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This is the narrative that Trump's minions have adopted.
Trump Must Go
by M. Douglas Wray •
The right is going completely insane. Trump has to go. Now. Before his base starts a civil war.
Surprise! Ken Buck Shows Up for Work!
by M. Douglas Wray •
Ken Buck tries to bluff his way through a town hall. Ouch.
Merciful God
by Guest •
I am a citizen of a different kind of Kingdom – the Kingdom that strives for peace, mercy, kindness and a love-relationship with the King of kings.
Unity in the Community 2017
by M. Douglas Wray •
Been having trouble finding Cory Gardner? Feb. 23rd from 5-7:30pm at the Plaza Convention Center.
TC Sale Delicious Irony
by M. Douglas Wray •
So their policy of not requiring identifying information for commenters and their heavily right-slanted news just wasn't selling. Golly.
Cliff Smedley – Alan Rosenfeld for County Commissioner
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I support Alan Rosenfeld to replace Cindy Domenico as our County Commissioner. It is time for a change.
Jones, Singer and Foote Townhall Longmont Jan. 30, 2014
by M. Douglas Wray •
Three Democratic legislators held a townhall in Longmont at Front Range Community College on January 30, 2014. Residents turned out to ask questions about higher education support, family issues and the ALEC-controlled Highway 36 contract. Lots of great discussion. Mike Foote, John Singer and Matt Jones took turns responding to questions and discussing legislative issues.
The "n-word" is offensive and reeks of disrespect
by Bill Ellis •
Over the last eight years or so, I have been reminded that angry, ignorant white people and even some African-Americans continue to toss that word around like a hand grenade. It is the ultimate degradation to a race of people.
Reports Expose Extreme Pressure Groups Masquerading as Think Tanks
by Guest •
Twelve new reports released today expose the State Policy Network (SPN), an $83 million web of right-wing "think tanks" in every state across the country.
Gardner Votes Show No Compassion
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Cory Gardner's votes show no compassion or care for his constituents.
Need vs Greed
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The fast-food execs are screaming that a wage increase would mark the end. It's long overdue and everyone knows it.
Cory Gardner: Fraud and Abuse
by Doyle L. Myers •
Where's the compassion Cory?
In The Days Before – Part 3
by Mary Pitt •
We continued, the two of us, living in the house with the five-star flag in the window and endured the rigors of living, not only in extreme poverty but with the added challenges of the war-time restrictions of food and ordinary daily needs.
America is Dying (But don't blame me, I'm just the messenger)
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Winemakers are facing a perfect storm of adversity, writes Eli Greenblat.
The nation's biggest and best-known family-owned wine companies have posted flat revenue and shrinking earnings for the past financial year, as the sector faces a maelstrom of external shocks, led by the high dollar, which has cut exports, and a grape glut and competition from new world producers.
The only bright spot on the horizon is the growing wine boom in China, although the market remains too small and immature to compensate for lost sales in developed markets such as Europe.
The revenue of the 150-year old Tahbilk Wines, in the Nagambie Lakes region of central Victoria, where it directs production of 100,000 cases a year, fell to $13.675 million for 2010-11, from $13.887 million previously, as its net profit dropped to $235,137 from $341,804.
"As far as our industry is concerned, we are still in the eye of a perfect storm," Tahbilk's chief executive, Alister Purbrick, said.
"I started work in the Coonawarra. My first vintage was 1976. This is absolutely the hardest time that you could ever imagine the industry could be in. There is nothing else that could go wrong in our industry that's not [already] wrong at the moment.
"It's still impossible to achieve price increases and, of course, your cost base continues to increase, so your margin is impacted on a continuing basis. And the retail chains and banner groups are, if anything, asking for even greater promotional contributions than they were 12 months ago and, of course, that erodes margins as well.
"The Australian dollar is still strong in all our main export markets, so we have margin erosion there as well."
The impact of the high dollar for winemakers, not just those that are privately owned, is that it makes Australian wine more expensive for overseas drinkers – allowing competitors, such as New Zealand and the new world producers of Chile and Argentina, to steal Australia's markets on price.
The double hit is that imported wine is also cheaper in Australia, robbing these same Australian companies of domestic sales as well.
The heads of family-owned wine companies said Australian wine was especially being undercut in Europe, Britain and North America by wines from South America.
"At entry-level [prices], we have lost the fight to Chile and Argentina and I don't think it will ever come back," said Peter Toohey, the managing director of Beelgara Estate. Beelgara is Australia's 20th biggest wine group, with a history that stretches back to 1930.
"UK supermarkets, like Tesco etc, [are] commodity-driven. There is also a tax-free kick in South America that we don't have – but also their wines are very good, they are clean, the packaging is very good and their input costs are just at a level we can't replicate," Mr Toohey said.
Beelgara recorded a fall in revenue from $18.2 million to $16.6 million in 2010-11, as profit dropped from $388,164 to $172,179 for the latest period. Pre-tax profit rose from $641,512 in 2010 to $649,467 in financial 2011.
Mr Toohey said Beelgara had sought to diversify its exposure away from troubled markets overseas by pulling out of key European and North American regions to focus on Australian cafes, restaurants and bars, also known as "on premise".
"We are very, very strong in the on-premise market, and that isn't part of potential duopoly of Coles and Woolworths, and that's not a criticism, it's an honest observation. We are very strong in a market where no multinational will ever have a massive hold," he said.
Beelgara had also made a successful push into China at both premium price point and entry level.
The currency remains the single biggest problem for wine companies, and Mr Purbrick believes weaker overseas currencies have helped imported wines go from a 5 per cent market share three or four years ago to more than 20 per cent of the Australian market.
"The imported wines are certainly squeezing local product off retail shelves," he said.
Ross Brown, who until this year led Victorian wine group Brown Brothers for a decade, said cheaper wine from Chile and Argentina not only posed a threat to Australian winemakers but cheaper wine from within Europe was also finding its way into the British market.
"'When the exchange rate changed by 40 per cent, that's a dramatic change to be able to compete with and that's beyond our control. The only thing we have in our control is to leverage our premium price points and reposition the quality and image of Australian wine."
Brown Brothers reported flat revenue in 2010-11 – it had targeted growth of around 8 per cent – and its profit fell sharply after booking a writedown on losses linked to a poor vintage.
The sales and marketing general manager at d'Arenberg, Philip Jeffries, said a contributing factor to its lower earnings in 2010-11 was the currency, with up to 70 per cent of earnings for the 100-year-old wine group flowing from exports.
D'Arenberg had flat sales of $25.06 million in 2010-11 as profit slid to $435,000 from $1.65 million.
Mr Jeffries said stronger sales in China and Hong Kong had helped ease the earnings pain.
