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Wednesfield Road and Heath Town tower blocks
Location within the West Midlands
13,965 (2011 Census.Ward)[1]
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Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Sovereign state
Post town
Dialling code
Wolverhampton North East
List of places
A view of Heath Town at night taken from the pedestrian bridge
Heath Town is a district of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, located east of the city centre. It is also a ward of Wolverhampton City Council. The ward forms part of the Wolverhampton North East constituency.
Heath Town ward borders the wards of Bushbury South and Low Hill, Fallings Park, Wednesfield North, Wednesfield South, East Park and St Peter's.
As well as Heath Town, the ward covers parts of Park Village, Springfield, Horseley Fields and Wednesfield. It is home to New Cross Hospital (the city's main Hospital), Wolverhampton Railway station, Heath Park Secondary school and a Royal Mail distribution centre.
4 Places of interest
4.1 Heath Town Park
4.2 Heath Town Baths
4.3 Grand Station / Wolverhampton Low Level Railway Station
4.4 Almshouses
4.5 Victoria Hall
8 Transport
8.1 Roads
8.2 Railway
8.3 Buses
8.4 Canal
9 Future Plans
9.1 Heath Town Master Plan
9.2 Heath Town Neighbourhood Plan
10 Famous Residents
The railways reached Wolverhampton in 1837, with the first station located at Wednesfield Heath, later known as Heath Town, on the Grand Junction Railway. This station was demolished in 1965.[2]
In 1850 the Holy Trinity Church and almshouses were built, as part of the expansion of Heath Town and in 1888 the separate Wednesfield and Heath Town urban district councils were created.[3] The Heath Town Urban District was later abolished in 1927 to become part of Wolverhampton.)[4]
In the late 19th century, many terraced houses were built next to the factories near the main road to Lichfield. In the 1960s many of these were demolished, they were replaced with a new estate designed by Wolverhampton Borough architects. The new Heath Town estate was officially opened in April 1969 by Princes Margaret. The former street plan was defined by the line of the Wolverhampton Road and Lincoln, Inkerman and Grove streets have kept their original names.[5]
New Cross Hospital - Original Workhouse Board Offices
New Cross Hospital is built on the site of the former New Cross Workhouse. The design of the new buildings came about through a competition and the winning entry was from Arthur Marshall of Nottingham. The foundation stone was laid in September 1900 by Chairman of the Guardians, Mr Price, and the workhouse was formally opened on 24 September 1903. The workhouse could take up to 1,246 inmates, 20 nurses, and 60 other officers. The buildings occupied an area of six acres, and the total cost was £156,879. After 1930, control of the workhouse site passed to the Wolverhampton Public Assistance Committee and it became New Cross Hospital. Many of the old workhouse blocks have now been replaced by modern buildings.[6]
In the 1900s the Chubb Lock and Safe Company was a major employer in Heath Town. In 1908 the Chubb safe works was opened on Wednesfield Road and workers were transferred from the London safe works which had closed.[7] In 1938 Chubb & Son's Lock & Safe Co Ltd premises were expanded and workers were moved from the premises in Railway Street.[8][9] Chubb remained an important industry in Heath Town until 2000 when it was sold to Assa Abloy, a Swedish lock maker and Gunnebo, another Swedish security company. The Wednesfield Road safe works were closed and much of the site was sold off for housing.[7]
White British residents are still the largest ethnic group in Heath Town. However, it has a large percentage of Asian and Afro-Caribbean residents who migrated to England during the 1950s and 1960s and originally settled in the Victorian terraces before relocating to the modern council flats. In more recent years, the area has become a popular destination for Eastern European and African immigrants.
The 2011 census states the population as 13,965 made up of approximately 48% females and 52% males with an average age of 34. 70.0% of people living in Heath Town were born in England. 5.0% India, 3.1% Jamaica, 1.7% Zimbabwe, 1.6% Philippines, 0.9% Somalia, 0.7% Nigeria, 0.6% Ireland, 0.5% China, 0.5% Pakistan.[10]
The 2011 census shows the ethnic mix of Heath Town ward as predominantly white:
48.66% white British
16.4% black
16.1% Asian
8% mixed
7% white other
0.8% Chinese.[11]
80.7% of people living in Heath Town ward speak English. The other top languages spoken are 3.5% Punjabi, 2.1% Polish, 1.9% Kurdish, 1.2% Lithuanian, 1.0% Tagalog/Filipino, 0.7% Persian, 0.7% Somali, 0.7% Arabic, 0.6% Greek.[10]
The rich diversity of culture in the area is celebrated each August with an international fun day event on Heath Town Park.[12]
Religion[edit]
The religious make up of Heath Town is 52.9% Christian, 21.2% no religion, 7.4% Muslim, 6.4% Sikh, 2.8% Hindu, 0.5% Buddhist, 0.1% agnostic.[10]
Holy Trinity Church, Heath Town
Churches and temples in the area are:
Guru Nanak Satasang Sikh Temple, Cannock Road[13]
Holy Trinity Church, Bushbury Road [14]
New Testament Church of God, Wednesfield Road [15]
St Patrick's Catholic Church, Wolverhampton Road[16]
St Stephen's Church, Hilton Street[17]
Places of interest[edit]
Heath Town Park[edit]
Heath Town Park is a neighbourhood park that serves the local community. The site is a public memorial to the men of Heath Town who gave their lives in the Great War. The park is surrounded on three sides by residential properties with a main road running along the fourth. The main entrance to the park is from Church Street which is accessed from the residential area. The park is compact but has many facilities including two football pitches, play area, fitness trail, multi-use games area, wooded area, open space and seating. There is also a WW1 War Memorial said to be the oldest in Wolverhampton. The park is well used by the local community and since 2012 has been protected by Fields in Trust[18] as part of the Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge. This was a project to safeguard the future of parks and green spaces as public recreation land for future generations to enjoy and provide a permanent legacy of the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics.[19]
Heath Town Baths[edit]
Heath Town Baths
Heath Town public baths were designed by H. B. Robinson, Borough Surveyor and Engineer. They were opened on 16 December 1932, by Alderman F. A. Willcock, chair of Wolverhampton Borough Council's Parks and Baths Committee. The Main Swimming Bath was 75 feet long by 34 feet wide. The Children's Swimming Bath was 40 feet long by 25 feet wide-ranging from a depth from three feet to three feet three inches deep. The building also included Wolverhampton's first large public washhouse which housed four rotary washing machines, twenty one drying horses, three electrically operated hydro-extractors, fifteen washing stalls for hand washing, drying houses and irons. The building also housed Heath Town's public library. The baths eventually closed in 2002, and the library closed on 3 November 2006.[20]
Heath Town Baths is a grade II listed building and has both architectural and social-historical importance locally and architectural significance nationally. Since 2006 it has since fallen into substantial disrepair. The building sits at the heart of Heath Town and its preservation and bringing back into use is stated to be a high priority in the Neighbourhood Plan. The Tessa Sanderson Foundation and Academy supports the campaign to bring the baths back into use.[21] Heath Town Swimming Club which won several international competitions in the 1940s-1950s was based at the baths.[22]
Grand Station / Wolverhampton Low Level Railway Station[edit]
Wolverhampton Low Level Station - now Grand Station wedding and conference venue
Grand Station is a Grade II listed building used as a venue for Weddings, Banquets & Conferences.[23] but was originally the Wolverhampton Low Level Station. The station opened 1854 and closed in 1981 but the buildings were listed in 1986.[24] [25]
Almshouses[edit]
Heath Town Almshouses
A terrace of six, grade II listed, 19th century almshouses is located in the graveyard of Holy Trinity Church. They were built in 1850 by the benevolent industrialist Henry Rogers. After a period of dereliction, the houses were restored in 1996 to one bedroom houses for elderly people.[26]
Victoria Hall[edit]
Victoria Hall, University of Wolverhampton - Europe's tallest modular building
Victoria Hall is a block of student accommodation with four tower blocks in the Springfield area of Heath Town. The tallest block is 25 stories and is the tallest modular building in Europe.[27]
Housing[edit]
Some of the 1960s flats in Heath Town surrounded by trees and landscaped areas.
