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The local commuter paper ran an interview today with John Currin, a painter who deals in explicitly physical and sometimes pornographic images of women. (The first picture on the linked slideshow, actually, is NSFW.) I find his work interesting, if sometimes (deliberately) disturbing; I wouldn't exactly count him among my favorite painters but I have no beef with the guy. However, I found this bit of the interview rather telling:
Express: The majority of your work is of the female figure. Why is that?
Currin: The simple answer is that I enjoy looking at women more than I enjoy looking at men, but the more pretentious answer is that I find it easier to think of metaphors and allegories when I'm using women in paintings.
This got me thinking. Part of the reason we show such public interest in — and sense of entitlement to — women's bodies is that they've historically been used to represent things that are at once greater and smaller than "individual woman." When we're accustomed to women's bodies signifying virtues and values and cultural mores — instead of signifying, you know, a woman's body — it's no wonder we start to feel they're public property.
Imagine walking into a museum room containing representative samples of figures in the history of Western art. Some of the female figures you see will be representing Venus, the Madonna, and so forth — but many will be allegories of love, virtue, chastity, poetry. Think of the Graces: three women usually represented from front, back, and side, a 360-degree view of the female form. That's what "grace" is. Think of the Muses. Think of the Sistine sibyls (not to mention Brittania), who are not just qualities but places. Male figures appear in these paintings too, but almost always as gods or Biblical figures, people with names. Men are characters, women are symbols.
They're still symbols today. The female bodies used in advertising rarely stand for actual people — they mean "smooth," "tasty," "appealing," "sexy," "expensive," "new and improved." Half the time they don't even have faces, just a flank or a bust being used as a backdrop — the Nymph of the Liquor/Aftershave/Cereal/Beer. That repugnant series of Bacardi ads got one thing right: they gave their female images names and characteristics (at the expense, of course, of dignity — can't have them getting too uppity). Most advertising bodies and body parts don't even get that far. The much-maligned Headless Fatty is the other side of this coin, of course; she's not a real person, but a metaphor for gluttony or ill health or consumerism or the downfall of society (if not all of the above).
Is it any surprise that women's bodies are treated as a public concern? The entire culture is accustomed to seeing them used as metonymies for our highest (and lowest) values. The long historical pedigree of anti-woman sentiment means that the fact that women's bodies contain women's minds has always been elided, in favor of metaphorical elevation or degradation. We always have to stand for something, and what we stand for is everyone's business.
This is why objectification isn't just the province of misogynists, by the way. Often you'll hear Nice Guys protest that they don't objectify women — no, they worship them! So instead of just being sexual receptacles, women stand for all that is good and beautiful in the world. How original. How healthy.
In some ways we've come far from Elizabethan sonnet cycles where the beloved is Virtue and Wisdom Personified, but in other ways the female body is still being treated like Humpty Dumpty treats words — it means whatever people want it to mean. How do you get people to get their figurative thought off your actual figure? That's probably a long and complicated process involving, more or less, overthrowing the patriarchy. As we get back control of our bodies and images, we'll regain control over what they signify. Until then, just remember that you don't have to be somebody's metaphor. Don't stand for just "standing for" — your body deserves more than a symbolic existence.


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Hillary's Hit List
The Clintons keep a favor file of saints and sinners, according to this excerpt from HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton.
Inside a cramped third-floor office of Hillary Clinton's once-bustling presidential campaign headquarters in the Ballston neighborhood of Arlington, Va., Kris Balderston and Adrienne Elrod put the finishing touches on a political hit list. It was late June 2008, and Hillary had dropped her bid for the presidency earlier that month. The war room, where her brain trust had devolved into profanity-laced shouting matches, was empty. The data crunchers were gone. The political director had drifted out. A handful of Hillary's aides had already hooked up with Sen. Barack Obama's campaign in Chicago.
Balderston's salt-and-pepper beard gave him the look of a college English professor who didn't need to shave for his job. Then in his early fifties, he had been with Bill and Hillary Clinton since their White House days, serving as a deputy assistant to the president and later as Hillary's legislative director and deputy chief of staff in her New York Senate office. The official government titles obscured Balderston's true value: He was an elite political operator and one of Hillary's favorite suppliers of gossip. After more than a dozen years spent working for the Clintons, he knew how to keep score in a political race.
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Elrod, a toned 31-year-old blonde with a raspy Ozark drawl, had an even longer history with the Clintons that went back to her childhood in Siloam Springs, a town of 15,000 people in northwestern Arkansas. She had known Bill Clinton since at least the age of five. Her father, John Elrod, a prominent lawyer in Fayetteville, first befriended the future president at Arkansas Boys State, an annual civics camp for high school juniors, when they were teenagers. Like Bill Clinton, Adrienne Elrod had a twinkle in her blue eyes and a broad smile that conveyed warmth instantaneously. She had first found work in the Clinton White House after a 1996 internship there, then became a Democratic Party political operative and later held senior posts on Capitol Hill. She joined the Hillary Clinton for President outfit as a communications aide and then shifted into Balderston's delegate-courting congressional-relations office in March. Trusted because of her deep ties to the Clinton network, Elrod helped Balderston finalize the list.
For months they had meticulously updated a wall-size dry-erase board with color-coded symbols, letters and arrows to track which lawmakers were leaning toward endorsing Hillary and which were headed in Obama's direction. For example, the letters "LO" indicated that a lawmaker was "leaning Obama," while "BD" in blue denoted that he or she was a member of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition on Capitol Hill.
