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Small Town, Big Tastes: Downtown
Wednesday March 15, 2017
The reasons homebuyers decide to move to a small town from a large city are as varied and individual as the homebuyers themselves. Typically, people focus on the accessibility of the outdoors, the sense of community, and the people. But they often resign themselves to the idea that they'll have to make sacrifices in the variety that living in a big city can bring to life. Especially when it comes to food. Fortunately, in Prescott at least, that's simply not the case.
Downtown Prescott offers a robust culinary scene. From classic Italian restaurants and Americana to tapas bars and gastro-pub fare, the food in Prescott is some of the best in Northern Arizona. Here's a sampling of just a few of the restaurants that prove that Prescott is a small town with big tastes.
Papa's Italian Restaurant
Papa's Uptown has been a family-owned staple of the Prescott dining experience for 25 years. Centrally located downtown, Papa's Uptown brings the tastes and traditions of the "Italian Home" to Arizona. Their dining room offers old world Tuscan décor and a sense of casual elegance. Meanwhile, their kitchen serves up classic Italian dishes made with only the freshest ingredients. Whether you choose from their pizza selections or a traditional pasta dish, Papa's self-described "eclectic" wine list is sure to offer a perfect pairing.
Papa's also offers a full bar and happy hour specials nightly from 4-5:30 P.M. Their full menu and a listing of their happy hour specials is available on their website.
Raven Café
If you're interested in socially-conscious dining at it's best you can't miss Raven Café. Raven Café is a European-style café located in downtown Prescott that features a full organic espresso bar and a variety of small production beers and wines. Raven Café focuses on ensuring that every aspect of their business is as Earth-friendly as possible and sources local ingredients whenever they can. Many of the meals are vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, or dairy free and cater to a variety of dietary concerns. Raven Café offers small plates, salads, sandwiches, and full plates, as well as a specialized happy hour menu.
Raven Café's dining space features rotating art shows by local and regional visual artists and the best in underground acoustic and local music. Raven Café also offers weekly movie and trivia nights with food and drink specials. For more information, visit their website or like them on Facebook.
El Gato Azul
El Gato Azul World Bistro offers an expansive full menu with a focus on Tapas. The restaurant has been seen on Check Please! Arizona and named as one of the 11 Best Restaurants in Arizona by Thrillist.com. El Gato Azul prepares fresh dishes daily using locally sourced ingredients and truly provides a meal for every palate. With their extended happy hour (3-6 P.M.) and casual, yet sophisticated atmosphere, El Gato Azul is an excellent choice for socializing or meeting friends. Their full lunch, dinner, and tapas menus are available on their website.
For a truly memorable experience, visit during one of the live music performances. El Gato Azul features live jazz every Sunday and frequent performances throughout the week. For more information, visit their website or Facebook page and browse the music calendar.
This is just a small sample of the cuisine Prescott has to offer and we hope you'll take the opportunity to explore these restaurants and the many others located in our historic downtown district. If you have any questions about Prescott, the small town with big tastes, reach out to one of our Online Home Advisors today.

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A man goes to a casino where he once before had a very bad experience. He lost his money and the taxi driver he had tossed him out in the middle of nowhere once he found out the man was broke. This time he wins money. As he exits the casino, he sees a long line of Taxi drivers.. and at the end is his enemy from two years ago.
Seeing this, the man decides to get his revenge. He goes up to the first Taxi and says: "hey will you give me a blowjob?" the taxi driver says: "no you freak, get out of my car!"
The man then goes on to the next car and says: "hey will you give me a blowjob?" the taxi driver says: "no you maniac, get out of my car!" The man continues to do this all down the line until he reaches the last taxi, and sees his enemy.
The man asks: "how much for a ride to the airport?" Not recognizing him the driver replies: "$5" "Okay." says the man and he gets in. Then as he passes the line of other taxis, he sticks his hands out the window and gives them all a big thumbs up.


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text: Q: What challenges and opportunities do you anticipate for transit agencies in 2015? A: As in previous years — recently, at least — one of the challenges facing transit agencies is securing federal funding. This is particularly true of big-ticket capital projects, but formula funding must be re-approved periodically, and there is a deep field of agencies across the nation competing for these scarce dollars. Some of them have ambitious plans, but there's a fairly stagnant pot of money. Q: What are some of the needs you foresee in the community this year? A: We're working to address the transit capacity through downtown Dallas because this can help improve all of our rail lines and transit service. We'll advance plans to extend the light rail platforms outside of downtown so we can operate longer trains throughout the entire system, letting us move more people more efficiently. We need to continue improving our bus service, and we'll continue a review of our operations to develop short-, intermediate- and long-term ways to make it better.Follow the link below to read the rest of the Q&A. Looking Ahead: Improving capacity, service key focus in coming year for DART [dallasnews.com]


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Kia ora e hoa!
This week's issue of Salient is presented to you by the Victoria University Feminist Organisation (VicUFO) to celebrate our annual Women's Week. This past year has seen a lot of changes within our representative group, the biggest change being our name — formerly the VUWSA Women's Group. The name change embodies the evolving values of the group, shifting from solely focusing on women, to being more inclusive and intersectional. While we acknowledge that not all women identify as being feminist, we felt that shifting the term from women to feminist encompassed gender minorities and those previously excluded by the use of a gendered term.
Intersectional feminism is a branch of feminism originating from Black feminist circles, and was introduced to feminist theory by Kimberelé Crenshaw. It recognises that oppressive institutions are interconnected and should not be examined separately from one another. It contrasts to earlier waves of feminism that can be characterised as "white feminism", catering to the white, middle class, and socially and physically abled female experience. Through intersectionality we are able to recognise that we all experience different power dynamics based on our individual and unique identities, and that forms of oppression are interlinked and cannot be solved alone.
In this issue, we have accumulated writers of diverse identities to give an insight into the varying challenges faced within these institutions. It is important when reading these pieces to self-reflect and recognise the privileges your identity affords you, while also decentering your perspective to open up to understanding the experiences of others.
Women's Week this year is focused on celebrating the creativity and diversity of wāhine, women, and gender minorities. We have various events throughout the week and would love to see you there. Check out the schedule on the opposite page, as well as Facebook for more information.
♥ Thank you to everyone who contributed to this issue and to those involved with the planning of Women's Week, your hard work is greatly appreciated. ♥
Kia ora rawa atu,
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The website, Let Doctors Be Doctors, was created by Dr Zubin Damania. Read his introduction below:
"Rapper and internist "ZDoggMD", aka Zubin Damania, M.D., is looking to shake up health care. During his 10-year career as a hospitalist at Stanford and close to burnout, Zubin turned to stand-up comedy and rap to voice his concerns and frustrations about our dysfunctional health system. His videos have educated and entertained over a million patients and providers while mercilessly satirizing the ways in which health care fails.
Dr. Damania is the Director of Healthcare Development for Downtown Project Las Vegas, an urban revitalization movement spearheaded by Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh, where he's currently developing an innovative model of health care delivery that promotes wellness at both the individual and community level. He recently founded Turntable Health, a primary care clinic within Las Vegas—which he describes as "a revolution in medicine."
