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ANAHEIM -- Hitting coach Don Baylor was back at Angel Stadium on Tuesday, joining the team for the first time since suffering a fractured right femur while catching Vladimir Guerrero's ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day.
Baylor, still in a walker, was in the clubhouse for about an hour prior to the game, meeting with the coaching staff and chatting with his hitters.
"Just having Don walk in, you can still feel his presence," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "It's great to get caught up with him. We miss him."
Based on an earlier prognosis, the 64-year-old Baylor is still anywhere from one to three weeks away from being able to put weight on his right side. Scioscia hopes to get a better gauge for Baylor's ability to be around the team more frequently by the time it returns from its next road trip, through Toronto and Philadelphia, on May 15.
Baylor, mostly resting at his home in La Quinta, Calif., wasn't with the team for Wednesday's series finale against the Indians, but Scioscia is "sure he's going to be by" again during this nine-game homestand.
"I don't know how many times," Scioscia said. "He's making progress, but he still has a ways to go before we're going to see him in the dugout, and it's still an effort for him to get in and move around a little bit."
Baylor, Scioscia added, has been "as connected as you can be" and "definitely has some lineup opinions that are very helpful."
Asked if Baylor would approve of batting Howie Kendrick leadoff on back-to-back days, Scioscia smirked and said: "He's good with the direction we're going."
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On Wednesday the General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper unmanned attack vehicle dropped its first precision-guided bombs in anger, not long after the combat debut of the MQ-9/Hellfire combination.
The Reaper has operated in Afghanistan since September 25, and by November 8 had flown 45 sorties. Its first combat strike occurred on October 27, when U.S. forces fired an AGM-114K Hellfire II laser-guided missile over Deh Rawod on enemy combatants.
On November 7 the Reaper got the chance to demonstrate its heavy attack capability when friendly ground forces began to take fire. A joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) on the ground requested assistance and provided attack co-ordinates to the Reaper crew. They dropped two GBU-12 500-pound laser-guided bombs, eliminating the enemy force.
During combat missions the unmanned aircraft are maintained, launched and recovered by deployed personnel, but mission control is handed over to crews based at Creech AFB, Nevada (formerly Indian Springs).
The first Reaper–at the time known as the Predator B–first flew on Feb. 2, 2001, from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems' flight test facility at El Mirage, California. Today the Reaper flies with the 42nd Attack Squadron of the 432nd Wing, headquartered at Creech. The vehicle is a turboprop-powered "hunter-killer" derived from the combat-proven MQ-1 Predator A configuration.
In August this year the Predator A fleet notched its 25,000th flight and 300,000th flight hour.
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Anthony Milford magic pilots Canberra Raiders to victory on the Gold Coast
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It was over in the blink of an eye, but one moment of brilliance in Canberra's 36-20 win on the Gold Coast showed why Brisbane Broncos fought so long to sign whiz kid Anthony Milford. About to be crunched by a defender on Sunday, Milford batted a ball to centre Jarrod Croker, who strolled through the flabbergasted Titans untouched to give Canberra a 20-10 advantage at the break.
It was a piece of brilliance the 20-year-old himself could scarcely believe he had pulled off, raising his arms in triumph as Croker crossed.
After his virtuoso performance, Milford was asked whether he was pleased with his game.
"Yeah, in patches, [but] I've still got a lot to work on,'' he deadpanned after his stunning two-try display helped the Raiders snap a four-game losing streak and take a giant leap towards avoiding the wooden spoon.
As far as understatements go, this is in the grand final. The only patch Milford put together was a purple one as he set up tries, created breaks and simply toyed with the Titans all match.
If he wasn't scoring tries or making breaks, he was creating them with sleight of hand and finished with four line-break assists and a try assist to complement his two four pointers.
Unfortunately for Canberra and its fans, Milford will be weaving his magic at Suncorp Stadium the next two seasons instead of at Bruce.
Coach Ricky Stuart forecast the announcement of some player signings this week, but anyone brought in will struggle to match Milford's X-factor.
Milford said the presence of his family in the stands, bar his ill father back in Canberra, inspired him to the best performance of his fledgling NRL career. "That gave me extra motivation, knowing my mum and family were there. I don't want to let them down and I want to entertain them as much as possible,'' he said.
Mission accomplished. He helped snap Canberra's four-game losing streak with just a fifth win of the year, and the Raiders moved two points ahead of Cronulla in the race to avoid the wooden spoon.
"I guess [I want to leave Canberra] with the fans knowing I've put 100 per cent into every performance, and I want them to know I'd do anything for them,'' Milford said.
And his Croker try assist?
"I just practise a lot at training and it's an instinct thing; he's usually on my hip,'' he said. "I was just happy he got over the line. And it was tough seven weeks for us, to get a win like that and prove ourselves.''
It was also the perfect birthday present for Milford, who turned 20 this week.
He will be sorely missed by a Raiders side lacking in other striker weapons, but Stuart said re-signing announcements could be in store in the next fortnight. "We've got a plan, we haven't just found out [he's leaving].
"I'd like to think there's some good news ahead, but today is more about the players here at the moment than that. I'm happy for the players because they've really stuck solid and kept faith in one another because there's been a lot of criticism, a lot of bagging of individuals and the group.
"As a coach, I'm happy for them because they get a bit of joy back in their lives."
Gold Coast remains two points outside the top eight after a sixth-straight home loss.
Titans skipper Nate Myles said Milford's display was ''probably the best I've seen'', before adding he was joking. Initially, it was difficult to tell whether he was serious or not, such was Milford's dominance.
Canberra's win was soured by a torn hamstring to teenage centre Brenko Lee, who is set to miss two to four games.
Gold Coast full-back William Zillman suffered a similar injury and could face time on the sidelines.
The Titans got back into the match with a try to Kevin Gordon midway through the second half, but on the back of a dominant display by their forwards, Canberra scored three tries to put the match to bed.
CANBERRA RAIDERS 36 (Anthony Milford 2, Brenko Lee, Jarrod Croker, Shaun Fensom, Josh McCrone tries; Croker six goals) bt GOLD COAST TITANS 20 (Kalifa Faifai Loa 2, James Roberts, Kevin Gordon tries; Gordon 2 goals) at Cbus Super Stadium on Sunday. Crowd: 10,925. Referees: Jared Maxwell and David Munro.
Jon Tuxworth is a sports reporter at The Canberra Times.
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Emerging Markets August Wrap-Up: Korean IT, China, Brazil Materials Gainers
J.P. Morgan provided us with August emerging markets performance data.
Not surprisingly, in terms of equity, Indonesia (-18%) was the worst performer, followed by Turkey (-13%), the Philippines (-12%), Thailand (-11%) and India (-11%). Korea (+4%), Czech Republic (+3%) and China (+2%) were the best performers.
Indian rupee (-9.1%), Indonesian rupiah (-9%), and Turkish lira (-5.1%) were the worst performers.
More interesting is the country-sector performance. In August, the best performing country sectors were Korean IT, Chinese materials and Brazilian materials. Indian financials, Turkish financials and Indian energy were the worst performers.
Korean IT gained because of better prospect for the global recovery and more exports for the Korean technology companies.
Materials were the most underweight sector this year. That Chinese and Brazilian materials were making gains means the sentiments towards this highly cyclical sector was improving, again, on the back of better global economic outlook.
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During our major renovation, which will result in 60% more space when we open in 2014, we are offering programs throughout NYC and across the nation, including hosting an average of 30 education programs per month at the Cooper Hewitt Design Center in Harlem. Located at 111 Central Park North, the Center serves over 1,000 community members each month—many of them local families new to Cooper Hewitt and design.
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Preparedness is important for people of any age experiencing health or functional challenges that make them increasingly vulnerable during an emergency. Whether a crisis situation (e.g., tornado) or a probable event (e.g., occasional power outage), "Be Prepared" is more than a Boy Scout motto. Being prepared and knowing what to do in an emergency is essential for people?s safety and well-being.
Do you remember the heat wave in the summer of 1995 when over 700 Chicagoans died over a one-week period? According to an article in USA Today, many of the deaths could have been prevented. At the time, Chicago did not have an extensive disaster preparedness plan for heat emergencies similar to the plans in place for severe weather events like blizzards and floods.
For whatever reasons, people may put off thinking about or planning for what to do in an emergency until faced with such a situation, thus increasing the risk for negative outcomes. Even when prepared for an emergency situation, the event itself causes stress that may interfere with thinking, judgment and decision making.
Just imagine the level of anxiety that emergency situations may create for an older person living alone with health problems such as arthritis, chronic heart disease or having limited mobility and needing an assistive device. Having plans for what to do in an emergency builds the confidence many older adults need to cope and to maintain their safety and security despite an unpredictable event.
Testifying before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, the Director for Coordinating the Office for Terrorism Preparedness and
Emergency Response emphasized the need for older adults to "be prepared" and commented on the role of professionals: "health care and service providers should include preparedness education in conjunction with routine care and self-management education for older adults and other persons with chronic disease and their families and caregivers."
Part of the responsibility of health care and social services professionals is to routinely discuss what to do in a medical emergency. During this discussion include assessment questions focused on whether the older person has a plan for environmental emergencies, as well. The following questions reflect emergencies readiness tips developed by the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services 4 and can assist professionals, older adults and their family members in developing a personal emergency preparedness plan.
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If this brief assessment indicates that an older adult has not considered emergency preparedness and does not have a plan in place, it is essential to provide information and resources focused on safety and security during emergencies. Many resources are available to assist people in developing a personalized plan for emergencies. The Administration on Aging recommends that all older adults and family caregivers have a readiness plan that includes:
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purple planet wrote: - i know there are monks who never sleep
when you meditate a lot you dont feel sleepiy at all
do you know this for a fact?
by never sleep i assume you mean for a period of years.....
i think you'll find if you meditate for many hours of the day though you may not sleep at night, you will certainly begin to feel sleepy at times during meditation
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I think its possible the question is - is it healthy ?
Probably not. But why make the attempt in the first place? What is the benefit that you anticipate?
thought of this - but if its so easy for me (and im sure others cause im a sleepy kind of person and also unlike it might seem from this thread a beginner ) than it might be a too loose vina stringIt seems like an overly-taut vina string.
purple planet wrote:my question is : "is it healthy not to sleep and just meditate ? "
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A student who sat a three-month retreat that I taught was an over-zealous young karate student seeking the extremes of spiritual intensity. Rather than follow the instructions, he decided to get enlightened as quickly as possible in his own way. In the middle of the retreat he sat down and vowed to himself not to move for an entire day and night. After the first few hours he began to sit through sensations of fire and intense pain. He sat all afternoon, all night, and all the next morning. If one does this long enough, the pain and fire become so powerful that consciousness becomes disassociated and catapulted out of the body. There are many more gentle ways to have out-of-the-body experiences, but this happened to him very abruptly. As he continued to sit he began to experience all sorts of altered states. When he got up after twenty-four hours, he was filled with explosive energy. He strode into the middle of the dining hall filled with one hundred silent retreatants and began to yell and practice his karate manoeuvres at triple speed. The whole room was bursting with his energy, and in the silence he could feel the fear that arose in many people around him, who were very sensitive after two months of silence. He made sounds with the movement, and his energy appeared to have flooded his third and sixth chakras. Then he said, "When I look at each of you, I see behind you a whole trail of bodies showing your past lives." He was living in a very different state of consciousness, which he had attained through pushing his body to such a limit. But he could not sit still or focus for a moment. Instead, he was very fearful and agitated, moving in a wild and manic state, as if he had temporarily gone crazy.
What did we do with him? Since he was an athlete, we started him jogging. We got him to run ten miles in the morning and afternoon. We changed his diet. While everyone else was eating vegetarian food, we put him on meat loaf and hamburgers. We made him take frequent hot baths and showers. We had him work and dig up a good part of the garden. And we kept at least one person with him all the time. After about three days he was able to sleep again. Then we started him off meditating slowly and carefully again. While his experiences may have been valid spiritual and psychic openings, they were not brought about in a natural or balanced way, and there was no way he could integrate them.
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The Effect of Early Total Thyroidectomy in the Course of Graves' Orbitopathy
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The relationship between the method of the treatment of hyperthyroidism due to Graves' disease and the course of Graves' ophthalmopathy is debated. The investigators aimed to compare the results of total thyroidectomy done in 6 months following the appearance of the symptoms of ophthalmopathy and the antithyroid drug therapy in patients with moderate to severe Graves' ophthalmopathy.
The inclusion criteria: 1)Hyperthyroidism and moderate to severe Graves' ophthalmopathy within 6 months, 2)Thyroid volumes greater than or equal to 15 mL in thyroid ultrasonography, 3)Patients taking no treatment except local medications for Graves' ophthalmopathy, 4)Clinical activity score of 3/7 or more, proptosis greater than or equal to 21 mm in one eye or 2 mm difference between two eyes, presence of diplopia, the opening of the eye lid greater than or equal to 9 mm.
All patients will be treated with antithyroid drug until TSH levels of the patients are between 0.4-1. During this period all the patients will take pulse methyl prednisolone treatment of a total dose of 4.5 gr. After pulse steroid treatment the patients will be randomised to two groups: one group will be sent to surgery for total thyroidectomy, and their TSH levels will be kept between 0.4-1 with levothyroxine treatment; the other group will be followed under antithyroid drug treatment and their TSH levels will be kept between 0.4-1 also.
