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Monday, October 25, 2010
Oh yes I did.
Four and a half years ago, I took another Kawasaki Vulcan out for a ride, and that ride ended with the Vulcan scattered all over the roadway and my foot missing, courtesy of a car driven a woman who never should have been given a license to drive so much as a little red wagon.
As I looked at this Vulcan, someone asked me if I'd ever ridden one before. They didn't know my story. I replied, that yes, I had ridden one before...one much like this one, in fact.
Actually I'd ridden numerous motorcycles over the years, including one that I rode clear across the country and back. I'd just had one ride on a Kawasaki Vulcan, however...my last ride on August 3rd, 2006.
"Want to take it for a hop?" Suddenly the keys were in my hand and I was offered a helmet.
"Yeah," I replied. "Maybe just a little one."
I've been wanting to get back on a bike since I woke up in the hospital. I've always liked riding and I've sworn repeatedly that that day in August of '06 was NOT going to be my last ride. I hadn't managed to get my hands on a bike since then though, until suddenly I was offered this one.
But why did it have to be another Kawasaki Vulcan, of all bikes? Sure, this one was a bit newer than that last one, but still...
I got on and hit the starter. The engine caught and I started revving it up, getting a feel for it again. I'd worried about my prosthetic leg not being able to shift the gears up, but I managed to get the toe of my plastic foot under the selector and knocked it up into second. Hell, I can do this. I kicked it back down into first, took a breath, and let out the clutch as I throttled up. Across the parking lot and down the drive I went. I tried to shift up for real, and it WORKED! I hit the small road that we were off of and shifted up to third. I was a bit unsteady at first, but it came back quick...and it felt GREAT! I turned around at the end of the road and headed back, then I proceeded to weave in and around the various parked cars in the lot to try to get the feel of it again. I did this for a few minutes, and then...aw, hell--I'm outta here. Back onto the road I went and away. I just had to RIDE again.
I rode down the road and ran the bike up through the gears, hitting 80 or so, then backed it back down to the 25mph speed limit again. I saw another car ahead of me driven by someone I worked with and raced to catch up. I caught up at a light, pulled up beside him, blew the horn and smiled. For a second, there was no recognition, and then it hit him that it was ME on the bike...and he knew my story.
"What are you DOING?"
"I'm riding again, man! Wyatt and Billy, look out!" (<--Easy Rider reference, for you Generation X kids.) Then the light changed, and I was off.
I rode all around town. I merged into highway traffic and back out. I stopped at traffic lights surrounded by cars, I rode across a vacant lot and down a few steps...I was just having FUN!
My cell phone finally rang about half an hour later.
"Hey, are you ok? Are you bringing the bike back?"
"No, man. I'm not. I just gotta ride for a bit if you don't mind." By this time, the guy who'd offered me the keys had been filled in by others around him. ("You gave him the keys to WHAT?! Are you crazy? Do you not know what happened to him on one of those?")
"No rush. Just take your time with it," he said.
I rode for another half hour, finally heading back to the office when the rain started to fall. I was grinning like a fool when I gave the keys back. I'm still grinning.
I am SO getting me another bike. It won't be a Vulcan, but I'm getting something. And I feel the need for another cross-country trip in the near future.
20 comments:
- fuzzys dad said...
Go for it.
- MTBLaura said...
Awesome. So glad to hear this. First a bicycle and now a real bike!
Good for you. I hope you can get one very soon.
Maybe get a side car so Lagniappe can join you. :-) - 9:14 PM
- Buzz Carter said...
I had a Vulcan. I loved that bike. I sold it so as to create room for something bigger. You remind me that I still need to do that, if I needed the reminder.
Sometimes, I guess we all do. - 10:29 PM
- Six said...
That is cool beyond words. I'm happy for you. A good motor guy should always have a bike. I've got a Kawasaki Concours. When you get ready for that cross country trip, drop me a line. We'll go for a ride.
- Jack said...
Good for you.
- Ed Skinner said...
I gave up bikes when I realized I was invisible on the road.
But it sure beats plumbing. - 8:36 AM
- Ed Skinner said...
And not to mention http://seanlinnane.blogspot.com/2010/10/difference-between-usa-and-muslim.html
- Scott said...
LG - I have been following your story from the first, and for what it's worth, I am so proud of you for how you have persevered through so many obstacles that would have stopped many in a puddle of self-pity. Well done, sir! Well done!
I love MTBLaura's idea of the sidecar for Lagniappe. Gotta get him some goggles and a leather helmet too! - 9:01 AM
- Tam said...
Getting back on the horse was tough for me.
It was a little over a year, and I deliberately picked a bike with a reputation as a widowmaker to prove to myself that I weren't skeered. Much. - 9:15 AM
- Moogie P said...
