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Richard Peck was the original creator of the Invisible Dog Fence. Mr. Peck was a traveling salesman, who in 1973, noticed a lot of folks struggling to keep their pets safely contained in the yard. New housing developments restricted these homeowners from constructing physical privacy fences, so Mr. Peck had an idea.
Richard Peck teamed up with an electronic engineer and developed the first patented Invisible Dog Fence® and named it "Stay-Put."
The patent consisted of a transmitter that produced a radio signal through a buried wire and a receiver collar worn by the dog that would respond to the radio signal. When the collar picked up the radio signal that was produced through the buried wire, the collar would react by delivering a static irritant. The concept was that this static irritant would teach the dog to avoid the boundary wire, resulting in successful containment.
Mr. Peck was a fellow dog lover and although he was excited about this new product, he was concerned about the effects of delivering this static irritant to dogs. He did his due diligence and teamed up with the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine to research the short and long term effects on a dog using this type of fence. The study reveled that there were no negative health concerns (both short and long term) for a dog using the Invisible Fence®.
Once he received this clarification, he began selling these dog fences by mail order and catalogs. Mr. Peck retired and sold his patent rights in 1976 to John Purtell, which was the beginning of the Invisible Fence Brand® we know today. After 1993 Peck's original patent expired and several new dog fence companies came to market. Such as, Dog Watch®, Pet Stop®, Dog Gaurd® and Outdoor Pet Solutions® to name a few.
We have used all of these various brands through our professional installation company. We have become experts in working with these products and training dogs how to properly interact with these products.
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Thank you sweet girl! Your english rocks! I wish I could speak at least a bit spanish.
Congrats on this new step of your artsy life.
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Congrats on your now again structured life – i know it to well, how time flies when you are on your own – work wise.
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Q: Row Selection changes when I add a dialog box When I click on any one row and click the delete link the confirmation dialog box appears but once I click on the dialog box , the row selection changes.The selected is not getting deleted but some other row gets deleted.Kindly Help to fix it.
<p:column headerText="Delete" width="50" style="text-align:center">
            <p:commandLink id="showDialogButton"
                update=":studyPlanEditForm:display" onclick="cdDialog.show()"
                value="delete">
            </p:commandLink>
            <p:dialog widgetVar="cdDialog" appendToBody="true"
                header="Are you sure to delete this substudyplan?">
                <p:panel>
                <p:commandButton value="Yes" process=":studyPlanEditForm:display"
                    action="#{editBean.deleteSubStudyPlan(selectedRow)}"
                    onclick="cdDialog.hide();"
                    update=":studyPlanEditForm"/>
                <p:commandButton value="No" onclick="cdDialog.hide();"
                     type="button"/>
                </p:panel>
            </p:dialog>
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A: The dialog has to be outside the table. Also, in the delete button you are updating component ":studyPlanEditForm:display". I don't see that component in the snippet. The panel inside the dialog should have id="display", because the dialog needs to be updated.
You can see a working example of a similar use casi in primefaces showcase. You only have to replace the dialog that shows content for the confirm message, and add a button that deleted the row. The managed bean already has a reference to the selected row.
This is how the delete button would look like
<p:column headerText="Delete" width="50" style="text-align:center">
    <p:commandButton id="showDialogButton"
             update=":studyPlanEditForm:display" onclick="cdDialog.show()"
             value="delete">
        <f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{selectedRow}" target="#{bean.selectedRow}" />
      </p:commandButton>
</p:column>

And this is the dialog (has to be outside table):
<p:dialog widgetVar="cdDialog" appendToBody="true"
          header="Are you sure to delete this substudyplan?">
    <p:panel id="display">
        <p:commandButton value="Yes" process="@this"
                action="#{editBean.deleteSubStudyPlan}"
                onclick="cdDialog.hide();"
                update=":studyPlanEditForm"/>
        <p:commandButton value="No" onclick="cdDialog.hide();"
                 type="button"/>
    </p:panel>
</p:dialog>

So the managed bean has an attribute called selectedRow and at the time method deleteSubStudyPlan is invoked, this attribute contains the entity that belongs to the selected row in the table.

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We are small station with a Major market sound that loves to be involved with our community. Like many smaller market stations, our on air staff has to wear more than one hat. We serve East Texas with a 7.2 share (on our last ratings). Our Shows are all rated as the # 1 listened to in our home town from the Mornings to the Evening show. This year we were honored to be the CMB Small Market Station of the Year and the NRB Station of the year and were finalists for the Rob Gregory Award at CMB. We've also again been chosen as the Favorite Radio Station on Locals Love US.com. Our Morning Show with Mike and Carrie is the favorite morning show on Locals Love Us as well.
It's our Valentine's promotion when we ask our audience to make homemade valentines for the children in the hospital, veterans at the VA home and for seniors in local Senior Residential homes. The great part about this promotion is that it's very hands on and multiple impacts in our community – from the people who hand make the cards, to the high school classes who bus into the station to help with the sorting of the thousands of cards to the volunteers who help the staff deliver each one of the cards in person at each of the facilities and to each of the recipients. We say it's God's love covered in glitter. We delivered over 21,000 cards in 2015. We partner with 20 different businesses in the promotion as drop off locations and locations for crafting the cards.
Resources your station uses:
We use Chuck Finney as our Consultant.
For Show Prep – Taking It Deeper, Creative Cardio and Intelligence for Life, The CMB Forums, Imom and Allpro Dad
Pic Monkey has been big help with design also!
Make sure that you are focused on your mission and vision not only externally and Programming wise but also investing in that for your staff and Board. Second, make sure that the station outreach is so impactful and relevant in your community that it would leave a huge hole if the station were not there.
We had a prisoner who listened to the station while behind bars and he worked for days to get enough money to buy two postage stamps. It was all that he had and he taped it to a letter and sent it to us saying, "…because I know how much I depend on this station to get me through the day". We shared "Dave's" story on the air and a man walked in the front door to say he'd been listening and he wanted to see the station that would cause a prisoner to work so hard to send what he could to support the station even from behind bars. After encountering several members of our staff and our volunteers the man stepped into our Prayer Room and gave his life to Jesus…all because of the gift of two stamps!
How has your station been impacted through CMB Memberships?
We believe in the mission of CMB and we know that we have been able to get so much great information and mentoring through CMB. The Forums offer peer to peer expertise and a great place where we can ask "what do YOU do with…..?"
We want to support the ongoing work that CMB is doing in our Industry. It's also a great source of "community" for the whole Industry.
We believe that the educational value added to our staff through attending the Momentum in September and the smaller seminars – as well as the online forums is priceless for us. Even as a small market station, we value the CMB Momentum experience so much that more than half of our staff attends each year.


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Kingstonian Football Club is delighted to announce three new signings.
On the eve of pre-season training, the club can confirm that Elliott Buchanan, Tom Richards and Tom Howard have bolstered Hayden Bird's squad.
Both Elliott and Tom Richards arrive having featured in Dorking Wanderers' National League South Play-Off campaign, whilst Tom Howard is a graduate of the Chelsea FC Academy system.
Buchanan returns to K's needing little introduction. Having enjoyed a very successful time at the Meadowbank, Elliott has won the Golden Boot in the Isthmian League Premier, scoring 39 league goals while at Staines Town. The target man also boasts extensive experience in the National League. On two occasions, he has been the leading goalscorer in the National South.
Tom Richards is equally at home at left back, left wing-back or on the left wing. The former Fulham, AFC Wimbledon and Aldershot Town wide man was signed by Dorking Wanderers from neighbours Leatherhead. Like Elliott, Tom has had a very successful career at the Meadowbank, winning the Isthmian Premier and reaching the National League South play-offs.
Like many of our squad, Tom Howard is another player who has played for Hayden before. Having spent ten years progressing through the Chelsea Academy, injuries prevented the talented midfield player from winning a professional contract at Stamford Bridge. In signing for Merstham, Tom played a pivotal role in the promotion winning side and them establishing Merstham in the Premier Division, winning two Surrey Senior Cups.