The smoking habits will be asked. Serum TSH, fT4 levels, Hertelmeter and eye lid opening measurements, clinical activity scores, diplopia will be evaluated monthly; TSH receptor antibody, anti-thyroid peroxidase and anti-thyroglobulin levels will be measured in 3 months intervals for a period of 12 months.
|Graves' Ophthalmopathy
|Procedure: Total Thyroidectomy Drug: Propylthiouracil
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Improvement in the proptosis and activity of Graves' ophthalmopathy [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2009
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|August 2010
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Active Comparator: Total thyroidectomy
Procedure: Total Thyroidectomy
Total thyroidectomy within 6 months after the appearance of the symptoms of ophthalmopathy
|Active Comparator: Anti-thyroid drug
Drug: Propylthiouracil
150-600 mg in two-three divided doses
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 75 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Hyperthyroidism and moderate to severe Graves' ophthalmopathy within 6 months,
- Thyroid volumes greater than or equal to 15 mL in thyroid ultrasonography,
- Patients taking no treatment except local medications for Graves' ophthalmopathy,
- Clinical activity score of 3/7 or more, proptosis greater than or equal to 21 mm in one eye or 2 mm difference between two eyes, presence of diplopia, the opening of the eye lid greater than or equal to 9 mm.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients taking treatment other than local medications for Graves' ophthalmopathy (eg: steroid treatment)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01056419
|Contact: Özgür Demir, M.D.
|Ankara University, Medical School, Ibni Sina Hospital, Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases Department
|Ankara, Turkey, 06100
|Contact: Özgür Demir, M.D. 00903125082100 firstname.lastname@example.com
|Principal Investigator: Özgür Demir, M.D.
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|Ankara University, Medical School
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01056419 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|January 25, 2010
|Last Updated:
|January 25, 2010
Keywords provided by Ankara University:
Graves' ophthalmopathy
Total thyroidectomy
Anti-thyroid drug treatment
Clinical activity score
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Eye Diseases
Graves Ophthalmopathy
Eye Diseases, Hereditary
Graves Disease
Orbital Diseases
Thyroid Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Antithyroid Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Hormone Antagonists
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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A bipartisan group of senators has outlined an immigration overhaul that would include a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants. A similar bill was signed into law in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, a hero to many in the conservative movement.
With much of the opposition to the new proposal likely to come from the right, you may hear one of these five quotes from Reagan to make the case for changing immigration law, especially given President Barack Obama's penchant for quoting him.
'The illegal alien fuss'
In a Nov. 29, 1977, radio address, Reagan criticized the U.S. Department of Labor for requiring apple growers in New England to hire Americans, a policy it dropped when not enough could be found to do the work.
"When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But it makes one wonder about the illegal alien fuss. Are great numbers of our unemployed really victims of the illegal alien invasion or are those illegal tourists actually doing work our own people won't do? One thing is certain in this hungry world; no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the field for lack of harvesters."
'Put down roots'
In an Oct. 21, 1984, debate with Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale, Reagan endorsed a comprehensive immigration overhaul that Congress was debating.
"I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally."
'The right to legally live here'
In a July 2, 1984, interview with San Antonio TV reporters, Reagan again endorsed the immigration overhaul.
"We want to be very careful that while we have safeguards to prevent employers from hiring the undocumented workers, that at the same time there is no discrimination against those who will be legalized under this bill, those who may still be undocumented but who've lived for a long period of time, put down roots in our society. We want to give them the right to legally live here and those who, as you say, are citizens."
'Protected and legitimized'
In a Nov. 13, 1985, interview with the Spanish International Network, Reagan called for a path to permanent residency for undocumented immigrants to be added to the immigration overhaul being considered in Congress.
"For one, we very much need in any immigration bill -- we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill."
'Step into the sunlight'
On Nov. 6, 1986, Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which allowed undocumented immigrants to become citizens if they paid a fine and back taxes and admitted guilt. From his signing statement that day:
"We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world who seek legally to come to America. The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans."


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AMID discussions of a Capitol Hill compromise to avoid middle-class tax hikes and automatic cuts to domestic and defense spending, U.S. Rep. Christopher Gibson says he does not plan to re-sign a pledge championed by conservative anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist
Gibson, R-Kinderhook, signed the pledge developed by Norquist, the president� of Americans for Tax Reform, as the representative in New York's current 20th Congressional District but said he will not sign it again as the representative of the new 19th Congressional District when he starts a new term in January. Many other Republican members of Congress also are backing away from the pledge as a budget deal with Democrats is sought.
Gibson, who's finishing his first two-year term in the House, said he initially signed the pledge to show his constituents he is pro-growth but that he believes that no longer is necessary because he now has a record people can evaluate.
He noted that his record includes A ratings from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Businesses.
The stage was set for the automatic spending cuts and tax hikes -- the so-called "fiscal cliff" -- when� President Barack Obama and Congress agreed in the summer of 2011 to the Budget Control Act, a compromise to resolve the impasse over raising the nation's debt ceiling. Had the ceiling not been raised,� the U.S. government would have defaulted on its debt.
Under the agreement, cuts to most federal programs, including education, will take effect automatically on Jan. 1 if there is no new deal beforehand between the president, a Democrat, and Congress, which has Republican control in the House and a Democratic majority in the Senate that is not filibuster-proof.
At the same time, lower income tax rates that have been in effect since George W. Bush's presidency would expire.
Gibson said in an interview last week that he and a group of other lawmakers from both parties continue to hold meetings to try to increase support for a version of the Cooper-LaTourette budget proposal, named for Reps. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., and Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, which Gibson supported when it only drew 38 votes earlier this year.
The congressman described the 10-year spending plan as being "75 percent the same as" the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan. When Cooper-LaTourette was proposed, it was attacked by conservative groups as a tax increase and blasted by the left as a more right-wing version of the Simpson-Bowles plan.
Gibson said the group has been getting more support but has a way to go to get the kind of traction it needs.
The federal government is taking in about $2.5 trillion in revenue each year through the current U.S. tax code and allows $1.3 trillion to be deducted from taxes, Gibson said. A key part of the Cooper-LaTourette proposal, he said, is lowering tax rates for all earners and eliminating deductions -- moves that would increase the government's total revenue while putting more money in the pockets of consumers and small businesses.
The congressman described the plan as fiscally responsible. With a long-term fix in place, he said, businesses will be more willing to spend money they have been holding back because of uncertainty over taxes.
Gibson said he would listen to other proposals to solve the impasse in Washington, but he would not comment on whether he would consider rolling back the Bush-era tax cuts for people making more than $250,000 per year. He said he wants to wait and see what comes forward.
Gibson's current congressional district stretches from Northern Dutchess to the Adirondacks. Come January, Gibson will represent a new district comprising� all of Ulster, Greene and Columbia counties, part of Dutchess County and some or all of seven other counties.
Gibson defeated Stone Ridge Democrat Julian Schreibman in the Nov. 6 election.


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Patients who are admitted to the outpatient pulmonology department by a general practitioner or specialist with a chest X-ray suspicious for lung cancer with an age between 18 and 80 years are suitable for participation. The X-ray and referral are studied by a chest physician (by phone or fax ). Selected patients are invited to enter the study after answering a questionnaire by phone (p. 31). The questionnaire screens patients' interest, co-morbidity and medication use. Informed consent forms, patient information forms and a time table for the diagnostic day are provided by mail or E-mail in cases where time gets short. Waiting time to enter the study will be no longer than one week.
