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Services of Municipal Company Siauliu Oro Uostas Presented at the Exhibition "TRANSBALTICA"
Municipal company Siauliu Oro Uostas together with the Lithuanian National Freight Forwarders and Logistics (LINEKA) participated at the largest in the Baltics international transport and logistics exhibition "TRANSBALTICA 2016" in Vilnius on May 18–19.
During the Exhibition, Municipal company Siauliu Oro Uostas presented the planned cargo routes, aviation and non-aviation services.
Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevicius communicated with Director of Municipal company Siauliu Oro Uostas Andrius Daujotas, other employees of the company at the time of the Exhibition opening.
The aims of the exhibition "TransBaltica", held every second year, since 1995 are the following: to present news of the market, challenges, novelties and topicalities of transport sector; to promote cooperation of business companies specialising in transport; development of international business relations, increase of domestic demand and contribute to the image formation of Lithuania as the modern transit country.
220 companies from 12 countries took part at the Exhibition.
Live Cattle Transporting by air to Israel from the International Siauliai Airport Renewed
Live cattle shipping to Israel from international Siauliai airport has been renewed. On April 27, airlines "El Al Israel Airlines" cargo aircraft Boeing 747- 400 landed at international Siauliai airport to be loaded with 118 tons of live animals (cattle).
Cattle export via international Siauliai airport to Israel has been carried out since 2007, and for a long period of time accounted for more than half of the total Lithuanian cattle export to Israel (approx.6000 tons). Since December 2015, the export of calves via Siauliai airport ceased due to increasing competition. So, it is expected that the renewed cattle shipping will be successfully continued in the future.
Live cattle transportation is a part of the project "New Baltic Air Cargo Gate". Since 2011 till 2016, municipal company "Siauliu Oro Uostas" loaded 18963 tons of cargo. The project is implemented together with SIA "FCG Ltd" (Latvia) and JSC "Rikusta" (Lithuania) and is related to transportation of the common goods, live animals, heavy, perishable cargos through Siauliai Airport. All three companies are specialists in their fields, municipal company Siauliu Oro Uostas provides aircraft ground handling services and administers the operation of the airport; SIA "FCG Ltd" provides agency services to air carriers, JSC "Rikusta" performs customs clearance services, freight forwarding, customs warehouses and transhipment facilities' operation management.


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Verizon's 4G LTE takes a commanding lead in Detroit, with average download speeds over 10Mbps and top-notch reliability. Second place goes to T-Mobile, which delivers 8Mbps download speeds but much slower uploads than Verizon, making it more for content consumers than for producers.
T-Mobile got the biggest boost in Detroit between 2011 and 2012; thanks to the arrival of HSPA+ 42, download speeds jumped 35 percent. MetroPCS also saw a nice bump up in speed and reliability from 2011.
We didn't test Sprint 4G in Detroit this year because it is no longer on Sprint's official coverage map.
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Busker Busker Jang Bum Joon Asks Lee Hyori: "How Are Your Breasts So Big?"
Usually Lee Hyori is the one that asks questions that makes the other celebrity cringe or get surprised. However, she recently got a taste of her own medicine by Busker Busker's Jang Bum Joon!
On May 10, Lee Hyori appeared on OnStyle's "Golden 12" where she goes on a Jeju Island trip with other social club members such as Lee Chun Hee and Jang Bum joon.
Jang Bum Joon told Lee Hyori, "Yesterday I saw your bikini photoshoot nuna." Lee Hyori replied, "It was good right?" Jang Bum Joon then paused and asked, "You are skinny, how are your breasts so large?"
Lee Hyori then said, "How could you say that so directly? Hurry up and say that you were wrong to do that." Jang Bum Joon weakly replied, "I was wrong to do that."
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For the duration of the expo, a PowerPoint presentation played that contained information about the signs of breast cancer and how people can support breast cancer research. Additionally, a brochure was distributed that highlighted the risk factors of the disease. Providing this information informed people how they can improve their health regarding breast cancer and help support the search for a cure, and visitors to our stall told us how they were going to enact the information we had provided.
The PowerPoint also contained information about mammograms and early detection of breast cancer. On the day, numerous students told us they would speak to their female relatives about mammograms and teachers told us they would consult with their doctors. We were so happy that we were able to raise awareness about early detection of breast cancer, as this is such a vital way of ensuring treatments are successful.
