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Aristides Saisanas, a native of Kalamata in Greece, sailed from Athens to Israel. On the deck of the ship, he changed his name to Aris San, thereby marking out his path for the next 35 years. They were 35 years of life full of passion for music and ...more
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In the legend of Aris San, the main character is timing. A few years earlier or later and the legend would not have been written. But the timing was perfect. In the late 1950s, when young Israel yearned for the exotic, for a glimpse of foreign lands, when it was overcome by longing for Europe, a boy of 17 and a guitar appeared in the country. Aristides Saisanas, a native of Kalamata in Greece, sailed from Athens to Israel. On the deck of the ship, he changed his name to Aris San, thereby marking out his path for the next 35 years.
Sani Azikri-Carmel They were 35 years of life full of passion for music and women, for wealth and a glorious career. The 35 years ended as they had begun: He came from nowhere, touched the stars and crashed very painfully. On July 25, 1992, a few reports appeared on the back pages of Israeli newspapers about the mysterious death in Hungary of the person who had been considered the king of Jaffa nightlife, and afterward of New York.
The background to his appearance in Israel, and to his personality, was never completely explained. It was said he had come here to follow a girl he fell in love with, a new immigrant from Turkey. It was said that an Israeli impresario had discovered him in the Athens tavernas. Aliza Azikri, his partner, claimed he was a pacifist and had fled Greece to avoid being drafted into the army. They say that one day he showed up in Haifa. Others are willing to swear he came to Jaffa. And maybe he emerged from the fishermen's nets. Whatever the case, Jaffa became his home. He began playing at the Arianna nightclub, the bastion of Israelis from Salonika, and at the height of his Israeli career he was a partner in four nightclubs.
One night, a young singer just out of the army happened to visit his nightclub. Lucy Maloul was born in Morocco in 1941. At the age of six she lost her mother and was sent to Palestine with Youth Aliyah. In Palestine she wandered among institutions and kibbutzim: Beit Alpha, Amir and Kiryat Yearim, and her name was changed to Aliza. Maloul was drafted, finished a paramedics' course, and served in a clinic in the Tank Corps. Shaul Bieber, the education officer of the corps, heard her singing at a party and suggested she join the Tank Corps entertainment troupe. "He told her: 'Come to the troupe, we need a voice like yours,' and in the audition she met Nissim Azikri, who managed the troupe," says her daughter, Sani Azikri-Carmel, "and they started dating."
There are several versions of the fateful meeting between Aris San and Aliza. "One day she was walking with Nissim to a Jaffa nightclub were Aris San was performing," says Azikri-Carmel. "He approached their table and spoke to them, and my mother felt the fire that had been ignited between them. But she was Nissim Azikri's girlfriend, and they got married and had a daughter, Fani ."
According to another version, Azikri was performing at Club Med and San heard her, was enthusiastic and invited her to sing in his Jaffa club. Moshe Ben Ami, the accordionist who performed with Aris San for about a year and a half, says that he introduced them. "It was a chance meeting," he says. "I was performing with Aliza in Ashkelon, because her regular accordionist was busy and she asked me to replace him. We returned to Tel Aviv by taxi, and she said she was going to sign a contract at the Kalif club and I said I would drop into Zorba, Aris San's club, and I took her to Jaffa on my motor scooter. On the way we passed the Habima Theater; Nissim was there at a rehearsal, and she told him to go home and send Fani's babysitter home. Then we drove to Zorba and sat there for about half an hour, and Aris was onstage all the time, playing and singing, and nothing happened between them.
"The next day I went to Cafe Noga, next to the Mugrabi, the entire entertainment industry was sitting there, and he approached me and asked: 'Who's that girl who was with you yesterday?' I said, 'That's not a girl, that's a singer.' So he said: 'You don't say, I've been looking for a singer for a long time, and I can't find one.' He turned to her impresario, and that's how the connection was made."
Azikri was slim and pretty, like an exotic china doll. "Beautiful and terrific, you couldn't define her origins, she had slanted eyes and straight hair, she looked as though she was from the Far East," says Tzedi Tzarfati, who this year directed the musical "Sigal" at Habima, inspired by the love story of Azikri and San. "I met her at the same time. I was an actor, we hung around in Cafe Kassit, the country was small and everyone knew everyone else. She was a laughing, crazy, very temperamental person. She didn't think twice about anything she did. He was a romantic, he courted every female around. She called him a maniac. He thought it would be another one-night stand, and suddenly they both lost their heads."
Aliza Azikri had been very popular as an army troupe soloist, but when she completed her service she couldn't find her niche. Songwriter Nachum Heiman met her during that period and recorded her singing some of the songs he had composed. "Meir Harnik told me about her," says Heiman. "He said: 'There's a singer who should sing your songs.'" Heiman is unable to say exactly when that was. "When we were young and attractive," he says, "in an undefined time, when all the legends had dreamy colors. I came to her, she lived on Hahashmonaim Street in Tel Aviv. The door was opened by Nissim Azikri, her husband. She had just come out of the shower in some transparent outfit and she was as beautiful as the moon and the sun combined. I said to her: 'Shalom, I'm Nahtche, I came from the kibbutz, I wanted to offer you a song.' And we recorded 'Tziyur Bitzva'im' (Colored Drawing ) with the Gilboa Quintet and became true friends.
"Afterward, at the Mizrahi Song Festival, she sang a song of mine, 'Haduda'im Natnu Reiham' (The Scent of the Mandrakes ), which became a classic. I consider her a wonderful singer. She sat on that hidden fence of vocal expression that is between East and West, which is invisible and incomprehensible to many. She knew exactly how much to trill. She made the headlines just when this style was first appearing on the mainstream stage."
A professional and romantic relationship developed between Aliza Azikri and Aris San, which filled every possible gossip column. He started writing songs for her. Together they recorded her song "Na'ara Mamash Otzar" (A Real Treasure of a Girl ). She taught him Hebrew; he composed songs for her. And Nissim Azikri? For years he played the role of victim, with the press reporting that Aliza had abandoned him for her crazy love for San.
"That's what my sister and I thought all those years. But it's really not true," says Sani. "Nissim traveled with a Habima play and cheated on my mother with some actress. But mother never corrected us, and Father Azikri maintained silence. One day he called me over and told me the truth: 'I don't know how it happened, but your mother felt that something was wrong and wrung it out of me, and then everything blew up.'"
The Azikris separated, and the professional and romantic relationship between San and Aliza created a new and unfamiliar type of energy here. "He brought her into the niche of Mizrahi [Mediterranean style] music," says Tzarfati. "She came from an army entertainment troupe, which says a lot, and which was very far from that. But she soon took off in artistic terms, turned the country upside-down with 'Na'ara Mamash Otzar.' Because of her he began writing in Hebrew, and his career also turned around thanks to her.
"During that period the concept of Mizrahi song didn't exist. There weren't any Mizrahi singers as yet and that's why the entire world of Mediterranean music worships him to this day, because he was the first to play an electric guitar like a bouzouki. Nobody in the world had done that before him. He changed the face of music in Israel.
"The establishment adopted him. At first as something exotic, later thanks to his music. He became an Israeli icon and all the bigwigs came to see him. The only record my father ever bought was one by Aris San, and I immediately closed all the shutters so that none of the neighbors would hear it, heaven forfend."
