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What are the Scientology beliefs?
Scientology teaches that man is an immortal, spiritual being composed of three parts: the first of these is the spirit, or thetan, (from the Greek letter theta, meaning “thought” or “spirit”), the mind, and the body. The body is not the person, and the most important of these three parts is the thetan.
The official Scientology website also states “In Scientology no one is asked to accept anything as belief or on faith. That which is true for you is what you have observed to be true. An individual discovers for himself that Scientology works by personally applying its principles and observing or experiencing results.”
Scientologists believe that the basic command in life is to survive, and this command is broken into eight dynamics, meaning urges or impulses. All activities can be understood and harmonized with each other to increase survival. The dynamics are Infinity (God or Creator), Spiritual, Physical Universe, Life Forms, Mankind, Group Survival, Family, and Self.
“Through Scientology, a person realizes that his life and influence extend far beyond himself. By understanding each of these dynamics and their relationship, one to the other, he is able to do so, and thus increase survival on all of these dynamics.”A principle of great importance in Scientology is the Arc Triangle. Affinity, reality, and communication form an interdependent triangle that adds up to understanding and assists relationships. A Tone Scale in which things are given a number, or a “tone,” and as a person’s knowledge of the Tone Scale increases, so does his happiness, well-being, self-esteem, and other desirable qualities.

Scientology beliefs – Drugs, Reincarnation, Peace
Scientologists believe that all drugs are poisons that inhibit spiritual freedom. L. Ron Hubbard found that drugs and chemical residues are stored in the tissues of the body, and as long as they remain in the body a person’s abilities can remain suppressed. To dislodge the toxins, a person participates in a Purification Rundown which involves sweating in a sauna, mega-vitamin and mineral dosages, extra oil, good nutrition, and adequate rest.
Scientologists also believe in reincarnation and the “truths” that can be learned through past lives. These experiences can affect the thetan positively or negatively. The main way the principles of Scientology can be applied is through “auditing” where the auditor helps a person examine certain areas of their life and get rid of any unwanted influences to heighten ability and awareness. A device called an E-Meter is also used in this process. It measures a person’s mental state and it helps the auditor locate areas of distress.
The aims of Scientology are “A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights…”

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At 4pm, today, email might just change forever. At least, that’s what the people behind Google Wave hope.
Much talked-about, Google Wave is finally ready for a publc trial, which, as you’ve probably guessed, opens up at 4pm BST. If you get one of the 100,000 places on the trial, you get to invite another five people to your ‘Wave’. Which is all well and good, but what exactly is it?
Well, Google Wave is being pitched as email ‘if it were invented today’, as opposed to a good 30+ years back, when it was just a substitute for a letter through the postal system. Lars Rasmussen, one of the key figures behind it, describes it as ‘a communication and collaboration tool’ or for the hippies amongst you, ‘a conversation sitting in a cloud’.

About Google Wave
Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

What is a wave?
A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.
A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.
A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.
So these are the details on about google wave page, I liked it very much and applied to signup google wave because Google only allows to signup with email submission so why wait Apply now : https://services.google.com/fb/forms/wavesignup/

IT security continues to lead the lists of IT managers’ technology concerns. In 2009, several long-standing security trends are continuing, while some new ones are rising to prominence. Here are the top 10 IT security trends for this year:

1. Data loss: The ever-increasing use of the Internet for sensitive business applications leads to a rise in data loss and theft. SaaS (Software as a Service) poses a significant security challenge because companies are adopting it rapidly, and it presents a channel by which hackers can gain access to corporate data. SaaS users must be concerned not only with their in-house security but also with the security measures taken by their Internet carriers and the SaaS provider.
Mobile computing and portable storage are another vector by which data can be lost or stolen. Today, sensitive corporate data and applications may be stored on laptops, PDAs, smart phones — even iPods. Thumb-sized flash drives and other highly portable storage media carry data from office to office and from office to home and back. Accidental losses and deliberate thefts are making news almost weekly.

