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GT OmniPort opens
They call it a multi-modal terminal, which is a fancy name for a facility built to transport crude oil and other products via rail, ship, barge and truck.
GT Omniport is a $95 million, 1,100 acre facility near refineries with more than 1 million barrels per day of capacity, multiple chemical and processing plants and is located less than one mile from over 4 million barrels of petroleum product storage capacity and pipelines currently serving the region.
At the grand opening ceremony Tuesday, Oct. 16, company representatives welcomed elected officials and civic leaders to the site where an important piece of Port Arthur's industrial past has been reclaimed to become an integral cog in the energy future. The exceptional site with a long petrochemical history is strategically located 85 miles east of Houston on Taylor Bayou.
"This is a plant site – Coppers opened a refinery there in 1951. Then it became Sinclair Coppers and then it went through several names – Arco, Arco Polymers, EquiStar – and wound up as Lyondell. We acquired it from Lyondell in 2010," said Bart Owens, vice-president and general manager for GT Logistics. "The plant was idled in 1999, and Lyondell made the decision to raze the plant, take down the mechanical portion and remove it. When we bought it, we had the concrete foundations and underground piping to remove."
Owens said after completing an environmental cleanup of the site, the company was able to devise its master plan. In an interview with the Business Journal in February 2012, Owens provided some insight into the company's thinking about its new acquisition.
"We sat down and looked at what our best opportunity was (for the site). It was two-fold. One would be a logistics play — that is, a business that supports the regional petrochemical and refining industry in handling product via rail, barge and truck. It's a unique piece of property that sits on the Union Pacific mainline; it sits on Taylor Bayou turnaround, which connects to the Intracoastal (Waterway), so there's barge access; and then of course it sits on Highway 73 for truck access."
The rail terminal has direct access to main line rail served by both the Union Pacific and BNSF railroads and is able to receive unit train traffic with storage track capable of holding up to 250 rail cars. The next phase of rail storage capacity expansion is underway with 300 acres of land dedicated to rail car storage that, upon final completion, will be able to store, switch and transload more than 1,000 rail cars. The rail terminal site also features a multi-barge receiving dock on Taylor's Bayou, convenient access to Highway 73 and Interstate 10, and connectivity to the extensive network of pipelines serving the region.
Ocean-going vessels including ships and barges will be accommodated thanks to another GTL acquisition nearby. GT OmniPort is currently served by a barge dock on Taylor Bayou with space for four-barge berthing. Taylor Bayou is dredged to 15 feet and connects to the Intercostal Waterway 1.7 miles from the dock. Additional frontage is available on the bayou for future development. Construction will begin soon on the deepwater dock on the Sabine-Neches waterway with more than 1,590 feet of frontage improved with an 879 foot bulkhead. It is located 14.8 NM from open sea. The Sabine-Neches waterway is maintained at a depth of 42 feet.
Transporting product by ship, rail and truck, GT Omniport is the first multi-user facility of its kind in the Golden Triangle region – and will be an economic engine for the area.
"Once fully operational, the terminal will create up to 45 new jobs," said Beau Maida, director of Rail Operations for GTL affiliate GT Rail Inc. "The opening of the GT OmniPort rail terminal offers rail users a significant opportunity to improve operating efficiencies in the Golden Triangle region as our location, ability to provide on-site locomotive power, use of AEI tag readers for inventory reporting, staff of experienced and certified rail professionals and access to excellent rail service with available main line switching frequency seven days a week will ensure customers safe and efficient service."
Timothy DeSpain, GTL principal and president, said, "This is one of the nation's largest projects of its kind in size and scope. The potential for exports of oil and refined products produced in the United States and the changing shipping landscape associated with the expansion of the Panama Canal make the GT OmniPort an attractive transportation hub in the international markets. We are eager to see the positive economic impact our operations will have on the economy."


