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TV Sport guides for tennis
It can be hard to keep oneself up to date with all the different tennis tournaments and matches all over the globe. You can either visit each of the tournaments individual websites for the latest scheduled games or use any of the various websites specializing in sport schedules such as LiveSportsOnTV.com. There are of course several more of these types of sites but this is the one that we've been using recently and therefore highly recommend.
TV sportguides for all tennis tournaments
The tennis season stretches more or less throughout the whole year and it can be nearly impossible to find and look up the correct information on which live streaming platforms that are showing the next tournament. With either the ATP or WTA tour running each and every weekend it's a massive task to stay up to date with the latest broadcasting information in order to not miss out on any of the big events. Thankfully, there's an easy solution to all this and since we've started to use TV sport guides, there hasn't been a single tennis tournament going under our radar.
TV sport guides are exactly what it sounds like, namely a TV-guide providing you with the latest information on where to watch upcoming sporting events on TV or streaming. While tennis is not the only sport that is supported on these platforms, it's what made our eyes fall on this useful programming schedule. Most of these lets you toggle between dozens of tennis tournaments up to several days ahead of time. Using one of the more renowned TV sport guides usually there is no tournament too small or too big to get included in the TV-guide and it provides you with both ATP, WTA and a selection of Challenger tournaments.
The range of channels and streams included in the TV-guides are endless. With usually both national and regional broadcasters in its selection, this service guarantees you to not miss out on any of the upcoming tournaments. In order to make the users' life easier, there's also often a function allowing you to mark up your favorite leagues and tournaments which gives you even faster access to the information you're looking for.
ATP and WTA Season 2023
The new year starts in big fashion as the first of four Grand Slam tournaments begin only a few days into 2023. The Australian Open is always a special event with huge crowds traveling to Melbourne in order to see some of the best players. On the men's side, Novak Djokovic is favorite to win the tournament, followed by Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev. The women's side is, as usual, dominated by the polish superstar Iga Swiatek who's aiming for her fourth Grand Slam trophy, though her first in the Australian Open. Watch the Australian Open, beginning on January 16, with TV sport guides as your friend in crime providing you with all the information you need in order to find out which channels and streams that are covering live.
After the Australian Open the tennis season of 2023 will continue with a number of highly interesting tournaments during the early months of the new year. The second Grand Slam of the year, French Open, starts later in May and after that we have a summer full of world class tennis tournaments.
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James Ihedigbo's cell phone rings, but he doesn't pick it up. He recognizes the number, and it's a friendly one, but he has other things on his mind.
That was nearly three weeks ago, and the caller on the other end was Milford football coach Tom Cullen, Ihedigbo's high school coach at Amherst Regional. But the Patriots safety was busy preparing for the option offense of the Denver Broncos.
If he had answered, he would have gotten some tips on how to play against Tim Tebow.
"I'll say, like when they played Denver, I give him my perspective – you gotta take that slant away from Tebow," Cullen said. "We talk some football, we talk some family stuff. The conversations are in the present. We don't talk too much about the high school stuff. That was 10 years ago. He's a man now."
Ihedigbo is more than a decade older than when he first entered Amherst Regional in 1999, and looks it too. Ihedigbo was a scrawny 135 pounds when he started playing for the Hurricanes. Now in his fifth NFL season, he's listed at 215 pounds and with a chance to win his first Super Bowl on Sunday.
Ihedigbo has had to earn his place every step of the journey to Indianapolis, though. He walked on at UMass, which he credits to Cullen calling college coaches on his behalf, then went undrafted by the NFL. He signed with the Jets and played four seasons there before joining the Patriots in training camp last summer.
"Coach Cullen … has a lot to do with believing in me when I was 135 pounds as a sophomore playing football," Ihedigbo said. "He said, 'Hey, I want you playing.' He had faith in me that I could play at the next level, and telling college coaches that I could do that. He's still part of my life for that reason."
"He's a very confident kid," Cullen said. "I think he knew and I knew that he would make the team. He just wanted an opportunity and that's what he got. I can't say enough good things about the kid."
Cullen represents more than just the first coach to give him a chance. When Ihedigbo's father, Apollos, died of kidney failure when James was a senior at Amherst, Cullen became closer to the whole Ihedigbo clan.
"He definitely was [like a part of the family]," Ihedigbo said. "After my dad passed away my senior year of high school, he was there for me every single time. After that, I could talk to him about everything. That meant a lot to me."
Ihedigbo was a two-time all-Western Mass. player at Amherst. His skills were always obvious, as was the desire. Cullen liked to use him close to the line of scrimmage, taking advantage of his physical play.
Cullen says he could talk just football with Ihedigbo, much more than his other players.
And besides Jim Pyne – who played at Milford in the 1980s when Cullen was a Scarlet Hawks assistant – Ihedigbo is the only player Cullen's coached who's made it to the NFL.
"He's one of those guys you could do [different] things with," Cullen said. "He was a safety, but not a lot of teams throw the ball [in high school] so you could put him in the box. He didn't care who you were, he'd always pump out his chest and take you on. I think that's why he's in the NFL. He has that attitude.
"You have to be that way. Some people would call it cockiness, I call it confidence."
Cullen – who left Amherst in 2004 and has been the head coach at Milford since 2008 – has no plans of going to Indianapolis. He'll be sitting at home, watching the once 135-pounder play on the game's biggest stage.
"He's a leader on that team, and he's only been there one year," the coach said. "He's very vocal, he's proven himself, he belongs. I know he's going to do everything to get that ring now. You get one of those and you can talk a lot of crap for a long time."
(Dan Cagen is a Daily News staff writer. He can be reached at 508-626-3848 or dcagen@wickedlocal.com.)

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Formal complaint filed against Vasquez over Facebook posts
LAS CRUCES - A community activist has filed a formal complaint against Doña Ana County Commissioner John Vasquez, alleging he violated county code-of-conduct rules last month following a widely condemned social media outburst.
The complaint against Vasquez, the District 5 commissioner, stems from several posts on his personal Facebook page that were directed at Johana Bencomo, a community organizer for NM CAFè, on Jan. 18.
"I tried to engage Commissioner Vasquez in a conversation based on a Facebook post made on his public profile," Bencomo wrote in the complaint, which the Sun-News obtained through a public records request.
Bencomo's complaint was addressed to Commission Chairman Ben Rawson.
In the now-deleted Facebook post, Vasquez voiced displeasure against elected officials who make political endorsements. Bencomo commented on the post, pointing out that Vasquez — a Democrat who was elected to the commission in 2016 — appeared to be contradicting himself since he has endorsed gubernatorial candidate Jeff Apodaca.
"I was responding as a constituent and voter in Doña Ana County, not as a representative of an organization," Bencomo wrote in the complaint. "Commissioner Vasquez responded with false and derogatory allegations against me and my mother."
In subsequent comments, Vasquez lashed out against Bencomo, falsely alleging her mother had sought an endorsement from him and had asked him for "really wierd (sic) favors." He also used the word "ghetto" to describe Bencomo in one of his posts.
Days after the incident, Bencomo addressed Vasquez and the rest of commission during the Jan. 25 meeting. She and several others called for his resignation.
"I believe these incidents constitute a violation of the Code of Conduct because, regardless of differences of opinion between a Commissioner and a constituent, the conversation should remain civil and respectful, something the Commissioner disregarded repeatedly," she wrote in the complaint.