2. Insider threats: The security challenges posed by employees who routinely bring work home and travel with sensitive data is on the rise as more employers offer flexible working arrangements. IT security managers are gradually extending their policies and procedures to cover non-office environments and are hardening the perimeter of the corporate network against insider threats. These threats may include viruses and other malware acquired by employee-owned IT equipment that connects to the corporate network. As the number and variety of such devices proliferate, IT security managers face greater complexity and resource expenses.
The recession puts greater pressure on employees’ personal finances, making them more vulnerable to bribes and independent decisions to steal and sell corporate secrets. No company can afford to rely on trust alone. Rigorous security and auditing procedures can help deter data theft.

3. Organized crime: The Information Security Forum, a UK consortium of large businesses and government agencies, is warning of a trend from random hacker attacks toward more targeted, purposeful industrial espionage and terrorism by organized criminal operations. These groups see online crime as highly lucrative and relatively low-risk.
Hackers who once probed and penetrated corporate IT security defenses for the challenge are now being hired to go after specific targets of information within companies of all sizes. Being small and relatively low-profile is no longer a hedge against cybercrime.
Keystroke loggers, phishing exploits and other malware typically introduced to corporate networks via the Internet are expected to increase throughout 2009.

4. Crime by software: White-collar crime such as fraud, insider trading and market manipulation will rise as the economic downturn drives more people to desperate measures. This sort of crime may be abetted by sophisticated software. For example, botnets of several thousand “enslaved” computers, taken over by downloaded malware, may be used to simultaneously steal small bits of money from many people’s bank accounts or credit cards. The illicit transactions are so tiny and numerous that it becomes nearly impossible to trace them all.

5. Endpoint security: Endpoint security will become more sophisticated as companies continue to focus on securing the perimeter of the corporate network. Anti-virus, firewall and other endpoint security applications will be popular upgrades this year. Regulatory and compliance issues will help drive the trend toward beefing up endpoint security.

6. Privacy protection: Greater emphasis on privacy protection will be driven primarily by legislation, but also by heightened concerns among customers and consumers. The new Administration is expected to place greater emphasis on information privacy than the previous one. Customers’ credit records will be protected to a greater extent, and companies that hold such data will be subject to greater scrutiny and compliance requirements.

7. Cloud security:2009 will be a boom year for managed security services. Many organizations, strapped for cash and staff, will turn to outside specialists to provide end-to-end, round-the-clock security services. Cloud computing vendors will also take the initiative to increase and heavily promote their security measures.

8. Virtualization security: As server and desktop virtualization proliferate, security issues such as role-based access control, virtual server identity management, virtual network security and reporting/auditing will come to the fore. Vendors including Citrix, Microsoft and VMware will roll out new products and  partnerships to address the growing security needs of the virtualized IT infrastructure.

9. Secure software: Most hackers target known vulnerabilities in popular software applications. 2009 will see a redoubling of software developers’ emphasis on designing code with fewer security vulnerabilities right out of the box. Security patches will be issued more frequently. Managing security updates will assume greater importance in every organization.

10. Ubiquitous encryption: Long an optional add-on, encryption is becoming a built-in feature of software and hardware systems. Tape drives now contain cryptographic engines, as do disk drives from Hitachi, Fujitus, Seagate and other vendors. Intel is expected to release its vPro chip set in 2009 that also supports on-board encryption. Multiple layers of encryption will become the norm in IT security schema, battening down the hatches but also demanding more enterprise-wide processing power.

A quantum computer is any device for computation that makes direct use of distinctively quantum mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data.

In a classical (or conventional) computer, information is stored as bits; in a quantum computer, it is stored as qubits (quantum bits).

The basic principle of quantum computation is that the quantum properties can be used to represent and structure data, and that quantum mechanisms can be devised and built to perform operations with this data. Although quantum computing is still in its infancy, experiments have been carried out in which quantum computational operations were executed on a very small number of qubits.

Research in both theoretical and practical areas continues at a frantic pace, and many national government and military funding agencies support quantum computing research to develop quantum computers for both civilian and national security purposes, such as cryptanalysis. If large-scale quantum computers can be built, they will be able to solve certain problems exponentially faster than any of our current classical computers (for example Shor’s algorithm).

Quantum computers are different from other computers such as DNA computers and traditional computers based on transistors.

