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VESTAL, N.Y. -- The Binghamton men's lacrosse
team tallied five of the game's first six goals and never looked
back as they registered a 9-5 victory over the visiting Marist Red
Foxes in a non-conference game at the Bearcats Sports Complex
Saturday afternoon. The win marks the first three-game winning
streak for the Bearcats since 2006 as the host squad improved to
3-3 on the year, while Marist dropped to 0-4 on the season.
"Again, the defensive unit gave us another great effort," head coach Ed Stephenson said. "I still think there are some improvements we need to make but I'm pleased with the progress we've made over the last three games."
Sophomore attackman Matt Springer tallied his seventh career hat trick and third of the season with a four-goal performance to lead Binghamton offensively. Springer, who raised his season goal total to 15, extended his consecutive game scoring streak to 20 straight with a point, dating back to Feb. 20, 2010. He ranks among the top-16 national leaders for consecutive games with a point.
Corey Zindel and Connor Rice paced the Red Foxes on the attack unit with three goals and three assists, respectively.
In the pivotal first quarter where the Bearcats forged a 5-1 lead, five different players reached the scoring column on unassisted goals. Senior co-captains David Raleigh and Frank Donlon each netted a goal during that span, while sophomore midfielder Tyler Perrelle and junior midfielder John Clark added to the lead with goals of their own. Springer scored one of his game-high four goals during the first quarter as well.
Freshman attackman Kelly Donigan tacked on his third goal in as many games late in the fourth quarter.
Binghamton held a modest 34-32 shot advantage and split the face-offs with Marist as both squads were 9-of-18. Neither team successfully converted a man-up opportunity as BU went 0-3, compared to only one failed attempt by the Red Foxes.
Sophomore Kraig Heston picked up his third consecutive win in cage as he tallied a career-best 15 saves and surrendered only five goals for the second straight contest.
The Bearcats received key contributions from its defensive unit, which forced 20+ turnovers for the second time this week. Junior Ben Waldron notched a career-high five caused turnovers along with five ground balls. Classmate Chris Cook led the team with eight ground balls, aided by a 9-for-18 mark at the face-off X.
Donlon opened the early scoring parade for Binghamton with an unassisted goal at the 12:05 mark. Perrelle and Springer added scores in a span of 36 seconds to push BU's lead to 3-0 at the 7:24 mark. On the ensuing face-off win by Marist, Corey Zindel notched a score eight seconds later to pull the Red Foxes within 3-1. Nearly six minutes later, a nearly motionless Raleigh took his defender by surprise and rifled a low line-drive past the goalie for an unassisted score. Clark answered 15 seconds later after a face-off win and the Bearcats took a 5-1 lead into the second quarter.
Binghamton's final four goals were all assisted. Springer rattled off the team's next three goals coming off feeds from junior Ryan Button, Waldron and Perrelle. Following a Marist turnover at midfield, Waldron outletted the ball as soon as the whistle sounded to an open Springer who converted an empty-net goal from outside the attack zone. Marist goalie Brendan Price was up the field assisting with the clear attempt at the time.
Binghamton begins a three-game, three-week road stretch starting with Colgate on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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DH and I planned to have our children be 2 years apart in age, that way they're not so close we're easily overwhelmed but not so far apart in age that they're not close to each other. Well, I would've needed to conceive approximately 2 months ago for that to work out the way we planned; we hadn't even been trying because our son's birth was very complicated (he almost died, and stress from fighting his ex in court played a part in that) and we're STILL fighting DH's ex in court. We were talking about it last week and I told him I'm sick of our family being on hold because of her and us having to jump every time she says anything. The next day he said I was right, that we needed to stop holding everything off because of her. Honestly, the reason we talked about that aspect was because we wanted to "do yoga" (our term for what goes on in the bedroom :-P ) but in the midst of us moving into a new place, we somehow lost my birth control. I gave him fair warning that I'd lost it, which is why we had this conversation (wouldn't have felt right not telling him I hadn't taken it in a couple days).
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Only problem is he's still at work. Last time we found out I was pregnant, I called him at work. I want to see his face this time, though. Is it wrong to wait till he gets home (which shouldn't be later than another hour)??
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MMT Out. Western States In.
I dropped from the Massanutten 100 entrants list this morning. I have waited nearly four months to drop, two years to attempt again, but I am doing so in good conscience. I am not injured, I still enjoy running, and I want to keep it that way. I very much would like to run MMT, but it will need to wait at least another year. My eyes can now be fully set on kicking some rear at Squaw Valley. While I longed to avenge my MMT DNF from '09, I'd rather not sacrifice a chance to show what I can do at the big dance. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I don't want to squander the chance at giving it my best. I've never run two 100's six weeks apart, and I figured this wasn't the time to test it out. I want that sub 24 hour cougar buckle! Best of luck to my VHTRC bud Doug Sullivan, who it seems, was happily able to claim my MMT slot.
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- Jess said...
Good choice. I wish you the best of luck on your training!!!!!!
- March 28, 2011 at 10:18 AM
- jenn said...
WoRd!!! I think you made the right decision!! GO FOR THE BIG DANCE!!!
I'll be cheering you on.. apply for MMT next year and I promise I'll pace ya! :o)
- March 28, 2011 at 11:06 AM
- Rick Gray said...
Western States or bust! You will rock out there and you will get that desired buckle!
- March 29, 2011 at 5:18 AM
- Neal Gorman said...
I think you made the wrong decision. Two silver buckles are better than one. ; )
In all seriousness, probably feels good to have that decision behind you and now you can narrow your focus on WS. Still hope to see you along the course at MMT.
- March 29, 2011 at 6:41 AM
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In the old Wyatt Earp legends, you never knew what Doc Holliday had left in him. That's why he was so dangerous. Sure, he was tubercular. Sometimes those coughing fits made you sure he already had one foot in the grave. But when a man no longer fears death because he's stared it straight in the face and then made a gentleman's agreement, you'd sure rather have him on your side at that point.
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What an insane performance and two in one year. That's just sick. The Reds looked "silly" trying to figure him out. Philly is dangerous. If Oswalt pitches to form..? That's trouble.
I am impressed, I tip my cap to you Al, a great spin you put on the Halladay performance.
Halladay has certainly lived up to his reputation, and the Phillies were smart to go out and get him. He IS a plough horse and I love the fact that he's getting all the accolades he richly deserves.
Glad you wrote this. I have a great little secret for you.
I am Doc Holliday's 3X grandson.
I was born Timothy Steven Holliday and am proud of my birth Father's side opf the lineage. Maybe that is why I tried law enforcement in the past, but like Grandpa, it did not suit my renegade ways.
But Halladay is another horse of a different color.
Funny how a small migration South to a strong hitting team can take you to the next level. Proud of his outing, and he is now the talk of legend for eternity, just like Grandpa Doc.
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The Rockets chased a big fish this offseason and failed in their attempt to grab Dwight Howard in a trade as the Lakers eventually snagged the All-Star.
General manager Daryl Morey decided to ship out productive veterans in order to acquire massive draft picks to shakeup a roster that compiled a 34-32 record last season. Kyle Lowry, Courtney Lee, Goran Dragic, and Luis Scola were dealt while the team picked up Jeremy Lamb, Royce White, and Terrance Jones.
