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From the lecture series called Ramananda Samvad
Yesterday we heard how Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Raya Ramananda met together for the first time, and how they conversed with each other in a very humble mood. When they first met, and Sri Raya Ramananda was embraced by the Lord, Raya Ramananda uttered the Srimad-Bhagavatam verse that had been spoken previously by Nanda Maharaja to Gargacarya:
mahad-vicalanam nrnam
["My dear Lord, sometimes great saintly persons go to the homes of householders, although these householders are generally low-minded. When a saintly person visits their homes, one can understand that it is for no other purpose than to benefit the householders. (Caitanya-caritamrta Madhya-lila 8.40)
Great souls (mahat) travel here and there, and they meet with those in household (grhastha) life and who are entangled in the noose of their fruitive activities. Fixed in one place, householders have no opportunity to go here and there to meet with sadhus, and sadhus therefore, travel and meet with them. Nanda Maharaja said in a very humble mood, The consciousness of us householders is very low.
Brahmacaris, vanaprasthas and sannyasis go door to door and beg alms from householders. Householders give donations that support and nourish those in the renounced orders of life, and therefore, some Puranas conclude that the grhastha ashram is the best. If there were no grhasthas, where would the sadhus go? Where would the brahmacaris beg alms? Where would Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu stay when He travels?
It must be noted, however, that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu stayed with grhasthas who are like Nanda baba. He would accept alms only from very exemplary and saintly householders. As previously mentioned, Nanda Maharaja told Gargacarya, I know you do not come to the house of any householder for food or donations. The real reason you come is that we are fallen. You have come in order to bestow upon us the eternal benefit of spiritual well being. As Nanda Maharaja spoke in this very humble mood, Sri Raya Ramananda is speaking to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
The teaching here is that unless one feels oneself to be utterly insignificant, it is not possible to receive the mercy of the visiting Vaisnava.
Great souls have one-pointed faith, determination, enthusiasm and complete conviction in the service of Lord Krsna; and they want to distribute this to others. But who can receive such mercy? Only those who feel themselves to be utterly insignificant. Those who receive the mercy of Vaisnavas can become successful in their life and realize the service of the Lord. Without the mercy of Vaisnavas this is not possible, and therefore, their mercy is absolutely essential.
Why have I called you all here from all corners of the world? I have called you only for your benefit.
There is a parallel verse to this, which is also in Srimad-Bhagavatam. It was spoken by Yudisthira Maharaja to Mahatma Vidhura, who, after traveling on pilgrimage, came to Yudisthira Maharajas palace and gave him his association.
bhavad-vidha bhagavatas
[My Lord, devotees like your good self are verily holy places personified. Because you carry the Personality of Godhead within your heart, you turn all places into places of pilgrimage. (Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.13.10)
Yudisthira Maharaja said, Great Maha-bhagavata Vaisnavas like you are personally holy tirthas (sacred places of pilgrimage), but you are a moving tirtha. You travel and visit the holy places, to purify those places by your presence. On the excuse of taking bath in the many holy places, you purify them and bestow mercy upon the residents and villagers who live there.
You are svantah-sthena gadabhrta. The general meaning of the word gadabhrta is that personality who carries the club. Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, holds that club. In this connection, however, the confidential meaning of gada is not club, but flute. The person who always carries within his heart that very Syamasundara Sri Krsna who plays sweetly upon His flute is called a mahat or great soul.
In this verse it is stated, Not for any other reason but to give benefit to others. Is Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu mahat or Mahabhagavata? He is God Himself. If those who are sadhus travel here and there to bestow benefit upon others, and they are so powerful that they can inspire others in their Krsna consciousness, then what to speak of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead.
If you do not understand what I am saying, you can ask questions. This is an isthagosthi (meeting for the purpose of understanding).
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Raya Ramananda very sweetly spoke to each other, and sometime later a brahmana approached Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and extended an invitation for Him to take lunch in his house. Mahaprabhu accepted the invitation, took bath, and then went to the house of that brahmana. Then, in the evening, as he had arranged with Raya Ramananda, He went back to that solitary place and sat there waiting for him to come. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, yet He was waiting very eagerly for Raya Ramananda to come there.
This time Ramananda Raya did not come as before. He had previously come like a king surrounded by his entourage, but this time he wore only a simple dhoti and brought only one servant. Then, as soon as he arrived, he told the servant to sit at a distance. Alone, he sat down in the solitary place with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, so that they could converse about very confidential subjects.
prabhu kahe,--pada sloka sadhyera nirnaya
[Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ordered Ramananda Raya, Recite a verse from the revealed scriptures concerning the ultimate goal of life. Ramananda replied, If one executes the prescribed duties of his social position, he awakens his original Krsna consciousness. (Caitanya-caritamrta Madhya-lila 8.57)]
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu at once asked Sri Raya Ramananda, O Ramananda Raya, please quote a verse from sastra which defines sadhya, the goal of life. Here, Sriman Mahaprabhu and Ramananda Raya are setting an example: when sadhus meet together they dont speak about mundane subjects. If we go and meet with a sadhu at any time, we should not bring up any mundane topics. If sadhus meet you they will ask, How is your bhajana? not, How is your material life? Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu thus posed this question: Please quote a verse from sastra which defines sadhya, the goal of life.
The word sadhya means objective in life, and the practice by which we can obtain the objective we have selected is called sadhana. So sadhya is that which can be attained by sadhana, and sadhana is that by which one can attain the sadhya, or particular objective.
There are many types of objectives, and corresponding to the many types of objectives there are many types of processes to achieve them. All types of sadhana or practices do not lead to the same objective, and all types of objectives do not have the same process for attaining them. The goal of life for all living entities is a transcendental subject matter. Therefore, the conditioned soul cannot ascertain either the goal or the method to attain it. It is quite impossible.
