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Much has been said or written about liquor by the drink in Pigeon Forge, but I haven't heard much about if it passes, how it might help the hard working employees of the companies that elect to provide a full-service bar.
Recently my wife and I stopped into a Bull Fish's and just by chance ended up being seated in the bar. A very lovely and bright young lady was our server. I commented on the fully stocked bar and she politely mentioned that they were one of the companies with their temporary liquor license and she hoped that they would be able to keep it.
When asked why, she said that she was working her way through college at UT and that since they had the full bar her average sale had increased and correspondingly her income. She stated that having the full bar had not caused them any additional problems and that for her it had been a substantial help in furthering the funding for her education.
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In a charging system having a battery (104) with a high rate protection switch (120), and a charger (102) having a disable switch (221) that cooperates with a control switch transistor (224) to alternatively enable and disable the high rate protection switch, a method is employed by the charger to determine the presence or absence of the high rate protection circuit and apply an appropriate charge regime. The method includes applying a test current, then measuring the battery voltage while trying to disable the high rate protection circuit. If the voltage is sufficiently higher during such time, compared to normal operation, then the battery is charged at an ultrafast rate.
1. A method of charging a battery, the battery having a high rate protection circuit, the method comprising the steps of:
applying a test current to the battery;
measuring a first battery voltage;
disabling the high rate protection circuit;
measuring a second battery voltage while the high rate protection switch is disabled;
re-enabling the high rate protection switch; and
charging the battery at an ultrafast rate if the second battery voltage is sufficiently higher than the first battery voltage.
2. A method of charging a battery as defined in claim 1, further comprising the step of identifying a battery classification.
3. A method of charging a battery as defined in claim 2, wherein the step of identifying comprises reading a code resistor voltage of the battery.
4. A method of charging a battery as defined in claim 1, wherein the steps of disabling and re-enabling comprise adjusting a thermistor voltage.
5. A method of distinguishing a standard battery from an ultrafast battery, the method comprising the steps of:
coupling a battery to a charger;
applying a test current to the battery from the charger;
measuring a first battery voltage;
asserting a control signal to attempt to disable a high rate protection circuit;
measuring a second battery voltage while performing the step of asserting;
de-asserting the control signal; and
charging the battery at an ultrafast rate if the second battery voltage is sufficiently higher than the first battery voltage.
6. A method of distinguishing a battery as defined in claim 5, wherein the step of identifying comprises reading a code resistor voltage of the battery.
7. A method of distinguishing a battery as defined in claim 5, wherein the steps of disabling and re-enabling comprise adjusting a thermistor voltage.
8. A method of distinguishing a standard battery from an ultrafast battery, comprising the steps of:
coupling a battery to a battery charger;
measuring a first battery voltage;
measuring a second battery voltage while attempting to disable a high rate protection circuit; and
charging the battery at a first rate if the first battery voltage and second battery voltage are substantially similar or at a second rate if the first battery voltage and second battery voltage are substantially different.
9. A method of distinguishing as defined in claim 8, further comprising the step of identifying a battery classification, performed after the step of coupling.
10. A method of distinguishing as defined by claim 9, wherein the step of identifying comprises reading a code resistor value.
This invention relates in general to batteries and battery charging, and particularly to methods of identifying and charging batteries.
Many present day electronic and electrical devices are powered by a rechargeable battery or battery pack. This is particularly true in certain fields, such as portable communications devices including cellular telephones, for example. Rechargeable batteries are preferred in such applications because of the cost advantage over non-rechargeable batteries, since a rechargeable battery can be used and recharged often up to several hundred times.
Unfortunately, it is often the case that the battery used with portable communications device significantly adds to the volume and weight of the device. In many markets for such products, size and weight are key market features, and the emphasis in designing these products is to reduce the battery size. There are several design strategies that are used working towards this goal. Chief among these is to reduce the power requirements of the device, therefore allowing a smaller battery to be used without significantly reducing the operation time afforded by the battery. In certain markets, another strategy is to reduce the charging time of the battery. Typically, the time required to charge a battery is longer than the user of the device can wait for the battery to be recharged. For this reason, users of portable devices have come to expect "all day" operation times from a single battery, or they must purchase and carry an additional battery or batteries. However, an "all day" sized battery is typically larger than preferred, and purchasing additional batteries is likewise a non-optimal solution.
To solve this problem many manufacturers have begun to offer so called turbo or ultrafast charging technology. This is the technology used to recharge a battery in, typically, about 15 to 30 minutes. With such a short charging time, a battery can be recharged during brief inactivity periods when mobility is not essential, such as while driving between business appointments, or during a typical "coffee break". To accomplish recharging in such time, it is necessary to increase the electrical current applied to the battery during recharging. This presents a significant problem to many battery designs.
Often a rechargeable battery is provided with two sets of electrical contacts; one set for providing power to it's associated device, and a second set for receiving electric current from a charger. Additionally, the charger contact set often includes contacts for the charger to electrically connect with sensors in the battery, such as thermal sensors, for example. Since the charger contact set is usually exposed when the battery is mounted on it's associated device to allow coupling to a charger while mounted on the device, there exists the potential for a conductive element to contact both the positive and negative charge contacts. This can happen when, for example, a cellular phone battery is carried in a person's pocket with keys, change, and so on. Shorting the battery in such a scenario can result in injury to the person. To avoid such an event, a simple and cost effective solution is to provide a diode in the charging path of the battery, between the charging contacts and the battery cells inside the battery pack. This diode allows for charging current to pass through the cells, but prevents the cells from discharging through the charging contacts.
This charging diode is problematic in considering ultrafast charging because the high electric current used in this sort of charging causes the diode to heat significantly. This can, at the very least, interfere with charge schemes based on temperature and changes in temperature, and at an extreme, can create hot spots on the battery, or even melt battery components. The now conventional solution to this problem is to replace the charging diode with a transistor switch. This transistor switch is preferably a MOSFET type, and is actuated in response to the charger making electrical contact with the sensors in the battery pack, such as, for example, a thermistor or a code resistor. Two excellent references on the topic are U.S. Pat. No. 5,471,128 to Patino et al., and U.S. Pat. No. 5,576,612 to Garrett et al., both of which describe circuits using MOSFETs to replace charging diodes.
