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Like everyone else, we're looking for a super awesome twin stroller that won't break the bank. What do I mean by "super awesome"? Okay, you know the drill. It wheels easily on all sorts of terrain, fits through doors, can be easily folded up and unfolded, can handle newborns/infants, will last us through age 4, does not require any kind of second stroller purchase, and costs less than our mortgage payment. Does not exist. I know. One nonnegotiable for sure is nonplastic wheels. We live in the real 'burby 'burbs (bleh) so this is a stroller that I will need to fold, stick in the car, and unfold constantly. We don't have a garage, so this stroller is going to be stored either in my (roomy) station wagon trunk or the main room in our townhouse. First world problem, I know.
Our price point is max ~$400. We could be compelled to go up if we could add needed parts/accessories over time.
After reading a zillion reviews I was pretty set on the Baby Trend Expedition Double (http://www.babytrend.com/joggers_double/DJ96045.html) - it's the one with three wheels/front swivel wheel. It's fairly lightweight for a jogging double, is 31.5" wide, and the seats lie flat so I could put newborns in them with a support. Some reviewers said it fits through doors no problem, others said not so much (maybe 60/40% respectively). Very reasonably priced and many reviewers noted they liked it as much or better than the BOB. Okay, good. Then I started thinking about the reality of removing two newborns from their car seats every.single.time I need to get out of the house. And hence, maybe getting one of those annoying clip and go frames secondhand to use in the beginning. Which, as you can tell, I don't want to do.
Then I spotted the 2012 Britax b-Ready (which has real wheels as opposed to the 2011) - http://www.britaxusa.com/strollers/2012-b-ready/image-gallery. It is sort of a lower-priced Baby Jogger City Select. I love that this thing can take two infant buckets in a reasonable configuration, and that they don't have to be Britax brand. What I don't love is the toddler configuration. I have seen a zillion people using these inline two-seaters (usually with a toddler and a baby) in Major Metropolis Near Me and it just seems like the kid in the lower seat rides so close to the grime on the sidewalk. And is smushed down there. Meanwhile the top seat is too high for a kid to climb into independently. But the b-Ready was positively reviewed by Twiniversity specifically for twin families, and having read lots of positive reviews of it...I am being seduced by this setup. If you have toddler twins, do you think this configuration would work for them? Would they be okay being inline? (They can sort of face each other but not really.) Would there be constant fighting over the top/bottom seat? Do YOU prefer them to be next to one another?
Everyone else - what do you think??? How did you make your stroller desicion.
Thank you! I need opinions!
Me + DH + DS ('07) + after a long and bumpy road, thrilled that our twin boys are finally here (DS2 & DS3, '12)
Don't buy the baby trend. Its heavy, becomes hard to fold down after long use, and is not as easy to navigate as other strollers. I was set on it at first too- its an excellent price. We have a babytrend jogger for DD that I am gladly getting rid of. Its cumbersome, it doesnt fold down well, its heavy, the wheel wobbles if you go to fast. I just dont suggest it if what you are looking for is ease of use.
I like side by sides, because they are typically lighter than in lines. Im not planning on going through many narrow doors anyway, so thats not a big problem for me.
This is my favorite (I just bought it- and its discontinued at babies r us, so you might be able to score their floor model like I did ($300).
I like the amount of sun protection it has, it accommodates infants and up to 100 lbs of weight .I think it is super, super easy to navigate. I was with a friend who was pushing one and I was pushing my babytrend. When she had me push hers to try it out, i fell in love. It is only 30 inches wide. Even a standard home door frame is 36''- so there should be no problems getting it in and out of stores. The storage on it is adequate, and you can buy a separate tray for cupholders and snacks. It weighs in at only 26 lbs and folds up super compact compared to the babytrend which ways 31 lbs and does not fold up well. We have space issues, so I needed it to fold small.
Anyway, my second choice is the Bob Double, followed by the Britax B-Agile, and the MacLaren Twin triumph. Personally, I couldnt go with the Britax that you listed because I will sometimes have my two year old in it and she is always going to want the top seat. So, that leads me to believe that if I had 2 two year olds (WHEN I have two two year olds ) they will constantly fight over it.
Good luck!
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If you can find a stroller that has a movable front wheel(s), but also locks in place for jogging, you'd get the best of both worlds. I have one like that called a tyke teck 360, but I havent' seen them available for awhile. As a bonus, it folds up pretty small for a double stroller.
so i know what you say about cost, but i want to put out there that a great stroller is something that will make being a MOM better every day of your life for the next few years, the freedom and convenance should not be undervalued.
and my stroller that i rave about all the time (so much so that i won't again unless you have a question, you can see my other posts on the subject all over)
is the City Select and the basic set up works out the $3.02 bucks a week for the 4 years. so even with the various add ons one rate years, i would do it again in a heart beat and we often comment on the reality that the cost over the life of our twins is pretty amazingly good for what it gives us.
So what if I don't fit cleanly into a defined parenting style, my kids don't fit into a personality archetype either!
Adaline's Mama - are you kidding? That was super helpful! I can't find that Baby Trend jogger to try out in person anywhere, so I am really glad to have that input. I was sort of getting a "too good to be true" vibe about it. Also, according to the doctorate I have recently completed about twin strollers (seems you have the same degree!), the consensus seems to be the Baby Trend customer service is abysmal. And definitely, that is what my gut was telling me about the top vs. bottom seats on the Britax b-Ready - I mean, I do realize that they probably can and will bicker about every conceivable thing, but that seems like it has the potential to cause unneccessary headaches. I have heard a ton of raves about the double City Mini, but I just can't get over the plastic wheels. They look to be the same type that DS's (single) Peg Perego Aria has, and those really suck. We have friends who loved their City Mini but they did say the wheels were worn down pretty badly after 3 years of use. I know the the next model up (City Mini GT double, I think?) solves that problem, but the price point jumps enough that I'm then considering other options as well. Plus the City Mini only takes 1 car seat so I'd still have to use that clip n go frame in the beginning, which if I don't find it used adds $100 to the stroller purchase price, essentially. I am starting to get comfortable with a higher price point (seems like for what we need it really is a worthwhile investment), but it's sort of weird for me because we live on a fairly tight budget. The stroller is actually going to be a gift from family, but I still feel guilty asking for something so pricey. (I think we'll offer to contribute.) So it does seem like the City Mini with the rubber wheels is at the top of my side-by-side list...
Red Pajama, I've just started seeing those around recently! I'll have to check them out. I'm glad to hear a good experience with them.
Adorkable, I was hoping you'd weigh in! And I am extra glad you did because you inspired me to check out the City Select again and...wow, it really seems incredible. I mean, I knew that already, but seeing that 1) it completely solves the one thing that really bugs me about the b-Ready: the two seats are "equal," not one top and one bottom, and 2) it's in the range of what we'll likely end up spending anyway, has kind of put me over the edge. And it really does help to think of it in terms of a $3/week investment. Also, its car seat adaptor works with the one infant car seat that we already own, not the case for any other stroller I've found thus far. I've been trying to find some deals without any luck yet. I did spot a 2011 base model for $399, but it's got white (discontinued) upholstery. Yikes. And let me tell you, the people on my local Craigslist are completely nuts. They want more than the retail price for a brand new stroller, for their used one! Not sure I'd feel comfortable shelling out hundreds for a used stroller anyway though, this is an item that seems worth it to buy new. DH is all for it so I may be the newest member of the City Select fan club. Do your twins mind not sitting next to one another? What is your favorite toddler configuration (or do you change it out all the time?) Any recs on where to buy it?
Me + DH + DS ('07) + after a long and bumpy road, thrilled that our twin boys are finally here (DS2 & DS3, '12)
I have a Phil and Teds stroller that I love! I have the Dash model but all models seem great. They are expensive to buy new, but i found mine on craigslist for around $300 and she had only used it about 10 times. My girls are 17 months apart and it has worked great for us. Here is a link to their site http://philandteds.com/us .
Stay at home wife and mommy to four beautiful girls Ashlyn (3.5), Sydney (2), and identical twins Cambrie and Acacia (6 months)
I had the bassinets when they were young and really liked them, though I ca see why folks like to just move the Carseats around. If you want to pm me maybe you can borrow my bassinets?
I got a double snap and go for airports or super quick solo trips. They are horrible but also just what you need. Look into your local twins club for a used one. Heck look into your local twin club for tons of things, most have twice yearly used sales and often a year round classified. I find the going rate in my area for snap and in perfect shape is 40bucks, many going free once they are scuffed up.
Once the moved out of bassinets my twin have almost always pointed towards each other in the city select. It works very nice and I can pull it up along side a chair or table and deal with both pretty close to face on. It is just stacked enough to let me lay them fully back and if I do it right they now both use the snack bar. If we are walking somewhere really fun to look at I'll face them both forward and the city select makes it easy for both to see in that forward way, unlike the britax.
I found mine cheep on amazon since they were changing over a few details with the 2011 model, I would keep an eye out there and wait up till the end to buy so that maybe a deal pops up. I lust after the purple that was not out when I bought. And frankly for as long as I will end up looking at this thing I would happily pay the price of a dinner to get the color I want.
Welcome to the fan club (snickers playfully)
So what if I don't fit cleanly into a defined parenting style, my kids don't fit into a personality archetype either!
So what if I don't fit cleanly into a defined parenting style, my kids don't fit into a personality archetype either!
Just chiming in with another vote for the City Select. (Long time lurker; I never post but I'm strangely compelled to share the City Select love...)
The thought of spending that much cash on a stroller made me sick. But, I just couldn't find another solution that was a)significantly cheaper AND b)I still loved. So, we just did it. It was a ridiculous splurge, but I will tell you that I have not regretted the purchase once in the few short months we've had it. My twins are 7 months old, and we got it when they were ~5 months. We started with the snap and go, but I got it used for $30, so it was a negligible expense.
Things I love:
-Pushes like a DREAM. With DD1, I had a Peg Perego P3, which isn't a cheap stroller by any stretch of the imagination, but compared to the City Select, the P3 feels cheap. Listen-I can easily push the stroller with one hand, while pulling DD1 and a huge cart of groceries behind me. Incredible.
-Love the different configurations. Right now, I mainly put them facing each other, because then they amuse each other. Bonus.
-Very decent storage space. A little tough to get to when the seats are facing each other, but still plenty of room.
-Super, super, super easy to fold/unfold. It can't be folded with the second seat attached, but it is such a simple install, it doesn't even matter. My only complaint is that the "natural" way it unfolds puts the handle facing down, and I don't want to be scuffing it up. My DH says he doesn't notice it, but he sort of unfolds it in midair, if that makes sense. It is heavy, so I'm not able to do that.
-Good recline. Even with seats facing in, both can be reclined almost all the way.
So, all in all, worth every penny. :)
We are not getting a double stroller but we used a baby jogger in Disney and it was wonderful. It made non-stroller people LOVE a stroller. It was so fabulous that it was the first place I looked for a triplet stroller.
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can i ask i totally honest question? how the heck to you se yourself doing anything without at least a double stroller? i hear folks say this, but frankly simple can not see how you could ever leave the house for a second. i am really honestly asking
So what if I don't fit cleanly into a defined parenting style, my kids don't fit into a personality archetype either!
My current plan is to get a jogger for jogging but that stroller will stay in the garage except for jogging. For errands my plan is to stick with a single umbrella stroller that lays flat for newborns and sleeping. Much easier to pack into the car and maneuver around stores. I'll wear one twin and push the other.
When I have all three kiddos without my husband, then I'll make my toddler walk. On the very rare occasion where we have to do lots of walking without the hubby I plan to use the double jogger for toddler and one twin and wear the other twin. Of course, reality may differ from my plans
LOL! Oh, we're absolutely getting a stroller. We are getting an ABC Buggy (should arrive in a few more weeks). We are not anti-stroller in that I refuse to use one but more that our stroller that we currently have has gotten very little mileage as a stroller through two infanthoods. When we found out we were having triplets, I started stroller hunting. It was heavily suggested that I get a double stroller to compliment the single but I want an independent unit. I just did not know if my opinion was as valuable towards the purchase of a double stroller since technically I have only rented a double stroller for a week, barely used my single stroller, and will own a triple stroller. But for what it was worth, boy did we love that stroller that week. I was kinda sorry to see it go as it served us so well. Even more sorry that they stopped making their triplet stroller :lol:
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ok that makes soooo much more sense, thank for setting me straight. yeah i saw a ABC stroller with a young set of triplets at a festival this somer and it looks amazing, hardly any stroller can make me jelous and that one did. what et up are you getting?
So what if I don't fit cleanly into a defined parenting style, my kids don't fit into a personality archetype either!
We are getting the triple buggy with the Everest:
The neat thing is that you can add a fourth seat and we did purchase the bar to allow the use of a ride on or two. Admittedly, I cannot fathom the idea of us pushing all 5 kids on this getup at once but I also never fathomed triplets !!! I guess be prepared. For anyone considering this stroller contact the owner of the company. They have such excellent customer service and the price is much fairer.
It is strange thinking that we were excited about the price in the end because it is the most $ baby item we have ever bought. However, the price of triplet strollers is horrendous. Add in that most of them do not fit in one's car or barely fit with after pulling the thing apart. We are thrilled that we can find a way to move our girls about and still fit in our family vehicle. Tightly, but fit.
Mama to five, not 13. I just like pumpkins and thought that number would not be taken.
Thank you so much everyone for all the info and continued encouragement! adorkable, even more points for our top contender - I didn't even think of the advantage of just rolling it up to a cafe table/park bench and feeding them in it, that is brilliant. I'll PM you but thank you so much for the offer, it is so kind! Now you've got me contemplating a bassinet. (My mom is always saying she doesn't understand why US strollers rarely have them...) rblakley, thanks for the rec - as far as I can tell though all the P&T's are specifically designed for an infant + toddler rather than two infants/two toddlers. I didn't see one that could accept 2 car seats. Did I miss it? Glad you have a ride you love! Nov02 I am really glad you came out of lurkerdom - it really does help to know that there are more moms like me for whom this really was an unusual purchase, that was well worth it. marsupial mom, I'm with ya. We went to our local baby mega box to see what floor models they had and wow, are those joggers big. We're not runners so we wouldn't be using it that way. We tried out the double City Mini and while it wheels really nicely (and our almost-5yo could sit in it comfortably), we both agreed we like the tandem style better. They didn't have the City Select so we tried the Chicco (?) Cortina (?) which we wouldn't get (loooong wheel base, seats don't move) and just liked the experience of long/narrow over short/wide. I finally found a local store that has a floor model of the City Select but I have to drive out there to see it...maybe next week. 13pumpkins, that is a great tip about calling the company - I never would have thought of it. That looks like an amazing ride for your situation. (Triplets!!)
Me + DH + DS ('07) + after a long and bumpy road, thrilled that our twin boys are finally here (DS2 & DS3, '12)
For those who have the City Select Double Stroller....do you find that it is still useful for toddlers? Or if your children are not toddlers yet, do you imagine it will be useful for toddlers? Will they still have room? Is it top heavy? Do you have to put the bottom child in first and take them out last?
When the children are facing each other, is there still the ability to use the basket under neath? It seems from the pictures that the bottom child's feet are in the basket when facing the handlebars.
We are wanting a stroller we can use until the twins are about 3ish, and maybe even a little older for all day festival type events.
We are hoping to just buy one stroller to do us for the whole 3 years.
Is this a feasible wish/hope?
Can the city select, or any stroller do this?
Also, is this stroller good in snow? On grass (at parks)? In sand?
Mostly we go on grass...and we have to deal with snow a few times throughout the winter. Sometimes quite wet snow.
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We are a family that loves
my twins are now 19 months, and around 30in tall and fit wonderfully, the footrest is still adjusted to the shorter position and they are just starting to bed their legs slightly. i feel like they will fit for a good long while. though maybe not withth snack tray in the low normal position.
