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Sarah Palin May be Poised for 2012 Run for President
Win or lose, some say, after the election next week Sarah Palin will have her sights set firmly on the presidential election in 2012. Many political experts are projecting her as the early favorite to be the Republican nominee for president in the next election.
Given the tumultuous campaign experience she is currently having, including charges from her home state of Alaska of misappropriating state funds and abusing the power of her office, that idea might seem a little far-fetched to many. But supporters of the idea point to her charisma and her ability to excite and motivate the Conservative Right, which forms the foundation of the Republican voting base.
The interesting aspect of the idea is that Palin might be well-positioned for a 2012 run, regardless of the outcome of this election. Even if McCain wins, some experts think that the 2012 campaign will focus on many of the “traditional American” values with which Palin seems to be closely aligned. And it seems unlikely that McCain would attempt a second term, given his age.
And while the media and the public may be viewing Palin as more of a hindrance to the McCain campaign, Palin supporters and some objective political observers see the situation as reversed. It is McCain who is holding down Palin in this election. Free to run her own campaign and move to the forefront of a ticket, Palin would be able to draw in even more support, perhaps grabbing some of the independent and undecided voters that Barack Obama seems to be drawing toward his camp in the current campaign.
In any event, the next four years are likely to be far more important for Sarah Palin’s political future than the next seven days. Regardless of the outcome of the November 4th election, Palin will have four years to establish herself as a leading Republican figure and could possibly be holding the Republican nomination for president the next time around.
Why is Education So Important?
When I started thinking about why education is so important, I remembered my school years, the grounding years of anyone’s education. I went down memory lane to remember all my teachers, my school subjects, the study and the play! I never really hated school. But I have seen many who hate going to school; I have had some friends who did not like the idea of studying in classrooms. Many of you must have unwillingly entered your school gates…. But all of us know this dislike never lasts long. We soon start loving school and it is when it is time to leave school that we are in tears…. What is school life all about? It is all about laying the foundation of our education. It is a place to understand why education is so important and how important it is! It is an institution, where we learn to read and write. School transforms kids into literate individuals. It is where we get our basics cleared and at the point of leaving school, we are all set to soar high in life, enter the new world in pursuit of our dreams.
Why is education so important?
The first thing that strikes me about education is knowledge gain. Education gives us the knowledge of the world around us. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on everything in life. People debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge. Some say, education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is something very different. They are partly right. But the conversion of information to knowledge is possible because of education. Education makes us capable of interpreting rightly the things perceived. Education is not about lessons and poems in textbooks. It is about the lessons of life.
The words ‘cultivate’ and ‘civilize’ are almost synonymous to the word ‘educate’. That says it! Education is important as it teaches us the right behavior, the good manners thus making us civilized. It teaches us how to lead our lives. Education is the basis of culture and civilization. It is instrumental in the development of our values and virtues. Education cultivates us into mature individuals, individuals capable of planning for our futures and taking the right decisions. Education arms us with an insight to look at our lives and learn from every experience. The future of a nation is safe in the hands of educated individuals. Education is important for the economic growth of a nation. It fosters principles of equality and socialism. Education forms a support system for talents to excel in life. It is the backbone of society.
Education is important because it equips us with all that is needed to make our dreams come true. Education opens doors of brilliant career opportunities. It fetches better prospects in career and growth. Every employer of today requires his prospective employees to be well educated. He requires expertise. So, education becomes an eligibility criterion for employment into any sector of the industry. We are rewarded for exercising the expertise required for the field we venture. We are weighed in the market on the basis of our educational skills and how well we can apply them.
Education is essential as it paves the path leading to disillusionment. It wipes out all the wrong beliefs in our minds. It helps create a clear picture of everything around us and we no more remain in confusion about the things we learn. Education brings up questions and also devises ways to find satisfactory answers to them. Education is about knowing that everything has a science to it, it is about learning to reason everything till every question meets its answer. Education can lead us to enlightenment. It is education that builds in every individual, a confidence to take decisions, to face life and to accept successes and failures. It instills a sense of pride about the knowledge one has and prepares him/her for life!