However, the prior art does not address the problem of how to identify a battery endowed with such a high rate protection circuit. Batteries including the high rate protection circuit are significantly more expensive to build, and therefore manufactures charge a premium for them. Often it may be the case that the capacity of the turbo or ultrafast battery including the high rate protection circuit is the same or similar to a standard battery also offered for sale. Obviously the standard battery, protected by a charging diode, should not be charged at an ultrafast rate. Conversely, if a battery designed for ultrafast charging is not charged at an ultrafast rate, the purchaser of the battery has not received any benefit for the premium paid for the battery. Therefore, there is a need for a means and method by which a charger can distinguish an ultrafast rate capable battery from a standard rate battery of equal or similar capacity.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a charging system for use in accordance with the invention;
FIG. 2 is a detailed circuit block diagram of a battery and charger for use in accordance with the invention; and
FIG. 3 is a flow chart diagram illustrating a method in accordance with the invention.
While the specification concludes with claims defining the features of the invention that are regarded as novel, it is believed that the invention will be better understood from a consideration of the following description in conjunction with the drawing figures, in which like reference numerals are carried forward.
Referring now to FIG. 1, there is shown a charging system 100, including a charger 102, a battery 104, and a device to be powered 106, such as a radio telephone, for example. The battery comprises contacts for connecting to the charger and device, included a positive charger contact 108, thermistor contact 110, code resistor contact 112, negative charger contact 114, positive device contact 116, and a negative device contact 118. The battery further comprises a high rate protection circuit 120, battery cells 122, a thermistor 124, a code resistor 126, and a control circuit 128. The illustrated circuit configuration is one of many that may be used, but is presently the preferred configuration.
The high rate protection circuit 120 acts as a switch, and preferably comprises a Metallic Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET). When the high rate protection circuit is placed on the positive side of the battery cells, a P-channel MOSFET is preferred, an N-Channel MOSFET when the high rate protection circuit is on the negative side of the battery cells. To provide the necessary short circuit protection between the positive and negative charger contacts, the protection circuit must be in a high impedance, or open, state while not coupled to the charger. When coupled to the charger, the protection circuit must switch to a low impedance, or closed, state to allow the necessary current into the battery cells without heating the protection circuit from resistive power dissipation.
In the preferred embodiment, the protection switch is controlled by the control circuit 128, which is responsive to, for example, the voltage across the thermistor 124. When the battery 104 is coupled to the charger 102, a voltage is applied to the thermistor. The precise voltage depends on the instant resistance value of the thermistor, but in general is enough to cause the control circuit to respond by closing the protection circuit. Upon coupling the battery to the charger, the charger also applies a voltage to the code resistor 126 in a manner known in the art. The code resistor has a different resistance for each type and capacity of battery. For example, a 500 milli-amp hour (mAh) nickel-cadmium battery would have a different coding resistance than a 1000 mAh battery. The differences in resistance between coding resistors of different classes of batteries is used by the charger to select charging parameters such as, for example, charging current and voltage limits. This method of identifying battery classification is well known in the art. However, as mentioned hereinabove, there can exist both a standard battery and an ultrafast battery with the same classification, such as if both are 500 mAh nickel-cadmium batteries, thus both having the same coding resistance.
In order to distinguish between such batteries, a novel method must be employed. The method takes advantage of the fact that upon application of a charging current to the battery, there will be apparent a significant voltage difference across the positive and negative charging contacts, 108 and 114 respectively, between the times when the protection circuit is disabled and enabled. In other words, by observing the battery voltage upon application of a test current and asserting a signal that would disable the protection circuit and comparing the voltage before and after the disabling action is taken by the charger, if a significant change in battery voltage is detected, it is inferred that the protection circuit is present. This because in a standard battery, no protection circuit is present, therefore asserting the signal to disable the protection circuit has no effect. Subsequent to positively determining that the protection circuit is present, the protection circuit is re-enabled and the battery is charged an ultrafast rate. That is, at a rate at which a given battery in a depleted condition would be recharged in about 15-30 minutes.
The preferred circuit elements in both the battery and the charger for implementing this method are shown in FIG. 2. Referring now to FIG. 2, the preferred charger 102 and battery 104 are shown in more detail. The protection circuit 120 is, in the preferred embodiment, a MOSFET 200. Present manufacturing techniques of MOSFET devices result in the presence of an intrinsic diode 202 connected between the drain and source of the MOSFET. The charger comprises a charger control circuit 204, and a power supply 206, for providing charging current and voltage, responsive to the charger control circuit. The charger control circuit is coupled to the positive charge contact by line 208 to measure the voltage apparent on the positive charge line 210. Any number of well known means may be used to measure the battery voltage, but the preferred method is to use an analog to digital converter so that measurements may be stored digitally for later comparisons by a logic circuit, such as a microprocessor, included in the charger control circuit. Also provided in the charger are a thermistor line 212 and a code resistor line 214. The thermistor line couples the charger control circuit to the thermistor 124 in the battery so that the charger control circuit can measure the voltage across the thermistor. Voltage is applied to the thermistor line through thermistor pull-up resistor 216 from a fixed voltage source 218. This method of measuring battery temperature is conventional and well known in the art.
The charger determines the battery classification in a manner similar to determining the battery temperature; there is provided in the charger a code pull-up resistor 220, through which voltage is applied to the code resistor line 214, producing a voltage across the code resistor 126. Given that the code pull-up resistor is a known value, the voltage on code resistor line 214 depends on the value of the code resistor 126. As such, the charger control circuit measures the voltage on line 214 and infers the value of the code resistor 126, which indicates the battery classification. This method of classifying the battery is also conventional and well practiced in the art.
