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For a few years, it seemed like Cadillac's only passenger car was the CTS, offered in sedan, wagon, and coupe variants, but now America's oldest luxury brand has been setting about expanding its lineup, last year releasing the XTS and the ATS. The latter is the new entry-level Cadillac, a car built from the ground up to compete with that perennial champ of the compact sport segment, the BMW 3 Series.
The ATS presents itself with the sharp lines of Cadillac's Art and Science design language, looking like a shortened CTS. This look may not appeal to everyone, but it makes the car instantly recognizable and sets the brand apart. Vertical light pipes in the headlight casings also lend a unique look to the ATS at night.
Cadillac makes the ATS available with three different engines, and with trims labeled Luxury, Performance, and Premium the car can appeal to first-time luxury buyers and driving-glove-wearing adrenaline junkies. The engines range from an economical 2.5-liter four-cylinder through a 2-liter turbo to a 3.6-liter V-6, all using direct injection to increase efficiency.
CNET tested a 3.6-liter ATS with all-wheel drive, and despite its Performance trim, it did not seem the best choice for straightening the curves. The all-wheel-drive option nixes the Magnetic Ride Control adaptive suspension, leaving the car with a fixed sport suspension. And ATS might as well mean Automatic Transmission Standard. CNET's 3.6-liter could only be had with the six-speed automatic. A six-speed manual is only available on rear-wheel-drive cars with the 2-liter turbo.
The curse of the CUE
As one of Cadillac's newest models, the ATS features the CUE infotainment system, combining access to phone, audio, and navigation controls on the car's touch screen. Although the system lacks the internal hardware to be tablet-quality, the interface design on this 8-inch touch screen shows promise. The home screen uses an app paradigm, hinting at future expandability, and the existing functions are as modern as they come.
The first sign of inferior silicon comes on starting the car, when an "Initializing Application" message appears on the touch screen. As I tested the capabilities of this system in the ATS, it often responded slowly to input, making me wait a beat or two before it brought up the audio, phone, or navigation screens. This laggy performance won't help Cadillac's reputation, especially for buyers cross-shopping Audi and BMW models, which offer much more reactive in-cabin electronics.
Unlike those European competitors, which rely on indirect controllers, Cadillac goes with a touch screen featuring haptic feedback. I liked the pop under my finger as I touched the different buttons on the screen, even if I did have to wait for the result. I was even more impressed by the proximity function. When driving with the navigation function up, for example, the map filled the screen. When I put my hand near it, strips of previously hidden buttons showed up on top of the map, letting me enter destinations or switch to other functions.
Drivers might be less appreciative of the touch controls for volume and climate below the screen. The volume control requires sliding a fingertip along its surface rather than turning an old, familiar knob. However, once I got used to it in the ATS, I found this control worked smoothly, and passengers unfamiliar with the car couldn't just reach over and change it.
I found that voice command in the ATS made the touch screen almost superfluous. It accurately, if not quickly, interpreted my requests for music, phone numbers, and destinations. To enter an address into navigation, I was able to speak the entire number, street, and city all at once, much less tedious than saying them all separately. With my iPhone plugged into the car, I could ask for music by artist, album, genre, and track name.
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The CUE system comes with a set of flash memory-stored maps that look good, making a clear distinction between roads and surrounding terrain features. In perspective view, the maps showed detailed renderings of San Francisco's downtown buildings. However, topographic features were lacking for surrounding mountain areas.
Operating under route guidance, the system showed useful graphics, along with lane guidance, for upcoming turns, enhanced by voice prompts, which read out street names. Traffic information was displayed on the maps and was used by the system when calculating a route.
Other icons on the home screen lead to OnStar, weather, and Pandora Internet Radio. The touch-screen interface for OnStar lets you see what services are available through the telematics service, while weather brings up a neat little local weather map and forecast. The weather function alerted me to nearby weather events with a message on the instrument cluster display.
Pandora only works when running in conjunction with a smartphone that has the app installed. As it relied on my iPhone, all my personal stations were available in the interface, and I could give songs a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. My only complaint here is that Pandora should really be listed as a source under the audio menu, not sitting out under a separate icon.
The audio menu encompasses radio, both HD Radio and satellite, and digital media in the car. Whether I plugged an iPhone or thumbdrive into the USB port, the system parsed the music files, showing them on the touch screen organized into a proper music library. The system seamlessly played music over Bluetooth from my smartphone, displaying track information on the touch screen along with Play and Pause controls.
The 10-speaker Bose audio system came as an upgrade in CNET's car, with settings for surround or a focus on specific seating areas. I found its sound quality very good, with nice separation between frequencies and clear reproduction, but it lacked the heart-warming elevation of some other high-end systems. Muddy Waters' "Folk Singer," for example, sounded like a recording, never quite hitting that live sound. A little better dynamic range or staging might help.
This audio system performs another duty in the car, enabling noise cancellation. Similar to systems used by automakers such as Acura, the ATS' noise cancellation relies on three microphones in the car. These pick up cabin noise, and a processor identifies engine and road noise, then sends an opposing frequency out through the car's speakers. I was impressed by how well it kept the ATS' V-6 to a distant hum, making it easier to hear music or other people in the car.


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Diet TimeLogic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
Springtime is upon us, and that means that swimsuit weather is coming up quickly! April and four of her friends have all decided to go on a diet to see if they can lose a few unwanted pounds before they have to start trying on swimsuits. Each of the five friends has decided to give up their favorite snack food and to start exercising in order to lose weight. Each person wants to lose a different amount of weight. From the clues given, you will have to figure out how many pounds each person wants to lose, the snack food they are giving up, and the type of exercise they are adding in.
Friends: Mable, Bob, Mike, April, and Sarah
Snacks: Chocolate, Potato Chips, Ice Cream, Candy, and Pizza
Number of Pounds to Lose: 13, 20, 24, 27, and 34
Exercise: Treadmill, Yoga, Karate, Walking, and Boxing
1. Sarah is trying to lose more pounds than the one who has given up candy, but fewer pounds then the one who has begun using the treadmill.
2. Mable is trying to lose exactly 14 pounds fewer than the person walking.
3. Bob (who is not the one taking Yoga) has stopped eating his afternoon bowl of ice cream. Bob is trying to lose exactly 7 pounds fewer than the boxer.
4. Mike is trying to lose exactly 7 pounds fewer than the one who has given up Potato Chips.
5. The woman who has given up chocolate isn't the one trying to lose 27 pounds.
6. April knows that potato chips are a small sacrifice to make as she is trying to get into a bikini.
7. The woman boxer has decided to give up candy to reach her goal.
AnswerThey all reached their goal!
Mable gave up candy and started boxing to lose 20 pounds.
Bob gave up ice cream and took karate to lose 13 pounds.
Mike gave up pizza and started using the treadmill to lose 27 pounds.
April gave up potato chips and started walking to lose 34 pounds.
Sarah gave up chocolate and started doing yoga to lose 24 pounds.
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Fine motor skills are one of the major pillars on which a child's development sits. From the time they are born they're honing these skills – and they will always need a little bit of help from their parents.
These skills, the ones that use the smaller muscle groups like in the fingers and hands, and also involve good hand-eye coordination, form the basis of many of the skills that will help them successfully progress through childhood.
