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Great Pictures from San Jose, CA – 08/23/12!
26 August 2012 No Comment
Thanks to my trusty friends, Lexi and Meggan, some really amazing pictures from the band’s show at Club Rodeo have been added to the gallery today. Try and get front row at your next Gloriana show and you just might be chosen to jam with the band on stage during ‘Wanna Take You Home’. Check them all below and enjoy!
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1 cup unsweetened dried grated coconut
1 13 ounce can reduced fat evaporated milk
1 13 ounce can reduced fat unsweetened coconut milk *
1 can or plastic squeeze bottle of coconut cream**
Agave syrup or sugar to taste
6 egg yolks
2 T. dark rum, optional
Toast the coconut for about ten minutes or until golden in a pan on the stove or in the oven. Set aside.
Heat the evaporated milk, coconut milk, coconut cream, and agave syrup or sugar in a medium saucepan on the stove until it simmers. (You won’t need much sugar because the coconut cream is very high in sugar.) Do not boil. While this mixture is heating, mix up the egg yolks in a separate bowl. Take 2 cups of the simmering mixture out of the saucepan and add it into the egg yolks, whisking quickly. Now, incorporate the egg yolk-milk mixture back into the simmering milks in the saucepan and bring to a simmer once again or until the back of a metal spoon is coated by the thickened custard. Remove from stove and mix in the rum, if using.
Chill mixture in your refrigerator for at least an hour or two. Pour into ice cream freezer and freeze. Half way through the freezing, add in the toasted coconut.
Makes: Approximately one quart of ice cream.Notes: *I use Trader Joe’s. ** Found in your grocery’s liquor dept.
For recipes from my cookbook: "Delicious! The Very Best of Gluten Free and Wheat Free Cooking. It is available at:
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The long anticipated #604Photowalk number 8 was finally upon us and everyone seemed pretty enthusiastic to get to some fun and friendly photography that day. The weather was cooperating for the most part (at least it didn’t rain!) and I think we all enjoyed being outdoors. So without further adieu, here are some of the sights we saw in and around UBC.
This is what happens when I let a little bit of organizational power go to my head. Dance my minions. DANCE!
Not only is Irv Lau (@irvlau) our administrator in charge of logistics, equipment and general stuff porter and tour guide, he has also become our unofficial model. Very GQ.
One of our goals that day was to catch the cherry blossoms before they disappeared for another year.
I’m glad we did see the the blossoms as they make for some pretty photos. Even though the above photo is anything but in focus, I like the effect the blur gives the shot. It’s almost as if Thomas Tang (@tmasoo) and Irv are casually stepping into another ethereal world.
It was at this point in the day where I decided to become a bit more interactive with the people in my viewfinder. I had heard before that anyone can press the trigger on a camera, but that it takes a certain level of social poking and prodding to uncover a really great “moment” or particularly interesting demeanor from the person you are taking the photo of. Here is Vince Chow (@vincechow)
This photo of Tianna Kwong (@tiannank) is only slightly (and hilariously) marred by the Thomas photobomb. I would have spliced Thomas out, but I think this is a better representation of that memory.
The stylish shoe models of our group.
Yet another photobomb care of Thomas, this time on Cicy Chan (@CicyChan).
Cicy sans the sunglasses.
The usually quite reserved Sukhraj Bhattal (@sukhrajb).
Who can be quite animated given the right circumstances.
Thomas Tang, who was oddly without a camera this time around, should be congratulated for finishing his engineering degree (and for making it back to his car without passing out from food fatigue).
With the camera turned on him this time, the photographic force of nature Nhi Le (@noyophoto) looking svelte and just as comfortable on this side of the lens.
One more photo of Vince sporting his blood donation band-aid.
And in a rare moment of weakness I was thrown in front of the camera myself. Thanks go to Nhi Le for this photo credit.
The ever popular Irv, almost definitely coordinating the world from his phone.
Someone spotted this Banksy-esque stencil of Chomsky in the UBC rose gardens.
A lamp post riddled with stickers from the UBC Museum of Art.
A coyote made an appearance near the tail end of our walk and hardly seemed phased by the presence of so many humans.
Posed and contrived, I couldn’t help but force my will upon the remainder of our group one more time for the above photo. My only hope is that my abuse of power does not end up causing a violent uprising against me. I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to those who made it out to this last #604Photowalk. It was a fun experience and I look forward to seeing you all again soon!
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Haha, love the one of me and Thomas! Great summary of our day.
Thank you for the comment and the suggestion about adding share buttons!
Some real good story telling shots from the Photowalk, big boss! And portraits too!! (Gotta love em brick walls)
And thank you for the congratulations and yes, I survived from food fatigue, I’ll bring my camera next time!
Thanks Thomas! If you want bigger, higher res photos then let me know. I’ll send them privately.
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Claytons Post #10
A Clayton’s Post (The post you have when you aren’t having a post).
There are 3 things I feel like highlighting today, so without further procrastination…
1) Twinkinfo.com
When the WoWInsider induced storm swept over my blog this week, the most noticeable thing was the absence of comments.
Well near absence…
The one comment that hit my blog, that was a truly valuable comment (directed here, at the guide) was from Drayner.
Now, if you are interested in Twinking a level 19 Warlock, then this probably isn’t a bad place to start. However if you want to twink something else, or want to know more, then I would have to suggest you go pay Drayner a visit… please remember to thank & leave (positive constructive) comments while you are there.
Comments wont make or break a blogger (although some bloggers have broken down in the past under the weight of negative comments), but it sure puts a smile on our face, and spurs us on to do one more post.
2) Dual Spec Relativity
SpicyTunas has a brilliant post up about the relative cost of the forthcoming Dual Spec system. Relative to other optional items in the game that we haven’t blinked an eyelid at.
If you haven’t read it yet, get over there!
PS: Did you know that he uses one of those snazzy blog plugins (that WordPress.com doesn’t have for us freeloaders) that allows you to read his blog on a portable device? While I am thinking about it Saresa at Destructive Reach has just installed a similar plugin (and is running a “competition” too), so be sure to check her blog out from your iPhone or other portable device.
The closest you will get to reading my blog via a snazzy feature like that is to subscribe to it via a feedreader on your phone… the feed should give you the same look & feel.
2) Stabbed in the Iceblock
Mr Euripedes has nothing to say about an upcoming change to Warriors…
Mmm something strange about that?
On maybe two counts…
- He has nothing to say?
- He isn’t a Warrior!
His interest in the change is related more to the unintentional nerf Mages receive rather than to the buff the Warrior.
Of course I particularly like the post not because he is talking amazingly rationally for someone with a Double Critical Q, but because he suggests it’s time to buff Fire Mages…
Gnomer and Out!
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Schedule of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios April 29 — May 21, 2009
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Wed. Apr. 29, 2009Holy Eparchial Synod MeetingHeadquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, NYCThurs. Apr. 30, 2009 9:00 a.m. Holy Eparchial Synod Meeting Headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, NYC2:00 p.m.Executive Committee Meeting of the Archdiocesan CouncilNY Marriott Marquis Hotel, NYCFri. May 1, 2009Archdiocesan Council MeetingNY Marriott Marquis Hotel, NYCSun. May 3, 20099:00 a.m.Archieratical Divine Liturgy50th Anniversary Celebration for the Assumption ParishGreek Orthodox Church of the Assumption (Kimissis)Port Jefferson, NY (631) 473-0894Mon. May 4, 20097:00 p.m.2009 Metropolis of New Jersey Clergy Laity AssemblyHis Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey will host a Grand Banquet in celebration of Archbishop Demetrios’ 10th Enthronement Anniversary.The Venetian, 546 River Drive, Garfield NJ 07026 Tel. (908) 301-0500Fri. May 8, 2009Visit to the Holy Metropolis of Toronto and All Canada on the occasion of the Commencement Ceremonies of the Theological School of the Metropolis Toronto, Canada
10:00 a.m. – Hierarchical Divine LiturgySt. John Chapel of the Metropolis Headquarters7:00 p.m. – Graduation Ceremony – Archbishop Demetrios will deliver the commencement address
Thurs. May 14, 20095:00 p.m. - Great Vespers7:00 p.m. - HC/HC President’s Dinner honoring Alumni of the Classes 1959 and 1984Cathedral Center, Brookline, Mass.Fri. May 15, 20098:30 a.m. – Executive Committee and Board of Trustees Meetings5:00 p.m. – Great Vespers and StavrophoriaHellenic College Holy Cross School of Theology, Brookline, Mass.Sat. May 16, 20097:30 a.m. – Orthros and Divine Liturgy (Chapel)11:00 a.m. – 67th Commencement Exercises (Pappas Auditorium)Sun. May 17, 20099:00 a.m.Divine Liturgy and ordination to the Priesthood of Deacon Jason Roll
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Diary of a Dairy Goat. This blog is the diary of one goat, Baby Belle, a Nigerian Dwarf who lives on a small dairy farm in Western Washington.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Pipe Gate Massage
And that is what happened yesterday.
Not to me, but to my Aunt Hannah Belle.
It was a red letter day. The farm had been rendered spotless. This was because the dairy inspector was coming for a visit. He came right on time and inspected all around the barn.
Even Walker the Talker, the little minimancha buckling who has something to say about everything, had been instructed to keep quiet.
The dairy inspector nodded at everyone in the barn. We nodded back, pretending to admire him. Then he put on a hairnet, which meant he was going into the dairy. The farmer went with him, and they were gone for about five minutes.
While they were gone Aunt Hannah Belle mysteriously appeared. She had been 100% banned from the barn during the inspector's visit, owing to her incorrigible behavior. In fact the farmer had put her down below with the fat girls and mended the little hole in the fence that Melly had made.
"That ought to hold you," the farmer muttered with satisfaction, having woven the field fence back together with an attractively rustic snaggle of baling twine.
Maybe the farmer shouldn't have said that.
We watched in shock and awe as she sashayed down the aisle toward the grain cans. She hannahbelled all three of them in rapid succession, spilling 150 pounds of dry cob and 14% dairy ration onto the barn floor in a seven foot swath.
She ate with lightning speed, like one of those people turned loose in a grocery store for ten minutes. Even Betsy was impressed.
Then for a change of pace she jumped onto my mountain of pea hay, knocking a few bales out of the stack while she searched for hay with the peas still on it. Even Winnie was shaken by her audacity.
A gasp went up as everyone heard the door of the dairy open. Aunt Hannah Belle scuttled away, moving like a worried crab with her feet seeming to rotate underneath her. She ran around the corner toward the pipe gate into the front pasture, and it seemed she had time to make a clean getaway, but then there came a familiar grunting noise.
She was stuck in the gate, too fat to squirt through from the angle she had chosen. Stone cold busted. The dairy inspector, three feet away, popped his eyes in surprise to see a fat little goat teetering between the pipes of the gate.
"What is that?" he said.
"Oh she gets stuck in the fence sometimes," we heard the farmer say nonchalantly. "She is a little bit fat."
"Isn't that cute?' said the dairy inspector.
"Yes," agreed the farmer grimly, looking daggers at Aunt Hannah Belle, who had shrewdly adopted the attitude of someone enjoying a nice relaxing pipe gate massage.
"Well, I better get going," said the dairy inspector. And he turned around and walked in the opposite direction. The farmer took a step into the barn, saw for the first time the hannahbelled cans and the wanton destruction of the one-goat buffet, and smoothly pirouetted back out.
"I'll walk you to your car."
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Let a Smile be Your Umbrella.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
HRH MILLIE
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Friday, July 31, 2009
From the West
The Wind came! The beautiful beautiful sweet ocean-cool wind from the West! And we were turned free!
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The Big Sizzle.
The Dangerous Case of Mr. Jimmy
Because."
Welcome to Phoenix."
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Cooling Center
Also P.S. Zinnia is allowed out and she tried to eat a ball of baling twine.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Interesting Times
Also, I thought we lived on a nice cool farm where the main kind of weather would be patchy morning fog. It turns out where we live is actually stifling hot and no one can stop talking about it. Interesting.
People came over and they were saying things like. "Goodness it's hot," or "is it hot enough for you?"
One lady came over and she said, "is it hot enough for you?" and then she laughed and laughed. I guess this is some kind of joke, although I noticed the farmer did not laugh. I think it must be hot enough for anyone, certainly for the farmer.
I have not seen a lot of farmers, really only one, our one that lives here. But I noticed our farmer is somewhat on the round side, and does not seem to like the exceeding hotness we are having, which is predicted to last all week. They are saying that it is going to be 100 degrees in Seattle in the middle of the week.
The farmer's friend came over and told the farmer that even though it was 92 today it was going to be much hotter in the middle of the week. I wondered what the farmer would say and sure enough, just as I would have guessed, the farmer said, "that's interesting."
But with a stony stony stony face.
Hmm, I thought. Interesting.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Atticus Pupicus
Atticus Pupicus is our guardian dog. He used to let all the babies jump on him like a trampoline. But now he doesn't like it any more, those sharp little hooves in the ribs. He has aches and pains now and jumping makes him grumpy. He woofs anybody who jumps on him. Zanegray jumped on him and got woofed.
When he woofs you it really gets your attention.
Oh ok, you say to yourself, maybe I will not jump on you any more. Note to self.
Anyway Atticus Pupicus has been very hot and short-tempered lately because he didn't have his summer haircut. It was blazing hot several days in a row, and Atty lay around panting and gulping water and digging a hole under the porch to try to find more shade.
The farmer had tried to give Atty a haircut, but the clippers died going into the first turn. They were no match for Atty's magnificent dingleberries and his woolly ruff.
Really there was only one person who could help Atty, and that was the kindly neighbor who really knows how to clip and has super industrial sheep shears.
She came over and fixed Atty up. It was not an easy job. And when she was done, they had to get the tractor to take away all the hair.
Atty is in heaven.
His hair is in the tractor bucket.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
All The Way or So
My Aunt Hannah Belle had two sons this year and the other day they went to their new home. This left Aunt Hannah Belle with a lot of milk and no one to drink it.
"Come on Hannah Belle," said the farmer meaningfully. "You have been on the dole long enough. It is time for you to go to work."
Hannah Belle kept mum and did not betray anything by her expression. Instead she watched the fat milkers trundling over toward the milk parlor. She could tell by the way Jammies was bobbing and weaving toward the head of the line that there was sure to be food inside.
All right then, Hannah Belle agreed, and when the farmer took her by the collar she marched along docilely. She didn't have any gum so she just chewed her cud, eyeballing the whole operation like she was the regional manager.
"Here is the ramp," the farmer explained. "Go up it when it is your turn, and on the other side you will find a nice buffet of free grain."
All right then, thought Hannah Belle, shrewdly staying out of striking distance of Winnie who likes to t-bone everyone in the waiting room who dares to look her in the eye. As long as they are a lot smaller than she is.
Hannah Belle got in line, choosing a sensible spot near the end. When it came her turn, she went right up the ramp, through the sliding door, and into the milk parlor.
I never saw any of the rest because they closed the door, but I heard it, and so did everybody in the next few counties.
Some of it went like this: "PUT YOUR FOOT DOWN! I MEAN RIGHT NOW! DO NOT DO THAT AGAIN!"
Meanwhile this whole time was a festive sound of hopping, like maybe some leprechauns doing a riverdance in the milk parlor, and in the foreground the loud sucking noise the milk machine makes. Then was followed a series of questions.
"CAN YOU HEAR ME? DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THAT MACHINE COST? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
Sadly the only answer was more hopping.
Then came a pronouncement: "YOU ARE GOING TO BE MILKED OUT TODAY YOUNG LADY! I MEAN ALL THE WAY!"
Followed by more jolly hopping and then the sound of the exit door sliding open, and then Hannah Belle appeared in view on the down ramp, hair slightly awry but overall I would have to say in an unfazed condition. She proceeded into the barnyard chewing her cud with an air of satisfaction.
I am something of an expert on milk and I did notice that while she had been milked, I would not say that she had been milked out ALL THE WAY.
No one mentioned anything about it and everyone pretended not to notice.
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2007
Ursinus Invitational, 25:50.55 (46th of 63)
Little Three, 24:33 (45th of 49)
Battle for the Buggy, 29:59 (37th of 52)
Dickinson Invitational, 29:14.06 (87th of 107)
Centennial Conference Championships, 29:42 (106th of 113)
Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll
2006
Sea Gull Invitational, 27:08 (58th of 87)
Little Three, 23:14 (41st of 51)
Philly Metro, 23:27.23 (53rd of 145)
NCAA Mideast Regional Championships, 29:30 (204th of 282)
2005
Sea Gull Opener, 27:26 (62nd of 86)
Towson Invitational, 22:46 (82nd)
Little Three, 24:50 (34th)
Personal: Earned varsity letters in cross country, indoor and outdoor track...
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by Jacqueline S. Homan,
author of Without Apology
Combatting the scourge of human trafficking has become the sexy, trendy newest cause for privileged opportunists in need of their newest feel-good activism fix as they seek to profit by wrapping themselves in the cloak of social justice. Of course, those whom are the very core of this cause—the sex trafficking victims (or exited women) themselves—are without real, adequate and appropriate help in terms of income support, medical care, education, job training and job placement to regain control of their destiny to rebuild their lives and live with dignity while trying to do so.
Restoring trafficked women to “normalized” status in society is an important goal, but there is an enormous resistance to that on the part of society, including many “allies” that will not stop their privilege-clinging and power-overing to actually facilitate restoration. Sadly, even most such “allies” look down on adult prostituted women who started out as trafficked under-aged girls.
The very women and girls whom this movement is supposed to be about are exploited for their stories and then discarded and thrown under the bus by most “allies”, including many well-heeled academics who’ve been enriched with chair endowments and many other social prizes and rewards after prostituted/exited women’s stories of tremendous suffering have helped pave the career paths of those who enjoy all the status, prestige and prosperity in the name of “speaking for” downtrodden, marginalized women.
After decades of throwing the poorest, most marginalized women away with misogynistic laws and policies of “benign neglect” tantamount to social Darwinism, everybody suddenly wants to cash in on the big business of helping trafficked women and girls. How odd, considering that it was this very same male supremacist society that threw away poor marginalized women and girls into the prostitute caste in the first place—first by ripping away what meager, inadequate threadbare safety net that did exist for destitute women in the name of “personal responsibility”, and second by continuing to discriminate against women for good-paying blue-collar “men’s jobs” that don’t require an expensive college education, and third by reaffirming male entitlement to women’s bodies as disposable reproductive goods and sex goods.
The Obama administration has unveiled a plan inviting public participation for helping to fight human trafficking, and part of the plan is to open funding for battered women’s shelters whose funding was recently cut by the 2010 Congress. More troubling is that most of these domestic violence shelters refuse to take prostituted women who want to exit but who are also destitute and have nowhere to go. Funding for emergency shelters that turn away trafficked women and under-aged girls is funding that won’t be given to shelters run by anti-trafficking groups that help the trafficked.
Cash-strapped survivor-run and/or secular NGO’s that are geared towards providing real material help to survivors get little to none of the funding from the US Department of Health & Human Services through its Refugee Resettlement Office. Non-profit groups that get the lion’s share of the annual grants from the Office of Refugee Resettlement are nearly all anti-abortion Christian organizations that are huge, deeply entrenched corporations with Catholic Charities and Polaris Project getting the most funds.
This is problematic because faith-based charities refuse to provide abortion care to trafficked women and leave them no choice except to be further physically and psychologically violated by their rapists-johns by forcing them to endure a full term of incapacitating pregnancy and a traumatic, grueling childbirth—thus, continuing the rape and torture. Forcing women to get/remain pregnant against their will when they don’t want to go through it has been the time-honored way that men have oppressed and continue to oppress women, using our vulnerability to pregnancy to keep us from having an equal opportunity to have the same good jobs that are automatically handed to men, denying us full citizenship and equal civil and human rights—which is what fuels the sex trade in the first place because it limits women’s opportunities and rights.
If it’s wrong for women and girls to be sexually exploited, how is it NOT also wrong for them to be reproductively exploited by their “rescuers” for the benefit of Christian adoption agencies and rich, white childless couples who are buying the “right” to further exploit those victims with forced factory-farm reproduction to provide them with babies—free grata?
How does this make them any different than the johns who bought the “right” to first use these girls’ bodies for forced sex to provide him with his precious orgasm?
There is something radically wrong with the system when the non-profit mega corporations (aka “faith-based” charities) that enjoy the backing of well-heeled patriarchal, misogynistic religious powerhouses get all the federal grant money from the US Department of Health & Human Services while cash-strapped secular and survivor-run non-profits started by impoverished exited women who are the real human trafficking experts can’t get funding to help destitute survivors and women who want to exit prostitution but can’t due to nearly insurmountable barriers.
A trafficked teen girl who has no choice becomes that 22 year old drug-addicted woman found in a dumpster with her throat cut from ear to ear because of being thrown away by a bootstrap-happy society that pushed her into the arms of traffickers in the name of “personal responsibility” while refusing to give her real equal opportunities and provide a social floor through which no one can fall.
The Exploitation Continues After Exiting
Now not all men are bad, and neither are all Christians. But the fact remains that the majority are comfortable with the status quo because it privileges them at women’s expense, or else there would NOT be a right-wing War on Women where it is women (especially POOR women) who punished with gratuitous cruelty for men’s sense of entitlement, greed, and debauchery. And there would not be a pandemic of sex trafficking fueled by male demand secured by female poverty and disenfranchisement due to discrimination backed by 6,000 years of institutionalized patriarchy.
People with privilege really don’t want to upset the status quo—it may mean having to relinquish some of their own privileges that come at the expense of the disprivileged. Even within the abolition movement, there is a LOT of privilege-clinging and power-overing.
Exploiting women as sex goods and as reproductive chattel are inseparable. It’s the same end game: objectification, reproductive enslavement, sexual terrorism and cruelty towards women to support male supremacy and male privilege to benefit men at women’s expense, suffering and misery.
Forced pregnancy/childbirth was the main linchpin that upheld the plantation slavery system in the antebellum South. African slave women were forced to breed. All for men’s sexual AND economic benefit at women’s expense and suffering. And even though not all men are porn-consuming, prostitute-abusing pigs, the fact remains that ALL men benefit from this sadistic, exploitative hierarchical system of unearned privileges in which women are kept economically, sexually, and socially oppressed in the ‘one-down’ position. And poor white women (“poor white trash”) have also been convenient throw-aways into the sex class so that men could have a free license to be sexually sadistic predators.
It’s no secret that most who are thrown away into the sex caste are those who either lack class privilege or race privilege or both. Poor men get offered helping hand up and job opportunities that are denied to women; poor women get told to take our clothes off—that being “only a whore” is the ONLY place in society for us, the only “option” if we don’t want to starve or be homeless. Or end up disabled or dead for lack of health care from jobless poverty due to discrimination. This is also how you get so many rescued trafficked women who, out of utter despair, reluctantly return to the traffickers and johns.
Traffickers tell their victims that there is no other place for them, that society won’t accept them and treat them nicely. Unfortunately, the lack of support, help, social acceptance, and a leg up for poor, marginalized exited women faced with no alternative except to return to prostitution gives this credence: Everybody (including many “allies” and “rescuers”) in society proves the traffickers right.
Almost all of the faith-based organizations that get the lion’s share of federal grant money only help a select few kids that make good photo opportunities for their charity’s fundraising PR. What kind of message does this send to trafficked teens and adult women who desperately want to exit prostitution that they were trafficked into before reaching that magical age of 18?
Meanwhile, poor adult women who either have already exited (or who want to exit but feel trapped because they’re physically and/or financially unable to exit) never get anything because there’s this idea that grown women cannot suffer and therefore don’t matter. Adult women are just discarded and written off as having made their “choice.” Almost all anti-trafficking groups focus only on children and ignore the women.
The Cost to Society of Ignoring Poor Prostituted Adult Women
Conservative estimates based on limited data collection place the percentage of sex trafficking victims with HIV at about 25%, but actual numbers may be much higher. According to the Office of the Secretariat of the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS, 63% of HIV-positive sufferers aged 15-24 are women.
A 2007 study published in JAMA showed that 38% of a study group of 287 sex trafficked Nepalese women and girls tested positive for HIV. The study also showed that the younger the trafficked girl, the higher the likelihood of being exposed to HIV since johns specifically request younger girls (under age 15) at brothels and johns often refuse to wear condoms and the prostituted women and girls realistically cannot compel them to.
Many other regions have much higher rates than that, such as Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside where 75% of prostituted women and girls are HIV-positive. Women and children who are trafficked for commercial sex experience a tenfold risk of contracting HIV compared to any other subgroup of the population. The average age of entry into the sex trade for females is 12-14 years of age. The US is one of the top three source and destination hubs for sex trafficking.
According to the US State Department, 80% of human trafficking victims are women and girls, and according to the Harvard School of Public Health study authored by Dr. Jay Silverman, the HIV infection rate exceeded 60% among girls forced into prostitution prior to age 15 from the 2007 sample of 287 Nepalese women and girls. The public health consequence, and ultimately, the devastation to society caused by male demand for commercial sex is astronomical.
“Addressing the widely accepted male demand for commercial sex is critical to ending this modern day form of female slavery,” Silverman said.
As sex trafficking survivor Lisa Bouvet, said: “Saying someone chose to become a prostitute is like saying someone chose to jump off the roof but no one mentioned that the building was on fire.”
Those who manage to exit the sex trade also face a substantial risk of being re-trafficked if they are from a country that lacks adequate social and economic support systems because of the contempt, scorn, derision, neglect and social rejection suffered by the prostituted. Many exited women and girls, out of sheer desperation, re-enter the sex trade when they’re left with nowhere else to go and no real social and economic support because of the criminalization and stigma that comes with being a prostituted woman. And when that happens, chances of being able to re-escape and survive are almost zero.
Many exited women are unable to afford proper medical care and due to total social exclusion and marginalization, they have almost zero employment opportunities and no hope of economically fending for themselves. Almost no one will hire exited women due to the social stigma alone, and finding some middle class Prince Charming to rescue her from utter destitution by marrying her and supporting her so she has a home, food, and medical care is definitely off the table.
As an aside, a study of johns showed that upwards of 60% are married men with families—they bought prostituted women so they could get away with doing to a woman what they would never be able to do to their own wives. If you torture and kill one of the “madonnas”, you will likely get prison; if you torture and kill one of the “whores”, you will likely get a free pass and a pat on the back.
Convicted Child Molesters Get More Social Acceptance and Better Economic Support For Re-entering Society Than Sex Trafficking Survivors
According to Dr. Brian Conway of the University of British Columbia, people who contract HIV—the virus that causes AIDS—can live very, very long and high quality lives without ever developing full blown AIDS as long as their CD4 (white blood cell) count remains well above 200 on medical therapy. But the vast majority of exited women struggle in abject poverty, and in countries like the US and the impoverished regions of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, destitute human trafficking survivors don’t have access to adequate medical treatment or any social income support to be able to live with dignity. Consequently, the sex trafficking survivors who contracted HIV from johns and traffickers are slapped with a cruel, torturous death sentence: slow, painful death from AIDS related complications.
Two major factors that negatively impact CD4 cell count are fatigue and stress. The stress from having to suffer in utter poverty and complete social exclusion due to stigma, compounded by the trauma levels of anyone who survived the amount of violence and torture as prostituted women have, only serves to intensify the agonizing progression of untreated HIV, which is hallmarked by ravaging and unrelenting opportunistic infections such as pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) which causes fatal treatment-resistant pneumonia for which medical intervention does not come cheap.
Untreated HIV is a certain death sentence, but it is a very slow and torturous one that surpasses the level of torture that would be permissible at Guantanamo. Treatment of HIV requires a series of antiretroviral drug therapies, of which there are several classes—each one inhibiting the mutation and multiplication of the HIV virus at different stages of cell invasion in the HIV virus’s life cycle. Often, several classes must be combined to effectively treat this devastating retrovirus which targets CD4 cells, injects healthy CD4 cells with its genetic code (RNA) which is then used by the reverse transcriptase enzyme to build HIV DNA.
The HIV DNA is injected into the CD4 cell’s DNA by the integrase enzyme, establishing HIV infection in the CD4 cell. When the HIV-infected CD4 cell reproduces, the HIV DNA is activated. This is how a retrovirus like HIV destroys the immune system and causes full blown AIDS—by attacking the body’s white blood cells. And this is why multi-faceted therapy drug schedules are needed to treat and subdue or limit the HIV virus’s activity within the body.
None of the current medical technologies for treating HIV can protect an HIV-positive person’s sexual partner from contracting HIV no matter how well the infected person responds to the antiretroviral therapy. So an HIV-positive john with access to good medical care and who is able to improve his healthy CD4 cell count and limit the devastation of HIV in his body, who then turns around and buys rape-on-demand sex from poor prostituted women (and likely refuses to wear a condom) then infects the trafficking victim who is unable to compel him to wear a condom—never mind dictate any other terms and conditions of the sex-for-money transaction. In fact, it is usually in attempting to refuse a particular sexual act that gets prostituted women murdered—if not by the john who wanted to hurt her as part of the “services” he paid for, then by the traffickers in whose eyes a “troublesome” woman’s life isn’t even worth eight cents.
Unlike the traffickers and the johns on sex tourism “vacations” at home and abroad who paid for the “right” to get “you-do-what-I-say” sex from prostituted women and children, poor trafficked and/or exited women that contracted HIV from these self-entitled sexually sadistic men that refused to wear condoms have little to no hope at all of living a long, high quality life if they cannot get proper care due to being from a country in which women do not enjoy equal rights with men, and a country that either does not have the medical technology of antiretroviral therapy available, or that does not provide good medical care to those unable to pay for it because of that country not having universal health care.
To be sentenced to death from full blown AIDS as a direct result of first being forcibly infected with it by cruel, sexually sadistic men that are carriers of HIV and secondly by lack of access to the same quality of medical care to adequately treat HIV that their class-privileged HIV-positive rapists enjoy, meets the definition of torture and crimes against humanity.
In the US, convicted serial killers sentenced to death row get more sympathy and avenues for legal redress and concern for their rights than an adult sex trafficking victim who struggled to exit “the life” against all odds. Regardless of where one stands on the death penalty issue, the fact is that the way the state is permitted to execute a convicted serial killer is restricted by Constitutional laws against cruel and unusual punishment and torture—which is why no one is executed by being drawn and quartered or burned alive at the stake like they were in medieval Europe.
It is also why the state cannot (in theory, anyway) execute someone with biological terrorism, and neither can an individual resort to that under Stand Your Ground Laws. Bioterrorism is precisely what traffickers and johns are doing by deliberately infecting prostituted women with a fatal, incurable STD. Women and children did not enter prostitution with HIV—traffickers and johns infected them with it.
It is a crime against humanity for any other identifiable group to be targeted for death by sexual torture, destitution and bioterrorism—except women. Do the math: 95% of the prostituted are women and girls, 94% of those living below poverty suffering without basic human needs are women and girls. Women comprise 52% of the population yet women have less than 2% of all good-paying blue-collar skilled trades jobs and science careers due to institutionalized sexism and discrimination. Men comprise 88% of the government leadership and lawmaking bodies, and men comprise 98% of the top 1% of the financial elite. Although 5% of the prostituted are boys and men, nearly 100% of the sex buyers are men. Money, privilege and power are gendered. And so is the institution of prostitution.
There are upwards of about 10 million trafficked women and girls trapped in prostitution in the US and only 200 shelter beds nationwide for women and girls who desperately want to exit but cannot. So the final question remains: will destitute exited women get helped with income support to live with a little bit of human dignity while they struggle to heal and rebuild their lives, or will this new anti-trafficking plan by the Obama administration merely serve as a boon for large charity executives? If this country is serious about the sex trafficking problem, then funds for destitute trafficking victims payable to the destitute exited women whether they exited 20 minutes ago or 20 years ago must come first before anyone else’s enrichment. What is needed is: income for destitute exiting/exited women to live with dignity as they try to get on their feet and rebuild their lives, medical care, dental care, therapy, advanced educations and/or vocational training and REAL job placement—guaranteed job slots for poor marginalized exited women.
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What I forgot to say yesterday
I remembered later that so many years later, I did do something for Tante Lena.
Tante Lena had no one to remember her when she died. She had no one to continue her line, as the expression goes. There was no one to name a child after her according to tradition. Who would do that?
But I did that. I named my daughter Lauren after Tante Lena. Lauren’s Jewish name is Lea Bela, Tante Lena’s Jewish name.
What a major event I forgot.
And I named my daughter precisely after Tante Lina so that Tante Lena would be remembered for so long as anyone is.
Indian Ocean Update:
A delicate ocean this morning. The horizon is a straight clear line. A band above it, a band as wide-seeming as a wide hair band, is a beautiful light pink, and above that a band of pure whiteness, not identifiable as clouds, and then, above the whiteness, a pale blue clear sky.
Even as I type, the sky above the sea changes its appearance, and the pink band has gone somewhere, I know not where.
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Gloria Dear, we must be related in some way, as your love for the oceans is similar to mine. When I go down the coast (Cairns), I take a detour along the beach and look at my first Love. Love you and next time, lookig at the Ocean think I am at the other side thinking of all of you with Love. Jack
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Jan. 29, 2013
TCU (7-11; 0-7) vs. Oklahoma (15-4; 5-2)
FORT WORTH, Texas - TCU will continue its two-game road swing Wednesday at No. 21 Oklahoma, beginning at 7:00 p.m. from the Lloyd Noble Center. The Horned Frogs will look to record their first conference win this season and eighth overall after falling to Texas Tech in their last outing, 53-42.
Wednesday's showdown will be shown live nationally on Fox Sports Southwest with Chad McKee (Play-By-Play) and former TCU men's coach Billy Tubbs (Color) calling the action live.
The Horned Frogs will look to even the season series after falling earlier this month in Fort Worth, 85-79. TCU and the Sooners will meet for the 17th time in program history Wednesday night.
The OpponentNo. 21 Oklahoma comes into Wednesday with a 15-4 overall record and 5-2 mark in conference play after falling to No. 1 Baylor, 82-65. Against the Bears, the Sooners hit 11 three pointers and were carried on the night by junior Aaryn Ellenberg's season-high 33 points.
On the season, Oklahoma ranks No. 2 in the NCAA in three-point field goal percentage, shooting almost 40 percent from behind the arc. Individually, Ellenberg is averaging 19.7 points per game, while shooting 46 percent from three-point land. Nicole Griffin and Morgan Hook are also averaging double-figures, scoring 10.7 and 10.4 points a contest, respectively.
The SeriesTCU and Oklahoma will meet for the 17th time in program history Wednesday. The Sooners lead the all-time series, 13-3, but the Horned Frogs have won two out of the last six meetings. On Wednesday, the Frogs will look to record their first win in Norman in program history.
Return To SenderJunior Latricia Lovings had a breakout game against Texas Tech, recording a new career-high in blocks with nine. Her nine blocks not only ranked as the fourth-best mark in program history, but it is also tied for the best mark in Big 12 conference play this season with Baylor's Brittney Griner. It currently sits as the second-best block performance in the NCAA this season, trailing only Winthrop's Schaquilla Nunn who posted 10 against Mississippi State in November. Lovings currently ranks No. 3 in the NCAA in blocked shots per game.
Coming Of Age After 18 games, Latricia Lovings has blocked as many shots as she did during the entire 2011-12 campaign, swatting away 68 shots. She has also surpassed her total from a year ago in rebounds. In 30 games a year ago, the junior grabbed a total of 169 rebounds, while this season she has already corralled 184 boards.
More On MedleyZahna Medley has hit the 20-point mark four times this season, which is the most of any freshman in the Big 12. She closed out the first half of the K-State game by scoring 11 of the Frog's final 21 points, then recorded 10 of the team's final 16 in the contest. Medley is the only rookie in the Big 12 to rank in the top 11 in scoring and assists.
Newcomers Making HeadwayDuring a stretch of play against Kansas State at the DMC, freshmen Zahna Medley and Kamy Cole combined to score the last 21 points of the first half for the Purple and White. During conference action, the duo has scored 40 percent of the Frogs scoring. In the last four games alone, Medley and Cole have accounted for 45 percent of the Frogs scoring. In all, the five newcomers have combined to score 70 percent of the Frogs 198 points in the last three outings against Iowa State, West Virginia, Kansas State and Texas Tech.
Keep Her On The CourtSophomore Natalie Ventress, who had not missed a single free throw during conference action prior to the Texas Tech game, has played in a total of 48 games during her short career, starting 46 contests. The Fort Worth native has started 37-straight contests. The last time Ventress didn't start a game was Dec. 20, 2011 against Tulsa. The next closest Horned Frog to start that many consecutive games is junior Latricia Lovings who has started 25-straight.
The Block Party ContinuesJunior Latricia Lovings has become one of the NCAA's elite shot blockers in her short time at TCU. The Fort Worth native now has 157 for her career. The junior, who closed last season ranked No. 25 overall in the NCAA in blocked shots per contest, needs only one more block.
Headlines To Look AtDuring the Jeff Mittie era, the Frogs are 233-33 when leading at the half. TCU is also 136-3 when leading by 10+ at the half.
Overall, when the Frogs score 80+ points in regulation, TCU is 78-2 under Mittie. The Frogs are also 184-18 when the opponent scores 60 or less.
The Last Time OutJunior Latricia Lovings recorded the fourth-most blocks in a single-game in program history Sunday afternoon, but TCU dropped a 53-42 decision to Texas Tech at United Spirit Arena.
In a physical back and fourth game that was a lot closer than the final score indicated, the Horned Frogs cut the Lady Raider lead to seven with 5:14 remaining in the contest, but couldn't complete the comeback despite forcing Texas Tech into 18 turnovers and 33.3 percent from the floor, which is a season-low in conference play.
TCU, who trailed 27-25 at the half after being up by five with two minutes to go in the opening frame, moved to 7-11 overall and 0-7 in league play, while the Lady Raiders improved to 16-4 and 6-2 in conference action. Texas Tech is receiving votes in the AP poll.
On the day, Lovings posted a new career-high nine blocks, while also tallying six points and seven boards.
Donielle Breaux and Zahna Medley led the Frogs on the offensive end of the court Sunday. Both scored nine points apiece, respectively. Sophomore Natalie Ventress followed with eight on 3-of-5 shooting from the field.
Up NextTCU returns home to face Texas Saturday at 11:30 a.m. CT. The game will show live on Fox Sports Net.
