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Almost weekly we talk about animals being able to experience and express humanlike emotions. Today's story falls under that category.
Eva Armstrong is one of the directors of Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue. It is a completely volunteer-run rescue group that has saved more than 800 dogs from the kill list of high-volume pounds in the rural South.
During the group's last trip to Alabama, volunteers rescued a dachshund they named Captain Morgan because he had only one eye -- like a pirate. The night he was rescued, Captain Morgan slept at the foot of Armstrong's hotel bed. She took care of him until he was adopted by a family several months ago.
Well on May 5, Badass Brooklyn Animal Rescue had a block party reunion where Captain Morgan and Armstrong were reunited. The picture of the two of them in a warm embrace, taken by photographer Hilary Benas, went viral after it was displayed on Buzzfeed. It shows Captain Morgan, who is now called Cappy by his adopted family, resting his head on Armstrong's shoulder. He has clearly not forgotten the woman who helped save him.
Sara Cross, who founded Brooklyn Badass, told HuffPost, "Whenever any of us run into dogs that we have fostered or rescued, they always recognize us and are so excited to see us. Dogs remember the person who saved their life and helped them on their way to a forever home."
So far, the photograph has received more than 160,000 views, and one commenter wrote, "the look on his face says it all." Judging by the photo, Cappy is one happy pup.
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When the holiday season arrives, so too does the enigma of holiday tipping. What's supposed to be a sign of gratitude for great service, can quickly turn into stress as you try to decide if and how much you should tip the handyman, mail carrier, babysitter and many more.
Lizzie Post, co-author of Emily Post's Etiquette, 18th edition and great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post, knows the finer points of tipping during the holiday season, including who to tip, how much to tip and how to stay on budget doing so. Post has teamed with up Bank of America, and here are some of her suggestions:
Make a list
The key to holiday tipping is to plan ahead so nobody gets overlooked. A tip is appropriate for people who have provided their services throughout the year, like your dog walker, housekeeper, personal trainer, hairstylist, doorman and trash collector. Don't forget to think of the entire family in the process, as well -- it's always good to recognize babysitters, day care providers and nannies.
Scale appropriately
The general rule of thumb for holiday tipping is up to the cost of one instance of service. However, this does not ring true for everyone on your list. Individuals who provide service on a more regular basis, such as an au pair or housekeeper, may require additional recognition, such as one week's pay. Some people who may appreciate a gift, but most likely cannot accept cash, include your child's teacher, health care professionals and government employees, like your mail carrier. By making gift purchases for these individuals with a rewards card, such as BankAmericard Cash Rewards(TM) card, you can earn cash back on every purchase, so when the holidays conclude, you have extra money in your pocket.
Leverage technology
The holiday season is a hectic time of year for many people, so leverage technology to make life easier. Using easy-to-use tools, such as Bank of America's mobile application, you can stay on top of account balances for gift giving and set up alerts to get balance notifications. And, with advances in mobile technology, gifting money is easier and more convenient than ever. For instance, using Bank of America's online or mobile banking you can send money to another person using only their email address or mobile phone number, saving time, energy and effort. Prefer to send a check? No problem. Customers can simply access Bank of America's mobile banking app on their smartphone or tablet to securely deposit checks on their schedule.
Express gratitude
It's important to remember that above all else, holiday tipping is really holiday thanking, extending a courteous gesture as a result of service throughout the year. No matter how much or what you decide to give, it's always important to offer your thanks with a hand-written note or holiday card. After all, it's the thought and sentiment behind the gesture that matters most, not the gift itself.
Consider these holiday tipping guidelines from Post:
-- Barber/hairstylist -- cost of one salon visit or a gift
-- Babysitter -- one evening's pay and a small gift
-- Handyman -- $15 to $40
-- Au pair or live-in nanny - one week's pay and a gift from your child(ren)
-- Garage attendants -- $10 to $30 or a small gift
-- Day care provider -- $25 to $70 for each staff member or a gift
-- Personal trainer -- up to the cost of one session or a gift
-- Dog walker -- up to one week's pay or a gift
-- Housekeeper/cleaner -- up to the amount of one week's pay and/or a small gift
-- Personal caregiver -- between one week to one month's salary or a gift
-- Doorman -- $15 to $80 cash or a gift
-- Trash/recycling collectors -- $10 to $30 each
-- Pet groomer -- up to the cost of one session or a gift
-- Yard/garden worker -- $20 to $50 cash or a gift
Source: Brandpoint.© 2013 Brandpoint
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The air-lift was suspended after a November plane crash. This according to the International Organisation for Migration on Monday.
"We are resuming the flights," and 101 passengers took off from the Sudanese capital in two trips Monday to Aweil in the South's Northern Bahr El Ghazal state, said Filiz Demir, an IOM official.
The flights will continue until Thursday moving around 300 people to Aweil and Wau, she said, providing Christian Southerners with a well-timed seasonal gift.
The vulnerable group are among roughly 40 000 Southerners encamped around the Sudanese capital awaiting transport to the South, which became independent in July last year. Community workers say those in the camps have lost their regular jobs and sold their homes.
IOM suspended the airlift in mid-November when its only chartered plane crashed on landing at the Aweil airstrip.
Miraculously, none of the passengers was hurt. More than 1 000 extremely vulnerable South Sudanese had been moved in November before the accident.
South Sudan's embassy says that, at last count, there were 171 000 South Sudanese still in the Khartoum area after an April deadline for them to formalise their status or leave the country.
Sudan and South Sudan have not come up with a detailed plan for returning the South Sudanese, and disagreements have stalled implementation of key deals signed in September on security and economic issues.
Millions of Southerners fled to the north during a 22-year civil war which ended in a 2005 peace deal that paved the way for South Sudan's independence following a referendum. – Sapa-AFP


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Parametric Cartesian equation:
x = (a - b) cos(t) + b cos((a/b - 1)t), y = (a - b) sin(t) - b sin((a/b - 1)t)
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|Inverse curve wrt origin
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|Caustic wrt horizontal rays
|Caustic curve wrt another point
For the hypocycloid, an example of which is shown above, the circle of radius b rolls on the inside of the circle of radius a. The point P is on the circumference of the circle of radius b. For the example a = 5 and b = 3.
These curves were studied by Dürer (1525), Desargues (1640), Huygens (1679), Leibniz, Newton (1686), de L'Hôpital (1690), Jacob Bernoulli (1690), la Hire (1694), Johann Bernoulli (1695), Daniel Bernoulli (1725), Euler (1745, 1781).
Special cases are a = 3b when a tricuspoid is obtained and a = 4b when an astroid is obtained.
If a = (n + 1)b where n is an integer, then the length of the epicycloid is 8nb and its area is πb2(n2 - n).
The pedal curve, when the pedal point is the centre, is a rhodonea curve.
The evolute of a hypocycloid is a similar hypocycloid - look at the evolute of the hypocycloid above to see it is a similar hypocycloid but smaller in size.
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Ballet after Skakespeare's
»A Midsummer Night's Dream«
Chris Laurence
London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas
Il Sogno
Ballet after Skakespeare's
»A Midsummer Night's Dream«
Peter Erskine · John Harle
Chris Laurence
London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas
Int. Release 20 Sep. 2004
0289 471 5772 4
Elvis Costello (1954 - )
Il Sogno
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, Elvis Costello
Gesamtspielzeit: 1:01:35
Costello knows his way around an orchestra. The writing is full of color and variety, and solo instruments get their fair share of the spotlight - a beguiling trumpet song in the second movement still lingers.
Costello weiß, wie man Orchestermusik schreibt. Die Musik ist farbig und abwechslungsreich, die Soloinstrumente kommen angemessen zur Geltung eine betörende Trompetenmelodie aus dem zweiten Satz lässt einen nicht los.
