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|27 mars 2007
|Date de dépôt
|2 déc. 2002
|Date de priorité
|2 déc. 2002
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|Mark Manuel, Thomas N. Greaves
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|Mark Manuel, Greaves Thomas N
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|Citations de brevets (70), Citations hors brevets (4), Référencé par (11), Classifications (22), Événements juridiques (13)
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The present invention generally relates to a tool and to a method for cooling a tool and more particularly, to a laminated tool which is formed by the creation and the selective coupling of members which have a plurality of passages and which are rigidly and selectively sealed in an efficient manner, thereby allowing for the creation of a relatively strong tool having an internal coolant manifold in an efficient and relatively inexpensive manner.
A tool, such as a mold, die, or other object formation apparatus is used to repeatedly form or create substantially similar objects or products. Conventionally, the tool is formed by machining or "working" a block of material in a certain manner, thereby forming or creating the tool in a desired shape and geometrical configuration. Alternatively, the tool may be formed by a laminar process in which various sectional members are created and selectively coupled, effective to allow the coupled members to cooperatively form the tool.
Particularly, a formed tool is adapted to be used in a wide variety of processes to create these objects or apparatuses and many of these processes cause the tool to become hot and/or cause the produced object or product to become hot. The created heat may cause the produced product to be "deformed" or to be an undesired shape or configuration.
In order to address these heat related difficulties, holes are typically drilled into the conventionally formed tool to create cooling passages within the tool. Typically, a cooling medium such as water or oil is passed through the tool to extract heat from the part produced and from the tool
While the foregoing approach does allow for the creation of cooling passages, it represents a relatively inefficient and costly process which undesirably increases the overall cost of production and may undesirably create distortion in the formed part. Such distortion is particularly undesirable since many of these parts are relatively expensive and may not be salvagable. Thus, the distorted parts must be scrapped which adds cost and inefficiency to the manufacturing process.
Additionally, in high-pressure manufacturing techniques such as injection molding, attention has to be given to adequately support the tool surface so that it does not deflect under molding pressures. Therefore, cooling holes which are drilled into a tool must be at least a minimum distance from the lowest or deepest contour cut into the mold and portions of the mold which are not cut as deep as the lowest contour have more material (i.e., metal) to conduct heat through and undesirably cause uneven/inefficient cooling of the tool.
There is therefore a need for a method to selectively create cooling passages within a tool which overcomes some or all of the previously delineated drawbacks of prior techniques. Moreover, there is a further need to create a tool by the use of a method which allows cooling passages to be efficiently formed within the tool and which does not potentially cause distortion in the product produced. These and other needs are addressed by the present as is more fully delineated below.
It is a first non-limiting advantage of the present invention to provide a method for creating cooling passages within a tool which overcomes some or all of the previously delineated drawbacks of prior techniques.
It is a second non-limiting advantage of the present invention to provide a method for creating a tool which overcomes some or all of the previously delineated drawbacks and which, by way of example and without limitation, allows for the efficient formation of cooling passages within the tool.
It is a third non-limiting advantage of the present invention to provide a tool having cooling passages which may be efficiently and integrally formed within the tool and which allow a created item to be efficiently cooled while concomitantly increasing the quality of the produced part.
According to a fourth advantage of the present invention, a tool is provided. Particularly, the tool comprises a plurality of sectional members which are coupled together, wherein the plurality of sectional members each have at least one coolant passage and at least one of the plurality of section members has an outer contour which is disposed a certain minimum distance from the at least one coolant passage.
According to a fifth advantage of the present invention a laminated tool having improved cooling characteristics is provided. Particularly, the laminated tool comprises a plurality of first sectional members each having a certain contour and at least one cooling passage which is a certain predetermined distance from the forming surface; wherein the plurality of sectional members are coupled together, effective to cause the certain contours to form a forming surface and to cause the at least one cooling passages to form a cooling manifold; and an amount of material which is disposed within the cooling manifold, effective to cool the tool.
According to a sixth advantage of the present invention, a method is provided for forming a tool having improved cooling characteristics. The method comprises the steps of forming at least one first member having a first outer contour and at least one first inner passage which is disposed a certain predetermined distance from the first outer contour; forming at least one second member having a second outer contour and at least one second inner passage which is disposed the certain predetermined distance from the second outer contour; and attaching the at least one first member to the at least one second member wherein the first outer contour cooperates with the second outer contour to form a mold surface and the first inner passage is communicatively coupled to the second inner passage to form a manifold.
These and other features, aspects, and advantages of the present invention will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art from a reading of the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment of the invention and by reference to the following drawings.
Referring now to
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It should be appreciated that tool 10 represents "one-half" of a molding tool and another tool having a mold surface complementary to mold surface 11 (not shown) is conventionally used to create an item. While both complementary mold tools are conventionally and cooperatively used in a molding process, the following discussion will focus upon tool 10 as both tools are made in a substantially identical manner.
Particularly, tool 10 is made by the use of a lamination process in which several sectional members, such as sectional members 12, 13, 16, 17 are selectively formed and then selectively coupled or connected in a predetermined manner in order to cooperatively form the tool 10. It should be appreciated that nothing in this Application is meant to limit the applicability of the invention to a particular type, shape, or configuration of sectional members. Moreover, the sectional members which are shown in
Tool 10 is made by the use of a lamination process in which several sectional members, such as sectional members 12, 13, 16, 17 are selectively formed and then coupled or connected together in a predetermined order to cooperatively form the tool 10 having a mold surface 11 and a cooling manifold 18 formed by a plurality of cooling passages 14 which are formed within selected sectional members 12, 13, 16, 17.
Particularly, as will be noted from the discussion below and according to the preferred embodiment of the invention, cooling passages are selectively formed between adjacent sectional members having at least one cooling passage 14 (e.g., members 12, 13) by the cooperation of respective portions of the sectional members having a desired shape or geometric configuration and these cooling passages interconnect to form cooling manifold 18 and allow water, oil, ethylene glycol, and/or other material 40 to traverse the tool 10 in order to cool the tool 10 and to cool the item or product which may be formed within mold surface 11. The term "adjacent" as is used in this description means the sectional members abut and are physically connected. It should be apparent that by allowing this cooling manifold 18 to be created by structural portions or physical attributes and/or characteristics of the sectional members 12–17 the need to drill cooling holes through the tool 10 is obviated. This reduces/eliminates the potential for damage to the tool 10 and concomitantly provides a more efficient distribution of the cooling material 40 through the tool 10.
