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- Dusting - Regular light dusting maintains a like-new appearance of most blinds, shades, shadings, and sheers.
- Vacuuming - For deeper cleaning, vacuum gently with a brush attachment of any vacuum cleaner. Most products may be vacuumed using a vertical stroke.
- Compressed air or hair dryer (non-heat setting) - Use to blow dust off selected window coverings.
- Spot-cleaning - Spot-clean shades and blinds with soft cloth or sponge moistened with lukewarm water. Add mild detergent if needed. Blot gently to avoid creasing or damaging the fabric. Rubbing can damage fabrics. Spot-cleaning may result in cleaner areas.
- Vinyl vertical blinds. You can reduce build-up of static electricity by applying a thin film of detergent on all vanes.
- Ultrasonic cleaning - Professional ultrasonic cleaning is recommended for several products. Do not use this method for: wood blinds, honeycomb Skylights systems, faux wood blinds, room darkening Window Shadings. Important! Do not immerse headrail on Cordless Lift, Continuous Loop, or Vertical Honeycomb systems.
- Injection/extraction cleaning system - This type of cleaning injects a cleaning solution into the fabric and extracts the dirty solution in the same motion. It is a very effective way to deep clean your window treatments. The service is typically performed in the home so there is no need to remove the window treatments. Dry method is recommended for certain fabrics. Important! Do not use this method to clean fabric-covered headrails on valances.
- Steaming - Steaming can be done to remove wrinkles from some fabrics. A hand-held travel size steamer that provides continuous steam is best. Heavy-duty steamers are not recommended.
Faux Wood or Vinyl Products -
- To reduce static cling and help repel dust, wipe the blinds with dryer sheets.
- Do not use abrasive cleaners or chemical solvents, as they will scratch or damage the surface.
Wood Products -
- Clean using a dry and soft feather duster, clean cloth, dust cloth or dusting mitt. A vacuum with the soft brush attachment can also be used.
- Ultrasonic cleaning or use of chemical solvents and scrubbing cleansers are not recommended. They will damage the product.
- Do not expose wood products to steam or high moisture areas to help ensure their long life.
- When cleaning any window, spray glass cleaner on a cloth rather than spraying directly on the window. This will prevent damage to the wood finish by splattering cleaner.
Cloth Tapes -
- Tapes can be spot-cleaned with fabric cleaning wipes that can be found at grocery stores. These will typically not leave a stain or discolor the tapes.
- 100% polyester tapes can be spot-cleaned by blotting with a clean white cloth and cool distilled water. Support the tape from behind using another clean cloth that is dry. Use a gentle blotting action to clean the spot or soiled area. Rinse by blotting with clean distilled water, then let air dry. A gentle detergent can also be used on the 100% polyester trims.
Fabric Shades and Shadings -
- Do not use magnetic cleaners such as a dusting mitt on room-darkening fabrics. This will damage the room-darkening backing.
- When cleaning any window, spray glass cleaner on a cloth rather than spraying directly on the window. This will prevent damage to the fabrics by splattering cleaner.
- While some fabric window covering products may seem perfect for an outdoor setting, all are recommended for indoor use only.
For most of our window treatments, a light dusting with a vacuum cleaner brush attachment on a regular basis will keep them looking new for years.


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P3 Study of Umbilical Cord Blood Cells Expanded With MPCs for Transplantation in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01854567
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : May 15, 2013
Last Update Posted : September 18, 2018
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|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|May 13, 2013
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|May 15, 2013
|Last Update Posted Date
|September 18, 2018
|Actual Study Start Date ICMJE
|August 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|September 23, 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Time to Neutrophil and Platelet Engraftment [ Time Frame: 100 days ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01854567 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
|Incidence and severity of acute Graft Versus Host Disease [ Time Frame: 100 days ]
|Original Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures
|Same as current
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|P3 Study of Umbilical Cord Blood Cells Expanded With MPCs for Transplantation in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies
|Official Title ICMJE
|A 1-Year, Multicenter, Randomized, Open-Label Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Cord Blood Cells Expanded With MPCs for Hematopoetic Recovery in Patients With Hematologic Malignancies After Myeloablative Treatment
|Brief Summary
|The study investigates the time to engraftment of a mesenchymal expanded cord blood unit in patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing transplantation with myeloablative conditioning.
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|Study Phase ICMJE
|Phase 3
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|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Actual Enrollment ICMJE
|Original Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Actual Study Completion Date ICMJE
|May 5, 2017
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|September 23, 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|Ages ICMJE
|up to 65 Years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
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|United States
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
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2012-0166 ( Other Identifier: UT MDACC )
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
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|Mesoblast, Ltd.
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|Mesoblast, Ltd.
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|Mesoblast, Ltd.
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|September 2018
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Anyone in the downhill community who is not racing this weekend should come on down to the southeast corner of Oklahoma for one of the most amazing fun runs in North America!
The Talimena Drive is situated between Talihina, OK and Mena, AK and is 50+ miles of scenic byway with little traffic and dozens of cool downhill runs. Every type of course is represented and speeds range from 50+ to 70+.
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Many opportunities are provided for the children to speak and listen to both adults and each other. Visitors such as the dentist, nurse and librarian are invited into school to give variety and interest for the children and to encourage interaction. Children learn to talk about their choices for play activities and to tell the other children what they have done, this is extended to foster questioning skills. Each day children take part in a phonic session. Some children focus on sounds they hear and make within the surroundings and in words. They then progress onto letter recognition, blending and segmenting letters, reading and writing.
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We cover all the elements of PSRN hour and have specific focused teaching times as well as independent practical and adult led activities.
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The children are encouraged to be independent, self reliant and self confident. We also foster turn taking, sharing, co-operation and helpfulness. In addition to co-operative play and joint responsibility for organising and tidying the unit we provide specific situations in role play to develop social skills.
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About Shania Twain: Shania NOW Tour
Having returned to the UK with a show-stealing performance at this summer's Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park and releasing her acclaimed chart topping new album 'NOW', multplatinum and multi-award winning Shania Twain has announced a further 9 shows to her unmissable Autumn 2018 European tour – her first over here in 13 years!
With the release of her stunning new album 'NOW' (Virgin/EMI) and three decades into her storied career, Shania Twain has never sounded better. Containing the singles 'Swingin' With My Eyes Closed' and the joyful lead track and radio mainstay 'Life's About to Get Good', 'NOW' is the first time Shania has assumed the role of sole songwriter and co-producer.
Following recent performances on 'Strictly Come Dancing' and 'The One Show' as well as the Radio 2 Breakfast Show with Chris Evans, Shania feels "its time to get back out there and give the music a chance to live a life!" and so will embark on her first European tour since 2004's huge Up! Tour.
Shania is a five-time GRAMMY Award-winner and the reigning Queen of Country Pop. With 90 million albums sold worldwide, Shania remains the top-selling female country artist of all time. Shania's albums include her Platinum-selling 1993 debut 'Shania Twain'; the GRAMMY Award-winning, Double Diamond-selling 1995 release 'The Woman in Me'; 'Come On Over', the best-selling studio album in Soundscan history by a female artist in any genre and the best-selling country album of all time with over 40 million units sold worldwide; and 'UP!', Shania's third consecutive Diamond-selling album release.
