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|Tim Miller - Mysore 1999 and Encinitas 2000
GUY: Can you say what first attracted you to Ashtanga Yoga?
TM: I was fortunate when I moved to Encinitas in 1976 that it was the one place in America that Ashtanga Yoga was being taught. It took me a little over a year to discover it, but I was fortunate enough to live half a block from an Ashtanga Yoga Center when it opened up early in 1978.
I just happened to be walking down the street one day and saw there was an old church that had been vacant since I'd moved into the neighborhood. It had been freshly painted and the yard had been cleaned up; there was a new sign out front that said "Ashtanga Yoga Nilayam" and a picture of a dancing hermaphrodite. I said, "Well, this looks interesting." And there was a gentleman standing in the yard doing something, I think he was eating blades of grass or something like that.
So I stopped and started chatting with him and he started telling me about the yoga, saying that it was a very rare and powerful form of yoga that was taught only in a couple places in the world and that in two months he would make me as limber as a gymnast. So I asked him about the class times and came back, I believe it was the next day, to an early evening class.
I was working at the time at a psychiatric hospital and had a little exposure to yoga during my college years. Based on that limited experience, I was teaching a yoga class to the psychiatric patients. So, realizing that I really knew very little about yoga I was thinking it would be a good idea to try a yoga class, so. Once I discovered this place it seemed fortuitous.
It was a rather primitive set-up there was no electricity in the building or anything so when I arrived it was kind of dark inside and people were lighting candles and this gentleman walked over to me and asked me if I was there to take some classes. And I wasn't really dressed for it you know, I was wearing like a pair of jeans and a flannel shirt and I thought I was just going to come in and watch or something so I was trying to sound noncommittal, I said, "Well, I guess so." Not really meaning then at that moment.
He said, "Ok, well come on over here." So I went over there and he started showing me Surya Namaskara, which I was doing in my flannel shirt and blue jeans and so I proceeded to become very hot and wet within in a few Namaskaras. Anyway, he took me through roughly the first half of the primary series in that first.
It was quite a mind-blowing experience, really. It took me to a place that felt very familiar, very deep, peaceful, and it felt like something that perhaps I'd done before or something that I definitely wanted to be doing again. So I was hooked from day one on the practice and kept coming after that. That was early in 1978
GUY: How did you become interested in studying with Pattabhi Jois?
TM: Well, I was working with a couple of American teachers who had been students of his son, Manju. I had been studying with them for seven or eight months. And they raised enough money to fly Pattabhi Jois and his wife, Amma over and he taught right there at this little church for three or four months back in 1978. So he was the big guru. I'd been reading all these books about Eastern philosophy and what not, masters of the Far East and heard stories about this man. I thought that when he arrived he would sort of materialize in the center of the room in a ball of light or something.
It wasn't quite that way, you know, when he opened the door in black loafers and white shirt and glasses; he looked quite ordinary until he came into the room and started teaching. It was obvious that he wasn't at all ordinary. So again, it was just fortuitous that I was in the right place at the right time when he came there. That was his second trip to America, second trip to Encinitas.
GUY: How was it studying with Guruji at that time?
TM: When I first studied with Guruji in '78 his command of English was fairly limited and these first couple of trips to the States he was teaching all Mysore style. So this was a fairly good size room and there were probably thirty to thirty-five people who were all practicing at the same time Mysore style. So him just being one man and trying to cover such a large room and so many students, basically his geographic presence, his proximity to you would inspire you to 200% in the asana for fear of being adjusted.
He was quite a powerful man at that time. He was in his early sixties at that time and his adjustments were quite strong. Although he had a good sense of humor and seemed quite light he still inspired a certain amount of terror when he came close by, so it was quite interesting.
I was just learning the second series at the time and after classes, after savasana he would arrange those people who were doing second series or beyond in a big circle and teaching us pranayama. So that was quite an interesting experience.
The first time he sat with us in a circle took his shirt off, took that first deep breath and his chest kept expanding sort of like a bullfrog, like Dizzy Gillespie's cheeks when he plays the trumpet or something. So he gave us a rather radical introduction to pranayama, long retentions of the breath; lots of trembling and sweating, it was quite interesting. He was also teaching theory classes at his son Manju's house three times a week.
Again, because of his limited command of English that was a little difficult to understand but Manju was trying to act as his interpreter. So he would go on quoting scripture and laughing and crying and on and on for several minutes then he would turn to Manju for the translation and Manju would give us you know, ten words, and obviously we would be missing a little bit in the translation.
On that first trip we didn't really get to know each other very well. There were a lot of students there, a lot of old students who had worked with him on his first trip to the States a couple of years before – David Williams and his crew of people from Maui were all there.
I continued with the practice and when he came again in 1980 he spent a couple of months in Maui and I went over there and worked with him then and it wasn't actually until early in 1982 that I was able to save enough money to make that first trip to Mysore so at that time I'd already been doing the practice for four years and you know already learned the first three series and it was then when I went to India that we really got to know each other for the first time.
GUY: How was the yoga shala in Mysore different? Could you describe the yoga shala?
TM: I first came to Mysore in 1982. It was just a much more intimate experience being there in Mysore. At that time there were very few foreign students, I think there were maybe three or four foreigners at different times. Part of the time I was the only foreign student in the class. But I also met Norman Allen there at that time, who was Guruji's first American student.
It was obviously quite different from the situation now. Now we have 70 to 75 students here and a long queue to get into the room. So his focus was still teaching his Indian students many of whom had been referred to him by their physicians for various medical problems, heart problems, diabetes, asthma this like that.
So they weren't the young strong athletic types like the Westerners you see who come to practice the yoga, you know they were generally older and not necessarily that fit. Also, their approach to the yoga was – how can I say this kindly – it was maybe not as exacting as the Western students have come to practice it. They would move fairly quickly through the poses, and they were all busy, getting it in before they went to work. A little different situation that us Westerners who basically have the yoga and then the rest of the day to recover and then come back and do it again.