In hindsight, Aris San's appearance seems amusing. His thin Clark Cable mustache, his short stature, his elegant suits and his endless shimmying with the guitar look ridiculous today. But in the 1960s his Jaffa club, Arianna, became a pagan temple for senior officers and members of Mapai (forerunner of Labor and then the ruling party ), who loved to have a good time. "There were lines at night around the Jaffa clock tower, all the way to the club," said Aliza Azikri in the documentary by Dalia Mevorach and Dani Dothan, "The Mystery of Aris San," which was screened at the Jerusalem International Film Festival in 2007.
It is not clear how San managed to receive Israeli citizenship. Maybe it was his patron Mordechai Tzarfati (known as Mentesh ), who lobbied his friend Moshe Dayan, who asked Ben-Gurion to help. "And he carried around that passport with great pride," says Azikri-Carmel. "It's not clear how a boy of 17 comes here and falls in love with the country, falls in love with Israelis, and becomes more of an Israeli patriot than a Greek one, when his entire family remained there."
Ruth Dayan recalls the friendship with Aris San. Of course she does. He and his band played at the double wedding of her children Assi and Yael, who got married on the same day. "We had a long acquaintance with Aris San," she says. "Moshe and I loved to go to Arianna on Friday or Saturday night. We would go to the movies and then to Arianna. We loved to dance there. Everyone loved being there."
Did Moshe Dayan help Aris San receive Israeli citizenship?
"It's possible. At the time I didn't take an interest, I didn't even know that he wasn't a citizen and that he wasn't Jewish."
The way San appeared in Israel, the speed with which he received Israeli citizenship, and his close relationship with top army brass, raised doubts about his legality. Suddenly there were reports and rumors that he was actually a spy. "It's not clear for whom he could have spied," says Azikri-Carmel. "They said he hid a camera in his guitar. Mother always said that with all due respect, he wasn't intelligent enough to be a spy." San denied the rumors out of hand and continued to appear in the gossip columns.
The artistic collaboration and the affair between San and Azikri lasted for about four years. And maybe it could have lasted forever. But apparently not. "One day some man from one of his nightclubs came to Mother and said: 'Do you know that he's married?' And she replied: 'And I'm pregnant,'" says Azikri-Carmel. "He concealed it not only from my mother but from the whole world. It's hard to understand in today's terms. They were a couple to all intents and purposes, he used to come to sleep at her house and at the same time was conducting a double life, and she didn't suspect a thing. When she told him she was pregnant, he wanted her to have an abortion and she said absolutely not. He panicked and their affair ended with a major blow-up."
The Tel Aviv Bohemian crowd was astonished. Aris San married? The news magazine Haolam Hazeh, which couldn't forgive its own intelligence failure, came out with a cover story: "Aliza Azikri is about to give birth to Aris San's illegitimate son." That son was a daughter.
Sani Azikri-Carmel, 42, tall and slender, looks like both her mother and her father. She has a Pilates studio in Tel Aviv, on the site where Mia Arbatova, the legendary ballet teacher, had her studio, and is head of Pilates at the Wingate Institute, Israel's National Centre for Physical Education and Sport. She studied dance and movement and has translated her parents' artistic and creative talent into body language. Although her mother and Nissim Azikri were divorced, she grew up to a certain extent in a home atmosphere with two parents. Azikri gave her his family name and was present in her life as a father.
"My mother lived on Hahashmonaim, corner of Kiryat Sefer, and he lived on Yehuda Halevi, corner of Hahashmonaim, and they were together all the time. He was the father of Fani, my sister, and according to the photographs it looks as though he lived in our house. He was present at my birth. I was born on the eve of Yom Kippur. In the morning Aris San was with Mother, they quarreled and Mother said that some blows were exchanged and then she went to hospital. The rabbi at the hospital told her that I was holy and that I atoned for all her sins. When she looked for a name for me she deliberated between Cafri and Sani."
The first thing she recalls from her childhood is that she had two fathers. "They always told me that I could choose whomever I liked, Father Azikri or Aris San. When Nissim made me angry, he would say: 'No problem, go to Aris San.'"
But you couldn't simply go to Aris San. He lived in New York. He left Israel several months after Sani was born. He was angry that he didn't receive the David's Harp award for outstanding Israeli artists. "He wasn't really present in my life," she says. "I was aware of the fact that I had a father called Aris San. I met him for the first time when we were in the United States, at the age of seven. I remember he took us to a Chinese restaurant, and they prepared the food before our eyes and it was amazing, and we played hide-and-seek and catch with him, and from then on we began to be in touch by mail and telephone."
When she was nine, Aris San came to visit. "He called me 'Doll, Maideleh,' and I insisted that I wasn't his daughter, that I already had a father. I stayed awake all night listening to what was happening in the living room between him and my mother. From that moment Mother, my sister and I began calling Aris San 'His Honor,' in order to distinguish between him and Father Azikri.
"Anyone who hears today that I'm the daughter of Aris San and Aliza Azikri wants to touch this Greek tragedy. Half the country says they knew Aris San personally and the other half says that I sat on their knees when I was little. We attended the play 'Sigal' and heard people behind us chattering, stories without any truth to them."
In 1973 Aliza was invited to tour in the U.S. She took her two daughters and stayed in New Rochelle, New York. "Mother performed and made millions. We lived in a huge villa, we had a full-time nanny. I studied at a private Jewish school." In 1977 the family returned to Israel after financial complications with Azikri's impresarios. The girls were sent to Kibbutz Hagoshrim, and their mother returned to the U.S. to rehabilitate herself financially.
Azikri-Carmel remembers the period in the kibbutz with great emotion as a time of pure happiness. But not from the first moment. "We came from America, I wore dresses and pigtails and I didn't know Hebrew. Mother stayed with us for two weeks and disappeared. At first it was very hard. The children pushed and tormented us, there was only one girl there whose mother was British and we would speak English to each other in secret. But later on, the moment I started wearing their clothes, I became one of them. The children's house? Fortunately we all suffered from the same thing. Everyone had the same feeling that their parents weren't with them. Once someone asked, 'What's better, a mother nearby on the kibbutz whom you see in the afternoon, or a distant mother like Sani's who sends packages?' Everyone said that a mother who sends packages and gifts is preferable."
Was anyone at Hagoshrim impressed by the name Aris San?
"They knew who he was, they saw him on Fridays on television and there were giggles in the dining room, but there was a feeling that they had less respect for him because he was a Mizrahi singer, music that we don't listen to."
In 1983, when she was in 10th grade, her mother returned to Israel and she went to live with her in Tel Aviv. She attended Ironi Aleph High School, but a year later returned to the kibbutz. "I ran away from there. I didn't understand why we had to stand and say 'Teacher' [on the kibbutz teachers are addressed by their first names], and wear a school uniform."
Aliza Azikri didn't continue living in Tel Aviv much longer either. She returned from the U.S. emotionally and physically spent, and decided to stop performing. On one of her trips to Eilat, to a house she owned, she was crossing the road when she was severely injured by a passing car. She was hospitalized for a long time and it was feared she would be unable to walk again.
After the accident she stayed in Eilat and severed herself almost completely from her previous life. "At the age of 50 she retired," says Azikri-Carmel. "She studied languages, volunteered for all kinds of things, but didn't sing again."
Azikri-Carmel's connection with her biological father was conducted mainly by mail. He wrote her in Hebrew in English letters. "He always apologized for not being in touch with me, but he wrote that he always loved me and worried about me. He sent me a bicycle for my bat mitzvah and everyone was very excited. The entire kibbutz came to see the marvel that had arrived from America, and the photographer came to take my picture with the bicycle."
