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South Korean company Samsung’s smartphones have a worldwide network. With this, Samsung also supplies chip and screen to other smartphone companies. Speaking of the international smartphone market share, Samsung has 22.3 percent stake in it. In India too, the company’s phones are the highest sales.


The company whose number comes after Samsung is Apple. Apple’s phones are the highest selling after Samsung all over the world. Speaking of market share, Apple has a 12 percent stake in it. On the figures, last year, a total of 4.1 million iPhones were sold worldwide. Based on the year-to-year year, sales of Apple smartphones increased by 1.5 percent. In addition to the smartphone, other products manufactured by Apple such as MacBook, iPad etc. are equipped with high technology and are preferred by users.


The smartphone market of China’s Huawei is 11.3 percent in the smartphone market. When the company saw last year’s data, the company sold a total of 3.85 million smartphones. The company’s P10 smartphone also got a lot of sales.


Oppo is fourth in terms of smartphone sales. In the year 2017, the company sold a total of 2.78 million smartphones worldwide. The company has 8.1 percent stake in the market. Compared to last year, the company’s market share has increased by 1.5 percent.


Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 4 smartphone has become the best-selling phone in India last year. Talking about the international market, the company is at number five. Last year, the company sold 2.12 million smartphones worldwide. With this, the company has a market share of 6.2 percent. xiaomi is expanding on the Indian market by calling the budget segment. With this, the company is also expanding the offline network.


So these are most popular smartphone brands in around the global. I hope this post is informative for you don’t forget to share with your friends and tell me in the comment section which smartphone you used and which smartphone you like most. Till then bye bye and be happy 🙂


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Is it a best practice to have a two separate IEndpointInstance basically differing only by name and both otherwise identically configured or is it a better practice to have have one and simply use the differing destination values to send ultimately to the correct location?


Yes we lose some fidelity on the headers but honestly the originating endpoint isn’t really important for us (It may be of importance to the infrastructure or other places where things go sideways when it’s not clear and we’ve just not proverbially ‘stepped in it yet’). I mean, we care it’s from Server X and Application Y, but don’t care to know if the endpoint was sending Foo or Bar commands (i mean the destination tells us that)


In short, should we have a single IEndpointInstance per destination or can we share a single running instance, provided both logical channels are configured the same?


Let’s do the same scenario now but switch this to a duplex exchange here and best practices for response queues. In our case we’re using at a minimum host and application as an identifying value in this POC. It’s pretty obvious the response instance needs a discriminator so we can get it to the proper place and no big surprise here. The question is then if Foo Command has a FooResult response and Bar Command has a BarResult, can we actually share the same response queue and have Callbacks actually do the correct thing here and even if so, is that even a good idea?


Looking at the exchanges it would appear that everything’s tied together via correlation id and the response queue would just be peeked for the matching value to the request, ignoring the rest. Do they bump heads together or is that a case where they’re fine on the same queue?


note I am not saying use one response queue but two running endpoint instances, we know that ends up with them potentially ditching the response because they don’t think it’s current. One instance handing a dialog for two commands over the same response queue.


TL;DR; Yes, have one IEndpointInstance. Also have one instance and one incoming queue for callbacks. Both questions answered.


I added the conversion to IMessageSession because on SendOnly endpoints that interface includes less methods and is cleaner, less likely to make mistakes. Read more about it here.


Does the above make sense? The routing configuration makes sure the message go to the correct endpoint and the Send(message) method just sends them. Only during configuration you specify what goes where, but later during sending of messages you don’t care. Just send them and NServiceBus takes care of the rest.


For example, check out our showcase sample, where we use SignalR to inform the browser about updates to data. It’s 100% transparent to the end user, but you’re not waiting for a response from an endpoint that might never arrive. Or arrive with the thread already being cancelled, recycled, etc, etc.


Yup absolutely makes sense. Everything’s working as mentioned above but we wanted to make sure if we were inadvertently going to run into issues down the line. One of those, “yeah guy you shouldn’t do that-no wonder you’re having [insert issue] you putz!” situations.


Nice tip on leveraging the routing instead of using the Send overload with the destination supplied. Far nicer even though it is hidden away in some config of ours, that’s even more elegant. Cheers


In answer to your question about calls backs: Deal is that our scope of the project isn’t to spend too many cycles on rebuilding the end user apps to operate in a different methodology, even if in a greenfield application we’d go with a general approach as you outline. It’s not a new app; just a poc on one scenario of the greater problem set that we can use to make the value proposition moving forward.


Therefore we’re stuck relatively in a classic MVC => Service Boundary => Response story for this due to the way the application controllers have been designed, thus the duplex. Yes they don’t survive restart but neither would the existing implementation either so not really an issue in this particular case. The goal of the exercise is to extract a problem feature set which has bad coupling due to the lack of a bounded context that should have in place in the start so … leezrom =/


It’s less cumbersome and you can specify an entire assembly to route message to somewhere else. What we usually do is create at least 1 assembly per endpoint with messages that can be shared. So if your endpoint is Finance we also have Finance.Messages full of commands and events. Those can then be used by Shipping for example, where we configure once that all those commands need to go to Finance.


Once something changes, you only need to check configuration in 1 location, instead of changing code all over the palce.


Developers are less likely to make mistakes. It’s easy to think one message should go to A, whereas it should go to B. Or perhaps a copy-n-paste mistake.


Deal is that our scope of the project isn’t to spend too many cycles on rebuilding the end user apps to operate in a different methodology


That’s EXACTLY what we build the Callbacks feature for. I made the assumption somewhere that this was greenfield. Than you’re perfectly fine!


I’m running into an issue when trying to start up a compose file in docker where the rabbitmq container is starting right away but not ready for a couple seconds, so when my NSB applications start up, the crash fairly quickly because they can’t connect to the transport. If I run the docker-compose file again, everything is fine because rabbit is ready by then. There’s another work around in the docker community where you add a shell script to keep pinging an endpoint before starting. This super kludgy imo. The recommended practice is that the application retry the connections on it’s own.


I’m assuming the NSB has this functionality but I haven’t been able to locate it. The only docs I’ve come across so far talke retries for the messages themselves, which is something different. So, is there a way to set the retry policy for the connection to the transport?


This is the behavior is the endpoint loses the connection to the transport while it already is running. In your scenario the endpoint is starting and if a connection cannot be made startup fails.


If this is required I would suggest self-hosting your endpoint and to just wrap your start in a loop with an incremental delay. I quickly create the following extension method that does this:


Just copy the extension method to your project and tweak to your needs. The current implementation does max 10 retries with an increased delay (100, 200, 400, 800, etc.). I suggest you do not use catch(Exception) but to use a specific list of exceptions that you want to catch to be retried.


this doesn’t seem to work because the connection exception throws during Endpoint.Create(endpointConfiguration) I will modify the extension to work with the configuration and see if that works.


If I change it to the following, it doesn’t work because on each subsequent attempt, it throws a different exception stating that the settings have been locked for modification. I’m not sure how to rearrange this to work.


I purposefully used the Create and Start API’s as I assume the queues and database schemas would already be created and then .EnableInstallers() does not need to be called which is probably the reason you currently are getting exceptions.