"It [Asia] is a positive thing at the moment. It doesn't replace more mature markets of the UK and those areas, but it can help balance a little bit in difficult times," he said.
The chief executive of Taylors Wines, Mitchell Taylor, said his company had increased revenue to $48.82 million in 2010-11 from $44.33 million as it focused on quality wine sold at higher prices.
"The sweet spot we found in the market was for quality premium table wines above $15 to the $30 segment. There is good growth in that segment, domestic growth," he said.
Taylors Wines lost $3.19 million in 2010-11 against a profit of $1.08 million, the fall triggered by accounting changes and a $4 million writeoff from a poor vintage.


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7-Eleven Takes Manhattan
Company continues push in urban markets, celebrates Slurpee anniversary, reports sales increase for May.
DALLAS -- 7-Eleven Inc. will open its first store in Manhattan next month after exiting the market in the early 1980s, reported the New York Post. The new store will be located in the borough's Gramercy Park section and is part of the convenience retailer's expansion push in urban markets, including Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles.
A second New York store is slated for Manhattan's Upper East Side, and several more leases have been signed, said Steven Schwartz, co-chairman of Retail Realty in Manhattan, the chain's exclusive area broker.
The Dallas-based company, which has approximately 5,800 stores in the United States, plans to release more information about its expansion blueprint closer to the grand opening of the New York store on July 11. The opening will coincide with the 40th anniversary of the Slurpee ice drink, which the chain will be giving away for free that day. (See below for more on the Slurpee anniversary.)
Like all 7-Elevens, the Manhattan stores will be open 24 hours, sell coffee, cigarettes and magazines, and feature the retailer's new fresh-food products, trucked in from a commissary on Long Island two times a day.
"This is not your father's 7-Eleven," Schwartz said.
There will be wood touches in the decor, hanging lamps, and trendy food such as wrap sandwiches and flavored cappuccino.
This is the chain's second attempt to make a comeback in the tough Manhattan market. In 2002, a high-profile deal to open a snazzy flagship store at One Times Square -- where the New Year's ball drops -- fell apart.
Slurpee Celebration
In other 7-Eleven news, the company launched a month-long celebration of Slurpee's 40th birthday on July 11. For the anniversary, 7-Eleven will introduce retro Slurpee cups and flavors in participating 7-Eleven stores nationwide, air original Slurpee radio spots from the 1960s and offer prizes and promotions as part of the Slurpee Summer Prize Fest, including free music downloads and the chance to win one of four MINI Cooper convertibles.
"A lot has changed since 1965, but not Slurpee. It's the ultimate retro drink, still cool even after 40 years," said Kevin Cooper, 7-Eleven category manager for Slurpee and fountain. "That's why we decided to have some fun this summer with some of the crazy '60s Slurpee flavors like Blue Blunder Berry and Gully Washer."
"Slurpee is truly an iconic American brand," said Wendy Liebmann, founder and president, WSL Strategic Retail. "Slurpee was one of the defining icons of American pop culture in the 1960s. Forty years later, it still resonates with a broad base of consumers who see it as their big chilly drink of choice."
Starting June 13, 7-Eleven customers can slurp Blue Blunder Berry in June and Gully Washer during July, two retro flavors developed by The Coca-Cola Co. Four color-changing Slurpee mugs feature graphics representing the decades of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Tinted bright blue, yellow, orange or green, the 38-ounce refillable mugs change colors when a cold Slurpee hits the mug, designed to fit any car cup holder. Retailing for $2.49, the price includes the mug, one Slurpee fill-up and free Wonka candy.
Throughout June and July, 7-Eleven is giving away one free music download on all standard Slurpee cups. Last but not least, 7-Eleven is giving away four grand prize MINI Cooper convertibles, one for each decade of the Slurpee's 40 years of popularity and each painted a bright Slurpee color.
"We decided to celebrate Slurpee's birthday by giving our customers a gift -- Slurpees, music and convertibles seemed like a natural fit," said Cooper. "Slurpee lovers can collect both music and cups during the celebration, and if they're really lucky, they might win a car!"
May Sales Increase
7-Eleven also reported May 2005 sales results, with total May 2005 sales of $1.14 billion, an increase of 5.5 percent over May 2004 sales of $1.09 billion. Total merchandise sales for May 2005 were $730.5 million, an increase of 4.6 percent over the May 2004 total of $698.6 million. U.S. same-store merchandise sales for May 2005 increased 3.4 percent, on top of a 7.8 percent increase in May 2004.
Gasoline sales for May 2005 were $414.9 million, a 7.1 percent increase compared to $387.4 million in the prior-year period. Average gallons sold per store decreased 2.1 percent in May 2005 compared to an increase of 5.7 percent in May 2004. The average retail price of a gallon of gasoline for May 2005 was $2.20, compared to $2.00 in May 2004.
For the year to date, U.S. same-store merchandise sales through May 2005 grew 4.6 percent, on top of 6.9 percent for 2004. Merchandise sales totaled $3.29 billion, an increase of 4.9 percent over the same period in 2004.
Gasoline sales totaled $1.91 billion, an increase of 15.2 percent, while average gallons sold per store increased 0.1 percent, on top of 7.2 percent for 2004. The average retail price of a gallon of gasoline for the period was $2.08, compared to $1.79 in 2004.
When determining the same-store merchandise sales calculation, the company includes the merchandise sales of both its U.S. company-owned and franchise-operated stores if they were operating for all days of the periods being compared. New stores, relocated stores or rebuilt stores are not included in the same-store sales calculation until they have recorded merchandise sales for all days of the periods being compared.


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Oct 14 (Reuters) - Delta Air Lines Inc expects the United States and Brazil to reach an aviation deal that removes restrictions on flights between the countries in the next year, the airline's president told investors on a call Wednesday.
A so-called "Open Skies" deal would allow Delta and its airline partner Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA to apply for immunity from antitrust law and thereby coordinate the prices and timing of their U.S.-Brazil flights.
"We anticipate to file for antitrust immunity shortly" after a deal is reached, Delta's Ed Bastian said.
Delta expanded its alliance with Gol under a $446 million stock and loan agreement in July. Delta owns just under 10 percent of Gol, Bastian said Wednesday. (Reporting By Jeffrey Dastin in New York)


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Monday night's two-hour cabinet meeting on Qantas in which, we were told, every member had a say, was political artifice.
It was presented - at a triumphant post-cabinet news conference - as the result of a reform-minded government addressing an intractable problem and fixing it.
Yet the only thing Tony Abbott and his ministers really did was tell us what they wanted to do or, worse, what they wanted to be seen to be doing. On the always critical question of how to do it, they were largely silent. The Americans call it ''kicking the can down the road''.
