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text: SC handles GE, earns state berth By Mike Whiteford March 7, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- They stole the ball twice in the game's first minute, made nuisances of themselves on defense and built a 12-point halftime lead.Would the South Charleston Black Eagles handle Greenbrier East as easily this time as they did two weeks ago and breeze to the state tournament?If not for their clutch foul shooting in the fourth quarter, the Black Eagles might not be going anywhere, but they converted 13 of 16 from the line in the final eight minutes to hold off the Spartans 58-50 to win the Class AAA Region 3 co-final Thursday night at the SC Community Center. A capacity crowd of about 1,100 attended.In addition to the free throws, the No. 3 Black Eagles (23-2) played their customary strong defense."Defense was locked in and keyed in,'' said SC coach Vic Herbert, who will be taking his team to the state tourney for the fourth straight season. "That's our bread and butter, stopping people and giving us a chance. Sometimes things run well offensively, sometimes they don't. Tonight it was about half. Overall, I was real happy. Anytime you get back to Charleston, you got to be happy with the effort.''Freshman Brandon Knapper, who came off the bench to lead SC with 16 points, likewise takes pride in the Black Eagle defense."We get into it,'' said Knapper. "We're real rowdy with the ball-handler. We don't give him any space.''The defensive-minded Black Eagles limited Greenbrier East to just 14 first-half shots and led 30-18 at intermission, but the Spartans dominated the third quarter and trailed by just 39-36 early in the fourth. That's when Knapper and his teammates demonstrated their cool. Knapper, given more playing time than usual, hit 6 of 6 foul shots, as well as a field goal, in the fourth quarter. Also contributing to SC's fourth-quarter success were Rashaud Kincaid, who converted 4 of 4 from the line, and Kentre Grier, another freshman reserve, who hit two key baskets for four points in that span.Knapper, who normally plays 10 to 12 minutes off the bench, spent 17 minutes on the floor Thursday to help offset the absence of A.D. Cunningham, the team's leading scorer with a 13.6 average, who was out with a knee injury. In addition, starter Devyn Harris was hampered by a virus.On Feb. 22, SC routed Greenbrier East 67-41 and forced 28 turnovers, but Herbert knew things would be more difficult this time."Even though we beat them by 26, we knew that wasn't going to happen again,'' he said. "I even said in the paper it would be a nail-biter, and I was right. Anytime you have two teams that talented going up against each other, it's going to be a tough game, and it was. You have to hand it to [Greenbrier East], they played great basketball tonight, a lot better than the first time they played us. Against a team like that, you better bring it, you better play hard. That 28 turnovers the first time was kind of a fluke.''SC forced 15 turnovers, including 10 steals, on Thursday. After the No. 8 Spartans (20-5) cut the SC lead to 39-36 in the first minute of the fourth quarter, Grier and Knapper answered with back-to-back baskets to make it 43-36. East's Derek Weiford scored to cut the deficit to five, but Grier again answered with a tip-in, and Knapper sank the first two of his six fourth-quarter free throws.Although the Spartans stayed close, they had to foul, and SC rarely missed. Knapper's and Grier's play offered a hint of SC's next three seasons, said Herbert."You got a glimpse of what the future is going to be,'' said the SC coach. "Those kids are going to be tremendous players. And really they're probably a little bit better than the players who were playing in front of them but aren't with us anymore. But those players were just so experienced. And now these guys have stepped up and are getting the experience and you're not afraid to throw 'em in the fire. They just did a super job.''It's not the first time, said Herbert, that his reserves have helped save the day."It seems like every time this year that we've had a suspension or an injury and a sickness, somebody on the bench has stepped up and filled in for the starter and done a good job, and that's what happened tonight,'' he said.Herbert said Cunningham should be cleared to practice on Saturday and should be 100 percent for next week's state tournament.SC limited the Spartans' Rondale Watson, who averages 21.8 points, to 15 on 3-of-8 shooting. Bryce Woodliff led East with 16 points on 6-of-10 shooting. Hunter Moles contributed 10 points and led SC with eight rebounds. 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A's activate Reddick, place Blanks on DL
NEW YORK -- Right fielder Josh Reddick was reinstated from the disabled list and immediately inserted into the A's starting lineup against the Mets on Tuesday.
That was the good news. Reddick, though, took the roster spot of Kyle Blanks, who was forced to the DL with a left calf strain.
The severity of Blanks' injury is seemingly mild, with manager Bob Melvin hoping the first baseman only needs the minimum 15 days to get back to full health.
Had Blanks made it to New York injury-free, the A's appeared in position to option Eric Sogard to Triple-A Sacramento. Sogard, batting just .196 on the season, including .136 over his last 12 games, was held out of the lineup against former teammate Bartolo Colon on Tuesday, with Alberto Callaspo getting the nod at second base against the righty instead.
Reddick, initially placed on the DL on June 3 with a hyperextended right knee, went 7-for-16 with three doubles during a four-game rehab stint with Sacramento, which included a four-hit game on Saturday.
"He took it very seriously what we said to him about not just getting your at-bats and getting your work in and expecting to get called back up, but going down and performing," said Melvin. "He went down and performed beautifully. His knee was tested in a number of ways. It feels great. He swung the bat well, so probably best served to get him right back in the lineup."
"I got to test it every way possible," said Reddick. "First night, went down in the corner and got to plant and throw. The last day, I was trying to score from second and got held up at the last minute and had to put the brakes on, but no pain in the knee. I feel great."
The outfielder said he's undecided whether he'll keep "Careless Whisper" as his walk-up song upon his return to Oakland next week.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A budding movement to recall Mayor Bob Filner planned its next step Tuesday as more former supporters called on him to resign in the wake of accusations that he sexually harassed several women.
A recall rally is scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday outside City Hall to sign up volunteers for the cause.
With Filner steadfast in his refusal to resign, City Hall settled into what could be a long and drawn out civic ordeal.
There were no new revelations about the mayor, but the political arm of the local National Organization for Women and the League of Conservation Voters joined the growing chorus calling for him to step down.
Democratic civic booster George Mitrovich had raised concerns about Filner's "rude and crude" treatment of others well before the latest lurid allegations. He hasn't yet called on his longtime friend to resign but said that moment could be coming.
"If this continues to play out with anywhere near the intensity that we've witnessed at some point he has to go, but on his own volition," Mitrovich said. "It's just too upsetting. It's too distracting. It's too injurious to the city and it's important for all of us to remember what matters most is not Mayor Filner or Donna Frye or anyone else. It's really the city of San Diego, and we deserve better."
A media frenzy erupted last week when Frye, a former city councilwoman, and two other political allies of Filner came forward with unspecified allegations that the mayor had sexually harassed numerous women.
Filner offered a video apology Thursday for "inappropriate and wrong" treatment of women but has subsequently grown more defiant. He reiterated Monday that he is innocent of sexual harassment and would be vindicated by a fair and impartial investigation of complaints.
Frye and her cohorts earlier Monday provided more specific details without identifying Filner's accusers. They described the alleged victims as a constituent, a campaign volunteer and a city employee who had been subjected to unwanted sexual advances, including kisses, groping and derogatory comments.
No formal claims or lawsuits have been filed by accusers although their attorneys have said that could happen soon.
Filner had been the subject of recall rumors even before the allegations because his rough-and-tumble political style had led to several controversies. They include questions over a $100,000 civic donation from a developer, an unannounced trip to France, poor treatment of staff and his ordering of police to remove a deputy city attorney from a closed-door meeting.
