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Studies pick apart image that fracking is beneficial to local communities
According to a recent Energy Outlook report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2016 is forecast to be the first year that natural gas-fired power generation exceeds coal generation on an annual basis (having first surpassed it on a monthly basis in 2015). Beginning in 2009 the gap between gas and coal prices started to narrow due to the large amounts of natural gas being produced from shale. From 2000 to 2008, coal was significantly cheaper than natural gas and supplied almost half of U.S. power generation. By 2015, coal and gas each provided about one-third of all electricity generation.
This is a monumental shift, as coal has provided the bulk of U.S. power supply for decades.
The shift away from coal is not all market driven. It also happens to be an extremely dirty source of energy both locally and globally—a reality many countries are slowly waking up to and confronting via regulations and renewable energy plans. Natural gas, however, has its own slate of worrisome problems. Extensive methane leaks are a growing issue, and many people are worried about their contribution to climate change. A study earlier this year found that the U.S. shale boom could be responsible for between 30% and 60% of the global growth in human-caused atmospheric methane emissions since 2002. The Obama administration aimed to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by up to 45% below 2012 levels by 2025.
And then there's the local impacts. For starters, a large new study by the EPA recently determined that fracking for oil and gas can contaminate drinking water in certain circumstances, a strong claim that the agency had not previously officially asserted.
Unfortunately, as these local and global impacts increase in urgency, it's highly unlikely that Trump's administration will rise to the challenge of meeting them with in-depth studies and tighter regulations. Trump's pick to run the EPA, Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, has made it clear that he'll be fighting regulatory overreach as head of the EPA and is not interested in adding new regulations.
Two new studies focusing on community impacts add to the growing literature calling for a closer look at the pros and cons of the fast-growing industry.
The first study focuses on an under-the-radar form of pollution—noise. While a lot of noise (excuse the pun) has been made about how loud wind turbines are, it turns out living near fracking operations is no walk in the park. The study, conducted by the nonprofit science and policy research institute PSE Healthy Energy and West Virginia University, found that noise from fracking may contribute to adverse health outcomes in three categories:
- Annoyance: Sustained noise may produce a host of negative responses such as feelings of anger, anxiety, helplessness, distraction, and exhaustion, and may predict future psychological distress.
- Sleep Disturbance: Awakening and changes in sleep state have after-effects that include drowsiness, cognitive impairment and long-term chronic sleep disturbance.
- Cardiovascular Health: Studies have found positive correlations between chronic noise exposure and elevated blood pressure, hypertension and heart disease.
"People living near oil and gas development may bring up concerns like air pollution, traffic and groundwater safety, but many also complain about noise," said Jake Hays, director of the Environmental Health Program at PSE Healthy Energy, and lead author of the paper, which was published December 9 in Science of the Total Environment.
According to the study, environmental noise is a well-documented public health hazard, with numerous studies linking it to things like diabetes, depression, birth complications, and cognitive impairment in children. This includes not only loud noises but also low-level sustained noises like natural gas compressor stations that produce a consistent rumble.
"Oil and gas operations produce a complex symphony of noise types, including intermittent and continuous sounds and varying intensities," said PSE Healthy Energy Executive Director Seth Shonkoff.
Fracking isn't only a symphony of noises, but also a symphony of local impacts, and a new study out of the University of Chicago compares these costs and benefits in nine different shale regions across the country.
The study found that while local economic benefits such as increased average income, increased employment, and increased housing prices are significant, there are also a number of costs. These include increased truck traffic, more noise and air pollution, and higher rates of crime. The slightly elevated crime rates were the most directly measurable cost in the analysis, and are a concern even as local governments have allocated around 20% more funds to improve public safety. In one extreme example of this, parts of North Dakota saw such a surge in criminal activity after the state's recent fossil fuel boom that lawmakers' and local officials' called for more FBI presence.
Along with drug-related and violent crime, North Dakota's oil boom has also brought with it crime related directly to oil infrastructure. Last year, police found a huge stockpile of illegally dumped radioactive oil socks — nets that are used in the oil production process — in an abandoned North Dakota gas station. Some oil and wastewater spills, which have been on the rise since the boom, have also been suspected to have been caused by criminal activity.
While for the time being the data from the University of Chicago study indicates that the average local benefits outweigh the costs, the authors note that this may change as more information about the environmental and health impacts of hydraulic fracturing is revealed.
"It is increasingly clear that policymakers and stakeholders on all sides of this debate could benefit from evidence-based analysis of the costs and benefits of hydraulic fracturing," states the report. "The industry is now at least 10 years old in the United States, offering a wealth of data and opportunities to conduct more in-depth analysis."