Schools and colleges define the basic framework of education. Schooling gives us the fundamentals whereas we specialize in fields of our interest, during the degree courses. But education does not end here. It is a lifelong process. Self-learning begins at the point that marks the end of institutional education. The process of self-learning continues…
Big Bang: Tunnel vision to fire imagination of scientists worldwide
NEW DELHI: It was in the making for the last 20 years, and now having gone live this week, the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be used for experiments over the next 20 years.
“Scientists see this as a step closer to understanding the makeup of the universe. While the LHC went live with a `low key’ firing of a beam of protons—sub-atomic particles —using 450 giga electric volts of power, the official inauguration with global heads of state, technology bureaucrats and top scientists is slated for October 21 in Geneva.
Between now and the formal launch, experiments will be carried out in calibrated steps, increasing the beam intensity, accumulating protons in the tunnel, raising energy levels and bringing the beams in collision mode. When two beams of protons collide, they will generate temperatures more than 100,000 times hotter than at the heart of the sun, concentrated within a miniscule space!
The mini Big Bang is simply awesome not only because of the scale of the experiment but also due to its truly global nature — made possible by the work of over 8,000 scientists from 85 countries. And the analysis of the collision debris will be done by over 100,000 computers spread across the world.
According to sources, at the formal launch, the Indian delegation is likely to be led by union minister of state for science and technology Kapil Sibal and will include Dr Anil Kakodkar, chairman, Atomic Energy Commission, V C Sahni, director, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore, Purushottam Shrivastava, head, high power microwave section, RRCAT, Atul Gurtu, scientist, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) besides a few other top science and technology experts.
When asked about the mini Big Bang going live, Dr Vinod Chandra Sahni, director, RRCAT told ET, “It’s a major milestone covered. Decades of work has come to bear fruit. About 450 giga electric volts of power was used but no collision happened at the initial stage. Now, going up to October 21, the speed of the particles will gradually be increased and the beams will be made to collide.’’
Though built to study the smallest known and `unknown’ particles, the LHC tunnel is actually the largest and the most complex machine ever made. The $7-bn machine has a circumference of 27 km and lies 100 metres under ground, on the French-Swiss border.
Surface buildings hold ancillary equipment such as compressors, ventilation equipment, control electronics and refrigeration plants.
At full power, trillions of protons will race around the LHC accelerator ring 11,245 times a second. It’s capable of achieving 600 mn collisions every second. The machine is also the world’s `largest fridge’.
All the over 1,200 magnets will be cooled using 10,080 tons of liquid nitrogen and nearly 60 tons of liquid helium to bring the temperature to -271.3°C (colder than outer space). The LHC also happens to the emptiest place in the Solar System. The beams of particles travel in an ultra-high vacuum - the internal pressure of the LHC is 10-13 atmospheres, 10 times less than the pressure on the Moon.
Says a scientist involved with the project, “The goals are truly stupendous, ranging from understanding the microcosm of the sub-nuclear world to understanding what the universe was like a few moments after the Big Bang.
Data from collisions of the beams are expected to change what physicists know about everything from the Big Bang, black holes to the existence of Higgs boson and the most fundamental building blocks of matter.’’ Hopefully, the secrets will be out in less than 20 years.
Big Bang experiment - the end of the world as we know it?
Scientists said they simply didn’t know what surprises might emerge when they started up the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most complex machine which until Wednesday lay benignly in its underground home on the outskirts of Geneva.
Perhaps crashing together millions of particles at close to the speed of light would replicate the conditions just after the Big Bang that created the universe.
Perhaps the high-energy collisions, which will generate temperatures more than 100,000 times than the heart
of the sun, would lay to rest an unproven theory of physics.
And maybe, just maybe, the largest scientific experiment in human history would produce some anti-matter, or miniature black holes that would quickly disappear
“The most exciting result would be something we don’t expect,” British physicist Stephen Hawking said on the eve of the tightly sealed machine’s start-up, echoing his scientific peers who bubbled over with enthusiasm about the prospect of finally cracking more of the universe’s mysteries once data starts spewing from the physics playground at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.
But not everyone likes surprises.
For non-scientists, the scale and ambition of the 10-billion Swiss franc ($9 billion) project seem unnerving. The possibility of creating black holes simply sound scary.
Many people allow themselves to ask, are there limits to what science should seek to find out? Will this experiment result in the end of the world as we know it, or even bring about the end of the world?