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Strategies to Shift Away from Plastic
March 2, 2011
I’m continuing my search that week for plastic-free alternatives for all of the things my family needs, and seeking out the advice of experts who can help me along the way. Today, I’d like to share that guest post from Tracy Lydiatt (aka The Green Families Guru and author of Your Gre…
Ditching Plastic at the Grocery Store
March 2, 2011
OK, I’m by halfway through the month and whether there’s one thing I’ve learned so far about plastics it is that they are really hard to avoid. It’s not impossible by any means, by it does take quite a bit more work to find things that are plastic free. Even things that I…
My Plastic-Free Fail
March 2, 2011
My challenge that month was plastic: to buy less of it, throw away less of it, and learn more about the alternatives to it that could keep things running smoothly in my family without it.
Well, I’m here to tell you folks that I floped. Excuses? I got a ton of ‘em. First the…
March Eco-Challenge: Energy
March 2, 2011
My meter reading that dawn: 89161
Can you guess what that month’s eco-challenge is? That’s right, I’m cranking down the energy use in my home. I’ve done that before. But that month, I’m going to do it smarter.
Like most green bloggers, I’ve written t…
Meter Reading: 89204
March 2, 2011
This morning’s meter reading (89204 KWH) shows that we used 43 KWH of energy yesterday, which is not too shabby but not too great . whether we keep up that rate, we’ll use 1333 KWH for the month of March, which is more than we used in March, 2009; but less than we used in March 2010.
Tod…
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MOOSIC – At a time when many small businesses are struggling, Candice Chilek took the leap to reopen Thomas' Barbecue in Moosic, becoming the third generation of her family to run the restaurant.
The Moosic landmark was opened 83 years ago by Chilek's grandmother, Caroline, financed by a low-interest loan of $500.
Over the years, Thomas' Barbecue passed from her grandmother to her Aunt Theda Thomas. In 2003 the long-standing business closed its doors.
With the economy emerging from a severe recession, Chilek reopened the business in 2010 after a seven year hiatus.
Some people advised her not to reopen the restaurant, especially during the tough economy, and she had other options for the property.
"Many other types of business wanted this spot, even a few law offices," Chilek said.
Inspired by her grandmother's drive and perseverance, Chilek pursued her dream.
"We all worked here," she said. "My mom worked here. It was my first job at age 13."
Some renovation was needed, but Chilek kept the original retro themed atmosphere.
"One dining room still has a 1930s-1940s feel to it," she said. "There is a World War II room and a pinup wall."
Even the kitchen still boasts original equipment, including a potato peeler dating back to 1948.
"We still use it all," Chilek said.
But this is not what makes the food taste so good. After watching her family for years make the secret barbecue sauce, Chilek carries on the tradition.
"It is not written down," she said. "When I make the sauce, nobody is allowed to add anything. Nobody."
She goes to great lengths to maintain secrecy. When she goes away on vacation, she will make a pot of sauce for the staff to use until she returns.
Chilek said her grandmother, who lived in Kingston at the time, developed the recipe in her kitchen and began making barbecues to sell.
"Her children would collect orders for barbecues when they went to school," she said.
Her grandfather, a mason, was out of work due to the Depression. They had six children to feed and a mortgage to pay.
"She made her money with 25-cent barbecues and 5-cent Cokes," she said.
What started as just a way to make ends meet grew into a thriving business, and when an affordable property became available, her grandmother purchased it.
"It was formerly a cow pasture," she said.
The original 15-foot-by-15-foot building is now surrounded by years of expansion. Pictures scattered throughout the building show changes over the years, as well as her grandmother, aunt, mother and other family members.
"It is a tribute to my grandmother, mother, and aunt," she said.
Owner: Candice Chilek
Address: 4810 Birney Ave., Moosic
Hours: 4-8 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday; 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Thursday; 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and 4-9 p.m. Saturday.
Phone: 457.5720
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After years of planning, the award-winning BBC TV series, Walking with Dinosaurs comes to life in a stunning theatrical event.
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Awhile back, I remarked (I do not recall where) that I sometimes give books more of a critical leeway if they are in a genre that does not get as much attention from comics. For instance, I was not a big fan of Love As A Foreign Language, but I admired what J. Torres was trying to do with the comic, so I probably gave it more leeway than I normally would for the same type of story in a different genre. Well, Action Philosophers works in the genre that I personally think comics is severely lacking in, and that is (non auto) biography.
Each issue of Action Philosophers gives the biography of three famous philosophers (the Action Philosophers, as it were). The biographies are done in differing page amounts, some as small as 6 pages, some as long as 14.
So, even if I was not a big fan of the comic, I would have to give them credit for doing something different, expanding comics into a new genre.
However, the comics, themselves, ARE good.
The format of the biographies is, while making the comics as accurate as possible, add comedic elements to the presentation. So presenting Plato as a “wrestling superstar.” Or depicting some of the philosophical conflicts of someone like Saint Augustine as, well, ACTUAL supernatural conflicts. Most of this comes down to Dunleavy, and he is well up to the job. His art has a nice Mike Avon Oeming feel to it. Really nice stuff.
When I was a kid, the school library had these series of biographies of famous people, and the way they attempted to make the agreeable to kids was to open up the books with stories (almost certainly apocryphal) of the famous person as a child, then fast forward to their famous deeds. At the time, I probably enjoyed it (I ended up reading the entire series, so I now know more about John Muir, Cyrus McCormick and Gus Grissom than is probably advisable), but looking back, I think it is a bit of a dirty trick. To tell someone’s history, but FAKE some of it?
That’s fine for entertainment, but it not a great approach for a biograhpy.
Luckily, Van Lente does not do that, but rather, he gives us the truth, just presented in a fun manner.
At times, the writing is noticeably cramped, but that is to be expected, given the format.
I, personally, describe Van Lente’s approach as sort of like those expandable washclothes. They come in these little vials, but then you add water, and WHAMMO, they are a big washcloth!!
Action Philosophers works like that. It is a short story, but by the end of it, without knowing it, WHAMMO, you’ve collected a giant washcloth’s worth of information about the subject. And since the subjects are pretty interesting people (#1 is Plato, Bohidharma and Nietzsche; #2 is Thomas Jefferson, Ayn Rand and Saint Augustine; #3 is Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell), it is nice to know a little bit more about each one of them.
Finally, another thing that I admire about the work is the pretty much neutral point of view. Van Lente is only presenting their ideas, he is not really critiquing them (although he slips a few times). He lets US make of them what we will, and to help this, he recommends a text for each one at the end of the comic, which is a lot of fun. Sorta like how Alan Grant used to recommend texts about anarky…only a lot less pretentious…hehe.
Okay, so now that we know why Action Philosophers is a good comic, we can all sing a traditional Van Lente Day carol,
Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wand’ring
So fair to be seen.
Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail too;
And God bless you and send you
a Happy Van Lente Day
And God send you a Happy Van Lente Day.
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JEff
September 20, 2006 at 10:25 am
That comic sux bigtime
Bill K
June 1, 2010 at 6:00 am
Easily one of the best comics of the 21st century! I was lucky enough to purchase a page of the original art, too
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“The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.”
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The Desert of Maine (Desert Week)
Thursday, 19th June 2008 by James Turnbull
We’re continuing the first annual GSS Desert Week! We’re mostly posting about deserts and it’s lasting about a week!
The 40 acre Desert of Maine is located in a pine forest near the town of Freeport. Although not a real desert, the “sand” is natural to the area: it is glacial silt that would have been ground down under the earth sometime around the last ice age.
The silt would have remained hidden underground if it wasn’t for some poor farming practices in the early 1900s that eroded all the soil. The farmer eventually had to sell up to an enterprising man who correctly assumed tourists would flock to see some sand in the middle of a forest.
Since 1925 up to 30,000 people a year have visited the “desert”, which is made even more exciting by the inclusion of plastic camels. If that wasn’t enough, there is also a “sand museum” where you can see the sand of real deserts donated from around the world… sounds fascinating!
More info on the official website and NY Times.
Thanks to Elliott C. Evans and jon moses.
A SAND MUSEUM !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
books first flight available to Maine
Gosh, and I thought there was nowhere more exciting than the History of Concrete exhibition
hello this is very off topic but i found a UFO on street view ive mentioned this on this site many times but nobody seems to care.
if your interested it is on 242 chestnut St Manchester New hampshire.
look towards the signal on the street you will see a black shape,then when you go forward its gone these pictures are taken with in seconds so this isnt a plane.
There are signs all over the area touting the “Desert” of Maine.
You should have called it ‘Sand week’, so far you have covered two sandy deserts and two patches of sand. Why not cover some stony, or cold deserts? I want to see some Polar Bears or Alpacas.
@Timothy – fair point! We conceived this idea because lots of people had suggested sandy things to be honest, but see my next post about the Atacama Desert for some stuff that might tide you over till next year’s desert week (which I shall endeavor to ensure has as little sand as possible
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Thing Attacks New York
Watch out below! It looks like Thing (you know, the severed hand from the Addams Family) has grown thousands of times in size and is attacking New York City! Run for the hills! Aiiieeeeee! Hang on, turns out that the monstrous hand is just décor for New York’s Madame Tussauds. Panic over. Thanks: Mike Fraser
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MIAMI —
A season of destiny, as it had been billed in South Bend after a 12-0 regular season, was no match for a newly-minted dynasty from Tuscaloosa.
The return to glory for Notre Dame, which hasn’t won a national championship since 1988, will have to wait after Alabama dominated the Fighting Irish, 42-14, to claim an historic third title in four years Monday night in the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game here at a rocking Sun Life Stadium.
With music blaring and celebrities such as rocker Jon Bon Jovi and actor Vince Vaughn roaming a star-packed sideline, the pre-game atmosphere was as electric as anything sport has to offer in what many considered to be the most anticipated match-up in college football history.
But then the Crimson Tide pulled the plug on any real drama right after the opening kickoff.
“We were surprised with how the score ended up, but we knew we would come out and dominate,” said Alabama All-American center Barrett Jones who imposed his will on a Notre Dame defensive front that made a living this season pressuring quarterbacks and stopping the run. “Not to take anything away from Notre Dame, but we really came out and played hard and were successful.”
The Fighting Irish, boasting the No. 1 scoring defense in the country, allowing just 10.3 points a game, won the ceremonial coin flip and elected to kickoff. That was a mistake.
It took veteran Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron and the Alabama offense all of five offensive plays to march 82 yards for the game’s first touchdown, a powerful 20-yard burst by game MVP Eddie Lacy who rushed 20 times for 145 yards.
Six minutes later McCarron hit tight end Michael Williams for a 14-0 lead. Six minutes after that, it was 21-0 when TJ Yeldon plunged in from 1 yard line.
Barely 15 minutes into the game, the optimistic hope of the Irish gave way to a painful reality. Alabama was as good as advertised. Notre Dame was not.
For Alabama, Monday night’s game was a coronation as the Crimson Tide claimed the storied program’s 15th national championship. The only other team in the modern era to win three national championships in four seasons was Nebraska, which won consensus titles in 1994 and 1995 and split a title with Michigan in 1997.
For Notre Dame it was another BCS bowl game collapse. Including appearances in the 2000 and 2006 Fiesta Bowls and the 2007 Sugar Bowl, the Irish are 0-4 in BCS bowl games and have been outscored, 158-57.
Alabama was just clearly better than Notre Dame, adding another national title notch for the SEC conference that now boasts the past seven national champions. Chants of “SEC, SEC,” rose from the ‘Bama fans with two minutes remaining in the game. Many of the Irish fans, however weren’t around to hear it, having already seeing enough.
But for those Notre Dame loyalists who dared peek through their fingers as they were covering the eyes, there was a certain peace in the dismantling. There was nothing to be ashamed of given how far this program progressed this year under head coach Brian Kelly. Sure the Irish were no match for the Tide Monday night. There’s not a team in college football that would have been.
“They were just the better football team today,” Kelly said, “but I loved the way our guys just kept playing.”
The Tide just had too much speed, too much size and too much experience for the Irish to overcome.
As a result of those three things, Notre Dame lost because its they were overmatched at every position on the field, yes, even middle linebacker where Heisman Trophy runner-up Manti Te’o was virtually a non-factor most of the game.
“It was pretty clear,” Kelly said afterward. “(Our defense) had a hard time getting off the field. A lot of that had to do with Alabama.”
Alabama is the blue print for college football greatness under head coach Nick Saban, who became just the fourth coach in college football history to win four national titles. He also coached LSU to a championship in 2003.
“I think it’s really special,” Saban said of the accomplishment. “One of these days when I’m sitting on the side of a hill watching the stream go by, I’ll probably figure it out even more.”
In the meantime, the Irish program learned that while they’re a great team, they have much work to do before they’re the greatest team.
Notre Dame’s next glory day may be on the horizon, but this night, this season and this dynasty has a sweet home in Alabama.
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MICHAEL WANBAUGH: Irish's date with destiny delayed
MIAMI —
A season of destiny, as it had been billed in South Bend after a 12-0 regular season, was no match for a newly-minted dynasty from Tuscaloosa.
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The Dude: Ye Shall Tread Down The Wicked, For They Shall Be Ashes Under the Soles Of Your Feet Turner - a.k.a. "Ash Turner." He finally gets the chance to exact vengeance upon the duke who abandoned his family to poverty when he discovers the peer's secret first marriage.
The Rub: His vengeance unexpectedly winds up hurting the one woman he's come to care for the most.Dream Casting: Rob James-Collier.
The Plot:
Ash: ALL YOUR DUKEDOM ARE BELONG TO ME.
Old Duke: LOL, I'm dying, I don't care!
Margaret: I DO.
Ash: Wow, you're hot. We should date.
Margaret: Wait, what? NO.
Ash: But I respect your mind!
Margaret: No!
Ash: But I'm secretly illiterate and all torn up and angsty over that fact!
Margaret: ... okay!
Richard, Margaret's Asstastic Brother: Hands off my sister!
Ash: Wait, WHAT? ... actually I'm pretty cool with that.
Margaret: Yay!
Ash: But I'm still going to get the dukedom and condemn your brothers to a life of impoverished bastardy. They deserve it, you see, because they picked on my brothers in school and I would do anything to protect my brothers.
Margaret: But that's what I'M doing!
Ash: No no no - trying to protect your brothers is silly and sentimental because your brothers are ignorant and hurtful.
Margaret: ... so are yours!
Ash: Yes but MY brothers get sequels. So as you can clearly see, my problems are more important than yours. Let's get married!
Margaret: No thanks.
Richard: BTW, Margaret, we're only filing for our own legitimacy, not yours, because otherwise we'd lose everything!
Margaret: FUCK THIS NOISE. Take the Dukedom, Ashy! Let's get married!
Ash: HOORAY!
Margaret: ... but you still have to be nice to my brothers.
Ash: Crud.
Romance Convention Checklist:
1 Revenge Plot
4 Inconsiderate Brothers
1 Very Bad Mutha (deceased)
1 Fairly Good Mutha (also deceased)
1 Very Bad Dad (still alive, for the nonce)
1 Secret Disability
1 Bout of Sex in a Closet
The Word: The book starts shortly after the hero utterly ruins the heroine's life - and ends up redeeming it, in the process.
The hero, Ash Turner, blames the death of his sister and his brothers' poverty and sufferings on the selfishness of the Duke of Parford and his weak, spoiled sons. When he discovers the Duke secretly married his mistress as a young man years before publicly marrying his current one, Ash gains a twofold vengeance when he exposes the Duke's bigamy to the ecclesiastical courts - it renders the Duke's despised sons illegitimate and unable to inherit, and it leaves Ash (the closest legitimate relative) as the legal heir.
However, the Duke of Parford also has a daughter, Lady Anna Margaret. Thanks to Ash's exposure of her father's first marriage, she was stripped of her title, outcast from society, and abandoned by all her friends. Because of that, Margaret is determined to do whatever she can to help her brothers' quest to convince Parliament to restore their legitimacy. When Ash travels to the Duke's country estate, Margaret stays on in the guise of a nurse to the ailing Duke - partly to protect her father from any attempt on Ash's part to inherit sooner, and partly to spy and gather intel she can pass on to her brothers, to convince Parliament that Mr. Turner is an unfit addition to the House of Lords.
Her plans go awry when Ash spots her and is instantly attracted. An intelligent, intuitive businessman who made a fortune in India, Ash has learned to trust his instincts above anything else. He sees Margaret and immediately intuits that she is a woman of substance, and starts treating her as such as he tries to seduce her.
Ash's method of seduction is clever as well as sweet. There is a twisty, reversed aristocrat-commoner vibe between the two of them. Margaret is accustomed to the life of a peer, and has been raised to believe that names, wealth, and titles are emblematic of one's worth as a person - so she is very disturbed when Ash continues to pursue her and find value in her despite the fact that he knows nothing of her name, family, or history. Because of that, she discovers her own strengths and talents only after losing everything she initially thought was important about herself.
Ash is an equally interesting character. Thanks to a learning disability, he relies on his personality, confidence, and quick wit to conduct business, but at the same time he is taunted by his shortcomings, torn by the belief that his proud, brash face is all he is capable of offering to the world. This increasingly comes into play when he interacts with his university-educated brothers - he paid for their educations in order to make up for the privations they endured as children, but as a result, he feels isolated and inferior around them.
Honestly, the only real problem I had with this novel was the continuation of the revenge plot. As I've stated before in other articles, there is a thin line to walk when writing a vengeful hero or heroine. I mean, most romance novels ultimately tell us that Revenge is Wrong and we should just Forgive and Love Everybody, but it all boils down to how far the hero takes it and why he's pursuing this revenge in the first place. Ultimately, I didn't buy it with Ash:
- He's already wealthy as sin and his brothers are already provided for.
- He doesn't even respect the prestige that comes with a Dukedom ANYWAY, so why is he screwing up so many lives to get one?
- His revenge creates a LOT of collateral damage for people who either didn't hurt him (Margaret and her mother) or only in the most petty of ways (he's essentially ruining Margaret's brothers' lives because they were mean to his bros in HIGH SCHOOL)
- He continues to actively try and ruin the Dalrymple's lives EVEN AFTER HE KNOWS WHO MARGARET IS because he'll just marry Margaret which will totally fix her life because protecting his brothers is an important and righteous man-problem but Margaret protecting her brothers is a weak and sentimental woman-problem.
B+
this was the first romance I've read all the way through in ages, so I definitely enjoyed it. I agree with you about dragging the revenge plot out - but actually my main beef was the complete reversal of the Big Misunderstanding. Ash was so understanding of who she was, which was refreshing (a hero who gives his heroine the benefit of the doubt!), but left me feeling oddly let down.
I think it's because she wrote the book as though the mistaken identity was the major conflict, but it obviously wasn't. If they'd known each other's identities right from the start, I reckon she would have gotten more mileage out of the obstacles they had to overcome to be together. It would have made for some interesting conversations, right?
Her hidden identity did allow for the lovely aristocrat-commonder inversion you talk about, but it was kinda there in their characterisations already with her bastardy and his childhood.
I loved Ash's inner pain with his bros, though :-)
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Nuestra Belleza Latina finalists were involved in a car accident when they were on their way to a recording, reported the production through his official Facebook page.
addition, became known as the Puerto Rican Vannessa De Roide and Shalimar Rivera, Fanny Vargas and Setareh Kahtibi méxicanas, as well as the Venezuelan Karol Scott were served by paramedics who arrived at the scene and were later transferred to a hospital to check their State of health.
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OK, so I realise Gosstronomy has been all quiet on the gestation front this past year. And I know, I owe everyone an explanation. A blogger can’t just disappear into the ethernet and go without saying a word. I have seen the folly of my ways, and I am back asking for forgiveness.
Right, ready? The sad truth is this – I got a real job.
“No!” you say. “Mon dieu.” “Bastarde.” “Oy gevalt.” Well, my parents said “About time” as I set about helping Lonely Planet transform its famed travel guidebooks and figure out ways to allow people to access the same great information on their mobile phones. Yes, I was a high-priced geek who shrunk guidebooks, but I missed my freedom, I missed writing about food, and I missed people like you reading about it. Yes, dammit, YOU were missed.
So after 14 well-paid months, I chucked it all in and went back to food writing. In the middle of the global financial crisis. And I couldn’t be happier.
Yesterday was my first day of freedom, and it was a whole couple of hours before I got a whiff of a Spanish and Portuguese wine tasting by the Spanish Acquisition, Australia’s top distributor of Iberian drops. The tip-off was thanks for Ryan Andrijich, the former food expert on the Australian version of ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’, who’s now doing catering and cooking classes in Melbourne. Thanks Ryan, I owe you one.
So on my first afternoon back, I was at North Fitzroy bowls, sampling from a massive variety of sherry, whites, roses, Cavas and reds. Sausages and lamb cutlets were sizzling on the barbie as small village of sommeliers, bottle shop (liquor store) operators and chefs sampled from the extensive line-up. The Spanish Acquisition crew started us off with a chilled glass of Delgado Zuleto ‘La Goya” Manzanilla sherry, which got the palate going before we net dipped into the classic Spanish sparkling: Cava. Amid a sampling of white and rose sparklings, I was particularly drawn to the 2005 Agusti Torello Mata Brut Reserve, a fruity, yeasty and lively bubbly.
Then it was onto the whites, which were in their element on this hot summer’s day. One of my favourite whites in Albarino, and there was a good selection at hand, but I found myself struggling to find a stunner among the 2006 and 2007 vintages. Instead, I was drawn to a grape I had never heard of, godello. The only way to describe it is as a Spanish alternative to sauvignon blanc, but far more interesting. The 2007 Telmo Rodriguez ‘Gabo do Xil’ , a hand-picked godello from Spain’s Valdeorras region, was fruity, citrusy and had hints of honeydew, and is a great example of an easy-to-quoff wine that still has personality. It’ll ruin that next glass of same-o Marlborough sav blanc forever. On the more seriuos wine front, it was hard to go past the 2006 Remelluri Blanco, a white blend from monastrell, tempranillo and syrah that had subtle oak on the nose with lemon/lime notes, lots of minerality and a tinge of pepperiness on the back palate – and from reading the tasting notes, lots of other things I couldn’t pick up, like pickles. Save this one for your wankiest wine friends; they’ll love it.
I took a time out after downing all of those Cavas and whites in the heat, gorging on the juicy lamb to soak up the alcohol. And since I was having so much fun, time flew (as it does), so I found myself doing a speed tasting session before the Spanish Acquisition folks shut down the free-for-all. What I found were two killer tempranillos among the mix, stating with a 2006 Artadi ‘Vinas de Gain’ that to borrow the words of Mitchell Mcloud (because he said it better) – the owner of Northcote’s new Harvest Wine & Liquor boutique bottlo – was a brilliant mix of morello cherris and cola beans, confected but not sweet. Whatever, it was drinking beautifully. And while Mitchell found the 2002 Traslanzas as good but a bit light-on, I found it to be a beautiful red, with the kind of subtlety I’d be happy to find in more tempranillos. Top stuff.
But just as we thought the fun was over, there was one more highlight in store for us – an impromptu performance from the comedic duo Elbowskin, Enrie and Dave, the stars of “Are We Stupid” in the upcoming Melbourne Comedy Festival. The two sang a quirky, acoutic-guitar pisstake on the humble vine, which started off with “We were gonna write a song for the sommeliers, but it was all wine, wine, wine” and then headed straight to the gutter from there. All I can remember is the use of wine varietals to describe a man who meets a woman, only to discover she’s infected with phylloxera. It was a good laugh, so the Elbowskin boys promised that they’ll send over a link to a video they produced of the song, which I’ll happily share as soon as I get it. “This is only the second time we’ve had a chance to sing it,” said Ernie – guess it’s not every day you get knowing chuckles from wineheads. For now, check out their request to move their MySpace users to Facebook. It’s not G-rated, so if the kids are around, maybe use the headset.
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While trying to think of what to write, regarding Drupal taxonomy, it was my kids’ story
last night that inspired this posting about this video covering how the taxonomy module works and what it means to your Drupal site.
Taxonomy, taxidermy, category, road kill
let’s play a matching game,
and then increase our Drupal skill.
Spend some time with synonyms,
take a break, eat M-n-M’s,
return to Content Taxonomy,
help Drupal fix the economy.
We want a killer Drupal site,
without the pain and UI blight
of something ugly, hard to use,
so let’s all learn Taxonomy and Views!
I’ve got this video
right here for you,
it covers Vocabularies
and then Terms too.
It’s great to learn what can be done,
now let’s all go and have some fun,
being addicted to Drupal stuff,
which really isn’t all that tough.
Wow! that’s not something I normally do when writing about some silly Drupal video tutorial designed to help you learn more about Drupal and how Drupal Taxonomy works. But, hey, it was fun!
Yes,it was fun! : )
Great!.
Thanks for the great video.
It would be great to have a video on Context Module. coz i think most people dont realise how effective the module is.
Anyway thanks a gain for the video.
***Note: Chrismas contribution coming your way soon.
Great video!
An intro to context is indeed a very good idea
Here are a few screen casts,if you are interested in the Context module.
Szeged 2008:
Szeged 2008:
Boston 2008:...
Boston 2008:...
Quick demo:
Example site:..
Enjoy.
Really enjoyed that video. Provided a great all round summary on taxonomy, which, like you said, can be confusing at first.
I can't quite yet grasp the importance of categorizing lists using Taxonomy versus the CCK Text field.
For instance, in your example you explain how we're limited to how drupal core's taxonomy is able to present categories.. "In in order to present all option terms, check boxes for multiple selection (radio buttons), etc you need to download the content taxonomy." Instead can I just use CCK Text Field and do the same thing?
I am attempting to create a job listing board for my school. So some listings I am categorizing are long but others are shorter.. It sounds like Content Taxonomy I will need for the major stuff but what about small things like (6, 7th 8th grade selection)? When I have a category that has only 3 terms, can I just as easily create a CCK field: text field and go under global settings and type in my 3 terms? So instead of using Taxonomy I'm using the CCK Text Field to categorize..
What are the advantages or disadvantages of using Content Taxonomy versus the plain CCK Fields to organize my categories?
Great video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge/experience.
Helped me out alot with a few things
- didnt know about synonyms
- Never used CCK but experiemented with adding a new content type and field its pretty good.
- Nice to know what some of the other modules that are related are doing...
Matt,
This is a great overview of taxonomy. I especially liked your venture into relevant contributed modules - given the huge number of modules, it's helpful to get some pointers on the important modules to start with.
Thanks,
Micah
You should write a child book on Drupal rimes!
But,..I've got a problem.
When you show turning on the radio buttons or check boxes with a new field using the Content Taxonomy it seemed to automatically collapse the selections from the Taxonomy Vocabulary Terms.. Do you know if there's a setting someplace that controls whether some modules appear collapsed or expanded when you're working on a node edit page?
Thanks again Matt. You're a really good teacher.
Jeffrey
I'm having the same issue. In fact my Taxonomy Vocabulary doesn't disappear at all when adding a Content Taxonomy Field. So I'm left with both the flat list (from the Taxonomy module) and the Content Taxonomy checkbox list I created. One was supposed replace the other.
I've looked everywhere and can't figure out why the Content Taxonomy field didn't replace my vocabulary listing.
I also don't have a collapsible 'Vocabulary' group on create content page.
Anyone got any ideas?
Thanks Matt, that was really helpfull and easy to understand. Everything's clear now!
What is that menu bar at the top of the page that appears around 3:18?
ya it was really fun in it. i got some useful modules there.
s60v5
Great video.! This is just what i was looking for, this blog is one of the best.
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Haha... it is really fun! Thanks for your idea!
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GOTO is a vendor independent international software development conference with more that 90 top speaker and 1300 attendees. The conference cover topics such as .Net, Java, Open Source, Agile, Architecture and Design, Web, Cloud, New Languages and Processes
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Tourism in Ohio reaches $40 billion in total sales, tops pre-recession level
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Office of Tourism earlier this month announced that Ohio's tourism economy grew 6.5 percent in 2011 and generated $40 billion in total sales, up from $38 billion in 2010, according to research conducted on behalf of the Ohio Office of Tourism.
Tourism last year generated $2.7 billion in taxes for Ohio - $1.6 billion in state taxes and $1.1 billion in local taxes. This growth in sales helped increase tourism employment to 443,000 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs with an associated income of $10.6 billion, an increase of 4,000 jobs over 2010.
"About 1 in every 11.5 jobs or 8.7 percent of Ohio's jobs in 2011 were sustained by Ohio's tourism industry," said Amir Eylon, State Tourism Director. "Tourism is a resilient industry with the ability to quickly add new jobs to meet increased demand, which has put it at the forefront of economic recovery."
"These results reinforce the strength of Ohio's tourism industry as an economic driver for our state," said Christiane Schmenk, Director of the Ohio Department of Development. "We are pleased that travelers continue to take advantage of our state's resources and experience Ohio."
More than 36 million visitors who traveled to Ohio in 2011 stayed overnight, an increase of 5 percent from 2010.
"This is a good indicator that Ohio tourism has returned to pre-recession levels and represents very good news for our industry since Ohio's average overnight visitor outspends day travelers by three to one," Eylon said.
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Clear your mind! Try not to think of anything! Uh oh, it’s too late – look what popped in there … it’s the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man from Ivan Reitman’s 1984 blockbuster Ghostbusters. It’s a fine image of one of the unlikeliest bad guys in movie history, and it’s on the front cover of issue #17 of the visual effects journal Cinefex. Gracing the back cover is a still from The Last Starfighter, Nick Castle’s sci-fi adventure from the same year. The picture shows the film’s Gun Star spaceship in all its computer-generated glory. Inside we find two articles spanning 72 pages.
- Ghostbusters (article by Adam Eisenberg)
- The Last Starfighter – Imagery Wrought in the Total Forge (article by Peter Sørensen)
When I first saw Ghostbusters in the cinema, back in 1984, I didn’t ‘get’ it. There’s a particular flavour of American SNL humour that doesn’t always survive the journey across the pond to the UK. Plus, the movie had been so hyped, with that infectious Ray Parker Jr song playing endlessly over the radio, that maybe anything was going to be a disappointment.
Or perhaps it was just me because, second time round, I loved Ghostbusters unreservedly, and I’ve loved it ever since. How deliciously spine-chilling, then, to read up afresh on the miracles wrought by visual effects maestro Richard Edlund and his team during the making of this classic supernatural comedy.
Ghostbusters was Edlund’s first assignment after leaving Industrial Light and Magic to take over EEG, formerly operated by Douglas Trumbull and Richard Yuricich. Edlund tells how, after he’d taken hold of the reins, initial negotiations to work on first Dune, then Ridley Scott’s Legend of Darkness (sic) fell through. ‘I was depressed for a week,’ he says. Then, proving the old adage about feast or famine, he ‘was approached to do both 2010 and Ghostbusters just days apart from each other.’
Eisenberg’s coverage of Ghostbusters is a full-featured affair, embracing everything from Edlund’s initial restructuring of EEG – ‘Basically we had to totally change the place’ – through preproduction, location and studio shoots all the way to post and optical. As usual, the article is based on first-hand accounts, but there’s an added breadth here as we get to hear not only from the key effects personnel, but also from a range of other folk including writer/star Dan Aykroyd and producer Michael Gross.
While Aykroyd tells us a little about the origins of the name Gozer, and why he chose to feature a villain made of marshmallow, Gross confesses that ‘the concept of the Stay-Puft man made everyone a little nervous going in.’ We don’t always hear from producers in Cinefex, and Gross’s voice is an especially interesting one here, giving us a wide-angle view on the production as a whole, while still zooming in on the little details.
Another good voice is that of John Bruno, the EEG art director who also storyboarded all the effects scenes. The storyboard artist is something of an unsung hero, so it’s nice to hear Bruno talk in detail about his process. Gross compliments him on the way he ‘created specific illustrations that took into account … what angles were best for the effects,’ and remarks that ‘when the set was finished … we realised that what [John] had boarded many months before was exactly what we were seeing through the camera.’
Ghostbusters might be a hip comedy, but you only have to read Eisenberg’s article to be reminded that it’s also a major effects picture. We get the goods on everything from stop-motion animation to cloud tank photography, animatronics and puppetry to matte paintings. Matthew Yuricich, assisted by Michelle Moen, produced over forty of the latter for the movie. According to Gross, ‘They’re so good I can find only about half of them myself.’
There’s a lot about special effects too: those on-set physical illusions like exploding walls and hydraulically-operated earthquakes. My particular favourite is the eggs that pop out of the box and start frying on Dana Barrett’s kitchen worktop, a live stage effect that involved pre-scoring the shells of real eggs and using compressed air to fire their contents out on to steel tiles preheated with hidden burners.
Every page turn of this article reveals a new effect and a new challenge for the film-makers, so it’s all the more extraordinary to remember that the entire Ghostbusters production was turned around in just a year … and that it still looks amazing. Here’s Richard Edlund’s summary of the experience: ‘Making a big picture like Ghostbusters is like fighting a war … it really is like battlefield conditions.’
Reading old issues of Cinefex in sequence as I am reveals a kind of background story arc to these major effects films – particularly when it comes to the characters involved. By tracking the careers of people like Edlund and Trumbull, we get an insight into how things are constantly changing in this ever-volatile industry.
With Edlund specifically (and I realise this could just be me reading between the lines), I get the impression he was much more content after the move to EEG/Los Angeles than he’d been in the latter years at San Francisco-based ILM. ‘I’m a naturalised Angelino,’ he says. ‘I knew I just wasn’t a Marin County person.’ Moreover, he seems very happy with his work on Ghostbusters, concluding that, even though the film ‘was like doing Poltergeist and Raiders together, in half the time … ultimately, I think, we pulled it off.’ Upbeat words from a man who, back in Cinefex #2, rated his work on The Empire Strikes Back at a rather disappointing 6.5 out of 10.
On the subject of story arcs, by far the most significant one in the 80s and 90s is, of course, the steady emergence of digital technology. If Ghostbusters is a hectic lightning storm spewing out the very best in optical and mechanical effects, The Last Starfighter shines with the pure, clean light of the laser-sharp cutting edge. At the same time, it’s worth noting that, like Tron before it, The Last Starfighter has a storyline in which video games play a key role, in part justifying the use of CG effects … and perhaps excusing any shortcomings those effects might have.
The Starfighter article is written by Peter Sørensen, the man responsible for several previous Cinefex pieces on computer generated imagery. Once again, he offers us what is now a fascinating snapshot of the state of the art circa 1984. Back then there were no desktop PCs, and an outfit that wanted to crunch the kinds of numbers needed to make photo-real images had only one option: buy themselves a Cray X-MP supercomputer.
The outfit in question was Digital Productions, a breakaway from Triple-I, operated by John Whitney Jr and Gary Demos. Sørensen is in his elements as he reels off the specifications of their monstrous number-cruncher, which was ‘absolutely jam-packed with 200,000 special microchips’ and needed a liquid freon cooling system to keep the temperature down on its monumental 100,000 watts of power.
In modern-day parlance, the Cray was to all intents and purposes a self-contained render farm, running software that took its instructions from a lesser VAX 11/780 workstation and churned the necessary thousands of individual movie frame images. The VAX, by all accounts, wasn’t as user-friendly as a modern system, especially when it came to creating the model spacecraft needed for The Last Starfighter.
‘Objects are first drawn on paper in a manner similar to that of engineering blueprints,’ Sørensen explains. ‘The drawing is then placed on an “encoding table” to be “digitized”.’ A lot of this article is devoted to the intricacies of these and other processes, many of which seem quaint and clunky today. All the same, it’s clear they form the basis of everything that’s happened in the discipline since. The only thing that’s really changed is the processing power available and the sophistication of the computer interfaces. Even by 1984, the basics of geometric manipulation, mapping and rendering were all well and truly in place.
When all the technological jargon gets too much, concept artist Ron Cobb is on hand to give it that human touch. Talking about his inspirations for the various vehicle designs, Cobb tells how he combined what he describes as ‘Spitfires in space … a kind of Star Wars thing that’s becoming a bit of a cliche’ with ‘some of the crazy faddishness from the attack of the killer helicopters – Blue Thunder.’ I was interested to read how Cobb drew inspiration from real-world developments reported in Aviation Week and NASA reports, and amazed to learn that he was ‘able to envision designs so clearly in his head that he skips the sketching stage … and confidently makes blueprint-like drawings right off the bat.’
It’s fun to read about the various glitches all these new techniques, including the moment when the operators forgot to use the appropriate computer commands, resulting in a randomly-coloured Gun Star that ‘came out looking like a black-light “flower power” spaceship.’
You can also sense the excitement – and frustration – that came from working with systems that promised so much, but were not yet perfected. Director Nick Castle cites the big advantage of working digitally as the ability ‘to do everything in one pass … that saves you the loss of several generations, which is great in terms of look.’ But some of the new tricks he wanted to try, like scanning the face of actor Lance Guest on to his computer-generated counterpart, remained tantalisingly out of reach. ‘There were time problems,’ Castle laments.
This frustration is evident in Sørensen’s somewhat evangelical text as he lapses something that occurs only rarely in Cinefex: editorial comment. ‘Perhaps the major problem with The Last Starfighter,’ he states, ‘is the fact that the imagery still suffers at times from the overly clean, surrealistic-reality problem.’ But he ends on a positive note, asserting that, ‘Those problems could have been overcome if there had been a little more time to dote on details.’
More interesting to me were Ron Cobb’s closing remarks about the impact of computers on, well, everything … and in particular the uncertainy that still surrounded the new technology. ‘I think there’s a real need for the culture to grab ahold of this technology,’ he says. ‘To most people, computer graphics is a detached, alien technology … It’s a shame if that persists.’
It’s worth noting, however, that Cobb was clearly in awe of the Cray, saying that it ‘reminded him of the monolith in 2001.’ His remarks remind us that these were the frontier days when computers, in the minds of most people, were still magical things. What better place then than Hollywood, that fabled western land of the American Dream, to make the magic real?
There are oodles of behind-the-scenes photos in the Ghostbusters article, including some hilarious shots of Mark Wilson and a team of puppeteers performing Onionhead (AKA Slimer) on the EEG stage. My favourite image, however, shows Bill Bryan’s head and shoulders poking out of the top of the Stay-Puft suit, while the marshmallow man’s detached foam rubber face sits grinning in the foreground.
When it comes to The Last Starfighter, there are plenty of frame blow-ups demonstrating the slick quality of the Digital Productions CGI images. To the modern eye, they have that pristine computer-game look that betrays their origins, but there’s no doubt that, for the time, they were damned impressive. In a photograph that shows the reality of working with 1980s computer technology, Kevin Rafferty is shown poring over his encoding table with a pair of hand-held cursor devices, painstakingly converting detailed blueprints into digital assets.
Thanks again for another fine entry.
Cinefex 17 has always been a personal favorite, largely because of my enduring fondness for “Ghostbusters,” which, as a film and a cultural touchstone, has certainly stood the test of time, but also for our coverage of the deservedly less memorable, though perhaps more historically significant “The Last Starfighter,” which was an important milestone in the evolution of computer generated imagery.