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A very thourough review by Paul Cunningham on the benefits of deploying Mailscape in the Microsoft Exchange world
The Mailscape Dashboard
I recently reviewed Mailscape 365, which is ENow's monitoring product for cloud and hybrid environments. If you read that review along with this one, then you'll notice that Mailscape and Mailscape 365 are very similar looking products. The two products share many design elements, and in some areas the two products work the same way. If you have both products deployed, they even integrate into the same unified dashboard. But they are two separate products. Mailscape was developed before Mailscape 365, and has matured over several years based on input from several Microsoft MVPs, as well as customer feedback.
Mailscape does away with the confusion of most monitoring dashboards and takes a visual approach by utilizing a simple traffic light system. The aim is to provide simple, visual clues for the health of your Exchange environment. Red is bad, yellow is a warning, green is good.
Once Mailscape has drawn your attention to a problem, it then provides you with an easy way to drill down into the issue and identify the root cause. As we all know, troubleshooting is a game of elimination. To solve a problem, you need to understand the product itself, and how it is implemented in your environment. Then you need to consider all the possible conditions that might be causing a problem, and investigate each one to find the root cause. The ENow team call this "trimming the troubleshooting tree", and when you see how Mailscape works you understand why.
Consider a typical support case. One or more end users contact the help desk to complain of a problem with their email. The help desk spends time eliminating basic causes (e.g. restarting Outlook, restarting the computer, checking for locked accounts, sending test emails). When they exhaust their knowledge, they escalate to the next support tier. The second level support person runs their own troubleshooting, which might include repeating the same steps as the help desk (let's be honest, we've all done this). They'll open PowerShell and run diagnostic commands. Meanwhile, more users are complaining of email issues, and each report is being analyzed to see if it is a unique issue or the same issue that is already under investigation.
I've been in those situations myself, so I'm not being critical of anyone here. That's just the reality for many support teams who don't have a monitoring system in place that is actually adding value to their incident response.
When you add Mailscape to the mix, the story changes. The product provides the ability to have custom dashboards for each functional group in your organization. When the help desk receives the first support call they can look at the Mailscape dashboard and see whether there are any red or yellow indicators. They can click on alerts and see more details about the problem, such as the MAPI connectivity issue shown below.
They can drill down even further to find the cause of the MAPI connectivity problem, which in the case below is due to a database problem.
Any by clicking on the database alert, they can see the root cause of the alert is that the database is dismounted.
So, within seconds the help desk is able to correlate a user reported issue with an actual problem in the Exchange environment. They can escalate to the appropriate support team faster and with more relevant information at hand.
How Mailscape Monitors Exchange Server Environments
The Mailscape traffic light system is unique. But what's happening behind the scenes to give you that view of your Exchange landscape?
To begin with, yes you get traditional server monitoring features such as disk space, CPU, and memory usage. The data for these is collected by remote monitoring agents that you deploy to your servers.
Typical Exchange monitoring of metrics such as database backups, transport queue sizes and database copy queues are also included. These are the sort of things that Exchange admins need to check whenever there's a problem, such as users reporting that emails they're expecting to receive haven't shown up yet. Instead of digging into PowerShell cmdlets and event logs, obvious problems like back pressure will be detected and alerted by Mailscape.
Mailscape also uses remote probes to generate synthetic transactions that simulate user activities. Where traditional monitoring systems look for stopped services, or dismounted databases, Mailscape is able to use its synthetic transactions to actually test the availability and health of specific Exchange components. A good example is the Outlook Web Access health alert in the screenshot below. To create that alert I stopped the MSExchangeOWAppPool in IIS. A few moments later, Mailscape is showing an alert in the main dashboard for client functionality. Drilling down into the alert details takes you to the view of the CAS protocols showing OWA as unhealthy.
After I started the app pool again the Mailscape monitor returned to a green status within a few minutes.
The Mailscape remote probes can be deployed throughout your network to provide more context into issues in your environment. Let's say you have a datacenter or two that host your Exchange DAG, but dozens of remote sites where the clients are connecting from. Remote connectivity to Exchange relies on good network connections, which could be supplied by multiple vendors. Network engineers also love to add things into the picture such as wan optimizers to try and squeeze the most performance out of the links, and security folks love to put firewalls and packet inspectors in the way as well. Any of those can cause problems with client connectivity, and remote probes are what gives you the view from your remote sites that will help you to narrow in on network issues vs server-side issues.
Mailscape's monitoring of client access is more than just per-server awareness. In high availability environments, there are more moving parts involved, such as load balancers, multiple namespaces for different regional datacenters, and maybe even geo-DNS. Even if your Exchange servers are completely healthy, the Exchange service can be impacted if a lad balancer configuration error occurs, or a mistake is made with a DNS change. Within Mailscape you can define specific DNS namespaces to monitor, so that it alerts you to problems with those extra moving parts as well.
Aside from Exchange service availability, Mailscape can also alert you to overloaded servers. These are usually identifiable by excessively high client requests. Collecting that data in Perfmon is a pretty tedious job. Interpreting the data is quite difficult as well. And of course, you only get data from the time you start running Perfmon, so you lose visibility into the history of a performance issue.
The thresholds for what is considered over-utilization are configurable in the Mailscape admin interface. In fact, extensive tuning is available for all of the Mailscape monitors.
Backups are a good example of tuning that actually helps you remove unwanted alerts. Knowing about failed backups is important, but one failed backup is often not a cause for alarm. In a lot of cases, the next backup runs successfully and the problem is resolved. However, two failed backups are a cause for alarm, because that indicates something may be wrong with the backup system or with the Exchange mailbox database itself. In Mailscape you can tune the backup alert thresholds to avoid those unwanted alerts, but still be alerted when multiple backups have failed.
I also like the external mail flow test that Mailscape performs. All you need is a Gmail address set up to auto-reply to emails from Mailscape. Your Mailscape server is then configured to send a test email to the Gmail address. Mailscape watches the designated Exchange mailbox for the auto-reply to arrive. It's a simple test, but very important because so many external mail flow problems go undetected for a long time before someone notices that they haven't received any external emails in a while. And many external mail flow issues aren't actually caused by Exchange problems that you can detect by monitoring Exchange itself. A firewall issue, or a DNS issue, can easily cause mail flow to break even if your Exchange servers are completely healthy. So as with the synthetic tests for client access issues, the mail flow test is a feature of Mailscape that adds a lot of value.
What about Managed Availability?
The speed of alerting raises an interesting point about how Mailscape fits into the Exchange world. Now that we have Managed Availability for Exchange 2013 and later, what's the point of monitoring Exchange?
As a quick overview, Managed Availability is a built-in health monitoring and remediation service for Exchange. It uses its own synthetic transactions and health probes to detect faults, and then initiates recovery actions when a problem is detected. Managed Availability was created to allow Microsoft to run Exchange at the scale of Office 365. It's useful for on-premises servers as well, but is somewhat of a "black box". Many administrators are still uncomfortable with what Managed Availability is silently doing to their servers.
Mailscape works alongside Managed Availability in a few different ways. First, Mailscape is aware of servers being placed into what is known as "maintenance mode". Exchange admins place servers into maintenance mode to effectively disable Managed Availability and keep it from interfering during routine maintenance, such as when installing patches and updates on the server. When you place an Exchange server into maintenance mode, Mailscape recognizes it as well and will stop alerting for that server. This is in addition to Mailscape's own "maintenance mode" which you can enable when you need to suppress alerting for a server.
The second way that Mailscape gets along with Managed Availability is through the use of alert thresholds. Consider a well-designed Exchange environment that has a database availability group that hosts four copies of each mailbox database. At any given time there could be an issue with the health of one of the passive database copies; anything from an unhealthy content index to a full-blown loss of the database copy due to underlying storage failure. That would leave three out of four database copies still available. Not a major concern, especially if you have auto-reseed configured.
During auto-reseed, which is a Managed Availability recovery process that uses a spare disk volume to replace the failed storage and then reseed the failed database copy, you would not want to get an alert from Mailscape about the failed database copy. Instead, you would want to allow Managed Availability to do its job and complete the recovery action.
Finally, Mailscape also provides you with a view of the Managed Availability escalations for a server. This takes Managed Availability out of the black box that it usually hides in, and makes you aware of what it is actually doing behind the scenes, such as cycling services or restarting servers. If you've ever had to open event viewer and dig into the crimson channel on a server to hunt for Managed Availability events, then you'll appreciate this simple and easy to access view in Mailscape.
Monitoring Database Availability Groups
Although Managed Availability works for single mailbox servers, it was primarily developed for keeping Exchange database availability groups working. As anyone who has supported a DAG knows, they can be a real challenge to keep an eye on. Even a well-designed DAG is going to have problems. In fact, Managed Availability was developed on the basis that problems are never 100% avoidable.
It's quite challenging to keep DAGs healthy without a good monitoring tool helping you out. Mailscape shines in this area. The DAG health status view in Mailscape tells you everything you really need to know. You get health information, as well as the configuration information that is good to have on hand without needing to drop into a PowerShell session.
In terms of database copy health, Mailscape will alert you to critical issues such as databases dismounted, failed copies, failed content indexes, and also issues of a less critical nature such as databases not being active on the preferred copy. The preferred copy check would have been very useful in the environment I was working in where unexpected failovers were a daily occurrence. When I started working there the only way the database failovers were noticed was when they caused the nightly backup job to fail, because the backup software depended on a specific active database layout. I ended up writing a PowerShell script to gain more visibility into the database copy status, and that custom script cost a lot of hours to develop. It's one of those perfect examples of a lack of investment in one area (monitoring) resulting in higher costs elsewhere (my time spent developing a custom script).
My custom PowerShell scripts have tens of thousands of downloads, and I regularly get feedback from Exchange admins letting me know about the problems that the scripts found in seemingly healthy DAGs. But despite the time I've invested into them, the scripts still aren't written with anywhere near the depth of coverage that Mailscape has, and they're only intended as a zero-dollar solution for people with no budget for monitoring tools. Overall the DAG monitoring in Mailscape is a real highlight.
Mailscape Reporting
The monitoring capabilities of Mailscape provide a lot of value, but there is also a reporting feature included. It's unusual to find a monitoring tool that does reporting well, or a reporting tool that does monitoring well. Mailscape somehow manage to do both well, which I suspect is due to their focus on Exchange Server.
There are over 250 reports included with Mailscape. On the chance that you aren't satisfied with that many, you can also create your own custom reports. You can also plug your own reporting tools into the SQL database that stores the data Mailscape has collected. Mailscape also allows you to write your own PowerShell scripts to pull reporting data from Exchange. Mailscape then handles the scheduling of your custom PowerShell, and the display of the data through the Mailscape reporting interface. In effect, this means you can combine Mailscape reports with your own custom data in a single dashboard that you provide to stakeholders in your organization.
As any seasoned admin will tell you, Exchange is pretty good at providing useful log data for reports, but has absolutely nothing to help you create the reports. Believe me, I have the battle scars from years of pulling reports together by scraping message tracking logs, or IIS logs, or protocol logs. I've spent as much time in Excel manipulating CSV files as I have in the Exchange Management Shell. IT managers love to ask questions like how many emails are sent internally vs externally. Parsing through gigabytes of message tracking logs to answer those questions is not an easy task, especially when the request is for historical data that you no longer have logs for. So, I'm quite pleased to see internal and external traffic reports built in to Mailscape.
There are also executive overview reports, with nice summary data such as the number of mailboxes and the amount of storage being used.
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Notice that timestamp and button at the bottom of the screenshot above? That's how Mailscape lets you get the most up to date information in its reports. Ever had to send a manager a report of mailbox sizes or storage usage, only to get a request for updated figures a few days later? With Mailscape there's no need to collect the data and send it again. Your manager can just go see the latest numbers in their own custom Mailscape dashboard any time they need to.
Among the Mailscape reports are all the popular reports such as mailbox sizes, mailboxes breaching quotas, Outlook versions, mobile device users, login times, and traffic stats. There are also some real gems, like the inactive distribution lists report, empty public folder report, and a series of Exchange auditing reports for activities such as delegate mailbox access and send-on-behalf. Again, all these reports are able to be created manually using scripts and log parsing, but it's incredibly time consuming and tedious to do so, not to mention inaccurate if you don't know what you're doing.
The Mailscape reports don't need any special admin privileges in Exchange, so they can be accessed by non-technical staff. The reports can also be restricted to specific audiences, for example if you have teams in different parts of the world that shouldn't see reporting data for other regions.
I always advocate for customers who need more than occasional ad-hoc reporting from Exchange to invest in a proper reporting tool like Mailscape.
There's been a bit of noise in recent years about the death of email. That is partly due to instant messaging and other chat services like Slack or Microsoft Teams growing in usage. It also has a lot to do with the utility nature of email these days. People don't think about email as an exciting communications channel. Instead, they just expect email to work. It's that user expectation that makes us work hard to build stable, reliable Exchange Server environments that our users can depend on. And a key component of running a reliable email system is having a monitoring product that helps you to keep Exchange healthy and available.
During my evaluation, the only time I needed to call on ENow support was when I couldn't locate some of the tuning options in the back-end admin screens. Although Mailscape gives you a lot of quick wins straight away, many more than other products that I've tested, the configuration back end was a bit confusing at first. I imagine that many admins would need to call on ENow support during that initial tuning phase to get the monitoring policies working just right. Fortunately, ENow support were quick to respond to my questions. And most of what you see in the back-end is "set and forget" anyway.
So, who would benefit the most by deploying Mailscape? Large, complex environments are an obvious candidate. When there's so much infrastructure to keep an eye on, human operators need help. But it's not just a question of scale. A small team with broad responsibilities in a smaller environment needs the same help as a dedicated messaging team in a larger environment.
The hours invested to build and maintain custom toolset that fills in the gaps left by most monitoring solutions are just not an efficient use of time. Take it from me, I've been there many times in the past.