Recognizing her indelible impact and achievements in music, Shania is the first and only female artist to receive CMT's Artist of a Lifetime Award. She was also honoured with the Icon Award at Billboard's Women in Music ceremony. Shania's hits include 'Any Man of Mine', 'That Don't Impress Me Much', 'You're Still The One', and 'Man! I Feel Like A Woman!'.
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A common application of SuperPro in the consumer goods and food processing industries is for reducing cycle times and increasing plant throughput. A simplified application of this type is described below. The example deals with shampoo manufacturing, but exactly the same problem appears in a variety of industries, including:
Process Description - Shampoo Making
The plant is equipped with two production lines (A and B) for making two types of shampoo (A and B). To make product A we charge water and an active ingredient into a mixing vessel (P-1/V-101), agitate the mixture, then transfer the mixture to an intermediate storage tank (V-102), which feeds the filling machine (FL-101). After a batch of A is completed, the two vessels (V-101 and V-102) are cleaned in place (CIP) and a batch of B is initiated using the same vessels. Please note that in this case the first step of Line B (procedure P-4) utilizes the same vessel (V-101) as procedure P-1 of Line A. The same is true for procedure P-5. It shares the same vessel (V-102) with procedure P-2 of Line A. A separate filling machine (FL-102) is available for handling product B. This may be a little confusing for those of you who are not very familiar with SuperPro Designer. When you model batch or semi-continuous processes in SuperPro, the icons on the screen represent processing steps (things that you do) and not necessarily unique equipment. Multiple processing steps can utilize the same piece of equipment at different points in time (as long as their cycle times cannot overlap).
This figure below shows the equipment utilization chart (generated by SuperPro Designer) for three consecutive batches (each color corresponds to a different batch). A plant batch includes a batch of product (A) and a batch of product (B). Note that V-101 and V-102 include two rectangles per batch. The first rectangle corresponds to making product (A) and the second to making product (B). FL-101 and FL-102 (the two filling machines) are used only once per plant batch.
The first set of arrows (on the left) indicate the making of a batch of (A). The set of arrows on the right indicate the making of a batch of (B). As it is clearly shown, as soon as material (A) is transferred out of V-101 and the vessel is cleaned, a batch of (B) is initiated in the same vessel. This is represented by the second rectangle of V-101 that is adjacent to the first. For V-102, there is a small gap (idle time) between the processing of material (A) and (B). That is the case because FL-101 is fast and completes the filling of one batch of (A) before a batch of (B) is ready to be transferred from V-101 into V-102.
The slow speed of FL-102 makes V-102 the current time (scheduling) bottleneck. Time bottleneck is the equipment that has the longest cycle time and determines the maximum number of batches per year or campaign.
Under these conditions, a new process batch is initiated every 4.5 h (in SuperPro this is called Plant or Recipe Cycle Time) and the plant produces on average 7,132 bottles of (A) and 10,190 bottles of (B) per day. It is assumed that the plant operates around the clock.
The figure below shows Operations Gantt chart (generated by SuperPro Designer) for the base case that displays the execution of the procedures and their operations in detail. For instance you can see that procedure P-1 includes the following operations: CHARGE-1 (for charging water), CHARGE-2 (for charging the active ingredient), AGITATE-1 (for mixing the materials), TRANSFER-OUT-1 (for transferring the contents from V-101 to V-102), and CIP-1 (for cleaning the vessel).
Note the synchronization of TRANSFER-OUT-1 in P-2 and the FILL-1 in P-3. That is the case because the mixture is being pumped out of V-102 while it is being packaged in FL-101. The duration of TRANSFER-OUT-1 in P-2 and consequently the occupancy of V-102 during P-2 depends on the process time (which, in turn depends on its throughput) of FL-101. Such details can readily be represented in SuperPro.
Also, please note that in SuperPro all cycle times are calculated by the program (you also have the option to set their values). Consequently, changes in batch size and operating parameters that affect the cycle time of some operations reflect automatically on the Gantt chart. This is a major difference between SuperPro and project management tools where you always have to specify the cycle times. In SuperPro, the Gantt chart is fully process driven.
Since V-102 is the current time bottleneck, the plant throughput can be increased by installing another tank of the same type. The flowsheet that follows represents this scenario. V-102 is dedicated to Line (A) whereas V-102-B is dedicated to Line (B).
The figure below is the Equipment Utilization Chart for scenario 1. With an extra storage tank (V-102-B), the plant cycle time drops to 3.8 h, in other words a new plant batch can be initiated every 3.8 h. The daily throughput of bottles (A) increases to 8,404 and that of (B) to 12,005, which represents an increase of almost 18%.
Under these conditions, V-101 becomes the new time bottleneck. If a new mixing vessel is added, the two production lines become totally independent (the cycle time of one does not depend on the other) and the plant throughput goes up further. The result is shown in the figures below (Scenario 2).
In this case each processing step has its own unique equipment (no sharing of equipment any longer). Under these conditions, Line (A) truly shines with an increase in throughput of almost 100%. The increase in throughput of Line (B) is 47.1%.
This is a very simple example that demonstrates how equipment sharing and cycle times of individual steps affect the overall throughput of a plant.
The true power of SuperPro can be experienced when you deal with considerably more complex processes that involve many more products and equipment items that are shared in a cyclical fashion. Please note that transfer lines also can be represented in SuperPro. For instance, if you have a bakery and transfer lines (that bring flour, sugar, and other ingredients) are shared among different product lines, SuperPro can be used to visualize and optimize their cyclical use.
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BAM is a not-for-profit program focused primarily towards educating middle and high school students about architecture. BAM workshops are led primarily by black professionals who volunteer their time to immerse themselves in underserved communities where children live, learn and play, to awaken their interest in architecture and the construction industry. Our workshops vary and consist of a series of creative fun games, presentations, physical model building, creating color boards, as well as hands-on computer model making sessions.
We consider ourselves seed planters in that we do not expect our efforts to immediately affect the statistic mentioned above however, we are seeing reasons to believe our efforts have already started sprouting roots and we're showing healthy signs of growth. We have identified a part of the problem is black students are largely unaware of the architectural profession and so naturally, part of the solution must be to educate black American students about the profession.
In 2016, 3 BAM students were sponsored to attend the Architects in the Making (AIM) Summer Camp at the University of Miami, School of Architecture. Last year, that number increased to 6. We are excited to report this year, 30 BAM students have confirmed their interest to attend the annual AIM camp. We've secured sponsorship from local architectural firms for many already. The AIM Summer Camp will be held July 9th-20th and for the first time we'll have a great representative of black students at this event! Everyone will benefit from a diversity of ideas.
While BAM primary focus is towards black students, it is an equal opportunity program and as such students regardless of ethnicity are welcome and encouraged to participate.
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The Stollery Children's Hospital is home to Western Canada's only pediatric liver and multivisceral transplant programs, and performs an average of twelve pediatric liver transplants each year and one small bowel/multivisceral transplant every one to two years.