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It should be appreciated that each individual sectional member, such as member 16, can maintain the predetermined minimum required "wall thickness" or distance 30 for the particular material tool 10 is made from to ensure tool 10 does not deflect during high pressure applications. That is, each cooling passage 14 formed into a sectional member 16 can be formed a predetermined distance from the portion of the contour 19 which is directly above or adjacent to that passage 14. It should be appreciated that distance 30 will vary for various molding operation and is dependent upon the pressures involved and the material tool 10 is formed from. For example and without limitation, the pressures involved in an injection molding process are higher than in foam or blow molding processes and subsequently distance 30 would necessarily be larger for an injection molding tool than in a foam molding tool or blow molding tool.
In one non-limiting example, a tool 10 formed from a steel material may have a distance 30 of approximately 0.25–0.50 inches (6.35–12.7 millimeters) to provide sufficient rigidity and strength to avoid deflection during a relatively high pressure molding process, such as an injection molding operation. In relatively low pressure molding processes, such as foam molding or blow molding, the distance 30 for a steel tool 10 would be approximately 0.1–0.25 inches (2.54–6.35 millimeters), as the pressures involved are not as high. It should be appreciated that the distance 30 varies depending upon which material tool 10 is formed from, as each tool 10 may be formed from substantially any material a variety of strength characteristics.
Further, depending upon the depth and shape of the contour 19, cooling passage 14 may be raised or lowered relative to an adjacent sectional member's corresponding cooling passage to accommodate changes in the surface of mold surface 11. Cooling manifold 18, therefore, may be dynamically configured to "follow" the shape of surface 11 by changing the location and/or shape of the cooling passages 14 to correspond to the contour 19 which is immediately above that passage. Subsequently, the preferred embodiment of the invention increases the cooling efficiency of tool 10 while concomitantly maintaining the necessary wall thickness 30 to prevent any deflection during high pressure use.
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It should be apparent that the above description of conduits 20, 22, 50, and 52 are for exemplary purposes only and that various configurations and numbers of coolant conduits coupling manifold 18 to a source 39 of material 40 are intended. For example and without limitation, one embodiment of tool 10 may omit exhaust conduits 50, 52 and instead use a first conduit 20 on one side of the tool 10 to supply material 40, while utilizing another conduit 22 on the same side to function as the return back to source 39.
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Step 106 is followed by step 108 and in this step each sectional member 12–17 is attached and coupled to the corresponding and adjacent sectional member to cooperatively form tool 10. Each individual contour 19 abuts the contour 19 of the adjacent sectional member to form a relatively smooth forming or mold surface 11. Additionally, each coolant passage 14 communicatively couples with the coolant passage 14 of the adjacent sectional member to form a coolant manifold portion 18. It should be appreciated that the separations between coolant passages formed in a particular sectional member, e.g., sectional member 16, form support members 23 within the manifold 18. As is best shown in
Step 110 follows step 108 and in this step a coolant material 40 is passed through manifold 18 and removes heat from tool 10. It should be appreciated that turbulent flow attributed to the offset configuration of adjacent sectional members and/or to the non-linear path through manifold 18 caused by support members 23 further increase the heat transfer effects provided by the above methodology.
It is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the exact construction and method steps which have been described above, but that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and the scope of the inventions as are more fully delineated in the following claims. For example and without limitation, steps 102, 104, and 106 of methodology 100 described above may be performed in substantially any order and/or combined to accommodate various manufacturing techniques or equipment which may be available.
It should further be appreciated that substantially any liquefied material may be used as coolant 40 and that the above description should not be limited to the above delineated materials alone and that other materials which provide for thermal transfer in tool 10 are may be used in the above described manner. In other non-limiting embodiments, manifold 18 may include additional injection molding features such as ejector pin sleeves (not shown) that are formed in a substantially similar manner to that described above for forming support members 23. That is, cooling passages 14 and support members 23 may be arranged within manifold 18 to form voids or channels that permit an ejector pin to be inserted therein to assist in ejecting a part formed within tool 10.
Additionally, the above description provides a tool 10 having a manifold 18 which may be used to cool the tool 10 by forcing a coolant material 40 through the manifold 18. It should be readily appreciated that the above described manifold 18 in tool 10 may be utilized with a material similar to material 40 (e.g., an oil) which is pre-heated to provide additional thermal energy (i.e., heat) to the tool 10. That is, the principles of thermal transfer between the tool 10 and the material 40 passing there through may be applied in situations where the tool 10 may need to be heated rather than cooled and/or cycled between heated and cooled during the manufacturing process. For example and without limitation, both a first coolant source 39 and second heated source 39 (i.e., a source 39 coupled to a heater assembly) may be coupled to conduits 20, 22 of tool 10 to selectively supply heated or cooled material through manifold 18.
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Be ready at all times on your safari to Tanzania.
The wildlife that you see will be all around and having your camera to hand will pay off. It might help if you have an automatic camera to hand as well. You will be able to go out on a safari drive early and in the evening, just before dusk. Lots of Tanzanian safari companies offer this and it is perfect light before it gets too hot. Blue light in the evening will be a magical time to take those shots of your Tanzanian holiday. If you do have to shoot during the day then the Tanzanian sun can be bright, wait for the clouds to pass over or take your shots of the animals in the shade.
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On safari your relationship with your Tanzanian guide and driver is important. Building a good relationship with him will enable you to drive to good viewpoints to capture the shots that you need. Your Tanzanian guide will also be able spot animals and use their experience to tell you where the animals are. Remember many animals are creatures of habit.
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OLIVIA POPE: And Kerry Washington, per People, "If one of the main reasons you watch Scandal is to take notes on Olivia Pope's flawless style (and, fine, for those steamy makeout scenes with Fitz), then you're going to be really excited about this news. The Limited is launching a fall collection inspired by the ABC drama. (Fitz not included.) And Kerry Washington had a hand in the designs herself!.
"The actress and Scandal costume designer Lyn Paolo partnered with the design team at The Limited to create a 42-piece collection which channels the style the of super-chic Washington, D.C. "fixer" played by Washington. Hitting stores in late September, the new line will include a range of tops, pants, jackets and of course some outerwear (no one on TV has better coats!), with prices starting at $49." http://bit.ly/1pOwAlw
JEWS, GAYS AND GARY OLDMAN: Just the facts, per The Hollywood Reporter, "Gary Oldman has apologized for defending fellow actors Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin from critics of their controversial remarks about Jews and gays.
