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**caveat** I hope Dwight chooses to stay, but this post is addressing an aspect the various trade packages that may need rethinking
To date, all of the rumored/proposed trade packages in the press include the Magic "dumping" the "bad" contracts of Hedo and Duhon.
After 12 games, the question now is, if the Magic must trade Dwight, do we really want to get rid of Hedo (and to a lesser extent Duhon)?
The prevailing wisdom is that Hedo's and Duhon's salaries are albatrosses around the neck of the Magic. I don't think that is true anymore. Based on last year's performance, yes, but the performance this year I think suggest otherwise.
I think the Magic should think long and hard about "dumping' Hedo and Duhon's salary in any trade because I don't think they will find replacement players (who are attainable) offering similar value to the Magic (taking into account team unity). The better avenue might be to package Dwight and Jameer and/or J rich for more star power in return (or just Dwight). That package is more appealing to other teams and transfers roughly equal salary, hopefully resulting in more in return.
For Hedo, I think he provides solid return for the investment. As SVG likes to have run an offense where the PG is not necessarily the dominant assist/ball mover, having a point-forward on the floor is very valuable to the Magic. Hedo has been playing that role with aplomb, averaging better than 2:1 assist/to, and shooting very well . In fact, outside of rebounding, he is outperforming his '09 year and nearly matching his '08 year just with fewer shot attempts. I think Hedo offers a style of play and performance that the Magic won't find elsewhere for similar or lesser money.
I think the same holds true (to a lesser extent) for Duhon who is making 3.25 this year. While that's a lot, I'd argue that the Magic would be hard pressed to find a backup PG for equal or lesser money (who would be traded by the current team) who could provide similar return. As currently structured, the Magic rely less on their PG than most teams, mostly just a steadying pressence who can hold down the fort and provide some solid D. Right now, Duhon is hitting the shots when called upon (would actually like to see him shot a couple of times more per game), and is averaging a little better than 2:1 assist/to and playing with a steady, albiet unremakable, consistency.
Thus, I think the Magic shouldn't be so quick to dump the salaries of Hedo and Duhon in any trade of Dwight.


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David Brooks describes Conservatism's paternalistic core
This week as David Brooks and Gail Collins discussed "Who Decided That This Election Should Be About Sex?" Brooks laid bare the core of the Conservative philosophy:
I do think it's consistent to be economically libertarian and socially paternalistic. In fact I'd argue dynamic capitalism requires a stringent and coherent social order to help guard against its savageries — tight families to educate children, anti-materialist values to police rampant consumerism, a spiritual public square to mitigate the corrosive culture of greedy self-interest.
Free market beliefs and socially conservative beliefs require each other, so long as those socially conservative beliefs are traditional, not theological. I'm for traditional values, with government playing a small role to support them. I get worried when some politician begins trying to legislate his faith's version of Natural Law.
This statement seems almost unintentionally revealing to me. Isn't it interesting to see what makes it into his statement of core values and what gets left out?
He has a definite view of what constitutes a "stringent and coherent social order" and "tight families": he admits that his approach is explicitly paternalistic, as though empowering women to lead their own lives out from under the thumb of male control leads to the breakdown of the social order and rampant "savageries" (a charged word if there ever was one!).
Brooks thinks that government can play a "small role" to support "traditional values" while the Republicans are currently trying to legislate what happens inside our bedrooms and inside women's bodies. Only a man could see current Conservative causes such as state-mandated transvaginal ultrasounds as non-invasive small government.
But what is really at the core of our country's problems as we try to recover from the worst recession in memory? Look what has happened as capitalism has run unfettered and unregulated in the past decade--near economic meltdown which required a bailout of Wall Street and untold behind the scenes shenanigans by the Treasury department (see for example quantitative easing and the $7 trillion secret loan program).
David Brooks can come across as a reasonable guy at times, which makes him even more interesting to me. We can't afford to ignore the core of the worldview he is laying out. It is not consistent and it is certainly not inclusive. It asks for small government when it doesn't want interference but has no problem trying to get laws or constitutional amendments passed that restrict other people's very personal liberties ("personhood" for zygotes and amendments to "protect" marriage by limiting which relationships can be defined as legal partnerships). Brooks' whole framework is clearly protecting the interests of those in power, as defined by wealthy, heterosexual white men. Even "pretty nice" people can feel that they are not actively racist, sexist or homophobic but they want to preserve a system that structurally reinforces their privileges--privileges that may be invisible to them, but very real to the rest of us. Racism is no longer culturally acceptable, but controlling women and the sexuality and relationships of gay people shows how threatening the Right feels by anything other than their paternalistic world view.
It is time for Progressives to stand up and shake off our "live and let live" tendencies to realize that we need to fight for fairness, inclusiveness, and equality on many fronts. Here in North Carolina we are facing a vote on a proposed Constitutional Amendment that not only would ban gay marriage, which is already illegal, but it would invalidate any domestic partnership other than marriage between a man and a woman. This has far-reaching implications for many issues such as domestic violence. By encoding these restrictions into the state Constitution, domestic violence laws could become unconstitutional. It is very scary to think about what happens when we start encoding this kind of discrimination and liberty restriction into our Constitution--it feels like we'd be messing with society's "source code" without understanding all the damage that could be done. Bad amendments are even worse than bad laws because they are much harder to overturn. Even Jim Crow Laws enforcing segregation, and anti-miscegenation laws, which banned marriages between people of different races, were enacted through laws and not Constitutional amendments. By the way, if anyone can tell me how the bans against gay marriage are fundamentally different than the bans on interracial marriage, I would be very interesting in hearing a substantive argument on that.
I will leave you with two thoughts that illustrate the world views we will be voting on in this election year:
Ellen Degeneres: "I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values."
or more from David Brooks: "So let's return to our normal subject. Men, men, men. Let's go back and have a normal election: men talking about themselves. The love that won't shut up."
In 2012, the choice is ours and the differences couldn't be clearer.
[Cross posted from my MojoMom.com blog]
National story with huge North Carolina relevance
GOP Tea Baggers like to complain about North Carolina being a "nanny state" because of public policies designed to help people. Now they are hell bent on turning us into an "abusive dead-beat dad" state. It's really sick.