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She noted that the code-of-conduct rules state "elected officials are also expected to treat the public with respect, decorum, and fairness at all times."
"Commissioner Vasquez violated this in many ways, including having questioned my motives for publicly addressing my concerns," she said.
She said Vasquez's language in the Facebook posts "certainly (does) not represent the respect and decorum Doña Ana County claims to demand of our elected officials."
It was unclear what course of action Rawson will take after receiving the complaint.
The commission's next regular meeting is Feb. 13.


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A virtually Indestructible (and guaranteed) chew toy! GoughNuts toys have been designed by mechanical and polymer engineers. If your pet can chew through the outer layer to expose the inner red layer, GoughNuts will replace your toy.
The original GoughNuts toy was designed to address the simple but serious issue of SAFETY. The GoughNuts chew toys are designed knowing that safety and fun go hand in hand. Each GoughNuts pet toy has included in it's design the GoughNuts patented safety indicator where Yellow means "GoughNuts" and Red means "Stop". The GoughNut Yellow Maxx is reccomended for the extreme extreme chewer!
Sadly the the toy is now deceased. My 1 year old Staffy took just 2 evenings to get to the red core of the toy.
5.0 out of 5 starsWas skeptical, now a believer...AWESOME!
Absolutely the best dog toy that I have ever bought. No question. We have a 75 pound Staffordshire/Mastiff mix. The average lifespan of a toy in his jaws is rendered in minutes not hours. Tennis ball, 15 seconds from giving to shreds. He's shredded 2 foot long pieces of 2 x 4 lumber in less than 15 minutes.
Our boy Oberon Is content to chew on it on his own, he loves using it to play tug-of-war and it makes a great fetch stick. On pavement it even bounces randomly which gives him some extra exercise chasing it down..
Overall, I cannot recommend the Gougnut Max highly enough if you have a dog that's large and strong enough to require such a product.
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My 70lb pit bull DESTROYS EVERYTHING in about 10-20 minutes.. and I mean everything, even those Kong toys... but this Maxx50 is truly without question the best... after a full day my Dog actually got tired of trying to destroy it and now he just protects/guards it the way a cheating spouse protects/guards their cell phone(lol).. needless to say I love this thing and if my pit could speak, I'm sure he'd say the same.
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Our dog is a champion chewer to the extreme. No toy survives his jaws for more than a few hours at best. Tennis ball? Demolished in seconds. Pet store toy rated "toughest"? Five minutes, on a slow day. Plastic? Rubber? Kevlar? No match. So when I say this toy lasted five whole days before he tore off a chunk and revealed the red safety core, that really is a testament to the durability of this toy.
Are we disappointed it didn't last longer? Yes - we thought we were going too far starting him on the strongest toy, and even thought there was a chance it could last. Instead we will be giving the lifetime guarantee a try a bit early. You pay postage there and back, so in the end a replacement is about 50% of the cost of a new one on Amazon.
In spite of the cost and short time to failure, we still think this toy is a winner. From the moment the package came in the door, our dog was all over the Goughnuts. I've never seen him this excited about a toy. It was as if he were overjoyed to finally have a toy made for a dog like him. It bounced and rolled through the yard in interesting, if destructive, ways. It's a heavy toy, so be careful where you throw it. Our dog's favorite way to tell us it was time to play was to bring the Goughnuts over and drop it on our feet. Did I mention it's heavy?
If your dog is like ours and can demolish any toy in moments, you may want to keep looking or go with something less expensive. On the other hand, the Goughnuts could last for months or more with a dog less passionate about destruction. We will be giving it another try in hopes it will last a little longer this time.
One final note: somewhat inexplicably, we were shipped a ring instead of a stick. The label said stick, but stick it was not. They were the same price and the dog had already run off with it. Such is life.
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By Cane Corso's favorite toy on earth. He's 130lbs and a very powerful chewer...hasn't even put a mark on it at all. He carries this thing everywhere with him wiggling his tail the entire time he is holding it. The float feature comes in very handy for me as well. I live waterside and Ronin had dropped this into the Marina. If it didn't float, it would have been lost for good. I also like that it is rubbery and easier on the teeth. Other "indestructible" toys are usully a very hard plastic material...even though they may say it won't damage the teeth, hard chewers can still crack a tooth on those. I don't trust any of those harder toys. For my dogs, I stick primarily to large ropes and the goughnuts. I even got a small one for my pugs.
Only con, if there is one at all, is that it initially has a very strong rubber smell...VERY strong. The smell goes away little by little and to speed up the process I kept washing it everyday...which I think you should do anyway to keep it sanitary for your dog. Now, you can still smell it, but it isn't anywhere near as strong as when it was brand new.
Even with the rubber smell, I would still recommend this to anyone...strong chewer or not. I've had multiple dogs at a time, throughout my entire life(42 years) and this is by far the best chew toy I have ever found. I train dogs for a living and recommend this product to all my clients as well. Attached is a photo of Ronin with his favorite toy on earth.
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Matthew Sperling joined UCL in 2016 as Lecturer in Literature in English from 1900 to the Present Day. Before that, he was Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Reading (2012–2015) and Fellow by Special Election in English Literature at Keble College, Oxford (2009–2012). He studied at Gravesend Grammar School, earned a BA, MSt and DPhil from the University of Oxford, and was a visiting student at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 2008.
Matthew is Programme Convenor for MA English: Issues in Modern Culture.
Matthew's first novel, Astroturf, will be published by riverrun in August 2018. His fictions and poems have also been published in 3:AM, Best British Short Stories 2015, The Junket, The Literateur, the New Statesman, and elsewhere.
Matthew's scholarly research focuses on modern and contemporary literature and the history of publishing and the book. His monograph, Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words, was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. He has contributed chapters, articles and reviews to many publications, and he regularly writes about modern art for Apollo: The International Art Magazine.


PayPal's application doesn't let you interact with it unless you're logged in (for obvious reasons). It's not like a shopping cart website that let's you browse and put stuff in your cart without being logged in. In the case of PayPal, you have to be logged in to do anything associated with your account.
So, they've added a simple little feature in the form of a <select> element drop-down, that allows you to choose which area of the application you want to go to first.
I think this is a good example of something small added to the log-in process, that's not mandatory, but helps the user get things done as quickly as possible. Of course, some might argue that it might slow down first-time users, but in a case like PayPal, I think it's more important to focus on returning visitors who make up a huge amount of their traffic.
For most sites, I don't think this would be necessary. Though in a few cases I can see it being useful.
I really don't see this being useful at all, even in Paypal's case. Throwing in the select box on the login form violates users expectations. When someone logs into a website, they expect to type [username]>[tab]>[password]>[enter]. Adding the select box throws off the rhythm, whether visually, practically or both. Presenting the user with an in-app navigation element as soon as they are logged in takes the same number of clicks to get to where the user wants to go. No need to ask someone a question that they weren't expecting to answer.
I can say, however, that in my experience using PayPal, I do use that drop-down and it gives me the perception that I'm getting things done quicker. Of course, I could be wrong, but then that brings up the issue of perceived speed vs. actual page speed.
Paypal's site is pretty slow so taking that shortcut surely saves you some times.
Indeed, it is slow, but only the login process. It usually runs smooth once you login. I haven't used a single time however the little select field. Missed it until now.
Having this select box doesn't remove the [username][password] interface you've described. It defaults to my account so anyone who wants to type in their info and hit enter is free to do so.
