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If the "Open Carry March" on July 4 had gone off as Adam Kokesh originally planned, he would have led an army of 10,000 peaceful (but armed) gun-rights protesters through Washington DC in what he called "the final American revolution."
But when it came time to march, Adam was an army of one. So he loaded his shotgun just blocks away from the White House in defiance of local laws. Five days later, he was arrested when police seized marijuana and a cache of unregistered guns and ammunition from his apartment. He would have to continue producing podcasts for his website from a pay phone inside the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center.
Adam, who called himself "a political prisoner" on a "government induced taxpayer-funded spiritual retreat," was imprisoned for four months without bond or bail, and nearly half the time, he tells SFR, was spent in solitary confinement. He's out of jail now after striking a plea deal with prosecutors, but is banned from entering Washington DC, and could be heading to prison for years pending the outcome of a January sentencing.
The 31-year-old ex-Marine who called Santa Fe home during his teenage years has been somewhat of a local celebrity wherever he goes, promoting an aggressive libertarian agenda and often paying the price for his subversiveness.
Bucking the system appears to be a family trait. Adam's father Charles Kokesh says he doesn't share Adam's politics. Yet, like Adam, he has a knack for running afoul of the law. Lately, Charles is reveling in his Nov. 12 acquittal on charges that he illegally bartered elephant tusks. But the 65-year-old is still facing prosecution by the US Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly defrauding 21,000 investors in four business development companies.
These run-ins, along with Adam's failed bid for a New Mexico Congress seat in 2010, have given both men their fair share of lumps in the press and in the public eye — setting them up as arguably one of the most controversial father-son pairings to come from Santa Fe.
The men, neither of whom call the City Different home today, have different ways of handling notoriety. While Charles shies away from attention, his son Adam relishes it.
Charles, the one-time owner of the Santa Fe Horse Park, has maintained a low profile while weathering an intense cycle of court battles that cover a spectrum from alleged mortgage default to accused violations of the Endangered Species Act.
Adam, meanwhile, is a firebrand Iraq War veteran who delivers a breathless message that the government as we know it is beyond repair, and it is up to the people to change or destroy it by "whatever means necessary."
His demonstrations of civil disobedience don't lack spectacle. Adam coordinated a dance party inside the Jefferson Memorial and got himself body slammed by a US Park Police officer. Adam has confronted so many Transportation Security Administration workers in airports across the country that some guards recognize him on the spot. Each act of defiance is captured on video and posted on AdamVsTheMan.com, along with blog entries and podcasts that he produces at a furious clip.
But Charles just scored a victory against the government and could be on the way to emerging a victor in other challenges. He beat the elephant-tusk charges in a Florida federal court. He is in settlement negotiations with the SEC. He lost a former home on Santa Fe's east side, but he was able to keep his family in the house virtually rent-free for years as he fought its foreclosure in court.
Both men say that these experiences have helped foster a resolve in father and son to fight any charge that they face, no matter how negative the backlash may be.
"It's just an attitude of what's right and wrong," Charles tells SFR in an exclusive interview. "Just because it's the federal government doesn't mean that they are right. Just because they have the power to ruin you, as the SEC did, doesn't mean you have to give in."
"You could call it a family value, if you will," Adam says, "but we don't tolerate bullies in any form."
In an article he wrote for the summer 2004 issue of Dakota, the house publication for Dakota Arms, Charles says that the experience made a person feel "that you have earned your trophy." Today, Charles says that he wasn't proud of his kill.
"Even though I understand sport hunting and really strongly endorse it—I understand the role that it plays in conservation—after I shot the elephant, I didn't feel good about it," he says.
According to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), African elephants are considered an Appendix I species, animals that are on the verge of extinction. However, Namibia is among the four countries in Africa—including Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe—with more sustainable elephant populations. These elephants are considered under the international treaty as Appendix II species, with the caveat that all trade involving their populations is only permitted for noncommercial purposes.
Two years after the kill, in 2006, Charles legally shipped the tusks to the United States as trophies. But between then and this spring, he got in hot water. In May, the US Department of Justice issued an indictment charging him of using false documentation to disguise the sale of the tusks as a charitable donation.
According to the indictment, Charles had contacted Duke McCaa, the owner of Gulf Breeze Firearms in Florida, about divesting himself of a few hunting trophies in 2011. He wanted McCaa, whom Charles had done business with during his days with Dakota Arms, to appraise the elephant tusks. McCaa privately reached out to a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and tipped him off to Charles' intentions of selling the tusks.
The ATF agent then reported the tip to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Both agencies enlisted McCaa, who did not respond to requests for comment for this story, as a confidential informant and had him record several phone calls with Charles.
In one recorded telephone conversation that took place on Dec. 2, 2011 and is transcribed in part of the indictment, McCaa suggests to Charles that if the tusks were to be shipped to McCaa for appraisal that they "need to have a story as to why you are sending them to me, you know what I mean, if they were inspected or whatever."
In the recorded conversation, which was played in the Northern District of Florida court during the three-day trial, Kokesh says "that's easy ... for evaluation purposes, because I am going to donate them."
Authorities allege that Charles struck a deal: McCaa would pay him $3,600 in cash, and give him five guns valued at $4,500 in exchange for the tusks.
Charles says that's not what happened.
"The reason for sending the tusks to Duke in the first place was to have an appraisal to support a donation to the Rosenbruch Wildlife Museum," wrote Charles in an email to SFR.
Prosecutors say Charles also sent a package containing three documents that laid out how the pair planned to disguise the transaction as a charitable donation. They presented as evidence letters Charles drafted to the USFWS and to the director of the museum in Utah, and also say Charles returned $3,600 to McCaa when he realized the sale was under scrutiny.
Charles' attorney David McGee says the circumstance amounts to "an Orwellian nightmare."
"My guy [Charles] is dealing with McCaa, he's done business with McCaa for years. McCaa has given him gifts in the past. He has no idea that McCaa is trying to manipulate this," he tells SFR.
Senior US District Judge Roger Vinson acquitted Charles of the charges, adding that even if the drafted letters and documents used as evidence contained falsehoods regarding the sale of the tusks, the proposed sale had been aborted at the time these documents were drafted and the prosecution's evidence did not refute Charles' claim that he intended to donate them to a museum. In his written ruling on the case, Vinson also ruled that Charles was not violating any CITES regulations and "the attempted sale of the defendant's [Charles'] hunting trophy was not a crime." The Justice Department still considers the case a warning for the ivory trade.
"Trade in elephant ivory—like trade in every endangered species—is closely controlled by the laws and regulations of the United States. Any person who is thinking of buying or selling endangered species parts in bad faith needs to know that he or she may face criminal prosecution," reads a statement from Justice Department spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle. "In this case, the court read a section of the regulations covering such trade differently than we did, and found an exception for this defendant."
Charles says the court "made it clear that the charges should have never been brought, but since they were," he had to "deal with consequences."
"I didn't have to go quietly," he says, "I guess in that sense Adam and I are similar."
As one of the few Anglo students in the predominantly Native American student body, Adam says being outnumbered was an indelible experience.
"[The school] gave me a unique appreciation for those groups and individuals that are downtrodden by the system or by society in general, for no fault of their own, and especially for the role of government as a bully in society," says Adam.
Surprisingly, Adam did not demonstrate the anti-authority fervor that has come to define him.
"He was just a wise ass," says Charles.
Today, Adam embraces that quality as intrinsic for being an activist and a libertarian.
"I was always taught to not accept insufficient answers," he says. "That's what got me to this point of understanding and that's what's motivated me."
Adam enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves at the age of 17. He believed that the Marine Corps "had a net effect on the peace in the world," but says he soon changed his perspective.
"The military service is a mechanism of perverting a lot of peoples' noble intent about service, about taking care of their fellow Americans," he says, "but [also] serving the military-industrial complex, all the other beneficiaries of war and everybody who profits from militarism."