Millions of people — myself included — were first introduced to CERN reading “Angels and Demons,” the prequel to “The Da Vinci Code,” in which bad guys try to steal anti-matter from the ultra-modern research centre to destroy the Vatican.
But the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider on Wednesday proceeded without the drama or adrenaline of a Dan Brown novel. Project director Lyn Evans even wore jeans and running shoes for the occasion. 
So without a Big Bang of a start, we all may have to sit back with another book and wait to see what mysteries particle physics eventually beholds.
Smashing Big Bang experiment gets turned on
GENEVA (Reuters) - Physicists around the world, some in pyjamas and others with champagne, celebrated the first tests on Wednesday of a huge particle-smashing machine they hope will simulate the “Big Bang” that created the universe.
Experiments using the underground Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, the biggest and most complex machine ever made, could revamp modern physics and unlock secrets about the universe and its origins.
Staff in the control room on the border of Switzerland and France clapped as two beams of particles were sent silently first one way and then the other around the LHC’s 17-mile (27-km) underground chamber.
“Things can go wrong at any time,” said project leader Lyn Evans, who wore jeans and running shoes for the LHC’s debut.
“But this morning we had a great start.”
It will be weeks or months before two particles ever crash together in the giant tube, and even longer before scientists can interpret results, said Jos Engelen, chief scientific officer of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
“Anything between a year and four years, depending on how difficult this new physics is to find,” Engelen said.
Pyjama-clad scientists calling themselves “Nerds in Nightshirts” partied at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois as they waited late into the night for the first signals from the 10 billion Swiss franc (5 billion pound) machine.
The first blip came soon after the LHC was switched on at 9:30 a.m. CERN time, 1:30 a.m. in Batavia, home of the Tevatron, which still lays claim to being the highest energy particle collider until the LHC starts colliding protons.
THE WORLD DIDN’T END
Physicists brushed off suggestions that the experiment could create tiny black holes that could suck in the planet.
“The worries that scientists had were nothing to do with being swallowed up by black holes and everything to do with technical hitches or electronic failure,” said Jim al-Khalili, a physicist at Britain’s University of Surrey.
“Now, after a collective sigh of relief, the real fun starts,” al-Khalili said. “No matter what we find, we will be unlocking the secrets of the universe.”
The LHC will send beams of subatomic particles called protons whizzing around the tube at just under the speed of light.
The hope is they will smash into one another and explode in a burst of new and previously unseen types of particles — recreating on a miniature scale the heat and energy of the Big Bang that gave birth to the universe 13.7 billion years ago.
At full speed the LHC will engineer 600 million collisions every second. Data will be transmitted via a network called The Grid to scientists at 170 institutions in 33 countries.
“It is sort of a virtual United Nations,” said Michael Tuts, a physics professor at Columbia University in New York and program manager for 400 U.S. physicists working on one LHC project.
The experiments could confirm the existence of the Higgs Boson, a theoretical particle named after Peter Higgs, who first proposed it in 1964.
Also referred to as the “God particle,” the Higgs Boson could help explain how matter has mass. “I think it’s pretty likely” that it will be found, Higgs told reporters at the University of Edinburgh, where he is a retired professor of physics.
Scientists halted the particle beam’s counter-clockwise spin temporarily on Wednesday afternoon after problems with the machine’s magnets caused its temperature to warm slightly.
CERN officials said such minor glitches were to be expected given the intricacy of the machine, which is cooled to minus 271.3 degrees Celsius (minus 456.3 degrees Fahrenheit).
The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously left behind
The wife U.S. Republican John McCain callously
left behind
By Sharon Churcher
Last updated at 1:45 AM on 08th June 2008
Now that Hillary Clinton has at last formally withdrawn from the race for the White House, the eyes of America and the world will focus on Barack Obama and his Republican rival Senator John McCain.
While Obama will surely press his credentials as the embodiment of the American dream – a handsome, charismatic young black man who was raised on food stamps by a single mother and who represents his country’s future – McCain will present himself as a selfless, principled war hero whose campaign represents not so much a battle for the presidency of the United States, but a crusade to rescue the nation’s tarnished reputation.
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Forgotten woman: But despite all her problems Carol McCain says she still adores he ex-husband
McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.
But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.
And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.
She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.