Costello connaît bien l'orchestre. L'écriture est pleine de couleur et de variété, et les instruments solistes sont chacun ŕ leur tour sous les projecteurs - un séduisant air de trompette dans le deuxičme mouvement résonne encore.
Mr. Costello is ceaselessly curious about music. He is inquisitive enough not just to listen widely, but to learn the makings of every idiom that moves him . . .
Costellos musikalische Neugier ist unerschöpflich. Er ist wissbegierig genug, sich nicht nur die verschiedensten Dinge anzuhören, sondern auch die Machart jedes Genres zu erlernen, das ihn interessiert . . .
Costello est d'une inlassable curiosité musicale - au point non seulement d'écouter beaucoup, mais aussi d'apprendre le fonctionnement de tout langage qui le touche . . .
. . . this former angry young man has grown into perhaps the most adventurous and accomplished musical polymath of our times . . . It is almost skittish in flavour, light and playful and entirely lacking in the kind of darkness that characterises Costello's songwriting. It is as if, liberated from his black lyrical sensibility, he has abandoned himself to the delightful possibilities of instrumental music . . . "Il Sogno" shifts its musical terrain from Debussy-like harmonies to Leonard Bernstein-flavoured jazz and swing, making references to Broadway musicals as much as to the classics . . . it abundantly displays the musical diversity that has become Costello's hallmark.
. . . dieser einst zornige junge Mann hat sich zum vielleicht mutigsten und vollendetsten musikalischen Universaltalent unserer Zeit entwickelt . . . Die Musik ist geradezu übermütig, federleicht und verspielt, ganz ohne jene düsteren Züge, die Costellos Songs kennzeichnen. Befreit vom dunklen Charakter seiner Lyrik, überlasst er sich offenkundig den reichen Möglichkeiten der Orchestermusik . . . "Il Sogno" bewegt sich musikalisch von Debussy'scher Harmonik bis zu Jazz und Swing ŕ la Leonard Bernstein, Anspielungen auf Broadway Musicals sind ebenso häufig wie auf die Klassiker . . . überall zeigt sich die musikalische Vielseitigkeit, die zu Costellos Markenzeichen geworden ist.
Cet ancien jeune homme en colčre est sans doute devenu le musicien universel le plus aventureux et le plus accompli de notre temps [...]. La musique est de saveur fantasque, légčre et enjouée, entičrement dépourvue de ces couleurs sombres qui caractérisent les chansons de Costello. C'est comme si, libéré de sa noire sensibilité lyrique, il s'abandonnait aux agréables possibilités de la musique instrumentale [...]. Le langage musical d'«Il Sogno» passe d'harmonies debussystes au jazz et au swing ŕ la Leonard Bernstein, avec des allusions aux comédies musicales de Broadway tout autant qu'aux classiques [...]. On y trouve abondamment toute cette variété musicale qui est devenue la signature de Costello."
Il Sogno is a rhapsodic piece full of shifting moods, with moments of eerie delicacy and of comic pomp.
["North":] . . . a jazzy, piano-based song cycle on love lost and found.
. . . a very appealing and fresh sounding stand-alone work . . . Michael Tilson Thomas leads the London Symphony Orchestra in a brilliant performance . . . there's absolutely nothing to complain about in terms of interpretation or playing, and the sound, from Abbey Road Studios, is similarly beyond cavil . . . What he (Costello) has done is write an excellent and imaginative dance piece, giving us a very promising "classical music" debut that deserves to be treated with respect and listened to with pleasure.
The LSO and Michael Tilson-Thomas exult in the work's textures and climaxes. The milieu is more cinematic than symphonic but this beguiling confection is light-years beyond most pop-classical crossover attempts.
"Il Sogno" is a serious effort that reveals a composer adept at his modern classical idiom, and what's more, he's a skilled orchestrator as well.
. . . he has blossomed into the most broad-minded music-maker in contemporary pop . . .
An ambitious classical piece . . . an adventurous and almost skittish blend of jazz, swing and classical.
there are some great dramatic moments, as in the crashing strangeness and rage of "The Jealousy of Helena" or"Workers' Playtime", where Bottom's theme comes charging in like an ass, sparring with the other characters' motifs . . . the way he interweaves his themes as the action progresses is a revelation. Arching over all of it too is his sense of melody.
"Il Sogno" is classic Elvis Costello . . . good enough to reward attention even if it were by an unknown composer . . . The music is rhythmically lively, as dance music must be. It is full of character and storytelling, and the orchestration is skillful, unusual, and colorful . . . Costello's fans will recognize him here, and discover more of him.
Pop's most relentless eclectic has outdone himself by releasing two vastly different recordings at once and scoring on both counts. The instrumental "Il Sogno" . . . brims with the bittersweet melodicism and alternately playful and wistful wit that have distinguished his work as a singer/songwriter. And the London Symphony Orchestra handles Costello's orchestrations, which nod to jazz and jazz-influenced composers such as George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein, with grace and vitality.
No rock musician can aspire to serious auteur status these days, it seems, without undertaking a big classical composition -- oratorio, opera, symphony, what have you. The only catch is that most of them haven't a clue how to go about it.
Elvis Costello does.
"Il Sogno" ("The Dream"), an evening-length ballet score based on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," is the one product of this odd recent trend that's actually worth the staff paper it's written on . . . an expansive, colorful and often striking creation, done with all the imaginative flair and restless precision of Costello's rock efforts. And on the Deutsche Grammophon recording that hits stores today, with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, the various episodes of Costello's score sparkle and shine like the pages of a glossily illustrated book of fairy tales . . . What's most striking, though, is Costello's command of the orchestra. "Il Sogno" alternates between richly idiomatic traditional sonorities and skillful grafts from elsewhere, including a jazz band and the tinkly, percussive sound of the cimbalom. If this is really just scoring by ear, Costello's untutored facility is prodigious. But then, it always has been. From the beginning of his career, Costello has been a consummate classicist, less interested in innovation than in mastering and refining an ever-wider range of musical languages -- from punk rock to country, from pop ballads to art songs. There was no reason to expect anything less from him in this
new arena.
Costello treats listeners to a classical adventure . . . "Il Sogno" -- literally, "The Dream" -- is a kaleidoscope of musical styles and a narrative fantasy story tour de force. . . Costello's sense of dramatic pace and timing reveals his maturity and wisdom as a
composer . . . "Il Sogno" is a surprisingly stunning, diverse and lovely orchestral composition, and if listeners can't find Waldo, they can find Costello -- whose true inspiration comes not just from one musical style, but from all the world's music.
. . . Costello's sound is surprisingly fresh. His melodies are memorable and untrivial. The sudden swings into jazz prove pure delight. Tilson Thomas' performance is tops, bursting with life.
great job
. . . rock's most eloquent nerd isn't gettinger older, he's getting bolder . . . he's had the gall to keep going on the strength of musical exploration.
Very easy light-orchestral listening, rich in airy melody and playful pastiche . . . Another competent string to his bow. Literally.
Elvis Costello is something of a musical chameleon. Indeed, his ability to write in a variety of styles was manifest in his brilliant early albums . . . The singer/songwriter's keen ear for stylistic detail has aided him in "Il Sogno" too -- a fluent and melodically attractive ballet based on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The scoring is generally skilful, and tracks like 'Oberon humbled' show that Costello has mastered the fine art of thematic transformation. "Il Sogno" is constructed, like so many of its balletic predecessors, from small, discrete sections, with several themes woven throughout the score to provide coherence . . . Costello fans -- and I count myself among them -- will likely want to hear "Il Sogno" in its entirety . . . the performance here leaves nothing to be desired. Michael Tilson Thomas and the LSO make the most of the score's gauzy delicacy and tender lyricism, and DG's recording is exceptionally vivid and well-balanced.