Now that recall movement has a face. Land-use consultant Michael Pallamary is organizing the effort and has firsthand experience in the process. He participated in the city's only successful recall, ousting City Councilwoman Linda Bernhardt in 1991.
Pallamary said he's taking a slow-and-steady approach to the recall because of rules that make it difficult to pull off. Proponents need to collect 101,597 signatures from registered city voters in a 39-day period, but the clock doesn't start until they officially declare their intentions. If they fall short, an additional 30 days is allowed to collect more signatures.
"I've been waiting in spite of all the pressure that people say 'Let's do the recall. Let's do the recall,'" Pallamary said. "You know what? I want to let this pot boil a little longer because I know what the result is going to be. The pot's going to boil over and we're going to have a real mess. …Let (Filner) continue to inflame his supporters. Let him continue to anger people. That creates the environment the recall needs to operate."
His "Recall Bob Filner" Facebook page had nearly 4,000 likes as of Tuesday night. He's also planning a "Recall Recruitment Rally" on Friday to sign up volunteers for the coming petition drive. Pallamary said he expects the signature drive to cost between $250,000 and $325,000 in contributions.
Meanwhile, city business chugged back to life as the City Council held a typical session and the mayor's new team set up shop and moved forward. Filner's appointment of Walt Ekard as chief operating officer was well received by business and civic leaders.
Ekard, 59, will make $275,000 annually in his new role running the city's day-to-day operations after retiring as the county's top administrator in December. He is widely respected for the fiscal discipline he brought to county government.
Kris Michell, president and chief executive of the Downtown San Diego Partnership, which advocates for economic growth in that area, asked the organization's board members in a Monday email to rally behind Ekard by "thanking him for agreeing to take on these responsibilities and for making sure our city is operating efficiently."
Mitrovich echoed that sentiment. "Persuading Walt Ekard to come to the city is very significant," he said. "(Filner) needs someone of Mr. Ekard's standing and credibility and reputation. He needs that person really to be the individual that deals with staff and with city employees. The mayor just needs to take himself out of that."
How much interaction Filner has with employees is also a concern of City Council President Todd Gloria, who was once one of the mayor's biggest supporters but has now called on him to resign. Gloria sent a memo Monday to Ekard asking him to create "alternate workspace options" for any mayoral employees who are uncomfortable with their current office arrangement.
"The best way to restore trust in the city is to continue to protect the interests of our citizens," Gloria said. "Though we are working with an incapacitated Mayor's Office, the City Council is dedicated to doing its part in running an efficient and effective municipal government."
Meanwhile, two local television news stations aired accusations from two women who said they had been groped by Filner in the past. Their identities were not revealed.
Filner also continued to lose supporters Tuesday.
Livia Borak, president of the League of Conservation Voters San Diego, said the group's board withdrew its previous endorsement of Filner and asked him to resign.
"One cannot successfully advance a positive environmental agenda while at the same time creating a hostile work environment," she said in a statement. Borak is an associate attorney in the same law firm as Marco Gonzalez, who along with Frye and attorney Cory Briggs raised the sexual harassment accusations against Filner on behalf of several women.
The San Diego NOW Political Action Committee said: "It is with profound disappointment that we join with the other Mayor Filner former supporters in calling for him to resign his position."
In addition, the National Women Veterans Association of America has removed Filner as its recipient of the "Lifetime of Leadership" award at its Aug. 30 gala in San Diego. According to the organization's Facebook page, he'll serve as keynote speaker for the benefit to raise money in opposition of "military sexual assault, sexual harassment and violence against women & children."
Neither the veterans group nor the Mayor's Office responded to requests for comment.


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Increased Expression of Adiponectin Receptor 2 in the Mononuclear Cells in Children With Prader-Willi Syndrome
This study has been completed.
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The inflammatory process is involved in the pathogenesis of obesity. Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a genetic model of syndromic obesity. Adiponectin is an adipokine with potent anti-inflammatory properties, and its effect is mediated through adiponectin receptors 1 (adipoR1) and 2 (adipoR2).
Objective of this study is to compare the expression of adipoR1, adipoR2, and adiponectin in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) in PWS children and obese control and to correlate receptor expression with insulin sensitivity and obesity-related parameters.
|Obesity Prader-Willi Syndrome
|Study Type:
|Official Title:
|Increased Expression of Adiponectin Receptor 2 in the Mononuclear Cells in Children With Prader-Willi Syndrome
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 18 Years (Child, Adult)
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Study Population
Fourteen children with PWS and control subjects
Inclusion Criteria:
- children with Prader-willi syndrome
- children with simple obesity
Exclusion Criteria:
- subjects with diabetes mellitus (fasting plasma glucose > 126 mg/dL with a 2-h oral glucose tolerance test value of >200 mg/dl)
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adiponectin receptor
Prader-Willi syndrome
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Prader-Willi Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
Intellectual Disability
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Abnormalities, Multiple
Congenital Abnormalities
Chromosome Disorders
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Nutrition Disorders
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Who's the boy that can laugh at a storm cloud?
Who can turn a frown into a smile for free?
Who's that kid with a heart full of magic?
Everyone knows it's Butters(TUX)!
(That's me!)
Who's the boy with the eyes full of wonder?
Who thinks being yourself is the best thing to be?
Who's that rascal with the tweezers in his pocket?
Everyone knows it's Butters(TUX)!
(Wul, wul, that's me!)
Jumpin' in puddles,
skippin down the hallyway
pettin at the pettin' zoo.
He loves John Elway.
Who's that tike with the cutest little dimples?
Battin' his eye at everyone he sees?