"I am deeply remorseful that comments I recently made in the Playboy interview were offensive to many Jewish people," Oldman wrote in an open letter to the Anti-Defamation League late on Tuesday. "Upon reading my comments in printI see how insensitive they may be, and how they may indeed contribute to the furtherance of a false stereotype." ADL national director Abraham Foxman wasn't persuaded by Oldman's apology, though." http://bit.ly/1lQa3TM
OBIT: Of versatility, per the New York Times, "Eli Wallach, who was one of his generation's most prominent and prolific character actors in film, onstage and on television for more than 60 years, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 98. His death was confirmed by his daughter Katherine.
"A self-styled journeyman actor, the versatile Mr. Wallach appeared in scores of roles, often with his wife, Anne Jackson. No matter the part, he always seemed at ease and in control, whether playing a Mexican bandit in the 1960 western "The Magnificent Seven," a bumbling clerk in Ionesco's allegorical play "Rhinoceros," a henpecked French general in Jean Anouilh's "Waltz of the Toreadors," Clark Gable's sidekick in "The Misfits" or a Mafia don in "The Godfather: Part III." '' http://nyti.ms/1yOnfhV
TV DOINGS: Or not, per the Los Angeles Times, "The Supreme Court has ruled that Aereo, a start-up company that streams local TV signals to consumers over the Internet via remote antennas, violates the Copyright Act. In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court dismissed Aereo's argument that it was merely an antenna service and compared it to a cable system. Aereo, which is available in 11 markets, charges customers between $8 and $12 a month for its service, which includes a cloud-based digital video recorder." http://lat.ms/UK3NmJ
MICHAEL JACKSON: Of a somber anniversary, per US Weekly, "Five years after Michael Jackson's death, his legacy lives on. Celebrities from Ludacris to Suzanne Somers took to Twitter and Facebook on Wednesday, June 25, to commemorate the late pop giant on the fifth anniversary of his passing.
"Jackson died on June 25, 2009 at the age of 50. The performing legend passed away in his Los Angeles home, in what was ruled as the suffering of a cardiac arrest. His untimely death preceded his planned late-2000s comeback, which was scheduled around a series of sold-out shows to be held the month after he passed." http://usm.ag/1qwzB9v
KARDASHIAN ALERT: You know you like it, per Celebuzz, "Kim Kardashian always has the best airport outfits. Her latest ensemble was displayed for all on Tuesday night, when she caught a late flight out of Los Angeles . The newlywed, who enjoyed a "late night tan" just before arriving at LAX, stepped out in an all-black ensemble, complete with a fierce shade of red lipstick." http://celeb.bz/1iwp3r0
AND FINALLY: Today's mystery music video: http://bit.ly/Tx52ES --Skip Wood


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In the wild, cats eat whole animals raw -- and that's pretty much all they eat. Many pet owners, and some veterinarians, say it's best to feed your cat raw food to mimic that wild diet.
Nature's Logic Canine and Feline Frozen Food -- Chicken (Est. $2.50 for a 5.5-oz. can) is as close to wild as you can get, reviews say. It uses USDA-approved meats, organs and eggs (the same stuff humans eat), with tiny amounts of fruits and veggies for natural vitamins and minerals. It's all ground up and shaped into easy-to-serve frozen patties.
It seems expensive -- but without any unnecessary carb fillers, a little Nature's Logic raw food goes a long way. At about $2 per day for the average cat, the frozen chicken food actually costs less per feeding than a premium canned food like Halo Spot's Stew Wholesome Chicken Recipe (Est. $1.65 for a 5.5-oz. can). Nature's Logic's other frozen varieties are a little pricier, including beef, rabbit and venison.
Unlike some competitors, Nature's Logic doesn't pressure-pasteurize its raw food. The company says that would kill good bacteria along with the bad. The American Veterinary Medical Association discourages feeding pets raw animal protein that's not pasteurized or otherwise treated to kill bacteria, but some vets say this isn't a problem: Veterinarian Lisa Pierson (who makes her own homemade raw food for her cats) recommends Nature's Logic as one of her favorite commercial raw foods.
Feline's Pride Chicken Formula (Est. $35 for 5 lbs. and up) is another top frozen raw cat food. The food balances raw meat (chicken, in this flavor) with finely ground bone, organs (chicken liver, gizzard and heart), along with some organic egg yolk, psyllium powder and added vitamins and minerals to make a complete, balanced, everyday diet for your cat. Feline's Pride says that 40 to 70 percent of its foods consist of "organic meats that are humanely raised in our immediate area" in Florida. Other varieties include turkey, duck, rabbit and Cornish hen.
"It's not easy finding premade raw foods that are up to snuff," writes Anne Jablonski, who runs CatNutrition.org, a site dedicated to those interested in making cat food themselves. However, she adds that Feline's Pride is one of her favorites. It's also rather hard to find Feline's Pride, as there are few local retailers or distributors; the best bet is direct from the company.
Despite a recall, most consider Feline's Pride's safety record to be rather good. In 2010, Feline's Pride recalled some of its raw chicken cat food due to salmonella contamination. Two weeks after the first lots were recalled, neither Feline's Pride nor the Food and Drug Administration had received any reports of salmonella infection related to the food. A search of the FDA's online recall database shows no further recalls for Feline's Pride.
The company's website says that its products are "manufactured under world class clean room conditions" and are "reviewed periodically by respected laboratories for consistency, purity, excellence, and nutritional content." Like Nature's Logic, Feline's Pride does not pressure-pasteurize its raw food to kill harmful germs.
The Honest Kitchen Grace (Est. $30 for a 2-lb. box) isn't frozen. It's sold as dehydrated granules, which you mix with water to make a moist cat food. It costs less per feeding than Nature's Logic raw: about 90 cents to $1.80 per day for the average cat, The Honest Kitchen says.
It's starchier than Nature's Logic, though. Turkey, eggs, pumpkin and potatoes lead the ingredient list, adding up to about 10 percent calories from carbs -- acceptable, Pierson says. However, she doesn't recommend the Prowl flavor as it's even higher in carbs.
It's not quite raw, either. The Honest Kitchen steams its meats and fish to kill pathogens before dehydrating them. It also tests ingredients -- and each batch of finished food -- for germs like salmonella and E. coli. Still, in 2013, The Honest Kitchen recalled some lots of its dehydrated dog food -- but not its cat food -- after its parsley supplier recalled a shipment due to possible salmonella contamination. Although The Honest Kitchen didn't spot any traces of salmonella in its product testing, it recalled the food anyway. It also dropped that parsley supplier and now steams all greens to kill pathogens (it was already steaming its meats and fish).
