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MOSCOW - Russian authorities Tuesday charged a former Russia director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development with conspiracy to take a $1.4 million bribe.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that Yelena Kotova and a Russian banker combined their "powers as well as links in the business community" to negotiate the bribe from an unnamed Canadian oil and gas company in exchange for vetting a $95 million loan.
The London-based EBRD was set up at the end of the Cold War to foster economic development in impoverished Eastern Europe and the crumbling Soviet Union. It invested nearly €3 billion ($4 billion) in Russia in 2011 and a combined €21 billion in the past 20 years.
Kotova sat on the EBRD's board of directors as Russia's representative between 2005 and 2010, when she was dismissed to allow the investigation to proceed. The bank then asked authorities in Russia and the UK to lift her immunity and that of three other EBRD officials.
EBRD spokesman Jonathan Charles on Tuesday said the bank has been co-operating with Russian authorities and is following the case.
According to Kotova's personal website, she left her banking career for creative writing. Kotova, who has published three novels since her retirement in 2011, describes herself as a "writer" and "feature columnist."
Kotova has not replied to emails seeking comment. In a 2011 interview she described the probe into her work as a smear campaign and said she fell victim to infighting at the bank.


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As is true about the origins of many not-for-profit organizations, Safe4Athletes was born out of the personal experience of its founder, Katherine Starr. Having being an elite athlete who endured sexual abuse during the course of her career with no resources available to help her, she simply wanted to do something to ensure that athletes following in her footsteps did not have to repeat her experience. In her own words…
As Annabelle Cripps, I started swimming at a very young age and showed promise from my first stroke in the pool. I won just about every race growing up setting many state records that still stand today. My desire to be a champion swimmer was not just from me but my parents supported my dream too.
My swimming career continued to show a lot of promise and at the young age of 14 I was world ranked for the first time. I wish that was all that happened to me that year. However, a month or two after experiencing that achievement I was also raped by my swim coach. As I continued to excel in sport, making two Olympic teams (Great Britain), so did the sexual harassment and abuse. I was often portrayed on the pool deck as the "troubled kid" when I fought back from the abuse. All the while, my coach, the head Olympic coach for my country, gained power and prestige.
There was no protection from the adults around me and nowhere for me to turn to for help. When I spoke up, I was told that I needed to do "what the coach said." I felt so hopeless and alone.
After many years of addressing this issue head on, I realized that the heartache was still with me. It occurred to me that the only healing that could take place would come from changing the culture in the amateur sports community, to one that put athlete welfare and safety in a positive sport environment as a primary responsibility and free from sexual abuse, bullying and harassment. I am now Katherine Starr, the founder and President of Safe4Athletes.
In the summer of 2011, Starr contacted former teammates, sport administrators and others to ask if they would help form a non-profit organization to help abused athletes and their parents and provide model policies and procedures to sports clubs so they are prepared to protect young athletes. Safe4Athletes was envisioned as a national advocacy organization dedicated to athlete welfare -- where every athlete is provided a safe and positive environment free of sexual abuse, bullying and harassment.
In the fall of 2011, Safe4Athletes, received its not-for-profit status under the fiscal sponsorship of Community Partners of Los Angeles. Community Partners is an innovative agency that supports numerous emerging non-profit initiatives, managing the organization's finance, human resources and legal compliance needs while the new project focuses on building the capacity needed to accomplish its mission.
The remainder of 2011 was spent beginning to assemble the Safe4Athletes governance and advisory committees, drafting the strategic plan, developing model policies and educational materials, building a web site, and raising funds that would enable the project to become a reality.

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BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- The Mediterranean diet -- fruit, vegetables, nuts and olive oil; moderate levels of fish and poultry -- helps prevent stroke, Spanish researchers say.
Dr. Ramon Estruch of the Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clinic, in Barcelona, Spain, Dr. Martinez-Gonzalez at the Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, and colleagues said those on the Mediterranean diet lowered their risk of stroke without counting calories.
The Spanish researchers said the study involved 7,447 study participants, who were allowed to consume as many calories as they wished, and were given no instructions about exercise.
The study participants were randomly assigned to one of three diets: a Mediterranean diet -- produce, nuts, olive oil, fish and poultry, but little dairy, red or processed meat or sweets, supplemented with olive oil; a Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts; or a low-fat diet, including bread, potatoes and pasta.
The researchers tracked the participants, ages 55-80, for nearly five years. Everyone had a high risk for heart disease, but no cardiovascular problems at the time the study began.
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Josie Romero, born a boy, believed she was born in the wrong body. By age 6, she was living as a girl. Dateline NBC's Hoda Kotb reports.
By Tommy Nguyen
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It's unclear how many children around the world have felt trapped in their own bodies the way 11-year-old Josie Romero has struggled with hers. Born a boy but living socially as a girl since age 6, Josie -- the subject of a Dateline report airing Sunday, July 8th, at 7pm/6c -- is just one of 10,000 children who have significant gender identity problems, according to one popular estimate. Other experts say it's closer to one in 1,000, but nevertheless their relatively small population has generated much controversy and media attention recently.
The handful of American doctors who specialize in the care of transgender children have seen a marked increase in patients over the past few years. Children's Hospital in Boston, home to the largest clinic in the country for kids with gender identity problems, regularly saw in the past an average of less than 5 new patients a year; since 2007, the average is over 20. It's a result of more information being available to both parents and children, especially online. They're now able to identify the problems, if there are any, more readily.
While the increase of children who may believe that they are transgender is newsworthy, the attention is pegged more to the medical issues associated with being transgender as opposed to what it is like simply being transgender. Indeed, the story of the transgender child has changed noticeably through the years. In the past, articles and television programs saw the very existence of transgender children as headlines. And if there were any in-depth reporting, it often focused on the social conflicts surrounding them - i.e., if this young boy is wearing a dress, how will he fit in with his family, on the playground, at church, or with the values of society?
But to more and more parents, doctors and mental health professionals these days, the problem of a boy wearing a dress -- and what other people think about that -- has become child's play by comparison. It's the internal conflicts raging in the heart, mind and body of transgender children and what their parents are willing to do medically to solve these problems that have become the more intriguing story of their already unique lives. The Dateline documentary report about 11-year-old Josie Romero and her mother, Venessia, which we began in the summer of 2010, is part of this new kind of reporting.
Nine-year-old Josie Romero and her mother, Venessia, pay their first visit to Dr. Johanna Olson, a pediatrician who specializes in transgender children at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
Puberty is a traumatic experience for children with more significant gender identity problems. For young boys living as girls, the turmoil is caused by such things as growth spurts, bodily and facial hair, the deepening of their voice; for girls living as boys, breast development and menstruation are the major factors. There are "fairly significant psychological ramifications," says Dr. Norman Spack, an endocrinologist at Children's Hospital in Boston. "There is tremendous anxiety, often depression, sleep disorder and, potentially, self-harm and even suicidal behavior." According to his research, over 20% percent of his patients engaged in bodily harm and nearly 10% attempted suicide. Findings from other sources are even more striking:
- Thirty-five percent of transgender adolescents have attempted suicide, 5.5 times higher than reports of all adolescents surveyed in the 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance (source: Children's Hospital Los Angeles).
- Forty-five percent of transgender young people ages 15-21 had serious thoughts of killing themselves; 25% actually attempted suicide (The American Association of Suicidology).
- The prevalence of attempted suicide among the 515 transgender people interviewed was 32% (Journal of Homosexuality, 2009).
Doctors sympathetic to the problems of transgender children are now trying to prevent these life-threatening moments from happening, made possible not so much by the breakthroughs in medicine, but by the opportune openings in it. Puberty-suppressing drugs, commonly called "blockers," have been around for decades for treating kids with dangerously early puberty; sex hormones (estrogen and testosterone) have also been available for other medical purposes. With the "off-label" use of blockers to treat transgender kids with severe anguish over their growing bodies, these drugs together now comprise the one-two punch of medical transitioning before the opportunity of sex reassignment surgery (18 is considered the youngest age before it can be performed). This medical process was almost unheard of for kids Josie's age just a decade ago, and it has dramatically changed the narrative of today's transgender children and their families.
Dr. Norman Spack, one of the first American doctors to treat transgender children with hormone "blockers," explains how these puberty-suppressing drugs 'buy time' for them.