If you look inside youself you may be suprised when you find
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'Nest Cam IQ' to get Google Assistant in upcoming update
Apple working to resolve LTE issues in latest smartwatch
Epson launches new photo printer at Rs 19,999
Apple launches 'Apple TV 4K' with 4K, HDR capabilities
Huawei launches 'WATCH 2' in 3 variants in India
Instagram adds face filters to live video broadcasts
Facebook to share 3,000 Russian ads with US Congress
Intex launches 'Aqua Lions 2' smartphone at Rs 4,599
Microsoft to open flagship store opposite Apple's in Britain
Microsoft trains 30,000 youth, 26,000 teachers in one year: Report
'JD': A partially impressive tale
Didn't want to cheat audience with bad story: Rohit Shetty
Robert Redford, Jane Fonda made 'Our Souls At Night' deeper: Ritesh Batra
Takes time to change mind sets: Feroz Abbas Khan
'Newton' addresses ideological differences on democracy: Director Masurkar
Consume dark chocolates for healthy heart
Maintaining consistency key to long-term weight loss
India to be world's biggest milk producer by 2016
Musician plays guitar during brain surgery in Bengaluru
Ozone pollution tied to cardiovascular health: Study
Suki Waterhouse uses beauty as a 'tool'
Glam up your work wear outfit with right jewellery
Nicole Richie lets daughter experiment with make-up
Malaika Arora to judge 'India's Next Top Model Season 3'
'Asian market ready to experiment with hair, moving from subtle to bold'
We weren't good enough, batting collapses need to stop: Smith
Australia pacer Cummins to skip T20I series against India
Kenya loses host rights for cricket qualifier to South Africa
Batters making poor decisions under pressure: Smith
Bhuvi set up victory with his opening spell: Kohli
We now have lot of options in the run up to the 2019 World Cup: Kohli
Atletico's Koke thrilled with return of Diego Costa
Indian Super League season 4 to kick off in November
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Sindhu, Saina crash out; Srikanth, Prannoy advance in Japan Open
PKL: Fit-again Meraj gives hope to faltering Delhi
Guwahati to be made gateway to southeast Asia: Assam CM
Prominent Assam RTI activist arrested
Let commander behind Amarnath Yatra attack killed in Kashmir
Specialty Assam green tea fetches whopping price
Not interested in talks unless independence on agenda, Ulfa faction tells Sri Sri
In touch with Ulfa's anti-talk faction, NSCN-K for talks: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Nitish favours simultaneous elections
JD-U asks Sharad Yadav to join Lalu's RJD
Nitish, Sushil Modi responsible for Rs 20,000 cr scam: Tejashwi Yadav
Four die while cleaning septic tank in Bihar
Rahul meets Bihar MLAs amid reports of rift in state unit
MLAs' comments on police-drug mafia nexus affects cop morale: Parrikar
ACB raids Goa opposition leader's residence
Can't have one solution for entire nation: Parrikar
Drug mafia threat is Minister's perception: Parrikar
Goa Cabinet approves new convention centre for IFFI
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Modi doing best for Gujarat as PM, don't miss him: Amit Shah
SAC's inputs in space programme valuable: Minister
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Explosives found on rail track in Jharkhand
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Mysuru decks up to host Dasara festival
Foundation laid for Regional Vocational Training Institute in Hyderabad
No further extension in filing returns under GST: Hasmukh Adhia
Upgraded Belagavi airport begins operation in Karnataka
Karnataka sops for electric vehicles on anvil: Minister
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Kerala HC posts actor Dileep's 5th bail plea for September 26
Minor tests positive for HIV, Kerala opposition demands action
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No ransom paid for release of Kerala priest: V.K. Singh
Satyarthi's march against child abuse flagged off from Kanyakumari
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Will step up efforts to woo more investment in MP: CM Chouhan
Narayan Rane, son Nilesh quit Congress
No floor test till further orders: Madras High Court
Heavy rains disrupt flights in Mumbai
Steel ministry focuses on converting thermal coal into coking
Upset with BJP, Sena may consider quitting Maharashtra government
Bombay HC stays Metro tunnelling in south Mumbai for two weeks
Death of Manipur youth tragic: Rijiju
Political parties, media groups condemn Tripura scribe's killing
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Tripura is first state to set up district family welfare committees
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Venkaiah Naidu advises Telangana, Andhra to promote Telugu
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After holding talks with Swiss President Doris Leuthard, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said New Delhi will continue to work with Berne to combat black money.
"Transparency in financial transactions is an issue of concern in today's world, whether it be black money, dirty money, hawala or arms and drugs financing," Modi said in a joint address to the media along with Leuthard."To combat this global problem, we will continue to cooperate with Switzerland," he said.
Modi said foreign direct investment was an important pillar of economic cooperation between India and Switzerland. "We specially welcome Swiss investors in India.
"We agreed to continue discussions on a bilateral agreement regarding this. Swiss companies have a lot of expertise to partner India in its road to development."
Modi said the proposed free trade agreement between the European Union and India also came up for discussion.
Leuthard said Switzerland had one of the strongest laws against money laundering and hoped other countries would follow suit.


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Hanzze wrote:What brings me back to "often because of the personality and charisma of the Lama". Is it really needed to feed the desire of people? I mean, actually most do not really seek for the teachings of the Buddha when joining a community. Think on origami coures, how many go there just to learn origami techniques?
Parabel Mahayana (modern) – Theravada (conservative)
"As the Theravada and the Mahayana are both stages in the development of Buddhism, both are addressed to all individuals, so we can't distinguish between them in this respect. At the same time, there is a difference, which will perhaps become clear with the help of a parable.
Let's suppose that there is famine somewhere, a terrible famine of the kind that still happens in Africa. People are gaunt and emaciated, and there is terrible suffering. In a certain town in the country which has been struck by this famine there live two man, one old, one young who each has an enormous quantity of grain, easy enough to feed all the people. The old man puts outside his front door a notice which reads: "Whoever comes will be given food." But after that statement there follows a long list of conditions and rules. If people want food they must come at a certain time, on the very minute. They must with them receptacles of certain shape and size. And holding these receptacles in a certain way, they must ask the old man for food in certain set phrases which are to be spoken in an archaic language. Not many people see the notice, for the old man lives in an out-of-the-way street; and of those who see it, a few come for food and receive it, but others are put off by the long list of rules… When the old man is asked why he imposes so many rules, he says "That's how it was in my grandfather's time whenever there was a famine. What was good enough for him is certainly good enough for me. Who am I to change things?" He adds that if people really want food they will observe any number of rules to get it. If they won't observe the rules they can't really be hungry. Meanwhile the young man takes a great sack of grain on his back and goes from door to door giving it out. As soon as one sack is empty, he rushes home for another one. In this way he gives out a great deal of grain all over the town. He gives it to everyone who asks. He's so keen to feed the people that he doesn't mind going into the poorest, darkest and dirtiest of hovels. He doesn't mind going to places where respectable people don't usually venture. The only thought in his head is that nobody should be allowed to starve. Some people say that he's a busybody, others that he takes too much on himself. Some people go so far as to say that he's interfering with the law of karma. Others complain that a lot of gain is wasted, because people take more than they really need. The young man doesn't care about any of this. He says it's better that some grain is wasted than that anyone should starve to death. One day the young man happens to pass by the old man's house. The old man is sitting outside peacefully smoking his pipe, because it isn't yet time to hand out grain. He says to the young man as he hurries past, "You look tired. Why don't take it easy?" The young man replies, rather breathlessly, "I can't. There are still lots of people who haven't been fed." The old man shakes his head wonderingly. "Let them come to you! Why should you go dashing off to them?" But the young man, impatient to be on his way, says, "They're too weak to come to me. They can't even walk. If I don't go to them they'll die." "That's too bad," said the old man. "They should have come earlier, when they were stronger. If they didn't think ahead that's their fault." But by this time the young man is out of earshot, already on his way home for another sack. The old man rises and pins another notice beside the first one. The notice read: "Rules for reading the rules." No doubt you've already guessed the meaning of the parable. The old man is the Arhat, representing Southern Buddhism, and the young man is a Bodhisattva, representing the Mahayana. The famine is the human predicament, the people of the town are all living beings, and the gain is the Dharma, the teaching. Just as in principle both the old and the young man are willing to give out gain to everybody, so in principle both the Theravada and the Mahayana are universal, meant for all. But in practice we find that the Theravada imposes certain conditions. To practice Buddhism within the Theravada tradition, even today, if you're taking it at all seriously, you must leave home and become a monk or nun. You must live exactly as the monks and nuns lived in India in the Buddha's time. And you mustn't change anything. The Mahayana doesn't impose any such conditions. It makes the Dharma available to people as they are and where they are, because it is concerned solely with essentials. It's concerned with getting the grain to the people, not with any particular manner in which this is be done. The Theravada expects people to come to it, so to speak, but the Mahayana goes out to them. This difference between the Theravada and the Mahayana goes back to the early days of Buddhist history. About a hundred years after the Buddha's death, his disciples disagreed about certain issues so strongly that the spiritual community was split in two. Indeed, they disagreed about the very nature of Buddhism itself. One group of disciples held that Buddhism was simply what Buddha said. The Four Noble Truth, the Eightfold Path, the Twelve Links or chain of conditioned co-production, the Four Foundations of Mindfulness – this was Buddhism. But the other group responsed that this was not enough. Yes, all of these teachings did part of Buddhism, but the example of Buddha's life could not be ignored. The Buddha's teaching revealed his wisdom, but his life revealed his compassion, and both together made up Buddhism."
transcripted from "The Seeker's Glossary of Buddhism" edit by the Van Hien Study Group
The close relationship between Buddhist teachings and nature is very special to me – not just as a Buddhist monk, but also as a social activist. I'm involved with many social activities concerning human rights, peace, non-violence and forest conservation. I find that to sustain those activities, we need a solid foundation. We need strong and deep roots. It's like a tree. A tree can grow tall and spread its branches only when its roots are deep enough, or expansive enough.