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This Change The Thought design is all about a positive mindset. Sin is a human concept of some action that is contrary to the essence of God. God knows nothing of Sin, as His spiritual idea of Man reflects the perfection of which we were created. Thought precludes all action. Change the mistaken thought which leads to "Sin" and the "Sin" is automatically absolved.
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The Government is to delay the presentation of its proposed Royal Charter to underpin a new system of press regulation to the Privy Council.
The charter had been due to be presented to the Queen by the Lord President of the Privy Council, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, for approval on May 15.
However, Downing Street said last night that it had been put back in order to give more time for consideration of an alternative charter put forward by the industry.
The move was welcomed by the Newspaper Society, representing the industry.
But the Hacked Off campaign said only the Government version would meet the requirements of the Leveson Report on press standards.
The alternative version - which has the support of most national, regional and local newspapers - is currently open for comment on the Privy Council website until May 23.
Report: Labour try to exempt blogs from regulation
The Daily Mirror political correspondent Tom McTague is reporting that Labour is trying to change the plans for press regulation to exempt blogs:
Simon Hughes against statutory regulation of press
The Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader Simon Hughes told ITV1's The Agenda that he is opposed to the statutory regulation of the press.
Lord Justice Leveson's report is published on Thursday.
The Agenda is on ITV1 at 10.35pm and at 11:35pm in Scotland.
Lib Dem Deputy opposed to statutory regulation of press
The Lib Dems Deputy Leader Simon Hughes told ITV1's The Agenda that he is opposed to the statutory regulation of the press.
He told ITV News Political Editor Tom Bradby: "There must be a strong argument for making sure we don't have a dominant force which runs all the channels so we don't have the choice, they influence too much and set the prices, set the agenda."
"There is the other issue which is about regulation... I'm not for having a statutory system but I am for having a system that says look there will be a fall-back."
Lord Justice Leveson's report is published on Thursday.
The Agenda is on ITV1 at 10.35pm and at 11:35pm in Scotland.
Miliband: Swiftly implement proposals if 'reasonable'
Labour Leader Ed Miliband urged that Lord Justice Leveson's proposals for future regulation of the press must be swiftly implemented - so long as they are "reasonable and proportionate".
Mr Miliband warned that if the Government rejected the Leveson Report, victims of intrusion from the media would see it as a "breach of the promise" made in the wake of the phone hacking scandal.
Boris: 'You have to have a free press to have a free society'
Mayor of London Boris Johnson told ITV News, during a visit to India, that he did not "think it would be right to come up with statutory legislation" ahead of the publication of Lord Justice Leveson's report into press standards.
He added: "You need to have a free press to have a free society. If you want to keep the gutters of public life clean you need a gutter press."
Tough decision for PM when Leveson report released
Johnson: Leveson's report should be taken 'very seriously'
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has said Lord Justice Leveson's imminent report on the future of press regulation should be taken "very seriously".
He told Murnaghan: "The present system has obviously failed and it doesn't carry confidence with the public at large."
He added that he did not want politicians influencing the media's agenda.
David Cameron 'open minded' on Leveson report
The Prime Minister is keeping an open mind about the future regulation of the press and will make no decisions before he has had sight of Lord Justice Leveson's report, Downing Street insisted.
The newspaper claimed he would back a new, tougher model of self-regulation to replace the Press Complaints Commission - but with the threat that a statutory system could be brought in later if matters do not improve.
Met's John Yates refused to hand over phone records
Former Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick told the Leveson Enquiry that he had wanted John Yates' phone records to be seized in 2007. This was part of the investigation into allegations that details of the cash-for-honours investigation were being leaked by the Met.
Mr Quick alleged that Mr Yates - who was then Assistant Commissioner - had refused to give permission, saying that he was "very well connected".
On the basis of his reaction, Mr Quick alleges that Met deputy commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson decided not to investigate the phone records.


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Poor Mohammed Shirajul Islam, the peanut vendor who had his license revoked for leaving his cart to run to the bathroom, got a special chance to have his license reinstated yesterday — and failed his re-inspection.
Mohammed, whose case has drawn much press attention, was invited by the Department of Health to have his cart reinspected and his permit returned — but, acting deputy commissioner for environmental health Daniel Kass tells us, he failed to bring the necessary food-handling utensils and notice from his garage. Kass also says the cart was "dirty" and had a non-functioning burner, which also figured in its failing grade.
The Street Vendor Project of the Urban Justice Center, which held yesterday's rally for Mohammed, claims that the DOH didn't tell Mohammed he had to have the utensils and letter for the inspection. Its director Sean Basinski further claims he was at the inspection and the cart was "spotless."
Kass disputes this. "Our rules are really clear," he says. "When they get an inspection, they know what to bring… that's part of food safety. That's common practice."
Kass also says they made special arrangements to review Mohammed's cart because there was no one available to inspect it at the Maspeth center where it would normally be seen.
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Avon and Somerset Constabulary is using Qlik Sense to link more than 10 previously separate databases, using more than 40 applications to better understand and predict threats and risks so officers can make quicker decisions.
CEO Mike Capone details how data literacy is to the information age what traditional literacy — reading and writing — was to the industrial age: a skill essential to anyone wanting to fully participate in the workforce, and one required by all organizations for every facet of their operations. Data democratization, enabled by a data literate workforce and suitable tools, is essential now and in the future.
An escalating skills gap is preventing business decision-makers from asking the right questions of data and machines, according to a recent report from data analytics company Qlik.
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Qlik's Jordan Morrow details the importance of data literacy in a world where there are frequent data related scandals such as Cambridge Analytica and companies like Google collect vast amount of data on individuals every day.
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New Zealand's Savor Group of restaurants, which includes Seafarers, Ostro Brasserie & Bar and Ebisu, is now using Qlik's data analytics platform to revolutionize operations from the front-of-house to the boardroom.
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Qlik's Andrew Churchill details how decision-makers must ensure that their troops are agile and ready to take on any mission, and how without a central hub for all relevant data, senior defense leaders lack the visibility they need to make savvy judgements about their military branch's readiness level.
Firms have made strides in the previous decade in terms of adopting self-service, web-based solutions—but the existing "fixed decision tree" approach is not sufficient for the next evolution in client service. Qlik CEO Mike Capone gave an informative talk to open the second day of the DataDisrupt 2018 conference, entitled "the Rise of Augmented Analytics and Data Literacy in Financial Services," and warned in stark terms that the financial services industry has broadly failed to take advantage of emerging big data technology.
Qlik's Paul McLean details the findings from Qlik's Data Literacy Survey on how using data can improve our lives in many ways, but the human ability to understand what to look out for will remain key to unlocking its potential.
Keynoting at the April 24 to April 26 Qlik Qonnections event in Orlando, Qlik's new CEO, Mike Capone, after just four months on the job, cut right to the chase and spelled out some important business changes made early in his tenure.
Qlik customer AmeriGas is profiled, detailing their use of Qlik to save $20 million dollars. "It's a magical tool," says Jerry Sheridan, CEO of King of Prussia-based AmeriGas, referring to the "district dashboard" system, designed by Radnor-based Qlik, which splits nearly 2 million AmeriGas customers in all 50 states into 640 retail zones handling five million deliveries a year.