However, this does mean that you have to make sure that any queues or schemas in your database(s) are already created. We recommend to only use the .EnableInstallers during a specific Installation/Upgrade stage and not when you would only start the endpoint. This splits the installation from the actual messages processing which is often required by IT operations.


In general, the installation part uses administrative privileges which are not required when you are processing messages which you only want to run least privilege.


I ended up doing the helper method similar to how you mentioned. Using the factory delegate, it simply created a new endpoint configuration on each attempt until succeeded. In this use case, I need the enableinstallers as this is intended for use in a docker cluster. That is, each time we stand up a new stack, it will be creating new queues (e.g. local sandbox environments, qa environments, feature test environments, etc.). Thanks!


I did want to mention that .EnableInstallers impacts startup performance a bit as it needs to inspect the infrastructure. However, that makes sense your case as it will always be used to initialize a fully fresh sandbox.


Just keep in mind that your endpoint will run with elevated privileges, thus also could drop databases, tables, queues, etc. and probably less suitable for production environments in case you want to apply a locked down execution environment.


What is the recommended practice for installing then? I can’t imagine the intent is to EnableInstallers(), deploy to production, let it run. Then remove the code and redeploy to production.<|endoftext|>For most Indian families a marriage is as much a business proposition as a romantic affair of the heart, and perhaps for this reason many of the advertisments sound as if they are marketing objects rather than advertising potential spouses:


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1256634  the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law (N-PCL) relating to cremations with an emphasis on N-PCL section 1517 and the New York State Public Health Law, sections 3441, 4145, 4200, 4201, 4202, 4210(a), 4216, and 4218. Such regulations shall include Part 203 of this Title and Part 219-4 of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Air Quality Regulations. The approved organization shall devote 20 percent of the total time allotted for the course to the New York statutes and regulations. The other subject matter area of course shall address the general and technical aspects of crematory operations. The subject matter area shall include but not be limited to the cremation process, cremation equipment, operation of cremation chamber, cremation terminology, crematory operator safety, and the identification of cremated human remains. The approved organization shall devote 80 percent of the total time allotted for the course to the general and technical aspects of crematory operations.


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(b) Any crematory employee who fails to attend the required scheduled class hours may, at the discretion of the approved organization, make up the missed subject matter during subsequent courses presented by an approved organization.


(c) Final examinations may only be taken by a crematory employee who has satisfied the attendance requirement.


(d) The final examination shall be a take home examination in which each employee must attain a score of 70 percent in order to obtain certification as a crematory operator. A failing grade on the final exam shall constitute failure of the course. All final exams are to be reviewed and graded by the approved organization and a copy of all tests with scores shall be provided to the Division of Cemeteries.


(e) Individuals who complete a course of study offered outside of the State of New York, which course has not been approved by the division, may file a request to the division for review and evaluation. Evidence of satisfactory course completion must be submitted by the applicant.


Each course shall be presented in such premises and in such facilities as shall be necessary to properly present the course. Such facilities shall be pre-approved by the division.


(a) All approved organizations shall retain the attendance records, the final examinations and a list of crematory employees who successfully complete each certification course for a period of five years after completion of each course. All such documents shall during normal business hours be available for inspection by authorized representatives of the Division of Cemeteries.


(b) All examination required for certification shall be in the form of a written take home examination and shall be returned to the educational provider within two weeks after distribution.


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Low physical activity responsible for 17% of cardiovascular deaths in Argentina | RadcliffeCardiology


Buenos Aires, Argentina, 15 October 2015: Low levels of physical activity are responsible for 17% of cardiovascular deaths in Argentina, reveals research presented at the Argentine Society of Cardiology Congress (SAC 2015) by Dr Rosana Poggio, a cardiologist at the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy (IECS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.


SAC 2015 is being held in Buenos Aires from 15 to 17 October 2015. Experts from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) will present a special programme.1


“Argentina has high rates of physical inactivity,” said Dr Roberto Peidro, a leading member of the Argentine Society of Cardiology and vice-president of the Argentine Foundation of Cardiology. “Lack of free time is the most important excuse given by sedentary people. On the other hand, doctors give insufficient advice about exercise.”


The current study investigated the impact of various levels of physical activity on death from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke and on total cardiovascular mortality in people aged 30 years and older. Data on physical activity was obtained from the Argentinian national survey of risk factors in 2013. Numbers of disease-specific deaths in 2010 came from the Ministry of Health in Argentina. Physical activity was categorised by metabolic equivalent tasks per minute per week (MET/minute/week), with 600 MET/min/week being equivalent to 30 minutes of brisk walking five days a week (ie 2.5 hours per week).


ESC guidelines recommend that healthy adults of all ages should spend 2.5 to 5 hours a week on physical activity or aerobic exercise training of at least moderate intensity, or 1 to 2.5 hours a week on vigorous intense exercise.2


During 2010 there were 43 796 deaths from cardiovascular disease in the population aged 30 years and above, including 25 142 deaths from IHD and 18 654 deaths from stroke.


The researchers found that engaging in less than 600 MET/min/week (ie the minimum recommended level of physical activity) was responsible for 17% (7 278) of total cardiovascular deaths in Argentina in 2010, of which 3 941 occurred in men and 3 337 in women. Doing less than 600 MET/min/week was responsible for 20% (4 907) of deaths from IHD and 13% (2 371) of stroke deaths.


Dr Poggio said: “We found that low levels of physical activity had a big impact on cardiovascular deaths in Argentina, which suggests that interventions promoting exercise should be a priority. The effects were greater in women of all ages because they exercise less than men.”


She continued: “Our analysis suggests that engaging in at least 30 minutes of brisk walking 5 days a week would reduce cardiovascular mortality at any age, especially in women and those younger than 70 years of age. Our findings have public health implications and emphasise the importance of women in particular being more physically active.”


Dr Peidro said: “This research demonstrates that the impact of physical inactivity on deaths from cardiovascular disease is very significant. The causes of lower physical activity in women, according to surveys, include their multiple occupations (work and home), less time spent doing sports by girls compared to boys, and the time spent caring for the health of other family members.”


“State policies are needed that encourage people in Argentina to be more physically active,” added Dr Peidro. “Scientific societies, health professionals and the state must work together to overcome the problem of sedentary lifestyles and, in this way, improve the duration and quality of life.”


Professor Michel Komajda, a past president of the ESC and course director of the ESC programme in Argentina, said: “It is well known that regular physical activity is beneficial for cardiovascular outcomes. The current study further assesses the relationship between the level of physical activity and cardiovascular deaths in Argentina. The conclusions clearly show that a low level of physical activity is common in Argentina and that regular physical activity prevents cardiovascular deaths, more so for coronary disease related deaths than for stroke. These findings should prompt actions to improve the awareness of the public regarding the long term benefits of regular physical activity.”


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Comments: The Scientific Name may possibly be a Genus or Family name, if this is the most specific identification available. Where multiple taxa are the subject, multiple names may be given. If possible, add this information here even if the title or caption of the resource already contains scientific names. Where the list of scientific names is impractically large (e. g., media collections or identification tools), the number of taxa should be given in Taxon Count (see below). If possible, please do not repeat the Taxonomic Coverage here. Do not use abbreviated Genus names ("P. vulgaris"). It is recommended to provide author citation to scientific names, to avoid ambiguities in the presence of homonyms (the same name created by different authors for different taxa). Identifier qualifications should be supplied in the Identification Qualifier (DO WE HAVE THIS???) term rather than here.