The area is mainly residential fronting on Wednesfield Road and in the centre of the estate itself. One of the last estates of tower blocks to be built in the area, it incorporated a number of features – a district heating scheme and deck level access. The estate's tower blocks were for a long time the city's tallest residential structures and are visible landmarks from some distance. The blocks of flats are divided by grassed areas, the largest of which is in the south-central part of the development and designed for recreational use. The estate includes a variety of other housing types—including two-storey houses and low-rise maisonettes. Green space has been incorporated into the areas between blocks of flats and mature trees are visible along the southern edge of the estate.[5]
New housing development in Heath Town
There is an extensive housing development off the Wednesfield Road on the former site of the Chubb Works which was part of the new century's Wolverhampton regeneration plan.[28]
The 2011 census shows housing types as:
47% purpose built flats
24% semi-detached houses
22% terraced houses
6% detached
1% converted or shared house
1% flats/apartments in commercial buildings.[11]
Primary Schools in Heath Town are:
Stephen's Church of England Primary School[29]
Woden Primary School [30]
Trinity Church of England Primary School[31]
The Secondary school is the highly rated Heath Park.[32]
Sport[edit]
Heath Town Swimming Club was originally based at Heath Town Baths [22] but now meets at the nearby Wolverhampton Swimming and Fitness Centre.[33]
Heath Town is home to Heath Town United Football Club.[34]
Transport[edit]
Footbridge over the Wednesfield Road
Roads[edit]
Heath Town straddles the A4124 Wolverhampton-Wednesfield Road, which runs westwards to Wolverhampton and eastwards to Bloxwich and eventually Brownhills It is bounded by railway lines to the north-east and south (the latter disused). Wolverhampton Railway Station is located in Heath Town.[5]
Railway[edit]
Wolverhampton station originally opened on 1 July 1852 by the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stour Valley Railway, a subsidiary of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR); it was named Wolverhampton Queen Street.[35] It was known as Wolverhampton High Level from 1 June 1885.[35] From 1923, it was operated by the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS), and in 1948 the station became part of the London Midland Region of British Railways.[36] The present Wolverhampton station dates from 1965, when the High Level station was completely rebuilt as part of the modernisation programme which saw the West Coast Main Line electrified.
The former Heath Town railway station, on the line from High Level to Wednesfield station, was just off Grove Street. Built by the Wolverhampton and Walsall Railway in 1872, and was operated by the Midland Railway from 1876, it closed in 1910.[2]
Wolverhampton Low Level Station was opened 1854 by the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway later to fall under the auspices of the Great Western Railway. It was closed to passengers in 1972, but continued to function as a parcels depot until 1981. Once an important stop on the London-Birkenhead line and linked with Snow Hill station in Birmingham. However, the station buildings were listed in 1986.[24] The building has since been redeveloped as a venue for weddings, banquets & conferences.[23]
Buses[edit]
Public transport is coordinated by Network West Midlands. Services run from the town centre to Heath Town and on to New Cross, Bentley Bridge and then to Cannock or Walsall.[37]
Canal[edit]
Wyrley & Essington canal near Heath Town
The Wyrley and Essington Canal passes through Heath Town. The canal runs from Wolverhampton via Wednesfield towards the coalfields at Essington and Great Wyrley, Bloxwich, Pelsall and Chasewater.[38]
Future Plans[edit]
Heath Town Master Plan[edit]
In 2013 the Heath Town Master Plan was unveiled setting out plans to increase the provision of housing by up to 550, improve community facilities and enhance landscaping.[39]
Heath Town Neighbourhood Plan[edit]
Heathfield Park Neighbourhood Plan[40] received a resounding yes vote on 17 July 2014 and will be taken to Wolverhampton City Council in September 2014 for adoption. The Plan will help to shape all future planning applications for the Springfield, New Park Village, Heath Town and New Cross areas of Heath Town. The Plan identifies six key themes for improving and sustaining the area which focus on identity and image, housing and environment, employment and skills, assets and buildings, transport and traffic and healthy living. [41] [42]
This is one of Wolverhampton's first neighbourhood plans (with Tettenhall) and puts Wolverhampton at the forefront of neighbourhood planning nationally. Wolverhampton is the first metropolitan area to hold a neighbourhood plan referendum and the first anywhere to hold a referendum with more than one area taking part. The plan was created by residents from Heathfield Park via their local neighbourhood partnerships, with support from the council's planning, housing and neighbourhood services teams.[43]
In March 2015, Wolverhampton Council announced that the maisonettes in Chervil Rise would be demolished as part of the regeneration, resulting 34 tenants having to leave the estate.[44]
Famous Residents[edit]
Tom Barrett (1891–1924) - riding mechanic, born and buried in Heath Town.[45]
Goldie (born 1965) - electronic music artist, disc jockey, visual artist and actor, member of the breakdance crew Westside, based in Heath Town.[46]
Don Howe (born 1935) - English football player, turned coach and manager, born in Springfield.
Brian Pendleton (1944-2001) - musician born in Heath Town.[46]
Alan Marshall - New Zealand-born writer lived in Heath Town for three years in the 1990s during his undergraduate study at Wolverhampton University.
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October 2010 (Vol. 6, No. 4)
Breaking News: Public Outcry Is Working to Stop GMOs
"The fight against genetic modification (GM) seems like a never-ending, uphill battle. But Lord Melchett, former director of Greenpeace and current policy director at the Soil Association, says that, despite what the biotechnology giants would have you believe, most nations of the world are rejecting GMs and thus preventing their takeover of the planet.
"'[M]any people in Europe may be unaware of the extent of the resistance to GM in places like India and China, because they swallow the GM industry line that it is supported all across the world,' he was cited as saying in The Independent. 'I have to say that where we are now with GM leaves me feeling very optimistic.'
"A quick visit to the website of GM-giant Monsanto, for instance, indicates that what Melchett says is true. Fancy, deceptive marketing and design tactics would have you believe that the world is lovingly embracing the alleged wonders of GM crops, but this is hardly the case. In fact, the only reason GMs even have any foothold at all is because, in some countries, they have been deceitfully approved beneath the radar of the general public."
SOURCE: Jonathan Benson, http://www.naturalnews.com
FEATURED IN THE OCTOBER 2010 ISSUE OF DNA MONTHLY
1. "Understanding Our Bioenergy Blueprint," by Sol Luckman
2. "Twelve Traits of an Awakened Human," by Melody Larson
3. "DNA & Divine Resonance: The Spirituality of the Coherent State," by Mary Desaulniers
1. Understanding Our Bioenergy Blueprint
Dewey Larson's Reciprocal System of physical theory establishes that we are reciprocal creatures with one foot in the world of spirit, time-space, and the other foot in the world of matter, space-time (Figure 1).
This model further views the spiritual realm of time-space—being the repository of the consciousness templates from which our space-time reality is constructed—as primary.
In Larson's groundbreaking theory, the so-called physical world is seen as a secondary epiphenomenon that emerges directly from what David Wilcock calls the "consciousness field" (Figure 1).
Stated otherwise, Reciprocal System theory provides an intellectual foundation for accepting the Primacy of Consciousness over the material.
Additionally, this revolutionary model establishes a scientific rationale for addressing many issues related to physical reality—including the majority of health problems—using spiritual energy.
If it is true that the blueprint for our existence, including that of our bodies and their dysfunctions, is held in the "torsion" field of time-space, a viable method for effecting permanent healing and fundamental transformation is to "reset" this blueprint when it is damaged.
In order to reset our blueprint, we can employ linguistic means to generate torsion waves that stimulate a self-repair capability intrinsic to DNA.
Activating this self-healing potential requires that we start at the genetic level, because in human biology DNA is the principal connection point between our space-time existence and time-space blueprint (Figures 1 and 2).
In this article, the nature and structure of the human bioenergy blueprint are examined. Particular attention is paid to the bioenergy fields, the chakras, and the energetic disruption known as the Fragmentary Body.
Sound & Light Domains
An early epiphany my partner Leigh and I experienced using muscle testing, or kinesiology, to "field test" ourselves and our clients during the development of our work in DNA activation was that the human bioenergy blueprint is divided into a series of interconnected fields, each having specific regulatory functions across the body-mind-spirit spectrum.
Esoteric science calls the composite of these linked levels the "aura," which is subdivided into a number of "auric fields" (Figure 1). Over the past several decades, numerous researchers have confirmed the existence of this critically important bioenergy structure surrounding the body.
In Infinite Mind: Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness, UCLA professor Valerie Hunt describes how she successfully used an encephalograph (EEG) machine to detect and better understand the multi-layered aura.
Dr. Hunt goes so far as to theorize that the mind, instead of residing locally in the brain's neural network, actually exists nonlocally in the auric fields.
Viewed from the perspective of Reciprocal System theory and torsion physics, Hunt's theory is right on the mark. Beyond any reasonable doubt, the bioenergy fields must be the mind (Figure 1).
In these torsion templates of consciousness functioning hyperdimensionally in time-space, we experience the core creative workings of inspiration, intuition, and imagination.
Only subsequently, passing into our space-time reality, are these subtle energy phenomena processed and actualized by the brain and central nervous system.
In the words of Bruce Lipton, "The switch from Newtonian to quantum mechanics changes the focus of psychology from physiochemical mechanisms to the role of energy fields."
