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Dr. Reggie Ray is an author, teacher, and the Spiritual Director for the Dharma Ocean Community in Crestone, Colorado.
In this episode Reggie and host Vincent Horn conclude their conversation by discussing the recurring cycle of conflict between "authentic lineages" and "institutional lineages" in the world's religions. Reggie describes the personal toll this conflict had on his teacher, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and how many unorthodox teachers have found themselves threatened and restricted by religious institutions. He then describes how the techniques of Mahamudra can lead us to identify all the places where we hold back as people so that we may find freedom from all forms of restriction.
This is part two of a two part series.
Listen to part one – BG 281: Mahamudra in the Modern World
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Vincent: Another thing you sort of talked about quite a bit in the Mahamudra program is this notion of authentic lineage. And I wondered if you could say a little bit about what the difference is between authentic linage and what you call institutional linage.
Reggie: Maybe it would be helpful just to mention the origins of Christianity.
Vincent: Okay.
Reggie: Jesus was called mamzer which means he was a bastard. He's called a mamzer in Hebrew. He didn't have a legitimate father, Jewish father. And it's believed that a Roman soldier was the father of Jesus and Mary basically had this child. And within that culture, being a bastard, you couldn't go to the temple. I mean you were debarred really from the tradition. So he did not, you know, he was a very deeply spiritual person but he had no access to the official institutional lineage. But at the same time he had a direct relationship with what we would call the dharmakaya or with the ultimate reality. He had his own relationship. And he said actually that's my father, this ultimate reality is not this human person.
And of course Jesus was Jewish, and there were many people in his Jewish community who were attracted, tremendously attracted to him because they felt that the institutional lineage was basically, it was dead, it was driven by politics, you know, blah blah blah. Well that dynamic repeats itself over and over and over throughout human religious history, and it really repeats itself in Buddhism.
And I wrote a book called, an academic monograph, which probably only two or three people have read, called Buddhist Saints in India. And it really explores this whole history of Buddhism where the really people who are on fire such as Buddha Sakyamuni himself, that they're often at odds with the institutions around them, because the institutions are always trying to control and territorialize the teachings. And that wasn't what the Buddha was about. And when he started he was actually criticized for not being part of an existing lineage.
And the first story told about Buddha after his enlightenment. Somebody said what's your lineage? I'm not going to study with you unless you can tell me that you belong to some kind of authentic institutional lineage. And he said well I don't. And the guy said why? And he said because I had my own direct relationship with reality, with what's ultimate, with the enlightened mind. And that's what I'm teaching. I have my own relationship to it. And the guy said well maybe so maybe not and he walked off and he did not become a student of the Buddha. I think that's very significant that that's the earliest story told about the Buddha.
Vincent: Already there.
Reggie: Already there. And we've seen that through the whole history of Buddhism and even down to the modern day. You know, Buddhism needs institutions in the sense of institutions have been part of every Buddhist culture and they have served the culture in many many many ways and many good ways. But the one thing about institutions, the Buddhist institutions, which are the monastic institutions and now they're corporate Buddhist institutions which we see in the west, is they really are more interested in preserving the forms of Buddhism than the inner essence. And as long as the institutions are ultimately willing to differ to the teachings themselves, to the inner essence of Buddhism, to the experience of enlightenment or awakening or transformation, then they're fine. They're good and we need them. But unfortunately through Buddhist history there has been a tendency for the institutions to become self-serving and often de-marginalized people who are actually practicing or people who are teaching practice. It's happened over and over and happened with Chögyam Trungpa and happened with his teachers. It's just part of how it goes.
So from my point of view if you want to talk about authentic lineage, ultimately the only authentic lineage is the lineage that delivers the experience of awakening and freedom and love, delivers it as a human experience of transformation. And if the institution is not there, it doesn't matter. If the institution is there that's great. But that's the ultimate marker. Unfortunately, in the western world, we are so bureaucratically minded that most people simply will not believe anything that doesn't come delivered by the Roman Catholic Church or the Center of Protestant Ministers or the Council of whatever it may be, or the Buddhist Institution. They simply will not believe it. You know they want to trust authority. It's sad, but that's the world we live in right now. But I would say Buddhists are less prone to that problem than most other people. So that's the good news.
Vincent: And it sounds like in some ways that's the world we have lived in for quite a while too, in terms of differing to institutions. I mean you're saying this is a kind of primordial issue. [laughter]
Reggie: Yeah. It's a primordial issue. You know what I find very very kind of interesting and also humorous, my generation, which is the 60s and 70s, they threw out institutions. Like throw them out. We want to be free. But those very same people now are hanging on for dear life to very traditional Asian Buddhist institutional forms. I think that's really ironic. What happened to the 60s? Where is everybody? [laughter]
Vincent: Was it Steve Jobs or who is it that said you know maybe it's just a kind of common understanding: Don't trust anyone that's over 30.
Reggie: Yeah.
Vincent: Well maybe you guys got over 30 and then it went downhill or something. I don't know. [laughter]
You know this was a story that I didn't really know until I heard you describe it in the Mahamudra for the Modern World program which was Trungpa's life as in some way throwing off institutional lineage. And it was so striking to me when you described his experience coming to England, and then sort of teaching in a different way, and really starting to attract people, and then getting a ton of pushback from the institutional lineage of Tibet.
It sounded like such a difficult process to sort of breakaway from that. And it sounded really painful, like a process of dying in some way. And I wondered if you could share a little bit about sort of Trungpa's experience as you understood it with respect to this kind of breaking from institutional lineage in service of, you know of what you're saying before, the sort of marker of delivering freedom, love, awakening.
Reggie: Well he was trained, as I said, in this lineage which is the transformative experience is what we're looking for. People change. People become free. People become fully who they can be in the sense of being awake and present. So that was his training. And he wanted to teach that. What he didn't understand when he was in Tibet was he thought he could use the traditional forms of Tibetan Buddhism and the community of Tibetan Buddhism to do it.