Is it top heavy? Do you have to put the bottom child in first and take them out last?
it is VERY stable, even the top seat is well forward of the large rear wheels so no worries about who comes out first, we do it both way all the time. i actually wish the top seat were i bit higher on the bar, I'm thinking of moving the center attachment point (used for when you are in single stroller mode, which we frankly never are) to a slightly higher position, this would give a bit more room between the snack tray of the lower kid and the foot rest of the upper kids when they are both facing in, our favorite position.
When the children are facing each other, is there still the ability to use the basket under neath? It seems from the pictures that the bottom child's feet are in the basket when facing the handlebars.
i set up this all the time and use the based a ton, yes the feet go in a bit, specially if rotated all the way downward. but the re isa nice spot behind the footwell for rarely used things like a spare coat or a large picnic blanket, which is what is usually in ours. and then i can but a full size loaded backpack in the rest of it and then plenty of other things.
We are wanting a stroller we can use until the twins are about 3ish, and maybe even a little older for all day festival type events.
We are hoping to just buy one stroller to do us for the whole 3 years.
Is this a feasible wish/hope?
Can the city select, or any stroller do this?
i think this is totally feasible and I'm sure i will still be using mine in a year as the ground the corner towards 3 with no problem, maybe not hopping curbs as fast as i do now.
Also, is this stroller good in snow? On grass (at parks)? In sand?
Mostly we go on grass...and we have to deal with snow a few times throughout the winter. Sometimes quite wet snow.
I've been on tons of grass, mild gravel, tons of dirt trails and wooded trains with roots and puddles, all handled with grace and ease.
been in only a little snow and had no problem sept for the one time it kept hitting up on the cross bars with some crusty built up drifts.
i do wish baby jogger would sell a big tire kit, it would be so easy to do since both sets of wheels come off so well and could be bigger and still not bump anything (at least when open)
So what if I don't fit cleanly into a defined parenting style, my kids don't fit into a personality archetype either!
Thank you so much for your reply Adorkable!
I am pretty sure that this is the stroller we are going to go and buy. Just those last questions knawing at me. Now I feel much better purchasing this stroller.
Me 40 . Partner to mamacolleen 33 . DD born July 2009 . Twin boys born Nov 2012.
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I am pretty excited for it to arrive (this week!!). They do have double stroller options too.
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French court on Monday ordered a website to stop naming teachers, after the country's educational establishment denounced it as "public lynching".
PARIS, March 4, 2008 - A French court on Monday ordered a website
that allows pupils to rate their schools to stop naming teachers, after the
country's educational establishment denounced it as "public lynching".
The website, www.note2be.com, which opened late January based on similar
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Amal Clooney celebrated her first (extended) wedding anniversary with husband, George Clooney in London's Notting Hill.
The 37-year-old barrister looked gorgeous in a floral print Dolce and Gabbana dress which was teamed up with a red trench coat. However, the star wife showed rather more than she intended while getting into her car post first anniversary dinner celebrations.
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[quote:Stu:MV8yMDU5OTQ5XzM0NjUxMzMwXzFBMDVEQUMx] This absolute stillness of the mind is exactly no–mind or mindlessness. It is not control, it is not discipline; it is not that you are putting all your pressure on your mind and keeping it silent. No, it is simply not there. The house is empty. There is nobody to control and there is nobody to be controlled. All concerns for control have disappeared into a simple watchfulness. This watchfulness is expansive. Once you have tasted it a little, it goes on expanding to the very limits of the universe. [b]When old habits suddenly arise, don't use your mind to repress them. At just such a time, it's like a snowflake on a red–hot stove.[/b] He is reminding you that even when you are moving on the path of watchfulness, sometimes old habits may revive. But don't be concerned; they are like snowflakes on a red–hot stove, they will disappear of their own accord. You simply watch. Don't get concerned, don't get disturbed, don't be worried. Sometimes there will be anger, sometimes there will be a desire, sometimes there will be an ambition, but they cannot disturb your watchfulness. They will come and they will go without leaving a trace on your mirror–like purity. But you have only to remember one thing: not to start fighting with them, smashing them, destroying them, throwing them away. It comes very naturally to the mind that if something wrong is happening, jump on it and destroy it. This is the only thing you have to be aware of, because this is what never allows a man to get beyond the mind. Old habits will come – and old habits are very old, many, many lives old. Your awareness is very fresh and very new; your mechanicalness is ancient, so it is very natural that it will come back. Somebody insults you – you don't have to be angry, but suddenly you find anger arising. It is not an effort, it is just an old habit, an old reaction. Don't fight with it, don't try to smile and hide it. Just watch it, and it will come and it will go.... Like a snowflake on a red–hot stove. For those with a discerning eye and a familiar hand, one leap and they leap clear. Only then do they know lazy Jung's saying: right when using mind, there's no mental activity. If a man has learned the art of watchfulness he can use his mind too, and still he has no mental activity. [b]I am talking to you, and I am using my mind because there is no other way.