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Nutrition, integrative and Ayurvedic medicine
Medicine Tree
Traditional Healing for Mind, Body and Spirit
James C. BaeRevealing the common principles of Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, and yoga for improved knowledge and practice. Discussing diet, herbs, yoga and massage alongside common health concerns, this is an engaging and informative account of the interdisciplinary workings of traditional and complementary health. Learn MoreAug 2020, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 5.98in / 229mm x 152mm, 300pp, AU$49.99ISBN: 978-1-84819-305-5
The Art of Vedic Astrology
Andrew Mason, Foreword by James BrahaA complete introduction to Jyotish, or Vedic astrology, with sample charts and clear explanations. Mason provides all the information needed to be able to understand this system of astrology. He also introduces Jyotish's sister sciences, Ayurveda and Vaatsu, and shows how they interact. Learn More2017, Paperback / softback, 9.02in x 6.18in / 229mm x 157mm, 400pp, AU$64.99ISBN: 978-1-84819-210-22017, Ebook, ePUB, 368pp, AU$64.99ISBN: 978-0-85701-160-2
Yogic Cooking
Nutritious Vegetarian FoodAn accessible introduction to yogic cooking. It has over 50 recipes for everything from appetisers and mains to soups and drinks, and includes information on the principles behind the yogic diet as well as dietary recommendations and guidelines. Learn More2014, Paperback / softback, 8.98in x 5.43in / 228mm x 138mm, 80pp, AU$22.99ISBN: 978-1-84819-249-22014, Ebook, ePUB, 80pp, AU$22.99ISBN: 978-0-85701-195-4
Eat to Get Younger
Tackling inflammation and other ageing processes for a longer, healthier life
Lorraine Nicolle and Christine BaileyThis easy-to-read book explains how to avoid the state of chronic inflammation that can lead to age-related health concerns. With meal plans, recipes and questionnaires for self-assessment, it is a complete guide to the anti-inflammatory diet and lifestyle that leads to a younger, healthier you. Learn More2014, Paperback / softback, 8.43in x 7.01in / 214mm x 178mm, 384pp, AU$44.99ISBN: 978-1-84819-179-22014, Ebook, ePUB, 400pp, AU$44.99ISBN: 978-0-85701-125-1
Rasa Shastra
The Hidden Art of Medical Alchemy
Andrew MasonAn authoritative account of Asian Medical Alchemy, this book explores the herbo-mineral-metal based medicines used in these ancient healing traditions. The first resource of its kind, it provides exhaustive insight into the history of alchemy's search for immortality, the variety of minerals used, and production methods. Learn More2014, Hardback, 10.28in x 7.68in / 261mm x 195mm, 568pp, AU$145.00ISBN: 978-1-84819-107-52014, Ebook, ePUB, 568pp, AU$145.00ISBN: 978-0-85701-088-9
Celestial Healing
Energy, Mind and Spirit in Traditional Medicines of China, and East and Southeast Asia
Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD with Kevin Ergil, MA, MS, LAc (Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, Qi, and Qi Gong), Laurel S. Gabler, BA, MSc (Thai Medicine) and Kerry Palanjian, BA, MBA (Shiatsu)Providing a panoramic overview of the medical traditions of China and East and Southeast Asia, Dr. Marc Micozzi offers compelling insights into the influence of the expression of vital energy (qi) in these traditions. He discusses the efficacy of these healing practices, as well as their influences in the West, and potential applications today. Learn More2011, Hardback, 9.25in x 6.26in / 235mm x 159mm, 232pp, AU$49.99ISBN: 978-1-84819-060-32013, Paperback / softback, 8.82in x 5.98in / 224mm x 152mm, 232pp, AU$34.99ISBN: 978-1-84819-157-02011, Ebook, ePUB, 240pp, AU$34.99ISBN: 978-0-85701-060-5
Vital Healing
Energy, Mind and Spirit in Traditional Medicines of India, Tibet and the Middle East - Middle Asia
Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD with Donald McCown and Mones Abu-Asab, PhD (Unani), Hakima Amri, PhD (Unani), Kevin Ergil, MA, MS, LAc (Tibet), Howard Hall, PsyD, PhD (Sufi), Hari Sharma, MD (Maharishi Ayurveda), Kenneth G. Zysk, Dphil, PhD (Ayurveda & Siddha)Dr. Marc S. Micozzi unfolds the compelling idea that vital energy, "prana" in the Indian practice of Ayurveda, is the unifying concept that underpins all of the traditional medicines of Middle Asia. He also draws parallels to mainstream Western medicine, and demonstrates how these therapies fit within the context of their own cultures and ours. Learn More2011, Hardback, 9.33in x 6.38in / 237mm x 162mm, 240pp, AU$49.99ISBN: 978-1-84819-045-02013, Paperback / softback, 8.82in x 6.02in / 224mm x 153mm, 240pp, AU$34.99ISBN: 978-1-84819-156-32011, Ebook, ePUB, 240pp, AU$34.99ISBN: 978-0-85701-025-4
Painful Bladder Syndrome
Controlling and Resolving Interstitial Cystitis through Natural Medicine
Philip WeeksPainful Bladder Syndrome is a common and highly debilitating condition that Western medicine finds difficult to treat. Blending holistic medical traditions from both East and West, this book guides the reader through the process of managing their symptoms using a simple yet powerful combination of natural techniques, nutrition and herbal medicine. Learn More2012, Paperback / softback, 8.50in x 6.14in / 216mm x 156mm, 192pp, AU$39.99ISBN: 978-1-84819-110-52012, Ebook, ePUB, 192pp, AU$39.99ISBN: 978-0-85701-089-6
Make Yourself Better
A Practical Guide to Restoring Your Body's Wellbeing through Ancient Medicine
Philip WeeksApplying his deep understanding of holistic medical traditions from both East and West, Philip Weeks guides the reader through the process of restoring the body's wellbeing using a simple combination of natural techniques, diet and herbal medicines. He explores the five key interconnected areas through which wellbeing can be attained. Learn More2012, Paperback / softback, 8.46in x 5.47in / 215mm x 139mm, 240pp, AU$29.99ISBN: 978-1-84819-012-22012, Ebook, ePUB, 240pp, AU$29.99ISBN: 978-0-85701-077-3


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Just One Question: What Was Your Most Memorable Project at Thayer?
In our post-senior year Thayer students did a few weeks in the field in a house in Etna, N.H. Our classes were in surveying, and our fieldwork was to make a plan of the road that went past the house we were staying in. I was a saver of all my college papers. Some 50-plus years later my daughter Jean '74, a graduate of Thayer (in one of the first classes for women) who was married and had a young daughter, bought a lot on the same street that I had surveyed many, many years earlier. Her husband has built a house on the lot during a nine-year period. They vacation there now in winter and summer. It is really a small world.
— Charlie Weinberg '42 Th'43
"Structural Engineering" in 1951: On the first day we met our professor, John Minnich. He explained that on the first day of deer season he might be in late, with the dean's permission. "But never been in later than noon!" he bragged. What we thought originally was that we had a New Hampshire farmer as professor, but John turned out to be the most brilliant, logical instructor we ever had. He made structural engineering come alive! But the most memorable event was the trip to Corbin Park Hunting Preserve in mid-New Hampshire. John owned 1/20th of the fenced park stocked with game animals of all sorts: deer, German boar, and who knows what else. We went in a surplus GI open truck with a winch we used several times to extricate us from the piled-up snow. Then for lunch, prepared by John's wife, we partook of deer burgers, elk burgers, and boar burgers! Being from Hawaii, it was an unbelievable opportunity for me. Two years later, I had the pleasure of taking John fishing, where he caught his first marlin, and only then, got horribly seasick.
