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Avanguardia: The 137m «swan – shaped» superyacht concept from Lazzarini
Here comes the amazing swan-shaped superyacht, named as Avanguardia, is one of the top innovative technological models in the world.
Designed by Lazarrini Design Studio, the 137-meter Avanguardia has unveiled his latest avant-garde superyacht design, that takes its name from the positioning of the control tower which resembles the head of a swan. With the inspiration for the «head» stemming from a 1970s Japanese manga, the swan head functions as a control tower to manoeuvre the superyacht.
The «head» is detachable from the «neck» and can be converted into an auxiliary boat of 16 meters, at which point the upper part of the superyacht is then transformed into an auxiliary control tower. When the vessel is in motion, the «head» adjusts avanguardia's position by lowering itself to the centre of the superyacht's body.
Avanguardia is divided into five decks and could house up to 60 passengers on board, providing accommodation for up to 24 guests, 12 staff and 10 crew. She also houses two helicopters on board and is equipped with two helicopter hangars.
Power to the experimental design is conceived with twin fully-electric side engines, as well as a central MTU Rolls-Royce engine which would enable the yacht to reach a maximum cruising speed of 18 knots.
Anyone is willing to order this innovative superyacht should invest approximatexy $500 million or €423 million in the construction.
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Amnirana occidentalis é uma espécie de anfíbio da família Ranidae.

Pode ser encontrada nos seguintes países: Costa do Marfim, Gana, Guiné, Libéria e possivelmente em Nigéria.

Os seus habitats naturais são: florestas subtropicais ou tropicais húmidas de baixa altitude, marismas de água doce e marismas intermitentes de água doce.

Está ameaçada por perda de habitat.

Referências

Amnirana
Anfíbios descritos em 1960

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David Bautista or better known to fans as Batista has transitioned successfully into being a full-time actor. He already has some high-profile releases under his belt such as Guardians of Galaxy and Spectre and is also set to be a part of the upcoming Avengers movie.
In the screening for the Guardians of Galaxy Vol. 2 movie, Batista was photographed with the Smackdown LIVE Commissioner Shane McMahon and the Editorial Director of Men's Fitness, Shawn Perine.
Batista left WWE for the second time in 2014 due to arguments over the creative direction. Since then, Batista has been quite vocal about how badly his return was handled and claimed on numerous occasions that he is done with wrestling. Batista also refused a cameo appearance at Wrestlemania 32.
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Stunning Footage Shows a Marlin Impaling An Oil Rig Pipe
ByLucky Tran
While the human species continues to bicker about what to do about climate change, animals appear to realize the urgency of the situation, and are taking direct action. In an incredible story of nature fighting back against ecological destruction, a 14-foot blue marlin attacked and damaged an offshore oil rig in Angola last month. This attack caused BP to halt exports of crude oil, costing the corporation $100 million so far.
According to a report by the International Energy Agency, the marlin punctured a critical hose that connects the Plutonio oil rig's production, storage and offloading facilities. BP declared a "force majeure" for five days to avoid penalties from not making their contracted number of monthly oil output. The rig typically produces 180,000 barrels a day, so some 900,000 barrels of oil were lost.
Fortunately there were no reports that an oil spill was caused by the incident. Sadly, there are few details available about the fate of the plucky marlin, though one suspects the worst. It left behind a sizable imprint from its adventure, its bill was lodged in the 24-inch diameter rubber piping.
Image Credit: Africa Travel Channel
The background: The blue marlin is one of the fastest and largest fish in the world, and can grow up to 14 feet in length and weigh close to 2,000 pounds. The stunning creatures are native to the waters of the warmer Atlantic ocean region, and are blue-water fish, meaning they spend most of their lives far out at sea. Fisherman have long known that marlins are fierce fighters, famously described in Ernest Hemingway's classic The Old Man and the Sea.
Incredibly it's not the first time that nature has attacked the fossil fuel industry. Like many human activities that drastically affect the environment around them, offshore oil platforms act like metallic coral reefs and are known to attract a host of marine species. In the past decade, groups of swordfish have attacked a host of Angolan oil pipelines including Plutonio, causing multi-day disruptions. Large predators such as sharks have also been known to be drawn to the oil rigs, attracted by the schools of fish that congregate there.
Image Credit: YouTube [1,2]
The takeaway: This incident is a small, but fitting retribution for a company that has caused one of the worst environmental disaster in history, the Deep Horizon oil spill in 2010. In this catastrophe, 200 million gallons of BP's crude oil was pumped into the Gulf of Mexico during a total of 87 days, affecting over 6,000 miles of coastline. Some 8,000 animals were reported dead just six months after the spill, including many already endangered species. Even four years later, the effects continue to be devastating, with research showing that left over toxins are responsible for causing cardiac arrest in many species of fish, including marlins.
In addition, the contribution of the fossil fuel industries to climate change could prove extremely damaging to many marine species that are already under threat from overfishing and habitat loss.


Workshops aren't as bad as some might think. For those of us who pursued a writing degree, we came to respect and almost enjoy workshop classes. True, it was tough at first, having people criticize something you pour your heart and soul into, but in the end we learned to value their feedback. After all, how were we going to grow as writers if we didn't know what people were looking for or how to improve our stories.
For those of you out there who are writers, but never had the chance to take a formal workshop class, I say dive into one as soon as possible. You can try the online workshops like Writers Online Workshops.com or The Writer's Studio. You'll be able to get the feedback you may be looking for. However, I say at least once, try a classroom workshop class. You'd be surprised the difference it makes to have fellow writers in the same room as you. You can tell a lot about someone's feedback by how they say it and what their expressions look like.
Check out your local adult education programs or perhaps the YMCA. You may even want to consider starting one of your own. If you happen to know a group of writers whether at work or in your personal life, suggest a writer's group. You might be surprised at how many people are interested. Sometimes writer's just need motivation to write and a workshop can do just that.


