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Carnegie Mellon Bay Area Career Fair
January 10th, 2013 in San Francisco
Join us for the Carnegie Mellon's Bay Area Career Fair and connect with top employers looking to hire for job opportunities in the Bay area.
Date: January 10, 2013
Career Fair: 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Reception: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Holiday Inn - Fisherman's Wharf
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A snapshot of Paul at the teen dream age of 17? Say it ain't so! Isn't he yummy?
It all started with a little friendly tweet from One Tree Hill's Bethany Joy Galeotti to our fave brooding vamp Paul Wesley: "@paulwesley Hey Wasilewski, I stumbled across a picture of you when you were 17. Its now sitting in my computer desktop waiting to debut..." Wasilewski? Too cute. The two co-starred on the drama-soap Guiding Light back in '99. Paul played a character named Max Nickerson. He tweeted back: "I say debut it." That's the spirit!
Bethany rounded up the TVDers via her next tweet: "Vampire Diaries Diehards, Eat your heart out..." Why yes, if you insist, Hales! Paul could have been a shoe-in for a boy band. He was swoonworthy in the '90s, and even more crushable today.
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January 7, 2013
Is the Kratom Drug Addicting?
Kratom can be found in packs labeled "Floories", "Kratom OPM" and "Medicine Man" and is marketed as an all-natural product which can be used as an alternative to pain medication. Kratom is completely legal and is taken from the leaf of a Southeast Asian tree.
Today, Kratom is becoming quite popular in the United States, especially in South Florida. In fact, a lot of people there have already been putting themselves on YouTube drinking it as a tea and documenting their overall experience with it. One user, for instance, has admitted that drinking it as a tea is quite disgusting, but that it is fairly relaxing and has killed some pain. Plus, it apparently made the user's mind more open to things in general.
Kratom is sold as a powder, so it can be put in a drink, but it also exists in pill form. When taken in smaller doses, it is considered to be a stimulant. However, when taken in higher doses, it is known to have a pain-relieving and relaxing effect. In just the right doses, Kratom is known to be an effective treatment for pain relief, chronic fatigue and depression.
The medical field sees a problem with it, though: it is very similar to hard drugs, such as heroin, and prescribed drugs, such as Vicodin; in that it can generate an addiction or a dependency to the drug. Unfortunately, a lot of people have already taken advantage of this fact so far and have used the drug outside of its medicinal purposes just to get high and forget their problems.
Any type of chemical that makes people feel less anxious or a bit happier generally tends to make them forget how to use their inner skills to approach situations that provoke anxiety altogether. This is why people become dependent on these drugs to begin with. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has recently reported that Kratom is currently being abused as a tea right now, though some people opt to chew the leaves instead. More and more doctors are beginning to report that patients are starting to abuse Kratom, as well.
Several teenagers have developed a reliance on Kratom, too. This is mostly because they don't really know much about the substance to begin with nor do they know what taking it in an uncontrolled manner can lead to. Since young adults tend to be quite adventurous nowadays, too, they become more inclined to try out various drugs just to see their overall sedative and stimulant effects in the end. Addiction to Kratom may result in serious health issues later on, though, so it would be dangerous for young adults to abuse this substance either way.
As mentioned earlier, Kratom is completely legal in the U.S., though. In fact, it is readily available in tobacco shops, in Kava Bars found in South Florida, and all over the Internet, according to the DEA. However, the FDA has listed it on their list of chemicals and drugs of concern. Since Kratom's consumption isn't approved by the FDA, it actually isn't regulated. Because of this, psychologists are raising a red flag when it comes to Kratom because users will never really know what they are in for when they take it.
The DEA claims that Kratom can produce stimulant effects, sedative effects, and several acute side effects. Some of the short-term side effects that Kratom could produce include sweating, itching, nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, increased urination, dehydration, loss of appetite and constipation. Some of its long-term side effects, on the other hand, could include depression, weight loss, fatigue and insomnia. All of these side effects could eventually lead to worse health problems, though, like malnutrition, lowered immune system, organ dysfunction, cardiac problems and respiratory problems.
Overall, there are chances of people suffering from alteration or contamination from Kratom, as well, mainly because they will never know what is going into their systems. This would be especially true if the drug is bought without any proof of monitoring whatsoever.
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Buddhist meditation center to host workshop Jan. 25
Rehoboth Beach Community Buddhist Meditation Center warmly welcomes all to attend a free Dharma workshop on loving kindness and meditation from 7 to 9 p.m., Friday, Jan. 25, in the parish hall of All Saints' Episcopal Church, 18 Olive Ave., Rehoboth Beach.
This workshop will include a meditation session, a lecture on The Buddhist Attitude of Mind, and a group discussion with time for questions and answers with Buddhist monk Bhante Sujatha.
Bhante Sujatha has been a Buddhist monk for 35 yeas and is head monk at the Blue Lotus Temple in Woodstock, Ill., http://www.bluelotustemple.org/about.
The workshop is free; however, a dana, or free-will offering, is welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Call 302-864-4868 or visit rbcbmc-mjkr/Rehoboth Beach or go to www.meetup.com/Rehoboth-Beach-Community-Meditation-Center.


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As Ronan Keating once said, sometimes you say it best when you say nothing at all.
It's a songbook the LNP, facing horror opinion polls for both Mr Newman's performance and the government's own, appears to be playing from.
While Mr Newman said he would not be changing how he tackled his job, on Monday he adopted a policy of only tackling the issue he wanted to talk about.
Which was health.
Not Clive Palmer
"Look I'm here today to talk about how we want to save the eyesight of Queenslanders and I reject of course Mr Palmer's nonsense," he said.
Or Tim Carmody's swearing in as Chief Justice, which will occur on Tuesday, in private, and in chambers, with no media.
"Well, look, I think the A-G dealt with that all last week and that's up to Mr Carmody."
And definitely not Mr Palmer.
"I'm here today to talk about the way that I don't want Queenslanders to lose their eyesight through an inability to get in and get their necessary consultation. I'm not here to talk about Mr Palmer," he said.
Deputy Premier Jeff Seeney gave a sort of mea culpa last Monday by admitting the government had attempted "too much, too quick" when implementing its change agenda.
But it was an admission not everyone in the government was willing to make.
Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie, previously one of the government's most outspoken ministers, has been missing more than he has been seen in recent weeks, emerging last week to officially launch the Office of the Public Guardian – but refusing to veer off script.
"The government will always continue to retain the strong plan for a brighter future and we will be talking about that until the cows come home, right to the next election, because it is important to Queenslanders to understand - this government, under the leadership of Campbell Newman has a strong plan for a brighter future, the Labor party under Annastacia Palaszczuk doesn't have any policies doesn't have any plans for the future, they just want to recycle their former politicians and that is not what Queenslanders want," he said on July 1 in response to the government's poor polling and whether he played a role in it.