Fine motor skills are used in writing, drawing and craft, dressing themselves, feeding themselves and intricate play like using Lego, Play-Doh and colouring-in. These skills are seen as the essential precursors for the development of literacy and numeracy skills, as well as helping build confidence and self-esteem.
Children who can struggle with fine motor skills may opt to not take part in activities requiring them, says Sonja Walker*, director at Kids First Children's Services. "Fine motor skills allow children to develop an independence, so they can look after themselves, take themselves to the toilet, open their lunch boxes and put on their shoes," adds Sonja.
Fine motor skills have also been highlighted as a robust predictor of academic performance. Several bodies of research have found as children use fine motor skills in schools for a lot of their lesson time, those students who are more comfortable doing these things will have more resources free to focus on classroom lessons. It is much easier to learn your alphabet and numbers if you have a good grasp of pencil use.
Other studies have also found that children who have well-developed motor skills at a young age are better able to navigate, manipulate and engage in their environments so they can take part in a greater range of life-learning experiences earlier in life.
Okay, so there's no argument about how vital fine motor skills are, how can mums and dads help their kids develop them? It's by providing them with access to tools and experiences that encourage them to develop these skills – and also keeping n mind that children learn best when they are genuinely engaged in an activity.
Here are some suggested play activities and props:
While there are checklists galore on what children should be doing when, Sonja reminds parents that there is a very broad range of normal. Nevertheless if a parent is concerned they should talk to their health professional. Here is a very broad guide on what to expect kids to be doing at certain ages:


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One word might best describe Phil Mickelson's opening round of the Farmers Insurance Open.
Playing the easier Torrey Pines North Course on Thursday, Mickelson shot an even-par 72 that left him tied for 90th, seven strokes off the lead.
The top 70 scores and ties after Friday's second round advance to the weekend. If Mickelson doesn't rebound on the South, it'll mark the second year in a row he's missed the cut in his hometown.
"I didn't play the best," said Mickelson. "I hit it poorly. I putted poorly."
Mickelson required a whopping 30 putts. Among his misses: a 2-footer. He carded four birdies and four bogeys.
"Very lethargic off the first tee," he said. "I haven't been as mentally focused starting out."
Mickelson drew criticism for his remarks last Sunday when he said he was considering "drastic changes" because of the amount of taxes he's paying.
The Rancho Santa Fe resident said he heard nothing negative from the gallery regarding his comments.
"There have been some good positive ones, though," he said.
Asked if the controversy played any factor in his sub-par round, Mickelson said, "No, not at all. I've been playing better than this, and there's no excuses."
No Champions Tour for Vijay
Vijay Singh turns 50 next month, but the Fijian has no plans to play the Champions Tour this year.
Asked why, Singh kept waking after his first-round 68 on the North. Told he's still one of the better players on the PGA Tour, Singh said, "You just said the reason."
Singh hasn't won on the PGA Tour since 2008, when he scored three victories and finished No. 1 in the FedEx Cup. The past four years, starting in '09, he's finished 81st, 57th, 28th and 33rd.
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Defending champion Brandt Snedeker made himself at home, shooting a 65 on the North to tie K.J. Choi for the lead. His clean round consisted of seven birdies, no bogeys.
Snedeker started on the 10th hole. In one stretch he birdied five of six holes starting at the par-five 14th.
"The golf course, for some reason, just fits my eye really well," he said.
As a rookie in 2007, Snedeker shot an opening-round 61 on the North, tied for the course record.
Choi finds key on range
Practice may not make perfect but it does pay off. At least it did for Choi.
"Forty minutes prior to my tee time, I found something on the range," Choi said. "It was really subtle, but my swing felt effortless and that carried into my round today."
Choi scored eight birdies against a lone bogey. He birdied the four par-5s.
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Nicholas Thompson, 30, owns two second-place finishes and nine top-10 finishes.
Yet he's by far the second most famous golfer in the family. Sister Lexi Thompson turns 18 next month. In 2010, at 16 years, seven months and eight days, she became the youngest person to win a tournament on the LPGA Tour.
Nicholas, who shot a 3-under 69 on the North, said Lexi has beaten him once when playing from the same tees. He admitted she's been him often when she was playing from the women's tees.
Told that shouldn't be embarrassing considering how good she is, Thompson said, "No, it sucks."
Mallinger hot
John Mallinger, who played at Escondido High, shot a 5-under 67 on the North Course, the best score among
Mallinger has struggled at Torrey Pines. His best score was a 1-under 287 in 2008, good for a tie for 23rd. He missed the cut in 2012, 2010 and 2009.
Steve Bridges, his coach at Escondido and now the athletic director and football coach at the school, watched Mallinger's round.
"I can't get back until Sunday," Bridges said. "Hopefully, he's playing with the leaders."
Locals watch
Charley Hoffman (Poway High) shot a 2-under 70 on the North Course. "The North Course isn't as easy as people think," said Hoffman. "It's very underrated,"
Pat Perez (Torrey Pines High) shot 72 on the South. Carlsbad's Jeff Gove was 1-over on the South and Scott Piercy (San Diego State) was 2-over on the South. Rickie Fowler (Murrieta) was 5-over on the South, as was Geoff Oglivy (Del Mar).
Short shots
• Bubba Watson withdrew with the flu. Tweeted Watson: "1st tourney of year Strep Throat. My 2nd of the year Flu. Can't wait to see what's next! #SickNoFun
• Jordan Spieth shot par 72 on the North. Spieth, 19, is playing in his first PGA Tour event as a professional.
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In part I, I discussed high-level attributes of the social media firehose. In Part II , I examined a single event by looking at activities from four firehoses for the earthquake in Mexico earlier this year. In Part III, I wrap up this series with some guidelines for using unique rich content from social media firehoses that may be less familiar. To keep it real, I used examples from the Tumblr firehose.
Since the Twitter APIs and firehoses have been available for years, you may be very familiar with many analysis strategies you can apply to the Twitter data and metadata. I illustrated a couple of very simple ideas in the last post. With Twitter data and metadata, the opportunities to understand tweets in the context of time, timezone, geolocation, language, social graph, etc. are as big as your imagination.
Due to the popularity of blogging for both personal and corporate communication, many of you will also understand some of the opportunities of the WordPress firehose. With the addition of firehoses of comments, you have the capabilities of connecting threads of conversation to realize another possible analysis strategy. "Likes" and Disqus "votes" provide additional hints about user reaction and engagement–yet another way to filter and understand posts and comments.
Why go to the effort and expense of adding a new firehose?
There are three benefits from investing your efforts in learning to integrate these differences. Users of social networks choose to participate in Twitter, Tumblr or other social networks based on their affinities and preferences. Integrating additional active social media sources gives:
- Richer audience demographics
- More diverse perspective and preference
- Broader topic coverage.
Here's an example.
The newest firehose from Gnip became available earlier in 2012. Tumblr's exciting because the unique, rich content from Tumblr provides a complementary perspective and a distinct form of conversation. Tumblr is important because of the unique audience and modes of interaction common within this audience and platform.
With a firehose of over 50 million new posts a day from web users, Tumblr is a source with strong social sharing features and an active network of users where discussions can reach a large audience quickly. Some Tumblr posts have been reblogged more than a million times and stories regularly travel to thousands of readers in a couple of days.
