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The Gifts of Zen Buddhism
An Interview with Robert E. Kennedy
Robert E. Kennedy, S.J., is an American Catholic priest and a Zen master (Roshi). Ordained a priest in Japan in 1965, he was installed as a Zen teacher in 1991 and was given the title Roshi in 1997. Kennedy studied Zen with Yamada Roshi in Japan, Maezumi Roshi in Los Angeles and Bernard Glassman Roshi in New York. He is chairperson of the theology department of Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, N.J., where he teaches theology and the Japanese Language. In addition to his work at the college, he is a practicing psychotherapist in New York City, a representative at the United Nations of the Institute for Spiritual Consciousness in Politics and the author of two books, "Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit" and, forthcoming in November, 2000, "Zen Gifts to Christians." Kennedy Roshi sits with his Zen students daily at the Morning Star Zendo in Jersey City and with students in 12 other zendos located throughout the tri-state area. He conducts weekend and weeklong sesshins (Zen retreats) at various centers in the United States and in Mexico. Anna Brown, an assistant professor of political science at Saint Peter's College, conducted this interview.
[Q] How did you become involved in Zen?
I became involved in Zen through my work in Japan during the late 1950's and early 1960's. At that time, there were many Jesuits who were engaged in interfaith work with Zen Buddhists. It was through these Jesuits that I came upon the Buddhist ideal of the enlightened life.
[Q] What is an enlightened life?
"Enlightened life" is a Buddhist term for a life that is based upon wisdom and compassion. Specifically, it is a Jesuit ideal to bring gifts of greater worth to the church. This experience of wisdom and compassion is a great Buddhist gift that I thought could enrich the church in an interfaith manner.
[Q] With whom did you study Zen while you were in Japan?
I studied with Yamada Roshi in Kamakura, Japan. Father Kakichi Kadowaki, a Jesuit Roshi, who, at that time, was also a student of Yamada himself, sent me to Yamada. I mention my work with Yamada because a distinctive characteristic of the study of Zen is both personal practice and an intimate sharing of that practice with a teacher. In addition, I was convinced that Yamada embodied, on many levels, the Buddhist ideal of an insightful and compassionate life. The reality of the enlightened life that he had realized and enfleshed beautifully was the gift that I wanted to share with the church.
[Q] What does it mean to "study Zen?" How does one go about it?
Zen must he understood as a verb. In other words, it is the act of doing. What you are doing when you study Zen is nothing other than practicing a compassionate life.
More specifically, the practice of Zen is the practice of paying attention in a way that is both sustained and communal. As we know from the work of Simone Weil, prayer is nothing other than paying attention.
The Buddhist practice of daily zazen, sitting meditation, encourages its practitioners to make attention a priority in their lives. Let me emphasize here the importance of training in Zen. Usually, there is nothing that can be done in life without sustained practice and training. There is no language learned, no art form mastered without effort and a competent teacher. In Zen, experienced teachers have themselves trained for many years. Their qualifications and ability to teach have been ratified time and time again over decades of their work with experienced masters.
Though we sit quietly when we sit zazen, it is not a period of time that we use to catch up on our sleep! It is, rather, a period of time in which our minds and bodies are employed fully at the highest level. Zen is an active effort to develop the unique and full-bodied contribution to life of which each of us is capable. What we attempt to move away from are the tired and repetitive responses to life that we may have carelessly accumulated throughout the years.
[Q] You were installed as a teacher of Zen in 1991. What has been your experience of teaching Zen since then?
The teaching of Zen is really the act of paying exquisite attention to the person who is sitting right in front of you. Through such attention, I try to empower students by helping them to realize their own unique gifts and qualities.
There is no Zen "itself." Zen is always the life of the individual at the highest level of that very life. It is not about teaching facts, but is about helping each person to find his or her own strengths. This is always based upon experience and allowing each student to experience the practice in his or her own way. Teachers must never attempt to clone themselves through their students. A teacher is simply a mirror to the student's own insight.
Once students are capable, they may become facilitators of a community of Zen practitioners and reach out to share their understanding of Zen. I have trained 30 facilitators now who are my students and who are leading such groups in the United States.
[Q] What do you emphasize in your interfaith teaching of Zen, particularly with those who accompany you on the weekend and weeklong Zen retreats that you conduct frequently throughout the year?