The result is nothing like you might have expected from Costello, laid back, jazzy, and, as I say, romantic.
Snappily performed and with an airy recorded sound, this project will certainly show Costello's admirers a new aspect of his restlessly inventive musical thinking.
Costellożs light, modest touch is a pleasant surprise . . . No question about it -- Costello is a talented musician, and żIl sognoż is an hour well spent.
To hear one of the world's great orchestras . . . luxuriating in this unusual score is a rare treat . . . It is remotely possible that the Italian ballet may be seen over here, but it will never sound anywhere near as gloriously as it does on this splendid recording. Elvis lives!
. . . Play the lion too . . . He's been poaching in classical fields for years. Now Elvis Costello has written a ballet after Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream". It's his first work for orchestra, and as of yesterday it can be found in record shop bins. You'll have to search for it there: in the "Classical" section, under "Ballet" or the composer's name, because normally you'd expect to find him in the "Pop" section.
If the connections between rock clichés and classical doodling forged by the pioneers of "classic rock" still deserve attention as a disrespectfully creative play with quotations, their original works have almost always been disappointing because of a lack of depth.
Elvis Costello is another calibre altogether. The Englishman, who just turned 50, has been one of the great quick-change artists in pop music for nearly three decades. No one else has produced such a wide-ranging body of work. It stretches from late punk via early soul and rock to country jazz, backward to swing and forward to a grasp of new music which, needless to add, transcends genres precisely because it makes no distinctions between "serious" and "light" music. If we were to try to pigeonhole Costello's composing with a single category, it would have to be "song". This is the radius vector that leads him through every kind of music.
And yet the genre of song finds no place in his first orchestral composition. It was a commission from the Italian ballet company Aterballetto, who asked Costello to write Shakespeare music for dancing. "Il Sogno" (The Dream) had its premiere four years ago in Bologna, played by the local orchestra. A recording of their performance served the company when they took the ballet to Germany, France, Russia and America.
For the new recording with the London Symphony Orchestra, Costello revised the music in collaboration with conductor and (classical) composer Michael Tilson Thomas. In this version there's nothing left that could conceivably distract from the music's purely expressive values. It can be listened to as a translation of the play's marvellous verbal melodies as well as a musicalization of its characters, both groups and couples. Costello makes use of techniques that have been standard practice for ages in programmatic music: pompous orchestral gestures for the court, folk dances for the rude mechanicals, and he makes the realms of the fairies and elves float ethereally.
Explosive tuttis alternate with soloistic passages - the sonic possibilities of the orchestral instruments are put on exhibition. If that's all there were to it, Costello's ballet music would be no more than a conventional composition, dressed in the familiar attire of earlier masters. In fact the attentive listener will need several hearings to take in all its many facets. Concealed under long stretches of smooth surface are numerous little provocations which are set off in the work like fireworks - in constantly new and dazzling wreaths of colour.
The casualness with which a chopping board becomes a solo instrument, the way a rock drummer urges the orchestra on, the saxophone snarls and impressionistically misty sounds invade the music - all these are more than mere effects. They are integral elements in a work that demands to be taken on its own terms: as a brave attempt to discover new territory between the notes, spurred on by a tireless explorer of sounds who, to the benefit and delight of unprejudiced listeners, cares not a whit about so-called boundaries.
Herausgekommen ist eine lässige, niemals nachlässige Komposition, die handwerklich gekonnt das London Symphony Orchestra zum Swingen bringt.
Sein technisch penibel ausgeleuchtetes Opus "Il Sogno" entpuppt sich unter Michael Tilson Thomas als spannender Stilmix. So kreuzt der Engländer Prokofieffs Erbe mit Jazz und Avantgarde. Verhangene Streicher zelebrieren die Hochzeit, ein cooles Vibrafon wiegt in den Schlaf. Costello als Ballettkomponist -- ein starkes Debüt.
Nach den überragenden, intimen "Juliet Letters" mit dem Brodsky Streichquartett überzeugt der wohl vielseitigste aktuelle Pop-Songwriter Elvis Costello auch in der symphonischen Großform, genauer: mit Ballettmusik nach Shakespeares "Sommernachtstraum" . . . kunstvolle Unterhaltungsmusik mit keckem Charme: Respekt!
. . . le Britannique n'a rien perdu de sa fertilité mélodique légendaire et s'est honorablement acquitté de la tâche . . . ils se promčnent avec une application touchante dans cet univers bigarré, louvoyant entre mariachis et génériques de feuilletons américains.
Booklettext "Il Sogno"
"I was extremely surprised to be asked to write music for dancing," Elvis Costello confesses. "In truth I knew very little about that world. When a very serious French publication inquired, 'Who is your favourite dancer?', I had replied honestly, 'Cyd Charisse'."
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"I think he just uses his ears intrepidly", says conductor, Michael Tilson Thomas. "There's a lot of jazz in this score, and there are parts that sound quite impressionistic or Russian. Elvis has imagined the characters in Shakespeare's play having come from different worlds: from pop or jazz or classical. He keeps coming back to these unusual Debussy-like harmonies that begin the piece. They're always there in some way."
Biographie of Elvis Costello
ELVIS COSTELLO has followed his musical curiosity in a career spanning more than 25 years. He is perhaps best known for his performances with The Attractions, The Imposters and for recent concert appearances with pianist, Steve Nieve. His recordings include This Year's Model, Imperial Bedroom, King of America, Blood and Chocolate, Spike, All This Useless Beauty and When I Was Cruel. However, he has also entered into acclaimed collaborations with Burt Bacharach, The Brodsky Quartet, Paul McCartney, Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, guitarist Bill Frisell, composer Roy Nathanson, The Charles Mingus Orchestra and record producer and songwriter T Bone Burnett.
Personal Comment of Elvis Costello


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Published: 27 Jan 2017
In the middle of the Louisiana Bayou, a hot date turns into a catastrophic nightmare when CIA agent-in-hiding Fortune Redding runs out of blind luck and comes face to face with a killer who has a mill... more info
Chocolate Hearts and Murder
by Patti Larsen
Series: Fiona Fleming Cozy Mysteries (#2)
Published: 14 Feb 2017
A Multiple Drink Kind of Night Why was it fancy Valentine's Day drinks were always tinted red? Reminded me more of gore and mayhem than anything to do with romance. Which said a lot, I suppose, for... more info
Murder at Catmmando Mountain, Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery #1
by Anna Celeste Burke
Series: Georgie Shaw Cozy Mystery Series (#1)
Published: 01 Apr 2016
As Georgie Shaw can tell you, it's not easy doing Public Relations for Catmmando Tom, a famous cartoon cat. When they find a dead body at the foot of Catmmando Mountain in Marvelous Marley World's Arc... more info
A Manhattan Murder Mystery: An Irina Curtius Mystery
by Susan Bernhardt
Series: An Irina Curtius Mystery (#1)
Published: 25 Sep 2016
Irina Curtius, a retired ballet dancer living on the Upper West Side in Manhattan, runs a ballet studio for young children. Recently, she has been watching her younger and otherwise healthy neighbor, ... more info
My Funny Valentine
by Caroline Fardig
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Published: 28 Jan 2016
All Lizzie wants for Valentine's Day is for her fiancé NOT to be the prime suspect in a murder investigation. Is that too much to ask? Lizzie Hart is finally living the dream. She's engaged to t... more info
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The Perfect Valentine's Day Gift! Only $2.99. Book 2 in the bestselling Happy Homicides Anthology Series. Available for a limited time at this low price. Thirteen mysteries (600-plus pages) by thirtee... more info
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Happy Halloween from Gerard Butler Dot Net!!