Abbott has in effect, achieved little more than clarifying what position his government will put to a hostile parliament in which opposition is already established.
Of all ministers involved in the government's confusing circuitous path to the present approach of dumping the foreign ownership limits in the Qantas Sale Act, Treasurer Joe Hockey's position is the most fascinating.
Hockey had led the case for extending a stand-by debt facility to Qantas on the grounds of it being a bona fide special case. He, of all ministers, knew what this meant because he was the one pushing the ''end of entitlement'' argument and advocating that governments should not bail out struggling businesses.
His four-point case for making an exception of Qantas a fortnight ago was starkly counterpointed on Monday night by the sheer abruptness of his explanation for the new position.
Wasn't it true, he was asked, that he was ''presenting that [argument], those four conditions because of the political difficulties of changing the Qantas Sale Act, and isn't it therefore the case that what you're presenting today is in fact a Clayton's solution to the problem because you cannot get it through the current parliament?''
''Not at all, no. Emphatically no,'' he protested before resorting (again) to the key message to be hammered that evening: ''The best way to help the workers of Qantas and the best way to help Qantas is to get rid of these legislative restrictions on their ability to compete with other airlines.''
So what is the prospect of doing that?
Both Labor and the Greens have made their positions clear. Neither will back lifting the 49 per cent foreign ownership cap. Neither will support any change that would see maintenance work sent overseas.
That accounts for this Senate, but what about the newly configured house? Does that offer the hope of clearing the roadblock, as it is likely to do with the carbon and mining tax repeals?
No again. Between Labor, the Greens and the Palmer United Party senators, there is a unity ticket on keeping Qantas Australian-owned and operated.
Asked in the Coalition joint party room what the cabinet plan was to address this entirely predictable reality, Transport Minister Warren Truss was clear. ''There is no plan B,'' he reportedly said.


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Definition of upside down
1 : in such a way that the upper and the lower parts are reversed in position
2 : in or into great disorder turned their world upside down
upside–down\ˈəp-ˌsīd-ˈdau̇n\ adjective
Examples of upside down in a Sentence
You hung the picture upside down!
To remove the plant, turn the pot upside down and tap gently on the bottom to loosen it.
The baby was holding the book upside down.
Origin and Etymology of upside down
alteration of Middle English up so doun, from up + so + doun down
First Known Use: 15th centurySee Words from the same year
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Definition of upside down for English Language Learners
: with the top at the bottom and the bottom at the top : placed so that the end that should be at the top is at the bottom
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1 : in such a way that the upper part is underneath and the lower part is on top I turned his chocolate pudding upside down on his tray. — Jerry Spinelli, Crash
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OUSA Anzac Day service
OUSA Anzac Day service
Thursday 25th April 2013, 1.30pm
Otago University Memorial Walk, Dunedin
For the second year running the Otago University Students' Association is proud to be working with the University of Otago and the Otago University Medical Company to host the ANZAC service on campus this ANZAC day.
"For OUSA it's about remembering those who have served and being thankful for the work New Zealand does in aid of peace." Said Francisco Hernandez, OUSA President, "Last year we saw a big turn out and we're hoping to grow it so those who cannot make the dawn service have a place to meet and to remember."
The OUSA Anzac Day Service will be held at 1.30pm at the University of Otago this Thursday the 25th of April, in front of the Clock tower.
The service will be led by OUSA President Francisco Hernandez and the Tumuaki of Te Roopū Māori, Gianna Leoni.
The Anzac Day address will be delivered by Brigadier Dr. Brian McMahon, a distinguished Otago alumnus who served in the New Zealand Defence Force for over 40 years.
Ataturk's tribute to the soldiers who fell at Gallipoli will be shared in both Turkish and English by Dr. Murat Genç and Vice Chancellor Harlene Hayne. University Chaplains Greg Hughson and Mark Chamberlain will share prayers/karakia.
Wreaths will also be laid on the Leith Bridge by University and student representatives after a procession along with University's memorial walk.
The service is open to the public and all are welcome to meet for refreshments after the service in the Otago University Link.


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This section contains information on the current limitations and restrictions of the application.
Known Issues
The following issues are known in Cisco Jabber for iPad:
- General Issues
- Cisco Jabber for iPad does not support Global Site Backup (GSB). To resolve problems related to this issue, try closing Cisco Jabber for iPad, starting it, and then signing in again.
- Users of Cisco WebEx free accounts cannot add contacts using email addresses. When adding contacts, they must know their Jabber user IDs.
- If the title of a group chat you started in Cisco Unified Personal Communicator contains a space, the space will be shown as \20, instead of a space, in Cisco Jabber for iPad.
- If you are signed in with your IM account on multiple devices and answer an incoming call on the iPad, the incoming call dialog box remains on the other devices.
- You cannot start device calls with contacts using Cisco Jabber for Mac and Cisco Jabber for Windows. Cisco Jabber for iPad also cannot display error messages when such calls cannot be started.
- Cisco WebEx Messenger
- Cisco Unified Presence
- Cisco Jabber Video for TelePresence
Important Considerations
Note the following important considerations when using Cisco Jabber for iPad:
- General Considerations
- If you transition between networks, your availability status may not be accurate.
- It may take up to 10 minutes for your availability status updates to appear for other contacts.
- Cisco Jabber for iPad supports interoperability and optimal video quality with Cisco TelePresence System (CTS) devices if you use a TelePresence or video bridge to connect the devices. The number of devices that you can use for joining a video call will be determined by the Multipoint Control Unit (MCU) and settings defined for the conference bridge. For the best video experience when establishing a direct video call between Cisco Jabber for iPad and a CTS device, use the required versions and settings. Otherwise, video quality in Cisco Jabber for iPad will be impacted; resulting video quality may include low frame-rate video with high or increasing latency, lack of lip synchronization, or excessive video artifacting. For more information, see CSCtx47090 in Open caveats.Consult the Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration documentation for details about setup.
Required versions and settings for CTS interoperability VCS call control environment:
All CTS devices must be using 1.9.1(68) or a later firmware version.
Unified Communications Manager call control environment:
- All CTS devices must be using 1.9.1(68) or a later firmware version.
- Create Media Regions for iPad and CTS by following these steps:
- Provision two media regions with the first region for CTS using a maximum video call bit rate of 32000 Kbps and second region for iPad using a maximum video call bit rate of 768 Kbps.
- Create a region relationship from the CTS region to the iPad region, described in step 1, using a maximum video call bit rate of 512 Kbps.
To verify your VCS firmware and hardware codec versions, check the Device information screen in the Cisco TelePresence System Administration.
- Cisco Jabber for iPad bandwidth has been limited to 384 kbps due to CPU constraints on the supported iPad hardware.