Definition: The taxonomic authority used to apply the name to the taxon, e. g., a book or web service from which the name comes from.


Definition: Equivalent to Scientific Name, but using GUIDs such to refer to the taxon names or concepts.


Definition: One or several scientific names that are synonyms to the Scientific Name may be provided here.


Comments: The primary purpose of this is in support of resource discovery, not developing a taxonomic synonymy. Misidentification or misspellings may thus be of interest. Where multiple taxa are present in a resource and multiple Scientific Names are given, the association between synonym and name is not discoverable.


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Spokes has responded strongly to the government’s Consultation on Sustainability Labelling within Building Standards. The proposals would grant bronze, silver or gold awards to developments with increasingly high levels of sustainability. But developers could gain the bronze and silver awards for developments containing zero space for storing even one bicycle!


Given the government’s own much-publicised target that 10% of all trips should be by bike in 2020 this is a clear case of non-joined-up thinking. With cycling investment running at under 1% of transport spending, and in danger of a severe cut under the current draft 2011-12 budget, the government had claimed it was working towards the target through cross-departmental working: but even that faint hope looks unlikely if this consultation is an example of how other departments regard everyday cycle use.


The best thing we can say for the proposals is that 2 or 3 years ago they probably wouldn’t have thought about storing a bike at all!


Not only is bike storage seen as unnecessary for a bronze or silver award, but developers can gain a gold award by building a flat which has just enough space for 1 bicycle or 1 pram! No family cycling, no husband-and-wife cycling, and no cycling at all if you’ve got a baby – but the developer gets a gold award for a sustainable building (they of course also have to meet a range of other non-cycling criteria).


Meanwhile councils such as Edinburgh already have standards requiring a mimimum one bike place per studio flat and 2 places per ordinary flat. In other words, the developers of every new flat (or house) in Edinburgh would automatically qualify for the government’s bike storage gold standard without having to put in the slightest extra effort beyond what is demanded by Edinburgh’s basic minimum criteria.


The Spokes submission [pdf 133k] urges that cycle storage should be a basic requirement for every new building. Also that the sustainability gold standard be used to recognise storage which goes well beyond the acceptable minimum (and including storage management and security where bike storage is communal, such as in new blocks of flats).


A respondent information form is available on the consultation website, but it is 14-pages, covering a great number of issues. If you use it, we suggest completing page 1 and then putting your bike storage comments into one or two of the more general boxes such as consultation question 3 or the final ‘Other comments’ box.


Alternatively, send your response as an email to buildingstandards@scotland.gsi.gov.uk saying this is your response to the Consultation on Sustainability Labelling within Building Standards. In this case, please also state in your email


… that you are/aren’t willing for your response, name, and/or postal address, to be public (e.g on the consultation responses website)


A brief response is fine, as in the Spokes main points (in bold above) – but if you have time, please give further thoughts and your own bike storage experiences. If you want to read up on the exact proposals, see the document ‘Section 7 – Domestic Guidance’ on the consultation website. The Spokes submission tells you which sections to refer to.


Jill Barta had 18 points and a career-high 12 rebounds and No. 25 Gonzaga cruised to a 71-41 win over Winthrop on Saturday to end a two-game losing streak at …


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Gonzaga opened strong and had a gritty finish against the University of Southern California in its Naismith Hall of Fame Challenge finale Tuesday in the Kennel.


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Gonzaga’s starters had taken their final bows, another WCC women’s basketball tournament championship had been secured and the last seconds were melting away.


OLYMPIA – Washington’s 2008 legislative session began with a small band of property tax protesters battling cold winds and rain on the Capitol’s granite steps. But after last fall’s one-day special session to reinstate a 1 percent annual limit on hikes in total property tax hikes, it’s unclear how much more lawmakers will do this year.


One idea – a “homestead exemption” – comes from Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield. He wants to amend the state constitution to exempt the first $100,000 of a home’s value from the state’s slice of property tax. (Much of your property tax bill is made up of local taxes.) If voters and two-thirds of the Legislature agree, Zarelli figures that Senate Joint Resolution 8226 would save a homeowner about $200 a year. The state would lose about $150 million a year.


It’s true that Zarelli’s part of Olympia’s slim Republican minority. Democrats have nearly a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate, and Gov. Chris Gregoire is also a Democrat. But Zarelli was also the budget point guy who championed a hard-to-tap state “rainy day fund” for lean budget years. Democrats ended up embracing that idea, and in November, so did voters.


In a Statehouse where groups are constantly competing for the attention of key lawmakers, a little political theater helps. Public employees seeking raises have in the past fanned out across the Capitol, pointedly handing out Payday candy bars. Health care advocates have passed out budget Band-Aids. And last year, the group Moms Rising handed out temporary tattoos of their logo: a we-can-do-it style Rosie the Riveter mom hoisting aloft a smiling, chubby baby. And some lawmakers – Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown among them – wore the tattoos during debate.


This year, Moms Rising is pushing hard for lawmakers to find a way to pay for a five-week stipend ($250 a week) to help working parents take time off to bond with a newborn or adopted child. Lawmakers approved the program last year, but although it starts next year, they haven’t yet agreed how to pay for it. One controversial suggestion: a tax of 1 cent per hour paid by all employees.


Moms Rising’s new tactic: fortune cookies. The group had a bunch of fortune cookies made with sayings like “Success in future endeavors awaits those who fully fund Family Leave Insurance.”


An Indianapolis-based educational foundation recently gave the state $75,000 to design a program through which workers can set aside money – matched by their employer – to pay for further education and training.


The accounts help “ensure that people who want to grow in their jobs and careers can have the financial means to do so,” said Gregoire.


The state will initially target counties around Olympia and Aberdeen. The plan is to eventually expand it statewide.


Since 1983, new state laws have been written in gender-neutral terms. Last year, lawmakers waded a little further into the state lawbooks, rewriting terms like “fireman,” “policeman” and “bondsman” in older sections of code. Last year’s changes also required the attorneys who massage the state’s legalese to make state law completely gender-neutral by the summer of 2015.


This year, half a dozen state senators are trying to move things along. Senate Bill 6413 would rewrite more law, changing “men” to “persons,” “councilman” to “councilmember” and “chairman” to “chair.”


Senate Bill 6408: Making it a crime for a pet dealer to sell a seriously ill animal. It’s aimed at shoddy health care at “puppy mill” breeders.


Senate Bill 6241: Barring drug companies from using physicians’ prescribing histories to target their marketing efforts.


As the newspaper’s Statehouse reporter in Olympia, I periodically hit up readers for comments


1256637  not easily stop supplying game information, or even throttle the replies without impacting their intended workings. As in most DOS attacks, the ability to spoof IP addresses is the crucial factor for the attacker. However, since zombies can and are being used in DOS attacks, as long as spoofing is possible in huge parts of the Internet, these attacks will remain possible.


