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Mitral valve
stenosis is a heart problem in which the
mitral valve doesn't open as wide as it should. The valve becomes stiff or scarred, or the valve flaps become partially joined
See a picture of
mitral valve stenosis.
Mitral valve stenosis can lead to
heart failure; a stroke; an infection in the heart (endocarditis);
or a fast, slow, or uneven heartbeat (arrhythmia). Fortunately, mitral valve stenosis can be treated.
Mitral valve stenosis is not common in
developed countries such as the United States, Canada, and western Europe.
Your heart has
four chambers and four valves. The valves have flaps, or leaflets. The flaps
open and close to keep blood flowing in the proper direction through your
The mitral valve connects the heart's upper left chamber
(left atrium) to the lower left chamber (left ventricle). When the heart pumps,
blood forces the flaps open, and blood flows from the left atrium to the left
ventricle. Between heartbeats, the flaps close tightly so that blood does not
leak backward through the valve.
With mitral valve stenosis, not as
much blood can flow into the left ventricle. More blood stays in the left
atrium, and blood may back up into the lungs.
See a picture of the
heart and its chambers, valves, and blood flow.
See a picture of a
normal mitral valve.
Nearly all
cases of mitral valve stenosis are caused by
rheumatic fever. This fever results from an untreated
strep infection, most often
strep throat. But many people who have mitral valve
stenosis don't realize that they had rheumatic fever.
Symptoms usually
don't develop until 10 to 20 years after stenosis starts, and they may take as long as
40 years to develop.
When symptoms first appear, they usually are mild. You may
only have a few symptoms, even if your mitral valve is very narrow. An early
symptom is shortness of breath when you are active. This shortness of breath
may seem normal to you.
Symptoms later in the disease may
Call your doctor if your symptoms get worse or you have
new symptoms.
valve stenosis may not be diagnosed until you've had the disease for some time.
If you don't have symptoms, the first clue might be a heart murmur your doctor
hears during a routine checkup.
Your doctor will ask you questions
about your past health and do a physical exam. If your doctor thinks you might
have the disease, he or she may do more tests. These may include:
These tests also help your doctor find what caused the
stenosis and how severe it is.
Treatment depends on how severe
the disease and your symptoms are.
You will likely need regular echocardiograms so your
doctor can check for any changes in your mitral valve and heart.
If your stenosis is
mild, you'll probably be able to do your usual activities, get mild exercise,
and play some sports. But if your stenosis is moderate or severe, you may need to avoid intense exercise. But your doctor can help you choose an activity or exercise that is safe for you.
You may need to limit
sodium in your diet.
Health Tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.
Learning about mitral valve stenosis:
Being diagnosed:
Getting treatment:
Ongoing concerns:
Living with mitral valve stenosis:
Nearly all cases of
mitral valve stenosis are caused by
rheumatic fever, which can follow an untreated
strep throat infection. But many people who have
mitral valve stenosis don't realize that they had rheumatic fever.
Other less common causes
mitral valve stenosis is a lifelong disease, symptoms
usually take 10 to 20 years to develop and can take as long as 40
years. After
you develop symptoms, they may not become severe for up to 10
Early symptoms are
often mild. In the later stages, the left atrium may become
damaged, causing more severe symptoms.
Symptoms of mitral valve stenosis include:
Other less common
symptoms include:
You may not have any symptoms unless you exercise, are stressed, are pregnant, or have an infection or an irregular
heartbeat. Or you may have only a few symptoms, no matter how bad your stenosis is.
Risk factors
mitral valve stenosis are:
Diabetes and
Marfan's syndrome can sometimes lead to stenosis. Any condition that
scars the valves, such as
endocarditis, also may cause stenosis.
Call 911 or other emergency services immediately if you have:
Call a doctor immediately if you
Health professionals who can evaluate symptoms and order further
tests as needed include:
cardiovascular surgeon may do surgical repair or replacement of
heart valves.
Mitral valve stenosis often has no symptoms in its early
stages. It may not be diagnosed until you've had the disease for some time. One or more
complications may lead to
its diagnosis.
The first sign of mitral valve stenosis could be a heart murmur that your doctor hears during a routine checkup.
A review of your
medical history and a physical exam can help your doctor find out if you have mitral valve
stenosis. Your doctor also can use them to plan your treatment.
Your doctor will ask about your
lifestyle, activity level, and family health history. Your doctor will want to know about your symptoms. He or she will ask if you have ever had:
During the
physical exam, the doctor will:
echocardiogram is used to find out if you have mitral
valve stenosis and to see how bad it is. Your doctor can check your heart valve and take pictures of your heart.
In transesophageal echocardiography, a device is inserted down your throat and into
your esophagus to make pictures of your heart. This may be done if your doctor wants to see a different view of your heart.
You will likely have regular echocardiograms so your
doctor can keep track of any changes in your condition. Your doctor may recommend an echocardiogram every year if you have severe
stenosis, every 1 to 2 years if you have moderate stenosis, or every 3 to 5 years if you have mild stenosis.1
Electrocardiogram is used to measure the electrical
activity in the heart. Small metal discs called electrodes are attached to your
chest, arms, and legs. The electrodes are connected to a machine that
translates the electrical activity into line tracings on paper. Your doctor looks at the tracings to check for problems.
chest X-ray may show evidence of mitral valve
stenosis. The test may show enlargement of the upper left heart chamber (left atrium) or the
pulmonary arteries. Calcium deposits on the heart valves
sometimes may be seen, especially if the buildup is
Cardiac catheterization is usually done before any surgery for mitral valve
stenosis to evaluate your heart, the degree of stenosis, and the health of your coronary arteries. Knowing the condition of the
coronary arteries may affect later treatment decisions for stenosis.
Treatment of
mitral valve stenosis depends on how bad your
symptoms are.
If you don't yet
have symptoms or you have mild, stable symptoms, your doctor may only
watch your condition with regular
echocardiograms. Your doctor will want you to call if you notice symptoms or if you have a change in symptoms you already have.
If you develop symptoms, your doctor may prescribe
medicine that lowers your blood pressure and reduces fluid buildup. For more information, see Medications.
If your
stenosis gets worse, your doctor might suggest repairing or replacing your mitral valve.
Repairing the valve can be done by:
Mitral valve replacement surgery replaces the damaged valve with a new valve.
For more information, see Surgery.
Mitral valve stenosis can
be an easy condition to overlook in its mild form. But as it gets worse, it often
has serious
complications. These are serious problems that need treatment.
The most common complications are:
Other complications include:
For more
information, see the topics Heart Failure,
Atrial Fibrillation, and
mitral valve stenosis can cause serious heart
damage. But you can help yourself live fully by working with your doctor and having a healthy lifestyle.
Talk to your doctor about how often you
need to be examined. You will likely have regular echocardiograms so your
doctor can keep track of any changes in your condition. How often you get the test depends on how bad your stenosis is.
Call your doctor if your symptoms get worse or you have new symptoms. For more information, see When to Call a Doctor.
