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Caring for Our Parents With the Support of Office-Mates
Jul 2, 2013, 9:10 AM, Posted by Patty Hall
I sipped my coffee and looked down at my mother, who was lying on the kitchen floor next to my chair.
"How are you doing?" I asked.
"I wish your brother would get here."
Yeah, me too. I've got to get to work.
Am I the worst daughter in the world? Not really. My 82-year-old mother lost her balance and fell this morning, and she's too heavy for me to pick up on my own. She is dead weight. This has happened a few times in the last couple of months, and the only thing to do is to call someone to help me lift her, and wait.
This time she didn't hurt herself (other than her pride, no doubt). She did, however, have to wait more than an hour for me to wake up. The air conditioner in my room blocked the sounds of her calling me. Imagine how I felt when I finally walked into the kitchen for my breakfast. There she was, on the floor, wriggling around and trying to pull herself up with one of the chairs. She has no arm strength and she can't do it. She had soiled herself, too. So once my brother got there, I had to clean her up and rush to the office.
I was upset, and also angry. She refuses to wear the Life Alert pendant I implored her to get more than a year ago. If she had been wearing it, she could have pushed a button and someone would have been there to help her in just a few minutes. Despite this latest fall, she still isn't wearing it.
How many of you have a similar person in your life? You worry about them, you cancel plans because they've had a bad day … your life revolves around them (or at least it seems to). You are angry, frustrated, sad and tired. It would help to talk to someone about these feelings, but who has the time?
Here at RWJF, we've recently started an informal support group for caregivers. We meet during our lunch hour. I thought I was the only one going through this, but we've got 10 or 12 "members" so far. Every situation is different, but the emotions are similar. We take turns updating each other on our situations, and I find it incredibly helpful. There is no formal therapist present—it's just us unburdening ourselves, and I feel lighter for the rest of the day (I also usually take away some good advice). It's wonderful to pass one of these women in the halls (so far, our membership is all female) and have them ask how I'm doing. I don't feel alone in this anymore.
This is a workplace wellness program that costs no money. Consider starting such a group at your office. I'm willing to bet that there are employees who'd be interested.
And if you are looking for a cyber-community of caregivers, check out the New York Times blog, The New Old Age.


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A single-alarm fire Monday (Nov. 25) damaged an Almond Avenue home listed on the city's Historic Resources Inventory, according to an official with the Santa Clara County Fire Department.
"It looks like it was a power surge," arson investigator Dennis Johnsen said of what likely caused the fire. "The house was energized way more than normal."
The fire was reported at approximately 4:30 p.m., shortly after a live power line fell nearby and struck another line spanning the immediate area. Soon after, Johnsen said, a power surge in the home ignited a fire near the basement furnace and spread upward "pretty quickly" to the kitchen and hallway.
An adult male escaped the home uninjured and called 911, Johnsen added. The fire forced fire and police responders to shut down a portion of the street and divert traffic until 9 p.m. Johnsen described damage to the home as "moderate.
He added that the downed line caused a small fire on a separate utility pole. However, Johnsen said he wasn't ready "to connect the dots" and cite a definitive cause for the house fire because the investigation is ongoing. A call to PG&E for additional information has not been returned.
The damaged home is located at the corner of Beverly Court and Almond, near Santa Clara County Fire Department Station No. 15.
According to Los Altos Historical Commission records, the Spanish Revival-style home – owned by the Marv and Barb D. Emerling Trust – was originally built in 1925 and placed on the city's Historic Resources Inventory in 2011.

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Joe Pavelski at $6 million annually for five seasons is a fair deal. Whether it works out for the San Jose Sharks? We'll see.
Pavelski, a solid two-way center who turned 29 in July, is signed through 2019 for a total of $30 million, according to ESPN's Craig Custance. He had 31 points (16 goals, 15 assists) last season in 48 games and has been a solid playoff performer the last few years. San Jose lost in the Western Conference semifinals last season.
Compare that to the deal LA Kings captain Dustin Brown signed earlier this month, which was widely acclaimed as being team-friendly. Both are starting their 29-year-old seasons. Brown is signed for a slightly smaller cap hit ($5.75 million) for three more seasons and, save for his ability to draw penalties, is a tick behind Pavelski across the board—he scores less, possesses the puck less and plays against weaker competition. As Fear the Fin noted when Brown signed his deal, Pavelski should've asked for a little more, and he got it. He's also not signed through age 37, like Brown.
And, as always, we need to keep in mind that the cap, for the foreseeable future, will continue to rise. A $6 million player in 2015 is not going to be the same as a $6 million player in 2010. Brown and Pavelski both will fit the bill.
"It's always exciting when a franchise puts that responsibility on you a little bit," Pavelski said. "It's important to continue to play at a high level in that regard. It's a position I wanted to be in, and it's exciting to have this opportunity."
The issue, if there is one, is that the Sharks don't necessarily project as a cap team moving forward. They've chosen to build around Pavelski and Logan Couture ($6 million through 2019), which is fine. Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau and Dan Boyle are all on track to become unrestricted free agents after the season, which will free up about $22 million. Marleau, 33, is the youngest of the three, and it's a virtual guarantee that San Jose won't dedicate that amount of money to them moving forward. What they do then will set the course for the franchise—not extending Pavelski.
GM Doug Wilson said Tuesday that Couture and Pavelski were priorities because of their age.
"(Pavelski) a hockey player," Wilson said. "We use him on the point on the power play, we use him on the first line, we use him on key faceoffs, blocking shots. He won a national championship in college for a reason. He's a winner. He's a great role model for many of our other players who are home-grown. The way he plays the game, it's not about stats, even though his stats are very impressive. It's about what you can do to make a difference to win a game.


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Knicks Williams Is Far From Home and Trouble
By JONATHAN ABRAMS
Published: December 19, 2010
When the Knicks president, Donnie Walsh, informed Shawne Williams that his N.B.A. lifespan had been granted an extension with the Knicks, he offered one strong caveat. I told him, Its a different ballgame now, said Walsh, who kept Williams over the sentimental favorite Patrick Ewing Jr. for the last roster spot before the season. If anything negative comes up, youre out of here.
Williams, a 6-foot-9 forward, is one of the few substitutes Coach Mike DAntoni regularly calls upon. After making 10 of his first 12 attempts from 3-point range this season, Williams is again settling into the ups and downs of the N.B.A.
It is a fable to think that atonement arrives through athletics. Williams is in the process of distancing himself from his troubles and resurrecting a derailed career. His past includes several arrests and a desperate plea before a judge for his future an act that led the former Nets general manager Kiki Vandeweghe, who had traded for and then released Williams, to utter that he was luckily not our issue.
Ted Anderson, Williamss coach at Hamilton High in Memphis, said of Williams, Hes got nine lives.
Williams started the season saddled at the end of the bench before flourishing during the Knicks recent eight-game winning streak. His shot stopped dropping, though, and his minutes soon did also. But Williams scored 12 points Saturday as one of the teams lone bright spots in a loss at Cleveland, and DAntoni vowed to give him steady minutes again.