We can all learn from plants, even small shrubs. Last year, I organised a spiritual green walk-athon called ``Dharma-yatra'', which involved trekking through several hillside communities in the Phu Khong area of Chaiyaphum province in northeastern Thailand. For seven full days we had to trudge along under a scorching sun. Everyone was feeling hot and tired and our party was close to total disarray.
At one point we walked by a small shrub. Diminutive and fragile-looking, it had sprouted up right by the side of the road. The intriguing thing about it was its bright red flowers. Despite the sweltering heat, the flowers had turned to dire
ctly face the sun, their petals fully open, almost as if they were greeting it with a smile. Seeing that, we all felt suddenly refreshed. If those dainty blooms weren't afraid of the sun, how should we be?
Plants have the ability to transform sunlight into shade. And they are great teachers, too; there are so many things to be learned from them. When we humans have problems, we should try to emulate plants -- to turn hurdles into lessons, suffering into happiness.
Phu Long is the rain catchment forest of the Lampathao River, the lifeblood of countless communities downstream. It used to be one of the most fertile rainforests in the region, but the government's logging concessions and its policy to expand farmland on the frontiers have caused massive forest destruction here and elsewhere.
Over the past few decades, the Phu Long forest has recovered significantly, thanks to a strong Phu Long forest conservation movement led by Buddhist monks and nuns. For the past decade, Phra Paisal Visalo, a reformist monk and abbot of the Phu Long forest monastery, has been organising Dharmayatra, a religious pilgrimage to cultivate forest conservation awareness, leading to a community network to safeguard Phu Long.
The forest guards need help. They need sneakers to do their forest patrol because combat shoes are too heavy and make too much noise on dry leaves, which alerts the poachers.
They also need binoculars and digital cameras. It helps to be able spot poachers from afar, and since the forest guards often cannot get close to them, it helps to have their pictures so they can be arrested in the future.
True happiness cannot be bought. It is something we have to cultivate ourselves. There is a Chinese saying that "if you want three hours of ecstasy, try gambling. For three weeks of rapture, go traveling. For three months of bliss, get married. Build a new house, and you will enjoy three years of heaven. But if you want a true and lasting happiness, grow and live with trees." Growing trees make us happy not only when we see them blossom and give us fruits and shades. We already experience the feeling of joy the moment we put the seeds into the soil, pour the water over it, till and take care of the land constantly. As the seeds grow into saplings, and eventually bigger trees, so does our sense of happiness. Those who have spent time living in the midst of nature know how what seems to be a life of monotony is indeed a blessed one, brought about by innate peace and tranquility.
To have a chance to grow trees, to take care of the environment, to become a part of nature, that is, to me, real happiness. And we should not be just the beneficiaries; we should also take an active role in the nurturing of our surrounding. Nowadays, such opportunity has become few and far between: the wild woods have been continuously shrinking. We need thus to join hands in bringing them back. That is the beginning of growing happiness by our own hands.
At the same time, what is no less important is to take care of "a tree" in our own heart. When that flourishes, so will our peace of mind. The question is: how is the tree faring? Is it growing healthily? Or has it been withering away? How much are we attending to this tree in our own mind? Most may not realise that there is ?a tree? inside each of us that needs looking after. We may not be aware at all if it is still alive, or is it wilting away? This is because we often spend little time with ourselves. Much of the time, we keep ourselves busy with things from the outside: friends, work, TVs, shopping, and so on. We think they are indispensable. We look outward to avoid the problems inside. The tree in our mind has been neglected. It becomes vulnerable to pest, weeds, and drought. But now is the time to go back and nurture our own tree.
That is not difficult at all. When we do something good, when we give something away or make someone happy, we are watering the tree inside us. We have been taught to believe that the more we possess, the happier we will be. Thus a number of people think happiness can be purchased; they run after things to fulfill their craving all the time. Few realise that the happiness gained from giving away is more profound, more refined; it waters the tree inside our mind. And when that grows, prospers, it will give the flowers, fruits, and shades _ an unsurpassable peace _ to us.
The Jit Arsa volunteer programmes have drawn a number of people [who volunteer on various projects]. Incidentally, many participants talked about the discovery of happiness in the process. At the end of a two-day tree-planting project, a lady confessed that she initially felt overwhelmed at the sight of the barren hills in front of the temple. She felt like she was just a clump of lowly grass. Having planted numerous trees, her spirit soared. She no longer felt like the grass. She now feels like the trees. The trees in their minds have grown. Just two days of working on something meaningful with other people has given her the energy. From the grass, she suddenly becomes the trees. It is so instant. It is up to us how we will grow, take care and nourish it.
Hanzze wrote:Why is there a recruiting of youth and coming to the temple seen as a need?
drifting cloud wrote:Speaking as a youth or at any rate as a "young adult" (20 something), I would have to say....no.
polarbuddha101 wrote:Not sure what qualifies as youth here but I'm 22 and I chose theravada because it seems to me to be the only tradition that an educated person would choose if they really want to follow the teaching of the historical Buddha. I don't think the tradition needs more Ajahn Brahmavamso's telling jokes...
Benjamin wrote:Maybe a question like this is better focused on countries where lay Buddhists are a majority, but in my experience all the Buddhist schools in the west have little influence on the youth at large. Not their fault, just the nature of the culture.
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Board of Supervisors Approves Proposed Silver Line Station Names
April 10, 2012
- Eight station names were chosen based on a public input—including an online survey, an online chat, and four public meetings—and Metro's naming policy.
- Metro's policy requires names to be relevant, brief, unique and evocative.
- Fairfax's proposed names will go to the Metro board for final review, approval and adoption.
Today, the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors approved the recommended names for the eight Silver Line stations in the county. These names will be sent to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority's board for final approval and adoption.
The approved names and station locations are:
- McLean (1824 Dolley Madison Boulevard)
- Tysons Corner (1943 Chain Bridge Road)
- Greensboro (8305 Leesburg Pike)
- Spring Hill (1576 Spring Hill Road)
- Wiehle-Reston East (1862 Wiehle Avenue, Reston)
- Reston Town Center (Near the intersection of Route 267 and Reston Parkway)
- Herndon (Near the intersection of Route 267 and Monroe Street)
- Innovation Center (Near the intersection of Route 267, Route 28 and Innovation Avenue)
County transportation officials developed these names based on public input and Metro's policy for station names. To get feedback, the county conducted four public meetings and an online chat, and Metro conducted an online survey in cooperation with the county.
As a result of this feedback, officials determined that non-repetitive names were more popular and helpful to riders. To learn more about the survey results and process for determining the names, read this report (PDF).
Metro requires that station names be:
- Relevant: Identify station locations by geographical features, centers of activity or be derived from the names of cities, communities, neighborhoods or landmarks within one-half mile (walking distance) of the station
- Brief: Limited to 19 characters with spaces and punctuation, including both primary and secondary names
- Unique: Distinctive and not easily confused with other station names; and
- Evocative: Evoke imagery in the mind of the patron.
The Board of Supervisors previously recommended names to Metro last March. However, the transit agency's board rejected six out of the eight proposed names as repetitive, confusing or not distinctive.
The Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project is being built in two phases with a total of 11 stations. The first phase includes four stations in Tysons Corner, plus a station at Wiehle Avenue in Reston, with construction expected to be completed in late 2013.The rail project's second phase runs from Wiehle Avenue in Fairfax County to Route 772 in Loudoun County with a station at Dulles Airport. The second phase of the project is estimated to be completed in 2017.
The Board of Supervisors today also confirmed the county's participation in Phase 2 of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project.
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Has anyone ever experience fear and aversion or excitement in the mind when approaching Samadhi?
Quite often I get this, like the ego and the hindrances (Mara) are fighting back against their abandonment (when scared) or excited that I about to "achieve" something.
Does anyone have any advice, if you experience this, on how to get past it?
Also, does anyone else have trouble with being aware when tired (like first thing in the morning) and how to overcome/deal with it. I've tried just being aware of the tiredness, but I just fall asleep sitting up lol


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JUPITER, Fla. -- Lefty Marc Rzepczynski threw another bullpen session on Thursday, this time with almost full vision in his left eye.
Rzepczynski, who suffered an eye injury while golfing last Friday, was told by an eye doctor on Wednesday that 95 percent of the eye inflammation was gone. At the time of the appointment, Rzepczynski was still dealing with some blurriness. Within a few hours, though, Rzepczynski's eyesight was nearly back to normal.
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That clearance will have to come from the eye doctor, who Rzepczynski is scheduled to visit again on Friday morning. For the first time since the incident, though, he was able to join his teammates for a full workout on Thursday. Manager Mike Matheny said the club is optimistic that Rzepczynski will be ready for game action in "a day or so."
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Policy Brief - Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Quarterly Journal: International Security
Attacks on Nuclear Infrastructure: Opening Pandora's Box?
This policy brief is based on "Revisiting Osirak: Preventive Attacks and Nuclear Proliferation Risks," which appears in the Summer 2011 issue of International Security.
- Bold Claims, Inconclusive Evidence? The empirical record does not support claims that air strikes on states' nuclear weapons infrastructure always produce the desired results.
- Impact Distribution. Discriminate preventive attacks may temporarily halt nuclear programs, but targeted states with advanced nuclear capabilities may intensify and complicate proliferation risks.
- Unintended Consequences. Attacking a state's nuclear infrastructure can force its nuclear weapons program underground and create a false sense of security in the outside world.
Advocates argue that air strikes against the nuclear infrastructure of a targeted state can deny it the option of producing nuclear weapons or at least create delays in its nuclear weapons program. Critics counter that such attacks may intensify the state's determination to acquire nuclear weapons and make a difficult problem more challenging in the long term. Despite the apparent appeal of targeted strikes, states rarely resort to them.
States have often considered using force to deny their rivals nuclear weapons (for example, the United States contemplated attacks against China's nuclear weapons program during the Cold War), but they have rarely done so. States have, however, targeted such attacks against enemies suspected of developing a nuclear weapons option rather than against adversaries on the threshold of acquiring these weapons. There are arguably only three instances of discriminate attacks on nuclear infrastructure: Allied attacks on a heavy water plant in occupied Norway during 1942–43, Israel's strikes on the Iraqi Osirak reactor in 1981, and an Israeli attack against an alleged Syrian reactor site in 2007. (Nuclear sites were also targeted during the 1980–88 Iran-Iraq War and the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Other covert actions have targeted scientists from the Iraqi and Iranian nuclear programs, technology in transit to Iraq, and the software operating centrifuges at Iran's Bushehr site.) Attacks on the Norwegian heavy water plant at Vemork, which were carried out by Norwegian resistance operatives with Allied support to prevent heavy water from reaching the German nuclear program, and Israeli air strikes against Syria's al-Kibar site were preventive attacks intended to deny states the option of developing nuclear weapons.
The legitimacy and consequences of the 1981 Osirak attack remain in dispute. Advocates argue that it was a preemptive attack and therefore permitted under international law. Critics claim that, as a research reactor, Osirak did not constitute an acute proliferation risk, given its design characteristics and subjection to safeguards monitoring. Recent evidence confirms that the Osirak reactor was intended not to produce plutonium for a weapons program, but rather to develop know-how that would be necessary if Iraq acquired an unsafeguarded reactor better suited for large-scale production of plutonium. Israel's attack triggered a far more focused and determined Iraqi effort to acquire nuclear weapons. When the program was interrupted by the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq stood on the threshold of acquiring a nuclear weapons capability.
To assess how air strikes affect nuclear proliferation risks, it is useful to distinguish between preventive and preemptive attacks. Targeting a research reactor that is suspected of being part of an effort to develop nuclear know-how, and perhaps intended for a future breakout option, could have qualitatively different consequences from those of attacking nuclear sites in a state that is mastering the complete nuclear fuel cycle. The results are likely to differ in terms of both the resulting delay—a state that is mastering advanced nuclear technology will require less time to rebuild the destroyed capabilities than a state that has initiated only research and development efforts—and the perceived costs of proceeding with a nuclear weapons program. For a state that has invested in advanced technology, the sunk costs and vested interests of domestic elites are likely to enhance the appeal of reconstituting what has been lost. In contrast, states with an embryonic nuclear infrastructure may perceive the costs of rebuilding what has been destroyed as unacceptable. These states may also experience difficulties locating suppliers willing to provide sensitive nuclear technology.
Generalizing about the effects of attacking nuclear infrastructure is a difficult task, because the long-term outcome will also be influenced by the targeted state's security environment. A plausible hypothesis, however, is that the distribution of probable outcomes resembles a bell curve. At one end, states with minimal nuclear infrastructure may present a smaller proliferation risk because of the increased costs of developing a nuclear weapons capability. In the middle section, attacks on states that are moving toward completion of the fuel cycle may produce more mixed outcomes. On the one hand, developing a domestic nuclear weapons capacity will be more costly following the destruction of key sites. Targeted attacks, however, may create a domestic incentive to build a deterrent to avoid similar strikes in the future. The result could be a more determined pursuit of nuclear weapons, making the acquisition of such weapons a more likely outcome than would otherwise have been the case. On the other hand, the costs of developing a nuclear weapons capability, combined with changing security concerns (or fear of another attack), may discourage state elites from pursuing these weapons. At the other end of the curve, attacks on states that have mastered the complete nuclear fuel cycle may increase the risk of proliferation. For states such as Iran, which are capable of producing fissile material but seem to lack elite consensus to proceed with a nuclear weapons program, an attack could accelerate acquisition of a nuclear weapon.
The historical record suggests that nuclear proliferation risks cannot be easily eliminated by targeted air strikes. Strikes can buy time, but to what end? The short-term benefits of destroying key nodes in the nuclear infrastructure of a state suspected of proliferation seems appealing to states seeking to counter proliferation, but potentially counterproductive long-term consequences suggest that this approach is not a silver bullet. Attacks on states that are advancing toward a complete nuclear fuel cycle or that have already crossed that technical threshold can produce new risks. In the former case, such attacks may have mixed effects and could elevate proliferation risks in the long term. In the latter case, the targeted state may accelerate its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons.
In addition, preventive attacks can create a false sense of security in the outside world and drive nuclear weapons programs to underground sites. Both sets of developments make it more difficult to grasp, and cope with, the long-term proliferation risks posed by the targeted state.