Law Abiding Citizen takes fourth for the week bringing in $16.4 million.
The film takes third for Friday, with a box office total of $2.42 million.
Not trick or treating?? Get to the theater this weekend to support Law Abiding Citizen!!
Buy movie tickets in advance at Fandango.com!


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Soundtrack2 Ep. 67: Endless Drive
Future Islands, Elf Power, The Voices, Golden Ages, Pacific UV & more
1. Para Siempre – Adolescence
Starting things off with in the red, urgent yet murky punky pop.
2. The Catherine Wheel – Let Me Down Again
Black Metallic rocker with just deadly choruses. This one'll get inside your head.
3. Future Islands – Walking Through That Door
Just a fantastic song with glorious synth work and a great groove. Never want this to end.
4. Medicine – Astral Gravy
Brash, glammy rock and roll from 2003's The Mechanical Forces Of Love.
5. Tame Impala – Alter Ego
A highlight they dropped at last night's show at The Phoenix. But then they topped it – by covering Massive Attack's Angel! Was also surprised to see they weren't using drum samples…the drummer was amazing.
6. Crystal Stilts – Silver Sun
Another one from the Brooklynites' new record. They've struck a nice mod-surf vibe on it.
7. Lowtide – Underneath Tonight
Shoegaze pop from last year's You Are My Good Light EP.
8. Elf Power – Skeleton
One of the more sinister tracks off the Elephant 6 band's The Winter Is Coming album.
9. 10 Second Dynasty – Endless Drive
Epic 10-minute shoegaze anthem. Anyone have info on this band they can share?
10. Black Forest Of Opium – Afyonkarahisar Battle Cry
Winner of this week's award for Most Embarassing Band Name To Have To Say You're Listening To. Great drone-y tune with some heavy lyrics about crushing down enemies.
11. The Voices – When The Black Sun Sets
More shoegaze psych off the Cardiff band's Death Of A Lover's Song album.
12. The People's Temple – Sons Of Stone
Killer drone psych that is a must for fans of Brian Jonestown Massacre or The Black Angels. The vocalist reminds me of someone, but I just can't my finger on it…[Update: Turns out it was Chris Wilson of the Flamin' Groovies.]
13. The Morning Clouds – The Wrong Things
New track that channels the classic reverb-heavy ballads of the 60s.
13. Pacific UV – Float
Free track from April available through their site. Brings Spiritualized to mind.
14. Ghost Animal – In Your Room (Golden Ages remix)
Churning guitars and insistent synths over heart-on-sleeve vocals. Original's nice too.
15. Pale Suns – Here Is
Shimmering waves of noisy beauty.
16. Sun Glitters – Everything Could Be Fine (The Astroboy remix)
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Soviet Russia in the 1950s isn't the first topic that springs to mind when you think of comedy. The cast and director of The Death of Stalin tell us about treading the line between funny and tragic
Trying to make one of the darkest periods and characters in our history funny is no mean feat.
But writer-director Armando Iannucci manages to do just that, as he tackles the internal political landscape of 1950s Soviet Russia in his latest epic, The Death of Stalin.
"I'd been thinking for a while about doing something about dictators or authority figures, because there'd been an element of political populism in the air," explains Iannucci, 53, who read up on graphic novels about Joseph Stalin's stroke, including The Death Of Stalin and its follow-up, Volume 2 - The Funeral.
"We started writing this about two years ago, and we shot it last year, so this was pre-Trump and pre-Brexit," he continues. "But there was Ukip and the sort of Farage cult, there was Le Pen in France, there was Turkey. So there was an element of democracy feeling a little bit wobbly, a bit frayed at the edges."
Here, Iannucci and his cast tell us more about the film's darkly comic form.
Recalling a visit to France to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme on a day off from shooting, Jason Isaacs, who plays Georgy Zhukov, claims David Cameron recognised the political relevance of the film.
"He (Cameron) had just resigned, and all the heads of Europe were there, and he said, 'what are you doing now?' And I told him and he went, 'Jesus, it sounds like it's set in Downing Street'," the Harry Potter star reveals. "And it does, but it sounds like it's set everywhere, always, because all politicians are liars and self-centred lunatics."
"It (the film) is about how you gain power and what lengths you go to to hold onto power once you've got it," adds another renowned cast member, Michael Palin.
"So it's about ambition - generally male ambition - and greed, and ruthlessness, which is happening, possibly, around us as as we speak."
While US actor Steve Buscemi admits his character, minister for agriculture Nikita Khrushchev, does have a bit of a temper, the Fargo star also describes him as "a survivor who manages to stay on the good side of Stalin, and is a pretty amiable guy for the most part".
So what role do we see him play following Stalin's death?
"Khrushchev doesn't want Beria to take over and so he tries to gain influence with Stalin's number two, Malenkov (played by Jeffrey Tambor), as whoever can gain influence with Malenkov can influence how things are going to turn out," explains 59-year-old Buscemi.
The days before the funerals of the Nation's Father are a scramble for power, with many men overcome by madness, self-interest and inhumanity. What makes Palin think his character, Vyacheslav Molotov, is probably the most calculating of the bunch?
"The way he shows his sort of passion for what he's doing is this unswerving devotion to Stalin, everything that Stalin represented; even down to sort of denouncing his own much loved wife, and agreeing with Stalin that she should go to prison and all that," says the 74-year-old,
Other pivotal characters include Field Marshall Zhukov, who Isaacs says in real life was the only person who would speak bluntly to Stalin, "because he had control of the army so they all needed him on their side".
"The bluntest people I've ever met are Yorkshiremen," the 54-year-old actor continues. "So I phoned Armando and said, 'can I play him Yorkshire? And he went 'I don't see why not'.
"I thought he was funny and monstrous at the same time, which is true of the whole film," he adds.
How did Iannucci - whose repertoire also boasts political comedies such as The Thick of It and Veep - go about walking the line between innate comedy, and the genuine awfulness of that time in history?
"Going into the film I remember saying to everyone, 'look, we have to be very respectful of what happened to the people in Russia at the time, and in the Soviet Union at the time'," he discloses.
"What happened was a very direct consequence of the bizarre goings on within the Kremlin."
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At the end of a daylong manhunt that stretched across eastern Massachusetts, police said they captured the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing Friday night in the backyard of a house in a Boston suburb where he had hidden in a boat.
Police took 19-year old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev into custody about a half-mile from where he and his 26-year old brother, Tamerlan, had been involved in a running gun battle with police about 20 hours earlier. The elder brother died in the gun fight.
Bleeding and in serious condition, he was admitted to a Boston hospital, a Massachusetts State Police spokesman said.
A spokeswoman for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston confirmed Saturday morning that Tsarnaev was being treated there, but declined comment on his condition. The FBI would be providing any updates, she said.
Also on Saturday, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Boston said federal charges will be filed "in the coming days."
Christina Sterling, a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, announced her office's plans to begin the prosecution just hours after Tsarnaev was taken into custody.
Tsarnaev's capture Friday took place less than three hours after Massachusetts authorities said the hunt had turned up empty and that they were easing restrictions imposed by law enforcement on residents of Watertown, Boston and many of the city's suburbs. People across suburban Boston had been warned to stay indoors and not answer their doors while Tsarnaev was at large.
About an hour later, the sound of gunfire and booming explosions broke out in the Franklin Street area of Watertown and police converged on the house with the boat.
With the stay-in-doors advisory lifted, a homeowner living outside the search area had walked outside and saw that the door to a shed near the boat had been opened. He also noticed blood on the tarp covering his boat, police sources said, and when he lifted it, he saw Tsarnaev.