Like Nature's Logic, The Honest Kitchen uses only high-quality ingredients. Both are made in U.S. human food factories, and both have signed the Pledge to Quality and Origin at Susan Thixton's website, TruthAboutPetFood.com, disclosing every ingredient and its source.
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Best Reviewed Cat Food: From budget friendly supermarket pate to premium varieties that rival what you'd feed your family, we name top choices and explain what you should look for in a quality cat food.
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Best Canned Cat Food: Canned cat foods provide nutrition and hydration. These are the ones that experts and cat owners say are tops.
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Buying Guide: Not sure where to start to find the best cat food for your pet and your budget? Our editors explain the top considerations.
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Lana Turner's Ex Maintains Dreams of Grandeur
Photo after photo in his 1960s press kit shows Ronald Dante next to a wide variety of celebrities: Louis Armstrong, Liberace, Benny Goodman. In each pose, the Sunset Strip hypnotist looks a little more confident than his famous counterparts, with his dreamy eyes and luminescent bulb of white hair.
"Roy Rogers would never look at me," says Dante, who now lives in a rural trailer park outside San Diego. "He thought I'd hypnotize him."
A headline on the cover of Dante's old press kit announces that he was Lana Turner's seventh husband. But it wouldn't be until years later that his name would come up again, in a different kind of headline.
In 2004, at the age of 73, Dante was sentenced to eight months in prison for having run Columbia State University, a notorious mail-order school that — for roughly $3,000 — offered 27-day Ph.D. degrees granted for "life experience," and not much book learning.
Years earlier, Dante had opened a permanent cosmetics school called the Perma-Derm Academy, which taught students the art of tattooed-on makeup. Dante, however, had only completed one hour of training himself.
Convicted on 10 counts of criminal contempt in the Perma-Derm case, Dante skipped out on his trial and fled to Mexico. There, he launched Columbia State from his 80-foot yacht. According to the grand jury on that case, the scheme netted Dante more than $10 million.
Now out of prison and scraping by on $600 a month, one of Dante's latest enterprises is an instructional DVD on how to make scented paper flowers. Recently, he has saved up just enough to take out an ad in a magic magazine for a seminar that would reveal how magicians are making (he claims) $10,000 a show.
"I'll charge $1,500 for a two-day seminar, Dante says. "This should get me right back up to snuff again."
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At the end of summer the nights get cooler, the hot days seem fleeting, and the garden is at its peak. It would be a crime not to pick those plump tomatoes and sweet peppers and preserve them into a salsa that will keep for months naturally through fermentation.
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See more butterflies than ever before and learn fascinating facts about their lives in our tropical butterfly house.
- Families (all ages)
David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef Dive
Go on a 3D virtual reality journey to explore the world's largest coral reef.
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Take part in a 24-hour race against the clock to uncover the weird and wonderful plants and animals in Brompton Cemetery.
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Schools (KS3, KS4, Post-16) Take your students on a journey through the Darwin Centre's stunning Cocoon.
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Join our expert science educators for a behind the scenes look at the Museum's fascinating zoology spirit collection.
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Hot load (hot require) for NodeJS. It's like JRebel but for NodeJS.
// lib.js moduleexports = "key": "value" // index.js hotload = require"hotload"; //lib = require("lib"); lib = hotload"./lib.js"; setInterval // normally it would print 'value' indefinitely, // but at runtime try to change value of "key" in lib.js // and save lib.js file and see that module will be reloaded // and new value will be printed. console.loglibkey; 1000;
> npm install hotload
The purpose is reload library without application shut down.
It is probably not suitable for production use.
Hotload only works on object modules. Non-object modules (E.g.
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// index.js hotload = require"hotload"; // First argument is the same as for `require`. Second argument (callback) is optional. // Callback's first argument is the module object, which is exactly the same object // as returned by `hotload`. lib = hotload"./lib.js" // (lib === lib2) is true console.log"lib has loaded/reloaded!";; // Callback function is called on first module load // and on every module reload.
From now on if
lib.js is modified it will be reloaded. How does it work? On
lib.js file change hotload replaces all properties of original
lib object with new ones.
E.g. old
lib.js could be:
// old lib.js moduleexports = "a": 10 "b": 11;
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lib.js could be
// new lib.js moduleexports = "b": 21 "c": 22;
In that case during runtime of
index.js when we save
lib.js (old version to new version) then
lib object will become:
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Hotload will look out for imported object's methods
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Diablo 3 patch 2.1 out this week
Seasons begin this Friday.
Steel Empire retrospective
Steam powered.
Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls shifts 2.7m in a week
Reaper of sales, more like.
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Diablo 3 patch 2.1 out this week
Seasons begin this Friday.
Sunday, 20 April 2014
Steel Empire retrospective
Steam powered.
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls shifts 2.7m in a week
Reaper of sales, more like.
Friday, 28 February 2014
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Chronicles of Ys: A series retrospective
Millennium Falcom.
Sunday, 15 December 2013
Remembering Sega's classics the right way
Exploring M2's brilliant 3DS revivals.
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Hey, Crusader! The first ten levels of Diablo 3's new class
A bit of a bash.
Sunday, 20 October 2013
The Hero Factory
Conversations with Chris Metzen, Blizzard's head writer.
Friday, 6 September 2013
Blizzard's road to redemption: Diablo 3 and Reaper of Souls
"The Auction House is a very complicated conversation..."
Wednesday, 21 August 2013
Diablo 3's first expansion is Reaper of Souls
New hero, new act, new endgame, new level cap, new loot.
Saturday, 3 August 2013
Mind the stopgaps?
What can you expect from games that are dictated by scheduling?
Wednesday, 8 May 2013
Diablo 3 gold duping bug found, fixed, but servers not rolled back
That would "impact the community in an even greater way".
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
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Saturday Soapbox: Taking the Direct approach
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$175 BlizzCon 2013 tickets on sale in two batches later this month
$500 charity dinner tickets up for grabs, too.
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
PlayStation Diablo 3 may not connect to Battle.net at all
Does that mean no AH or RMAH?
Monday, 25 February 2013
Blizzard mentions offline play for Diablo 3 on PlayStation
Zoomed out co-op screen, new evade move.
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
BlizzCon 2013 announced for early November
Diablo 3 and WOW expansions? Blizzard All-Stars?
Friday, 8 February 2013
Activision casts doubt on 2013 release for Bungie's Destiny
Plus: 12 million Diablo 3 sales, 9.6m WOW subs and "disappointment" at Wii U launch.