Failure to address the domestic political consequences of targeted attacks can undermine the value of whatever positive results the attacks may have been produced. For example, if the nuclear infrastructure of Iran were attacked, Iranian elites might solidify their desire for nuclear weapons. Unless Iran was then presented with incentives to abstain from acquiring nuclear weapons, it would likely continue down the nuclear path. Some observers suggest that repeated strikes could control subsequent risks, but this does not appear to be a lasting solution. States known to have pursued a nuclear weapons option, including Iran, Iraq, and Libya, have approached the United States with offers to trade their nuclear capabilities for a chance at rapprochement. Although targeted strikes may narrow the scope for negotiation, political engagement is vital for containing longer-term proliferation risks. As demonstrated by North Korea during the 1994–2000 Agreed Framework, engagement seems to be a more productive strategy than isolation for containing states on the path to acquiring nuclear weapons.
Despite the intuitive appeal of attacking states' nuclear infrastructure to curb proliferation, the empirical record gives reason for caution. On the one hand, targeted attacks can slow progress toward acquiring nuclear weapons. For states in the early stages of nuclear research, an attack can make the prospect of developing nuclear weapons seem too costly and too difficult. On the other hand, an attack on a state with a more robust infrastructure could accelerate its efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. Unless strikes are accompanied by actions designed to address the security concerns of the targeted states, the long-term effects may prove counterproductive. Such attacks may not only speed the targeted state's efforts to produce nuclear weapons, but also create a false sense of security in the outside world.
Betts, Richard K. "The Osirak Fallacy," National Interest, Vol. 83 (Spring 2006): 22–25.
Fuhrmann, Matthew, and Sarah E. Kreps. "Targeting Nuclear Programs in War and Peace." Discussion Paper 2009-11, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, October 2009.
Malin, Martin B. "The Effectiveness and Legitimacy of Using Force to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation,"in Christopher Daase and Oliver Meier, eds., Coercive Arms Control (New York: Routledge, 2010).
Raas, Whitney, and Austin Long. "Osirak Redux? Assessing Israeli Capabilities to Destroy Iranian Nuclear Facilities," International Security, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Spring 2007): 7–33.
Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer is Assistant Professor at the Norwegian Defence University College.
Statements and views expressed in this policy brief are solely those of the authors and do not imply endorsement by Harvard University, the Harvard Kennedy School, or the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
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Seeing is Believing: Promising Practices for How School Districts Promote Family Engagement
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HARRISBURG - While all eyes in the state Capitol were trained on the glittering rotunda for the swearing-in of a new attorney general, Corbett administration officials were hard at work Tuesday afternoon crafting a proposal that might finally lift Pennsylvania out of last vestiges of the Prohibition Era.
After years of failure, there is a chance 2013 will be the year Pennsylvania ditches the state monopoly for liquor sales.
Sources who have attended a series of meeting with the administration in recent weeks to help craft a still-unfinished proposal are hopeful that an announcement will be made in the next two weeks - before Gov. Tom Corbett gives his annual budget address, scheduled for Feb. 5.
Several people with knowledge of the discussions say the administration is taking the lead on the issue this time, a notable shift from how Corbett has handled privatization during his first two years in office, when he would make public statements of support but often follow that up by telling lawmakers to put a bill on his desk before he would discuss specifics.
Signs now point to the governor taking the lead.
"We are seeing signs the administration will be a big part of the fight, leading from the front with a plan and a purpose that answers a broad-based bipartisan call from his constituents to give them choice and convenience," said Jay Ostrich, communications director for the Commonwealth Foundation, a free market think tank pushing for privatization.
Ostrich was one of several individuals summoned to the Capitol on Tuesday for a closed-doors meeting with administration staffers while Corbett attended the swearing-in of Attorney General Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, five floors down in the rotunda.
Those who attended Tuesday's meeting and others who have worked with the administration on crafting the proposal have described it as a painstaking process that is attempting to fit multiple puzzle pieces together in order to revamp Pennsylvania's complex and often arcane laws governing the sale of alcohol.
Licensed beer distributors in Pennsylvania are allowed to sell only cases and kegs of beer. Restaurants, bars and taverns can sell only six-packs. Some grocery stores have obtained restaurant licenses to sell six-packs.
For those with stronger tastes, liquor is available for purchase only at the roughly 620 stores owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, a state agency that determines pricing and availability for all items in all stores.
The administration has been tight-lipped about the privatization plan, but Eric Shirk, a spokesman for Corbett, said there are several goals including "consumer choice, increased convenience and getting the state out of the liquor business."
During the past two years, Corbett has repeatedly pointed out the contradiction between the state's role in selling alcohol -- and advertising its sale to boost the bottom line of the state liquor stores -- and its law enforcement role when it comes to the purchase and consumption of alcohol.
Shirk declined to comment on the timing for an announcement saying the proposal is not yet finalized.
But talks are ongoing with key members in the Legislature as well.
"Ultimately, everyone wants to see better and greater consumer choice, the question is how do we get there," said Steve Miskin, spokesman for House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, the most vocal legislative leader on liquor privatization during the previous session.
Miskin said Turzai would not be introducing legislation until after Corbett made his plans public, another sign the governor intends to be out in front on this issue in 2013.
Gene Barr, president of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce, was one of several people invited to the governor's office this week to weigh in on the liquor plan. He said Pennsylvania needs rethink how alcohol is sold.
The final plan should include more retail locations, including grocery stores and convenience stores, he said.
"Our view is that simply changing the person behind the counter isn't good enough," Barr said Tuesday.
Echoing the views of others who attended Tuesday's meeting and spoke off-the-record, Barr said there was no proposal "on the table" and he had not seen anything in writing. The administration is looking at a variety of ideas, he said.
But everyone interviewed expect a lengthy fight with the entrenched interests of the existing liquor system.
The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1776, the union representing the approximately 3,000 employees in the state-run liquor stores, has been the most vocal opponent of privatization.
They and other opponents have argued that privatization actually will result in fewer options for consumers because grocery stores and convenience stores do not have the space to stock the wide array of choices that some of the largest state-owned liquor stores do.
The Malt Beverage Distribution Association of Pennsylvania, which represents beer distributors in the state, opposed a Turzai-sponsored plan last year to allow beer distributors to sell wine and liquor, citing concerns about competition with other retailers.
Ostrich said the governor should give the people of Pennsylvania what they want -- unlimited choice and greater convenience.
"We believe that happens when bread, beer and Bordeaux are bought all on privately-run shelves, and we certainly hope any plan coming from the governor has these elements as a strong part of it," he said.
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Fairfax County Receives Two Virginia Association of Counties Awards
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Fairfax, VA 22035-0065
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Fairfax County Receives Two Virginia Association of Counties Awards
Two Fairfax County agencies have been selected to receive Virginia
Association of Counties (VACo) Achievement Awards. The Park Authority's
Community Connections program and the Department of Tax Administration's
Tax Relief Outreach will be honored at an official ceremony during VACo's
2007 Annual Conference in November.
The VACo Achievement Awards competitive program is open to local government members of the association. Held annually, it recognizes local government programs in nine categories. Award criteria include innovation, collaboration and model practices.
"This is not just an awards program," VACo Executive Director James Campbell said. "These projects represent innovative ideas with positive results that can be replicated throughout the state and the country."
Of the 43 entries for this year's honors, 13 were selected including the
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Community Connections
In Fairfax County, demographics are shifting. New immigrants from Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East are adding new diversity to communities. More than 100 languages are spoken and minorities now account for more than 40 percent of the population. As the face of Fairfax County continues to change, the Park Authority is challenged to adapt its facilities and programs to diverse user groups.