I am not generally a fan of standing on the sidelines and picking out issues as a way to promote our jobs as transcriptionists or keeping our profession alive. I think we can accomplish keeping our profession alive by become key proponents of quality documentation, not by trying to prove our current way is better than other ways. If I might say it once again, our own transcription industry is not managed well, in my opinion. I think the entire healthcare documentation thing is a mess. However, I do think Dr Damania's idea of getting examples from healthcare providers as a way to start creating a collective voice. I will be contacting him and introducing to him what we are doing at MyMT, sharing our Joint Commission experience with him, and exploring a potential partnership. I still contend that the answer is implementing proper quality management procedures for this healthcare documentation, and since he is a physician, he will be familiar with hospital quality improvement processes and The Joint Commission, and maybe he can bring a new voice and extra oomph to our effort here. It is obviously a passion of his.
As a side note, Dr Damania was a speaker at the AHDI Conference in 2014.


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Bates Motel
The "Psycho" prequel series "Bates Motel" premiered on A&E Sunday night to 3.0 million total viewers and 1.6 million in the 18-49 demo. That demo rating is the the highest for a drama series debut on the network. [Source: The Live Feed]
Hot in Cleveland
TV Land has just announced a fifth-season renewal for its sitcom "Hot In Cleveland" with a super-sized 24-episode order. This brings the series to a total of 104 episodes, crossing the coveted-for-syndication 100-episode mark.
While it has been declining in the ratings, the show remains the cable channel's top series and averages 2.8 million total viewers (Live+7) along with spawning a spinoff. [Source: Deadline]
Manu Bennett ("Spartacus") has been promoted to a series regular for the recently announced second season of The CW's superhero series. Bennett plays Slade Wilson — who in the comics ultimately becomes Arrow's villain Deathstroke.
The show has featured multiple Deathstrokes during its freshman run, but the Slade character so far has remained an ally to Stephen Amell's Oliver. [Source: The Live Feed]


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War games are sometimes made to be simple shooters. One that test only your skill to press a button quickly or react to a certain situation. But, there are games that like to challenge players' morality by putting them in the middle of situations that they weren't prepared for. Ones that will challenge the very fabric of who you are, and force you to make choices that you'll have to live with for the rest of your life. For those seeking that kind of depth and challenge, welcome to Spec Ops: The Line.
Set in a ruined Dubai, you'll take part of a Delta Force squad that has been given a mission that is both dangerous and mysterious. 6 months ago, Dubai was wiped off the map by a sandstorm of biblical proportions. Many lost their lives, including many American soldiers. But then, a radio signal was picked up from the ruined city, and your team is sent to investigate what is going on, and if there are somehow survivors there. But the truth is far more than simple, and you'll find just how dark the story gets as you progress.
You'll control a three-man squad, each of whom have unique personalities and traits and skills that you'll deal with not only in combat, but through the story itself. For much like a real war story, the choices you make affect the ones around you. The ending will be one directly influenced by you. This isn't your average war game, this is a tactical and gripping game. This is Spec Ops: The Line.
Computer games are made out of a lot of things. Level geometry and music, shader effects and AI, physics systems and sound effects, textures and scripting. And words. Words of dialogue, plot, lore and backstory. Words for the menus and tutorials. Words for store pages and pitch documents and documen...
Spec Ops: The Line is a hell of a game. On the surface it's a conventional third-person military shooter, but it goes places and does things that you don't very often run into in videogames. I will say no more! Except to say that it is currently free on the Humble Store. Spec Ops was defin...
Spec Ops: The Line is free over at the Humble Store right now. It's only available for 48 hours, ending March 31st at 10am Pacific, so I advise you to go there now. Congratulations! You are hopefully now the proud owner of a game about the horrors of war. It's hell, in case you hadn̵...
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Today was a very difficult day. Low mood, low sex drive, just really bad sugar cravings (my yeast infection).
I went a third night sleeping less again. If I masturbate, I can sleep for hours and hours. But now it's been 11 days, my body seems to be needing sleep less.
I've not noticed any other physical changes. Mentally, it's been so tough, but I must keep going.
Onwards and upwards.
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Both insomnia and more energy are common
Weird, eh?
The good news it that your sleep cycle will eventually settle down if other guys' experience is any guide.
Sorry it's tough at the moment.
Thanks Marnia.
It is very strange indeed. Seen a few blogs about energy, but mine has decreased. I look forward to getting 9+ hours of sleep a night. It's 5-7 hours at the moment. Less energy and less sleep. Bizarre.
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but both are not unusual. The brain is trying to come back into balance, and swinging around like a pendulum for now. It will settle.


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It can be a lonely life as a reserve goalkeeper, but Dons boss Robbie Neilson has urged Wieger Sietsma to remain patient and wait for his opportunity to prove himself.
The Dutch keeper made the switch to Stadium MK from Heerenveen in the summer, but has been limited to four appearances this season - three in the Checkatrade Trophy and one in the Carabao Cup.
An impressive display in the first half in particular against Oxford United on Tuesday saw the 22-year-old make a string of excellent saves, and was unlucky not to keep out Jack Payne's penalty after getting a hand to it.
It certainly pleased his manager too, but Neilson says the keeper must bide his time before getting ahead of the equally impressive Lee Nicholls this season.
"I was delighted with Wieger," said the manager. "I know he's a very good keeper and at this moment, he's probably League 1 first team standard. His problem is that Lee has come in and done really well. You saw against Oxford, Wieger came in and was more than comfortable, and he still has a lot of progression he can make but he has a big future in the game.
"They understand it - Lee was the same last year. David Martin was an exceptional goalkeeper and Lee had to bide his time. He waited, worked hard and took his opportunity. Now he's the number one choice, he has to keep hold of it and make sure he gets 100 games under his belt before maybe looking to make the next step for his career. Wieger now has to do the same.
"I was lucky to have that last season, and now Wieger is doing the same, as we saw in the performance on Tuesday."


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Shaykh Ahmad al-'Alawi (1869-1934) was a spiritual master in the Shadhiliyyah-Darqawiyyah Tariqah, one of the great Sufi orders dedicated to meditation and prayer, whose representatives trace their lineage in an unbroken "chain" (silsilah) back to the Prophet Muhammad. Schuon traveled to Mostaghanem, Algeria in early December, 1932 to meet this famous spiritual guide. Schuon's letters to Black Elk, the famous Lakota holy man, covered many subjects, including a description of his own spiritual quest: "I wished not only to love God, I wished also to know Him, and the Christianity of our time teaches only the love of God, never the knowledge.… And so, with regard to the knowledge of God which I was seeking—because it is a need of my nature, and God wishes to be worshipped by every man according to the nature He gave him—I found this sacred knowledge through a holy man of the Arab people, whose name was Ahmad al-'Alawî. He was a spiritual Master and had many disciples. There I found what I was searching for: the knowledge of God, and the means to realize God."
For more information on Shaykh Ahmad al-'Alawi, click here.
For more information on Jean Biès, click here.
