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Today's leading-edge technology is headed straight for tomorrow's junk pile, but that doesn't make it any less awesome. Everyone loves the latest and greatest.
Sometimes, though, something truly revolutionary cuts through the clutter and fundamentally changes the game. And with that in mind, Wired is looking back over 12 decades to highlight the 12 most innovative people, places and things of their day. From the first transatlantic radio transmissions to cellphones, from vacuum tubes to microprocessors, we'll run down the most important advancements in technology, science, sports and more.
This week's installment takes us back to 1911-1920, when machine guns on planes were synchronized with their propellers, the Model-T came off the first assembly line and the Panama Canal was completed.
We don't expect you to agree with all of our picks, or even some of them. That's fine. Tell us what you think we've missed and we'll publish your list later.
1918: The Flip-Flop Circuit (Enterprise)
Between 1911 and 1920, Alan Turing was born, one of the founding fathers of the computer age. G. N. Lewis also started work on the lithium battery, and a British Admiral became the first person in recorded history to use an essential part of the modern internet lexicon: "OMG!" But as far as the history of computing goes, the most important development of the second decade of the Twentieth Century is the flip-flop.
A flip-flop is an electronic circuit that can move between two separate states. If you can flip-flop, you can store information. And if you can store information, you can build an honest-to-goodness computer.
The first flip-flop circuit was built in 1918 by British physicists William Eccles and F. W. Jordan. They called it the Eccles-Jordan trigger circuit, and it was made with a pair of vacuum tubes, which had arrived a decade earlier, thanks to a man named Lee De Forest. Basically, you could change the state of this trigger circuit by sending the appropriate signal.
Such circuits were also known as multivibrators. But don't let that distract you. By the forties, IBM and others were using these flip-flopping circuits to build adding machines -- and, yes, honest-to-goodness computers.
Photo: Courtesy of the Computer History Museum
1914: The Panama Canal (Design)
Completed in 1914, the Panama Canal is more than just an engineering triumph — it is humanity's greatest (intentional) attempt to alter our world, literally designing it to be the way we want. What we wanted was a short cut to the Pacific, but it took two countries, 33 years, tens of thousands of lives, and $639 million in 1914 dollars to get there.
The result: a giant 50-mile gutter with a system of ship-lifting locks that rise 85 feet above sea level and over the continental divide. Named one of the seven wonders of the modern world by the American Society of Civil Engineers, the process required building the world's largest (at the time) man-made lake, and inventing giant, new machinery expressly for the canal. The locks themselves were unprecedented, a design by Edward Schildhauer that incorporated watertight, buoyant doors driven by electric motors.
Aside from being an engineering triumph, the canal helped revolutionize the way we get goods around the world, and with that, the way that industry ran its supply chains. But in recent years, the advent of larger ships that don't fit in the canal — supertankers and container ships alike — has forced trans-American shippers to navigate the long, arduous route around Cape Horn. So Panama is expanding the locks, a $5.3 billion project scheduled for completion in 2014, one hundred years after the opening of the original.
Photo: Wikipedia
1913: Golf Hits It Big in U.S. (Sports)
The story sounds like a Hollywood pitch: An unknown 20-year-old amateur golfer beats the world's best players. And Disney did, in fact, turn Francis Ouimet's story into the movie The Greatest Game Ever Played. But Ouimet's victory in the 1913 U.S. Open was more than an amazing sports moment. It was the event that made golf popular in the United States.
In the early 20th century, golf was a rich man's game. Ridiculous membership fees at exclusive country clubs kept the sport beyond the reach of ordinary Americans, and the pro tournaments were dominated by Scottish and British players. Two of those champions, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, came to The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, and stumbled right into history in the making.
The details of Ouimet's win push the limits of believability. He grew up in an immigrant family across the street from The Country Club and built three makeshift holes in his backyard, where he and his brothers would play. He began to caddie at age 11 and honed his skills, qualifying for the US Open by winning the state championship in 1913. His caddie was a 10-year-old boy barely bigger than the golf bag he strained to carry. A three-way tie between Ouimet, Vardon, and Ray at the end of regulation play forced an 18-hole playoff, where the American cruised to a five-shot win and became the first amateur player to win the U.S. Open.
The New York Times saw Ouimet's impact immediately. The day after his win, the paper wrote, "When Ouimet holed his final stroke on the home green of the Country Club this afternoon, the 8,000 persons who had tramped through the heavy mist and dripping grass behind the trio of players for almost three hours realized what the victory meant to American golf, and the series of elation which followed were pardonable under the circumstances."
Golf experienced an almost instant boost in popularity. When Ouimet celebrated his improbable win, about 350,000 Americans played golf. Ten years later, the number of people hitting the links was up to 2 million.
Photo: Courtesy of the Library of Congress
1915: Fighter Planes (War)
Nearly a century ago, many of the world's military commanders didn't want to think so much about airplanes. The newfangled flying contraptions were an oddity, and even considered cowardly and offensive if used as a weapon. But when the world exploded in a global war in 1914, the combating armies discovered that it wasn't enough to control the ground -- they also had to control the skies. Soldiers could dig themselves into a fortified position when faced with an attack by enemy soldiers, only to be overrun and smashed by artillery fire directed from enemy aircraft buzzing overhead. The pilots of these flying machines could not only watch what the other side is doing, but accurately direct devastating barrages on anyone for miles while denying the enemy to do the same.
The development of fighter planes by the French, British and German militaries was now inevitable. But there was also a quandary: the planes were designed for reconnaissance, not fighting. Until 1916, many planes used for the war had no ailerons. Pilots had to bend and warp their wings back and forth to stay aloft, little different from how inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright kept their flyer in the air. Early military planes had no weapons, which was a problem when the two opposing sides began searching for ways to kill each other. Early pilots resorted to throwing bricks and shooting pistols at each other from the cockpit. In 1915, however, Germany developed synchronization gear, which connected a plane's machine gun to its engine, and allowed bullets to fire in coordination with the propeller without shooting off the prop.
By the end of the war, the importance of air power was settled for the century, and it terrified people. Looking back on the war in 1921, the Italian general and aircraft theorist Giulio Douhet warned that the future would be a world in which "normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction." But life did continue, though Douhet likely couldn't have predicted an era like our own, in which military aircraft have turned increasingly robotic -- and have provoked some to wonder the same.
Photo: Courtesy of the Library of Congress
1919: Prohibition (Security)
The National Prohibition Act, also known as the Volstead Act, was passed by Congress in 1919 and established the legal framework for Prohibition in the United States. President Woodrow Wilson vetoed the measure, which was overridden in October 1919 by both the House and Senate.