Cheers! I vote for the sidecar, too.
- Jon said...
It's tough climbing back on a bike after you've been down, but the ride is almost always worth it. Congrats on getting back in the saddle.
- Old NFO said...
Congrats! :-)
- LauraB said...
Trooper swore them off, too, after that wreck...but then his buddy got one and was learning to ride...he offered all his tips from his days on the Motor squad...and it was done.
The man smiles a lot more, I can say that. And now that the passenger boards arrived today I suppose I will be grinning, too.
Congratulations!!! - 2:08 PM
- Brigid said...
My brother lost the use of his lower leg on a Vulcan, same thing, responsible bike rider, motorist that shouldn't have been allowed behind a shopping cart.
Both legs were crushed, they saved one pretty much. But the doc said if he had any sort of injury to the remaining one he'd lose it. So he doesn't ride. It kills him, more than the injury.
Go for it. - 6:17 AM
- Brigid said...
BTW - last night's late night post, dedicated to you. Best of luck.
- J. Wilson said...
I agree, go for it! Life is too short!
- Jay G said...
Excellent, excellent story!!!
I'm sure you've thought of it already, but if you're having trouble with the the shifting you might want to get a heel-toe shifter. My Electra Glide has one, and I'll never go back to a regular shift!
(It's the only way I can ride the bike when I have a gout outbreak)
Great news that you're getting back on the horse! - 11:39 AM
- Alexandra said...
AWESOME! As soon as you have one, give a ring and we go for a ride. :)
- Katherine said...
What a great experience (this ride not the former) :)
so glad it happened for you! - 10:53 AM
- Firelady said...
Isn't it amazing how certain things come back to us? Some people are stopped by fear while others just suck it up and end up having a great time.
I guess the ultimate question is what bike will you end up with? - 4:52 PM


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Phones now Visa isn't the only mobile payment company though making big bets on the Olympics veriphone got an early.
Doug per -- on as the CEO joining us now with the Fox Business exclusive from Mountain View California.
Before we get to the Olympics -- got to get to earnings you can have a great second quarter here -- guidance completely split people.
Traders and investors are leaving the stock right now he's down double digit percentages right at this moment you have to tell me what the issue is because your Q3 guidance is less than what the analysts had expected.
Yeah we're really proud of Q2 we had record revenues record earnings margin expansion to record numbers.
And we reaffirmed our Q3 and full year guidance.
But given the the European situation in particular the value the trade weighted dollar index.
Which is gone up four point 3% in the last thirty days.
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Yeah and and maybe -- surprise to the upside and then people will reverse their course but let's talk about the European business.
When you break up your business international growth up what a 103%.
To be very very impressive but can you give me Europe specifically can you break that out.
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Was up.
Double digits organically.
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We happen to be in the better neighborhoods of Europe Northern Europe Scandinavia Germany we have a very strong presence in the Middle East and throughout Africa.
And were relatively under represented in Southern Europe so that's really what's what's helping us here we just happen to be in the right places in the.
Or -- every -- my shop and that's what my credit card I looked down at the hardware on -- on doing it and it more often than not says -- that's here in the US.
If you're north American business is predicted to be flat why is that.
No it was flat this last quarter.
A year ago there was a compliance deadline that -- most retailers had to make so we had a spike in revenue starting in late ten through.
Last summer we've now anniversaried I don't know we've predicted -- double digit revenue growth in North America in Q3 Q4 this year okay so -- -- to be corrected it was a copy issue you say that made a flat now but you look expected lead to better numbers for Q3.
Let's talk about the business here especially as you head into the Olympics because.
The last couple times that you've been on that you've talked about how you were getting into some 9000.
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-- got 4000 I think installed 9000 signed on but now you're also getting -- deal with sky TV which is by the way part owned by News Corp.
our parent company.
To put the video inside those cabs with the -- net.
Verifone net of tax CTV right and that's how what are you gonna have on there I -- Fox Business updates.
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Do in order to capture the the writer's attention he can't just advertise to them you have to have.
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and that's the sort of stuff that will be.
Broadcasting in those 9000 cabs in addition to -- to paid advertising which is a great.
Revenue source for Verifone and how much money will you get each time somebody swipes and a cap.
We get a small percentage of the of the total fair.
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Some pretty good stuff here I mean I think PayPal is constantly upgrading the hardware every time they have some new upgrades.
That analyst it will be very positive for you how so.
Well PayPal.
As cleverly.
Decided to use the existing infrastructure that largely is veriphone across the US to roll out.
PayPal in store and that requires software upgrades -- by us not hardware upgrades.
And since we have the lion's share of US storefronts as you mentioned earlier we're gonna be able to happen have them hit the road.
Hit that hit the ground running here with with the whites and widespread deployment.
