Comets Tripped up in 3-On-3 Overtime in Toronto

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October 12, 2014 - American Hockey League (AHL) Utica Comets The Comets let a third period lead slip away in Toronto, as the team lost 3-2 in overtime to the Toronto Marlies Sunday afternoon at the Ricoh Coliseum.

Brandon DeFazio and Dustin Jeffrey netted goals for the Comets, while Joacim Eriksson stopped 25 of the Marlies 28 shots in the loss. Viktor Loov scored twice for the Marlies while Christopher Gibson made 25 saves for the victory.

After a scoreless first period the Marlies kicked off the scoring off of a Comets neutral zone turnover that led to a Marlies short-handed 2-on-1 rush. A give-and-go between Troy Bodie and Greg McKegg ended after Brodie cut across the top of the crease to beat Eriksson on the far side.

Dustin Jeffrey kept his hot start going with his second goal in as many games. From the top of the circle Hunter Shinkaruk found a hard charging Grenier who banged a one-timer on net. Gibson was there for the original save, but Jeffrey was there to bury it into the empty net to tie the game. With the assist on the goal Shinkaruk recorded his first career professional point.

A fortuitous bounce 2:23 into the third period led to the Comets only lead of the night. Handling the puck behind his own net, Marlies' goaltender Gibson was pressured heavily by Brendan Gaunce which created a turnover. The puck found Brandon DeFazio's stick, who beat Gibson back to the front of the net for the Comets second goal of the game.

With 6:20 remaining in the game the Marlies tied it back up at 2. Connor Brown ripped off a blind, spinning pass to the slot from the corner. The puck carammed off Tommernes' skate right to Loov, who beat Eriksson glove side with a wrist shot from the slot hashmarks. Josh Leivo was credited with the secondary assist.

It was a bitter taste, but the Comets got their first taste of the American Hockey League's new overtime rules. Loov struck again to put an end to any thoughts of a shootout. With as much room to maneuver that you could ask for, Loov cut across the top of the slot after he received a pass from McKegg. A quick wrist shot beat Eriksson, and sent the Comets to their first loss of the season.

The Comets power play went 0-for-3 and gave up a short-handed goal on the night. Utica killed all three Marlies power plays, and are now 7-for-7 on the season.

The Comets are back in action Friday night in San Antonio to take on the Rampage at 8pm EST. Last year the Comets went 0-1-0-1 losing in a shootout in San Antonio.

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Celgene's Otezla Encourages in Plaque Psoriasis at EADV – Analyst Blog

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Celgene Corporation ( CELG ) presented encouraging data on its marketed drug, Otezla, for treating patients suffering from moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis at the 23rd European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Congress in the Netherlands.

Celgene evaluated the effect of Otezla on health-related quality of life measures and work productivity/work limitation in the patient population through the analyses of the phase III ESTEEM clinical trial program. The program included two large pivotal randomized, placebo-controlled studies - ESTEEM 1 and ESTEEM 2. Analysis of the ESTEEM 2 study revealed a significant improvement in the health-related quality of life in patients treated with Otezla after 16 weeks compared to those in the placebo arm. Moreover, data from a pooled analysis of ESTEEM 1 and ESTEEM 2 at week 16 revealed significant increase in work productivity and improvement with respect to work limitations in patients treated with Otezla (30 mg: twice a day) compared to those in the placebo arm.

We remind investors that Otezla was cleared by the FDA last month for treating patients suffering from moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis (read more: Celgene's Otezla Label Expanded to Include Plaque Psoriasis ). This was the second indication for which Otezla gained FDA approval. In March this year, Otezla was approved in the U.S. for treating adults with active psoriatic arthritis.

Otezla, the latest member of Celgene's product portfolio, contributed only $5 million to the biopharmaceutical company's top line in the second quarter of 2014. Nevertheless, we expect the drug to perform impressively in the third quarter, results of which will be reported on Oct 23.