And so he went to India and then he went to England as you mentioned. And he looked at his English students and he saw something different from what his compatriots saw. As his wife discusses in her book on Chögyam Trungpa's life, when his compatriots looked at westerners they saw barbarians. They saw lay people who shouldn't be given the highest teachings. They saw potential donors who could give money and help them support Tibetan culture in exile. That's what they saw.
Chögyam Trungpa saw human beings who wanted to be free and who wanted the deepest teachings from him in order to be like him to be free the way he was free. And that's what turned him on. That's what he taught to. And he met them. He met us. He met us halfway. And he, at a certain point he realized the monastic thing is really getting in the way. And so he gave up his robes and became a lay person. And then he realized I need to share the life of these people I'm trying to teach and so he got married.
And his compatriots, as you know from Mahamudra of the Modern World program, they threw him out of the monastery that he had founded actually with them. And they prevented him from teaching and they spread rumors that he'd gone insane. And they even called up the English secret service and told them that he was a subversive person and he couldn't get a visa to the United States because of it. They wanted to destroy him because he wanted to give the teachings in an open way to people who desperately wanted the teachings.
And it's an old story. You know you go back to history. Many people have been killed for doing what he was doing and doing what I'm doing. They were killed for it because the institution was so threatened by the actual teachings of Buddhism.
Vincent: That's heavy.
Reggie: It's very heavy and it goes on all the time. And it's still going on throughout the world. Talk to the Zen teachers. Talk to the some of the Theravada teachers. Talk to the westerners like me who are trying to teach Tibetan Buddhism in a new way. There are many Asians who totally get it and are a 100% in favor of what I'm doing and what other people are doing, but there are a lot more that aren't. And it's an institutional thing. It's a cultural thing. It's an ego thing in my opinion.
They do not want to open up. It's very heavy. And his experience was just about as dark and heavy as I could ever possibly imagine. And as I mentioned in the Mahamudra program, he got to the point where he was ready to kill himself. Because he felt like I'm not going to be able to teach. These people are stopping me from teaching and it's all I care about. And so, I'm going to kill myself and luckily his wife stopped him.
Vincent: Good thing he got married. [laughter]
Reggie: It's a good thing he got married to the last possible second, right. [laughter]
Vincent: I found interesting as well that later on its like the institutional lineage re-invited him back in? Like once he sort of becomes successful and I'm sure it was different people. But I thought that was very, it's sort of a sad statement in some ways that it took him really breaking away and becoming successful at having a lot of people paying attention to what he was teaching that took that to sort of, kind of re-invited back in to his original sort of tradition.
Reggie: Well I wouldn't say he was re-invited.
Vincent: Okay.
Reggie: Because he was not re-invited. And what he was teaching was not re-invited. The traditional Tibetan response, let's say they were the response on the part of the traditional Tibetan community Tulku community was that because he was so successful that proved that what he was doing was legitimate.
Vincent: Yes.
Reggie: And they wanted a piece of the action too.
Vincent: That's in some ways, that's why I'm saying it's kind of sad cause it seems very clear that there's a self-serving thing going on there.
Reggie: I think it was probably self-serving, and I think partly they realized that they didn't really understand the western world and he did. And he was connecting and he did have good students. I mean the thing that really, you know, to speak in favor of the Tibetan community for a minute: what really impressed them was the level of practice we were doing. It wasn't just that he had a lot of students and he published books and we owned a lot of buildings.
It was what really got the really good teachers was: wow they're doing Vajrayogini practice. Wow. These people are doing retreats, which you know in Tibet solitary retreat was considered incredibly challenging and terrifying. And here Rinpoche had hundreds of people going into solitary retreat. And so they really saw that what he was doing was good. But I also have to say this. And if I were 10 years younger I wouldn't but I'm going to say it. I really don't think most Tibetan teachers actually fully understand what he was doing or what he did.
And that surprises me. I thought that after his tremendous success and then no. 2 that they saw it, that somehow they would be able to open up to the western environment as nakedly and openly as he did. And I must say, while there is tremendous love for him and devotion and respect for him, strangely enough I don't really see it happening. I see very few, even the younger Tibetan teacher who really actually really got what he got 50 years ago.
And that makes me sad. And it makes me realize that I think what the Tibetan community is, you know, really I think what it's come down to in terms of their responsibility is, and I know this from Tulkus that are close friends and very fine teachers, their number one thing now is they really have to look after their own communities in Asia. Most of the focus of monasteries in India and Nepal that they have to support.
And they do need to teach western teachers. But I think, from most of the really good ones, they really realize that's really where they have to put their energy. And I think it's appropriate. I don't, again just to repeat, I don't think what Chögyam Trungpa was doing, honestly there might be one or two teachers where I think it's happening, but generally no. And that's why for me I felt a lot more responsibility and pressure in terms of what I'm doing in terms of keeping alive his approach because his approach is not Tibetan.
His approach is the intersection between ancient culture and modern culture and exploring and exploiting that territory. And that's what the Mahamudra teachings are all about. They are not, you know, Mahamudra teachings are not Vajrayana. They're not Buddhism. They're not Tibetan. They are a series of techniques to lay bare the foundations of human experience.
And when we lay those foundations bare, first of all that is what liberation is. And number two: we're not Tibetans. We're not westerners. We are living in a sphere of human freedom and joy that every single person on this planet has in them and has as an imperative for their own life. And I just think that's why these teachings and his lineage are so important at this exact moment.
Vincent: Okay. Great. And you know I wanted to also kind of come at it from the opposite angle. So we talked a bit about the dangers of institutional lineage and the importance of authentic lineage. I was sort of reflecting on modern systems, modern institutions like democracy and how they work. And this is a very simple understanding I'm sure. But part of the ways that something like democracy works is it seems like it keeps, at its best, keeps any one group or one person from gaining absolute power. It keeps the power sort of spread out.