But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier. Her car had skidded on icy roads into a telegraph pole on Christmas Eve, 1969. Her pelvis and one arm were shattered by the impact and she suffered massive internal injuries.
When Carol was discharged from hospital after six months of life-saving surgery, the prognosis was bleak. In order to save her legs, surgeons
had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.
Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.
Today, she stands at just 5ft4in and still walks awkwardly, with a pronounced limp. Her body is held together by screws and metal plates and, at 70, her face is worn by wrinkles that speak of decades of silent suffering.
For nearly 30 years, Carol has maintained a dignified silence about the accident, McCain and their divorce. But last week at the bungalow where she now lives at Virginia Beach, a faded seaside resort 200 miles south of Washington, she told The Mail on Sunday how McCain divorced her in 1980 and married Cindy, 18 years his junior and the heir to an Arizona brewing fortune, just one month later.
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Golden couple: John and Cindy McCain at a charity gala in Los Angeles
Carol insists she remains on good terms with her ex-husband, who agreed as part of their divorce settlement to pay her medical costs for life. ‘I have no bitterness,’
she says. ‘My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am five inches shorter than I used to be and I was in hospital for six months. It was just awful, but it wasn’t the reason for my divorce.
‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens…it just does.’
Some of McCain’s acquaintances are less forgiving, however. They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.
McCain was then earning little more than £25,000 a year as a naval officer, while his new father-in-law, Jim Hensley, was a multi-millionaire who had impeccable political connections.
He first met Carol in the Fifties while he was at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis. He was a privileged, but rebellious scion of one of America’s most distinguished military dynasties – his father and grandfather were both admirals.
But setting out to have a good time, the young McCain hung out with a group of young officers who called themselves the ‘Bad Bunch’.
His primary interest was women and his conquests ranged from a knife-wielding floozy nicknamed ‘Marie, the Flame of Florida’ to a tobacco heiress.
Carol fell into his fast-living world by accident. She escaped a poor upbringing in Philadelphia to become a successful model, married an Annapolis classmate of McCain’s and had two children – Douglas and Andrew – before renewing what one acquaintance calls ‘an old flirtation’ with McCain.
It seems clear she was bowled over by McCain’s attention at a time when he was becoming bored with his playboy lifestyle.
‘He was 28 and ready to settle down and he loved Carol’s children,’ recalled another Annapolis graduate, Robert Timberg, who wrote The Nightingale’s Song, a bestselling biography of McCain and four other graduates of the academy.
The couple married and McCain adopted Carol’s sons. Their daughter, Sidney, was born a year later, but domesticity was clearly beginning
to bore McCain – the couple were regarded as ‘fixtures on the party circuit’ before McCain requested combat duty in Vietnam at the end of 1966.
He was assigned as a bomber pilot on an aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin.
What follows is the stuff of the McCain legend. He was shot down over Hanoi in October 1967 on his 23rd mission over North Vietnam and was badly beaten by an angry mob when he was pulled, half-drowned from a lake.
War hero: McCain with Carol as he arrives back in the US in 1973 after his five years as a PoW in North Vietnam
Over the next five-and-a-half years in the notorious Hoa Loa Prison he was regularly tortured and mistreated.
It was in 1969 that Carol went to spend the Christmas holiday – her third without McCain – at her parents’ home. After dinner, she left to drop off some presents at a friend’s house.
It wasn’t until some hours later that she was discovered, alone and in terrible pain, next to the wreckage of her car. She had been hurled through the windscreen.
After her first series of life-saving operations, Carol was told she may never walk again, but when doctors said they would try to get word to McCain about her injuries, she refused, insisting: ‘He’s got enough problems, I don’t want to tell him.’
H. Ross Perot, a billionaire Texas businessman, future presidential candidate and advocate of prisoners of war, paid for her medical care.
When McCain – his hair turned prematurely white and his body reduced to little more than a skeleton – was released in March 1973, he told reporters he was overjoyed to see Carol again.
But friends say privately he was ‘appalled’ by the change in her appearance. At first, though, he was kind, assuring her: ‘I don’t look so good myself. It’s fine.’
He bought her a bungalow near the sea in Florida and another former PoW helped him to build a railing so she could pull herself over the dunes to the water.
‘I thought, of course, we would live happily ever after,’ says Carol. But as a war hero, McCain was moving in ever-more elevated circles.