From one -- And to Mongolia from Cambodia to Canada you guys are are getting into some pretty far reaching places good to see you Doug thank you for joining us.
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Stars : Eddie Murphy (Ray Gibson), Martin Lawrence (Claude Banks), Obba Babatunde (Willie Long), Ned Beatty (Dexter Wilkins), Bernie Mac (Jangle Leg), Rick James (Spanky), Clarence Williams III (Winston Hancock)
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Murphy stars as Ray Gibson, a fast-talking, small-time hood in Harlem in 1932. Through bad luck and circumstance, he ends up driving to Mississippi with Claude Banks (Martin Lawrence), an uptight soon-to-be bank teller, to buy $180 worth of illegal booze for a New York bootlegger (Rick James) to whom they both owe money. While in Mississippi, they are framed for murder by the local sheriff, and are sentenced to life in prison.
This set-up takes almost half an hour, and the movie doesn't really find itself until Ray and Claude begin their new lives as inmates in the hard labor Mississippi state prison. Being from New York City and innocent of the crime for which they are imprisoned, Ray and Claude consider themselves above the other inmates. That changes quickly, however, as Ray and Claude realize that they are imprisoned for life, and nothing is going to change that. The Mississippi prison farm becomes their sole existence, and reinvents their own identities in the process.
"Life" is a really a movie about friendship--about how two men with nothing in common are forced to live the rest of their lives together side-by-side--and about how that friendship evolves over the years. Prison movies are almost always about the camaraderie that builds between people locked away together, and that camaraderie is usually the result of their bearing the hard times together and leaning on each other for support. The best of those films ("Cool Hand Luke," "The Shawshank Redemption") truly make you feel the pain of imprisonment, and make you understand how men of different colors and creeds can come together under such circumstances.
Interestingly, "Life" never quite achieves this. Its vision of life on a Mississippi chain gang is surprisingly soft, with only minimal heartache and anguish. When Claude and Ray tangle with the biggest guy in prison (Michael "Bear" Taliferro), it culminates in one fistfight for pride, and then everybody is friends again. For a group of murderers, these guys are pretty easygoing. As a matter of fact, almost everyone in the prison gets along quite well, and the only real eruptions occur between Claude and Ray. Even the prison warden, a hard-nosed redneck with a shotgun played with relish by Nick Cassavetes, is given sentimental overtones and allowed to grow old with the others.
This isn't particularly surprising, since this is the kind of film that soft-shoes over issues of institutionalized racism with humor and one-liners. Of course, the fact that the entire movie is really about two men whose lives are wasted in prison for no good reason is never really addressed--it's given, like the racism, as a simple but unfortunate fact of life. The movie doesn't want to dwell on such issues, but rather to explore how its characters live their lives within those confines.
The movie covers more than 60 years, and we get to watch Claude and Ray grow old together. The slow path into old age is created with excellent make-up effects by Rick Baker and the wonderful performances by Murphy and Lawrence. "Life" could have easily sunk into silly highjinks and shallow jokes, but the two lead performers make their characters consistently interesting. They are like a prison version of "The Odd Couple," but with additional layers of characterization because we are allowed to watch them as their relationship evolves with age--they go from bickering young hotshots to bickering, grizzled old jailbirds without missing a beat.
"Life" was directed by Ted Demme ("The Ref," "Beautiful Girls"), who has experience with talky comedy-dramas. He knows that he has two exceptionally talented men in his leading roles, and he mostly sits back and lets them do their work. There are a few moments where he is allowed to shine as a director, such as when he shows the passage of time by allowing characters we have grown to know literally disappear before our eyes.
Not all of the jokes in the screenplay by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone (who are probably still nursing the wounds from their last screenplay, the critically savaged "Destiny Turns on the Radio") hit quite on-target, but watching Murphy and Lawrence go at each other with the verbal ferocity of two wild animals gives the movie its kick. Without their talent and energy, watching "Life" could have been like serving a life sentence. Fortunately, they are up to the task, and they steer "Life" away from being a one-joke fish-out-of-water movie into something more interesting and complex: a comedy with overtones of heart and humanity.
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Continuing with my previous collection that explored the rituals of mourning and divorce, the new theme moves beyond the loss of a lover to the hunt for another. This collection brings together traditional customs and practices that surround the act of hunting, making use of symbols such as the stag, the trophy and the prey. Just as one would display trophies of their hunt, the jewellery invites the wearer to bear the mark of the hunter, symbolizing both the pursuit for a new lover as well as the evidence of conquests.