Celgene carries a Zacks rank # 3 (Hold). Better-ranked stocks in the health care space include Shire ( SHPG ), Medivation ( MDVN ) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals ( REGN ). Shire and Medivation sport Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) while Regeneron is a Zacks Ranked #2 (Buy) stock.

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Novartis ( NVS ) announced positive data on pipeline candidate secukinumab (AIN457) from four phase III studies - ERASURE, FIXTURE, FEATURE and JUNCTURE.

The company is evaluating secukinumab for the treatment of moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis.

Data from the studies showed that secukinumab 300 mg resulted in higher rates of clear to almost clear skin at week 12 as compared to placebo.

These data were presented at the European Association of Dermatology and Venereology Congress in Netherlands.

Data from the studies further confirm the results of the FIXTURE study wherein secukinumab has shown superiority to Amgen's ( AMGN ) Enbrel.

Last month, Novartis announced positive results from two phase III studies (FUTURE 1 and FUTURE 2) on secukinumab for the treatment of psoriatic arthritis (PsA). The studies evaluated the efficacy of secukinumab in PsA compared to placebo and assessed its safety and tolerability in the patients.

Both trials met their primary and key secondary endpoints. Results of the trial showed that treatment with secukinumab improved signs and symptoms of PsA along with improving peripheral joint disease and preventing joint damage as compared to placebo.

We note that Novartis had submitted secukinumab to regulatory bodies in both the U.S. and EU in 2013 for the treatment of psoriasis. The company is also evaluating secukinumab for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

The successful development and commercialization of secukinumab for the treatment of psoriasis will further strengthen Novartis' dermatology portfolio. The company already has Xolair in its dermatology portfolio which is approved for the treatment of refractory chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU) in the EU and is known as refractory chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU) in the U.S.

The successful development and commercialization of the pipeline is important for the company as it faces generic competition for several key drugs such as Gleevec, Zometa and Diovan.

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Queenstown voted 'Australasia's Leading Destination'

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Queenstown has been named Australasias Leading Destination at the 2014 World Travel Awards.

The World Travel Awards launched in 1993 to acknowledge and recognise excellence in the worlds travel and tourism industry. The Awards are voted for by tourism professionals including travel agencies, tour and transport companies and tourism organisations in over 160 countries across the globe.

In addition to winning the Australasian category Queenstown has also been nominated for the Worlds Leading Destination award in the final round of the 2014 World Travel Awards.

Destination Queenstown CEO Graham Budd was delighted with the Australasian award win and the nomination in the World category saying it was a fantastic international accolade for Queenstown.

"Queenstown has been nominated in the Australasian category for the past four years so its very exciting for the region to take out the top spot, especially as we were up against some of Australasias most renowned visitor destinations.

"Its also great to have a shot at winning the Worlds Leading Destination title and I encourage fans of the region to vote for Queenstown," said Mr Budd.

The public can vote for Queenstown in the Worlds Leading Destination category up until 26 October and the winner will be announced at the Grand Final Gala in Marrakech, Morocco, on 29 November. To vote for Queenstown in this category visit http://www.worldtravelawards.com/vote

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Your Online Content Should Deliver 'Cognitive Ecstasy'

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Humans love to have their minds blown. We are changed by that feeling of seeing or learning something perfectly new -- that feeling we call awe. And, according to Jason Silva, thats the secret to really spectacular online content.

Great content trades in the currency of inspiration, said Silva, host of the popular National Geographic TV show Brain Games and futurist with YouTube series Shots of Awe, at Advertising Week in New York City earlier this month. If we are going to tell a story, if we are working with advertisers -- why not make that story inspirational? Why not make that story mindblowing? Why not give people that experience of cognitive ecstasy? Because I promise you they are going to be more compelled to share if they are moved by what you have created.

At a time when the volume of material for people to read and watch is exponentially growing, being able to grab consumers attention online is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If you can invoke wonder and amazement in the content you create and share, you stand a better chance at making those consumers your customers.