Before jumping into consuming the Tumblr firehose in the next section, it may help to understand some of what makes it different and valuable. These questions provide a useful framework when approaching any unfamiliar stream of social data.
What is unique about the Tumblr firehose?
1. Demographics. The user community on Tumblr skews young, over-indexing strongly in the 18-24 demographic of trend setters and cool hunters.
2. Communication and Activity Style. As you are thinking about filtering and mining the Tumblr firehose, realize conversations on Tumblr are often quite different from what you'll find on other social platforms. As you start to interpret the data from Tumblr it's important to note that Tumblr has an inside language. For example, many sites contain f**kyeah___ in their name and URL. When you start to hone in on your topic, you will need to understand the inside language used for both positive and negative responses. Terms you consider negative on one platform may have positive connotations on another. Be sure to review a subset of your data to get a feel for the nuances before drawing larger conclusions.
3. Rich Content. Content is rich in that there many types of media and a wide range of depth. Users will post audio, video, animated gifs, simple photos as well as short and long text posts.
You'll also see 7 different Post Types on Tumblr. These represent the different types of content that users can post on Tumblr. They break out as follows:
Table 1 – Tumblr post type breakdown.
To answer the questions, we often rely on filters based on text since these are the simplest filters to think about and create. The textual data and metadata available in the Tumblr firehose include titles, tags and image captions in addition to the text of the body of the post. Including all of this content allows us to filter approximately 20% of the Tumblr firehose based on text. Additional strategies include looking at reblog and "like" activity, as well as reblog and "like" relationships between users. More sophisticated strategies such as applying character or object recognition to images open up the tens of millions of activities daily for mining and exploration.
4. Rich Topics. In addition to diverse content forms, Tumblr has attracted many active conversations on a wide variety of topics. This content is often very complementary to other social media platforms due to differences in audience, tone, volume or perspective. With more than 20 billion total posts to date, there is content for about almost anything you can imagine. Some examples include:
- Brands. Any brand you can think of is being discussed right now on Tumblr. Big brands with an official presence on Tumblr include Coca-Cola, Nike, IBM, Target, Urban Outfitters, Puma, Huggies, Lufthansa, Mac Cosmetics and many more. NPR and the President of the United States have their own presences on Tumblr.
- Fashion and Cosmetics. Because of the visual nature of the medium and cool-hunting audience it attracts, there is a large volume of content related to cosmetics and fashion.
- Music and Movies. With Spotify music plugins and easy upload and sharing of visual content, pop culture plays a big role in the interests and attention of many of the active users on Tumblr. Information, analysis and fan content is rich, creative and travels through the community rapidly.
5. Reblogs and Likes. Tumblr is all about engagement! The primary user activities for interactions are Reblogs and Likes. Some entries are reblogged thousands of time in a day or two. When a user reblogs a post, it places the other user's post into your blog with any changes they make. There is a list of all of the notes (likes, reblogs) associated with a post appended to that post wherever it shows up on Tumblr. Each post activity record in the firehose can contain reblog info. It will have a count, a link to the blog this entry was a reblog of and a link to the root entry. To build the blog note list that a user would see at the bottom of a liked or reblogged entry, you have to trace each entry in the stream (i.e. keep a history or know what you want to watch) or scrape the notes section of a page.
Filtering and Mining The Tumblr Firehose
Volume. There are a number of metrics we can use to talk about the volume of the Tumblr firehose. The three gating resources that we run up against most often are related to the network (bandwidth and latency) and storage (e.g. disk space). Tumblr activities are delivered compressed, so for estimating, the bandwidth and disk space requirements can be based on the same numbers. The Tumblr firehose averages about 900 MB/hour compressed volume during peak hours, falling to a minimum of 300 MB/hour during slower periods of the day.
To store the firehose on disk, plan on ~16 GB/day based on current volumes. Planning for bandwidth, you want headroom of 2-5 x average peak hourly bandwidth (4 to 10 Mbps) depending on your tolerance for disconnects during peak events.
The other consideration is end-to-end network latency as discussed in Consuming the Firehose, Part II. Very simplistically, latency can limit the throughput of your network (regardless of bandwidth) by using up too much time negotiating connections and acknowledging packets. (For a detailed calculation, see, for example, The TCP Window, Latency, and the Bandwidth Delay Product.) The theoretical limit for 20 Mbps throughput is 50-70 ms (depends on TCP window size), but practically you will want to reliably observe less than this (< 50 ms) to realize reliable network performance.
Metadata. A firehose is a time-ordered, near real-time stream of user activities. While this structure is clearly powerful for identifying emerging trends around brands or news stories, the time-ordered stream is not the optimal structure for looking at other things like the structure social networks to discover, e.g., influencers. Fortunately, the Tumblr firehose activities contain a lot of helpful metadata about place, time, and social network to get answers to these questions.
Each activity has a post objectType as discussed above as well as links to resources referred to in the post such as image files, video files and audio files. Each activity has a source link that takes you back to the original post on Tumblr. If the post is a re-blog, it will also have records like the JSON example below, describing the number of reblogs, the root blog and blog this post reblogged.
…"tumblrRebloggedFrom" : { "author" : { "displayName" : "A Glimpse", "link" : "http://onlybutaglimpse.tumblr.com/" }, "link" : "http://onlybutaglimpse.tumblr.com/post/24141204872" }, "tumblrRebloggedRoot" : { "author" : { "displayName" : "Armed With A Mind", "link" : "http://lizard-skin.tumblr.com/" }, "link" : "http://lizard-skin.tumblr.com/post/16004808098/the-nautilus-car-from-the-league-of-extraordinary" },
To assemble the entire reblog chain, you must connect the reblog activities within the firehose using this metadata.
Additional engagement metadata is available in the form of likes (hearts in the Tumblr interface) in a separate Tumblr engagement firehose.
Non-Text Based Filters. Not all non-text post types have enough textual context (captions, title and tags) to identify a topic or analyze sentiment through simple text filtering. You will want to develop strategies for dealing with some ambiguity around the meaning of posts with very little text content. This ambiguity can be reduced unless you have audio or image analysis capabilities (e.g. OCR or audio transcription). Approximately 20% of all posts can be filtered effectively with text-based filtering of text, URL text, tags and captions–about 15M activities per day).
Memes. Another consideration related to the Tumblr language is that official brand sites as well as many bloggers tend to promote a style or overall image more than providing a catalog of particular products. As a result, e.g., you will match the brand name with a lot of cool stuff, but may see specific product names and descriptions much less frequently. There are many memes within Tumblr that will lead you to influencers and sentiment, but looking at "catalog" terms won't be the most effective path.
I hope I have uncovered some of the mysteries of successfully consuming social media firehoses. I have only suggested a handful of questions one might try to answer with the social media data. The community of professionals providing text analysis, image analysis, machine learning for prediction, classification and recommendation, and many other wonders is continuing to invent and refine ways to model and predict real-world behavior based on billions of social media interactions. The start of this process is always a great question. Best of luck (and the benefits of all of Gnip's experience and technology) to you as you jump into consuming the social media firehose.