The homeowner called police, and Massachusetts state troopers also spotted Tsarnaev in the boat. After shots were exchanged, the state police officers backed off, the sources said.
Police next used helicopter-mounted heat-sensing equipment to determine whether the suspect was moving, the sources said. Then they tossed flash grenades toward the suspect to generate light to determine his position and whether he was injured, the sources said.
An FBI hostage negotiating team arrived and tried to speak with Tsarnaev. He didn't respond, Boston police Supt. Edward Davis said. The FBI then took Tsarnaev into custody without incident.
Davis said Tsarnaev did not have explosives at the time and appeared to be seriously injured.
It was 8:45 p.m., when Tsarnaev gave up. He was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Police found a "significant" pool of blood on and near the boat, but they had not determined whether Tsarnaev was injured during the gun battle that killed his brother or during the brief firefight with police immediately before his capture.
"We've closed an important chapter in this case," President Barack Obama said after the capture. "The people of Boston refused to be intimidated.''
But he said questions associated with the bombing remain unanswered.
"Why did young men who grew up and studied here resort to such violence?" he said. "How did they carry this out and did they have any help? We will determine what happened and investigate any associations these men may have had."
Authorities also disclosed late Friday that the FBI took three college-aged people — two men and a woman — into custody Friday afternoon in New Bedford as part of the bombing investigation. They are believed to have lived in off-campus housing for students attending the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Dzhokhar may have lived at the residence sometime in the past, a police source said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a student at UMass Dartmouth and students there Friday told police he had returned on Tuesday and Wednesday – after two bombs exploded near the marathon finish line. Among the places he was said to have visited was off-campus housing, students said.
The brothers are suspecting of manufacturing, placing and igniting the home-made bombs, killing three and injuring more than 170.
Thursday evening, police released to the public photographs of the brothers made from images captured by security cameras near the marathon finish line on Boylston Street.
Authorities encountered the two bombing suspects for the first time early Friday at the start of what turned into a short, but intense series of violent acts that began with the coincidental robbery of a convenience store in Cambridge. Authorities said Friday that reports the brothers were responsible for the robbery are untrue.
They are accused of the fatal shooting nearby, about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, of a 26-year-old campus police officer employed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sean Collier.
Davis called Collier's death, as he sat in his patrol car, "an assassination."
The brothers are also accused of stealing a car in Cambridge. The car jacking set off a high speed police chase and gun fight that resulted in the elder brother's death. During the chase, the brothers are accused of tossing what are believed to have been homemade pipe bombs at pursuing police officers.
Massachusetts State Police Col. Timothy P. Alben said that Tsarnaev escaped on foot, when the chase ended on the east side of the Watertown. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said more than 200 shots were fired during the chase.
Friday evening, expressing frustration after hours of intensive but fruitless searching, Alben said, "I believe he is still in Massachusetts. All of his ties are here."
Earlier Friday, an army of state, local and federal police officers closed down Watertown, while searching three quarters of the homes. Authorities also sent police and national guardsman by bus and helicopter to the UMass Dartmouth campus.
The campus was evacuated Friday after several students reported seeing Tsarnaev after the marathon bombing. Students reported that he used the school fitness center on Tuesday and was seen at the off-campus housing complex on Wednesday.
Several students said that they had been interviewed by authorities for periods of as long as five hours Friday.
"I felt safe going here until today," UMass Dartmouth student Mercy Irungu said. "I guess you never know who you go to school with."
She said students received emails from school administrators Friday announcing first that the school was being closed and later that it was being evacuated so authorities could search for bombs. She said students hastily packed clothes and some were bused to a remote location to await rides home from friends and family.
In the Boston area, authorities had restricted air traffic, closed streets, stopped mass transit and persuaded many businesses not to open.
"Be patient," Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said. "We're gonna get through this, we'll be a stronger city as we move forward."
At times Friday, the dragnet spilled over the Massachusetts border.
Heavily armed police in Connecticut boarded a Boston to New York Amtrak train in Norwalk and made a car-by-car search after receiving a report that a passenger resembling Tsarnaev was aboard. The report proved groundless, but all Amtrak service from Boston was stopped for the rest of the day.
Connecticut state troopers were stationed on I-84 at the border with Massachusetts after receiving at least two reports, later proved false, that Tsarnaev had obtained automobiles and may have been attempting to drive out of Massachusetts.
Connecticut State Police also sent explosives experts to Massachusetts to assist in the search for bombs and the disarmament of the pipe bombs the two brothers had flung at police during the car chase in Watertown.
Even members of Tsarnaev's family weighed in on the search. The brothers are ethnic Chechens who appeared to acquaintances to have adjusted well after immigrating with their family a decade ago from Kyrgyzstan, a former republic riven by ethnic and religious strive after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Tsarnaev was an athlete and student. His older brother was a boxer who had qualified for the Golden Gloves national tournament.
But an uncle, Suslan Tsarni, said he believes the young men suffered from a discontent not noticed by casual acquaintances in Massachusetts.
"If you are alive, turn yourself in, and ask for forgiveness from the victims, the injured and from those who are left," Tsarni, told reporters at a news conference outside his home in Montgomery Village, Md.
"You have put shame on this family and on the entire ethnicity" of Chechen, Tsarni said.
"This has nothing to do with Chechnya," Tsarni said. The family is Muslim but the actions of his nephews have nothing to do with that religion either, he said.
"Of course we are ashamed," he said.
By Friday evening, after a series of exhaustive searches for Tsarnaev had proven fruitless, authorities had begun to ease restrictions on movement that for most of the day had given New England's biggest city and many of its densely populated suburbs the appearance of ghost towns.
Police officers across Massachusetts were expressing relief at Tsarnaev's apprehension Friday.
"I wouldn't want to see any police department go through what we went through the last 24 hours," Watertown Police Chief Edward P. Deveau said. "I want to say how proud I am of the people of Watertown. We asked you to be vigilant and we got that call and we got the guy."
U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, whose office is expected to prosecute the case, said it was too early to say whether she will seek a death sentence. She said a tremendous amount of evidence must be evaluated and reviewed before she can determine what charge she will file.
Courant staff writer Dave Altimari and Kelly Glista contributed to this story.A Bloomberg News report is also included.


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I Have Seen the Future is on view at the Wolfsonian until September 28.
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New York, June 25, 2012--Authorities in Azerbaijan must drop the charges against journalist Hilal Mamedov and immediately release him, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Mamedov is the eighth journalist jailed in Azerbaijan, according to CPJ research.
Authorities detained Mamedov, chief editor of the independent newspaper Talyshi Sado, on Thursday after allegedly finding about 5 grams of heroin in his pocket, according to the Azeri-language service of the U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. The circumstances of the journalist's arrest were not clear. Later that night, police raided the journalist's home and said they found another 30 grams of heroin, news reports said. On Friday, the Nizami District Court in Baku, the capital, ordered Mamedov to be imprisoned for three months in pretrial detention on drug possession charges, the reports said.
Mamedov's family said police had planted the drugs, according to local and international news reports. The journalist's colleagues said he did not even smoke cigarettes and that he had been imprisoned in retaliation for his reporting, the reports said.
Mamedov, also a human rights activist, has written on the Talysh ethnic minority group in Azerbaijan, Emin Huseynov, the director of the Baku-based Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety, told CPJ. His articles have been published in Talyshi Sado and on regional and Russia-based news websites, Huseynov said. Huseynov also told CPJ that Mamedov had investigated the 2009 death in prison of Novruzali Mamedov, Talyshi Sado's former chief editor.