And I'm wondering how we can reconcile the importance of authentic lineage on the one hand, with the recognition that these kinds of modern systems in particular are sort of a critical way to ensure that corruption, extremism, abuse of power don't start creeping into the communities and cultures and institutions that naturally start to form around people that have an authentic realization that they're sharing with people. And just what your thoughts are on that sort of side of things.
Reggie: Well I think as we see with Buddhism, anytime there is what I would call triumphalism, and that's a term used in religious dialogue to refer to the point of view that you have the best teaching and you have the best community. And Tibetan Buddhism today is really it's a triumphalist religion. It really has a kind of attitude that it has the highest teachings. And anytime you have that kind of point of view, you're in ego territory. Anytime there's a belief that your own approach and your own practices and your own ideas are better than other peoples, that's what Trungpa Rinpoche called spiritual materialism. It's using spirituality to fortify your own ego. So that's the danger I think with any group that sequesters itself off in any way from any other group.
But then we have democracy which almost has the other problem which is that everybody's values are as good as everybody else's. And if you have enough people who want to do things a certain way they should be allowed to do it. And I would say the problem with that point of view is there are certain values at the root of the human person and some of them are actually in our constitution you know in the United States that really agree.
You know the idea that people should have life. Life is an inherent right. They should have liberty. They shouldn't be oppressed. And they should be able to find the deepest happiness in their life. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But what happens if there's no value beyond that?
I mean what if people make themselves happy by actually degrading themselves and making themselves miserable? So you know it's interesting. We're sort of in between these two things. We don't want to have some religion like Buddhism come in and take over because we're going to be right back where we started.
Vincent: Not that that would happen really anyway.
Reggie: Well, no, it wouldn't. But I mean the Christian right at a certain point had that aspiration of wanting to take over. And on the other hand if we just let everything sort of go and just give up on in terms of trying to discover any basic values in human life then we're not helping people. That's not helpful. Anything goes approach isn't really helping other people. So I think we're at a very interesting point in modern history where what I feel needs to happen is there needs to be, we need to take on a real exploration of the human person from a spiritual point of view and see what is it.
You know what are the fundamental qualities that really bring true happiness to people? And we need to find a way to deliver it that doesn't require people to sign up for institutions. And that's what I'm trying to do, you know, with my teaching.
Vincent: I mean it seems like in some ways this is such a challenging area cause as soon as humans start getting together they inevitably have to create some sort of structure or system to be able to work together efficiently or effectively.
Reggie: That you see, you're right on it. That's it. How organized do you have to be, like in my case?
Vincent: Yeah.
Reggie: How organized…
Vincent: I mean you're obviously not a government. I mean you're not; there are not 330 million people that you're trying to serve. [laughter]
Reggie: No. But you know everybody faces it. Every spiritual community and every person who's an individual practitioner you know should I be part of the community? Should I get together with other people? How much organization do we need to deliver something really deep and really authentic for people and then how much is too much?
Vincent: Yeah. And this is sort of one of the big questions on my mind and I think its one we've been exploring at lot with Buddhist Geeks, which is not just what Buddhism have to offer the modern world but what does the modern world have to offer Buddhism. And it seems like one of the problems that I keep running into or keep seeing is that you know teachers and practitioners, you know people that are really going deep in their thing they're like specialists. They really specialized, just like you specialized in 40 years of practice and study and teaching.
And so we're not experts at institutions and technology. That's not our specialty. So I guess the bigger question for me is like as you've done this for the last 40 years or so, what kinds of things have you sort of learned that need to change on the institutional front, on the kind of systems level front of how we do things? I mean you're kind of mentioning a really important principle. It sounded like having as much organization as needed but no more. Are there other things that you sort of seen in terms of things you've learned from the modern world that could apply to how you kind of self organizes as a community or just thing that you might sort of throw out there.
Cause so many other problems that seemed to be coming up you know all the scandal in the Zen tradition. They seemed to really have a lot of the roots in feudal systems leading to people seeing the teacher in a certain way. It's institutionalized through the Koan system in terms of how people view the teacher. It's institutionalized in terms of the very strict top down hierarchy. You know all these things seemed to be a really big part of why these scandals which in the modern context they're simply not okay. You know the New York Times and LA Times are sort of writing about them, right?
And yet there's something of real depth that's being offered in those. We can't say because there's scandal there's nothing good there. So I'm just wondering as a teacher you must have thought about some of these issues.
Reggie: Well you said something right at the beginning which I want to come back to. Something I don't remember exactly but something along the lines of that I wanted to, you were reporting that I said that I wanted to offer these Mahamudra teachings in an open way to everybody.
Vincent: Yes.
Reggie: At the same time without sacrificing depth. And I would actually turn it around and I would say unless these teachings are offered in a completely open way I am sacrificing the depth. And what I mean by that is the more Buddhism holds on to its identity. Its cultural identity, its social identity, which means like the hierarchies that you mentioned, its patriarchy, its feudal approach, the more it hangs on to that the more it sacrifices its own depth. You know it's every interesting that Buddhist institutions and Buddhist organizations and Buddhist lineages often feel they have to protect the teachings from the modern world. And my understanding from Chögyam Trungpa is the more you try to protect the teachings from the modern world the more you are sacrificing the depth of the teachings.
Vincent: That's interesting. Can you say a little bit more of that? In what sense is it sacrificing the depth?
Reggie: I shouldn't be a specialist in meditation. That's not really what this lineage is about or a specialist in being in solitary retreat. I need to be a specialist in letting go. I need to be a specialist in letting go of my previous ideas, my previous assumptions about the modern world, about spirituality, about who people are, about higher and lower. If I can, you know through, the whole point of Mahamudra is to identify all the places where we hold back as people.