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this political discussion is as old as dirt. what gets me today is that as we slip further into this widening wealth gap and see our national position in so many areas falling behind we refuse to look at what the top nations and models within them have to teach us. alas the corporate govt we know have is not really interested in this society for anything other than a cheap labor supply and consumers of schlock and food commodities it sells to every nation and peoples on earth, ironically they are the one world govt we hear all the conservatives rail about. i read antartica is 4 degress warmer in last 50 yrs and sea level rose 8 inches in last century and i wonder if all this will really matter. the climate disaster will cause incredible struggles and wars for resources and new land. meanwhile on a hill top in bermuda or a castle in the french alps someone will be eating the last of the beluga and sipping a vintage champagne
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The realisation of the self as a soul, an eternal entity, naturally leads to the questions:
These are questions that deeply concern human beings, yet until now proof of life before birth or after death has been inconclusive.
The images conjuring up the "fires of hell" and a heavenly world beyond the clouds have figured greatly in the world's religions. Yet to the rationally-minded, the states of living forever tormented in sulphurous pits, or conversely lounging in perpetual bliss in a fairy-tale kingdom, seem far removed from the reality of the present.
Most accept that there is some order to the creation, but viewing our drama through spectacles of body-consciousness it is impossible to see it, as the soul is imprisoned by bodily needs and sensual desires. In body-consciousness the soul is unable to see anything objectively. Only when confronted by death does one instinctively consider "life after death". At funerals, everyone faces the new absence of a loved person, the departure of the personality and the impermanence of the body.
Everyone wishes that the departed one will go to "heaven" and not to "hell". We subconsciously know that we are souls. Birth, life and death are just stages in existence. In fact all natural processes can be found to have a beginning, a middle, an end and a new beginning to continue the cycle. The soul takes a bodily form, gives life to it and after a period of time, long or short, leaves it and takes another suited to the continuation of its role. As long as the soul is in the body, the body grows like a plant from baby to child, youth to maturity. It then begins to decay and finally becomes unserviceable. The moment the soul leaves the body, it becomes like a dead log. It immediately starts to decompose and eventually goes back "to dust".
Again the soul moves into a fetus. After some time it emerges as a newborn baby and immediately begins to show the tendencies and characteristics it had developed in its previous life. It is the same soul but in a new physical situation. Thus death is merely the means by which a complete change of circumstances and environment for the soul takes place. Time never kills the soul, but the body, being a part of nature or matter, obeys the law of decay that everything new becomes old and eventually ceases to hold its form. The molecular components of this body disintegrate only to re-integrate as another form some time later.
The process of birth-life-death-rebirth is also eternal. It has always been going on and will continue. The soul comes into the body, expresses a role and experiences the results of that for a certain time, then leaves it, and the process starts again. Similarly, souls come into this world, remain here as actors for a number of lifetimes and then return to the region from which they come, for rest. This process also starts again. The pattern is a cyclic one.
Why does the Soul search for Peace, Love and Happiness?
The search for true values is a constant preoccupation. In body-consciousness we mistakenly think that the physical world and physical relations can provide peace, love and happiness. However these are not the properties of matter, nor of the physical identity, but the true characteristics of the soul. This has to be realised.
Imagine a scene in which you are surrounded by all your favourite things; food, music, fragrance, scenery and companions. Just about to enjoy your meal, the telephone rings and you are told that a person close to you has just died. Instantly, that scene of "favourites" melts into an insipid and superficial experience. Something has happened that shakes the soul and it can no longer enjoy those things. At the same time it finds itself inadequate in the face of the bad news as understanding and power are missing. Life is full of experiences such as this and it becomes clear that physical things are not the sources of peace, love and happiness, but that understanding and inner strength are.
One of the basic facts of human psychology is that we do not seek or desire something that has not been experienced previously. For example, if one has never tasted a mango, there cannot be a burning desire to have a mango. This suggests that desires might be arising from previous life experiences. In fact, it is impossible for an human being to act or desire outside the field of his or her own experience. The search for peace, love and happiness is so fundamental to the human spirit because these are the original and true qualities of the soul itself.
The Physical World
This world is a vast amphitheatre of action in which embodied souls play their respective and various parts. Planet Earth exists in an extremely tiny portion of the physical universe and is governed by well-defined physical, chemical and biological laws.
In India, the world which we inhabit is called "karma kshetra" (the field of action), because it is here that we sow the seeds of actions and reap their fruits. It is here that the soul takes on flesh and bones and expresses the role that it has latent within itself, causing variations in the material environment. The state of the material world at any given moment is a direct reflection of the state of consciousness of the human beings which inhabit it. If there is peace and harmony within the soul this is reflected in nature. If there is conflict and confusion, nature responds accordingly.
It is a world of three dimensions of space and one of time. Its principal characteristics are sound, movement, colour and form. On this immense stage of deserts, forests, mountains and seas, illuminated by the sun, moon and stars, the drama of existence is enacted. In the drama, the actor-souls are subject to dualities; from pleasure to pain, birth to death, purity to impurity, happiness to sorrow, new to old, positive to negative; the vast pageant of history crawls along as indefatigable time devours all. A point is finally reached when the process is renewed and all souls and the elements of matter themselves move back to their points of origin, only to start again.
