tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33347973388190403862024-03-13T11:57:04.614-07:00pradeep shetty blogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318528487209748559noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334797338819040386.post-18050958979270970372013-09-17T01:59:00.003-07:002013-09-17T02:00:03.077-07:00WHY TO VISIT TEMPLES ???<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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WHY TO VISIT TEMPLES ???<br />
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Scientific Reason :<br />
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There are thousands of temples all over India in different size, shape
and locations but not all of them are considered to be built the Vedic
way. Generally, a temple should be located at a place where earth's
magnetic wave path passes through densely. It can be in the outskirts of
a town/village or city, or in middle of the dwelling place, or on a
hilltop. The essence of visiting a temple is discussed here.<br /> <br />
Now, these temples are located strategically at a place where the
positive energy is abundantly available from the magnetic and electric
wave distributions of north/south pole thrust. The main idol is placed
in the core center of the temple, known as "*Garbhagriha*" or
*Moolasthanam*. In fact, the temple structure is built after the idol
has been placed. This *Moolasthanam* is where earth’s magnetic waves are
found to be maximum. We know that there are some copper plates,
inscribed with Vedic scripts, buried beneath the Main Idol. What are
they really? No, they are not God’s / priests’ flash cards when they
forget the *shlokas*. The copper plate absorbs earth’s magnetic waves
and radiates it to the surroundings. Thus a person regularly visiting a
temple and walking clockwise around the Main Idol receives the beamed
magnetic waves and his body absorbs it. This is a very slow process and a
regular visit will let him absorb more of this positive energy.
Scientifically, it is the positive energy that we all require to have a
healthy life.<br /> <br /> Further, the Sanctum is closed on three sides.
This increases the effect of all energies. The lamp that is lit radiates
heat energy and also provides light inside the sanctum to the priests
or *poojaris* performing the pooja. The ringing of the bells and the
chanting of prayers takes a worshipper into trance, thus not letting his
mind waver. When done in groups, this helps people forget personal
problems for a while and relieve their stress. The fragrance from the
flowers, the burning of camphor give out the chemical energy further
aiding in a different good aura. The effect of all these energies is
supplemented by the positive energy from the idol, the copper plates and
utensils in the *Moolasthan*am / *Garbagraham*. *Theertham*, the “holy”
water used during the pooja to wash the idol is not plain water
cleaning the dust off an idol. It is a concoction of Cardamom,*Karpura*
(Benzoin), zaffron / saffron, *Tulsi* (Holy Basil), Clove, etc...Washing
the idol is to charge the water with the magnetic radiations thus
increasing its medicinal values. Three spoons of this holy water is
distributed to devotees. Again, this water is mainly a source of
magneto-therapy. Besides, the clove essence protects one from tooth
decay, the saffron & *Tulsi* leafs protects one from common cold and
cough, cardamom and *Pachha Karpuram* (benzoin), act as mouth
fresheners. It is proved that *Theertham* is a very good blood purifier,
as it is highly energized. Hence it is given as *prasadam* to the
devotees. This way, one can claim to remain healthy by regularly
visiting the Temples. This is why our elders used to suggest us to offer
prayers at the temple so that you will be cured of many ailments. They
were not always superstitious. Yes, in a few cases they did go overboard
when due to ignorance they hoped many serious diseases could be cured
at temples by deities. When people go to a temple for the *Deepaaraadhana*, and when the doors open up, the positive energy gushes
out onto the persons who are there. The water that is sprinkled onto
the assemblages passes on the energy to all. This also explains why men
are not allowed to wear shirts at a few temples and women are requested
to wear more ornaments during temple visits. It is through these jewels
(metal) that positive energy is absorbed by the women. Also, it is a
practice to leave newly purchased jewels at an idol’s feet and then wear
them with the idol’s blessings. This act is now justified after reading
this article. This act of “seeking divine blessings” before using any
new article, like books or pens or automobiles may have stemmed from
this through mere observation.<br /> <br /> Energy lost in a day’s work is
regained through a temple visit and one is refreshed slightly. The
positive energy that is spread out in the entire temple and especially
around where the main idol is placed, are simply absorbed by one's body
and mind. Did you know, every Vaishnava(Vishnu devotees), “must” visit a
Vishnu temple twice every day in their location. Our practices are NOT
some hard and fast rules framed by 1 man and his followers or God’s
words in somebody’s dreams. All the rituals, all the practices are, in
reality, well researched, studied and scientifically backed thesis which
form the ways of nature to lead a good healthy life.<br /> <br /> The