"If we believed the authorities, then journalists in Azerbaijan would appear to be among the most drug-addicted in the world," said CPJ Deputy Director Robert Mahoney. "Any time reporters write something critical, they run the risk of ending up behind bars on trumped-up drug charges. The authorities must stop harassing critical journalists, and they can begin by releasing Hilal Mamedov."
Azerbaijan is the leading jailer of journalists in the region, according to CPJ research. This year, the government has stepped up its retaliation against independent reporting by intimidating and harassing journalists and imprisoning them on fabricated, politicized charges, CPJ research shows. Earlier this month, another journalist, Anar Bayramli, was convicted on trumped-up charges of drug possession and sentenced to two years in prison, CPJ research shows.


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The Mudra of Zen
Mark Foote
Zazen Notes (a blog)
The Mudra of Zen
The mudra of Zen, or the position of the hands in the posture of Zen meditation, is unique: the hands are placed in the lap with the palms upward, the fingers of one hand resting on the fingers of the other, and the tips of the thumbs just touching. The significance of the mudra of Zen in the practice of Zen meditation, like the significance of the lotus posture, could be said to be a fundamental mystery of the school.
The key to the posture of Zen, and to the position of the hands in particular, is the method of concentration in the practice of seated meditation. Gautama the Buddha described the method with the words, "turning thought to the relinquishment of self, one cleaves to concentration, one cleaves to singularity of mind". Zen master Yuanwu described the same method in altogether different words: "be as one who has 'died the noble death'; when the breath ceases, you return to life."
In the early part of the twentieth century, an osteopath named Sutherland tied bandages around his head to prevent the bones of his skull from moving, and discovered that he had caused his breath to cease. He concluded that the movement of the bones of the skull, and the movement of the fluid in the sack that surrounds the brain under the bones, was somehow necessary to the movement of breath. Toward the close of the twentieth century, the osteopath Raymond Richard was able to state that in clinical observations, the outward rotation of the temporal bones of the skull (the bones at the ears) encouraged inhalation, while the inward rotation of the same bones encouraged exhalation. Sutherland's bandages apparently prevented his temporal bones from rotating outward, and cut off his breath.
Sutherland immobilized the bones of his skull, and with them the fluid sack attached to the underside of the bones; John Upledger tried to immobilize the same fluid sack with a pair of sutures, but unlike Sutherland, Upledger wasn't successful. All Upledger had to do was hold the sack still for a few minutes, but no matter what he did, the sack continued to move forward and backward with a force that he found impossible to restrain. Upledger could watch a set of monitors as he followed the movement of the sack, and he could see that the sack moved with a steady rhythm that didn't seem to be related to the beat of the heart, or the movement of breath; he later discovered that the flexion and extension of the sack was a function of changes in the volume of fluid contained in the sack, and that the changes in fluid volume were controlled by nerves along a joint at the top of the skull.
Yuanwu made the remarkable statement: "you should know that at the headtops of all buddhas and enlightened ones is a marvelous means for 'altering the bones' and changing one's very being." Yuanwu recognized that something at the crown of the skull could change the flexibility of the body, and he realized how unlikely such a thing would seem to those not already familiar with the experience.
The fluid that surrounds the brain and the spinal cord extends in the same sack through the spinal column to the sacrum, and because pressure in a closed fluid system changes throughout the system simultaneously, the changes in fluid volume that cause a rotation of the temporal bones simultaneously cause a flexion and extension of the spine and sacrum. Upledger discovered that he could sense the flexion and extension of bones along the centerline of the body, or sense the inward and outward rotation of bones along the periphery of the body, anywhere he laid his hands. He learned to use his hands to discover the places where the bones did not move with the changes in fluid volume, and to follow and encourage the flexion and extension of the bones in the places that did move to free places that did not.
Free movement of the bones that surround the spinal fluid sack is of particular concern at the places where the sack attaches to the bones; the sack attaches inside the skull, inside the forward portion of the upper part of the neck, inside the forward portion of the sacrum, and at the tailbone. The changes in spinal fluid volume inside the skull flex and extend the rear of the skull, the base of the skull, and a butterfly-shaped bone inside the front of the skull (the sphenoid); in the upper neck, the changes cause the spinal fluid sack to widen and narrow like a camera-lens shutter around the nerves of the spinal cord; and at the sacrum, the changes in volume pivot the sacrum on the wings of the pelvis, forward and back. The tailbone moves with the sacrum, although the angle of the tailbone and consequently the stretch exerted by the tailbone on the spinal fluid sack is affected by the ligaments and muscles of the pelvis.
The changes in spinal fluid volume cause flexion and extension of the spine as a whole, yet the changes also generate movement from side to side in the chest and around the spine in the neck, as the movement of the spine is translated into the different structural modalities of each section of the spine. Because of the way the vertebrae in the different sections of the spine interlock with one another, the lower spine moves primarily forward and backward; the chest vertebrae move primarily side to side; and the neck vertebrae combine both of the motions of the lower vertebrae with a turning motion around the centerline of the spine. The changes in spinal fluid volume cause some movement in all three sections of the spine, and the three kinds of movement are carried by the force of gravity down the spine to the sacrum and the pelvis.
Moshe Feldenkrais observed that people often hold their breath slightly when they get up out of a chair, and he saw the restriction of the movement of breath as a failure to realize proper support of the lower spine in standing. Feldenkrais taught three simple movements to help realize support for the lower spine while seated on a chair: first, he said, lean the upper body forward and backward; second, tip the upper body from side to side; and third, with the torso, neck and head held in a straight line, circle the top of the head around the base of the tailbone. The movements Feldenkrais described carry the three motions of the spine into the sacrum and the pelvis, and awaken the response of the muscles of the pelvis and legs to each of the motions. Feldenkrais advised his students to practice the three exercises he outlined until the movement of breath was completely natural in the action of standing.
Feldenkrais realized that the stoppage of breath was connected to shearing stress on the bottom-most vertebrae of the spine. The weight of the upper body exerts a force on the fourth and fifth vertebrae that presses them forward out of their natural curve toward the sacrum. A graceful movement in standing requires that awareness in the vicinity of the lower spine translate automatically into a generation of support for the integrity of the spine, and Feldenkrais realized that the generation of support was somehow facilitated when the responses of the lower body to the motions of the spine were first brought into consciousness.
To "die the noble death" in a manner that cuts off the breath is to cease to act out of concern for the self, until the cessation of activity touches on the involuntary support for the motion of the spine and the breath is cut off. To come back to life in such a circumstance is to discover that support for the movement of breath is already set in motion whenever consciousness takes place, by virtue of what is in awareness.
Upledger was able to sense the flexion and extension of the spine anywhere he laid his hands, and not only flexion and extension but all three movements of the spine can be felt whenever consciousness takes place. The sense of location in awareness as consciousness takes place is informed by the three motions of the spine, and at the same time the sense of location leads the balance of the body, and through the balance initiates a stretch in the ligaments of opposed muscles that support the spine. The stretch of the ligaments of opposed muscles triggers a phenomena called "reciprocal innervation", where the opposed muscles contract in alternation without conscious intervention. Because there are ligaments of opposed muscles that criss-cross the entire structure of the body, reciprocal innervation can ensue whenever consciousness takes place, as the balance of the body responds to the sense of location in awareness.
Upledger experienced the phenomena of reciprocal innervation personally, as he lay on the surface of a dense solution of salt water in an isolation chamber. When he felt his relaxation was complete, he noticed a slight motion from side to side in his pelvis and legs. From his medical training, he knew that the motion he felt was caused by reciprocal innervation: when the pelvis and legs moved to the left, ligaments on the right side of the torso were stretched, and nerve impulses generated by the ligaments caused muscles on the right to contract; the contraction on the right reversed the direction of movement and relieved the ligaments on the right, yet when the lower body crossed to the right the ligaments on the left began to stretch, until nerve impulses from the ligaments on the left caused the muscles on the left to contract. Upledger watched his lower body shift slowly from side to side as he relaxed completely.