At this time, the attack networks capabilities are limited, putting a cap on the maximum impact that can be reached via what I call ``application level reflection DOS'' attacks. Nevertheless, the high leverage factor and ease of conducting this kind of attack make it necessary to put this concept on the radar.


On average. Many servers can handle much more, but a detailed mapping of the server network space would run contrary to the goal of keeping the attack trivial for the attacker.<|endoftext|>It works well to keep moisture out of burial cables, but it really makes a huge mess with everything it touches. We often had to just throw away our contaminated clothing because the stuff didn't want to come out.


Well then my question becomes, if you were running cable to your own homestead, would you use the silicone filled stuff or not?


Direct burial cable (Type UF) doesn't have the silicone fill. It's nonetheless a real booger to work with, but I've never had it leak unless there was an immediate cause, like a nick by someone digging in the vicinity. I've come to like liquidtight conduit (Type LFMC) with a pull string, provided someone doesn't inadvertently pull out the pull string.


When I did my shop I wanted a low voltage run and some room for growth. After hearing what I wanted, my electrician told me what kind of pvc conduit to buy and he gave me a bunch of pull string. I glued the conduit together and ran the pull string through it as I went. All the electrician had to do was kick it into the trench and add the fittings to bring the two new pvc conduits up into place. He properly buried the voltage conduits to comply with code and then to also give enough room between the low voltage extra conduits and the voltage wires before I topped off the trench. It cost me almost nothing more than the parts. I have used those conduits twice in the last ten years. Just don’t forget to run a new pull cord when you use the existing one to pull a new wire.<|endoftext|>Say you run a community news site. In your spare time. And Patch has moved into your neighborhood. How do you, with limited resources but a desire to keep contributing to your community, stay competitive?


One site’s solution: Take the “site” out of “news site.” Starting March 1, Rockville Central, a community news outlet for the DC-area city of Rockville, Maryland, will move its operation to…its Facebook page. Entirely to its Facebook page.


“There are always two different conversations going on,” Cindy Cotte Griffiths, the site’s editor, told me — one on RockvilleCentral.com, and the other on the site’s Facebook page. Why force the two to compete with each other, when they’re actually, in general, the same conversation? Facebook is, Cotte Griffiths notes, “where the people are.” (Rockville Central currently gets about 2,000 of its average 20,000 monthly hits from Facebook, she told me.) “Everyone’s always trying to get people out of Facebook,” she says. “And we’re like, ‘Well, we’re already here.'”


There are some obvious benefits to the all-Facebook approach. Facebook, for one, has a huge built-in audience — one that is used to sharing and commenting on and contributing content. It has a built-in infrastructure — one that easily accommodates multimedia. It has, essentially, a built-in mobile app. For an outlet that’s run by people who do that running in their spare time — that is, publishers who have even less time than most to deal with concerns about site design, server capacity, and other logistical aspects of digital journalism — Facebook’s insta-infrastructure could free up time that may be spent on more traditionally journalistic endeavors: fact-gathering, conversation-guiding, content-aggregating, community-building, etc.


In fact, with the move to Facebook will come, its publishers hope, a more efficient approach to the content of the journalism itself. “One thing that will change is that we will do less duplicative reporting,” Cotte Griffiths and the site’s founder, Brad Rourke, note in a blog post announcing the move. “For a city its size, Rockville is well-covered, journalistically. We don’t need to duplicate the efforts of our friends. (How many recaps of the Mayor and Council meetings can you read, really?)”


Instead, Cotte Griffiths told me, they’ll redouble their efforts at community-building itself, curating conversations around the news. And the hope is that the Facebook move will help facilitate that curation. Again and again, the social network — probably because of the direct connection it enforces between user behavior and user identity — shows itself to be a generally more “civil” place than the rest of the Internet. (That’s one advantage of a walled garden over an open web.) Cotte Griffiths and Rourke are hoping that the authenticity factor itself will serve as a kind of automatic moderator of commentary within the Rockville Central community. (Currently, the pair polices the site’s comments in addition to their other duties.)


“It seems like a place where people are themselves,” Cotte Griffiths says of Facebook — with all the good that can be connected to genuine identities. “We’re curious to see what happens with that.”


Which is not to say that there won’t be downsides to the move — some inevitable, some merely possible. (A Facebook-hosted outlet, for one example, doesn’t allow for easy tagging of content, which means that an easily accessible archive likely won’t be in the cards for the site — at least for the time being.) The most immediately obvious drawback, though, is that a site hosted on Facebook can’t host its own local ads. In fact, to make the switch, Rockville Central had to return money to its advertisers.


And that’s a sacrifice it’s willing to make. Profit, Cotte Griffiths notes, isn’t itself the site’s overall goal: She and Rourke see the outlet not so much as a money-making vehicle as an experiment in civic engagement. (That gives Rockville Central much more financial flexibility than, say, The Batavian or the West Seattle Blog, which function not merely as labors of love, but also as livelihoods for their publishers.) “For entities and organizations that are trying to turn a profit, or have other institutional or organizational reasons to have a separate identity, it can make sense to have a separate web space,” Cotte Griffiths and Rourke note. “But Rockville Central is different and, as we thought hard about it, we realized we could find no compelling reason that Rockville Central needs to exist as a separate rockvillecentral.com site.”


Then again, Rockville Central isn’t, you know, opposed to turning a profit. And building a strong, committed community on Facebook, Cotte Griffiths points out, could be a means toward developing non-ad-based revenue streams in the future, from hosting conferences to staging community events. (Cotte Griffiths’ day job? Event planner.)


Everything’s on the table; “we’re willing to try anything,” Cotte Griffiths notes. And while a Facebook-hosted outlet could have a leg up when it comes to the holy grail that it “community engagement,” there’s always the chance that the hoped-for audience expansion could end up going the other way. Not everyone’s a Facebook fan. As reader Nick Ferris put it in the comments of Cotte Griffiths’ post:


As a loyal reader of Rockville Central for several years, I must say this decision appalls me. Facebook is the garbage dump of the internet, and Rockville Central really deserves to stand separate from it. I also think putting your entire infrastructure in the hands of a third-party service already well known for its growing privacy concerns and ever-changing terms of service is a bad move.


Still, though, the move — with all its implications for the future of community news — will be an intriguing experiment to watch. “There’s this big party,” Cotte Griffiths says of Facebook. It’s likely only to get bigger. “And we want to be in there.”<|endoftext|>I'm often asked about paper, so here's a post that goes into the paper I used for this typography project. I do buy standard quilling paper online, but since buying my digital die cutter (a Silhouette SD first, and now a Cricut Explore Air), I prefer to cut my own for projects with larger arcs and more open areas.


For my first sans serif type project, I decided to use a thicker paper like Canson Mi-Tientes, which is 160 gsm, cut to 1/4" wide. I wanted the thicker paper to hold up better with the open letters and long arcs I planned to be making. This project is much larger than the greeting cards


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The property boasts a lovely balcony with stunning views. Nice open spaces, large bathroom and bedrooms. The kitchen has all the essential utensils and the facilities neat and new. Lia , Australia<|endoftext|>Having the right gear for kickboxing and martial arts training can make a big difference in your performance and your training results.


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This comes as influential First Lady Grace Mugabe has stunningly challenged her long-ruling husband, aged 93, to name his preferred successor without delay, amid escalating factional fights centred on the unresolved succession issue.