"Queenslanders overwhelmingly rejected that approach from the Labor Party in 2012. They wanted change. And we set about making the change."
Since making his asset sales and privatisation pitch, Treasurer Tim Nicholls, while seen as a strong media performer, has seen no real need to front the cameras, staying quiet while the approval ratings storm rages on.
It is also a lesson Mr Newman's cabinet members have learnt well – Monday's Cabinet door stops consisted of the same messages, slightly reworked for that minister's speaking patterns, but nothing more or less.
It's a policy that has worked for the federal government – Immigration Minister Scott Morrison uses it to his advantage, flat out refusing to answer any questions on what he deems "operational matters".
But on Sunday Mr Newman said he is just getting on with the job – and would work to tell the government's 'good news stories'.
"Queenslanders elected us to do a job, a tough job," Mr Newman said.
"And we are going to ask Queenslanders to reflect on where we have come from.
"People can't forget that two and half years ago, nurses and doctors weren't being paid.
"And former premier Anna Bligh said health was a basket case, health was dysfunctional
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I've been around long enough that everything new (or relatively new) reminds me of something old. I have a sample of the L'air Du Desert Marocain, EdT Intense and when I I tried it Brad told me that it was almost exactly like the discontinued version of Aramis Devin that he loves so much. I was skeptical, but did a comparison and he was right!
L'Air Du Desert Marocain IS very similar to the old Devin. The Devin seems woodier and the Tauer has more vanilla but I like both of them equally. L'Air Du Desert lasts longer. That is no surprise as versions of Devin that we (Brad, actually) have are an after shave and a cologne. Of the two the after shave is the closest match to the Tauer fragrance.
Yay! L'Air du Desert has gotten a lot of love recently :) I am also especially fond of the vanilla in L'Air, though really what I love most is how many different faces it seems to have (and how, as you said, you could really wear it anytime, any place). I am glad you loved it too!ReplyDelete


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According to a Wall Street Journal report citing sources on close to the situation, News Corp. has enlisted the services of investment bank Allen & Co. to help sell off IGN and its network of video game and entertainment sites via an auction. This, the report claims, comes on the heels of a year of failed negotiations to sell the spun-out division for $100 million. Companies that showed some interest included Break Media and SAY Media, according to WSJ. News Corp. bought IGN in 2005 for $650 million and includes such sites as GameSpy.com, FilePlanet, and TeamXbox.com. It also owns the GameSpy multiplayer technology.
Interestingly, the Wall Street Journal is as close as you can get to the situation because it, along with other companies such as Fox News, Fox Business, and Twentieth Century Fox, is owned by the company. Rupert Murdoch, a staunch conservative, is the company's Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and largest shareholder.
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M Cafe ReviewPosted on 02 / 13 / 2012
I had read about this place on happycow, and here's my review.
I've eaten at the other M Cafe locations (Melrose Ave and Culver City-now closed) and was happy to hear about this one opening. However, this location is very small, the space is tight, and the food was only okay on the day I came here for lunch with friends.
The small glass display case features an assortment of side salads, sushi, sandwiches, and desserts. And the menu is the same as the other M Cafe on Melrose.
My husband and I met up here with a couple friends from out of town. We ordered a club sandwich (dry bread and kinda bland inside) and the chop salad (okay). One friend had a falafel wrap with a side of soba noodles (he liked his food), the other friend got the tofu with rice & veggies teryaki bowld (she liked it okay).
The space is small with limited seating, and the tables are placed very closely together. We were lucky to get a couple tables and combine them (there were a couple other customers standing, waiting for a seat). The ventilation is poor (only the door opened to fresh air outside, no windows opened) which made it hot and a bit stuffy with cooking smell.
I would definitely return again to try it out, though maybe at a time when it's not busy. Otherwise, take-out is always an option.
Cons: needs better ventilation, tight space


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After a relatively quiet morning, protests over the dead of Arab teen resume in Shuafat; Yasam police wounded, treated on the scene.
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Noam (Dabul) Dvir
After a relatively quiet morning, the protests in East Jerusalem resumed on Thursday afternoon when dozens of Arab youths started sitting trash cans on fire and hurl stones at police in Shuafat.
The confrontations between protesters and security forces started on Wednesday
after the body of Muhammad Hussein Abu Khdeir
was found in the Jerusalem forest. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas laid the blame for the murder of the Arab teen on Israel and protesters believe his murder came as retribution for the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens, whose bodies were found near Hebron earlier this week.
The protesters, many of them masked, also fired fireworks at the police forces. A Yasam policeman was hurt and treated on the scene. Security forces were using crowd dispersal means.
An autopsy of the Arab teen's body has been completed on Thursday in the presence of a Palestinian doctor at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute, and the results of the autopsy has were given to police.


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Brandi Glanville is a Hero for Dealing With This Crap
Oh, before we get started, can we talk about how amazing Brandi Glanville looked last night at her "Real Housewives" premiere party? The sideboob is impressive, right? She's actually pretty stunning, which is something you might not have time to notice with all the insane drama that goes on in her life. And speaking of insane drama ...
Here's a thing that Brandi recently said in an interview about her two sons with Eddie Cibrian and their relationship:
"Jake said, 'Daddy doesn't love you.' It made me sad that Eddie would say that to the kids."
So Brandi's son asked her if she still loved Eddie, their father, and she said yes, because that is what you say to young children after a divorce. And when her son asked Eddie the same question, he said no, because he is a disgusting human being.
Do some people just not feel shame at all, is that what this is about? Is that why Eddie and LeAnn Rimes are able to do all the annoying, hurtful, passive aggressive things they do to Brandi? If so, is there any kind of hope left for them, or are they just going to be awful forever?


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Baby Boy on the Way for Sarah Michelle and Freddie!Devan McGuinness
Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr are expecting a BOY, according to PEOPLE.
The adorable celebrity couple are currently expecting their second child — making the announcement back in April. They pair have a daughter 3-year-old Charlotte Grace, who was born in September 2009.
Married for a long time in celebrity standards, the couple got engaged in 2001 were married the year after and have been going strong since. 7 years after their marriage they welcomed their first child and now — three years later they are expanding even more.
According to PEOPLE, a source close to the couple says, "They are thrilled that Charlotte will have a little brother. They love their little girl more than anything in the world and know that love will only multiply."
They make adorable kids so there is no doubt this new boy will be just as gorgeous. Wonder who he will look more like & of course, curious what name they will give (perhaps another Freddie?).