Community Connections is a comprehensive outreach and education effort aimed at listening to, engaging and building trust with increasingly diverse park users. By creating awareness of recreational resources currently available; increasing access to services by eliminating cultural and communications barriers; and developing new programs and facilities, Community Connections is helping the Park Authority better serve the population.
Tax Relief Outreach Program
Fairfax County provides real estate tax and personal property tax relief for residents 65 and older and individuals permanently and totally disabled. The county also offers rental grants to eligible older adults and those with disabilities. The tax relief program has been authorized by the Board of Supervisors since 1974.
As the board has increased allowable income and asset limits, the Department of Tax Administration (DTA) expanded its Tax Relief Outreach Program to help build an awareness of the program to ensure those who meet the eligibility requirements are able to participate. To further the board's policy of helping elderly and disabled residents, DTA pursued its vision of a broad "outreach" campaign, in many cases providing residents with on-site assistance and eligibility information regarding tax relief. The county staff contacts residents and schedules personal appointments; makes home visits to incapacitated residents; visits senior and assisted living centers; and attends tax relief workshops hosted by members of the Board of Supervisors. Letters are sent to homeowner and civic associations and local churches offering to provide tax relief presentations. In 2006, DTA staff attended 28 workshops, conducted 31 home visits and assisted more than 678 county residents in completing tax relief applications. Overall, the program provides tax relief to more than 8,000 county residents.
For more information about Tax Relief Outreach, contact DTA's program manager, Desiree Baltimore at 703-222-8324, TTY 711.
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10 Childbirth Facts 1 of 11
Fact 1: It's not like the movies
In the movies, the water breaks, everyone panics, mom wobbles up, grabs her belly, and on cue has an enormous contraction, then yells for a taxi. In real life, the water usually breaks during labor and if it does break early, there's no reason to run screaming to the hospital. Real-life labor is really hard, but it's not one big screaming emergency. Every labor is unique, but perhaps none more "unique" than the mythical Hollywood birth.
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Fact 2: Your due date is more like a due month
A full-term pregnancy is anywhere between 37 and 42 weeks. The estimated due date (EDD) is an educated guess, not a firm deadline. The majority of babies are born before or after their due dates; most first-time babies are born an average of four days past the EDD. It can be hard to mentally plan for a whole due month, but a due date is too specific. So, how about a due fortnight?
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Fact 3: Labor goes through very distinct phases with different challenges
Labor is not one continuous, unwavering sensation; its a dynamic, rhythmic process. Early labor tends to be long but usually easier to deal with than active labor, which generally requires much more focus and pain-coping techniques. Pushing the baby out at the end is another thing entirely and can actually be a welcome change (now you can finally do something!). Learning about the stages of labor helps you prepare for each one in different ways.
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Fact 4: An epidural is just one of many ways to cope with labor
Theres a lot of debate about whether getting an epidural is a good idea or a bad idea. The only answer is: it depends. An early epidural can slow things down and therefore make more medical intervention necessary. But an epidural given after laboring for a very long time (and when mom is completely exhausted) can actually speed up labor and reduce the chances of more interventions. Try to forget good and bad when it comes to the epidural; instead, educate yourself about the risks and benefits of the drugs and learn other coping techniques, then see how your labor goes.
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Fact 5: The philosophy of your care-provider matters. A lot.
Some doctors believe in actively managing the labor, introducing medical technology — from labor induction drugs to continuous fetal monitoring — even before they are necessary. Other care-providers believe labor should unfold on its own and medical intervention should only be brought in if something comes up. The way your labor will be handled has a lot to do with who is handling it; talk to your caregiver now about his or her philosophy of birth. And make sure it matches up to your own.
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Fact 6: Your doctor or midwife will not be with you for most of your labor
This often comes as a big surprise to an expecting couple, but its common. Doctors and midwives will be on call, advising you when to go to the hospital and will check in on your progress periodically. But for the most part they just show up at the end to catch the baby — midwives tend to be present for longer, but it depends. This is one reason childbirth classes and doulas can be so valuable.
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Fact 7: Induced labors are twice as likely to end in C-Section
Expectations to get births moving at an unrealistic pace have led to the overuse of pitocin, which doubles the odds of having a C-section. Pitocin requires monitoring, which means mom cannot move during labor. Yet, changing position can actually help labor progress and help with pain. Bottom line: Try to avoid induction unless its medically necessary.
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Fact 8: Staying Home in Early Labor Can Reduce the Chances of a C-section
Barring any specific concerns, theres no reason to rush to the hospital at the first, or even 50th contraction. You may be turned away if you go in too soon. A good guideline to follow for first pregnancies is 411: Go in when your contractions are four minutes apart, one minute long and have been that way for one hour. Talk about this with your midwife or doctor and call when you know labor has started, but allow your body time at home to really get labor going.
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Fact 9: Birth is a normal physiological event
Yeah, contractions can be very intense and the process of birth can seem overwhelming or even impossible, but the fact is, our bodies were built to do it. Unlike other kinds of pain, labor does not indicate that something is wrong or broken. There are things you can do to get through the hard work: Take a childbirth education class, get some good labor support and learn how labor works.
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Fact 10: A good birth experience is not about how you do it
Surveys of thousands of mothers have revealed that its actually not about whether you got the epidural or didnt get the epidural that makes birth a positive experience. Its more about whether you were treated with kindness and respect at a vulnerable time. Women with realistic expectations also tend to be happier with their births. This doesnt mean low expectations, but rather an understanding of what you can control, and what you cant. Remember that once we banish the idea of a perfect birth, the imperfect birth goes with it.
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Cisco Partnership Headlines Emerson Wireless News
For a largely invisible networking technology, industrial wireless sure is showing some serious punch lately.
Emerson Process Management shared success stories and unveiled wireless initiatives on several new fronts at its Global Users Exchange 2007 conference and exhibition held this week at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas, near Dallas.
By delivering a combined wireless architecture from Emerson and Cisco, we are enabling our process manufacturing customers to deploy flexible, scalable and safe wireless solutions and mobility applications in rugged plant environments. Maciej Kranz of Cisco on his companys strategic alliance with Emerson Process Management.
Emerson not only extended its PlantWeb architecture with a variety of new Smart Wireless solutions, it also unveiled a partnership with Cisco to deliver open-standard solutions for plant network-level wireless applications. Perhaps most important, Emerson reported on seven end users who have implemented its wireless solutions and achieved significant efficiency gains, time and labor savings, and other benefits.
A year ago, we launched In-Plant Smart Wireless Solutions and introduced our vision of the open, wireless, digital plant, said John Berra, president of Emerson Process Management. Were now delivering on the wireless roadmap.
Though users have been taking advantage of its wireless field products since the company started shipping them in December 2006, Emerson reports the market is now ready to deploy higher-performance wireless plant networks and the applications that run on them.
Networks and mobility are dramatically transforming our customers businesses and in-plant processes, said Maciej Kranz, vice president of marketing for Ciscos wireless business unit. By delivering a combined wireless architecture from Emerson and Cisco, we are enabling our process manufacturing customers to deploy flexible, scalable and safe wireless solutions and mobility applications in rugged plant environments.
Emerson launched its Smart Wireless system at the field-network level last year. These self-organizing wireless field networks were designed to be easily installed and deliver value without investing in a plant-wide wireless infrastructure. Smart Wireless has demonstrated high reliability in the field by using IEEE 802.15.4 with added channel-hopping and the Time-Synchronized Mesh Protocol (TSMP).