To counter the loss of Lowry and Dragic, the Rockets inked former Knick Jeremy Lin to a substantial free agent deal.
They also signed center Omer Asik from the Chicago Bulls to bolster the frontline. Houstons moves were intriguing but not shocking until it completed a jaw-dropping trade for James Harden prior to the season opener. The Thunder quickly pulled the trigger on the Harden deal when they could not agree to a contract extension with the reigning Sixth Man of the Year. So, the Rockets got the star they coveted and Oklahoma City picked up Kevin Martin, Lamb, two first round picks, and a second round pick in return. Houston is 5-7 after suffering three straight losses prior to Wednesdays victory over the Bulls. Second-year head coach Kevin McHale is on an indefinite leave of absence due to a family matter.
One NBA scout gives a lot of credit to Jason Kidd for the early season success of the New York Knicks.
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It's the pleasure and luck of us all to have him return, and, nonetheless, still be in fine thinking form.
Welcome back, Starks The Blogladite!
The Knicks shouldn't make the mistake of focussing too much on Lin in this game. If Harden chokes, the game is won. Even if Lin has an outstanding game by his standards, it will probably mean he shot just over 33% and committed just the 3 TO's.
Harden and Parsons need to be extinguished in this game. That's all. Should be an easy win.
Thanks for the shout out in the thread, repped
Consistency is what will determine whether this team wins 47-50 games or pushes the 60 win barrier. With the exception of the first few games our first half defense has been mainly dismal and lacklustre.
We really need to come out firing and stop playing down to our opponents. I hope Camby plays every moment that Chandler is not on the floor. Asik is not an offensive threat but will be a beast on the boards and get them plenty of second chance opportunities if not covered.
Happy that despite our terrible first half defense and Novak not shooting well we generally continue to win. It's simple fellas, play well and we win by 15+, if not much more struggle and stress for the KO members.
Media still doubting whether we can bounce back, we need to keep the flame going and go hard. Hoping for deeper rotations and more minutes for all.
Nice thread 8's and Clyde.
I would like to see us reduce the 3's and exploit the inside and post early and often.
I hope we Knicks fans has not forgot it was "Jeremy Lin" who saved our 2011-12 season when our record was 8-15. Lin-Sanity took us on a 7 game winning streak, plus gave us a 10-3 winning spurt to put us in the run for the postseason.
The Houston Rockets are a rookie team at GM, coach-staff, and players .. fans expectation of the Houston Rockets season should be LOTTERY.
Competition wise vs the Knicks .. the sameway we were not suppose to lose to the Lottery Mavs, we are not suppose to lose to the Lottery Rockets.
Good GT as usual. I know this is a matchup Felton has had in the back of his mind since day 1. Make no mistake, he WILL go at Lin with everything and rack up assists in the process.
Harden will likely hurt us, but not enough for a win. Lin has been shooting poorly all season plus Woodson knows his tendencies, so he shouldn't be a factor. Linsanity officially dies tonight! Rebounding will be a huge factor. Can't allow these guys to hang around from 2nd chance points. With that being said, Woodson please give Camby more minutes! Use your 3 headed monster and lock the paint down!
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Truth be told, I'll remember Chris Childs and Derek Harper over Lin any day.
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Great GT
About the game, this one we should win easily, the rockets have always been my second favorite team(big tmac fan) and I have watched a few of their games.
Jeremy Lin seems to be unmotivated like he doesn't want to playing their really, very sloppy on defense, even worse than last year. TO's are still high and his shooting is slumping. He doesn't seem to be fully recovered yet, explosiveness was a big part of his game. If Harden does not have a 30+ scoring night, which he has had, the Rockets have a tough time staying in the game.
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Lin is playing like the d-leaguer he is. His game is not worth mentioning. EFF HIM
Points in the paint and points of turnovers. If we can win those categories,,The game will come easy...Knicks by 14
Lol you guys remember Toney Douglas? He is on the Rockets as well. Worst PG i have ever seen.
I dont like the way management ****ted all over Lin in the offseason.
Knicks management has Fuuccked-over so many Knicks players during the history of the Knicks starting with Walt Clyde Frazier, Bernard King, Anthony Mason, Starks, Oakley, Derek Harper, Chris Childs, and Lin.
I'm suprise as hell at Camby returning to the Knicks, so Woody saying Camby was healthy for all the DNP games makes sense.
or did u forget Patrick Ewing DEMANDED to be traded off the Knicks...
P.S. Rockets dont have any ledgit bigmen to compare with our frontcourt bigmen. The Rockets do have an unstoppable Harden which none of our guards or fowards could stop.


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When you take vacation from work, how often do you just stay home instead of traveling?
That's what you call a 'staycation'.
Pretty often. No airline hassle, check out things around town that I've wanted to and save $.
I don't get "vacations from work." But heyyyy, I just booked my first vacation for the year! Heisenberg killed it this year and I'm going to fucking HawaiiReplyCancel
I mostly stay home sleep and eat waffles maybe get some in betweenReplyCancel
YAAAAAAAY Lady H! That's awesomeReplyCancel
RARELY, I always go somewhere, off to San Juan tomorrow for Memorial weekend just so happens.ReplyCancel
Thanks bacon and aemish! I'm going next month and cannot wait!ReplyCancel
I live for road trips. Just love driving somewhere far away, stay a little while if I have to, then drive back a different way. Once in a while on a long weekend I'll fly somewhere a thousand or more miles away and pick up a prearranged rental and pound it back home.ReplyCancel
I take vacations to concerts. But since I work from home in my yoga pants everyday is a staycation. Cue the umbrella drinks!ReplyCancel
@FSB Chocolate chip waffles.ReplyCancel
I can't remember the last time I traveled somewhere for my vacation time (that didn't involve a family crisis, anyway).ReplyCancel
Hawaii is amazing. I've been lucky to have gone once. The Big Island.ReplyCancel
Wee S, Ibiza? Sooo jealous.ReplyCancel
Vacation has been two weeks in July at a beach house in San Diego for the last 7 years.
I sometimes take time off during the holidays and that's used for shopping in Palm Desert or San Diego.
When my kids were young, I stayed home, but not so much anymore.ReplyCancel
Praha <3ReplyCancel
Yay Weeeeee S you go!!
Violet, is that you behind me?!
Thanks y'all! Can't wait till next month!!! Yes, Gayeld, sadly I can't take time off during the school year because I either instruct or TA courses at the university I attendReplyCancel
Never. We always travel for our vacations, and preferably over a long distance. In order to truly get away, we need to get away.ReplyCancel
That sounds perfect! Must try.ReplyCancel
@Gayeld You having good life. I need one of those.ReplyCancel


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Cheater, cheater Tricia!!! 😉ReplyCancel
Rihanna isn't on instagram anymore and hasn't been for months now so try againReplyCancel
Well a nice easy peasy one to end hump day contest festivities. On to random pics in 29 minutes!ReplyCancel
Rihanna deleted her Instagram a while back.ReplyCancel
There is a story today about Ri and Instagram tho. I think Enty just fucked that up. Clearly, he wasn't following all her faboooosh booty shots
Why the hell would her instagram have anything to do with anything considering she hasn't had it in months. If they were having this super long secret affair I'm certain there would be at least one pic of them together on one of these outings considering they're two of the biggest stars in the world. Jay will be in France though since they're doing the on the run tour there.ReplyCancel
Lol, LO.ReplyCancel
Maybe Enty means Instagram blackout on the wife's end??