The law said that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, or furnish any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act."
Prohibition was eventually overturned on a national level with the passage of the 21st Amendment in 1933. Along the way, Prohibition paved the way for organized crime, bootlegging and speakeasies.
Photo: Courtesy of the Library of Congress
1911: The Erector Set (Games)
The Erector Set is one of those toys that straddle the line between real life and playtime. Born of an engineering daydream in which toy company founder Alfred C. Gilbert envisioned a replica of the girders along a New York railroad, the set made use of uniform bolts, metal beams and gears to allow budding makers to create interchangeable designs.
Invented in 1911 and patented in 1913, the toy was billed — and found success — as an educational device, capitalizing on a societal drive for success and an emphasis on science and technology vocations. Considered to be the first toy with a national ad campaign, Erector ads depicted grown-up builders helping their sons, saying they'd go on to careers in chemistry and engineering. "Boys Today, Men Tomorrow!" read one print advertisement.
Young girls weren't so lucky; Gilbert's other company released a "Little Laundress" set in the 1920s. Even today, construction toy designs remain unattractive to many girls, a disparity that a successful Kickstarter called GoldieBlox hopes to address.
A series of interchangeable-part toys — Tinkertoys (1914), Lincoln Logs (1918), LEGOs (1949), K'nex (1993) — can trace their lineage to the Erector Set, but Gilbert's toy, with different motors and gear ratios, allowed kids to explore deeper elements of design and engineering. Tinkerers used the sets to help invent real tools, like the first artificial heart pump.
Even as far back as the 1950s, Erector kits came with instructions for rolling, motorized robots. The brand still lives today, and, like LEGO, Erector Set's modern kits often feature more specialized, less moddable designs, but both brands have found new ways to incorporate digital, programmable features. Giving kids a set of building tools and letting them test their designs would even prove to be a major theme of the videogame business, from early works like Pinball Construction Set to easily modifiable games like Minecraft and LittleBigPlanet.
Photo: Wikipedia
1913: First Crossword Puzzle (Entertainment)
Word freaks discovered an addictive new way to get their game on in 1913 when the world's first crossword puzzle was published. Making its debut in the New York World, Arthur Wynne's playful invention -- dubbed a "word-cross puzzle" -- teased readers with deceptively simple instructions: "Fill in the small squares with words which agree with the following definitions." And thus was born a brainy diversion that captivates puzzlers to this day.
Other momentous occasions from this decade: Ambrose Bierce's fiercely satiric book The Devil's Dictionary, one of humorous writing's defining moments, was published with its wicked new title in 1911 (it was originally published five years earlier as The Cynic's Word Book). Franz Kafka's mutant masterpiece The Metamorphosis rolled off the presses in 1915. And J.R.R. Tolkien began laying the groundwork for his epic Middle-earth fantasies in the middle of the decade.
Also, presaging the internet era's purrfectly understandable kitteh crush, cartoonish cats captured the public's eye. The Krazy Kat comic strip was first published in 1913; animated character Felix the Cat debuted in short films late in 1919.
Photo: Wikipedia
1914: The Electric Household Refrigerator (Gadgets)
Today, we take our refrigerators for granted. But prior to the 1920s, people didn't have the luxury of hoarding perishable food in giant temperature-controlled boxes. It wasn't until 1913 that the first electric take on food preservation, a device called the Domelre, entered the consumer market. But this fridge, invented by Fred W. Wolf, was basically just a box with an electric fan. It was designed to be mounted on top of an ice box, and it kept things cool by blowing air over the block of ice.
A year later, the world got something that we might recognize as a real refrigerator. The compressor, a device that compressed gas into a liquid to absorb heat, was invented and used for large applications like grocery store coolers and railroad cars in the late 1800's. In 1914, engineer Nathaniel Wales, working with entrepreneurs Edmund Copeland and Arnold Goss, figured out how to build one into a home-sized appliance. He sold his refrigerator design under the Kelvinator brand. That same year, a garage inventor named Alfred Mellowes hit on a similar design, which he sold to a company called Guardian Frigerator Company.
In 1918, General Motors bought Guardian and turned it into Frigidaire, a brand that is synonymous with home appliances to this day. With mass production on their side, Kelvinator, Frigidaire, and others began offering much more affordable electric refrigerators by the turn of the decade, meaning spoiled food is no longer a daily worry.
Still, that pizza you've got in there is starting to look a little old.
Photo: Courtesy of the Library of Congress
1913: The Modern Assembly Line (Cars)
Ford's army of workers began cranking out hundreds of Model Ts in the winter of 1913, but the assembly line's creation was inspired by destruction; specifically, the butchering of animals in a Chicago slaughterhouse.
William Klann came back from Chitown after watching the intricate "disassembly" of cows and pigs, with one worker systematically removing a single piece of the animal as it moved along an overhead trolley. He brought this idea to Peter Martin, who would later head up Ford's production line, and the implementation helped to create the world's most affordable car. A new Model T would roll off the line every three minutes, but the biggest problem was paint. The T was only available in black because it was the only hue that dried quick enough to keep up with the assembly line.
Photo: Courtesy of Ford
1911: Superconductivity (Science)
More than a hundred years ago, a Dutch physicist named Heike Kamerlingh Onnes cooled a sample of mercury in his lab. As the temperature neared absolute zero, he noticed a curious thing, writing in his notebook "Kwik nagenoeg nul" (Mercury practically zero). The resistance in the mercury sample had dropped to practically nothing – it had become a superconductor.
When he first discovered it in 1911, Kamerlingh Onnes immediately recognized the power of this startling new phenomenon. He received widespread recognition for the feat, winning the Nobel Prize in physics in 1913.
Superconductivity is weird. Inside a superconductor, electrons encounter no resistance to their movement, gliding like ice-skaters on a rink. If you set up an electric current in a perfect superconductor, it will keep flowing until the end of time. With superconducting wires, you could move power across continents with no loss. And, since magnets float like ghosts above a superconductor, you could create super-fast maglev trains. Trouble is, superconductors only work at extremely cold temperatures.
Today, superconductors are found in many places. They underpin the MRI scans that let doctors see dangerous tumors inside your body and are used in digital circuits for cell phone base stations. Perhaps most importantly, superconductors line the enormous tunnel walls of particle accelerators such as Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider, which are pushing the frontiers of physics to find new and even weirder phenomenon. Should someone ever discover a superconductor that works at less extreme temperatures, they could revolutionize society.