Full Series:
Taming The Social Media Firehose, Part I – High-level attributes of a firehose
Taming The Social Media Firehose, Part II – Looking at a single event through four firehoses
Taming The Social Media Firehose, Part III – Tumblr


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Applications are being sought for the Administrative Fellows Program for 2014-15. Mentors will be David Gray, senior vice president for finance and business/treasurer; Nicholas Jones, executive vice president and provost; and Rodney Kirsch, senior vice president for development and alumni relations.
The Administrative Fellows Program, a joint program of the Office of the President and the Commission for Women, provides professional development opportunities for faculty and staff. By serving under the mentorship of a senior level administrator, fellows who are seeking the background necessary to compete at higher levels of administration will have an opportunity to broaden their perspectives and experience.
The objectives of the program are to increase the fellow's awareness of the complexity of issues facing higher education and to enhance their understanding of the environment in which decisions are made; to provide opportunities for fellows to participate in a wide range of decision-making processes and learning activities to better equip them to understand the challenges of higher education administration; and to provide opportunities to observe a variety of leadership styles. Although completion of the program does not guarantee appointment to an administrative position at the University, individuals who complete the program increase the pool of qualified candidates.
To apply, candidates must hold standing faculty or staff positions; have demonstrated success in their current positions and interest in an administrative career; demonstrate evidence of leadership experience and decision-making ability; have the ability to relate effectively to students, faculty and staff; exhibit a commitment to diversity; and have a willingness to accept a wide variety of assignments.
Standing faculty and staff meeting these qualifications at all University locations are strongly urged to apply. The starting dates of each fellowship will vary depending on the office and the fellow's commitments. Applications, and additional information, are available online at http://www.psu.edu/dept/vprov/adminfellows.htm and must be returned no later than Monday, Jan. 13.
An informational meeting has been scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to noon Thursday, Nov. 7, in 201 Old Main conference room. The meeting is for those interested in the program and is designed to allow past fellows to field questions from prospective fellows. RSVP to Alicia Cornali on or before Friday, Nov. 1, either via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or telephone at 814‑863-7494.


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Police were called to the apartment complex minutes after 2 p.m. on a report of a shooting. They found the victim, whose identity has not yet been released, lying near the sidewalk in front of the apartment building. He was taken to a local hospital in critical condition; when he arrived, a physician there said the victim was dead.
The early investigation indicates the shooting occurred inside one of the nearby apartment buildings, police reported later Friday. Detectives were working to determine whether the shooting occurred inside the apartment building hallway or a specific apartment. Police said several witnesses said that a possible suspect or suspects fled the scene in a black Dodge Charger. Officers located the Charger in a nearby neighborhood — with no one inside it — and crime scene technicians began examining it.
Hours after the shooting, police said detectives were interviewing potential witnesses and tenants of the nearby apartment buildings and businesses. Crime scene technicians are processing the scene and collecting evidence. The Allen County Coroner's Office will release the victim's identity along with the cause and manner of death.
While police were investigating this shooting, a second shooting victim arrived at the Parkview Hospital Randallia campus. It appears the second victim provided his own transportation to the hospital. The second victim had a very minor gunshot wound to the leg. He was treated by a physician and released from the hospital. Detectives interviewed the second victim in order to figure out whether the shootings were related.
Both incidents remain under investigation by the City of Fort Wayne Police Department, the Allen County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, and the Allen County Coroner's Office. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the Fort Wayne Police Department at (260) 427-1222 or Crime Stoppers at (260) 436-7867.


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Angela Ciccolo Photo By Patrice Gilbert
Finding your way to the chief legal officer role at one of the country's most respected non-profit organizations is no small feat. And Angela Ciccolo knows that. The journey, both personal and professional, that led Ciccolo to the top legal spot at Washington, D.C.-based Special Olympics has been long and challenging but, more importantly, rewarding and exciting.
Ciccolo grew up in a modest Indianapolis community with limited resources, which provided her with motivation to excel in school. She received a scholarship to a small private high school in Indianapolis that emphasized the importance of international relations. During those years, she studied abroad in France. "The international community can be a really good connection for an African-American woman," she says. She went on to Georgetown University's School of Foreign Services and studied international economics, finance and commerce.
After graduating, Ciccolo got married and took a job as an economist with the Department of Labor. Although she liked her work, her husband's job took them to Cairo, and because they had small children, she decided to stop working while living abroad. It was then that she began considering law school.
After a year in Cairo, the family returned to the U.S., the kids started school, and Ciccolo went to law school. After graduating in 1992, she worked for a small firm in Washington, D.C. "I was really attracted to plaintiffs work because I would be able to try cases right away and work with people who didn't know much about legal work," she explains.
In 2000, she made her move in-house, becoming assistant general counsel at the NAACP. While there, she worked her way through the ranks, and in 2008, she was named general counsel of the organization--the first woman to hold the position. In April, Ciccolo was named CLO of Special Olympics.
Q: How did you end up at Special Olympics?
A: Over the years, either in private practice or when I was with the NAACP, I got calls from organizations that wanted me to work for them. Usually I wasn't interested. But one day, I got a call about Special Olympics. I knew exactly the kind of organization it was and what it stands for. Everyone I have ever known who's been involved in Special Olympics has changed for the better. I wanted to learn more.
After I got here, every meeting that I had reinforced the values that Special Olympics conveys to the world. There is an electricity and excitement at Special Olympics, and that's how I want to live my life every day.
Q: Tell me a little about the work you do as GC of the Special Olympics.
A: The Special Olympics is an international organization, so we do a lot of the same things large corporations do--employment matters and risk management. But because of its mission, we have programs all over the country that have to be accredited. We have our charitable fundraising, registering subsidiaries properly. We have rules and bylaws we have to make sure are maintained. We have tax matters. We also have a number of trademarks that have to be enforced around the world. We also work on licensing, sponsorship and cause-related marketing. Right now, Special Olympics is preparing for its 2011 World Games in Athens.
Q: What are your plans as the new GC?
A: I am excited to dive in. For me, the most important thing right now is to listen a lot--to learn the client's needs and make sure we're protecting the Special Olympics brand and using the legal work we do to enhance the experience for the athletes. We want to make sure the mission remains intact and strong.
As a brand new general counsel, I spent some time trying to learn the organization before I got here, but there is so much to learn that isn't in a document or codified in a policy. My goal in any job is to meet people, establish relationships, and work on a very strong and incredible team. But it's especially true here.
Q: Why do you think you're a good fit for this position?
A: I have good, solid, non-profit GC experience. A good GC is a good generalist. I don't expect to know every nuance of trademark law, but I do know how to recognize these issues and get the best insight. I also have good judgment and get along with people, but I can be firm.
Q: What do you love about your work?
A: The athletes work here at the headquarters. We interact with them on a daily basis. They are phenomenal men and women. I am constantly reminded that what I am doing will enhance their experiences and provide opportunities for others.
Q: You work with the Virginia State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Tell me about that work.
A: All the states have advisory committees to the civil rights commission. In my jurisdiction, I monitor the state of civil rights enforcement efforts and what new efforts should be undertaken or enforced. It's a great opportunity for people of very diverse points of view to come together and discuss very difficult issues.
