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Earl was trying to track down an out-of-print book called The Adventures of Marco Polo. He scoured two used book stores in New York City, had no success, and caught a taxi to a third. The cab driver was unusually chatty, and during their conversation, Earl glanced at his license on the dashboard. His name? Marco Polo!Art was sitting at his computer typing an e-mail missive when his cat Coal jumped from his lap onto the keyboard. Before Art’s startled eyes, as the cat shifted from key to key, its paws tapped out the word emerson on the screen. "To make it even weirder, I’ve been studying Ralph Waldo Emerson intently for the past year, and the study has taken on a very symbolic meaning to me.

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For a long time VIA dominated the niche small factor, low consumption market, but now Intel is preparing to step foot into new terrain. The Atom processor, formerly known as Silverthorne, has had its fair share of press coverage, but it wasn’t until today during the Shanghai Intel Developer Forum, that the company officially unveiled details on the Atom Z5xx series along with their pricing.

The Atom Z5 series is made up of five processors based on Intel's high-k technology specifically designed for mobile internet devices, netbooks, and other embedded applications. All five models have a L2 cache of 512M, a 400 or 533MHz FSB, and frequencies that range from 800MHz (Z500) to 1.86GHz (Z540). The TDP of these chips varies from 0.65W to 2.4W, while pricing goes from $45 for the two more basic models to $160 for the Z540.

Arianespace and the European Space Agency confirm today that the launch of Jules Verne, the first Automated Transfer Vehicle, is delayed 24 hours due to a technical concern about the ATV/Ariane 5 launcher separation system.

During the last validation step for the device which separates the 20-tonne European spacecraft from its launcher, a potential problem was identified with the fitting of the grounding straps located in the separation system. Today, after removal of the Ariane 5 fairing, this item will be checked again, consistent as always with the conservative and precautionary approach taken by ESA to its missions.

In order to maintain safe margins for the countdown, ESA and Arianespace decided to postpone the launch by one day. The Jules Verne launch is rescheduled for 00:59 Kourou time, 03:59 UTC, 04:59 CET on Sunday 9 March 2008.

ESA's Jules Verne ATV will re-supply the International Space Station, delivering experiments, equipment and spare parts, as well as food, air and water for the permanent onboard crew.

                        Mystery of Chance:
In our daily life we come across several coincidences for most main stream scientists experiences however strange and recurrent are nothing but lawful expressions of chance, a creation- not of the divine or mystical – but of simply that which is possible, ignorance of natural law they argue causes us to fall prey superstitious thinking, inventing supernatural causes where none exist. In fact they say these statistical law- abiding rationalists the occasional manifestations of the rare and improbable in daily life is not only permissible but inevitable. Mathematician Warren Weaver calculates the staggering odds against chance for an uncanny event as about one chance in a million, while psychologist Carl Jung during his research into the phenomenon of the collective unconscious observed that coincidences that were connected in such a meaning full way that their occurrences seemed to defy the calculations of probability.

Since the theory of synchronicity is not testable according to the classical scientific method, it is not widely regarded as scientific at all, but rather as pseudoscientific or an example of magical thinking. However, it is doubtful that Jung would have considered the theory to be scientifically testable.

A broader objection that is related to science but not to testability is that positing an underlying mechanism for meaningfully interpreted correlations is to develop an overly complicated explanation for the phenomenon at hand meaningful coincidence, which might be better explained by simple coincidence.

The suggestion is that given the vast array of observed phenomena, and given our innate interest in and awareness of coincidence, it is inevitable that such phenomena will come about.

A well-known example of synchronicity is the true story of the French writer Émile Deschamps who in 1805 was treated to some plum pudding by the stranger Monsieur de Fortgibu. Ten years later, he encountered plum pudding on the menu of a Paris restaurant, and wanted to order some, but the waiter told him the last dish had already been served to another customer, who turned out to be de Fortgibu.

Many years later in 1832 Émile Deschamps was at a diner, and was once again offered plum pudding. He recalled the earlier incident and told his friends that only de Fortgibu was missing to make the setting complete  and in the same instant the now senile de Fortgibu entered the room.

During production of the The Wizard of Oz, a coat purchased from a second-hand store for the costume of Professor Marvel was later discovered to have belonged to L. Frank Baum, author of the original children's book upon which the film is based.

A recent study within the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab, suggested that there is a small, though statistically measurable, link between human thought and patterns that occur in random data sets. There is no evidence as to whether this is caused by individuals unintentionally recognizing complex patterns and then moulding their thoughts towards an unconsciously known result or the thoughts of the individual are themselves affecting the random patterns in a manner of individuation.

It differs from mere coincidence in that synchronicity implies not just a happenstance, but an underlying pattern or dynamic that is being expressed through meaningful relationships or events.

It was a principle that Jung felt encompassed his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious in that it was descriptive of a governing dynamic that underlay the whole of human experience and history social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual.

Jung believed that many experiences perceived as coincidence were due not merely to chance, but instead, suggested the manifestation of parallel events or circumstances reflecting this governing dynamic.

One of Jung's favourite quotes on Synchronicity was from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll in which it is quoted that It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

Synchronicity is a word that Swiss psychologist Carl Jung used to describe the temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events. Jung spoke of synchronicity as an acausal connecting principle which means a pattern of connection that cannot be explained by direct causality or a meaningful coincidence.
Cause- nd effect, in Jung's mind, seemed to have nothing to do with it. Jung introduced the concept of Synchronicity as an acausal connecting principle, though he had been considering the concept for almost thirty years.
Put plainly, synchronicity is the experience of two or more occurrences beyond coincidentally in a manner that is logically meaningful but inexplicable to the person or persons experiencing them. Such events would also have to suggest an underlying pattern in order to satisfy the definition of synchronicity as developed by Jung.