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A nanocomputer that uses DNA (deoxyribonucleic acids) to store information and perform complex calculations.

In 1994, University of Southern California computer scientist Leonard Adelman suggested that DNA could be used to solve complex mathematical problems. Adelman found a way to harness the power of DNA to solve the Hamiltonian path problem (the traveling salesman problem), whose solution required finding a path from start to end going through all the points (cities) only once.

Each city was encoded as its own DNA sequence (DNA sequence consists of a series of nucleotides represented by the letters A, T, G, C).

The DNA sequences were set to replicate and create trillions of new sequences based on the initial input sequences in a matter of seconds (called DNA hybridization). The theory holds that the solution to the problem was one of the new sequence strands. By process of elimination, the correct solution would be obtained.

Adelman’s experiment is regarded as the first example of true nanotechnology.

The main benefit of using DNA computers to solve complex problems is that different possible solutions are created all at once. This is known as parallel processing. Humans and most electronic computers must attempt to solve the problem one process at a time (linear processing). DNA itself provides the added benefits of being a cheap, energy-efficient resource.

In a different perspective, more than 10 trillion DNA molecules can fit into an area no larger than 1 cubic centimeter. With this, a DNA computer could hold 10 terabytes of data and perform 10 trillion calculations at a time.

Sirius also known as the Dog Star is the brightest star (−1.46^m) in the night sky. This star can be seen from every inhabited region of the Earth’s surface and, in the northern hemisphere, is known as a vertex of the Winter Triangle. At a distance of 8.6 light years, Sirius is also one of the nearest stars to Earth. It is a main sequence star of spectral type A0 or A1 and has a mass about 2.4 times that of the Sun.

In 1841 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel deduced that Sirius was actually a binary star. In 1862 Alvan Graham Clark discovered the companion, which is called Sirius B, or affectionately "the Pup". The visible star is now sometimes known as Sirius A. The two stars orbit each other with a separation of about 20 AU and a period of close to 50 years. In 1915 astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory discovered that Sirius B was a white dwarf, the first to be discovered. Interestingly, this means that Sirius B must have originally been the much more massive of the two, since it has already evolved off the main sequence.

Historically, many cultures have attached special significance to Sirius. Sirius was worshipped in the valley of the Nile long before Rome was founded, and many ancient Egyptian temples were constructed oriented so that light from the star could penetrate to their inner altars. The Egyptians based their calendar on the heliacal rising of Sirius, which occurred just before the annual flooding of the Nile and the Summer solstice. In Greek mythology, Orion’s dog became Sirius. The Greeks also associated Sirius with the heat of summer: the name Sirius is derived from Seirios meaning "the scorcher". This also explains the phrase "dog days of summer".

There are a few unsolved mysteries regarding Sirius. Firstly, it has been suggested that there is a third very small companion star, but it appears that this has not yet been definitely confirmed. Secondly, ancient observations of Sirius describe it as a red star, when today Sirius A is bluish white. The possibility that stellar evolution of either Sirius A or Sirius B could be responsible for this discrepancy is rejected by astronomers on the grounds that the timescale of thousands of years is too short and that there is no sign of the nebulosity in the system that would be expected had such a change taken place. Alternative explanations are either that the description as red is a poetic metaphor for ill fortune, or that the dramatic scintillations of the star when it was observed rising left the viewer with the impression that it was red. A third mystery is a suggestion that the Dogon tribe of Africa knew about unseen companion star(s) before they were discovered in the 19th century, although careful research reveals this was probably cultural contamination on the part of visiting astronomers who went to the region to observe a transit of Venus. This is a source of speculation for UFO enthusiasts and was the subject of the book The Sirius Mystery by Robert Temple.

Some facts about Sirius A

• Parallax: 0.379 arcsecs
• Spectral type: A1 V
• Radial velocity: −9 km/s
• Proper motion: 1.339 arcsecs/year
• Apparent visual magnitude: −1.44
• Absolute visual magnitude: 1.45
• Luminosity: 26.1 Solar Luminosities

Some facts about Sirius B

• Parallax: 0.379 arcsecs
• Spectral type: White dwarf
• Radial velocity: −9 km/s
• Proper motion: 1.339 arcsecs/year
• Apparent visual magnitude: 8.44
• Absolute visual magnitude: 11.3
• Luminosity: 2.4e−4 solar luminosities
• Surface temperature: 25000K

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The Hubble Deep Field (HDF) is an image of a small region of the sky, based on the results of a series of observations by the Hubble Space Telescope.

The field is so small that only a few foreground stars in the Milky Way lie within it; thus, almost all of the 3,000 objects in the image are galaxies, some of which are among the youngest and most distant known.

By revealing such large numbers of very young galaxies, the HDF has become a landmark image in the study of the early universe, and it has been the source of almost 400 scientific papers since it was created..

Then came along “The Hubble Ultra Deep Field”

Here’s a new way to appreciate the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, by flying through the 10,000 galaxies in this deepest of all Hubble images. Watch the whole video if you need the background on the Hubble Deep Field and subsequent Ultra Deep Field. Start at about 3:00 if you just want to see the distances between the galaxies in this image. Nice

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Supergiants are the most massive stars.

Supergiants can have masses from 10 to 70 solar masses and brightness from 30,000 up to hundreds of thousands times the solar luminosity.

They vary greatly in radii, usually from 30 to 500, or even in excess of 1000 solar radii.

Because of their extreme masses they have short lifespans of only 10 to 50 million years and are only observed in young cosmic structures such as open clusters, the arms of spiral galaxies, and in irregular galaxies.

They are less abundant in spiral galaxy bulges, and are not observed in elliptical galaxies, or globular clusters, all of which are believed to be composed of old stars.

Currently, the largest known stars in terms of physical size, not mass or luminosity, are the supergiants VV Cephei, V354 Cephei, KW Sagitarii, KY Cygni, and the Garnet Star..

For more information about the topic Supergiant, read the full article at Wikipedia.org

Many people spend thousands per year on products to prevent acne, or stop existing acne but there’s one simple technique that will blow you away and keep your skin looking beautiful! Most people don’t realize that the simple act of changing your pillowcase every week will help reduce the risk of pimples and acne, no matter what age. Read on to find out exactly what is living in your pillow case and why it will affect your teenage or adult acne.

Everyone sleeps on their pillow night after night until they finally decide wash it. But what most people don’t realize is that their pillow case can become filled with bacteria and oil from their hair, their skin and anything that is expelled out of their body through your ears, nose, eyes or mouth while they are sleeping. You might say that you wash your face every night and every morning, so you should be able to remove any of those unclean particles from your skin, but the truth is that once these bacteria and oil particles start to stick to your skin they will try to make a home on your skin. Bacteria can survive for a long time on the surface of someone’s skin, and usually it’s not a problem since we have stable bacteria living there usually.

Letting bacteria from your skin live on your pillow case will probably allow the number of bacteria to multiply. Another side effect of the pillow being "dirty" by our definition is that it will continue to allow more harmful little creatures to develop over time. Think about it – do you really want your skin to meet with old and dirty cell particles, oil and bacteria every single night for roughly eight hours? No! But changing your pillow case might seem like a drag, so there are a few more things to keep in mind.

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I was browsing through couple of videos on YouTube and came across this video which I should say that “it is amazing piece of work done by Animator Daniel Maas!

Especially I likes the theme he has used for this video! So all you guys who missed out or did not know please go ahead and refresh your self!

Just to give you little briefing about the mission (Mars Exploration Rover Mission) :

The launch periods for each rover were as follows:

Mission	Open	Close	Arrival
Rover A	June 5, 2003	June 24, 2003	January 4, 2004
Rover B	June 25, 2003	July 15, 2003	January 25, 2004

• Mission: MER-A "Spirit"
• Launch Date: June 10, 2003
• Launch Time: 1:58:47 p.m. EDT
• Launch Vehicle: Delta II
• Launch Pad: 17-A

• Mission: MER-B "Opportunity"
• Launch Date: July 7, 2003
• Launch Time: 11:18:15 p.m. EDT
• Launch Vehicle: Delta II
• Launch Pad: 17-B