Physicist and psychotherapist Arnold Mindell famously called our primary time-space manifestation the "Dreambody," whose secondary counterpart in space-time is the physical body.
Figure 1: A Foot in Two Worlds. The above figure illustrates the interface between the sound domain of time-space and the light domain of space-time. Note the parallel existence of the bioenergy fields in the former and the chakras in the latter, including the placement of the Fragmentary Body.Gifted psychic Sheradon Bryce sums up the situation straightforwardly: "Your mind is your electromagnetic field, your auric bands, or whatever you wish to call them. The thing in your head is your brain."
This statement brings up an important point in need of clarification: the term "electromagnetic" often has been employed erroneously to describe the bioenergy fields.
I have used it myself this way for years, as in Potentiation Electromagnetic Repatterning. Initially, I chose this term in order to emphasize the energetic quality of the bioenergy fields to a broad readership.
At the time, I felt that auric sounded too esoteric; torsion was too obscure; and bioenergy—lacking a fuller explanation such as the one I am providing now—seemed too vague. The problem with electromagnetic as a description of bioenergy is that this energy is not actually electromagnetic!
Rather, it is torsion energy, or consciousness. While it gives rise to such effects as electromagnetism, it is not measurable as such. Not surprisingly, many researchers using traditional techniques to look for the bioenergy fields have come up empty.
Nevertheless, the term electromagnetic is now a fixture in the Regenetics Method, where it is employed more descriptively than scientifically. Whenever you encounter it used in a way that seems to be a misnomer, I encourage you to substitute bioenergy or torsion.
Now, torsion energy comes in three main varieties. All torsion energy ultimately stems from one Source, which I call the Consciousness of Love (Figure 2).
In Book One on the Regenetics Method, Conscious Healing, elaborating on the three-phase cosmological model I am sketching here, I conceptualized this Source, our Creator, as Silent Stillness: the pure potential, or universal creative consciousness, associated with the center of our galaxy.
In the threefold process of creation, the Consciousness of Love differentiates first into torsion sound waves, then into torsion light waves. Biblically speaking, the Consciousness of Love is God, who speaks the Word (sound) in order to bring the World (light) into manifestation (Figure 2).
Such a framework for reality creation, in which a Supreme Consciousness literally speaks or sings a light-based (holographic) world into existence, is omnipresent in religions and mythologies. In the ancient Vedas of India, we read, "In the beginning was Brahman with whom was the Word."
The Tao de Ching introduces a cosmology wherein the "ten thousand things" constituting our holographic reality were brought into being through breath (sound).
In Mayan tradition, the Popul Vuh explains that the first humans were brought into being through speech. Similarly, the ancient Egyptians believed that life was created by language.
In terms of torsion physics and Reciprocal System theory as well, reality creation can be visualized as a three-step operation (Figure 2).
This process follows a specific order in which the Consciousness of Love employs linguistically generated blueprints of torsion energy in time-space in the form of hyperdimensional sound, which then transform into reality constructs in space-time that are light-generated, or holographic.
Figure 2: Threefold Process of Reality Creation. This diagram demonstrates how reality creation occurs in three phases, starting with the primary consciousness of the Creator, who employs sound to generate the light-based reality construct we inhabit—including biological life by way of DNA.This tripartite model of reality creation highlights two points with particular relevance to DNA activation.
First, while it is true that we inhabit a light-based reality in space-time, the primary energy that directly gives rise to our existence in space-time is sound—just as so many ancient wisdom traditions have claimed.
For this reason, I often find it useful to refer to time-space as the "sound domain" and space-time as the "light domain" (Figures 1 and 2).
Of course, both space-time and time-space contain sound as well as light energies. But while light is the operative principle here in space-time, the dreamlike domain of time-space appears to be governed by sound.
The reason clairvoyants insist that the aura is visible stems from the likelihood that by tapping into extrasensory perception (ESP), they can "see" this sonic energy as it filters through DNA into space-time via a genetic mechanism that translates sound into light.
Secondly, given that time-space is best understood as a function of sound energy, it should be obvious that our bioenergy fields are sonic in nature.
Keep in mind, however, that we are discussing hyperdimensional torsion sound waves, which means you cannot simply press a button and record the aura!
Since our consciousness blueprint in time-space is made of sound, and sound is the principal torsion energy for creating, supporting and evolving life, using only light for healing, as the vast majority of energetic modalities do, often proves ineffectual.
Hyperdimensional light is the form of torsion energy normally employed in energy medicine—whether we look at allergy elimination technique, acupuncture, reiki, radionics, meditation, or machines. But remember that sound precedes and creates light.
Compared to sound, light is superficial. Light is thought, form; sound is being, essence. Light diagnoses; sound restores. Light treats; sound heals.
Light is concerned with information, whereas sound is about transformation.
A tried and true way to pursue genuine wholing is to work with sound because sound is capable of accessing and changing the sound domain, where bioenergy distortions caused by trauma or toxicity, or both, are imprinted and states of illness are maintained.
Ener-genetically, disharmony is disease. Trauma- and toxicity-induced distortions in our bioenergy blueprint take the form of disharmonies that can be brought back into harmony using the right sounds.
Effective sound healing is a form of entrainment, or re-entrainment, of off-key tunes within the sound domain back to harmonious and healthy melodies. This approach encourages healing and transformation in a manner that exceeds the capabilities of light alone.
Here again, as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, it is to be emphasized that the connection point between our sound and light domains is DNA.
Practically, this means that DNA must be activated from our position in space-time if we are to heal and transform our reality blueprint in time-space.
Bioenergy Fields as Ecosystems
A second critical discovery Leigh and I made while field testing was that the bioenergy blueprint for the vast majority of humans is composed of exactly nine fields (Figure 1).
This came as something of a surprise, given that Vedic tradition recognizes only seven major bioenergy points known as the chakras. Then again, according to certain new age teachings, supposedly there are twelve chakras.
Many of these latter teachings also posit, without evidence, the existence of multiple human DNA "strands" ranging in number from as few as twelve to—somewhat comically—as many as hundreds or even thousands.
Simply put, even a cursory review of the esoteric literature reveals wide-ranging viewpoints as to the number of bioenergy centers humans possess.
For those unfamiliar with the term, as shown in Figure 1 chakras are bioenergy loci in the form of wheels aligned with the spinal column, starting with the first (or root) chakra at the sacrum and moving up.
In the 1980s, Japanese scientist Hiroshi Motoyama developed instrumentation capable of measuring bioluminescence emitted by the chakras of yoga masters.
The chakras differ from the bioenergy fields in that the former are composed of hyperdimensional light that operates in space-time, while the latter are formed by torsion sound waves functioning in time-space (Figure 1).
Acting as a counterpart to our sonic bioenergy fields, the light-based chakras match these fields in order and number and are responsible for distributing life energy originating in time-space to our physical anatomy in space-time.
The majority of elements regulated by a particular bioenergy field equally apply to the corresponding chakra. Together, numerically matching fields and chakras form a "bioenergy center."
Note that in these paired relationships, the bioenergy fields govern the chakras, not the other way around, just as at the torsion level sound directs the action of light.
I probably never would have become involved in the debate as to the exact number of our primary bioenergy centers—had extensive kinesiological data not clearly and repeatedly revealed the existence of nine chakras and nine bioenergy fields in the "unpotentiated" human.
Certainly, I had no preconceptions about this topic when Leigh and I began our research. At the time, like many people I barely knew what a chakra was.
Here, it is my sincere belief that my naïveté was helpful—allowing me to observe dispassionately simply what was, instead of seeing what I had been told should be.
This situation reminds me of an old shamanic tradition in which a task considered impossible by elder shamans is given to a novice. The idea is that since the novice does not know that the task cannot be accomplished, he somehow manages to accomplish it!
Shortly after our discovery of nine bioenergy levels, Leigh and I were gratified to learn that well-known medical intuitive Caroline Myss had picked up on the presence of an eighth and ninth chakra.
Since that time, various additional sources using SCIO and other subtle energy detection systems have confirmed the existence of nine bioenergy centers—as well as the transformation of this initial blueprint to eight centers that occurs during Potentiation.
Perhaps the reason the eighth and ninth bioenergy centers were glossed over in Vedic lore is that they are associated with the most subtle aspect of our being—DNA—in contrast to the other seven chakras that appear more directly situated within our physical anatomy.
Be that as it may, there is a way to transcend theory and achieve an inner gnosis of our bioenergy blueprint. Beyond channeling, intuition, tradition, kinesiology and even technology, Potentiation allows you to experience these nine bioenergy centers in action as they are repatterned by torsion waves of consciousness.
Through Potentiation, our inherently unstable and fragmented structure based on the number 9 is recalibrated permanently to a stable and balanced "infinity circuit" founded on the number 8.
