BANGKOK: Most Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Tuesday as renewed investor appetite for risk lifted shares globally, with the Thai index eking out gains amid foreign inflows ahead of the nomination of a new prime minister later in the week. The Thai SET index closed up 0.03 percent, with shares of Siam Commercial Bank and skytrain operator BTS Group Holdings among the most actively traded. Thailand's military-dominated legislature will nominate a prime minister this week, members of the national assembly said on Tuesday, a move that looks set to consolidate the army's hold on power almost 100 days since it wrested control of the country. Indonesia's main index closed up 0.16 percent, with brokers citing the formation of a new government in October among the positive factors. Fund flows in the region were mixed, with Indonesia reporting net foreign outflows of 448.7 billion rupiah ($38.4 million), Thomson Reuters data showed. The Thai stock market brought in inflows of 866 million baht ($27.2 million), while Malaysia's was at 78.2 million ringgit ($24.8 million) and the Philippines took in a net 4.2 billion peso ($96 million), stock exchange data showed. Vietnam slipped into negative territory, closing down 0.07 percent as investors took profits, while gains in PetroVietNam Gas helped limit the market's retreat. SOUTHEAST ASIAN STOCK MARKETS Change on day Market Current Prev Close Pct Move TR SE Asia Index* 444.88 443.88 +0.22 Singapore 3316.43 3312.78 +0.11 Kuala Lumpur 1872.16 1861.75 +0.56 Bangkok 1542.85 1542.36 +0.03 Jakarta 5165.17 5156.75 +0.16 Manila 7082.75 7027.58 +0.79 Ho Chi Minh 604.64 605.08 -0.07 Change on year Market Current End 2013 Pct Move TR SE Asia Index* 444.88 388.37 +14.55 Singapore 3316.43 3167.43 +4.70 Kuala Lumpur 1872.18 1866.96 +0.28 Bangkok 1542.85 1298.71 +18.80 Jakarta 5165.16 4274.18 +20.85 Manila 7082.75 5889.83 +20.25 Ho Chi Minh 604.64 504.63 +19.91 * The Thomson Reuters South East Asia Index is a highly representative indicator of stocks listed in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

(1 US dollar = 11,678.0000 rupiah) (1 US dollar = 31.8400 Thai baht) (1 US dollar = 3.1560 Malaysian ringgit) (1 US dollar = 43.6500 Philippine peso) - Reuters

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Cans of tear gas hurled at protesters, police armed in military gear, shots fired, hearts broken its difficult to accept that this sad scene is playing out just a short distance from the home of a friend of mine. For my family and me, visits to his home have always been warm and joy-filled occasions. Today these visits present a stark contrast to what has happened in the community since Michael Brown, a young man from Ferguson, Mo., was killed by a local policeman.

Some say the root of the problem is racism. The police force in Ferguson is primarily white, while the population of Ferguson is primarily African-American.

The situation has stirred me to pray, as it has many others. No one wants to see a community torn apart. As I reached out to God with the hope that the community could find peace and healing, the words of another friend of mine came to thought. She, told me of a time when someone speaking to her said, I dont know whether to call you African-American or black. Ann has a quick wit, but she is also a deep, spiritual thinker. Her response was, What if you call me Ann, and Ill call you by your name, Joe.

As I thought more deeply about Anns response, and knowing her approach to life, I realized she was urging the idea that we should honor one anothers spiritual individuality and lay physical appearances aside. With that reminder, a conviction that humanity could rise above racism began to grow in my thought. I realized that when we stop defining one another on the basis of our material characteristics, and, instead, understand and appreciate each individuals spiritual nature, or Godlikeness just as Christ Jesus did racism will lose its hold.

The Bible explains that there is an unbreakable link between God and each of us. It says, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them (Genesis 1:27). The reality of this powerful truth may at times seem to be a far cry from human experience. However, in her book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered and founded Christian Science, explains: Mortals are not like immortals, created in Gods own image; but infinite Spirit being all, mortal consciousness will at last yield to the scientific fact and disappear, and the real sense of being, perfect and forever intact, will appear (p. 295).

Christ Jesus showed us that God is all good and perfect Love. Through his pure consciousness of man as Gods perfect likeness, Jesus helped others see themselves in this true light. By this means he healed lepers (see Luke 17:12-14), cast out demons (see Matthew 17:14-18), and raised the dead (see John 11:1-45).