Among other things at the expo, I was responsible for creating a 'proposal' for my school to hold a 'Pink Accessories Day' that visitors to our stall were asked to sign. We proposed that, for a gold coin donation, students could wear pink accessories for one day to raise money for breast cancer research. We were glad that we were able to encourage people to work together to support breast cancer research by signing the proposal. On the day, nearly 300 people signed, which was a fantastic result. We look forward to the 'Pink Accessories Day' and being able to raise money for breast cancer research.
Our breast cancer stall was very popular and successful on the day of the health expo, being a fun, educational and appealing. We had hundreds of visitors, who all enjoyed themselves, asking questions about breast cancer and responding enthusiastically to the information presented to them. As breast cancer greatly affects society, it was wonderful that we were able to raise awareness about breast cancer and propose action to raise money for breast cancer research. I was especially glad to be able to raise awareness about the deadly disease that took the lives of some close family friends.
Overall, the health expo was a great experience and my breast cancer stall was successful.
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It's the day before Halloween and you are at a big box store staring helplessly at the ravaged shelves of what's left for Halloween costumes. The only thing left to choose from is the ripped open bag for a pirate—but you did that last year—and the "Sexy Pizza Rat"—but it's two sizes too small.
Never fear! There is nothing a little DIY, hot glue, and rummaging through your ski and snowboard closet can't do to help you win the costume contest that you've just been *this close* to winning for the past 6 years. Put all that gear to use. Plus, it's a great way to make sure it all still fits before the snow starts flying!
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Do these "Ghost Fleet" trucks drive in trucks with a fake cover label on the side like say a McDonalds truck or Budwieser or whatever to cover their true nature.
I would think all black trucks unmarked would look out of place
Originally posted by ShadowXIX
Well maybe not McDs but perhaps a made up company
or maybe
But really wouldnt a unmarked truck stand out? I would think making a cover company would be safer and less suspicious looking. Something that would be important to transporting secret stuff.
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Would this "Ghost Fleet" still have to check in at weigh-stations?
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saw a convoy once in arkansas... funny... it would have looked like 3 ordinary moving van company trucks (with a fake name, i think it was norcam moving van lines or some such...) if it hadn't had a bevy of humvies a mile back and a mile in front of it...very spaced apart....
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Flutist Dana DiGennaro has performed throughout the United States, continually displaying her versatility as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player. Her performances have been hailed by the Houston Post as "keenly focused, joyous and energetic" and by the Southampton Gazette as "breathtakingly beautiful."
In 1994 DiGennaro was named the only flutist winner of the New York Debut Auditions Award sponsored by Artists International. As a result, she was presented in her New York solo recital debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in May 1995. She was the top American prize-winner of the National Flute Association's Young Artist competition and the grand prize winner of the concerto competition at the International Festival Institute at Round Top.
DiGennaro, a native of Southern California, received a master of music degree from the Mannes College of Music in New York City. There she was a recipient of a full-tuition scholarship awarded by the Damrosch Society. Her teachers have included Jeanne Baxtresser, Judith Mendenhall, and Anne Diener Zentner. DiGennaro has performed with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida; the National Repertory Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado; and for five years was the second flutist of the Westchester (New York) Symphony Orchestra. She performs frequently with Symphoria and has also played with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Albany Symphony. She is an active freelance musician and has played flute, alto flute, and piccolo with the touring company of the musicals Wicked, Peter Pan, and in 2016, Phantom of the Opera.
DiGennaro is a member of the flute faculty of Syracuse University and LeMoyne College and maintains a private flute studio at her home in DeWitt, where she lives with her husband, trombonist David DiGennaro, and their two musical children.


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I don't really want to go into too much detail about the online business I'm thinking of making. I think all I will say as an outline, because this is just a sound blog for me to sound out ideas I'm having, and document my progress, is that it is a small, specialist global retail site.
What I'm selling will appeal to anyone, anywhere. Which means I have two tap into that global market, which means I have to think about the language barrier.
I have been looking at options to create my website so that it delivers product descriptions, blog content and everything else, in the language of the person visiting it.
One of the big problems I've been encountering is the cost and reliability of getting my English language text translated reliably. I have been looking at translation services, specifically I've been looking at finding a very reliable online translation service that I can use for the long term.
Just in case you are wondering what on earth I am talking about, I'm talking about an online translation service like translateshark.com, where you submit text in your own language and a foreign language version is given back to.