This occurs after the ener-genetic disruption constituted by the Fragmentary Body is sealed at approximately the five-month mark following the Potentiation session.
Essential to grasping the role our bioenergy centers play in health and disease is to view them as "ecosystems" where various related factors function either harmoniously to maintain wellbeing, or disharmoniously to engender illness.
An ecosystem is defined as a biological community of interdependent organisms and their physical habitat.
In the case of our bioenergy blueprint, each field combines with a chakra to form a bioenergy center that regulates the activity of specific microorganisms in relation to particular "environments" in the form of organ systems and glands.
As an example, let us look at the second bioenergy center from the bottom, referred to as the Fragmentary Body prior to sealing during Potentiation.
In Figure 3, ignoring the blank categories (—), we see that the microorganisms governed by the Fragmentary Body are dental bacteria and parasites (with associated toxins), while the organ systems are the oral and reproductive, and the gland is the thyroid.
Linked to these material elements are the emotions of embarrassment, envy, jealousy and shame, in addition to a number of conditions.
Based on this bioenergetic ecosystem, consider the following scenario. In physical terms, dental bacteria obviously are linked to the oral system.
Figure 3: Bioenergy Structure of the Fragmentary Body. This chart shows the basic structure of the problematic bioenergy ecosystem known as the Fragmentary Body.Distortion in the Fragmentary Body—brought on by, say, shame-producing sexual trauma in tandem with toxicity resulting from parasitic infection of the thyroid gland—increases the likelihood of breakdown in another part of the ecosystem: in this case, the oral system.
Such a situation can lead to proliferation of bacteria which, if left unchecked, eventually results in a number of possible conditions including dental decay, halitosis, and periodontal disease.
This example easily can be extrapolated to all nine levels of our bioenergy blueprint—giving rise to a novel and empowering way of understanding ourselves as bio-spiritual beings.
Digging at the Root
The above example of toxicity and trauma in the Fragmentary Body allows us to grasp how numerous spiritual and material disharmonies typically combine to produce a state of disease.
This example makes it clear that instead of being created in our space-time physical reality, illness grows out of sonic distortions recorded in our bioenergy blueprint in time-space.
Thus we can appreciate another dimension of Reciprocal System theory as applied to medical science:
The existence of time-space as a causal domain undermines the theory and practice of solely materialistic diagnosis, which only looks at effects.
The foregoing statement is far-reaching indeed. According to many native wisdom traditions, there is a spiritual cause for everything, including ostensibly physical dysfunctions.
For instance, a medicine man or woman virtually never looks at a broken leg as merely an unfortunate accident. Injury to the leg has archetypal as well as personal significance and may indicate that the injured person has failed to "stand up for herself" in some important way.
This line of thinking, in which even the most blatantly material effects of illness have a spiritual basis, informs the healing theory and practice of renowned author Louise Hay.
In fact, many conditions are so complex, being occasioned by multiple factors that distort the bioenergy blueprint, that trying to address them by treating each symptom individually—the approach adopted by allopathic medicine—more often than not fails in its objective.
Here, I am reminded of Henry David Thoreau's famous line that there "are ten thousand chopping at the branches of evil, for every one digging at the root."
As someone who endured years of expensive therapies that simply were chopping away at the branches of my chronic autoimmune illness, I deeply appreciate that in order to heal and transform ourselves, truly and lastingly, we must toss aside our axes, pick up a shovel, and dig for the root.
In the above analogy, the branches represent symptoms. Axes symbolize space-time (light-based) therapies for treating or managing symptoms.
The root is our bioenergy blueprint in the sound domain, where and only where disease-causing distortions can be restored permanently to harmony.
And the shovel is any modality capable of resetting the bioenergy blueprint via the only connection point through which such an activation can occur: DNA.
[DISCLAIMER: The Developers and all certified Facilitators of the Regenetics Method offer DNA activation as educators and ordained ministers, not medical doctors, and do not purport to diagnose, prevent or treat illness of any kind. Regenetics Method information and sessions are offered, and accepted, as exercises of freedom of speech and religion. The Developers and Facilitators of the Regenetics Method make no recommendations, claims, promises or guarantees relative to specific health challenges. You are solely responsible for your own medical treatment and care.]
[In addition to Potentiate Your DNA: A Practical Guide to Healing and Transformation with the Regenetics Method and the bestselling Conscious Healing: Book One on the Regenetics Method, Sol Luckman is author of the groundbreaking Beginner's Luke Series of six seriocomic novels devoted to exploring—irreverently and hilariously—the primary role of consciousness and imagination in creating, and re-creating, our reality. Sol is also an essayist on literary theory, a visual artist, editor of the popular free ezine DNA Monthly, and cofounder of the Phoenix Center for Regenetics. For more information on Potentiation and the Regenetics Method, visit www.phoenixregenetics.org.]
2. Twelve Traits of an Awakened Human
Melody Larson
Many are on the path to enlightenment today. Some are pursuing this evolutionary drive consciously, while others are not even aware that they are "on the path." Humanity is waking up.
Enlightenment, or awakening, used to be associated with saints and sages. We imagine an aged one crouched cross-legged in a cave, eating leaves and expounding great wisdom to those who manage to find him. If this is your vision of enlightenment, know that things have changed!
Enlightenment is available to everyone. At this time in our evolution, it's one of the core drives within each of us. Whether we're aware of it or not, it's why we're here on the planet at this time.
Enlightenment also has nothing to do with religion. No matter what your religion, including if you have no religion at all, you may still be pursuing enlightenment. Awakening does not follow a prescriptive set of steps or principles. Instead, it is a way of being in the world.
What does it mean to move through daily, secular life in an enlightened state? Are you an awakened human?
Here are twelve core traits to help you see if you are more enlightened than you may think.
The awakened human is:
1. Worthy. Have you let go of feeling small and purposeless? Are you able to love yourself fully? Do you respect yourself? Are you kind to yourself? Are you comfortable in your own skin? Do you feel you are significant? Do you know beyond a doubt that you belong here?
2. Responsible. Do you believe that you create everything in your life on some level? Have you given up playing the victim and blaming your past, outside circumstances, or other people for where you are in your life right now? Do you accept responsibility for all that happens to you? Can you find the lessons in your creations in order to move through them to the solutions?
3. Loving. Have you let go of harmful habits and beliefs? Do you refrain from aggressive or reactive behavior? Are you able to recognize when your thoughts, feelings or actions are damaging yourself or others? Do you focus on light rather than darkness?
4. Forgiving. Have you forgiven those you feel have hurt you? Have you forgiven yourself? Does forgiving always come more naturally to you than blaming or judging?
5. Balanced. Do you draw from your intuition as much as you do from your intellect? Do you temper rational thinking with emotion, and vice versa? Do you feel you use your "head" and "heart" in equal measure?
6. Tolerant. Do you mind your own business? Do you allow others to be, think, believe, and act as they wish to? Do you refrain from gossip? Do you suspend judgmental thoughts? Can you honestly say that everything is just as it should be in the world?
7. Peaceful. Are you free of worry? Do you trust that everything is unfolding in your life as it should? Do you believe the solutions are coming if they haven't arrived yet? Are you able to stay focused on the present rather than the future?
8. Connected. Do you feel part of a larger plan? Do you sense your connection to family, to community, to humanity, and to the planet itself?
9. Empowered. Are you able to manifest the abundance you need? Loving relationships? Meaningful work or service in your life? Do you understand that you are a co-creator of reality?
10. On purpose. Do you know why you're here on the planet? Are you pursuing your passions, and allowing them to evolve as you do? Do you feel that you are on track in terms of your current "contract"? Do you recognize your unique gifts and talents, and allow them to flourish?
11. Unattached. Do you allow things to be as they are? Are you able to move gracefully with change? Do you remain open to other views, ideas, and possibilities? Are you able to flow rather than hold on to what you have? Can you stay in the Now?
12. In love with life. Do you celebrate each new day? Do you walk around in a state of love and gratitude for the magnificence of all existence? Can you feel the beauty of it all, even when things appear ugly on the surface? Can you step back far enough to see the grandness of humanity, of the Earth, of the Cosmos?
If you do not yet recognize these traits within you, consider this list a wonderful set of attributes to aim for should you desire to be more enlightened in your life.
Like any list, these traits are not static and you may not exemplify them to their highest degree every single day. This doesn't mean, however, that you aren't an awakened human.
Enlightenment doesn't mean perfection. Nor does it mean that you are suddenly free of your humanness.
In the new energy of today, living an awakened life is not about removing yourself from everyday living and all the challenges that it brings.
Instead, it means meeting these challenges with knowingness, grace, empowerment, calm, trust, and humor.