The charger is further provided with a disable switch 221 coupled to the thermistor line 212, and controlled by the charger control circuit via control line 222. The disable switch allows the charger to adjust or assert the disable signal onto the thermistor line 212. The battery is provided with control circuit 128, as mentioned hereinabove. The control circuit 128 comprises a control switch 224, such as a bipolar NPN transistor, coupled to the MOSFET 200 for controlling the state of the MOSFET in response to the voltage on the thermistor line 212. When the battery is coupled to the charger, a voltage is apparent on the thermistor line 212 as a result of the voltage divider formed by the thermistor in the battery and the thermistor pull-up resistor in the charger. This voltage is typically in the range of about 1.5 volts to 4 volts. The control switch transistor 224 is connected across the thermistor through base resistor 226. The base resistor is selected so that sufficient bias current can be provided to the control switch transistor without significantly affecting the measurement of battery temperature. For example, if the thermistor has a nominal resistance of 10K Ohms at 25° Celsius, then a base resistance of more than about 100K Ohms would not significantly interfere with temperature measurements. However, enough current is provided to cause the control switch to change to a low impedance. This in turn pulls down the gate voltage of the MOSFET 200, which, prior to coupling the battery to the charger, is held high by a pull-up resistor 228. When the gate voltage gets pulled low, the MOSFET changes from a high impedance state to a very low impedance state.
To disable the high rate protection circuit, the charger asserts a control signal on control line 222, causing the disable switch to change to a low impedance state and pulling the thermistor line to a low voltage level. This effectively removes bias voltage from the control switch transistor 224, causing the MOSFET to change to a high impedance state. However, due to the intrinsic diode 202, current can still pass through the high rate protection circuit, but there will be a significantly higher voltage drop across the high rate protection circuit than when the MOSFET is in a low impedance state.
In practicing the novel method, then, the charger must first apply a test current to the battery, measure the battery voltage with and without the control signal that would disable the high rate protection circuit asserted, and compare the two voltage values. If they are substantially the same, it is inferred that the battery does not include the high rate protection circuit, and the battery is charged at the standard rate. When the high rate protection circuit is disabled the battery voltage will be higher. If it is sufficiently higher, then it is inferred that the battery does include the high rate protection switch, and commences charging at an ultrafast rate after re-enabling the high rate protection circuit.
Referring now to FIG. 3, there is shown a flow chart diagram 300 in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the instant method invention. As indicated in block 302, a first step is identifying the battery capacity or classification, if multiple classifications exist. The next step, as indicated by block 304, is determining if the battery is of the type that could be an ultrafast rate capable battery. If not, then the charger proceeds to block 306 where the standard charge current is applied to the battery. If the battery is identified as one that may be an ultrafast rate capable battery, then, as indicated in block 308, the next step is applying a test current to the battery, then measuring a first battery voltage. This measurement is stored by the charger for later comparison. In the next block 310, the disable switch is activated by asserting a control signal, thereby disabling the high rate protection switch, if present in the battery, and a second battery voltage is measured and stored. In other words, the charger attempts to disable a high rate protection circuit in the battery by asserting a control signal to the battery. In the preferred embodiment, this is done by pulling the thermistor line to a low voltage level, but numerous other means may be used to actuate a circuit in the battery and are known in the art. After obtaining both measurements, the charger compares the first battery voltage with the second battery voltage and decides if the battery is ultrafast rate capable or not, as indicated by block 312, according to the criteria described hereinabove. If the not, then the charger proceeds to block 306 and applies the standard charge rate. If there is a sufficient difference between the measurements, then the charger proceeds to block 314 and applies an ultrafast rate charge scheme to the battery. In other words, the charger commences charging the battery at a first rate if the first battery voltage and second battery voltage are substantially similar, or at a second rate if the first battery voltage and second battery voltage are substantially different. In general, the observed difference will be about equal to the forward bias voltage of a diode, i.e. about 0.7 volts, if the high rate protection circuit is present. Prior to charging the battery, the charger deasserts the control signal in both blocks 306 and 314 so that if a high rate protection circuit is present, it will be re-enabled during charging.
This method allows the charger to distinguish between a standard battery and an ultrafast battery, and selecting the appropriate charge scheme. It is particularly useful when both types are available, such as when an ultrafast battery is introduced and marketed in an existing market where standard batteries already exist. The method makes use of the fact that the battery voltage will be different in an ultrafast battery if it's high rate protection circuit is disabled, compared to the battery voltage when the high rate protection circuit is enabled.
While the preferred embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described, it will be clear that the invention is not so limited. Numerous modifications, changes, variations, substitutions and equivalents will occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention as defined by the appended claims. For example, it is contemplated that with a given product, only two batteries are made available; a standard version and an ultrafast version. In such a scenario, there may not be a code resistor present in the battery. However, the instant method invention allows a charger to distinguish between the two versions, and select the appropriate charge scheme. Likewise, it is not necessary that the high rate protection circuit be controlled over a thermistor line. It will be obvious to those skilled in the art that other means of controlling the high rate protection circuit are available.
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|A student diagnosed with breast cancer had an operation that removed only non-cancerous tissue, not the tumor, so she needed another operation immediately. Rinpoche gave this advice on purifying past karma in order to achieve ultimate happiness, the total cessation of suffering.
My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling Angela,
It comes out very good if you start reciting this sutra regularly: The Dharani Called "Possessing the Limbs of All the Buddhas." You also need to have the Prajnaparamita read by the Kopan monks. Discuss this with the Kopan manager and if you can't afford it, then it could be combined with others who also need to have it done.
Then for you the Medicine Buddha practice is best. There is a small book that has been translated into English, if you can practice that, reciting the Medicine Buddha mantra and the seven Medicine Buddha's names, that is extremely good for success, to achieve the peerless happiness, the state of omniscient mind and then the ultimate happiness for sentient beings—to liberate the numberless sentient beings, the numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless suras, numberless asuras and numberless intermediate state beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them in peerless happiness. To achieve the state of omniscient mind, to achieve the total cessation of suffering and the cause of suffering, which is not outside but inside the mind—the negative mind, wrong concepts, delusions and karma—and the actions motivated by those minds. So to achieve ultimate happiness means to achieve success forever, then you don't fall back into suffering. The causes are removed and you have totally purified all the delusion and karma, the wrong concepts, the wrong way of thinking, the unsubdued mind.
