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Templeton Foundation awards grant for meditation research (VIDEO)
November 19, 2012
The Majesty of the Present: Clifford Saron at TEDxUCDavis
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The John Templeton Foundation has awarded a grant of $2.3 million over three years to continue and extend the Shamatha Project, the most comprehensive investigation yet conducted into the effects of intensive meditation training on mind and body.
The Shamatha Project is led by Clifford Saron, associate research scientist at the Center for Mind and Brain and MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis.
This inaugural Templeton Prize Research Grant, "Quantifiable Constituents of Spiritual Growth," was announced Nov. 18 during a special session at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Chicago in honor of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, winner of the 2012 Templeton Prize, who gave a videotaped presentation.
"This project represents a true long-term perspective on the developmental consequences of intensive meditation training. Nothing quite like this has been done before," Saron said.
At several meetings sponsored by the Massachusetts-based Mind and Life Institute, Saron has presented results from the Shamatha Project to the Dalai Lama, who has endorsed the project. Saron and his colleagues have also shared results from this research with scientific and lay audiences around the world.
"The Shamatha project is a remarkable scientific odyssey that is changing our understanding not only of how contemplative practices may affect human cognition, emotion and brain function, but also how we view the relationship between mental function and health. This major award from the Templeton Foundation will help Dr. Saron and our team expand the boundaries of this innovative research," said Ron Mangun, dean of the Division of Social Sciences at UC Davis and a co-investigator on the grant.
With the new funding, Saron, project co-director Bajinder Sahdra, a former postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis and now a lecturer at the University of Western Sydney in Australia, Mangun and their colleagues will continue and expand the analysis of data from the Shamatha Project. The latest phase of the project will address two big questions: After going through intensive meditation training, what differentiates people who develop their lives in ways that relieve suffering for themselves and others close to them from those who do not; and how are measured changes in cognitive, psychological and physiological processes related to peoples' life experience years later?
Michael Murray, executive vice president of programs at the John Templeton Foundation, said that the foundation was impressed with the size and scope of the project.
"There are more data points per subject in this study than I have ever encountered in a meditation research project," Murray said. "The dataset is unique and unusually multidimensional in the sense of taking multiple measurements of cognition, behavior, emotion, experience, biomarkers, neural indicators, self-report and other-person judgment, and then repeating many of these at multiple time-points."
The project is investigating the effects of two three-month retreats held in 2007. A total of 60 volunteers received intensive daily instruction from Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace in developing calm, focused attention and cultivating compassionate concern. Throughout the retreats, they were tested for a variety of psychological, physiological and cognitive measures. Participants in the second retreat were also interviewed about their experiences during training, and all participants provided spoken accounts of their experiences five and 15 months later.
In a series of papers and conference presentations, the team has described how retreat participants reported improved psychological functioning, were better able to sustain visual attention and inhibit habitual responses, and were more engaged with and sympathetic to suffering. Participants also showed greater activation of attention-related brain regions during meditation after training and had improved measures of cellular health that have been linked to aging. In addition, those participants who reported greater mindfulness had diminished stress hormone levels.
The new funds will aid completion of analysis of the original data set as well as support follow-up data collection. In new work, the researchers will carry out structured telephone interviews with the participants, assessing their experiences of the retreat six years later and investigating what changes it made in their lives and how those changes continue to affect them.
Saron, Sahdra and colleagues will use a sophisticated network analysis to see which physiological and psychological measures made during the retreats are associated with long-term personal growth years later — and which are not.
Additionally, they will interview other people, including family members, colleagues and friends of the retreat participants, to garner their observations about the long-term changes in the participants.
"We're relating how things that we can measure in the laboratory reflect meaningful changes in peoples' lives," Saron said.
"A common way people think about meditation is as though it is a formulaic process. Take a person, follow the instructions, obtain a result — but meditation is not so mechanical," Saron said. "We view it as a commitment to investigate the nature of one's mind in a developmental process of becoming familiar with 'the world within.' This promotes a more knowing and friendly attitude towards oneself. We think this greater comfort 'within our own skin' will be reflected in mental and physical health, our actions in the world, and felt by those with whom we interact."
"We fundamentally care about individual differences," Saron said. "Why do people change? How can we develop a sense of purpose?"
A sense of "purpose in life" is gaining increased recognition within the field of psychology as a key to sustained health, Saron explained, whether or it not involves meditation as such.
