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"When numerous candles are lighted it is called Dipabali."
Diwali ceremony can be observed in the temple by illuminating 100's of candles, in different parts of the temple, and offering special Prasad to the Deity. This ceremony was observed by the inhabitants of Ayodhya, the Kingdom of Lord Ramacandra, while Lord Ramacandra was out of His Kingdom due to His 14 years banishment by the order of His father. His younger step-brother Bharata, took charge of the Kingdom and the day on which Lord Ramacandra took back the charge again from His brother, and seated on the throne, this is observed as Diwali function. This is the original idea of Diwali, and Dipabali.Dipabali means the same thing—Dipa means candles, and bali means numerous. When numerous candles are lighted it is called Dipabali.
Letter to: Hamsaduta — Seattle 10 October, 1968
"Do not remain in darkness, come to the light."
So everyone should try to come to the light. That is Vedic injunction, tamaso mā jyotir gamaya, means "Do not remain in darkness, come to the light." Light means knowledge, and darkness means ignorance. So every one of us now in the ignorance that we do not know "What I am." Everyone is in darkness in the concept of body. Ask anyone what you are. He will say, "I am this body. I am Mr. Such and such." "I am Indian." "I am American." This is all bodily description. And we have already discussed. This body is temporary, but I, the spirit soul, I am permanent. I have already experienced that I had my childhood body, I had my babyhood body, I had my boyhood body, youthhood body, I know it, but the bodies are no more existing, but I am existing. So therefore I am permanent, and the body is nonpermanent. Therefore it is said, nāsato vidyate bhāvaḥ: "Permanency is not there in the body." Nābhāvo vidyate sataḥ: "And there is no annihilation of the permanent or the eternal."
Bhagavad-gītā 2.16 -- Mexico City, February 16, 1975
"We have now finished the English translation of Śrī Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī's Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta"
Today, Sunday, November 10, 1974-corresponding to the 10th of Kārtikka, Caitanya Era 488, the eleventh day of the dark fortnight, the Rāma-ekādaśī-we have now finished the English translation of Śrī Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī's Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta in accordance with the authorised order of His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākur Gosvāmī Mahārāja, my beloved eternal spiritual master, guide and friend. Although according to material vision His Divine Grace Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda passed away from this material world on the last day of December, 1936, I still consider His Divine Grace to be always present with me by his vāṇī, his words. There are two ways of association-by vāṇī and by vapu. Vāṇī means words, and vapu means physical presence. Physical presence is sometimes appreciable and sometimes not, but vāṇī continues to exist eternally. Therefore we must take advantage of the vāṇī, not the physical presence. Bhagavad-gītā, for example, is the vāṇī of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Although Kṛṣṇa was personally present five thousand years ago and is no longer physically present from the materialistic point of view, Bhagavad-gītā continues.
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta. 1975: Concluding Words
"The meaning of life is to enjoy"
Mike Robinson: I see. Can you tell me what you believe to be the meaning of life? Why do we exist in the first place?
Śrīla Prabhupāda: The meaning of life is to enjoy. But now you are on a false platform of life, and therefore you are suffering instead of enjoying. Everywhere we see the struggle for existence. Everyone is struggling, but what is their enjoyment in the end? They are simply suffering and dying. Therefore, although life means enjoyment, at the present moment your life is not enjoyment. But if you come to the real, spiritual platform of life, then you'll enjoy.
Science of Self Realization: Reincarnation and Beyond
"No, no, they are agent of Kṛṣṇa"
Dhanañjaya: So all these cheaters are māyā's agents.
Prabhupāda: No, no, they are agent of Kṛṣṇa. (to passerby:) Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya. But because you want to cheat Kṛṣṇa, therefore they are cheating you. They are not your servant. Mama māyā: "My servant." Just like the police. Police is punishing you not on their own account. Because you are disobedient, you must be punished. Daivī hy eṣā guṇamayī [Bg. 7.14].
Brahmānanda: The moment we stop cheating Kṛṣṇa, then we can...
Prabhupāda: Then, immediately, he becomes friend. This is the way, going on. The whole arrangement is like that. So long we shall not surrender to Kṛṣṇa, we have to suffer so many ways, different species of life, different condition, different planets. This is going on. [break] ...indirectly forcing that "You be Kṛṣṇa conscious. Otherwise you'll be punished." Why police is so unkind? Because the indirect way is that "You become lawful; otherwise you'll continue to be suffering by us." So intelligent person thinks of it, and he becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Morning Walk -- September 3, 1975, Vṛndāvana
"We are making them bhāgyavān"
Nitāi: How does one become "bhāgyavān"?
Prabhupāda: Bhāgyavān, opulent... If you earn money, you become bhāgyavān. Bhāgyavān means... The word has come from bhagavān, and bhaga means opulence, six kinds of opulence: riches... Aiśvaryasya samagrasya vīryasya yaśasaḥ śriyaḥ (Viṣṇu Purāṇa 6.5.47). So one who possess all these things not exactly like Bhagavān, but partially, according to his position, he's called bhāgyavān.
Nitāi: But in this verse that you just quoted, ei rūpe brahmāṇḍa brahmite kono bhagyavān, how does one come, become to the stage of...
Prabhupāda: We are making them bhāgyavān. We are giving them service, how to become bhāgyavān. We are spending our blood, gallons of blood, to make them bhāgyavān. This is the sacrifice of the devotees. Just like you are poor. Somebody, rich man, comes, "All right, take one million dollars from me." You get immediately rich. So it is the devotees' sacrifice that they're becoming... Just like Vāsudeva Datta. He requested Caitanya Mahāprabhu, "My Lord, you have come. Take away all these people, unfortunate people, back to home, back to Godhead. If You think they are so inglorious, they cannot be taken, then give me all their sins to me. I shall suffer. You take them." That is Vaiṣṇava. They are sacrificing everything for these unfortunate rascals.
Morning Walk -- January 18, 1974, Hawaii
Glories of Pasankusa Ekadashi
The glories of Pasankusa Ekadasi which occures during the waxing moon in the month of September/October is described in Brahmavaivartha Purana in the conversation between Lord Krishna and Maharaj Yudhisthira.
Maharaj Yudhisthira said O Madhusudan what is the name of the Ekadasi that occures during the waxing moon in the monthof September/October. Please be kind and explain this to me .
Lord Krishna replied, O best of the Kings! The name of this Ekadasi is Pasankusa Ekadasi. Now please hear from me the glories of this Ekadasi which distroyes all ones sins. Some people also callthis Ekadasi as Papankusa Ekadasi. One should specially worship lord Padmanabha onthe day of this Ekadasi. This Ekadasi awards a person the heavenly pleasures liberation and his desired results. Just by chanting the holy namesof Lord Vishnu one can attain all the peity of visiting all the holy places on the earth. If a conditioned soul inspite of indulging in varioussinful activities due to illusion takes shelter and offers obeisances at the lotus feet of Lord Hari who is expert in delivering the fallen souls thensuch a person does not have to go to hell.
Those Vaisnavas who criticise Lord Shiva and those Saivaites who criticise lord Vishnu are both undoubtedly go to hell. The resultone obtains by performing one thousand horse sacrifices or by performing one hundred Rajasuya sacrifices can not be equal to the one sixteenth portion of peity one obtains by following this Ekadasi. There is no peity in this world which is equal to the peity earned by observing the Ekadasi. Therefore there is no other day as santified as this day of Ekadasi which is very dear to Lord Padmanabha.
O King! As soon as a person fails to observe Ekadasis the sins begin to reside in his body. This Ekadasi awards its follower the heavenly pleasure ,liberation, freed from deceased condition, beautiful women, wealth and food grains. O maintainer of the earth! If one observesthis Ekadasi and remains awake on that night easily goes to theabode of Lord Vishnu.
Lord Krishna continued O best of the Kings! By observing the vow of this Ekadasi one can deliver ten generations from his mothers family , ten generations from his fathers family and ten generations fromhis wifes family. If a person observes this Ekadasi either in his chilhood or youthhood or in his oldage he does not suffer the miseries of thematerial existence. One who strictly observes this Pasankusa or Papankusa Ekadasi then all his sinful reactions are eradicated and at the end of hislife he reaturns to the abode of Lord Vishnu. If a person gives away gold,sesame seeds, land,cow, food grains,water, umbrella or shoes in charitythen such a person does not have to goo to the abode of Yamaraj. Any one whospents his day wiuthout engaging in pious activities he is like a dead manalthough he is breathing. His breathing is compared to the bellows of the blacksmith.
O best of the Kings! A person who digs well and lakes for the benefit of others, donates land and houses and perform other pious activities such as performing sacrifices is not subjected to the punishment of Yamaraja. As a result of peity only people live long lives, become rich, take birth in high class families and become deseaseless. The purport is that the direct result of observing Ekadasi is to attain devotional service to Krishna and the indirect result is to attain the temporary material benefits.
