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Korean Pop Music continues to hit the heights in Japan
Korean Pop Music continues to hit the heights in Japan
Michel Le Bon and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
South Korean sexuality is being fused within K-pop (Korean pop music) in order to make further inroads into the Japanese market. This is a sure-fire winner in Japan and a very obvious market ploy. Alongside this traditional route you have catchy tunes and a more mature outlook with pouting looks and sexy outfits to appeal to many fashion conscious youngsters of both sexes in Japan.
The South Korean girl group Shoujo Jidai (SNSD – Shojo Jidai) or Girls' Generation, continue to prosper and grow in Japan because of catchy tunes, easy on the eye dancing, sexy and fashionable clothing and extremely good marketing. Therefore, Girl's Generation is showing the pulling power of K-pop. The same applies to Kara and the male group Toho Shinki who were the forerunners of making K-pop so popular despite not being the first K-pop group to hit Japan.
Girls' Generation is a group which is easy on the ear and eye because of sweet voices, sultry looks, nice movement, look petite, and dress stunningly. Even if pop music is not your flavor you can still appreciate and understand why this group is making inroads in Japan and other nations outside of South Korea.
Also, given the size of the music market in Japan then it makes good business sense for J-pop groups to target Japan because the South Korean music market is much smaller. Not only this, the size of the Japanese music market internationally is one of the biggest in the world and fashion is very potent in Japan.
Girls' Generation consist of nine exquisite and beautiful members and Taeyeon, Tiffany, Yuri, Jessica, Hyoyeon, Sunny, Sooyoung, Seohyun and Yoona, all appear to be not only in love with their trade but more important, it appears that they are genuinely close and this adds to the energy of their performances and videos.
K-pop will continue to develop and J-pop groups will notice the more mature outlook and this may alter aspects of the J-pop music scene. Also, it is great to see South Korean culture growing in influence in Japan and the same applies to Japanese culture influencing the younger generation in South Korea.
Therefore, South Korean dramas, Harajuku fashion in Tokyo, modern technology, social networking, K-pop, J-pop, growing cultural ties, and other major aspects of cultural and business exchanges, are all helping to change the image of both nations in each society respectively.
Turning back to the music of Girls' Generation, then "Mr. Taxi" sums up the catchy and sultry nature of this K-pop group because this record track is full of energy. The record "Mr. Taxi" shows a group which is energetic, vibrant, blessed with lovely rhythm, and a tune which enables their collective dancing skills to show their stunning features and beckoning call to buy the end product.
Kara is another South Korean group which is hitting the headlines and the album Girl's Talk was a great success. The music tracks called "Sweet Days," "Love is" and "Binks" gave the album Girl's Talk a firm foundation and other tunes caught the imagination.
"Jet Coaster Love" by Kara was a huge success this year and because of the earthquake and tsunami which hit Japan badly and killed so many. Kara donated all their profits from "Jet Coaster Love" and Gu Ha Ra stated "It breaks my heart to think about the pain of the Japanese people, who showed us so much love."
Girls' Generation also donated heavily from their hit single and just like Kara these elegant ladies show that they have deep hearts.
Musically, Girls' Generation, Kara, and other K-pop groups, have so much to offer and they are blessing Japan with their talent and other new bands will follow in their footsteps in the future.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/03/23/2011032300710.html (Gu Ha Ra from Kara)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhseD2tRLUY Girls' Generation – Mr. Taxi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AwFX_59Ryo KARA – Honey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfUrnMCLXAc Girls' Generation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na83qZNWX3w&feature=fvwrel KARA


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The health of Hollywood's homevideo biz isn't as dire as many have positioned it to be, with the industry showing growth across most categories in 2012, and sales of product still outpacing rentals.
Particularly strong were Blu-ray sales, up nearly 10%, while catalog titles saw a 25% increase in sales as more studios released older titles in their libraries on the format throughout the year.
The digital sales of films and TV shows also rose 35% during the year, to generate $812 million from services like Apple's iTunes, Walmart's Vudu and Amazon, while VOD rose another 11% to collect $2 billion.
Digital continues to prove a significant category for studios, with EST, subscriptions and VOD, combined, now accounting for 28% of the domestic homevid market, the DEG said, up from 19% in 2011.
Since its launch in October 2011, UltraViolet now has 9 million registered users, with adoption of the digital locker service expected to help convert more consumers from renters to buyers as they use it to store their purchases and access them using various consumer electronics devices. There are now more than 8,500 titles supported by UltraViolet from nine content providers. All of the major studios except Disney support UV.
Overall, homevid generated $18 billion in consumer sales, topping the mark for the 11th consecutive year, according to the Digital Entertainment Group, which released the year-end results Tuesday from the Consumer Electronics Show, in Las Vegas. Numbers were flat with 2011.
Among some notable results in the DEG report:
— Sales of titles, including digital, declined 2.9% during the year to earn $9.3 billion.
— The overall rental market, including VOD, was off by 6% to $6.4 billion.
— Brick-and-mortar rentals were down a staggering 24% to earn $1.2 billion, as retailers like Blockbuster continue to shutter stores.
— Kiosk rentals rose 16% to earn $1.9 billion during the year.
— And increased use of subscription-based streaming and DVD-by-mail services from the likes of Netflix and Amazon, however, saw the category grow 7.5% during the year to earn $3.6 billion, a significant sign that consumers are still looking to rent entertainment, and shows just why the studios are carefully evaluating their distribution deals and windowed releases with those companies.
Although it didn't reveal specific sales figures, the DEG also listed "The Avengers," "The Hunger Games," "The Dark Knight Rises," "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part I," "Brave," "Ted," "Dr. Seuss' The Lorax," "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows," "Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted" and "Puss in Boots" as the year's top selling home entertainment titles. Sony was the only major without a film in the top 10.
Industry org also announced that there are now 51 million U.S. homes with Blu-ray compatible players, including videogame consoles like the PlayStation 3, with that number increasing 7% in 2012.
And 39 million HDTVs were purchased in 2012, increasing the number of the sets in U.S. homes to 108.4 million.

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ST. LOUIS -- Michael Brown's relatives said goodbye Monday to the 18-year-old who was shot and killed by a police officer, remembering him as a "gentle soul" with a deep and growing faith in Christianity and ambitions that one day "the world would know his name."
Thousands of mourners filled the massive Friendly Temple Missionary Baptist Church in St. Louis for the funeral, which began with upbeat music punctuated by clapping. Some mourners danced in place, and ushers passed out water and tissues.
Eric Davis, one of Brown's cousins, urged the crowd to go to the polls and push for change, saying the community has had "enough of the senseless killings."
Davis described Brown as a "big guy, but a kind, gentle soul." He recalled his cousin once telling the family that someday his name would be known by the wider world.
"He did not know he was offering up a divine prophecy at that time," Davis said.
An uncle, pastor Charles Ewing, said in his eulogy that Brown's "blood is crying from the ground, crying for vengeance, crying for justice."
Among the mourners was Will Acklin, a black man from Little Rock, Arkansas.
"It's important in that as a child I was pushed by police, mistreated by police, cursed by police, and I was a good kid," said Acklin, who is 63. "I was an honor student. When I heard this, I felt compelled to come here and show my respects."
Angela Pierre, a machine operator who once lived in Ferguson, where the shooting happened and fueled nearly two weeks of street protests, said she hopes the funeral helps turn a page and eases tensions. Most important, though, she hopes it provides healing for Brown's family.
"I really wanted to just be here today to pray for the family and pray for peace," said Pierre, 48, who is black. "When all of this dies down, there still are a mother, father and a family who's lost someone. Sometimes a lot of the unrest takes away from that."


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Viewership declined last week for the second episodes of all 15 new prime-time series, following a long-established pattern, while the debut of the latest element of the ``Law & Order'' franchise won its time slot.
For the second time in two weeks, CBS' ``Hawaii Five-0'' was the week's most-watched new series and ``Mike & Molly,'' which also airs on CBS, was the most-watched new comedy, according to live-plus-same day viewing figures released today by The Nielsen Co.
"Hawaii Five-0'' averaged 12.72 million viewers, about 10 percent fewer than the week before, but nevertheless won its 10-11 p.m. Monday time slot for the second consecutive week.
