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A blog about the spiritual life and collective liberation.
Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Study the Whole Self, Not the Marketed Self
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Marketing of the self. Aren't we taught to do that pretty early on in life? You gotta stand out or you'll be forgotten, right? You better promote or you will never be successful, right?
I believe there is a double bind around all of this in modern societies. The human tendency to self cherish is the main dish. Humans have been eating it, probably since the beginning of our species. In addition to the main dish is a set of side dishes called consumerism, capitalism, and commodification. Ever seductive, they add endless flavors and textures onto the main dish. I suppose it might be the case that plain old self cherishing gets kind of dull after awhile. It's so much more exciting to be the hot, new product on the block. Or the respected, reliable old one.
The pressure to be a product is damn strong, so much so that even spiritual teachers are falling for it in droves. Being a person with some wisdom mixed with a bag full of delusion doesn't feel good enough. Being a person who takes a shit and can't quite wipe it all clean isn't sexy enough. Being a person who is articulate one minute, and has nothing helpful to say the next just doesn't cut it. And so, we end up with teachers with trademarks at the end of their names. Teachers who spew endless amounts of flowery language. Teachers who market themselves as healers, and then end up abusing the hell out of anyone who gets close to them.
It is any wonder that so many of us are so confused in this life?
Dogen said we need to study the self to forget the self and be liberated by the whole of the universe. This is a great teaching ... and if you think that the self doesn't include the world around you, you're missing the boat. If you think the self doesn't include the racism, sexism, classism, consumerism, warfare, and violence done in the name of religion that we see going on every day, you're simply not studying the self.
I think a lot of Buddhist folks end up studying the "marketed self," as opposed to the whole self. The marketed self might be full of emotional warts and conflicted narratives, but it somehow is treated as a stand alone object, outside of the culture of the society it lives in. This is particularly the case for folks living fairly privileged lives. It's easy to ignore that the murder of black folks in the streets by police officers is just as much about you as the feelings you've held for 30 years about the challenges you had in your childhood.
Some people get really irritated with me when I start talking about systems and collective conditions. Speaking up about white supremacy and systemic racism in white dominated Buddhist centers, for example, tends to create some upset and discomfort. People say things like "spiritual practice is about you. Focus on yourself and stop pointing the finger at others." But this isn't about being petty and judgmental. It's about cultivating an awareness of the larger patterns that are influencing our thinking and behavior. About seeing much of what we see as "normal" and "true" isn't, and that to the extent that we continue mindlessly eating it, we'll be used and controlled by it. And finally, it's about being willing to change and act in support of liberation for all, not just the privileged few.
Posted by Nathan at 12:46 PM 1 comments
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Green Zen
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Today's post comes from my herbal medicine blog at NGTHerbals. Here is an excerpt.
Sometime in the middle of the 8th century, a Zen hermit living in China penned a now famous poem entitled "Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage." It begins with the following lines:
"I've built a grass hut where there's nothing of value.
After eating, I relax and enjoy a nap.
When it was completed, fresh weeds appeared.
Now it's been lived in - covered by weeds."
Whenever I work with the plants, I try and remember these words. The relaxed attitude about it all. The lack of fixation on certain things having value. The surrender to the fact that no matter what, there are always weeds. All around us, and inside our minds as well.
I try and remember, but more often than not I forget. Or loose track while I pick, pluck, and hack away, claiming the burdock roots for their liver health giving properties, while thrusting away the overgrown grape vines that have no clear use.
If we truly want to be healed and liberated, we need to bow down to the mystery of it all.
Posted by Nathan at 8:32 AM 0 comments
Friday, June 19, 2015
On Charleston, Terrorism, and the Future of America
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Nothing short of an extended, ritual purification and reconciliation will do at this point. Removing and burning Confederate flags is only a starting point. We must burn the entire house of white supremacy to the ground. Every last root needs to be dug up, and held high to the sky until the sun of our hearts dries it to a crisp. All the laws, institutions, and national myths that uphold a largely white elite, and pit the rest of us against each other, must be taken down to the river of our tears and drowned forever.
Remembering, or perhaps learning for the first time, that the terrorism of Dylan Roof is the terrorism of Eric Casebolt is the terrorism of Darren Wilson is the terrorism of your white neighbor, white co-worker, white family member blaming black and brown folks for the ceaseless police violence against them is the terrorism of Monsanto the terrorism of Koch Industries the terrorism of Lockheed Martin the terrorism of Goldman Sachs the terrorism of Wells Fargo the terrorism of US Bank the terrorism of Corrections Corporation of America is the terrorism of Wall Street, J Street, and Pennsylvania Avenue is the terrorism of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is the terrorism of a Calvinistic prison system is the terrorism of Pearson Education, CASAS, and the hegemony of standardized testing is the terrorism of endless privatizing of public lands is the terrorism of gentrification is the terrorism of Fox News, NBC Nightly News, CNN, ABC, CBS, the TImes, the Post, the Tribune, the USA Today is terrorism. Beneath the gloss, grit, and surface grime, we are terrorism.
And that's ultimately what we will be as a nation. Until we find a way to reconcile with each other and with the Earth that is our home, our subsistence, our very breath.