Jesus made mans spiritual individuality, or Godlikeness, tangible to others because he fully expressed this individuality in his own life. That was his way of loving others. He lived according to the new commandment that he taught: That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another (John 13:34). His life of pure, unselfish love demonstrated mans spiritual nature and presented humanity with a living example of true manhood and womanhood.

As we live up to that example, we do our part to break racisms hold in our neighborhoods and our world. We could begin by asking ourselves some questions: Do I understand my inherent oneness with God, and everyone elses oneness with Him? Am I willing to seek the spiritual understanding of being that will allow me to rise above selfish considerations to live according to Jesus new commandment? Do I love God and my fellow man enough to be a witness to the real, spiritual nature of everyone I meet? We can all do this because each of us is the pure, perfect image of Love. As we perceive our unity with God more clearly, we will be able to see the real, spiritual nature of all humanity.

The world has great need for healing today. Not only in Ferguson, but on every street corner around the world there is an urgent demand for humanitys spiritual individuality to be understood and demonstrated. There are no lines drawn, dividing one spiritual idea from another. We are all united through what Mrs. Eddy calls the indissoluble spiritual link which establishes man forever in the divine likeness, inseparable from his creator (Science and Health, p. 491).

Man made in Gods image is magnificent. We can honor the spiritual individuality of one another and so dissolve whatever misperceptions would separate us.

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The International Court of Justices March ruling against Japans scientific whaling program was not as decisive as whaling opponents had hoped. Scientific whaling is likely to continue in some form, alongside coastal whaling and small cetacean hunts.

The Whale Wars are, therefore, also likely to go on, pitting environmental and animal rights nongovernment organizations and anti-whaling governments against Japans whaling establishment.

We can expect little change in either sides positions. There will be the usual arguments about culture, environmental values, science and morality; and while such arguments may rally home front support, they are ineffective at changing minds, let alone fostering mutual understanding.

A recent call by former Asahi Shimbun reporter Akira Ozeki for a more philosophical approach to the whaling debate should therefore be welcomed. On both sides, there is a need for housekeeping to tidy up the muddled common-sense beliefs framing their arguments. With better organized thoughts, all parties could, as Ozeki hopes, fight each other with reason, come to a compromise and make concessions though at present his hopes do seem rather optimistic.

And as Ozeki rightly suggests, many Western, humanitarian opponents of whaling like myself do have to tidy up their thinking. Less reflective carnivores protesting the cruelty of whaling need to look more closely at factory farming methods that deliver cheap animal protein to their dinner plates, at often appalling costs to animal welfare.

Humanitarian opponents of whaling argue that cetaceans, like some primate species, have special cognitive and emotional capacities that justify respecting them as persons. It may or may not be valid to derive cetaceans moral personhood from evidence of such capacities, and differences in those capacities between different cetacean species also need to be addressed.

The question arises of how to accommodate growing evidence of cognitive and emotional capacities in other animals including livestock animals. If whaling critics are consistent in acknowledging this evidence, they must rethink their principles for humans duties to animals (and not just cetaceans) and adjust their dietary preferences and moral judgments accordingly.

How can they achieve this adjustment? That depends on how much they think different cetacean species and other animals eaten by humans meet the emotional and cognitive criteria that they associate with personhood, or with other morally significant categories like sentience. They could do as philosophers like Peter Singer recommend, become humanitarian vegetarians, and campaign against both livestock meat farming and whaling.

Or, like the philosopher Roger Scruton, critics could deny personhood to animals and maintain their humanitarian credentials as ethical meat eaters. Then they could oppose factory farming and inhumane slaughtering methods for both livestock and cetaceans.

Either way, they can dodge accusations of hypocrisy leveled at them by whaling advocates.

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WASHINGTONIn a world of uncertainty there appears to be an abiding desire for some kind of surety about the hereafter. The Washington-based Conversations on the Green, tapped into this wellspring of interest Sunday afternoon when it presented the bestselling author of "Proof of Heaven," Dr. Eben Alexander, and Dr. Lisa Miller, a scholar on spirituality at Columbia University, in a debate that explored the role of spirituality in modern life.

Dr. Alexanders own near-death experience left him profoundly persuaded that there is life after death.