I ask students to trust in themselves and to develop their own self-reliance through the practice of Zen. Through self-reliance the student comes to see and to appreciate the many gifts that have been given to each. Is it not God's will that each of us comes to maturity and confidence in what we have been given? That we come to act like Christ through our daily work and relationships with others? We do so, I believe, when we learn to speak in our own voice.
Now having emphasized self-reliance and the expression of God's will through our own voice, I balance this emphasis by stressing, finally, the unknowability of God. Through Zen we are able to come to grips with the apophatic tradition, or the recognition of the utter mystery of God. Certainly, in our Christian faith, we are familiar with the apophatic tradition, the tradition of prayer that is beyond words. That God is unknowable, that knowledge of God is beyond words, beyond discussion, was clearly taught by the Greek Fathers of the Church. Gregory of Nyssa, for example, writes, "The man who thinks that God can be known does not really have life; for he has been diverted from true being, to something devised by his own imagination."
[Q] The balance you strike between self-reliance and not knowing seems to help your students better appreciate two other gifts of Zen that you emphasize in your book, "Zen Gifts to Christians," the gift of impermanence and the gift of emptiness.
Yes, that balance may work well for us when we come up against what is inevitable in life, when the impermanence of life is brought fully home in sickness and death, for example. Self-reliance means that the student comes to realize that his true nature is within himself. To cite a fundamental insight of Zen: there is no thing but the self and this self contains the whole universe. Accordingly, this gift of self-reliance makes one stronger in the determination to live ones own true nature to the fullest extent possible.
There will be moments in our life, of course, when we must draw upon such strength. When the reality of sickness and death hits us full force, we have the opportunity either to sink or swim. Zen offers a way to swim within the currents of life.
Content to walk along the path of not knowing and confident in her abilities, the Zen student is now ready to face the flux of impermanence and the reality of emptiness. To face the flux of impermanence means that the student appreciates the impossibility of clinging to things--all things must pass--and is encouraged to participate in the process of life. Let us look to the 27th koan of The Blue Cliff Record to illumine this point. In this koan, a young monk asks his master, the great Master Unmon, "What will it be when the trees wither and leaves fall?" This question cannot hide the pain the monk feels as he faces the question of his own death. Unmon does not lie to him about the painful reality of death but does offer this: "Become the golden breeze of autumn and the wind that blows across the plain, the soft rain that clouds the sky."
Furthermore, in coming to terms with the reality of emptiness, the student realizes that "fundamentally, not one thing exists." In other words, there is no free standing universe but rather a universe that is one with the mind that co-creates it moment by moment.
[Q] When you speak and write about the Zen gift of emptiness, you exercise great care. Why is this?
I do so because out of all of the gifts of Zen, this one is perhaps the one that is most misunderstood in the West. By "emptiness of all things" the Zen Buddhists mean the co-origination of all things; that is, nothing is separate. Let me emphasize that emptiness, as the Zen Buddhists understand it, is not a vacuum. Emptiness is all forms: men and women, mountains and rivers, moon and stars, but all seen as interdependent and integrated.
The great fear that we often experience in life derives from our misperception of emptiness as a vacuum. But in reality, therein may lie our greatest treasure. Our misperception of emptiness is that it means isolation; but in fact it is the revealer of our greatest intimacy, our connection with everything else.
Perhaps the Zen teaching of emptiness can help us understand that the command of Christ to deny our very self is not a harsh moral command but a compassionate invitation to experience that our true self can never be independent. Our true self is unthinkable apart from its union with the whole Christ.
[Q] St. Augustine exhorts Christians, when they partake of the Eucharist, to "become who we are." We are encouraged not to wither behind words or symbols but to embody Christ.
Yes, and I will as far as to say that enlightenment is also our birthright not just as Christians but as human beings. The fact that another tradition has preserved and developed this insight and way of living is not something that should arouse our suspicion. Instead, it should provoke our gratitude.
We have here, also, the opportunity for something that is simply imperative in the world today--the friendly accommodation between the Catholic Church and Asian religious institutions, devoid of the pitfalls that have ensnared efforts at accommodation in the past.
For the Jesuits, this kind of interfaith work is an apostolic priority. This is recognized formally in the Decree of the Thirty-fourth General Congregation, in which Jesuits are called to wholehearted cooperation in promoting and supporting the truths found within the multiplicity of our world's religions.