When she was drafted, she asked for a combat position far from home. "I came from the kibbutz, I wanted to be a fighter, so they told me: 'The fact that you're the daughter of Aris San and Aliza Azikri doesn't mean you can do whatever you want." She was sent to serve in the military prosecutor's office.
The first significant meeting with her father was at about the age of 19, when he came to visit Israel. "My sister told me: 'Look, Sani, His Honor is in Israel.' The paper wrote that he was at the Hilton Hotel. I went there in uniform and approached the reception desk; I asked if Aris San was staying here, they told me he was. I said I was his daughter and wanted to wait for him. I waited in the lobby from the morning, but I wasn't sure what he looked like, so the guy at reception told me he was tall and wore suits. I kept looking at the door so I wouldn't miss him.
"And then he arrived, short and chubby, wearing a ridiculous wig and a sweatshirt, and approached the reception desk. I waited, I wanted to hear them say 'Good morning, Mr. San,' so I wouldn't commit a blunder. Afterward I stood next to him at the desk and he immediately recognized me, and said: 'Bubeleh' and we embraced and started to cry and all the people around us were crying along with me; they were very emotional. And then we went upstairs and he said: 'You're a mature girl now, so I can tell you. I didn't want to leave you, but the press drove us crazy, and I'm married, I have a wife and children.' He returned to the U.S. and invited me to America and I went."
San opened a nightclub in New York called Sirocco, where he did what he had done in Jaffa but on a larger scale. Very large. His name was whispered everywhere, and very soon the place was too small to contain everyone who knocked on the door. Among the regulars were famous movie actors who loved the relaxed atmosphere. In the film by Mevorach and Dothan, Anthony Quinn is seen dancing the Sirtaki, Telly Savalas whispers to San, and Elizabeth Taylor waits at the entrance to be seated. Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. are also there. At the height of his New York career, Aris San had a white Rolls Royce with a black chauffeur. Much more than he could have dreamed of in Jaffa.
His daughter Sani visited him when she took her post-army trip with her boyfriend, Ido Carmel. "We took a coast-to-coast trip on a motorcycle; afterward we stayed in Los Angeles. I ran an athletic club for women there. Part of the time I was in New York. I went to the Sirocco every time Father informed me that the coast was clear because his wife, Poppy, didn't want to see me there."
Ruth Dayan was also one of the regular visitors to Sirocco. "Every time I traveled to New York on behalf of the United Jewish Appeal, or Maskit or Tel Hashomer, late at night, together with my secretary, we went to Sirocco. It was a huge hall and he played onstage, but when he saw us he would make sure to have us seated in the first row. There was a good bar and good music there, as in Greece. Later I read that he had gotten into trouble. It's strange, I knew him as a naive person whom everyone loved. To this day I don't understand what happened."
Dani Dothan, writer, filmmaker, musician, soloist of The Clique band, met San in New York in 1982, when he wrote a profile of him for the now-defunct Monitin magazine. "I met him by chance and he dragged me to the club and hosted me every day for a week," says Dothan. "He was very charismatic and friendly and a very talented musician. He did amazing things with the guitar. He was a fun person. He showed me piles of letters from all kinds of important people in Israel, including Arik Sharon. I think there was a very strong musical connection between him and Aliza, one of those rare miracles."
Azikri-Carmel returned from the U.S. and married Ido, who works in construction. They have two sons - Shane ("one of ours" in an American Indian language ) 16, and Orian , six.
Meanwhile, in New York, San's wealth began to work against him. It attracted drugs and "respected" businessmen from the Italian Mafia, a combination that turned out to be lethal. San started to go downhill, gained weight and "was deep into cocaine," according to his New York-Israeli impresario, Elias Dishi, who appears in the film by Mevorach and Dothan. One day the police seized a large quantity of drugs from one of the mafiosos who was at Sirocco, and arrested San for interrogation. The FBI suggested he cooperate and turn informer, but he remained silent. San was convicted of drug dealing and served a two-year prison sentence.
He was released from prison broken and defeated, and nothing was as it had been. Sirocco was closed. Deep in debt, San opened a poultry business in Harlem and dreamed of a comeback. Dishi promised he would be a big success; they would travel to Israel and he would be rehabilitated there. Meanwhile he got San jobs singing at bar mitzvahs and Jewish weddings. At some point he opened a nightclub called Cosmico, but it was unsuccessful.
In 1991 Azikri-Carmel was in New York, and arranged with San to register his paternity at the Israeli consulate. "To this day, the name of my father is missing on my Israeli identity card," she says. "I asked him to take care of the matter and we began the process. And then suddenly in the middle he informed me that he was traveling to Hungary for a performance tour. I said: 'But we're right in the middle.' Then he said, 'What are you worried about, I'll come back and we'll finish everything, now I need the money.' Later they said he had fled from the New York Mafia."
San traveled to Budapest, but never returned. He wandered around there for several months, performed here and there, lived in a wretched apartment house. Once he was ambushed by unknown persons in the stairwell and badly beaten. One day he was walking down the street with his impresario Dishi, felt unwell and was rushed to a hospital. "I was in Los Angeles at the time," says Azikri-Carmel, "and in the middle of the night a journalist from Israel contacted me and asked for my reaction to the fact that my father was dead. I told her that Father had died last year, referring to Father Azikri, so she said there was a rumor in Israel that Aris San was dead. I was in shock. I called his wife, Poppy, pretending to be a fan from Israel, and she confirmed it."
Rumors about San's death, like those about his appearance in Israel and his entire life in fact, continued to fuel the legend. Dishi was the only one who saw his body and he was the one who arranged for its cremation, claiming that the family had requested this. He returned to New York with the urn of ashes, and there the funeral was held. Dishi is convinced that Aris San was murdered in the hospital; that the Italian Mafia had completed the job as planned. There are also those who are convinced to this day that Aris San is alive.
"It became absurd," says Azikri-Carmel. "Nobody knows the truth about his death either, and that arouses a lot of interest, like that surrounding Elvis. Nobody saw the body, except for Dishi, and Dishi can't be found anywhere today. The cause of death is not clear either. Until her dying day, Mother believed he was alive, that he had changed his identity and was still walking around somewhere."
Aliza Azikri died of cancer two and a half years ago. To a certain degree her death was also mysterious and incomprehensible. She ignored the signs of the illness that had apparently been present for many years, and chose not to take care of herself. At the last moment she was transferred from Eilat to the Beilinson Medical Center in Petah Tikva, where she died a few hours later. "The doctor said she had a huge lump in her chest," says Azikri-Carmel, "and that it had been there for a long time. She smoked a lot, three to four packs a day. Whenever they told her to stop smoking she would light up another cigarette."
In recent years, Aris San and Aliza Azikri have been borne on waves of nostalgia and longing. Evidence of that is "Sigal," the play at Habima, which was the initiative of the previous general director Yaakov Agmon, and the show "Na'ara Mamash Otzar," a Kobi Herling production that is being performed all over the country.
For Azikri-Carmel, longing for her mother and her two fathers raises melancholy thoughts. "Artists are so self-centered that they don't have time for children," she says. "When I came to visit Aris San at the hotel, I asked to see pictures of his children and he said he didn't have any, but in his room he had arranged many pictures of himself on the mirror. My relationship with Mother was also complicated. She wasn't here, even if for all the right reasons. When I needed someone I would speak to Ido. He was always with me. Fani was also my mother to some extent.