So I stayed three months. You know, we had a nice rapport and I had an amazing experience in India just shedding layers and was convinced that after the experience maybe I should teach yoga. So I asked Guruji at the end of the time there if he would be willing to give me a teaching certificate and he kind of hummed and hawed and he finally agreed to do that. So I was unaware at the time he had never given a teaching certificate to a Westerner before so I didn't quite realize the significance of that event until sometime later.
GUY: Did he give you some kind of examination?
TM: Well the certificate actually states that I passed public examination and the only thing I could think that was something like an examination was a yoga exhibition that was done at the Lion's Club in Mysore back then in '82. It was a long involved thing involving many lectures and a yoga demonstration that consisted of Indian students men and women separately.
Saraswati, Guruji's daughter did a little demonstration. Norman and his girlfriend Porna did a demonstration and I came out and did the whole third series of Ashtanga yoga with Guruji talking me through the whole thing so he was pacing me through the vinyasa very quickly. You know he would say the name of the asana count it out and I would have to follow all the way through in front of three hundred or so Indian people. So I guess that may have constituted my public examination.
GUY: So you would say the atmosphere today, the energy in the room is quite different than what it was before?
TM: Yeah, the energy in the yoga shala today is decidedly different than it was then just through the Western influence. I really think it's the Western students who have brought out the best in Guruji as far as presenting the teachings and the way they were intended to be. The Western students, since they are here to practice the yoga and basically can devote all their energy to that, can be quite zealous in their practice and it's much different than the way I saw the Indians practicing when I first came here.
GUY: What would you say is the essence of Guruji's teaching?
TM: The essence of Pattabhi Jois's teaching – well there are a few things I think that come to mind. One of course is the element of tapas – of purification through a fiery ordeal, that certainly we all have a lot of purification that is necessary, but to go through that process in an atmosphere of support and love and humor. So even though he's a tough guy and he makes you work very very hard and doing the practice intensely takes you to some interesting places, not all of them good but all of them educational. I've always gotten the feeling from him that he's right there with you. He's very generous in his support and very loving and very interested in each student.
GUY: You talked earlier about techniques of yoga as a kind of method but at the same time it's a spiritual practice. Can it be both a technique and a spiritual practice? What is the relationship between those two things, do you think?
TM: I think yoga is a very scientifically based technology that is giving us certain techniques by which we can awaken or uncover our inherent spirituality. So I think the idea in yoga is that we are inherently spiritual but that there are some perceptual blocks to our realization of that fact. I look at yoga as a way of removing those obstacles to the perception of our true essence.
It's what Patanjali talks about in the Yoga Sutras: yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ - yoga is a cessation of the fluctuations of consciousness. When that happens then: tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe'vasthānam - then the true nature of the seer, the inner being is revealed. So yoga is all about techniques for removing the blocks to our true perception of ourselves. So it's a scientific method for the realization of the fact that we are spiritual beings. So in that sense it's obvious a spiritual practice.
GUY: This is one of the principles that Guruji emphasizes again and again and comes back to this second sutra. Do you have any perception as to why or how it actually happens? And would you say that this particular technique of Ashtanga yoga with vinyasa works particularly well for controlling the mind?
TM: Well the technique of Ashtanga yoga has worked particularly well for me. I've dabbled a little with other schools of yoga just to get a sense of what they were about - some styles that emphasize the techniques of yoga, you know, the biomechanics of yoga. And it was interesting and I certainly learned some things.
But for actually working toward the state of yoga for that state of cessation of fluctuation of consciousness, Ashtanga yoga has been the most effective path for me and I think the reason is the element of breath, how breath is emphasized in the practice, that breath is the real connection to consciousness. That breath, in a sense, is the vehicle of consciousness.
And many of the techniques of Ashtanga yoga are oriented around breath: how to make our breathing a more conscious process? We add the audio quality with the ujjayi breath, we add a kind of choreography to breath with vinyasa, we have the idea of an energetic root of the breath with the concept of bandhas. By using the breath as the main focus, it seems to be a very powerful technique for stilling the mind. So I've found that practice influencing my consciousness much more strongly than other things that I've done.
GUY: The other aspect that strikes me that Guruji emphasizes is prayer, devotion to God. And personally I've always found it very difficult and I think a lot of people find it difficult because we don't have that connection with God in the West that it's so immediate in India. What is your perception of that?
TM: Guruji often says that Ashtanga yoga is Patanjali yoga and in the second chapter of the Yoga Sutras, the chapter on practice (Sadhana Pada), in the first Sutra Patanjali gives us three crucial ingredients for success in our yoga practice. The first thing he mentions is tapas literally meaning to burn, to burn away impurities, so there's that heat element of the practice, which is very helpful in removing impurities and he goes on to say in the Yoga Sutras that through tapas one purifies the indriyas, the organs of perception, which lends itself to greater capacity for discrimination and self reflection.
The second aspect is svādhyāya (self-inquiry) and he says through self-inquiry we come to recognize what he calls the ishta devata - our personal deity that we have, our own individual connection to some aspect of the divine that we can come to know through self-inquiry. But that the predecessor to that is this process of purification: so it's a process of physical purification and then mental purification through self-inquiry, which ultimately lends itself to the realization that you have help from unseen forces. And that there is an energy or entity referred to as iśvara, you know, that universal internal teacher who exists and is there for us if we're receptive to the guidance coming in.
