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Facebook Launches Gifts Store
With access to over a billion birthdays, Facebook has launched a new Gifts store featuring items from BabyGap and iTunes. Will investors be pleased? Rolfe Winkler discusses on digits. Photo: Facebook Inc.
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text: Ten Years After was a British blues-rock quartet consisting of Alvin Lee (born December 19, 1944, died March 6, 2013), guitar and vocals; Chick Churchill (born January 2, 1949), keyboards; Leo Lyons (born November 30, 1944) bass; and Ric Lee (born October 20, 1945), drums. The group was formed in 1967 and signed to Decca in England. Their first album was not a success, but their second, the live Undead (1968) containing "I'm Going Home," a six-minute blues workout by the fleet-fingered Alvin, hit the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Stonedhenge (1969) hit the U.K. Top Ten in early 1969. Ten Years After's U.S. breakthrough came as a result of their appearance at Woodstock, at which they played a nine-minute version of "I'm Going Home." Their next album, Ssssh, reached the U.S. Top 20, and Cricklewood Green, containing the hit single "Love Like a Man," reached number four. Watt completed the group's Decca contract, after which they signed with Columbia and moved in a more mainstream pop direction, typified by the gold-selling 1971 album A Space in Time and its Top 40 single "I'd Love to Change the World." Subsequent efforts in that direction were less successful, however, and Ten Years After split up after the release of Positive Vibrations in 1974. They reunited in 1988 for concerts in Europe and recorded their first new album in 15 years, About Time, in 1989 before disbanding once again. In 2001, Ric Lee was preparing the back catalog for re-release when he discovered the Live at the Fillmore East 1970 tapes. He approached Alvin about getting back together to promote the lost album, but Alvin Lee declined. The rest of the band was up for it, though, and together with guitarist Joe Gooch, Ten Years After started touring again. In addition to touring the world, this new incarnation recorded its first new material in about a decade and a half and released Now in 2004 and added the live double CD set Roadworks in 2005. Alvin Lee died on March 6, 2013 at the age of 68 due to complications from a routine surgery. ~ William Ruhlmann, Rovi


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For thefourth consecutive time, J.D. Power and Associates has named Verizon Wireless as the leader in customer care among full-service wireless providers.
The semiannual report is based on feedback from thousands of consumers, scoring carriers based on three contact channels: telephone; walk-in (retail store); and online.
Verizon leads all full-service providers with a score of 766, just ahead of AT&T's 759, however both were above the industry average. Verizon credits social networking efforts for the high marks, touting the active and light-hearted online personality.
J.D. Power also found the carrier to do particularly well in phone calls with customer service representatives. Sprint was slightly under the average with a 746 and T-Mobile trailed in fourth place with a 715 score.
J.D. Power points to shared data plans as one reason why both Verizon and AT&T scored better than others. The report shows satisfaction levels to be even higher (778) for customers who adopted a shared data plan; household spending was also $30 higher per month.


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In recent years, text messaging has become one of the most popular forms of communication among young adults and teens. It's also become one of the most dangerous distractions for drivers. Now, some state lawmakers are pushing to outlaw texting behind the wheel.
In recent years, text messaging has become one of the most popular forms of communication among young adults and teens.
It's also become one of the most dangerous distractions for drivers. Now, some state lawmakers are pushing to outlaw texting behind the wheel. ABOUT THE LEGISLATION * It would amend the current law on using a hand-held cell phone while driving to include text messaging. Drivers caught reading, sending or writing texts could be fined about $100.
* Would require the commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles to include cell-phone safety questions in the prelicensing course and include related questions on the written exam.
"Texting is such a monstrosity of a distraction," said Ed Welsh, AAA New York Central Region general manager in Utica. "I think you're going to see a lot more legislation in 2008 across the country on this."
Even more problematic, some experts said, is texting is most prevalent among young people who are often the least experienced drivers. Some young people know the dangers of texting while driving. But others believe a law won't prevent people from communicating with text messages while driving.
"It's a bad habit," said Dallas Sheppard, 26, of Utica. "You're looking down instead of looking up. But it's a new form of communication, and people are integrating it into their lives."
The new legislation, introduced by a Rochester-area state senator, comes several months after five Fairport teens were killed in a car accident in which texting may have played a role. But even if texting while driving is banned, questions remain about how such a law could be enforced.
"It really troubles me," said state Sen. Joseph Griffo, R-Rome. "There's great danger out there right now, and it's an unnecessary danger."
'Swerving All Over'
State Trooper Dave Olney said a majority of drivers he sees texting are young people.
That's especially dangerous, he said, because the younger generation often has the least driving experience.
"I'll stop a lot of people swerving all over the road, driving erratically," he said. "They'll tell you they were sending a text message."
But drivers often aren't as forthcoming after they've been in an accident, he said, which makes it hard to pin down the number of accidents caused by text
messaging, he said.
Some texting drivers try to hide their behavior, assuming it's already illegal, Olney said. Research points to the dangers of inattentive driving, which many times are due to cell phone use.
*Nearly 80 percent of crashes observed during a recent study were due to driver inattention, including cell-phone use or drowsiness, according to a report by the National Highway Safety Transportation Association and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute.
*Nearly 40 percent of teens surveyed believed text messaging was extremely distracting while driving, according to a study by Liberty Mutual Insurance Group and Students Against Destructive Decisions.
Texting ranked higher than other potentially distracting activities, including having friends in the car and talking on a cell phone, the study states.
"It's inherently more dangerous than talking on a cell phone," Olney said. When it comes to enforcing a law banning texting at the wheel, Olney doesn't see a particular problem, he said. Similar concerns were raised when talking on cell phones while driving was outlawed, he said.
But people using cell phones to text or talk can be easy to spot, he said, because the phone's light will illuminate car's interior, or the phone will be raised near the steering wheel.
$100 Fines Proposed
The new legislation, proposed by Sen. James Alesi, R-Perinton, would mean drivers caught writing, reading or sending text messages while driving could face a fine of about $100, plus applicable surcharges.
The bill would require the prelicensing course to include a component on cell-phone safety and a question on this issue in the written licensing exam.
In June, five teens who had graduated from high school only days before were killed when the sport utility vehicle they were in collided with a tractor trailer.
During the investigation, police determined the driver, 17-year-old Bailey Goodman, received a text message on her phone minutes before the collision. It's unclear whether or not Goodman answered the text message.
A Close Call
Sheppard and 29-year-old Anneliese Bornemann agreed there's a sense of immediacy to text messaging that might prompt drivers to feel they have to respond quickly to a received text, even while driving.
"I get annoyed if people don't respond to me," Bornemann said.
It's hard to avoid communicating that way because most young people text frequently, Sheppard said. A law banning people from texting and driving is a good preventative measure, he said, but it's unlikely to stop people from texting in the car.
He noted many people disobey the law banning talking on cell phones while driving.
Twenty-five year old Ryan Monaco estimated he sends a text message about once every hour. It's not his preferred way of communicating with friends, but it's quick and sometimes easier than making a phone call, said Monaco, a Schuyler resident.
"If you have a quick question, you can send a text, and get a text back," he said. He also prefers texting to calling when he has a passenger in the car, he said. He recalled one close call he had while texting and driving.
As he pulled out of the parking lot of his apartment complex, he nearly hit another car, he said.
"I was an idiot and had my head down," he said. "It's a stupid habit, I guess. At least when you talk on the phone, you can see the road. When you're texting, it's blatant. Your eyes aren't even on the road."
Cell Law Passed in 2001
Some lawmakers and public safety officials agree: The laws simply haven't kept up with technology.
In 2001, legislators outlawed talking on cell phones while driving without the use of a hands-free device. Supporters of that law said it changed the behavior of countless drivers, thus promoting safety.
But police have said they've struggled to find ways to enforce the law effectively.
Now, finding a way to reduce the number of drivers who are distracted by texting has become a priority, some legislators said.
"Based on the fact that we don't allow people to talk and drive on their cell phones, I think that text messaging is even more of a risk," said Assemblywoman RoAnn Destito, D-Rome. "Most likely, they would be completely taking their eyes off the road."