Photo: Wikipedia
1917: Nikon Founded (Photography)
This decade had many notable milestones in photography: The first natural color photo printed in National Geographic, the invention of phototelegraphic transmission that would send the first digital images over cable and some important advances in motion picture formats. But the event with the most far reaching consequences for photography has to be the founding of Nikon in 1917.
At its founding, three optical manufacturers joined together to form Nippon Kōgaku Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha. Only in 1988 would the company officially be called Nikon, named after a line of its cameras established in 1946. Nikon originated from a melding of the Nippon Kōgaku name and a Carl Zeiss brand called Ikon.
The Nikon F (pictured above) in 1959 was the first SLR to be widely used by professionals, most notably in Vietnam. Its F-mount lens system, along with a full line of interchangeable lenses and durability, created a standard that continues in various forms into today's digital SLRs.
Without Nikon's pioneering in lenses, electric strobes, integrated light metering and modular systems, today's prosumer cameras would look very different. And while many loathe the rivalry between Nikon and Canon for its tendency to lock customers into a particular lens system and equipment cycle, the competition has been good for the industry in general by keeping costs down and development rapid.
Photo: Wikipedia
1920: Snap-On Wrench Founded (Business)
The U.S. was on an industrial tear during this decade, thanks to a combination of the electrification of all things, and the leap in scale of manufacturing that Henry Ford and his assembly line enabled. Plane manufacturers took off, as did the first wave of airlines. Carmakers of every stripe were born. In 1911 Charles R. Flint, maybe the original tech M&A guy, engineered a merger between three companies that became the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. That company would get renamed IBM.
IBM is, of course, a massively important company, but in 1920 the company that remains on the wish list of every gear-head and DIY diehard was born: The Snap-on Wrench Company.
From their Wisconsin factory, Joseph Johnson and William Seidemann manufactured and marketed ten sockets that would "snap on" to five interchangeable handles. The duo even took to the street to sell their new-fangled tools directly to the grease monkeys of the day, a practice the $2.9 billion company continues today. Snap-on customers practically invented sitting around the garage drinking beer, and in that sense made the suburbs, if not possible, a whole lot more bearable.
Can an IBM super-computer beat you at chess in an instant? Absolutely. But can it fix your car, your dryer, and your kid's bike and make your buddies ooh and ahh with envy when they see drawer after draw of pristine sockets and wrenches? No sir, that requires heavy iron of a different sort, the Snap-on sort.
Since 2007, Wired.com's This Day In Tech blog has reflected on important and entertaining events in the history of science and innovation, pursuing them chronologically for each day of the year. Hundreds of these essays have now been collected into a trivia book, Mad Science: Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries that Made Our World. It goes on sale Nov. 13, and is available for pre-order today at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other online book stores.Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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Florida was one of the first states to create highway welcome centers, which have now become almost standard across the nation. The establishment of the Dixie Highway routed travelers as far north as Michigan into the state of Florida via a little town called Yulee. Leaders of the growing Florida tourism industry saw this as an excellent opportunity to educate out-of-towners on the many sites and attractions the state had to offer.
Florida's first "hospitality house" opened in Yulee in the fall of 1949 on the Georgia-Florida line. Seven more centers followed to greet visitors arriving via US1/301 in Hilliard, US41 near Jennings, US231 near Campbellton, US90 in Pensacola, a marine center in Fernandina Beach, US27 in Havana, and US19 near Monticello.
Although these original facilities have since come and gone, they created a long-standing tradition for offering complimentary orange juice, maps, attraction information, and assistance for tourists with travel inquiries. They also featured picnic and restroom facilities (and anyone who has been on a road trip understands the sanctity and relief of a well placed "restroom" sign).
Today there are five Official Florida Welcome Centers operated by Visit Florida. They are located on Interstate 10 in Pensacola, US231 near Campbellton, the State Capitol in Tallahassee, Interstate 75 in Live Oak, and Interstate 95 near Jacksonville. Personnel now undergo training to receive a national Information Specialist certification to better serve visitors. Otherwise, not much has changed in the way of good ole' friendly service you can expect at any one of these stations.
Since the first welcome center opened in 1949, the State of Florida has estimated that 90 million visitors have been received, and more than 200 million maps have been distributed. Now that's a lot of free orange juice!
If you're traveling through the Sunshine State this summer, be sure to stop at an Official Florida Welcome Center. If you're stuck at home for the moment, you can still enjoy a bit of Florida by searching for your favorite Sunshine State destinations in the Florida Photographic Collection.
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Great Expectations for Linux in 2013
Jan 3, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Well another holiday season has come and gone, leaving more than a few jangled nerves and expanded waistlines in its wake.
Holiday pressures are bad enough by themselves, of course, but Canonical's splashy and yet profoundly confusing Wednesday announcement so soon afterward hasn't exactly helped.
Yes, it's Ubuntu for phones, but it isn't the same as the Ubuntu for Android you've been expecting for almost a year! Sure, makes perfect sense!
Oof, it's going to take more than a few triple Tequila Tux cocktails to bring back Linux Girl's hitherto cheerful post-holiday mood.
What May Come
Anyhoo, leaving all that Ubuntu wackiness aside for the moment -- Linux Girl knows she can't avoid discussing it, but will save it for another day -- it's time to look at the big picture.
This is the start of a momentous new year, after all, and as such Linux bloggers -- like so many others around the world -- have been forming their hopes for what may come over the next 12 months.
Ready for an obfuscation-free look at the future? Then relax, sit back and read on.
'Greater OEM Acceptance'
"My hopes and dreams for Linux are really the same for 2013 as they've been since the 90s," Google+ blogger Linux Rants offered over a fresh round down at the blogosphere's Broken Windows Lounge.
Specifically, "I'd love to see a greater OEM acceptance of Linux, with more big-name brands like Dell, HP, and Lenovo not only selling Linux-based computers, but promoting them to the public," he explained.
Windows 8 has "greatly increased the attractiveness of Linux-based systems just by being Windows 8, and I really hope that the FOSS community can take advantage of that opportunity," Linux Rants added.
Indeed, Linux Girl will toast to that whole-heartedly.
'Retail Shelf Space Will Open Up'
"In 2013, ARM and */Linux will intrude in the desktop/notebook space in a big way, agreed blogger Robert Pogson.
"From Chromebooks to thin clients, there won't be a form factor untouched," he added. "The difference? Retail shelf space will open up to */Linux on everything, not just small cheap mobile computers."