What this does, is allow someone to go directly into their transaction list. Sure it's the same number of clicks but it's one less page load – which is good for both PayPal and the user.
Couldn't you simply set the tab order for the form items to allow for this?
Nice question, but i think that a dashboard is made for this execution. The dashboard informs the user about stuff that is interesting.
Have seen this case being used in ICICIbank website.
I do send them to main screen if users were not visiting a page before logged out or access a directly a page.
I do however like the idea, it could speed things up. Once logged in, you must navigate with your mouse if you don't want to do infinite tabs. In here, it is just another "tab" and some arrows or the first letters of your landing page, which I found quicker to do.
When I log in, I want to be taken to where I was. If I was on the home page, then you could probably take me to my account, since it should be really easy to get back to the home page. This is the logic I use when redirecting my users upon logging in.
Yeah, but with PayPal, you can't be somewhere in your account before you login, so it would take you back to the homepage. That select can be helpful, especially because PayPal's login process is so slow.
On Fontdeck we have whitelisted several pages so that a user will return to the page after logging in. It's a nice way to avoid disruption from page flow.
From here, you given a wonderful description about log in pay pal. Thanks a lot for sharing it Louis.


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Mr. Sony Valdez conducted beginners' workshop starting off from the Python setup up to the syntax basics of the language. Flask – a microframework for Python was the next key topic and exercises challenged the participants as they simultaneously accomplished the tasks given to them which covered the whole morning session of the said event.
The afternoon session was spearheaded by Mr. Mark Steve Samson whereas advanced Python topics specifically Django – a high level Python Web framework. A mini-hackathon was given to the participants which challenged their newly acquired skills in Python, Flask and Django.
Ms. Gibelle, Mr. Chan and Mr. Michael were able to successfully accomplish the challenge. Special Github stickers and DevCon tshirts were awarded to them.
Followed after was the hashtag raffle and Mr. Argem Flores won the raffle since he hashtagged pythoncodecamp from the installation up to the last part of the workshop.
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Two Omani shooters, Wadha al Balushi and Hamed al Khatri, have been handed wild cards by the IOC to take part in the 2016 Olympic Games that will be held in the Brazilian capital of Rio de Janeiro from August 5-21.
The participation of Wadha and Khatri will increase the number of Omani athletes in Rio to three.
Top sprinter Barakat al Harthy has already qualified for Rio.
Though Wadha and Khatri failed to qualify through any of the tournaments unlike Barakat, the duo will now be able to represent the sultanate after being handed Rio 2016 Tripartite Commission Invitations Places (also known as wild card) by the IOC on the request from the Oman Olympic Committee.
Khatri has been a regular member of the national team and participated in many world championships over the past three years.
Khatri has had some good results at the worlds in the men's 50m rifle 3 positions and 10m air rifle. Wadha has also been a regular member of the national team and has featured in the World Cups in the women's 10m air pistol and 25m pistol events.
Apart from shooting, the OOC is also hopeful of getting wild card for Fatma al Nabhani (tennis), Sultan al Touqi (show jumping) and Ahmed al Marjabi (athletics).


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Lindsey Mills Bio, Age, Height, Husband, Salary, Net worth, WBNS
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Lindsay Mills Biography
Lindsey Mills is a famous American news reporter and journalist. She serves at WBNS based in Columbus, Ohio as a reporter currently. Mills joined the station and are excited to join the 10TV family in January 2021.
She served from December 2017 to January 2021 at NEWS CENTER, Maine in Portland as a news anchor before joining WBNS. Mills served her first on-air job at WVII/WFVX in Bangor, Maine as a news anchor addition.
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In 2007, Mills joined Endicott College and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Communication and Media Studies in 2011. However, she played ice hockey and field hockey.
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Mills was born to caring and loving parents in San Diego, CA, and raised outside Boston. She holds an American nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity. Though, Mills has not shared any details regarding her parents and/or siblings with the media.
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Mills is happily hitched to her cute husband Clay Gordon, whom she met while serving in Bangor. She serves as a news anchor just like Lindsey. The duo is blessed with a handsome son together.
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Mills fell in love with the Midwest there. She served her first on-air job from January 2012 to September 2014 at WVII/WFVX based in Bangor, Maine as a news anchor in addition.
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Turn her room into a garden retreat with this awesome pink and green flower chandelier. Green wrought iron creates the leaves and detailed pink petals hang so naturally that you can picture them blowing in the wind. This Leaf and Flower Jubilee Chandelier looks beautiful in any room. The detailing creates a designer look for any space. Add a feminine touch to your little girl's room with this one of a kind flower chandelier by Jubilee Lighting. Available as shown or without the pink shades. You may select from all children's chandelier shades.


You gave us card art (we didn't really want it, and certainly not during a match) but we still only get to look at face portraits with a solid colored background for the Planeswalkers after we acquire them - except when we level them.
Let us see the full artwork for Planeswalkers.
This used to be the norm. I never was a fan of the solid colored backgrounds for the planeswalkers.
They could always swap to these images, but to be honest, the images they're using now are much better.
All this art is available online in it's full HD glory! I'd rather have a new set of cards.
So is all the card art, and not cropped. Still got it.
I agree @starfall, I'm beginning to miss some of the old bugs we haven't seen in a while. A new set has a tendency to drive out the bugs, just like heavy rain.
I'm also can't wait to be the first to name all the new bugs, we didn't know existed.


In modern life, many of us are caught in patterns of distraction and dissatisfaction, unable to find lasting peace and inner fulfillment. This discontentment often stems from ignorance of our essential nature, leading to personal and planetary suffering. But without knowing how to access that we look everywhere for it, in ways that do not satisfy the heart.
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian helps people from all walks of life discover a path to knowing and embodying our essential nature, and with it a profound experience of freedom, wisdom and inner wholeness. Her teaching method, rooted in the tradition of Kriya Yoga, is accessible and inspiring both for newcomers to inner work as well as experienced spiritual practitioners.
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Rituals, rectitude, and riches: can spirituality and prosperity exist side by side? Join Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian for a weekend immersion in the yogic philosophy of artha—the universal life goal in which dharma and wealth unite for a meaningful life of higher purpose.
This retreat is a timely opportunity to discover how to thrive in all ways.
Everyone is welcome. Morning programs are free-will donation.
We are born to thrive. Life's prosperity imperative continually supports our awakening and our fulfillment. Learning how to cooperate with the Infinite opens the door to our highest good.
This workshop will explore the essential relationship between living with higher purpose and prospering.
Discover how to thrive in all ways—including personal prosperity as well as essential social change and planetary healing, so that all may prosper. This retreat offers a rare opportunity to heal the perceived gap between spirituality and prosperity and boldly embrace your full potential.
A meditation retreat offers the ideal environment for developing a peaceful mind and a compassionate heart. The inner peace, wisdom, and joy that are uncovered during dedicated practice on a retreat will inspire and inform useful lifestyle changes.
The retreat includes daily spiritual teachings on meditation and the spiritually awakened life, study, and devotional chanting. Silent sitting group meditation is combined with periods of solitary walking meditation in nature. Prior meditation practice recommended.
SYTAR is IAYT's annual conference dedicated entirely to professional education, research, practice, and policy issues for yoga therapy. This is the premier conference for the field of yoga therapy.
Yogacharya O'Brian will offer a plenary talk titled: Dharma and Artha: Light the Way to Thrive, Prosper, Succeed and Serve on Sunday, June 16th @ 11 am.