So the last part of that equation, iśvara praṇidhānā - literally bowing to God or recognizing in awe and humility that there is a timeless eternal teacher working on our behalf and that a way of connecting to that teacher is through the lineage of yoga teachers. You know, as begin the practice we say: "vande gurūṇāṃ caraṇāravinde" - I bow to the lotus feet of the guru. The guru is the lineage of teachers who've passed down this knowledge as a way of embracing the living teaching to help connect us with this timeless universal teacher – iśvara. This is what they called śiva in Mysore.
So, you know, they say that humility attracts the divine and egotism repels it. And I think the problem that we as Westerners have is we are reluctant to surrender the ego. I remember having a conversation with Joel Kramer about this one time. He wrote a whole book about the guru/disciple relationship, The Guru Papers. Basically his point of view is that you should never surrender to another human being. I said well, "Why not?" And he says, "Why surrender?" I said, "Just to see what's on the other side of surrender. If you never surrender, you never go there, you never find out what is on the other side of surrender."
My own first experience with this was soon after I first met Guruji. I would watch after class some of the older students go and do the traditional gesture of touching his feet and traditionally touching the feet three times and applying the dust of the guru's feet to the eyelids as a way of taking the understanding of the guru and using that to further your own awakening. I was kind of put off by it initially as most Westerners are.
Then one day I was feeling a bit more vulnerable and perhaps more grateful and I went and I clumsily attempted to do what I saw other people doing. And as I touched Guruji's feet I just felt this overwhelming emotion of gratitude engulf me and I looked up at Guruji and he was just beaming down at me and he patted me on the shoulder and said, "Oh, very good, very good." It was like "Ah, you're starting to get it." That's when I began to figure out why surrender works.
GUY: Do you see this as a spiritual practice?
TM: Absolutely, absolutely I see Ashtanga yoga as a spiritual practice; that was apparent to me from day one. You know in the Yoga Sutras in the first chapter Patanjali first gives the definition of yoga, "yogaś citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ" - Yoga is a cessation of the fluctuation of the mind. Then he goes on to say, "tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe'vasthānam" - then the seer is unveiled in its true form. So I had something of the experience in the very first class that I took. Through the practice my mind really shut off and underneath the mind there was just this presence that felt more like me than anything else, that this was the seer, that grounded being, that was my essential self and I suppose it could be referred to as the spiritual self.
Tim's website www.ashtangayogacenter.com
Article by Tim: The Alchemy of Yoga
Yoga Journal Interview with Tim
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REVELSTOKE - The body of a skier who was killed Sunday in an avalanche near Revelstoke remained in the backcountry again last night along with five other uninjured skiers due to bad weather which has stalled the recovery mission.
High winds overnight may have increased the threat of avalanche on the mountain, Revelstoke RCMP said this morning. A reconnaissance flight is scheduled today to determine if the mission can go ahead.
The man was killed by an avalanche just before 5 p.m. while backcountry skiing near Ghost Peak.
"We have to check for avalanches and make sure the area is safe," said RCMP spokeswoman Jacquie Olsen.
She said a pair of search and rescue members made contact with the party on the slope shortly after their emergency call on Sunday, but they had to retreat due to dangerous conditions caused by extreme weather.
His fellow skiers were able to locate him via his avalanche beacon, but by the time they dug him and Revelstoke Search and Rescue arrived on the scene he was pronounced dead.
Once the body is removed, it's up to the remaining five skiers to make their way safely out, she said. At this point, "they're fine," she added.
One of the skiers is from Fernie, B.C., Olsen said. It's not known at this point where the rest of the party is from.
"They have a [satellite] phone but they're not answering, so it must be powered down," she said.
The man's name isn't being released as his family are still being notified.
Revelstoke Mounties are reminding any back country enthusiasts to check the Canadian Avalanche Centre's website (http://www.avalanche.ca/cac/) for avalanche forecasts before heading out. RCMP also urged people to travel in a group and always ensure users have appropriate emergency equipment, and knowledge of how to use the equipment.
Meanwhile, a snowmobiler killed Friday by an avalanche near Sparwood, B.C. has been identified by the BC Coroners Service as 33-year-old Steven Burke Hall.
Hall, from Birchcliff, Alta., was with six other snowmobilers when the avalanche was triggered.
The CAC's avalanche risk remained high for much of B.C. Tuesday and the following two days. It listed conditions as very dangerous at treeline and alpine levels of the mountain and a considerable risk for those areas below the treeline.
The CAC advised against travel in the mountains along the south coast, in the Columbia range as well as the south Rockies.
Sunday's death was the province's third avalanche-related death in the past week.
A Squamish man, 44, died last Tuesday in an avalanche near his home.

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Robert Stroud
|Robert Franklin Stroud
Robert Stroud in 1951
January 28, 1890
Seattle, Washington,
United States
|November 21, 1963 (aged 73)
Springfield, Missouri,
United States
|Other names
|"Birdman of Alcatraz"
|Criminal charge
|Criminal penalty
|Criminal status
|Della Mae Jones
|Benjamin Stroud
Elizabeth Stroud
Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was a federal American prisoner and author who has been cited as one of the United States' most notorious criminals.[1][2][3] During his time at Leavenworth Penitentiary, he reared and sold birds and became a respected ornithologist, but because of regulations, he was not permitted to keep his birds at Alcatraz, where he was incarcerated from 1942.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Stroud ran away from his abusive father at the age of 13, and by the time he was 18, he had become a pimp in Alaska. In January 1909, he shot and killed a bartender who had attacked one of his prostitutes, for which he was sentenced to 12 years in the federal penitentiary on Puget Sound's McNeil Island. Stroud gained a reputation as an extremely dangerous inmate who frequently had confrontations with fellow inmates and staff, and in 1916, he killed a guard. Stroud was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to hang, but after several trials his sentence was eventually commuted to life imprisonment.