Jay Z and Ri Ri
I want Beyonce to fucking lose it one of these days and put Jay in his place
Team BeyReplyCancel
If B won't leave him I don't feel sorry for her. He's a grade A Asshat, ugly to boot, yet she stays with him because she's getting something from it. Something more important than her dignity. (And I so doubt it's her daughter)
Can't beleive people pay them for jack.ReplyCancel
You probably also believe in the illuminati right?ReplyCancel
I think enty means beyonce is going to stop throwing up happy family shots on ig once the Paris tour dates are over. They're tour wasn't selling in April and they faked divorce rumors all summer to sell a tour they already got paid up front for. This is and always has been a business arraignment. . They will pretend anything to sell $$$$. And their fans buy it up…ReplyCancel
There must still be people who think this is an actual marriage.ReplyCancel
Yes hello. Why shouldn't I believe this is an actual marriage? I've never been given actual proof to the contrary so until that happens I guess I'll be "delusional" as Tricia likes to say 🙂ReplyCancel
Relax Ducky….everyone loves a good love story, and great couples to come together and stay together for the right reasons..and refrain from using their child as a prop. Also actually birthing the child might have been a good idea too, less scrutiny from the world that way….
.They just ain't one of emReplyCancel
It's really annoying when people tell you to relax. I'm fine thanks. And it's amazing how you know the intricate details of people's lives you've never met. I'm not saying they're perfect, I don't know them, but until there's proof or they say shit is fake then I'm not gonna hate on two people I don't know.
Also choosing rihanna as the side girl for every rapper who cheats is just lazy. Again there's no proof to back any of that up and if all these huge stars are fucking each other I would at least expect one pic to surface.ReplyCancel
I just said Rihanna because they have backstory…maybe it's Katy Perry…dunno…
But they are protected by minions who make it their job to make pap shots impossible.I think Ri in the random photos(it was south if France I could tell from pix) was entry's attempt to reveal…they exist in an alternate universe, rarified air, you gotta understand….we truly will only know what they want us to know…until they have contracted another-project, lover, biz deal…I don't agree with it…but it's called capitalism,p and marketing and it's been happening for centuries
Once in while, there's a true connection I am sure.
But nothing to be ultra defensive over, it's certainly not a personal effrontery. I just think many folks are quite, intolerant and over(for lack of a better term) the BS
It's a publicists job to keep anything that is in conflict with a celeb's public image out of the news. Any pics or video of a celeb misbehaving would/should be destroyed or bought before leaked to the masses. With all the drug usage, crimes and cheating that occur everyday involving celebs, how often do we see photos? Not often. The stuff that IS leaked is usually by the celeb themselves for promotion or just a case of them being sloppy. That's why you will never see a pic of Jay Z cheating.ReplyCancel
Off topic but I saw North West and little Prince George on the cover of a magazine in the supermarket the other day, and North is a BEAUTIFUL baby. It's a pity that she'll probably be smoking, drinking, screwing and walking a runway half nude in about 13 years, thanks to GrandMomager.ReplyCancel
Oh, found it. It was the Star:ReplyCancel
@prunella….I saw it, thought that she a gorgeous lil girl as well…but my next thought-honestly- was…that baby juxtaposed next to the future king of England (another cutie patooty) is just wrong…. That baby has more class due to DNA , inherent grace, and his parents- in his developing pinky toe…then the kartrashians or Kanye will ever have, collectively…shame to even put them together in a pix….gives Kimye and PMK a false sense of- statusReplyCancel
I couldn't care less about what Jay Z gets up to, but I have to admit that I'm curious about Beyonce's sex life (Does she have one? Who with? What gender? Does she have any kinks?), because I've always found her asexual.
I realize that sounds ridiculous because she's a beautiful woman who dances in tiny costumes and sings about sex, but nevertheless.
Beyoncé sex life is a curious thing @yoj….while I find her beautiful and sexy, like you- I am confounded and perplexed by an absence of actual sensuality.
Dunno if she likes girls or boys, certainly seems she has her pick of the litter with either…but myninstinct tells me she is either practicing/experimenting with same sex relationships or is latent…
My objection to their-inflated and overly hyped roles in the industry( and life) certainly does not lie within their individual, or collective talents; but rather with their misuse of said talents to manipulate and oversaturatebthe public with false information/images of what they are NOtT…
Someone once asked one of my dearest friends what "turns me off", so to speak…and he answered without hesitation…."pretense"…ReplyCancel
@Tricia S
Yes! That's it exactly. An "absence of actual sensuality". Perfectly expressed, Tricia, thank you.
I feel the same about them. I get the sense from both that their music is merely a means to an end, a way to accumulate money and power and influence.
How can I emotionally connect with a song if there was no emotion behind its creation or performance? What is music if it's not emotionally inspiring? It's just noise. Just someone showing off on stage.
@yoj….yes. You have the same spotlight on, are law are of the same as I clearly
If only Ms Carter would take a page from Sade 's book( my all time favorite female vocalist next to billie Holliday, she might understand raw, organic , earthy sensuality…
Sade never had to wear hot pants gyrate on a on inanimate object to be…sensual,
And that voice…ReplyCancel
Perfectly put Tricia and Yoj. Touché to you both.
And the raw emotion that Sade puts out is nothing short of amazing. Too bad we don't get enough of her but BeyBey and Camel have that perfect machine.
No shade to those who do like that. I came from a time when music seemed more genuine without AUTOTUNE because artists had actual talent to write, sing and perform.
These people still exist but unless they can be packaged correctly we never get the joy of their talents.
And not to be grammar police but just to politely point out:
There = a location (over there)
They're = they are (substitute in the sentence and if it fits it's the correct usage)
Their = possessive (their house, their feelings)
Wanted to assist. (And not meant to embarrass anyone.)ReplyCancel
I'll happily listen to almost any genre of music if there's passion and artistry behind it.
One of the great developments with the internet is that it has become easier for musicians to get their work heard. They no longer need to have a recording contract with a major label if, and I repeat IF, their goal is simply to be a professional musician.
Major record company backing becomes necessary if the individual wants to have their music played on the radio, wants to perform on television, and wants to be a millionaire.
@ pip…alot of people are.
That is why they resorted to putting their toddler on stage in the midst of world speculation about the disintegration of their"marriage".
Note to egotistical/contrived couples1): do not fake a pregnancy ..you ultimately will have people wondering about the child you …"birthed" and how they are doing (it's called…..humanity.2) do not bring aforementioned child on stage at the height of your demise as a couple.
It is bad form, classless, and frankly…….exploitative at best.
Tricia, I do dig it! I think if they are a thing, that J will only ever have Rhi as a side piece as she's the antithesis of Bey – openly sexual, bisexual, drug using, controvercy creating (albeit beautiful) mess. Not good for his so carefully crafted image (if you forget his past)ReplyCancel
I love this thread! Such intelligent insightful posts from ALL of y'all.