It finished 16th among the programs shown on the five major broadcast networks between Sept. 27 and Sunday, five spots lower than the previous week.
"Mike & Molly'' averaged 11.12 million viewers, a 9 percent drop from the week before. It finished second in its 9:30-10 p.m. Monday time slot and 24th for the week, two spots lower than the previous week.
Two other new CBS series also won their time slots, despite significant viewership drops from the previous week. The comedy "'$#*! My Dad Says'' was first in its 8:30-9 p.m. Thursday time slot, averaging 10.43 million viewers, down 17.15 percent. The police drama ``Blue Bloods'' was first from 10-11 p.m. Friday, averaging 11.32 million viewers, 13.03 percent fewer than a week earlier.
The premiere of "Law & Order: Los Angeles'' finished first in its Wednesday 10-11 p.m. time slot and 29th for the week, averaging 10.64 million viewers, the most for NBC in the time period since Sept. 16, 2009, other than the Winter Olympics.
The week's other premiere, the ABC superhero drama "No Ordinary Family,'' was third in its Tuesday 8-9 p.m. time slot, behind ``NCIS'' and ``Glee,'' and 27th for the week, averaging 10.69 million viewers.
Ratings for premieres are often unrepresentative of how a new series will fare in the long run because of the heavy promotion they receive and beneficial scheduling, including following a popular program and facing lesser competition than usual.
The four major networks finished in the same order as they did during the first week of the season. CBS finished first, averaging 11.85 million viewers. ABC was second, averaging 9.16 million, and NBC was third, averaging 8.13 million, followed by Fox Broadcasting, averaging 7.09 million.
Total viewership on the four major networks was down 1.4 percent from premiere week.
Fox was the only network to record an increase in viewership during the second week, rising 8.78 percent. CBS declined 5.16 percent, ABC by 4.47 percent and NBC by 0.26 percent.
Fox benefited from a Britney Spears-themed episode of "Glee,'' which averaged 13.51 million viewers, nearly 9 percent more than its season premiere, and "The Simpsons,'' whose episode guest-starring Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg averaged 8.63 million viewers, 10.47 percent more than its season premiere.
Just as they were in the first week, ABC's "Dancing with the Stars'' was the week's most-watched program, CBS' ``NCIS'' the most-watched scripted show and CBS' "Two and a Half Men'' the most-watched comedy.
Also for the second consecutive week, CBS was first among viewers ages 18-49, the group ABC, NBC and Fox also target and advertisers covet because those viewers watch less television and are harder to reach.
CBS also again led among viewers ages 25-54 and 55 and older, while Fox was first among viewers ages 12-17 and 18-34 for the second consecutive week.
(For ratings purposes, ABC and CBS both aired 22 hours of prime-time programming for the week NBC 21 hours, 30 minutes, Fox 15 hours and The CW 10.)
ESPN's "Monday Night Football'' game between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers was the week's -- and year's -- most-watched cable television program. Its 17.45 million viewers would have put it fourth among the week's programs on the five major broadcast networks. It was also the fifth most-watched cable television program ever, outside of breaking news.
ESPN was the week's most-watched cable network in prime-time for the fourth consecutive week, averaging 3.61 million viewers.
As usual, Univision was the most-watched Spanish-language network, averaging 3.96 million viewers for its prime-time programming. TeleFutura was second, averaging 770,000, followed by Telemundo, which averaged 700,000, Azteca America, which averaged 260,000, and Estrella TV, which averaged
The week's most-watched Spanish-language prime-time program was the Wednesday episode of a Univision telenovela. "Soy tu Duena'' averaged 6.44 million viewers, which would have put it 56th among the programs on the five major English-language networks.
NBC finished first among the network nightly newscasts for the 102nd time in 103 weeks, averaging 7.75 million viewers; followed by ABC, averaging 7.09 million viewers; and CBS, averaging 5.39 million.
The week's 10 most-watched prime-time programs were ABC's "Dancing with the Stars''; NBC's "Sunday Night Football'' between the Chicago Bears and New York Giants; CBS' "NCIS''; ESPN's "Monday Night Football'' game between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers; ABC's "Dancing with the Stars: The Results''; CBS' "NCIS: Los Angeles''; NBC's 11-minute "Sunday Night Football'' kickoff show; and CBS' "The Mentalist,'' "Criminal Minds'' and "Two and a Half Men.''


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Hills East's Stephen Woods goes for third straight no-hitter on Tuesday
And now it's Stephen Woods Jr.'s turn.
The Half Hollow Hills East righthander pitched his second consecutive no-hitter on Tuesday and has big league scouts buzzing.
"He's a special player with a live arm," Mets area scout Larry Izzo said. "He's not a secret anymore. He's getting a lot of attention."
Woods, 6-2 and 203-pounds, will attempt to become the first pitcher in Long Island history to throw three straight no-hitters. He is expected to start Tuesday against Smithtown East (4 p.m. at Hills East). Tuesday's no-hitter came against Whitman; his first was against Islip.
Riverhead lefty Matt Crohan, who threw back-to-back no-hitters before allowing a hit in the sixth inning of his ensuing start, had the scouts' attention last week. Since then, Crohan has improved to 4-0 with 59 strikeouts in 26 innings.
Woods' fastball has been consistently in the 92-93 mph range and his newly added cutter has late action and has proven to be unhittable for high school players.
"He's a different pitcher than a year ago," Hills East coach Tim Belz said. "He put in the time in the offseason to develop his pitches and get stronger. He added three miles per hour to his fastball and developed a nasty cutter."
Woods struggled with his control a year ago and finished with a 2-2 record, has been spot on in 2013. He's allowed two hits, struck out 52 and walked 16 in 23 innings. Last year, he struck out 51 in 30 innings but walked 35 batters.
"He's become more polished," Belz said. "He's staying ahead of the hitters with much better command. He's got more confidence and become a team leader for us on the mound and at the plate." Woods Jr. is also hitting .424 with a home run and 12 RBIs.
Division's James Bailin had three consecutive no-hit performances in 1997 but one game was shortened to five innings because of the five-inning mercy run rule. New York's governing body does not recognize no-hitters of less than seven innings.
Woods, who will attend Albany on a full athletic scholarship, is looking forward to the MLB draft in June. "I'm very excited about the draft," he said. "We'll see what happens."


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This is Joey's mother Julie. Sorry we haven't posted on here in awhile. Joey moved to China! He got a wonderful job with +SeeedStudio He is really enjoying himself, learning the language, a new job, eating different food and so on.
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Opened: April 6
1735 2nd Ave / Upper East Side
The proprietors of this Mexican chain, primarily located downtown, thought it unfair to deny the denizens of the upper regions of our fair city the opportunity to drink one too many margaritas. So, they brought their restaurant to the Upper East Side, where their menu uses ingredients primarily imported from the backyard of the owner's mother. That's a kitchen that earns the idea of "home grown!"
Blu Cafe by Tavalon
Opening: Mid-Late April
120 Riverside Blvd / Upper East Side
Flying in from South Korea, the minds behind Tavalon will be opening their first U.S. storefront. Offering options such as peachy oolong while sharing a glass wall with a real estate agency, patrons can sip on exotic concoctions while simultaneously searching for the perfectly affordable studio space in Soho (which, as we all know, will never be found).
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Opened: March 30
3124 N Broadway / Lakeview
Upset Dale Levitski didn't take home top honors on "Top Chef?" You can show your support by visiting his new restaurant Frog N Snail, which aims to make you rethink everything you know about French-American. With a prix-fixe bistro menu that adheres to the idea of flavor math, or the perfect balance of taste, texture, and temperature, expect this restaurant to have legs (Get it… frog legs? I'll be here all week.).
Cochon 555
Opening: April 22nd
415 New Jersey Avenue NW / Capitol Hill
When it comes to preparing the finest pork around, Cochon knows a few things. At least five, as that's how many chefs will be competing to serve the finest swine in our nation's capital. Guests get to sample and judge, along with guest celebrity judges, and the winner competes in the Grand Cochon event in Aspen Co. If the smells don't lure you through your doors, maybe the healthy sense of culinary competition will.
