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Denny Watts, president of Watts Contructors
When the U.S. and Japanese governments announced plans in 2006 to move nearly 8,000 U.S. Marines and 9,000 dependents from Okinawa to Guam, they set in motion what may become one of the largest building booms of this era. Big Hawaii construction companies are already planning for this enormous buildup, which is expected to take more than five years. Smaller Hawaii contractors can also get a lucrative piece of the action, but only if they are willing to take on risks and a learning curve.
The military realignment will make the island of Guam, America's westernmost territory, the vanguard of U.S. forces in Asia. The undertaking is enormous. Simply accommodating the arrival of the Marines, for example, will require the construction of everything from enlisted and officers quarters, to support and training facilities, to gyms and recreation centers, to infrastructure like roads, sewers, potable water plants and communications facilities.
The relocation of the Marines is only part of the story. Military development in Guam will also include missile defenses, docks and support facilities for an aircraft carrier, and substantial increases in Air Force and Coast Guard operations. In all, NAVFAC Marianas — the entity coordinating all the work — expects to spend at least $14 billion, nearly a third of which will be paid by Japan.
Strategic Partnerships
In Hawaii, the most likely beneficiaries will be the large military contractors – dck pacific, Actus Lend/Lease, Kiewit Building Group, Watts Constructors, et al. – many of which already have experience in Guam. But even these companies will be dwarfed by the work. Getting it done will require unprecedented partnerships. Because of the scale, most contractors expect NAVFAC to use a form of procurement know as Multiple Award Construction Contracts. Under the MACC process, probably only four or five teams of contractors will even qualify to bid. Given the size and variety of the projects – NAVFAC says they'll range from $15 million to $300 million – successful teams will need to demonstrate many skills.
According to Denny Watts, president of Watts Constructors, and perhaps the dean of Hawaii-based contractors in Guam, finding the right strategic partners is key. "We've been going through that for the last year," he says. "We've talked to maybe 25 of the best organizations in the world to determine who we want to be partners with for the long term.
"We're looking for partners with competencies in things that maybe we aren't as strong at. That's because these contracts will vary between sophisticated marine projects, to technically complicated infrastructure, to basic living quarters. Your team has to show expertise in all those capabilities."
To complicate matters further, the bidding process has to be precise. "These are all hard-bid, hard-number contracts," Watts says. "It's not like in the Middle East where they were cost reimbursable. You're at risk here. It's not for the faint of heart."
Labor Pains
Many of the most nettlesome problems facing contractors revolve around workforce management. "There are only 2,000 to 3,000 construction workers on the island presently," says Roger Peters, general manager of dck pacific. "At peak, they feel there will be the need for 25,000 to 30,000 construction workers. So, the challenge is: Where do you get that many skilled workers?" Of course, with a population of about 170,000, labor shortages have long been a problem for Guam. "Traditionally, what's been done is they bring in labor from the Philippines," Peters says. At this scale, though, he notes that may not be adequate. "I think you're looking at a global supply: Filipinos, Indians, even Mexicans."
Perhaps more critical than finding skilled labor is identifying the foremen and supervisory staff to manage them. Companies like dck pacific and Watts Constructors, which have been working in Guam for years, already have trained crews and experienced supervisors, though not nearly enough to handle all the new work. Other teams will likely have to bring in most of their foremen and supervisors from off-island. Recruiting these positions for Guam has always been difficult. Even Hawaii workers have historically been reluctant to relocate to Guam. But companies like dck pacific will have to persuade them. "That's not just Hawaii, either," says Peters. "We're offering these opportunities to people in our home office in Pittsburgh, to people in Atlanta, even to people in the Caribbean."
Finding the workers is just the beginning. The MACC bidding process also requires the contractor to plan for their accommodation. "You have to explain how you're going to house them, feed them, entertain them and care for their health," Peters says.
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Ted Boettner, executive director of the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, was appointed to a position on the U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, an effort of the U.S. Department of Interior. Among the issues Boettner said he was interested in addressing is the disclosure of revenue collected in the form of severance taxes.