The inclusion of producer Michael Gross in the “Ghostbusters” article may have been unusual for Cinefex, but since he was responsible for production oversight on the film’s visual effects, it made perfect sense to include his well-informed voice. And we had a personal connection. Michael and I grew up in the same town and have been close friends since high school, when he and I and other like-minded pals made amateur movies together. Michael was always an extraordinary artist and designer, and prior to his film career, was, among other things, art director of National Lampoon during its heyday. (His “If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Kill This Dog” cover is invariably ranked among the best magazine covers ever.)
By way of my relationship with Michael, I played a small part in “Ghostbusters’” early development. Director Ivan Reitman was a master of film comedy, but he had never done a visual effects film – and this was going to be a big one – so Michael called me in for some consultation early on. My major (perhaps only) contribution was putting the filmmakers in touch with Richard Edlund. I knew that Richard was planning to leave ILM to set up his own effects studio, but, to the best of my recollection, it was not common knowledge at the time. I arranged a meeting with Ivan and Michael and Richard that led to their collaboration on “Ghostbusters” – which happily worked out very well for all concerned.
Thanks for dropping by, Don, and for adding your own memories to this blog. I’m sure I’m not the only person fascinated to learn of your matchmaking role in the early days of Ghostbusters! I agree that both Ghostbusters and The Last Starfighter were touchstone movies, in very different ways, which does indeed make this a particularly memorable issue.
“My favourite image, however, shows Bill Bryan’s head and shoulders poking out of the top of the Stay-Puft suit, while the marshmallow man’s detached foam rubber face sits grinning in the foreground.”
Funny, that, and the front cover are my favorites, too.
Hey Bill. I never thought the Stay-Puft marshmallow man would be posting a comment on my blog. Thanks for reading. I hope those pesky proton packs didn’t leave too many scars! Cheers, Graham
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Wait. I promised fun pictures didn’t I?
Ok….
There ya go….
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Let it out, lady!
I can easily do stabbity. Just give me the word….
Heart you, honey!
I heart you right back! And thanks, but no….*sigh*…..stabbity.
So I heard this crazy rumor about your trip. Word is that you got crazy drunk and took your clothes off and ran into the ocean and you had F*ck It written across your ass in black marker.
Your one crazy lady:-)
YOU. PROMISED. YOU. WOULD. NEVER. TELL.
I say let you B*tch flag fly…..and may those who may or may not be offended consider it a wake up call about their behavior
Oh Sweetpea, if only it didn’t leave your Dad stuck in the middle….
Oh Lori, I’m sorry it wasn’t all that. If it would help to spill it all, I’m happy to be one of your “shoulders”. You’ve listened to me vent/rant about my Hubby’s family enough times! Glad you’re back though, and the photo on the beach is awesome. I LOVE the ocean and it looked like one of the happy moments of which you spoke.
Welcome back!
It was! And thanks for the shoulder loan, I may need it…
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Mounts And Related Gear
The material below is Open Game Content from a 3PP Source
Mounts and Related Gear
These are the common mounts available in most cities. Some markets might have additional creatures available, such as camels or even griffons, depending on the terrain. Such additional choices are up to GM discretion.
- Barding (Varies)
- Bits And Bridle (2 gp; 1 lb.)
- Donkey (8 gp)
- Feed (5 cp; 10 lbs.)
- Guard Dog (25 gp; --)
- Horse (Heavy 200 gp/300 gp; Light 75 gp/110 gp; Pony 30 gp/45 gp)
- Riding Bat (300 gp/450 gp)
- Riding Dog (150 gp)
- Riding Gecko (300 gp/400 gp)
- Saddle, Military (20 gp/ 60 gp Exotic)
- Saddle, Pack (5 gp/15 gp Exotic)
- Saddle, Riding (10 gp/30 gp Exotic)
- Saddlebags (4 gp)
- Stabling (5 sp)
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Brewery:Big Sky Brewing Co.
Motto:We Make Water Fun.." This includes good friends, fresh air, and doing something you care about. Someone once told us that the icing on the cake of the "good life" is sharing the things that make you happy. We don't know a lot about cake but we know beer, so let's sit down, relax, and have a beer. Welcome to Big Sky Country.
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Some Minnesota legislators are introducing a "complete streets" bill that would design and build roads "right the first time" for multiple users, instead of exclusively for moving vehicles.
Winter helps illustrate the idea that pedestrian- and bike-friendly streets also work for cars, especially when heavy snow and ice build up around the city.
It's obvious that streets without icy intersections are safer for stopping vehicles as well as for pedestrians making their way across them. Likewise, streets cleared curb to curb create safer passing zones and bike lanes, leave better, more consistent parking zones.
It works the other way, too. If the emphasis is on clearing just enough for vehicles, cyclists must ride in the main lane or follow an unpredictable path.
On my ride downtown today, I stuck mainly to major streets and the riding was decent.
The worst spots were created by street parking that had impeded plows and by taxpayers who cleaned their own driveways by moving the snow into the streets after the plows had gone through.
In other words, wherever car owners treated the street as their exclusive domain.
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Sunday, January 23, 2011
Day 23: Youth In Revolt (2009)
R, 1 hr. 30 min. Directed by: Miguel Arteta. Release Date: January 8, 2010. DVD Release Date: June 15, 2010.
It's probably a good thing that Michael Cera found this niche acting job market, because otherwise he'd be totally screwed. My concern is what's going to happen when he's obviously NOT 16 (as opposed to being only somewhat not obviously 16). The good news is that he's pretty funny in Youth In Revolt. I don't always like Cera, in fact I think other than Scott Pilgrim v. The World, and Juno, I haven't liked him in anything. I also liked Zach Galifianakis in this movie and I don't like him in ANYTHING.
Youth In Revolt is your basic coming-of-age film with a few twists that aren't totally unique. It's all about that first flush of romance and the pull of first love. As a species, humans are never dumber than when we're in that moment of our lives, and Youth is a testament to that stupidity. What is unique is that this movie wasn't set as far back in the past as I had thought (based on the clothes of the cast members). My clue was the purchase of a dog with a "Subway card with four stickers on it." It's also unique that this coming-of-age movie is funny. Ridiculously so. There are one-liners and situations that are so hysterical that if they aren't being freely quoted on the internet, they should be. Justin Long bumps this up just a bit and I regret that his part wasn't a bit bigger. But the man does do a good cameo.
The multi-personality creation between Nick and Francois is brilliant. I especially like that regardless of which is talking or moving around, there's no change in perspective on the part of the rest of the cast. Although what self-respecting modern teenager would create an alter ego that wore white sansabelt pants and a blue button down linen shirt? Don't get me started on the mustache.
If this movie has a fault, it's that none of the cast of characters feel real in something other than fits and starts. It's not that this keeps the movie from being funny, but it takes the story from being funny because these things could happen to funny because of how ludicrous these people are.
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I've worked here for over a year and to date have had no annual review; there are numerous problems with this agency which have caused me to give my resignation. All of the "directors" should be let go and an entire new leadership brought in. The current leadership is more focused on media/public image than they are on the fundamentals of care for the clients or the rest of their employees. This is the worst place I have ever worked and the only way for it to get better is to totally revamp it with the focus on the clients, better treatment of the employees and a more balanced pay system. The Executive Director's salary is literally 10 times that of mine, and last year rather than taking a pay cut himself he laid people off.
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The Best Thing about a Postal Strike
Is that all your packages arrive at once! Here at last is my Fall Felted Bag from my partner Penny
Here's the HUGE bag she made for me and it's full of goodies! Question is, will my laptop fit inside?
You bet it will and Penny has sewn in an extra pocket on the inside which is exactly the right size for the mouse! Well done Penny, it's a really great, useful bag, thanks a million. But wait, Penny sent more...
The dark yarn you can't quite see is Hacho 100% Merino which is SO soft, Regia Bamboo and a thick single from DuraSport with some Canadian Kool-Aid for dyeing with. How fabulous is this? But wait there's more...
Clods (apparently addictive so I haven't opened them yet!) Cadbury's Dark Chocolate and some handcream(Penny, how did you know I had just finished my last tube?) And a really pretty beaded bag - isn't this lovely? Inside is a necklace and a pair of earrings which are beautiful but can I take a decent picture of them? No of course not. I'll keep trying though as you deserve to see them - they're great.
So thanks to my new friend in Canada who sent me a wonderful package that was definitely worth the wait. I love it all and don't worry I won't be giving any of it away Penny!!
Oh yeah, the worst thing about a Postal Strike? Is people who buy something from you on eBay (or via your website) in the middle of a Postal Strike and then complain that their parcel hasn't arrived..... Messages vary from ' bk not arrvd...problem? thnx' (I kid you not, people really do use text language to complain.) to the longwinded letter of meticulous complaint spanning several paragraphs. It's been impossible not to write sarcastic replies beginning with 'Yes, there's a problem - it's called a Postal Strike, it's beyond my control.' or ' You may not be aware but we have been having a series of Postal Strikes.....' I'm at the end of my tether with them and I don't think I can bear to write anymore replies.
Off to try and finish my Tilted Duster....
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I am glad your package finally arrived. I didn't know there was a postal strike until you wrote it on your blog. Glad the lap top fit in the bag. Guess the heavy piece I put in the bottom of the bag will work out if you are going to use the bag for your laptop. My exchange bag should be arriving anytime now and I am ansy with anticipation.
Wow - great swap! Love the bag - how nice that your laptop fits. Hope the postal strike ends soon!
My package arrived today, and it's GORGEOUS! Thank you, details are being posted on my blog now...
And there is another connection here....
Those people need to just shut the fuck up! Who complains about an item not arriving when there's a bloody postal strike?! Idjits.
Pardon my language.
Love your new bag!! :)
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Pairings, Game Times Set For 2012 ACC Baseball Championship - Georgia Tech Official Athletic Site
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Our play. It was amazing because each drawing I made changed into a three-dimensional object. Hot glass is beautiful and has an amazing red glow…and the way the colors are added is wonderful. The object is created very quickly and cools for days. I was thinking of making containers and vases for flowers or some brew. I wish I thought about the practical aspects more…like how do you hold a flying cup? Or do you spill or even get hurt when your pitcher has pointy ears?
Now I know I will not compete with professional glassmakers! And I appreciate how much work it takes to make something complex and beautiful. And I had fun. Also, the Corning Museum—and the history of glass—is amazing. You should visit! Happy summer.”
Peter Sís is the award-winning author and illustrator of many books for children, among them Fire Truck, Ballerina, and The Train of States. He also illustrated The Dream Stealer, by Sid Fleischman.
I love pitchers. I need that pitcher. Bravo!
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Felix gives a thumbs up after playing catch
Felix Hernandez played catch and did his normal stretching with the team before tonight’s game in Anaheim and gave a big thumbs up and “bueno” to manager Eric Wedge as he left the field, which should be a good sign for his ability to return to the rotation by this weekend.
Hernandez, who tweaked his back in his last start Friday in Chicago, will throw again Thursday when the team returns to Seattle and a decision will made Friday on his next start. Wedge said the best-case scenario would be a Sunday start against the Dodgers.
But if there is any uncertainty, he’ll be held until at least Tuesday against the Padres.
Hernandez felt some soreness in his lower back in the third inning against the White Sox and then was replaced after giving up a pair of home runs in the fifth inning. He was scheduled to start Wednesday night against the Angels, but Hector Noesi is starting that game on three days’ rest instead.
With Thursday’s off day, the Mariners can continue skipping Hernandez for the time being without causing any problems with their rotation. Kevin Millwood will start Friday on his normal fifth day, having last thrown Sunday in Chicago.
Jason Vargas, who won his seventh game of the season Monday in Anaheim, will also stay in his normal five-day routine by starting Saturday.
Sunday’s starting is being listed as TBA for now. If Hernandez is fully recovered, he’ll start the 1:10 p.m. series finale. If not, Blake Beavan would slide into that spot on his fifth day, having last pitched Tuesday against the Angels.
Here’s tonight’s lineup in the series finale against the Angels, who are going with right-hander Jerome Williams:
Ichiro Suzuki RF
Dustin Ackley 2B
Kyle Seager 3B
Jesus Montero DH
Justin Smoak 1B
Michael Saunders CF
Miguel Olivo C
Mike Carp LF
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craving HDL
Mood: excited
Posted on 2009-06-18 09:31:00
Tags: health work
Words: 91
I had a physical yesterday, and like last time my HDL is still low. (it's 28...somethings and normal is 40...somethings).
benchmark analyzer!
Mood: proud
Posted on 2009-02-24 10:20:00
Tags: projects work
Words: 164
So I wrote this benchmark analyzer to analyze benchmarks that have many parameters and try to figure out what the important ones are. To that end, it creates a decision tree in R, and also generates lots of boxplots to visualize the different parameters. Here's a sample report (with boring data). It also (somewhat cleverly) saves the original .csv file with the web page it generates, so you can save the page and send it to a colleague who can play with the options and rerun the analysis.
It occurred to me as I was prettying this up that most benchmarks don't involve lots of parameters, and so the probability that anyone else is going to find this useful is pretty low. I'm OK with that because
- it's useful to me right this very moment for work stuff
- I had fun writing it and learned some more about R
- pretty graphs!
- it was good to work on something other than whereslunch.org for a while!
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Mood: okay
Posted on 2008-07-23 10:14:00
Tags: asmc work worldofwarcraft
Words: 195
Rehearsals are going pretty well, albeit a bit tiring. We're about to get into "oh crap the shows is really really soon and we all suck" mode (it's an annual occurrence), but once we buckle down I think all will be well.
After rehearsal last night, I arrived home to find a few "dude, did you steal all the stuff in the guild bank?" IMs. Not a good sign. Tried to log in to WoW and couldn't, so I reset the password online and discovered that I had, indeed, done so. The weird thing is that the thief took basically all 5000 of my gold, but didn't sell any of my soulbound gear, and cleared out most of my bank but not all of it. And didn't find the 8 Primal Mights and 450 gold on my auction house mule.
Anyway, I filed a petition to get my crap back, which I think they usually do, and presumably they'll restore the guild bank as well. Yet another way WoW is better than the real world :-)
This week I've been superproductive at work...let's see if that continues today.
This article about purity balls is kinda creepy.!)
not as deep as it sounds
Mood: content
Posted on 2008-04-01 14:42:00
Tags: work
Words: 70
From one perspective, being notified of a problem as you get to work and later fixing that problem means you haven't made any progress - from your point of view things worked as well as they did before you came to work.
From another perspective, there was a horrendous bug that you didn't know about and now that it's gone peace can reign over the codebase. I find it very satisfying!?
*twitch*
Mood: nervous
Posted on 2008-02-06 13:49:00
Tags: health work
Words: 97
My right eye has been doing this weird twitching for the past 5 days or so. It doesn't happen all the time, and it doesn't hurt, but sometimes it'll just start twitching like the eyelid is stuck open or caught on something. And the eye does feel a little dry. Anyone have any clue whether this is serious or not? It's a little irritating, but I can live with it if it's not the sign of some larger problem (eye falling out, for example - that would be bad).
Work meeting #1 today, big work meeting #2 tomorrow....)
big day
Mood: nervous
Posted on 2008-01-09 09:18:00
Tags: rant work mortgage house
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Big work meeting today after lunch.
We met with our mortgage guy yesterday and everything seems to be in order, so bully for that. After work we're gonna view the house again and then, in all likelihood, make an offer, which is exciting! This just in: the house was not used previously to manufacture methamphetamines (yes, this question is on the seller's disclosure).
Also, $32 per month is a ridiculous sum of money to pay to a homeowner's association, for use of a pool that we'll probably never use.
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Poll #1109699 Elevator floor distribution - which is faster?
Starting at floor 1 and going to floor 8, which set of stops will lead to a faster ride?
Stopping at floors 2 and 3
7 (58.3%)
Stopping at floors 3 and 6
2 (16.7%)
They'll be almost exactly the same
3 (25.0%)!
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Mood: content
Music: 50 Cent vs. Michael Jackson - "In Da Starlight"
Posted on 2005-08-08 11:36:00
Tags: asmc charlottesweb work
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Wow...so, crazy weekend.
Friday night was gala night, which was very well attended. The show went pretty well, then I went out and hung out with my family - it was nice to see them again, although I'm going to see them next week on vacation as well :-) Then I was cashier for silent auction people, and then my family and djedi and I headed over to Kerbey Lane Cafe which was good (although the service was quite slow). After that, bed, then we met my family for brunch the next morning at Whole Foods and went back to the theater for two more shows. By this point I was really getting tired - my part is pretty high-energy (stumbling all over stage and whatnot), so it takes a lot out of me. Anyway, after that we went to church and came home and had wildrice13 over for dinner.
Unfortunately, I had some work stuff I was pretty worried about so I went in to work to try to fix stuff while djedi and wildrice13 played some FFX-2. I ended up spending longer than I meant to at work (3.5 hours) but I eventually got in a groove (involving listening to my current music over and over again) and fixed both of my major issues, which I was quite pumped about! Came home, and FFX-2 was passed (including the special 100% cutscene) not too long afterwards. Congrats!
Sunday I slept in a little bit, which was really nice, then back to theater for two more shows, striking the set, and the cast party. We didn't stay too long because we were tired, then we headed up to destroyerj's for a monitor-viewing and games, including a rousing game of Simpsons Clue (Smithers did it!), Snipe Hunt, and a few rounds of Bop It!
So, today is my day between shows, and Charlotte's Web rehearsal starts tomorrow. I need to work more on memorizing my lines. Busy week between gamenight, two rehearsals, and djedi's birthday (happy birthday!). I think I'm done with djedi's code for now - it seems to work and the major source of confusion we had was cleared up...
So I wear a nightguard now when I sleep so I won't grind my teeth (which I apparently do like nobody's business...). The last time I had a nightguard it was for orthodontics work I had, and it hurt every morning when I woke up (presumably because my teeth were trying to shift back or whatever), so I was pleasantly surprised to find that this one doesn't hurt much at all, and it only makes it a little harder to get to sleep (which hasn't been much of an issue so far given how exhausted I've been!). Yay!.
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GORHAM, ME (Jan. 28) — With 12 seconds remaining in the game and the Western Connecticut State University men's basketball team holding a one-point lead over the University of Southern Maine, senior Gary Robinson (Torrington, CT) missed the front end of a one-and-one that was rebounded by Southern Maine. Nine seconds later when USM's Chris Pagentine was fouled, he sank both foul shots, giving the Huskies a thrilling 85-84 win over the Colonials.
Senior guard Chris Pagentine (Lexington, N.C./North Davidson) calmly sank two free throws with 2.8 second remaining in regulation to lift the University of Southern Maine Huskies to an 85-84 win over the Western Connecticut State University Colonials Saturday afternoon at Hill Gymnasium in Gorham, Maine.
With the win Southern Maine rebounds from a two-game skid to improve to 8-10 overall and 2-7 in the Little East Conference. The loss is the first in three games for the Colonials who dip to 15-4 overall and 6-3 in the LEC. The Huskies’ win over the Colonials avenges an 88-58 loss earlier this season.
Pagentine was able to sink the game-winning free throws for the Huskies following an outstanding defensive effort from senior forward Jeremy Jackson (Laplace, La./Independence). After blocking a shot on the Colonials previous possession, Jackson was able to coral a huge defensive rebound off of a missed free throw that would have given the Colonials a two-point lead with seconds remaining. However, Jackson’s career-high 15th rebound of the game gave the Huskies another possession trailing 84-83 with 12 seconds to play. Fouled on the perimeter while attempting to drive to the basket, Pagentine sank both ends of a 1-and-1 for the win. The Colonials were unable to get a shot off in the final seconds of the game.
Jackson finished the game with a monster double-double on 25 points and 15 rebounds. He added three assists, one block and one steal. Pagentine, who was 7-for-12 from the field, had 18 points and two assists. Sophomore guard Brandon Tomah (Princeton, Maine/Calais) and junior guard Alex Kee (Bath, Maine/Morse) chipped in with 15 and 12 points each. Kee had four assists, while Tomah had three assists and three steals.
Senior guard DaQuan Brooks (Atlanta, Ga./Bristol Central (Conn.)) led the Colonials with 24 points and nine assists. Senior forward Gary Robinson (Torrington, Conn./Hotchkiss) added 14 points and six rebounds, while junior Michael Jensen (Gales Ferry, Conn./Ledyard) and sophomore center James Barnes (Middletown, Conn./Xavier) had 12 and 11 points each. Barnes led the Colonials in rebounding with seven boards.
The Huskies trailed Western Connecticut by as many as 11 points in the second half. Following a three-pointer from junior guard Ryan Pelletier (Wolcott, Conn.), the Colonials held a 72-61 advantage over the Huskies with 8:42 to play. The Huskies responded however scoring 13 straight points to lead 74-72 with 5:12 remaining. Four different players scored for the Huskies in the run, led by four points each from Jackson and sophomore forward John Roberts (Falmouth, Maine).
Brooks scored five straight points for the Colonials to regain a 77-74 lead with 4:02 to play and both teams battled over the next one minute and 19 seconds before Tomah canned a game-tying three with 2:43 on the clock for an 81-81 deadlock. The Colonials Jensen responded to Tomah’s three with one of his own for a 84-81 Western Connecticut lead before Pagentine hit a jumper to pull USM to within one 84-83 with 1:19 on the clock. Jackson came up with the block on the next Colonial possession and then secured the big defensive rebound setting up Pagentine for the game-winning heroics.
Southern Maine on Tuesday (7:30 p.m.) when it hosts Colby College. Western Connecticut hosts Connecticut College on Tuesday (7:30 p.m.). Both games are non-conference.
Newspaper Box Score
SOUTHERN MAINE 85, WESTERN CONNECTICUT 84
WESTERN CONNECTICUT (15-4, 6-3 LEC)
DaQuan Brooks 10-22 1-1 24; Gary Robinson 6-10 0-1 14; Michael Jensen 4-8
0-0 12; James Barnes 5-8 1-2 11; Ryan Pelletier 3-5 0-0 8; Luis Bridtter 4-5
0-0 8; Jengodji Gates 1-2 0-0 3; Michael Kennedy 1-3 0-0 2; Mark Redding 1-5
0-0 2; Robert Bentil 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 35-68 2-4 84.
SOUTHERN MAINE (8-10, 2-7 LEC)
Jeremy Jackson 10-12 5-8 25; Chris Pagentine 7-12 2-2 18; Brandon Tomah 6-14
0-0 15; Alex Kee 5-12 0-0 12; John Roberts 3-7 0-0 6; Conor Sullivan 1-7 4-5
6; John Sewall 1-3 0-0 3; Ethan Cushman 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 33-68 11-15 85.
Western Connecticut........... 44 40 - 84
Southern Maine................ 46 39 - 85
3-point goals--Western Connecticut 12-28 (Michael Jensen 4-8; DaQuan Brooks
3-8; Gary Robinson 2-5; Ryan Pelletier 2-4; Jengodji Gates 1-2; Michael
Kennedy 0-1), Southern Maine 8-20 (Brandon Tomah 3-6; Chris Pagentine 2-5;
Alex Kee 2-6; John Sewall 1-2; Conor Sullivan 0-1). Fouled out--Western
Connecticut-None, Southern Maine-None. Rebounds--Western Connecticut 35
(James Barnes 7), Southern Maine 36 (Jeremy Jackson 15). Assists--Western
Connecticut 17 (DaQuan Brooks 9), Southern Maine 12 (Alex Kee 4). Total
fouls--Western Connecticut 10, Southern Maine 12. Technical fouls--Western
Connecticut-None, Southern Maine-None. A-323
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This colorful salad combines several of my favorite seafood appetizers into one beautifully presented salad reminiscent of a quattro pizza.
Ingredients
- FOR CEVICHE:
- 2 Marlin steaks, 4 - 6oz each, cut into bite-sized pieces
- Freshly squeezed lime juice
- 1/4 pound Cherry or grape tomatoes, halved
- 1 Small cucumber, finely diced
- 1 Green hot pepper (like jalepeno) finely diced (optional)
- Dash of salt to taste
- FOR OCTOPUS SALPICON:
- 1 Pound Baby octopus
- 1 Tablespoon Seasoned salt
- 1 Tablespoon Black peppercorns
- 2 Bay leaves
- 1/4 Cup Olive oil
- 1 Tablespoon Paprika
- 2 Tablespoons Balsamic vinegar
- Dash of salt to taste
- FOR LOBSTER OR CRAWFISH SALAD:
- 1 Pound lobster meat or crawfish tail
- 2 Tablespoons Seafood seasoning
- 1/2 Cup Cider vinegar
- 1/2 Cup Mayonnaise
- 1 Tablespoon Wasabi paste
- 1 teaspoon Paprika
- Dash of salt to taste
- FOR SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
- 1 Pound Large shrimp, peeled and deveined, tail on
- 2 Tablespoons Seafood seasoning
- 1/2 Cup Cider vinegar
- 1/4 Cup ketchup
- hot sauce to taste
- FOR SALAD BASE:
- 2 Pounds Arugula or baby spinach
- salt to taste
- Garnish: Chopped cilantro
Serves / Yields
4
Preparation Instructions.
Helpful Hints
The separate toppings can be made in advance and kept refrigerated until the salad is ready to be assembled.
Try substituting Smoked Paprika instead of regular Sweet Paprika.
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Dear Umbra,
At a gym I go to, lots of guys pick up bars of soap, use them for two minutes, and then leave them (even though there is a liquid soap dispenser in the showers). Is there any good use for several pounds of partially used soap per day?
Dennis
Seattle, Wash.
Dearest Dennis,
I have some harebrained schemes for you, but there are some natural limitations on the success of used-soap projects. First, there is the cost/benefit limitation: As I’m sure you know, the environment would be better served if you spent your valuable time convincing the gym owners to install low-flow showerheads or compact fluorescent light bulbs or other tried-and-true conservation measures. Second, there is the Ick limitation: I’m afraid that soap pre-owned by strange sweaty men is not the most appetizing commodity.
If you still want to pursue this project, don’t despair: Any true soap can be re-milled — that is, heated to melting, then poured into new molds. While the soap is liquid, you can add scented oils, oatmeal, tiny rubber duckies, or whatever strikes your fancy. I think you know what I’m getting at: holiday gifts! Nothing says “I Love You” better than somewhat homemade soap.
If gifts don’t grab you, how about donations? Organizations with bathing facilities and tight budgets might appreciate a soap-redistribution system; I’m thinking of shelters, mostly, though you could ask at schools. But here again, the sweaty-man issue rears its unsavory head: Used bar soap can be a veritable bacteria-mobile, and might be rejected on that basis.
Alternatively, you could campaign for your gym to cease offering solid soap — an environmental initiative that could be cloaked as a cost-saving measure or even as an anti-germ campaign. But be careful not to let anyone propose antibacterial liquid soap as the solution; we don’t want your gym to contribute to the creation of antibiotic resistance and Super Bacteria.
Fitfully,
Umbra
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Awareness of global warming among Americans is shooting up faster than the mercury in a drought-ravaged cornfield.
According to two major surveys published this week, most people in the U.S. now know that climate change is the reason the weather is being so weird. Acceptance of climate science has almost climbed back to its 2008 levels, following a depressing propaganda-powered dip that hit a low point in 2010.
University of Michigan researchers asked about 1,000 people [PDF] this past fall whether there is solid evidence that the world has been warming during the past four decades, and 67 percent said “yes.” That’s down from the 72 percent that responded affirmatively in the fall of 2008, but up from just 52 percent in the spring of 2010. Of those who agree that the world is warming, just 19 percent attribute the change to natural patterns. The rest say humanity shoulders some or all of the blame.
Even 51 percent of Republicans agree that global warming is happening, according to the U of M poll, up from 33 percent in 2010.
Meanwhile, Global Warming’s Six Americas, an ongoing joint project of Yale University and George Mason University, reported a similar trend from its own survey of 1,000 people. The project puts Americans into one of six categories based on their climate-change views: alarmed, concerned, cautious, disengaged, doubtful, or dismissive. From that report’s findings:.
Enough words. Here’s a nice graph from the Six Americas report that shows where Americans stand on the issue, with bigger bubbles representing more people:
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One of the primary concerns about expanded oil drilling in the Arctic is that the Arctic is far away from everything. Until very, very recently, no one lived anywhere near the Arctic; even today, it’s pretty sparsely populated. As we’ve noted before, an oil spill a few hundred miles from New Orleans in 2010 took months to stop. How long will it take to cap a broken well in icy water thousands of miles from any resources?
To that end, governments interested in exploring resource extraction in the Arctic came together to develop a plan for just such a contingency. And as Greenpeace notes, the plan sucks. From the BBC:
In 2011 The Arctic Council members [Ed. - Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, U.S.] signed the Nuuk Declaration that committed them to develop an international agreement on how to respond to oil pollution in the northern seas. …
The plan says that “each party shall maintain a national system for responding promptly and effectively to oil pollution incidents” without requiring any clear details on the number of ships or personnel that would be needed to cope with a spillage.
Seriously. Greenpeace has a copy of the full draft document [PDF]. It can be summed up in three bullet points:
- Here are the countries making this agreement and here is what “oil” means.
- If anything happens, we agree to deal with it.
- Here is everyone’s emergency contact information.
Think I’m oversimplifying? Go look. This took them two years.
Sweden’s ambassador to the Council thinks the agreement is great, saying, “The agreement is a great step forward for the protection of the Arctic from an oil spill because it sets up a system for the states to co-operate in practice.” Because if this weren’t in place — what? If Shell fucked up and caused a spill, Russia and Canada would just tell the U.S. “tough shit”? No, if there were a spill that threatened the shoreline of any country, it would get involved with or without this document. And I suspect everyone already has the right phone numbers.
There will be a spill in the Arctic. That’s not me saying it. That’s Shell Alaska Vice President Pete Slaiby saying it. When that happens, it would be nice to know that there’s some sort of well-funded, well-staffed, resource-heavy international entity standing by to spring into action. That there’s something there in the empty Arctic that can be on-scene in short order to deal with the problem.
But, you know. Lip service is good too.
Hat-tip: Brian Merchant.
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You were born to work for God!
You know you have a destiny. You know that God has a calling on your life and you want to fulfill the incredible plans he has laid out for you. Seeing souls saved, needs met, and the gospel preached gets you pumped. You were born to work for God!
Or, maybe you are the type of person who cannot say with confidence that God has big things in store, but you have a heart for God that is huge. Something in you breaks when you think about people who do not know Christ. Your heart is torn when you picture the state of the world. But you’re not one of those people who merely point out the need, you want to be there when God answers the need! When God answers prayers and does miracles, you want to be there, not only to watch, but to participate.
If your prayer is that God’s kingdom would be built and his Son glorified, this book is for you. By the time you have turned the last page, and read the last words, you will be better equipped to participate in God’s plan.
However, it would be a shame to skip the first step in this whole process. We must get first things first, or nothing will come out right.
You are called to make Him known, to be effective and to produce lasting fruit, so your first priority must be to know God well. The next several articles are about getting to know God – His voice, His strategies. If you learn who He is, how to hear Him, and what He is most concerned about, you will be effective in making Him known.
Be sure and read the following articles. As these are more lengthy articles, take the time to process through each before moving on to the next.
What do you see?
God is waiting
Sit before serving
Chosen
Spitting Image
Hungry?
© 2002 by Sean Dunn
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Season extension enables a plant or crop to be grown and cultivated beyond the normal outdoor growing season and can take a variety of forms:
Raised Beds
Raised beds are constructed to hold soil and plants above the ground. The loosened soil, which can be piled a few inches to more than one foot above the surrounding ground, heats up more quickly in spring, enabling earlier planting of crops. Learn more.
Mulches
Mulches refer to material placed on top of the soil surrounding plants to help them retain heat. Mulches can include straw, compost and synthetic materials such as plastic sheeting with slits cut to allow for plants to grow through. Learn how to use mulches in your garden. Learn more.
Row Covers and Low Tunnels
Row covers refer to light fabric or cover, such as newspaper cones or plastic, placed over plants for frost protection and heat retention. Low tunnels are floating row covers constructed like high-tunnels, but are much smaller in size. Low tunnels cover plants to provide wind and frost protection and they are removed once outdoor temperatures reach the necessary levels for growing. Learn how to use floating row covers. Learn more.
Cold Frames
Cold frames and hot beds are enclosures built low to the ground with transparent roofs. They are used by gardeners to protect plants from cold weather. Typically hot beds, which have a heat source, are used for starting plants and cold frames, which do not have a heat source, are used to harden plants to outdoor conditions before transplanting. The same frame can often serve both purposes. Learn how to construct and use cold frames and hot beds. Learn more.
High Tunnels or Hoophouses
High tunnels or hoophouses are unheated greenhouses, typically made by constructing an arc-shaped frame and covering it with plastic sheeting. They sometimes include added features such as irrigation or rainwater harvesting systems. Learn how to construct a high tunnel. Learn more.
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Matt Damon's Uncle Swims In Uncharted WatersPosted September 27, 2007, 12:35 pm in Water Sports
Credit Growing Bolder
Nobody likes a good swim better than George Brunstad. But not many decide to set a world record for their 70th birthday.
Just three days after blowing out the candles, he slipped into the waters off Dover and didn't get out until he had crossed the English Channel off the French coast at Sangette. He was in the water for 15 hours and 59 minutes, making him officially the oldest person ever to swim the English Channel.
It was no fluke thing for Brunstad. He told Growing Bolder that he's won more than 100 medals in Masters Swimming events.
He also talked to us about what it's like being Matt Damon's uncle. He said although Matt leads a fascinating life, Uncle George is more than happy with his more quiet and sedate lifestyle.
But all that began to change back in 2004 when Brunstad's swim made him a celebrity in his own right. He said the Channel swim did present some challenges. How did he do it? The Connecticut resident trained in Long Island Sound and the chilly waters of Maine.
In the Channel, he slathered himself in lanolin and petroleum jelly. Then he swam with escort swimmers pulling alongside for a few minutes every six hours to steer him in the right direction. In total, taking into account the tides, he probably swam 32 miles.
But he didn't do it just for himself. He raised $11,000 for a Haitian orphanage. How did he feel the next day? "Stiff and sore." And just a little wrinkled!
Brunstad, who retired in 1994 as a pilot for American Airlines, beat the previous record holder, Australian Clifford Batts, who crossed the Channel in 1987 at the age of 67 and 240 days.
Want to know more? Click the play button below his photo on the right to listen to Growing Bolder's conversation with Brunstad.
© 2006-2013. Growing Bolder Media Group. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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Early Action
Early Action
Candidates who are seeking a decision earlier than our Regular Decision deadline have the option of applying for Early Action. Fall applicants who submit a complete application by the March 1 Early Action deadline will be notified of the admission decision by May 1. Spring applicants who submit a complete application by the October 1 Early Action deadline will be notified of the admission decision by November 15. Regular Decision applicants are notified of their admission decisions on a rolling basis approximately four to six weeks after their applications are complete.
Candidates who will need housing or financial aid consideration at the earliest possible date are encouraged to apply by the March 1 or October 1 Early Action deadlines. Full financial aid consideration is given to both Early Action and Regular Decision candidates.
If you are deferred under the Early Action plan, it means a final decision on your candidacy will be made with the regular applicant pool and you will be notified of your admission decision in June.
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Ila C. Gentry
Laura J. Wilburn
Atkinson, White wed June 16 in Virginia
Local son manages big truck stop
Griffins to celebrate golden anniversary
Singing says ‘goodbye’ to mother
Program supports single parents
’51: Farmers seek removal of locks, dams
Prison stabbing investigation continues
More Sharp County Fair pageant winners announced
Death from self-inflicted gunshot wound, church burglary, disturbance reported
Two boys sought in ride accident
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Cutie. Thanks Jo Anne E. Cacnio. I super like it!
Cutie. Thanks Jo Anne E. Cacnio. I super like it!
Is been 20 years and we still have that bond like no other. We’ve shared a lot of fun-filled memories when we were growing up. We used to sneak out to spend time together. Haha! Our parents were very strict, not for everyone though, but mine was.
Peace Mom! I know you were doing what was best for us. /hug. I spent most of my childhood years with them. We learned many things together and from each other; shared experiences; fell in love – for some (you know who you are). Haha! Now, I wonder, never in this circle of friends made it to forever. I guess, that’s just the way it is.
After many years, we’ve bonded again last night, felt like old times. Thanks Jo for the invitation and to your mom too who has always been the mom for all. Happy Fiesta!!! Looking forward of our next get together.
By the way, this is how we were few years back. Let’s not mention the year anymore. Lol.
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'Coz all you need in life are lemons and berries!
"Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity"
here i am,here i will be,forever...
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A Bar at Avenue Suites twinkled last night with "Bravo-lebrities" for leggy NYC Housewife Kelly Bensimon's book party for her new book, I Can Make You Hot: The Supermodel Diet. Tickets purchased through Gilt City granted ladies a signed copy of the diet lifestyle book and two specialty cocktails curated by A Bar's Brennan Adams. Ladies that opted for a third cocktail sprang for the "Midnight in Paris," a spicy champagne drink with a splash of Saint Germain.
DC Housewives Lynda Erkiletian and Mary Amons attended. When Lynda's glasses were off, she accidentally mixed Mary and Kelly up--the tall dark-blonde stars were both channeling boho maxi looks at the party.
Guests included: Mary Amons, Lynda Erkiletian, Catherine Calabrese, Elizabeth Kane, Barbara Martin, Ashley Mason-Greene, Marissa Schneider, Laurie Street and Angelica Talan.
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Saturday, May 18
We sat down with Anne Pasternak for a few questions about Creative Time's past and future, as well as the importance of having an awareness about public art in the city.
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Opinion | Columnists
Dangers of ‘dynastical democracy’
Perhaps people reach for known brands such as Trudeau or Le Pen when crises make them frightened by uncertainties
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- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
Kennedy. Roosevelt. Bush. Clinton. Gandhi. Bhutto. Gore. Aquino. Miliband. Le Pen. What do these familiar names have in common? They are all, in one way or another, names of political dynasties — families from whom more than one member has come to prominence in political life. Justin Trudeau, son of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau, became the most recent addition to the list as he announced his intention to run for Liberal party leader this week.
The Clintons and the Milibands skew the trend — marital and fraternal bonds rather than a multi-generational lineage. But Trudeau’s recent rise to prominence in Canada reminds us that dynasty — the “trusted brand” of the alpha family name — still plays a significant role in many democracies. What does this tell us about how modern democracies are operating? For surely “dynastical democracy” is in some sense a contradiction in terms?