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In 2007, the sky seemed the limit for growth at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Passenger numbers peaked at 42million that year. Officials projected the number would easily reach 50 million by 2015.
The airport needed to expand.
So Phoenix City Council approved a massive program that included plans for a futuristic people mover to transport people between terminals — PHX Sky Train — and a new $2 billion, 33-gate west terminal.
"Then, the global recession hit," said then-Aviation Director Danny Murphy, speaking at an aviation subcommittee meeting this year. "Our passenger numbers did not grow as rapidly as projected."
As passenger numbers dropped off in 2008, officials shelved plans for the new terminal and went back to the drawing board.
Six years after their original decision, as the economy and passenger numbers slowly return to pre-recession levels, Sky Harbor is preparing to undertake a "scaled-back" plan to expand the airport's facilities: a $500million, five-year terminal-modernization project that will increase the capacity of Terminal 3 and eventually close Terminal 2.
After a six-month bidding process, the City Council on Wednesday awarded an $18 million design-build contract to a joint venture between Hunt Construction Group and Austin Industries.
Aviation officials say the project will increase the airport's overall passenger capacity, update and streamline operations at Terminal 3 and phase out the use of Terminal 2, which is outdated and expensive to operate.
Acting Aviation Director Tamie Fisher told a council subcommittee this year that the department was "always ... updating our view of the future and making sure that we are prepared to meet the capacity for airport operations."
Next steps
Council approval of the contract is the first step in a long process before construction begins.
Both the Scottsdale-based Hunt Construction Group and the Texas-based Austin Industries have handled similar aviation projects. Hunt worked on the new Maynard H. Jackson Jr. International Terminal in Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport. The firm also oversaw construction of a new concourse at Sky Harbor's Terminal 4 and built several additional security checkpoints.
"They've also done a lot of work with (explosive-detection systems), which makes them well-suited because these are complicated systems," said Art Fairbanks, special-projects administrator for the Phoenix Aviation Department who is overseeing the project.
The team will spend about six months coming up with a conceptual design and construction-management plan. Fairbanks said the design process will have to take into account many considerations: Passenger projections could accelerate or slow down. There may be different, larger aircraft using the terminal in the future.
"Part of this is kind of planning out the construction that is going to take place," Fairbanks said. "We're making sure we build in some flexibility that delivers this project in a way that makes sense for our passengers and business partners."
Terminal 3 will remain in operation during construction, airport spokeswoman Deborah Ostreicher said.
"We'll do things in phases so that you probably see things happening, but ... we don't want to interrupt business," she said.
Ostreicher added that the city will have additional details after the contractors complete the design phase.
"As things move forward, we'll get a much better idea of what this is all looking like, what it'll entail and maybe even be able to put a time frame on it," she said.
The entire modernization project will likely take place in three phases, Fairbanks said.
The first would expand Terminal 3's security checkpoints: currently there are 10, six to the north and four to the south.
The second would upgrade and expand the ticket counters, luggage carousels, pick-up and drop-off curbs and "all the infrastructure behind the scenes that make that terminal work," Fairbanks said.
The third phase would add nine additional aircraft gates, for a total of 25 active gates in Terminal 3 after five years.
The airport will pay for the renovations through revenue from parking, food and retail concessions and airlines' contributions.
"Only the people that use the airport would be contributing to it," Fairbanks said. "It would not compete with general-fund priorities (like) fire, police, parks, libraries."
Terminal 2 nostalgia
Combined, Terminals 2 and 3 handle about 20percent of the airport's 40million annual passengers.
Terminal 2, which opened in 1962, is Sky Harbor's smallest and oldest-standing terminal with nine active gates and 330,000 square feet. The city demolished the airport's original Terminal 1 in 1991, but the airport never renumbered the subsequent terminals.
The 880,000-square-foot Terminal 3 opened in 1979 and underwent a remodel in 1997 that added 11 shops. It now has 16 active gates.
Not everybody rejoiced in the plan to modernize Terminal 3. As news spread on social media, so too did a small stirring of melancholy surrounding the impending closure of Terminal 2.
"Is it weird that I kinda love Terminals 2 and 3?" read one Twitter post by former Phoenix resident Adam Sneed. "Definitely enjoy using them more than 4."
For them, Terminal 2 represents a simpler time, both in Phoenix and in air travel.
"It reminds me of the Phoenix I grew up in back in the '60s and the '70s," said LaMont Bankson, who moved to Phoenix when he was 2 years old. "I can remember as a little boy, I think I was probably 6 or 7, going to Terminal 2 and having my grandmother fly in (and) running through the airport. ... Before 9/11, you could go to the gate. The world has changed a lot since then. That's where I think the nostalgia comes in."
Back then, more carriers served Terminal 2, not just United Airlines and Alaska Airlines. It was always packed, bustling, full of people hugging goodbye or greeting loved ones straight off the plane — like scenes out of 'Love Actually.'"
Even after Terminal 3 opened in 1979, taking the bulk of Sky Harbor's passenger traffic with it, Bankson continued to enjoy flying out of Terminal 2 for its ease. Unlike the newer terminals, it seemed speedier to get in and out of — and its one-story layout offered ground-level views of the airplanes.
"You could walk out and see the planes (and) realize how big they are," Bankson said. He doesn't deny that Terminal 3 "certainly can use the upgrades," nor that Terminal 2 is, in his words, old and small.
"But it just felt cozy and comfortable," he said.
Airport officials said they are aware of the nostalgia factor.
Years ago, when plans to close Terminal 2 first surfaced, there was a similar outpouring of concern for what would become of the terminal, including its distinctive mural by Arizona artist Paul Coze.
"We definitely want to do our best to preserve the history and memories of this airport while also creating an atmosphere that we can serve the tremendous demand that we have here," Ostreicher said. "We'll be looking at all of it. It's important to us as well as is providing the service this community needs."


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LIVINGSTON, Ala. - The University of West Alabama volleyball team is ranked 25th in this week's CSTV/American Volleyball Coaches Association Division II Coaches Poll, released by the organization on Monday. The national ranking is the first in the history of the program.
UWA remains the lone undefeated team in NCAA Division II Women's Volleyball. The Tigers, who are currently riding a school-record 18-game winning streak, recently completed a sweep of Albany State on Saturday. The Red and White earned its fourth Gulf South Conference Eastern Division win last Friday versus West Georgia. The Tigers out-lasted the Wolves 3-2.
Tampa maintained the top spot for the second-straight week, sporting a 15-1 record. The Spartans received 27 first place votes. UWA is the only GSC team in this week's listing and garnered 49 votes in the balloting.
