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In the light of current sexual scandals arising at Zen Buddhist practice places, people are asking an important question: How can some accomplished Zen Buddhist teachers engage in unethical practices, including, but not limited to, sexual misconduct, when most people, non-practitioners, practitioners, and most Zen Buddhist teachers would not engage in them?
The simplest causes of sexual misconduct are loneliness (especially single people), unhappiness, bad marriages, unfulfilling personal relationships, and, thinking that you can get away with it. The three poisons are also causes: greed ( I want it, disregarding the other person), hatred (or aversion, discontent with your present situation), or delusion (thinking that the enlightened being (yourself) is above the karmic consequences of your behavior. The list could go on and on.
We need to remember, however, that awakening is not a permanent event, that all of us, even those who have deeply awakened to our true nature and the nature of our relationship to the rest of the universe can fall into delusion in an instant and act badly, causing harm to ourselves and others. We also have to remember that we are all human beings and are all susceptible to human failings. These are the simple answers to the above question.
The more complex answer lies in an issue that has been a part of Zen Buddhism since its beginnings. The best modern exploration of this issue occurs in Robert Aitken's book, The Mind of Clover: Essays in Zen Buddhist Ethics. In the first essay, "The Nature of the Precepts," Aitken discusses a famous interchange between the Samurai warrior Musashi Miyamoto and the Zen Master Takuan. Miyamoto asks Takuan how to conduct himself in battle. Takuan replies:
The uplifted sword has no will of its own, it is all of emptiness. It is like a flash of lightning.
The man who is about to be struck down is also of emptiness, as is the one who wields the
sword. . . .
Do not get your mind stopped with the sword you raise; forget about what you are doing, and
strike the enemy. Do not keep your mind on the person before you. They are all of emptiness,
but beware of your mind being caught in emptiness.
Well, even though Takuan says don't be "caught in emptiness," he recommends that Miyamoto do so, dwell in the absolute, forget about the relative, and then you are blameless. But what about the first Pure Precept: "A follower of the Way does no harm." And what about the Prohibitory Precept on killing: "A follower of the Way does not kill but rather cultivates and encourages life." Takuan has gone a little off by ignoring these.
Robert Aitken comments on Takuan's statement thusly:
The Devil quotes scripture, and Mara, the incarnation of ignorance, can quote the Abhidharma. The fallacy of the Way of the Samurai is similar to the fallacy of the Code of the Crusader. Both distort what should be a universal view into an argument for partisan warfare. The Catholic charity of the Holy See did not include people it called pagans. The vow of Takuan Zenji to save all beings did not encompass the one he calls the enemy.
Later on in his book, in the chapter on the precept against killing, Aitken re-examines Takuan's statement:
The Buddha-nature view is summed up in the Heart Sutra. "There is no old age and death, and also no ending of old age and death." It is important to see into this passage clearly. The first point is that in the world of nirvana, the real world of empty infinity, there is nothing to be called death. From this point of view, Takuan Zenji is right: there is no one killing, no killing, and no one to be killed. The peace of infinite emptiness pervades the universe.
. . . If there is no sword, no swing of the sword, no decapitation, then what about all the blood?
What about the wails of the widow and children? the absolute position, when isolated, omits
human details completely. Doctrines, including Buddhism, are meant to be used. Beware of
them taking life of their own, for then they use us. Nirvana, the purity and clarity of the void, is
the name we give to the total peace one experiences in deepest realization. But that is the same
sea that we experience rising and falling in samsara, the relative world of coming and going.
We cannot abstract depth from surface, nor surface from depth. Killing, even in an exalted state
of mind, cannot be separated from suffering.
Nor can stealing, lying, cheating, improper sexual conduct, or any of the other unethical behaviors covered by the Sixteen Bodhisattva Precepts. We have to remember that one's beliefs, title, or spiritual status do not make one a good person. One's behavior does. And negative behavior, that which causes suffering, is negative behavior, no matter who commits it, and we reap the consequences of negative behavior.
One of the earliest examples of how we can go off if we only dwell in the absolute and neglect the relative and the precepts occurs in a Zen Buddhist text called Dialogue on the Contemplation Extinguished. The text is sometimes attributed to Bodhidharma, but there is no historical evidence of this. The dialogue is between a master called "Attainment" and his disciple called "Gateway" and is a brilliant exploration of the absolute side of existence. However, the following passage was pointed out to us and examined by my master, Dainin Katagiri, when his disciples studied the text (trans. by Gishin Tokiwa) with him many years ago:
Part VI
1. Gateway asks, "Does the Way lie only in the spiritual body? Or does it also lie in grass and
Attainment says, "The Way has no place where it does not pervade."
2. Asked, " If the Way is so pervasive, why is it that to kill a man is criminal whereas to kill
grass and trees is not criminal?'
Answered, "to speak of crime and non-crime follows the discriminative mind, and is based on
particularity; neither is the right Way. Only because men [and women] of the world, not having
attained the Way, falsely set up their own [and other] selves, is killing intentional. The intention
bears fruit of karman. Hence the speaking of crimes.
Grass and trees, having no discriminative mind, originally accord with the Way. Since they are
free from ego-centeredness, their killer engages in no calculation. Hence no arguing about
crime or non-crime.
Now the one who is free from ego-centeredness, who thus accords with the Way, looks at his body as at grass or a tree, and suffers the cutting of his body with a sword as trees in a forest do. Therefore, Manjusri's grasping a sword against Gautama [Buddha] and Angulimalya's holding a dagger against Sakyamuni are all in accord with the Way. Both attain the No- origination, and completely realize the mirage-like transformation of what are hollow and vacant in their identity. That is why there is no arguing about either a crime or a non-crime."
However, as Robert Aitken has said, "What about the blood? What about the wails of the widow and children?"
Whenever we try to justify our behavior by citing the absolute and deluding ourselves by thinking that we can abide there and ignore the relative, we go off, as Zen Buddhist teachers do when they ignore the precepts, which are meant to guide us as we make our way in the relative world, and engage in unethical practices.
The law of cause and effect governs all our actions. No one can escape it, even the Zen Buddhist master who foolishly thinks that he or she is beyond it. In more recent Zen Buddhist literature, the Wild Fox koan speaks to this issue:
Every day when Zen master Baizhang spoke in the hall, there was an old man who would
attend along with the assembly. One day when the congregation had departed, the old man remained.
Baizhang asked him, "Who are you?"
The old man said, "I'm not a person. Formerly, during the age of Kasyapa Buddha, I was the
abbot of a monastery on this mountain. At that time a student asked me. 'Does a great adept fall
into cause and effect or not?' I answered, saying, 'A great adept does not fall into cause and
effect.' Thereafter, for five hundred lifetimes I've been reborn in the body of a fox. Now I ask
that the master say a turning phrase in my behalf, so that I can shed the fox's body."
Baizhang said, "Ask the question."
The old man said, "Does a great adept fall into cause and effect or not?"
Baizhang said, "A great adept is not blind to cause and effect."
Upon hearing these words, the old man experienced unsurpassed enlightenment. He then said,
"Now I have shed the body of a fox. I lived behind the mountain. Please provide funeral
services for a monk who has died.
