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ATLANTA -- This felt so much like April 8, 1974, when the world changed forever regarding the most significant number in sports. First, just as it was 40 years ago, an Atlanta Major League ballpark was packed Tuesday night. Not only that, the man of the moment back then returned for this occasion, and he was smothered again with the same kind of love: Endless cheers from teary-eyed folks on their feet for the longest time to honor baseball royalty.
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ATLANTA -- This felt so much like April 8, 1974, when the world changed forever regarding the most significant number in sports. First, just as it was 40 years ago, an Atlanta Major League ballpark was packed Tuesday night. Not only that, the man of the moment back then returned for this occasion, and he was smothered again with the same kind of love: Endless cheers from teary-eyed folks on their feet for the longest time to honor baseball royalty.
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Here's the big one: To no fault of his own, the man of the moment was a hero only to some back then after he launched the 715th home run of his career to make Babe Ruth just another guy on the all-time list. Now, except for those a little goofy in the head, Henry Louis Aaron is considered by the masses to rank somewhere between waving the flag on the Fourth of July and enjoying "I Love Lucy" reruns when it comes to the essence of Americana.
As for the smaller differences ...
The old ballpark was Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, and it has been replaced by a parking lot next to the new one called Turner Field. While the night back then was recovering from an afternoon of rain and cold, this night featured just a slight chill after a day of sunshine. Mostly, the man of the moment back then was hugged as he sauntered to home plate in his No. 44 for the Braves along the way to ripping a pitch over the fence in left-center field for the 715th home run of his career. On Tuesday night, that same man of the moment spent a pregame celebration in his honor wearing a brown suit, gray vest and gold tie. There was no sauntering this time. Due to a surgically repaired hip, he moved slowly with a walker to reach the podium near home plate.
Aaron is 80 years old, but except for those aches and pains resulting from slipping on Atlanta's unforgiving ice in February, his face and his mind are as fresh as they were back then.
I've known Aaron for more than 30 years, and we've chatted often about everything you can name. That said, I never heard him better than a few days ago, when we huddled for an exclusive interview for CNN. The subjects were many. Still, given that baseball this season is in the spirit of 715, let's stay in that mindset. Let's return to the fourth inning on April 8, 1974, at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, where Aaron swung at a pitch from the Dodgers' Al Downing during that nationally televised game on Monday night and watched the ball sail toward history.
So many little-big things happened between Aaron heading toward first and reaching home plate.
Despite supposedly tight security, there were those two young spectators who leaped from the stands to join Aaron in a haphazard way during his home-run trot from second to third. There also were those series of loud pops. They came from firecrackers commissioned by the Braves to celebrate the record. Even so, the noise was unsettling when you consider this: Aaron spent much of his Ruth chase battling a vicious collection of hate mail and death threats.
"A really good friend of mine was on the police department at the time, three weeks before any of this ever happened, and the mayor at the time, Maynard Jackson, had told him that he wanted him to be with me for the last few weeks of the season," Aaron told me during the CNN interview. "And I don't know if you noticed, but in pictures, [my undercover policeman] had a little thing around his neck. Inside that little thing was a snub-nose .32.
"He told me, 'Hank, I just didn't know what to do when you started running around the bases and those two guys started running behind you.' I said, 'I'm glad you didn't shoot, because those two guys were having nothing but fun.' They had already said that if I had hit a home run that night, they were in kneeling position, and they were going to run out on the field. So I said, 'I'm glad you didn't pull that pistol out.' "
So were those two guys.
Aaron laughed, recalling another time early during his Ruth chase when he, along with everybody else associated with the Braves, really did think firecrackers were something else.
"Actually, there were two or three times in Montreal," Aaron said. "Jokingly, [some Expos fans] lit a bunch of firecrackers and threw them on the field."
Then Aaron laughed more, adding, "You should have seen the ballplayers ducking and hiding during the game.
"No one was sitting next to me."
In contrast, everybody in the Western Hemisphere wished to surround Aaron 40 years ago after he reached home plate. He was mobbed by teammates, fans and reporters. To his delight, the person who arrived first was his mother, Estella. She sprinted from her seat next to Hank's father, Herbert, to celebrate with her son during his evolution from youth growing up in segregated Mobile, Ala., to black man serving as baseball's home run king just 27 years after his hero, Jackie Robinson, broke the color barrier.