- Cisco WebEx Messenger
- You cannot block contacts who are within your own organization.
- You cannot join a conference call if the call is placed by a Cisco WebEx Messenger user from a group chat started on his or her computer.
- If you delete a group of contacts on a device other than iPad, the group will still appear in Cisco Jabber for iPad.
- Cisco Unified Presence
- Cisco WebEx Meetings
- If you start an action, such as signing in or tapping WebEx Meeting to start a meeting, and then bring Cisco Jabber for iPad to the background before the action is completed, you cannot successfully complete the action.
- Invitees will receive meeting invitations whether or not the meeting has been started.
- If you tap WebEx Meeting to start a meeting, a meeting invitation is sent immediately. If the invitee selects the meeting link immediately but the meeting is still in the process of starting, the invitee receives an error message and, as a result, cannot join the meeting again.
- If you sign in using a Cisco WebEx Meetings account, you can use instant messaging (IM), but you cannot start a WebEx meeting from Cisco Jabber for iPad.
- Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server
- Cisco Jabber for iPad does not support proxy server setup if you are using Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) or Cisco Jabber Video for TelePresence.
- The VCS Starter Pack Express does not support Cisco Jabber for iPad. Cisco Jabber for iPad registers to VCS with the device name jabbertablet, which is not supported by the current built-in provisioning template of VCS Starter Pack Express. This will be added to the VCS Starter Pack Express in future releases.
- Cisco Jabber for iPad may experience limitations with interworked calls when registered to VCS running version X6.0.
- Cisco Jabber Video for TelePresence / Cisco WebEx TelePresence
- Cisco Jabber for iPad does not support proxy server setup if you are using Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) or Cisco Jabber Video for TelePresence.
- If you sign in to Cisco Jabber for iPad using a Cisco Jabber Video for TelePresence or Cisco WebEx TelePresence account for the first time, your contact list is empty. You will need to add contacts.
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How can you achieve exponential growth without salespeople or sales teams? Let your product do the selling.
In this guest post for Inc., Avondale co-founders Karl Stark and Bill Stewart write that "most high-growth companies don't achieve their successes by hiring the best salespeople" or sales team. Instead, companies that deliver "a better product at a fair price" or "a standard quality product at a much better price" have the advantaged customer offer that "is the key to growth."
Stark and Stewart spoke to other executives who verified that their best customers were never pitched a product directly, but "nevertheless became the business's most valuable customers." Instead of focusing on salespeople or a sales team, Stark and Stewart coach companies on building their business with an offer that entices customers without a big investment on sales or marketing. That thinking translates to a "business model that will stand on its own, without relying on advantaged selling."


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SARASOTA, FL - Firefighters come to the rescue of 9 cats trapped inside a burning home Tuesday evening.
It happened just after 6:30pm at a home on Breakwater Circle in the Gulf Gate area of Sarasota.
Sarasota County firefighters say the fire started in the kitchen and quickly grew out of control.
The owner and her son managed to get out safely, but firefighters had to go in the home after their nine cats.
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BILOXI, Miss (Jul. 5)
The international president of B'nai B'rith Women last night defended the United Nations against critics who claim the Israeli-Arab crisis proved its ineffectiveness in global affairs. Mrs. Arthur G. Rosenbluth told delegates at the closing session of the annual convention of B'nai B'rith District 7 here that, despite "strong reservations" over recent U.N. action in the Middle East, Americans must not forget that "hundreds, thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands of lives would have been lost if the United Nations had not been present to help institute a cease-fire," for the Arab-Israeli war.
Mrs. Rosenbluth said that the agreement ending the conflict could not have been negotiated "so swiftly" were it not for the U.N., since it provided the Soviet Union with an agency to "run to when it saw the fighting was going against the Arabs." Absence of the U.N., she said, might have compelled Russia to enter the war directly.
Those who are unhappy at the way the U.N. functions, added Mrs. Rosenbluth, should note that "the answer is not to abandon it, but to strengthen it."


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MHS tennis finishes 12th at state tourney
SIOUX FALLS — On the final day of the girls' state tennis tournament, Mitchell eighth-grader Sammy Pooley lost her fifth-place match 10-3 to Makenzie Marso, of Aberdeen Roncalli, Saturday in Sioux Falls.
Pooley had defeated Marso two of three times earlier this season, but Mitchell coach Pat Moller said Marso just had a little more this time around.
"Sammy has that will to win that isn't coachable," Moller said. "She played her heart out but just played a girl who had a better game that day,"
Pooley was the lone Kernel still competing in the tournament on Saturday.
Mitchell finished 12th with 146 points as a team, more than doubling the 71 points for the Kernels in 2012, despite losing their top two players from last season.
"That's what gets lost in all of this," Moller said. "We were able to improve with every player having to move up at least two spots. It's something to build on for the future of the program."
The Kernels have no seniors and Moller can expect his team to come back next season intact.
Sioux Falls O'Gorman took first in the tournament with 764 points, ahead of second-place Sioux Falls Washington with 478.


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By Rose L. Thayer
Killeen Daily Herald
FORT HOOD - The sounds of bulldozers and power drills can be heard across post as more than $679-million in campus construction and other long-range projects become reality.
"We're creating these campuses so there's not a fragmented unit footprint," said John Burrow, chief of the Real Property Planning Division at Fort Hood. "It's somewhat already there, but they're not energy-efficient-type facilities."
Burrow and his team broke the military installation into districts, then created an area development plan for each of them. Some districts already are visible: The 1st Cavalry Division's footprint is primarily on Battalion Avenue, west of TJ Mills Boulevard and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's footprint is east of TJ Mills Boulevard.
"In the old days, we did cupcake-type planning," Burrow said. "You need a company ops, we'll throw you a company ops."
Now, the planning division looks at a unit's overall needs.
The first campus
The 69th Air Defense Artillery Brigade was the first unit to receive a campus. Located just outside the East Range Road Gate, it's surrounded by cows and vacant land, which allows the unit to use radar equipment necessary for training without interference.
The brigade headquarters moved into its new $14.7 million office space in July and the battalions are scheduled to move by spring 2012. When complete, the campus also will include a dining facility, barracks, a shoppette and physical training space. Construction on the motor pools is under way.
The long-range project began in 2008 and will continue for at least the next five to 10 years. While no funding for the project has been cut, money for the barracks has been deferred past the five-year mark.
"It's a multi-phased plan to build this campus," Burrow said. "It's not something that happens overnight. It takes time to do this. The difference now is we are being financially challenged. We as a country are, so it's not a question if the barracks will be built out there, it's when."