As stated in Mahabharata: Acintya kalaye bhava na tansta te nato jayet that which is transcendental and inconceivable cannot be ascertained by argument.
Every transcendental subject has a common symptom, and the common symptom is that it is acintya, completely inconceivable. The material mind cannot think about it. It is therefore inappropriate to apply ones intelligence and power of material discrimination to ascertain anything transcendental.
In the scripture known as the Rg Veda, four types of purusartha (objectives) have been mentioned, namely dharma, artha, kama, and moksa. Dharma is the performance of prescribed duties recommended by the Vedic scriptures. Specifically, this comes in the form of observing the rules and regulations of varna and asrama (the social and spiritual orders). If one follows dharma carefully, the result is that he will get artha. Artha means economic development, security in this world, many servants and followers, etc. When one acquires economic prosperity, he can go to the next objective, kama. One who is materially successful can try to fulfill his material desires (kama). The fourth objective is called moksa, or liberation. Dharma, artha and kama are not actually goals of life, because those who attain these goals do not find happiness. Rather, they simply suffer.
Purnam api janana, purnam api marana. Again and again they take birth in this material world and rotate in the endless cycle of birth and death. Without exception, all living entities in this world are unhappy. Human beings, animals and other species are all unhappy. They dont know how to find happiness. They dont know the path to become free from suffering. All their activities simply result in pain, and if they get any happiness, it is mixed with suffering. The result of that happiness is more suffering. This is the condition of the living entities in this world. Liberation or mukti has been defined as, adyanta dukha nivrtti, the complete and absolute cessation of all types of suffering.
One type of mukti is called sayujya-mukti. This means that the atma will merge or enter into the impersonal effulgence (nirvesesa brahma) of the Lord, which has no qualities, no attributes, no shape, no form and no personality. In this condition there is complete cessation of all suffering, and also all happiness that is beyond material nature. So this mukti is one type of goal of life, but it cannot be called parama-purusartha, the supreme goal of life. Dharma, artha, and kama are not goals of life. Moksa may be called so, but it cannot be called the supreme goal.
Devotional service is rasa-svarupa, the embodiment of all ecstatic transcendental mellows. By constitution the living entity is a servant of Sri Krsna, and therefore the happiness he experiences in this service is directly related to his constitutional position. The happiness which is directly related and natural to the constitution of the living entity is called bhagavata-seva, service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
In this there are two principles. First of all, there is a particular type of relationship between the object of service, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and His servant. Secondly there is a very intense desire to give happiness to the Supreme Lord by rendering Him service. This has been defined by Srila Rupa Gosvami:
anyavilasa sita sunyam jnana karmady anavrtam
The continuous, unbroken cultivation of all endeavors of the body, mind, words and loving feelings of the heart, under the guidance of the self-realized guru, which is meant exclusively for both the happiness and benefit of Sri Krsna, which is completely untouched by even the slightest smell of any type of other external desire, and which is not covered by karma, jnana or yoga. This is called uttama-bhakti. This uttama bhakti is rasa-mayi; it is full of ecstatic mellows. This is the real transcendental happiness, and this is the supreme goal of objectives of life (parama-purusartha).
atmaramas ca munayo
[I am different varieties of atmaramas [those who take pleasure in atma, or spirit self], especially those established on the path of self-realization, though freed from all kinds of material bondage, desire to render unalloyed devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead. This means that the Lord possesses transcendental qualities and therefore can attract everyone, including liberated souls. (Srimad Bhagavatam 1.7.10)]
Those who are self-satisfied (atmarama) dont need anything in this world. They are self-satisfied. They are liberated from the clutches of the material energy and are situated on the platform of eternity. They become astonished when they hear about the wonderful, transcendental qualities of Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When they hear about His astonishing characteristics, an intense greed awakens in their hearts to serve Him. When self-satisfied personalities like Srila Sukadeva Gosvami and the four Kumaras Sanaka, Sananda, Sanatana and Sanat Kumara hear about Sri Krsna, intense greed to serve Him awakens in their hearts.
Liberated personalities want bhakti, and therefore, bhakti is the supreme goal for them. Those who are already liberated can become attracted to devotional service and understand that it is far higher than liberation, whereas those who are conditioned in this world cannot. Therefore, ascertainment of the goal of life is impossible for conditioned souls. It is for this understanding that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said to Ramananda Raya, Please quote a verse from the sastra which defines the goal of life. Sastra is authority, sastra gives perfect knowledge.
Lord Krsna stated in Bhagavad-gita (16.23):
yah sastra vidhim utsrjya
[He who discards scriptural injunctions and acts according to his own whims attains neither perfection, nor happiness, nor the supreme destination.]
Those who dont accept the conclusions of sastra, and therefore dont follow it in their lives, cannot have happiness or success in their life. Therefore, one should accept the conclusions of sastra with regard to understanding the goal of life and the method to attain it. If one does not follow sastra, one is bound to follow his mundane, contaminated, material intelligence. Material intelligence will mislead him and his life will be ruined. He will not be able to discover any happiness. Therefore, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said to Ramananda Raya, Please quote the scriptures to support your presentation of the goal of life.
There are many different types of scriptures: Veda, Vedanta, Upanisad, Purana, Srimad Bhagavatam and others. Among all of the different types of scriptures, Srimad Bhagavatam is best. Srimad Bhagavatam pramanam amalam. It is immaculate evidence regarding the ultimate goal of life.
In the beginning of their conversation, when Caitanya Mahaprabhu was posing these questions, Raya Ramananda quoted from various scriptures such as Visnu Purana and Bhagavad Gita. Each time, however, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu replied, This is external; tell Me something more. It wasnt until Sri Ramananda Raya began to quote from Srimad Bhagavatam that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu began to be satisfied with his answers. This acceptance by Mahaprabhu is also evidence that the Srimad Bhagavatam is the crest jewel of all scriptural evidence.