I have tried the free options out there, like Google translate, but they are just not that good, because they literally translate the text, rather than altering it to read fluently. So I need something that involves human translators.
I looked at freelancing sites, but again, the problem is if I'm translating it into 10 languages, that means reliable translation of 10 different lots of text, using 10 different people, it would take forever. So I'm thinking that something like a translation service where you submit the text and they do all the work could be the best option, if slightly more expensive. At least I will be getting what I want.
Other than that, my biggest problem is going to be marketing in multiple languages as well. Again, I suppose I can get things like tweets translated, that should be a lot simpler. That is something I need to look at once the main site is completed.


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IRENE LEWIS' VERSION of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" at Center Stage is pure unadulterated fun. It had the audience in absolute stitches. We adored Robert Dorfman, who looks like a younger version of the actor Tom Conti, in the role of Feste the Clown -- he's delightful. This funky upbeat production is one Shakespeare play that won't put you to sleep. Don't miss it.
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In this edition of the Round Table, experts like world famous nutritionist David "Avocado" Wolfe and entrepreneur Craig Goodwin investigate nutritional, medical and environmental benefits as well as the splendid financial prospects of the outstanding super commodity hemp.
While all world is watching closely at the marijuana markets, its non-psycho-active sibling hemp still lacks the attention it deserves. This super commodity has been used for thousands of years by cultures all over the world. Industrial cultivation and processing of hemp offers tremendous opportunity, over 50,000 different applications for hemp are recorded up to date. With its superior health benefits, especially hemp seeds are not only a gift for personal nutrition, health- and body care, but also have the potential to change several industries, including the functional food, pharmaceutical and cosmeceutical markets.
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Here's my new favorite beef stew recipe. It comes, of course, from Cooking Know-How (2009, Wiley), the just-released 15th cookbook by Mark Scarbrough and Bruce Weinstein, whom I interviewed for yesterday's post.
I don't eat much red meat, so if a beef stew is going to grace my table it's got to do more than pass muster -- it's got to shine.
And this one does.
As Bruce said, the secret is in taking your time to brown the meat properly. You want a nice sear on each piece of beef, which creates a caramelized crust and ramps up the flavors significantly. If you're in a hurry, make yourself an omelet instead.
I'm serious.
But ah, if you're patient, you'll be immensely proud of yourself when you sit down to eat. You'll also have phenomenal leftovers, so lunch the next day will require nothing more than a microwave and an extra-large napkin.
N.B. When shopping for the meat, I saw 2 options at my local grocer: pristine looking beef stew meat, beautifully cubed and a nice, uniform pink color, and boneless chuck, messier-looking with threads of creamy fat. Believe me when I say that in a former life, I would have bought the more attractive, cleaner-looking pre-cut meat. But for flavor, you need fat, and the butcher expressed his proud approval when I went for the chuck.
Remember, the prettiest girl isn't always the best date.
Recipe for Carbonnades Flamandes, or Belgian Beef Stew
Adapted from Cooking Know-How by Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough (2009, Wiley)
If you've never added beer to beef stew, you've missed out. Please note that I omitted the parsnips and mushrooms, but only because I forgot to buy them. Take your time searing the meat. The payoff will be worth the extra minutes and attention. Finally, I'm giving you the down and dirty version of this recipe. To get the full benefit of the authors' experience and wisdom, you'll want to get their book. They explain why each ingredient and step is important, which is useful not only in producing a great meal, but in creating variations on the theme.
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
6 ounces chopped bacon
2-1/2 pounds boneless chuck or bottom round (I used the former), cubed
1 large yellow onion, chopped
4 medium carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
3 parsnips, peeled and roughly chopped
8 ounces thickly-sliced mushrooms, sauteéd in 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, optional
3 tablespoons flour
1 cup beef broth
One 12-ounce bottle of beer
2 teaspoons thyme
1 teaspoon caraway seeds
1 tablespoon coarse-ground mustard
Salt and pepper, to taste
Heat the butter in a large soup pot or heavy Dutch oven over medium heat. Sauté the bacon until crispy, then transfer to a very large bowl.
Brown the beef in batches. As each batch is seared, transfer the meat to the bowl with the bacon and continue with the next batch. (Take your time and do not crowd the pan or the meat will steam rather than sear.) The meat should all be out of the pot and in the large bowl before proceeding.
Turn the heat down slightly and add the onions, carrots, and parsnips to the Dutch oven. Cook, stirring often, until the onion has softened, about 3 minutes. Stir in the mushrooms, if using.