As one of the last orders of business for a losing campaign, they recorded in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet the names and deeds of members of Congress. They carefully noted who had endorsed Hillary, who had backed Obama, and who had stayed on the sidelines—standard operating procedure for any high-end political organization. But the data went into much more nuanced detail. "We wanted to have a record of who endorsed us and who didn't," a member of Hillary's campaign team said, "and of those who endorsed us, who went the extra mile and who was just kind of there. And of those who didn't endorse us, those who understandably didn't endorse us because they are [Congressional Black Caucus] members or Illinois members. And then, of course, those who endorsed him but really should have been with her … that burned her."
For Hillary, whose loss was of course not the end of her political career, the spreadsheet was a necessity of modern political warfare, an improvement on what old-school politicians called a "favor file." It meant that when asks rolled in, she and Bill would have at their fingertips all the information needed to make a quick decision—including extenuating, mitigating and amplifying factors—so that friends could be rewarded and enemies punished.
Their spreadsheet formalized the deep knowledge of those involved in building it. Like so many of the Clinton help, Balderston and Elrod were walking favor files. They remembered nearly every bit of assistance the Clintons had given and every slight made against them. Almost six years later, most Clinton aides can still rattle off the names of traitors and the favors that had been done for them, then provide details of just how each of the guilty had gone on to betray the Clintons—as if it all had happened just a few hours before. The data project ensured that the acts of the sinners and saints would never be forgotten.
There was a special circle of Clinton hell reserved for people who had endorsed Obama or stayed on the fence after Bill and Hillary had raised money for them, appointed them to a political post or written a recommendation to ice their kid's application to an elite school. On one early draft of the hit list, each Democratic member of Congress was assigned a numerical grade from 1 to 7, with the most helpful to Hillary earning 1s and the most treacherous drawing 7s. The set of 7s included Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), as well as Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Baron Hill (D-Ind.) and Rob Andrews (D-N.J.).
Yet even a 7 didn't seem strong enough to quantify the betrayal of some onetime allies.
When the Clintons sat in judgment, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) got the seat closest to the fire. Bill and Hillary had gone all out for her when she ran for Senate in 2006, as had Obama. But McCaskill seemed to forget that favor when NBC's Tim Russert asked her whether Bill had been a great president, during a Meet the Press debate against then-Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.) in October 2006. "He's been a great leader," McCaskill said of Bill, "but I don't want my daughter near him."
McCaskill regretted her remark instantly; the anguish brought her "to the point of epic tears," according to a friend. She knew the comment had sounded much more deliberate than a forgivable slip of the tongue. So did Hillary, who immediately canceled a planned fundraiser for McCaskill. A few days later, McCaskill called Bill Clinton to offer a tearful apology. He was gracious, which just made McCaskill feel worse. After winning the seat, she was terrified of running into Hillary Clinton in the Capitol. "I really don't want to be in an elevator alone with her," McCaskill confided to the friend.
But Hillary, who was just then embarking on her presidential campaign, still wanted something from McCaskill—the Missourian's endorsement. Women's groups, including the pro-choice women's fundraising network EMILY's List, pressured McCaskill to jump aboard the Clinton bandwagon, and Hillary courted her new colleague personally, setting up a one-on-one lunch in the Senate Dining Room in early 2007. Rather than ask for McCaskill's support directly, Hillary took a softer approach, seeking common ground on the struggles of campaigning, including the physical toll. "There's a much more human side to Hillary," McCaskill thought.


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My past commentary on Olympia Nelson's image, Art Monthly and Bill Henson
I appeared briefly on Australian story last night in a piece about Olympia Nelson, inspired by her significant piece on the rise of the selfie, 'Dark undercurrents of teenage girls selfies', published in The Sydney Morning Herald, July 11, 2003, and reprinted here.
Because a much longer interview was cut (as is often the case – I'm not complaining, it's the nature of media and having ones opinions quoted anywhere is a privilege), some of my thinking on the issue of sexualisation, sexuality, selfies, and the debate around the depiction of children in art, was not included. I wanted to put on the record views expressed earlier, for a more complete picture. I'd like to say straight up that I find Polexini Papapetrou's art quite beautiful and evocative. And it wasn't Olympia's naked image in and of itself that was the main problem for myself and my colleagues (we don't have an issue with nudity per se). There is an important context that needs to be considered.
The publishing of the naked image of then six-year-old Olympia Nelson on the cover of Art Monthly in July 2008 was in protest against the response to Bill Henson's naked artwork of children, particularly an image of a young topless girl with budding breasts featuring in a promotional invitation to his latest exhibition. I commented on Henson's work here (photos redacted but can be viewed here).
Henson's sexualised depictions of young girls: calling it art doesn't make it OK
I haven't seen the latest photographs by artist Bill Henson to go on show at Tolarno Galleries in Melbourne.
But I have seen these.
So I know what Henson is capable of and how he likes to depicts and shoot young girls.
The girl (image to the right) who featured naked on the invite to the Roslyn Oxley gallery was 13. While that photo was widely circulated, an even more graphic one of another girl (image to the left) was not. She is 'Untitled 1985/86', quietly auctioned by Menzies Art Brands, Lot 214, for $3800, only weeks after the original Henson controversy.
And when Tolarno Galleries refuses to reveal the age of the youngest naked girl in the new exhibition, you have to suspect there is a problem. Why the secrecy? Was she at an age where she could consent? As respected teen psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg put it when I asked his view, would she "have sufficient cognitive or emotional maturity to fully comprehend the potential ramifications of what she is doing?"
Where will her photo end up? Where did the photos of the other two girls above end up?