Ask your doctor what level of exercise is safe for you. Exercise helps keep your heart and body healthy. But when you have mitral valve stenosis, exercise can put extra strain on your heart and cause symptoms like fluid buildup in your lungs. So exercise with care and be aware of any symptoms like shortness of breath. If you
don't exercise, talk to your doctor before you start.
If your stenosis is mild and you don't have symptoms, your doctor may encourage you to do low-level aerobic exercise.
If your stenosis is moderate or severe
and you have symptoms, you should avoid strenuous activity. You may be able to
do low-level activities to help keep your heart healthy.
People who have severe
stenosis may need to be cautious about their level of physical activity. You may be able to do
certain types of exercise that won't strain your heart.
Depending on how bad your symptoms are, your doctor may advise you to limit sodium. If you consume too much
sodium, it will cause your body to retain excess
fluid. Excess fluid in the body will cause swelling, trouble breathing,
fatigue, and other side effects.
Cutting back on sodium usually includes avoiding foods such as potato chips, pretzels, processed meats
and cheeses, canned soups, and fast foods.
When you shop for groceries, check labels carefully for
hidden sodium.
Medicines are often used to relieve the
symptoms and prevent complications of
mitral valve stenosis. Usually they are also
prescribed after surgery to repair or replace the valve.
Diuretics ("water pills") reduce fluid buildup and
related swelling. They may also lower blood pressure in the upper left heart
chamber (left atrium) and relieve breathing problems.
Medicines used to treat complications
You may need surgery to repair or
replace your mitral valve if medicines don't
control your symptoms or if your doctor thinks that you need more treatment.
Deciding whether you need
surgery and if so, when, depends on the
severity of your disease, the possibility that it will get worse,
and the risks of surgery.
For more information about the decision to repair or replace a mitral valve, see Mitral Valve Stenosis: Repair or Replace the Valve?
You may have one of the following procedures to repair the valve:
Mitral valve replacement surgery might be done if the valve is damaged beyond repair. This surgery is typically an open-heart surgery using a heart-lung bypass machine.
If you have valve replacement surgery, a mechanical or tissue valve will be used to replace your heart valve. Before you have surgery, you and your doctor will decide which type of valve is right for you. To help with this decision, see:
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons provides patient information on surgeries of the chest and throat that are done by cardiothoracic surgeons. These surgeries include heart, lung, and throat surgery. The patient information section of the website describes diseases, surgeries, patient options, and what to expect after surgery. And using the website, you can search for surgeons in your area.
Visit the American Heart Association (AHA) website for information on
physical activity, diet, and various heart-related conditions. You can search for information on heart disease and stroke, share information with friends and family, and use tools to help you make heart-healthy goals and plans. Contact the AHA to find your
nearest local or state AHA group. The AHA provides brochures and information
about support groups and community programs, including Mended Hearts, a
nationwide organization whose members visit people with heart problems and
provide information and support.
The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
(NHLBI) information center offers information and publications about preventing
and treating:
CitationsBonow RO, et al. (2008). 2008 Focused update incorporated into the ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing committee to revise the 1998 Guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease). Circulation, 118(15):Other Works ConsultedBonow RO, et al. (2008). 2008 Focused update incorporated into the ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing committee to revise the 1998 Guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease). Circulation, 118(15):Carabello BA (2011). Mitral stenosis. In V Fuster et al., eds., Hurst's The Heart, 13th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1738–1744. New York: McGraw-Hill.Oakley RE, et al. (2008). Choice of prosthetic heart valve in today's practice. Circulation, 117(2): 253–256.Otto CM, Bonow RO (2012). Valvular heart disease. In RO Bonow et al., eds., Braunwald's Heart Disease: A Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine, 9th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1468–1539. Philadelphia: Saunders.Rodriguez L, Gillinov AM (2007). Mitral valve disease. In EJ Topol, ed., Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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How far would you go to get ahead in this game we call the voiceover market place?
Would you betray your pacifist principles and record a promotional video for land mines?
Would you flirt with the casting director?
Would you badmouth a colleague in the hopes of improving your odds?
As soon as money is involved, people are prepared to sell their dignity and self-respect to the highest bidder, and it's Survival of the Slickest and every man for himself. Take no prisoners. After all, the economy sucks and it ain't getting better any time soon. If it's a choice between you and me, my friend, it better be me.
In an attempt to break into the business or simply stay afloat, people even start sinning against the Ninth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness. What do they tell you in this business?
If you can't make it, just fake it!
That's why the almighty Internet is inundated with pretenders, posers, anonymous commentators and self-styled experts. In this day and age where the latest is the greatest, nobody bothers to fact-check anymore. It's the ideal opportunity to be whoever you say you are. No questions asked. It's in black and white. That means it's reliable, right?
Now, don't believe for one second that the people in our community are holier than the Pope. They are not. Some of them are spinning a world wide web of lies. Of course they don't call it that. They see it as innocent embellishments of the truth. The means justify the ends. Meanwhile, they are walking around with their pants on fire.
Here's my Top 10 of the most common lies people tell to get ahead as a voice talent:
1. Experience
Lie: "With years of experience under her belt, Carla can handle almost any project."
Truth: Carla has been at it for five months; part-time, that is.
2. Training & Coaching
Lie: "Roger has studied with some of the world's best coaches."
Truth: He took an introductory course at the local community college.
3. Clients
Lie: "John has recorded voice-overs for some of the biggest names in business."
Truth: John wishes he had recorded voice-overs for some of the biggest names in business.
4. Equipment
Lie: "Peter exclusively uses his trusted Neumann U87, arguably the best known and most widely used studio microphone in the world."
Truth: Peter doesn't even know how to correctly pronounce the name Neumann. He is the proud owner of a second-hand Chinese condenser he got off eBay for $65.
5. Home studio
Lie: "Heather records her voiceovers in her professional studio, guaranteeing you the highest audio quality possible."
Truth: "Heather hides inside a bedroom closet and she has no idea why this mattress foam won't keep the noise out. She wonders: Should I have used egg crates instead?"
6. Demos
Lie: It sounds like Thomas really voiced those national campaigns, doesn't it?
Truth: The scripts were stolen from auditions that never worked out. An audio engineer friend helped him with the music.
7a. Languages and accents
Lie: "Jerome speaks Dutch and is available for your eLearning projects."
Truth: Jerome was born, raised and educated in Flanders (Belgium) and speaks Flemish. Dutch and Flemish are just as related and just as different as American and British English. Substitute Dutch and Flemish for other languages and accents to expose other actors.
7b. Native speakers
Lie: "Maria was born and raised in Germany and speaks 'Hochdeutsch' or Standard German."
Truth: Maria moved to the U.S. when she was seventeen and thirty years later, she stills lives in Dallas. Ever heard a German with a Texas twang?
8. Testimonials
Lie: "Jennifer was a delight to work with. Our company would not hesitate to hire her again."