Monday, 21 January 2013
Blizzard's Rob Pardo comes to Jay Wilson's defence as Diablo 3 forum turns sour
"He has a great career at Blizzard ahead of him."
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Blizzard slams lawsuit over player security and sale of Battle.net Authenticators
"Many players have voiced strong approval for our security-related efforts.
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Diablo 3 has sold over 10 million copies
Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm to miss 2012 release.
Saturday, 1 September 2012
How are video games like a French Dip sandwich?
They're both too good to be lost to history.
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Diablo 3 designer issues impassioned apology after hitting out at Diablo creator
"I want to make it clear that I am very sorry for what I said."
Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Marvel Heroes dev stands by Diablo 1 and 2 creator David Brevik after Diablo 3 designer says: "f*** that loser"
Brevik allies rally to his side: "Blizzard arrogance has reached new heights."
Monday, 20 August 2012
Diablo 3 adds Paragon system, raises level cap... sort of
Magic Find revamped, too.
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Saturday Soapbox: How do you solve a problem like Mario?
Does New Super Mario Bros. 2 represent a creative cul-de-sac? And if so, does it even matter?
Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Diablo 3 Starter Edition is now available on Battle.net
Touch of evil.
Tuesday, 7 August 2012
You can now check Diablo 3 character profiles
Gear! Stats! Skills! Your friends' gear, stats and skills!
Saturday, 4 August 2012
Saturday Soapbox: Yearning Japanese
Lamenting the death of the import scene.
Friday, 3 August 2012
Diablo 3 has sold 10 million, WOW subs drop by 1 million in three months
COD Elite has "at least" 2.3 million paying subscribers.
Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Sunday, 22 July 2012
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Saturday Soapbox: Whatever Happened to the Working Class Hero?
How gaming's obsession with empowering fantasy is making us lose the human touch.
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Diablo 3 brings back game limits
To stamp out bots.
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Diablo 3 Patch 1.0.3b live in Europe
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When dresses get out of fashion, the only thing that we imagine is to discard them, but they could simply be reshaped making them trendy all over again.
There are many ways of changing old dresses into new ones and the most interesting part of it is that you can do all the alteration by yourself.
Add new features
You can add new feature to your old dress to make them new. You can add a decorative belt that is eye catching and original. This now becomes the spotlight of the dress and when you wear it, it changes your figure. You can also use a silk scarf: the way you wear the scarf can make a difference. It could be worn slanted at one side or attached by a brooch. Another thing is to wear a waste coat over it making the dress into a kind of skirt.
Change the dress itself
You can change the length of the dress; this is mostly by reducing it. This changes the dress completely. In cases of shorter dresses, you can change the length by adding a new material to it. You have to change the pattern but it should be in tone with the old style. You can change the sleeves of the dress, reducing them or adding some laces or decorative beads to them. Laces and decorative beads can also be used to change plain dresses making them evening wears.
You can remove the sleeves altogether and fit spaghetti straps in their place. Or you can change strap dresses into strapless ones. You can choose different colors and materials to make totally new sleeves.
You can use parts of the dress to make patches for your jeans; you can use them also to transform other dresses.
In cases where the dress cannot be transformed but you want to keep it for other reasons; you can use them to make other useful things in the house. For example you can make pillow cases out of such dresses.
Before you throw away a dress you really love, consider these options. You will be amazed at what old out fashioned dresses could become.
Nice idea for an article, but I'm sorry, the diction here is so repetitive, unvarying and simplistic that it grates on my nerves. It's like listening to my 3 year old sister without the cuteness, watching paint dry without the color. I could have written better when I was in grade 8. I wouldn't even publish this in my school newspaper.
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When an alleged stalker breaks into a famous pop singer's house, Don and his team are brought in to lead the investigation. Using the fan letters she received as evidence, Don turns to Charlie, who uses Forensic Information System for Handwriting and discovers that there are two senders -- one of them a copycat. The agents are thrown another curve when a celebrity photographer taking photos of the pop princess' house is murdered, and they learn that the pop princess may not be so innocent.
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After two female hitchhikers are found strangled to death, each wrapped in a shower curtain, the BAU is called in to investigate. The team traces the shower curtain to a motel room in which they find a used condom and ascertain that the perpetrators were a team of lovers since neither victim was sexually abused. Their profiling leads them to conclude the UnSubs are using murder as their foreplay and also match their M.O. to ten other strangulation murders in the past with a dormant period in between. JJ suspects the perpetrators are married, and after the couple's next victim turns out to be male, they believe the male UnSub compromised in allowing the female UnSub to choose a male victim. The team strategizes to drive a wedge between the couple's partnership by researching past murders which could have been committed by the male UnSub alone. They find that several women were stabbed and sexual assaulted by the same perpetrator, with one lone survivor among them. JJ helps the woman recall the male UnSub's nam
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When four-year-old Gabby is left alone in her aunt Sue's car and subsequently abducted at a gas station, the BAU races against time to find her. Initially they suspect Gabby's estranged father Doug is the kidnapper given the custody battle for her and his drug issues. A witness account of a dark van pulling up to Sue's car fits the description of a van belonging to Doug's drug dealer Ian. Recent burn wounds on Ian's face implicate him in Doug's death as Doug's severely burned body is found in a nearby lake. Ian confesses to getting rid of the body and gives up Sue as Doug's killer. Hotch provokes Sue into admitting to the murder and kidnapping, but she refuses to reveal Gabby's location. Sue's intent was to punish Gabby's mother Kate as she was always jealous and resentful of her. The team tracks Sue's internet activity to find she had given Gabby away via an underground adoption website. They trace the responses to Sue's posting to find that Gabby has been traded among the unscrupulous visitors of the websit
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When the bodies of two females are found in the desert outside of Las Vegas, the BAU is surprised to learn drowning is the cause of death. After the discovery of another victim, Reid notes the same cryptic message left at the two crime scenes is a hobo code used as a threat against stealing. The M.E. report reveals the victims' lungs were filled with water contaminated by ground pollutants which leads our team to the underground flood control tunnels beneath the city. They uncover a large homeless community inhabiting the tunnels and discover that all three victims lived there. The team quickly hones in on a delusional ex-con named Cesar who claims to be acting upon orders from "The Doctor". Reid is able to decipher Cesar's thought process to determine the Doctor is Marvin Caul, a low-level entertainer out to exploit the homeless population for financial gain. The homeless paid him to stay in the tunnels, and he manipulated some of the dwellers to kill those who stole from him or left his network. Marvin's pl