David Brooks has a lot explaining to do
David Brooks proposes an entirely new theory of capitalism, or at least an extremely twisted version of what Adam Smith wrote about in The Wealth of Nations. Specifically, Brooks introduces the novel concept that on its own, capitalism leads to ruin and must therefore be moderated by some other equally immoderate force, such as paternalism. This is truly remarkable for several reasons:
First, of the thousands of possible alternative forces we can imagine, why would anybody believe that the very people who hold the reins on capitalism are going to be any more prudent holding the reins on social structure and behavior?
Second, Smith believed quite strongly that wealth provided its own self-moderating force, no interference required. From Chapter One of the Wealth of Nations:
"A man of rank and fortune is, by his station, the distinguished member of a great society, who attend to every part of his conduct, and who thereby oblige him to attend to every part of it himself. His authority and consideration depend very much upon the respect which this society bears to him. He dares not do anything which would disgrace or discredit him in it; and he is obliged to a very strict observation of that species of morals, whether liberal or austere, which the general consent of this society prescribes to persons of his rank and fortune." Why would the State wish to interfere at all with people who have achieved such rank and fortune as to be able to afford their own home and to be able to make their own life choices?
Third, the solution to the problem Smith immediately raises with those who have no rank nor fortune is almost precisely the progressive agenda itself:
"A man of low condition, on the contrary, is far from being a distinguished member of any great society. While he remains in a country village, his conduct may be attended to, and he may be obliged to attend to it himself. In this situation, and in this situation only, he may have what is called a character to lose. But as soon as he comes into a great city, he is sunk in obscurity and darkness. His conduct is observed and attended to by nobody; and he is, therefore, very likely to neglect it himself, and to abandon himself to every sort of low profligacy and vice. He never emerges so effectually from this obscurity, his conduct never excites so much the attention of any respectable society, as by his becoming the member of a small religious sect. He from that moment acquires a degree of consideration which he never had before. All his brother sectaries are, for the credit of the sect, interested to observe his conduct; and, if he gives occasion to any scandal, if he deviates very much from those austere morals which they almost always require of one another, to punish him by what is always a very severe punishment, even where no evil effects attend it, expulsion or excommunication from the sect. In little religious sects, accordingly, the morals of the common people have been almost always remarkably regular and orderly; generally much more so than in the established church. The morals of those little sects, indeed, have frequently been rather disagreeably rigorous and unsocial.
"There are two very easy and effectual remedies, however, by whose joint operation the state might, without violence, correct whatever was unsocial or disagreeably rigorous in the morals of all the little sects into which the country was divided.
"The first of those remedies is the study of science and philosophy, which the state might render almost universal among all people of middling or more than middling rank and fortune; not by giving salaries to teachers in order to make them negligent and idle, but by instituting some sort of probation, even in the higher and more difficult sciences, to be undergone by every person before he was permitted to exercise any liberal profession, or before he could be received as a candidate for any honourable office, of trust or profit. If the state imposed upon this order of men the necessity of learning, it would have no occasion to give itself any trouble about providing them with proper teachers. They would soon find better teachers for themselves, than any whom the state could provide for them. Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition; and where all the superior ranks of people were secured from it, the inferior ranks could not be much exposed to it.
"The second of those remedies is the frequency and gaiety of public diversions. The state, by encouraging, that is, by giving entire liberty to all those who, from their own interest, would attempt, without scandal or indecency, to amuse and divert the people by painting, poetry, music, dancing; by all sorts of dramatic representations and exhibitions; would easily dissipate, in the greater part of them, that melancholy and gloomy humour which is almost always the nurse of popular superstition and enthusiasm. Public diversions have always been the objects of dread and hatred to all the fanatical promoters of those popular frenzies. The gaiety and good humour which those diversions inspire, were altogether inconsistent with that temper of mind which was fittest for their purpose, or which they could best work upon. Dramatic representations, besides, frequently exposing their artifices to public ridicule, and sometimes even to public execration, were, upon that account, more than all other diversions, the objects of their peculiar abhorrence."
In other words, Smith recommends *the opposite* of what Brooks cooks up, and proposes instead to fully fund public education and the arts.
And finally, lest there be any question whatsoever that Brooks has it backwards and the whole Tea Party has it backwards as well, Smith states:
"In a country where the law favoured the teachers of no one religion more than those of another, it would not be necessary that any of them should have any particular or immediate dependency upon the sovereign or executive power; or that he should have anything to do either in appointing or in dismissing them from their offices. In such a situation, he would have no occasion to give himself any concern about them, further than to keep the peace among them, in the same manner as among the rest of his subjects, that is, to hinder them from persecuting, abusing, or oppressing one another. But it is quite otherwise in countries where there is an established or governing religion. The sovereign can in this case never be secure, unless he has the means of influencing in a considerable degree the greater part of the teachers of that religion."
Brooks and others may think they can stick their invisible hands up every woman's skirt and get them to follow obediently their benevolent paternalism, but that goes against history. And it goes against common sense.
What he said!
Indeed. Gotta love that commenter!
Seriously, it is really interesting to go back and read what Adam Smith actually said. And for anyone who wonders whether Michael was cherry-picking his quotes, they were from Chapter One.
Twists and turns
Lately I've been making the case that progressives are America's true conservatives. That's partly because conservatives have spend the last century engaged in revisionist history, distorting facts about the past to make them tell the ideological story they want. That's as true for their lies about the role of Christianity in the founding of America as it is for their understanding of freedom and markets.
Progressives are the guardians of the integrity of the constitution, as well as the personal freedoms it guarantees. We are also the guardians of the environment and the protesters against elective war.
The only things "conservatives" want to protect is (1) the right of men to dominate women and (2) unfettered access to taxpayer dollars by private businesses.
I agree with you, James
I agree with you, James--if there were an actual conservative candidate who had not made a pact with the religious right and big business, I would consider voting for him or her. But that person doesn't seem to exist in the current political climate.
And it pains me to see how President Obama, who is governing quite moderately and even embracing ideas put forth by Republicans ("Obamacare" being the major example), is painted as a left-wing ideologue which is just not true. Seems like truth and sanity have taken a holiday this year. Santorum in particular is blowing so many dog whistles, saying stuff he knows is not true but will motivate his base with crazy talk.