In reality, the experience of hell is produced by the wrong mind—ignorance and the wrong concepts—and the peerless happiness, the state of omniscient mind, comes from the right concept, from realizations such as compassion towards all the sentient beings and bodhicitta derived from that—to achieve the state of omniscient mind for all sentient beings. Even ultimate happiness, the cessation of suffering, comes from the totally pure mind, the inner, happy mind, the total renunciation of samsara, the opposite of attachment, as well as from the ultimate wisdom realizing emptiness, shunyata, the emptiness of the I.
From the positive mind—which means from non-anger, non-attachment and non-ignorance — from the positive mind and actions, which is Dharma, the result is happiness. From the wrong concept, ignorance of karma—not knowing what is right mind and actions and what is wrong, negative mind and negative actions—the result is suffering. We have ignorance of this, we have attachment to this life, and we have anger. So the mind which has none of these wrong thoughts is pure Dharma, pure mind, happy mind, inner happy mind and satisfied mind. From that there is the result of temporary and ultimate happiness in this life and the next life.
Even this life's problems come from the wrong concept and wrong action. This life's happiness also comes from the right concept, the correct way of thinking, and correct actions, pure actions. From that, inner happiness comes. So even this hour's happiness, right now, if we think in a positive way, then we have happiness, but if we think in a negative way, then we have suffering. Even the person who got angry towards us in the past, who gave us harm in the past, who we regard as an enemy, maybe first we cherished that person and now we have renounced him. Maybe in the beginning we were attached and now totally the opposite.
In the beginning we thought that person was the same as a holy being, a bodhisattva or buddha, or even just a good human being, then when he gets angry with us, provokes us, harms us, or even tries to kill us, we see him as an enemy. Actually we should see him as the most kind person; this person who is our enemy is our teacher of patience, for us to learn patience. Maybe we do meditation on patience, but here, this person is our practical teacher. We can do the action meditation of patience with him, so we have the opportunity to use him and to see him as most kind—kinder than someone who gives us a hundred thousand dollars. Just giving us a hundred thousand dollars, that alone doesn't help us to be free, to have a happy death or to stop us being reincarnated in the hell realms or as a hungry ghost or animal.
If we practice patience towards the person who is angry at us, who harms us, by thinking how extremely kind he is, then we don't get reborn in the lower realms as a hell being, hungry ghost or animal. Also the enemy actually gives us the opportunity to create the cause for good rebirth and for our next life to be born as a deva or higher. Then also that person becomes the cause to cease all of our sufferings and to achieve ultimate happiness, full enlightenment, peerless happiness for sentient beings and to be able to free the numberless sentient beings from each realm from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to omniscience, ultimate happiness and full enlightenment.
Even for non-believers, recognizing the real enemy is a great teaching, a great learning for the mind. From this we can see that if we have much influence and power in the world, then we can destroy the whole world by our wrong way of thinking. This has happened in history, with Hitler and so forth—people with much power and influence who kill many millions of people—so we can see the incredible harm that can happen from not practicing patience. If we practice patience then it subdues the anger and the violent mind that harms us and harms the world. By practicing patience, it brings happiness to ourselves and to the world, not only to our country, society, family, husband, wife and children. It brings so much happiness, then more happiness in our relationships, so they become much better, longer lasting. If we have no anger but are patient, that itself is a happy mind.
Due to the kindness of the person we call the enemy, who is teaching us patience, then we are able to give happiness to the whole world. This is unbelievably important, unbelievably important, as everybody wants happiness and does not want suffering—even the insects, even the worms, even the smallest flies.
I would like to mention this to you as an example. In America there are often many children who kill people with guns. It happens again and again, or even a normal person suddenly goes crazy and shoots many people with a gun, though he was not at all crazy before. In reality, of course, they were crazy in their view, according to Dharma practitioners, and of course they were crazy doing something like this, which is so totally wrong. They were following the wrong concept, not Dharma wisdom.
These mass killings happen from time to time in America, but the American government still does not have a really good answer as to why it happens; they still think that everybody should have guns. This is because people have self-cherishing thought; they are thinking just about their own protection, their own life, so they think to allow everybody to have guns. This is what happens all the time and now, even more and more, because it is being reported and glorified in the news, so now it seems many people do it to become famous.
If the scientists or the government or society believed in reincarnation, if they knew what the mind is, that there is continuation, that it does not stop with the body [then they would have the answer.] The body disintegrates, but the mind continues. The nature of the mind is formless, colorless and shapeless and the nature of the body is form, color and shape. The mind continues from past life; there is continuation. Before the first second that the mind took place in the mother's womb, it came from a past life.
There are so many children in the East and West, as well as old people, who through meditation, through karma, through developing the mind in the path, can remember their past lives—their own and others—and who also know future lives. It is not only Tibetan lamas who can remember their past lives.
I had one book about an American professor who went to many countries to look for people—old people and children—who could remember their past lives. He made this book of all the stories of the different people who remembered their past lives. Reincarnation is not known much at the moment, also the subject of karma—whatever we experience, good or bad, in this life is the result of past actions, past motivation, whether negative or positive.
For example, when my mother's incarnation was four years old, he was able to remember his past life family and he didn't feel shy with them, but with other people who my mother didn't spend time with in her past life, then he felt shy. Then also the little boy, my mother's incarnation, was able to remember my mother's best friend, who was a kind person. When the little boy came to his house he was able to remember the friend's name and he offered him wine or tea. After that, my mother's best friend grabbed the little boy, my mother's incarnation, and kept him in front of him and cried and cried and cried, because the incarnation remembered him from past life. Like that, there were also many material things the incarnation remembered from his past life, things that he looked for when he came back to Lawudo, the place where I was supposed to be in my past life, that high lamas mentioned.
Another clear story about my mother's incarnation is about a shirt my sister made for the little boy. My mother in the past had kept a small bottle of buttons, because a long time ago we regarded buttons as very precious. It was a very primitive place and in order to get buttons, also spoons, we had to get them from Kathmandu—we could not get them in the mountains, so these things were regarded as very precious. So my mother used to keep all these buttons in a jar, then my sister made a shirt using all the buttons that had been in the jar. She put them on the shirt and gave it to my mother's incarnation. The little boy immediately expressed, "These are my buttons."