[Q] Both in your writings about Zen and in the teisho [brief talk] that you give during sesshin, You cite the dictum of St. Francis of Assisi, "Preach the Gospel always, and use words if necessary." Implied here is an active engagement in compassionate service to others. Is that the hallmark of your interfaith work in Christianity and Zen Buddhism?
>From the hands of the truly enlightened person flows the work of compassionate service as naturally as the rivers of the earth flow through their muddy banks. The Ox Herding pictures, which date from the 12th century in China, illustrate this point. These pictures trace the process of human development and transformation that one undergoes in the practice of Zen Buddhism.
In the 10th and final picture of the series, the ox herder, the seeker after truth, enters the marketplace with open hands. He is able to enter with open hands because he is a complete human being, or one who knows he is one with all that is.
One who understands himself as complete in this way does not turn his gaze from the afflicted face of the other. His gaze upon the face of the afflicted other is steadfastly attentive. For him, that face is all that exists at that moment. In such a situation, words of sympathy or encouragement do not suffice. The seeker of truth now becomes a seeker of justice and attends, without trace of self-seeking, to the material needs of the other.
To serve the other without trace of self-seeking is the living embodiment of a Zen understanding of emptiness. It is then, to cite Master Kakuan, the artist and poet of the Ox Herding pictures, that we make "the withered trees bloom."
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The Last Confessions of a Dying Star
Probing a glowing bubble of gas and dust encircling a dying Sun-like star, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals a wealth of previously unseen structures in planetary nebula NGC 2371. The remnant star visible at the center of NGC 2371 is the super-hot core of the former red giant, now stripped of its outer layers. Its surface temperature is a scorching 240,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Prominent pink clouds of cool, dense gas lie on opposite sides of the central star. Also striking are the numerous, very small pink dots, marking relatively dense and small knots of gas, which also lie on diametrically opposite sides of the star. NGC 2371 lies about 4,300 light-years away in the constellation Gemini. The Hubble Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images were taken in November 2007.
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MEXICO — President Calderon Is in a Flux because of the Growing Drug Insurgency
By Lee Jay Walker
Tokyo Correspondent – SEOUL TIMES – SOUTH KOREA
|Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa, the President of Mexico
The United States went to war in both Afghanistan and Iraq, however, some would argue that the real war should be in Mexico and America itself. This does not mean a war with Mexico or the people of America, but it does mean the need to contain both drug cartels and illegal immigration. Once containment is reached, then it is vital to eradicate major drug cartels. Therefore, can President Calderon contain these drug cartels or will democracy be further eroded in Mexico?
In 2008 more than one thousand people have been killed in Mexico because of drug cartels and growing crime. Therefore, what happened to democracy, the North Atlantic Free Trade Association, and America`s war on drugs and terror? After all, Mexico along the border with America is a no-go zone for the majority of people. Added to this is the internal crisis within American society because President Calderon made it clear that the USA must be held accountable. This applies to America having the largest number of drug consumers in the entire world.
The flow of immigrants into America from Mexico also undermines the national security of America because how can you have genuine drug and terrorist prevention policies, when you can not even control your own border? This fact alone should wake up a complacent America because sooner or later this information will be manipulated by would be terrorists. However, getting back to the narcotic issue, then once more America can not solely point the finger at Mexico because these drug cartels are mingling within the immigrant population. Also, drug cartels can find new gang members easily because of social inequality in both nations.
Turning back to Mexico, it is clear that President Calderon can not contain forces within Mexico. After all, the military now have 30,000 troops on the frontline but these forces still can not contain the countless number of drug cartels in Mexico. At the same time, international business leaders are increasingly worried about this crisis because it does not look good for the image of Mexico and you will have capital flight if this conflict is not contained or repulsed.
Mexico, therefore, is at a crossroads and this nation can not turn back because criminal organizations and drug cartels will merely go on the offensive. So America must also give a guiding hand in order to crush these cartels and criminal organizations on both sides of the border. Given this, it is clear that the current problem applies to both Mexico and America, however, it is Mexico which is suffering the most because these drug cartels are creating many no-go areas.
Once the world focused on Colombia with regards to narcotics and this nation suffered because of this with regards to international finance. Therefore, Mexico must wake up and control these negative forces which are destroying the fabric of society. After all, who really rules Mexico, is it the national government backed by the military or are drug cartels and major crime syndicates in control?
