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BURNLEY'S unbeaten home record remained intact, thanks to Tom Heaton.
The Clarets' keeper has kept a personal best of 12 clean sheets in league and cup this season, but this could prove to be the most significant as the promotion race hots up.
Big stops from Kazenga LuaLua and Leonardo Ulloa in either half ensured Burnley remain the only team in the Championship not to lose on their own patch this season.
They might even have won it, but for Tomasz Kuszczak producing similar heroics in the opposite goalmouth, denying former Brighton loanee Sam Vokes a run of a goal in each of the last four games.
Vokes' streak might have been broken. But the gates to fortress Turf Moor remained firmly shut, as Heaton settled his own score.
Burnley's number one was controversially sent off in the first meeting between the two teams, at the Amex in August – the victim of a contentious second yellow card.
He didn't get to see out the game, or the following fixture, against Preston in the Capital One Cup.
There has not been much cause for the former Manchester United and Cardiff City keeper to be tested this season since arriving from Bristol City.
But he kept his wits about him enough to see out this game and set the side up for a tough trip to QPR.
Brighton arrived at Turf Moor boasting the meanest defence on the road.
And they showed why they have conceded only 10 on their travels this season by making the deadly strike duo of Vokes and Danny Ings marked men.
Not even Ashley Barnes could find a way to unlock the Seagulls' back line, despite having all the inside information.
It is just three weeks on Friday that the striker left them for a fresh start with the Clarets.
The 24-year-old said he wouldn't celebrate if he scored, but he might have felt differently had his acrobatic late effort gone in after coming off the bench for the last 15 minutes.
Brighton stifled further threats from midfield.
Dean Marney ran well with the ball but realising he was approaching a dead end made up of defenders he shifted play wide, while David Jones had to rely on set pieces for sights of goal for much of the game.
Scott Arfield put a determined shift in on the right, but struggled to make progress up against Stephen Ward, even when he had Kieran Trippier in support.
Michael Kightly came the closest for the Clarets in the first half, after latching on to Ings' clever backheel from his short corner and driving goalwards.
The winger, back in for the injured Keith Treacy, was denied by the post.
Vokes was the first to react to the rebound but had his shot blocked in the box.
Those two quickfire chances for the Clarets in the 18th minute raised their spirits.
But they had to survive a scare soon afterwards.
Despite a three-pronged attack Brighton had been kept fairly quiet.
A David Lopez shot had deflected off Jason Shackell, but other than that there had been little to concern the Clarets until midway through the first half.
Burnley were their own worst enemy at times, gifting possession away cheaply with unforced errors, but they were particularly dangerous mistakes to make when the ball went on the direction of Kazenga LuaLua, on the left of the lively front trio.
Michael Duff was doing his job against Leonardo Ulloa in stopping the ball reaching the targetman, but when his header dropped for LuaLua the winger darted across the edge of the box and broke clear of Shackell to fashion a one-on-one.
But there was no getting past Heaton, who had narrowed the angle and made himself big, and succeeded in blocking the shot behind with his thigh.
There was no immediate danger from the corner, but when the ball fell to LuaLua again Heaton was there to smother a low shot.
Burnley made a more promising start to the second half, with Vokes flicking a header wide from Jones' free kick from the right.
The striker appealed for a corner but the referee was not forthcoming, unlike the Clarets with more frequent attempts at goal, including an outrageous opening fashioned by Ings from another short corner.
The top scorer shuffled his feet and somehow squeezed a chipped ball between two defenders to the far post, where Duff stretched out a leg, but couldn't convert a tricky chance and instead prodded over.
At the other end Ulloa narrowly missed getting his head to David's long free kick into the box and Heaton gratefully scooped the ball up.
Trippier fired in a succession of crosses from the right.
Vokes hung at the far post to meet one with a powerful header, but Kuszczak was a frustrating match for it.
Barnes came on for Kightly for the final 15 minutes and helped Burnley to stay on top.
Jones' free kick from the right was flicked on in the box, but Kuszczak somehow stopped the ball from looping over him, clawing it out of the net and crashing into the post.
There was no way through.
And Burnley were grateful to Heaton for preserving a point and a clean sheet with a big block from Ulloa.


