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Vinaya Pitaka
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The Vinaya Piṭaka is a Buddhist scripture, one of the three parts that make up the Tripitaka. Its primary subject matter is the monastic rules for monks and nuns. The name Vinaya Piṭaka (vinayapiṭaka) is the same in Pāli, Sanskrit and other dialects used by early Buddhists, and means basket of discipline.
Scholarly consensus places the composition of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya in the early centuries of the first millennium, though all the manuscripts and translations are relatively late.[1]
Surviving versions
Six versions survive complete, of which three are still in use.
- The Pali version of the Theravada, included in the Pali Canon
- Suttavibhanga (-vibhaṅga): commentary on the Patimokkha, with much of its text embedded
- Mahavibhanga (mahā-) dealing with monks
- Bhikkhunivibhanga (bhikkhunī-) dealing with nuns
- Khandhaka: 22 chapters on various topics
- Parivara: analyses the rules from various points of view
- Suttavibhanga (-vibhaṅga): commentary on the Patimokkha, with much of its text embedded
- 'Dul-ba, Tibetan translation of the Mulasarvastivada version; this is the version used in the Tibetan tradition
- Vinayavastu: 16 skandhakas (khandhakas) and the start of the 17th
- Pratimokshasutra of monks
- Vinayavibhanga of monks
- Pratimokshasutra of nuns
- Vinayavibhanga of nuns
- Vinayakshudrakavastu: rest of the 17th skandhaka and others
- Vinayottaragrantha: appendices, including Upaliparipriccha, which corresponds to a chapter of the Parivara
- The "Vinaya in Four Parts" (Chinese: 四分律; pinyin: Shìfēnlǜ; Wade–Giles: Ssŭ-fen lü) (Taisho catalogue number 1428). This is Chinese translation of the Dharmaguptaka version, and is the version used in the Chinese tradition and its derivatives in Korea, Vietnam and in Japan under the early Kokubunji temple system. In the case of Japan, this was later replaced with ordination based solely on the Bodhisattva Precepts.
- Bhikshuvibhanga dealing with monks
- Bhikshunivibhanga dealing with nuns.
- Skandhaka
- Samyuktavarga
- Vinayaikottara, corresponding to a chapter of the Parivara
- Shih-sung lü (T1435), translation of Sarvastivada version
- Bhikshuvibhanga
- Skandhaka
- Bhikshunivibhanga
- Ekottaradharma, similar to Vinayaikottara
- Upaliparipriccha
- Ubhayatovinaya
- Samyukta
- Parajikadharma
- Sanghavasesha
- Kusaladhyaya
- Wu-fen lü (T1421), translation of Mahisasaka version
- Bhikshuvibhanga
- Bhikshunivibhanga
- Skandhaka
- Mo-ho-seng-ch'i lü 摩訶僧祇律 (T1425), translation of Mahasanghika version (the nuns' rules have been translated by the late Professor Hirakawa in English as Monastic Discipline for the Buddhist Nuns, Patna, 1982)
- Bhikshuvibhanga
- Bhikshunivibhanga
- Skandhaka
In addition, portions of various versions survive in various languages.
It was compiled at the First Council shortly after the Buddha's death, and recited by Upali, with little later addition. Most of the different versions are fairly similar, most scholars consider most of the Vinaya to be fairly early, that is, dating from before the separation of schools.[2]
The Pali version of the Patimokkha, the code of conduct that applies to Buddhist monastics, contains 227 major rules for bhikkhus and 311 major rules for bhikkhunis. The Vibhanga section(s) of Vinaya Pitaka constitute(s) a commentary on these rules, giving detailed explanations of them along with the origin stories for each rule. The Khandhaka/Skandhaka sections give numerous supplementary rules grouped by subject, again with origin stories. The Buddha called his teaching the "Dhamma-Vinaya", emphasizing both the philosophical teachings of Buddhism as well as the training in virtue that embodies that philosophy.
In the collected Chinese editions of the Scriptures the Vinaya pitaka has a broader sense, including all four Chinese vinayas listed above, parts of others, non-canonical vinaya literature, lay vinaya and bodhisattva vinaya.
Place in the tradition
According to the scriptures, in the first years of the Buddha's teaching the sangha lived together in harmony with no vinaya, as there was no need, because all of the Buddha's early disciples were highly realized if not fully enlightened. As the sangha expanded situations arose which the Buddha and the lay community felt were inappropriate for samanas. According to tradition, the first rule to be established was the prohibition against sexual acts. The origin story tells of an earnest monk whose family was distraught that there was no male heir and so persuaded the monk to impregnate his wife. All three, the monk, his wife and son who both later ordained, eventually became fully enlightened arahants.
The vinaya is very important to Buddhists -
"Whatever Dhamma and Vinaya I have pointed out and formulated for you, that will be your Teacher when I am gone." (Mahaaparinibbaana Sutta, [D.16]).