scientific and research part of the practices are well camouflaged as
“elder’s instructions” or “granny’s teaching’s” which should be obeyed
as a mark of respect so as to once again, avoid stress to the mediocre
brains. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318528487209748559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334797338819040386.post-76555085362211294192013-09-17T00:25:00.000-07:002013-09-17T00:25:17.645-07:00Lock Down Facebook and Google With AVG PrivacyFix App <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Do you know how secure your social network
settings are? Can you remember all the services and apps you opted in to
having access to your data? Security software maker AVG has a new and
free app called AVG PrivacyFix that helps you manage your privacy on
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AVG PrivacyFix is available on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/avg-privacyfix/id688795921">iPhone</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avg.privacyfix">Android</a>, and it's also available as a desktop download for Mac and Windows PCs, which plugs into Firefox or Chrome to work.</div>
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When you start the app, you have to connect it to the services of
your choice (Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn are supported), and then a
dashboard displays a number of privacy settings and flags ones you
probably ought to review or update. It will tell you whether your
account is open on multiple devices, for example, or whether you have
facial recognition (face-tagging) enabled.</div>
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One neat feature is that it has a much better interface than
Facebook's own for creating a custom circle of people with whom you'll
share your Facebook updates and photos by default. AVG PrivacyFix
basically lets you deselect people whom you don't want included in this
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In the Google side of the dashboard, you can choose how much of your
data is saved, viewed, or blocked; whether your settings allow your
searches to be saved in your Google account; what happens with your
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The LinkedIn features, which also check how much of your account is
public and so forth, don't seem to be available on the mobile app at
this time, but are available in the browser version.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318528487209748559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334797338819040386.post-41621666488686174632013-09-16T06:59:00.001-07:002013-09-16T23:37:23.838-07:00BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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1. No Breakfast<br />
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People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar
level.This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain
causing brain degeneration.<span class="text_exposed_show"><br /> <br /> 2 . Overeating<br /> <br /> It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.<br /> <br /> 3. Smoking<br /> <br /> It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.<br /> <br /> 4. High Sugar consumption<br /> <br />
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients
causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.<br /> <br /> 5. Air Pollution<br /> <br />
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our 20 body. Inhaling
polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about
a decrease in brain efficiency.<br /> <br /> 6 . Sleep Deprivation<br /> <br /> Sleep allows our brain to rest.. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate<br /> <br /> the death of brain cells..<br /> <br /> 7. Head covered while sleeping<br /> <br />
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon
dioxide and decrease concentration ofoxygen that may lead to brain
damaging effects.<br /> <br /> 8. Working your brain during illness<br /> <br /> Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.<br /> <br /> 9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts<br /> <br /> Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.<br /> <br /> 10. Talking Rarely<br /> <br /> Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain</span></div>
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Is analyzing social media a necessity for today’s
businesses? To answer this question, let’s consider these
facts: If Facebook was a country it would have been the third
biggest country in the world. Facebook has over 1.15 billion
monthly active users out of which 82 million monthly active users
are from India. As of March 2013, Twitter had 200 million active
users creating over 400 million tweets each day. Nearly one in five
individuals now looks to Facebook to obtain information about a
brand or product, as per a Fleishman-Hillard and Harris Interactive
Annual Global Study.<br />
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Social media, hence, has truly arrived as a huge listening and
customer engagement channel for enterprises to better connect with
their customers.<br />
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Social networking sites offer huge opportunities to
organizations to create products and messaging that is more
engaging and connect to their customers in a much better fashion.