One of the things that turns me off about the current state of pop music is that none of it seems to be organic, flowing from somewhere within the artist.
With Beyonce, I bet you could buy tickets to multiple performances on her tour, and every single performance would be identical, down to the exact moment when she flicks her hair and the exact intonation of her voice (assuming she's not lip synching).
She's been rehearsing and perfecting her skills since she was very little. She has an incredible work ethic and incredible ambition but she's not really an ARTIST. Or even a PERFORMER. She's a ROBOT.ReplyCancel
Instagram deleted her acct. too many "violations" ie: titty pics.ReplyCancel


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Kalachakra Guru-Yoga in Conjunction with
Six-Session Practice, Composed in a Facilitating Manner
(A Cluster of Fruit from an All-Embracing Wish-Granting Tree)
(Thun-drug-dang 'brel-ba'i dus-'khor bla-ma'i rnal-'byor nag-'gros-su mdzad-pa,
dpag-bsam yongs-'du'i snye-ma)
by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (bsTan-'dzin rgya-mtsho)
versified by Yongdzin Ling Rinpoche
(Yongs-'dzin Gling Rinpoche Thub-bstan lung-rtogs rnam-rgyal 'phrin-las)
translated by Alexander Berzin, 1985
To the clear evolved and the master
from whom I have received supreme empowerment,
To the preventive measures of inseparable method and awareness
shown by them
And to the two divisions of the intent community who live by them,
I pure-heartedly go for safe direction.
From this time forth, all the way to my total purification and growth,
I expand my heart out to all others and to that purified growth.
I generate a pure resolve and rid myself of grasping for "me" and "mine."
I shall build up the beneficial habit of wishing that all limited beings
Be endowed with happiness, be parted from their problems,
Have the joy of living always in blissful awareness,
And the equanimity of regarding everyone as equal.
[A3-6 As in An Extensive Six-Session Yoga – 1985 Translation, A3-6]
Within a state of the great sealing nature of fantasy-free clear light,
Before me on the broad pathway of the immortal divines,
Like a glittering multi-colored design of rainbows,
In the center of a billowing ocean of clouds
of the Totally Excellent One's offerings,
On a throne of jewels held aloft by eight breath-taking lions,
On the face of an opened thousand-petaled water-born lotus
delighting the mind,
On top of symbolic discs of a moon, a sun, a Rahu "growler"
and Kalagni "fire-of-time" eclipsing planets,
As a total amalgam into one of as many infinite aggregate sources
of safe direction as there are,
Stands my kind sublime teacher,
inseparable from a great Kalachakra, Cycles of Time,
One who overcame and gained all.
With the lustrous hue of a sapphire, blazing with brilliance,
You have one face and two arms,
holding a diamond-strong scepter and bell.
To symbolize the uncommon path of the mind that is a unity
of method and awareness,
Your manner is that of a union with Vishva-mata. Mother of Diversity,
Saffron in color, holding cleaver and skullcup.
With your two legs, right one red and outstretched
with a dance on top of a Demonic Mara,
And left one white and bent on a Forceful Rudra,
You are elegant with hundreds of artistic moods.
Your body, adorned with jewelry inspiring awe,
Is like the vault of the heavens beautifully studded
with clusters of stars,
Standing in the midst of an effulgence of five-colored stainless light.
With the three spots of your body having the form
of letters begotten of light
And in the nature of the deities of the three diamond-strong,
You take sheer delight.
Emanated from the seed-syllable at your heart comes a Vajra-vega,
Diamond-Strong Strength, holding an assortment
of terrifying weapons.
Hooked firmly by these, a host of sources of safe direction,
Living in infinite pure-land fields,
Become of an equal taste with you who are here to bond me close.
In this way, you take on a great nature of being
An amalgam of all sources of safe direction.
Respectfully I prostrate to you, sublime teacher,
Inseparable trio of enlightening bodies:
You are a corpus of great all-encompassing blissful awareness,
primordially fantasy-free;
A corpus possessing five for full use,
as the reflexive appearance of your deep awareness;
And a corpus of enlightening dancers emanated throughout
the ocean of the wanderers' sphere.
[A9 As in An Extensive Six-Session Yoga – 1985 Translation, A9]
Billowing masses of clouds of offerings – outer, inner and enigmatic -
Both actually arrayed and created from the play
of my absorbed concentration,
And six pair of slender-bodied, delightful bestowers of bliss
With lotus-hands stunningly beautiful with gifts that are worthy to offer -
Such common and uncommon presents as these, as well as my body,
Whatever I enjoy and the bountiful store of my constructive acts,
I offer to you, with a mind unattached, undaunted and clear
about the three circles involved,
O my bountiful field, my kind sublime teacher, that I might please you.
[A11 as in An Extensive Six-Session Yoga – 1985 Translation, A11]
Every negative act and downfall I have committed
or caused others to do
Due to the wild horse of my mind, untamed from beginningless time,
Being drunk with the spirits of the reckless three attitudes of poison,
And especially such things as disturbing my spiritual master's mind,
Breaking with what he or she has enlighteningly said, and so on,
Acting counter to the close-bonding practices of the five families'
collective and individual traits,
Not safeguarding correctly the twenty-five types of tamed
and involved behavior and so forth,
Whatever negative actions I have ever done, I openly admit -
With a strong mind of regret and the promise
not to repeat them again -
That they were all wrong.
I rejoice in the ocean of my own and others' well-done deeds
That creates thousands of bubbles of delightful results.
I request you to let a monsoon rain fall
of preventive measures for three vehicles of mind,
In accordance with the thoughts and tempers of modest,
middling and supreme disciples needing to be tamed.
Please remain for hundreds of eons,
undeclining, unchanging and stable,
In a corpus of enlightening coarse forms that can appear
to those who see from this side.
I dedicate my bountiful store of constructive acts,
as exemplified by this,
As the cause for my quickly attaining the highest state of unity
as a Cycles of Time.
From this time forth, all the way to my total purification and growth,
I expand my heart out to all others and to that purified growth.
I generate a pure resolve and rid myself of grasping for "me" and "mine."
I shall actualize, for the sake of the three bountiful stores,
The far-reaching attitudes of giving, ethical discipline, tolerance,
Positive enthusiasm, mental stability, discriminating awareness,
Skill in methods, aspiring prayer, strength and deep awareness.
I shall build up the beneficial habit of wishing that all limited beings
Be endowed with happiness, be parted from their problems,
Have the joy of living always in blissful awareness,
And the equanimity of regarding everyone as equal.
I shall beckon them well with the wave of my arm of giving
And then, having spoken to them with pleasing words,
Make them cheerful with meaningful behavior
And implant them with the great advice by acting accordingly.
I shall rid myself of the ten destructive acts:
The three types of impulsive physical actions,
Together with the four types of speech,
And the three types of impulsive acts of the mind.
I shall rid myself of the five obscurations:
Regret, bewilderment, sleepiness,
Flightiness of mind and indecision:
They obscure the three trainings.
I shall rid myself of infatuated attachment, deep hostility,
Closed-minded ignorance and pride –
The four disturbing attitudes that have been
At the root of my compulsive existence.