That trend actually started back in 2011, Pogson told Linux Girl, and "was proved viable with a few more successes in 2012."
'Nowhere to Go but Down'
Now, "in 2013, OEMs and retailers will flood the market with */Linux on all kinds of things after seeing in spades that '8' does not sell at any price," he predicted. "2013 will be the year that M$'s OS took a nose-dive from its lofty heights onto the busy streets of IT.
"Wintel has been pretty flat for a year, and there was no joy from '8,'" Pogson concluded. "There's nowhere to go but down."
Consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack had other matters on his mind.
"For 2013, I hope Valve ports more games to Linux and that other game makers will follow suit," he told Linux Girl.
'Give Linux a Real Chance'
Google+ blogger Gonzalo Velasco C. said he not only wishes "all GNU/Linux developers and users the best," but also that "other OSes' users would give Linux a real chance," he began. "So may they find something good and useful they are going to love, in time."
In addition, "I also wish some OEM big guys would stop flirting and coming with empty or low-quality proposals, and start giving GNU/Linux the whole respect it deserves as a good, mature and complete OS for corporate and domestic users," Gonzalo Velasco C. said.
Within the Linux community, meanwhile, "I think some standardization would be nice," he added. "To make four or five mainstreams regarding packaging, formatting, hard drive managing... would be great. More fragmentation is only good in a scenario of alien invasion :-D"
'A Legitimate Option for the People'
Slashdot blogger hairyfeet saw a shift in power on the way in this upcoming year.
"Google is taking Linux away from the all the little prima donna devs and the 50 billion projects controlled by little nobodies that control their own little fiefdoms and don't play nice with each other to put a top-down control in place and thus FINALLY bring FOSS software to the masses," hairyfeet suggested.
"In just a few years, Google has caused FOSS to explode," hairyfeet explained. "Not only will we have phones and tablets and laptops and even game consoles, but we have even seen Android taking over more and more jobs away from Linux like plug PCs and STBs."
Hairyfeet's hope and dream, then, "is just for Google to keep doing what they are doing, bringing FOSS up as a legitimate OS that your average user can actually buy and use," he concluded. "Because at the end of the day, I thought that was the goal of FOSS (not RMS and GPL -- that is another story): to be a legitimate option for the people and to compete not because of philosophy but because it's just really, really good."
'I Hope We Get Back to Freedom'
Last but not least, Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien took a high-level view.
"I hope we will get back to freedom," O'Brien told Linux Girl.
"The emphasis over the last few years has been on commercial success, of which the worst example is 'open core,' which I define as 'I want the cool factor of being open while keeping control of everything,'" he explained.
"I did not join the free software community in order to promote corporate success," O'Brien concluded. "And for those companies that complain that free software is too restrictive in its licensing, I say, 'Tough. If you don't like it, write your own damn software.'"


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Rays fall on Wieters' walk-off slam
BALTIMORE -- Mercifully, Tampa Bay's first road stretch is complete, and based on what happened during the trip, the final game's outcome seemed fitting given the level of frustration reached during the team's 11 days away from St. Petersburg.
Matt Wieters' grand slam in the bottom of the 10th gave the Orioles a 10-6 walk-off win Thursday night at Camden Yards, with 13,986 watching.
Tampa Bay lost the series to Baltimore while moving to 5-10 on the season and 2-7 on their three-stop journey. On Friday night at Tropicana Field, the Rays will begin a six-game homestand against the Athletics and Yankees.
Nick Markakis started the winning rally Thursday with a single off Jamey Wright. Brandon Gomes took over to face Manny Machado, who pushed a bunt down the first-base line and beat it out for a single. Confusion then entered the picture.
Adam Jones slammed a drive to deep right field. With no outs, the runners had to hold to see if Ben Zobrist caught the ball at the wall. He did not, but that pause prevented Markakis from scoring on the play. The Rays contended that Jones did not re-touch second base on his return to first, so they appealed. While replays appeared to validate the Rays' contention, the appeal was not upheld.
"It's a very confusing moment, not your typical baseball moment," manager Joe Maddon said.
With the bases loaded and no outs, Maddon elected to bring Zobrist in from the outfield to give the Rays five infielders. Wieters then made the move irrelevant when he connected for his third home run of the season, all of which have come against the Rays.
"I felt like it was going to go, and I knew it was going to get a run in, whether it went out or not; I knew the game was going to be over," Wieters said.
A dejected Gomes said he just needed to do his job in that situation.
"I haven't seen the pitch to Jones, but I'm assuming that slider was left up," Gomes said. "Then I tried to go back-door slider to Wieters, and it caught way too much of the plate."
Had Jones been ruled out, Gomes would have been pitching with an empty base and runners at second and third.
"The whole world changes at that point, too," Maddon said. "When you have a base open like that, the pitcher can pitch in a different manner as opposed to when you do not. Who knows what would have happened at that point. Second and third with one out, it would have been a different mind-set for Gomes. ... He could have done different things."
Gomes allowed that if first base were open, "it could have" made a difference, but he added: "I'm not going to play that game. I just didn't execute the pitches I needed to. That's really all it is."
For most of the time on the road, Tampa Bay has struggled on offense, which added a strange tint to Thursday night's game as the offense performed well, but the pitching did not come through.
The Rays took the lead three different times for David Price, who was making his fourth start of the season. All told, Tampa Bay hit four home runs on the evening. Desmond Jennings, Evan Longoria, Jose Molina and James Loney went deep. But the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner came up empty, despite a good start that saw him strike out the side in the first on 12 pitches.
"It was kind of a tough night for [Price]," Maddon said. "He didn't have his best stuff, and they kept coming back. The way he started out the game, I felt pretty good. That first inning he was very sharp. But they kept nipping away."
Price is now winless in four starts after allowing five runs on eight hits while striking out six en route to a no-decision.
"The offense did a great job, got me two runs in the first inning, and I gave them back -- all three of them back -- in the second after I had a very good first inning," Price said. "It is frustrating. ... It's a frustrating time for myself and this team.
"I want to win. I do. That's why I play this game is to win. And most importantly I want this team to win every fifth day when it's my time to pitch. And that's not happening right now. So I have to make some adjustments and continue to work."
Sooner or later the Rays would like the biscuits to come out even with the gravy.
"Hopefully we can start pitching and hitting on the same night," Sean Rodriguez said. "Maybe we all need to go out to eat together."