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Silva spends his life seeking that feeling -- that exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. He specifically curates what he reads, sees and does to maximize his potential for experiencing awe.

I think it was Aristotle who used to say that human beings dont care about spectacle, what they care about is ecstatic understanding, he says. We want to feel like we learned something new. We want to upgrade our maps. We want that cognitive ecstasy.

How does he define awe? Its that sensation you experience when youre presented with something you have no existing framework to process. Consider the first time you went to the Grand Canyon or the first time you saw an IMAX 3-D film about space. Literally you have no reference points for what you are seeing, no anchoring for what you are seeing, so your mental maps of the world are being upgraded in real time and that is an experience of awe.

Its next to impossible to listen to Silva and not believe what he preaches. Hes animated, energetic and eager. Its as though he wants to give his audience a taste of the cognitive ecstasy he preaches about. But alongside his charismatic presentation is some pretty impressive science. A 2012 study published in Psychological Science determined that experiencing awe slows down peoples perception of time, and that the more a person experiences awe, the more satisfied they are with life.

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Advances in technology open up more opportunity for awe -- and thats a good thing. The changes we are experiencing now, such as the constantly shrinking size of a computer chip or the miniaturization of the video camera, will provide new experiences we cannot even imagine. Silva says thats not something to be feared, but something to look forward to.

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Stem cell therapy could create new blood vessels

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New York, Oct 13 (IANS): Diseases that occur due to blood flow problems could soon become a lot easier to treat as researchers have developed a technique to jump-start the body's system for creating blood vessels.

The research could lead to new therapies for illnesses such as peripheral artery disease - a painful leg condition caused by poor blood circulation which can lead to skin problems, gangrene and even amputation.

"While the body has cells that specialise in repairing blood vessels and creating new ones, called endothelial colony forming cells, these cells can lose their ability to proliferate into new blood vessels as patients age or develop diseases like peripheral arterial disease," said lead researcher Mervin Yoder Jr. from the Indiana University School of Medicine.

If younger, more enthusiastic endothelial colony forming cells could be injected into the affected tissues, they might jump-start the process of creating new blood vessels, the findings showed.

Although these cells are relatively difficult to find in adults, especially in those with peripheral arterial disease, they are present in large numbers in umbilical cord blood.

The researchers said they had developed a potential therapy through the use of patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells, which are normal adult cells that have been "coaxed" via laboratory techniques into reverting into the more primitive stem cells that can produce most types of bodily tissue.

Those laboratory created endothelial colony forming cells were injected into mice, where they were able to proliferate into blood vessels and restore blood flow to tissues in damaged mouse retinas and limbs.

"This is one of the first studies using induced pluripotent stem cells that has been able to produce new cells in clinically relevant numbers - enough to enable a clinical trial," Yoder noted.

The findings appeared in the journal Nature Biotechnology.

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One of the top stem cell clinics in California, Telehealth, is now accepting new patients for insurance based stem cell procedures at an additional location in La Jolla CA. Most insurance is accepted for the stem cell therapies for such conditions as degenerative arthritis, tendonitis, ligament injuries, sports injuries and more. Call (888) 828-4575 for more information and scheduling.

For years, Telehealth has been offering regenerative medicine procedures for such conditions as rotator cuff tendonitis, achilles tears, tennis elbow, plantar fasciitis, degenerative arthritis of the joints and more. The stem cell procedures offered include bone marrow derived or fat derived stem cell procedures, or amniotic therapy. The Board Certified doctors are highly skilled in the musculoskeletal stem cell procedures, and treat patients with the utmost expertise and compassion.

The newest location in La Jolla joins the existing clinics in Orange CA and Upland CA. Coverage for the procedures exists for PPO's, Medicare and Tricare. The procedures are extremely low risk, and small studies have consistently shown beneficial results of the injections.