While he did not favor the invasion of Iraq, he was deployed to the country in 2004 and served as a sergeant in civil affairs. He admitted in a podcast published on April 27 for Adam vs. The Man that he never killed anyone or fired his weapon in combat, yet he came close to Iraqi insurgents.
"I tortured Iraqis," he says in the podcast. "Yeah, there were a couple of incidents where I did, when guarding detainees, cross the line."
In 2004, Adam returned home from the war a changed man, says Charles. He has a 75 percent permanent disability from his service that his doctors say is the result of post-traumatic stress disorder.
"He had trouble sleeping. [Adam would hear] loud noises, like engines backfiring and that sort, and he'd reach for his M4 even though he had been out for a year," says Charles.
Adam was prescribed a cocktail of drugs to treat his PTSD, which Charles saw as largely ineffective and unsafe.
Years later, Charles applied for a license from the New Mexico Department of Health to be a non-profit producer in the Medical Cannabis Program as a means to help Adam and other veterans, but he didn't get the permit. He was one of five applicants who sued the Department of Health for failing to approve qualified applications in time.
Adam received an honorable discharge from the Marine Corps in 2006 and became a member of the Marine Corps Individual Ready Reserve. He finished his college degree at Claremont McKenna College in California and left for Washington to study for a master's degree in Political Management from George Washington University. There, Adam became increasingly involved in protesting with groups like the Iraq Veterans Against the War and the End Racism Coalition.
But he left the school before completing his master's degree and returned to New Mexico to launch his ambitious campaign for the Republican ticket in the 2010 race for the 3rd Congressional District.
While Adam received an endorsement from Ron Paul, the campaign turned out to be a highly publicized yet ultimately improbable affair. Adam says the loss to Tom Mullens (who went on to lose to incumbent Rep. Ben Ray Lujan) wasn't his last political ambition. He intends to run in the 2020 presidential election.
Charles voted for Adam in the primary and even ran for precinct representative to bolster the campaign. He still says Adam's views are "not my politics, but he's my son."
Adam envisioned his plan for the Open Carry March in Washington DC as his boldest act of advocacy yet.
By May, he told Vice.com that he had signed up 4,000 people for the event. On Independence Day, he marched onto Freedom Plaza alone. With the dome of the US Capitol Building as a backdrop, he loaded four shells into a 12-gauge shotgun, chambered a round, and proudly declared to the camera, "We are the final American Revolution."
After the video of his locked and loaded one-man protest went viral on YouTube, a US Park Police SWAT team raided his home in Herndon, Va. They seized a Maverick Arms shotgun and several other firearms from his apartment along with ammunition, marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms, and Adam landed behind bars.
"My recent experience in jail was very humbling to see that there were people going through things way worse than me, and probably at random," he tells SFR. "[Being imprisoned] has given me a certain humility about my experience. Whatever it is me and my father suffered, because there are so many more victims of government, it's really insignificant."
Adam first entered a not guilty plea to charges that he illegally carried a shotgun in violation of local weapons laws, had an unregistered firearm and illegal ammunition and possessed marijuana. After his attorney Peter Cooper stepped down, Adam reversed course and took a plea deal. A sentencing hearing in January could send him to prison for up to seven years.
Adam remains confident, however, that this latest act of civil disobedience was a success.
"I would like to think that I accomplished the general goal of my activism, which is making people think," he says.
Charles remains supportive of his son despite disagreement about how Adam carried out his gun-rights demonstration.
"I figured it was just a prop," says Charles of Adam's shotgun. "I think he could have chosen a better way to make the protest against [Washington DC's] gun law, but I have to support him for the courage of his convictions."
He moved his family and his Technology Funding company to the city from the San Francisco area in 1996 because of its cheaper rent and labor costs compared to California during the dot-com era.
Before Charles left for Colorado, his family home on Camino Corrales was the site of a years-long battle with a number of banks that successively controlled its $4.3 million mortgage. As the mortgage bounced around, the Kokesh family continued living there, filing motions to dismiss attempts to foreclose on the property. The family finally vacated the six-bedroom house on May 31 at the order of District Judge Sarah Singleton—managing to stay for five years without paying for it.
Charles did not always score a sneaky victory. His luxury motor home was repossessed and he lost control of the Santa Fe Horse Park, a club he launched with friends in 1998 as a place to play polo. By 2007, the $2.25 million note on the property just west of the airport was in default. A court battle proceeded over the property's water rights, although the Horse Park eventually closed. (It is now listed as the Santa Fe Equestrian Center and is on the market for sale just below $4 million).
The SEC case is still hanging over Charles, who holds the dubious honor of being the first man in New Mexico to be charged by the agency. Investigators allege Charles misappropriated $45 million from four business development companies that his investment advisory firm, Kokesh Advisors, had contracts with. The SEC accused Kokesh Advisers of charging illegal performance fees and expense reimbursements, and of taking illegal distributions from the companies.
Charles would not comment on the case except to say his attorneys are negotiating a settlement with the SEC. This summer, a judge rejected summary-judgment motions from both sides. The case will be tried May 2014 if they don't reach agreement, according to a government official who did not want to be identified.
Meanwhile, Charles is working on several new business ventures in Colorado.
"Me and my business partner consciously chose not to pursue [the business ventures] in New Mexico," he says, adding that staying in New Mexico would not make "good economic sense."
Adam is in the process of sorting out his possessions and putting his life back together before his sentencing. He is not allowed to set foot in Washington DC. Instead, he will be spending time with his mother (Charles' ex-wife) in California and with his father in Colorado.
Adam believes his career as an activist has played a role in Charles receiving "undue prosecution" by the feds.
"I know he [Charles] is not going to resent me for it, because he supports me in what I do," says Adam. "If he gets pulled into this as another victim of the bully, then he's going to join me in standing up."
He feels emboldened by his father's recent court victory in Florida, and although his prison sentencing looms, he says he will continue to embrace his notoriety and continue to be a very vocal wise-ass.
"Better," he says, "than being a dumb-ass."
Editor's note: An earlier version of this story used a wrong word in the quote from Adam, "There were a couple of incidents where I did, when guarding detainees, cross the line."


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SEPTEMBER 22, 2004 – A lot of people lately sit in front of their television sets almost every night, wishing there was something they could do for hurricane victims in Florida and other stricken states. For Muskingum College student Brad Spraw '05, though, watching just wasn't enough.
Spraw has put together a plan to help. He has organized a network of donation stations on the campus-- in the student center, the library, the dormitories and several other offices-- giving students, staff and faculty a chance to chip in whatever cash they can afford. The campaign is scheduled to last at least through this week, and perhaps two. All proceeds will go to the Zanesville chapter of the American Red Cross, which will allocate the funds appropriately.
"I just really felt like I needed to do something," Spraw explained. "I have one friend down there, and that bothered me, but I just kept seeing all this devastation and damage, that's what got me going."
Spraw is also vice president of his fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau, and he enlisted those brothers to help.
"I got everybody to help out," Spraw said. "We're going to have people at the table in the student center all the time, but the other collection stations will be picked up at the end of every day and put out every morning. We'll see what happens." Before starting on the campaign, Spraw spoke with a national representative of the Red Cross to see what was the best way to help. "They told me that they really don't want items, like clothing and such, because those things are hard to store, ship and distribute. So, money is how we can offer the most help, and that's what we're going to do," he explained.
There is no goal for this campaign, however, since Spraw and his fraternity brothers are simply trying to do something good.
"I think whatever we can collect, whether it's $50 or $500, will make things easier for someone, somehow. That's our goal," Spraw concluded, "but I have to admit, I hope it's a lot."
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PITTSBURGH — Kris Letang's given rationale for tucking his jersey into his back pad was simple enough — and it had nothing to do with Wayne Gretzky. Or, according to him, aesthetics at all.