We see that in the impersonal light of brahman there is complete and absolute cessation of all suffering. There is some happiness; this is true. But in this type of liberation there is some obstacle, some impediment, to progress. If one wants to attain this as a goal of life, one will have to adopt the conception that everything is one. By adopting the conception that everything is one, the mood of service is completely destroyed. This is a very critical obstacle. Only service to Sri Krsna can give the highest happiness. In uttama-bhakti, which is the embodiment of all happiness (rasa-svarupa), two principles are presented: the relationship between the object of service and the servant is the first, and the second is the desire to render service. These are the two prominent ingredients of rasa-mayi bhakti.
Leaving sayujya-mukti or impersonal liberation aside, there are other types of mukti: salokya, sarsti, samipya and svarupya, to reside on the same planet as the Supreme Lord, to have opulences like the Supreme Lord, to reside close to the Supreme Lord, and to have a form that is similar to the associates of the Supreme Lord. These are related to service to Sri Narayana in Vaikuntha. In these four types of liberation there is a relationship between the object of service and the servant. Here, Lord Sri Narayana is the object of service and Laksmi devi, Narada Rsi of Vaikuntha, Garuda and others are all His servants. The conception of service is present, but there is also some obstacle. Those who desire this type of liberation have some desire for their own happiness, (svasukha). Here we see that all suffering is gone and there is happiness, but something is missing. The desire to render service is contracted, restricted, and confined. It cannot totally flourish and mature.
Pure devotional service is exclusively for the happiness and welfare of Sri Krsna. For those who have one-pointed desire to give happiness to Sri Krsna, their own happiness is automatic. Their happiness lies in the happiness of Krsna, and therefore their desire to serve is intense and exclusive. It is not contracted or restricted by any desire for personal happiness or separate desires.
Therefore the goal of life of the four types of liberation is also not the supreme goal of life. Srimad Bhagavatam says in its second verse mangalacaranam (invocation):
dharma projjhita-kaitavo tra paramo nirmatsaranam satam
[Completely rejecting all religious activities which are materially motivated, this Bhagavata Purana propounds the highest truth, which is understandable by those devotees who are fully pure in heart. The highest truth is reality distinguished from illusion for the welfare of all. Such truth uproots the threefold miseries. This beautiful Bhagavatam, compiled by the great sage Vyasadeva (in his maturity), is sufficient in itself for God realization. What is the need of any other scripture? As soon as one attentively and submissively hears the message of Bhagavatam, by this culture of knowledge the Supreme Lord is established within his heart.]
This Srimad Bhagavatam unequivocally kicks out all types of cheating religion; that is, any religious or so-called spiritual practices which are contaminated by material or self-centered motivation. Any activity or mentality with any selfish motivation has been rejected by Srimad Bhagavatam.
The conclusion is that above the four types of liberation in Vaikuntha there lies Goloka Vrndavana. In Goloka Vrndavana, all the residents service is exclusively for the happiness of Krsna. This is their highest happiness, and this is pure and transcendental to the utmost degree. For this reason, prema, love for Lord Sri Krsna in Goloka Vrndavana, is the supreme objective of all living entities. *[see endnote] Srila Baladeva Vidyabusana explains in his commentary of Vedanta Sutra: Muktanam api lilaya vigraham krtva bhagavtam bhajante. Those who are liberated from this world meditate internally upon their own constitutional form (siddha-deha) their spiritual body.Externally living in this world, they meditate internally on their spiritual form, and by their spiritual form they render service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Gaura Premanande!
* endnote - The supreme objective of all living entities is pure and transcendental to the utmost degree. Thus whatever objective one desires to attain in Vaikuntha, really it is completely present and included already in Goloka Vrndavana.
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This article appeared in the May 1, 2010 issue of the Houston Dynamo Gameday Magazine.
Brian Mullan doesn't do interviews.
[inline_node:3857]He doesn't take curtain calls or play to the crowd. He doesn't pose for magazine covers or coif his hair or worry about his five o'clock shadow. He doesn't even like sports.
Most importantly to his teammates, he doesn't take a play off.
"He's the kind of teammate I want," says midfielder Richard Mulrooney, now in his eighth season playing with Mullan, including two in college. "He doesn't take days off. He's going 100 percent, whether it's small-sided stuff, a crossing-and-finishing exercise, or a game. I'd take that any day of the week over more tactical players that take days off."
Over the years, Mullan's work ethic and tenacity have stood out even on a team built on competitive, hard-working players.
"Off the field, he's the least competitive human being I've ever met," Dynamo goalkeeper Pat Onstad says. "On the field, he's probably the most competitive player in the league. … That boosts everybody on the field. Certainly on those days when we're not playing well, you look to Brian and you see him working his backside off, and I think that makes all the difference in the world."
Mullan has been a mainstay on the right side of the team's midfield – although he has made cameos at right back and at forward in a pinch – since arriving in San Jose from the Los Angeles Galaxy prior to the 2003 season. He is the Dynamo's all-time leader in games and ranks second in starts and minutes, trailing only Onstad. He is a virtually ubiquitous presence in the starting lineup and a virtually invisible presence in the media.
"That goes back to his rookie season," says Mullan's 'translator,' veteran defender Craig Waibel. "He finished a television interview with the word, 'Maybe' with a question mark after it when they asked him about his performance. I forget what kind of rambling and mumbling went on before it, but the actual answer ended with 'Maybe?' and since then he's been a little intimidated of reporters."
It seems that all Mullan needs to be happy is wife Kersten, sons Brady and Keagan, a lunch date with one of his long-time teammates, and a chance to destroy some unsuspecting left back with an ankle-breaking cut at least once per week.
"There's a side of him that's fiery, because he hates to lose and he's so competitive," Mulrooney says. "But then off the field, he's visiting the hospital, caring for his two kids, doing things for his family – he just likes to separate it more than some people. If he had a choice of watching Sesame Street with his kids or the Champions League final, he's picking Sesame Street."
He has been an essential part of the Earthquakes/Dynamo's stability, forming lasting partnerships with Onstad, Wade Barrett, Brian Ching, and Eddie Robinson (since 2003), Mulrooney (the two played together at Creighton University), and, of course, Waibel (they are in their 10th consecutive season as teammates).
"I can kind of blindly pass the ball wherever I think he's going to be, and nine times out of 10, he's there," Waibel says of the duo's partnership on the right side of the field. "Brian's made it really easy to be a right back, because he possesses so much ability going forward and attacking outside backs and outside midfielders that it frees up the outside back."
Mullan's speed, work rate, and tenacity are often cited as defining characteristics on the field, where he is repeatedly described as an "honest" player by head coach Dominic Kinnear and praised for his consistency and endurance. He has played at least 1,900 MLS minutes in each of the last seven years and has played at least 37 games in all competitions for the Dynamo every year since their arrival.
Rarely flashy, Mullan has been known to twist defenders with a patented inside-out move that usually takes him toward the end line before delivering a cross. He has also delivered some memorable goals, including a sliding volley that clinched the 2006 Western Conference final against Colorado – still cited by Kinnear, Barrett, and others as one of their favorite moments in team history – a top-corner finish at Pachuca in 2007, and a ridiculous
fake to get Nick Rimando out of position before slotting home in 2008.
Perhaps the moments that speak the most to his competitiveness, however, came in MLS Cup triumphs in 2003 and 2006. When Chicago in 2003 and New England in 2006 scored crucial goals, Mullan was part of his team's immediate response, setting up Mulrooney in '03 and Brian Ching in '06 for crucial tallies that led to victory. If any player epitomizes the group's collective never-say die resolve, it is probably Mullan.
"That doesn't surprise any of us, because he does it in practice as well," Mulrooney said. "He gets angry about being scored upon. It's like someone stuck him in the side with a knife – it upsets him that much. So if he can change it as quick as possible, that's what he wants to do."
So it is fitting that as he celebrated his 32nd birthday (April 23) and became the first field player to reach 150 career starts for the Dynamo (last Saturday), he remains an integral part of Houston's locker room, contributing with well-timed one liners and sarcastic wit.
"He's a rock-thrower; a bit of a fence-sitter," Waibel said. "He'll sit on top of the fence and wait to see which side he's going to get more laughs on, and then he'll throw rocks from that side of the fence, so he's entertaining."
Entertaining to joke with off the field and to watch play on it. Just don't expect him to answer questions with a microphone in his face. That's not Brian Mullan. And his teammates wouldn't have it any other way.
"What I appreciate about him is he's never changed – from the time we came into the league, when we barely used the internet and only a few guys had cell phones," Mulrooney said. "He is fully focused on his job at hand. When he steps on the field, he's ready. He's not worrying about if his neon blue shoes came in. I wouldn't trade him for any other right midfielder in the league, because he doesn't draw attention to himself except by his play, and that's the way the game should be played."


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Out of the 30+ who were in the class, 16 were able to attend. They include: (back row left to right) Alan (Al) Nugent, Mark Lyman, Martin Sipe, Don Brown, Harold Hurst, Terry Hawkins, Patrick (Rick) Murray, Joe James, Ernest Lisonbee. Front: Dorthea Laws Davis, Barbara Brewster Montella, Trudy Burtenshaw Cox, Linda Shumway Young, Lurlene Palmer Gutke, Yvonne Tatro Cox and Lorraine Hunt James.
It was a great evening with Al Nugent as the MC.
Those who were absent from the reunion are Howard Shumway, Scott Bayles, Marilyn Watkins Smith, Sonja Shumway Hardman, Bob Certonio, Gretchen Redd Bray, Kenneth Latham, Linda Tregallas Moren, Barbara Hensley Black, Loretta Hunt Powell, Ann Kuykendall Poulsen, Bill Davis, Bill James, Barbara Hall Pehrson.
Deceased classmates are Kristine Carroll (married name unknown), Josephine Dutchie, Sandra Laws Jackson, John Sheridan, Janice Tyler, Wayne Pierce, Anna Marie Ketchum, and Betty May. Unknown as to their status are: Don Clugston, Bill Rhodes, Shirley Shannon Lamb, and Bill Wolf.
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If you are looking for a very memorable family entertainment event, consider taking them to see a spectacular show at Medieval Times in Buena Park. My kids were spellbound and are still talking about it.
I wanted to start by commenting on the atmosphere when we arrived at the castle. They do an amazing job of making you feel like you just stepped into a 5th-century castle. This is achieved by the dress and demeanor of their employees/cast members and the beautifully designed displays.
After being checked in we were assigned to a knight that we were to cheer for. This allegiance is established by the issuance of crowns that match the colors of our knight. We were given black and white, which made my sons day because his favorite "color" is black. Then we were seated in that knights cheering section.
Soon after being seated the show starts with the introduction of the king and the princess who preside over the show. First,the king has his horse trainer display the amazing skill of the horses he has trained and we are given a brief education about their upbringing.
Then the knights come out to compete in one exciting battle after another. All start with the joust followed by hand to hand combat with weapons including; swords, spears, maces, and axes. One by one, the knights are eliminated until a champion is awarded.
We learned that all Knights begin their training as Squires - just as they did in the Middle Ages - learning horse care, sword fighting, and weaponry. It takes a minimum of six months of training to become a Knight. They perform with real metal weapons and wear authentic armor. During battle scenes, real titanium swords create sparks and every shield must be repainted after every show.