Mother and son hugged and hugged.
"I don't think much was said, because she was choking me so much," Aaron said, laughing. "I couldn't say much, but she was happy. And I was also."
The same was true of Aaron on Tuesday night, when the man of the moment smiled so often and brightly that, well, you couldn't tell if 715 had just drifted somewhere again into the Georgia night.
"You were cheering for me then, and you're here cheering for me now," he said. "I am very grateful for that."
No, Hank.
America is grateful.
Terence Moore is a columnist for MLB.com.


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In the latest TSA atrocity, the agency forced a wheelchair-bound, 95-year-old leukemia patient to remove her adult diaper, for fear she might be wired to explode. "It's something I couldn't imagine happening on American soil," her distraught daughter told the press: "Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this."
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Remember when, pushing his bullet-train boondoggle in the 2011 State of the Union, President Obama cracked that it would let you travel "without the pat-down"? Not funny—also, not true.
Earlier this year, Amtrak passengers in Savannah, Ga., stepped off into a TSA checkpoint. Though the travelers had already disembarked the train, agents made women lift their shirts to check for bra explosives. Two weeks ago, armed TSA and Homeland Security agents hit a bus depot in Des Moines, Iowa, to question passengers and demand their papers.
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Lucy Day, 36, from Eastbourne, was driving to hospital with her partner Stephen Grant, 39, – after he accidentally cut off his finger in a lawnmower – when the family car suddenly burst into flames on Saturday (September 30).
Forced on to the side of the road, the couple and their three-year-old daughter Millie were stranded and in desperate need of help when a man dressed in a full-body Spiderman suit stopped to offer his assistance.
"You have to laugh," said Lucy, "When your having a bad day and suddenly you see that.
"I did think it was a bit strange, but in the heat of the moment I wasn't really thinking about it."
The couple were rescued by children's entertainer Tom Roche, who works for Party Time Wishes and was heading to work at a children's birthday party whenthe drama unfolded.
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Lucy, who is 22 weeks pregnant with her second child, said, "We're concerned that a relatively new vehicle with a reputation for safety and reliability should fail in such a dramatic way.
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The President has been working hard trying to get Democrats and Republicans to come to an agreement to avert the fiscal cliff. It wasn't until Biden showed up with a bipartisan punch bowl, a keg of Blue Moon and White House Brew on New Year's Eve that they finally reached an agreement.
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Today Robert Oliphant, Member of Parliament for Don Valley West attended a pro-democracy rally organized by Iranian activists in Toronto. The rally was organized in solidarity with the February 20th (1 Esfand) anti-government protests in Iran.
Mr. Oliphant addressed the crowd briefly stating that it was not enough for seats to be shuffled (referring to Ahmadinejad and Mousavi) within the Islamic Regime and that he supported Iranian people's demand for regime change in Iran.
Iranian pro-democracy activists chanted slogans of "Regime Change for Iran and Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran" showing solidarity with the nationwide protests that shook Iran today, and sharing the demands of protestors in Iran for complete Regime change in Iran.
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran
News Reports on General Strike in Kurdistan of Iran0 comments - published on Sunday, February 20, 2011
Kurdistan and Kurd News: There was a general strike in most areas of the Kurdistan in Iran today.
In the city of Saqez about 70% of all stores and Bazar was closed as the city joined the general strike in a protest against the Islamic Regime.
There were major protests in the city of Mahabad with young protestors coming together at the Esteghlal square and chanting anti-Regime slogans. While the security forces were present and attacking the protestors, the protestors were not backing down and were busy defending themselves using rocks and sticks and were not backing down. The protestors were able to force the security forces to back down in Esteghlal Square. In an attempt to win back control the security forces fired at the protestors killing and injuring at least 4 people.
The city of Bukan also joined the general strike and about 90% of all stores and Bazaar was closed today, even though the presence of security forces was significant and they were trying hard to prevent people from joining the general strike.
In the city of Sanandaj protests took place in various parts of the city, 100's of security forces were present throughout the city trying to prevent people from closing shop and joining the general strike, however the security forces were not successful and many store owners joined the general strike in Kurdistan by closing shop.
In the city of Marivan as well. Two security forces had been killed by armed opposition groups last night. There were protests in the city with protestors chanting anti-regime slogans. Number of protestors have been arrested by security forces.
In the city of Kermanshah as well protestors gathered in the main square of the city.
