I'm glad to see you're all here and ready to listen with your heart. At this moment the function you have is simply to lend your ears toward the front to listen and to use your heart to penetrate what I am saying. I do hope that it will generate questions in you because questions are good for the resolution of some of the issues that we will encounter tonight.
I want to continue on with the practice of meditation and learning about the practice of meditation. We're going to be concentrating for a while on Silent Illumination. But before we get into Silent Illumination, I want to give you some kind of food-for- thought and it serves part as a review and part as a segue to get into Silent Illumination.
This is a Dharma Talk given by Venerable Chan Master Hsu-yun also known as Empty Cloud. He was talking about the prerequisites for the practice of Chan. One of the prerequisites was: put down the myriad conditions; let not a single thought arise.
The myriad conditions are the uncountable things that come up in the mind. In the mind does not mean in your head but everywhere you look is mind. When we begin to see mind in this way versus consciousness, it changes the complexity of everything around you and it enables wisdom to shine upon what's happening in your environment. So it enables that wisdom to govern actions versus the habitual tendencies of the habitual self.
Since we know this, how can we achieve it? How can we put down these thoughts and not let a thought arise? First, put to rest each and every thought until there is non-production and one will certify to Bodhi instantly without any trouble.
Secondly, use principle to deal with all matters and fully understand self-nature was originally pure and clear and that affliction, Bodhi, birth, death, and Nirvana are all empty names that by right have nothing to do with our self-nature. All things and objects are like dreams and illusions, bubbles, shadows.
Within self-nature, our bodies which are composed of the four elements, the mountains, rivers, grave earth are just like bubbles that randomly form and vanish in the sea without affecting the original substance. We should not follow production.
Now this is where he started; he said "put to rest each and every thought until there is non-production. What this means is that for instance if we see this bottle of water and if we see it and then we say "I want that bottle of water." When I held up the bottle of water, the "I" see it and the perception is the bottle of water, one did not see a producing thought that there is a desire to have this bottle of water. Or you could say "That is not Perrier, I don't like that," we don't see that either.
In any case when you see it, it's just it. It's just that but we don't see what rushes out to get that. That's production of thought. When you have production of thought, it produces an energy in mind that will ensure that that thought will come up again. Maybe next time you come to class you'll have your own bottle of water or you could say "he's not sharing the water, or I don't want his water; all of that is production. It has noting to do with this plastic cylinder that has water inside of it.
But we produce it. When we produce it, it creates habitual tendencies. What Master Hsu-yun is not saying is this; and I'm holding up my hand without a bottle in it. Can anybody tell me what the difference is using the right hand here (with the bottle of water in it) and the left hand here (without the bottle of water)?
Student: On one hand you have the empty bottle (empty by nature) and the other hand which is just empty.
Gilbert: This is an important thing to see because what do we know from the Heart Sutra? Form is non other than emptiness; emptiness is non other that form. The thoughts that arise in mind are necessary for communication. The images and all the sensory parts enable the mind to contemplate. These things are fundamentally empty. We do not have to make them into this hand that's empty.
My point here is critical in terms of meditation so please pay attention. Many times, people sit to meditate and when they meditate they try to make the bottle disappear. They don't have to make the bottle disappear. They only have to not produce thought. The bottle is naturally being produced in mind in accordance with causes and conditions. Whatever you're thinking of it will come up in the mind when you begin to meditate. If you attach to it, you produce thought. If you don't attach to it, it just goes by like the clouds.
Many times what practitioners try to do is try to make the sky free of clouds. It cannot happen. There is a difference when one is clear about apparent reality of something but we understand by principle that it's fundamentally empty. We don't have to empty it out. We don't have to make it disappear. What you see as the bottle is just phenomena. It's already an illusion, why try to change it into the illusion of nothing? Just let it be. Don't produce thought.
So when you sit to meditate, as thoughts arise in your mind which most assuredly it's going to do, let it alone. Just leave the mind resting where thoughts are produced; not the produced thought, just let it rest. Where is that place where thought is produced? Can anybody tell me?
Student: Specifically or logically you mean?
Gilbert: Where are the thoughts produced?
Student: In the brain? All over your brain.
Gilbert: Do you know where your brain is at?
Gilbert: Knowing where your brain is, is that a thought?
Gilbert: Do you have a good brain or a bad brain?
Gilbert: That's a produced thought so we'll get back to that in a moment. Thank you for contributing. Anybody else? Nobody? People all up here blocking the way for all the others; the Three Pillars of Zen in the front (laughs) are not going to weigh in on this?
Gilbert: And what is that mind called, Lety?
Gilbert: The True Nature or the Self-nature of mind. We don't negate everything out to say mind, no mind, no this, no that; we can say no-mind. We're going to get there in a moment but nevertheless, it's the self-nature of mind. The thoughts arise out of the self-nature of mind from past production.
If we stop producing thought, the mind naturally comes to a rest. When we meditate, we bring the mind back to a resting point. It's like beginning a new game of Monopoly. You start at the beginning and then you get broke and you start again at the beginning and you go again. In the beginning, you're neither rich nor broke. You're just at the beginning; before the dice are rolled.
Before anything is produced, that's where your mind rest; right there in the self-nature of mind. It is perfectly aware of everything that arises around you. Why, because through the senses it enables the mind to contemplate all these things so it has this awareness but it's not producing thought unless there's ignorance. If there's ignorance, then self will arise as habitual tendency and attaches to a thought and then create further thought.
The self is not separate from mind but we always confuse the self as being mind via consciousness. We take consciousness to be our awareness. It is not that way. Consciousness arises. When a bell is rung, through the sense organs information will come in and the mind will be aware when a bell has rung and act accordingly.
Consciousness also arises; one, to perceive the bell but this consciousness is still fundamentally empty. It's not doing anything. But when the self comes up and say "I want to hear the bell again," we don't see that. We take that to be our own awareness. It happens after the fact.
Remember we talked about this last week when I said, "it's just like the astronauts going to the moon and planting a flag saying "I claim this moon on behalf of the USA ."" Kind of foolish isn't it, this tiny little flag on the moon saying "I own this?" That's what self does. This tiny little self, this tiny little fragments of thought keep coming up saying "I own mind." It's not that way.
So as we begin to bring the mind back and resting it in the Self-nature (the Tibetans call "resting in Rigpa,"), it's the same thing as resting in the Self-nature of mind where thoughts arise, then the mind is very quiet. It is not moving. The movement of the mind (and this is very important for you to understand), is not thoughts appearing in mind.
When you sit to meditate, most assuredly thoughts are going to come up: thoughts that your legs are hurting, thoughts of the fan, thoughts of the cars, people snoring, cars beeping their horn, thoughts of how good you're doing sitting there; these thoughts will come up naturally in accordance with causes and conditions.
If you let them go, they will dissipate on their own because you're not producing subsequent thoughts. You know those thoughts are there perfectly. Why, because that's why he's saying, "put to rest production of thoughts." But the second part he's saying is "use principle to deal with all matters and fully understand that self-nature is originally pure and clear." What do I call that all the time that you must have?
Gilbert: The Right View. Here, Master Hsu-yun is also telling you otherwise, if you teach Chan and you teach people to meditate, what are they doing on the cushion if they don't know what they're doing? They're just sitting there saying "I want to quiet my mind; I want to become catatonic and I don't want any thought to arise." But thoughts arise all the time. They're constantly arising.
I'm going to present you with something that might appear to be contradictory. We talked about this before but we'll go back to it because this is Master Hui-neng. In response to a poem from Wo-lun saying, "Wo-lun can cut-off hundred of thoughts. When facing outside states, his mind does not move. The Bodhi in his mind is growing day after day." Sounds pretty good; my mind is not moving.
Master Hui-neng says, "Hui-neng has no skill. He does not cut-off hundreds of thoughts. When facing outside states, his mind moves often. Bodhi is just like this."
Doesn't that sound to be weird? He is saying he doesn't cut-off the thoughts. His mind moves often and Bodhi is just like this. How can that be? Doesn't that seem like the other one where he's saying that his mind is still? No, his mind is dead. There's no wisdom there.
When one sees that all thoughts naturally arise, it is impossible for you to stop the thoughts from arising by simply wishing them to stop arising, by simply trying to control your breath, or sitting there looking to see if the thoughts are arising. They will sneak up on you. Thoughts arise from all sorts of different directions in mind.
You just don't cling to them; they will stop producing thoughts. Remember what we call them in Pali Sanskrit?
Gilbert: Kusala when we don't cling to the thought therefore we do not produce thought; and Akusala when we hang on to it and then that generates thought.
Thoughts come up, they come up, they come up; some of them can be useful. I'm using thoughts right now to talk to you but on the other hand, I haven't had a thought. Does that make any sense? When one is not clinging to the thought, Bodhi is just like this. This is how the mind works.
How do you get there? Through the practice and the Right View. With out the Right View, it is very difficult to bring the mind to the proper stillness. The proper stillness has nothing to do with stopping the mind from thinking. It has to do with stopping the mind from producing new thoughts.
When we have to think, we think. But these thoughts are what we call Akusala thoughts. They are not producing new thoughts; they are only working in that moment. When we do that then we understand what the Masters were saying that the purpose of Chan is to accord the mind in whatever state it's in. So that whatever state we're in, we use the thought and let them go. Use them, let them go; use them' let them go hence not producing new thoughts.
If the thoughts are produced in the way Master Hsu-yun was talking about, they will keep coming up -- greed, hatred, ignorance will continue to come up in the mind. They will come up under the guise of the thought but appended to it will be these mental sensations or formations or impressions that attach to it.
Those too will come up when you sit to meditate. We do not take those mental formations, sensations, impressions to be our own mind. We see them as arising in consciousness transitory; temporary arising but perfectly arising in mind. Why are they perfectly arising in mind? One word in Sanskrit -- Pratitya-samutpada.
Gilbert: They're perfectly there. Why, you put them there. You put them there because you held on to something as you went through the mind field.
When I talk about the mind field, well, it can be a mine field. You step on it and you blow up. Most of us use the mind field in this way constantly blowing up because the self doesn't know where to walk. But the mind field is everything that you encounter, everything in your environment. Those things are perfectly coming up. You put them there.
So for you to try to banish them from the mind will not work because they have their energy that needs to be dissipated. When one does not pick up that thought again, it will arise in mind less frequently and less intensely until it finally goes.
I doubt if any of you have ever had somebody that you loved a lot that took off on you or broke up with you. When they broke up with you, they come up in mind a lot and you keep bringing them up, bringing them up. But little by little as you stop thinking about it, it got to be weaker and weaker. Until ultimately, when you got to the point where it's very, very weak, then it's gone. But if you see things in a very calm way, then it will not come up. But when they come up, you know why these things are coming up in mind -- because of right view. So the pressure is off. When you sit to meditate, you know these things are going to be coming up, but you're ready for the fight.
What I was telling the group in Chicago is sometimes, meditation is taught as "okay, cross your legs; here's the method; follow the method and don't stay off the method and you're on your own now. Go to it." And you're there and there's 10,000 enemies in front of you, you have your method and you have your sword but you don't even know which end of the sword to hold. You don't even know how to hold the shield.
So what happens? You get slaughtered! As soon as you see the thoughts coming you get scared and you start running away and you won't stand your ground. You have to stand your ground when you meditate. You have to have faith; use the Right View and when the thoughts come up you know they're going to be there. It's as if you know the enemy is on the other side of the mound and as soon as you close your eyes to meditate, they're going to be coming down the hill. But you're going to be ready for them. You're not going to be bothered by them because you understand why they're there. And they can't touch you. You know their tricks.
And little by little, they dissipate. The self going after you (that caused a tremendous amount of problems to you), when that self comes in, what happens is that you think it's you meditating but it's the self (which is an enemy) that's coming in to convince you to go off the method.
Last week, we talked about the two attributes of the self. Do you remember what they are?
Gilbert: I really hit the people with that in Chicago this last weekend and they got the idea of it. They would say, "I don't understand. Sometimes when I'm sitting there and I'm meditating, I think I have it really good"
And I'm going, "When did you turn in to the "I"? All of a sudden the self comes popping back up again. It's very clever.
One of them said, "I was doing very, very good on it; the mind was getting very clear, and then I got scared." And I thought, "I don't want to disappear so I had to stop meditating."
That was the self going, "hey, you need me; you're disappearing. C'mon, let me come back!" So she let him back; what a clever coward.
The self is not your friend. The self is not you. You have to see your own Self-nature. How do you see your own Self-nature? That's the trick; by not seeing at all. In this way, you simply bring the mind to rest. The self nature of mind will be revealed and it will work but you have to be fearless. You have to be able to sit. You have to sit smart. You can't sit there and hope the dummy is going to become enlightened. All it will be is a new cleaner polished self but it's still the self.
You have to press on. Know that the attacks are going to come; know the different types of ways it's going to come; be true to the method. If you stay in the method long enough like after you reach a certain level in a video game, you get a weapon. But what the self has is a cloaking device. It hides and it doesn't let you see it. But one of the weapons that comes up is that you can see the self. And when you see the self, it's a fair fight; a stand-up fight because now you know it's there. You now know how and who to fight instead of you saying, "when am I going to stop thinking?" But now you see the self arising. That unmasking of the self is called wisdom.
Have you ever heard of the Vajra Sword of Wisdom? It's the wisdom that illuminates the mind. It's the wisdom that allows you to sit there fearlessly and being able to cut through all illusions. It's the Diamond Cutter's sword. With the Right View, you can stand your ground.
What we do though is we sit there and we take five minutes to even get in to our method. Then we say now it's time to go to work. With that kind of attitude, we're not going to be able to get anywhere because we've already lost the fight before it even got started. When you sit to meditate, you have to be good to go in that moment. You're ready, all systems go, you've got your method, you're there, you did your little yoga thing to stretch yourself out, you sit up on that cushion, you bring up that method.
And you know soon that as you get into that method, all those thoughts are going to come, "there they are. Heads up, here they're coming down the hill: work, girlfriend, boyfriend, money, candy, donut, cars, you name it." Whatever it is that titillate your senses, even the love of animals will come up in your mind. You know those are going to come up because they were recent in your mind. The frequency and the intensity of thought will also bring up those thoughts. And you know that's the way the mind works.
So now you know which end of the sword to hold. Now you know who the enemy is. How can you fight and enemy where it comes behind you and says, "You're doing a really good job; look, there's one right there! Kick that one; hit that one!" Well, who's talking? So now you know how to fight. That's the way it is and if you don't know that, then the method will not work for you. But if you do, the method will work very, very quickly if you're fearless.
Men and women of the world, separate yourself from views. Do not activate thoughts.
Like that credit card that you got in the mail; do not activate it. He's saying do not activate thought. What he's not saying is do not think. The thoughts are coming up in the mind like the bottle coming up in the mind -- "I want it. I'm thirsty. I have to have it right now. You don't need to lecture; you can drink the water right now."
I activated the thoughts. I messed up; now I stopped the lecture thinking about the water bottle. That's activating a thought. That is producing thoughts. So he's saying don't activate it. The thoughts that came up, they're going to come up no matter what because of causes and conditions. So nothing we can do of the past thoughts that were generated and now being produced as conditions in the mind (that we perceive to be consciousness), we just let those go. Just don't activate them when they come up again.
If there were no thinking then no-thought will have no place to exist.
No is the "no" of what? "What." No what?
Thought means thinking of what?
No is a separation from dualism that produces passions.
Thought means thinking of the original nature of the true reality.
So he's saying no-thought. How can you think of not thinking? By not thinking; you're not producing anything. You're just bringing the mind back to this Self-nature. But that is thinking. What is it thinking? It is thinking Self-nature. So Self-nature thinks naturally. Everything that arises from it, it arises from the Self-nature. There is no other place. Even if something appears to be sacred or profane, it arises from that mind via Pratitya-samutpada. Perfectly arising; pure. We look into mind by not thinking.
When we think, we produce consciousness which obscures the nature of the mind. We can no longer see things clearly.
If you give rise to thoughts from your true Self-nature, then although you see, hear, perceive, know; you're not stained by the myriad environments and are always free.
Right now you're using the Self-nature to listen. If you think "this is boring," then the self is there. If you think "this is really fantastic, I got to do this and tell the whole world," you're using self as well. But if you're simply allowing this information to process and to penetrate it, this is Self-nature. So if you use the mind in this way, it's liberated.
You do use thoughts so when you're thinking about it, he's saying "don't activate thoughts" so then you have the idea of "no-thought" but the no-thought is just simply not producing thought, not attaching to thought. So when you sit to meditate, you just rest the mind right there.
Thoughts will arise naturally. You are going to hear the fan. There's nothing wrong with that. That thought is not defiled. That thought is not perfumed by anything. It is naturally there; the fan, the light, the conditions in the room, thoughts from today, they are naturally appearing. But you just let them go by. You are fearless and you know what you are doing. You have a plan. You know how to meditate.
If you do not meditate in this way, your progress will be extremely slow and you're more likely to generate a mind of dead Samadhi than true illuminated mind. Are there any questions about this? Did I lose you guys? Still hanging in there? Okay.
The approach of Silent Illumination is different. It is more passive in character and focuses on the development of such qualities as total relaxation, coupled with open awareness, stillness, luminosity, perfect silence and clarity.
You know precisely what's going on in the mind. Why, because the thoughts are illuminated. All of a sudden, you turn on the light and the thief is there and he's not affecting you. That's stillness. The stillness is not that the thoughts are not coming up anymore; it's that you're not attaching to them. You're not producing thoughts. So you just let them go; whatever they are: the sound of the fan, the warmness of the room; if it was cold, the coldness of the room. Whatever it is, you let them go.
And when the mind lets all these go, it's in the state of equanimity and you're aware of all of them. Why, because the mind is not obstructed by clinging to one thought.
In doing so, it seeks gently to settle and silence the turning mind of a diluted thinking, bringing it to the point where the perfect quiescence, luminosity and intrinsically enlightened mind naturally emerges; smooth and clear like a mirror, cool and bright like the radiant moon, deep and still like a placid mountain lake.
What really beautiful language. But if you don't know Right View, it won't affect you one iota when you sit down because you'll be sitting there going, "when am I going to see the placid lake? All I got is the polluted lake" and so you won't understand how it works.
Do you understand how mind works? Do you understand how the method works? Do you know what self is? To know self, is to get rid of self but you have to know self first. If you don't, then actually the self is kidding you.
So in these wonderful passages, and like I said these passages are incredible, we're going to go over them beginning next week again. But they won't help you understand as much as the presentation of how mind works.
So today after we take our break, we're going to work through and people who are on the internet, we're going to go through a little bit of guided meditation and you can participate with that as well. It's not going to be a whole lot of guided meditation but just hang in there, listen to it and it will be of benefit.
Any questions? No, okay we'll take our break.