Truth: Jennifer never worked for "that company" and she is the author of this endorsement.
9. Head shots
Lie: We see a young, smiling face, staring confidently into the camera.
Truth: After ten years, Harry doesn't look like his old headshot anymore. He's become bitter and it shows. He also gained twenty pounds.
10. Believing that you won't get caught
You see, people with real credentials have real experience and a real portfolio. They don't have to hide behind vague descriptions and false advertising. The truth will always come out and when it does, it will damage a career that never was and probably never will be.
You don't have to be a detective to find the fakers. Liars usually do a great job exposing themselves. I was emailing one of my colleagues the other day, and he shared the following story with me:
"I've read your blogs regarding people that want to be a voiceover talent with interest. I have some ideas on people that are "posing" as voiceover talent and how to spot them immediately.
For example: a young lady recently posted on a LinkedIn forum complaining that she wasn't being hired via sites like voices.com and how obviously the system was flawed, and that was the reason she wasn't getting work.
I visited her website to find that (through the placement of national logos for Burger King and Nissan) she had implicated that she'd done voiceover work for national companies.
When I listened to her demo it was apparent that she had nowhere near the skill level of a national voice talent.
Furthermore – on her website there was a mention of a client that she claimed as her client, when in fact, it had been MY client for more than four years. A quick check with producers led me to find that this person had never worked with that company.
In short, she wasn't getting work because she sucked as a "talent". And yet, she couldn't hear this, and was angry with the world because she wasn't getting work.
What are these people thinking? Do they really believe they can fool an experienced producer or Creative Service Director?"
People in our profession have a strange relationship with the truth. We get paid to pretend. The most convincing liars get the nicest paychecks, an Oscar and a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
However, true talent, trust and integrity are the cornerstones of a successful career.
Trust must be earned.
True talent and integrity can never be faked.
Ain't that the truth?
Paul Strikwerda ©nethervoice
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Snickers tart
Step 1: the crust
The crust for this tart is a chocolate-peanut version of my almond tart crust. It's like a dark, delicious cookie.
3/4 c ground peanuts*
1/2 c rice flour mix
1/4 c cocoa powder
1/4 c sugar
1 stick butter, cold, cut in cubes
1 egg, beaten
Combine the peanuts, flour mix, cocoa powder and sugar in your food processor. Add a pinch of salt if you're using unsalted peanuts. Pulse once or twice to combine everything, then drop in the butter and pulse until crumbly. While the processor is running, add in the egg, then keep going with the processor until the dough starts to form a ball and pull away from the sides. Lightly grease a 10" tart pan, pat the dough into the pan (I usually wet my hands with cold water so everything doesn't stick) and stick it in the freezer for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes (or more!) preheat the oven to 350, and once it's hot, take the crust out of the freezer. Prick it all over with a fork, then cover it with foil, pressing down to form the foil the to crust. Pop the crust in the oven for 20 minutes or so, until it looks done and feels firm. Cool before filling (you can speed this up in the fridge or freezer).
*I used honey roasted, with salt, which I ground up in the coffee grinder. BE CAREFUL grinding your peanuts, because if you grind them too much they will turn into peanut butter, and while that is delicious, that is not what we are going for here.
Step 2: the caramel
This step's recipe comes from Saveur, and can be found here.
1 1/2 c sugar
3 T corn syrup
a pinch of salt
6 T water
6 T butter
7 T cream
Stir together the sugar, corn syrup, salt and water in a saucepan. Cook over medium-low heat about 10 minutes, swirling occasionally, until a deep amber color (sugar mixture will be at about 365 degrees). As the sugar darkens, swirl the pot more so it doesn't burn. Remove from heat, whisk in the butter and cream and stir until smooth. Pour caramel into the chocolate-peanut tart shell, and cool. Feel free to speed up the process in the fridge. Or if you're crazy, let it set in the freezer and then move to the fridge. That is what I did and it took about an hour or so to be firm enough to hold the ganache (step 3).
Step 3: peanuts and ganache
1/2 c slightly crushed peanuts (honey roasted is a good choice)
1/2 c bittersweet chocolate chips
1 T corn syrup
2 T peanut butter
1 T cream
Sprinkle the peanuts over the top of the caramel in the tart (see the second picture in this post). In a small bowl, combine the chocolate chips, corn syrup, peanut butter and cream. Microwave until melted, stopping and stirring often. I heated mine 25 seconds, then stirred, then 25 more and we were melted. I don't know how strong your microwave is. Anyway, once everything is melted, pour or spread over the peanuts. Be careful not to mix everything up! Once the whole tart is covered, stick it in the fridge to set. My chocolate took about 45 minutes to set.


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September 2009 Cosmic Weather Forecast
By Curtis Lang with Jane Sherry on Sep 4, 2009
Cosmic Weather Forecast: Storm Warnings!!!
Welcome to the Virgo Solar Festival and the Pisces Full Moon, September 4, 2009 edition of the SatyaCenter newsletter. Warm greetings from your Editor, Curtis Lang and your co-editor, Jane Sherry.
This Friday, September 4, the sun is at 12?15' Virgo and the moon is full at 12?15' Pisces, at 9:03 am Pacific Daylight Time, or 12:03 pm Eastern Dayli ght Time.
Here in the HudsonValley, the turning of the season from the wettest, coldest summer on record to a nice, balmy, sunny fall is most welcome, but unfortunately far too late for the tomatoes in our garden, which are soggy and underdeveloped. We had great beans and a super long harvest of peas, though, and our collards and kale are just fine, so we count our blessings.
Farmers in our area have been hit with tomato blight, potato blight, soggy fields, vegetables that rotted in the field and fruit that rotted on the trees, a series of bug epidemics so severe I couldn't go into the yard without bug spray, floods that submerged entire towns, high winds that flattened corn fields, and a generally miserable growing season.
In New York city, market turmoil returned on September 1, as the benevolent Neptune-Jupiter-Chiron trine wanes in influence, and the next Uranus-Saturn opposition in the series that began with the financial meltdown a year ago waxes and approaches perfection in mid-September.
I sold my Apple stock yesterday, into the teeth of the market downturn, and managed to get back essentially what I had invested in 2007, before the market collapse. I am expecting a downturn in markets for the near-term, and so I am OK with just breaking even.
In Washington, health care reform is stalled, the war machine is sucking up more money than ever before, more troops are slated to go to Afghanistan, and we are still mired in Iraq. After a $14 trillion bailout meaningful financial reform that would prevent a recurrence of the excesses of the bankers and Wall Street traders that caused our financial collapse is not even on the radar screen.
Throughout the country, an ugly atmosphere of hatred, bigotry and confrontation suffuses Town Hall meetings on health care reform where armed and angry know-nothing right-wing extremists challenge and threaten anyone who disagrees with them. The Secret Service reports that the number of threats against the President has risen by 400%, and the talk on talk radio and cable TV has grown increasingly more shrill by the day.