Q: What advice would you give a young lawyer who would like to someday become GC of a non-profit organization?
A: One thing students don't understand is that they can have interesting careers they aren't even aware of. You don't know what you don't know.
I would say, find mentors who have walked down the road a little bit ahead of you and get to know their experiences. I know I didn't have anyone at certain points, but when I did find those people, it revolutionized my experience as a lawyer. Having different mentors at different times is so important.
Getting involved in organizations--not even at the leadership level--is so important. You can learn so much.
Make sure you learn something from every job you have. You leave with enhanced skills, knowledge and contacts, so you are prepared for challenges you don't even see coming down the road.
If you had asked me a year ago if I would be sitting here as CLO of Special Olympics, I would say it wasn't something on my horizon. But I was prepared when it did come along.
Q: If money, family, etc. weren't an issue, what would your dream job be?
A: I would be working to improve the life of someone else. And that might just be working in a soup kitchen--you can do all kinds of things. People who have opportunities, where they can, should help others.


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Crean seeks teaching points in every situation, adjustments for every moment. Basketball is a fast-paced sport and hesitation can get you beat.
The Hoosiers want to run, dictate and dominate. Opponents don't want anything to do with that, so they will zone, slow down, frustrate and, if they can, dictate on their own.
Over-matched Coppin State tried all of that on Saturday and still suffered an 87-51 defeat. The remaining patsies on IU's patsy-of-the-week schedule (Butler is the Dec. 15 exception) are likely to try the same approach. Nobody wants to get hammered by 30-plus points, which tends to happen if you run with these Hoosiers.
And so …
Crean borrows a page from his brothers in law — Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh and San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh — and problem solves on the go.
It starts with having a high-basketball IQ team, and the players' willingness to accept his message when the game plan goes askew.
"They want to do well," Crean says, "and they're smart. That really helps …
"When I think of my brother-in-laws and the way they coach, when I think of the New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers … they don't make adjustments at halftime. Halftime is too late.
"They make adjustments in the next series. We have to become that type of team. If we're adjusting at halftime, and making changes at halftime, that gets a little harder."
Instant adjustment is crucial when Indiana goes against such college heavyweights as Ohio State, Michigan and Michigan State. It's not so big against Coppin State and the rest of the non-conference fodder remaining — Central Connecticut State, Mount St. Mary's, Florida Atlantic and Jacksonville — but these games do provide on-the-job practice that should pay long-term benefits.
"When we can adjust on the fly from timeouts, maybe a possession, but especially at timeouts, that's where we've got to go," Crean says. "You can have the greatest game plan in the world, but there is going to be something come up different in the game and you've got to adjust to it.
"If you don't have a smart team, if you don't have a team that will cover for one another, then that gets hard. This team is learning to do that."
The biggest challenges this season have come from Georgia, Georgetown and North Carolina, with bigger ones still ahead.
"That is the beauty of these eight games … we've seen a lot of different things already," Crean says. "Jordan (Hulls) and Yogi (Ferrell) have had to guard 6-8 guys from Georgetown. They've had to guard speed from North Carolina.
"Every game has teaching moments, but your teaching is only as good as their ability to absorb it, and they absorb pretty fast and well. We've got a lot of smart guys."
Much of the focus remains on defense. Forget the potent offense. Crean wants these Hoosiers to be, first and foremost, a defensive team. That usually starts with junior guard Victor Oladipo, who was a one-man press against Coppin State with three steals and 20 deflections. He's long of arm, relentless in approach, passionate in everything.
Sure, Oladipo set a tone with his steal and dunk to start Saturday's second half, a few minutes after Crean had turned the hallway outside of IU's Assembly Hall locker room into an impromptu practice court, but he had plenty of defensive company, including Ferrell and Christian Watford.
"I wouldn't put it on one guy," Crean says. "It's a team thing. Victor had 20 deflections. He's at the front of it, but Yogi did a great job. Christian did a great job. If you're pressing, it's not one guy. Victor got everybody's attention right away with the steal, but we're a defensive team.
"Victor is one of the better defenders in the country, but I don't think he's going to be alone when it all shakes out at the end of the year."
Saturday's shaking will center on a 3-3 Central Connecticut State team that will have as much chance of an upset as the sun has of rising in the west.
And that, at least, will mean no adjustment at all.
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Bald Eagles can lift up to 4 pounds!
We have raised the Amur tigers from a few days old to become bustling, and busy adolescents. They have transitioned from the nursery to a full-fledged exhibit, which we have been so lucky to share their experiences with many of you thanks to the Cub Cam. Now that our babies are growing up to become big cats, in all definitions of the term, we have entered their final transition stage.
In order to manage these cats as they grow to become over 200 pound felines, we are teaching our cubs to behave like their adult counter-parts. Gone are the days that we can safely enter the exhibit with them in order to hand feed. They have transitioned successfully to an all-meat diet, which also means they have grown in all of their baby teeth and know how to use them.
At this time, the cubs still play quite frequently, but their play is play that is appropriate when you have a thick hair coat and skin of a carnivore, not the skin of a human. They wouldn't mean to hurt us, but regardless, the damage to boots, pants, shirts, etc. in recent months past clearly illustrates the damage they are capable of inflicting during play. For our safety and the longevity of our work attire, we are no longer entering the enclosure with them. Instead, we need to train them to move from area to area in our feline building on their own. This training goes quickly for some, and not so quickly for others. As part of this process that means we give them the opportunity to explore areas of our feline building that are off exhibit and off camera. This means that the cubs will not be on exhibit all the time while they explore the other areas now accessible to them.
Another part of this training is to teach them to drink out of our cat water fountains, or lixits as they are called. It is basically easier to teach them this skill in our other holding areas as soon they will become large enough to destroy their water bowls. As soon as the weather becomes nicer here in Michigan, and the cubs are big enough to handle the "big cat" outdoor exhibit, they will be spending time outdoors as well.
So as sad as it is to let go of our cubs, we have to let them grow up and learn to be the big cats that they are. They will still be viewable on exhibit here at the zoo, but as a part of growing up, they won't be on webcam all the time from here on out. We are thankful of all of you who have joined us on the journey of their lives so far and we hope you'll come visit these growing cats as they spend time in the outdoor exhibit this season. The cubs will likely be here for at least 2 years, so you will still have plenty of time to visit them and watch them grow. Even though they have "fledged the nest" of the webcam sites, we still can enjoy them for awhile. See you at the zoo!


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Los Angeles • "The Hunger Games" devoured the competition at the People's Choice Awards, emerging the top victor with five trophies.
Katy Perry won three awards at the Wednesday night ceremony in Los Angeles, at which fans selected the winners in categories spanning music, movies and television.
"Hunger Games" was named favorite movie, action movie and movie franchise, and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth had fans' favorite on-screen chemistry. Lawrence also won favorite movie actress and "face of heroism."


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Lunchboxes of Japan
via bbc.co.uk
on 17 December 2011
Taking the art of food presentation to adorable new heights, a new mommy trend has cropped up in Japan. Lucky kids are dining on elaborate bento meals fashioned after Hello Kitty, Playstation remotes and even Michael Jackson. Actual classes are being held to teach mothers how to make their lunchtime masterpieces, some of which can take several hours to make.