Destito recognized the law might be tricky to enforce, but noted the educational component of the bill would raise awareness of the dangers, similar to education programs on drunken driving.
Griffo said he needs to study the proposed legislation. He suggested bringing together officials from numerous departments, including health, public safety and transportation, to discuss a comprehensive solution to distracted driving.
Other devices, including navigation systems and in-vehicle DVD players, have improved communication and quality of life, he said. But they also pose serious threats to drivers, he said.
Many times, he said, accidents caused by drivers using electronic devices are preventable.
"You're not trying to take away these devices that are making people's lives easier," he said. "But on the other hand, you can't sacrifice lives because of them."
Contributing: Gatehouse News Service


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OAKLAND (AP) — Josh Donaldson is pushing for a spot on the American League All-Star team with his bat and glove.
Donaldson homered, reached base safely four times and made a pair of stellar defensive plays, including a tumbling catch while crashing over a roll of infield tarp in foul territory, to help preserve Oakland's 7-5 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday.
"If someone wants to say that I'm having an All-Star year so far, that's fine," said Donaldson, who also doubled. "I've said it a hundred times, if I just focus on helping our team win and try to do something productive for the team, the individual stuff is going to take care of itself."
Donaldson went into the day ranked in the top five among AL third basemen in batting average, home runs and RBIs but was fifth in the most recently released All-Star voting.
That could change the more the A's win and the more Donaldson flashes his defensive skills.
His catch on Matt Carpenter's foul in the fourth ended a two-on, two-out threat. Donaldson later made a diving stop on Allen Craig's grounder to end the seventh with the tying run on second.
Oakland needed it to overcome a rocky outing by starter Tommy Milone.
Milone gave up three home runs and pitched with runners in scoring position in four of the six innings he worked, but got the win after the A's rallied from deficits of 3-0 and 5-2.
"Probably not his best command ... but he fought his way through," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. "Against a team like that, to give us six innings, you wouldn't have forcasted that after the first inning."
Jed Lowrie also homered for the A's, who padded their AL-best home record by taking two of three in this interleague series. Oakland has won 16 of its last 19 games at the Coliseum.
Carlos Beltran, Craig and Carpenter homered for the Cardinals.
The slugfest in the series finale was in stark contrast to the first two games when starting pitchers Bartolo Colon of the A's and Adam Wainwright of the Cardinals put together dominant performances.
"That was kind of the game I anticipated happening but with us on the other side," St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said. "We came out swinging the bats. I've seen them enough to know this series was going to be like. Today could have gone either way."
Oakland had seven extra-base hits — five off St. Louis starter Jake Westbrook. Westbrook (4-3) lasted just four innings and gave up six runs and 10 hits overall.
Lowrie's go-ahead two-run blast was the big blow, while Donaldson's solo shot off reliever Trevor Rosenthal in the seventh capped the A's best offensive day in two weeks.
Oakland remained a half-game behind Texas in the AL West and improved to 26-13 at home. The A's are also 48-35, their best record after 83 games since 1992.
Milone (7-7) overcame his rocky outing to win for the first time since June 3. Oakland's left-hander allowed seven hits over six innings with five strikeouts and two walks. The three home runs allowed by Milone also matched a season-high.
Sean Doolittle and Ryan Cook each pitched a scoreless inning of relief, and Grant Balfour worked the ninth for his 19th save.
"It makes it a lot easier when we come back and score some runs," Milone said. "We just kept coming back."
St. Louis, which began the day one game behind Pittsburgh in the NL Central, took a pair of early leads but couldn't make them hold up.
Beltran and Craig hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning to give the Cardinals a 3-0 lead. It was Beltran's team-leading 19th homer while Craig's blast was his third on the Cardinals current road trip.
The A's pulled within one when Lowrie singled in Seth Smith and scored on an RBI double by Yoenis Cespedes in the bottom of the inning.
Carpenter's solo home run in the third off Milone made it 4-2. Lowrie, Oakland's shortstop, later let Matt Holliday's grounder go through his legs and was slow to retrieve the ball, allowing Beltran to score from second.
Oakland scored twice in the third with the help of two errors, and then went ahead 6-5 on Lowrie's two-run homer off Westbrook in the fourth after Chris Young's leadoff single.
"I just didn't have it," Westbrook said. "It seemed like I was fighting it all day. The ball was all over the place."
Notes: Oakland CF Coco Crisp left the game in the fourth inning with back spasms and is day-to-day. ... Cardinals 1B Matt Adams was a late scratch due to food poisoning. His replacement, Ty Wiggington, went 0-for-3. Adams struck out as a pinch-hitter in the ninth... A's RHP Jarrod Parker is still nursing a strained right hamstring but will attempt to throw a bullpen session on Tuesday. Parker left Saturday's game after injuring his leg with two outs in the fourth inning. ... Cardinals RHP Shelby Miller threw an extended bullpen before the game. Miller threw 61 pitches in his previous start on Friday. ... Oakland RHP A.J. Griffin (6-6) pitches the series opener against the Cubs on Tuesday. ... RHP Lance Lynn (10-3) takes the mound for the Cardinals in their first-ever visit to Anaheim to play the Angels.
OAKLAND (AP) — Josh Donaldson is pushing for a spot on the American League All-Star team with his bat and glove.


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One of the big surprises at this year's Comic-Con was Dredd. For those unfamiliar with the film, Dredd is an adaption of the 2000AD comics character Judge Dredd, and it stars Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, and Lena Headey. The film follows Dredd (Urban) and rookie Judge Cassandra Anderson (Thirlby) fighting through a tower that's crawling with thugs in their attempt to bring down drug overlord Ma-ma (Headey). Lionsgate premiered the film in San Diego, and it's pretty great. Unlike a lot of films that get an R rating due to one violent scene, Dredd is borderline NC-17 due to tons of blood and violence. Trust me, Dredd is going to surprise you and it's definitely worth checking out when it premieres on September 21.
Lionsgate has just released a very cool graffiti-style outdoor billboard for the film and they're letting us premiere it online. If you live in New York City, you might have noticed it when riding the subway. Hit the jump to check it out, and here's my recent interviews with Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby.
Here's the official synopsis for Dredd:
The future America is an irradiated waste land. On its East Coast, running from Boston to Washington DC, lies Mega City One–a vast, violent metropolis where criminals rule the chaotic streets. The only force of order lies with the urban cops called "Judges" who possess the combined powers of judge, jury and instant executioner. Known and feared throughout the city, Dredd (Karl Urban) is the ultimate Judge, challenged with ridding the city of its latest scourge–a dangerous drug epidemic that has users of "Slo-Mo" experiencing reality at a fraction of its normal speed.
Here's a shot of the billboard in the subway:


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The Grammy Museum unveiled an exhibit Saturday devoted to Michael Jackson on the second anniversary of his death.
Featuring artifacts from the peak of Jackson's worldwide popularity, the new permanent display includes two of Jackson's famous sequined gloves and iconic wardrobe pieces including elaborate full suits and beaded jackets.
The exhibit, located on the museum's third floor, also includes original costume sketches, ``We Are The World'' sheet music and other memorabilia related to the entertainer.
The pop icon died on June 25, 2009, of a propofol overdose. Dr. Conrad Murray is accused of administering the powerful hypnotic to the entertainer to help him sleep, then failing to properly monitor him.
Jackson biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli said the family is coping while waiting for the trial.
Local news from across Southern California
"The family is totally united in that they all agree Conrad Murray is responsible for Michael Jackson's death. ... It's tough. They really lost the heart and soul of the family."
Murray's trial on felony involuntary manslaughter is tentatively set to begin in September.


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Unhappy with the rigid teaching style of traditional schools and recent student abuse scandals, some tiger moms in China are keeping their kids at home.
A woman walks past school bags that have been placed on chairs at a kindergarten yard in a village, in the outskirts of Beijing May 23, 2013.
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According to a recent survey of 18,000 parents in mainland China who have expressed interest in homeschooling their children, some 2,000 of them have already started to give lessons at home.
Conducted by the 21st-Century Education Research Institute, a Beijing-based NGO, the survey data was collected via various online platforms, including the education channel of web portal Tencent.com and other forums dedicated to homeschooling.
China's exam-oriented education system is notoriously stressful for students and families alike. According to the survey, among Chinese parents who choose to teach their kids at home, over half (54%) of them do so because they object to the teaching philosophy of traditional schools, which tends to be fairly rigid in nature. Others who choose to homeschool their kids think that in ordinary classrooms, the pace of lessons is too slow (10%) and that kids are not fully respected(7%). Another 7% said their kids were simply sick of traditional school life.
Still another 6% of parents, including a number of Christians, said they chose homeschooling for religious reasons, according to the survey. Similarly, a 2007 survey by the U.S.-based National Center for Education Statistics showed that 36% of American parents homeschooling their children chose to do so out of a desire to provide religious and moral instruction.
Meanwhile, a mounting number of student abuse cases in China have lately been exposed , drawing outrage from the public and helping further spur the push for alternatives to traditional schools, people in the industry say. "I think kids are hurt mentally and physically at traditional kindergartens in China," said Zhang Qiaofeng, citing the well-publicized cases of ear-pulling and other kinds of corporal punishment that recently caused controversy after being exposed in the Chinese press.
"They are running kindergartens like prisons, locking kids inside," said Mr. Zhang, who since last June has been running his own small private school in Bejing's outskirts.
Mr. Zhang said he was inspired to found his school, which caters to preschoolers, after seeing his young son coming back from kindergarten every day and seeming unhappy. According to Mr. Zhang, his son and other classmates would be literally locked indoors during recess hours, to spare teachers from having to monitor them while outdoors.
"Parents seek out my services because they don't want their kids to get hurt on campus," said Mr. Zhang, who charges 60,000 yuan ($9,800) for two semesters as a basic tuition fee, and an extra 20,000 yuan for students who need lodging. "They can afford to do so."
The survey said that 41% of homeschooling parents said they would continue to educate their kids at home after middle school. About a third said they planned to eventually send their kids abroad to study, while another third said they still planned to have their kids take China's fiercely competitive national college entrance exam, the gaokao, and have them attend university in mainland China.
Though the right of parents to homeschool their children isn't officially enshrined in law, homeschooling is no longer seen as a shocking phenomenon in China. Cases such as that of prominent Chinese writer Zheng Yuanjie, who took his son out of school to educate him at home a couple of years ago, have helped boost its appeal among the public and the media.
The survey found that more than half of home-schooled kids are between four to ten years old, and about 62% of them are male. "Boys are bolder in expressing their thoughts and challenging their teachers," said Yuan Fangyan, project director of the 21st-Century Education Research Institute. "Teachers in China tend to marginalize these 'trouble-makers' in class, so they are at a disadvantage at school."
Compared to the U.S., where more than 2 million students were home-schooled in 2010, in the world's second-largest economy, homeschooling is still at an early stage.
For the moment, most homeschooling families remain concentrated in Guangdong province, Zhejiang province and Beijing, where the local economy is more developed and families are typically more open-minded about education.
"Professional guidance [for those interested in homeschooling] is severely insufficient," said Ms. Yuan. "More education resources, including textbooks and teaching methods, desperately need to be explored and developed."
Still, Ms. Yuan says that the growing popularity of homeschooling points to an encouraging trend. "Parents have started to care more about fostering their kids' interest in reading and arts, and respect their freedom and thoughts," she said.
The survey also found that more than 100,000 children in mainland China are not studying in traditional schools. Apart from homeschooling, such kids are often being educated in private schools, such as schools dedicated to the study of classic Chinese culture, church-run schools or other alternative institutions such as Waldorf schools, which operate according to the educational principles of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner.
In addition to such findings, the survey showed that over 48% of parents said they were very optimistic about the development of homeschooling in China in particular.
For his part, Mr. Zhang said that since opening his preschool, his son has become much more athletic and outgoing. "I will teach him to take the SAT and apply to university in America in the future," he said.
– Lilian Lin. Follow her on Twitter @LilianLinyigu
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Sixty-thousand yuan is about $9,800. An earlier version of this post incorrectly converted it to $7,700.


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Best and worst expat movies of all time
By Barry Neild, CNN • Published 21st July 2014
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What's the best source of information for anyone planning a move overseas -- the Internet, the bookstore or those carefully worded government travel warnings?
Duh! It's the movies, of course.
Why would anyone do any research when everything they need to know about their new lives has been laid bare on the silver screen?
When cinema gets it right, it does a pretty good job of taking a hatchet to the expat dream of lounging around in exotic bars dressed in linen suits and Panama hats.
Just as often, however, Hollywood's overseas adventures run into so much trouble it's a wonder it isn't now languishing in the bowels of a dank foreign prison hoping that someone at the embassy might be able to put in a few calls.
To help navigate the celluloid jungle, here's our purely subjective list of the best and worst expat movies.
5. 'The Wages of Fear' (1953)
This brutal piece of black and white French cinema reeks of unwashed vests, but its depiction of nasty expat truck drivers worthlessly risking their grubby lives in the South American jungle is as explosive as the deadly nitroglycerine cargoes they're paid to deliver.
Everyone is detestable, everyone dies and not even the dogs care.
That's how expat life should be.
Enlightening expat dialog
Dick: "When I was a kid, I used to see men go off on these kinds of jobs ... and not come back."
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4. 'Straw Dogs' (1971)
"Wild Bunch" director Sam Peckinpah takes a double-barrel shotgun to all those smug, honey-hued films about rural expat life in this tale about repressed American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) relocating to his wife's Cornish village.
There are no hilarious misunderstandings with local plumbers, just thugs on tricycles.
There's no sun-kissed romance, just a marriage disintegrating into domestic violence.
It'll take more than flowers to apologize for this.
And there are no life-affirming friendships, just a cat getting throttled.
The film's brutality is a bit hard to stomach. The apparent need for a 2011 remake starring Kate Bosworth was also somewhat hard to stomach.
Enlightening expat dialog
Henry Niles: "I don't know my way home."
David Sumner: "That's OK. I don't either."
3. 'The Third Man' (1949)
Expats don't come colder than Orson Welles' elusive Harry Lime, whose classic cuckoo clock speech justifying his racketeering in bombed-to-bits Vienna sounds suspiciously like the kind of cruel logic deployed by corporate stooges when plundering developing world countries in return for a fat salary. ("Free of income tax, old man.")
If only real life saw these amoral exploiters hounded down, like Lime, in a subterranean sewer.
If only real life was soundtracked by zithers.
Enlightening expat dialog
Harry Lime: "Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we?"
2. 'The Year of Living Dangerously' (1982)
With its eclectic if somewhat dated soundtrack and expansive mysticism of Linda Hunt's diminutive paparazzo, "Dangerously" emerges as an anti-expat classic, contrasting the seedy and sequestered lives of foreign hacks and diplomats in Sukarno-era Indonesia against the poverty and chaos of a country on the brink.
All that plus a pre-rant Mel Gibson.
Enlightening expat dialog
Billy Kwan: "Jillian is like a wavering flame that needs care to burn high. Without such care she could lapse into the promiscuity and bitterness of the failed romantic."
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1. 'Casablanca' (1942)
The closing scenes may not have the tear-jerking impact they once did, but if there's a film in existence responsible for dampening as much Kleenex as "Casablanca," it's probably porn.
This film portrays expat life as it should be: outwitting mendacious cops and ruthless Nazis in the smoky haze of a North African piano bar while risking everything in the name of unrequitable love. Not playing golf for pity's sake.
Who hasn't imagined themselves plunged into Casablanca's wartime plot of double-dealing and heartbreak?
Of all the gin joints in... you know the rest.
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Perhaps as Humphrey Bogart, at his craggy best as jaded saloon owner Rick; Ingrid Bergman's impossibly lovely Isla Lund; or even Claude Rains' complicated French police chief Captain Renault.
Sure the dialog has been quoted to death, and if Sam or anyone else plays "As Time Goes By" again, they're going to get the piano lid slammed on their fingers, but every fresh screening of Casablanca is still like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Oh dear. We said it.
Enlightening expat dialog
Ilsa (on the verge of tears): "I didn't count the days."
Rick: "Well, I did. Every one of 'em. Mostly I remember the last one. The wild finish. A guy standing on a station platform in the rain with a comical look in his face because his insides have been kicked out."
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5. 'The Beach' (2000)
With its gorgeous Thai scenery and rumbling undercurrents of violence, jealousy and death, "The Beach" aims to deliver a serious message about the illusory nature of paradise, but doesn't.
It's hard to say which is less credible, a bunch of backpacking muppets building a community on a hidden beach without an Internet cafe or Leonardo DiCaprio (as Richard) joining them and failing to get the French girl.
Excruciating expat dialog
Richard: "I just feel like everyone tries to do something different, but you always wind up doing the same damn thing."
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4. 'Under the Tuscan Sun' (2003)
Unlucky-in-love American writer Diane Lane (as Frances) happens upon the only villa in Tuscany that isn't being rented out by middle class vacationers from London and buys it on a whim.
In restoring the villa, she restores her own ... blah, blah, blah, whatever.
So what's the message here?
Don't worry if your marriage collapses, just buy a house in Italy, spend a bundle renovating it, then someone else will come along.
There's a life lesson we can all relate to.
Excruciating expat dialog
Frances: "I'll hire the muscular descendants of Roman gods to do the heavy lifting."
3. 'Eat Pray Love' (2010)
Unlucky-in-love American writer Julia Roberts ... no, stick with us, this one's slightly different.
Granted, Roberts as Liz Gilbert goes to Italy, but there's no villa, just the start of a year swanning around the world with no apparent worries about cash.
In Italy, Roberts' character learns to eat Italian food (without gaining weight).
Home run, or run home?
She then moves to India to explore spirituality before traveling to Bali for love.
Not love with some vacationing sleazeball.
Love with Javier Bardem.
Like that happens in real life.
Excruciating expat dialog
Liz: "It won't last forever. Nothing does." (Except this film -- 140 minutes long!)
2. 'Mr. Baseball' (1992)
Who needs jokes in your script when you've got foreigners?
Simply send grumpy aging baseball star Jack Elliott (Tom Selleck) to Japan, where hilarity ensues as he grapples with their crazy cultural traditions -- and toilets!
What should be a feelgood film about a fading star's last dash for glory winds up being a feel-queasy trot through every Japanese cliche known to Hollywood.
Unsurprisingly, Universal Studios' new Japanese owners were unhappy at the time.
The film does have some good performances, but not from Selleck, who was upstaged by his mustache, and not for the last time.
Excruciating expat dialog
Jack: "Different language, same attitude! Let's go!"
1. 'Farewell to the King' (1989)
Expats, eh? Always acting so damn entitled.
But if you think they're annoying where you live, spare a thought for the tribe in Borneo, which winds up with Learoyd (Nick Nolte) in the midst of World War II.
Not content to loudly drink his own body weight in alcohol every Friday like normal, decent expats, Nolte becomes their king -- a role that involves going topless and sporting Dog the Bounty Hunter's blond bouffant.
Nolte cranks the ham dial up to 11 in this poor man's "Apocalypse Now," taking on Japanese invaders to protect his tribe which, despite being peopled with fearless headhunters, would apparently have been lost without a middle aged white guy there to save the day.
Excruciating expat dialogue
Learoyd: "I have a special relationship with the spirits. I died once. I had to. I had to give up everything, even the will to live."
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Connecting literature to students' lived experiences in the school and classroom, this lesson provides an opportunity for students to learn about situations of intolerance and discuss ways to move to a more ideal world in which acceptance is the norm. Starting with the picture book Whoever You Are, students discuss embracing diversity. The class then compares the ideal to realistic situations that they face in their own school as well as those portrayed in the books Weslandia and Insects Are My Life. Students then study, create, and perform two-voice texts that shows how they can move closer to the ideal of accepting all types of diversity.
This lesson plan was developed as part of a collaborative professional writing initiative sponsored by the Illinois State Writing Project (ISWP) at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois.
Tips for Confronting Bullying and Intolerance: This printable sheet offers tips for teachers on how to address bullying and intolerance in schools.
Example Two-Voice Poem (audio version): This audio version of a student-written two voice poem helps to illustrate the genre.
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Who knew cycling fans could be so crazy? At the 2012 Gent-Wevelgem held on March 25th, a female spectator was either really excited to see whoever these two cyclists were, or she was hoping to distract them into crashing.
If we knew that the sport of cycling could get this hot we would have been watching a long time ago. You have to give these guys credit for not pulling a double take like the cameraman.
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Settlers of Catan, that addictive German board game that prompts otherwise normal people to start screaming about wheat and knights and sheep and ore, received a giant-sized treatment at Burning Man 2007 thanks to Julie Von Bergen and Matt Bell. You can see more photos of its construction at Matt's Flickr account, and yes, the game's "robber" was played by a life-size cutout of George W. Bush. [Spotted on MAKE]
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Veterans who return home after serving can have a long and difficult road to recovery, but one nonprofit is helping veterans find emotional and physical therapy just off the coast of Southern California.
Dive Warriors is a nonprofit organization founded by Brad Mirman. The organization teaches veterans how to scuba dive and takes them out to the ocean once a month.
"If you're a disabled veteran in the Southern California area, we will teach you how to dive, we will get you certified, and you come on the boat and Dive Warriors pays for it all," Mirman said.
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Mirman is not a veteran, but he gave up his career as a screenwriter to grow Dive Warriors after what he saw in veterans who came to the organization.
Dive Warriors: Helping Disabled Veterans Recover Through Scuba Diving
"A lot of them when they come … there's a darkness in their eyes, there's a broken spirit to them," Mirman said. "As they immerse in this group … bonds form, and that light comes back in their eyes."
Jared Lemon is one of the veterans who says that diving makes him feel free. The 35-year-old from Temecula lost his arm while deployed in the army, but once he is underwater, he can no longer feel the phantom pain.
"It helps release them demons, all them negative thoughts and the things that stay with you after war," Lemon said.
Being part of Dive Warriors has even brought some veterans back from the brink.
Kelly McCumisky is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from PTSD. The first time she took a dive, she had planned never to come back up.
"My whole experience was to commit suicide and that nobody would figure out that that's what I had done," McCumisky said.
Now, like Lemon, McCumisky feels free when she is underwater.
"That's the time I'm free, out of this chair and feel like everybody else," she said.
These veterans also find comfort in each other and being around people who can understand them.
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"El Bulli: Cooking in Progress" is an observational, intimate look at an iconic restaurant and its creator, chef, and visionary, owner Ferran Adrià.
For the uninitiated, El Bulli is a restaurant located near the town of Roses, Spain, overlooking the Cala Montjo Bay, that's won countless awards, including being named Restaurant Magazine's best restaurant in the world from 2006 to 2009. Open just six months a year, it specializes in "molecular gastronomy," blending culinary and scientific wizardry to break new ground. At El Bulli, crystallized Parmesan, soy matches, and a game-meat cappuccino aren't dishes from a sci-fi cuisine of the future--they're signature menu items.
"El Bulli: Cooking in Progress" is the work of filmmaker Gereon Wetzel, a German-born director who says he doesn't consider himself a "foodie." In a recent interview with ABC News, Wetzel commented that it was the "process" behind El Bulli that fascinated him more than the end result. "How do they do it? What does it take to get to these ideas?"
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Wetzel spends much of the film trying to figure this out. Most of the shooting that took place from 2008-2009 was not done in the restaurant's kitchen, but in its lab. It's there that Adrià, along with his creative team of chefs Mateu Csanas, Orio Castro, Eugeni De Diego, and Eduard Xatruch, devises new dishes for the upcoming restaurant "season."
To all but the most dedicated lovers of gastronomy, the pacing in the first half can seem sluggish, lingering too long on too many back-and-forth moments between Adrià and his staff ("At the moment what matters is if it's magical!"). But once the film moves from the lab to the kitchen, the pace of the restaurant enlivens the film and pulls you into the action.