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Drakes Bay Oyster Co.'s fight for survival, which has divided West Marin neighbors and gained national attention, resumes Tuesday at a federal courthouse in San Francisco.
Three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear 40 minutes of arguments from attorneys for oyster farm operator Kevin Lunny and former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who ordered the farm's closure in November.
Lunny's legal challenge, alleging that Salazar's decision was "arbitrary and capricious," has attracted support from Republicans in Congress and gained the free services of three private law firms and a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit with connections to the arch-conservative billionaire Koch brothers. Supporters contend it's a case of the federal government riding roughshod over a small, family-owned farm, while critics say it has become a pawn of the movement to open public lands to commercial enterprise.
In court, the oyster farm case involves labyrinthine questions of law, public policy and allegations of scientific misconduct by the National Park Service in evaluating the impact of harvesting 8 million oysters a year from Drakes Estero, a federally protected estuary in the Point Reyes National Seashore.
But none of those issues will be resolved by the appeals court, at least not at this stage.
Instead, Lunny is seeking a court order allowing him to continue raising Pacific oysters in the 2,500-acre estero, a home to fish, migrating birds, bat rays, leopard sharks and one of California's largest harbor seal colonies.
Five miles of wooden oyster-growing racks are also spread around the shallow estuary, where the tasty mollusks, prized by Bay Area chefs, have been raised since the 1930s.
If at least two of the appellate judges agree, the case will be returned to a federal district court in Oakland, where a judge in February rejected Lunny's claims, prompting his appeal to the 9th Circuit.
But without the court order, which one of Lunny's attorneys said would "preserve the status quo," the case and his business may effectively come to an end.
Absent the order, known as an injunction, Lunny would likely be required — as a consequence of Salazar's decision — to remove from the water and destroy about 18 million oysters, lay off about 30 workers and possibly remove the oyster racks and other equipment, steps that his lawyers described as "irreparable harm."
"We're living day to day," Lunny said. "We're confident. We think the 9th Circuit will see it our way. But you never know."
The uncertainty comes at an inopportune time, when he would ordinarily be planting 200 to 300 million microscopic oyster larvae in the estero, due for harvest in a year or two. If he plants the oysters that he ultimately cannot harvest, Lunny said he could be forced into bankruptcy. If he forgoes the spring planting of his marine crop, he would be putting himself out of business.
"It's decision time," Lunny said.
On Tuesday, Lunny and his wife, Nancy, will be seated behind their lawyers in the federal courtroom facing 9th Circuit Judges N. Margaret McKeown, Paul Watford and Algenon Marbley, a visiting district court judge from Ohio.
Amber Abbasi, chief counsel for Cause of Action, the Washington-based nonprofit, will present the oyster farm's case; Department of Justice attorney J. David Gunter II, also based in D.C., will represent Salazar and the National Park Service.
Each side will have 20 minutes to present its case and answer questions from the judges, who will issue a written opinion following the hearing.
Environmentalists, oyster lovers, Marin residents and county officials, members of Congress and others are sharply divided by the years-long controversy over the oyster farm, which sells $1.5 million worth of shellfish a year.
The farm's supporters see no reason why a sustainable aquaculture operation, with 80 years of history in the estero, shouldn't be allowed to continue, and many accuse the Park Service of an unethical campaign to terminate the farm with false assessments of its impact on the estero.
Critics assert that Lunny's family, which purchased the farm for $260,000 in 2004, knew that its government-issued lease would expire in November 2012 and should leave, allowing the estero to become pure wilderness, free of commercial activity.
But none of the legal details in the case are simple, including a fundamental disagreement over the interpretation of a 2009 law, authored by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, that gave Salazar the sole discretion to renew the oyster company's lease for 10 years.
Federal District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled in February that the courts had no jurisdiction over Salazar's decision and also held that Lunny was unlikely to prevail on the merits of the case.
Lunny's appeal to the 9th Circuit was granted three weeks later, setting the stage for Tuesday's hearing.
Meanwhile, the case has become a cause celebre for proponents of for-profit use of federal lands.
William Robertson, dean of the Empire College School of Law in Santa Rosa, said a decision in Lunny's favor would be "worth a lot of money" to ranching, timber and mining interests.
A Republican bill in the Senate, aimed at creating 2 million jobs by approving the Keystone XL pipeline and expanded offshore oil drilling, included a provision granting the oyster company a permit for up to 20 years.
Rep. Doc Hastings of Washington, the Republican chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, last month asked the Interior Department for copies of all the documents related to Salazar's decision.
The former Interior Secretary has since retired and been replaced by Sally Jewell, the former president of REI, the outdoor gear retailer.
If the appellate court sides with Lunny, the case will return for trial in the Oakland federal district court, presumably before Judge Rogers.
The losing side can appeal either to an 11-judge panel of the 9th Circuit or to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Whichever side loses is going to have some difficult decisions to make," said Peter Prows, one of the San Francisco private attorneys representing the oyster farm.
Lunny's brief contends that Judge Rogers' opinion "misread federal law" on multiple issues. If the appeals court judges agree, their decision will "explain why she was wrong," Prows said.
Amy Trainer, executive director of the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin and a former environmental attorney, said she believes the Oakland judge "got it right."
The Interior Department's appellate brief, she noted, said it would be "the essence of fairness" for the government to prevail, "enabling the American people to enjoy wilderness in Drakes Estero."

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This point is key. Last year's run will be remembered as the complete rebirth of the franchise. The lockout 2011-12 season certainly laid the seeds. That was when the Pacers became a very good team who won a lot of games and a playoff series before being competitive against Miami. However, the only team we eliminated in the playoffs that year was an Orlando team without Dwight Howard. Now it's certainly not our fault that he didn't play, but beating an Orlando team without their big star wasn't exactly the type of thing that generates an excess of buzz. But then last season we eliminated a 54 win Knick team who had been extremely hyped nationally. We did it in front of a huge national audience. Also, we were able to play on all of the old 90's Hicks-Knicks memories with Reggie. It was just the absolute perfect storm of getting fans back. People couldn't ignore a Pacer team who was whooping up on the Knicks. Then everything after that against Miami was complete icing on the cake. Last year's playoffs left people walking away thinking "wow, these Pacers are a very good team who have extremely likable players."
I think that the nasty wounds of 2004-2010 have finally healed. It took time, it wasn't easy, but we got there. Hell, just go back three years ago to December 2010 when we were still being tormented by Jim O'Brien. It's absolutely phenomenal just how quickly things have transformed in a very short period. In recent years, everything this franchise has touched has turned into complete gold. I guess that's what happens when Basketball Jesus gets to mold a team his way.