It's a richly complex narrative because the world of the transgender child is more time-sensitive than most. If the child truly wants to live as the opposite sex in adulthood -- with the most desired physical results possible -- then parents have to make medical decisions for their child at a time when many people would question a kid's ability to understand what he or she is asking for. But when people feel that the child may be old enough to make that kind of decision -- age 14? 16? 18? -- it may already be too late, and that's especially true for boys who want to be adult women. The child now has all the conspicuous physical attributes of the sex they don't want to be, and many of these features, such as height and voice, are irreversible without very costly and invasive surgery. Experts say that the mental health and overall happiness of transgender adults have a lot to do with their ability to pass visually for their desired sex. Not being able to pass could result in a lifetime of depression, or worse.
But some medical experts feel that these transgender kids should go through some duration of puberty -- the very thing that's causing their anxiety -- in order for them to truly understand who they are. They believe that a lot happens to a child's mind and body during puberty that can't be predicted. If these new therapies are blocking the biological puberty of these transgender children, how will they ever really know for sure? And even though gender identity and sexual orientation (which usually gets articulated around adolescence) are completely different, there's a possibility that one might have the keys to unlock the secrets of the other. Some research shows that many boys who express cross-gender behavior before adolescence grow out of it and go on to live as gay men. Even Dr. Spack relies on the research that concludes that as many as 80% of gender-variant boys do not become transgender adults. It's the other 20% that eventually make it to his clinic.
Related: More transgender kids seeking help, getting treatment
That's why blockers, which are completely reversible once a child stops taking them, have made waves in this community. It allows these kids and their parents to be right or wrong about their decisions, though doctors say it's rare that their young transgender patients change their minds once they start the medical process. And yet detractors say the drug's availability may invite over-diagnosis -- leading questioning kids down a medical path that they don't really need to be on, since society is already more open to different gender definitions.
Josie Romero, an 11-year-old transgender child, reads a personal essay about her life today and what she sees in the future.


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Havergal BRIAN (1876-1972)
The First Commercial Recordings
Symphony No.10* [18:07]
Symphony No.21 [29:08]
Symphony No.22 (Symphonia Brevis)** [9:10]
Psalm 23** [15:47]
English Suite No.5 (Rustic Scenes) [22:28]
Paul Taylor (tenor)
Brighton Festival Chorus (Psalm 23).
Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra/James Loughran*, Laszlo Heltay**,
Eric Pinkett
rec. 18-19 July 1972 and June 1974, De Montfort Hall, Leicester; Hove
Town Hall, 10 April 1974.
This Heritage release, due to be launched in September,
restores to the catalogue the first commercial recordings ever made
of Havergal Brian's music. For its historic significance alone
this 2 CD set deserves a warm welcome. Symphonies 10 and 21 were recorded
by Unicorn in 1972 and the coupling was available on vinyl (RHS313)
and then briefly on a rather dry sounding CD reissue (UKCD2027) some
years later. The works on the second CD were recorded by CBS in 1974
but have not been reissued since the original LP release in 1975 (CBS
Classics 61612). The Heritage audio engineers have used the original
masters as a starting point to produce this reissue.
I urge potential listeners not to be put off by the fact that the musicians
involved are amateurs. "Schools orchestra" - the very term
can send a shiver down the spine. It conjures up thin, painful strings
and crude, out of tune playing. Well, to put that concern quickly to
bed, the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra made commercial LPs
for the Pye and Argo labels under the direction of Tippett, Bliss and
Previn a few years before these Brian sessions took place. In the 1970s
the orchestra's patron and regular conductor, Sir Michael Tippett,
compared it favourably to the National Youth Orchestra. Despite occasional
lapses of intonation and a few bars where the youngsters are stretched
close to their limits their playing is really quite remarkable in terms
of its musicality, technical assurance and poise.
As far as repertoire is concerned I can think of no better introduction
to the varied sound-world of Havergal Brian than the music that is on
offer here. We have two short but magnificent symphonies (10 and 22),
an attractive choral work and a quirkily original orchestral suite.
Thrown in for good measure is the only currently available recording
of the very approachable Symphony No.21.
Many sceptics have an entrenched view of Brian as being a self-taught
amateur, big on ideas but small on content and ability. He's the
man who produced music with so many lines of confusing counterpoint
that all you end up hearing is an opaque, grey, orchestral mush. He
also specialised in composing massive, impracticable scores with the
occasional kitchen sink thrown in for good measure. Well, some of these
observations may contain elements of truth but none of them apply to
any of the works featured here. I don't sit in the camp that claims
that Brian is a great composer but I object to him being dismissed out
of hand because of unfounded misconceptions and generalisations. His
huge output was admittedly inconsistent but at his best he has something
to say and he's worth hearing. He's been treated rather
shoddily over the years by the musical establishment - whoever they
may be - and he deserves more respect and credit for his achievements.
There's some fabulous, uplifting music to be heard on this Heritage
set. Be warned - some of it can become addictive!
Symphony No.10 is permanently engraved on my mind and has been since
encountering it on the original Unicorn LP. It opens with a gripping
march and fragments of this opening theme form the basis of everything
else that follows. The music is often meditative in nature but there's
always an underlying menace about it. There are passages of utter stillness
that catch the ear. One such passage - great pianissimo playing from
the orchestra - eventually erupts into a furious storm which then quickly
subsides. The changes of mood and pace are what make this symphony so
special. A violin solo takes us into the world of English pastoral music
but Brian then engulfs the mood of serenity and calm with one final
cataclysmic upheaval before the music quietens down again. The composer
then delivers the most astonishing and hair-raising of endings: the
violin returns, the mood becomes dark, lonely and introspective and
the work finishes with a question mark hanging over it. This is a tremendous
symphony and the inspired performance is as good as you could reasonably
expect from a youth orchestra. Some of the playing is jaw-dropping in
its brilliance. The sense of danger and discovery is tangible. Martyn
Brabbins has recently recorded the 10th for Dutton
but despite the higher level of orchestral execution his version seems
to lack the magic and atmosphere conjured up by Loughran in Leicester.
Incidentally, you can sample the 10th symphony and watch
extracts from the LSSO recording session on Youtube.
Brian is accused of composing mammoth, overblown works but this can
be brushed aside by listening to Symphony No.22, running as it does
for just over 9 minutes. Written in 1964/65 when he was in his 80s,
the general mood is one of menace and impending doom. Had it been written
in the late 1930s it could be argued that it was the composer's
reaction to the imminent outbreak of war. The march rhythms, so typical
of Brian, conjure up visions of the military and the gathering of dark
clouds. Moments of repose are regularly brought crashing down and the
ending is magical - it's another question mark "what next?"
The work has less immediate appeal than the 10th but it's
one of those pieces that can quickly get under your skin. An awful lot
happens in its highly compressed time-span. Heltay's performance
is superb and the LSSO rises to the challenge. The recent Naxos
version by Alexander Walker has superior orchestral playing but there's
not much in it and the LSSO is in no way totally outclassed. Walker
also adds an irritating pause between the two movements thus destroying
the continuity of the symphony and he totally misses the mood of foreboding
at the very end. Laszlo Heltay generates more atmosphere and bite and
in truth the thinner string tone of the LSSO allows the listener to
hear more inner detail compared to the luxuriant, smooth sounds generated
by the Russian forces on Naxos. The LSSO versions of 10 and 22 are still
arguably the ones to go for.
Symphony No.21 is good natured and pastoral in mood. It's less
angry than many of Brian's pieces and there's something
very genial about it. The heart of the symphony is the beautiful slow
movement which in turns can be elegiac and then grave with sudden outbursts
of brass sonorities underpinning the string-laden texture. This music
is a nod in the direction of Vaughan Williams and the string section
copes very well with the exposed, legato writing it is asked to deliver.
The ensuing scherzo is mercurial and playful, allowing the orchestra
to display its virtuoso capabilities to the full with its scampering
woodwinds and imposing horns. The finale has passages of Brianesque
grimness and anti-romanticism about it but there are also some light,
melodious interludes; lovely work by the flautist. The momentary lapse
in string ensemble at the very beginning should have been given a retake
but no matter - Eric Pinkett's realisation of the work is well
worth hearing. Towards the end he propels the music forward and in his
hands the symphony comes to a glowing, optimistic close.
The orchestra has a whale of a time in the English Suite No.5. This
is almost light music but not quite. Brian continually adds some quite
bizarre twists and turns into the fabric and the music isn't always
as straight forward as it would appear to be from the titles he has
given to the four movements. The opening Trotting to Market bounces
along quite nicely but then we keep encountering pauses and gear changes.