Those seeking insight into the mind of 49 year-old Adrià, will likely be disappointed, as Gereon doesn't even try to shed light on the largely private and mysterious chef. But perhaps that's the point. Sometimes a little mystery is more powerful than partial answers, and besides, El Bulli has become bigger than one man, clearly the creation of many.
This isn't a documentary intended to capture important discovery. There's no sweeping Hans Zimmer score to instruct the viewer that this may be The Most Important Restaurant of Our Time. The cinematography is simple, dominated by handheld camera work. There are no sit-down, talking head interviews to give Adrià or any of the restaurants' chefs or admirers a podium from which to wax poetic.
Rather, the cooking, creation and mythology that surrounds El Bulli is theater enough. It's a celebration of a restaurant that, in many ways, seems to have accomplished everything. In the end El Bulli: Cooking in Progress may not explain how the magic happens, but it gives you an unprecedented view of the show, one that ends on Friday, July 29th, when El Bulli closes its doors to begin the transformation into a culinary education center to open in 2014.
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Fresh Fest has been a big hit at Portsmouth's nTelos amphitheater in recent years. The festival celebrating old-school, '70s and '80s hip-hop returns in August for what should be another big party for those of us who use the phrase "back in the day."
This year's edition will feature Kurtis Blow, Salt-N-Pepa, Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick, and MC Lyte.
According to Ticketmaster, tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Friday, April 13. They'll cost $35.80 to $68.85.
Go here to read a review I wrote of the 2010 Fresh Fest.
Here's the media release issued today.
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Portsmouth, Va. – Fresh Fest 2012 comes to nTelos Wireless Pavilion on Saturday, Aug. 18. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the concert begins at 7:30 p.m.
By the late '80s, hip-hop was male-dominated, which made the emergence of Salt-n-Pepa so significant. As the first all-female rap crew (even their DJs were women) of importance, the group broke down a number of doors for women in hip-hop. They were also one of the first rap artists to cross over into the pop mainstream, laying the groundwork for the music's widespread acceptance in the early '90s. Salt-n-Pepa were more pop-oriented than many of their contemporaries, since their songs were primarily party and love anthems, driven by big beats and interlaced with vaguely pro-feminist lyrics that seemed more powerful when delivered by the charismatic and sexy trio. Salt-n-Pepa defied expectations and became one of the few hip-hop artists to develop a long-term career.
MC Lyte is one of the most prolific and well respected female hip-hop artists in history. She has consistently found exciting ways to reinvent herself musically, while expanding her resume and gaining new fans. The Grammy and BET Award nominee has released six highly acclaimed CDs. She also appeared as herself on on television as herself on such shows as MTV Unplugged, In Living Color, Moesha, New York Undercover, My Wife and Kids, and Sisters in the Name of Rap.
Exposed to the hip-hop beats and music scene in the Bronx, Slick Rick began making a name for himself by competing in and winning nearly every MC battle contest he entered. He finally hit the jackpot at a MC contest in Harlem, where he attracted the attention ofDoug E. Fresh, who was garnering his own attention due to his ability to imitate drum machines and various special effects.
Striking up a friendship,Doug E. Freshand Slick Rick released the history-making, single "The Show and La Di Da Di" in the summer of 1985. With Fresh's beatbox and Rick's smooth lyrical delivery, the duo nearly single-handedly transformed rap. His debut CD, "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick," hit #1 on Billboard and became one of the first hip-hop records to sell a million copies.
Kurtis Blow is one of the founders, creators and most recognizable success stories in recorded rap history. He leads the new generation of rappers with his street sense, social criticism, and commercial savvy. Blow was the first rapper to be signed by a major label, the first to have a certified gold record for rap ("The Breaks"), the first rapper to tour US & Europe (Commodores, 1980), the first rapper to record a national commercial (Sprite), the first rapper to use the sample loop, created the first rap music video (basketball), was the first rap producer (Rap's Producer of the Year in 1983 and 1985), and was the first rapper featured in a soap opera ("One Life to Live").
Emerging during hip-hop's massive creative expansion of the late '80s, Big Daddy Kane was the ultimate lover man of rap's first decade, yet there was more to him than the stylish wardrobe, gold jewelry, and sophisticated charisma. Kane possessed a prodigious rhyming technique honed from numerous B-boy battles; he could also be an Afrocentric consciousness-raiser versed in the philosophy of the Nation of Islam's Five Percent school, or a smooth urban soul crooner whose singing was no match for his talents as an MC. While he never scored much pop-crossover success, his best material ranks among the finest hip-hop of its era, and his sex-drenched persona was enormously influential on countless future would-be players.
Tickets are on sale at through all Ticketmaster outlets, including online (www.ticketmaster.com) and by phone (800.745.3000). Orchestra tickets are $59.75, tickets in the Gold Circle are $39.75, and general admission lawn seats just $29.00, including service and facility fees. There is a $3 discount on Gold Circle and lawn tickets with military ID. Present your AAA Membership Card at the nTelos Wireless Box Office or any Ticketmaster outlet and receive $3.00 off Gold Circle & lawn tickets. Discounts cannot be combined.
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Words have become so loaded from their use in the "framing" of "messages" that simply using the words themselves often results in a total cognitive shutdown by the hearer. This actually reinforces their beliefs, regardless of the content of the argument containing the loaded words.
Therefore, I feel it is appropriate to coin new terms where this phenomenon interferes with rational discussion.
This is the first of several such coinages.
I have always felt the proper response to the 9/11 hijackings seemed pretty simple.
Armor and lock the cabin door so the cockpit can't be taken.
Add a layer or two of Kevlar fabric to the flotation seats, turning them into quite effective knife shields that should provide some protection from firearms.
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Cher has got a word for Chaz Bono's haters.
The veteran diva quickly defended her son after loads of anonymous commenters scourged the internet to diss "Dancing with the Stars" for casting their first transgender contestant.
"Lovelies!" Cher wrote on Twitter. "Chaz is Being Viciously Attacked on Blogs & Message boards about begin on DWTS! This is Still America right ? It took guts to do it."
Cher continued to slam her baby's critics while praising Chaz's decision perform in the 13th season of ABC's high-rated dancing competition.
"I support him no matter what he chooses 2do! God! will there always be haters! It took COURAGE to do dwts! TG Chaz has an Unlimited supply," she tweeted. "Mothers don't stop Getting angry with stupid bigots who f--- with their children."
Singing duo Sonny Bono and Cher's only son underwent a female-to-male gender transition at age 39, changing his name from Chastity Sun Bono to Chaz Salvatore Bono. The BBC reported back in 2010 that Cher promised to support her child on his "difficult journey" and promised to "strive to be understanding."
According to Bono, now 41, his momma still continues to shower him with support.
"She really thought it was great that I was doing [the show] and wanted to know how I was feeling about it, if I was nervous and how it was going," Bono told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show, People reports.
ABC announced Bono would be paired up with Lacey Schwimmer for their new season, premiering Sept. 19. The 23-year-old professional dancer has also coached celebrities Lance Bass, Steve-O, Mark Dacascos, Kyle Massey and Mike Catherwood for the show, according to Us Magazine.
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Boston Tech Poetics meetup at Fatham
Last night I had a chance to attend a recent Boston Tech Poetics community group meeting. "Boston Tech Poetics" is merely the new name for the old Boston "Creative Coders" group, BTW -- a term that is for the most part on it's way out as anything but a clever marketing term for what we do in the interactive and emerging technologies space.
Fathom (Information Design) was gracious enough to sponsor us at their office on Cambridge St. We heard from two speakers, Savannah Niles of the MIT Media Lab about her "Glyph" project and associated research into expressive gifs from… Read more »


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Hope College has received support for summer student research through a national program designed to increase the number of women who pursue careers in mathematics.
Dr. Stephanie Edwards, associate professor of mathematics, has received a grant through the "Women and Mathematics Grants" program sponsored by the Tensor Foundation of Oak, Park, Ill., through the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The $6,000 award will support two undergraduate students in conducting original research with Edwards for eight weeks this summer. The one-year grant is renewable for up to two more years.