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After reading Hype's article regarding a theoretical super six tourney involving fighters from the heavyweight division, it made me think about possibilities in other divisions. Alot of attention has been garnered in regards to the possibility of a tournament in the jr.welter , but how about a tourney with the top 4 BANTAMWEIGHT fighters???
Since the lower weight classes get limited exposure despite the many exciting fights that occur below the welterweight division, I would love to see a tournament occur at the bantamweight division. It's easily one of the most underrated divisions in boxing and with Donaire almost certain to move up to bantamweight after his upcoming fight, a 4 fighter tournament at bantamweight is very legitimate. The series could be hosted by Showtime as Donaire, Montiel and Darchinyan have headlined fights on the network before and there is alot of depth to choose from when deciding thethe 4th member. My pick would go to undefeated IBF champ Yohnny Perez, but if he were unable to be apart you could still include one of the folowing fighters: Hozumi Hasegawa, Abner Mares, Anselmo Moreno, Nehomar Cermeno, Joseph Agbeko, Eric Morel or Jorge Arce.
A 4 fighter tournament would be less time consuming than the super six tourny and makes it possible for a fighter who goes winless in the round robin to make the tournament final. Each fighter would fight each other once in the round robin tournament and after the round robin the fighters would be ranked from 1st to 4th based on win-loss ratio. In the semis the 1st place fighter would fight the 4th place fighter, 2nd would fight 3rd and the winners from the semis go on to face each other in the final.
Like most fight fans, The possibility of seeing Donaire vs Darchinyan II (maybe even III), Montiel vs Darch/Donaire etc is definitely a salivating thought. Even those not familiar with the fighters can quickly become fans as each has there own exciting/fan friendly style.
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Now that we have Arizona out of the way for the time being, Arizona State is the next task at hand. We must come out with a killer instinct and put this game away before we walk into our locker rooms at the half. If this is a team that SC beat, this is a team that we should blow out. We are 12-2 and ASU is 6-6. We should not and must not let the Sun Devils hang around or a repeat of Cal (last weekend) will happen. Our goal is to have a big enough lead by the second half so that we can safely pull JF and AA from the game. No need to have those two play in garbage time, considering the injury issue we presently have to deal with. DC, LR, and all the freshmen should be given as much playing time as possible before March. The weakness of the Pac 10 this year should allow us to make a serious run at the conference title as well as give our freshmen plenty of real game-time experience. GO BRUINS!!!


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A 64-year-old man died Sunday during the swim portion of Sunday's Nautica New York City Triathlon, according to officials.
Lukas Verzbicas is grimacing. The Illinois high school track star is sprinting around the final lap of the mile run at the New Balance Indoor Nationals in New York City in March, and the only sign that he's hurting as he races away from the field is the brief flash of pain.
My first newspaper job after college was at the Vineyard Gazette on Martha's Vineyard, an island in Massachusetts surrounded by sea and ocean, some of it very moody and turbulent. Once a summer, the editor, Henry Hough, would publish an editorial under the headline "Beware the Riptide," or some similar wording. Among other things, the piece told you what to do in a riptide. In that same spirit, and with spring-break here, I'd like to point you to the United States Lifesaving Association Web site, USLA.org, for a primer on safe open-water swimming.
At 27, Neil Pokorny is climbing the corporate ladder. A successful regional sales manager for a global automaker, he is driven by competition. But, as he got busier at work, his competitive spirit in his old sports -- swimming and rowing -- took a back seat.
Brian Kuritzky, a 24-year-old securities analyst, has long been a competitive person.
The powerful Brazilian men's volleyball team confirmed its supremacy by winning the world championship in Rome on Sunday. Brazil downed the young, eighth-seeded Cubans in the finals 25-22, 25-14, 25-22 to avenge a loss to Cuba in the preliminary round of play. Serbia defeated host Italy to win bronze, three games to one.
The best sports book of 2010 isn't really a sports book. Generally speaking, sports books concern tackles and home runs and sub-four-minute miles. They delve into the psyches of athletes and the souls of teams. From Howard Bryant's brilliant The Last Hero: The Life of Henry Aaron to Peter Richmond's riveting Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death and John Madden's Oakland Raiders, the past nine months have brought us some marvelous reads.
The inaugural Youth Olympic Games opened over the weekend in Singapore, where 3,600 athletes from 200 countries were entered in 24 sports.
As sprinting announcements go, this one isn't official until all the hamstrings and egos are actually in the starting blocks, but barring a late withdrawal, the 100 meters at the DN Galan Diamond League track meet in Stockholm on Friday night could be the highlight of the season. Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt has announced that he will be sprinting against a field that includes his countryman Asafa Powell and Tyson Gay of the U.S., a loaded roster that the sport rarely sees outside of Olympics and world championships. Since athletes often duck and dodge rivals to protect their reputation, Bolt's participation is further sign that -- with his most recent defeat coming in 2008 -- he has no serious challengers.
Toughness, strength, stamina and mental grit are put to the test on Tough Mudder's seven-mile, 17-obstacle course.
Rebecca Rusch was a long way from Idaho.
Everybody says it: This year I'm going to get in shape.
The Desperate Housewives star likes her arms - and her pasta
The Desperate Housewives star says the event was on her "bucket list" - and it's for a good cause
Dwight Kroening became the first heart transplant recipient to finish an Ironman triathlon at last year's Ironman Canada.
If all goes according to plan, cancer survivor Kyle Garlett will compete in October's Ford Ironman World Championship, a grueling triathlon made up of a 2.4-mile ocean swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and a 26.2-mile run.
At some point, the nightmare ends. Doesn't it?
When rehab and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings didn't work for Eddie Freas, he sought another way to kick his 20-year drug and alcohol addiction.
The second season champ wakes up every day and says, "I want to be an Ironman"
About a mile into the run, Ted Kennedy quickens the pace along the dirt trail, squinting hard in the bright Colorado sun. Next to him, CEO Shayne Macherowski briefly hangs on at the faster tempo, then drops behind. Even Kennedy is struggling to keep up with Manny Huerta, a member of the U.S. Olympic development triathlon team, who darts quickly ahead.
Blind attorney Richard Bernstein lets nothing get in his way. He has even completed the grueling Ironman competition.