Do the horses keep stopping for a break or do the cart wheels keep falling
off? Either way it's very congenial, as is the closing movement,
Village Revels, with its high spirits, attractive folk dance
tune and blazing final bars. The two central movements are the most
satisfying and original. The Restless Stream is quite remarkable.
Written for woodwind and percussion - with horns included at the very
end - the music bubbles away but there is something quite uncomfortable
and sinister lurking underneath the surface. This short intermezzo could
have been penned by Nielsen in one of his stranger moods. The highlight
of the suite is the stunning Reverie scored for strings alone.
Running for the best part of 10 minutes this dark elegy is English to
the core but it treads a different path to the likes of Vaughan Williams
and Elgar. This is Brian at his most inspired. This is intensely grave
and searchingly tragic music, expertly scored and beautifully played
by the LSSO string section.
Brian's Psalm 23 has its foundations firmly rooted in the English
choral tradition. Despite being tuneful, confident and uplifting the
work seems to be missing all the usual Brian fingerprints of originality.
It's structurally sound and enjoyable to listen to but it's
hard to make any huge claims for it. The Brighton Festival Chorus and
tenor soloist Paul Taylor sing confidently throughout but the orchestra,
by its own superlative standards, sounds slightly less secure than usual.
Some entries are tentative and the flute and oboe intonation could have
been improved. Maybe the players didn't quite have the notes under
their fingers. However, it's still a good performance. Heltay
captures the spirit of the work and the orchestra and choir clearly
understand and enjoy its idiom.
So now to the quality of the CD transfers. The Unicorn 10/21 coupling
taped at De Montfort Hall was always a good recording on vinyl but rather
less appealing when it was reissued on CD. The Heritage transfer is
excellent with a natural balance, clarity, warmth and good clean bass.
The off stage trumpet and horn solos both sound as if they come from
another world and all the climaxes have tremendous presence and bite.
This is analogue sound at its finest. The CBS LP was never very easy
to enjoy with its scrawny, fizzy strings and over-bright percussion.
The Heritage transfer is a miraculous improvement. Symphony 22 and Psalm
23, although recorded in Hove Town Hall, sound very similar in quality
to the Unicorn De Montfort Hall sessions. The chorus in Psalm 23 is
clean and imposing with wonderfully clear diction. The ruinous end of
side distortion encountered on the LP is absent, thus giving the climaxes
plenty of air. The engineering in English Suite No.5, supervised by
a different producer, is more "Phase Four" in its approach.
Everything is very closely recorded and there are a few extraneous noises
to be heard (bow taps and the like). However, there's no doubting
the physical impact of the music making - glorious horns, highly detailed
woodwind and clear percussion. The string tone is bright and sweet and
the cellos and basses are imposingly realistic.
In summary, this set could convert some new listeners to Brian's
music. The playing is never less than good and it is often brilliant.
This should be in the collection of anyone even remotely interested
in British music. Bravo.
John Whitmore
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Clive Sellick, June Thoburn and Terry PhilpotThis book reviews changes in policy and practice and will assist managers and practitioners in family and childcare social work to make decisions based on sound evidence about where to place children and what sort of practice is likely to bring about the desired outcomes for children, birth relatives, foster carers and the adoptive family. Learn More2004, Paperback / softback, 9.65in x 7.40in / 245mm x 188mm, 140pp, CA$48.95ISBN: 9781904659006
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Talk of a market bubble is the real bubbleJanuary 7, 2014: 12:58 PM ET
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Paul R. La Monica. Other than Time Warner, the parent of CNNMoney, Abbott Laboratories and AbbVie, La Monica does not own positions in any individual stocks.
Bitcoin may be a bubble. Twitter (TWTR) may be a bubble. Talking incessantly about how cold it is ("It's frickin freezing in here Mr. Bigglesworth!") may be a bubble.
But the broader stock market? That is not a bubble.
Related: The 2013 Nasdaq was nothing like 2000
Yes, stocks surged in 2013. The Dow and S&P 500 finished at all-time highs. The Nasdaq is at levels it last reached during the 2000 dot-com insanity. But it's overly simplistic to trot out the B word every time stocks are in record territory.
For one, last year's surge was an orderly bull run. Don't believe me? Look at the chart below. The Dow and S&P 500 pretty much consistently ground their way higher with the occasional hiccup along the way. It was not a volatile year with big jumps concentrated on a handful of days.
And something should only be labeled a bubble if there is no good reason for the run-up in price. That's not the case with the overall stock market.
Valuations are still very reasonable, if not necessarily thrifty. The S&P 500 is trading at 15 times 2014 earnings estimates, according to FactSet Research. This isn't 2000, when the S&P 500 was trading around 30 times earnings estimates.
And earnings are expected to increase 10% this year. If you believe (as you should) that stocks follow earnings, then the market should have no problem eking out more gains in 2014 as long as profits continue to increase.
Related: How much should you hold in stocks?
With that in mind, PNC chief investment strategist Bill Stone has declared that there is a bubble ... in bubbles. I'm inclined to agree.
Stone makes a great case for why the market is nothing like 2000 or even 2007 (the last time the Dow and S&P 500 were at record highs) for that matter.
Stone notes that the S&P 500 is currently up about 15% from its 2007 peak. But earnings in 2013 are expected to wind up being around 16% higher than 2007. So it makes sense that stocks are now where they are.
Related: 5 reasons why stocks will go up in 2014
Of course, the big question is where stocks go from here. Most strategists surveyed by CNNMoney believe that the market will continue to climb, but that the gains will be more muted than in 2013. Experts that I spoke to last month pretty much felt the same way.
Stocks were in rally mode Tuesday for the first time this year. And I realize how absurd that sounds given that 2014 is all of seven days old ... and just four days for traders.
But the sluggish start to the year until today is actually an encouraging sign. The fact that investors took a breather instead of blindly continuing to buy stocks could be yet another indication that the market is not a bubble.
You know it's a bubble when stocks go up a lot on no news. That's why I've been referring to the run-up in Twitter as a bubble. Just look at this chart!
Even when you include the big pullback of the past two days, shares are still up nearly 150% from their offering price in just two months. And the company has not even reported its first full quarter of financial results!
There's little reason to get either too excited or disappointed about the market right now considering that we're in a bit of a financial news vacuum. The jobs report is Friday. That's something that could move stocks.
Over the next few weeks, major companies will start reporting their earnings for the fourth quarter and give guidance about the first quarter -- and perhaps of all of 2014. That too will be a legitimate reason to buy or sell stocks with some sort of conviction.
Now I will admit to being a little worried that the market is ignoring the sage words of Chuck D and the rest of Public Enemy. There is a fair amount of hype investors should be wary of surrounding earnings expectations for a select group of overvalued stocks like Twitter.
But overall, the market still looks fairly attractive. There are no storm clouds on the horizon that should justifiably lead to a huge, prolonged pullback.
Related: Here comes the end of QE
As cliche as it sounds, any dip should probably get bought. In fact, people on Twitter often joke about this market rally with the acronym of BTFD. B stands for Buy. T is the and D is Dip.
I'll leave it to your imagination as to what the F stands for. But here's a hint. The word appears a lot in Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street." And Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas." And Martin Scorsese's "Casino." I believe he showed some restraint in the kiddie film "Hugo."
Anyway. This market is not so ridiculously frothy that new Fed chair Janet Yellen will be tempted to pull a page from the Alan Greenspan playbook and call it irrationally exuberant.
So here's my fashionably late New Year's resolution. I may continue to point out certain stocks in Buzz columns from time to time that look like they are overvalued. But I'm not going to use the bubble word anymore. Neither should you. This bull isn't dead yet.


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The cleaner you get it the better it'll stick and make sure it's dry if you used something wet.
Just make sure that it's stuck to the clear side (for kiss cuts) so that you can apply it where you want. Peeling it back somewhat perpendicular seems to work the best.
Take your time and line it up perfectly and move from one side to the other. Generally go from top to bottom especially for larger ones.
Get a straight edge and run it over, starting from the middle, pushing out any potential air bubbles. The less air bubbles, the stronger the stick.
It does take some force so just pull directly down or up, slowly.
And you're done! You can rub her over once more just in case.
Use common sense! Whilst they are rated for outdoor use, don't place them anywhere there will be extreme temperatures, take care of your girls.
Don't put them anywhere normal stickers wont go, that is on surfaces which aren't flat and smooth.