Saron sees a wide potential impact for the project to health and medicine, law, business and society at large. He has spoken about the Shamatha Project to audiences as diverse as former California state prison administrators, agricultural leaders, and major corporations such as Google. Saron is currently working with researchers at UC San Francisco and other colleagues to develop a short intervention to help reduce stress for parents of children with autism.
Other co-investigators and trainees on the Templeton Foundation grant team at UC Davis are: Professors Emilio Ferrer, Phillip Shaver and Karen Bales, Department of Psychology; graduate students Stephen Aichele, Anahita Hamidi, Brandon King, and Anthony Zanesco; Erika Rosenberg, consulting scientist with the Center for Mind and Brain and research associate Rachel Whitworth. Other team members are: Susan Bauer-Wu, University of Virginia; Katherine MacLean, Johns Hopkins University; Jonathan Smallwood, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany; Paul Grossman, University of Basel Hospital, Switzerland; Firdaus Dhabhar, Stanford University; and Ezequiel Di Paolo, University of the Basque Country, Spain. The Shamatha Project additionally involves a number of other collaborating researchers.
Funds to support the work since 2006 have come from the Fetzer Institute, Hershey Family Foundation, fellowships from the National Science Foundation and Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, Tan Teo Charitable Foundation, Baumann Foundation, Yoga Research and Education Foundation, Mental Insight Foundation, and individual and anonymous donors as well as sponsorship by the Shambhala Mountain Center and Mind and Life Institute.
The foundation launched the Templeton Prize Research Grant initiative this year to honor each year's Templeton Prize laureate specifically by funding scientific research in disciplines related to the laureate's life's work.
This grant from John Templeton Foundation is counted as part of The Campaign for UC Davis, a universitywide fundraising initiative publicly launched in 2010 to inspire 100,000 donors to contribute $1 billion in support of the university's mission and vision.
About the John Templeton Foundation
The John Templeton Foundation serves as a philanthropic catalyst for discoveries relating to the Big Questions of human purpose and ultimate reality. The Foundation supports research on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and infinity to creativity, forgiveness, love, and free will. It encourages civil, informed dialogue among scientists, philosophers, and theologians and between such experts and the public at large, for the purposes of definitional clarity and new insights. The Foundation's vision is derived from the late Sir John Templeton's optimism about the possibility of acquiring "new spiritual information" and from his commitment to rigorous scientific research and related scholarship. The Foundation's motto, "How little we know, how eager to learn," exemplifies its support for open-minded inquiry and its hope for advancing human progress through breakthrough discoveries.
About UC Davis
UC Davis is a global community of individuals united to better humanity and our natural world while seeking solutions to some of our most pressing challenges. Located near the California state capital, UC Davis has more than 34,000 students, and the full-time equivalent of 4,100 faculty and other academics and 17,400 staff. The campus has an annual research budget of over $750 million, a comprehensive health system and about two dozen specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and 99 undergraduate majors in four colleges and six professional schools.
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One of the most dramatic pieces of evidence for a pre-Columbian crossing of the Atlantic is to be found in a single Latin marginalia, that is some words scribbled into the margin of a book. The sentence in question appears in a copy of the Historia rerum ubique gestarum by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini which was published in Venice in 1477. In that work Piccolomini discusses the arrival of Indians in Europe blown from across the Atlantic at a date when America was unknown to Europeans (another post another day). Next to this passage a reader has written in Latin the following extraordinary words:
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A video getting some attention recently is a clip from the US sitcom Louie .The show, reminiscent of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, features comedian Louis CK playing a loosely autobiographical, fictional version of himself. In the clip in question, the comedian and a group of his male friends (also comedians) crack wise while playing poker.
I noticed the scene when a snippet from it was played during a radio interview by Terry Gross* with CK on NPR's Fresh Air programme. (The interview itself caused a minor furore in the US media when Mississippi affiliate of NPR – sort of America's equivalent to the BBC – banned Fresh Air because of the explicit nature of the show, read more on that here, here and here)
In the clip much of the conversation revolves around the solitary gay man in the group, comedian/actor Rick Crom. His homosexuality, his friends' interest in his lifestyle and their casual homophobia is all made fun of.
It gets most interesting though, when the discussion turns to words, specifically use of the word faggot. Louise CK is known for his profanity and for using provocative words, including faggot, in his routine. CK asks Crum whether this offends him, to which Crum proceeds to explain the history of "faggot" to his friends.