According to a U.S. Data Literacy Survey conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Qlik, a leader in data analytics, "only one-third of all workers feel confident in their data literacy skills for the Analytics Economy." In this age of Big Data, Qlik surveys demonstrate that "workers lack the skills to fully leverage the abundance of information to create actionable insights."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health are leveraging Qlik's capabilities to improve patient care through data analytics. TJU and Jefferson Health are utilizing Qlik Sense, a flexible product geared toward assisting with data visualization. Through Qlik Sense, the organizations can centralize large amounts of data and make decisions based on the information gathered.


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On December 11, 2012, Berkeley City Council adopted a Complete Streets Policy (Resolution 65,978-N.S.) to guide future street design and repair activities. "Complete Streets" describes a comprehensive, integrated transportation network with infrastructure and design that allows safe and convenient travel along and across streets for all users, including pedestrians, bicyclists, persons with disabilities, motorists, movers of commercial goods, users and operators of public transportation, emergency vehicles, seniors, children, youth, and families.
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Life and Teachings of Śākyamuni Buddha
Writings of Nichiren Shōnin Doctrine 2, pp. 129, 137-139, 144, 149
Two Nichiren Texts, pp. 66, 76-79, 86, 92
The Writings of Nichiren Daishōnin I, pp. 355, 359-360, 364, 367
Throughout Kanjin Honzon-shō, Nichiren assumes familiarity on the part of his readers with Śākyamuni Buddha, especially as he is depicted in the Mahāyāna sūtras. Nichiren also relies upon a distinct interpretation of the life and significance of the Buddha and his accomplishments that comes from the T'ien-t'ai school of Buddhism that Nichiren was ordained and trained in from an early age. This T'ien-t'ai view of the Buddha is itself inspired by the Lotus Sūtra. Because Nichiren relies upon this particular understanding of the Buddha and because so much else that he writes about traces back to the life and teachings of Śākyamuni Buddha, I think it is important to go over the basics of the Buddha's life and teachings and especially to note how Nichiren and his contemporaries viewed the Buddha.
Some scholars, notably Hajime Nakamura (1912-1999), estimate that the historical Siddhārtha Gautama, the young man who would become Śākyamuni Buddha, was born in the year 463 BCE. According to the accounts in the Pāli Canon he left home at the age of 29 to practice yoga and asceticism for six years and then attained buddhahood under the Bodhi Tree at the age of 35. He passed away at the age of 80 in the year 383 BCE. Some scholars might push these dates back as far as a century. Nichiren and his contemporaries, however, going by a text called the Record of Wonders in the Book of Chou, whose Chinese author wanted to set the date for the Buddha's appearance during the auspicious period of the founding of the Chou dynasty, believed that the Buddha was born on the eighth day of the fourth month of 1029 BCE and died on the fifteenth day of the second month of 949 BCE. Furthermore, Nichiren and his East Asian contemporaries accepted the time line of the Buddha's life taken from the Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sūtra attributed to Nāgārjuna (but possibly written by its ostensible translator Kumārajīva). In that treatise, Siddhārtha left home at the age of 19, spent 12 years practicing asceticism in the Himalayas (counting the year that he was 19) and attained awakening under the Bodhi Tree at the age of 30. He then spent the next 50 years teaching, culminating in the expounding of the Lotus Sūtra. At the age of 80 he passed away (or attained parinirvāna).
According to the basic story, which is to say the pre-Lotus Sūtra story, the Buddha's path to awakening actually began countless lifetimes before his birth as Siddhārtha Gautama. Up to a certain point, the sentient being that would someday become Śākyamuni Buddha was a wanderer, like us, among the six worlds of rebirth (the hell-dwellers, hungry ghosts, animals, fighting demons, humans, and heavenly beings). In order to escape the round of rebirth, there were three options that could be taken. One way was to encounter a buddha or "awakened one" and become a śrāvaka (lit. voice-hearer) or disciple of that buddha, hear the Dharma from him, practice the Dharma, and thereby extinguish all the defilements that lead to rebirth. A disciple of a buddha who attained liberation in this way would be called an arhat (lit. worthy one). Another way would be to contemplate causes and conditions directly and attain awakening, becoming a pratyekabuddha (lit. private buddha). A pratyekabuddha, like an arhat, is also liberated from the cycle of rebirth. Together, these first two options would become known as the "two vehicles" that lead to liberation from rebirth. The third option was to make the determination to take up the path of a bodhisattva and someday attain buddhahood, thereby liberating not only oneself but also providing the means whereby others could attain liberation.
Three innumerable eons ago, the bodhisattva who would become Śākyamuni Buddha aroused the "awakening mind" (S. bodhicitta) that aspires to attain spiritual awakening for the sake of oneself and others. From that point on, for lifetime after lifetime, he sought wisdom and accumulated merit through countless deeds of compassionate self-sacrifice. One innumerable eon ago, the bodhisattva was a young brahmin (a member of priestly caste in Indian society) named Learned Youth (Skt. Mānava) who encountered a Buddha named Burning Light (Skt. Dīpamkara). In the presence of Burning Light Buddha the bodhisattva made his vow to attain buddhahood and Burning Light Buddha conferred upon him the prediction that he would someday attain perfect complete awakening and be known as Śākyamuni Buddha.
Throughout these eons of accumulating merit and wisdom over countless rebirths, the bodhisattva who would become Śākyamuni Buddha cultivated the six perfections of a bodhisattva: generosity, morality, patience, energy, meditation, and wisdom. Many stories of Śākyamuni Buddha's virtuous activities in past lives were collected into Jātaka or "Birth" stories of which there are hundreds. Nichiren alludes to several of these in his writings. In addition to the story about Learned Youth and Burning Light Buddha, he also refers to the Buddha's past lives as Prince Mahādāna, King Śibi, and Prince Mahāsattva. As Prince Mahādāna, the bodhisattva was a prince who gave away all his family's wealth to help the impoverished and then went in search of the wish-fulfilling jewel (Skt. cintāmani) so that he could conjure enough food clothing, medicine, and other items to meet everyone's needs. He manages to receive the jewel from the king of the nāgas (dragons who control the waters), but the lesser nāgas steal it back. Prince Mahādāna then tries to empty the oceans with a turtle shell until they give it back. He is helped in his efforts by the gods who are sympathetic to his cause and his earnest efforts to get the jewel back. With the help of the gods the nāga are convinced to return the wish-fulfilling jewel, and so Prince Mahādāna is able to return home and use the jewel for the benefit of all. In his past life as King Śibi, the gods Indra and Viśvakarman took the forms of a hawk and a dove respectively to test the bodhisattva. The dove flew to the king seeking refuge but the hawk demanded he be given his lawful prey. The king offered to give the hawk an amount of his own flesh equal to the weight of the dove. No amount of flesh could equal the dove's weight on the scales however, and so in the end King Śibi put his whole body on the scale. At this point the gods revealed their true forms and healed King Śibi, praising him for his boundless love and generosity. As Prince Mahāsattva he gave himself once again to be eaten by a hungry tigress and her starving cubs. The point of these rather fanciful tales is that a bodhisattva is motivated solely by selfless compassion and is willing to give even his life countless times for the sake of other beings.