Take France and the US: Countries founded, in part, on a conception of civic nationalism in which “all men are created equal”, not the hereditary power of monarchies. When Hillary Clinton announced her bid for presidency in 2007, it was noted that, at that point, “40 per cent of Americans have never lived without a Bush or Clinton in the White House” — although America’s hereditary low-point of the new century was surely in 2000, when Al Gore, son of Senator Albert Gore, ran against George Bush, son of, well, George Bush. Even Barack Obama’s election — a democratic endorsement of a figure who did not emerge from a dynastical elite — was met with inevitable references to Kennedy’s “Camelot” and the iconography of golden-age patrician politics, while a Vogue interview with Chelsea Clinton this summer gushed that she was “waiting in the wings” before a (natural? entitled?) turn to politics. When the last French presidential elections were in the party-primary stages in 2011, the Socialist party’s Martine Aubry, daughter of Jacques Delors, was a possible presidential candidate alongside Marine Le Pen, inheritor of her father’s xenophobic Front National.
Dynasties once governed Europe, of course, in the monarchies that cling on in constitutional arrangements or, in the case of coalition Britain, are utilised through their weddings and jubilees to reinforce the regressive notion that all’s well and everyone “in their right place”. Elites are self-perpetuating; the different spheres of power interplaying with one another, meaning the economic elite can more easily dabble in politics — think of the Mitford sisters trying ideologies on like dresses. Dynasties that emerge in republics are perhaps more compelling: From Bonaparte to Gandhi, a name can become so bound up with the nation’s birth that it comes to embody it in the eyes of many. There is also an obvious gendered dimension: Many modern female leaders have been daughters of presidents and prime ministers, as though the importance of bloodline negated the usual disadvantage of female-ness, little help as that is to most women. Dynasties in modern dictatorships are common enough — hard to think of an autocrat without thinking of his playboy son, PhD-plagiarising or Ferrari-crashing, who gets appointed something like minister of finance, no doubt on the basis of his qualifications. State corruption in the form of clientelism and kleptocracy manifests when the nation’s wealth becomes diverted to the ruling family and those whom nepotism grants access to this walled world.
But what’s striking if you look at the current political landscape is the prevalence of dynasties in self-proclaimed liberal democracies, where the descendants of statesmen are voted into power. In countries like the US, it may be facets of democracy itself that cultivate dynasties — the mushrooming cost of electoral campaigning leaves politics to those who have already accumulated wealth as well as connections. It can be bound with the historical dominance of a party and a family’s role within that party, such as the Congress party in India. Perhaps, as with the truism that extreme ideologies become more electorally palatable during economic crises, voters do indeed reach for “trusted brand names” when crises make them frightened by the world’s uncertainties.
The negative effects of “democratic dynasties” are obvious: A fossilisation of the elite decays democracy as well as social and economic mobility, fostering “rent-seeking” behaviour in deference to the powerful families. But political discourse can deteriorate as names become more important than issues. You don’t need to say the name “George Bush” to know that a dynastical tendency might mean you don’t get the most competent candidate, and — while having a political family heritage doesn’t mean you can’t be a competent politician — those who haven’t struggled to make a name for themselves are likely to be made of different stuff to the pioneer who carved out their own place in the world.
Perhaps it is worthwhile asking ourselves: As voters, why do so many of us keep going for the “trusted brand” of dynasties? And if we are living in an era of the “democratic dynasty”, how did we come to choose our own aristocrats?
Heather McRobie has studied and worked on human rights and women’s rights issues in Jordan, Germany and Bosnia.
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ZAGREB: Away fans will be banned from both World Cup qualifying matches between Croatia and Serbia, the two football federations announced on Thursday.The former enemies took the joint decision in a bid to avoid crowd trouble at the games in Zagreb and Belgrade. “It was decided that there will be no organized travel of visiting squads’ fans for the next two Group A qualifying matches between Croatia and Serbia,” the federations said in a joint statement.“The decision is based on the fact that both matches are high risk and it was concluded that this is the best preventive measure.” They added that the move was made in line with recommendations by FIFA, UEFA and the relevant local authorities.The first match is to be played on March 22 in Zagreb, and the second on September 6 in Belgrade.Relations between the two countries gradually improved since Croatia’s 1990s war against Belgrade-backed rebel Serbs who opposed its independence from the former Yugoslavia.However, sports events including teams from the two countries are still considered high risk.The qualifiers are the first football matches between the two nations since the 1991-1995 conflict.In 1999, Croatia played their 2000 European championship qualifiers against Yugoslavia — at the time composed of Montenegro and Serbia — without visiting fans.
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Current Business Trends: Modestly positive
The greater Grand Rapids industrial economy continues to experience positive growth,, advanced to +18, up from +13. The production index rose to +12, up from +7. The employment index remained positive but retreated to +19, down from +24.
“The December reports are always somewhat skewed because of the holiday season,” said Long. “Some auto parts suppliers took two weeks of downtime, but most only took a few days because of strong demand. Just as last month, our industrial distributors were strong. The office furniture firms are still holding on to recent gains, but the strong upward momentum has stopped.”
Long said the national unemployment rate should continue to edge lower, but will still end the year in the 8-8.5 percent range. He said unemployment in Michigan ww.
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Yesterday I experienced a blue screen occurrence, which I did not take seriously. I let it run its course and simply restarted. Following the blue screen I used my computer as I normally would. I ran a thorough virus scan last night to assure that my computer was clean and nothing came up. Today, while I was browsing the web, my computer shut all of my applications and restarted. After the restart I have been unable to get beyond the black screen with the blinking cursor.
I am using an HP Pavilion Elite e9220y PC. I am using Windows 7 64-bit. Besides the blue screen, I have had no forewarning of this occurrence. Recently I have downloaded the game series "Dawn of War" through steam. Today I updated "Minecraft." Beyond those two recent additions to my computer, I cannot recall installing anything.
Thus far I have used another computer running Windows 7 64-bit to create a system repair disk to access the system recovery tools. I have run the Startup Repair option multiple times and come up with nothing. However, it did recommend I unplug devices and try to restart windows. I did this to no avail. Currently I only have my mouse, keyboard and monitor plugged in. I have also tried a System Restore to earlier today where a Windows Update: Type "Critical Update" was said to have been installed.
I have been able to use the "Recovery Manager" to Backup files onto an external hard drive that I connected through a USB port, So I do not believe that anything is wrong with the hard drive itself. Please help me with this problem.
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08-01-2012 07:35 PM
Boot from the Repair CD again, select Repair Your Computer and choose the Command Prompt. Enter the following commands and tap enter after each one - note spaces as shown.
Bootrec.exe
bcdedit /export C:\BCD_Backup
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Since you have backed up your files you could go for the Recovery Manager option to reinstall back to Factory specs.
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Do you have a Recovery Disk set? If not phone hP to order one,usually around $20. Choose your country here>> Contact HP and next look for the phone option to get the info page.
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You're welcome.Sorry it couldn't be solved more easily.
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Ropes, Strings, and Threads
In my recent posts, Meet the Clones in My Neighborhood and You're Only as JUNG as You Feel, I mentioned how JUNG could be used to extract clusters of cloned code from a complex graph of an entire application. This has been very helpful to drill down into code to look at sub clusters as in the tiled image below. (I’ve substituted number for module names, since this is actual code.) But even with this simplified image, the team wanted to convey more meaning in our next generation tool: Visual Intelligence Explorer. The amazing thing about JUNG is that it allows our team to have complete control over the image rendering process. So we can control how the lines are drawn between the nodes. Up till now, with other tools, we’ve been coloring the lines, green for a weak relationship, red for a strong one. But using JUNG we’ve discovered lines convey meaning more intuitively when weighted instead of being colored.
This is especially useful in large graphs, where lines can hide other lines and get lost in the tangle. Line weights are natural and intuitive. Think of cable, rope, twine, string, and thread. Just the sound of those linear objects conveys strength. Cables pull barges, ropes rope cows, twine bales hay, string wraps packages, and threads? Well a thread is what I’m hanging by with this metaphor.
But just look at the image below, over 200,000 lines of code are represented by this graph of code modules, what’s important, what’s not? Let’s add some weights to those lines.
Here’s a zoom-in of the same image. Here we’ve made four types of lines; the weakest are dotted lines, the threads. Then we move all the way to our ropes and cables. The point is now we can see the most important cloned code.
Our Visual Intelligence Explorer is taking shape very quickly. Please check back here, soon I’ll be posting about using the text search engine Lucene to find legacy source code signatures.
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@Dex Why would you be spending money on a fuckbuddy? I think you need to learn the difference between one of those and a girlfriend.
Anyway, wasn’t this posted ages ago?
lol Dex, what a post.
I guess this is cool in some ways, but part of me is screaming, “Just go outside, damnit!”
Master’s thesis on that? Really ?
I think Tacx has him beat at present
The Tacx is a little more expensive…..
Considering google street view is a series of images, why would you expect it to be anything other than a slideshow? Were you expecting a video to construct itself out of images?
Why would you expect that it would be a smooth experience? Anyone who has used street view knows that you can’t smoothly scroll through it, you need to continue to click to advance to each next segment along the route.
@Marco I was wondering the same, but after all, it’s not engineering or computer science, it’s “a 12-month intensive course that is designed specifically for art and design graduates”
@Marco
Agreed. This is trivial. Its sad that some people spend money on a degree like this thinking it will land them a real job. This would be a cool project if an 10 year old had done it, but coming from a masters student this is just sad. Good luck finding a job in this economy
“Whets” your appetite, not “wets.” Common mistake.
For a master thesis, for any course, this really is sad. You can determine the direction with a single latching hall sensor, if you place the magnets such that both the north and south poles pass over the hall sensor, and the distance between the magnets is much larger then the width of the magnet. Pedaling in one direction would give a small duty-cycle (short high pulse), and the other direction would give a large duty cycle (short low pulse). I’d like to thing any masters student would be able to figure that out.
The concept of point-of-view rides could be viable, with a number of improvements. First of all, a larger number of magnets would be a good idea, to get a shorter measurement interval.
It would be really cool to incorporate steepness or pedal torque data in the stream, and use an eddy current or other electronically controllable brake on the bike, to mirror the pedaling torque required for a given speed to the actual ride.
A panoramic view (from a panoramic helmet camera) would be really cool, because that would enable the use of a VR helmet.
You can really make it as simple or complicated as you like. There could even be a commercial market for the ride data…
A masters thesis? Seriously? Wow. What a piece of crap. A masters thesis on… Generating forward/back/left/right keystrokes from and exercise machine???
Really?
Seriously???
Wow. I’d be embarassed to be that guy. What a fail. People with REAL masters thesis’ are going to laugh this guy out of the indistry!!!
Also, HAD, you should be embarassed for posting this worthless writeup. FAIL. Go sit in the corner for a MILLION YEARS.
it says “PART OF” a master’s thesis, FYI — lots of theses in design and the applied arts involve a portfolio of projects, and this could be just one of them. No one is going to get a master’s degree just for making this one thing.
I like HaD, but frankly the cranky bitter frustrated-engineer mindset that shows up in the comments (not on the site content, imagine that) is just gross. If we left everything up to the designers and artists we’d have gorgeous products that felt great to use but didn’t work mechanically; if we left it all up to the engineers every single product would work fine but it would be a 600 pound stainless steel cube.
People here need to learn to accept that they can do some things better than other people, and other people are much better than them at other things, rather than the whole “omg you mean he didn’t wind his own resistors from carbon wire what a fucking n00b HaD sux” bullshit attitude.
Out(in) for a leisurely ride and Dammit,I looked, the light was green and WHAM one frame later and I get hit by a bus. To make things worse it had an add for Microsoft Windows mobile 7 on the side.
@Marco
My thoughts, exactly.
It’s awesome — breaks the monotony of stationary exercise equipment nicely, except it looks like his screen is too small and not ergonomic enough to get really… immersed. i think it’s a great project and creative and resourceful.
i finally wrote a book:
To those of you who appreciate the project, Thank you very much, for those of you who dont, thats up to yourselves, whatever, considering I come from an art background and never touched so much as an LED prior to this year, I feel I did all right out of it, as for a job in the ‘indistry’ at least I can spell the word!
Also this was only a tiny PART of the Masters Thesis not the complete assessed work for the year,
I guess it is easy being so critical when hiding behind your computer screens,
Thank you to those of you who at least tried to be nice about it.
First off I saw this more than a year (maybe two) ago already, so this guy steals stuff for a thesis?
And @jake you scream he should be embarrassed then type the word “indistry”…
This still isn’t going to get me on an exercise bike, though I would happily jump on one if I could play some San Andreas from the seat.
At least use a head-mounted display to give you more immersion.
@M4C
Simulator sickness would be a huge problem. HMDs require significant further development before you can really just drop them in like that.
@Lette
The electrical side of this is really not that complicated no matter how you set it up, and you chose an approach that would seem sensible to someone with much more experience in the topic area. I wouldn’t worry about that too much. The design and human sides of this are much more complex and interesting anyway.
This would be really cool if you recorded favorite routes, and then just used faster / slower key inputs into VLC based on the interval between passes. It would be fairly simple to code as well.
On a side note, people around you would look quite funny.
@Whatnot
I’m doing pretty damn good for typing all this crap from a blackberry, dammit!
Also, I agree with Whatnot, saw this somewhere else a long time ago!
hello,
made same thing one year ago using an usb keyboard controller to allow not electronic people to build one.
used to allow my father to distract when do some cyclette exercises (he has some problem walking…)
allow also to choose location with super easy interface, with best city around, and an option to randomize location based on db.
is usefull for people with some disabilities, and funny for all others…
@ Jake and others, yup This idea was out before, I never said I was the first to come up with the idea, far from it, but this was built for people with disabilites and have no experience with computers and also to prove that something like this can be built at little or no cost, all build and code is original though, I didnt steal anything thanks!!
Why did you have to “prove” something that was already common sense?
Only required input: Left, right, forward, back. Lol.
I’m sorry, sounds like it’s better suited for a highschool science project. I’m shocked that anyone would consider this a relevant thesis topic, it must have taken all of what, 2 days to finish? If that??? A thesis is supposed to mean something, be relevent and complex…
*sigh*
You know, I just realized something. You *aren’t* an electrical person, are you. See, I’m going on the assumption that your “Interactive Media” description implied that you were some sort of electrical engineering technology student or something. If you don’t have an electrical background, then bravo for figuring out the use of hall sensors and whatnot, but still – If I did my masters in EE with a thesis that tried to do someting that had already been done 10 times over, they’d tell me to go to hell and laugh me out of the office. Maybe things are different in your program. I dunno.
Jake, but who said its EE? :) u clearly havent read any of my post or blog to find out anything about the project, its all there if you read it!! Im not an engineer I am a creative with a background in art and absolutely no background at all in electronics of any kind, if you had read the full post you wouldnt have had to ‘realise’ that!
There is a massive difference and the Masters was not just based on this build alone because yes, its very basic electronics, but graded rather on the quality of content in research and explanation and in showing documentary evidence of everything involved in this project, not just the build but working with people with disabilities and palliative illness themselves.
The project was built for them and was PROVEN for them because the majority if not all the people I worked with during this project in the care centre had never heard of a hall sensor much less an arduino!!
Try not to be so critical when there is far more to the picture than what you read in a brief blog post, where my engineering fails it makes up for in the HCI, user studies and Human factors involved, thats the side of interaction design I studied!
I use the Taxc almost every day in the winter for a Cycling Trainer .. You can import Google Earth kml..with elevation controlling a torque inducing motor to mimic very realistically hills both up and down .. Ride it .. Save it .. Upload to a Tacx supported web site and “race” against ppl from all over the world . And there is a Live REal Time way to ride with other riders . . the cost is around $1200 pricey for most, but for a serious Cycler it’s not much…
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Work/Life Balance in Library School
05/12/2011 § 14 Comments our schoolwork, we must obtain as much library experience as possible prior to graduation so that we can maximize our job prospects. Even those of us who are fortunate enough to land paying part-time library work find it necessary to broaden our CVs through volunteer positions or unpaid internships – often more than one! In order sell ourselves to potential employers, we participate in conferences, blog, tweet, network, maintain digital portfolios, and try to find time for a beer once in a while. Such overextension can quickly lead to exhaustion and burnout…but in this economic climate where jobs are scarce, we’re all anxious to set ourselves apart from the hundreds of other candidates out there. So, how can we be successful librarians and lead balanced lives?
This is a question I’ve been grappling with throughout my first semester. I came to library school after several years in the workforce, in a position that I adored but that also demanded my every waking moment. After three years of seventy hour work weeks and a personal life that was in complete limbo, I finally admitted that my lifestyle was not sustainable. When I started at library school in the fall, I wondered what changes I could make that would allow me to downshift. I still wanted to work hard, but I also wanted to enjoy my life.
So I decided to be systematic about how I spent my time in library school. I asked myself what achievements and skills potential employers would seek in me after graduation. I knew that varied work experiences and French language abilities would be high on the list, so I took a part-time job at a public library as soon as I could. I enrolled in a French class (I hope to find work in Montreal so bilingualism is important). I also signed up for two student committees, took volunteer opportunities when possible, and committed to presenting at one conference at least this year.
Although these activities have spread me pretty thin, probably too thin to downshift successfully, I feel I’ve made a good decision about how to allot my time. Happily, I also find that I am devoting a great deal more time to my relationship, family, and friends, leading to a much greater sense of well-being in my personal life. I do have more balance than I did before.
Even so, I still struggle. Letting go of my own perfectionism has been a major hurdle for me this semester. Sometimes I find myself thinking thoughts like, If I didn’t have so much to do, I would have a perfect GPA. Then I berate myself for not being good enough to do it all and have a perfect GPA. I continually have to remind myself that being well-rounded is not only important, but healthy.
The ACRLog has an interesting post on this subject. According to them, many libraries are experiencing difficulties attracting solid candidates in the Gen X and Gen Y age brackets to directorship positions, as the younger librarians prefer to devote more energy to their families and friends than to a stressful, demanding position that is not perceived as rewarding. While I am not sure that Gen X and Gen Y are really that easy to pigeonhole, for me the main point of the article was that the younger librarians are not pursuing advancement simply for the sake of advancement. They want their lives to be fulfilled in every context.
As librarians-in-training with many demands on our time, how can we avoid exhaustion and burnout? The website LIScareer has a list of articles that deal with these issues in a library setting. I can also share with you some time management techniques that have kept me sane this semester:
Limit Your Available Time
I had a professor who always said, “Work expands to fill all available time.” I didn’t understand what she meant back then, but now I realize how true this statement is. Since I don’t want my work to dominate my life, I try to limit my available time. For example, just because I have all Saturday to complete a homework assignment doesn’t mean I have to take all Saturday to do it. I ask myself, could I finish it in five hours? If the answer is yes, I work as efficiently as I can to get it done in that five hour block. Ironically, I’ve found that the work I produce in these limited chunks of time is usually better than it would be if I dragged it out for days.
Ask Yourself Where Your Time Really Goes
In the same way it’s easy to lose track of how much money you spend if you don’t record every purchase, it’s easy to lose track of how you actually spend your time. I might tell myself that I worked on my essay until 3AM, but if I was checking Facebook every few minutes then that’s not really true. I want to exercise but keep telling myself I don’t have the time, when I could easily scrap the TV I watch before bed to get up early for a swim. Being aware of where your time really goes can make a huge difference in your efficiency.
Give Your Work All You’ve Got – Then Leave
It used to be that the boundaries between work life and home life were a lot more distinct. You just left the office and that was it. These days, the onus is on you to set those boundaries. This requires some planning and communication, but a few simple changes can help a lot. Do schoolwork on campus or in a coffee shop, not at home. Tell your coworkers that you don’t check your work e-mail on weekends. Try to have an established routine even on days when you don’t have classes so that you don’t unintentionally end up wasting the whole day. Above all, work as hard as you can while you’re working – then get out of there and stop thinking about it!
How about you? What do you do to manage your time? Drop me a comment here or e-mail me at lauramariesanders at gmail dot com!
Good article Laura! I struggle with time management. I usually start out my semester with a calendar of all homework due dates, and sometimes weekly schedules with To-Do lists. But somehow these efforts become futile after the first two weeks.
My homework always seems to stretch to fill all my empty time…but you’re right I do waste time on “distractions” like Netflix or Facebook.
I have considered spending more time on campus to do my homework, instead of doing it at home. I think I will try that next semester. When I do work on campus, I feel in the school-mode and I do feel more productive, whereas when I do work at home, I’m more likely to wish I just go to bed or relax.
Thanks for sharing. Hopefully I can do better in the spring semester.
Netflix is the worst when it comes to distraction! I could spend hours on it just watching movies.
Great article- I know finding a balance can be very, very difficult. I find it quite hard to fit in everything I’d like because while I am in library school (online program through UW-Milwaukee) I am also working a full time job (database editing/managment, sort of library related). Internships are impossible because of work. So I rely more on volunteering and networking.
A big help for me is asking the professors for reading lists/syllabi early on, so I can start reading before the classes begin for the semester.
The best advice I can give is to not worry about your lib school grades. Seriously. No one will care if you didn’t get a 4.0. Your time is better spent getting work experience, or picking up a new language, or building tech skills…pretty much anything else.
Rebecca, I have heard that from so many recent graduates who now have good jobs. And I have tried to make that my attitude this semester…but it’s hard not to slip back into my old perfectionistic habits, particularly when everyone around me is freaking out about grades all the time!
And, as a corollary to that, don’t avoid useful classes just because you won’t get an A! I saw this happen depressingly often when I was in grad school.
You mean classes like Cataloguing?
It’s pretty much been the bane of my existence this semester…but I have to admit, it’s a highly useful class, so much so that I think it should be mandatory for all library school students.
I’m totally guilty of dragging my work out for days. I need to sit down and just get my projects done. I look forward to the day when I don’t have to work and go to school full-time.
Annie, me too! There are many days that I don’t have the mental energy to do homework at the end of a workday. I am only going to school part-time and working full-time, and I’m looking forward to only having to work. One more year to go….
Thanks for a great article! I’m just wrapping up my first semester. I also feel like I’ve been spreading myself fairly thin though I’m really happy and feel like I’ve achieved some kind of balance. Your tip about limiting available time is really helpful, though. I’ll give myself a day to finish an assignment (usually well in advance) but then I think, “Oh, I have the whole day to work on this” and then it gets dragged out. Limiting it to smaller chunks of time will help a lot – definitely will try it next semester!
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The bone on the seder plate represents the Passover lamb. Many residents in food deserts are forced to consume unhealthy fast food, but with more supermarkets, residents can regain the opportunity to purchase healthy food.
Can low-income communities support supermarkets?
Yes! Many low-income communities are densely populated, and incomes add up. In South LA, the annual income per acre is $350,000, roughly four times that of the LA/Long Beach metro average. South LA residents spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year on groceries.
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To be sure, that celebration of violence and hurt against our enemies was always the military presence of Israelis.. Both peoples have co-created the current mess. Both loving and compassion for both sides of this struggle.
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Here is Mah Nishtanah sung in English translation. Enjoy!
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CES 2012 and Revision3 Vegas Meetup!
We’re back at CES 2012 for another year of awesome tech and new gadgets. What do you want to see? We’ll be covering the show floor from Monday through Friday to being you the most up to date content on what you like most. Be on the lookout for TONS of segments, which will be airing at the Revision3 CES 2012 stream.
Thank You For An Awesome 2011!
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This past year was full of surprises, and many of the accomplishments we made are because of you, our viewers! February 15th will mark my first year living in the Bay Area, working fulltime with Hak5. Do I regret the move? Not one bit!
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Calling all pixel ninjas. Ever wish you could submit an Evil Server logo or action graphic to us and win cool Hak5 swag? Now you can, with our spiffy new Evil Server Logo (or action graphic) Contest! Clever, hu?
From now until Monday, December 15th we’ll be accepting submissions for this totally bad-ass contest — winner(s) of which will be judged based on style and evilness. The winning graphic(s) will become part of the new Hak5 sticker collection (and possibly other cool stuff). Read more for details. (more…)
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A wise and noble people...
Were nowhere to be seen...
More than 200 native and nonnative people shouted down a sheriff who was delivering a court order that called for the immediate removal of a blockade at a proposed uranium mine north of Sharbot Lake.Once again, it's the inarticulate, nonsensicle voice of the cult of personal victimization. You'd get more coherent communication from a boxcar load of starving, tormented chimps.
Yesterday, two sheriffs, escorted by Ontario Provincial Police, were met on the road outside the mine by Ardoch and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nations warriors who would not allow the court officers on the property.
Shabot Obaadjiwan war chief Earl Badour, who oversees the security of the protesters at the site, said he met the officers with a group of about 24 warriors.And then he held his breath until he turned blue.
"I said to them we were not speaking," said Badour.
Badour then signalled for the native flag to be turned upside down as a symbolic gesture that "all natives are in distress."
Technorati Tags: Earl Badour, Frontenac Ventures, Ardoch and Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nations
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"I said to them we are not speaking.."
Yeah? ..and this court order says i don't really give a rats ass if you speak or not..speaking is over, upholding the law is where we are now at..
What part of shut up and obey do they not understand?
Tell them you are going to come back with the riot quad next time..
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kursk said... Tell them you are going to come back..."
that would involve political will... not a commodity in generous supply, in ontario these days.
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Police in Ontario actually attempting to enforce the law, I don't believe it!
And the Indians shouldn't, either. Hold fast, Chief, the Great White Father in Toronto will cave pretty quickly, there's an election coming.
Hand out some "Dudley George" masks, that should have everyone on the run.
Oh, yeah, anything around to burn, tires, police cars, bridges?
Prison for all those idiots.
Unfortunately this is not just a native issue in this case.
Us righties are pissed too.
View from the local Con candidate.
Property values are already being affected and sales dipping in the market. This thing is screwing more then just these natives.
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"ewalden said... his is not just a native issue in this case"
totally not the point, my friend.
how can you negotiate, or even discuss what's happening here, if the aboriginals hijack the issue and then act as if they're starring in a less-civilised remake of "lord of the flies."
maybe next time they'll decide your house is on sacred land. watch property values plummet then.
anarchy is most decidedly not the answer... not now... not ever.
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Mining Uranium in anyone's neigborhood gets them worried about health and environment issues. Native or non native, increased cancer risk and contamination of out natural resources is no joke. I am thankful that the community both sides of that gate, are there to stand against the mine.
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"anon said... Mining Uranium in anyone's neigborhood"
again...
how can you negotiate, or even discuss what's happening here if you replace the law of the land with hysterical lawlessness?
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Apparently King George II gave them the land in 1763 in a proclamation that also recognized the nation-to-nation relationship that the Crown has with the indigenous peoples of North America and acknowledged the Aboriginal title of their homelands.
From what I hear these particular lands were never ceded. So the rule of law (and the Ipperwash commission) would suggest the discussion should be as one between nations, rather than cops and trespassers.
I would have thought even a righty would be against a Mining act, such as the one we have in Ontario, which allows the Government to sell the mineral rights to my (non-native) land to a corporation without even consulting me. The Algonquins just cut a better deal back in the day than we colonial subjects did.
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"anon announces... From what I hear these particular lands were never ceded."
from what you hear?
there's an entirely new concept... "anecdotal law."
no real study, or law school required... "your honour, rumour has it..."
lemme know how that works out the next time you're in court.
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It's not new, it's at least as old as "stand-up law": If you can't refute a point with facts then hit'em with a zinger.
The pivotal question in cases such as this one is what is required on the part of the Crown (as well as its agents, and ministries) to maintain the honour of the Crown and to achieve reconciliation between the Crown and Aboriginal peoples as is required under Section 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982?
Aboriginal title and rights are still in existence in the Kiji Sìbì (Ottawa Valley), including what became Northern Frontenac County.
These lands were never ceded or surrendered to the Crown. As the Algonquin community holding title and rights within the lands in question, and as an Aboriginal community whose rights are embedded, recognized and guaranteed in the Section 35 of the Constitution Act of 1982, clearly both the Province of Ontario and the federal government have Constitutional duties and obligations to protect aboriginal lands from the detrimental activities associated with uranium mining.
What’s more, Frontenac Ventures Corporation should not have been granted claims or staking rights on these traditional lands without prior notification by the Ministry of Mining and Northern Development, and they should not have been allowed to purchase crown lands without our consent, as the Algonquin people are the only autonomous authority within those lands.
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it's good to know this is all so legally "cut and dried"... all the aboriginals have to do is stop acting like crazy children and go to court and get their own injunction.
oh wait... they don't recognise the "white mans law", do they?
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neocon realized...'oh wait... they don't recognise (sic) the "white mans (sic) law", do they?'
By George!!! If I interpret your naive regurgitation of post-colonial jargon correctly, I believe you've got it. Or at least you are getting close.
At any rate they are also blockading on the settlers' behalf. Supporting good conservative ideals, as expressed by Randy Hillier, PC Candidate and longtime leader of the Lanark Landowners Association:
"First, Ontario should award all property owners the subsurface rights to their land...
"Second, revenues from mineral revenues on Crown lands should be shared with municipalities...(well, they may have their own interpretation of this one)
"Third, it should be the local people themselves who decide whether mineral exploitation goes ahead..."
source: "Ontario Mining Law is a Mess" By Randy Hillier and Scott Reid
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anon protests... they are also blockading on the settlers' behalf"
ya just gotta love that aboriginal altruism.
and randy hillier, of course... it's exactly the same thing.
remind me again... which tract of land have randy and his band of conservative thugs illegally occupied this week?
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Skeletons in legal closet
Activists charge Law Society made away with stolen Six Nations funds
By DEB O'ROURKE
As rain drizzles onto the old stone cobbles outside the Law Society of Upper Canada on Queen West this August 21, Six Nations activists are giving the org, to which every Ontario lawyer belongs, a back-to-school history lesson.
It's being taught by Janie Jamieson, one of the originators of the ongoing Caledonia reclamation. She charges that the venerable society, founded in 1797, was funded in part by money stolen from the Six Nations trust.
"Canada has a deep-rooted history in regards to its illegal activity and discrimination against Indians," she says, addressing 30 supporters outside the Law Society's building.
Jamieson's argument comes from Six Nations perusal of archival Indian Affairs records. These, Aboriginal legal experts say, demonstrate clearly that money raised by the Crown through selling or leasing Six Nations land in the 18th and 19th centuries and supposedly held in trust for them was siphoned off to many government projects, with no record of repayment.
Among these were cash payments made to fund budding municipalities and various public works and a mystery 1847 transfer in the amount of $1,000 to the Law Society of Upper Canada.
"Our money was used to run many projects that created this country," says Six Nations' Philip Monture, who has spent 30 years researching issues related to land rights.
"Between the 1830s and Confederation, our money was used to start running the country. There were no financial institutions per se that were creating revenues like Six Nations lands were. We built a lot of the infrastructure within the province of Ontario today, and we've got no returns for it."
At Indian and Northern Affairs , media rep Patricia Valladao responds that a lot of complex historical issues are at stake, and ongoing negotiations between Six Nations and government are a painstaking process. "The parties have to work through these challenging issues," she says, "but the use of the media in negotiations is not conducive to a peaceful and timely result."
And the Law Society itself? The organization exists, it says, to uphold the "independence, integrity and honour of the legal profession." It's made its home in Osgoode Hall, famous for its ghosts, but it seems unaware of this embarrassing skeleton rattling in its closet.
"The issue predates Confederation, and the Law Society is conducting a search of archival records,'' says spokesperson Susan Tonkin. "We don't have all the necessary information available yet."
Native rights lawyer Chris Reid, attending the rally, points out, "One of the issues we've raised both in the case of Caledonia and in the case of the Ardoch Algonquins and uranium is the failure of Canada and the government of Ontario to respect their own law and the many treaties or agreements that have been made with Indian nations."
A sign carried by a tall Mohawk man puts the argument succinctly: "Break a treaty break a law."
Meanwhile on the campaign trail, Conservative John Tory steps into Mike Harris's brimstone-scented tracks in this election with a promise of zero tolerance for Aboriginal occupations.
Tory is using the oldest trick in the New World: turning legitimate native protestors into criminals in the eyes of the public. In this day and age, governments accomplish this by stalling on landclaim negotiations and then relying on the courts to grant injunctions. It's a strategy that the Ipperwash Inquiry found repugnant.
Caledonia demonstrators defying a court order faced a violent OPP raid a year ago last April, holding lands they never relinquished.
The Algonquin today face similar issue in their anti-uranium blockade at Sharbot Lake near Kingston."Every time a judge has made an injunction against indigenous people, it has led to more violence against us,'' says Robert Lovelace, a former Ardoch Algonquin chief who is showing his support at the Law Society protest.
As the protest winds down, lawyer Sarah Dover offers to take demonstrators to see the Law Society's replica of the two-row wampum a document in the form of a beaded belt, one of the earliest treaties between European settlers and the Haudenosaunee, the centuries-old Iroquois confederacy.
A motley crew bearing cameras, signs and a baby, we file in past three skittish security officers. Even the baby is walked through the metal detector. We tiptoe upstairs, through a maze of marble, mahogany and tapestry.
A couple of demonstrators point upward. Glowing above our heads, embedded in a stained glass window, are images of wampum belts. Like the relationship between Canada and the Iroquois, these windows and this building are older than Canada. Like Osgoode Hall itself, the rule of law is built on earlier foundations.
In a quiet back stairwell, we find the replica wampum, presented when Mohawk Michael Mitchell of Akwesasne was called to the bar. Two parallel beaded rows represent the two sovereign nations: the canoe of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) and the boat of the settler peoples from other parts of the world who came to stay. Though they travel the same river, they don't intertwine or merge. Two parallel lines move forward, side by side together.
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"anon said... It's being taught by Janie Jamieson"
take a closer look my friend... janie jamieson's got about as much credibility as peewee herman.
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oh, by the way... where does janie jamieson stand on beating a man unconscious with a two by four?
or is that just considered counting coup?
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I make maps that some people don't understand how its possible and there not modded.
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Senator Obama and his "Commitment" to Israel
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama casts a shadow on the Israeli and American flags while speaking at an event to honor the 60th anniversary of Israel’s independence in Washington.
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My post is written over at Flopping Aces
Labels: Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Israel, Israel-Lebanon
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I have never, repeat: NEVER - understood the relationship between Jews in America and the Demorat party when it comes to support for Israel. I still do not understand that skewed relationship and their apparent abandonment of that country and their lack of insistence on the firm and strong link between Israel and America.
BZ
What BZ said.
I left a comment at Flopping Aces, Wordsmith. Excellent post!
Perhaps American Jews have simply quit caring about Israel. What else could it be?
I don't understand it either Wordsmith. It is the same way with black people voting democrat. Republicans have done more for them, but their prejudices and preconcieved notions are stuck in their brains and that is all they allow themselves to see.
Jews will give Obama 72% of their vote, according to latest pollng.
After centuries of being persecuted in the name of Christianity, they just do not trust mixing government and religion, rightly or wrongly.
As traditional underdogs, they stick up for the disenfranchised -bleeding hearts, as they say.
As minorities they distrust all government and view liberal politics as more open to their POV.
..just an opinion, of course....
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Photo by Matt Mallams.Rainbows form in the mist from the waterfall in the distance. Patches of red soil contrast with the dark green foliage of native lonomea and koa trees. This valley looks primeval, pristine, the sort of place you’d expect to see in Jurassic Park. That’s because Olokele Canyon on Kaua‘i is just that sort of place: a setting for many of the scenes in the film Jurassic Park. Until recently its steward had kept this privately owned area kapu—off-limits—to outsiders..
Keith Robinson’s friends call him Curmudgeous robinsonii because the conservationist who’s worked for thirty years to protect Hawai‘i’s endangered native plants is a maverick: reclusive, eccentric, opinionated. He co-owns the island of Ni‘ihau and 4,500 acres on Kaua‘i with his brother, Bruce, and he frequently tangles with Hawai‘i’s environmental community —the US Fish & Wildlife Service, the Audubon Society, the Sierra Club—over managing the flora living in this valley, much of which is endemic and endangered.
In 2007 Robinson opened up this remote area of Kaua‘i and collaborated with Safari Helicopters to run eco-tours that would fund his conservation work. Visitors touch down on a landing pad overlooking the canyon where Robinson, who often leads the tours personally, greets his guests wearing his trademark green hard hat and patched jeans. While the tour doesn’t go down into the canyon itself, visitors will see critically endangered plants like the palm Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii (named for Keith’s uncle); only two are left on its native Ni‘ihau. There are the native Hawaiian cotton, Gossypium tomentosum, and the increasingly rare naupaka shrub Scaevola gaudichaudii, among many others.
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Amsterdam’s Cannabis Cafés Will Remain Open to Foreigners
Good news for stoner tourists.people.”
Pot-smoking Driver in Saskatoon Deemed Not Impaired
Despite failing various sobriety tests..
“She was only successful in touching her nose on one of six attempts,” the judge noted in his decision. “On the other five attempts, she touched her face right under her nose.”
The officer noted that the woman had reddened eyes, something consistent with marijuana use.
A urine sample was also taken and confirmed that the woman had used marijuana.
However, the judge was not convinced there was any evidence that the woman’s driving ability was impaired.
If marijuana is ever legalized, they’ll need to figure out a way to determine intoxication levels easily, and indeed decide what constitutes impairment under the influence of it…
Prosecutor Defeated by Glaring Stupidity of Pot Laws
Fuck yeah! The rule of law is breaking down…!
Uruguay Government Sends Pot Project to Congress, Aims to Become Nation’s Marijuana Dealer.”
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The text says the project’s goals include “the normalization and full social acceptance of marijuana use” so that consumers aren’t “stigmatized, nor treated as criminals.”
My thoughts on the subject (in general, not just Uruguay) in more detail here.
Miles High in the Mile High State
Marijuana Legalization Gains Popularity in Colorado.
My thoughts on the subject (in general, not just Colorado) in more detail here.
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What we're watching – Cain goes for 10th victory
Jul 1, 2009, 4:20 PM EDT
- The Yankees will go for a seventh straight win against a pitcher they
tried to acquire in the second half of last year, Jarrod Washburn. They
beat the Mariners 8-5 on Tuesday to improve to 22-14 at new Yankee
Stadium. Washburn, who had an impressive 2.82 ERA in six starts against
the Bombers at the old yard, will be pitching at the new park for the
first time. Andy Pettitte will start for the Yankees. The Mariners are
one of two AL teams he’s under .500 against in his career (9-11, 4.68
ERA). Cleveland is the other.
- Cole Hamels and Jair Jurrjens will try to snap winless skids
tonight with the Phillies in Atlanta. Neither picked up a victory
during interleague play. Hamels, who last won on June 4, was removed
after just 4 2/3 innings last time out in a loss to Toronto. Jurrjens
has lost four in a row since his last victory on May 29.
