New book says spiritual alignment is the greatest gift of all

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You Never Dance Alone: An Uplifting Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Carl and Sandra Harmon encourages readers to harness the power of creation by following the spiritual principles that govern our lives.

The book aims to entertain the reader's mind, body and spirit by using creativity and logic, while quickly providing a deep understanding of each spiritual principle.

The Harmons hope the book will leave a lasting impression by stimulating the mind in a way that evokes emotion and reason, allowing readers to identify their greater purpose and connection to divinity.

The authors were inspired to learn more about the healing power of spiritual alignment through their experience with autistic children.

You Never Dance Alone: An Uplifting Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment By Carl and Sandra Harmon Hardcover: 978-1-45258-396-9 Softcover: 978-1-45258-394-5 E-book: 978-1-45258-395-2 Available at amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, balboapress.com

About the authors Carl and Sandra Harmon are the founders of MindSkills, a company that offers biofeedback, training and supplements for children on the autism spectrum, as well as those with Attention Deficit Disorder. They currently live in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

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Space stories: Hadfield inspires during Dal visit

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Partway through his lecture at Dal on Monday, Colonel Hadfield showed a photo of himself as a young boy, sitting inside a cardboard box that with the help of some tape and some markers had been transformed into a makeshift spaceship.

If you really want to inspire a kid, give him a box, said Hadfield. Not an X-Box a box, because thats where imagination starts.

In the 50-odd years since that photo was taken, the quality of Hadfields flying boxes has improved dramatically: from his days as an F-18 fighter pilot, to partaking in two Space Shuttle missions, to serving as commander of the International Space Station in 2012-13.

Yet, as impressive as his journey has been the first Canadian to walk in space, to operate the Canada Arm, to become a full-qualified Space Shuttle crew member whats even more impressive is that through his efforts, and his skill at sharing the experience of space flight, the now-retired astronaut has inspired imaginers of all ages to reconsider the possible.

He certainly inspired the capacity crowd in the Student Union Buildings McInnes Room Monday morning. The energetic audience responded to his speech with laughter, applause and not one but two enthusiastic standing ovations.

Hadfield was on campus to celebrate Dals efforts in last years Movember campaign. Led by the success of the Rowe Mo Bros & Sistas, Dalhousie finished as the top school in Canada in funds raised per-capita, bringing in nearly $95,000 for the cause of men's health and earning the visit from Hadfield as its prize.

In addition to his lecture, Hadfield hosted a private reception with members of the Rowe team, personally thanking them for their Movember efforts.

Hadfields lecture, titled The Sky Is Not The Limit, took the audience on a trip through the stratosphere, into orbit and back down to Earth again. He spent the first several minutes detailing the experience of the morning before a space flight.

This is the stuff of dreams, he said. Its just a regular day, youre waking up, but by tonight youre going to be orbiting the earth, or youre going to be dead one or the other.

The line earned laughs from the crowd, but Hadfield was quite serious: any multitude of things can go wrong in the eight minutes and 42 seconds it takes to go from ground to orbit, as past space travel calamities have made tragically clear. In those moments before lift-off, Hadfield said, you cycle through all your training, all those years it took to get to that chair inside the capsule.

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How to get more space on a flight

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Planes are more full these days, meaning less space for passengers. Photo: Getty Images

Remember the good old days when planes flew half-full and we regularly got to stretch out across a row of seats?

Youd get onboard and start scoping out the rows around you, ready to pounce on some extra space the minute the flight levelled off.

Sadly, airlines got better and better at yield management, or matching the number of available seats to demand, and those empty rows are now a lot harder to come by.

It definitely feels as though flights have become more crammed and thats backed up by figures from the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

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Average passenger load factors for international flights have jumped several percentage points over the past six years, while average loadings on domestic flights have increased from around 76 per cent to nearly 81 per cent.

But as much as we like to whinge about being squished, the figures show our flights are nowhere near as full as those in other regions.

For international flights, the Asia Pacific region has the second lowest average load factor in the world, with only those travelling from Africa enjoying more spare seats.

Spare a thought for travellers in North America, where the average loading on an international flight is over 83 per cent, compared to about 77 per cent on Asia Pacific flights.

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Space History Sale Highlights Artifacts From Apollo Lunar Missions

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April 7, 2014

Image Caption: Winston Scott on the moon during the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission. Credit: NASA/Johnson Space Center

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Artifacts from NASAs Apollo lunar missions will be highlights in an upcoming auction in New York City. Bonhams is holding the Space History Sale in the Big Apple on Tuesday and will feature everything from space documents to spacesuits. In all, more than 300 items will be up for sale.

Among the highlights of the April 8 auction will be a motion picture sight ring a small polarizing filter put on a camera used by astronaut James Irwin on the Apollo 15 mission.

It was used in the module when it landed on the moon and also on takeoff, Cassandra Hatton, Bonhams space history specialist, told the Associated Press. Its extremely rare, probably the only one in private hands.

The sight ring has an estimated value of $20,000 to $30,000.

An Apollo 12 shoulder strap covered in lunar dust is also up for sale. During two extensive surface explorations on the moon, Charles Conrad and Alan Bean amassed a great deal of lunar dust on their spacesuits, gloves and flight equipment, as well as the shoulder strap up for sale.