See also
- ↑ Vanessa R. Sasson Little Buddhas: Children and Childhoods in Buddhist Texts 2012 Page 46 "The Pāli Vinaya has been critically edited and translated in its entirety and will serve as a point of comparison with the Northern Mūlasarvāstivāda tradition that is the focus of this study. Dating the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya is problematic, since all the manuscripts and translations are relatively late.14 Scholarly consensus places it in the early / centuries of the first millenium. "
- ↑ New Penguin Handbook of Living Religions, page 380
- Davids, T. W. Rhys, Oldenberg, Hermann (joint tr): Vinaya texts, Oxford, The Clarendon press 1881. Vol.1 Vol.2 Vol.3 Internet Archive
External links
- Pali Canon online: Vinaya Pitaka in English
- Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
- Access to Insight translation
- Translation by Isaline Blew Horner


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Kennedy Space Centre - A Review
|The Space Shuttle Atlantis was in service for 26 years. She launched as a Rocket, flew as a Spacecraft and landed as a Glider.
The Kennedy Space Centre (KSC) was wonderful. If you were just racing through, it is entirely possible to do in one day. But if you were like us reading the exhibits, doing the guided tours and meeting the astronauts, engineers etc, then one day is not enough. Although, I think we achieved a lot in our one day.
We went on an organised bus tour (Take Tours/Grayline), which left Disney's All Stars Music hotel at 8am and picked us up again at Kennedy Space Centre (KSC) at 5:30pm (the Centre shuts at 6pm). We only saw half of what was there at NASA!!
There is a tour bus on site that takes you to the Apollo/Saturn V centre and it is recommended to do this first. Make sure you sit on the right hand side of the bus! On the bus tour we saw the rocket launch sites, past and present (Space X) and launch viewing areas. There was a rocket launch the day before we went! A lot of wildlife can also be seen from the bus– alot of alligators basking in the sun on the banks of the canals and bald eagles flying around (and their huge nests which are over a metre in diameter) can be seen frequently.
|You can see an Eagles nest near the centre of the picture! They are huge.
|Space X uses alot of their own facilities and technology
The bus tour takes you past the 'Vehicle Assembly Building' (VAB) (pictured below). This huge building is where they actually build the rockets. It is so huge that it needs special exhaust fans to get rid of the clouds that form within the building itself!
|The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is where rockets are built (past and present)
Once you reach the Apollo/Saturn V centre you experience a simulated rocket launch (loud and fun). This sets the scene for when you then view the Saturn/Apollo rockets - which are huge and impossible to photograph in their entirety (36 storeys high but displayed horizontally). We went on a 20 min guided tour for the Saturn/Apollo rockets – which I recommend as the guide pointed out a few things that I would not have known otherwise about the spacecraft.
|The Simulated Rocket Launch area. The layout and the consoles are real.
|The Saturn V and Apollo Rocket (impossible to photograph in one picture!)
|The 'moon cars' required some assembly upon landing. On the tour we learned how much further the astronauts could explore with one of these cars, rather then walking! The seats looked pretty flimsy though!
|The Moon Landing module! It looks like something MacGyver would put together - but the foil was lightweight, able to be filled with Helium and fire resistant.
We also met a retired NASA engineer who was available to chat as a volunteer to the public. He commented that there was always a lot of pressure on the workforce to 'get things right'. Also in this exhibition centre we watched a simulated moon landing (cool) and watched the moon landing module 'land'. There were a lot of really cool exhibits including the moon 'car' (which requires some assembly on the moon!), lots of history, space suits with moon dust- and fun facts -lots to read in different exhibits. Also in this exhibition centre is the transport vehicles that transport the astronauts to the rocket ships. They have specially designed busses for this that you can peek inside!
|"Kitty Hawk" - The Command Module Apollo 14
When we returned to the main Centre of the KSC we saw the Space Shuttle Atlantis. All of the exhibits at KSC had a 'pre-show' first before you saw anything – so it wasn't like you just saw the Space Shuttle first. You had to do the show first (which took up more time) but also it was an excellent introduction to fully appreciate what you were seeing when it was finally unveiled (I thought that was a cool way of presenting these exhibits).
|This is the External Tank and Rocket Boosters for the Space Shuttle. More information below.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis is huge. Again, difficult to photograph in its entirety. In the exhibition hall you could also view a video link to see what the people on the International Space Station were doing currently (I think they were sleeping!).
|Me flying a 'Space Shuttle'. Lots of fun here!
|Space Food
One of my favourite parts of KSC was the Astronaut talk. It went for about 45 minutes and was followed soon afterwards by an autograph session. Our Astronaut for the day was Bob Cenker. He was on the Columbia Space Shuttle in 1986. He detailed how everyone got 'Space Sick' but he said it was more like 'Space Adaptation'. He explained how your heart is so used to pumping blood up to your brain, but in space, with no gravity, your heart can't pump 'up'. As there is no 'up'. So it takes a few days of having bad headaches and feeling unwell for your body to adapt. But it does adapt!
He said that also there were about 5 computers on board the Space Shuttle, and they all had the power to override each other if one malfunctioned (which they did from time to time). He said however, they had not ever been down to 'two computers' and what that scenario would mean.
He also encouraged the audience to consider becoming astronauts (there was a large Australian school group at the seminar). He said you don't necessarily have to be a test pilot or a pilot to be an astronaut. Scientists and Engineers are recruited - you just need a degree.
He said that also there were about 5 computers on board the Space Shuttle, and they all had the power to override each other if one malfunctioned (which they did from time to time). He said however, they had not ever been down to 'two computers' and what that scenario would mean.
He also encouraged the audience to consider becoming astronauts (there was a large Australian school group at the seminar). He said you don't necessarily have to be a test pilot or a pilot to be an astronaut. Scientists and Engineers are recruited - you just need a degree.
|Bob Cenker (Columbia, 1986)
I managed to ask him further questions on this at the autograph session:
Q 1: Does everyone get over 'space sickness'? His answer was yes. People take 1.5 days on average but everyone does get used to it.