Another example was during the temple inauguration, so the incarnation offered a kata (offering scarf) to everyone who attended the inauguration, except for two people. He didn't offer to his own father or to one monk who lived at Lawudo. He didn't give the kata to his father because in the past life, my mother got very upset with him. We got water from one hermitage, a cave where an ancient great yogi had lived—that was where we got water from, only when there was not enough water at Lawudo—but the incarnation's father had stopped the water during my mother's life. There was a pipe that went from one side of the mountain to the other, so the father put sand and rocks in the pipe and tried to block it so we couldn't get water. My mother got very upset, so that was why the incarnation didn't give the kata to him.
The reason why he didn't give a kata to the monk who lived at Lawudo was because my mother used to tell me quietly that he was a very, very angry person. He got very heavily angry, so the little incarnation didn't give a scarf to him either.
Then also he did exactly what my mother used to do. Whenever she went to the temple, first she would take a blessing from His Holiness the Dalai Lama's throne, then she would go to my very low throne, where I sat, then to the altar and then she would go around the temple seven times. So that is exactly what the incarnation did. He did exactly the same as my mother used to do and at the end he gave a scarf to the prayer wheel that my mother used, that I had made for my mother, then the incarnation grabbed the prayer wheel before he left.
I know there are also Western children who remember their past lives; some were great yogis in the past. There is one boy in Canada who remembers his father's reincarnation, so I know there are people who know about even other people's reincarnations. They can remember this because of karma and through meditation. As the mind develops, we get higher and higher realizations, so there are many ways. Of course people who don't know meditation, then it is not their experience. Whatever new discovery happens, that meditators experience, we have to accept that it is possible.
For example, if people in America understood the mind, if they recognized what the mind is exactly—that it has continuation, with no beginning or end, that it can even be free from oceans of samsaric suffering and its causes, karma and delusion and wrong concepts, and can achieve the peerless happiness, the state of omniscience, and that there is no end of the mind, it always continues and also about reincarnation and karma—then they would have the answer. The answer is to practice purification of karma, which is the cause that made the little boy or the man kill many people—they appeared normal and then suddenly killed many people. So, because of reincarnation and understanding karma, there is the basis to understand the causes of the actions of body, speech and mind, whether good or bad, and then the result, happiness or suffering, and experiencing that.
Therefore we have to purify those negative actions, what was collected in the past—not only in this life, but in past lives—so we can purify, and by purifying in a perfect way we don't have to experience the suffering result. Only then is there the ultimate answer, which is to cease the cause of the suffering by actualizing renunciation to samsara and realizing emptiness only, shunyata, the ultimate reality of the I and aggregates and so forth. Then we cease the cause of suffering—delusion and karma, the seed of delusion and karma—and we are free from the oceans of samsaric suffering forever. That is the ultimate happiness.
For example, the negative karma of killing one insect has four suffering results:
1) Ripening result, which means rebirth as a hell being, hungry ghost or animal, and suffering—for how long depends on how heavy the action of killing was. The other three suffering results we experience in the human realm.
2) Possessed result. This means the place where we reincarnate is very dirty or very dusty, a depressing place, not pleasant.
3) Experiencing the result similar to the cause. This means how we treat others, for example, if we kill [another sentient being], then we will experience something similar, so others will kill us. For example, similar to the stories I mentioned before, like the child killing people in America or a normal person suddenly killing many people. For example, we are walking and then somebody shoots us, a person that we didn't know, there is no connection from before that we have harmed this person. In this life we have never met that person but suddenly he shoots us and we die. Getting killed by others actually happens many times. By killing one tiny insect, if we don't purify that karma, then the result is to experience the result similar to the cause, so we will be killed by others for 500 lifetimes. That is the karmic result and it is possible it could even be for more than 500 lifetimes, even longer.
4) Creating the result similar to the cause, because there are imprints left from past lives. Past lives means it is not just from the life before this one, it could be from a billion, zillion, trillion, numberless eons ago. The negative imprints are left on the mental continuum by the past negative karma, so there is habituation, imprints left by negative karma on the mind. If we don't purify these, then we will do it again in this life—even if we are born as a human being, we do the act of killing again, to other people and animals.
That is why, for example, in a family with two children, one child sees other people fighting and he cries. He doesn't want to see other people suffering, he wants them to have harmony and peace, but the other child in the same family likes to kill insects and harm people. The children are from the same family, the same parents, but each child has a totally different personality. The real reason is not what scientists may say—the atoms in the body or whatever are the conditions, but the main cause is the continuation of the mind, which carries negative imprints. One child has more positive imprints and therefore more compassion. He doesn't want others to suffer and he wants to help, whereas the other child wants to kill and harm others, so that is because of the continuation of mind. Each mind has the continuation of past negative imprints, so this time their experience is this, they are born like this.
It is the same thing for earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, cyclones etc, also for many people who die every day from disease. There are new diseases that didn't happen before, that are now appearing, and there are so many dangers happening—all of this is the result of past negative karma, having harmed others, so now others harm us or we experience harm. All of the harms definitely come from the mind, from our karma, but we can purify the mind, the negative karma, the obscurations.
There are many different methods of purification, but the best purification is generating compassion to even one sentient being, besides all sentient beings. The strongest compassion generates the strongest purification and it is a quick way to achieve all the realizations and a quick way to fulfill all the wishes for happiness now and in the future, and to achieve the omniscient mind, full enlightenment for sentient beings, so that is the best one.
Even non-believers know that generating compassion to all living beings is so important; even scientifically it is now mentioned. Doctors, I think at Harvard University, recently checked and said that those who think more of others than themselves in everyday life have less heart disease—they have healthier hearts. His Holiness the Dalai Lama has also been meeting with Buddhist and Western scientists for so many years and it seems that Western scientists have now discovered that it is definitely necessary to have compassion in order to be more healthy. [By generating compassion] less people will die of a heart attack, which is ultimately caused by anger, a violent mind, which disturbs the body. So we can see in reality how compassion brings not only health, but inner happiness and satisfaction. What makes a person happiest is compassion, also renunciation causes a satisfied mind, but even more is compassion. There are so many things to say, sorry this is becoming long.