The Regions Beyond
Beyond the limits of this vast expanse of the solar system and galaxies there are regions of non-material light. They are not reached by any physical means because it is simply not a question of light years or kilometres. They are regions which "transcend" the physical plane and therefore can only be experienced through divine vision, perceivable to the "third eye". Through deep meditation the soul can "travel" to these regions and experience the bliss of being free from the limits of anything earthly.
The Subtle Regions
These regions are like three subtle "layers" around the physical plane which are absolutely necessary for the roles of creation, its sustenance and the destruction of that which is old and impure. Thus they have an important part in world transformation (this part will be explained in Chapter 6 - The Human World Tree). Those who have the gift of divine trance are able to have a vision of these regions. Such souls see the scenes much in the manner as one experiences a dream, yet much more vividly. Since the bodies there are of light and not matter, there is movement but no sound. The scenes seen in trance are like silent movies in which communication is by gesture and thought.
The Soul World - The Home
Further beyond the subtle regions is another region. It is pervaded by golden-red, divine light, which is the sixth element called "brahm". It is the region from which all souls have descended onto this earth. The conscient entities, the souls, have neither bodies of matter nor bodies of light. There exists neither thought, word nor action; just complete stillness, silence and peace. Just as this world occupies a tiny part of this physical universe, so too the souls occupy just a tiny portion of this infinite golden-red light.
This is the highest region, the original home of souls and the Supreme Soul, God. This is the region which human beings, irrespective of culture or religion, have tried to reach in thoughts, prayers, etc.. It is called Heaven by Christians. Nirvana by Buddhists, Shantidham, Paramdham or Brahmand by Hindus. Before I came to this earth, I was there with all other souls, my brothers. The experience of complete and utter peace, purity and silence is there in my sweet home. There the soul is untainted by matter. Souls abide there as star-like points of light. They remain dormant, with their roles in the physical world merged or latent within them.
The souls stay in the soul world in well-defined groups. They descend onto this earth in a certain chronological order, according to the quality of sanskaras. At the apex of this configuration of souls is the Supreme Soul, whom the other souls call God, Allah, Jehovah, Shiva, etc. Beneath Him the souls are positioned numberwise according to their degree of similarity to God. Depending on the quality and the part the soul has to play, it emerges in the human world, taking the body of a developing baby in a mother's womb. It then continues through the cycle of birth and rebirth according to the role that it has. When the parts are over, souls again return to this world of light, peace, liberation and complete purity.
The deep rest the soul has had in the "home" has such an effect on it that even though it forgets the details about that world, there is always the impetus to search for that peace and silence when it becomes lost and confused in the world of matter. In that supreme region only, souls remain in their completely original, natural state, which can be experienced through Raja Yoga meditation.
I, the soul, am originally a star-like point of perfect peace and purity, twinkling in the golden-red expanse of the soul world. I am fully charged with spiritual energy which naturally manifests as love, joy, peace and purity when I first come into this physical world. Gradually by taking many births, I become attached to the senses and the various sense objects and I forget my original attributes. Then I become a slave to five basic negative forces; anger, greed, ego, lust and attachment. These forces have their roots in body-consciousness, or the illusion that existence is entirely physical. My ability to control matter is supplanted by matter controlling me. Any time I suffer disappointment, worry or anxiety, it is due to the effect of any one of these negative influences.
I forget the heights of spiritual attainment and the delights of super-sensuous joy thinking myself to be a body and I search for peace and happiness through the sense organs. I mistakenly pursue worldly pleasures in an effort to regain my former state. I forget my true identity, nature, home and my Supreme Father. I know that while controlled by these negative forces, I cannot come back to my normal state of peace, happiness and bliss. These vices are unwelcome intruders into my original texture of purity. They are not welcome in my internal "house." Until the vices have no control over the soul, I will never restore my original qualities of peace, bliss, love, purity and knowledge.
People afflicted by anger lose their temper and become excited at the slightest provocation. Yet, when the event is over they find "peace" in reverting to their normal temperament. The same applies to all the other vices which are at the root of all emotional disturbances, strains, tensions and imbalances.
If I contemplate on my original nature and do everything with the realisation "I am a soul, not a body," my original qualities reappear naturally. They are my basic attributes. It is worthless seeking them externally. It is like the musk deer running after the sweet smell of musk, unaware that it is coming from its own navel. Peace of mind is my property. It automatically flows from within me once I am soul-conscious.
