OUR HIMALAYAN SOJOURN-99-03-GTK

/////////////////////III.40. INDRIYAANI MANO BUDDHIR ASYAADHISHTHAANAM UCHYATE;
ETAIR VIMOHAYATYESHA JNAANAM AAVRITYA DEHINAM.

(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
'The senses, mind and intellect are said to be its seat;
through these it deludes the embodied by veiling his wisdom.'

III.41. TASMAAT TWAM INDRIYAANYAADAU NIYAMYA BHARATARSHABHA;
PAAPMAANAM PRAJAHI HYENAM JNAANA VIJNAANA NAASHANAM.
'Therefore, O best of the Bharatas (Arjuna), controlling the
senses first, do thou kill this sinful thing (desire), the
destroyer of knowledge and realisation!'



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////////////////There are three groups of openings covered here:

1. White can start by moving his King's pawn 2 spaces, i.e. playing "e4". This move has many strengths - it immediately works on controlling the center, and it frees two pieces (the Queen and a Bishop). This is a popular first move, leaving Black with two options:
1. Black may choose to mirror White's move and reply with "e5" for the same reasons, leading to openings such as the Ruy Lopez, Giuoco Piano (including the Evans Gambit variant), and King's Gambit.
2. Black can also try something other than mirroring White's "e4" move, leading to openings such as the Sicilian Defense, French Defense, Caro-Kann, Center Counter, and Pirc/Modern.
2. White can start by moving the Queen's pawn to "d4". This leads to openings such as the Queen's Gambit, King's Indian Defense, Nimzo-Indian, Bogo-Indian, and Queen's Indian Defense, and Dutch Defense.
3. White can start with some other move than "e4" or "d4". One example is the English Opening.



////////////////////JFK= Can we forge against these enemies a grand and global alliance, North and South, East and West, that can assure a more fruitful life for all mankind? Will you join in that historic effort?

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it — and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.

My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.


///////////////////In the hot, dark water of a South African mine, scientists have found the world's loneliest species.

Everywhere else biologists have studied life on our planet, they've found communities of life, but today, biologists announced they have discovered an ecosystem that contains just a single species of bacteria.

In all other known ecosystems, the key functions of life -- harvesting energy and elements like carbon and nitrogen from the environment -- have been shared among different species. But in the water of the Mponeng gold mine, two miles under the earth's surface, Desulforudis audaxviator carries out all of those functions by itself. In short, it's the tidiest package of life found yet.

Viatorgenome "It is possible to pack everything necessary for maintaining life into one genome," said Dylan Chivian of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

All known life forms need carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and an energy source to live. Plants need nitrogen, but can't just pull it from the atmosphere and start using it to make amino acids. Instead, they rely on archaea for that task. Interconnections like these form the basis of an ecosystem, often cheesily called the 'web of life'.

What makes D. audaxviator so special is that its genome, cobbled together from bacterial and archaeal genes, can carry out all life's functions by itself.

That could make the bug a prime candidate for any attempt to see if Earth's microbes could live in some other extreme environment within the solar system.

"Since it could live on its own on Earth, if it were given a matching habitat elsewhere, it could live," said Chivian.



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