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The Evangelical Manifesto
On May 7, 2008 a group of Evangelical leaders released a manifesto designed to
help define and reform Evangelicalism in the United States.
http://www.evangelicalmanifesto.org/
The composers and charter signatories include seminary presidents, scholars, and pastors and
since its release it has been signed by celebrated authors (Jim Wallis), noted
theologians (Miroslav Volf), seminarians (Aaron Tiger), and moms (Kathy McDonald).
The response in the media has been mixed. Some outlets have seen the text as
primarily a vindication of the Evangelical left, while others have suggested
that the manifesto advocates a firm separation of faith and politics. The LA
Times story begins, "A group of prominent U.S. evangelical Christians is urging
other evangelicals to step back from partisan politics and avoid becoming
"useful idiots" for any political party." The Tennessean characterizes the
the manifesto's writers as attempting "to depoliticize their movement and
restore its religious roots." CNN suggests that the manifesto may demonstrate a
renewed openness to Democratic candidates and issues by many Evangelicals, and
hints that the timing of the manifesto may help the Democratic nominee for
Perhaps it is to be expected that media outlets accustomed to covering politics and
politicians would concentrate on the document's political ramifications, but the
manifesto itself is only partly concerned with discussing the proper
relationship between politics and faith. The manifesto declares a two-fold
purpose, "first to address the confusions and corruptions that attend the term
Evangelical in the United States and much of the Western world today, and
second to clarify where we stand on issues that have caused consternation over
Evangelicals in public life." The text itself is divided into three sections.
The first section aims to reaffirm Evangelical identity. Interestingly, the
authors elect for a largely doctrinal affirmation, circumscribing Evangelicals
as "Christians who define themselves, their faith, and their lives according to
the Good News of Jesus of Nazareth." This description is unlikely to cause
much controversy, though the text goes on to specify further what that Good
News is and how Evangelicals are called to respond. Missing from the discussion
of Evangelical identity is any sustained discussion of the particular historical
trajectories in the United States and Great Britain that flowered into the
contemporary Evangelical movement. Though Evangelicalism has for many decades
transcended nation and linguistic boundaries, additional historical perspective
might have clarified the question of Evangelical identity for some readers.
The second section is a call for a reformation in behavior among Evangelicals.
It is evident that the authors of the manifesto intend this middle portion to
act as the heart of the document. The accompanying study guide suggests
sustained prayerful analysis of this section by study groups, and it is in these
middle paragraphs that the manifesto makes a classically Evangelical plea. The
innovative edge to the document emerges as the litany of confessions goes beyond
those sins that Evangelicals for generations have become accustomed to
confessing, and moves to reject sins such as anti-intellectualism, identity
politics, and becoming "cheerleaders for those in power."
The third section has garnered the most attention in the media. It calls for a
new conception of the role of Evangelicals in public life. The text forwards a
reconsideration of Evangelical alliances that frequently sacrifice the
Evangelical calling for the sake of political expediency. The obvious subtext
is that the relationship between Evangelicalism and the "religious right" has
become far too cozy, and the perceived need to differentiate the "Good News"
from right-wing politics is one of the factors motivating the manifesto's
composition. It is worth noting, however, that the final section of the text is
entitled, "We Must Rethink Our Place in Public Life." Public life is not
coterminous with political life. The manifesto does not call for a retreat from
public life, but rather for a fuller and more responsible engagement in civil
society. The twin evils of secularism, in which religious ideas are excluded
from public discourse, and religious extremism, in which a particular set of
religious ideas are given exclusive hearing, are both rejected as faithful
options for Evangelicals.
The composers of the manifesto have also published a short summary, and a study
guide for church groups, both of which are available at
http://www.evangelicalmanifesto.org/ along with the text of the manifesto. The website
includes press release materials and a video of the press event where the
authors of the manifesto spoke to and with the assembled media.
Read the LA Times story.
Read the Tenessean article.
Check out the CNN peice.