Apart from this, the medium also allows organizations to get unique
insights like customer buying behaviour and spending
patterns.<br />
“The amount of social interactions and engagement has been
steadily increasing in India and each social/digital interaction
leads to the creation of data, which has potential to share
valuable insights. Consumers are a lot more empowered today —
they chat, create, share, comment, post and review. It is
sacrosanct to listen closely to their views and preferences,”
asserts Sudipta K Sen, Regional Director – South East Asia,
CEO & Managing Director - SAS Institute (India).<br />
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In fact, a recent McKinsey Global Institute report states that
companies that rely on brand recognition can increase margins by as
much as 60 percent by using social technologies to connect with
customers and to generate sharper consumer insights.<br />
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<em>Social interactions have been steadily increasing in India
and each interaction leads to the creation of data, which has
potential to share valuable insights</em><br />
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Sudipta K Sen, Regional Director – South East Asia, CEO &
Managing Director - SAS Institute (India)<br />
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However, given the unstructured nature of data generated on
social media channels, it is a major challenge for organizations to
gauge and measure insights from the huge volume of data generated.
Thus, organizations are increasingly contemplating smarter analytic
solutions to gain new insights from social media to better
understand consumer preferences, market dynamics, brand affinity
and to improve customer satisfaction, and make smarter decisions
regarding marketing campaigns.<br />
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Derek Laney, Director - Product Marketing Management, Marketing
Cloud, Salesforce.com corroborates the trend, “Today, C-level
executives in both B2B and B2C segments are very keen to understand
how they should go about setting up social technologies to take
advantage of these opportunities and derive business
benefits.”<br />
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This is where major enterprise vendors such as Oracle, software
service firms like Persistent Systems and analytic firms such as
SAS are sensing a golden opportunity in developing social media
analytics solutions and are meticulously crafting strategies to
target this space.<br />
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Let’s a take a look at some of the players in the social
analytics space and how their offerings are helping organizations.
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<strong>TURNING CONNECTIONS INTO CUSTOMERS</strong><br />
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Salesforce is targeting the space with Salesforce Marketing
Cloud (SMC), a unified social marketing suite that enables
organizations to identify sales leads, discover advocates, detect
trends for any topic or keyword, uncover social influence and
analyze content in 17 languages. “55 percent of the Fortune
100 and leading brands including Ford, Hewlett-Packard, and
Unilever are turning connections into customers for life with the
Marketing Cloud,” says Laney.<br />
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very keen to understand how they should go about setting up social
technologies</em><br />
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Derek Laney, Director - Product Marketing Management, Marketing
Cloud, Salesforce.com<br />
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Hardware major Dell is one of the company’s clients, which
is using SMC to gain a better understanding of the marketplace and
build long lasting relationships with customers. With SMC, Dell is
able to monitor over 25,000 conversations each month in 11
different languages. When Dell sees customers talking about buying
a new laptop, or about server requirements, it engages with
consumers to find out what they are looking for, sends them
coupons, or directs their request to the right people within the
organization. By adopting a proactive social strategy, the company
has been able to fuel its sales leads. “In its first year of
experimentation alone, Dell generated approximately USD 6.5 million
sales through social media,” informs Laney.<br />
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The company’s another customer is United Spirits, which is
using social media to connect with its customers about topics of
their interest like sports, fashion and music.<br />
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Similarly, Oracle has introduced cloud-based Social Relationship
Management (SRM) solutions that enable organizations to transform
business processes with innovative social collaboration, marketing
and insight services. Oracle’s SRM solutions simplify the
deployment of social business applications through cloud delivery,
mobile access, and integration with key business
applications.<br />
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“By integrating the full spectrum of social activities and
analysis in a single platform, Oracle SRM eliminates the
inconsistency, duplication and delays of ‘social silos’
to enable users to create, measure, and consistently deliver more
rewarding customer experiences,” says Sunil Jose, Vice
President – Applications, Oracle India. A component of SRM
suite, the Oracle Social Engagement & Monitoring Cloud Service
provides listening, engagement and analysis capabilities across
social channels to help companies understand their customers and
act.<br />
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Another company betting big on social media analytics is
Persistent Systems, which classifies the social analytics space in
three broad areas, namely customer segmentation, branding and
customer engagement and customer service and voice of customer
management. In customer segmentation, social data is used to create
accurate customer segmentation, which can then be used to make the
right kind of offers and promotions for the segment.<br />
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Kartik Vyas, Head Big Data Marketing at Persistent Systems,
explains this with an example, “If Micromax is planning to
launch a mobile handset model specially targeted at music lovers in
the age bracket 22 to 32, publicly available social data, such as
Facebook page likes can be used to segment the customers
accurately. If a person likes fan pages of musicians, music shows,
writes about concerts, etc., it means that the person is more
likely to be interested in the handset for music lovers as compared
to someone who has most page likes for stuff related to cricket or
fashion.”<br />
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For branding and customer engagement, the company suggests
analysis of responses to advertising and branding campaigns.