— Peter Nottage '50 Th'51
From 1960 to 1962, my friend and lab partner Peter Stone '61 Th'62 and I worked on a unique air cushion vehicle. Our advisor was Bob Dean. We built a 3-foot model with a model aircraft engine and tested it in the Dartmouth gymnasium guided by a wire.
It went like a bat out of hell, and we were encouraged to continue. We obtained funding from the U.S. Army research and engineering division in Ft. Eustis, Va., and spent the summer of 1961, just after I got married, building a full-scale working version. Pete lived on the base, and my wife and I lived in a trailer park. We built the device on the Ft. Eustis base, but were unable to complete it during the summer, so the Army trucked it up to Hanover, where Pete and I finished it during our fifth year in mechanical engineering. It was powered by a 45-horsepower Nelson aircraft drone engine and weighed somewhat more than 1,000 pounds. We made a number of modifications, including stripping off excess weighty parts, and ran it on the lawn behind Thayer School.
We discovered that air cushion vehicles are very slippery devices, and the least little grade will send it sliding downhill. We then added some light stabilizing wheels that could be removed and replaced with fins for water travel, and thus we could steer it on the ground and in the water. The Army guys then came up to Hanover with a camera crew and we plunked the device into Lake Mascoma and they chased it with a rented outboard.
We had great fun doing this project, and it got a bit of attention in the press. After completing this project and graduating, I went on to Polaroid and designed cameras for a living. Peter went on to Harvard Architectural School, became an architect, and eventually ended up teaching architectural design at the college level in Florida.
— Bruce Johnson '61 Th'62
As my fifth-year project I "designed" a two-phase flow heat exchanger for a nuclear power plant. The cooling medium was powdered coal that was to be lofted into a fluidized bed by air. The coal was to collide with vertical pipes that were exchanging the heat from the nuclear reactor coolant (which I believe was liquid sodium). The coal was thus heated and gave off "coal gas," which would have been distributed in a manner similar to natural gas today. Looking back on the experience I can see why my project grade was not as stellar as I'd hoped. Seems to me my design failed to provide for many things, especially maintenance. On the other hand, my learning was immense, as both the thermodynamics and various mechanical aspects required quite a bit of knowledge (much of which I did not have at the start of the project). Graham Wallis was my advisor and provided help when asked, but I just should have asked more questions and dug deeper. I received a real-world lesson from that project.
— Steve Brenner '63 Th'64
One of my most memorable projects was a combined Thayer-Tuck project where we were asked to redesign (the Thayer part) the Gillette razor with market considerations (the Tuck part) in mind. We thought that having a blade that would set Gillette apart as opposed to a heavy-handled razor was the right trajectory. However, we did not think of multiple blades (now five). I have followed the industry ever since and have seen that our ideas were partly prescient.
— Lee Chilcote '64 Th'65
Three projects come to mind: ENGS 21, where we designed and partially built an energy-storing bicycle; ENGS 22, where I designed and built an air-bearing seismograph; and the Thayer B.E. plus M.S. program, where I designed a hand-written character recognizer (someone else implemented it).
— Mark Tuttle '65 Th'66
Although there were a number of interesting projects during my time at Thayer School, there are three that really stand out, and they share a common thread: All three taught me a valuable life lesson and all three could have easily killed me. Number three on my list is a project that never happened. During my freshman year, the professor asked us to investigate parawing gliders. NASA was studying the parawing as a way to return manned capsules from space. While tossing gliders off the top of the football stadium, I actually calculated the size of glider I'd need to launch myself and worked out how to guide it. But I never jumped. Several years later, seeing pictures of hang gliders out in California, I realized that to innovate takes more than good engineering; it takes courage, and success is only for those willing to take the risks. Number two on my list is my fifth-year project to design and evaluate the world's worst lawn mower. (It wasn't intended to be — it just turned out that way!) I actually built a prototype, and when it self destructed and the blade went flying inches from my head, it occurred to me that the first step in any engineering project ought to be to analyze the potential risks. At that time, risk evaluation was not being taught at Thayer — another good idea ahead of its time. The number one project was not the result of any course and was not approved by any professor. One of my fraternity brothers and fellow engineering majors found an old drone engine and propeller in the basement of Thayer. Another frat brother and fellow engineering major was a professional water ski jumper. So, naturally, it was obvious to them that we needed to build an air sled on skis and run it up and down the frozen Connecticut River! They let me join the group, and after weeks of sleepless nights and countless challenges that stretched our inventiveness and engineering capabilities, we were racing up and down the river — no helmets, no seatbelts, no fear. Though running it was fun, it turns out the real excitement was in accomplishing that crazy goal, so after a few runs the sled was dismantled and the engine put back where it was found. The lesson we learned is that a small group of dedicated people free from restrictions and "good common sense" could accomplish amazing things. For me, Thayer was always about amazing things. Every day was a magic show with the professors teaching us how to do the tricks.
— Pat Bremkamp '68 Th'69
"How do you play if you can't move?" With that question, Professor Paul Shannon began the first class of ENGS 21 in the fall of 1965, but only after making us wait for five minutes before he said anything. We wondered: What was going on? Professor Shannon explained: How can a physically handicapped child play with toys made for the commercial market? Can toys be successfully adapted for use by children with special needs? That was our ENGS 21 project assignment. We visited the Crotched Mountain School for children with disabilities in southern New Hampshire to understand the nature of the problem and try out our ideas. For many, it was our first encounter with children with severe physical disabilities. My project team decided to take an existing toy — an electronic slot car game — and redesign the control unit so that handicapped children could steer the slot cars, adjust their speeds, and even flip them out of the slots. We named our team TREPHCo: Therapeutic Recreational Engineering for the Physically Handicapped. We learned as a group. Made mistakes. Tried again. And eventually built a slot car unit that could be controlled by some of the handicapped children. In the process, we were introduced to a systematic approach to problem solving. This was not only my most memorable project at Thayer; ENGS 21 was among the best courses I took as an undergraduate and was a lifetime experience.
— Dennis Drapkin '68 Th'69
As part of a structural analysis class, I wrote a program in 1972 that simulated the performance of a cross-country ski. At that time, it occurred to neither the professor nor myself that the work was probably marketable. My hope is that this no longer happens at Thayer School, and that work with commercial value is always encouraged even though it might conflict with the goals of academia.
— Mark Totman '71 Th'72
Editor's Note: Thayer now encourages entrepreneurship for students at all levels of study.
In our first semester in the master's program at Tuck, Stephen Matzuk Th'77 and I collaborated on a project for ENGG 196, "Introduction to Design Methodology," to develop an isokinetic stack sampler.
As an undergraduate engineering student, I spent two semesters as an engineering intern working on environmental air pollution remediation at a major chemical company. I had used equipment to sample effluents in emission gases from chemical reactors. To get an accurate measurement, the velocity in the sample probe had to be adjusted to match the velocity in the emission stack. This was done by using a pitot tube in the emission stack to find stack velocity, measuring the sample rate through the probe, calculating the velocity in the sample probe, and manually adjusting flow rate through the sample equipment to match these two velocities. We proposed to create an automated system to match the gas velocity in the sampling probe to the gas velocity in the effluent stack. The design that resulted consisted of two major devices: first, we created a novel differential sampling probe; second, we created an inventive pneumatic-electronic-mechanical feedback system to control the flow. We successfully created a proof-of-concept prototype, though we knew it was well short of optimizing the design for a potential product. The most critical lessons we learned had nothing to do with engineering. We learned the value of collaboration to solve problems. Our advisors — Professors Hooven, Converse, Grethlein, and Dean Long — each made essential suggestions. And we were well matched to solve this problem: Steve covered the electronics and I covered mechanical design. We learned about the real-world engineering process: No matter how obvious the need appears or how clever our first guess at a solution may be, our proposal was only accepted when we were halfway to solving the problem. Since that class, both of us have gone on to pursue independent careers in new product development — Steve as a patent lawyer and me as president of Technology Consulting Group, providing market research, strategic planning, and new product development.