Topographic, Architectural Chocolate Tarts
via psfk.com
In a tasty example of ephemeral art, artist José Margulis built topographic, perception-changing sheets of 3D plastic. Collaborator and architect-turned-pastry-chef Dinara Kasko used these designs to craft pastry components by way of various "cutting machines and tools to create 3D chocolate layers," according to PSFK. Kasko finalized the desserts by placing the layers on top of four different flavored tart cakes. The geometry here truly impresses—as does the architectural layering. It was important to Kasko that the final product tasted as good as it looked.
South Africa's "Boxing Grannies"
via theguardian.com
Training twice a week with their coach Claude Maphosa, South Africa's "gogos" are older women who are learning to box for the benefit of their health. Dubbed "Boxing Grannies," these badass ladies are finding that many of their ailments are disappearing and they're feeling healthier and stronger than ever. Apparently the classes have been so popular, Maphosa is planning to organize more in other areas. Take a look at the photo gallery at The Guardian.
Beautifying Neglected Basketball Courts With Project Backboard
via artsy.net
Founded in 2014 by Daniel Peterson, Project Backboard refurbishes neglected basketball courts by commissioning artists to make them works of art. Initially in Memphis, the project has now spread across neighborhoods in the United States and features beautiful work by the likes of Nina Chanel Abney, Nick Dahlen, Brandon Marshall and more. Peterson says that the initiative has several goals, "to help people understand that they don't have to be just one type of person—an artist or an athlete—they can be both" and also to "strengthen communities and inspire multi-generational play." Read more at Artsy.
Hype Williams Changed Hip-Hop
via massappeal.com
The prolific, innovative and imaginative director Harold "Hype" Williams was honored at the 2017 VH1 Hip-Hop honors this week—and deservingly so. Hip-hop wouldn't be the same without Williams, whose flashy, weird and wonderful vision came to life across countless music videos—especially in the '90s and early 2000s. From Q-Tip's "Breathe and Stop" to The Notorious BIG + Puff Daddy + Mase's "Mo Money Mo Problems," and countless memorable videos for Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes and OutKast, Williams changed music videos forever. Head over to Mass Appeal, where the team selected 91 of their favorite Hype Williams videos.
Susan Bennett Explains How She Became the Voice of Siri
via typeform.com
Susan Bennett's voice has always been special. Back at the start of her career, she toured as a back-up singer for musicians like Burt Bacharach and Roy Orbison, while also singing jingles. In July 2005, however, she took on a recording project: recording jibberish phrases for one month. It was for the text-to-speech company ScanSoft, a phone messaging system that would ultimately become Siri. Through the nonsense recordings, Bennett provided ScanSoft with all the sounds of the English language. Once in the hands of programmers, those sounds grew into the sassy virtual assistant we know today. Bennett's story, in full over at Type Form, is a fascinating one.
5,000+ Objects Coming to the International Spy Museum
via smithsonianmag.com
Spy Museum board member H Keith Melton is kindly offering up some 5,000+ personally collected objects to the collection. Since the 1970s, Melton has been gathering all kinds of trickery and tools used by spies—from a piece of a spy plane to "the axe used to hack exiled Soviet communist Leon Trotsky to death and even a 13-foot-long spy submarine from World War II." Unsurprisingly these sometimes sensitive espionage artifacts were collected in equally sly ways—Melton apparently smuggled one item from Soviet Russia in his cheek. Read more at Smithsonian.
YuMi the Robot Conducts Tenor Andrea Bocelli
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In a program titled "A breath of hope: from the Stradivarius to the robot," YuMi the dual-armed robot made its debut as a conductor. Through the compositions of Verdi, YuMi directed none other than world-famous tenor Andrea Bocelli in singing "La Donna è Mobile," the aria from "Rigoletto" as well as many other performers. YuMi is the invention of ABB—and he was built as a collaborative, or self-learning, robot. With conducting an orchestra being considered one of the highest forms of art, YuMi's success reflects a true feat of engineering wherein a machine adopted subtle human gestures and applied them to the music accordingly. Learn more about YuMi's development over at ABB's website.
One Book, 100 Black Women Photographers
via qz.com
Laylah Amatullah Barrayn's new book "Mfon: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora" represents a much-needed testament to the power of black women photographers. The first of its kind since Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe's "Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers," back in 1986, Barrayn's compilation includes work from "100 female photographers of the African diaspora," according to Quartz. Through funding from the Brooklyn Arts Council and a crowdfunding campaign, the book will become available next month—and it will be the start of an annual publication. Head over to Quartz for an informative interview with Barrayn.
Jean-Michel Basquiat's Unconventional Personal Style
via theguardian.com
The incredibly talented Jean-Michel Basquiat has been studied for his art for decades, but in a new Guardian article, his sense of style nabs the attention. An important part of his life, fashion was central to Basquiat—in fact, his mother designed clothes and he spent time painting apparel for Patricia Field. "Basquiat's wardrobe was distinctive, whether he was in mismatched blazer and trousers with striped shirt and clashing tie, or patterned shirt with a leather jacket pushed off his shoulders. He was perhaps most recognisable in his paint-splattered Armani suits." Read more at The Guardian.
The Lightest Form Of Water Yet Discovered: Gel-like Ice
via newscientist.com
It may come as a surprise to most that there's not just one type of ice. In fact, there are 17—varying substantially in structure and weight—and an 18th "in development." Only two types appear naturally on Earth, the common hexagonal version and upper-atmosphere cubic ice, but scientists have been able to produce "a type of porous, lightweight 'aeroice'" according to New Scientist. Pressure causes variations as water freezes in a more dense fashion under intense conditions. But Masakazu Matsumoto, at Okayama University in Japan, recently found two lightweight versions, one of which is gel-like and at an ultralow-density. And they did so by playing "molecular Jenga" to make it happen.
Translating Human Languages into Elephant Gestures
via news.nationalgeographic.com
Thanks to the "Hello in Elephant" website, launched back in August, it's very easy to translate human words—and emotions—to elephant gestures. A project developed by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and ElephantVoices, the site also contains a service that allows visitors to send these gesture videos to loved ones. It's altogether remarkable, educational and beautiful. The real goal, however, is to raise awareness of elephant poaching and human conflict—with a decline from 400,000 today to 190,000 in 2025 predicted.
Samsung's Foldable Phones
via mashable.com
Just hours before Apple's big announcements yesterday, Samsung had one of its own. Next year, in 2018, the tech giant plans to release a foldable cellphone. "The Korean electronics conglomerate is aggressively seeking new ways to stand out in an increasingly congested consumer tech marketplace" and a bendable phone is certainly the opposite of the iPhone. Read more at Mashable.
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When you look at any group of people - kids or adults - you'll see a bunch of differently sized humans. Some are taller, some are shorter, some are fatter and others are slimmer.
With so many different shapes and sizes, how can we - and doctors - know if our kids are growing normally? What are potential signs or problems with the way our children are growing? And when should we be worried about height and growth?
Your child's growth is tracked on a development chart from the moment he is born. Measurements of his length, weight and head circumference are taken in the first minutes of life and these measurements are then put onto his own development chart to begin mapping his growth and development.