When jousting, the Knights charge at speeds of approximately 15 to 20 miles per hour and reach an impact velocity speed of about 30 to 40 miles per hour. Each year, 25 foals are born at Chapel Creek Ranch, where they spend two years training and then the horses enjoy retirement at the ranch after 15 to 20 years of performing. Medieval Times is the #1 breeder of pure Spanish horses in North America. You can get more information about the Medieval Times horses here.
At Medieval Times, 125,000 gallons of soup are served each year and 400,000 gallons of Pepsi are consumed.
At this point in the show, a menacing rider from a neighboring kingdom interrupts with a challenge that must be resolved. The only way that is fitting for such a venue is knight against knight. I won't tell you what happens because I don't want to spoil it for you but it is all very exciting.
During the show, the standard fare is served including tomato bisque, bread, chicken, corn, and a beverage of your choice. The food was great and well received by both of my kids. My daughter couldn't get enough of the half chicken that she got to devour with her hands! Desert is a tasty pound cake and if you want you can have a cup of coffee.
We really had a memorable time. Now is the perfect time to attend while they are running this great promotion:
Adults $36.95 and children (12 and under) $29.95 with the code MT3629 through 2/28/17. Go here to get your tickets.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Fast/Slow Sculpture
Several years ago, I was walking up Folger Avenue towards San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley. The University of California owns a building that sits between Folger and 67 St. on San Pablo Avenue, or at least they did. They've been trying to sell it recently, and I'm not current on its status, but they still occupy a lot of it. The building itself is huge, and, as I understand it, actually straddles the boundaries of not just Berkeley and Oakland, but also Emeryville.
I was headed toward the offices of a non-profit that I was involved with at the time (that backstory is 'way too complicated), but my path took me by the U.C. Berkeley surplus and overstock sales area, at 1000 Folger St., where they have auctions every Tuesday and Thursday. So there are often people loading stuff into trucks, vans, and whatever, starting at about 9 A.M. on those two days each week. There's a lot of old surplus computer stuff that gets sold that way.
I was carrying a briefcase, which isn't important to the story, but it's part of the "sense memory." I was passing by a guy who was loading a lot of surplus computer stuff into a panel truck, just as the pile of stuff he'd loaded shifted and began to topple towards him.
The wall of electronics included a lot of monitors. Imploding CRTs and glass everywhere: not so good. I stepped in and put my shoulder in an appropriate spot and halted the avalanche. I looked at the guy, who had an interesting combination of gratitude and terror on his face. I realized that he had no idea what to do next, as we were both holding up a wall of computer monitors that was trying to fall.
Okay, here's where I get to brag a little. There's a cluster of mental aptitudes that gets called things like "3-D visualization" and "geometrical intuition" and like that. I am nearly off the charts in this particular cluster of aptitudes. I can pack a car trunk or a suitcase like you wouldn't believe, and I would have made a very good mechanical engineer.
So I shifted my body to where I was doing almost all of the job of keeping the stuff from falling, and I began giving him directions. Move that one over there. Now take that one down and put it one the ground. Now that one, no not that one, the other one. And so forth. We deconstructed the unstable pile in fairly short order, then I began helping him put the stuff back into a better arrangement, one that wouldn't shift when the drove the truck to wherever he was going.The whole adventure only took maybe ten minutes.
At the end of it, the guy thanked me profusely, I smiled and said, "You're welcome. It was actually kinda fun," and I headed up Folger once more. Spring in my step? Probably.
The idea of altruism is considered to be problematic in evolutionary biology, economics, psychology, and moral philosophy. It obviously exists, yet these disciplines don't feel that they adequately explain it. It may be noted that each of them also has its own special definition of what "altruism" is, one that excludes a lot of behavior that is normally called altruistic.
Part of this nomenclature problem stems from trying to exclude actions that benefit both others and one's own self, with the notion of what constitutes "one's own self" being the real slippery one here. Take my little adventure described above. Let me describe the ways I benefited from it.
There are many things that can ruin a morning, bad traffic, being awakened by a wrong number half an hour before it's time to get up, seeing a dead dog in the road, or watching a tower of computer monitors come crashing down. That would have been quite unpleasant, even if no one wound up injured, and there was a real possibility of that happening.
Moreover, I got to show off a competency, not only at the time, but in the later telling of the tale.
There is also a very abstract pleasure that comes from making sculpture, and that was what I was doing, taking apart a defective sculpture and replacing it with one that was both aesthetically pleasing (to me, anyway) and utilitarian as well. And the sculpture, taken in the larger sense, was kinetic, deconstruction, reconfiguration, then the later driving and final disassembly. I didn't get to witness the last part, but I'm pretty sure it turned out all right.
Also, the guy thanked me, which is a form of applause, validation, and better than a dead catfish under the driver's seat.
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The idea of altruism is considered to be problematic in evolutionary biology, economics, psychology, and moral philosophy.
Greed is certainly a more reliable impulse, approaching the status of reflex for most of us in most of our activities. Altruistic behavior garners suspicion because we can't identify the motivations, don't see the immediate profit, the angle. Last presidential election a friend convinced himself that Kerry intentionally got wounded in 'Nam to further political aspirations. The friend just could not imagine that an idealistic young man might put himself in harm's way because he actually believed the official narrative.
- June 4, 2008 at 4:57 PM
- James Killus said...
I suspect that your friend's levels of rationalization were more complex even than that. He "knew" he didn't like Kerry; after all, Kerry was a spoiled, rich, snooty, what-have-you. Once you know the answer, working out the reasons is easy, and they don't have to be good reasons, either. Knock down one rationalization and there are ten others standing behind it.
- June 4, 2008 at 6:05 PM
- Arnaud said...
Interesting coincidence: I came across The Last Psychiatrist for the first time yesterday and s/he had written a post about precisely that mechanism, giving George W Bush as an example instead of Kerry. He calls it "splitting" and goes from there to make some surprising predictions about American society in the years to come. Article is here.