— Bill Downey '74 Th'77
I'd have to say that my two most memorable projects from the time I spent at Thayer School — the Women in Science Project and the Dartmouth Project for Teaching Engineering Problem Solving — were both very much influenced by the ENGS 21 engineering problem-solving approach and the whole entrepreneurial environment fostered at Thayer School.
— Carol Muller '77, Assistant Dean 1987-92, Associate Dean 1992-96
The most memorable project for me was from ENGS 21. We were charged with developing products for energy efficiency. Our team conceived of and built exterior auto closing shutters to insulate windows in homes located in cold climates. We built a small model of a house and demonstrated the shutters closing and the improved insulation and draft reduction. We did our testing at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. While ENGS 21 was most memorable, I have several runners-up. I remember putting small-scale integration (SSI) chips together to simulate a clarinet, only to have a short in the breadboard and the whole project fail. I worked for 36 hours straight to rewire the whole thing. It is ironic because all that circuitry and more can now fit on a tiny chip smaller than the 30 or so chips I had on the prototype. Other comical memories are doing a superconductivity experiment one afternoon when Friday beers were being served. We thought we might super-cool our beer by dangling it over the liquid nitrogen only to have it explode on our experiment. The silicon did superconduct, and the beer slushie wasn't too bad after we cleaned it all up. Additionally, the bridge-building project haunts me from time to time, especially when I go over rickety, small suspension bridges.
— Anne (Davidson) Barr '83
The best project I ever worked on was for a class that was both a Thayer and Tuck class. The class operated as a consulting firm and was assigned to review and solve a problem in the community. For our particular class, the town of Brownsville, Vt., asked us to look into the Mt. Ascutney expansion that was planned in the 1984-to-1985 timeframe. For my portion of the assignment, I reviewed the engineering plan for the sewage treatment system and also the traffic analysis that had been done. Other class members looked into tax implications, environmental impact, social impact, pollution, and a number of other elements that were of concern to the residents of Brownsville. The culmination of the class was a presentation at the Brownsville town meeting. It was televised locally. This class cemented my interest in becoming a consultant, which I have been now for my 26 years following Dartmouth graduation in 1984.
— Howard Jones '84
Without a doubt the bridge contest was my most memorable project. Our team won for least deflection and was dead last for projected deflection — never did quite get the math behind it! I still have the bridge on my shelf at home. Another memorable project was my B.E. project to build a fluids-flow apparatus for the fluids lab. I toured Thayer with my four sons last year and saw it was still in use! I do remember lots of interesting projects, such as the plan by Bob Donaldson '84 Th'85 to attach an out-of-whack car engine to the base of tall communications towers so the vibration would inhibit ice build-up. No idea if it worked, but I loved Bob's creativity!
— Doug Kingsley '84 Th'85
My most memorable project at Thayer was my B.E. design project, completed with Samantha (Scollard) Truex '92 Th'93 Tu'95, Kristen (Morrow) Johnson '92 Th'94, and Bruce Northrup Th'94. Our project involved redesigning a boat hatch that could be opened in multiple directions, depending on the direction of the wind. What was most memorable to me about the project was less the outcome than the process and the teamwork involved. It was truly a collaborative effort with a group of people I really enjoyed spending time with and learning from.
— Sue Roberts Th'93
It is fun to sit back and remember all those great Thayer School projects, but if I had to choose the most memorable, it would have to be our B.E. design project. Linda Blumberg '95 Th'96, Tony Mamone '96 Th'96, Brian Spence '95 Th'96, and I worked on this gem: designing environmentally and behaviorally appropriate "toys" for captive polar bears at the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago. I am aware that there was much debate outside our group regarding the true engineering value of our project, but as far as we were concerned it was perfect. We applied our well-honed Thayer School problem-solving skills to building a device that encouraged the bears to work for their food, as they would in a more natural environment. Unfortunately, our best solution — just release some live seals into the polar bear pool — didn't meet the parameter that the solution had to be palatable to zoo visitors.
— Pam Brockmeier '95 Th'96
I had a great experience with ENGS 21. We did a project — Bike Buddy — that involved careening down an icy hill on a bike connected (through our contraption) to someone in the project. It was crazy.
— Jay Bruce '96
My ENGS 21 project somehow ended up with me on top of Balch Hill, along with project-mates Erin Morse '02 Th'03, Derek Hansen '02, and Abby Faulkner '02 Th'03, skinning a moose.
Rewind a bit: Our theme was safety innovations, and our group chose to tackle the largely unrecognized but serious problem of moose-vehicle collisions. Moose unfortunately possess the potentially lethal combination of enormous mass, windshield-level height, and a general lack of concern for traffic whizzing by at highway speeds. After reading in some obscure journal that moose fur is known to fluoresce when exposed to UV light, we sought to investigate this as a possible key to our solution. We were "lucky" enough to find a nearby butcher shop that had recently received a road-kill moose and was more than willing to part with the hide for the low, low price of $20, with the caveat that it wasn't entirely cleaned. So that's how we found ourselves up on Balch Hill stretched out on tarps over a reasonably disgusting former moose, trying our best to clean the hide to a sufficiently sanitary level. The best (or worst?) part was the look on other hikers' faces when they unwittingly wandered over to our secluded area to see what interesting thing was going on over there. So cut to a few days later and — surprise! — we did not observe any noteworthy glowing of the moose fur under UV light, journal claims notwithstanding. So our ultimate solution involved a series of heat-sensing infrared sensors and warning lights deployed alongside particularly dangerous highway areas frequently trafficked by our favorite half-ton mascot of the Granite State. I think one of our friends might still have a pair of moose-hide mittens somewhere, too.
— Tom Nichols '02 Th'04
My most memorable projects at Thayer were both team-based design classes. In "Machine Design" we had to build a machine that could create a Lincoln Log cabin. Since we were constrained in degrees of freedom, we built a clutch into our car that allowed us to have another motion.
The clutch was driven by the crane arm. When the crane arm was up, the motor would drive the wheels and move the car around. However, when the crane arm was down, the drive motor was disengaged from the wheels and drove the crane arm out and in to give us precise control when placing the logs. It miraculously ended up working as we had designed it. My team members, James Lamb '04, Jon Kling '04, and Chad Steinglass '02 Th'04, were a blast to work with.
A close second to this project was the CAD/CAM class, where our final project was to build a tricycle. We pushed the limits a little bit and ended up designing a Potty-Training Trike, where the seat doubles as a toilet.
When the kids were invited in to test drive the trikes, one of the girls saw it and immediately ran away to her mommy crying. I guess it was too much for her to understand how those two worlds could be combined. However, one of the little guys loved it and pedaled all over the Great Hall.
— Brian Mason '03 Th'05
ENGS 21 started about two weeks after 9/11. My group of James Lamb '04, Jon Kling '04, and Andra Pool '03 wanted to do something that would benefit firefighters. We learned that although their outer clothing provided protection against flames, the material did not breathe well, and many firefighters suffered from hyperthermia while combating fires. At our first presentation, our solution involved having firefighters wear mini-refrigerators. We quickly learned about the value of the design and redesign process to ultimately come up with a device to monitor the firefighter's body temperature and serve as an early warning system for hyperthermia.
