Four days from now it will be new year and, like so many others, I am interested in knowing what's in store for me next year. For the Rabbits, here's what astrology tells.
RABBIT: 61% (9 favorable and 3 unfavorable months)
The pace should pick up this year, and it may be a faster one than you would like it to be. At times, especially during the month of the Rooster, it may be almost unbearably hectic. Still, the Tiger is your complementary sign, and a friend who will liberally bestow Luck upon you. You can expect most months to be favorable to you, with opportunities to make big gains in almost every area of your life. So, do not let difficulties get you down for long. If you can resist this Rabbit tendency to discouragement, you will find in retrospect that 2010 has been a very rewarding year for you.
Career
The Rabbit may tend to prefer security and stability to uncertainty and change, but in the Year of the Tiger, you will need to embrace the unknown to achieve your potential. Now, more than ever, bold new initiatives of your own undertaking are likely to be rewarded. You may be pushed out of your comfort zone on the job, and if you are not, you must push yourself to take on new challenges. Demonstrate your versatile nature to impress those who may only know one side of your many talents. Act early in the year on your ideas for a project or entrepreneurial venture. Don't forget that next year will be a Rabbit year, and the groundwork laid now will set your stage for 2011, when your own sign will rule.
Relationships
As a Rabbit, you probably enjoy productive relationships with your peers and family members. This year will be no exception, and you will encounter many opportunities to expand your network of interesting and helpful people. However, be cautious of expressing uncharacteristic irritability with those close to you. While the domestic front should be a source of joy, it may seem like more work than usual to maintain a favorable climate. A hectic schedule coupled with a demanding home life could take a toll on your nerves and cause you to lash out at loved ones. This could threaten to undermine even solid relationships. A random meeting later in the year could be life-changing. If you are single, it could mean a new love.
Health
Heightened activity means you should be a bit careful with your health. If you find yourself overworked, take a step back and focus on meditation or a soothing from of exercise such as Yoga. Remember, stress tends to cause an increase in stomach acid so it is wise for you to avoid too many fried foods and caffeine. It is a good practice to start the year with a checkup followed by two good decisions a day. From there, six months down the road you can effectively measure your progress and ability to stay healthy throughout 2010.
Wealth
Extra vigilance is called for in money matters in 2010. The Year of the Tiger poses financial opportunities, and particularly chances for the alert Rabbit to make wise, well-considered purchases. However, along with profitable opportunities, there will be temptations to engage in ventures that are too good to be true, or uncertain at best. Fortunately, the Rabbit tends to have the good sense and wits to perceive the difference. For your fiscal health, you want to keep both those traits about you this year.
WASHINGTON: The golden ratio (denoted by phi) is believed to have guided Egyptians in the construction of the Pyramids and Athenians to erect their imposing architecture.
It has even found echoes in The Da Vinci Code, where Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon tried to unravel its mysteries.
Golden ratio is a geometric proportion that has been theorised to be the most aesthetically pleasing to the eye and has been the root of countless mysteries over the centuries.
Now, a Duke University engineer has found it to be a compelling springboard to unify vision, thought and movement under a single law of nature's design.
Adrian Bejan, professor of mechanical engineering at Duke, thinks he knows why the golden ratio pops up everywhere: the eyes scan an image the fastest when it is shaped as a golden-ratio rectangle.
Also know the divine proportion, the golden ratio describes a rectangle with a length roughly one and a half times its width.
Many artists and architects have fashioned their works around this proportion. For example, the Parthenon in Athens and Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa are commonly cited examples of the ratio.
The natural design that connects vision and cognition is a theory that flowing systems -- from airways in the lungs to the formation of river deltas -- evolve in time so that they flow more and more easily.
"When you look at what so many people have been drawing and building, you see these proportions everywhere," Bejan said. "It is well known that the eyes take in information more efficiently when they scan side-to-side, as opposed to up and down."
Bejan argues that the world - whether it is a human looking at a painting or a gazelle on the open plain scanning the horizon - is basically oriented on the horizontal.
For the gazelle, danger primarily comes from the sides or from behind, not from above or below, so their scope of vision evolved to go side-to-side. As vision developed, he argues, the animals got "smarter" by seeing better and moving faster and more safely.
"As animals developed organs for vision, they minimised the danger from ahead and the sides," Bejan said.
For Bejan, vision and cognition evolved together and are one and the same design as locomotion, says a Duke release.
Bejan termed this the constructal law in 1996, and its latest application appears early online in the International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics.
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Silent night, holy night! Shepherds quake at the sight Glories stream from heaven afar Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia! Christ, the Saviour is born Christ, the Saviour is born
Silent night, holy night Son of God, love's pure light Radiant beams from Thy holy face With the dawn of redeeming grace Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth