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When you've spent as many hours unpacking the text of the nation's founding documents as we have, you start to notice how many concerns that were pressing when the United States was founded remain unresolved today. This is obvious with the U.S. Constitution, most of whose clauses even, we discovered, the relatively unsung 3rd Amendment have come up for judicial workouts within living memory. But you can still find modern relevance and ancient puzzles even in the poison-pen letter the founders sent off to King George III on this day more than two centuries ago. Herewith, a more permeable Declaration of Independence, linked to 232 years worth of trouble but focusing mainly on the questions, controversies and goofs that are still with us. This exercise may strike some (or if we're lucky, all) readers as infuriating or tendentious, but our purpose is not to prove any political point, nor is it to build a case for or against any current leaders. If we have a goal (beyond having some fun with history), it's to show how even the most widely agreed upon national narratives can still foment the kind of discord that fuels both journalism and democracy.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant some celebrity, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
-- John Hancock
New Hampshire:Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
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North Carolina:William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton


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Possible Worlds: Mario Ybarra Jr., Karla Diaz, and Slanguage Studio Select from the Permanent Collections connects a residency site in Watts, California with the LACMA collection and campus.
In collaboration with LACMA and the Watts House Project, an artist-driven urban revitalization project centered around the historic Watts Towers, Ybarra, Diaz, and Slanguage, the artist's team of collaborators, participated in a residency at the home of longtime residents of Watts, the Garcia family.
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Vote totals shifted wildly through the night in the race for the 98th Assembly District. Rabbitt, a Republican from Greenwood Lake, opened a large early lead against Town of Monroe Councilman Gerard McQuade, only to see it vanish when votes from Kiryas Joel were added to the tally. McQuade had crushed two rivals in the Democratic primary, based largely on the support of two powerful voting blocs in Kiryas Joel, the Hasidic community in Monroe. The race for the new 98th district was seen in part as a test of those voters' power in the general election.
Rabbitt had represented the 97th District since 2005. The newly drawn Assembly lines, which take effect in January, turned what had been a Z-shaped district that ran up the center of Orange County into a line of southern Orange County towns, extending further into the populous Town of Ramapo in Rockland.
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MONACO : FIFA's medical chief is "really not happy" with drug-testing plans for the World Cup in Brazil because samples taken from players must be flown across the Atlantic for analysis at a laboratory in Switzerland, which could slow results.
FIFA had to turn to the Swiss lab because the Brazilian laboratory that was expected to analyze World Cup samples repeatedly failed to comply with World Anti-Doping Agency standards.
FIFA expects to send about 1,000 blood and urine samples to the WADA-accredited facility in Lausanne, at an extra cost of $250,000 for the governing body, said Michel D'Hooghe, who chairs FIFA's medical commission and sits on its executive committee.
Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, D'Hooghe said that at previous World Cups "we always managed to have the (anti-doping test) results before the next game of the team. So if you were positive or if I was positive we knew it before you or me played a second game."
But "I am not quite sure" results will come back quickly enough for that to happen in Brazil, he said. That means, at worse, that a player who has failed a doping test could still get to play in another match.
"I hate this. I'm really not happy with that," D'Hooghe said on the sidelines of a sports medicine conference. "We have to live with it. We will do our best. But this is a weak point. And I attacked this point in the last meeting of the (Brazil) organizing committee where I was, yes, rather, how I say? Disappointed."
Brazil is hosting the World Cup in 12 cities across the world's fifth-largest country, making transportation for fans, teams and organizers a major issue. Samples collected outside of Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo, which together will host 13 of the 64 matches, must first travel to either of those cities before being flown across the Atlantic to Zurich or Geneva and then going on to Lausanne, D'Hooghe said. FIFA has contracted DHL for the transportation, he said.
D'Hooghe appeared most concerned about getting samples in a timely fashion from Manaus in the Amazon basin, calling it the "worst-case scenario." Manaus is roughly 4 hours flying time from Rio and Sao Paulo. England, Italy, the United States, Portugal, Cameroon, Croatia, Honduras and Switzerland play a total of four group matches there.
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"The problem is not so much the laboratory, they can easily be ready (with results on a sample) mostly in 24 hours. The problem is to get it there," D'Hooghe said.
Complex transport logistics might make it easier for a lawyer defending any player who failed a test to argue that FIFA's drug-testing process in Brazil was unsound. Should a player test positive, FIFA may have to show to a hearing or court that the sample wasn't tampered with on its long journey or poorly handled in a way that skewed lab analysis.
"The longer the journey that the sample has to take and the greater the number of steps before it gets to a laboratory, the greater the risk that some form of mishandling might occur," London-based sports lawyer Mike Morgan said by email, in response to questions from the AP.
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U.S. Marshals arrested their "most wanted" sex offender Wednesday morning, dragging him from a Perry Township closet.
PERRY TWP. The U.S. Marshals Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force nabbed its most wanted sex offender Wednesday morning when they dragged him from a closet in a Perry Township home.
Cameron Thompson, 38, formerly of Canton, had been named at the top of the list of the "Agonizing 8," the U.S. Marshals list of most-wanted sex offenders. The list was released Tuesday. U.S. Marshal Peter J. Elliott explained in a news release the list was so-named because "each of these offenders have caused great physical and mental pain on their victims."
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Within an hour, they found him hiding in a closet, Deserto said.
He credited the tipster and The Repository, which published Thompson's photo and the article stating he was a wanted man.
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction website says he had been released from prison May 23 and he is on parole. The website shows his multiple convictions for failing to notify authorities of his change of address and his convictions on charges of sexual battery and burglary. Thompson was listed as a resident of 502 Hazlett Ave. NW in Canton, the website said.
Stark County court records listed him as a resident of Apt. 5 at 129 17th St. NW as recently as last week. A warrant was issued Oct. 28 for his arrest as a habitual sex offender who failed to tell authorities he's moved.
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Arabic numerals
Architecture and mathematics
Art and mathematics - perspective
Babylonian mathematics
Babylonian numerals
Babylonian Pythagoras's theorem
Bakhshali manuscript
Bernard Bolzano's manuscripts
Bourbaki: the pre-war years
Bourbaki: the post-war years
Brachistochrone problem
Braid's Arithmetic Exercises
Burnside problem
Chinese mathematics
Chinese numerals
Chinese problems
Christianity and Mathematics
Chronology of Pi
Chrystal and the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Classical time
Cubic surfaces
Decimal time and angles
Debating topics on mathematics
Difesa of Galileo
Doubling the cube
Egyptian mathematics
Egyptian numerals
Egyptian papyri
Elliptic functions
Fair book of 1852
English attack on the Longitude Problem
Euclid's definitions
Fermat's last theorem
Forgery and Chasles
Forgery and the Berlin Academy
Four colour theorem
Fractal Geometry
Fundamental theorem of algebra
Function concept
General relativity
Galileo's Difesa
Golden ratio
Greek Astronomy
Greek number systems
Greek mathematicians - sources
Greek mathematics - sources
Greek poetry
Gregory's St Andrews Observatory
Harriot's manuscripts
Hirst's diary comments
History of calculus
History of Fractal Geometry
History of the number e
History of group theory
History of mathematics at St Andrews to 1700
History of Pi
History of Quantum mechanics
History of Set Theory
History of the Burnside problem
History of Time: Classical time
History of Time: 20th Century time
History of Zero
History of Topology
How do we know about Greek mathematicians?
How do we know about Greek mathematics?