"It's because my jersey's too big," the Pittsburgh Penguins All-Star defenseman said on Monday at Consol Energy Center. Forget for a second that he's listed at 6-0, 201 pounds.
"We have to actually alter all the jerseys now, since we're not allowed," Letang said. "You play when you're comfortable, and obviously when I have my jersey down to my hip, it kind of bugs me, so I always have to put it in my pants."
Those days are over, though. The NHL plans to enforce equipment rules more stringently this season. The main goal is to prevent exposed skin along the arms and legs, but as noted by the CBC's Elliotte Friedman, the league's logic is that if it enforces one uniform-related rule, it has to enforce them all. So, goodbye jersey tucks.
That logic, Friedman wrote, was galvanized at least a bit by the Capitals' series against the New York Rangers, "when each team was more than happy to point out each other's uniform faults."
Of course, another fix would be to explicitly allow jersey tucks, but the league took another route.
"This was a GM's initiative," NHL senior vice president of hockey operations Kris King told Friedman. "Some of them (general managers) came to us last year and said they didn't like where it was going."
Now, it's gone in the other direction—and the league's foremost jersey-tucker doesn't like it.
"They think it can be dangerous for somebody. I think it's kind of stupid," Washington Capitals superstar Alex Ovechkin told the Washington Post. "If I'm going to put jersey normally, I'm going to skate and it (flies) back."
Letang is less concerned.
"I don't think it'll change anything," he said. "It's just gonna be a pain for the trainers."
In 1985, Michael Jordan (and Nike) simply paid a nightly $5,000 fine that came because the Air Jordans' red-and-black colorway violated NBA rules. That's not an option for Ovechkin, Letang or anyone else: First offense gets a warning; second offense gets a minor penalty; third gets a misconduct; fourth gets a game misconduct.


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While looking up a reference, I came across a difference of opinion on this particular term, used in this particular way.
Suttanipāta, Pārāyanavaggo, Udayamāṇavapucchā:
Sn1108a/b: Kiṃsu saṃyojano loko, kiṃsu tassa vicāraṇaṃ
Sn1109a/b: Nandisaṃyojano loko, vitakkassa vicāraṇaṃ
My interest is specifically with 1108b/1109b and the translation of "vicāraṇaṃ". 1108a/b and 1109a/b are repeated in SN I 88 (Saṃyojanasuttaṃ). Here are the three translations I have, with notes:
Norman, Group of Discourses, 2006:
Sn1108a/b: What fetter does the world have? What is its investigation?
Sn1109a/b: The world has enjoyment as its fetter. Speculation is its investigation.
Bodhi, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, 2000:
SN I.88 v209a/b: By what is the world tightly fettered? What is its means of travelling about?
SN I.88 v210a/b: The world is tightly fettered by delight; Thought is its means of travelling about.
Wynne, The Origin of Buddhist Meditation, 2007:
Sn1108a/b: What is the world's fetter, what is its doubt?
Sn1109a/b: The world is fettered by delight, investigation is its doubt.
Thanissaro, Access to Insight, 1994:
Sn1108a/b: With what is the world fettered? With what is it examined?
Sn1109a/b: With delight the world's fettered. With directed thought it's examined.
Saddhātissa, The Sutta-Nipāta, 1998:
Sn1108a/b: What binds and ties down the world? What causes the wandering?
Sn1109a/b: 'That which ties you down', said the Buddha, 'is the desire for pleasure. The wandering is applied thought.'
Bodhi's note on this states:
Spk glosses vicāraṇa in pāda b by pādāni, feet, explaining that the singular should be understood as a plural. In doctrinal contexts the cognate vicāra means examination, and is regularly coupled with vitakka to describe the thought process, e.g., in the formula for the first jhāna. Here, however, the point seems to be that thought can travel over vast distances without physical locomotion.
Wynne's note on this states:
Sn 1108-09 are repeated almost verbatim at S I.88 (v. 209-210). Norman translates vicāraṇaṃ in Sn 1108 as 'investigation' (2001: 141) whereas Bodhi translates it at S I.88 (v.209) as 'means of travelling about' (2000:131). I disagree with Norman, for by analogy with Sn 1108a the term must have a pejorative sense. Bodhi follows the commentary that glasses vicāraṇa as pādāni.
While pāda a in each verse is effectively the same, pāda b is translated differently by each person.
What is its investigation? Speculation is its investigation.
What is its means of travelling about? Thought is its means of travelling about.
What is its doubt? Investigation is its doubt.
The PED (online version, too lazy to pull out my hardcopy) doesn't seem to mention anything about "doubt", and neither does Buddhadatta's CPED, though Monier-Williams does list "doubt", "hesitation".
Thoughts? Comments? Non sequiturs?
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The Vendy Awards, New York's annual celebration of street food, are hitting Sunset Park in just a couple days. Over the past couple weeks we've been looking at the finalists in their rookie category—new vendors who started cooking on the street just this year. Last up: Neapolitan Express.
The idea to launch a pizza truck came to the founders of Neapolitan Express after a Chelsea landlord wanted to charge an exorbitant rent for a pizzeria next to their nightclub. Somehow along the way, simply slinging slices to partygoers from a truck turned into an adventure in innovation. This year, they launched one of the first natural gas-powered food trucks in the city and by the end of the month they will have a fleet of four mobile pizzerias roaming the streets of New York, selling their take on Neapolitan pizza.
Take a look inside the truck in the slideshow above. You can check on their daily locations through Twitter or Facebook. Stay tuned for more Vendy coverage next week when we recap the full event. You can see all the finalists and buy tickets on the Vendy website.
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There's no doubt that this salad is one of my absolute favorites, inspired by my absolute favorite fast food salad, the Chicken Fiesta Salad from Rubios. I don't eat a lot of fast food, but I do dash into Rubios and get that salad once in a while. If there's not a Rubios by where you are, no worries, just make my salad instead.
Southwest Chicken Salad With Chipotle Ranch Dressing
(1 serving as a main dish salad, recipe created by Kalyn with much inspiration from Rubio's)
3/4 - 1 cup diced cooked chicken
(1 chicken breast)
3 or 4 T Chipotle Ranch Dressing
(recipe follows)
2-3 cups washed and torn romaine lettuce
1/2 cup diced red pepper
1/4 cup grated cheese
(I used four cheese Mexican Blend, a mixture of lowfat cheeses)
1/2 cup (more or less to taste) chopped fresh cilantro
Chipotle Ranch Dressing
(Makes 2 1/2 cups. Recipe created by Kalyn. This will keep in the refrigerator for several weeks.)
2 cups Ranch Dressing
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1/2 cup salsa (I used Pace Picante Sauce Mild)
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Midwifery Today Joint Conference
"Birthing in Love: Everyone's Right"
Moscow, Russia • 9–13 June 2010
Philip Perkhov and Katerina Perkhova
Letter from Jan Tritten
When the lovely young couple who publish Home Child magazine in Russia joined us last year at our Copenhagen conference, I had no idea that this meeting would birth such amazing ideas and start to shake up the birth movement on an international level. Since meeting Katerina Perkhova and her husband, Philip Perkhov, I have been so blessed, I am almost without words. Many of us who attended our June conference in Moscow, Russia (one of the many good things to come from that initial meeting in Copenhagen!), have felt the ground around us start to move in a way it never has before. We want you all to be part of this global midwifery movement.
Please read the rest of Jan's editorial on the Russia conference here.
[Photo by Philipp Perkhov]
St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square
Jan Tritten shows off the conference theme, "Birthing in Love: Everyone's Right"
Teachers having fun at conference. Naolí Vinaver, Jan Tritten, Eneyda Spradlin-Ramos, Katerina Perkhova and children.
Each time we stopped for a crumpet or coffee at this bakery/flower shop, they also made us a corsage.