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On Monday, John Straw announced a new product, Influence finder which uses MajesticSEO's Enterprise level API as a significant part of its algorithms. His presentation rocked the room and hours earlier the product just PIPPED MajesticSEO in a survey of link tools by the highly respected Link Builder, Weip, who gave MajesticSEO 90% and Influence Finder 92%. Before I go too far, let me say that MajesticSEO will work hard to try to catch up on the missing 2% in Weip's comparison.
His presentation was really interesting and was based around a case study with econsultancy (who gave us first prize in their technology and innovation awards earlier this year).
John set out to build a system which solved the problem of having huge numbers of link targets, when a company really wanted to know a few that would be worth developing a meaningful relationship with. His model would take the best dataset of links around, then run a series of extra algorithms on the data to filter out those which gave off poor quality signals.
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Well he found first and foremost (from our perspective) that MajesticSEO showed more links than Google WMT. We found links from 8,448 referring domains whilst Google found (or at least reported) links from 5,189 domains. The commonality chart above shows only about a 30% overlap – so this needs explaining. about 18 months ago, e-consultancy.com changed to econsultancy.com and I suspect (but have not yet tested) that Google and Majestic report these differently.
Influence Finder then goes considerably further, by applying several algorithms such as their "heartbeat" algorithm to find sites that are active – but not hyperactive and therefore better prospects than sites which either are left decaying on some far flung corner of Blogspot or alternatively collect all their data through RSS feeds and have no relevent human involvement.
In order to do this, of course, they need to actively go and spider the sites in our dataset, to pick up new quality signals. This is the sort of added value that we have been working with our Enterprise API partners to deliver. Influence Finder is still in its embryonic form – but it is VC backed and has an impressive pedigree of people and contacts behind its management.
The resulting list of sites were a small; set of high value blogs and news sites with a natural affinity to econsultancy, rather than 8,000 initial target sites.
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Irish Soda Bread History
Just like the bagpipes weren't invented by the Scots, the chemical reaction that makes Soda Bread what it is, wasn't invented by the Irish. The earliest reference to using soda ash in baking bread seems to be credited to American Indians using it to leaven their bread. Pearl Ash was used prior to 1800 to make cakes by combining it with an acidic ingredient in the dough. However, as the Scots have made the bagpipe their instrument, the Irish have made Soda Bread theirs. Not by choice, but by a state of poverty that made it the easiest bread to put on the table.
Hard wheat flour, the main kind we use in the US today, requires yeast for a proper rise while "soft" wheat flour does poorly with yeast, but it great for "quick breads" of which Soda Bread is one. At the turn of the 20th century while other parts of Britain preferred hard wheat flour and moved away from quick breads, the Irish stuck with soft wheat and the Soda Bread. In 1908 2/3 of the flour used in Ireland was soft wheat and primarily imported from the US. American flour was 90% of what was used in Belfast, and Dublin's use of American flour reached 80%. Another link across the sea.
Several books published in the UK in 1866 and 1868 give the standard recipe for soda bread with the note that "it is much eaten in the United States." So how did a bread that the British consider to be popular in America, become identified with the Irish?
In the journal Chemistry and Chemical Analysis by the Ireland Commissioners of National Education published in 1861 in Dublin the following appeared on page 319:
Although it is very desirable that bread should be light, it is not always possible to obtain yeast: - hence, what is called "soda bread" has been of late, very much used. Its lightness is due to carbonic acid, disengaged from bicarbonate of soda. The latter is mixed with the flour, and is decomposed by an acid -- sometimes, by that contained in sour milk, but more conveniently by dilute hydrochloric acid. This kind of bread, has not the advantage of its constituents being even slightly broken up, by incipient fermentation; nevertheless, it is said to have properties, which render it at least as wholesome as that which is made with yeast.
The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science published in 1850 (p. 182) refers to unscrupulous dealers:
During the failure of the potato crop, a large quantity of bicarbonate of soda was employed by the poorer classes in the preparation of bread; the article consequently became scarce, owing to the increased demand, and the price rose accordingly.
Just as today, crooked dealers sold substitute chemicals resulting in death to many.