Whisk the flour into the beef broth. Whisk this mixture into the pot along with the beer, thyme and caraway seeds. Bring the heat up to a simmer. Stir the beef, bacon, and all accumulated juices back into the pot. Cover, and reduce the heat to the lowest possible simmer. Cook until fork-tender, about 2 hours.
Stir in the mustard, season with salt and pepper to taste, and serve.


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"When the story is told in these pages began, had most Americans tried to locate Tibet on a map, they would have pockmarked half the globe with bad-guess pinpricks. By the time the story ends, some Hollywood stars know more about Tibetan Buddhism than the Dalai Lama does-- or at least they act that way." Paine's wry sideswipe at Steven Seagal shows the wit and tone of this thoughtful-- if erratically edited-- introduction to a subject that will likely leave you craving more insight.
Paine takes us through not so much the tenets of Tibetan Buddhism, described by Alan Watts as "Roman Catholicism on acid"; the appeal in the West of what's surpassed Zen since Watts & the Beats lies in its panoply of approaches towards wisdom, its exotic teachings, and its colorful characters. As Paine in his best chapter, on the Dalai Lama's appeal to live with utmost conviction yet astonishing flexibility, shows us, most Tibetans despite their escape from the horrors of decimation seem-- unlike so many presenters of religious doctrine-- to be enjoying themselves amidst their substitution of dogma or dictate with philosophical ambiguity, non-theistic contemplation, unpredictable practices, and creative props that both represent and deny the ultimate existence of gods. Not taking themselves seriously, the Tibetan lamas teach us, he displays in case studies of teachers and students, how to approach our life with the sense it's a game, played that comes and goes perpetually beyond the brief brackets of our birth and death in our present form.
"With its compact emphasis on individual meditation, Buddhism may fit the overpopulated" century as "it can accomodate itself and take up less space." (136-7) He wonders if more people sought diminishment of goods, more people might "possess an 'overabundance' of food and housing." Many in these pages dream of a transformed world through ethical principles based in Buddhism that others may incorporate, if free of the panoply that surrounds Tibetan versions of its teachings. Paine defines universality, individual responsibility, and heightened capabilities for personal growth turned social improvement as three civilizing features the dharma can share with other religions and moral systems.
Certainly, the appeal of a self-generated, yet outwardly directed, way of life that avoids fruitless fretting about salvation, eternity, and sin may be timed for our times better than Vedanta was for Christopher Isherwood's Hollywood, or even Zen, Paine hints, for its countercultural adoption. This issue deserved far more depth, but Paine does touch on essential points. He wonders if religions would improve by being more contradictory, communal vs. individual, mystical vs. practical, angelic or unadorned, "flinty" or "firm," as they adapt to a human nature more akin to Buddhist notions of impermanence, the unknowable, and the evanescent that underlies the illusion of relative, conventional "reality" as a transcendent, perpetual state.
These ideas burrow into the text, more in its latter chapters. He begins with Thomas Merton's in retrospect still-naive pilgrimage, when the Dalai Lama was little known by most in 1968. Harold Talbott, whose own journey from Fifth Avenue scion to Buddhist scholar gains attention later on as one of three case studies, served as Merton's go-between. Paine gives a solid overview of what in the anthology "Merton & Buddhism" more recently has gained needed scrutiny by scholars. Tibet's context within Western imperialism follows, with French explorer and writer Alexandra David-Neel's long life (1868-1969) spanning the cultural shift from fabled Shangri-La to hippie destination, if one no less exotic in the eyes of typical Westerners.
The romanticization, decried later by Patrick French in "Tibet, Tibet," and the adulation of the Dalai Lama, have long been present in the West. The difference is now, unlike when Diane Perry grew up in the 1950s in London, millions know now what few knew only in fragments, as Merton did, given the lack of communication with the West by lamas who had not yet gained Western followings until around 1970. Thubten Geshe and then notoriously Chögyam Trungpa spearheaded the British and American popularity of Tibetan lore. Paine's ability to get inside the minds of both teachers and students shows him at his best as a writer and interpreter throughout the book.
Trungpa, he suggests, soon figured out that Westerners could be jumpstarted into higher-level teaching than customary in Tibetan monasteries. Inspired by Shunryu Suzuki's similar shifts when he brought Zen to San Francisco earlier, Trungpa decided to shift into higher gear. Paine explains: "Meditation is so empty of content that it's hard to turn it into spiritual materialism or appropriate it for egotistical purposes." (93) For newcomers, who had lost "the principles of sacredness," Trungpa reduced the dharma to a secular-friendly core; for those who wanted to restore the Tibetan brocades, visualizations and enthronements commenced.