Upledger utilized his understanding and the sensitivity of his hands to locate particular places in his patients' bodies that did not move freely with the changes in spinal fluid volume; he then followed and encouraged the flexion and extension of the body at the places that did move in order to release the places that did not. In the same way, attendance on the reciprocal innervation that occurs in response to the present sense of location in awareness can serve to open a movement somewhere else in the body, and gradually to open movement throughout the body. Awareness and reciprocal innervation can act to open the spaces between the bones and vertebrae for the nerves that exit from the sack around the brain and spinal cord; the nerves that exit from the sack through the skull, the spine, and the sacrum permit feeling throughout the body (a) , and the extension of feeling to the criss-cross of ligaments just below the skin brings the sense of location in awareness to focus as consiousness takes place.
To put oneself in a position that encourages reciprocal innervation in the major postural muscle groups, and to awaken feeling right to the skin and hair, is the basis for the practice. "Take the seat and don the rags", said Yuanwu; "then see what you see".
In Zen, the position used to encourage reciprocal innervation in the major postural muscle groups is the lotus pose. As conscious action in the lotus is abandoned in favor of awareness and relaxed innervation, the turning motion generated by the changes in spinal fluid volume in the head and neck is carried down through the chest, and the motion of the rib cage engages one of two pairs of ligaments at the base of the spine. As the breath is drawn in and the ribs move forward and upward, the action of the ribs stretches the fascia of the muscles that circle the abdomen, upward from attachments near the fourth vertebrae of the lower spine; the fourth vertebrae finds support in the stretch of ligaments that run vertically from the vertebrae down to the wings of the pelvis, on either side. As the breath is exhaled and the ribs move rearward and downward, the motion of the ribs is encouraged by the pull of the stretched fascia of the same muscles, downward to attachments near the fifth vertebrae; the fifth vertebrae finds support in the stretch of ligaments that run horizontally from the vertebrae to the rim of the pelvis, on either side (b) .
The stretch of the paired ligaments between the lower spine and the pelvis is the basis for a Sufi practice. In one of the "zikir" practices (the word translates literally as "remembrance"), the participants bow to the left, then straighten up while bending both knees; the practice continues with a bow to the right, and again the knees are bent as the body is straightened. The bowing and bending are continued with the recitation of prayer for a period of time, usually to the accompaniment of music. Such an exercise stretches the ligaments between the fourth vertebrae and the wings of the pelvis with each turn and bow, and stretches the ligaments between the fifth vertebrae and the wings of the pelvis each time the knees bend and the body straightens up.
The support on the left and right for the lower spine in inhalation and in exhalation changes the pivot of the sacrum on the wings of the pelvis slightly, and as the pivot changes, the motion of the sacrum stretches the ligaments that join the sacrum to the pelvis. The ligaments between the sacrum and the "sit-bones" of the pelvis stretch with the pivot of the sacrum, and the hamstring muscles along the rear surface of the thigh bones begin to alternate with the quadratus muscles along the front surface to generate a relaxed length in both sets of muscles, so that the weight of the body rests on the ground at the sit-bones (c) . The activity in the hamstring and quadratus muscles stretches the long ligament between the lower leg bone and the upper rim of the wing of the pelvis on either side of the body, and the left and right iliacus muscles are brought into play to balance the outward pull on each leg (d) . The motion set up in the legs and in the pelvis as the sit-bone ligaments are stretched tilts the pelvis at the hips from side to side, and that motion is carried upward from the pelvis into the spine through the paired ligaments at the fifth and fourth vertebrae.
The lever-arm of each leg from the sole of the foot is brought into play as the weight of the body rests on the sit-bones of the pelvis, and in the lotus posture the leverage at the soles of the feet returns to the pelvis in part through the ligaments associated with the "tailor's muscle": the sartorius muscle, the longest in the body, connects the lower leg bone with the top front of each pelvic wing (e) . With the slight alternate turns of the pelvis to center from the innervation of the sartorius muscles on either side, the ligaments that control the rotation of the pelvis left and right on the hips are stretched, and the ligaments and muscles that "hammock" the pelvis from the hips are engaged. In the lotus, the obturator and gemelli muscles that normally "hammock" or lift the pelvis on the hips tend instead to extend the upper thigh bones and turn the pelvis on the hips. The extension of the upper thigh bones stretches the ligaments of the piraformis muscles that rotate the sacrum and the lower spine into the paired ligaments of the fifth or fourth vertebrae (f) .
The pratice most often associated with Sufism is that of the "whirling dervishes", begun in the thirteenth century by the Muslim sage Rumi. The whirling of the dancers demonstrates the relationship between the occurrence of consciousness and the reciprocal innervation of the rotators of the pelvis and sacrum, and how that innervation allows support to be realized for the structure of the spine from the soles of the feet to the crown of the head.
Upledger established in experiments with monkeys that the forward-rearward alignment of the tailbone with the sacrum has a profound effect on the motion of the bones on either side of the skull above the temporal bones, the bones that adjoin the nerves that control the volume of spinal fluid. As the hips are extended by the "hammock" muscles of the pelvis, the forward-and-upward and rearward-and-downward pivot of the pelvis around the hips is facilitated, and activity in the vertical muscles of the abdomen attached to the pubic bones reciprocates with activity in the muscles that cross from the pubic bones to the tailbone to align the tailbone as the sacrum pivots (g) . The motion of the pelvis forward and upward adds to the stretch of the paired ligaments from the wings of the pelvis to the fourth vertebrae in inhalation, and the motion downward and rearward adds to the stretch of the paired ligaments to the fifth vertebrae in exhalation.
The three motions transmitted from the pelvis to the lower spine stretch the fine vertical, horizontal, and diagonal ligaments between the vertebrae of the spine, and the stretch of the ligaments generates action in the fine muscles of the lower spine. At the same time, the motion of the pelvis is transmitted vertically, horizontally, and diagonally from the pubic bones and the wings of the pelvis to the surface of the abdomen, and the stretch of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal ligaments that intersect along the front surface of the abdomen generates activity in the muscles that join there. The ligaments of the external and internal oblique muscles and of the transverse muscles of the abdomen are equally weighted in their connection to the rectus sheath at a point one or two inches below the navel; opposite the same point, the ligaments and fine muscles of the spine directly affect the alignment of the spine relative to the paired ligaments.
Given the rotation of the pelvis and the stretch of the paired ligaments in inhalation and exhalation, the placement of the little fingers against the lower abdomen in the posture of Zen provides a direct sense of the geometry of support for the lower spine initiated through reciprocal innervation. In particular, the placement of the fingers on the centerline of the abdomen provides a sense of the ligaments of the vertical muscles from the pubic bones upward; if the little fingers leave the abdomen, awareness of the forward and backward motion wherever consciousness takes place and relaxation of the activity of the body in awareness can restore the little fingers to the abdomen. Similarly, the placement of the little fingers provides a sense of the ligaments of horizontal muscles from the lower back around the sides of the abdomen; if the elbows lose their angle from the body, awareness of the side-to-side motion wherever consciousness takes place and relaxation of the activity of the body in awareness can restore the angle. Likewise, the placement of the little fingers against the abdomen provides a sense of the ligaments of diagonal muscles up from the wings of the pelvis; if the shoulders lose their roundedness, awareness of the turn left and right wherever consciousness takes place and relaxation of the activity of the body in awareness can help restore the round to the shoulders.