West Florida, who received recognition in this week's poll, will venture into Pruitt Hall on Friday, Oct, 5 at 7 p.m. CST.
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Free Library of Philadelphia
Unmasked: Bernie Parent and the Broad Street Bullies
In conversation with co-author Stan Hochman.
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When: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 @ 7:30PM
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"In the late 1970s "only the Lord saved more" than Flyers goaltender Bernie Parent. In his time as a Broad Street Bully, Parent won two Vezina Trophies as the league's top goaltender, two Conn Smythe Trophies as playoff MVP, and two Stanley Cup championships, but this work shows how his on-the-ice exploits were only a part of his amazing story. After suffering a career-ending eye injury in 1979, Parent's life took a turn for the worse, a time during which he battled alcoholism and watched his marriage end in divorce. In the end, however, facing the fears that had plagued him all his life led Parent to find solace and happiness once again. In Unmasked, Parent traces his life and career from his days as a youngster learning to skate to his current role as a Flyers ambassador and public speaker."
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I have met and spoke to Bernie @ a number of functions over the years since the late 70's and read/enjoyed his first book with Stan Fischler – "Bernie – Bernie – Bernie" and could relate to his childhood experience's playing ho – gee in the streets and ponds and rinks : ) – Even though, I am a Boston Bruins diehard diehard fan, Bernie shared common ground as his first NHL team was the B's and I never had to remind him of his first NHL shutout was while tending goal for Boston (3-0 shutout) in his first NHL game! I just wished Boston never left him unprotected in the expansion draft : ( but, his 1-0 Stanley Cup win vs Bruins made me respect him and his life from that point forevermore in my heart…


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Is Stress to Blame for Your Memory Lapses?
Help keep your mind fit with these 5 easy strategies for de-stressing
En español l We've heard for years how stress can wreak havoc on your body. Now, it's clear stress also can harm your mind.
Whether it's short-term stress (17 people are coming for Thanksgiving dinner and your oven just went on the blink) or long-term (a loved one is seriously ill), the body releases powerful fight-or-flight stress hormones (adrenaline, cortisol).
While these hormones do sharpen attention and spur us to take needed action, humans weren't designed to handle high levels of stress hormones day after day, year after year.
Indeed, in the brain those stress hormones weaken blood vessels, kill off neurons and even shrink the hippocampus, a known risk factor for late-life Alzheimer's disease.
How does stress do its dirty work? The exact link between stress and aging-related illnesses like dementia eluded scientists for years until a study at the University of California, San Francisco in 2004 turned up a striking finding — that chronic psychological stress speeds up the normal aging of a person's cells.
For their study, Elissa Epel, an assistant professor of psychiatry, and Elizabeth Blackburn, a Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist, compared mothers who were caring for chronically ill children — clearly a group under severe stress — to a control group of mothers with healthy kids.
Those who had been caregivers the longest had the lowest levels of a crucial enzyme called telomerase, which keeps cells healthy by repairing age-related damage to the tips of chromosomes. In fact, blood tests showed that some of the mothers who had been caregiving the longest were, on a cellular level, 10 years older than their chronological age.
But the news on the stress-brain connection isn't all bleak, says Epel: There have been heartening developments, too. Stress per se isn't the enemy of brain health, experts note; the way we perceive and handle it matters a lot, too. In fact, research shows that stress-reduction techniques, coupled with exercise and a healthy diet, can slow or even reverse the damage inside cells.
How do you begin to dial down your stress? Try the following five strategies.
1. Get to know your stress response
Before you can tame tension, you need to understand what triggers it. But getting at that isn't always as simple as it sounds. Thanks to a mix of genetics, hormones and cultural factors, stress affects everyone differently: Something that ratchets up your stress level may not faze your best friend. Gender also makes a difference.
A man's blood pressure spikes more sharply under stress than a woman's, though she may feel jolts of stress more often, and about more things.
Also, stress symptoms can be so subtle — a knot in the stomach or a tightening of the throat — that you may not even register them as such, especially if unaddressed stress is a constant in your life.
Tip: Do a personal body scan. Does your heart race? Do you struggle with a pain in your gut that antacids can't quell? Do you often forget or misplace things, or find yourself barking at people for no good reason? All of these may be signs of stress. Try to home in on what might be triggering it: a call from a sick parent? Another spat with your spouse? Keeping a daily log can help you spot patterns, and be sure to consult your physician to rule out serious health issues.
2. Move it!
"Exercise is essential for anyone under chronic stress, and that includes most of us," says Epel. Exercise short-circuits the stress response by triggering the release of BDNF (brain-derived neuropathic factor), which nourishes cell growth, as well as endorphins (serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine), brain chemicals that boost feelings of well-being, ease muscle tension and improve sleep. (See No. 3 next page.)
Tip: The cognitive functions and brain regions showing the most significant decay in late adulthood are the same regions that may benefit the most from exercise, says Benjamin L. Willis, M.D., an epidemiologist at the Cooper Institute in Dallas and coauthor of a long-term study highlighting the importance of exercise in reducing dementia risk.
So don't procrastinate: Carve out 150 minutes a week of moderate aerobic exercise. Couch potatoes should start slowly — 10 to 15 minutes every other day, working up to 30 to 45 minutes, five days a week. After all, you're not competing in Olympic trials. Just walk briskly, jog, swim or bike — anything you enjoy doing that gets your heart pumping a bit faster and makes you break a sweat.
A study by Scottish researchers found that simply strolling through a green leafy park, as opposed to the concrete jungle of a busy city, actually lowers cortisol levels in the brain, easing "brain fatigue."
Don't forget resistance training (20 minutes every other day, using exercise bands or light weights) to boost muscle tone, balance and flexibility as well as your brain's gray matter. Never done any of that? You can sign up for an orientation class at a health club, but push-ups (on the floor, against a wall) and squats in your living room work, too.
3. Sleep on it
"Sleep loss means mind loss," says John Medina, director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning at Seattle Pacific University and author of Brain Rules. "When you sleep poorly, your mood, memory, creativity and problem-solving capabilities [all] suffer."
A good night's sleep can help decrease the risk of dementia. "Sleep turns off the toxins that build up in the brain and ultimately lead to Alzheimer's disease," says Harvard neurology professor Rudolph Tanzi, coauthor of Super Brain: Unleashing the Explosive Power of Your Mind to Maximize Health, Happiness and Spiritual Well-Being.
Though neuroscientists have long suspected that the poor sleep seniors often experience contributes to age-related cognitive decline, they weren't sure exactly what went wrong or why. Recent studies at the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley point to structural changes in the middle frontal lobe of the brain that develop slowly as we age. These changes interfere with the deep, restorative sleep necessary for the formation of long-term memories.