Therefore (as the uncredited Fields narrates in his history), Tibetan monastic practices began to be transferred outside their origins. By the 1990s as the process advanced, Alyce Neoli/ Catherine Burroughs emerged as a "tulku" of a reincarnated female "lama" chosen by the same Penor Rinpoche who later "recognized" Seagal-- after a few donations were made. The uncredited Kamenetz records that when the rabbis found out about how a "tulku" was found, they wondered: what if the lama makes a mistake? I wondered this too, when reading Martha Sherrill's "The Buddha from Brooklyn" about Alyce who became Jetsunma; Paine takes a sympathetic tone towards her, noting Tenzin Palmo's conclusion after reading Sherrill: "her follies are such the way such a being would behave," as recounted by Sherrill, "if he or she lacked the proper training." (158) Tenzin should know, as a girl attracted to a teaching she could not even define as Buddhist, so little being known then about Tibetan dharma by all but a few scholars from a few glimpses such as David-Neel's.
Tenzin Palmo's transformation's amazing; born a Cockney fishmonger's daughter Diane Perry when nobody born humble in postwar Britain knew of such teachings, ordained in 1964 as one of the first Western nuns, she later spent twelve years as a hermit in a cave 13,200 feet high in Ladakh, and then returning from her harrowing yet inspiring story to found a nunnery. David-Neel saw Buddhism from the outside; Perry became Tenzin to enter it.
The widening attraction of hitherto inaccessible teachings from a remote land rippled out from the hippies to the celebrities and by films. Not only explicitly about Tibet as in the 1990s, but filtered through "The Matrix" and "Jacob's Ladder," the bardo dramatized for everyday folks. The fact I don't explain that term speaks for the rapid spread over a generation of a thousand-year-old, isolated, esoteric science of the mind into popular culture, as if a medieval monk found himself lauded in Manhattan.
This may be a fad, or it may be a genuine sign of shift: Robert Thurman argues the latter, while Jean-Francois Revel & Matthieu Ricard ("The Monk & The Philosopher" 1996) James William Coleman in "The New Buddhists" (2001, neither work cited here) examines the appeal of Buddhism for many intellectual elites in the West; the teachings he finds have not trickled down yet. Pankraj Mishra from the Indian p-o-v also wonders about Buddha vs. Nietzsche at length in "An End to Suffering" (2004). Paine favors Shakespeare, Henry and William James as his references, well-employed if hard for an eager reader to track back-- more later about this shortcoming.
Paine, considering music and film, seems to feel the dharma's widening, but I wonder about the permanence of its impacts. De Tocqueville noted the American withdrawal from "delineation of the soul to fix exclusively on that of the body, and they substitute the representation of motion and sensation with that of sentiment and thought."
Daringly, Paine then links this prescient observation to Buddhism, which as with film uses projection to record sensory experiences and motion while leaving the soul's mysteries intangible. "Hollywood calls the illusions it makes from bodies, sensation, and motion 'cinema.' Buddhism calls the illusions made from them 'conventional reality.'" Paine provides a novel image when recounting how cinema and Tibetan Buddhism are both roughly a century old in their Western transmissions: "In both a movie and Buddhism, 'reality' is palpably, sensuously before us, making us laugh one moment and cry the next, but then vanishing insubstantially when the projectionist (or, in Buddhism, our projection) flicks off the switch." (179)
Paine again excites the reader by his ability to convey the wonder: he juxtaposes Talbott's Gatsby-esque tale of reinvention. Here, as with "tonglin" and "ngondro" and "chöd" Paine illustrates Tibetan terms deftly. "Our usual mental states are like the audience in a theater that gets caught up in the drama that unfolds." Contrast this with the emptiness and luminosity registered by Tibetans at this high stage. The state of play demanded as in quantum physics demands Talbott as a "dzogchen" practitioner abandon "reality" as it seems solid to our senses, for a mind so trained "resembles the playwright who exults in the creative play with which he maneuvers his imaginary puppets."(221)
His next case: a (psuedonymous to protect her reputation) Princeton deconstructionist feminist mid-life wonders about the appeal her tentative forays into Tibetan practice and reading reveal. A literary critic such as herself, Paine relates, follows a long path of scholarship most of her career, with "few genuine knock-you-off-your-chair discoveries left to be made." Tibetan Buddhism provides "Christine" with "her ticket into the unknown," after idly finding used at the Strand Bookstore Sogyal Rinpoche's influential "Tibetan Book of Living and Dying." Yet, her colleagues, disdainful of any belief, may belittle her quest, so she pursues it in the morning at home, gingerly but with increasing fascination.