Jan kissing Russian male midwife, Igor Charkovsky, who is best known for helping women give birth underwater in the Black Sea
Igor Charkovsky teaching at the conference
Two attendees
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The most important type of dukkha, however, is sankhara-dukkha, an existential incompleteness due to spiritual ignorance. This incompleteness arises from being limited to one's own contingent and unenlightened perspective.
The Buddhist response to them both would be that they failed to understand the system fully because they failed to adopt Buddhist practices aimed at enlightenment - at which point they would have developed the capacity to conceive of Nirvana.
"He directly knows nibbana as nibbana. Directly knowing nibbana as nibbana, let him not conceive things about nibbana, let him not conceive things in nibbana, let him not conceive things coming out of nibbana, let him not conceive nibbana as 'mine,' let him not delight in nibbana. Why is that? So that he may comprehend it, I tell you.
For Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, nothingness is what is left when these illusions are removed. This explains their sharply opposed responses to the human condition as they understand it. Schopenhauer and, according to Nietzsche, Buddhism, prescribe a surrender into nothingness that can only be actualized by extinction of the will. Nietzsche, on the other hand, asserts an affirmation of the illusion by becoming the creator of it. His überman, by accepting the groundlessness of his own 'truths'and yet maintaining them and continually creating them - wanting to create them over and over again (as opposed to wanting to escape the cycle) - represents an ideal response to existence.
Buckwheat wrote:For Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, nothingness is what is left when these illusions are removed. This explains their sharply opposed responses to the human condition as they understand it. Schopenhauer and, according to Nietzsche, Buddhism, prescribe a surrender into nothingness that can only be actualized by extinction of the will. Nietzsche, on the other hand, asserts an affirmation of the illusion by becoming the creator of it. His überman, by accepting the groundlessness of his own 'truths'and yet maintaining them and continually creating them - wanting to create them over and over again (as opposed to wanting to escape the cycle) - represents an ideal response to existence.
How does one benefit from maintaining the illusion?
nem wrote:I must say Nietzsche had a profound impact on my life, quite the opposite of the Bhudda.
In 2003, I began a study of Beyond Good and Evil and also Genealogy of Morals. After reading these books several times, I became convinced that 'there is nothing' and that any moral code is simply for the weak. That morality and ideas of good and evil, are part of an effort to keep people like me (like I was) from feeling free to do what we want to do. In a Genealogy of Morals, as I remember it was put forth that 'good' had been defined since the earliest times as whatever the powerful did, and 'bad' was anything that the weak or poor people did who differentiated them from the powerful or rich. In this way, he turned it into a class struggle issue and totally wiped away the idea that there is any real utility to morals, any karma, any effect of deeds. You can make a strong argument for doing almost anything from the standpoint of his teachings.
After becoming indoctrinated in this, I became totally cold, heartless, closeminded and basically did all kinds of immoral things. It was only after the effects harmed other people, and then finally harmed me, that I finally realized that Nietzsche was teaching a doctrine that works in some fantasy, where there are no consequences to our actions, while I live in an experience where the consequences are real and often immediate. The error of his teachings aside, he has to be the most egotistical author to ever touch pen to paper and this alone was almost intolerable and shows his ignorance of the Dhamma. It seemed that perhaps 25% of his words were dedicated to the glorification of the philosopher as a supreme example of human perfection. All this need for self-glorification calls into question the validity of his teaching, as if the content of the teaching alone could not show its worth. As a young 20-something, hearing his teachings without sufficient life experience to know where they lead, I did so many bad things by using his philosophy as an 'out' or 'excuse' to run rampant. I hope this isn't something that people are typically reading, it's interesting but it's a hindrance.
I also did note that everything was very 'Westernized.' I often thought, why is he constantly hacking away the supports of Christianity and Judaism and speaking of Europe? He speaks of a philosophy that would apply to the whole world if true, but it's like he typically forgets any cultures outside the West. He needed to show that everyone else is wrong, in order to make his idea work, not just the Westerners. The Bhudda is not so easy to hack at, because his teaching is good in the beginning, good in the middle, good in the end with the right wording and phrasing to stand the test. So Nietzsche never seemed to follow down that path too much, a slippery slope for him, he might have fallen in the Dhamma! Would have made my life easier, if he'd thrown all his manuscripts in the trash. But being deluded by his ideas, and coming out of it, is part of my development, so...
"God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. – And we – we still have to vanquish his shadow too." (The Gay Science, § 108, p. 167.)
"The impulse to desire in this domain nothing but certainties is a religious after-shoot, no more – a hidden and only apparently skeptical species of the 'metaphysical need..." (Human, All Too Human, § 16, p. 308)
We have absolutely no need of these certainties, regarding the furthest horizon to live a full and excellent human life… What we need, rather, is to become clear in our minds as to the origin of that calamitous weightiness we have for so long accorded to these things, and for that we require a history of the ethical and religious sensations (Human, All Too Human § 16, p. 308).
"I tell you, friend, that it is not possible by traveling to know or see or reach a far end of the cosmos where one does not take birth, age, die, pass away, or reappear. But at the same time, I tell you that there is no making an end of suffering & stress without reaching the end of the cosmos. Yet it is just within this fathom-long body, with its perception & intellect, that I declare that there is the cosmos, the origination of the cosmos, the cessation of the cosmos, and the path of practice leading to the cessation of the cosmos." AN 4.45
The discipline of suffering, of great suffering – do you not know that only this discipline
has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness
which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and
courage in enduring, persevering, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has
been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness -- was it not granted
to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering? (Beyond Good and Evil, § 225, p. 344)
Indeed, we philosophers and "free spirits" feel, when we hear the news that "the old god
is dead," as if a new dawn shone on us; our heart over-flows with gratitude, amazement,
premonition, expectation. At long last the horizon appears free to us again, even if it should
not be bright; at long last our ships may venture out again, venture out to face any danger;
all the daring of a lover of knowledge is permitted again; the sea, our sea, lies open again;
perhaps there has never yet been such an "open sea. (The Gay Science, § 343, p. 280)
Saying Yes to life even in its strangest and hardest problems, the will to life rejoicing over
its own inexhaustibility even in the very sacrifice of its highest types – that is what I called
Dionysian, that is what I guessed to be the bridge to the psychology of the tragic poet. Not
in order to be liberated from terror and pity, not in order to purge oneself of a dangerous
affect by its vehement discharge – Aristotle understood it that way – but in order to be
oneself the eternal joy of becoming, beyond all terror and pity – that joy which included
even joy in destroying. (Twilight of the Idols in The Portable Nietzsche, "What I Owe to the Ancients," pp. 562-563)
To "give style" to one's character – a great and rare art! It is practiced by those who survey
all the strengths and weaknesses of their nature and then fit them into an artistic plan until
every one of them appears as art and reason and even weaknesses delight the eye. Here a
large mass of second nature has been added; there a piece of the original nature has been
removed – both times through long practice and daily work at it. …. In the end, when
the work is finished, it becomes evident how the constraint of a single taste governed and
formed everything large and small. Whether this taste was good or bad is less important
than one might suppose, if only it was a single taste! (The Gay Science, § 290, p. 232)
And furthermore, just as the ocean has a single taste — that of salt — in the same way, this Dhamma & Vinaya has a single taste: that of release... This is the sixth amazing & astounding quality of this Dhamma & Vinaya because of which, as they see it again & again, the monks take great joy in this Dhamma & Vinaya. ~ Uposatha Sutta
What wealth here is best for man?
What well practiced will happiness bring?
What taste excels all other tastes?
How lived is the life they say is best?
Faith is the wealth here best for man;
Dhamma well practiced shall happiness bring;
Truth indeed all other tastes excels;
Life wisely lived they say is best
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Geoffrey McGann says his artistic watches aren't timepieces you wear every day. They are suitable for a special event, an art show or a party. Some of them don't even tell time.
"They are conversation pieces," the Rancho Palos Verdes man said Tuesday.