"Today I see the foreign workers who leave their children with their grandmothers and come here to work and send money home; my mother did the same thing. And yes, to her last day she loved Aris. She had nobody except for him. It was the love of her life. Dishi told me that Aris was crazy about her, too, until his dying day." W
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August 12, 2011 Ralph Peters State Socialism's Ultimate Product is a Permanent Underclass of Entitled Thugs It's been over three decades since the magnificent, rabble-rousing and ultimately silly English punk group, The Clash, recorded its stirring riot-anthem, "The Guns of Brixton." Now the streets of not-so-Merry Olde England have been trashed and torched again, but the similarity in thuggish behavior masks radically different inspirations and aims. The Brit riots of the 1970s and early 1980s arose from the death throes of labor-union tyranny over an entire nation; from the birthing pains of a post-modern economy, and from urban collisions between races. Today's Swinging-a-club London has been wracked by inbred street criminals with a sense of entitlement. It's important to get the terminology right: The events earlier this week in London, Manchester, Birmingham and other English cities had nothing to do with capital-A Anarchy. Nutty as its view of the world may be, Anarchy has some intellectual heft, as well as theorists reaching back to Bakunin. The rampages in England certainly were the end-product of an ideology—state socialism—but there was nothing consciously ideological about the hooligans who looted, burned, broke, beat and ultimately killed. They were just out for a high old time, to burn off some unintelligible rage and grab a new pair of Nikes. And credit where it's due: The leftwing Labor Party members of Parliament who howled that all this was the result of austerity measures in the wake of government budget-cutting were absolutely right. From Athens to Albany, a half-century and more of welfare "generosity" addicted multiple generations to hand-outs, to a drip-feed of economic narcotics. Well, when you cut off an addict's supply, he tends to get out of hand. The media rushed to note that, among those arrested in London, some lawbreakers were gainfully employed, even educated. But most weren't. These riots reflected the savage opportunism of a deeply embedded underclass that, with government assistance, has redefined poverty as a tolerable condition, complete with hi-def televisions, cell phones and flash street gear. They had been conditioned to believe that they were entitled to council flats, endless hand-outs, and lives of petty lawlessness. Now they want their "rights." The cliché is absolutely correct: The problem with Socialism is that, sooner or later, you run out of other people's money. Well, Britain ran out. To its credit, the Cameron government enacted serious budget cuts to begin to put its fiscal house in order (something our own Congress refuses to do). And in the wake of the riots, Prime Minister David Cameron, who just may have a strain of Mrs. Thatcher in him, stated firmly that there was no sociological excuse for the rioting; that hand-outs had created a permanent, parasitical underclass with an irrational sense of entitlement; and that his government would not be intimidated or deterred. (Can any reader imagine President Obama blaming our own underclass for anything?) Still, the United Kingdom will face additional violence over the coming years—if not months. Nor were these riots isolated events. We've now seen successive years of paralyzing riots in Greece and other bankrupt Euro-zone states. The wealth-redistribution governments of southern Europe have run out of wealth and are in far worse shape than Britain. As austerity measures force deep cuts in giveaway programs, the pampered Lumpens from below and benefit-crippled government and unionized workers will generate far more disruption than we have seen to date. (Stir in Europe's hopeless immigration problems and you have the most-volatile political situation since 1933.) Well, Europe remains my favorite museum, but I'm ultimately more concerned with the message the London riots have for the United States. In our own country, government poverty-peddling has created a vast, functionally illiterate, unskilled, unmotivated, amoral and often downright criminal underclass the size of which dwarfs the Lumpenproletariats of Europe. And the Democratic Party is going to fight to the brink of our economic destruction to keep urban minorities and poor rural whites narcotized and paralyzed. I credit LBJ's Great Society programs with good intentions. A son of working poverty who lived through the Dust-Bowl years and the Great Depression, Johnson may have been a political scoundrel, but he genuinely identified with the poor. It was his misfortune to come to Senate seniority and then the presidency at a time when state-socialist solutions seemed viable and, indeed, had the blessing of the East-Coast intelligentsia that excited LBJ's jealousy as well as his spite. The Great Society's poverty-alleviation programs were supposed to lift the poor up into more-productive, better-rewarded lives. The problem is that the programs didn't work as intended. Instead, they made poverty livable—while destroying the traditional black families that had been so great a strength in once-thriving communities, and turning poor-whites into food-stamp and disability-check junkies. Instead of furnishing incentives to climb out of poverty, state-socialist programs everywhere provided just enough comfort to make poverty a viable lifestyle choice. Our revels now are ended. The money isn't there anymore. Worse, the competition for government hand-outs in our own, formerly self-reliant country has expanded exponentially, with my greedy fellow Baby-Boomers more articulate, organized and motivated to protect their own more-lavish welfare programs ("What? You expect me to shell out a two-dollar co-payment for my kidney transplant? I'm calling AARP and then my Congressman…"). In the coming Congressional duels-for-dollars, the Boomers will beat the underclass every time. Think you saw rage in the heyday of the Black Panthers? They were Cub Scouts. Meth-head rural whites will be less of a problem because they're spread thinly, but poor urban populations are going to blow. It won't be tomorrow—but wait until the cuts begin to bite. There are few things more destructive of humans and their societies than a profound sense of entitlement. (And yes: Anyone who lived through the late 1960s knows that widespread rioting can happen here.) I blame the Democratic Party (with which I otherwise side on a number of domestic matters, from safeguarding our natural heritage to closing tax loopholes). If Democrats really cared about the poor they consistently con and cajole into voting for them, they'd be leading the fight to provide good-quality, disciplined inner-city schools purged of incompetent teachers; they'd recognize that the brutality of lifelong poverty trumps spurious claims of police brutality; they'd fight to keep criminals off the streets; and they'd punish parents whose children run wild in the streets. (British political leaders have promised to evict the families of hundreds of rioters from public housing—can you imagine any American politician taking such a stand and making it stick?) The Democrats don't care about the poor. They care about votes. And those poverty-stricken electoral plantations Democratic politicians oversee are sacrosanct. Education reform? Please. An objective course in American history would note that the Democrats backed the slave-holding South; supported or sympathized with the Confederacy; welcomed the rise of the Ku Klux Klan; drafted and passed every one of the South's Jim Crow laws, fought for rigid segregation into the last third of the twentieth century, and still foster racial separatism, if with a new "liberal" face. The poor? Let them eat Doritos, bought with food stamps. Democrats make a great to-do about "jobs, jobs, jobs," but, in a globalized economy, competitive workers need "qualifications, qualifications, qualifications." And you won't get qualifications in inner-city schools. Oh, and if any minority members escape the slums through hard work and perseverance, do what you can to suck them into those graduate-level welfare programs called "teachers' unions." What the Democrats have done to poor Americans is a grotesque and massive crime against humanity. And they're up in arms about Guantanamo. So where are we? Budgets will be cut. State-socialist programs will bear some of the pain. When the spoils are divided, the Boomers will beat the boys down in the 'hood. And the permanent underclass the Democrats have created, expanded and exploited will make its sense of entitlement plain—in the streets. To paraphrase yet another cliché: We are all Londoners now. Family Security Matters Contributing Editor and Fox News Strategic Analyst Ralph Peters is the author of the soon-to-be-released "greatest hits" collection, Lines Of Fire (September 19), as well as of 26 other books.