Inca mathematics
Indian mathematics
Indian numerals
Indian Sulbasutras
Jaina mathematics
James Walker's Fair book
Kepler's planetary laws
Ledermann's St Andrews interview
Light: Ancient Greece to Maxwell
Light: Relativity and quantum era
London Coffee houses and mathematics
Longitude and the Académie Royale
Longitude Problem and the English attack
Manuscript Tradition in Ptolemy's Geography
Mathematical discovery of planets
Mathematical games and recreations
Mathematics and architecture
Mathematics and the physical world
Matrices and determinants
Mayan mathematics
Memory, mental arithmetic and mathematics
Newton's bucket
Newton and Poetry
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art
Non-Euclidean geometry
Orbits and gravitation
Overview of Babylonian mathematics
An overview of Chinese mathematics
Overview of Egyptian mathematics
Overview of the History of Mathematics
Overview of Indian mathematics
Pell's equation
Perfect numbers
Physical world and mathematics
Poetry about Newton
Poetry about Euclid and Archimedes
Poincaré - Inspector of mines
Prime numbers
Ptolemy's Geography
Quadratic, cubic and quartic equations
Quantum mechanics
Real numbers: Pythagoras to Stevin
Real numbers: Stevin to Hilbert
Real numbers: Attempts to understand
Ring theory
Royal Society of Edinburgh and George Chrystal
St Andrews mathematics up to 1700
Scottish Book
Scottish mathematical physics and Topology
Set Theory
Size of the Universe
Special relativity
Squaring the circle
Statistical material
Tait's scrapbook
Tartaglia versus Cardan
Ten classics of Chinese mathematics
Thomas Harriot's manuscripts
Thomas Hirst's diary comments
Topology and Scottish mathematical physics
Trigonometric functions
Trisecting an angle
Twentieth Century time
Walker's Fair book of 1852
Walter Ledermann's St Andrews interview
Water clocks
Wave versus matrix mechanics
Weil family
Word problems for groups
Visit to Maxwell's house
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Adriana Lima Bares Her Bump at a Bash With Chris and Birthday Boy Channing
Adriana Lima Bares Her Bump at a Bash With Chris and Birthday Boy Channing
Pregnant Adriana Lima's baby bump was on display last night at an event in NYC with the jewelry brand IWC Schaffhausen. Adriana, as well as hotties Joe Manganiello, Channing Tatum, and Chris Hemsworth, were on hand for a ribbon-cutting at the company's new Big Apple flagship boutique. Today's actually Channing's 32nd birthday! To celebrate, we've rounded up Channing Tatum's hottest pictures.
Adriana's one of the brand's celebrity ambassadors and was in Geneva during January for the SIHH High Jewellery Fair with Cate Blanchett and Ewan McGregor. Adriana and Chris likely had plenty to talk about, as he's also expecting a baby! Chris's wife Elsa Pataky is pregnant with their first child. Adriana, though, is already a mom to 2-and-a-half-year-old Valentina with her basketball player husband Marko Jaric. She's among the many Victoria's Secret models who are pregnant at the moment, including Alessandra Ambrosio and Lily Aldridge.


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The ICD-O-3 module provides a comprehensive training of the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Third Edition (ICD-O-3). You will learn about ICD-O-3 implementation, changes and the significance of these changes in the new edition, training issues, and casefinding lists.
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There are new golf cart laws that take effect Oct. 1. I thought it a good idea to get this information out, because of the number of citizens who own golf carts, especially those outside the Bluffton town limits.
The 1976 code regarding permitting and operations of a golf cart were amended by adding "Section 56-2-105." For the purposes of this section, "gated community" means any homeowners' community with at least one access-controlled ingress and egress, which includes the presence of a guard house, a mechanical barrier or another method of controlled conveyance.
An individual or business owner of a golf cart may obtain a permit decal and registration from the Department of Motor Vehicles upon presenting proof of ownership and liability insurance for the golf cart and upon payment of a $5 fee. During daylight hours only, a permitted golf cart may be operated within four miles of the address on the registration certificate and only on a secondary highway or street for which the posted speed limit is 35 mph or less. If living in a gated community the mileage begins at the ingress and egress points. The permitted golf cart can only cross a highway or street at an intersection where the highway has a posted speed limit of more than 35 mph.
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Add Jerome Bettis to the list of current or former NFL running backs who don't like the new rule against runners delivering forcible blows with the top of the helmet.
"It really makes no sense," Bettis said today on Mike and Mike in the Morning. "The running back now is going to have some indecision with his helmet and his head. . . . Whenever a running back has indecision, there's potential for injury."