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Cambridge O/A-level results leave students devastated
They were graded on a predictive grading system this year
SAMAA | Muzhira Amin - Posted: Aug 12, 2020 | Last Updated: 1 year ago
SAMAA | Muzhira Amin
Posted: Aug 12, 2020 | Last Updated: 1 year ago
SAMAA Digital
Ahad, a 17-year-old student, was devastated when he found out that he got a C and a D grade in two major A-level subjects, Math and Economics.
He got all As and A*s in his O-Levels, the highest in his school. "I got 2As, a C and a D in my AS-level result," he told SAMAA Digital. "This makes absolutely no sense. I still can't grasp what has happened."
The Cambridge International Examinations announced the results for their O and A-Level exams taken in May-June on Tuesday. An evidence-based grading system was used this year due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
Over 550 schools in Pakistan got the results of students registered for O and A-Level programmes.
A total of 95,0000 students from 139 countries opted sat in the exams under the grade prediction method for the Cambridge May/June session.
The day, however, turned out to be a nightmare for most students as their results didn't match the expected grades that their schools and teachers submitted to the international board.
"My mock results [the basis on which the CIE is grading students this year] were four As and a B," Ahad said, adding that his results have destroyed both his and his families' self-esteems.
According to the evidence-based grading system, students were graded according to a four-step assessment system. The CAIE asked teachers to use evidence and professional judgement to predict grades for each student in each subject they have entered for in the May/June 2020 exam series, based on what the student would have achieved if normal teaching had gone ahead.
But students complained that their grades fell even more than what they had previously scored.
Related: You won't lose Pakistani university admissions over bad A-level grades
Zehra, an A-Level student at Spectre College in Karachi, said she had worked very hard on her assignments, attendance and mock exams to make sure that her predicted grades were good. But when the results came out, she found out that she had scored a U in Math.
Another problem that students are facing this year is that they can't avail the option of rechecks as they didn't actually sit for the exams. Educator Ahmed Saya said that the only option they have is to either sit for a retake in the October-November session or ask their teacher to write an appeal to the CIE.
"The problem with appeals is that a student can't individually make one," he told SAMAA Digital. "Instead, the school will have to send an appeal for the entire subject cohort of sample papers for the student's work."
This means that the appeal will be made by the school on behalf of all the students that appeared for the exams. The problem with this option is that if a school is happy with a particular percentage of its students getting a good grade it will not appeal, leaving the remaining percentage of students with bad grades helpless.
"It's difficult because the school has to pay a hefty fee for appealing," Saya added.
Cambridge International announces O Level, IGCSE and ICE results
'Special' O-level exams to begin in Pakistan on July 26
Cambridge exams being taken as per policy, government tells court
Students have also blamed their schools for not sending the predicted results fairly. A-level student Sadaf says that the teachers did not place the students in proper grade brackets and were lenient, even towards "undeserving students".
"Schools inflated grades and put undeserving students into the limelight," Ahad said. "This is proven by the fact that those students who did not score so well ended up getting relatively better grades." He said that this wasn't standardization but cheating a result of "laid-back behavior".
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I literally just watched Hunger Games 2 and heard this quote near the end of the competition.
Only problem is when the mage insists on Time Warping before you can Hero/Lust.
Restoration gets 25% Healing buff during heroism, so this might be pretty good for healing too!
Great for Elemental since haste is a great stat for them.
only problem i have with it is that, its like one of the mage ones exept worse, as they can decide when they want their extra time warp, so they can time it for burst or whatever where shamans is locked into it being right after.
Probably overhyped. It obviously has it's niche places, but I won't call it a go-to legendary. Arguably it's worse than new Sephuz's Secret.
Would this also affect the Orc racial "Blood Fury"?
This item has no effect on the Shaman pvp talent Shamanism, even in non instanced pvp.
Wasted oppertunity to let Shamans also be able to grab the "blue" eyed version of this cowl, featured in the icon if you ask me, it's also the best single-target dps legendary for Enhancement.
The flavor text seems to suggest its a direct quote from Hunger Games: Catching Fire (which it is).
However, I would like to think its a bit deeper than that. This item makes bloodlust/heroism effects last longer; IE: gives more time. Lets think about this.
In the movie Star Trek: Generations Dr. Soran states, "It's like a predator; it's stalking you. Oh, you can try and outrun it with doctors, medicines, new technologies. But in the end, time is going to hunt you down... and make the kill."
Later in the movie, Picard says to Riker "Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important how we lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal"
Its also important to remember, Blizzard has already referenced this sort of philosophy with the achievement Time is a Flat Circle, of which the description is a direct quote from Friedrich Nietzsche.
Time. This item is an uncertain reminder that time is your enemy, or your friend. That time is a flat circle. Everything we have done or will do we will do over and over and over again- forever.
Just dropped from a Legionfall Recompense, the last place I'd expect to get a legendary from. I'm giddy right now!
I just looted this at 14:25 GMT 30/08/17 from a Argus random spawn treasure chest.
Not sure if its been a reported yet that these can be a source of legendaries.
Bloodlust effects last 75% longer on you.