Ekādaśī Darshan, Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Govinda, Jaipur
" learn how to make svāhā for Kṛṣṇa."
"Similarly, everyone who is holding Krsna's money, not returning to Krsna, he is a criminal. He will be punished. How they are punished?
That you have seen. In India, in recent... Everywhere, the same thing is going on. There was war between Pakistan and India.
So all the rich men had to contribute fifty lakhs, fifty hundred thousand, according to everyone's capacity.
Many millions of rupees were collected, and it was put into the gun powder, "Svaha!"- So if you don't execute this svaha, then you will have to execute that "svaha!" That's all. The Vietnam is going on -- svaha! So many young men -- svaha! So much money -- svaha!.So much money—svāhā! You have to do that. Therefore better learn how to make svāhā for Kṛṣṇa. Otherwise you will have to make svāhā for māyā."
Srila Prabhupada, San Diego, 1972
"Any rascal can say"
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: Professor Sarkar, a big magician, he kills, cuts people's body, then he joins them.
Prabhupāda: So many things. Magic jugglery is...
Mr. Malhotra: But there are some siddhis also. These siddhi, siddhis.
Prabhupāda: That is siddhi, magic also siddhi. You are successful businessman, that is also siddhi. That is also siddhi. Yatatām api siddhānām [Bg. 7.3]. Even one is siddha, he cannot understand Kṛṣṇa. That is said, yatatām api siddhānām [Bg. 7.3]. Even one is siddha, still he cannot understand Kṛṣṇa.
Mr. Malhotra: But if he goes to āśrama, where and everybody sits there, the big Kṛṣṇa statue is there. In his room personal room Kṛṣṇa statue...
Prabhupāda: If he is at all devotee of Kṛṣṇa, he will never say that he is Bhagavān. That is foolishness. That very assertion is foolishness.
Mr. Malhotra: But Bhagavān, they don't call them Bhagavān.
Prabhupāda: That they write in the books. They don't call, but write in the books.
Hari-śauri: There was one article in the Blitz where they quoted him saying, God is man and man is God.
Gopāla Kṛṣṇa: He said he is the incarnation for this age.
Prabhupāda: And where is the evidence? Anyone can say, "I am incarnation." (laughter) Any rascal can say.
Room Conversation with Life Member, Mr. Malhotra -December 22, 1976, Poona
"He is no more debtor to anyone"
Prabhupāda: Oh. [break] ...Dakṣa accused Nārada that "My sons were not out of the three kinds of debts." One debt is debtor to the saintly sages. Just like we are reading Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, we are indebted to Vyāsadeva. He has given such literature, and we are taking advantage of it. As such, especially the brāhmaṇas, they have got indebtedness to big sages and saintly person. They receive knowledge from them. And they are indebtor to the demigods. Therefore they have to perform yajñas. And they are indebtor to their father because the father has brought them to this world. So in this way, especially a brāhmaṇa is indebted to demigods, the past sages, and the father. So the indebtedness to the sages is performed by becoming brahmacārī, and to the demigods by offering sacrifices, and to the father by begetting children, to continue the progeny. So Nārada Muni was accused that "You keep them indebted to these principles, so how they can be liberated? Simply by dressing like you, (laughs) a mendicant?" Accusing. But perhaps he did not know. There is another version in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam,
devarṣi-bhūtāpta-nṛṇāṁ pitṛṇāṁ
nāyam ṛṇī na ca kiṅkaro rājan
sarvātmanā yaḥ śaraṇaṁ saraṇyaṁ
gato mukunda parihṛtya...
[Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.5.41]
Anyone who has fully surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, he is no more debtor to anyone. And Kṛṣṇa says that "You surrender to Me, and I shall keep you protected from all kinds of..." Because if you don't repay your debts, then you become sinful. But Kṛṣṇa says, "I shall protect for all kinds of sin." So if anyone has surrendered to Kṛṣṇa, he is no more debtor to anyone. He is immune from all obligation. His only obligation is to Kṛṣṇa.
Morning Walk -- July 1, 1975, Denver
"Your first and foremost business is to become Krsna conscious"
Prabhupada: The Krsna consciousness movement is teaching all over the world this philosophy, that your first and foremost business is to become Krsna conscious. There is no question of so-called economic development, sense gratification. No. These are not important things. There are many missionaries, they open hospitals or similar philanthropic activities, but we never do that. So many friends advised me to open some hospitals, dispensaries. Oh, I flatly said that "We are not interested in the hospitals." There are so many hospitals. So people who are interested in hospitals, they can go there. Here is spiritual hospital. The disease is the other hospitals, they cannot stop death, but our hospital can stop death.
Devotees: Jaya! Hari! Hari!
Prabhupada: This is our hospital. We are therefore not interested with this kind of hospital. Our this hospital is treating the materially affected patient to get out of his four kinds of miseries: janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi [Bg. 13.9]. One type of disease is to take birth; another, death; another, old age; another, disease. So we want to stop.
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 1.15 -Dallas, March 4, 1975
"Anger means lust"
Upendra: Prabhupāda, what is the nature of anger? How is anger...
Prabhupāda: Anger means lust. When you are lusty and your lust is not fulfilled, you become angry. That's all. It is another feature of the lust. Kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ. When you are too much influenced with the modes of passion, you become lusty. And when your lust is not fulfilled, then you are angry, next stage. And next stage is that there is bewilderment. And then next stage is praṇaśyati, then you are lost. Therefore one has to control this lust and anger. This controlling means you have to put yourself in the modes of goodness, not in the modes of passion. There are three modes of material nature: modes of ignorance, modes of passion and modes of goodness. Therefore if anyone wants to know the science of God, then he has to keep himself on the modes of goodness. Otherwise he cannot. Therefore we are teaching our students that "You don't do this, you don't do this, you don't do this, you don't do this," because he has to keep himself on the modes of goodness. Otherwise he'll not be able to understand. Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot be understood on the platform of ignorance and passion. The whole world is under the influence of ignorance and passion. But this method is so simple that if you simply follow the four principles of restriction and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, you are immediately surpassing all the modes of material nature. So the anger is on the platform of passion.
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Philosophy for Bankers…? How About Just Classes in Honesty and Ethics?
Several articles came across my desk this week. I found one especially intriguing, as it fits my frame of reference. It is a post by Ms. Yves Smith, commenting on an article "Can Philosophy Stop Bankers From Stealing?" by Lynn Parramore, a senior research analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
Smith argues that the title might more appropriately be called, "Can Morality Stop Bankers from Stealing?" She comments that:
"it seems impossible to go from the openly corrupt world in which we live now to one that values reputation, probity, and fair dealing. Yet dramatic swings in values can happen in a generation, or even less."
She says, "the first step, as this article indicates, is to start calling things by their proper names. And there is now much less inhibition about calling out predatory conduct and using words like "fraud", "stealing," and "corruption."" Smith believes that it's important to recall that the shift in social norms to our current weird idea that markets are more important than communities or social relationships did not just happen. She applauds "calling out predatory conduct and says it's about time we called theft, theft."
In Parramore's post, she states, "Pernicious cultural norms inside American banks and regulatory agencies have crowded out fundamental moral principles"… "Does the question of morality have a place in the realm of banking and regulation? That it feels awkward to even raise the issue is convenient for bankers who engage in reckless and harmful activities every day without fear of punishment."
She proposes that Ed Kane, Professor of Finance at Brown College, has an antidote. Parramore states:
"Ed Kane believes it's vital to discuss moral questions, in plain English, without abstractions. Following his own advice, he is blunt in characterizing some of the behavior in the banking industry in recent years: "Theft is a forced taking of other people's resources," he says. 'That's what's going on here." Kane urges a deep inquiry into our culture to understand why bankers so commonly get away with crimes in the United States."
One of his examples of banker's gone rogue is Goldman Sachs chief, Lloyd Blankfein selling the bank's toxic junk to unwitting investors who were assured they were solid.
"As the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report noted, one structured finance expert compared Goldman's practices to "buying fire insurance on someone's house and then committing arson."
Still, Blankfein and his fellow bankers later pocketed billions of dollars from the American people in the form of a bailout. They profited at the expense of their clients and society. Nobody went to jail."
Kane believes the word should needs to be part of a banker's vocabulary. Asking what one can get away with is not the same as is it right to do it?!
Taking his work further, in another paper for the Institute for New Economic Thinking, "Ethics vs. Ethos in US and UK Megabanking", Kane argues:
"that when bankers make reckless and harmful choices while counting on unlimited taxpayer support to bail them out, they are plainly stealing. He calls it "theft by safety net." Through the safety net, Kane explains, big banks demand that the public provide protection and relief from distress. They put great pressure on the government, which acts as a middleman in the robbery, just as in a "protection racket." As Kane puts it, "the government then, by dint of its authority, takes the money from hapless taxpayers." (Parramore)
Why is this not considered a crime? Kane explains: "Because, politicians nearly everywhere are bought off by bankers. Plain and simple. The regulators who might intervene are more worried about their careers and hopping through the revolving door between government and the industry."