Wounded warriors construction nearly complete
For the Warrior Transition Brigade, the first building in its new campus - a headquarters office - should open near the end of the year.
"We have facilities, but this will allow us to centralize those," said Maj. David Shoupe, public affairs officer for the brigade. "Right now we are spread out on three different campuses on Fort Hood."
Besides office space, the campus will include a soldier family center and new barracks, which are under construction and scheduled to open early spring 2012. The $70 million barracks will have rooms easily accessible by people using wheelchairs or having other physical limitations. Currently, wheelchair-accessible rooms are in temporary buildings.
"What it demonstrates is the Army's dedication to our wounded warriors," Shoupe said. "When I see it, to me it's a brick-and-mortar declaration of our nation's support for our wounded warriors."
The campus is located near Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center. In December, construction started on a new $534 million hospital, which will replace the current 45-year-old building.
"Over the years, we've upgraded and expanded the current medical center," said Lt. Col. Michael Williams, program manager for the U.S. Army Health Facility Planning Agency. "However, it is (nearly) 50 years old and undersized."
At 947,000 square feet, the new medical center will be 60 percent larger than the current building and will include a six-story hospital tower, three out-patient specialty clinic buildings and 5,200 parking spaces in ground lots and three parking garages. It's the largest Defense Department contract funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus package.
The new medical center also will be the first military medical facility to achieve gold certification in the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program. That's even with an HVAC system that uses 100 percent fresh air.
"Hospitals are energy hogs," Williams said. "They are typically very intensive users of energy so to make that gold standard was very challenging. We did so because of some very innovative techniques."
Construction of the medical center is on schedule and the facility is set to start seeing patients in the summer 2015.
The commercial district
In May, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service plans to start construction on a new post exchange near Clear Creek Road and Tank Destroyer Boulevard. The target opening is scheduled for November 2013.
"The facility will replace the Clear Creek Shopping Center, which is approximately the same size, but cannot be easily reconfigured to meet the needs of Fort Hood," said Judd Anstey Public Relations Manager in an email.
The existing exchange was built in 1976 and expanded in 1996. Anstrey said the typical lifespan of an exchange building is about 30 years, so Fort Hood is about on schedule for a replacement. The new exchange will be a silver LEED certified building and have many of the same amenities as the old one.
Burrow said Fort Hood is in talks with the federal Defense Commissary Agency to replace the existing commissary on Clear Creek Road.
Just down the road, construction continues at the $13.8 million Hood Stadium, which is set to open next year. The previous athletic complex was torn down to make way for the new hospital.
The new stadium will have a regulation football and soccer field, four softball fields, a University Interscholastic League track, press box, concession stands and locker rooms. It also will feature a permanent stage, 10-foot-wide bike path and parking for 1,000 vehicles.
Public access is being worked out for the facility, since the previous stadium hosted many public events, such as Freedom Fest. There are also talks with the Killeen Independent School District to host school athletic events in the future.
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Wondering why it takes so long for the IT guy to get back to you about your computer emergency? Apparently he's not playing a leisurely game of Halo, he's rolling these dice!
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The Chum Caverns are a group of caves that are underground between the Chum Bucket and the Krusty Krab. They only appear in "Chum Caverns."
The Chum Caverns are gorgeous caves. Plankton was able to lure customers in because of how beautiful the caves were. There is a stream, stalagmites, stalactites, and other wonders. Most of the customers were astonished at how cool it was, buying Plankton's 'inedible' food, just to bask in the caves glory. There is a gift shop; it is somewhere down near the tables.
Associated Characters
The Chum Caverns are inhabited by strange orange indigenous species known as the Cave Dwellers. Plankton found them and, after brutally whipping them, made them his slaves, forcing them to serve customers. Later, at the end of the episode, the caverns get destroyed and the Krusty Krab falls into the cavern. Finally, one of these creatures is seen whipping Plankton at the check-out of the Krusty Krab. Later, Mr. Krabs makes the Cave Dwellers work the register.
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- TED Mail Client: The mail client is the T,E.D. component that is responsible for receiving viewer contributed text messages, voice mails and emails.
- TED Aggregator: The aggregator is the component responsible for importing all content into the system. This component does checking to see if the feeling statement is able to be rendered as synthetic speech, assigns emotional coding information and does some basic cleansing and spell checking of the incoming statement.
- TED Renderer: This component is responsible creating the content that the installation plays. It first uses a genetic algorithm to group statements together based on likeness of emotional content by creating a great number of possible play sets. It then checks the sets for overall emotional likeness and grades each set accordingly. Once grading is complete the highest ranking sets are allowed to breed with each other and randomly mutate. After several thousand generation of this recursive breeding and grading the best 'evolved' and most suited set is allowed to proceed. Once the set is chosen the musical accompaniment is selected based on the most prevalent emotional traits of the winning set . The items in the winning set are then each assigned to a bear and given a rendered voice and associated lip-syncing data. Based on the given musical track chosen for the set some audio effects may be added directly to the audio tracks for the speech to add to the theme expressed by the musical accompaniment . The entire set consisting of all statements, the musical track, the voice audio, lip-syncing and bear location information are all packaged together and passed to the media player. This entire process occurs based on requests for material made by the Media Player component and typically occurs about every 45 seconds.
- TED Media Player: The media player is the component responsible for presentation of all content for the installation. It is responsible for keeping track of what is playing, cueing new content to play and threading all of the streaming musical tracks together seamlessly. This component is responsible for aiming and triggering the spot lighting by sending messages to the robotic lighting controller and also sends information regarding mouth and eye positions to each of the bears in the installation.
- TED Archiver: This component tackles the comparatively simple task of cleaning up after the other components and keeping a record of the content presented by the installation over the course of a run.
- Five groups of 16 bears each in an organic 'tree' configuration that suggests both natural and artificial network connectivity (figure 3).
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Traveling and staying fit build a balanced life, and adding someone wonderful to the mix would certainly make life richer. I enjoy learning... Maybe you can teach me something?
I don't need to be rescued. Rather I hope we add exponential dimension to each other's lives.
I walk and bike at the beach, hike on the trails, and I consider most outdoor activities fun. In the evenings, I wind down by cooking, dining with friends, savoring a nice glass of wine, watching a movie, going to the theater or relaxing at home reading a good book. Nature and gardening enrichment my soul.
My travels have led me to explore primitive and exotic lands...Nepal, Turkey, Peru, and Kenya, to name a few. I've also lived in Kabul, Afghanistan prior to the Soviet invasion.
Single for 12 years after a 25 year marriage. The last few years have given me the opportunity to follow my passion, and become a better version of me.
* I'm looking forward to traveling the world with the love of my life!
Living a healthy, active lifestyle in beautiful Orange County.