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2/23/2012 at 8:20 PM by Jason Love 6
A Tale of a First Co-Op Gaming Experience with a Special Someone
Co-Op Couples: Just What the Doctor Ordered
At the start of any dating relationship, there are always a lot of firsts. First date; first kiss; first time introducing one another as boyfriend/girlfriend. For a gamer, perhaps one of the more important firsts, though, is first game played together. The question is: which one?
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Dr. Mario Online Co-Op Review
Nintendo has a long history of releasing games on several different systems. Whether this is a bad thing or not largely depends on whether you are a fan or critic of Nintendo franchises in general. Put me firmly in the "fan" camp. I have no problem with this recycling, as long as the games are good, which in Nintendo's case, they usually are. Who could argue that buying Smash Brothers three times was a waste of money? And Tetris for the DS was absolutely worth purchasing, though I'd played it on the original Game Boy for years. Let's consider Dr. Mario Online for a moment, then. It's been available for the NES, Nintendo 64, and for the GBA TWICE, and recently it hit the WiiWare service. Is it worth checking out, given the addition of a co-op mode?
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US survives bites, tops El Salvador 2-0 to advance in Gold Cup
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Skirmishing for position at the goal line ahead of a corner kick, Jozy Altidore could not believe what occurred: El Salvador defender Henry Romero bit the back of his left shoulder, then twisted his nipple.
Altidore maintained his composure - just - and then made light of the incident.
"My girl's mad at me," the American forward said. "She's mad at me. She's mad at Romero, 'cause she's like: 'Only I can bite you, only I can grab your nipples.'"
Amid the biting, twisting and talking, the U.S. advanced to a CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal against Costa Rica with a 2-0 win on goals by Omar Gonzalez in the 41st minute and Eric Lichaj in first-half stoppage time.
But the ugly match, interrupted by 45 fouls, will be remembered for the mark on Altidore's shoulder left by the teeth of the 25-year-old defender. Gonzalez said after the game he was bitten on the back of his left shoulder, by Darwin Cerin in the 81st minute.
"I was a bit shocked," Gonzalez said.
U.S. coach Bruce Arena said he wasn't surprised.
"There's a history of that in our sport," he said. Uruguay's Luis Suarez was given a four-month suspension for biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during the 2014 World Cup.
A furious Altidore shoved Romero, then grimaced and fell to the ground but remained in the game.
"It's never happened before, but in CONCACAF, it never ceases to amaze me," Altidore said. "You got to keep your cool. ... I shouldn't be saying these things happen, but they do."
Canadian referee Drew Fischer, a Major League Soccer regular, did not penalize the incident, which occurred in the 57th minute.
"I can't fault the referee," Arena said. "Those things are not easy to see on the field."
CONCACAF's disciplinary committee has leeway to impose punishment.
"These things always happen in football," El Salvador coach Eduardo Lara said through a translator, although it was unclear he knew bites had occurred.
The Americans, who started five veterans added for the tournament's knockout phase, overcame a shaky defense and poor passing. They face Costa Rica on Saturday in Arlington, Texas.
El Salvador's 26 fouls disrupted the U.S.
"Our timing wasn't good. We didn't deal well with the physicality. The game had no rhythm with all the fouls and players falling on the ground, but we weren't good on top of it." Arena said. "So it took us, really it took us 30 minutes to play a little bit, and then we got a little bit more assertive in different positions on the field and capitalized on a couple of their mistakes."
Arena changed all 11 starters for the second straight game and at 7-0-5 set a record for longest unbeaten streak at the start of a U.S. coaching tenure, topping Bob Bradley's 10-0-1 in 2007.
The U.S. improved to 6-0 against El Salvador in the Gold Cup, also winning quarterfinals 4-0 in 2002 and 5-1 in 2013. The Americans are 17-1-5 overall against the Salvadorians, the only loss an exhibition at San Salvador in 1992.
Altidore, forward Clint Dempsey, midfielders Michael Bradley and Darlington Nagbe, and goalkeeper Tim Howard were all added to the lineup. A crowd of 31,615 at half-filled Lincoln Financial Field was evenly split with supporters of both teams.
Howard was called on to save the U.S. in the third minute. Rodolfo Zelaya ran onto a terrible, lightly struck backpass by Lichaj and instead of striking the ball with his first touch appeared to want to round Howard. The goalkeeper sprinted out, slid and batted away the ball with his left hand.
"I told Tim thank you after the game," Lichaj said. "He got me out of the dirt there."
Gyasi Zardes was fed by Dempsey, broke in alone in the 17th and put the ball in the net, but he was ruled offside by linesman Ainsley Rochard of Trinidad and Tobago - replays showed Zardes was even with the last defender when Dempsey made the pass.
Bradley took a free kick on a flank from about 35 yards and sent it on a low liner into the middle of the penalty area. Gonzalez, a 6-foot-5 defender, outjumped Cerin about 8 yards from the goal and redirected the ball with a glance of his head through the upstretched arms of goalkeeper Derby Carrillo. After scoring once in his first 40 international appearances, Gonzalez has two goals in his last three.
Lichaj, trying to earn a spot as the primary backup to DeAndre Yedlin at right back, was played in by Dempsey in the second minute of stoppage time and beat sliding defender Ivan Mancia to score on an angled shot through the goalkeeper's legs from 6 yards. After his first international goal in 14 international appearances, Lichaj sprinted to the corner flack, and arms wide, did a belly slide.
His English wife - he plays for Nottingham Forest - and two kids are traveling to every Gold Cup match. They drove to Philadelphia from Cleveland.
"They haven't really been to America besides Chicago where I'm from - to see my parents," he said.


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Q: MSAccess: SQL WITH (NOLOCK) vs Select Distinct? I has an Access app with multiple users. I have a task that seems to be causing an occasional collision:

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*Users are fetching data from a linked SQL Server table to their local DB, dirt simple:
SELECT dbo_Item.*
FROM dbo_Item
WHERE (((dbo_Item.INVID)=4892));

*Some of these fetches can involve 350K+ records and take >~2 minutes to complete

*I currently have db.QueryTimeout = 0

*If two users are attempting to hit the remote table at the same time, we will occasionally see a SQL/Network error.  They are NOT attempting to access the same dataset.

*I doubt it's a timeout issue as the ERR is thrown within 1-2 minutes

The owner of the SQL Server-side data suggested adding a (NOLOCK) hint to my Access queries. I am not seeing that as an option, but I did find a random suggestion that performing a '"SELECT DISTINCT"' would not lock the table - is this true?
Any suggestions to avoid record locking issue - or ideas what else to look for?
Thanks!

A: Are they searching through 350k records or copying 350k records?
If searching through 350k records, an index on INVID may be useful.
If copying 350k record, DISTINCT could reduce this by removing duplicates, but if there are no duplicate entries, it doesn't help.
NOLOCK would help if other people were accessing the same data, essentially leaving the data open for others to modify, but your description is they are accessing different data.  If from the same table, NOLOCK could help.

A: I decided to use a passthru SELECT query with (NOLOCK) applied.  Then, I created a make_table query based on the passthru SELECT query.  Seems to work just fine.

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Q: Capturing packets on VMware machines I have a windows PC installed VMware Workstation and Linux run on it. I want When windows communicate with Internet I can capture packets in Linux, how can I do that?
The vmware network is Bridge, and I set eth0 use command "ifconfig eth0 procmisc".
linux IP is 192.168.0.103,   windows IP is 192.168.0.102
Run "tcpdump not host 192.168.0.103" with no result.
Thank you for you time and please help me

A: While I haven't used VMWare workstation before, I have used Oracle VirtualBox in a similar setup as you describe.
I suspect that the problem is that your network adaptor on the Linux VM is not actually accessing the physical network adaptor directly.  You will be using one of the network mapping types described in http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006480 instead.
As such, you are not getting all the traffic that is going to your physical network adaptor.  Instead you are getting the reduced set of traffic that VMWare is passing on to your guest.
The only way to get that is to do the snoop on your Windows host, using something like https://www.wireshark.org/