I shall rid myself of the confusion of my sensory desires,
The confusion of my compulsive existence,
The confusion of my unawareness,
And the confusion of my outlooks –
The four confusions that cause my uncontrollably recurring existence.
A total absence, lack of a sign,
Lack of a hope and lack of an affecting action ahead –
Through these four gateways to full liberation,
I shall actualize total purification and growth.
O my kind sublime teacher, amalgam of the three sources of direction,
You, who when committed to with my whole heart,
are a wish-granting source
From which flows the milk of all constructive and excellent wishes,
Beyond compulsive existence and serenely-stilled apathy –
I make you requests: bestow on my mind-stream inspiring strength.
OM A: GURU VAJRA-DHARA VAGINDRA SUMATI SHASANA-DHARA SAMUDRA SHRI-BHADRA SARVA SIDDHI HUM HUM [many times.]
I request you, sublime teacher, Cycles of Time,
To fully confer the empowerments on me.
Inspire me to purify away the obscurations of the four family-traits
And to achieve the four enlightening corpuses.
Emanated forth from your heart, the empowering deities –
Namely the blissfully transformed fathers and mothers,
As well as the circle of your symbolic world –
Confer the water, crown, ear-tassel, scepter and bell,
The tamed and involved behavior, name
and subsequent permission empowerments,
And then supremely confer the two sets
of higher and highest four empowerments
And the empowerments of the diamond-strong master.
By means of this, the energy-channels and the winds of my body
become flexible and fit.
Empowered to build up the beneficial habits
of the two stages of practice,
I gain the fortune to fully deplete the twenty-one thousand
six hundred impulsive energy-winds
Plus every bit of corporeal matter of my body,
And to manifest in this very lifetime the highest state
of a Cycles of Time possessing seven.
Having made my requests with heartfelt respect to you,
Sublime teacher, great holder of the diamond-strong,
Ruler who is a complete amalgam of infinite sources of safe direction,
I request you: bestow on my mind-stream inspiring strength.
By the force of having been requested by my strong plaintive yearning,
My root sublime teacher, Great Cycles of Time,
Come to grace the crown of my head.
By happily dissolving into me, we become of equal taste.
All phenomena – causes, effects, natures and actions –
Like an illusion or a dream, are utterly devoid, from the start,
Of existing by means of an essential nature.
Within a state of this total absence, like a surfacing bubble,
Comes a water-born lotus with outspread petals
And, on the corolla of which, are stacked a moon, a sun
And a "growler" and "fire-of-time" eclipsing planets.
On top of these, in the nature of my white and red sources,
Are a moon and a sun, the surfaces of which are beautified with
Garlands of vowels and consonants in the nature
of the marks and exemplary features,
And in the center of which are the syllables HUM and HI
as my energy-wind and mind.
These mix into one in the form of a syllable HAM,
From which I transform and arise as a Cycles of Time,
With the lustrous hue of a sapphire, blazing with brilliance,
With four faces and twenty-four arms,
The first two embracing my motherly partner
While holding a diamond-strong scepter and bell
To symbolize my supreme and unchanging
diamond-strong blissful awareness
And the reality of a total absence, fantasy-free by nature.
My remaining lotus-hands on the right and the left are arrayed
With my hand-insignia: a cleaver, a shield and so forth.
With my two legs, right one red and outstretched
with a dance on top on a Demonic One,
And left one white and bent on a Forceful One,
I am elegant with hundreds of artistic moods.
My body, adorned with copious pieces of jewelry,
Is like the vault of the heavens beautifully studded with stars,
Standing in the midst of an effulgence of five-colored stainless light.
Facing me who have overcame and gained all
Is a Mother of Diversity, saffron in color, four faces, eight arms,
Holding a variety of hand-insignia like a cleaver, a skullcup and so on.
With the stance of her left leg outstretched, she embraces me
who have overcome and gained all.
We are encircled by eight ladies with powerful abilities
On the auspicious number of petals in the cardinal
and intermediate directions.
Standing magnificently like this, as the principal figure,
I emit from my heart a Diamond-Strong Strength,
Holding an assortment of terrifying weapons,
With which he hooks back in a host of sources of safe direction
living in infinite pure-land fields.
They become of an equal taste with the ones who are here
to bond me close.
The empowering deities confer the empowerments.
As the principal one, along with my circle, we all become sealed
With the ruling figures of our families.
The perimeters around the seed-syllables at the hearts of myself,
the principal figure, and of my circle,
Are ringed with a garland of our own individual syllables
to protect the mind.
From these are emanated a host of deities
of my symbolic round world,
Who do what is of meaningful benefit for wandering beings
And, once again, gather back in
And dissolve into the seed-syllables at our hearts.
[HKSHMLVRYAM is pronounced in Tibetan: HANKYA-MALA-WARAYA.]
Divine offering maidens emanated from my heart present us the offerings:
I prostrate to you with an identity-nature
Of a total absence and a compassionate, sympathetic heart,
You who neither take birth in the three planes of compulsive existence
nor perish away,
You whose enlightening corpus has as one
A way of knowing and what is known,
O all-around perfect Cycles of Time.
I bow to you, O Cycles of Time, who having rid yourself of such matters
As being absorbed in a balanced union of vowels strung from A
and consonants from KA,
And the syllables HUM and PHAT,
Have an enlightening body, born from what is without any change.
I bow to you, Great Sealing Lady,
With the nature of a magic-mirror image,
Beyond an actual nature of atoms,
O lady possessing the supreme of all aspects.
I bow to you, O Mother of Diversity,
Lady giving birth to all clear and evolved;
Having rid yourself of birth and disintegration,
You possess the behavior of the totally excellent.
The ladies with powerful abilities, as well as our seats,
Melt into light and dissolve into me.
I, as well, melt into light and within a non-objectifying state
of a total absence,
I arise once more in the aspect of a Great Cycles of Time
with one face and two arms.
[B9 As in An Extensive Six-Session Yoga – 1985 Translation, B4]
[B10 As in An Extensive Six-Session Yoga – 1985 Translation, B11]
[B11 As in An Extensive Six-Session Yoga – 1985 Translation, B12]
Just as those in the caste of able ones, including Surya,
Attained discriminating deep awareness from this,
So may all limited beings dwelling in the three planes
of compulsive existence
Become like them through the kindness of Cycles of Time.
Just as the diamond-strength of my enlightening mind shall remain
In infinite lands for the sake of liberating limited beings,
May these limited beings themselves, by the force of Cycles of Time,
Remain among those in the three planes of compulsive existence.
May those persons who, through demonic friends,
Always fall into the darkness of untruth
And follow degenerating paths of the mind,
Attain this path of the mind and, in not too long,
Arrive at the house of the diamond-strong gem.
[C2 As in An Extensive Six-Session Yoga – 1985 Translation, C1-3]
May the spiritual heroes expanding their hearts
And dwelling above in the demonic ones' direction,
Totally terrifying the would-be divine;
And the wrathful kings and queens dwelling either in or parted from
The main directions in the perishably based human world;
And also the powerful hooded ones beneath the earth who,
When their time comes, bind up hordes of evil spirits
and everything destructive –
May they all, each at their individual times
during the day and the night,
Protect the unaware world from all such things.