Doctors have been tracking the growth of children over many years and growth charts have been developed to reflect the information that has been gathered. Growth charts are used to compare the growth of children of the same age and gender as well as to follow the pattern of your child's height and weight growth over time.
Growth charts use percentile bands to plot your child's growth. These percentile bands cover the variations of 'normal' growth - and most children consistently fall somewhere between the 5th and 97th percentile bands which are all normal. If your child is in the 40th percentile for weight and length, it means that he is heavier and taller than 40% of other kids of the same age and sex. A child in the 80th percentile for weight or length is heavier or taller than 80% of other kids of the same age and sex - both children, though, fall comfortably within the 'normal' range.
Having a child high or low in the percentile bands doesn't indicate that he is more or less healthy than other children. Consistent growth along any percentile band shows 'normal' growth and may indicate nothing more than the fact that your child may be on the shorter - or taller - side of average.
Mostly, growth charts show consistent growth from baby to older child, but in some cases, they can be used to detect development problems. For example, if your child is growing disproportionately - height and weight percentiles becoming vastly different - a growth chart will swiftly pick up on this and clearly highlight the growth pattern changes on the chart for further review.
While genes play a huge part in predetermining how tall your child will be (eg short parents usually have short children) other factors have an impact on how much your child grows. These include:
You can work out how tall your child is going to be by using a height predictor tool:
With regular visits to your baby health clinic, your child will be regularly weighed and measured and that information plotted on his growth chart. But as these visits tend to taper off after 2-3 years, this regular measuring also becomes more infrequent and many parents become unsure about whether their child is continuing to follow their own normal growth patterns.
Growth charts for children 2-18 years (when the vast majority of young adults have finished growing) are available, and you can continue to plot your child's development along these charts yourself. Obviously, if you are concerned at any time, you should see your GP to discuss the matter.
Generally, height and weight develop along the following guidelines:
Because there is such a wide range of growth and development that is considered within normal range, mostly there is nothing to worry about. Occasionally, though, growth chart patterns can signal a health problem. These can include:
If your child's growth has been consistently following the 80th percentile and suddenly drops to the 40th percentile, this could indicate that there may be a growth problem and warrants further investigation by a specialist.
Most children's weight and height develop along similar lines - if they aren't in the same percentile, they will still move forward at the same rate. If, however, your child's weight and height are developing at different rates, this could indicate that there is a problem and should be discussed with your doctor.
Almost all kids fall somewhere between 5th and 97th percentile bands on the growth chart. If your child falls outside these parameters (more commonly, he is smaller rather than taller than normal), this may indicate that there is a health problem and should be discussed with your doctor.
Last revised: Monday, 12 July 2010
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


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Just one thing ... maybe it's Buddhism, maybe it's Hershey bars. The label, whether used or unused, doesn't make much difference: It's the getting to the bottom of things that matters.
A Buddhist doesn't worry too much about calling him/herself a "Buddhist." True, you might not want to wave it in anyone's face (at a Christian revival meeting for example ) but simultaneously, pretending to scorn labels is just a means of finding another label.
Just my two cents.
Why are there so many 'secret' Buddhists?
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gavesako wrote:Good question. Ven. Analayo has just published a new article about this topic comparing the Pali Suttas to Chinese Agamas. But various authors have written about modern interpretations of this ideal. Have you read Tambiah's 'World Conqueror, World Renouncer'?
Hickersonia wrote:I had to Google the term "Cakkavatti" because I am unfamiliar with it... although I've come across the phrase "Wheel Turning Monarch" several times in my reading of the Digha Nikaya. I guess I had never seen it in Pali.
I can't say much for a modern-day Wheel Turning Monarch, but it sounds like a high standard by which to measure a leader.
Maybe by my bumping the thread we'll get another reply. *bump*
whynotme wrote:Do you think it is possible to have a Cakkavatti even for the modern day? Or do you think the leaders should follow this model? Is it realistic or not? Even why the Sangha don't encourage leaders follow this model?
Participating in government by practicing in accordance with the principles for collective responsibility which help prevent decline and lead only to prosperity, known as the seven aparihaniya-dhamma:
1. Meeting often and regularly; regularly conferring on community affairs and projects (which are to be shouldered by each person according to his level).
2. Meeting together, dispersing together and doing together what needs to be done together.
3. Neither instituting laws and regulations not communally agreed upon simply out of convenience or personal preference, nor denigrating or abolishing things already instituted; upholding the main provisions established as the constitution.
4. Honoring and respecting the elders long in experience, giving weight to their words.
5. Honoring and respecting the womenfolk, protecting them from abuse and ill-treatment.
6. Honoring and revering the shrines, holy places and national monuments, which are memorials arousing virtue and centers of community spirit; not neglecting to honor the ceremonies required for those places as dictated by tradition.
7. Organizing rightful protection, support and sanctuary to monks and priests who maintain pure moral conduct and who serve as spiritual refuges and moral examples for the people; gladly receiving them and wishing for their comfort.
For the lord of the land, the state leader or ruler-be he an emperor, king or administrator in general-there are the following qualities and principles of conduct:
A. Being endowed with the ten regal qualities: to have the ten qualities of a righteous ruler or king (raja-dhamma):
1. Dana: sharing with the populace; he is a benefactor in that he rules or works to give, not to take; he devotes himself to administering services and providing welfare and aid for the people to ensure their well-being, convenience and safety; he renders assistance to those in distress and difficulty and supports those who have done well.
2. Sila: maintaining good conduct; he is impeccable in conduct and restrained in actions and speech; he does only good actions and upholds his honor; he sets an example for the people, commands their respect and is free from any cause for contempt.
3. Pariccaga: working selflessly; he is capable of sacrificing personal comfort, even his own life, for the benefit of the people and the peace and stability of the country.
4. Ajjava: working honestly; he is honest and upholds the truth; he is free of deceit and upright in his dealings; he is sincere and does not deceive the people.
5. Maddava: deporting himself with gentleness and congeniality; his bearing is not arrogant, rude, harsh or conceited; he has nobility and dignity that are based on a polite and gentle manner, inspiring devotion and loyalty but not without awe.
6. Tapa: rejecting indulgence through austerity; he destroys defilements and cravings and does not allow them to control his mind; he can restrain his mind and does not allow it to become lost in sensual pleasure and debauchery; he is simple and regular in life-style, and dedicated to the fulfillment of duty.
7. Akkodha: adhering to reason, not anger; he is not given to fiery outbursts and does not make judgments or act out of anger, but has a heart of goodwill, suppressing anger; he judges and acts righteously with a mind that is subtle and calm.
8. Avihimsa: bringing tranquillity through nonviolence; he does not let his power go to his head or use it to repress his subjects; he is kind; he does not find a pretext for punishing a subject out of vindictiveness and hatred.
9. Khanti: overcoming difficulties with patience; he endures a heavy work load and perseveres in the face of tiredness; no matter how difficult or depressing the work may be, he does not give in; no matter how much he is provoked or ridiculed, or with whatever harsh and abrasive words, he does not despair; he refuses to abandon a task that is rightfully done.