No surprise there! In prior posts I wrote about the work of Dan Ariely, PhD, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University. Dr. Ariely, the author of several books, including, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty — How We Lie to Everyone, Especially Ourselves was the focus of a recent documentary, (Dis)Honesty. The documentary is a thought provoking look at why we lie.
One of the questions the documentary asked was, who lies more , politicians or bankers? The bankers "won" hands down. And in prior posts I have written about studies which have shown that, in fact, employees of banks may cheat more than employees of other organizations and about who lies more – bankers or politicians.
Still, it's disheartening. The documentary, (Dis)Honesty pointed out what I have been saying for some time: dishonesty costs society.
Incidentally , Dr. Ariely's multiple TED talks have been viewed by millions and are well worth the time.
Kane confirms Ariely's work.
"In Kane's view, pernicious cultural norms within banks and regulatory agencies have crowded out fundamental moral principles. Regulators in both the U.S. and the U.K. are fully aware that the reckless pursuit of profits is one of the main reasons for the expanding scale and frequency of financial crises over the last 50 years, but they tend to approach the issue differently." (Parramore)
Surprise! Apparently the issues are much worse in the U.S!
"The regulators in the U.S. just don't see things ethically…In the U.S., Dodd-Frank Act allows a limited clawback of stock-based bonuses in the wake of a bank failure, but it does not make individual bankers criminally responsible for actions that they should have known were reckless. Prosecutors typically settle lawsuits and bankers find ways to put taxpayers on the hook. …
A code of ethics, says Kane, is what connects us. As Kane sees it, holding accountable the individual, rather than the corporation, is hugely important to dealing with crimes in the banking industry. "Individuals are the ones who act recklessly," he points out. "Banks don't act recklessly." The punishment of the individual is not a matter or revenge of retribution, it is about deterrence. …
Kane believes changes are needed in the culture of banks and regulatory agencies, but of course by the time people enter jobs in those institutions, they are already well into adulthood and their ethical frameworks have already taken shape. Is it too late?" (Parramore)
So where do we start? Teaching values at home. Children need to be disciplined. They need to learn right from wrong .They need to learn about their obligations to others, not just what they believe is due them. Schools need to teach operative ethics, not just philosophical case studies.
"Kane believes that students need to be taken through numerous real life scenarios in which they can apply ethical principles. … When your bank holds toxic mortgages, what should you do? What does the Golden Rule indicate as a course of action?"
In the Ethics vs. Ethos in US and UK Megabanking paper, Kane suggests we implement:
(1) a formal recognition of the fiduciary duties that TBTF firms owe to taxpayers, and
(2) criminalizing aggressive pursuit of safety-net subsidies as "theft by safety net."
"In banking, professional standards of conduct derive less from fundamental moral principles (i.e., individual ethics) than from the pragmatic character of slowly evolving norms of banking and regulatory cultures (Kane, 2016). Realistically, the world's top bankers wrestle every day with three practical issues that leave little or no room for high-minded concepts of right and wrong:
1. What is profitable for our firm to do?
2. What will our regulators let us get away with?
3. How can we defend and expand these profit-making opportunities?
His paper argues that each of these questions can be improved by replacing the first verb by the word "should:"
1. What should our firm do?
2. What should our regulators let us get away with?
3. How should we defend and expand our profit-making opportunities?
Using "should" in its dutiful sense moves us from the theorem-rich realm of positive economics to the mushy sphere of normative analysis. Kane's reason for doing this is to improve our understanding of why financial crises have become increasingly deep and widespread during the last 50 years.
The gentlest way to express the explanation I put forward is to say that, especially at megabanks, bank managers have been allowed to violate repeatedly two duties they owe the citizenry at large. The first comes from the Kantian imperative against using others (here, taxpayers) only as a means. The second is to use their knowledge, skill, and experience to guard against the consequences of reckless actions. Finally, regulators' propensity to rescue insolvent mega bankers and their creditors has lessened their incentive to perform these duties by relieving them from suffering the consequences of their recklessness in full."
Ethics requires thought. We have lost a great deal by promoting what feels right at the moment. So can morality – good, old fashioned, right-from-wrong principles – stop bankers from stealing?
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The 1st of December a meeting took place between the European Huntington Association and the management of the European Huntington's Disease Network. The basis for the meeting was the EHA project Stronger Together. The two organizations discussed how they could extend their collaboration and work coordinated together.
Representatives from the European Huntington Association (EHA) were the board members Astri Arnesen, Barbara d'Alessio and Danuta Lis. In the beautiful city of Rome they met with the European Huntington's Disease Network (EHDN) management to discuss the project Stronger Together and further collaboration.
The EHDN is a nonprofit research network committed to advancing research, facilitating the conduct of clinical trials, and improving clinical care in HD.
The project Stronger Together aims to join forces to speed up recruitment to Enroll-HD and clinical trials. Enroll-HD is a worldwide observational study for Huntington's disease families. It will monitor how the disease appears and changes over time in different people. Anybody who carries the gene, is at risk or is a spouse/partner (not blood related) of a person with a family history of HD can participate in the study.
"The meeting was very constructive and inspiring," says Astri Arnesen the President of EHA. She looks forward to the work that lies ahead of the two organizations. She is confident that the collaboration will result in a larger involvement of HD families. Further, the organizations want to improve the quality of every part in the Enroll-HD process.
I ask Arnesen what the next step for Stronger Together is. She replies: "The next step is to identify countries where we can run a pilot collaboration and gain experiences on how things work when we put ideas into practise".
If you want to learn more about Stronger Together, you can read about the project here.


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Detection of atrial fibrillation can lead to effective stroke prevention using warfarin or a novel oral anticoagulant. However, the incidence of atrial fibrillation is low in 48 hours and increases greatly when one observes the patient's EKG for a longer interval, as shown in a study by Dr. Jin and colleagues.
He worked closely with a pioneering surgeon, C. Walton Lillehei at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Lillehei needed pacemakers for his own innovative practice (early cardiac surgery). In the 1950s these devices were large and ran off of electricity from wall plugs. A power failure in Minneapolis endangered one of Lillehei's patients and he asked Bakken to create a battery-operated device.
Dr. C. Walton Lillehei at the University of Minnesota.
Subsequently these medical devices evolved so that they could be permanently implanted and this innovative device has saved many lives. Today the placement of a pacemaker is an outpatient procedure. The generators have become smaller, thinner and the batteries lasted longer. However, innovators are never content with "good". Despite 50 years of evolution, pacemakers in 2015 still require surgical insertion of the battery (a pulse generator) in a pocket created in the left upper chest just anterior to the pectorals fascia. The procedure still requires placement of lead(s) connecting the battery to the heart. These polyurethane or silicone-coated wires travel from the generator, via the subclavian or axillary vein, into the right heart, where they are secured with a screw. This configuration can lead to serious complication in ~5% of patients, including infections of the pacemaker pocket, fracture of the lead and or infection/thrombosis of the lead.
Dr. Chris Simpson of Queen's notes, "One of the Achilles' heels of pacemaker implantation has been infection originating in the "pocket" and another is damage to the tricuspid valve caused by the pacemaker lead. Because there is an incision, the risk of infection is not insignificant and ranges from 0.25-1% for de novo implants all the way up to 1-4% for replacements. Many patients also complain of discomfort related to the presence of a foreign body under the skin and the mechanical friction-related symptoms that can result with movement of the shoulder." St. Jude Medical is one of two manufacturers who are working on leadless pacemakers, and their offering is now undergoing clinical evaluation in a select few centres around the world, including Kingston General hospital. The new leadless pacemakers are implanted via the right femoral vein, via a catheter delivery system inserted through an 18 French sheath. In skilled hands, the procedure can be completed in 15 minutes, with no incision to care for afterwards. That's innovation-no leads, no pocket-hopefully faster recovery and few complications.
This Figure shows the miniaturization of pacemakers culminating in 2014 with the leadless device (St Jude Medical).
To watch a video showing how the procedure is done click here. Stroke: We have previously talked about stroke therapies and the role of the multidisciplinary team for stroke care in this blog. Fortunately, accelerating innovation continues to create new treatments for this devastating illness. The ability to treat strokes caused by obstruction of the main cerebral artery took a major leap forward with the application of thrombolytics, like tPA. However, these clot-dissolving drugs do not work well for clots lodged in the M1 branch of the middle cerebral arteries or the posterior circulation. Enter new technologies that are essentially catheters carrying stents that capture the clot that causes stroke and allows the operator to remove the clot mechanically and restore blood flow. This patient presented at the Saint John Regional Hospital, speechless from an MCA stroke that followed a cardioversion. The prognosis for a patient like this with conventional therapy is very poor. These patients will often still suffer devastating deficits (and this gentleman did succumb to his other comorbidities), but at long last there is the beginning of effective intervention. "Approximately 70% of these patients with strokes like this will end up severely disabled or dead. With these new catheter techniques up to 20% of them will instead leave the hospital and lead independent and normal lives.", says Brian Archer, an interventional radiologist (Queen's Meds '88) who performs these procedures in Saint John. "This is hopefully just the beginning of more innovation in prevention, neuroprotection and … salvage treatments".