For example, just recently in the Philippines, there was the situation due to the weather; there was so much suffering and so many people were dying. Definitely all these things, in the West they don't know the cause, they don't know about mind, so they don't know what causes all these outside things. They call it natural phenomena or instinct, but this just means they don't know why it is caused, why something happens from its own side. They have no explanation. In Buddhism, the explanation is that it came from karma, from the mind. So we can purify that, everybody can. All suffering, even hell, is only temporary; it is not permanent, so everyone can become enlightened. No matter how much they are suffering now, it is only temporary, everything has an end.
So people who get shot, if they had purified past negative karma then they would not get shot. If the person who does the act of shooting had purified their past karma before—if they had purified well with the four opponent powers, then they wouldn't have to do the action of killing. When someone kills another and the doctors realize they are not crazy—that this is just a normal person who suddenly changed and killed someone—they don't understand why. The reason is that all these things come from the mind; it is all to do with the concept, the mind, the way of thinking. This can be very difficult to understand, to accept. Wow, wow, wow, the wrong concept is heavier than a rock, heavier than an iron mountain—the solidity to believe that there is no reincarnation and no karma.
Each individual, however many lives he takes for however many eons, has to understand Dharma, to understand karma, to understand the mind, reincarnation, all these things, and then the second thing is to practice, to change, to abandon the cause of suffering and to practice the cause of happiness, especially ultimate happiness, the cause of enlightenment. Without that, we have to suffer on and on and on; we have to experience the problems on and on and on, with no answer, no solution and on top of that, we keep creating negative karma. From beginningless rebirth and again in this life, we keep creating continuously the cause of suffering, continuing from beginningless rebirth up to now, all day and night, all the time. We keep creating negative karma all the time, constantly, with our body, speech and mind, because of not knowing the mind, not knowing reincarnation and karma, not knowing Dharma and not practicing.
So really all the people in the world are the objects of our compassion. All the people in the world, not only animals, but all these people we can see, are unbelievable, unbelievable, most precious objects of compassion.
For animals it is so difficult to explain this, and so difficult for them to understand the cause of suffering and how to stop that, but generally speaking, for people, who have human bodies, it is easy to understand—they have so much intelligence, they can check up and they can learn. But in reality, most people do not know about this, they do not know what I have been talking about. They are almost like the many worms and ants. It's so incredible, there's no way to explain, no opportunity.
Thank you so much. I'm very, very, very sorry I wasted so much of your time reading my long letter. Thank you very, very, very much, thank you so much, I hope you don't get angry because of my long letter. Don't get impatient. Thank you very much. If you want to say something please write, thank you.
You have a precious human body and me too, this means we are trying to enlighten each other. We are trying to help enlighten each other. Thank you so much.
With much love and prayers,
Lama Zopa


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It's been a long time since the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY was launched. Because it's a Playstation Certified phone, we figured there'd be a bit more difficulty cracking it compared to Sony Ericsson's other phones. (Note: Sony Ericsson did provide an official bootloader unlocker for several phones including the Xperia Play, but it's believed that community-unlocked bootloaders are much more desirable. Verizon and other SIM-locked variants in Europe also never received official unlocking love.)
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We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. IIS 7.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
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How Web authentication worksWeb authentication is a communication between the Web browser and the Web server that involves a small number of Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) headers and error messages.
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Anonymous authenticationIIS creates the IUSR_computername account (where computername is the name of the computer) to authenticate anonymous users when they request Web content. This account gives the user the right to log on locally. You can reset anonymous user access to use any valid Windows account.
NOTE: You can set up different anonymous accounts for different Web sites, virtual directories or physical directories, and files.
If the Windows 2000-based computer is a stand-alone server, the IUSR_computername account is on the local server. If the server is a domain controller, the IUSR_computername account is defined for the domain.
Basic authenticationUse basic authentication to restrict access to files on an NTFS-formatted Web server. With basic authentication, the user must enter credentials and access is based on the user ID.
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Integrated Windows authenticationIntegrated Windows authentication is more secure than basic authentication and it functions well in an Intranet environment where users have Windows domain accounts. In integrated Windows authentication, the browser attempts to use the current user's credentials from a domain logon and if this fails, the user is prompted to enter a user name and password. If you use integrated Windows authentication, the user's password is not transmitted to the server. If the user has logged on to the local computer as a domain user, the user does not have to authenticate again when the user accesses a network computer in that domain.
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What's Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
If your company quietly allows employees to break some rules with the tacit approval of management, that's a moral gray zone. And your company is not alone. When rules are broken but privileges are not abused, such unspoken pacts between workers and management can allow both to achieve their respective goals of expressing professional identity and sustaining efforts in positive ways, says HBS professor Michel Anteby. Q&A Read More
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The Surreal And Absurd Photography Of Martin Kollar
You should take Martin Kollar seriously as a photographer and artist, even though his photos tend to be anything but serious in tone.
Martin's unique photographic vision reveals the absurd side of human life, depicting people lost in thought during in-between moments, as they wait for something to happen while interesting things are happening all around them.
The Czech photographer has a knack for capturing subjects in the raw, and he has a clever way of juxtaposing his still human subjects with eye catching elements which beg to be the subject of each scene.
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so, it's important that you first understand the VISION
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Solo Piano Radio was founded in 2003. It was the first broadcast of it's kind to feature solo piano music exclusively. It has been very sucessful, and is 100% listener supported. However,
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to ask us to review their music via their web site
(or YouTube videos) before sending a CD in to us. Our response to that
is; no, we'd rather not. Your odds of being included
on Whisperings are music greater if you send in a
CD for us to review. Why? Because we listen to
the CDs we receive over and over again, allowing ourselves
time to warm up to your music. There are many artists on the playlist whose music didn't grab us
on the first listen, but after repeated listening
we came to love it. So if you have confidence in
your music and think fits within our format, send
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"Sound" We're Looking For...What is the sound are we looking for? The music we play is, for the most part, quiet, peaceful and relaxing. A strong melody is also a must. It's got to be ear-catching. If your music is contemplative
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Reasons We Might Pass On Your Music... 1) The album ISN'T solo piano. Orchestration or "sounds" are added throughout
2) The album doesn't fit our quiet, peaceful format. If you're pounding on the piano, we won't use it.