Q 2: Also, during the talk, he mentioned that he could not fly the Shuttle. He was a scientist not a pilot. The Space Shuttle had a pilot and co-pilot and he was not expected to fly the shuttle. I asked him whether he had any training at all – in case something happened to the pilots? – Bob said there was indeed no flight training provided. He said that if something had of happened to the pilots, that NASA would have guided them through the flying of it (he kind of indicated that NASA could control the Shuttle themselves quite a bit from Earth).
Also, near the Space Shuttle exhibit, there was also a fine tribute to Challenger and Columbia disasters, with each astronaut having a few mementos about their passions and reasons for being on the Shuttles displayed in cabinets. I do remember the high school teacher Christa McAuliffe very well – she was supposed to be the 'first civilian' in space when the Challenger shuttle exploded.
My husband did the motion simulator ride of a space launch which was fun. It was very loud in the beginning of the ride but not scary at all. It took over 30 mins however to do the whole experience.
We missed unfortunately the two IMAX movies (they go for about 45 minutes each), the Mars Rovers exhibits and the Heroes and legends new exhibit (regret missing that one!!).
We ate lunch in the bus line so we weren't 'wasting time' (and we took our own food as Kennedy is known to have few food choices for fussy eaters).
The Kennedy Space Centre seems to change the
astronauts weekly and you can do other bus tours (check their website). There
is so much available.
|Rocket Garden - they have guided tours here! Saturn 1B is visible horizontally
One thing I found was it got to about 4:30pm, and we didn't have time to do anything new! The shows were either over for the day or took longer then our deadline back to the bus of 5:30pm, so the last hour at the centre was kind of 'wasted'. Although we had a lot of fun in the shop! The astronaut pens had sold out unfortunately. I would have loved one of them! The shops had cool items like astronaut icecream- at reasonable prices.
The KSC has so much history and such an incredible future ahead. It was quite a sombre, inspiring, uplifting and an emotional experience. I totally recommend a visit here!
This quote below was displayed at the KSC and resonated with me throughout the entire visit – at various points around the Kennedy Space Centre from the Saturn/Apollo Rockets, to the Space Shuttle, the disasters, to the new Space X program and the future in Space Travel.
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat" - Theodore Roosevelt
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The block came together really well. I like the mechanics of paper piecing (although it always feels a bit like cheating sewing along lines) but I have trouble visualising what fabric should go where - but I'm happy with how this one worked out.
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I finally got time to make my January block for the Lucky Stars BOM. I really love Tula Pink's Salt Water line and wanted to try and make blocks with solids that would play nicely with the fabric I had.
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Ireland v Italy
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Ireland have made one change for Italy with Iain Henderson starting at blindside while Jonathan Sexton has recovered from a thumb injury to keep the fly-half berth.
Racing Metro suggested Sexton was facing a spell between 10 days and six weeks on the sidelines but he has seemingly recovered from the injury he sustained against England and starts at No.10.
"It was a sprained thumb, he finished the [England] game," Ireland coach Joe Schmidt said. "There was bruising, and it's gone. Look, I think one of the things is there's a bit of distance.
"There were some discussions with [Racing coach] Laurent Labit who was not in the country. Racing have been pretty good value, they understand Johnny's a pretty important shared resource."
The only change to the Ireland side comes at blindside with Henderson stepping in for the injured Peter O'Mahony. Rhys Ruddock is named on the bench alongside Eoin Reddan who replaces Isaac Boss.
"If this was the last game of the Six Nations we might have risked Peter," Schmidt said of O'Mahony. "But there was a risk. He didn't train today, and that was the difference. If he'd trained fully we would have included him but he wasn't able. I'd be really confident for him about Paris next week."
Brian O'Driscoll keeps the No.13 shirt and will become the world's most-capped player when he wins is 140th cap on Saturday.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The first statewide Private Forest Landowners' Conference, hosted by the Center for Private Forests in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, will be held May 10-11, at the Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, Pa.
Focusing on the future of Penn's Woods, the day-and-a-half event will reach out to owners of all sizes of woodlands, from backyard woodlot owners to those who view their vast woodlands as business ventures -- and those in between.
Pennsylvania's privately owned forests and woodlands are our dominant landscape feature, representing 12 million acres and owned by more than 650,000 individuals, according to James Finley, Ibberson Professor of Forest Resources and director of the Center for Private Forests.
"These lands provide diverse benefits and values to their owners and society," he said. "To ensure the sustainability of these resources it is essential to consider its ecological, social and economic values. Doing this brings together a diverse suite of stakeholders who care about private forests.
"Individually they may rank values and needs differently; however, the conservation and management of healthy forests is foundational."
The 2013 Private Forest Landowners Conference: The Future of Penn's Woods will spotlight the conservation and management of healthy forests with the intent of bringing together people who want to demonstrate a commitment to forest sustainability.
"It will provide an educational forum for finding common ground, expressing shared perspectives and creating a voice for promoting forest values and responsible, purposeful forest stewardship," Finley said.