Opening: April 19-May 53407 Connecticut Ave NW / Cleveland Park
While not technically a true restaurant opening, "Top Chef" alum Mike Isabella will be showing off his new modern Mexican cooking chops in Cleveland Park's Tackle Box. The five-course menu will offer the standard dips and tacos, but the real thing to look out for will be the prickly pear margarita.
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Guardians Of The Galaxy Summer Outdoor Movie At Roosevelt Island's Manhattan Park Lawn Facing Manhattan Saturday Night August 15
In addition to the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp (RIOC) summer outdoor movies at Firefighters Field, Roosevelt Island has a second outdoor movie site at the Manhattan Park lawn.
Movie night at Manhattan Park https://t.co/jjPwo5AK55 pic.twitter.com/Svy7i81cZ3— Nick Turner (@SFNick) August 2, 2015Guardians Of The Galaxy will be shown 8:15 tomorrow night, August 15, on the Manhattan Park lawn.
Here's the trailer.
Finding Nemo will be shown at Manhattan Park 7:45 on September 12.
Guardians of the Galaxy at Manhattan Park Roosevelt Island w/ NYC in the background. Jelly? https://t.co/iNs6ZnWPgi— Brontis Shane Orengo (@BrontisOrengo) August 16, 2015


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It was officially opened by Martifer, which continued to build the project for Ikea after its sale, on Tuesday and comprises 13 Repower MM92 2.0MW turbines. It has the capacity to generate an output of around 61GWh per year.
The other projects in the portfolio, also in the mountainous Podkarpackie province, are the 10MW Leki Dukielskie and 18MW Bukowsko. Both were operational when Ikea acquired them in 2011 and use 2MW Repower turbines.
"The opening of the third wind farm in Poland is an important step forward in our efforts to become energy independent — producing more renewable energy than we consume," said Steve Howard, chief sustainability officer at the Ikea Group.
"We will continue to invest in renewable energy and in other solutions enabling sustainability, both in our operations and in customers' homes."


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Creation of the Sun System and the Zodiac
Posted by Kim Graae Munch in Astrology, Esoterics, Indian esoteric on January 25, 2012
The World Egg is the most universal symbol we have, and the Zodiac is the most developed form of it, but we find it everywhere in all cultures, we just don't recognize it as representing the world egg.
See also this album: The World Egg and the Zodiac
We can find the history of the zodiac in the four heavenly beasts, Eagle, Lion, Ox and Man; they were the first members of the Zodiac, first later came the Cardinal signs, and later again the mutable, they came when man began developing these qualities, just as the outher planets first became visible when they became influential.
Amma created the egg, what became our sun system, not the whole universe. Within his egg, Amma began spinning around, forming the po seed. The po is the smallest invisible seed at the center.
Amma then placed seven 'words' [Planets] in the po, which began to vibrate strongly within the seed. The spiraling vibrations caused four clavicles to grow forth from the po.
These were the four heavenly beasts, the fixed star signs. These four powers were the main factors in developing the sentient soul, Eros of Plato, or Tamas of Hinduism.
These four Androgyne beings split into four male and four female, so we now had the cardinal and fixed star signs. The cardinal powers were necessary for developing the intellectual soul, or Logos of Plato, or Rajas of Hinduism.
The Dogon call these beings the Nommo Anagonno, 'The Word (Nommo) that Became Fish-Man' (Anagonno). The male and females got a son, and the mutable star signs was created. The mutable signs were necessary for developing the conscious soul, Thumos of Plato, or Sattva of Hinduism.
The Nommo entered the world through the place on the sky where Sirius is placed. They were the teachers of mankind, the Angels. They are also associated with the moon.
This Zodiac are fields going from the circumference around the sun system into the system, not just radiation, and not from the large universe, this is called the Tropical Zodiac.
Tropical Zodiac
The Egg, the Zodiac are spiraling through the universe so it's changing position in relation to the stars, but the fields are constant in relation to the Sun system, to the vernal equinox:
Sun-system passing through the universe
It can also be seen in this fashion:
Sun system through the universe
Man is created in the likeness of God, here in embryonic form, folding itself out from the circular form:
Man Embryonic form
We are not a copy of the whole universe, we are a copy of our own sun system, not including far sun systems.
Auric form of man:
The Auric Egg
Lucifer gives visions. One has to break through them, otherwise one doesn't break through the shell that's around every man and covers the real spiritual world. Visions and voices are around us like the shell around a chick. One might see an angel in a vision and when one presses through the vision the angel will change into a snake, Lucifer's symbol, for at the Temptation he appeared as a snake. Or one might see the colour blue in one's meditation — if one breaks through it the blue can become red, and then it turns out that we saw our own passions. As a result of his temptation by Lucifer man doesn't have everything that the Gods have; he received knowledge, but not life. Thereby everything that we know and perceive is permeated by Lucifer and Ahriman. … An ordinary man is like the chick that would consider its shell to be the real world. If the chick could see, it would see the egg's contents as if it were the whole world. Likewise we see our eggshell or aura spread out around us as the blue dome of the heavens. If we break through our shell the sun and moon become darkened, the stars fall down onto the earth and the spiritual world spreads out in its place.
A man lives in his eggshell — his aura. The Elohim gave us our aura, and through the fall into sin it has become like a shell around us, and we're in it like a chick in an egg. The stars in the heavens are our boundary and we must break through it with our soul force, just as a chick must break out of its shell through its own power. Then we get into a new world, just as a chick has a new world before it when it has crept out of the egg. And since men all have the same eggshell around them an astronomy could arise that lets the heavenly bodies move along the celestial dome. The egg shell is the Ex Deo nascimur. To break through it and to bring something with us into the spiritual world we must bring what penetrates the shell from the outer spiritual world and that's common to all; and that's the Christ. That's why we say: In Christo morimur and hope that when we've broken through the shell we will be awakened again: Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus. Esoteric Lessons Part III
Formed as the world egg:
Wael Al-Mahdi have made an analysis of the fight between Mittras and the bull, which have it's like in the Gilgamesh epic. Today we have our mental focus in the Ego, the Intellectual soul or left brain hemisphere, but then our mental focus was in what we today call our subconsciousness, the Sentient soul or Limbic brain. This fight describes the change of focus from the sentient soul to our current ego, but it's an ongoing fight between our ego and the subconsciousness, or rather it's a fight between our superconsciousness and subconscioussness and the battleground is the ego. Wael Al-Mahdi writes that Mithras is the devine ego, but I see him as the ego, the lower I, where I see his father, the mighty Sol Invictus, as the higher I.
Let us now take a look at the symbolism of the Mithraic mysteries and try to make some sense of them. Mithras himself, in the manner of all epoch-making developments of the unconscious, appears suddenly and unexpectedly, from a rock. Here Mithras takes on the role of the divine ego – the ego of the average man transfigured and lifted up by energy from the unconscious harnessed through myth and ritual. In this Mithras is strong, solid, rocklike. The divine ego and the everyday ego (the one that worries about food, shelter, money etc) are not identical; the divine ego, despite its disctinctness but in keeping with unconscious manifestations, is foreign, in this instance, of exotic Persian origin. To symbolize freedom from the unconscious as enemy, and also the actual emancipation of freedman Mithraists, Mithras dons a Phrygian cap, the so-called liberty cap. With the rise of Mithras, miracles are performed, as he strikes a solid rock with the thunder of consciousness and live-giving water spouts from the rock. Here the dead and inanimate can produce life, just as a psychological impasse can give rise to a new lease on life; the Qur'an states of God, "He brings the living out of the dead, and the dead of the living."
The central and most striking image of Mithraism is the tauroctony – the slaying of the bull. This supreme act of defiance, even hybris, is depicted on subterranean murals in Mithraea from Britain to Rome to Syria. The bull in his power and animal intransigence is the unconscious as enemy. He is the personification, or rather theriomorphization, of all the alien powers that ailed the forward looking man of action. He is the heaviness of the heart at dawn, he is the tightness of the chest before a dangerous act. He gives rise to the autonomous moods of self-doubt and self-loathing. He is boredom, lack of meaning, existential ennui. He represents every social disappointment, lack of control, failure to follow custom, and most dangerously, lack of adaptation. The evil father, father as a depressant, is in the bull – as is the evil friend, the devil, who both attacks the ego and forces to do evil. Every worthless feeling of the ego is projected onto him – and he is indeed a fitting target of projection. In short, he is the great No to life. He is the enemy within that must be vanquished if the conscious ego is to grow.