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When a grave with three unidentified bodies is found in a forest preserve, the BAU is called in to investigate. The victims are covered in bite marks and show evidence of being held captive before they were killed. The M.E. report reveals two of the victims suffered from both animal and human bite marks. Reid suspects the UnSub infected them with the Rabies virus via the first victim, an animal control employee who was the only one not bitten by a human. Their profile of the UnSub notes his obsession with Rabies and watching his victims suffer from the virus. As two more locals are reported missing, Garcia uncovers a report from fifteen years ago of a nine year old boy, Hunter, who was bitten by a bat on a family camping trip. They hone in on his older brother David, a pest control employee, and raid his house to find tape recordings of Hunter suffering in the hospital. The absence of Hunter's death certificate leads them to believe his parents euthanized him to put him out his misery. After the team is alert
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919: The Edge Of Winter
After the BAU closes a case, Morgan visits one of the survivors, Daria, at a mental institution for answers to complete his report of the investigation. In a series of flashbacks, we see that the team was called to Upstate New York after three victims are found stabbed to death and displayed in various locations. JJ determines they are looking for a pair of UnSubs and Reid analyzes the wounds to find the same meticulous pattern on each body, all created by an ice pick. When Daria manages to escape her captor and is found in an amnesic state, the team has difficulty questioning her. A break in the case occurs when Daria's sister comes forward to reveal the partial license plate of the man last seen with Daria. They identify the man as Joe Bachner and learn he had an alcoholic aunt who tortured him with bee stings as a child. Joe's M.O. mirrored his childhood suffering. Daria remembers the name of the other UnSub, Coby, but the OCD nature of the crimes does not match his behavior. The team locates Joe's hideout
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920: Blood Relations
The BAU is alerted to the death of two victims who were out hunting in a backwoods community. Researching the victims reveals that their families, the Lees and the Howards, were at odds. Their feud stemmed from the two families competing against each other in the moonshine business and now in the concocting and selling of bio-fuel. When Cissy, one of the members of the Howard family, goes missing, the team looks into her past to uncover that she was born into the Lee family. She and her brother Malachi were romantically involved and kept their baby a secret from the family by pretending she had run away. An Appalachian woman was the only witness to their secret and offered to help Cissy after she was abandoned by Malachi. Without money and resources, Cissy took the woman's help in exchange for her baby and later married into the Howard family. The team puts the pieces together to determine the child grew up to be the UnSub now out for revenge against his biological mother. After battling through a booby-trapp
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921: What Happens In Mecklinberg
The BAU is alerted to three abductions in Mecklinburg, Tennessee by an UnSub wearing a pig mask. Since two of the victims have ties to Mecklinburg State's football team, the team looks into the school's history to find that pig masks were worn by the Beta Sigma Delta fraternity. The fraternity was shut down after a pledge drunkenly fell from a building and died at a party one year ago. After one of the victims, Trevor, turns up having been sodomized and forced to drink acid, the team suspects the UnSub is taking revenge upon those responsible for the pledge's death. However, their theory changes when an attendee from the party reveals that two upperclassmen brought a girl down to the basement that night. They discover that a girl from the party, Lauryn, has been in a coma from a heart attack and brain damage caused by hypothermia and alcohol poisoning. Her sister, Sheila, recently signed the paperwork to disconnect life support. Evidence from Sheila's apartment leads to the discovery that Lauryn had rough sex
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922: Fatal
After the BAU learns of two victims who died of arsenic poisoning after receiving handwritten death threats, a third victim is found with twine placed on his chest. Investigating the previous crime scenes reveals twine placed in different ways. Before they can save another woman from the same fate, the UnSub strangles her with twine. Reid suspects the twine relates to Greek mythology in which one's destiny is in the hands of the Three Fates. When the team discovers that one of the victims visited a coffee shop located in the vicinity of the other victims' homes, they look at surveillance footage to uncover that all four of them were in line at the same time. They ascertain that the UnSub chose their fates in response to bad news he received recently. Cross-checking patients at a nearby medical center with the time the victims were in line leads them to William Harding, a shipyard worker who was diagnosed with cancer that day and felt fate was working against him. Harding decided to bestow a similar fate upon
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923A: Angels, Part 1
The BAU is called to Texas to consult on the murder of two prostitutes and a john, each tortured and shot in the head. Preacher Mills from the local church comes forward to reveal that the john was actually a male prostitute and Blake suspects he engaged in consensual S&M before he was shot. After another prostitute, Tabitha, is found murdered and tied to a tree with slashes on her back, they suspect her death was a symbolic killing. Reid believes the lavender on her legs suggests religious implications of cleansing. Initially Mills is their prime suspect as they uncover evidence he was involved in sex trafficking and previously cut one of his employees. However, considering the prostitutes are his revenue stream, their theory switches to an UnSub who is framing Mills. The team tries to track down Mills in hopes that he will lead them to the real killer. When they locate Mills, he opens fire under the belief that he is their target. In the shootout, the local Sheriff is killed and Morgan and Reid both take a
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924B: Demons, Part 2
Picking up from the previous episode, JJ and a wounded Morgan take down Preacher Mills while Reid is rushed into surgery. The team discovers that three bodies at the crime scene were potential witnesses killed elsewhere and staged to look like victims in the shootout. When they question the only surviving prostitute, Dinah, they learn that local police officers are holding her in custody having pinned the murders on her. Garcia discovers that one of the victims was a C.I. for a decorated deputy named Owen McGregor. Given that Owen was the one who arrested Dinah, they suspect a law enforcement cover-up at work with Owen as the ringleader. Rossi and Blake survive another shootout when they are targeted by two of Owen's deputies. In order to convince Dinah to cooperate, Rossi and Blake transport her mother and son to a safe house. Dinah directs them to a junkyard where Owen conducts his drug and weapons dealing along with human trafficking. The team apprehends Owen and his cohorts at the junkyard and frees the p
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201: I Watch Death
Alex and Charlie are caught in the middle of a shooting on their way into their first shift back at Hope Zion. It's all hands on deck when the victims of the shooting end up at Hope Zee. While in the midst of the shooting commotion Alex has to treat a bullied teenager and deal with her own emotions with everything that's happened in the past year of her life.
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202: Little Piggers
Alex must learn to stick up for herself and not be intimidated by Dawn (Charlie's ex-wife) in order to work alongside her and perform a minimally invasive heart procedure to save a patient's life. Meanwhile, Joel unlocks a mystery to a young girl's disease whilst getting some advice from Charlie, who is trying to figure out how to help his comatose patient come back from being a spirit. It's a week of defying the odds at Hope Zion.