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This retreat offers an immersion in yoga philosophy's instruction for true fulfillment and meditative practices for spiritual awakening. It's a rare opportunity to heal the perceived gap between spirituality and prosperity and boldly embrace our full potential.
Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian, author of The Jewel of Abundance: Finding Prosperity through the Ancient Wisdom of Yoga, offers gems of ancient Vedic wisdom that are universally applicable and timely for all who would lead a fulfilled, thriving, prosperous, spiritually awakened life. Is it possible to have both wealth and spiritual wisdom? In this lecture and reading discover how prosperity is not only possible but is imperative for a life of higher purpose. Learn what you can do to experience greater abundance in your life right now.
Based on the treasure-trove of Vedic wisdom, this workshop is a timely opportunity to discover how to thrive in all ways. What we do matters. We are powerful agents, not only of personal prosperity but of essential social change and planetary healing, so that all may prosper.
Yogacharya O'Brian reflects on the remarkable life of Roy Eugene Davis, her teacher of 40 years. We dedicate this program to Mr. Davis' memory with a deep appreciation for his more than six decades of teaching Kriya Yoga.
Is it possible to truly prosper without losing your soul? In this inspiring evening, esteemed Kriya Yoga teacher Ellen Grace O'Brian will discuss an overlooked aspect of yoga: its powerful teachings on prosperity and true wealth. Drawing upon ancient teachings of yoga philosophy, Yogacharya O'Brian will present profound yogic principles in an extremely accessible way to explain how spirituality and earthly success can complement each other, leading to realization of the higher Self and the abundant life of fulfillment and gratitude that naturally follows.
If you're scrambling to find your path, or if you have the sinking feeling that you're doing a great job on what is probably the wrong path, then consider taking a contemplative, spiritual pause — a chance to reflect and reorient. Yogacharya O'Brian will lead a discussion of how to find one's life's purpose from a spiritual perspective. We'll look at how to find that purpose, and how to move towards its realization. Learn how to meditate and some surprisingly useful, millennia-tested methods for staying focused on one's goals even when tired, overwhelmed, doubtful or resistant.
Seeking Connection will feed you spiritually – in a way only it can. 20 workshops, 6 full-day seminars, a 4-day interspiritual retreat, an indigenous-inspired spiritual journey in the stunning Pacific Northwest, and 12 dynamic speakers from across the generational and spiritual spectrum.
Yogacharya O'Brian will offer a keynote and workshop titled Light from the East: An Introduction to Vedic Counseling and Spiritual Direction.
In this inspiring evening, esteemed yoga teacher Ellen Grace O'Brian will discuss an overlooked aspect of yoga: its powerful teachings on prosperity and true wealth. Drawing upon ancient teachings of yoga philosophy, O'Brian will present profound yogic principles in an extremely accessible way to explain how spirituality and earthly success can complement each other, leading to realization of the higher Self and the abundant life of fulfillment.
Explore and experience what the four universal aims of life drawn from the Vedas can offer us today as we seek not only a prosperous life but one that has heart and meaning. The four aims of life—to live with higher purpose, to prosper, to enjoy life, and to realize true freedom—provide a brilliant context for living with dynamic balance, prosperity, and the joy that accompanies it. In this class, learn how to cultivate equanimity as you embrace your inherent tendency to thrive.
The greatest potential of the life goal of artha, or wealth, is for us to become wealth itself. We are here to be a prospering presence, agents of transformation. Aligning our goal to thrive with the well-being of all is the secret to the highest happiness.
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At this time of an ever-widening income gap associated with vast social ills, Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian raises the lamp of ancient Vedic wisdom's call to prosper in harmony with a life of higher purpose. Discover how this universal plan for a life that is both wealthy and wise can be applied now when it is needed most.
Can we truly prosper without losing our soul along the way? Can we have both earthly success and a spiritually awakened, fulfilling life? Join Yogacharya O'Brian for an inspiring evening on the meeting of true wealth with soulful, joyous living. Yogacharya O'Brian draws upon the ancient wisdom of the Vedic purusharthas—the four universal aims of life.
Join Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian to explore and experience what the four universal aims of life drawn from the Vedas can offer us today as we seek not only a prosperous life but one that has heart and meaning. The four aims of life—to live with higher purpose, to prosper, to enjoy life, and to realize true freedom—provide a brilliant context for living with dynamic balance, prosperity, and the joy that accompanies it. Learn how to cultivate equanimity.
Is it possible to truly prosper without losing your soul? In this inspiring evening, esteemed Kriya Yoga teacher Ellen Grace O'Brian will discuss an overlooked aspect of yoga: its powerful teachings on prosperity and true wealth. Drawing upon ancient teachings of yoga philosophy, Yogacharya O'Brian shares profound yogic principles to show how spirituality and earthly success can complement each other. Realization of the higher Self and the abundant life of fulfillment and gratitude naturally follows.
Included: practical teachings for spiritually conscious living from the universal path of Kriya Yoga that you can begin implementing right away. Meditation instruction, practice, and initiation into Kriya Yoga.
In this inspiring evening, esteemed yoga teacher Ellen O'Brian will discuss an overlooked aspect of yoga: its powerful teachings on prosperity and true wealth. Drawing upon ancient teachings of yoga philosophy, O'Brian will present profound yogic principles in an extremely accessible way to explain how spirituality and earthly success can complement each other, leading to realization of the higher Self and the abundant life of fulfillment and gratitude.
Yogacharya O'Brian will read from her much-anticipated new book paired with classical Indian music.
Success in Life and Self Realization, you will be learning the deep teachings of Vedic wisdom regarding the fulfillment of our purposes in life and at the same time achieving Self-realization.
This is an inspiring weekend retreat which will help you to readjust your personal purpose and recommit yourself to your Self Search journey with renewed energy.
An afternoon in community with Ela Gandhi, granddaughter to Mahatma Gandhi, peace activist and leader in the nonviolence movement joined by Yogacharya O'Brian. Engage in the call to action that unites and bridges us through inspired conversation, community dialogue circles, creative expression, and the timeless teachings of Gandhi to meet the opportunity and responsibility before us.
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We invite you to join us for a conversation with Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Jim Wallis of Sojourners, and renowned author and teacher Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian for a discussion about how alliances of all faiths can inspire action, help build community, and cultivate compassion even when times feel their most dark and uncertain. This event will be moderated by Suzanne St. John-Crane, CEO of the American Leadership Forum.


If you own or manage a business that uses independent contractors, you need to know when you can or cannot treat a worker as an independent contractor. This presentation answers some of the common questions about worker classification.
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Fall Color Report: Grandfather Mountain Colors Spectacular As Different Species' Leaves Change Colors Together, Boone To Peak Within Two Weeks
Published Monday, October 7, 2013 at 1:32 pm
The upper parking lot of the Grandfather Mountain Nature Museum. Photo by landis Taylor
By Mark S. Kenna
Oct. 7, 2013. Fall colors are already spectacular on Grandfather Mountain and the southern slope of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Jesse Pope, director of education and natural resources at Grandfather Mountain, said.
The clear weather aided fall colors as the shift from September to October brings peak days to Boone this week or next, Pope said.
Grandfather Mountain's slopes just north of the Linn Cove Viaduct on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Photo by Katie Casella
However on Grandfather Mountain, fall colors are already coming in, with the expectation of peak fall colors by this week and next Friday.