Before joining the Knicks, Williams drifted among Indiana, Dallas and the Nets. He had troubles at each stop. Three times in Indiana, friends from Memphis ran afoul of the law while in Williamss company. In Dallas, the Mavericks eventually asked Williams to stay away from the organization.
Authorities in Memphis indicted Williams, 1 of 24 defendants facing drug charges in January after a seven-month investigation called Operation: Lockdown, on eight counts. The Nets had just waived Williams after he reported out of shape. He pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor drug charges, including the possession and conspiracy to possess a controlled substance, in this case, hydrocodone, a codeine-based syrup. Then over the summer he was charged with driving with a suspended license. A passenger was charged with possession of marijuana and carrying a handgun.
Youve got one skill, one God-given ability, and youre doing everything you can to throw it away, Judge James Beasley Jr. told Williams in August, according to The Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Most of his troubles involved a common thread: Williams would be with hometown friends. With Memphis a days drive from Indiana, the hangers-on could and did hang on.
Really, I had to iron out a lot of wrinkles in my life, the 24-year-old Williams said recently. I sat back even though I wanted a team to call me after the Nets I knew I wasnt in great shape to go to a team.
It was a precipitous fall. In an area rich in amateur basketball, some declared Williams the best prospect from Memphis since Penny Hardaway. Williamss former coaches speak of a studious athlete willing to learn the game and of a person who engaged in mild mischief.
Williamss grandfather, Leon Williams, raised him and his brother, Ramone. They lived in South Memphis, in an area blanketed with drug dealers and prostitutes. Ramone, one year older than Shawne, was murdered before Williams entered the N.B.A.
Anderson has known Williams since he was 9. Occasionally, Williamss grandfather summoned Anderson to discipline Williams. Anderson, like others close to Williams as he grew up, did not recall him having any serious issues.
At one national tournament, basketballs started to disappear and the director threatened to cancel the tournament. Keith Easterwood, one of Williamss youth coaches, found the balls in the room of Williams and another teammate. Williams said that he could sell the basketballs once he returned to Memphis in order to buy school clothes.
He always did silly stuff, Easterwood said. Perhaps some of it was him and some of it was his environment. But he was always a pretty good kid.
Arkansas and Kansas recruited Williams. To Andersons dismay, Williams decided to play under John Calipari at Memphis.
I made a lot of University of Memphis fans angry when I suggested he needed to leave town, Anderson said. He added, Here in Memphis, it was hard for him to get away from people who he grew up around with who might not have his best interests in mind.
In an effort to improve his grades and become eligible to play at Memphis, Williams transferred to North Carolinas Laurinburg Institute for his senior year. The team went 40-0 in 2004-5 and Williams debated forgoing college for the N.B.A. He announced his decision to uphold his Memphis commitment at a nightclub.
After a year at Memphis, Walsh selected him with the 17th overall pick in the 2006 draft. His tangles with the law arose soon after.
Out of the league most of last season, Williams saw his weight balloon. His skills atrophied. In the spring, after contemplating his life, Williams paid his way to the IMG Basketball Academy in Bradenton, Fla.
Williams trained with several players picked in Junes draft. Off the court, he cautioned the rookies on the leagues vices. On the court, he dominated them.
I changed a lot of things, Williams said, adding. Mostly, the biggest thing with me, it was never me. It was just the crowd who I ran with and the people who I had around me. But I wouldnt say it was a bad choosing of the people, it was just the people I grew up with all my life and I just had to separate myself from that if I wanted better things.
When asked if the responsibility fell on his shoulders, Williams said: Most definitely. Nobody made me do some of the stuff I did, hang with the people I hanged with.
Williamss confidence to come back never wavered; he had a successful stint with the Charlotte Bobcats in the summer league. It is part of the mind-set that helped spur his path to the N.B.A. and also his troubles.
Throughout all the adversity I done been through, when it all came when I was sitting at home, not playing, like I said, a light switched on that I know what I want to do with my life, Williams said. I want to play ball and have fun doing it.
In the N.B.A., labels are easy to acquire and hard to dispel. From the beginning, Ive been open-minded, and hes been nothing like what Ive heard of him, said Roger Mason Jr., a Knicks teammate.
That is the type of future that Williams is trying to carve out. Thats how Im looking at it, Williams said. I just want my actions to do the talking for all the off-the-court stuff.


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Friday's Special Treat
As we await the launch of the online virtual tour, I thought you'd enjoy this tease, which comes in the form of a cinemagraph created by our visual designer Jason Kisner. I love the acacia pub table and chairs that offer a magnificent view of Core Sound and those festive lanterns, swaying in the breeze as they suspend from the old pecan tree branches. Perfection!


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Police are investigating after two men drove a van into a Co-op store in Corsham last Friday in an attempted ram raid.
A blue van stolen from the Chippenham area on Christmas Eve was reversed into the front of the store on Macie Way around 11.20pm causing considerable structural damage.
Two men are believed to have tried to steal a free-standing cash machine, but left the scene empty-handed. The van was later found ditched on the nearby Freestone Way.
Detective Sergeant Simon Pope of Melksham CID said: "I would be interested to hear from anyone who saw a blue VW Transporter van in good condition parked in their neighbourhood between Christmas Eve - when it was stolen - and the evening of Thursday 3 January when the break-in took place.
"Perhaps someone saw it entering or leaving a lock-up garage or simply parked on a street.
"This was an unsuccessful and amateurish attempt to steal a cashpoint machine using a van stolen from Chippenham.
"That leads me to believe that the two men involved live locally."
CCTV images of the raiders released by Wiltshire Police show one man wearing a distinctive striped white hooded top.
Police were alerted by residents who heard the van smash into the store. Maureen Angrove, of Macie Way, said: "Around 11.20pm I heard an almighty bang. I looked out of my son's bedroom window and saw the van. This tall bloke in a hood jumped out of the van and tried to get in, before the van screeched off again.
"I called the police, and within a minute of putting the phone down they were here.
"You don't expect something like this on your doorstep; I just don't know what there were after."
Kevin Turnbull, of nearby Hatton Way also heard the raid take place. He said: "I was sat in my front room when I heard them ram into the shop three or four times. They must have been on a destructive binge."
A fire crew from Corsham worked for several hours into the night to make the shop safe, along with a support unit from Swindon.
The front of the shop remains boarded up, but it was reopened on Saturday serving customers from the rear doors.
Wiltshire Police are appealing for anyone who saw a car speeding away from the scene to contact them. Detective Sergeant Pope said "If anyone who has not yet come forward has any information or saw the blue van travelling to the Co-op in Macie Drive on the Katherine Park estate or another vehicle leaving the area at speed at about 11.20pm I would very much like to hear from them.
"Please call Wiltshire Police on 101 and ask for Melksham CID. Alternatively, please call Crimestoppers UK anonymously on 0800 555 111."