In the city of Kamyaran there was a heavy presence of security forces who would not allow for more than a few people to gather at the same time. Also the home of Farzad Kamangar's father who was executed last May be the Islamic Regime has been surrounded by security forces.
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran
News Reports from February 20th (1Esfand) Protests in Iran0 comments - published on Sunday, February 20, 2011
Protests in Kurdish Cities:
Mahabad: Large number of protestors have gathered in and around Esteghlal Square and essentially have taken control of this area. Protestors are chanting slogans, throwing rocks at security forces and are attacking them.
Saghz: City of Saqz has joined the general strike in Kurdistan
Sanandaj: The city Sanandaj is under general strike, all stores and business areas are closed.
Protests in Tehran:•
Very large number of protestors have gathered from Enghelab to Azadi square to Felestin square to Vali Asr square to Hafte Tir Square, Imam Hossein Square and Arya Shahr. Protestors are chanting death to Khamenei and their numbers are increasing by the minute.
• Protestors have completely taken over Vali-asr Square and parts of Azadi street. While the Basij and other security forces are attacking the protestors, protestors are not taking this lying down and are fighting back!
• Slogan of Death to Dictator in Sahrurdi street:
Tens of protestors gathered on this street were chanting death to dictator around 3pm Tehran time.
• Clashes in Amir Abad between protestors and security forces, while the security forces are trying to create an atmosphere of fear and terror, protestors are fighting back and are not backing down.
Protests in the City of Shiraz
•There are also protest in the city of Shiraz
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City of Mashad
Strong presence of security forces in Ahmad Abad Street and Rahnamayi street in the city of Mashad. Security forces are preventing people from stopping in any one area and are pushing them to move forward.
According to Daneshjoo News: At least one protestor has been killed by security forces during the protests in Tehran.
Solidarity with General Strike in Kurdistan-Iran0 comments - published on Saturday, February 19, 2011
Following the February 14th pro-democracy protests in Iran, where at least two protestors Mohammad Mokhtari and Saneh Jale were shot and murdered by the Islamic Regime, Iranians have called a nationwide pro-democracy protests on Sunday February 20th 2011.
Along with the nationwide protests a general strike has been declared in the Kurdistan of Iran on the same day. The strike is in solidarity with the nationwide pro-democracy protests and a sign of protest against the murder of the Kurdish student Saneh Jale by Regime agents.
It should be noted that worldwide protests have been organized on February 20th to show solidarity with the nationwide protests and the general strike in Kurdistan.
Activists in Toronto have organized a protest at the Mel-Lastman Square between 4-6pm in solidarity with the pro-democracy protests in Iran.
I announce my solidarity with the nationwide protests in Iran and the general strike in the Iranian Kurdistan.
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran
Sayeh Hassan: While Egyptians celebrated, Tehran's mullahs lost face0 comments - published on Wednesday, February 16, 2011
February 11 marked the 32nd anniversary of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Due to the world's focus on Egypt, the event went unnoticed by most, but it was not forgotten. Every February 11th sees anti-government demonstrations in Iran and worldwide, at which pro-democracy activists chant anti-government slogans against the entirety of the Islamic Regime, including not only the leadership, but the reformers. It's not enough to reform the theocratic regime, say the protesters. It has to be torn down.
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22 Bahman Protests in Toronto- Against the 32 Years of Islamic Regime Dictatorship in Iran0 comments - published on Friday, February 11, 2011
Tens of activists gathered in Mel-Lastman square today to protest against the Islamic Regime in Iran, which has been in power for 32 years. Today marked 32 years since the Islamic Regime's highjack of the 1979 Revolution.
Every year activists in Iran and abroad mark this day with anti-Regime protests. This year too Iranians in Toronto came together in freezing cold weather and chanted slogans such as "Regime Change for Iran, Democracy for Iran and Secularism for Iran".
Down with the Islamic Regime in Iran
Long Live Freedom in Iran
James Bezan, a Canadian Member of Parliament Speaks out against the Islamic Regime in Iran0 comments - published on Friday, February 04, 2011
James Bezan a Conservative Member of Parliament speaks out against the Islamic Regime, the recent atrocities and executions in Iran and the effectiveness of oil sanctions as a way for the international community to help the Iranian people bring down the Islamic Regime.