All the places where we have all kinds of assumptions about reality; and therefore, we don't give reality a chance. And we need to let go of those and we need to meet the modern world. We need to meet the internet. We need to meet hospitals and corporations. We need to go in in a completely open way and see what the possibilities are and see who the people are. So the whole process I think of this idea that by opening to the modern world we're sacrificing the teaching is actually completely wrong and backwards.
Vincent: I really appreciate that. I was just remembering Jon Kabat-Zinn at one point said the dharma doesn't need to be policed. It can take care of itself. And in some ways, I wonder if that's part of the impetus to try to protect things is thinking that somehow like the dharma is going to be at risk in some way.
Reggie: I think people do think that.
Vincent: Yeah.
Reggie: What's at risk is their concept of the dharma.
Vincent: [laughter] I think that's a really great point. Yeah.
Reggie: Open. Open. Open. Open. Trust reality. Trust this encounter. Trust this conversation. Trust this situation. Trust means you let go. And when you let go you can meet reality as it actually is. And it can be anything it wants to. I mean who has the right to say that business in the modern world doesn't have spiritual possibilities. Who knows? A lot of people think it doesn't. A lot of people think corporations are bad.
Vincent: Right.
Reggie: Who knows? That's just somebody's thought. Why don't we go and find out and let's see what happens when we go into whatever possible situation is there. That process frees the practitioner. When I do that I am, that's how I free myself is by opening myself to threatening situations.
Vincent: It's interesting when you talk about it in those terms that understanding of "dharma" isn't limited to the context of being on a solitary retreat or meditating. I mean the context of running a business, which something that I do, I very much have been trying to catch up with my understanding of what does it mean to practice as business. And it's been interesting to see like that actually for a long time I haven't seen them as equal opportunity practice grounds. And that in some ways the way you're describing it, and I totally agree with this, is that that's actually a delusion to think that this context is more of an opportunity to practice than this other context.
Reggie: Very much so. Yeah.
Vincent: So I really appreciate that sort of broader vision for what this is about.
Reggie: Well you know coming back to Mahamudra. There's a saying in Mahamudra which you've heard me say infinite times I'm sure over the years, that the goal of practice is to develop a complete openness and acceptance to all situations and emotions and to all people. And to realize that reality itself from top to bottom is always showing itself its perfection. Only through developing a complete and unobstructed openness to the world do we actually get to experience and enjoy and be liberated by the life that we have. That's the dharma. And any kind of retraction or retreat or setting up oppositions is not helpful. It just imprisons us.


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Duo find resolve in contract battle
After escalating quickly into a public war of words, the contract battle between Time Warner Cable and Viacom ended quietly in the wee hours of New Year's Day with a deal that averted the threatened blackout of MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and 16 other Viacom-owned channels.
The deal to renew Time Warner Cable's carriage agreements for the Viacom owned cablers was confirmed by the sides shortly after 2 a.m. Thursday, two hours after the 12:01 a.m. expiration of the previous contract. Although the sides went to war via the media, talks between Viacom and Time Warner Cable execs continued all day Wednesday and past midnight Eastern time in an effort to keep the channels from going dark.
The long-simmering contract battle between Viacom and TWC went public late Tuesday evening as both sides accused the other of making unreasonable demands that were roadblocks to a new three-year carriage agreement for 19 of Viacom's 20 cablers on TWC-controlled systems, which reach 14.7 million subscribers in New York, L.A. and other major markets. TWC is the nation's second-largest cable operator, behind Comcast Corp.
Viacom made the first moves, reaching out to reporters late Tuesday with details of the talks and the approaching deadline. On Wednesday, Viacom bought full-page ads in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times featuring an image of Nickelodeon's "Dora the Explorer" character under the headline "Why is Dora Crying?" The ad urged viewers to call Time Warner Cable with complaints.
On Thursday, despite the eleventh-hour agreement, Viacom had a full-page ad again in the L.A. Times headlined "Why is SpongeBob Freaking Out?" and declaring that "Time Warner Cable has taken him off the air!"
"We are sorry (TWC subscribers) had to endure a day of public disagreement as we worked through this negotiation," TWC prexy and CEO Glenn Britt said in a statement announcing the "agreement in principle" that prevented the channels from going dark on TWC systems. The sides said they would hammer out the final details during the next few days.
"We've been partners with Time Warner Cable for a long time, and we're happy to be renewing that partnership for the benefit of their customers and our loyal viewers," Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman said.
"It's gratifying that we could reach an agreement that benefits not only our audiences but that is also in the best interest of both of our companies."
Despite the niceties in the early ayem Thursday statement, TWC brass were clearly caught off guard late Tuesday by Viacom's aggressive PR maneuver, which included the addition of a crawl alert on its channels warning viewers that hits ranging from "The Colbert Report" to "SpongeBob SquarePants" might soon be MIA on Time Warner Cable systems.
In a lengthy statement issued Wednesday morning, Britt returned fire by blasting Viacom for "trying to extort another $39 million annually" from TWC. "We sympathize with the fact that Viacom's advertising business is suffering and that their networks' ratings have largely been declining. However, we can't abide their attempt to make up their lost revenue on the backs of Time Warner Cable customers," Britt said.
Details of the tentative pact were still sketchy Thursday. Viacom had said it was seeking modest fee hikes that would amount to less than 25 cents per subscriber per month for the 19 channels. (Viacom's BET is covered by a separate contract.) Viacom emphasized that it has recently cut renewal deals with numerous other cable operators, but months of talks with TWC brass reached an impasse earlier this week as the deadline approached.
Sources familiar with the situation noted that Viacom's MTV Networks wing has been pressing hard for higher subscriber fees in its recent renewal negotiations with cable operators, in part because in past years Viacom has been willing to horse trade carriage for distribution commitments for new channels. As a result, the fees cabler operators pay for Viacom- channels tend to be significantly lower than the coin paid to comparable nets owned by Disney, News Corp. and other media congloms.