In contrast to conciliation myths, in which the ego tries to make peace with the unconscious, here the ego strikes with its readiest weapon – its will. After a long chase and a difficult haul to the womb-cave where a transformation can occur, Mithras' right hand performs the unspeakable act of stabbing the bull's neck. The cave serves a dual purpose are both regenerative womb and the unconscious cosmos which parallels the real cosmos. But there is respect in Mithras – out of respect, he pulls the animal back by the nostrils, never by the horn. Mithras' face is serene, almost sublime – divinely devoid of emotion, Zen in his imperturbability – looking up towards his father, the mighty Sol Invictus, the Invincible Sun, as if saying, "Behold my most brazen act, father. Soon we are to become equals" Mithras is steadfast, unflinching – he takes full responsibility for his act, he never hesitates or backs down. As a result of Mithras' challenging of the evil-animal father archetype, Father Sun emerges in a more human guise but with his divinity still intact.
In some reliefs the sacred bull bleeds wheat or grapes, symbolizing the paradox of the ability of the unconscious, even at is most evil, to heal after it harms. The killing of the bull is not a real-world death but an unconscious event that breathes life into a new psychological energy and outlook. But Mithras, this self-overcoming hero, is not alone in his daring act. Like all good heroes he has his sidekicks, the torchbearers, Cautes with his torch pointing up and Cautopates with his torch pointing down. They are his awareness of opposites, his ability to make distinctions, to discern opposites, and in their astral aspect symbolize his heavenly outlook. There is his dog too, lapping up the bull's blood – his discipline, self-control, honed intellect, and the vital ability of self-obedience. On the scene is a serpent of wisdom and shrewdness, also drinking the life giving blood, for no quantum is wasted here. A sneaky scorpion sucks the 'vim' out of the bull's genitals, literally 'breaking his balls' – energy that can be better utilized by the conscious hero Mithras. Mithraism and the Unconscious as Enemy
More on the Tropical vs. Sidereal Zodiac(Bruce Scofield):
We all know that this astrological system (Vedic) uses one or another version of the sidereal zodiac, the slight differences between them being measured by what is called the ayanamsha, the gap between the tropical and sidereal zodiac.
The twelve sidereal-based zodiacal signs (rasis) used in this system are not particularly important overall, and they serve more as a background reference plane for planets than as a matrix for personality distinctions.
The houses are important, however, but house boundaries between planets will remain roughly constant in a timed birth chart no matter which zodiac is employed. After reading a number of texts on the subject it became apparent to me that Hindu astrology was a tradition that was not concerned with extracting psychological insights from birth charts, it was more event-oriented.
In my opinion, Rudhyar remains the most important astrologer of the 20th century. He had something intelligent to say on just about every issue in astrology, including the sidereal-tropical problem.
Rudhyar wrote that the sidereal zodiac, the zodiac of constellations, was a product of the myth-making faculty of the human psyche. These constellations, groupings of stars, are a remnant of an earlier age that saw the rise of agriculture, but they are not relevant to modern life.
He felt it was unfortunate that both zodiacs use the same names for their 12-fold division of the yearly circle, and he regarded the tropical zodiac as being the proper framework on which to assess the evolution of mankind.
Tropical Zodiac
The Sun orbiting the Earth equator defining signs of the Zodiac.
Distance to the Stars of the Signs
The star signs are purely symbolic, giving name to the star signs because they were at the particular part of the zodiac when the twelve 30° degrees parts of the ecliptic was named.
The stars in the signs are nowhere near each other, they may even not exist anymore, they are placed long from each other in the far past of the universe.
History of Tropical Zodiac
The classical zodiac was introduced in the neo-Babylonian period (ca. 7th to 6th century BC). At the time, the precession of the equinoxes had not been discovered. Classical Hellenistic astrology consequently developed without consideration of the effects of precession.
The discovery of the precession of the equinoxes is attributed to Hipparchus, a Greek astronomer active in the later Hellenistic period (ca. 130 BCE).
Ptolemy, writing some 250 years after Hipparchus, was thus aware of the effects of precession. He opted for a definition of the zodiac based on the point of vernal equinox, i.e. the tropical system.
While Ptolemy noted that Ophiuchus is in contact with the ecliptic, he was aware that the twelve signs were just conventional names for 30 degrees segments (especially since the Aries sign had ceased to be in contact with the Aries constellation already in his time). Wikipedia
He connected the thirty degree segments to the time of year, with the traditional names given.
Ophiuchus or Scorpio by Christian Borup
The Zodiac with the old rulers:
It is as a round table with twelve seats, with the King and Queen sitting together as Leo and Cancer for Sun and Moon, with the ten other seats taken by the knights. From The Sons of Jacob and the Zodiac.
Po Tolo (Sirius B) the oldest of stars, it's name means 'deep beginning'. The Dogon consider Po Tolo the reservoir and source of all things in this realm, and the germ of creation for our Solar System. It ejected it's essence out into creation, and the particles of it's essence was 'infinitely small'.
Reconciliation of the Tropical and Sidereal Zodiacs. Part III.


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|STS133-S-126 (9 March 2011) --- Space shuttle Discovery rolls to a stop on Runway 15 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Landing was at 11:57 a.m. (EST) on March 9, 2011, completing a more than 12-day STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Onboard are NASA astronauts Steve Lindsey, commander; Eric Boe, pilot; Steve Bowen, Alvin Drew, Michael Barratt and Nicole Stott, all mission specialists. Discovery and its six-member crew delivered the Permanent Multipurpose Module, packed with supplies and critical spare parts, as well as Robonaut 2, the dexterous humanoid astronaut helper, to the orbiting outpost. STS-133 was Discovery's 39th and final mission. This was the 133rd Space Shuttle Program mission and the 35th shuttle voyage to the space station. Photo credit: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Stevens Alumni Welcome Graduating Seniors with Party
With 62 days until graduation, the Stevens Class of 2013 got the party started in March, with a big, warm welcome from their fellow alumni.
The "Welcome Seniors" event on March 22 saw one of its largest turnouts ever, as more than 200 Stevens seniors and young alumni gathered for mixing, mingling, good food and drink, and much merriment, as the graduating seniors were greeted into the alumni family. The Graduates of the Last Decade program and the Stevens Alumni Association sponsored the event inside the Bissinger Room in Stevens' Howe Center.
There were door prizes—from stuffed toy Ducks and Stevens sweatshirts to Stevens Award Gala tickets—tasty warm sandwiches, yummy cupcakes and brownies for dessert, drinks, and WCPR at the DJ table.
Devin Corson '13 may have expressed most every senior's thought.
"Everyone's glad to be here—we survived!" she said with a laugh. "It's a good opportunity to find insight on what it's like after graduation and to get support for the graduating seniors."
Richard Delos Reyes '13 echoed her enthusiasm.
"It's a great event—great to see all the alumni together," he said. "The camaraderie, the interaction between classes—it's cool."
But he also admitted graduating is bittersweet.
"I'm excited to leave but, at the same time, not wanting to leave," he said.
Young alumni from the past 10 years came out in force to welcome the Class of 2013. Nick Barresi '12 realized that this was the first time in five years that he wasn't spinning tunes for his beloved WCPR.
"It's definitely a change—it definitely cements my being an alumnus," he said.
As they gathered with friends and rekindled old friendships, students and alumni made time for some career networking.
With Tori O'Connor '12 serving as master of ceremonies, SAA President Mark LaRosa '93 offered the seniors hearty congratulations and some good advice.
"This should just be the beginning of your relationship with Stevens," he said. "Keep connected. You are part of this wonderful family."
The SAA promoted its alumni clubs throughout the country that offer social events as well as professional and networking opportunities. But no matter where they land, alumni were urged to return to Stevens whenever they can, be it for career fairs, Alumni Weekend, or just to catch up with old friends.
"This has been your home for many years," said Dean of Students Ken Nilsen. "It will always be your home."