Copyright (c) 2010 by Melody Larson. All Rights Reserved.
[Melody Larson is an awakening guide, teacher and author. To help you navigate your awakening journey, check out her online courses, recorded lectures, books, articles, free stuff, and more. Download her latest recorded webinars from 2010: Awakening 101 (which explores the twelve traits above in more detail) and Accelerate Your Awakening, both of which can be found under the "Awakening Lectures" tab at www.melodylarson.com.]
Did You Know ... that with today's allopathic medicine, according to alarming statistics cited by Dr. Joseph Mercola (www.mercola.com), "one in six patients believe their doctor made a mistake in their treatment" and "medical errors and prescription drugs are the leading cause of death in the US"?
3. DNA & Divine Resonance: The Spirituality of the Coherent State
Mary Desaulniers
DNA is more than a genetic blueprint; it is the instrument by which humans discover our spirituality.
The goal of all religious disciplines is the achievement of a spiritual state described as being "at one with God." The word "at-one-ment" can be seen as such a state, an at-one-ness with a divine or sacred source.
In essence, spirituality is Divine Resonance, the ability through various practices to arrive at a coherent state in which the individual becomes whole.
Dynamics of the Coherent State
According to Dr. Leonard Horowitz in DNA: Pirates of the Sacred Spiral, DNA is more than a blueprint for genetic expression.
Even more importantly, DNA is the "instrument for the re-spiritualization of the body," the means by which humanity arrives at Divine Resonance through electromagnetic influences on form and sound-activated coherence.
Electromagnetic Influences on Form
Research shows that form follows electromagnetic frequencies. Electrodynamic fields, biofields and pulsed wave patterns influence structure. These electromagnetic influences on form define health and illness.
Health occurs when the body experiences a coherent state of balanced electromagnetic flow. Disease is defined by dissonance, when the body experiences imbalance in its biofield.
In other words, health occurs when energy flows organically within the wiring of the human organism. Disease occurs when the body is literally overwhelmed with electric shocks and the circuits are "fried."
DNA functions as the receiver and transmitter of electromagnetic frequencies through the body.
The human ability to achieve Divine Resonance is located in the hydro-energetic matrix of DNA, where the body's highest concentration of water molecules is found. These water molecules are the source of the organism's coherence.
Water that is structured and coherent is conditioned by energy fields in the range of the Schumann Resonance. Coherent water in DNA vibrates at resonant frequencies that can rebalance cell structures.
Stress and disharmonious signals from the electromagnetic field alter the profile of DNA and predispose the body to illness.
Sound-activated Coherence
The incoherent state (illness) of the body can be rebalanced in DNA through sound.
A Russian team of researchers under Peter Gariaev has shown that DNA activation occurs by way of words and sounds, through a regular grammar with rules similar to human languages.
In fact, they have shown that DNA in living tissue responds to "language-modulated laser beams and radio waves." They also tested devices that could affect cellular metabolism through "modulated radio and light frequencies."
Sound-activated coherence has been demonstrated in the physical world. Success in these experiments has led to new treatment modalities that can sonically repair chromosomes damaged by X-rays.
Spirituality of the Coherent State
Divine Resonance is accessed through a variety of practices that return the body to its coherent state.
These practices may take the form of meditation, prayer, dreamwork, methodical development of psychic power and psychic energy, and various modalities of healing using sound and therapeutic touch.
Such practices can also take the form the form of physical exercises like running which, with its rhythmic breathing and pace, often synchronizes the body's biofield with resonant frequencies.
So can creative endeavors that are absorbing enough to allow one to become self-transcending. The spirituality of the coherent state is being alive and attuned to the healing and resonant power of one's DNA.
Now, more than ever, we can attest to the divinity within ourselves. The spirituality of modern humanity resides in our ability to control the profile of our DNA through practices that can restore us to the coherent state of Divine Resonance.
Copyright © 2010 by Mary Desaulniers. All Rights Reserved.
[Mary Desaulniers is a retired teacher whose passions are writing and running. She has been pursuing both for over thirty years and sees both as avenues to self-knowledge and balance. She has published articles and stories in Grain, Nineteenth Century Literature, The London Magazine, and various online publications. She has a Ph.D. in Nineteenth Century English Literature and has published a book on Thomas Carlyle with McGill-Queen's University Press. Her most recent publication is Dear Sebastian: Reclaiming the Power of Metaphor (2009). Currently, she is a writer at http://www.suite101.com/writer_articles.cfm/mdesaulniers.]

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National Vaccination Programme, 8 Directive Violations Issued Compound Fines
The Minister of Health also shared on the accomplishments of the National Vaccination Programme as of the 9th of January 2022.
The overall population rate who have received at least one dose of the vaccine is 94.6 percent. Meanwhile the rate of those who have received two doses is 93.6 percent; while 28.2 percent has received three doses of the vaccine. The Ministry of Health also shared the results of a research that has been carried out in which between the 1st to the 8th of January 2022, there is no mukim with more than 40 cases, in which 17 mukims or 43 point 6 percent had between 1 to 40 cases.
22 mukims or 56.4 percent had zero cases. Meanwhile the movement restrictions carried out from 10 at night to 4 in the morning, 8 directive violations were issued compound fines nationwide, all of which were violations of the directive to stay at home.
An Individual Detained for Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
Nyxoah Provides General Corporate Update
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44 New Cases, 8 Recovered
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315 Cases Detected Since the Early Endemic Phase Began
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The Bikers Cove, friends and neighbours of RNLI Queensferry Lifeboat Station, hosted a Custom Bike Show at the end of July in aid of the RNLI.
Sunday 31st July 2016 saw bikers from all over the country attending an event in South Queensferry to raise money for RNLI Queensferry. The range of motorcycles on display was fantastic, and the day was a huge success with live music and things going on to entertain the whole family.
In total the event raised £2238.07, a truly incredible amount! We at RNLI Queensferry would like to say a huge thank you to everyone at The Bikers Cove for all the hard work they put into organising the fundraiser, with special thanks going to Tricia Sutton and Chas McLeod.
Photo credit – Stewart Attwood.


Come out and see local Artisans and Craft Vendors in Beautiful Market Common Valor Park.
Saturday and Sunday April 21 & 22 from 9a-5p each day.
Sponsored by the Seacoast Artists Guild.
Stop by and browse local artists work at The Seacoast Artists Guild at 3032 Nevers Street in The Market Common.


Impellus runs management training courses at more venues across the UK than any other management training company.
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The elegant, Victorian, 4-star Mercure Exeter Rougemont Hotel is in the heart of Exeter, opposite Exeter Central Rail Station, 5 miles from the M5.
The hotel has limited car parking spaces, however there is ample alternative parking in the vicinity. Impellus will reimburse paid parking for the duration of the course.
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A license add-ons provides a certain number of connections of a certain connection type for a defined number of days, and is assigned an unique serial number. You register license add-ons to extend the number of user connections that your Team Server installation can have.
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Opens the Exclusive Connection Administration page where the super user can allocate exclusive licenses to ER/Studio Enterprise users, up to the maximum number shown in the License Add-on Status.
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The date when the current user session started.
The time since the last user interaction. See Overview of User Authentication.
The connection type that the user is consuming.
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First Experiences in Research
"[Before I started at Pitt] I believed research was reserved for the elite, the geniuses, who spent time locked in a dark, mysterious lab like those on CSI—certainly not for an inexperienced freshman. But… I was wrong."
— Anthony Sciulli (Rehabilitation Science)
Through our First Experiences in Research (FE-R) program, Dietrich School students can gain meaningful, hands-on research experience in their very first year. And we're not just talking about white coat, test tube, science lab research. Research projects with Pitt's world-renowned faculty are available across all disciplines. How about analyzing camera angles in Breaking Bad? Or creating snow fences alongside an acclaimed studio artist? Or interviewing actual lighting designers on Broadway? Or dispelling stereotypes about refugees?
Undergraduates conduct research as early as the spring term of their first year through First Experiences in Research (FE-R). In the fall term, you'll be paired with an expert faculty member. In the spring term, you'll conduct hands-on research with that faculty member. Projects come from across all disciplines and areas of interest -- including biology, communications, economics, musics, neurology, political science, studio arts, and theatre arts, to name a few. Students enroll in the spring term ARTSC 0120: First Experiences in Research course to learn the fundamental of research, and showcase their work in the campus-wide Celebration of Research poster session at the end of the term. Students conduct five or 10 hours per week to earn one or two academic credits.
Who is eligible for FE-R?
Any Dietrich School undergraduate who is interested in joining a community of scholars
building a relationship with a faculty member
conducting research or creative activity outside of a prospective major
How do I start FE-R?
In the fall term, attend an FE-R Information Session. Dates, time, and locations will be announced each summer at asundergrad.pitt.edu/research/events.