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Since the Model S dashboard will be all LCD displays, it should allow for easy translation into KPH and/or different languages. By easy I mean software update, and no engineering/printing required. Is this option in the scope ?
Hache, from France
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God's Power?Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
I walked past my kitchen table today and my eyes fell on the title of a book I received in the mail. The title? God's Power to Change Your Life. Methinks to meself…hmmm, that's not really a surprise, now is it? I mean, come on, even someone with the slightest, minutest possible hint of a belief that God just might, possibly, theoretically, be real is not knocked out by the idea that God has the "power" to change that person's life. Yeah, not so much.
Alright Deb, since you seem to know the title that really would catch a person's attention and make them sit up and take notice, why don't you just share that with the rest of us. (Like how I talk to myself there? Sorta scary don't you think?). Okay, so here it is…get ready to be blown away. Have you braced yourself?
God's Desire to Change Your Life
Tada!!! Now that would grab anyone's attention. Think about how unthinkable it is to entertain the thought, for just a second, that the Almighty God, the Great I Am, the Creator of the Universe and All that Is and Will Ever Be, that Being…God…wants to change your life. How's that for mind-blowing? Guess what? It's true.
Sure Deb…it's true…just HOW do you know? (Play along with me here, still talking to myself).
I know it's true because God says so and He shows me every single day. Turn with me now to Jeremiah 29:11. Bear with me here as this will be from the translation of Deb…
"I know the plans I have for you. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a future and a hope."
Yes, He was talking to Jeremiah but, news flash here, he is still talking to us too.
Still in Jeremiah…back up a little to Jeremiah 1:4-5. Again, from the translation of Deb…
"I knew you before you were born. Before I formed you in your mother's womb, I knew you."
Not only is that awesome and awe inspiring, it is so cool! God cares about me and what I'm doing and where I'm heading and the decisions I make (good and bad)…and the coolest part of it all is that he allows me to make those decisions myself…you know, that Free Will thing?…Not only do I get to make the choice but I also get to make mistakes and apologize for those mistakes and then I get a do over to set my life back on the track it was supposed to be on anyway. Sometimes some debris is left behind but that is all a part of life and a part of being able to live life and choosing to let God show you what He wants for you.
So yeah, God has got the Power…no question there…I'm just so excited to know that he also has the Desire. Wow.


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Mitt Romney's White Flag Of Surrender
Yet, rather than talk about how hard he would work to earn the vote of every American, Romney told his fellow wealthy diners at the fundraiser that he would have a better chance of winning if he had been born Latino.
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Mitt Romney just doesn't get it.
Romney surrendered 47% of the electorate with the verbal abuse, "My job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives."
Yet Romney is the candidate who's running allover the place declaring that, once again, "the president has waved the white flag of surrender" after President Obama yesterday said you can't change Washington from the inside. These were the exact words Romney himself used in the past.
Even then, just days after the Romneygate video emerged, showing him comfortably sharing his dismissive views towards the not-so-wealthy 47% of voters --Obama's supporters as Romney contends-- with his fellow super wealthy friends at a fund raising dinner, one wouldn't expect Romney to be talking about white flags.
But we've now become accustomed to expect anything from Romney.
The 47% and some of the 53% are beginning to learn more about Romney and many of them don't like what they're seeing. As a result President Obama has opened leads in several critical states going into the home stretch according to most polls, as the following breakdown shows:
Florida: Obama (49%) vs. Romney (44%) Fox Poll
Ohio: Obama (50%) vs. Romney (43%) NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll
Virginia: Obama (50%) vs. (46%) New York Times/Quinnipiac/CBS Poll
Wisconsin: Obama (51%) vs. Romney (45%) New York Times/Quinnipiac/CBS Poll
Colorado: Obama (48%) vs. Romney (47%) New York Times/Quinnipiac/CBS Poll
Iowa: Obama (50%) vs. Romney (42%) NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll
Nevada: Obama (49%) vs. Romney (46%) CNN/ORC International Poll
New Hampshire: Obama (45%) vs. Romney (40%) WMUR Granite State Poll
These key battle ground states combine for a total of 110 electoral votes. Romney has to win either Florida with its 29 votes or Ohio with 18 to even have a chance at it. Yet, rather than talk about how hard he would work to earn the vote of every American, Romney told his fellow wealthy diners at the fundraiser that he would have a better chance of winning if he had been born Latino.
And he still runs around talking about a white flag?
Even if Romney's campaign advisors are incompetent he is not obligated to accept their recommendations or suggestions. That's why they are called advisors; he is the Presidential candidate and is expected to show presidential caliber decision making.
Why would Romney utter the words "white flag of surrender" given his own conduct? Could he be so clueless, that even after abandoning 47% of the electorate, Romney still does not consider that as surrender? Can anyone be so wealthy and so elitist and so removed from the real world where regular Americans exist that he doesn't see the 47% as part of a legitimate electorate?
Well now we know the answer to these questions thanks to Willard Mitt Romney.
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OK, the obvious doggy illusion is the first thing that comes to mind. I live in a neighborhood that is a social marketers dream. Most of the people across the street are retired and live in a "gated community." It rocks for not having lots of different gardeners, lawn mowing, leaf blowing and general raking going on when I am working on my publications or re-designing websites. It is easier to work remotely without all the distractions.
The downside is that surrounded by all these townhomes, I have the only lawn in the middle of the block. It's nice to have the only lawn, I get to enjoy it and not have to deal with everybody else's lawn like activities, but it also leaves me vulnerable.
There are certain parallels in business. Once I find that one niche that I really enjoy and feel really good about, I don't want to call attention to myself with exactly EVERYBODY! There is a certain amount of reservation that some might treat my market niche much like the neighbors' dogs treat my lawn. "Oh, there's a nice green patch we haven't thought of – lets go do our business on it!"


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Anybody seen this number one bestseller (literally, leading the top of the bestseller list) called:
"Heaven is For Real!"
Preacher's son goes under in surgery and then describes heaven?
Saw a coworker was giving it to her son to read ... so sad :(
WTF America?????
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This story was on ABC Nightly News a few months back. All I could think about was how much this innocent little boy was encouraged to 'remember' things that really didn't happen....
like the way dream therapies sometimes go off the deep end and people start re-thinking their childhood experiences. See http://faculty.washington.edu/eloftus/Articles/mazz.htm
It also seems similar to 'leading the witness' in court proceedings... leading a child to say what you want them to cannot be very difficult. I have a hard time believing this boy wasn't 'prompted'. And a parent who wants to be involved in a book deal and lecture circuit with their child is just a publicity hound, in my opinion. I wish Christians didn't automatically assume everybody wants to be involved in their 'wishful thinking' vacation from reality! What next, a cheesy made-for-tv movie?