Through Ross Perot, he met Ronald Reagan, then Governor of California. A sympathetic Nancy Reagan took Carol under her wing.
But already the McCains’ marriage had begun to fray. ‘John started carousing and running around with women,’ said Robert Timberg.
McCain has acknowledged that he had girlfriends during this time, without going into details. Some friends blame his dissatisfaction with Carol, but others give some credence to her theory of a mid-life crisis.
He was also fiercely ambitious, but it was clear he would never become an admiral like his illustrious father and grandfather and his thoughts were turning to politics.
In 1979 – while still married to Carol – he met Cindy at a cocktail party in Hawaii. Over the next six months he pursued her, flying around the country to see her. Then he began to push to end his marriage.
Carol and her children were devastated. ‘It was a complete surprise,’ says Nancy Reynolds, a former Reagan aide.
‘They never displayed any difficulties between themselves. I know the Reagans were quite shocked because they loved and respected both Carol and John.’
Another friend added: ‘Carol didn’t fight him. She felt her infirmity made her an impediment to him. She justified his actions because of all he had gone through. She used to say, “He just wants to make up for lost time.”’
Indeed, to many in their circle the saddest part of the break-up was Carol’s decision to resign herself to losing a man she says she still adores.
Friends confirm she has remained friends with McCain and backed him in all his campaigns. ‘He was very generous to her in the divorce but of course he could afford to be, since he was marrying Cindy,’ one observed.
McCain transferred the Florida beach house to Carol and gave her the right to live in their jointly-owned townhouse in the Washington suburb of Alexandria. He also agreed to pay her alimony and child support.
A former neighbour says she subsequently sold up in Florida and Washington and moved in 2003 to Virginia Beach. He said: ‘My impression was that she found the new place easier to manage as she still has some difficulties walking.’
Meanwhile McCain moved to Arizona with his new bride immediately after their 1980 marriage. There, his new father-in-law gave him a job and introduced him to local businessmen and political powerbrokers who would smooth his passage to Washington via the House of Representatives and Senate.
And yet despite his popularity as a politician, there are those who won’t forget his treatment of his first wife.
Ted Sampley, who fought with US Special Forces in Vietnam and is now a leading campaigner for veterans’ rights, said: ‘I have been following John McCain’s career for nearly 20 years. I know him personally. There is something wrong with this guy and let me tell you what it is – deceit.
‘When he came home and saw that Carol was not the beauty he left behind, he started running around on her almost right away. Everybody around him knew it.
‘Eventually he met Cindy and she was young and beautiful and very wealthy. At that point McCain just dumped Carol for something he thought was better.
‘This is a guy who makes such a big deal about his character. He has no character. He is a fake. If there was any character in that first marriage, it all belonged to Carol.’
One old friend of the McCains said: ‘Carol always insists she is not bitter, but I think that’s a defence mechanism. She also feels deeply in his debt because in return for her agreement to a divorce, he promised to pay for her medical care for the rest of her life.’
Carol remained resolutely loyal as McCain’s political star rose. She says she agreed to talk to The Mail on Sunday only because she wanted to publicise her support for the man who abandoned her.
Indeed, the old Mercedes that she uses to run errands displays both a disabled badge and a sticker encouraging people to vote for her ex-husband. ‘He’s a good guy,’ she assured us. ‘We are still good friends. He is the best man for president.’
But Ross Perot, who paid her medical bills all those years ago, now believes that both Carol McCain and the American people have been taken in by a man who is unusually slick and cruel – even by the standards of modern politics.
‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.
‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’
- Additional reporting by Paul Henderson in Virginia Beach and William Lowther in Washington
Boeing under pressure to avert strike
Boeing under pressure to avert strike
Published: August 21, 2008
Kevin P. Casey/Bloomberg News
An engine on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. The contract between the company and 27,000 workers represented by the International Association of Machinists is set to expire September 3.
Boeing under
SEATTLE: Boeing began the final push of contract talks with its largest union Thursday amid pressure to avert a strike that would cause further delays in the 787 Dreamliner program.
A Bank of America Securities analyst, Harry Nourse, set possibility of a strike at 70 percent, while Alex Hamilton of Jesup & Lamont Securities put the chance at 60 percent. Boeing’s contract with 27,000 workers represented by the International Association of Machinists expires Sept. 3.