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By Denton Ashway Sports Columnist It makes no difference how hard they try. They just can't kill track and field. Proof came over the weekend, when Athens found itself in the center of the Southeastern Conference universe. Georgia hosted the conference ...more
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It makes no difference how hard they try. They just can't kill track and field.Proof came over the weekend, when Athens found itself in the center of the Southeastern Conference universe. Georgia hosted the conference track championships at the beautifully refurbished Spec Towns Track.Track fans aren't many anymore, but they're much. They love their sport with an unwavering passion. They feel nothing beats the essence of competition found in track and field.It's that basic competition which we first discovered as children. Who can run the fastest? Jump the highest? Throw the farthest? What could be purer than that?Sadly, just about anything, once the purity of the sport is destroyed by performance enhancing drugs, an epidemic which threatened to destroy the entire sport.Give the sport credit for policing itself, cleaning itself up, and ridding itself of notorious miscreants such as Marion Jones. The larger battle remains: image rehabilitation and popularity restoration.Had you been in Athens Sunday for the final day of competition, you'd have to agree that track is making a comeback. Fans packed the grandstands, lined the backstretch in front of Lumpkin Street, and surrounded the east curve in raucous support of the high jumpers.A crowd even gathered along Pinecrest Drive, atop the hill at the west end of the track — on the outside of the fence — to catch glimpses of the runners as they sped past.The crowd proved enthusiastic and supportive as well, offering the standard rhythmic clapping for the jumpers, and the collective "oooooooh!" if a runner made a big move on the backstretch.It was a crowd thoroughly entertained by a group of athletes who collectively comprise the best collegiate track conference in the country. The competition proved outstanding.The Arkansas iron man, Dorian Ulrey, copped the SEC Commissioner's Trophy as the high scorer among men by tallying 25 points. Ulrey doubled, winning the 800 and the 1,500, and then added a fourth place finish in the 5,000.Ulrey led the Razorbacks to a 1-2-3-7 finish in the 800, good for 26 points, and a 1-2-3 sweep in the 1,500, adding another 24.That block of points catapulted Arkansas to the men's team championship with 157.5 points. Florida finished second with 140, Georgia was third with 99, and LSU fourth with 78."This is what we came here to do, rack up a lot of points in the 1500 and win the team title," Ulrey told Zach Lawson, arkansasrazorbacks.com. "It feels good to experience this as a team. We train and push each other all year, and this is what the work amounts to."Now, that's refreshing. The meet's top scorer is all about the team.LSU employed dominance in the sprints and hurdles to win the women's team title with 146 points, followed by Florida (116), Arkansas (107) and Georgia (94).Semoy Hackett won the 100, finished second in the 200, and ran a leg on the winning 4 x 100 relay team for LSU. That gave her 20.5 points and the Commissioner's Trophy for being the top scorer on the women's side. "I'm proud of everyone here for the way we competed in the meet to win this team title," Hackett told Will Stafford, LSU Associate SID. For an individual sport, the stars sure do support the team concept.Other meet highlights included Liz Costello of Tennessee winning the women's 5,000 and 10,000, with Georgia's Bridget Lyons right behind her each time. Tennessee's Ellen Wortham charged down the stretch to catch LSU's Cassandra Tate in a blistering 400 hurdle final.The men's 100 featured a blanket finish won by Terrell Wilks of Florida in 10.11. Seventh place was 10.2. Kirani James of Alabama destroyed the field in the men's 400 with a quick 44.86.Typical of the meet's outstanding performances was that of Georgia triple jumper Maria Augutis. The sophomore from Gothenberg, Sweden, in second place after four jumps, uncorked a winning leap on her fifth attempt. It came within a quarter of an inch of beating her personal best — by a foot."This is so incredible!" Augutis said after the meet. "But it's a perfect day. It's a great day."All track fans would agree. Contents of this site are © Copyright 2011 Forsyth News, Cumming, GA. All rights reserved. Privacy policy and Terms of service
Merkel's broadside comes at a time when doubts are rising in Europe as to the efficacy of bailout packages put together for euro-zone countries struggling under mountains of debt. Attention in recent weeks, however, has focused once again on Greece as ...more
German Chancellor on the Offensive: Merkel Blasts Greece over Retirement Age, Vacation - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday evening that Greece should raise its retirement age. German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday evening blasted Greece and demanded that Athens raise the retirement age and reduce vacation days. Germany will help, she said, but only if indebted countries help themselves. It was the kind of criticism that one isn't used to hearing from Angela Merkel. Normally sober and analytical to a fault, the German chancellor on Tuesday evening blasted a handful of heavily indebted southern European countries, saying they needed to raise retirement ages and reduce vacation days.
Keeping debt under control, Merkel said in a speech at an event held by her party, the conservative Christian Democratic Union, in the western German town of Meschede, isn't the only priority. "It is also important that people in countries like Greece, Spain and Portugal are not able to retire earlier than in Germany -- that everyone exerts themselves more or less equally. That is important." She added: "We can't have a common currency where some get lots of vacation time and others very little. That won't work in the long term." There are indeed significant differences between retirement ages in the two countries. Greece announced reforms to its pension system in early 2010 aimed at reducing early retirement and raising the average age of retirement to 63. Incentives to keep workers in the labor market beyond 65 have likewise been adopted. Germany voted in 2007 to raise the retirement age from 65 to 67 over the next several years. In January of this year, Merkel proposed a
"pact for competitiveness" that would force EU members to coordinate their national policies on issues like tax, wages and retirement ages. A watered-down version of the pact was agreed upon at a summit in March.
'Soft Restructuring'
Merkel's broadside comes at a time when doubts are rising in Europe as to the efficacy of bailout packages put together for euro-zone countries struggling under mountains of debt. Attention in recent weeks, however, has focused once again on Greece as it has become clear that, despite 110 billion ($157 billion) in aid granted to the country in 2010, Athens may need more. On Tuesday, following two days of meetings to address Greece's plight, top euro-zone officials for the first time indicated that some sort of debt restructuring may be in store for Athens after all. The European Union had been adamant in its refusal to consider a partial Greek default for fear that it could destabilize the markets. But on Tuesday, Jean-Claude Juncker, who heads up the Euro group -- made up of the finance ministers of the 17 euro-zone member states -- said that a so-called "soft restructuring of Greek debt" may be possible. European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn seconded the idea, saying "a voluntary extension of loan maturities, a so-called re-profiling or rescheduling on a voluntary basis, could be examined." A prerequisite for such a move, Juncker said, was that Greece raise 50 billion through the privatization of state-owned assets. He said he expects that at least 15 billion in assets to be sold this year. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said that an aggressive privatization strategy could cut his country's debt -- currently at 150 percent of Greek gross domestic product -- by 20 percentage points.
Intended for a Domestic Audience
Merkel's sharp tone on Tuesday evening was almost certainly intended primarily for a domestic audience. Her junior coalition partner, the business-friendly Free Democrats, have been vocally skeptical of additional euro-zone bailout packages, even though they voted in favor of the European Stability Mechanism -- a permanent euro backstop set to enter force in 2013 -- at a weekend party convention. And the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to Merkel's Christian Democrats, is considering polling its members on whether it should support an additional aid package for Greece. "The lesson from Greece is that despite the euro rescue scheme, it is in no better a position today than a year ago," Alexander Dobrindt, the CSU's general secretary, told the Munich-based paper Münchner Merkur. "Our members have to be consulted on such a basic question as whether we should tolerate a different Europe." Others among Merkel's conservatives have also voiced resistance to the European Stability Mechanism, making it possible that she will have to rely on votes from the opposition in the German parliament, which will vote on the euro backstop in the autumn.