You may not agree with everything he has to say (I certainly don't), James or BDB, but I strongly suspect you'll find it worth a read!
- June 5, 2008 at 2:25 AM
Read-worthy indeed! Helpful vocabulary for us civilian psychiatrists.
Yeah, my Kerry-skeptic buddy was rationalizing and I suspect his decision was made years earlier, long before Lt. Bush and Lt. Kerry squared off. The important part of the our exchange that I failed to mention is that my friend seemed genuinely confused when I mentioned altruism. It's not anything our culture spends any time on anymore.
- June 5, 2008 at 9:06 AM
- James Killus said...
Thanks, Arnaud, that is one very fine article. I've been sounding the narcissist alarm here (and elsewhere) for quite a while, though I also toss in anti-social, histrionic, and borderline personality disorders pretty frequently. I consider Bush to be a narcissist with strong sado-masochistic and anti-social tendencies, so, hmmm, does this mean that I think he's "bad?"
And I've already made most of the predictions that The Last Psychiatrist speaks of, so there's at least two of us thinking along those lines.
As for altruism in the social sciences, there was a time only a decade or two ago when "group selection" was routinely derided in evolutionary biology. Now it's fairly uncontroversial. I'd like to think that we're getting better at this stuff, but sometimes I think we're locked in a limit cycle.
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WHAT A difference a decade has made in the fertilizer industry. U.S. production declined sharply in the middle of the 2000s, with several facilities being mothballed. One example: Phosphate rock production saw a 30% decline in U.S. production from its peak in 1996. Although the sharp increase in product prices in 2008 drew some investment dollars back into U.S. facilities, production has not returned to decade-ago levels.
Production capabilities have developed in other parts of the world, making North American producers work harder to remain competitive. China, for example, has transitioned from being a big net importer to a large net exporter of phosphate fertilizer. The U.S. industry bore the brunt of this development because it had supplied about 95% of China's phosphate imports just a little more than a decade ago.
Fertilizer wars
Becoming a bigger fish in the global fertilizer market is clearly the goal of several North America manufacturers, as evidenced by this past year's takeover saga involving CF Industries, Terra Industries, and Agrium Inc. Although numerous stock offers and much legal maneuvering have stretched each of these two battles for more than a year, no resolution has come to either — yet.
In January 2009, Illinois-based CF Industries made its first of many offers to buy Terra, the Iowa nitrogen manufacturer. But Terra's answer then and to successive offers was "no." This fall CF even managed to get three of its own candidates elected to the Terra board of directors. In December, Terra rejected CF's eighth offer.
Some analysts expect the negotiations may continue, but in a less public manor. In an odd twist in late 2009, CF reduced its holding of Terra stock from 7% to just below 5% so that the company no longer has to publicly disclose any contact with Terra.
Yara, the world's largest fertilizer manufacturer, based in Norway, also has been considered as a possible bidder for Terra, but late last year, the company's CEO, Joergen Ole Haslestad, was quoted by Reuters as saying that, while the company had considered it, "we had no interest in being in a bidding war in the U.S."
In February of 2009, five weeks after CF made its first offer to buy Terra, Calgary-based Agrium made a play for CF, offering to buy all CF capital stock for $72 a share in cash and Agrium stock. The CF board rejected the offer. In June, CF shareholders tendered 62% of the outstanding shares in favor of a second Agrium offer. But CF management has continued to reject all offers. Agrium's next strategy appears to be nominating a slate of directors to stand for election to CF's board at its 2010 annual meeting.
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The fact that no deal has been made in either of these takeover attempts is probably a reflection of the lingering conservatism of investors after the 2008 economic fallout, says Roger Ginder, Iowa State University agricultural economist. "Shareholders will need a compelling reason to support these deals, and they may not think consolidation is in their long-term best interests," he says.
He concedes, however, that the broader, global focus that the industry has taken in recent years has put more emphasis on fertilizer as a commodity. "With that change comes greater price volatility and market risk, all along the supply chain," he says.
"Changing attitudes about how and when dealers and farmers buy product is probably more significant than potential manufacturer consolidations," says Jeff Greseth, director of sales, Crop Nutrients, for CHS. "It's already necessary to buy product from other parts of the world. The bigger challenge is at the retail level — workng with dealers who are no longer willing to take big positions in the market before having the sales, and growers who are still hesitant to make buying commitments farther out."


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How an Ind. farmer's 'cheap' soybean seeds grew into showdown with agribusiness giant
What started with an Indiana farmer's purchase of soybean seeds from a local grain elevator has become the heart of a legal war with an agribusiness behemoth with a potentially large impact on agriculture and the biotechnology industry.
At the heart of the case that will be argued before the Supreme Court on Tuesday is this question: Can a biotech corporation restrict a farmer's use of seeds sprung from its genetically modified plants?
The farmer, Vernon Bowman, 75, is going nose to nose with Monsanto Co. over the planting of soybean seeds at the 300-acre Sandborn, Ind., farm he inherited from his father.
Bowman contends he did nothing wrong. "Farmers, all of my life, have been able to go to an elevator and buy outbound grain and turn it into the seed if they wanted to," he said in an interview.
St. Louis-based Monsanto doesn't see it that way. Because the seeds were the progeny of soybean plants that had been genetically modified to resist Monsanto's glyphosate herbicide Roundup Ready, the company contends, the seeds contained the company's patented technology.
And because Bowman had previously used first-generation Roundup Ready seeds, Monsanto said, he violated the company's patents and license agreement. The company sued Bowman in 2007 and, as it usually does in such suits, won an $85,000 settlement.
But Bowman wouldn't quit. "I was just determined that I wouldn't let them run over me," he said. "That's where we are at today."
Bowman v. Monsanto is being portrayed as a David versus Goliath showdown by farmers angry about the control exerted by pesticide and seed giants over their products. And many experts say what happens in the case could significantly affect biotechnology and other industries where companies maintain tight grips on technologies that reproduce themselves.