Take care when cleaning the surface afterwards, sharp points and corners could get lifted accidentally.
Think of the stickers as decals rather than paper stickers that you're familiar with!
The stickers are rated for outdoor use! 1-3 years under normal conditions for standard laminates.
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Somehow, I made it to the second trimester with my sanity (mostly) intact.
I mean, there were some close calls. Stopping the progesterone at 12 weeks (which, mind you, is two weeks after my clinic's standard protocol, per my insistence) nearly put me over the edge. Multiple friends and doctors had to listen to the word "progesterone" come out of my mouth too many times to recall. I was and am a one-hit wonder when it comes to getting through this pregnancy.
But ah, stopping the progesterone. Now that I'm 14 weeks and that's behind me (so to speak), my own behind and I are so happy not to have that nightly rendez-vous with an intramuscular injection. Should we talk about the horror of having two regular people, totally untrained in any sort of medicine, doing an injection in their bathroom every night? I really do not know for whom this was a bigger ordeal. My poor husband, manly in every way except when it comes to needles, was aghast when I first told him we'd have to do it for at least 10 weeks. But I have to give him credit -- he really stepped up. There were a few times it almost went south. Like the time there actually was blood in there when he pulled back the plunger (which means, dear reader, that he'd stuck it in a vein). And also: the two times when he pulled the needle out and blood literally squirted across the bathroom. When we recovered from the horror show, we almost laughed about it. Almost.
So anyway, here I am. I've had my NT scan with my peri, another positive proof point, after PGD, that this baby is likely healthy. Had my 12 week OB visit too -- a charmingly routine affair during which I peed in their little cup and talked to my OB about birth, of all things.
But before you conclude I've become all breezy rainbows and unicorns about this, think again. I am me, after all. I'm going to worry until I hear that gorgeous cry, hopefully this August. Despite being 14 weeks and sporting a true bump, I'm not sure I'm ready to talk about it with a broad audience. I'm still trying to figure out how to go about that.
But at 14 weeks, I am, for the second time, in the second tri. And it really feels like a second try for a miracle I've been praying for.
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Second Tri.
Somehow, I made it to the second trimester with my sanity (mostly) intact.
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Welcome to Hel
They say hell is a pretty bad place to be, but this Hel is rather pleasant – at least in summertime. Poland's Hel Peninsula is a 35-km (22-mile) long sand bar peninsula jutting into the Baltic Sea. Formerly used as a military installation due to its strategic location, today the peninsula is one of Central Europe's most popular beach resort destinations.


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anyone able to get pchelpware to work with vmware fusion? Ultra VNC works in both directions, but pchelpware connects just long enough to see the host computer name, then disconnects. On host, the status says " revieve password, password failed, we stop the connection. The operation completed successfully, init network failed"
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An explorer's discussion forum for Donkey Kong Country
OneOf99 wrote:Quick question (I feel like I say that a lot)- will the controls be editable? It would be nice to play this with a controller, after all
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This may be done as the full (listed) reach, or as four unique segments:
Almont to Garlic Mikes
Garlic Mikes to Gunnison Whitewater Park
Gunnison WWP to McCabes
McCabes to Blue Mesa
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If someone gets hurt on a river, or you read about a whitewater-related injury, please report it to
American Whitewater. Don't worry about multiple submissions from other witnesses, as our safety
editors will turn multiple witness reports into a single unified accident report.
In an unexpected and strategic move by Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW), a Colorado hunting or fishing license will now be required to access State Wildlife Areas and CPW-leased State Trust Lands (effective July 1, 2020). Many of these affected areas have historically been used for paddling, hiking, rock climbing, mountain biking, camping, and other non-consumptive recreation uses. CPW's press release stated that "This rule is aimed at curtailing non-wildlife-related use of these properties", and while we understand the need to increase revenue to support management of these areas, we have a few concerns with this strategy. On July 1, American Whitewater, Colorado Mountain Club, and multiple other organizations submitted a joint letter to CPW Commissioners requesting that they reconsider the new Rule and find a more practicable and sustainable method for collecting fees for these areas.
The Upper Gunnison Water Conservancy District in Gunnison, Colorado is coordinating a Watershed Management Planning effort "to help protect existing water uses and watershed health in the Upper Gunnison Basin in the face of pressure from increased water demands and permanent reductions in water supply." The current phase is focusing on Tomichi, Cochetopa, Cebolla, Taylor, and the Gunnison River above Blue Mesa. With local stewardship staff in Crested Butte, American Whitewater has joined the Watershed Management Planning Team to help represent recreational river users and quantify flow preferences and recreational opportunities on the Taylor and Gunnison Rivers. American Whitewater is very excited to be involved in this stakeholder driven process and we are asking paddlers to share their input on management priorities for the Upper Gunnison Basin. If you have experience paddling Cebolla, Taylor, or the Upper Gunnison Rivers, please fill out this quick survey!
Longmont, Colorado - As part of a comprehensive Stream Management Plan for the St Vrain Creek Watershed, American Whitewater is collecting and compiling data on recreational uses, and identifying projects and strategies to improve stream health, recreation, and environmental conditions in the region. You can help with this extensive effort. Please participate in the Recreational Flow survey.
Colorado Gives Day is on December 4 this year and is fast approaching! Go here to schedule your online donation to support American Whitewater's Colorado River Access Program. All donations made to American Whitewater on Colorado Gives Day (December 4) will be put towards our River Access Program in Colorado. American Whitewater works to improve river access and public safety throughout the state by working with landowners and managers, paddlers, law enforcement, and lawmakers to understand Colorado's river access laws and the ongoing threats to public safety. Thank you for your support!
Crested Butte CO - Alleged disruption to a Heron Rookery and concerned private landowners have led to a "Voluntary Closure" of the Slate River from the Gunsight Bridge to the Town of Crested Butte between March 15 and June 21 for the 2019 season. The Slate River between Oh Be Joyful Campground and Skyland Bridge, a 10.5 mile stretch, provides an incredibly scenic and unique flatwater paddling experience in the Gunnison Valley. The Voluntary clsoure is a product of the Slate River Floating Management Plan, created by a Working Group convened by the Town of Crested Butte and the Crested Butte Land Trust. The Working Group was created in direct response to pressure from the local community including conservationists and private landowners adjacent to the river, who are concerned that a recent increase in boating activity is disturbing a Heron Rookery that straddles the Slate River.
Today, September 5, marked the close of the public review process for the DRAFT Wilderness Evaluation Report. The Evaluation Phase is the second step of 4 different steps required in the assessment of lands that may be suitable for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). American Whitewater thoroughly reviewed the DRAFT Wilderness Evaluation Report and submitted our comments to the Forest Service on September 4, 2018. Overall, we found that key paddling reaches throughout the GMUG area were greatly under-represented in the Polygon narratives and thus weren't acknowledged as contributing factors to the Polygon's respective Wilderness Ratings. We let the Forest Service know this, highlighting specific paddling reaches that should be added to each Polygon and which Polygons we believe should have a higher Wilderness Rating based on the high-quality recreation opportunities that each area has to offer.
Please stay tuned as we continue to report on the GMUG Land Management Revision Process and in the meantime you can learn more about the GMUG here. (Photo of Josh King by Nick Spitzer)
ARKANSAS RIVER, Colo. - The Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area (AHRA) is revising their Management Plan for the first time since 2001. The new Draft Plan was made publicly available in October and the AHRA is accepting public comments through November 10, 2017 (next week!). In order to design effective and productive comments, American Whitewater has thoroughly reviewed the Draft Plan, discussed the Plan with our local Affiliate Clubs, attended AHRA Public Open Houses, and reached out to key members of the local paddling community. To make it easy for you to SUBMIT YOUR COMMENTS, American Whitewater staff have compiled our key concerns and comments for your review.
Gunnison, Colorado - Last Wednesday, Matt Brown - longtime river guide, adventurer, and pillar of the Gunnison Valley community- passed away tragically after an accident in Moab. Matt was so much to so many. At the request of his family and friends, contributions in Matt's memory can be made to American Whitewater's River Access work in Colorado. Matt was a strong ally and advisor in our work to protect the public's rights to float and fish in the State. We miss him immensely.
Kremmling, Colorado - The Bureau of Land Management has released for public review and comment a set of preliminary alternatives for managing about 40 miles of the Upper Colorado River between Parshall and State Bridge - including Gore Canyon and Pumphouse. This is your chance to weigh in on whether there should be a day-use permit; a camping permit with designated campsites in the popular stretch between Pumphouse and State Bridge; and expanding the developed Pumphouse Campground.