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Consider this: There was a time, maybe a half-century ago, when railroads finagled a way around overloaded trains or engines facing mountainous terrain. If the company plied a train with too much weight, workers hitched it to an engine up front and then hitched another engine behind the train to give it added momentum up steep hills.
Your metabolism works something like a train engine. In midlife, metabolism slows like an overloaded train facing a heck of a hill. Although the metabolic train slows, it doesn't have to grind to a halt. All it needs is a little extra push, with the help of metabolism boosting foods and a bit of exercise.
A Crash Course in Metabolism
Don't curse your metabolism. You need it for every breath you take.
All forms of life—from simple algae in a backyard swimming pool to your dog or cat to the human body—depend on hundreds of carefully regulated, and simultaneous, chemical reactions to stay alive.When your body digests food, it breaks down the carbohydrates, fats, and proteins you eat into smaller compounds that are absorbed by the blood.
- Carbohydrates (found primarily in fruits, vegetables, grains, potatoes, and candy, for example) break down into glucose.
- Fats (from either vegetable oils like olive oil or animal fats like butter) break down into fatty acids and glycerol.
- Proteins (from fish, meat, poultry, eggs, dairy food, and beans, for example) break down into amino acids.
Carbohydrates, protein, and fat contain calories. Fiber is a form of carbohydrate that produces no calories and aids in weight control by providing bulk, which makes food more filling.Your basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the number of calories you expend to sustain life—the energy spent to keep the heart beating, the lungs expanding, or the body humming along at a healthy 98.6 degrees F. But you also expend energy when you move—walk, run, cycle, garden, dance, chase a bus, or work out at the gym.
Both the conversion of food to energy and your body's use of that energy—your metabolism—play a key role in weight control. If you take in more energy than your body needs, you gain weight. It doesn't matter if all those extra calories came in the form of a double cheeseburger, two extra slices of garlic bread with spaghetti, a second pat of butter slapped on your mashed potatoes, or a glass or two of wine with dinner every night. Extra calories in all forms—protein, fat, carbohydrates, and alcohol—add up to weight gain.
If your body has an excess of calories from any source, it rearranges them into stores of fat and carbohydrates, to be drawn upon between meals and overnight in between fuel deliveries. If you take in more energy than you burn, you gain weight as body fat.
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The Natural Slowdown
Almost imperceptibly at first, a woman's metabolic train slows as the birthdays add up.
Somewhere in her thirties, a woman's metabolism approaches a big hill and starts to slow about 5% every decade. That means that if a moderately active 35-year-old woman ate a set number of calories a day to maintain a weight of 140 pounds, she might gain weight eating the same number of calories at age 45.
For many women at midlife, the weight gain is so gradual they don't notice it until they try to slip into their "skinny" jeans and can't close the zipper. Or they find they need to notch their belt at the next larger hole.
"If you gain 1 pound a year, after a year it won't seem like much, but after 10 years, it adds up," says Geoffrey Redmond, MD, endocrinologist and the author of The Good News about Women's Hormones.
The only way to burn calories over and above your basal metabolic rate is to expend more effort. Regular, intentional, calorie-burning exercise goes a long way to counteracting the falloff in metabolism that occurs at midlife. (Our exercises show you how.)
Scientists don't yet know why, but African-American women have lower basal metabolic rates than Caucasian women, according to a study from the National Institutes of Health. "It may turn out that African-American women may need to exercise longer, more frequently, and with greater intensity than others to keep the weight off," says Jana Klauer, MD, a research fellow at the New York Obesity Research Center at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital and Columbia University.
When it comes to metabolism, the sexes aren't equal, either. One study at Jean Meyer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston found that women's "resting energy expenditure"—the number of calories expended on day-to-day activities—declined significantly as they aged, but the decline wasn't nearly so noticeable in aging men.
Hormones, too, influence metabolism in various ways. Cortisone and hydrocortisone are crucial to regulating the metabolism of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. Insulin from the beta cells of the pancreas triggers cells to take in glucose and amino acids. And a hormone called thyroxine responds to another hormone, called Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH), to prompt many cells to increase their metabolic rate, their growth, even their heat production.
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Muscle Matters
As if they don't have it easy enough sometimes, men hold a metabolic edge over women because they have more muscle, and muscles are the "workhorses" of the body, says Ann Grandjean, EdD, executive director of the International Center for Sports Nutrition in Omaha, Nebraska.
Consider the case of Janet, a former college athlete who felt "fat" even though she hadn't gained weight. Like many women, she had gained fat and lost muscle over the years. Janet weighed 140 pounds at age 35. At that time, 23% of her body consisted of fat. (Experts consider 23 to 33% body fat healthy for women ages 40 to 59). Back then, 32 of Janet's 140 pounds were fat. The rest—108 pounds—consisted of bone, muscle, water, and internal organs.
By the time Janet reached age 51, her body fat had increased from 23 percent to 30 percent, yet her weight had remained the same. Her body now contains 42 pounds of fat, 10 more pounds of fat than at age 35. At the same time, Janet had lost approximately 5 pounds of muscle.When women gain fat and lose muscle, two things happen:
- Fat isn't as dense as muscle, so any fat gained takes up more space than muscle. Even if you haven't gained weight on the scale, your body can appear larger, and your clothing size may even increase.
- Because muscle burns more calories than fat, your metabolism slows and you burn fewer calories, which can contribute to weight gain if you don't make adjustments in your calorie consumption.
Janet worries that if she isn't extraordinarily careful about what she eats, she will gain weight—and with good reason. The amount of lean body mass you have is an important factor in determining the rate at which you burn calories. If lean body mass drops, metabolism drops.
Every pound of muscle a woman loses slashes the number of calories she burns by as many as 30 calories a day. If she loses 10 pounds of muscle over 3 decades, she could burn 300 fewer calories each day, or a whopping 2,100 fewer calories each week. By the time she celebrates her 55th birthday, she could have lost as many as 15 pounds of muscle, and now burn 450 fewer calories each and every day.
What this means for Janet—and other women in their forties and fifties—is that maintaining muscle mass is critical as the birthdays add up. Lean muscle matters because there's so much of it. Calorie-burning muscle accounts for approximately 40% of the body mass of a normal-weight woman—that's 56 pounds for a 140-pound woman like Janet—so it's a major factor in energy.
Here's some good news: Because muscle mass is linked directly to metabolic rate, women can give their metabolic engines a boost with weight training and other forms of exercise that builds muscle.
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Eating Too Little?
As a young woman, 58-year-old Colleen lost weight easily when she crash dieted, shedding pounds so quickly that she began to feel invincible. Sometimes it's easier for busy women to skip exercise, opting for yet another 800-calorie-a-day crash diet instead. Yet the older you get, the less productive crash dieting is. Dieting alone results in a loss of some lean weight—that is, muscle—in addition to fat. But if the weight is regained by returning to a normal diet, it will be in the form of fat.
To supply the red blood cells, brain, and nerves with glucose after the glycogen is gone, the body opts for biology's version of plan B: It breaks down muscle and liver tissue to make the glucose it needs.