"The notion of self-replicating technologies is a very big-ticket question both for Monsanto -- because they make seed, which grow into plants and make more seeds -- but it also applies to other areas of technology, such as software, nanotechnology," said Jacob Sherkow, a Stanford Law School fellow who specializes in patent law. "If the court were to take a broad tack, it could have huge effects on downstream technologies."
From 1999 to 2007, Bowman purchased Roundup Ready soybean seeds from a Monsanto-authorized dealer. Those transactions included a Monsanto license agreement that said customers can use the seeds only once -- they cannot save them, plant their offspring or sell them. They can, however, sell them to grain elevators, where they are typically used for animal feed.
In an effort to save money for his second growing of the season, which is typically riskier and less successful, Bowman bought the commodity seed from the elevator and planted it. It saved him about $30,000.
"I wanted a cheap source of seed for my double crop," Bowman said.
Bowman told Monsanto about the seeds. In frequent correspondence with the company, he asked whether he was doing anything wrong by planting grain elevator seed. It appears Bowman never got the all-clear from Monsanto.
Bowman's attorney, Mark Walters of Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP in Seattle, said grain elevator seeds are distinctly different from Roundup Ready seeds. They are a hodgepodge of what's been sold to the elevator, he said, and only rarely do farmers plant them as Bowman did.
"This grain elevator seed does not compete directly with Mosanto's first-generation seed," he said.
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In October 2007, Monsanto sued Bowman for planting the second-generation seed, arguing he willfully infringed on the company's patents.
Specifically, the company said Bowman was violating a license agreement beccause of his lawful purchases of Roundup Ready seeds. Monsanto contends that the license is necessary because the technology replicates itself.
"Without reasonable license restrictions prohibiting the replanting of second- and later-generation soybeans, Monsanto's ability to protect its patented technology would effectively be lost as soon as the first generation of the product was introduced into the market," Monsanto attorney and former U.S. Solicitor General Seth Waxman wrote in briefs to the Supreme Court.
The company also argues that if Bowman wins, farmers' ability to plant second-generation seeds would make them a competitor in the seed market. Monsanto noted that "there was no doubt that Bowman hoped and expected that the soybeans he purchased from the grain elevator would be resistant to glyphosate."
Monsanto won in a lower court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which handles patent issues, agreed. The appellate court held that Bowman was reproducing Monsanto's technology and rejected Bowman's arguments that the company's patents were "exhausted" after the original purchased seeds were used. The court, consequently, carved out an exemption to a so-called doctrine of patent exhaustion for self-replicating technologies.
That exemption -- and the security it provides -- strikes at the core of biotechnology, according to Monsanto and several farming and intellectual property groups that intervened on its behalf.
"Without adequate intellectual property protection, the seed industry will lack sufficient incentive to develop improved genetic traits for field crops," the American Soybean Association said in its brief. "Patent protection for new seed technologies is vital for advancements in biotechnology."
The Obama administration urged the court not to hear the case, which would let the appeals court ruling stand.
But the Center for Food Safety and other watchdog groups dispute Monsanto's claims, arguing that first-generation patents provide plenty of legal protection. Moreover, they say that instead of prosecuting Bowman and other farmers, Monsanto could easily require that grain elevators restrict planting commodity grain.
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Bowman appears to be facing an uphill fight in taking on Monsanto. Through January, the company had filed 144 lawsuits involving more than 410 farmers in at least 27 states, according to the Center for Food Safety. It has won all the cases that went to trial.
Monsanto has also faced countless lawsuits brought by farmers like Bowman. It has also won nearly all of those.
"The case is a microcosm of this larger problem," said George Kimbrell, a senior attorney at the Center for Food Safety, which has intervened on Bowman's behalf. "Mr. Bowman represents prior farmers who have brought similar cases in the past and lost."
But legal observers suggest Bowman may have a better chance at the Supreme Court because the high court hasn't weighed in on the specific issues presented in the case, namely patent exhaustion for self-replicating technologies.
Stanford Law's Sherkow said the justices typically steer clear of often complicated patent cases. In this instance, they will likely grapple with the lower court's definition of a doctrine of patent exhaustion and whether it applies to Monsanto's licenses.
"When is a sale really a sale?" Sherkow asked. "What if I sell something to you but it's not really a sale because you can only do certain things with it?"
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Monsanto could attach conditions to the selling of its products such as the licenses. But the Supreme Court hasn't delved deeply into that issue, Sherkow said.
More broadly, he said, that issue could apply to many other industries that would like to exercise greater control over the use -- and secondhand sale -- of their products. Software and nanotechnology, Sherkow said, are just two examples of industries that could be affected by the ruling.
"If the court gives a lot of leeway to what is considered a conditional sale, I think this will have a lot of downstream effects for consumers -- not just in seed, but all areas of technology where companies want to increase their revenues through downstream sales," he said.
For Walters, Bowman's attorney who took the case pro bono, the case is better viewed through the circumstances of a single farmer.
"It's just one small step," he said, "but it could lead to a great impact in terms of shifting rights back to the farmer."
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The first units of KFOR entered Kosovo on 12 June 1999, finding devastation throughout Hundreds of thousands of refugees living in the surrounding countries of Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro were returning to their homes, which had to be cleared from mines. Tens of thousands of houses had to be rebuilt.
At the same time, thousands of armed former members of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) gained political control over their home municipalities, perceiving themselves the saviours of Kosovo. KFOR also had to protect Kosovo Serbs, as factions of the former KLA had begun driving them from their homes throughout Kosovo, thus creating a second humanitarian crisis.
The KLA was later disbanded and transformed into a 3,000 strong Kosovo Protection Corps under KFOR supervision.