Yet all this is merely the prequel to the global soap opera about to unfold, according to predictions from an array of both Western and Vedic astrologers Jane and I have consulted recently.
The Cosmic Weather Forecast for the month of September – and beyond -- is extremely difficult, even harsh, and will be challenging for each and every one of us.
We will find many obstacles in our paths, we will be prone to flare-ups in our individual relationships and extreme antagonisms may surface between groups of people around the world.
This Full Moon is surrounded by a multitude of malefic aspects, more than the astrologers we know have seen in decades. Mercury is set to go retrograde on September 7 until late September 29, and is square to both Mars and Pluto.
As we all know, Mercury retrograde can interfere with all communications, communications devices and systems and with travel, contracts and business affairs.
In addition, these squares to Mercury can interfere with mental equilibrium, and lead to poor judgment. People may find themselves being pressured to make snap decisions based upon emotional flare-ups and confrontations with individuals in the grip of panic, fear and anger, and there could be a feeling that these decisions cannot be postponed.
Be calm, and put your inner Watcher on 24/7 alert for sudden verbal outbursts, because you may find yourself saying hurtful things you will immediately regret.
By September 14, 8 of the 10 major planets are engaged in conflicts in some way. The third peak of the 2 year long Saturn-Uranus opposition will be perfecting, and Venus and Neptune will be simultaneously at war.
The last big Saturn-Uranus opposition was in 1965-67, when America was in turmoil, and the outlook both murky and frightening.
At that time revolutionary, youthful and liberal baby boomers (Uranus) rebelled against a conformist status quo (Saturn), demanding peace, environmentalism, women's rights, civil rights, sexual freedom, and rock and roll. These days, aging, much more conservative baby boomers (Saturn), who have all but abandoned their liberal heritage, are cast as the defenders of the embattled status quo, and revolutionary right-wing fascist extremists (Uranus) are demanding eternal holy war and rule by fundamentalist Christian principles, and these retrograde revolutionaries pledge allegiance to a form of corporate fascism supported by America's political and financial elites (another face of Saturn).
Those marginalized progressive forces (another face of Uranus) favoring peace, environmentalism, a green economy, tolerance among religions and races, and social controls on predatory financial and corporate oligopolies are opposed by the "liberal" status quo, the corporate fascist elite, and by the reactionary revolutionaries of the extreme rightwing.
In these Saturn-Uranus wars, Uranus always wins, so the outlook for America is bleak indeed unless the progressive Uranians can organize and take to the streets with as much fervor as their reactionary rightwing counterparts.
In our individual lives, we should also be on the alert for aggressive and duplicitous individuals and groups attempting to take advantage of us, intimidate us, and force us into compromises that disadvantage and disempower us. In such cases, try negotiation and if this does not work, try disengagement. If this is impossible, then it is vitally important to stand up for yourself and take a strong position in defense of your own interests. Only in this way can we expect to be treated with respect, to attain your goals, and to maintain our own boundaries with dignity.
The financial outlook for our society is equally murky and frightening. The green shoots of economic recovery may soon appear more like poisoned hallucinogenic weeds in the mass consciousness, with predictable results for markets and individual economic behavior.
The first signs of this disillusionment with the "recovery" are evident to all those with eyes to see. Prudent investors have noticed that financial stocks are totally overvalued. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, big banks and AIG are all totally worthless despite recent big run-ups in share prices. There is a collapse in the commercial real estate market, and retail sales in the US during the back-to-school rush season were down both week over week and year over year, indicating that the abysmal unemployment figures continue to be an accurate gauge of the economic crisis, which is still far from running its full course.
The Sabian symbol for this Solar Festival occurring at 13? Virgo (we round up when calculating Sabian symbols) is "A powerful statesman overcomes a state of political hysteria."
Although it is tempting to see a picture of President Obama in this symbol, overcoming opposition to his plans for health care reform and a just and equitable society, I think I see a deeper interpretation of this glyph in the night sky. I think it's time for each and every one of us to become a powerful statesman in our own neighborhood, advocating sane and reasonable solutions to our common problems on a local and a global level. I think it's time for each one of us to overcome our own rising state of internal hysteria in the face of extremely threatening political, social, economic, and environmental dangers. I think it's time we each take control of our own warring internal impulses and place ourselves at the service of a Higher Power, and in the service of those most in need among us.
This is the least we can do, as spiritual beings, as human beings. To help calm your nerves, unify your being and maintain your equilibrium say the following prayer, given me by Shri Rancchod Das Ji Maharaj, a Saint who fed tens of thousands during droughts and floods in India in the 1960s and 70s, during the last Saturn-Uranus opposition: "I neither desire nor pray for salvation or liberation. I do not want transmigration to a form benefiting from affluence. Nor do I want to achieve spiritual accomplishments that might liberate me from the cycle of reincarnation. I want the cessation of sorrow for all living creatures. I pray that everyone may be happy, everyone may be healthy, everyone may have noble vision, and none may have to endure afflictions. This is the path of beneficence for me. Let me not be an oppressor to anyone. Grant that I may be humble and soft-spoken and grant that I may be of service to the poor and the needy as long as there is blood in my body."
This is a superb example of the spiritual statesman (Higher Self) taking control of a hysterical ego and negative emotions and uprooting seeds of negative karma in a turbulent world. Let us follow Poojayshri's example to the best of our limited abilities, and pray to him for guidance.
The Sabian symbol for this Full Moon at 13? Pisces is "An ancient sword, used in many battles, is displayed in a museum." This symbol indicates that in this time of unprecedented turmoil and rough Cosmic Weather we are all challenged to reconnect with the Ancient Wisdom teachings, the ancient sword of wisdom used to win many spiritual battles in previous aeons.
We as a culture have consigned the ancient wisdom teachings to a museum of the mind. We see these priceless spiritual gems as mere myths and folktales, and we revere them as historical and anthropological artifacts of less developed civilizations.
Now is the time to enter the museum of the mind and to seize the ancient sword in our own hands, using it to dispel the fog of doubt, uncertainty and fear that surrounds us, using it to subdue the negative emotions and thoughts that beset us, using it to quell the flood of desires that surge through us, and using it to restore and maintain equilibrium in our relations with others.
On the theory that we all need all the help we can get this month, here are three ancient meditational swords for you to use in your spiritual struggles during this difficult season of the soul. The first is a meditation to dispel, anger, the second to dispel worry and the third to promote compassion and love.
Do not anger
Release all anger, for anger is the great destroyer. Anger blocks us from love, and it is our great love for all nature, and for all our fellow human beings, in the form of compassionate action, that manifests as Universal Life Force Energy and heals all ills. Anger creates a massive leak of energy from our vital systems that will cause us to commit rash actions, leading to regret and anguish, and ultimately bring us to self-destruction.