The metabolic catch-22? As the lean, protein-rich liver breaks down and shrinks, it works less in order to "spend" less energy. The same is true of muscles: As they waste away, they also work less and demand less fuel. Metabolism, in effect, grinds to a crawl.
As metabolism slows, fat loss also slows, so much that dieters on crash diets or very low calorie plans lose less fat than they would on a sensible reduced-calorie program. In most cases, this means that crash dieters who see big losses on the scale may actually lose less fat than dieters who opt to eat—and enjoy—more food.
Low-carbohydrate diets also trigger the body to draw upon its glycogen stores to provide glucose to the cells. Once those glycogen reserves are gone, the body turns to protein, its only remaining source of glucose. Although low-carbohydrate diets are high in protein—focusing on lots of fish, meats, and cheese—the body still breaks down lean tissue, like muscle, to meet its energy needs. Luckily, consuming a satisfying 1,500 calories a day will help most women avoid the slowdown in metabolism that occurs with low calorie intake.
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Morning, Noon, or Night: Just Do It
Aside from burning calories, exercise also boosts your metabolism—and depending on when you do it, it could have even more potent calorie-burning power.
In one study, done at the University of Chicago, scientists discovered that male athletes who exercised at 6 o'clock in the evening or late at night, around 1 o'clock, showed significant increases in levels of cortisol and thyrotropin—two hormones that are critical in energy metabolism.
Those who exercised in the morning or afternoon had much smaller increases in the same hormones and smaller drops in blood glucose. (Comparable studies still need to be done on women.)
"Although the effects of exercising late at night were the most extreme, we also saw significant increases of cortisol and thyrotropin in evening exercisers," said Orfeu Buxton, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in endocrinology at the University of Chicago and lead author of the study. "Right now, we're not sure what that means. But we do know the differences in the hormone levels are very large depending on whether you exercise at night or evening, or early in the day."
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Can anyone tell me what it is?
where its practice derives from?
everything really!
I have my suspicions and if I am correct it would explain something which happened a while ago!
Manapa wrote:Can anyone tell me what it is?
where its practice derives from?
everything really!
I have my suspicions and if I am correct it would explain something which happened a while ago!
So evaṃ samāhite citte parisuddhe pariyodāte anaṅgaṇe vigatūpakkilese mudubhūte kammaniye ṭhite āneñjappatte āsavānaṃ khayañāṇāya cittaṃ abhininnāmesiṃ.
When the mind was thus concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, rid of defilement, pliant, malleable, steady & attained to imperturbability, I directed it to the knowledge of the ending of the mental fermentations.
Element wrote:I may be corrected but I have heard kammatthana means 'object of work'.
Kamma here means 'work' such as in the word 'kammaniyo', which means 'ready for work' or 'active'.
Buddha said one quality of samadhi is it is active or pliant. It is sensitive and flexible for the work of introspection or vipassana.So evaṃ samāhite citte parisuddhe pariyodāte anaṅgaṇe vigatūpakkilese mudubhūte kammaniye ṭhite āneñjappatte āsavānaṃ khayañāṇāya cittaṃ abhininnāmesiṃ.
When the mind was thus concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, rid of defilement, pliant, malleable, steady & attained to imperturbability, I directed it to the knowledge of the ending of the mental fermentations.
bodom_bad_boy wrote:In Buddhism, kammaṭṭhāna is a Pali word (Sanskrit: karmasthana) which literally means the place of work. Figuratively it means the place within the mind where one goes in order to work on spiritual development.
Kammatthana (Part1)
The word "Kammaṭṭhāna" is a technical term, and it is given a special significance in the way of Dhamma as practiced by those who are Dhutanga Bhikkhus. The true basis of kammaṭṭhāna however, is to be found in everyone — in men, women, those who are ordained and lay people, for it refers to such things as hair of the head, hair of the body, and the rest.
The word "kammaṭṭhāna" has been well known among Buddhists for a long time and the accepted meaning is: "the place of work (or basis of work)." But the "work" here is a very important work and means the work of demolishing the world of birth (bhava); thus, demolishing (future) births, kilesas, taṇhā, and the removal and destruction of all avijjā from our hearts. All this is in order that we may be free from dukkha. In other words, free from birth, old age, pain and death, for these are the bridges that link us to the round of saṁsāra (vaṭṭa), which is never easy for any beings to go beyond and be free. This is the meaning of "work" in this context rather than any other meaning, such as work as is usually done in the world. The result that comes from putting this work into practice, even before reaching the final goal, is happiness in the present and in future lives. Therefore those Bhikkhus who are interested and who practice these ways of Dhamma are usually known as Dhutanga Kammaṭṭhāna Bhikkhus, the way of practice of Dhutanga Kammaṭṭhāna as derived from Venerable Ajahn Mun (Bhūridatta Thera).
A form of kammaṭṭhāna which has been very important since the time of the Buddha, and is taught by the Upajjhāya (Preceptor) at the time of ordination, consists of five parts of the body: "Kesa — hair of the head; Loma — hair of the body; Nakhā — nails; Dantā — teeth; Taco — skin" in both forward and reverse order. These are taught so that the one who has been ordained should grasp them as a method of contemplation, going back and forth over them, time after time until skill is gained and one of them, or all five, are known thoroughly. For these five are important parts of the bodies of all men and women.
But that which is called the "kammaṭṭhāna", which is the "supporting object" (ārammaṇa) of any particular citta, is of many kinds, and according to the texts, which can be consulted by those who are interested, there are forty such objects. The main reason why there are so many different kinds of kammaṭṭhāna is to allow those who are interested in practicing to choose one or more which are suitable to their characters, for the characteristics of people differ. This is similar to diseases, which are of many kinds and therefore require different medicines to treat them.
The method is to take up one of those objects and to repeat its name (parikamma–bhāvanā) in any bodily position that is suitable or appropriate. For example, repeating, Kesa… Kesa… Kesa… Kesa..., or Loma… Loma… Loma… Loma..., having mindfulness to maintain constant control, and not letting the heart wander elsewhere, while being aware of the particular Dhamma object, the name of which one is repeating, and not frequently changing about between several Dhamma objects — which is characteristic of one who is halfhearted and desultory. One should continue in this way until either truly experiencing the results or truly knowing that the object does not suit one's character, before changing to a new object.
One who truly knows that a particular object suits his character should take hold of it as the heart's guide and continue to persevere without weakening until he experiences the results more and more and goes forward into the ground of Dhamma where it becomes necessary for him to change the object of Dhamma — which he will know for himself.
The result that comes from practicing with these or any other kinds of Dhamma that suit one's character, is an increasing happiness and calm within the heart which one has never experienced before. This calmness of heart begins at the lowest level, which is the attainment of calm for only a few moments. Then it increases to a moderate duration, and finally to a state of calm for as long as one wants to rest, and to withdraw from it as one wishes. This last state of calm is much more subtle, deep and intimate than the others.