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102: First In Line
A desperate father, played by Henry Czerny, holds an entire hospital staff hostage in order to get the heart transplant that his daughter is entitled to so that she will not die. Our team, lead by Parker's negotiations, finds initial success in convincing the man to calm down. But in the end, his desperation gets the best of him, and the father has to be ambushed by our team. He goes to prison, but Ed reveals to him in jail that his daughter does get the long awaited heart transplant.
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103: Element Of Surprise
Desperate to reconnect with his family and make good on his debts, a former drug addict- now clean and sober for eighteen months- makes a visit to a dealer who owes him money. What he doesn't know is that he's putting his life and others at risk, because the dealer happens to be the target of a SRU takedown.


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Update on Jose NehemiasJosé decided to request another loan because he needs credit in order to reinforce his work in both construction and metal structures. He will invest part of this loan in simple tools, and part of it in some home improvements. José comments that these loans have helped him to improve his work by helping him to buy what he needs to run his business. He has been able to establish a good role in his family.
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Previous Loan DetailsJosé is requesting a new loan which he will invest, in its entirety, in his metal shop. He will buy welding equipment and materials such as iron, tubes and posts, so that he can continue carrying out jobs at people's homes. This will gain him customers because of his responsibility in his work.... More from Jose Nehemias's previous loan »
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Overall foreign inflows into the country have declined to $18.79 billion during the first 10 months of 2013-14 from $19.10 billion in April-January 2013.
The services sector accounts for over 60% to India's GDP. In 2012-13, foreign investment in services fell to $4.83 billion from $5.21 billion in 2011-12.
FDI inflows have also declined in sectors including construction development and hotel and tourism.
Foreign investments are considered crucial for India, which needs about $1 trillion in the five years ending March 2017 to overhaul infrastructure such as ports, airports and highways and boost growth.
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Milarepa Center is now in its 35th year! Over that time the Center has served many with teachings, initiations, retreats and contact with Buddha Dharma. It is a huge tribute to previous boards, directors, donors, staff and volunteers that the Center has been able to offer so much over this time.
Physically the Center is a beautiful land of 276 acres with the main farmhouse, once a family home. However as many of you know, our facilities are in dire need of upgrading.
Operating Milarepa Center in its current form is extremely difficult. Currently, Milarepa Center is operating as a hybrid between being a teaching center and a retreat center. The "hybrid" operating model is a long way from self-sustaining and has only appeared viable due to a few large donations, which have supplemented revenue from courses, retreats and the bookstore.
Trying to operate the Center as this hybrid teaching/retreat center, except for the brief periods when there has been a resident teacher, has always been a struggle.
The Center recently applied to FPMT to receive and host a resident Geshe with a view to expanding the range of courses and practice available. When the karma to host a resident teacher manifests, it will still take time for the community to build up sufficiently to provide the necessary financial support. There is currently possibility to receive a Geshe from Kopan Monastery, but he would require a translator to accompany him.
As a retreat center with only two three-season retreat cabins, our facilities are rudimentary at best. Many of you are aware from your magical visits, there are limitations to the Milarepa experience; the entire facility shares one indoor shower and two flush toilets, which at times can be upwards of 30 people needing to use these facilities. Making a solitary retreat at Milarepa Center is restricted due to the circumstances of having daily to enter the common area (shared by staff, day visitors and group retreats) for breakfast and use of the bathroom/shower. Opportunity to make long-term retreat is not currently available due to the lack of winterization in the existing cabins.
Over recent years, Lama Zopa Rinpoche has repeatedly stressed the need for students to do retreat. Rinpoche says retreat is all that is left for students who have already received so many teachings, initiations, pilgrimages and done so much practice. Given that we are called a retreat center, we feel Milarepa Center can and should develop to fulfill that need.
Lama Yeshe explained, "Why is retreat important? In order for our spirituality, pure morality, wisdom, single-pointed concentration and insight into reality to grow, we need time and space...You can see, even in European history, that Jesus and other great spiritual leaders went into solitary retreat. Christian, Muslim, Indian, Tibetan; all the great mahasiddhas went into isolation for certain periods and gained their high accomplishments through practicing intensively like that."
Many have been inspired by a vision of the Milarepa Center that is financially sustainable and offers comfortable facilities and support for retreaters. To this end, a great deal of excellent work has already been done in the past developing a master plan concept along these lines. However, progress has been hindered by a few major hurdles like upgrades to the septic system.
The Board that assumed oversight of the Center in September 2015 has spent the last six months carefully analyzing the situation in detail. It is clear that development of the infrastructure is crucial if Milarepa Center is to fulfill the vision of so many, including Rinpoche. Not only that, it is clear now is the time to complete these projects, through which the Dharma can be allowed to flourish for many years to come. We are particularly glad to report that Lama Zopa has endorsed our plans to move forward in a concerted manner with upgrades.
Consequently the Board has decided to focus all efforts and energy in the near term on developing a financially sustainable Milarepa, which includes rejuvenating the existing facilities and attempting to create new retreat facilities with a view to making those available in 2017.
This means we will not be able to offer all of our usual programs over the summer. This was a difficult decision, however we are confident in the long term it will prove beneficial. At present we do not have the "people power" or finances to run programs and simultaneously upgrade facilities. So, at the same time we hope you will see this as an exciting project for the future of Milarepa Center.
We look forward to resuming local programming and group retreats, hopefully with a resident Geshe, in the beginning of 2017.
We invite you to take this first step with us, towards true sustainability and setting a new standard in the world of retreat centers. We are looking into pre-fabricated all-inclusive retreat studios and "tiny homes" that would allow anyone to practice and access the beauty and magic of the Milarepa experience. The concept is to be able to provide practical, self-contained and comfortable units that include all facilities and services - water, power, sewerage, fully winterized and heated.
We are re-engaging professionals who previously helped with the Milarepa Center planning. Within the next few months we expect to contract for advice and permit applications for the expansion of our septic and water systems.
We have already visited a number of prefab home suppliers and will continue to do so over the next few weeks. We will be visiting companies across the North East, Ontario and Quebec to determine which can produce to our specifications for high quality, self-contained retreat units.
Currently, we are aiming to provide units with a main meditation room minimum 10' x 10', kitchenette, bathroom with shower, sleeping area and lots of windows for the amazing views, all within 200 to 250 ft.² In addition, we hope to provide a covered patio. Over the years there have been requests for twin shared units, and we will be looking into these as well.