Along with cultivating the six perfections the bodhisattva gradually overcomes what in T'ien-t'ai Buddhism are called the three categories of delusion. First he overcame the delusions of views and attitudes that bind sentient beings to the cycle of birth and death (S. samsāra) amid the six worlds. These deluded views and attitudes consist of the ten following defilements:
- greed
- hatred
- ignorance
- arrogance
- debilitating doubt
- mistaken view of an independent, fixed self
- extreme views of eternalism or annihilationism
- heretical views that deny causality
- attachment to false views
- attachment to non-Buddhist precepts
Having overcome these defilements, the bodhisattva was able to overcome what the T'ien-t'ai school calls "transmigration with differences and limitations", in other words he was free of compulsory rebirth within the six worlds wherein sentient beings are differentiated and limited by the effects of their positive and negative karma. By overcoming deluded views and attitudes the bodhisattva was able to see that what we regard as the "self" is actually empty of any fixed, independent substance. This is because all phenomena, including our own subjectivity and all mental and physical objects of which we are aware, arise and cease as ever changing conglomerations of causes and conditions with no underlying essence. Knowing for himself the emptiness of the self and all conditioned phenomena, the bodhisattva was able to relinquish all those selfish and deluded habits of mind and heart that bind sentient beings to the ups and downs of the transient, disappointing, and painful conditions of life within the six worlds.
The bodhisattva then overcame the delusions innumerable as grains of sand. Though no longer bound to the six worlds, the bodhisattva still appeared within them in accordance with his vows to save all sentient beings and not abandon them until he had attained buddhahood. He thereby provided teachings that would enable others to liberate themselves from suffering. Delusions innumerable as grains of sand refer to those that obscure a bodhisattva's ability to deal appropriately with any and every particular situation that may arise. Though the emptiness of self and phenomena has been realized, phenomena still exists in terms of the interdependent flow of causes and conditions. The bodhisattva had to learn to accurately assess and minister to these causes and conditions: knowing when to give wealth, or when to withhold it, knowing when the time is ripe to give instruction in renunciation, knowing what method of meditation to teach particular people in accordance with their abilities and interests, meeting every situation with courage, loving-kindness, and a selfless spirit of compassion. By overcoming delusions innumerable as grains of sand the bodhisattva was able to remain engaged in the world in a positive way for the sake of all sentient beings.
The final delusion overcome by the bodhisattva was fundamental ignorance. Fundamental ignorance obscures the true reality that is the Middle Way that encompasses both the empty nature of phenomena and its contingent provisional existence. The Middle Way is ungraspable and inconceivable, yet it is also the dynamic and spontaneous source of all virtuous qualities. As the bodhisattva progressed, he saw that the empty and provisional nature of phenomena were not two separate things but two aspects of the true reality that is the Middle Way. Emptiness is not a thing but the true nature of phenomena that is provisionally existent in accord with causes and conditions. Provisional existence is thoroughly empty of any fixed, independent substance. The Middle Way is the total mutual implication of emptiness and provisional existence as the liberating and dynamic true nature of reality. By overcoming fundamental ignorance the bodhisattva attained buddhahood and transcended even the "transmigration of change and advance" that characterizes the rebirths taken by the bodhisattvas and even the arhats and pratyekabuddhas (who believe themselves to be exempt from rebirth but in fact find themselves taking up the way of the bodhisattva according to the One Vehicle teaching of the Lotus Sūtra). What this means, in terms of the basic understanding of Buddhism, is that upon attaining perfect and complete awakening the Buddha no longer needed to take rebirth to accumulate merit and wisdom because he had attained the goal that he started out for three innumerable eons before.
Nichiren sometimes alludes to the eight major events of the Buddha's life. This is the East Asian way of summing up the story of Śākyamuni Buddha:
- Descent from the Tushita Heaven – Before his last earthly rebirth, the future Buddha lived in the Heaven of Contentment (Skt. Tushita) awaiting the right time, place and family for his final rebirth.
- Entering Queen Māyā's womb – When the right conditions arose Queen Māyā of Kapilavastu had a most singular dream. She dreamed that a six tusked white elephant holding a white lotus flower in its trunk circled around her three times and then entered into her womb. At that moment Queen Māyā conceived the bodhisattva.
- Emerging from Queen Māyā's womb – Queen Māyā gave birth to him painlessly while standing up and holding onto a sal tree branch while visiting the Lumbinī Garden near Kapilavastu. The legend states that immediately upon entering the world, the young Prince Siddhārtha took seven steps and made the following statement: "I am born for awakening for the good of the world; this is my last birth in the world of phenomena." (Johnston, part II, p. 4)
- Leaving home – After witnessing an old man, a sick man, a funeral procession, and a religious mendicant, Prince Siddhārtha left his family (his father King Śuddhodana, his wife Yaśodharā, and his son Rahula) and became an forest ascetic.
- Overcoming Māra – After turning away from asceticism, the bodhisattva sat beneath the Bodhi Tree at Bodhgaya and overcame temptations and distractions of the demon Māra.
- Attaining perfect and complete awakening – As the morning star (Venus?) rose in the morning sky, the bodhisattva attained buddhahood and henceforth became known as Śākyamuni Buddha.
- Turning the Wheel of the Dharma – Starting at the Deer Park near the city of Vārānasī, the Buddha began to teach the Dharma and continued to do so for 50 years.
- Entering parinirvāna – At the age of 80, the Buddha passed away beneath the twin sal trees near the city of Kuśinagara.
At this point I would like to elaborate on some of these phases of the Buddha's life, especially as they pertain to themes that Nichiren takes up in Kanjin Honzon-shō.
After Siddhārtha left the palace and took up the way of the wandering mendicant himself, he studied with two great masters of the yogic meditation tradition that predated Buddhism. The first yoga instructor was Ārāda Kālāma, who had attained a state wherein one experiences freedom from the material world in the state of nothingness. Siddhārtha rapidly achieved this state as well under Ārāda Kālāma's instruction, but he found that it was not the final end of suffering but only a temporary altered state of consciousness. He then studied with Rudraka Rāmaputra, who was able to enter into a state wherein there is neither perception nor non-perception. This was also a temporary state. Siddhārtha saw that altered states of consciousness brought about by yogic discipline could not change one's life or provide any meaningful answers to life's problems. By the same token, the heavenly realms that were supposed to correspond to these meditative states were also only temporary, though those born into them as the fruit of their spiritual practice might reside in those heavens for millions of years in worldly terms. Eventually even the gods must fall back into the evil worlds of the hells, hungry ghosts, and animals when they have exhausted the merit gained from their previous meritorious practice.
Having tried yoga, Siddhārtha then joined a band of five ascetics and lived a very austere and reclusive life for six years. He hoped that a life of self-denial and severe discipline would give him the clarity he needed to find an answer. The ascetics took up such ascetic practices as bathing repeatedly in the Ganges River in cold weather, pulling out one's hair, jumping off rocks, setting one's body on fire, and living naked. Siddhārtha took up the practice of fasting, to the point where he was eating only one grain of rice a day. After six years of this, the Buddha was so weakened from fasting that he was close to death and still no closer to his goal. In fact, he passed out by the side of the Nairañjanā River while trying to get some water. A village woman named Sujātā, who was stirred by compassion for him, nursed him back to health with rice-gruel and saved him from death. Siddhārtha realized that the self-denial practiced by many bands of ascetics is as much of a hindrance to achieving spiritual awakening as self-indulgence. It was then that he realized the Middle Way between self-indulgence and self-denial.