Bond, Colorado - American Whitewater is presenting Gore Canyon Festival - August 25-27th 2017. Online registration is open and there are events for everyone, so sign up today!
On Sunday, nearly 50 people gathered on the banks of the St. Vrain River to pick up trash from the water and the shoreline. We started the day off with Hotbox Roasters coffee and donuts, and a few words about River Stewardship – the common cause that brought us all together. We found bedframes, rusty nails, lawn chairs, car doors, plastic water bottles, candy wrappers, fast food containers, and it doesn't stop there. Our findings are likely a combination of leftover debris from the floods, illegal waste dumping along the river, and built up trash from years of careless passers-by. Thank you to all those that came out for the river cleanup! American Whitewater depends on our affiliate clubs, members, and dedicated volunteers in order to tackle our many River Stewardship projects.
Cortez, Colorado - Last week, American Whitewater met with local water managers, fisheries biologists, an other interests in Dolores River water, to start negotiating releases from McPhee Dam - like we do every spring. This year, things are looking very good for the Dolores...
Dotsero, Colorado - A key river access point on the Upper Colorado river, once threatened with closure, has now been permanently protected through a partnership between BLM and Eagle County.
There is only one more day left to share what you value most in the Browns Canyon National Monument planning area! The Bureau of Land Management, U.S Forest Service, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife are working together to develop a Coordinated Management Plan for Browns Canyon National Monument. In order to design a plan that most benefits citizens and visitors of Colorado, the agencies designed an Online Survey and Mapping Tool to understand how the public interacts with the Browns Canyon planning area and what aspects of the area are most important to the public.
Colorado - American Whitewater has released a new study on whitewater recreation in the San Miguel River Basin. The Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) requested that Montrose County consult with American Whitewater on recreational needs and future impacts for the San Miguel River. Montrose County acquired conditional water rights to the San Miguel River in hopes of building multiple new reservoirs on BLM land. American Whitewater worked with Montrose County's agents to assess the impact its conditional storage proposals would have on existing recreational opportunities.
A new proposal to allow the development of a 90- acre open pit mine in Eagle County at the gateway to the Colorado River has local river users asking questions. We encourage everyone to attend an Open House December 6 at 6 PM at the Gypsum Recreation Center, and to make your voices heard at the Town Council meeting where they will discuss the application on December 13 at 7 PM.
If you have ever paddled Gunnison Basin Runs like Oh-Be-Joyful, the Taylor, the Uncompahgre, the Black Canyon or Gunnison Gorge, please help us protect flows on these western Colorado gems by completing the Gunnison River Flow Survey. When you do, we'll enter you in a drawing to win a free pair of KEENS!
The Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) recently circulated updated information on dam releases that will affect regional whitewater runs, paddling opportunities and environmental flows on the Taylor River and on the Gunnison RIver in the Black Canyon and Gunnison Gorge. This post contains information on these updates.
AW will be hosting public meetings for local boaters in Gunnison, CO on May 21 and in Crested Butte, CO on May 23. These 'regional paddlers dialogues' are a part of our efforts to define and protect recreational flow needs throughout the seven-state Colorado River Basin, including many stream segments throughout the Gunnison Basin.
Lyons, Colorado - For the second year in a row, Oskar Blues Brewery is hosting the Burning Can Festival at this year Lyons Outdoor Games. Burning Can, which takes place under the backdrop of Rocky Mountain National Park and the St. Vrain River, is a celebration of good beer, served in a can. This year, All money raised from Lyons Outdoor Games recycled cans will be donated to American Whitewater. See you there!
American Whitewater (AW) is pleased to announce the launch of our 2013 Gunnison River Basin Flow Survey. By participating in the survey, you can help us define recreational flow needs thoughout the Basin, and protect flows in the future. Your participation is incredibly valuable; the more responses we get, the more robust our findings will be which will strengthen our represention of paddler interest.
Future Colorado River water shortages could limit boating opportunities, according to a recent US Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) report. The Colorado's flow is expected to decline, presenting challenges to ecosystems and the 40 million people reliant on the river system. AW continues working to ensure that boatable flows are protected and is asking paddlers to help strengthen our message by submitting comments to BOR by March 13.
Colorado - American Whitewater is conducting a study of flow-recreation relationships for the Yampa Basin, and identifying specific metrics for use in the Watershed Flow Evaluation Tool. This study is intended to inform local, state, and federal planning efforts as to the full range and quality of recreational boating opportunities for the Wild and Scenic suitable Yampa River, as well as the Elk and White Rivers, and their tributaries. Your participation in the flow survey is requested.
Colorado - On December 23, Governor Bill Ritter issued a report outlining a series of proposals for resolving disputes between landowners and rafters in Colorado. He also signed an executive order creating the River Access Mediation Commission to provide a way for some of the most contentious conflicts between boaters and property owners to be addressed. The Governor's River Access Dispute Resolution Task Force was a 17-member group created in July of 2010 to help craft ways to sort out conflicts on Colorado rivers on a stretch-by-stretch basis as those disputes arise.
Colorado - Last month, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released their proposed management plan for the Little Snake Resource Area, encompassing over a million acres of soaring plateaus, wild and scenic rivers, and sweeping sagebrush basins. Special interests are trying to overturn the Bureau of Land Management's plans to protect portions of the Yampa River – one of the nation's last free flowing rivers. Let BLM know that protections for these rivers are important to you!
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Shambhala Buddhism's Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche: relationships, loneliness & "Ruling Your World."
"What about You/What about Me: A Conversation with Sakyong Mipham"
from the Spring 2006 issue of elephant journal.
Sakyong Mipham is sometimes referred to as a Buddhist monarch. His family lineage is, indeed, royal—he's the son of Chögyam Trungpa, a guru credited with pioneering the transmission of the Tibetan Buddhist teachings to the West—and he's a distant descendant of Gesar of Ling, Tibet's King Arthur. But sitting with him at 7:30 a.m. over breakfast, I had to keep pinching myself. For, despite being in the midst of promoting his second book, Ruling Your World—and despite having just fallen in love and wedded a lovely, Western-educated Tibetan princess fluent in six languages—and despite having a long day of meetings, audiences and travel ahead of him—Sakyong Mipham has a way of making you feel at home.
In Buddhism, the goal is enlightenment. But as the Zen saying goes, before enlightenment you "chop wood, carry water." After enlightenment? More of the same. So enlightened mind is ultimately NBD; it's ordinary mind. And, with the Sakyong, it is tantalizingly easy to get a glimpse of such a way of being.We only wish the interview could have gone on forever. But, thankfully for our transcriber's sake, it didn't. Enjoy..! —ed.
WAYLON H. LEWIS, for elephant: Well, thank you very much, Rinpoche. Your majesty. We're joined by Emily Hilburn Sell, the editor of your new book, Ruling Your World. So…I forgot the date…late October 2005?
SAKYONG MIPHAM RINPOCHE: Halloween! [laughing]
ele: And it's very early in the morning. Partially because of your having just been married, I wanted to ask about how Dharma [Buddhist teachings] relates to life—right livelihood and relationships. And talking with Ted Rose at your [book release] party last night, he encouraged me to ask you why you named [your new book] Ruling Your World.
Rinpoche: The title came to me fairly quickly after I had written my previous book [Turning the Mind Into an Ally], which had been about meditation. It did pretty well. Still, it's a meditation book—and ultimately, if you are not interested in meditation, you will not pick it up. So I wanted to write a book that encouraged people to proactively engage their life. The next book had to have a quality of "Where do you go from the meditation seat, and how do you engage in daily life?"
Ruling Your World conveys a sense that you have the power and potential to fully interact with your world. Ruling here is outside of the connotation of aggression. We are not talking about domination, we're talking about engaging as opposed to receding. The key is that a lot of times people think spirituality is something sedentary, reclusive…that you have to draw back from the world. Ascetic. And then you basically become a spiritual meditator when, really, the fruition of the path is that you can completely interact with your world. You are able to have confidence in whatever you do. The notion of rulership here is having confidence in how you live your life.
The title is about life, as opposed to about meditation. Everybody lives their life—and do you want your world to rule you, or do you want to rule your world? We're not talking about Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Hitler—ruling the world. If you can't have harmony with your own world then anything beyond that is a fantasy.
ele: The other night [at a lecture held at a church, and attended by 1,200 persons], you used the term 'authentic presence'—that if you can have an authentic presence, you can do anything in a mindful, powerful way.