Meanwhile, the Class of 2013 is looking out for the next generation of Stevens students. Robert Truppner '13 spoke to his classmates about their proposed class gift—a Class of 2013 scholarship—and urged their support. Recipients must display leadership skills, do well academically and be involved in campus life.
One graduating campus leader, Owen Jappen '13, called the evening, "an excellent start and culmination of an excellent four or five years."
"We're excited to go out into the industry that Stevens has prepared us for," he said.
But at the same, he wouldn't mind having time linger a bit.
"I want it to go slow now," he said. "It's bittersweet. I'm excited for the next part."


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June 2007
Assessing Local Needs Related to Parent Involvement
The relative family-friendliness of a school refers to how inviting it feels to the families of its students: do families feel they would be welcome to ask questions, to contribute somehow in their children's classroom, to make suggestions, or to otherwise support their children's education? The degree to which parents feel at ease in their children's school is influenced by such factors as who initially greets them and whether they are met with a smile, with a frown, or ignored entirely; whether there is a physical space for parents to meet and find information and resources related to the school and education in general; whether they receive timely information (e.g., about school events, student productions, upcoming assessments) on a regular basis, as in a weekly newsletter coming home with their children, for example; whether teachers and the principal seem open to questions or feedback; and whether the only time parents hear from anyone at school is when there is a problem with their child. Parents who have made an initial effort to come to school to meet their children's teachers and principal are less likely to return if their experience is not positive. On the other hand, if parents are enthusiastically invited into schools, warmly greeted, and engaged in ways that make them feel comfortable and assure them that their input and questions are valued, they may be willing to come back and become involved at levels they might not even have considered.
By assessing both parents' current thoughts on the climate of the school and staff feelings about parent involvement, schools can get a better idea of how they need to improve in the area of family friendliness, and they can solicit targeted help from their PIRC. While personal interviews and focus groups can be used to solicit in-depth information about parent and staff attitudes, few schools can manage such intensive ways of soliciting information. Written surveys are a much more efficient method that can still yield good results. The act of conducting a survey is itself a parent-friendly message to parents that a school cares what they think. It gives both parents and staff a voice in articulating what works and what does not work in the particular school community as related to parent involvement. In yielding site-specific information, it offers important guidance. one parent noted when talking about the value of a school survey, "It gives us data about our actual community. It's not just something we got from someplace else like ours that may or may not really fit us."
Provide Surveys on Schools' Family Friendliness as a PIRC Service
While some schools and districts develop and conduct their own school surveys for various purposes, both the Indiana Partnerships Center and ADI's PIRC recognized that not all education agencies have this capacity. Six years ago the Indiana PIRC contracted with an outside agency to develop the "Are We Family Friendly?" Survey for distribution to Indiana schools. This perception survey asks parents how comfortable they feel in the school; how informed they feel about their children's performance and how to help them; whether or not they feel invited to participate in the school's activities and at what level; and how empowered they feel in addressing any issues and concerns they might have. Teachers, in turn, are asked how often and in what capacity parents are invited to participate in their children's education in the classroom and at home; how informed they keep the parents; whether they make home visits and go into students' communities; and how much they solicit information.
The PIRC's intent was to have schools across the state administer the survey, with the PIRC analyzing and feeding the results back to them. But over the years it had become clear that many schools were unable to ensure enough of a response to make the survey worthwhile; sending surveys home with students or mailing them to a family's home was not effective. In 2005, the new superintendent of IPS required that all Title I schools in the district administer the survey to assess their family friendliness. The Indiana Partnerships Center collaborated with IPs to revise the survey and, also, create a spanish-language version.
To further ensure a greater parent response rate, parent liaisons were used to disseminate the survey. Given the nature of their work, which entails developing strong relationships with parents at their site, the liaisons seemed well positioned to encourage parents to respond to the survey, to answer their questions, to monitor survey returns, and to provide follow-up if parents need additional encouragement to respond. As a result of this approach, some 4,900 parents completed the survey. Equally important, 880 or 18 percent of the parent respondents were Spanish speakers, whose voices may have remained silent in the absence of a translated survey.
ADI also offers a school survey, which was first developed in 1996 in a project with the Regional Educational Laboratory at Temple University. the survey has evolved and expanded over the years; today, in addition to asking parents and teachers about parent-related issues at their school, it includes questions for principals. If the survey is administered for a high school, students also are included. The topics covered for parents and teachers are similar to those in the Indiana survey, while principals are asked more about what existing services and structures are already in place to support parent involvement: What types of written policies have been developed to promote parent involvement (e.g., homework policy, school-parent compact), what mechanisms exist to invite parents into the school (e.g., family nights, conferences), what resources are available at the school for parents (e.g., parent resource library, trainings), and what methods are used to communicate with parents (e.g., home visits, newsletters). (See fig. 8, Academic Development Institute: Principal Element From School Survey, on p. 40.) The survey is given to principals to administer to their school populations. ADI then analyzes the data and generates a detailed report, which is shared with the school community, administration, and faculty; the school board; parent organizations; and other interested parties.
Figure 8. Academic Development Institute: Principal Element From School Survey
Use Survey Results to Inform Parent-related School Practice
Both ADI and the Indiana Partnerships Center take steps to help ensure that survey results are easily understandable and are used by schools in meaningful ways. ADI's analysis of survey results report goes into considerable depth comparing and contrasting how parents and staff view issues and identifying areas where more work is needed to generate effective partnering between parents and school. Its purpose is to help school communities draw conclusions about areas of successes and challenges and to aid them in creating an action plan to strengthen their community. In addition to administering the survey, ADI offers a consulting service that includes up to three site visits: a pre-survey visit, a visit to review results and develop an action plan that is often tied to the goals of the school improvement plan, and a final visit three to six months later to assess progress. For Solid Foundation schools, the survey is administered at the beginning of the program and again at the end of the two-year Solid Foundation process. The results of these two surveys are then compared to identify areas of progress and areas still in need of improvement. ADI also administers progress reports twice a year for two years in December and June. These reports track implementation of the action plan through factors, such as how many home visits have been made.
At one school, survey results identified homework as a significant issue for many parents, although they did not necessarily agree on how much or what type of homework there should be. As a result, however, at the time of this study, the school was considering a new homework policy that might include, for example, ensuring that all teachers use what ADI has identified as a best practice approach to assigning homework (i.e., 10 minutes of homework in first grade, 20 minutes in second grade, 30 minutes in third grade, and so on) and sending parents tips on how to help with homework.
Because ADI employs an evaluator, the organization has the capacity to handle its survey analysis in-house. The Indiana PIRC does not have this same internal capacity, so it includes in its annual budget the funds to contract with an evaluator from a state university who analyzes the survey data and writes a report based on the findings. Committed to making findings accessible to those surveyed, including parents, the Indiana Partnerships Center has summarized survey findings into two pages of parent-friendly text with easy-to-read graphs and advice on next steps based on the findings. "We know from responses to our newsletter that people like things simple and they like information in graphs," says the center director, adding, "Less is better." In addition to preparing the written report, the evaluator consults with the PIRC about any implications for policy and practice, and the PIRC, in turn, incorporates this into its subsequent discussions with the client school or district. Once parents and educators realize that their voices have been heard and their input considered, they might be more willing to support any proposed changes in policy and practice. (See fig. 9, Indiana Partnerships Center: Example of Parent and Educator Survey Results Presentation, on p. 42.)
The analysis of IPS's 2005–06 survey identified "parents as decision-makers" as the area most in need of improvement across the schools surveyed. Based on this information, individual schools began considering how to get parents more involved in school decision-making; the district started reviewing its parent involvement policies and supports; and, for its part, the Indiana Partnerships Center undertook a review of its leadership training.
Figure 9. Indiana Partnerships Center: Example of Parent and Educator Survey Results Presentation
Tips for Assessing Local Needs Regarding Parent-Friendly Nature of Schools


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Family House Diaries: Brotherly Love in the Form of a Stem Cell Donation
60-year-old Maxine Pender of Edgecombe County receives healthy stem cells from her older brother for a bone marrow transplant, the tried and true treatment for her type of leukemia.
Media contact: Tom Hughes, (919) 966-6047, email@example.com
Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011
Written by Elizabeth Swaringen for UNC Health Care
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Brotherly love can be described many ways. For Maxine Pender it means receiving healthy stem cells from her older brother to treat her leukemia.