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New Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Existing Net Neutrality Rules, Affordable Access, and Competition Among ISPs
July 10, 2017
Americans overwhelmingly support net neutrality principles and oppose efforts to repeal the FCC's 2015 Open Internet rules, according to a recent nationwide poll on technology policy. 1
The poll also found a broadly shared belief across party lines that the internet is essential in the 21 st century and that government has a vital role to play in expanding internet access, including by providing subsidies to help low-income Americans afford access.
Online privacy remains a significant concern, and the public resoundingly believes that the lack of competition among internet service providers (ISPs) and media companies is harming consumers.
Net Neutrality
• Americans of all political parties overwhelmingly support the values of net neutrality and want to preserve existing net neutrality protections. A strong majority (77 percent) of Americans support keeping the existing net neutrality rules in place. This view crosses party lines, as 73 percent of Republicans, 80 percent of Democrats, and 76 percent of Independents want to keep the FCC's Open Internet rules. 81 percent of Americans agree that ISPs should not be able to block or throttle websites or charge extra for preferred access to consumers.
Do you support or oppose keeping the net neutrality rules, which are already in place?
1 Polling was conducted by Civis Analytics on behalf of Freedman Consulting, LLC of 2,475 adults online in English and Spanish, June 22- 23, 2017. Portions of this research were also supplemented by a national phone poll of 256 adults conducted via cell phone and landline in Spanish and English, June 22-30, 2017. Findings from the combined online and phone polling are indicated with a *.
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Internet service providers should not be allowed to block users from certain websites, slow them down, or charge extra fees to reach consumers
• Americans embrace a Title II vision of internet service. A strong majority (88 percent, 48 percent strongly) agree that "when I buy internet service, I am paying to transmit information between my computer and the websites I visit, free from interference." This finding demonstrates that the public views internet access as a Title II telecommunications service, similar to phone service. Americans recognize the vital role the internet plays, with 83 percent agreeing that the "internet is essential infrastructure, like roads and bridges."
• The public recognizes the open internet's benefits for small business and free expression. There is a shared agreement (90 percent of respondents) that "protecting a level playing field on the Internet makes it easier for small businesses to grow and succeed." And 91 percent say that "the internet gives everyone a chance to make their voices heard."
Affordable Internet Access
• Most Americans believe the internet is essential. A very strong majority of Americans (75 percent) agree that "internet access is essential, and everyone needs it in the 21st century economy."* 2 This view is broadly shared across party lines – 84 percent of Democrats, 67 percent of Republicans, and 68 percent of Independents agree.*
• Federal subsidies to make internet affordable for low-income Americans are popular. There is bipartisan agreement that the federal government should provide funding to help low- income Americans afford internet access: 70 percent support such a policy, including 86 percent of Democrats, 52 percent of Republicans, 51 percent of 2016 Trump voters and 85 percent of Clinton voters.*
2 * indicates results from the combined online and phone polling.
Privacy, Surveillance, and Law Enforcement
• Nearly nine in ten Americans believes they have a right to secure their personal information, even from the government. A resounding 89 percent of respondents believe that securing personal information online should be a right.* Additionally, 79 percent of Americans think existing laws are not enough to ensure that intelligence agencies like the NSA respect Americans' privacy.* Eighty-four percent of Americans believe that creating government-mandated backdoors into encrypted devices would put their information at risk.
• The public wants law enforcement agencies to get warrants before accessing their private information. There is overwhelming agreement (89 percent, 61 percent strongly) that technology companies should not turn over users' personal information (like e-mails) to the government without a warrant. Most survey participants (71 percent) agree that information gathered without a warrant for national security purposes should not be used for other ends, like prosecuting domestic crimes.
Competition and Consumer Protection
• Americans are concerned about mergers, and want more choices and competition in their media and internet options. A large majority of Americans (83 percent) agree that mergers between media companies and ISPs raise costs for consumers, and 75 percent of Americans believe that a lack of competition among ISPs causes the cost of internet service to be higher that what it should be.* Almost nine in ten (87 percent) say that consolidated control of local TV stations is bad for communities.
• The public believes government has a vital role to play in protecting consumers online. Most Americans (86 percent) believe the government has a role to play in protecting consumers online. Additionally, Americans (83 percent) generally agree that the government should prioritize preventing companies from hurting consumers before the harm occurs, rather than focusing on punishing violators after the fact. Specifically, 87 percent of Democrats and 80 percent of Republicans believe in taking this proactive approach. However, 88 percent believe big ISPs "have more influence on lawmakers than ordinary American internet users do."