Now the time had come for Siddhārtha to realize his ultimate aim. He recalled a day in his youth when he sat beneath a rose-apple tree in a state of calm abiding and clear awareness. He decided to again sit beneath a tree and reflect upon life in such a state of calm centered awareness. After regaining his health he went to the base of a fig tree near the town of Gaya, sat upon a mat made of grass and made the following vow: "Let only my skin, sinews, and bones remain and let the flesh and blood in my body dry up; but not until I attain supreme enlightenment will I give up this seat of meditation." (Jayawickrama, p. 94) This may sound like an extreme attitude to take, but it was not his intention to return to asceticism or self-torture; rather, it was an expression of his single-minded dedication to achieving his goal.
Now, this aroused the ire of Māra, the Devil of the Sixth Heaven, whose name means "Stealer of Life." The character of Māra may seem confusing to some people, so a little explanation may be called for here. The title "Devil of the Sixth Heaven" may seem very peculiar for instance, especially to those who associate devils and demons exclusively with hell and the nether world. The Indian conception of Māra, however, is different from the Christian conception of Satan, though there are similarities. In Indian cosmology, Māra is no mere punisher of evil people in an infernal afterlife or a celestial rebel against the true God. Instead, Māra is the being in charge of all existence involving passion and desire; in fact, he is also known as Kāmadeva, the god of desire whose weapons are the flowers of sensuality and longing which keeps sentient beings from realizing liberation. It is his responsibility as a kind of cosmic prison-warden to keep all sentient beings trapped in the cycle of birth and death. He ensures that they are constantly transmigrating through all types of existence from hellish to heavenly, always in pursuit of their desires. Māra is the stealer of life because it is his machinations that rob people of their life's purpose, which is to achieve liberation.
So it was that Māra was very concerned that Siddhārtha was on the verge of liberation from his realm. As Siddhārtha took up his meditation beneath the Bodhi Tree (as the fig tree he sat under came to be called), Māra summoned his daughters and his demonic armies to prevent Siddhārtha from attaining enlightenment. His first attempt was to send in his beautiful daughters to tempt Siddhārtha back to a worldly life of sensual pleasures. When his daughters were unsuccessful, he turned to brute force by sending his army of demons. Once again, Siddhārtha was unmoved. Even when the demons shot arrows or threw boulders or balls of flame at him, he remained still and the missiles turned into flowers floating harmlessly to the ground. As a last resort, Mara himself appeared and challenged Siddhārtha, saying, "What gives you the right to presume that you can leave my realm of desire?" Siddhārtha's reply was to place one hand upon the ground, thus calling the earth itself to witness that there was nowhere Siddhārtha had not sacrificed himself in previous lifetimes for the sake of the liberation and awakening of all sentient beings. Māra could do no more, and so fled with his army. Siddhārtha's compassion and dedication had enabled him to subjugate Māra and overcome all his temptations and threats.
Now that all of the distractions, doubts and unconscious inhibitions symbolized by the demon army were cleared away, Siddhārtha began to gain greater and greater insight into the human condition beginning with his own life. He recollected all of the events in all of his previous lives and reviewed all of the causes and conditions that had enabled him to arrive at the Bodhi Tree. Next, his awareness took in the lives of all sentient beings, and he saw how their lives were also governed by the causes and conditions that they themselves had set in motion. Finally, he contemplated the chain of causation, whereby all things come into existence and sentient beings forge their own destiny. He saw that all sentient beings suffering within the cycle of birth and death are trapped there because of the ignorant pursuit of selfish desires. Siddhārtha realized that all suffering was due to a misapprehension of the nature of reality. As the night came to an end and the morning star rose into the dawn sky, Siddhārtha awakened to the true nature of life; from that point on he was known as Śākyamuni Buddha. The name Śākyamuni means "Sage of the Śākya Clan"; while the title Buddha means the "Awakened One". "Tathāgata" is another name for the Buddha meaning both "Thus Come One" and "Thus Gone One". It is a title that refers to the Buddha's ability to come and go from the realm of Truth.
The Buddha remained in contemplation beneath the Bodhi Tree for several weeks after his awakening. There are two stories told concerning this time that come from the Connected Discourses (Samyutta Nikāya) of the Pāli Canon that I find particularly relevant to Nichiren Buddhism. Both incidents have to do with visitations of Brahmā. In Indian cosmology, Brahmā is believed to be the god of creation and lord of the universe. In the Buddhist perspective this does not make Brahmā superior to the Buddha, since even the gods are caught in the cycle of birth and death and their exalted positions are only temporary states. Because even divine beings such as Brahmā need to be liberated, the Buddha came to be known as the teacher of gods and men. In the first incident, right after his awakening, the Buddha considered, "One dwells in suffering if one is without reverence and deference. Now what ascetic or brahmin can I honor and respect and dwell in dependence on?" (Bodhi 2000, p. 234) Though in many past lifetimes the Buddha did have teachers, in that present lifetime as Siddhārtha there was no one that he could consider as his teacher or superior in terms of virtue, concentration, wisdom, liberation, or the knowledge and vision of liberation. Therefore he concluded, "Let me then honor, respect, and dwell in dependence on this very Dharma to which I have fully awakened." (Ibid, p. 234) Brahmā then appeared, praised him, and spoke the following verses:
The Buddhas of the past,
The future Buddhas,
And he who is the Buddha now,
Removing the sorrow of many –
"All have dwelt, will dwell, and dwell,
Deeply revering the true Dharma:
For the Buddhas
This is a natural law.
"Therefore one desiring his own good,
Aspiring for spiritual greatness,
Should deeply revere the true Dharma,
Recollecting the Buddhas' Teaching."
(Ibid, p. 235)
This is interesting to me as a Nichiren Buddhist because "true Dharma" is equivalent to saddharma or Wonderful Dharma. The Wonderful Dharma is called Myōho in Japanese. To deeply revere and dwell and devote oneself to something or someone is what "Namu" means. So here we have Namu Myōhō, showing deep reverence to the Wonderful Dharma. This is of course the first half of the Odaimoku (lit. "Sacred Title") of the Lotus Sūtra, and yet even in the Pāli Canon to honor, respect, and dwell in dependence just on the Dharma itself is asserted to be the practice of all Buddhas and all those who aspire to be Buddhas.
The next story involving Brahmā supplies the other half of the Odaimoku. As the Buddha considered how difficult it would be to teach and liberate others, Brahmā appeared again to plead the case of all sentient beings. Joining his hands in reverence before the Buddha he says, "Venerable sir, let the Blessed One teach the Dharma; let the Fortunate One teach the Dharma. There are beings with little dust in their eyes who are falling away because they do not hear the Dharma. There will be those who will understand the Dharma." (Ibid, p. 232) This plea is also referred to in the Lotus Sūtra, with the difference that other Vedic deities accompany Brahmā.