"The rich are different from you and me," novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once supposedly confided to fellow writer Ernest Hemingway. To which Hemingway famously replied, "Yes. They've got more money." Well, a new UBS Wealth Management Americas survey of more than 2,000 wealthy investors mostly age 50 or older with $1 million or more in investable suggests the affluent may also know a thing or two about preparing for retirement. To wit, here are three lessons I've culled from the survey that, wealthy or not, you can put to work in your own planning to boost your odds of achieving a more secure and fulfilling retirement.
1. Financial readiness trumps age.Many of us believe the trigger to retiring is hitting a certain age, whether it's 62, when we become eligible for Social Security; 65 the age for signing up for Medicare; or 66, when many Baby Boomers qualify for full Social Security benefits. But the rich know that age isn't what matters most. It's whether you're financially capable of maintaining your standard of living without those regular paychecks coming in. Which is why 66% of wealthy pre-retirees said their decision to retire hinges not on how old they are, but on reaching a certain level of assets.
That hurdle will be lower for most people than for affluent retirees. For example, 86% of those polled for this survey said they'd need at least $1 million before retiring and 41% said they wouldn't call it a career until they'd accumulated $3 million or more. Most people will be able to retire on considerably less than that. But whatever size nest egg is appropriate for your situation, you want to be sure you're on track to achieving it well in advance of retiring rather than discovering on the eve of your hoped-for retirement date that you're well short of the amount you'll need.
The best way to gauge whether the projected value of your nest egg combined with Social Security will provide enough income for a secure retirement is perform regular checkups with a tool like T. Rowe Price's Retirement Income Calculator. Just plug in the amount you already have saved, the percentage of salary you're contributing to retirement accounts and the age at which you would like to retire, and the calculator will estimate the probability that you'll be able to retire on that schedule with enough income to support you the rest of your life.
Before you retire, you'll also want to make sure you have a comprehensive retirement income plan that details the amount of income you'll be relying on from such sources as Social Security, any pensions, withdrawals from savings, home equity, a reverse mortgage, etc. Nine in 10 of the UBS survey participants said they're not only confident they'll have enough money saved for retirement, but that they also have a clear idea of where their income will come from once they retire. Without such clarity, you can't really know whether you're truly prepared to maintain your standard of living in retirement after you retire or are engaging in wishful thinking.
2. You still need to invest for growth.It's understandable why many retirees like to play it more conservatively investing their savings after calling it a career. After all, severe stock market setbacks are more unsettling when you have less time to rebound from them. At the same time, though, your retirement portfolio also has to generate solid gains to generate income that can last the rest of your life. Which is why after retiring you still need a healthy dose of stocks in your portfolio. If anything, this is even more true today, considering the anemic yields currently available in the investments retirees have traditionally gravitated toward, such as bonds, CDs and money-market funds.
Wealthy retirees clearly understand this dynamic. More than 60% of those surveyed said they disagree with the old adage that the percentage of stocks in your portfolio should equal 100 minus your age—i.e., 40% at age 60, 30% at 70, 20% at 80, etc. Instead, these retirees reported were holding upwards of 50% or more of their assets in stocks on average even into their 70s and 80s.
That's not to say you should automatically follow their lead. After all, with a larger nest egg and more resources to fall back on, wealthier investors generally are better able to ride out severe market downturns with less concern about having to scale back their standard of living because of investment losses. You may not have that luxury. So you've got to come up with a stocks-bonds mix that's right given your financial circumstances.
So how do that right balance—i.e., enough stocks to get you the returns you need so your savings last a lifetime but also adequate protection against market setbacks? One way is to go to a risk tolerance-asset allocation tool like the free version Vanguard offers online. After answering questions about your appetite for risk and when you expect to start drawing money from your portfolio, the tool will suggest a blend of stocks and bonds that's appropriate for your situation. By then plugging that mix into the American Institute for Economic Research's Retirement Withdrawal Calculator—which you can find in the Retirement Income section of RealDealRetirement's Toolbox, you can then get a sense of whether a portfolio invested in such a mix will be able to generate the income you need as long as you'll need it.
Is An Annuity A Good Way To Boost Retirement Income?
3. A successful retirement involves more than just dollars and cents.While going into retirement with a hefty savings balance may increase your odds of having a secure and fulfilling post-career life, wealthy investors know that doesn't guarantee that making the adjustment from the work-a-day world to retirement will automatically be seamless. The survey found that more affluent pre-retirees were concerned about not having a regular schedule (64%) than not having a regular paycheck (36%), and more than a third said they were worried about how they'll fill their free time and losing their sense of purpose in life.
To address those concerns and better prepare for a successful career-to-retirement transition, it's important in the years leading up to retirement to do a little lifestyle planning. Among the issues you should explore: Do you have the kind of solid network of friends and family that research shows is important to staying socially engaged? Will you stay in your current home, downsize or perhaps even relocate to an area with lower living costs? Have you considered steps you can take to ensure this final phase of your life will be meaningful and fulfilling—perhaps immersing yourself in a new hobby or venture of some sort or working with a charity or for a cause that represents values you admire?
For what it's worth, the retirees queried for this survey seem to have taken to retirement pretty well, with half saying they felt happy with their new lives right away, while another third or so saying they adjusted to retired life within a year. Just 19% said that if they had it to over again that they would have delayed retiring.
Bottom line: The rich may very well be different from the rest of us, and the fact that they have more money is a definite advantage in retirement. But if you plan diligently and take your cues from the wealthy in the areas above, you should be able to have a retirement that, even if not as financially secure as an affluent retiree's, can be as enjoyable and rewarding.
Walter Updegrave is the editor of RealDealRetirement.com. If you have a question that you would like Walter to answer online, send it to him at walter@realdealretirement.com. FollowWalter on Twitter at @RealDealRetire.


Here is the sample program for your reference.. Just go through the program I have develop the same logic only I am using the Fiscal year as a dynamic.
DATA: IT_MSEG TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF TY_MSEG WITH HEADER LINE.
DATA: IT_FYEAR TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF TY_FYEAR.
DATA: IT1_MSEG TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF TY1_MSEG WITH HEADER LINE.
data: G_CONTAINER type SCRFNAME value 'CUST_CONTAINER1'.
data: G_CUSTOM_CONTAINER type ref to CL_GUI_CUSTOM_CONTAINER.
data: G_GRID  type ref to CL_GUI_ALV_GRID.
data WA_FIELDCAT like line of GT_FIELDCAT.
SELECTION-SCREEN END   OF BLOCK BLK1.
DATA: V_COUNTER1 TYPE I VALUE 0.
DATA: COUNT TYPE I VALUE 0.
FIELDTEXT = 'Std Cost(Plant 0088)'.
LOOP AT IT_FYEAR INTO WA_FYEAR.
DATA: MAT1 TYPE REF TO LCL_READ_TRANSACTIONAL_HISTORY.
DATA: MAT2 TYPE REF TO LCL_OUTPUT_DETAIL.
APPEND WA_FYEAR TO IT_FYEAR .
IF NOT IT_MARA IS INITIAL.
DELETE ADJACENT DUPLICATES FROM IT_MARA1 COMPARING MATNR.
IF NOT IT_MARA1 IS INITIAL.
loop at GT_FIELDCAT into WA_FIELDCAT.
modify GT_FIELDCAT index SY-TABIX from WA_FIELDCAT.
*  GS_LAYOUT-GRID_TITLE = 'TRANSACTION HISTORY REPORT'.
*  GS_LAYOUT-DETAILTITL = 'TRANSACTION HISTORY REPORT'.
DATA: SUM TYPE P DECIMALS 2.
*DATA: LT_MSEG TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF MSEG WITH HEADER LINE.
SORT LT_MSEG BY MATNR MJAHR.
SUM = SUM + LT_MSEG-DMBTR.
READ TABLE S_MJAHR WITH KEY LOW = IT1_MSEG-MJAHR.
CONCATENATE 'IT_FINAL-DMBTR' L_TABIX INTO L_FIELD_QTY.
ASSIGN: COMPONENT 'DMBTR' OF STRUCTURE IT1_MSEG TO <FS>.
ASSIGN TABLE FIELD (L_FIELD_QTY) TO <FS1>.
READ TABLE IT_MARA WITH KEY MATNR = IT1_MSEG-MATNR.
READ TABLE IT_MAKT WITH KEY MATNR = IT1_MSEG-MATNR.
READ TABLE IT_MBEW WITH KEY MATNR = IT1_MSEG-MATNR.
*  READ TABLE IT_MARA WITH KEY MATNR = IT_MSEG-MATNR.
*  IF SY-SUBRC = 0.
*  READ TABLE IT_MAKT WITH KEY MATNR = IT_MSEG-MATNR.
*  READ TABLE IT_MBEW WITH KEY MATNR = IT_MSEG-MATNR.
**    DELETE TABLE LT_MSEG INDEX SY-TABIX.
PARAMETER : p_table LIKE dd02l-tabname.FIELD-SYMBOLS: <table> TYPE table.FIELD-SYMBOLS : <fname> TYPE ANY.DATA : it_fieldcat TYPE lvc_t_fcat.DATA : wa_fieldcat TYPE lvc_s_fcat.DATA : i_program_name LIKE sy-repid.DATA : i_structure_name LIKE dd02l-tabname.DATA : v_ref TYPE REF TO data.i_structure_name = p_table.i_program_name = sy-repid. break-point.CALL FUNCTION 'LVC_FIELDCATALOG_MERGE' EXPORTING i_structure_name = i_structure_name CHANGING ct_fieldcat = it_fieldcat EXCEPTIONS inconsistent_interface = 1 program_error = 2 OTHERS = 3. CALL METHOD cl_alv_table_create=>create_dynamic_table EXPORTING it_fieldcatalog = it_fieldcat IMPORTING ep_table = v_ref. ASSIGN v_ref->* TO <table>. SELECT * INTO corresponding fields of TABLE <table> FROM (p_table).
gr_table      TYPE REF TO cl_salv_table.
CONCATENATE 'COL' '_' index1 INTO wa_comp-name.
wa_comp-type ?= cl_abap_datadescr=>describe_by_name( 'STRING' ).
itab_type   = cl_abap_tabledescr=>create( struct_type ).
cl_salv_table=>factory( IMPORTING r_salv_table = gr_table CHANGING t_table = <dyn_table> ).