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Today marks World Humanitarian Day, a day designated by the UN General Assembly to remember the 22 UN and relief agency staff who lost their lives in a bombing in Baghdad 11 years ago. Since its designation in 2008, August 19th has become an occasion to celebrate the commitment of relief workers and honor fallen aid workers who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
On this day, we honor our own unsung heroes: fellow USAID colleagues and committed partners who assume great personal risk to respond to humanitarian crises in Syria, South Sudan, Iraq, and other active crises. In a world where crises are increasing in complexity and magnitude, saving lives is becoming even harder.
Last year was the most dangerous year for aid workers in the past decade, with 155 relief staff killed, 171 injured, and 134 kidnapped. At the same time, at least 33 million people were internally displaced due to conflict and violence—the highest figure ever recorded.
Despite great security risks, our teams and our partners continue to find innovative ways to deliver life-saving assistance to the world's most vulnerable people. Over the past few weeks, our Agency began responding to two heightened crises—the conflict in Iraq and the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. We have deployed Disaster Assistance Response Teams to both places to guide the U.S. Government's disaster response, coordinating with partners like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On top of these recent disasters, we are actively responding to protracted crises around the world. In Syria, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic, we are strengthening ongoing efforts—including providing critical medical supplies, distributing emergency food, and reuniting lost children with their families. Overall in the past year, we provided emergency assistance to tens of millions of people in 40 countries in response to 52 distinct disasters.
Yet, while we are engaged in saving those in immediate danger, we are also making strides in reducing the need for humanitarian aid by strengthening the resilience of vulnerable communities. Through a new emphasis on resilience, we are helping communities strengthen their food security, access local medical care, and withstand natural disasters like drought, famine, and typhoons. In time, it means that communities used to recurrent crises can envision a day where they no longer rely on our assistance.
On this day, our Agency recognizes the tremendous service that our humanitarians perform every day to save lives around the world. We are forever grateful to them.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- In a continued expansion of its in-store food and drinks products, Starbucks ( SBUX) is buying Teavana ( TEA), a tea-inspired drinks chain, for $15.50 a share, in an all cash deal that values the company at $620 million. The move follows Starbucks previous acquisitions of Evolution Fresh, a fruit juices specialist, and La Boulange, a bakery chain - and further proves chief executive Howard Schultz's commitment to grow the world's leading coffee chain through a mix of new store openings, product launches and acquisitions. Starbucks also said it considers Teavana to be a third deal, in a string of acquisitions that meets the company's "Blueprint for Growth," a growth strategy that resembles the one employed by IT services giant IBM ( IBM). Heading into 2013, CEO Schultz will now need to prove he can deliver on IBM-like profit growth, as Teavana and other recent acquisitions take center stage in the earnings outlook for the Seattle-based brewer. Recent earnings strength signals Starbucks is finding increasing success in growing profit margins. Starbucks will also need to jolt growth at Teavana, after the company's same store sales growth slowed in recent quarters, putting shares well below their Aug. 2011 initial public offering price. As with previous acquisitions, Starbucks indicated it intends to weave Teavana's products and merchandising into Starbucks existing stores, while also expanding the tea-makers branded retail outlets. CEO Schultz also indicated Teavana will be a strong complement to Starbucks Tazo tea brand. "This complements our existing Tazo brand and gives us the unique opportunity to create a two-tiered market position," Schultz said, in a statement announcing the deal. "Powered by Starbucks existing infrastructure, Starbucks plans to continue to grow and extend Teavana's already-successful 300 mall-based stores as well as add a high-profile neighborhood store concept that will accelerate Teavana's domestic and global footprint," the company added in a press release. According to Starbucks calculations, Teavana is expected to add 1 cent to the company's fiscal 2013 earnings. Roughly 70% of Teavana's shareholders have approved the merger 'by written consent,' notes Starbucks of the deal, which it expects to close by year-end. In Wednesday trading, Starbucks shares fell nearly 3% to $48.84, while Teavana's shares surged over 50% to $15.45, just below Starbucks cash offer. In spite of Wednesday stock gains, Teavana shares are off nearly 20% in 2012, while Starbucks has gained over 6% year to-date.
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AFC Wimbledon boss Neal Ardley has challenged his squad to deal with the loss of Michael Collins in their remaining League Two matches.
The 27-year-old midfielder's contract with the club has been cancelled as his parent club, Scunthorpe United, have recalled him with immediate effect.
Collins, who joined on-loan in February until the end of the season in a deal which included a call-back option, started nine times for the Dons in a period where the side picked up a crucial 10 points.
Wimbledon now sit 17th, eight points clear of the relegation zone with six games remaining.
"Michael did a great job for us," Ardley told the club website. "It was a pleasure to work with.
"He got stronger the more games that he had here and I hope he plays matches at Scunthorpe.
"We wish him all the best, but now it's an opportunity for other players to prove their worth."


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Gallaudet University, located in Washington D.C., will host this year's 3rd annual National Deaf People of Color Conference from June 13 to June 16, 2013. The purpose of this year's conference is to enlighten the public, researchers, health providers, and policymakers about issues affecting the deaf community of color. Attendees at this event will have an opportunity to participate in personal and professional development, family workshops, and discussion groups.
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A MOTHER who falsely claimed £14,700 in benefits was caught out — by her own Facebook profile.
Victoria Cummings, aged 33, of Ferngove, Bury, claimed to be a struggling single parent when, in fact, she had gone on two all-inclusive holidays to Tunisia with her husband and children.
Bury Council investigators looked at the mother-of-two's social networking pages after doubting that she had broken up with her husband. Her Facebook profile showed she was happily married.
Bury magistrates ordered Cummings to pay back the money and undertake 150 hours of unpaid work.
She had claimed housing benefit as a single parent since July, 2011, having signed a form claiming that, while her husband lived with her, they were separated.
Further investigations by council officers also revealed that, when she had claimed housing benefit and council tax benefit at an earlier stage, she had stated she was not living with the man.
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All the trips were during the school holidays and cost at least £2,500 each.
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It may be famous for its lack of sun, yet what it lacks in sunshine it more than makes up for with its friendly vibe and emphasis on relaxation and culture. Fly to Chengdu to experience a China that is different from the one you may have read about or visited before.
Any trip to Chengdu should start by exploring the city's rich history. The Tomb of Wang Jian, a mausoleum with an above-ground tomb, commemorates General Wang Kian, emperor of the Shu Kingdom after the Tang Dynasty's collapse. Also worth visiting are the city's temples – Wenshu Temple, Chengdu's largest Buddhist temple and Wuhou Temple are the most popular. Green Ram Temple near Culture Park is also popular with visitors. Here you'll find magnificent Chinese art and sculpture, housed in some impressive examples of Chinese architecture.
Head for Tianfu Square, where you can see a giant statue of Chairman Mao. And if that's whetted your appetite for giant statues in general, take a trip to see the giant Buddha at Leshan. This is the world's largest Buddha statue and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Back in Chengdu, stroll around Jinli Ancient Street – while many consider it a tourist trap, it's actually a beautiful part of the old city and a great place to try street food.
Travel to Chengdu and you'll find plenty of leisure activities for all ages. Many come here to see the Chengdu Panda Research Base, accessible by bus or taxi. The biggest panda breeding facility in the world, it's home to around 60 Giant Pandas. Make sure you arrive early to avoid crowds as it can get very busy.
Life in Chengdu moves at a relaxed pace, and foot and body massage is popular here. Book a massage with friends and enjoy a soothing experience; refreshments are usually included.
To experience life in Chengdu as a local, head for one of the city's many tea houses. Playing Mah-jong and drinking tea is the perfect way to spend an afternoon. Renmin Park is home to an outdoor tea house and plenty of sunny tables; you may even get to join in with a game if you're lucky.
Local Sichuan cuisine is fiery and delicious. Bear in mind that because most dishes are fairly spicy, you should request a level of spice to suit your tastes when ordering. Most restaurants are used to this and very accommodating. Dishes feature plenty of Sichuan Pepper with its unique hot, sour taste and local specialities include Sichuan Hotpot. This dish is designed to share and a simmering pot of spicy soup is placed in the centre of the table, into which meat, tofu and vegetables can be added by diners.
Street food in Chengdu is well worth trying, although it can be quite unusual and may not be to everyone's tastes. Look out for spicy rabbit, spicy snails and Chongqing duck neck. Street vendors are a great option for a tasty snack or lunch on the go, in-between sightseeing. Why not enjoy Yacai bao (steamed buns) which you'll find served all over the city, traditionally eaten for breakfast?
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From the age of maybe 7 or 8 the only thing I wanted to be when I grew up was an Archeologist. The pieces pictured here were found by me when I was in the 4th & 5th grade. I grew up about 2 miles as the crow flies from where I live today. In fact my home backs up to a large Federal State Park called the Timucuan Preserve and the Fort Caroline National Monument. Please click on the above pics to see the detail and if you want, to read some of the history about the early Florida natives. Thanks.
The French founded this area where I live on May 2nd of 1562 and named what is now the Saint Johns River the "River of May. There were an abundance of Indian burial mounds all over the woods around where I live now.
France & Spain were at war back in the mid 1500's and Spain landed at Saint Augustine Florida in the summer of 1565 and Pedro Menendez immediately marched an army of 500 soldiers up from Saint Augustine to attack the French at Fort Caroline. France had just two days before sent two ships down south the 35 miles to attack the Spanish at Saint Augustine. All this time a hurricane was going on and the French ships were wrecked at Matanzas (means slaughter in Spanish) Inlet which is a couple miles from Saint Augustine where they were stranded on a sandbar unable to swim to shore because of the shark infested waters.
The Spanish attacked the sparsely guarded fort at Ft. Caroline and promptly massacred 140 of the remaining French settlers, sparring only about 60 women & children. 50 others escaped into the woods and fled back to France. The Spanish soldiers under Menendez then marched back to Saint Augustine and sailed out a mile or so to the stranded French on the sandbar and promptly put 350 of them to the sword. He only spared a few professing to be Catholics and a few musicians. So France early on lost another battle/conflict and left Florida to the Spanish in which now Saint Augustine is now billed as our nations oldest city (oldest permanent settlement is the technical terminology).
But right here in my backyard literally is remnants of an earlier settlement by a good 3 years. Just wasn't a permanent one. Sorry for the long post, but I just wanted to share these facts about where I grew up and live today. I actually will make one more post to show some other artifacts I have found down through the years right here within a thousand or so yards from my current home. Kinda neat huh.