Also, America can not be complacent because it is the drug market in America which is creating this crisis and this can not be ignored. So will both nations stand up and forge a common policy or will the current crisis lead to mutual antagonism? The time for action is needed badly because this crisis will continue to grow.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Two engineering graduate students were recently selected out of 250 to present their work at Amazon.com's first Ph.D. Symposium on Building Scalable Systems.
Hung-Hsuan Chen, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering, and Rattachut Tangsucheeva, a doctoral student in industrial engineering, were among the 25 students who presented at Amazon's Seattle headquarters Nov. 22.
Chen's presentation was titled "CSSer: An Expert Recommendation System Based on CiteSeerX" and Tangsucheeva discussed "Why Firms Go Bankrupt? A Dynamics Approach."
Chen is advised by Lee Giles, professor of information sciences and technology, and Tangsucheeva is advised by Vittal Prabhu, professor of industrial engineering.
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A Lake Ridge High School student-athlete has been recognized as one of the best 24 high school volleyball players in the nation.
Capri Davis was selected as a first team player in the 2017 Under Armour All-America Volleyball Match. More than 620 nominations were received for consideration.
"I'm so blessed to have been selected to the All-America team," said Davis upon hearing the news. "I'm excited for the opportunity and thankful for the coaches and teammates who have helped build me into the player I am today."
As a first team selection, Davis will have the opportunity to showcase her skills at the national match on Friday, Dec. 15 in Kansas City, Missouri.
The senior said the experience will help her as she enters into her freshman season of college. She is committed to attend the University of Nebraska on a volleyball scholarship.
The annual Under Armour All-America Volleyball Match is hosted by the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA). This is the 12th year the association has held the national game.
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As parents, we hope we're doing a good job raising our children – teaching them right from wrong, instilling the desire to learn and demonstrating how to manage money responsibly. But what if they see us preaching one behavior while practicing another? What's to stop them from following in our sometimes misguided footsteps?
As Father's Day approaches, let me share a few things dads can do to teach their kids sound financial habits that will last them a lifetime – and point out a few bad behaviors you may not even be aware of. Ask yourself:
• Do you avoid conversations about money with your kids because that's how you were raised? Or because you don't feel qualified to give advice?
• Do you pay your bills on time to prevent late fees and possible dings to your credit score?
• Do you balance your checkbook regularly to avoid overdrafts and bounced checks?
• Have you set up an emergency fund – and are you disciplined enough not to tap it for everyday expenses?
• Are you sometimes caught off-guard by bills you should anticipate?
• If your family is experiencing financial difficulties (layoff, foreclosure, massive bills), are you having age-appropriate, non-traumatic discussions about the need for everyone to make sacrifices?
• Do you complain about your job within their earshot or say you'd rather stay home with them but need to earn money? You could be setting them up to resent both work and money.
• If college is on the horizon, have you had frank discussions about how it will be financed? Have you started a college savings fund, explored student loan programs or discussed contributions they'll be expected to make?
• When your kids constantly break or lose expensive items or run through their allowance early, do you repeatedly bail them out with no consequences?
Okay, that's a lot of potentially negative outcomes. Let's concentrate on a few positive actions you can take that will encourage responsible financial behavior in your kids:
Use allowances to teach your kids how to handle money wisely, not as a tool to reinforce good behavior. Track their discretionary (toys, candy) and non-discretionary (school supplies, clothes) expenses. Depending on their ages and maturity, decide which expenses they should be responsible for managing, and dedicate a reasonable amount for each category in their allowances.
A few other suggestions:
• Use allowances to teach important life lessons. For example, build in dedicated percentages they must set aside for savings, charity and investments – then involve them in choosing how the money is spent.
• When you use an ATM explain that it's not free money, but rather has been earned and saved by you.
• To encourage saving during these times of low interest rates, offer to match their savings at 50 percent.
• Teach by example. If money is tight and you have to deny your kids non-necessary items, give up something of your own that they know you'll miss.
• Open a 529 Qualified State Tuition Plan or a Coverdell Education Savings Account to start saving for your children's education – and let them know about it well before you start discussing college choices.
Father's Day is when children traditionally express love for their dads. Show how much you care in return by starting them out with a healthy, realistic attitude toward personal finances.