Pender, 60, of Tarboro, N.C., was diagnosed in May 2010 with chronic myelogenous leukemia, an uncommon type of cancer of the blood cells that tends to progress slowly. The disease is caused by a genetic rearrangement within a specific chromosome. New chemotherapies developed over the past decade are designed to target the abnormal receptors and stop the spread of disease.
For some patients, those new targeted therapies send the leukemia into remission. For others, like Maxine, the chemotherapy fails to arrest the disease and a bone marrow transplant is recommended, said James M. Coghill, MD, assistant professor of hematology and oncology at the UNC School of Medicine, a member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and Maxine's physician.
"The targeted therapies weren't working for Maxine, and there was evidence that she was a great candidate for a bone marrow transplant, the tried and true curative treatment for this type of leukemia," Dr. Coghill said. "She was in good health otherwise and sailed through the chemotherapy (to wipe out her immune system in preparation for the transplant) and the transplant. It takes time for the donor cells to take, and Maxine is doing well clinically and heading in the right direction."
But back to those donor cells. Of Maxine's seven biological brothers and sisters, older brother Jerry Jenkins, 63, an accountant in Washington, D.C., was a perfect match. He came to UNC Hospitals for the donor stem cells to be harvested in November, and they were transplanted in Maxine on Dec. 16. In 2010, 184 bone marrow transplants were performed at UNC Hospitals and 25 of them involved donors who were related to the recipient.
Maxine stayed at UNC Hospitals until mid-January when she was released to SECU Family House, a 40-bedroom hospital hospitality house minutes away. Bone marrow transplant patients are required to be close to the hospital for 100 days post-transplant, and SECU Family House is the perfect home away from home, providing comfortable, convenient and affordable housing for seriously ill adult patients and their family member caregivers.
Maxine's sister, Martha Whitehead, stays through the week and accompanies Maxine on her three-times-a-week visits for lab work and consultations at the hospital. Maxine's two older sons, Reggie and Robert, live and work in Raleigh, and visit during the week and over weekends.
"It has meant a lot to me to have a secure place like Family House," said Maxine, who worked as a monitor for special needs children in Edgecombe County. "There are such caring people here, and you don't have to worry about anything except getting better. There are not many places you can go to like this."
Maxine said the hardest part of her journey was getting over the fear of the unknown.
"We didn't know if the transplant was going to work, and I didn't know what was going to happen," Maxine said. "But I should not have worried. Even before I got down, I got God on my side. He's the one who guided the doctor's hands to do what they were supposed to do."
The unknown also was an issue for Maxine's brother, Jerry, but he credits Debbie Covington, RN, bone marrow transplant coordinator, for putting him at ease.
"She explained the process, step by step and I was fully informed about what to expect," Jerry said. "She gave me the information I needed to talk with my doctor to make sure I was healthy enough be a donor. Harvesting the stem cells was not painful, but it was a long process, about six hours.
"But it was a unique and wonderful experience that I would do again without reservation. It felt great to be there for Maxine, and I know if the situation were reversed, she would do the same for me. God made all this possible."
Jerry has used his experience to talk about the importance of being a donor, realizing that fewer than 40 percent of African-Americans participate in tissue typing for possible matches.
"Thanks to Debbie I've been able to explain my experience to others and tell them why being able to donate stem cells will help others," Jerry said.
And back to the brotherly love.
"Jerry gave Maxine a chance at life that nobody else could," Debbie said. "And the loving support extends to her sister and her sons. It is particularly sweet to see how Reggie and Robert look after their Mom. All our patients should be that blessed."
To learn more about the bone marrow transplantation process at UNC Hospitals, watch this educational video. It guides patients through the process, including a potential first visit to UNC, and features patient stories.


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At a release event next week, Apple is expected to unveil its first budget version of the iPhone. However, the bigger news, literally, seems to lie ahead. The Wall Street Journal reports that the California-based company is currently evaluating models with a range of screen sizes, spanning from 4.8 to 6 inches, as compared to the 4 inches of iPhone 5.
Offering iPhones in different sizes is a clear sign that the company is searching for a strategy to compete with market leader Samsung's large-screen smartphones, and to counter inroads made by Samsung and other competitors in countries such as China and India.


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PARIS (Reuters) - An imminent shake-up of EADS EAD.PA is expected to lead to a rise in state shareholdings in Europe's largest aerospace group, but in reality merely changes the rules for what is already a wary co-habitation.
Officials were putting finishing touches on Sunday to a deal to bring Germany on board with 12 percent of the maker of Airbus jets and Ariane rockets, at parity with France.
The move paves the way for an exit by founder companies Daimler (DAIGn.DE), the German carmaker, and French media firm Lagardere (LAGA.PA), increasingly viewed as state proxies.
Germany has not been a shareholder until now while France previously allowed itself to be represented by Lagardere. Spain will continue to hold up to 5.5 percent, leaving combined government shareholdings close to 30 percent and a larger float.
It is not the pure-market solution EADS Chief Executive Tom Enders, a critic of state interference, might have wanted.
But experts say it will clear the air by getting rid of a complex shareholder pact between France, Lagardere and Daimler in which it was not always easy to see who pulled the strings.
For critics of state involvement, an example of the risks now facing EADS unfolded even as the details were being worked out. The French government struck a deal for investment in a steel plant after publicly threatening its nationalization.
Few are in a better position to reflect on the love-hate relationship between state and industry than the plant's owner, Indian-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, head of ArcelorMittal.
Branded unwelcome in France by one minister for threatening steel jobs, he is also one of a core group of independent board members shaping EADS, which builds French nuclear missiles.
Officials say the strongest efforts will be made to avoid governments exerting pressure on EADS through the shareholdings.
Firstly, none of the government shareholders will have the broad strategic powers over industrial decisions which the French enjoyed — but rarely used — under the existing pact.
Measures such as a French veto on acquisitions over 500 million euros, which is small change in aerospace, will vanish.
Secondly, there are proposals to exclude actively serving civil servants from a radically altered board to be built around a new chairman and adopted by an extraordinary general meeting.
Finally, the combined blocks will represent far less than the current level of more 50 percent for governments or proxies. There are likely however to be guarantees on national security.
Analysts say the move could remove ambiguity, encouraging governments to deal openly rather than lurking behind proxies.
"It is about the best corporate governance you can expect in European defense," said Agency Partners analyst Nick Cunningham.
Still, some will see the move as a victory for political power over shareholder power.
Just weeks ago, France had snubbed Germany by refusing to hammer out a joint position on proposals to merge EADS with UK arms firm BAE Systems (BAES.L). It was an implicit reminder that France's main European partner was not an EADS shareholder.
Following Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to block the merger last month, the new structure enshrines the view that Germany has equal status in the flagship European company.
In Berlin, some officials are pushing for greater influence over Airbus, which they consider too French. Yet it is not known how this would translate into the boardroom because there is little tradition of direct German government shareholdings in industry, at least at federal level.
There are worrying signs too about how the shake-up will be viewed in the United States, where EADS wants to grow.
"People are saying to EADS, 'See? We said you were state-controlled'," a senior U.S. source told Reuters.
Analysts say that may curb the group's ability to try out other major deals with U.S. content after the BAE attempt, forcing it to adopt a back-to-basics strategy, at least for now.
EADS faces three immediate tests that may determine how investors and partners view the new era of co-habitation.
It will hold a forum on Monday when EADS will discuss its direction for the first time since BAE talks failed. Analysts are looking for an update on the company's strategy of balancing civil and defense activities, which no longer seems tenable.
A second will be the composition of the new board. Anglo-American (AAL.L) Chairman Sir John Parker, who heads the EADS nominations committee, is seen as a key player in attempts to keep politics out of the selection process as far as possible.
Candidates for chairman include former ECB president Jean-Claude Trichet. He has a record of fighting interference but for some may be too much of the classic French technocrat, despite a brush with aerospace early in his career as a civil servant.
A third is how the chief executive role will be handled. Enders won backing from French and German governments after the BAE merger attempt, his signature project. But there are persistent rumors of discontent within Merkel's inner circle.