Tip: How much is enough? There's no magic number, but the National Sleep Foundation suggests adults aim for seven to nine hours of uninterrupted sleep each night.
Stick to a regular schedule, going to bed and waking up about the same time every day. If sleep escapes you, don't toss and turn in bed. Get up, read a book or listen to music until you start to feel sleepy. Avoid smoking, caffeine or highly acidic foods two to three hours before bedtime, and unplug from all technology — TV, computers and cellphones — at least 30 minutes before lights-out. Make your bedroom a sleep sanctuary, using the bed for sleep and sex only. Lower the temperature, install blackout shades and invest in a sound machine to drown out interfering noise.
Still wide awake?
Relaxation techniques such as yoga, meditation and guided imagery may also help.
4. Try meditation
Over the years, researchers have linked different forms of meditation to cardiovascular health, pain relief, a healthy immune system and stress reduction. Now, they're discovering it also changes the very structure of the brain and may help preserve cognitive function.
Researchers in the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital took MRI scans of a small group of people with no meditation experience before and after they enrolled in an eight-week mindfulness stress-reduction program.
The results were remarkable: Compared to a control group, meditators showed an increase in gray matter in the hippocampus (devoted to learning, memory and attention) and a decrease in gray matter in the amygdala (the part of the brain associated with emotions, anxiety and stress).
In a different study with experienced meditators, meditation also appeared to slow down the normal thinning of the walls of the brain: Gray matter in some brain regions of the 40- to 50-year-olds was similar in thickness to that of their 20-year-old counterparts.
According to study coauthor Sara Lazar, an instructor at Harvard Medical School, "Participants reported feeling less stressed after the program. This was correlated with a change in brain structure, which suggests that they were not just imagining it. Their brains actually are different."
Tip: There are many types of meditation. Mindfulness focuses attention on the present, helping you observe problems without reacting emotionally to them; transcendental meditation uses a mantra (a special word) as a focal point to quiet the mind; in guided imagery or visualization, you are led by a teacher (in class or on tape) to tap all your senses and imagine a calm, relaxed state. Tai chi and yoga incorporate deep breathing and meditation into various poses.
There's no right or wrong way to meditate, nor is one method better than another. Try different types until you find one that works for you. (Check your public library or online for books and tapes to get you started as well as classes at a health club or senior center.)
Be patient with yourself since it may initially feel silly, even unsettling, to disengage from the busyness of your mind. Ideally, set aside at least 15 to 20 minutes twice a day to meditate. But even a five-minute break to sit quietly, feel planted on the floor, breathing slowly and deeply from your abdomen, can break the gridlock of stress.
5. Fret less
The worst stress is triggered by situations that leave you feeling powerless, whether it's a demanding job with lots of responsibility but few rewards, a tanking economy that takes a big chunk of your retirement savings, or caring for an ill spouse. But just fretting itself can decrease physical and psychological well-being.
Researchers at Ohio University in Athens found that dwelling on upsetting events ratchets up levels of inflammation throughout the body, leaving you more susceptible to age-related diseases, including dementia, and making you more vulnerable to future stressful events small and large.
Tip: Chronic worriers have a perpetual ticker tape of anxiety running through their minds. If you're one of them, schedule a worry break: Set aside 15 minutes a day to actively dwell on problems and concerns. When that time is up, though, tell yourself to STOP (or picture a large red stop sign).
Or try keeping a "worries" journal for one week. You may be surprised by how many of the things you lost sleep over never happened.
Meanwhile, do what you can to take charge of stressful situations: Anxious about finances? Consult a financial planner. Nervous about the outcome of a medical test? Pass the time until you get the results by going to the movies, reading an engrossing book or exercising. Or talk to people who have had a similar situation turn out well.
Finally, instead of allowing your to-do list to take over your life, reconsider what's on it and prioritize. Must you pick up the dry cleaning today or can it wait until tomorrow? Do you really have to prepare your famous lasagna for the church potluck or can you pick up a rotisserie chicken at the market on your way over?
Honestly, no one's keeping score.
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The Matthews Police Department arrested a suspect in several recent residential break-ins. On Monday, March 1, a resident near Four Lakes Drive, reported seeing a person attempting to break into their neighbor's home. Police officers arrived and were able to arrest the person.
Wynton Lewis Coleman, 22, of 106 George Clay Lane, Matthews. was arrested. Following his arrest Coleman and his mother consented to a search of their home where officers located items from four other recent residential burglaries.
Coleman has been charged with attempted breaking and entering and on a warrant charge of possession of stolen property. Additional charges are pending for these burglaries and other recent thefts in the downtown area.
"This is an example where one citizen made a difference. They saw the suspect committing the crime and were able to call the police and give good accurate information. This enabled our officers and detectives to find this individual quickly and put him behind bars," said Matthews Chief of Police Rob Hunter.


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Lt. Joseph Field, field artillery officer assigned to 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, holds a conversation over an MRE (meal ready to eat), with Mark Scoon, executive vice president of Warner Bros. Pictures, during a Hollywood executive visit June 16 at Fort Irwin, Calif. The executives visited several areas of the National Training Center to get a feel for Army training.
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Okay, so tensionometers run around $60. I'd get one if I planned to build a lot of wheels, but I'm not. From my understanding, experienced mechanics can judge proper tension by plucking the spoke, like a guitar-string, and hearing the note. Now, I'm a musical person, and have close-to-perfect pitch, would love it if any of you could tell me about what the note (or range of notes) associated with an ideally tensioned spoke. If type of spoke matters, I use 14/15/14 for most of my wheelbuilding. The one especially in question is rear wheel, drive-side.
Also, note that you don't need perfect pitch to do this - just compare to a guitar or piano.
Do people use this sort of technique? It makes sense, but I've never heard anyone refer to the actual note.


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After huge success of its existing models like Scorpio and XUV 500, auto major Mahindra and Mahindra (M&M) is working on a new mass-market SUV and plans to position it as the lowest-price vehicle in this segment.
The company is currently working on 2-3 platforms for this new SUV, which it plans to launch beginning 2015 at a price even below that of Scorpio, senior executive Pawan Goenka told PTI in an interview here.
Goenka, Executive Director and President (Automotive and Farm Equipments) at M&M, was here for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, which was held from January 21-25.
Mahindra group, a USD 17 billion multinational group employing over 185,000 people in over 100 countries, is a major player in automotive business through its flagship entity M&M. Besides, it is also present across various other sectors including technology, aerospace, defence, financial services, hospitality, retail and real estate.