KFOR faced its darkest days in March 2004, with the eruption of riots targeting both the UN and Kosovo Serbs. The reaction of the international troops was strongly criticized.
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Well here it is, the 2012 PGA Tour season has begun and we have our first winner of the year. I always love watching the opening Tournament of Champions - Maui may be one of the most beautiful places on earth and the Plantation Course at Kapalua is one of the best golf courses in the world. I might add, as a sister Troon Golf facility, it's exceedingly well managed too!
In a field of players who won last year, it's still no surprise to see one of the best players in the world, Steve Stricker, walk away with the trophy. Stricker did everything you need to do to distinguish himself from the field. He drove the ball well, his short game was solid and his putting was - as usual - outstanding.
One thing about doing well at Kapalua, similar to playing at my course, The Classic Club in Palm Desert, California, is that one challenge to putting up good scores will be the wind. Since Steve Stricker had four rounds in the 60s, it's obvious he handled all the challenges pretty well.
But for those of you who we might see at Kapalua, The Classic Club or any course that has wind, here's a few tips on how to handle those conditions a little easier.
1.) Use the bump and run/chip shot more often around the greens when possible. Wind can affect a pitch or flop shot more than you think, sending it off line or influencing the spin on the ball. You will be much more consistent in blustery conditions if you keep the ball closer to the ground.
2) Take an extra club and reduce your swing speed 10% on full shots. This will reduce the amount of spin on the ball, reducing the impact the wind will have on your ball flight, regardless of wind patterns (cross, down or up).
3) Take a more direct line for downwind shots. When with a tailwind, the ball will not be as influenced by draw or cut spin, making your shot dispersion less, but putting an emphasis or your shot's starting direction.
If you watched the tournament this past weekend, you saw Steve Stricker chip in on hole # 16 on Sunday with a bump and run shot. He also managed his tempo very well and was really only aggressive on downwind shots.
A few simple mental adjustments to your approach to a windy round of golf, should not only improve your score, but your enjoyment of the game as well.
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But this Gospel is more than this. It is a call for to consider if we are in a tomb, and if so, it asks us to hear the voice of the Lord calling us to shore up our courage and to come out of the tomb. The Gospel calls us to walk to the Lord.
Tombs are places for the dead. They are not pleasant. They are dark, wet, and rather stinky. They are not places we want to be. Still we often put ourselves in tombs. There are times that we feel very dead, particularly dead to the Lord. When we are in this spiritual malaise, we don't want to reflect on our lives. We play a game with the Lord and ultimately with our eternal existence. The game is this: If we don't think about what we have done or are doing to ourselves, then we can attempt to overlook our situation. Only, we can't really do that, can we? We can fool others into thinking that we are happy, but we cannot fool ourselves.
So, we get involved in things that are negative, nasty, sinful. We tell others that we are happy with this life. We try to convince ourselves that we are happy with our lives. But we have a difficult time looking into the mirror. We have an even more difficult time walking into a church. And we have a horrible time taking God inside of us, or simply sitting before Him in the Blessed Sacrament.
We try to blame others. We make believe that they have put us into the tomb. For example, others have said, "You don't know what you are missing. Drink this. Take that. Do this. Do that. You'll be happy. Loosen up! You are the only one at the party who is not drinking. Everybody is taking X now, why do you think you are so different? Of course we have sex; you're the only one I know who doesn't." And with a group around us, with our defenses down perhaps due to various difficulties in our lives we say, "No big deal. I should try this. I should do that. Everybody else is." And then, the next day, if not sooner, we feel rotten, dirty, even dead. We can blame others for putting us into the tomb, but ultimately, we did it to ourselves. We chose sin and suffer from it.
There are also times that we race into a tomb completely on our own, without the temptation of others. We convince ourselves that this or that is not going to hurt us so much. And we go places where a Christian does not belong, be those places in the world or within our own rooms, or we do things to ourselves that frustrate ourselves, and then we feel dead.
"Come out, Lazarus!"
Jesus is calling us. We are all Lazarus's. He is calling us to come out of the darkness, and come into His Light. He is calling us to come out of the place of death and come into His Life. In his second book on Jesus, Pope Benedict XVI points out that the early Christians referred to themselves as The Living. That is what we are called to be, alive in an otherwise dead world.
So, we ask ourselves today, "Am I happy with myself? Am I comfortable with my life? Am I happy with my relationship with God?" Those questions are just different ways of asking the same thing: "Am I alive, or am I dead?" Or, perhaps, "Is there something that is killing me?" Maybe, our relationship with others is pretty bad, and we tend to get nasty rather easily. Maybe we have friends that we try it impress by flaunting our sexuality, by joining them in drinking and drugs. We do our best to ignore the dying we feel within us, but the dying does not go away because we
want it to go away. The way of death only goes away when we choose to walk away from it.
Lent may be winding down, but there is still time for us to receive the sacrament of penance. There is still time left for our Lenten Spring cleaning. There is still time for us to be at peace with ourselves and with our Lord.
We ask God today for the courage to walk away from that which is killing us and to walk towards the Light. We ask the Lord for the courage to walk towards the voice that is saying, "Lazarus, Come out!"
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Join Terri, Bindi and Robert and our passionate team of wildlife warriors as they return to prime time television with Steve Irwin's Wildlife Warriors.
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It's as wild as life gets at Australia Zoo, Home of the Crocodile Hunter, Terri, Bindi & Robert Irwin. The team of wildlife warriors here at Australia Zoo are passionate about wildlife and continuing the legacy of the original wildlife warrior, Steve Irwin.
Australia Zoo is proud to be the major sponsor of our world-class hospital via Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors, a non-profit charity established by Steve and Terri Irwin in 2002. Australia Zoo also funds the 24-hour Rescue Unit which successfully rescues, rehabilitates and releases sick and injured wildlife anywhere from all over South East Queensland and beyond.
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