The treatments at Telehealth represent a new paradigm for pain relief. Whereas most pain treatments mask pain well, such as with steroids, the stem cell treatments offer patients the capability to regenerate and repair damaged tissue. This helps to potentially regenerate cartilage, tendon, ligament tissue in those with arthritis or soft tissue injuries.

For those with sports injuries, arthritis, fractures, plantar fasciitis, tendonitis, etc, and desire insurance covered stem cell therapy, call Telehealth at (888) 828-4575.

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Top Beverly Hills Orthopedic Doctor, Dr. Raj, Now Offering Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy for All Sports Injuries and …

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Top Beverly Hills and LA orthopedic doctor, Dr. Raj, is now offering platelet rich plasma therapy for sports injuries and all types of degenerative arthritis. The treatment option has recently been added to Dr. Raj's regenerative medicine therapies such as bone marrow derived stem cell procedures and amniotic derived stem cell therapies. Call (310) 247-0466 for more information and scheduling.

Platelet Rich Plasma Therapy, known as PRP for short, has been increasing in popularity due to the success shown in several research studies. There was a recent study out of HSS showing amazing outcomes for degenerative knee arthritis, with preservation of cartilage and significant pain relief. Results with rotator cuff tendonitis, tennis elbow, plantar fasciitis and knee/achilles tendonitis have also been excellent as well.

Athletes in all types of sports have benefited from PRP therapy including golf, tennis, basketball, football, baseball and more. Whether or not an athlete is professional or amateur, the PRP treatment can be instrumental in helping patients avoid surgery and get back on the field quickly.

PRP therapy at Beverly Hills Orthopedic Institute involves an outpatient procedure that begins with a simple blood draw from the patient's arm of approximately 30 to 60 millileters. The blood is placed into a centrifuge and spun rapidly for 15-20 minutes. The platelets become concentrated in the middle layer, and this is what is utilized for the platelet rich plasma therapy in Beverly Hills.

The PRP therapy is injected under sterile conditions into the painful area. Results are typically seen over the ensuing weeks. Along with the PRP treatment, Dr. Raj also offers bone marrow and amniotic stem cell therapy. Typically, the best regenerative medicine therapy option is decided upon in conjunction with the patient.

Dr. Raj is a Double Board Certified Beverly Hills and Los Angeles orthopedic surgeon, who is also an ABC News Medical Correspondent along with a WebMD expert. For those interested in PRP and stem cell therapy Beverly Hills trusts, call (310) 247-0466.

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#14Days: Gabrielle Bernstein talks miracles and recovery

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The lives of family and friends of alcoholics and addicts are littered with tragedy, chaos, worry, and fear. An addict's life is taken over by the substance he abuses, making his or her actions unpredictable, irrational, and sometimes criminal. Everyone feels the devastating effects of addiction.

One thing is clear -- we need a miracle.

Thanks to the 12 steps and her work with the metaphysical text, "A Course in Miracles," best-selling author and motivational speaker Gabrielle Bernstein is in her ninth year of recovery from drugs and alcohol. Bernstein, well known for her teachings from "A Course in Miracles," says a miracle isn't the gates of heaven opening up and angels singing. "Simply put, a miracle is a shift in perception, it's just when we change our mind. And, so the moment that somebody says, 'I want to get clean,' that's a miracle."

Addiction affects the physical, emotional, cognitive, family, social, and spiritual domains. Because addiction is a disease that thrives in isolation and fear, some leading experts have called it a spiritual disorder. They say the treatment of addiction must involve all realms of life, including developing a sense of spirituality.

Researchers have found a direct correlation between spirituality and positive outcomes in those with substance use disorder.

Since Alcoholics Anonymous groups began meeting in 1935, millions of people have achieved a life of substance-free recovery through the spiritual fellowship. The first two steps of Alcoholics Anonymous are about admitting your powerlessness over alcohol, and believing a power greater than yourself can restore you to sanity. Having a spiritual community like AA can help a person in crisis. Having a person to call upon who understands your problems and shares a similar code of conduct and beliefs can be life-saving.