Why does calling it "art" make sexualised depictions of young girls OK?
It is right to question Henson's sexual depictions of vulnerable naked young girls – and other overtly sexualised imagery of children – a point I made on Channel 7's Morning Show last Thursday. Media academic and researcher Nina Funnell also reveals here that Henson's images have been found in the collections of paedophilies. (video no longer available)
Dr Abigrail Bray also has a chapter on the Henson affair in Getting Real: Challenging the sexualisation of girls (Spinifex Press, 2009 titled 'The Gaze that Dare Not Speak Its Name: Bill Henson and Child Sexual Abuse Moral Panics').
This is my letter in the Sydney Morning Herald, July 10, 2008, on the placement of Olympia's image in a magazine featuring images of extreme porn-themed torture, including schoolgirl torture. It was publishing her image in this context that added a new and very problematic layer, not commented on at all in the debate at the time, apart from the observations I made here. Dismissing these concerns as a 'moral panic' is just too easy and too convenient.
Art is about "giving people dignity", the critic Robert Nelson told ABC radio this week. "We've got to have faith in art," he said. Nelson is the father of Olympia, whose naked photos appear in Art Monthly Australia's latest issue. The photos were taken in 2003 by her mother, when the girl was six.
While flicking through Art Monthly, I wondered whether Mr Nelson had looked at the magazine that featured his daughter before he gave us his thoughts on art and human dignity.
Call me particular, but I don't find images of semi-naked, bound women with protruding sex organs all that dignified. I looked really hard, but I couldn't see much dignity in the photograph of a Japanese schoolgirl trussed in rope and suspended with her skirt raised to reveal her underwear. Torture porn just doesn't stir my soul.
Some of Bill Henson's images are there, of course (this issue was a "protest" in defence of his work). They are followed by selections from the work of Nobuyoshi Araki, probably best known for his passion for taking photos of girls and women exposed and bound.
There's his slumped, bound schoolgirl picture and an image of a woman with her clothing stripped back, the ropes squeezing her naked breasts and contorting her into a pose that displays her genitals. A third uplifting work depicts a woman on the ground, strained forward, her naked spreading backside to the camera.
Faith in art?
A little further into the magazine you come upon the work of David Laity. What offering of truth and beauty does Laity give us? An image of a woman being bound with the tentacles of an octopus as it performs oral sex on her. That's some dignified octopus. Then there's an image of a woman bending over so we can see her … Well, you get the picture.
The photographs of Olympia need to be viewed in the context of the images positioned around her. On their own, the images that show Olympia reclining naked, her pose and look more that of an adult, can be seen as sexualised. But surrounding her with these other images superimposes a further, more sinister, meaning on them.
The former Democrats senator Lyn Allison told Sunrise the controversy was just about little girls playing dress-ups. But don't dress-ups usually involve putting clothes on, not taking them off? And does this game usually end with your photo published in a gallery of female genitals?
The magazine's editor said he wanted to "restore dignity to the debate". Does he really think he's achieved that?
Artists who recognise there should be ethical constraints to art; artists who don't think it advances humanity to tie up naked girls and capture their images. Now that would be dignified.
The SMH letter was expanded into a piece for Online Opinion published July 18, 2008. While Robert Nelson criticised myself and my colleagues on twitter this week claiming we read the image of his daughter inappropriately, see how he himself has described some of his child's photographs.
…Of course it's not about dress-ups. Even Robert Nelson doesn't think that.
In fact, (as Andrew Bolt uncovered) in the year 2000 Robert Nelson had described one of the photographs as part of an exploration of his daughter's "eroticism". Even her sucking a dummy as a four-year-old, was, said Nelson "potentially the most diabolically sexual" image, a symbol of "the perversity of pleasure-sucking''.
Critics of the Polixeni Papapetrou images have been criticised for reading too much into them. Yet Nelson himself renders the child in sexualised ways.
Nelson once described Henson's work as displaying a "vulgar relish in depicting naked, pouting teenagers" in a "teasing sexual spectacle" to present them as a "passive target for the viewer's lust". He wrote, "Henson's interest in juvenile erotica … is an aesthetic of spying, granting you an illicit glimpse, as in all pornographic genres … Henson's grope in the gloaming has unpleasant moral overtones, as when the participants are too young for sex''.
So why give photographs of your daughter to a magazine whose raison d'être was a defence of Henson? It is hard to understand.
The magazine's editor Maurice O'Riordan said he had wanted to "restore dignity to the debate". Does he really think he's achieved that by throwing Olympia in with tied up school girls, women who have been rendered completely powerless…


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NPR's Steve Inskeep has a confession to make. In order to remain composed as the host of Morning Edition, he sometimes has to turn the volume down in the studio when the StoryCorps segment airs on Fridays.
"I just wait for the clock to run down so I know when to talk at the end because otherwise I know I'm going to lose it if I listen to that story," Inskeep tells StoryCorps founder Dave Isay. "It's deeply moving."
Over the past 10 years, the oral history project has collected about 50,000 interviews with about 100,000 people in all 50 states. The project's goal is to give people of all backgrounds the chance to share and record the stories of their lives. StoryCorps is marking its 10th anniversary.
Isay says he got the idea for StoryCorps when he was a freelance radio producer. He had worked on a radio documentary and then later on a book about the Bowery, the New York City neighborhood, and the homeless who lived in flophouses there.
"I remember bringing the galley of the book up into the flophouse, and I handed it to one of the guys and he opened it up to his page and he took the book out of my hand and he held it over his head and he ran down the hall and he started shouting, 'I exist! I exist!' " Isay says. "And that was kind of a clarion call for StoryCorps. That's what it's all about."