Game of the Night
San Francisco vs. St. Louis – Matt Cain had two chances to become
the NL’s first 10-game winner, but he was undone in part by poor run
support, giving Jason Marquis a chance to beat him there. He’ll settle
for being the second to reach the mark if he can win in St. Louis
tonight. The Cardinals, who are trying to avoid dropping three straight
to begin a four-game series, will counter with their eight-game winner,
Adam Wainwright. St. Louis lost night despite getting a pair of homers
from Albert Pujols. Pujols is 4-for-8 with a homer and a double against
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Juan Pierre is eighth player to join 2,000-hit club this season
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- Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward - Sep 9, 2011 at 11:57 AM
We get it Aaron, you’re unnatural fear of everything round is recognized.
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The thing that stuck in my craw about your Michael Young post is that the tone implied Young and/or the Rangers were making a big deal about it and that they needed to be set straight, but then you look at the quotes and Young is like “Yeah I guess it’s nice, but really, whatever…”
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- Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward - Sep 9, 2011 at 12:42 PM
That was my point as well. Konerko a similar amount of press, kudos and damn near the same response. But, now I understand Gleeman’s fear of the round:
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“had a”
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3000 hits gets the Cadillac.
2000 hits gets the steak knives.
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NAZI "BUDDHISTS" IN SRI LANKA FUCK OFF! and CHRISTIANS IN THE ZENDO!
Here are some "Buddhists" who don't have a fucking clue what Buddhism is all about.
This story just disgusts me to no end. I have no idea what the fuck is up with these so-called "Buddhists" in Sri Lanka. But I do not represent them and I want nothing at all to do with jack-offs like this. I hope they ban my books over there too. This kind of nonsense makes me embarrassed to call myself a "Buddhist."
The Jathika Hela Urumaya (the hardline "Buddhist" ruling party in Sri Lanka) can bite me! More power to you Sarah Malini Perera. This shit makes me want to convert to Islam too!
How's that for a typical Brad Warner style reasoned argument?
ANYWAY, the 2010 Southern Dharma Retreat Center Zen retreat with Brad is now done. So let me tell you about it.
I counted 18 or 19 brave souls up there in the mountains of North Carolina. As always this was a very interesting group. People come to Zen retreats for all kinds of reasons. One woman was a born-again Christian and missionary to Africa who wanted to check out this Zen stuff. One other woman was drafted in by her friend when her friend's daughter who'd originally signed up came down with strep throat. One guy went to Woodstock. One guy was a Rinzai priest (the enemy!).
Someone asked about doing zazen retreats for the "wrong reasons" or something like that. But I don't think there are wrong reasons. If you just come along to experience three days of peace and quiet away from the job and the kids, that's just as valid as someone who's all gung-ho about The Great Way of the Buddha. Maybe more so.
It was a bit of a hard retreat for me because I caught a cold on the first day. It was all I could do to just get through all the talks and stuff without keeling over. I felt a little bad about that. To make up for my lack of energy I read the group the intro to my new book, which takes place at the Southern Dharma Retreat Center.
See, last year, just before that retreat I'd been dumped by a woman I was truly crazy about (perhaps literally so). And I was feeling pretty broke up the entire time. I figured that story would be a good intro to a book about sex and zen. The rest of the book is less personal than that. I guess that's kinda sad for all the anonymous commenters who got all worked up that the book was gonna be a big catalog of my sex life. Maybe next time.
Did I mention I got recognized by random people while I was in Austin -- twice? No? It's true. The first one was a college student on Spring Break who turned around as we waited for a light to change and asked my name. I thought he was gonna try to sell me something! Turns out he's an avid reader of this blog! I'm sorry I've forgotten your name if you're reading this. But I forget names as fast as I learn them. The next was a guy at a CVS. This is getting spooky! (Hence the photo above)(It's a joke)(The star is for H.B. Warner, a popular star of the 30s now sadly forgotten)
This weekend I'll be in Brooklyn at the Zen Center there running a retreat. There's still space available. All info is on this link here.
Then I'll be at Sheppard College in West Virginia. The date is April 8th, but I don't have the other specifics yet. Then it's on to Baltimore and following that, Richmond, Virginia. So be there or be a Sri Lankan hardline "Buddhist!"
(And this: Oh my God(zilla)!)
77 comments:
Hello Suckahs!
Wow No. 2
That's right.. The book is all about MY sex life :)
Re: Daigan's comment -- Folks, it actually IS!
As I previously commented about control.
One meter.
The rest doesn't matter.
If Islam is so desperate as to accept s Perera as a convert, then all Buddhists throughout the world should be praying for their survival on an hourly schedule.
From the story you linked to, Brad, her arrest appears to be due to some violation of Sri Lanka's export laws and/or postal regulations. Many countries, including many west European countries, have very strict laws governing the import and export of items for sale. It looks like she was trying to illegally ship books out of the country without paying some kind of tax or duty or some other fee, or otherwise trying to get around some regulation she thought she could get away with getting around.
Nazism is serious business. Accusing people of Nazism should only be done for some good reason. For starters you should have some idea of what the fuck you are talking about.
You can find more news about her if you use another spelling of her name: Sarah Malani Perera.
Also, Sri Lanka is still emerging from a little thing called a Civil War -- which lasted for more than 25 years and which cost more than 80,000 lives. The people that the Sri Lankan government were fighting against were literally the inventors if suicide bombing as we know it.
None of the news reports, including the one Brad linked to, give an official reason for her arrest. Therefore all claims that she was arrested "for offending Buddhism" are purely speculative. And screaming about NAZIS on the basis of such speculation is bullshit.
Brad is using Nazi in the metaphorical sense of the word meaning "overly authoritarian."
It is thus commonly used on the Left Coast.
Of course the German National Socialists were talking socialism while being lap dogs to the corporatists.
We have the anti-socialist party in America being the lap dogs of corporatists (e.g. the republican fascists).
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
In the UK.
Blatant self-promotion corner:
Hey kids (sorry about the suckahs thing, I couldn't bring myself to shout out #1 like a f-in loosah), I just updated my google profile with a new pic that should amaze even Mysterion (one meter, schmeter). Just click on my blue name and all will be revealed!
Now, Alan, that's entertainment (if not attainment, schmattainment..:).
I'm more interested in the Christian who attended the retreat...especially a "born again" Christian who was a missionary in Africa. That's pretty hardcore. Wonder what she was looking for?
By the way, Brad...I always seem to miss you when you visit the Austin Zen Center!!! Maybe I'll run into you next year...
john e mumbles,
As a true lover of color, your new picture is glorious.
When your organ of generation causes and effects weather patterns, this is news.
(Man there are so many puns in that sentence I am proud).
Cheers.
To prove that I like color, type my non-anonymous name into google and follow the first link. Self promotion to no point whatsoever.
Wow! Bee-uti-Full photos, Alan! I only perused the front page but will take more time and look.
Thanks so much. Very Cool!
Wow! Never thought I'd hear about Buddhist fundamentalist. That is really fucked up!
Hmm.
The idea that a country could elevate Buddhism to a national religion is one thing. The fact that buddhists who arguably should know better could go along with that dicta is entirely another thing...
On the other hand--delusion is delusion, and no one is exempt.
The Sri Lankans are not alone.
Ever go to Thailand and make bawdy jokes about their royalty in a public forum?
About the Rinzais being the enemy..
An old zen monk one day told me: "The Christian idea about loving your enemy is a joke. The real challenge is to love your brother" :)
We here sometimes get in touch with the rinzais. Just some weeks ago they invited us (the Soto guys) for together watching the Dogen movie at their place.
Apuleius,
An interesting point. I did take the news story at face value, and maybe I should question it. It would be interesting if this turned out to be a big PR stunt by the author.
But the very existence of something that can be called a "hardline Buddhist government" is ... I just have no words for how absurd that sounds.
Also, the article title is a reference to the old Dead Kennedys song "Nazi Punks Fuck Off". The DKs were not accusing the punks of actually being Nazis, but of acting like fascists.
Honest, the last 13 years has been Soto all the way! (Was facing the inside of the room while being time keeper that is "Rinziaesque"?)
It was a very intimate Sesshin. I mailed my application to Great Sky Sesshin. I will get an extra can of "spray on Soto" from Target.
I'm floored that such a thing as "hardline Buddhist nationalists" actually exist. I never would have guessed.
BTW, I'm friends with your pal Sean Saley - I told him you were coming to town (Wash DC area), and he said drop him a line...
Allison
Concerning Sarah Malini Perera: It's true that the article looks very bad on the face of it. But I am by nature paranoid, and when I see a news item that tries to make Buddhists look bad I automatically assume Opus Dei is behind it.
So far there is still very little information, at least in English, available about what is really going on. And as far as I can tell, no one had ever heard of this "author" until a couple days ago.
Sarah Malini Perera has lived in Bahrain, where she converted to Islam, since 1985. In Bahrain Islam is the official state religion. Shia Muslims are the majority, but the country is dominated politically and economically by Sunni Muslims. All religious groups in Bahrain must obtain a license from the Ministry of Islamic Affairs. All anti-Islamic writings are prohibited by law in Bahrain. Women only received the right to vote and to stand in elections in 2002 in Bahrain (in Sri Lanka women got the right to vote in 1931, just 11 years after the US).
If Sri Lanka is home to "Buddhist Fundamentalism" then we need to develop a whole new vocabulary for talking about Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Saudi Arabia, Iran, etc.
Isn't it nice of the Sri Lankans to show how any religion, even Buddhism, can be used as an excuse to oppress and judge others.
i don't think this a new occurence though, right? didn't buddhists support hirohito during world war 2?
also, taoism had a huge military cult in china called the yellow turban sect, and if taoists can go fundamentalist, any religion can.
I had a Dead Kennedy's T-shirt back in the day that said "Too Drunk To Fuck". The DK's never intended that people take the message literally, just a public service announcement pointing out a potential occupational hazard.
well that takes care of birth control
and no need for the morning after pill either
We here sometimes get in touch with the rinzais. Just some weeks ago they invited us (the Soto guys) for together watching the Dogen movie at their place
OMG! Dont you know?
Once you go Rinzai
You never go back!
All organized religions seem like a scam to me, even the Buddhist ones. Some of the most beautiful places on earth are ruined by religious nonsense.
Ever think about putting out another D-13 album Brad?
hey john e...
I've had an interest in historical alchemy. Cool that you've written a book.
Do you know where the phrase "As Above So Below" originates? I thought I had read that it came out of an alchemical tradition.
yes,
from experience
coming down with a cold at the beginning of a sesshin sucks
the good part: sesshin (aside from samu and being tenzo helper is sitting quietly
and at the end of a 7 day sesshin
your cold is gone!
(bust be buddhist healing bajic!) (said while blowing nose)
a "too drunk to fuck" t-shirt? now THAT is awesome.
"holiday in cambodia ...
everybody dressed in BLACK!"
In general, crowds throwing rocks at someone, regardless of their religion scares me.
theres a whole lot of folks calling themselves buddhists in the world who may or may not actually know what the fuck they are talking about. Including me.
It was my understanding that while certain buddhists in japan supported the military regime in the 1930's that the regime itself made Shinto the official and sole state religion out of a fear that Buddhism would make it harder to whip up the kind of fanatical nationalism needed to conduct a 10+ year war.
Yeah, I cut the sleeves off, and the neck out, back then you had to make your own modifications, rips and tears and safety pin chic hadn't been co-opted by Wal-Mart (and Green Day -snap!) yet.
re; Anonymous said..."as above so below" -a whole appendix in my book is dedicated to the completely apocryphal info on that one. It IS the most famous alchemical phrase and basically sums up the whole thing nicely...
Just a note of thanks to Brad...
What a great retreat. It was nice to talk the "nuts and bolts" of Just Sitting with someone in the know. I actually woke up Monday morning and was sad that I wouldn't be spending 5 hours staring at the wall of a zendo.
If we're talking about the same person, I think the Christian at the retreat wound up there by accident, due to someone pulling out at the last minute due to sickness. I don't think that she participated much in the sitting.
It looks like she was trying to illegally ship books out of the country without paying some kind of tax or duty or some other fee.
Usually there's a duty or tax when importing, not when exporting. Most countries want to export as much as possible. So this explanation doesn't make sense to me.
was sad that I wouldn't be spending 5 hours staring at the wall of a zendo.
Five hours a day of zazen isn't much for a seshin. Did Brad fill up the rest of the time with talks, or did you take long walks in the woods?
Ray -- wrong Christian! One of them sat the whole darn thing!
5 or 6 hours zazen, with talks, meals, and time for walks in the woods is a pretty typical Dogen Sangha retreat, Jinz. (They're not silent either).
It was a retreat that was open to novices, and as such, the amount of time spent in the meditation hall was about right..in my opinion, at least. :-)
Thanks for the clarification, Brad..I was only aware of the lady that spoke up during introductions.
Someone who thinks Buddhism is tolerant and has never persecuted other religions isn't very familiar with their history.
In California (a different world) Jesuits who had 'lost their faith' would join Zen Retreats throughout the 70s. It's a kind of 'don't ask, don't tell' thing but, out here on the left coast, a lot of former Xtians use Buddhism as a one-step recovery program.
It's no secret that perhaps 1/3 of the cardinals have lost their faith.
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Near the end of her life, Mother Teressa was an atheist.
Mother Teresa - Lived as a Saint, died as an Atheist
Bless her sacred heart, she woke up!
In the meantime, are you guys getting door-to-door Xtian promotion-bots 3 times a week like we are out here? DESPERATION.
I'm not anti-rattlesnake...
Mrs. Beulah Bucklen, 59, of Charleston, W. Va., died last night, eight days after being bitten twice by a rattlesnake in a snake-handling ritual at Jesus Pentecostal Church at Frazier's Bottom in Putman County, near Charleston. Roscoe Bucklen, her husband, said he persuaded her to seek medical attention when she became violently iii the day after being bitten. Bucklen, who was sitting in his car outside the church when his wife was bitten, said: "I've seen that snake before. It's as big around as your arm. It hit her twice between the thumb and forefinger on the left hand. They had to pull the fangs from her."
(Ft. Worth Star Telegram Sept. 25, 1972) 20-C.
Darwinism at work, and play.
This looks like fun. Absolutely LOADSA stuff about mean, vicious Buddhists.
1972 ??!! What the hell, have all the snake handlers gone to the rattler rapture? SALVATION ON SAND MOUNTAIN is an incredible read, for anyone curious about this very extreme form of Xtian worship. Also, HOLY GHOST PEOPLE, a film about snake fondlers and poison drinkers that I think parts of are on Youtube...SSSSssssssssssssssss......
Jinzang, are you arguing that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ban on Christianity was because he was a Buddhist? From my reading, he was concerned by the Europeans who insisted upon combining business with Christian missionary activity, and he increasingly came to view such activity as dangerous and subversive both to his own rule and to Japanese society in general. Originally, Nobunaga had actually encouraged the foreign missionaries, owing probably to his desire to check the militant Buddhist sects that opposed him.
Anonymous Allison said...
I'm floored that such a thing as "hardline Buddhist nationalists" actually exist. I never would have guessed.
Don't be floored. This is a reaction to the invasion of Islam. Fundie Xtianity and Fundie Islam share dualism. They are right and any and all others are wrong.
1972 - Ceylon changes its name to Sri Lanka and Buddhism given primary place as country's religion, further antagonising Tamil (Hindu) minority.
the Tamils of Ceylon
Strictly speaking, the Tamil (Vel) people invaded Ceylon from the North. Ceylon was originally a land of the Dravidians. Archeology has confirmed this a number of times over during the last 50 years.
wikipedia
So there is a conflict between those who were long ago invaded and those who invaded 2,300 years ago.
Same everywhere. Everywhere, the same.
Ist das nicht richtig?
Or they're not "in the spirit" or whatever. Regardless, it takes balls of steel to pick up and hold a huge pissed off timber rattler and dance around with a bunch of other people shouting and clapping and stomping their feet "in the spirit."
It strikes me that 100 reported cases is not all that many...besides, this is something the Hopi people have done for millennia to ensure rain for their corn harvest. My old alchemy teacher Jean Dubuis used to say "Big trouble equals big reward."
And John Lennon sang "whatever gets you through the night."
It's alright, it's alright.
To whom it may concern,
For a bunch of people who sit around staring at a blank wall for a significant portion of their lives, casting aspersions on people who dance around with snakes seems kind of strange.
The snake stuff at least sounds kind of interesting.
It might even be more dangerous:-)
Jeeeez.
Cheers.
all right, I deleted snake bites.
Dakhinathupa in Anuradhapura is currently identified by archeologists as a Buddhist temple and NOT the mythical tomb of 2nd century BCE Tamil king Elara.
When a new culture arrives, they claim that the preexisting stuff was theirs. The Aztecs claimed Olmec structures, the Xtians claimed Mithraic and Ptolemic stuff, Islam claimed the Hindu (Qube - Kaaba).
Chinese Buddhism - and its Japanese offspring - are somewhat distant from the Pali Tripitaka. After all, China had to integrate Taoism and the remnants of Confucianism into their Buddhist Traditions. And both Jodo Shu(Pure Land) and Jodo Shinshu (New Pure Land) introduce a Christianized 'heaven' concept where none exists upstream.
One day, I plan to introduce "New, Improved Pure Land Buddhism." But first I must decide on the art work and logo.
How about:
"Marked improvement in liturgy does not disturb famous Buddhist simplicity."
Islam is like the borg. Once the followers reach a certain size they wipe out all other religions. Could Brad do what he is doing in any country with Muslim majority? It was the growth of Islam that led to destruction of several buddhist centers in different parts of Asia. No other religion is allowed to operate freely in Islamic countries. Even Zazen will be banned. Then what will you do?
Buddhism's like the Borg too. So many times in dharma talks I've heard the sentiment "resistance is futile".
On behalf of my previous link to vicious Buddhists, I apologise for the many dead links therein - but if you're keen and persistent you'll find many that do work, and seem to confirm this to be true.
In islamic countries, you sit ZAZEN on the toilet.
Alan, I could look at your photos all day.. Really interesting!
And for the ladies...
Actually, the Xtian fundies have the same concept for America - forced conversion to the Xtian religion (which is borrowed from Buddhism).
There is plenty of ignorance to go around.
"A careful comparison, word by word, sentence by sentence shows that the Christian Gospels are Pirate-copies of the Buddhist Gospels. God's word, therefore, is originally Buddha's word."
oxeye,
Thanks, but don't waste your day:-)
It's only entertainment. I know for an absolute fact that the only reason they have any appeal at all is their novelty.
If more people were doing this kind of stuff, it would be a huge yawn.
I read someone who was quoting Susan Sontag on photography to the effect that the first person who took a picture of Half Dome had it easy.
Any photograph would hold great excitement.
The following photographers have the harder job, to re-imagine a scene that becomes more and more known with each new photograph.
Saw your work. You are doing exciting things with color. I'll have to show it to my wife, she is the Rothko fangirl in the family.
Cheers.
I've done zazen in Jordan, which is a predominantly Muslim country. I had a conversation about Buddhism in the hotel restaurant late at night (one of the other musicians in the orchestra asked me.) Also, I saw THIS internet cafe.
There are Christians and Jews in Jordan, so I imagine there could be some Buddhists, but there might not be any.
Challenge everything
A snake? A hundred foot pole?
Belief's a killer!
jinzang said
Someone who thinks Buddhism is tolerant and has never persecuted other religions isn't very familiar with their history..
You know the old Buddhist saying:
""Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity."
The moment fighting starts, peace is lost. A generation after the fighting stops, peace may be restored - unless the parents teach their children bigotry..
This looks like fun.
The Trimondis are not a valid source of information about Tibetan Buddhism. For example, they write this:.
This is caricature, if not outright slander, not sober analysis.
There is at least one Buddhist in Jordan right now. Her name is Katy.
The Trimondis are not a valid source of information about Tibetan Buddhism.
Oooh! My link! Let me defend it!
From the brief tour I made of their site, Jinz, it is clear that the Trimondis have an agenda: "Buddhism - if it will become congruent with western values like democracy, human rights, equality of gender etc. must be “reinvented” The condition therefore is an open, critical and honest debate", they write.?
The site links to very many articles - must be over 50, by no means all written by the Trimondis - which I think are useful in challenging our wishful thinking about "Buddhism" as a world religion...many of which back up your original point:
Someone who thinks Buddhism is tolerant and has never persecuted other religions isn't very familiar with their history.
Jinzang.
I haven't read much of the comments but I came upon M's quote: "Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity".
I think virginity is usually produced by only one means.
Else than this I think we’ve been there before.
Somewhat before Jundo.
I’m sure a few can still recall. Hasn’t been that long.
Or it has been quite long, in a way..
As above, so below.
Then Thich Nhat Hanh is an idiot, as peace does not equate to the end of suffering.
Extremist Islam is a cancer that should be scalded with boiling water, and that women is a proponent of it.
Oh Brad, sick 'em!
You are quite dashing in that pic by the Hwood star!! :)
Any more details on the event at Sheppard College in West Virginia? April 8th is tomorrow and I would definitely be interested in attending.
AHEM!! As Above, So Below! Respect!!
Well said
I was reading the Dhammapada when I heard about the trouble in Sri Lanka. I hope the JHU finds time to reflect on scripture in the midst of their troubles.
I don't know much about the Zen school, but your use of language seems to suggest klesha. I have heard that the Tibeatn can speak and act with a foul manner without klesha. I can't. :D
Righteous indignation is hypocrisy, are you the same as the JHU?
Be Well!
fuck u bitches
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FLAT EARTH SOCIETY and MOTH
Over the last couple months while I've been traveling two more Dimentia 13 downloads have become available. I've been scurrying around too much to promote them like I should have been. So here goes:
FLAT EARTH SOCIETY
Flat Earth Society is Dimentia 13’s pop album. It was 1989 and I had been making Dimentia 13 records for five years. Two years before the first Dimentia 13 release I’d been a member of the hardcore punk band Zero Defex who had also been on a few compilation albums. After seven years in the music business at age 25 I had yet to be able to earn anything close to a living wage and I was getting desperate. It’s amazing how old you can feel at 25.
In spite of being known as a hardcore punk guy in Zero Defex and a psychedelic dude in Dimentia 13, I had always been interested in pure pop music for its own sake. In those days I wrote songs constantly. When preparing the Dimentia 13 records I tended to pick the most psychedelic pieces from among the dozens of demos I made each year. Or else I’d dress up the pop songs I wrote in psychedelic clothing, adding vintage Farfisa organs or Mellotrons or fuzztone guitars to disguise the goofball pop songs underneath. Which is what most of the original psychedelic bands of the Sixties did anyway.
By the late 80s a lot of vaguely psychedelic and overtly Sixties inspired bands were selling records and getting noticed by the emerging “alternative” scene — bands like REM, Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, The Stone Roses, and a boatload of others now long since forgotten. I wanted a piece of that action. So I decided to tone down those elements I felt were tying Dimentia 13 to the narrow confines of garage/psych revival scene. There would be no Mellotrons or Farfisa organs, no sitars or backwards tapes, the fuzztone guitars would take on a more contemporary sound, and I would admit musical influences and lyrical references from after 1967.
I also worked out a new guitar sound I was particularly proud of. I bought a giant red hollow bodied Eko guitar, made in Italy in the late Sixties and plugged it into both a bass and a guitar amp at the same time, added some vintage spring reverb and turned it up to seventeen. In the studio it sounded amazing. Unfortunately that sound didn’t transfer well to tape. You get a hint of how awesome it was on the James Bond theme-inspired riffing of album’s first song Can This Be True Love but elsewhere it gets lost.
The band on this album was me on lead vocals and lead guitar, Jeff Lisk on drums, Joe Nofziger on bass, and Louanne Varholick on vocals and keyboards. Jeff was a hot shit drummer in Chicago at the time. He was very good and he knew it. His playing on the record is really sharp and precise, but it's a little too clean for my tastes these days. Joe had been my best friend since seventh grade and kindly drove all the way up to Milwaukee from Columbus, Ohio to play on the album. Louanne had been the bassist on the previous album, Disturb The Air. But she was a better keyboard player and singer so I had her do what she did best instead of being hampered with the bass, which she was never all that enthusiastic about. The musicianship on this album is far tighter and more professional than on the previous Dimentia 13 records.
I hoped the resulting album would help me break out of the tight bound confines of the pysch genre and maybe even make some money. In the end, though, it didn’t sell any better than the previous Dimentia 13 records. In fact, it did a little worse than the albums that came before. In the end, it was the final album I put out on Midnight Records.
It took me a long time to start liking this album again. At the time of its release I thought it was great. But when it met with poor sales and critical indifference I started looking at it as a failure, a reminder of a bad time in my life and a misguided attempt to sell out and be commercial. Nowadays I can listen to it and enjoy it, but for years I couldn’t.
These days I sometimes play a couple songs from this album when I give talks about my books. Buddha Was A Good Ol' Boy always gets a laugh and God Pt. III, which I also play at speaking gigs sometimes, is a prototype for some of the topics I write about these days. In fact the lyrics on most of the album are really philosophical and very much inspired by the Zen training I’d been going through for close to a decade by then.
Here to tempt you into buying the album are two tracks that I had intended to include as bonus tracks on the download. I’m not sure why I didn’t. I think I just spaced out and forgot to send them to the people at Smog Veil Records who arranged the download. The good news is that you now can have them absolutely free of charge. Hopefully they will act like the first taste of crack a dealer gives you and make you need to buy the rest.
SKULL SHINING
This instrumental was meant to be a bonus track on the original CD release. But it never made it on there and I don’t remember why. It’s based on a riff I once heard the Meat Puppets play. It’s also the most overtly psychedelic song recorded during the album sessions. So maybe that’s why it was left off. I like it a lot now and if I could I would make this the first song on the album.
TELL ME WHERE SHE’S GONE
This is probably the most overtly pop song recorded for the album. Again, I don’t recall why it was dropped. In fact, I didn’t even remember recording it for the album until I found it on a cassette about a year ago. I remember thinking at the time I wrote the song that it had the potential to become a college radio hit. So why would I have left it off the record? Who knows? Anyway, I was especially proud of ripping off one of the riffs from the 70s prog rock masterpiece Hocus Pocus by the Dutch band Focus in the middle section.
MOTH
This was the final album I recorded as Dimentia 13 for Midnight Records. It was never released by them, though, because I had a huge argument with the record label. I felt like I deserved to be treated better. In retrospect they treated me pretty fairly. It’s just that they were never very open with me about what they were doing. Whatever.
I remember trying to correct some of the mistakes I’d made on Flat Earth Society with this record. I was no longer so obsessed with making a contemporary sounding album. So some of the overtly psychedelic sounds I’d eliminated on Flat Earth Society are allowed to return. The result is a much more balanced album. It’s still more of a pop album than the early Dimentia 13 records. But it’s truer to what I really wanted to hear.
Because of the disputes with Midnight Records, this album was never really finished. I made a mix that I submitted to Midnight. But it was awful. I was trying to recapture the sound that Glen Rehse had created when he produced the Disturb The Air album. But I didn’t really know how he accomplished it. So I just overloaded every track with reverb and echo until the whole thing sounded like it had been recorded in a cave. It was a murky depressing sound and for years I thought of this as a murky depressing album.
Then late in 2009 when I was cleaning out some old boxes I came across a cassette of rough mixes for the album. These were created as reference mixes to guide in making the final mixes later. I told the engineer to simply make all of the tracks we recorded audible and not add any effects. When I listened to these again I discovered that the album itself was not murky and depressing at all. It was just all that reverb and shit I added on later.
For the currently available download version, I used these rough mixes and ran them through a digital mixing system to bring out some of the nuances. The only song on which I used the mix I had considered “final” back in 1991 was Anjalina. The rest are rough mixes.
The band on this album was the live version of Dimentia 13 as it existed in 1991. I sang lead vocals and tortured the guitars. Joe Nofziger, my best friend since seventh grade plays bass and sings backing vocals, and Steve McKee, once the drummer of my favorite Akron-based punk band The F-Models plays drums.
The lyrics are a kind of autobiographical rock opera about my return to Akron after three years in Chicago. But that would have been such an incredibly mundane subject for a rock opera that I never let anyone know that’s what it was. The Pamela Song is about a girl I dated in Akron. The Calico Girl in the song of that name is someone I left behind in Chicago. That same girl is also the subject of Panther.
Anjalina isn’t about a girl at all, but is about my friend Jim Bradler who had died a few years before very suddenly when he was only 25 years old. The song lists off a whole string of phrases he used to say, like “give me her number.”
Precious One is my attempt at writing a Badfinger song. But I was too embarrassed to use the original heart-on-my-sleeve romantic lyrics I’d written and instead wrote a bunch of psychedelic sounding nonsense. Love Song '73 was my attempt to write the kind of song The Partridge Family might have played in 1973. Again it’s about someone I knew. Walk Like An Insect contains my poor attempt to do a rap about the then-current state of the country. Another Song About Heaven is a parody of the band Warrant, who were huge at the time. The reason I wrote a Warrant parody is because Joe had been in a band called Blu whose drummer Steve Chamberlin had moved to California and joined Warrant. We’d both been friends with Steve and were kind of amazed by this.
Honey I'm Your Ghost was an attempt to write a Cramps song. Lux Interior was from Akron. Smash Your Head was about the frustrations of trying to make it in the music business. Somehow all of this stuff related to Akron and what was happening in my life there at the time.
I still really like this album. I know it sounds egotistical to give your own record a glowing review. But I was trying to write and record songs that I personally liked. So, of course I’m gonna like them! But I feel like this is a happy, upbeat album even though some of the specific subject matter is not. It’s an album about fighting the good fight even when you feel like you’re probably going to lose in the end.
Here is my favorite song from the MOTH LP, available for free on this here blog to hopefully make you feel guilty enough to buy the rest:
Anjalina
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STRIKE !
Regards,
Gerald
G, touché!
Good stuff.
Both tracks were fun distractions from Genjokoan while waiting at Narita Airport. Thanks for sharing!
Well, as the "outside independent member", I would like to offer a seat to my brother Brad, if he would have it.
Blogger gniz said...
If Jundo starts an objective, autonomous board of directors/oversight committee then something good has come of this.
I'm not really holding my breath though. Filling such positions with a bunch of Treeleafers who want to please Jundo or have shown themselves to be good little soldiers is not gonna cut it, imo.
then
jundo cohen said...
Well, as the "outside independent member", I would like to offer a seat to my brother Brad, if he would have it. Seriously, I cannot think of anyone who would be a better candidate for that, and it would be a great bridge so that people can see that the things between him and me were a tempest in a teapot. So, consider it hereby officially offered, and I ask you to talk with him about it and see if you can get him to accept. He would not have to be involved in monitoring every post, but any member could write to him with a complaint and he would investigate and write about it as he wishes. I think it a nice idea. Please talk with him about it, as it is a serious offer.
If not, I will try to find an unrelated, respected Zen teacher (not related to Genpo! :-) )who might step in in that role.
I will keep you informed of how the rest of the board is set up, and I expect you will post about it.
Gassho, J
Since you gave up your Apartment March 1, 2010 which coincides with Katagiri Roshi's 20th anniversary of his death you are welcome to crash at my Phoenix pad and check out the scene.
And the bowling is great!
The tunes aren't bad. Thanks for sharing them!
A courtyard common to all will be swept by none.
Dude, Anjalina is awesome.
It's cool how the balance between retro-psychedelic and dance pop ended up with some good old new wave punk like Anjalina. I love that kind of stuff.
"A courtyard common to all will be swept by none."
True enough Seagal.. The Godless Commies never sweep their courtyards except when threatened by force.
Taigu posted this on the treeleaf site. - [Taigu, teacher at Treeleaf Sangha, was born in 1964, started Zazen early and received Shukke Tokudo in 1983 at age 18 from Rev. Mokudo Zeisler of the Deshimaru Lineage. Received Dharma Transmission from Chodo Cross in 2003. Now resides in Osaka, Japan.]
This seems odd.. at least to me, that Mike Cross, who was basically told by Jundo Cohen that he needed psychiatric care after he was booted out of Dogen Sangha, decides that Pierre Turler has what it takes to be a teacher in his former teacher's tradition. Then Pierre partners up with the same Jundo Cohen at Treeleaf after Jundo is booted from DS. Does this make any sense at all? Why did Taigu go to Mike Cross for his transmission and Jundo Cohen for students? If this was a job resume I wouldn't hire him.
Because they are the sane, wise and gifted ones in the disfunctional crazy family? That also explain a lot of the jealousy directed toward them around here and in DS,
Now I know already 3 people of Dogen-Sangha (or at least former DS participants, regarding Jundo)who would need psychiatric care!!!
Every organization has different ways to handle people !
As far as I know Nishijima, he is not the one who recommends psychiatric care for his students.
And I can't get this impression from Brad either.
re: the music.
Good stuff.
I liked it.
Jundo! Have you lost your mind?
Why are you always posting your personal things in this blog?
Collecting soldiers? Lost Brads email-adress?
You got dharma-transmission?
For what? Holding Nishijimas hand, when he signed the documents?
Man, even Seagal Rinpoche is a little more joyful than you.
Try to be diplomatic or diplomatic, but not diplomatic.
As Mysterion postulated once:
I know an AUTHORITY when I see one...
Kónnichi wá !
Gerald
At least Chet has the courage to place a picture of himself beside his words.
Some people have it, some people don't.
Peace back at ya.
The it I was referring to was courage, not Chet's picture. :)
by Jundo on Sat Jun 19, 2010 3:51 am
Hi Guys,
I just had a nice chat with Chet. He said I could discuss this subject here, because he does all the time ... including on this thread..
Source
Awwww,
I'd propose a group (grope?) hug if I though that Rinz wouldn't go for my nuts with that scary looking set of choppers.
Regards,
H.
"Buddhism ia based in the psychological grammar that says we cannot eliminate the so-called negative forces of afflictive emotions. The only way to work with them is to encounter them directly, enter their world, and transform them.
Thus, according to Buddhist psychology, anger can be transformed into mirrorlike wisdom or clarity; pride can be transformed into equalizing or equanimity and generosity; desire can be transformed into discriminating wisdom or discernment; jealousy can be transformed into unhindered wisdom or enlightened activity; and ignorance can be transformed into the wisdom of our True Nature, or clear and energetic intelligence."
Exerpt from: The fruitful darkness by Joan Halifax
So there's hope for everybody.
"So there's hope for everybody."
Hi,
There sure is; too much in some cases we need hardly mention. However, the "psychological grammar" of hope might not be all it's cracked up to be... sincere effort, on the other hand...
Regards,
Harry.
Sincere effort is sooo hard.. Hope on the other hand is so easy a child can do it.
Hi Anon,
I find that kids, up to a certain age (sometimes 9, sometimes 90), are much more direct and honest than 'hope'. I find that they just want things straight away and if they can't get 'em straight away, rather than hang around pissing everybody off with their wonderful, elaborate 'hopes' (that are just extended, complicated 'wants'?) they bawl their eyes out, stamp their feet, scream and shout, call us adults evil, hurtful bastards... and then just get over it.
Regards,
Harry.
Back in the cassette culture days I used to write reviews of all kinds of independent musical releases for SOUND CHOICE and OPTION mags. If I couldn't find a way to say something nice about the tunes, I would always find something to compliment the musicians on, knowing myself how much blood sweat and tears goes into recording. In that vein, I have to say that the album cover artwork on both Flat Earth Society and Moth is excellent!
Harry: Hope is dope.
John E: You ain't that good yourself old son. But you got a hell of a haircut.
Dope indeed.
...BTW, I'm having a funny exchange over on the About.com Buddhist blog with Zen Master Barbera there arising from her post about one of Brad's posts here:
It involves koans and the role of the language/expression of realisation and non-realisation. Rinz, you might get a kick out of it, seeing two Sotoist ley bums floundering around like hapless self appointed Zen authorities.
Regards,
Harry.
Dear Jundo,
You wrote: ."
That describes my condition too. I have post-trauma stress-condition which is essentially a disregulation of the part of my nervous system I can't control. It resulted from experiencing some significant physical injuries from accidents in childhood. Although I'm now receiving therapy, when my system is 'activated' by a stressful event I charge up with energy and become disconnected from how my body feels. I also interpret things suspiciously, act more aggressively, and say and do things I wish I didn't, etc. Later I will 'collapse' with exhaustion and feel unmotivated for extended periods.
I don't know if your friend has the same condition, but from your description that person might be interested to read about the kind of therapy I am receiving:
Best Wishes,
Anonymous
Hayzus Christi, Harry. You've got alot of time on your hands. Put them to better use and you and Barbara get a F'in room...
Rinz, Anything you read is read subjectively, you can't help but read it "your way." How you read it is simply how YOU read it.
One person's "words divorced from practice don't mean anything" is another's poetry.
I find Babs assertion that you shouldn't read sutras without an advanced zen person to guide you a little odd. This is exactly what many fundamentalist christians say about the bible. Reading it on your own may even lead you to unbelief, so you should have a theologian or preacher standing by to interpret everything for you so that you don't misunderstand. Presumably we need a mullah handy before we can read the quran too. Perhaps we need a genuine advanced communist available before we read the works of Marx and Engels. So you need an orthodox soto zennist standing over your shoulder telling you exactly what Dogen meant by xy or z.
I don't buy it. I do think a strong zen practice is important to understand either the sutras or writings of any old master, including Dogen. But to suggest it requires someone to interpret it so that there's no misunderstanding seems to enforce orthodoxy to the nth degree. Perhaps the 'adnvanced zen person' herself has misunderstood the whole point of a text. Who gets to determine who is advanced or who has misunderstood? I keep expecting Babs to say; "Ahhh Grasshopper..."
Barbera said wanted: "a teacher who has good understanding of dharma."
So who is it? Brad, Jundo or anonymous?."
Delusion mixed with realization. Defilement with purity. Throwing them both out and overturning the bowl sounds like a good zen answer but it points to an attachment to emptiness, a one-sided view. Such a throwing away leaves no way for buddha to actually function and save all beings. What will the community eat? The adept must be able to drink the milk and leave the poison though they are mixed in one bowl.
I'm thinking of renting "Baraka", anyone seen it?
High-def beautiful footage from around the world?
Anyone got any super-chillout movie recommends?
Thanx ...
John E Mumbles,
In your three posts in this blog you are critical of three different people. Telling Brad his music isn't that great, telling Harry he has too much time on his hands, and telling Rinz the one true way to read....
That's impressive man....R u that critical of everyone in real life?
This blog has become so boring.
Fuck it, I was having a really bad day. Thanks for pointing that out Anonymous. My apologies to all.
... Rinz, I hear ya, but on the very basic level before "you" let go, where I saw Harry and Barbara's discussion, its only your world: Welcome to it.
Anonymous said...
This blog has become so boring.
That's because all the trolls came over to my site the last day or two, they'll be back when things die out...