Hundred patients will be recruited by means of informed consent. Patients will be admitted at the pulmonary ward for the study day and will be accompanied by nurses. All patients will get PET-CT scanning in the morning of the study day. Depending on the location of lesions seen on PET-CT, further invasive diagnostic procedures will be planned for the afternoon.
Mediastinal and adjacent structures will be analysed with EUS-FNA. Mediastinal staging will be done with bronchoscopy alone for central located tumors, peripherally located lesions will be analysed with EUS-FNA or bronchoscopy.
The percentage of patients in which this diagnostic track leads to a diagnosis and tumor stage in one day will be determined. The number of tests and diagnostic procedures needed to obtain a diagnosis, including tumor stage (especially final stage NSCLC) and function tests, will be compared with a historical matched study group. This historical study group is chosen from an era before the availability of integrated PET-CT and ultrasound guided endoscopic tools and meets the same inclusion and exclusion criteria as the patients in this study. The timelines from initial chest X-ray to diagnostic day to informing the patient to start of treatment will be determined. These figures will be compared with the historical study group.
|Lung Cancer
|Procedure: fast track diagnosis Procedure: conventional diagnosis
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|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|A Prospective, Open, Single Center, Study of One-day Diagnostic Track for Lung Cancer Suspects From Chest X-ray Using PET-CT and Subsequent Multiple Endoscopic Investigations. (Including Bronchoscopy, EUS-FNA)
- Number of patients that will have a definitive diagnosis and final stage NSCLC in one day [ Time Frame: 1 day ]
- Number of tests and procedures that have been performed. Patient satisfaction with the one-day procedure. Sensitivity of EUS-FNA and EBUS-TBNA when immunohistochemical analysis is added to investigate false negative procedures. [ Time Frame: 2 years ]
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|September 2006
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|January 2010
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Fast-track diagnosis
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fast-track diagnosis, PET-CT, bronchoscopyProcedure: conventional diagnosis
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|18 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
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- patients with a suspicion of lung cancer on chest X-ray
- age between 18-85 years
- informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- comorbidity (alcoholabuse, drugsabuse and limiting psychiatric disease)
- non-compliance
- previous diagnostic tests for the suspicious X-ray (endoscopy, CT)
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Keywords provided by Jan W.K. van den Berg, Isala Klinieken:
fast-track diagnosis
endoscopic techniques
lung cancer
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lung Neoplasms
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
Thoracic Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Lung Diseases
Respiratory Tract Diseases
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Season 2 just started last week, ep 2 came on yesterday. Anybody a fan of this show?
"Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir."
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50 Things You See at Ultra Music Festival
Photo by George Martinez 50. Girlfriendly PDA. (That's for the "L" in PLUR.)
If you've got ears, Ultra Music Festival is a pretty fun time.
But if you've also got eyes, it's amaaaaaaaaazing.
Basically, this sprawling EDM fest is a phantasmagoric fun parade starring famous people, nearly naked ladies, the beefiest of beefcakes, the kandiest of ravers, and the most ridiculously costumed of party people -- all spazzing out to uhntz-uhntz amid an LED landscape that's exploding with fireworks, lasers, pyro, kryo, and confetti.
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Look, gawk, or leer... Here are 50 things you see at Ultra Music Festival.
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49. A Guy With a Vagina in the Middle of His Chest
Accompanied by a female friend with a deep interest in this curious phenomenon.
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48. A Riff Raff Head on Lady Legs
Anyone else have recurring sweaty nightmares about exactly this thing?
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47. Bad Girls With Marijuana Boobs and "Fuck Me" Eyes
Congrats on some impressive glitter and rhinestone work. Ditto on the handpainted sunglasses.
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46. A Young Lady "Expressing Herself" Atop Her Boyfriends' Shoulders
But, uh, which way is he facing?
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45. Ultra Hairdos
This kind of 'do takes dedication. Look at the Manic Panic-ed mini-mohawk. And the intricate razor work on that logo. We're too lazy to even get a regular haircut? Props, raver kid.
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44. Ultra Forehead Tattoos
At least it's temporary. But when these things become permanent, ink-and-needle jobs, we just might begin to believe the doomsayers screaming at the UMF gates.
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43. Ultra Boob Decals
Nice work, miss, adorning your chest area without resorting to nipple pasties.
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42. Ultra Hand Signs
Bro ... Don't let any fans of The U see you doin' that shit while strolling through downtown Miami.
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42. Ultra Kandi Masks
Looks good. But can you eat it?
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40. Molly
They finally found her. But what now?
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39. ¡Luchador Ravero!
No, hermano ... We don't wanna wrestle.
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38. Pills, Pills, Pills
But only on tank tops. Just say no.
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37. The Long-Sought Five-Armed Kandi Monster
Oh, wait ... Is that just three bead-bedecked ravers mashed into a knot of flailing limbs? Fooled again.
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36. Human Tubing, Raver Rafting
Where there is no water, ride the rave.
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35. Dangerous Undergarments
Don't trip and fall face-first into those things. You might scratch a cornea.
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34. Personalized Undergarments
Yes, those are their real names. Checked their driver's licenses.
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33. Electrical Tape Undergarments
Run outta rave bottoms? Just tape 'em on!
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32. Children's Undergarments
Way to raid your little brother's panty drawer, bro.
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31. Undergarments From the Future
In 2069, the platinum standard for bustier comfort will be freezing nipples.
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30. Skrillex Levitating!
Dubstep is magic.
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29. OMG, a Fucking Tiger!
OK. Yeah. So maybe that's a dog.
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28. Panicked Raver Chick
Relax ... It's a dog.
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27. A Rainbow Come to Life
He was born of light and mist. And now he's descended to Earth to dance.
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26. A Kangaroo Who's Traveled All the Way from Australia to Rave
How do you smuggle a full-grown marsupial aboard a transglobal commercial airliner? And keep it hidden for 18 hours?
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25. Poultry as Hats
That chicken looks superuncomfortable, bro.
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24. Shells as Bras
Nature's solution for party-time breast support.
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23. Stickers as Shirts
Because if your nipples aren't showing, then you aren't topless.
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22. Flags as Blankies
Sweet dreams, you sleepy Danish raver.
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21. Paper Bags as Masks
Because they breathe better than plastic bags.
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20. Superhero Superfans
Comic-Con is that way, bros.
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19. Six Guy Fawkeses, All Certified Aerobics Instructors
Gunpowder, good times, and dancercise!
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18. The Royal Family
Buckingham Palace is that way, bros.
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17. Steve Irwin Impersonators' Annual Memorial EDM Convention
R.I.P. Crocodile Hunter. A "Krikey!" in your honor.
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16. Hair Metal Tribute Performers
The blowdryer's that way, bros.