“Sentiment analysis of responses of customers on the brand
fan page, nature of response to contests etc., can be analyzed to
fine tune the messaging and improve customer engagement,”
says Vyas. In the customer service and voice of customer management
space, Persistent suggests text analytics of complaints and
customer feedback expressed on social forums and other sites on the
web.<br />
Giving insights on how the company derives trends from social data,
Vyas says, “We have built several connectors, which connect
with social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and crawl public
data with regards to a specific organization or entity from these
sites. This data, once collected, is analyzed on a Hadoop-based
social media analytics platform that we have built. Our platforms
can automatically tag and cluster user responses. Once these
responses are tagged and clustered, our analysts and data
scientists pick out trends and help our customer organizations
understand these trends from the data. Organizations can then
quickly respond to these trends.”<br />
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T20 cricket league is a case in point, where Persistent released
a dashboard to figure out the popularity of players and teams based
on the analysis of tweet messages that were posted during the
tournament. Further, for one of its customers the company has
automated its customer relationship management system in such a
fashion, that any social media message about the customers’
product would be responded to within 10 minutes of a message posted
on that forum.<br />
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The analytics firm SAS Institute’s social media strategy
surrounds around the fact that the value of social media analytics
enhances when organizations are able to integrate the insights
derived from social channels with their transactional data,
campaign management systems, call centres, etc. “We empower
users with superior social media and text analytics along with
multi-lingual capabilities, which is the key for a diversely and
densely populated nation like India. We also help organizations
integrate this data with other data sources, enhance the data and
derive meaningful insights from this comprehensive source of data,
in easy to understand formats which can be used by business users
and decision makers,” informs Sen.<br />
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The company enables this via simple and easy-to-use dashboards
that can be used across the enterprise. Real-time and approachable
analytics makes it possible for marketers to create offers and
delightful experiences for customers and prospects based on their
needs and via their preferred channel.<br />
On similar lines, iGATE too is launching solutions in the
buzzing space with its dedicated Center of Excellence. For example,
the company has developed a solution especially targeted at
companies in the pharmaceutical space. A lot of drugs often have
side effects. It is a regulatory compliance in some companies that
all the side effects being talked about in the social space need to
be analyzed by the pharmaceutical company. To help companies meet
this compliance requirement, iGATE tracks social
conversations about any drug from public medical sites and provides
insights into the side effects that have not yet been explored.