Black Elk (1863-1950) was a famous Lakota holy man whose life story was recorded in John Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks. In 1946, when virtually no westerners were interested in Plains Indian spirituality and only a few serious scholars were studying shamanistic sacred traditions, Frithjof Schuon suggested to Joseph Epes Brown that he attempt to find Black Elk. Joseph Brown was successful in his search and the book that resulted was The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Sacred Rites of the Ogalala Sioux (1953).Schuon's letters to Black Elk are preserved and cited in articles and books. Black Elk gave Catherine Schuon the Lakota name Wámbli Oyáte Win, which means "Eagle People Woman."
For more information on Black Elk, click here.
For more information on Joseph Epes Brown, click here.
Titus Burckhardt (1908-1984) was one of the leading perennialist writers of the twentieth century. His writings showed remarkable scope. Burckhardt wrote on pure metaphysics, on tradition and modern science, on sacred art, on history and political science, and on various other aspects of traditional civilizations. Burckhardt was also a translator (from Arabic into French), an editor and publisher, and a respected consultant on restoring traditional cities to their former beautiful states. Titus Burckhardt was one of Schuon's closest personal friends, with their friendship beginning in their boyhood. Some of Burckhardt's observations about Schuon's life and work are quoted in several articles and books
For more information on Titus Burckhardt, click here.
Mrs. Casey has been with World Wisdom since 1981, and in her capacity as editor she had the opportunity to meet frequently with Frithjof Schuon for the publication of many of his books in English translation. Her current responsibilities involve working with other translators and editors on the translation and cataloging of Schuon's correspondence and unpublished papers for the future use of interested readers and scholars.
Mrs. Casey is the editor of Light on the Ancient Worlds, published by World Wisdom. Light on the Ancient Worlds is the first in a new series of Frithjof Schuon's classical works which have been extensively revised and updated.
Jennifer Casey is an independent film maker and director who has traveled extensively throughout the Plain Indians reservations. A former teacher, Mrs. Casey has met with numerous tribal leaders and Sun Dance chiefs. She lives with her husband and two children in Bloomington, IN.
She is the director of the World Wisdom documentaries Native Spirit and The Sun Dance Way. Jennifer Casey is currently working on a film documentary of the life and work of Frithjof Schuon.
For more information on Jennifer Casey, click here.
Dr. Rama P. Coomaraswamy (1929-2006), son of the renowned perennialist writer Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, was in his own right an important writer on traditionalist topics, especially regarding Christianity and the influx of modernistic ideas and practices in this ancient apostolic tradition.
Dr. Coomaraswamy wrote what to our knowledge is the most detailed study of the modern changes to the Catholic rites and doctrines. This unrelenting analysis of the errors of modern insertions into Catholic tradition was originally published in 1972 but recently updated in a new edition in The Destruction of the Christian Tradition: Updated and Revised. He also collaborated with World Wisdom as the editor of The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.
For more information on Dr. Rama P. Coomaraswamy, click here.
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was a multi-talented researcher, scientist, linguist, expert on culture and art, philosopher, museum curator, and author. He was the first well-known author of the modern era to expound the importance of traditional arts, culture, and thought as more than simply relics of a bygone past. Dr. Coomaraswamy is often credited with reintroducing the concept of the "Perennial Philosophy" to a West dazed by the endless multiplicity of the modern world. A. K. Coomaraswamy is widely considered one of the three most important writers in the Perennialist School. References to his life and work, including excerpts from his writings, are cited in many articles and books presented on this site.
For more information on Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, click here.
James S. Cutsinger is an author, editor, and teacher whose writings focus primarily on Perennialism and the theology and spirituality of the Christian East. He is professor of Theology and Religious Thought at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Cutsinger is one of the foremost scholars of the English-speaking world on the writings and thought of Frithjof Schuon. His book Advice to the Serious Seeker: Meditations on the Teaching of Frithjof Schuon (SUNY Press, 1997) is an important contribution to studies on Schuon's work. Prof. Cutsinger has also edited a series of new editions of books by Frithjof Schuon (click here to see the list of books) that feature extensive editor's notes to help readers unfamiliar with terminology and references used by Schuon in those books.
For more information on James S. Cutsinger, click here.
Renaud Fabbri is the director of the Perennialist website religioperennis.org. He received an M.A. in Philosophy from La Sorbonne IV (Paris, France) and an M.A. in Comparative Religion from Miami University (Ohio, USA). Born in France, he is currently living in the US. His interests include traditional metaphysics, Hinduism, Sufism, and the Perennialist school
Renaud Fabbri contributed the essay "The Milk of the Virgin: the Prophet, the Saint and the Sage" to Sacred Web 20, the special 10th anniversary issue of the journal Sacred Web, which was dedicated to Frithjof Schuon on the occasion of his birth centenary.
For more information on Renaud Fabbri, click here.
Antoine Faivre is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études and Chair of the History of Esoteric Currents in Modern and Contemporary Europe (Sorbonne). He is an important European writer on traditional esoterism. Professor Faivre's books in English include Access to Western Esotericism, The Golden Fleece and Alchemy, The Eternal Hermes,and Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition; he is editor (with Jacob Needleman) of Modern Esoteric Spirituality.
Prof. Faivre contributed the foreword to The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity .
For more information on Antoine Faivre, click here.
Michael Fitzgerald is an author, editor, and publisher of books on world religions, sacred art, tradition, culture, and philosophy who is based in Bloomington, Indiana. He has written and edited many publications on American Indian spirituality, including Yellowtail: Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief, and was adopted into Yellowtail's tribe and family. Fitzgerald has also taught university classes on religious traditions of North American Indians and lectured widely.
In 2010, Michael Fitzgerald finished a volume on which he had worked for many years: Frithjof Schuon: Messenger of the Perennial Philosophy, the most comprehensive biographical study of Schuon to date.
Michael Fitzgerald's son, Joseph, is also an editor and a contributor to this site who is also based in Bloomington, Indiana.
For more information on Michael Fitzgerald, click here.
Father Gall, born Erich Schuon (1906 -1991), was Schuon's older brother. He became a Cistercian monk in 1921 and lived for most of his life at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Scourmont in Belgium. The two brothers shared a love of the American Indians from their early childhood. Father Gall later became the adopted son of Black Elk, the famous Lakota holy man. Joseph Brown wrote to Frithjof Schuon in 1947, "Black Elk has taken a great interest in his son, Father Gall; he talks of him often, and is having several things of buckskin made for him. He is also sending him his necklace made of sacred deer hoofs, and we are sending him a pipe and sacred tobacco." One of Schuon's poems provides this insight, "My late brother was a monk, / From his childhood a friend of the Red Indians. / Once a troupe of Red men came from across the sea; / He made firm friends of some of them. / He learned Lakota and, all his life, / He wrote letters in this language; / To his monastery Indians came several times — / He learned many wondrous Indian songs."