One place McGann no longer will wear any of his watches is in an airport, not after spending three days behind bars, charged with bringing components that could be used to build an explosive device into Oakland International Airport on Thursday.
McGann, 49, who had spent the day at his weekly teaching job in San Francisco, acknowledges his wristwatches look like bombs. They just aren't.
"It's made to look like a device," he said. "You could say it's a bomb. I've never thought about it in those terms."
McGann, who serves as managing creative director at Locomotus, a media, marketing and advertising training center, and teaches at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and Otis College of Art and Design in Westchester, has a portfolio full of art work and photography. He began building his watches and handing them out to friends six months ago.
They are colorful, built with wires and fuses and switches that can be found at The Home Depot. McGann adorns them with other items like Hot Wheels cars, flowers, insects or compasses - whatever suits the person who will receive it. He stores them in a large box at home that's decorated with similar fuses and wires and labeled "Makes stuff bloom."
Sometimes he wears them out, especially when he plans to give them as gifts to students and friends. About six months ago, McGann explained what he was wearing on his wrist to Transportation Security Administration agents at Los Angeles International Airport before going through a scanner to make sure it was OK.
"They told me, `As long as you're not trying to hide anything, it's all right.' So, I put the watch in the bin and that's how I proceeded to travel with them for months, by simply putting them in the bin on the conveyor belts," McGann said.
Thursday night, TSA agents saw the watch go through the scanner and pulled him aside. Alameda County sheriff's deputies were called to the security checkpoint, handcuffed McGann and put him in a patrol car while a bomb squad arrived to examine his watch.
McGann said he had no problem with the TSA agents' concern at what he had there. But after the bomb squad determined the watch was not an explosive, McGann believes believes sheriff's deputies should have set him free.
"My problem is they arrested me on a false charge," McGann said. "The charge was felony possession of an explosive device."
Sgt. J.D. Nelson, an Alameda County Sheriff's Department spokesman, said McGann was held on suspicion of possession of components to make a destructive device, not possession of explosives.
Nelson said deputies knew McGann did not have explosives, but did not know if he was part of a scheme with other people to bring components onto a plane to create a bomb with anyone who did.
"We don't know what he's planning to do," Nelson said. "You've got a guy bringing in something you wouldn't bring into an airport."
Beyond that, Nelson said, McGann did not check any bags, had the watch covered up in a jacket as it went through the X-ray scanner, wore shoes two sizes too big with homemade inserts and wore a shirt with a tourniquet built into it that a soldier might wear to save his own life on the battlefield.
"Taken individually you could say, `All right, it's a plausible excuse,"' Nelson said. "Put them all together and you get arrested."
Nelson said deputies had to err on the side of public safety and were put in a bad position.
"If you let him go and he turns out to be something, then you look like idiots for letting him go," Nelson said.
McGann said he was required to post $150,000 bail and hire an attorney.
"My issue is with the Sheriff's Department," McGann said. "They told me after looking at the watch that they knew it wasn't explosive, that they knew I wasn't a terrorist, that they knew I was an artist, that they knew I wasn't trying to hide anything, and yet they still proceeded to arrest me because, as they said, `We have to because we don't know what else to do and we don't feel good about simply letting you go. And don't worry, these charges will likely be dropped soon.' which is in fact exactly what happened."
After he was released, McGann rented a car and drove home. The father of an 11-year-old girl said he won't wear his watches in an airport again.
Nelson said the bottom line is no one should take something like that to an airport.
"Common sense has to kick in," the sergeant said. "If you want to do artwork, that's great. It's not OK to take a toy art handgun to the airport or to the courthouse or a toy gun and a mask to a theater. You can't do that nowadays."
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Grand Nordic: Nordic season winding down in Grand
March 29, 2013
Ah, fickle Mother Nature.
This time last year the Nordic areas were struggling but the small storms keep adding snow by the inches where the more intense sun melts it into our water reserves. Hopefully the storms keep coming this year as the water demands on our Valley are way out of proportion. That means water for the valley in the summer to come. Snow conditions are excellent all over Grand County, whether groomed tracks in the Nordic areas or the incredible High Country. Bare spots do exist where the sun was too much for thin cover, so be careful.- Temperature swings are huge – it can be double digits below when you wake up and T-shirt weather in the afternoon.- Winds blow in weather changes fast and furious so you must be prepared more than ever. Crust is forming as the snow settles and the cold night temperatures freeze the wet snow from the warm afternoon of the previous day. Crust skiing is a springtime delight as you can travel anywhere that crusty layer will hold you. The true test is if it will hold up your dog from breaking through! This works best while the temps are still no more than teens so go early after a cold night.
I cannot stress enough the dangers of avalanches, even in familiar terrain. Last weekend on the trail to Byers Peak, we saw several places where slides had sloughed almost blocking or wiping out the trail. I was just glad I was not there when they had occurred!
Safest are the Nordic ski areas and our scenic parks. Remember to ask permission before going into private lands, ski with a buddy and let people know where you are going. Be prepared with extra clothes, food and water and pack out what you pack in. Don't make someone who cares that our lands remain beautiful pick up your trash later.
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Snow conditions continue to be excellent with fantastic grooming so come enjoy the snow. Every Wednesday SMR offers free skiing for locals. The last Free Waxing Clinic is Saturday morning 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. on March 30. Learn basic waxing techniques and ski maintenance to increase your enjoyment of cross country skiing. Rotating subjects each week. Call the Nordic Center at 888-573-9622 for schedule. Meet people afterwards for skiing or bring your dog for the great dog loops available. The SMR Nordic Center is looking at April 15 for a closing date depending on snow conditions.
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Join the festive egg hunt on Easter Sunday and stay for Easter Brunch at Heck's. Reservations recommended. Activities Center – 970-726-8231. The Nordic Center anticipates remaining open until April 15, conditions permitting.
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The Nordic Center closed for the season on March 24. We thank everyone for a wonderful season.
Volunteers are treasured in Grand County
Throughout the winter season, all of our Nordic events have been staged with the assistance of a myriad of volunteers. Some help with clubs and organizations, registration or help desks, grooming, laying out courses and trails, coaching, promotion, and so many other tasks. -Grand County could not exist without the volunteers that keep our activities going. There are too many to name and we don't want to forget anyone.- Thank you many times over for all you do.- If you see a volunteer at work, thank them and even join them.- The pleasure earned from volunteer work is lasting and genuine.- And the world is a much better place…Ask what you can do to help your favorite cause.
Last event at Steamboat march 30
The Steamboat Coureur features cross county events with 10K, 25K, and 50K, Snowbike with 25K or 50K, Snowunicycle with 1K, 5K or 17K and lastly Snowbike and Ski 25K/25K.- Loads of prizes and give a ways.- Go to steamboatcoureur.com for more information.
Nordic world achievements
In the Spring of 2010, I brought four Nordic Combined team members to Grand County to meet the school kids and Grand County public. They had just won the first Nordic Combined team medals in our nation's history at the Winter Olympics. What an inspiration they were then and still are to our population with their stories of how they achieved this incredible goal and the things they had to conquer along the way. The stories are still coming in and these minor miracles are still happening. As a travel agent, I work with kids and coaches all over the Nordic world to help them achieve these goals.- At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme Italy at the end of February, these same guys, Demong-Lodwig-Taylor and Bryan Fletcher- led the USA to bronze in the Nordic combined team event, the first ever US medal in the team event at World Championships in which each of the four team athletes performed both on the jump and on the cross country track.-For the US Men's Ski Jumping team (another of my clients), Nick Fairall qualified for the world show of Ski Flying at Planica, first American to do so.- Other team members – Anders Johnson and Peter Frenette (coached by Clint Jones) and Chris Lamb, Nick Fairall, Mike Glasder and Nick Alexander (coached by Casey Colby) had best US finishes on record at the Four Hills Tournee, Continental Cups and US cups this winter.- And the Nordic World Juniors are making waves as well. It's an exciting time in Men's ski jumping.