'Exertion Must Be Demonstrated'
Such concerns, it would seem, were not far from Merkel's mind as she spoke on Tuesday evening. "Of course we want the euro and of course we don't want to see that a country goes broke, so to speak, and that we all then follow," she said. "But we can't just show solidarity and then say that these countries can continue as before." "Yes, Germany will help. But Germany only helps when the others exert themselves as well. And that exertion must be demonstrated."
Among Germany's opposition, however, Merkel's comments were not at all well received. "Ms. Merkel is once again opting for populism over substantive arguments," opposition Social Democrat leader Sigmar Gabriel told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "It is shameful that Merkel is gambling away the European idea ... only to receive praise from the tabloids. She is fomenting anti-European resentment." The Greens were equally scathing in their critique of Merkel. Green Party co-head Cem Özdemir told SPIEGEL ONLINE that Merkel's "arbitrary selection of specific issues doesn't help countries like Greece, Portugal and Spain nor does it reflect reality." Daniel Cohn-Bendit, head of the Greens in European Parliament, called Merkel's comments "absurd." "Of course people in southern Europe work a lot," he said. Instead of "looking for cheap applause," Merkel should make concrete proposals, he added.
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The program of the festival, which opens on May 18 and runs through June 11, includes an impressive 90 choreographies and a new event, the Athens Dance Week, full of events in off-stage venues such as exhibition halls and museums. ...more
10th Athens Dance festival 10th Athens Dance festival ANA-Mpa/Athens' annual Dance Festival marks its 10th anniversary this year with a record participation of 73 dance troupes. The program of the festival, which opens on May 18 and runs through June 11, includes an impressive 90 choreographies and a new event, the Athens Dance Week, full of events in off-stage venues such as exhibition halls and museums. Athens Dance Week will run from May 22 to 28, with performances in unconventional venues such as dance studios, exhibition halls, and even the Acropolis Museum, the Benaki Museum, the Museum of Islamic Art, and the Theocharakis Foundation for the Arts and Music.ana-mpa A total of 475 works by up-and-coming Greek choreographers have been showcased in the Festival to date. More details on the subscriber's page of ANA-MPA | Subscription request form
Our daggers and arms though preserved in museums are never preferred to be manufactured again. Let our Lidder river be lifted from pollution, our Sonamarg be spared, and Aharbal and Kungwaethon Duksum not to be smeared. Let Kolahoii Glacier and Gangbal ...more
Whose heritage Lastupdate:- Thu, 19 May 2011 18:30:00 GMT GreaterKashmir.com
Heritage is variedly described by the scholars but simply taken to mean what present generation can preserve as legacy for future or what past generation has passed on to the present one . It includes both tangible aspects like buildings, monuments landscapes, books, work of art artifacts and intangible ones which include folklore, traditions, language and knowledge. More importantly natural heritage including biodiversity comes under its ambit. Nations have since known to preserve their heritage and reasonably different movements have been launched from time to time. Right from Athens charter of 1931 to Charter for preserving Islamic heritage of late 2008-all were aimed to preserve heritage. Our heritage includes language and literature, gardens and parks, monuments and forts, meadows and pastures, lakes and rivers, art and architecture, music, folklore and more importantly our biodiversity. Our rich poetry includes wakhs of Lala Arifa , Shurks of Sheikh ul Alam (RA), melodies of Habba khatoon, odes of Mahmmod Gami, Rasul Mir, poems of Mehjoor and Azad. Similarly, Mystic poetry of Rahman Dar, Shams Faqir, Rahim Shaeb, Sauch Kral, Ahad Zagar are wroth mentioning. Additionally, our apt proverbs, brain teasing riddles which have been relegated need to reused and popularized in the masses more particularly among younger generations. Our ballads like famous Akanandun reminding for sacrifices for some better cause barely strike our ears now, loitering Ladisha with signaling songs are no more now, Gulraez of Maqbool Shah Kralwari is seldom sung in a remote corner of Kashmir.Our Persian poetry from Baba Daud Khaki, Mazhari, Mulla Tahir, Famous Gani (Kashmiri), Fitrati, Furughi. Mullah Muhammad Taufiq Khaja Habibbualah Hubi is alien to all excepting a few. Our Mughal Gardens begin to be bereft of cold crystalline water flowing through canals since centuries. The famous Mughal architecture visible in these gardens need to be preserved with more elegance. The magnificent chinars ask for more care to see theses standing in future. Our water resources which include world famous Dal Lake, Wular Lake, Anchar Lake, Manasbal Lake and bewitching mountainous lakes need more attention both from people and administration. River Jhelum (vihat) now shrinking needs much more attention to keep it flowing unlike Nallah Ma`ar which has gone. Kokernag Spring from which water to Afghan Governors was supplied needs extraordinary attention to preserve it for generations to come. Achabal Spring where was once country houses of Kings of Kashmir and some Mughals calls for extra care from government and people.Can we revive our painting what was known Kashmiri Qalam? Similarly calligraphy is declining from the art of Kashmir. Production of our silk has shrunk when our carpets and shawls are seen now with suspicion in world market. Our wood and Khatam Band workers are still hit with penury and poverty. Our daggers and arms though preserved in museums are never preferred to be manufactured again. Let our Lidder river be lifted from pollution, our Sonamarg be spared, and Aharbal and Kungwaethon Duksum not to be smeared. Let Kolahoii Glacier and Gangbal be never withered. Kashmir with a real rich heritage presents dismal picture of preservation. This was aggravated due to unfortunate happenings over a period of time during which considerable part of it was plundered resulting in an irreparable loss. Concerted efforts are required to be taken from grassroots level to preserve our rich heritage rather than leaving it to the mercy of sermons and speeches. Contrarily, it should take the shape of the movement bringing consciousness amongst masses to take care of what has been passed on to us. Moreover, we have to be really educated and informed what we can preserve for our posterity. We should not leave it to pedagogues and teachers only to talk about in the class rooms but every individual need to be educated through mass media, posters, notices, road shows besides Radio and Television programmes. Not only public meetings, but relevant conferences or congresses need to be organized independently and collaboratively with all emphasis on heritage preservation in one way or other. The messages of preserving heritage should be so appealing that it adheres and address to our hearts and souls prompting a listener to solemnly do something to preserve our heritage. Not only curricula but our researches need to be geared up to explore the ways and paths leading to conservation of our forests and like resources and preserving other things of heritage. Exhortations and messages passed on to the people of the valley on some celebrated occasions like World heritage Day may not be so effective. Instead increased effective measures involving common masses to conserve and preserve will surely work. (M.Sidiq Mattoo is Selection Grade Officer in Allama Iqbal Library University of Kashmir)
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Gary Kamiya, Executive Editor: If you care about American music—deep-dish, authentic, utterly American music, the kind of music that exudes everything weird, wonderful and alive about this huge, unfathomable, mixed-up country—the next time Henry Butler is in town, run, don't walk, to get tickets. The New Orleans pianist's solo set Friday night at the intimate Joe Henderson Lab at the San Francisco Jazz Center, part of a 4-night SF appearance, was a revelation. Nobody sounds like this guy, and no matter what he plays, it sounds like a soundtrack for a Ken Burns film. You felt like you're watching George Gershwin improvising. Butler is classified as a jazz pianist, but the label is misleading. What he really is is a towering son of New Orleans—a uniquely gifted and original exponent of that polyglot, unclassifiable, rollicking musical tradition. The blind virtuoso plays in many different styles, but on Friday he was wailing on songs that were deliriously, almost cornily melodic, made up of huge, fat 10-finger chords, tied together with incredibly muscular and transparent turnarounds, propelled by a machine-like left hand and sprinkled with weird virtuoso runs in the upper register. It's the exact opposite of the mainstream modern jazz Herbie Hancock-Chick Corea-Bill Evans piano style of complex harmonies and upper structures, but it's just as compelling—and way more unusual. Dr. John called Butler "the pride of New Orleans and a visionistical down-home cat," and the doctor was right. The dude is a genius.