San Quentin's death row houses the final American turned Tibetan student, if at a distance behind bars. Jarvis Masters contemplates karma, impermanence, and mindfulness as translated into taking responsibility for one's actions, accepting how reality itself changes during one's sentence as faced with honesty, and how one must faced with one's term should cultivate an awareness to embrace not endure the present situation. As with Alyce Zeoli or Diane Perry in their ignorance of Buddhism constructed before their exposure to it a homespun notion of its dharma independently and even intuitively, so in prison, Paine considers, such stories "from both the sickbed and prison cell, indirectly support Buddhism's claim that it is not a religion but something that occurs 'in life'-- not a man-made, synthetic medicine but a plant with healing properties that grows of itself." (251)
The narrative concludes on such graceful notes. Still, the story needed more unfolding, given that Paine admits seven years' labor on its contents. Intended for the general reader, so lacking by his design footnotes or works cited, this superficially but persistently disappoints in its scattershot mention of many who've preceded Paine; Paine assures their books can be readily found, but his decision to eschew documentation makes this an uneven book, riddled with typos. W.Y. Evans-"Wenz" repeats, "Llasa" alternates with "Lhasa." "Arbie's" and "Guiness" appear; Stephen and Martine separately are surnamed "Bachelor" while "Into the Wild" is attributed to "John" Krakauer. The lack of credit given such as Rodger Kamenetz' "The Jew in the Lotus," the 1994 account of the 1990 visit by rabbis to Dharamsala, proves odd; Rick Fields' pioneering 1992 "How the Swans Came to the Lake" may also be familiar to readers already, but why not mention these popular and enduring predecessors that showed many Americans (as they did me) perhaps their first glimpses into Tibetan Buddhism?
These persistent shortcomings noted, the strength in Paine's narrative lies in his metaphorical mind. As he struggles, for instance, to match the mansion yearned for in Christian mentalities of the afterlife with the adding on of another room in a modern mind making room for hitherto unknown Tibetan dharma, he falters. But, he more often succeeds.
(P.S. I've reviewed Coleman, French, "Merton and Buddhism," Kamenetz, Mishra, Revel & Ricard, and Sherrill on Amazon U.S. and my "Blogtrotter" daily-ish blog; Sherrill's review's also in May on NTLATBR blog where longer reviews are cross-posted.)
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Jeffery Paine's "Re-enchantment: Tibetan Buddhism Comes to the West"
Posted by John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú" at 7:02 PM
Labels: belief, Buddhism, my book reviews, Tibet
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Michael Longley was recently awarded a Festchrift from his publisher. It is a fitting tribute to one of the great Irish literary figures of our generation!
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LISLE, Ill., Aug. 20, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), Chicagoland's multiple listing service (MLS), announced today that, as in the past few months, the number of sold units remains high (11,970) and the inventory (56,083) and Months' Supply of Inventory (3.1) numbers are still relatively low based on July, 2013, Chicagoland PMSA statistics.
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This is all good news especially with some of the fears of a potentially significant rise in interest rates that have been projected but have not materialized.
There are some other notable trends in the numbers. Regarding short sales:
Foreclosed or lender-owned properties (REOs) continue to sell more quickly than short sales or even traditional sales, coming in with an average market time of 82 days. Also,
"While the continued high number of sales and low inventory are driving the market, what we're seeing in the short sale and REO markets is also noteworthy," said MRED CEO Russ Bergeron. "Short sales continue to sit on the market getting stale, as an ever-smaller percentage of buyers seem to want to deal with that hassle. In the meantime, REOs are going like hotcakes, creating the potential for bidding wars."
"Good examples as to why not all lender-mediated properties are alike."
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When an asteroid or comet impacts a planet, the explosion ejects huge amounts of material, sending it flying in all directions. But there are also plumes of material, long fingers of rock and dust that stream out as well. The boulders and such inside this plume then fall back to the ground, making linear chains of secondary craters. We see lots of these on our Moon, moons in the outer solar system, and Mercury, too.