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Theory/Installation Guide/Size Array:
Lesson 1: How to Size Your Solar Array
Daily Demand
First of all, figure out how much energy (Wh, or maybe kWh) you need each day. Do you want to charge a battery in an electrical device like a phone? Google "[your phone's name]" and "battery capacity" and look for a number with the unit mWh. If you only find mAh instead of mWh, simply multiply the battery's voltage with its mAh capacity:
mWh = Battery voltage (V) * Battery capacity (mAh)
The iPhone has a 3.7 V battery with 1,400 mAh, so that makes 5,180 mWh = 5.18 Wh. In order to find out what your daily demand is, you need to take into account how often you have to charge your device. If you charge your phone once every two days (like I do with my iPhone), you can allow your solar system to charge the battery in two full days. Your daily demand would therefore be only half of one iPhone's charge: 5.18 Wh * 0.5 = 2.6 Wh. Would you for instance like to run a couple of 12 W lightbulbs for 5 hours each night, your daily demand would be 60 Wh (5*12).
Daily Yield
Now, after you've figured out your daily demand, you need to translate this into an array size. Of course, your daily generated electricity depends on how much light your panels receive. The easiest way to figure this out is by making a crude estimate yourself or to let a software program do it for you more accurately.
PVWatts will then display your results like this: you can see that the irradiation received by a horizontal surface in the winter, is much lower than in the summer. No wonder why we plan our Solar Journey in June/July! You can play around a little with the array tilt. You will see that the higher your tilt (put in 60 degrees), the higher your yield during the winter months. Naturally, you sacrifice some of the yield in the summer months, when the sun is at its highest point.
Size your array!
Remember that for your input you put 1 kW: from the Results, PVWatts tells us that we would generate a minimum of 38 kWh in the whole month of December (which is about 1.2 kWh per day). So every Watt will bring us a usable 1.2 Wh per day in that month. With the 2.6 Wh I need each day to charge my iPhone, I would need about 2-3 Watts of solar modules. You should size the system depending on your needs. In this case, we took the worst solar month because we need to charge our electrical devices in the winter as well. If you plan to run a fan to circulate air in your house, your demand advantageously peaks in summer when the solar resource is highest. In that case, you can pick June instead of December as your reference month, resulting in a smaller array, a fatter wallet and thus more money is left over to donate to Solar Journey USA!
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The configuration of your array depends a lot on the size of your system and the voltage that your load requires. The list below gives you an indication of what voltage level your system will probably operate in depending on the array size you just calculated.
You want to configure your solar module array to operate at a voltage similar to that of your battery pack. This will allow the charge controller to operate at its highest efficiency. For small systems, get a 5 V battery and try to find one or more small 5-6 Volts modules. For medium and large systems, you can play around with the voltages a little bit: if you connect two solar panels in series, you add up the voltage. For example, two of our Ascent Solar panels in series would make 32.9 V + 32.9 V = 65.8 V. Connecting them in parallel will result in added currents. Similarly, if you are considering a 48 Volt battery bank like the Brooklyn stand-alone solar EV charger, you can series-couple four 12 V panels to get up to the desired battery voltage.
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HURON, Ohio-- Thanks to some good Samaritans, a little boy was reunited with his mother in Cleveland after an Amber Alert was issued on Monday.
According to authorities, the child's father, Kevin Criss, 36, didn't return the boy to a relative's house on Sunday, which is why the alert was issued.
"The child's mother has a protection order on file against him and that child is listed in the protection order as one of the protected individuals," said Chief Deputy Jared Oliver with the Erie County Sheriff's Department.
Criss was taken into custody on Monday after four alert people spotted the suspect's vehicle while they were eating breakfast in Huron.
Les Brock received the alert on his iPhone and made a point to remember the information. A few hours later, he spotted the suspect on Route 6 in Erie County.
"I just went up to the window and looked out and I remembered the plate; we had made an acronym for it; and I was like, that's it; that's it. That's the Amber Alert and that's all I had to yell and he came with me. We told the girls to stay and we ran out," said Les Brock.
Brock and his friend, Willie Schwinn, called 911 and left the restaurant to follow the suspect who was heading west on Route 6.
"To have the wherewithal to be sitting and eating breakfast and recognize a vehicle that you heard an Amber Alert about, then to leave your breakfast, follow the vehicle, call 911, alert us and all the other authorities that went to assist; we owe that all to him," said Deputy Chief Oliver.
The Erie County Sheriff's Department gives all the credit to the two construction workers from Litchfield, Ohio.
However, they credit a higher power and don't want to be called heroes. "I have nieces and nephews, none of my own children, but I mean, I can only imagine. The child is abducted and I'm gonna do whatever I can. Neither one of us have kids; so we were following that guy to the end," said Brock.
The child has been reunited with his mom and Criss is being held for possession of drugs and charges of violating a protection order. He will be moved to Cleveland to face additional charges.


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Maple Heights Point of Sale Inspection Draws National Attention
It is no secret that Cuyahoga County has several municipalities with some of the harshest Point of Sale Inspection policies in the country. Unfortunately, Maple Heights is drawing the attention of real estate communities across the U.S. as having one of the most burdensome inspection policies and was recently included in an article on the YPN Lounge, a REALTOR Magazine blog.
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Much of the tangible evidence of my '90s teenagedom has faded or disappeared (Dawson's Creek posters, burnt mix CDs labeled in Sharpie), but my brows? Still here, and still, in their patchy state, proof that I spent years over plucking them like crazy, just like so many other '90s teens. Really, it wasn't until a few years ago, when the beauty world started obsessing over bushy brows, that I truly began to understand the transforming power of a bold brow, that a Cara Delevingne-inspired eyebrow really does make you look younger and accentuate your features in the best possible way. And it wasn't until this year that I discovered the product that would truly take me there: CoverGirl's Bombshell Powder Brow & Liner.
