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Related Video Book Trailer: BLUE GENES
I just wanted to share with you news of my new book coming out this Fall from Doubleday (September 16). It’s called BLUE GENES: A memoir of Loss and Survival. It’s the story of my family… There is a short video I made about the book on Random House’s site: http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385525206&view=vidembed
Enjoy! PS. You can pre-order the book, too!
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Art & the Art of Managing Pain: Billy Bob

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Category: Art, Creativity, Flower Mandalas, Healing, Mandalas, Spirituality, Transformation
 Fifteen Flower Mandalas
I'd like to take this space to thank those of you who have downloaded my free Fifteen Flower Mandalas screensaver, and particularly those who have written back. The responses so far have been interesting. Until now, I didn't know that people from all parts of the world -- from the tip of Alaska to Cape Town and beyond -- were checking into this blog. That, alone, is gratifying. And I'm grateful to those of you who shared your positive responses to my work, and to those, as well, who have shared their similar struggles with life, death, near-death, and everything in between. It has been, and continues to be, a heart-warming bounty. Thank you.
Several of you have asked me to send you, along with the screensaver, the "meaning" of each mandala. There's no simple answer to this question. I can list the flowers from which they were derived, and some feelings and thoughts that occur to me when I look at them, but I believe each viewer, if he or she meditates on a particular image, will come away from it with a different sense, one specific to that person in that moment.
Here are the flowers. They match up, from top-left to bottom-right, with the mandalas in the above image.
Row 1: Beach Rose, Blue Pansy, Dandelion Head, Daylily (rear view), Dying Amaryllis. Row 2: Galliardia 'Arizona Sun', Iris Germanica, Marigold, Pink Dahlia, Pink Peony. Row 3: Queen Anne's Lace, Violet Morning Glory, White Lily, White Rose, Yellow Lily.
Some feelings I get (now, today): From the Beach Rose, love. From the Blue Pansy, stillness. From the Dandelion Head, rebirth. From the Dying Amaryllis, vastness and motion. From the Galliardia, surprise. From the Iris Germanica, a meeting of masculine and feminine energy. From the Marigold, momentum and stability (the 'flywheel'). From the Pink Dahlia, openness. From the Pink Peony, protection. From the Queen Anne's Lace, playfulness. From the Violet Morning Glory, a holy spirit. From the White Lily, complexity. From the White Rose, transformation. From the Yellow Lily, strength.
What feelings do you get from these images? Let me know, either as a comment to this post or to in the Art, Healing, and Transformation group.
More anon, and thanks in advance for your responses.See you in cyberspace, - David David J. Bookbinder, LMHC Request a free flower mandala screensaver: Fifteen Flower Mandalas
© 2008, David J. Bookbinder
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[3/19/2008 10:17:15 PM] http://www.fctec.com/fctec_pressDetails.asp?ID=44
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Air Force Advanced Power Technology Office (APTO) Leads Multi-Service Aviation Milestone Event
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Robins AFB, Georgia– The Air Force Advanced Power Technology Office (APTO), headquartered at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia recently announced the first military airlift of a fuel cell powered military vehicle. The effort to convert the vehicle was a true multi-service collaboration including the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center/Construction Engineering Research Laboratory’s Fuel Cell Test and Evaluation Center (FCTec), the U.S. Marine Corps, MAG-49 Det Bravo C-130 Airlift Unit and the U.S. Air Force APTO.
The MB-4 Aircraft Towing Tractor, a four wheel drive, four wheel steer, 14,000 pound drawbar pull vehicle was converted from a diesel powered mechanical drive vehicle to a fuel cell powered electric drive vehicle. The integration effort, accomplished by Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, incorporates a Hydrogenics, Incorporated 65kW Proton Exchange Membrane fuel cell system, Dynetek Industries’ carbon fiber wrap hydrogen storage system and Enova’s Panther 120 Drive System. The combination of these subsystems enables the vehicles towing capacity to remain unchanged, while the addition of a power inverter enhanced the vehicles capability by permitting power generated by the fuel cell to be delivered to aircraft and/or ancillary support equipment.
The vehicle was transported to Hickam AFB, Hawaii by Marine C-130 airlift on the 20th of October, 2006. The vehicle will be put through a demonstration/validation program while in daily use at Hickam AFB.
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Military’s Active Denial System is First True Ray Gun John Dodge, Editor-in-Chief -- Design News, March 6, 2008
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Military’s Active Denial System is First True Ray Gun
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John Dodge, Editor-in-Chief -- 3/6/2008 9:24:00 AM
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This breakthrough looks like an airport radar except the one rolled out to the media recently is mounted on a hybrid Humvee. The operator sitting in the Humvee lines up the target and fires a 95 GHz blast from a 100 kW ultra-high-frequency radio transmitter.
The sensation at the target up to 500m away is akin to taking a heat blast from an opened “oven door,” according to Marine Corps. Col. Kirk Hymes. “This does not incapacitate them. This pushes them back and out of the way,” he says. As such, the unit promises to be another tool for crowd control or for protection of Navy ships.
“Navy ships have curious onlookers who try to push the envelope. Let’s steer closer to those big Navy ships. But we have a tremendous responsibility to protect the men and women on that ship. When there is mixture of terrorists and tourists and they are not readily moving back, this system can be used to gently push those individuals back.
It does not have a lasting effect,” he says, adding that the weapon’s development really accelerated after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in 2000
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Indeed, the 1 mm radio wave penetrates the top 1/64th of an inch of skin and just down to the nerve endings. When hit, the target moves away from the beam and the sensation ceases. Each blast is four sec and in testing with 600 volunteers and 10,000 exposures, the Air Force, which has developed the technology over the past 15 years, claims there is only one tenth of a 1 percent chance of minor injury such as a blister or rash.