Gary Gardeski went home to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on March 10, 2019, at the age of 63.
Constance "Connie" B. Alden, 101, of Chisholm, died Sunday, March 10, 2019, in Heritage Manor Health Care Center in Chisholm.
Phyllis Marie Lamkin, 83, of Aurora, died Saturday, March 9, 2019 at Essentia Health-Virginia.
Mary Ann Nelimark, 93, died at The Summit at Sunland Springs Memory Care in Mesa, AZ on March 11, 2019 from Alzheimer's disease. She was born on December 29, 1925 in Orlot, Romania to Peter and Anna Olar.


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Q: Introduction to newforms and oldforms Looking for an introductory text on newforms and oldforms. I have only found http://sage.math.washington.edu/edu/Fall2003/252/lectures/11-12-03/11-12-03.pdf which is not introductory in nature.
Thanks

A: I find Diamond and Shurman to be the best first introduction to modular forms, including discussion of oldforms and newforms. I also find that Goldfeld's Automorphic L-Functions for GLnR (as opposed to his automorphic representation books) to be the best higher-level introduction.
The relationship between these is somewhat similar to the relationship between Atiyah-MacDonald and Eisenbud towards algebraic geometry: there's a lot of overlap, but Goldfeld is pitched much higher.


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Tour Herculaneum and Mt Vesuvius
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>Google Will Merge Chrome OS & Android
Google Will Merge Chrome OS & Android
After the years, from 2011, when Google started to sell Chromebooks, it seems that we will have the one OS for smartphones, tablets and desktops - Android. Despite the official comments, there are a lot of insider information about the soon merge.
Now Android is the most used OS. Over a billion devices all over the world run it. You can find it on smartphones, tablets, TVs, watches and, even, cars. 4 of 5 smartphones will have Android inside. And as Chromebooks have not more than 3% market share after 5 years, so it looks very logical to expand the most popular OS on desktops.
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But Google is not the one on this way. Microsoft attends to make Windows 10 an OS for all your devices and presented a dock station, which converts your Lumia to a desktop. And, certainly, Apple won't miss this fight.
Of course, Google won't kill Chromebooks tomorrow. It will take a couple of years, especially if we'll think of US Department of Education, whom Chromebooks are supplied.
Moreover, about a month ago Google has presented a new tablet - Pixel C. It has a 10.2-inch screen, Nvidia Tegra X1 processor and the latest Android on board. From the competitors prospect, it must compete Microsoft Surface Pro and Apple MacBook. But it seems, that first of all, it will beat both: browser-centric web model and Chromebooks as its essence.