Rinpoche: The Tibetan word is called wong tong and wong is power, tong is field or domain. You exude a sense of confidence, compassion and genuineness. Within your own domain, sphere, field. Authentic presence means that an individual is so genuine that they actually have resilience and power. A lot of times we feel like if we are authentic then we can't really get what we want—we have to manipulate the world. So the notion here is that being authentic is actually a genuine source of power. And if you have that, you're able to accomplish what you want—benefiting, helping, uplifting others. So it's not self-centered. And then when an individual has that, they radiate goodness. If you are talking about individuals that we might respect, they have that authenticity. In a conventional sense, you can call it charisma—but if they don't have genuineness and authenticness, that charisma is short lived.
ele: Their mission, the whole point, needs to be helping others?
Rinpoche: Well, if they have a malevolent, aggressive energy it may be startling or strong. But because it's rooted in some aggression, it's a totally different thing. They still have not ruled their own mind, they have not ruled their own aggression, ambition…they have not ruled their own self centeredness. They have already lost the battle—and then figured out a way to manipulate or force the situation, temporarily.
The notion of authentic presence is that it's a stable and natural way of living your life—you are not looking behind your back all the time. Somebody in this situation is more relaxed. They don't have to manipulate.
ele: There seems to be this sense, in a society that is based somewhat on capitalism, that that aggression or self-centered charisma or power is more successful. Do you think that's true?
Rinpoche: It depends on how you define success. Certainly there are such individuals who are successful on some level.
But how content is the individual? How happy are you? How sane? If they are domineering but their marriage is a mess and nobody really likes them, [laughing] they have no friends, everybody is scared of them…ultimately when you look at that from any distance, you think, "My god, who would want to be in that situation?" But if you look and say, "All I want is a lot of money and I'm going to do it even at the cost of my own happiness," well then. They are successful.
Photo by Corey Kohn
But that's not what we are talking about. We are redefining the terms of life. We are redefining success. We have been fooled. And that's why [in Ruling Your World] I talk about the dark age—a theme that runs within Tibetan culture and Buddhism and Shambhala meditation. We live in an age where we're fooled. We think that aggression is a way to solve problems. We feel like being a domineering individual is success. And when you really look at that, it's just like any Hollywood tragedy where a business tycoon has the face of success. But authentic presence is when there is individual success inside and outside. Because they are genuine, they are synchronized inside, they are synchronized outside. Ultimately, a person who is living their life and ruling their world is not afraid of death, or of birth—there is a sense of understanding things, as opposed to getting as much as you can before you die and being terrified of the end. That is not the ruling your world approach.
ele: So, in terms of relationships…which is something I am particularly interested in in terms of you as it seems like your profession is teaching the Dharma. Most human beings waste a great deal of our emotional energy in relationships. Whether we are married or not, or happy or not, love and sex seem to be objects of a lot of desire and frustration.
I know you just got married yourself, you've written some wonderful poems, you've been talking about love a lot and experiencing it…
Rinpoche: Uh-huh.
ele: So what is love from a sane or enlightened point of view?
Rinpoche: [pause] I think it's genuinely being able to see the other individual and genuinely taking delight in them. With the quality of genuineness, it doesn't have to be completely self-fulfilling or self-satisfactory. A lot of times when we have love, it's still what about me and you make me feel good and what's the famous line? "You complete me."
It's always about me, me, me. And if you have that relationship, [laughing] it's doomed because the notion is actually that the individual should be whole. As opposed to you complete me or you complete the other person.
ele: They should be whole on their own.
Rinpoche: The union of the situation should be another whole unto itself. Or you can say, the relationship makes the individuals almost selfless, as opposed to a push and pull thing. Once you are in a relationship, you can do certain things to make it better. But really the whole point of relationship in terms of the way you approach it is who you are as an individual—that's the beginning point. What their attitude is. And then also how you choose each other.
Sometimes people ask me for advice on a relationship. But they've already made a bunch of decisions that are going to send them in a certain direction. I can try to correct or help it, but just starting from the ground level the individual has to come in and say, "You know, this is an interdependency. We are working together." And of course when you have two people together there's going to be karma; there's going to be different emotions coming up. So you try to find somebody who has a similar view and attitude so that you can have a basis of working with things.
And like you are saying, if you are a master of emotion and completely selfless, yeah, you could probably work with anyone. But a lot of us [chuckling] are in a situation where we can't—and so you have to find an individual who is actually going to support you as opposed to doing you in or you doing in. A lot of times people get upset at each other because they feel like the other person and the energy they are putting into the other person has drained them. They can't put it into their career, or whatever. Whether it be Dharma or whether we are talking about the notion of being in love, it's about having a completely fresh and clean and direct state of mind. This mind can come from taking delight in another individual.
That's what love is. You know, when you see somebody, there's a sense of attraction—even if it's just infatuation, you see another person and you take delight in them.
ele: From a naïve point of view, looking at spirituality, one might think that if you are enlightened and a great meditator, you wouldn't experience great passion and great longing and loneliness. But it seems like in the poetry of your father [First Thought, Best Thought, by Chögyam Trungpa] as well as yourself, there is a lot of loneliness and delight and great emotions. How does that come out of the meditative state?
Rinpoche:Well, it's not so bad to be alone. Even in a relationship. We're afraid of being alone. So when we get together we feel like, "Oh, now I'm never going to be alone again!" But ultimately we're still two individuals. There's no sense of failure about being alone. It's not that you don't have any friends. It's more of a romantic notion, in the sense that every individual is alone and that's okay and we can actually be by ourselves.
That doesn't mean we have to retreat from the world. It's beautiful, really. It's like seeing a single tree. There is a quality where it's full, whole, simple. When we die we are alone. When we do many things we are alone. So the quality of being alone is important in a relationship or any other situation. So spiritual teachers are not meant to be distant from these emotions. Otherwise, if you are distant from affection and love, spiritually, you haven't won—you've lost.
Because those emotions—desire, delight, love—if you can't experience them, it means that they are a threat to you. So the notion of a spiritual master is that they have actually, totally conquered. They call the Buddha the "All-Victorious One." There is nothing he is afraid of—love, anger…In the beginning, we may not be able to completely conquer love. So we simplify our life. Maybe we don't get involved in a relationship. But once we have developed a sense of stability, then we get involved.
The key here is you can have love, aggression, all these things—but experience them without believing them to be real and solid and being dominated by them. A lot of times, when people get angry we get completely consumed. It has total power and sucks us in. And then when we love, we have incredible attachment. And it's usually the attachment that ruins our love, as opposed to love ruins our love.
Photo by Corey Kohn.
ele: And the attachment is—
Rinpoche: —To the other person.
ele: It's a sign of not being able to be alone, in a way?
Rinpoche: Not being able to be alone and ultimately not having any freedom of mind and body. You are not really able to remove yourself from the situation and have some freedom to do as you wish. The spirituality versus love idea is the result of historical precedents. In the Catholic Church, people thought, "Oh, you are a priest, you can't marry." It was part of the political power structure—they didn't want popes marrying and having strong families. They didn't want it becoming a monarchy. Originally, some of the popes were married and had children.
In Tibet, this question just never comes up. Spiritual teachers married. And there's ones who are monastics. And that's the way it's always been. A story you would like because it has to do with Sechen Kongtrül, my father's teacher. He met my wife's uncle, who was a representative in the central government. He was a monk. And their family is known as a very good family lineage—a lot of great saints and teachers, nobility and royalty, generations upon generations—like 19 generations long. And you don't have the lineage of 19 generations if everybody is a monk, right?
So they were all married. So when her uncle actually took a vow to become a monk, Sechen Kongtrül came to the monastery and looked at him and goes, "Ah, it makes me so sad." And Kongtrül was known for being a very pure monk! When somebody became a monk, he was usually very happy. But when he saw my wife's uncle, he said, "Ah, you—you have the blood of the leopard," from his father's side and then from his mother's side, "You have the blood of the tiger," which is this other lineage. And he said, "Why are you giving it all up, just to become a monk? What a terrible waste. This is a sad day."