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First Inter-Korean Talks in More Than 2 Years
At last, South and North Korea have returned to the path of dialogue. On January 9th at 10 a.m., high level officials from the two Koreas sat down on the negotiating table for the first time in just over 2 years. Signs of thawing tensions were first detected on January 1st, when North Korean leader Kim Jong-un delivered his New Year's address. Kim wished South Korea success in hosting the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, while expressing his interest in sending a North Korean delegation to the games. An inter-Korean hotline was reopened shortly thereafter, and cross-border relations gained significant traction after Pyongyang accepted Seoul's proposal to hold formal talks. On January 9th, delegations from the two Koreas held a cordial meeting, after which the two sides released a joint statement including North Korea's agreement to participate in the Winter Olympics, heralding a new change in inter-Korean relations.
Reactions from Neighboring Countries
With inter-Korean relations showing signs of coming out of a deep freeze, many countries around the world turned their eyes toward the Korean Peninsula. The reactions from neighboring countries were generally positive, and the United States in particular expressed its full support for the cross-border talks. President Trump described it as a "good thing" while China welcomed the move as a potential breakthrough in inter-Korean relations. However, the response out of Japan was rather mixed, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe praising North Korea's improved behavior, but also adding that dialogue for the sake of dialogue was meaningless. In this week's edition of Foreign Correspondents, we will hold a variety of discussion on the first inter-Korean talks to take place in more than 2 years.


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Our teaching is seen as accompaniment with students in their learning. To grow as leaders. We do not merely inform knowledge but we focus on formation of character to our students in teaching, We maintain, a fine blend of theory and practice.
The teacher has been guided to treat the students with respect for his / her potency and competence. Learning by our students is not only through classroom interactions but it is more through Case studies, Industry visits,Live projects, Research projects, Seminars and Workshops. In the process of informing themselves on different subjects/courses instead of only accumulating just information and memorizing theories, the students are trained to develop analytical skills and critical thinking.
Evaluation Process
Evaluation of learning in St Britto's college does not test just how best our students have memorized what is taught in classroom and what they read in books and transferred in answer sheets. But we test how best they look at the content critically and apply it to situation. Therefore, many types of examinations are conducted, i.e. comprehensive workshop, live project and so on. Similarly, students, peers, industry, and the management evaluatethe performance of teachers periodically.


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22 "'But if without enmity someone suddenly pushes another or throws something at them unintentionally 23 or, without seeing them, drops on them a stone heavy enough to kill them, and they die, then since that other person was not an enemy and no harm was intended, 24 the assembly must judge between the accused and the avenger of blood according to these regulations. 25 The assembly must protect the one accused of murder from the avenger of blood and send the accused back to the city of refuge to which they fled. The accused must stay there until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.
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text: Home / About MPEI / NewsThe cooperation of MPEI with universities and organizations of Uzbekistan in a remote format02.06.2020On May 25, 27 and 28, 2020, the events dedicated to higher education of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Uzbekistan were held. On May 25, 2020, the Department of State Policy in the Field of Higher Education of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education held an online workshop on the legal foundations of opening and functioning of branches of Russian Institutions of Higher Education in the Republic of Uzbekistan. On May 27, 2020, the Interregional Conference of Higher Educational Institutions of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Uzbekistan was held in an online format. Within the framework of the conference, Valeriy Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Inomzhon Mazhidov, Minister of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Abduzhabar Abduvahitov, Advisor to the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Vladimir Chernov, Head of the Department for Interregional and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, as well as the Rectors of leading universities of Russia and Uzbekistan made reports. From MPEI, Rector Nikolay Rogalev, Vice-rector on International Relations Alexander Tarasov, Maksim Kravchenko, Director of the branch of MPEI in Tashkent, took part in the conference. Reports were made indicating the stable interest to cooperate, contributing to development and quality of Uzbek branches of Russian Universities, to realize joint educational programs envisaging Double-Degree programs, academic exchange, student practice and carrying out mutual scientific research.The conference included several sections: "Actual issues of opening and functioning of branches of Russian universities in the Republic of Uzbekistan", "Interaction of universities of Russia and Uzbekistan in the field of scientific research", "Innovative mechanisms of cooperation between universities of Russia and Uzbekistan in modern conditions". During the Interregional online conference of the rectors of universities of Russia and Uzbekistan, the subtotals of the practical implementation of bilateral agreements in the scientific and educational spheres were summarized and new promising areas for the work of universities of the two countries in the near future were identified. Создан в 02.06.2020 20:22 пользователем: Малышева Евгения Анатольевна Изменен в 02.06.2020 20:22 пользователем: Малышева Евгения Анатольевна News 29.10.2020MPEI included in subject ratings of Times Higher Education22.10.2020Presentation of international programs 2020/2021 for MPEI students22.10.2020International Conference "70th anniversary of the Russian-Vietnamese cooperation in science and education"20.10.2020The 2nd RD20: Conference of the Research and Development for Clean Energy Technologies19.10.2020The 2nd meeting of BRICS Working Group on New and Renewable Energy Sources and Energy Efficiency 07.10.2020Summing up results of XVIII All-Russian Conference and XXVIII All-Russian School-Seminar05.10.2020Events of Russian-Kyrgyz Consortium of Technical Universities 202018.09.2020MPEI wins award of Open Russian-German Contest "Russia and Germany: Scientific and Educational bridges"15.09.2020MPEI entered the group of leading world Universities of THE rating09.09.2020The University of Finance and Management in Bialystok congratulates MPEI on the beginning of a new academic year


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Yesterday was day one of the two-day Monster Energy Ricky Carmichael Amateur Supercross at Daytona International Speedway. To say that the amateur racers aren't used to a track like Daytona is obvious, but less obvious and still just as true is that the Daytona track isn't used to hosting nearly 1000 riders a day. The weather couldn't be more beautiful over the two days of racing, and now that the heat races are over, today's the day when the wins really matter. So, once again, sit back, relax and keep checking back throughout the day to keep up with the happenings from Daytona.
Photos and captions by Steve Cox
Monday Winners
450 A/Pro Sport
RJ Hampshire – HON
Donny Brown – KTM
Nicholas Jones – KAW
Joseph Kundrot – YAM
250 A/Pro Sport
Thomas Covington – KAW
Jeremy Smith – HON
Nicholas Jones – KAW
Carson Ledford – KAW
Two-Stroke (16+)
Alexander Frye – KTM
College (17-24)
RJ Hampshire – HON
Junior 25+
Andrew Matusek – SUZ
Vet 30+
Mike Treadwell – KAW
Vet A 35+
John Grewe – KAW
Vet B/C 35+
Chad Murphy – KAW
Senior A 40+
Barry Carsten – SUZ
Senior B/C 40+
Lance Richotte – KAW
Senior A 45+
John Grewe – KAW
Senior B/C 45+
Lance Richotte – KAW
Masters 50+
John Camelio – HON
50cc (4-6) AMA Stock 1
Daxton Bennick – KTM
50cc (7-8)
Reed Cooper – OTH
65cc (7-9)
Colby Gatlin – KTM
65cc (10-11)
Ty Masterpool – KTM
65cc Unlimited (7-11)
Ty Master Pool – KTM
85cc (7-11)
Grant Harlan – KTM
85cc (9-13)
Jordan Bailey – KTM
Mini Sr. (12-15)
Enzo Lopes – KTM
Super Mini (12-16)
Ramyller Alves – SUZ
Schoolboy 1 (12-16)
Alexander Frye – KTM
Schoolboy 2 (13-16)
Donny Brown – KTM
Girls (9-13)
Jazzmyn Canfield – YAM
Women (14+)
Kaitlyn Morrow – YAM
Monster Truck. Get it?
Alexander Frye absolutely dominated the 125cc Schoolboy (12-16) class, and he even earned an extra $100 for his holeshot at the start of the main event from Motorcycle Superstore.
Monster Girls! Finally!
Phone-tographers stand behind the rider's area.
Thomas Covington finished third in the 450 A/Pro Sport class on his 250F. At one point, he ran as high as second, but went down at about the halfway point.
Thomas Covington awaits the 250 and 450 A main events. He's racing both classes on the same Monster Energy KX250F.
Clean and prepped: Wilfredo Guzman's bike looks factory as he awaits the College (17-24) main event.
We heard a rumor that the pit setup that Enzo Lopes is running was considered by the Factory Red Bull KTM squad, but they couldn't fit it into their budget.
Just in case you were thinking about going through the gears in the Daytona pits...
This is what forty-nine heats look like. This isn't even counting the LCQs or main events.