At its core, Isay says, StoryCorps is "about giving two people the chance to have this conversation for 40 minutes, and it tells them their lives matter and they won't be forgotten."
So, do the stories ever make Isay cry? Sure, he says.
"I think about technology a little bit," he says. "There are certain answers that technology, for all of its wonders, will never be able to give us. And I think those are the kind of answers that you get through StoryCorps, which is about what's really forcing people to think about what's important in life."
And as StoryCorps celebrates its 10th anniversary, all week NPR will be revisiting some of your favorite stories. StoryCorps' new book, Ties that Bind, is being released on Monday.
Ah. For years now this music has reminded MORNING EDITION listeners to prepare for another American Story, the often inspiring, or edgy or devastatingly honest tales of people who interview each other at StoryCorps. The oral history project is celebrating its 10th anniversary and this week we are revisiting some of your favorite stories.
BLANCA ALVAREZ: My name is Blanca Alvarez.
RICK KINCAID: My name is Rick Kincaid.
KAITLYN SEVER: I'm Kaitlyn. I'm being interviewed by my mom.
ED TRINKA: My father told me to live such a life that if everybody lived a life like yours, this would be God's Paradise.
JOSHUA LITTMAN: Did I turn out to be the son you wanted?
SARAH LITTMAN: You've exceeded my expectations, sweetie.
DOTTIE COPELAND: When I pass on, they can say she had one great ride.
INSKEEP: A sampling there of many voices from the past decade of StoryCorps, founded by David Isay who got the idea when he was working as a freelance radio producer.
DAVID ISAY: I did a documentary for NPR awhile ago about the Bowery where, you know, homeless guys used to live in the old flophouses there.
INSKEEP: In Manhattan.
ISAY: And I did a book after that. And I remember bringing the galley of the book up into the flophouse, and I handed it to one of the guys and he opened it up to his page and he took the book out of my hand and he held it over his head and he ran down the hall and he started shouting: I exist. I exist. You know? And that was kind of, like, a clarion call for StoryCorps. You know, that's what it's all about.
INSKEEP: And there must have been thousands of people who've had that feeling coming out of these booths and trailers, and so forth that you've set up all around the country.
ISAY: Yeah, well, we've done about 50,000 interviews with about a hundred thousand people in all 50 states. And that is the core of what - that StoryCorps experience is about; giving two people the chance to have this conversation for 40 minutes, and it tells them their lives matter and they won't be forgotten.
INSKEEP: Who, if anyone, had done anything like this before you started 10 years ago?
ISAY: Well, we walk in the footsteps of projects like the WPA recordings that were made during the 1930s and '40s that I used to go listen to at the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress, here in Washington.
INSKEEP: This is putting people to work, basically interviewing other people doing...
ISAY: Regular - yes, every day people. So it wasn't about interviewing famous people, but just going on someone's porch and finding out what their lives were like. And I remember in the early days of StoryCorps, having, you know, fears that there would be, like, Jerry Springer moments and people would, like, bring guns to the booth and shoot each other. And 50,000 interviews later, every single pair of people who's come to the booth has treated the process with respect.
INSKEEP: When you listen to these stories, which sometimes make millions of people cry, do you ever cry?
ISAY: Sure. But, you know, I think that people - like, especially over the last couple of months - there's kind of been this tidal wave of this thing about StoryCorps making people cry. And...
INSKEEP: Oh no, that's for years.
INSKEEP: I get notes every week about mascara-ruined...
ISAY: Yeah, I get the mascara...
INSKEEP: ...about people having to stop the car.
ISAY: Yeah, it's true. And, you know, and I think about technology a little bit. There are certain, you know, answers that technology, for all of its wonders, will never be able to give us. And I think those are the kind of answers that you get through StoryCorps, which is about what's, you know, really forcing people to think about what's important in life.
INSKEEP: Actually, I use a bit of technology when we're playing these...
ISAY: What's that?
INSKEEP: Over hear in the studio there's a dial, a couple of dials to the headphone volume.
ISAY: Yeah.
INSKEEP: I sometimes - I turn it down, David.
INSKEEP: I just wait for the clock to run down so I know when to talk at the end. Because otherwise, I know I'm going lose it if I listen to that story.
INSKEEP: Once in a while, I've listen while it's on the air and it's just deeply moving.
ISAY: Whenever we make Steve Inskeep cry, my telephone and my email lights up...
ISAY: ...you made Inskeep cry. It's a good week.
INSKEEP: StoryCorps founder Dave Isay. Let me just wipe a tear out here. All this week, we'll be checking back in with people you've heard over the years to find out how they're doing now. And the new StoryCorps book, "Ties that Bind," is being released on today.
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FIVB WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Mazury | 1 - 7 July 2013
Stare Jablonki, Poland, July 1, 2013 – Favourites Chen Xue and Zhang Xi of China lived up to expectations on the first day of the women's competition at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013 when they won their opening match against home team and 47th seeds Daria Paszek and Katarzyna Kociolek 2-0 (21-10 21-19) on Monday.
The top seeds are aiming to win their second World Championships medal after they won bronze at Rome 2011. They also hold bronze medals from the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, but having missed out on the medals at London 2012 they will be determined to reach the podium this year. However, they have had to adjust from hot and humid conditions in China to cool, breezy conditions in Stare Jablonki.