[/b] more> mind is the only way to convey any message in words; that is the only mechanism available. But my mind is absolutely silent, there is no mental activity: I'm not thinking what I'm going to say, and I'm not thinking what I have said. I'm simply responding to Ta Hui spontaneously without bringing myself into it. It is as if you go into the mountains and you shout and the mountains echo: the mountains are not doing any mental activity, they are simply echoing. When I am talking on Ta Hui, I am just a mountain echoing. Right when using mind, there's no mental activity. Crooked talk defiled with names and forms, straight talk without complications. Without mind but functioning.... This is a strange experience, when you can use mind without any mental activity.... Without mind but functioning, always functioning but non–existent. I was from my very childhood in love with silence. As long as I could manage I would just sit silently. Naturally my family used to think that I was going to be good for nothing – and they were right. I certainly proved good for nothing, but I don't repent it. It came to such a point that sometimes I would be sitting and my mother would come to me and say something like, "There seems to be nobody in the whole house. I need somebody to go to the market to fetch some vegetables." I was sitting in front of her, and I would say, "If I see somebody I will tell...." It was accepted that my presence meant nothing; whether I was there or not, it did not matter. Once or twice they tried and then they found that "it is better to leave him out, and not take any notice of him" – because in the morning they would send me to fetch vegetables, and in the evening I would come to ask, "I have forgotten for what you had sent me, and now the market is closed..." In villages the vegetable markets close by the evening, and the villagers go back to their villages. My mother said, "It is not your fault, it is our fault. The whole day we have been waiting, but in the first place we should not have asked you. Where have you been?" I said, "As I went out of the house, just close by there was a very beautiful bodhi tree" – the kind of tree under which Gautam Buddha became awakened. The tree got the name bodhi tree – or in English, bo tree – because of Gautam Buddha. One does not know what it used to be called before Gautam Buddha; it must have had some name, but after Buddha it became associated with his name. There was a beautiful bodhi tree, and it was so tempting for me. There used to be always such silence, such coolness underneath it, nobody to disturb me, that I could not pass it without sitting under it for some time. And those moments of peace, I think sometimes may have stretched the whole day. After just a few disappointments they thought, "It is better not to bother him." And I was immensely happy that they had accepted the fact that I am almost non–existent. It gave me tremendous freedom. Nobody expected anything from me. When nobody expects anything from you, you fall into a silence.... The world has accepted you; now there is no expectation from you. When sometimes I was late coming home, they used to search for me in two places. One was the bodhi tree – and because they started searching for me under the bodhi tree, I started climbing the tree and sitting in the top of it. They would come and they would look around and say, "He does not seem to be here." And I myself would nod; I said, "Yes, that's true. I'm not here." But I was soon discovered, because somebody saw me climbing and told them, "He has been deceiving you. He is always here, most of the time sitting in the tree" – so I had to go a little further. There used to be a Mohammedan cemetery.... [/quote]
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Not "keeping the mind still," but mindlessness.
Though you may not fully know whether the teachers of the various localities are wrong or right, if your own basis is solid and genuine, the poisons of wrong doctrines will not be able to harm you, "keeping the mind still" and "forgetting concerns" included. If you always "forget concerns" and "keep the mind still," without smashing the mind of birth and death, then the delusive influences of form, sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness will get their way, and you'll inevitably be dividing emptiness into two.
Let go and make yourself vast and expansive. When old habits suddenly arise, don't use mind to repress them. At just such a time, it's like a snowflake on a red–hot stove. For those with a discerning eye and a familiar hand, one leap and they leap clear.
Only then do they know lazy Jung's saying: right when using mind, there's no mental activity. Crooked talk defiled with names and forms, straight talk without complications. Without mind but functioning, always functioning but non-existent – the mindlessness I speak of now is not separate from having mind. These aren't words to deceive people.
There has been a long misunderstanding about these two things: keeping the mind still and mindlessness. There have been many people who have thought that they are synonymous. They appear to be synonymous, but in reality they are as far apart as two things can be, and there is no way to bridge them.
So first let us try to find the exact meanings of these two words, because the whole of Ta Hui's sutra this evening is concerned with the understanding of the difference.
The difference is very delicate. A man who is keeping his mind still and a man who has no mind will look exactly alike from the outside, because the man who is keeping his mind still is also silent. Underneath his silence there is great turmoil, but he is not allowing it to surface. He is in great control.
The man with no mind, or mindlessness, has nothing to control. He is just pure silence with nothing repressed, with nothing disciplined – just a pure empty sky.
Surfaces can be very deceptive. One has to be very alert about appearances, because they both look the same from the outside – both are silent. The problem would not have arisen if the still mind was not easy to achieve. It is easy to achieve. Mindlessness is not so easy to achieve; it is not cheap,
it is the greatest treasure in the world.
Mind can play the game of being silent; it can play the game of being without any thoughts, any emotions,
but they are just repressed, fully alive, ready to jump out any moment. The so–called religions and their saints have fallen into the fallacy of stilling the mind.
If you go on sitting silently, trying to control your thoughts, not allowing your emotions, not allowing any movement within you, slowly slowly it will become your habit.
This is the greatest deception in the world you can give to yourself, because everything is exactly the same, nothing has changed, but it appears as if you have gone through a transformation.
The state of no–mind or mindlessness is just the opposite of stilling the mind – it is getting beyond the mind. It is creating such a distance between yourself and the mind that the mind becomes the farthest star, millions of light years away, and you are just a watcher. When the mind is stilled you are the controller. When the mind is not, you are the watcher. These are the distinguishing marks.
When you are controlling something you are in tension; you cannot be without tension, because that which is controlled is continuously trying to revolt against you, that which is enslaved wants freedom. Your mind sooner or later will explode with vengeance.