To support that claim, Viacom sent out a report issued Wednesday by Bernstein Research senior analyst Michael Nathanson, who estimated that TWC spends about $300 million annually in subscriber fees for Viacom nets. That amounts of 2.8% of TWC's revenue from its cable programming services. "Viacom's cable networks are materially under-priced relative to their peers, which we believe represents an opportunity for Viacom in the future," Nathanson wrote.
Clearly, for Viacom, the future is now. With the company facing a deep slump in advertising revenue, like every other media conglom, Viacom topper Dauman was intent on boosting subscription revenue coin from one of its key distribs.
Time Warner Cable countered that it had an obligation to hold the line on programming cost increases in order to protect its subscribers. But the cable operator undoubtedly would've faced a flood of complaints from subscribers if the various channels — which included VH1, Spike TV, TV Land, Noggin, CMT and Logo — had suddenly disappeared from TWC's lineup.
As Nathanson observed in his report, "Both sides may not want to see if this battle results in mutually assured destruction, as Viacom loses ad dollars and TWC loses subscribers."

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25 years (well, almost) and still counting
I am lucky.
For nearly 25 years, most everyone I know has told me that at some point.
And I am.
I was lucky on a February night back in 1985 when Kate finally said yes when I asked her to dance at a party.
And I was especially lucky one June day 25 years ago when she said, "I do."
In three weeks, Kate and I will celebrate our silver wedding anniversary.
I am rejoicing at the thought -- not the celebration so much as reaching this moment.
Not that I'm surprised.
I've known from the moment I first saw Kate that she was "the one." Love at first sight.
I was 19 and drinking at the time, but I knew. I proposed to her two weeks later, and we were married two weeks after we finished college.
Since then, we've built a life together. We raised two kids and three dogs, bought cars and houses, and saved for the future. We've climbed volcanoes, walked sandy New England beaches and survived family trips to Disney World.
And we've helped each other chase our dreams. Well, mostly she's helped me chase my dreams. I'm the bucket list type; she's not.
That's just one of the reasons I've loved her for so long.
She is patient, usually. She is also generous, tenderhearted and funny. She is a great mother to our children.
And, for 25 years, she's been my wife.
Truly, I am lucky.
If statistics are to be believed, most marriages don't last this long. Illness, infidelity, inattention can take their toll.
But that's not our story, and I will be forever thankful for that.
Happy almost anniversary, honey.
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oh, and what do I do for skincare?
Well, it's decidedly not primal but personally, my vanity spurs me on to choose chemicals at times in order to give my skin the very best that the evidence can offer:
high ppd European sunscreen applied at proper use rates
rx retinoids
ascorbic acid c serum
my routines are fluid and flexible depending altitude, on time of year, climate, ambient humidity, menstrual cycle etc
Historically, my skin was freakishly abnormally, painfully dry and sensitive at times tolerating nothing other than water and vaseline (not even coconut oil...it was VERY drying). Clearly that was a combination of insufficient zinc, d protein, antioxidants all affecting skin integrity in combination with unmitigated UV damage from the sun. It was just a bad combination.
Once I started working on the skin integrity with diet, the judicious use of rx retinoids (very very short contact therapy...30 seconds) and tolerable sunscreens moved me quickly toward more normal skin.
•Now I wash at night with an appropriate cleanser (there are many I like)
•apply my rx retinoid full strength mixed with a hyaluronic acid serum to both improve penetration and reduce dryness (yes, I can now tolerate tazorac full strength every night in the summer) - 1 pea to my face, 1 pea to my neck
•i wait awhile, then apply eucerin q10 SSAW (or atopalm cream or avene trixera or similar) around my eyes....and to my face if needed, then i apply aquaphor healing ointment around my eyes (generic is fine)
in the am, i
•spray my face with Vichy or LRP or Avene thermal water and pat dry...
•Ascorbic acid serum (whichever I'm using....right now Cosmetic Skin Solutions CE Ferulic....see my docs below)
wait a bit
•apply my sunscreen. i use a highly water resistant kid sunscreen on my neck and chest (or tanktops backwards under my v-neck shirts so I don't have to s/s my chest). my face gets either avene cream 50+, bioderma MAX lait 50+ or Bioderma anti-age 50+....any of them are mixed with 1 drop of bioderma tint. I like the Bioderma Anti-Age the best but it's $30/oz so I only use it when I must look *really* good...the finish is flawless on my skin....like high end armani/chanel etc foundation. The bioderma max lait and avene cream are fine but shinier and not tolerable for all people.
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Impoverished because of an attachment to a bohemian lifestyle. Broke because one is attempting to adopt a pose of the "starving artist."
Those "hippies" were drinking martinis and tipping well all night. They're what you call artbroken.
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A state of creative paralysis characterized by emptiness, longing, and short bursts of creativity violently stifled by practicality or haunting memories of unnecessarily brutal critiques from previously artbroken professionals. Typically felt by art and design students during thesis year or during execution of highly constrained project brief. Extended periods of artbrokeness may result in complete art abandonment or in more extreme cases, corporate design consulting jobs.
I feel so artbroken - before design school I could draw human emotion, I could feel the music when I danced, I could see beauty in the littlest moments and I was inspired by everything - now I spend all my time wireframing apps and searching for free icons.
I give in, he totally artbroke me in that crit. I swear I'm designing for the next project brief in perfect convention so I don't have to retake this studio!
I give in, he totally artbroke me in that crit. I swear I'm designing for the next project brief in perfect convention so I don't have to retake this studio!
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A major accident in Pittsfield sent five people, including three children, to a hospital.