"We will just try our best and go for the gold," Xue said. "We just came from Nanjing, where we prepared for the World Championships. It was very hot and humid there. Now we have to get used to this rather cool weather."
For Paszek and Kociolek this is their first World Championships, but they have been placed in a tough pool. Along with Xue and Zhang Xi, they also take on Slovakia's Natalia Dubovcova and Dominika Nestarcova and Finland's twin sisters Emilia and Erika Nystrom. More
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The men's competition at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013 will begin on Tuesday with 47 sides out to dethrone reigning champions Alison Cerutti and Emanuel Rego of Brazil. USA's Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal are the leading pair challenging the number one seeds and they arrive in Poland having won gold at the most recent event, the Rome Grand Slam just over a week ago and they start against Juan Virgen and Lombardo Ontiveros of Mexico at 18:00. More
Teams out to build on early momentum
A number of highly-rated teams will be out to guarantee their place in the knockout rounds on day two of the women's competition at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, Mazury 2013. Italy's Marta Menegatti and Greta Cicolari, Germany's Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst and Ilka Semmler and Katrin Holtwick all made winning starts to the tournament and know that a second win will mean their names will at the very least go into the draw for the first knockout round. More
Dumbauskaite and Povilaityte write history for Lithuania
Ieva Dumbauskaite and Monika Povilaityte are writing history for Lithuania this week in Stare Jablonki. They are the first team to represent their country at the FIVB World Championships. In the past, four teams from Lithuania did enter qualifying at the World Championships in Marseille in 1999, but they failed to advance to the Championship Main Draw. "It's like a history event for us", Dumbauskaite said after their first match on Monday. "We are the first pair from Lithuania playing the World Championships. I am not thinking about that yet, it will sink in after the event. I am proud that I can be here." Beach volleyball is increasing in popularity in Lithuania, helped by Dumbauskaite's and Povilaityte's win in the 2012 U19 World Championships. "Right now beach volleyball in Lithuania is growing. More children are playing beach volleyball than two or three years ago and I am so happy about that." More
The FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships Mazury 2013 takes place every two years. The evnt in Stare Jablonki runs from July 1 to 7 with the women's finals on Saturday and men's finals on Sunday.
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Hilo, Hawaii: February 8, 2005 (am)
For me, today is Vyasa-puja. Actually, the meaning of Vyasa-puja is that on the birthday of an acarya who is sitting on the seat of Vyasa and is preaching everywhere, he will worship his gurudeva and his entire guru-parampara. My duty was to first worship my own Gurudeva and guru-parampara, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna, and all the other panchakas. There are seven panchakas: Vyasa-pancaka, Krsna-panchaka, guru-panchaka, acarya-panchaka, upasya-panchaka, sanakadi-panchaka and panca-tattva panchaka. These groups include worship of the acaryas of the four sampradayas, the four guru-paramparas: Ramanujya, Madhvacarya, Visnusvami, Nimbaditya and the four Kumaras (Sanaka, Sanatana, Sanat-kumara and Sanandana). These groups include Sri Panca-tattva, and especially for Sri Gaura-Gadadhara, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna and Sri Gurudeva. This worship is performed in our parampara, or disciplic succession. My Guru Maharaja used to do this, and I also used to do it. Here in the West, however, I could not do this elaborately. I wanted to, but I could not.
Moreover, today I could not first perform worship of my Guru and guru-parampara, because all the devotees were coming and doing my puja (worship). I could not understand. I thought that only one person was coming up to the Vyasa-asana.* [see endnote 1] I have done something wrong.
Anyway, it is an acaryas duty that on his birthday he worships his gurudeva, the entire parampara, and all Vaisnavas. Whatever you have given to me, is not for me. You are offering me flowers, and I am giving them to my Gurudevas lotus feet. The false ego of thinking, I am now guru should not come. I want to be free from false ego. I want to be a guru-sevaka, a pure, unalloyed servant of guru. Whatever I have is only the result of guru-seva.
I was not a learned person. Whatever I have, I have received by the special mercy of guru and Vaisnavas. I gave my whole heart and everything I possessed at the lotus feet of my Gurudeva. When I joined the matha (the mission at the gurus temple), I told my Gurudeva, I am giving my heart to you. I am giving you the love and affection I had for my wife, children, father and everything else. I am taking it from them, and I am totally surrendering and placing that love at your lotus feet.
He accepted this and began to weep. He said, Up to now, no one else has ever told me this. Tears came in his eyes and I received his causeless mercy. Now people all over the world are hearing from me only because of that mercy. If you surrender to your Gurudeva, you will have everything required for perfection of life, and for making others perfect. No material learning is needed.
Srila Gaura-kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja was illiterate; he could not even write his own name. When he would speak, however, he would do so with all Vedic references. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada was the greatest scholar of his time, and he accepted Srila Gaura-kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja as his Guru.*[see endnote 2]
There was a certain disciple of Sripada Sankaracarya who was illiterate. Sankaracarya used to give class on the bank of the Ganges, on the Bhagirathi River in Badarikasrama, and there was such a strong current in that part of the river that even an elephant could not cross. Sankaracarya used to give class daily, and all his disciples in attendance were very learned and eager to hear his teachings. He especially had four very scholarly, renounced and famous disciples.
That illiterate disciple used to engage in many menial services, like washing his Gurus clothes and cooking his meals. He was once washing clothes on the opposite side of the Ganges from Sankaracaryas class. Class-time came, and except for him all disciples were present. Sankaracarya was waiting, not speaking, and all the scholarly disciples asked him, Gurudeva, why are you waiting? He replied, I am waiting for that disciple. They said, He is not literate. He will not understand what you say anyway. Please begin class. We do not want to waste our time. Still, Sankaracarya continued to wait.