When Zen Buddhist masters ignore the law of cause and effect and fail to live ethically according to the precepts, they have manifested into negative actions. They then create suffering not only for themselves but also for others, for as I mentioned earlier, "karma" means "action." The law of karma is: positive actions have positive results, negative actions have negative results, neutral actions have neutral results. No one is above this law, no matter how long one has practiced or how deep their understanding.


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Guardiola, formerly of Barcelona, signed a three-year deal with the Bundesliga leaders on Wednesday which will see him takeover at the club in the summer.
And Heynckes, who will be retiring at the end of the current campaign to make way for the Spaniard, believes they could not have found a more suitable candidate for the job.
"[I'm being succeeded] by a younger coach who has been very successful. I think it's good. My successor is a smart man. He has analysed the top European teams and has recognised that Bayern will be the team with whom he can have the most success," he told reporters.
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Corrientes GRAND SLAM | 22 - 26 May 2013
Argentina, May 17, 2013 - With less than one week until the start of the FIVB
Beach Volleyball World Tour Corrientes Grand Slam in Argentina, FIVB.org looks
back at two of the country's most successful stars - Martin Conde and Mariano
In five days the Argentinean city of Corrientes will make its debut on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour when it will host the Corrientes Grand Slam from May 22 to 26.
As a country, Argentina has a great deal of experience organising international beach volleyball events, with the city of Mar del Plata having already hosted five men's events while Buenos Aires has held one women's event in 2005.
But Argentina also has a rich beach volleyball history around the world and two of its most famous faces – Martin Conde and Mariano Baracetti – are also gearing up for the action that is to come on the sands of Corrientes.
Conde and Baracetti, beach volleyball legends in Argentina, carved out a name for themselves internationally when in 2001 they won the World Tour and then two weeks later the World Championship. It was a defining moment for the Argentinians who became the only non-Brazilian men's team of the time to claim the World Championship title.
partnership came about after a chance meeting in December 2000 when Conde was
playing with Esteban Martinez (who was on the team that won the bronze medal at
the 1982 FIVB Volleyball World Championship in Argentina) and Baracetti was partnered with Jose Salema.
"When Martin Conde and I joined forces our main goal was to place in the world's top 12 teams," said Baracetti. "We were cautious. But in July 2001 we won two stages of the World Tour in Lignano (Italy) and Marseilles (France). However, this still did not position us well in the world ranking or for the World Championship. So we never really thought that we would find ourselves on the podium, which is why our win was such a high point in my career."
The final of the World Championship that year, pitted the Argentinians against Brazilians Ricardo and Loiola. In an intense and unpredictable match, Conde and Baracetti took the title in three sets (25-23, 12-21, 20-18) in a match lasting one hour and seven minutes, with 8,000 spectators in attendance. And the accolades kept coming as Conde was chosen the Most Valuable Player at the World Championship.
the way to the final the pair beat other established teams such as Poland's
Buchorsski-Bulkowski, Italy's Lione-Amore, Norway's Maaseide-Horrem, Germany's
Dieckmann-Reckermann and the North Americans Rogers-Holdren before the great
final against Brazil.
Veterans of the sport acknowledge that each player had a unique individual style and technique. However, Conde's great presence at the net as one of the world's best defensive players when paired with Baracetti's enviable indoor technique showed perfect complementarity.
Although they are now retired the two players continue to be heavily involved in beach volleyball, serving as an example for young Argentinian players looking to achieve the same level of success as Conde and Baracetti.
This is set to be a busy year for Argentina as Conde's home town of Mar del Plata also gears itself to welcome the 2013 FIVB Volleyball World League Finals from July 17 to 21. As with their players, Argentina is poised to show that they can take on the world by organising a top level beach volleyball event.
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Latvia grabs FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam men's gold medal
Corrientes, Argentina, May 26, 2013—Striking fast and hitting hard, Latvia's Aleksandrs Samoilovs/Janis Smedins powered past the stiff challenge from ... More...
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Latvia vs. United States for FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam gold
Corrientes, Argentina, May 26, 2013—With tough-as-nails teams battling across the net, Saturday afternoon's men's semifinal matches have set a dr... More...
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Netherlands' Meppelink/van Gestel win women's gold at FIVB Corrientes
Corrientes, Argentina, May 25, 2013—After starting play Saturday in the sun-soaked sand and finishing in the evening under a pleasant Argentinean sky ... More...
26.05.2013 01:01:30
Brazil, Italy, Latvia, United States in men's final four at FIVB Corrientes
25.05.2013 19:00:59
Women's final four field set at Corrientes Grand Slam
25.05.2013 16:55:35
Men's Corrientes Grand Slam quarterfinals confirmed
25.05.2013 08:52:43
Corrientes Grand Slam enters business end
25.05.2013 03:28:19
Women's final matches at FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam Saturday
25.05.2013 00:31:23
Men's FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam down to 16 teams
24.05.2013 18:51:51
Men moving to single-elimination at FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam
24.05.2013 16:22:20
Women's FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam finishes Pool Play
24.05.2013 03:42:23
Men's Pool Play upsets numerous at FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam Thursday
24.05.2013 03:14:42
FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam women's pool play hot on chilly day
22.05.2013 21:29:02
Main draw field finalised for FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam
22.05.2013 04:38:55
28 men's, 18 women's duos set for Corrientes qualifying
21.05.2013 12:00:00
Former world champ Baracetti expects US-Brazil medal chase
20.05.2013 09:33:14
Argentina hosting World Tour at FIVB Corrientes Grand Slam
16.05.2013 14:38:12
Switzerland's Gerson-Prawdzic warming up well for Corrientes
16.05.2013 13:40:52
Alison & Emanuel plan 2013 World Tour debut in Corrientes
14.05.2013 22:27:13
Corrientes preparations in full force for the FIVB Grand Slam
08.05.2013 17:08:10
Teams confirmed for Corrientes Grand Slam
03.05.2013 17:23:58
National Federation list confirmed for Corrientes Grand Slam
03.05.2013 10:03:34
Zonta and Gallay spurred on by London experience
26.04.2013 09:10:55
Volleyball standout Sarah Pavan to join Canada's beach volleyball programme
25.04.2013 21:50:35
Corrientes Grand Slam officially launched
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World Tour returns to Argentina for Corrientes Grand Slam


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1) Unorthodox or liberal? ABCs Jackie Judd noted that the federal circuit court, which ruled the Pledge of Allegiance to be unconstitutional because of the under God phrase, has a reputation for unorthodox opinions. But on CBS, John Blackstone and John Roberts were less obtuse as they simply stated that the court is liberal.
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3) ABCs Diane Sawyer and NBCs Ann Curry ahead of their time? On July 4th last year Sawyer dropped endowed by their Creator when she recited the Declaration of Independence. And reacting to the decision by the New York City schools last October to reinstate the Pledge of Allegiance, on Today Curry suggested that instead of forcing students to say the pledge, perhaps the school systems across the country really should be thinking about renewing a lesson about tolerance.
4) Martina Navratilova, who made millions in the U.S. after she left Czechoslovakia, has complained: Decisions in America are based solely on the question of 'how much money will come out of it' and not on the questions of how much health, morals or the environment suffer as a result. She also equated the U.S. under President Bush with Czechoslovakia under Soviet domination. But not all Czech athletes who fled to the U.S. are as ungrateful. NHL hockey star Jaromir Jagr carried a photo of Ronald Reagan in a school book and years later scored a goal for him.