The packed forum was moderated by former NBC News correspondent and talk show host, Jane Whitney, a local resident and it benefited Greenwoods, a Litchfield County nonprofit that provides help to anyone struggling with emotional, behavioral or psychological issues.

Dr. Alexander's book details the events leading up to his illness, as well as the unearthly journeys he took while in a coma caused by bacterial meningitis. He met God, he says, and now believes that death is a passageway to an eternal world led by a Divine being.

He is currently preparing another book, "The Map of Heaven," to be released this fall.

Tongue in cheek, Ms. Whitney opened the discussion by asking Dr. Alexander, You say that during your near-death experience, you saw God. What is she like?

The deity is beyond anything you could remotely put in words, he responded. When I first came back and was trying to understand what had happened, I realized it was more than words could describe. When journeyers do go there and come back, it is important t to realize that earthly language cannot do justice to that realm. Language very much gets in way. Its hard to use earthly worlds to describe something that is not like a trip to Disney World.

The word God was such a puny little human word, he continued. I had witnessed was what many call Godcheck off God, Jehova, Yahweh, Buddhawhatever you call him. I came to realize the hard problem of consciousness, what near death experiences have been telling us for millennia, is that there is something we dont understand at all and it is really beyond naming, that infinite power, that all-loving light. It takes the fear of death away forever.

He said he came to accept what he had seen slowly. I had been a man of science, he said. I liked facts and I really didnt buy into this. I had grown up in the Methodist churchmy father was both religious and scientificbut over the course of my career in neurosurgery, my faith waned. I couldnt understand how consciousness survived the death of the brain. For the eight years before my coma I was agnostic.

But the belief that the physical brain creates consciousness is false, he concluded. Whether it filters it or allows it to come into existence is quite another thing, but the hard problem of consciousness is that no one can give you the first sentence on how the brain creates consciousness, because it does not. Continued...

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MOUNT VERNON -- The Rend Lake Marketplace will offer a variety of general education courses, aerobics classes, computer workshops and improvement programs this fall.

Most general education courses start this week and continue through early December. Courses include calculus and analytic geometry, integrated reading and writing, medical terminology EMT basic, EMT paramedic, psychology, phlebotomy and food sanitation.

Seven computer classes also begin this week, including computer basics, Excel for beginners, intermediate-level Excel, advanced Excel, Quickbooks for beginners, Word for beginners and Access for beginners.

Two spinning aerobics and zumba classes will also be offered this fall. Access to exercise equipment is $80 for the semester, and aerobics courses are an extra $5.

For more information, call618-437-5321.

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Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence is apparently dating Coldplay frontman, Chris Martin. The news came following Lawrence's split from her X-Men co-star, Nicholas Hoult in June 2014.

Apparently, flirting began at a party following a Coldplay concert in July of this year. Martin had been single since March when he split up with his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow after being married for ten years. Rumours began to circulate in various US media outlets before recently appearing in UK newspapers.

Jennifer recently split from X-Men co-star Nicholas Hoult

Ten years after marrying fitness loving Paltrow, who has a strict excercise routine and enjoys a healthy diet, Martin has made a complete U-turn by dating the junk-food-enjoying smoker Lawrence. It has been suggested that this opposite lifestyle is what Martin finds attractive in Lawrence.

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In stark contrast to the Lawrence rumours, Martin also apparently still finding time to spend with his ex-wife, with whom he has two children. The couple are reported to still live together despite their split due to still being good friends. The family of Martin, 37, Platrow, 41, and children Apple, 10, and Moses, 8, were seen on holiday in East Hampton last month. Coldplay recently released their sixth studio album in May 2014 with no tours planned until the Iheartradio festival in Las Vegas in September.

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Lawrence, 24, who has finished filming for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay parts one and two which will be released this year and next, broke up with 24-year-old Nicholas Hoult after a combined three years due to conflicting schedules. They first began their relationship in 2011 while filming X-Men: First Class, but the couple split in 2013. After six months, they got back together after filming X-Men: Days of Future Past before finally calling it quits this year.

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While no official confirmation of a relationship has emerged from either party, reports continue to trickle in from alleged friends of both Lawrence and Martin. The couple seem all set to become the favourite A-list couple of tabloids across the world in the upcoming months.

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If youve survived a heart-attack, you probably know that its especially important for you to get out and run or walk to help your cardiovascular health, however a new study suggests thats true only to a point.