Soon that illiterate disciple came, very quickly running, and bowed down to the lotus feet of Sankaracarya. At once, he began to pray to him with very elevated philosophical stava and stuti (hymns and verses). His prayers were so scholarly, in fact, that the four highly qualified disciples could not understand what he was saying.
They now realized the glories of their Gurudeva. Sri Guru is not a simple thing. By the mercy of the bona fide gurudeva, an illiterate person can become a very high-class, learned devotee, knowing all siddhanta (established philosophical conclusions).
You should have strong faith in this truth. Dont be bewildered.
Some devotees, and even sannyasis, may think, We should create another Trust, because we have no trust in Gurudevas Trust. This is wrong. They can do this at any time. They can start their own Trust, but that is very bad. They will lose everything even the mercy of Guru and Krsna and they will be lost forever. Dont think that Gurudeva is an ordinary human being.
acaryam mam vijaniyan
[One should know the acarya as Myself, and never disrespect him in any way. One should not envy him, thinking him an ordinary man, for he is the representative of all the demigods. (Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.17.27)]
It may seem like guru is going to the bathroom, or he is eating something because he is hungry. Dont see him as you would see an ordinary person, otherwise you will be cheated forever. Have strong faith in guru, more than in Krsna. Srimati Radhika and Krsna have sent him as Their own messenger. We should always remember this, especially on the auspicious day of Vyasa Puja.
I will discuss related topics in this evenings class. Be ready to speak about guru-tattva, from the core of your heart. Try to follow what you will be telling, with the core of your heart. Dont be a disciple like Ekalavya, who gave his thumb but not his heart. He did not obey his Guru, and that is why Dronacarya rejected him and took his thumb. Dronacarya knew that he was against Krsna, and later, Krsna cut off his head with His cakra.
We should remember all these things and try to be one-pointed. Life is very short. I especially fear that sometimes false ego comes in the hearts of learned disciples and they think, I am more than my Gurudeva. This is a very dangerous offense, and such offenders are ultimately lost forever. Dont have false ego regarding any aptitude you may have. Always be the servant of Gurudeva. There are so many examples of pure servants, such as Srila Isvara Puripada, Srila Rupa Gosvami, Srila Sanatana Gosvami and Srila Jiva Gosvami.
My Gurudeva kept his life in his hands for his Gurudeva, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada. Of course nobody was able to do any harm to his Gurudeva, but externally it seemed that a crowd of non-devotee smarta brahmanas were trying to kill him. Guru Maharaja hid his Gurudeva in someones house, took his Gurudevas sannyasa cloth and gave him his own white cloth, and then came out of the house wearing his Gurudevas clothing. In this way the crowd would think he was his Gurudeva. [For the details of this history, you may read Srila Narayana Maharajas books, Secret Truths of the Bhagavatam and Life and Teachings of Srila Bhaktiprajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja.] He had no fear of death. We should try to be like him whole-hearted disciples, obedient to Gurudeva.
[Then, after kirtana and guru-puja:]
On this special day, I pray to my Gurudeva and our entire guru-parampara up to Lord Brahma, to all the associates of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna and to all the associates of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Sri Nityananda prabhu. I pray that they will sprinkle their mercy upon all of you.
I pray that they will also be merciful to all the devotees in the world, wherever they may be, who are giving their puspanjali (offering their moods, in the form of flowers and beautiful words of praise) today. I pray to that they will bestow their mercy, even to those who are not giving any puspanjali, but simply remembering, wherever they are. I pray to all these associates of the Lord, that they will be merciful and take away the entirety of your anarthas, that they will place vraja-prema, vraja-bhakti, in your hearts, and that they will sprinkle upon you our goal of life.
Jaya Jaya Sri Radhe!
Now you can offer prasadam to Thakurji and distribute it to all present, and you can give some remnants to me also.
[*Endnote 1: Generally, every year at the beginning of the observance of Srila Narayana Maharajas appearance day, the assembled devotees join him in elaborate worship of his diksa-guru, Srila Bhaktiprajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja, his siksa-guru, Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja Prabhupada, and his whole guru paramapara. He offers them full arati. After that is completed, the devotees perform his guru-puja. Flowers are passed out for the devotees to offer, the men coming on a line from one side and the ladies form a line on the other side. He accepts their hearts through their offerings of flowers and gifts, and offers whatever he receives to his Gurudeva and guru paramapara.
This year, as soon as he sat down on the vyasasana, while kirtana was still going on, one devotee came with a presentation which Srila Maharaja graciously accepted. Then a second devotee came, then a third and fourth, and then all of a sudden there was a line of hundreds of devotees, offering their flowers, presentations and prayers. Many disciples also handed him cell phones, because devotees in other countries were waiting on the phone line to speak with him. He also took those calls, intermittently, one after another, and spoke long distance to each of these devotees for a few moments.
After the last person offered his obeisances and prayers at Srila Maharajas lotus feet, Srila Maharaja spoke the above-mentioned words. Then he began his worship of our guru paramapara.]