Paul Goble is an award winning author and illustrator of children's books. Goble's life-long fascination with Native Americans of the plains began during his childhood when he became intrigued with their spirituality and culture. His illustrations accurately depict Native American clothing, customs and surroundings in brilliant color and detail. Goble researches ancient stories and retells them for his young audience in a manner sympathetic to Native American ways. He also maintained fruitful relationships with some prominent Traditionalists, including Marco Pallis.
To date, Mr. Goble has illustrated over 28 books, including the World Wisdom titles All Our Relatives (2005) and Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters (2007). Mr. Goble also wrote the Foreword to The Gospel of the Redman (2005). His best known work, The Girl who Loved Horses won the prestigious Caldecott Medal.
For more information on Paul Goble, click here.
René Guénon (1886-1951) was a French metaphysician, writer, and editor who was largely responsible for laying the metaphysical groundwork for the Traditionalist or Perennialist school of thought in the early twentieth century. Guénon remains influential today for his writings on the intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of the modern world, on symbolism, on spiritual esoterism and initiation, and on the universal truths that manifest themselves in various forms in the world's religious traditions. Writers on Tradition or the Perennial Philosophy often cite excerpts from the extensive correspondence between these two collaborators: Frithjof Schuon and René Guénon.
For more information on René Guénon, click here.
Sri Swaminathan (1894-1994) was taken to Kalavai in his 13th year, when he was studying at Tindivanam, to be initiated into ascetic order and ordained as the 68th Acharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Mutt. He was given the sanyasa name Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati.
He was affectionately called "Mahaswamigal" and "Walking God". His foremost concern was preservation of the Vedas, tradition and dharma. He advocated simplicity, shunned pomp, ostentation and extravagance. His exposition of Vedanta, sastras, and the dharmic duties attracted scholars and laymen alike, from far and wide. Schuon dedicated one of his books, Language of the Self, to HH the Jagadguru. Jean-Claude Petitpierre and M. Ramachandran discuss their respective roles as intermediaries between these spiritual leaders in film interviews on this site.
Jagadguru His Holiness Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Swamigal is the author of the World Wisdom title Introduction to Hindu Dharma (2008).
For more information on the 68th Jagadguru of Kanchi, click here.
Brian Keeble is a writer and editor who has long been devoted to the promulgation of the traditional arts. His best-known book is Art: For Whom and For What? Mr. Keeble is the founder of Golgonooza Press and a co-founder of Temenos Academy, which is sponsored by The Prince's Foundation of HRH The Prince of Wales. The Temenos Academy is a teaching organization dedicated to the same central idea that had inspired the earlier Temenos Review, a journal devoted to the arts of the imagination.
For more information on Brian Keeble, click here.
Hans Küry (1906-1987) was one of the many admirers who came to Schuon for counsel. Kury later recalled the first time he saw Schuon in Basle during the summer of 1932: "Whoever had eyes and came into contact with Frithjof Schuon, even in our youth, could not doubt, even long before he was a spiritual master, indeed before he was a Muslim, that God had intended a mission for him in this regard.… Schuon, twenty-four years old, with a bold profile and handsome black beard, strode forward like a whirlwind, with the light of rapture on his forehead.… [A]s he flew on like an eagle, it was clear like lightning to me: 'Comfort ends here!'" ("Les jeunes gens dans la Caverne:
première rencontre", 382). Many of Schuon's letters were written to Dr. Küry.
Jean-Pierre LaFouge is Associate Professor of French at Marquette University. His academic career took him to the United States where he obtained a Ph.D. in French literature, specializing in nineteenth and seventeen century French and Orientalist Literature. He is the author of several articles dealing with the relationship between art, Orientalism, philosophy and literature. Jean-Pierre LaFouge has also published a book on Eugène Fromentin and is presently assisting in the revision of French to English translations of the writings of Frithjof Schuon. He is also the editor of For God's Greater Glory: Gems Of Jesuit Spirituality .
For more information on Dr. Jean-Pierre LaFouge, click here.
M. Ali Lakhani graduated from Cambridge University before moving to Vancouver where he has practiced as a trial lawyer for 25 years. In 1998, he founded the traditionalist journal, Sacred Web, with the aim of identifying the first principles of traditional metaphysics and promoting their application to the contingent circumstances of modernity. The bi-annual journal has included contributions by many leading traditionalists. In the words of Professor Nasr, "Along with Sophia, Sacred Web is the most important journal in the English language devoted to the study of tradition."
For more information on M. Ali Lakhani, click here.
Patrick Laude is a writer, editor, professor, and researcher in the fields of language, literature, symbolism, and mysticism. He is a professor at Georgetown University, currently at their School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Laude's writings have been published in the US and Europe in numerous journals. Dr. Laude is one of the major scholars to study and write on the work of Frithjof Schuon. He is co-author, with Jean-Baptiste Aymard, of Frithjof Schuon: Life and Teachings (SUNY Press, 2004), and author of Pathways to an Inner Islam: Massignon, Corbin, Guénon, and Schuon (SUNY Press, 2010).
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Tage Lindbom was born in Sweden in 1909. He was one of the intellectual architects of the Swedish Welfare State, but after World War II, he started to have serious doubts about the cause he promoted. He underwent a slow, but profound intellectual and spiritual change. In 1962 he published The Windmills of Sancho Panza a book that rejected the assumptions behind Social Democracy and related movements. Since breaking with his past, Lindbom has published many books in Sweden, most of which explore the tension between religion and modern secular ideology. Two of his books have appeared in English. The first was The Tares and the Good Grain (1983) and the second was The Myth of Democracy (1996). His article, "Lucifer" appears in World Wisdom's anthology,
Every Branch in Me: Essays on the Meaning of Man .
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Martin Lings (1909-2005) was a leading member of the "Traditionalist" or "Perennialist" school and an acclaimed author, editor, translator, scholar, Arabist, and poet whose work centers on the relationship between God and man through religious doctrine, scripture, symbolism, literature, and art. He was an accomplished metaphysician and essayist who often turned to the world's great spiritual traditions for examples, though he is best known for his writings on Islam and its esoteric tradition, Sufism. Dr. Lings was also a long-time friend and associate of Frithjof Schuon, recording some of his thoughts and memories of the latter in some of the film clips found on this site.
Dr. Lings co-edited The Underlying Religion (2007) with Clinton Minnar. This book is a survey of central perennialist ideas and authors. In addition, World Wisdom will be publishing The Essential Martin Lings (forthcoming), an anthology of his work.
For more information on Dr. Martin Lings, click here.
Jean-Louis Michon is a traditionalist French scholar who specializes in Islam in North Africa, Islamic art, and Sufism. His works include Le Soufi marrocain Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba and L'Autobiographie (Fahrasa) du Soufi marrocain Ahmad Ibn 'Ajiba (1747-1809). He has written numerous articles appearing in several languages, and has translated the Holy Koran into French. Following service in World War II, Michon's search for spiritually gifted men led him to both René Guénon and Frithjof Schuon, and his association with the latter lasted for almost fifty years.