5) Some country music radio stations are encouraging listeners to send boots to Peter Jennings to protest his decision to pull Toby Keith from ABCs 4th of July special because Jennings objected to Keiths song, Courtesy of the Red White and Blue, which includes the lyrics: And you'll be sorry that you messed with the U.S. of A. 'cause we'll put a boot in your ass, 'it's the American way.
6) ABCs Politically Incorrect will air for the last time on Friday night. In November of 2000 host Bill Maher joked about how
for a few brief moments America held the hope that O.J. Simpson had murdered Katherine Harris."
7) FNCs Brit Hume highlighted the new MRC study, Burying the Liberal Label on Network News; MRC Study: On Evening News Broadcasts, Conservative Tag Used Four Times More than Liberal Label.
Unorthodox or liberal?
ABCs Jackie Judd noted on Wednesdays World News Tonight that the federal circuit court which ruled the Pledge of Allegiance to be unconstitutional because of the under God phrase, has a reputation for unorthodox opinions. But on the CBS Evening News, John Blackstone and John Roberts were less obtuse as they simply stated that the court is liberal.
Judd asserted: The 9th Circuit has a reputation for unorthodox opinions. It is reversed more often than any other circuit.
Over on the June 26 CBS Evening News, John Blackstone concluded his piece from San Francisco: The court that has revived the issue, the 9th Circuit based here in San Francisco, is known for its liberal opinions and those opinions have frequently been overturned by the Supreme Court, which is undoubtedly where this case is headed.
Talking with CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen, CBS anchor John Roberts inquired: "The 9th Circuit is the most liberal court in the land. It's also the most overturned court in the land by the Supreme Court."
At the top of CNNs NewsNight on Wednesday night, substitute anchor Anderson Cooper quipped: It is the kind of story Roger Ailes dreams of. Ailes is the Chairman of Fox News.
Some other facts about the pledge and the case which may be of interest:
-- The 9th Circuit covers these states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.
-- So, in those states, the Pledge of Allegiance is now illegal. If you live there, read this next paragraph at your own legal risk. The Pledge of Allegiance as it stands in the other 41 states and even in the District of Columbia:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
-- For those in the nine Western states in the 9th Circuit, heres the version of the pledge you can legally use:
"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
-- The American Legions page on the history of the pledge:
-- Which Presidents nominated the three judges who heard the case, a factoid I didnt see reported in any TV newscast story Wednesday night. As reported by Associated Press reporter David Kravets: The opinion was written by Alfred Goodwin, who was appointed by President Nixon, and joined by Circuit Judge
Stephen Reinhardt, a Carter appointee. In a dissent, Circuit Judge Ferdinand F. Fernandez, appointed by the first President Bush, warned that under his colleagues' theory of the Constitution, 'we will soon find ourselves prohibited from using our album of patriotic songs in many public settings.
First Nixon gave us liberal Supreme Court Justice Blackmun. And now this guy.
ABCs Diane Sawyer and NBCs Ann Curry ahead of their time? In an ABC News July 4th special last year Sawyer dropped endowed by their Creator when she recited the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. And reacting to the decision by the New York City schools last October to reinstate the Pledge of Allegiance, complete with the under God phrase, on Today Curry highlighted how the ACLU worried that those who choose not to participate could be targeted for harassment. Curry also suggested that instead of forcing students to say the pledge, perhaps the school systems across the country really should be thinking about renewing a lesson about tolerance.
New Yorkers may still have to recite the intolerant pledge, but it looks like Curry is getting her wish in nine Western states.
-- Diane Sawyers Creator-less Declaration of Independence. As recounted in the July 11, 2001
During ABCs hour-long Independence Day 2001" special from Philadelphias July 4 celebration, Sawyer read the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. Well, most of it.
She announced: You know, its hard to imagine now that it was such a shocking idea at the time, these words: We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, endowed with certain unalienable Rights, among these Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Heres the preamble in full, with the endowed by their Creator portion which Sawyer skipped: We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
To watch a RealPlayer video clip of Sawyer reciting her version live on ABC a year ago:
-- NBCs Ann Curry on the Pledge of Allegiance. As reported in the October 24, 2001 CyberAlert:
Having school kids say the Pledge of Allegiance is offensive and intolerant to the hosts of NBCs Today which demonstrated how, to at least some in the media, not offending anyone in the U.S. who is not a citizen is more important than affirming loyalty. On October 19 NBC brought aboard Ninfa Segarra, the President of the New York City School Board, to defend its resolution to require that the Pledge of Allegiance be said each morning by school kids.
NBCs Ann Curry, MRC analyst Geoffrey Dickens noticed, went to the concerns of the ACLU which claims that those young people who choose not to participate could be targeted for harassment. After her colleague Matt Lauer worried about how some kids will be ostracized, Curry suggested that in addition to renewing...a symbol of patriotism, that perhaps the school systems across the country really should be thinking about renewing a lesson about tolerance.
Thats right, the kids in schools in Southern Manhattan who saw the World Trade Center explode are the ones who need a lesson in tolerance.
Curry began the interview segment late in the 19 show by letting Segarra outline why the schools had decided to reinstate the long-ago discontinued practice of having kids say the Pledge. Curry then pounced: You know the Supreme Court decision way back in the 40s limits, basically prevents you from requiring, forcing students to say the Pledge. But you know the American Civil Liberties Union is very concerned about your resolution. They are saying basically that those young people who choose not to participate could be targeted for harassment. And The New York City school system has a lot of people, a lot of students and perhaps even teachers who are not American citizens, isn't that correct?
If they dont believe in pledging allegiance to the nation giving them a free education, then why should anyone care about offending them? They are the ones acting offensively.
When Segarra noted that no one will be forced to take the Pledge, Lauer remained troubled: "But how would you do that? I mean if you are in a classroom of 30 students and five sit in a corner and don't stand and put their hands on their hearts as the Pledge is recited aren't the other kids going to ostracize them a little bit?"
Curry soon elaborated on Lauers concern: "But part of the thinking behind some of the criticism is that perhaps maybe an addendum to a renewing of, of a symbol of patriotism that perhaps the school systems across the country really should be thinking about renewing a lesson about tolerance. Now is the school district, you are focusing on that in a new way?
Segarra assured Curry that remains a concern.
Navratilova, the tennis star who made millions in the U.S. after she left Czechoslovakia, has denounced the values of her adopted country. In an article in a German magazine reported by Reuters and picked up Wednesday night by FNCs Brit Hume, she complained: Decisions in America are based solely on the question of 'how much money will come out of it' and not on the questions of how much health, morals or the environment suffer as a result.
She also equated the U.S. under President Bush with Czechoslovakia under Soviet domination: The most absurd part of my escape from the unjust system is that I have exchanged one system that suppresses free opinion for another."
The unbylined Reuters dispatch from Berlin noted that she
singled out President Bush's Republican party for unusually harsh criticism. 'The Republicans in the United States manipulate public opinion and sweep any controversial issues under the table, said
For the Reuters story in full about what Navratilova wrote in the weekly Die Zeit magazine:
Not all Czech athletes who fled to the U.S. are as ungrateful as Navratilova or as incapable of realizing the difference between communist oppression and a free nation where no one has ever denied her the right to say anything.
In the 1980s, current NHL hockey star Jaromir Jagr who wears number 68" to remember the 1968 Soviet invasion of his country, at great personal risk, carried a photo of Ronald Reagan in a school book. As Sports Illustrated recounted in 1992: Jagr admired Reagan because he was somebody who stood up to the Communists, who had identified the Soviet Union as the 'evil empire that Jagr's family knew it to be.
An excerpt from a profile of Jagr in the October 12, 1992 Sports Illustrated, The Kid From Kladno: By achieving NHL stardom, the Penguins' Jaromir Jagr has realized the dream he had as a youth in Czechoslovakia, by
E.M. Swift:
When Jaromir Jagr was 12 years-old -- long before he was a shaggy-maned, spotlight-nabbing heartthrob of the Pittsburgh Penguins; before he had signed a three-year, $3.8 million contract or been invited with his Stanley Cup-winning teammates to the White House; heck, before he had ever left Kladno, Czechoslovakia -- he kept a certain photograph in his grade book at school. Jagr had cut it out of a magazine and hidden it there, sneaking peeks at the picture, knowing there would be hell to pay if the teacher caught him with it.
One day, sure enough, the teacher picked up Jagr's grade book to write down the score he had made on a test and found the photograph. Are you crazy, Jaromir? Take it out, she told him. So he did. But as soon as class was over, Jagr put the photograph of Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, back into his
grade book. Jagr admired Reagan because he was somebody who stood up to the Communists, who had identified the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" that Jagr's family knew it to be. Month after month the teacher continued to find that photo of Reagan in Jagr's grade book, continued to admonish him, but she never confiscated it. And every time, when class was over, Jagr would slip it back into its place. "In school we were always taught the Soviet doctrine," Jagr says. "The U.S.A. was bad and wanted war. Russia was our friend and was preventing the United States from bombing us. Even my father didn't tell me the truth, because he was afraid I'd say something in school that would get us into trouble. But my grandmother, she told me the truth."
Jagr's grandmother Jarmila told the boy about the first Jaromir Jagr, his grandfather and her husband. He was a farmer. When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948, the grandmother said, they appropriated all the privately owned farms. They collectivized his grandfather's fields and three quarters of his livestock. They left him with the house, barn and yard that the family still lives in today -- Jagr, his grandmother, his parents and his uncle. (Jagr's sister, Jitka, is now married and lives 10 minutes away.) Then the authorities told Jagr's grandfather that he had to labor in the cooperative farm for free. His grandfather
refused to work for those people who had stolen his farm. So he was thrown into jail, and he remained there for more than two years.
Jaromir Jagr, the hockey player, never knew Jaromir Jagr, the farmer. The grandson was born in 1972. The grandfather died in 1968, by coincidence during the glorious days of the Czechoslovakian freedom movement known as the Prague Spring. "He never knew that the Russians came back," Jagr says. But, of course, they did come back, and Jagr's grandmother made sure that he knew how, on Aug. 20-21, 1968, the troops rolled through Czechoslovakia to squash that fledgling movement in less than 48 hours.
Jagr never forgot. That is why he admired Reagan. Why he has an American flag in his bedroom and two decals of Old Glory on the windshield of his car in Kladno. And why the young Penguin star, the flamboyant and seemingly carefree spirit, handsome, athletic and rich, wears number 68, after the Prague Spring of 1968, the spring that his grandfather died....
END of Excerpt
That reminiscing prompted a phone call from Ronald Reagan, which Sports Illustrated recounted in its November 16, 1992 issue:
In a profile by E.M. Swift in the Oct. 12 SI, Pittsburgh Penguin forward Jaromir Jagr recounted that as a lad in Czechoslovakia, he had kept a photo of his hero, Ronald Reagan, pressed in one of his schoolbooks. Last week Jagr received a phone call from Reagan, who said he had read the story and wanted to say hello. Jagr said that the conversation was disjointed, partly because his own English is not perfect but also because Reagan had alluded to the Gipper, a reference Jagr did not fully understand.
'He must be old, Jagr said of Reagan. "He started talking about something and then forgot what he was saying. But, added Jagr, 'it was my best day. I never talked to a guy like him before."
An honor which would have eluded
Jaromir Jagr scored one for the Gipper, The APs Alan Robinson reported on November 6, 1992. An excerpt:
....Jagr ended a four-game scoreless streak after promising former President Ronald Reagan he would score a goal for him, helping the Pittsburgh Penguins continue the best start in their history with an 8-4 victory Thursday over the St. Louis Blues....
Reagan arranged the conversation after reading in a magazine that Jagr carried the president's picture in his school books while growing up in Czechoslovakia, dreaming he would someday come to America. "I told him, 'I will score a goal for you,"' Jagr said. "I've never talked to anyone like him before. It was my best day
Jagr was noticeably absent from the Penguins' blitzkrieg offense for several games, but he got all the inspiration he needed from Reagan's phone call.
After St. Louis had tied it at 2 in the second period with a pair of power-play goals by Jeff Brown and Craig Janney, Rick Tocchet and Jagr touched off a run of five straight Penguins' goals by scoring on the power play.
Mr. President, Jagr's goal was for you.
"I asked him if he liked hockey and he said he was a big football fan," Jagr said. "He told me, 'Thank you for saying what you said about me and the U.S.' I asked him, 'Why do they call you the Gipper, what does that mean?"'
Jagr was told how Reagan's best-known acting role was his portrayal of former Notre Dame football star George
Jagr is now with the Washington Capitals and has yet to complain about the oppression of earning $7 million a year. For a photo of him:
And what position does he play? Right wing.
Some country radio stations are encouraging listeners to send boots to Peter Jennings to protest his decision to pull Toby Keith from ABCs 4th of July special because Jennings objected to Keiths song, Courtesy of the Red White and Blue, which includes the lyrics:
This big dog will fight/
When you rattle his cage/
And you'll be sorry that you messed with/
The U.S. of A./
'Cause we'll put a boot in your ass/
It's the American way.
For more about the hit song and Keiths version of why he was dropped from ABCs special, as well as for a RealPlayer video clip of him singing the song on CNNs Wolf Blitzer Reports:
The MRCs Liz Swasey alerted me to a New York Post story about the boot-shipping effort. An excerpt from the June 26 story by Adam
Fans of country singer Toby Keith are about to give Peter
Jennings the boot.
Actually, make that boots -- hundreds of pairs of them which are scheduled to be shipped from about a half-dozen country radio stations next week to Jennings' office at ABC News headquarters here in New York.
The Send Your Old Boots to Peter Jennings Campaign began after Keith blamed the anchorman for getting him booted off of ABC's July Fourth TV special because he planned to sing his new song about Sept. 11, "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (The Angry American)".
Keith was dropped earlier this month because producers of
the special didn't think the song was upbeat enough to open their show. Among the song's lyrics are: "You'll be sorry that you messed with the U.S. of A. 'cause we'll put a boot in your ass - it's the American way."
It was that lyric that inspired the boot campaign, which was the brainchild of a radio personality named Crash, who co-hosts a morning show on country station KTST-FM ("The Twister") in Oklahoma City....