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3100 New Frayser Blvd.Memphis, TN 38128Permit Cost: $4.3 million
Project Cost: $301 millionPermit Date: Applied September 2013Completion: TBAOwner: Nike Inc.Tenant: Nike Inc.Architect: N/AContractor: Wynright Corp.Details: Nike Inc. has filed a $4.3 million building permit with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for work on its North Memphis distribution center at 3100 New Frayser Blvd.
Elk Grove, Ill.-based Wynright Corp. applied for the permit, which didn't include a description for the work being done.
One of many permits filed for the $301 million project, it follows a $4.4 million mechanical permit for work by S.A. Comunale Co. Inc. and a $3 million permit for the installation of "industrial steel storage racks" by Wynright, both filed earlier this year.
Nike in January paid $2.2 million for about 200 acres of vacant land in Frayser from Belz Investco GP for the distribution center.
Operating in the transaction as Nike TN Inc., the Beaverton, Ore.-based sports giant bought the land in two parcels – a 162.5-acre tract and a 38.4-acre tract, both north of Nike's 1.1 million-square-foot facility in Belz Enterprises Inc.'s Northridge Industrial Park.
The board of the Memphis and Shelby County Economic Development Growth Engine approved last October a 15-year payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with Nike for the $301 million project.
According to the approved PILOT, the expansion would retain 1,600 jobs and add 250 more once the expanded facility opens. The PILOT amounts to a $57.8 million tax break with a local tax benefit of $105.3 million in return.
Nike's 1,700 employees across Memphis are the company's second largest workforce in the U.S. behind only its Beaverton headquarters.
2165 E. River Trace DriveMemphis, TN 38134Loan Amount: $16.9 million
Loan Date: Sept. 1, 2013Maturity Date: Oct. 1, 2048Borrower: GMF-River Trace LLCLender: P/R Mortgage & Investment Corp.Details: The owner of the 440-unit River Trace Apartment Homes, at 2165 E. River Trace Drive near Bartlett, has filed a $16.9 million loan on the property.
GMF-River Trace LLC – an affiliate of the locally owned, faith-based nonprofit organization Global Ministries Fellowship – filed the deed of trust Sept. 1 through P/R Mortgage & Investment Corp.
Built in 1981, the Class C multifamily property contains 38 buildings on 45.8 acres on the north side of Raleigh-LaGrange Road between Sycamore View and Bartlett roads.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $12.8 million.
Richard Hamlet, president and CEO of Global Ministries Fellowship, signed the trust deed as president of GMF-Preservation of Affordability Corp., the sole member entity of the borrower.
Global Ministries Fellowship supports ministry programs on five continents that build churches, educate children, combat hunger and perform other humanitarian deeds.
The organization also owns affordable multifamily housing developments in the U.S., and the evangelical mission agency in 2009 made its first Memphis acquisition with the purchase of River Trace.
GMF-River Trace paid $17.8 million for the complex from Mid-America Apartments LP, a partnership related to Memphis-based Mid-America Apartment Communities.
2429 Ketchum RoadMemphis, TN 38114Loan Amount: $1.9 million
Loan Date: Oct. 1, 2013Maturity Date: Sept. 30, 2014Borrower: Cora Properties LLCLender: HIF Lenders LLCDetails: The owner of the 346-unit Willow Oaks apartment complex at 2429 Ketchum Road has filed a $1.9 million loan on the property.
Cora Properties LLC, which is affiliated with the previous ownership group, filed the deed of trust, assignment of leases and security agreement Oct. 1 through HIF Lenders LLC. Jason W. Coutts signed the trust deed as manager of Blue Salt LLC, the managing entity of the borrower.
Built in 1966, the 257,838-square-foot, Class D multifamily complex sits on 18.7 acres on the south side of Ketchum Road near its intersection with Airways Boulevard. The south side of the property abuts Interstate 240. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $1.6 million.
The borrower acquired the property through a Sept. 27 quitclaim deed from Casey J. Coutts. Another quitclaim deed, filed Feb. 15 with the Shelby County Register of Deeds, shows the property being transferred from Blue Salt LLC to Cora Properties.
Blue Salt, a Delaware company, last November paid $1.5 million for the multifamily property in the Defense Depot's 38114 ZIP code from Bountiful, Utah-based Noall Investment Properties LLC.