Image shows TREVO device (Stryker). A similar device is made by Covidien (Solitaire). The self-expanding stent is welded to an 0.014 wire, and deployed in the target artery. The operator waits 5 minutes for incorporation of the clot into the stent and then slowly removes the stent and clot, (hopefully) restoring blood flow.
It's in your hands now, doctor: In a former life, I used to direct an ultrasound laboratory in Minneapolis. I LOVE imaging. It's amazing to see the advances from M-mode to 2-D imaging to colour imaging and now 3-D imaging of the human heart. The latest innovation is moving the cardiac ultrasound into the doctor's pocket. Dr Amer Johri and team are now teaching our medical students and residents how to image the heart and make cardiac diagnoses at the bedside using hand-held ultrasound units that are not much larger than an iPhone 6. Watch this CTV news story. If you were trained in the 1980s, it makes you wish this innovation had been around as you struggled to hear that soft murmur of mitral regurgitation. It is noteworthy that patients consider this type of miniaturization and portability to be a tangible manifestation of patient-centered care. Dr. Johri and his team of residents and medical students working for the CINQ recently developed a free training module using the iBook format which can be found here.
Dr Amer Johri, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Jeff Wilkinson (Cardiology Resident) using hand held ultrasound to image a patient.
In closing, University hospitals exist to discover and innovate. Each of us, as faculty members or administrators, is responsible for doing our part to help make these discoveries or to create the environment where discovery and innovation are welcomed and supported. In 2015 we are tasked with creating the "Evidence-Based Medicine" of 2020 and training the physicians and nurses that will create the "Evidence-Based Medicine" of 2030. It is time to use our Th.D.s and accelerate innovation for the benefit of our patients. If you want a booster shot to reinforce the latest in Innovation at Queen's, plan to attend the Department of Medicine's Second Annual CME Day on May 13, 2015. This event promises to bring together leaders in medicine from Kingston and Area. Attendees will have the opportunity to work together in a variety of formats. This year, in addition to sharing pearls of innovation, the event will offer SIM lab experiences, interactive workshops, and a fun and educational Jeopardy-style challenge to wrap up this exciting event! A full program for the event and registration information can be found here.


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Here's Three to Follow in the Dewhurst Stakes 2017
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The leaves are falling off the trees and the temperature outside is just starting to get a little chilly, and that can mean only one thing: the National Hunt season is almost upon us.
The ground is getting softer and the jumps boys and girls will soon be back on the track and testing their mettle. But there are still a few meetings left in the flat campaign that are well worth of your time, and one such comes from Newmarket this weekend.
The Dubai Future Champions meet is a fantastic place for punters to spot the stars of tomorrow, and it is well worth taking a notebook and pen if you are watching on course or at home.
The standout race, the Dewhurst Stakes, has been won by the likes of Frankel, Rock of Gibraltar and Churchill in the past, so needless to say it's a fine barometer of future successes.
The Dewhurst is run over seven miles on Newmarket's Rowley Mile, and it is surely the most prestigious race for juveniles in the land. As well as the £500,000 purse, there's also the very real chance that if you win this race, you will be well fancied to do the business in one or more of the Classics next season.
So there's plenty at stake for the horses and all of their connections, and it is perhaps no wonder that two of the best trainers in the game tend to arrive on Newmarket well stacked. Certainly, the table below detailing the past 16 years of the Dewhurst Stakes identifies two trainers in particular to look out for:
Darley Dewhurst Winners – Last 16 Years
2016 Churchill Aidan O'Brien Ryan Moore
2015 Air Force Blue Aidan O'Brien Ryan Moore
2014 Belardo Roger Varian Andrea Atzeni
2013 War Command Aidan O'Brien Joseph O'Brien
2012 Dawn Approach Jim Bolger Kevin Manning
2011 Parish Hall Jim Bolger Kevin Manning
2010 Frankel Henry Cecil Tom Quelly
2009 Beethoven Aidan O'Brien Ryan Moore
2008 Intense Focus Jim Bolger Kevin Manning
2007 New Approach Jim Bolger Kevin Manning
2006 Teofilo Jim Bolger Kevin Manning
2005 Sir Percy Marcus Tregoning Martin Dwyer
2004 Shamardal Mark Johnston Kevin Darley
2003 Milk It Mick Jamie Osbourne Darryll Holland
2002 Tout Seul Fulke Johnson Houghton Stephen Carson
2001 Rock Of Gibraltar Aidan O'Brien Michael Kinane
Yep, 10 of the last 16 renewals of the Dewhurst have been won by horses from the Aidan O'Brien or Jim Bolger yards, and both look set to duke it out once more in 2017.
Here is your cut-out and keep guide to the three key runners in this year's Dewhurst Stakes:
Expert Eye (4/7)
The heavy favourite and one that heads to Newmarket with just two wins under his belt. But it was the latter of those, the Vintage Stakes, where he bolted home in front of a decent enough field at Goodwood.
Trainer Sir Michael Stoute knows a thing or two about saddling winners, and he has been glowing about his young charge. "You would have to say he's the best two-year-old I have had for quite a while," the knight of the realm said. "He's been pretty natural from the beginning."
But as hinted, there is still plenty we don't know about Expert Eye. The ground is said to be softening at Newmarket after Friday rain, and conditions are now resolutely autumnal. Will that suit the two-year-old? We just don't know, and there's plenty of smart money to be had elsewhere.
Quite frankly, we can sleep easy missing out on a 4/7 winner given the question marks still outstanding.
Emaraaty (4/1)
John Gosden paid a pretty penny for Emaraaty as a yearling – 2.6 million guineas to be exact. So it was strange to hear him say the other day that 'we will get a good idea of the level he is at on Saturday.'
That's an unusual thing for a trainer to say ahead of a Group 1 outing, but then it is perhaps justified seeing as though the horse has never ran in such company before.
The bookmakers are pricing up on potential, rather than proven quality here, and that's always a danger to punters. If Expert Eye is as good as people say he is, then it is hard to get interested in Emaraaty.
U S Navy Flag (8/1)
In stark contrast to Expert Eye and Emaraaty comes U S Navy Flag, a veritable nine-race veteran at the age of two.
His early career did not identify a talent of any sort, and it has only been since the beginning of July that he has begun to impress with a formline of 1-1-4-2-1.
The first of those came in a Plus 10 at Curragh, where he stayed on really strongly and suggested a step up in trip from 6f to 7f should not present any problems.
His last two outings have been even more impressive. He won by six lengths on yielding ground at Curragh again in August, and followed that with the first Group 1 victory of his career in the Middle Park Stakes at Goodwood.
That shows forward motion if nothing else, and any opportunity to back an progressive 8/1 sort against a pair of fledgling favourites should be taken with relish.
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Steve Hansen expects to see the 25-year-old play for the All Blacks 'for years to come' after he opted to stay with the Hurricanes.
Laumape has played 10 times for the All Blacks.
Laumape made his Test debut against the British and Irish Lions in 2017 and has gone on to make 10 appearances for the world champions – scoring a hat-trick against Japan last November.
All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen welcomed Laumape's decision to remain in his homeland, with the Rugby World Cup in Japan on the horizon.
"Ngani is part of a crop of outstanding young All Blacks who are taking their opportunities on the international stage, and we congratulate him on his decision," said Hansen.
"To get Ngani committed to being at the Hurricanes until 2021, so soon after Dane Coles also announced he was staying, it's more great news for us," said Plumtree.
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Sony EMI Production Music is the longest established production music supplier in Australia and New Zealand and its music has been used in some of this region's most recognised TV programs, promotions, commercials, films, and new media. EMI decided to launch a new, portable, hard-drive-based application with advanced features (which the existing architecture could not provide) so the company needed an optimal solution.
We developed a standalone music player application. The EMI V4 Mini-Drive, a cross-platform application that added many new features, and was faster and more user-friendly than its predecessor. It's quick and easy to navigate through the 85,000+ high definition MP3 / WAV tracks. Enhanced features mean that this solution is easy-to-use and provides an enhanced customer experience.
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Through features such as tagging and previews, it's now quick and easy to search through a large database of music to find the right track, improving the customer experience and making it easy for media producers to self-service search and select appropriate music.
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Sometimes here on the Earth plane you will feel hopeless. A victim of circumstances beyond your control.
We ask "why did this happen to me?" – but it's a pointless question.
Life gives each of us opportunities to feel all emotions and to have limitless experiences. To think that getting really good at managing your vibration will magically keep you safe from everything unwanted is a wishful fantasy.
If you could be pure positive energy every single minute, you wouldn't be living on this Earth plane. But you're here, and experiencing contrast is part of the deal.