Just as I worked with the celebrated Nordic Combined team members and the USA Ski Jumping team in their formative years, I worked with the newly formed Women's Ski jumping team when they first started about 10 years ago. They were taken in by USSA several years ago. Now two weeks ago they became a part of history in the first time ever that women were allowed to compete on the large hill, or K120, in an International Ski Federation-sanctioned event. And they did it in the cradle of ski jumping – Oslo, Norway – home to the massive concrete and steel Holmenkollen jump, a modern marvel and pride of the nation rumored to cost $100 million to build. Women and men ski jumpers took turns in their competition rounds, putting on a flight show for the 30,000 people who were in the Holmenkollen stadium watching, with another 20,000 on the outside, taking in jumping and other Nordic ski racing events.
American and 2013 World Champion Sarah Hendrickson won the Holmenkollen event, besting rival Sara Takanashi, of Japan, by less than a point. Austria's Jacqueline Seifriedsberger was 3rd. The Visa Women's Ski Jumping Team placed 3 in the top 10 – Hendrickson 1st, Lindsey Van 7th, and Jessica Jerome 10th. Alissa Johnson was 19th and Abby Hughes was 28th. After the event, the season's top honors were awarded. Takanashi, winning eight of 16 events, was crowned the World Cup Champion. Hendrickson, racking up 10 podiums (including four wins), was second overall, and France's Coline Mattel was 3rd overall.
For the second year in a row, the Visa Women's Ski Jumping Team won the Nations Cup – the overall World Cup title for teams. The U.S. women edged out Slovenia, a team that caught fire this season with six jumpers in the top 17 overall. Japan, led by Takanashi, came in 3rd. And with their performance at the Nordic Worlds in Val di Fiemme, Americans now have won two of the three World Ski Jumping Championships ever to allow women to compete. Van won the inaugural event in 2009.-Women's ski jumping has now been added to the next Winter Olympics.
And for the Women's Nordic world, Kikkan Randall from Alaska Pacific University (another client of mine) coached by Erik Flora is currently third in World Cup standings in the world, something no other American woman has done before. She has been joined by teammates Holly Brooks and Rosie Brennan and Jessie Diggins and Liz Stephen for various podium honors and for the first ever FIS World Cup relay podium finish for the US Cross Country Team earlier this year. The Women have been in the spotlight!
Ski jumping, Nordic combined and Nordic racing have benefited over the years from coaching from incredible athletes and mentors.- I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with the likes of Larry Stone, Alan Johnson, Casey Colby, Clint Jones, Erik Flora, Gaskill, Denny, Smith, Keuler, Jarrett, Heckman, and locals Greg Poirier and Todd Wilson, to name a few. These people have dedicated their lives over the years to other athletes and the Nordic Sport.- We can only say thank you for all they have done and, when possible, donate time and money to help out where possible.- And hopefully another kid can make his or her dream come true.
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University of North Texas graduate and filmmaker Nefin Dinc will present a free screening of her award-winning documentary The Other Town on Friday evening at UNT.
The documentary gives voice to people from Birgi in western Turkey and Dimitsana in Greece's Peloponnese region. The citizens talk about their perceptions of each other and the history they've been taught about past conflicts.
Dinc said citizens of both countries tend to see each other as enemies. Greeks and the Turks have fought four major wars, with the last one ending in 1922, since Greece won its independence from the Ottoman Turks in 1821.
A new era in Turkish-Greece foreign relations began in 2004, with the first of several visits of the Greece and Turkish prime ministers to each other's nations.
The Other Town won Audience Award at the 13th Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival in Greece and the Best Historical Documentary Award at Chicago's Greek Film Fest. The Other Town has screened at film festivals in Armenia, Croatia and Thailand as well as Greece, Turkey and the U.S.
Dinc, a professor at the State University of New York at Fredonia, received her Master of Fine Arts in documentary film production from UNT in 2005. She earned her undergraduate degree from Ankara University in Turkey and a master's degree in media and culture from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Dinc is also the project director of the Youth Filmmaking Project in Turkey.
The screening will start at 7 p.m. Friday in Room 184 of UNT's Radio, TV, Film and Performing Arts Building, 1179 Union Circle.
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Dickey expected to make next start
BALTIMORE -- R.A. Dickey was optimistic about his right groin injury on Saturday just hours after feeling tightness and exiting the Blue Jays' 3-2 loss to the Orioles in the seventh inning at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
On Sunday morning, pitching coach Pete Walker said he doesn't expect the knuckleballer to miss any games.
"He was optimistic he'd be ready for his next start," Walker said.
After allowing two earned runs in 6 2/3 innings, Dickey left Saturday night's start against the O's with right groin tightness. Having already thrown 99 pitches, the righty only expected to face one more batter, so he took the cautious approach and left the game.
Dickey visited with the trainers after he departed, and he left feeling better about the extent of the injury.
"It was a real mild tightness," Dickey said on Saturday. "Gives me some optimism."
A day later, Dickey said he felt fine, but "a little sore." He's grateful that the Blue Jays are off on Monday, so his next start can come on an extra day of rest.
Dickey's next start is scheduled for Friday against the Reds.
"It kind of works out," Walker said. "To be honest with you, even without the extra day, from how he was talking, he feels pretty confident he'll be available his next start."
David Wilson is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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In a long and contentious divorce, Dwyane Wade's high school sweetheart Siohvaughn Funches has employed nearly a dozen lawyers—and that's going to cost Wade, who has paid for his and Funches' attorneys.
The divorce, which finally appears to be nearing an end, has lasted for six years and could reach $10 million in legal bills, according to the Miami Herald.
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"We were at about $8 million last year," an unnamed lawyer told the newspaper. "He's paying more for lawyers than what he is paying his wife for the settlement.
"It was a complicated case, but it may have become personal."
Wade will pay a $5 million settlement to Funches.


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The production the Tigers have received from second basemen* this season has been atrocious. Ryan Raburn, Brandon Inge, Danny Worth, Ramon Santiago and Hernan Perez have combined to hit just .187/.256/.264 in 363 total plate appearances.
*None of these players, with the exception of Perez is only a small handful of games, played second base exclusively for the Tigers this season, but they're the players that have been in the mix at the position, so I'm lumping their batting totals together. This represents their total hitting line, not just while playing second base (Inge's totals only represents his time in Detroit this year).
I'm sure Dave Dombrowski and the Tigers' scouts have second basemen on their radar ahead of July 31's non-waiver trade deadline, but I can also imagine that it would be difficult for the organization to pull the trigger on a move for a couple of reasons.First of all, we've hear rumors and clamoring for pursuit of players like Houston's Jose Altuve (and to a certain extent, Pittsburgh's Neil Walker), but players such as this (that are young, cheap, and good) are difficult to trade for because Houston would have little incentive to move him. Teams in the rebuilding process with smaller payrolls are looking to acquire cheap, young talent, not trade it away. (Actually every MLB team is looking for this, but teams with smaller margins for error in their payrolls need these types of players). Now Detroit could probably put together a prospect package to pry him away, but it would take a sizable package, and the Tigers' farm system isn't known for it's depth of quality. I'm usually of the opinion that trading prospects for "proven talent" is a good thing, but organizations need depth in the minor leagues. Both as a safety net against injuries or ineffectiveness, and as a source of cheap labor in the future.
Secondly, once you move past the top-tier guys, you start to wonder whether the available second basemen are really much better than the guys currently on the team. We've established that the second basemen haven't performed well at all, but will they really continue to be that bad? Ryan Raburn certainly has a track record of success at the plate versus major league pitching (though that track record is getting more and more distant as time goes on), and even Ramon Santiago has shown himself to be a valuable glove/bat combination over the years. Would someone like Baltimore's Robert Andino represent an upgrade over Santiago (or even a Santiago/Worth/Raburn platoon)? I doubt it.