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The Links golf course at Fancourt, a prestigious leisure resort in George, has taken top green honours, becoming certified as an Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary for the third consecutive time in five years. The 18 hole-golf course is the only course ...Read More »
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I have lived in Minnesota for almost 15 years and have always wanted to see the Northern Lights. I would hear people talking about their experience and it annoyed me that I had not seen them yet. I got so irritated that I was ranting to my friends about it the other day. They all said that if I really wanted to see the Northern Lights, I should consider traveling over to Iceland, as that's where the Northern Lights are usually seen. One of my friends said that she went over to Iceland last year to see the Northern Lights. Apparently, she just searched for iceland camper van rental companies, and then she was able to get a camper van and drive to the best location to see the lights. Whilst that sounds like an amazing experience, I was hoping to see them in my backyard! So I decided to get serious about seeing the Northern Lights. Even after getting serious, I still went out about ten times in the middle of the night, usually in the cold without seeing them. I finally got to see them. It was worth the wait! Here is what I have learned about seeing the Northern Lights and some photos that I took.
How to know if there are Northern Lights
There are several tools on the internet that help you to know if there is a possibility of seeing the northern lights. My favorite website is aurora service that not only has the current levels of northern lights but also has a tab that you can click that gives you a three day forecast. A second way to find out if there are going to be Northern Lights is to like a couple of facebook pages. I check Aurora Borealis Notification and Aurora Alerts. I also have downloaded an IOS App called Aurora Forecast. Lastly and most imporantly, check twitter. While the forecasts are helpful, it still does not mean that you are going to get to see Northern Lights. However, other people seeing it in your area does. I use the hashtag #northernlights and #aurora to see where people are reporting sightings. I even might ask are people seeing #northernlights in Minnesota? People usually answer pretty quickly. Once you think they might be out, the next step is to find a good spot.
Choosing a Good Spot.
Unless it is an amazing active show, most likely you are going to need to find a very dark place to see the Northern Lights. You also want to look north and find a place where there are no trees. I made the mistake in the past of just getting in the car and driving, hoping that I would find a good spot or see it from the road. After many many times trying this out, I failed so I needed a new plan. Our cabin is in Duluth Minnesota so I googled "where to see the northern lights by Duluth Minnesota." An answer came up as Island Lake Reservoir which is about 20 minutes north of Duluth. I knew from past experience that I needed a spot to wait it out so I google "Island Lake public access" which gave me boat launches and beaches on Island Lake. I then found the north facing public access on the list and had found my spot. My experience of failing by just driving around and succeding by making a plan has taught me that I need to know where I am going before I go looking for Northern Lights.
Taking Photos
Unless it is an incredibly active show, you need a good camera setup to be able to photograph the Northern Lights. I have a Nikon D7000 dslr camera and I used wide angle lens. I also used a tripod. The setting of my camera varied as I tried to get the best photos but it was always using a remote for the camera so that my finger did not move the camera and at least 15 seconds on the shutter speed. I went for more seconds but found that more that 25 seconds was way too much. Enjoy my photos, it was an amazing experience and I hope that now that I have good plan, it will not be my last.


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The substantial growth in the number of small businesses over the past decade has increased the demand for debt and equity capital by small business owners. These businesses account for about 50 percent of private-sector output and employ more than half of private-sector workers over the past decade. Given small businesses' significant role in innovation and economic growth, an understanding of trends in the types and sources of financing they use is important for policymaking, primarily because small businesses typically finance their businesses differently than larger businesses. In a comparison of the earlier Surveys of Small Business Finances (SSBF) conducted by the Federal Reserve with the latest SSBF (2003), Mach and Wolken (2006) suggest that non-depository institutions have become more important to small business owners:
The incidence of credit lines and vehicle loans has increased, whereas the incidence of capital leases declined somewhat. Since the 1987 survey, small businesses have increasingly used non-depository institutions to obtain some of their financial services. However, despite the growth in the use of non-depository sources—from 25 percent of firms in 1987 to 54 percent in 2003—commercial banks remained the dominant supplier of most financial services. (Page 187)
This study will describe financing patterns of small businesses in 2003 and examine the changes in financing patterns of small business borrowers over the past decade (1993–2003). In addition, the analysis of changes in financing patterns will examine the impact (if any) that the rise of non-traditional, non-commercial lending has had on the importance of internal finance for small firm growth.
This book chapter is Published as Haynes,G.W., Brown, J.R.; 2009. Small Business in Focus: Finance, 39-68.
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text: One downside of being a billion-dollar movie studio that owns one of history's most popular film series is that it's hard getting the word out about new releases. Take Disney, which is struggling to inform the population that there's a seventh episode of the Star Wars saga coming out in a few weeks. Thankfully, the folks at Google have noticed the studio's plight, and decided to help out by offering customized themes for everyone's favorite internet services.