After attending, make selections from a catalog of available research projects.
Once matched to a research project, interview with an FE-R Mentor
Once approved by FE-R Mentor, enroll in a section of ARTSC 0120: First Experiences in Research for the spring term. If not selected, group sessions are available to discuss personalized research options.
In the spring term, you will begin your mentored research!
Continuing Experiences in Research
FE-R students are eligible for Continuing Experiences in Research (CE-R) in the fall term following FE-R. In this second consecutive term, students strengthen research skills, earn academic credits, and delve deeper into research. The accompanying CE-R course introduces students to writing for conferences, articles, and independent research proposals
"The unique part of [Continuing Experiences in Research] is that it acts as the transition between being a research assistant and becoming an independent researcher. My professor, Dr. Andrew Lotz, connected me with multiple resources that supported my own individual research endeavors. He helped me to craft my first grant proposal, which was successful accepted into the Brackenridge Fellowship program." - Reena Naik (Economics and Political Science)
Who is eligible for CE-R?
Any Dietrich School undergraduate who has completed the FE-R program.
How do I start CE-R?
Enrollment details will be provided in your spring term ARTSC 0120: First Experiences in Research course.
Become an FE-R Faculty Mentor
Dedicated faculty research mentors are the heart of First and Continuing Experiences in Research. The OUR seeks faculty research mentors each summer through the early fall term. Learn more about becoming a faculty mentor.
Paths to Research
There are so many ways for undergraduates to get involved in research as early as thier first year. Hear from three PItt students about their unique experiences.
First Experiences in Research: Studio Arts
"I really ended up loving doing research outside of my major because it gave me an amazing creative outlet and helped me discover my talents and interests in studio arts, which I never would had the opportunity to truly discover without pushing myself outside of my comfort zone." -Catherine Gannon on her FE-R experience
Paths to Research: From FE-R to MD
How does research in religious studies help you prepare for medical school? Rachel Evans explains one angle: "Medical schools want to admit students who are well-rounded, curious, and committed to lifelong learning. My experiences with research at Pitt have helped shape me into that person."


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George H. Wittman
George H. Wittman served in the US Army during and after the Korean War and, in the following decades, he became intimately involved in national security, global intelligence matters and international business. Along the way he managed businesses, founded public service organizations, and now writes prolifically. Some of Mr. Wittmans's accomplishments: President of G.H. Wittman, Inc. a family firm founded in 1885 to manage family interests in exploration, mining and international trade; Co-founder of The Middle East Newsletter; and founding Chairman of the National Institute for Public Policy, a non-profit devoted to research on technological and policy aspects of national defense. He is a veteran of forty-five years of international security operations and analysis.
Follow Their Stories: Get Notified
Hardball in Ukraine
by George H. Wittman | Jan 25, 2013
There is a presidential campaign in Ukraine due in 2015 and political supporters of former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko want her out of jail by then. The current president, Viktor Yanukovich, certainly does not share that view and especially does…
Capitalist Excess, Communist Style
There is something about communist Asian nations that encourages their political elite to exploit the advantages their party status affords them — contrary to the repeatedly claimed equality of their political philosophy. A typical case of special treatment for the…
Africa Mission Creep
Periodically the American press, public, and politicians become excited about something going on in Africa. The interest doesn't last long and neither the United States nor African nations benefit much from the momentary excitement. President Obama recently ordered a small…
China's Next Decade
by George H. Wittman | Jan 4, 2013
It had to be embarrassing for the new leader of a major global power to believe he had to stress his commitment to halt pervasive corruption in the political party he now leads. Nonetheless, that is exactly what was done…
Afghanistan Report Card
by George H. Wittman | Dec 21, 2012
The Associated Press discovered this month that residents of Helmand province — and presumably elsewhere in Afghanistan — are "afraid to go out after dark because of marauding bands of thieves." The key word is bands. This means organized gangs…
Syria Backstory
A definitive statement was made last week by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that any settlement of the conflict in Syria could not involve Bashar al-Assad. Nonetheless, it has to be acknowledged that the Assad family and its fellow Alawite…
by George H. Wittman | Dec 7, 2012
According to Jeh Johnson, General Counsel, Dept. of Defense, "the core of al Qaeda is today degraded, disorganized and on the run." This purposeful statement was made at the Oxford Union debating society on November 30. The groundwork was thus…
Burmese Briefing
by George H. Wittman | Nov 30, 2012
It has been well publicized that President Barack Obama often does not attend the regular White House morning intelligence briefings. Instead, we're told, he prefers to read written summaries, presumably later in the day or while dashing off somewhere on…
Afghan Requiem
It is a tragic coda to the American presence in Afghanistan that a veteran staff sergeant is on trial for killing sleeping civilian villagers and their children without apparent provocation or purpose. Some have said this incident is reflective of…
Not Quite Inscrutable China
After a final count it appears that 2,268 party members attended the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of China in Beijing this past week. They clapped appropriately during and after each speech and gave every appearance of complete agreement…


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Stock Futures Slightly Higher with Iran, G-20 In Focus
The Iran situation and this week's G-20 summit will drive this week's trading action
Josh Selway
NDX
Traders could be taking a wait-and-see approach today
Following another weekly win, U.S. stock futures are trading cautiously above fair value this morning ahead of what could be a somewhat quiet day on Wall Street. Grabbing headlines is the growing conflict between the U.S. and Iran, with the Trump administration set to place additional sanctions on the Middle Eastern nation today. Investors also may be taking a wait-and-see approach ahead of this week's G-20 conference in Japan, where President Donald Trump is supposed to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. As such, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI), S&P 500 Index (SPX), and Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) are all signaling just slightly positive opens.
Options market is anticipating a big earnings reaction for FedEx.
Why this Singapore-based stock could keep soaring.
Plus, another analyst cuts into Micron; Spotify downgraded; firm sees brighter pastures ahead for Deere.
5 Things You Need to Know Today
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) saw 1.21 million call contracts traded on Friday, compared to 645,304 put contracts. The single-session equity put/call ratio edged up to 0.53, while the 21-day moving average was 0.65.
Another analyst is cutting their outlook on Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) ahead of the chipmaker's earnings release, scheduled for after the close tomorrow, June 25. Mizuho lowered its price target to $44 from $47, citing headwinds from the Huawei ban, similar to last week's bear note out of J.P. Morgan Securities.
Music streaming service Spotify Technology SA (NYSE:SPOT) was cut to "underperform" from "in line" at Evercore ISI, while its price target was lowered to $110 from $125 -- well below Friday's closing price of $148.31. The brokerage firm said it simply doesn't see any way SPOT shares can reflect Wall Street's expectations in the medium term.
On a more positive note, Deere & Company (NYSE:DE) was upgraded to "buy" from "hold" at Jefferies, which boosted its price target to $190 from $150. The brokerage foresees a more balanced agricultural market in the coming years. DE shares have rallied more than 18% in the past month.
The week will kick off with the Dallas Fed manufacturing survey. There are no notable earnings reports.
Little Upside For Stocks in Asia or Europe
Asian markets made modest gains, as investors look toward the upcoming trade talks between the U.S. and China, happening at the G-20 summit in Osaka later this week. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong added 0.1%, while China's Shanghai Composite tacked on 0.2%. South Korea's Kospi inched atop breakeven, and Japan's Nikkei was up 0.1%.
Markets in Europe are lower, dampened by simmering tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The German DAX has taken the biggest hit so far, down 0.5% after the Ifo business climate index arrived at a lower-than-anticipated 97.4 -- its weakest reading since late 2014 . The French CAC 40 and the FTSE 100 in London have both dropped approximately 0.1%.


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Atkins snaps out of it as Rox down Astros
Johnson's gem lifts Marlins past Brewers
Carpenter moves to 4-0 as Cards hold off Reds
BY foxsports • June 5, 2009
Chris Carpenter liked what he saw right from the start.
Carpenter took advantage of Cincinnati's free swingers, pitching a three-hitter for his first complete game in more than two years, and Albert Pujols took care of the offense with a two-run homer and RBI double as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Reds 3-1 on Thursday night.
"They showed it from the beginning of the game that they were going to be aggressive early in the count, they weren't going to let me get deep," he said. "I was able to make good quality pitches down in the strike zone. That's what happens when you get an aggressive team that wants to hit and you're able to make quality pitches, you're going to be able to get quick outs."
The victory gave St. Louis a split of the four-game series and put the Cardinals in a tie for first in the National League Central with Milwaukee, which lost to the Florida Marlins.
Carpenter (4-0) needed just 95 pitches for his 26th complete game and first since September 11, 2006, at Houston. With the help of two double plays, he faced the minimum through 7 2-3 innings. Carpenter's ERA rose to 0.71 ERA.
