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Each planet, each star and each minute particle of the universe relays an important message to mankind regarding the overall story of God, his Son, his Word and his love for us. If these elements of nature were not serving a vital role in God’s plan, he wouldn’t have fashioned them.

As its name suggests, the Milky Way and the events taking place within its boundaries profess a story the Creator obviously wishes to share with us. In the most simplistic terms, the “milk” of God’s word is the basic, literal concept of him and his love for his creation. We are simply incapable of comprehending the entire expanse of this love. In comparison, the Milky Way is, from a scientific standpoint, the most basic, vast realm in which man exists, a space so immense yet still comprehensible to the average human mind. Beyond the Milky Way, the human mind cannot comprehend the infinite expanse of space, just as we cannot comprehend the vast realm of God’s love for us.

Darkness and light were the first object lessons in nature given to us by the Creator. We can tell what differences these lights make by knowing how gloomy days often affect us in a negative emotional way, and how bright and sunny days somehow promote a more positive individual outlook.

The sun represents the Son of God, Christ, the true light of the world, providing us with warmth of brotherly love and companionship. The planets revolve around this single solar body, each at its individual pace, following its own special course, just as mankind on an individual level revolves around his own perception of the Word of God and is given his own special course to travel throughout his life.

Even during the darkness of each night, as we are turned away from the brightness of daylight, the Northern Star allows man to retain his sense of direction. This Northern Star also represents Christ, the point from which all directions are determined, our definitive Example. He alone will be the deciding factor of the final direction we take for eternity - either to stand with the sheep on His right hand or with the goats on His left.

The stars represent God’s chosen people and he knows each individual star by name (Psalms 147:4). These are the stars that are cast to the earth during Israel’s periods of tribulation and persecution and they are the same stars that will ultimately illuminate the earth once the world sits completely in darkness of sin and injustice. Once Israel’s eyes have been unblinded, these stars will begin to shine with the truth of her Messiah.

The moon appears to the human eye as a seemingly unimportant cosmological body drifting through the evening sky, yet it plays a vital role on earth. The moon has no atmosphere and lacks water, prophetically representing the “nothingness” of false teachers and human nature.

Tides are natural phenomenon caused by the alternating rise and fall of the seas on the earth due to the combined gravitational magnetism of the sun and moon. The combination of these two forces produces the recurrent cycle of the oceanic tides. From a prophetic perspective, the turmoil on the sea of nations, too, has historically been caused by ideologies of one religious belief colliding with the values and ethics of another.

The devil being cast to the earth (Revelation 12:9) may represent the moon literally being cast out of heaven. The moon controls the tides of the ocean, holding them within their appointed boundaries. God will allow his fury to be unleashed upon man as the sea and the waves will be roaring and men’s hearts will fail them for fear. The boundaries God has set for the waves of the oceans will no longer be restrained.

In the kingdom, there will be no sea on which the waves of conflict will occur. The moon will be cast out and there will be no tides to contend with. There will finally be peace upon all nations of the earth.

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The Samsung i640 is that is shipped with a Standard battery, Li-Ion 1000 mAh, battery. The Samsung i640 has a battery cell usage of 250 hrs reserve charge and talk time of 6:00. The Samsung i640 is equipped with Polyphonic (40 channels), MP3 ring tones plus a vibrating alert . The Samsung i640 comes equipped with bluetooth, meaning it as easy as possible to integrate with devices, for example wireless headsets. Getting on to the display the phone is equipped with a 2.4 inch screen, which, taking into consideration what else you can get for this price is a pretty average size display. The screen is a TFT, 65K colors. The i640 is very compact easily fitting into ones pocket. Colour wise the Samsung i640 can only be bought in Silver,. The i640 is 148 g, in weight. The i640 is compatible with 2G GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 and 3G HSDPA 2100 . A 2 MP, 1600×1200 pixels, video; secondary VGA videocall camera is integrated into the i640 camera. A WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML, RSS feeds compatible browser is also included allowing mobile Internet access. The i640 also has , Image viewer (jpeg/gif/bmp/png), Java MIDP 2.0, Built-in handsfree, WMA/MP3/AAC+ player, Organiser, Document viewer (MS Word, Excel, PPT, PDF), Voice memo and WMV/3GP/MPEG4 player.