6126 Stage RoadBartlett, TN 38134Loan Amount: $2.1 million
Loan Date: Sept. 27, 2013Maturity Date: Sept. 15, 2020Borrower: Mid South PartnersLender: Triumph BankDetails: The owner of the 173-unit Bartlett Heights apartment complex at 6126 Stage Road in Bartlett has filed a $2.1 million loan on the property.
Mid South Partners filed the deed of trust, assignment of rents, security agreement and fixture filing Sept. 27 through Triumph Bank.
Built in 1972, the Class C multifamily property contains 168,542 square feet and sits on 12.6 acres along the north side of Stage Road near its intersection with Elmore Road. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $5.2 million.
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How do you make one of the best trucks on the road even better? That was the challenge for the all-new 2014 Chevrolet Silverado, and the solution was clear: Go big or go home. The chiseled new Silverado has some serious big-rig presence, and it's also more capable and luxurious than ever. Here are five reasons why the Silverado is right up there with Ford and RAM for best-in-class distinction.
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No one ever accused the previous Silverado of being underpowered, but rival trucks have raised the bar, so now it's Chevy's turn to respond. Although the Silverado's engines have the same displacement as before, they're fresh designs with more grunt than ever. The base 4.3-liter V6 makes a solid 285 horsepower, while the 5.3-liter V8 has 355 horses and the 6.2 gives you a formidable 420 hp. Whatever your needs may be, the Silverado has an engine that fits the bill.
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Despite its newfound power reserves, the Silverado's more fuel efficient, too. The V6 is the winner at 24 miles per gallon on the highway, but the 5.3-liter V8's right behind at 23 mpg. Even the 6.2 isn't bad at 20 mpg hwy. That's pretty frugal for a big, tough truck.
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In terms of ride quality, the RAM 1500 has been the luxury truck in this segment for years, but the Silverado gives it a run for its money. The Chevy cruises quietly at any speed, which is pretty impressive for a beast like this. We're impressed by the supple suspension, too; it's a definite upgrade from the bouncy setup that underpinned the previous Silverado. Looking for a truck that can serve as a family vehicle or even date-night transportation? The 2014 Silverado has the goods.
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Do trucks get any bigger or bolder than this? We're sure they will, but for now, the Silverado's arguably the styling champ. The grille looks like a swap from an 18-wheeler, and the stance is just mean, especially with big wheels and tires. Avoid this truck if you don't like to make a strong first impression.
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Caltrans' Amtrak California Locomotives to Exceed U.S. EPA Standards
SACRAMENTO – Caltrans' intercity passenger rail program is the first in the nation to start converting its fleet of locomotives to emission-control standards that exceed current U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirements.
Nearly $190 million will modernize locomotives, renovate existing cars, and purchase new equipment by 2015, thanks to four grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) of 2009. The retrofitted locomotives will operate on the San Joaquin and Capitol Corridor routes.
"These new environmentally-sensitive locomotives will not only protect California's natural beauty, but will also encourage more Californians to consider passenger rail as a reliable, clean transportation alternative," said Acting Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty.
The project will retrofit the current 3,200 horse power engines with emission-control equipment. The new EPA 710 EOC Repower engine upgrade is equipped with an automatic engine start/stop system to reduce fuel and oil usage by eliminating idling time and emissions. Smog-forming emissions will be reduced by 43 percent, hydrocarbon emissions by 84 percent and toxic diesel particulate emissions by 78 percent.
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I used linen and quilting cottons for the foundation. The flowers are made of felt and were stitched on with embroidery floss then finished off with a variety of white buttons. The stems were embroidered as well.
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One Of Your Favourite Movies Is Being Made Into A Musical
Guys, if you're a fan of musicals, you're about to hit the dang jackpot.
Word on the street is, 'The Bodyguard The Musical' is coming to Australia.
One of cinema's most iconic love stories from back in 1992, it's only fitting that the story is recreated to celebrate the life of the incredible Whitney Houston and the on-screen love she shared with Kevin Costner.
Set to kick off down under in April 2017, the local production of The Bodyguard comes after a hugely successful stint in London.
Thankfully, the musical features all of the incredible Houston tracks that feature in the movie. According to co-producer John Frost, the emotionally-charged storyline, along with the epic ballads — like 'Queen of The Night', 'I Wanna Dance With Somebody' and the legendary 'I Will Always Love You' — were simply destined for the stage.