[B12 As in An Extensive Six-Session Yoga – 1985 Translation, B5]
[B13 As in An Extensive Six-Session Yoga – 1985 Translation, B6]
[B14 As in An Extensive Six-Session Yoga – 1985 Translation, B7]
Disturbing my sublime teacher's mind,
Breaking with what he or she has enlighteningly said,
Emitting my seminal force,
Holding the total absence in the themes and mind-protection
as having a difference in quality and belittling one,
Having a pretentious loving concern,
Getting rid of unchanging blissful awareness,
And criticizing those integrated with the real
Are the collection of what become a root downfall.
Damaging a life,
Telling a lie,
Taking what was not given to me,
Engaging in sexual misconduct,
And drinking alcohol are the five negative acts.
Gambling, playing with dice or on a gridded board,
Eating meat when it is improper,
Saying whatever comes to mind,
Putting out offerings for my father's or mother's ancestors,
And sacrificing livestock to make a blood-offering
Are the five offshoot negative acts.
Killing cattle, children, women, men,
And demolishing a basis that represents
an enlightening body, speech or mind
Are the five killings.
Being disrespectful to the clear evolved
or the preventive measures,
Being spiteful toward friends, my master,
those intent on a positive goal,
And deceiving those who trust me
Are the five contentious acts.
Being attached to sight, sounds,
Smells, tastes, and tactile sensations
Are the five longing desires.
All of these are dealt with
In the twenty-five types of tamed and involved behavior.
I shall safeguard correctly and well against them
And against the sets of root downfalls
and likewise the faulty acts,
As spoken of in the Everlasting Stream of Cycles of Time.
[B16-18 As in An Extensive Six-Session Yoga – 1985 Translation, B8-10]
By the force of the vastly expanding ocean
Of my bountiful store of constructive potential,
Which has come from continuously gathering
into the lake of my mind
A stainless stream of water of building up beneficial habits,
repeating syllables and making offerings,
Which flows from the snow mountain
of my pure and exceptional resolve like this,
Combined furthermore by my mind into one with my entire store
of constructive potential over the three times,
May I be cared for, in life after life, by spiritual masters
Of supreme vehicle of mind, holy guiding lights.
By learning from the guidelines they happily impart
The manner of what has been gathered into the measures
for the three vehicles of the mind,
And putting their meaningful points into practice,
May I ripen my mind-stream with the paths of the mind
that are taken in common.
By receiving the seven purifying empowerments, may I soundly set
The powerful abilities of seven levels of mind,
Wash away seven stains, such as those of my elemental sources
and so on,
And gain the power to actualize the integrating practice of the first stage
and the common actual attainments.
By the four supreme empowerments with a perishable basis
and a basis beyond perish,
May I set seeds for four enlightening corpuses,
the four diamond-strong,
And gain the power to listen about, explain
and build up as a beneficial habit
The four branches of approximating and actualizing the second stage.
May I sit majestically in a supreme palace, exquisite beyond measure,
of a diamond-strong vehicle of mind,
With a footstool of undeclined bonds and vows,
On a throne of four purifying empowerments,
As one with a wheel of authority over the two stages' measures.
Through cleansing out, then purifying myself for an enlightening body
And also speech, mind and deep awareness,
And through the integrating practices of building up habits
In terms of the six families' figures and then on my six limbs,
And then with a forceful blaze of lights from diamond-strong scepters
Arranged at their individual places on my body,
May I burn away demonic forces and interferers.
From generating in the middle of the sphere of space four element discs,
Then combining them into one,
May I actualize a diamond-strong fence with five layers of thickness,
A three-layered one, a towering mansion, as well as the seats.
With stable absorbed concentration on myself in the center of these
As an all-around perfect Vajra-vega, Diamond-Strong Strength,
Powerful lord of the wrathful ones,
Then by emanating out through all of my orifice-gateways
A host of the sixty spiritual guardians,
May I annihilate outer and inner demonic forces and interferers.
By realizing a bountiful field through the actions of emanating forth
And gathering back in, pervading the entire sphere of space,
Then building up as preparation bountiful stores
in accord with the ritual procedures,
May I fully complete great waves of bountiful stores.
Having accustomed myself, at the end of my six elements'
dissolving like the stages of death,
To the self-esteem of a corpus that encompasses all,
May I reach the endpoint of absorbed concentration
on the four gateways to total liberation,
Which brings ahead, in the very moment,
total purification and growth.
By building up as a beneficial habit space, wind, fire,
water, earth and a core mountain,
May I realize the abiding nature of a diamond-strong body
With circles of channels and so on at my crown, forehead,
Throat, heart, navel and pubic region.
By building up well as a beneficial habit
being on top of a lotus, moon, sun
And a "growler" and "fire-of-time" eclipsing planets,
Together there with a diamond-strong tent,
May I block the hosts of winds of my "savoring" right
and "lolling" left channels
Into my central one "having a conch,"
Through the supreme integrating practice of the diamond-strong.
By the force of building up as a beneficial habit
a palace within the diamond-strong tent,
Exquisite beyond measure, having the light of stainless gems,
May the field where I reach my fullest potential be purified fully
And the supporting basis of my body be obscuration-free.
By building up as a beneficial habit a moon and a sun
with vowels and consonants
And two syllables of wind and mind all combining into one
as a syllable HAM,
May I develop great blissful awareness from my white and red sources
And subtle wind and mind being gathered together
in my central channel.
By the force of building up as a beneficial habit
an enlightening body, from this,
Of a Cycles of Time, possessing the supreme of all aspects,
Having a self-nature of great blissful awareness
and complete in all parts,
Together with my lady of awareness and the deities of my circle
of great blissful awareness,
May these become the causes to develop the supreme complete stages
Of a greatly sealing devoid-form and its being filled
With the taste of an unchanging, co-arising blissful awareness,
Which directly derive respectively from the seals
with an aspect and lacking in one.
By building up as a beneficial habit the approximating branch,
Or the supreme victorious symbolic world, that brings ahead,
Through its five aspects, purification and growth, and in which,
Out of the seeds from myself, father and mother,
absorbed in a balanced union,
The supreme circle of the complete deities is generated in the womb
And then settles soundly with each at their own spots,
May I, through cleansing my aggregate factors and elemental sources,
Cognitive sensors and their objects,
and organs of action and their activities,
Develop the supreme insights of the paths of the mind.
By building up as a beneficial habit the nearly actualizing branch,
Or supreme victorious actions, with its purification and growth
through twenty aspects –
Namely the five arousings, by tunes of the divine maidens'
melodious songs,
Of myself as the Diamond-Strong Possessor
who overcame and gained all,
Together with my ladies of awareness standing on the lotus
of my circle of great blissful awareness
Where, through the force of having melted with the fires
of the "inner fiery lass" at my navel,
We had taken the form of drops of great blissful awareness;
And likewise the five arisings; the five wrathful ones;
And their hooking in, merging, binding, pleasing
and making of equal taste
With the circle of those to bond me close, which also make five –
And also with its conferral of empowerment, application of seals
And mindfulness of the purifications,
may I manifest their significance.