Impeccable Zanu PF insiders told the Daily News this week that the contestation for power has reached its zenith so much that Mugabe is about to give in to demands that he anoints his successor before the party’s December conference so that the ruling party could go for make-or-break elections next year as a united force.


If Mugabe’s recent remarks are anything to go by, his instincts seem to be radiating farther from Zanu PF bigwigs long touted to be the frontrunners in the succession race on account of their attempts to rope in the military to settle the succession debate, without involving its commander-in-chief, who happens to be Mugabe himself.


The Zanu PF insiders said while the race remains wide open, it was quite clear that the Swedish-trained medical doctor — Sekeramayi — could be surging ahead at the moment unless something dramatic happens.


The Defence minister has the distinction of being the only remaining Cabinet minister ever-present since Zanu PF came to power in 1980, having presided over some of the most key ministries in Mugabe’s successive governments — including being Defence minister and State Security minister three times each in the two portfolios.


He has the added advantage of being one of the few politicians less tainted by allegations of corruption and has never lost an election since 1980, when Mugabe’s party swept into power after a brutal liberation war.


Mugabe has consistently said that it was up to the party, and not him, to name his successor. Nonetheless, pressure has been brought to bear on him to anoint a successor, with his wife adding her voice to the calls.


In potentially revealing recent remarks, Mugabe rubbished claims by some within the Team Lacoste faction, which is campaigning for Emmerson Mnangagwa to succeed him that it was now time for Karangas to also “eat”, as Zezurus had dominated the State since 1980.


Mnangagwa is of the Karanga tribe, while Mugabe belongs to the Zezuru tribe, which provided the bulk of the fighting forces and military leaders who fought the successful 1972-1980 Chimurenga war that secured independence and black majority rule.


Mugabe’s remarks at a rally in Marondera came after Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo publicly criticised Mnangagwa’s alleged presidential aspirations at a lecture in Harare, where he also made a not-so-subtle announcement of Sekeramayi as a serious contender for the presidency.


Moyo effusively played up Sekeramayi’s “consensus-style of leadership, political experience, unquestionable stature and his humility” that he contrasted with Mnangagwa’s alleged “arrogance” and “sense of entitlement”.


And speaking in his annual interview with the ZBCTV in February, ahead of his 93rd birthday, Mugabe also appeared to rule out the chances of Mnangagwa succeeding him when he said he would soldier on in power — notwithstanding his advanced age and declining health.


“The majority of the people feel that there is no replacement, a successor who to them is acceptable . . . as acceptable as I am,” Mugabe said.


On Thursday, Mugabe — an intellectual with several degrees who allegedly did not do any fighting – insisted that the “gun cannot lead the politics”.


Political scientist Eldred Masunungure told the Daily News: “Well, he (Sekeramayi) has always been a hidden dark horse, suspected for a long time in uninformed circles to be the president’s blue-eyed boy. It’s feasible that he is surging ahead; he has always had a close relationship with the president, not as public as the other contenders, he has been in the shadows.


“He is coming out of the shadows, out of his shell, projecting himself as the most likely candidate. I would buy the story of him being leading candidate in Mugabe’s eyes.”


“He will have to be around long enough, beyond 2018. Sekeramayi’s chances are brighter than any of the contending candidates. He is definitely a leading candidate, look at his demeanour, he has liberation credentials, he is electable, he has won in his home province.


“Well, his strength does not lie in his electability, he is very close to the president, he is the president’s confidante, he is not a megaphone, he is media-shy. He has what it takes for Mugabe to anoint him, but there are so many factors at play, so many variables,” Masunugure said.


But some critics have sledged Sekeramayi as “not assertive enough to lead”, while others say just like Mnangagwa he is also tainted by the role he played in his capacity as Defence minister at the time, when the Gukurahundi massacres took place mainly in Matabeleland and Midlands between 1983 and 1987.


United Kingdom-based legal expert Alex Magaisa recently expounded on this fact in an opinion piece on his blog.


“The pair (Sekeramayi and Mnangagwa) were Mugabe’s reliable water carriers during the early 1980s, probably the dirtiest period on account of Gukurahundi.


“It is therefore hard for most people in Matabeleland, to reconcile the man described by Moyo and the man who performed a key role during this dark patch of Zimbabwe’s history.


“If one of Mnangagwa’s darkest spots in his long political career is his alleged role in Gukurahundi, it is hard to see how the other half of the pair, Sekeramayi, can escape the same charge,” Magaisa said.


Stephen Chan, a professor of world politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, noted the “endless speculation” about Mugabe’s succession yesterday.


“Sekeramayi is 73, only one year younger than Mnangagwa. Either way, Zimbabwe would not be blessed by youthful leadership. In this sense, both


1256639  but we had a wonderful day at the Keukenhof gardens just southeast of Amsterdam. It’s a great place to visit with kids. There are tulips from all over the world, as well as a wonderful petting zoo and fun playground for the kids. Olivia loved taking photos of everything and both kids are pretty silly when we take photos of them! Our favorite tulip was the ‘ice cream’ tulip. We took our bikes along and went riding every day. Holland is the perfect place to cycle, especially with young children. It’s flat, easy riding and there are bike lanes and trails everywhere. We stayed along the coast and were able to do some beautiful rides each day along with our daily ride into town to do our grocery shopping. We even got to watch some gliders taking off and landing. Olivia just received a new bike with gears for Easter and was really excited to be able to ride along next to us. She declared she loved Holland because she got to ride her bike on the streets in town like an adult. D and I ride our bikes through Brussels, but there are not as many bike lanes and it is too dangerous for us to let Olivia to the same. When cycling in Brussels, I use my Dutch made “Bakfiets” which allows both kids to sit in a box in front of the bike. It’s big and heavy, but very secure and I take the kids to school in it as long as it’s 10 degrees centigrade (about 50 degrees F) outside…and not raining!


We had a wonderful time in Holland and plan to return next year with all of D’s family. We want to go at the time of the Tulip Parade which travels through the entire tulip producing region and is held when all the fields are in bloom. And of course, we’ll take our bikes!


We’re off now for a two week camping trip to the Italian Dolomites. It will be the first time we’ve taken the kids camping and they are so excited. It’s already been an adventure getting all the gear and figuring out what to pack. But no more time to write about that now. It will have to wait for our return!