Those of us who benefit the most under the current system in particular are being called upon to turn away from the terrorism that built this place. To turn and keep our hearts and minds in the direction of justice for all those who suffer so mightily.
Let's remember that everyone's liberation is intimately tied together. Let's stoke the furnace of a love that moves mountains, even if it takes lifetimes to accomplish.
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Labels: Charleston, love, purification, reconciliation, systemic racism, terrorism, white supremacy
Saturday, May 2, 2015
On Systemic Racism, White American Buddhism, and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Unless you've been totally asleep or hiding under a rock, you're probably aware of the unrest in Baltimore over the police murder of Freddie Grey. Odds are that some of you are upset about the property damage that happened during the peak of the protests, and are amongst those calling for peace, just as was the case last fall when protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri.
Here's what I think. The United States is, by design, a nation of violence. It was born through the execution of genocide against Native populations, and was built in large part via theft and slave labor. Our domestic and foreign policy continues to be driven by endless forms of theft and violence, and people of color across the globe bear the brunt of it.
Under these conditions, we should be applauding the fact that the vast majority of protests in Baltimore and elsewhere across the nation in recent weeks have been non-violent. Furthermore, white Buddhists and other spiritual practitioners would do well to restrain themselves from finger wagging at people of color led social movements that aren't conforming to their ideas about "Right action."
I wrote the following in response to some comments on a post made by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship on their Facebook page a few days ago.
White supremacy has infected the majority of white people living in the US to the point where they almost instinctively side with the mostly white ruling class. Otherwise known as the 1%.
Every last calm, rational, dare I say "peaceful" attempt by people of color and their allies to illuminate the endless ways in which the three interlocked poisons of white supremacy, capitalism, and colonialism is met with another triple treasure: minimizing, denying, and victim blaming.
And when the heat turns up to the level of revolt, including property damage and injuries, it's always fierce verbal resistance from the white masses, a ratcheting up of the oppressiveness from the state, and even more minimizing, denying, and victim blaming.
White Buddhists have a fondness for making appeals for non-violence, and yet far too few are actively working to dismantle white supremacy, and the oppressive economic and social systems that were built to keep it in place, keep us divided, and guarantee that the ruling class stays in place.
In meditation, we're often cued to watch for and unearth our habitual patterns. I have watched these patterns within the US Buddhist community and in the nation as whole unfold for a good generation now, but our history as a nation is built on this kind of call and response. There's never been a house that wasn't thoroughly divided, and riddled with the bullets of inequity, injustice, and systemic, cold blooded murders in the name of maintaining order. Whatever non-violent action has come in the past 500 years - and there has been much - has ALWAYS come against the odds, on land and air so saturated with violence that everything, right down to our water tables, is poisoned.
If you're feeling compelled to condemn the breaking of windows, the burning of buildings, "black on black crime," the injuring of police officers, etc - how about instead taking a pause, and doing some deep reflection on the legacy of this nation. On the endless cycles of violence here and abroad that have led us to today. On all the ways in which the white supremacy that Frederick Douglass, Harriett Tubman, and so many others were resisting in Baltimore well over a century ago is the same white supremacy the protesters are resisting today.
BPF's post contains an article from The Atlantic well worth the read.
I'd like to that it's vitally important to remember that the non-violent social movements that many of us uphold as models - such as the U.S. Civil Rights movement - took years, if not decades to develop. And along the way, there were uprisings that included property damage, injuries, and even deaths. Living in a society that does everything in its power to divide and oppress, and make war and violent conflict seem normal and inevitable, every generation needs to learn anew how to build sustained movements grounded in a diversity of non-violent tactics.
In addition, every new social movement is forced to counter the propaganda of the elite, which aims to render all tactics of liberation as violence. For example, many in the general public, especially amongst white folks, saw the freeway blocking or pop up lunch demonstrations in the months following the Ferguson uprising as illegitimate or somehow worthy of condemnation. Never mind that these are precisely the kind of non-violent tactics necessary to disrupt the narratives of white supremacy and get people talking about possible solutions.
When all other avenues of gaining attention and working to address grievances are shut down, is it any wonder that people sometimes resort to property destruction and physical conflict?
Like many of you, I long for a sustained social movement built on non-violence that leads us towards liberation for all. Let's make the effort to be allies to each other. Instead of assuming the worst of people that are out in the streets fighting for their rights, lets have a more generous understanding of what's going on. Which includes a knowing that there are already many individuals and groups within a movement like BlackLivesMatter working to build creative responses based in non-violent action. The mainstream media would have you believe otherwise, but then again, they're owned and operated by the very people that keep us divided and fighting amongst each other.
Yesterday, I was a part of our annual May Day march in Minneapolis (see photo), which this year merged with a rally and march for BlackLivesMatter. The crowd was highly diverse, and speaker after speaker pointed to the beautiful possibilities that could become reality if we come together, instead of remaining apart. It's time for a critical mass of white American Buddhists and other spiritual practitioners to step up, be supportive, and join the #BlackLivesMatter movement in whatever ways they can.