Watch it below…
It's a beautiful scene; it manages to be moving and thought provoking, while still being funny, and without awkwardly lurching in tone. That is great writing.
New York Magazine flagged it in their "Approval Matrix" column and Atlantic Monthly commentator Andrew Sullivan wrote in his blog about it too. Calling it "the last word on'faggot' he wrote of the scene, "In all this, there is a lovely American sanity – not too much defensiveness, a whole lot of candor, and a deep well of friendship."
Though Sullivan thinks Crum's etymology of the word is "bullshit" that is not really the point. In the aforementioned interview, CK acknowledges that Crum's history may not be true, but the feelings behind it are real. As a comedian, Crum believes CK should be able to make jokes and say what he likes, but he also maintians that comedians should know the meaning of what they say.
Another Atlantic commentator, the black writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, puts it very succinctly…
"The current dialogue between minority groups and the majority culture puts the burden of judgement on the minority, and casts us as the constant, ever-vigilant, school-marms, while the rest of the country goofs off. I don't have much interest in dictating to people what they say, but I don't have much interest in being lied to either.
From the perspective of my current study, I would not, for instance, ask Southerners to stop honoring Robert E. Lee. Just don't look me in my eye and tell me he was actually in favor of my freedom. Likewise, what I got from Crom's approach was 'Tell all the gay jokes you want. Knock yourself out. But take responsibility for what you say. Don't look me in my face and tell me 'faggot' isn't really an insult.'"
As a bonus, here's another hilarious video of Louis CK which went viral last year. It's snippet of his appearance on Conan O'Brien's US chatshow, which can be summed up with CK's declaration, "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy"
* Terry Gross, for her part, is a fantastic interviewer. You can download her shows from, NPR.org and through iTunes. A good introduction is this poingant discussion with the comedian/actor Tracy Morgan from last year.Tagged in: comedy, homosexuality, louis ck, npr, terry gross, tv
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|| Day 3 || 25 09 2005 || Maybe Friday could be better ||
After another short night (Steffi and I couldnt stop talking till 2.15 am
) we arrived way too early at the stadium. Actually we were the first fans and we couldnt even enter. And once we finally could go in, we were not allowed to go to center court till an hour later. But then we were the first ones to arrive there and could stand in the first line to take some good pictures of Stan and George, who were practicing. Ste and I stayed in the first line to take some pics of Chiudi when he entered the stadium with the other players, before we did go back to our seat.
The first match was really nice, George played really good. And it was an easy match. I really had fun during this match following the Swiss players box, where they were laughing a lot. And I just loved the text on the big screen
Com on Georgi boy
It was a really nice match to follow, a lot better than the 2nd match, of Stan. But that was prolly coz the atmosphere was a bit gone, and coz I had my eye on Marco all the time, really, seemed he was hardly following the tennis and talking all the time. And it was so cute when Roger did put his hand on Marcos head/neck
After the match I became a bit unsure, all could enter the apero. But I had to wait outside. And it would be like impossible to contact Marco now. So I did put on my best face and asked if I could enter, coz Marco was going to try to get me in and I didnt want to wait for him. And I dunno what it was, but they did lemme enter. And I am so happy they did, coz it was lovely.
even while I didnt understand any word of what they said
. All the players were happy, smiling and singing. And even while I tried to get a picture of Roger all the time, it was Marco my camera could find. Seems it knows who I am loving so much
The players did leave again without signing or giving photos. And it seemed most fans were a bit disappointed of that. And they were standing behind the door for a while to see if they could go outside to the players, but were not allowed. But the door was a bit open and the others saw Marco was still standing there and they made me move closer so I could see him, and then they opened the door to let someone inside and Marco did see me. And he smiled, when I waved at him. With his eyes he said please come outside so I did go through the door. But the security stopped me, even while I said Marco is asking me to come. Luckily Marco helped and said I was allowed to come outside. That felt really special, me, lil Yvo from Holland, was the only one allowed to go outside to talk to Marco. He gave me a hand again and we talked for about five minutes about several things. But sadly Michael asked marco if he would come, and Marco said sorry that he had to leave. I asked him if I could take one last picture of him, and he asked me if I didnt want to be on it as well, so of course I couldnt say no to that.