While the citta is calm it can let go of all those emotional disturbances which normally trouble it in various ways and then there remains only the "knowing" and "brightness" which are innate qualities of the heart, as well as happiness which arises from the calm, and accords with the level of the heart. There is nothing else there, because at this moment the citta is without any objective support (ārammaṇa) and it is its own self and alone. Even if there are subtle kinds of kilesas within it they do not show themselves, for it is like still, clear, unclouded water in which any remaining sediment has settled to the bottom and does not make the water muddy, so that it is clear and clean and fit to be used for drinking, washing or anything else.
The heart which is without any objective support is peaceful in itself and for however long it stays alone it will be happy, wonderful, meaningful and of great value causing "the owner" to admire it long and much while it remains in that state. In that it is both meaningful and wonderful it never becomes insipid even long afterwards. This is because the heart which is profound and wonderful is already within oneself, so that when it is cleansed and one goes inside and truly reaches it even for only a moment, it immediately shows one by direct experience how wonderful it is. But if one lets it go, letting it slip out of one's hands, and it deteriorates due to not truly going back to the method of practice or trying to develop it further, it will cause one to long for it and to feel very upset that one cannot get back to that state of the citta. It is probably for this reason, that at the time of the Buddha, the heart of one of the Sāvakas developed and deteriorated up to six times, until he became very disappointed and sorry because of his longing. But finally he became one of the Sāvaka Arahants because exertion and striving acted as a bridge that made the link, enabling him to penetrate and reach the Deathless (Amata) Dhamma — which is the realm of happiness. This he did by relying upon the Kammaṭṭhāna Dhamma as the way to go forward.
(Venerable Ajahn Mahā Boowa, "Patipadā (Venerable Ãcariya Mun's Path of Practice)")
Kammatthana (Part2)
Of the countless Buddhas and Sāvaka Arahants of each Buddha who have attained Parinibbāna throughout the immeasurable past, including those of the Lord Buddha, the Samaṇa Gotama and his Sāvakas who passed on a few thousand years ago, all of them did so and arose up to the state of Buddha and the state of Arahant by using one or more of the kammaṭṭhānas — such as the five Kammaṭṭhānas. Not even one of them realised Dhamma without a kammaṭṭhāna, so one may reasonably claim that kammaṭṭhāna is the birthplace of all the Exalted Ones. This is because, before it is possible for the rūpa and nāma of a Bhikkhu or a lay person to develop and metamorphose from the state of an ordinary person (puthujjana) into that of a Noble person (Ariya puggala) from the lowest to the highest level, he must have a Kammaṭṭhāna Dhamma as the device that will "wash him clean", and the device that will in various ways, process and alter his thinking and understanding that are the background of his citta which has the "seeds" of vaṭṭa embedded within it, and will scatter them so that they disperse and disappear entirely. Then it will alter and become the "Buddha–heart" and an entirely new sphere of heart arises in complete purity.
Therefore, all of the Buddhas have upheld the kammaṭṭhāna as a vitally important and essential Dhamma, and every one of the "World Teachers" (Sāsadā) have always praised it highly in the circle of those who followed their religion right up to the present era. This is also the case in the religion of our Samaṇa Gotama who upheld the kammaṭṭhāna as the pattern and the ancient unchanging tradition to be followed, and he was the first and the foremost and he became the Lord Buddha because of the forty Kammaṭṭhānas, of which ānāpānasati is an example. The Lord Buddha also taught these kammaṭṭhānas to his followers and they have come down to us in the present age, and they still act as a bridge, linking beings in the world right up to Nibbāna — and they will continue to do so until the end is reached of the power of the inherent good characteristics (vāsanā) of those who follow the Lord. For these reasons the term "kammaṭṭhāna" has always been a special form of Dhamma within the circle of the Sāsana, and it will always be so.
Someone who has faith in Buddhism but has not yet cultivated and practiced the way of kammaṭṭhāna, yet knows something about the hidden things which are within himself, both good and bad, should not just think how clever he is in his self-knowledge, even if he can remember everything which he has read out of the Ti–Piṭaka. Because the Ti–Piṭaka is only a balance sheet of the good and evil of those things, or natural phenomena, which are within oneself and it remains like this until it has been recognised by a form of practice in which the kammaṭṭhāna clearly shows up the way leading to the truth in accordance with the intention of the Lord in revealing Dhamma and teaching the world.
These forty aspects of kammaṭṭhāna are the cupboard where the Ti–Piṭaka is kept. They are the means for the destruction of becoming and birth. They are the tools for destroying the "rotating wheel" (cakka) that leads worldly beings whirling around through birth and death until they neither know their old and new lives, nor their old and new dukkha which is all mixed up with these lives, all of which they cut off completely.
Doing a form of practice which is without any of these Dhammas in any way, to give support and help to it will not lead to the destruction of the kilesas and the mass of Dukkha which are within one, nor will it reduce them, ameliorate them and eradicate them at all. But a practice which has these Dhammas to give some aid and support to it can certainly destroy the mass of Dukkha entirely.
For this reason, one who practices for calm and happiness and for knowing clearly and penetrating into all Dhammas must take hold of these Kammaṭṭhāna Dhammas as the life-line of his practice all the way through from the lowest to the highest level of Dhamma, this being the freedom (vimutti) of Nibbāna. Whoever does the practice to develop virtue in a good and true manner and by whatever method, when he reaches a truly decisive situation — in other words, when he is taking a step up from a lower to a higher ground or level of citta and Dhamma — he will have to turn back and take up one or other of these Kammaṭṭhāna Dhammas as the means of going on, so that he will be able to pass through and go beyond with ease and safety. Because these Dhammas are where all the Dhamma Truths (Sacca Dhamma), which have Path, Fruition and Nibbāna as their topmost point, are drawn together. All these Dhammas are within the sphere of the Buddha Sāsana, and all the Great Teachers (Sāsadā) of each era have been the first to reveal and teach them, each in the same manner, after which they were handed down successively from teacher to pupil.
Those who are still doubtful of the Buddhas, each of whom revealed and taught Dhamma in the various ages, until we come to the present Great Teacher who is our Lord Buddha, should practice and investigate by the way of the Dhamma of kammaṭṭhāna, which he also demonstrated, proving it truly by the ways of wisdom until the results arose as he had intended. Then one will know from the knowledge and experience that arises from one's own practice with complete clarity that the Great Teacher and Dhamma are not different but are one and the same thing. Which accords with the essence of Dhamma that the Lord revealed in brief, thus:
"Whoever sees Dhamma sees the Tathāgata."
The Dhamma in this saying proclaims all the Tathāgatas very clearly and lets us know that the Tathāgatas always dwell in Dhamma and are not dependent on time and place. For even though each of the Buddhas entered Parinibbāna long ago, as understood in the conventions of the world, the truth in fact is that the Tathāgata is just this Dhamma.
All those who have seen Dhamma within the heart with clarity and certainty have no doubts regarding the Tathāgatas at all — and what state the Tathāgatas dwell in. For although the world understands that once they have entered Nibbāna they all disappear into silence and the Great Teacher is no longer there to teach with mettā. The truth is that the Dhamma which the Lord bestowed and which causes Enlightenment to arise in his followers is in fact our Great Teacher.