I'm also writing my father's memoir who lived to be 90 years young. My parents were married 65 years, and I'm proud to be their daughter.
Watching movies in the theater, and snuggling with my partner at home promote closeness.
I'm a huge music fan. I listen to classic rock music during my morning workout, R&B, all varieties of jazz, classical, world music, and attend live performances.
Eating...YUM either dining with friends and family, or preparing a delicious meal at home, eating good food is where it's at. Mediterranean is my favorite, Sushi, Italian, French, Asian, Mexican, and Dessert, especially chocolate. I eat almost everything except broccoli.
What are your favorites?
Words to describe my lifestyle: travel, fun, beach, warm water sports, laughing, hiking, biking, fitness, dining, cooking, wine, friends, family, slow dancing, concerts, music, pillow talk, kissing, learning, museums, theater, reading, writing, gardening, nature, reflection, mountains, art.
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The company plans to use the proceeds to expand clinical feasibility trials for its investigational traumatic brain injury (TBI) recovery and stroke recovery therapies using deep brain stimulation (DBS).
"Stroke and traumatic brain injury affect millions of people," said Vincent Owens, President and Chief Executive Officer, Intelect Medical. "The funding from Boston Scientific and Greatbatch will allow us to continue our applied research and clinical studies of DBS therapies and provide therapeutic options to help patients recover from stroke and TBI disabilities."
"Neuromodulation devices represent a large and growing market," said Thomas J. Hook President and Chief Executive Officer of Greatbatch, Inc. "We are pleased with the progress that Intelect has made in this important development initiative and are delighted to provide funding to further develop its DBS therapies and products."
Intelect Medical was founded in 2005 based on technologies developed by Ali Rezai, M.D., Director of Cleveland Clinic's Center for Neurological Restoration, Cleveland Clinic physicians and researchers, and Nicholas Schiff, M.D., Director of the Laboratory of Cognitive Neuromodulation at the Weill Cornell Medical College. The company is one of 18 companies spun off from Cleveland Clinic in the past five years.
"It is gratifying to see our technology and therapies move from the lab and closer to patient care," said Ali Rezai, M.D., Director of Cleveland Clinic's Center for Neurological Restoration. "Our therapies present a significant opportunity to improve treatment options for stroke and TBI recovery."
Cleveland Clinic and Cornell Research Foundation, Inc., have ownership stakes in Intelect Medical.
About Stroke and TBI
Both stroke and TBI are leading causes of serious, long-term disability worldwide. According to the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, these two disabilities combined have an annual incidence of 2.2 million, while creating in excess of $115 billion in direct healthcare costs annually. Four million people in the United States are survivors of stroke and more than 5 million suffer from TBI disabilities.
About Intelect Medical
Intelect Medical, Inc., headquartered in Cleveland, OH, is an early stage medical device company focused on providing neuromodulation solutions to patients suffering with disabilities from brain injury. For more information, visit http://www.intelectmedical.com.
About Weill Cornell Medical College
Weill Cornell Medical College - located in New York City - is committed to excellence in research, teaching, patient care and the advancement of the art and science of medicine. Weill Cornell, which is a principal academic affiliate of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, offers an innovative curriculum that integrates the teaching of basic and clinical sciences, problem-based learning, office-based preceptorships, and primary care and doctoring courses. Physicians and scientists of Weill Cornell Medical College are engaged in cutting-edge research in such areas as stem cells, genetics and gene therapy, geriatrics, neuroscience, structural biology, pharmacology, cardiovascular medicine, AIDS, obesity, cancer and psychiatry - and continue to delve ever deeper into the molecular basis of disease in an effort to unlock the mysteries behind the human body and the malfunctions that result in serious medical disorders. Weill Cornell Medical College is the birthplace of many medical advances - from the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer to the synthesis of penicillin, the first successful embryo-biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S., and most recently, the world's first clinical trial for gene therapy for Parkinson's disease. Weill Cornell's Physician Organization includes 650 clinical faculty, who provide the highest quality of care to their patients. For more information, visit http://www.med.cornell.edu.
About CCF Innovations
CCF Innovations, the technology commercialization arm of Cleveland Clinic, stewards the Clinic's technology innovation strategy. It enhances product- oriented innovation throughout Cleveland Clinic and transforms promising therapies, devices and diagnostics into beneficial medical products, via spin- off companies, licensees and equity partnerships.
About The Cleveland Clinic
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a not-for- profit multispecialty academic medical center that integrates clinical and hospital care with research and education. The Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four renowned physicians with a vision of providing outstanding patient care based upon the principles of cooperation, compassion and innovation. U.S. News & World Report consistently names The Cleveland Clinic as one of the nation's best hospitals in its annual "America's Best Hospitals" survey. Approximately 1,500 full-time salaried physicians at The Cleveland Clinic and Cleveland Clinic Florida represent more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties. In 2004, patients came for treatment from every state and 100 countries. The Cleveland Clinic website address is http://www.clevelandclinic.org.
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- New loans grew by $361.3 million during the third quarter of 2012. For the nine months ended September 30, 2012, new loans increased by $1.5 billion to $3.3 billion, an annualized growth rate of 121%. For both the third quarter and the first nine months of 2012, new loan growth outpaced the resolution of covered loans.
- Deposits increased to $8.5 billion with demand deposits totaling $1.7 billion, or 20.5% of total deposits. For the nine months ended September 30, 2012, total demand deposits grew by $507.8 million, an annualized growth rate of 55%.
- The cost of deposits continues to trend downward. The cost of deposits was 0.78% for the third quarter of 2012, as compared to 0.84% for the second quarter of 2012 and 1.07% for the third quarter of 2011.
- Book value and tangible book value per common share grew to $17.98 and $17.24, respectively, at September 30, 2012.
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Congratulations! Your PR efforts have paid off and you've landed an interview with a reporter. It's important to realize that, unlike at your small business, where you call the shots, someone else will control the interview. In order to succeed, you'll want to prepare accordingly.
Here are a few tips for talking with the media.
Days or Weeks Before the Interview
- Ask questions. Prior to the interview, find out as much as you can about its format and line of questioning. Sometimes, but not always, reporters are willing to share the questions they intend to ask. (They may even request that you provide a few.) Try to understand the scope of the story and what the news outlet really wants from you and your business. You'll also want to determine the approximate length of the interview, something about the audience's demographics, and whether other guests will be in attendance. If the interview is to be televised, ask what you should wear, who will do your makeup, and whether you'll have an opportunity to display your product.
- Do some research. It's to your benefit to know as much as possible about the interviewer and his or her employer beforehand. Read previous articles written by the reporter or watch online clips of previous interviews. Make sure you understand the publication's focus and any biases before you're in the hot seat.