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"When I walk down the street," says Lori Bowen-Rice, 27, "people wonder what kind of athlete I am, but they don't wonder if I'm a woman." Thanks to a Miller Lite commercial in which she "picks up" Rodney Dangerfield—bar stool and all—Lori joins a list of celebrity athletes better known for their faces than for their names. The ad (for which she was paid $25,000) was actually shot with the aid of a mechanical lift, not that Lori is lacking in credentials. The 5'4", 130-pound brunette is the current women's world professional bodybuilding champion and will get additional exposure when she makes her movie debut next month in Pumping Iron II—The Women.
Raised in a Dallas suburb, Lori started bodybuilding four years ago at the suggestion of then boyfriend Randy Rice (now her husband). After devising her own shape-up course Bowen-Rice entered 10 local contests in 1981—and won them all. Two years later she took two national amateur titles. She dislikes the way she looks during competition. "It's an extreme, hard look," she says. "I'm not comfortable with it." Yet Lori hopes to enter the 1985 Miss Olympia contest, the Super Bowl of women's bodybuilding, to be held in New York City next November. There's just one little problem: Bowen-Rice is expecting a baby in July and she will have only a few months to get back in shape.
When Matthew Otero, then 18, was elected probate judge of Belen, N. Mex. last November, he became perhaps the youngest elected official in the country. The recent high school graduate beat four opponents in the June primary and slipped by his 75-year-old Republican opponent in the general election 6,943 to 6,271.
Though there were inevitable questions about his age and lack of experience, Otero—who fulfilled basic requirements of minimum voting age and residency—won over skeptics with an earnest door-to-door campaign. He had worked for his father's plumbing-and-heating company since he was eight and pumped $2,000 of his own savings into his campaign fund. The candidate convinced voters he'd deliver on his promise to make the part-time judgeship (which pays $5,000 a year) more efficient. The previous judge's caseload had been only nine wills in each of the last two years. "If the caseload fails to increase considerably," said Otero, "I'll do my darndest to eliminate the position." Since taking office three months ago, the young judge has processed five cases. His job includes executing wills and performing marriage ceremonies and requires no legal training.
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Robert Johnson and his wife, Mary, are suing some 20 cell phone companies and cellular tower owners in connection with the March 5, 2010 attack at his home.
The couple, who are represented by Hampton County attorney John E. Parker, are seeking unspecified damages.
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What's the Deal With EarthBound on Wii U Virtual Console?
You probably shouldn't surrender to despair... yet.
By Jeremy Parish Jan 28, 2013 11:56AM PSTTags: Wii U EarthBound (SNES) Mother (NES)
Last week, Nintendo annnounced a bunch of details on upcoming Wii U software, including a solid plan for the the system's take on Virtual Console. All in all, the Virtual Console service doesn't seem as bad as we'd expected -- it's limited, yes, with support for only a handful of platforms announced (including the inexplicable decision to bring Game Boy Advance titles to Wii U rather than 3DS, where they would make some degree of sense). And owners of these titles on Wii will have to pay a dollar to $1.50 apiece to upgrade to the Wii U version... but since I expected to have to shell out full price again as they've been making us do on 3DS, a modest upgrade fee doesn't seem so bad.
The magic of lowered expectations is that it then becomes difficult for anyone to disappoint you. Thanks, Nintendo!
Nintendo issued a loose list of upcoming releases (incuding a limited-time pilot program in which we can buy a selected title for 30 cents each month) for both the American and Japanese markets, and they were surprisingly similar. There was just one key difference, though: Our friends in Japan will be able to buy Mother 2, aka EarthBound for 30 cents. Meanwhile, the game didn't even get a hint of a mention for the U.S.
So that means we're screwed again, right? Japan gets this game for cheap, and we'll have to continue shelling out $200 just to play it without stealing it, right?
Substitute "Reggie Fils-Aime" for "Starman Junior" and you have the essence of the past week's worth of message board conversations in a nutshell.
I'm not sure that gloomy outlook is correct. I've seen quite a few theories about why we haven't seen EarthBound on Virtual Console -- remember, it was teased as "coming soon" in the Japanese version of Smash Bros. Melee years ago but never appeared over there -- and the one that holds the most water is that the heavy use of audio sampling and familiar popular music riffs has tangled the game in the wires of an overly timid legal department. If that's the case, those concerns would hold about as true for the Japanese market as in the U.S. If the game is cleared for release in Japan, there shouldn't be any real impediment to a U.S. release.
So why, you ask, didn't Nintendo mention it? Why didn't it get a name drop last week in the American Nintendo Direct? Why aren't we going to be able to buy the game for 30 cents?
If you have to ask these questions -- especially that last one! -- you still have much to learn about Nintendo.
If Nintendo excels at anything, it's making money by leveraging its catalog of legacy software. They know there's money to be made by satisfying the U.S. market's demands for an EarthBound rerelease. Why on earth would they sell the game to its fans for 30 cents when they know people will pay hundreds of dollars for it? Not that they're going to charge hundreds of bucks when EarthBound makes its way over, but you can be sure that if it does show up in the U.S. again -- which I consider more likely than not -- it'll happen with great fanfare, much noise, and a healthy price tag. Sure, they could sell the game for 30 cents, but the Nintendo way is to hold an ace like that close to the chest, to be played when they need to perk up their fans.
And hey, since Game Boy Advance will be on Wii U Virtual Console, maybe we'll finally get Mother 3, too. Naw, just kidding. That'll never happen.
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Disagree.Posted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by DJ_Caesar
I don't think they're holding out on us just for the sake of making some extra bank on its release. Heck, they'll make a good profit on it regardless of when it gets released, and they could have easily boarded that gravy train back when Mother 1 + 2 came out, and certainly for the Wii Virtual Console. I don't know how much they seriously would have to gain by not releasing it ASAP; I don't think the profits would be that significant.
Also, the article title is impossible to read without conjuring the voice of Jerry Seinfeld. Have you no decency, sir?