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Cellular phones are now so common that many people do not want to invest time to shop around. Because they can so easily buy a mobile handset on the high street, or even a supermarket or petrol station at a pretty fair price that it may not seem worth putting in a bit more time trying to find a bargain. The trick these individuals have not figured out is that the majority of the great deals are mostly avalable over the Internet, where big cost reductions are achievable without leaving your home. Through the use of a phone comparison site is not only the easiest but is also the most price competitive method of finding a mobile phone.

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Induced brain waves can do many things we have found in the last few decades as researchers discover and learn more about the brain. One thing that can be done is to incite a rogue brain wave, which triggers an aggressive response. But why would you want an aggressive response you ask?

Well first consider that aggressive responses are an innate characteristic of mankind and the human species, so before you jump on the politically correct bandwagon to make fairies and weaklings out of all Americans you might consider for a moment the many uses of such a response and why the human species has it in the first place.

You see the fight or flight response has served the species well and enabled for future generations and had you ancestors not had it, well you most certainly would not be amongst the living right now. Next consider in the present period the need for aggressive response in dealing with various potential eventualities.

Sure discretion is the better part of valor, good point indeed, but sometimes aggressive responses are needed for your survival or the survival of another. For rescue operations, policing and military operations aggressive responses induced directly into the brain of the human might be a very valuable tool and give on the edge needed to for peak performance in an important life or death crisis. Consider all this in 2006.

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Last Friday night, I met a Christian at a prayer
meeting. He was rescued from war-torn Sudan and
brought to the U.S. three years ago. He clearly
loves to pray. He gushed facts.

For example:

I didn’t know that George Washington, the first
president of the United States used to pray for
two hours every day - one hour in the morning at
4:00 a.m. and one hour at 9:00 p.m before retiring
to bed.

Or, that Christopher Columbus (who discovered America
in 1492) was so filled with the Spirit of God that he
wrote in his memoirs that he literally felt the Holy
Spirit on his shoulder directing him throughout his
journey to the New World.

And get this: I also did not know that in the book of
Genesis, when they brought Rebecca, the wife of Isaac,
the very first thing she saw him doing was praying.

“Most people just don’t know how to pray,” he explained.
“Since prayer is a spiritual weapon, it needs to be aimed
at a specific target and fired, like a gun repeatedly,
until you see the results.”

He went on to add:

“Christians who have learned that prayer is more than
just communication with God are powerful folks.

They’ve learnt to make decrees when they are praying.

They’ve learnt to bind and to loose during prayer.

They’ve even learnt to speak to spiritual mountains
such as debt,sickness, and poverty… and caused
them to disappear,just like the bible said we would.
All during prayer.”

Since I am into that dimension of praying and have been
teaching people how to pray their way out of debt, I
was eager to hear all this. I was so taken by what he
had to say that I spent the next two hours after the
prayer meeting listening to his story.

Here’s the really fascinating part…

“You’ve probably seen people who through unfortunate
circumstances in their homelands were brought here as
refugees,” he said. “Would you believe I am one of
them?” he asked me.

“Certainly not,” I said. He looked to me more like a
successful physician than the image of poverty and
wretchedness we all see on tv.

“I didn’t think you would” he told me. “But less than
three years ago, when I was rescued from a burning
village in the Sudan and airlifted to safety and freedom
here, I looked exactly like what you see on tv!”

I stared at him in disbelief. After a long silence, I
finally asked, “then what happened?”

“The fact that I’m still alive today is a testimony
that God still performs miracles, but I wont go into
that here. Instead I’ll tell you how I used only one
strategy in the bible to get from a non-starter and
struggling refugee to the point where I now live in
my own home (worth over $200,000), drive a new car,
and on track to making an income of close to $100,000
this year - all in less than three years.”

At this point someone came out and joined us.

He paused, then continued:

“As soon as I set foot on this land, I decided to start
a midnight watch. You see, I’m no physician, engineer,
lawyer, or some high flying professional. I had no
college education. I hated marketing. I knew that I
needed divine intervention in order to rise above the
level I found myself. And midnight prayer seemed to be
the only ticket I had.”

“Where did you learn that concept?” I asked.

“It’s right there in the bible,” he answered quietly.
“David used it. Jesus used it. Paul used it.

When I first arrived here I joined the prayer group in my
local church. It turned out they were not familiar
with the concept.

I really searched around and discovered only
a few Christians knew the secret of the midnight watch.
Then a Christian brother who read one of your books told
me you’ve been encouraging people to program their
prayers into the midnight hour.

