequently, comparison of reports allows to a consensus to be derived as opposed to simple attempts to convince others of their veracity.
Since consciousness is not palpable, the IAC studies its attributes. After more than 40 years of research by hundreds of researchers worldwide (a principal contributor being Dr. Waldo Vieira, MD), the construction of 18 laboratories in a research campus at Iguassu Falls (Brazil), the compilation of a library of more than 60,000 consciousness-related books, and the delivery of classes on the subject to more than 150,000 students, the following list of attributes was compiled and ascribed to the consciousness:
constantly-evolving ∙ self-conscious ∙ muldimensional (able to manifest itself in different realities) ∙ multiexistential (undergoes several periods of physical and non-physical existence) ∙ with integral (or holo-) memory (archives memories of all its intra-and extraphysical existences) ∙ parapsychic perception ∙ differentiated from both matter and energy.
These assertions were heavily contested by the audience, and an engaging discussion ensued. Anecdotal accounts, histories of previous scientific experiments and thought-experiments somewhat surprisingly led the audience to adopt an open-minded position with respect to this very controversial set of proposals. Amongst the most striking of the ideas proposed was that all individuals undergo the transition to an out-of-body state every night, usually lacking only the lucid capacity to recognize and recall these events – apparently being pre-disposed to the condition of 'blackout'. Such situation is, however, not irremediable according to these observations. In fact, Sousa maintains, a state of uninterrupted awareness is eventually reached by all persons.
Amongst questions considered were:
Is it possible for animals to perceive projectors? What does astral projection tell us about life after death and the seat of consciousness? Is it possible to develop abilities that allow us to interact with multiple dimensions? Do we have a history of previous lives? If this is the case, why do we not remember them? Is it possible to recall such lives through projective experiences? Can individuals meet others who have already 'desomated' (died) or with those preparing for 'resoma' (rebirth)? Are there counter-indications to forced retrocognitions brought about through hypnosis? Do techniques exist that one could apply in any moment to attempt a projection? Does the human body have a subtle energy field? Is it possible to manipulate those energies? If so, how can this be achieved and why should we wish to do so? Do the energetic fields of individuals' interact one with the other? What are the benefits that might be associated with OBEs? Do we have any responsibilities in physical and the extraphysical world? Are personal attributes derived solely from 'nature and nurture' or could certain of our previous conditioning, talents, and deficits (cons, or units of awareness) derive from previous physical existences (existential seriation)? What is the role of emotional balance in the out-of-body experience? What is the difference between the out-of-body experience and clairvoyance? How does one 'feel', let alone control, bioenergies? What is the vibrational state, how is it induced, and for what purpose? What laboratorial or personal experiments might be carried out in the future? Are certain health problems intimately related to issues originating beyond the physical body?
In each instance of each question, participants were curious about how IAC researchers had reached their conclusions. Ms Sousa explained how verification could be obtained through personal experience. At least one point of disagreement remained: whether Ms Sousa was able to perform some demonstration as proof of these phenomena, there and then. The speaker insisted that each individual strive to have their own experiences, however certain attendees argued that such a demonstration would provide a great deal of motivation, pointing out that obtaining direct, personal evidence could take considerable time and effort.
A topic generally agreed to deserve much more 'airtime' is that of cosmoethics, a universal code of ethics mentioned following a question form the audience regarding the spiritual implications of the IAC's work. Apparently, the ability to project or at least to recall the experiences (as well as affecting the overall quality of it) is limited by unethical behavior over time. Whether the mechanism that controls such a response is natural or a by-product of a particular consciousness is a subject that was agreed worthy of further investigation.
The concept of thosene (thought-energy-sentiment) as an inseparable unit of manifestation of the consciousness was raised several times during the event, including the observation that an individual cannot practice deceit whilst projected as one's energies accurately transmit actual intentions, sentiments, ideas, and thoughts immediately perceptible by others. Does this have any future role in our judicial system? One of the interviewees felt conscientiology could support the development of legal institutions to be less combative or retaliatory and more reformative or assistantial in spirit.
The colloquium's next speaker, Sharon Kleitsch, a community consultant working with the Florida Institute of Noetic Sciences (FL-IONS), briefly introduced several ideas and their integration into her 'project in development'. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) lab, the Global Consciousness Project, The World Café, the OpenSpace method, and HeartMath have compiled scientific evidence and personal verifications that emotionally-charged events can bias the randomness of natural systems and phenomena and that a so-called 'heart-field connection' can be established between a small and large group of persons. This coherence and resonance is, in turn, reflected in significant biasing or distortion of random event generator (REG) data.
Kleitsch described a project in Sao Paulo (Brazil) in which 8th grade students were making profound changes in their slum community as an analogy to the heart-field she intends to install in an area of the city of Saint Petersburg. Students were invited to experience this field first hand and later, to attempt connection to the larger field; Klietsch proposed this experiment take place despite the participants being physically located in Gainesville, claiming that distance apparently had no effect on the phenomenon. Kleitsch shared her vision for a widespread REG network throughout Florida, including one in Gainesville, proposing that the Science of Self Club might assist with its operation and monitoring. Kleitsch reported that she has identified more than 20 grant opportunities that might be employed to fund this project, which would require REG's priced at about $300.