10. Avirodhana: not doing that which strays from righteousness; he does not transgress the principles of public administration that are based on the welfare, happiness and righteousness of the people and the country; he does not oppose what the people rightfully desire; he does not stand in the way of those activities which are for the common good; he establishes himself firmly in righteousness, steadfast and unwavering in the face of pleasant and unpleasant words, gain and loss, desirable and undesirable conditions; he is firmly established in righteous principles and does not deviate from or subvert them-both in judicial terms, namely [the administration of] justice, and in regulatory terms, namely [the observation of] regulations, formalities and administrative principles, including good customs and traditions.
B. Performing the duties of a universal emperor: he performs the five duties of a supreme ruler, called the cakkavatti-vatta:
1. Dhammadhipateyya: holding the Dhamma supreme; he adheres to truth, righteousness, goodness, reason, principle and rightful rules and regulations as standards; he respects, upholds, favors and establishes himself in righteousness and practices accordingly.
2. Dhammikarakkha: providing righteous protection; he provides fair protection to all groups of people in the land, i.e., the royal household, the military, administrative officials, civil servants, academics and people of various occupations such as merchants and farmers, country people and inhabitants of the border provinces, monks and priests who uphold moral conduct, and even beasts and birds requiring conservation.
3. Ma adhammakara: prohibiting unrighteous actions; he arranges preventive and remedial measures, not allowing unrighteous actions, exploitation, oppression, corruption, or unrest to arise in the country; he encourages the people to establish themselves firmly in honesty and virtue and also establishes a system that excludes bad people and promotes good ones.
4. Dhananuppadana: distributing resources to the poor; he ensures that there are no poverty-stricken people in the land by, for example, arranging that all people have a chance to make an honest living.
5. Paripuccha: not failing to seek counsel; he seeks advancement in wisdom and virtue by having advisors who are learned and virtuous, who are morally upright and not heedless or self-indulgent, and who can help him to cultivate his wisdom and wholesome qualities; he approaches monks and wise men and queries them to seek knowledge, goodness and truth; he discusses various problems with them at regular and appropriate times so that he may examine and improve himself and carry out his duties rightfully, properly and so as to bring about true welfare and happiness.
C. Effecting the royal benefactions: he supports the people, allowing them to live in unity and harmony, with the four raja-sangaha-vatthu (principles by which a king supports his people):
1. Sassamedha: shrewdness in promoting agriculture; he is skilled in agronomic policies and promotes agricultural activity which brings about bountiful crop yields.
2. Purisamedha: shrewdness in promoting government officials; he is clever at making policies for supporting government officials by, for example, encouraging honest and capable officials and providing them with adequate social benefits.
3. Sammapasa: bonding the people together; he assists the people with policies that support their livelihood by, for example, providing funds from which the poor may borrow to set themselves up in commerce or start business operations, thereby eliminating an economic disparity that is so wide as to cause rifts among the people.
4. Vajapeyya: impressive speech; he knows how to speak, clarify and advise; he takes an interest in greeting people of all levels and inquiring about their welfare; his speech is pleasant to the ear, worth listening to, reasoned, well-founded and useful; it leads the way to constructive action, to solution of problems, to increased harmony, and to mutual understanding, trust and respect.
D. Avoiding the biases: when an administrator is carrying out his functions, he should not allow the four biases, or deviations from righteousness, to interfere:
1. Chandagati: biased conduct on account of like
2. Dosagati: biased conduct on account of dislike
3. Mohagati: biased conduct on account of delusion or foolishness
4. Bhayagati: biased conduct on account of timidity and fear
waimengwan wrote:The 14th Dalai Lama was both political and spiritual head of Tibet government in exile. So can he be considered a wheel turning monarch? When he teaches hundred of thousands are in attendance, he probably get much more attendance than most political heads of state.
whynotme wrote:If a cakkavatti ask you the wise one, how to deal with the current situation between raging Muslims and the west, according to dhamma, what should he do? Freedom of speech vs right speech or what?
King Ashoka wrote:Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, honors both ascetics and the householders of all religions, and he honors them with gifts and honors of various kinds.[22] But Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, does not value gifts and honors as much as he values this — that there should be growth in the essentials of all religions.[23] Growth in essentials can be done in different ways, but all of them have as their root restraint in speech, that is, not praising one's own religion, or condemning the religion of others without good cause. And if there is cause for criticism, it should be done in a mild way. But it is better to honor other religions for this reason. By so doing, one's own religion benefits, and so do other religions, while doing otherwise harms one's own religion and the religions of others. Whoever praises his own religion, due to excessive devotion, and condemns others with the thought "Let me glorify my own religion," only harms his own religion. Therefore contact (between religions) is good.[24] One should listen to and respect the doctrines professed by others. Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, desires that all should be well-learned in the good doctrines of other religions.
whynotme wrote:Do you think it is possible to have a Cakkavatti even for the modern day? Or do you think the leaders should follow this model? Is it realistic or not? Even why the Sangha don't encourage leaders follow this model?
IMO, we all deserve a leader like Asoka but there is no one like him in morden day.


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Hi guys,
I started to play disc golf in june 2011 with few discs my brother didn't use - 172g DX aviar putter, 150g dx shark and 175g champion ape. Now, after few years my bag evolved to this:
3x Star Boss (weights from 167 to 175g) - tailwind, slight right, rollers - pretty beat up
2x DF Champion Boss (171g and 172g) - max distance - beat up a little
1x Champion Firebird (175g) - windy conditions and stuff - almost new
1x AJ Star teebird (175g) - overstable fairway driver - almost new
1x Glow Champion Huk Lab Teebird (175g) - my favourite driver - beat up to perfection
1x Innova factory store pro Teebird (175g) - understable (i don't use it very much, yet) - almost new
1x R-Pro Roc (174g), really flat - my favourite mid range, can do any shot with it, except hard fading - beat up to perfection
1x Star gator (175g) - windy conditions and stuff like that - beat up but still the same as new
1x R-Pro Pig (175g) - windy conditions, hyzers - almost new
1x Glow DX Aviar Putter (175g) - fading a bit - almost new
2x DX Aviar putter (170g and 175g) - the lighter is beat up so it tuuurns like hell and the heavier is straight as an arrow
To be honest, I was most succesful using just those two dx aviars, r-pro roc and glow champion teebird (it was my first win on big tournament - in czech republic, it means pdga C). Right now, I am at the point where i can throw backhand with aviars for something like 275ft (almost 90m) with no wind. Rocs maximum is 350ft (almost 110m) and 460ft (140m) with my boss, both in no wind.. I can throw 50m straight sidearm with aviar, 80m with roc and 110m with star boss..
I think there are two big decisions i should make this year:
1st - what should i putt with? Right now, I'm putting with the lighter DX aviar (cause i want to keep the other one straight as long as possible), but i don't have the confidence when i hold it and aim for the basket, because the plastic is softer and it's a bit too light.. I think the solution is a 175g McPro aviar, just for putting. What do you guys think of it? Would you recommend it?
2nd - I tend to overpower all my bosses, distance drivers.. Like yeah, i can throw the star bosses with some wind in my back with hyzer release (no chance in headwind or without wind, they all go right). My champion bosses are a bit more stable, but still, they go right in headwind.. I'd like to keep my bag simple, so getting a new Ape isn't good solution for my mindset. But i am thinking of Star destroyers, they should be a bit more stable, right? Will they be good for me, now that i described my situation?
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