Originally, when I set out to reverse my past brow indiscretions, I cancelled all waxing appointments and started to fill things in with a brow pencil. I liked how easy a pencil was to apply and maneuver, but it always seemed to give my arches a drawn-on quality that was a little...creepy. I wanted to look like Jennifer Connelly, not Cruella de Vil. So I moved on to powder, which suited me much better when it came to achieving a more natural look, but still has its downsides. I don't like having to clean my brushes as much as I'm supposed to (and as a result, I don't always do it that often). Plus, having to remember two items in my makeup bag instead of one can be a drag. Sorry, I'm a busy lady.
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iPhone The Missing Manual The book that should have been in the box, 11th Edition
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David Pogue, "iPhone: The Missing Manual: The book that should have been in the box, 11th Edition"
English | ISBN: 1491999500 | 2017 | EPUB | 650 pages | 92 MB
iOS 11 for the iPhone includes a host of exciting new features, including a revamped Control Center and all-new powers for some of your favorite apps-Siri, AirPlay 2, Maps, Photos, and Maps. You can even send payment via iMessages and type with one hand! And the best way to learn all of these features is with iPhone: The Missing Manual-a funny, gorgeously illustrated guide to the tips, shortcuts, and workarounds that will turn you, too, into an iPhone master. This easy-to-use book will help you accomplish everything from web browsing to watching videos so you can get the most out of your iPhone. Written by Missing Manual series creator and former New York Times columnist David Pogue, this updated guide shows you everything you need to know about the new features and user interface of iOS 11 for the iPhone.
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Krazy Chris arrested in the US
One of those arrested is 37-year-old disc jockey and entertainment promoter, 'Crazy Chris', from Montego Bay.
Chris, whose given name is Christopher Samuels, was arrested in North Carolina on cocaine charges on Tuesday, November 6 by the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department.
Also arrested is stylist, 25-year-old Keshon Hawthorne, who was booked on drug trafficking charges following his arrival at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday, November 4.
According to US media reports, Hawthorne arrived in Charlotte on a flight from Montego Bay.
A white powdery substance that field-tested positive for cocaine was discovered during an inspection of his luggage.
The police said two days later, Samuels landed at the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, also from Montego Bay, and was detained after it was determined that he used his luggage to smuggle cocaine.
The total weight of the cocaine seized from the Jamaicans was more than six pounds. It had an estimated street value of US $90,000.
Both men were arrested for importation of a controlled substance, and turned over to Home Security investigators.
Samuels was subsequently slapped with charges of possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine, and two counts of trafficking cocaine.
The specific charges laid against Hawthorne are not immediately clear.
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Justine Henin opened the defence of her French Open crown with a battling 6-4 6-3 win over 20-year-old Russian Elena Vesnina on Sunday.
After a wait of nearly six hours because of rain, the world number one, who won the title in 2003, 2005 and 2006, came from 3-1 down in the second set to clinch victory and set up a clash with Austrian Tamira Paszek.
"I think she played a very good match but at the end I decided to be a tougher player. Winning's all that matters today," said Henin.
The Belgian was broken when serving for the first set at 5-3 but the lapse was only temporary as she broke in the next game to clinch the set.
Vesnina, the world number 65, showed her potential as she broke on her way to a 3-1 lead in the second set but Henin then reeled off five consecutive games to advance to round two.
The long wait to get on to court had been tough to deal with, Henin said.
"I almost panicked when (Marat) Safin finished and the covers were still off," she said. "Then when we played, it was very difficult. It was very damp and humid, almost like stormy conditions."
Henin said she expected a tough match against Paszek, having needed three sets to beat her in the second round of the WTA event in Dubai earlier this year.
Henin said of her Austrian opponent: "She is a real fighter, a young player coming pretty strong on the tour. I have to be very careful and to try to play better and better as I go on."
Henin is bidding to become the first woman since Monica Seles in 1992 - and only the second in the professional era - to win the title in three successive years.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
FSS - Wreath &Christmas Rose
I love playing along with the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge. For this card, I used the Fred She Said Christmas Wreath and the Christmas Rose. Both come in Digi or pre-colored. As much as I love coloring with Copic Markers, I chose the pre-colored images for my card just to get it done faster.
I love this wreath and I love the candles and roses so I decided to combine the two. This is the beauty of Digi's. You can make them what ever size you need. I think I may have to make a similar card in a 5.5 x 5.5 card so I can make the wreath bigger. Christmas card making may be coming to an end, but I think these images would make beautiful Winter Birthday Cards too.
I used Red Embroidery Floss for the Hand Stitching.
Other Challenge Blogs this card was mae for:
A Spoonful of Sugar - A Christmas Card
Tuesday Taggers - Deck the Halls
Creative Card Crew - Anything Goes
9 comments:
- Laura (scrapnextras) said...
This is absolutely stunning! Beautiful images...the perfect combination, and you aced the sketch hands down!
- December 10, 2010 at 11:16 PM
- Carol said...
Wow Nancy this is amazing. You are so talented and to exquisite work. Love your cards. Great job with the sketch. Thank you so much for playing along with the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge.