[*Endnote 2: What to speak of others, Gaura-kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja. Gaura-kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja, he was illiterate. He could not sign even his name. But he was so spiritually elevated that my spiritual master, who was the topmost scholar of his time, he accepted him as spiritual master. What is the reason? The reason is that this transcendental science does not depend on academic qualification. It is, it is not that because one is very, academically very qualified, hell become a devotee. No. The secret is... That is given in the Vedic literatures: yasyasti bhaktir bhagavaty akincana No:
yasya deve para bhaktir
[The transcendental knowledge becomes revealed. To whom it becomes revealed? It becomes revealed to such person who has got unflinching love for Krsna and for the spiritual master. (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.23)]
Caitanya-caritamrta also says: guru-krsna-krpaya paya bhakti-lata-bija
It is a great science. It is not a bluff, that anybody can manufacture something spiritual. No. It is a great science. One has to study the science from bona fide spiritual master. Study means... It does not mean that one has to be very highly qualified in academic education. Spiritual science does not depend on ones academic education. Youll be surprised to know that my grandspiritual master, my spiritual masters spiritual master, he was illiterate. And my spiritual master was the learned, greatest learned scholar of his age. Now, how he became the disciple of an illiterate man? So, but that Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja... His name was Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja, my spiritual masters spiritual master, my grandspiritual master. So he was illiterate, but when you asked him some question, some intricate question of spiritual significance, hell answer you immediately very nicely. That is realization. (Srila Prabhupadas lecture of Jan., 1968)]
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Of course, most campers breeze through their outdoor adventures without a snag. But part of the serenity of camping is knowing someone will know how to find you if you need help.
How can you keep your campsite safe? Here are some tips from the pros:
Don't forget to take along plenty of drinking water, even if you're headed to a mountain retreat where the water looks clear, cool, and tempting. No matter how crystal clear stream, river, or lake water looks, it can be contaminated with parasites like Giardia that make people seriously ill. Sure, packing water may seem heavy, but it's one of the essentials of camping. Bottles are unwieldy to carry (and you have to carry the empties back with you), so many seasoned campers find it easier to take along drinking pouches filled with water.
Wildlife species native to remote areas also use the waterways, and germs from sick animals can contaminate lakes, streams, or rivers. These can make people sick, too. You can bathe and swim if it's not restricted, but bring your own water to drink — and drink plenty of it, to avoid dehydration.
There are many edible plants along the trail, but don't try harvesting them unless you know what you're doing. Some berries, leaves, mushrooms, or roots look yummy but they can make you sick.
If you want to harvest goodies on your trip, study up by reading books or visiting reputable Internet sites before you head out — and then take the pictures with you.
National parks and other campsites are alive with wildlife, from birds to bears or chipmunks to snakes. It may be tempting to lure the animals into your campsite with food just to get a closer look. But do yourself (and the animals) a favor and resist.
Wild animals need to stay wild. Not feeding them helps preserve their survival — as well as your own. It's easy to think of animals like horses as domesticated, but any wild animal can bite and even smaller animals can do substantial damage to a campsite. Even if you escape the close encounter without losing a finger, the next family to land in the same campsite might not be so lucky.
Once an animal knows it can be fed at a certain location, it will instinctively return. Just as the next person to encounter the animal may not fare as well as you, the same animal may not be as fortunate with other people. Attracting animals to campsites puts them at risk for cruel treatment from people who may not be as kind as you.
Getting lost while camping and hiking is probably the biggest problem most campers face. It's a good idea to learn how to use a compass and map to get from place to place — most campers have no idea how to use a compass.
To avoid getting lost, stay on well-marked trails and never camp without a friend or family member along for the ride. Before you start on your adventure, get maps from the park or forest ranger.
If you and your buddy do get lost, follow trail markers to the nearest ranger station and wait for help to arrive. If you can't find a ranger station, look for a safe, sheltered place and wait for help to come looking for you (it will if you've followed procedures such as signing in on trails and leaving information at home on where you'll be).
An ordinary sports whistle is a camper's best friend when it comes to calling for help. The regular repeat of the clear tone can help guarantee your cries for help will be heard at distances the human voice can't travel. If you have a cell phone and can get a signal, try contacting park rangers by phone.
If you do have an unexpected problem, no matter how small it seems to you, don't hesitate to ask park rangers for help. Asking directions or advice can mean the difference between a treasured memory and a nightmare.
If you really want to head for the hills and none of your buddies are into it, take along a parent or other relative. Sharing the beauty of the great outdoors can actually help you get to know the adults in your life better, without all the usual distractions of life.
A great camping trip not only leaves you with memories to treasure, it may start you on a lifelong passion.
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Date reviewed: August 2014
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On Sun Jan 18, 2009 3:22 pm, leglessmoof wrote:Not sure if you're still collecting ticket stubs, but here's mine from the show last night:
If you leave this thread open, I'll post my stubs from 1/29, 1/31 and 2/1 after the shows are over.
On Mon Feb 02, 2009 3:16 pm, leglessmoof wrote:
On Tue Feb 10, 2009 2:28 am, Wraith wrote:I am, thanks!
On Sun Nov 15, 2009 3:56 pm, leglessmoof wrote:Last night at Madison Square Garden!
On Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:39 pm, leglessmoof wrote:Night 2 at MSG. Ticketmaster screwed up and sent regular tickets instead of the custom fan club tickets. They're supposed to be sending out the custom fan tickets later this month. If/when I get mine I'll post it here.
On Mon Nov 16, 2009 6:37 pm, yourlastwords wrote:Wow, we were at a lot of the same shows. I live in CT so I was able to make it to Boston on Jan. 18 as well as Nassau, Newark night II and MSG night II (setlist-wise, glad I went to this one).
On Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:53 am, Wraith wrote:moof you suck for getting to see that show
On Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:38 pm, leglessmoof wrote:My above post is updated with the fanclub ticket for 11/15Wraith wrote:moof you suck for getting to see that show
On Sun Dec 06, 2009 6:04 am, Wraith wrote:On a related note, yes, I know the recent years are missing images from the setlist pages. The software I use to make the images "float" beside the setlists is a retarded mother fucker and causes tons of damage to the code of the rest of the page that I have to go back and fix every time I make any edits to the images or their placement..so I've been really lazy with that. When I get my new computer in Jan I'll go back and add all the images that are missing.
On Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:38 pm, leglessmoof wrote:Here's my ticket stub from the Yankee Stadium show:
However, I didn't actually attend the Yankee Stadium show. I sold my ticket so I could afford to go to the San Francisco shows in December.
On Fri Sep 30, 2011 2:48 am, Wraith wrote:Thanks and I agree wholeheartedly with your decision Which show(s) are you going to? I'll be at all four you'll have to come say hey.
On Fri Sep 30, 2011 3:09 am, leglessmoof wrote:I will be at all 4 shows also. We should definitely meet up.


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William Richard Eadington, professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno and internationally recognized as the foremost authority on the legalization and regulation of commercial gambling, passed away peacefully at his home in Crystal Bay, Nev., on Feb. 11, 2013 at the age of 67 following an 18-month battle with cancer.Born on Jan. 1, 1946 to the late Elizabeth and Thomas Eadington, William (Bill) grew up in the town of Brea in Orange County, California. He attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, then Santa Clara University where he received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics. On Feb. 3, 1968, at the age of 22, he married Margaret Dean, with whom he had gone to grade school at St. Mary's in Fullerton, Calif.In 1969, after completing his Ph.D. in Economics from Claremont Graduate School, he and Margaret moved to Reno and he went to work at the University of Nevada, where he spent his entire 43-year career on the faculty of the Economics Department in the College of Business.Over the course of his prolific career, Bill became the leading academic expert in the field of gaming. He founded the Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno. He wrote extensively on issues relating to the economic and social impacts of commercial gaming, and served as a consultant and advisor for governments and private sector organizations throughout the world on issues related to gaming laws, casino operations, regulation, legalization and public policy.Bill was a founding member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and a former associate editor of the "Annals of Tourism Research and the Journal of Gambling Studies." He served as the organizer of the University's ongoing triennial International Conferences on Gambling and Risk Taking, which began in 1974, and served as founder and co-moderator of the annual Executive Development Programs for Senior Level Casino Executives since 1991.In 1990, Bill was awarded a Foundation Professorship at the University, and starting in 2004, he held the Philip G. Satre Chair of Gaming Studies at the University. In 2011, he was inducted into the American Gaming Association's Gaming Hall of Fame with a Special Achievement Award for Gaming Education. Bill served as an Academic Visitor to the London School of Economics, as a Visiting Professor at the Center for Addiction Studies, Harvard Medical School, and as a Visiting Lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.He also was on the faculty of the Centre for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming at the University of Salford (U.K.). In 2008, Bill was awarded a Doctor of Business Administration honoris causa by the University of Macau. In addition to the notable academic and policy contributions Bill made to the field of gaming during his career, he made a larger personal impact on the students, industry and government professionals with whom he taught, worked and came to know personally. Bill is survived by his wife, Margaret Eadington, his son Michael Eadington, his daughter and son-in-law, Diana and Darren Reed, and his three grandchildren, Sophia, Roxanne and Scarlett. He is also survived by his sister Elizabeth, his brothers Robert and George, his siblings' spouses, beloved nieces and nephews, and many special friends around the world. Bill brought a unique and wonderful sense of intelligence, humor and insight into the world that he shared with his family and friends. He will be missed dearly by his loved ones.In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to the Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe or Tahoe Safe Alliance.A service will be held for Bill Eadington this Saturday, Feb. 16 at 1:30 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Incline Village, Nevada.


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"It seemed to progress pretty quickly, seemed to be happening in the back of the house," said neighbor Jenna Ricciardi.
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A Missouri woman paid a $100 fine for calling 911 to report her dog had collapsed, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
Rose Lakey of O'Fallon had referred to the Great Dane as her "daughter" when she made the emergency call on Easter Sunday. She said Wednesday — the day she paid the fine — that the word "daughter" came out accidentally.
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- Powerbook Mac (PPC laptop) - 10.3 perhaps, and 10.4
- MacBook (Intel laptop) - 10.4
Although reports on some success under cygwin have been reported, we will not have the resources to fix any Windows related problems if you plan to use cygwin.
You will need to have pre-installed on your laptop:
- a C and Fortran compiler (gcc, g77 preferably, though gfortran or even g95 are known to work). If not for development, possibly for shared libraries.
- X11 and X11SDK (or the relevant -devel packages in linux).
- optionally some development tools, like cvs
- optionally tools like ds9, xpa tools (needed for ds9) and/or karma
Please send Peter the output of the following commands:
which gcc gcc -v which g77 g77 -v uname -a ls /usr/include/X11
If g77 does not exist, try gfortran or g95, or even f77.
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Since OVRO is on a very slow internet link, bring ANYTHING you can in terms of potentially finishing the installation of your laptop for Carma data reduction. This includes the data from the Illinois data archive, as well as linux install CDs, or Mac install DVDs (Xcode is the keyword here) etc. A list of things we've encountered as people could forget are:
- mac users should bring their install DVD, Xcode etc.
- linux users should bring their install DVDs
- we need to prepackage binaries for compilers where needed (e.g. hpc stuff for Mac users), binary releases for Miriad and the optional tools (ds9, karma, ....) that we might want to use.
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