Excellent coverage, Mr. Parish.Posted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by GunslingerScott
Nintendo, being the conservative company it always has been, never fully surprises me. Just like I'm sure you have, I've been following the news of Earthbound's potential release for the Virtual console, as well as Mother and Mother 3 since the Wii's launch. I remember the intial hope everyone had when the japanese version of Super Smash Bros. Brawl contained the playable Mother 2 demo. I remember the optimism bubbling up again when Earthbound recieved an ESRB rating (a sign that a release was planned for the near future, possibly?) After years, I'd given up. Afterall, I still have my Earthbound cart as well as my SNES, so what did I care if it never got released on the Virtual Console. Except I did care, and I still do. I am, however, not as optimistic as I once was.
Have you ever noticed...Posted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by pokemon.exe
that the earthbound characters look a lot like the kids from Charlie Brown?
Anyway... I was pretty bummed to hear japan gets earthbound... at least we get f-zero... I guess...
I like to imagine nintendo has a room full of men and women floating in tubes of fluid whose minds are hooked up to a super computer which tells nintendo the opportune moment to release their best titles...
Why can't you make them release earthbound to us Mr. Parish??? Aren't you media people all powerful in this industry?? :(
As for WiiU VCPosted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by asrealasitgets
what is up with this? Are they adding message chat functionality like the other WiiU games? If so, I don't mind them trickling them out. I wouldn't want another backlog of games on yet another system.
AnswerPosted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by Captain_Gonru
Off topic...Posted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by helpfulmole
...but wouldn't Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot make great Earthbound enemies?
God YESPosted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by GunslingerScott
Things I like together!
If any one wants a closer look at Earthbound's potential legal woes...Posted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by JOTERO
Exactly.Posted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by LoneWolfVII
I need to type faster. Thank you, sir.
Right-O.Posted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by GunslingerScott
I believe the internet is greatly indebted to Earthboundcentral and Starmen.net, at least for all things Earthbound/Mother.
You engage the mole playing rough and its cohorts.Posted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by LoneWolfVII
I thought the primary issue with rereleasing Earthbound was that a number of its music tracks were alleged to be similar to other pieces by renown composers ... I don't disagree with the potential financial strategy you posit here, though. It sounds all too similar to what happened to Xenoblade ... or didn't.
The only thing you can count on is Nintendo's silencePosted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by D-Chap
I don't buy the idea that they're saving it for a future US re-release to make more $. They could've done that at any point in the last 15 years.
My guess is they can't release the game as is because of legal worries and they might have lost the source code so they can't edit the original content. Either way I really wish Nintendo would just be upfront and tell people why they won't release it (or any of the Mother games for that matter), I think the fans are entilted to an explanation at least.
Eeh, I'm not holding my breath...Posted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by some_nerd
...but mostly because I have a Mother/EarthBound NES repro cart (in english), an Earthbound SNES cart I snagged for $5 at a flea market back in 2007, and the Mother 3 fan translation on my Wii via the Homebrew Channel. Nintendo sat on their hands for far too long and lost their chance at any of my EarthBound dollars.
Jesus.Posted: Jan 29, 2013 12:00AM PST by GunslingerScott
$5 dollars for Earthbound in 2007? I thought I was lucky because I paid $25 in 1997.
My crazy ideaPosted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by Captain_Gonru
Let's start a Kickstarter fund to cover Nintendo's legal costs to just get this damn game out here already.
As amazing as that would be...Posted: Jan 29, 2013 12:00AM PST by GunslingerScott
I doubt Nintendo would want to associate themselves with something like that. Who knows, though.
Earthbound...Posted: Jan 28, 2013 12:00AM PST by jeffokiecorry
I WOULD like to play this game someday...and since I have an unhealthy aversion to piracy I will continue to wait as patiently as ever...my other time consuming games in tow. That's after work and family of course!
HmmmmmPosted: Jan 29, 2013 12:00AM PST by wolfpac_101
Never played this game when i was younger, so i guess i dont know what im missing. Is it really worth the hype?
A lot of people absolutely love Earthbound, myself included.Posted: Jan 29, 2013 12:00AM PST by GunslingerScott
However, it's not your typical Rpg, or even your typical game, for that matter. I still think any serious gamer should at least give the game a try, just to see it for themselves.
Wouldn't that be somethingPosted: Jan 29, 2013 12:00AM PST by XextralifeX
To have Nintendo release it for 30 cents in other regions also.
Is there money in it?Posted: Jan 29, 2013 12:00AM PST by Hunterman328
I've got to think that the percentage of people who want this game is pretty small. Sure it seems a large number of 1Up readers want it, but put this article in a mainstrean magazine that has a section on games and I'd have to bet the the vast majority of people who'd read it, even just of those who own a Wii U, will be wondering what the hell is Earthbound.
Hell, I've been gaming for 30 plus years and my knowledge of the game consists only from 1Up articles like this one.
I'd buy a WiiU to play EarthboundPosted: Jan 29, 2013 12:00AM PST by amightysquall958
Especially if they did Mother 1+2+3 on one disc.
EDIT to add: what they COULD do is just release it in NA for free--wouldn't that put all the copyright legal issues under fair use?
+1 wii u salePosted: Jan 29, 2013 12:00AM PST by william~curtis
I will probably buy one anyway, but if Mother 1 + 2 + 3 came out on one wii u disc tomorrow I'd start prioritizing which organs to sell off this weekend.
I want it, but im sure the legal reason are more complicated than that.Posted: Jan 29, 2013 12:00AM PST by blizzardjesus
Fundamental Concepts in Japanese and American Copyright Law
Can you give me an abstract on that, maybe?Posted: Jan 29, 2013 12:00AM PST by jparish
My understanding on Japanese and American copyright law is that they're largely similar, but I suppose as I think about it the U.S. has sacrificed human rights in favor of corporate citizenship a lot more than any other developed nation.
@jparishPosted: Jan 29, 2013 12:00AM PST by Hunterman328
What do you mean by "the U.S. has sacrificed human rights in favor of corporate citizenship a lot more than any other developed nation. "
They dont make. . .Posted: Jan 30, 2013 12:00AM PST by Tryptamine
. . .RPGs like this anymore.