And then if there was a tulku, whose incarnations had for many generations been monks, who then all of a sudden married, that would be a terrible thing: it breaks up the lineage. They don't think it's morally bad, as opposed to here. There's this Western attitude overlaying a morality on a foreign culture that just doesn't even think about that. I don't know if people have theories…whether it's the Protestant ethic and so forth.
ele: I think it's very basic. It's like what you talk about in your book, that if you are spiritual in some way, you must not be involved in the world. You are above the worldly pursuits. And if you get involved in love or politics or business…
Rinpoche: But if you look at Charlemagne, he was a religious king. At that point, I'll bet they weren't worrying about that.
ele: Switching gears to right livelihood. In Buddhism, there's the bodhisattva vow where you dedicate your life to benefiting others. It would seem like since most of us spend most of our lives working, work is a powerful opportunity to benefit others. So, whatever job we are doing already…or whatever direction we are moving in, in terms of our career…how do we regard our day-to-day life as an opportunity to help others?
Rinpoche: [Long pause; eating breakfast]. Hmmm.
ele: I mean, with some jobs it's easier, you know. You can say, "Well, if I have a magazine, my magazine should hopefully be about things that are going to help people—"
Rinpoche: That's right.
ele: But say I'm a stock-broker—and there's certainly nothing wrong with that—but how can I actually benefit others in that job?
Rinpoche: There are certain livelihoods where it's easy to benefit others. And there's others that are more challenging. The more challenging your job is, the more you really have stability in your intention. But if you are working at the World Health Organization…giving out food to everybody…but you are yelling at them and kicking them? You may be in the right situation, doing what people think is right livelihood, but [laughing] your attitude is really not where it should be. Or you could be doing another job, and you think it's not so good, but if you have the right attitude..?
Attitude is very, very important in terms of right livelihood.
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ele: Just treating everyone with respect, and kindness—
Rinpoche:Thinking beyond yourself. There's a certain quality that an individual gets when it's not just about themselves, when their actions come out of another attitude or motivation. If pure intention is there, your body and your speech will exude authentic presence, genuine confidence—and you'll naturally find further ways of expressing your inspiration.
But it's hard to be that way 24 hours a day. There's times when you'll feel strong. And there's times of the day where people are tired and need to rest, so they take care of themselves a little bit. Be practical about it. The other quality here is that kindness and confidence and these other virtues are a result of seeing what's going on, of open their eyes. If they see people are in difficult situations, they will naturally act with some compassion. But if they are blocking people out and just seeing people as opposition, then they will always have a difficult time. Most times when we are not forthcoming it's because we are not really looking at them as a human individual—we are just seeing them as an issue, a symbol, a thing that may be in our way. So, it's challenging—but you can handle everything. And at the same time if you have right livelihood, there is hopefully a base of sanity and strength and meditation. You have a reservoir of energy.
ele: My meditation practice is pretty limited these days. But I make a point of practicing for even a minute when I first wake up and before I go to bed [the two times traditionally considered to be most beneficial]. And like you talk about in the book, and in a poem—"What About Me?"—I wake up, and instantly the gates open and my mind is flooded with what happened yesterday and what I need to do today. But even in two minutes of meditating, I can at least touch that anchor of sanity—some reference point that isn't all about me. That then enables me to see people and situations more nakedly, and not from my point of view. It's rather aggressive, if everything is about trying to protect my happiness!
Rinpoche: In a basic way, there is virtue and merit when you help other people. And when you do that you are gaining merit yourself. So from a Buddhist point of view it's not in vain: it's not like you are helping but because nobody is noticing, it didn't happen. A lot of times we do good things as public display. But that doesn't have to be the point.
ele: What exactly do you mean by the notion of "What about me?," and how, very simply, do we relate to it and correct it?
Rinpoche: "What about me" is a bad habit. [Laughing] It reduces our strength, dignity, clarity. If you start off your day with "What about me," you are already starting off on the wrong foot. Starting off with a mistake, a misunderstanding. We could talk about how there is no self, and get into all that—but it can get too technical and philosophical. Look at it just as a habitual pattern. If "What about me" worked, then it should have worked by now. Because it's what most of us have been doing our whole life.
Because really what is it that we want to get out of the day? We want to be happy, we want things to go well—we want success, whether in love or business. We feel like the world owes us something. You get up in the morning, and automatically you are in a poverty mentality: "What about me? Hey, somebody left me out. I didn't get what I want. I need more."There's a quality of, "I'm not good enough."True selflessness is realizing that you already have everything. That's a positive way of looking at it. There's a negative way of looking at it, too.
ele: That I don't exist, or something.
Rinpoche: Right. Which is not true. That's only one part of it. The other part is that you are complete. If we wake up thinking we are not complete, we have to fill ourselves up. Everything has to be poured in. Then, when we start talking about selflessness, we think, "I already don't have enough—now I'm going to really lose everything!" [laughing] But it's not true. Because, with meditation, you see that you already have everything.
ele: There's that famous quote you refer to: "If you want to be happy, think about others; if you want to be unhappy, think about yourself." So how would practicing the opposite, "What about you?," make me happy?
Rinpoche: When you think about others, there's an attitude of genuine compassion. Whereas, "What about me?" tightens the mind, constricts, makes it small and self-centered. When you think "What about you?," it expands the mind. There's room for compassion—and that is inherently how we are, anyway. When you make that attitude shift, you are actually being more genuine, more who you are supposed to be. If you asked the Buddha or any great meditator, "Ultimately, what do you find when you meditate for a long time," they'd say, "You find wisdom and compassion—what's innate in who you are."When you are obsessed with yourself, you do not have compassion. You can't think about others.
Whereas the result of "What about you?" has a sense of delight. When I think, "What about me," I just follow my thought patterns. I stress out because I think something is not going to work out. But when I think about others, there's a quality of possibility.
ele: There's some joy and freedom and relaxation in your life, which is what you want in the first place.
Rinpoche: When you meditate, you begin to feel that way. It's just a matter of people beginning to do the practice a little bit and then realizing that attitude shift. People get very technical, and start thinking "Well, how exactly am I going to do all this?" and things like that. It's the same as with "What about me"—we don't consciously think about it, exactly—we just wake up with that intention.
ele: I was reading The New York Times yesterday, after your [lecture; at a book signing]. Karl Rove was afraid of being indicted, but he wasn't. So when he woke up that morning, he was quoted saying, "I feel great. Today is going to be a great day." It reminded me of your talk: just because you wake up with a certain attitude, your mind can actually determine how your day will be. Just because he hadn't been accused of any crimes, which was a relief, just because we was happy, he knew that his day would be great. Perhaps an interesting dark age example of what we are talking about.
Rinpoche: [Long pause] I don't know if I'll use that example in a talk!
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Lisa Lisa, a mom who likes singing onstage
Lisa Lisa laughs as she thinks about how different her life is now.
It wasn't that long ago that the "Queen of Latin Hip-Hop" and pioneer of freestyle music would be on the road for six months at a time, touring to support her massive, hit-filled catalog that includes "I Wonder If I Take You Home" and "All Cried Out."
Now, she spends more time at home, raising her family in Port Jefferson Station, though she still makes plenty of time for shows like her appearance at The Emporium in Patchogue on Friday.
It must be tough to balance both sides of your life.
They're both crazy, but it's a crazy that I love to be in. My thing is to be on a stage. I get this crazy, wild feeling once I get up on the stage and hear the roar from that audience. I live for that. That's my blood flow. When I come home, I get that same feeling; when I open the door, my kids scream. I love that. If there's something in your life that you want to do, you make it happen. And that's what I did.
Why do you think freestyle music, which started in the '80s, still draws such big crowds today?
The audience that we had from back then, they've always brought their children, and now their children's children, to the shows. These songs take you there again. It's a feeling that you get. Freestyle music is the music that the breakdancers used to dance to in the clubs and in the streets.
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Is your live show still built around that feeling?
I love a stage. . . . In my show, I'm gonna take you back like you were in the '80s. I'm going to remind you of what you were doing and who you were doing it with. You're going to feel like you're up on that stage.
WHO Lisa Lisa
WHEN | WHERE 8 p.m. Friday, The Emporium, 9 Railroad Ave., Patchogue
INFO $15; 631-627-8787, theemporiumny.com
Emporium's formula: an older crowd
While competition among Long Island clubs is notoriously fierce to fill their spaces with free-spending 20-somethings, Tim Lorito believes he has found a different formula for success. He's aiming a little older.
Lorito, president and co-founder of The Emporium in Patchogue, is packing his 1,100-capacity club with music fans in their 30s, 40s and 50s, eager to hear the music they grew up with and newer acts who want to carry on that tradition.