And UPS in Oklahoma City has volunteered to ship the foot wear for free this Friday for delivery as early as next Tuesday.
Crash says word of the boot campaign has spread through the country music grapevine to stations in San Antonio, Dallas, Wichita, Kansas City and other cities. The grand total of boots headed to Jennings' office could not be determined yesterday, but clearly, country music fans are up in arms.
In addition to the boot campaign, country radio disc jockeys
have collected thousands of signatures on petitions to reinstate Keith on the ABC lineup....
ABC News denies that Jennings took part in the banning of Keith's song. A spokeswoman for Jennings labeled the boot campaign a "publicity stunt," and added, "Knowing Peter Jennings, when the boots arrive, they will be given to the homeless."...
For the entire story:
The KTST-FM Web page features a graphic of Jennings head on a donkey with a boot pointing at the donkeys ass:
That page also has a link to the Support Toby Keith and The Angry American Song petition cited above:
Friday night will be the last broadcast for ABCs Politically Incorrect, though those in the Washington, DC area havent seen the program since ABC affiliate WJLA-TV stopped showing it last October.
Starting on Monday, July 8, ABC will replace it with a second half hour of Nightline with personality profiles, called Nightline: Close Up. Then in January, that will be replaced by Jimmy Kimmels Man Show now on Comedy Central.
So, today a reminder of the kind of mean-spirited humor the liberal host of Politically Incorrect, Bill Maher, used his show to promulgate. One of his jokes told on the November 30, 2000 show before the audience at CBS Television City, which ABC breaks up and runs excerpts from after ad breaks to lead into another segment with his four guests:
"Now earlier today, a rental truck carried a half a million
ballots from Palm Beach to the Florida Supreme Court there in Tallahassee. CNN had live helicopter coverage from the truck
making its way up the Florida highway, and for a few brief moments, America held the hope that O.J. Simpson had murdered
Katherine Harris."
To watch that via RealPlayer clip:
In the Grapevine segment of Wednesdays Special Report with Brit Hume on FNC, Hume highlighted the MRC study released this week about media labeling:
American conservatives have complained for years that the news media and, in particular, the broadcast TV networks consistently label conservative public figures as such but rarely do so with liberals. Now, the conservative Media Research Center has run some numbers to make that case. Heres what the Center says it found after reviewing the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts from 1997 through 2001: Conservatives were so labeled 997 times, but the liberal label was applied only 247 times. Thats an 80 percent to 20 percent differential, with the biggest gap between national political candidates who the Center says were labeled liberal only four times to conservatives who were so identified 96 times.
To read the study, Burying the Liberal Label on Network News; MRC Study: On Evening News Broadcasts, Conservative Tag Used Four Times More than Liberal Label, go to:
For the Adobe Acrobat PDF version:
For How MRC Conducted Its Labeling Study, in which Rich Noyes explains how he conducted the study and how he eliminated irrelevant uses of the search terms in order to only count ideological labels applied by reporters or anchors:
For a rundown of past MRC studies documenting the media predilection to label conservatives more often than liberals:
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It may be an old cliche in the investing world but the term "sell in May and go away, buy again on Leger's day", looks increasingly like competent equity advice, according one analyst who told CNBC that investors should lighten their load and prepare for months of weak fundamental data.
The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones have reached new all-time highs in recent weeks after a "risk-on" rally that really gained momentum at the start of the year. The S&P posted its longest monthly winning streak since September 2009 on Tuesday, whilst the U.K.'s FTSE 100 has staged an 11-month rally, its longest winning streak on record since its 1984 inception.
(Read More: 'Rotate in May' Could Be the Real Spring Market Play)
However, further gains are unlikely if history is to be believed.
"It turns out that some old proverbs are worth listening to. Our research shows that the St Leger method has worked well over the last three years as a whole," investment research firm FundExpert.co.uk wrote on its website. St Leger's Day is famous among horse racing buffs in the U.K. for being the last classic flat race of the season, which takes place in September.
Selling in May outperformed the "buy and hold" approach in each of the last three years in all but the most defensive sectors, according to the firm's research. And the sense of deja-vu was incredible leading up to May, it said, describing the market peaks and an unsettling macro background as good reasons for why global equities may make a move south if history is to be believed.
For investors focused on macroeconomic data, there's plenty to be worried about after a slew of weak data in recent weeks, including worse than expected readings from purchasing managers' indexes (PMI) from China and Germany and a fall in U.S. durable goods orders. Growth figures for the U.S. also missed expectations on Friday.
(Read More: Call This Market Surge the Anti-Austerity Rally)
"I would definitely lighten up, just keep track of that trend you know, because I promise you as soon as we start to see it's not heading so much higher people are going to be afraid, everyone wants to sell at the same time," Alejandro Zambrano, a market analyst at Dailyfx.com told CNBC Wednesday.
"The markets are strong but because of all this fundamental news coming in and also the statistical proof that markets don't tend to rally so much further from May, I would definitely lighten up."
Zambrano said this was especially the case for longer term investors but it depended on how quickly you can move out of your positions. The best way to play the market, he said, was to track the daily movements of an index like the S&P 500 and break away when more weak data meant investors would start getting worried.
(Read More: 'Worse Than Normal Correction' Ahead?)
"I think we're going to see maybe one or two months more of bad data and then when people are starting to get really gloomy again at that point it's time to go long again," he said.
Kumar Palghat, director of Kapstream was less convinced. "It has worked in the last couple of years," he told CNBC Wednesday. "I'm not sure you're going to get the same gains that you got this year."
If a market correction played out over the next month, Palghat said it could mean a 2 to 5 percent drop in equity markets on average. Bigger corrections such as 10 percent will need payroll numbers in the U.S. to print negative or U.S. politicians to tighten fiscal spending, he said, adding that both were highly improbable.
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Earthbound, Indiana City Sponsoring Concert
October 14, 2010 by Sherman Goldenberg · Comments Off on Earthbound, Indiana City Sponsoring Concert
Earthbound RV LLC is teaming up with the City of Marion, Ind., to sponsor a concert this Saturday night (Oct. 16) at the F. Ritchie Walton Performing Arts Center at Marion High School by '60s rock legend Mark Lindsay, former lead singer for '60s rock band Paul Revere and the Raiders.
Proceeds from the 7 p.m. Mark Lindsay Benefit Concert, tickets for which sell for $10, go to various charities in Marion, a blue-collar city hit hard by the recession to which Earthbound moved from Elkhart County earlier this year.
How did this all come about?
Earthbound President Dave Hoefer Sr., whose 60-employee company benefited from economic development tax breaks in moving to Grant County, about 80 miles south of the company's former plant in Middlebury, said it all started when the '60s rock musician was shopping for a new recreational vehicle and happened upon one of Hoefer's new upscale Earthbound travel trailers on the web.
"Well, Mark Lindsay was shopping for a unit and, quite honestly, he had been shopping and was going to buy an Airstream and then he saw our web page, and he drove to the factory after going through 'Brand X' and elected to buy one of our units," said Hoefer, who developed the Dutchmen and Four Winds RV brands, among others, over the years.