Here is the story so far:
In 1817 the editor of The Gentleman's Magazine, published in London, was challenged to come up with a better way of making bread with poor wheat. He decided to create a way without using leaven. He used wheat flour, mealy potatoes, salt, and water. And soda and muriatic acid. He mixed carbonate of soda with six pounds of flour; then with six pounds of pulp of steamed or boiled potatoes, mixed three drachms of muriatic acid, diluted with a pint of water. Continued on with combining the mixture, formed a loaf and baked before a fire. He conducted several experiments with the aid of his baker to come up with his bread. Without the potatoes, it meets all the requirements of being a soda bread. He went on to describe making a 9 lb cake containing additional ingredients at a cost of two shillings and sixpence.
In 1824 "The Virginia Housewife" by Mary Randolph was published. It contained a recipe for Soda Cake.
Dissolve half a pound of sugar in a pint of milk; add a teaspoon of soda, pour it on two pounds of flour--melt half a pound of butter. Knead all together until light. Pour it in shallow molds and bake it quickly in a quick oven."
In NOV 1836 the The Farmer's magazine (London) p. 328 cited the following article that was repeated in various publications in the US, including The Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania and Mechanics' Register on page 71 had the following.
A correspondent of the Newry Telegraph (a newspaper in Northern Ireland) gives the following receipt for making "soda bread," stating that "there is no bread to be had equal to it for invigorating the body, promoting digestion, strengthening the stomach, and improving the state of the bowels." He says, "put a pound and a half of good wheaten meal into a large bowl, mix with it two teaspoonfuls of finely-powdered salt, then take a large teaspoonful of super-carbonate of soda, dissolve it in a half a teacupful of cold water, and add it to the meal; rub up all intimately together, then pour into the bowl as much very sour buttermilk as will make the whole into soft dough (it should be as soft as could possibly be handled, and the softer the better,) form it into a cake of about an inch thickness, and put into a flat Dutch oven or frying pan, with some metallic cover, such as an oven-lid or griddle, apply a moderate heat underneath for twenty minutes, then lay some clear live coals upon the lid, and keep it so for half an hour longer (the under heat being allowed to fall off gradually for the last fifteen minutes,) taking off the cover occasionally to see that it does not burn. This he concludes, when somewhat cooled and moderatey buttered, is as wholesome as ever entered man's stomach. Wm . Claker , Esq., of Gosford, has ordered a sample of the bread to be prepared, and a quantity of the meal to be kept for sale at the Markethill Temperance Soup and Coffee Rooms. Farmer's Magazine.
This exact word-for-word article also appeared in The Southern Planter published in 1843. The above is the earliest reference to a soda bread recipe in Ireland we have come across.
In the same digest is a specification of a patent granted to John Whiting, M.D. of Kennington, England for an improvement in preparing certain Farinaceous Food, - Sealed May 3, 1836.
The patent describes in great detail and in many more words than the following, how to make bread using 7 pounds of wheaten flour mixed with 350 to 500 grains of carbonate of soda with about 2 3/4 pints of pure water. Mix separately 3/4 pint of water with pure muriatic acid (420 to 560 grains). Divide the flour into two parts. To one add the soda solution gradually, well stirring and beating the mixture. Then add the other portion of flour and while mixing pour in the diluted acid. Lightly kneed on a board for a short time. Loaves should be 1/2 lb to 1 1/2 lb each. Best baked under tins. Common salt can be added for taste.
So, in 1836 an Englishman had the patent for basically making soda bread in a particular fashion. Wheat flour, salt, an alkali and an acid in proper quantities to make a quick bread.
It was in 1835 that pre-packed "Royal Baking Powder" came into production combining bicarbonate of soda with cream of tartar to create the alkali/acid combination to release carbon dioxide gas to cause the bread to rise.
Powders combine both the soda and acid components that release CO2 when moisture is added. Bicarbonate of soda in baking was first introduced around the 1840s in Ireland. How it was introduced seems to be a mystery yet to be solved.
In the book Saleratus: The Curious History & Complete Uses of Baking Soda by Peter Ciullo, the author states that in the 1830's Britain primarily used baking powder for making bread but British companies couldn't make inroads into the US market and baking soda remained popular.
So, that leaves the question of why bicarbonate of soda was called Bread Soda in England and Ireland in the 18th/19th century if baking powder was widely used? Did the British baking powder companies have the same problem convincing the Irish to use baking powder as they did in America? Was it a matter of price?
In the U.S. "The Royal Baking Powder" company was incorporated in 1873. It appears that these are two different companies. One British (1835) and one American (1873) separated by 38 years.
In 1846 Americans John Dwight and Dr. Austin Church started producing bicarbonate of soda in Dwight's home. Prior to that Church had experimented in synthetic production of bicarbonate of soda in Rochester, NY in the 1830s. In 1840 he moved to New York where he was influenced to go into business with his brother-in-law, John Dwight. Church was in charge of production and Dwight handled sales.
The first factory was in the kitchen of Dwight's home with baking soda put into paper bags by hand. The following year they formed John Dwight and Company and adopted a Cow as their trademark in 1876 since sour milk was the acidic agent needed to activate the soda. The Cow continued in use until 1960. (the ad shown on the left is circa 1900)
(ad on the left) means Baking Soda
In 1867 Church's sons formed Church & Co. with the now famous "arm and hammer" logo.
In 1896 a merger between the companies created Church & Dwight, Inc. the trademark Arm & hammer, originally used for baking soda, is applied to many products today.
The Acid side of the equation
Sour milk was used in the making of soda bread in Ireland, just as in the US, and in the 1930s it could be purchased from the local creamery since fresh milk was usually consumed by the household before it could go sour. (a brilliant marketing plan to sell something the creamery would normally have to throw out.)
Today, buttermilk is used instead of sour milk since it is more easily found. If you wish to use sour milk, you can wait patiently for it to go sour, or you can make it by combining two cups of fresh milk with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or distilled vinegar. In about 15 minutes you will have a substitute for buttermilk. You could also use about 1 1/2 teaspoons of cream of tartar to the milk instead of lemon juice or vinegar to get similar results.
If you want an easy way to have buttermilk at home or on camping trips, try using Saco Cultured Buttermilk blend. It is a powder that only needs water to create buttermilk and can usually be found in most baking aisles at the supermarket. The company claims that the powdered version produces a more traditional buttermilk that can be found in liquid form at the grocery store.
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Profile America - Tuesday, July 15th. Major league baseball pauses today to play its 85th All-Star Game. Today's event is being held at Target Field in Minneapolis, home of the Minnesota Twins. The first All-Star Game was played on July 6, 1933, at Comiskey Park in Chicago. A homer by Babe Ruth helped the American League defeat the National League 4-2. In 1933, all 16 teams in the major leagues were clustered in the northeast of the country, with St. Louis being the southernmost and farthest west outpost of the national pastime. That year, the mean center of the U.S. population was in southwestern Indiana. The number of major league teams has almost doubled since then to represent the far corners of the continental U.S., pulled by population growth and migration that puts the mean center in south-central Missouri. Profile America is in its 17th year as a Public Service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
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http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/mlb_asgrecaps_story_headline.jsp?story_page=recap_1933 http://www.census.gov/2010census/data/center-of-population.php
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Contraband items found in fast food have led to two correctional officers being charged, following separate searches at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County within a week.
Erling Gresham, 26, and Tamikta Russell, 34, both of Jackson, are being recommended for termination.
We are told that Gresham bought a 12-inch bread only sandwich, filled it with 2.80 ounces of tobacco and wrapped it with plastic. He told investigators he had intended to give the tobacco to an inmate who had offered him $200 two weeks ago to bring it in. Gresham was charged on Sunday.
According to investigators, Russell was arrested March 26 after she tried to smuggle in not only tobacco, but also marijuana and other contraband in three burritos inside a Tupperware container.
Both were arrested during a routine search when they reported for duty.
"These arrests are a result of the Mississippi Department of Corrections' intensified efforts to reduce contraband items," Commissioner Christopher B. Epps said. "You would be surprised by the different ways in which people try to bring in contraband. That's why we must always be alert and ready.
"Not only are people bringing in illegal items on their persons, but also in their food," Epps continued. "And, they are tossing contraband over the fence, but the recent netting we put up is already proving to be effective."
Officials tell us that Gresham and Russell are each charged with possession of prohibited items by persons other than offenders for possessing tobacco. This conviction carries a maximum one year in prison, a $1,000 fine, or both.
We are told that Gresham was still in the Rankin County Jail on a $1,000 bond as of Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators say Russell, who posted a $20,000 bond Friday from the Rankin County jail, also has two other charges, possession of marijuana and introduction of contraband. The 6.40 ounces of tobacco, 48.7 grams of marijuana and other contraband were inside plastic bags concealed in the burritos.
If convicted under state law on the marijuana possession charge, she faces a maximum $25,000 fine and between three and seven years in prison. We are told that she would not be eligible for probation, parole, a suspended sentence, earned time allowance or any other reduction of sentence.
"While no more arrests are expected in Russell's case, the investigation involving Gresham is ongoing," said Sean K. Smith, director of the Corrections Investigation Division. "Our preliminary investigation shows both Russell and Gresham acted alone when they brought in the contraband, but we are still obviously trying to answer questions in Gresham's case, including finding the inmate who he said asked him to bring in the tobacco."
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Additional ReadingA brief biography of Martha Washington is Patricia Brady, Martha (Dandridge Custis) Washington, in Lewis L. Gould (ed.), American First Ladies (1996), pp. 215. Books about George Washington that also treat Martha include Stephen Decatur, Jr., Private Affairs of George Washington (1933, reprinted 1969); Douglas Southall Freeman, George Washington, 7 vol. (194857; also published in an abridged one-volume version with the same title, ed. by Richard Harwek,1968; reissued as Washington, 1985); and James Thomas Flexner, George Washington, 4 vol. (196572), especially vols. 3 and 4.
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NETA = נט"ע- נוער לטובת עברית, Youth for Hebrew or sapling
NETA is a dynamic Hebrew-language curriculum designed for students in 7th–12th Hebrew College, and supported by the Avi Chai Foundation, the NETA curriculum is currently taught in thirty Jewish day schools nationwide and is continuing to grow.
NETA was conceived to fill the need for a sequential and continuous Hebrew-language curriculum for middle- and high-school students, combining challenging materials with relevant content. The program also helps promote students' understanding of their history, culture, and tradition. NETA fosters a sense of belonging to the Jewish people, builds ties with Medinat YisraelAm Yisrael
NETA provides professional development workshops for its instructors and supports a team of mentors to help create meaningful language learning for adolescents through the use of NETA materials. The NETA curriculum is based on sound linguistic progression. Lessons are centered around themes that are of interest to teenagers such as technology, friendship, and freedom. Each lesson is presented from three perspectives: Jewish tradition, modern Israeli culture, and general world knowledge. NETA is unique in that it keeps a steady pace, allowing students to experience the tangible rewards of progress in Hebrew proficiency.
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Servings: Serves 12
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 3 hours
Difficulty: Easy
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
1 thick slice of leftover Spiral Ham, cut into small pieces (not country ham,which is too salty)
4 quart water
2 lb Michigan navy beans
1 medium onion, chopped
salt and pepper
1/4 cup fresh parsley
Rinse the beans in hot water until they are white. Place them in a stockpot, add the water, and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 3 hours. Heat the butter in a small skillet over medium heat. Saute the onion until lightly browned. Add the onion to the pot of beans. Remove two cups of the bean mixture, puree in a blender, and return to the soup. Add to ham to soup mixture. Just before serving, season the soup with salt and pepper to taste.
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Looks good, I'm going to try this. I usually use pinto beans.
By tiya-g on January 18, 2014
Add some instant mash potato's to this soup to make it extra creamy.....really makes a difference!
By Bmack on January 03, 2014
Thanks for the bean recipe love soup. Need more recipes for left over ham. Love you Paula, miss you on food network but I don't watch them anymore wish you had your own network. But on line is great.
By Doris Clement on January 03, 2014
Love this recipe but I have found that it has much more flavor if you put the ham in while the beans are cooking and also some sea salt. Seasoning while cooking enhances the flavor so much more. It works great with Pinto beans too!
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I have tried to log in to save my recipe and it says I am not registered. I have been registered for quite a while as oldanuttil.What has happened to my registration. I get your newsletter just fine. Mathilda
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By Jennifer on November 06, 2012
I have made this so many times it isn't funny, but everyone loves it. I have made it using pinto and northern beans mixed together as well. I love this stuff. Thanks Paula for reminding me of it.
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Paula, Love your website and your wonderful reciepes!! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and have a safe New Year!!Makin beans and Ham today!!
By Mary young on December 28, 2010
This is the first soup for me to make,I had just received a Honey Bee ham from a friend and had the bone to use in a soup. I have in the past made Paula's recipes I had found here,even after reading some of the reviews I thought this will be good and I will put my own twists on it.I added cooked fresh carrots, and used tomato-chicken bullion cube with it and also added a little garlic salt.I found the soup to be thick enough so I didn't remove the 2 cups of beans as stated in the recipe.This is the best soup that I have tasted in a long time.I will make it again,very happy with how it turned out.
By Anonymous on December 05, 2010
I am a HUGE fan of Paula's recipes, but this one didn't work out so well. It didn't have a lot of taste. I think it would have been better with country ham.
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Dir / Scr: Zhu Shilin
Orig Story: Puxian Opera After the Reunion
Prod Co: Great Wall
Cast: Fu Che, Hsia Moon, Kung Chiu-hsia
1960 / Colour / D Beta / Mandarin / Chi & Eng subtitles / 90min
Zhu Shilin has always shown great interest in changes that affect a traditional family unit, approaching the subject with great objectivity and a progressive perspective. He shows that same sensitivity in his 1960 masterpiece, based on a Puxian Opera. The film starts on a light note, showing a family celebrating several joyous events. However, the story ends with a series of tragedies that include suicides and even murder. Zhu doesn't take the easy path of creating clear-cut villains, instead showing the injustices and other unfortunate circumstances that can shatter a family. Zhu's attentiveness to mise-en-scene can be seen in a married couple's use of candles – from the red candles in their wedding chamber to the white candles used at a funeral.
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Pema Chödrön
|Pema Chödrön
At the Omega Institute, May 2007.
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Pema Chödrön (born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown on July 14, 1936) is a notable American figure in Tibetan Buddhism. A disciple of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, she is an ordained nun,[1] author, and teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist lineage Trungpa founded.
A prolific author, she has conducted workshops, seminars, and meditation retreats in Europe, Australia, and throughout North America. She is resident and teacher of Gampo Abbey, a monastery on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada.[2]
Pema Chödrön was born Deirdre Blomfield-Brown in 1936 in New York City. She attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, and grew up on a farm in the countryside with an older brother and sister.[3] She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and worked as an elementary school teacher in California and New Mexico before her conversion to Buddhism.
Following a second divorce, Chödrön began to study with Lama Chime Rinpoche in the French Alps. She became a Buddhist nun in 1974 while studying with him in London.[4] She is a fully ordained bhikṣuṇī in a combination of the Mulasarvastivadin and Dharmaguptaka lineages of vinaya, having received full ordination in Hong Kong in 1981 at the behest of the sixteenth Karmapa. She was probably the first American woman to become fully ordained.[5] She has been instrumental in trying to reestablish full ordination for nuns in the Mulasarvastivadin order, to which all Tibetan Buddhist monastics have traditionally belonged; various conferences have been convened to study the matter.
Chödrön first met Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1972 and, at the urging of Chime Rinpoche, took him as her root guru. She studied with him from 1974 until his death in 1987.[6][7] Trungpa's son, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, appointed Chödrön an acharya (senior teacher) shortly after assuming leadership of his father's Shambhala lineage in 1992.
Trungpa appointed Chödrön director of the Boulder Shambhala Center (then Boulder Dharmadhatu) in Colorado in the early 1980s.[8] It was during this period that she became ill with chronic fatigue syndrome. Chödrön moved to Gampo Abbey in 1984 and became its director in 1986.[2] There she published her first two books. Her health gradually improved, she claims, with the help of a homeopath and careful attention to diet.
In late 2005, Chödrön published No Time to Lose, a commentary on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. She published Practicing Peace in Times of War in 2006.
Pema Chödrön is a member of The Committee of Western Bhikshunis, which was formed in 2005.[9] She is currently studying with the Venerable Lama Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, and spends seven months of each year in solitary retreat under his direction in Crestone, Colorado.[10]
Chödrön continues to teach the traditional Yarne (Tib. rainy season; Sanskrit: Vassāvāsa[11]) retreat for monastics at Gampo Abbey each winter. In recent years, she has spent the summers teaching on the Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life in Berkeley. A central theme of her teachings is the belief in shenpa,[12][13][14] the Tibetan word for "attachment", which she interprets as the moment one is hooked into a cycle of habitual negative or self-destructive actions and thought. Shenpa, or getting "hooked," according to Chödrön, occurs as a response to a comment, situation or other stimulus that is similar or related to past experiences.[13] She asserts that often, the past experiences are negative, leading to a pattern of self-destructive thought and behaviors, such as excessive eating or drinking or angry outbursts:
Somebody says a mean word to you and then something in you tightens — that's the shenpa. Then it starts to spiral into low self-esteem, or blaming them, or anger at them, denigrating yourself. And maybe if you have strong addictions, you just go right for your addiction to cover over the bad feeling that arose when that person said that mean word to you. This is a mean word that gets you, hooks you. Another mean word may not affect you but we're talking about where it touches that sore place — that's a shenpa. Someone criticizes you — they criticize your work, they criticize your appearance, they criticize your child — and, shenpa: almost co-arising.[15]
Personal life[edit]
Chödrön has two children and three grandchildren.
- Books
- The Wisdom of No Escape And The Path of Loving-Kindness. Shambhala Publications, 1991. ISBN 1-57062-872-6
- Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living. Shambhala Publications, 1994. ISBN 0-87773-880-7
- Awakening Loving-Kindness (abridged version of The Wisdom of No Escape). Shambhala Publications, 1996. ISBN 1-57062-259-0
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times. Element Books, 1996. ISBN 1-57062-969-2
- Tonglen: The Path of Transformation. Vajradhatu Publications, 2001. ISBN 1-57062-409-7
- Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion. Shambhala Publications, 2003. ISBN 1-59030-078-5
- The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times. Shambhala Publications, 2007. ISBN 1-57062-409-7
- No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva. Shambhala Publications, 2007. ISBN 1-59030-424-1
- The Pocket Pema Chödrön. Shambhala Pocket Classics, 2008. ISBN 1-59030-651-1
- Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears. Shambhala Publications, 2010. ISBN 1-59030-843-1
- How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind. Sounds True, 2013. ISBN 1-60407-933-9
- Noble Heart: A Self-Guided Retreat on Befriending Your Obstacles. Audio Book, 1998. ISBN 1-56455-576-3
- ^ Ani Pema Chödrön
- ^ a b Susan Neunzig Cahill (1996). Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 377. ISBN 0-393-03946-3.
- ^ Haas, Michaela (2013). "Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West". Snow Lion. ISBN 1559394072, p. 123.
- ^ Fabrice Midal (2005). Recalling Chögyam Trungpa. Shambhala Publications. p. 476. ISBN 1-59030-207-9.
- ^ Haas, Michaela (2013). "Dakini Power: Twelve Extraordinary Women Shaping the Transmission of Tibetan Buddhism in the West". Snow Lion. ISBN 1559394072, p. 128
- ^ Sandy Boucher (1993). Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism. Beacon Press. pp. 93–97. ISBN 0-8070-7305-9.
- ^ James William Coleman (2001). The New Buddhism: The Western Transformation of an Ancient Tradition. Oxford University Press. p. 150. ISBN 0-19-515241-7.
- ^ Boucher (1993) pp. 96-97
- ^ see information on her Homepage
- ^ Website of Kongtrul Rinpoche
- ^ Buddhist Monks And Monasteries Of India: Their History And Contribution To Indian Culture. George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London 1962. pg 54
- ^ Bill Moyers and Pema Chödrön . August 4, 2006
- ^ a b The Shenpa Syndrome
- ^ How We Get Hooked and How We Get Unhooked
- ^ The Shenpa syndrome: Learning to stay
External links[edit]
|Wikiquote has quotations related to: Pema Chödrön
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- Pema Chödrön's web site
- List of Pema Chödrön's articles on Shambhalasun.com
- The Pema Chödrön Foundation's web site
- Works by or about Pema Chödrön in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Video Interview with Pema Chödrön by Bill Moyers (2006) at PBS
- Pema Chödrön and Dzigar Kongtrül: Let's Be Honest A discussion led by Elizabeth Namgyel
- 1936 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Lamas
- 20th-century philosophers
- American Buddhist nuns
- American philosophers
- American spiritual writers
- American women writers
- Buddhist nuns
- Buddhist philosophers
- Buddhist writers
- Converts to Buddhism
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- Tibetan Buddhist teachers
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
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