If anger arises in you, do not attempt to suppress the emotion, because this will only strengthen the unwanted energy, which will then resurface later. Instead, step back from this anger, and remind yourself that anger is not an element of your true nature. Remind yourself that anger is transitory. Make an effort to just be a witness to the anger. This will enable you to let go of the anger, to allow it to pass like storm clouds passing in front of the sun of your inner awareness.
The antidote to anger is loving compassion. If we can recall moments when we shared love, moments when we felt compassion for another human being, this love and compassion will fill our hearts and minds and there will be no room for anger in us.
Visualize a moment when you stared into your lover's, or mother's or father's or brother's or sister's eyes, and saw the great love they share with you. Relax your body and allow this love to fill your being once again.
The present Dalai Lama offers precious wisdom teachings on anger, love and compassion.
"If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.
"We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are 'news'; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and, therefore, largely ignored.
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
"True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason.
"Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek.
"I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warm-hearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life."
Do not worry and be filled with gratitude
Release all worry, for worry is another great energy leak. Worry activates unceasing mental chatter, filling the mind with unhelpful speculations which, like ghosts, feed on our vital life force energy, depleting us and destroying our will. When we worry we cannot feel our love, we cannot concentrate our compassion, and we cannot perform compassionate acts of service to those in need.
If worry arises in you, do not attempt to suppress the emotion, because this will only strengthen the unwanted energy, which will then resurface later. Instead, step back from this worry, and remind yourself that worry is not an element of your true nature. Remind yourself that worry is transitory. Make an effort to just be a witness to the worry. This will enable you to let go of the worry, to allow it to pass like storm clouds passing in front of the sun of your inner awareness.
The antidote to worry is gratitude. When we are involved in deep feelings of gratitude for our many blessings, when we are filled with gratitude for our life, and for the present moment, there is no place in our hearts and minds for worry to reside.
Increase your feelings of gratitude by visualizing all the many beings that have worked ceaselessly through the years for many centuries to learn and transmit the spiritual practices that empower your spiritual practice, and whose many sacrifices have smoothed your path, making possible your accelerated spiritual evolution.
Visualize the many hard-working individuals who have contributed to bringing you to this moment in your life. The efforts of your parents, your friends, those who grow your food, those who build your house and your car. Visualize the many blessings the natural world bestows upon you, including sunshine, rain and wind, trees and animal companions. Feel their warmth and how they vitalize your body, your mind and your spirit. Let this warmth and vitality fill your being, and know that this too is unconditional love, this too is Universal Life Force energy, this too is your birthright.
Be compassionate to yourself and others
Open your heart, for this is the keystone of all true awakening. When we meditate upon the suffering of our parents, our family, our friends, our loved ones, our co-workers, and on the suffering of the millions in the world who have not the food or shelter or medicine or love they need to survive and thrive in the world, our natural response is to weep with sorrow, to sincerely desire that this suffering should end. The recognition of the universality of human suffering is the beginning of compassion.
Here is a visualization you can do to stimulate the feeling of compassion and to send healing energy to suffering humanity.
Tune into the Source of Universal Life Force energy. Turn on your personal connection to Universal Life Force energy. Feel Universal Life Force Energy flowing from your hands.
Visualize the Source of Universal Life Force Energy as a great ball of fire, a Celestial Sun, hovering above your head. Now, see the Universal Life Force Energy streaming down from this Divine Source into your own being. Visualize this energy pouring into your crown chakra. Feel the warmth of the Celestial Sun on your head, and feel the warmth spread down across your forehead, your cheeks and into your neck and shoulders, streaming into your arms and down into your hands, until you can feel the energy tingling in your fingertips.
Allow this warm, nurturing energy to fill your entire body, as if your body were an empty vessel of glass. With your mind's eye you can see the energy filling your body, and you can feel the warmth streaming down through your chest and stomach, filling your heart with warmth, light and love, warming and healing every organ along the way.
You feel the warmth and see the energy streaming into your hips, and down into your legs, pouring all the way into your feet, until you feel the warm brightness reach all the way into your toes.
Now visualize a person you know – perhaps the person you talked to on the telephone most recently, or whom you saw most recently at work or at home.
Feel the limitless Universal Life Force Energy which has filled your being begin to overflow your heart and stream forth from your hands.
Visualize a golden stream of Universal Life Force Energy passing from your hands and your heart to the place where your reality intersects with this person. See that golden light connecting with that intersection, which is the place where your relationship resides, and fill that intersection between you with warm, healing energy.
Now visualize your best friend. Feel the limitless Universal Life Force Energy which has filled your being begin to overflow your heart and stream forth from your hands.
Visualize a golden stream of Reiki energy passing from your hands and your heart to your best friend. See that golden light connecting to the place where your reality intersects with this close friend. See that golden light connecting with that intersection, which is the place where your relationship resides, and fill that intersection between you with warm, healing energy.
Now visualize your family and friends, gathered in a group around you. Feel the limitless Universal Life Force Energy which has filled your being begin to overflow your heart and stream forth from your hands.
Visualize a golden stream of Universal Life Force Energy passing from your hands and your heart to the place where your reality intersects with these friends and loved ones. See that golden light connecting with that intersection, which is the place where your relationship resides, and fill that intersection between you with warm, healing energy.
Now visualize an individual with whom you have been having difficulties. Someone who rubs you the wrong way, someone with whom you seem to have difficulty communicating, someone who seems to see the world totally differently from the way you see the world. Perhaps this is someone with whom you have quarrels, or even outright fights.
Imagine that this person is sitting next to you. Now imagine that this person is interacting with your favorite Spiritual Guide or teacher. You notice that your teacher can relate to them without conflict. Imagine that this difficult person is relating to their own friends and loved ones. Notice that they have no difficulty relating to these individuals. This is a clue to you that the difficulty in relating does not lie in the other, difficult individual, but rather in your own being. Allow that realization to sink into your mind, and rest with this new knowing.
Feel the limitless Universal Life Force Energy which has filled your being begin to overflow your heart and stream forth from your hands.
Now visualize a golden stream of Universal Life Force Energy passing from your hands and your heart to the place where your reality intersects with this difficult person. See that golden light connecting with that intersection, which is the place where your relationship resides, and fill that intersection between you with warm, healing energy.
Now visualize the entire world, filled with individuals who are all suffering from their own difficulties, their own wounds, their own fears, anger, unfulfilled desires, jealousy, impatience, and alienation. Imagine the three billion people who do not have enough to eat, or a place to live today.
Feel the limitless Universal Life Force Energy which has filled your being begin to overflow your heart and stream forth from your hands and go out to those who are suffering.
Visualize Universal Life Force Energy streaming forth from the Radiant Sun above your head. See this luminous, warm, healing energy stream forth, connecting with all those who suffer – with all of humanity. Allow this Universal Life Force Energy to pour forth from your heart, your hands and your mind into the world around you, enfolding those who are suffering in a stream of healing light.
Hold this image as long as you feel comfortable and simply feel the energy exchange as it continues.