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Q: ruby sort_by multiple fields I'm running Ruby 1.9.3p392.
Item = Struct.new( :name, :dir, :sort_dir )

entries = ftp.list()
entries.map!{|e| Net::FTP::List.parse(e) }.map!{|e| Item.new( e.basename, e.dir?, (e.dir? ? 0 : 1) ) }

render json: entries.sort_by{ |e| [ e.sort_dir, e.name ]}

For some reason, I am not getting the results back as expected.
I do get all folders first followed by all files, however, the name sorting is failing.
As an example, I get these for my folders:

*

*content

*images

*bin

For files:

*

*global.asax

*web.config

*favicon.ico

It groups the dir/file portion correct, but the names are sorted incorrectly.
The output to the console looks like this after sorting:
#<struct FtpController::Item name="Content", dir=true, sort_dir=0>
#<struct FtpController::Item name="Images", dir=true, sort_dir=0>
#<struct FtpController::Item name="Scripts", dir=true, sort_dir=0>
#<struct FtpController::Item name="Views", dir=true, sort_dir=0>
#<struct FtpController::Item name="bin", dir=true, sort_dir=0>
#<struct FtpController::Item name="Global.asax", dir=false, sort_dir=1>
#<struct FtpController::Item name="Web.config", dir=false, sort_dir=1>
#<struct FtpController::Item name="favicon.ico", dir=false, sort_dir=1>
#<struct FtpController::Item name="packages.config", dir=false, sort_dir=1>
#<struct FtpController::Item name="robots.txt", dir=false, sort_dir=1>