I really have a hard time seeing Dombrowski make a sideways move just because the current second base platoon has struggled. It's unreasonable to expect all three players (Raburn, Worth, and Santiago) to continue to hit worse than their respective career norms. As long as the Tigers stay close in the standings (they're only 2.5 games back of Chicago as of Tuesday), they're unlikely to make a big splash in the trade market.
That brings us back to the current options. Who should play? For my money, Ramon Santiago is the best second baseman on the team. He may not be the all-around defensive player that he was a few years back, but his glove is steady (especially compared to the rest of the team) and his bat is reasonable.
Santiago's season totals at the plate aren't great, he's hitting .228/.305/.316, but those numbers are still (easily) the best of the second base bunch, and he's been hitting the ball very well for the last month or so. Going back to the beginning of May (87 plate appearances), Santiago has hit for a .725 OPS with a .356 on-base percentage. In June alone (41 plate appearances), those numbers have risen to .825 and .366 respectively. Santiago isn't going to be a flashy hitter (even while displaying his "sneaky power"), but he walks at a near-average rate (he's at 7.8% this year), and he strikes out at a less-than-average rate (just 12.5% this year).
I know the Tigers' organization has never viewed Santiago as an every day player, but I think he's shown this season that he's worthy of receiving the bulk of the playing time. At the very least, he should be entrenched as the everyday man versus right handed pitching, though he probably deserves some of the starts versus lefties as well.
Matt Snyder is the editor of The Tigers Den. He can be reached on Twitter @snyder_matthew.


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Prep Hockey Results; McCormick Resigns at Sauk Rapids
Boys Hockey:
Sartell-St. Stephen 3, Sauk Rapids-Rice 1
(Aaron Randall scored 2 goals for the Sabres. Brian McCormick resigns as head hockey coach at Sauk Rapids-Rice. He is replaced by Jerry DeGagne, who has been named acting head coach. Sauk Rapids-Rice is 5-5-1 in the CLC and 8-9-1 overall)


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To accompany "It's Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas," Steve Burgess's cover story about holiday tunes in the Nov. 28th issue, Swerve's staff decided to share their favourite songs—the good, the bad and the fugly—of the season. Heck, some aren't even about Christmas.
Valerie Berenyi, Swerve's Editor in Chief
"Hurry Home" by the Good Lovelies Need a sharp and sassy jolt of not-quite bluegrass in your Christmas collection? Check out this track from Under the Mistletoe (2009) by the Good Lovelies, a Toronto-based trio that's a little bit folk, a little bit pop and a whole lotta harmony.
"Early On One Christmas Morn" by Bruce Cockburn Bruce Cockburn's jaunty "Early On One Christmas Morn" will get your new Xmas slippers tapping early on Christmas morn.
Danae Thompson, Swerve's Art Director
"Dominick the Donkey" by Nick the Pizza Guy Stumbled on this gem a few years ago and is constantly moving to the top of our holiday playlists. It always brings a chuckle, and now that I see Nick the Pizza Guy's take on this classic it brings full out belly laughs.
"I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" by the Drifters This song always warms my heart and makes me think of young Macaulay Culkin singing into his comb in Home Alone, my fave Christmas movie.
Meghan Jessiman, Swerve Contributor
"Someday At Christmas" by Stevie Wonder He's Stevie Wonder, need I say more?
"Winter Song" by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson Not a carol, per se, but musical genius never the less. If you want to lie down and have a good cry over the holidays, this is the song for you!
"Last Christmas" by Wham! This track would have never made the list in previous years, but it's the first carol I heard this year and it's been on repeat in my head every day since. Bane or a blessing, I'm not sure, but perhaps I'm finally embracing my '80s roots? The gift that keeps on giving, however, is the epically bad hair in the music video.
Ruth Myles, Swerve's Senior Writer
"Christmas Is" by Run DMC The hip-hop pioneers' "Christmas in Hollis" might get all the love, but this seasonal shout out from 1992 will totally have you rockin' around the Christmas tree with its joyous "Give up the dough, give up the dough on Christmas, yo!" But there is a message in this motor-mouth madness. (Remember, Rev. Run is a man of the cloth, y'all.) "I'm gettin' mine, you gettin' yours, that's how Xmas is supposed ta be/A very merry Xmas for everybody, fight poverty, give to the needy/Don't be like the Grinch, 'cause the Grinch is greedy/Deck the malls with balls of holly, it is the season to be jolly."
"River" by Joni Mitchell Not a traditional holiday song, per se, but the first line is "It's coming on Christmas" so we are planting our Xmas flag on it. Play this one to balance out the deluge of peppy, uplifting songs that swamp the season. The sprinkle of "Jingle Bells" towards the end of the song is absolute perfection, disjointed and jangled, just like Ms. Mitchell's emotions. This version was recorded at Royal Albert Hall in 1970 and there's no video, just sound. No matter, just look out the window at the snowy landscape and let Mitchell's voice take you away.
Jon Roe, Swerve's Going Out Editor
"Simply Having A Wonderful Christmas Time" by Paul McCartney
There's something about the holiday season that allows for super-cheesy synth riffs (though apparently Paul McCartney is embarrassed about the song, it's too late—it's already part of the popular canon of holiday songs).
"Fairy Tale of New York" by The Pogues Even punks celebrate Christmas. The uncensored version of the song hit No. 1 on the Irish charts and No. 2 on British ones during the Christmas of 1987. As this is a family publication, I've included the radio cut rather than the controversial original.
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Whats the Frequency, Sheriff?
If Orange County's latest middle-aged rage killing fails to shake Sheriff Mike Carona and District Attorney Tony Rackauckas out of their kid-bashing refrains, nothing will. On June 13, a Sheriff's deputy was slain in an AK-47 barrage allegedly produced by a 39-year-old "born-again Christian" at a convenience store in rich, quiet Lake Forest.
The newest gun tragedy is the county's sixth middle-aged rampage in 18 months, coming soon after an enraged 39-year-old driver allegedly mowed down two toddlers and smashed up three more in a Costa Mesa preschool yard in a mission to "execute" children (the county's only school murders in anyone's memory).
Even though the recent carnage is just the worst of the county's midlife crime eruption, Carona and Rackauckas continue to pump up their images and budgets by harping on folks' fear of young people. Carona declares at every podium stop that the growing population of youths, mostly Latino and Asian, spell the "next crime wave." Rackauckas recently told the Orange County Grand Jurors' Association that gang violence was the county's fastest-growing problem, requiring new prosecutor/ police "target teams" and probation rules stripping convicted gang members of constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure.
Yet their offices' own crime statistics tell far different stories. While gang murder (nearly all Latino or Asian) has plummeted by 50 percent in the past five years, a half-dozen middle-aged suburbanites (nearly all white) have recently killed two dozen people, eight of them kids, and maimed a dozen more.
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Conforming to the official fiction, the press, which finds no pattern in the region's "spate" of midlife killings, continues to link nationally scattered school shootings to promote fear of school violence. The Times Orange County's June 13 analysis of local school crime reports reheated the wildly exaggerated perils of public schools. In a middle school and high school system serving 200,000 students, the paper's report found 446 violent incidents (assault, robbery, sex offenses) in 1997-1998.
Adjusting for population, hours occupied, and the conservative assumption that school violence is reported as often as household violence is, the county's 10 most violent schools work out to be . . . about half as dangerous as its average home. In fact, if Orange County's 2 million adults were as law-abiding as their children are at middle and high school, the county would have had tens of thousands fewer violent, property, weapons, and drug and alcohol crimes last year. And, incidentally, zero murders or shootings of any kind in the past decade.