Monday, April 13, 2015
Mansplaining Away Rape Culture: Waylon Lewis' "Strange" Partial Defense of Yoga Guru Bikram Choudhury
Waylon Lewis of the popular spiritual webzine Elephant Journal has a history of ... ahem ... troubling behavior. In 2011, I wrote a post about racism on EJ, which Waylon sought to defend as humor. The same post and comments section goes into other problematic editorial choices, as well as pointing out how criticism tended to receive a combination of snarky and inflammatory responses from Waylon. That was 4 years ago, and for the most part, I haven't given Elephant Journal any attention. However, that post routinely falls in my top 5 weekly reads list, and new comments have come long after the original issue had died down.
This morning, my attention was drawn to a new controversy. For some odd reason, Waylon has chosen to make a video pleading with us to maintain an "innocent until proven guilty" attitude when it comes to the sexual assault and rape case against Mr. Hot Yoga Empire Dude. Aka Bikram Choudhury.
Of all the people in the yoga world, Bikram is probably the last person in need of such "support." He's amongst the uber wealthy in this country. He's taken the privatization of ancient spiritual wisdom and practices to new heights. And, most importantly, there's an endless string of lawsuits and allegations against him going back well over a decade in some cases. Sure, it's technically true that Bikram is in a court of law innocent until proven guilty. However, throwing your weight behind someone with Bikram's track record is a dangerous proposition. Especially if you're another privileged male. The slide from well intentioned supporter to upholding the good ole boys club and patriarchal oppression is swift and almost inevitable.
But this video wasn't just a call to not indict Bikram prematurely. It was a powerhouse load of horseshit commentary on the nature of sexual assault and rape, as well as the supposed responsibilities of victims experiencing threaten, or potentially threatening conditions. Here are several rebuttal comments from women, as reported in the Wonkette article I cited above, that offer some insight into what I mean:
"Hey Waylon, I think it is a mistake to combine rape culture education awareness together with the Bikram case….I think you make a mistake to pit a feminist approach against a men's group approach."
"Placing the responsibility for preventing rape on women, and placing blame on women for not saying no, however gently, has been around for decades. It hasn't prevented rape."
"I fear that the way you approach these issues and this topic is confirming the reasons why women do not come forward….I hope that you can listen to this feedback, watch this video yourself, and start to have more awareness of yourself and these issues."
"I just found it to be a regurgitation of society's lack of understanding of the depth and breadth of this issue."
"The way that you have attacked commenters who have had the courage to speak to the confusing and upsetting tone of this video is disturbing to me."
"The video is a mass of contradictions and confused thinking about rape/sexual assault. Consensual sex is not sexual assault….Weirdly, despite your entire video lamenting acts of sexual assault, you appear not to know the difference."
As a survivor of a sexual assault via a visiting male professor during my undergraduate days, I find so much of Waylon's take on these issues painfully ignorant and highly damaging. He's since apologized for producing an "offensive" video, but really, offensiveness is the least of my concerns. If Waylon were just some random yoga blogger dude offering such tropes as go report your concerns to the police and they'll take care of it and "just say no" I'd probably just shake my head and perhaps leave a brief comment with some educational links attached to it. However, for better or worse, Waylon runs a magazine with a fairly large following and has become a public figure of some standing in the American yoga and Buddhist communities. Which frankly is a big problem.
I'm guessing that this post will be dismissed by some in spiritual circles as being "personal," coming from "wrong speech," or lacking compassion. In my opinion, though, staying silent on such issues when you have to opportunity and ability to say something corrective is lacking compassion. Furthermore, as a man who is bone tired of the numerous ways in which patriarchy and colonialism have oppressed, damaged, and destroyed people of all genders, I feel that it's long past time for men to see it as normal to call out the bullshit of other men, and work towards creating a more liberated society for all.
So, Waylon and any other man tempted to defend his take on rape and sexual assault: YOU DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! Please, go educate yourselves. You can find some eyeopening statistics and other information here to start with. I can tell you that I didn't say a word to anyone about my assault for a year and a half. I lived with feelings of guilt, shame and confusion that no one sans other survivors really can fully understand. Men are even less likely than women to report such incidents than women, but overall reporting rates are really low, and attitudes like your own only help to guarantee a continuation of that.
Furthermore, don't - in response to what I just wrote - offer "sorries" to me or other survivors for what we went through. Sorry does nothing to put an end to rape culture and the patriarchy that spawned it. Instead, do your homework and start asking what you can do to change the culture.
And whatever you do, stop putting out videos defending notorious male yoga gurus. Just stop. Bikram is more than well equipped to defend himself as it is. So much that even in the face of piles of damaging evidence, he might go free when the odds are he shouldn't.
Posted by Nathan at 5:19 PM 4 comments
Labels: Bikram, Elephant Journal, men, patriarchy, power abuse, rape, yoga
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
We Are Becoming Strangers to Each Other
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The other day, I was on a bus heading to work. There was a guy sitting near me with his headphones turned all the way up. Across the aisle, another guy talked loudly into a cell phone about banalities to some other guy he'd never met before. At one point, head phone dude turned to the woman sitting next to him and said, "This is why I got these headphones. For idiots like that," pointing to the guy on the cell phone. Then he returned to bopping his head to the techno music the entire front end of the bus could hear.
When reflecting on this scene, a few things come to mind. First off, the ways in which simple connecting and interacting with strangers or relative strangers is often sorely lacking in modern urban life. The invasion of technology, as well as multiple generations of people indoctrinated to fear their neighbors, or be suspicious of the actions of those they don't know, has made something as basic as conversations between strangers a rarity. In addition, the disappearance of public space in many cities has eliminated the majority of opportunities to even have those conversations – to make connections with people who you probably would normally not connect with otherwise.
Public spaces are being privatized by the minute. Spending more time in downtown Minneapolis recently, it was interesting to read this article, which points out how little public space is actually left for people to gather together downtown. Not only does the lack of public space lead to more segregated places, but it also creates severe limits on the ability of people to exercise basic rights, such as the right to petition the government and conduct public demonstrations about social issues.
At the same time, remaining public spaces, like buses, are filled with a mixture of invasions into personal space and a lack of healthy, shared interactions between people. On another ride filled with people on cell phones, blackberries, and head thumping music, the guy sitting next to me tried to strike up a conversation with me. However, since I'd spent the previous half an hour bombarded by the noise of cell phone conversations and music from ipods, I could barely follow what he was saying.
And maybe it's just me, but just having a conversation with a stranger for the sake of it seems to becoming rarer and rarer. People want money. Or a cigarette. Or to borrow a cell phone. Or a lighter. As soon as such requests are fulfilled or not fulfilled, the interaction is over. It's totally understandable that someone who is destitute and desperate will be focused on getting their basic needs met. However, I'm seeing this behavior all over, seemingly regardless of background and needs. And I can't claim to be all that much better. Sometimes, I try to interact or at least smile at people I meet on the street or on the bus. Other times, I avoid eye contact all together, hoping to avoid an expected request that I can't, or don't wish to fulfill.
How much of this is a regional, or national theme? I don't know. It would be interesting to hear other folks' experiences with these issues. Do you think it's more difficult to have actual conversations with people in public places? Do you ever strike up conversations with strangers? Do you have any interesting stories related to this topic to share with the rest of us?
Posted by Nathan at 4:23 PM 6 comments
Labels: conversation, modern life, public/private, strangers, technology
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Yoga Culture and the Biomedical Centric Narrative
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Having just completed this long response to a Facebook thread about yoga, the use of pharmaceuticals by yoga teachers, alternative medicine, and the problematic nature of "New Agey" responses to health and wellness issues, I decided it was worthy of a blog post. The original post by a yoga teacher who was shocked to learn of two long time yoga teachers that used meds to treat their depression was, after an apparent fluffy of negative responses, taken down. It was replaced by this apology, while the original piece was responded to by several yoga bloggers, including Matthew Remski and Charlotte Bell. While I appreciate many of the points both Matthew and Charlotte offer, I was struck by what I'd label a biomedical centric quality to their responses. Something that I also found in the discussion that ensued on Matthew's FB page, and which I feel needs to be unpacked in detail to avoid falling into an all too easy "good and evil" binary. Below is my attempt to do a bit of that unpacking.
I've been following this discussion for a few days now, trying to figure out if I should say anything or not. I didn't get to read the original post, so I don't know what kind of claims the author made about pharmaceutical medications or Western bio-medicine in general. One thing I do find curious is - in this depression saturated continent of ours, where medications is a commonplace solution - how the author was "shocked" or even "surprised" that some yoga teachers are using pharmaceuticals to address depression or similar challenges. I honestly don't get the wow factor there.
One tendency I have noticed whenever these discussions about medicine come up is that the power and demands of the biomedical point of view are not often made explicit. For example, there's rarely any direct dialogue about the societal position of biomedicine as orthodox and state sanctioned. And how that positioning allows proponents to dismiss anything else at will without any damage to their credibility or standing. Taking a stand in favor of pharmaceutical intervention has little of the social risk that taking a stand in favor of an energy medicine approach to anxiety or depression does, for example. Or that the same positioning means that the terms of engagement will default to biomedicine's unless deliberate effort is made to question and open space for differing worldviews.
Here, I see many appeals to "experts" and a need for "expertise" and "evidence," without naming the fact that behind this is a demand for whatever is being considered medicine to give deference to biomedicine's criteria for determining validity. That the definition of depression, for example, needs to fall in line with how biomedicine sees it, and/or that any treatments being offered must be backed by scientific "proof," or be explainable using the language and structures of biomedicine. And that anyone who offers some potential treatment option needs to demonstrate a certain level of "competency" - as biomedicine defines competency - or else they'll be lopped off as New Age flakes or charlatans.
Again, I didn't get to read the original post before the author took it down, so I don't know if she made a lot of universalized claims against drug therapies in particular, or solely in favor of alternative approaches. Personally, while I'm not a fan of pharmaceuticals, I think all options should be available for people to choose from. And I wouldn't offer anything with a blanket statement that "THIS IS IT." So, if the author of the original post was operating from that attitude, then I totally get why so many folks reacted so strongly against her post.
At the same time, what I have witnessed over and over again in these kinds of conversations is a tendency for everything to slide under the control of a biomedical narrative. That those who question biomedical interventions are suspect until they prove otherwise. And that "alternative" medical modalities are only valid if at least some of what they offer can be explained or demonstratable under the biomedicine framework.