— Erik Dambach '04 Th'05
As a junior in the dual-degree program we ended up having five of us from Colby College on the same team — I worked with Spencer Boice Th'05, Eric Fitz Th'05, Dave Fouche Th'05, and Monica Thomas Th'05 — and we ended up being referred to as the "Colby Mafia." We won the Jackson Prize for our internal boat trailer, which Leonard from the machine shop described as a $500 boat with F-16 landing gear. With our design you no longer needed a separate trailer for your boat. You would drive the boat right up to the edge of the water and then, with a press of a button, the wheels would deploy out of the bottom of the boat and out of the front would come the tow hitch, which you would then just connect to your car. It would eliminate the hassle of having to store the trailer when the boat was in the water, and could also help in point-to-point trips: All you needed in the new location was a car with a hitch; no need to move the trailer around.
— Peter Rice Th'06
Editor's Note: See "A Few of Our Favorite Things."
My most memorable and glorious project from Thayer has to be the mechanical design project Margaret Martei Th'08, Laura Weyl Th'08, Andrew Herchek Th'09, and I completed in "Machine Engineering" (ENGS 76) in fall 2007. The goal of the project was to design a robot that would pick up as many walnuts as possible in the allotted time on a course built in the Atrium. Our robot then competed against the robots of other teams. As the one with the most points at the end of the round, our team won! The project may be my most memorable project because our team won, but it was also great because our robot began as just raw materials: sheets of metal, wheels, and gears. Then, using CAD and mockups, we designed a beautiful, fine-tuned machine and built the whole thing in the machine shop.
— Anders Wood Th'08
I feel like all of my projects were so memorable — I loved every one! My two most favorite are ENGS 76 ("Machine Engineering") and ENGS 190/290 [now ENGS 89/90]. ENGS 76 was probably the most fast-paced class I've ever taken; however, by the end, I felt as though I had learned and accomplished so much. I also feel it was the first true "engineering" project because you design and build the robot from the ground up, which allows you to really learn about the process and take ownership of the results. ENGS 190/290 is phenomenal preparation for the real world, as you have the opportunity to work on an actual project that has real potential.
I did a project with Jetboil, in which we redesigned one of its camping cookstoves. I still can't believe that we got to speak with the CEO regularly, access proprietary information, learn about the manufacturing process, and come up with different innovations so that we could design a system that will actually be marketed! Now that I am studying at another university (I have a Fulbright to study sustainable energy at the Technical University of Denmark), I realize just how unique an experience that was. I think this type of learning really prepares Thayer students for the workplace and gives them the tools to innovate new procedures or products and present their ideas in a persuasive and effective manner to all types of audiences.
— Emily Koepsell '09 Th'10
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Comparing the Stanley Cup title won by the Blackhawks, and the NBA title won by the Heat
MIAMI - Comparing the championship runs of the NBA's Miami Heat and the NHL's Chicago Blackhawks:
UNBEATABLE: Both teams had long runs of success on their way to the respective titles, though Miami's was actually unblemished while Chicago's was a bit less shiny. The Heat put together the second-longest winning streak in NBA history during the regular season, 27 consecutive games. The Blackhawks opened the season with a 24-game streak of getting at least one point out of every game—and while that encompassed exactly half of the lockout-shortened season, their longest actual winning streak in that span was just 11 games, with two of those coming in shootouts. Chicago technically lost three times in that 24-game run, all in shootouts, and two of them consecutively.
TITLE TOWNS: Welcome to the Heat and Blackhawk eras in their respective leagues. For Miami, this year's NBA championship was its third in eight years and its second straight. Chicago won the Stanley Cup for the second time in four seasons. Before the 2010 title, the last time the Blackhawks hoisted hockey's biggest prize was 1961. And naysayers could try to take some of the lustre off crowns for both cities, since the Heat title last year and the Blackhawks' crown this season both came in lockout-shortened seasons.
STAR POWER: Maybe something about the winds off Lake Erie helps create superstars. Heat star LeBron James hails from Akron, Ohio, maybe 40 miles or so south of the shores of the great lake—definitely close enough to get some good lake-effect storms in the winter. Blackhawks star Patrick Kane comes from Buffalo, N.Y., situated along the lake's eastern edge. James won the NBA Finals MVP award; Kane was this year's Conn Smythe Award winner, presented to the best player in the entire NHL post-season.
TIES THAT BIND: Florida Panthers general manager Dale Tallon—whose club plays about a half-hour north of the arena that the Heat call home—was the architect of the Blackhawks team that won the Cup in 2010, and some of his moves paid off for Chicago again during this most recent title run. Meanwhile, Heat guard Dwyane Wade hails from Chicago, and remember that the Bulls tried unsuccessfully to sign him, James and Chris Bosh in the summer of 2010, just a few days after the Blackhawks hoisted the Cup.
BOSTON GIVEAWAYS: Both of these post-seasons will likely be remembered for what Boston lost. Last summer, it was Ray Allen, who turned down more years and money from the Celtics and decided to sign with the Heat. And Allen went on to hit what will go down as the biggest shot in Heat history, the 3-pointer with 5.2 seconds left in regulation of Game 6 that forced overtime and denied the San Antonio Spurs what would have been their fifth NBA title. And during the Stanley Cup final, the Bruins were up by a goal with about a minute remaining in Game 6—then surrendered two lightning-fast goals to not only lose, but lose in regulation even, a stunning collapse that brought the NHL season to a quick and dramatic close.
LEBRON WATCHED: Not only did LeBron James send a congratulatory tweet to Patrick Kane and the Blackhawks for winning the Stanley Cup, he got into some trouble with his kids over the ending of Chicago's title-clincher. James was watching a movie with his sons when he checked Twitter and got word of Chicago's late rally in Boston. The movie got put on pause so James could see the hockey highlights, and his kids weren't exactly thrilled. Said James, on the similarities between the clubs: "We both had an amazing streak. We both finished first in our conferences. We both were down in series. There's so many similarities to both teams, and to win it, like I said, when I saw them hoisting that trophy up, that Stanley Cup trophy, I was like, 'I know exactly what that feeling is all about.'"
BRING ON BASEBALL (SADLY): Heat fans, Blackhawks fans, take heart. You had a good winter. Entering Tuesday, the Miami Marlins, Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox all had one thing in common. They were all in last place. So after the Blackhawks hold their celebration, looks like Miami and Chicago will be parade-free for the next few months.
LUCKY NUMBERS: Heat record in this post-season? 16-7. Blackhawks record in this post-season? 16-7. And with that, the winter season is complete.


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I've mentioned Mt Takao quite a few times, and the last time we went to Oku-Tama. Today we went to Mt Mitake.
It's on the same Chuo, Ome lines as Oku-Tama, and takes almost as long to get there so we had to get up fairly early. For a Sunday this is always a struggle for me. But, before 10am we finally got to the station.
There is a bus to the cable car, but we opted to walk which didn't take that long and allowed us to take in some nice scenery. By the time we got there one of the buses just unloaded a full crowd so the line for the cable car was about an hour long, so we decided to walk up taking about the same time anyway.
I think Autumn really is the best time to go hiking in Japan. Lots of colourful leaves.
The highlights were the Nanayonotaki waterfall, the big Tenguiwa rock and Musashimitake Shrine. The view up top is quite nice too. On the way down we caught the cable car.