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A DECADE AGO, no one had any serious doubts about Charleston, S.C.'s, reputation as a hub for refined Lowcountry cuisine.
But no one could have predicted that the annual Charleston Wine + Food Festival (March 4-8) would become an international attraction that exposes the world to Chucktown's many other charms.
The festival showcases the best dining and drinking options Charleston has to offer, while the city's diverse arts, shopping, touring and recreational hot spots supply plenty of peripheral distractions. If you miss the 2015 event, you have plenty of time to plan for 2016. Plus, Charleston is a city with more than 100 diners, pubs and upscale eateries, so it's pretty easy to stroll around and catch the foodie fervor.
In fact, walking the city's downtown streets is a treat in itself. English settlers claimed the territory in 1670; the city itself was founded in 1783. Throughout tests of time — including the Civil War — Charleston has maintained much of its historic architecture. Victorian homes are typically painted in cheerful pastels. Tour guides can point out where original signers of the Declaration of Independence, the inventor of the Morse code and Porgy & Bess composer George Gershwin all worked and ate and drank and slept.
AT WINE + FEST TIME, more than 250 restaurants, wineries, small-batch liquor distilleries and guest chefs from throughout the Southeast convene in or near the Culinary Village for demonstrations, personal appearances and ticketed meals. The fest typically draws tens of thousands of enthusiasts from around the globe, all willing to pay premium prices ($50 and up) to sample crafted adult beverages and the wizardry of top regional and international cooks.
Atlanta-based chefs featured this year include James Beard Award winner Hugh Acheson (The National, Empire State South); Steven Satterfield (Miller Union); Anne Quatrano (Bacchanalia, Floataway, Abattoir); Jonathan and Justin Fox (Fox Bros. Bar-B-Q); Marvin Woods (the books Home Plate and The New Low Country) and Linton Hopkins (Restaurant Eugene, among others).
CULINARY VILLAGE, the festival's main hub, is installed annually in the historic Marion Square green space (open noon-6 p.m. daily at 329 Meeting St; $85 for out-of-towners, $70 for locals). Featured attractions there include popup saloons, a cookbook retail shop with autograph sessions, a stand-alone wine retail shop, a new-to-the-festival Third Space tent where demonstrating chefs and attendees can interact more intimately, a new music stage, an artisanal food market and a biergarten.
Outside the village you'll find such events as the Cross Culture BBQ; a Fifty Shades of Earl Grey high-tea affair with chef/author Nathalie Dupree; and the "Pop. Chic!" runway fashion show featuring styles from top brands based in the Southeast.
Festival attendees should be aware of key restrictions: No one under age 21 (even newborns or tykes) can attend official Wine + Food events even if no alcohol is served; pets aren't welcome either.
Need a place to stay? Readers of Conde Nast magazine, who regularly rank Charleston as a favorite destination (No. 1 in the United States four years running and No. 2 in the world behind Florence, Italy), named these five among their favorite Southern hotels:
- No. 5: Wentworth Mansion (149 Wentworth St. 843.853.1886).
- No. 9: French Quarter Inn (166 Church St. 843.722.1900).
- No. 16: Planters Inn (112 N. Market St. 843.722.2345).
- No. 17: Belmond Charleston Place (205 Meeting St. 843.722.4900).
- No. 19: John Rutledge House Inn (116 Broad St. 800.476.9741).
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MIAMI (AP) -- San Francisco 49ers free agent quarterback Alex Smith is meeting with the Miami Dolphins, which could affect the Peyton Manning sweepstakes.
A person familiar with the negotiations confirmed Smith's Miami visit to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team had not announced Sunday's meeting.
San Francisco is among three finalists for Manning, along with the Denver Broncos and Tennessee Titans.
The 49ers had been working to re-sign Smith, the No. 1 overall 2005 draft pick who enjoyed his best season in 2011 under first-year 49ers coach Harbaugh, a former NFL quarterback. Smith and Manning have the same agent, Tom Condon.
The Dolphins' unexpected courtship of Smith came after they were spurned by Manning and then hosted former Green Bay Packers backup quarterback Matt Flynn for a weekend Saturday.
Smith's arrival Sunday morning raised the question whether the Dolphins were trying to pressure Flynn to sign soon. He visited the Seattle Seahawks earlier in the week.
Flynn left South Florida on Sunday morning, but a deal with the Dolphins remained a possibility, said his father, Alvin.
Smith struggled early in his career but threw for 3,150 yards and 17 touchdowns with only five interceptions last season as San Francisco went 13-3 and made the NFC title game after an eight-year playoff drought. He orchestrated six comeback wins, four on the road.
Smith has been weighing a three-year offer from the 49ers.
He landed at the Fort Lauderdale airport Sunday morning and arrived at the Dolphins complex at 11 a.m. EDT in a car driven by trainer Kevin O'Neill. New coach Joe Philbin, new offensive coordinator Mike Sherman and general manager Jeff Ireland arrived earlier.
All were also on hand for Flynn's 5 1/2-hour meeting Saturday.
Flynn was a backup the past four years for Green Bay, where his offensive coordinator was Joe Philbin, the Dolphins' new head coach. Flynn has only two career NFL starts, but in last year's regular-season finale he set franchise records with 480 yards passing and six touchdowns to help the Packers beat Detroit 45-41.
The Dolphins have started 16 quarterbacks since Dan Marino retired and are looking to make another change. While incumbent Matt Moore played well last year, there are doubts he's a franchise quarterback. Chad Henne, who started 31 games for Miami over the past three seasons, signed Wednesday with the Jacksonville Jaguars as a backup.
The 49ers emerged as a contender for Manning when the news surfaced that he worked out Tuesday for Harbaugh at Duke. The four-time NFL MVP also worked out for the Broncos on Friday at Duke, and for the Titans on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn.
Manning has been rehabbing in North Carolina following a string of neck surgeries, which led Indianapolis to release him.
San Francisco running back Frank Gore, who works out each offseason in Miami, said Sunday he hadn't spoken to Smith. Gore has long supported Smith through the quarterback's up-and-down seven NFL seasons.
Now, Gore and the 49ers are sitting tight to see what happens next.
"It's crazy," Gore said. "I'm waiting for whatever happens. I know coach Harbaugh and (general manager) Trent Baalke feel good about what they're doing."
Manning's whirlwind free agency tour officially kicked off soon after he bid farewell to the Colts in an emotional press conference.