"We didn't know who they (Mark and Deb Lindsay) were at first," added Hoefer's son, David B. Hoefer, vice president of sales and marketing for Earthbound. "We had no idea. They're very down-to-earth people. We took them through he factory. We sat down with them. They put in a few requests — including solar panels and batteries because of Mark's recording equipment — and obviously they had to find a dealer they could work with and basically just bought a unit like anybody else coming in."
The Lindsays took delivery of their Earthbound, a line that retails from the mid-$40,000s to low $50,000s, about two weeks ago. "And they are traveling for the next two years in that 30-foot Earthbound, which they are calling 'The Ark,'" said Dave Hoefer Sr.
Lindsay, whose more memorable '60's hits with Paul Revere and the Raiders included "Hungry" and "Kicks," keeps his fans up to speed on his latest adventures at national parks and so forth with a traveling blog on his web page. "When they (the Lindsays) get behind something, they get behind it wholeheartedly," said Dave Hoefer Jr. "It was their idea to put on a benefit concert, and they wondered if we wouldn't team up with them."
Earthbound towables range in length from 25 to 30 feet and in price for a 30-footer from the "mid-'40s to the low '50s," depending on equipment. But that could change soon as the company plans on showing some things at the 48th Annual National RV Trade Show in Louisville, Ky., that will expand those standard specs "quite a bit."


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Paris Jackson Makes Amends With Mum Amid Cancer Battle
Tensions between Paris Jackson and her previously estranged mother Debbie Rowe have taken a back seat as the 57-year-old undergoes cancer treatment.
The pair have seldom been seen in public together, with a public rift separating them until recently.
But yesterday Paris shared a photo to Instagram by Debbie's side while undergoing chemotherapy, with the caption, "I'm a fighter because she's a fighter. Love you mom".
Debbie was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier in 2016.
Previously the 57-year-old had not been pictured with Paris or her older brother, Prince Michael Jackson, in a number of years - with the two children put under the guardianship of the late Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine, after he passed.
Rowe was awarded supervised visitation rights in 2009 after Michael's death but we are unsure how much contact she has had with her children since they legally became adults.
Paris is currently 18-years-old, while Prince Michael is 19.
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Guess I gave away my point of view in the title.
If you haven't read about Tiger Mom (it's not a Chinese thing, I knew Midwest USA white women who raised their kids like Amy Chua) then how about "Hot Sauce Mom"
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Mom spends the entire video harranguing the poor kid, then fills his mouth with hot sauce and makes him hold it there while she harrangues him some more, then makes him get into the cold shower. He got into some trouble at school and lied about it. It's truly wrenching to watch. I hope the boys are taken away from the evil maniacal valkyrie. A truly horrid creature. THe kids will be scarred for life.
I second the being-punished-by-her=hair.
Though it isn't nearly enough punishment imho. I'm thinking something along the lines of filling her mouth with hot sauce and making her hold it there while being verbally abused.
I couldn't watch at the point he started screaming in the shower. I'm not sure how a mom could do that to a child. What's worse is that I can't really see this correcting his behavior. He's in trouble for lying, but she doesn't try explaining what's wrong with lying. As far as he knows, the only thing wrong with it is that it pisses his mom off. Plus he was in essentially in trouble for being in trouble. The fact that he "pulled three cards" in class wasn't what was wrong. It was the behavior that led to that, and that wasn't addressed.
I have four kids that I've never really punished for lying. When I caught them at it, we'd have a talk about why it's a bad idea and they grew out of it. Of course, I guess it depends on what you want to teach you kids, morality or blindly accepting authority.
What's worse is that I can't really see this correcting his behavior. He's in trouble for lying, but she doesn't try explaining what's wrong with lying.
Yet another thing horribly wrong with that woman. Personally, I can recall a lot of life-lesson sit down talks my parents had with me. The few times I was beaten however, I really don't remember why; all that got seared into my memory was the beating.
I agree. This kid is just being terrorized. It's not a lesson, it's abuse. There does seem to be a PURELY religious aspect religion is involved for some (Spare the quarter inch plumbing line, spoil the child) I wonder if it's more the parent's mentality and not the religion per se. " the same principles the Amish use to train their stubborn mules, the same technique God uses to train his children" Damn.
Reading about the Tiger Mom was also alarming. She basically doesn't let her kids have any friends b/c it is a waste of time, and screamed and them and called them "garbage" for getting a B. Apparently it worked and her kids are living up to perfectionism, but can you ever have a close and genuine relationship with someone like that?
This is supposed to be in response to indulgent parents who blame the teacher if the kid gets in trouble and think that their kid can do no wrong. We can't ever achieve a healthy medium, can we?
I'm glad that video link isn't working anymore, because I think I'd just feel sick if I had to watch that. Someone should choke that bitch.
Also, this Tiger Mom stuff makes me so sad for those poor kids. That's abuse, guys.
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The man accused of shooting three Havelock police officers in February was in Craven County Superior Court on Monday for an arraignment and bail hearing.
The man accused of shooting three Havelock police officers in February was in Craven County Superior Court on Monday for an arraignment and bail hearing.
Richard Jules Berry entered pleas of not guilty to three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and to three counts of assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm in connection with the Feb. 14 incident in Havelock.
Berry�s bond was modified to $250,000 secured. As of Monday afternoon, he was still in custody, according to officials.
If Berry makes bond, he would be subject to several conditions, including a requirement to wear an electronic monitoring device. He would also not be allowed to possess firearms and would not be allowed to consume alcohol or any controlled substance unless lawfully prescribed.
Berry is due back in court on Nov. 5 and is being represented by New Bern lawyer Michael Mills. District Attorney Scott Thomas and Assistant District Attorney Karen Hobbs are prosecuting the case.
According to investigators, Berry�s longtime girlfriend called 911 on Valentine�s Day when she heard a gunshot from the bedroom after Berry fell out of bed. She asked Berry to put the gun down, but he refused.
When Havelock police officers arrived at 407 Webb Blvd., they believed they were on an attempted suicide call, according to Thomas.
As three police officers - Sgt. Jim Fahnestock, Lt. Brian Borton and Officer Loren Boone, entered the bedroom where Berry was located, they each were shot in the hand, investigators said.
Borton and Boone were treated and released from CarolinaEast Medical Center the same day of the incident. Fahnestock had to undergo surgery, but was released the next day. All three are back on the Havelock force.
None of the officers shot at Berry, investigators say.
Megan Beyer is a reporter for the Sun Journal.


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Evidence Lacking On Any Connection Between Video Game Violence And Real Violence
from the so-says-the-research dept
Of course, that won't stop lawyers and politicians from grandstanding on the issue...
- In the last 10 years, video games studies have been overwhelmingly popular compared to studies on other media.
- Less than half of studies (41%) used well validated aggression measures.
- Poorly standardized and unreliable measures of aggression tended to produce the highest effects, possibly because their unstandardized format allows researchers to pick and choose from a range of possible outcomes.
- The closer aggression measures got to actual violent behavior, the weaker the effects seen.
- Experimental studies produced much higher effects than correlational or longitudinal studies. As experimental studies were most likely to use aggression measures of poor quality, this may be the reason why.
- There was no evidence that video games produce higher effects than other media, despite their interactive nature.
- Overall, effects were negligible, and we conclude that media violence generally has little demonstrable effect on aggressive behavior.