Laynce Nix spoiled the shutout bid with his 18th homer to right field in the eighth.
Since returning from the disabled list May 20 with an oblique injury, Carpenter has allowed three earned runs and 14 hits in 28 innings. For Pujols, it was another Carpenter gem that didn't command too much analysis.
"It's not rocket science," Pujols said. "Look at the job he did. He made one mistake the whole game and Nix is swinging the bat really good, took advantage and hit it out of the park."
Carpenter had retired 12 straight before Nix's hit. He struck out three, walked none and singled in the seventh for his first hit of the year. He gave up singles to Chris Dickerson in the first and third, but got Brandon Phillips to ground into double plays both times to end the inning.
Aaron Harang (5-6) went the distance in losing his second straight. He gave up eight hits, striking out three and walking two in eight innings. He handled the Cardinals well in a 8-3 victory May 9 at Busch, spreading seven hits in seven innings and striking out seven.
This time around, Pujols didn't give Harang a chance to settle in.
"Just the way he's swinging right now," Harang said. "He's being aggressive, he wasn't letting me get any counts on him. He was coming right after me. He knows I'm going to go right at him and I'm not going to nitpick with him. He took advantage of that."
Pujols' 17th homer to left-center came one out after Skip Schumacker singled to lead off the third. He drove in his 48th run of the year with a double off the left-field wall that scored Colby Rasmus in the sixth, marking the fifth consecutive game in which Pujols has doubled.
He has now reached base at least twice in 15 consecutive games to tie Keith Hernandez's streak in 1980. They are the longest such streaks in 50 years for the Cardinals.
The homer came on Harang's first offering of the at-bat.
"It was a good pitch to hit and I put the best swing on it of the day," Pujols said.
The Reds finished their seven-game road trip with a 2-5 record, including a three-game sweep at Milwaukee, putting them 2 1/2 games behind the Cardinals and Milwaukee. They return home for a three-game set against Chicago starting Friday before a six-game road trip.
Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker said there's not reason to dwell on the recent slide.
"You got to move on. You got no choice," he said. "They say good pitching beats good hitting and that was a great pitching performance tonight. Aaron was good, but Carpenter was better."
The last time the Reds played a game in which both starters went the distance was August 26, 2004, when Harang beat Carpenter 1-0. ... Thursday marked Harang's 200th career start and is now 74-72 in his career. ... Jay Bruce finished the Reds' seven-game road trip 1 for 27, hitless in his last 17. ... The Cardinals are 8-0 on Thursdays.


Henneberg, M; Saniotis, A (2013). The future mismatch between biological and social development of youths. International Journal of Education and Research, 1(2):online.
Biological development of children and youths is undergoing microevolutionary changes in the 21st century as a consequence of changes in health care, nutrition and family environment. The most striking of those changes is the acceleration of growth and maturation producing adult bodies in early teenagers that, in modern systems of prolonged education and upbringing, are socially immature. This mismatch of adult bodies, including sexual behaviors, with a continued education and social dependence may produce health risks and psychological and social instabilities in formation of personal relationships and families. It may also generate difficulties in socialisation and workplace relations. Increased use of psychotropic substances, criminal behaviours and addictions are likely to develop when physically mature individuals have no opportunity to participate in normal adult life.


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How pine beetles are threatening the boreal forest and potentially contributing to climate change.
Eric R. Olson • May 9, 2008
Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus Ponderosae) under a scanning electron microscope. [Credit: Leslie Manning/Canadian Forest Service]
** Editor's Note: The staff of Scienceline is taking a short break to work on future stories. In the meantime, we will repost some of the site's most popular articles from the last six months. We will return to publishing new content on May 19. This article originally appeared March 28.
Flying in a small airplane, high over the flat, austere landscape of central British Columbia, an endless vista of pine trees spreads out before you. Coursing through the landscape are huge swatches of dead trees, their needles turned the color of bright fall leaves.
To an untrained eye, it looks like fire might have seared the forest, but the trees have actually succumbed to a tiny black predator known as the Mountain Pine Beetle. Due to drier summers and warmer spring temperatures over the last 50 years, the beetles are thriving. And they have already destroyed tens of thousands of square miles of pine forest in Canada and the western United States.
In British Columbia, the affected area is now roughly the size of Indiana.
"Once the beetles are at the level they're at in British Columbia, there's nothing you can do — it's like a rapidly spreading fire," says Barbara Bentz, research entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. If the beetle continues to devour trees at the current rate, 80 percent of British Columbia's mature pines will be killed off by 2013, according to Natural Resources Canada, an arm of the Canadian government.
Global climate change, which is pushing temperatures higher, has altered the beetle's natural life cycle. Now the insect threatens one of the world's largest forest systems: Canada's boreal forest, a 600-mile-wide band of pine woodlands that stretches from the Yukon in Alaska all the way to Newfoundland on the East Coast.
Some scientists think the damage inflicted by these voracious insects on the boreal forest might actually contribute to greenhouse gas levels and ultimately global climate change. When the beetle's only food source, the pine tree, is destroyed, it ceases to trap carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and actually releases it back out.
The source of all this destruction is an insect not much bigger than a grain of rice. A native of North America, the pine beetle does its damage by burrowing beneath the bark and feeding on the living tissue of the tree called the phloem. This tissue is composed of long tubes that transport nutrients from root to limb, and once it is destroyed, the tree can no longer survive.
In the past, cold snaps — quick drops in temperature in the spring and fall — have kept beetle populations in check. Although the insects can survive temperatures as low as minus 35 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter, it takes time for their bodies to accumulate enough glycol, the same ingredient found in antifreeze, to survive such frigid temperatures.
According to researchers, including Bentz, warmer temperatures have reduced the number of cold snaps and bolstered the beetle populations. A 2004 study by the Canadian Forest Service shows that as temperatures in British Columbia have risen since the 1920s, so have the number of pine beetle outbreaks.
British Columbia's forest management practices, specifically the suppression of forest fires, have added fuel to those outbreaks by creating large unbroken stands of mature pine, the only type that the beetle can inhabit.
"At the start of the current outbreak in British Columbia we had 3 to 3.5 times as much mature pine on the landscape as we would have had 100 years previously," says Allan Carroll, a research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service.
The total area affected in British Columbia since outbreaks began in the mid-1990s stands at 35,000 square miles, according to a report released by the provincial government in 2007. The U.S. Forest Service estimates that in the same time frame the beetle has affected roughly 25,000 square miles of U.S. forest, mostly in the Rocky Mountain states.
In 2006, a windstorm in British Columbia created a "hail storm" of beetles that blew across the Continental Divide and into Western Alberta. Fortunately, a cold snap in October of that year killed off many of the beetles before they could establish themselves. Bentz thinks it is only a matter of time before they are back in force.
"As the climate has shifted, this insect's range is shifting farther and farther north," explains Bentz, "and it has also shifted east into Alberta."
Carroll, the Canadian researcher, says that a corridor of climate suitable to the beetles will slowly open east across Canada in the next four to five decades. His projections are based on computer models, with increases in temperature and greenhouse gases set at conservative levels.
The climate corridor opens directly into Canada's boreal forests, which are an important part of a worldwide northern forest system that pulls carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and turns it into plant sugars and wood. These Canadian pine woodlands represent 20 percent of all the forests existing just below the Arctic Circle in Russia, Scandinavia and Canada, known collectively by the Russian word taiga.
When the taiga is growing at its maximum rate, during the spring and summer, worldwide levels of carbon dioxide fall and oxygen rises, according to a Web site created by Ulf Runesson, professor of forestry at Lakehead University in Ontario.
So could the beetles actually change Canada's forests from a "sink" for carbon dioxide into a source?
It may already be happening, according to Jeff Hicke, professor of geography at the University of Idaho. He points to a 1999 study that shows that insect outbreaks, along with large fires in the 1970s and 1980s, changed the carbon dioxide balance in the Canadian forests.
"Immediately following a fire or insect outbreak the trees are dead and they're decomposing and releasing carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. They're not growing and photosynthesizing, which is a means of taking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere," says Hicke.
However, it is still not clear if the boreal forest will suffer as much damage as British Columbia. Carroll says it is less susceptible because there is greater variety in the type and age of the trees, unlike the large unbroken stands of trees in British Columbia. But he adds that beetles may indirectly kill trees they can't eat by creating more fuel for forest fires, causing them to burn hotter and more aggressively.
"The dead trees themselves will be available to wildfires, and given the prediction that there will be more fires in the boreal forest with climate change, anything that adds fuel to those fires is going to exacerbate them even further," explains Carroll.