Along these lines, I actually would argue that the plethora of ill informed yoga folks who knee jerk reject all forms of biomedicine and biomedical approaches, and offer yogic soundbytes and superficial elements of other medicine systems in response to issues like depression are actually a product of this same narrative of inquiry. It takes a lot of effort, strength and persistence to nurture and offer a medicine worldview that isn't biomedicine in this society. Far easier is the path of least resistance, where you know you don't resonate with the dominant model, but make little or no effort to learn and then practice a different one.
Finally, I'm guessing that to some degree or another, the hostility towards folks like the yoga teacher who wrote the original blog isn't really about medicine at all. But about expressed entitlement. Namely, that because person X was at some point anointed a teacher via teaching certificate or some other flimsy method of approval, that they feel "empowered" to "help others" with any problem or issue that arises. That said "yoga teacher" thinks they understand enough to do so, solely or mostly because they've finished some basic course of study, or read a book or whatever. To me, this sense of specialness - that being a yoga teacher means that you have some great level of wisdom and knowledge to "share" - is really the crux of many of the so called controversies in "yoga culture" today.
Posted by Nathan at 9:55 AM 5 comments
Labels: alternative medicine, biomedicine, New Age, pharmaceuticals, power, Western medicine, yoga
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Megyn Kelly, pretty hate machine at Fox News, gained some attention for saying that pepper spray is a food product, essentially. Internet, start internetting.
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The deputy Labour leader and Cabinet minister admitted driving without due care and attention after the collision with a parked car in Dulwich.
She was fined £350, with £75 costs and a victim surcharge of £15, after her lawyer entered the guilty plea at City of Westminster magistrates' court. Her driving licence was also endorsed with three points.
Road safety groups and MPs were outraged because she kept her licence and a second charge of using a mobile while driving was dropped by prosecutors. Careless driving can be punished with a fine of up to £5,000, up to nine penalty points and a ban.
Tory MP Nigel Evans said: "I suspect there will be a few fuming motorists looking at that judgment and wondering how she got off so lightly." A leading road safety campaigner said it was "unacceptable".
Ms Harman, a QC, Privy Council member and former Solicitor General, was not in court to hear the verdict because she was at a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street. The Camberwell and Peckham MP was quizzed by police after she was involved in the collision in July last year, the day she visited the scene of a fire in a Camberwell tower block in which six people died.
It was claimed soon after the incident that Ms Harman wound down her window and told a witness: "I'm Harriet Harman, you know where you can get me."
Another Tory MP David Davies, who is a special constable, said : "The most serious aspect was leaving the scene without giving full details, which seems to me extremely arrogant." Cathy Keeler, from road safety campaign group Brake, criticised the decision to drop the mobile phone charge.
"Driving while on a mobile is illegal for the very good reason makes you far more likely to crash because it distracts your attention from the road — which appears to be exactly what happened in this case."
Michael Jennings, prosecuting, told the court that Ms Harman got into her car while using the phone. "She started the engine using the telephone. It was when she was moving backwards that she hit the car."
Ms Harman's lawyer Mark Haslam said it was a "parking manoeuvre" at a speed of around 5mph. Ms Harman already had six points on her licence, for two speeding offences.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the mobile phone charge had been dropped because the penalty for driving without due care and attention was greater than that for using a mobile.
The due care and attention offence carries a potential penalty of three to nine points and a fine of up to £5,000.
Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald toughened government policy towards offenders.
In 2007, he said: "There is widespread public concern about the use of mobile phones and other hand-held electronic equipment while driving.
Neil Greig, of road safety charity IAM, said: "We're pleased the court has given Ms Harman a fairly substantial fine and three points.
"If a government minister admits using a mobile phone while driving, it makes it very difficult for road safety charities to get their message across."
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Houston Astros (72-83) at Philadelphia Phillies (90-65)
Yorman Bazardo, RHP (0-2, 9.55 ERA) vs. Cole Hamels, LHP (10-9, 4.11 ERA)
Time: 7:05 p.m at Citizens Bank Park
Weather: Sunny, 69
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BREAKING NEWS: According to Meredith Marakovitz of 950 ESPN, J.C. Romero has been activated from the DL. She also reports that Carlos Ruiz could be back as early as Wednesday.
This could be the deciding series for the Fightin' Phils. With their magic number at three, the Phillies could clinch as early as Tuesday depending on the Braves' outcome. The Phillies need to take care of their own business by beating the Houston Astros, who swept them in four games at the beginning of September.
When the games get bigger, Cole Hamels gets better. In his last six starts, Hamels is 3-1 with a 2.01 ERA. He struggled against Houston, allowing four earned runs in six innings.
Hamels will be opposed by Yorman Bazardo, who his seeking his first win of 2009. Bazardo is making his fourth start of the season. He has not lasted more than five innings in any of his starts. Bazardo allows a lot of base runners, 2.08 walks and hits per innings pitched. Opponents are batting .341 against him.
The offense has been better lately, and they should be able to handle Bazarado. However, they have a tendency to struggle against pitchers they've never faced before. The "RISP" stat will be a key stat to look at during tonight's game.
The Phillies were unable to clinch on the road, but it could turn out to be a blessing in disguise if they can clinch in front of the home crowd. The rally towels will be out tonight, and the rest of the series.
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Posts: 0 j reed
nice to see the rally towels again…I still have mine from the play-offs…i think of it more as CC's hankey
Posted: 08:52 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 jt
maybe the phils try too hard against bad pitchers…they need to take a more patient aproach…btw what is it with this astros team they suck but their one of tgem teams that gives the phils trouble.