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North American Juniors Game Night: 10-7-11
Results from the USHL, QMJHL, and OHL...
Des Moines Buccaneers 3 @ Green Bay Gamblers 5
G Adam Wilcox, GB: Did not play (backup)
Last Season's Totals: 16-6-1, 2.20 GAA, .922 sv%, 1 SO
Wilcox sat for the second straight game to start the season as Green Bay's All-Star goaltender Ryan McKay got the start and saved 25 of 28 shots. McKay was expected to join Miami University this season until Miami's starter decided not to go pro and return to school. The domino-effect meant McKay stayed in the USHL another year and Wilcox, a University of Minnesota commit, will not take over as the No.1 goaltender for the Gamblers this season as originally expected.
Drummondville Voltigeurs 3 @ Gatineau Olympiques 6
D Adam Janosik, GAT: 0-1-1, E, 2 PIM (roughing), 0 SOG, 0 Hit
Season Totals: 5 GP, 0-5-5, -1, 7 PIM
Janosik maintained his assist-a-game average for the season with a helper on Gatineau's fifth goal, scored midway through the third period.
Moncton Wildcats 3 @ Rimouski Oceanic 2
D Daniel Milan, MON: 0-0-0, E, 2 PIM (hooking), 0 SOG, 0 Hit
Season Totals: 5 GP, 0-1-1, -4, 2 PIM
Moncton broke their three-game losing streak with a 3-2 win in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Friday night. Devon MacAusland (undrafted) scored the game winner with half a period to go.
Windsor Spitfires 5 @ London Knights 2
C Vladislav Namestnikov, LDN: 1-0-1, -1, 0 PIM
Season Totals: 6 GP, 4-3-7, +2, 6 PIM
Namestnikov's goal scoring streak reached three games, but it wasn't enough as the Knights dropped their first game of the season, 5-2 at home to Windsor. Dallas Stars first rounder Jack Campbell stopped 38 of 40 shots in the win.
Owen Sound Attack 5 @ Erie Otters 7
D Geoffrey Schemitsch, OS: Did not play (unknown)
Season Totals: 6 GP, 0-2-2, -1, 4 PIM
Owen Sound's losing streak has reached three games.
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In a YouTube worth watching the charmer Leonard Cohen charms a glittering Spanish audience during an award ceremony for his poetry. First, he said, he felt false in accepting a prize for something he had no control over: poetry came from a place which 'no one commands and no conquers'.
Then he confessed his debt to Spain. What little he knew of the guitar he had learned from a young Spanish musician whom he had met briefly before he took his own life. Cohen confided that all his music was based on the few chords he learned from this doomed teacher. "This land" had given him that much; and then, a momentous throwaway line for that audience, 'I know that just as an identity card is not a man so a credit rating is not a country'.
What does 'Europe' evoke today if not an intractable financial crisis arising from rampant greed and the exploitation of the weak? The 'union' is made up of intense centrifugal forces of national colours. A battle between two looming fates awaits: a German Europe or a European Europe. The stereotyping of great cultures pits the hedonism of southern Catholics (and Orthodox) on one side of the Alps against the grim Protestant work ethic on the other. And European football, despite its multi-racial teams, still expose politically unspeakable loyalties and hatreds between the tribes Caesar tried to Romanise.
There is good reason today for identifying Europe with the euro crisis and someone has to pay the bills. But economics haruspicates and makes abstract. Abstractions lead to tragic-comic inhumanities and policies that fail: to the extinction of the jump on-and-off buses that Londoners enjoyed taking risks on; to the prohibition of traditional sausages or cheese because of new health and safety rubrics. European culture, layered up over centuries, is undermined by abstraction and centralization. Where it survives is on the ground, in daily lives, in eccentricities not actuarial tables - even in what little remains of European religious culture.
Flanders is a good example - the bureaucratic heart of Europe that finds it so difficult to elect its own government yet runs smoothly. Speaking the same language as her bigger boned Dutch neighbours, it is revealing to see how contrasted and conflicted these two adjacent tribes of Northern Europe remain.
When I visited our meditation groups in Belgium I stayed in the beautiful university town of Leuven. I lodged in a b&b, immaculately clean but weirdly posturing as a museum of not so beautiful liturgical artifacts. Clearly the owner had a thing about stoles, chasubles, thuribles and holy pictures. They were displayed in the bedrooms, bathrooms and breakfast room. The toilets on the ground floor were identified by figures of our Lady and our Lord. The cheerful host had, I guess, a post-modern humour in the midst of all this. It was not typically Belgian, of course; but only in a few places of Europe could such an eccentricity, a stray fragment of a long lost religious world appear and be tolerated. Certainly not in England, the land of stripped altars and the decapitated statues of saints.
Beguines were a Northern European movement of Catholic spirituality and lay communities that disdained ecclesiastical control for centuries. Beguinages - the walled urban dwellings - are the visible memory of this thread of European religious culture. Now moth-balled, their cobbled streets and neat houses still breathe the peace and gentleness of the life they once nurtured. In the Leuven beguinage I met with a group of their modern descendants, brave, unembarrassed Christians working, not to proselytize but to insert a Christian perspective in the anti-church media through a cadre of respected secular experts.
At my talk in the Abbey of Grimbergen near Brussels I joked that I had come to speak about meditation but also for the beer. 'Grimbergen' is one of the best strong Belgian beers, once made by the monks and I imagine still supporting them as the Euro wobbles. After the talk, the abbot asked me to wait and returned with a gift pack of two bottles of this excellent beverage. I carefully packed it to share with the community in London on my return.
Each of these ordinary encounters were specifically European in a way that no theme park could reproduce. Few non-Europeans would identify the rich layering and shaded nuances of this cultural context. Yet there is pleasure and meaning in the self-recognition and in the sense of belonging to a non-monetary union of such a rich, even if bankrupt culture.
What I had not remembered was the new Europe. My beer was x-rayed at security and confiscated before it left the mainland. I told the guard to keep and enjoy it. He looked shocked and said that was against regulations and that it would be destroyed.
Laurence Freeman OSB
The World Community for Christian Meditation, of which Laurence Freeman OSB is director, has recently opened a new outreach program – "Meditatio" (www.wccmmeditatio.org)


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Large organizations are finding benefits to moving from a "one PC for everyone" model to servers that support a number of users logged in through virtualization services such as Microsoft's Remote Desktop or Citrix. The user's local system is just a means to access the server-applications are not installed locally. This reduces support requirements by centralizing the systems that actually need software installed on them.
For users who need no local software installed and only access servers in this fashion, a number of venders have produced "thin client" systems-computers with just enough power to run the remote access software that often have no local storage installed. One such system is the ViewSonic SC-T45, which we're looking at today.
Packaging and Hardware
The SC-T45 is physically tiny and light-weight, weighing in at 1.2 pounds (0.5 kg), and 1.6x5.6x4.1 inches in size. It uses a power-supply "brick", moving the additional bulk and weight of the power supply to the power cable. It can be placed on the included stand, or mounted to the back of a monitor as the stand serves dual-purpose as a VESA bracket.