But I was so stupid!!! I thought I was standing on his right side and moved to the other side coz I didnt want to be near his injured shoulder, but of course, as you can guess now, this other side was his right one
But he didnt mind and put his arm around me again. Wow he really is too good to be true. So we said goodbye and he said see you again. I could only reply with hopefully, but he seemed to be sure that we would meet again
When I came back inside they all said that Chiudi really is nice to me, and yes he really is. I am only becoming a bigger and bigger fan
So I would say that in general, this trip was even better than I could have dreamed off. Before the weekend I was already happy if I could see Marco or Roger from distance. But really, never expected that I would have the chance to talk to him more than once. After such weekend I got the feeling that I mustve been the luckiest girl in the crowd. It was great to be there, to meet so many Roger-fans from rf.com/mtf. I would love to go back to Switzerland soon, esp. for Swiss tennis, so I better start saving my money!
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Oct 09, 2012 23:46:03
hey guys when i try to run this program, i get the correct output in c free compiler..but when i try to run it onlinein ideone, i get a run time error..please help me guys...
#include<iostream> #include<stdio.h> #include<string.h> #include<ctype.h> using namespace std; int main() { int n,i,print_count=0,word_count=0,j,string_length,index,match,different=0; char *word; //variable to hold the word to be removed. char current_char,first; //current_char holds the letters in the word_array one_by_one cout<<endl<<"PLEASE ENTER THE WORD TO BE REMOVED FROM WORD_ARRAY"<<endl; gets(word); //cout<<endl<<word; //cout<<endl<<strlen(word); string_length=strlen(word); //length of string to be removed first=word[0]; //first holds first char of word cout<<endl<<"PLEASE ENTER NUMBER OF WORDS IN WORD_ARRAY"<<endl; cin>>word_count; if(word_count<=0) //validates the input { cout<<endl<<"PLEASE NOTE THAT WORD COUNT SHOULD BE DIGIT GRETAER THAN ZERO"; } else { char word_array[word_count][200]; //if valid input,dynamically create 2D word array cout<<endl<<"PLEASE ENTER THE WORDS IN THE WORD_ARRAY ONE BY ONE"<<endl; for(i=0;i<word_count;i++) { cout<<endl<<"ENTER WORD NUMBER "<<i+1<<">>"<<endl; //read the words into the 2D array gets(word_array[i]); } /*for(i=0;i<word_count;i++) { cout<<endl<<word_array[i]; }*/ //cout<<endl<<"here it goes"<<endl; cout<<endl<<endl<<"Output:"<<endl<<endl; cout<<"["; //square bracket at beginning of output for(i=0;i<word_count;i++) // loop to go through each word of 2d word_array { cout<<"\""; //double quotes before each word in output for(j=0;word_array[i][j]!='\0';) // loop to check the last character of current word { different=0; current_char=word_array[i][j]; // set current_char //cout<<endl<<"current char="<<current_char<<endl; if(tolower(current_char)==tolower(first)) //if there is a first letter match,then only go to letter removal logic { //cout<<endl<<"first char match"<<endl; index=0; // index increments through each letter of 'word' variable. set it to zero,each time ther is a 1st letter match. match=0; while(index<=(string_length-1)) // loop till index reaches the last character { if(tolower(word[index])==tolower(word_array[i][j])) //if there is a match in letters,go inside if block { //cout<<endl<<"hurray"; index++; //in case of match,make index point to next char of word match++; //if a match,increment no of matched chars. j++; //in case of match,point to next char of string in word_array //cout<<endl<<"match="<<match; } else break; //if no match,get out of loop } if(match!=string_length) //if the entire word does not match,move the j index back to the first letter of partially matched word { //cout<<endl<<endl<<"j="<<j; different=1; j=j-match; } } /*** A 'different' variable is used here so that even when the word to be removed appears continiously in the input array,it will be removed by the code below.At the same time,it will also print partially matched words. ***/ //(tolower (word_array[i][j]))!=tolower(first) checks if word which immediately follows the previous word also has to be removed. //The condition (different==1) ensures that partially matched words will not be skipped due to the condition tolower (word_array[i][j]))!=tolower(first) if(word_array[i][j]!='\0'&& ((tolower (word_array[i][j]))!=tolower(first) || (different==1))) { //cout<<endl<<"not null"; cout<<word_array[i][j]; //if not a part of given word,print onto screen j++; //increment and check next char } } cout<<"\""; //double quotes before each word in output //cout<<print_count++; if(i<word_count-1) cout<<","; } cout<<"]"; //square bracket at end of output } }
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Oct 10, 2012 03:05:24
Please supply more
, including the name of the online compiler, in cased we need to avoid it
thejwal pavithran
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Oct 10, 2012 03:48:17
the problem was with using iostream.h where just iostream was needed also i had to use the statement using namespace std...