“We search for unknown side effects about a particular drug
and then analyze the same using algorithms and advice the
organization about the social conversation,” says Anil
Bajpai, Senior Vice President and Head of Research and Innovation,
iGATE.<br />
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Select Facebook mobile users tomorrow will see the first autoplay
videos in their news feeds, the digital giant has revealed. Advertisers
cannot employ the feature for the time being, but the move likely
signals a baby step towards when video marketing messages roll into view
regularly as Facebook users sift through their friends' thoughts and
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Autoplay videos in the near term will exclusively feature a small test
set of regular Facebook users and musicians/celebrities with verified
pages, such as pop performer Lady Gaga or CNN's Fareed Zakaria. The videos will initially autoplay on mute, though users can click the multimedia player to hear sound.</div>
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Uploaded videos for those kinds of parties will autoplay automatically
without the poster clicking a button—or having the ability to choose
against autoplay. In other words, the news feed experience should
closely resemble Instagram video.</div>
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Menlo Park, Calif.-based Facebook's test starts with consumers on the Android mobile operating system,
but iPhone users will get into the mix sometime next week. Only videos
uploaded to Facebook's platform will autoplay, including those shot via Instagram, Social Cam and Cinemagram. Videos from YouTube, Vimeo and other sources will not auto play.</div>
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No timetable was disclosed for Web-based autoplay video by Facebook reps.</div>
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Meanwhile, there's been plenty of speculation about when autoplay video
advertising will come to Facebook. Originally, the marketing product
was supposed to—per industry rumors—arrive in October. Adweek's sources
confirm the initiative has been pushed back indefinitely. </div>
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Unless Facebook is mulling the idea of not enabling brands to
participate in autoplay at all, it'd be surprising to see the month of
November go by without letting video advertisers use the product.</div>
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The cash that CEO Mark Zuckerberg & Co. could collect with autoplay video during the build-up to Black Friday
and in December would likely be staggering. Per one major agency
player, an exclusive national buy for the news feed ad unit for a day
would easily surpass a Super Bowl spot when it comes to sheer
impressions.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318528487209748559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334797338819040386.post-24270670414201604412013-09-13T06:27:00.002-07:002013-09-13T06:30:41.302-07:00UP: A Man Is Attempting To Cross The Atlantic Using A Massive Cluster Of Helium Balloons<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In
this photo provided by Mark McBreairty, a balloon cluster carrying
Jonathan Trappe lifts off from Caribou, Maine, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013.
Unlike a conventional hot-air balloon, Trappe lifted off Thursday using
hundreds of helium-filled balloons clustered together. Trappe hopes to
be the first person to successfully complete a trans-Atlantic flight
using the balloon cluster.</div>
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CARIBOU, Maine (AP) - Hundreds
of multicolored balloons used Thursday to launch a balloonist for a
trans-Atlantic crossing look like a page taken from the script of the
movie "Up."<br />
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Instead of using a conventional hot-air balloon,
Jonathan Trappe lifted off using more than 300 helium-filled balloons,
like those used in in the animated movie.<br />
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Trappe's goal is to float across the ocean.<br />
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"The
Atlantic Ocean has been crossed many times, and in many ways, but never
quite like this," the North Carolina native said on his website, which
detailed his efforts.<br />
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City Manager Austin Bleess said about 150
volunteers assisted in filling the helium balloons starting Wednesday
night. Trappe and his balloons lifted off from a foggy softball field in
northern Maine, near the Canadian border, at sunrise Thursday.<br />
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"Man, it was awesome," Bleess said. "It was amazing to watch."<br />
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Also
on hand Thursday was Joe Kittinger, a retired Air Force officer who
once set a record for jumping from a balloon 19.5 miles up and later
became the first solo balloonist to cross the Atlantic in 1984.<br />
As for Trappe, he's no stranger to the cluster balloons.<br />
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He's
used them to fly in an office chair, and he's used them to lift a faux
house, just like in the Disney-Pixar movie. In 2010, he crossed the
English Channel using a cluster of balloons. For his trans-Atlantic
crossing, the basket in which he's riding is actually a lifeboat that
could be used if he ditches in the ocean.<br />
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Trappe worked on the
trans-Atlantic crossing for two years and hoped to be the first person
to succeed in doing so with a cluster of balloons. By Thursday evening,
he was well on his way, headed toward Newfoundland.<br />
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The airborne
journey, if it goes according to plan, could take anywhere from three