If these features are long enough, it's inevitable two chains from two different primary craters would cross somewhere. And it turns out this has been seen... but where?
Well, X marks the spot!
This MESSENGER image of Mercury shows exactly that: two crater chains from two separate impacts crossing over each other (and a third, shorter chain is at the bottom, too). They're almost exactly perpendicular to each other, which is cool, and the intersection happens to lie in a big, shallow crater about 120 km (72 miles) across that fills this image. Unfortunately, MESSENGER hasn't been orbiting Mercury long enough to have surveyed the whole planet yet, so I wasn't able to find the source craters of these two chains.
Interestingly, both chains have elongated craters at their ends, one on the upper left and the other at the top. That indicates a very low-angle impact; anything hitting the ground from an angle above about 10° tends to make a circular crater. However, the one on the left appears to be right on the big crater's rim, so the elongation may be due to the ground angle changing. The other may be coincidence; both are far too small to have been the source craters for the chains.
I'm not sure there's any real scientific value in knowing these crater chains intersect or examining the intersection in detail. Still. They're fun to look at, fun to explore, and they're just seriously nifty.
UNLESS... hmmm.
Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington
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- More Mercury!
- Watermelon planet
- Machault by MESSENGER
- MESSENGER: Three days out from Mercury
- MESSENGER's family portrait


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I have a typical corporate-to-freelancing story.
Once upon a time, I was absolutely fed up with my job.
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I'd had a go at freelancing before—just after college—and from my experience there I already knew I didn't want to be one of the freelancers pandering to market rates.
Plus, now I had fancy job titles and lots of experience behind me that inherently made me more valuable.
So I set up my website, pulled some premium pricing numbers out of my ass (yes, that was my exact, scientific process), and started networking my butt off to book clients.
And I got them. All at my asking price.
But after a while, I started to notice something.
Even though my clients wanted to pay for expensive, top-of-the-line website copy and brand messaging, they were still inherently budget-conscious.
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As of 2015, Boston Mutual Life Insurance offers Infinite Life, Legacy Life Select and Legacy Life Express life insurance plans, according to the company's website. The company also offers disability insurance, critical illness insurance and accident insurance for employers.
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Here at BIG BAD WOLF, your involvement in the publishing process is crucial, so if you just want to drop your manuscript off at the door or be treated like a fairytale prince or princess, we're not the house for you. But if you want to participate in a total publishing experience from editing, design, to having your book launched in imaginative ways, you might just have struck gold.
Each book we publish is a fully collaborative effort between authors, editors, artists, designers, musicians (in the case of our first book, begin with the corners) and BIG BAD WOLF itself. We see our mission as publishing books that want to be read and see our task as connecting book and audience in the most dynamic way possible.
If this sounds like your idea of a good time, we'd like to hear from you. Ask yourself WHY you want to be published--what do you want to talk to the world about?--and prepare to begin that conversation with us.
Here's how we do these things...
You have some writing and we like to publish writing. So far so good! But in reality that's the same as saying 'You're a boy and I'm a girl'. A little premature to speak of marriage when we know nothing of favourite colours, sexual orientation, or feelings about butter versus margarine yet! In order for us to get to know one another, we'd like you to send us an email with TWO ATTACHMENTS: 1) ten pages from your manuscript and 2) a summary of the project that is less than 500 words long.
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Writing is all about communication, right? And there's no point in speaking to an empty room, right?
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Today I have been in Buenos Aires for two weeks and I wanted to start my journal before I let too much time pass without writing :)
The first week:
The first week here was CRAZY. And that's a complete understatement. I landed in the morning, got into the city in the early afternoon and crashed hard for a few hours before I had my first meeting. Yes, I had my first meeting for my job the day I got into BSAS. Crazy, right? I could barely comprehend words let alone keep it together for a meeting...but I did the best that I could and it turned out fantastically. The next day was my first day of observing (btw, I'm a profesora of English). I observed the rest of the week while trying to get to know the city and hanging out..
The second week:
Last week I had my first solo classes with my students. They are all super awesome, friendly, and caring. Instead of teaching in a classroom I teach in their apartments or houses, which makes for a nice and relaxed learning environment. It's also really nice because we often have class while drinking coffee or eating a snack.
One of my students even made Mate so that I could try it since I hadn't before.