but now its giving a run time error...some non-standard memory allocation or something like that...the headaches of c++!! i would have implemented the same thing in java..but im still doing simple exercises by taking inputs through command line...im yet to learn how i can take inputs during run time....
by the way the name of the compiler is ideone.com..avoid unless you are using
Campbell Ritchie
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Oct 10, 2012 08:40:58
I have come across other online IDEs and have known them make errors in Java coding before.
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Oct 10, 2012 09:35:48
I could get that IDE to work for FORTH, however. That's better than I have seen before
thejwal pavithran
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Oct 11, 2012 03:15:17
learning java paid off...i dont know if this code below is badly structured or has bad coding practices, but with the little knowledge i had,i was able to achieve the same thing in java..and the online compiler gave up and compiled..
import java.util.Scanner; class RemoveWord { public static void main(String[] args) { String subStr; //variable to hold the word to be removed. int numOfWords; Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("PLEASE ENTER THE WORD TO BE REMOVED"); subStr = in.nextLine(); System.out.println("PLEASE ENTER THE NUMBER OF WORDS IN THE WORD ARRAY"); numOfWords = in.nextInt(); //System.out.println(numOfWords); if(numOfWords > 0) //validates input { String[] stringCollection = new String[numOfWords]; String[] finalArray = new String[numOfWords]; System.out.println("ENTER THE WORDS ONE BY ONE"); in.nextLine(); for(int i=0; i<numOfWords;i++) { int k=i+1; System.out.println("ENTER WORD NUMBER "+k+" >>>"); stringCollection[i] = in.nextLine(); // System.out.println(i); } finalArray = remove(stringCollection,subStr); System.out.println("\n\nOUTPUT:"); System.out.print("["); //square bracket at beginning of output for(String s:finalArray) { System.out.print("\""); System.out.print(s+"\","); } System.out.print("]"); //square bracket at end of output } else { System.out.println("PLEASE THE ARRAY SIZE SHOULD BE GREATER THAN ZERO"); } } public static String[] remove(String[] stringCollection,String subStr) { int finalIndex = 0; int index1=0,index2=0; String curString; String tempString=""; String[] finalArray = new String[stringCollection.length]; /*for(int i=0;i<numOfWords;i++) { System.out.println(stringCollection[i]); }*/ for(int i=0;i<stringCollection.length;i++) { curString = stringCollection[i]; tempString = curString; while(index1!=-1) { index1 = ignoreCase(tempString).indexOf(ignoreCase(subStr)); //checks if substring is present in main string //System.out.println(index1); if(index1 != -1) // if substring present enter if { tempString = curString.substring(0,index1); //copy from beginning till character before substring //System.out.println("yae!"); index2 = index1 + subStr.length(); tempString = tempString + curString.substring(index2,curString.length()); //copy from character after substring to end of string } curString = tempString; // final string } index1 = 0; //System.out.println(curString); finalArray[finalIndex++] = curString; //add final string to array } /*for(String s:finalArray) { System.out.println(s); }*/ return finalArray; } public static String ignoreCase(String str) // function to ignore case { return str.toLowerCase(); } }
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Jan 04, 2013 06:06:26
This code portion is very suspicious. Where does
point to? How much memory is allocated to that "buffer"?
Where does
store the line?
char *word; //variable to hold the word to be removed. char current_char,first; //current_char holds the letters in the word_array one_by_one cout<<endl<<"PLEASE ENTER THE WORD TO BE REMOVED FROM WORD_ARRAY"<<endl; gets(word);
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I want to recommend an idea to those who enjoy action sports and/or can't seem to push themselves to huck that first backflip, hit that gap, or whatever it is that they just want to overcome. It's called the "40-60 Rule". The success in most (hardcore) sports seems to be only 40% physical training and 60% mental training. Of that 60% comes skill and experience and most important, the willingness to take on risks.
