Early Metaphysical Ideas

Are our actions the result of circumstances or are we directed by external influences such as Cosmic vibrations? There are individuals who are masters and creators of their destinies for part of their lives, and innocent victims of fate at other times.

Some individuals believe it is the environment that has gradually molded our civilization and made mankind what it is. Others believe you may want to lay aside that belief and think again. There is an ancient system of self-mastery that contains fundamental principles that suggest you have complete control over your fate and that mankind has always had it.

These fundamental principles were recorded centuries ago and were evolved through observation over time. The principles were founded and perfected by test and application and reveal that all life and all existence within the universe are expressed in cycles.

It was determined that the cyclic periods are equivalent to certain measured rhythmic stresses and cosmic impulses . So, at a certain time of the day there is a cosmic impulse that is specific for reaping the benefits of a specific human activity. Go work out at the gym during the G period on Friday, for example.

Enthusiasts who believe in these principles might set a wedding ceremony to begin at 5:30 pm on a Thursday in order to reap all the positive influences for their union. They have become masters of their fate because they have timed their union to begin when the cosmos is most in favor of marriage.

According to the true believers the newlyweds will have the advantage over couples who marry without this knowledge. The newlyweds believe there are cosmic vibrations that have negative effects on couples who marry during a time of negative influences related to marriage.

Modern scientists have found that there is a definite rhythm to the human breathing process and heart action that closely resembles the more pronounced rhythms of cosmic energy. These findings suggest that these vibrations influence all living things on the planet ? including plants. The findings also suggest that the influences can be timed and measured.

The ancients who studied these influences were convinced that we can become master of our fate by designing our activities around the daily cycles and time periods suggested in these studies. These studies began with ?The order of The Rosicrucians.? Further information regarding The Rosicrucians is available online.

Source: http://www.streetarticles.com/reference-and-education/early-metaphysical-ideas

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Toilet fumes sicken dozens at Berlin airport

By NBC News staff

Fumes coming from a toilet at Berlin's Tegel airport on Saturday sickened 53 people, local media reported.

What kind of fumes? Apparently a cleaning crew used too much ammonia in cleaning the toilet overnight, according to TheLocal.de, an English-language news site in Germany.

"A high level of ammonia was measured," a police spokesman told Der Spiegel magazine.

Those who fell ill were treated for nausea and sore eyes, The Berliner Morgenpost reported.

Fire fighters who arrived at the scene to investigate the toilet also fell ill.

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Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/20/14578896-toilet-fumes-sicken-dozens-at-berlin-airport?lite

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Swing-State Gas Prices Head Obama's Way

Gas prices have been unexpectedly high this fall, due to supply shortages and volatile oil prices. They finally seem to be drifting down, however, which could obviously help President Obama if the trend continues up until Election Day.

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An even bigger factor, overlooked by many political analysts, could be gas prices in key swing states. Data compiled by AAA shows that the national average, which has fallen by nine cents over the past week, is $3.72 per gallon. Gas prices are lower than the national average in eight of the 11 most hotly contested states, and higher in only three. Here are the eight swing states with gas prices below the national average, according to AAA:

Virginia (average price for regular unleaded: $3.55 per gallon)

North Carolina ($3.67)

Florida ($3.67)

Ohio ($3.45)

Iowa ($3.63)

Michigan ($3.58)

Wisconsin ($3.62)

Colorado ($3.68)

Gas prices, of course, are just one of many factors that determine whether people feel like they're getting ahead or falling behind. But gas prices have an outsized effect on consumer psyches, depressing confidence when they're going up and boosting contentment when they're going down.

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Nationwide, gas prices are still about $.25 per gallon higher than they were a year ago. But many voters seem to realize that gas prices are determined by the level of conflict in the Middle East, demand in faraway places like China, and other factors no president can control. Obama's main challenge is persuading voters that economic conditions, while far from ideal, are consistently getting better.

Another trend helping Obama is falling unemployment rates in 9 of 11 swing states. Four of those states are doing better than the national average on both gas prices and unemployment: Virginia, Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa. Of those, gas prices are lowest in Ohio, at an average of $3.45 per gallon, while unemployment there is 7 percent, compared with 7.8 percent nationally. Iowa has the lowest swing-state unemployment rate, at 5.2 percent, with gas prices at $3.63 per gallon.

Nevada, is the worst of the swing states, with unemployment at 11.8 percent and gas prices at $3.94 per gallon--due in part to recent unexpected refinery shutdowns in neighboring California.

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Obama, needless to say, must do a lot more to win the swing states than sit back and hope gas prices keep falling. But if they continue to drift down, it will make it easier for Obama to convince voters that they're doing better under his leadership.