I only have to let my original sanskaras become thoughts and keep them flowing. Whatever thoughts are in my mind, that is the state I experience. Soul-conscious thoughts bring peace of mind. Body-conscious thoughts disturb me. It is I who decide what state of mind to experience. I can either be the essence of peace, or in a turmoil. It is I, the soul who has the power of decision. The situation should not dictate to me. Soul-consciousness is the mind's food that strengthens the intellect and keeps me beyond the influence of negativity.
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Yes, the aim of life is to align with God. This requires knowledge of the true nature of the self and of our spiritual Father-God. Without correct knowledge, alignment is difficult and cannot progress. To move understanding beyond intellectual we must move into the experiential realm. We begin to practice the ancient discipline of yoga or connection with the supreme. But how is this done? Some information has been presented regarding he practices of Raja Yoga - MORE.
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Maine hunters bring home thousands of pounds of deer meat each fall, but what's the best way to cook it? We asked a few top chef
- By: michael sanders
- Photography by: Russell French
In 2009, Maine's Department of Fisheries and Wildlife issued approximately 155,000 deer hunting licenses. According to Lee Kantar, the state's deer and moose biologist, those hunters, mostly Maine residents, brought down just over 18,000 deer with every killing device from high-powered rifle to bow and arrow, crossbow, and black powder muzzleloader. "Normally," Kantar points out, "that number is up around 25,000, but the previous two winters have been long and snowy, with subsequent high mortality rates for fawns." It is illegal to sell hunted meat of any kind in Maine, which means that the meat from those animals, about 810,000 pounds dressed out, ended up in hunters' freezers, destined for the family dinner table in one form or another.
Though I am not a hunter, I am a committed omnivore and passionate cook. Having lived in Maine for years, I am still puzzled by the downright ambivalence that greets the triumphant hunter. Venison — or deer meat, as most Mainers call it — seems to be either loved or loathed with few opinions in between.
"Deer is a meat with a bad reputation," says Scott Paquette, a former chef at Portland's Cinque Terre before he moved to the Café Stroudwater. I caught up with him as he was putting in a few hours cutting up deer at Thibeault's, a game butcher in Cundy's Harbor, learning from the pros. "There's not a lot of fat to it," he says "and it's easy to bind up." Translation: overcook it, and you might as well be eating shoe leather.
This doesn't seem to diminish the hunters' enthusiasm for the actual hunt, however. A few days earlier, I'd risen before dawn and traveled up the pike to the West Gardiner Rod and Gun Club. At 5:30 a.m., the hunters' breakfast was in full swing. It was October 31, the first day of deer season, and there was more blaze orange per square foot than I'd seen in one place in my lifetime. The long, low-ceilinged room, with its rough paneling and utilitarian metal tables and folding chairs, was warm from the bodies packed in at every spot, the air heavy with the smell of sausage and baked beans and pancakes being served through the kitchen pass-through in one corner. There were young kids, boys mostly, and teens, and then men of all ages with just a few women among them.
Ann Crocker, a lively woman who was taking money at the door, smiled at the hustle and bustle. "It's a good crowd, all right," she says. "They'll all be gone in a half hour, gone to hunt as soon as it's light."
I was there with Frank Smith, who had grown up in West Gardiner and who couldn't walk two feet without stopping to greet someone and exchange a few words. "This is the only time all year I may see some of these people," Smith says. "We're all more mobile now and everything's changing." The hunters' breakfast is, like the 4 a.m. drive that starts this day each fall, part of a pilgrimage that would take Smith, rifle in hand, into the woods with a group of friends and relatives at first light. What would he do with the meat if he did bring down a deer? He shrugged, admitting that he usually lets somebody else do the cooking.
An hour later we gathered at the Smith-Greenleaf family farm ten miles down the road, a barn full of various Smith relatives, friends, and married relations. On one wall hung a hand-drawn and colored map of the farm and its surroundings, stands of trees picked out in green, water in blue, and little crosses and dates indicating where deer had been taken in previous seasons.
These are serious folks, and the only "energizer" was hot coffee sipped from chipped mugs as, in pairs, they identified which piece of ground they were going to cover and then headed out on foot and ATVs to take up their sunrise vigil. This wasn't just some random ritual, but a safety measure. Everyone needed to know where the other teams were, and particularly which ones were mobile, in what direction they'd be heading.
There were young daughters with boyfriends, twenty-something sons, an older uncle paired with a novice nephew. Mike Wing, a retired English teacher who seemed to be the not-so-elderly spokesman, was among the last to go, talking all the way out the door. "Some of us will get lucky today," he says, "and we'll share out the meat with those who didn't. Steaks and roasts, and stew meat. Funny how the backstrap," the tenderest cut, "always disappears. . . . "
And then they were gone into the half-light, the smell of ATV exhaust and burned coffee lingering behind them.