Contrast isn't here to stop you. It's here to help you soar.
Contrast is unavoidable here on Earth because it makes us aware of what we no longer want. That awareness gives birth to a fresh new desire for what we do want, which leads to new expansion – of ourselves and our world.
Yes, your personal contrast expands not just you – but the entire world.
Of course contrast is rarely fun when it shows up in your life or your business. That's what makes it so powerful. We're forced to admit what we don't want, and we can identify what we do want instead.
A useless response to contrast is: becoming self-critical because you "attracted" the circumstances that now leave you feeling hopeless.
The only reason we ever attract contrast is because we're ready for something more.
Whenever you observe contrast – whether from health, relationship or financial issues, or from fear for your own future or the future of your family or your country – and it's left you feeling hopeless, it is time to choose hope.
What triggered the contrast is now in your past. How you move forward from this point is your choice.
You are free to choose hope or faith – even when you have no idea how things can change.
We all can feel hopeless, but we are never helpless, because we are creations of Spirit. There's no more powerful catalyst for change and reclaiming of your own power than contrast.
Use contrast to reclaim your hope or your faith, and choose to keep moving forward.
Once while listening to an Abraham-Hicks workshop recording, I heard a woman tell Abraham about a devastating chronic illness that she lived with. She wanted to know how Abraham could counsel positive emotion – when clearly her circumstances were never going to improve.
You can be chronically ill and feel hopeless or angry about it. Or you can be chronically ill and feel neutral or even peaceful or hopeful about it. How you feel about it determines what happens next.
When the hopeless moments come, as they do to all of us, make a decision to choose hope. Just because 1) it feels better to choose a positive emotion and 2) your decision determines what happens next.


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Chinese Air Power in the 20th Century, Rise of the Red Dragon
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Author Andreas Rupprecht
No. Pages 256
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The international community has not only acknowledged China's continuing rise as a world power but has also closely observed Beijing regain its place in the international community and grow to become a dominant player in the Far East.
Despite the difficulty in obtaining relevant information, Harpia's Modern Chinese Warplanes series has filled an important void in recent years, focusing on the current situation, the structure of this growing force, its order of battle, and the latest types in service and under development.
Now, and in order to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army Air Force on 11 November 2019, this new book turns its attention to the history since Mao's Communist Party took control of the country in 1949.
Chinese Air Power in the 20th Century examines the different periods, explains the political events behind them and they connect to military developments, individual structure and capabilities.
The title also includes an assessment of how the political climate influenced the design and development of the country's major military aircraft including the fighters, attack aircraft and bombers created by the Chinese aviation industry after World War II. This also includes a number of design proposals which, for various reasons, were rejected or abandoned.
This comprehensive directory provides a lavishly illustrated, in-depth analysis and overview of the historical gestation of the PLAAF and its path to becoming the modern air arm we know today.
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Glory Road (2006)
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In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
In 1965, the coach of the high school girl basketball team Don Haskins is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA and moves with his wife and children to the college dormitory. He recruits seven talented and rejected black players to play with five Caucasian players and formed a legendary team that won the 1966 national championship against the powerful Kentucky.
—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
40 years ago, Don Haskins went on the recruiting trail to find the best talent in the land, black or white. 7 blacks and 5 whites made up the legendary 1965-66 Texas Western Miners. They were mocked and ridiculed for their showboating and flaunting of black players on the court. Yet, in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, Haskins and his Miners came together as a team united to reach the National Championship game against powerhouse Kentucky.
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"Glory Road" was inspired by a true story of Texas Western's Coach Don Haskins (Josh Lucas), who led the first all-black starting lineup team to the 1966 NCAA national basketball championship title. Coach Haskins has a lot going against him: first, Texas Western has a poor basketball program, and second, he cannot recruit good white players to the team. Coach Haskins goes to Northern cities to recruit talented black players from the streets to play for his team. The black players must adjust to his coaching, and not play street basketball. Coach Haskins doesn't see color when he evaluates the skill of all of his players, and chooses who plays in the game. With courage and determination, Coach Haskins changed basketball history, when his underdog team beats the powerhouse Kentucky Jayhawks.(I think you meant Wildcats as Jayhawks are from Kansas)
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How chatbots allow you to rethink UX Design
Our innovation consultant Alice Vasseur answered some questions for the online magazine Bot Trends
"Voice opens up new traffic levers"
Last August, Google launched its Google Home smart speaker on the French market. Recently, Amazon, the world's e-commerce giant, launched its Echos speakers in France. Orange will propose a European alternative with its assistant Djingo in the autumn. In a few years, we have moved from the era of clicking, to the era of touch (smartphone-tablet) and then to the era of speaking (voice assistants). By the end of 2018, 40% of American households will be equipped with voice speakers. And according to Philippe Dumont, a member of the MMA, "Voice could connect nearly 20 billion objects by 2023". So how do you integrate voice into your strategy and how will voice redesign the user experience?
Alice Vasseur, Innovation and Conversational UX Designer Consultant at VISEO, explains how to set up a voice application.
Bot Trends: Hello Alice, can you introduce yourself?
I am a digital innovation consultant at VISEO and for more than two years, I have been working more particularly on chatbots and voice assistants. I support brands in several aspects: conversational strategy, use case framing, application development, conversational UX and project management. We have supported and developed projects such as AccorHotels' Phil Welcome chatbot at the beginning, Direct Energie's Jo chatbot and Sephora's voice application on Google Assistant.
For a voice tag, how to define a relevant use case?
The voice opens up new traffic levers. New interactions are possible in new contexts: in the car, at home cooking... Hands are taken, eyes are riveted on the road: you can only use the voice to interact.
To define its use case, it is therefore necessary to think "voice-first". We imagine the user in those contexts where he will not be able (or willing) to write and we think about what he might need (or want) to ask orally. The service provided by voice interaction must be faster and more efficient than on a mobile application or website.
For example, in the case of Sephora on Google Assistant, the first feature offered is the possibility of booking a beauty service (make-up, eyebrow removal...) in store. Faster than a trip on the website, you can make an appointment in one sentence "OK Google talk to Sephora to book an eyebrow removal Saturday at 5pm at Sephora Beaugrenelle".
During the first two months, users were able to listen to exclusive podcasts by beauty influencers such as Sandrea. A daily beauty shot that has attracted several thousand curious people to this new vocal channel.
Finally, to offer a simple and fun first approach to users, they can test their beauty culture by playing quizzes.
How to define the personality of your vocal assistant?
On the vocal level, the expression of the personality is more complicated than on the written level. For example, on chatbots, we can use emojis, gifs, an avatar... In voice, even if we can go much further in the personification by using a synthetic voice specific to the brand, more often it will be easier to rely on the synthetic voices proposed by default by assistants like Alexa or Google Assistant. In this case, the personality of a vocal assistant will be able to express itself only in the tone used.
Personality and tone must be in harmony with the brand, its identity, its values and its target. Do I have to use a female voice or a male voice? Do I have to send you or my client on the same page?
The use case is also very important in defining the tone. We do not express ourselves in the same way depending on the use case: the tone is different in the case of a customer service complaint or a beauty quiz.
What audio formats are available on voice assistants?
On the Google Home voice assistant, it is possible to enrich the experience with audio content. Short formats of up to 2 minutes can be used to integrate sound effects or jingles. For example, Google Assistant's "I'm lucky" application recreates a real game show atmosphere, but it is also possible to offer longer formats (podcasts, media, etc.) with a player that makes reading easier. Radio finds a new field of expression on vocal assistants.
How to integrate voice assistants into the purchasing process?
The use of voice alone limits the possibilities of interaction. Writing and visuals are key points to convince a customer who is hesitating between several products. On the other hand, the voice assistant will be particularly suitable when the purchase is precise or recurring, as evidenced by the success of the pizza order on voice assistants, at Domino's or Pizza Hut.
Google, Amazon or Orange voice assistants are in a multimodal approach. They are present on multiple devices (smartphone, desktop, TV, internet box) and add screens on their new connected speakers (Amazon Echo Show).
A journey can start on the voice and end on the smartphone. Voice assistants allow content to be sent to the user's mobile phone: link to the site, video, images, product sheets, etc. A presence on voice assistants is complementary to the other interfaces.
How to promote voice apps?
The promotion of a voice application is essentially based on the communication that the brand will achieve, thanks to classic levers (advertising, social networks...). A very didactic work is necessary to explain how the application works, because the use is still new.
To discover a voice app, there are two ways today:
Search on the blinds that list the different voice applications available, via the "Explorer" section of the Google Assistant on smartphone or the "Skills Store" of Alexa.
Via the search: the assistant can suggest voice apps to answer a user's request ("Implicit discovery" in Google Assistant). For example, for Sephora, if a customer asks "I would like to book an eyebrow waxing session", Google Assistant can suggest that they be redirected to the Sephora application.
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A secure and interoperable binding that is designed for use with duplex service contracts that allows both services and clients to send and receive messages.