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Imagine living in a culture where sex was sacred and not a sin! The cultures that honored the divine feminine, existing for over 30,000 years, knew that our sexuality was a positive expression of the life force. Sexuality and spirituality were never seen as separate in these cultures, and only became split during the patriarchal era. The ancient cultures understood that sexual pleasure was a wonderful way to connect with spirit and renew life, as well as to unite deeply with another.
The life force energy was perceived as a pulsing spiral. This spiral of energy moves up and down our bodies, through all the energy centers (called chakras in Sanskrit) in a continuous, pulsing current. In essence, we are plugged into a cosmic "electric outlet" through the energy center near the top the head. Continuing the analogy to electricity, our bodies cannot function well if energy is not grounded firmly in the energy center near the base of the spine. The concept that we are more than mere physical bodies may be difficult to accept at first, but we are, in fact, an organized combination of several energy systems surrounding a unifying field. If we could perceive the subtle energy around us, each of us would look somewhat like a "luminous egg."
There are transcendental sexual experiences that produce a sense of merging with this source of energy, losing physical boundaries at the moment of orgasm. This is often described as "being in the moment of boundless bliss". Many ancient and modern visionary experiences have been described as feelings of being "bathed in pure light." This is cosmic orgasm, the direct experience of the self as pure energy, in union with a divine source.
Developing conscious rituals and meditation techniques can sometimes allow you to be more open to such transcendent experiences. Although you do not have to spend years in training to experience spontaneous, spiritual sex, it may be necessary to be receptive to the possibility of connecting higher states of awareness with peak sexual experiences.
Many of you are intuitively aware of the link between spirituality and sexuality through direct experience. One woman, whom I'll call Carrie, related the following:
At the moment of orgasm, I knew that I was held within a great, golden light, and experienced myself as transparent, luminous energy. I saw seven swirling star-like points lined up in my body. I did not know about the chakras at the time but later discovered that was what I had seen. My energy centers looked like radiant golden lights in my body.
What Carrie had visualized was life force, freely flowing through all seven energy centers, which were illuminated and energized by her orgasm. Many people who become interested in spiritual sex have had initial spontaneous ecstatic experiences such as Carrie's.
Three Levels of Sexual Energy
It is helpful to understand that three different levels of sexual energy are possible: genital pleasuring, conscious loving, and spiritual union. Each level is sex-positive and life affirming and has a value in healing. Each type of sexual energy can heal at the physical, relational or cosmic level. They are not sharply delineated from one another, but rather lie on a continuum of energy generated and energy received, activating various energy centers in the body. They differ from each other in the purpose and meaning attributed to the sexual interaction.
Genital pleasuring refers to the energy level generated, not the particular physical activity. The feminine way of genital pleasuring, especially, attends to an unfolding of the sensual process rather than a race toward orgasm. The energy received through genital pleasuring is manifested in physical sensations of intense pleasure. Orgasm at the level of genital pleasuring is a release of tension. Healing at this level of sexual energy is directed toward physical functions. For example, orgasm benefits the immune system, and also promotes relaxation and a sense of well being. The purpose is recreation: to play, enjoy the moment and relax in the pleasures of physical stimulation. It is mutually beneficial, consensual pleasure.
Conscious Loving generates intense, loving feelings for the partner. The "valley orgasm," as it is called in the Tantric tradition, goes beyond the release of tension in genital orgasm. It requires practice in relaxing into sexual feelings and pacing the build-up of tension in order to prevent sudden dissipation of sexual energy. The energy received is divine love. The heart chakra rather than the genital chakra becomes the focal point. The practice of conscious loving generates energy from the heart. The meaning of this level of sexual energy is connection, reinforcing commitment in a long-term relationship. The healing comes from loving communion, enhancing the bond with the partner. Conscious loving facilitates balancing male-female energy in the relationship, which is very effective for maintaining harmony between partners.
The energy generated by the Spiritual Union level of sexuality is ecstasy. The meaning of Spiritual Union is enhanced awareness, inspiration and merging with the Life Force. The purpose for sexuality at this level is to unite with the Source. The energy received at this level is inspiration/illumination that can be translated into divine guidance or simply experienced as pure bliss. Cosmic orgasm is a completely unique experience because it is multi-dimensional and has an infinite variety of patterns. Genital Pleasuring and Conscious Loving are not separate from this experience but incorporated as an integral part of it.
If you choose to practice spiritual sex with a partner, you will need to communicate clearly with one another about your expectations. It is important to recognize that your experiences of transcendence will be unique from your partner's; however, it is very helpful to feel a conscious bond with your partner.
Sexually, the heart is a source of healing for the self and one's partner. The shift from personal attachment desire into selfless love for another is facilitated through communion with the partner. Whereas personal desire generates sexual attachment—the feeling of "this one is mine"—loving communion extends beyond personal attachment. The partner is no longer perceived as "mine," but as a beloved gift of the Divine.
To cultivate this perception, you will need to foster the psychological mindset of healing and mutual empowerment in a setting that honors the other as divine God/Goddess. It may help to use the following exercise to connect deeply with the divine essence of your partner.
Heart Exercise
In order to experience the dual generation and reception of loving energy from the heart with a partner, begin by sitting face-to-face with one another. Each partner should place one hand over the other's heart and look into the other's eyes. Feel the heat of your partner's hand on your own heart and imagine the warmth of a small sun emanating from your heart toward your partner. Visualize this as divine love and imagine it as a beautiful color. If you need to do so, close your eyes at this point, in order to focus on the inner sensation of warmth in the area of your heart and to visualize its color. Now imagine this warmth radiating from the center of your heart like the rays of the sun, enveloping your partner as well as yourself in a warm, liquid, colorful light. Stay with this visualization as it changes or moves, and breathe deeply. Continue to be aware of this energy from your heart center for a few moments longer. Then, when you are ready to open your eyes, look into your partner's eyes and share with your partner some of the loving feelings you have experienced.


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Whenever im having a hard time i keep telling myself that it will pass then everything gets better. :))
You should too. :))
Remember the sunshine when the storm seems unending.
I don't want to be remembered as just another pretty face.:)
Let us all be happy.<3
You should too. :))
You should always stay on the sunny side of life. You should always try to make yourself happy. Whenever you're sad or depressed, You're the only person who can help yourself. :)
yea. So we should always be careful in everything we say. We don't know how it will affect people's feeling.
Happy new year beautiful people :) Its not yet new year to some but im in the future :P
May we all have a wonderful 2012 and may all be blessed and really find happiness that we all desire. :)
We must change for good :) Eliminate bad attitudes and be a better and good person instead :)
Lets cherish every second of this year. Life is preciaous and may we all find our purpose in this world and to always smile :)
Stop being sad and forget all the pain and hate in our heart :) Just love love love
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Tennessee Sheep are Flock Stars
Tennessee sheep production is growing within the state.
Tennessee sheep production is growing within the state.
Celebrate July Beef Month in Tennessee with a savory grilled steak or juicy hamburger.
See fun facts about Tennessee's dairy industry for National Dairy Month in June.
The Clements family raises chickens, pigs, sheep and young farmers.