I thank Mr. Bezan for his constant support of the pro-democracy movement in Iran, as well as his tireless efforts to bring awareness about the human rights situation in Iran.
Down With the Islamic Regime in Iran
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I'm a codger and I know it.
As my sainted father used to advise, when it comes to age-related stuff, you can't fool Mother Nature. And Mama Naturale has me pegged.
I'm absolutely primeval by the standards I employed when I reached the age of majority in 1966. I considered anyone older than 40 "Methuselated" (a term for ancient persons coined by Daisy Mae –- referring to the biblical Methuselah — in "Li'l Abner").
Today, at 67, I'm glacial flour.
I've already outlived Caligula by 38 years, Errol Flynn by 17, William Shakespeare by 15, and Gen. George S. Patton by seven. Those guys achieved huge notoriety in fewer years than I've been alive, and I couldn't catch them now if I strapped a jetpack to my bum.
I'm now older than my own grandfather was when I was 21 — and, at that time, I considered him a redwood. How could I possibly have become this antediluvian?
Five years ago my 6-year-old granddaughter asked me how old I was.
"Sixty-two," I said.
"Wow, Grandpa," she gasped, "and you're not dead yet?"
I'm old and should be smart — if not smart, at least wise — but therein lies the rub. It turns out I'm neither.
I went to my 50th high school reunion recently and saw friends I hadn't seen in decades. I quickly noted that those people look old too. What's up with us? How could we have not seen this coming?
I was under the delusion that the 1960s were all about permanently fixing the "growing old" thing. What happened? Does anyone remember? And that rot about never trusting anyone older than 30. I haven't been relevant for the combined lifetimes of three German shepherds and a shih tzu.
Recently, I was taking my evening constitutional in our neighborhood. As I walked by the side of the road near the curb, a couple of 11-year-olds approached me from behind on bicycles. One came so close that he nearly brushed me.
"Hey," he yelled at his buddy on the other bike. "You almost ran me into that old man!"
I was ticked.
"Why ya little twerp!" I wheezed as he rode by. "I've got grand kids older than you!"
Crafty rejoinder Jim, but in hindsight it seems you actually made his point.
There was a poster at my high school reunion that contained the photos of 30 or 40 of our classmates who've died since we first enrolled as high school freshmen in 1958.
One classmate was killed in an automobile accident during our sophomore year. He was 16. We received word of the accident on a Monday morning, as I recall, and all the girls at school cried. It was sad.
He was the first person I'd ever known to die. Now, at 67, I'm afraid that list is quite lengthy.
I've occasionally thought about him over the years and in my mind he always looks the same: black leather jacket, pouty rockstar expression, cool greased-back ducktail. Indestructible.
Unlike most of the rest of us in the class of '62, he escaped life's unrelenting hassle of tearing off calendar pages. In our minds he'll always be 16, forever exempt from the indignity of excess nose and ear hair, and chiseled abs concealed by unsightly layers of adipose.
He didn't have the opportunity to finish high school or attend college; he never married and had children; and he never attended a grandson's soccer game or granddaughter's dance recital.
We survivors may be cursed with rapidly multiplying liver spots, but we've also been richly blessed.
He also likely never got around to figuring all this out. Doubtless, he departed the world with unresolved questions about who he was and why he was here. I know octogenarians who still haven't figured that out.
But aging has its benefits.
The author of the Book of Proverbs — himself a wise man — says so. He labels my gray hair "a crown of glory."
I'll take that crown — right now, before male pattern baldness is permitted to steal the final vestiges of my comb-over.
JIM CARNETT lives in Costa Mesa. His column runs Wednesdays.


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Sirarpie Der Nersessian was one of the pioneers of Armenian-Byzantine art history. She established the methodology for the study of Armenian illuminated manuscripts and incorporated Armenian art into the scope of Byzantine art history. Over the co...
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Let every city declare my day
I fell for the charm of SSRS in 2006, the year of AOL's Silver Jubilee celebrations. The short Silver Jubilee film made by Chinese photographers was shown ad nauseam at satsangs. At each showing we were told the coloured lights in the sky represented devas or angelic beings that came en masse to grace this special occasion organised by Guruji.