May I manifest the supreme actualizing branch,
or the integrating practice of the drop,
With what represents well the four joyful awarenesses
in emerging order,
Which come from consecrating our private place and space,
Absorbing in a balanced union, and then,
Roused by my downward voiding energy-wind,
The flames of my "inner fiery lass" blazing upwards
through the path of my central "shaken-off" channel
So that the coursing of my right and left energy-winds
is stopped
And my expanding heart that melts from the HAM
At the crown of my head descends in stages.
May I reach the endpoint of the greatly actualized branch,
Or the integrating practice of the subtle,
with its four joyful awarenesses
That stabilize from below, rising upwards once more
in the same order in which they came;
And also of the purification ahead of a web of emanated illusions.
In short, may I reach the endpoint of my efforts
To build up in four sessions the beneficial habits
Of the supreme generation stage – the waters to cleanse me
of making appearances of the ordinary
and clinging to what they imply –
The pathway of mind that ripens to give rise
to the complete stage's being totally complete
And which purifies the outer and inner bases for purification.
By exerting myself, in addition, in reciting repetitions of syllables,
Making offerings to be burned
and presenting the offerings that honor,
May I make infinite wanderers ripe, through being unimpeded
In actualizing the actual attainment of the ultimate attainment,
To abide in a Realm Beneath Nothing.
May I accustom myself to the six-branch practice:
The integrating practices constructive for the start –
Both individual collecting and mental stability;
Those constructive for the middle –
The pathways of mind of breath-control and holding;
And those constructive for the end –
Subsequent mindfulness and absorbed concentration.
With a manner of looking in which my eyes are half-closed
And turned up so that I feel they are penetrating into
The very center of the upper end of my "shaken-off" channel
by the corner of my eyes,
May I fixate my mind single-pointedly at this spot,
Without mental dullness or flightiness of mind.
As a nondeceptive sign that, from this, the host of the winds
In my "savoring" right and "lolling" left channels
Has gathered into this spot in my "shaken-off" channel,
May I manifest the four night signs that are like smoke, a mirage,
Luminous sparks in the sky and a butter-lamp flame.
By building up well as a beneficial habit doing once more as before,
With its manner of looking at the space that is free
of water-holding clouds,
May I complete these with the six (day) signs of further blazing,
Then a moon, a sun, a "growler" eclipsing planet, lightning and a drop.
Through mental stability with which the devoid-forms
Gather in stages at the spot of my enlightening-body drop,
And which is focused single-pointedly on the forms
for as long as I wish,
May this induce a blissful sense of physical and mental fitness.
From the force of accustoming myself single-pointedly
With these two integrating practices, which actualize
the devoid-forms like this
And make stable what has been actualized,
May I achieve the power of my words coming true
And also of the five types of advanced awareness.
By accustoming myself to the breath-control
of diamond-strong repetition
that spontaneously accomplishes all,
In which my winds pass through the pathway of my "growler" channel
And are indivisible from the mind-protecting syllables,
And to the breath-control of having a vase,
In which my upper and lower winds are stopped at my navel,
May I have arise distinguished signs of the hosts of my winds entering,
Without an exception, into the center of my emanation circle of channels
And abiding there a little, and thus manifest the melodious sounds
Of being praised by those expanding their hearts.
Through the integrating practice of holding my mind immobile and firm
In the center of my pair of life and downward energy-winds
Mixed into one at the hubs of my six circles of channels,
May I, at the end of enhancing the four joyful awarenesses
That fall from above and that stabilize from below,
Arise in a devoid-form enlightening body to the face of my mind,
And cause the hordes of demonic forces of untimely death to decline.
Having well-attained the force of control over the forms and breaths,
whatever I might wish,
May I then, from a great co-arising blissful awareness,
Induced by the blazing once more of the flames of my "inner fiery lass,"
Actually arise in the enlightening body of a devoid-form
father and mother, joined together in union,
And diffuse light rays of assorted colors out of the holes
of the pores of my skin.
Joined together in union with a devoid-form
great sealing partner like this,
May I build up the beneficial habit
of a great unchanging blissful awareness,
Well-induced by this seal's own power,
Being joined with a total absence of the fantasized.
By the force of stacking my white and red sources
To the count of twenty-one thousand six hundred
Up and down through the pathway of my "shaken-off" channel,
May I have the sources of my corporeal matter be consumed
like iron by mercury.
With twenty-one thousand six hundred moments
Of unchanging great blissful awareness that realize a total absence,
May I stop my impulsive energy-winds of that same number
And quickly purify myself of the propensities for the obscurations
And thus attain the enlightening corpuses of a triumphant one.
May I actualize in ease, without hindrance,
These points to which I aspire like this,
And thus become a supreme ship-captain
for freeing all wandering beings,
Through this supreme path of the mind,
to the triumphant ones' supreme jewel-isle.
In short, through whatever bountiful store of noble,
constructive potential
I have built up through acts such as this as example,
May I quickly be born in Shambhala, the Treasury of Gems,
And reach the endpoint of the stages of this peerless path.
[If reciting 6x each day in the manner of 3x each morning and 3x each
evening, recite as follows:
A1(3x), A2-3, A4(3x), A5-7, A8(3x), A9-14, A15(3x), A16-17;
B1-9, (optional: B12-18), B10-11;
C1-2, (optional: C3, D1.)]
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'Thelma and Louise' a popular attraction at San Antonio Zoo
Published On: Jul 29 2013 10:34:42 AM CDT Updated On: Jul 29 2013 09:59:43 AM CDT
A two-headed turtle born at the San Antonio Zoo last month is so popular it's joined Facebook.
"Thelma and Louise" have their own page on the social networking site, and are at 2,500 followers and counting as of Monday morning.
The turtle, barely larger than the size of a quarter at birth, eats and swims like all the other turtles.
Its two heads -- named after the characters in the 1991 Oscar-winning film -- even get along, zoo officials told The Associated Press.
The turtle hatched on June 18 and is on display at the zoo's Friedrich Aquarium.
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Sylvia Sanchez of Three Rivers said she was driving on Farm to Market Road 889 when she pulled over to answer a text message near Rumors, just off of Highway 281, when she saw blue lights hovering near the highway between 8-10 p.m.
Numerous local businesses reported having a power outage lasting between five and 10 minutes at about 9 p.m. that night.
Sanchez said she tried to take photos with her phone as the blue lights came closer.
"Then my phone seemed to zap; I felt a vibration and heard a static noise," Sanchez said. "I am getting chills just thinking about it."
Her Android smartphone's photos of the lights turned out completely black.
"If they zapped my phone, shouldn't all my pictures be black?" Sanchez asked. "It was an unidentified flying object."
She described it as being like a big loop of individual blue lights about the size of a house.
"You could see it for miles because it was huge," Sanchez said.
She said as one ring of lights moved closer to FM 889, the other moved upward, and that's when she realized there were two separate objects. She said the blue lights turned white when they stopped moving. She also said she only saw the second one for about five minutes before it "took off."
Sanchez said the lower one hummed and stirred up dust while disturbing nearby cattle, about five or six feet off the ground.
She drove down the road to where Mike Marcantel and Ryan Clements were working on a boat to see if they could see the lights. She said one of them mentioned being able to see the individual lights.