Having been offered a job coaching in Chelsea's Academy, Tom decided to take a break from football but is now in a position to re-commence his impressive playing career.
"I'm absolutely delighted to welcome three outstanding players to Kingstonian," enthused manager Hayden Bird. "Elliott and Tom Richards are both long term targets. Both players have won this league and will improve our quality in the final third of the field. We knew we needed to add goals to the team. Elliott, Tom, Corie [Andrews] and Kadell [Daniel] will definitely do that."
"Tom Howard is a player I really rate. He has a top class attitude and has great technique. When I informed the players that Tom was signing, his team mates were absolutely delighted. That speaks volumes for him."
On Saturday, the players return to pre-season. With the season currently scheduled to start on Saturday 19th September, the pre-season friendlies will be announced in the next few days.
"Everyone is looking forward to returning to training," said the Boss. "Let's be clear, there is plenty of hard work ahead of us. The boys set the bar high last season and our job is to push the boundaries and raise the levels again. We want to play good football, we want to win and we want to improve. That will not be achieved without hard work."
When pressed on his team being title contenders, Hayden's response was based on fact rather than popular opinion.
"Plenty of people within football have suggested that Kingstonian will fight for the title. Let's add a little perspective to that," he said philosophically.
"At the point of lockdown, although we had three games in hand, Worthing were top and 24pts ahead of us. If we had won our three games in hand of 5th-placed Carshalton Athletic, we would still have been six points adrift of the play-offs."
"Other managers tipping Kingstonian is flattering but last season's statistics are a good barometer of the hard work ahead of us and the improvement needed."
At the time of writing, due to Government guidelines, all of the friendlies will be played behind closed doors. However, in order to keep our supporters at the forefront of the action, Kingstonian TV are hoping to film games and provide pre-match and post-match interviews.
Football is back. Kingstonian are back. Elliott Buchanan is back!
PS: Jamie Cutteridge's latest interview with Hayden Bird is up on YouTube right now, and also stars Elliott Buchanan and Tom Richards!
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Practical ideas on anussati, sati and apilapanā.
Think of a random number, for instance "1325". Now close your eyes and try to keep that number in your mind, continously, don't forget it, don't think of anything else. Just this number and only this number. Try your best to just keep that number in the forefront of your mind at all times. You must try to hold it continously, without letting it slip from your attention! It has to be one ongoing "ride". Think of it as learning how to ride a bike: you will fall off (the number) but you will get back on it immediately, trying to stay on it as long as you can. Don't let it go and keep coming back! Your goal should be to stick with it, as long as you possibly can – and then increase those little moments.
Do this for at least 5 minutes. If you don't, it will be hard for you to understand what this post is trying to illustrate.
Thanks for trying :-). Trying to tame the mind means training ones skill of mental one-pointedness. But there is so much more going on when you develop that skill which may have reminded you of your days as a child, when you tried to find your balance on the saddle of a bike, only to realize that you were falling off the bike almost as quickly as you got on it.
Developing the Jhanas is exactly the same type of activity as the one you just exercised. Developing the jhanas is like learning how to ride a (mental) bike. When learning how to ride a bike there are three important things involved: First of all, you see others on the bike and see how much fun they have. You want that too. Secondly, almost everyone you see did learn it, so you are thinking: I can do it too. Third, when you are up on the bike, you learn to intuitively avoid falling – but that takes lot of practice. You know now, that the falling was actually part of the game, and it taught you how NOT to fall. In order to develop the skill to keep your balance your mind had to learn to avoid extreme movements away from the center. You also realized that eventually, once you started to keep going, the balance was easy to hold and the fun bike ride started.
Concentration meditation and learning to get into the jhanas are a very very similar process. No one would consider constant falling off a bike to be called "riding a bike". Similarly, constantly "loosing" ones meditation object and never getting to the first jhana is like trying to get on a bike but never succeeding. It is like a perpetual state of meditation-trial. We would not expect someone to get very far either, if he is still struggling with finding his balance on a bike – and in the same way, from the perspective of the suttas, the ability to ride that bike is a presupposed training, something which allows you to cover a lot of ground with insight meditation, but also something which everyone and obviously did not have a hard time doing. So lets get back to the essentials of riding that bike.
When you did the little exercise above you were asked to use the number in lieu of a meditation object (a meditation object is nothing else than a mental object – in the case of this number probably a picture or a sound, your thought of it) and you were eager and tried diligently to keep that mental object stable and continously in the presence of your mind. You probably also noticed that you needed effort, but that too much effort was contra-productive and made your mind bubble even more. But you probably also noted that as soon as you were not careful you would lose your focus on what you originally intended to hold in your mind, what you wanted to continously remember. I hope you find those five minutes challenging and that challenge interesting.
It is through renewed practice, knowing the technique and checking your progress, that you will eventually master the skill of mental biking – with all the benefits it will bestow on you.
Let's talk a little bit more about the technique and have a look at some definitions the Buddha is teaching in the suttas on this topic.
''Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, 'janapadakalyāṇī, janapadakalyāṇī'ti kho, bhikkhave, mahājanakāyo sannipateyya. 'Sā kho panassa janapadakalyāṇī paramapāsāvinī nacce, paramapāsāvinī gīte. Janapadakalyāṇī naccati gāyatī'ti kho, bhikkhave, bhiyyosomattāya mahājanakāyo sannipateyya. Atha puriso āgaccheyya jīvitukāmo amaritukāmo sukhakāmo dukkhappaṭikūlo. Tamenaṃ evaṃ vadeyya – 'ayaṃ te, ambho purisa, samatittiko telapatto antarena ca mahāsamajjaṃ antarena ca janapadakalyāṇiyā pariharitabbo. Puriso ca te ukkhittāsiko piṭṭhito piṭṭhito anubandhissati. Yattheva naṃ thokampi chaḍḍessati tattheva te siro pātessatī'ti. Taṃ kiṃ maññatha, bhikkhave, api nu so puriso amuṃ telapattaṃ amanasikaritvā bahiddhā pamādaṃ āhareyyā''ti? ''No hetaṃ, bhante''. ''Upamā kho myāyaṃ, bhikkhave, katā atthassa viññāpanāya. Ayaṃ cevettha attho – samatittiko telapattoti kho, bhikkhave, kāyagatāya etaṃ satiyā adhivacanaṃ. Tasmātiha, bhikkhave, evaṃ sikkhitabbaṃ – 'kāyagatā sati no bhāvitā bhavissati bahulīkatā yānīkatā vatthukatā anuṭṭhitā paricitā susamāraddhā'ti. Evañhi kho, bhikkhave, sikkhitabba''nti.
Again and again remembering, through the method of continously remembering [lit.: along-remembering], (that is called) "anussati".
buddhānussati (anussati on the Buddha), asubhānussati (on the loathesomeness of the body), maraṇānussati (on death), upasamānussati (on peace), dhammānussati (on the Dhamma), sanghānussati (on the sangha), cāgānussati (on giving), etc….
Valid questions. The connotations of the English expression 'recollection' are not very meditative. When we hear 'recollection' we think of a random way of bringing stuff back into our memory, a (more or less – stress on more) random jumping around. However, 'anussati' as we see it utilized in Pali, has a narrower meaning. It means that you are staying with a memory (preferably only one). Whether it is the case of the Buddha remembering memories of former lives, you can see that in the description of such a 'recollection' the meditator recalls one life after the other in a constant succession, without letting go of the object of the concentration. It is therefore a veritable 'along'-remembering, without interruptions(4) – and drawing you a w a y from the senses => the decisive necessity to get to the first jhana. A similar observation can be made reading the Visuddhimagga's description of meditation on body-parts: first the meditator is asked to recite them in a certain succession (anyone can do that, a very smart way to introduce meditation), then, at a certain point, the meditator is now asked to "flip the switch" and continue to "chant" mentally, i.e. recollect uninterruptedly in a mentally voiced manner(3) – that is the same what you would do when someone asks you to mentally keep a number in your head without letting any other "distraction" take over. Here too, your 'recollection' becomes a sustained, continous effort, which succeeds when the practice of anussati evokes first mental bliss (through sense reduction – viveka from kama) and then via an automatic centering in the jhanic dwelling.