Richard Bernstein wins landmark lawsuits for the disabled. He teaches college. He runs marathons.
"I knew I was in trouble when the old guy with the oxygen tank passed me," he jokes
How did the star keep Marc Anthony's Old Havana-style celebration a secret? She's an actress!
The singer-actress was cheered on by Marc Anthony and Matthew McConaughey, who also competed in the event
The singer says she'll complete the event for charity, even "if I have to crawl across that finishing line"
Triathletes generally maintain a stoic expression of concentration throughout their grueling race, but as Emma Snowsill entered the final straightaway at high noon today, a flash of white could be seen on her face through the waves of heat rising from the track at the Ming Tomb Reservoir.
With the finish line a few meters away, Australian Emma Snowsill had time to grab a flag, slow down and wave as she won gold in the Olympic triathlon Monday.
Before it degenerates into a rant, and then a plea, this must first serve as a memorial. I was greeted Monday by this above-the-fold headline in the San Francisco Chronicle: SANTA CLARA DEPUTY SHERIFF VEERS INTO CYCLISTS KILLING 2.
A Chicago probate court judge Friday declared millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett dead five months after he disappeared while on a solo flight over the Nevada desert.
At Civics: This is basically a walk-in scrapbook, with the additional advantage of a liquor license. The walls of the Youngstown, Ohio, establishment are covered in framed newspaper pages, all of them narrating the career of a South Side scrapper, pale and bony (so pale, he's called the Ghost), who grew up around the corner. PAVLIK BURSTS ONTO SCENE reads a 2001 headline from The Vindicator of Youngstown. KEYSTONER AREA BOXER IS GETTING A W. PA. FOLLOWING is from a month earlier. PAVLIK SET TO FIGHT JULY 1 AT CAFARO FIELD. And on and on they go, wall after wall, a fight here, an appearance there, some bit of news, a ray of hope. No act of aspiration unpublished.
Fellow aviation enthusiast Sir Richard Branson said Wednesday he was worried that rescuers had found no sign of his friend, adventurer Steve Fossett, who disappeared two days ago after taking off from another friend's desert ranch.
Britain's world triathlon champion Tim Don has been given a three-month ban for missing three out-of-competition drugs tests, the British Triathlon Association said on Friday.
David Kuhnau was 75 miles into a 100-mile leg of a race in Antarctica when the blizzard struck. His lungs were already burning, his feet were covered with open blisters inside his trail shoes, and ...
Former Olympic triathlon gold medallist Brigitte McMahon has admitted using the banned blood-booster EPO following a positive doping test at her home last month.
Hamish Carter and Bevan Doherty made it a New Zealand one-two in the men's triathlon with Carter racing clear in the closing stages of the run to win in one hour 51 minutes and seven seconds.
Austria's Kate Allen produced a barnstorming finish to snatch women's triathlon gold from Australia's Loretta Harrop in the final 100 metres of the closing 10 kilometer run.
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Lottery Sales -- Type of Game: 1980 to 2006
The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the US Census Department as Microsoft Excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and, worst of all, the table headers are not easily matched to their rows and columns.
A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no data were changed.
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- Player scratches a latex section on ticket which reveals instantly
whether ticket is a winner.
- Players choose and bet on three or four digits, depending on game,
with various payoffs for different straight order or mixed combination
- Players typically select six digits out of a large field of numbers.
Varying prizes are offered for matching three through six numbers drawn
by lottery.
- Includes breakopen tickets, spiel, keno, video lottery, etc.
- Sales minus prizes and expenses equal net government income.
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Albany- It's a homecoming Captain Robert Alexander will never forget.
"I felt really honored and really special that the administration and the teachers and the students thought so highly of me to give me a welcome of students, the band, people who are glad to see me," Alexander says.
Alexander has only been home a few days, but decided not to take any time off and return to work as soon as possible.
"I enjoy Monroe and the people here and I enjoy teaching here, so I wanted to come as quickly as I could," says Captain Robert Alexander.
After spending nearly 12 months traveling through the deadly combat zones of Iraq, the geography teacher says he happy to be back at work patrolling the hallways of Monroe.
"My unit, the 125th Transportation Company out of Lexington, Kentucky, which is a reserve unit, when we would go out on missions we were hit I would say 9 or 15 times, we were hit by IEDs which are the improvised explosive devices the roadside bombs," he says.
"We were fortunate in that most times nobody was hurt. Nobody was injured." But the reservist says he did lose one soldier last September.
"Mortars, roadside bombs, two ambushes so I experienced real war."
Now, Alexander hopes to use some of his experiences to motivate his students, and incorporate his new-found knowledge of the Middle East into his geography lessons.
"I met people from the Philippines, India, Pakistan, so I have those unique experiences to talk about." Captain Alexander says he's dedicated to his job as a soldier, but is thankful he can continue to serve his country from the front lines of his classroom.
Captain Alexander has spent the last 21 months on active duty and has been through two deployments. He says he won't be eligible for deployment again for another three years unless he volunteers to go.
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Moss returning? If so, Belichick is genius
I have never been much of a conspiracy theorist. It's not my style. But what would happen if Randy Moss came back to the Patriots now that the Vikings appear ready to release him?
Rice back on fantasy radar after Moss release
With Randy Moss' time in Minnesota shockingly coming to an end after just four games, according to some reports, WR Sidney Rice all of a sudden has a chance to make a serious fantasy impact down the stretch.
Report: Vikings release Randy Moss
Only four weeks after trading for the All-Pro wide receiver, the Vikings have chosen to let go of WR Randy Moss, according to the NFL Network.
Moss unhappy already? It's no Halloween prank
Randy Moss is unhappy with the media, but more importantly, he appears unhappy with his situation in Minnesota. Losing to the Patriots, the team that traded him, was a good reminder.
Vikings' players of the week: Week Eight
The Vikings' offensive, defensive and special-teams players of the week in their 28-18 loss to the Patriots in Week Eight.
Pats knock out Favre, hand Vikings their fifth loss
Tom Brady connected with Brandon Tate for a 65-yard touchdown on a broken play to give New England a 28-18 victory over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, knocking Favre out of the game in the process.