We know spirituality can be a powerful force for healing, but what is it exactly?

Definitions of spirituality vary. Most agree that spirituality is a very personal relationship with your inner world; it has no specific religious affiliation or dogma. Charles L. Whitfield, M.D., author of "Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families," defines spirituality as "a personal relationship between an individual and a transcendent or higher being, force, energy or mind of the Universe."

Bernstein's definition of spirituality: "A journey of unlearning fear and remembering love."

She says sobriety and recovery require surrendering to a higher power and releasing your own grip of control. "It's not something that can be white-knuckled. It' not something that can be done, you know, because we're just forcing ourselves to do it. In that forceful nature, we will always fall back."

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Top HNIs back spiritual e-tailer OnlinePrasad

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The author has posted comments on this articleAnshul Dhamija, TNN | Oct 14, 2014, 07.17AM IST BANGALORE: Top technocrats and businessmen are betting their bucks on spirituality, as the $4 billion unorganized market comprising of myriad religious products, services, and offerings makes headway through internet commerce. Former Microsoft India Development Center MD Srini Koppulu, ex-CEO and cofounder of Sify.com R Ramaraj, Suresh Productions CEO and Hyderabad Angels vice chairman Suresh Babu and founder of Computer Age Management Services V Shankar are among are among 20 investors participating in an early round of investment into OnlinePrasad.

Bangalore-based onlineprasad.com is a niche e-tailer that is networked to 50 temples in India, and uses the mobile and web platforms to deliver religious offerings such as prasad and other products to one's doorstep.

The fund raise, which was oversubscribed, was structured through Hyderabad Angels along with participation from The Chennai Angels, two prominent angel networks in south India. Niraj Mital from Hyderabad Angels would be joining OnlinePrasad's board representing the larger investor group.

"There are a number of revenue possibilities in this space (spirituality) and the opportunities are big (for online)," said R Ramaraj, whose last venture was Sify, was the first Indian Internet company from India to list on NASDAQ.

Eighteen-month old OnlinePrasad started by 26-year old Goonjan Mall has been seed funded by the storied entrepreneur duo K Ganesh and Meena Ganesh and The Morpheus, a startup accelerator step by Nandini Hiranniah and Sameer Guglani.

Mall, who didn't wish to disclose the fund raise figures, said that the company would be using the fresh capital to scale up its front end and back end operations. In the next 12 months OnlinePrasad plans to grow its head count from 12 to 50 and double its temple network to 100.

Mall also said that plans were afoot to add around 10 new product categories, some which would include at-home astrology and pundit services.

"Though it's a niche ecommerce play , there has been a certain trust and belief that has been built around the business," said Sasidhar Nandigam, director at Hyderabad Angels.

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Spiritual Enlightenment transcends religion. It transcends thought. It transcends mind and its senses. And it conveys a level of wisdom and knowledge about life and the universe that is unparalleled. The concept of enlightenment implies complete understanding of life and the universe, which usually is accompanied by a detachment of all things impermanent and a complete awareness of everything that is, at the moment that it is.

Pretty cool, huh? Yeah. Its what gave the Buddha his mojo, what gave Muhammad his immense understanding, and what gave Jesus (and Thomas) the power to heal people and perform other miracles (dont forget Peter walked on water too). If you want to understand more about spiritual enlightenment, please read the article I posted that explains more about spiritual enlightenment here. This article is going to talk about the disciplines used world-wide to attain spiritual enlightenment.

I passed through the portal of the enlightenment experience about 12 years ago. I call it the enlightenment experience, because thats what it was an experience. It was an experience of my regular senses shutting down, to be replaced with amazing visions, sounds, realizations, epiphanies, and a melding with an intelligence and love so overwhelming it literally changed my life and granted me a wisdom of which I was not worthy beforehand. It was brought on by a deep focused meditation after a short prayer. If you would like to hear more about my enlightenment experience, watch the video (or read the transcript) I made about the first time I encountered it.