Apilāpanatā (f.) in the pass. at Dhs 14 = Nd2 628 is evidently meant to be taken as a + pilāpana + tā (fr. pilavati, plu), but whether the der. & interpret. of Dhs A is correct, we are unable to say. On general principles it looks like popular etym. Mrs. Rh. D. translates (p. 16) "opposite of superficiality" (lit "not floating"); see her detailed note Dhs trsl. 16.
The attainment of the jhana, according to this simile, is achieved by a "not-floating away" or "not-drifting-away". This is similar to a person in a wild river pushed along by the current who would try to hold on to a stone – long enough to pull himself out of the water and step on that stone. Such a temporary break (because he has not yet crossed the river but is still caught in the middle) on the steady rock in the middle of a wild river means also that no effort is necessary to maintain that calm position and one feels calmness and aloofness while the river/stream of the senses retreats(2). However, if you ever did that in your life, you know that the water can still get you – washing over the rock, water gushing up – and if you are not careful you will slip and fall back into the river(18).
It is crucial to understand that "vipassana" means that we have to break into the operation of the feeling, perception, and "becoming conscious" of any sense object, including the slightest mental activities – only if we are able to observe this entirety in its rising and falling, are we able to utterly exhaust our interest in it and let go of it all. And here is the challenge: if our samadhi is not that developed our vision will be blurred (because we have not learned to stay on one object – we will get cheated and tricked by lot's of objects which we will fall for and thus not see) and it will take much longer (and some chose it that way – in 'dry' vipassana – where you will have to built up concentration on the fly with vipassana – which most vipassana systems, even if they don't acknowledge it – do take into account). It will take much longer then to develop a clarity from which to let go which is necessary so that we don't even get tricked into the faintest mental shadows of anything we become aware of / consciousness of, do not identify with them, and thus stall the process of re-lease.
So there is a purpose to the effort of getting the mind one-pointed; yes learning how to hold onto one object by letting go of others, even if, in the very end, our goal is it to transcend the holding of any object (apanihita-cetovimutti). In other words: Already the practice of sila and even further the practice of samadhi is a repeated process of self-restraint, first bodily, then verbal and eventually mentally where the roaming of the mind is hindered further and further (Yāni sotāni lokasmiṃ, sati tesaṃ nivāraṇaṃ) until the gearbox of samsara becomes visible and its complete six-fold excuse-less observation triggers a samsaric exhaustion (Sotānaṃ saṃvaraṃ brūmi, paññāyete pidhiyyare) and a turning away (nibbidā, virāgā) entails which leads to a freedom (vimutti) which, even from the perspective of the jhāna, seems impossible: one stops without an object, after having dried up the river once, allowing one to find the ability to attain to such an object-less samadhi (animitta-, apaṇihita, suññata-cetovimutti) which is impossible to attain to if one were to just use concentration on objects.
We have to understand that the purpose of sati is not "to observe in a neutral fashion"(15). Sati in Pali terminology is a very precise technical term describing the skill of staying with the object (paṭṭhana – something we tie ourselves to) one wants to keep in mind. That of course brings something else about: upekkha – or equanimity in the highest form of jhanic calmness. Very refined in the fourth jhana, obviously. Equanimity is the pinnacle of concentration for obvious reasons: it means the state of utter balance which makes our mind (temporarily) unshakeable and therefore neutral in its observation. However – and this is quite important to the practice, sati of such a level is called purified (satiparisuddham) because of the mind's ability to continously stay with one object is unpertubed – but does such a "bare awareness" alone lead to Nirvana? And, even more important, is someone whose mind is grasping at a meditative object in a very subtle manner be able -without technique – to look through the stickyness of his attainment? What else needs to be done at that point? So far in our description, there is nothing "Buddhist" about the samadhi. If sati is keeping focus on an object and such focus leads to strongest equanimity, where does wisdom enter the equation? Addressing the misconception that samādhi alone by itself, without right view, leads to Nirvana made the Buddha point out that samadhi is a tool for the realization of paticcasamuppada. But how? It is at this crucial point in our practice, that samma-ditthi(21), or right view, with which the entire noble path starts and is "funded by", that this correct view "enriches" your samādhi and turns it into something supramundane, something directed towards helping us break out of samsara. How could that be done? It is with this power of concentration (which was built up using effort – viriya – and presence of mind/recollection – sati) that the meditator directs(22) his mind towards an understanding of the mass of suffering which the Buddha found to spring off at the conceptually atomic level of five components of grasping (23) – lit. masses of fuel . This sharp view which one has to activate is called vipassana and gets boosted by the tranquility (samatha – it doesnt have to be boosted to the highest extreme(24) but it makes so much more sense developing it to the best of our ability), by the skill of continous attention (sati), the strong equanimity (upekkha) – none of which (i.e. viriya, sati and upekkha) in themselves would lead to nirvana, as anyone who does concentrate, will experience them too.
Most of his time we find the Buddha in the suttas talking about this particular part of meditation practice, where we direct our deep attention towards a direct experience of dependent origination to make wisdom grow – he called this practice variously "ñāṇadassana" (seeing-knowing), or "yathābhūa ñāṇadassanā" (to seeing-knowing as it has become) or "iti pajanati" or "sammapaññāya daṭṭhabbam"(25). The object of such a deep and careful (non-analytical!) uncompromising direct all-encompassing observation(26) were described by the Buddha in varying shades: the five groups of grasping, the six sense spheres, the dependent origination – all of which describe the same process(27), namely experience, in the moment of its occcurence, at the deepest possible level of observation – beyond names and forms on the one hand (nama rupa) and consciousness (vinnyana) on the other there is nothing else left which makes the world tick – from an experiental point of view – the point of view which wants to see how suffering is born. The Buddha at this point highlighted to us, that such a prolonged observation (nibbidābahulo(28)), a wisdom which sees the rising and falling(29), would by (natural) law (dhammatā) lead to a certain disenchantment so that finally Nirvana takes place. The rest is history, as they say.
These last two paragraphs was just meant as a bird-view picture of the path – nothing new to many of you, but giving this post a little bit of a broader perspective in regard to the path of practice and the place of sati and practice of anussati in it.
This is a dilemma for most translators and the reason why Pali in translation loses its "preciseness" or makes long notes necessary.
The attainment of phalasamapatti would be that you are in the middle of the stream yet you have no stone to hang on to, still you are not washed away (animitta). The Nirvanic experience would resemble the river (temporarily) drying up.