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15. Star-Spangled Speedos
The most patriotic way to stash your junk.
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14. Star-Spangled Bikinis
Oh, say can you C cup ...
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13. Star-Spangled Kandi
Fact: Both George Dubs and Tommie Jefferson wore one just like it. A grand American tradition.
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12. Star-Spangled Capes
For when you're feeling like a human flagpole.
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11. Star-Spangled Overalls
With nothing underneath. Except a star-spangled speedo.
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10. Hand Hearts
Raver charades ... The Asian cutie is flashing peace. The daisy girl represents love. The whole crowd is a symbol of unity. And the smiles are an expression of respect.
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9. More Hand Hearts
Two hands, one heart, and a gnarly beard.
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8. Even More Hand Hearts
Two hands, one heart, and a couple of nose rings.
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7. Too Many Hand Hearts
OK, guys. Can we give it a rest, please?
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6. Sarcastic Hand Hearts
Oh, touché.
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5. Afrojack Enjoying an Epic Moment
This is how those Dutch DJs build all that upper-body strength.
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4. Incredibly Tall Guy Enjoying an Epic Moment
Our mistake ... He's standing on something.
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3. Hardwell Enjoying an Epic Moment
Huh? What? How? Oh ... No, bro. Not raining.
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2. Yet another Guy Enjoying an Epic Moment
Oh, we should turn around? They're throwing peanuts from the stage?
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1. The End
Seriously ... You can put your arms down now.
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The proposals, developed in conjunction with Colorado-based Clarion Associates as part of a $1.4 million city-county initiative, would also reduce the speed at which individual "metes and bounds" parcels in rural areas are developed and impose new guidelines to ensure developers complete subdivisions as promised.
Currently, public hearings are required not only for proposed changes to the zoning that determines how land can be used but also on plans for how specific projects will look – a process that can take months and produce added cost and uncertainty.
Under the new proposal, a series of "permitted uses" would be established in agricultural, residential and other zoning categories, meaning such uses would be permitted without a public hearing if they followed guidelines for design, landscaping and other factors. Hearings would still be required for changes in zoning or when seeking a waiver from those guidelines, Bowman said.
Bowman said she hopes neighborhood associations would work with her department to keep residents informed of projects that do not require a hearing.
The proposals would also continue to restrict "metes and bounds" residential development, which was the object of the 2007 proposal that led to the so-called "minor plat" ordinance.
Alarmed that "metes and bounds" projects had resulted in the development of 18,000 acres in the previous 11 years with little oversight from planners, the ordinance allowed as many as six lots to be developed as a "minor plat" subject to fewer regulations than traditional subdivisions. At the same time, it slowed the degree to which large tracts of land could be broken up for development as individual residential lots.
Under the proposal, however, a parcel of less than 20 acres could be separated from a larger tract once every 36 months, up from the current 12-month waiting period.
Don Elliott, Clarion director, said slowing metes-and-bounds growth is important because scattered homes can impede planned developments, driving up the cost of public services. Clarion, which is being paid about $248,000 for its services, as been involved in development of about 130 development codes nationwide.
The guidelines would also address developers' failure to complete streets, sidewalks and other features of residential areas in a timely manner. In 2009, for example, developers of at least 35 projects had missed the 18-month completion deadline.
The proposal would require developers to install required improvements before permits are issued, until 60 percent of lots are developed. After that, all remaining infrastructure must be completed before additional permits are issued or the developer could post a bond that could pay for the improvements if necessary.
"We think this is pro-development because it does not require a bond (up front)," Elliott said.
This week's meetings, including a public hearing Wednesday evening, could yield suggestions that result in changes to the proposals, which will also eliminate differences between city and county ordinances when possible. A final proposal could be complete by June.
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If you goWhat: public meeting on proposed development changes
When: 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Citizens Square, Room 35, 200 E. Berry St.
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This sort of ties in with my feelings on Hill. I don't blame him for being who he is, but I will criticize the team if/when I feel they try to have him do things he's not capable of doing. He's not really a point guard, so don't expect him to play like one! He's a combo guard playing at the 1 because that's just how we've elected to roll. That has obvious weaknesses like tonight, but on the flip side it also has its advantages, which is why it's being done this way. The team just needs to do a better job of using the pieces correctly and not putting Hill in a position to fail.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Now, that doesn't mean Hill is blameless, either, but in cases like tonight I feel like it's at least as much coaching as it is Hill with regards to what he was or wasn't doing out there. Against Miami, you have to treat Hill like a shooting guard and let Lance/Paul/David handle the ball.


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"Looking at a visible object, a meditator just sees it and just feels that he sees it, without conceptualising it. With this, suffering ceases. One who practises in this way is said to be near to nibbāna."
"A multitude of passions such as covetousness and rage, springing from form, torments one who takes a firm hold of it, with the result that his mind becomes burdened with vexation. Therefore, nibbāna remains remote from one who would rather carry the burden of suffering than practise meditation."
porpoise wrote:The quote below from the Bahiya Sutta below has become quite fashionable, but is it describing a specific practice? How exactly does one train to get rid of the you?
"Then, Bāhiya, you should train yourself thus: In reference to the seen, there will be only the seen. In reference to the heard, only the heard. In reference to the sensed, only the sensed. In reference to the cognized, only the cognized. That is how you should train yourself. When for you there will be only the seen in reference to the seen, only the heard in reference to the heard, only the sensed in reference to the sensed, only the cognized in reference to the cognized, then, Bāhiya, there is no you in connection with that. When there is no you in connection with that, there is no you there. When there is no you there, you are neither here nor yonder nor between the two. This, just this, is the end of stress."
his instruction to Bæhiya bears a close relation to the Kælakæræma Sutta, A 4.24, (at §6.8) and is well worth contemplating in connection with that teaching. In addition this discourse to Bæhiya, particularly in its references to non-locality, is comparable to Ud 8.1 (at §9.2), while it also has resonances with the brief comment made by Ajahn Mahæ Boowa, included at §9.1. This abandonment of subject/object dualities is largely contingent upon the correct apprehension of the perceptual process, and thus the breaking down of the apparent inside/outside dichotomy of the observer and the observed.
Where do earth, water, fire and air no footing find? Where are long and short, small and great, fair and foul – Where are "name and form" wholly destroyed?'
"And the answer is:
"Where consciousness is signless, boundless, all-luminous, That's where earth, water, fire and air find no footing, There both long and short, small and great, fair and foul – There 'name and form' are wholly destroyed.
With the cessation of consciousness this is all destroyed."
'Consciousness which is non-manifestative, endless, lustrous on all sides, Here it is that earth and water, fire and wind, no footing find. Here again are long and short, subtle and gross, pleasant and unpleasant
Name and form, all cut off without exceptions.
When consciousness comes to cease, these are held in check herein'(nanananda trans).
...there are two semantic points which are important to understand, in order to appreciate these verses better. Firstly 'name' and 'form': these are næma-rþpa in the Pali – they are two very common terms and, along with the way they have been translated here, they were used by the Buddha equally to refer to mentality and materiality respectively.