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The performance of sequence symmetry analysis as a tool for post-market surveillance of newly marketed medicines: a simulation study
Study design
Sequence symmetry analysis (SSA) is a potential tool for rapid detection of adverse drug events (ADRs) associated with newly marketed medicines utilizing computerized claims data. SSA is robust to patient specific confounders but it is sensitive to the underlying utilization trends in the medicines of interest. Methods to adjust for utilisation trends have been developed, however, there has been no systematic investigation to assess the performance of SSA when variable prescribing trends occur. The objective of this study was to evaluate the validity of SSA as a signal detection tool for newly marketed medicines.
Randomly simulated prescription supplies for a population of 1 million were generated for two medicines, DrugA (medicine of interest) and DrugB (medicine indicative of an adverse event). Scenarios were created by varying medicine utilization trends for a newly marketed medicine (DrugA). In addition, the magnitude of association between DrugA and DrugB was varied. For each scenario 1000 simulations were generated. Average Adjusted Sequence Ratios (ASR), bootstrapped 95% confidence intervals (CIs), percentage of CI's which covered the expected ASR and percent relative bias were calculated.
When no association was simulated between DrugA and DrugB, over 95% of SSA CI's covered the expected ASR (ASR = 1) and relative bias was 1% or less irrespective of medicine utilization trends. In scenarios where DrugA and DrugB were associated (ASR = 2), unadjusted SR's were underestimated by between 11.7 and 15.3%. After adjustment for trend, ASR estimates were close to expected with relative bias less than 1%. Power was over 80% in all scenarios except for one scenario in which medicine uptake was gradual and the effect of interest was weak (ASR = 1.2).
Adjustment for underlying medicine utilization patterns effectively overcomes potential under-ascertainment bias in SSA analyses. SSA may be effectively applied as a safety signal detection tool for newly marketed medicines where sufficiently large health claim data are available.
Sequence Symmetry Analysis (SSA) has been suggested as a tool to complement current systems of post-marketing surveillance of medicines which use spontaneous reporting databases
Sequence Symmetry Analysis assesses the association between two medicines in prescription claims data by comparing the sequence of initiation of each medicine during the study period or within a specified period of time for an individual. One of the medicines (DrugA) is the exposure medicine of interest and the other medicine (DrugB) indicates a possible adverse event for which a medicine may have been prescribed. In practice, SSA works by determining the first use of DrugA for an individual (ie the first supply date for DrugA in the available dataset for each individual). The same is done for DrugB. Then for each individual, DrugA and DrugB initiations within a defined period of time, for example 12 months, are selected and included in the analysis
While the validity of SSA has been assessed using known adverse drug reactions as the gold standard
The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of SSA in scenarios which varied 1) the magnitude of the associations between the medicines using simulated prescription orders and 2) the trend in incident medicine use of a medicine new to market.
Sequence symmetry analysis was used to examine the association between DrugA and DrugB. The crude sequence ratio (CSR) was calculated as the ratio of the number of persons with DrugB after DrugA to the number of persons with the DrugB before DrugA. The null-effect sequence ratio (NSR) was calculated using the method described in Tsiropolous
Simulated data
For a population of 1 million we randomly simulated prescription supplies independently for two medicines, DrugA and DrugB. For the population of 1 million, 20% of patients were randomly selected to initiate drugA and 20% of patients to initiate DrugB during the study period. This meant that by chance 4% of patients would be initiated on both DrugA and DrugB. Since medicine supply dates were randomly generated, the number of patients prescribed DrugA then DrugB should be similar to the number of patients who were prescribed DrugB then DrugA. In this scenario the expected sequence ratio would be 1.0, that is, no asymmetry in prescription supplies.
In order to generate the trend in medicine utilization, DrugA supply dates were randomly generated using the following distribution functions; uniform distribution for no trend, the log-normal distribution for a rapidly increasing trend, weibull distribution for a constant increasing trend and gamma distribution to simulate a gradual increasing trend in DrugA (Figure
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Simulated trends for incident use of DrugA and DrugB
Simulated trends for incident use of DrugA and DrugB.
We also simulated six scenarios in which the magnitude of the associations between DrugA and DrugB were varied. In the first scenario, there was no association between the medicines and the expected sequence ratio was 1.00. In the other scenarios the expected sequence ratios were 0.6, 0.8, 1.20, 1.50, 2.00 and 3.00. The associations were induced by forcing a percentage of patients who were not initiated on either medicine to be allocated a DrugA then a DrugB supply, in that order. SSA was restricted to sequences of medicine initiations within 12 months of each other as, when used in practice, this is likely to limit the effect of age and other potential time-varying covariates on the probability of exposure and outcome. Sensitivity analyses were performed in which we reduced the prevalence of medicine use to 5%.
SAS Version 9.4 was used for all simulations and analyses.
Expected ASR = 1.00
When the expected sequence ratio was 1.0, corresponding to no asymmetry in the order of prescriptions supplied, Type 1 error was identified in less than 2.2% of simulations for all medicine utilization scenarios. When no trend was simulated the crude and adjusted sequence ratios were similar and relative bias was 0.38%. The crude sequence ratios were underestimated by 13.9%, 15.3% and 11.7% when the simulated trend was gradual, constant and rapid respectively. After adjustment for trend using the null sequence ratio relative bias was reduced to 1% or less.