A changeover presents a chance for opponents to strike, but only by mirroring former French President Jacques Chirac's decision to axe a top French executive supported by Germany in 2004, which outraged Berlin and unleashed years of in-fighting.
If EADS can get past the biggest shake-up since its creation and handle an overhang in shares to be sold by Lagardere and Daimler, analysts say investors may learn to live with states as neighbors in EADS. Shares have been rising during the talks.
The reason is more practical than ideological. Experts say it changes little in the balance of power because nations tend to exert greater influence as customers of large defense projects like the Airbus A400M army plane or Eurofighter jet.
Indeed, Germany blocked BAE without owning a single share.
That is not to say that EADS is guaranteed a comfortable co-existence with its government customers as shareholders.
The day of reckoning may be some way off. EADS has been sheltered by a boom in commercial aerospace. Although the trend is starting to slow down, experts say the industry has years of high production ahead of it, underpinning high-tech jobs.
What nobody can yet predict is whether politicians will be able to resist interfering if and when civil markets go wrong and Airbus joins ArcelorMittal in the political firing line.
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Some people might be hesitant to admit that they believe in ghosts. But if you've ever heard a chilling bump in the night when you're home alone, ghosts might not be such a leap of faith. In fact, a little more than a third of American adults believe in ghosts [source: Dolliver]. Perhaps more surprising is that 23 percent of adults polled said they'd personally seen or felt a ghost [source: Dolliver].
Every October, thousands of people pay to walk through commercial haunted houses, in which costumed actors stand in for otherworldly spirits. Customers can get the adrenaline rush of scary "monsters" popping out at them for a few minutes without any risk of getting their souls stolen or becoming possessed. But real-life haunted houses are a different story. Sure, there are plenty of paranormal enthusiasts who intentionally stay in purportedly haunted hotels and hunt for ghosts. But what if ghosts found their way into your home? If the poll results we just mentioned are accurate, the sensation of an uninvited guest isn't such an uncommon occurrence.
According to the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP), there are some things to pay attention to if you suspect your house is haunted. Seeing apparitions, hearing weird sounds, smelling odd odors, feeling "cold spots" within a room, noticing objects that have been moved or observing your pet acting agitated are all symptoms that people report in what the association calls a "typical haunting" [source: ASSAP].
The 10 places on the following pages have certainly filled that bill, boasting enough symptoms of otherwordly presence to become the world's most notorious real-life haunted houses.
Whaley House
The Whaley House in San Diego was originally built on the execution grounds of James Robinson, nicknamed Yankee Jim. In 1852, Yankee Jim was convicted of grand larceny and sentenced to death by hanging. The hangman set the noose improperly, allowing Jim's feet to graze the ground, prolonging the hanging process. In 1856, Thomas Whaley bought the land where Yankee Jim had been killed and built a house for his own family. The youngest Whaley daughter, Lillian, said she could hear the sound of boots clomping through the house and suspected it to be the ghost of Yankee Jim.
Today, the Whaley House is a registered historic site and museum. Visitors and employees have reported seeing or hearing the ghosts of former owners Thomas and Anna Whaley. According to staff and guests, Thomas' ghost usually resides near the landing at the top of the staircase, while Anna's stays downstairs or in the garden. Television host Regis Philbin is among those who claimed to have seen Mrs. Whaley's ghost. Scents of cigar smoke and perfume have also mysteriously arisen at times. Because of the frequency of such ghost sightings, the Whaley House has been cited as one of the most haunted houses in the United States.
Faces of Belmez
This small cottage in the southern Spanish province of Jaen, in the town of Belméz, isn't haunted by ghosts, per se. The house is built, however, on burial grounds dating back to 1830 [source: Schweimler]. Inside the kitchen, the floor contains an unsolved mystery that has puzzled scientists and laymen for decades. Maria Goméz Pereira, who lived in the house, discovered a face peering up at her from her kitchen floor in 1971. Instead of a two-dimensional apparition, the face resembled a plaster casting that seemed to rise from beneath the house, as though a head was buried right below it.
Spooked by the strange façade, Pereira and her neighbors attempted to get rid of it by chipping away the cement with an axe. Yet upon doing so, they revealed more face casts, this time of older men and children. As word spread about the so-called "faces of Belméz," scientists stepped in to verify their authenticity and test whether they were paintings or fake castings orchestrated by Pereira and her neighbors. The painting theory was ruled out, but no conclusive evidence exists to pinpoint exactly how the faces got there. Nonetheless, the faces have engendered much skepticism.
Blickling Hall
In October 2007, the National Trust of England named Blickling Hall the most haunted home in the country [source: McDermott]. Located in Norfolk, England, the stately house is said to have a special guest stop by every spring.
Blickling Hall was one of Anne Boleyn's childhood homes. Boleyn was the second of King Henry VIII's six wives. Henry was obsessed with having a male heir to the throne and consequently divorced Catherine of Aragon, his first wife, because none of the males she gave birth to survived. He gave it another go with Anne Boleyn, who also failed to produce a son (but did give birth to the future Queen Elizabeth I). To arrange his second divorce, the king cooked up adultery charges against Boleyn that stuck. Her punishment of allegedly cheating on one of the world's most powerful men at that time was death.
On May 19, 1536, Anne Boleyn was beheaded. Every year, on the anniversary of her execution, Boleyn's headless ghost reportedly arrives at Blickling Hall in a carriage drawn by a headless horseman. But she hasn't lost her head completely in the afterlife -- she carries it along with her during her hauntings.
Rose Hall
The tales of the murderous Annie Palmer of Rose Hall still frighten children in Jamaica. Built in 1770, Rose Hall was a sugar cane plantation and home to Palmer and her husband. Palmer grew up in Haiti and learned voodoo from her nanny, which would later serve her in her dastardly schemes.
When Palmer became sexually unsatisfied with her husband, she began sleeping with slaves on the plantation. In order to keep them quiet about the affairs, she either killed these men or ordered other slaves to do so. Wanting to gain sole possession of her husband's wealth, she poisoned her first husband and later married and killed two other men [source: Belanger]. Her sexual escapades continued as well. In case she encountered a man unwilling to pleasure her or a slave trying to escape, Palmer had a pit dug 16 feet (4.8 meters) below the house where she would banish these people [source: Belanger]. As her nefarious reputation spread around the island, she became known as the White Witch.
According to legend, Palmer cast a fatal voodoo hex on a housekeeper who caught the eye of one of her lovers. Supposedly, the housekeeper's grandfather later strangled Palmer to death [source: Belanger]. Her body was buried in an aboveground coffin in the eastern wing of Rose Hall. According to the lore, the White Witch's spirit, along with those of the slaves she had murdered, continued to haunt the house. When new tenants attempted to move into Rose Hall, they were quickly driven away from the haunted grounds. Eventually, in 1965, a couple bought the house and converted it into a museum. Yet even today, visitors and employees have reported hearing men's screams and doors slamming, as well as other paranormal phenomena.
The White House
It must be hard for former presidential couples to adjust to life after the White House. After four or more years, they probably get used to never having to take out the trash, wash dishes or change a light bulb, not to mention the other amenities afforded to arguably the most powerful people in the Western world. Perhaps that's why some have stuck around after their terms -- and lives -- ended. That's right: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is not only the most famous address in the United States, but also one of the most haunted.
John and Abigail Adams were the first presidential couple to live in the White House, taking residence in 1800, and Abigail has lingered ever since. Her ghost is said to hang laundry in the East Room on occasion [source: McLaughlin]. Another first lady, Dolley Madison, has reportedly been quite territorial with White House renovations. During her husband's term, Dolley oversaw the landscaping of the Rose Garden, where presidents often meet with the media. When President Woodrow Wilson's wife tried to have the garden dug up, the story goes that Dolley's ghost appeared and instructed the workers not to tear up her beloved garden [source: Scott and Norman].
Going along with a rose theme, the Queen's Bedroom, which was once called the Rose Room, is known as a paranormal hotspot in the White House [source: Scott and Norman]. It not only houses the bed of President Andrew Jackson but his ghost as well -- people say they've heard it walking around the room. Jackson's ghost is rumored to hang out in the Red Room as well. People have seen Abraham Lincoln's ghost ambling down the halls and staring out of windows. He pays visits to the Lincoln bedroom at times as well.