The following example shows how to specify the wsDualHttpBinding binding in a configuration file.
The WSDualHttpBinding provides the same support for Web Service protocols as the WSHttpBinding, but for use with duplex contracts. WSDualHttpBinding only supports SOAP security and requires reliable messaging. This binding requires that the client has a public URI that provides a callback endpoint for the service. This is provided by the ClientBaseAddress. A dual binding exposes the IP address of the client to the service. The client should use security to ensure that it only connects to services it trusts.
Initializes a new instance of the WSDualHttpBinding class.
Initializes a new instance of the WSDualHttpBinding class with a binding specified by its configuration name.
Initializes a new instance of the WSDualHttpBinding class with a specified type of security used by the binding.
Gets or sets the base address of the client.
Gets or sets the maximum amount of memory, in bytes, that can be allocated for the manager of message buffers that receive messages at the endpoints configured with this binding.
Gets an object that provides convenient access to the properties of a reliable session binding element that are available when using one of the system-provided bindings.
Gets an object that specifies the security settings used with this binding.
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Vermont Natural Resources Council Presents Arthur Gibb Award for Individual Leadership to Paul Costello of Vermont Council on Rural Development
The Vermont Natural Resources Council (VNRC) is pleased to present this year's Arthur Gibb Award for Individual Leadership to Paul Costello, Executive Director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD). The award will be presented at VNRC's annual meeting on Thursday, September 20 at American Flatbread, Lareau Farm Inn in Waitsfield.
Paul Costello is a dynamic leader and powerful advocate who helps Vermont communities create prosperous and sustainable futures. From working for policy change to spur investment in farm, food, and forestry enterprises, to helping bring broadband internet and digital economy development projects to over 90 Vermont towns, Costello has promoted economic vitality and stewardship of Vermont's natural assets in all corners of the state.
Costello is a leader on climate change as well, and at VCRD began an initiative to make Vermont a national hub for climate economy development. He has so far convened two Vermont Climate Economy Summits and assembled a climate economy council, which developed an action plan to create jobs and boost prosperity while reducing carbon impacts.
VNRC has awarded the Arthur Gibb Award for Individual Leadership since 2006. Established in honor of the late Arthur "Art" Gibb, who was first elected to the Vermont Legislature in 1962 and went on to be deeply involved in passing key environmental and land use legislation, the award honors a Vermont resident who has made a lasting contribution to his or her community, region or state in advancing smart growth policies.
"Paul Costello epitomizes the characteristics that defined Art Gibb's life," said VNRC Executive Director Brian Shupe. "He has committed himself to working across Vermont to make the state, and the individual communities that comprise it, a better place. I am really pleased to recognize him for that work."
The Arthur Gibb Award will be co-presented to Costello by Megan Camp, Vice President and Program Director of Shelburne Farms, who is the current Chair of VCRD's Board and a former VNRC Board member.
Costello, a lifelong Vermonter, grew up in Burlington and obtained a BA from the University of Vermont. He worked in human services, as a manager for the Middlebury Natural Foods Cooperative, and as a carpenter before beginning doctorate course work in intellectual history at McGill University, while lecturing at Saint Michael's College, UVM, and McGill. After earning his PhD, Costello worked for five years at Central Vermont Adult Basic Education (CVABE), an organization that provides literacy instruction for adults and teens in Washington, Lamoille, and Orange counties, serving first as a regional coordinator and then as development director. He took the helm of VCRD in 2000.
Nathaniel Hausman, Project Director for the Clean Energy States Alliance, wrote in his nomination of Costello: "Paul understands the imperative of preserving Vermont's land and traditions while at the same time promoting innovation and economic development."
Sarah Waring, Executive Director of the Center for Agricultural Economy, endorsed Costello's collaborative, people-centered approach to community problem solving. "Paul has dedicated his adult life to finding ways to protect the civic engagement in Vermont, and he's done it by building bridges with advocates on both sides of the aisle, and perhaps more importantly, with supporters on Main Street and in the sugar house," she said. "Paul's strategy to create leadership teams, local facilitators, and networks of accountability enables self-actualization in our Vermont communities."
Arthur Gibb was deeply involved in passing legislation to ban billboards, enact the state's bottle deposit law, regulate junkyards, and modernize statutes governing local and regional planning. He served on the commission that laid the groundwork for Act 250 and served twelve years on the Vermont Environmental Board, including one year as Chair.
For more information about the Vermont Natural Resources Council, and the award (including a list of past recipients) visit vnrc.org. To RSVP to the VNRC Annual Meeting, where the award will be presented, email Stephanie Gomory at sgomory@vnrc.org or call her at 802-223-2328, x121.


With teams reloading for the 2018 season and with some teams obviously looking forward to seasons after the current one. We are starting to see what teams are the real deal, and which ones are the pretenders. But with spring training around the corner, here are 5 bold predictions for the upcoming 2018 season.
Just like the Dodgers in the national league. The Astros; in the American League are a favorite to get back to the World Series. I agree and apart from that I believe the Astros will win 115+ games this season. This would put them as one of the best win/loss records in history. Can we witness history in 2018?
The Rockies are coming off a great 2017 campaign. They are loaded with young talent, and now they have added some much needed bullpen help. Straighten out some contract negotiations and look ready to make a real good run in 2018. With talent like Charlie Blackmon, who just had the best season from a lead off hitter in history, and Nolan Arenado arguably the best third baseman in the game. This team will make some noise in 2018. And did I mention Coooooooors.


There's a certain serenity to Sundays. You know when a day is so calm and clear and you just feel holy and you think, "It feels like Sunday"? I love that Sunday comes before Monday, that you get two days of "weekend play" and then there's a day of consecration before putting your hand to the plow again on Monday.
I made a commitment a long time ago to not do certain things on Sundays (like watch TV, do homework, etc.) that for me are personal decisions; how I choose to keep the Sabbath day.
No, God will not smite me for watching a non-church movie on Sunday, nor will I fail classes if I chose to do homework, nor should I be the judge for anyone else about what they should or should not do on Sunday. I just know that as I continue through my journey of mortal life, I get heavy. And having a day of rest--true rest--is paramount. For me.
My freshman year at BYU I made it into Concert Choir. This was a special year for Concert Choir: it was the first and last time (to date) that they were invited to go on tour. We didn't get to go to South Africa or Ireland (like the smaller group, University Singers, did). No, we got a 3 night, 4 day all expenses paid bus trip to the Pacific Northwest (e.g. Portland, OR, and Vancouver, Washington).
There were some wonderful moments during this trip, including singing at the Portland temple groups and watching a blind middle schooler sing his heart out while our choir shed silent tears. There were great acoustics, bright lights, and funny moments. But what I remember most happened the Sunday we drove back to Provo. The whole trip we stayed with host families who graciously provided us with meals and a place to sleep. My host family the last night happened to be LDS, and since they knew the next day was the Sabbath, they made sure to pack a large sack lunch for my travel.
The buses left after breakfast. I spent the day chatting with fellow choir members, singing hymns, trying to make a dent in Lectures on Faith. Around 5 p.m. (about 4 hours from our destination), the buses stopped and Sister Hall announced that we would be eating at Golden Corral for dinner. I was confused--wasn't it Sunday? Didn't we all have food from our host families? Everyone unloaded and gathered for a prayer. My unease remained. As we walked inside the restaurant, I can still see the plates stacked and the feeling I got when I reached out for one: this did not feel like Sunday. I put the plate down and went back to the bus.
As I boarded I noticed several other people quietly seating, reading scriptures or trying to sleep. These peers were not making bold declarations of "holier than thou how dare you break the Sabbath"; they just sat in the peace that I felt stronger and stronger as I made my way to my seat. Thickness caught in my throat and my eyes filled with unexpected tears. The Lord's outpouring of love surprised me. He had seen my little sacrifice (after all, I still had food--I'm sure many others on the trip did not, and regardless, Sundays on the road can be seen as ox-in-the-mire moments for sure) and He wanted me to know it.
That is exactly what I experienced on the bus in 2002: being fed with the "heritage of Jacob", which to me was so much more filling than any buffet, even Golden Corral, could hope to be.


the 2006 campaign of Correa.
"Just like I did not believe what 'Mono Jojoy' said about having given support to the campaign, I have no reason to believe the denial now," the President told a local Ecuadorean radio station.
The 'Momo Jojoy' video confirms Colombian accusations that Correa of having received money from the FARC to finance his 2006 campaign for the Presidency. The OAS is investigating the authenticity of the video of which the FARC calls a "smokescreen" to cover up domestic failing by the Colombian government.
Ecuador cut diplomatic ties with its northern neighbor in March 2008 after the Colombian army attacked a FARC camp just over the Ecuadorean border.


Jon Daniels and the Texas Rangers have had quite the offseason. They were the ones who pushed the first domino by signing Doug Fister to an exceptionally affordable one year contract, and announced the signings of six players on Monday, two of whom will receive major league contracts.