Temperature, Level, Vibration Measuring
For example, PPG Lake Charles, Lake Charles, La., used Emersons wireless equipment to perform temperature profiling of plant steam headers, redundant level measurement on caustic tanks and vibration monitoring of brine centrifuges. A multi-discipline team guided adoption of wireless at the facility, and the resulting Smart Wireless network now coexists with some other wireless systems.
When Emerson first approached me with their industrial wireless solution and told me it was plug-and-play, I have to admit I laughed, said Tim Gerami, PPGs senior design engineer. Nothing Id seen so far was that easy, but Im a believer now. Five minutes after installing it, the wireless network came to life, and its been there ever since.
Water Flow, Grease System Monitoring
Wheeling Pittsburg Steel in Wheeling, W.V., uses Emersons Smart Wireless to help monitor and manage coiling water flow and grease system health in its hot strip mill, and to handle cooling water flowing to work rolls in its roughing mill. Secondary systems had needed diagnostics to minimize unscheduled downtime and improve production and quality, but Wheeling found that wired devices were too difficult to install and maintain in this congested, hot environment. However, it was possible wireless components could do these jobs, and since they were installed, the steelmaker reports that downtime was nearly eliminated and productivity improved by as much as 10%.
Were building an infrastructure that opens up opportunities for more applications, said Gary Borani, Wheelings operations manager. The result is better information from difficult-to-reach areas of the mill, and this is helping our personnel prevent unscheduled downtime, meet customers quality requirements and optimize productivity.
Checking Chemical Heat in Moving Rail Cars
Emersons approach to wireless includes self-organizing mesh networks at the sensor level, complemented by Ciscos Unified Architecture (wireless as well as wired) at the plant-network level. Click here to view larger architecture diagram.
Specialty chemicals manufacturer Croda, headquartered in East Yorkshire, U.K., reports that its using Smart Wireless for chemical temperature monitoring in its railcars. Rate-of-rise temperature monitoring is critical for safety and plant performance, but the continuously moving cars made hardwired measurement impractical, and it was dangerous for employees to climb on top of the railcars to perform these measurements, especially in winter. Smart Wireless enables Croda to perform early detection of potentially hazardous temperature rises of chemicals and eliminates manual readings. Also, railcar positions had no effect on the wireless self-organizing networks performance, and line-of-sight wasnt required. Besides eliminating operator trips to the top of the cars, early temperature detection meant early neutralization procedures, which improved plant safety.
Weve achieved savings of $14,600 per year in reduced operations and maintenance costs, said Denny Fetter, Crodas I&E designer. However, our incalculable savings were in increased safety.
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Analgesic Efficacy and Management of Opioid-induced Constipation (OIC) for Uncontrolled Moderate - Severe Low Back Pain
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The primary objective is to assess the efficacy of oxycodone/naloxone (OXN) for the management of opioid-induced constipation (OIC) compared to oxycodone controlled-release tablets (OXY) in subjects with moderate to severe low back pain and OIC who require around-the-clock opioid therapy.
|Low Back Pain
|Drug: Oxycodone/Naloxone controlled-release Drug: Oxycodone HCl controlled-release Drug: Placebo
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Double-blind, Double-dummy, Placebo-controlled, Active-controlled, Parallel-group, Multicenter Trial of Oxycodone/Naloxone Controlled-release Tablets (OXN) to Assess the Analgesic Efficacy (Compared to Placebo) and the Management of Opioid-induced Constipation (Compared to Oxycodone Controlled-release Tablets (OXY)) in Opioid-experienced Subjects With Uncontrolled Moderate to Severe Chronic Low Back Pain and a History of Opioid-induced Constipation Who Require Around-the-clock Opioid Therapy
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Overall complete spontaneous bowel movement (CSBM) responder rates [ Time Frame: Weeks 1 through 12 ]The overall Complete Spontaneous Bowel Movement (CSBM) responder rates over the 12 week double-blind period comparing OXN to OXY
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- CSBM Responder at least 50% of the weeks in the double-blind period [ Time Frame: Weeks 1 through 12 ]
- Laxative-free Responder at least 50% of the weeks in the double-blind period [ Time Frame: Weeks 1 through 12 ]
|Study Start Date:
|August 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|October 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|October 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: OXN
Oxycodone/Naloxone controlled-release tablets (OXN)
Drug: Oxycodone/Naloxone controlled-release
Oxycodone/Naloxone controlled-release tablets (10/5 - 40/20 mg) taken orally every 12 hours
Active Comparator: OXY
Oxycodone HCl controlled-release tablets (OXY)
Drug: Oxycodone HCl controlled-release
Oxycodone HCl controlled-release tablets (10 - 40 mg) taken orally every 12 hours
Other Name: OxyContin
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Placebo tablets to match OXN or OXY
Drug: Placebo
Placebo tablets to match OXN or OXY taken orally every 12 hours
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria include:
- Male and female subjects ≥ 18 years of age with moderate to severe, chronic low back pain (lasting at least several hours daily) as their predominant pain condition for at least 3 months prior to screening period;
- The low back pain must be related to nonmalignant and nonneuropathic conditions and may be with or without radiation;
- Subjects must have a self-reported history of opioid induced constipation (OIC).
Exclusion Criteria include:
- Subjects with rheumatoid arthritis or other inflammatory arthritis;
- Subjects with neuropathic conditions that have been painful or required therapy within the past 3 months;
- Subjects with evidence of significant structural abnormalities of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract or other significant conditions affecting GI motility;
- Subjects with chronic constipation not related to opioid use;
- Subjects who had surgical procedures directed towards the source of chronic low back pain within 6 months of the screening visit or planned during the study;
- Subjects with a history of malignancy within the past 2 years, with the exception of basal cell carcinoma that has been successfully treated.
Other protocol specific inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01427270
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|August 30, 2011
|Last Updated:
|November 6, 2014
Keywords provided by Purdue Pharma LP:
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Chronic pain
Moderate to severe chronic low back pain
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Low Back Pain
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Signs and Symptoms, Digestive
Analgesics, Opioid
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On the night of 5th June 1944, gliders full of men took off from England flying to Normandy to take control of the Pegasus bridge from the Germans. It was decided that taking and holding this bridge was important as it was a major crossing point on the Caen Canal. Using only very basic navigation equipment the pilots of the gliders managed to bring the gliders down right on target and within 10 minutes had control of the bridge. Unfortunately 2 men were lost in the process.
This bridge stayed in place over the canal until 1993 when it was moved to its current location. In 1994 a new bridge was opened in its place looking almost identical apart from being wider.
France is affectionately referred to as "the Hexagon" for its overall shape.French history goes back to the Gauls, a Celtic tribe which inhabited the area circa 300BC until being conquered by Julius Caesar.The Franks were the first tribe to adopt Catholic Christianity after the Roman Empire collapsed. France became an independent location in the Treaty of Verdun in (843 AD), which divided up Charlemagne's Carolingian Empire into several portions.The French monarchy reached its zenith during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, who stood for seventy-two years as the Monarch of all Monarchs. His palace of Versailles and its Hall of Mirrors are a splendid treasure-trove of Baroque art.The French Revolution ended the rule of the monarchy with the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity!" On July 14th, 1789 angry mobs stormed La Bastille prison and began the Revolution in which Louis XVI, his wife Marie-Antoinette and thousands of others met the guillotine.One decade after the revolution, Napolean Bonaparte seized control of the Republic and named himself Emperor. His armies conquered most of Europe and his Napoleonic Code became a lasting legal foundation for concepts of personal status and property.During the period of colonization France controlled the largest empire in the world, second only to Britain.France is one of the founding members of the European Union and the United Nations, as well as one of the nuclear armed nations of the world.Text by Steve Smith.