An Apollo 11 surface checklist with annotations from astronaut Buzz Aldrin is also on the bidding block. The document contains data that enabled Aldrin and Neil Armstrong to return to Earth. According to Bonhams, the document is one of the most extensive sets of notations ever made on the lunar surface. Its presale estimate is $35,000 to $45,000.

While these items are expected to be the key items up for sale, Hatton explained that there will also be an extensive list of items from even earlier in space exploration.

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Red Sox still winless at home as Brewers complete sweep

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Throughout the winter and all spring, the Red Sox dodged talk about having a hangover from their World Series victory.

Yesterday, they staggered through a loss that had hangover written all over it.

Sloppy defense, weak at-bats and a mounting case of injuries third baseman Will Middlebrooks is on the disabled list now with a strained right calf wasted another strong start from Jon Lester as the 2-4 Red Sox lost their third in a row at Fenway Park to the Brewers, this time by a 4-0 score.

The Sox are winless at home this year and this three-game skid matches their longest from last year. Tonight against the visiting Texas Rangers, a fourth consecutive loss would spark a wave of references to last years squad.

I know there are a lot of comparisons to, Well, this is what you did last year; therefore this is what you have to do this year for this to happen, which I dont think anybody would draw up, What happened in 2012, therefore 2013 would happen. So we understand this is a brand-new season; it means anything can happen, said Daniel Nava. But if we lose four straight and then we win 12 straight, that could be a quote: You guys never lost four, but you won 12 in a row. Anything can happen.

Nava committed one of two errors by the Red Sox, misjudging a sinking line drive to right field by Milwaukees Mark Reynolds and allowing the ball to skip by him in the second inning. Jonathan Lucroy trotted home from third, but Khris Davis also scored all the way from first on Reynolds single plus Navas error for a 2-0 Brewers lead.

Davis had reached on the previous at-bat when neither Jonathan Herrera, a replacement for Middlebrooks at third base, nor Lester could decide what to do with a perfectly placed bunt.

In the eighth inning, catcher David Ross errant throw to second on a stolen base attempt sent Ryan Braun to third. Aramis Ramirez RBI single scored Braun with the second unearned run charged to Lester.

The effort is there, and obviously they dont want to not get any runs on the board, said Lester, who has allowed just one walk in his two starts this season and has a 2.51 ERA to go with his 0-2 record.

David Ortiz acknowledged that, perhaps, with some late travel Thursday from Baltimore, followed by Fridays ring ceremony and then some irregularly spaced start times, the Sox were left with their heads spinning and the Brewers most definitely were not.

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Jumbo JUMBO jet : Nasa’s super sized plane can carry 26 tonnes SPACESHIP parts & still travel 290mph – Video

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NASA Television to Air Upcoming Space Station Cargo Ship Activities

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NASA Television will air live the departure of an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft and the launch and docking of another to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) Monday, April 7, and Wednesday, April 9.

The ISS Progress 54 cargo ship, which arrived at the orbiting laboratory in February, will undock from the space station's Pirs docking compartment at 9:58 a.m. EDT April 7. It will move well away from the station for experimental tests before its planned deorbit into Earth's atmosphere Friday, April 18. NASA TV coverage of the undocking will begin at 9:45 a.m.

On April 9, the ISS Progress 55 cargo craft will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:26 a.m. (9:26 p.m. in Baikonur) on an expedited six-hour journey to the orbital outpost. NASA TV coverage of the launch will begin at 10:15 a.m. Later that day, the incoming cargo craft, loaded with almost 3 tons of food, fuel and supplies for the space station crew, will dock to Pirs at 5:16 p.m. NASA TV coverage of docking will begin at 4:45 p.m.

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Nasa LADEE Spacecraft To Crash Into Moon In Glorious Space Death

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This photo was among the first images taken by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite.

Australian National University astrophysicist Brian Schmidt chose this Hubble photo of Supernova SN 1994D as his favorite space image, which he called "the poster child of a type Ia supernovae."

This photo shows helmets and spacesuits covered in lunar dust after the last manned moonwalk, from the 1972 Apollo 17 mission.

The crescent planet Neptune and its crescent moon Triton, as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989.

"Earthrise," the first picture taken of planet Earth by people orbiting the moon. This shot was captured by Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders on December 24, 1968, as his spacecraft became the first to fly around the moon.

This photo, called "Earth From Mars," was taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on March 8, 2004. It was the first image of Earth seen from the surface of a planet beyond the moon.

This seminal 1995 image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Called the Hubble Deep Field, it collected light over many hours to reveal the deepest view of the universe yet, which included thousands of distant galaxies.

This undated photo shows a classic type 1a supernova remnant. Researchers Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the United States and US-Australian Brian Schmidt won the 2011 Nobel Physics Prize on October 4, 2011 for their research on supernovae.

The silhouette of the space shuttle Endeavour appears over Earth's colorful horizon in this image photographed by an Expedition 22 crew member on Feb. 9, 2010.

"These tidal tails are thin, elongated streams of gas, dust and stars that extend away from a galaxy into space. They occur when galaxies gravitationally interact with one another, and material is sheared from the outer edges of each body and flung out into space in opposite directions, forming two tails. They almost always appear curved, so when they are seen to be relatively straight, as in this image, it is clear that we are viewing the galaxies side-on."

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Nanotechnology – a tiny solution to the global water crisis: Frank Gu at TEDxUW – Video

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