"If you look at journey of Mahindras, starting from Scorpio, we basically have pushed the envelope for making the mass market higher in terms of price," said Goenka, who is known as father of the highly successful Scorpio.
Asked what next to expect from M&M in the Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) segment, Goenka said, "When we started selling Scorpio at about Rs 6 lakh, there was no mass market product being sold at Rs 6 lakh.
"Nothing was sold more than few hundred units at Rs 6 lakh at that time and then we came and sold 3,000-4,000 Scorpios a month at that price.
"Then, when we launched we launched XUV at Rs 12 lakh, again there was no mass market product sold at that price. But we again came in and pushed the envelop. We have done all these," he said.
"Now, going beyond Rs 12 lakh price position is probably unlikely in India right now. There has been a very significant change in the segmentation of this SUV business where the smaller sub-four meter, may be even petrol driven, SUVs are suddenly becoming very popular.
"So for Mahindras, the next big thing would be not to go from Scorpio to XUV to something bigger and more premium, but to come on this end, that is below Scorpio, to see how do we go into the newly created segment of sub-four metre, primarily
five-passenger vehicles," Goenka said.
"That is where our next big bet will be," he said.
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2:05pm Wednesday 18th December 2013 in By Stephanie Manley, Reporter
BOOTHS in Carnforth has officially opened its cafe following a £1.2 million store investment.
The 48-seater cafe, which opened on Monday, was the second stage in a series of improvements for the 24-year-old shop.
Stage one was car park redevelopment and extension in 2012 – and the new addition seems to have gone well with customers queuing up as soon as doors opened.
Store manager Stephen Allen said: "We have had some positive comments already. One person said they had been waiting for this for 20 years, and it was about time."
The new cafe offers a range of hot and cold drinks, freshly prepared soups, salads, sandwiches, toasties as well as tray bakes and cakes.
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There are many ways of studying the precepts. What I would like to do here is to use the 8th precept to illustrate a way of actually practicing with the precepts. There are two parts to this practice, as I see it. One is to use one's imagination to extend the narrower, more literal meaning of the precept to cover much more than we normally think of. By doing this the precept can come alive for each of us in our own individual lives in exactly the way it needs to. Once I identify the best way to understand the precept for me, then I can take it into my life and work with it. This is the tricky part. We have a tendency to treat the precepts as fodder for the superego. Not only is this not what the precepts are, but also this is no way to practice anything, since it involves rejecting parts of ourselves, which leads to rejecting others. The precepts are not about 'should' or 'should not.' We could, I suppose, try to distinguish between using the precepts as 'guides' of some kind as opposed to 'shoulds' and 'should nots,' but there is a deeper way to practice with them, even for the beginner. Once I see the best way for me to understand the precept in question, then I can get to know myself in relation to that precept. This is a practice of no preferences, no judgments, no shoulds, no ideas of failure. It is a practice of simply allowing what is. I will explain more below how to deepen that practice, but the outcome of going deeper and deeper is that the precepts begin to manifest themselves naturally in my life.
"Stingy"-it's a funny word. I think of Scrooge. It's a word that gives me a certain feeling. "Stingy." We usually think of it in terms of possessions and possessiveness. Not sharing what I own. Being tight with money. And notice the word "tight" that we use here. It describes what it actually feels like to be stingy. There are many ways of being stingy. For example, a friend of mine, someone I dearly love, is very stingy with the servings that she gives to people, whenever she is the hostess. It's noticeable. Everything is very small. Here's a perfect version of what we normally mean by "stingy." It's a poem of Rumi's.
A dervish knocks at a house to ask for a piece of dry bread.
Or moist, it didn't matter.
"This is not a bakery," said the owner.
"Might I have a bit of gristle, then?"
"Does this look like a butcher shop?"
"A little flour?"
"Do you hear a grinding stone?"
"Some water?"
"This is not a well."
Whatever the dervish asked for, the man made some
tired joke and refused to give him anything.
Finally the dervish ran into the house, lifted his robe and
squatted as though to take a shit.
"Hey, hey!"
"Quiet, you sad man. A deserted place is a fine spot to
relieve oneself.
And since there's no living thing here or needs of living,
it needs fertilizing."
The dervish began his own list of questions and answers.
"What kind of bird are you?
Not a falcon trained for the royal hand,
Not a peacock painted with everyone's eyes,
Not a parrot that talks for sugar cubes,
Not a nightingale that sings like someone in love.
Not a hoopoe that brings messages to Solomon.
Or a stork that builds on a cliffside.
What exactly do you do?
You are no known species.
You haggle and make jokes to keep what you own for
You have forgotten about the One who doesn't care about ownership. Who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human
The One. Ultimate Reality. The faceless One, who never tries 'to turn a profit' from anything at all. We, on the other hand, are always trying to turn a profit from every human exchange, and from other things as well. We're always trying to get something-admiration, love, recognition, praise, acknowledgement, even just staying connected. Think how we manipulate and bargain and negotiate to turn a profit from every human exchange. Much of this is very unconscious. Habituated. Even when we give, or serve, or love, or pay attention, we're trying to get something. Sometimes it's just to get back some of what we give.
So what are we stingy with in all these cases? One of the things we're stingy with is one hundred percent. We're stingy with the possibility of doing something one hundred percent. Imagine loving one hundred percent. Imagine acknowledging someone one hundred percent with no thought of getting something in return, which would take part of it away, and make it seventy percent. Sometimes twenty percent. We're also stingy with the truth. Stingy with the truth of what's really going on in us, with us, what we really want. We hold onto it, hold it back, withhold it. We play our cards close to the chest–covering the heart.
We also try to turn a profit in practice. We always try to get something from practice. We try to get better. We try to get enlightenment. We try to get seen for doing it right. What am I being stingy with here? Wholehearted surrender to the present moment. Think how stingy we are with that. Think how much we hold on. We also imagine that in practicing what we will 'get' will be ours, which is, of course, the greatest delusion of all.
And then there is surrender. In addition to treating it as a bargaining tool-"I'll surrender to the present moment and then get something back"-we imagine that it is something we can do. So, how do we surrender? How do we do this non-doing? We have to be taken-ravished, if you will. We can only prepare the conditions for being 'taken.' Taken by what?-by the present moment, by Ultimate Reality, by the Absolute, by God. And the way we prepare those conditions is what I was talking about last night. It's by staying here now. By going vertically. By giving up all of our horizontal negotiations. Bargaining. Something stingy people do all the time. Bargain, bargain. I'll do this if you do that. I'll do this in order to get that. So it's always a kind of tit for tat. Conditional. Think of the notion of unconditional love. It's interesting that we usually think about how nice it would be to receive it.