Evaṃ kālasataṃ kālasahassaṃ kālasatasahassampi vācāya sajjhāyo kātabbo. Vacasā sajjhāyena hi kammaṭṭhānatanti paguṇā hoti, na ito cito ca cittaṃ vidhāvati. Koṭṭhāsā pākaṭā honti, hatthasaṅkhalikā viya vatipādapanti viya ca khāyanti.Yathā pana vacasā, tatheva manasāpi sajjhāyo kātabbo. Vacasā sajjhāyo hi manasā sajjhāyassa paccayo hoti. Manasā sajjhāyo lakkhaṇapaṭivedhassa paccayo hoti. (Vism. I, par.180 CST4) – "…So the teacher who expounds the meditation subject should tell the pupil to do the reictation verbally first….The recitation should be done verbally in this way a hundred times, a thousand times, even a hundred thousand times. For it is through verbal recitation that the meditation subject becomes familiar, and the mind being thus prevented from running here and there….The mental recitation [sic!] should be done just as it is done verbally. For the verbal recitation is a condition for the mental recitation and the mental recitation is a condition for the penetration of the characteristic (of this meditation). Mostly Nyanamoli transl. see p. 262.
anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarati. Seyyathidaṃ – ekampi jātiṃ dvepi jātiyo tissopi jātiyo catassopi jātiyo pañcapi jātiyo dasapi jātiyo vīsampi jātiyo tiṃsampi jātiyo cattālīsampi jātiyo paññāsampi jātiyo jātisatampi jātisahassampi jātisatasahassampi anekānipi jātisatāni anekānipi jātisahassāni anekānipi jātisatasahassāni – 'amutrāsiṃ evaṃnāmo evaṃgotto evaṃvaṇṇo evamāhāro evaṃsukhadukkhappaṭisaṃvedī evamāyupariyanto, so tato cuto amutra udapādiṃ; tatrāpāsiṃ evaṃnāmo evaṃgotto evaṃvaṇṇo evamāhāro evaṃsukhadukkhappaṭisaṃvedī evamāyupariyanto, so tato cuto idhūpapanno'ti. Iti sākāraṃ sauddesaṃ anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarati.
Yā sati anussati paṭissati, sati saraṇatā dhāraṇatā apilāpanatā asammussanatā, sati satindriyaṃ satibalaṃ sammāsati satisambojjhaṅgo ekāyanamaggo – ayaṃ vuccati sati. Imāya satiyā upeto samupeto, upagato samupagato, upapanno samupapanno, samannāgato so vuccati sato.
Also very interesting passage in the incredible Petakopadesa: Ayaṃ vīriyasambojjhaṅgo. Iminā vīriyena dve dhammā ādito avippaṭisāro pāmojjañca yā puna pīti avippaṭisārapaccayā pāmojjapaccayā, ayaṃ pītisambojjhaṅgo. Yaṃ pītimanassa kāyo passambhati. Ayaṃ passaddhisambojjhaṅgo. Tena kāyikasukhamānitaṃ yaṃ sukhino cittaṃ samādhiyati, ayaṃ samādhisambojjhaṅgo. Yaṃ samāhito yathābhūtaṃ pajānāti, ayaṃ dhammavicayasambojjhaṅgo. Yā sīlamupādāya pañcannaṃ bojjhaṅgānaṃ upādāyānulomatā nimittāyanā pītibhāgiyānañca visesabhāgiyānañca apilāpanatā sahagatā hoti anavamaggo, ayaṃ satisambojjhaṅgo. Petakop. PTS, p.186 – "When the body of the one whose mind is blissful calms down, that is the awakening factor of calmness. Through that bodily ease, when the mind of the happy one settles, that is the awakening factor of samadhi. When he, who is mentally focused/settled (samahito) knows (observes) whatever has become (come into being, he has become aware of), this is the awakening factor of unheaping mental things (dhamma-vicaya: mental deconceptualization, mental deconstuctionism 🙂 ). What is the following along of the taking up of the practice of the five factors of awakening, that which leads to the creation of bliss and realization, that not-floating away-ness, that going-with, that not-off-the path-ness, this is the awakening factor of sati.
Almost need to translate sati here as "memory" (or is it sati from as?): Satiparicite hi dhamme paññā pajānāti, no sammuṭṭhe. Through memory accumulated dhammas with wisdom he can know, but not forgotten (ones). Cf. also passage with reference to Note 7: Tassa tattha sukhino dhammapadā plavanti . Dandho, bhikkhave, satuppādo; atha so satto khippaṃyeva visesagāmī hoti. Sotānugatānaṃ, bhikkhave, dhammānaṃ, vacasā paricitānaṃ, manasānupekkhitānaṃ, diṭṭhiyā suppaṭividdhānaṃ ayaṃ paṭhamo ānisaṃso pāṭikaṅkho. To such a happy one living here (deva world) words of the Dhamma float (through the mind). Slow, o monks, is the arising of his memory, but quickly does he attain realization… AN IV, 191. See also the post "Sati is not Mindfulness?" where we quoted Colette Cox on a similar observation.
yena yena cittaṃ abhinīharati tena tena sati anuparivattati. Yena yena vā pana sati anuparivattati tena tena cittaṃ abhinīharati. Tena vuccati – ''anuṭṭhitā''ti – "Through whatever one draws ones mind, around that sati will circle. By whatever sati circles around moving along, through that the mind is drawn. There it says: "anutthita" – along-standing.
The Mahaniddessa Comy is a very interesting commentary. Seems the Ven. Upasena was more inclined to pickup meditative data from the ancient Sinhala Comy than Buddhaghosa, who seems slightly more leaning towards dogmatic/theoretical explanations. Look at this description of sati and samadhi: Ekaggatāniddese acalabhāvena ārammaṇe tiṭṭhatīti ṭhiti. Parato padadvayaṃ upasaggavasena vaḍḍhitaṃ. Apica sampayuttadhamme ārammaṇamhi sampiṇḍetvā tiṭṭhatīti saṇṭhiti. Ārammaṇaṃ ogāhetvā anupavisitvā tiṭṭhatīti avaṭṭhiti. Kusalapakkhasmiñhi cattāro dhammā ārammaṇaṃ ogāhanti – saddhā sati samādhi paññāti. Teneva saddhā okappanāti vuttā, sati apilāpanatāti, samādhi avaṭṭhitīti, paññā pariyogāhanāti. Akusalapakkhe pana tayo dhammā ārammaṇaṃ ogāhanti – taṇhā diṭṭhi avijjāti. Teneva te oghāti vuttā. Cittekaggatā panettha na balavatī hoti. Yathā hi rajuṭṭhānaṭṭhāne udakena siñcitvā sammaṭṭhe thokameva kālaṃ rajo sannisīdati, sukkhante sukkhante puna pakatibhāvena vuṭṭhāti, evameva akusalapakkhe cittekaggatā na balavatī hoti. Yathā pana tasmiṃ ṭhāne ghaṭehi udakaṃ āsiñcitvā kudālena khanitvā ākoṭanamaddanaghaṭṭanāni katvā upalitte ādāse viya chāyā paññāyati, vassasatātikkamepi taṃmuhuttakataṃ viya hoti, evameva kusalapakkhe cittekaggatā balavatī hoti.
For instance a recent book on Vipassana related topics by Joseph Goldstein, Mirka Knaster (link) as an example but in general a theory found in the more popular books "on mindfulness".
In this particular section of the commentary on the Mahaniddesa (The Kamasuttavannana section) we can find many interesting thoughts on concentration meditation.
Have a look at this post: "Background noise in the jhanas". Like sitting on a stone in a river, the jhana experience is not digital but rather analog: The river (of the senses) still does exist and so also the "contamination" or level of purity of the jhana depends on many factors, including (mainly) the "roughness" of the sense stream, the "aloofness" of the rock.
If you like to read more about manasikāra vs. amanasikāra and how it has to do with "keeping something in your mind", have a look at this recent post (http://theravadin.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/yoniso-manasi-karotha/).
āsavānaṃ khayañāṇāya cittaṃ abhininnāmesiṃ MN, PTS 1.22 et al.
yampicchaṃ na labhati tampi dukkhaṃ, saṅkhittena pañcupādānakkhandhā dukkhā. DN, PTS. 2.305 – Katame ca, bhikkhave, saṅkhittena pañcupādānakkhandhā dukkhā? Seyyathidaṃ – rūpupādānakkhandho, vedanupādānakkhandho, saññupādānakkhandho, saṅkhārupādānakkhandho, viññāṇupādānakkhandho.
various places all over the canon, especially frequent in the Saṃyutta Nikāya but anytime the Buddha describes the practice of the final steps towards Nirvana.
A sutta which beautifully discusses and explains that and, IMHO cuts through any attempt of scholastically solidifying these pragmatic concepts was discussed here, in an older post: Ingredients of insight progress.