For more information on Dr. Jean-Louis Michon, click here.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (b. 1933) is University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University. The author of over thirty books and three hundred articles, he is one of the world's most respected writers and speakers on Islam, its arts and sciences, and its traditional mystical path, Sufism. Dr. Nasr has written extensively on the writings and thought of Frithjof Schuon and was the editor of the major work titled The Essential Frithjof Schuon (World Wisdom, 2005).
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Lord Northbourne, the 4th Baron Northbourne, was an agriculturist, educator, translator, and writer on both agriculture and comparative religion. Northbourne translated several of Schuon's book from French into English. He was educated at Oxford and was for many years Provost of Wye College in England. His first published writings were on "organic" farming (he introduced the term), and he later began to write on Traditionalist/Perennialist themes. A number of Lord Northbourne's essays appeared in the British journal, Studies in Comparative Religion, and were later included in his books Religion in the Modern World (1963) and Looking Back on Progress (1970). Lord Northbourne's essential writings are collected in Of the Land and the Spirit.
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Harry Oldmeadow an educator, a scholar, an author, and editor who is co-ordinator of Philosophy and Religious Studies at La Trobe University in Australia> He has authored such books as the acclaimed Traditionalism: Religion in the Light of the Perennial Philosophy, Journeys East: 20th Century Western Encounters with Eastern Religious Traditions, and A Christian Pilgrim in India: The Spiritual Journey of Swami Abhishiktananda. Professor Oldmeadow is one of the most active and authoritative writers today on the Perennial Philosophy and Tradition, as well as on the major figures of this school of thought. He also has written a great deal on errors of modernism and on the encounter of East and West.
With the publication of Frithjof Schuon and the Perennial Philosophy (World Wisdom, 2010), Professor Harry Oldmeadow has firmly established himself as one of the foremost scholars on the thought of Frithjof Schuon.
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Marco Pallis was a widely respected author on Tibetan Buddhism and the Perennial Philosophy, but he was also a gifted musician, composer, mountaineer, and translator. He translated a number of books and other pieces by Frithjof Schuon and other prominent Traditionalists. Pallis' book The Way and the Mountain came from his experiences traveling in the Eastern Himalaya region and with Tibetan Buddhism. Pallis also wrote many pieces for the important Traditionalist journal Studies in Comparative Religion, some of which are included in his last publication, A Buddhist Spectrum .
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Although of American parents, Mark Perry was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1951 and raised in Switzerland close to Frithjof Schuon. He is the son of eminent American Perennialist author Whitall Perry. Basically self-taught, he is the author of the book, On Awakening and Remembering published by Fons Vitae in 2000. Perry is currently in the process of re-translating all of Frithjof Schuon's books from the original French into the English language. The first new translation Form and Substance in the Religions was published by World Wisdom in July 2002. This book as a totality has not appeared in English, although the individual chapters from the book have been published in various other works by Mr. Schuon.
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According to Harry Oldmeadow , Whitall Perry was "the most authoritative traditionalist of American background." World Wisdom's list of Related Readings on our web site is drawn from the acknowledgements section in Whitall Perry's A Treasury Of Traditional Wisdom (George Allen and Unwin 1971), a magisterial compendium of spiritual doctrine spanning four ages and hemispheres. He also contributed to the book, Ye Shall Know the Truth .
Perry was born near Boston in 1920. His early intellectual interests included Platonism and Vedanta and he traveled extensively in the Middle and Far East both before and after World War II with a brief interlude of study at Harvard University. He was one of several Harvard students who came under Coomaraswamy's influence in the 1940s.
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Barbara Perry's introduction to Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West , is a reflection of her years of association with the major Perennialist figure Frithjof Schuon, and displays her in-depth knowledge of his influences, his writings, and his own paintings. Mrs. Perry, along with her late husband Whitall Perry, was also acquainted with the great early Traditionalist thinker on arts, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, with René Guénon, and with almost all of the other central figures from the formative years of this school of thought. Barbara Perry has helped interpret Perennialist ideas to many people all over the world for over half a century.
For more information on Barbara Perry, click here.
Jean-Claude Petitpierre is a Swiss Traditionalist/Perennialist. He had long associations with Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings, and other important authors of Perennialist works. Petitpierre has fulfilled a variety of functions for the United Nations, including Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme. He has spent many years living among, and learning from, Hindu and Muslim spiritual figures. Mr. Petitpierre was interviewed for some videoclips on the life and legacy of Martin Lings and a number of topics related to the perennial philosophy.
For more information on Jean-Claude Petitpierre, click here.
Alberto Vasconcellos Queiroz was born and raised in the Brazilian city of Santos, the largest seaport in Latin America. He studied psychology at the Pontifical Catholic University in São Paulo where he graduated as a professional psychologist. After graduating, he moved to the city of São José dos Campos, where he began his career working in industry. He soon turned to the public sector, initially as a psychologist in residential care units, and later as a municipal administrator. He is now an assistant to the Mayor's Office, with special responsibility for educational projects.
Alberto Vasconcellos Queiroz is the co-editor of Remembering in a World of Forgetting: Thoughts on Tradition and Postmodernism , a collection of the writings by William Stoddart.
For more information on Alberto Vasconcellos Queiroz, click here.
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Mudumbaï Ramachandran was a Hindu devotee and philanthropist who had an association of over 40 years with Frithjof Schuon and other leading Perennialists. Born into a well-known Brahmin family, he became an industrialist and traveled widely in several continents. Ramachandran was a disciple of the Order of Sri Ramakrishna and knew most of the great contemporary spiritual masters of India. He acted for many years as the liaison between Frithjof Schuon and HH the 68th Jagadguru of Kanchi , Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati. In his later years, Mr. Ramachandran dedicated much of his energies to local charitable projects in India. Mudumbaï Ramachandran died in 2006.
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Sri Swami "Papa" Ramdas was born Vittal Rao in the Kerala State of India in 1884. For relief from his outer circumstances, he began to chant "Ram," a name of God, which brought him great mental peace and joy. In 1931, after years of living on the road in faith, his devotees established Anandashram for him in Kanhangad, Kerala, where he lived with Mother Krishnabai, who also attained the universal vision of God. They worked to improve the living conditions of the local people, founding a school for the children, establishing a free medical clinic, and setting up a cooperative for weavers. Together, they did extensive tours in India, and a world tour in 1954-55, with the purpose of sharing a message of Universal Love and Service, Sri Swami Ramdas died in 1963. He is the subject of The Essential Swami Ramdas .
Swami Ramdas was one of the remarkable spiritual figures who met with, and were impressed by, Frithjof Schuon in their travels through Europe. He wrote of Schuon that he was "a very prince among saints."
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Leo Schaya was a writer in the Traditionalist/Perennialist school. He was particularly known for his writings on Jewish esoterism, with his book The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah (1958) being one of the best known and often-quoted works in that field; however, he also was at home in the area of Sufi metaphysical interpretation.
Leo Schaya's essay "Creation, the Image of God" is one of the articles collected in the anthology Seeing God Everywhere: Essays on Nature and the Sacred . Another essay, "On the Name "Allah" is included in Sufism: Love and Wisdom . An online sample of his writing, the essay "The Eliatic Function" (about the esoteric function of the prophet Elijah), which appeared in the important traditionalist journal Studies in Comparative Religion, can be read if you click here.