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Difference Between Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Case, Test Script, Test Scenario And Test Condition
Learn What Is The Difference Between Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Case, Test Script, Test Scenario And Test Condition With Examples:
Software Testing includes several basic as well as important concepts that every software tester should be aware of.
This article will explain the various concepts in Software Testing along with their comparison.
Test Plan vs Test Strategy, Test Case vs Test Script, Test Scenario vs Test Condition and Test Procedure vs Test Suite are explained in detail for your easy understanding.
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Question: "We almost have an overload of technical terms when working in an IT environment. There are processes, documents, tasks and everything else that is addressed by its own technical name. Now, how are we to remember, understand and use them in the right context every single time?"
The above question asked by Sasi C. is the most often asked question in our Software Testing class and I always tell our participants that with the experience we hardly notice these words and that they become a part of our vocabulary.
But often, confusion surrounds these and in this article, I am trying to define few commonly used terms.
Various Software Testing Concepts
Enlisted below are the various Software Testing Concepts along with their comparison.
Let's Start!!
Difference Between Test Plan And Test Strategy
Difference Between Test Case And Test Script
Difference Between Test Scenario And Test Condition
Difference Between Test Procedure And Test Suite
Test Plan: A Test Plan can be defined as a document that defines the scope, objective, and approach to test the software application. The Test Plan is a term and a deliverable.
The Test Plan is a document that lists all the activities in a QA project, schedules them, defines the scope of the project, roles & responsibilities, risks, entry & exit criteria, test objective and anything else that you can think of.
The Test Plan is as I like to call a 'super document' that lists everything there is to know and need. Please check this link for more information and a sample.
The Test Plan will be designed based on the requirements. While assigning work to the test engineers, due to some reasons one of the testers gets replaced by another one. Here, the Test Plan gets updated.
The Test strategy outlines the testing approach and everything else that surrounds it. It is different from the Test Plan, in the sense that a Test strategy is only a subset of the test plan. It is a hardcore test document that is to an extent generic and static. There is also an argument about at what levels test strategy or plan is used- but I really do not see any discerning difference.
Example: The Test Plan gives information about who is going to test at what time. For Example, Module 1 is going to be tested by "X tester". If tester Y replaces X for some reason, the test plan has to be updated.
Suggested Read => Test Plan Tutorial – A Perfect Guide
Test Strategy: Test Strategy is a set of guidelines that explain the test design and determine how testing needs to be done.
Example: A Test Strategy includes details like "Individual modules are to be tested by the test team members". In this case, who tests it does not matter – so it's generic and the change in the team member does not have to be updated, keeping it static.
Further reading => Guide to Writing a Good Test Strategy document.
TEST STRATEGY
It is derived from software requirement specification(SRS). It is derived from the Business Requirement document(BRS).
It is prepared by the test lead or manager. It is developed by the project manager or the Business analyst.
Test plan id, features to be tested, test techniques, testing tasks, features pass or fail criteria, test deliverables, responsibilities, and schedule, etc. are the components of the test plan. Objectives and scope, documentation formats, test processes, team reporting structure, client communication strategy, etc. are the components of test strategy.
If there is a new feature or a change in the requirement that is happened then the test plan document gets updated. Test strategy maintains the standards while preparing the document. It is also called as Static document.
We can prepare the test plan individually. In smaller projects, test strategy is often found as a section of a test plan.
We can prepare a Test plan at the project level. We can use Test strategy at multiple projects.
It describes how to test , when to test, who will test and what to test. It describes what type of technique to follow and which module to test.
We can describe about the specifications by using a Test Plan. Test strategy describes about the general approaches.
In my opinion, these two terms can be used interchangeably. Yes, I am saying there is no difference. The test case is a sequence of steps that help us perform a certain test on the application. The test script is also the same thing.
Now, there is one school of thought that a test case is a term used in the manual testing environment and test script is used in an automation environment. This is partly true, because of the comfort level of the testers in the respective fields and also on how the tools refer to the tests (some call test scripts and some call them to test cases).
So in effect, test script and test case both are steps to be performed on an application to validate its functionality whether manually or through automation.
Further reading => How to Write Effective Test Cases? and Test Case Example Template.
TEST SCRIPT
It is a step by step by procedure that is used to test an application It is a set of instructions to test an application automatically.
The term Test Case is used in the manual testing environment. The term Test Script is used in automation testing environment.
It is done manually. It is done by scripting format.
It is developed in the form of templates. It is developed in the form of scripting.
Test case template includes Test Suit ID, Test Data, Test procedure, Actual results, Expected results etc. In Test Scrip,t we can use different commands to develop script.
Is used to test an application. It is also used to test an application.
It is the base form to test an application in sequence. Once we develop, the script will run it multiple times until the requirement is changed.
Example: We need to verify the login button in an application,
The steps include:
a) Launch the application.
b) Verify if the login button is displaying or not.
Example: We want to click an image button in an application.
The script includes:
a) Click the Image Button.
Test Scenario: It is a way to define all the possible ways to test an application. It is a single statement to cover all possible ways to test an application.
Test Condition: Test Condition is the specification that a tester must follow for testing an Application.
This is a one-line pointer that testers create as an initial, transitional step into the test design phase. This is mostly a one-line definition of "What" we are going to test with respect to a certain feature. Usually, test scenarios are input for the creation of test cases.
In agile projects, Test scenarios are the only test design outputs and no test cases are written following these. A Test scenario might result in multiple tests.
Examples of Test Scenarios:
Validate if a new country can be added by the Admin
Validate if an existing country can be deleted by the Admin
Validate if an existing country can be updated
Test conditions, on the other hand, are more specific. It can be roughly defined as the aim/goal of a certain test.
Example Test Condition: In the above example, if we were to test the scenario 1, we can test the following conditions:
Enter the country name as "India"(valid )and check for the addition of the country
Enter a blank and check if the country gets added.
In each case, the specific data is described and the goal of the test is much more precise.
Further reading => 180+ Sample Test Scenarios for Testing Web and Desktop Application.
TEST SCENARIO
It is a process to test an application with all possible ways. Test conditions are the static rules should be followed to test an application.
Test scenarios are an input for the creation of test cases. It gives the main goal to test an application.
Test scenario covers all possible cases to test an application. Test condition is very specific.
It reduces the complexity. It makes a system bug free.
Test scenario can be a single or a group of test cases. It is the goal of test cases.
By writing scenarios it will be easy to understand the functionality of an application. Test condition is very specific.
These are one line statements to explain what we are going to test. Test Condition describes the main goal to test an application.
Examples test scenarios:
#1) Validate if a new country can be added by the Admin.
#2) Validate if an existing country can be deleted by the admin.
#3) Validate if an existing Country can be updated. Examples test Conditions:
#1) Enter the country name as "India" and check for the addition of the country.
#2) Leave blank fields and check if the country gets added.
The test procedure is a combination of test cases based on a certain logical reason, like executing an end-to-end situation or something to that effect. The order in which the test cases are to be run is fixed.
Test Procedure: It is nothing but the Test Life Cycle. There are 10 steps in the Testing Life Cycle.
Effort Estimation
Project Initiation
System Study
Design Test Case
Execute Test Cases
Report Defects
Analysis and Summary Report
For Example, if I was to test the sending of an email from Gmail.com, the order of test cases that I would combine to form a test procedure would be:
The test to check the login
The test to compose an email
The test to attach one/more attachments
Formatting the email in the required way by using various options
Adding contacts or email addresses to the To, BCC, CC fields
Sending an email and making sure it is showing in the "Sent Mail" section
All the test cases above are grouped to achieve a certain target at the end of them. Also, test procedures have a few test cases combined at any point in time.
The Test suite, on the other hand, is the list of all the test cases that have to be executed as a part of a test cycle or a regression phase, etc. There is no logical grouping based on functionality. The order in which the constituent test cases get executed may or may not be important.
Test Suite: The Test Suite is a container that has a set of tests which help the testers in executing and reporting the test execution status. It can take any of the three states i.e. Active, in progress and completed.
Example of the Test Suite: If an application's current version is 2.0. The previous version 1.0 might have had 1000 test cases to test it entirely. For version 2 there are 500 test cases to just test the new functionality that is added in the new version.
So, the current test suite would be 1000+500 test cases that include both regression and the new functionality. The suite is a combination too, but we are not trying to achieve a target function.
Test suites can contain 100s or even 1000s of test cases.
It is a combination of test cases to test an application. It is a group of test cases to test an application.
It is a logical grouping based on the functionality. There is no logical grouping based on the functionality.
Test Procedures are deliverable products in the software development process. It is executed as a part of the test cycle or regression.
The order of execution is fixed. The order of execution may not be important.
Test procedure contains end to end test cases. Test suite contains all new features and regression test cases.
Test procedures are coded in a new language called TPL(Test Procedure language). Test suite contains manual test cases or automation scripts.
Creation of Test Procedures is based on the end to end test flow. Test suites are created based on the cycle or based on the scope.
Software Testing Concepts play a major role in the Software Testing Life Cycle.
A clear understanding of the above-discussed concepts along with their comparison is very important for every Software Tester to carry out the testing process effectively.
Usually, articles like these are excellent starting points for deeper discussions. So, please contribute your thoughts, agreements, disagreements and anything else, in the comments below. We look forward to your feedback.
We also welcome your questions about software testing in general or anything related to your testing career. We will address these in more detail in our upcoming posts in the same series.
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61 thoughts on "Difference Between Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test Case, Test Script, Test Scenario And Test Condition"
Very Helpfull!!! Much appreciatd :)
Superbly explained….thanks
Nice and well explained article, i now can distinguish between these terms.
Hi Swati,
Thanks for your very detailed information
. Would you please explain what is test policy?
well explained article.Thanks for your information.thank you
Sabari
May i know the difference between FRD & BRD
I think you're wrong about the Test procedure – it describes activities to prepare the test run, conduct it and follow-up after tests were performed. To some extent, it describes actions required to achieve pre-conditions and post-conditions. So everything that is required to perform the testing. While Test suites CAN be organized logically (according to functionality) and even form other suites.
Andy you just recap my thoughts after initial reading of this nonsense.
p.s. "articles like these are excellent starting points for deeper discussions" Yes, you are absolutely right because such an ignorant, incomplete and vague information just narrate the whole profanity of above-discussed.
Some key points of difference between conceptions not conclusive, nether conclude from initial statement like "Test procedures are coded in a new language called TPL(Test Procedure language)." – "Test suite contains manual test cases or automation scripts."
Thank you so much for this wonderful and easy to understand descriptions :)
Tarique
Test scenario:In general Various ways a functionality needed to test. Example: :
Req: Create an account
Test Condition : First_name,Last_name,Email,User Name ,Password is condition to Create an Account.
Acceptance criteria: Data Type /Data Length
Test Scenario: 1) Valid 2 ) Invalid 3) Boundary ( Only if Range is given in Data)
Samera
I have question please,
If test scenario is used in Agile instead of test cases, so how it can be used by regression testing?
please, send the answer by my email sammorahobaid@gmail.com