I came here because I’ve
been using concepts similar to what you teach and
they’ve worked for me.”

He went on:

“In the bible when John’s disciples asked Jesus who he
was, the burden of proof was on him (Jesus) to provide
the answer. Jesus did not answer John’s question with
mere words; he authenticated his messianic claim by
his actions - which was in fulfilment of the well-known
prophecy in Isaiah concerning the Messiah.

Today, the burden of proof is on every believer… to
authenticate ourselves to the world around us.

If you say God is the Great Provider, prove it…

If you say He is the healer, you better be ready to
prove it… otherwise no one will take you seriously.

Right now, by the grace of God, I can humbly but boldly
tell you it is possible to pray and get into your own
home, or get a new car, or job, or business, or godly
spouse… whatever you desire, provided it is in line
with the will of God.

Because I am living PROOF!”

“I wish more Christians could say that,” I began…

“I have just started praying about a project I’ve had
in mind a long time,” he continued. “I need finances
to go back and build a children’s hospital in my native
country.

I saw some prayer points you posted on your website
a while ago and the very first week I started praying them,
I received an unusual invitation to participate in a
business venture… that could potentially generate
millions of dollars in the next few years.”

“I am here to sharpen my prayer sword so I can pray
this thing into physical manifestation,” he concluded.

The prayer points he talked about form part of this 2nd
instalment of praying to get out of debt.

If you are able to program the prayers into the
midnight hour, it will help you to:

* discover yourself and your divine purpose

* gain spiritual momentum, if you find yourself
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* get out of debt and begin the journey on the
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* achieve financial success

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EVOLUTION: More surprising to me as I consider where my intellectual head-space has been on this issue, which is central to theological ideal; is the fact that I have become more of a creationist. Skeptics may say that God doesn’t exist and I am inclined to agree he/she isn’t within our purview to limit and say we know; HIM, or even what it is that really goes on, in the world about us. It would be difficult to say there is any one humanistic discipline or theology that fits with my perception. Teilhard de Chardin’s ‘templates’ and ‘quantum many worlds’ join Lamarckian science, that requires uncertainty and values mystery and uncertainty principles with purpose. In the final analysis you can put me in whatever ‘cubby-hole’ you want and there’ll be agreement and respect for the truth therein expressed. I see a lot of people sounding like they disagree and yet I see little difference except when they seek personal gain by it. Surely science has given a great deal of support to the concept of consciousness existing in the very smallest parts of energy, and in the ways it performs what was once considered miraculous, or magical. Here are the thoughts of two very scientifically oriented people from MIT in a book called Darwinism Evolving:

“They also made it harder for the scientific worldview to be received with equanimity by other sectors of culture. Indeed, since the reducing impulse undermines fairly huge tracts of experience, people like Wallace, who feel deeply about protecting phenomena they regard as existentially important, frequently conclude that they have no alternative except to embrace spiritualism, and sometimes even to attack the scientific worldview itself, if that is the only way to protect important spheres of experience that have been ejected from science’s confining Eden. In response, scientists and philosophers who feel strongly about the liberating potential of a spare, materialistic worldview began to patrol the borderlands between the high-grade knowledge scientists have of natural systems and the low-grade opinions that in the view of science’s most ardent defenders, dominate other spheres of culture and lead back toward the superstitious and authoritarian world of yesteryear. ‘Demarcating’ science from other, less cognitively worthwhile forms of understanding was already a major feature of Darwin’s world. A line beyond which the Newtonian paradigm could not apply was drawn at the boundary between physics and biology. We have seen how hesitant Darwin was to cross that line and what happened when he did. Twentieth-century people are sometimes prone to congratulate themselves for being above these quaint Victorian battles. They may have less reason to do so, however, than they think, for the fact is that throughout our own century, the same sort of battles, with emotional overtones no less charged, have been waged at the contested line where biology meets psychology, and more generally where the natural sciences confront the human sciences. Dualisms between spirit and matter, and even between mind and body, may have been pushed to the margins of respectable intellectual discourse. But methodological dualisms between what is covered by laws and what is to be ‘hermeneutically appropriated’ are still very much at the center of our cultural, or rather ‘two cultural’, life. Cognitive psychologists and neurophysiologists are even now busy reducing mind-states to brain-states, while interpretive or humanistic psychologists are proclaiming how meaningless the world would be if mind is nothing but brain. Interpretive anthropologists are filled with horror at what would disappear from the world if the rich cultural practices that seem to give meaning to our lives were to be shown to be little more than extremely sophisticated calculations on the part of self-interested genes. Conflicts of this sort would have given Darwin stomachaches almost as bad as the ones he endured over earlier demarcation controversies.