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Smashed Chickpea Salad
As my "must-bake" list continues to grow, I find that I rarely save non-baked goods as favorites anymore. In an effort to try more new recipes for lunch and dinner I've made a conscience effort to start saving meal recipes instead of just cookies and cakes. This is one of the recipes that caught my eye.
This salad comes together in no time and is quite tasty. I forgot to add the olive oil and it was still delicious. We both really enjoyed these sandwiches for lunch one Saturday.
Smashed Chickpea Salad – from Smitten Kitchen
1 15-ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed
2 tablespoons pitted, halved and very thinly sliced black olives – I omitted, we both don't like olives
1 tablespoon finely chopped red onion
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
Zest and juice from half a lemon
Couple good pinches of salt
A few grinds of black pepper
A few glugs of olive oil
Mix everything but the olive oil in a small to midsize bowl. Very lightly smash the chickpea mixture with the back of a fork or a potato masher. You're not looking for a hummus-like puree but something closer to a coarse chop with a few smaller bits to hold it together. Add the glugs of olive oil, mix it lightly and enjoy.
We made sandwiches with a small amount of mayo and roasted red peppers on toast. I even forgot the olive oil and it was still delicious.
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Mmmmmm! I love chickpeas. Thanks for sharing!
mmm – Thanks for sharing this! I'm always looking for ways to use chickpeas!
This looks so tasty! I make something similar to this, but it has spinach instead of parsley. Chickpeas are awesome!
I'm not a chickpea fan at all, but this makes them look good 🙂


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I love when media are well integrated delivering a rich and new experience. It's the case, for example, of The Carphone Warehouse X Factor Challenge website in the UK, that perfectly supports and enhances the TV show.
The website has the most basic and obvious functionality which allows visitors to vote for their favourite performers in the show. But there is more, as users have also the chance to become stars of X Factor themselves. By using a PC or a phone the next singers wannabe can record and submit their performance, winning the chance to participate in the show, as the artists or, at least, among the audience.
CHI & Partners London and Unit 9 did a great job, both with the concept and the execution. First of all, as I said before, I like the way the web has been integrated with the TV show.
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Dr. Otis Bowen, M.D., former Indiana governor, Bethel honorary trustee and medical doctor, died Saturday, May 4. He was 95.
"The entire Bethel College community was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former Indiana Governor Dr. Otis Bowen. Dr. Bowen has been wonderful friend to Bethel College for many years and has honored the college as an honorary trustee and allowing our library to bear his name, to also contain a museum of his life and become the repository for many of his official documents. Both Carol and he have been a source of quiet encouragement for the Bethel College family. The state of Indiana, the Michiana area, the Bremen community and Bethel College have been greatly enriched by his service and care. We will be upholding his family in our prayers."
Bethel College is an accredited Christian college offering associate, bachelor's and master's degrees in more than 70 areas of study. The current enrollment of more than 2,000 includes students from 34 states and Puerto Rico, 19 countries, more than 25 denominations and 16 percent from culturally diverse backgrounds. Scholarships are available based upon a variety of factors including academic achievement, talent in the arts or athletics, ethnicity and church affiliation. In addition to its beautifully wooded 75-acre main campus in Mishawaka, Ind., Bethel also offers specific academic programs at sites in Elkhart, Ind., Fort Wayne, Ind., Dowagiac, Mich., and St. Joseph, Mich. Nursing programs are also offered in cooperation with Grace College in Winona Lake, Ind.


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Hello. My mother was initially diagnosed with CC in March and received Whipple Procedure out of country. It was a successful surgery however, the tumor has returned only six months later and has metastasized to her liver. My family decided that it would be best if our mother stayed home in Texas and receive chemotherapy. But she has no insurance with only pending SSD. My brother and I have been actively looking into insurance companies, expedited process for SSD and medicare but were unsuccessful and was told that medicare is out of the question at this point since our mother is 63. I wanted to ask if anyone might be in a similar situation? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.