For me Mt Takao is still my favourite place to go hiking, but I really enjoyed coming here. It's definitely better than Oku-Tama was, a bit more interesting scenery, and things to see.
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Mt Mitake in Autumn
I've mentioned Mt Takao quite a few times, and the last time we went to Oku-Tama. Today we went to Mt Mitake.
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5 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Glad to see the new column but the Observer could also do its part by focusing on good students, not athletes.
- July 9, 2011 at 9:34 PM
- Mike Whitehead said...
This is refreshing! What a great addition to the paper.
- July 9, 2011 at 10:52 PM
- Anonymous said...
Amazing that it has taken The Observer so many years to finally start recognizing achievers on a regular basis.
- July 10, 2011 at 8:17 AM
- Steve Johnston said...
All readers should be aware, as editors have been for some centuries, that this is a terrible, slippery slope. Shall readers now have to underwrite the coverage of news that the editor du jour thinks that readers will NOT welcome?
- July 10, 2011 at 7:12 PM
- Rick Thames said...
Steve, thanks. I should add to what's been said that the Observer remains as committed to public service journalism as it has always been. This is also true of other media that employ underwriting, including NPR and PBS. In fact, some of the most aggressive investigative reporting in American journalism presently is conducted by Pro Publica, which is wholly underwritten. The concept of underwriting is just one form of revenue helping the Observer support quality content. Advertising and subscriptions continue to be the majority of that support.
- July 11, 2011 at 9:21 AM


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The leading investing trends among ultra-affluent investors are injecting money in global markets, directly in private companies and in real assets, according to the Institute for Private Investors, which provides education and networking for investors and families with at least $30 million.
"The portfolio allocation and investment trends reported by ultra-affluent investors often lead the broader market. For example, IPI families began investing in hedge funds in the late 1990s, anticipating the wider move into hedge funds," Mindy Rosenthal (left), IPI executive director, said in a statement. "We currently see three trends which are becoming increasingly important for ultra-high net worth investors."
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I'm in Manchester, England now. I'll be speaking here on Friday evening and running an all-day zazen on Saturday. You can find the relevant likes by clicking here.
Gudo Nishijima's translation and commentary on Nagarjuna's Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way is finally out and available now at decent bookshops all over the USA as well as on the Barnes & Noble and Amazon websites. I helped Nishijima fix up his English and contributed extensively to the commentary so I received a co-writer credit.
But speaking of Amazon, the book has been getting a total trashing in their reader reviews section. It's been so nasty and vindictive in there that I thought it would be good to address the matter.
There are now five extraordinarily mean-spirited and angry one star reviews of the book on Amazon. You can read them for yourself if you enjoy bile and vitrol. But I'll try to summarize the key issues here without quite so much bitterness.
The main criticisms appear to be that 1) some believe the book is presented in such a way as to deliberately fool people who want to buy Jay Garfield's translation of the same Nagarjuna poem into thinking this is his, and that 2) the book is not an accurate translation of the poem itself.
The first criticism is based on the fact that both Garfield and Nishijima chose to title their books Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way. This is one of the standard English translations of the Sanskrit title of the work, Mulamadhyamakakarika. While some scholarly translations such as the one by Kenneth Inada used the Sanskrit, Monkfish Books thought that would be too difficult for most readers and instead chose to go with a standard English translation. Other translations of the Sanskrit title include Root Stanzas of the Middle Way, Fundamental Verses of the Middle Way and Fundamental Song of the Middle Way. Personally I did not notice that the title was the same as Garfield's and that his was the only currently available English version that used this specific translation. Had I noticed this, I probably would have substituted something like "poem" for the word "wisdom" in the title. I regret having not done so, but it's too late to change it now.
Also some have said that the cover resembles the cover of the Garfield version. It's true. It does. It also resembles the covers of about 80% of all books on Buddhism these days. Monkfish followed the very standard practice of illustrating the cover with an ancient Chinese painting of the master who wrote the original piece. Pretty much every publisher follows this practice when designing a cover for a translation of an ancient Buddhist work.
In any case none of this was an attempt to deceive the public into thinking they were buying Garfield's translation. Why would anyone want to do that? It's not as if the Garfield translation sells in Harry Potter-like or Twilight-like quantities, thus making it attractive to try and copy. It's also not as if the intended readership are the kinds of people who'd buy the book without checking out who wrote it first. It's an absurd allegation, but one that is repeated in four of the five negative reviews on Amazon.
Some of the other allegations are similarly absurd. One reviewer states that, "Dogen, Godzilla, and Nishijima--the autonomic nervous system-- are all more fully present than Nagarjuna." Godzilla is mentioned once in my introductory essay in a sentence in which I apologize to readers familiar with my other books for not mentioning Godzilla in this one. There is one commentary in which Nishijima outlines his ideas about the autonomic nervous system. I quoted this commentary in full in an earlier posting on this blog, which can be found by clicking here and scrolling about halfway down the piece. This commentary is then referenced briefly several more times in later commentaries. Dogen is mentioned a lot. But Nishijima says right in his introduction, "My own thoughts regarding Buddhism rely solely upon what Master Dogen wrote about the philosophy. So when reading the Mulamadhyamakakarika it is impossible for me not to be influenced by Master Dogen's Buddhist ideas." Why then would it be surprising to find a lot of references to Dogen in the commentaries?
As for the book not being an accurate translation, this is a more complex issue. I address it in great detail in both my foreword and my afterword to the book. I have put those on a webpage so you can read them in full. Just click here.
In part I said there that, "We'll never know Nagarjuna's real intentions. We'll only ever know what his words mean to us. This book represents what those words mean to Gudo Nishijima." Further along I wrote, "Every translation of anything is an interpretation. For fifteen years I worked at a job where one of my main tasks was translating the dialogue of cheap Japanese monster movies into English. Even when doing this seemingly simple and straightforward work I had to change a lot of details to make them comprehensible to English speaking people. Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika is a lot more complex than any monster movie. For one thing it is a poem. A poem isn't like an instruction manual in which there is only one correct way to interpret its meaning. There are as many ways to understand a poem as there are people to read it and all of them are valid in their own right."
I also said in the afterword, "I still don't know whether it will be accepted as a translation of Nagarjuna or not. I'm anticipating that a lot of scholarly types will debate its merits as a translation without ever giving the philosophical points contained within it much notice. If they do so, that would be a shame." This seems to be precisely what is happening. The current critics on Amazon don't really comment on the actual contents of the book. One even admits that he hasn't read it! Is it fair to criticize a book you have not even bothered to read?
Kumarajiva was a fifth century Indian scholar who translated many of the canonical works of Buddhism into Chinese. His translation of the Heart Sutra is still chanted in Buddhist monasteries all over the world. Nishijima contends that when it came to Mulamadhyamikakarika, Kumarajiva got it wrong. He simply did not understand what Nagarjuna was talking about. Furthermore, Nishijima contends that all later translations and commentaries have relied upon Kumarajiva's faulty understanding of the poem — even the very ancient ones. As evidence of this, Nishijima notes that Dogen quotes extensively from Nagarjuna's other works but never mentions Mulamadhyamikakarika, which is regarded as Nagarjuna's masterwork. This, he says, is because Dogen had access only to Kumarajiva's translation and found it lacking. Therefore Nishijima deliberately avoided consulting any other translations of the work either in English or in Japanese. It's no wonder then that his translation does not sound much like any of the others.