Paññavā hoti, udayatthagāminiyā paññāya samannāgato, ariyāya nibbedhikāya sammā dukkhakkhayagāminiyā. Evaṃ kho, mahānāma, ariyasāvako sattahi saddhammehi samannāgato hoti.


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The climate crisis: "Yes, we should be scared."
What will it take for popular opinion to catch up with the terrifying science? We talk to Canada's top climate change experts.
By John Geddes July 11, 2019
From sea to sea to sea, Canadians face destructive and mercurial weather, including storm surges like this one clobbering P.E.I.'s Oyster Bed Bridge (Don Jardine)
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At first there's only the blue of the sea divided from the green of the countryside by an emblematic stripe of red sand beach. Then, right on cue, a lobster boat moseys into the frame, heading homeward to nearby Savage Harbour, P.E.I., with the morning's haul. It's just Prince Edward Island doing its job—delivering the sweet illusion that here, at least, everything remains just the way it's always been.
Taking in the postcard scene is Adam Fenech, director of the University of Prince Edward Island Climate Lab, in shorts and sunglasses, nursing his Tim Hortons. He recognizes the boat as belonging to Roy Coffin, a fisherman who has agreed to meet us here. No hurry, naturally. The island lulls more than a million visitors a year into briefly believing that their smartphone alerts matter less than the timeless rhythms of fishing, farming and another summer run of Anne of Green Gables: The Musical in Charlottetown.
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Yet Fenech is here precisely to obsess over change. Since he took up his post at UPEI seven years ago, after a long career studying climate in the federal government, he has drawn increasing attention to our tiniest province as a sort of laboratory for what the planet's warming, rising oceans portend.
For instance, the sea ice, which has always buffered P.E.I.'s soft sandstone against rough winter weather, has shifted to arriving months later, and lasting not as long, thus exposing the coast more often to the full brunt of seasonal storms. Fenech's team guides camera-equipped drones over the island's perimeter, meticulously monitoring the vulnerable shorelines being chomped away by the waves.
At the very spot he's standing, enough dry land has been lost to erase cherished cottage lots. Red boulders were recently dumped along the shore as a bulwark against further theft of vacation property. Fenech nods toward the red dirt road that skirts the beach. "That road has been wiped out once, wiped out twice, then a few more times—we better do something about that," he says. "Nature is convincing people who haven't thought about climate change that they need to plan for the future."
Coffin, 55, doesn't need persuading. Having tied up his boat, he drives over our way for a matter-of-fact chat out the window of his pickup about the unease fishermen feel about changing waters. They all recognize it, Coffin says, and he gladly co-operates with Fenech's researchers. "With today's technology," he adds, "it would be negligent for us to not look into what's going on, to just say, 'It's cyclic.' "
He knows it's not. Coffin has been fishing full-time for 25 years. Sure, the island has been enjoying bumper lobster harvests. In fact, Fenech predicted as much a few years ago: the crustaceans favour warmer waters, up to a point. But he warns that still more warming—which is inexorably happening—will likely push their prime habitat further north.
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Variations on that story abound in P.E.I., and elsewhere in Canada, too. A notch warmer isn't unwelcome, but where does it all end? Tourists have flocked here in record numbers during recent hotter, drier summers. The changing growing season is better for certain crops, like vinifera grapes that didn't used to thrive on the island.
Still, farmers are worried. Rising average temperatures and less rain in July and August aren't ideal for P.E.I.'s famous potatoes, and the need to conserve groundwater makes irrigating an untenable solution. At the same time, wetter falls have made harvesting harder, at times impossible, as heavy machines bog down in soggy fields.
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Ray Keenan, 69, is a big-time potato grower who carries himself with an air of pragmatism. "Climate change were two words that came into our vocabulary in the last few years that could be not very well understood," Keenan says. "We can't change the weather, but we can change the way we deal with the weather." So he welcomes Fenech's students flying their drones over his farm and studying how his fields respond to heavier autumn rains. "We had acres we could not harvest last fall because they were too wet," he says. "Never were before—never happened."
The island's historic lighthouses have become almost literal beacons of climate change danger. Fenech says 28 of them, perched on crumbling shores, are at risk. The lighthouse at Wood Islands had to be moved in 2009, the one at Cape Bear in 2014. A recent federal report projects up to a one-metre rise in sea levels this century, which Fenech says would make many P.E.I. roads, bridges, causeways and buildings just as vulnerable. A two-metre rise—not at all far-fetched unless the world somehow comes to grips with climate change—slices P.E.I. into three islands.
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Still, all the islanders Fenech introduced me to were can-do sorts, talking up possible adaptations. He is much the same. Fenech grew up in Toronto, studied and built his climatologist credentials there, moving only in middle age to accept his current university post. Clearly besotted with P.E.I., he says he's here to stay.
There's another level to his patter, though, like a treacherous current beneath gentle waves. It surfaces when he widens his field of vision from P.E.I. to polar sea ice receding, ice over Greenland melting. More destructive hurricanes, more intense forest fires. Punishing drought this spring in India, another heat wave baking Europe.
Asked what message he aims to convey, he laughs and says, "I really am a positive person, but I have been called Dr. Doom recently." He adds that "every single scientific journal" he's assigned his students to read lately points to a coming climate catastrophe, generally by around the year 2050.
All of the troubling developments he rattles off were predicted by researchers in his field, he says, although they're often coming to pass sooner than expected. "All of these things point in the 'I told you so' direction," he says. "But we don't like to be right."
The climate change debate is often cast as a clash between alarmist experts and skeptical average folks. That's not how it feels in P.E.I., where local experience and peer-reviewed research are mutually reinforcing. But is that convergence unique to a low sandstone island exposed to the elements, or is the perspective an early indicator of how public awareness might scale up all over?
With climate change emerging as a possible defining issue for this fall's federal election campaign, Maclean's sought out some of the most committed experts—a climate modeller, a doctor, an economist, even an election strategist. They're all desperately hoping that a willingness to face this challenge—the attitude Fenech claims he finds all over P.E.I.—is about to spread across the country.
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For the basics on how we really understand climate change, Greg Flato, a senior scientist at the federal Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria, is a good guy to ask. Flato, 58, started out more than a quarter-century ago studying Arctic ice. His initial interest was in what he calls "operational issues," like shipping in far northern sea lanes.
But worry about global warming was taking hold back then. In 1988, NASA climatologist James Hansen delivered his wake-up-call testimony on the greenhouse effect to a U.S. senate committee. By the early 1990s, Flato was helping build the Canadian government's model for simulating past climate variations and projecting future change, then one of only a handful like it scattered around North American and European research institutes.
In those pioneering years, he says, the models were only about the atmosphere. A typical experiment might try to test how much the planet would warm if carbon dioxide levels, mainly from burning fossil fuels, doubled over a given period. That now looks simplistic. The models have grown progressively more elaborate. Crucially, they allow for the capacity of oceans to sequester carbon.
Then there's Flato's specialty, ice. Models must account for how, as polar ice recedes, darker seas and land masses are exposed, which amplifies warming. Flato says the mechanism is familiar to any Canadian who's watched backyard snow shrink in spring. "The snow starts to melt, exposing dark ground underneath it, that dark ground underneath it absorbs sunlight, warms up, causes more snow to melt, which exposes more dark ground, which causes more warming, which causes more melting," he explains.
Today's climate models—including the huge program Flato's centre puts through its paces on a federal supercomputer just outside Montreal—encompass the atmosphere and oceans, land masses and living systems. Flato is a vice-chair of Working Group 1 of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the group tasked with assessing the physical science behind the IPCC's authoritative findings.
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That includes the IPCC's latest report, released last October. In case you missed it, a brief review: terrifying. It warns that unless humanity cuts back drastically on burning fossil fuels—what's being called "deep decarbonization"—coasts will be inundated, forest fires will grow more insatiable, droughts and the resulting hunger will spread dangerously, coral reefs will fade to white, and much more.