Accompanying Kleitsch, Carol Roberts, MD (recently elected president of the American Holistic Medical Association) shared illustrations by Alex Grey of the human energy system and described the function of the main chakras to clarify the heart-field concept. Although Mrs Kleitsch and Dr. Roberts did not provide technical details of the heart field and Global Consciousness Project, Ms. Kleitsch provided literature and contact information on these and other projects as well as donating books by renown scholars Rupert Sheldrake, Peter Russell, George Leonard and Willis Harman (incidentally a historical UF faculty member). IAC-Miami offered each participant a copy of the proceedings of the 3rd International Congress of Projectiology and Conscientiology (which includes a paper co-authored by Sousa); journals; Out-of-Body Experience: a glimpse of immortality (a video documentary on the OBE); and a copy of the landmark scientific treatise Projectiology: a panorama of experiences outside of the human body by Waldo Vieira, MD. Ms. La Roe also offered a copy of The Awakening.
All speakers traveled and lectured free of charge. The Club thanked each speaker for their generosity.
During the event, students actively engaged in discussion, asking pertinent questions and sharing their experiences. Two participants mentioned instances in which they had successfully induced projections or pre-projective phenomena after reading a book on the subject. Neither had had such experiences before applying the techniques. The majority of those who attended filled out a (preliminary) version of a survey on views and experiences related to consciousness studies, spirituality, and parapsychism. An important part of such an event is the conviviality, familiarization, and exchange of ideas amongst the speakers before, during, and after the event. Overall, organizers, speakers and attendees alike appeared to be pleased with their experience.
Event details:
2003 Colloquium on Consciousness Studies
August 2, 2003. 11 am – 6:30 pm.
Geology Building / Williamson Hall 100
Stadium Road
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, USA
[1] ( meaning: that which we are; the self-aware, sentient, intelligent, individuality principle, soul, ego, spirit, essence, atman, or self)


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Saturday, June 1, 2013
49ers hire Eric Mangini as a consultant
We noted a couple weeks ago that Mangini becoming a consultant with the 49ers was a possibility, and now Chris Mortensen of ESPN reports that it's official: Mangini is taking a job in San Francisco with a title of Senior Offensive Consultant.
The 42-year-old Mangini has been out of the NFL since he was fired as the Browns' head coach following the 2010 season. He has most recently been working as an analyst on ESPN.
Before taking over the Browns in 2009, Mangini was the coach of the Jets from 2006 to 2008. He was an assistant to Bill Belichick in New England from 2000 to 2005 and has also been an assistant for the Jets and Ravens.
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As if it couldn't get any worse for French Gymnast Samir Ait Said ... after breaking his leg dismounting from the vault, paramedics dropped him while he lay on the stretcher.
The gymnast underwent surgery Saturday and says he wants to try again in 2020.
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Samir Ait Said, Vault 😥 #RioOlympics2016 #SamirAitSaid pic.twitter.com/kda4cppfqU— Francisco Morteo (@Franciscomorteo) August 6, 2016


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Regular readers know that I've been very happy since switching to the Nikon D7000 last October. For most of what I do, the D7000 is more than adequate, and a lot of fun too. But over the weekend I shot 2400 frames at a dance competition, and I was disappointed with the results.
There's nothing wrong with the D7000, but it has limitations I did not respect. For one thing, it boasts a low light sensitivity of ISO 6400. With previous cameras, I considered the highest ISOs suspect, and rarely used them. But I've always wanted faster shutter speeds for dance, and the allure of 1/500 overwhelmed my better judgement, so I shot the whole event at ISO 6400 and ended up with some very, very grainy images of nicely frozen action. I should have limited Auto-ISO to 3200, shot at my usual dance shutter speed of 1/320, used a monopod or tripod, and chosen my moments more carefully.
But wait, shooting at ISO 6400 wasn't even my biggest mistake! During rehearsals, I became enamored of Nikon's 3D Tracking autofocus feature. Perhaps you've heard the expression, "It went so well in rehearsal!" That's how I felt while reviewing hundreds of mis-focused images. I failed to consider two important things about the 3D focus tracking: 1) it's slightly slower than the other dynamic modes when acquiring focus, and 2) when two people are wearing the same costume, it gets confused. During rehearsals, the dancers wore street clothes, and the camera had no trouble telling who was who. Not so for several of the dances.
In the future, I'll stick with 9 or 21 point dynamic autofocus for dance, as this worked well in the past. I chose the D7000 as the best compromise for the kind of photography I do MOST of the time. There's a reason sports and news shooters choose Nikon's higher end cameras. They offer faster focusing, higher ISOs, and speedy frame rates for fast action. They also cost at least five times what a D7000 costs, and I generally work with two camera bodies. The Nikon D3s might be perfect for dance photography, but two of them would cost over $10,000. I'd have to sell a lot of 4×6 prints to justify that…