Stroud began serving life in solitary confinement at Leavenworth, where in 1920, after discovering a nest with three injured sparrows in the prison yard, he began raising them, and within a few years had acquired a collection of some 300 canaries. He began extensive research into them after being granted equipment by a radical prison-reforming warden, publishing Diseases of Canaries in 1933, which was smuggled out of Leavenworth and sold en masse,[4][clarification needed] as well as a later edition (1943). He made important contributions to avian pathology, most notably a cure for the hemorrhagic septicemia family of diseases, gaining much respect and some level of sympathy among ornithologists and farmers. Stroud ran a successful business from inside prison, but his activities infuriated the prison staff, and he was eventually transferred to Alcatraz in 1942 after it was discovered that Stroud had been secretly making alcohol using some of the equipment in his cell.
Stroud began serving a 17-year term at Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary on December 19, 1942, and became inmate #594. In 1943, he was assessed by psychiatrist Romney M. Ritchey, who diagnosed him as a psychopath, but with an I.Q. of 134. Stripped of his birds and equipment, he wrote a history of the penal system.
In 1959, with his health failing, Stroud was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, where he stayed until his death on November 21, 1963, having been incarcerated for the last 54 years of his life, of which 42 were in solitary confinement. He had been studying French near the end of his life. Robert Stroud is buried in Metropolis, Illinois. Author Carl Sifakis considers Stroud to have been "possibly the best-known example of self-improvement and rehabilitation in the U.S. prison."
Early life and arrest
Stroud was born in Seattle, the eldest child of Elizabeth Jane (née McCartney 1860-1938) and Benjamin Franklin Stroud. His mother had two daughters from a previous marriage. His father was an abusive alcoholic, and Stroud ran away from home at the age of 13. His parents both had German ancestry.[5]
By the time he was 18, Stroud had made his way to Cordova, Alaska, where he met 36-year-old Kitty O'Brien, a prostitute and dance-hall entertainer, for whom he pimped in Juneau. According to Stroud, on January 18, 1909, while he was away at work, an acquaintance of theirs, barman F. K. "Charlie" Von Dahmer, had allegedly failed to pay O'Brien for her services and beat her, tearing a locket from her neck that contained a picture of her daughter that was of sentimental value.[6][7] That night, after finding out about the incident, Stroud confronted Von Dahmer on Gastineau Avenue, and a struggle ensued, resulting in the latter's death from a gunshot wound. Stroud went to the police station, and turned himself and the gun in.[7] According to police reports, Stroud had knocked Von Dahmer unconscious, and then shot him at point-blank range.
Stroud's mother, Elizabeth, retained a lawyer for her son, but he was found guilty of manslaughter on August 23, 1909, and sentenced to 12 years in the federal penitentiary on Puget Sound's McNeil Island.[5] Stroud's crime was handled in the federal system, as Alaska at that time was still a federal territory, and not a state with its own judiciary.
Prison life
Known as Prisoner #1853-M, Stroud was one of the most violent prisoners at McNeil Island, frequently feuding with fellow inmates and staff, and was also prone to many different physical ailments.[8] Stroud reportedly stabbed a fellow prisoner who had reported him for stealing food from the kitchen.[7] He also assaulted a hospital orderly who had reported him to the prison administration for attempting to obtain morphine through threats and intimidation, and had also reportedly stabbed another fellow inmate who was involved in the attempt to smuggle the narcotics. On September 5, 1912, Stroud was sentenced to an additional six months for the attacks, and was transferred from McNeil Island to the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. On March 26, 1916,[5] after being there six months, Stroud was reprimanded by cafeteria guard Andrew F. Turner for a minor rule violation that would have annulled Stroud's visitation privilege to meet his younger brother, whom he had not seen in eight years. With a six-inch shank, Stroud stabbed Turner through his heart.[9][7]
Stroud was convicted of first-degree murder, and sentenced to death by hanging on May 2.[5] He was ordered to await execution of his sentence in solitary confinement, but this was thrown out in December by the U.S. Supreme Court. In a second trial held on May 28, 1917, he was also convicted, but received a life sentence, which Stroud appealed, and Solicitor General John W. Davis "confessed error" because he wanted Stroud to receive the death penalty.[10] As a result, Stroud was tried for a third time in May 1918, and on June 28 he was again sentenced to death by hanging.[10] The Supreme Court intervened, upholding the death sentence, which was scheduled to be carried out on April 23, 1920. Stroud's mother appealed to President Woodrow Wilson and his wife, Edith Wilson, and the execution was halted just eight days before it was to be carried out; the gallows had already been built and viewed by Stroud from his cell.[11][10] Stroud's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Leavenworth's warden, T. W. Morgan, strongly opposed the decision given Stroud's reputation for violence. Morgan persuaded the President to stipulate that since Stroud was originally sentenced to await his death sentence in solitary confinement, those conditions should prevail until the halted execution could be carried out. President Wilson's Attorney General, Alexander Mitchell Palmer, saw to it that Stroud was sentenced to a lifetime in solitary.[12][4]
The Birdman of Leavenworth
While at Leavenworth in 1920, Stroud found a nest with three injured sparrows in the prison yard, and raised them to adulthood.[4] Prisoners were sometimes allowed to buy canaries, and Stroud had started to add to his collection to occupy his time raising and caring for his birds, which he could sell for supplies and to help support his mother. According to Stroud, he used a "razor blade and nail for tools" and made his first bird cage out of wooden crates.[13] Soon thereafter, Leavenworth's administration changed, and the prison was then directed by a new warden. Impressed with the possibility of presenting Leavenworth as a progressive rehabilitation penitentiary,[14] the new warden, Bennett, furnished Stroud with cages, chemicals, and stationery to conduct his ornithological activities. Visitors were shown Stroud's aviary, and many purchased his canaries. Over the years, he raised nearly 300 canaries in his cells, and wrote two books, the 60,000-word treatise Diseases of Canaries (1933), which had been smuggled out of Leavenworth,[4] and a later edition, Stroud's Digest on the Diseases of Birds (1943), with updated, specific information. He made several important contributions to avian pathology, most notably a cure for the hemorrhagic septicemia family of diseases. He gained respect and also some level of sympathy in the bird-loving field.