Beginning with the minor moves, the Rangers announced three previously unannounced non-roster invitees today as well as the signing of outfielder/left-handed pitcher Anthony Gose, which had been reported last week. Left-handed pitcher David Hurlbutt, infielder Christian Lopes and the recently non-tendered Chi Chi Gonzalez will be joining the club this March.
The first, Christian Lopes, who had spent his entire career with the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Lopes, 25, is coming off a season in which he slashed .269/.357/.421 over 403 plate appearances, mainly at Triple-A Buffalo. Lopes brings with him a history of strong plate discipline, above average to plus speed and average power.
He will be in camp to compete for a utility infielder role, as he has the versatility to play all throughout the infield, however will likely be on the outside looking in out of camp, seeing as how he has no previous major league experience. He could, however get a chance at some point this season if injuries strike.
David Hurlbutt, 28, has been in the Twins organization throughout his career where he has worked primarily as a starting pitcher. Hurlbutt is a control oriented lefty who doesn't have great stuff, but is able to get the job done. Based on the current state of the Rangers rotation depth, Hurlbutt has a chance to break camp with the club, albeit an exceptionally small one. He has the potential to be a left-handed swing man in the big leagues.
Gonzalez, nearly 26, is expected to miss a large portion of the 2018 campaign as he recovers from Tommy John surgery. The non-tender was simply a procedural move so that the Rangers could get him off of the 40-man roster without exposing him to waivers. He should be back later in the season, however, the former first round pick has a lot of catching up to do.
The first of the guaranteed contracts went to right-handed pitcher Tony Barnette who just had his 2018 club option worth $4 million bought out. Barnette will be returning to the only team for which he has pitched for at the major league level following a season marred by bad luck, as he posted a 5.49 ERA, despite an FIP of 4.01. Barnette will take home $1.5 million on a one-year deal, representing a slight pay cut from 2017, in which he earned $1.75 million. Barnette figures to serve in a middle relief role for the 2018 season.
The most important deal, however, was the signing of left-handed reliever Mike Minor, as reported by Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, who seems likely to serve in a high leverage relief capacity or in the team's rotation. While the financial terms have yet to be announced, Minor, arguably the best left-handed relief pitcher on the market seems in line for a healthy increase over his $4 million salary from 2017.
Prior to 2017, Minor had missed the past two seasons due to his recovery from Tommy John surgery. Nevertheless, he looked like a slam dunk bounce back candidate from the beginning as he went on to post a very strong 2.55 ERA with supporting peripherals including a 2.62 FIP, a 10.2 K/9 and a 2.5 BB/9 over 77.2 innings pitched.
Furthermore, Minor managed to pick up six saves over the course of the season. It should also be noted that Minor earned an additional $1.25 million from his decision to buy out his end of the mutual option with the Kansas City Royals. Based on the current state of the Rangers' pitching depth, it wouldn't be completely surprising to see Minor return as a starter, however based on his injury history, he should be handled with caution. The Rangers will not have to make a corresponding roster move.


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Oct. 14: Longtime cast member Kenan Thompson tells a TV Guide interviewer that he doesn't want make up the lack of diversity in the cast on "SNL" anymore by playing black female characters.
Washington and the show's writers wasted no time in addressing the issue in the episode. In the cold open, Washington played a luminous Michelle to Pharoah's Barack Obama ("I feel like it's been years since I've seen you!" he said to her pointedly.) However, when the script called for Oprah Winfrey to enter the scene, it became clear that Washington would have to play her as well as any other black female characters who were part of the sketch. Washington directly mentioned Thompson's refusal to don drag, and while she quick-changed off-camera into her Winfrey costume, the show scrolled an explanation for why the sketch was occurring.
Was the scene a step in the right direction of "SNL" tackling its diversity issues, or to use Sharpton's words, did it contribute "nothing" to the discussion (or even make light of the situation?) Obviously it would be impossible for Michaels and the "SNL" team to modify its casting decisions immediately, but pretending the tense last few weeks didn't occur would also not be wise. It will be interesting to hear how the scene came to be written and what, if any, input Washington had in it.
Additionally, the ghost of Miley Cyrus still cannot rest peacefully, as she was invoked in the monologue. When Vanessa Bayer came to Kerry Washington (using the skills as a fixer she picked up playing Olivia Pope), for help after punching a bouncer at "da club," Washington advised her to leave town. "But who will play Miley?" asked Bayer. "Haven't you played Miley enough lately?" Washington replied. The additional reminder of Cyrus' existence was balanced out, however, by a short tribute to Lou Reed with a clip of him performing on the show.
Lady Gaga returns as host and musical guest Nov. 16. She will probably not wear anything interesting.
Is Kerry Washington a sellout for hosting 'SNL'?
'Scandal's' Kerry Washington: Is she a sellout for hosting 'SNL'?


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Azerbaijani delegation members ripped posters off the wall at the Eastern Partnership civil society forum in Batumi on November 20.
According to the Georgian media, the posters had photos of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev and armed police officers, it was also written that human rights have been violated in Azerbaijan. The information was confirmed by one of the organizers of the event, editor-in-chief of Rezonansi newspaper Lasha Tughushi.
According to him, a Czech NGO published the posters at the entrance of a ballroom that caused protest among some members of the Azerbaijani delegation.
Tughushi said that the members of the delegation who ripped the posters off the wall stated that Azerbaijan is not the only place where human rights have been violated and demanded to place banners reflecting situations in other countries as well.
The sixth meeting of the Eastern Partnership civil society forum is being held in Batumi on 20-21 November. Newly appointed State Minister for Euro Integration Davit Bakradze is attending the meeting.
Georgia is hosting the forum for the first time.
Tughushi stated that it is regrettable that such an incident took a place at the international forum.
"Positions differ in some cases, people don't have the same views concerning the same issues. However, it does not mean you should express your protest through such methods," Tughushi said.
The fact caused discussion among the forum participants. Those who ripped off the posters stated that they would no longer attend the forum.
"Such violations take place in any country and revealing Azerbaijan as an exception was not right," Azerbaijani delegation representative Salim Balaev said.
Representatives of the Czech NGO stated that they have been studying the human rights violation in Azerbaijan for years. "They ripped off and stole the posters," they said.


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Force banks and credit card companies to suspend interest on mortgages and loans
EVERYBODY is taking a hit. Shouldn't the big banks and credit card companies be forced to suspend interest until this is over? A pause on payments is not enough. People are being laid off, businesses forced to close. Why are the banks getting a pass?
Created by Kerry Miller
Les véhicules électriques ne sont pas sûrs pour la forêt tropicale
Les polluants dans les émissions des véhicules sont connus pour endommager les tissus pulmonaires et peuvent entraîner et aggraver des maladies respiratoires telles que l'asthme. La pollution des véhicules à moteur contribue également à la formation de pluies acides et ajoute aux gaz à effet de serre qui provoquent le changement climatique. Les polluants émis directement par les véhicules ne sont pas la seule source de préoccupation. Par temps chaud et ensoleillé, les hydrocarbures réagissent avec les oxydes d'azote pour créer un polluant secondaire, l'ozone. Dans de nombreuses zones urbaines, les véhicules à moteur sont le principal contributeur à l'ozone troposphérique, qui est une composante courante du smog. L'ozone provoque la toux, une respiration sifflante et un essoufflement et peut provoquer des lésions pulmonaires permanentes, ce qui en fait une cause de problèmes de santé publique cruciaux. Les véhicules zéro émission comprennent les véhicules électriques à batterie, les véhicules électriques hybrides rechargeables et les véhicules électriques à pile à combustible à hydrogène. Ces technologies peuvent être utilisées dans les voitures particulières, les camions et les bus de transport en commun.
Let Canadians aged 60 to 64 receive their OAS and GIS pensions early.
Many of us will not be re-hired after being laid off, mostly because of our age (and because of our higher wages compared to what our less experienced co-workers are receiving). Instead of us struggling with a lower income from EI (and perhaps welfare when EI runs out), allow "pre-seniors" to start receiving their OAS and GIS earlier. Our pension incomes would likely be significantly higher than EI benefits. Transitioning our vulnerable demographic into retirement and thereby "socially distancing" us from workplaces could also help reduce pressure on the health care system.
Created by Douglas Buchanan
793 people died of CoV2 in Italy on March 21, surpassing its own record set only 1 day prior. The death toll & confirmed case count in Italy & places all over the world show no signs of abating. In Canada the number of deaths leapt by 50% overnight. China is one of the only countries thus far that has managed to curtail the spread of CoV2 & has done so by mounting a war-like effort against the virus. Without social intervention, CoV2 spreads at exponential rates. This does not simply mean "quickly", it means that the more it spreads, the more quickly it will spread. The humanitarian, personal, social & economic consequences also compound exponentially. Every day that we don't act costs us tenfold on the other end.The cost of inadequate or delayed action is a humanitarian & economic catastrophe.