Posted: 08:56 PM on September 28, 2009
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Oh, beautiful catch by Victorino!
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Posted: 09:00 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Jeff
this game is over. bourne has made us his biatch. since we got swept against this horrible team, the stros are 5-13. the only team they beat is us. amazing.
Posted: 09:02 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Jeff
marlins first and third nobody out and a pop up. my god.
Posted: 09:03 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 jt
Looks like he's still the hamels that sucks…get him out of there already…looks like it'll be down to 4 after tonight fing phillies.
Posted: 09:04 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Morris Buttermaker
Should have kept Cole in, he could have given up that hit.
Posts: 0 Tracey
(sigh) OK, so much for my theory about Walker as a closer…
Posts: 0 Terri
this game is over. I just can't believe we had a 8 divisional lead last week and now it's about to be down to 4. The braves keep winning, while we keep losing.
Posts: 0 karen
I truly see a sweep happening. :( We need like a vent thread on here or something…..I have no idea what to even say :( the braves win and the phillies suck. 1 of our runs came from a balk :(
Posted: 09:06 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Fightin' in NY
The chokathon continues; when will it end?
Posted: 09:06 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Mike D.
Well, that's it
Posts: 0 Tracey
(actually, it's Kendrick I like as a closer)
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Man Hamels is back to his two pitch pony ways . Why isn't he throwing more curveballs in this weather…take advantage of the denser, colder air…it can produce more drag on the ball and subsequently more break.
I mean the cold air is giving his change up more sink. You can't get away with two piitches against veterans like Lee, Berkman and Tejeda for 6 innings….by then they know they can wait on the change-up cause they don't have to fear any other off speed pitch. they have a 50-50 chance of guessing fastball or change-up.
I left for a second….I came back to a plastic surgery disaster…Christ who crapped the bed!
Posts: 0 Ed R.
and its time to start breathing heavy…this is not good. a magic number of 3 means nothing when the team is playing this inconsistently and suddenly our starters can't seem to do anything.
Posts: 0 Mike D.
Well, that's it, the Phils just aren't doing it this season, not like they've been playing.
Posts: 0 Morris Buttermaker
Phillies already gave up on this game. It is not possible for their asses to get any tighter.
Posts: 0 karen
i can see happ winning tomorrow night but when the phillies dont know how to score, what good is great pitching?
Posts: 0 Jeff
first off cole is a jackas for making those comments. choke. he is a true diva. the phillies have no ace, no bullpen and our hitting sucks right now. lets face it even if we get in we are not winning it all.
Posts: 0 Tracey
@Karen: The Phils only have to go .500 to win the division. And that's what they've been doing. I'm underwhelmed by their performance, but I'm not really worried.
Posted: 09:09 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 cas
It is OVER!!!!! We are NOT going to win three out of these last six games. What are the chances of US being the wild card team?
Posted: 09:09 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Morris Buttermaker
I am having trouble telling if they are gutless or heartless.
Posted: 09:10 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 teejvee
Paging Dr heimlich.
Because this team is about to eclipse the 64 phils.
where will a win come from if not tonight.?
Choking of the extreme variety.
Posted: 09:10 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Tracey
JRoll was so right about Phillies fans being front-runners. This is pathetic: they're 5 games ahead with 7 games left to play, and everybody is talking doom and gloom. Who do you think we are, the Mets?
Posted: 09:12 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Fightin' in NY
Oh good, Condrey's in, that will make it all better! Choke, choke, choke, choke, we love to choke our division away!
Posted: 09:13 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 AC from NJ
Tyler Walker is an absolute joke.
Posted: 09:13 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 j reed
tracey – sensible
Posts: 0 Keeg
At the risk of sounding melodramatic….
I truly believe, with some of the performances the team as a whole has turned in since this past weekend, that we may not make the postseason.
It had to get bad for me to say that. But it's down to the wire, and we're playing like it's the beginning of the season and we have a 159 game leeway.
We don't. It's clutch time, and the past two seasons we've been clutch. But i guess we really do need to have something to shoot for. We really do need to be behind the eight ball. Cause this September has been downright pathetic compared to the last two.
Pitching is faltering, our bats are cold as ice and we don't want it.
So we're not gonna get it.
Posts: 0 karen
honestly, for what this team is, they are pathetic. They show absolutely nothing. too many people had this clinched already…..and if they do the minimum to get in, how will they beat the rockies/braves/cards/dodgers?
Posts: 0 Morris Buttermaker
Jimmy is the biggest front runner of them all. He only talks to the media when he is playing well and the Phillies are winning. If he had a bad game, or the Phillies lose, he is nowhere to be found.
Posts: 0 Ed R.
Both. This team is an absolute disgrace. Good teams wrap divisions up and bury bad teams like the Astros. Instead they are playing like crap in every facet of the game.
Posts: 0 Terri
the BP blows. can't even get a out with 2 outs.
Posts: 0 jeff s
choke? really? or just a bad game. still a four game lead. relax
Posts: 0 jt
It's time to push the panic button the phils pitching sucks,the hitters make bad pitchers look like cy young winners and the bullpens a complete joke…the braves look like their gonna win out so this isn't looking good.