Stroud's activities created problems for the prison management. According to regulations, each letter sent or received at the prison had to be read, copied, and approved. Stroud was so involved in his business that this alone required a full-time prison secretary. Additionally, most of the time, his birds were permitted to fly freely within his cells, and because of the great number of birds he kept, his cell was filthy.[15]
In 1931, an attempt to force Stroud to discontinue his business and get rid of his birds failed after Stroud and one of his mail correspondents, a bird researcher from Indiana named Della Mae Jones,[16] made his story known to newspapers and magazines. A massive letter campaign and a 50,000-signature petition sent to President Herbert Hoover resulted in Stroud being permitted to keep his birds, and despite prison overcrowding, he was even given a second cell to house them. However, his letter-writing privileges were greatly curtailed. Jones and Stroud grew so close that she moved to Kansas in 1931, and started a business with him, selling his avian medicines.[13]
Prison officials, fed up with Stroud's activities and their attendant publicity, intensified their efforts to transfer him out of Leavenworth. Stroud, however, discovered a Kansas law that forbade the transfer of prisoners married in Kansas. To this end, he married Jones by proxy, which infuriated the prison's administrators, who would not allow him to correspond with his wife.[13] Prison officials were not the only ones perturbed with Stroud's marriage; his mother was also incensed. They had a close relationship, but Elizabeth Stroud strongly disapproved of the marriage to Jones, believing women were nothing but trouble for her son. Whereas previously she had been a strong advocate for her son, helping him with legal battles, she now argued against his application for parole, and became a major obstacle in his attempts to be released from the prison system. She moved away from Leavenworth and refused any further contact with him until her death in 1937.
In 1933, Stroud advertised in a publication that he had not received any royalties from the sales of Diseases of Canaries. In retaliation, the publisher complained to the warden, and, as a result, proceedings were initiated to transfer Stroud to Alcatraz, where he would not be permitted to keep his birds. In the end, however, Stroud was able to keep both his birds and canary-selling business. Stroud avoided trouble for several more years, until it came to light that some of the equipment Stroud had requested for his lab was in fact being used as a home-made still to distill alcohol.[15] Officials finally had the wedge they needed to drive Stroud out.
On December 19, 1942, Stroud was transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, and became inmate #594.[12] He reportedly was not informed in advance that he was to leave Leavenworth and his beloved birds, and was given just 10 minutes' notice of his departure; his birds and equipment were sent to his brother as Alcatraz's strict policies meant that he was unable to continue his avocation.[17] He spent six years in segregation and another 11 confined to the hospital wing there. In 1943, he was assessed by psychiatrist Romney M. Ritchey, who diagnosed him as a psychopath, but with an I.Q. of 134 (although his initial report in 1942 based on Leavenworth states that he had an I.Q. of 116). While there, he wrote two manuscripts: Bobbie, an autobiography, and Looking Outward: A History of the U.S. Prison System from Colonial Times to the Formation of the Bureau of Prisons. A judge ruled that Stroud had the right to write and keep such manuscripts, but upheld the warden's decision to ban their publication. After Stroud's death, the transcripts were delivered to his lawyer, Richard English.
Rumors of Stroud's homosexuality were noted at Alcatraz. According to Donald Hurley, whose father was a guard at Alcatraz, "Whenever Stroud was around anyone, which was seldom, he was watched very closely, as prison officials were very aware of his overt homosexual tendencies."[18] In an interview with Hurley for his book, a former inmate heard Stroud was always in 'dog block' (solitary confinement) or later in the hospital because he was a 'wolf' (aggressive homosexual) who had a bad temper."[19] In February 1963 Stroud met and talked with actor Burt Lancaster, who portrayed him in The Birdman of Alcatraz.[20] Stroud never got to see the film or read the book it was based on but did share on one of the problems that prevented parole, that he was an "admitted homosexual."[20] Lancaster quoted Stroud as saying, "Let's face it. I am 73-years old. Does that answer your question about whether I would be a dangerous homosexual?"[20]
During his 17-year term at Alcatraz, Stroud was allowed access to the prison library, and began studying law. Occasionally, he was permitted to play chess with one of the guards.[21] Stroud began petitioning the government that his long prison term amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. In 1959, with his health failing, Stroud was transferred to the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, where he stayed until his death in 1963.[5] However, his attempts to be released were unsuccessful. On November 21, 1963, Robert Stroud died at the Springfield Medical Center at the age of 73, having been incarcerated for the last 54 years of his life, of which 42 were spent in solitary confinement. He had been studying French near the end of his life. Stroud is buried in Metropolis, Illinois (Massac County).[22]
Stroud is considered to be one of the most notorious criminals in American history.[1][2][3] Robert Niemi states that Stroud had a "superior intellect," and became a "first-rate ornithologist and author," but was an "extremely dangerous and menacing psychopath, disliked and distrusted by his jailers and fellow inmates."[4] However, by his last years, he was seen more favorably, and Judge Becker considered Stroud to be modest, no longer a danger to society, with a genuine love for birds.[23] Given his level of notoriety, the crimes he committed were unremarkable,[8] especially as the assaults he committed had a clear cause. Carl Sifakais considers Stroud to have been a "brilliant self-taught expert on birds, and possibly the best-known example of self-improvement and rehabilitation in the U.S. prison."[17]
Because of Stroud's contributions to the field of ornithology, he gained a large following of thousands of bird breeders, and poultry raisers who demanded his release,[17] and for many years a "Committee to Release Robert F. Stroud" campaigned to have Stroud released from prison.[23] However, because Stroud had killed a federal officer, his punishment in solitary confinement remained intact.[17] In 1963, Richard M. English, a young lawyer who had campaigned for John F. Kennedy in California, took to the cause of securing Stroud's release. He met with former President Harry S. Truman to enlist support, but Truman declined. He also met with senior Kennedy-administration officials who were studying the subject. English took the last photo of Stroud, in which he is shown with a green visor. The warden of the prison attempted to have English prosecuted for bringing something into the prison he did not take out: unexposed film. The authorities declined to take any action. Upon Stroud's death, his personal property, including original manuscripts, was delivered to English, as his last legal representative, who later turned over some of the possessions to the Audubon Society.