In fact, a made for tv movie seems almost CERTAIN to be in the offing. Hallmark channel here they go ...
Everything you mentioned above seems like good enough evidence to question (and for us, rule-out) these supposed "revelations." Additionally, the fact that his father is preacher seems to be the nail in the coffin in my opinion. It would be at least considerably more intriguing if the child were born to say (gasp) atheist parents! In this case they might be able to convince us to listen to their story as it was something that would not be promoted by his upbringing. Doesn't seal a verdit however; just like many children find out santa claus isn't real from mates at school, it is entirely likely for a child to hear other children who are brought up religiously speak on the cartoonish, Looney-Tunes imagery of "heaven" with its wings and harps and clouds. I wonder how many meterologists are insulted by this child's rendition of a cloudy afterlife ;)
For me, the truth is that saturating a vulnerable brain of a toddler with this propaganda is tantamount to child abuse, and that's what makes it most disturbing :(
Thank you for the link!
I agree...if this child was living in an atheist household THAT would be news... a miracle, even. Ha
Children have vivid imaginations and we shouldn't downplay the importance of creative thinking and the love of a good story. The Bible has some good stories...they aren't true stories based on facts...they are good stories in the same fashion that fable are good stories with interesting moral dilemmas that get worked out in the end and 'teach a lesson'. I have no problem reading fairy tales to kids and having them learn important lessons of life...in fact, I encourage parents to introduce their kids to all sorts of books, fiction and non.
Teaching that heaven is a real place bothers me. It is giving false hope. It is fiction. I also would put it in the realm of 'propaganda' because it is misleading. It is promoting an afterlife. How can anybody know the afterlife? And this whole idea of coming back from the afterlife is just spooky talk. I would rather be completely honest and admit that I don't know what happens after death but I'm 99% sure there's no afterlife and leave the discussion there. There is no scientific proof of an afterlife....let biology teach us about life and leave the description of death as 'the end'. Stories have a beginning and an end and many chapters. Death is the last chapter. Kids respect honesty. I intend to remain honest with my kids!
Yes yes and yes!
In addition to the many other points that add so much suspicion to this so-called "revelation," I can't help but remember how easy it is to get a child to follow a line of reasoning. Ever been with your child or someone else's and asked them, "do you wanna (blank)?" or something to that effect? Especially if it were something they did not know, but felt they should have, they will often go along with the narrative without admitting ignorance. "What did you see in heaven son? Angels and clouds and jesus and your sister?" Eesh. I remember when my brothers were real young (before they spoke any real English), we would ask them if they wanted to go take a nap (something they hated) but did it in a very exciting, encouraging tone of voice and they would nod along in happiness until they landed in the middle of their crib ... crying ensued. Children can be easily led and therefore misled.
This discussion isn't just about this sort of child-abuse I suppose, but is related to the studies done about NDE (near death experiences). Y'all should check out the book "DMT: The Spirit Molecule" by Rick Strassman, a man who did very important research with the "drug" DMT, which is produced naturally in the pineal gland of our brains. His subjects often experienced what can only be comparable to a NDE as many have in surgery etc. It is hypothesized that somehow during the times we are waving so long to life, the chemical is released in high, metabolizable doses, creating the affect of shooting off out of this world and into another. This hypothesis eventually be found incorrect, but it sounds much more likely than what we must accept in the world of religion.
There has also been a movie produced about this subject, and you should demand that it comes to your city to play! You can go here to do so:
I will check that study and website out later but I have no problem accepting scientific explanations about what the human brain is doing in 'near-death' experiences. There are chemical explanations that would make a lot more sense to me than these unfounded supernatural beliefs in heaven (and hell). And when a child is in the hospital recovering from an illness, I'm sure their little brains are firing off all kinds of chemical-induced dreams. Dreams are vivid. No question about it. They can appear disturbingly real at times...and can even provide comforting sensations like being with loved ones that have died. But that doesn't mean they are depicting real events or places...like heaven.
Actually what I find interesting is that when you hear about an atheist (any atheist) who happens to have a near death experience and comes back from it with a belief in 'God' is hailed as a miracle. But if a Christian has a near death and comes back from it realizing there is no God, he is considered brain damaged.
I have watched a few interview with the boy that this story is about and his father. In each of the interviews, the father has done much of the talking for the little boy and when the little boy talked you could hear it in his voice and see it on his face that he was thinking, "Dad, why must we keep on lieing about this?"
Little boy, your dad is a money hungry asshole that is lieing to make a profit off of the 75% of Americans that have some sort of a neorological disorder.
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The addition of an executive pastry chef and two sous chefs enhance culinary experience for The Grill, Terazza Garden Patio & Lounge, and event guests
The Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort and Executive Chef Bruce Yim welcome Sous Chefs Mark Economou and John Segerstrom and Executive Pastry Chef Kara Hranicka to an award winning culinary team.
A graduate of The Culinary Institute of America, Sous Chef Mark Economou returns to the Hacienda Del Sol culinary team after spreading his wings as a culinary instructor at The Art Institute of Tucson. He cut his teeth in the Tucson dining scene at Bistro Zin and The Gold Room at Westward Look Resort, then morphed from kitchen/operations director to butcher to executive chef in the kitchens of Charro Steak, Sir Veza's Taco Garage, The University of Arizona, The Hub, and Sam Hughes Champion Dinning. After Chef Economou researched and designed a holistic and specialized dietary plan for a loved one affected by cancer, he founded Team Arianna Healing Cuisine, a personal chef service for clients undergoing medical treatment. Prior to finding this passion, Chef enchanted downtown Tucson diners as owner/executive chef at Central Bistro.
Returning to his culinary roots in the Grand Canyon state, Sous Chef John Segerstrom joins Hacienda Del Sol from Avon, Colorado's Ritz-Carlton Bachelor Gulch where he served as Chef de Cuisine. He launched his culinary career by earning an Associate of Culinary Arts degree at the Scottsdale Culinary Institute. Dedication to the art and business of food allowed Chef Segerstrom to rise from line cook, to Sous Chef, then later executive chef in some of Southern Arizona's finest kitchens. These include McClintocks at Saguaro Ranch, Ritz Carlton Dove Mountain, and Bistro Phillipe. Cradled between Tucson restaurant scene stints, Segerstrom continued his education and practice as Sous Chef for James Beard award winner, and lauded "founding father" of Southwest Cuisine, Stephan Pyles.