So how does one become enlightened? Well theres not a set process. It just sorta happens. That said, it rarely happens to someone if theyre not looking for it. So intention is a good ingredient. But beyond that, there are quite a few commonalities among enlightenment stories globally and parallels within spiritual disciplines designed to bring on enlightenment that suggest we can make a few educated guesses on how to more easily get you there. Lets first discuss my pet theory, then we can review how the worlds disciplines to achieve enlightenment support it.

My theory on how to attain spiritual enlightenment is simple: Stop all conscious thought in your mind, and the experience of enlightenment will occur. I suppose I could have made it sound much more mystical by saying cease the noise that exists within your mind, and you will hear the truth that lies just beyond but I think you get the gist. In fact, from a scientific perspective, I believe that enlightenment is caused by certain chemicals that get released within the body during waking conscious hours when brain activity in certain areas of the brain is reduced below a presently non-defined threshold. Well discuss some evidence later in this article that supports this pretty strongly. For now, lets take alook at the disciplines that typically lead to spiritual enlightenment, and then see how they individually stack up to this basic hypothesis. The different disciplines / methods include:

Meditation (various forms discussed below) Prayer Chanting Yoga Martial Arts Fasting Sweat Lodges / Physical Distress Dancing / Quaking / Shaking Pilgrimages Sensory Depravation Near Death Experience Depression / Despair Self Flagellation Psychedelics Spontaneous Enlightenment

There are a number of different types of meditation. Even some of the different disciplines in this very article can be considered forms of physical meditation. But regardless of the flavor of meditation, all types of meditation are connected with calming the mind and bringing conscious attention into oneself so as to reduce the focus on stuff going on outside of you. How does that fit our hypothesis? If you shut down external distractions, it becomes easier to reduce internal distractions, which is of course a baby step to ceasing all thought and attaining enlightenment. Here are the different types of meditation:

I. Mindfulness Meditation, is the popular term for a form of meditation called Vipassana (vih-PAH-sah-nah), and it comes from the Buddhist tradition. It is probably the most popular form of meditation taught in the West, although it is usually not directly tied to Buddhism when it is taught. Vipassana focuses on being present wherever you are, letting your mind run freely, and simply observing whatever thoughts arise without judgement, and with full acceptance. Fans of Eckhart Tolle are familiar with this type of meditation. Its about 2500 years old if not much, much older. The practice of observing ones thoughts lets that person not be controlled by those thoughts, which then results in a detachment or separation of those same thoughts. Eventually, the process of not having your conscious attention drive new thought threads based on the spurious thoughts that fly through your mind (now doing so unmolested in meditation) allows the mind to eventually calm and quiet itself. Having the mind be calm and quiet is one step from having all conscious thought cease. Regardless of you ever being able to get to the point where conscious thought ceases, Vipassana has been shown through multiple studies to have dramatic positive effects on body and emotional health.

II. Sitting Meditation,called Zazen among Zen practitioners, is also very popular, although it is not always performed under the Zen umbrella. Zen, of course, is a form of practical Buddhism designed to lead directly to enlightenment through a conscious ceasing of all thought in the mind (sound familiar?). Zen koans are riddles that are designed not to have mindful answers to them, so that meditating on them may cause the mind to hiccup and stop thinking altogether. Good example: What is the sound of one hand clapping? How could you think your way into a solution to that riddle? Zazen is your opportunity to practice that process.

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Spiritual enlightenment is the fundamental goal of most spiritual practices that you undertake. Enlightenment marks the culminating point of your practice you feel unity of soul with everything, all the mental and physical engagements are left aside. Spiritual enlightenment is the possession of highly evolved souls. Spiritual masters from all over over the world experience spiritual enlightenment, and help others on their own paths.