If one has enough interest to want to have the Great Teacher within one's heart, it can be there at all times, just as if the Lord Buddha was still living. It only depends on the extent to which one is wholehearted in one's respect and reverence and pays heed to Dhamma which represents the Lord, and to what extent one rates it as more important than other things. For even if the Lord were still alive it would be of no help to one at all if one took no interest in it, and one would still be just as lost as one was before without gaining anything.
So as not to cause regret and remorse to oneself in the future, and to bring contentment of heart both in the present and the future, one should practice and develop oneself by way of the Dhamma that was bestowed on us by the Lord Buddha as his inheritance and which stands in place of him. The results will be the same in all respects, as if the Lord Buddha was still living and there will be no difference in it at all. In other words one will have Dhamma, which is the Great Teacher in one's heart constantly at all times.
(Venerable Ajahn Mahā Boowa, "Patipadā (Venerable Ãcariya Mun's Path of Practice)")


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IN a bid to encourage taxi drivers to provide wheelchair-accessible vehicles, Stroud District Council is halving the cost of taxi licence application fees for those providing vehicles which can accommodate passengers in wheelchairs.
Currently, new applications for taxis licences cost £150 and annual renewals £120.
But now 50 per cent of this licence fee will be waived for those who can provide wheelchair accessible taxis and private hire vehicles, licensed between June 1 and May 30 2015.
Vehicles to be licensed to carry wheelchairs must meet Stroud District Council's criteria to ensure passenger safety and there are currently only two taxi companies and three private hire vehicles licensed in the Stroud district which are wheelchair accessible.
In addition to taxis, VCA Stroud (Voluntary and Community Action) operates a ring and ride transport service and have vehicles that can accommodate wheelchairs.
Principal licensing officer for Stroud District Council, Rachel Andrew, said it was a small sum that would be saved but it is a step in the right direction.
"There are currently only a few accessible taxis available in the district which allow passengers to sit in their wheelchairs in the vehicle," she said.
"We'd like to see more and hopefully this 12-month trial will encourage taxi drivers to make the move.
"With an increasingly elderly population it is more important than ever that we are able to provide services to meet their needs."
Service manager at Lifeways, Nick Hodder is supportive of the move, as he said that there had been a case when someone could not attend a family function due to her vehicle breaking down.
"Unable to find a local wheelchair accessible taxi available, she had to approach companies from outside the district, who quoted fares of £80 to come out and make the three mile round trip," he said.
Jan Marriott and Zara Humphrey are chairwomen of the Gloucestershire Learning Disability Partnership Board and said the move was great news that their feedback was being listened to.#
"This could potentially lead to more disabled access taxis making it easier for people with disabilities to get out and about easily within their local community, helping them to live more independent lives."
The trial was approved by the council's licensing committee and begins in June.
Contact numbers for wheelchair accessible taxis are on Stroud District Council's website www.stroud.gov.uk
For further information call the licensing team at Stroud District Council on 01453 754440.


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An overview of the stories making the French and international newspaper headlines. From Monday to Friday live at 7.20 am and 9.20 am Paris time.
2017-09-21 Catalan independence
Mexico City's earthquake, Catalonia's independence struggle and Senegal's charcoal-making women
INTERNATIONAL PAPERS - Thurs. 21.09.17: We take a look at the earthquake that's hit Mexico and others that preceded it. The Catalan referendum is also making headlines, with an...
2017-09-21 Michelin
The French protest again and some Viking warriors were women
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2017-09-20 Donald Trump
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FRENCH PAPERS, Weds. 20.09.17: As Hurricane Maria sweeps through the Caribbean, Catholic daily La Croix argues that, in this "age of hurricanes", governments simply aren't doing...
2017-09-19 climate change
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The Associate of Elected Studies program is a 64 semester hour program. The following ten courses represent 32 hours toward that requirement. Students will take the following sequence of courses.
BUA104 Introduction to Business Management (4)
Course Requirement: Enrollment in Thomas More College Accelerated Program. Provides an introduction to the accelerated college-level business program, providing a contemporary overview of the business environment, reviewing and coaching students in the core skills for success in this program. The business overview comprises study in the current business environments, stressing global entrepreneurial opportunities, management techniques and the management functions of leadership, controlling, planning, and organization. The review and coaching of core skills includes reading for comprehension, time management, techniques for knowledge retention, written communication, teamwork, and test taking skills.
BUA106 Fundamentals of Business and Academic Writing (3)
Course Requirement: Enrollment in TAP. Students will develop academic and business writing skills. The course will emphasize effective writing and communication skills needed in academic and professional settings. Students will learn to create concise, professional documents for internal and external stakeholders. Legal and ethical standards for business and academic writing, including plagiarism, writing with integrity, and using bias-free language will be covered. Cross-listed as ENG 106.
BUA107 Mathematics for Business Decision Making (4)
Course Requirement: Enrollment in TAP. This course explores fundamental mathematical techniques necessary for business decision making. Examples will be emphasized, and will point to decision making techniques in economics, finance, marketing and other business disciplines. This course will satisfy the Algebra pre-requisite for TAP students in the BBA program only. It will not fulfill the Algebra pre-requisite for any other students.
BUA108 Financial Analysis for Managers (3)
Course Requirement: Enrollment in TAP. An introduction to finance and accounting. The foundations will be set for understanding financial statements, the accounting process, the time value of money, and basic financial decision-making. Some basis business problem solving will be incorporated into the course material.
BUA204 Business and Professional Communication (3)
The principles and practices of communications as applied to the business world are examined. Topics included are group communication, interviewing, and presentation making. Cross-listed as COM 204. This course fulfills the core requirement in Communication.
BUA207 Small Business Management (3)
A course addressing the goals and problems of small business management, with emphasis on site selection, choice of business type, financing, understanding small business failure, management functions, entrepreneurship qualification, and development of the business plan.
BUA261 Development of American Enterprise (3)
Course Requirement: Enrollment in TAP. A survey of the development of the American free enterprise system from its beginning to the present. The development of American business values will also be addressed.
BUA263 Social Responsibility for Managers (3)
Course Requirement: Enrollment in TAP. The course seeks to provide a framework for managers to use in making judgments related to the social responsibility of business. Topics considered include ethics and ethical reasoning, the distinction between ethical and legal behavior, diversity, managerial values, stages of moral development, ethical criteria, and stages of corporate citizenship. Tools for achieving socially responsible behavior within the firm such as codes of ethics, audits, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc. are also considered.
BUA264 Marketing and Consumer Value (3)
Course Requirement: Enrollment in TAP. An introduction to the customer-value concept. Students will learn how a firm creates customer value through its value-delivery system, which includes logistics, product and service transformations, marketing and after-sales service, and customer retention. Students will also study how to leverage core competencies within the customer-value system to create and sustain competitive advantage.