Far from the North Pole, you can find reindeer in Middle Tennessee thanks to Santa's Reindeer Tours.
Find creative, handmade wool gifts from Good Wool Etc.
Watch a sheep shearing video of renowned sheep shearer Doug Rathke sharing his techniques at the annual Tennessee Sheep Shearing School held at MTSU.
You certainly can't milk a steer. But you can learn more about Milking Devon steers at the Nashville Zoo's heritage breed farm, where two steers named Tipton and Boone graze in a pasture.
Tennessee's Hatcher family finds a way to keep its dairying dreams alive.
The upside of raising backyard chickens flies far beyond a guaranteed breakfast.
Q&A with a livestock farmer who serves as executive director of the Farm Animal Care Coalition of Tennessee.
KLD Farms in Petway offers fresh, all-natural, local meats with options of steaks, roasts, hamburger and more.
When it comes to sheep, Reyes Rich isn't your typical Bo Peep. He and his family run the sixth generation of Ginny Ridge Farms, which includes beef cattle, broiler chickens, goats and sheep. He raises more than 100 Suffolk, Hampshire and crossbred hair sheep ewes (female sheep).
June Dairy Month has been keeping the importance of drinking milk and other dairy products in the forefront of people's minds for 75 years.
Did you know that a mule is a cross between a female horse and a male donkey (or "jack")? Here are a few more fun facts about these unusual farm animals.
Don't let the unassuming name fool you; if you happen to be a donkey, a mule or a person who loves them, Lake Nowhere in Martin is a happening place.
Calling all ice cream fans! Mark your calendar for the fourth annual National Moofest Dairy Festival in downtown Athens June 4 and 5, 2011.
Beverly Hall of Baxter has been named AG CONNECT Expo "Ag Woman of the Year."
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(Niagara Falls, N.Y) For close to fifty years, mail was delivered to the Holy Cross Orthodox Monastery on Pine Avenue without problems.
That was until the Monastery's Abbot, Father Nicholas Iuhos, noticed that mail trucks were 'chewing up' his gravel driveway by making 3-point turns.
When Fr. Nicholas found scratches and a dent on his garage door, which he suspected were caused by a mail truck, he asked mail carriers to stop using his driveway to turn around.
That was the last time Fr. Nicholas had mail delivered for close to a month.
"I called them and I wrote them - even the Postmaster General in Washington D.C. No results," says Fr. Iuhos.
The situation was causing a hardship for Fr. Iuhos, who is a diabetic and was not receiving his health insurance information. It was also causing the monastery to falling behind on its bills.
After several weeks of no mail delivery and no answers, the American Orthodox priest called Eyewitness News on February 1st for help.
Channel 7 contacted the post office to see what was going on. The Post Office issued this statement:
"The Postmaster of Niagara Falls has been in direct contact with Father Nicholas on several occasions attempting to resolve this delivery issue. The difficulty began when the customer requested postal vehicles no longer turn around in the driveway. In addition, snow in the driveway made turning around impossible.
Postal safety policy dictates that backing out of a driveway on to a road must be avoided. In this case especially, backing into a very busy Pine Avenue puts employees and vehicles at great risk.
We will continue to work with this customer until a reasonable solution can be found, one that satisfies the customer and keeps employees safe."
Now mail delivery service to the monastery has been re-started.
Father Iuhos says the day after he called CH 7, the Niagara Falls Postmaster drove to his house and apologized in person for the inconvenience.
An agreement was reached where mail trucks will turnaround at the end of the monastery's driveway.


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Over the bones of the dead …
– William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -Abraham Lincoln
No one decides the future for you except yourself. It may not always seem like that,
but every little decision you make opens a door and sets you up for whatever will happen next.
We all have dreams, and it's good to think about them.
But instead of just thinking about them, we should take action – allow the thought to become a reality…
We create things all the time; music, art, friendships, ideas…creating is part of who we are.
Why not create the future?
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Music Is A Human Right
"Globally, there are hundreds of artists under far greater threat to their freedom and lives who deserve the same attention." ~ Mark LeVine
Why is music censored? — and who are the censors?
Here is a general introduction to the issues of music censorship.
Imagine the world without music. Or imagine a world where we are told what to play, what to sing and even what we may listen to in the privacy of our own homes. That world already exists. In more countries that you might imagine, musicians and composers are under threat. And that threat is growing.
In countries like Sudan, Afghanistan and China, violations of musician's rights to freedom of expression are commonplace. In the USA and Algeria, lobbying groups have succeeded in keeping popular music off the concert stage, and out of the media and retail. In ex-Yugoslavia musicians are often pawns in political dramas, and the possibility of free expression has been adversely affected.
You may wonder why music is being censored. Why have musicians been tortured, jailed, exiled and even killed. Why have certain forms of music been silenced?
It may be as simple as South African musician Johnny Clegg has said: "Censorship is based on fear."
Music is a free expression of the ideas, traditions and emotions of individuals and of people. It may express musicians' hopes and aspirations, their joys and sorrows, their very identity as a culture. Yet these expressions may conflict with those of people in power. The ideas themselves may simply be unpopular or outside the current thinking or practices of a regime or special interest group. For there are those the world over who are threatened by the very nature of a free exchange of ideas. There are those who will stop at nothing to stifle them.
Music censorship has been implemented by states, religions, educational systems, families, retailers and lobbying groups – and in most cases they violate international conventions of human rights.


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New renderings from French website Nowhereelse.fr imagine an iPhone 6S and 6C in all their large-screen glory complete with a thinner, rounder design.
An upcoming short film called Construct finds new ways to use the current CG animation technology to produce mind-blowing results.
If you use Maya on the new 2013 Mac Pro for rendering highly complex scenes, and are experiencing major drops in performance, a quick configuration setting adjustment may fix the issue.
The ZTE Render would be a great starter Windows Phone, but only if it came out a year ago.
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Bigelow's "BEAM" is an expandable module for the International Space Station hoping to be a stepping stone towards commercial space accommodations, but the current $50 million price tag is a little astronomical. So...Kickstarter to send us to space, anyone?
On today's show, we debate the cost of staying in a space hotel, check out an unbelievably realistic CG render named "Ed," and imagine what we'd do with a jacket that changes color to match whatever you're touching.
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This new album by Perfume Genius is…well…genius.
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This new album by Perfume Genius is…well…genius.
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Once upon a time (a week ago), I received an email from a member of the team at Spotify telling me that I had won two tickets to see Eric Clapton live in concert. I was raised on and love Eric Clapton's music, so naturally, I was completely over the moon about this news! Later today, I am making the journey with a friend to the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT to see the legendary Mr. Clapton perform. The Wallflowers are opening. This is literally a dream come true.
Here is a little collection of some of my favorite Clapton tunes. The majority of the playlist is from Unplugged because it is my absolute favorite. Seven songs do not even begin to represent his body of work, but it will have to do."
Happy March, y'all! This week, I have some excellent jazz and blues for you. The playlist features some sparkling gems from the following artists.:
Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Pete Lanctot is quite the talented man about town. The Hot Sardines are a force to be reckoned with and jazzed about. Retro-modern Dutch singer Caro Emerald has a voice and magnetic prowess that makes audiences swoon. Lily & the Parlour Tricks have a swell sound and give audiences a reason to be rowdy. Lake Street Dive possess avant-garde musical diversity that goes on for days. He's My Brother She's My Sister are swingy, theatrical, and oh so lively. And finally, one of my longtime favorites, Dave Brubeck, has some mighty fine jazz panache. Dig in!"