"The colors are really starting to pop and we have lots of reds and oranges in the mix," Pope said. "This is the most reds I've seen in the mix in the last few years for sure."
The interesting thing about this year is the synchronization of different tree species' leaves changing colors; for its all coming in at once instead of splotches of color, Pope added.
"Rather than a trickle of color, the maples, sassafras, ashe, beech, birch and a number of other tree species are all starting to turn at the same rate," Pope said.
Even with already vibrant fall colors, the High Country is a week away from widespread peak fall colors.
"I certainly don't have an exact date of a "peak" time to visit, but anyone who visits even today will be very thrilled with the colors already present in the mountains," Pope said.
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My Eli story is one I wanted to tell at Eli's service but I knew I just could not do so. I read a post about Eli and Paul's request to help raise money to fight cancer on the XLForum which I have been a member of for years and I was shocked. I had never known any kids that have had this horrible disease. Like many other forum members I promptly made a donation. I began following Eli's story on the forum and at one point sent a message to Paul offering to take Eli up for a plane ride. I did not receive a response from Paul so every once in a while I would send him a message with my offer as soon as Eli was up to it. I am sure Paul thought I was crazy! As Eli's health improved and he started selling lemonade as his Alex's and Eli's Lemonade stand some other members and I started making the ride down to Oxford to support him and I met Eli for the first time. All I can say is wow, what a great kid. There was just something about him that made you want to be his friend.
Finally in September 2008, Paul accepted my invitation and we discussed the flight. Due to Eli's medication making him nauseous, Paul was unsure if Eli would be able to make a long flight so we agreed to make a quick flight around the pattern at Chester County Airport which was near their house. Eli, Paul, and Austin made the flight with Eli sitting up front with me. We made the trip around the traffic pattern and landed and I asked Eli if he was ok. He said he was and I don't recall exactly what he said next but a few moments latter we were back in the air flying around the area. We probably spent 45 minutes or so flying about. Eli even got to fly the plane for a bit and I could tell he was a natural! After we landed we all had lunch together. If I recall, Eli was grinning ear to ear the entire time.
Unfortunately, Eli got sick again before we could go for another flight. I had hoped to take Eli up past New York City to see the Statue of Liberty from the air, but unfortunately it wasn't to be. When Eli got sick for the last time I was devasted like everyone else, and was in shock when he passed. As I sat there in the church listening to all his friends and family talk about Eli I started to think about life in general. At the time I was probably 50 or so pounds overweight, with only myself to blame for it. Here I was at a funeral service for a 10 year old who was taken from us by this horrible disease through no fault of his own. It was at that point I decided to take my health back and start losing the weight I had told myself I would lose for the last few years. Its been a long fight, but I have since lost 25 pounds.
Thats my story on how Eli touched me.
Austin has taken over his brothers lemonade stand to continue to raise money for the Alex's foundation. Eli bELIeved in a cure for Childhood Leukemia. Come on out to our house (front yard) on June 11th from 9:00 am till 4:00 pm and have a cup of lemonade in Eli's memory.
May 14, 2011 what a great Celebration of our Eli's Life. Eli would be so happy to know the event raise $9,346.00 I still need to get the money raised from J's water ice as they are donating a portion of their Proceeds from May 14th.
Also the Kick-A-Thon that was held by Bill Hammond's Martial Arts Studio in West Grove, PA raised over $5,000.00 more money was turned in on Monday.
Just to let you all know Next Years "Brave Eli's Ride For A Cure Against Childhood Leukemia" (Beef & Beer) is set for May 19, 2012. More info to follow.
On November 27, 2000, Eli came to brighten our lives. He charmed, inspired, amazed and overjoyed us during his very short life. On January 20, 2011, at the age of 10, Eli left this earth; he escaped leukemia's grasp and became our Angel in Heaven. God Bless His Family and the Friends he left behind. We are encouraged by his bELIef in God, who gave him the strength to endure the struggles he had with his cancer and we bELIeve he is now restored and safe in Heaven.
In honor of his memory the Eli Seth Matthews Leukemia Foundation has been established. As the foundation's funds grow, it will carry on the fight to end cancer's grasp on children's lives, especially those stricken with leukemia. This would have been what Eli would have wanted to do with his life, if he had been able to reach adulthood. His goal was to help others. To donate go to BraveEli.com and click on the Donate tab.
Tell us your Eli story!
Eli was an amazing boy who touched the lives of all of those who knew him. The bravery he displayed is an inspiration to us all.
I would like to invite everyone here to share their Eli story or stories with us. If you would like to share your stories please email them to me at bplinson@gmail.com and I will post them here. Please let me know in the email if you would like me to include your name or have it posted anoymously.
I never met Eli or Paul but one day Paul contacted me and asked if he could post information about his son on an Internet forum that I run. I immediatly said yes and created a post to introduce Eli to 40,000 other people. This forum thread can be found here – LINK . The thead started on Jan 20, 2008 and continues to be updated (free registration is required to read the entire forum thread). Through this thread Eli and Paul kept us all up-to-date with the progress Eli was making. Eli made friends with, and touched the lives, of thousands of people all over the world. We all looked forward to reading about and keeping up with Eli.
It was a great shock when the post about Eli's passing was made. I was frozen and did not want to believe that it was true. With that one post a part of the lives of thousands of other members of the forum was taken away.
Location: Dravo Plaza, Willmington Riverfront, Willington DE.
T-shirts and refreshments will be available.
Cost: $18 preregistration till June 15th. $22 after June 15 and day of race.
Therefore, we have created a website for our Eli. This website will be updated to show you upcoming events, as well as a photo gallery from the events that we hold to raise money for the Eli Seth Matthews Leukemia Foundation.
You will see on the site two listed organizations. One is the Alex's foundation that Eli loved and raised a lot of money for. Eli bELIeved in a cure for leukemia and we will continue to support this foundation in Eli's memory. Austin has taken over the Eli and Alex's Lemonade stand. At the last event we had during the Oxford Little League parade and pancake breakfast we raised over $1,700.00.
The other listed organization is bethematch.org. The more people that are registered on this site the better chances a child will have for a good match for a bone marrow transplant.
We must advocate for our children because they can't. The lack of funding for childhood cancer research is horrific! We should not have to go to Washington, DC and ask congress for more funding to save the lives of children in the world when this should be their goal. So much money is wasted on meaningless things and destructive acts instead of using funds to give life to our nations future – the children.
Let's find a cure together! Please visit BraveEli.com and register on the site. Share the site on your Facebook by clicking on the SHARE links. The Adsense links on each post and on the side help raise funds for the Eli Seth Matthews Leukemia Foundation. You can help out by visiting the ad links you are interested in.
Be a part of the events in memory of Eli. We can only win this fight together so please let me see your name registered to the site. I will tell you there is more work to be done on the site, and my friend Bert in Germany is the one putting the site together and this is a blessing to us. Bert is the owner of the XLForum that Eli was a member of and I still am. So thank you all for being the support we need to make this a total success.
Let's kill Childhood Cancer and let's give these children more hope (and a future) for a real cure to this terrible and senseless diseases.
Eli's Run will be held on June 4, 2011 at the Oxford area High School.
All proceeds will go to the Eli Seth Matthews Leukemia Foundation.
There will be a 1 mile Fun Run beginning at 9:00 AM and a 5 KM Walk/Run at 9:45 AM.
The $20.00 registration fee can be paid on the day of the even between 8:00 – 9:00 AM.