There was a massive stage with politicians, celebrities and thousands of musicians. AoL claimed two and a half million humans from half the nations of the world filled the airfield below and hosted heavenly visitors the skies above. The presence of the latter had been expertly captured, they claimed, through today's advanced technology and the skill of the photographers. Never mind that the lights did not look particularly special to the ordinary observer (they actually seemed more like reflections of stage lights on the camera lens). The point was if you had the ability to see auras, you would have known that the lights contained tiny figures in lotus posture and the like. It was suggested the huge bright light hovering over one part of the stage was His Holiness himself, much brighter and bigger than the ones in the skies - a great blessing bestowed on humanity.
I was new and the film made some impact on me yet I found it a little strange SSRS attached so much importance to the whole thing. With or without heavenly guests, it did not seem to me much more than a big show.
A few months later I found myself at darshan given by him to international devotees during the Navaratri celebrations in the Bangalore ashram. We were shown one or two certificates from Canadian cities that had named him honorary citizen and declared a SSRS day. SSRS then urged us to organise the declaration of an AoL day in our own cities when we returned home.
He impressed upon us that since it was the year of Silver Jubilee, a once in a life time happening, we must not miss the opportunity and three or four people together should seek local politicians, tell them about the AoL Silver Jubilee, show footages and give them a folder with copies of all the certificates already conferred. He then added, with a dismissive gesture: "Of course, we know these things really mean nothing but for the sake of those who think it is important..."
Perhaps to reassure devotees who might disagree with asking their cities to declare a day in his name, he added: "We made sure at Silver Jubilee I did not sit on a big chair. I sat in the same chair as everyone else so it wouldn't cause a problem." He seemed amused at this fact. It was a kind of admission that he was deliberately presenting a more secular and humble face to the world but that the devotees were in on the secret of who he really was – divine enough to deserve a special big chair (as if that was a sign of divinity or importance!).
I felt uneasy by this running after name and fame, and the strategy used did not strike me as honest, humble or spiritual. Normally one would hope that honours and awards are conferred on a person because it is clear to the public eye or to respectable institutions that the work s/he has done is for the common good and of great benefit. One would hope that it is not due to a lot of lobbying by the followers of the person in question. I wondered how on earth one would convince one's city to declare a day in honour of AoL on the basis of Silver Jubilee. I thought the event had great value in its own right but it would be difficult to make it seem relevant to cities in other parts of the world.
At the time I was not aware of the big push to get SSRS the Nobel Peace Prize and that the "SSRS day" drive was part of that strategy. KLIM's post Gandhi also did not get the Nobel Peace Prize enlightened me about the extent of the strategising and lobbying that goes on in the AoL.
Exactly how successful or unsuccessful devotees were in their "SSRS day" attempts can be gauged from http://www.srisri.org/biography/awards-and-honours. Gullible cities are listed under "His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Day" and "International Honours".
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I too, attended the big Silver Jubilee in Bangalore in 2006. At the time, it seemed like more of a good excuse to visit India for the first time (and I predicted, my last) and take in the sights, in addition to attending this celebration. I was told there would be 5 Million people from across the world attending, so it would be sort of a "Spiritual Woodstock". Well, as we all know, the attendence was primarily the Indians that lived in the vicinity, which no doubt could easily total over 2M in itself. The rest of the world came but in a predictably lower percentage, and those that came for the most part seemed to be True Believers, as I thought from speaking with them.
Needless to say, the event was quite extraordinary, most likely just from the sheer mass of humanity gathered and the traffic congestion and mess. Many were told they had a certain class of occupancy at hotels they prepaid for, but the hotels ended up being at the lower end of the scale.
The infrastructure of this geo-community was obviously being strained although in normal times it is a herd beyond Hell in itself with a congestive mess of honking cars and teeming humanity somehow maintaining itself in the midst of what would seem to be sheer chaos.
At the Silver Jubilee, Ravi Shankar spoke but it was quite boring to watch most of the 3 days' events, with mostly politicians kissing up to someone they perceived to be a huge influence on their constituencies, and therefore they showed up because they had no other choice. There were some interesting speakers from across the world, but what they had to say was also boring and political mumbo-jumbo speak.
The AOL Ashram was quite a sight, huge and filled with interesting buildings, but also overloaded due to the Jubilee. It was apparent the crowds tolerated the chaos without breaking out into fights or arguments, as I'm sure would be the case in any modern country where the "spiritual" awareness was not emphasized so much. Hinduism has its obvious social benefits when you have zillions of people packed into small spaces, somehow fostering a more benign attitude towards coping in such congestion.