There is no one correct version of what næma-rþpa means and often the most accurate interpretation involves the broad spread of meanings – therefore one will find numerous translations that use mind-and-body, materiality-mentality, name-and-form: all are correct in their own way.
Bæhiya (see §3.6), in Prof. Rhys Davids' translation of the Døgha Nikæya, he quotes Neumann's rendering of næma and rþpa as 'subject and object.' This is a helpful perspective since, for some, the 'cessation of consciousness' or 'the destruction of mind and body' might seem like depressing or nihilistic phrases, whereas 'the dissolution of subject/object dualities' and the freedom ensuing from that, sounds considerably more appealing. In this light it's also worthy of note that the tangible qualities of the mind where no footing can be found for everyday dualisms include 'radiance' and 'limitlessness' – hardly uninviting qualities either.
The second point is the use of the word 'nirodha.' In the above-quoted sutta the verb variously translated as 'destroyed,' 'cut off' and 'held in check' is uparujjhati, which is virtually identical in meaning to nirujjhati, the verb derived from 'nirodha.' Customarily it is translated as 'cessation' as in dukkha-nirodha, 'the cessation of suffering.' In the above translations it, and its derivations, have been variously rendered 'destroyed,' 'come to cease' but also 'held in check.' The Pali root of the word is -rud, which not only implies to end, stop or quench, but also to hold in check, as an impulsive and restless horse is reined in. Thus there is a breadth of meaning in these key terms, of the last two lines of the verses which end both §§8.2 & 8.3, that is easy to miss in the English. Perhaps the best way of paraphrasing them is to say that when the dualistic, discriminative process is checked then the 'thing-ness,' the solid externality of the world and the 'me-ness' of the mind are seen as essentially insubstantial. There is no footing for the apparent independent existence of mental or material objects or an independent subject.
As we cross the border into the realm of the Unconditioned (if such a metaphor is valid), there needs to be a relinquishing of such habitual concepts as self and time and place. The apprehension of Ultimate Truth (paramattha sacca) necessarily involves a radical letting go of all these familiar structures.
Here, as a present-day example and to illustrate the centrality of such reliquishment, is the insight which arose for Ajahn Mahæ Boowa in the period of intense practice immediately following Ajahn Mun's final passing away. It was this thought, which he describes as having arisen on its own (and more that it was heard rather than thought) which led to Ajahn Mahæ Boowa's full enlightenment shortly thereafter.
9.1) "If there is a point or a center of the knower anywhere, that is the essence of a level of being."
~ Ajahn Mahæ Boowa, 'Straight from the Heart,' p 171
Secondly, we can take up the Buddha's own words on the nature of Nibbæna or asa3khata-dhamma, the Unconditioned Reality.
9.2) "There is that sphere where there is no earth, no water, no fire nor wind; no sphere of infinity of space, of infinity of consciousness, of nothingness or even of neither-perception-nor- non-perception; there, there is neither this world nor the other world, neither moon nor sun; this sphere I call neither a coming nor a going nor a staying still, neither a dying nor a reappear- ance; it has no basis, no evolution and no support: this, just this, is the end of dukkha."
9.3) "There is the Unborn, Uncreated, Unconditioned and
Unformed. If there were not, there would be no escape discerned from that which is born, created, conditioned and formed. But, since there is this Unborn, Uncreated, Unconditioned and Unformed, escape is therefore discerned from that which is born, created, conditioned and formed."
~ Ud 8.3, Iti 43
6.8) At one time the Blessed One was staying at Sæketa, in Kælaka's monastery. There the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus thus: "Bhikkhus" – "Venerable sir," they replied. The Blessed One said this:
"Bhikkhus, in this world with its gods, Mæras and Brahmæs, among its population of recluses and brahmins, gods and humans – whatsoever is seen, heard, sensed, cognized, attained, sought after and pondered over by the mind – all that do I know... whatsoever is seen... pondered over by the mind – all that have I fully understood; all that is known to the Tathægata, but the Tathægata has not taken his stand upon it.
"If I were to say: 'Whatsoever in the world... all that I do not know' – that would be a falsehood in me. If I were to say: 'I both know it and know it not' – that would be a falsehood in me. If I were to say: 'I neither know it nor know it not' – it would be a fault in me.
"Thus, bhikkhus, the Tathægata does not conceive of a visible thing as apart from sight; he does not conceive of an unseen; he does not conceive of a 'thing-to-be-seen'; he does not conceive about a seer. He does not conceive of an audible... a thing to be sensed ... a cognizable thing as apart from cognition; he does not conceive of an uncognized; he does not conceive of a 'thing- worth-cognizing'; he does not conceive about one who cognizes. "Thus, bhikkhus, the Tathægata being Suchlike (tædi) in regard to all phenomena seen, heard, sensed and cognized, is Thus. Moreover, there is none other greater or more excellent than one who is Thus, I declare.
Whatever's seen, heard, sensed or clung to, is known as truth by other folk;
Amidst those who're entrenched in views, one Thus holds none as true or false.
The barb which hooks, impales the world, has been discerned well in advance:
'I know, I see, this is the truth,'
Tathægatas do not cling thus."
The terms 'thing-worth-seeing, -hearing, -cognizing etc.' are pointing to the habit we have of imputing inherent value or substance to perceptions, thoughts and emotions. Without such imputation they do not possess any such solidity or worth.
Tradition has it that five hundred of those listening attained arahantship and there were five earthquakes during the course of the exposition. This short teaching also became of great significance in the centuries after the Buddha's time – it was used by the Elder Mahærakkhita, under the auspices of King Asoka's missionary endeavours, to instruct the Yonakas (Greeks) in their home country.
All the various passages quoted so far in this chapter describe the nature of Atammayatæ and its related qualities but perhaps the questions remain: how is this best
to be realized? And how can this depth of insight be developed? A text that points directly to this issue, and one of the most useful meditation teachings in the entire Pali Canon, is to be found in the Madhupi1⁄4ðika Sutta; there, Ven. Mahæ-Kaccæna says:
6.9) "Dependent on the eye and forms, eye-consciousness arises. The meeting of the three is sense-contact. With sense- contact as condition there is feeling. What one feels, that one perceives. What one perceives, that one thinks about. What one thinks about, that one mentally proliferates. With such concept- ual proliferation (papañca) as the source, the heart is beset by mental perceptions and notions characterized by the prolific tendency with respect to past, future and present forms cognizable through the eye. [So too with ear, nose, tongue, body and mind.]"