We will be having a celebration of Eli's life at Redman Hall Oxford, PA.
The tickets will be $25.00 each.
There will be food, drinks, family, friends & live bands. The evening will be dedicated to honoring our son as we miss him terribly.
All proceeds will go to the "Eli Seth Matthews Leukemia Foundation" to help find a cure for Leukemia. Specifically Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL).
This event will be for ages 21 and over, and will start at 6:00 PM.
If you own a motorcycle and would like to join me please be at the Redman Hall at 4:00 PM we will ride to Northeast MD to visit Eli. Eli will hear thunder in HEAVEN.
For tickets Contact Kristen Carter @ 484-614-5399 , Julia Oatman @ 484-880-8487 or Kim Webber @ 302-250-6346. You can also e-mail Kim at kwebber@zoominternet.net.


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About SVSU > SVSU Policies & Procedures > 5000 - Students >
5086 - Weapons Prohibition
I. Policy.
It is the policy of the Directors of the Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union, Bennington School District, Inc., Mount Anthony Union School District, North Bennington Graded School District, Pownal School District, Shaftsbury School District, and Woodford School District board to comply with the Federal Gun Free Schools Act of 1994, 16 V.S.A. §563 (5), and §1166, requiring school districts to provide for the expulsion of students who bring weapons (firearms) to school. It is further the intent of the Boards to expand the category of prohibited weapons pursuant to 16 V.S.A. §563 (5), §1166, and this policy. Additionally, it is the intent of the Boards to maintain a student discipline system consistent with the requirements of the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Vermont State Board of Education rules.
II. Conduct Prohibited.
Possession and/or use of any dangerous or deadly weapon or hoax device or composite of any dangerous or deadly weapon in any school building on school grounds or property is strictly prohibited. It is a violation of this policy, for any student to possess or bring a weapon: to school, on school grounds, on school buses, and/or at school functions, whether held on school property or at another site. The School Board may expel any student who violates this policy for one calendar year in accordance with the procedures below, except as provided for in the administrative procedures.
It is a violation of this policy for any student to make, issue, or communicate by any means, a threat that a dangerous or deadly weapon has been, or will be placed or used on school grounds or property. This policy is in effect before, during and after school, as well as at any school sponsored activity. This policy does not apply to a law enforcement officer while engaged in law enforcement duties or to weapons or hoax device or composite of weapons approved in advance by Principal for use in school functions or ceremonies.
III. Weapons Defined:
A. "Dangerous or deadly weapon" means:
1. Any knife, dagger, switchblade or, a folding knife with a blade in excess of two and one-half inches. Any folding knife with a blade less than two and one half inches, including a pocket knife and pen knife, shall be considered a dangerous or deadly weapon if it is used, threatened to be used, or possessed in a threatening manner or with the intent to cause harm to any person.
2. Any other weapon, device, instrument, material or substance, whether animate or inanimate, which in the manner it is used or is intended to be used is known to be capable of producing death or serious bodily injury.
3. Articles designed for other purposes but which could easily be used to inflict serious bodily harm and used by a pupil in a threatening manner. Examples are files, compasses, scissors, etc. A student who uses any article capable of inflicting serious bodily harm in an aggressive, belligerent or threatening manner, shall be deemed to be in possession of a weapon.
4. Weapons as defined in Section 921 of the Federal Gun-Free Schools Act including the following:
(a) any weapon (including a starter pistol) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive, or by gas or air;
(b) the frame or receiver of any weapon described above;
(c) any firearm muffler or firearm silencer;
(d) any destructive device, including explosives, incendiaries, or poison gas, including but not limited to:
(i) bomb
(ii) grenade
(iii) rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces
(iv) missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter
(v) mine; or
(vi) similar device,
unless such destructive device is under the supervision of a teacher and used as part of the curriculum.
(e) Any other articles readily capable of causing death or serious bodily injury. Examples are firearms, a B-B gun, pellet gun, knuckles, switch blade/butterfly/ and other types of knives, chains, clubs, stars, etc.
(f) a composite or any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any device into any destructive device described in the two immediately preceding examples and from which a destructive device may be readily assembled.
(g) a hoax device or a model, defined as any device so designed, assembled, fabricated or manufactured as to convey the physical appearance of an explosive or incendiary bomb or the physical appearance of any of the devices enumerated in subdivisions (a)-(f) of division 4. of this section, which is lacking an explosive or incendiary charge.
B. "School grounds or property" means: facilities, buildings, fields, and grounds areas; vehicles owned, leased or used by the District to transport students to and from school or school activities; parking lots (including vehicles in the parking lots); or any other setting which is under the permanent or temporary supervision and/or control of the School District.
Policy 5050 Discipline of Students Suspension and Expulsion of Students
Legal references:
Possession of a firearm at school 16 V.S.A. §563(5) and §1166
Possession of a dangerous or deadly weapon in a school bus or school building or on school property 13 V.S.A. §4004
IV. Administrative Procedures:
Administrators or other delegated school officials will exercise judgment and caution, using law enforcement if necessary, to confiscate any article previously identified as a weapon under III above. Any such actions will be carried out without further endangering self or others.
Any student who brings a weapon to school shall be brought before the Board by the superintendent for an expulsion hearing.
An expulsion hearing conducted under this policy shall afford due process as required by law.
The superintendent, with the approval of the school board following opportunity for a hearing, shall expel from the school for not less than one calendar year any student who possesses and/or brings a weapon to school. However, the school board may modify the expulsion on a case-by-case basis. Modifications may be granted in circumstances such as (but not limited to):
(a) The pupil is unaware that he or she has brought a weapon to school.
(b) The pupil did not intend to use the weapon to threaten or endanger others.
(c) The pupil does not present an ongoing threat to others and a lengthy expulsion would not serve the best interests of the pupil.
(d) The pupil is disabled and the misconduct is related to the disability. In this type of situation, action of the Board shall be in accordance with federal law under the IDEA and Section 504.
Modifications on a case-by-case basis may not be used so that the overall effect is non-compliance by the Board with the one-year expulsion for possession of a firearm pursuant to the Federal Gun-Free Schools Act and 16 V.S.A. §1166.
Annually, at a time and on a form determined by the commissioner, the superintendent shall provide the commissioner with a description of the circumstances surrounding expulsions imposed under this section, the number of students expelled and the type of weapons involved.
V. Alternative Education Placement:
Nothing in this policy shall prohibit the Boards from providing alternative educational placement to a student, at the Boards' sole discretion.
VI. Notice to Students and Parents
The Superintendent or his/her designee is directed to take reasonable steps to inform students and their parents of this policy and to post notices of this policy on school property.
VII. Notification of Law Enforcement:
Where possession or use of the weapon may constitute a criminal violation, school officials shall immediately notify the appropriate law enforcement agency.
In the event that such a weapon is observed on an individual other than a student, but not including a law enforcement officer, school officials shall immediately call the appropriate law enforcement agency pursuant to 13 V.S.A. §4004.