Expected ASR = 1.2
In the scenario where there was no trend in medicine utilization, 94.7% of CI's covered the expected ASR (ASR = 1.2) and power was 100%. When DrugA utilization was varied the CSR's were under-estimated by 11.9% to 15.5%. After adjustment for trend, the mean ASR was 1.2, with over 94% of CIs containing the expected sequence ratio. In the case of a gradually increasing trend, power was only 66.4% compared to 96.0% and 96.8% when there was a constant or rapid increasing trend respectively. Relative bias was reduced to less than 1.5% in all scenarios after adjustment for trend.
Expected ASR = 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0
When there was no trend in medicine utilization, approximately 95% of CI's covered the expected ASR and power was 100%. When DrugA was simulated to increase over time ASRs were close to the expected with relative bias 1% or less.
Expected ASR = 0.8 and 0.6
When there was no trend in medicine utilization and the expected ASR was 0.6, 94% of CI's covered the expected ASR and power was 100%. When DrugA was simulated to increase over time ASRs were close to expected with relative bias 0.13 to 0.24%. Power was 86.3% when the expected ASR was 0.8 and the uptake in DrugA was gradual. Power was 99.9% for all other scenarios where the expected ASR was 0.8.
Sensitivity analyses variation in medicine utilization prevalence
The results of the analysis in which the population proportion of drug use was changed to 5% is summarised in Table
We tested SSA in different realistic scenarios for the underlying trend in uptake of a newly marketed medicine over time
SSA analyses had high statistical power in all simulations with effect sizes greater than or equal to 1.5 regardless of the medicine uptake trend. For an effect size of 1.2 and a gradual uptake of the medicine, SSA had only 66% power. This is most likely a consequence of smaller numbers of patients available for analysis in the early years of a gradual medicine uptake rate. However, under the gradual medicine uptake utilization scenario, effect sizes of 1.5 and 2.0 both had nearly 100% power. Estimates of relative bias, however, were largely unaffected by sample size. These results suggest that SSA analyses may be a reliable method to identify adverse events associated with a newly marketed medicine in a sufficiently large population, particularly if the uptake of the medicine is rapid.
In all simulations coverage probability was high as was the power. Coverage and power are measures that are dependent on the sample size. In a sensitivity analysis the impact of the prevalence of the medicine use on the performance of PSSA was explored by reducing the percentage of patients initiating the medicines to 5%. In general, the lower use of medicines reduced the power of SSA but increased the coverage probability marginally. This is most likely due to the increased variability and hence the width of the confidence intervals. The performance of SSA in terms of estimating the true estimated effect was slightly affected, as relative bias of the estimates increased marginally. These results suggest that the power calculations are dependent on the percentage of use and consequently the number of pairs generated.
In practice, SSA has been shown to be robust to varying utilization patterns of medicine use
In this simulation study we fixed the population size at 1 million and only considered a limited number of trends of medicine uptake in DrugA. In this analysis we only varied DrugA, however, in practice trends may occur in either or both DrugA and DrugB. Additionally, we only simulated scenarios where no association between DrugA and DrugB were present and where associations exist from 20% increased risk up to a tripling of risk and negative associations where the expected ASR was 0.6 or 0.8. Future work will be required to determine the validity of SSA under conditions different to those explored here, such as varying population sizes, rates of initiation of both DrugA and DrugB and for more extreme associations. In particular, further studies will be required to determine the performance of SSA in situations where very rare but serious adverse events may be expected. In this simulation we have employed the method of adjustment as described by Tsiropolous
A limitation of the SSA approach in practice is that it can only be applied to post-market surveillance issues where medicines are prescribed to treat the adverse event or where the outcome of interest may be identified as an admission to hospital. Examples of studies which have investigated medicine initiation as a proxy for an adverse medicine event include, insulin initiation as a proxy for acute hyperglycaemia associated with olanzapine initiation
The results of this simulation study suggest that in practice, SSA may be a reliable tool to detect frequent adverse drug reactions when medicine uptake trends are variable. Use of SSA as a signal detection tool will help to ensure that adverse events associated with medicines are identified early and excess harm avoided. In the scenarios considered in this study, adjustment for underlying medicine utilization trends in a newly market medicine effectively overcomes under-ascertainment bias. The method identified an increased risk of one medicine, indicative of an adverse event, being prescribed after another in scenarios where a true association existed. These results suggest that SSA may be effectively applied as a safety signal detection tool for newly marketed medicines where sufficiently large health claim data are available.
Competing interests
The authors have no conflict of interest. Dr. Pratt is funded by the National Health and Medicine Research Council Early Career Fellowship.
Authors' contributions
NP conceived and designed the study, performed the statistical analysis and prepared the first draft of the manuscript. JI participated in the design and statistical analysis of the study and helped draft the manuscript. CR participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript. ER participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
We thank the reviewers of this manuscript who provided helpful comments and suggestions.
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Lest there be any doubt that Hollywood is totally in thrall to the couple currently occupying the White House, the Tinseltown establishment choose to erase it on their night of nights — having first lady Michelle Obama award via video the Oscar for best picture.
Yes, just when the snacks, the wine and everyone's patience had run out on this marathon tone poem to the egos who make movies, there was the be-sequinned first lady to make her little speech about the power of film.
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- Sanders61%(14)52%(25)Vote44%(11)
- Clinton22%(5)19%(9)Vote16%(4)
Which one, and if you can, explain why.
Ted Cruz.
I agree, but sadly i dont think he'll make it :(
Don't give up! Ted may pull it out yet!
@Curmudgeon I hope so.
Sanders. Because fuck Donald Dump and Hillary Clinton's shady ass.