Created by Nahum Mann
Expand COVID-19 testing to save lives
We are entering the very rapid rising part of the epidemic curve. Social distancing measures needed to control this in the absence of increased testing capacity will be extreme. We are a week or so away from large numbers of COVID-19 cases entering our ERs and ICUs. Based on what has happened around the world, we know that ICUs will be overwhelmed, and our doctors will have to make decisions about who gets a ventilator, "which" person's life is worth more than another's. We do not want these decisions to have to be made. We need to reduce red tape for diagnostic testing so that highly skilled scientists from outside public health labs can contribute labour and resources.
Created by Tamara Maiuri
Tourism Companies To Pay Travel Agents
They have until 2022 to pay us. Now, most of us worked all last year for our Spring Break departures. Some of us may die before 2022, they should pay us what we are owed, since they are keeping our clients money. Since we are employed mostly commission based we do not qualify for EI or any other compensation from the government!
Created by Natalie H
CRITICAL: Lockdown Canada Immediately to Stop Coronavirus
The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is now a global pandemic with over 300,000 confirmed cases, and 13,000 dead.[1] In Italy, the country now hardest hit by the virus, the medical system has been crippled. So many people are critically ill that there simply aren't enough intensive care beds or ventilators to keep people struggling to breathe alive. Doctors have been left with the horrendous task of having to decide... who gets to live, and who is left to die, often alone.[2] Governments across Canada are closing schools, restaurants, and public facilities, and encouraging everyone to practice social isolation to curb the spread of the disease.[3] Many people are isolating and practicing social distancing during essential trips out to get groceries and medicine. But the stark reality is that too many people are simply not taking this threat seriously.[4] With the exception of essential services such as food, utilities and health care, everyone must stay home. An immediate national lockdown will make sure people take this threat seriously, and we have NO time to waste. Social distancing is our best defence against COVID-19. If we can "flatten the curve" and slow the spread of the virus, fewer people will need critical care all at once.[5] If not, the situation in Italy shows us what will happen: people will die by the thousands. Experts agree. Dr. Michael Warner, medical director of critical care at Michael Garron Hospital in Toronto, says Canada "should have enforced a mandatory lockdown from coast to coast a while ago", and doctors at the Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster just wrote a dire letter to BC chief medical officer Dr Bonnie Henry, warning that we are on the same trajectory as Italy and that we "must close non-essential businesses, and enforce the critical need for social distancing so that the health care system is not overwhelmed."[6,7,8,9] The lack of mass testing makes the true scale of the crisis in Canada unknown. This is the most critical moment for us to act, right now, while we still have a chance at preventing the virus from bringing our healthcare system to its knees. Sources: [1] Map of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Global Cases [John Hopkins University] https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 [2] 'A generation has died': Italian province struggles to bury its coronavirus dead [Guardian] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/19/generation-has-died-italian-province-struggles-bury-coronavirus-dead [3] Coronavirus: Here's what's happening in Canada and around the world on Saturday [CBC] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/coronavirus-covid19-canada-world-march21-1.5505520 [4] "Call people out:" Dr. Bonnie Henry wants us to get serious about social distancing [Daily Hive] https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/dr-bonnie-henry-social-distancing-coronavirus [5] Flattening the Coronavirus Curve [New York Times] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/science/coronavirus-curve-mitigation-infection.html [6] Canada should be on lockdown to stop COVID-19 spread, doctor warns [CBC] https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1714164803998 [7] COVID-19: Doctors push for lockdown, warn B.C. could become like Italy [Vancouver Sun] https://vancouversun.com/news/covid-19-doctors-urge-b-c-government-to-take-more-drastic-measures/ [8] 'We need to do more': Fraser Health doctors send dire letter to Dr. Bonnie Henry [Abbotsford News] https://www.abbynews.com/news/we-need-to-do-more-fraser-health-doctors-send-to-dire-letter-to-dr-bonnie-henry/ [9] A letter to Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer, from doctors at the Royal Columbia Hospital in New Westminster https://www.scribd.com/document/452662584/Letter-from-doctors-1 https://www.scribd.com/document/452662585/Letter-from-doctors-2
Created by Matthew Carroll
Put Advanced First Aiders/Responders to work to assist frontline staff with COVID-19
Our Doctors and nurses deserve our support and they are not only going to be dealing with Covid-19 but also with regular health problems (injuries and illnesses). People with EMR, OFA3, or 80AWFA should be asked to do some emergency basic training ASAP. In the sector of Adventure Tourism; mountain guides, ski patrollers, marine guides, river guides etc., certainly have essential training and skills to offer if/when/where the system is ready for this untapped and poised resource. Also, it's worth mentioning that many people in Adventure Tourism also have Class 4, 3, or 2 Drivers licences and might be wanted for emergency transport.
Created by Andrew Førstved
End Student Evictions at UOttawa Residences Now!
The University of Ottawa has given non-international students less than five days notice to move out, pack their things and leave campus as a result of the ongoing pandemic around COVID-19. In her address to students, UOttawa Provost and VP Academic Affairs, Jill Scott says that the University is doing this "to protect our students, and the most vulnerable members of the Ottawa community from the risk of COVID-19 infection." What she fails to acknowledge is that those most vulnerable will most likely be those who are unable to find shelter on such short notice or enough money to buy food or store and move their things. Not all students have the luxury of having someone like a relative whose residence they can stay at or who can help them move on such short notice. Further, the University has been facing a mental health crisis recently; resulting in several student deaths on campus, this will only serve to increase the stress facing many of those with mental health issues. We are asking the University to follow the example of multiple jurisdictions like France, the province of Ontario and even President Donald Trump who have all halted evictions for the unforeseeable future due to the virus because of the risk it would cause to these residents once out on the street. Students should not be treated as different from other tenants, they deserve an eviction freeze too.
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If Covid-19 doesn't get your attention, nothing will.
Climate change isn't a mysterious force, it's a whole bunch of known forces happening all at once, more and more with no chance to recover. Literally death from a thousand cuts with billions of lives. Entire sectors are being wiped out, and what we need to realize is that there is no "after Corona Virus", there will be something else, and then something else on and on. When we say climate emergency, we mean act now. Acting now means rapidly shifting our economy. We don't have time to nickel and dime who gets helped and who doesn't. The super rich got us into this mess, and it's their turn to bail everyone else out for a change. Every Canadian deserves to not have to panic about money while the government makes the rapid changes necessary to shore up our health care and social services infrastructure, and shift our economy away from fossil fuels immediately without leaving anyone behind. We can see what terrible damage slashing social services and ignoring the warnings of experts can bring, and now we know that no one is safe from the consequences.
Created by Saryn Caister
We are here we are queer, but mostly we are humans to
A lot of these at risk youth have already lived a life of trauma and fear for there own safety. Right now we have a safe space and resource centre and support system with active programming to empower them to have a better chance at being functioning citizens as well as many of them have fallen through the cracks of the system and haven't been helped when they should have been
Created by Connor Sims
Funding for FASD
Based on recent research and considering a conservative estimate, the prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is 4% in Canada. That means that 200,000 British Columbians have FASD. That is 4 times the amount of Autism. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is among the leading causes of cognitive and developmental disability among children in Canada. The effects of prenatal alcohol exposure are vast and varied, but without supports, individuals with FASD can have profound issues with education, daily functioning, mental health, addiction, and social functioning. When unsupported for their disability, rates of FASD are higher in vulnerable populations, including those involved in the child welfare and justice systems. Interventions can have a profound impact on outcomes, however, in BC there are limited to no specialized services for this population. In Ontario, their specialized services funding has been expanded to include families caring for a child or young adult affect by FASD. We challenge the BC government to revisit their FASD strategic plan, look to other provinces, bring together a roundtable of experts, advocates, family members, and individuals with FASD, and recommit funding to finally support the needs of those affected by FASD. All our children deserve better than what they are given for a disability they did not ask to be born with !
Created by Patsy Davis
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Free researc h of the eldest daughter because I was making the one like the girl with the knitting and the resin accesso ries and embroidery etc. With mother, I di d research together Buri two years though father's turn was not at all.
This winter's free research has created a swing that works with electromagnets.The swing used a clip.I tried to solder for the first time in my life!
I made an electromagnet by wrapping the enamel wire on the screw.
For wiring, rub the enamel on both ends of the electromagnet with sandpaper.
Wire the battery case and the tact switch to turn the electromagnet on/off.
I challenged to solder for the first time in my life.I was scared at first, but I was able to connect good athlete wiring quickly.
The electromagnetic circuit is completed!
Cute decoration with water-based paints.The one that I painted yellow is a table where an electromagnet is put.
Complete the chain through a hole in a pin vise to the prop!
The electromagnetic circuit and the swing are pasted to the wooden board with the glue for woodwork and it is completed.
The swing shakes to a good feeling when you turn on/off the electromagnet well timing.
I wish I could move the real swing with the automatic button like this….
The el dest son still has to push the back so that the swing does not burn well.


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