- Offer to send information. Most interviewers appreciate receiving background information before the scheduled conversation. Send materials related to your company, service, and/or product line, as well as clips of prior media coverage. This way, less time is needed during the interview to establish basic details and more time can be devoted to the topic at hand.
- Have a strategy. You can't control the interview, but with some pre-planning you can influence its direction. What are your primary points? What do you want the audience to come away with? Put together a list of key statements, including statistics and other positive information about your business. You may not be able to use all of it, but being prepared enables you to look for openings to get across the story you want to tell.
- Practice, practice, practice. Yes, you're an expert on tax accounting, home plumbing, dog walking, etc. This doesn't mean you can effortlessly hold forth on these topics while being recorded. Do some mock interviews — with a spouse, a trusted friend, or a professional media trainer — in which you try to anticipate questions. What's the most negative thing you can imagine someone asking you about your business? What's the best answer you can give to that question? Record yourself or practice your answers in front of a mirror. On TV and radio, it's important to come across as relaxed, confident, and knowledgeable. Your body language and ability to smile while answering helps to convey that impression.
Right Before the Interview
- Spruce up the place. Frequently, reporters like to do "on scene" interviews. If the location is your place of business, make certain everything looks perfect — whether it's in an office, on the assembly line, or in the building's courtyard. Be sure your employees know what's going on, in order to minimize any disruptions.
- Build rapport. When chatting with the reporter right before the interview, mention that you've watched his clips or read her articles. Showing an interest in the reporter's work helps establish a connection that can translate into on-air compatibility.
- Watch what you say. Don't tell a reporter anything you wouldn't want to see in print or have your grandmother hear. It's best to assume that anything you say, however casually, is "on the record" and will eventually find its way into the public arena.
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Quickly looking over the handset in question, one of the first things to come to mind is how it made us remember about the HTC One S from earlier in the year, but then again, the One VX is able to separate itself enough from its distant relative. Specifically, it's packing a sizable 4.5" qHD Super-LCD 2 screen, dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, and LTE connectivity to give it enough distinction from the rest of the things out there.
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On Lynn Jacobson's farm near Enchant, Alta., there were a few things to be thankful for this harvest. Canola prices were up, putting him a little further ahead than last year. The sun, meanwhile, shone bright throughout the fall.
"We had good weather all the way through," he said. "We finished earlier than we usually do."
His operation, about 200 kilometres southeast of Calgary, is representative of the province this season. Farmers got more money for their crops than in past years, but those better prices were a symptom of troubles elsewhere.
The drought that battered the Midwestern United States also hit parts of Ontario, causing hay to wither and stunting the growth of corn.
"I've never seen the field corn in such a poor shape," said Bert Andrews, who has farmed in Halton region, west of Toronto, since 1980. Farmers took advantage of an early spring to get their corn in the ground sooner than usual, he said. But by the time the crop flowered, the weather had turned dry.
Sweet corn, which Mr. Andrews planted six times over the course of the year, is doing better. On Sunday, his field was full of the last crop of the season.
This year was rough on the province's fruit, especially in the early going: that early spring was followed by a sudden return to cooler temperatures. As a result, between 50 to 80 per cent of apple, peach, pear and cherry crops were lost, said Mark Wales, president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. Wheat, barley, oats and other grains, however, did better.
It was a similar story in British Columbia, where rain caused fungi to grow, damaging strawberry and raspberry crops in the spring. But the situation improved in recent weeks, with the sun shining brightly across the fruit belt.
"This warm, dry weather we've had has been great for the direct marketers, the you-pick guys," said Reg Ens of the B.C. Agriculture Council.
The heat, however, has a potential downside, he said: in the province's wheat-producing Peace River region, farmers worry that the lack of fall rain will leave the ground dry and bode ill for next year's crop.
Mr. Ens isn't the only one turning his attention to the coming months, now that this year's harvest is nearly done. Norm Hall, who farms a couple hours east of Saskatoon, is concerned that the lack of hay in Ontario could hurt its livestock over the course of the coming winter, prompting farmers to sell off animals.
Mr. Hall is so concerned, in fact, that he's helping organize an effort to ship hay from the Prairies. It's both a repayment for a similar project a decade ago – when farmers from central Canada helped out their western brethren – and an investment in the domestic meat industry.
"If we don't get enough feed into Ontario, it will affect the breeding stock," he said. "We could end up buying overseas."
For Mr. Wales, there were a few reasons for optimism: soybean crops in some places late in the season. A fair amount of rain led to record yields in the far southwest corner of Ontario, while elsewhere, the amount of precipitation fluctuated from farm to farm.
But such variability – an early spring, a dry summer, sporadic rains – could be the greatest worry of all.
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Self Power and Other Power
Richard Payne on Shin Buddhism, Practice, and Transformation
2001 Alum of the Year Richard K. Payne, who earned his Ph.D. in 1985, is Dean of the Institute of Buddhist Studies (a GTU affiliate). He is the author of Tantric Ritual of Japan, and editor of Re-Visioning "Kamakura" Buddhism. After earning his M.A. in philosophy, Payne traveled to Japan to study the Tantric tradition for his doctoral research. In order to gain access to the Mt. Koya temple to study Shingon, an initiatory, esoteric tradition, Payne was required to enter the training process as a monk. It was, he says, "the ultimate participant-observer situation."
As the GTU Alum of the Year, Dr. Payne was honored in a reception at the AAR this past fall in Denver. He remarked that "the best part of being alum of the year was having a chance to express my appreciation to the GTU," explaining that "the GTU has enabled me to do exactly what I wanted to!"
Future GTU classes Dr. Payne will co-teach include "Visions and Visualization," with GTU's Reindert Falkenburg and a UC Berkeley art history professor; a class on pilgrimage with Clare Fischer; and one on counseling and theories of the self with Rosemary Chinnici. Dr. Payne also works with CTNS and Dr. Ted Peters on the relationships between cognitive science and Buddhism.
Payne's scholarly interests center on developing a theory of ritual that connects ritual activity with all kinds of human activities, and Currents begins the interview on this subject.
Currents: You are known as a scholar of ritual. How does your view of ritual depart from the mainstream understanding?
RKP: Much of what goes on in ritual studies is a kind of interpretative approach-that is, looking at rituals as a series of symbolic representations, the meaning of which is by reference to something outside the ritual. For instance, the meaning of the Eucharist is referred back to the Last Supper. We have long assumed, with Durkheim, that belief or doctrine is what determines ritual activity. But we are now finding that rituals have a life of their own. Rituals are more self-contained than the referential theory would imply. For example, in East Asia, ritual practice or religious practice is more important than doctrine or belief system. What it means to be a Hindu is what kinds of practices you engage in.