Chef Kara Hranicka, born and raised in Tinley Park, Illinois, joins the Hacienda Del Sol culinary team from Desert Diamond Casinos. There, as pastry chef, she elevated guest experiences daily with an array of unique sweet delights and on special occasions with wedding cakes, baked sculptures, and edible showpieces. Prior to that she helped open Prep & Pastry and honed her skills in the baking kitchen at the Lodge at Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club in Tucson. Chef Hranicka received her Associate's and Bachelor's of Science degrees in baking and pastry arts from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. She earned a certificate in French Patisserie from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Pâtisserie in Yssingeaux.
Executive Chef Bruce Yim says of the new additions to his team, "I'm thrilled to work with these chefs (again). We've really pulled together a trifecta of experienced culinarians who are blending well with seasoned staff and tradition yet creatively enhancing Hacienda Del Sol restaurant and catering offerings."
Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort dining venues are widely lauded, having received kudos including the AAA Four Diamond Award, and from Tucson Lifestyle Magazine: "Top Five Restaurant," "Best Brunch," "Best Romantic Dining," "Best Wine List," "Best Dining with a View," "Best Restaurant for Out-Of-Town Guests," and "Best Longtime Favorite." In 2016 the historic property received a multi-million dollar expansion that added 32 new guestrooms and suites, a negative edge pool, and the Casa Luna event venue. In the kitchen, a Rationale double oven – "The Mercedes-Benz of ovens" according to Chef Yim – was installed to ensure banquet (wedding, meeting, conference) guests also receive an elevated culinary experience. "This oven allows us to be more creative and complex with banquet dishes and ensure that each dish is served at the ideal temperature and at its peak of freshness," he stated.
History of Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort
In 1929, John and Helen Murphey created Hacienda del Sol, a desert retreat and "home away from home" ranch school for girls. The prestigious school's roster boasted some of the country's most elite families: Vanderbilt, Pillsbury and Westinghouse, to name a few. In 1948, Hacienda del Sol was converted into a guest ranch that immediately attracted the Silver Screen's most notable stars, among them John Wayne and Clark Gable. Legend has it that Hacienda's Casita Grande was the favorite hideaway of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Professional baseball players Lou Boudreau, Hank Greenberg and well known golfers, Sam Snead, Horton Smith, John Bulla and Don January enjoyed the ranch in the 1940's. In 1995, Hacienda del Sol was purchased by a group of local investors and became the Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort.
Today, the story continues, with simple pleasures, subtle beauty and charming hospitality at this classic Arizona resort – lovingly renovated to preserve its historic roots and expanded to meet the needs of local customers and world travelers who long for a genuine and luxurious Tucson experience. "We want people to enjoy the sense of place here," said Tom Firth, managing partner. "My partners and I want nothing more than to make guests who visit feel they are pampered and welcomed – just as if they have come to our home."
About Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort
Hacienda Del Sol is a qualified member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation® which recognizes and celebrates our country's finest Historic Hotels. It is also a member of the Preferred Hotels and Resorts Lifestyle Collection, which represents premier global properties that offer engaging stays and memorable moments. All guests of The Hacienda Del Sol Guest Ranch Resort are eligible to enroll in the iPrefer guest loyalty program, which extends points redeemable for cash-value Reward Certificates, elite status, and special benefits such as complimentary Internet to members upon every stay at more than 550 participating Preferred Hotels & Resorts locations worldwide.
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by Namadeva Acharya (Thomas Ashley-Farrand)
First published in Sacred Pathways magazine, January-February 2006 issue
Namadeva's guru is Sadguru Sant Keshavadas (1934-1997) and he follows lineage holder Guru Rama Mata, Sant Keshavadas' widow. Through his guru and over the last 35 years Namadeva has spent time with and/or been blessed by Swami Satchidananda, Swami Vishnu Devananda, Swami Chidananda, Jagadguru Jayandra Saraswati and Jagadguru Vijayendra Saraswati (Kanchi Math), Jagadguru of Pejowar (Uddipi) Math, Paramahansa Muktananda, Swami Bala Gangadarnath, Yogi Bhajan, Yogi Amrit Desai, Buddhist teacher Ashoka Priya Darshan, Dr. Leon Wright, The Dalai Lama, the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, Kalu Rimpoche, Sakya Jetsun Chiney Luding, Pir Vilayat Kahn, and many others.
First, a guru is not a state of consciousness, it is a job. There are all kinds of gurus from musicians and storytellers to those who never speak a word. What they have in common is the appointed authority to do their job: helping the ego-mind-personality merge with the divinity within. The soul, self, jiva, atma - whatever you want to call it – is immortal. There was never a time it did not exist. There will never be a time it will not be. The ego-mind-personality is not immortal. It ceases to be at the time of death, while an essence of what it has learned and accumulated of spiritual value goes forward into the next life, even if that life does not take place for five hundred or a thousand years.
But the ego-mind-personality can become immortal if it so chooses. Of course, this choice involves a clear decision, commitment, discipline, and Grace. Once the decision is made, a succession of teachers begin to appear, helping, teaching and leading the aspirant. The only ongoing quality that matters is sincerity. One can make mistakes, take wrong turns, and make short-term inefficient choices, but if all are done within the framework of sincerity, the aspirant continues to get help. In the process of preparing the ego-mind-personality to merge with the soul within, negative qualities are sanded away at the rate the aspirant can stand. Rescue, within the bounds of karma, often is afforded to struggling individuals. Eventually, one will meet a true guru.
Shake any bush, today, and out tumble gurus of all sorts. They are mostly "wanna-bes," "think-they-ares," "wish-they-weres," "never-will-bes," and would-be spiritual leaders who have decided that this is their calling. Some of them are sincere. Some are not. A true guru is not self-appointed. They are selected and trained for the job by those who are true gurus, sadgurus, jagadgurus and genuine celestial enlightened ones who come here from time to time. There are very few true gurus.
A genuine guru has spiritual authority. They can consciously take on the karma of anyone they meet. Although they have this ability, they use it selectively. If the taking on of karma serves the greater dharma, or spiritual advancement of the species, country or other group deemed important, the guru will take the karma of that individual. Sometimes the karma can be worked off without harming the guru and sometimes not. But the guru always knows both the reason and the outcome for taking another's karma.