Bettis said that when he would lower his helmet during his playing career, it wasn't his intent to hit an opponent with the top of his head. Instead, lowering the helmet was just a byproduct of lowering his shoulders.
"I don't put my head down saying I'm trying to lead with the crown of my helmet, I put my head down because there's trouble on the way," he said. "I'm putting my head down because I want to get my shoulders lower."
Bettis also said he worries that officials are going to have a hard time determining what constitutes delivering a forcible blow with the top of the helmet, and what is just an ordinary open-field collision.
"We're creating so many plays that are subjective for the referee, that before you know it the referee controls the outcome of the game because these calls can go either way, and then the referees start taking too prominent of a role in deciding the outcome of the game," Bettis said.
That's the same argument that Bengals owner Mike Brown made in explaining his vote against the new rule. But considering that all 31 other owners voted for the rule, it's clear that's not an argument that has a lot of support with the people who make the decisions in the NFL.


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Links to the Samyukta Agama can be found at the very bottom of this page...The Sutras on Dependant Co-arising and Great Emptiness
Today is the 19th March and we are in the New Hamlet in the spring retreat. We have studied the Sutra on the Middle Way and at the same time we have looked at the Sutra on Dependent Co-arising and the Sutra on Great Emptiness. The Sutra on Dependent Co-arising is No. 296 in the Samyukta Agama. The word "Samyukta" is generally understood as "miscellaneous." This word gives us a rather negative first impression, as if items classed as "miscellaneous" were unimportant. The Samyukta Agama is, in fact, a collection of sutras which contain the essence of the Buddhadharma. If you look deeply into the sutras of the Samyukta Agama you will see the source of Buddhism, thus making it even greater than the other Agamas, like the Madhya Agama or the Dirgha Agama. These last two collections have been organised in a special manner; but in the Samyukta Agama, presentation is more natural. If you want to get close to the original teachings of the Buddha, examine the Samyukta Agama. It is a collection of short sutras containing the essence of the Buddhadharma. The Sutra on Dependent Co-arising, The Sutra on the Middle Way, and The Sutra on Great Emptiness are all there in the Samyukta Agama.
This one in particular seems to relate to TNH's ideas, a discussion between Ananda and Chanda...Samyutta Nikaya...
Parallel to the Samyutta Nikaya in Pali is the Samyukta Agama of the Sarvastivada school, preserved in the Chinese Buddhist Canon. This was translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by Gunabhadra in 435-445 CE. It contains approximately 1362 discourses, most of which have close counterparts in the Pali canon.
Thich Nhat Hanh is interesting, imo, in that he's rare among popular Zen teachers, being one who reads and teaches from both the Mahayana sutras and the Pali Canon suttas extensively. If a Zen Buddhist wants to learn about the foundations of Mindfulness, the brahma-viharas and other topics taught in Theravada, TNH (along with Gil Fronsdal) are primary sources. He has great respect for Theravadan teachings, and has blended them into his understanding of Zen Buddhism and the Madhyamaka view of emptiness.勝妙法 (正見中道) The excellent dharma (Right view, the middle way). T 2, pp. 66b-67a, sūtra No. 262. (= Saṃyutta-nikāya 22. 90 Channa (vol. iii, pp. 132-135)
"O Chanda! an ignorant, ordinary person does not understand that material form is impermanent; that feeling, perception, activities, and consciousness are impermanent. All activities (compounded things) are impermanent; all dharmas (the nature of phenomena) are non-self; nirvāṇa is cessation.
"Now you are capable of receiving the most excellent dharma. Now listen carefully while I teach you."
At that time Chanda thought: "Now I am delighted to have attained the most excellent mind, to have obtained a joyful mind. Now I am capable of receiving the most excellent dharma."
Then Ānanda said to Chanda: "I heard this myself from the Buddha when he was teaching Mahā-Katyāyana:
"Worldlings are confused, depending on two extremes: either existence or non-existence.
"Worldlings become attached to all spheres, setting store by and grasping with the mind.