So, we are stingy with anything we hold onto. We are stingy with anything we're unwilling to open to. Any person we are unwilling to open to. Any situation we're unwilling to open to. Anything that's going on in us that we are unwilling to open to. Stingy when we're not fully participating in what's happening. What's here. What's now. Imagine fully participating, wholeheartedly being here, whatever it is. A class. A meeting. A dinner. Gardening. Fully participating. We are stingy when we're withholding anything about the truth of where we are. We're stingy when we don't take risks. We're stingy when we're not compassionate. We're stingy with our tears. With kind words. With open-heartedness. With open-mindedness.
What else are we stingy with? What else do we hold onto? Security. Self-images. Pain. Suffering. Unwillingness to suffer. Being right. Truth. Love. Being a victim. Need for recognition. Time. Praise. Think how we hang onto those things. We don't give them away. We don't share them. One of the important things that we're stingy with is gratitude. Remember the practicing we did with saying "thank you," with noticing what gets in the way of saying "thank you" and how different it can be for each of us? It's amazing how stingy we can be with "thank you." Think of the meal gatha, which is about gratitude, and begins with, "Seventy-two labors brought us this food. We should know how it comes to us." Are we whole-hearted in knowing that, in expressing that gratitude? Or are we stingy? Do we even remember it each time we eat? I think Mary Oliver is reminding us of this whole-heartedness in this poem.
It grew in the black mud,
It grew under the tiger's orange paws,
Its stems thinner than candles and as straight.
Its leaves like the feathers of egrets, but green.
The grains cresting, wanting to burst.
O, blood of the tiger.
I don't want you just to sit down at the table.
I don't want you just to eat, and be content.
I want you to walk out into the fields
where the water is shining, and the rice has risen.
I want you to stand there, far from the white tablecloth.
I want you to fill your hands with the mud, like a blessing.
We can also be stingy with receiving gratitude. With receiving praise. I've told you many times the story of my great lesson at age sixteen that took so many years to really sink in, when my favorite teacher complimented me on the stairway. I remember exactly where I was standing. And I behaved like a stingy sixteen-year-old, embarrassed and pleased, wanting to hang onto it probably, but in any case, making a mess of it. She took my forearm with her long, slender fingers and said, "Don't be so ungracious." And I'll never forget it. It was a kind of stinginess. To not receive what is given to us as gratitude, to not be gracious. This is being stingy. Many of Mary Oliver's poems are about being grateful for and graciously receiving the world. Here are two lines from "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches":
Do you think this world is only an entertainment for you?
Never to enter the sea and notice how the water divides
with perfect courtesy to let you in.
What about being stingy with our lives? Actually, before getting to our lives, I think it might be worth going back to Dogen. "One phrase, one verse, ten thousand forms, one hundred grasses, one Dharma, one realization, all Buddhas. All teachers. Since the beginning there has never been being stingy." What he's talking about there is Ultimate Reality, the Absolute, the faceless One, the "One," as Rumi calls it. There is nothing stingy about the One. Nothing. This world that is manifested over and over and over again-from moment to moment. There is nothing stingy there. It is a gift. And we are given. And it is given to us. Constantly. Alive. Pulsating. Love, trees, fingers, the sea and its dividing water when we step in. Everything, even Auschwitz
From Master Keizan's Denkoroku:
The light of the Mind- moon, and colors of the eye-flower are
Shining forth and blooming beyond time, who can appreciate them?
Sourceless stream from a ten-thousand-foot cliff,
Washing out stones, scattering clouds, gushing forth.
Brushing away the snow, making the flowers fly wildly-
A length of pure white silk beyond the dust.
Look at the language here: "shining forth," "blooming," "gushing forth." That length of pure white silk beyond the dust displays no stinginess in its manifestation. Spring blossoms, sweeping, walking, Auschwitz, nuclear waste, life, death, our lives-all 'gushing forth.' Another verse from Master Keizan uses my favorite image:
That One whose whole life is extremely active and lively
We call the One who raises the eyebrows and blinks.
That One, the faceless One, raises the eyebrows and blinks. A wonderful image of this manifest world, this world of many-ness, that we live in, that we are. That One, whose life is extremely active and lively. Nothing stingy here, or, as Dogen says, "Since the beginning there has never been Being Stingy."
What about my life? What about myself? What about not being stingy with my life? With the ingredients of my life? But much more than that. To not be stingy with my life, with myself, is to fully express myself at every moment. Fully, bursting, expressing myself. Everything that I am. And this is not 'exercising my talents.' So I can say, "I want to fully express myself." And I'm just sitting here not doing what I really could be doing with my life, with my gifts, with my talents. That's not what fully expressing oneself means. Those talents may be expressed when one is fully expressed-and maybe not. When we are fully expressed, we are transparent. There is no one there to know they are talents much less my talents. Nor is it my life. Again, from "Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches," Mary Oliver has the following two lines:
Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
For how long will you continue to listen to those dark shouters,
caution and prudence?
I would add 'stinginess.'
Not being stingy with one's life, with one's self, with this precious short, short gift we've been given is often associated with voice, with finding one's voice, one's 'own voice,' we say. And it's amazing how this shows up in all the traditions. I think the throat chakra is about this, it's about the voice, about being fully expressed. Here are some short poems of Rumi's about this.:
Let your throat song be clear
and strong enough
To make an emperor fall full length
suppliant at the door.
You that come to birth
and bring the mysteries.
Your voice thunder
makes us happy.
Roar lion of the heart
and tear me open.
In Buddhism we have the lion's roar. Mary Oliver in a prose poem has a version of this. Notice, the speck of my heart, my heart is just a speck, when I am stingy.
And the speck of my heart, in my shed of flesh
and bone, began to sing out, the way the sun
would sing if the sun could sing, if light had
a mouth and tongue, if the sky had a throat É
Voice, our primary example of expression, shows up as a metaphor for the manifestation of the One as well in the notion that everything "preaches the Dharma." As Dogen says in a little verse, "Are not even the sounds of the bustling marketplace, the preaching of the Dharma?" No stinginess here. Everything preaches the Dharma-nuclear waste, skunks, flowers, grass-and does so fully and completely. What is is not stingy. There is nothing withheld.
So here we are, stingy in this way and that, wanting not to be. How do we work with this? The first thing is to not be stingy in discovering who we are in relation to stinginess. "Where am I stingy? About what? With whom?" we need to ask. Can we take a good, neutral look at ourselves, with no preferences? Can we compassionately allow what is, or who I am in the relative sense? Can we explore deeply enough to feel the withholding, the tightness, maybe even the fear? Can we feel safe enough, not-stingy enough to express who we are, where we are, to another? Coming to terms with who I am in relation to stinginess and to do so with no judgement is one thing, but to be not-stingy enough to place my stinginess right out on the table before others takes the practice even deeper. This is where our practice circle work is really useful.