Stroud became the subject of a 1955 book by Thomas E. Gaddis, Birdman of Alcatraz. Gaddis, who strongly advocated rehabilitation in the prisons, portrayed Stroud in favorable light.[4] This was adapted by Guy Trosper for the 1962 film of the same name, directed by John Frankenheimer. It starred Burt Lancaster as Stroud, Karl Malden as a fictionalized and renamed warden, and Thelma Ritter as Stroud's mother.[24] Both the book and the film were highly fictionalized, with former inmates stating that Stroud was far more sinister and unpleasant than the character depicted in them. Stroud was never allowed to see the film. Art Carney played Stroud in the 1980 TV movie Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story, and Dennis Farina played Stroud in the 1987 TV movie Six Against the Rock, a dramatization of the Battle of Alcatraz of 1946.[25]
In music, Stroud has been the subject of the instrumental "Birdman of Alcatraz" from Rick Wakeman's Criminal Record (1977), a concept album about criminality,[26] and the song "The Birdman" by Our Lady Peace is also about him. Several video games such as Galerians and Team Fortress 2 pay homage to him.
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ryan & Schlup 2006, p. 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Benton 2012, p. 228.
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- ↑ Odier 1982, p. 210.
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- ↑ Crowther 1989, p. 55.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Sifakis 2002, p. 246.
- ↑ Hurley 1994, p. 69.
- ↑ Hurley 1994, p. 126.
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Welcome to La Scandell's travel page!
Our journey started on the 7th May departing Brisbane, we did an overnight sail to the Sandy Straits. Presently, we are cruising the beautiful Whitsunday Islands and plan on staying in the area for several months before returning to Brisbane then Sydney.
We are members of the Shag Islet Cruising Yacht Club (SICYC) and often see other members while cruising. It is easy to identify ourselves by using our little 'burgee'.
The club is growing rapidly and we are all looking forward to the Montes Reef Resort & Dingo Beach fancy dress August party week. So far the club has attacted over 2595 members and growing.
The crew of La Scandell thoroughly recommend the cruising life because you meet so many great people and have a million dollar view from your own boat everyday!
We had a great time in the Whitsunday Islands, had the greatest time at the SICYC Rendezvous 2011, met and made so many great new friends. Now its all over for another year and we are heading South to go an a P&O Cruise.
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I agree. Why can't we teach children that there are mysteries in our
lives as there are in Scripture. Let us teach about Christ and Who He is and
let us teach them also about science but realize that how the two jibe is
part of the mystery. Who are we know claim to know it all? Moorad
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Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: Jonah et al
>Was it John who wrote...?
>"Suppose you teach it as such to a young person, who later realizes
>that it is simply a story. Because of this, that person may decide to
>reject Christ, thinking that to accept him necessarily means one has to
>accept Jonah as history also."
>For me, the above exemplifies precisely why we should not count as
>relevant to our faith whether or not the Bible is objective truth,
>subjective truth, or myth. In other words, I believe we should teach
>our young people that belief in God is much more internal and much less
>external causation - such as the Bible. I had very little Christian
>experience or education as a young person, yet I have always had a deep
>faith in God. It's just "there." Teaching young people to reach inside
>THEMSELVES to maintain their faith in God seems a much more meaningful
>lesson than teaching them to believe in a book.
>So what good, then, is the Bible? It is a book of instruction about how
>to live our lives. As such, it is irrelevant whether the stories
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Wedding shirt for my husband
Added Nov 11, 2012
Alsace, France
I just posted the picture of my wedding dress
but here is my husband shirt!
Made with 2m coton popelin, it us a home made pattern from an old shirt…
The collar and cuffs (? not sure of the word) are lined with fine fusible lining and also with silk organza for a good fit. My husband told me it was very confortable to wear. He asked me to used this combination (fusible lining + organza) for the next shirt ;)
A little secret is hidden in this shirt… A small gold heart pendant is sewn between the 2 layers of fabric that create the yoke (on the back).
I'm happy he liked this shirt enough to wear it again later! It is a lovely shirt, but not too formal to stay in the wardrobe for ever…
My blog (in french) : http://ouipatrons.com
Material Notes
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12 boutons
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matching threads
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Nov 11, 2012, 11.52 AMby Mary Athey
wow!! your wedding dress was gorgeous and this is a great piece of work as well. congrats on the sewing and your wedding xx
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Afghans say Pakistanis behind mosque attack
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan blamed a Pakistani militant group for an early morning shootout Thursday at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Kabul, while also criticizing alleged anti-Afghan elements in Pakistan's intelligence apparatus.
The statement from Afghanistan's intelligence service is hardly the first time authorities here have criticized Pakistan — which denies any role in fostering violence in its neighbor — but it could deepen animosity between the two countries as both grapple with the drawdown of U.S.-led foreign forces.
The shootout occurred around 4:30 a.m. in the western part of the Afghan capital as worshippers gathered for morning prayers, authorities said.