"Katyāyana! If one does not feel, nor attach to, nor dwell in, nor set store by self, then, when suffering arises, it arises; and when it ceases, it ceases.
"Katyāyana! If one does not doubt, is not perplexed, if one knows it in oneself and not from others, then that is right view, the teaching of the Tathāgata (the Buddha).
"Why is this so? Katyāyana! If one sees rightly, as it really is, the arising of the world, one will not have the annihilationist view of the world. If one sees rightly, as it really is, the cessation of the world, one will not have the eternalist view of the world.
"Katyāyana! The Tathāgata, avoiding these two extremes, teaches the middle way, namely: When this is, that is; this arising, that arises.
"That is to say: Conditioned by ignorance, activities arise, and so on ..., and thus arises the suffering of birth, old age, sickness, death, sorrow, and affliction.
"As for the saying, 'when this is not, that is not; this ceasing, that ceases', this is to say: Ignorance ceasing, activities cease, and so on ..., and thus ceases the suffering of birth, old age, sickness, death, sorrow, and affliction."
When the venerable Ānanda had taught this dharma, the monk Chanda became freed from defilement and stain and acquired the pure dharma-eye.
At that time, the monk Chanda saw dharma, attained dharma, knew dharma, realised dharma; transcended doubt [knowing it] not through another; in the dharma of the Great Teacher, he attained the state of fearlessness.
Respectfully saluting by joining palms, he said to the venerable Ānanda:
"It is just so! As it is the noble life of wisdom, a good friend teaches the discipline and the dharma.
"Now, I have heard the dharma from the venerable Ānanda thus: All activities are empty, tranquil, not to be grasped at; and the destruction of craving, the fading away of desire, cessation, is nirvāṇa.
"The mind is joyful, one dwells rightly in liberation, and there is no returning, no more seeing self; one sees only the true dharma." Then Ānanda said to Chanda:
"Now you have attained great benefit in the profound Buddha-dharma, you have attained the wisdom-eye."
Then the two noble ones, delighted with each other, rose from their seats, and returned each to his place.
And yet, from the Theravada side, there seems to be little interest (or respect) for TNH, primarily because of how he presents Dependent Origination, focusing on the interdependence (inter-being) of things as a way of explaining the Buddha's teachings on emptiness and non-self.
So, i thought it might be interesting to look at this a bit more deeply, if anyone is interested.
Do his ideas hold water, are they helpful, are they grounded in the Buddha's dhamma?


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Robyn's Easy As Chicken Pie Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009
Recipe: Easy As Chicken Pie
How long does it take? 25 minutes
Name: Robyn
Why is it a favorite meal? This recipe is so easy, and almost all of your ingredients are pre-cooked. Also makes GREAT leftovers.
Easy As Chicken Pie
1 deli rotisserie chicken
1 can condensed chicken soup
1 can condensed potato soup
1 bag frozen vegetables (optional)
1 can refrigerated biscuits or puff pastry or pie shell
1. Shred the chicken from the deli and place into pie pan. Save the carcass for stock if you want.
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White Sox 5, Twins 2
After 10 straight fastballs with the home crowd cheering and the
bases loaded behind him, Jose Quintana threw an 80-mph curveball to
freeze Ryan Doumit.
Home plate umpire Bill Miller called strike three, the crowd
groaned loudly and Quintana calmly went back to the Chicago White
Sox dugout.
After that, Quintana made it look easy the rest of the way, Adam
Dunn and Jeff Keppinger both homered and Chicago beat the Minnesota
Twins 5-2 on Friday night to snap its 10-game road losing
It was a far cry from Quintana's last start – a five-run,
five-inning outing Sunday against the Twins in Chicago.
"The only thing (I) did was try to attack early," Quintana
said through a translator. "(I) tried to come in and attack
earlier, throw strikes to every single one of the batters, and
thankfully everything worked out. (I) was able to get them
Quintana (7-4) scattered six hits over 6 2-3 innings, giving up
two runs and striking out seven.
Joe Mauer homered in the first for Minnesota, but Keppinger and
Dunn both hit solo shots off Twins starter Kevin Correia (8-9) in
the third to make it 4-1.