This season you must add Maharaja’s Express to your vacation itinerary. Maharaja’s express assures you an experience of a lifetime with myriad landscapes, majestic views, luscious green pastures and soaring mountains. This voyage will transport you to a memorable world of wonder filled with sublime sceneries. You will be journeying whilst rejoicing in the very […]


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The oldest entity of rail travel is expediency, coupled with luxuriousness and the lush tapestry of Indian heritage. However, it is another issue that only a minuscule number of Indians beyond royalty have availed the ‘luxurious’ aspect of it. Revel in opulent & diverse journeys of cultural heritage, ancestry, ethnicities, cuisines and regal splendour!! For […]


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In the hustle and bustle of routine life, taking out a few moments for oneself becomes a rarity. Changing up routine things is one of the foremost reasons why people travel beyond their immediate environs and seek new experiences. And rest assured, there are numerous worthwhile new experiences for travelers who make the excellent choice […]


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The ancient city of Jodhpur, set against the stunning landscape of Thar, has an almost mystical feel to it. No doubt, it has caught the fancy of many wandering souls who penned colourful poetries and some fascinating stories with majestic Jodhpur as the imposing backdrop. There was a time when the blue buildings of this […]


Before we start off, let’s break the legendary myth- sightseeing is Agra is just not limited to the Taj Mahal! No doubt, Taj is one of the most popular and enchanting places to explore in Agra. But, when we say ‘one of the’, we really mean it! The sights and sounds of this historical city […]


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A couple of months ago someone I’m “friends” with on facebook got married. She gave constant updates during the “getting ready” part of the day, which I certainly noticed the large number of, but I …


out of the reception? There are so many different ways to do wedding desserts now. From cupcake towers, to an Italian pastry spread, it’s not all about the cake anymore. A lot of the recent weddings …


Picking your bridesmaids can be a tricky task. You’re bound to hurt someone, whether or not you mean to. Your cousins may be hurt you picked your college friends, and your childhood friends might be …


Getting the little odds and ends, decorations and details to bring everything together for your wedding can add up quickly. Who would have thought 100 mason jars and all the supplies to decorate …


Weather can obviously be a major factor in wedding planning. Venue, season, and of course the choice of an outdoor or indoor wedding all factor in the weather. Of course, you don’t wish for rain on …<|endoftext|>WHEN a mother does not nurse her own infant, she, in many instances, does violence to nature; a custom unknown among the most polished in the purest ages of Greece and Rome. The sudden check given to this great natural evacuation of milk, at a time when her weakly state renders her unable to sustain so great a shock, is often of the worst consequences to herself; and the loss to the child is much greater than in commonly apprehended. A woman in this case, runs the imminent risk of her life from a milk-fever; besides the danger of swellings and imposthumes of the breast, and such obstruction in them as lay a foundation of a future cancer, (7).


Yes, a 205-year old breastfeeding manual on the first page threatens the reader with both the loss of her child and CANCER! But let’s not get too smug today. Maternal Solicitude is almost as subtle as modern pro-breastfeeding propaganda.


The alternative to cancer, the great natural evacuation of milk and overall weakly state associated with child birthing and feeding don’t sound so excellent either. I don’t think women can get out of the bind on this one. There is a “u’re doin’ in wrong” card for every decision a mother makes.


OMG. This movie looks ridiculous. Do they want to send thousands of women running out of theaters, weeping and tearing their hair out? (And maybe leaking breastmilk all over the place?)


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On a 12-month basis, the trend at Quantum looks less than great. At 98.6 days, it is 6.7 days worse than the five-year average of 92 days. The biggest contributor to that degradation was DIO, which worsened 10.1 days when compared to the five-year average.


Considering the numbers on a quarterly basis, the CCC trend at Quantum looks good. At 97.7 days, it is little changed from the average of the past eight quarters. With quarterly CCC doing better than average and the latest 12-month CCC coming in worse, Quantum gets a mixed review in this cash-conversion checkup.


Once more, Americans are being treated to the spectacle of seeing oil executives hauled onto Capitol Hill for some low-grade abuse by our lawmakers. "How dare you earn profits?" seems to be the order of the day, at least if you judge by the sound bites leaking out of the Senate Judiciary Commitee and the coverage in the mainstream press.


"Scandalous!" replies Joe Sixpack, exactly as he's expected to. Never mind that "profit" figures are misleading, since they don't include the very real costs of capital spending. Never mind that we live in a system where we agree that profits are good, because they attract the capital that provides for our economic growth.


In the hot seat were execs from BP (NYSE:BP), ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP), ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX), Royal Dutch Shell, and Valero (NYSE:VLO).


There were the usual insinuations about price gouging, and a bill from Arlen Specter designed to let the government stop oil and gas mergers if it believes these would somehow reduce available energy supplies. While there's plenty of suspicion and blame to go around, none of the stories I read bothered to mention the incredible sums that the companies invest to keep the juice flowing.


Allow me to fill them in. ExxonMobil spent $14 billion on capital expenditures last year. Chevron spent $9 billion. BP spent $12 billion. Valero spent $2 billion. ConocoPhillips rolled $11.6 billion, or more than 85% of its net profits, back into the business.


Let's make that clear. This real spending is unaccounted for in those scary-looking "profit" figures that the soak-the-rich crowd is using to try to rouse the rabble. For our lawmakers and the press to ignore such basic facts is inexcusable. But there's a popular story to tell.


Nothing I read mentioned, except inadvertently, that the real reason gas costs so much is that there's absolutely no incentive for Americans to moderate their use of it. Governments continue to encourage gas gluttony by building miles of cheap roads (on borrowed funds) while alternative transport withers. At the same time, they refuse to lift a finger to demand higher gas mileage from automakers.


Can't mess with free enterprise there, because that wouldn't play well back at the ranch, and elections are coming up. Just you try to tell the voters that they're to blame for gas prices -- that if they didn't all drive the 4-ton Canyonero, and heat the 4,000 square-foot house, there'd be more gas to go around, and prices wouldn't shoot up the way they have been. Nope, you try that and they'll ride you out of town on a rail. It remains, as always, much easier to produce a dog-and-pony show designed to look like you care, and stick the blame on those big, evil corporations.


Too bad those big, evil corporations are in fact owned by small, 95%-less-evil entities called shareholders. That's right; we all own them in our mutual funds, our pension plans, and our 401(k)s. If people realized that the government's oil-industry shakedown was actually aimed at pulling profits out of their own retirement accounts, I imagine there would be a lot less enthusiasm. But don't count on hearing that on Capitol Hill or in the sound-bite news coverage. The real story's far too complex to be popular.


Seth Jayson would love it if people took responsibility for their own gas-guzzling. At the time of publication, he had no positions in any company mentioned here. View his stock holdings and Fool profile here. Fool rules are here.


According to reports from The Daily Mail, Stoke City have enquired into the availability of Everton midfielder James McCarthy.


The Republic of Ireland international followed manager Roberto Martinez to Goodison Park from Wigan in summer 2013, after lifting a shock FA Cup title with the Latics.


The industrious midfielder has since established himself as a regular of the Toffees’ starting Xi but struggled for form at times last season and may not be such an important figure in the plans of Martinez’s managerial successor, Ronald Koeman.


Indeed, the Dutchman is known to be on the the lookout for a powerful midfielder, with the likes of Zenit St. Petersburg’s Axel Witsel, Portugal international William Carvalho and countryman Kevin Strootman on the Goodison gaffer’s radar.


Accordingly, The Daily Mail claim Stoke City have ‘checked’ on whether the Toffees would be prepared to part with the 25-year-old this summer, although it appears they’re yet to receive a formal response.<|endoftext|>This book shares answers and solutions to help readers rethink questions related to personal finance, education and their professional careers. One might say that purpose of this book is, indeed, to help one live a better life whilst ageing.


Our society has undergone profound changes these past few decades. The increase in average life expectancy and the languishing sustainability of the social security system have dwindled pensions. That which was once a clear and certain path – from education to employment and from employment to retirement – is no longer. The paradigm has shifted, and it has also forced us to change and adapt to the circumstances.