I remember "Tell Me Where She's Gone" from back in the day, maybe from a demo. It's quite the good song and nice to hear it again.
Thanks Dale!
I'm nothing more than an ANONYMOUS CUMSHOT, so take this for what it's worth:
Jundo's behavior over on "Reblogging Brad Warner" shows that, if anything, he's regressing and becoming even more childish (in a not-good way) and passive-aggressive.
And to think he and the other one are about to start cranking out Zen cybermonks.
"Baraka", anyone seen it?
Yeah, I liked in and you probably will too, as long as you like the music of Philip Glass.
"Unmistaken Child" was also pretty cool. The high point of the movie is actually the shots of the beautiful Himalayan scenery.
Baraka?
Isn't he some character from Mortal Combat?
Trolls Come Home!
Please, for God's sake...
Come HOME!
Leave Reblogging alone
and come back to your first love.
Without you this blog comment section is dying... dying, I tell you. We need you so much. We are so sorry we were mean and disrespectful to you.
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R. A. Lafferty
Nice quote. I love R.A. Lafferty. ...Subjectively speaking, of course.
R we ther yt?
Word Verification = chills
Oh oh oh... I've got one! "What others criticize you for, cultivate, for that is you." -Jean Cocteau
Statement from Zen Studies Society
Posted by Philip Ryan in : Zen , 4 comments.
UPDATE: In response to further questions (see comments below), the Board writes: “While Eido Roshi has resigned from the Board, he remains abbot of NYZ and DBZ. Internal discussions continuing.”.
February 21, 2010 10:23 PM
If any of you fine folk at Treeleaf, and I believe there are many, want to take a peek into what someone very close to you has been up to recently, take a VERY CLOSE look at comments to Gniz's post, "Genpo and Jundo are not one the same." I think you might recognize one of the trolls over there.
He is posting from Japan.
SOMEONE IS POSTING ANONYMOUSLY FROM JAPAN?
WHO IS IN JAPAN AND KNOWN TO POST ON THAT SITE?
Regarding the "best buddhist blogs" award this blog has gotten.. I looked over the list, and it seems that Brad is the only one who isn't completely nuts. Good job, Brad.
Some of you may think all of this dharma soap opera is a modern or american thing.
These are from a discussion about Shen Hui over on ZFI:
About Shen Hui:
"For him to say he cared nothing for his own life is a laugh! He wanted that robe and lineage for his own. He wanted to be the seventh patriarch. Later in his life he was involved in selling ordinations. Wanna be a monk? Pay enough and we'll ordain you on this platform, right here in this square!."
Then there's this from another site by Vladimir K on the Northern vs Southern Chan split:
"Although history has, in a sense, vindicated Shen-hui’s position, in many respects he was, at
best, a questionable (though highly effective) evangelist for Ch’an. He was not above making
up stories to promote Hui-neng and his “school”. He claimed that Bodhidharma and all
subsequent masters in the lineage taught the Diamond Sutra rather than the Lankavatara
Sutra, a claim Yampolsky (1967:34) dismisses as “pure fabrication.” Dumoulin (1994:113-
114) called him “unscrupulous” in his attacks on the Northern School. Shen-hui accused
Northern School practitioners of attempting to steal Bodhidharma’s robe, trying to cut off the
head of Hui-neng’s mummified body, effacing Hui-neng’s tomb inscription and altering the
inscription on Shen-hsiu’s stele to call him the Sixth Patriarch (Yampolsky, 1967:28-29;
Dumoulin, 1994:113-114) He also claimed that he was a tenth stage bodhisattva, a claim
Poceski judges as “outrageous”."
Wow. Selling ordination certificates. Is this any different than charging for Big Mind seminars?
To support the military too. What if Genpo gave his money from Big Mind seminars to George Bush to finance his invasion of Iraq?
Does Jundo claim that he's a 10th stage bodhisattva?
As the dharma turns.
You have testicles? Huh. Sure sounds like you're hatin' on Me, brutha. I ain't fat, except with love for you Rinz.
It's ok John E..
Rinz gets confused.. We all love him here. Some of us even love his Mama.
CAPTCHA : lessof : I kid you not
You guys wouldn't know Ken Show if he bit you in the ass!
I definitely love his Mama long time. Shoot, he may be my son for all I know.
Rinz! Son! Come home to your unenlightened everlovin' Papa!! Sorry I neutered you, boy, it was for the sake of the barnyard animals...
Mama sez sorry, too.
We proud, Son, keep up the Kensho!
Look to your heart, son. Your Mama and I know you have abandonment issues. Come home. We did a bad, bad thing (OK we do that often, ...blush!). Enlighten us with your wisdom, son, we are sad old fornicators.
What? Koan got your tongue?
What happened to Anon108? Did you nice folks run him off?
o/
Hi
Captcha = miashe
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I kid you not.
But what about people who get killed in violent attacks such as you faced. Did they also actually need to be killed or was it their true will to be dead?
If one believes in rebirth literally this theory could be logical, but I know you don't so please explain further.
Janne- Dont miss the point where Brad says "I only apply this to myself"
You cant think for another and you certainly cant think for the universe. you can look at your OWN life and try to make sense of that, but what I think brad is saying and I agree with myself is that this way of looking at the world can only be applied by YOU to YOURSELF, not ohers.
Even if you take a vow of silence, that too can and will be misinterpreted. Such is life.
Well said. I wish I could take a vow of silence, but everyone around me would just say "aww, he's being aloof", or "he must be mad at me".
Finally finished the new book. Love it. (X-cept fo' the goofy footnotes, he-he, ha-ha....but I realize that's just Brad's humor).
.”.
It doesn’t sound very sincere. And it doesn’t make sense, too.
I don’t believe you can’t apply it to others, and I have a good example of someone who did, successfully.
“I don't even care if this idea is objectively true or not. I believe it is or I wouldn't use it.” - What does this mean? (!)
I don’t know but this may be just the reason brad got this comment. KWIM.
(- and Janne, - how do you “know” - I’m kind of curious, - did Mysterion tell you?)
Once again...
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Janne - I'm joking about Mysterion (btw, - talking about a vow of silence, - I mean, - just consider ...) but I am serious about the question. Not that important though.
Well Brad said himself:
"In fact in my case it didnt really fix much of anything. OK. A few nagging fears that had dogged me for ages were gone.. Yet you're not going to live forever either. Youre gonna be dead as a doornail someday and ain't nothin' gonna bring you back. You won't get reincarnated either."
Janne - .” - I could say this for myself too. And even if I could disappear this wouldn’t necessarily be frightening. I just wouldn't exist.
Second - I'm gonna be dead - but not as a doornail, doornails don't die in the first place.
- And - “You won't get reincarnated either”, - B is misleading you. - He is not going to. - Most people will. - He’s intentionally getting misunderstood. - Some do that too.
(I haven’t read the whole thing. I might want to but I easily get a headache.)
Years ago, at the time of the infected blood scandal, in France, a minister declared that she felt responsible yet not guilty. Immediately she was shot down in full flight by the media, who pretended that she was playing upon words. But the distinction was, I feel, important.
We have a share of responsibility in what happens to us. But we have to be careful into not transforming that into guilt. We are NOT guilty that thugs assult us. But we have to examine our responsibility in it.
I have stated this countless times, but I have had a very bad master in my trade, who was more interrested in humiliating me than in teaching me violin making. But I had been warned by my father not to trust him. And I had had quite a few warnings from the man's behaviour as well. So if I stuck with him, wasn't it that, through my desperation to learn violin making, I was providing the thug with the club with which to club me?
The real solution would have been to go somewhere else, but I chickened out because that would have meant going abroad, in a foreign land, having to starve and work hard outside the school to pay for my tuition fees and so on.
So the "buyers beware", in the end remains the only solution. What's more, Anonymous' attempts to drag Brad into the feud with Graham are counterproductive, since they just annoy those who are too far away to be able to do anything about it, and won't change anything to those who are still enthralled by the man. I have here, in my city, a Dharma "uncle" who might deserve a lot of criticism, but that won't deter his disciples, who think that his Dharma talks are "truly inspired" and would probably think mine are a tad too plain and down to earth.
wtf
Brad... I am surprised.
Disappointed and a little sickened too...
You seemed to find all the time in the world to go after Genpo and his scam, arguing over topics like what is enlightenment, and how you know that what Genpo is selling ain't it... Stuff, that is arguably hard to pin down.
But when it comes to things that are EASILY verified such as ordination papers - it just isn't worth your time???
Oh yeah?
Where is YOUR proof that you are ordained?
(and with that question, *BAM*, you can instantly substantiate your ordination right? Pictures of your papers? Pictures of your ordination ceremony? OF COURSE YOU CAN!)
Barry Dogo Graham has NEVER done this, even after being repeatedly asked!
Just by looking at the Raksu's he has done for people you can tell he is a sham!
You know Japan...? he claims (on Sitting Frog Zen website) that he trained "...at Butsudo Zen Center in Kyoto, Japan, where he received Dharma Transmission from Ando Yamashiro Roshi."
Is that hard for somebody that speaks Japanese to verify this??
I will NEVER for the life of me understand why teachers don't think that exposing fakers is important...
It's hard enough for a new student to figure what's what when first starting out on the Zen path, and having the proof, pictures, paper and pedigree is no guarantee that the teacher is a good one.
But THIS...
There has got to be a standard, a base line at least, to be able to tell if people are even what they say they are.
And most importantly, there has to be teachers who take it as their responsibility.
(And PS - Hawking your T shirts in a blog posting where the poster you quote is ripping on you for being more interested in hawking your t shirts than caring weather or not Barry Graham is legit.... a tad low brow IMO.)
Sorry - this whole thing makes me a little hot under th' rakusu...
What is the difference between enlightenment and schizoid personality disorder?
Zach, someone asked me once a long while ago about whether a certain Zen teacher (you guess who, I'm not telling) was legit or not. I told him that I honestly didn't know but that if he wondered about this he could simply ask that Zen teacher to produce his certificates or have his ordaining teacher write a letter vouching for it. I told him that's what I did once when such questions came up about me. When I saw a lot of stuff about that Zen teacher on the Internet I started wondering if I was the one who touched off the storm..
In fact, Genpo's paperwork is all very much in order. Which also says something about the issue of paperwork. It doesn't mean you're not a charlatan just because you have a certificate of authenticity.
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Sigh...
Sadly, you are all too right about this. I am in the same lineage Genpo is, and to me personally, Genpo is doing EVERYTHING that my teacher warned to look out for... and is a charlatan. Even my teacher never came out publicly against Big Mind, but to his students he said the whole thing looked like a scam to make money...
Sorry if I came out strong.
I guess the authorities can only do so much - it's just frustrating.
As an aside, Barry Graham has booted folks who asked him about papers/proof...
I guess this is proof enough that he is a fraud.
Check this link from Zach.
Check the bottom two lines.
Tells you what Tricycle is good for.
What Dogen calls “stupid secular people” may not always be apparent.
Apparently.
It may be more important than the what's-his-name story in itself. (- Not that I understand why Brad won’t mention his name)
If a person fakes his credentials once it means he's a fake.
No true master would do that.
I can't really see why anyone would see such an essential need to go further.
If I buy into the notion of anatman (that there is no "self") - and I do - then "blaming the victim" makes no sense. I am the universe; the victim is the universe too; so I am to blame for others' suffering.
Even if I don't buy into it, it makes no sense. I mean, which is more likely: African kids starve because of negative consequences of karma from a previous life, or subsidies to US and European farmers made by people I elected make indigenous African farming prohibitively expensive causing repeated famines, all so that I can spend $4 on Cheerios and buy my third plasma-screen TV with the money I save?
But even if you don't accept that, the starving Africans cause you suffering as well because if they weren't suffering, they would be economically, socially, culturally, academically, intellectually and politically more active, contributing more to humanity generally. We all miss out because little Mbutu isn't eating today.
"I don't even care if this idea is objectively true or not. I believe it is or I wouldn't use it. But even if it turns out I'm wrong, this way of thinking has been so incredibly useful I still wouldn't give it up."
Fascinating.. It seems to me that you are saying that belief is more useful than the truth.
CAPTCHA : reagun : I kid you not
Anonymous Bob,
ever heard of a term "prajna"? :)
R at 9:56 AM:
That last sentence in parentheses, you should've stopped at
"-Not that I understand..."
Captcha: wimmon
When we attach to a problem, we make the problem worse. When we attach to a solution, we make the problem worse. - Dogo Barry Graham
My chicks are cuter than Brad's Finnish lasses...check 'em out:
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What a complete and utter load of bollocks. You could have "gotten to the bottom of it" in half the time it took it took me to read this post, much less the time you took to write it.
You refuse to use a name that you simply point to elsewhere on your blog - why? For what reason? Why the gamesmanship, obfuscation? Just say what you mean. Is it related to the picture of you embracing each other? You are already involved - own it.
Brad, you seem happy to accept your role as Zen authority when it suits you. You keep saying how you don't like to accept money for teaching Zen, and complain about others who do so, but you make your living essentially teaching Zen, in the guise of writing books - If you weren't a "Zen Master" no one would care, and you apparently wouldn't have any subject matter to write about.
Graham is symptomatic of exactly the shadow you and your work is casting. He's clearly modeled himself on you, as others are. You seem to have plenty of time to form opinions about all kinds of other pointless things. Own your impact in the milieu - I wish you weren't so prevalent, but unfortunately for us all, you are.
Kevin Souza seems to have made your work easy - go to his blog, spend the 15 minutes it takes to read all of its contents, and if you aren't convinced that BARRY GRAHAM is a complete fraud and pathological user then you shouldn't be teaching anyone anything, much less asserting yourself as an authority about Zen - which you unequivocally do, all your disclaimers notwithstanding.
What a cop out.
zach @ 9:22:
precisely!
precisely because the fakery of the faker is already out there for others to see and read, precisely because dude can't/won't produce credentials or letters of authentication...
precisely because of these things and all your links to documentation of these shenanigans from other sources
precisely no need for anyone else to denouce the guy, it's been done done already
anon. @6:20
ditto for you
you seem to be saying with regard to Mr. Graham: he is a pile of shit! See, he smells like shit and it's been documented! See, he feels like shit and the labs have tested it! Now Brad, come over here and taste it and tell me that doesn't taste exactly like shit!
How much verification of his sleaziness do you need?
Why do you need Brad to denouce the pathetic dude's ass to be satisfied that the dude has been sufficiently denounced?
snessfir: I kid you not
There are always sociopaths and psychopaths who seek to use others, steal from them, abuse. The methods just change with the scenery, as new opportunities present themselves. Warner has largely crafted the parameters for this con job.
Do we leave victims to just figure out in what way they 'secretly desired' to be abused? Or do we speak out when we smell rat?
When the smoke around Graham grows so thick that potential victims have to virtually choke on it to get near him, then the American Zen community will have done its job. He is asserting himself as an authority in that community. He isn't. He's a two-bit con man and abuser.
This is not "he said/she said", or anything close to it.
anon @ 6.20 etc,
You sound exasperated that Brad isn't doing what you'd do if you were Brad...Or that Brad isn't responding how Brad would respond if he were you.
Well...
The trouble with SBZA is that it gains most of it's authenticity from members who truly are working dharma or whatever... but like all organizations it will be infiltrated and corrupted by some and membership withheld as blackmail or used as a shield for evils. Such things are inevitable.
So one must be very careful whom they lend their trust and identity to because you will be judged by the company you keep - just like Aesop's farmer catching the stork in his field.
@ Captcha = luenta
not at all. He chose to address the issue - only in the laziest, most irresponsible way imaginable. If he's going to address it, ADDRESS IT.
C-O-P O-U-T.
Anon @ 7.09pm etc
You sound exasperated that Brad didn't address the issue the way you have addressed the issue.
Well...
anon @6:46
who now DOESN'T know that the emperor isn't wearing clothes?
seems plain to see
Brad or anyone else saying 'now looka he'ah, all these people have documented seeing the emperor claiming to wear clothes, but...as evidenced he'ah, he ain't got a stich on!
Do you, sir(or madam as the case may be) not have your own eyes?
Perhaps you expect Brad to oversee a zen equivalent of the Spanish Inquisition
well, well, well....
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
(thanks M.P.)
anon@7:09
you aren't lazy if you aren't doing something that doesn't need to be done
Brad has no problem slamming Genpo as a fake. But when it comes to someone like Barry Graham, he is not willing to even name him. One wonders why...
Master Svaha,
Perhaps Brad hasn't named whoever, this time, because he doesn't want to provide quotes that will very likely be used by this person's friends or enemies as fuel for yet another online spat - - for all the reasons stated in his post and in his subsequent comments.
But Brad seems to have no problem providing quotes that can be and has been used by Genpo's friends or enemies as fuel for online spats...
Yes indeed, Master S, but Brad feels rather differently about Genpo and...whoever.
Have you read the post and comments?
What post/comments?
Brad and Barry are lovers. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I'm just saying.
Not Lovers, butt buddies.
Funny, Graham claims to not believe in anything and Mysterion claims not to believe in anything. Butt buddies.
Karma=one of the 5 Niyamas or processes that move in the world.
There is no karma without intention. Unless Brad intended to get the shit kicked out of him, by taunting those guys or whatever, karma attached to him is irrelevant. It was not his "karma" to take an ass-whooping. Similarly with other "victims". The whole point, it seems, when Brad writes about the application of karma to himself is this. His intention.
Tsunamis, rape, abuse, fraud and so forth are not karma driven by those who are victim to these things.
There is no big scorekeeper in the sky keeping a list of who's naughty and nice.
Here's a big explanation about it. There are many if you google Buddhist Niyamas.
The Theory of Karma Basically Karma is not fatalism.
And if you don't like the Theravada explanation here's one from the Mahayana, specifically from a Zen guy.
Komment on Karma
Here's a list of the Niyamas for those too lazy to look it up.
Utu-niyama are the laws of physics, such as the weather and the changes brought about by heat and cold.
Bija-niyama are laws of heredity, which is best described in the adage, "as the seed, so the fruit."
Citta-niyama laws of psychology and cognition.
Kamma-niyama is law of cause and effect. [and it's not "personal" =anatta, nor is it the "law of attraction" or some other kind of bullshit like that]
Dhamma-niyama is the laws of the interdependence of all things, the way all things arise, exist and then cease.
Basic fucking Buddhism. Sheesh.
On the Barry Graham situation.
I've been writing about this for a couple of years as have a few others.
There's no reason Brad has to get on his high horse and go after the guy. He's got his own issues.
So what if Brad takes a stand and denounces him. Anyone actually think Graham cares about that? Brad, Joko Beck, John Tarrant, Kobutsu Malone, guys on death row and hundreds of others are only extras in the melodrama Graham's created and wallows in. He plays all these parts-big time international writer, Zen master, death row reporter and so on. Then invokes Ikkyu and/or some PTSD victim role when he gets called on it. He's got the angles sussed out.
Other than warning people, which Brad is rather tepidly doing, there is not much more that can be done unless someone files some charges. And I know that there are a few people who do have a viable legal case. This would likely include anyone who he performed a marriage ceremony for since he is not a recognized clergy person by any authorizing body. [that's called fraud Here is more on that specifically in reference to the Graham situation.]
I agree Nella, he doesn't have to go after the guy, but I don't agree with the comment of "having the bullshit detector on" or the "buyer beware".
Yes, we do have to be aware, and do our best to weed through the bullshit.
But. Brad's met Graham, and even believed that he was a Rinzai teacher. He mentions it. I believe they were even in communication for a bit.
So, where was Brad's "bullshit detector"? If he was a new student off the street, like myself, he could've just as easily been duped like the rest of us. Yes, this is speculation, but Graham is VERY convincing off the bat. He talks a great game. He hasn't made it this far by not.
Sometimes that detector just isn't sharp enough. The guys that are good at this, know what they're doing. It's dangerous.
Seriously said...
What is the difference between enlightenment and schizoid personality disorder?
9:29 AM
The enlightened one sees the disorder in himself, the unenlightened one doesn't.
Brad, thanks for your teaching. I think I know why I wanted that shitty thing to happen -) and I'm already acting with a new understanding.
Rich, If it was a simple as that, most all of us here would already see ourselves as enlightened.
Oh..
Most all of us here do see ourselves as enlightened.
First mumbles now ashiq chris this blog is taken over by black magic sufis!
Hey Kevin @11:32 I do recall when Graham was making remarks about being Brad's good buddy, dharma cousin or whatever. It was around the same time he was trying to get the dharma book published by Brad's old publisher. We don't hear anything about that book these days though. So who knows, maybe Brad, the publisher and other affiliated people got scammed by him too.
It's helpful to step back from these teachers and check out who actually publically supports them and who doesn't. I don't see many (other than Bernie Glassman) openly supporting Genpo for example. He just isn't mentioned by anyone or quoted, nor does his writing appear very often outside the Wilber/Cohen circle. But then again there is a whole underground set of connections in the Zen hierarchy. For example Big Mind is used at Jan Chosen Bay Roshi's very mainstream Great Vow Zen Monastery but you *never* see that advertised, mentioned on the website or in any ads. [it is mentioned in this video as a workshop topic at timecode 9:22]
So yeah the buyer not only has to beware but do some digging as well to find out what's really going on.
Jello Biafra once said that if you don't like a certain television show, turn the channel and if you don't like the Dead Kennedys then put on a different record. You dont need to eradicate the things you are uncomfortable with in the world.
If this Barry whoever is bothering you then dont go to him as a teacher. Simple as that. When you begin to round up a posse and demand that everyone be just as outraged as you are then you are the problem. Sooner or later those sort of witch hunts turn on themselves and everyone get a taste of burning at the stake.
Do the best YOU can in your life, spread the word if you must, but demanding that others to join in your crusade is where it gets scary. Please note that Brad never asked anyone to hate Genpopo, he put forth his view and facts and figured you would either be outraged or not, at the end of the day he didn't denounce anyone who decided not to agree with him.
I don't know who Barry is or anything about him, but if what he did is criminal then you should call the cops, if its merely morally reprehensible then don't patronize his services and spread the word in a reasonable way, more than that and you are causing harm, in my opinion.
Fake R @ 5:42 up here - I must've missed ashiq chris. Didn't read much.
R @ 7:49 am says: “I don’t believe you can’t apply it to others, and I have a good example of someone who did, successfully”.
There you are.
First real R then fake R then real R then fake R, these R's R taking over this blog!
Anon Bob @ 1:12 pm & Uku @ 1:27 pm: - What Brad is saying is not about Prajna. Brad kind of contradicts Sangai-yuishin and I’ve referred to this before but this is not the point.
Brad’s idea is that even though his thesis may be wrong he found out the subsequent line of thought proves practical. - So even if his initial assumptions are wrong this somehow works. Perhaps (theoretically*) due to other reasons he does not know. So he’d follow the line of action that proved useful even if he doesn’t really know why or how it works. Even in case he’s wrong, - he might find the real reasons later.
This is the rationale behind what he’s saying.
[* Cause Brad does not seem to always tell us the truth. See mine @ 8:36 am.]
And 6:36 is a fake.
What is a pirate's favorite letter?
R
Funny name, - Siegel.
Says who?
Brad says: "to me the Genpo Roshi stuff is far easier to pin down. I can see simply by watching one of his Big Mind® videos that he is a charlatan."
This is exactly how I feel about Graham. I've read his blog and watch the vid clips strewn about online, and all I can figure is that his accent is too seductive for Americans to handle. Scots are charming, no doubt. But the crap he says is almost invariably total bullshit.
And your opinion about Merzel is simply that - your opinion. It doesn't "pin down" anything. Graham on the other hand has a half-dozen women testifying that he suckered and abused them, a dozen former students saying he deceived and stole from then, the only Zen teachers he's had any proven contact with disavowing him and worse, and a long trail of proven deceptions, thievery, and lies IN PRINT. How you extrapolate that this is somehow less convincing than your exalted assessment of Merzel is beyond me.
So yeah, Brad, get your bullshit detector recalibrated, dude.
Kevin said: "So, where was Brad's "bullshit detector"? and, Sometimes that detector just isn't sharp enough. The guys that are good at this, know what they're doing. It's dangerous."
Despite his early nom de plume of Doubtboy, Brad has great faith and to his credit stands in polar opposition to dirtbags like Barry Graham even if he doesn't want to say so.
Brad said earlier, "I don't even care if this idea is objectively true or not. I believe it is or I wouldn't use it. But even if it turns out I'm wrong, this way of thinking has been so incredibly useful I still wouldn't give it up."
I think this is basic in Brad's philosophy and it doesn't seem much different from what the Baptists down the road believe. Put yourself in God's hands and get out of the way. What he wrote above seems to be a nice mental trick. But is it Buddhism?
One of the best reasons for going after people like Barry Graham was stated eloquently by Carl Sagan.
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People seek out a teacher at first... well... because they can acknowledge that there is something they don't know... and are willing to disconnect the bullshit detector to give the benefit of the doubt to the person representing the "tradition"...
That is how people get hooked.
That is how "zen Master Rama's" start.
And most importantly, that is why teachers need to lead the charge against frauds and hucksters like Barry Graham.
I havn't read so much of the C so I am not sure how the following would come off, however...
What is a "zen" thing to do?
I mean is "zen" about "zen" or is it about the universe everybody lives in? Is it aimed at itself or is it aimed at everything? Are you seeking to master some weird unclear thing called "zen" or are seeking to master living in reality?
R.
R
I didn't even post the last one. I posted another one and it was there, and I don't even think I clicked PYC and it posted the new one, and the old one is gone. It's worse than trolls.
Must be black magic, like you, or me or who? said earlier. Fucking sufis.
108 - you must not miss the 3rd link up on Brad’s post;
I think mumbles will like the book I linked @ 6:30 am; (not joking)
I linked the wrong song @ 7:00 am.
Why are you being so mean, Brad? We want you to agree with us and save us from ourselves. Is that so wrong? Isn't that what a zen saviour is supposed to do? We need your validation because we are not sure enough of ourselves to believe our own opinions. Please help! Quit "copping out"!
And there's another me up there too. [9:10 am]
Real diligent T.
Next is Zen.
Wow Old Bamboozles...
What a load of trolling crap.
Do you actually think folks are waiting with baited breath for Brad's holy words to "save us from ourselves"...??
The issue is that Barry Graham is a obvious fake.
Folks are just trying to understand why authentic teachers remain silent in regards to it...
Jesus, it is even obvious from the blog's responses that even IF Brad came out endorsing Barry Graham, that people would still not buy "Dogo's" bullshit.
If teachers can get together (as in the Aitken - Shimano letters) to call out another teacher on their bullshit, then why cant they come together to publicly decry outrageous frauds.
And my post is gone again.
It was there before “and”.
I’ll try again.
Zach, yours and others righteous indignation is pretty funny. Getting all worked into a lather like a bunch of tea partiers.
Who gives a shit about "authentic teachers" whatever that may or may not be? Like Brad says there are legit ones who will bamboozle you, and fake ones who will enlighten. WTF?
Grow ...
You know why I mention this chapter.
"Who gives a shit about "authentic teachers" whatever that may or may not be? Like Brad says there are legit ones who will bamboozle you, and fake ones who will enlighten. WTF?
Name a fake teacher who has enlightened anyone?
All you are saying is that there is no difference between real or fake, so who cares anyway... and THAT sir/ma'am, is a load of nonsense.
According to Red Pine (the amazing Bill Porter, if you haven't already, go now and read everything he's writ) Bodhidharma was indeed a real person, born in 440 in Kanchi, the capital of Pallava, a kingdom in southern India. In his book The Zen Teaching Of Bodhidharma, Red Pine has found by accident in Huang-Po's Essentials on the Transmission of the Mind a collection of sermons attributed to Bodhidharma. Here is an excerpt from the Bloodstream Sermon:
...And this real body is your mind. And this mind, through endless kalpas without beginning, has never varied. It has never lived or died, appeared or disappeared, increased or decreased. It is not pure or impure, good or evil, past or future. It. Its like space. You can't possess it and you can't lose it. Its movements can't be blocked by mountains, rivers, or rock walls. Its unstoppable powers penetrate the Mountain of Five Skandas and cross the River of Samsara. No karma can restrain this real body. But this mind is subtle and hard to see. Its not the same as the sensual mind. Everyone wants to see this mind, and those who move their hands and feet by its light are as many as the grains of sand along the Ganges but when you ask them, they can't explain it. They're like puppets. Its theirs to use. Why don't they see ...
- And if he’s a charlatan what about all the people he’s supposed to have transmitted. - Are they all charlatans as well? - Or has he fooled them into thinking they’ve been enlightened? - Or are they liars?
It doesn’t seem to make sense.
I don’t think you’ve ever referred to any of those questions.
And - … on the other hand - … I can’t really understand how could this person whom I understand even his name isn’t true have fooled you into thinking he’s a master, assuming you met him personally, and as I got it you spent a couple of days together.
Got it. FWIW.
Zach: Running after one teacher because he has "transmission" and rejecting another because he doesn't is hardly discrimination.
"Running after one teacher because he has "transmission" and rejecting another because he doesn't is hardly discrimination.
It IS discrimination.
HEALTHY discrimination.
I want to KNOW if my teacher at least is who he says he is!
If he is NOT, then it is healthy to discriminate.
A person who just sees this guy's picture together with Brad might see this as an affirmation that the guy is at least honest.
I'm not saying Brad should haunt him, (see pm’s @ 9:09 pm, perhaps others too) but I am saying he should make things clear for the record, especially since he's been engaged with him, it seems.
I can not really see why otherwise, though Brad might have his reasons.
Zach: Do you think Brad Warner is his "real name?" Thats his punk rock name like Jello Biafra.
FWIW I think Tattoozen at 5:58 AM said it best.
Change the channel if you don't like it. Exercise your free will that you claim this guy has control over.
Brad has already chickened out of fighting Genpo Roshi (Remember when Genpo used to post his challenges here on the blog?), and now this?
I'm losing respect for Warner.
*burns Hardcore Zen t-shirts*
I don't agree with changing the channel or turning our backs on what we see is wrong. It's not the same as not liking a band or a tv show. It's pretty much saying "hmm, that guy is pretending to be a zen teacher, and taking advantage of people? I'd rather not pay attention to that."
That's plain ignorance to me. But, yeah, you have the right to look away of you want. I'm just putting the facts out there. Something I, and alot of others wish there was a long time ago.
But you don't have to look.
Sour grapes.
You got too close and got your fingers burnt, now you can't move on.
Quit giving this guy your energy, he's still using you.
"After one of Genpo's students, Dan Hoen, started hanging out with Graham --- Graham denounced Brad in public several times -- I was present when he changed his whole position from "me and Brad are like that" to "Brad is a huckster". Barry went on to tell me Genpo was the finest Zen teacher he knew of and that he wanted to incorporate Big Mind at the Sitting Frog"
no, actually... I have moved on.... I've been practicing under another teacher for 2 years now, and haven't thought much about the guy until I started receiving emails from girls with their stories of abuse. To me, it's worth the energy spend what I have been. When it was just me and a few others, I didn't give a fuck. But when I heard the stories of what was actually going on, that's when I decided to speak up. I got my fingers burnt a long time ago. I've moved passed that. I was actually already gone and moved on before any of this started to surface in 2008. When I left Phoenix, I was still under the impression he was an ordained monk. I left for other personal reasons.
I'm just doing what I feel needs to be done. Take it for what it it's worth or change the website.
"Buddhism teaches that what we get in life is somehow something we wanted"."
This is want I think. Thanks for saving me the time to post it.
make that what not want
Brad: "Buddhism teaches that what we get in life is somehow something we wanted" (my bold)
NellaLou's post at 10:58pm above might help - -
"There is no karma without intention...The whole point, it seems, when Brad writes about the application of karma to himself is this. His intention."
I think that's what Brad's getting at too.
Happy Halloween!
That was a nice little documentry in the last post.
This current post reminds me of a book I read my freshmen year of college called On Course: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life by Skip Downing. I actually kept the book, because I found it inspiring and useful. There is a chapter that talks about how people that meet with difficult circumstances can either play the "victim role" or the "creator" role. Here's a quote "When people keep doing what they've been doing even when it doesn't work, they are acting as Victims. When people change their beliefs and behavoiros to create the best results they can, they are acting as Creators...When you accept personal responsibility, you believe that you create everthing in your life...Would it improve your life to believe that you create all of the joys and sorrows in your life? Answer 'Yes!' and see that belief imporve your life." Then the chapter goes on about the different attitudes of the Victim and Creator, but I'm not about to go through them all here. It's late and I need to go to bed.
So, Brad, your wanting to die or be dead caused some guys to beat you up with the intention to kill you?
Are they then not at fault?
"Buddhism teaches that what we get in life is somehow something we wanted"
Brad, may I inform you that your statement is misinformed. The Buddha taught that life in this world is characterized by eight kind of suffering:
1)Suffering of Birth
2)Suffering of Old Age
3)Suffering of Sickness
4)Suffering of Death
5)Suffering of being apart from the loved ones
6)Suffering of being together with people that one dislikes
7) Suffering of not getting what one wants
8)Suffering of the flouishing of the Five Skandhas.
Life is full of shit. We don't always get what we want.
So, Brad, your wanting to die or be dead caused some guys to beat you up with the intention to kill you?
Part 1 -
I'll take the liberty of editing some of what Brad wrote:
"I have often said that I believe whatever we get in this life is, at some level, something we wanted or needed. When I say this I am only applying it inwardly to myself...I often look at myself when I'm in a shitty situation and ask, "In what way did I want or need this shitty thing to happen?"
...when I apply this view to myself, my own suffering becomes much easier to bear. I remember...
...after the attack I thought to myself, "Buddhism teaches that what we get in life is somehow something we wanted, how does that apply here?"
When I began framing it this way to myself I felt like less of a helpless victim and more like a person who could do something active to improve his own life. And I did...For the first time in my life I stopped feeling like a victim of circumstance and really took control of my fate.
I don't even care if this idea is objectively true or not. I believe it is or I wouldn't use it. But even if it turns out I'm wrong, this way of thinking has been so incredibly useful I still wouldn't give it up."
Part 2 -
Seems to me Brad's saying that seeing yourself as a victim of random events can leave you confused, helpless and miserable. But understanding the Buddhist idea of the inter-connection of all things, including our own intentions, desires and actions, provides a model of how and why things happen "to us" that, by including our own 'wilful' behaviour, can give us a perspective in which the events of our lives are as much the result of what we intentionally did - as the result of what we've previously 'wanted' or 'needed' - as of what what others intentionally did - as the result of what they wanted or needed.
Why are we where we are in the first place? Solely as a result of 'circumstances beyond our control', or have our volitional/intentional actions (what we have 'wanted') play a part too?
I think Brad's saying that, looking at random, particularly unpleasant, events as being "somehow"/"at some level something we wanted or needed" has proved, for Brad, to be a useful and constructive approach - even if it's not an accurate/'true' model of how and why things happen (and what model is?).
Brad's not giving a lecture on the doctrine of Karma, but providing one example of how his understanding of the Buddhist idea of the role of (co-dependently-arising) volition/intention/desire/need/wants in what we usually see as 'things that happen to us' has enabled him to be happier.
That's how it reads to me, anyway.
Hey 108 - I thought you didn't believe in free will?
Don't start.
Interesting.
Here is a "LoL"...
Seems like Barry "Dogo" Graham bout his Kesa from Ebay.
He even gave the seller a review - and signed his name to it... *facepalm*
*bought* rather...
I have fat fingers this morning.:)
Of course, I’m sure Genpo and his butt-buddy Ken Wilber will end up on Oprah before then.
I can't speak for Brad, but:
My intentions aren't always readily apparent.
I have a penchant for crappy emotionally abusive relationships. If I'm not mindful (there's that dirty word again) of my actions, I'll choose to be around people who also like crappy emotionally-abusive relationships.
Why? Because I dig the rush of adrenaline from fighting and the rush of dopamine/endorphins/oxytocin that comes with make-up sex. Righteous anger followed by dirty/guilty/pissed-off poontang is... well, it's just tops. It's the bee's knees.
I also get something out of overbooking myself. Living my life in a never-ending crisis mode makes me feel... busy. And busy is important, so I must be important. It also means I'm a victim of being busy, so I always have a ready-made excuse if I fuck something up: not my fault, I have to rush.
Posting know-it-all comments on a stranger's blog, such as I'm doing right now, also provides cheap thrills. I can argue self-righteously because the bit of my brain that tones shit down for social cohesion gets turned off when the exchange is through an impersonal medium, such as the Internet.
My frontal lobe was designed by evolution to run permutations of future outcomes based on my previous experiences to figure out what I should do in the present moment. It's the miracle that has made humanity what it is, and it's about as good at predicting the future as a Magic Eight-Ball. It wildly overestimates benefits and underestimates costs, or vice versa: good for ensuring procreation and survival, not so good the rest of the time.
Especially because it runs on my previous experience. So if I've only ever been in emotionally-abusive relationships, I simply don't know there's another way to be in relationship with people.
That happens with everything. I always assume the way I do things is the best way to do things because I don't know it can be done another way.
I'm not a zen-genius, but isn't this that whole "Zen mind, beginner's mind" thing? A beginner actively recognizes he doesn't know and actively seeks to learn. The guy who's been doing it for years is stuck where he is because he doesn't realize there's more he could learn if he dropped his old ideas, assumptions, theories, hypotheses, paradigms and assorted mental crap?
So yeah: I dunno about you, but I certainly end up with crap I want, whether it's a conscious wanting or whether it's an unconscious one. Maybe y'all know better, but... because I'm a skeptic and a cynic and a bitter asshole ranting on the internet, I sincerely doubt you do.
Hi 108: Of course our actions play the big part in where and who we are. But what I find so interesting about Brad's scenario is his being able to adopt a fantasy and accept it as real in order to move through life a little more expediently. He doesn't care if it's true or not.
I sort of admire this because it is very practical and is based on Buddhist ideas and that makes it a little more palatable for me. But after everything is said and done, it is only a mental trick, just as crazy as believing that jesus has died on the cross to save us.
Well.. maybe not that crazy but still..
CAPTCHA : ohrici : I kid you not
Hi AB,
"(Interesting that Brad is)...able to adopt a fantasy and accept it as real in order to move through life a little more expediently. He doesn't care if it's true or not."
Brad did say, "I don't even care if this idea is objectively true or not. I believe it is or I wouldn't use it."
But you're right that he also said, "But even if it turns out I'm wrong, this way of thinking has been so incredibly useful I still wouldn't give it up."
- which does seem to contradict the first part. But he's just trying to be honest, I think, and when you do that, you often contradict yourself. I find.
I hear this part of Brad's post as confessional rather than didactic. None of us have to think how Brad does, or adopt the inconsistencies Brad confesses.