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The long-term goal of this research is to determine the mechanisms responsible for higher eukaryotic gene regulation. As a model system we are studying the five members of the steroid receptor family of ligand-activated transcription factors. These proteins - the estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, glucocorticoid receptor, androgen receptor and mineralocorticoid receptor - are structurally similar. However, the basis by which each receptor executes its unique gene regulatory functions is unclear, particularly so when in the presence of its remaining family members. Our research indicates that a) different steroid receptors exhibit variable energetics of inter-site cooperativity when binding to an identical promoter;and b) the energetics of cooperativity exhibited by a steroid receptor can vary at different promoters. We therefore hypothesize that the extent to which a gene is activated by a particular steroid receptor correlates with the energetics of receptor cooperativity when assembling at the promoter of that gene. Differences in cooperative binding energetics will thus dictate the degree of successful promoter occupancy by each steroid receptor, and thus the extent of receptor-specific gene regulation.
In Aim 1, we will determine the microscopic binding energetics for steroid receptor assembly at the mouse mammary tumor virus (MMTV) promoter. We will resolve the DNA- independent self-association properties of each receptor using analytical ultracentrifugation, and we will determine the intrinsic and cooperative binding free energies for receptor assembly at the promoter using quantitative DNase footprint titration.
In Aim 2, we will characterize androgen receptor transcriptional activation mutants identified in prostate carcinomas. We will examine their self-association properties using analytical ultracentrifugation, and we will dissect the microstate binding energetics of these mutants to the MMTV promoter using footprint titrations.
In Aim 3, we will correlate the binding energetics of the receptors with their promoter occupancy and transcriptional activation ability within the cell. Cellular occupancy at the promoter will be determined by chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assays, and the extent of mRNA production will be determined by quantitative RT-PCR.
The long-term goal of this research is to determine the mechanisms responsible for human gene regulation. As a model system we are studying steroid receptors and their interactions with complex promoter sequences. The results of this work should reveal a new and more quantitative way to understand receptor-mediated gene regulation. As a result, these studies should open up a number of new avenues for drug design.
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|Connaghan, Keith D; Yang, Qin; Miura, Michael T et al. (2014) Homologous steroid receptors assemble at identical promoter architectures with unique energetics of cooperativity. Proteins 82:2078-87
|Bain, David L; Connaghan, Keith D; Maluf, Nasib K et al. (2014) Steroid receptor-DNA interactions: toward a quantitative connection between energetics and transcriptional regulation. Nucleic Acids Res 42:691-700
|Connaghan, Keith D; Miura, Michael T; Maluf, Nasib K et al. (2013) Analysis of a glucocorticoid-estrogen receptor chimera reveals that dimerization energetics are under ionic control. Biophys Chem 172:8-17
|De Angelis, Rolando W; Yang, Qin; Miura, Michael T et al. (2013) Dissection of androgen receptor-promoter interactions: steroid receptors partition their interaction energetics in parallel with their phylogenetic divergence. J Mol Biol 425:4223-35
|Bain, David L; Yang, Qin; Connaghan, Keith D et al. (2012) Glucocorticoid receptor-DNA interactions: binding energetics are the primary determinant of sequence-specific transcriptional activity. J Mol Biol 422:18-32
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Engaged Buddhism
Engaged Buddhism refers to Buddhists who are seeking ways to apply the insights from meditation practice and dharma teachings to situations of social, political, environmental, and economic suffering and injustice. Finding its roots in Vietnam through the Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, Engaged Buddhism has grown in popularity in the West.[1]
Asian Origins
The term was coined by Vietnamese Zen Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh (known as Thay to his students), inspired by the Humanistic Buddhism reform movement in China by Taixu and Yinshun, and later propagated in Taiwan by Cheng Yen and Hsing Yun.[2] At first, he used Chinese characters (a scriptural language of Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhism), 入世佛教 (lit: Worldly Buddhism, 入世 = enter + world). During the Vietnam War, he and his sangha (spiritual community) made efforts to respond to the suffering they saw around them.[3] They saw this work as part of their meditation and mindfulness practice, not apart from it.[3] Thich Nhat Hanh outlined fourteen precepts of Engaged Buddhism[4] which explained his philosophy.
|The Fourteen Precepts
|1) Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. Buddhist systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth.
|2) Do not think the knowledge you presently possess is changeless, absolute truth. Avoid being narrow minded and bound to present views. Learn and practice nonattachment from views in order to be open to receive others' viewpoints. Truth is found in life and not merely in conceptual knowledge. Be ready to learn throughout your entire life and to observe reality in yourself and in the world at all times.
|3) Do not force others, including children, by any means whatsoever, to adopt your views, whether by authority, threat, money, propaganda, or even education. However, through compassionate dialogue, help others renounce fanaticism and narrow-mindedness.
|4) Do not avoid suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering, including personal contact, visits, images and sounds. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world.
|5) Do not accumulate wealth while millions are hungry. Do not take as the aim of your life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure. Live simply and share time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.
|6) Do not maintain anger or hatred. Learn to penetrate and transform them when they are still seeds in your consciousness. As soon as they arise, turn your attention to your breath in order to see and understand the nature of your hatred.
|7) Do not lose yourself in dispersion and in your surroundings. Practice mindful breathing to come back to what is happening in the present moment. Be in touch with what is wondrous, refreshing, and healing both inside and around you. Plant seeds of joy, peace, and understanding in yourself in order to facilitate the work of transformation in the depths of your consciousness.
|8) Do not utter words that can create discord and cause the community to break. Make every effort to reconcile and resolve all conflicts, however small.
|9) Do not say untruthful things for the sake of personal interest or to impress people. Do not utter words that cause division and hatred. Do not spread news that you do not know to be certain. Do not criticize or condemn things of which you are not sure. Always speak truthfully and constructively. Have the courage to speak out about situations of injustice, even when doing so may threaten your own safety.
|10) Do not use the Buddhist community for personal gain or profit, or transform your community into a political party. A religious community, however, should take a clear stand against oppression and injustice and should strive to change the situation without engaging in partisan conflicts.
|11) Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion.
|12) Do not kill. Do not let others kill. Find whatever means possible to protect life and prevent war.
|13) Possess nothing that should belong to others. Respect the property of others, but prevent others from profiting from human suffering or the suffering of other species on Earth.
|14) Do not mistreat your body. Learn to handle it with respect. Do not look on your body as only an instrument. Preserve vital energies (sexual, breath, spirit) for the realisation of the Way. (For brothers and sisters who are not monks and nuns:) Sexual expression should not take place without love and commitment. In sexual relations, be aware of future suffering that may be caused. To preserve the happiness of others, respect the rights and commitments of others. Be fully aware of the responsibility of bringing new lives into the world. Meditate on the world into which you are bringing new beings.
This term has since been re-translated back into Chinese as "Left-wing Buddhism" (左翼佛教) to denote the liberal emphasis held by this type of Buddhism. The term has also been used as a translation for what is commonly understood in China and Taiwan as "Humanistic Buddhism" (人間佛教).
Western Socially Engaged Buddhism
In the West, like the East, Engaged Buddhism is a way of attempting to link authentic Buddhist meditation with social action.[6][7] The current Dalai Lama has voiced a need for Buddhists to be more involved in the social and political realm.
In 1998, while on retreat in Bodh Gaya, India, ...the Dalai Lama told those of us who were participating in a Buddhist-Christian dialogue that sometimes, Buddhists have not acted vigorously to address social and political problems. He told our group, "In this, we have much to learn from the Christians."[6]
Organizations such as the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, the International Network of Engaged Buddhists and the Zen Peacemakers, led by Roshi Bernard Glassman are devoted to building the movement of engaged Buddhists. Other engaged Buddhist groups include the Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health and Insight, Gaden Relief Projects, the UK's Network of Buddhist Organisations, Fo Guang Shan and Tzu Chi.
Prominent figures in the movement include Robert Aitken Roshi,[8] Joanna Macy,[8] Gary Snyder, Alan Senauke, Sulak Sivaraksa, Maha Ghosananda, Sylvia Wetzel, Joan Halifax, Tara Brach, Taigen Dan Leighton, Ken Jones, and Bhikkhu Bodhi.
See also
- Buddhist socialism
- Humanistic Buddhism
- Engaged Spirituality
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship
- Religion and peacebuilding
- ^ Queen, Chris; King, Sallie (1996). Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia. New York: Albany State University Press. p. 2. ISBN 0-7914-2843-5.
- ^ Queen, Christopher (2000). Engaged Buddhism in the West. Somerville, MA: Wisdom Publications. p. 36. ISBN 0-86171-159-9.
- ^ a b In Engaged Buddhism, Peace Begins with You
- ^ The Fourteen Precepts of Engaged Buddhism
- ^ http://viewonbuddhism.org/resources/14_precepts.html
- ^ a b Engaged Buddhism
- ^ What's Buddhist about Socially Engaged Buddhism
- ^ a b Justify Your Love: Finding Authority for Socially Engaged Buddhism
Further reading
- Uebel, Michael, and Shorkey, Clayton. "Mindfulness and Engaged Buddhism: Implications for a Generalist Macro Social Work Practice," in Mindfulness and Acceptance in Social Work: Evidence-Based Interventions and Emerging Applications, Ed. Matthew S. Boone. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2014. 215-234.
- Phra Paisal Visalo: Buddhists Engaged in Social Development
- Phra Paisal Visalo: The path to social and inner happiness
External links
- Engaged Practice
- Buddhist Peace Fellowship
- Zen Peacemakers
- International Network of Engaged Buddhists
- Network of Buddhist Organisations (UK)
- Amida Trust Home Page
- Sulak Sivaraksa: A Socially Engaged Buddhism
- The Engaged Zen Foundation
- Buddhist Global Relief
- Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health and Insight
- Gaden Relief Projects
- Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women