Don't believe us? The White House Web site, during George W. Bush's presidency, once had a page devoted to its ghost sightings, spotted by notable residents like Eleanor Roosevelt and Jimmy Carter's daughter.
Deane House
On Sept. 30, 1955, actor James Dean got into his Porsche 550 Spyder with his mechanic Rolf Wuetherich and set out for a race. On the way, Dean was involved in a deadly car crash that injured Wuetherich and killed Dean. According to legend, however, Dean's Porsche wasn't finished spreading misery. For instance, the car supposedly broke a man's legs when it rolled off its trailer during transport. The list of tragedies associated with the car grew longer every year until the car was, perhaps mercifully, lost during transport [source: Katz].
The Deane House in Alberta, Canada is the haunted house equivalent of James Dean's cursed set of wheels. And just like Dean's Porsche, the house was mobile. Built in 1906 for Superintendent Captain Richard Deane of the Mounted Police, the house was moved from its original location in 1914 to make way for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Only after moving again in 1929 and becoming a boarding house, however, did the house become a magnet for tragedy. In 1933, a 14-year-old boy, suffering from epilepsy, took his own life in the house's attic after being bullied at school [source: Belanger].
Perhaps the most shocking event in the history of the Deane house, however, was the 1952 murder of Irma Umperville by her husband Roderick. Roderick stabbed and strangled his wife in front of their two children before killing himself in one of the home's apartments, adding one more tragic tale to the home's history [source: GhostStory.co.uk].
With such a violent past, it's no surprise that some say the house remains haunted today. Reports of strange sightings and unexplained laughter emanating from the foyer have surfaced for years.
One look at the name of the next house on our list and you'll immediately know why ghosts plague its residents.
Villisca Ax Murder House
After Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered in their Fall River, Mass. home in 1892, the property was eventually converted to a bed-and-breakfast that's still in operation [source: Villisca Ax Murder House]. If the owners of the Villisca Ax Murder House have similar plans, they might consider changing the name to something more inviting. Then again, maybe a murder-themed B&B could be a big draw for people with a little morbid curiosity, but they'd need to have strong stomachs; the crime that took place at the house was so horrific that it changed the house forever.
On the evening of June 9, 1912, Josiah Moore, his wife Sarah and their four children left their home to attend a function at a local Presbyterian church. The family had also invited Lena and Ina Stillinger, friends of the Moore family children, to spend the night at the Moore house following the event. After the family and their guests returned home and turned in for the night, an intruder -- or perhaps a group of them -- entered the house and used Josiah Moore's axe to crush the skulls of every person in the house while they slept. The next morning, a neighbor noticed that the Moore residence was suspiciously quiet. By noon, the entire town was paralyzed by fear. Because no one was ever convicted of the murders, suspicion dogged some of the town's residents for years.
Today, the home is open for tours and overnight visits, though visitors shouldn't be surprised by uninvited guests. Numerous psychics have studied the house and declared the property haunted by the victims of the murder, and strange phenomenon like falling lamps, flying objects and mysterious voices are supposedly common. Although reports of hauntings have increased greatly since the home was restored recently to its former appearance, they stretch back to the time of the murders themselves.
To visit the next house on our list, we travel halfway across the planet to Australia's Monte Cristo Homestead.
Monte Cristo Homestead
Theories vary regarding why some houses are haunted and others seem free of things that go bump in the night, but as we've seen from several other examples on our list, tragedy seems to be a common thread. It's no surprise, then, that the Monte Cristo Homestead should have such a well-known reputation for paranormal activity. Originally built for the Crawley family in 1884, the Monte Cristo Homestead initially seemed like an ideal setting for the family and its growing fortune, but that soon changed when one of the Crawley's servants dropped their infant daughter down a staircase, killing her. The servant insisted a force unseen pushed the child from her hands [source: Belanger].
In 1910, Christopher William Crawley, the head of the Crawley household, died of heart failure. His passing marked a change in his wife, Elizabeth Crawley. She became extremely reclusive over the next two decades of her life and, according to some, extremely cruel. Several tragic deaths took place at the household while Elizabeth lived there. A pregnant servant fell to her death from a balcony, and another servant, this time a young boy, was burned to death [source: Belanger].
After Elizabeth died, the house fell into disrepair and suffered at the hands of looters and vandals before Reginald Ryan, a local man, purchased it in 1963. He and his wife Olive immediately knew their home was haunted. Lights acted strangely, and the couple could feel the presence of ghosts and eerily cold spots throughout the property. Psychics were invited to the home and reported strong paranormal activity as well, raising suspicions that the house held terrible secrets in its walls. Today, visitors can test those claims themselves by taking a tour of the property and its grounds.
Like the Monte Cristo Homestead, the next house on our list was the height of luxury when it was first constructed, and its outward beauty hid a horrible secret. Read on to find out more.
Lalaurie House
Standing three stories high on Royal Street in New Orleans, the Lalaurie House was once the envy of the city's high society. In 1831, a beautiful socialite by the name of Madame Lalaurie purchased the house with her third husband, Dr. Louis Lalaurie [source: Cable]. By all appearances, Madame Lalaurie lived a charmed life.
Like many of the wealthiest members of society, Madame Lalaurie owned slaves. By law, slave owners were expected to keep slaves well fed, clothed and cared for, but a series of incidents made some of Lalaurie's peers think the socialite was, at best, neglecting those duties and possibly much worse. Those suspicions were confirmed when a neighbor saw Lalaurie chase a child of a slave through the courtyard, into the house, onto the roof. Moments later, the child had fallen to her death [source: Cable].
Lalaurie was fined and forced to sell her slaves, but relatives purchased them and sold them back to her immediately. Although her reputation suffered because of the incident, she remained a popular figure in town until a fire, set by one of Lalaurie's own slaves, brought the attention of the entire community to the Lalaurie House. As the fire burned, several people broke down the door to the slave quarters, and they pulled seven severely maltreated and malnourished slaves from the building, two of whom later died from their mistreatment. Two others were found buried on the premises. The citizens of New Orleans, disgusted and furious with Lalaurie, chased her out of town, looted her possessions and nearly destroyed the Lalaurie House [source: Cable].
Madame Lalaurie herself, having fled to Paris was never brought to justice for her crimes. The house itself later was remodeled and retains little of its original layout, but it remains well known as one of the most haunted places in New Orleans -- at least for some.
Borley Rectory
Unlike many of the other houses on our list, you won't be able to take a tour of the Borley Rectory; the building caught fire and was ultimately demolished in 1944. Built in 1863 at the request of the Rev. Henry Bull, the rectory had always provided its residents with plenty of ghost sightings [source: Taylor]. The source of the sightings was quickly traced back to a story of a nun and a monk who, centuries ago, fell in love and attempted to elope. They were caught, however, and the monk was hanged. His would-be bride suffered an even worse fate, being walled up within her convent and left to die. The Borley Rectory was built on this haunted ground, and its residents suffered accordingly.
Eventually, a newspaper sent an investigator to dig into the stories surrounding the rectory. The investigator, Harry Price, is credited today as being one of the first "ghost hunters" for his use of cameras, fingerprinting kits and other measuring equipment. Price reported many of the same things past residents had -- strange sounds, ghost sightings, objects moving from one place to another -- and his reports only added to the Borley legend.
By the time Price's investigation was in full swing, the Rev. Lionel Foyster was living in the rectory with his wife Marianne, a particularly frequent target of haunting. Unlike previous encounters, Marianne's were allegedly quite violent. Cryptic messages even began to appear on the walls of the rectory, though only when Marianne was at home.
The Foysters moved out, but Price remained committed to finding out all he could about the building. At one particular séance, Price said he learned the names of the nun and the monk who tragically attempted escape those many years ago. At another one, Price said that a spirit warned that the rectory would burn to the ground and, in the rubble, the remains of the nun would be found.
The prediction ultimately happened; within the year, a new owner accidentally set the rectory on fire, and the remains of a young woman were found in the cellar. Whether they were the remains of the love-struck nun remains unknown, but they were given a Christian burial all the same. With that burial and the destruction of the Borley Rectory, the haunting finally ended.
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