Both Carroll and Bentz think that there is little that can be done to stop the increasing range of the insect. Since the beetle lives most of its life under the bark, it is difficult to kill with pesticides. Even if they could be treated in this way, the sheer size of the area they cover is too large for spraying to be practical.
At the beginning of an infestation forests can be thinned to prevent the beetles from spreading. In Alberta, there is a concerted effort underway to kill individual infested trees before the beetle can move further into the interior of the country.
There is hope that in some areas, the rising temperatures driving the beetle's numbers may actually be their undoing. Regions in the northern United States and southern Canada may actually become too warm for the insect. However, Bentz says at that point it becomes an evolutionary race between the trees and the beetle to adapt to warmer weather. Given the beetle's short life cycle, it might win out.
Related on Scienceline
Check out Kristin Elise Phillips' story about another insect affected by climate change — butterflies.
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Edmond C. Packee says:
1. There are no pine in interior or cnetral Alaska.
2. Beetle in Alaska and western Yukon territory is the spruce beetle Dendroctonus rufipennis–it attacks white spruce, black spruce (lesser degree), and Sitka spruce.
3. In two years (2005 and 2006) fire consumed about 10,000,000 acres in Alaska and also burned in Yukon Territory; in Alaska about 3 times fire killed acres in 2 years than beetle killed acres over 25 years.
4. In boreal conditions, except wetter climatic areas, beetle-killed and fire-killed white spruce do not decay fast; so loss is lack of photosynthesis; prompt regeneration is partial solution
5. Are beetles (pine and spruce) spreading because of climate change or because trees over extensive areas due to past disturbances (fire) becoming ideal sozed beetle fodder?
I'd appreciate a followup on the prospects for flickers and woodpeckers, not to mention fence lizards and whatever else eats these beetles.
I've watched areas in N. Ca. fairly attentively since a fire in the late 1980s and saw an enormous rise in lizards, which would hang around whenever they saw me having figured out I would pull up bark on dead trees — and they'd zip in and grab a beetle apiece while I was looking.
Not many flickers or woodpeckers, which worries me, they ought to have been able to show a population bump with so much added food.
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Listening to Each Other
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Brian Prawitz, Roseburg city councilor, spoke to League members at their annual meeting on May 15 at the Roseburg Country Club.
Brian's talk is so pertinent to our situation throughout America that we thought we should share this with you. Brian struggles with the violence and division between Americans. He says we need to actually listen to each other and to try to understand each other. Here's a link to his talk to the League on his business's website — https://soundcloud.com/brian-prawitz/togetherness-without-tragedy-uvlwv, thanks to BP Media Solutions.
Brian encourages us to find ways to work together for the good of our community, despite our differences. He suggested that we each make an effort to seek out someone who is different than we are and get to know them, offer respect, and prepare to love them even if we disagree with them. Change starts with one-on-one relationships and good listening skills.
Also, Brian's TED Talk "Togetherness Without Tragedy" can be viewed online at: http://www.tedxroseburg.com/2017/04/17/brian-prawitz/
Brian participates in the American Leadership Forum (ALF) where he has gotten to know a diverse group of Oregon leaders from urban and rural areas this year. He finds himself in the minority as a white, middle class, conservative man from a rural area and he is gaining new perspective. He is dismayed that some people in the group have told him they are afraid to come to Roseburg.
Brian mentioned a person who has impressed him with his Kindness Diaries (now on Netflix). The author is Leon Logothetis, and more can be learned about him here: http://www.leonlogothetis.com/. He drove around the world on his motorcycle with no money. When Brian asked him how to lessen division and create more harmony in our communities, he told Brian, "Be the change."
Brian's mission is similar to the League's efforts called the Listening Project which was created in the wake of the October 1st, 2015 Umpqua Community College shooting tragedy. The project will continue this coming fall.
Check out the links above, and contact the League for more information.
Tags American divisions, caring, community, compassion, Douglas County Oregon, forum, gun safety, listening, Roseburg, TED talk
Call Your Senators ASAP!
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H.R.38 – Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017
HR 38 passed the United States House of Representatives yesterday. This is a dangerous bill, and it is on its way to the Senate.
It's imperative you call your Senators today.
Senator Merkley's Washington D.C. Office –> Phone: (202) 224-3753
Senator Wyden's Washington D.C. Office –> (202) 224-5244
Here's a link to the text of the bill:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/38/text
Why, You ask? Read this letter by a League member to Rep. DeFazio:
My name is Sandra Huffstutter, I live in Roseburg, Oregon, and I'm calling today to urge Congressman DeFazio to NOT SUPPORT reciprocal approval of out-of-state concealed carry permits.
I believe that reciprocal approval is a bad idea because a number of other states do not have the kind of sensible public safety restrictions on gun ownership and use that Oregon has.
For example, Oregon is one of only nine states that require universal background checks at point-of-sale for ALL gun purchases, including purchases at gun shows. Why would Oregon want to allow someone from another state who has never passed a background check to carry a concealed weapon in Oregon?
In addition, only half the states in the United States require concealed carry permit holders to have ANY live-fire training, with mandatory range time. Why would Oregon want to allow a gun-owner who has never practiced shooting the ability to carry a concealed weapon and engage in a live-fire situation on the streets of Oregon?
Finally, thanks to our last legislative session, Oregon is now one of only five states that allow families of emotionally disturbed gun owners to obtain an "Extreme Risk Protective Order" requiring emotionally disturbed family members to surrender their guns until their mental health crisis is resolved. Why would Oregon want to allow out-of-staters suffering mental breakdowns to carry concealed weapons while traveling in our state?
Reciprocal approval of out-of-state concealed carry permits will make Oregonians — who benefit from our state's sensible gun safety laws — much, much less safe.
Please Call Today!
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We hope you did not miss this meeting, but in case you did here are some photos.
Special thanks go to LWVOR President Norman Turrill. Norman spoke to League members and visitors on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015 here in Roseburg, Oregon.
Norman has vast experience in the League as he has been a member for 40 years. The League opened membership to men around 1974, and now has many male members.
Subjects that we learned more about included campaign finance reform, gun safety, education, and healthcare issues in Oregon. The League has positions on those subjects and they can be found here.
Thanks to all members and visitors who joined us for the evening. Thank you, Members, for providing refreshments. Welcome to new members who joined that evening!
Here are a few photos from the evening —
Tags campaign finance reform, democracy, Douglas County OR, Douglas County Oregon, education, general meeting, gun safety, healing, health care, Roseburg
Hoping for Healing and Welcoming the President to Roseburg
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The LWV Umpqua Valley extends its condolences to the families and friends of those who lost their lives and who were wounded at Umpqua Community College on October 1.
We know that our entire community is grieving the loss of our sense of security and trust in the goodness of where we live. We stand in solidarity with the students, faculty, and the entire UCC community, and pledge to do what we can to promote healing in our beautiful, Umpqua homeland.
We welcome President Obama and his efforts to console the grieving and to activate change that will make our country a safer home for all of us.
In an ongoing effort to create safer communities, the League of Women Voters, at both the state and national levels, has positions on Violence Prevention and Gun Safety that it uses to influence the legislative process.
The League believes http://lwv.org/content/gun-controlthat the proliferation of handguns and other non-recreational weapons in the United States is a major health and safety threat to its citizens. We will continue to educate voters on gun safety issues and work for passage of stronger laws to limit the accessibility and regulate the ownership of these weapons by private citizens.
We believe everyone wants to feel safe in our community. When the time is right, we plan to play a role in bringing people in our community together to build from common ground. Contact us for more information.
We want UCC Strong and a community united for safety.
Jenny Carloni, President
Tags gun safety, healing, mass shooting, President Obama, Roseburg, UCC Strong


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Q: Why selector for custom ESLint rule fails on AST? I have AST:
https://astexplorer.net/#/gist/4876725d1019dd6f4aec8f2f120ec56d/2f8f40858b5524b6b6c9dbd427dc86e68e902a50
And want to restrict string literals as arguments of function classname.
I have created rule:
create: function(context) {
    return {
        "CallExpression": function (node) {
          const argument = node.arguments && node.arguments.find(element => (element.type === 'Literal'));
          if (
            (node.callee.name === 'classnames')
            && ( argument !== undefined)
          ){
            context.report({
              node,
              message: "You should use css modules instead of {{identifier}}",
              data: {
                identifier: argument.raw,
              }
            })
          }
        },
    }
}

which is fine, but if I try to use more complex selector, like
create: function(context) {
    return {
        "CallExpression[callee.name='classnames']": function (node) {...}
    }
}

it's fail miserably. I think I got selectors idea somehow wrong. May you clarify how to use them properly?
Also is there any way to make query inside function?
For example check if package 'classnames' was imported, get name of variable where it was imported and then query ast for CallExpression with this specific name.

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