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magazine InterviewHistory & Philosophy
Have Westerners created a new and viable form of Buddhism, or has something been lost in translation? Berkeley professor Robert Sharf argues that with our emphasis on individual experience and meditation, we risk cutting ourselves off from the benefits of a greater tradition. Photographs by Christine Alicino
Robert Sharf's interest in Buddhism began in the early 1970s, when, as a seeker in sandals barely out of his teens, he hopped from one meditation retreat to the next, first in India and Burma, then back in North America. It was shortly after a three-month Vipassana meditation retreat in Bucksport, Maine, in 1975 that Sharf began to wonder whether the single-minded emphasis on meditation characteristic of much of Western Buddhism was in some way misguided. Over time, doubt and confusion gave way to a desire to better understand Buddhism's historical background, which in turn led him to pursue a career in Buddhist scholarship. Today Sharf is the D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His area of expertise is East Asian Buddhism, most especially the Buddhism of medieval China. He is also an ordained priest in the Hosso school of Japanese Buddhism.
Sharf is also known for his cogent critique of what scholars call Buddhist modernism, a relatively recent movement that selectively places those elements that are consistent with modern sensibilities at the core of the tradition and dismisses all else. Sharf's critique of Buddhist modernism stems from a belief that we cannot reduce Buddhism to a simple set of propositions and practices without in some way distorting our sense of its wholeness and complexity. For Sharf, understanding a religious tradition demands not only familiarity with contemporary practice but also a willingness to enter into dialogue with what is historically past and culturally foreign. To participate in such a dialogue we need knowledge of the context in which the tradition is embedded and an ability to see past the presuppositions of our own time and place. Clearing the ground, as it were, for this dialogue with tradition is the job of critical scholarly practice in religious life.
Throughout the following interview, there is an irony at play. Without the bridges of understanding and the foundations of practice that Buddhist modernists like D. T. Suzuki, Anagarika Dharmapala, and others established, Buddhism would be for Westerners opaque and unapproachably foreign. Even as we regard them with a critical eye, we stand on their broad shoulders.
Maybe this is just how Buddhism works. Maybe this is just why it works. Certainly, in these pluralistic times of competing worldviews and claims to religious truth, we have much to learn from Buddhism's long tradition of integrating self-critique with a rich and vital religious tradition. Perhaps we might say that today to approach religion critically is simply to practice in good faith.
—Andrew Cooper
What is Buddhist modernism? Let's start with an earlier term scholars used for much the same thing: "Protestant Buddhism." The Princeton anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere coined this term in 1970 to refer to developments, beginning in the late nineteenth century, in Asian Buddhist countries that were influenced by and similar to Protestant theological ideas floating around at the time. Earlier in the century, Protestant thinkers, confronting the "crisis of faith" brought on by the rise of science, had developed new ways of thinking about their tradition that were more compatible with the scientific-rational worldview. So they claimed, for example, that "true" Christianity has little to do with rituals or institutions or even doctrine. True Christianity, they said, is a matter of the heart: the personal experience of the divine, a private relationship between an individual and God. Institutions like the Church or an emphasis on ritual or doctrine can stand in the way of this immediate, incontestable relationship with the divine. So religion was construed as a matter of a personal spiritual experience that need not clash with reason or science.
What was it about this view of religion that appealed to Buddhists in Asia? By the late nineteenth century, much of Asia was also coming to terms with the rise of the worldview of the modern West. In Buddhist Asia—especially Sri Lanka, Japan, and the parts of Southeast Asia most affected by colonialism, urbanization, industrialization, and other modernizing influences—Buddhist leaders adopted similar strategies for bringing their traditions into the modern world. Many influential Buddhist teachers had received Western-style educations, some in missionary schools, and they were rethinking Buddhism from the ground up. They, too, had to respond to the criticism that religion was just blind faith and superstition, that the priesthood was self-serving and corrupt, that religious teachings were ultimately incompatible with science and rationality. Obeyesekere used the term "Protestant Buddhism" to refer to the new Buddhist movements that were springing up around this time. But some scholars now feel that the term "Protestant Buddhism" is easily misunderstood—it sounds a bit derogatory, I guess—so they prefer the more neutral term "Buddhist modernism."
Buddhist modernism was a global movement, a sort of cultural fusion in which the interests of Asian Buddhists and Western Buddhist enthusiasts converged. For the Asians, the critiques of religion that originated in the West resonated with their own needs as they struggled with cultural upheavals in their homelands. For Westerners, Buddhism seemed to provide an attractive spiritual alternative to their own seemingly moribund religious traditions. The irony, of course, is that the Buddhism to which these Westerners were drawn was one already transformed by its contact with the West.
There are two aspects of Buddhist modernism you mention that I am especially interested in hearing you address: Buddhism's purported compatibility with science and the privileging of individual spirituality over what many consider to be the outer trappings of religion. These are foundational assumptions to many Western Buddhists, yet it is evident from your writings that you regard them as very selective readings of the tradition. Let's start with the first, the claim that Buddhism is consistent with the Western rational-scientific worldview. This has long been one of its big draws, and it has certainly gotten a lot of play in this magazine. Indeed, it is not uncommon to hear Buddhism spoken of as a science of the mind. The Buddhist canon is so vast that you can always find passages here and there to support whatever reading of the tradition you prefer. For over two thousand years, influential Buddhist teachers read selectively to promote and justify their own understanding of Buddhism, and it is no different with those who want to show that Buddhism is compatible with science. You know, as a young man, D. T. Suzuki [1870–1966]—who was by far the most influential interpreter of Zen Buddhism for the West and the preeminent Buddhist modernist—spent many years in LaSalle, Illinois, where he assisted the publisher Paul Carus, the author of The Gospel of Buddha. [See Judith Snodgrass's review of the new edition online at tricycle.com.] Carus was interested in a grand synthesis of science and religion; he called his philosophy the "Religion of Science" and published many books on it. His enthusiasm for Buddhism stemmed from his conviction that the Buddha was the first prophet of this Religion of Science. In his youth, Suzuki greatly admired Carus, and his translation of Carus's Gospel of Buddha became a leading Buddhist textbook in Japan—even the clergy were studying it! So here's a case in which a Western and non-Buddhist reading of Buddhism came to influence its Asian expression in a way that appealed to later Westerners. In other words, part of Buddhism's appeal in the West was that the Buddhism we were seeing had already been cast in a Western mold.
Buddhists, like Christians, have had little choice but to approach their tradition selectively. Zen Buddhists, say, give preference to certain texts and commentaries, and they do this very differently from the way Theravada Buddhists or Pure Land Buddhists do. My concern is not with the selectivity of those who read Buddhism as a rationalist and scientific religion—it is perfectly understandable given the world in which we live. It is really not a question of misreading. It is a question of what gets lost in the process.
Can you give me an example of what gets lost? Well, let me back up a moment. In order to make Buddhism compatible with science, Buddhist modernism, it seems to me, accepts a Cartesian dualistic understanding of the world. In other words, you draw a metaphysical line through the world: there's the immaterial, spiritual world of mind on the one hand, which is the proper domain of religion, and there's the physical or material world on the other, a world governed by mechanistic laws, which is the domain of science. Once you accept this picture of the world, religion is compatible with science only insofar as it is relegated to the realm of inner experience. Religion, understood this way, has no purchase in the empirical world. Ritual has value only indirectly—as a way to bring about psychological change. Look at how suspicious many Western Buddhists are of religious ritual. And when we downplay ritual, we risk weakening our bonds to community and tradition. That's a pretty major loss.