A: Your sorting works correctly in MRI Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.3, and 2.0.0:
Item = Struct.new(:name, :dir, :sort_dir)

entries = [Item.new('favicon.ico', false, 1), Item.new('bin', true, 0),
           Item.new('web.config', false, 1), Item.new('images', true, 0),
           Item.new('global.asax', false, 1), Item.new('content', true, 0)]

entries.sort_by{|e| [e.sort_dir, e.name]}
# => [#<struct Item name="bin", dir=true, sort_dir=0>,
#     #<struct Item name="content", dir=true, sort_dir=0>,
#     #<struct Item name="images", dir=true, sort_dir=0>,
#     #<struct Item name="favicon.ico", dir=false, sort_dir=1>,
#     #<struct Item name="global.asax", dir=false, sort_dir=1>,
#     #<struct Item name="web.config", dir=false, sort_dir=1>]

Have you tried outputting the result of your sort_by to a console?  I'm not familiar with the render json: portion of your code, but perhaps that's where things are going wrong.  My best guess is that somehow in the conversion to JSON (if that's what it does) the sorting  is getting messed up.
My other idea is that perhaps you expect sort_by to modify entries; it does not.  If you want entries itself to be sorted after the call, use sort_by! (note the ! at the end of the method name).
Update: It looks like the issue is that you want a case-insensitive search.  Simply adding upcase should do the trick:
entries.sort_by{|e| [e.sort_dir, e.name.upcase]}

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MongoDB supports authentication and authorisation on a database-level. This is mandatory if you have e.g. a publicly accessible MongoDB Server. To make use of this feature you need to configure credentials for each of your connections. Also every connection needs a database set to authenticate against. The setting is represented by the authSourceconnection string. Otherwise you will get a auth failed exception.
You may specify the number of times to retry connections and queries via the `retry_connect` and `retry_query` options in the document manager configuration. These options default to zero, which means that no operations will be retried.


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REMINDER: Former NRA Instructor Armed with AR-15 Stopped TX Church Shooting
That was only three months ago. How quickly they forget.
Since the high school shooting in Florida, the anti-gun rhetoric has been flying fast and furious across the leftist media. There's no responsibility attached to the shooter who killed 17 people; only the NRA and an AR-15 are to blame, apparently.
But just three short months ago, the NRA and an AR-15 were used to stop the Sutherland Springs church massacre in Texas thanks to a brave and well-armed citizen, Stephen Willeford.
Willeford retrieved his rifle from his gun safe and ran barefoot over to the church where he placed a precisely-aimed bullet in a small gap in the perpetrator's body armor which caused the shooter, who had just killed 26 people inside a small church, to retreat to his vehicle. But Willeford, who was a trained former NRA instructor, didn't stop there. He jumped into another man's truck and the two pursued the gunman down the road to make sure he hurt no one else.
At the time, a humble Willeford told local news, "I'm no hero. I mean, I am not. I thank my God, my Lord protected me and gave me the skills to do what needed to be done."
It seemed appropriate at such a time as this that the media and the other anti-Second Amendment mobs were reminded that an AR-15 is the perfect weapon to stop a madman and that the NRA has done a great job training law-abiding citizens how to defend themselves and others with firearms. How quickly the Left forgets.
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Chu, V. (2011). Emergency Response: Civil Liability of Volunteer Health Professionals.
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Who Can Apply: The National Auto Math Challenge is a scholarship open to all high school students. The students are presented with math questions centered on the purchase and maintenance of a first car.
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Isbella Diaz has been an Associate Producer for CGTN America's Washington, D.C. bureau since 2017. She works as a writer and segment producer for CGTN's daily World Today and weekly China 24 shows. She also assists in online media production with the Digital Media team.
Before working for CGTN, Diaz worked as a Program Manager for the journalism nonprofit, The National Press Foundation, and a Desk Assistant for Washington's leading News and Talk Radio Station, WMAL. She holds a Master's degree in International Media and a Bachelor's degree in Broadcast Journalism from The American University in Washington, D.C.


Imagine one-upping Adam Frucci by posing with a 180-inch screen... that displays 3D! NewSight could give you a chance with their new gargantuan 3D video wall. Sadly, it uses LEDs for pixels, making the resolution all Monet-like.
Unlike Panasonic's behemoth, Newsight's 3D Wall most likely will never make it into a trajillionaire's AV room. However, you will probably see it in Times Square one day, especially given its ability to combine with three other displays to make a 360-inch monster.


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Q: Need help in Face Detection using C# language I am working on the face recognition project for tracking the people who come across the gate. It will keep log of the people who passes through the door.
 I am using EmguCV, in C# language. And I am using here Haarcascade xml file for face detection. But I think it is not enough good. So kindly suggest me another way to detect faces efficiently using C# language.

A: You can use Project Oxford Face API
Very simple in use. It's not free for commercial projects, but you can use limited trial edition
Here is a manual:
Getting Started with Face API in CSharp


St. Helen's is just off the High Street in this bustling Leicestershire town. The church website is at http://www.sthelensashby.co.uk/ and features a guide to the church.
The signage is very good with a good welcome. An A frame had been put outside the door as well saying that the church was open. Inside there didn't seem to be a guide nor a visitors book. A display shows the churches mission links and some children's work is on show. There is a small prayer tree, which is tucked away in a dark corner. A prayer desk was put in from of the Mothers Union banner and had a simple card on how to pray on it. This does give mixed messages. Are we to pray for the MU? It is all a bit half hearted but at least the church is open.
At the back is a large cross but this isn't labelled as to what it is about or why it is here – I assume it was a children's project but why not say so?
All in all there is room for improvement here – it is an interesting church to visit, the castle is nearby so there is the potential for a good visitor ministry here. As it is I have to rate it as poor for this study.


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Q: I can't click on submit input [Selenium Python] I want introduce some text on an textarea field and click in the submit input.
I have the following inputs on html:
<textarea id="post-content" name="content" rows="2" cols="50"></textarea>
<input class="share" type="submit" value="Share status!">

And my python script is the next:
driver.get(url)
field = driver.find_element_by_name("content")
field.send_keys("foo")
field.send_keys(Keys.ENTER)
submit = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@type='submit']")
submit.click()

A: To identify the submit input you can use the following line of code:
submit = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//input[@class='share'][@value='Share status!']")


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Our pizza dough is prepared fresh daily with high quality ingredients, and the crust is made with medium thickness and cooked to the perfect slight crisp. We have over 25 pizzas, pastas, wings and sides on the menu like our bestselling New York's Finest, Charlie Chan Chicken Pasta, Dear Darla, Hot Wings and Twice Baked Potato Halves.
The CityLink Mall brand has spacious indoor and sheltered outdoor dining areas that can accommodate up to 70 people – perfect for that quick lunch pow wow or laid back after work drinks.
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We had this system installed a few months ago. It seemed to be working the first few weeks but I don't believe the softener has worked properly since.
The filter works... the water tastes fine, however my dishwasher leaves a scale behind on glassware and the inside of the machine, also my shower doors, etc.
My question: is the science behind this system valid, i.e. does it work?
Have I just bought a lemon that needs to be replaced?
Or would I be better off with a traditional salt-based system?
If so, what brands would you recommend for residential use?


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El Bosque del Valle de Cañas (portugués: Mata Nacional de Vale de Canas) es un antiguo y cercado arboreto en la región Centro de Portugal que se localiza junto a la población del mismo nombre, en la ciudad de Coímbra. El bosque ocupa un área de 16 hectáreas.

Historia
En el siglo XVI ya había referencias a este bosque, que fue designado como Mata do Rei y constituida por vegetación espontánea.