The Tensor-MAA Program grants are for projects designed to encourage college and university women or high school and middle school girls to study mathematics. Edwards noted that women are underrepresented in the discipline nationally. For example, according to the American Mathematical Association's "2008 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences," women represented only 31 percent of the 540 U.S. citizens to receive doctoral degrees in the mathematical sciences during 2007-08, and 32 percent of the 695 non-U.S. citizen new doctoral recipients during the same time frame.
The students working with Edwards will be conducting research into the distribution of zeroes of real entire functions, work that will include writing computer programs to assist in the analysis process. In addition to helping the students build research skills, Edwards will provide additional support through mentorship and networking opportunities as the students pursue their career preparation.
Each summer, more than 160 students conduct research full-time at Hope with faculty mentors. During the summer of 2008, 17 students conducted research in mathematics. Those participating in summer research at the college include not only Hope students but also students from other colleges and universities and area high school students.
The bulk of the resources that support the college's research program in the sciences come through competitive research grants from external sources such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Homeland Security, private foundations and corporations. During the 2007-08 school year, Hope held approximately $3.5 million in support of faculty research projects, approximately 50 percent of which was from the NSF.
Founded in 1915, the MAA is the largest professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. The organization's more than 25,000 members include university, college and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists; statisticians; and many others in academia, government, business and industry.


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By the way.... anyone using Sleepyhead software (free). If you have one of these machines you can read your own card
SleepyHead is open-source, cross platform, sleep tracking software by JediMark with a focus on monitoring CPAP treatment.
It currently works with data capable versions of the following machines:
Philips Respironics System One
ResMed S9 families
DeVilbiss Intellipap
Fisher & Paykel Icon support is coming soon!
You can also use Contec CMS50 (USB serial) oximeters, as well as ResMed S9's oximeter attachment.
SleepyHead is currently in Beta release..
I took a 90 minute nap after I got my new machine and mask and then popped the disk into my computer. It seems to show a 4.77 AHI. (5-20=mild, 21-50=moderate, above 51 severe)
And.... it showed all my events as being "Clear Airway" (Central).....
So... will be interesting to monitor this.


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Next Time Around
There was an elderly man in England named Arthur Flowerdew. He'd lived his whole life in the seaside town of Norfolk, and had left England only once, to journey to the French coast. All his life, however, Arthur Flowerdew had been plagued by vivid mental pictures of a great city surrounded by desert, and a temple carved out of a cliff. They were inexplicable to him, until one day he saw a television documentary on the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. To his amazement, Petra was the city he had imprinted in his mind!
He spoke to people about his visions, and, as a result, the BBC came to hear about Arthur Flowerdew and put his story on television. The Jordanian government heard about him, and offered to bring him to Petra to see what his reactions to the city would be. Archaeologists interviewed him before he left on his journey, and recorded his descriptions of his mental impressions of this ancient city.
When Flowerdew was brought to Petra, he was able to identify the locations of both excavated and unexcavated structures that had been part of the ancient city. He had memories of being a temple guard, and identified the structure that had been his guard station and where he had been killed. Petra's expert archaeologist was amazed, and told the reporters documenting Flowerdew's journey, "It would require a mind very different from his to be able to sustain a fabric of deception on the scale of his memories...I don't think he's a fraud. I don't think he has the capacity to be a fraud on this scale.
Stories like these, of vivid, inexplicable memories of previous lives are rare but well-documented in our world. Compared to the billions of people who live on the earth, the number of people who have vivid past-life memories represent a tiny fraction of humanity, and yet these hundreds of researched and recorded cases of past life memory cannot simply be dismissed as all fraud. Dr. Tan Stevenson of UVA in Virginia has published volume after volume of documentation on these experiences. Do you believe in reincarnation? It's not supposed to be a dominant religious belief in America, yet a nationwide Gallop Poll taken a few years ago showed that nearly one in four Americans believes in reincarnation.
So, before I launch into this sermon, let's do our own public opinion poll. How many of you are comfortable raising your hands to acknowledge a personal belief in reincarnation? How many of you believe in reincarnation but don't want to raise your hands? How many of you are quite sure that there's no such thing as reincarnation? How many aren't sure? I guess I would have put myself in that last category until recently. Even though I am committed to a Buddhist meditation practice, I haven't been drawn to embrace all of Buddhist theology. However, reading the surprisingly popular Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written in English by the Tibetan master Sogyal Rinpoche, has pushed me off the fence towards accepting reincarnation. One of my reasons for undertaking this sermon was as a personal exercise in figuring out if I really do believe that reincarnation is possible. I talk a lot to new members when they join the church about Unitarian Universalism being a religion where you can be open to new ideas, and to changing your mind, but it's always a bit of a shock when it actually happens to me.
It may well be that a good many more people in traditionally Western theological mindsets have reexamined their beliefs about reincarnation in recent years because of popular movies released in the West involving Eastern philosophies. One of the earliest of these, Little Buddha, a movie directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, is the story of a middle class white family in Seattle whose lives are turned upside down when a Tibetan lama identifies their nine-year-old son as the reincarnation of his own late master. Imagine your consternation if three earnest Tibetans from Bhutan knocked at your front door and asked if they could worship your son.
Bertolucci's movie was the first mass market film with a Buddhist story line released in the West. Consulting on the film were some of the most respected Tibetan masters of this era, including Sogyal Rinpoche, the man who wrote the book that started me re-thinking reincarnation. Regardless of the effect of Little Buddha on Westerners' belief in reincarnation, the human struggle with the question of what happens after we die is routinely depicted in the films, television shows and novels that we absorb, and it is, of course, a primary question to which religious faiths all over the world have sought answers for generations.
Reincarnation was a belief that circulated through the early Christian church. In fact, Origen, the church father that we like to identify as a prototype Universalist because he believed in the salvation of all souls, was an early advocate of reincarnation. This belief was abandoned by the Christian Church in favor of the doctrines of heaven and hell, and the resurrection of the righteous dead to reign with Christ in heaven. The problem with the Biblical account of heaven is that there are few details about what heaven is like and what there is to do there—besides reign. There's a lot about what won't he in heaven, namely sorrow and death—but the popular images of angels with harps floating on clouds have arisen because it's very difficult for us to imagine what a perfect eternal life might be.
At least the belief in reincarnation puts life after death in a universe we can understand—this one! The one that we already know—because each time around, the wheel of incarnation means a new life lived inside time, and on this earth. In spite of this, popular conceptions about belief in reincarnation suffer from the same problems as descriptions of heaven. We can only talk about these possibilities using the language and images and concepts that we have acquired from our experience in this world and in this life.
So when we think about reincarnation, and what it means, we naturally think about our individual egos being re-born in a new body. All the stories about people who can remember past lives reinforce this idea. The Hindu religion's depiction of reincarnation fits very naturally with the belief that there is a distinct, individual, and personal soul that is separate from our bodies, one that can find it's way into a new body and live another life. Hindu gods like Rama and Krishna are depicted with distinct personalities that inhabit different bodies. Some Hindus believe that souls can be reincarnated in other life forms. When I imagine what it might mean for me to be reincarnated, I cannot help but think in this Hindu way that I, Wayne, and my unique ego, will experience another life in another body. If the law of karma, based on the consequences of my past actions, dictates where and how I will be reincarnated, I inevitably speculate and worry about what my next incarnation might be like, based on my current experience and behavior. Have I been a good enough person to avoid being reincarnated as an animal? But some animal incarnations are better than others. Do good people get reincarnated as cows in India and bad people get reincarnated as cows on cattle ranches in Montana? The Buddhist understanding of reincarnation is quite a bit different from the Hindu idea.