The feeling of the body as consciousness of the body takes place or the feeling of mind as consciousness of the mind takes place can condition the subsequent occurrence of consciousness. Attachment to a pleasant feeling, aversion to a painful feeling, or ignorance of the existence of a neutral feeling can predispose consciousness to occur with a particular sense of location. Without the lead in the balance of the body brought about by the spontaneous occurrence of consciousness, the reciprocal innervation that supports the spine in the movement of breath can be cut off. When the relationship between feeling, consciousness, and the movement of breath is observed, a sense of detachment in the experience of consciousness and feeling is realized, and the subsequent freedom of awareness restores the reciprocal innervation necessary to support the spine in the movement of breath.
Guatama the Buddha said that after he lectured his monks, he returned to "that first hallmark of concentration, always for such as I the constant repose", a statement that implied that whenever he spoke he did not have singularity of mind; Yuanwu wrote of a master who said, "for three decades, I did not enter into mundane thoughts, save only at mealtimes", words that imply that at mealtimes the master did not experience the concentration he knew the rest of the day. Nevertheless, the Buddha admonished his disciples to speak and offer his teaching when appropriate, rather than to remain silent; likewise, one of the early Zen masters in China revised the traditional meal schedule of the monks, so that even today there are three meals a day in monasteries in China and Japan rather than just one. The masters let go of all that they knew and all that they could do, as they ceased to act out of concern for the self.
To cease to act out of concern for the self can cut off the breath. The practice that Gautama the Buddha described as his own, both before and after enlightenment, placed the movement of inhalation and exhalation foremost in the realization of concentration:
- mindful breathe in, mindful breathe out;
- mindful of the long inhalation as long, breathe in, or mindful of the short inhalation as short, breathe in; mindful of the long exhalation as long, breathe out, or mindful of the short exhalation as short, breathe out;
- mindful of the whole body, breathe in; mindful of the whole body, breathe out;
- relaxing the activity of the body, breathe in; relaxing the activity of the body, breathe out;
- mindful of a feeling of ease in the body, breathe in; mindful of a feeling of ease in the body, breathe out;
- mindful of a feeling of absorption in the body, breathe in; mindful of a feeling of absorption in the body, breathe out;
- mindful of the activity of thought, breathe in; mindful of the activity of thought, breathe out;
- calming the activity of thought, breathe in; calming the activity of thought, breathe out;
- mindful of a particular thought, breathe in; mindful of a particular thought, breathe out;
- mindful of a feeling of joy in thought, breathe in; mindful of a feeling of joy in thought, breathe out;
- collecting the mind, breathe in; collecting the mind, breathe out;
- freeing the mind, breathe in; freeing the mind, breathe out;
- in the witness of the occurrence of consciousness and feeling, breathe in; in the witness of the occurrence of consciousness and feeling, breathe out;
- in the witness of detachment in consciousness and feeling, breathe in; in the witness of detachment in consciousness and feeling, breathe out;
- in the witness of the cessation of activity in consciousness and feeling, breathe in; in the witness of the cessation of activity in consciousness and feeling, breathe out;
- in the witness of the relinquishment of activity in consciousness and feeling, breathe in; in the witness of the relinquishment of activity in consciousness and feeling, breathe out.
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Letters and Notes:
- Waking Up
- Translations of Motion in the Lotus
- Shunryu Suzuki and the Zen of ordinary activity
- The Gospel of Mary and the Mesoamerican sacrum bone
- Zazen
- An Unauthorized and Incomplete Guide to Zazen
- Waking Up and Falling Asleep
- Kobun Chino Otogawa on Zazen (Remembering Kobun)
- Letting Go in Action: the Practice of Zazen
- Fuxi's Poem
- D. L. Bartilink, "No Special Effort", and the "Best of Ways"
- Dogen's Genjo Koan
- Shikantaza and Gautama the Buddha's "Pleasant Way of Living"
- Simultaneity of Things
- Turning to the Left, Turning to the Right, Following Up Behind
Notes on the Pali Canon Teachings
Making Sense of the Pali Sutta: the Wheel of the Sayings
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- Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teachings of Shunryu Suzuki (cuke.com)
- Gratefully Remembering Kobun sama (kobun-sama.org)
- Share Guide: An Interview with Dr. John Upledger
- "Sound and Noise", a video of Shunryu Suzuki (sfzc.org)
- "The Mesoamerican Sacrum Bone: Doorway to the Otherworld", Brian Stross (pdf)
- "The Forgotten Sense- Proprioception", David Brown(pdf)
- "The Vestibular Sense", David Brown(pdf)
- "OBE heautoscopy and autoscopic hallucination of neurological origin", Olaf Blanke & Christine Mohr (pdf)
- Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi, Teachings (Text) and Talks (Audio)
- Hardcore Zen (Brad Warner's blog)
- "The Wholeness Process", by Connirae Andreas (video)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vowed on Saturday that Syria will be held to account if it fails to live up to its promises to surrender chemical weapons as he faced questions about how a deal brokered by U.S. and Russian diplomats would be enforced.
In a statement, Obama said a framework deal was an important, concrete step toward getting Syria's chemical weapons under international control so they can ultimately be destroyed. The deal emerged from Geneva talks between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"While we have made important progress, much more work remains to be done," said Obama.
Obama has been bombarded with criticism for his handling of Syria and a muddled message. First, he took U.S. forces to the brink of a military strike over an August 21 poison gas attack in Syria that Washington blames on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He then asked Congress to authorize the strike, but less than a week later requested lawmakers hold off on a vote to allow diplomacy more time.
He now faces questions about how the Syrian diplomatic deal will be enforced. Senior administration officials said on Friday the United States will not insist that the use of military force be included among the consequences Syria would face in a U.N. Security Council resolution being negotiated, in order to avoid a Russian veto.
Obama, in his statement, insisted that the United States "remains prepared to act" should diplomatic efforts fail.
But Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who have sharply criticized Obama's handling of Syria, said the deal is meaningless unless backed up with the threat of military force.
"It requires a willful suspension of disbelief to see this agreement as anything other than the start of a diplomatic blind alley," they said.
But Nancy Pelosi, leader of the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives, disagreed. She said the agreement will allow for enforcement under the U.N. charter's Chapter 7, which covers the use of military force.
"The firm and united response agreed upon today to end Syria's deadly use of chemical weapons was only made possible by a clear and credible threat of the use of force by the United States," said Pelosi.
Obama said the United States will continue working with Russia, the United Kingdom, France, the United Nations and others to "ensure that this process is verifiable, and that there are consequences should the Assad regime not comply with the framework agreed today."
"In part because of the credible threat of U.S. military force, we now have the opportunity to achieve our objectives through diplomacy," he added.
U.S. forces were still positioned for possible military strikes on Syria.
"We haven't made any changes to our force posture to this point," Pentagon spokesman George Little said in a statement Saturday.
Obama, briefed on the results of the Geneva talks by his national security adviser, Susan Rice, said he had spoken to both Kerry and the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, who will lead U.S. efforts on the U.N. negotiations.
(Additional reporting by Phil Stewart; Editing by Doina Chiacu)


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So here is the latest social component for the upcoming Kung Fu Panda 2 movie, in true Dreamworks style, they've teamed up with Famous Interactive to create the Kung Fu Panda Facebook Parade, self noted as the most awesomest panda parade ever, and surely the biggest!
Using Facebook connect the Kung Fu Panda Facebook Parade pulls in each and every one of your friends profile pics to appear in the parade, along with the furious five. Once the parade is running, hovering your mouse over any person lets you take a photo that can be instantly shared on their wall, inviting them to join the parade. It's a cute idea that has plenty of potential!
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