"Man, they were blue lights, but there were Christmas lights on someone's house on 889," Clements said.
Marcantel said the lights could have been from a house nearby.
"It was kind of strange, I didn't see anything flying, but I saw the lights," Marcantel said. "I don't know what it was; I can't say for certain what it was. The next night they weren't there."
Sanchez said she called the Live Oak Sheriff's Department to report what she was seeing.
"The woman who answered said it was just the flares, and I said 'don't insult my intelligence,'" Sanchez said. "It wasn't the refinery."
According to the sheriff's report, the caller claimed other people could see the UFO as well, but when dispatch spoke to the other person, he claimed to not see a UFO.
Sanchez said she saw another UFO on Tuesday night on Highway 72. But this one appeared to be about 30,000 feet.


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Festival goers enjoyed sunshine with temperatures up in the high 80s.
Adults and children from the area, and others as far away as Alaska, filled the George West square to take in storytellers, vendors, demonstrations, artisans, musicians, dancers, scrumptious food and much much more.
A Classic Car Show featured beautiful cars that only made people dream of having them.
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Youth category: First place: Boys & Girls Club of Live Oak County; second place: George West Longhorn Booster Club; third place, Miss Western Week Teen.
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Everyone seems to agree that Dennis Lehane easily qualifies as one of AmericaŌĆÖs most powerful writers of crime/thriller fiction. With an extremely popular detective series to his credit ŌĆö not to mention his award-winning Mystic River ŌĆö Lehane has become one of the most well-paid script writers on television. (He is currently writing for the HBO series, ŌĆ£The Wire.ŌĆØ)
Several years ago, LehaneŌĆÖs New Yorker short story, ŌĆ£Until Gwen,ŌĆØ attracted considerable attention ŌĆö enough, in fact, to prompt the author to expand it into a play entitled ŌĆ£CoronadoŌĆØ and parlay the entire package into this short story collection.
Coronado (the book) consists of five short stories and a play. All of the works share a common quality: a half-dozen psychotic males who commit acts of violence with a chilling casualness. However, they often find themselves the hapless victims of other ruthless predators (usually their wives, fathers, lovers or best friends).
ŌĆ£Running Out of Dogs,ŌĆØ unwinds like a rural South Carolina version of SteinbeckŌĆÖs Of Mice and Men. Since the two good ole boys, Elgin and Blue, have grown up in the town of Eden, Elgin has gradually assumed the role of protector for his diminutive, troubled friend. Even though Elgin is tormented by his own devils (Vietnam), he tries to shield the misfit (Blue) from tormentors.
But when EdenŌĆÖs mayor hires Blue to kill stray dogs (their presence offends a local land developer), Blue acquires a kind of local respectability. He acquires confidence and ventures into new territory ŌĆö the pursuit of the sensual Jewel Lut, an unhappily married woman with her own hidden agenda. As the town of Eden watches and gossips, events move toward disaster. Blue proves so effective at his new job he eventually eliminates all of the dogs. Now what? Blue seems unwilling to return to obscurity.
ŌĆ£ICUŌĆØ has a surreal, nightmarish quality. Daniel, the protagonist, thinks he is being stalked, but he has no idea why. Finally, he abandons his home and his job, fleeing from unknown stalkers who increase daily in both numbers and menace. Finally, Daniel blunders into refuge at a hospital and hides in the ICU where he experiences a mysterious sense of well-being. Indeed, all of the patients appear to be in hiding, and although he knows that he will eventually be discovered, his newly-found common bond makes him linger with the other victims. (This story resembles a Kafka parable.)
ŌĆ£Gone Down to CorpusŌĆØ appears to be based on some of the news reports about astonishing vandalism ŌĆö bored teenagers who break into expensive homes and engage in rampant destruction. In LehaneŌĆÖs story, the mayhem is prompted by resentment ŌĆö members of the lower class wreaking vengeance on the wealthy middle/upper class.
However, this story has a provocative conclusion: when the destructive teens find themselves in a noted politicianŌĆÖs home, filled with lavish furnishings and expensive trappings, they are suddenly incapable of acting. The grandeur of their surroundings seems to have a power that intimidates them. Like ŌĆ£ICU,ŌĆØ this story appears to be a metaphor of societyŌĆÖs inability to revolt against their real tormentors ŌĆö the ruling class.
ŌĆ£MushroomsŌĆØ seethes with the same violence and brutality that dominates the nightly news ŌĆö drive-by shootings and casual violence in drug-fueled territorial wars. However, a Lehane trademark is incongruity ŌĆö the perverse mix of contrasting elements. In ŌĆ£Mushrooms,ŌĆØ it is adolescent puppy love in the brutal world of drugs and mayhem. ŌĆ£MushroomsŌĆØ resembles a blood-soaked valentine.
The latter part of Coronado contains both the beautifully crafted short story, ŌĆ£Until Gwen,ŌĆØ and the dramatic work which is an expanded version ŌĆ£Until Gwen.ŌĆØ Unfortunately, the dramatic work (ŌĆ£CoronadoŌĆØ) fails to maintain the taunt tension of the original.
Told in the second person, ŌĆ£Until GwenŌĆØ is a masterful rendition of growing suspense. Bobby, the narrator, relates two stories: one concerns his doomed relationship with his father ŌĆö a man who kills without reason; the other is his love for Gwen, a woman who is one of his fatherŌĆÖs victims. There are other incidentals ŌĆö a missing diamond and a bungled robbery ŌĆö but the crux of BobbieŌĆÖs tale lies in his final confrontation with his father behind a carnival tent.
Lehane attempts to expand ŌĆ£Until GwenŌĆØ into a two-act play by adding two additional plots and thereby presenting a trio of doomed lovers. For this reviewer, the play doesnŌĆÖt work. The additional characters merely diffuse and dilute the explosive tension of the original short story.
But Coronado still contains five classic Lehane short stories and some of the best writing in current thriller/suspense fiction.


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Springfield, Ill. Dr. Randy Dunn, Interim Superintendent,
Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), has announced
that in response to positive feedback from local school
districts, ISBE has moved up the timeframe for Illinois
school districts to review and reconcile discrepancies
in their School Report Card data. To quickly meet school
requests for access to the data, the open review period
begins today, September 29, one day in advance of the
planned date of September 30.
The importance of the accuracy of School Report Card
data is critical to schools as a measure of performance
against the federal No Child Left Behind requirements.
In talking with many Illinois schools over the
past 48 hours, theyve told us that they are anxious
to get to work on their data as soon as possible,
said Dr. Dunn. The staff has worked hard to set
up a toll-free hotline and develop online resources for
schools. Because weve worked to respond quickly
to what the schools are telling us they need, weve
been able to move up the beginning of the review period
by a full day. Governor Blagojevich has clearly stated
the importance of improved service and support to schools
in Illinois and this initiative is just one example of
the new way in which the State Board will do that.
Staff and technology resources are now in place for school
support for the open data review period. ISBE Assessment
Division and Data Analysis and Progress Division Calls
are staffing the newly established toll-free hotline,
866-317-6034. Online resources for data review are available
for school districts at http://www.isbe.net/assessment/pdfQuickRef.htm.
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