What are we doing when we do this? What is happening? Master Sosan, the author of the poem that begins with "The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences" also says something in that poem about letting things "take their course." It's as if everything wants to liberate itself, to take its course, and we, out of our fear, out of our stinginess, prevent that from happening. Here is another poem of Mary Oliver's precisely about this:
In every heart there is a coward and a procrastinator.
In every heart there is a god of flowers, just waiting
to come out of its cloud and lift its wings.
The kookaburras, kingfishers, pressed against the edge of
their cage, they asked me to open the door.
Years later I wake in the night and remember how I said to them,
no, and walked away.
They had the brown eyes of soft-hearted dogs.
They didn't want to do anything so extraordinary, only to fly
home to their river.
By now I suppose the great darkness has covered them.
As for myself, I am not yet a god of even the palest flowers.
Nothing else has changed either.
Someone tosses their white bones to the dung heap.
The sun shines on the latch of their cage.
I lie in the dark, my heart pounding.
By opening that cage door, by letting out whatever we hold in us, we are letting things 'take their course.' We are then not being stingy with stinginess, stealing, speaking ill of other faults and all the other precepts. By letting the kookaburras fly away we let them take their course and transform themselves. Then the precepts begin to naturally manifest.
I will end with Dogen on his enlightenment.
For fifty-four years
Following the way of heaven,
Now leaping beyond
shattering every barrier.
To cast off all attachments
While still alive!
Plunging into the yellow spring!
This is the precept of not being stingy.


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A group of eight former employees from The Cincinnati Enquirer filed an amended lawsuit Oct. 19 accusing the Gannett-owned newspaper of age discrimination. The lawsuit, which was originally filed by Joseph Fenton and Catherine Reutter in 2011, was amended on Oct. 19 to include six more plaintiffs.
The origins of the complaint, which also alleges intentional infliction of emotional distress, began when Fenton was allegedly told he was performing poorly at The Enquirer. On November 2010, Fenton was "suddenly informed" by his supervisor, Julie Engebrecht, that his performance was unsatisfactory.
This was despite Engebrecht allegedly acknowledging that Fenton was a "great editor" in the same conversation.
Despite a series of meetings through human resources, Fenton was fired on Feb. 18, 2011. He was 57, and he had worked for Gannett for 14 years, according to the lawsuit. The complaint also says Fenton had no previous record of discipline, but Engebrecht had allegedly referred to Fenton as a "dinosaur" and "curmudgeon."
When he was terminated, at least seven other individuals — all "near or over the age of 50" — at The Enquirer were laid off as well, according to the lawsuit.
This is all despite Fenton having a history of "high-quality work" at The Enquirer, including two projects nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit goes on to make similar claims for the other former employees involved. They were all 45 years old or older when terminated, and most claim younger, less qualified employees replaced them.
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Every U.S. Demographic Says Alcohol More Dangerous than Pot
Every U.S. Demographic Says Alcohol More Dangerous than Pot
By almost a five-to-one margin from almost all demographics, a new poll shows that Americans agree alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana. The new Pew survey does find that fewer Republicans and Hispanics agree, but they still say alcohol is the more dangerous drug by a two-to-one margin. The most likely to agree were African-Americans at an eight-to-one margin and the under-30 crowd at a seven-to-one margin.
The poll marks a turning point in marijuana history as public opinion has finally caught up with medical science. The journal Lancet had graded alcohol as more dangerous than marijuana on all counts such as harm to self and harm to society back in 2010. In fact, alcohol was determined to be the most dangerous drug to society in the study and only lagged behind meth, crack, and heroin on the measure of harm to users.
The Pew survey also revealed even more statistics that prove public opinion on the war on drugs has turned. Huge majorities favor legalizing pot, believe that mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug crimes are a bad idea, and that the federal government should spend more time treating drug users rather than prosecuting them.
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AT&T's improved PTT Serive will be enabled in November
In June, AT&T officially launched the'enhanced push to talk' service and said the new plan will be released in late 2012. According to the latest news, AT&T spokesperson Mari Melguiz disclosed that AT&T will enable the its enhanced push-to-talk service in November of this year on BlackBerry smartphones and a mix of Android models running 2.3 or higher, BlackBerry 7 models and those phones that will be running on Windows Phone 8. Especially, Certain featurephones will be able to access the service using Java, although those devices won't have all of the features that smartphone users will have. Besides handsets, those using tablets, laptops and in-vehicle devices can use the service This function of service is similar to the walkie-talkie, it will use the VoIP technology, it is said it will allegedly spend users about $30 per month. However, there is no still a specfic release date.
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Pastor Andrews embraces pastors, leaders, and entrepreneurs by teaching biblical principals that pushes them into another level of kingdom building. Out of his passion of reaching the hurting, God has enabled Pastor Kennedy to pioneer one of the Southeast Texas - cutting edge churches that's Making a Difference in the lives of all races, denominations, and social status - across America.
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ROCKTON (WIFR) -- Below is a press release from Hononegah High School regarding high school rankings:
This week, Hononegah High School is participating in American Education Week and staff, students, parents, and the community have much to celebrate.
According to three National publications: Washington Post, Chicago Sun Times, and Newsweek, Hononegah ranks among the top performing and most challenging high schools in the state of Illinois and in the Nation. While each publication uses various criteria to complete the rankings, they all look at achievement of the students from each high school being ranked. Washington Post ranked Hononegah at number 1227 of the "Best High Schools" in the Nation because of the number of Advanced Placement tests taken by the seniors from the Class of 2013. Newsweek also used the number of Advanced Placement tests taken by students as well as ACT scores and the percentage of students graduating in four years as indicators to rank Hononegah as number 879 of the "Best High Schools" in the Nation.
Lastly, Hononegah High School made the "Top 50 High Schools in Illinois" list featured by Chicago Sun Times. The Chicago Sun Times averages test scores on the Prairie State Achievement Exam and compares the school's average with the State's average. From that comparison, Hononegah ranked number 49.
While these rankings are impressive, it comes with a great deal of hard work and dedication from our students and staff. The staff at Hononegah High School strives to give every student the most rigorous experiential learning opportunity possible and our students work really hard to achieve at those high levels. Hononegah continues to expand the Advanced Placement offerings and works to prepare every student for college and a career. In 2013, a record number of Advanced Placement tests were taken and passed by students, which was a contributing factor in the rankings by these publications.
In celebration of American Education Week, Hononegah High School proudly honors our students, staff, parents, and community and the accomplishments that led to these prestigious rankings.