The solution to this cascade of trouble is that:
"[I]f nothing is found there to delight in, welcome, and hold to, this is the end of the underlying tendencies to lust, aversion, views, doubt, conceit, desire for being and ignorance [the seven anusaya]. This is the end of resorting to weapons, quarrels, brawls, disputes, recrimination, malice and false speech; here these harmful, unwholesome states cease without remainder." ~ M 18.16-19, (abridged)
This is to say that if, with mindfulness and wisdom, the tendency to 'go out' into perceptions, thoughts and emotions is restrained, and one just allows seeing to be seeing, hearing to be hearing etc., the whole papañca-drama does not get launched in the first place. The heart then rests at ease, open and clear; all perceptions conventionally labelled as 'myself' or 'the world' are seen as transparent, if convenient, fictions.
When there is insufficient mindfulness and wisdom, the mind 'goes out' and attaches to its perceptions and moods, the result of which is the experience of 'me being pressured by life.' Both an apparently solid self and a solid world have been unconsciously created, and the friction between the two is the dukkha that we find ourselves running from so regularly and ineffectively. Trying to find a 'me' without a world that burdens it is like trying to run away from our own shadow;
no matter how hard we run, the effort is bound to fail as the one form generates the other.
The aim of all these teachings on Atammayatæ is to show us that the dualities of subject and object ('me and the world'), do not have to be brought into being at all. And when the heart is restrained from 'going out,' and awakens to its fundamental nature, a bright and joyful peace is what remains. This is the peace of Nibbæna...
SarathW wrote:Ven Pesala
I have two questions for you.
a) is Malukayaputta Sutta from Sutta Piaka
b) In the link you forwarded I found topics such as The stream of Eye Consiousness etc. Is that from Abhidamma Pitaka?
"Looking at a visible object, a meditator just sees it and just feels that he sees it, without conceptualising it. With this, suffering ceases. One who practises in this way is said to be near to nibbāna."
Direct experience of what? If "bare awareness" is full of ignorance and confusion, it is not bare awareness.Cassandra wrote:"Looking at a visible object, a meditator just sees it and just feels that he sees it, without conceptualising it. With this, suffering ceases. One who practises in this way is said to be near to nibbāna."
Isn't nibbana supposed to be arising with wisdom and direct experience rather than bare awareness? The way I see it, bare awareness can be full of ignorance and confusion rather than clear comprehension.
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Many games take up the entire screen, and when they start up there is often an unsightly few seconds in which the window creation, video mode changes and so forth cause the screen to flicker, the desktop to wink in and out of existence, and so forth. This code sample shows how to make the desktop smoothly fade to black when an application starts, allowing the messy details of graphics initialization to be hidden.
The demo operates by creating a borderless, captionless popup window covering the entire screen. Initially, this window is transparent because it does not paint itself. Then an OpenGL context is created that has no back buffer, so all draw calls operate directly on the displayed image. Each frame, a full-screen alpha-blended rectangle is drawn, fading the image gradually toward black. Any color (or texture) could be chosen, but black is probably the best in most cases. After the fadeout is complete, the application can switch video modes and create its main window, and then destroy the fadeout window. The demo program creates a new OpenGL context and renders a spinning cube until you press Escape.
The core of the effect is in this message handler for the fadeout window:
LRESULT CALLBACK FadeoutWndProc (HWND hWnd, UINT message,
WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
static int frames = 0;
static DWORD nextFrameTime;
switch (message)
case WM_CREATE:
// Set up a basic OpenGL environment for the fadeout, with no
// backbuffer, zbuffer, stencil, or destination-alpha
g_pRenderEnvironment = CreateOpenGLEnvironment(hWnd, false, false,
false, false);
if (!g_pRenderEnvironment)
MessageBox(hWnd, L"Could not set up OpenGL!",
L"Error", MB_ICONEXCLAMATION);
return 0;
// Setup OpenGL state
glBlendFunc(GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA, GL_SRC_ALPHA);
glOrtho(0, 1, 0, 1, -1, 1);
nextFrameTime = GetTickCount() + FADEOUT_TIME / 256;
return 0;
case WM_PAINT:
if (GetTickCount() > nextFrameTime)
nextFrameTime += FADEOUT_TIME / 256;
// Fade out the screen one more step
glColor4f(0, 0, 0, (float)(255 - frames) / (256 - frames));
glRectf(0, 0, 1, 1);
if (frames == 256)
// Finished fading out, so validate the window rectangle
// (so Windows stops sending us paint messages)
ValidateRect(hWnd, NULL);
// Get rid of the existing render environment, as we will
// be creating a new one for the main window
delete g_pRenderEnvironment;
// Create the main window before destroying the fadeout
// window, so as not to allow the desktop to visibly
// flicker between them
return 0;
return DefWindowProc(hWnd, message, wParam, lParam);
I have tried the program on an nVIDIA GeForce 6800 and on an ATI Radeon 9600, but I would love to hear if it works (or fails) on other cards.
The full source code and binary are available here, with the source distributed under the BSD license. The source also demonstrates some parts of a lightweight, extensible framework for graphics applications that I've been developing for an engine I'm working on.
Some improvements that could be made to the code: * Sometimes on ATI cards the taskbar isn't affected by the fadeout, though it disappears a few seconds after the main window is created. You might be able to fix this by making the fadeout window "topmost," though I haven't gotten around to trying it. * Some useful work, like loading resources, could be done in the background while the fadeout is occurring. Currently the program just enters a busy wait between frames: since the window is not validated, Windows spams us with WM_PAINT messages, which are ignored until it's time for the next fadeout frame. This could be done with a timer instead.
I like it, I like it a lot. Thanks for sharing this.
Works perfectly on a gf4 ti 4200.
Works great with a Mobile Intel 915GM Express on this laptop. Looks sexy, I like it! :yes:
Were transparent windows supported prior to Windows 2000/XP? I'm just wondering if this would fail on Windows 98, but that may not matter much anymore... :closedeye
It's only transparent in the sense that it fails to paint itself or establish a background brush, so I think it should still work on Win98. I know XP has some fancy features for alpha-blended windows and stuff, but I'm not using that
Great idea, works fine here too.
Still, there is a really akward color artifact visible. The colors don't fade to black linearly. It looks more like when you move your head in front of an old, low quality LCD screen.
I think this might look better if the number of fading frames was lower, so the integer math would get some more precission to play with.
very sexy. on my ati 9600 the taskbar remains visible indeed.
I really like this, nice work!
works great. only the always-on-top friend-icons from msgplus have some issue while blending..
haw about fading back once you quit your app?
Very nice!
I might use this in my programs in the future.
It works on my ATI Radeon 9200SE. Though I think I might have to reset my refresh rate now, I'm getting headaches now just looking at my screen (started the moment I pressed Escape).
But I don't think it's something to do with your program. Well, it might, since this only happens to some fullscreen programs.
awesome! I really like it, makes your spinning cube application look real polished
thanks for the tip
Really cool Reedbeta :yes:
Works fine on my gf7800gt (winxp sp2 - forceware 84.21) and on my X700pro (winxp sp2 - catalyst 6.3).
Hello Everyone,
Can I have a copy of the source code of this? I want to try it too. Please
The full source and binary for this are here. But it should be noted this doesn't work anymore on Vista/Win7, only in XP.