Bear Hugs,
Carol :O}
Midnight Madness Design Team
- December 11, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- KarinsArtScrap said...
this is gorgeous, what a wonderful colors and coloring.
greetings karin
- December 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM
- Cazro said...
I zoomed in on your card, the workmanship and detail is stunning. Thanks for joining in tuesday Taggers. I wish you luck. cheers Caz
- December 11, 2010 at 8:19 PM
- Gunn (MsPlum) said...
Hi Nancy!
This is a lovely christmascard. So warm and welcomming - it really captures the love of the holidays.
Thank you so much for joining in on our challenge. We really appriciate your support and hope to see you again for our nw challenges in 2011.
Midnight Madness Design Team
- December 12, 2010 at 5:53 AM
- designsfromwithinbycharlotte said...
Nancy, your card is amazing! The stitching is so pretty and really finishes the red just beautifully. Your center wreath and candles are so pretty and the embossing and pearls such a lovely touch. Absolutely stunning creation!
Wishing you and your family a very Happy Christmas and all the best for the New Year!
- December 20, 2010 at 4:10 PM
- marsha said...
Nancy, congrats on your win! A very "remarkable" card indeed!
- January 4, 2011 at 6:08 AM
- marsha said...
Big OOPS - I meant to say your card is a real "masterpiece"!
- January 4, 2011 at 6:11 AM
- ~Michelle~ said...
tee hee! I saw you won a remarkable award....but I never had time to even LOOK at the thumbnails! I'm sure if I had this one would have hopped off the page at me! I love this wreath...and never even got around to playing with it this winter! ARGH! Happy New Year to you....I look forward to seeing more of your beautimous creations in 2011!! :)
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Wednesday Wishlist: All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon
Oooh, this sounds good! I saw a review on The Book Wheel and now desperately want to read it.
I love anything to do with Russia. At one point I was even able to speak Russian having learned it at school and got a GCSE in it. Yes, I was so good, I could ask my way to the nearest post office anywhere in Moscow. I could also ask a hotel receptionist where the lift was and what time dinner was served. In fact my scholastic linguist experience was very much the same as Eddie Izzard's take on it (naughty word alert). Unfortunately I left school and didn't meet another Russian speaker for nearly 15 years, by which time I could only say hello, goodbye and that I had a brother. It makes for limited conversation.
Anyway, I digress. I did visit Russia, in 1988, when the West was just starting to have an influence, on what was the USSR. It was such an eye opening experience for a school girl from Bristol. Everything was so different to my small village upbringing. I saw Red Square, the Kremlin and Lenin. The Russian people I met were lovely, and very patient as I practised my Russian on them. I have very fond memories of that trip and would love to go back to Moscow one day. Consequently I love to read stories set in Russia, and this one looks to be really up my street as it is set in 1986, just around the time that I was experiencing Russia for the first time.
Wednesday Wishlist
I can only assume that because I have banned myself from buying books until my To Be Read Pile has diminished I am now seeing books I want to read left, right and centre. Indeed, one creeped up on me via a colleague in the office yesterday morning.
So, today's wishlist item is The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. I fully admit I may be a bit late to the party on this one. In fact, so late I think the party goers have gone home and the host has cleared up the empties and got the red wine stain out of the carpet.
For some reason this book was always in the back of my mind, but I never made the leap to read it. Then Lorraine from Biblioaddicted suggested it as a book club read, and I realised that I didn't really know what it was about. A quick Google later and I was sold.
So, it's on the list I carry with me should I be passing a quality book retailer, but I shall not yield… yet.
I Really Shouldn't…
But frankly, who am I kidding? It's Halloween and The Delightful Mr F and I are in the library at the back of the house pretending we aren't in. That is to say hiding form the trick or treaters. Is there a Halloween equivalent to Bah Humbug? I'm sure we aren't the only ones doing this. Anyway, to pass the time I have been surfing literary websites and came across this on the Penguin site. Isn't that a lovely cover?
Here is the write up form Penguin:
"Dating from at least a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their way into The Arabian Nights but most have never been read in English before. Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune."
Well, that's me sold. I do like the odd monster and a statue armed to the teeth, not to mention a damsel changing into another species. It's out on the 6th November and I've added it to my "wants list", which is now embarrassingly long.
Wednesday Wishlist: She Is Not Invisible By Marcus Sedgwick
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I'm not sure whether it is the cold weather, or something I have eaten, but I am getting a very strong urge to read some Dickens. This is particularly odd, as I have tried several times to enjoy a Dicken's novel and have never managed it. Perhaps now is the time that I am fated to finally understand his genius.
I thought I might try Great Expectations (again), unless you can offer up a better option dear readers?
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We are delving into some quite serious reading matter here. Today's wish list book is Simon Singh's The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets. I like Simon Singh's books very much, particularly The Science of Secrecy all about code breaking. He has the great and rare skill of being able to explain complex mathematical problems in a simple and straight forward way. If only he had been around when I was trying to learn Laplace Transforms for my final year control theory exam…
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Peter Cooper believed that education should be as free as air. His Cooper Union makes sure that happens.
Peter Cooper was born in Feb. 12, 1791 in New York City. As America ushered in the Industrial Age, Cooper would take full advantage of the times and become a self-made millionaire.
He had less than a year of formal schooling, but a great talent for inventing. By 17, he was an apprentice coach maker.