Afghanistan's intelligence service, the National Directorate of Security, said two heavily armed Pakistani militants entered the mosque intending to kill, but that Afghan security forces managed to shoot them dead. The intelligence service alleged that the militants belonged to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni Muslim extremist group based in Pakistan that behind past violence here.
Area police official Hafizullah, who like many Afghans goes by one name, said the suspected militants had been under surveillance, allowing for the quick response by security forces.
A video distributed by the intelligence service showed the bloodied bodies of the alleged militants, who wore police uniforms. But the Afghans did not say how they had determined the identities or origins of the alleged attackers. The men were armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and other weapons, some of which also were shown on the video.
In its initial statement, the service said three bystanders were wounded, but Hafizullah disputed that account, and the intelligence service's later statement did not mention any wounded.
It did, however, criticize Pakistan's intelligence service, which has a history of links to militant groups.
"The enemies of the prosperity and stability of the people of Afghanistan include circles inside Pakistan's intelligence service and the Punjabis," the statement said. Punjab is Pakistan's most powerful and populous province, and it is home to some of its most vicious militant groups, including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
Islamabad often has been accused of fostering violence in Afghanistan to keep it a weak neighbor and a buffer against archrival India. Pakistani officials could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday, but they have in the past denied such allegations.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi's specialty is attacking Shiite Muslims. Although its attacks are usually focused in Pakistan, it claimed responsibility for a December 2011 suicide bombing outside a Shiite shrine in Kabul that killed 56 people and wounded 160. That was Afghanistan's first major sectarian assault since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.
Separately, NATO said a service member died Thursday after an attack "by enemy forces" in eastern Afghanistan. The military alliance did not specify the nationality of the dead service member, but many U.S. troops operate in the east.
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Tables may turn on abortion in Texas
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has a message for those hailing new liberal icon Wendy Davis for bringing down a restrictive state abortion measure: Enjoy it while it lasts.
Come Monday, the Texas Legislature will reconvene in special session, and enacting far-reaching abortion limits is a top Perry priority.
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Davis became an overnight star this week after spearheading the filibuster in the state Senate, preventing the Perry-backed comprehensive abortion bill from being finalized before the session ended even though it had passed by 19-10. She earned praise from a slew of pro-abortion rights celebrities, from President Barack Obama to Lena Dunham; was a guest on the major news shows; picked up tens of thousands of Twitter followers; and sparked speculation about whether she will make a statewide run.
( PHOTOS: Wendy Davis's filibuster)
But if national trends are any indication, the liberal rejoicing may be short-lived. Eleven states so far have passed 20-week bans — or earlier — on most abortions. Four have been blocked at least for now by courts because they conflict with Roe v. Wade.
And in Texas, the political reality is strongly against Davis and her supporters.
"This is simply too important a cause to allow unruly actions of a few to stand in its way," the Republican governor told the National Right to Life Convention in Dallas Tuesday. "And that is the reason I've announced that I'm bringing lawmakers back to Austin, Texas, to finish their business." That includes banning most abortions after 20 weeks and approving related measures that could lead to the closure of most abortion clinics in Texas.
( Also on POLITICO: Perry: Davis didn't learn from herself)
Even Davis — the pink-sneakered state senator from Fort Worth who led a 13-hour filibuster on Tuesday — concedes that such a measure may pass this time around. Abortion legislation already passed the state House and it had the votes to pass the state Senate.
"You know, I was able to do this filibuster because this bill came to the floor on the last day of the special session and it made it possible to kill the bill as a consequence," Davis said Thursday on "CBS This Morning." "It's not likely that they'll make that same mistake again. Who knows. If they do, we'll do everything we can to try and kill this bill."
Perry took a personal swing at Davis in his Thursday speech, noting that for a time she was a single mother, and saying it was "unfortunate" that her success story hadn't shaped her views on abortion.
"Rick Perry's statement is without dignity and tarnishes the high office he holds," she swung back, according to Texas news reports. "They are small words that reflect a dark and negative point of view."
Perry said the anti-abortion measures had support in Texas despite the loud protests in support of Davis — which Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst called an "unruly mob."
"Glad to see @GovernorPerry taking a stand for life and the unborn!" tweeted Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after Perry announced that the abortion issue would again go up for consideration. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) sent a letter to the National Right to Life convention underscoring his support.


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Justin Bieber Sends Cease & Desist To FreeBieber Campaign
from the bieber-fever dept
Apparently, Justin Bieber (or, at least, his lawyers) apparently would prefer not to be used to defend against draconian, overreaching copyright legislation. They sent Fight for the Future a cease and desist letter, claiming that such a use infringes on a variety of his rights, including (of course) publicity rights and his privacy rights.
Of course, as the EFF writes in its response (embedded below), it appears that Bieber's lawyers are clearly stretching the interpretation of various laws... likely hoping that by sending the legal nastygram, it would cause the FreeBieber team to stop. But that's not what's happening. They're standing behind the use of Bieber and the entire effort:
With respect to the privacy claims, we cannot fathom how this political campaign in any way intrudes on any privacy right your extremely public client might assert. As for the purported right of publicity violations, state laws have long recognized that a celebrity's interest in his or her image must be balanced against the public interest in free speech.


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Pictures of Facial Affect (POFA)
Pictures of Facial Affect (POFA)
The POFA collection consists of 110 photographs of facial expressions that have been widely used in cross-cultural studies, and more recently, in neuropsychological research. All images are black and white. A brochure providing norms is included with the collection.
Emotions Revealed Photo Set
Emotions Revealed Photo Set
This collection contains fifteen black and white photographs from Paul Ekman's book 'Emotions Revealed.' This set includes one neutral expression and two each of the seven different emotions.
Duchenne/Non-Duchenne Smile Photos
Duchenne/Non-Duchenne Smile Photos
These photographs demonstrate the difference between the true enjoyment smile, and the social smile. This collection consists of two black and white photographs and two color photographs.