When the leaves drop," state biologist Lee Kantar says with a rough poetry, "it's a signal to people as well as to the deer. It's instilled in our blood. Mainers have a strong hunting tradition, and they've been passing it down for generations. Going to a deer camp is a family tradition everyone looks forward to, something that people share. It transcends the individual and instead becomes something that everybody in the group can appreciate, going to a favorite hunting area, teaching kids how to identify deer sign and habitat, that kind of knowledge is passed on from family to family and to friends."
And then most will mention, too, that a generation back, eating deer as opposed to a "beef critter" was not a choice but a necessity in an era of very large families living agrarian lives in out of the way places. Venison was just another part of the rural family larder.
"My brother and grandfather hunted deer every year, and usually got one," recalls Ann Crocker of the West Gardiner Rod and Gun Club. "My husband came from a very poor family — he was one of seven kids — and they lived on venison over the winter. They'd hang it on a rafter in their old barn and cut off chunks as they needed it. They'd gather apples from their trees. They almost always had oatmeal for breakfast, deer meat, potatoes from the garden, milk from the grandparents' cow. When you put it all together, they ate very well. And they would fish in the summertime for trout for a change in diet. That was not unusual, and they did just fine, he'd tell you."
In deepest Bowdoin, I found Jim Small, owner of Butcher Boys Deer Cutting, waiting for customers in his converted garage, the back corner of which was one large walk-in refrigerator where carcasses hung. It was Sunday, when there is no hunting, and Small was waiting mostly for people to come to pick up their deer meat and antlered trophy capes, if they'd asked for them to be saved out. There was a faint smell of bleach, and he explained that if I'd come the day before the floor would have been slick with blood.
Small, who's been "cutting" — butchering game — for more than a decade, knows an awful lot about venison. "We butcher it into chops, steaks, and stew meat, and we'll grind hamburger and make sausage, too." Venison is naturally lean, he tells me, because the meat has no marbling, and because they cut off what fat covers the meat, which can go rancid even if frozen. "With a beef critter, the fat marbles in between the meat, but not in a deer. The tenderest part, that's the backstraps and the tenderloin." The backstrap runs along the back horizontally along each side of the spine. "Tenderloins in deer are really small, even smaller than pork tenderloins, and people call them the sweet meat 'cause they're the best part."
This lack of intramuscular fat is also why the universal "secret ingredient" of ground venison and venison sausage is almost always a healthy measure of pork fat or fatty pork meat added to the mix.
I myself like to cook a thin steak on the woodstove," Small says, jerking a thumb over his shoulder at a yard-long range that must have weighed a thousand pounds. "Real butter in a big old cast iron frying pan, not that Smart Balance stuff, and Lawry's seasoning, onions, and peppers, real quick each side so it's still rosy in the middle. But I can't cook out here," he finishes with a laugh, "'cause everyone's gonna think it's their deer I'm eating!"
So, when you're next faced with a slab of venison, the advice from the experts is pretty simple. "You do need to cook with a little more oil or fat or other liquid," chef Scott Paquette says. "Deer meat is much leaner so you're not going to get that fat coming out of the meat." If it's a thin steak or other tender cut, sear it fast to medium rare. If it's any other whole cut, low and slow, in plenty of liquid, like wine or broth or plain water and vegetables. Think Crockpot. Think fall. Think delicious.
Slow-cooker Cranberry Venison Roast
From Karyn Small, Bowdoin, Maine. Serves 6 to 8.
2 to 3 pounds boneless deer roast
2 tablespoons Lawry's seasoned salt
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 cup plus hot water
2 cups whole-berry cranberry sauce
1/2 cup cranberry juice
1/3 cup sugar
1 small lemon, thinly sliced
1/3 cup golden seedless raisins
1 rounded tablespoon minced garlic
1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 to 3 tablespoons cornstarch
Roast: Rub the roast with the Lawry's seasoning salt. Add the butter and oil to a heavy-bottomed pan and sear the roast on all sides over medium-high heat. Put the roast in the slow cooker. Add the hot water to the searing pan and scrape up the browned bits, pouring everything, including all the drippings, over the roast. In a medium bowl combine the cranberry sauce and juice, sugar, sliced lemon, raisins, garlic, ginger, mustard, and pepper. Pour the mixture over the roast, cover, and, for fastest cooking, cook for 1 hour on high then turn back to low for 3 to 4 hours. Or you can cook it all day on low.
Sauce: Strain and measure cooking juices, between 2 and 3 cups. Bring to a boil. Put 1 tablespoon of cornstarch per cup of cooking juice in a cup with 3 tablespoons of water and dissolve with a fork. Stir this into the sauce and cook until thickened over low heat. Serve roast with rice or potatoes.
Grilled Marinated Venison with Potato Hash
From Scott Paquette. Serves 6.