Ahhh.... Ok. Thank you for this. Ill just try it anyway...:)
That is a neat feature. I used to do that in the DOS days, fading out the text-mode palette before switching to ModeX! =)
Oh, but now I *need* to do that again, heheh. Thanks for bringing this again!


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WASHINGTON -- Nationals manager Davey Johnson announced Tuesday that left fielder Bryce Harper will not be fined nor suspended from Major League Baseball for arguing with third-base umpire John Hirschbeck on Sunday.
"That was good news," Johnson said. "[The ejection] turned out good, because I wanted to give [Harper] the day off. The umpire helped out there. [Harper] got a day off. With the day off [Monday], he had two days off, so he should be ready to go for quite a while."
Harper was ejected in the first inning after striking out against the Pirates in a 6-2 Nationals victory at PNC Park on Sunday afternoon.
With two outs, Harper worked the count to 2-2 against left-hander Wandy Rodriguez, who threw a curveball to Harper. It looked like Harper didn't swing at the pitch, but Hirschbeck ruled that he did, ending the inning. A few seconds later, Harper was ejected by Hirschbeck after throwing his arms up in the air. Harper then slammed his bat down and left the game without further incident.
Hirschbeck told MLB.com after the game that he felt Harper was showing him up and gave him three warnings to stop.
On Tuesday, Harper said he was happy that he would not face any punishment.
"That's good. I'm glad I don't have to pay $1,000," Harper said. "That another $1,000 in my pocket, so that's good. That's Major League Baseball's decision. I respect it, definitely. If I was to get fined, I would respect that, too."
Harper received a lot of attention for what happened Sunday, but he decided to not watch TV or read the papers on what was said about him.
"I didn't watch TV or anything," Harper said. "I really didn't follow up on that or really cared [to]. It's something that happened. It's in the past, it's a little step that I step over and start playing the ballgame."
Having two days off really helped Harper, who was dealing with a sore right side. Harper hurt the side last week while trying to catch a home run off the bat of Braves right-hander Tim Hudson.
Harper is currently 3-for-26 (.115) in his last eight games, and the injury has affected his swing, but he doesn't plan on taking another day off.
"I'm not going to give any excuses because my side hurts. I just try to go up there, do well, try to square things up and try to do the best that I can for my team," Harper said.
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Tribe rides Kluber's 10 K's to series win vs. KC
Homers by Santana, Gomes back righty, who fires 8 1/3 strong frames
CLEVELAND -- As Corey Kluber strolled back toward the Indians' dugout, he was greeted by a smattering of boos from the fans at Progressive Field. The crowd wanted to see Kluber finish what he had started, but manager Terry Francona made the tough decision to pull the right-hander with one out in the ninth.
"I don't blame them. If I was managing with my heart, I'd have left him in there, too," Francona said.
"I wanted him to stay out there," said Cody Allen, who recorded the final two outs for the save in Cleveland's 4-1 rubber-game win over the Royals on Sunday. "The guy's pitching phenomenal. Any time a guy gets the chance to throw a complete game, you want him to do it."
Kluber was nothing short of dominant, keeping Kansas City's lineup stifled to one run over 8 1/3 strong innings. The right-hander allowed just four hits and a walk while striking out 10 batters -- his fourth time with double-digit K's this year.
"Pounding the strike zone was number one," said Kluber, who took a loss against the Royals on June 10. "We went in on them a lot, because last time we faced them in Kansas City, they were diving out over the plate, kind of sitting on balls away from them. We wanted the approach to keep them more honest this time. It worked out."
The outing marked the seventh time this season that Kluber has registered at least eight strikeouts and one or fewer walks, which is the second-highest total for such a line in team history behind CC Sabathia, who pulled the feat nine times in 2007. Kluber owns a club-best 137 strikeouts on the year and has a sparkling 1.57 ERA over his last five starts.
Sunday's start, however, was simply one of a growing number of strong performances from Kluber, who has taken the step from capable starter to the most dependable option in the Tribe's rotation. Only twice this season has he surrendered more than three runs in a game, and the team has increasingly come to rely upon the 28-year-old's ability to pitch deep into ballgames.
"Maybe his demeanor belies the real fire that's in there," Francona said. "He gets after it, whether it's during the game or in his workouts or in the bullpen. He pays attention to detail and he really does it like you're supposed to. He really wants to be good."
Kluber was nearly flawless over the first four frames, retiring the first seven batters before Jarrod Dyson rapped out a one-out infield single. Kluber's only blemish was a fifth-inning solo shot by Mike Moustakas, who is hitting .345 with five homers against the Tribe this season.
"For whatever reason, he sees it really well off all our guys," Kluber said. "I was trying to make the same pitch I got him swinging at in the first at-bat. I just kind of left it over the plate too much."
Though Cleveland has typically struggled against left-handers this season, Sunday's lineup managed to get an early jump on Royals southpaw Danny Duffy, who was charged with four runs and a season-high 10 hits through six innings.
Carlos Santana hit a solo shot to lead off the second inning and Gomes followed suit with a two-run blast to put the Indians ahead, 3-0. Three frames later, Michael Brantley tacked on an insurance run with a single to give him two hits on the day -- his fourth multi-hit effort in five games.
"It was nice to have that lead," Francona said. "I thought Duffy had a really good fastball. Gomer took the swing, and Carlos did, so it gave us a little room. The way Klubes was pitching, maybe it felt like a little more than that."
Kluber may have surprised the outside observer with his remarkable breakout campaign. For his teammates, however, the success was almost to be expected after witnessing his dedication to the craft firsthand.
"Just watching him grow and blossom to the pitcher he is today, I only seem him getting better," Brantley said. "He has great movement on all his pitches and keeps the hitters off-balance. He attacks hitters so well and so smart, and cares and prepares so well for each game. He's going to be good for a long time to come."
At the very least, he makes Francona's job a little easier.
"It's sure nice to write his name in there," the skipper said.
Alec Shirkey is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Improved location has Minor optimistic
JUPITER, Fla. -- Mike Minor was cruising. Then he wasn't.
Minor held the Cardinals to one hit and one walk over the first four innings of Atlanta's 5-4 loss on Friday, but then saw the game get away from him in a four-run fifth. The first four batters of the inning reached base, and although some of the hits weren't crushed, it was not a good inning for the young lefty.
Overall, though, Minor considered the outing a success.
"I was locating a little bit better," Minor said.
Manager Fredi Gonzalez was actually somewhat pleased that Minor had the tough inning. There's value, he said, in working through something like that at this point in the spring. Minor finished with 88 pitches, 58 of the strikes.
"I think today is going to benefit him for the next one," Gonzalez said. "He got himself in a little trouble there in the fifth inning, and you've got to get through it. He'll be better off for it next time.
"You like to see some adversity in Spring Training. Because you're going to face that during the season. It could've been very easy for [pitching coach] Roger [McDowell] and I to take him out of the game, only go 45 pitches. But we needed to get his pitch count up and get him through those innings."
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