3) The album isn't recorded professionally. It sounds like a home recording, the piano is out of tune, or it's a digital piano recording and really sounds like it.
4) The music isn't melodic. Melody is a big thing for us. If the music rambles on without any real melodic structure, we'll likely pass. Ready to Submit Your Music? Great!
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Recently, my staff has received several questions regarding the extent of protection offered by the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). In response to these questions, I want to clarify the extent of FTCA protection for Federal employees as well as for Tribes and their employees. I have sent a letter to the Tribal Leaders discussing how the FTCA applies to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (ISDEAA) contracts and compacts. I am asking you to distribute the attached letter regarding the FTCA directly to Federal health professionals, including people assigned to Tribes and Tribal organizations under the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) and commissioned officers detailed under memoranda of agreement. This memorandum summarizes the information shared with the health professionals and with the Tribes.
For tort claims filed against a Federal employee acting within the scope of his/her employment, the FTCA calls for the substitution of the United States for the Federal employee in the legal action. Attorneys at the Department of Justice (DOJ) defend the action against the United States. It is generally understood that negligent acts or omissions committed by Federal employees acting within the scope of their official duties are covered under the FTCA. Any Federal employee assigned to a self-determination contractor under the IPA or commissioned officer detailed under a memorandum of agreement pursuant to Section 214 of the Public Health Service Act is protected by FTCA as if they worked directly for a Federal agency. A personal service contractor under contract with the Indian Health Service (IHS) may also be covered by the FTCA if the contract creates a de facto employer/employee relationship and the services provided are within the scope of employment pursuant to the personal services contract. Alternatively, under 25 United States Code (U.S.C.) 1638c, the personal services contractor may be covered if the services are provided within IHS facilities.
I have been advised by the Office of the General Counsel that FTCA protection will apply to any Federal employee acting within the scope of his or her official duties. Even when faced with a questionable situation about the applicability of FTCA protection, the DOJ consistently has given Federal employees the benefit of the doubt.
For Tribal employees, the legal analysis is different. Tribal employees are deemed to be Federal employees for the purposes of FTCA coverage while acting within the scope of their employment in "carrying out" contracts/compacts under the ISDEAA (25 U.S.C. § 450f(d) and 25 U.S.C. 458aaa–15). The ISDEAA also extends FTCA coverage to an individual under a personal services contract with the Tribe if the individual is acting within the scope of his/her employment pursuant to the Tribe's ISDEAA contract and the services are provided in a facility owned, operated, or constructed under the jurisdiction of the IHS. As a general rule, a facility operated under the jurisdiction of the IHS would include a Tribal facility operated under an ISDEAA contract/compact. There is more information about how the FTCA covers Tribal employees when carrying out self-determination contracts/compacts and how Tribal FTCA claims are processed in the regulations at 25 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 900, subpart M.
It is important to understand that the decision about whether or not an individual is protected from liability by the FTCA is a factual determination made on a case-by-case basis by the Department of Health and Human Services, the DOJ, and ultimately by the courts. Neither my office nor anyone in the Area Offices or the service units has the authority to make definitive advance assurances of FTCA protection.
Recently, an order from a Federal district court judge in the case of Armb v. United States, Case No. A00-31 CV (2003), called into question the extent of FTCA coverage when an individual provides ongoing treatment outside of an ISDEAA contract, e.g., to non-IHS beneficiaries. Specifically, the judge's order indicates that when providing non-emergency medical services to non-IHS beneficiaries, a Tribal entity is deemed part of the Public Health Service only when it is providing these services in circumstances permitted by Federal law while carrying out its contract. The judge found nothing in the ISDEAA contract demonstrating that the Tribe and the IHS had made a joint determination under 25 U.S.C. I 680c(b) to provide nonemergency medical services to non-IHS beneficiaries. Thus, the judge concluded that the Tribe was not carrying out its ISDEAA contract when providing non-emergency medical services to a non-IHS beneficiary, and FTCA was not applicable.
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Good Samaritan Ministries will distribute back-to-school clothing, shoes, backpacks and supplies to more than 1,200 local children in need this weekend, including nearly 1,000 who will pick up their packages at Good Sam's Back to School Picnic on Sunday night at Cardinal Park.
In Johnson City and Washington County, where a majority of the children reside, classes begin on Monday and Tuesday, respectively. And with time running short, the ministry is still in need of children's clothing, basic school supplies and monetary donations to help meet the more than $40,000 cost of the distribution that is still outstanding.
"We're extremely behind," Good Samaritan Executive Director Sarah Wells said Tuesday. "The backpacks were much more expensive than normal and we're still collecting for those. We're without the Emergency Solutions Grant we had last year. And, of all things to cut, a lot of the grants no longer cover food, clothing and school supplies, the things we depended on for back to school."
On Wednesday, AT&T delivered a $1,000 donation to Good Samaritan to help meet the cost. And Our Savior Lutheran Church will be collecting donations through Sunday.
Sunday evening's distribution at Cardinal Park will include 600 children served by the ministry's Summer Food Program for families who struggle for food for children without the free and reduced-price meals available when school is in session, and 400 children from income-eligible families who registered for back-to-school help during a community enrollment open to six counties. In addition to the school supplies and clothing, the children and their families will be treated to a free hot dog and hamburger supper and free admission to the Cardinals' game against the Elizabethton Twins.
About 270 children with parents who are incarcerated who are served year-round by the ministry will receive their back-to-school clothes and supplies at a separate party.
The total cost of the project is $63,000. On Wednesday, a little more than $22,000 of that cost had been met and the ministry was making a plea for last-minute donations. Items most needed include children's tennis shoes, shirts and blouses in boys and girls sizes 6 through 8, socks and underclothing of all sizes. Donations may be brought to the ministry, 100 N. Roan St., from 8:30 a.m-4 p.m. through Saturday. Pickup may be arranged by calling the ministry at 928-1958.
While all monetary donations are welcome, a $35 donation to Good Samaritan Ministries earmarked for Back to School will provide clothing, shoes, a backpack and supplies for one child. Donations may be made online at www.goodsamjc.org or by mail to P.O. Box 2441, Johnson City, TN 37605.