The rhetorical pattern of these battles is still depressingly similar, in fact, to Huxley’s confrontation with Wilberforce. Hermeneuts ridicule scientists like Hamilton, Dawkins, and Wilson when they suggest that nothing was ever known about social cooperation until biologists discovered kin selection. Reductionists in turn criticize hermeneuts, now transformed largely into ‘culturists,’ for bringing back ghosts and gods, just as their nineteenth-century predecessors were taxed with being ‘vitalists’ every time they said something about the complexity of development. Humanists identify scientists with an outdated materialist reductionism. Scientists insist that hermeneutical intentionality is little more than disguised religion.

Perhaps, a way out of this fruitless dialectic between the ‘two cultures’, can be found if each party could give up at least one of its cherished preconceptions {Or just give up the science that rejects certain facts in favour of convention or the ‘Toilet Philosophy’.}. It would be a good thing, for example, if heirs of the Enlightenment would stop thinking that if cultural phenomena are not reduced to some sort of mechanism; religious authoritarianism will immediately flood into the breach. They should also stop assuming that nothing is really known about human beings until the spirit of scientific reductionism gets to work. Students of the human sciences have, after all, been learning things alongside scientists ever since modernity began. Among the things they have learned are that humans are individuated persons within the bonds of culture and cultural roles, and that as recipients and transmitters of cultural meanings, they are bound together with others in ways no less meaningful and valuable than the ways promoted by strongly dualistic religions. By the same token, it would be helpful if advocates of the interpretive disciplines would abandon a tacit assumption sometimes found among them that nature is so constituted that it can never accomodate the rich and meaningful cultural phenomena humanists are dedicated to protecting, and that therefore cultural phenomena ‘ought never’ to be allowed to slip comfortably into naturalism. Humanists seem to have internalized this belief from their reductionist enemies, whose commitment to materialism is generally inseparable from their resolve to show up large parts of culture, especially religion, as illusions. These opponents, we may safely say, take in each other’s laundry.” (7)

Ego and protecting territory abound in the internecine warfare that academics who seldom DO anything, often fight over. Meanwhile the real DOERS explore the boundless and awesome ‘waves of the marvellous’. (8) We should accept even the ridiculous possibilities that come to mind as having merit or avenues to understand, rather than constantly fighting to make black and white answers that support our ego and limit the people who put forward possibilities. The real rule should be something along the line of ‘if it hurts no one, why not enjoy the possibility? There are ample evidences that every supposed correct point of view or paradigm is short-lived unless backed by force and some kind of authority that limits rather than supports god and his/her purpose. Then an open-mind obtains new insight and finds the templates of reality even in exploring what first appears to be utterly absurd. I admit I often have found the idea of creationism absurd, and yet as I said at the start of this entry I am now on the side of creationists through evolutionary forces with intentional creative inputs in the Intelligent Design or Interventionist mode. The next entry will seem absurd to most people and few will think it deserves inclusion in a segment purporting to have anything to do with science. I must include it in honest presentation despite the ridicule most people will attribute to it, and me.

EXORCISMS: - No, I don’t believe it has anything to do with devils and those who project such evil images and intents. These people are the ones who claim only they can exorcize the very devils they manufacture, in the hallucinatory and delusional or vulnerable people they treat. by Aldous Huxley exposes these Catholic masters of the art of deception. That doesn’t mean there are no spirits or dimensional entities with consciousness. To say such a thing would fly in the face of all the science we have presented. The soul would have no immortality as the Keltic Creed and Mandukya Upanishads that Eugene Wigner thinks explains quantum reality tells us is real. To deny such phenomena is the kind of thing reductionists in love with logic and certain of their omniscience will assure us they know. How can shamans create herbal concoctions that chemists can’t create? How can we doubt the actual results of the ‘dowsers’ and Tesla’s great achievements from visions or his ‘non-force info packets’ which allow such ‘free energy’ to be manufactured in something called a vacuum. NASA assures us the ingredients of life are ‘everywhere’ and that could even include a vacuum. What kind of avoidance of fact or ‘easy answers’ do you have to find in order to explain away reality and what you can observe with your own eyes? You would have to attribute the construction of ‘henges’ or the Nazca Lines to aliens or gods!