A true guru has spiritual gifts to give, and they give them—sometimes lavishly—to students, disciples and complete strangers. A true guru will know the appropriateness of the gift and can "see" how it will be applied. That's not to say that all possible outcomes from application of the gift are known. Although a sadguru has this ability to know all possible outcomes, the true guru does not. Still, a clear direction is apparent to the guru which points strongly to how the gift will be employed. This is how the appropriateness of the gift is determined. Sometimes a new color, signifying a new gift, is added to the aura. Orange, for instance, might be given, and with it a definite body of knowledge. Suddenly, many things become clear for no apparent reason. This new knowledge ends up changing everything about the life of the person who receives it. Old relationships may end and new ones begin. New goals and ways of reaching them appear in the mind. All this from one new color/gift. All the while, increasing the ability of the ego-mind-personality to eventually merge with the soul or self is the overriding objective.
A true guru can change the direction of the life paths of those he/she meets with relative ease. A word, a glance, a thought can change the course of a life as easily as one switches the path of a train from one track to another by pulling a lever. The self of the individual is accessed and a new set of instructions, or a new instruction, is issued that changes the conditions one will meet in life. Or the true guru may make a tiny change in the set of foundation assumptions (or knowledge) the ego-mind-personality uses to make decisions. Often only one tiny change can completely alter the nature of the decision-making process. If one has a near-death experience and survives, for instance, the fear of death is usually completely eradicated. The elimination of fear from the ongoing decision-making process affects everything.
A true guru is compassionate. He/she has usually "been there." The experiences of many lives have been integrated so that probable choices and decisions resulting from certain circumstances are clearly seen. Understanding not only mentally but almost viscerally what a particular aspirant is going through, the true guru may search intensely for an acceptable way to help deserving ones whose karma may militate strongly against such help. Compassion is active, not passive.
A true guru knows his/her limits—the limits of how they can help or how they can speed things along. The boundaries are always in sight and usually observed.
True gurus are humble. They are not impressed with themselves. They know too much for that. But they also know that all knowledge is approximate, that everything is temporary, even time itself. They know that Truth or God is vast and that no one has an exclusive corner on "the truth." They know that great forces and beings have made it possible for them to evolve to where they are. They know that perceiving the Great Illusion of this reality does not diminish the pain felt by people living in this world. So they help, with gratitude for what they have received and what they are empowered to do in service of others.
Such a true guru is aware of the conscious, active, hugely advanced forces and beings operating in our reality. Sometimes those forces and beings come to the aid of the true guru and sometimes not. But at all times there are very, very advanced beings on the planet who monitor things. They sometimes hide in plain sight as a jagadguru, and sometimes they keep well below the spiritual radar for their own purposes. But they are here, and the true guru knows his or her limitations in the grand scheme of things.
A spiritual teacher, even one who has reached the place of an advanced adept, is not a guru until and unless the appointment for the job arrives. For many advanced adepts, the appointment to become a true guru never arrives. Yet they teach—tirelessly, endlessly, selflessly, joyfully. They have lessons to teach about spirituality; about life; about separation of the real from the unreal; about the rhythms of existence, both individual and cosmic; about the subtle habits of the lower mind that seeks to evade the light where it must surrender its bad habits; about the misuse of charming personalities that merely seek gratification however it might be obtained. The genuine spiritual teacher is a treasure beyond compare, for each has put their shoulder to the wheel of humanity's progress, each within his or her specific area of special interest or attainment. And the Grace of The Supreme flows through each in wonderful and different ways.
But they are not gurus. They cannot change the course of your life in an instant. They cannot take a terrible condition away from you and assume the burden themselves by a mere thought. They cannot determine your appropriateness to receive a spiritual gift, see how it will be applied, and then give it to you.
It is a commonly accepted truth in mystic and spiritual pursuits that what we all seek is within. Scriptures from many religions say it. Enlightened ones say it. True gurus, sadgurus, jagadgurus and maha siddhas all say it. But appointment to the job of being a guru comes usually from an external source. It can be a being in the flesh who, determining that one's nature is appropriate to the job, appoints a person through some transfer of authority. It can be a great being who comes in a dream and empowers an adept or spiritual teacher. On rare occasions, a force of some kind will seize an individual and so alter their energy, spiritual ability and perceptions, that the condition of the job is conveyed by cosmic initiation. But in all cases, the abilities and responsibilities of the true guru remain.
Finally, a true guru has been embraced by love and realizes with every facet of his or her being that love is both the method and the destination. It is means and end. There is no way to achieve a state of love other than by loving. For God or Truth speaks to the heart. The mind cannot contain or apprehend Truth or God in its entirety. Truth is the ocean while the mind is like a teacup. And you cannot hold the ocean in a teacup. It is true that you can pour the contents of the teacup into the ocean and it becomes one with the ocean. But then the meditation ends and the ego-mind-personality – even the divine ones – are back in the body. Automatically, limitations of understanding take place because of the confines of the teacup.
It is astonishing that some of the towering great minds of the East including such persons as Shankaracharya, Ramanujacharya, Madvacharya, The Buddha, and others do not agree on the finer points of what is Truth, what is Reality, what is the nature of the Self, and so on. They see different shafts of the same light, but none have the capacity to see it all. The first Sadguru, Dattatreya, was once asked to comment on the differences between Dwaita (dualism) and Advaita (Non-dualism), between Saguna Realization with a form involved (as in Rama or Krishna, etc.), or Nirguna Realization without any form involved. He looked kindly at the questioner and said, "If you are still concerned with such things, you still have a ways to go." Most teachers and gurus agree that love will take you all the way to the goal of human existence.
True gurus have a unique set of skills and tools to help the finite part of us merge in the infinite part of us. They have been specially sent on assignment to help us, in our identification with our ego-mind-personality, to move as expeditiously as possible into a state of being where we understand immortality because we have achieved it.
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Ferrari is delighted to announce its association with two winners of the 2014 Vehicle Dynamics Awards which are bestowed annually by Vehicle Dynamics International magazine for the most important technological innovations in car industry.
Maranello had strong connections to the first two awards in the "Development Tool of the Year" category. The winning design was, in fact, the Driver in Motion (DiM) simulator developed by VI-Grade and Saginomiya in collaboration with Ferrari. The second award in the category went to the TRICK (Tyre/Road Interaction Characterization & Knowledge) simulation system which calculates tyre behaviour as a function of interaction with the road. Developed by Flavio Farroni, it began life as the subject of his doctoral thesis which centred around research conducted in collaboration with Ferrari.
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