En 1867 fue adquirida por el Estado portugués, para retirar madera de pino necesaria para las obras hidráulicas de la Mata Nacional del Choupal contra las crecidas.

En 1866-1870 sufrió una reforestación con plantas autóctonas y exóticas, algunas venidas de Francia y de Alemania, bajo la orientación de Manoel Afonso D'Esgueira y con la colaboración del Jardín Botánico de Coímbra. De Australia vinieron los eucaliptos distribuidos por 32 especies distintas de la familia Myrtaceae.

En 1936 se llevaron a cabo obras de mejora orientadas por el Dr. Manuel Braga.

El Bosque de Valle de Cañas fue afectado por un violento incendio en el verano de 2005, habiéndose llevado una posterior reforestación, que ha privilegiado las especies autóctonas como el castaño.

Arbolado
El Bosque del Valle de Cañas posee un bello jardín, siendo frecuentemente visitada por grupos de alumnos que allí asisten a sesiones de educación ambiental.

El bosque es conocido por tener un árbol (Eucalyptus diversicolor F.muell.) llamado "Karri Knight" (Caballero Karri), que es considerado el más alto de Europa, con 73 metros de altura.

Referencias

Bosques de Portugal
Coímbra

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As long as you remember Allah you are in prayer, even if you are in the market.
The most difficult thing I keep observing is my intentions as it is always apt to change.
In the Name of Allah with Whose Name there is protection against every kind of harm in the earth or in the heaven, and He is the All-Hearing and All-Knowing.
The word of Allah is the medicine of the heart.
And is bliss other than the bliss of the heart, and is torment other than the torment of the heart?
We are your guardians in this world's life and in the hereafter, and you shall have therein what your souls desire and you shall have therein what you ask for.
Indeed, sincere good will does not include animosity, but is against it.
Whoever gossips for you will also gossip against you.
It was narrated from Aishah that she said, O Messenger of Allah, what do you think I should say in my supplication, if I come upon Laylatul-Qadr? He said, Say O Allah, You are Forgiving and love forgiveness, so forgive me.
Confound not the Truth with falsehood nor conceal it knowingly.
A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.
The Prophet (saw) said, If you say to your companions: 'Be quiet' on a friday while the Imam is delivering the sermon, you have engaged in Laghw (idle talk or behaviour).
If a person truly recognizes his worth, then what will he gain from the praise of the people?
The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.
My Lord! Bestow wisdom on me, and join me with the righteous.
If you are grateful [to Me], I shall most certainly give you more and more.
Knowledge is sought after only so that one can use it to fear Allah; it is in this context that knowledge is deemed a superior thing; otherwise, it is like all other things.
Keep yourself busy in remembering your own faults, so that you have no time left to remember the faults of others.
Whoever thinks that falsehood overcomes righteousness, they don't have full trust in Allah!
Know that if people are impressed with you, in reality they are impressed with the beauty of Allah�s covering of your sins.
For indeed, with hardship [will be] ease. Indeed, with hardship [will be] ease. So when you have finished [your duties], then stand up [for worship]. And to your Lord direct [your] longing.
Do not speak about things that do not concern you, for indeed, every time that you speak a word, it takes control of you and you do not have any control over it!
And We certainly sent into every nation a messenger, [saying], Worship Allah and avoid Taghut. And among them were those whom Allah guided, and among them were those upon whom error was [deservedly] decreed. So proceed through the earth and observe how was the end of the deniers.
As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.
If a person were wise, his concern over his own sins would distract him from seeing the faults of others.
If a young man honours an older person on account of his age, Allah appoints someone to show reverence to him in his old age.
The dua made at tahajjud is like an arrow which does not miss its target.
Say, [O Muhammad], Travel through the land and observe how He began creation. Then Allah will produce the final creation. Indeed Allah, over all things, is competent.
Al-Mumin is the one to whom safety and security are attributed in view of the fact that he supplies that which brings them into being and therewith blocks the avenues leading to fear.
The Prophet (saw) said, Straighten your rows as the straightening of rows is essential for a perfect and correct prayer.
How perfect You are O Allah, and I praise You. I bear witness that None has the right to be worshipped except You. I seek Your forgiveness and turn to You in repentance.
So remember Me; I will remember you. Be grateful to Me, and do not reject Me.
The one whose love of Allah is greater, has a greater degree of patience.
How perfect Allah is and I praise Him.
And We send down of the Quran that which is healing and mercy for the believers.
Ar-Rahman and Ar-Raheem. These two names are derived from rahma (mercy). (The concept of) mercy necessitates one who is an object of mercy, for no one is an object of mercy unless he is in need. Ar-Rahman is the one by means of whom the needs of the needy persons are satisfied in such a way that neither intent, volition nor solicitude are involved. The one in need is not called Raheem.
The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
Whoever from amongst you sees an evil should change it by his hand, if he is unable to do so then he should change it by his tongue (by speaking against it), and if he is unable to do so then he should reject it in his heart - and this is the weakest of Iman.
And who is better in speech than one who invites to Allah and does righteousness and says, Indeed, I am of the Muslims.
The prayer of you both has indeed been accepted, therefore continue in the right way and do not follow the path of those who do not know.
My Lord! Inspire and bestow upon me the power and ability that I may be grateful for Your Favours which You have bestowed on me and on my parents, and that I may do righteous good deeds that will please You, and admit me by Your Mercy among Your righteous slaves.


Could you makes one for Rock Pi 4, needs some adjustments because of the heat sink.
The Rock Pi 4 has the same dimensions as the Raspberry Pi 3 which should change are the anchor points, in this version for the Raspyberry has 2 anchoring plates that are on the bottom of the plate.
It would be necessary to change the position of these 2 points and add the other 2 anchor points, this is neccessary because the Rock Pi 4 has a quande heatsink at the bottom.
Please enter the website of the Radxa wiki and look for (3D drawing STP) you will find a 3d model of the board and I recommend looking for the photos of the board with the big heatsink so you can see what is necessary to modify in your model.
After the modification this model will remain compatible with the Raspberry Pi 3 the change are few.
If you shaped the bracket around the nic/usb port so that you could bolt it to the front two screws from bottom->up (instead of top-> down like this and most every other case)...then should be able to fit in PCI slot without overflow. Lose a little structural strength this way, but would think it would be adaquete.
This is brilliant! I wanted to embed a Pi 3 in my case to act as a standalone server to free up the main PC for other tasks, found this right away. Looks like there is room to add a HDMI breakout port below the LAN port, maybe using a panel mount extension cable.