VIII. Special Education and section 504 Students.
A. If a student with a disability who is eligible for special education or is protected by Section 504 brings a weapon to school the full procedures required by federal and state law shall apply. These include, but are not limited to the following:
The school district may immediately remove the student from school, use in-school discipline, or place the student in an interim alternative educational placement for ten school days or less;
The school district shall provide the parents a copy of the "Special Education and/or Section 504 Rights,"
If the student is eligible for special education, the Individualized Educational program team shall convene to:
(a) determine whether the misconduct is a manifestation of the student's disability in accordance with Vermont Special Education Regulation 4313.4; and
(b) review the student's IEP and consider program and/or placement changes, including placing the student in an interim alternative educational placement for up to forty-five days;
If the student is not eligible for special education but is a qualified student with a disability, as defined by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Section 504 Team shall convene to:
(a) determine whether the misconduct is a manifestation of the student's disability in accordance with Vermont Special Education Regulations 4313.5 and 4313.6; and
(b) review the student's program or placement and consider program and/or placement changes.
B. If the misconduct is found by the IEP or 504 Team to be unrelated to the disability, the student shall be dealt with under the procedures outlined in Section III above. If a special education student is expelled, the school district is required to continue to provide a free and appropriate public education to the student upon expulsion.
If the student is a qualified student with a disability under Section 504 and is expelled, the district is under no obligation to provide the student with educational services.
C. If the misconduct is found to be related to the disability, the student may not be expelled. In the case of a special education student, the district may keep the student placed in the interim alternative educational placement up to forty-five days, while the IEP Team determines whether program or placement changes are required. The IEP Team may also prescribe corrective action/consequences which it deems appropriate to address the weapons issue under the IEP and behavior plan (if any).
If the student is a qualified student with a disability under Section 504, the Section 504 Team shall complete a Section 504 Evaluation and may recommend program/placement changes. The Section 504 Team may also prescribe corrective action/consequence which it deems appropriate to address the weapons issue under the education program and behavior plan (if any).
D. If the student is a special education student, and if his or her parent requests a due process hearing during the 45-day interim alternative educational placement, the interim alternative placement is the "stay put" placement during completion of all due process proceedings and subsequent appeals, if any.


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It is that simple, Isn't it.... And that's why it seems so difficult.
It just keeps coming back to the basics, and as basic as it can possibly get. The truth is cloaked in nothing but simplicity. Truly a paradox.
Oh yeah, and I sure do wish I was working alongside you two again. I really do.
'It' is the end of symbolic consciousness, a 'drop of dew' and a 'self' are equally illusory, you won't see the full truth if you keep on dividing real from unreal, it shows that unity consciousness is still incomplete. Walking the razor's edge means in all things seeing there is neither real nor unreal, until there are no things.
It's great that you've gone further than seeing the truth of self, but each stop is a stepping stone. Have you heard of using a thorn to remove a thorn? That's what needs to happen.
It's ALL illusory. But the only way to demonstrate and communicate is on the illusory playing field. All pointers are useless after they have their effect.
I work with people on seeing through the illusion of self. That's IT. Because that's what's common to all traditions. When they are 'done' with me, they are free to explore the rest and discover that there are no INHERENT things. Until then, the language of 'unity consciousness' doesn't do anything but keep the seeker seeking. And that's a crappy thing to do to a seeker.
I like the way you cut to the point.
Will see (!) how my own looking vs. thinking about pans out!
Thanks for this Delma... Bill here...I am always interested in new and different ways to say what you've you've so simply laid out.
Its the only thing it's about.
So simple....the brain wants so much to complicate it.
This is better put than ruthless truth, which I came across a couple of years ago. There is truth in what you say, that we are identifying with thought patterns on an unconscious level and mistaking them for a self.. what may be better called a personality. There is a deeper level, one in which the individual observes their thoughts, as a few authors such as Buddha, Tolle and others have called the silent watcher. This is still not helpful as it still points towards a 'something' that is part of our mistaken identity but somehow seperate. many think that this is a soul, or universal consciousness. Everything is illusionary, everything. What the Krishna's call maya I believe or somesuch word. Once ones thoughts realise that everything is illusionary, right down to the empty space between the atoms that somehow keep the body stable then one can find freedom. Billl Hicks says life is a ride, I concur.
I'm a RTer from a couple of years ago, so we may have bumped into each other.
I still use that method, though have dropped the tone and language. It's still the most effective direct pointing I've come across.
I'm looking at self and I see there is only thought/imagination of self glued to experience but there is no click. What next because it's look like remember of experience, not shift in perception.
For the seeker this is of no use. It provides not even a shred of guidance as to what direction to seek in. Perhaps for the more advanced seeker this is a point in which to bond or compare notes, but as for the basics - which I'm past - this is unhelpful. Further it seems to promote duality when comparing the self to the dew drop, adding to the confusion. And why is there a tone of anger in the article? That doesn't enhance seeing or the desire to understand.


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The Romance-Free Re-Invention of 'Wuthering Heights'
By Elizabeth Greenwood
With innovative casting and stark storytelling, Andrea Arnold's film is a breathtakingly fresh interpretation of the Emily Brontë novel.
It's an ancient story. Girl meets boy, girl and boy fall in love, but girl cannot date boy because of an unbreachable social chasm. Warring tribal politics prevent Romeo and Juliet from their happily ever after. In Twilight, it's because of intra-species constraints. Hubbell and Katie prove that lock-jawed WASPs and Jewish Marxists in the McCarthy era do not a marriage make.
So it is in Emily Brontë's 1847 dark classic Wuthering Heights, where higher-class Cathy Earnshaw and Healthcliff, a foundling from Liverpool who Mr. Earnshaw adopts, pine for one another over the course of a lifetime. Not only is the trope of impossible love a worn-in thread in the fabric of storytelling, but Brontë's novel has been adapted to film no fewer than 17 times, from the iconic 1939 gothic version starring Laurence Olivier, to Luis Buñuel's surrealist 1954 interpretation set in Mexico, to MTV's 2003 retelling at a California high school. So how to put a fresh spin on an eternal story? How does a filmmaker re-invent such a canonical text?
Arnold has crafted a singular, subtle film that stands on its own. Stripped of costume-y froth or a swelling score, it's as airy as the windswept moors and just as harsh.
"It's kind of a stupid thing to do, isn't it?" asked Andrea Arnold, the director of the latest iteration of Wuthering Heights, which opens in theaters this Friday. "I said I'd never do an adaptation or a period piece, and here I am doing the most famous book of all time." Despite Arnold's initial misgivings, she has crafted a singular, subtle film that stands on its own. Stripped of costume-y froth or a swelling score, the film is as airy as the windswept moors and just as harsh. Arnold communicates the first throbs of desire between the young couple with very little dialogue, and uses the tawny hills, the crest of their horses' backs, and the slapping rain to represent their visceral connection and the sadomasochistic impossibility of their courtship. Unlike Twilight and similarly romantic tales, Arnold's film shows forbidden love not as sweet sorrow, but rather as bone-grinding misery punctuated with moments of transcendent rapture.
But the most immediate liberty that Arnold takes in Wuthering Heights, which has typically been relayed through Cathy's eyes, is to inhabit Heathcliff's point of view. He is a mysterious outsider and a seething ball of nerves, in Cathy's world but never of it. To tell this story of difference, Arnold cast a black Heathcliff. And since she transmits so much of the narrative through the visuals, audiences may wonder: Is this progress to expand the Brontë's white milieu to reflect the broader reality of the world, or is casting a black Heathcliff just a cheap shortcut to portray incongruity?