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Clara Wisness, like most everyone her age, dreams of playing on a sandy beach to her heart's content. Except for Clara, that dream also includes a desire to build sandcastles.
Clara is 3½ years old. But unlike so many other toddlers, she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia at 2½ years of age. Before Clara was diagnosed, her mother, Heather Wisness, claims that her beach experience was limited to the time she and her family spent at Tobacco Gardens. Now, however, thanks to Make-A-Wish North Dakota, and the fact that she is healthy enough to travel, Clara's beach exposure is about to be expanded and her wish to make sandcastles is about to come true.
"Discovering the wish for a 3½- year-old girl can be difficult," states Chris Kubal, Keene resident and Make-A-Wish North Dakota volunteer. "Most kids that young don't really know what their wish is."
"Clara got sick when she was 2½ and hasn't been able to do a lot since then, so exploring her wish was tricky," states Clara's mom.
According to Kubal and Heather, Clara was referred to Make-A-Wish North Dakota about six months after her diagnosis. The process of exploring what her wish might be began soon after that.
"It was pretty cool," states Heather. "They gave her coloring books to try and see what she might be interested in."
"We were throwing around a bunch of ideas and options, when out of the blue she told us she wanted to go to the beach," Kubal states.
Later, Clara expanded that desire into a wish to build sandcastles.
According to her mom, Clara has been building pretend castles in the doctor's offices she visits. Now, after a year of undergoing treatments, she will finally have the chance to build real sandcastles on the white sand of St. Pete Beach in Florida.
At a Wish Enhancement event in the Keene Community Park, on Saturday, June 29, Make-A-Wish revealed to Clara the plans for her granted wish. Not only would she be able to build sandcastles, but she, her parents, Heather and Beau, and her two siblings, Amelia and Charlie, would spend the week at TradeWinds Island Grand Resort on St. Pete Beach in Florida.
"I think Clara thinks she is going to the beach at Tobacco Gardens," states Heather. "When she sees the beach in Florida, she is going to be so excited."
Not only did Make-A-Wish give Clara and her family a week to play on the beach, but Make-A-Wish North Dakota also revealed another surprise to Clara. While in Florida, she, and her family, will get the chance to meet her, and her sister's, favorite actor, the dolphin Winter from the movie Dolphin Tale.
Winter resides at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, near St. Pete Beach. While there, Clara and her family can choose to participate in other activities like feeding stingrays, interacting with other dolphins or taking an Eco-Boat Tour.
According to Kubal and Heather, the process of making Clara's wish come true has taken between six to seven months. It was partly because her wish to build sandcastles was discovered in the winter months. But it was also due to the fact that they couldn't leave town until Clara's doctor said it was okay.
"We had to wait until she was healthy enough to travel," states Heather. "She began the last phase of her treatment in May, but she still had to maintain some normalcy after that. Her doctor only recently gave her the green light for travel."
According to Brandon Lemer, president and CEO of Make-A-Wish North Dakota, the organization grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. According to Kelly Braun, vice president of the Make-A-Wish North Dakota board, they are on pace to grant 40 wishes this year, and six of those wishes are in southwestern North Dakota.
"We are always looking for volunteers," states Kubal. "We currently have two volunteers in the Watford City area, but we always need more."
In addition to volunteering, Braun states that people or businesses can choose to sponsor or adopt wishes. In fact, Braun states that Clara's wish was made possible by the Dickinson Noon Lions Club, one of the organization's supporters.
Every little bit helps, according to Lemer, even donating air miles.
"It takes between seven and nine million air miles a year to do what we do," states Lemer. "And air miles expire. But when they are donated to us, they never expire, so that is a great way to give to Make-A-Wish North Dakota."
Make-A-Wish and the Keene Community celebrated Clara at the Wish Enhancement event on Saturday. Make-A-Wish gave Clara some final supplies for her trip, and the Wisness' family, friends and community members gave her and her family well wishes and sent them off with love and encouragement.
Clara, her parents, her five-year-old sister and her eight-month-old brother left for St. Pete Beach on Sunday, June 30. They were taken to the Williston Airport by limo early that morning, and arrived in Florida in enough time to get some playtime in before supper.


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The Orange County district attorney's office has concluded that Sheriff's Department deputies are not culpable for the death of a Costa Mesa man while he was in custody.