All this will happen by 2040, which is, when you think about it, tomorrow. Some warming is already irreversible. To avoid far worse, serious steps must be taken—fast. For example, the IPCC says coal-fired generation needs to all but cease by mid-century; it now accounts for about 40 per cent of the world's electricity.
Despite all this, Flato resists being prodded by a reporter into apocalyptic talk, maintaining a contemplative tone. Skeptics scoff at models like his. Some vilify the IPCC as a sort of leftist scheme. Others might claim to accept the science, yet wave off pleas for deep decarbonization as crazy talk.
Flato knows all this, but the closest he comes to agitated is to muse on inadequate public education, saying, "I don't think we—and I don't even know who the 'we' is, whether it's the scientific community, the scientific community plus the media, the scientific community plus the educational system—but we somehow have not done a very good job of educating the general public."
From her home in Nunavik, Watt-Cloutier emphasizes the human impacts of global warming (Photograph by Isabelle Dubois)
Sheila Watt-Cloutier agrees that educating the public has far lagged mounting evidence of the danger at hand. She can't be faulted for not trying. Back in the mid-1990s, around the time Flato's modelling was taking off, Watt-Cloutier was starting a long run as president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council. At first, she campaigned to ban persistent pollutants like PCBs, which had found their way into the traditional Inuit diet.
But she soon turned to global warming, an even more fundamental threat to the old ways based on hunting on the sea ice (now alarmingly diminished) and a landscape defined by permafrost (not so perma, it turns out). She called her 2015 book, a combination of memoir and manifesto, The Right to Be Cold—the title capturing her argument that combatting climate change should be recast as a human rights imperative.
Watt-Cloutier is in demand. She recently addressed a hipster crowd in Paris on climate change before a techno concert. When she spoke to me by phone, though, it was from her two-bedroom house in Kuujjuaq, in Quebec's far north, near where she was born in 1953 into a family that still travelled by dogsled. Asked about the place, she emails a phone picture taken from her front window. The black spruces and tamaracks along the Kuujjuaq River are lusher than when she was a kid. "The roots are able to go deeper," she explains, "because of the permafrost melting."
Stories about the Arctic have disproportionately dominated the climate change conversation. Warming is happening faster there, and the immediate implications are more apparent. It's amplified Watt-Cloutier's voice. Yet she has misgivings about the way her home latitudes have been used, especially those iconic images of polar bears on precarious-looking floes. "It's really raw, deep human issues that we're dealing with here," she says. "It's not just about polar bears, it's not just about the ice, although those are really important, of course."
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She contends that focusing on how climate change threatens the Inuit way of life now is a better way of hammering home the warning that it will menace the rest of us later. Or sooner. Recent years of awful forest fires, floods, droughts, hurricanes and tornados seem to be doing what polar bear images couldn't for public opinion. "They're starting to see a human, personal connection to the breakdown of the cooling system, which is the Arctic's ice and Greenland's ice sheet," Watt-Cloutier says.
Connections don't get more human and personal than at a kid's birthday party. Dr. Courtney Howard will never forget her daughter's first. It was during 2014's "Summer of Smoke" in Yellowknife, where she is an emergency doctor, when a staggering 3.4 million hectares of forest burned across the Northwest Territories.
Howard and her husband, a pediatrician, had planned the party for kids and parents in a park. When the day rolled around, however, the Air Quality Health Index, a 1-10 scale, rated Yellowknife's air at 10, the level deemed a "high health risk" by the federal government.
They went ahead and threw the party outside anyway, despite the smoke and fine particulate. "We'd been inside for almost a month and a half by that point," Howard says, adding that "cabin fever" brought on by weeks of avoiding the smoky air outside had grown oppressive. Not that she took the decision lightly. Over eight years practising in Yellowknife, Howard, 40, who grew up in Vancouver, has made the health hazards brought by climate change her cause.
She has researched the risks associated with forest fires made more frequent and ferocious by hotter, drier weather. She credits Indigenous patients and advisers to her hospital with teaching her about how warming means declining caribou herds to hunt, less reliable winter ice roads to drive on. She mentions that Yellowknife's annual Snowking Winter Festival, which runs through March, had to be cancelled mid-month this year when the king's snow castle melted.
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Howard was the lead author of a 2018 climate change briefing for Canadian policy-makers produced by The Lancet, the prestigious British medical journal. As president of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, she aims to leverage the credibility edge that health professionals enjoy over, say, politicians and economists.
The bedside manner she brings to the issue isn't exactly calming. "Essentially," she says, "the message from the health community is climate change is the greatest health issue of our time." That's not just about Canada, of course. Like every expert I interviewed, Howard eventually gets around to pointing out that the implications for the developing world are far more extreme.
She's worked with Médecins Sans Frontières on the danger climate change brings to countries already strained by political instability and poverty. "When you look at the increased potential for drought and for famine, and you know when people are hungry or their kids are hungry they'll do almost anything, so they may move, and other people might not like that, there's potential for conflict and essentially failed states."
Her prescription? "We need to acknowledge that we can't adapt to where we're going," she says, her voice getting more insistent the longer she stays on the phone outside the ER in Yellowknife, "and therefore we need to mitigate urgently."
Adaptation means trying to adjust to change, like dumping a load of boulders along a P.E.I. beach. Mitigation means trying to slow the change itself, mainly by reducing the fossil-fuel burning that pumps heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The fiercest battles on climate change in Canada have been about taxing carbon, and no Canadian political strategist carries more scars from those fights than Andrew Bevan.
Back in 2008, Bevan was Stéphane Dion's chief of staff when the then-Liberal leader ran on his "Green Shift" platform—a daring pitch to offset a new carbon tax with equal tax cuts and credits—in that year's campaign to oust Stephen Harper's ruling Conservatives. A decade later, Bevan was Kathleen Wynne's chief of staff when the then-Liberal premier of Ontario ran for re-election, defending her cap-and-trade policy for pricing carbon against Conservative Doug Ford's vow to scrap it.
Harper labelled the Green Shift "Dion's tax on everything." Ford slammed Wynne's carbon-pricing system as "a tax grab that made everything more expensive." Dion and Wynne both lost badly. Bevan says pricing carbon wasn't the definitive factor in either election. No doubt he's got a point. Still, those outcomes—reinforced by a string of other provincial elections recently won by anti-carbon-tax Conservatives—sure don't make it look like an easy sell on the hustings.
Over a morning cup of tea in a downtown Toronto restaurant, Bevan mulls over the gap between the expert consensus that carbon taxes make sense, and the uncertainty of political pros about how to sell the idea. Between Dion and Wynne, he was executive director of an environmental think tank at the University of Ottawa. "I spent almost three years, purposely and with intent, trying to figure out, firstly, what the right policy frameworks are, and, secondly, what the right communication frame was," Bevan says. "The first is easier than the second."
READ MORE: Andrew Scheer's cold, hard climate change calculus
Taxing carbon pushes industry and individuals to figure out the cheapest ways to burn less fossil fuel, or switch to renewable alternatives. How high must the tax be to do the trick? The Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates $102 per tonne of emissions would achieve the cuts Canada committed to at the UN's Paris climate conference in 2015. Right now, Ottawa's controversial carbon tax stands at $20 per tonne, and is slated to climb to $50 by 2022.
And Environment Minister Catherine McKenna recently said the Liberals don't plan to push it higher, signalling that they're worried about what voters will tolerate. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer promises to scrap the tax and substitute his own suspiciously vague plan to require big industrial emitters to invest unspecified amounts in green innovation if their emissions exceed unquantified levels.