The union says Boeing’s $10.7 billion in profit since 2004 justifies its demands for better pay and benefits, and Boeing’s fortunes have improved since the start of talks in May. The 787 is meeting a revised production schedule, the Pentagon gave Boeing a second chance at a $35 billion tanker contract, and fuel prices that have crippled airline customers have dropped more than 25 percent in a month.
“If we can’t make any gains in the good times, then when would we ever have the leverage to do that?” Thomas Wroblewski, a union official, said.
The two sides began talks May 9 with committees meeting three times a week on noneconomic matters. Starting Thursday night, they were to cloister themselves in a Seattle-area hotel to try to work out financial terms before the contract expires.
Boeing and the union already have made “significant progress,” Tim Healy, a company spokesman, said. A union spokeswoman, Connie Kelliher, said only “minor” issues like layoff-recall rights have been resolved. The machinists covered by the contract - in Washington, Oregon and Kansas - make up about 17 percent of Boeing’s 159,300 workers. The Seattle workers made an average of $27 an hour, or about $56,000 a year, as of August 2007.
In addition to delaying the 787, a strike might keep Boeing from reclaiming the position of the world’s largest aircraft manufacturer from Airbus, the European rival that has built more planes than Boeing every year since 2003.
Shares of Boeing, which is based in Chicago, are trading near a four-year low and have dropped 38 percent since the first of three 787 delays was announced in October. Shares were up less than one percent in afternoon trading Thursday in New York.
Boeing is counting on the fuel-efficient Dreamliner, which is made of lightweight composites, to attract airlines battling record oil prices that have forced some carriers to ground older aircraft.
The union would reason “that Boeing cannot afford a protracted walkout further delaying the 787 and so will be more likely to accede to the workers’ demands,” Nourse, the Bank of America Securities analyst, wrote last month.
Hamilton, of Jesup & Lamont, wrote on Aug. 14 that a work stoppage “would more than likely hamper Boeing’s 787 first flight schedule.”
Boeing has set the first test flight for November and delivery for the third quarter of 2009, at least 14 months late because of parts shortages and a new assembly process.
The machinists have gone on strike six times since the union was founded in 1935. The last one, a 28-day walkout in 2005, kept Boeing from building 30 planes. The strike shaved about $300 million from earnings in 2005.
Boeing had $10.2 billion in cash and marketable securities as of June 30, giving it some cushion to tolerate a strike. Boeing has a record order backlog of 900 planes that will keep it busy building planes for the next eight years.
The union is seeking improvements in all aspects of the contract, with better health care and higher wages and pensions for the workers who are covered in the Seattle area, as well as Portland, Oregon, and Wichita, Kansas.
Machinists have been “infuriated” by what Boeing has proposed so far, with offers including a $1.28 an hour increase in starting wages and swapping a pension program for a 401(k) retirement savings plan for new employees, Wroblewski said.
Acne Fact and Fiction! Do Stress, Facials and Concealer’s Help to Promote or Reduce Acne Breakouts?
What is Acne? People have differing opinions as to what acne really is. So, what exactly is acne? Do a couple of occasional but recurring zits qualify as a case of acne or do you have to have a lot of zits?
Believe it or not, the answer is that occasional pimples or zits do not constitute a true case of acne. Although zits do seem to have the ability to appear almost instantaneously and at the most inopportune times like picture day, prom night, spelling bees, sporting events, dates, and special award ceremonies, they are not a true acne outbreak.
The dictionary defines acne as “an inflammatory disease of the sebaceous glands, characterized by comedones and pimples, especially on the face, back, chest, and, in severe cases, by cysts and nodules resulting in scarring.”
The anatomical definition of sebaceous glands is: “small subcutaneous glands usually connected with hair follicles. The follicles secrete an oily semi-fluid matter, composed in great part of fat, which softens and lubricates the hair and skin.”
Real acne outbreaks are actually a disease of the skin. However, the great news is that acne is treatable. Although it can be very embarrassing, cause great emotional distress, and lower your personal self-esteem for a period of time, acne is not fatal.
There are new and effective treatments being sought by researchers and great advances have been made in the treatment of acne in the last few years. Years ago, when a person had acne, they were pretty much stuck with the problem. There were very few treatments available and the medical profession didn’t even consider acne a disease.