If you would like further support with performing a creative visualization that will fill you with Universal Life Force energy and relax body, mind and soul, Jane and I have created a CD that combines relaxing music, soothing sounds of nature and a guided meditation. It's called "Streaming Springs, Streaming Light", and it's available now on our website. Just click here.
We wish you all the grace and guidance you may need to navigate through September's troubled celestial waters, to fulfill your material needs, and to achieve your loftiest spiritual goals. Blessed be.
Top Satya Center Stories of the Week
Happy Birthday, Virgo!In his new article, Esoteric Astrologer Malvin Artley provides an in-depth look at the highest spiritual aspects of this much-misunderstood sign as well as his own incomparable view of the deep spiritual meaning of this month's "Full Moon in Pisces and Virgo Solar Festival ".
"Virgo is said to be the guardian of the Light of Wisdom," explains Malvin. The sign stands for the 'womb of time' and symbolizes "...depths, darkness, quiet and warmth…wherein secrets are discovered and eventually brought to 'light'.
"Hence, there is a strong emphasis with Virgo upon gestation – but gestation of what? It is said Virgo gives care and nurturing to the Christ-child (the wisdom-being or indwelling Soul) while the path to full enlightenment or realization is trod. What exactly does that mean, though?"Read Malvin's article to find out the answer!
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee offers a penetrating look at the Sufi way of wisdom in a beautiful and soulful article entitled "The Mystical Journey: Chambers of the Heart".
"The Sufi path is a journey home, from the outer world of illusions to the inner reality that belongs within the heart," says Vaughan-Lee. "This is a journey of transformation in which the Sufi travels from the outer world of the creation to the inner world of the Creator, the direct experience of our divine nature," Vaughan-Lee continues. "This journey happens within the heart; the secret of our divine nature is placed within the heart, and through the heart we can experience its reality."
"The journey unveils this secret," continues Vaughan-Lee, "known as the 'secret of secrets'—it is the great paradox of human existence that we are veiled from our divine nature, our innermost union with God: God said through the Holy Prophet, 'Man is my secret and I am his secret. The inner knowledge of the spiritual essence is a secret of my secrets. Only I put this into the Heart of my good servant, and none may know his state other than Me.'"
To obtain the secret of secrets, and to begin on the path to Divine Union, read this sublime article for yourself.
Professor Peter Dale Scott, who has established a reputation as a peerless investigative reporter over the last forty years, has written an amazing new piece on the geo-strategic realities underpinning the war on terror, and uncovering the ways in which the oil industry and military contractors are influencing top US policymakers to benefit their own pocketbooks at the expense of the American people. It's called "The Real Grand Chessboard and War Profiteers."
Professor Scott shows how private military contractors have in many cases displaced the CIA, providing top policymakers with intelligence and analysis that determines foreign policy, including decisions to enter into and continue wars around the world. In many cases, the contractors stand to make millions or billions of dollars from these decisions. When private companies have such power, we are close indeed to fascism in America.
"Private firms not only provide, but also analyse intelligence," explains Professor Scott. "Private translators, analysts and 'interrogators' are hired, as illustrated by the involvement of Titan and CACI in Abu Ghraib. Even more directly, private firms are hired in to assess threats and risks and suggest what to do about them. This involves constructing a security picture as done for example, by Diligence LLC and SAIC, two firms specialised in intelligence gathering and analysis….. This privatisation of intelligence has direct consequences for the relation between Private Military Contractors and security discourses. It places the firms in a position where they are directly involved in producing these discourses. They provide a growing share of the information that forms the basis of decisions on whether or not something is a security concern."
Internationally renowned environmentalist Edward Goldsmith, who helped organize the Green Party in England, and who founded The Ecologist magazine, discusses the philosophical foundations for a "New Biospheric Ethics" in the last major article he wrote before his death at the age of eighty, this August 21st.
"There can be no more truly immoral enterprise than that to which our modern society is so totally committed: namely, economic development or 'progress', which involves the systematic substitution of the technosphere for the biosphere," argues Goldsmith.
Goldsmith traces the rise of neo-Darwinist philosophical discourse through the Huxley brothers in England and into the present day, rebutting their philosophical support for values-free technocracy with telling arguments from Buddhist texts and references to the venerable Chinese Tao, unsheathing ancient intellectual swords to attack theintellectual foundations of today's modern environmentally unsustainable culture.
Finally, Jane offers some solace to all those home gardeners overwhelmed by a superabundance of cucumbers during this East Coast summer of extreme rain – in her article on a great recipe for "Cucumber Raita – Or What to Do With All Those Extra Cucumbers."
Top News Stories From Around the Web
(These are excerpts from important articles that offer deep insights, a broad view of global financial, political and social trends, and a clear alternative to the mindless mainstream media propaganda machine. Click on the links below to read the full story. Don't be satisfied with just the excerpts. It's worth taking the time to be fully informed.)
Town Hall Democracy or Mob Hysteria? Rethinking the Importance of the Public Sphere Wednesday 26 August 2009
by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t - Perspective
The bitter debate that is unfolding over Obama's health care plan has garnered a great deal of media attention. The images are both familiar and disturbing - members of Congress are shouted down, taunted, hanged in effigy and, in some instances, received death threats. In some cases, mob scenes have produced violence and resulted in a number of arrests. Increasingly, people are showing up with guns at these meetings, revealing an intimate connection between an embrace of violence, politics and an unbridled hatred of both the public sphere and the conditions for real exchange, debate and dialogue over important social issues. Rowdy crowds, many of whom read from talking points made available to them by right-wing groups and legitimated by conservative television pundits, support a politics reminiscent of the proto-fascists movements and militia associated with authoritarian parties in the 1930s and 1970s, which often used them to disrupt oppositional meetings, beat up opponents and intimidate those individuals and groups that criticized right-wing ideologies. This is not meant to suggest that all of the protesters at these meetings are members of extremists groups as much as it is to reveal the deep historical affinity such mob tactics have with dangerous authoritarian tendencies - an ironic twist given that their invective of choice is to compare Obama with Hitler. Many of these fringe groups "leaping around the margins of American society," [1] <http://www.truthout.org/082609L?n#aa> are irresponsibly sanctioned by both politicians such as Republican Sen. Tom Coburn and right-wing television hosts such as Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. [2] <http://www.truthout.org/082609L?n#bb> The United States is neither Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, nor does it bear a resemblance to Pinchot's Chile. What is important to recognize in light of these violent tendencies in the culture is Hannah Arendt's prescient warning that elements of totalitarianism continue to be with us and that rather than relegated to the dustbin of history, the "still existing elements of totalitarianism would be more likely to crystallize into new forms." [3] <http://www.truthout.org/082609L?n#cc> These tendencies have been around for the last 20 years in the form of militarism, religious fundamentalism, a rabid economic Darwinism and a growing violence against the poor, immigrants, dissenters, and others marginalized because of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, politics and color. What is new under the Obama regime is that the often hidden alliance between corporate power and the forces of extremism are now both celebrated and highly visible in the culture. What is new is that the production of violence and the organized attempts to undermine the most basic principles of democracy are now embraced, if not showcased, as a register of patriotism and then offered up as a spectacle in much of the mainstream media.