I said it before and I'll say it again, this is a damned good book. If you are interested in knowing what I learned in fifteen years of studying Buddhism under Gudo Nishijima, most of it is in this book. It is deep and difficult Buddhist philosophy. Nishijima Roshi believes that all of these ideas are present in Nagarjuna's poem. I trust that he found them there. But whether they are really there or not, I know that it's valuable stuff. If he found all of this philosophy in the wood grain of the wall he sat in front of every day for seventy years it would still be valuable stuff. Maybe he did but he thought it would be more believable to say he found it in Nagarjuna! (That's a joke, he was very methodical in his translation and he presents his translation methods to readers of the book very clearly. This is something few others have done.)
Some of you have written to me saying you've ordered the book or that you bought it in a store (hooray for you for supporting bookstores!). If you have read the book and you like it, please take a moment to go to Amazon and express your feelings. It would really help out a lot.
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I'm on my way to England tomorrow. But here's an interview I did with Philip Ryan of Tricycle magazine for your entertainment. Who is that guy on the cover, though? That's not me! I'm gonna get my agent to speak to them...
Oh wait. I don't have an agent.
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First I'll tell you a story. About three years ago I started getting emails from a guy I didn't know. He'd read my books. He said he was interested in Zen practice. But he had Multiple Sclerosis (MS). His disease had progressed to the point that he had lost most of his core body strength. He could barely sit in a chair let alone on a cushion. He asked what the alternatives might be.
We went back and forth in our emails for a while until we finally settled on a posture that involved him lying on his back on a hard surface with his hands in the traditional Cosmic Mudra. After that I lost contact with him.
About a year later a young guy I didn't know showed up at the Hill Street Center in Santa Monica where I led a weekly zazen meeting each Saturday. After we sat this guy told me that he was the son of the man with MS who I'd been writing to. He told me how happy his father had been with our conversations. He'd practiced zazen in the manner we discussed until he died. His son had come all the way to California to thank me.
This is what I'm talking about when I say it's not necessary to champion the cause of the physically disabled for doing zazen. People with non-standard abilities who are serious about practice will always find their own way. Always. Don't worry about them. Worry about your own practice.
Here's another story. A woman who came to the Hill Street Center for zazen practice told me how happy she was to be sitting with such an easy-going group. When she was seven months pregnant and living in New York City she visited one of the local zen groups. Pointing out her condition, she said that normally she sat on a cushion but asked if she might be allowed to use a chair. They told he no and showed her to the door. At Hill Street Center that day she sat on a cushion. She was no longer pregnant.
And now just a few general observations. In Japan I never once saw a zendo that even had accommodations for people to sit in a chair. I'm not sure what would happen if you asked to do so in your average Japanese Zen temple. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be nice about it. The more traditional Zen temples in the US also don't have many such accommodations for chairs. There are a couple of spots in the corners at Tassajara where people can sit in chairs. Four maybe? As opposed to perhaps 80 or more spots on cushions. I never counted. The zendo at the City Center of the San Francisco Zen Center is similarly equipped. Sitting in chairs is allowed, but it's discouraged by limiting the numbers. The unspoken message is, "These few chairs are for those who really, honestly need them. If that's not you, sit on a cushion and leave the chairs for those who actually need them." They're sort of like the handicapped parking spots outside of Wal Mart in that sense.
I'm saying all this because some people read what I say about sitting on cushions and decide I am the cruelest and most heartless Zen teacher on Earth. Or else they assume I made the whole thing up, that I am the first and only person who ever said this. Furthermore they assume I am only saying this to be mean and nasty, to arbitrarily exclude the unfit from practice like some kind of Nazi dictator of Zen.
The truth is, I'm on the fairly liberal end of the spectrum when it comes to this. The reason it doesn't seem so is because certain of the meditation teachers who get popular and show up on the Internets are the kind who are inclined to make the practice as easy as possible in order to get the most butts on cushions or chairs or anywhere butts will fit. They'd tell you that you could meditate in a recliner if that'd get a few more people in the door. Most of these guys aren't from the Zen tradition. Some are from no tradition at all. But lots of folks these days just mix all the traditions into one and resent it when you tell them there are differences.
In the comments section of my last piece Rob Myers said, "My teacher, Jisho Warner (no relation) says 'You can sit in a chair; it's just harder.'" That's true. One of the most important points in zen practice is keeping the spine straight with little or -- preferably -- no support. It's a balancing act, like riding a bicycle. There's a reason bicycles aren't built with comfy reclining chairs on them. You'd fall over.
When you sit with your back against a chair, you are robbing yourself of that feeling of physical balance. And whenever I've attempted to do something like zazen in a chair, the chair has forced its own ideas of balance upon my body. There is no tilt to the pelvis and therefore no way to make the spine balance on its own.
Those kneeling chairs they make for people who work on computers all day can be modified to make a decent compromise. Because it's not really about how you screw up your legs. You don't have to sit in the full lotus position (I predict in the future at least 27 more people will say, "Brad Warner says you have to sit in the full lotus position" even after I say you don't 39 more times). It's just that the full lotus position creates a really, really stable base for the spine. There is a very good reason it's been a favorite for around 3000 years. Still, there may be other slightly less efficient but still acceptable ways to get the spine to balance.
The standard straight backed chairs you get at the local Furniture Hut are just not one of them. If you really honest to goodness need to sit on a chair you'll have to work a lot harder at zazen than those who sit on cushions on the floor.
Does anyone even care about this? Perhaps not. Not really. Those who want to argue will argue. Those who want comfort at all costs will reject zazen. Which is no problem as far as I'm concerned. Those who want to do practice will do practice.
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Let me tell you about something really exciting!
I was at a used bookstore in Bruxelles yesterday and made the greatest score of my weird sci-fi ephemera collecting career. Just as I was about to leave I spotted a stack of old dusty magazines and decided to rummage through them on my way out. The mags turned out to be issues of Star Cine Cosmos, a French sci-fi mag from the early sixties. The guy wanted three euros each for them.
Among my haul was this issue featuring a cover photo that I think is from the film Planet of the Vampires.
Yet inside is a photo comic of the classic British giant-ape-on-the-loose movie Konga!!
Next up, this one features a cover painting clearly based on the British-made Godzilla rip-off Gorgo:
But inside it's actually a photo comic of the second Godzilla film Godzilla Raids Again aka Gigantis, the Fire Monster!
And finally the most amazing of all, a photo comic of my (almost) favorite film of all time Planeta Bur (Planet of Storms)!!!!
This is the Soviet-made sci-fi epic that later was cut up to become Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women!!!
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My interview on conscious.tv is up. But it's kind of hard to find. First you have to go to this page:
Then you'll get a screen that looks like this:
See how I've circled where it says "traditions" and put an arrow showing where it is? Click there and it takes you to another page and on the top of that page on the right hand side you'll see my interview. Click on me and enjoy! Or go to this convenient link and see if that works http://bcove.me/5evkpoh3. I'm embedding it at the bottom of this page, but I'm using a new program that I'm not totally sure about.
Today I am in Antwerp, Belgium. I caught the intercity rail out of Brentwood, Essex yesterday, changed to the Hammersmith & City tube line at Liverpool Street station, arrived at King's Cross/St. Pancras, made my way to the Eurostar line, took a train under the English Channel and soon arrived in Bruxelles Midi station. There my friend Isabelle and her sister Melissa picked me up and drove me to Antwerp with a quick stop for some frietjes covered in mayonnaise and ketchup.
This weekend I'll be running two events in Antwerp; a talk on Saturday and a day of zazen on Sunday. Information can be found at http://www.rsyoga.eu/. Go to that page, then click on "workshops," then click on "12-13 November 2011 - Brad Warner - Antwerpen" and it's all there in plain Dutch.
Last weekend I led a day of meditation in Brentwood, Essex. Let me tell you a little about that.