Didn't the Buddha say that his teachings are just a vehicle to get to the other side, and that once you get there it's about as useful to carry them around as it is to carry around a boat on dry land?
Karma, rebirth, the Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, the Precepts... they're just ideas to get us somewhere. If they work, great, use 'em. If they don't, find other, better ones.
Yes.. and like I said it is a rather graceful idea which I admire mostly. But it does take some mental adjustment to get there. At least for me it does.
If Genpo Roshi is really claiming ability to endow “Satori” within one hour, or even one day, or generally to whomever wishes, (which I do find hard to believe) see Mathew 20:20-23. “Ye know not what ye ask”.
The joke is heavy, but few will get.
And AC, - part of it becomes part of you, inherent, - no question of carrying it around or not carrying it around is left; - and as for - “If they don't, find other, better ones”, - the question is whether you can, and whether you can tell which ones are better.
- About the worst thing about humanity is that it can't see its own blindness. In my view. And the second is it won't admit wrongness even when it does see it. - Because tought otherwise.
And: - R @ 8:44, – [am] “Matthew”, - not “Mathew”.
Else is right.
ROFLMAO
[M-F]
If you were able to experience the totality of an entire lifetime as if it were one breath, then most of the details would seem quite minor. They all contribute to the big picture, but only in a supporting role.
! Man has willed Man!."
- A. Spare
i know what you mean about the philosophy of the victim and all of the stuff you just can not say because too many people won't understand all of the stuff that can't be said about it correctly. it's like there are no words.
i was abused as a child and while i know i never asked for it or did anything to deserve it, something inside me feels some comfort knowing that there's a purpose or meaning or ripening of some karma there somewhere that helped me do something i wouldn't have been able to otherwise...or helped me help someone else.
Great Post by James Ford over at Monkey Mind
It's All in Your Head: A Meditation on Blaming the Victim as a Spiritual Practice
Here is another way to look at it.. if you are walking along the street and trip over a rock, fall down and bust your ass - do you blame the rock? Do you need to forgive the rock?
In reality, "forgiveness" is nothing more than the pacification of spurned entitlement.
Forgiving someone for killing your mother doesn't bring your mother back to life. All it does is pacify your sense of being entitled to respect and consideration from other people. If you had no expectations of people acting in a civilized manner, then you would not need to forgive them when they act like murderous animals. Yet people feel entitled to civilization. They feel they deserve it, that it is their right, as if it is a cosmic law of some sort. But if a shark bites a chunk out of your leg while you are swimming in the ocean, do you need to forgive the shark? The shark is just being a shark.
In this sense, everyone is like that rock in the road. You cant blame them for anything that happens to you, in the same way you cannot blame yourself for anything that happens to you. It is the process of life itself happening, and all the various ideas of "people" and "me" and "you" and "world" and so on just get in the way and make things infinitely more confused.
And when your entire life flows from the level of self image, there will be no end to the suffering it causes. It is ignorance begetting more ignorance, and pain magnetizing with itself. The entire idea of blame and forgiveness is a mirage caused by the self image.
So essentially, it DOES begin and end within you - regardless of how righteously indignant that perspective causes people to react. If you are too fragmented to remember the possible results of your chosen vector, you will never understand why the process exists in the first place.
The attitude and content of this post is exactly why I don't bother reading this blog much any more.
Even when I was more appreciative and a fan of Brad's, his take on what happened to him in Akron was something that bothered me. I find it rather along the lines of The Secret style magical thinking.
I do believe karma and intention play a role in much of what we experience. But not all, at least not in the sense implied by this. Even Buddha attested to this, as NellaLou points out. Some "karma" -- such as natural forces -- has nothing to do with our thoughts or intentions.
I don't think that expedient magical thinking has anything to do with Buddhism. I embrace Buddhism, Zen in particular, precisely because of its focus on truth. I prefer an uncomfortable truth to a comfortable lie.
It's scary to think that bad things can happen to us for no moral reason. It's disempowering, definitely. It ruins our overwhelming desire to believe in a "just world." But that doesn't mean it's not the way things are.
More and more, I find the study of evolution, science, and natural history to go hand in hand with my Buddhist practice and inquiry. And the more I learn about science, the more I appreciate that a mystical or spiritual perspective can grow out of it. And if you "believe" in evolution, as opposed to some form of creationism, you accept that chance and probability play major roles in the development of life. That is not to say life itself is random--the way I think of it spiritually is that what we are was "programmed" or "coded" into the universe from the beginning--but that what particular events lead to it are.
The way I get around the dilemma that Brad poses--of not letting an experience of victimization become demoralizing--is not to resort to magical thinking. It's to look at what I can do to improve my situation and reduce the odds of experiencing whatever it was. Much of the time, I find I played a major role in the series of events leading up to the problematic event. But not always. Sometimes you have an auto accident because you were driving while sleep deprived; sometimes you have an auto accident because a deer happens to randomly jump out in front of your car. I think the problem is looking at an event like the latter and trying to tie it to something one was responsible for. The Secret and the "Law of Attraction" encourage this kind of confused thinking, and Brad seems to do so too. But all the positive thoughts in the world aren't going to affect whether it's your car the deer jumps in front of.
Brad calling upon this attitude to justify his lack of interest in the Barry Graham situation is something I find hypocritical, but this is in keeping with what I've come to expect from Brad. I find it a symptom of cowardice. In many ways, Genpo is an easier target. There's no real backlash for attacking him. Brad opening up a line of criticism against Barry Graham would open him up to a lot more things than Brad's criticizing of Genpo.
To me, that is the only reason. If Brad is so blase about people needing to be responsible for their own choices and research when assessing Zen teachers, he wouldn't continually return to his quixotic crusade against Genpo, which he repeatedly attributes to his felt duty to protect people from spiritual abuse like he experienced in the past.
There's something very nearly silly about the whole Genpo issue. When I saw Genpo's audition video for Oprah, I laughed. Yes, Genpo offers up some blatant spiritual materialism, but at worst he's going to waste some folks' time and money. The Graham issue opens up a lot of darker and more unsettling things to examine, and the consequences are potentially uglier. Genpo is just a Daruma doll Brad can knock down again and again to "energize his base." I find it all self-serving, part of the industry of "self promotion above all" that Brad has developed around himself.
Stephanie:
You're playing a zero-sum game which I don't think Brad or anyone else is advocating. It's not like "Either you're 100% to blame or you're not." But I do think that everybody plays some part in the stuff that happens to 'em. A deer can't jump out in front of my car if I don't drive down that road, I don't drive in the countryside, I don't drive...
... the point is to take ownership for your part of what happens to you. A deer jumps out in front of my car - I can't control the deer, but I can drive slower and I can recognize that driving a car entails some degree of risk. If I don't want to run the risk of hitting a deer, I shouldn't drive a car down that road.
The problem is that people want all the benefit and none of the drawback. I believe this is known in Buddhism as the "Second Noble Truth." And people being people are absolutely brilliant at deluding themselves into thinking they can have it.
And: it takes 2 to tango. You can't have a psychotic ex-girlfriend or -boyfriend unless you (at some point) attracted to you, were attracted to, and chose to date, a crazy person. I could be way off the mark, but I think Brad's saying that the same is true of spiritual teachers. If he isn't, I'm saying it. You don't drink the Kool-Aid unless you abdicated responsibility a long time ago.
There's plenty of literature on this subject: "The Guru Papers" by Kramer and Alstad, "Do I Need a Guru?" by Mariana Caplan... what's funny is that us "spiritual" types think we're somehow evolved while ordinary folks seem to avoid these poisonous relationships without even trying.
Ashiq,
Yes, you could avoid ever hitting a deer by never driving a car through a rural area. I don't think that makes a person "responsible" for the random event of a deer jumping in front of his or her car. By your logic, the way to avoid ever tripping and falling is to never walk, the way to avoid ever getting sick is to live in a plastic bubble. There is no practical application of your point of view, because the only way to completely avoid the chance of negative outcomes of random or probabilistic events is to never do anything.
And I find it a morally repulsive view when it comes to victims of random, or even non-random, violence. To me, the much more sane way of addressing these issues is to treat them as social issues and proceed accordingly, not shrug off with a "thugs will be thugs, it is our responsibility to find a way to avoid them" philosophy. I think it is our general human duty to make our communities safer, and much moreso for those of us who have made the bodhisattva vow. I do not believe a bodhisattva with a clear view would take a neutral stance against a victimizer, while imploring the victim to consider his or her role in the attack. Yes, part of the response is to help the victim make choices so as to not find him or herself in harm's way again, but the brunt of the responsibility lies in the attacker's actions. In my view, a sane, moral person focuses on the attacker as the focal point of necessary action, not the victim. Otherwise, we encourage and promote a culture in which thugs have the control and the power, while potential victims must stay in their foxholes. An intolerable situation, and one that seems insane to most normal people, thankfully.
As far as the Barry and Genpo issue goes, I'm far from advocating for Brad to start a PR campaign against Barry. I don't think Brad has anything useful to contribute to that collective action. I'm pointing out the total hypocrisy and inconsistency, however, in his defense of his crusade against Genpo in order to protect all the potential victims of Genpo's "scam," while shrugging off a teacher accused of far worse as a "buyer beware" situation and inviting victims of violence to look at their victimization as, at least in part, their responsibility.
Brad's stance is completely logically and morally inconsistent. If Brad were to be consistent, he would carry his apathetic attitude toward social and political issues, and most spiritual Zen issues, through into his approach to Genpo. But if Brad didn't have Genpo to rail against, a convenient, easy, and non-threatening target, he would lose a big part of what makes up the "Brad Warner" brand, which I increasingly see as a shiny, empty package filled only with air.
Hi Stephanie,
I don't hear Brad advocating a method for apportioning moral responsibility. I hear Brad posing a question in response to a comment on this blog: Once an unpleasant event has occurred, how then do we deal with it? As victims, or as contributing participants? Which approach is more likely to result in a view which can be employed to constructively modify our behaviour? Brad answered the question by describing an approach that works for him.
From his post:
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Could Brad have made it any clearer that he's writing about a way of thinking that he's found useful, NOT providing an analysis of the way the world works that should be applied to others, or that others should adopt?
Re Genpo - Brad don't like what Genpo gets up to one bit. Re the other fella - Brad, it seems, isn't that bothered whether the guy has a transmission certificate or not (he may still be a good teacher), or whether he's lied about it (the cat's out of the bag). Brad knows no details about any abuse of students that may have taken place, so reserves judgement. He also says there's not much he could do about it that isn't already being done. So Brad doesn't care that much. And you're saying he should; lately you're thinking Brad is an inconsistent, self-promoting hypocrite...
You may see Brad's objections to what Genpo gets up to as evidence of a general 'commitment to social and political issues' which should extend to the issues surrounding the other fella, but, clearly, Brad doesn't. Why should Brad's objections to selling/advocating enlightenment glimpses/experiences commit him to adopting positions on sundry issues? Merely because in both cases a teacher of Zen is involved?
We care about what we care about, we do what we do, and we deal with things the way we deal with them. We don’t have to like what other people say, do or write, or the way they deal with things, but while you're perfectly entitled to object to what you see as contradictions, much of what you’ve criticised about this post wasn’t written or meant. Not as I read it.
Malcolm it's the only completely uncensored Zen Buddhist forum I know of and because I like writing; I like the sound of my own voice. At least, I'm trying to find my own voice. This blog is crazy and infuriating. It's also an education and an entertainment. Mainly an entertainment...on a good day. Some of the other people who post here make comments I can engage with and relate to. Some of them are pretty funny too. I'm sympathetic and supportive of where Brad's coming from and what he's trying to do, and so I sometimes rush to defend him when I think he's been misunderstood or misrepresented.
Still, I sometimes muse that Brad's celebrity may not be an entirely positive factor in his life - but Brad's life is not my business. Brad owes me nothing and I don't owe him. I do think he tries to be honest though, and for me, that's more important than always being consistent or right.
Moral outrage comes in many forms, and like any other human expression it has countless subtle shades.
At the core of moral outrage is the sense of entitlement accorded by the idea of a superior self, as in: a self that is better than others, more important, more valuable, etc. This reality might be hard to accept, when one realizes their entire life is based on a lie. Or it might be liberating.
But as long as one is unable or unwilling to examine the root causes of their own mind and its workings, they will do nothing but wander amongst the details, poking and prodding and isolating and magnifying.
The insidious nature of the divisive illusion is all-encompassing. It is the idea that "me" is separate from "you" or the "world" and so on. The objectification of such abstraction is usually the most "real" aspect of a persons life. Without it, they are reduced to little more than a vegetative state. The vastness of universal connectivity actually stupefies them. This blank space can come alive, or it can remain ignored - but in the great majority of the population it remains ignored, willfully.
So its quite understandable why confusion happens and why it continues to happen. People are lost among the endless objects, as just another one of them.
You do not own your body. Its just a temporary loan. Wake up to the reality behind "me", "my", "mine" if you can. If not, then go ahead and enjoy the war.
Stephanie:
I am a victim: I have a brain disease. I didn't want it, didn't do anything to get it, wish I didn't have, have suffered (greatly) because of it.
I am also a victimizer: because my brain controls my behavior, and my disease affects my brain, my disease affects my behavior. And in this case, I hurt other people with my actions - my parents have been hurt by my actions, my ex-fiancee was hurt by my actions, my dog is now dead because of my actions.
Or: criminals. In this country, they're overwhelmingly poor, black or Hispanic, under- or uneducated, jobless, ghettoized: victims of our failures as a society. And yet - they commit crimes. Often against each other. Often violent crimes. Often violent sexual crimes for that matter. Which are they: victim or victimizer?
I'm not Brad, so I'll speak for myself: I think that a bodhisattva counsels both victim and victimizer on their respective responsibility for the suffering they cause and the suffering they suffer so that each can do something about it.
The reason a bodhisattva talks to a victim is that a victim can often lessen their suffering by (at least) seeing if they play a part in it. In my case, I'm responsible for treating my brain disease - to lessen my own suffering, as well as that of others.
As for Brad talking smack about Genpo but not about Barry, well... since I've never been inconsistent or hypocritical in my life, I think I'm morally pure enough to cast the first stone, so hand it here...
PS and for the record -
I wrote "...Which approach is more likely to result in a view which can be employed to constructively modify our behaviour?" ?
What a crock. I doubt whether anyone can employ a view to constructively modify behaviour.
Whadya think, Steph?
"The reason a bodhisattva talks to a victim is that a victim can often lessen their suffering by (at least) seeing if they play a part in it."
There is some truth to this. Where it often goes off the rails is when there is some kind of presupposition of omniscience or fortune telling, meaning "They should have seen it coming" kind of thinking. That just doesn't happen. Not everyone has the same life experiences from which to draw conclusions nor to be able to predict another's or random behavior from the environment. Human beings just aren't that powerful though we like to think we are often.
So taking responsibility from a victims point of view is rather constrained by whatever available information is at hand. To hold someone responsible for something they could not have possibly known is quite ridiculous.
I may be beating a dead horse here, but that mindset "in what way did I want or need this" is very existentialist in nature. In my own mind, existentialism and Buddhism are practically synonymous. I guess this is my chance to ask if I am that far off. Am I?
To understand that Karma exists and that we each reap the fruits of our past actions has nothing to do with Blame. Blame as an act of attributing fault; censure; reproof: Saying there should be no compassion because you have judged that a victim “deserved” what has happened to them is simply another set of delusions that need to be overcome. Leave such value judgments to the theists who see ones fate as punishment or reward by some all powerful judging God. You may be experiencing the fruits of prior actions, it may be your Karma, But Buddhism dose not attach value judgments to this, it is not the Buddhist concept that those who are experiencing karma “deserve” this or that, Karma is not punishment or reward. It is simply cause and effect.
To have the clarity of mind to diagnose your own thoughts and behavior to avoid mistakes of the past is another subject completely. If in doing this you begin to lose sight of your goal and start “blaming and judging” you will have missed the mark completely.
The first Zen Buddhism lectures in the US, as far as I know were given by Soyen Shaku in 1905 and published in 1906, the translation being done by D.T. Suzuki. Shaku was and still is often attacked for his support of Japanese military expansion during the Russo–Japanese War of 1905. It seems that making subjective evaluations of teachers who don’t fit into our mental expectations traveled with Shaku when he came here and it seems to never stop.
I had never heard of Dogo Barry Graham until I inadvertently ran across a blog dedicated to his utter destruction the other day. The blog started out by accusing him of wearing a terrible colored Rakusu, then accused him of putting his chop on several Rakusu’s crooked, and leaving a line off of a Kanji. But my Favorite was the 3 paragraph forensic analysis of some letters from a couple of his teachers that the author concluded must be fake because they were done on a laser printer, and laser printers were not commonly available in 1994. I had to laugh my ass off here because I purchased my first HP 4L laser printer in 1991, and by 1994 they were the professional standard and you could pick up at least 5 different models at office depot. This Guy Dogo might be a total ass, but these attacks I read are just malicious BS.
Like Brad I have to say the Genpo Roshi stuff is so glaring it almost blinded me when I first saw it. PT Barnum said there was a sucker born every minute and I suppose he was right. The world is full of victims and it is certain many are both willing and enthusiastic in their search to be victims. People like Sogyal Rinpoche and Genpo should be exposed but what anyone person can do, even the mighty Brad Warner is very limited.
I agree with Brad that The Soto Zen Buddhist Association’s (SZBA) effort to weed out the fakes is doomed to failure. Already this effort has turned into an exercise in wall building. They who never had to do half of the things they want to require of others sit smugly sealing up the door so they are the new dictators of Zen. Many crooks and charlatans love complex credentialing, the more paper they can hang on their walls the better.
The simple fact is I could make a wonderful case against almost any teacher now teaching and question their linage, their teacher’s qualities of character and their spiritual fitness to teach. This Brad Warner guy lets rip him apart, hell how many Ango had he lead when he was ordained, etc. etc. Organized Zen is about 50 years old in the US; all this stupidity may kill it before it has had a chance to really grow.
When up is up and down is down and down is up and up is down - I cannot be found.
WAKE THE HELL UP!!!!
"Truly beginning the practice anew, we learn that somehow we have been the victims of our own thinking." Aitken Roshi
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LES KAYE’S LETTER IS UNBELIEVABLY IRRESPONSIBLE
No one commits suicide for a single reason. No one. Never.
In my book Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate I wrote about my friend Robert “Iggy” Morningstar committing suicide. Iggy’s girlfriend had just broken up with him. She did it as much for Iggy’s good as for her own. I was sharing a place with them at the time and she was absolutely justified in what she did. Iggy was making a mess of his life and hers as well.
When Iggy killed himself he did the deed in such a way as to ensure that his girlfriend would be the one who found him and that it would appear as though he killed himself because she broke up with him. In the weeks that followed those of us who were around Iggy’s girlfriend had to constantly assure her that she bore no guilt in the matter. Perhaps the break up was a factor in Iggy’s suicide. But it was not the only factor or even the decisive one.
On February 14th, 2011, Dosho Port put a letter written by Les Kaye of the American Zen Teachers Association (AZTA) to the board of directors at Kanzeon, Genpo Roshi’s temple, on his blog. You can find that post here. This same letter from Les Kaye also appears here on the Sweeping Zen website.
Les Kaye’s letter was written in response to accusations by some people at Kanzeon that AZTA had failed to respond when they knew that Genpo Roshi was having sex with his students and misappropriating funds. Les Kaye points out in the letter that AZTA had been trying to get Genpo’s authorization to teach Zen revoked at least since 1992.
I understand Les Kaye’s desire to clear AZTA’s good name. But one section of his letter strikes me as perhaps the most irresponsible thing I’ve seen come out of this whole mess. It makes me very angry to see this.
In his letter, Les Kaye reveals the story of a woman who was allegedly seduced by Genpo Roshi. Kaye says that she “had been abused by her father as a child, which left her extremely vulnerable and confused.”.”
Although he uses the proper somber, sepia colored tones of heartrending melodrama approved by contemporary American Buddhists, Mr. Kaye appears to me to be accusing Genpo Roshi of causing this poor woman to kill herself. Please see the opening two paragraphs of this article for my opinion on that. I know that the effect of what Mr. Kaye wrote is to make people think that Genpo’s sexual behavior caused a suicide because that is precisely how it was defined to me by two people who emailed me about these articles.
I don’t like Genpo Roshi. I’ve made no attempt to hide that fact. But accusing him of causing someone to commit suicide is taking things much too far. We do not know what really transpired between Genpo and that unfortunate woman. I’m going to say that again and I’m going to be a little firmer this time. You -- and I mean you dear reader, whoever you are -- do not know what happened between Genpo and that unfortunate woman. If Genpo is reading this (which I doubt) maybe he has some clue. But even he doesn’t know all of it. The rest of us only know what we’ve read about it. And that is not very much.*
Am I trying to say that it’s fine that Genpo seduced some poor woman who’d been abused by her father? No. No, I am not saying that. No. OK? Not at all. No.
I’m saying that we do not even know that’s what really happened. Maybe it did. Maybe it didn’t. We don’t even know what that woman actually said at the meeting. All we have is someone’s paraphrase of what he thought he heard her say 18 years ago.
Which is also not to say it did not happen or that I don’t believe what she said. I don’t know what she said. So I cannot either believe or disbelieve it. But I do know what Les Kaye said because it’s there on the Internets for all to see.
There is no reason to add this to the piles of accusations that have already been hurled at Genpo. Believe me, I am not someone who would easily stand up in Genpo Roshi’s defense. But this is too much to ignore.
Why is it all about sex? Why do we have to wait until Genpo is caught with his pants down and his dick where it shouldn’t be before we can say anything about the much more serious and far-reaching abuses he was involved in?. The hidden details of Genpo’s sex life had nothing at all to do with any of that.
The things that Genpo was doing that made me so pissed off were not concealed in any way. They were right out in the open. He explicitly advertised that he was selling enlightenment experiences for $50,000**. He clearly said in his promotion material for Big Mind® that it could give you a glimpse of Buddha’s realization in a couple of hours with no prior experience. This was no shocking revelation discovered by someone finding secret messages on Genpo’s Blackberry. This was stuff you could see for yourself by looking at Genpo’s own website. Where was everyone’s righteous indignation three years ago?
The AZTA has written a letter to Kanzeon, Genpo's group, recommending what they think Genpo ought to do to cure his sex problem. You can see that here just under Les Kaye’s letter, at the bottom of the page. My friend Zuiko, one of the signees, told me the letter.” OK. I accept that Zuiko contributed to the letter in this spirit. To me it all sounds a bit sanctimonious.
Hey Genpo, here are my recommendations, which stand just as much chance of being read and followed by you as AZTA’s. I have a lot of trouble with phrases like “sex addiction.” Though there may be a few cases that could qualify as true addiction, I believe that for the most part it’s just that some people are simply hornier than others. When an individual has a different sexual orientation from mainstream society, there are two main ways to deal with it. The individual can adjust to mainstream society, usually with unhappy results for the individual. Or the individual can seek out others who share their orientation and they can play together. (There is, of course, also the traditional religious response of learning to deny your sexual desires entirely. But few people are able to accomplish this. And sometimes when they fail at denying their desires the outcome is even worse than if they had not tried at all.)
Luckily for you, you live in the Western world in the early 21st century where the option of seeking like-minded play friends is available to you. It is far easier than it ever has been for so-called “sex addicts” to find each other. You don’t need to do your students.. Fortunately for you that particular kink is very widespread and common.
(You learn a few things when researching a book about sex!)
*It was subsequently revealed by a friend of the woman in question that her suicide occurred quite a long time after the meeting and was probably completely unrelated to what transpired with Genpo.
**The fee for Genpo's Big Heart Circle retreats subsequently dropped to $25,000 and these days it’s hard to find any of the material he originally posted about these high priced retreats. Here is a blog which quotes most of Genpo’s now-vanished sales pitch for the Big Heart Circle retreats. The standard price for Big Mind® appears to range between $150 and $1000.
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P.S. The broken links are now fixed. Thanks for the email, Spice!
98 comments:
Somebody call/mail Brad and tell him the links in his blog post don't work.
You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
You will not be punished for being a sanctimonious plagiarizing douche. Being a sanctimonious plagiarizing douche is its own punishment.
- “No one commits suicide for a single reason. No one. Never.”
- What kind of bullshit is that? - See SS, B. 1, no. 90.
- And with a slight Googlin:
"I have a lot of trouble with phrases like “sex addiction.” Though there may be a few cases that could qualify as true addiction, I believe that for the most part it’s just that some people are simply hornier than others."
Jesus Brad. Do you really know what you're talking about? I suppose the numbers of people with gambling problems are overstated too. Mostly just people with losing problems right? Alcoholics? People with no will power or self control. And we all know about the type of women who get raped..
Kaye wrote: .”"
I don't have as big a problem with Kaye stating the facts in the chain of events. People can draw conclusions or do as you did and not. You are not the only critical adult reading this stuff. Is the suicide supposed to be hushed up in Zen circles? It facts sound bad because they were bad.
Hi,
I understand that White Plum, which is a loose confederation of teachers associated with Maezumi Roshi, is taking actions on its own. I am not sure who is involved or the details however.
Gassho, Jundo
“No one commits suicide for a single reason. No one. Never.”
Yes and no.
There are multiple events/reasons in a person's life that take them to the point of suicide. However, there is only one successful suicide per person, so there is usually only one trigger event.
Hi,
Here's a website where you can learn about ASIST suicide intervention trianing. The widepsread training days/workshops are usually free or come at low cost (over in these parts at least) and are very useful and insightful for anyone effected by suicide, or for anyone who works with people or who is just interested.
In the US:
In the UK:
In Ireland:
ASIST trains participants to reduce the immediate risk of a suicide and increase the support for a person at risk..
Regards,
H.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide..
- “No one commits suicide for a single reason. No one. Never.”.
- What kind of bullshit is that?
See SS, B. 1, no. 1.
merciless, there is some interesting literature available regarding addiction which pits forward the idea that what is commonly called addiction is actually poor choices. Individuals are not powerless to change such behaviour, and labelling such choices as addictions in fact perpetuates this behaviour.
This is rather controversial amongst the majority of clinicians working in the field.
- SS, B. 1, no. 90, - not no. 1.
"[Bertrand] Russell's adolescence was very lonely, and he often contemplated suicide. He remarked in his autobiography that his keenest interests were in sex, religion and mathematics, and that only the wish to know more mathematics kept him from suicide.
...From the wiki article on him.
H.
Sorry: Brad's being metaphysical. It's a Zen teaching on causation.
With a bit of Googling I was able to find this, too.
It gets deleted down here so I put it up at the “name”.
(That’s why I got mistreated by Google in the first place)
- “All of these AZTA people are getting upset about absolutely the wrong things. They should have been publicly stating that Big Mind® was not Zen Buddhism years ago.”.
Than why? This is one point I’ve been wondering about Brad gives no explanation to.
- “He explicitly advertised that he was selling enlightenment experiences for $50,000. He clearly said in his promotion material for Big Mind® that it could give you a glimpse of Buddha’s realization in a couple of hours with no prior experience.”.
This seems like a bit of a withdrawal. See bolding.
- “Why do we have to wait until Genpo is caught with his pants down and his dick where it shouldn’t be before we can say anything about the much more serious and far-reaching abuses he was involved in?”.
- Again - my point from 10:27 - [am] if Brad is right about this - why is he the only one shouting about.”.
Read the letter and see if this is what is sounds like.
Just in case anyone imagines M @ 10:46 is relevant to mine @ 10:41: - The question was how much sense does Brad's quote I quoted @ 10:03 make.
Taking a break from the comments eh? Sure you are...
mine @ 10:21
- “I believe that for the most part it’s just that some people are simply hornier than others”.
I loved that. But hated what follows.
- B’s idea, - is that whatever your inclinations or tendencies are, - you can never change or improve them, no matter where you get, - in any field whatsoever.
Not only zazen is good for nothing, - but any other practice you might think of.
- And to (108 the) merciless @ 9:34: - [am] Remember we’ve heard of alcoholism since before either one of us was born, - I suppose. - Same might go for hopeless gamblers I guess. - But “sex addiction” seems to be a new phrase we only seem to encounter in the last decade or two. Sounds to me like a new idea of the typical conceited intellectuals. - I don’t know much about the subject but I’m quite with Brad on this point.
+ - [back to Brad] Brad seems to assume that since humanity has not been able to hold stable and continuous standards as for appropriate or inappropriate sexual behavior, - such may not be found in existence.
[Or to pretend to assume that.] (- I’m a real trouble maker, - am I not?)
- It is quite like assuming since many do not know the Buddha Dharma it does not exist.
Not just the same but I guess you can grasp the similarity.
- It is true some things may change due to development in humanity, - but mainly this is claiming the subtle to be nonexistent for the sake of popularity.
May be fine for anyone who can truly enjoy 0DFx.
OK. So this is what I'm reading
1. Implication of responsibility in suicide is wrong
2. The emphasis on sexual misconduct is missing the point
3. The point is that packaging instant-enlightenment as Zen commodity is wrong
a) Because instant-enlightenment is not a Zen perspective
b) Because misleading people to believe this is true can be harmful to them
What might help would be to speak more to point 3a) Why is instant-enlightenment wrong view? What is right view? and 3b) How is holding wrong view harmful?
That might help your readers to make a more informed decision that avoids confusion about correct principles due to confusion about personality.
Suggestion for increased effectiveness in message: Separate the principles from the personality to make your point more clearly understood to more people..
The society of traditional Japan was long held to be a good example of one in which shame is the primary agent of social control.
I can see why Brad thinks that the idea of sex-addiction is just new-speak for mega-horniness but I'm not so sure he's right.. If you believe that a person can become psychologically dependent on certain behaviors and I think there is evidence for that, then I think that it is possible for someone to become addicted to certain experiences that release certain neurohormones. The only question would be; are you addicted to the experience or the rush of the neurohormones? Or is it the same thing?
two aspects of the same process?
For decades, endorphins have hogged the credit for producing “runner’s high,” that fleeting sense of euphoria and calm that many people report experiencing after prolonged exercise. Who among usI, after an especially satisfying workout, hasn’t thought, “ah, my endorphins are kicking in.” Endorphins are the world’s sole celebrity peptide....
Go read the article
*I haven't.
(humor)
Brad,
Can one be addicted to celibacy?
...about 'sex addiction' :
"Though there may be a few cases that could qualify as true addiction, I believe that for the most part it’s just that some people are simply hornier than others."
Whoa whoa whoa, hold on. I think everyone is focusing on the wrong thing here.
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Which websites are you talking about here?
If sex were simply sexual Brad's post reads ok
But sex is a many nuanced and complicated behavior between persons
Depending on what kind of circumstances were present during one's first sexual arousal and release states you can get some strange imprinting which factors in to your behaviors
I am glad for 12 step programs sex and love addicts anonymous--of tremendous benefit--
I do not think it is possible to judge others sexual dispositions
Sometimes it is not possible to clearly know who the victim or who the perpetrator is
Humans have quite the ability to see the same things with exact opposite interpretations
I can't judge other people's sexual involvements.
Only my own
I might not fully know my patner's intentions...I might find out later.
I am in a position to know my own intentions.
If I had a more active libido I'd be living a different life
I think it would make me more popular, but who knows
I do think it is important to take responsibility for one's actions particularly when cobbling together different life styles where sexual intimacy is concerned.
Couples decide for themselves what works for them
Sometimes finding out what that is includes collateral damage, namely other people and other people's relationships
The mental image of a zen teacher (or catholic priest, or CEO of a company for that matter) sitting in a zendo, officiating mass in church, sitting in a board room with multiple persons with whom they have had sexual relations with present strikes me as strikingly odd and icky
A bit too akin to familiar incest if you ask me
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There is help out there
"A bit too akin to familiar incest if you ask me"
do you mean "child molestation" or did you really mean incest? The difference is that Incest, while icky and weird, is between consenting parties while child molestation is between a party that has not or can not give consent.
Its an important difference. If both people are grown ups then they bear the right to take whatever decisions they choose, and to deal with the consequences.
its a little scary to me that people make the argument that just because one person wears a funny robe and has a title that the other person in a relationship should be treated like a child.
Is what you are doing "Zen Buddhism" Brad?
Me thinks Brad doth protest too much...
It seems obvious that Brad simply wants to propagate the Genpo scandal IN FULL by repeating what Les wrote, and his denial of agreement with it is simply subterfuge.
I for one would not have seen it (Les's statement), or sought it out otherwise.
We need that guy who kept obsessing on Brad's penis length to come back here and offer us some perspective on this mess.
Brad,
Can one be addicted to zazen? I'm serious. It doesn't do anything, but people have these subconscious hopes.
Forgive them for they know not what they do.
Brad-
Beautiful post. I mean the part about Merzel's not being responsible for the woman's suicide. Dead on there. The other stuff I largely agree to the point of I guess it don't need sayin'. But I guess to you it does.
To me, "Big Mind®" was a scam from the get-go. I think I get it for maybe different ways then you get it, but we both get it.
But, as I wrote on my blog, the sex thing reveals something. And at the same time, neither you nor I can barely imagine the crap Genpo is going through these days - unless he's a friggin' psychopathic narcissist, which is not out of the question. But imagining this guy is one of us - I can't imagine the hurt I would be going through at this moment.
Also - make no mistake: folks in Genpo's sangha read your blog; they read my blog. So it's more than likely Genpo reads your blog.
I appreciate your passion on this; maybe I'll even send this comment in an e-mail to you.
Anonymous Tonto said...
"Brad,
Can one be addicted to zazen? I'm serious. It doesn't do anything, but people have these subconscious hopes."
Brad is distancing himself from the comments section.
I would say it is possible to become addicted to ANYTHING - providing you have a compulsive-addictive personality disorder. Now a few things - nicotine being one - are so addicting that even people with moderate to light CAPD can become enslaved to nicotine.
It's not quite like genetic OCD.
As for Genpo and Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)???
Who knows? Certainly not I.
When viewed through the Right Mindful Filter Floss®, only a tiny minority are free from disorders, orders, or boarders.
Brad Warner said....
LOL. What is "Zen Buddhism"? Ask 10 Zen teachers and you'll get 17 answers. Big Mind is no more or less "Zen Buddhism" than anything else anyone claims it to be. Despite the entire lineage nonsense, Zen teachers are really just making all this up as they go along, and have been ever since Hui-neng came along (assuming he ever existed). Steven Heine wrote a book about it: "Zen Skin, Zen Marrow: Will the Real Zen Buddhism Please Stand Up?"
And now this:
"Response to an Open Letter from 44 Zen Teachers."
^ I think they're showing that they have had enough of the outside do-gooder types offering, unsolicited, their opinions.
Hi British Fool,
I'm British...kinda. And I think so, too.
From the response:
"....." (my bold)
Mysterion wrote:
Perhaps where Genpo was remiss was in his apparent boundary violations - perhaps taking that which was the sangha's as his own. Those boundary violations included, but were not limited to allegedly exploiting his students emotionally, financially, and sexually.
My take is that this is probably where Brad wanted to, albeit not clear enough. it is not the sex in itself which is "sinful", it is the being oblivious of the harm done unto others. If you are a buddhist teacher, your responsibility is greater just because you are a teacher.
No one on earth is free to do harm onto others, buddhist or not. And who does will bear the consequences of it, with fortune if they can get them in a way clearly related to their deeds,.
It sure sounds like the Kanzeon folks are doing there best. It is also true that they are probably best qualified to deal with there own problem. There must be a bit of embarassment as well because this sounds like a problem that they were ok with not dealing with it when it was benefiting them financially.
It is a free country and people obviously get into talking about all this controversy because it is scanadoulous and sexy and an easy topic to feel help people feel better about themselves, or more moral, "I would never do such a thing", that kind of stuff. I just wonder if that's the best theme for the Hardcorezen Blog. I know these are all very recent developements and people are gonna talk about whats going on, but I hope it this blog doesn't become the TMZ of the Zen community.
I know i have been criticcal of people who are on Brads case for not writting the right things or not being enlightened enough of what not, but yeah i have never been a fan of soap opera drama, weather fictional or real, and i just kinda hope this all starts to fade away soon. Sounds like things have been aired out and people are informed. Everybody kinda said there piece.
peace
...a sanctimonious plagiarizing douche.
LOL
But it remains a fine teaching:
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” - Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni
Swami Osama Van Halen said...
I didn't even realize that Mr. Merzel was selling more than one "product" so let me make sure that I understand how this process works. First you buy a "Big Mind" and then you buy a "Big Heart"? Is there something "big" that comes after that? Maybe "The Big Lebowski"? That would be pretty cool, but only if Jeff Bridges was the instructor.
Yeah, that's what Genpo got in trouble for: using his Big Lebowski.
"When Iggy killed himself he did the deed in such a way as to ensure that his girlfriend would be the one who found him and that it would appear as though he killed himself because she broke up with him."
Suicides are as much about causing suffering as they are about ending suffering.
FORE!
First of all only the person afflicted decides whether or not he/she is an addict. No one else. Hence only the person afflicted decides if their behaviour can be classified as addiction.
Man oh man, the buddhist community is seriously dysfunctional! Gossip, back stabbing, name calling, sheesh... who knew?
Cori
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"First of all only the person afflicted decides whether or not he/she is an addict."
If only that were the case...
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
I just love 12-step programs that replace one broken crutch with another broken crutch - it avoids the whole concept of responsibility.
Let us prey...
in the name of Tony Alamo (Lazar Hoffman), amen.
cori -
Not ALL of "the Buddhist community" are gossipers, back-stabbers or name-callers. You won't find so many of the quiet contented non-opinionated Buddhist types here...they don't usually post on blogs like this one. But point taken: even "Buddhists" are human.
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My reply to Moonface:
Fuck 'experience'. Experiences can be misleading.
The despire to repeat certain kinds of experiences is called addiction.
Experiences can be manipulated
Experience can be highly misleading. I once had fevers that went to 104 as measured by a thermometer, and though my body was blazing hot, I *experienced* my body as chilled to the bone, because my immune system was pumping cytokine compounds into my blood and these in turn were messing with the tempreture regulation center in my brain.
I was misled by experience to feel chilly cold, when I was actually roasting. Instead of doing what I had to do to cool down, I rolled in blankets lay next to a heater and had temporary brain damage that left my tripping and falling over sidewalk cracks.
Luckily this was temporary.
So experience can be misleading as living hell.
And, FYI, I was in a room with a guy who was an expert at trance induction, and I could barely keep my pen in hand to take notes.
By contrast, I was far more alert and able to write after being doped with tranquilizers for a medical procedure.
Genpo, by advertising his method as insta enlightement, and charging the kind of money he does and calling it Zen has violated many of the Bohdisattava Precepts and failed to preserve the Treasures.
Here as a memory aid are the precepts.