I suspect that most Buddhist teachers throughout history would have found this Cartesian view of the world pretty weird. In discarding everything that doesn't fit with our modern view, we compromise the tradition's capacity to critique this modern view. Buddhism developed in a very different historical and cultural context from our own. Traditional Buddhist epistemology, for example, simply does not accept the Cartesian notion of an insurmountable gap between mind and matter. Most Buddhist philosophies hold that mind and object arise interdependently, so there is no easy way to separate one's understanding of the world from the world itself.
What sort of critique of the scientific view might Buddhism otherwise offer? The naturalistic stance—the idea that there is an independent insentient world out there governed by scientific laws and impersonal processes—is ultimately a human construct, a powerful and effective human construct, but a construct nonetheless. This is not to deny the power of science, but it does call into question the way we approach scientific knowledge. Of course, there are many philosophers, scientists, and historians of science who have made a similar point. But Buddhism has its own insights and perspectives to offer. In other words, when we engage seriously with the Buddhist tradition we learn other ways of construing the world, other stories we can tell about the way things are, and these can be cogent, coherent, and compelling in their own way. This is not to argue for a naive acceptance of Buddhist epistemology and cosmology. But we won't see what Buddhism has to offer if, at the outset, we twist it out of shape to make it conform to contemporary norms.
The second point—that what Buddhism is really about is the individual's spiritual experience and not religious institutions, beliefs, doctrines, or rituals—is an assumption so deeply ingrained in Buddhist practice in the West that I think many would question whether it is, on Buddhist grounds, open to critique at all. I certainly don't think that personal experience, meditation, spirituality, and the like are unimportant or that they have no place in Buddhism. The Buddha, after all, attained enlightenment while meditating under the Bodhi tree. My concern is with how Buddhist modernism has isolated meditation from the context of the whole of Buddhist religious life. So much of what was once considered integral to the tradition has been abandoned in this rush to celebrate meditation or mindfulness or personal transformation or mystical experience as the sine qua non of Buddhism. Again, it's really not a question of right or wrong. It is a question of what gets lost.
As I mentioned, the Buddhist modernists were influenced by Protestant thinkers who construed religion as a matter of inner experience. To translate Buddhist experience into terms Westerners could grasp, D. T. Suzuki borrowed from a number of Western sources, including the philosopher William James. Suzuki was fascinated by James's notion of religious experience as a kind of pure, direct experience that is unmediated by one's cultural or religious formation. Suzuki and other modernists argued that satori—the sudden experience of an enlightened state—was the unmediated experience to which James referred, and that this experience was not only the essence of Buddhism but the essence of all religion. By insisting that some specific, repeatable, ineffable experience is at the very core of the Buddhist tradition, they end up essentializing Buddhism.
How does this idea—that Buddhism points to an essential, experiential truth beyond Buddhism—become a problem? I think there are several problems. For one thing, many Buddhist texts and teachers argue that if Buddhism is about anything, it's about critiquing essences! There is also a kind of arrogance in claiming that Buddhism is not so much a religion as it is the path to the truth behind all religions. In other words, when Suzuki and other contemporary Buddhist teachers argue that all religions emerge from and point toward a single truth, they also imply that Buddhism, properly understood, is the most direct expression of that truth. I have been present at any number of Buddhist-Christian "dialogues" in which Buddhist teachers lecture respected Christian leaders about the ultimate meaning or essence of Christianity, which strikes me as arrogant, to say the least.
Anyway, this emphasis on a single determinative experience has been very influential in Buddhism's development in the West. For example, the Japanese Zen master Hakuun Yasutani [1885–1973] was a teacher to some of the most significant teachers in the West, including Philip Kapleau Roshi, Taizan Maezumi Roshi, Robert Aitken Roshi, and Eido Shimano Roshi. Yasutani was famous for his overriding emphasis on kensho, which means much the same thing as satori. In Japan he was a marginal figure, pretty much ignored by Soto and Rinzai masters. But in the West, largely because of the work of his disciples, his approach to Zen and his emphasis on kensho became pivotal. Similarly, if you practice Vipassana (insight) meditation in America, chances are good that you are using techniques established by Mahasi Sayadaw or U Ba Khin, two twentieth-century Burmese meditation teachers. Yet these two teachers were controversial within the Theravada world precisely because of the emphasis they placed on the rapid attainment of experiential states, especially sotapatti, or "stream entry." Sotapatti, like kensho or satori, was understood as a sudden, determinative, and radically transformative experience—a glimpse of nirvana.
Unfortunately, these experiences look clearer in theory than they do in real life, where meditation masters spend no small amount of time arguing over what constitutes such experiences, who really has had them, who is genuinely qualified to judge such things, whose method leads to the authentic experience, and whose leads to some ersatz version, and so forth. It is significant that Yasutani Roshi, Mahasi Sayadaw, and U Ba Khin were all criticized by many of their peers for offering up a "quick fix" version of Buddhism.
But these controversies are not really the point. I think it's one thing to view meditation as a serious religious discipline that can help overcome craving and attachment. This approach is perfectly consistent with many Buddhist teachings. But that is quite different from viewing meditation as the be-all and end-all of Buddhism, and it is also different from seeing meditation in utilitarian terms—as a means to bring about an experience, such as kensho or sotapatti, that will instantly transform the whole of one's existence. Buddhism, like life, isn't that simple. I think many American teachers and practitioners have begun to appreciate this, yet old habits die hard.
But to get back to your point, what gets lost when primacy is given to individual spiritual experience? The Sangha gets lost! The community gets lost. Buddhism has what it calls its Three Treasures: the Buddha, the Dharma, or his teaching, and the Sangha, or the religious community. Throughout history, each of these has been interpreted in various ways, but the idea that one of them might not be that important—it would never fly. But if you view Buddhism as a matter of inner experience, you downplay its corporate dimension, those traditional resources that serve to deepen and extend the bonds of community and tradition.
Today, you often hear people describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious." What they mean, I think, is that they care deeply about their inner spiritual and psychological lives, but they are not particularly interested in an affiliation with a religious tradition or institution. Buddhist modernism provides a perspective that not only facilitates this sort of appropriation of Buddhism but makes it desirable.
I think this deep suspicion of religious institutions is understandable but also misguided. The organized rule-bound and tradition-bound institution of the sangha provides a framework that, at least ideally, helps to efface egocentrism. The sangha literally embodies the Buddhist tradition; it transcends the self-concerns of any individual, especially the concerns that arise from placing our inner life at the center of the universe. So we must ask whether Buddhism, when practiced without the ties of community and tradition, instead of mitigating our tendency toward narcissism, actually feeds it.
Historically, the authority of Buddhist teachers was conferred and mediated by the institution of the sangha, specifically the ordained community, which worked on a more or less strict system of seniority. Of course, individuals often specialized in a particular domain—scriptural exegesis, liturgical practice, meditation, and so forth—and some would be recognized for their particular areas of mastery. But the general idea was that before you could claim to represent the dharma, you had to thoroughly imbibe and participate in the life of the institution to which the dharma had been entrusted. But if institutions don't matter, if basic knowledge and understanding of scripture don't matter, and if Buddhism is reduced to an inner experience, however this might be construed, then authority becomes a matter of personal charisma. Lacking the support and the checks and balances that are part of a strong community life, the authority and prominence of any particular teacher, whether by choice or necessity, is based largely on his or her skill as an entrepreneur. In short, teachers are forced to market, however tacitly, their own enlightenment. And this is precisely the situation with so many teachers in America. Living as we do in a market economy, I think this sort of entrepreneurial model demands scrutiny, at the very least.