With skiing, boarding, skating, BMXing, you name it, that means taking the risk of trying harder tricks, hucking your meat of bigger cliffs, and putting yourself in situations that involves more risk – all of which increased the chance of falling. In my opinion, if you're not falling at least a few times a day when you cruise up to the hill or hit up the skatepark, then you're not trying hard enough. Without a doubt, to progress and advance at anything, we must consistently be pushing and challenging ourselves. Those gnarly body builders describe it as the "pain period." Only by trying things that we haven't done, struggling, learning, and then continuing to try it again and again do we improve our performance. Seems like common sense, cuz it is! It's a frank issue of acclimating and touching that unchartered territory.
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When we push ourselves and most often fail, we find that we deal with failure better than we'd expect. Then we wonder why we were so timid to do whatever it was we did in the first place; whether it was hitting a jump switch for the first time, ollieing our first set of stairs, or whatever it was that we now looked back on and thought, "I can't believe I was so scared to do that in the first place."
We naturally seem to be inclined to focus exclusively on advancing our skill sets or expanding our knowledge, although the greatest advancement and education, in my opinion, most often comes from action, experience, and taking risk. And our regrets in life reflect this. In the amazing book "Stumbling on Happiness", it states that "in the long run, people of every age and in every walk of life seem to regret not having done things much more than they regret things they did."
Although playing it safe makes sense in some professions such as accountants and healthcare providers, but when it comes to action sports, we need to focus on the 60% that truly transforms you from good, to great. Our inhibitions have developed to shelter us and keep us save, but in many situations, they put a restraint on us and hold us back. Ultimately, it's the ones who barrel through the discomfort, who are resilient in the face of fear and failure, and who hone down the art of taking risk who reach the highest levels of performance. Check out the epitome of this below; who does it time and time again.


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We get it. Mississippi Power Co. needs to make money in addition to making electricity.
We understand that fuel rates fluctuate. We know that it is customary for Mississippi Power to ask for a fuel rate increase this time of year.
What we don't understand is why the power company feels so strongly that it needs to increase rates again this year - even if it is a paltry 3.35 percent - after residential customers saw a 15 percent increase to pay for the not-yet-operational lignite-fueled power plant located in Kemper County.
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The 0.02 micron "viral" filter that Sawyer makes is meant for people traveling in third world countries where getting hepatitis from the tapwater is a real concern. For the United States backcountry the 0.1 micron filter should cover you. IIRC it JUST BARELY misses the FDA criteria for a water purifier, as opposed to a water filter- I think that to be called a water purifier a device must remove 5 log of viruses, so 99.998% removal FAILS.But most viral human-pathogen contamination in North American water sources comes from human waste, as opposed to bacterial or protozoan contamination which can come from stock or wild animals. So if you are in the back country you're probably safe as long as you aren't downstream from a sewage treatment facility or outhouse.But make your own choices (HYOH).
I'll be buying my first Sawyer filter system soon and need to choose between the SP121 and SP131 filter elements. I can get the SP121 for $30. Anyone have any opinion/info. as to which would be better? Would squeeze and gravity flow rates be similar between the two filters? Are the SP131 squeeze bags reliable or likely to get holes if accidentally scraped against rough granite? (I'll be using the same setups with needed connectors as nicely described in the previous posts - thanks.)
When I saw Randy's post about this filter on another forum, I immediately ordered one. Since I am anti-chemical (except for backup) and anti steripen (mine failed) this seemed to be the ticket to lightening up from my gravity filter.I was not disappointed. As a matter of fact, I am thrilled with this setup! (A big Thank You to Randy).From my digital scale:Filter = 2.5 oz2 L Pouch = 1.0 ozBackflush syringe = 1.2 ozGrand total = 4.7 ozBUT, for a weekend you don't need the backflush syringe, so....Weekend total = 3.5 ozBTW: I have noticed several medical professionals post on here that irrigating a wound is very important. The syringe that comes with the Sawyer Squeeze would be perfect for that.
This filter looks nice. I would love to get A couple of opinions, though. Can I leave a backup option at home? Can you screw this on a bottle and suck water out like you can on the Frontier Pro?
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Edited by ctwnwood on 08/08/2011 21:41:02 MDT.
1) Do the Sawyer squeeze bags appear to be as durable as similar size Platypus bags?2) Would the older style Sawyer filter (SP 121/122) connected to a 1L Platy bag with an inch of tubing as a squeeze system work as well/fast as the new SP 131 squeeze system?