Various types of units we are investigating are shown below for illustration purposes only at this time. Our goal is to install between three to five beautiful retreat units on site by fall 2016.
To fund this we have a number of possibilities.
We are considering offering prepaid retreat timeshares. Prepayments will help fund the purchase of the initial units, and we hope those with retreat commitments will be encouraged to book and prepay for a certain amount of retreat time per year. For example, you may wish to have ten days retreat time per year for three or five years. Others may like to book one month retreat per year for one, three or five years.
If you are able to sponsor an entire retreat unit, the unit will be available to you for retreat whenever you need. When you are not in retreat, by mutual agreement, the unit will be available for the Center to rent to other retreaters.
Some prefab unit suppliers offer 'rent to own' facilities that we will explore. Additionally, we will be approaching institutional lenders.
We warmly encourage anyone excited by this idea and who is financially able to offer the Center a soft loan for up to three years. Initial calculations show that five units would cover the capital costs within three years. Thereafter, five units could generate sufficient revenues that the Center would be self-sufficient.
Being a Friend of Milarepa is another way to help support this project. Your monthly Friendship donation is a reliable source of revenue on which the Center can rely. This helps us plan for what we are able to accomplish annually, such as building new retreat cabins and bringing a resident Geshe to Milarepa Center. Friendship is part of our sustainable plan for Milarepa Center.
Want to do something immediately to support our next steps? Donate online today. We are so grateful for your enthusiasm.
We have engaged legal services to help us prepare various forms by which all of the above types of funding possibility can be secured with proper documentation.
Would you be interested in joining the Board?
We, the current Milarepa Center Board of Directors, are looking to expand and benefit from a more broad range of skills. If you feel you could help and are driven by the mission to develop Milarepa Center into a fully functioning, self-sufficient all-year retreat center - and with the possibility of also hosting a resident Geshe - please reach out to Felicity so we can talk further. Interested? Email or call (802.633.4136) Felicity.
We will keep you updated as each milestone is reached, so you can cheer us on and rejoice with us as we reach one step closer to actualizing this shared vision for Milarepa Center, our East Coast Retreat Center.
We welcome all forms of support including advice, suggestions, feedback on the concept, inquiries and interest in taking a timeshare retreat plan, sponsoring a unit, advancing a loan or "Like" on our Facebook and Instagram pages.
Please let us know what you think - we are listening.
Email us or give us a call at 802.633.4136.
Yours in Service,
Milarepa Center Board of Directors
Felicity is a native Floridian where she was raised Buddhist by her mother, secretary to Lama Yeshe for the last six years of his life. Felicity's first formal retreat was at Vajrapani Institute in California for a New Year's Eve Vajrasattva Retreat led by Paula Chichester. Since then Felicity has participated in a variety of weekend and long-term retreats. Her longest retreat was at Kopan Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal for the month-long November Course led by Venerable Steve Carlier.
Felicity graduated from Eckerd College in St Petersburg, FL in with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Art with a focus on photography, creative writing, and sociology and a minor in leadership. She was active in the Women's Resource Center, the Coalition for Community Justice, Eckerd College Homeless Outreach, and led four Alternative Spring/Fall Break Volunteer Trips.
Felicity has served as an AmeriCorps VISTA in the Office of Service Learning at Eckerd College, a City Year Miami Senior Team Leader in an inner-city elementary school, and at the Constitutional Tax Collector's Office in Palm Beach County, Florida in their Communications and New Media Department.
In 2015, Felicity completed a Professional Certificate in Leadership and Management from the University of Vermont. Besides being passionate about the success of Milarepa Center and helping others reach enlightenment, Felicity's interests include running/working out, photography, camping, and delivering Meals on Wheels.
Kiira first discovered Buddhism & the Four Noble Truths in a book called Dharma Rain - it was love at first read. She studied abroad in Tibet and Beijing in the summer of 2004. There she visited the sacred sites of Tibet, including many temples and monasteries, as well as the base camp of Mount Everest. At the University of Vermont, she was an art student of former board Director, Shelley Hagan. During a semester in north India in 2006, she also gained experience living in a Sufi community in New Delhi, where she was practicing Urdu calligraphy. In 2008 while living in Boston, she had the good fortune to meet the late Geshe Tsulga at Kurukulla Center. Since 2012, she has been doing graphic design and writing for Twelve Gates Arts, a Philadelphia 501(c)(3) showcasing art from diasporic communities. Kiira is an aspiring thangka artist and an Ashtanga yogi.
Peter graduated in mechanical engineering from Leeds University in England and began a career as a design engineer with Rolls Royce Aero Engines. Having travelled overland from London to Kathmandu in 1971, Peter attended the second Kopan Course, travelled as assistant to Lama Yeshe from 1976 to 1980, was a Founding Director of FPMT, a Founding Trustee of Manjushri Institute in UK, a Founder of the Mahayana Buddhist Association in Hong Kong, the Founder of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, and was instrumental in the acquisition of Land of Medicine Buddha in California. Between May 1997 and October 2012, Peter was Director of the Maitreya Project overseeing the legal, financial, architectural and engineering development of the Project; and devising and initiating the Maitreya Project Relic Tour.
Milarepa Center is expanding its Board of Directors...are you interested in being part of the team that makes the dream?
Email Felicity or give us a call 802.633.4136.
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Participate in our Mindful Work Week initiative by meditating with us on Wednesday evenings 7 - 8 p.m. If you've never been to Milarepa Center before or have little to no experience, we ask that you arrive at 6:45 p.m. for a tour and an introduction. 8:00 - 8:30 p.m. stay after for sweet treats, tea, and community. This event is free! Donations are welcome.
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The HTML file itself is 3.06kb and contains an img src to an absolute URL, which is about 125kb (a little large, I know, but it's very important). When I merge the file from Word 2010 -> Outlook 2010, the email size jumps to about 250kb. It's not much, I know, but I'm a gigantic nerd and I'm stuck thinking it should be about 5kb with MIME overhead.
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We looked at a quite a few new smart watches here at the show, but Timex's One GPS+ is by far the most impressive.
We looked at a quite a few new smart watches here at the show, but Timex's One GPS+ is by far the most impressive.
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Located off the Via Verde trail, this old olive mill has been lovingly restored as an inn. In the middle of the Parque Natural and millions of olive trees, this unique property has courtyards, a library a salon with an inviting fireplace and gorgeous views of the mountains and hills and even the castle in Zuheros, about 2km away. Rooms... More
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