ECO105 Principles of Economics (3)
Students will understand how economics can provide a framework for solving social problems through market forces and a role for government. The microeconomics portion of this course deals with consumers and businesses as they interact with markets, and the interrelationships between various markets. The macroeconomics portion of this course focuses on the factors that influence the fluctuations in economic activity and what can be done about them, given our responsibility to others. This course fulfills a core requirement in social science for all majors except Business Administration and Sports and Entertainment Marketing.


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Hello guys, I hope all of you are doing well.
Well I am working on a project in a company. Currently we are working to design our pre launch signup page (coming soon page/squeeze page) and hope to be done with it soon. But I am confused about one thing which is very crucial. And that is how to promote a pre launch signup page (coming soon page/squeeze page) so we can catch the attention of early adopters and let them signup with their email address for further updates? I have gone through some blogs to get some better ideas but still I am confused because different people are using different methods.
Our platform will be a outsourcing marketplace and we have some unique value propositions. Our target audiences are startup focused technology entrepreneurs/companies.
I believe lots of experienced peoples are here to help me with this. If you have any question please let me know so we can make clear discussion.
Thanks in advance!
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Thanks for your reply. My niche is software and web development outsourcing, my target audiences are startup entrepreneur and target countries are USA, European countries.
Oh, i think first step is to go and register at betali.st
Thanks. I will do that once I am done with pre launch signup page design. But can you tell some other ways?
When you are going to launch your start up ?
Look this will be a lot work, but if you need to get the superb opening than you need to do it.
Make an outline of every planning with the final goal which you want to achieve.
Trello.com is a good way to track your all planning.
Just keep on posting in social media, so it will be trending. You can also post in different sites.
Then the best thing you can do is to come up with some specific situations that relates to start up business and make a content based on it. For pre-launch pages, you can do video marketing especially if you are offering something that start up businesses would want.
What are the benefits that a start up business can get from your services?Why they need your product/services?Are those start up businesses can afford it? How about if they can't?
Those are some of the examples of situations that you can use in creating a buzz.
You can take help of social media sites for promotion. You can post pre-launch videos and can write a brief overview over social networking sites like Youtube, Metacafe, Agryd, Vimeo. You can also write good articles, press releases and submit it to popular sites like Prlog, Agryd, GoArticles, Sbwire, etc.
The best way to start with is engaging with your possible fans on Facebook, Twitter and Google+.
YouTube as well is a great start for many businesses. Video tape hight quality videos and promote them to gather initial fans and build your starting list.
As an owner of an Internet Marketing agency, Social Media Marketing (SMM) is the best way around if you are running a coming soon page.
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A Study to Evaluate Ustekinumab in Patients With Plaque Psoriasis in Asia-Pacific Countries (MARCOPOLO)
This study has been completed.
Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: August 30, 2012
Last updated: January 25, 2016
Last verified: January 2016
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|First Received Date ICMJE
|August 30, 2012
|Last Updated Date
|January 25, 2016
|Start Date ICMJE
|December 2011
|Primary Completion Date
|November 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Number of psoriasis patients who use ustekinumab with label-recommended interval or other/missed dose interval [ Time Frame: up to 52 weeks ]
Number of psoriasis patients who use ustekinumab with label-recommended interval or other/missed dose interval will be assessed at Weeks 0, 16, 28, 52.
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01677598 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|A Study to Evaluate Ustekinumab in Patients With Plaque Psoriasis in Asia-Pacific Countries
|Official Title ICMJE
|A Study to Evaluate Ustekinumab in Clinical Practice in Patients With Plaque Psoriasis in Asia-Pacific Countries
|Brief Summary
|The purpose of this study is to determine how patients use ustekinumab (label-recommended or other/missed dose interval) in Asia-Pacific countries.
|Detailed Description
|This is an open-label (all people know the identity of the medication), multicenter, Phase 4, observational study (no study medication was administered during the study) designed to assess how patients will use ustekinumab (label-recommended or other/missed dose interval) in Asia-Pacific countries. The study will consist of 4 study visits which will take place over the duration of 1 year. At the first visit (ie, Week 0), eligibility for the study will be determined (it will be screening and baseline visit). At each subsequent visit (Weeks 16, 28, and 52), exposure to ustekinumab will be recorded, questionnaires for efficacy will be completed, and information about adverse events and concomitant medications will be collected. As many patient reported outcome questionnaires as possible will be administered, depending on the availability of validated translations. Safety will be assessed by monitoring of adverse events, vital signs and physical examination.
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Design ICMJE
|Observational Model: Case-Only
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Target Follow-Up Duration
|Not Provided
|Not Provided
|Sampling Method
|Non-Probability Sample
|Study Population
|Patients at least 18 years of age with a diagnosis of plaque psoriasis, according to the dermatologists' clinical judgment
|Condition ICMJE
|Plaque Psoriasis
|Intervention ICMJE
|Drug: No intervention
No intervention will be administered during study. This will be an observational study in patients using ustekinumab as label-recommended or other/missed dose interval in Asia-Pacific countries
Other Name: CNTO 1275
|Study Groups/Cohorts
|Patients with plaque psoriasis
Patients with plaque psoriasis using ustekinumab in Asia-Pacific countries.
Intervention: Drug: No intervention
|Publications *
|Not Provided
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Enrollment ICMJE
|Completion Date
|November 2013
|Primary Completion Date
|November 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|Indonesia, Korea, Republic of, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
CNTO1275PSO4016 ( Other Identifier: Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd )
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
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|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Not Provided
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|PRS Account
|Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd
|Verification Date
|January 2016
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SEPTA's Broad-Ridge Spur connects Philadelphia's two subway lines.
But now, more than ever, it may be helping commuters connect with their inner places of peace.
Standing on a subway platform along SEPTA's Ridge Avenue spur can be an isolating, surreal experience. In flickering, florescent light, you hear the distant rumbling screech of a train, but chances are, it's not the one you're waiting for.
It's some other train on some other track — the sound emanating down from the netherworld of tunnels above you. Waiting for the spur, you're below all that — and most likely, you're alone.
As each moment of buried silence creeps by, it's not outrageous to wonder if your train is ever coming. Maybe the spur is SEPTA's idea of a practical joke?
But there is one thing to reassure you.
Hanging down from the ceiling there's a scrolling LED display that gives riders a mix of messages. A consistent dose of date, time, station name, useful tips for travel, and also — kind of bizarrely — some fairly high-level new-agey self-help.
There's nothing quite like standing in a cavernous urban dungeon of a subway station and being told by scrolling red text how to live your life better.
"I don't really look at them that much, but they don't seem to bother me. They seem to be OK," said Bob Johnson, a 70-year-old Vietnam War vet who takes the spur to get from his place in North Philly to the V.A. building under the Ben Franklin Bridge.
On an otherwise empty station platform, his brand of folksy wit brought the digital wisdom to life.
"Ahh, here we go. 'Today is a good day to show respect,' yeah respecting one another. I guess that's the way to calm people down. 'Work to be positive in your encounters with others.' Eh, not bad Does it work?" Johnson said laughing, "I don't know."