Volunteers are also needed to help with Sunday's picnic and are encouraged to call 928-1958 for details.
The American Cancer Society is gearing up for a busy month of fundraising events to be held across the Tri-Cities.
On Saturday, the Fourth Annual Morgan Memorial Golf Tournament will be held at Crockett Ridge Golf Course in Kingsport. The four-man select-shot tournament will include a complimentary lunch form the Mason Jar Eatery and a Hole-In-One contest sponsored by Friendship Hyundai. To register, visit www.morganmemorial.org or call the ACS office in Johnson City at 975-0635.
The ACS' annual Hope Gala will be held Aug. 10 from 7-11 p.m. at The Foundation in Bristol. The Little Bit Country Little Bit Rock-n-Roll celebration will include a dinner of Southern culinary favorites, country cocktails and "rocktails," live music by The Twangbangers and live and silent auctions. Tickets are $125 and transportation from Johnson City and Kingsport will be available. For reservations, visit www.tricitieshopegala.org or call 975-0635.
On Aug. 24, the ACS will conduct a Community Yard Sale and Vendor Fair from 8 a.m.-2 p.m. rain or shine, at its offices at 508 Princeton Road. Vendor spots are $15 and may be reserved by calling 975-0635.
And finally, the Second Annual ACS Battle of the Batter will be held from 6-8 p.m. Aug. 29 at The Charles in downtown Johnson City. Professional bakers are invited to put their skills to the test in seven cupcake categories to be judged by a panel of fellow professionals and home bakers to vie for honors in three cupcake categories to be judged by the audience.
Tickets are $20 and include the guest's choice of six professionally baked cupcakes and samples of all home baked cupcakes entered in the battle. To register or for information, call 975-0635 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Score one for the "Dogs." A look at the 2012 performance of the
"Dogs of the Dow ," which are the 10 stocks in theDow Jones
Industrial Average (DJIA) with the highestdividend yield , now
reveals an impressive run. In theory, these high yielders have been
oversold (as the share price falls, the dividend yield goes up) and
are most likely to outperform the rest of the stocks in the Dow in
the next 12 months.
As a group, these 10 stocks rose an impressive 8.3% so far this
year, which is five full percentage points ahead of the broader Dow
Jones Industrial Average. In fact, toss out these 10 "Dogs," and
the rest of the DJIA's 20 stocks are on track to finish the year
Another plus: Add in these Dogs' solid dividend yields (which
ranged from 3 to 6%), and the entire group has delivered
double-digit gains in terms of total return thus far in 2012. Hats
off to
Merck (
Kraft Foods Group (Nasdaq: KRFT)
, for delivering total returns exceeding 20% in the same period.
(Note that Kraft was split into Kraft Foods Group and
Mondelez International (Nasdaq: MDLZ)
earlier this year, and the returns represent continued stakes in
each firm).
A Solid Year for the Dow's Dogs
Why did these stocks fare so well in 2012? Because investors
continue to gravitate toward income-producing stocks, especially
whilefixed-income investments such asbonds and certificate of
deposits areoffering such paltry yields of 2%.
Taken a step further, the top five stocks in this group have
returned nearly 19% in 2012 (whencapital appreciation and dividend
yields are included), which is quite remarkable at a time when the
major averages are drifting back toward breakeven for the year.
What about 2013?
The question for investors is whether this approach can beat
themarket again in 2013. Before answering that, let's look at the
current crop of Dow Dogs (though this group may change a bit before
now and year's end).
The coming Dow Dogs portfolio
Of course, to make this group, you often have to be out of
favor. For example,
McDonald's (
Hewlett-Packard (
Chevron (CVX)
weren't on this list a year ago, though their negative returns thus
far in 2012 have pushed up their yields. Conversely, a strong year
for companies such as GE means they're not welcome in this club for
And this is exactly what highlights the unusual approach for
thisinvestment strategy. The Dogs of the Dow basket of stocks can
pay off if underperformers start to claw back and deliver gains in
the year ahead.
If you look at it another way, these stocks can post robust
gains if investors perceive them as solid "dividend growers." In
recent years, there's been a clear interest in stocks that tend to
support steadily rising payouts. So how does this coming crop of
Dow Dogs fare when it comes to dividend growth? Here's what their
average annual dividend growth rate has been during the past four
McDonald's has managed to deliver very impressive dividend hikes
in recent years, but the fastest-growing dividends are mostly
coming from the high-tech field.
Intel (Nasdaq: INTC)
and Hewlett-Packard have boosted the payout at a roughly 15% annual
clip, while companies like
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT)
Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO)
Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)
are becoming dividend stars as well.
So perhaps we should suggest a new twist on the Dogs of the Dow
Theory: Focus on the components in the Dow that sport the highest
yields and the fastest-growing dividends. The five companies in
this group are: Intel, Hewlett-Packard, McDonalds,
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
Chevron (CVX)
Risks to Consider:
The Dogs of the Dow approach has been a solid one in 2012, but
this group has also underperformed the rest of the pack in certain
years. Yet over the long haul, it has tended to deliver superior
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We've got six more weeks to see how this race finishes, but the
Dogs of the Dow's five-percentage-point lead appears undefeatable
at this point. Toss in the income they've produced, and the total
return has been especially notable. The appeal of this approach is
that even if these stocks don't outperform, their high dividend
yields should keep them from tanking in a tough market, especially
since their payout still exceeds most other fixed-income
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With a college fair set for Monday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Columbia City High School, guidance counselors across the county are encouraging parents and students to attend.
"We tell our students to get up there," said Mark Rickerd, guidance counselor at Whitko High School. "Parents should tag along and ask a lot of questions. They will think of things to ask that wouldn't cross their child's mind."
The event is open to any student and their parents. Counselors at CCHS want to see the college planning process begin at an early age.
"There are some middle schoolers that come to the fair," said Sarah Maynard, director of guidance at CCHS. "The more you know, the better you can set yourself up for success."
Although academics are important when planning for college, other aspects of college life should be considered before students embark on the educational experience.
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