Thanks to readers' referrals and the National School Safety Center's (www. nssc1.org) useful "School Associated Violent Deaths" report, we can reconfirm the statement in previous stories: in at least the past decade in this county of 2.9 million people, there has been no case of a student murdering or shooting anyone at a school in Orange County. This during a period in which 6,000 injurious shootings, 1,200 of which were fatal, took place elsewhere in the county. (As the Justice Policy Institute's Vince Shiraldi declared, if you want to be safe from murder, run into a school). In all the media's strenuous hyping of local school peril, that simple point has never been reported.
Three students have been murdered on the way to or from school—a 9-year-old in 1989, a 17-year-old in 1993 and a 17-year-old in 1998. The two high schoolers were slain by non-students in alleged gang killings, the third-grader by an unknown assailant. Also, the body of a 24-year-old man stabbed the night before was found on a Tustin High School tennis court in 1996; the killer was also unknown.
Orange County's worst school gun case occurred 11 years ago. On June 2, 1988, a 23-year-old transient armed with an AK-47, 60 rounds of ammunition and a bayonet perched on the roof of an Anaheim middle school; his motive was unknown. When police arrived, he fled. Unaware of his massive arsenal, pupils gleefully helped cops chase and apprehend him. The gun was not loaded and no shots were fired.
Anaheim's scare proved tragically prophetic. Six months later, on Jan. 17, 1989, another drifter who police said "hated everyone" sprayed a Stockton elementary schoolyard with an AK-47, killing five pupils and wounding 30. Yet, in this current year of hyperfear about school killings, the 10th anniversary of the Stockton school massacre—the worst school killing in California history—passed unnoticed in the press. Need you ask why? The killer was the wrong age (26). The dead and injured were the wrong hue (Southeast Asian).
The media's school-violence stampede continues to be glaringly callous. The press obsession with white-student gunners in Littleton, Colorado; Jonesboro, Arkansas; Springfield, Oregon; West Paducah, Kentucky; Pearl, Mississippi; and Conyers, Georgia, does not extend to the even larger number of school murders (30 in all) in the past two years that were ignored. In these not-good-enough-for-prime-time school slayings, the killers were grown-ups and/or the victims were not white. Example: a masked gunman blew a 14-year-old away in an Illinois classroom in February. The victim was a Latino special-education student, the killer an adult. Not the kind of dead kid the press or pols care about.
Only days ago, two Latina girls, ages 17 and 15, were gunned down outside a school in Lynwood, a few miles up the 710 freeway. It was an inside-page story in the local press—no national reports. Meanwhile, a white suburban rifle-toting kid (who killed no one) 2,000 miles away in Georgia was featured and refeatured in front-page headlines and national magazine spreads.
In a lunatic time in which a local student is far less likely to be filled with lead by a 15-year-old Quake joysticker than by a deranged midlife meth freak, why can't our bizarre (and damn proud of it) county get a sheriff and DA who will level with us? Maybe that's a question that answers itself.
Mike Males, UCI social ecologist and demography instructor, is 48 but doesn't own a gun.
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Texas State Parks Celebrate Halloween
AUSTIN, Texas — Halloween celebrations move outdoors for more than trick-or-treating at seven Texas state parks and historic sites.
Dr. Ward Albro will present a "Dia de los Muertos" lecture on Thursday, Oct. 27 at Landmark Inn State Historic Site in Castroville to explain how this Aztec tradition dating 3,000 years has been intermixed with Halloween festivities in the United States. Albro's presentation, which takes place at 7 p.m., is based on 10 years of his visiting and participating in the essentially indigenous Day of the Dead event with the Zapotec people of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. There is no event fee, but persons 13 years of age and older must pay a $2 entry fee. Call (830) 931-2133 for more information.
In recent years, Dia de los Muertos has become an increasingly popular observance all over Mexico and has been observed for many years in Alsatian-founded community of Castroville by the candle lighting of the city cemetery. Held traditionally on Nov. 1-2 — All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day — the Day of the Dead is a festive celebration that embraces death, not as the end of life, but the continuation of life when the dearly departed are honored with altars decorated with flowers, pictures of the dead and the deceased's favorite food.
On Saturday, Oct. 22, Varner-Hogg State Historic Site in West Columbia just south of Houston will host Haunted Halloween at the Hogg from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. There will be fun for witches and goblins of all ages with a haunted barn to explore, hayrides, fortune telling and goodies for all. There is an event fee of $3 per person. Call (979) 345-4656 for additional information.
On that same day, Purtis Creek State Park in Eustace southeast of Dallas will feature a Haunted House from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. The Haunted House will be open the following Saturday, Oct. 29, as well to welcome children and adults alike. The cost is $5 for adults and $2 for children 12 and younger.
Purtis Creek also has become a popular Halloween destination for swarms of trick or treaters, who go campsite to campsite, visiting participating campsites marked with pumpkins. A hay wagon is used to transport trick-of-treaters around the camping loops to gather goodies. In conjunction with the hayride, the park will have a Halloween carnival featuring several fun family activities. No park entry fees will be charged to members of the public participating in Halloween activities. For more information, call (903) 425-2332.
Also on Oct. 29, Galveston Island State Park and Sam Bell Maxey House State Historic Site in Paris will host special Halloween activities.
Highlighting the Halloween festivities from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Galveston Island State Park will be ghost stories told around the campfire and a hayride to the haunted Nature Center on the bayside of the park, where treats will be handed out. Call (409) 737-1222 for more information and to reserve space on the hayride.
Children of all ages can learn about fine fashions of the Victorian era by participating in hands-on activities making hats and accessories to take home at Sam Bell Maxey House from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 29. Free tours of the historic home and fine fashions exhibit, sponsored by the Friends of the Maxey House, are being held in conjunction with City of Paris' Festival of Pumpkins. Call (903) 785-5716 for details.
Lake Texana State Park in Edna will once again feature a Halloween Haunted Trail from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Oct. 29. There will be a haunted trail, hayride, costume contest and games for all ages. For more, call (361) 782-5718.
On the day before Halloween, Sunday, Oct. 30, revelers can visit Guadalupe River State Park near Spring Branch to walk a haunted trail for treats, roast marshmallows, hear ghost stories and enjoy refreshments. The community-supported event lasts from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. and costs $6 per car and $2 per child donation to Friends of Guadalupe River/Honey Creek State Natural Area. Call (830) 438-2656 for more information.
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The stuff kids really need for high school
Here are some easy tips to help you upgrade your childs supplies for high school. more
Looking for healthy, simple ways to take a dish from bland to brilliant - adding health instead of fat? Do what professional chefs do: Use fresh herbs like basil. We'll explain the look and taste of basil and tell you how to best use this herb in cooking healthy family meals and snacks.
Lucky is the herb gardener with a thriving basil plant; these emerald-green satiny leaves emit the perfume of summer. The best healthy basil has an aroma so intense you'll be able to smell it from a foot away. Any fresh basil leaves fragrant enough to transmit their sweet aroma to your fingertips when rubbed will be miles tastier than their dried herb counterparts. Choose intensely coloured, unbruised green basil leaves. This goes for many types of fresh herbs.
Keep fresh herbs like basil in a plastic bag in the fridge; if you end up with more basil than you know what to do with, blend it with a little water and freeze it in ice cube trays for a healthy shot of summer. Store the basil cubes in a plastic bag in the freezer for up to 4 months.
Basil has the most flavour impact when added to a dish at the last minute, but you can also layer the herb to enhance its flavour - as well as its health benefits. Add a few whole leaves to a sauce or soup as it simmers. Then follow up with several chopped basil leaves at the end of cooking.
Basil is a natural partner for tomatoes, but don't just think Italian food; toss whole fresh basil leaves into salads or any other healthy dish containing tomatoes. And don't overlook how delicious basil is with fruit either. Add a few sprigs of the herb to cooling drinks, or macerate fresh berries with some chopped basil leaves and a little sugar or balsamic vinegar for 30 minutes for a healthy flavour boost.
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This article was written by Weight Watchers as part of Kidspot's Positively Life Changing initiative.
Last revised: Monday, 6 December 2010
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


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