"They got us pretty good at home," White Sox manager Robin
Ventura said. "We haven't had too many of those where we've hit
them like that. It was nice."
A night after watching the Twins win by a run in walk-off
fashion, the White Sox and Quintana looked to be in for yet another
rough outing when Mauer lined a 3-2 offering into the right-field
seats to put Minnesota up 1-0. Mauer also had homered off Quintana
on Sunday. And considering Quintana's 4.21 run support average
coming in, the 15th-lowest in the AL this season, things didn't
look very promising.
But Dayan Viciedo put Chicago up with a two-RBI single in the
second before Keppinger and Dunn added all the insurance runs
Quintana needed.
"Their guy threw the ball really well," Twins manager Ron
Gardenhire said. "It was coming out of his hand really nice. He
mixes pitches well. The guys were saying he's very deceptive and
has a little jump on his fastball."
Quintana set the Twins down in order three times. But his
biggest test came in the third when the Twins loaded the bases with
two outs in the third and Doumit came to the plate.
"Seems like it lasted what a normal inning would last,"
Ventura said. "He just kind of gutted it out and went extra-long
for us tonight."
Quintana is 3-0 on the road this season.
Correia pitched well aside from the third inning, retiring 12 of
the 14 batters he faced after Dunn's homer.
"I felt like my stuff was good," Correia said. "I think
that's just how baseball is sometimes. Sometimes they hit it to
people, sometimes they miss a mistake. The second time around,
they're usually not going to miss any many mistakes."
Minnesota added a run in the seventh when Brian Dozier drove in
Wilkin Ramirez on a two-out single to chase Quintana. Reliever
Donnie Veal walked Mauer but struck out Justin Morneau to end the
inning. Chicago made it 5-2 in the eighth when Trevor Plouffe's bad
throw from third hit Paul Konerko, allowing Keppinger to score.
Nate Jones pitched a scoreless eighth and Addison Reed worked
the ninth for his 29th save in 34 chances.
Notes: Chicago INF Gordon Beckham was held out of the starting
lineup after leaving Thursday night's game with a strained right
quadriceps. But he entered the game at second in the eighth. …
White Sox 3B Conor Gillaspie left with a bruised left hand and is
day to day. … The Twins activated Doumit from the DL before the
game. Doumit missed eight games after leaving Minnesota's game Aug.
7 at Kansas City with concussion-like symptoms. The Twins optioned
IF Chris Colabello to Triple-A Rochester to make room for Doumit on
the roster. … Viciedo returned to the lineup after missing six
straight games with a sore left thumb. … The teams will play the
third of their four-game series Saturday when Chicago's Chris Sale
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The Jewish Federation of Western Connecticut Foundation in association with the Warner Theatre will present the world premiere of the new musical, "Gefilte Fish Chronicles: The Musical," March 2-10 at the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre.
"The Gefilte Fish Chronicles" started as a casual attempt to record the history of a time-honored family dinner celebration, then blossomed into an award winning documentary that continues to be seen, on over 70 PBS stations, throughout the US and Canada.
And now the Gefilte Fish Chronicles, book by Matty Selman and Iris Burnett and music and lyrics by Matty Selman, has been developed as an irresistible and compelling musical about the transition of treasured memories and stories, from generation to generation. It is a heartwarming, sometimes touching, often hilarious musical about celebration and the power of family and tradition. Although it was inspired by a documentary about how one family remains spiritually and physically connected to one another, it has become a universal story about all family legacies.
"If Tony and Tina's Wedding, Fiddler on the Roof and Mamma Mia had a baby, it would be The Gefilte Fish Chronicles", Matty Selman.
"The Gefilte Fish Chronicles" will be performed by the Warner Stage Company. Performances are Saturday, March 2 & 9 at 8 p.m.,Friday, March 8 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 10 at 2 p.m.. Tickets are $26 and can be purchased by calling the Warner box office at 860-489-7180 or online at http://www.warnertheatre.org.