Favre leaves game after hit to chin
Vikings QB Brett Favre was carted off the field with a facial laceration. His return is questionable.
Vikings-Patriots prediction
PFW's Eric Edholm thinks the Patriots will dominate the Vikings on Sunday — and knock Brett Favre out of the game.
Patriots-Vikings prediction
Brett Favre's ankle has taken attention away from Randy Moss' return to New England in this highly anticipated matchup. PFW associate editor Kevin Fishbain believes the well-rounded, confident Patriots have the advantage.
Vikings' Greenway off to terrific start
Although the statistics may not show it, the Vikings' defense has played well, particularly LB Chad Greenway, who's been playing like a Pro Bowler.
Don't rule out Rice's return to Vikings this season
Although he's still a few weeks away from getting on the practice field, Vikings WR Sidney Rice may yet be able to return to game action this season, according to NFC North Whispers.
Patriots-Vikings matchup of the day: Saturday
Here is a matchup to watch in the Week Seven game between the Patriots and Vikings.
Report: Favre expects to start Sunday
Vikings QB Brett Favre expects to start in Sunday's game against the Patriots.
Five questions with Vikings LB Chad Greenway
This week, PFW spends a few minutes with Vikings LB Chad Greenway to talk about his excellent play, the vibe in the locker room and digging out of the hole they are in.
The Vikings re-signed Loadholt on Tuesday.||||||| Loadholt has been the Vikings starter at right tackle for his whole career, missing only one game in four seasons.
The NFL has fined Loadholt $10,000 for two unnecessary roughness penalties in the Vikings' Week 1 game against New Orleans.||||||| Loadholt was disciplined for twice grabbing a Saints' face mask, in the second and fourth quarters of the game Sept. 9.
Loadholt returned to the Vikings' lineup for Sunday's game against Baltimore after missing the previous game with a sprained left ankle.|||||||
The Minnesota Vikings have signed Loadholt, their second-round draft pick.||||||| The team announced the move on Wednesday, ensuring the right tackle will report to training camp on time. Players are required to report by Thursday and the first practice is Friday. The 6-foot-8, 343-pound former Oklahoma Sooner is expected to challenge for the starting job at right tackle. Ryan Cook and Artis Hicks both struggled at that spot last season.


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A top former Obama Cabinet member who met with IRS officials at the White House during the targeting scandal is currently out of the country, a White House source said.
Former acting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Jeffrey Zients has still not returned from an overseas exile that began after his departure from the Obama administration in April, two weeks before the IRS scandal broke.
Zients met with then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman and Shulman's political aide Jonathan Davis and spokesman Frank Keith at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House complex on April 24, 2012.
Only Zients, who was in charge of OMB ad the time, and the three men from the IRS attended the meeting, according to White House visitor logs. Their meeting ran for just under eight and a half hours into the night, the logs reveal.
The very next day, April 25, the IRS's chief counsel's office -- led by William Wilkins, who met with Obama at the White House that same week -- sent Washington-based IRS officials "additional comments on the draft guidance." These guidelines covered approving or denying TEA Party tax-exempt applications, according to a report on the IRS scandal compiled by Treasury Inspector General J. Russell George.
Zients became the acting director of OMB in January 2012 after Jack Lew -- now Treasury Secretary -- was promoted to Obama's chief of staff. Zients oversaw former OMB controller Danny Werfel, who was appointed acting commissioner of the IRS after the targeting scandal broke.
After a Senate vote confirming his successor -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell -- Zients left his post at OMB on April 24, 2013 with no public fanfare and no official White House statement on his departure, leading Washington insiders to speculate that he "disappeared."
Two weeks later, news of the IRS's targeting of conservatives broke when Lois Lerner -- then-head of the IRS department that oversees tax-exempt organizations -- apologized for the abuses.
Zients, a former consultant with Bain & Co. whose personal fortune has been estimated at more than $200 million, could not be reached for comment.
An OMB spokesperson declined to comment on Zients' whereabouts.
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Tomo Ohka looks to make a major league comeback with a knuckleball
I would link to the original article, but its in Japanese, so I figured the MLBTR article would be more useful. Apparently Tomo Ohka, who last pitched in the majors in 2009, wants to return to the majors as a knuckleball pitcher and is willing to start in the minor leagues if necessary. He had a 3.73 ERA this year in 21 games, so its worth a shot. I see no reason why the Mets shouldn't give him a minor league contract.


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6:30 am - 7:30 am - Morning Meditation with Elana Rosenbaum, MS, LICSW 7:30 am – 8:30 am - Breakfast 8:00 am – 9:00 am - Registration
Simultaneously, they will attend to preserving the original heart and intention of MBSR. A practical aspect of this institute will be the formulation of a working group (composed primarily of attendees) that will further the momentum built during the day. The intent will be to produce a synopsis of the issues raised in a "living document" outlining key principles and considerations that can then be disseminated for further input from other MB practitioners.
Though both modalities have the relief of suffering as their aim the methods to achieve this have differed. In this institute we will examine and discuss: what is being transferred from one modality to the other, essential qualities for teacher and therapist, assumptions and expectations, the use of self, transparency, the focus of attention, the process of inquiry and the use of silence.
Discussion will draw on the experience of the participants and a senior MBSR teacher and psychotherapist. It will be experiential and interactive including reflections and guided meditations with objects of inquiry in dyads and group discussion to bring into awareness ways that practicing psychotherapy and MBSR infiltrate each other consciously and unconsciously.
This institute is offered by MBSR-T creator Ms. Biegel who has been utilizing this program for the past 8 years with adolescents in a variety of settings with a multitude of clinical and non-clinical populations. Aside from evidenced-based research, publications in the popular press and audio practices have been created to use with teens directly.