We don’t reject these possibilities but they would only serve to enhance the probability of spirits that can possess our physical and complex body with all of its conscious atoms and coordinated centers of energy known as chakras. The science and medicine of the ancients assures us that these things exist and these scientists have a solid track record of performance. They DO the things others can’t explain - then they explain how ‘chhi’ or Shakti is in every part of everything in the universe, and have suffered the guffaws of know-it-alls who are usually wrong. This energy with consciousness is open to direction and will avail the trapped or confused soul without awareness and unwilling to go on with life, an opportunity to hang on as ghosts or in the bodies of those they have shared life with. Sorry to disappoint the authors of ‘Darwinism Evolving’ but I knew this was fact even before 500 watts were extracted from a vacuum by machines built on the principles of Tesla. Those of us who have first hand knowledge of ‘the waves of the marvellous’ like Bucky Fuller and Einstein need no peer approval from those who deny god, the soul and ESP.

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Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
Guest ‘expert’ at World-Mysteries.com

The Chandigarh Administration revised and implemented the
electricity tariff w.e.f. 1.8.05 where in a new tariff structure
was introduced comprising of energy charges and fixed charges.
Anumber of representations from consumers/associations are being
received stating the new Tariff Structure as irrational. The
main resentment is regarding the domestic consumers consuming
151 units since energy charges@ 2.90 per unit becomes applicable
as against 1.65 per unit for 150 units consumption.The basic
idea behind the introduction of new tariff structure was to have
a Rational Tariff Structure for all category of consumers. There
fore the energy charges of all categories of consumers
(exceptDomestic Supply) were made equal i.e. Rs.3.36 per unit.
However, the Domestic Supply Consumers were given concession by
charging them subsidized rates of Rs. 2.90 per unit (for total
monthly consumption exceeding 150 units). Similarly within the
domestic category also,various slabs were done away under the
Rational tariff Structure. However, to grant some concession to
the weaker section, it was decidedby the Administration that
there should be no increase (on an average) intariff for
consumers with monthly consumption less than or equal to
150units.U.T. has no generation of its own and the power
requirement of the city is being met through power purchased
from various Central GeneratingUnits and BBMB. The average
purchase price per unit (including lossesand other expenditure)
is around Rs.3.2 per unit while the average sale price per unit
(energy charges + fixed charges) for all category of consumers,
also comes to approximately Rs.3.2 per unit with the
introduction of new tariff. The average energy charges per unit
for domestic category has been increased from Rs.2.65 per unit
to Rs.2.90 per unit (an increase of approx. 9%) with the
introduction of new tariff.The concept of fixed charges has been
introduced to charge for making available electricity at the
doors-steps, whether consumed or not. Accordingly the monthly
minimum charges of Rs.35/- per KW per month havebeen done away.
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Approximately 24 percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, have no vision. The primary audience for such applications is those who have difficulty reading because of learning disabilities or language barriers. The Macintosh OS also comes with a built-in screen reader, called VoiceOver.

The latter developed in part by Knopper who has a visual impairment. Linux distributions for the blind include Oralux and Adriane Knoppix. More and more, screen readers are being bundled with operating system distributions.

Web browsers, word processors, icons and windows and email programs are just some of the applications used successfully by screen reader users. The movement towards greater web accessibility is opening a far wider number of websites to adaptive technology, making the web a more inviting place for visually impaired surfers. Indeed functionality remains limited compared to equivalent desktop applications, the major benefit is to increase the accessibility of said websites. Later versions of Microsoft Windows include an Accessibility Wizard and Magnifier for those with partial vision, and Microsoft Narrator, a simple screen reader. The console-based Oralux Linux distribution ships with three screen-reading environments: Emacspeak, Yasr and Speakup. A screen reader is a software application that attempts to identify and interpret what is being displayed on the screen. This interpretation is then represented to the user with text-to-speech, sound icons, or a braille output. Screen readers can be assumed to be able to access all display content that is not intrinsically inaccessible.

There are also open source screen readers, such as the Linux Screen Reader for GNOME and NonVisual Desktop Access for Windows.

While Apple Mac OS X includes VoiceOver, a more feature-rich screen reader. The open source GNOME desktop environment long included Gnopernicus and now includes Orca. Screen readers are a form of assistive technology potentially useful to people who are blind, visually impaired, or learning disabled, often in combination with other AT such as screen magnifiers.