Researchers studied about 2,400 heart-attack survivors and found that running is good for their cardiovascular health unless they ran more than four-miles a day. They also found that walking is good for their health unless they walked more than six miles per day. At those points, their cardiovascular risk started to go back up.

If youre a person with heart disease in your family, doctors say you should do about 30 minutes of exercise per day.

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A new study from the University of Alabama found that, if youre already healthy, you can likely double your daily recommended sodium intake and still be okay

Researchers found that people under the age of 60 who dont have high blood pressure didnt seem to be affected by the extra salt.

There are two big catches here. First, theres still a correlation between salt intake and high blood pressure, and second, it turns out most of us already eat twice the recommended daily intake of sodium.

In short, no, this doesnt give you license to put extra salt on those fries, because chance are, youve been doing it all along.

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BANGKOK: Southeast Asian stock markets were range-bound on Monday, with Thai shares easing as investors cashed in on recent gainers among large-caps such as Intouch Holdings, while stocks in Malaysia snapped five days of gains amid foreign-led selling.

Malaysia's key index fell 0.14 percent after hittinga more than one-week high on Friday. Malaysia and severalmarkets in Southeast Asia reported outflows amid concerns abouttensions between Ukraine and Russia.

Exchange data showed foreign investors were net sellers ofMalaysian shares worth 60 million ringgit ($19 million).

Bangkok's SET index ended down 0.3 percent, giving up early gains after data showed Thailand avoided recession in the second quarter. Investors awaited the formation of an interim government seen taking place by next week. Broker KGI Securities said optimism the new cabinet would boost growth in the second half of 2014 remained intact. General Prayuth Chan-ocha, stressing that the military had a "limited time" in power before a return to civilian rule, submitted a draft fiscal 2015 budget on Monday, with defence and education receiving hefty increases. Foreigners also offloaded a net 31 million peso ($709,463) in Philippine shares and Thai stocks worth a net 983 million baht ($31 million). SOUTHEAST ASIAN STOCK MARKETS Change on day Market Current Prev Close Pct Move TR SE Asia Index* 443.67 444.35 -0.15 Singapore 3312.78 3314.77 -0.06 Kuala Lumpur 1861.75 1864.31 -0.14 Bangkok 1542.36 1546.62 -0.28 Jakarta 5156.75 5148.96 +0.15 Manila 7027.58 7008.51 +0.27 Ho Chi Minh 605.08 604.24 +0.14 Change on year Market Current End 2013 Pct Move TR SE Asia Index* 443.67 388.37 +14.24 Singapore 3312.78 3167.43 +4.59 Kuala Lumpur 1861.75 1866.96 -0.28 Bangkok 1542.36 1298.71 +18.76 Jakarta 5156.75 4274.18 +20.65 Manila 7027.58 5889.83 +19.32 Ho Chi Minh 605.08 504.63 +19.91 * The Thomson Reuters South East Asia Index is a highly representative indicator of stocks listed in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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GEORGE TOWN: He is not a politician, he is not a rich man but he draws hundreds to see him five days a week in Penang.

He is Jeorge Subramaniam and he is known as the one person who can get many to sweat it out. He conducts regular aerobics sessions at the Penang Municipal Park.

He is doing good for the people and indirectly for the good of this country, wrote Carolina Tan to The Star.

Tan wrote in 2008 that Jeorges twice weekly sessions at the park, formerly known as the Youth Park, brought together hundreds of people from different races and hoped that he would carry on his good work in promoting goodwill among the various races while also improving their health.

Jeorge, 66, has done more than that. He expanded his aerobics classes to the New World Park the same year besides maintaining the one at Medan Mayang Pasir in Bayan Baru, which he started in the late 1990s.

His classes continue to attract people of different races, many of whom have found new friendships with other participants.

Housewife Norlaila Ismail, 51, said she had followed Jeorges aerobics sessions for the past 20 years and found him to be someone who is generous in his commitment.

He never expects anything in return and welcomes everyone to join him, regardless of age and race, to lead a healthy life, she said, adding that her husband and three grown-up children also joined in whenever they are free.

She said she had also made many good friends from various races who are also regulars at the classes.

Why do we need to spend so much on gyms when we can follow this easy and fun yet effective activity, she added.

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