Spiritual enlightenment is often categorized into levels for practical purposes. The highest stage of spiritual enlightenment marks the attainment of unity with God or being one with everything. But can still there are certain levels through which the individual needs to evolve. In a similar way that man has evolved from more primitive animals, the human conciousiness or soul also evolves. For our practical purpose, put them in stages and analyze the state of being in each stage:

At the very first level of enlightenment, the individual starts experiencing reality as it is. It means that your mind ceases to interfere with what you are experiencing. We are engaged in continuous talk, gossip, analyzing the environment around us, planning about future, or worrying about the past. When you are in a state of spiritual enlightenment you are completely in the present moment. You stop judging and labeling the world. Your mind is calm, quite and still. You are very awake, and aware of the current moment right now.

At the second stage of enlightenment, you feel apart of yourself in everything around you. You feel a connection with every object and individual in the world. The borders between yourself and the world around you dissipate. Your soul begins to merge with Supreme Soul. You feel that you are not individual anymore and not separate from anything. You feel that you are in everything and everything is just a part of the Supreme Soul from where you also have emerged. Many people describe this feelings of completeness and love.

The third stage of enlightenment, you no longer feel connected to everything but realize you are everything. You the experience the oneness of God and are not separate from anything in the universe. This stage of enlightenment is a direct experience of oneness.

Spiritual enlightenment is the fruit that sets you free, as you lose all wants and wishes to receive the fruits of your actions. You feel the bliss of completeness and true love. At first it gives you the feeling that you need "Light". At the next stage, you feel that you are merging in "Light". And in the final stage you and the "Light" are one.

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Bigelow Inflatable Module to be Added to Space Station in 2015

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Artists concept of the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), currently scheduled to be added to the International Space Station in 2015. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are going to be getting an addition in the near future, and in the form of an inflatable room no less. The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is the first privately-built space habitat that will added to the ISS, and it will be transported into orbit aboard a Space X Falcon 9 rocket sometime next year.

The BEAM is one small step for Bigelow Aerospace, Bigelow representative Michael Gold told Universe Today, but is also one giant leap for private sector space activities since the BEAM will be the first privately owned and developed module ever to be part of a crewed system in space.

NASA and Bigelow Aerospace announced the $17.8 million contract in 2013, and on October 2, 2014, Gold announced at the International Astronautical Congress that the launch would take place next year on a SpaceX resupply flight. Gold said BEAM provides an example of what the company, and private firms in general, can do in low-Earth orbit (LEO).

Upon arrival, the BEAM will be installed by the robotic Canadarm2 onto the Tranquility nodes aft docking port. Once its expanded, an ISS crew member will enter the module and become the first astronaut to step inside an expandable habitat system. The plan is to have the module remain in place for a few years to test and demonstrate the feasibility of the companys inflatable space habitat technology.

The BEAM, which weighs approximately 1,360 kg (3000 lbs), will travel aboard the unpressurized cargo hold of a Dragon capsule. Once it is successfully transferred to the station, ISS astronauts will activate the deployment sequence, and the module will expand out to its full size approx. 4 meters (13 feet) in length and 3 meters (10.5 feet) in diameter.

Bigelow currently has two stand-alone autonomous spacecraft in orbit, the Genesis I and the Genesis II both of which are collecting data about LEO conditions and how well the technology performs in practice in space. In turn, NASA will use BEAM to measure the radiation levels inside the module as compared to other areas of the ISS to determine how safe it is for habitation.

Through the flight of the Bigelow module on the International Space Station, weexpect tolearncritical technical performance data related to non-metallic structures in space, said Jason Crusan, director of Advanced Exploration Systems Division at NASA Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, in an email to Universe Today.Data about things such as radiation, thermal, and overall operations of non-metallic structures in spacehas multiple benefits both to NASA and to the commercial sector.

Artist concept of the Bigelow space station. Credit: Bigelow Aerospace.

The BEAM module will also allow for further data collection for the company, which is planning on launching its own space station, named Bigelow Aerospace Alpha Station, to be at least partially operational as early as next year. This station will be initially made up of two BA 330 expandable habitats, which are designed to function either as an independent space station or as modular components that can be connected to create a larger apparatus.

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