Posts: 0 Tracey
On what planet is 5-5 for the last ten games "choking"? Yeah, they've blown this game. Life's a bitch. So they'll win the next one.
Posted: 09:16 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Morris Buttermaker
Catch you later guys, I am going to go clean my cat litter pan, and mop my basement. It will be more entertaining than this game.
Posted: 09:17 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Keeg
Tracey- I would agree with you about the doom and gloom, but have you seen how they're playing. They're not playing like they're gonna win the last three games. If anything they're playing like they don't want to win. Sounds dumb but hey, just watch for a little, or see the 8-2 lead the ASTROS have on us. Oh and the two runs? A sac fly and a balk. 2 hits total.
I'd say we might very well match the Mets of two seasons past.
Posted: 09:17 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Mike D.
@Tracey, it doesn't matter whether or not we are the Mets since we're playing like the Mets. If our pen was healthy, if Ruiz was healthy, if Lidge didn't suck, we wouldn't be worried…but then if all the above were true, we'd have already clinched.
Posts: 0 Greg
Does anyone know the stats on the Mets collapse last year? When we bend over and give this to the Braves it will be worse, right?
Posts: 0 jt
looks like tyler walkers back to reality too.
Posts: 0 Ed R.
This team is pressing so badly. Clearly they can not take the pressure of being the front runner. As Werth said, when their backs are to the wall they turn it on. The difference is in previous years the Phils were depending on another team to collapse so they could take advantage now the roles are reversed. Right now this team just can't seem to do anything right. Can't pitch, can't field, can't hit…it's unbelievable considering the talent on this team. I know Charlie just likes to let his guys do their thing and expect them to come together but if he allows this to continue like he did with throwing Lidge out there then October 4th will be the Phillies last game.
Posts: 0 charlie
This team may well not get into the postseason. They are totally lost and we cannot hit mediocre pitching like the Astros threw against us tonight. Hamels is a big fat choke. Big pitchers come up big when a win is needed. He is a half-assed excuse for a pitcher. He gives of 6 RUNS tonight against a sub .500 team.
Posts: 0 Brian of CO
This is exactly why I am afraid of this team blowing it. This team is playing like utter CRAP. Not even mediocre. They need to win 3 games, and they are playing two teams who have swept them this season. The Phillies are not getting any help from the braves. I honestly believe they will blow it. I think they might win one game against the stros, and probably one game against the fish, but I dont see the Braves losing one. Like someone in an earlier post said "the Astros are sending two pithers with horrible ERA's to the mound." The problem is, the Phillies make BAD pitchers look like Cy Young Winners.
Posts: 0 BS
Ok, this is embarrassing. Happ and Lee better do their job tomorrow, and the offense better wake up against these terrible pitchers.
Posts: 0 cas
To Tracey: Whatever makes you think "they'll win the next one"? It's another no-name unfamiliar horrible pitcher like the one they faced tonight who they can't get more than 1 hit from for the first 6 innings. We're not playing like July and August anymore–we're playing like June and the Braves are NOT going to lose another game.
Posts: 0 Radi0
To echo the sentiments of many, this team is a disgrace that will probably miss the playoffs. When I said this after Lidge blew that game in Florida last week, I was torn apart and told that I don't know baseball. I know a sinking ship when I see one, and it does break my heart to see it happen. But the Phils are lifeless and the Braves are on fire. On the plus side, nothing can ever tarnish the WFC season of 2008 — that can never be taken away from us!
Posted: 09:20 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Jeff
tyler is a joke. charlie should be fired if we dont get in. letting lidge blow all those saves. maybe we can make the wildcard.
Posted: 09:20 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Mike D.
Many have suggested that they're tired. If this is true, then call this game as unwinnable and rest everyone for tonight, or sacrifice tomorrow to have our boys fresh for Wednesday. Or at LEAST sit Werth and play Francisco.
Posted: 09:21 PM on September 28, 2009
Posts: 0 Tracey
@Mike: Yeah, that's the same garbage that I've been hearing all month, and I'm tired of it. They're winning about half of their games. That's all they need to go to the playoffs. And that's assuming that Atlanta doesn't lose any, which I find hard to believe.
I'm disappointed that they're not going to gain any ground tonight, because I'm going to tomorrow's game, and I wanted to be there when they clinched. Well, I've also got tickets for Friday's game; maybe that's when they'll clinch. :\
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Tulo / Longo or A. Jones / Strasbourg
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who would you rather have?
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Dozier and Carrasco for Sale?by Andrew Jun 17, 2015 4:49 PMMike Mike Jun 17, 2015 4:54 PM Flag
I think I would go sale
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Trade help!by Ryan Jun 17, 2015 4:09 PMMike Mike Jun 17, 2015 4:20 PM Flag
Desmond has been a disappointment so far but I don't have confidence that Reyes stays healthy.......I think the desmond side is the side I would gamble on ROS
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* J. Votto or C. Gonzalez + M. Holliday *by Jon Jun 17, 2015 3:08 PMMike Mike Jun 17, 2015 3:20 PM Flag
probably Votto if you are making this about keeper value but if its for a run this year its really about who is playing 1b for you now and how much did it upgrade the OF
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DID I GET BENT OVER? BIG TIME KEUCHEL/CANO TRADEby Nelson Jun 17, 2015 2:08 PMMike Mike Jun 17, 2015 3:18 PM Flag
Based on numbers until now you lost BUT you may have a buy low heist if Cano starts hitting and Stras gets back on track after time off.....I don't know if cecil keeps the job all year so I think you did fine.....also assuming you have enough pitching to make a gamble!