Sep 3, 2009
US's 'arc of instability' just gets bigger
By Pepe Escobar
The New Great Game is not only focused on the face-off between the United States and strategic competitors Russia and China - with Pipelineistan as a defining element.
The full spectrum dominance doctrine requires the control of the Pentagon-coined "arc of instability" from the Horn of Africa to western China. The cover story is the former "global war on terror", now "overseas contingency operations" under the management of President Barack Obama's administration.
Most of all, the underlying logic remains divide and rule. As for the divide, Beijing would call it, without a trace of irony, "splittist". Split up Iraq - blocking China's access to Iraqi oil. Split up Pakistan - with an independent Balochistan preventing China from accessing the strategic port of Gwadar there. Split up Afghanistan - with an independent Pashtunistan allowing the building of the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline bypassing Russia. Split up Iran - by financing subversion in Khuzestan and Sistan-Balochistan. And why not split up Bolivia (as was attempted last year) to the benefit of US energy giants. Call it the (splitting) Kosovo model.
Kosovo, incidentally, is known as the Colombia of the Balkans. What Washington calls the "Western hemisphere" is a sub-section of the New Great Game. The linkage between the recent military coup in Honduras, the return of the living dead - that is, the resurrection of the US Navy's Fourth Fleet in July 2008 - and now the turbo-charging of seven US military bases in Colombia is not to be blamed merely on continuity from president George W Bush to Obama. Not really. This is all about the internal logic of Full Spectrum Dominance.
Published on Monday, August 24, 2009 by TruthDig.com
This Isn't Reform, It's Robbery
by Chris Hedges
Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large US health-insurance companies: +87%
Percentage change in the profits of the top ten insurance companies: +428%
Chances that an American bankrupted by medical bills has health insurance: 7 in 10
—Harper's Index, September 2009
Capitalists, as my friend Father Michael Doyle says, should never be allowed near a health care system. They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves in the desperate scramble to pay for medical care. The sick do not have a choice. Medical care is not a consumable good. We can choose to buy a used car or a new car, shop at a boutique or a thrift store, but there is no choice between illness and health. And any debate about health care must acknowledge that the for-profit health care industry is the problem and must be destroyed. This is an industry that hires doctors and analysts to deny care to patients in order to increase profits. It is an industry that causes half of all bankruptcies. And the 20,000 Americans who died last year because they did not receive adequate care condemn these corporations as complicit in murder.
The current health care debate in Congress has nothing to do with death panels or public options or socialized medicine. The real debate, the only one that counts, is how much money our blood-sucking insurance, pharmaceutical and for-profit health services are going to be able to siphon off from new health care legislation. The proposed plans rattling around Congress all ensure that the profits for these corporations will increase and the misery for ordinary Americans will be compounded. The corporate state, enabled by both Democrats and Republicans, is yet again cannibalizing the Treasury. It is yet again pushing Americans, especially the poor and the working class, into levels of despair and rage that will continue to fuel the violent, proto-fascist movements leaping up around the edges of American society. And the traditional watchdogs—those in public office, the press and citizens groups—are as useless as the perfumed fops of another era who busied their days with court intrigue at Versailles. Canada never looked so good.
The Democrats are collaborating with lobbyists for the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry and for-profit health care providers to craft the current health care reform legislation. "Corporate and industry players are inside the tent this time," says David Merritt, project director at Newt Gingrich's Center for Health Transformation, "so there is a vacuum on the outside." And these lobbyists have already killed a viable public option and made sure nothing in the bills will impede their growing profits and capacity for abuse.
"It will basically be a government law that says you have to buy their defective product," says Dr. David Himmelstein, a professor at HarvardMedicalSchool and a founder of Physicians for a National Health Plan. "Next the government will tell us a Pinto in every garage, a lead-coated toy to every child and melamine-laced puppy chow for every dog."
From The Economist print edition
U, V or W for recovery
Aug 20th 2009
The world economy has stopped shrinking. That's the end of the good news. It has been deep and nasty. But the worst global recession since the 1930s may be over. Led by China, Asia's emerging economies have revived fastest, with several expanding at annualised rates of more than 10% in the second quarter. A few big rich economies also returned to growth, albeit far more modestly, between April and June. Japan's output rose at an annualised pace of 3.7%, and both Germany and France notched up annualised growth rates of just over 1%. In America the housing market has shown signs of stabilising, the pace of job losses is slowing and the vast majority of forecasters expect output to expand between July and September. Most economies are still a lot smaller than they were a year ago. On a quarterly basis, though, they are turning the corner.
This is good news. The first step in any recovery is for output to stop shrinking. But the more interesting question is what shape the recovery will take. The debate centres around three scenarios: "V", "U" and "W". A V-shaped recovery would be vigorous, as pent-up demand is unleashed. A U-shaped one would be feebler and flatter. And in a W-shape, growth would return for a few quarters, only to peter out once more.
Optimists argue that the scale of the downturn augurs for a strong rebound. America's deepest post-war recessions, they point out, were followed by vigorous recoveries. In the two years after the slump of 1981-82, for instance, output soared at an average annual rate of almost 6%; and this time round, output has slumped even further, and for longer, than it did in the early 1980s.
Pessimists, meanwhile, think this downturn's origins favour a weak recovery or a double-dip. Unlike typical post-war recessions this slump was spawned by a financial bust, not high interest rates, and when overindebted borrowers need to rebuild their balance-sheets and financial systems need repair, growth can be weak and easily derailed for years. Japan's 1990s banking crisis left the economy stagnant for a decade; a premature tax increase in 1997 plunged it back into recession.
V for vulnerable
Neither of these parallels is exact, because today's global slump combines several types of downturn and an unprecedented policy response. In formerly bubble economies, it is largely a balance-sheet recession. Debt-fuelled consumption has been felled. But the scale of collapse was broadened and deepened by the freezing up of the machinery of global finance, a dramatic collapse in confidence and stock-slashing. It was then countered with the biggest stimulus in history. The shape of the recovery depends on how these forces interact.
In the short term that shape could look beguilingly like a "V", as stimulus kicks in and the inventory cycle turns. In emerging Asia, the unfreezing of trade finance, a turnaround in stocks and hefty fiscal stimulus are powering a rebound. Government support, especially employment subsidies and incentives to buy new cars, has cushioned demand in Germany and France (see article). With export orders rising and confidence growing, the next few months could be surprisingly buoyant. Even in America, the fiscal stimulus is kicking in, the "cash for clunkers" scheme is a big, if temporary, prop to output and firms will, sooner or later, stop cutting inventories.