It has the makings of a defensive, evasive, unedifying campaign clash. Bevan is no stranger to tactical, measured messaging. On climate change, though, he wonders if a less conventional approach might be needed from parties and governments that genuinely favour action. "Most of those people—most of us—have been trying to propose sensible solutions in a pragmatic way," he says. "Maybe there's a mistake in saying, 'Look, we can get this right if we do X, Y and Z.' Maybe you actually do have to instill some more fear and panic."
All the noisy, divisive attention lavished on carbon taxes drives Mark Jaccard up the wall. It's not that the Simon Fraser University professor doesn't think they can work. Jaccard, 63, even helped design British Columbia's widely praised carbon tax, brought in by then-premier Gordon Campbell in 2008. It's often held up internationally as proof carbon taxes can cut emissions without crimping economic growth.
But Jaccard emphasizes that Campbell's far less celebrated regulations on generating electricity delivered three times the emissions cuts of his carbon tax. And that former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty's phase-out of coal generation delivered Canada's biggest cuts to date. And that California is leading the way with regulations that require more zero-emissions vehicles and more renewable power.
In all this, his point is that carbon taxes, even if they make more sense from the perspective of pure economic theory, are not essential. As well, they're an easy target for the politicians he accuses of "climate-insincere lying." (He specifically asks for that phrase to be quoted.)
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Jaccard is far more enthusiastic about McKenna's outward-looking strategy for getting rid of coal. Most Canadians, who can't have missed all the war of words over carbon taxes, haven't even heard of the Powering Past Coal Alliance. Launched by Canada and Britain in 2017, the alliance now has 30 countries signed up to phase out coal power. "It's the answer," Jaccard says, "to the Conservative who says, 'We're only a small part of the solution, so we shouldn't do anything.' "
He's referring to the familiar argument—among Scheer's top talking points—that since Canada accounts for less than two per cent of global carbon emissions, what we do domestically hardly counts. Jaccard argues any serious policy should be sold to Canadian voters on its chances of influencing international action. "I don't hear enough in our discourse, whether it's from Elizabeth May or the NDP or the Liberals or environmental advocates, of being clear with Canadians: we are doing this because it has the highest chance of global spillover," he says.
Once those spillovers start becoming clearer, Jaccard thinks what must be done, while still daunting, won't look so intimidatingly complicated. (He makes that case in his upcoming book, A Citizen's Guide to Climate Success, slated for publication late this year by Cambridge University Press.) "We need to get to an era where the production of electricity is at very low emissions, and we're not using gasoline in our cars and diesel in our trucks," he sums up. "If I go even a little further, I'd say and not natural gas in our buildings. And then we're there."
But "there" can seem a long way off.
After driving me around P.E.I. to meet locals concerned about the shoreline, the soil and the sea, Fenech circles back to his cluttered professor's office. He opens a presentation on his desktop computer screen. I take notes. P.E.I.'s shores eroded 28 cm a year on average from 1968 to 2010. Some 1,000 homes and 126 bridges are at risk.
It's late in the day, and we've gotten a lot of sun. Seeing my attention waning, he pulls out his phone, finds something, and hands it to me. I expect more data, maybe an aerial drone photo. But it's his three adult children, 19, 23 and 27, dressed up and smiling. They've got a lot more decades of climate change to live through. "Now, the positive side of me says humans will always adapt," Fenech says. But for once he doesn't sound so positive.
Politicians habitually mention how they're doing it all for their kids. It's not something policy wonks often bring up. Except on climate change. Howard, of course, has the story about her daughter's first birthday. Watt-Cloutier states, rather abruptly while explaining her advocacy strategy, "I'm a mother and a grandmother," evidently feeling that needs saying, and perhaps it does.
In interviews on this topic, I've come to await the moment. Occasionally a nudge is needed, but not more than that. Bevan has a reticent quality, so I ask outright if fatherhood comes into his thinking on climate change. "I know my kids are fearful; I talk with them about it," he says. "It doesn't mean I panic, because you have to get this right, here and globally. But, boy oh boy, yes, we should be scared."
Flato brings a modeller's long view to contemplating his 22-year-old son's future. "He will potentially see the year 2100. He would be 103 years old, but by 2100 maybe that's not so unusual," he says. "Even if he doesn't live to be 100, he will live to see near the end of the 21st century. And when I look at the projected changes in climate associated with high-emissions scenarios, that is worrisome. It's a world that looks very different from the world that I grew up in."
The official campaign running up to the federal vote scheduled for Oct. 21 will last a mere 50 days at most. The next fixed election date will be set for just four years later. Any parent's hopes—for decades of security at a minimum, maybe a century—extend way beyond those compressed political timelines. Unless we slow down to squint into the distance—something like the mental downshifting P.E.I. induces—solving climate change will remain beyond us. It's not hard to find teachers with vital lessons to offer on this extreme challenge from every angle, but there's no sign yet that we're ready to pass the test.
This article appears in print in the August 2019 issue of Maclean's magazine with the headline, "'Yes, we should be scared.'" Subscribe to the monthly print magazine here.
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Law's XI includes a galaxy of superstars.
Windies coach, Stuart Law has picked up some of the all-time great cricketers in his recently release all-time XI. Law will step down from his coaching role with the Windies cricket team post their series against India in October.
In a video feature with Lord's Cricket Ground, Stuart Law revealed that his all-time XI which includes India's greatest players Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag. The latter would obviously open the batting, while the Little Master finds himself at no.5 in Law's team.
"Opening batsmen for me – Virender Sehwag and Matthew Hayden. Viru for his sheer audacity and strokeplay, and Matthew Hayden, just the size of the man, imposes himself on the opposition," Law said.
His middle order consists of names like Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Brian Lara who have been batting stalwarts for their respective countries.
Other notable figures who feature in Law's all-time XI are England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, Pakistan left-arm pacer Wasim Akram, and two more Australian heroes Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. West Indies great Curtly Ambrose is the fourth pacer in the side, while Adam Gilchrist takes up the wicket-keeping duties.


TORONTO — A move by Royal Bank to slightly decrease a number of fixed mortgage rates may prompt other banks to follow suit, but such changes shouldn't be a major consideration for home buyers, mortgage experts said Monday.
"From a mortgage broker's perspective and probably from a lot of homeowners' perspective, the real question is not necessarily interest rates," said Jason Scott, a mortgage broker with The Mortgage Group in Edmonton.
RBC quietly lowered its rates on several fixed-rate mortgages by 10 basis points over the weekend, bringing its five-year closed rate to 3.69 per cent.
It was a small drop to the discounted rate offered by the bank until the end of the month, but one that went against the general trend of rising rates. It also came about two weeks after Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz spoke in an interview about the likelihood of rising long-term fixed rates.
To Scott, however, a small change in rates isn't likely to have a huge impact on buyers at a time when rates are already so low, with fixed-rate, five-year mortgages (a popular choice for homeowners) hovering around about 3.5 per cent and variable mortgage rates (a floating rate based on prime) around 2.5 per cent.
"At the end of the day, whether rates move a decimal one per cent or a quarter of a per cent, the reality is that, from a historical perspective, we're in a low-rate environment," said Scott.
Andrew Bodnar, a real estate salesman with Re/Max Condos Plus Corp. brokerage in Toronto, said the government already tightened regulations around qualifications for mortgages earlier this year, adding he would be surprised to see any dramatic moves in interest rates.
"It's fairly steady right now, and there are natural forces of supply and demand going on," Bodnar said.
While a push to lower rates by other big lenders is possible, especially as they compete for mortgages going into the important spring real estate season, the weekend change simply brings RBC closer to those already being offered by some other lenders.
Scotiabank already has a lower discounted rate of 3.59 per cent for fixed, five-year mortgages, while CIBC and TD Bank are at 3.79 per cent and the Bank of Montreal is at 3.89 per cent.
Other mortgage lenders, such as Dominion Lending Centres, offer a rate of 3.25, according to RateHub.ca.
RBC said in an email Monday that it lowered mortgage rates to match competitor pricing.