"We've noticed that no one was catering to an older crowd," said Lorito, who opened the club in September and already has enjoyed lots of sold-out nights. "We felt that there were some great special events that we could do with an older crowd. And they've proved that they're still spending money, and they still want to go out because they fill the place up."
In addition to its rock and country shows, The Emporium has set itself apart by going after disco acts like Gloria Gaynor, '80s acts like Bret Michaels and freestyle acts like Lisa Lisa.
"We felt there was a void on Long Island," Lorito said. "We felt there wasn't anyone catering to that kind of 'old school' music. We went after the best national acts we could get in those genres. We've had terrific success with that."
Lorito says every one of the club's country and freestyle shows has sold out. By concentrating on those genres, as well as The Emporium's restaurant and beer garden, he believes the new club has found its niche.
"It's our formula," he said. "It's working for us."
The wide variety of concerts at The Emporium includes:
Thursday The "Electronic Divas," including Robin S., Shawnee Taylor and Reina
April 5 The Freestyle Explosion featuring TKA and Fascination
April 7 Poison front man Bret Michaels
April 23 Punk pioneers Suicidal Tendencies
April 24 Rapper Sammy Adams
April 25 Country traditionalist Jamey Johnson


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Selected other credits
Television work
- Aim High
- Beautiful People
- Close to Home
- Couch Surfing
- Finding Carter
- No Ordinary Family
- The O.C.
- The Valley of Light (TV movie)
- The War at Home
- Until We Meet Again (2016)
- City of Dead Men (2016)
- Pali Road (2015)
- Live at the Foxes Den (2013)
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)
- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)
- Girlfriend (2010)
- The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
- Young Again (2010; video short)
- Dread (2009)
- Hurt (2009)
- S. Darko (2009)
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)
- Senior Skip Day (2008; video)
- Twilight (2008)
- Big Stan (2007)
- Pray for Morning (2006)
- River's End (2005)
Other credits
- 100 Monkeys: Alive and Kickin' Part Too (executive producer and composer)
- Aim High (executive producer)
- Anyone Can Play Guitar (executive producer)
- Girlfriend (composer and co-producer - uncredited)
- Utah Too Much (songwriter)
- Zombie Hamlet (composer and music supervisor)
Biographical information
Early Life
Rathbone was born in Singapore and has lived in places ranging from Indonesia to Midland, Texas. He started out in local theater in Midland, Texas, with the youth actors program The Pickwick Players, initially doing musical theater. For his junior and senior years of high school, Rathbone attended the Interlochen Arts Academy, a private school for the arts in Michigan, where he majored in acting. After graduation, he had planned to go to the Royal Scottish Academy, but instead went to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film.
Rathbone did extensive work for Disney 411, interviewing up-and-coming personalities like Hilary Duff. His movie roles include work in Molding Clay, Pray for Morning, and Travis and Henry. In 2008, he played the character of Jasper Hale in the movies Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse.
Personal life
When not busy pursuing a TV/film career, Rathbone also enjoys music, writing, singing and producing. He performs in a band called 100 Monkeys with two friends that he met in high school at Interlochen Arts Academy. He left the band on March 4th 2012.[1]
- 2011: Won a Razzie Award for The Last Airbender (Worst Supporting Actor)
- 2011: Won a Razzie Award for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Worst Supporting Actor)
- While shooting The Last Airbender, he and the 100 Monkeys band members stayed in a house. Jackson recalled that they would "jam in the kitchen, eating cheesesteaks and playing beer pong. It was kinda like a musician frat house."[2]
- He studied martial arts as a kid and demonstrated some Kung Fu and Krav Maga on The Last Airbender.[3]
- ↑ Jackson Rathbone Twitter. Retrieved on November 27, 2012.
- ↑ Dan Gross (2011-07-13). Dan Gross: 'Twilight' at the TLA. The Inquirer. Retrieved on July 18, 2011.
- ↑ Lynn Barker (2011-10-10). Jackson Rathbone and Aimee Teegarden "Aim High". teen television. Retrieved on October 10, 2011.


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Talk:Timeline of Saints
OMG....The 1st century was the century that lasted from 1 to 100 not from 101 - 200. From 101 to 200 was the Second century. Maraamu 06:44, May 27, 2009 (UTC)
- Fixed. You get dizzy when you work on this stuff ... Vasiliki 07:01, May 27, 2009 (UTC)
- This list is about only the canonized saints or (and) other personalities? Maraamu 06:51, May 27, 2009 (UTC)
- Hmmm, its a point I questioned myself ... for our century its relevant to include major personalities not yet canonised. However, for older centuried my fear is that it will build into a Wikipedia listing ... at this point, I am trying to transfer all the known dates for saints and get to the next step which is personalities .. who were you thinking of including? Vasiliki 07:01, May 27, 2009 (UTC)
- XX century saints - Saint Seraphim of Virits, S. Elizabeth the New Martyr S. Platon of Banja Luka , Anthimos of Hios .[ http://ro.orthodoxwiki.org/Sinaxar_al_Sfin%C5%A3ilor_secolului_XX | At the orthodoxwiki in romanian it is a list of saints from 20th century ] We should have a mention if the person is a saint or a elder 07:31, May 27, 2009 (UTC)
Proposals: Joanikije (Lipovac) of Montenegro, Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) of Kiev and Gallich, Saint Anthimos of Chios, Justin Popovich, Saints Parthenios and Evmenios of Koudouma Monastery, Ilia the Righteous, Maria Skobtsova, John Iacob the Romanian (the Hozevite), Maxim Sandovich, Peter I (Petrovic) of Cetinje, Petar (Zimonjić) of Dabar-Bosna, Arsenios the Cappadocian, Theophanes (Il'minskii) of Solikamsk, Joanikije (Lipovac) of Montenegro, Archimandrite Philoumenos.
There is no need to add the proposals. If someone is missing, that is because I just havent gotten around to it ... its a lot of work and it cant all be done in one day. I was tired and needed to stop. Thanks for your keeness though, you can add these people in if you know the date of their death. Vasiliki 09:34, May 27, 2009 (UTC)


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The Michigan father whose drunkenly made his nine-year-old daughter serve as designated driver during a late-night convenience store run last October will not be serving jail time for charges related to the bizarre incident.
Shawn Weimer was sentenced to two years of probation today after pleading guilty in December to felony charges of child abuse and a misdemeanor charge of allowing his hugely underaged daughter to drive his GMC van. He faced a maximum of four years in prison, but Wayne County Circuit Judge Margie Braxton instructed Weimer to avoid alcohol, get a job, and get his life straightened out instead.
Among the judge's explicit instructions regarding Weimer's parole: "And you're not to let the child drive any motor vehicles unless she's duly licensed and duly insured."
It's a bad sign if you need a judge to tell you that.
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Two years ago, Raelyn Balfour drove to work at the JAG School like any other day, only this time, she forgot to drop her 9-month-old son, Bryce, off at the babysitter. A Charlottesville jury acquitted her of involuntary manslaughter in January 2008. Gene Weingarten writes about her and other parents who have been fatally distracted in the March 8 Washington Post Magazine.
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Vin Diesel Shares Final Photo of Paul Walker, Announces 'Fast and Furious 7′ Release Date
Vin Diesel shared the final photo of himself and Paul Walker while filming 'Fast and Furious 7,' also revealing the new release date for the latest installment of the franchise.
The film was originally due to hit the multiplex on July 11, 2014, but given Walker's tragic death last month in a one-car, two-person accident, production was halted while the cast and crew dealt with the loss of their beloved co-star and friend.
Obviously, since he passed away mid-production, there were likely some implications on the script and his character.
The film will continue as planned. The new release date is April 10, 2015. The scenes that Walker filmed before his passing while be included in the movie.
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From my crazy point of view everything you are doing is normal. I would be doing the same thing. Just remember they are going in to fix you.
Yes, we do not say everything to loved ones when we should. But this is not goodbye. This is just clearing the deck. You will come out of this feeling like a hurtin' frog, but happy as a pig in mud. You will start life anew. Yes, there will be follow up, but the worst will be behind you. You have grand things to look forward to. Life will be an adventure, not a waiting game.
I am now officially asking everyone who reads this post to send good thoughts your way on March 19. If you pray, please pray, if you don't then look at the sky and make a wish on Gilders behalf.
It could be any one of us. Wouldn't y'all want the world to join together for hands across the water for you? Mark your calendars. There is strength in numbers.