The device comes at a time when the military is serving in a multitude of non-traditional roles such as peace-keeping and humanitarian efforts.
“We have instances where helicopters had a hard time landing to deliver foodstuffs.
Hunger is a pretty motivating factor and if I was senior member of my tribe or clan and I’ve watched my family die from hunger, I’ll do what it takes to get those foodstuffs. How do you non-lethally get them to stand in an orderly fashion so the food can be delivered safely and proportionally and protect those who aren’t in a rush?
If you can target individuals to stay back, leave the area or form and orderly line, it only takes a couple of individuals to be targeted and it says there’s something going on here,” says Col. Hymes.
At the heart of the transmitter is a water-cooled gyrotron developed by CPI Inc. based in Palo Alto, CA. The gyrotron creates the radio frequency beam. The aiming device is comprised of “relatively simple” optics, which look down the center of beam.
In addition to the Humvee-mounted unit, the Air Force has also built one containerized version, which is armored and enclosed to survive rugged environments. Each system costs about $10 million, says Hymes.
Raytheon is the systems integrator.
The testing of the ADS itself has been proven and now focuses on how it can be maintained and operated in challenging environments such as Iraq’s dust and heat.
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http://www.free-energy.ws/electrolysis.html
SUPER-EFFICIENT ELECTROLYSIS
Water can be broken into Hydrogen and Oxygen using electricity. Standard chemistry books claim that this process requires more energy than can be recovered when the gases are recombined. This is true under normal circumstances, but it is not true under ALL circumstances. When ordinary tap water is hit with a series of high voltage impulses, using a system developed by Stan Meyer (USA) and again more recently by Xogen Power (Canada), it splits into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas with significantly less electrical input.
Even ordinary electrolysis can be made more efficient by using different electrolytes (additives that make the water conduct electricity better). For instance, Potassium Hydroxide works better than Sodium Hydroxide. It is also known that certain geometric structures and surface textures on the electrodes work better than others. Stan Meyer used concentric tubes with very close tolerances instead of the standard practice of parallel flat plates.
The implication is that unlimited amounts of Hydrogen fuel can be made to drive engines (like in your car) for the cost of water. Even more amazing is the fact that a special metal alloy was patented by Freedman (USA) in 1957 that spontaneously breaks water into Hydrogen and Oxygen, with no outside electrical input and without causing any chemical changes in the metal itself. This means that this special metal alloy can make Hydrogen from water for free, forever.
http://www.free-energy.ws/electrolysis.htmlMay 21, 2005 - 08:35
 From: http://www.free-energy.cc/electrolysis.html
"...Water can be broken into Hydrogen and Oxygen using electricity. Standard chemistry books claim that this process requires more energy than can be recovered when the gases are recombined. This is true only under the worst case scenario. When water is hit with its own molecular resonant frequency, using a system developed by Stan Meyers (USA) and again recently by Xogen Power, Inc., it collapses into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas with very little electrical input. Also, using different electrolytes (additives that make the water conduct electricity better) changes the efficiency of the process dramatically. It is also known that certain geometric structures and surface textures work better than others do. The implication is that unlimited amounts of Hydrogen fuel can be made to drive engines (like in your car) for the cost of water. Even more amazing is the fact that a special metal alloy was patented by Freedman (USA) in 1957 that spontaneously breaks water into Hydrogen and Oxygen with no outside electrical input and without causing any chemical changes in the metal itself. This means that this special metal alloy can make Hydrogen from water for free, forever...."
LINKS The following two links lead to videos of Stan Meyer's Water Fuel Cell technology:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/67009/water_power_car/
http://www.lonelantern.org/stanmeyersvideo.html
http://www.waterfuelcell.org
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My view of Islam from Ali in Kuwait
- Ros Atkins
- 17 Jul 07, 02:56 PM
Hi Ros and everyone at WHYS.
I am a British convert to Islam (12 years ago). I listen to the World Service and your programme all the time in my car and I can't help but notice how many items concern Islam and Muslims, often in a negative light. This has been disturbing me for some time because I feel that Islam is not being properly presented or understood. I want to hear the good things about Islam presented and debated...
I find all the talk about moderate versus extreme or modern versus fundamental etc quite irrelevant and totally missing the point. Islam is a faith – a belief system based on funda mental principles, doctrines and texts.
At the core is belief in the oneness of God and that Muhammad is His last Messenger. Islam is also a way of life. It is a religious way of life that puts worship of God at the centre.
It makes no sense to talk of "secular Islam". The main objective of the secular movement is to put religion into a box and remove its influence from the core of society. Unfortunately many Muslims are happy to go along with this view, largely because it gives them a good excuse not to follow their religion.
Here are a few examples of the benefits of a Muslim society where Muslims actually practise Islam:
1. It is free of alcohol and drugs and all the related disease, crime, costs etc.
2. The (extended) family is the fundamental building block of society.
3. Women are not exploited as sexual objects.
4. Children respect their parents and authority figures such as teachers.
5. Old people are respected, cared for by their families and not put into institutions when they can no longer care for themselves.
6. People respect each other and each other's property.
7. There is little crime.
8. There is justice.
9. People are honest.
10. There are no homeless people.
11. People do not get into debt by buying things they can't afford on credit.
12. Children have two parents.
13. Orphans are cared for.
14. People put the worldly life in proper perspective, are not beset by psychological problems such as depression and suicide is a rarity.
Nuff said
Best Regards, Arnold Ali Cender
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