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Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003) was one of the leading experts on Islamic literature and mysticism (Sufism) in the world. She wrote more than 80 books and essays, and lectured at universities and conferences around the world. Professor Schimmel translated and conducted research in the major Islamic languages of Arabic, Persian, Urdu, and Turkish. Her book Mystical Dimensions of Islam (1975) is considered a classic in its field.
Dr. Schimmel, one of the great authorities in Islamic Studies, wrote this about Schuon's book Understanding Islam: "Schuon's book shows the essence of Islam, compares its world view with that of Christianity and often brings examples from other religious traditions, all of which his vast erudition comprises. The style of the work reminds the reader sometimes of crystalline pure forms, and yet one often finds passages which touch the heart." She also wrote about Schuon's German spiritual poems, a piece which is often included as the foreword to his collections of poems translated into English.
For more information on Dr. Annemarie Schimmel, click here.
Catherine Schuon's interest in world religions and spirituality brought her into contact with Frithjof Schuon, the famous writer, whom she married in May 1949. She accompanied her husband on all of his travels and helped him to receive visits and answer correspondence from spiritual seekers who came to seek her husband's counsel. Her work with her husband brought her into contact with people from diverse religions and from throughout the world. Gifted in languages, she also became fluent in English and conversant in Italian, in addition to the three languages of her youth: German, French and Spanish.
She is the editor of Art from the Sacred to the Profane: East and West , a collection of Frithjof Schuon's selected writings on art.
For more information on Catherine Schuon, click here.
Timothy Scott founded and was Executive Editor of the journal Eye of the Heart, based in Bendigo, Australia. In addition, Dr. Scott is a regular contributor to the traditionalist journals Sacred Web and Sophia, often writing on various aspects of symbolism and Tradition.
Reza Shah-Kazemi is a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. Dr. Shah-Kazemi writes on a range of topics from metaphysics and doctrine to contemplation and prayer. He is the author of Paths to Transcendence: According to Shankara, Ibn Arabi, and Meister Eckhart, a look at of how three sages (a Hindu, a Muslim, and a Christian) approached the Transcendent Absolute.
For more information on Dr. Reza Shah-Kazemi, click here.
Huston Smith is one of the most prominent voices in the contemporary study of religion and spirituality. His book, The World's Religions, is used in countless classes, and Prof. Smith's other books are widely respected in the field. Much of his work over the years deals with the tenets of the Perennial Philosophy.
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Mateus Soares de Azevedo is an author, translator, editor, and journalist from Minas Gerais, central Brazil. He is the author of a number of books and dozens of articles and essays dealing with the importance of traditional religion and spirituality in the contemporary world, some of them translated into English and Spanish. He has also translated a number of books by Guénon, Schuon, Lings, and other Perennialist figures into Portugese.
For more information on Mateus Soares de Azevedo, click here.
William Stoddart is a perennialist author, editor, and translator who has been active in advancing the understanding of the writings of Frithjof Schuon, Titus Burckhardt, and others, for many years. A compilation of his own writings, Remembering in a World of Forgetting, was edited by M. Soares de Azevedo and A. Vasconcellos Queiroz. Stoddart also edited The Essential Titus Burckhardt, and is perhaps the greatest authority on the work of this great Swiss traditionalist. Dr. Stoddart translated a number of Schuon's books into English, and was closely associated with the Perennialist sage for many decades.
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William Stoddart, né à Carstairs (Écosse), a passé presque toute sa vie professionnelle à Londres et vit maintenant à Windsor (Canada). Il a étudié les langues modernes et la médecine aux universités de Glasgow, Édimbourg et Dublin. Dr Stoddart est l'auteur de Le Soufisme, Doctrine métaphysique et Voie mystique dans l'Islam (Éditions des Trois Continents, Lausanne, 1979), « Une visite au Jagadguru » dans Connaissance des Religions (septembre 1991), « Titus Burckhardt: sa vie et son oeuvre» dans Miroir de l'Intellect (L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne, 1992), Invincible Sagesse (Les Sept Flèches 2011), L'Islam: et ce qu'il signifie dans le monde d'aujourd'hui (CreateSpace 2013), et Chrétiens et musulmans, Que disent-ils les uns des autres ? (Les Sept Flèches 2013). Il a également publié en anglais plus de dix livres, ainsi que nombreux articles.
Lucy von Dechend (1899-1991) was one of Schuon's earliest and lifelong friends. In 1924 it was Von Dechend who pointed him toward a book by the French metaphysician René Guénon (1886-1951), which presented a devastating critique of various modern ideologies. The parents of Lucy von Dechend were close friends of the Schuon family. Catherine Schuon relates: "Lucy came to know Frithjof when he was four years old and she was twelve. From the beginning Lucy noticed that Frithjof was a very special child and became very fond of him. When growing up they never lost contact with each other.… She was his first female disciple and remained a faithful friend until the end of her life. She was also the recipient of many important letters which she copied and distributed on Frithjof's behest to their common friends and later did the same with his articles."
Medicine Man and Sundance Chief Thomas Yellowtail (1903-1993) was a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life and one of the most admired American Indian spiritual leaders of the last century. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hunters, and medicine men who knew the freedom and sacred ways of pre-reservation life. As the principal figure in the Crow-Shoshone Sun Dance religion during the last half of the 20th century, he was important in perpetuating the spiritual traditions of his Crow tribe. Yellowtail's advice on following the ancient ways in the modern world has inspired many Indians, and many non-Indians as well.
Thomas Yellowtail and Frithjof Schuon first met in Europe, while Yellowtail was traveling there with other American Indians teaching Europeans about their culture and tradtions. These two men visited each other often over the almost fifty years of their friendship, each learning much from the other's words and comportment. Thomas Yellowtail contributed the "Introduction" to Schuon's book The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art and Philosophy.
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Yesterday, NBC announced a schedule that will be chock full of brand new programming. Today, Fox's big schedule announcement is much the same, only the network will have more programming ready at midseason, as well as has a few more big programs to back things up. Speaking of midseason, fans are going to have a long time to wait for that X-Files return. The drama is already in production, but the network confirmed today that The X-Files won't air until January. January will also feature Lucifer's launch, along with The Frankenstein Code, and the Grease Live musical production. On the comedy end, midseason will see New Girl, The Guide to Surviving Life, Bob's Burgers and Bordertown hit the schedule.
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Your live blogger for this game will be Jeff Laughlin of And Here Come The Pretzels. Simpsons reference.
So, I punched her in the damn ribs. She'll never talk to me like that ag— oh, HI. Do come in. The game is about to start and we've got all kinds of delicious chips for your perusal/enjoyment. They're on the counter— just past the fruit arrangement my ex-girlfriend probably poisoned. Women, right? Can't live with 'em, can't really enjoy the feminist perspectives of Emma Goldman without them. Welcome, friend(s) to the Forsaken House liveblog of the University of Pittsburgh's spirited contest with fellow university, East Tennessee State. Please, have a seat on the uncomfortable futon and watch out for wine corks. They will fly.