In 1829, Cooper invented the first steam-engine train to run on an American track. He called it the Tom Thumb. He didn't lose faith even after the train was challenged to a race with a horse and buggy – and lost. This important invention was the prototype of the modern steam-engine trains that followed.
He organized the Trenton Iron Co., which built the beams that today hold up the famous dome of the Capitol in
Washington, D.C.
He ventured into real estate, insurance and telegraphy. He was the principal investor in the New York, Newfoundland and London Telegraph Co., which laid the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.
Perhaps his most famous credit is for the instant gelatin that eventually became what we know as Jell-o. Cooper's wife, Sarah, actually came up with the instant fruit-flavored concoction.
With all of his inventive prowess and subsequent wealth, Cooper was troubled that he had no real education and, in fact, could not even spell. He was just good at inventing. He tried in vain to find a school that would nurture his natural talent.
Cooper decided to open a tuition-free school where students with scientific and architectural ability could study for free.
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art was born. One of its most famous students was Thomas Edison.
At the time, most New Yorkers thought that Cooper was wasting his money on such a venture. But they were proven wrong.
Established in 1859, the school on Cooper Square in the East Village, is the only privately funded, full-scholarship college in the country dedicated to architecture, art and engineering.
For the first time in American history, the children of working-class parents and adults could study applied science, architectural drawing and receive training in photography, telegraphy, typing and shorthand for free. The school was the first to offer what is now known as continuing education.
Cooper inspired the founders of other prestigious colleges like Andrew Carnegie, Ezra Cornell and Matthew Vassar into taking similar measures at their institutions.
An institution in its own right is the school's famous Great Hall.
The hall opened in 1858 and quickly became a meeting place for advocates of free speech, artists and inventors, and a gathering place for social movements. It was a meeting place for those supporting workers' rights and the women's suffrage movement. Susan B. Anthony spoke there. It was the birthplace of the NAACP. It was where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "Right Makes Might" speech at an event sponsored by the New York Post, ensuring his winning the presidency. William Taft, Ulysses Grant and Theodore Roosevelt all spoke at the Great Hall before they became presidents.
Peter Cooper started out in life with no education, money or influence, but used hard work, honesty and talent to become one of the nation's most successful men. This formally uneducated man taught the world a great lesson.
In 1882, he said of his university, "I trust the young will here catch the inspiration of truth in all its native power and beauty and find in it a source of inexpressible pleasure to spread its transformed influence throughout the world."
Today's lesson fulfills the following New York standards: ELA 1c, 2b, 3c, 3d, 4a, 5b, 5a; Social Studies Standard 1.
Use the Internet to learn more about the life of Peter Cooper.
Read Abraham Lincoln's "Right Makes Might" speech and write an essay on why you think the speech helped him win the presidency.
The Great Hall at Cooper Union is still an important meeting place. Have a class discussion on what free speech is and why it is so vital.


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Commander relieved after sending 'unprofessional' emails
The vice commander of the Air Force's 12th Flying Training Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph has been relieved after investigators learned he exchanged emails with the wife of a subordinate officer.
The messages were sent in 2007 while Col. James Gifford Jr. served at Vance AFB in Oklahoma, where he was director of operations with the 8th Flying Training Squadron. A major at the time, he rose to lieutenant colonel in October of that year and was the squadron's commander from 2009 to 2010.
He left the base to become military assistant to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
"The internal investigation found no evidence of a sexual relationship between the two people involved," the Air Education and Training Command said in a statement. "However, the correspondence sent between them was determined to be unprofessional and Colonel Gifford showed poor judgment as an Air Force member, leading to his commander's decision to remove him from his post."
The Air Force said the 12th Flying Training Wing's commander, Col. Gerald Goodfellow, relieved Gifford, a fighter and tanker pilot with more than 3,500 hours in the air, on March 24.
The action was taken because of a "loss of confidence in his ability to lead" the wing, but the statement did not explain how the emails were unprofessional. The Air Force did not elaborate after the San Antonio Express-News sent a list of questions asking about the nature of the messages, citing "privacy rights and concerns."
The Air Force also wouldn't say how many messages were exchanged and said it has not been determined why the email relationship ended. An AETC spokeswoman, Amy Bartholomew, did say that Gifford did not review the officer's performance evaluations.
Gifford was reassigned to AETC's headquarters. His abrupt exit apparently marks the first time a vice commander at the wing has been relieved. Bartholomew said she did not know of an incident like it.
A relationship involving commanders and the wives of their subordinates - even by electronic mail — would be highly unusual and strictly prohibited.
"Unprofessional relationships, particularly by Air Force leaders, stand to undermine our entire team, damage good order and discipline, and threaten the trust people have in us," the AETC statement said. "They simply aren't tolerated."
A graduate of Rutgers University, Gifford came to the 12th Flying Training Wing in June 2012 after graduating from the Marine Corps War College, where he was honored for submitting the best thesis.
The Randolph-based wing, with 1,456 military and civilian workers, trains instructor pilots, combat systems officers and those who will fly drone aircraft. It also screens Air Force officers who enter pilot, combat systems and drone aircraft training, and has an average of 745 students a day.


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Near a Brookline apartment building owned by the Boston Housing Authority.
GPS readings differed as to if it was on the sidewalk or lawn.
There are plans afoot for Jim and Sara to meet in the evening, Sara arriving sans offspring.