The system is powered by Intel's Atom N2800 dual-core processor running at 1.87 GHz. Graphics is provided by the Intel NM10 chip (which also provides the networking, USB and audio support for the system), with a maximum resolution of 1920x1200-plenty of screen real estate for most business users. Utilized in tablets and phones, this processor is designed with low-power and portability in mind, and makes sense for use in a thin-client box where local processing performance isn't a strong concern. This system uses only 36 watts of electricity - about a third of the power consumed by just the processor in my desktop system.
It includes 2 GB of memory, and no local storage system to speak of - there's just enough built-in flash storage for the operating system and a little local cache space. Installing local applications is not intended.
For external ports, four USB 2.0 ports are provided (two in front, two in back); a DVI-D port; an RJ-45 jack for gigabit Ethernet; Microphone and headphone jacks; and the power jack. The system is not equipped for WiFi, but as a thin client for remote access work, I wouldn't want to do that through WiFi anyway for performance reasons.


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Kris Graft of Gamasutra writes that Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment will be opening a gaming studio in Montreal that will gradually grow t0 300 employees by 2015.
Bhob Stewart writes about The Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air, a 1938 radio series which initially featured Walt Disney himself as host and the voice of Mickey Mouse. Stewart provides a player for seven episodes of the series.
Fantagraphics will soon publish the fourth volume of Our Gang comics by Walt Kelly. A complete 14 page story from the book in PDF format can be found here.
Farhad Manjoo of Slate reviews Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier, about creating an online business with minimal start-up costs. You can read excerpts from the book here.
(Gamasutra link via James Caswell.)
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2 comments:
- Eric Noble said...
I've heard about the Disney radio show before, when someone was interviewing animator Mark Kausler. Sounds like a pleasant show to listen to on Sunday afternoon.
I do want that new volume of Walt Kelly's "Our Gang" stories. It would help if I had the first three volumes as well. Thanks for posting Mark.
- March 26, 2010 7:59 PM
- Eric "Spillz" Angelillo said...
I've read a few different articles on the Montreal WB studio, some seem to mention it will be for 3D animation as well as video games, though it's never very clear.
Either way, good news for jobs. After THQ, that's 2 major video game studios in 6 months announcing an opening in Montreal.
- March 28, 2010 5:43 PM
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Three days only after version 0.1.4 we are releasing 0.1.5. The reason for this is that we implemented a small (so we didn't need to retest everything) yet influential change (which justified a release).
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Both will get the chance Sunday.
Cibulkova coasted past Sorana Cirstea 6-4, 6-0 in the Bank of the West Classic semifinals Saturday. A few hours later, the top-seeded Radwanska overcame a shaky start to beat American Jamie Hampton 6-3, 6-2 with relative ease.
The third-seeded Cibulkova has won twice on tour and last advanced to a final in January in Sydney, where she lost 6-0, 6-0 to Radwanska. It was the first whitewash in a final since November 2006 and only one in Cibulkova's career.
"Tennis is a lot about mentally," Cibulkova said. "If you will see that match, you will not believe it can be like that because I was putting pressure all the time. All the first six or seven games of that match I had game point or break point, and I just couldn't make it. It was like something really bad was happening. I was down 6-0, 3-0 and I was only thinking about one thing — just to make one game, and it didn't happen. It was really bad."
Now Cibulkova will have a chance for a double-dose of redemption.
Radwanska, ranked No. 4 in the world, has 12 singles titles — including 10 on hard court. She won back-to-back tournaments at Auckland and Sydney to start the year and hadn't advanced to a final since she crushed Cibulkova down under.
Radwanska regrouped against Hampton after dropping her serve twice in the first set, breaking back in the following game both times. The Wimbledon semifinalist earned the decisive break at 5-3 by forcing Hampton to sail a backhand long.
The smooth-swinging Polish player put away the match with an overhead winner for a service break at 2-1 in the second set, then pushed Hampton — who beat her earlier this year at Eastbourne — around the court to grab the next three games and set up a finals rematch she believes will offer more drama than earlier this year.
"Didn't really expect that, especially in the final," Radwanska said. "She was playing great matches in Sydney and then suddenly I think she was a little bit too nervous in the final. And then game by game she was getting (frustrated) too much. But I don't think she's the kind of player that can do that again."
Cibulkova's game has seemed to come a long way the last seven months.
In the semifinals, Cibulkova controlled the pace and played patient and near-perfect tennis against an opponent who folded fast. The third-seeded Cibulkova saved all six break points in the first set and often stayed back on the baseline waiting for Cirstea to make mistakes.
The approach helped Cibulkova go ahead 5-3 in the first set and sweep the second set to cruise into the final on the sun-splashed Stanford campus. Cibulkova has played the event the past six years and had never advanced beyond the semifinals, losing to Cirstea in the quarterfinals a year ago.
This time, her penetrating strokes had Cirstea constantly on the move. The hard-hitting Cibulkova forced her to net a forehand and then a backhand wide for a break at 4-3 before holding off five breaks in her next service game to take command.
With one loss avenged, Cibulkova now has a shot for another in consecutive days.
Cibulkova, No. 25 in the world rankings, won in Carlsbad last year and in Moscow in 2011 for her only WTA titles. But the loss in Sydney had her questioning herself for weeks.
"It really affected my game for a few tournaments after," she said. "It was a pretty bad experience. When I came to the Australian Open, the first match I was just thinking, 'OK, you have to make a game now because it's really important. It wasn't easy. It kept coming back to me a few tournaments, but I think it's over."
While some players might've shied away from the experience, Cibulkova faced it firsthand. She watched the replay of the match — "just the first set," she said — and saw her confidence evaporate with every stroke.
Asked why she would put herself through watching such a devastating defeat, she replied, "I have to learn from it."


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 2nd Sep 2011 21:47 UTC
So, I kind of mocked this story yesterday, but today an interesting twist has emerged which puts the story in an entirely different light. This week, CNet reported a story about how Apple is working with the San Francisco Police Department to retrieve a lost iPhone 5 prototype. The police and Apple apparently traced the phone to someone's house, and showed up on his doorstep, threatening him and his family. The only problem - the SFPD has no record of any house search or of the case in general - raising the question whether Apple employees falsely impersonated the SFPD, which happens to be a serious crime in California. Update: While I was busy sleeping, the story changed a little bit, but it's still far too shady. After conferring with Apple, the SFPD now states four police officers were involved, and that only the two Apple employees entered Calderon's house. However, Calderon had no idea these two were private non-police people, since he claims they did not identify themselves as Apple employees. Had he known, he would not have let them search his house. So, update or no, Apple employees still impersonated police officers, and issued threats to intimidate Calderon into letting them search his house - without a warrant. I don't understand how people can just accept this sort of behaviour. Don't you have rights in the US? Update II: Perfect summary.
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by stabbyjones on Fri 2nd Sep 2011 22:42 UTC
RE: nothing will happen
by kristoph on Sat 3rd Sep 2011 00:47 in reply to "nothing will happen"
Actually, according to SCOTUS, companies are people too so it's only a matter of time before the US is officially run by companies.
I am not sure I'd like to live in Google town though. The wifi would be free and it would be super fast but the toilets would all be beta models and would 'crash' 50% of the time.
RE[2]: nothing will happen
by JAlexoid on Sat 3rd Sep 2011 09:23 in reply to "RE: nothing will happen"