Since we have a short amount of time together, I say we make the most of it. Regale me with your favorite fireside stories of when your basketballing barnstormers won something important, or how you came to cheer for said establishment. I'll start: the principal of my middle school had a nephew nicknamed "Junebug" who attended East Tennessee State University, so I saw the posters all over the gym and in his office. I've not thought much about it until now.
As far as the contest goes, I'm not expecting too much from the Buccaneers. But as Seth Davis so blithely pointed out yesterday, "In our lifetime, a 16 will beat a 1." So, why not us... why not now?
2:39 PM— Somewhere the teams are getting ready to tip. Dejaun Blair is dreaming of Miley Cyrus clones. And "Junebug" took the day off of work to watch his alma mater. Ah, the smell of desperation and nerves hang in the air like burning tobacco fields.
3:05— IT BEGINS. Pitt controls the all-important tip-off, and gets to the line within fifteen seconds of the game. LET'S GO BUCS.
3:08— Greg Hamlin scores. ETSU LEADS.
3:10 Two fouls on Isaiah Brown. This is, apparently, bad news. Pitt's up 6-5 with the ball.
3:14 It's 11-5 Pitt and I am not publishing for some reason. IT'S OVER THE DREAM IS OV
3:17Kevin Tiggs with a nice rip move and a bucket. You gotta get strong with 'em. I like it. 11-9 Pitt. IT'S CLOSE, BABY. Now 11-11 on a monster alley-oop from... TIGGS.
3:20I gotta tell you, man, I got rocketbird drunj last night, so I can barely process the fact that ETSU is up by two this late in the half. Coors light number two opened. They gotta start selling Michelob across the street from my house.
3:23 Lipitor is definitely for me. Coming into the first break, Jamie Dixon is pawing at his beautiful silk tie. Hair strand number one— near the middle of his forehead— is beginning to move a little with the trickles of sweat beading just above the hairline.17-15 PITT.
3:25 The unexpected driving to the basket of East Tennessee State, guys. That's what I am watching. Not so much because I think they will win, but because I think they are willing to expose Pitt in this game. The rest of the tourney should watch the way ETSU has brought the Pitt defense out of their positions and cleaned up on putbacks. 20-17 Pitt.
Well, a one-point game with 7 left in the first half? I'm a little excited it is still in doubt, actually. During this commercial, I gotta say, I'm gonna enjoy some Smoking Popes:
3:32 A good call by the officials and ETSU is livid in the wrong. Just set it up, boys. Just set it up.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the ETSU boys most definitely watched the Cal State Northridge-Memphis game yesterday. They are slashing, drawing fouls and running themselves at the boards HARD. It's a tie game, kids. It's a time game. Well, DeJuan Blair is gonna get his. 22-20 Pitt, just under 6 to go.
3:38You would think that Lundquist and Rafferty would go to the weight jokes about D-Blair when they are up 37. These guys are just bored for no reason. 22-20 Pitt.
3:40 Pitt's got 10 turnovers and some awful decision-making going on. Blair gets a tech for hanging on the rim— WE'RE BUILDING ROBOTS NOT BALLPLAYERS.
"Basketball is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."
— Theodore Dreiser
Less than 3:30 to go and ETSU has to feel like a Pitt run is coming. I mean settling for running one-handers and threes is fun, I guess, but pretty soon they have to try to muscle and penetrate. I hear Pitt dudes love muscles and penetration.
3:45 Hamlin drives to the rim and nearly gets an and one. I gotta say, this is piss-poor defense from Pitt. They are listless, the crowd is listless.Tiggs misses two free throws and gifts them the ball and lead. Less than two— WHAT JUST HAPPENED? Sam Young fouls an off-the-ball man in transition. Then they get two shots? Man, that was retarded on like ten levels, Sam Young.
3:53 Less than a minute to go, so let's take a second to humor the kids. KIDS, Pitt is going to be just fine.
OK, everyone get their corpse-handling gloves, we've got a team of corpses on the floor right now.
26-23 Pitt. ETSU forces a turnover; Pitt has 13 of those. Last possession goes to ETSU. AND IT WAS AWESOME. If that counts, Pitt is walking into a shitstorm in the locker room. The over-under on chairs thrown? I'd say five.
Shot does not count. DAS NOT COMPUTE. DAS NOT COM
"Pitt basketball is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason"
— Theodore Dreiser
Halftime Show: Time for the report cards.
ETSU: They get a C. They can't hit free throws, they are forcing bad shots. That said, they have executed their game plan professionally. If they get some early shots to fall, they could be within 5 late in the game.
Tonight's halftime entertainment is absent, so I will provide this and this.
OK, kids. The second half of this barnburner is beginning.
4:19 ETSU ties it up early on a nice play. I'm on like beer four and it still feels like Pitt is a small explosion away from killing these dudes. Fields gets a pair of free throws and ETSU scores soooooooo easily. TIED.
4:21 Pitt takes a two-point lead and starts getting pissy. They are looking like a team of ballers right now rather than a series of ghosts trying to learn to touch things in the material world. You know, like that movie. Ghost. 30-29, Pitt.
So, Pitt gets a three, takes their biggest lead in an hour and then calls timeout? Um, Jamie? Why do you hate the ebb and flow of basketball? As Emile Zola once said, "If you shut up ETSU basketball, and bury it underground, it will but grow." Just saying.
4:29 Is this foul trouble that's keeping Pitt from challenging cutters? HAMLIN SCARES ME. HOLY SHIT WHAT A BLOCK. They just don't seem to be playing defense at all once ETSU touches the lane. The crowd is coming alive, ETSU has made some plays and I am going to die alone. THIS IS AWESO
"The fate of basketball is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men." — Emile Zola
4:33 HIT A LAYUP ETSU. HIT A FREE THROW ETSU. GET A REBOUND PITT. Tie game again, 37-37 with 14 to go.
Having seen Fields run before, I disagree with the esteemed announcers. Fields is not nearly 100%. Not even close. I think he is detrimental to the running of the offense.
4:38 Pitt hates the basketball. They hate rebounding. They hate it. It's their downfall. Their Achilles' heel. The allergy to cat hair that ends their relationship. The new Starbucks that replaced that one Chinese place I liked near my work. 42-40, 12:00 left.
I gotta say, fuck a bracket. I'll take the upset here. Even if I really like Pitt. Which I do. ETSU, do it for Junebug. Do it for me because basketball is all I have in this cold, gray, hopeless world. Do it for that one chick that was married to the "Taken" dude. DO IT.
"You cannot choose your battlefield, Basketball does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew."
—Stephen Crane
4:45 Pitt is getting killed by a pretty good press. You don't beat a press by dribbling to the outside. You beat it in the fucking middle. You pass to the middle and the spacing happens much easier. It's so simple. I love how simple basketball is, and yet Pitt hates basketball today. 44-42 Pitt 10 and change to go.
Coors Light is decidedly NOT the world's most refreshing beer. Switching to whiskey.
4:48 Isiah Brown with a huge dunk on perfect penetration and the world is no longer revolving around it's axis.