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Magic classes, Red Carpet Premiere, 'Tonight Show' clips and more!
There's going to be plenty of magic taking place in conjunction with this summer's Great American Comedy Festival. And a different kind, too.
Sponsored by Nucor Steel, the comedy festival will again be offering magic and card trick classes on its opening day — Wednesday, June 17 — and again on Friday, June 19. Taught by Derek Hughes, the professional magician who will host the Wednesday evening "Magic & More" performance at the Johnny Carson Theatre, there are three classes planned. On Wednesday, from 1 to 2:30 p.m., a "grab bag of magic" class for ages 913 will take place at the Elkhorn Valley Museum auditorium in Norfolk. From 3 to 4:30 p.m., a "card tricks with Derek" class for ages 14 and up will be held at the same location.
All magic class materials will be provided for those registering to take home with them. The registration cost is $25 and there is a limit of 20 participants in each class.
Then on Friday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Norfolk Area Chamber of Commerce, an "Up Close with Derek Hughes" class will be offered for adults 21 and older. It will focus on "up close" magic and card tricks. The cost to register for that class also is $25. To register, go to www.greatamericancomedyfestival.com. For more information, contact Susan Warneke at 8602500.
While those classes will feature actual magic, other parts of the festival will feature events that will be magical, or special, in their own way.
Thursday: Red Carpet Premiere The festival will, literally, "roll out the red carpet" on Thursday, June 18, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in front of the Johnny Carson Theatre prior to that evening's performance. Designed to have the feel of a Hollywood redcarpet event, all of the comedians and talent participating in the festival, as well as local and area dignitaries, have been invited to participate. They'll be dropped off by limousines and town cars in front of the theater where local media personalities will be on hand to interview them, take photos and broadcast live. Paige Pflueger, Miss Nebraska Teen USA, and radio personality Austen Hagood will host the event and interview guests as they arrive. In case of inclement weather, the activities will take place inside the theater lobby. Members of Norfolk High School's Panther Posse will be on hand to assist the public with taking and posting "selfies" to the festival's social media outlets for a chance to win festival tickets to the Saturday, June 20, performance featuring Brian Regan, as well as the festival's private postshow gathering.
Friday: Johnny Under the Stars For those seeking to laugh along with Johnny Carson, the festival and the Norfolk Arts Center is planning a free "Johnny Under the Stars" outdoor showing of video highlights from "The Tonight Show" on Friday, June 19. The event will take place in the arts center's outdoor garden and begin at 10 p.m. after the festival performance at the nearby Johnny Carson Theatre concludes. In case of inclement weather, the showing will take place inside the arts center. Saturday: Mingle with the comedians Following the Saturday, June 20, festival performance at the Johnny Carson Theatre, Divots in Norfolk will host a postshow gathering starting at 9 p.m. Many of the comedians who performed at the festival are expected to attend, giving Norfolk and area residents a chance to visit with them and relive that evening's show.


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If I go to a restaurant and eat something with a lot of sodium, I can barely make a fist when I wake up the next day. My fingers are like pudgy sausages. My body hates salt—or so I thought.
You probably know that sodium chloride (table salt) consumption is linked to heart disease. Your body can't handle more than a minute amount, and when it gets too much, edema results. Swelling of heart tissues is especially dangerous—and my pudgy fingers are just the first thing I notice if I eat food with refined (table) salt.
Your body needs 23 times the amount of water as it receives in table salt, to neutralize it. The excess salt re-crystallizes, causing uric acid to form, binding with sodium chloride to form crystals then deposited in joints and bones. The results? Arthritis, kidney and gall stones, gout, and more.
Yet the body is made up of water and salt. You've seen salt licks in fields for cows or horses, and you know salt is needed in the body. Are you confused? The problem is, first, the devastating consequences of REFINED salt, added to so many modern processed foods in, second, excessive quantities. Refined salt bears no resemblance to natural crystal salt. You need about .007 ounces of salt daily. So what are the best salts for health and where do you get them?
I recommend drinking "Sole" first thing every morning. Sole consists of 1 tsp. of a solution of Original Himalayan Crystal Salt (OHCS) dissolved in water. (Not a teaspoon of salt—rather, a teaspoon of saltwater solution!) You make it by filling a small jar with the OHCS stones, covering it with water, and letting it sit several hours. (It can be used indefinitely, as salt never goes "bad.")
Why do this? The combination of water and completely unrefined salt has a higher energetic vibration than either the water or salt alone. You are getting a natural concentration of all 84 trace minerals in a natural form bioavailable to the human body. That mineral list is the entire periodic table except for the 10 inert gases! You may be able to address longtime problems stemming from mineral deficiencies, merely by adding this simple habit to your routine while also eating a healthy diet.
I have zero water retention using this salt. One tsp. of Sole every morning is only 411 mg of sodium, and the USDA recommends no more than 2,500 mg. The average American gets 5,000 mg. The only people who may want to avoid this are those who have been advised because of health problems by their doctors to severely limit sodium. Everyone else should replace table salt with OHCS and stop eating salt that is stripped of critical nutrients, which agressively seeks out and binds to minerals from your body that you desperately need.
Table salt is cooked, refined, and doesn't contain the 84 trace minerals needed for digestion, electrolyte production, and other bodily functions. People who are salt deprived have aches (especially headaches), and muscle cramping, especially at night, among other symptoms. And people who are mineral deprived suffer more symptoms than I can list here, but they include fatigue, hair loss, brittle nails, and graying hair. Mineral deficiencies affect every system in your body.


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One of the hardest hit neighborhoods during Sandy, parts Red Hook have slowly been springing back to life, reopening restaurants and bars in bits and pieces. While places such as the iconic Sunny's Bar are still closed, others are open, albeit with limited services or menus.
The beloved dive bar Brooklyn Ice House is one such place, offering up their usual selection of booze (which includes the popular $5 Shot & Beer combo) alongside a limited menu of cheap pub grub. Luckily, they've been able to serve their famous Smoked Pulled Pork Sandwich, an oversized slider of juicy shredded pork that you can top with their thick and spicy barbecue sauce. You can order one for $3 or two for $5.
The kitchen is also still serving their Ice House burger and veggie burger, but we recommend going for the Cheesy Pete ($6), a pair of classic gooey grilled cheese sandwiches made with inside-out hamburger buns. Add tomato or bacon to it for an even heartier meal.
We're longing for the day when Ice House can do chili again for their chili cheese fries, but in the meantime, the regular Fries and Sweet Potato Fries ($4) will do just fine.
In fact, a lot of items have yet to come back to the Ice House, including the Frito Pie, wings, and hot dogs. Some of the issues have to do with damaged kitchen equipment, others with food suppliers not being able to deliver products. But in true Red Hook spirit, all the prices have stayed the same in these tough times, meaning you can eat and drink for less than $15—and of course, afford to leave a hefty tip.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Walmart announced that it is making back-to-school shopping even easier with new store improvements.
Back-to-school items now are organized, both in stores and online, in one place and categorized by school age group, so families can quickly and easily shop supplies appropriate for their child's grade, the company reported. Many of the most common school supply list items are located down the center of the back-to-school aisle, allowing families to quickly check these items off their list.
"We know our customers need to stretch their dollars as far as they can," said Duncan Mac Naughton, Walmart's chief merchandising officer. "We're making it even easier and more affordable for them this back-to-school season with low prices on more items along with our ad match policy and a better shopping experience."