Arnold achieves both: her Wuthering Heights encompasses a more inclusive—and wrenching—worldview through its visual vocabulary. If you stretch your memory way back to high school English, you might recall that Heathcliff is, in fact, markedly separate from the Earnshaw family. Brontë describes him as "a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect." Attempting to stay true to Brontë's story, Arnold and the crew originally tried to cast a gypsy in the lead role. They visited Romany camps in the north of England, but to no avail. "As I went along the casting process," Arnold told me, "I began to feel less worried about being totally faithful to that description, and it was more his difference that was important." Since the story spans several decades, Arnold cast two sets of Heathcliffs and Cathys, young and old, which few adaptations have done. The two Heathcliffs are extraordinary, with James Howson portraying the older Heathcliff, but Solomon Glave gives the most astonishing breakout performance since Anna Paquin in The Piano. His inky eyes tell a world of hurt as he endures violent throttling by—depending on your point of view—his rescuers or captors.
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The director doesn't see her interpretation as especially radical. "Heathcliff has been portrayed as a gypsy with dark skin so it's not such a big leap I've taken," Arnold said. "In fact, they blacked up Laurence Olivier. There are lots of things in the book that I played around with. He's brought from Liverpool, there was a massive slave trade in Liverpool at the time, so you could possibly think that he's related to a slave. But it's not a fact in the book, it's just something that Brontë suggests and plays with. And to say that I'm making a direct statement sort of takes away from the playfulness and sort of exploring."
Glave and Howson are the perfect Heathcliffs, with their dark brew of interiority and vulnerability. This makes Arnold's artistic choice work. Were Glave and Howson lesser actors, the casting would come off as gimmicky, maybe even patronizing. But given the type of lily-white period pieces we're used to seeing, like Downton Abbey, Pride and Prejudice, and even the latest BBC rendition of Wuthering Heights, the choice still seems subversive. One interpretation is that class and ethnic distinctions are no longer the insurmountable obstacles they would have been in England in the 19th century, so to make the gulf resonate with audiences today, Heathcliff must be darker, more different from Cathy. Perhaps interracial romance is one of the last taboos for film to conquer, as Hollywood on-screen couples have not caught up with the real world. Placing the lovers in the confines of a period drama highlights that tension even more.
But perhaps the casting seems subversive because the whole film goes against the grain, turning the idea of the costume drama on its head. And a Brontë story provides the perfect stage on which to perform cinematic handstands. Emily Brontë is the moody, broody doppelganger to Jane Austen's giggly gaggle of engagement-ring schemers. It's Hannah Horvath compared to Carrie Bradshaw. Rather than revel in the baroque trappings of bustles and skirts and elaborate ballroom scenes, most of the yearning takes place outside in high grass or down in the mud. Arnold interprets a love story free of romance, or as she describes Wuthering Heights, "It's gothic, feminist, socialist, sadomasochistic, Freudian, incestuous, violent, and visceral." It's a radical love story to tell in any era, and more modern still to tell with talented black actors, who bring more meaning to Cathy's confession of "He's more myself than I am" than many Heathcliffs before.


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The Department of Computer Science hosted the 9th annual Computational Thinking Competition for K-12 students.
On April 14, 2018, the Department of Computer Science hosted nearly 30 students in K-12 for the 9th annual Computational Thinking Competition.
The competition, co-sponsored by Rockwell Collins, helps students engage in computational thinking, a critical thinking skill that involves breaking down a problem into manageable pieces and working toward a solution in an organized manner which a computer could carry out.
Students' projects are judged by alumni in industry, K-12 teachers and computer science graduate students.
"If it helps them learn how to think, helps them learn how to be confident in themselves, we are happy," said Simanta Mitra, senior lecturer of computer science, and member of the outreach committee.
Iowa State faculty and students hold computational thinking workshops throughout the year for students in grades K-12 to learn about computational thinking and work on projects. At the competition, the students present projects to judges in a science fair format, with prizes awarded in four categories: Grades K-3, 4-6, 7-9 and 10-12. Prizes included laptops, tablets and Raspberry PIs.
Students are allowed to come up with any project they want, but they must show their computational thinking through the process. Projects covered a wide range of topics and included literacy learning games, games to teach about global warming or the solar system, programs that calculate square roots or the time for an asteroid to hit the earth, electric field simulations and protein sequencers.
"They get to decide what excites them and when they are excited about that particular topic they really get interested and really go deep into whatever they are researching," said Soma Chaudhuri, associate professor of computer science, and vice chair of the outreach committee.
Speech Helper 2.0
Carson (left) and McClain (right) Crigger, with Maddox, their younger brother, presentng their project, Speech Helper 2.0.
Carson and McClain Crigger, both sixth graders at South Middle School in Waukee, created Speech Helper 2.0, a program designed to help their younger brother practice letter sounds. Their younger brother had many ear infections as a baby and needed speech therapy to improve his pronunciation of many sounds.
The program was the second iteration of a game they had made in fifth grade for their school's technology fair. In the game the user sees a letter or letter combination and several objects which start with that letter sound. The user identifies the name of the picture and then clicks on it to listen to the correct pronunciation.
"They created a project that was practical and helped somebody," Londa Crigger, mother of Carson and McClain, said. "There really wasn't anything available to help [their younger brother] practice his sounds, since he was a nonreader at the time."
The updated version uses the next round of age appropriate letters they got from their brother's speech therapist. It also addressed issues in the first game, which they found after having their younger brother test the original game.
"Some of the photos he didn't really understand so we went back and found photos that he understood," McClain Crigger said.
In the process they learned more about coding for the game as well. Carson and McClain said they enjoyed presenting their project as well as seeing all the other projects at the competition. They received third place in Grades 4-6.
"They're thinking beyond themselves and thinking, 'What can I do to make a difference?'" Londa Crigger said. "For me that's been the best, coolest part and really what you hope your kids will want to do in life."
Literacy Learning
Anika Shrotriya with her literacy learning game.
Anika Shrotriya, a fourth grader from Fellows Elementary School in Ames, created a program called Literacy Learning, which includes games practicing sight words by hearing, seeing and writing them. It also has games that work on reading comprehension by reading a story to the user, having the user read the story independently and then taking a quiz on the story. The user receives badges for completing the games.
This was Shrotriya's fourth time participating in the competition. She first participated as a kindergartener and wanted to teach sight words to other kindergarteners. Since then she has continued building on that initial program. She received second place in grades 4-6.
"I thought, 'How can I make a program that will help people with reading comprehension and other skills?'" she said.
She has learned to use the scratch programming language and is in the process of learning a new language, Python. The competition has made her excited about coding, which she hopes to do more of in the future.
"There are no limits," she said. "You can create whatever you like."
Neha Mehrotra, mother of Anika, sees how the competition instills confidence in working with computers and a deeper understanding of technology.
"I think every kid uses the internet these days and just knowing what happens in the background — how do you see that screen pop up and how do things change — to be able to make that happen through coding is very empowering," she said.
Alpha Uno
Adhitya Sivakumaran with his project, Alpha Uno.
Adhitya Sivakumaran, from Brookview Elementary School in Waukee, created Alpha Uno, which teaches kids ages two through five about letters, numbers and basic math skills. Sivakumaran, a third grader, had the idea for the project while trying to teach his sister a few math facts.
"She got bored and started to watch TV and that's when it hit me," he said. "Why not create something where kids can enjoy the fun of video games and learn at the same time? That's what I did."
It was his first time participating in the competition, which he heard about through his computer science teacher. He said he enjoyed seeing the projects made by other contestants and learned to have patience and the value of hard work. He won first place in Grades K-3.