It was long thought that acne was the direct result of a diet that was too high in fat and/or sweets. That is no longer the case. Acne is most often associated with puberty and the onset of pre-teen and teenage years but it can and does develop in adults as well. When acne does finally heal, there can be permanent scars left (from picking and popping) that are unsightly and cause patients to suffer long term emotional distress and low self- esteem.
New and very effective skin resurfacing treatments have been developed over the last several years that have, if not completely removed acne scars, at least diminished their appearance and severity.
Acne Fact or Fiction:
You can hear a lot of tall tales about acne today, so let’s take a look at the fact or fiction of acne. It is always better to be well armed with factual information so that you don’t get fooled by the fictional facts that surround acne.
Fictional Fact #1: Acne is caused by a lack of sexual activity.
Factual Fact: Acne and sexual activity are two entirely separate issues. One has no bearing on the other. Hormones secreted during puberty and young adulthood does have a bearing on acne. They also have a bearing on sexual arousal and activity. However, acne has no bearing on sexual activity nor does sexual activity have any bearing on acne.
Fictional Fact #2: People have acne because they are dirty.
Factual Fact: Dirt has no part in acne. Dirt is dirt. Acne is acne. One has nothing to do with the other. Acne is a build up of oil, dead skin cells, and bacteria. Dirt isn’t involved. Keeping the face clean can and will help to prevent clogged pores but dirt does not cause acne.
Fictional Fact #3: Dermatologists can cure acne.
Factual Fact: Dermatologists can TREAT acne. They can help to alleviate the symptoms and help to clear up the pimples, black-heads, and white heads. They can prescribe antibiotics and topical ointments, lotions, and creams that will help but there is no cure at this time for acne.
Fictional Fact #4: Acne is simply a skin problem.
Factual Fact: It’s true that acne affects the skin but it can also affect the way a person sees himself or herself. Acne and the scarring it can leave behind may cause a sufferer to become depressed and develop low self-esteem, both of which can lead to larger and more complex life socialization problems. Acne sufferers need the loving support and reassurance from their family and friends.
Acne and Stress:
Can stress actually cause acne? There is ample evidence available to suggest that stress can most assuredly cause an acne breakout or make an existing breakout worse. Our bodies are highly developed chemical laboratories that produce all sorts of stuff.
At puberty, our body begins to produce an abundance of male hormones and this happens in both boys and girls. This overproduction of male hormones can happen at other times in life besides puberty; for example, when a girl or woman starting or stops taking birth control pills.
These male hormones cause the bodies sebaceous glands to shift into overdrive and begin producing sebum. The sebum then travels up hair follicles, clogs the pores and begins the acne development cycle. However, male hormones are not the only cause for the sebaceous glands to begin producing an overabundance of sebum. When we become extremely stressed or overly emotional, our bodies react by causing the adrenal glands to produce a substance known as Cortisol, which is released directly into the bloodstream. Then the chemical chain reaction continues as the sebaceous glands release sebum, the sebum travels up the same hair follicles, clogs the pores and acne develops.
The physical changes in the body can cause exactly the same chemical chain reaction as the emotional changes in the mind. The mind/body connection is very real. Maybe some of it really IS in your head. If that’s the case, there is help available to help people deal with the acne that is caused by stress. Reducing stress will just naturally reduce sebum production by the sebaceous glands and reducing sebum production will help to alleviate an acne breakout. Therefore, when you learn to reduce and control you stress levels, this part of the chemical chain reaction is minimized.
It really it isn’t any different than restoring a hormonal balance to your body that reduces sebum production. So, in the final analysis, both factors that cause excessive sebum production should be addressed. Solving one problem might help; however, solving both problems could eliminate acne altogether.
Acne Facials:
If you are part of the 95 of the population who suffer from acne, you have more than likely seen TV or print media advertisements for acne facials. Have you ever wondered if there is anything to the claims that their manufacturers make?
In general, the answer is yes! Most acne facials are very effective, pretty much worth the price, and can be used in conjunction with your usual acne fighting regime. They won’t necessarily replace any part of what you are already doing; but, rather enhance the overall effects.
You can find acne facials in most health stores, at many cosmetic counters, and online. As a matter of fact, you can probably complete a better comparison of available products online than you can anywhere else.