The fact that we can only think about reincarnation in terms of the world with which we are familiar makes it difficult for us to imagine anything but a caricature of the reincarnation the Buddhists understand. Now I should say that Buddhists are by no means a theologically monolithic community. There are several significant schools of Buddhism and the belief in reincarnation has a different slant in each one. The Tibetan traditions represent a version of Buddhism that is deeply infused with their own cultural traditions. Tibetans believe that there is a direct lineage of reincarnations of their master teachers, who have achieved enlightenment, and who could have stepped off the wheel of life, but choose not to in order to help others achieve enlightenment themselves. This choice that can be made by teachers who have reached enlightenment is called the boddhisatva ideal. However, there is one large school of Buddhism, Theraveda Buddhism, which does not totally embrace this idea; they see enlightenment as a state from which the option of return does not exist. Some Americans studying Buddhism find reincarnation to be window dressing for the most central Buddhist teachings about the causes of suffering, how suffering may be dealt with, and the role of meditation in detaching oneself from suffering.
Regardless of the variations in Buddhist emphases on reincarnation as a central belief, all Buddhists share a common understanding of reincarnation as a continuation of mind, and not of ego consciousness. That's an important distinction to make in understanding reincarnation, and evaluating whether or not you think it's a possibility. It helps me to understand the difference between mind and ego consciousness to think about it in this way:
When we are born into this world, it's as if the universe issues us with a suitcase called ego. We can use this suitcase to store up all the images, ideas, memories, and relationships that tell us who we are. Every baby that's born gets an empty suitcase, plus a certain amount of baggage to put in it that they have inherited from their parents. Then, every baby gets a whole lifetime in which to collect stuff to put in the suitcase. Experiences, insights, prejudices, loved-ones, fears, knowledge, personality traits, and habits can all find a place in the suitcase. All of this stuff in the suitcase is very useful to us for life in this world, but Buddhism suggests that it is better to try to keep this stuff in storage than to constantly carry it around with you. If we carried around all of the material stuff we've accumulated over the years, we would quickly find that its weight would prevent us from moving anywhere. Similarly, carrying around all of the possible baggage that can be fit into the ego suitcase can create a life that hasn't got much possibility for flexibility for movement, for growth.
Some people understand how to keep this ego baggage in storage so that it's there when needed but not always being lugged around. However, most of us reach the end of our lives with our ego suitcases pretty full up, and since it's taken us all our lives to accumulate what's in those suitcases, and so many of the things that are in them are very precious to us, it is very difficult indeed to arrive at death's door and be told, "Oh by the way, you can't take that suitcase with you!"
"I can't take my suitcase with me?!"
"No—you can't! They'll give you a new one next time around, but you've got to leave that one behind."
"I can't take my suitcase with me!" It's a hard thing to come to terms with—that you are not your suitcase—that what might be reborn has little to do with the ego suitcase of stuff that you've spent years accumulating.
So if it's not the suitcase that's going into a next life—what is? That's the 64-thousand-dollar question. Buddhism says it is consciousness, understood not as the objects of consciousness, that is, all the things that are in the suitcase, but consciousness itself, consciousness without objects, consciousness as that little glimpse of peaceful empty space that you sometimes get while meditating, consciousness without attachment which is the goal of Buddhist practice. Consciousness, or mind, is the basic stuff of life, not the body, or the objects of mind. Consciousness is what gets reborn.
One Buddhist scholar writes: "The successive existences in a series of re-births are not like the pearls of a pearl necklace, held together by a string, the "soul," which passes through all the pearls; rather they are like dice piled one on top of the other. Each die is separate, but it supports the one above it, with which it is functionally connected. Between the dice there is no identity but conditionality."
I find this picture of reincarnation more palatable than the notion that I have an eternal and personal soul which moves from body to body. In spite of the many stories that exist about Tibetan lamas identifying the new incarnations of their teachers by their ability to recognize the belongings of the person who was their previous incarnations, I find it hard to accept the notion that there are these distinct packets of memory from past lives that get transferred from body to body. Bertolucci's movie about an American boy being identified as a tulku, or great teacher, is based on a true story of one of the few Tibetan incarnations who was found outside Asia, in a village in Spain, rather than in Tibet. However, doesn't it seem a little suspicious that these lamas are almost always re-incarnated in the same geographic area, and that they always re-incarnate as men?
I don't think that you have to buy the whole package of Tibetan cultural practices around choosing spiritual leaders to be intrigued by the possibilities of reincarnation as a manifestation of continuous mind. Sogyal Rinpoche himself says that the point of talking about reincarnation is not to decide whether you believe in it, but to ask yourself what difference it makes. So what difference would it make to include reincarnation as part of your world-view? Keep in mind that the Buddhist view is that reincarnation is not a goal to be sought after. It is simply a necessary step to achieve enlightenment about the way the world works, since that wisdom is so unlikely to be obtained in one short lifetime. The goal is to get enlightened enough so that you don't have to be re-born if you don't want to.
Henry Ford had an observation about what a difference belief in reincarnation made to him. Few people know that Ford—the same man who claimed that "History is bunk"—adopted a belief in reincarnation at the age of twenty-six. He wrote: "When I discovered reincarnation, time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock…I would like to communicate to others that calmness that the long view of life gives to us." The long view of life. Certainly this would be one of the consequences of taking reincarnation seriously.
If you don't buy into a belief in a life after death that is part of a system of rewards and punishments for actions here on earth, then what is left to you are the insights, the loves and the work of one lifetime. For many Unitarian Universalists, that is enough. There is no desire to understand what lies beyond death, or a need to feel that the experience of a lifetime has any redemption beyond the lives that it has touched. But for others, there is a possibility that has a convincing and a consoling power—that our life experience has cumulative consequences towards a final goal of wisdom and an understanding of life's meaning.
The cumulative consequences of life experiences and decisions are what Buddhists call karma. Karma simply means that each action is pregnant with consequences, that nothing we do is unimportant, and that the kind of birth we have in the next life is determined by the nature of our actions in this one—not so much the scale of these actions—but the intention or motivation behind them. Westerners sometimes look at the idea of karma the same way that they view Calvinist predestination—that there is a ball and chain of consequences that we drag behind us that makes our future in this life or any subsequent lives inevitable. I think that karma is just the opposite of predestination. As Sogyal Rinpoche says: "Karma means our ability to create and to change." It is creative because we can determine how and why we act. We can change. The future is in our hands and in the hands of our heart.
There is a radical freedom in this approach to reincarnation. Through making compassionate action the guiding light of our lives, we have the ability to make a difference in our future, however many lives it may involve. One of the most attractive things about the doctrine of reincarnation is that you don't have to believe in it to act on it. That is because all that reincarnation and karma demand is development of a good heart. As the Dalai Lama has observed: "There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple. My philosophy is kindness."
Whether we live one life or many, whether we can remember them or not, whether what survives our death is a personal soul, or the personal memories that we have left behind for those we love, I don't think we can lose either way by following that philosophy. A compassionate heart practices kindness as its discipline. Whether you believe that you are accumulating karma for a future life or not, whatever happens after we die will ultimately take care of itself.
"What (does) continue from life to life is a blessing, what a Christian would call 'grace.' Our resolve must be to send the blessing onward today with all the compassion we can muster."


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LONG BEACH, Calif. (May 8, 2012) – The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team coasted past Costa Rica, 25-14, 25-9, 25-9 on Tuesday at the NORCECA Men's Continental Olympic Qualification Tournament at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif.
The winner of the tournament will qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
The U.S. Men improved to 2-0 in pool play. They will try to secure the pool victory on Wednesday when they play Mexico (2-0) at 8 p.m. PT at the Pyramid. Costa Rica (0-2) will play Trinidad & Tobago (0-2) at 3 p.m. PT.
The U.S. Men dominated the match, leading in kills, 38-18, in blocks, 8-2 and in aces, 11-0.
"We subbed a little more freely tonight and the guys did a good job keeping their focus," U.S. Head Coach Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.) said. "We stressed a lot about continued pressure on the end line."
U.S. opposite David McKienzie (Littleton, Colo.) led all scorers with 10 points on a match-high eight kills (80.0 kill percent, .700 hitting efficiency) and two aces. Opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu, Hawaii) added eight points on three attacks (75.0 kill percent, .750 hitting efficiency), a match-high three blocks and two aces.
"I thought our team controlled the game behind the service line," Stanley said. "We had a pretty nice control block giving them pressure and having it hard (for Costa Rica) to side out."