Being a Mindful Researcher or Doing Research on Mindfulness? Employing Qualitative Research Methods with First-Person Experiences in Mindfulness Belinda Khong, PhD The workshop is intended to give researchers, instructors, practitioners, practical skills for understanding and applying qualitative research methodologies. Researchers are encouraged to bring their research proposals for discussion in the workshop. The growing adoption of mindfulness-based programs and the increase in research on mindfulness pose some new challenges. One of these challenges relates to how researchers embody mindfulness when conducting research in this area. For example, is it congruent for participants in mindfulness-based programs to be encouraged to relate to their experiences subjectively, and then for attempts by researchers to measure their experiences objectively? Can mindfulness research be conducted in a way that is more sympathetic to the experiential quality of the practice? Qualitative methodology, a process-oriented research method focuses on the meanings and significance that individuals attribute to their experiences. This methodology provides a valuable approach for appreciating first-person experiences, the process involved; why and how individuals benefit or not benefit from being mindful, and the impact of being mindful in all aspects of the individual's life. The workshop format consists of a lecture, discussion and practice exercises. It examines the major qualitative research methodologies including Grounded Theory and Phenomenology; differences with quantitative research, and qualitative research studies. Participants will learn skills for using qualitative research methodology including interviewing techniques, data analysis, report writing, and publishing results. The workshop is intended to give researchers, instructors, practitioners, practical skills for understanding and applying qualitiative research methodologies. Researchers are encouraged to bring their research proposals for discussion in the workshop.
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Pre-Conference Institutes 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Half-Day Afternoon Workshop Meeting Resistance: Teaching Mindfulness & Yoga to Challenging Youth Populations Cator Shachoy, Chris McKenna and Sam Himelstein, PhD Clinical Psych The richness of working with teens includes that they won't always do what you want them to. What happens then? If we are present, this can be a powerful opportunity for deepening of connection, trust, and authenticity between teens and adults. This workshop goes beyond the mindfulness for youth "sales pitch" to engage the real world realities of working with socio-economically and ethnically diverse youth as well as urban and high-risk populations. As the mindfulness movement expands its reach, new tools are needed for effective application in a broader range of environments. Workshop content focuses on a clearly outlined approach for meeting and transforming resistance and reactivity that can arise while facilitating yoga and mindfulness-based interventions with diverse youth populations. The goal of this workshop is to "close the gap" between scripted mindfulness curricula and the reality of working with youth and adolescents in the classroom, mental health, and other environments. This workshop is highly interactive; participants will have extensive time to analyze examples of resistance from their own work with youth and to role play responses to challenging behaviors.
Co-Chaired by Amishi Jha, PhD and Philippe Goldin, PhD
Morning Presenters:
Amishi Jha, PhD Fadel Zeidan, PhD Zindel Segal, PhD
Afternoon Presenters:
Philippe Goldin, PhD Katherine MacLean, PhD
The Poster Session is an essential element of Investigating and Integrating Mindfulness-Based Interventions into Medicine, Health Care, and Society. Posters are a great way for abstract authors to discuss their work with colleagues. The Center for Mindfulness views these Poster Presentations as important as paper presentations.
Saki Santorelli has been engaged in his own ongoing education and formation and the education and formation of other MBSR teachers for three decades. This talk will be a reflection on the nature of mindfulness-oriented professional education and training, its place within the larger domains of western psychology and education, and some critically important departure points from the world-view of these familiar ways of knowing. He will describe in detail the potential of mindfulness to radically alter the ways we think about learning, teaching, and the relationships between patients and practitioners and students and teachers.
6:00 am - 7:00 am - Meditation with Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, MA 7:00 am - 8:00 am - Breakfast 7:00 am - 8:00 am - Breakfast Roundtable Discussions: Integrating Mindfulness into Clinical Training and Research Within the Clinical Psychology Profession Jean Kristeller, PhD, Philippe Goldin, PhD, Paul Salmon, PhD, Jeffrey Greeson, PhD, Michael Cole, PhD, Holly Hazlett-Stevens, PhD and Laura Monschau, PhD Full Circle: Mindfulness Practice in Secular and Religious Settings Anne Benvenuti, PhD and Elizabeth Davenport, PhD
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Mindful Medical Practice for Medical Students and Residents: An Invitation to Exchange Experiences Patricia L. Dobkin, PhD, Tom Hutchinson, MB and Qinyi Zhao
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: Simulation Modeling in Support of Planning for Service Delivery Graham Meadows, MD, FRANZCP
Wellness in High School: Introducing Mindfulness Training to Teachers, Administrators and Students Trish Broderick, PhD, Diane Reibel, PhD and Todd Cantrell, MS
How does Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Improve Psychological Functioning in Cancer Patients? Laura Labelle, MSc
Cultural Considerations to Foster Receptivity to Mindfulness Training Paul Salmon, PhD, Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN, Lauren Vines, MS, and Kay Stewart, BS
Measuring the Efficacy and Sustainability of The Mindful Schools Mindfulness-Based In-Class Intervention Randima Fernando, MS, and Shani Keller
Zindel Segal, PhD If the past decade has witnessed the establishment of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy's broad appeal and effectiveness, the question of how exactly this multi-modal treatment achieves its benefits remains largely unanswered. It is still fair to ask, for example, about the relative contribution of cognitive therapy principles versus mindfulness practice to the benefits patients report. Clarifying mechanisms of action is of more than academic interest, as it will likely inform the approach taken to training the next generation of MBCT practitioners. In addition, a focus on mechanisms can only enhance efforts to address the largest obstacle faced by patients interested in this form of care, namely limited access. In response to this challenge, efforts aimed at disseminating mindfulness-based treatments more generally, have been under way for the past 5 years. The goal here has been to render these in-person treatments into internet compatible formats that would enable their delivery via live videoconferencing, interactive websites, or mobile applications. These developments will be reviewed and evaluated. The need to conceptualize mindfulness-based interventions in terms of their active ingredients, before the inexorable migration to the web begins, will be emphasized.
Rebecca Crane, MA The talk will investigate critical questions relating to teaching competence: How can mindfulness-based teaching competencies be articulated? How do they develop, and how are they assessed reliably and with validity? The exploration is based on the experiences of addressing these issues within postgraduate mindfulness-based teacher training programmes at Bangor, Exeter and Oxford Universities in the UK. The expanding interest in mindfulness creates a rapidly developing context for the international mindfulness-based teaching and training community to be operating within. The field has a responsibility to the public and to developing trainees to be shaping the ongoing integrity of the approach so that a professional context is created that has appropriate boundaries, expectations and guidance. This is a complex area requiring a multiplicity of responses relating to teacher formation processes, standards for teachers and trainers and the nature of mindfulness-based teaching competence. Addressing these issues in ways which both honour the paradigms underpinning mindfulness-based teaching and interface in pragmatic ways with the contexts within which our trainees offer their teaching is subtle and challenging. Central to the integrity of the approach is the competence of the teacher: their capacity to deliver a programme which is both truly based on a depth of personal mindfulness practice and integrated with the skills and understandings relevant to the particular programme or context within which the teaching is offered. Issues related to teaching competence impact on all areas where growth is being felt on the ground – within training programmes where larger numbers of trainers are supporting and assessing larger numbers of developing teachers; within mainstream contexts such as the UK health service where MBCT is increasingly being commissioned and implemented and governance relating to teacher readiness is required; and within research contexts where methods are needed to assess that the teachers delivering classes in research trials have achieved an appropriate level of competency and that they deliver the intervention with fidelity during the research.
Mindfulness Education in Medical School H. Mason Hedberg, MD 2013
Mindfulness Training Ameliorates IBS by Promoting Non-Reactivity and Reduced Affective Processing of Pain Sensations Eric Garland, PhD
Examining the Effectiveness of Mindfulness for Treating Children with ASD and ADHD Bernadette Evans-Smith, PhD
Findings from the DARE Study, a Multisite study of MBCT With Two Year Follow Up, Focusing on Subgroups and Time Course Frances Shawyer, BBSc, PhD
Merging Paths: Mindfulness and the Medical Malpractice Insurer Michael Krasner, MD, Marjorie Thomas, MPA, ARM, RPLU, FASHRM, and Gerri Donohue, MS, RN, ARM, FASHRM
Virtually Yours: Mindfulness Training via the Virtual World of Second Life Steve Hickman, PsyD, Jacquelyn Ford Morie, MFA, PhD, and Valerie Berg Rice, MS, MHA, PhD, CPE, OTR/L, FAOTA
7:30 pm - 11:30 pm - A Gala Evening and Auction 7:40 pm - Opening Remarks
Richard J Davidson, PhD
This talk will present an overview of the convergence of scientific and extra-scientific factors that have permitted the emergence of a new hybrid discipline—contemplative neuroscience. Included among these factors are developments in our understanding of neuroplasticity and epigenetics, the development of modern methods for interrogating human brain function, the publications of basic research on meditation in top-tier mainstream scientific journals, the active involvement of the Dalai Lama and the Mind & Life Institute in the promotion of this work, and the presence of several high profile research centers focused on this work at major research universities in the U.S. and abroad. The talk will summarize some of the key findings that have emerged and will showcase future challenges, both methodological and conceptual, that must be faced as this work matures.
10:30 am -11:30 am - Break-out Sessions
Teaching Mindful Yoga for Non-Yoga Teachers and Clinicians: Part I, Context and Intentions Brant Rogers, MS, RYT, and Paul Salmon, PhD
Mindfulness Meditation and Anxiety Disorders: Effects on Emotion, Attention, and Brain Responses Elizabeth Hoge, MD, Britta Holzel, PhD, and Philippe Goldin, PhD
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Couples Therapy for PTSD Louanne Davis, PsyD, and Brandi Luedtke, PsyD
Altered Resting State Functional Connectivity and Fluid Intelligence in Long-Term Mindfulness and Yoga Practitioners Sara Lazar, PhD, and Tim Gard, MA
The final class presents a complete and integrated daily compassion meditation practice.
4:15 – 5:45 p.m. Keynote
Linda Carlson, PhD The Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery (MBCR) program at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre in Calgary, Canada began in 1996, and has been offered continuously to patients and support people since that time. Based heavily on MBSR, our program has been adapted over the years to meet the needs of our population. Our group has conducted a series of research studies on the program beginning with pre-post observational studies and randomized waitlist controlled trials spanning outcomes such as mood disturbance, stress symptoms, sleep quality, fatigue, post-traumatic growth and spirituality, and biomarkers such as blood pressure, salivary cortisol and intracellular cytokines. More recently we completed a 5-year multi-site randomized controlled trial comparing the effects of MBSR to Supportive-Expressive Group Therapy and a one-day Stress Management Seminar on psychological and biological outcomes in breast cancer survivors (the MINDSET trial). A description of MBCR and the history of the program will be provided, followed by presentation of preliminary results of the MINDSET trial.
8:00 – 9:00 p.m. Special Post-Conference Film
This 30-minute documentary film follows the path of five veterans with PTSD as they take part in a Loving-Kindness Meditation course at the Seattle Veterans Administration Medical Center.
This documentary, directed by Lisa Hardmeyer, can also be viewed here.
The title of the documentary - 'Healing a Soldier's Heart' captures the need for persons with trauma to find a path that leads to healing. The term 'Soldier's Heart' was originally used in the Civil War to describe the physical manifestations of posttraumatic stress disorder - PTSD. Over a one-year period in 2010, Loving-Kindness Meditation groups met once weekly for 12 weeks, in courses co-taught by David Kearney, MD and Carolyn McManus, PT, MA. This film follows one group of veterans over a twelve week period.
Carolyn McManus will be in attendance to discuss the program and answer questions at the conclusion of the film.
7:00 am – 8:00 am - Meditation 7:00 am – 9:00 am - Registration 8:00 am – 9:00 am - Breakfast
9:00 am – 4:00 pm - Full-Day Retreat
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status in social mediaPosted: July 5th, 2007 | Author: alicetiara | Filed under: anthropology, internet culture, social media, social networking | 7 Comments »
I finally got a glimmer of a dissertation idea today: status in social media. I've been working my way through my gender & consumer culture readings and musing on luxury, brand consumption, brand display, etc., and how this translates into online behavior. At the same time, since I'm back in the Bay Area for a month, I've been playing armchair anthropologist with my friends and thinking about what counts as a "status symbol" in SF geek culture.
So what does "status in social media" mean?
Well, thinking about status very literally, first there's what I might call "Conspicuous MySpace Consumption":
This is literal display of brand names as part of self-presentation strategy. Substitute "My Chemical Romance" or "LOLcats" for Gucci or Chanel and "personal homepages" or "blogs" for "MySpace" and status becomes just a series of signifiers– it's not at all limited to luxury brand display. It's just something to identify oneself as part of a group or with a particular symbol, just as you'd wear a t-shirt or a button. And naturally people use "real world" brand names online. There's not too much difference between these types of layouts, fashion blogs obsessing about the newest "it" bag, and the fashion rating communities (like StyleMob) which are supposedly about personal style, but read more like a hipster handbook instruction manual.