On that occasion King Brahmā
Heavenly King Śakra,
The four heavenly world-guardian kings,
Great-Freedom God, and other gods [of each world],
And thousands and millions of their attendants
Joined their hands together [towards me] respectfully,
Bowed to me,
And asked me to turn the wheel of the Dharma.
(Murano 1991, p. 45)
Of course the Buddha has already vowed eons ago to work for the liberation of all beings, but it is always best to be invited to speak first rather than to try to impose one's teachings upon others, no matter how valid or liberating they may be. So here Brahmā is representative of the deepest yearnings of all beings, from the highest to the lowest in terms of wisdom and spiritual maturity. The Buddha's response acknowledges that some beings would have the capacity to benefit from the Buddha's teachings and uses the analogy of lotuses in a pond, some of which are able to rise up above the muddy waters they are growing in.
Then the Blessed One, having understood Brahmā's request out of compassion for beings surveyed the world with the eye of a Buddha. As he did so, the Blessed One saw beings with little dust in their eyes and with much dust in their eyes, with keen faculties and with dull faculties, with good qualities and with bad qualities, easy to teach and difficult to teach, and a few who dwelt seeing blame and fear in the other world. Just as in a pond of blue or red or white lotuses, some lotuses might be born in the water, grow up in the water, and thrive while submerged in the water, without rising up from the water; some lotuses might be born in the water, grow up in the water, and stand at an even level with the water; some lotuses might be born in the water and grow up in the water, but would rise up from the water and stand without being soiled by the water – so too, surveying the world with the eye of a Buddha, the Blessed One saw beings with little dust in their eyes and with much dust in their eyes, with keen faculties and with dull faculties, with good qualities and with bad qualities, easy to teach and hard to teach, and a few who dwell seeing blame and fear in the other world."
Having seen this, he answered Brahmā Sahampati in verse:
"Open to them are the doors to the Deathless:
Let those who have ears release faith.
Foreseeing trouble, O Brahmā, I did not speak
The refined, sublime Dharma among human beings."
(Bodhi 2000, p. 233)
So the Buddha does embark upon a 50-year long effort to teach others the Dharma. So with this second story the analogy of the lotus flower is introduced to show the purpose of the Buddha's teachings, that purpose being to allow the spiritual nature of all beings to bloom so they can rise up above the muddy waters of ignorance, selfish craving, and suffering. In this story from the Connected Discourses it would appear that only a very select few would ever be capable of blooming in this way, just as only some lotuses are able to rise up above the muddy pond water. The Mahāyāna teachings, and especially the Lotus Sūtra, make it clear that all beings have the nature of a Buddha, are therefore capable of perfect and complete awakening, and that all who hear and take faith in the Wonderful Dharma will become bodhisattvas and eventually buddhas themselves. The Buddha says of his bodhisattva disciples, whom he regards as his children and heirs, "They are not defiled by worldliness just as the lotus-flower is not defiled by water." (Murano 1991, p. 239) As a symbol the lotus flower is used both in the Pāli Canon and in the Mahāyāna sūtras, but in the former it only indicates that a few might be capable of hearing the Buddha's teachings and putting them into practice so they will be liberated from suffering, while in the latter it symbolizes the blooming of the buddha-nature of all beings.
In Japanese, the Chinese characters for "lotus flower" are pronounced Renge and the character for the Buddha's teaching or a sūtra (lit. "thread" as in a "thread of discourse") is pronounced Kyō. So here is the other half of the Odaimoku. I find it interesting that in these two stories the practice of the Buddha is to revere and dwell in dependence upon the Wonderful Dharma and that the teaching of the Wonderful Dharma is for the purpose of bringing to bloom the spiritual capacities of all beings who are likened to lotuses rising above a muddy pond. The Odaimoku that is Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō, "Devotion to the Sūtra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma," seems to be more than just a phrase praising the title of a single sūtra, but a phrase that expresses themes that run through the entirety of the Buddhist tradition and whose elements are found even in these two stories from the Pāli Canon about what occurred immediately after Śākyamuni Buddha's awakening.
The T'ien-t'ai School divided the Buddha's 50 years of teaching into five periods of varying degrees of profundity. The first period being those first few weeks that Śākyamuni Buddha sat beneath the Bodhi Tree. During that time he taught the Flower Garland Sūtra, although Nichiren points out in Kaimoku-shō that it would be more accurate to say that it was the bodhisattvas who were present that actually did the teaching. Starting with the discourse on the Four Noble Truths taught at the Deer Park to the five ascetics who he had formerly practiced with, Śākyamuni Buddha spent 12 years teaching the pre-Mahāyāna (aka Hīnayāna) teachings found in the Āgama Sūtras or the Pāli Canon. After that he spent eight years teaching the preliminary Mahāyāna teachings of the Vaipulya or Expanded sūtras. He taught the Perfection of Wisdom sūtras during the 22 years that followed that. For the last eight years of his life, the Buddha taught the Lotus Sūtra. On the very last day and night of his life the Buddha taught the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāna Sūtra. It should be noted that even Nichiren points out in other writings that these time spans are uncertain. In any case, modern textual scholarship would dismiss all of this as arbitrary, especially since the Mahāyāna sūtras are now seen as compositions arising after the Buddha's lifetime. Nevertheless, Mahāyāna Buddhism accepts these sūtras as embodying the word of the Buddha in the sense that they convey the full depths of the Buddha's insight and compassion. The T'ien-t'ai system of classifying the sūtras into five periods of teaching can still be seen as a useful way of approaching the sūtras in terms of how they build upon one another and lead those who put them into practice into deeper and subtler insights. I will go into this system in more detail in a later chapter.
I think it should be obvious that these stories of the past lives of the Buddha, the eight major events of the Buddha's life, and these anecdotes from the Pāli Canon are myths and legends. I certainly do believe that there was a historical Buddha and that he did teach the four noble truths and dependent origination and also established the Sangha of monks and nuns. The Śākyamuni Buddha of these stories, however, is not the one we would meet if we took a time machine and visited the historical Buddha in ancient India. The Śākyamuni Buddha of these stories is more of a personification of an evolving tradition of wisdom and practice whose roots go back to the teaching and practice of the historical Buddha. Which Buddha should we be concerned with? I think it should be the personification of the tradition. As modern day Buddhists, we are not directly the followers of an ancient Indian sage. Instead, we are people who are inspired by an ideal of selfless compassion and motivated to take up practices that have been tried and tested over time to help us to awaken to a life of selfless compassion. It is in the living tradition of Buddhism that we encounter those ideals and practices, and it is not the historical Buddha but the Śākyamuni Buddha who personifies the living tradition that I think we truly take refuge in. We meet that Buddha in the sūtras and commentaries like Kanjin Honzon-shō. Especially in Kanjin Honzon-shō, Nichiren assumes familiarity with this traditional view of the Buddha and explores the importance of properly understanding this Buddha that we are taking refuge in and what that means for our own practice and realization.
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Bodhi, Bhikkhu, trans. The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2000.