1 cup dry red wine
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
2 garlic cloves, cleaned and sliced thin
1 bunch flat leaf parsley, chopped
1/4 cup packed basil leaves, chopped
salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 pounds boneless venison backstraps*
*This should be 3 or more loin strips each
about 10 to 12" long.
Potato Hash
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 medium onions
3 pounds Red Bliss potatoes
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons canola oil
1/2 cup Roland or Cento
roasted red peppers
salt and freshly ground black pepper
3/4 cup flat leaf parsley
For the marinade: Combine wine, oil, garlic, parsley, and basil in a large nonreactive bowl or dish. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Add backstraps, cover, and refrigerate for at least 12 hours.
For the potato hash: First caramelize the onions by removing the roots and skins from 2 medium onions and slice into one-quarter inch rings. Heat the 2 teaspoons of olive oil in a heavy-bottomed sauté pan, add onions, stir, and let cook over lowest possible heat. After 20 to 30 minutes, when their water has been released and evaporated, onions will begin to soften and brown. Stir occasionally until dark brown, but not burnt, then remove from heat. Boil Red Bliss potatoes gently in plenty of water just until fork tender but not falling apart.
Run cold water on them until chilled. Cut into 1/2" dice. In a non-stick frying pan add butter and canola oil over medium heat, then add potatoes. After about 5 minutes, with occasional tossing, potatoes should be getting brown on the edges. Add the roasted red peppers and caramelized onions. Sauté another 1 to 2 minutes until potatoes are golden brown then season dish with salt and pepper and garnish with parsley just before serving.
For the venison: Preheat outdoor grill or set oven to broil. Use very high heat. Turn once after 3 to 4 minutes or when outside has nice crust. Check again after 2 to 3 minutes by cutting into one backstrap, which should be rosy. Do not overcook the venison or it will be like shoe leather.
- By: michael sanders
- Photography by: Russell French


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If your only introduction to Elizabeth Dail Finch was her political resume, you could be forgiven for wondering if her first name was "First."
Beth Finch, who died Tuesday at 91, was the first woman to win a seat on the Fayetteville City Council, and successfully defended it.
She was Fayetteville's first female mayor, and the first female mayor of any major North Carolina city. She won re-election twice.
She was the first woman to head the N.C. League of Municipalities, and the first to sit on the airport commission.
You could know all of that and miss something more important: what she did with those firsts.
For years, Mrs. Finch was the public face of Fayetteville. An optimist but no Pollyanna, she would readily acknowledge the city's shortcomings in discussion with outsiders, but quickly turn to what the city was doing right and might become.
There was more to it than persuasion.
Mrs. Finch was an unflagging champion for more realistic annexation law. She worked to improve not only a run-down bus system, but a run-down administrative system and a deteriorating city core.
She wouldn't take credit for downtown's recovery, but she earned mention as one of those who helped lay the foundation for it.
Mrs. Finch is survived by her son and two grandsons. And a city is grateful for the time and energy she donated to it.
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5. Feats Don't Fail Me Now | |||
6. One Love Stand (Outtake) | |||
7. Rock And Roll Doctor (Outtake) | |||
8. Skin It Back (Outtake) | |||
9. On Your Way Down (Outtake) | |||
10. Walkin All Night (Outtake) | |||
See all 15 tracks on this disc
What you hear on this expanded version of their 1978 release is a band at their peak. Lowell George's incendiary slide guitar playing, Bill Payne's rollicking keyboards, the funk of the Tower of Power horn section and the band's backlog of material make for a stunning live performance. Not only are "Don't Bogart That Joint" and "A Apolitcal Blues" restored to this reissue (deleted from the original vinyl release to accommodate a single CD), but a whopping ten outtakes are included, adding almost a full hour of music!
Of the outtakes on disc-2, tracks 6-10 were mixed for the original album, but not used. Tracks 13-15 first appeared on the odds and ends album "Hoy-Hoy!" According to the liner notes, tracks 11 and 12 apparently were never considered for use on either the original album or "Hoy-Hoy!" All outtakes were taken from the same series of concerts (The Rainbow Theatre in London and Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC) as the songs on the original album.
This is the last Little Feat album which had the full involvement of Lowell George. [George died before the completion of the disappointing follow-up studio album "Down on the Farm."] While a revamped Little Feat has been releasing albums for the past two decades, this is a must-have album from their classic lineup. ESSENTIAL
What makes 'Waiting for Columbus' so memorable is that it seamlessly puts all the qualities of a great Live album into one neat little package. Upon it's first release there was perhaps a feeling of some regret that not the whole of a 'Little Feat's' set could be squeezed onto four sides of vinyl and a three album set would of been welcome, but then we should be happy with what we got.
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