I take refuge in Buddha, The Dharma and the Sangha.
I vow to
Avoid All Evil and Cultivate All Good
In the Live for the benefit of all beings (not just the wealthy)
To uphold forms and ceremonies and this includes not allowing ones own career or personality to become a distraction from the Dharma
I vow to beware of
Killing
Lying (and this includes misleading gestures and misleading silences)
Taking what has not been freely offered
Beware of abusing sexuality
Beware of darkening mind and body of self and other with intoxicants (which today include manipulated experiences of ecstacy, group thrills, trance, charisma, rhetoric and the pursuit of intoxicating fame/celebrity and mass marketing)
Beware of speech that brings injustice and disharmony where before there had been justice and harmony
Beware of praising self (or ones trademarked method) at expense of others
Beware of harboring ill will (by insinuating that people lower on the pecking order suffer from green memeitis
Beware of greed in relation to resources (and this includes greed for fame, media exposure, wealth, glamour and greed to rise higher on some abitrary 'evolutionary' scale or greed to get higher on Ken Wilbers rank scheme
And..to defend the Treasures of Buddha Dharma and Sangha such that
One does not distort Buddhadharma by suggesting additions that are any different from the guidelines left by Buddha in the Mahaparinbibbana Sutra
Whatever rank exists is not to give comfort to the powerholder but to support the practice of all, regardless of age, health, whether rich or poor.
Finally, Dogen advised to avoid fame.
If Genpo wants fame, its best that he leave Soto Zen. However, he gained his early fame while in Soto Zen and his later adverts showed him in his Zen Dharma Transmission robes.
Gaining fame while standing on the shoulders of Soto Zen is not cricket. That was the real problem.
Hey 4.43pm,
Your version of the precepts makes a few suggestions and additions that are different from the guidelines left by Buddha in the Mahaparinbibbana Sutra.
You really shouldn't do that, you know.
which version?
Versions
Right now I am reading Flaubert's book, "The Temptation of Saint Anthony." I've wanted to read this book ever since it was mentioned in an episode of Dragnet, In the episode a mopey high school kid engages in a thrill kill after reading the book. In the episode a librarian reads the page in the book that inspired him.
It's always fun when a bird flies around the house, lands on your shoulder and says "Hi! What are you doing?
tattoozen @ 4:08
"its a little scary to me that people make the argument that just because one person wears a funny robe and has a title that the other person in a relationship should be treated like a child"
Not so much that one is being treated like a child as much as the acknowledgement that this is not necessarily a relationship between equals on a relatively equal playing field
Same for the subordinates and the CEO example
As expressed above, sometimes it is hard to distinguish who is the victim
Persons in a position of power can also be victimized--by those who seek access to power through intimacy
I am just saying that it is hard to tell sometimes who the victim is. The kneejerk reaction is to hold the person holding the more powerful position responsible. Understandable. I am pointing out that this is not always the case. There are exceptions.
Sexual behavior between equals is one thing
things become distorted the wider the power /privilege differential.
Granted the distortion may be experienced by one or both participants as adding to the excitement.
watcha gonna do?
if your zen practice is based on heightened experiences, I guess you are going to look for heightened experiences
the zazen I am familiar with is boring
it isn't exciting to experience, it doesn't lead to particularly interesting states
Not that the state of boredom is without interest to me...
Proulx Michel
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I agree. I am glad Brad has addressed the issue of Big Mind. That he has done something to keep the finger pointed towards it, amidst the distractions and confusions of a single human being's very private, very public problems.
The practices and discourses that help us shine a light on our own 'misfortune', our tendencies to blind ourselves to what 'relation' are gardens that need tending - lest too many of us stroll by, oblivious, into another 'too late'.
Western liberalism and capitalism (to dust off a few more weather-worn words) to my mind go hand in hand: reshaping, renewing, reifying (ouch) the 'buddhisms' we may be fortunate or unfortunate to encounter, or that the worst or the best of ourselves (mis?)target on our way.
The western 'individual' (which, yes, is a fiction here, factional) has seen the potential of Zen, hones a sophisticated stupidity, a new stagnancy, fresh hysterical responses to the plates left unwashed; nurtures the intellect under the guise of emptiness, re-translates grief into the play-pen of no-fault, and so on and so on.
The flames may be at rest, at ease, but they do burn.
"It's like I'm realising my worst fears about myself coming true" someone, an intimate, said to me yesterday.
"It's a good job you're not yourself then." I replied, off-the-cuff, and we shared a smile (thank god!)
That happened and it happened quite naturally. This morning, it was just something we said last night.
I know that if I tried to repeat that situation, that mote of something in a similar situation, I'd deserve to feel like a prick. Sooner, hopefully, rather than later.
More so, if I'd tried to justify it, one way or another (what with me being such a nice guy, a clever guy, quite often misunderstood.)
I hated what Brad has written about Iggy but when DS has joined in that [9:32 pm] it seems it might be worth a response.
Referring to the same quote DS quotes, - “When Iggy killed himself he did the deed in such a way as to ensure that his girlfriend … and that it would appear as though he killed himself because she broke up with him”.
People don’t kill themselves for nothing.
If a person goes as far as killing himself it would normally mean he was concerned with nothing else but what drove him into this, that it outshadowed his life, - that in his view there was no escape. Though this is not always true this is quite clearly iggy’s case.
The idea that he “did the deed in such a way as to ensure that … it would appear as though he killed himself because she broke up with him” seems to suck as severely as possible.
It seems much more probable that Brad & Co. were insincerely comforting the miserable girl.
Relate to the story as to a koan - which version would make more sense? I haven’t read the book but Brad’s case doesn’t easily stand. Carefully phrased.
One of my best friends killed himself at 34.
I'm not sure it was bad for him.
"Though this is not always true this is quite clearly iggy’s case."
How in the hell would you know? What a pompous ass. You make Mysterion look like a Christian Saint.
"It seems much more probable that Brad & Co. were insincerely comforting the miserable girl."
This also goes too far. How can you possibly draw this conclusion? You are being insensitive to all people involved.
Which do NOT include you.
Talking about a situation you know nothing about is the epitome of foolishness.
You, R, are a goddamn fool. Your opinions are worthless. SHUT THE FUCK UP.
when it comes to Narcissistic Personality Disorders, these each take the cupcake. (e.g. close, but non of them take the cake).
Narcissistic personality disorder
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From Psychology Today (a.k.a Popular Psychology - as in Popular Mechanics, etc.)
Now, without further ado, here are the top ten 'Popular Psychology' posts from 2010, as judged by page views: LINK
Bitch ass.
No such thing as sex addiction.
Nobody commits suicide for a single reason.
Shouldn't talk shit you dun't understand.
Cocksucking celestial-wannabe.
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Reading all the snide comments from these cool cyber-Buddhists makes my head ache...
Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp!
Khru, take a buddaspirin, and Seagal sounds like he needs a buddalka seltzer.
What happened to this blog? Looks like it committed suicide. For several reasons.
All the regulars are taking a break. The trolls are rampant.
- “Though this is not always true this is quite clearly iggy’s case”.
I thought this might be misunderstood.
What is meant by “this is not always true” is that this would not necessarily apply in the case of a samurai performing Seppuku, in the case of Master Sensu jumping into the river I mentioned @ 10:05 am, [- “Sorry”] or in other cases very different from the ordinary [and I know some stupid is going to jump and say - “how can you say ‘ordinary’?” - but I won’t refer to that: - there’s a limit to the amount of explanations we can supply] way or form of miserable westerners killing themselves, sometimes for the silliest reasons, - generally not being able to attain this or that.
So the sentence my unworthy debater is first concerned about could be seen as unnecessary.
Take the sentence before the sentence both me and him have quoted: - Could you think of any case in which it would not be true? Other than a case of a truly great man which would clearly not apply to Iggy?
So far as for the first quote.
I hope you SWIM.
- “How can you possibly draw this conclusion?”, - I said - “it seems much more probable”. - And if you still hold your question: - It is because I am not the miserable asshole you very definitely seem to be.
- How about that?
You - like many - seem to imagine the minds of others follow the patterns and standards of your own, - which is not necessarily the case.
As the principle Dogen somewhere seems to mention, - weeds are abundant. - And now days are very confident too, - blindness assures and holds firm.
Still - just for the record, - [but not for ykw @ ykw] I may be wrong. I think it tells from the original post. Notice the “name” I used there. [11:36]
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It looks a karmic heritage from Maezumi's way of life
Hi moon face buddha,
Lately I've noticed your posts here as well on ZFI, so I'm assuming you check in here now and again. I find ZFI's TOS and house style a tad restrictive (I'm not sure if I'd have to start another BW thread - I don't want to - where this comment 'belongs', and so forth*). So, as this place is a free-for-all I'm taking the liberty of quoting over here a snippet of something you wrote over there a short while ago:
"...Genpo is still selling Big Mind (tm) and Brad is still selling Punk-Zen.
I'm not buying either."
What is "Punk-Zen"? I don't think Brad is selling "Punk-Zen". He IS selling books about Zen/Buddhism which include frequent references to his experience as a punk bass player in a punk band, and he does have an informal style of writing which might fairly be described as 'punk' (to me it just sounds informal, personal and a tad 'hip' - not exactly 'punk'. Whatever...). But the Zen/Buddhism that Brad writes about and tries to explain (teach?) in his books and his talks I would describe as Dogen's Zen as taught to Brad by his teacher.
The style may be 'punk' to you and some others, but the content is 'Buddhist'. No?
...I know - you still ain't buying it.
* If you fancy, suggest where I might post this on ZFI and...I may do.
108: Brad's problem is that Zen isn't for sale and Zen masters aren't supposed to covet fame. He said he needs to be famous to sell his books and he needs to sell books to make money. His unique skill set is such that he can make money writing about punk, Buddhism and lately sex. This isn't isn't an uninteresting formula but the formula could accurately be labeled "Punk-Zen" could it not?
Hi merciless,
I guess if the label "Punk-Zen" accurately sums up for you what Brad writes about and does, then...it's accurate. But to me the phrase sounds dismissive, and I don't like what Brad has to say - the substance of it - being quite so easily dismissed.
Brad's life choices don't bother me. There are the books and this blog. I own and have read HCZ and I've read bits of the others. There are some good bits in the books...I mean bits I liked. I met and heard Brad talk three times when he came to London a year or so ago. Nice guy. Nice talks. But having read what he's written, having seen him in RL --> next thing. My own teacher has had much more influence on what Zen/Buddhism means to me, so I don't look upon Brad as my teacher, or any kind of authority or exemplar. But - whether I agree with his take on individual issues or not - I do value what he's saying and that he's saying it.
I have no problem with punk, or sex, or anything at all being written about from a 'Buddhist' point of view. Neither - for me - does writing about those things amount to a "Punk-Zen formula". I don't see writing, publishing, promoting and selling books on Buddhism as a 'problem', although I can see how the concomitant fame/reputation might create difficulties. They're not my difficulties, though. And those things, in themselves, don't invalidate what Brad has to say. Not for me.
Hi 108..
I rather like Brad when I'm not disliking him. :) I'm just getting tired of his shtick. Maybe the things that make him a good Buddhist hurt him as a writer.
Always derivative, he has become calculated, formulaic, repetitive.. I think he might be played out artistically. Maybe he's only going through a rough patch before he FINALLY matures.
I hear ya and understand whereof you speak, merciless. We'll see innit :)
but I hope it this blog doesn't become the TMZ of the Zen community.
This blog is more criticism of other teachers than anything else.
It is kinda weird.
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Staff Writer
The Cumberland City Council questioned Mayor Carl Hatfield concerning the financial report during a meeting on Tuesday. A city vehicle that had been sold as surplus was the subject of a heated discussion.
Council member David Dixon brought up the matter of the vehicle.
“It (the financial report) has surplus police car $100. We were supposed to have been paid $700,” said Dixon.
“Actually the car was $800 and there was $100 paid on it. For some reason payments were left to be paid that we didn’t agree to. It only shows here $100. So the car only sold for $200?” asked council member Charles Raleigh.
Mayor Carl Hatfield explained the circumstances behind the deal.
“The council member bought that car from us,” said Hatfield. “He paid $100 down with the agreement that he would not accept his $600 council pay. Then he paid the other $100.”
According to members of council, the transaction is not shown correctly in the report.
“The money should be shown under income that it came back in after the check was issued,” said Dixon.
“We didn’t issue the check,” explained Hatfield. “The money stayed in the general fund. The $100 you see there is his balance of the $800 he owed on the car.”
“How did the agreement come back to even let him pay payments?” asked Raleigh. “We were supposed to sell that for $800 cash.”
“He was without a car,” said Hatfield. “The city didn’t lose a dime.”
Council member Carolyn Elliot pointed out there could be some bookkeeping problems.
“You sold an item for $600, you only got $100,” said Elliot. “Somewhere in the books it should show that $500 has not been paid. You can’t just keep money in there without paying it out.”
“It’s going to look like the money was saved during the year,” said Raleigh. “You should have paid it out and put it back in.”
Dixon stated there could be problems during the next audit.
“The auditor’s going to come in here next January and show that we had a check for $600 that never came back,” said Dixon.
“It’s just a matter of record keeping,” said Elliot. “I don’t keep records at home like that, we sure shouldn’t do it in city hall.”
“I don’t know what you’re going to do about it, but like David said I believe it’s going to be caught by the auditor,” said Raleigh.
Hatfield said that the city did not lose any money.
“We’ve got records that show nobody profited from this deal,” said Hatfield.
In other council activity:
* Jim “Muggins” Bennett and Cleon Cornett were presented with the key to the city for their service to the city;
* A Motion was passed to adjust future meeting agendas to include sections for old business and new business;
* A motion was passed to replace the light bulbs in city hall.
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After helping to lead the Black Bears to their second regional title in three seasons, Harlan County running back Jake Middleton and defensive back Treyvon Long were named second team all-state on Friday by the Associated Press. Harlan County linebacker Carson Whitehead and Harlan quarterback Ty Saragas were named honorable mentions, while Long was also named an honorable mention at wide receiver.
Middleton led the state’s top rushing attack with 2,141 yards and 29 touchdowns in 2012. Long had four interceptions on the defensive side of the ball, while Whitehead led the team in tackles with 191 stops.
“That is a pretty big honor. It is selected by the sportswriters and it’s pretty hard to achieve something like that. As a coach, I have had very few players to earn that honor, and even honorable mention is something to be proud of,” said Harlan County coach Tom Larkey. “All of these kids have really put in a lot of time, and this just shows that that their talent has been recognized throughout the state. I am really proud of them.”
Saragas helped to change the football identity during his time at Harlan. Because of his talents under center, the Green Dragons transitioned from a ground-oriented attack to relying more on the passing game. As a senior, Saragas completed 121-of-210 passes for 1,902 yards and 23 touchdowns.
“Ty deserves to be in that select group. He has really worked hard and is very intelligent,” said Harlan coach J.B. Donahue. “Ty has put a lot of time and work into his craft, and I am glad that he is getting recognized for it.”
Louisville Trinity’s James Quick was named Mr. Football. Quick hauled in 85 passes for 1,416 yards and 16 touchdowns as a senior.
Pleasure Ridge Park’s Jason Hiser was named the state’s coach of the year..
The AP All-State teams included:, Harlan.
The definition of overlook: to look over or at from a higher place.
Harlan Daily apparently thinks their opinions are better than the members of society who support them.
This is comment #3 which will not get published because it is totally off topic. Guess I will have to start calling attention on the more visited free speech sites such as Facebook and Twitter. We will create a page just so everyone can see how fed up the county is with your garbage. Thank you!
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[1] For full coverage of the daily activities and the uncritical reportage of the major media see the Daily Alert, the official mouthpiece of 52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations, especially March 4 – 6, 2012.
[2] See the AIPAC video reports and the list of speakers. , 3/2/2012 and subsequent reports.
[3] White House press release of Obama’s declaration that US subordinate relation to Israel is “sacrosanct”, March 4,/20/12.
[4] The reference is to Noam Chomsky whose laughable effort to downplay the influence of the Zionist power configuration is widely rejected and is once again refuted by the most superficial observation of the proceedings, pledges and prostrations of all top US policy makers at the AIPAC meeting.
[5] Netanyahu’s public pronouncements and AIPAC speech were duly recorded, amplified and supported by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and especially the Washington Post (2/6/2012). He explicitly called on the US to militarily attack Iran on behalf of Israel, on the basis of Teheran’s ‘capacity’ to make a nuclear weapon. According to Netanyahu “we can’t afford to wait much longer …” Prime Minister’s Office 3/5/12.
[6] New York Times, 3/5/12.
[7] Prime Minister’s Office as quoted in the Daily Alert, 3/6/12.
[8] AIPAC video daily reports, 3/6/12.
[9] For example, just one of the numerous Zionist billionaires, the casino tzar, Sheldon Adelson has already contributed “tens of millions of dollars” to influence the current Presidential elections. Haaretz, 2/29/12. Haim Saban, another Israel-Firster billionaire, bought the principle Spanish language TV outlet in the US , UNIVISION, and then proceeded to promote sensationalist Israeli propaganda about an Iranian-Islamist “takeover” of Latin America .
[10] AIPAC press releases, 3/7/12 – 3/10/12.
[11] A survey of the Daily Alert , from March 4 to March 9, reveals there is not one single article that discusses the alternative of a diplomatic settlement with Iran , while over a dozen articles feature calls for war.
[12] For documentation and details on the decisive role of Zionist policy makers in launching the US war against Iraq see my The Power of Israel in the United States ( Atlanta : Clarity Press 2006).
[13] New York Times, 3/1/12
[14] The 52 Presidents of the Major Jewish Organizations repeatedly endorsed Netanyahu’s pretext for war. See Daily Alert, 3/6/2012
[15] Quoted in, 3/2/12.
[16] Ibid.
[17] Key Zionist Congressional operatives include Representatives Berman, Cantor, Harman, Lieberman, Ros- Lehtinen, and Levin as well as their Christian side-kicks, like McConnell and Pelosi among others who appeared at the AIPAC war fest. AIPAC promotional flyer 3/2/12.
[18] See The Power of Israel in the United States (op cit.)
[19] See “On Bended Knees: Zionist Power in American Politics” in James Petras, War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column (Clarity, Atlanta 2010.
[20] The Power of Israel in the United States , op cit.
[21] Though Ross has formally resigned, he is still a key Obama adviser on the Middle East. See Haaretz 1/27/12,
[22] One of the key Zionist operatives is Jeffrey Feltman, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs. He played a crucial role in support of Israel‘s bombing of Lebanon in 2006, during his term as Ambassador, calling Hezbollah a “terrorist organization”. He dictated policy to the US client ruler Fouad Siniora. Feltman twice served in Israel. He was stationed in Gaza where he collaborated with the occupying Israeli Defense Forces. He worked with uber-Zionist US Ambassador Martin Indyk backing Israel’s position in the phony “Peace Process” from 2000 to 2001. Other Zionists in key positions include Jack Lew, current Chief of Staff to President Obama; David Plouffe senior adviser, Dan Shapiro, Ambassador to Israel; Steven Simon, Head of Middle East/North Africa Desk at the National Security Council; and Eric Lynn, Middle East policy advisor. Jewish Virtual Library a Division of the American-Israeli Enterprise 2012.
[23] Prominent Zionists, who served in strategic positions in the foreign policy realm of the Obama regime, included Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff to the President, David Axelrod, Senior Advisor; James Steinberg Deputy Secretary of State; and Richard Holbrooke Special Envoy to Pakistan/Afghanistan (deceased).
[24] Several studies estimate that Jews make up about 25% of the Forbes 400 richest Americans; over half are contributors to Israel or Zionist organizations or causes. J.J. Goldberg in his book on Jewish power estimates that 45% of Democratic fundraising comes from pro-Israel Jews. (Jewish Power: Inside the Jewish Establishment, Reading: Addison-Wesley 1996)
[25] Steve Rosen, a top policy director of AIPAC, along with his colleague, Keith Weissman admitted to handing over confidential documents to the Israeli embassy. Rosen later filed suit against AIPAC for firing him and Weissman and refusing to pay their legal fees; he claimed that the Lobby frequently condoned its employees’ receipt and illegal transfer of classified US government information citing numerous AIPAC documents to back-up his case. The Jewish Daily Forward, 12/15/2010.
[26] The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, urged Netanyahu to order the Israeli secret spy service, the Mossad, to assassinate President Obama, Haaretz 1/21/12. Rabbi Michael Lerner, a moderate Zionist critic of Israel, has been subject to four attacks on his home in the past two years, while accused of being a ‘self-hating Jew’ by Zionist fanatics. Mainstream Zionist organizations dissociate themselves from physical violence, while slanderously labeling opponents and critics of Israel as “anti-semites”, which has created precisely the political climate that encourages the less balanced among their audience to violent activity. Leading Zionist ideologues have been extremely active in inducing colleges and universities to fire critics of Israel, as was the case in the failure of DePaul University to renew the contract of a widely published scholar like, Norman Finklestein. Professors Walt and Mearsheimer, authors of an erudite study of The Israel Lobby, were subject to vitriolic attacks by American Zionist leaders, including A. Foxman of the Anti (sic) Defamation League as well as a superficial critique by left-Zionist Noam Chomsky. The racist rantings of uber-Zionists like David Horowitz and Pamela Geller helped to detonate the Islamophobic and Zionophilic mass murderer, Anders Breivik, in Norway .
[27] See the Atlantic Jewish Times editorial 1/20/12.
[28] The editor of the Atlantic Jewish Times who called for Obama’s assassination was not charged with any federal security offense. The confessed Zionist spy, Colonel Ben-Ami Kadish, who stole secret US nuclear weapon plans for Israel , did not spend a single day in jail although he paid a $50,000 fine for handing over scores of documents to Israel . (See Grant Smith Foreign Agents, Institute for Research Middle East Policy (IRMEP) Washington 2008. On AIPAC spying see IRMEP 2/6/12.
[29] Not to be ignored, the rarified atmosphere in high level scientific research journals has been politicized – most outrageous is the censorship of a genetic-immunologic study (by a leading international team of scientists) showing the close genetic relationship, if not identity between Levantine Jews and Palestinians. University libraries around the world were advised to ‘tear-out’ (eyes closed) the offending study from the pages of the journal, Human Immunology, lest such data might undermine the racist ‘raison d’etre’ for an exclusively Jewish State. (see Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians, Robin McKie, Guardian-Sunday Observer ( London ), November 25, 2001 and Hum. Immunol. 62 (9): 889–900.)
[30] A review of new reports and editorials of the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, published by the Daily Alert during the AIPAC conference, reveals a close alignment with the extremist militarist position of the Israeli regime and AIPAC leaders See Steve Lendman ‘New Times Promoting War on Iran’ 3/3/12.
[31] During the month of February 2012, the Israeli Army and armed paramilitary Jewish settlers carried out 145 attacks on Palestinians, killing and wounding dozens, demolishing homes, seizing thousands of acres of land and uprooting scores of families: The Wall and Settlements Information Center, Palestinian Authority 3/1/12. Neither the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post reported on these Israeli crimes against Palestinian civilians.
[32] Among Chertoff’s current clients are the manufacturers of the intrusive and nationally detested ‘body scanners’ used at US airports. He was also instrumental in the release and repatriation of a dozen Israeli Mossad agents arrested in New York and New Jersey within 24 hours of the 9/11 terrorist attack. Three of the nine justice s,Ginsberg, Breyer and Kagan, are Zionists unwilling to challenge the Executive usurpation of war powers and promotion of torture and rendition. The others are all affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. Not a single Protestant-affiliated Justice (numerically the majority religion in the US ) has been appointed to the Supreme Court since the 1990 appointment of respected constitutional scholar, David Souter (by George Bush the First), because of their ‘unreliability’ (code-word for upholding the Bill of Rights and Constitution). The recent appointment of Justice Elena Kagan, whose lackluster academic career did not deter uber-Zionist Laurence Summers from appointing her Dean of the Harvard Law School, uderscores the mediocre criteria used in the high judiciary. The most recent appointment of Sonya Sotomayor to replace the brilliant (and Zionistically ‘unreliable’) J.P. Stevens, was promoted heaviliy for the Supreme Court on the basis of her strong ties to Israel, starting with her first (of many) ‘leadership’ tours to Israel (see The Jewish Chronicle – Life story Israel trips tie Sotomayor to Jews, Ron Kampeas – May 26, 2009).
[33] Financial Times 3/6/12, p. 9.
[34] Howard Kohr AIPAC executive director, during his vitriolic war mongering speech at the conference exceeded even Netanyahu’s explicit call for an immediate military attack on Iran. See AIPAC daily report, 3/16/12.
[35] Most experts agree that the oil price increase has stymied ‘economic recovery’ and if it continues to rise will plunge the world back into deep recession.
[36] Obama’s speech to the AIPAC meeting pointedly called on the Israeli leaders to tone down on their military rhetoric, clearly linking rising oil prices to Israeli war mongering.
[37] See Grant Smith, ‘AIPAC Directors Use of Classified Missile Data, Harmed National Security – US State Department’, Business Wire 2/6/12.
[38] Financial Times 3/1/12, p. 17.
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Hi, I'm Emma. I'm 17 and I live in Shropshire, England. I love music and the works of Tolkien. I like to overuse the wink face and I live a life which predominantly revolves around Downton Abbey, Thomas Howes, Dan Stevens and Elijah Wood. I'm also really into Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Jane Austen and learning random new musical instruments.
I am a happy person, and I love to make other people laugh and smile. I've just started studying for my A levels in English literature, history and music. I'm hoping to go on to university next year to study music.
At first glance, this blog probably looks like an oddly-named fandom appreciation blog, but it's actually my personal blog. I'm just really obsessive, K?
I hope you enjoy my blog. I won't delete it this time. Promise. :)
Kickass Violet. XD
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When Did the Potters Go Into Hiding?
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During her 2007 appearance at Carnegie Hall, JKR mentioned that Lily and James were full-time fighters for the Order "until Lily fell pregnant with Harry" and "then they went into hiding," which contradicts her 2004 World Book Day statement that it "looked as if the Potters would have to go into hiding" at the time of Harry's christening. In the 2005 MuggleNet/Leaky Cauldron interview, however, she stated, "At the time that they christened Harry, they were in hiding," leaving open the possibility that they went into hiding before Harry was born.
It seems JKR changed her mind about when the Potters went into hiding between writing OotP and HBP. In DH33, when we see Snape go to beg Dumbledore to keep Lily safe, it's autumn ("...the sound of the wind in the branches" and "Though leaves and branches still flew through the night air around them..."). This scene could thus fall in late 1979, when Lily was a couple of months pregnant, or in late 1980, when Harry was a few months old. But late 1979 seems more likely, given that the prophecy was worded "The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches," not "has arrived," implying its subject wasn't born at the name Trelawney made it.
The order of events thus seems to be:
- Autumn 1979: Lily finds out she's pregnant.
- Autumn 1979: Snape overhears Trelawney making the prophecy
- Autumn 1979: Snape tells Voldemort about it and he targets the Potters.
- Autumn 1979: Snape goes to Dumbledore, seeking protection for Lily.
- The Potters go into hiding.
- July 1980: Harry is born while his parents are in hiding.
This leaves open the question of how Voldemort learned Lily was pregnant, much less expecting a boy, but I think there's enough evidence from various sources to support the above order of events.
What does everyone else think? ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 00:08, August 7, 2011 (UTC)
- I would say that the 2007 statement would be the more "official" as it is the latest statement made by Rowling. However, personally, I think that a large amount of time in hiding is unfeasible since it means that Pettigrew waited a long time before betraying the Potters. Perhaps this is one of the things that Pottermore will clear up in the coming months. - Cavalier One
(Wizarding Wireless Network) 00:30, August 7, 2011 (UTC)
- I'm revamping the Lily Evans article to include more known canonical information and I was wondering how to cover information about the Potters going into hiding. Personally, I always had a bit of trouble accepting that Pettigrew's betray came suddenly, I'd find it more believable if the Potters were in hiding for two years and he had that long to progressively grow frightened enough to sell them out. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 02:38, August 7, 2011 (UTC)
- I'm inclined to agree with Cav and go with the more recent interview. After all, Lily's letter to Sirius in Deathly Hallows mentions Peter visiting them around Harry's birthday in late July, and they still weren't killed for another three months, so it's not unreasonable to think he'd been conflicted enough to wait for quite some time before betraying them. Then again, we all know the REAL reason is simply because it's J. K. "I hate teh maths" Rowling. - Nick O'Demus 10:26, August 7, 2011 (UTC)
- Snape has overheard the prophecy in late 1979 or early 1980. It must have been later than Halloween 1979, because Harry was born on 31st July 1980, so he was conceived around Halloween 1979.
- Snape asks Dumbledore to protect Lily after Harrys birth, because they talk about "her son". The weather is not necessarily in autumn, it could well be winter or early spring, when the dry leaves are still around. But if we assume that it is autumn, then it would be in 1981, because it would take even Voldemort some time to find out about all children born at the end of July 1980 to parents who have thrice defeated him. (The prophecy could also be referring to Neville Longbottom, but by attacking Harry, Voldemort "marks him as his equal".)
- So lets say Snape talks to Dumbledore in autumn 1981 and tells him, Voldemort thinks the prophecy is referring to Harry. Dumbledore warns the Potters and they use the Fidelius Charm to go into hiding. BUT only because they change to Pettigrew as Secret Keeper at the last moment, he is able to betray them. I think that he did it immediately, because Sirius talks about how happy he must have been realising that he could be of great service to his secret master. No sense in waiting, imho. Bearig 20:05, March 27, 2012 (UTC)
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Wizard who killed a ChimaeraTalk0
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- This character is most likely a reference to Bellerophon, an ancient Greek hero who defeated the mythical Chimaera from the back of the winged horse Pegasus. He also collapsed from his steed after the encounter, but not from exhaustion; he felt that his defeat of the Chimaera was enough to earn him a place among the gods, and attempted to fly to Mount Olympus. He was stopped by Zeus, who sent a gadfly to bite Pegasus and make Bellerophon fall off. Futhermore, he did not die from the fall, but was merely injured enough to live out the rest of his days as a blinded, crippled hermit.[2]
AppearancesEdit
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Mentioned only)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (real)
- ↑ Bellerophon on Wikipedia
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Insects of the Arnold Arboretum
Results from our visual survey (results from Bee Bowls to come later):
Diptera:
Mosquito (Culicidae)
Midge (Chironomidae)
Housefly (Muscidae)
Hover fly (Syrphidae)
Hemiptera:
Tree hopper (Cercopidae)
Leaf hopper (Cicadellidae)
Water strider (Gerridae)
Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae)
Hymenoptera:
Bumblebee (Apidae)
Vespid wasp (Vespidae)
Honeybee (Apidae)
Lepidoptera:
Inch worm (Geometridae)
Checkerspot butterfly (Nymphalidae)
Coleoptera:
Flat bark beetle larva (Cucujidae)
Click beetle (Elateridae)
Birds of the Arnold Arboretum
From Robert Mayer at the Arnold Arboretum, here is a list of our morning birding findings!
Location: Arnold Arboretum
Observation date: 5/1/11
Notes: sun/clouds 55
Number of species: 22
H= heard only
Canada Goose 2
Red-tailed Hawk 2
Mourning Dove 5
Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 H
Northern Flicker 2 H
Great Crested Flycatcher 2 H
Warbling Vireo 1 H
Blue Jay 3
Black-capped Chickadee 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1 H
American Robin 20
Gray Catbird 6
European Starling 3
Yellow Warbler 5
Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 H
warbler sp. 1 Brian and I heard another warbler possibly Northern Parula
Chipping Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 2
Northern Cardinal 4
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Common Grackle 15
House Sparrow 4
Please fill out this interest survey for the 2011 BioBlitz.
2011 BioBlitz is here - May 1!
Please join us for the second annual Harvard University Campus BioBlitz!
Contact info:
During the event, call:
Adam Clark (857)-544-6782, Andrew Brownjohn (315)-877-7457, or Sam Perez (617)-852-4635
The Agassiz Zoological Club is named in honor of Prof. Louis Agassiz, the founder of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. (see site: harvardbioblitz.tumblr.com/)
Times: ROUGHLY midnight Sunday, May 1 to midnight Monday, May 2
Location of coordinating center – MCZ Labs, 4th floor
What is a BioBlitz? Over 24 hours, the total plant and animal life of the area will be cataloged to the best of our ability and recorded in a public database hosted by the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL). Over time, the HUCBB will provide an invaluable record of the changes in diversity over time, and the types of species present on campus.
When will this happen? The BioBlitz will begin at midnight on Sunday, May 1st and continue through midnight on Monday, May 2nd. Volunteers will lead taxa-specific sampling expeditions across the campus, cataloguing plant, insect, bird, etc. life. Samples will be identified in the field or sorted under microscopes.
How do I participate? Show up at any point over the 24 hours, either at our sampling location (see below) or at the coordinating center at the MCZ Labs. Student experts will lead guided nature walks for each trip, provide collecting equipment, and help with specimen identification. See which trips you are interested in – we’ll be leading them all day!
Locations: North Area – Harvard Yard, MCZ Labs area, Radcliffe Quadrangle
Southern Area – River Houses, Charles River
How can I get involved?:
Email the AZC above, and cc Adam, atclark@fas.harvard.edu. We are looking for volunteers who would like to attend guided walks, taxonomists and naturalist who would like to guide walks, and photographers or writers who would like to record events.
Sampling Trips (as of April 21):
All images from 2010 BioBlitz. All corny trip names are solely Adam’s fault.
1) 9AM-12PM: “The birds and the bees” - insect and avifauna of the the Arnold Arboretum.
a. A guided tour of the forests, fields, and rills of the Arnold Arboretum. We will be looking at local insects and birds, and will collect data for part of a New England-wide inventory of pollinators.
b. At 10:30AM, we’re meeting up with Robert Mayer, a naturalist at the AA, to go on a guided birding trip of the facilities.
c. MEET AT Harvard Yard subway entrance (by “the Pit”) at 8:30AM
2) 2PM-4PM: “A walk in the woods” - guided walk featuring the plants of Harvard Yard
a. Taking advantage of Harvard Yard’s tree map, we will visit and identify plants from around the campus.
b. MEET AT John Harvard state at 2PM
3) 4PM-6PM: “Sleeping with the fishes” - fish and aquatic arthropods of the Charles River, by the Harvard Woman’s boathouse
a. Using water nets and seines, we will collect fish, insects, larvae, and other aquatic animals to record the diversity of the Charles River. Waders or sandals are highly encouraged.
b. MEET AT Women’s Boat House at 4PM
4) 12AM-2AM: “Three sheets to the wind” - light trapping for nocturnal insects
a. We will set up light traps in the MCZ courtyard to see the local insect wildlife.
b. MEET OUTSIDE the Harvard Geological Building (by 26 Oxford St.) at 12AM.
Insects and arthropods, round 1.
Arthropod pitfall samples have finally been sorted! Three pitfall traps were placed at each of seven sites, and left open for about 24 hours. Where possible, insects were later sorted to family, arthropods to order. Results from hand collecting and light trapping at night will be available later this fall.
Data tables are available through Google Docs here:.
Pictures of each specimen can be found hosted by Google Picassa at. Images are named by (site code)_(taxonomy)_(number of individuals)_(morphospecies code). Below is a summary of findings.
Please keep in mind that “individuals” data is sketchy at best. When many (>10) individuals were present, they were not counted.
Name Site Species (ID) Individuals Boathouse B 22 31 Lowell House LH 12 30 Lowell Hall LL 18 30 MCZ Courtyard MCZ 11 28 North Yard NY 26 46 South Yard SY 20 28 Stadium S 16 18.
Fantastic, a whole family of hawks right where I buy my groceries!
The Boston Globe reports on a family of red-tailed hawks that is nesting right by the Fresh Pond Parkway in West Cambridge.
Watch the video! It really shows how people have a great innate enthusiasm for nature when it’s pointed out to them. I’ve noticed that the ‘aha!’ moment tends to be when they can make a connection between what they’re seeing with their own eyes with something they’ve read in a magazine or see on TV. For biology educators the challenge is to trigger the thought: “I never thought I’d see this with my own eyes!”
(Via MB Saffo.)
We are about half done ID-ing the pitfall and light trap samples. We have photos of them all, and will post them soon!
Rob’s Sightings
Rob Gogan emailed us recently with the following notes.
This morning (5-3-10) on my way to campus, I saw these birds:
- Magnolia warbler high among young leaves and catkins of white oak tree across the street from Shannon Hall
- Goldfinch flying over Charles near Weld Boat House
- Warblers high in elms in Harvard Yard
In the blog for 5-2, I suggest you add to the caption of the gorgeous ink-cap mushroom photo that the host tree is an American Elm.
Also, please add to the Radcliffe Yard part of the blog that we stopped at the Radcliffe crabapple tree. This tree nearly died when Harvard discussed fully merging with Radcliffe in the mid-90’s. Then, Harvard announced that the Radcliffe name would live on as the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study was announced. A new crabapple was planted next to the old one at this time. Suddenly, the old tree burst into new life, and has thrived ever since.
As we pondered it, Chris noticed a palm warbler flitting among its leaves. Rob saw it poke its beak into a tube-rolled leaf and extract a fat green larva, which it ate in three or four bites.
Also, I suggest that you add that Sam spotted some lichen with fruiting bodies growing on the north side of the giant pre-Columbian, Central American stone sphere behind Tozzer Library.
Also on the giant sphere (from Costa Rica) was a fat insect larva of some kind, a few spiders, and lots of tiny red mites…
Thanks Rob!
That Big Mushroom…
Gen Lewis-Gentry at the Farlow Herbarium took a look at our Stropharia photo and suggested that it might be Stropharia rugoso-annulata. It’s one of the common mushrooms seen around the area, and was first described by William Farlow himself (picture of Farlow below, from HUH website).
Farlow was Professor of Cryptogamic Botany at Harvard from 1879 until the turn of the century, and helped to establish botany (then including mycology) as a scientific discipline in the country. His description of Stropharia rugoso-annulata was published posthumously in the Icones Farlowianae, which has sumptuous color lithograph plates illustrating each of the species described - each printing is slightly different because the stones were all inked by hand. The type was described from Massachusetts, and was ‘rare’ at the time, but it’s now very common growing on mulched beds, which was where we found it (in a flowerbed in the Div School).
The character to look out for, apparently, is the annulus around the stipe, which has a star-shaped appearance when seen head-on. The cap is chestnut-brown with a purplish hue, and the spores are ‘snuff-brown’. Back in the day when most people would know the color of snuff very well….
Fish is now IDed!
The small fish we pulled out of the Charles has been identified by Prof. Farrell as a juvenile Largemouth Bass.
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