In a letter Monday to Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, the D.A. stated that Keith Eric Files, 28, died due to methadone toxicity Nov. 30, 2010.
Files had been arrested and booked into Orange County Jail the day before for violating his probation after he left the Roque Center, a treatment facility in Garden Grove.
Probation Officer Laura McMahon had learned that Files had left the center. She informed him that he would need to report to her office for arrest.
When Files returned to the center to get his belongings, he told a patient that he had ingested 25 methadone pills and planned to take more while to jail, according to the letter.
McMahon, who arrested and booked Files, indicated in Files' intake forms that he did not seem to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or look disoriented and confused, according to the letter.
A medical screening revealed that Files took Paxil, an anti-depressant. When staff checked his vital signs, he denied any discomfort, pain or medical issues.
Sheriff's Deputy Jaime Cuadras told the D.A. that Files appeared "jovial" when he chatted with him through his cell door between 9 and 10 p.m. The deputies visually checked on the inmates hourly and never noted anything odd until the next morning, according to the letter.
At 7:36 a.m. Nov. 30, a deputy saw Files' "colorless" feet and attempted to rouse him, but he was unresponsive. Medical staff and other deputies administered CPR and eventually the Santa Ana Fire Department dispatched paramedics. Files, however, was pronounced dead at 8:05 a.m.
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I started this blog in 2009 to blog my creative writing. It soon became clear I was using it as a form of communication, for not only was I freeing the voices of the characters I created but I had freed my own voice and was learning to share my thoughts and feelings in a way I had found inexplicably difficult through speech alone.
Along with several tiny flash fiction and other short stories I have written over the years, I have blogged about the struggles with anxiety and the discovery more recently that I am in fact autistic.
I was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder in April 2014, and told that this was the condition formally described as Asperger's Syndrome. Put simply I am autistic but in a less visible way. It is this very invisibility that prompts me to keep writing about the hidden struggles of Aspies, autistics and undiagnosed autistic people, and to share concerns and often very difficult moments and confusions that can hit us sometimes and leave us feeling all at sea and alone in the world.
I've always been obsessed with people, interactions and behaviours. I love to tell stories from the points of view of the characters who visit my head – particularly the misunderstood. I also like to have a rant now and then about society. Sometimes I combine the two!
Having autism and anxiety means that, even though it's not obvious, I'm always working, always exhausted, always using too much adrenalin and cortisol, and always looking for ways to find peace, to reach out and to manage my health. Writing seems to cover all of these things and brings the satisfaction of creative production and a much needed release of creative energy.
In my other life I run a shop with my husband. He does the people stuff and I do the paper, organising and money stuff. I also have an organic vegetable garden and try to grow and cook as much of my own produce as possible and grow plenty of things for bees and butterflies, while trying to run a home and be a good enough mum to three children between the ages of 11 and 21. I insist on fitting photography into that mix too and force myself to take at least one photo every day. I keep a journal for that on blipfoto.
If you're interested in my autism discovery and assessment, the blog entries between February and April 2014 would be a good place to start.
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A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine. I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now.


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Home > Outdoors & Sports > Camping, Hunting & Fishing > Pair Waterproof Hiking Climbing Trekking Snow Legging Gaiters Leg Cover - Black
Product Details
This pair of waterproof snow gaiters can prevent water, snow and mosquitoes from entering into your shoes or trousers. With contractive rope and metal hook to fasten to your leg and shoes tightly. Wearing this snow gaiters, you can go hiking or climbing or other outdoor activities freely without worrying about weather or landforms.
- hook and loop fasteners closure for easy put on and take off
- With contractive rope for adjustment
- Metal hook at the bottom for fastening to shoe lace
- Waterproof, windproof and highly breathable
- Durable underfoot strap
- Keep your legs warm and prevent snow, sand grains flowing into your shoes or trouser legs
- Ideal for trekking,hiking, walking, climbing, hunting, snowmobiling, mountaineering or other outdoor activities
- Color: Black
- Material: 420D water-proof Oxford fabric and nylon
- Length Size:approximately 15 inch(38cm)
- Upper Width:8.6 inch(22cm)
- Bottom Width: 8.5 inch(21.5cm)
Package Includes:
- 1 pair of Waterproof Outdoor Hiking Climbing Snow Gaiter Leg Cover