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http://nypost.com/sports/45322.htm'COACH KILLERS' NOT GUILTY
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January 30, 2004 -- HOOP DU JOUR
BYE-RON SCOTT'S sacking encouraged an irresistibly, hysterical deduction by the Playa Haters segment of the media: The NBA is a (cancerous) cluster of coach killers.
Naturally, crooked little fingers were pointed at repeat offender Jason (Captain) Kidd as being the critical cutthroat, though countless co-connivers clearly are indictable, many of whom never witnessed the glow of a pro roster.
Who cares if their case against Scott appears 99 9/10 percent pure?
"It's a players league," sneeringly conclude the preponderance of a roving press panel, which agilely cites chapter and verse (without knowing what really happened) regarding various superstars who've allegedly fought authority and won.
Exhibit A is Magic Johnson's rebellion (11 games into the '81 season) against Paul Westhead's monotonous offense, designed to accommodate aging but timeless Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; oddly enough (or maybe not so strange), from that day on, for better or for worse, the deposed Lakers coach became Vicar of Fast Break Basketball.
Exhibit B is Magic Johnson's rebellion - joined by Michael Cooper, James Worthy and Bye-Ron (Great Scott!) - against Pat Riley, who, by that time, believed he was as much responsible for LA's four 'chips during his 10-year reign as the mutineers. They probably could've lived with Riley's escalating ego; the thing that really ticked them off was Pat's comments about money-hungry players. "We were happy for him when he got his big payday," Magic told me years later. "Meanwhile, when we wanted our fair share, he got negative."
Exhibit C is Michael Jordan's purported submarining of Doug Collins after the '88-'89 season in which the Bulls reached the Eastern Conference finals. Collins rubbed Jordan the wrong way, no doubt. Still, the coach's firing was strictly related to an off-the-court crisis between majority owner Jerry Reinsdorf and Collins.
Exhibit D is Kidd's supposed sabotage of almost every coach he ever helped make better. While there's no question his run-ins with supervisors immediately preceded them being run off, when you see Scott Skiles' name on that list you've got to wonder how much homework is being done here; he was still coach of the Suns a half-season after Kidd became Nets property.
You get the picture. Much of the media - of which George Karl is now a pretentious member - is thoughtlessly laying the bulk of the blame for coach after coach biting the dust on players/superstars. Atlanta's Terry Stotts is the only Eastern leftover from last season (14 changes out of 15, plus three in the West) still working the sidelines today.
(If Stotts wins as many as two straight, I predict he'll be gone in a flash as well; he'd better not try to screw up the Hawks' alluring lottery position)
Very much in nature, Karl - part of ESPN's NBA coverage - holds the players and the system accountable for the extensive turnover. In full rant the other day in a newspaper account, he claimed the only weapon a poor coach has these days to combat the Disease Of Me and other chemistry-killing afflictions is to take away minutes. Guaranteed deals make it impossible to cut culprits, and trades are next to impossible, he added.
The author apparently didn't feel it was important to note Karl is collecting $7 million for not coaching the flourishing Bucks this season. Nor did I see it mentioned anywhere that Glenn Robinson, Ray Allen and Sam Cassell were traded before Guilt-less George was excused.
Nor was it pointed out, against the fervent advice of friends and countrymen, Karl insisted Anthony Mason, infamous for poisoning wells, be signed for $18M guaranteed for four years.
Fittingly, they left the league together; the remainder of Mason's $9.9M contract was bought out.
OK, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we were inundated with propaganda that players are at the root of all evil befalling coaches. Then look what happened: Jim O'Brien quit the Celtics due to philosophical (defensive and long-term) differences with superior Danny Ainge.
Obviously, that was a cover story. As the media well knows, Paul Pierce and Ricky Davis had everything to do with instigating O'Brien's subversion.
Then again, what if it's true? What if conflicts with management/ownership (or extenuating circumstances, as in the case of Rudy Tomjanovich's bout with bladder cancer or Riley's "retirement") caused some of the aforementioned 17 coaching changes?
What if players weren't actually at fault for the firing of Rick Carlisle, Isiah Thomas, Doc Rivers, Lenny Wilkens, Paul Silas and Frankie Johnson?
What if Larry Brown really left on his own volition (which he's been known to do occasionally) and it had nothing to do with Allen Iverson?
What if - and I know this question is going to be too much for some people to bear - some of the coaches who were fired essentially can't coach?


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A's option Figueroa and Parrino; place Nakajima on DL
OAKLAND, Calif. - The Oakland A's optioned left-handed pitcher Pedro Figueroa and infielder Andy Parrino to Triple-A Sacramento, the club announced today. The A's also placed infielder Hiro Nakajima on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to March 27 with a strained left hamstring. Right-handed pitcher Mike Ekstrom, left-handed pitcher Hideki Okajima and catcher Luke Montz, the A's three remaining non-roster invitees, were reassigned to the A's minor league camp.