This is the premise of “The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity”, by Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice at London Business School and member of the World Economic Forum, and Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics at London Business School and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University. Nominated for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, “The 100-Year Life” is sort of a guide to longevity in today’s world.


Based on questions like: “How can you fashion a career and life path that defines you and your values and creates a shifting balance between work and leisure?” and “What are the most effective ways of boosting your physical and mental health over a longer and more dynamic lifespan?”, the authors offer a series of answers and solutions to help readers rethink their questions related to personal finance, education and their professional careers. One might say that purpose of this book is, indeed, to help one live a better life whilst ageing.<|endoftext|>The primary emphasis of Each New Day a Miracle is to glorfy God using the gifts He has given me. Since I am primarily a poet and photographer, you will see more poems and photographs there than anything else. Although I once functioned as an Assistant Pastor at a local Methodist Church (Pickering Standard Church) I have not had that priviledge since 2000 and so the frequency of sermons and Bible studies has decreased. This world is an incredibly lovely place and reflects the glory, majesty and perfection of its Creator, I hope that in your visit to Each New Day a Miracle, you will gain a sense of God's glory and His incredible love for each of us.


Each New Day A Miracle was established in 2001, to make use of the Internet as a forum for my need to do personal ministry after I was no longer able to serve in a church environment. (See first site home-page here) In October of 2003 I purchsed an Internet domain and moved Each New Day a Miracle to its permanent home at eachnewday.com. (See second site home-page here) At that time Each New Day A Miracle averaged out at around 40 unique visits per day. Currently, Each New Day A Miracle sees anywhere from 30 to 200 unique visits per day, depending on the season and current holy days. In the winter of 2012/2013 Each New Day a Miracle was redesigned to be based on CSS and templates to enable easier maintenance and a more modern appearance.


The most visited document on Each New Day A Miracle is How To Study The Bible. The Photographs section, added in 2007, continues to increase in popularity. The Poetry and Sermons sections remain relatively static, their popularity peaking around Easter and Christmas when poetry and sermons written for those seasons appear more frequently in search results. During these seasons Each New Day a Miracle might see as many as 500 visits per day. The Prose section sees very little traffic but I keep adding to it and who knows what will happen.


The banner image was taken in the fall of 2012 from a kayak while paddling in the mouth of Duffins Creek with my youngest son, Andy.


The image in the body of the Home Page was taken around 1986 at Albert College. (A larger version can be seen here) Albert College is a private school in Belleville, Ontario, slightly west of where Highway 62 crosses the Bay of Quinte into Prince Edward County. It is a magnificent structure of great stone blocks, sitting well back from Dundas Street on a large, well maintained lawn, and is characterized


1256641  sort of like the sound of one hand clapping, and that usually means that Igor has been slacking off again. Thankfully, there's another part—eh, make that technology—available: XML. The problem with XML is that it has developed a reputation of being difficult; however, it doesn't have to be. Just keep in mind that, in those situations, code has a tendency to follow you around, like Igor.


In its simplest form, XML is nothing more than a text file containing a single well-formed XML document. Come to think of it, the same is pretty much true in its most complex form as well. Looking past all of the hype surrounding XML, it is easy to see that XML is merely the text representation of self-describing data in a tree data structure. When this is understood, all that is left are the nitty-gritty little details, like "What's a tree data structure?" and "How exactly does data describe itself?"


A tree data structure is built of nodes, with each node having only one node connected above it, called a parent node. The sole exception to this rule is the root node, which has no parent node. Nodes can also have other nodes connected below, and these are called child nodes. In addition, nodes on the same level that have the same parent node are called children. Figure 2-2 is a graphical representation of a tree data structure.


The nodes shown in Listing 2-4 are called elements, which closely resemble HTML tags. And like HTML tags, start tags begin with < while end tags begin with </. However, unlike HTML tags, all XML tags either must have a closing tag or be self-closing or must be empty elements. Self-closing tags are recognizable by the ending />; if the forward slash was omitted, the document would not be a well-formed XML document. In addition, to all elements being either closed or self-closing, the tags must always match up in order. This means that the XML document in Listing 2-5 is well formed but the XML document in Listing 2-6 is not well formed. In a nutshell, "well formed" means that there is a right place for everything. Feet are a good example of this: Imagine if Igor used two left feet; the monster wouldn't be well formed and wouldn't be able to dance, either.


As neat and nifty as the hidden frames method of communicating with the server is, the addition of an XML document provides another option, XMLHTTP, or, as some refer to it the XMLHttpRequest object. Note all those capital letters, which are meant to indicate that it is important. The XMLHttpRequest object sends information to and retrieves information from the server. Although it doesn't have to be, this information is usually in the form of XML and, therefore, has the advantage of being more compact than the usual HTML that the server sends. Just in case you're interested, this was the means of communication for that page that I had handwritten and was using during the "it doesn't blink" fiasco.<|endoftext|>©2012 - 2015 Dutchman Fountains ~ * All rights reserved. Powered by: Create A Shoppe. Design by 2 Friends Designs<|endoftext|>Yang Woo Hyung, Director of the German School of Music Weimar, gives a program of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms next …<|endoftext|>"Good Knowing Advisors, did all of you not just say. 'I vow to take "across" the limitless living beings?' What does this mean? You should remember that it is not Hui Neng who takes them "across". Good Knowing Advisors, the “living beings" within your mind are deviant and confused thoughts, deceitful and false thoughts, unwholesome thoughts, jealous thoughts, vicious thoughts: all these thoughts are "living beings". The self-nature of each one of them must take itself "across." This is called true "crossing over".


Living beings are incalculable, but you must vow to save them, for it is not Hui Neng who takes them "across". These good and bad living beings exist within your own mind. The good ones seek unsurpassed Bodhi and produce the Bodhi mind, while the bad ones must still be saved. Think it over and ask yourself, "Have I saved the "living beings" within my own mind? Am I proper in attitude and honorable in conduct, or am I jealous, obstructive, and otherwise ignorant?"


The "living beings" within the mind are limitless, but our primary concern is with the deviant and confused "living beings" who should be taken across by means of proper wisdom, the deceitful and raise "living beings” who should be taken across by means of humility, and the unwhole "living beings" who should be taken "across" by means of goodness. If you find that you have these faults, vow to correct them, for if you do not they will drag you into the inescapable and endless misery of hell.


Respect takes jealous living beings "across". Although Bodhiruci was a Dharma Master, he envied other Dharma Masters and viciously tried to poison Bodhidharma. Such thoughts are "living beings", and you are making a serious mistake if you do not take them " across".


"What is meant by 'the self-nature taking itself 'across'?' It means take "across" by means of right views, the "living beings” of deviant views, affliction, and delusion that are within your own mind. Once you have right views, affliction, and delusion that are within your own mind. Once you have right views, use Prajna wisdom to destroy the “living beings” of delusion, confusion, and falsehood. Each one takes itself “across”. Enlightenment takes confusion “across”, wisdom takes delusion “across”, goodness takes evil “across”. Such “crossing” over is called true “crossing”.