Currents: So you're saying that the emphasis in Eastern religions tends to be on practices rather than belief.
RKP: You can be an atheist, a pantheist, a monotheist, a communist, or a socialist. Those are all irrelevant to the identity of being a Hindu. People with radically different belief systems can engage in what are effectively the same rituals. Certain Hindu Tantric traditions engage in funerary practices that are identical to those of the Brahmanic tradition, yet they have a monist theology, whereas the Brahmanic is dualist.
The fire ritual that I studied as a GTU student originates in Vedic tradition. It was carried into Tantric tradition and is found in both Hindu and Buddhist Tantra, and then was transmitted to East Asia, China and Japan, and Tibet. A kind of ritual that is identifiably the same exists in these very different religious cultures and under very different kinds of conceptions, even of what the goal is.
I think ritual is a kind of performance art. The modifications in the ritual are analogous to West Side Story's relationship to Romeo and Juliet. You have the same basic plot structure, but it's been adapted to a different environment.
Currents: The Institute of Buddhist Studies, where you serve as dean, trains ministers in Shin Buddhism. What are the key beliefs of Shin Buddhism?
RKP: The term "Shin" has been translated as "faith," and both the origin of that translation and the result of that translation have been to create an image of Shin in the West as comparable to a kind of simplistic Christianity: just have faith in the saving power of Amitabha and you'll go to the Pure Land.
The difficulty with that is that the meaning of the term "Shin" is very complex, having just as much depth and complexity as "faith" in Christian terminology. It is not simply a matter of firm belief. Rather, it points to the ways in which one interacts with a religious tradition with transformative results. And one of the ways in which I understand the founder of these teachings—this is putting it very much in contemporary Western psychological terms-is that you can't pull yourself up by your own bootstraps.
Within Shin, there developed a rhetoric distinguishing between self-power and other-power. Although this has been applied in a polemic fashion, I think that more effectively it points to the limitations of the ego's own ability to transform itself. The ego cannot get outside of itself to provide any leverage point from which to make changes. Everything that the ego does is involved in the ego's own projects. This doesn't mean that the ego is bad or is wrong, but rather it simply needs to be recognized for what it is. It is that which holds our social identity together.
So in order to make any change, there has to be something outside. And that's what I understand the Buddha Amida to provide: some perspective on our own lives, a place outside of ourselves. Transformation is not through one's own willful action. And the notion in Shin is that the power of Amida's vow, or what in Christianity might be called grace, is always available. It's there for anyone.
Currents: How would you compare Shin Buddhism to Tibetan and Zen Buddhism?
RKP: What is thought of as Tibetan Buddhism is usually the Tantric tradition. Tibetan tradition per se is mostly scholastic. But the Tantric tradition within Tibetan Buddhism emphasizes the layer of mind that is already pure, and utilizes ritual practices as a means of accessing that. The ongoing presence of Buddha is seen as that consciousness which is not obscured. Sometimes the term "defilements" is used, although "obscured" is closer to the meaning I would want to present, in that there are certain types of emotional and intellectual errors. A good phrase for it is "mistaken conceptions and misplaced affections."
I think that all three of those-the Tantric tradition, the Zen tradition, and the Shin tradition-have some fundamental similarities about how they see the limitations of the personal ego and the need for something outside of it, whether that's talked about as the Buddha Amitabha, or the Cosmic Buddha, or primal, pure consciousness.
When asked to address Shin congregations from time to time, I have told them that they have been tricked by their own religious tradition. Their tradition says it is the easy path. But it is really the hardest path, because it means seeing oneself from a different perspective, of what it means to already be assured of birth in the Pure Land. If you really understood that, it would shake your life down to its very foundations. It would absolutely transform the way that you relate to everybody and the way that you choose to live. Because there's nothing to hold on to except that stark truth, it's really a very difficult path.
Currents: What is your experience of being the Dean of a Buddhist school in a largely Christian theological consortium?
RKP: Perhaps because I'm some kind of contrarian, for me it has emphasized the differences between Buddhism and other religions. One perspective says, "Well, all religions are ultimately the same anyway, right? We're all headed to the same mountaintop." Although it has been presented as a liberal view, I think it's actually very conservative, because it ultimately says there is no reason to examine your own tradition or make any change in your life. It tends to downplay the differences, and to pick out those aspects which provide the appearance of uniformity. Perennialism is one term for this view, and I think that both religiously and intellectually there are serious problems with it. So rather than finding myself gradually moving towards a sense of greater identity, being dean at the sole Buddhist institution at the GTU has brought the differences to the forefront. It has made me increasingly aware of the religious importance of understanding the unique character of each tradition.
Currents: Can you say more about that religious importance of understanding the differences between traditions?
RKP: If one just kind of muddles around, picking and choosing aspects of different traditions that one likes-because, after all, they're all the same, so you can do what you want with them-then one is never confronted by how a tradition can challenge oneself to grow and change. And this also occurs, if one says, "Well, all religions are the same, so I don't need to understand this other tradition. I don't need to see how it is really different." To my mind, Buddhism is very different. The emphasis on emptiness, on the lack of any permanent, eternal, absolute or unchanging essence to anything, is really different and ought not to be glossed over for the sake of harmony. Systematically ignoring the fact that there are fundamental differences, I think, fails to make the potential of the different religious traditions available to anyone. So the kind of New Age-y, pick-and-choose religion doesn't, I think, challenge one to really live.
Currents: What's your take on the GTU's future in terms of expanding the interfaith mix?
RKP: I think that within the GTU there is still the question of, "Is the GTU a Christian institution?" However, it is important to recognize the reality of the pluralistic situation. It is no longer a matter of policy as to whether or not there be a pluralistic dimension to the education of tomorrow's religious leaders. They already live in a religiously plural world. I think that for all congregations of all denominations within the U.S., it's simply reality.
So I think that the GTU does need to expand the interfaith mix in order to fulfill not only its academic and intellectual mandate, but also its ministerial education mandate, which is primary to IBS as well as to all of the member schools. To fulfill that mandate, I think that the institution needs to reflect the pluralistic character of our society more adequately than it does.


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Karanam, V. L., Anim-Nyame, N. and Page, N. M. (2013) Placental angiogenin inhibitor (ribonuclease inhibitor), a novel gene in pre-eclampsia. Pregnancy Hypertension : An International Journal of Women's Cardiovascular Health, 3(1), pp. 39-43. ISSN (print) 2210-7789
Karanam, Vijaya, Page, Nigel and Anim-Nyame, Nick (2010) Hypoxia in pre-eclampsia: cause or effect? Current Women's Health Reviews, 6(4), pp. 303-308. ISSN (print) 1573-4048
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