Middle blocker Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.) totaled seven points on four kills and a match-high three aces. Middle blocker Ryan Millar (Alpine, Utah) added seven points on five attacks and two blocks.
Outside hitter Matt Anderson (West Seneca, N.Y.) scored six points on six attacks. Middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) totaled five points on three kills, one block and one ace. Outside hitter Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.) scored five points on three attacks and two aces. Outside hitter Reid Priddy (Richmond, Va.) added five points on three kills and two blocks.
Outside hitter Riley Salmon (League City, Texas) contributed three points on three attacks and setter Donald Suxho (Korce, Albania) scored a point with a kill. Setters Suxho and Brian Thornton (San Clemente, Calif.) combined to help the U.S. Men to a 69.1 kill percent and a .600 hitting efficiency.
Libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.) had six of the United States' 26 digs while Suxho had five. Lambourne was also credited with 12 excellent receptions.
Knipe started Anderson and Priddy at outside hitter, Lee and Millar at middle blocker, Stanley at opposite, Suxho at setter and Lambourne at libero.
Holmes started the second and third sets for Lee. Lotman started the third set for Priddy. Thornton started the third set for Suxho. McKienzie started the third set for Stanley.
The U.S. Men led 5-4 in the first set when Anderson scored his first point with an attack. He took the serve and helped the U.S. score five more points before Costa Rica called timeout and scored with an attack. Priddy came back with a kill off the block and McKienzie served three more points for the U.S. to put it ahead 15-5. The U.S. Men led 16-6 at the second technical timeout (TTO). Costa Rica went on a run coming out of the break, scoring three straight points before serving into the net. The U.S. came back with a Millar block and scored again when Costa Rica hit the ball out of bounds. The U.S. reached set point at 24-14 and won the set on a Priddy block.
The second-set score was tied at 3-3 when Anderson scored on two straight kills. The U.S. led 6-5 when Holmes took the serve and the U.S. launched an eight-point run, including two kills by Stanley, before he served into the net. With the U.S. leading 14-6, Millar sparked another run with a kill, giving the serve to Stanley. The U.S. scored three more straight points, including two straight Stanley aces, to lead 18-6. The U.S. reached set point at 24-9 and won the set on Suxho's ace.
Lotman served the United States to a 6-0 lead, including an ace and McKienzie kill, in the third set. The U.S. went on to lead 10-1. With the U.S. Men ahead 14-6, Holmes scored with an attack and Lotman served for three more points to put Team USA up 18-6. The U.S. reached match point at 24-9 and a kill by Salmon finished the match.
2012 NORCECA Men's Continental Olympic Qualification Tournament
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1. Matt Anderson (OH, 6-10, West Seneca, N.Y., Penn State)
4. David Lee (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Calif., Long Beach State)
5. Rich Lambourne (L, 6-3, Tustin, Calif., BYU)
6. Paul Lotman (OH, 6-7, Lakewood, Calif., Long Beach State)
7. Donald Suxho (S, 6-5, Korce, Albania, USC)
8. Reid Priddy (OH, 6-5, Richmond, Va., Loyola Marymount)
9. Ryan Millar (MB, 6-8, Alpine, Utah, BYU)
10. Riley Salmon (OH, 6-6, League City, Texas, Pierce College)
11. Brian Thornton (S, 6-3, San Clemente, Calif., UC Irvine)
12. Russell Holmes (MB, 6-8, Fountain Valley, Calif., BYU)
13. Clay Stanley (OPP, 6-9, Honolulu, Hawai'i, Hawaii)
21. David McKienzie (Opp, 6-4, Littleton, Colo., Long Beach State)
Head Coach: Alan Knipe (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
Team Manager: Rob Browning (Newport Beach, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Gary Sato (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: John Speraw (Irvine, Calif.)
Assistant Coach: Ron Larsen (Lafayette, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Chris Jackson (Phoenix, Ariz.)
Medical Support: Aaron Brock (Storm Lake, Iowa)
2012 NORCECA Men's Olympic Games Qualification Tournament Schedule (All times PT)
Schedule subject to change depending on U.S. finishes
Pool Play
May 7
Canada def. Dominican Republic, 25-21, 25-13, 25-15
Mexico def. Costa Rica, 25-17, 25-18, 25-20
Cuba def. Puerto Rico, 25-20, 25-18, 25-18
USA def. Trinidad & Tobago, 24-9, 25-10, 25-14
May 8
Cuba def. Dominican Republic, 25-15. 25-21, 25-15
Mexico def. Trinidad & Tobago, 25-18, 19-25, 25-21, 25-22
Canada def. Puerto Rico, 25-19, 25-20, 25-13
USA def. Costa Rica, 25-14, 25-9, 25-9
May 9
1 p.m. Puerto Rico vs. Dominican Republic
3 p.m. Costa Rica vs. Trinidad & Tobago
6 p.m. Cuba vs. Canada
8 p.m. USA vs. Mexico
|Trinidad & Tobago
|Costa Rica
|Puerto Rico
|Dominican Republic
May 10
6 p.m. 2nd-place B vs. 3rd-place A
8 p.m. 2nd-place A vs. 3rd-place B
Classification 5-8
May 11
1 p.m. 4th-place A vs. Quarterfinal Loser
3 p.m. 4th-place B vs. Quarterfinal Loser
May 11
6 p.m. 1st-place B vs. Quarterfinal Winner
8 p.m. 1st-place A vs. Quarterfinal Winner
May 12
1 p.m. Seventh-place match
3 p.m. Fifth-place match
6 p.m. Third-place match
8 p.m. Championship
Match Quotes
Stanley opening statement: As far as tonight, I thought our team controlled the game behind the service line had a pretty nice control block giving them pressure and having it hard to side out. As far as tomorrow, we want to keep doing what we have been doing and keep our serves in, keep improving and get ready for the next few matches coming up.
Stanley on comparing the team right now to the team at the same time last year…
I am not too sure, it is really early. Starting at the beginning of the summer and ending at the end is a big difference because we are together longer. We have been together only for a week or so and me five days of training off of surgery. We are at the early stages trying to build something. It makes something like this tournament tougher since is so important. We are using past experiences to build a stronger team in a shorter amount of time.
Clay Stanley on what he thinks of the Mexican team…
They are a good team. They have given us trouble at World Championships. They are not a team to be taken lightly; I don't think any team should be taken lightly here. Hopefully we go in tomorrow and concentrate on the goal.
Coach Knipe opening statement: Clay touched upon the primary goal of the past two nights; stay focused and maximize opportunity to communicate. I thought the guys did a good job with that tonight. We subbed a little more freely tonight and the guys did a good job keeping their focus. We stressed a lot about continued pressure on the end line. With that I would like to wish Costa Rica the best of luck in their third match of the tournament.
Coach Knipe on what he thinks of the Mexican team…
We have seen them at World Championships and this past summer at the London Olympic Test Event. They were at NORCECA in Puerto Rico going for the World Cup (entry) though we didn't play them we have seen them. They have played together for a while so they have a comfort level. They have some young arms and good leadership. They have played well together and we expect them to play well tomorrow night.
Coach Knipe on the serve philosophy of Team USA…
It has been a process. There is a balance that we are looking for. We want to be aggressive, but aces aren't that important, as much as disturbing the opposition's offense. We like to get the serve in certain rotations to certain passers to cause some problems. For us, our goal is to get at least one of their options out. We have been building this serving philosophy for four years now. We are dealing with an athlete who keeps his errors down with our goal of staying below 15 percent as a team, and so we are serving hard and we are making it a lot. I haven't seen the final stats from tonight but it think we are below 10 percent.
Costa Rica Quotes
Captain Pablo Zumbado Opening Statement: Congrats to the USA, it was a great game. It is a great experience to play one of the best teams in the world and it was very important for us to have better receiving. The physical difference is very noticeable and we are trying to fight that with a little enthusiasm.
Head Coach Salas Cesar Opening Statement: Our goal tonight was to have better reception of the ball and improve our defense and there isn't a better team to do that against than the United States. I am pretty happy about tonight. These kinds of tournaments are very helpful for us. In Central America the challenge isn't so high so every point, set and match is very important to us.