Hopefully the hashpoint isn't too far inside of the building so we can reach it from the outside.
The plans are to meet around 6PM. Jim may attempt a Walk Geohash, though snow and timing may turn it into a Public Transport Geohash. The building appears to be the Boston Housing Authority, with Beth Israel being next door.
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Jim had some errands to run, so he headed out. Once he finished his errand, he had a conversation with Google Maps, which told him that it was 30 minutes walking. That didn't make sense, because it was 3 miles according to the GPS.
However, despite that and the falling snow, Jim decided to start out for the hashpoint. He started up Beacon Street, taking a few pictures of the snow.
Closer examination of the GPS once en route revealed that the GPS was still set to the Saturday's car location, not the already entered hashpoint, but not currently activated one for today. Switching to the correct point revealed a much shorter distance.
Jim arrived and found the hashpoint on the sidewalk. A few pictures later, he headed back for home to prepare to meetup with Sara.
Expedition Two[edit]
Jim set out for his second expedition hoping for a Public transport geohash achievement and a Tron achievement in addition for the hoped-for meet up. He carefully headed northeast to the T stop, planning on returning home from the northwest. He was armed with the usual GPS and Camera, but added a thermometer to the assembled tools in order to prove that the snow wasn't coming down on a balmy 70 degree day.
He waited at the far end of the platform for the train, not sure how far in it would come, and not wanting to have to backtrack on his path to get to a train door. It was a long time before a train finally arrived, prompting him to think several times if it wouldn't be simpler to walk the mile or so to the hashpoint. Eventually a train arrived, but it was completely full, even when he got to the front of the train. Luckily the next train stopped at the same point, so he didn't have to backtrack to the train entry door.
He got on and the train slowly made its way forward. A little before the meeting time he arrived at the desired street. Luckily, the platform was located before the cross-street, providing the other side of the cross-street as a path for Jim to return home. He got off, and waited at the door to a nearby coffee shop, letting Sara know where he was. She replied that she was on a soon-to-arrive T train.
And after a few minutes another link in the geohashing meetup graph was forged. But more surprises awaited at least one of the geohashers. Upon arriving, Jim discovered that the hashpoint had "drifted" by some 20 feet, onto the nearby lawn. It either was the deepening cold of the atmosphere or the much colder GPS, but Jim's unit was displaying serious hashpoint drift.
Pictures were taken, and letters drawn in the snow, and we headed off, stopping to get some coffee before heading off on the T (Sara) or walking through the snow to get home(Jim).
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| Jim earned the Walk geohash Achievement
| Sara and Jim earned the Land geohash achievement
| Jim earned the Tron achievement
| Sara and Jim earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
| Sara and Jim earned the Public transport geohash achievement
| Jiml and Sara earned the Meet-up achievement


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From the information that Reuters had pieced together recently from the Inn Din village incident (1st article below), with personal accounts from survivors and villagers, along with the systematic patterns of widespread destruction of Rohingya villages throughout the Rahkine Province (2nd report below), there appears to be overwhelming evidence that ethnic cleansing took place. Although the government blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army militants for their retaliation, what subsequently followed was no more than an excuse to drive the Rohingya people across the border, which resulted in over 700,000 Rohingyas uprooting themselves and crossing over into Bangladesh, within a couple of weeks of the commencement of the atrocities. Recent attempts at repatriation of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh back to Myanmar raised international concerns as the centres built for the returnees looked more like detention camps with high barbed-wire fences around them and military personnel on guard. The Myanmar government has so far prevented access to the Rakhine by international observers, including the United Nations, and the arrest of two Reuters' reporters who were attempting to investigate these atrocities, implies attempts to cover-up crimes against humanity.
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I have set up a Cloud Server instance on Rackspace, and I have purchased a domain name and directed it to the IP address of my server because I want to host a Sinatra application on this server, but it's my first time doing this and I need some pointers.
My primary confusion is: when I hit the IP address or the domain name in the browser, how is Ubuntu going to know which directory it should serve the files from? Is there a configuration file I should modify? I already modified /etc/hosts with this:
22.214.171.124 my.domain.com
(not the real IP address)
But that doesn't work. My app is running...so I don't know what is missing here. Has anyone set up a site on Rackspace? Any insight would be much appreciated.
Secondary confusion is: is it possible to point a domain name to an IP address without a name server? Just curious. GoDaddy made me think it was, but now I'm not so sure. :-/


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Venudhwani is a concept on Indian Flute Music series which is made to preserve the heritage of Music Instrument Flute (Bansuri) and its various forms.
Venudhwani comprises of two words as Venu (BAMBOO) + Dhwani (SOUND) means the sound of Bamboo. It is one of the oldest musical instruments of India.
The series's volumes offer variety of artists and different genres of flute music in a single album. Popular artists who performed in the albums are Pandit Mahavir Prasad (disciple of Pandit Hariprasad chaurasia), Pandit Sunder Lal Gandharv, Kumar Gandharva, Pandit Subash Nirwan and various other artists.
Venudhwani album concept is to preserve these various bamboo colors (flute) from wider territories.


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Suddenly it seems that duck boots are no longer the ugly duckling among their fellows. More and more fashionistas discover the functional boot as the perfect match for their stylish outdoor looks.
Skinny jeans, leggings, a light down vest, check shirt and a big loop scarf–not to forget the thick woolen socks–are essential wardrobe partners for this look.
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