Yet a rebound based on stock adjustments is necessarily temporary, and one based on government stimulus alone will not last. Beyond those two factors there is little reason for cheer. America's housing market may yet lurch down again as foreclosures rise, high unemployment takes its toll and a temporary home-buyers' tax-credit ends (see article). Even if housing stabilises, consumer spending will stay weak as households pay down debt. In America and other post-bubble economies, a real V-shaped bounce seems fanciful. Elsewhere, it will happen only if vigorous private domestic demand picks up the baton from government stimulus. In Japan and Germany, where joblessness has further to rise, that seems unlikely any time soon. The odds are better in emerging economies, especially China. But even there an array of reforms, from a stronger currency to an overhaul of subsidies, is needed to boost labour income and encourage consumption. Until that shift takes place, the global recovery will be fragile and probably quite feeble. A gloomy U with a long, flat bottom of weak growth is the likeliest shape of the next few years.
Meditation Moment: Unexpected Visitors
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
Some momentary awareness comes
As an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they're a crowd of sorrows,
Who violently sweep your house
Empty of its furniture,
Still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
For some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
Meet them at the door laughing,
And invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
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ST. PAUL (AP) — St. Paul police have received about 50 leads from a tip line set up to help find a missing Minnesota woman, but have not found her yet.
Police believe 30-year-old Wisconsin native Kira Trevino is dead but have not found her body. Her husband, Jeffery Dale Trevino, was charged last week with second-degree murder.
Kira Trevino was last seen the night of Feb. 21 as she left work at the Mall of America, but authorities found so much blood in her car and home in St. Paul that they believe she is dead.
Police have received tips from around the Twin Cities and beyond. Investigators are asking people to think about where her remains might be hidden as they remove snow from their properties.
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"Kirk presents 17th-century Japan as a world imbued with stately rituals, unshakable principles and a rigid moral code…. sure to be compared to Clavell's work in its superb depiction of samurai culture."
–Kirkus Reviews
"This historical debut rips along at the speed of a deftly wielded, flashing katana sword….Well anchored in history, beliefs, and traditions of feudal Japan, this novel is a personal psychological trip…educational, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read….should appeal to a wide variety of readers, especially those who loved James Clavell's Shogun."
–Library Journal, starred review
"A brilliant piece of historical fiction — loaded with treachery and betrayal — that pulses with life. This one is going to find an honored place on many a keeper shelf. It's a must read debut from an exciting new voice."
–Steve Berry, New York Times Bestselling author of The Columbus Affair
"A fascinating, exciting book, beautifully observed. Kirk avoids clichés at every turn, and creates characters of great depth. An absolute gem."
–Conn Iggulden, New York Times Bestselling author of Genghis: Birth of an Empire
"I've been fascinated by Musashi Miyamoto since I first read The Book of Five Rings in college. David Kirk's Child of Vengeance restores my faith in historical fiction to bring lost worlds to life. Bravo! The keenest and most vivid evocation of the inner life of the East since James Clavell's Shogun."
–Steven Pressfield, New York Times Bestselling author of Gates of Fire
"Kirk proves himself a worthy samurai novelist with this brutal account of real-life 17th-century swordsman Musashi Miyamoto… Kirk, who lives in Japan, positively seethes with energy when depicting bloody violence—from great battlefields to intimate ritual suicide—showing feudal Japan as a complex culture in which cunning and poetry are indispensable, and death and vengeance unavoidable."
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|Philip Sutherland is an American news writer stationed in Moscow since the war; while there he falls for a Russian ballet dancer, Marya Lamarkins, who, he finds out, learned English because she fell in love with him. They marry, only to find that the Soviet nation which gladly collaborated with the Allies against Hitler has become a paranoid police state in peacetime. Sutherland is forced to leave without Marya, but he's determined to get her back, whether it be through proper channels, or through dangerously improper ones.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State's College of Engineering has a new engineering design graduate program within its School of Engineering Design, Technology and Professional Programs (SEDTAPP).
The program will enable students from all engineering backgrounds to attain a deeper understanding of design methods. This experience will prepare them for design-focused careers in industry, government labs and academia.
Amr Elnashai, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering, said, "With the proliferation of engineering degree programs around the country, it is increasingly important for Penn State to differentiate its students and emphasize their unique training, especially at the graduate level. It is also critically important for us to rapidly adapt to the requirements of top employers. The new graduate program in engineering design addresses all of these requirements."
Beginning this fall, students can earn a master of science degree in engineering design. In the fall of 2015, the program will include a master of engineering degree in engineering design.
The master of science degree is research oriented and students are required to submit a thesis.
The master of engineering is a nonthesis professional degree that provides training for advanced professional practice and can be completed in one year. Students must submit a scholarly report based on an independent studies course or a domestic or international internship experience.
Both degree programs require students to prepare an engineering design portfolio.
Students will choose from one of three focus areas: engineering product design, systems design or data-driven design.
Engineering product design addresses the identification of consumer preferences and requirements, the evaluation of existing products and product families and the development of innovative designs.
Systems design involves defining and developing a variety of systems that satisfy user and mission requirements.
Data-driven design focuses on using data to motivate and inform design decisions and assess current product performance.
Matt Parkinson, director of the engineering design program, explained, "These focus areas were selected based on industry need and faculty specialties. They align well with the areas of interest to the National Science Foundation's Engineering and Systems Design program."
He noted that the overall program provides an opportunity for engineers to learn different skills as they see a bigger picture and apply existing skills in new ways.
Sven Bilén, head of SEDTAPP, said the implementation of the new graduate program comes at a critical time. "Engineering design has coalesced into a field distinct from other engineering disciplines, having its own body of knowledge and abstracted practices that can be applied across disciplines. There is now a vibrant engineering design community consisting of a diverse group of members from academia and industry, domestic and international. Also, a growing number of well-regarded journals, funding programs, organizations and conferences focus primarily on engineering design."
He noted one highlight of the program is the two-semester studio sequence. "Students get to apply their engineering background and what they are learning in this program to real, client-driven projects. They will be poised to address a broad range of challenges."
Elnashai agreed, "Graduates from the new degree program will have honed their integration and leadership skills to be at the core of progress in their companies as soon as they land there. Branding our graduates as product designers, entrepreneurs and corporate design and innovation leaders will not only single Penn State engineering out as the leader in engineering design education, but will also fill a well-identified void in industry."
Bilén pointed out that there is a strong push in the engineering profession to focus on problem framing and problem discovery, which are critical to the overall problem-solving process. "SEDTAPP is uniquely positioned to accomplish this by leveraging the wide range of design expertise that we have within our School and across colleges at Penn State and other universities, through established and future collaborations among students and faculty."
He added, "The world community has demonstrated a need for engineers with technical proficiency and depth, rounded out by breadth in engineering design. This program will help meet that need."


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By taking on a full-time role as a bar and waiting apprentice under the supervision of our passionate teams, alongside your training, you will enhance your service and communication skills and become more confident along the way. Not only will you achieve a Level 2 Hospitality Team Member Apprenticeship, you will be able to support the running of our businesses, creating some amazing moments and making sure that quality never slips for our guests!
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