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mBio. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Quasispecies That Include Homologues of Human Isolates Revealed through Whole-Genome Analysis and Virus Cultured from Dromedary Camels in Saudi Arabia
[Source: mBio, full page: (LINK). Abstract, edited.]
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Quasispecies That Include Homologues of Human Isolates Revealed through Whole-Genome Analysis and Virus Cultured from Dromedary Camels in Saudi Arabia
Thomas Briesea, Nischay Mishraa, Komal Jaina, Iyad S. Zalmoutb, Omar J. Jabadoc, William B. Kareshd, Peter Daszakd, Osama B. Mohammedb, Abdulaziz N. Alagailib,e, W. Ian Lipkina

aCenter for Infection and Immunity, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA bKSU Mammals Research Chair, Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia cInstitute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA dEcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, USA eSaudi Wildlife Authority, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Address correspondence to Thomas Briese, tb2047{at}cumc.columbia.edu, or Abdulaziz N. Alagaili, aziz99{at}gmail.com.
T.B. and N.M. contributed equally to this article.
Editor Michael Katze, University of Washington
Complete Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) genome sequences were obtained from nasal swabs of dromedary camels sampled in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through direct analysis of nucleic acid extracts or following virus isolation in cell culture. Consensus dromedary MERS-CoV genome sequences were the same with either template source and identical to published human MERS-CoV sequences. However, in contrast to individual human cases, where only clonal genomic sequences are reported, detailed population analyses revealed the presence of more than one genomic variant in individual dromedaries. If humans are truly infected only with clonal virus populations, we must entertain a model for interspecies transmission of MERS-CoV wherein only specific genotypes are capable of passing bottleneck selection.
In most cases of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), the route for human infection with the causative agent, MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV), is unknown. Antibodies to and viral nucleic acids of MERS-CoV have been found in dromedaries, suggesting the possibility that they may serve as a reservoir or vector for human infection. However, neither whole viral genomic sequence nor infectious virus has been isolated from dromedaries or other animals in Saudi Arabia. Here, we report recovery of MERS-CoV from nasal swabs of dromedaries, demonstrate that MERS-CoV whole-genome consensus sequences from dromedaries and humans are indistinguishable, and show that dromedaries can be simultaneously infected with more than one MERS-CoV. Together with data indicating widespread dromedary infection in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, these findings support the plausibility of a role for dromedaries in human infection.
Citation Briese T, Mishra N, Jain K, Zalmout IS, Jabado OJ, Karesh WB, Daszak P, Mohammed OB, Alagaili AN, Lipkin WI. 2014. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus quasispecies that include homologues of human isolates revealed through whole-genome analysis and virus cultured from dromedary camels in Saudi Arabia. mBio 5(3):e01146-14. doi:10.1128/mBio.01146-14.
Received 9 April 2014 Accepted 16 April 2014 Published 29 April 2014
Copyright ? 2014 Briese et al.
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license, which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Tags: abstract, camels, mers, mers-cov, ncov, research, saudi arabia


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something about blood pressure
Even Slightly Elevated Blood Pressure Increases Dementia Risk
The link between the risk of dementia and hypertension is well established. What about higher-than-normal blood pressure in the absence of a hypertension diagnosis, however?
Research has found that hypertension in middle age increases a person's risk of developing a form of dementia.
But what is "middle age," exactly? And does blood pressure need to become so high as to be diagnosed as hypertension for it to impact a person's risk of neurodegeneration?
This is what scientists spanning three countries — France, the United Kingdom, and Hungary — have strived to answer in a study, the results of which are now published in the European Heart Journal.
"Previous research has not been able to test the link between raised blood pressure and dementia directly by examining the timing in sufficient detail," notes first author Jessica Abell, of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Paris, France, as well as University College London (UCL) in the U.K.
"In our paper," she notes, "we were able to examine the association at age 50, 60, and 70, and we found different patterns of association. This will have important implications for policy guidelines, which currently only use the generic term 'midlife.'"
'Increased risk for people at age 50'
They analyzed the medical data of 8,639 people — 32.5 percent of whom were women — recruited using a larger, ongoing, population study: Whitehall II, or the "Stress and Health Study," which is based at UCL.
Recruitees were aged 33–55 at baseline in 1985. Their blood pressures were measured every 6 years — in 1985, 1991, 1997, and 2003 — which allowed the team to see how higher blood pressures impacted brain health in time.
By 2017, 385 of the participants had developed a form of dementia, and the average age at which this happened was 75.
Looking at the participants' medical information, the research team noted that those individuals who had a systolic blood pressure — the blood pressure measured as the heart beats — of 130 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) or over as they reached the age of 50 had a 45 percent higher risk of dementia than people with the same age and a lower systolic blood pressure.
The same did not hold true for people aged 60–70, and Abell and colleagues posit that this may be due to the fact that the period of risk exposure may be shorter at that point.
No association was found between the risk of dementia and diastolic blood pressure, which is the blood pressure measured as the heart is at rest between beats.
"Our analysis suggests that the importance of mid-life hypertension on brain health is due to the duration of exposure. So we see an increased risk for people with raised blood pressure at age 50, but not 60 or 70, because those with hypertension at age 50 are likely to be 'exposed' to this risk for longer."
Jessica Abell
High blood pressure and 'silent' strokes
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence — in the U.K. — suggest that a hypertension diagnosis should be given when a person's "clinic blood pressure is 140/90 mm Hg or higher."
The American College of Cardiology (ACC), meanwhile, advise that this diagnosis be considered for a lower threshold: 130 mm Hg and over. The ACC define "normal blood pressure" as under 120/80 mm Hg.
In the new study, the scientists found that even people who presented no cardiovascular disease diagnoses still had a 47 percent higher risk of dementia if they had elevated systolic blood pressure at age 50.
"Our work," notes lead study author Prof. Archana Singh-Manoux, "confirms the detrimental effects of midlife hypertension for risk of dementia, as suggested by previous research."
"It also suggests that at age 50, the risk of dementia may be increased in people who have raised levels of systolic blood pressure below the threshold commonly used to treat hypertension," she adds.
But why does high blood pressure raise the risk of neurodegenerative conditions? The team believes that this may be due to the fact that elevated blood pressure could lead to "silent" strokes, which result in white matter damage and impair the blood supply (and therefore oxygen) to the brain without, however, having any visible symptoms.
This makes such strokes more difficult to identify and might mean that they can increase the risk of brain damage, unbeknownst to the individuals experiencing them.
Still, Abell cautions that "this is observational, population-level research and so these findings do not translate directly into implications for individual patients."
"Furthermore," she continues, "there is considerable discussion on the optimal threshold for the diagnosis of hypertension."
Her best advice? Look after your cardiovascular health, and do not neglect your medical exams if worried.
"There is plenty of evidence to suggest that maintaining a healthy blood pressure in middle age is important for both your heart and your brain later in life. Anyone who is concerned about their blood pressure levels should consult their [doctor]," Abell urges.
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Adyenda () is a Philippine television public affairs show broadcast by GMA Network, GMA News TV, and Light TV. Hosted by Joel Villanueva and later Alex Tinsay, it premiered in 2005. The show concluded on January 5, 2018. It was replaced by Lifegiver in its timeslot.

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 Alex Tinsay
 Joel Villanueva