"Competitors have been pricing at lower rates for several weeks, and this rate change now puts us in line," the bank said.
In the end, Scott said, homeowners trying to get a sense of how rates will impact their mortgage payments would be better served by keeping an eye on the strength of the U.S. economy and changes in bond markets.
"In the grand scheme of things, minor variations of interest rates are not that critical," he said.


Happy New Year. Hope it's not our last!
Sorry for the gibe, keeping seeing blurbs about Mayan prophecies. Hope everyone had a good New Year celebration. My wife and I brought it in playing games with neighbors and eating pancakes and bacon after the clock turned.
Like most folks, I took the time to take inventory for the year. 2011 was a great year for the studio of one on the prairie. I'm grateful for all the projects that came along and I made a lot of progress leaning python as well. In terms of projects the highlight of the year was definitely the Nintendo E3 project though there was a close one the last couple of months that I'll be able to add to the reel sometime towards the end of the year if schedules go according to plan.
Oh, and whatever projects come along a well:) Wish I could find away to make money just making stuff for other people but not found a way to do it. Yet.
Blessings on you and yours for the new year.


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Health & Wellness - September 2013 Archives
Parkinson's Blood Test May Reveal Disease Progression
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By Dennis Douda • September 18, 2013
Root Cause of Multiple Myeloma Relapse Revealed
Collaborating with colleagues at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto, researchers from Mayo Clinic in Arizona and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) in Phoenix ...
By Dana Sparks • September 18, 2013
Mayo Clinic Receives $8.8 Million Federal Grant for Metabolomics Center
Mayo Clinic is one of six new federally-funded Comprehensive Metabolomics (met-ah-bol-OH-mics) Centers to support medical research on metabolomics — the study, at the cellular level, ...
Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome Can Lead to Heart Failure (pkg)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kIFRjqaORQ The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics are alarming. More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. Obesity can increase ...
Mayo Clinic Hosts NIH Genomics Director at Individualizing Medicine Conference
"From Promise to Practice" is the title and the main message of the second annual Individualizing Medicine Conference at Mayo Clinic, Sept. 30-Oct. 2. Richard Weinshilboum, M.D., chair of this year's conference held by Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine, says, "Our goal is to inform practicing physicians, but other care providers, students, media and the public as well. Individualizing prevention, diagnosis and treatment is the core of medical genomics and the future of medicine. Even if you missed the last 13 years since the mapping of the human genome, we'll help you catch up in three days." The opening keynote speaker on Monday, Sept. 30, will be Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, M.D. Co-hosts for the conference will be Richard Besser, M.D., chief health and medical editor for ABC News and former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control, and Ceci Connolly, managing director of the PwC's Health Research Institute. Read news release.
Parkinsonism – Different than Parkinson's Disease
Study of Parkinsonism Offers Better Estimate of Its Rate of Occurrence More than a million Americans are struggling with Parkinson's disease. But, parkinsonism may not ...
Mayo Clinic certificó un producto para termogénesis por actividad sin ejercicio
ROCHESTER, Minnesota - 17 de septiembre de 2013. Los productos que sirven para motivar a una persona y seguir la pista de aquellas actividades que ...
By Soledad Andrade • September 17, 2013
Mayo Clinic celebra al milésimo paciente de implante coclear
Un experto explica cómo funcionan los implantes y quiénes califican ROCHESTER, Minnesota - 17 de septiembre de 2013. Durante más de 30 años, los implantes cocleares han ...
Celebrating 1,000th Patient to Get Cochlear Implant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLkbcz_Pm_M&feature=youtu.be For more than 30 years, cochlear implants have been making a profound impact in the lives of deaf or severely hard of hearing children and adults by restoring their ability to hear. The program at Mayo Clinic was one of the earliest in the country to offer cochlear implants to patients when they were first approved. This month, surgeons at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota performed surgery on their 1,000th cochlear implant patient. The patient, a 44-year-old man from northern Minnesota, lost his hearing more than three months ago due to a medical condition; this week, he was able to hear sounds once again. Otolaryngologist Colin Driscoll, M.D., says, "I think it might be impossible to overstate the profound impact that these devices have on people. The first day you turn it on everyone is emotional. It's a scary time sometimes, but it's also an exciting time." Read news release. Journalists: Sound bites with Dr. Driscoll and the 1,000 patient, Ritchie Hanson, are available in the downloads. B-roll and animations are also available.
First Mayo Clinic Care Network Member in Wisconsin
ThedaCare is the newest member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, giving ThedaCare specialist physicians direct access to Mayo Clinic experts and clinical resources, including eConsults and AskMayoExpert. These tools, among others, will enhance the support available to manage complex patient care. ThedaCare is the first member located in the state of Wisconsin. Bill Fletcher, M.D., ThedaCare cardiologist and physician champion for the collaboration, sees many benefits to membership in the network and says, "My colleagues and I provide excellent care here in the Fox Valley, but sometimes we are challenged with complex cases that could benefit from additional expertise. This network puts us in direct contact with peers, specialists and researchers at Mayo Clinic. They can review our diagnosis and offer us advice. Our patients can stay at home and receive care locally with even greater peace of mind, knowing that our physicians are working together on their behalf. Of course, they will also save the added cost and inconvenience of traveling out of the area unless that is really needed." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1O6UWETG6g Read news release. Broll of the Mayo Clinic Rochester Campus as well as sound bites from Dr. David Hayes, medical director, Mayo Clinic Care Network, Dr. Dean Gruner, president and CEO, ThedaCare and Dr. Bill Fletcher, ThedaCare cardiologist, are available in the downloads below.
TUESDAY Q & A: Talk with your doctor about risks and benefits of daily aspirin
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: Should I be taking a daily aspirin even if I've never had heart issues? I am a 62-year-old woman with no health problems, and I exercise daily. My husband takes an aspirin every day and thinks I should do the same. ANSWER: For people who do not have heart disease, the United States Preventive Services Task Force does recommend that men between the ages of 45 and 79 and women ages 55 to 79 take an aspirin every day to help prevent heart attack and stroke. Before you start taking a daily aspirin, though, it is a good idea to talk to your doctor to make sure that choice is right for you. Taking aspirin can lower your risk of a heart attack or stroke because of the way aspirin affects the clotting cells in your blood, called platelets. When your body is injured and bleeds, platelets build up at the site of the injury. They form a plug that stops the bleeding.
'Ick' Factor Aside, Mayo Clinic Study Finds Fecal Transplants Effective
A simple treatment that involves transplanting healthy feces into a patient suffering from a debilitating and sometimes deadly infection of the colon called Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, is continuing to show significant promise. Called a fecal transplant, the stool of a healthy patient is directly transplanted into the colon of a C. diff patient to replenish the normal bacteria in the colon. Researchers at Mayo Clinic in Arizona reported their findings in the August 2013 edition of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Read news release. Journalists: Sound bites with gastroenterologist John DiBaise, M.D., and patient Diane Seegers are available in the downloads. http://youtu.be/ub0zFn-iVBU
Flu Vaccines – Changes & Choices for 2013
Allergic to eggs? There's now an influenza vaccination just for you. Fearful of needles? It won't stop you from getting the flu vaccine. The next flu shot season will bring several new vaccine options for consumers, and Mayo Clinic vaccine expert Gregory Poland, M.D., says patients need not feel bewildered. The new choices move influenza vaccinations closer to the personalized approach long sought by immunologists, including Dr. Poland. Click here for news release. Journalists: Sound bites with Dr. Poland (POE-lund) are available in the downloads. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXYxyrbFmLM&feature=youtu.be&hd=1
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hi i wasnt sure what forum to post in but i am wondering if anyone can help. my husband (us citizen )and i just had a baby in january and want to get his passport. is this something we can do if i dont have a greencard yet?
Where is the baby right now?
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i looked up and it says both parents have to give id, i only have UK ID right now, does this matter?
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