You play either an androgenous male with HUGE hair and no memory, or your the most typical rogue/wizard/knight in shining armor whose epic journey rides on the coattails of every fantasy concept that has been regurgitated again and again since the days when those concepts were fairytales.
The Mother games (3!!!!) held my attention with how differently they attacked the genre, unafraid to use some of the funkiest and freshest characters and dialogue I have seen so far. Huge cheers to the development team and a dissapointed glance at their sleepy publisher.
Well said.Posted: Jan 31, 2013 12:00AM PST by GunslingerScott
I always felt like I was experiencing a novel that is somehow both Slice of Life and Surreal when I play the Mother games.


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Alright so tomorrow we'll be sending one of these asses into the ring with Sofia Vergara to challenge her for Best of the Best GTA Supremacy. Ordinarily picking out the best ass of the week is relatively easy, but this week there has been 3 legit challengers on Barstool New York. So for the first time we're gonna have a little first round action as Sofia obviously gets a bye to the championship round. I'm using the Marry/Fuck/Kill voting but in this case we're just ranking the top 3. So Marry = best ass, Fuck = second best ass, kill = third best ass. Here's some shots to remind you, and each of their names are linked to their full posts if you need more material to judge:
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Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable market-beating gains, with robust and improving financial metrics that support strong price growth. Does Crocs (NASDAQ: CROX ) fit the bill? Let's look at what its recent results tell us about its potential for future gains.
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The graphs you're about to see tell Crocs' story, and we'll be grading the quality of that story in several ways:
- Growth: Are profits, margins, and free cash flow all increasing?
- Valuation: Is share price growing in line with earnings per share?
- Opportunities: Is return on equity increasing while debt to equity declines?
- Dividends: Are dividends consistently growing in a sustainable way?
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Passing Criteria
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Improving profit margin
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3-Year* Change
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We first looked at Crocs last year, and while the shoe-maker earned one of our rare perfect scores last year, it's lost three passing grades in its second assessment to finish up with only four out seven possible passing grades for 2013. The company's margins have collapsed since last year, which has hampered return on equity, and free cash flow has also fallen. These are not good signs, but we shouldn't count Crocs out before first digging a little deeper to see what the company has up its sleeve for the coming year.
Colorful clog maker Crocs disappointed on both top and bottom lines in its latest quarter, because of sluggish back-to-school sales, weaker employment growth, and macroeconomic uncertainty both domestically and abroad. Crocs' same-store sales in the Americas and Japan fell by 8.3% and 16.3%, respectively, but it's still enjoying notable growth in European and Asia-Pacific markets, where customers have taken great interest in the comfortable brand. This recent weakness has led Crocs to underperform the indexes as compared to Deckers Outdoor (NYSE: DECK ) , Skechers (NYSE: SKX ) and other shoe-makers -- its growth during our three-year tracking period is now the weakest of any major shoe brand (including shoe outlet Foot Locker (NYSE: FL ) :
Fool contributor Timothy Green notes that the company is aggressively pushing its retail strategy, and added 95 new stores last year, which boosted retail revenue by 11%.This helps explain Crocs' recent cash-flow problems, as opening so many stores so quickly demands a significant initial outlay. Meanwhile, the company's also trying to diversify itself beyond its trademark clogs. Fool contributor Pratik Thacker notes that Crocs has started offering wedges, loafers, and casual shoes; and its Boat Line, A-Leigh and Huarache sandal have performed well in Europe and Asia, and in growing markets like Russia, Austria and the Nordic countries. Crocs could thrive in 2014 with pending introductions of licensed footwear bearing Duck Dynasty and Star Wars designs. In addition, it has plans to launch a leather-like product called Colorlite, which could help overcome the popular perception of Crocs as the maker of a sort of plastic foam shoe.
Crocs isn't the only one attempting to update its image, however. Foot Locker has been remodeling its stores based on a new store concept "SIX: 02" to attract more female customers. Skechers has moved past the bad publicity of its "toning shoes" that didn't actually tone, and has experienced double-digit growth online and in terms of same-store sales, according to Fool contributor Meetu Anand. Deckers, which relies on its flagship Ugg brand far more than Crocs relies on its clogs, has not much reduced its dependence on this faddish footwear, but its popularity continues to grow thanks to a more diversified sales model. There are multiple avenues to success, and Crocs may find its avenue in 2014. At the moment, it's far cheaper than either Skechers or Deckers, which could offer greater upside in the long run.
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Theveneau E, Steventon B, Scarpa E, Garcia S, Trepat X, Streit A, Mayor R. (2013). Chase-and-run between adjacent cell populations promotes directional collective migration. Nature Cell Biology. 15, 763-72 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23770678
Barriga EH, Maxwell PH, Reyes AE, Mayor R. 92013). The hypoxia factor Hif-1α controls neural crest chemotaxis and epithelial to mesenchymal transition. J Cell Biol. 201, 759-76. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23712262
Carmona-Fontaine C, Theveneau E, Tzekou A, Tada M, Woods M, Page KM, Parsons M, Lambris JD, Mayor R. (2011). Complement fragment C3a controls mutual cell attraction during collective cell migration. Developmental Cell. 21, 1026-37. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22118769
Theveneau E, Marchant L, Kuriyama S, Gull M, Moepps B, Parsons M, Mayor R. Collective chemotaxis requires contact-dependent cell polarity. Developmental Cell. 2010 Jul 20;19(1):39-53. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20643349
Carmona-Fontaine C, Matthews HK, Kuriyama S, Moreno M, Dunn GA, Parsons M, Stern CD, Mayor R. Contact inhibition of locomotion in vivo controls neural crest directional migration. Nature. 2008 Dec 18;456(7224):957-61. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19078960
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