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As a hack writer for the imaginary Waverly Prep School series of young adult novels, thirtyish and habitually drunk Mavis (Charlize Theron) is the antiheroine of Young Adult. Needing a break, Mavis drives from her condo in Minneapolis to Mercury, the small town where she grew up, with plans to rescue her high school prince, Buddy (Patrick Wilson), from his wife, Beth (Elizabeth Reaser). Unfortunately for Mavis, the couple has just had a new baby, and Buddy shows no sign of dissatisfaction.
The set up is ticklish, but director Jason Reitman and scriptwriter Diablo Cody (Juno) have decided to "alternatize" the film, including nods to the righteous moms Cody knows in Hollywood. At one point, Beth and some friends take a break from breastfeeding to play some bar-rock in a band called Nipple Confusion.
And just how backward is Mercury supposed to be? The town is described as boring and smelly, but the visuals look more like a John Hughes hamlet—bland but clean.
Mavis picks up a drinking buddy, Matt (Patton Oswalt). He's a pudgy, short beta male still crippled from being queer-bashed decades ago. Oswalt's Matt is covert, a good reactor, who comically tolerates Mavis' many moods, and he gives this film some earned bitterness.
Charlize Theron can look convincingly ratty, and slutty and drunk. She does un-glam things like picking at herself or spitting into a printer's ink cartridge to prime its pump. Theron is funny, but she's one-level funny, and watching her Mavis is like watching an SNL skit go on for an hour.
The independent films of the last decade have had loads of nasty, fail-prone, mean-for-the-fun-of-it characters, opposing the idea that movies have to be about pretty people with pretty problems. In Young Adult, Reitman and Cody seem to be attempting that kind of seat-of-the-pants filmmaking, without having the stomach to go really down and dirty.
'Young Adult' opens Friday, Dec. 16, at Boulevard Cinemas in Petaluma.


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Pumpkins (Cucurbita L.) belong to the same botanical family as cucumbers, squash, gourds and melons. Planting their seeds is the most reliable way to propagate pumpkins. Be aware that many of the mature pumpkins you buy at supermarkets and fall pumpkin patches are hybrids, which means their seeds may not produce the same type of pumpkin as the parent. Therefore, instead of saving the seeds, buy them each year to be confident of your yield. Buy seeds for pumpkin plants suitable to your local climate to further ensure your success.
Work the topsoil in a sunny location with good drainage until fine to a depth of 8 to 10 inches after all danger of frost has past and the soil temperature is at least 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Pumpkin seeds will not propagate at a lower temperature. Amend the soil with generous amounts of compost.
Gather the soil into mounds 8 to 10 inches high and 4 to 8 feet apart. Level the top of the mound to be wide enough to make a circle of 5 holes about 1 inch deep in the top of each mound with your finger. Drop one pumpkin seed into each hole and cover them lightly with soil. Pat the soil over the seeds but do not pack it. Water the mounds so the water reaches 8 to 10 inches into the soil.
Cover the sides of the mounds and the soil between them with thick mulch or a layer of black plastic to keep the soil warm and prevent insects from feasting on the sprouts.
Water slowly and often for the next couple of weeks with 1 inch of water per week. Moisture should reach a depth of 6 to 8 inches into the soil. Do not allow the soil to become soggy.
Thin the seedlings when they are 2 or 3 inches high and have two or three leaves. Remove the weakest sprouts and leave the 2 or 3 largest, healthiest ones in each mound. Mound more soil around each remaining seedling to keep squash borer insects from laying eggs there. Continue regular watering throughout the season.
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- Rotate pumpkins on a three-year schedule with vegetables other than those from the cucurbit family, such as tomatoes or beans. This helps prevent pests and disease from recurring in your pumpkin patch.
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text: Amir Efrati and Ethan Smith, of the Walla Street Journal, are reporting that Google is working on a new system that is designed to stream music – and, eventually maybe even videos and other media – around specific areas like homes and offices. Their story doesn't have much in the way of detail, but does say that Google's brainchild might be akin to a lower-cost version of Sonos's excellent-but-pricey music-streaming products. We still need a lot of info on the subject to verify any claims and there is a plethora of ways we can respond to this sketchy tidbit of information. One way has us wondering why Google, which says it wants to keep focused on fewer, more important products, cares about the relatively mature market that Sonos has already pioneered. Another is to respond in the way that Business Insider's Matt Rosoff would, and already has done and that's to point out that Google has no track record of designing, selling and supporting successful consumer devices. (Rosoff, despite what appears to be a total lack of knowledge as to what's going on at Google and not knowing anymore about Google's plans than you or I do, has already decided that Google's new product will be "a total disaster.") You might also be concerned, as I am, that Google is being dragged into consumer electronics simply out of an obsessive desire to take on Apple rather, not because it's good at it actually is good at it or wants to be. To summarize: it's easy to be skeptical about the scuttlebutt, and tougher to be optimistic. But let's try. Google performs at a top notch quality and pace when it is true to its promise. And it certainly isn't "Don't be evil.", we're talking about the other one: "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Its namesake search engine, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Earth–they're all about organizing and providing fast access to important information. (See Page 2)


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द्राक्षा म्लानमुखी जाता
शर्करा चाश्मनां गता |
सुभाषितरसास्वादातसुधा भीता दिवंगता ||
Draksha mlaanmukhee jaataa, sharkara ch ashmtam gtaa|
subhaashitrsaasvaadaat sudha bheeta dvangtaa ||
Maxims/ Subhashita's in the Sanskrit language are so sweet that even the Elixir is afraid of its sweetness and it left back to the heaven. Grapes got dried and sugar became stone.
this maxim talks about the importance and capacity of the beautiful language.


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Miss Samani, Miss Shek and Mr Hickman visited our partner school, Skolen ved Nordens Plads, in Denmark from 27th November – 1st December. The school is situated just a short distance outside of the capital city of Copenhagen. It is a special school which has 175 pupils: 40 pupils have some form of mental disability, 95 are on the Autistic spectrum and 30 have emotional / social needs. They have 125 members of staff to support these 175 pupils.
The school is very well equipped and has excellent facilities to support pupils' learning. The school is open for pupils from 7.00am until 5.00pm, currently the children are taught for about 22 hours and activities are arranged for the extra time, though the amount of teaching hours will increase in September. The high taxes in Denmark pay for all this, the basic tax rate is more than 40%.
At the moment the education system in Denmark is facing a time of new reforms which include controversial changes to teachers' conditions, radical changes in the curriculum as well as extended school hours for pupils. We were given the opportunity to learn about their education system, particularly the range of staff, which include trained pedagogs, ( a cross between a teacher and a social worker), who are used to provide extra support for pupils and teachers.
We were lucky to visit Copenhagen at this time of the year as the festive season was in full swing. We visited the famous Tivoli Christmas market, which was decorated beautifully and had a truly magical feel. Of course, you cannot go to Compenhagen and not visit the famous Little Mermaid!
It was very interesting to compare our education system to the Danish one and it was another good opportunity to meet up with our European partners from the other schools. We are all very much looking forward to our next trip, which will be to Barcelona in May.


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Today begins the study drawing the face and head which according to the Famous Artist Cartoon Course Lesson 7 "Pretty Girls" is one of the four parts to drawing a pretty girl. In this first exercise we are drawing a profile built off a basic oval shape and building the drawing on top of that.


text: My interest in music began with wanting to play the drums. Luckily my father bought me an acoustic guitar when I was 11 years old. Along with an AC/DC tablature book, which was a peculiar combination. Though I think this is the essence of my musical philosophy and leaning. Sweet and sour. Light and dark. Juxtaposition. The greatest joy of my life is making music. It's so mystical. In an effort to further the mysticism, I have joined Downwrite to attempt to connect with others and provide myself with a new meaning of intimacy.