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And so it begins. The House, Senate and White House are still fighting over how to fund the federal government, meaning that hundreds of thousands of federal workers are officially furloughed.
Only those whose jobs are deemed essential by their departments are working for free today, since technically there's no money to cover their paychecks.
The Internal Revenue Service has put together a contingency plan, outlining which of its employees are necessary during the first government shutdown in 17 years. The 61-page document calls for only around 9 percent of the approximately 95,000 IRS employees to come to work.
No audits or answers to tax questions
Among those employees who aren't deemed essential are tax examiners or, as you and I refer to them, the folks who audit tax returns. This means, says the Treasury Department, that if you had an appointment scheduled today with an IRS employee to answer questions about your 1040, that meeting is cancelled. When the government is up and running again, the IRS will get in touch to reschedule.
The same is true, according to the Treasury, for appointments with IRS agents who handle appeals and collections, as well Taxpayer Advocate Service staff.
And if you're still working on your 2012 tax return for which you got an extension, don't expect any help from the IRS if you have questions. Although that Form 1040 is still due by Oct. 15, Taxpayer Assistance Centers are closed, and no one is around to answer taxpayer questions by phone.
A call to the IRS's toll-free line at (800) 829-1040 announces that, "Due to the current budget situation, all IRS offices are closed. ... Many self-service tools are available," however, including the agency's website.
Some still working
So just who is at work today for the IRS? The contingency plan says those folks whose jobs are "necessary for the protection of government property" are expected to report.
This covers IRS employees who process tax payments or are involved with certain computer operations (such as revenue collections); staff who are part of criminal law enforcement and undercover operations; and personnel who deal with bankruptcy, liens and tax seizure cases. Yeah, all the dreaded tax services are essential.
IRS staff also will report to their offices if they are working on updates to 2013 tax forms or software to process those returns.
Short-term plan only
Finally, the IRS says its contingency plan only is equipped to deal with a short-lived government shutdown. If federal offices are closed for more than five days, the agency will re-evaluate its needs and make personnel adjustments.
Let's hope a shutdown-plan revision won't be necessary.
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Veteran contributing editor Kay Bell is the author of the book "The Truth About Paying Fewer Taxes" and a co-author of the e-book "Future Millionaires' Guidebook."


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Increasing Availability and Acceptability of Circumcision in Zambia
This study has been completed.
University of Miami
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Dr. Stephen Weiss, University of Miami
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First received: September 11, 2012
Last updated: July 8, 2015
Last verified: July 2015
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This study proposes to balance supply and demand of male circumcision through a systematic scale-up of coordinated biomedical surgical and behavioral counseling services. The study will compare the combined biobehavioral sexual risk reduction intervention to the standard of care, which focuses exclusively on the provision of circumcision services alone, with the goal of optimizing both local and national HIV prevention efforts.
|Behavioral: MC and sexual risk reduction
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|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Increasing Availability and Acceptability of Circumcision in Zambia
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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDSU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Dr. Stephen Weiss, University of Miami:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Change in likelihood of undergoing male circumcision across the study using stages of change model [ Time Frame: Baseline, Average of 1 month post-baseline, 6 month and 12 month follow-up ]Readiness to undergo male circumcision will be assessed using the stages of change model (pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance). Intervention and attention control conditions will be compared at baseline, immediately following intervention, and 6 and 12 months post-intervention.
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Uptake of male circumcision [ Time Frame: From the date of study enrollment to the date male circumcision is performed or study completion. ]To determine if participants in the sexual risk reduction/MC promotion intervention (experimental condition) will be more likely to shift to the "Action" stage (undergo circumcision), in comparison with participants having identical MC services available plus usual care (attention control condition).
Other Outcome Measures:
- Male and female condom use post male circumcision [ Time Frame: 3 months after undergoing male circumcision ]To determine whether MC will significantly affect the maintenance of safer sexual practices ("risk compensation") in the experimental group as compared to the attention control group
|Study Start Date:
|January 2012
|Study Completion Date:
|November 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|November 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Intervention
Experimental condition clinics offer the MC and sexual risk reduction intervention: four group counseling sessions focused on male circumcision and sexual risk reduction.
Behavioral: MC and sexual risk reduction
Four group counselling sessions focused on male circumcision and sexual risk reduction
No Intervention: Standard of Care
Male participants in the standard of care control condition CHCs will receive counseling per the VCT protocol guidelines. Participants will attend four video-based time-equivalent "attention-control" group sessions on endemic disease prevention strategies (e.g., TB, malaria, cholera, waterborne diseases). Female partners will be invited to participate in a similar four session program devoted to endemic disease risk reduction.
No Intervention: Observational
3 CHC sites will be randomly assigned as "observation only;" only aggregated clinic VCT and circumcision data will be collected.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV negative
- Uncircumcised male
- 18+ years of age
- Able to understand and sign informed consent in English, Bemba, or Nyanja
- Have not requested male circumcision services at the time of or following VCT
- Female partners of enrolled males are invited to participate
Exclusion Criteria:
- Men seeking circumcision services are not eligible for this study
- Men with genital abnormalities requiring MC, e.g. balanitis (inflammation of the preputial skin), posthitis (inflammation of the glans penis; common in patients with diabetes), phimosis (scarring of the distal margins of the foreskin) resulting from chronic balanitis, paraphimosis (the inability to pull the retracted foreskin back over the glans) or diseases of the foreskin, including localized carcinoma are not eligible for this study
- Men with congenital or acquired penile abnormalities that require the preputial skin for generative repair, such as hypospadias (urethra exits from underside of penis) are not eligible to participate
- Participants unable to provide informed consent will not be eligible.
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01688167
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01688167
|University of Zambia Teaching Hospital
|Lusaka, Zambia
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Miami
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
|Study Chair:
|Stephen M Weiss, PhD
|University of Miami
More Information
Keywords provided by Dr. Stephen Weiss, University of Miami:
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
Weiss SM, Zulu R, Jones DL, Redding CA, Cook R, Chitalu N. The Spear and Shield intervention to increase the availability and acceptability of voluntary medical male circumcision in Zambia: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Lancet HIV. 2015 May;2(5):e181-9.
Jones DL, Lopez M, Simons H, Diaz-Gloster M, Tobin JN, Weiss SM. Translation of a comprehensive health behavior intervention for women living with HIV: the SMART/EST Women's Program. Transl Behav Med. 2013 Dec;3(4):416-25. doi: 10.1007/s13142-013-0213-4.
Jones D, Weiss S, Chitalu N. HIV Prevention in Resource Limited Settings: A Case Study of Challenges and Opportunities for Implementation. Int J Behav Med. 2015 Jun;22(3):384-92. doi: 10.1007/s12529-014-9397-3.
Cook R, Jones D, Redding CA, Zulu R, Chitalu N, Weiss SM. Female Partner Acceptance as a Predictor of Men's Readiness to Undergo Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Zambia: The Spear and Shield Project. AIDS Behav. 2016 Nov;20(11):2503-2513.
|Responsible Party:
|Dr. Stephen Weiss, Research Professor, University of Miami
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01688167 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
R01MH095539 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|September 11, 2012
|Last Updated:
|July 8, 2015
Keywords provided by Dr. Stephen Weiss, University of Miami:
Male circumcision
Stages of change
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017