Mate: a popular hot drink that is most relatable to tea, made from yerba mate, and shared during social settings. One person brews Mate and then passes it to someone in the room. That person drinks it, then passes it back to the brewer who makes more and passes it to the next person. This process is continuous until every person has had one serving, and then it starts all over again. Mate gourds can vary in size but the ones I've seen are small, so this process is repeated a few times.
A little bit about Porteños and random thoughts about the city:
Porteños/as: people who are from Buenos Aires
El/La Yanqui: nickname given to North Americans..means yankee, but not offensive.
This city is lively AF. It is a lot like Europe in the sense that people are always out and about, hanging out at cafés or just walking around aimlessly. The streets are filled with people and most of the time you can barely get to where you need to go because sidewalks are tiny. This is especially true during the week. I think over 80% of people who work in Buenos Aires don't live in the city because it's way more expensive than living in the suburbs. It might even be more than 80%. It makes for nice, quiet weekends though. Public trans is really decent but good luck catching a bus or subte (subway) that's actually on time. And during rush hour, good luck getting on either the first time you walk up to the stop or station. Once I had to wait for four subte trains to pass before there was enough room for me to squeeze in. I'm talking SARDINE STYLE people. And oh by the way the subways aren't air conditioned and it's hot and humid AF in this city.
I have yet to experience nightlife here but apparently it's a lot like Spanish nightlife and people are out until the early hours of the morning. Hopefully I'll go out sometime soon and salsa a little bit :)
That's all for now! Until next time XOXO
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Samson reported that Gracemary will serve as new Chair of the Serials Management Working Group, effective Nov 2001. Among other things, the Group will in the coming months work with other library committees to finalize a plan for implementing the MARC holdings format in IRIS.
OCLC World Cat, with five simultaneous users, will be made accessible for library users beginning Dec. 1. We are working with OCLC to obtain Communication Abstracts "full text".
Purchases of equipment for the ELF II proposals will be coordinated by a number of people to determine the appropriate equipment for each proposal. All purchasing orders will be submitted at the same time. The project is expected to be done in 12 months.
Rhonda reported that a new librarian, Ruth Bogan, has been hired. The new position will work on databases and catalog portal management. This new librarian started on Monday, November 5th.
Ann reported that the Luna project is waiting for server and software issues to be addressed, but Oracle training has been scheduled. Systems participation on ELF II proposals requires coordinating the time frame for the implementation of various parts of the project. Software conversion required for SIRSI will take place before the spring term begins. On January 1st 2002 an upgrade to SIRSI software will take place.
Mary reported that ordering and labeling is essentially up to date, thanks to the great help of student assistants. Receiving has experienced a slow down, due to regular mail slow down. Acquisitions just started using Amazon services for rush material. She will conduct a comparison between this new service and Barnes & Noble service to determine the use of both services for specific circumstances.
Mary Page reported on presentations she attended during this conference. She talked about two new projects on digital preservation, digital project for thesis and dissertations from West Virginia University and Virginia Tech and electronic archives from Stanford University. She also mentioned comments made by participants on the future of NetLibrary and e-books. Her general perception was that e-books haven't found the right model for library use. NetLibrary is looking for buyers, but this does not imply that the company will cease operations. Finally she comment on an excellent presentation from Amazon library services.
Ellen Calhoun presented a report on the efforts that have been made so far to enhance access to government documents. Samson Soong will like to see a small work group to review the viability of acquiring MARCIVE services for segments of our government documents collections to get the project started. There was agreement that a pilot project of a discrete portion of the collection be described and funded. A work group will be asked to provide a brief description of a pilot project by the end of Jan. 2002. Results of the pilot will be used to leverage funding requests for further cataloging. Ellen will like to see a representative from Camden included in this work group, as well as serial services representative and Gracemary Smulewitz. The report should include a brief description of what is and is not included in IRIS from government documents. As part of detailed title discussion, Jeanne Boyle suggested that GPO Access should be cataloged and included in IRIS.
Mary Page, Gracemary Smulewitz and Bob Terrio will constitute a group to oversee the implementation of a new mechanism or form for selector to inform all appropriate units of the de-selection of e-resources to maintain IRIS record up to date. They will also overlook the current acquisition forms.
Hector presented an issue dealing with government documents housed at Douglass library under LC classification to be transfer to the government collections at LSM and Alex. Technical services personnel working on this project should be advised on how to deal with LC vs SuDoc classification systems for these items. Gracemary will look into it and get back to Hector apart from the council on this matter.