By most accounts, whoever wins the election needs to win Ohio. If Obama carried Ohio, he'd need only a couple of additional swing states to assure victory. His Republican opponent Mitt Romney, by contrast, needs a stronger showing among swing states in order to win the White House. High gas prices are one of the everyday hardships Romney frequently bashes Obama for, but his case may be getting weaker. With gas prices generally trending upward over time, many drivers may consider the new normal to be around $3.50 or so--with anything below that feeling like a bonus.

Rick Newman is the author of Rebounders: How Winners Pivot From Setback To Success. Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/swing-state-gas-prices-head-obamas-way-214444106.html

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Relationships and Communication |

Men and women are different, yes? Obviously.

One basic difference lies in their communication styles and purposes. The fact is men and women speak different languages. Until you each learn to speak the common language (not really so hard ? once you know how) then this message will carry less and less weight.

However, for now, if your relationship reflects how most partners speak to one another than you want to take this message into consideration:

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The Next Big Battle in Internet Policy

Former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens famously observed the the Internet is a "series of tubes"

Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.

For two years, network neutrality, the nation?s most high-profile and contentious Internet policy conflict has taken a backseat to other debates?privacy investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, cybersecurity orders from the White House, proposed copyright legislation like SOPA and PIPA, software patents in courts, and censorship abroad. After nearly a decade of (rarely productive) debate, net neutrality?restrictions on Internet service providers to ensure consumers experience freedom online?has rarely been in the news since early 2011.

But that quiet won?t last much longer. We have merely been in an extended intermission, and soon we will watch the third act in this play unfold. At stake is access to the mobile Internet on the handhelds and tablets in our pockets?as well as access by the chips increasingly embedded in our clothes, toasters, and heart monitors.

Act I: Dial-up, from Internet?s birth to circa 2005

Network neutrality is a proposed legal principle that would prohibit Internet service providers from blocking or slowing down access to certain websites and online software. The idea is simple: Internet users should be able to choose where to go online and which applications to use. Comcast, say, shouldn?t be allowed to block Skype just because it could siphon the communications giant?s telephone business.

During the Act I of the network neutrality play, policy debate concerned dial-up Internet services and was confined to lawyers and computer scientists. In the early 1990s, Americans used their home phone lines to connect their desktop computers to the Internet via ISPs like AOL, Earthlink, or Netzero. Back then, the ISPs didn?t have cost-effective technology to select particular sites for blocking or privileging. Plus, even if the most popular services?say, AOL?wanted to block some sites, users could switch to other ISPs, and AOL would lose business. Though government rules required phone companies to complete dial-up calls to anyone?your mom or your ISP?it was primarily market choice that ensured de facto network neutrality.

Act II: High-Speed Broadband, 2005-2010

Here, the battle moved from dial-up services to always-on, high-speed broadband Internet service. The phone companies introduced DSL, a new technology that provided higher speeds than dial-up and didn?t tie up a home phone line. Then cable companies, which had previously only offered TV service through their lines, put new technologies into their systems to offer access to the Internet that was far faster than both dial-up and DSL. But, with these new technologies, users couldn?t just place phone calls to dial-up providers like Earthlink and Juno. A phone company, like Verizon, would generally offer one ISP on their DSL line?their own. Same with cable companies?these days, your ISP probably isn?t Earthlink, it?s Comcast or Time Warner Cable. In a series of orders from 2003 to 2005, the FCC ruled that neither cable companies nor phone companies had to allow users to choose independent ISPs. And in another body blow to network neutrality, technologies were created to help the phone and cable companies block or discriminate against specific websites.

A few months after these FCC decisions liberated the cable and phone execs from potential competition, the CEO of what eventually became AT&T told Businessweek that it was ?nuts? for Google, Yahoo, or any other company to use his ?pipes? for ?free? without paying him and making a special deal with his company. That quote kicked off a multiyear debate featuring: failed legislation in 2006 (as a consolation prize, this gave us the hearing at which the late Sen. Ted Stevens famously observed that the Internet is not a dump truck but a ?series of tubes?); the Federal Communications Commission dinging Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent transmissions; and a major federal court decision to adopt network neutrality policies, among other things.

In December 2010, after seven years of debate, the FCC adopted a network neutrality rule.

Source: http://feeds.slate.com/click.phdo?i=1bccd701e26add888f0903422fb8bf9d

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TRU photographer looks at Kamloops over time ? The Omega

Brendan Kergin, Arts & Entertainment Editor ?

The name Kamloops comes from the Shuswap word Tk??ml?ps, which means meeting of the waters, in reference to two rivers meeting. Now know as the North and South Thompson,? the two channels intersect becoming the Thompson River. This waterway comprises the subject matter for a new exhibit at the Kamloops Art Gallery created by Ernie Kroeger, a photographer and assistant professor in the visual and performing arts department at TRU.