The religious historian Elaine Pagels has spoken of how religious practitioners adopt certain practices and beliefs selectively and reinterpret texts in what she calls a process of "creative misreading." Granted, this might be done unconsciously, even perniciously, but might it not also be a necessary strategy for adapting a tradition, in this case Buddhism, to the contingencies of time and place? Yes, I think that's a very valid point. And Buddhist history supports it.
When Buddhism arrived in China in the first and second centuries of the common era, the early Chinese Buddhists translated the scriptures using terms that were familiar to them, often using Daoist language for Sanskrit terms that had no Chinese equivalent. One of my favorite examples is the Sanskrit term tathata, or "suchness," a word that refers to the natural "empty" state of things—the way things really are. The Chinese translated tathata with the cosmological term benwu, which means "original non-being," and this gave the Buddhist concept a noticeably Daoist twist. The use of Daoist terminology made Indian Buddhist texts approachable and meaningful to members of the Chinese literary elite. It allowed them to make connections between Buddhism and their own indigenous ways of thinking. This was one reason Buddhism caught on so well.
I think there is a parallel in the way Buddhism is represented to a Western audience. Buddhist ideas are put into terms that are familiar and meaningful to our modern sensibility. Today the language of choice for rendering Buddhist ideas is the language of psychotherapy. And this ends up reinforcing, whether intentionally or not, the notion that Buddhism is basically a means of psychological transformation and that Buddhism is compatible with modern science. This is how we end up with the simplistic notion that Buddhism is a "science of happiness." But as in China, this may be an unavoidable stage in the transmission of Buddhism.
In China, the translation process evolved over the course of centuries. The Chinese continued to refine their translations of Buddhist texts, and with more reliable translations and commentaries came a deeper engagement with Indian Buddhist thought and practice. It took several centuries before the Chinese could fully appreciate the breadth and subtleties of Buddhism. This is not to say that they didn't continue to transform the Indian tradition and make it their own, because they certainly did. But the work of transformation went hand in hand with gaining a sophisticated understanding of Buddhism's Indian heritage.
Maybe the lesson from history is that it will take a long time—perhaps centuries—for the West to engage with the Buddhist tradition at a deeper level. Such an engagement will require that we see past the confines of our own historical and cultural situation and gain a greater appreciation of the depth and complexity of the Buddhist heritage. Certainly one impediment to this is the idea that the only thing that matters is meditation and that everything else is just excess baggage.
Before you referred to Buddhism as a critique of all essences, including the idea that there is some essence in Buddhism that is transmitted over time. So, then, what is Buddhism? One way of looking at Buddhism is as a conversation, and this conversation has been going on now for over two thousand years—a long time. Participation in this conversation has always been predicated on having a foundation in various aspects of the tradition—its literature, its philosophy, its rituals, its discipline, and so on. It is a conversation about what it is to be a human being: why we suffer, how we can resolve our suffering, what works, what doesn't, and so forth. These are big issues, and whichever one you choose to look at, you are not going to find a single Buddhist position. There have always been different positions, and these would be debated and argued. But all parties to the debate were presumed to share a common religious culture—a more or less shared world of texts, ideas, practices—without which there could be no real conversation.
This is not to say that there can't be value in reducing Buddhism to a relatively simple set of ideas. It can help make Buddhism accessible to those who are not in a position to engage the complexities of the tradition, especially the monastic tradition. This was the strategy of the "single practice" movements—Nichiren, Jodo Shinshu, and to some extent Soto Zen—in medieval Japan. But when you do this, you run the risk of ending up rather narrow and sectarian, because if you've got the essence, and it's not the same as the essence the guy down the street has—well, you don't really have much to talk about, do you?
In time North American Buddhists may see the value in entering more fully into the Buddhist conversation. But that means acquiring the necessary skills and experience. You don't just jump in and get answers right away. Rather, you are confronted with many answers that generate new sets of questions and perspectives. But it is important, I think, that we keep the conversation going here. It opens one up to dramatically different ways of understanding the world and our place in it. Through our participation we help shape the conversation, and the conversation, in turn, shapes us. To abandon it would be to lose something precious.
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Tennesseans have many things to be proud of. Being healthy is not one of them.
In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control, we are one of the least healthy states, and have been for the last 20 years. As a result, we're now facing an epidemic of preventable chronic diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, obesity and even some forms of cancer.
That's where "Healthier Tennessee" comes in, and where the College of Professional Studies can get involved. The movement, spearheaded by Gov. Bill Haslam and managed by local communities, encourages all Tennesseans — including schools and workplaces — to make some simple choices that can create some big differences.
In conjunction with Mayor McMillian's "Clarkswell" initiative, PR Director Cindy Chambers was invited to represent Bethel University on Public Square.
PR Director Cindy Chambers is among those determined to "Start Small" to grow stronger. She went to the Small Starts online toolbox and found an easy-to-use website that includes activities to help workplaces develop better habits while tracking progress toward certification. There are more than 60 small starts choices that employees can choose from, and the Clarksville campus is now just two checkmarks away from success.
Megan Carroll, a state healthcare specialist, showed participating employees Sylvana Matthews, Cindy Chambers, Terry Morris, and Lisa Davidson easy ways to reduce stress and make healthier lifestyle choices.
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Austal Limited (Austal) (ASX: ASB) is pleased to announce Austal Australia has delivered the 13th Guardian-class Patrol Boat (GCPB) to the Australian Department of Defence. The vessel, NUSHIP Francis Agwi, was then gifted by the Australian Government to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force at a certificate signing ceremony held at Austal's shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia. The vessel is the third of four Guardian-class Patrol Boats to be delivered to Papua New Guinea under the Pacific Patrol Boat Replacement Project (SEA3036-1), part of the Australian Government's Pacific Maritime Security Program.
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HMD Global, the Finnish manufacturer with exclusive rights to market phones under the storied Nokia brand, is scheduled to announce four handsets at Mobile World Congress later this month, according to a source briefed on the company's plans. Once the leader of the mobile phone industry, Nokia is making a comeback into the market it once ruled. The latest hint at this attempt is a leak of details with the specs of the Nokia 3, one of the company's upcoming devices. Nokia is believed to announce its latest line of smartphones on Feb. 26 at this year's Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. But, weeks before the official launch, the alleged specs of the Nokia's best midrange phone was revealed via a leak.
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I remember and will never forget the day Sherri pulled her little journal out when I asked her what she had for songs. She grabbed her Gibson and played 'I love how'. I really didn't know how to respond, as I looked behind her through the control room window at the tall hundred year old pines trees. Then I asked myself Lord how is it that I get to record this song. I then picked my jaw off the ground and then trying to act not to moved asked her to play another one. I think she played Draw Me Near. At that point I needed Coffee or food an excuse to stop and knew at that moment I was in for it. Some of my favorite recorded moments I've had the privilege of being a part of, are captured on this cd. Our family has fallen in love with Sherri, who she is and how our Savior Jesus shines through her.