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Adamantine wrote:deepbluehum wrote:A guru with a lineage will give shaktipat in an initiation ceremony. I received it from several gurus. The best was Anandi Ma. She holds an excellent lineage of Mahayoga. It is not Bhakti. I'm Indian from a religious family so I know the difference. Maha Siddha Yoga gurus teach that Shaktipat arouses emotions as it purifies them. Those with karmic imprints of yoga in past lives would only experiences emotions of the higher realms so they might only feel uplifted or radiance as was the case for me. When the imprints are purified one can achieve jivan mukti. There is no emotion at the time of fruit. But it's not the same view action fruit in dzogchen or mahamudra. There are many reasons why this is so. You can debate amongst yourselves.
Buddhism doesn't work this way. Whatever exotic experience you are prone to believe in notwithstanding, again many reasons why this is so. In short, take Longchenpa's divisions of Ati where at the top even introduction is no importance. Ati yoga is the highest of all yanas. Shaktipat is the lowest. You can debate amongst yourselves.
You may have some specific experiences based on your own karmic connection, your family and personal experiences with Anandi Ma, etc. But I think you'd be surprised about the variation of this term, the expression of it and how it manifests according to lineage. I do agree that generally how it is practiced in non-Buddhist contexts is not comparable to the type of Guru yoga we have access to in Dzogchen lineage. Of course, we must have confidence in this, it is the path we have chosen and for good reasons. I don't think there is much of a reason for any debate here. However, in my own experience I would not say that emotion, even what you categorize as "experience or emotions of the higher realms" is a necessary or defining characteristic of the transmission of shakti. There are probably different frameworks and different flavors of energy transmission that evoke varying experiences.. and maybe we are both right. We'll probably just have to agree to disagree here because much of it is not easily framed in language and we might just be talking past each other unknowingly.
It's actually pretty simple. Shaktipat comes from the lineage of Kundalini Siddha Yoga aka Maha Yoga. There's no other lineage in India where this originates. If you want to know the teaching you have refer to them re guru manta, automatic kriyas, rising kundalini from muladhara to sahasrar, etc. From the Buddhist standpoint these experiences are only due to illusion. If one has a stable Mahamudra practice for example, there won't be any experiences of kundalini rising up a sushumna. Why. Because the view is beyond three times. Thinking this is analogous to tummo is also based on a misunderstanding of Buddhism. In Buddhism the body is not something to be shed and the channels etc are not real. The practice is done with visualization and nothing is believed to really be happening. In shaktipat the idea is that there is some entity agency that acts upon you even without your wanting it to. This is all completely dependent on your belief, opinion and emotion. It's only attachment.


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A Proposal for How to Organize the Public Funding of Science James Gerrie and Stephen
Grave Concerns: Concepts of Self and Respect for the Dead; International Journal of Applied Philosophy 21:2, Fall 2007. pp 195-212.
The Role of Science in Public Policy: Higher Reason or Reason for Hire? Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, Spring 2007 (co-author James Gerrie)
Apocalypse Soon?: Wagering on Warnings of Global Catastrophe, McGill-Queen's University Press, Fall 2002
"A Prudential Argument for Precaution Under Uncertainty and High Risk." Journal of Ethics and the Environment (Spring 2000)
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Each day in November—leading up to the winter meetings—Sporting News will analyze the offseason to-do list of a major league team. Today: the New York Yankees.
The Yankees' offense looked old and inept when they were swept out of the ALCS. Getting younger, however, won't be easy because they have so much invested in their veterans.
Getting younger might not be the end-all answer, anyway, for the short term. Those veterans weren't that bad during the regular season when they helped the Yankees finish with the AL's best record (95-67).
Offseason agenda
The only nine-figure contract the Yankees might hand out this winter is to extend second baseman Robinson Cano, their best player. But GM Brian Cashman has plenty to figure out while trying to lower a payroll that in 2012 topped $200 million for the fifth straight year.
Best-case for the Yankees would be to bring back catcher Russell Martin, Andy Pettitte, Hiroki Kuroda, Mariano Rivera and Rafael Soriano, and it's possible only Martin and Soriano would need multi-year deals. Pettitte indicated during the season that he is more likely to put off retirement after a broken ankle limited him to three starts in the second half. Kuroda has said he would be willing to work on a one-year deal again.
Rivera told the team last week that he plans to pitch in 2013. Given his place in the organization, he won't be happy if the team offers much less than the $15 million he has made for each of the past five seasons. Even if Rivera returns from season-ending knee surgery, retaining Soriano still makes sense because of how well he pitched in the ninth inning last year and Rivera can't be expected to pitch for more than one more year.
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To take Nick Swisher's spot in right field, free agent Torii Hunter would make a better fit than a return of Ichiro Suzuki, but Hunter figures to be in greater demand.
The Yankees also have numerous in-house issues to deal with. Most notably, of course, is the Alex Rodriguez situation. He has said he won't waive his no-trade rights, and Cashman has said that A-Rod will be in the opening-day lineup.
But Cashman will be more than willing to listen to any scenario that could free the club from even a chunk of the five years and $114 million remaining on A-Rod's contract. Why Rodriguez is so intent on staying in New York is a question being asked around the game.
The Yankees also are looking at a position switch between Brett Gardner and Curtis Granderson, with Granderson moving to a corner outfield spot and the speedier Gardner taking over center.
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Thirty years ago, the American steel industry went through an experience similar to today's crisis in Detroit. I remember writing a page one story for the New York Times in 1977 about a stunning third-quarter loss at Bethlehem Steel , which announced plans to close mills in Johnstown, PA and Lackawanna, NY. Many of the great old names of American steel, like Bethlehem, National, Armco, and J&L, all disappeared. Their assets closed or were bought and improved. Only United States Steel survived as a corporate entity, albeit a very different one. There were many cries of despair, in particular that we needed a domestic steel industry for national defense. But there was no bail-out. The American steel industry re-emerged, pretty quickly really, in a new form. Entrepreneurs launched new mills that operated with electric furnaces fed with scrap. In general, the industry became more customer focused, and less production focused. American steel is very competitive today.
The auto industry needs to go through the same economic Darwinian process.