Chappel, David, ed., and Masao Ichishima, comp. Trans. Buddhist Translation Seminar of Hawaii. T'ien-t'ai Buddhism: An Outline of the Fourfold Teachings. Tokyo: Shobo, 1983.
Frye, Stanley, trans. Sutra of the Wise and the Foolish. New Delhi: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives, 2000.
Gosho Translation Committee, editor-translator. The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin. Tokyo: Soka Gakkai, 1999.
Hori, Kyōtsū, comp. Writings of Nichiren Shōnin: Doctrine Volume 2. Tokyo: Nichiren Shu Overseas Propagation Promotion Association, 2002.
Hurvitz, Leon. Chih-i: An Introduction to the Life and Ideas of a Chinese Buddhist Monk. Melanges chinois et bouddhiques 12 (1960-62): 1-372. Brussels: l'Institute Belge des Hautes Etudes Chinoises.
Jayawickrama, N.A., trans. The Story of Gotama Buddha (Jātaka-nidāna). Oxford: Pali Text Society, 2002.
Johnston, E.H., trans. Aśvaghosa's Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1998.
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______________, trans. Two Nichiren Texts. Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2000.
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___________. "When Did Life of Śākyamuni Begin and End?" [Part 2]. Nichiren Shū News, June 1, 2000, p. 1.
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____________, trans. The Collected Teachings of the Tendai School. Berkeley: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 1995.


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How to access your ESO+ if you are a Steam player
If you have bought your ESO on Steam (or linked your account to your Steam account), and you have ESO+, you might have noticed the game thinks you don't have it active.
See here:
We are currently investigating reports of #ESO Plus benefits not being granted on PC/Mac. Thank you for your patience.
— Elder Scrolls Online (@TESOnline) January 18, 2017
Yeah whatever, it's been way more than 24 hours now and no response.
You can play the game with ESO+ if you launch it from its executive file (and not the launcher), which most likely will be in your "\Steam\steamapps\common\Zenimax Online\The Elder Scrolls Online\game\client" folder. If you don't know where that is, just search for eso.exe or eso64.exe (depends what type of OS you have, but most likely it's 64-bit. I'll let you google how to find out if your OS is 32 or 64 bit tho).
You can also just add the game to Steam if you need the overlay. Go to Library, below the list choose +Add a game, then browse and look for the file mentioned above.
It won't log in automatically for you (as it skips the Steam link, to avoid the ESO+ mess that is right now), but you will be able to play the game with the overlay. It also won't display any game related Steam links on the overlay, as it won't be recognized as ESO.
My recommended ESO addons
These are the ones I'm using as of right now:
- Assist Rapid Riding (swaps any skillslot you define to Rapid Maneuver or a morph of it when you mount, until you use it, then it switches back. Also has a keybind to swap manually (for onfoot))
- Awesome Guild Store
- Azurah (UI reorganising and adding more info to the UI)
- Clock by Tyx (still using 0.7.3. as it works just as good and I don't want all kinds of overfancy skins)
- Destinations (all kinds of pins on the map)
- Dustman (sorts items to Junk category) careful with this guy, check the settings for all characters as there are a few defaults that I didn't really like and it's not accountwide!)
- MultiCraft (you can set quantity when crafting so you don't need to spam that R)
- No, Thank You! (various things you can disable with it, like turning character when opening a menu, text popping up all over the screen, etc)
- ShissuLUAMemory (if you hate those LUA error messages. check the available commands and increase your LUA memory cache + put those annoying errors to the notifications. Especially useful if you have all these addons or even more.)
- SimpleHelmetToggle (outdated but still works just fine, has keybind too)
- SkyShards (obvious)
- SpentSkillPoints (shows how many skillpoints you have invested in lines)
- Srendarr (buff UI, I like this better than AUI)
- TamrielTradeCentre (gets prices from a common database, no need to be in big trading guilds! also you can scan any guild's trader and contribute to the database)
- VotansImprovedQuests (sorts quests when viewing the map)
- VotansKeybinder (accountwide keybindings, life-saver)
All of them can be found on http://www.esoui.com/addons.php
Also this tool might come handy: https://www.sirmre.com/eso-motd
The miserable life of a Wifi PC user
How to make Wifi work on a PC with Win10
Just follow the pictures and the captions.
And hopefully you are done and won't have to worry about this shit ever again. Also make sure your drivers are up-to-date. Theoretically anything that works with Win7 or Win8 should work with Win10 too.
Also your Wifi adapter should be compatible with your router (i.e. get a new router if it's so old it could be displayed in a museum).
Dragonmancer Pt. 2!
Mini Jumping "Puzzles" Series
This is a series about mini jumping "puzzles". Some of them might not be intended by devs, some pretty much look like they are. Not all of them will be "puzzling". One thing is common though: they don't give material (well virtual…) rewards, only the satisfaction that you have completed it.


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This duo was born in the summer of 2014 by two graduates of the Viljandi Culture Academy's Traditional Music programme. Deeply rooted in the traditions of Estonian dance music these young ladies bring a drive and energy to the instrumental repertoire and a light sureness of touch to songs for dancing and listening.
Kristi Kool's diatonic accordeon playing has been passed down through several generations of her family and is steeped in time and place. Meanwhile Janne Suits charts a new course for the old music on the nyckelharpa, an instrument little known in Estonia.
Suits & Kool create dance music and song for those who love life.
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A team of student scientists at Stanford University are making strides in tackling the challenge of antibiotic resistance in disease-causing bacteria. Working out of the Shriram Center for Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering, the trio of researchers have been granted $10,000 to carry on with their investigations, and they're feeling pretty good about the results so far (although the details are being kept under wraps). Click here to catch NPR's coverage of their efforts.
This is exactly the type of groundbreaking, collaborative, entrepreneurial exploration that the Science and Engineering Quad was designed to facilitate. By investing in robust learning environments where students and faculty can connect with each other–as well as investors from the broader community–Universities are providing the freedom to tackle wicked problems that may not appear "profitable" in the world of Business or Industry. As a result, the work being conducted in Shriram by these hopeful inventors could have benefits on a global scale.


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Gnome desktop notifications of new updates is not working on my system. I noticed that the notifications stopped working when I removed my desktop user from the sudo group (I prefer to have a separate user with sudo privileges). I found the following post in Debian bugs which suggests that it is necessary for the desktop user to be in the sudo group for the updates notifications to work:
The update-notifier man page mentions the following commandline option:
--force "Force start even if the user is not in the admin group."
Should I consider adding the above option to update-notifier in the startup applications list? Doing "ps aux | grep update" shows that update-notifier is already running, so perhaps it is another process that is the source of the problem?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
- Debian Squeeze
- 2.6.32-5-686
- update-notifier 0.99.3debian8


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Summer 2015 ISSOS Times
Date: November 6, 2015
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Every summer we publish the ISSOS Times, a magazine which reviews each session of ISSOS summer schools. These magazines bring clan events, evening programs and activities to life for parents, students and friends.
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In the case of Dr. Brandt it is a short lever approach to spinal health involving hands on manipulation to increase the nervous energy to the body and enhance the signals for healing. For further information, click here. Click here for an article on spinal therapy.
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