The Brentwood Meditation Group has been active since 2004. They have a lot of regular members who come each week to share silent meditation in a sort of ecumenical style, not tied to any particular tradition. Most of their members sit on chairs.
I was invited as a guest of this group to present what it is that I do to them. In this case, the fact that people were sitting on chairs was shoganai as we say in Japan. It can't be helped. It's just the way things are. What can ya do? Shoganai is a very useful and utterly untranslatable phrase.
In other words, I wasn't about to go in as a guest and tell a group who'd been practicing in some way that they couldn't do the thing they do the way they'd been doing it for years.
But I did tell them that sitting in chairs was not zazen. Zazen is a physical practice. To sit in a chair and call it zazen is incorrect. It's not that sitting on a chair will lead you to Satan and cause your eternal soul to burn forever in Hell. It's not evil. It's just not zazen.
It's like yoga. If you went to a yoga teacher and bent over slightly at the waist then told him, "THIS IS DOWNWARD FACING DOG! IT'S MY DOWNWARD FACING DOG! I DO MY DOWNWARD FACING DOG MY WAY!" Your yoga teacher would probably inform you that bending slightly at the waist is not downward facing dog. The position yogis call downward facing dog looks like this:
If you were really, really stiff your yoga teacher would work with you until your downward facing dog looked less like a slight bend at the waist and more like the photo above. But until you got into something at least a little like the photo, no decent yoga teacher would call that downward facing dog. It's not.
In the context of yoga it's easy for people to understand the difference between the two. But people tend to think of meditation as a mental activity. They tend to believe that the posture is just arbitrary, and that they can do zazen in any posture they like. They often tend to think that anyone who says otherwise is somehow taking away their inalienable right to do what they chose. But that's not true. Nobody's trying to take away your rights.
It's just that zazen looks like this:
You don't have to do the full lotus posture. Let me say that again since everyone seems to miss it when I say it:
You don't have to do the full lotus posture.
But you do need to be sitting on a cushion with your knees on the floor. Sometimes you can put extra cushions under your knees. You can also use a seiza bench, although I'm not the biggest fan of those. But that can be zazen too.
If someone really cannot do anything closer to zazen than sitting on a chair, well then that's shoganai too. They can sit on a chair. Tonen O'Connor, of the Milwaukee Zen Center is one of the best zazen teachers in America. She's had extensive knee surgery and she sits on a bench that's been modified to give her something close to the traditional posture (it's not a chair, though). But she's a special case. Maybe you are too. I don't know.
I do know this, though. I'll whisper it since it tends to make people mad when I say it.
(Sitting on a cushion with your knees on the ground is not that hard.)
There's a lot of bullshit cliches about the difference between Eastern and Western people. But one of the cliches that's not bullshit is that Western people are addicted to comfort. We really are. We bitch and whine and winge whenever our comfort is compromised. Most of the people I see who claim they can't sit zazen on a cushion fall into this category. They're just being big babies about it. They need to man-up (or woman-up or transgender-up) a little. It's just not that gosh darn difficult.
But I cannot enter your body/mind and know for sure whether you're really one of those very rare people who absolutely cannot sit on a cushion or if you're just one of those extremely common people who can do it but refuses to try. There's no way in the universe I can ever be 100% certain. Only you can know that.
Some people worry about those poor unfortunates who can't sit on the floor on cushions because of health issues or whatever. But y'know what? Every time I've spoken to someone who had honest health issues that prevented them sitting on cushions we've always managed to find a way. And the people who worry about hypothetical others that can't do it pretty much never are those people. Perhaps being the champion of hypothetical others isn't so important a job. They tend to be better spokespeople for themselves in my experience.
So this weekend in Antwerp and next weekend in Manchester, England I will be allowing people to sit in chairs if they insist upon it.
I'll be glad to have their participation.
I won't be mean to them or shout at them or tell them they're doing something wrong.
I don't bite.
I always allow people to do what they want as long as it doesn't disrupt others.
People sitting on chairs will be welcome to be with us and share in the experience in their own way.
But they won't be doing zazen.
Not a big deal. It just isn't zazen if you sit on a chair, unless there really honestly is no other way you can do it. That's all.
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First off, the schedule for the Day of Zazen that I'm hosting up in Essex on this coming Saturday is at the bottom of this blog. I put up a tentative schedule a little while ago. This has now been revised.
Today is my last day in London. Last night I appeared on a programme (note spelling) called Conscious.TV taped in Battersea right near the cover of the Pink Floyd album Animals. I'm not kidding. I was walking to the studio and there it was! The cover to that Pink Floyd album! Right next to me. Gosh. Take a look at the photo I took (top) compared with the photo the folks at Hipgnosis took in the Seventies. There was no inflatable pig when I went by, unfortunately.
It turned out to be a night of rock and roll. The host of conscious.tv is a guy named Iain McNay. I had no idea, but Mr. McNay is the owner of Cherry Red Records, one of the UK's most important punk rock record labels. I've often bought stuff issued by that label. I would never have suspected that the guy who founded the label would now be hosting a TV programme devoted to non-duality. You just never know how these things happen.
It was a great interview. One of the best I've done. I accept a lot of interview requests. In fact, I rarely turn any of them down. I have no idea what any of them are going to be like. Sometimes the interviewers are absolutely clueless about what I do. Those are weird. I have no idea why they've even asked me on their shows. Sometimes the interviewer has some apparent agenda that they are hoping I'll support. Those can also be a bit uncomfortable. Sometimes the interviewers are extremely knowledgeable and have a lot of interesting questions. Those are the ones I like. And, in fact, most the interviews I do are pretty good. Iain McNay was one of the really good ones. The interview will be posted in a couple weeks and I'll put a link up when it is.
While in London I've stayed at my friend Andrew's flat in the picturesquely named London subsection of Shoreditch in Hackney. His place is on the Northern Line. There's fifty two stations on the Northern Line.
Andrew is a student of Mike Luetchford who is another dharma heir of Gudo Nishijima. Mike has been running a Zen group called Dogen Sangha UK out of Bristol for a number of years now. He was one of the first of Nishijima's students to go out on his own as a teacher. You can find info about the groups he set up in Bristol and London at their webpage. I highly recommend these guys if you're looking for a solid sitting group in the UK.
I'm feeling a whole lot better so I may just get through this tour after all! I walked all over London last night. Found a place that sells vegetarian fish and chips so I'm gonna go back there for lunch today.
Finally, I need someone to explain this sign I took a photo of. It's not far from the Battersea power station. I understand that fly tipping is an offence (note spelling). But what is fly tipping?
Is it like cow tipping, a favourite sport in rural parts of America where teenagers go out at night and tip over sleeping cows? Do you sneak up on snoozing flies and gingerly push them over with your fingers? Or do flies in England work on a straight salary basis so it is illegal to tip them for their work? Or perhaps they don't want the flies to know where the juiciest garbage is, so it is therefore illegal to top them as to the location?
I must know the answer!!
9.30 Welcome with refreshments.
10.00 Group introduction, Brad's introduction
10.30 Zazen
11.00 Kinhin
11.15 Zazen
11.45 Brad's Dharma talk
12.45 Open forum
1.00 Shared lunch
2.00 Zazen
2.30 Kinhin
2.45 Zazen
3.15 Chanting
3.30 Tea
4.00 Zazen
4.30 Open forum, reflections of the day
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Mayor's Office
Local artists are invited to participate in the fourth annual Artistic Rain Barrel program. This year's project is sponsored by the Lincoln Children's Zoo and the Watershed Management Division of the City Public Works and Utilities Department. Applications are due February 3, 2012, and 25 artists will be chosen to paint rain barrels for city-wide display and a public auction this spring.