Use Prajna wisdom to destroy the living beings of delusion, confusion, and falsehood. Beat them to death! You ask, "But isn't that a violation of the precept against killing?" Here you may violate the precept, just a bit. You are indeed hard to teach! When you break precepts you don't worry about breaking precepts, but when you do not break precepts you worry about breaking them.


Transform the evil beings within your nature so that the good ones may dwell undisturbed and at peace. You may kill them; you may beat them to death. Such "crossing" over is called true "crossing" over.


"Further, 'I vow to cut off the inexhaustible affliction.' This is to use your own self-nature's Prajna wisdom to cast out the vain and false thoughts of your mind."


Afflictions never end, but you must cut them off. Actually "cut off,” means "change", change your afflictions to Bodhi. Afflictions are Bodhi, and if you cut off all afflictions you cut off Bodhi. If you cut off all afflictions you would become a Buddha, and you don't want to do that just yet, do you? So leave just a hair's breadth of afflictions and transform the rest into Bodhi. Use genuine Prajna wisdom to get rid of affliction and cast out all vain, false, deviant, and ignorant thoughts.


"Further, ‘I vow to study the immeasurable Dharma doors.' You must see your own nature and always practice the right Dharma. This is called true study."


Recognize your mind, see your original nature, and always practice the right, not the wrong, Dharma. You may study the Buddhadharma in detail, but if you do not practice, it is not true study. True Buddhist study includes both study and practice; for example once having studied the Buddhadharma, those who used to smoke, drink, and take drugs no longer do so. They do not even eat meat! Those who were lazy and did nothing but sleep from morning to night and from night to morning, now read and translate Sutras, listen to lectures, and meditate vigorously without a thought of sleeping. If this were not true study, why would they choose to work so hard?


"Further, 'I vow to realize the supreme Buddha Way, and with a humble mind, to always practice what is true and proper. Being separated from confusion and enlightenment, I always give rise to Prajna.' Casting out the true and the false, you then see the nature and realize the Buddha Way at the very moment of speaking. Always be mindful; cultivate the Dharma which possesses the power of this vow."


The Buddha told "Ground-Store" (Ksitigarbha) Bodhisattva, 'Perhaps there are kings of countries in Jambudvipa, or noblemen, great ministers, great elders, great Ksatriyas, great Brahmans and so forth who encounter the tired, the poor, and those who are hunchbacked, crippled, dumb, mute, deaf, stupid, or eyeless, as well as all others who are incomplete. Perhaps these kings and great men will wish to give and will be able to do so with great compassion, a humble heart, and a smile. Perhaps they give personally with their own hands or arrange for others to give, using gentle words and sympathetic speech. Such kings and others will obtain blessings comparable to the meritorious virtue of giving to as many Buddhas as grains of sand in one hundred Ganges Rivers.'


A ten thousand-story building is built from the ground up. Once a person told an illogical tale.


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Reflection: When I deliver sessions on overload and overwhelm at work and in life, these are questions that often arise. Maybe you’ve asked them yourself!


The answers vary. But there is one modern habit that definitely contributes to these experiences – our 3D habit of Digital-Dipsy-Doodling. (I love that phrase – and wish I could take credit for it, but I can’t. See resources of the week for the origin and two articles that say more about this experience.)


You may well be familiar with 3D behavior, yourself. It’s the practice of jumping around between email, twitter, facebook, instagram, and the many other diversions of the web at large.


Why do we do it? It could be FOMO – fear of missing out. Or, it could be (as neuroscience suggests) that fresh doses of info send zingers of dopamine to the brain. Dopamine feels good. And, so, we Dipsy-Doodle – again and again – moving ever further away from what we had initially set out to accomplish.


While we are busy jumping around like grasshoppers on Red Bull, we may not even be aware that all this switching takes energy. The more we leapfrog, the less we accomplish, and the more exhausted we feel.


Doped up and depleted was probably not how any of us envisioned our days unfolding. Welcome to the downward spiral of digital distraction!


A recent weekend was chuck full of responsibilities, errands, duties, tasks, tidying, scrubbing, chores, jobs and more jobs. You name it, we did it! With a full life of your own, I’m sure you know what I mean.


However, this time around, I decided to switch it up. I held this idea in mind instead: I’m grateful that I have a home to clean, a garden to maintain, and the strength to do both.


As I thought about this summer’s travel experiences, it occurred to me that there are some lessons that might be applied to everyday life.


Action: When I’m traveling, it seems so much easier to dress for the day. Choices are limited to what fits in one suitcase. What if we simplified those decisions everyday by streamlining our wardrobes at home?


The touring days that are most satisfying are those where we narrow the focus to one or two places or experiences rather than trying to jam too much into a short period of time. What if we narrowed our everyday focus to a couple of high priority items and stopped trying to do it all at once?


Some of the most ease-filled moments on vacation occur when we give ourselves time and space to put up our feet and take a break. Whether it’s catching a nap, dipping into a book, or jotting a few notes in the travel journal, there’s something to be said for retreating and regrouping. What if we made a regular habit of stepping away from the press of everyday activity to refresh our energy and reflect on our experience? (more…)


Reflection: When I speak and write about granting our selves and each other permission to pause, many people grasp the idea in quick order. They can see that there’s a strong case for renewal and re-energizing in the face of overwhelming demands. It makes sense on an intellectual level.


But, that message doesn’t always make it from the brain to the gut – where so many of our decisions and choices are actually made. As a result, the idea literally does not sit well with us.


Now, as you know, it is possible to force yourself to sit down for a moment to catch your breath and take a break. But how often does that rest take the form of a tentative perch on the edge of your seat, burdens still at hand, muscles tensed to lift off again at a moment’s notice, brain on high alert?


That’s not much of a break especially when compared to option B. You drop into a chair and drop into the moment. You let your body be surrounded and supported, relax your muscles, set your burdens aside, and tell your brain to take a hike.


Action: The next time you sense you need to step back for a few moments, pay close attention to your approach. (more…)


Reflection: For some time, I’ve been following Greg McKoewn’s blog posts on the concept of Essentialism. So I was delighted when he released his book, ‘Essentialism – The Disciplined Pursuit of Less’.


Shifting to an essentialist viewpoint means we need to discard these three assumptions: I have to. It’s all important. I can do both. Instead we need to adopt these three assumptions: I choose to. Only a few things really matter. I can do anything but not everything.


The word ‘priority’ used to mean just one thing. In the last century we pluralized it to ‘priorities’. This caused us to believe we could actually hold a number of things at the top of our list and in our attention at the very same time.


We’re fooling ourselves if we think we don’t have to make a solid choice between competing activities. Choosing ‘both’ is a recipe for spreading ourselves too thin. We need to make trade-offs. The shift in mindset is thinking not so much about what we must give up, but rather, what do we choose to go big on.


Don’t be afraid to pull the plug on a project or commitment you’re already involved in. Think about it from a square one point of view. If you weren’t already involved, what would you give up or how hard would you work to get involved. Just because you are part of an active initiative doesn’t mean it’s still the right thing for you to be doing. Edit away.


You’ve got to know, as a pause fanatic, that I would appreciate this one. Protect the asset – that means you! Create space for renewal and reflection – time for unencumbered thought, innovation and growth. Escape and explore life.