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U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced legislation limiting magazine capacities to no more than 10 rounds. New York recently enacted a measure limiting gun magazines to seven rounds. Other states are considering their own restrictions.
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Current computing is based on binary logic -- zeroes and ones -- also called Boolean computing, but a new type of computing architecture stores information in the frequencies and phases of periodic signals and could work more like the human brain using a fraction of the energy necessary for today's computers, according to a team of engineers.
Vanadium dioxide is called a "wacky oxide" because it transitions from a conducting metal to an insulating semiconductor and vice versa with the addition of a small amount of heat or electrical current. A device created by electrical engineers at Penn State uses a thin film of vanadium oxide on a titanium dioxide substrate to create an oscillating switch.
This is a cartoon of an oscillating switch, the basis of a new type of low-power analog computing.
Credit: Credit: Nikhil Shukla, Penn State
Using a standard electrical engineering trick, Nikhil Shukla, graduate student in electrical engineering, added a series resistor to the oxide device to stabilize oscillations over billions of cycles. When Shukla added a second similar oscillating system, he discovered that, over time, the two devices began to oscillate in unison. This coupled system could provide the basis for non-Boolean computing. Shukla worked with Suman Datta, professor of electrical engineering, and co-advisor Roman Engel-Herbert, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, Penn State. They reported their results today (May 14) in Scientific Reports.
"It's called a small-world network," explained Shukla. "You see it in lots of biological systems, such as certain species of fireflies. The males will flash randomly, but then for some unknown reason the flashes synchronize over time."
The brain is also a small-world network of closely clustered nodes that evolved for more efficient information processing.
"Biological synchronization is everywhere," added Datta. "We wanted to use it for a different kind of computing called associative processing, which is an analog rather than digital way to compute."
An array of oscillators can store patterns -- for instance, the color of someone's hair, their height and skin texture. If a second area of oscillators has the same pattern, they will begin to synchronize, and the degree of match can be read out.
"They are doing this sort of thing already digitally, but it consumes tons of energy and lots of transistors," Datta said.
Datta is collaborating with Vijay Narayanan, professor of computer science and engineering, Penn State, in exploring the use of these coupled oscillations to solve visual recognition problems more efficiently than existing embedded vision processors.
Shukla and Datta called on the expertise of Cornell University materials scientist Darrell Schlom to make the vanadium dioxide thin film, which has extremely high quality similar to single crystal silicon. Arijit Raychowdhury, computer engineer, and Abhinav Parihar graduate student, both of Georgia Tech, mathematically simulated the nonlinear dynamics of coupled phase transitions in the vanadium dioxide devices. Parihar created a short video simulation of the transitions, which occur at a rate close to a million times per second, to show the way the oscillations synchronize. Venkatraman Gopalan, professor of materials science and engineering, Penn State, used the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory to visually characterize the structural changes occurring in the oxide thin film in the midst of the oscillations.
Datta believes it will take seven to 10 years to scale up from their current network of two-three coupled oscillators to the 100 million or so closely packed oscillators required to make a neuromorphic computer chip. One of the benefits of the novel device is that it will use only about one percent of the energy of digital computing, allowing for new ways to design computers. Much work remains to determine if vanadium dioxide can be integrated into current silicon wafer technology.
"It's a fundamental building block for a different computing paradigm that is analog rather than digital," said Shukla.
Also contributing to this work are Eugene Freeman and Greg Stone, all of Penn State; Haidan Wen and Zhonghou Cai, Argonne National Laboratory; and Hanjong Paik, Cornell University.
The Office of Naval Research primarily supported this work. The National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing Award also supported this work.
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You mean that GPG couldn't sign your feed using its configured default key? Sounds more like a GPG problem... (I've added a note to the web-page, though).
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In South Texas, At Least, Ex-Cowboys QB Quincy Carter Is a "Big Name"
On the day when new jobless claims hit a 26-year high, word has come down that there's one man in America who, apparently, will never go without a job: former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Quincy Carter. Down in Hidalgo, Carter yesterday signed a contract with the Rio Grande Valley Dorados of arenafootball2 -- apparently, the more prosperous of the indoor football leagues, as it's not the one close to shuttering for at least a season. Said general manager Grant W. Buckborough, "Not only do we welcome a big name, but we welcome a guy with a tremendous arm who we hope will guide us deep into the playoffs."
Carter had been with the Kansas City Brigade -- for all of four months, signing a two-year deal in June that ended in October. Says Brigade executive director Brad Likens in this morning's Kansas City Star, that was Carter's idea: "Quincy has ties to Dallas and Texas, and he still had personal matters he wanted to attend to [there]. I don't think that living in Kansas City really sunk in with him, so we decided at the end of the day that it would be best if we released him and he went back to Dallas." Which is, oh, only 513 miles away from Hidalgo. --Robert Wilonsky
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