Rain barrels are above-ground containers modified to receive, store and distribute rooftop runoff for non-drinking uses. The Artistic Rain Barrel program has raised more than $18,855 for community youth education programs. The 2012 proceeds will help fund the Zoo's environmental education programs.
"One-third of our nation's water bodies are considered impaired, and the Environmental Protection Agency reports that stormwater runoff is a leading cause of water pollution," said Ellen Wright, Environmental Health Educator in Watershed Management. "Rain barrels are simple pollution solutions. Anyone is welcome to participate by transforming a 55-gallon rain barrel into a work of art. Artists will be helping educate the public about the importance of managing stormwater runoff while raising funds for a great cause."
The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality says 46 percent of our local streams are impaired by polluted stormwater. In addition to using rain barrels, residents can help reduce polluted runoff by installing rain gardens, using lake-friendly fertilizers and removing pet waste.
Applications, which include a short summary of the intended design, are available on the City website, lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: rain barrel), and at the City Watershed Management office, 901 N. 6th St. The chosen artists will be notified by February 6, and they will have until March 16 to paint and return the barrels. Barrels will be on display from March 19 to April 16 at Lincoln City Libraries and local businesses. The program will culminate in a public auction from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 22 at the City's Earth Day Celebration at Antelope Park. Photos of the barrels and more information will be posted on the City website.
For more information, contact Ellen Wright of Watershed Management at 402-441-7075 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Citation:Hammond, Janice H. "Caesars Entertainment." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 617-703, August 2016. View Details
Case | HBS Case Collection | October 2014 (Revised August 2018)
Caesars Entertainment
This case describes the introduction of a regression analysis model for forecasting guest arrivals to Caesars Palace hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The company will use the forecast to staff the front desk in the hotel. The staff is unionized and the company has little flexibility to change staffing levels on a short-term basis. The case is set in the context of industry overcapacity and lower customer demand.
The case describes several models that could be used to forecast guest arrivals, including a moving average technique and a multiple regression model. The multiple regression model includes over 40 independent variables, including dummy variables (e.g., to represent day of week, month, year, holidays, paydays) as well as continuous variables to represent customer segment and average daily room rate. The case contains tables showing the output of the regression model, and compares the fit of the moving average and regression models. The case allows students to understand how such a model is developed within an organization and to evaluate the models presented. Students may work with a data file with several years of historical data or they may work with the model description and output results in the case.
Keywords: Forecasting; staffing; gaming; gaming industry; hotel industry; Decision Making; Forecasting and Prediction; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Operations; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Accommodations Industry; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Las Vegas;
Hammond, Janice H., and Aldo Sesia. "Caesars Entertainment." Harvard Business School Case 615-031, October 2014. (Revised August 2018.)


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In April, the president signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act in an effort to enable private capital formation and reduce regulatory and reporting obligations for "emerging growth companies." The legislation includes the "IPO On-Ramp," which relaxes emerging growth companies' reporting obligations under Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as provisions that increase the offering amount under which certain small company financings are exempt from registration.
Additional provisions within the JOBS Act present investment advisors with a number of new challenges and opportunities for high-net-worth clients, as the legislation increases investor visibility and access to several alternative private investment structures.
Simply put, non-accredited investors will be able to invest alongside higher net worth angels under the new "crowdfunding" provisions in which groups of people pool small individual investments in startups and other early-stage ventures. (For more on crowdfunding regulations, see "SEC, NASAA Tell Small Businesses: Wait to Join the 'Crowd'.") The Act allows non-reporting issuers to raise up to $1 million within any 12-month period through a broker or "funding portal" that meets certain conditions.
Venture populists and those who advocate that net worth is a poor measure of sophistication, and that all investors should have a level playing field with respect to access to private investment offerings, hail the crowdfunding provision as a step forward in investor rights. Advisors can expect to have more conversations in the near future with their non-accredited investor clients about the merits of specific startup small business investment offerings and venture investment in general.
The Act does cap the maximum crowdfunding investment per investor at the greater of $2,000 or 5% of the investor's annual income or net worth (if the investor's annual income or net worth is less than $100,000), and 10% of the investor's annual income or net worth, capped at $100,000 (if the investor's annual income or net worth is $100,000 or greater). These caps, viewed as being excessive by some, do provide some comfort to those who advocate in favor of investor protection clauses that non-accredited investors not overexpose themselves to riskier venture opportunities.
Similarly, advisors should prepare to engage in many more discussions with their HNW accredited investor clients about hedge funds, managed futures and other privately-issued alternative investment fund products. Title II of the JOBS Act requires the SEC to amend Regulation D to drop the recession-era prohibition on "general solicitation and advertising" for private offerings under Rule 506, as long as all of the investors in those funds are accredited.
Hedge funds, pending guidelines to be drafted by the SEC early this summer, will soon be advertising their offerings in all forms of media. Invariably, HNW investors will be exposed to a wide range of new investment product offerings. Advisors who embrace alternative investments will need to ramp up their knowledge base through online hedge fund information and research portals such as All About Alpha and HedgeWorld and familiarize themselves with private offering protocols of their custodians and clearing firms.
The SEC has to deliver guidelines and clarifications that will likely further alter the implications of the JOBS Act to investors. I expect the mutual fund industry will lobby to ensure that considerable restrictions are imposed upon private fund issuers with respect to the manner in which hedge funds will be required to advertise performance. In my opinion, that makes good sense.
Additionally, so-called investor protection advocates may prevail in ascribing a more restrictive definition of an accredited investor. Recently, the accredited bar was raised by excluding the equity in one's home from the $1 million net worth requirement. The annual income requirement, which was left unchanged at $200,000 for an individual and $300,000 for a couple, may be revised higher. That would be a mistake that would violate the spirit of the legislation and would have a contrary and chilling effect on easing private capital formation.
Such that investors will have greater access to alternative investments like venture capital and hedge funds, progressive wealth managers and investment advisors have an exciting new opportunity in front of them that can not only further diversify their client's portfolios, but also grow their client base and firm's profile.


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Great Garment Graphics Renovates Website
Great Garment Graphics, Flat Rock, NC, announced it revamped and update its Website, www.greatgarmentgraphics.com, to include additional educational and training opportunities. The new site includes the latest schedule of two-day workshops, which are held on a monthly basis throughout the country.
Customers can learn how to get started in heat-applied graphics, including digital cutting materials, print and cut, transfers, and more. Events include hands-on demonstrations, take-home materials, and an opportunity to network with peers. The services are free, but online pre-registration is required.
The site's new Education Center includes a library of how-to articles on marketing, equipment, and software tutorials. Also available is a collection of new videos on topics such as how to choose a heat press, how to decorate difficult substrates, and how to create a tackle twill look without sewing. The site also features a series of videos on how to use and get the most out of a Roland GX-24 cutter.


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e-newsletter Presbytery Matters September 17, 2020
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Dear Friends of Cayuga-Syracuse Presbytery,
Welcome to this September 17, 2020 edition of our e-letter, "Presbytery Matters." Our goal is to highlight things going on throughout the church: within our presbytery, in our congregations, as well as in the Synod of the Northeast and across the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) We hope that these are things that will be helpful, informative, challenging, encouraging and supportive. In other words, we hope that these things will matter to you. Your input is valued and your comments are always welcomed.
Please email your stories, news, events, questions and ideas to email@example.com, and add that new email address to your contacts for your congregation's e-letter.
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