My heart sank when I read about needing an extra scoop for the bag. Why doesn't someone make a bottle or bag with a large opening on one end and an attached filter on the other? For example, a Clean Bottle (http://cleanbottle.com/g) with a Sawyer Filter on one end. That way you can scoop the water up, even from shallow sources, cap the scoop side, attach a filter on the other end and squeeze to filter. I am still looking for the ultimate filter setup and almost all the ones I read require carrying some sort of hacked Gatorade bottle to be used as a scoop.
I agree, that is one of the flaws of this new system. The squeeze system requires a squeezable water collecting/feed bag. No mfg. makes a lightweight bag that has a reliable zip lock top that will hold under squeeze pressure and that has a bottom connection port to attach to the filter.My suggestion would be to make one using something like a Sea To Summit 4 Liter Ultra-Sil Dry Sack (0.9 oz.). It has a large top opening for reasonably easy water collection, and a roll top closure with stiffener that should withstand / aid in squeezing water thru a filter. The connecting port to a filter could be easily DIYed using parts from USPlastics.(and thanks for reminding me about the **update** post. It sounds like the Sawyer squeeze bags are not as sturdy as a platypus bag.)
I have been "lurking" on this thread since its inception and feel it's time to disseminate some facts and information from my personal experiences. One reason for me delving deeply into the water aspects of backpacking recently is because with my compromised immune system due the two stem cell transplants for multiple myeloma cancer. I cannot take ANY chances with ANY source of water. I have use chemical and filters to treat water prior to my dx of 2003 and after 2003 the Sawyer SP 125 PURIFIER in a GRAVITY MODE. I have a Squeeze system with a SAWYER SQUEEZE BAG (1.5L) (1.0oz set up and a SP 121/122 FILTER when I have backpacked with my grandchildren (ages 11 to 9) so they can get into the act of "making water" for their use. I also have a GEIGERRIG Hydration Engine system set up for use with the Sawyer SP 125 PURIFIER for areas that I will have difficulty with my Sawyer SP 125 PURIFIER gravity system (drawback to this system is weight). Now to the posting above:"I agree that is one of the flaws of this new system. The squeeze system requires a squeezable water collecting/feed bag.">>>> If you use a Sawyer's squeeze bag (eg. SAWYER SQUEEZE WATER BAG 64oz/1.9L (1.0oz), with the necessary parts and tubing connected to a SP 121/122 FILTER or a SP194/SP190 PURIFIER you can squeeze water into any container.My system: SAWYER WATER FILTER wet (.1 micron) (3.65oz) /SAWYER SQUEEZE BAG (1.5L) (1.0oz), HOSE ASSEMBLY 1.25oz/FLUSHING SYRINGE (1.12oz)/STUFF BAG (.35oz) - 6.2ozIf you purchase the Sawyer bag (s) (use as a squeeze bag backup) for a collection bag with your SP 121/122 FILTER ….you have a light system (see above and you further lighten this system by eliminating the FLUSHING SYRINGE (1.12oz) & STUFF BAG). Using a SP194/SP190 PURIFIER WITH a Sawyer squeeze bag is DIFFICULT to produce the flow compared to the SP 121/122 FILTER or a hand pump FILTER….I would NOT recommend from my experiences. I have NOT use a Sawyer product with a Platy bag so I cannot give any feedback on that. "No mfg. makes a lightweight bag that has a reliable zip lock top that will hold under squeeze pressure and that has a bottom connection port to attach to the filter.">>>>Checked out GEIGERRIG Hydration Engine (http://www.geigerrig.com/ ) 3 L RESERVOIR - 4.0oz very Bomb Proof and while this system is a "squeeze system" it uses an internal pressurized system that is quite unique, that will force water through the SP 121/122 FILTER or a SP194/SP190 PURIFIER with ease BUT at different rates. I believe the Sawyer bag (though it does not have a zip lock top) will be reliable, though further testing/use on my part is needed to make any definitive statements. Check out firstname.lastname@example.com at Sawyer for further information and/or clarification on this issue.Heading to Isle Royale Nation Park with the wife for nine trip tomorrow to walk the Minong Trail for the second time take in some wilderness. (There are issues with water in certain areas on the island but beyond this discussion.)Cheers
I just came back from a 16 day JMT trip and used my old "black" 1st gen Sawyer Filter (not the purifier) for the whole trip.For this trip, I used a squeeze bag system of 1 dirty water 1L Platypus and 1L Platypus for clean water.System worked well enough, but my hands got tired after 3L of water....was filtering for my buddies.The Platypus bags really can take the abuse and held up fine.Backflushing was simply squeezing the clean bag to force water back through the filter.After 16 days, it did seem like the Sawyer was slowing down a little bit...maybe needed a more complete flushing from a faucet, but worked good enough or I was simply impatient or tired on the trail at the end.I am very interested in getting the squeeze bottle system to see if the rate of flow is better than the inline filter that I am using.Anyway, thought I would share....old filter can be adapted to function like the new squeeze bottle one.-Tony
@Tony - Can you clarify which 1L Platypus you used exactly? Soft bottle? Plus bottle? Hoser?