days to six days. Wind currents could bring him to northern Africa or
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A painting depicts the Last Supper, whose 13th guest was Judas, who betrayed Jesus.</div>
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It's Friday the 13th, and millions of people are
on edge, fearing a calamity with personal or global repercussions-a
broken leg, a stock market crash, or the trigger pulled for World War
III.<br />
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Why all the anxiety? In short, because the fear is ingrained in Western culture, according to experts. (Get more Friday the 13th facts.)<br />
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"If
nobody bothered to teach us about these negative taboo superstitions
like Friday the 13th, we might in fact all be better off," said Stuart Vyse, a professor of psychology at Connecticut College in New London.<br />
People who harbor a Friday the 13th superstition might have triskaidekaphobia,
or fear of the number 13, and often pass on their belief to their
children, he noted. Popular culture's obsession with the fear-think the <em>Friday the 13th</em> horror films and even this story-helps keep it alive, added Vyse, the author of <em>Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition.</em><br />
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Although
superstitions can be arbitrary-a fear of ladders or black cats, for
example-"once they are in the culture, we tend to honor them," said Thomas Gilovich, a professor of psychology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.</div>
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"You feel like if you are going to ignore it, you are tempting fate," he explained.<br />
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<strong>Origins Rooted in Religion</strong><br />
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The
trepidation surrounding Friday the 13th is rooted in religious beliefs
surrounding the 13th guest at the Last Supper-Judas, the apostle said to
have betrayed Jesus-and the crucifixion of Jesus on a Friday, which was
known as hangman's day and was already a source of anxiety, Vyse said.
(Read more: "Friday the 13th Superstitions Rooted in Bible and More.")<br />
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The two fears merged, resulting "in this sort of double whammy of 13 fallingon an already nervous day," he said.<br />
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The taboo against the number 13 spread with Christianity and into non-Christian areas, noted Phillips Stevens, Jr.,
an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Buffalo in
New York."It became extremely widespread through the Euro-American
world, embedded in culture, [and] extremely persistent," he said.<br />
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More
interesting, he noted, is why people associate any Friday the 13th with
bad luck. The answer, he said, has to do with what he calls principles
of "magical thinking" found in cultures around the world.<br />
One of
these principles involves things or actions-if they "resemble other
things in any way of resemblance-shape or sound or odor or color-people
tend to think those things are related and in a causal way," he
explained.<br />
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In this framework, there were 13 people present at the
Last Supper, so anything connected to the number 13 from then on is bad
luck.<br />
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Thomas Fernsler,
an associate policy scientist in the Mathematics and Science Education
Resource Center at the University of Delaware in Newark, said the number
13 suffers because of its position after 12.<br />
According to
Fernsler, numerologists consider 12 a "complete" number. There are 12
months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labors
of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, and 12 apostles of Jesus. (See "Lost Gospel Revealed; Says Jesus Asked Judas to Betray Him.")<br />
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Fernsler
said 13's association with bad luck "has to do with just being a little
beyond completeness. The number becomes restless or squirmy."<br />
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Then
there's Friday. Not only was Christ crucified on that day, but some
biblical scholars believe Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit on a
Friday. Perhaps most significant is a belief that Abel was slain by his
brother Cain on Friday the 13th.<br />
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<strong>Crippling Impact</strong><br />
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On
Friday the 13th, some people are so crippled by fear that they lock
themselves inside; others will have no choice but to grit their teeth
and nervously muster through the day.<br />
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Nevertheless, many people
will refuse to fly, buy a house, or act on a hot stock tip, inactions
that noticeably slow economic activity, according to Donald Dossey, a folklore historian and founder of the Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute in Asheville, North Carolina. (Read about animal phobias.)<br />
"It's
been estimated that [U.S.] $800 or $900 million is lost in business on
this day because people will not fly or do business they normally would
do," he said.<br />
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To overcome the fear, Vyse said, people should take
small steps outside their comfort zone. Those who are afraid to leave
the house could consider meeting a close friend at a cozy cafe, for
example.<br />
"Try some small thing that they would be reluctant to do
under normal circumstances and gradually experience, hopefully, no
horrible thing happen when they push through and carry on," he said.<br />
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