Confluence, an exhibit at the Kamloops Art Gallery,is a collection of historical and current photographs Kroeger has gathered with one, sequential subject matter over time; the confluence of the Thompson Rivers. The show also displays a text portion looking at the different iterations of Kamloops discovered by Kroeger during his search through the city?s history.

While Kroeger has put on shows before, Confluence didn?t come to fruition like other projects.

?This time it came more out of teaching. I teach a history of photography course and so I sometimes use all kinds of images, like world history,? Kroeger said. ?I thought I would put some Canadian content over the years, into my history class and then B.C. content and then Kamloops content. Give students a local flavour.?

He was able to collect the photos from a variety of sources, primarily scouring archives in Kamloops and online archives in major Canadian cities such as Calgary, Victoria and Ottawa.

?That was really interesting, to realize that these images of Kamloops were everywhere,? Kroeger said.

His inspiration came somewhere a lot closer to TRU.

?I would say some of the inspiration came out of teaching this class,? Kroeger said. ?I started using some of those images in my PowerPoint presentations.?

The photos range in age with the earliest taken in 1865 just 25 years after the birth of the medium in Europe and eastern North America. To get the pre-Canadian picture the photographer would have had to travel great distances by horse, carrying bags of equipment.

?At the time they had to carry all this equipment,? Kroeger said. ?They had to carry chemicals and glass plate negatives and they had to make their negatives.?

The first few photographs of Kamloops were taken as part of an expedition by a colonial administrator.? The city wouldn?t see another photographer for six years.

Confluence takes these historical pictures and allows the viewer to compare the same section of landscape over time, up until the late-1960s. From that point in time there are only a couple more photographs, including a recent picture of Kroeger taken by his wife while he walks on the riverbed during a period of low water and images taken from Google Earth, staring down on the intersection from orbit.

For those interested in comparing the landscape and human interaction with such a central point of Kamloops, Confluence will be flowing on until Nov. 3 at the Kamloops Art Gallery.

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Source: http://theomega.ca/2012/10/01/tru-photographer-looks-at-kamloops-over-time/

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Dot Earth Blog: New York May Restart Review of Gas-Drilling Rules

New York State appears to be further slowing its effort to produce rules governing fracking, shorthand for the suite of drilling methods used to extract natural gas from deep shale deposits. The pressure to drill has fallen sharply along with gas prices, and in the face of inevitable litigation. [Sept. 30, 11:13 p.m. | Updated | Danny Hakim describes the reaction of drilling supporters and foes to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's latest move on fracking.]

The news is on Politics on the Hudson and Shale Gas Review, the blog of Tom Wilber, author of ?Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale.? Here?s an excerpt and link to the rest:

New York officials crafting policy to regulate shale gas drilling amid unanswered health concerns will likely re-open the process to public hearings, essentially guaranteeing more momentum for the movement that has effectively stalled the industry?s advancement into the Empire State for more than four years.

Emily DeSantis, a spokeswoman for the Department of Environmental Conservation, said late this afternoon that agency officials expect to begin a new rulemaking process rather than try to meet a Nov. 29 deadline to complete a regulatory overhaul. The news comes a week after?DEC Commissioner Joseph Martens announced?that the agency will turn part of the review over to the Department of Health Commissioner Nirav Shah to address persistent questions about how shale gas development and high volume hydraulic fracturing will affect public health in communities where it is allowed.

?Given that DEC has said no regulations or final decision will be issued until the completion of Dr. Shah?s review, should high-volume hydraulic fracturing move forward, it is expected that a new rulemaking process would be undertaken,? DEC spokeswoman Emily DeSantis said. That process would include at least one public hearing although DeSantis said no timeframes had been made. [Read the rest.]

The rush to develop gas deposits in other parts of the Marcellus Shale, the vast area of ancient seabed underlying communities from Ohio through upstate New York, has deeply divided communities over balancing economic benefits and environmental and economic impacts. I spoke on energy and climate at Cornell University last Monday to an audience for whom the threat from drilling clearly dominated. In the presentation, sponsored by the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, I showed this short video to make the point that gas country over the border in Pennsylvania offers ammunition for almost any argument:

You can watch the talk and a long, and sometimes heated, question period here:

The divisions, and intensity, will never go away over gas drilling, to my mind, because the potency of the fears of direct impacts will always trump any argument involving broader tradeoffs, like the merits of moving more electricity production from coal to gas.

Source: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/28/new-york-poised-for-fresh-public-review-of-its-fracking-rules/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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