David,Sorry about the lack of details on the Platypus.I am using the soft bottles, 1L, for my rigged Squeeze bottle knock off system.I have a few of the old, discontinuted Platypus filter links that allow me to screw onto the Platypus bottles on either end of the Sawyer filter to make my connections.NOT using the Big Zip closure system.I use Sawyer as a gravity filter in camp with a 4L Platypus water tank, that has a zip lock closure system that is just OKAY.Was a bit harder to seal up tight with cold water and wet hands.My water tank is a few years old, so wonder if it is losing the "softness" that made it soooo easy to close when brand new.Once sealed, you can squeeze the water tank too....even lean on it to apply pressure....not sure I would sit on a water tank though.-Tony
The squeeze bags supplied with the SP 131/2 are probably like the new packaging I've seen for laundry detergent and pet foods, sturdy enough to resist granite scrape holes and almost as strong as Platy bags.The Geigerrig system bag is a little heavier than I want, but I enjoyed the video they have of throwing one out of a truck going 100mph to show how sturdy it is!Optimally, the water collection bag would have an open top to make collecting and cleaning the bag easy (the Sawyer squeeze bags wouldn't work to collect water in shallow desert springs). The best water collection/dirty water bag seems to be a sil-nylon bag with stiffener/roll top. It seems others have made/used these for gravity systems, but I haven't read anything about their use in a squeeze system.
ziplock can be used to collect very shallow water, then pour into other container
Has anybody taken a ultra-sil dry sack and used parts from USPlastics (or something else) to add a water tube coming out of the sack. Seems like it would be difficult to get a good seal with this slippery material. If you've succeeded I'd like to know how you did it. Thanks!
Just used one of these in the Grand Canyon last weekend. Very light, very quick and easy to use. It can be awkward to try to fill the "dirty" water bag because it is such a small opening, but we used a cup when we couldn't find a place where the water was "falling" to make it easy to fill the bag. The bags seemed durable but on the third day we developed a pinhole in the bottom of the larger bag. We could still filter easily but it created a drip of dirty water down the side of the bag. For anyone who has trouble with their hands from repetitive motion activities, squeezing the bag to move the water through the filter is a great alternative to traditional water filters. We filtered a lot of water very quickly. One person was filling dirty water bags (we took two), one person was squeezing the bag attached to the filter, and the other was holding the clean water containers. The threading on/off of the filter to the bag was very quick.I have been unable to see how to use gravity to make this system work since we always had to force the water (by squeezing the bag) to push it through the filter.
My experience so far has been similar. One of my two bottles, the smaller one in my case, started leaking a bit around the rim where the nozzle is. So far, that's been the only problem with the filter.I've forced the water through the filter every time also, otherwise it takes quite a while. I think it would work by gravity alone, but pretty slowly. Maybe if you hang it high enough to have a larger hydrostatic head it would work reasonably well, but I haven't tried that.I also found that the push-pull filter makes a handy faucet for washing one's hands; I place the bag full of water under one arm, tip it downward with the valve open, and squeeze gently with my arm. Quite convenient. :)
My squeeze filter also started leaking on the third day of use. The leak was at the end of the throat base. Sawyer claimed I had been "wringing" the bag (voids the warrantee), which I did not. Still, they replaced the bag, which was nice of them. I still like the system, it's certainly quicker than my gravity Sawyer/Platypus system, but I'm hesitant about depending upon a system which starts leaking dirty water within a few days of use.
Are these failures you guys are having simply the dirty water bag? Or they the filter itself.Could dirty water bag failures be fixed by using a platy bag instead?
Yeah, a platy would work. I already carry a 3 liter one, and plan on that being my backup in case the dirty water bag fails.Mine isn't leaking, but it has seen little use yet. I purchased it a little over a month ago, and it came with a piece of paper stating that the bags are not covered under warranty. This makes me think they've had quite a few issues with the bags. ;)
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