I want Sanders in, but like it or not guys Clinton is going to be our next President.
@Agrojag Ya man, unfortunately. She isn't that awful tho, but yeah.
She will be Obama all over again. Half her votes will be because she has a vagina just like Obama got those votes for being black.
Clinton, because she is the least anti-capitalist candidate of the three.
But, I would choose Kasich over her.
Over The Donald even? (for the record I prefer Ted Cruz...)
Elizabeth Warren
Can you imagine a Sanders Warren ticket? *u* But she says she doesn't want to be president.
@BellePepper I wish she was running
I second that totally wish warren was running but I think tulsi gubbard ( I think that's how you spell her name) would be just as good.
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Sanders. I wrote a whole my take on it.
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text: In the past I have been very vocal about Nintendo's horrible 3rd party relationship and how they have missed lots of games, opportunities and sales do to this. But today, something hit me. With all the recent news and the way Nintendo has been handling their stuff, it made sense to me, Nintendo can survive and succeed without 3rd party support. Nintendo has so many IP's that they separate themselves from the rest with no problem at all, its something that distinguish them fro the rest. What Nintendo needs to do, is to create more content, more IP's so that they can keep expanding their current universe. Nintendo must not be afraid and try new things, new genres. Nintendo is a strong brand no doubt about that, with a long history and experience in this business, I believe that if they were able to deliver new IP's while continue to satisfy their long time fans with their legendary franchises, Nintendo could really become a even more powerful company in the gaming space. Nintendo should really build more studios, or buy new ones so that they can create more content or bringing old franchises that people have been asking, for example a game like F-Zero, which would be a welcomed addition to their racing space. Their big teams could focus on delivering the next Zelda, Mario or Metroid, and this other teams being able to deliver other content. I dont know about you guys but Nintendo is being very aggressive lately, and that's a good thing, cause in the end we are the ones who benefit here. If 3rd parties dont want to create games, then be it, in the end its up to Nintendo itself to carry their console and satisfy their user base, they have been doing this for a long time now. I say dont be afraid Nintendo, bring up ideas into a FPS, or JRPG, or whatever other genre out there, dont be afraid to try and expand the currently awesome universe you have.


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No it's not me - but one of my wristlets being used by my brother's girlfriend. They are both archaeologists and currently on a dig in Peru. It's lovely to see one of my creations in action in such magestic surroundings - couldn't ask for a more fantastic product shot!!!
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Q.5. Where is the OPEC Headquarter situated – Vienna, Austria
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When draining engine coolant, keep in mind that cats and dogs are attracted to ethylene glycol antifreeze and could drink any that is left in an uncovered container or in puddles on the ground. This will prove fatal in sufficient quantity. Always drain coolant into a sealable container. Coolant should be reused unless it is contaminated or is several years old.
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"Pulaski County is open for business."
That's the message the county commissioners would like to send by agreeing to a $200,000 investment in Plymouth Tube's expansion into Pulaski County. The commissioners agreed this week to invest up to that amount from their SEEDIT fund to support the expansion, assuming the project comes to Pulaski County.
The town of Winamac will possibly be investing $400,000 in the project as well. Currently, the Winamac substation is unable to keep up with demand and requires an expansion to function at full capacity.
In addition to creating extra jobs, the average wage for these positions is expected to rise to $16.45 per hour by 2014. According to Community Development Commission Executive Director Nathan Origer, approving the tax abatement would show businesses that Pulaski County is "open for business," and Commissioner Kenneth Boswell agreed.


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Just when Former Texas Rick was beginning to fade into the seas of ignorance after his blunders in the Presidential Debates, he rises from the depths of stupidity to land on the shores of absurdity. Recently, Perry stated he thought trained gun owners should be allowed to carry guns into…
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With the exception of Alaska, Texas is the largest state in the Union and has a population of over 25 million. Texas also has the highest number of uninsured residents in the entire United States with over a fourth, or 6 million, of its residents lacking healthcare insurance.
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I've always maintained that so-called pro-life advocates for the unborn have little science to back up their cockamamie theories concerning abortion and rely, in most cases, on religious intolerance, bigotry, and slavish devotion to dogma. All three of the solar phallic monotheisms, the Abrahamaic faiths, preach male dominance and female submission, paternalistic hegemony that by now should be consigned to the dust heap of history. Allowing a woman to have total control over her bodily…Continue
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One cool thing that made this a really cool year was my trip to the Texas Freethought convention in Dallas. Just a short five hour drive for us in Oklahoma. Good food and great entertainment.
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RAIN at a monitoring station in central Pennsylvania registered the highest acid content of 131 sites in 46 states, according to a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The nonprofit group, which is based in Washington, has lobbied for sharp reductions in pollutants that cause acid rain, such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. In the new report, which was based on Federal monitoring data from 1987, Pennsylvania held the No. 1 ranking for acidic rainfall.
The council said the rain that was the most acidic was recorded at the Leading Ridge in Huntingdon County, in central Pennsylvania.
Rain there had an average pH of 4.08, which is 33 times more acidic than unpolluted rain, the council said.
The pH scale measures acidity, with 7 being neutral. The lower the number, the more acidic the rain. Unpolluted rain is slightly acidic, with a pH of 5.6.
Many pollutants are emitted by coal-fired power plants, factories and cars. The materials are thought to undergo changes in the atmosphere and fall to Earth as acid rain, snow, sleet, fog and dry particles.


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