"They're nice declarative statements, but you know what, you just read them and say that's a good idea if it would work," said Johnson.
A chance to reflect
As we waited for the underground aphorisms to scroll by, Johnson talked big picture.
"You know, in this grand society we have today, you begin to wonder. Everything's so helter-skelter, economy and everything else, people out of work. You know, inflation and everything else. Tough times.
"Ah, here we go," he said, noticing another philosophical transmission: "'Great people do great things.'"
"Well, I agree with that," he said.
SEPTA says it started sending the messages eight months ago from its main control center as a way to cheer up commuters having a bad day. You can see the messages anywhere on SEPTA, but they tend to show up more on the spur because, well, there's less going on down there, fewer service updates.
Whereas the Market-Frankford Line gets 190,000 riders a day, and the Broad Street Line gets 120,000, the spur gets only 8,000.
For Johnson, the messages do offer a chance to reflect.
"'Set your thoughts to be your best.' That's an interesting statement," Johnson said. "They're nice statements. They make you think, but eh — It's just the everyday living can kind of wear people down, you know?
"It wears them down a little bit; it wears us all down. I'm 70, and it hasn't worn me down yet, but you know you can get there. But you do the best you can, that's all."
When his train finally came, Johnson got on, but I stayed behind, lingering for a moment in the scrolling cheer SEPTA was beaming down to me from somewhere high above.
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Feliciano headed to Minors to 'get strong'
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -- Pedro Feliciano summed his decision to stick with the Mets on a Minor League deal in two words: "Why not?"
"I'm going to prove that I can do it," he said.
Though Feliciano pitched to a 2.08 ERA this spring, the Mets were wary of the lack of arm strength he demonstrated throughout the Grapefruit League season. That manifested itself most tangibly in the left-hander's fastball velocity, which never rose above the mid-80s. But manager Terry Collins said he was even more concerned with Feliciano's decreasing effectiveness pitching multiple days in a row.
"They just want me to be consistent," Feliciano said. "On back-to-back-to-back days, how am I going to react?"
Due to that uncertainty, the Mets told Feliciano earlier this week that they will not carry him on the Opening Day roster -- a move that cost the left-hander a guaranteed $1 million plus incentives. He will instead open the season pitching for Class A St. Lucie of the Florida State League, until he proves consistent enough for the Mets to add him to their Major League bullpen.
"If it's going to be two weeks, three weeks, a month, who knows?" Feliciano said. "I'm just going to do my job and get strong."
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Domestic abuse, including emotional abuse, could soon become an offence in its own right for the first time in British law.
Draft legislation is likely to be put forward in Parliament later this month as a private members' bill to change the law around domestic violence.
Conviction rates around domestic violence are low, but it's known to be the cause of around 25 per cent of all violent crime.
Much goes unreported as many victims do not feel they will be heard.
Currently there is no offence of 'domestic abuse' – perpetrators are often charged with offences including assault or, in some cases, rape.
Campaigners are trying to change the law so that it recognises a pattern of behaviour over time against a partner and/or children.
The draft legislation says that at least two incidents of violence, threats or action causing someone to fear for their safety would amount to a "course of conduct", allowing criminal charges to be brought.
The definition of abuse includes "controlling or coercive behaviour" which would "encompass but is not limited to physical, financial, sexual, psychological or emotional abuse".
Many people who are subject to abuse are not physically assaulted but can be deprived of freedom, aren't allowed access to money or are prevented from spending time with family or friends.
The draft law would define this as "controlling behaviour" and would include when a partner makes another person "subordinate", "exploits their resources" or "deprives them of the means needed for independence".
The offence would apply to abuse committed against any spouse, partner or former partner, regardless of gender.
Private members' bills rarely reach the statute book without government backing. However, the team behind the new bill has a track record in obtaining similar changes in legislation around stalking and harassment.
Anyone wishing to support the legislation can do so by logging on to http:// forcechange.com/97821/ support-bill-to-make-emotional-abuse-illegal/


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Chiangmai Grandview Hotel & Convention Center
is superbly located just 10 minutes from
the International Airport and in close proximity to the centuries
old city 's wall as well as the nearby commercial districts and
Night Bazaar. At the foot of Doi Suthep, with its radiant monastery,
the hotel also within easy reach to golf course, tennis court, horse
riding, and squash court.
The hotel comprises 200 guest room including suites in Northern Thai decor with a comfortable stay.
|Standard Room
|Studio Room
|Deluxe Room
|Premium Room
|Premium Honeymoon
|Premium Suite
White Elephant Restaurant & Terrace
Operating hour from 06.00 - 23.00 hrs. daily Thai and International cuisine by A La Carte menu plus a popular daily international buffet lunch. Seating capacity 150 guests.
Buffet Shabu Shabu
Operating hour 17:00 - 22:00 hrs. daily serving original Japanese style with premium quality products. Seating capacity 50 guests.
Hilltribes Lobby Bar
Operating hour till after midnight daily. Serving refreshment & Cocktails, afternoon tea, pre- or post-dinner drinks, enjoy with live entertainment dealing in the evening time. Seating capacity 50 guests.
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Chiangmai Grandview Hotel & Convention Center is superbly located on Super Hi-way Road,
just 10 minutes from the Chiang Mai International Airport and in close Proximity to Doi Suthep Temple,
Chiangmai Zoo and Nimmanhaeminda road, the road of Art design and promenade.
There are many places of outstanding natural in Chiangmai and the surrounding area,
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These Yetis sound pretty much exactly what I'd want in a baseline putter. I'll have to get one to try out.
PS. MVP already did the slightly concave top with the first production run medium ION. The only medium ION I have that has a flat top is my brand new milky light blue.


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Fuel prices [in Jordan] [2] are expected to go down by at least 6 per cent at the beginning of next month, Fahed Al Fayez, president of the Gas Stations Owners Association (GSOA) said on Tuesday.
"The drop will not be less than 6 per cent and might reach 8 per cent," Fayez predicted, basing his expectations on the average price of Brent Crude Oil on the international market during the month April.
The global price per barrel this month has ranged between $99 and $102, while the average price of Brent Crude Oil was $108 a barrel when the government updated the domestic prices of fuel products last month, the GSOA president told The Jordan Times over the phone.
The government is set to announce its monthly price update of oil derivatives for the domestic market next Tuesday, April 30, which will then go into effect in the early hours of the following day.
The price of cooking gas is set to remain unchanged at JD10 ($14) per cylinder.
Last month, the government lowered the prices of the two gasoline products by 5 per cent, while prices of kerosene and diesel dropped by almost 7 per cent.
Currently, one litre of unleaded 90-octane gasoline is sold at JD0.80 ($1.13)., while 95-octane costs JD0.97 ($1.37) per litre.
Diesel and kerosene are priced at JD0.665 ($0.93) per litre.
The government lifted fuel subsidies on November 14 last year and decided to reflect global oil prices on the domestic market via a monthly review by a pricing committee.
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[2] http://www.albawaba.com/business/fuel-price-jordan-481038
[3] http://www.jordantimes.com