Most of these acne facial products provide for a three-step program. The first step is a complete facial cleansing. The next step is a steam massage. The final step is a facial mask. The first two steps are designed to prepare the face. The steam massage softens the black heads and the white heads to remove toxins from your skin. The facial mask serves to remove the dead skin cells from the face and to moisturize it as well. The overall effect of the acne facial is a very relaxing, calming, and cleansing experience. It just plain feels good. Anything that helps to calm and sooth your stress can’t be bad because we all know that acne is aggravated by high stress levels. Acne facial masks can be used in addition to other parts of your acne prevention and treatment regime or you may find that the facial can, in fact, actually replace some things that you are currently doing.
Acne Concealer’s:
One of Newton’s laws of physics laws says that, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” That law of physics spills over into a lot of our life situations. For example: A young woman gets a zit and wants to cover it up. The cosmetics industry has a multitude of products designed to do just that. Okay, that’s a little far out there but you get my point.
The acne pimples, whether they are white heads or black heads should never be picked at or popped. If they are popped or picked, it can and normally does result is a scar that is much harder to get rid of than the actual pimple, black head or white head. Popping a pimple is not going to make it go away. In fact, popping a pimple is only going to make the acne worse.
Still when you get a zit, you have to go out and face the world so you are looking for ways to make your skin look clear. You want to disguise the zit and make it as unnoticeable as possible. Here is where the cosmetic industry can help. There are a multitude of products designed to make a zit less noticeable. You don’t want to use a product that just adds to the problem by adding additional oil to already oily skin. So, you do need to remember, that when you use a cover product to make the zit less noticeable, you need to totally clean the product from your skin immediately when you return home.
Some of the better known as well as more effective cosmetic concealer’s on the mar
Facts on the Human Brain
Though the size of human brain is small it is a complex organ. The functions of the brain were found by the ancient Egyptians and Greeks in 400 BC. It was Hippocrates who first discovered that brain played an important role in sensation and intelligence. The research into the functioning of the brain gathered momentum from 0 AD to 1500 Ad. During this time period physicians began to recognize neurological disorders and treatments for the same. During this period, many surgical instruments were invented. Today, many researches are being conducted on various processes of the brain. There are many studies focused on disciplines such as neuroscience, cognitive science, behavioral science, psychology and so on. We look at a few interesting facts on the human brain.
A Few Neuro-Architecture Facts on the Human Brain
The central organ of the human body, brain, is anatomically divided into three parts called the forebrain, midbrain and the hindbrain. Here are a few interesting facts on the size and dimensions of the brain.
At the time of birth, the size of the brain is approximately 400gms and later as one becomes an adult, the size increases to approximately 1400gms. Another interesting fact is the height of an adult brain is 3.6 inches and the length is 6.3 inches. The width is 5.5 inches.
The cerebral cortex of the brain consisting of a frontal lobe, temporal lobe, occipital lobe and the parietal lobe occupies 85% of the human brain. The composition of the brain is 10-12% lipids, 8% protein, 77% water, 1% carbs, 2% soluble organics and 1% inorganic salt.
Half of the neurons in the brain reside in the cerebellum. But cerebellum occupies only 10% of the human brain.
Did you know that number of neurons in the human brain is equivalent to the total number of stars in our galaxy? That is 100 billion. There are 186 million more neurons in the left hemisphere of the brain than the right hemisphere.
Are you aware of the fact, approximately 1000ml of blood flows through the human brain every sixty seconds? In a minute the human brain absorbs 46 cubic centimeter of oxygen from the blood. Only 6% of the oxygen is used by the white matter of the brain while the gray matter absorbs 94%.
A Few Interesting Facts on the Human Brain
Did you know a human brain could survive up to 15 minutes without oxygen?
The weight of the brain is just 2% of an individuals total body weight. However, it consumes 20% of total energy. It is believed this energy is more than enough to light a 25 watt bulb.
Can you imagine human brain processes 70,000 thoughts on an average in a day?
The weight of Albert Einstein’s brain was 1,230 grams that is less than an average weight of the human brain.
The rate of growth of neuron during pregnancy is 250,000 neurons in a minute.
These are a few of the interesting facts on the human brain. You should also know lavender would help to reduce insomnia and jasmine oil has the ability to restore mental alertness.
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