A little Robert Frost for that ass from ole Raff. Thanks, man.
4:51 Pitt takes a five point lead. ETSU needs a bucket soon. Really very soon. Timeout on the floor. Time for a shot of Jameson. I think I might be drunker than Richard Buckner when I go see him tonight. That's a feat. DRUNJ
4:55 Huge three for Pitt, then they do that thing where they refuse to play interior defense. I said, this week, that their bigs could frustrate anyone in the country. Then, I flew without wings, ran without legs and began the systematic destruction of the economy without a bubble. SAM YOUNG DID SOMETHING. 56-50 Pitt, 6 to go.
"Basketball without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."
—Alexander Pope
5:01 So, ETSU is down by 7, time to fold. Except, they get an and-one underneath. I just don't understand Pitt's underneath HOLY FUCK THEY HIT A THREE ON ANOTHER OFFENSIVE REBOUND AND A TURNOVER AND OH LORD LET US BELIEVE 59-57, Pitt under 4 to go.
5:03 D-Blair continues to be the only human in a Pitt uni that cares to make basketball look like a sport with consistency. Not gonna lie to you, I hate him right now. Pitt's about to go up 5 again.
OK, 19 offensive boards? Pitt has no collective penis.
5:08 ETSU cuts the margin to a single possession, but Fields has his best play of the game by far to bring it to 5. Getting to 2 minutes left. Pitt wastes some time, an entire possession and makes a stuuuuuuupid foul.
Pitt hits a three and puts this thing in serious doubt for ETSU. I'll say it. Pitt is going to win this game, but they don't deserve it. They walked around and made stupid decisions and won because they had more talent. Fuck a bracket, fuck fandom, this was Pitt deciding they didn't have to try until there were 3 minutes left. I hate that shit. I officially hope Pitt loses to anyone that isn't UNC. Pitt 70-61, 43 seconds to go.
"Pittsburgh is a hole."
— Andrew Marvell
Hey, this was fun. I hope I wasn't too intrusive and entertained everyone. Much love to all of you for following along. Pitt wins it, but ETSU gets all the credit for one night, at least. May god have mercy on our s


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Zarin Mehta, President/Executive Director, New York Philharmonic
Zarin Mehta has been surrounded by classical music much of his life. His father, Mehli Mehta, was a violinist and founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra, while his brother, Zubin Mehta, is a renowned conductor and former New York Philharmonic music director. After a successful business career, Mehta joined the classical music world himself, becoming managing director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in 1981 and then, during the 1990s, serving as president and CEO of Chicago's Ravinia Festival.
Since Mehta took over as executive director of the New York Philharmonic in 2000 (he received the additional title of president in 2004), he has fostered an active commissioning program, launched several lecture and discussion series, and overseen major international tours for the philharmonic. PND recently spoke with Mehta about some of those accomplishments, how the philharmonic is coping with the effects of the recession, and the orchestra's plans for the future.
Philanthropy News Digest: With the recession affecting ticket sales and donations at arts organizations around the country, a number of orchestras have had to scale back or even cancel performances and tours this season. How has the recession affected the philharmonic?
Zarin Mehta: We haven't discussed our current financial position much in the media. We feel our business is to play great music, and we go about that business in a quiet way. Our board and our musicians are very well informed of what's going on.
But we have had experiences relatively recently with declining ticket sales and falling endowment values. About a year after the 9/11 attacks, for example, our endowment income fell significantly, and we had to make up the shortfall in other ways. So, we cut expenses by canceling a tour to Europe in 2003 and replaced it with a Beethoven festival. Our board also negotiated a one-year salary freeze with the orchestra in 2004. In fact, we looked at every aspect of our operation and took a number of steps designed to help us through that rough patch.
Today, things are looking up despite the recession. Alan Gilbert just stepped into the position of music director, and we're gearing up for a full season and tour. We were also successful last year in cutting our expenses and ended up coming in $3 million below our budget. In part, that was because a lot of staff and artists took pay cuts, but it's also the result of all kinds of cost-cutting measures. For instance, to save money on this year's tour we looked at ways we could avoid bringing along extra musicians. So instead of doing a certain Mahler symphony, we'll do another Mahler symphony that doesn't take as many musicians — that sort of thing.
PND: Earlier this year, you received a $10 million gift from Henry Kravis, the investor and financier who has donated millions to the philharmonic over the past few years to support new works and a composer-in-residence position. How much do you rely on longtime donors for funding?
ZM: We rely on both longtime donors and new donors. People move to the city and take new jobs, and we try to get to know them and their companies. New board members have different Rolodexes. You know, cultivating donors is an ongoing process.
Henry and his wife, Marie-Josée, have been friends of ours for a long time. They've been very supportive. When the philharmonic and Alan Gilbert decided to institute the position of composer-in-residence, I thought of them because I knew they were very interested in the commissioning of new music and thought they might be interested in the composer-in-residence concept. So I went to see Henry and talked to him about how it would be nice to endow the chair. We went back and forth and eventually agreed on the concept and a sum. Of course, we couldn't be more thrilled. As I've said to a number of people, this is what America is all about! People like Henry Kravis.
PND: What has the arrival of Alan Gilbert meant for the orchestra?
ZM: In the past, the appointment of a new music director often has had a positive effect on our fundraising, and I think the same thing will happen with Alan. He's already been fantastic about coming to dinners and shaking people's hands. We recently held our annual gala, for instance, and he attended after a long rehearsal followed by a long concert and stayed to greet hundreds of people. That was huge. His ideas, his enthusiasm, his energy — all that's going to be terrific for us. I'm already tired!
PND: Among other things, you've become known for taking the philharmonic to parts of the world rarely visited by Western orchestras — for example, North Korea in early 2008 and Vietnam later this month. How do those trips fit into your overall vision for the orchestra?
ZM: Throughout its history, the New York Philharmonic has been an orchestra that tours regularly, representing this country all over the world. It has done that for decades. For instance, when the Church of Our Lady in Dresden, which had been bombed in World War II, was being restored, the church fathers invited the philharmonic to play the inaugural concert, and we were delighted to do it.
Similarly, when we were approached to do the concert in North Korea, my reaction was that it was something we needed to do. Vietnam, which came up in one of our discussions, was a logical follow-on to that trip. We all thought it would be great to go to Vietnam and show the Vietnamese the goodwill that the people of the United States felt toward them. So I visited with Vietnamese officials a year ago, and they were ecstatic about the idea and eventually invited us to present two concerts. It's wonderful, of course, to play in places like Berlin and London and Tokyo, and we'll continue to do so. But I think it's extremely important to take advantage of opportunities to represent one's country in this way.
PND: What else do you have planned for the future?
ZM: We're thinking of different places to perform and looking at how we can best utilize new media. For instance, we've talked about making our concerts downloadable through platforms like iTunes. We're also commissioning a lot of new music — and not just because of the Kravis gift, but because I think we need to. Indeed, I feel strongly that things like the composer-in-residence program need to be supported by an institution like the New York Philharmonic.
— Lauren Kelley


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