Unmasking the Face Photo Set
Unmasking the Face Photo Set
This collection of seven black and white photographs from Paul Ekman's book 'Unmasking the Face' illustrate each of the seven universal emotions – anger, fear, disgust, contempt, surprise, sadness, and happiness.
New Guinea Man Photo Set 1
New Guinea Man Photo Set 1
This collection was first used in the 1971 Nebraska Symposium on Motivation where Paul Ekman presented on Universal and Cultural Differences in Facial Expressions of Emotion. The collection includes four black and white photographs in which members of a Stone Age tribe from New Guinea were asked to pose emotions.
New Guinea Man Photo Set 2
New Guinea Man Photo Set 2
This collection of four black and white photographs show members of a Stone Age tribe from New Guinea posing expressions of happiness, anger, disgust and sadness. These images were first used by Paul Ekman in the Afterword which appeared in his edited edition of 'Darwin's Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals.' These photos are often used to illustrate the universality of emotional expression.


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Place where one can find his inner heterosexuality with countless moments of homoerotic behavior. Home of Ted Turner, the Dell Guy, and Cleveland Latham.
by Cliff February 03, 2004
The coolest fuckin place on earth. The place to be if you got a penis. BURN IN HELL BAYLOR! YOU WERE BORN IN YOUR MOTHERS ASS!
1. " Dude McCallie just beat baylor's ass for the seventh year in a row!"
2. " Gettum McCallie!"
2. " Gettum McCallie!"
by Dude Man October 16, 2004
a place where cliff redish sucked balls
cliff sucked balls on the fifth floor
by sarge October 06, 2004
Pedophiles paradise with more than a hint of homosexuality. Their shower parties are legendary which they include big orgies of little boys performing anal sex ,oral sex, and hand jobs to all that are in need. I went there last year and they turned me gay. If you are homosexual, I would highly suggest McCallie in Chattanooga Tennessee. All the kids there look like Nazis because they all perform hitlers (verb, to Hitler someone; ie, smudge poop on their upper lip, creating the illusion of a Hitler-style moustache. Usually performed while the victim is sleeping.) on each other every morning. They are known for their chili, because they all have man boobs and chili dog each other. They are also known for their trombone ensemble, because they give each other rusty trombones on a daily basis (The act of performing anal cunnilingus while reaching up above the testicles to manually administer quick up and down motions to the penile shaft; resulting in a violent yet pleasant explosion. It is then customary for one of the males to then give a quick blow into the anus for good luck, the lips blowing into the anus sounds very similar to a trombones sweet melody. This was introduced to the Americas in the late 50's.)
Dont drop the soap at McCallie, because they penetrate each others brown starfishes with their extremly small wing wongs. (well you can if you are homosexual)
by Bigbluebuttplug May 06, 2005
the place where a vast amount of young men gather to have anal sex with each other on a daily basis. girls are something that you will never find here because all of the faggots scare them away!!!Cliff sucked his fathers 2 inche wang and put the cum in McCallies soup of the day every day .
by HAR3BA11 February 09, 2005
Mom: Recently I found out our son was gay.
Dad: Lets send him to the McCallie School in Chattanooga.
Mom: But we live in Nashville, TWO hours away!
Dad: Who cares he is gay! Also they lost to Baylor School 3 times in one year! He needs to get used to losing.
Mom: He will probably have fun in the locker rooms anyway.
Dad: Lets send him to the McCallie School in Chattanooga.
Mom: But we live in Nashville, TWO hours away!
Dad: Who cares he is gay! Also they lost to Baylor School 3 times in one year! He needs to get used to losing.
Mom: He will probably have fun in the locker rooms anyway.
by Union>ConfederateYouLost December 05, 2010
A deacent school on the Tennessi River in Chatanooga, Tennessi. Has better atletics than Baylor schoo, but Baylor wins on academics. I'm going to mccallie for sixth grade, but my brother went to Baylor. They're both excelent schools so everyone just stop talking shit about them. Poeple like that should be blasted to hell! By the way, The Dell guy went to McCallie but later got arrested for smoking pot. Also, Baylor has a larger. prettier campase but McCallie is more technologically advanced.
Retard #1: Baylor has ugly girls and they suck balls.
Retard #2: McCallie takes it up the ass all day since it is a all boys school. they enjoy sucking cock.
Me: Go fuck yourselves!!!
Retard #2: McCallie takes it up the ass all day since it is a all boys school. they enjoy sucking cock.
by stuart May 02, 2005


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A ten-year-old disabled boy from Heanor has been given a specialist wheelchair thanks to customers at a bingo hall.
Robert Bock has been given the chair after £5,000 was raised by customers at Beacon Bingo and Cashino on Bath Street in Ilkeston. They have now presented the mobility powered chair to Robert, which was provided through CHIPS, a charity founded by the casino and gaming industry to provide specialised powered wheelchairs for children.
Robert has crebral palsy and is due to study at Aldercar Language College in Langley Mill from September.
Until Christmas he was only able to get around with the aid of a walker. After his condition deteriorated Robert was left needing surgery, which has left him unable to walk at all.
His mother, Karen said the generous donation would make an incredible difference to her son.
"He has had a tough time and we are so proud for how brave he has been, it will give him that boost needed before he goes on to life in his new school," she said.
"This welcome change means the world to Robert and the whole family."
General manager of Beacon Bingo said he hoped the wheelchair would put Robert in good stead for several years to come.
Cashino and Beacon Bingo has provided CHIPS with funds for 18 powered wheelchairs in the last year nationwide, raising more than £1 million to date.


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WTF Is This!? Big Bird Asks Michelle Obama If President Obama Was Born In The US On Sesame Street! "We Are Going To Run Him Out The Stinkin Office"
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