( Note that there's no digital equivalent of the real Chanel bag — yet. Multiple companies have tried (and failed) to monetize "virtual bling", like those Facebook gifts that cost a dollar. But it tends towards the micropayment lower-end of the scale. )
But I digress. "Status" can also encompass "reputation": eBay feedback, Yelp Elite status, number of Facebook / Pownce / Twitter / LJ friends, "interestingness" on Flickr, Technorati rankings: there are numerous visible, clear, measurable, public and easily comparable indications of popularity. I guess there are some social media sites where this isn't an issue, but not many. I'm interested in reputation vs. popularity, too: Wikipedians generally value reputation, as do eBay participants, whereas bloggers look for number of hits or comments.
And so "status" can also be social capital, as "interestingness" (widely) or "microcelebrity". Both of which are generally displayed and easily quantified online.
The third way to think of social media status is in terms of what counts as status in the world of social media creators. I made a really quick list:
1. Invites to betas and closed communities (think Gmail 2 years ago)
2. Gadgets: iPhones, etc.
3. Access to events (company-sponsored parties, Foocamp, various barcamps, South by Southwest)
4. How trendy the company is that you work for, and what your position there is (how cool or obscure your title is)
5. How integrated your life and your online life are (hint: the more the better)
6. Having a product, blog, meme, picture, etc. that gets widespread viewership
And when there are certain things considered status symbols in a community of creators, it stands to reason that these types of values will find themselves incorporated into the products that are being created. For instance: a company ignores their enormous Chinese user base in favor of hiring PR firms to throw flashy parties in West Coast clubs, because the latter users are "cooler" than the former users. Or limited invite schemes that are designed specifically to create buzz among a tiny community of bloggers and nerds.
So: who's left out?
It's relatively easy to have a MySpace layout teeming with logos. But it's not easy to amass the other types of status, since they assume a particular class position, knowledge, professionalism, experience, or possession of free time, each of which is specific, limited, and located. This is why people are always complaining about MySpace being so tacky and ugly: because it moves beyond the echo chamber of trendiness that most social media companies focus on. I'm always bemoaning the lack of women in visionary positions in social media companies, but what about non-Americans, young people, or older people? What is the effect of these status matrices on software development? Who are we designing for, and what features do we prioritize as a result?
I need to think a LOT more about this topic.
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Along the edge of my wife's garden, spilling onto the brick walkway, grow the peonies planted more than ten years ago. She started the pink flowers with rhizomes from her mother's garden. Those in turn were transplanted from her grandmother's farm sixty years earlier. Telling this story the other day, she said to a visitor, "These are precious to me."
"Rare," "beautiful," "out of the ordinary " are various expressions describing the things of our world that we elevate to the category of "precious," elements of our life to be treasured and cared for, not to be squandered or treated carelessly. We assign this quality to material items considered unique and priceless. In addition, it is the value we give to intangible feelings - respect, affection, confidence - that provide us a sense of optimism and buoyancy. Our health also becomes "precious" when we become aware how vulnerable it is.
On a larger scale, people everywhere, with few exceptions, feel strongly that life itself is "precious." Yet, do we really understand why we feel this way? What is our meaning - what can we point to - when we say, "Life is precious?" How can we appreciate the real basis for the priceless nature of life?
Life is more than personal possessions. It is not limited to having material things, good feelings, and good health. Only when our understanding of life goes beyond possessions - tangible or intangible - can we allow our self to see life's universal, spiritual nature. This seeing, and the spiritual attitude and practice that makes it possible, is itself precious.
Life is the unfolding of something very big, even though we cannot say precisely what that is. The unfolding has no name, yet we may assign a tentative name, such as God, Buddha, Big Mind, or the ground of being. The name we give is unimportant. What is vital is our understanding of its nature.
In the universal sense, life has neither beginning nor end. To see it as if it did is to put artificial limits on it. When that happens, life appears to us in the shape of a game, a project, or a combat. Mistaking the shape, interpreting life as if it were a game, we become concerned with, "Am I winning?" And at the end we ask our self, "Did I win?" This misunderstanding of the true nature of life can provide neither satisfaction nor appreciation of life's true precious quality. How is it possible to "win" something limitless?
The complexity and pace of our modern world distracts us from recognizing the truth of the life we have. We are under continual pressure to "win" in the narrowest sense. Attempting to grasp the intangible "win" produces confusion and alienation. We can "win" by not being concerned with winning, by not troubling our self about "scoring, " or obtaining a personal possession. Then we can start to understand the meaning of "precious" and what life is all about.
It is never too late to arouse the mind of spiritual practice. The arousal starts with the subtle feeling that life's precious nature is rooted in the non-material and non-emotional, beyond what we can see, touch, or feel. It is the desire to see life as it really is, to fully embrace it, to trust it even when the material and emotional things that we cherish in the everyday sense are denied or taken from us. It's starting point is the dim but emerging awareness that everything in life is sacred.
Spiritual practice is reflected in the mindfulness and respect we bring to our daily activities and relationships, in avoiding careless judgments, words, and actions. Carelessness and disrespect for each other and for what we do is like tossing trash into a clean, life-giving stream. Being responsible for the consequences of what we do or say is how we avoid polluting our world, recognizing its precious nature.
All things in our world - including those we are not fond of - are precious. This understanding grows as we practice accepting, with grace, whatever comes our way: delights, difficulties, confusion, heartbreak, joy, wisdom. When we know that this is our work - our spiritual practice - we discover friendship and compassion for everything, without exception. However, without open-minded acceptance, we can become overwhelmed with grasping.
The world we live in is all-inclusive. There are trees, friends, animals, parents, rocks, oceans, competitors, grandchildren, strangers, storms, sunlight. Everything is precious; everything is sacred. Without the vision that comes from spiritual practice, we forget the nature of our world, leaving only a small view of things and of our self. To appreciate the inherent precious quality of our world is to a have a large, unlimited vision of the meaning of our life.