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A Helpless Giant? America and the Post-Cold War World
Jun 14, 2000	- West-Indisch Huis, Herenmarkt 97, Amsterdam
The John Adams Institute presented an evening with writer and journalist Mark Danner. He spoke on American Foreign Policy after the Cold War. Danner is a former staff writer for The New Yorker and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. Danner specializes in U.S. foreign affairs, war and politics, and has written extensively on Haiti, Central America, the former Yugoslavia, and the Middle East. In 1999, he was named a MacArthur Fellow.
The evening was moderated by journalist Paul Scheffer, and included Q&A with the audience.
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You can use this map to find the locations of the places which are mentioned in the Local History gallery and the Timeline on this site. You can treat the map like any other Google Map, ie zoom in and out, get directions etc. Click any icon for more information about its subject.
Llanion Barracks: this imposing red brick building was used from 1905 to 1967 as the Officers' Quarters for the Barracks at Llanion.
Military Cemetery: the only dedicated military cemetery in Wales.
Hobbs Point: built in the early 1830s as a landing stage for the Irish Packet. Later used as a fitting out area for boats built in the Dockyard.
A defensive guntower, built in 1848, stands off Front Street. Front street also saw the first accommodation built for the residents of Pembroke Dock.
On Commercial Row a set of six bronze plaques are attached to the old Dockyard Wall. They commemorate various events and periods in the town's history.
Like its partner in Front Street this guntower was erected in 1848 for the defence of the Dockyard. It lies at the very end of Fort Road.
The Fleet Surgeon's House, one of the elegant houses built for the accommodation of the Dockyard officials. This building was first occupied in 1817.
Opened in 1831, the Garrison Chapel had a somewhat chequered history during the 20th century. It is now a museum.
This was one of the early streets to be developed in the town, not long after Front Street.
In 1847, St Marys on Meyrick Street was the first Roman Catholic church in Pembroke Dock.
St Johns Church, on Bush Street, was consecrated in 1848. It was the town's first orthodox CofE church.
The first train into the town arrived in 1864. The station is still operational but the buildings are now a pub.
Opened in 1975 to replace the old ferry boats which had previously been the only way to shorten the route to the north of the county.
The Centenary Memorial, unveiled in 1914, commemorates the town's 100th anniversary.
In 1818 the Bethany Chapel was the first chapel to be opened in Pembroke Dock.
According to local history, or perhaps legend, these huge barracks were completed within the space of a single year and handed over to the Military in 1845.
The National School was the first school to open in Pembroke Dock, in 1845.
1901: Carr Jetty provided much-needed facilities for fitting out the ships built in the Dockyard.
The Market: opened in 1827, the walled market was a bustling operation. It still opens once a week, on Fridays, but with only 3 or 4 stalls.
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David Sereda
Answers Research Journal
Free energy (pseudoscience)
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Primal therapy
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The Wonder Weeks
David B. Sereda is an all-purpose wingnut, fantasist, and con-man. He hasn't gone as far as to announce a new Face on Mars, but he has cashed in on pretty much every other instance of popular woo, from the Shroud of Turin, contact with Pleiadians, and zero-point energy. He enthusiastically endorses Masaru Emoto's crackpot ideas about water, and Leonard Horowitz's equally nutty belief in sound healing and the solfeggio frequencies. His pronouncements on physics and astronomy generally fall into the Not-Even-Wrong category.[note 1]
1 Past history
2 On Coast to Coast AM
3 Boyd Bushman video
5 Video productions
Past history[edit]
He is a space scientist, ecologist, filmmaker and author focusing on reverse engineered UFO technology. He experienced a daylight sighting of a flying saucer in 1968 in Berkeley, California and continued to have experiences with the ETs through dreams about alien technology.
Thus the official introduction to Sereda when he spoke at the International UFO Congress 2010. His topic was "Reverse Engineered UFO technology, Break-throughs in differentials, crop circles, anti-gravity and more."
There is no evidence to be found that Sereda has ever demonstrated reverse engineered UFO technology, or been a space scientist. He was in business with Bogdan Maglich at one point, at HiEnergy Micro Devices Inc., but he seems confused about what Dr. Maglich actually did. He once said, "I worked with the most brilliant nuclear power plant and nuclear scientists in the history of this country; also in the field of nuclear fusion. I fought for ten years for helium-3 fusion with my boss, Dr. Bogdan Castle Maglich, the inventor at MIT of that process."[1]
Maglich was not the inventor of 3He fusion. His invention, which went nowhere, was the "migmatron" — a self-colliding ion beam fusion reactor.[2] He developed it at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now known as Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory), not M.I.T.
In another preen-athon on Coast to Coast AM, Sereda claimed that he worked on a hot 3He fusion device that reached a temperature of "ten billion degrees with no heat radiating out of the reactor." If true, that would be approximately 1000× the temperature at the core of the Sun, and everything living within a radius of several kilometres would have promptly ceased to qualify as "living" due to gamma radiation.
Sereda was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada but became a permanent resident of the USA and was raised in Berkeley, California.
From 1979 he became a professional photographer and ecologist, and claims to have planted over 1.3 million trees working as a tree planter in British Columbia.
From 1990-92 he was director of the Tesla Foundation, promoting non-radioactive nuclear energy, solar power and hydrogen fuel technologies.
From 1992-1995, he was President of The Green & Blue Corporation, a California based eco-venture capital company.
His UFO websites, UFOnasa.com and daufo.com, are defunct.
On Coast to Coast AM[edit]
Sereda has astounded the mass overnight radio audience on around 30 occasions since 2004, spouting nonsense for an aggregate 40 hours. He has been described in his intros as "Author and ufologist", "Author and researcher", "UFO researcher and author", "Filmmaker and mystic ecologist", "Scientist and filmmaker", "Space scientist, filmmaker and mystic ecologist", and "Ecologist, scientist, and spiritual explorer".
Boyd Bushman video[edit]
In October 2014, one of Sereda's video "interviews" with retired aerospace engineer and UFO believer Boyd Bushman went viral and caused a sensation in the tabloid press.[3]
Sereda, David (March 22, 2000). Face to Face With Jesus Christ: Apparitions to a Modern Visionary. Blue Dolphin Publishing, Inc. pp. 256. ISBN 978-1577330325.
Sereda, David (February 15, 2002). Evidence: The Case for NASA UFOs. Terra Entertainment. pp. 264. ISBN 978-1893792838.
Sereda, David (2011). Singularity. Self-published eBook (LuLu.com). pp. 159. http://www.lulu.com/shop/david-sereda/singularity/ebook/product-17552858.html.
Video productions[edit]
Evidence, the Case for NASA UFOs (2001)
David Sereda, Host & Co-producer
Henrik Henriksen
John R. Johnston
Visitors, the California UFO Wave (2004)
David Sereda, Producer, Director, Editor
Dan Aykroyd, Unplugged on UFOs (2004)
Graviton Entertainment, Production Co.
Union Station Media, US Distrib.
Jonathan Dana, Supervising Producer
David Sereda & John R. Johnston, Producers
David Sereda, Director
David Sereda & John R. Johnston, Editors
UFOs From Here to Andromeda
UFOtv, Distributor (Cat#U685)
Scott Hinton & Lisa Johnson, Exec. Producers
David Sereda & Michael Lee Hill, Producers
TRT 102 min
Voice Entertainment, Distributor
James Law and David Sereda, Producers
TRT 3 hours
Official site Warning: Clickbaity popups, Javascript abuse, and hundreds of tons of pseudoscientific woo awaits
David Sereda's blog (not kept up to date)
David Sereda at IMDB
Outlet for Sereda videos
Bio on Coast to Coast AM
Exposing Pseudoastronomy, Podcast Episode 83: David Sereda's Claims Clip Show, Part 1
↑ Example: "What happens when you reduce the mass-gravity effect by wave-transforming mass is it eventually becomes translucent, then it turns to light, and then it disappears in these different spectrums of the electromagnetic spectrum that we do not see." (Coast to Coast AM, June 4 2005, Hour 2, starting 19:36)
↑ Coast to Coast AM, May 8, 2011, Hour 1, starting 38:57
↑ Maglić, Bogdan C.; Blewett, John P.; Colleraine, Anthony P.; Harrison, W. Craig, "Fusion Reactions in Self-Colliding Orbits," Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 27, Issue 14, pp. 909-912 (1971).
↑ Daily Mail Boyd Bushman talks through photos of aliens and UFOs
Retrieved from "https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=David_Sereda&oldid=2121786"
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