Like Klim, I also found the claptrap about Celestial Beings being played up, since in many photos the images showed as bunches of white clouds in the sky. I assume these were photographic normalties from the dirt in the air, the lighting, etc. However, at a talk in Charlotte, NC later that year that I attended, Ravi announced that the slide show of photos from the Silver Jubilee being shown to the audience had celestial
beings in it. No one seemed to challenge the assertion, but no one seemed to be too concerned about whether this claim was real or just photographic effects.
In any event, looking back at my trip to the Silver Jubilee, I'm half glad I went since I also took part of a group tour after the Jubilee, traveling through Northern India and vicinities; on the other hand, if I knew today what I knew then about the overall physical conditions in India, the dirt, air pollution, 3rd world craziness, and overall hassles,I'd probably pass since I don't find India that intriguing enough to visit given that mess! I'll never return, that's for sure.
- January 7, 2010 at 3:13 PM
Son of Chucky
Very amusing account :)
Next time try some expensive upclass travel agency.Then see the gloss and the India that you will love. Budget class is always pathetic anywhere in the wold. I will not criticize american craziness or excesses because whole world is witnessing living proofs of that!
- January 7, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Hi KLIM
There has been a lot of talk and publicity especially in Asia about the angels/celestial beings that were present during the Silver Jubilee celebrations. Would be nice to hear your views/opinions on this.
- January 8, 2010 at 8:56 AM
The christian cult leader Benny Hinn had a large gathering of 2 million people in the jakkur grounds in Bangalore. Silver jubilee function of AOL was created along similar lines after a few months in the same venue with the same number of people attending. One thing is obvious from these two incidents, mass gatherings in India is quite common. Kalki baghvan stages huge mass gatherings to show his power.
There were many Hindu swamis and leaders who attended this silver jubilee meeting. One of them was the popular Asaram Bapu of gujatrat who is now fighting charges of double murder.
The devas and angel stuff are cock and bull stories used to hoodwink the gulliable masses. Very similar to the presence of the holy ghost in Benny Hinns gathering.
- January 8, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- Prairie Princess said...
If anyone saw the pictures taken of Barak Obama in Grant Park Chicago on election night, there were many,many "orbs" in the sky. And, I'm sure. the event was better organized than anything AoL has to offer. There should be pictures of Obama in Grant Park on the internet. I saw them after the election but do not have a link. Cities or states declaring "Days" doesn't mean much.
- January 8, 2010 at 9:48 AM
- KLIM said...
I had the same thought when I watched Obama's inauguration. In fact I thought, "Oh, Guruji will be so jealous! There are really more than 2 million people in that event and the energy is truly so high. And it is so truly well organized!" That Silver Jubilee was a scam. It lost many people and, looking back, I think it is when I literally lost my mind and character. The stress was so high it was unbelievable. Many teachers did not sleep or eat almost for a week trying to figure out how to room people. The Indian team had done such a lousy job. People who paid deposits and reserved rooms for 2, 4, 5 people were dumped in communal rooms for 20 people. It was a lot of fighting and again, an AoL mess and theft. It was embarrassing. We thought the Millennium event was terrible, but that was 100 times worse. He just wanted all those people and flags for his video footages and print outs. When I think about it I feel like sending a letter of apology to everyone I took. After the mess, of course, it was all used as "he was making us stronger, so much karma was removed." Unbelievable.
Regarding the "bubbles", he actually had me in his room at midnight watching and proudly explaining this phenomenon. One of his most old time teachers insisted it was a technical thing with the lights. We, of course, thought he was too mental and did not have enough faith in Guruji. He, of course, gave him a dirt look. He insisted Ganesh, Laxmi sat in the bubbles. The devas love him!, he explained. All the psychics in Varanasi also saw them on TV (Guruji, are psychics good or useless after all? Trapped in maya or not after all?).
As a good teacher that I was, I repeated that bubbly BS in every satsang and course thereafter, impressing people with the stories, until one day, one of my students rushed to me with her own pictures full of bubbles. She was so excited thinking the angels also followed her. And there, to our surprise, she was in a beer house ... full of bubbles in the air (and the glass)! We suddenly said, "Strange no? Why would angels go to a beer house?" Ravishankar's insisted they follow the light. Well, maybe beer too? After that, I notice it is common to find bubbles in many digital pictures, regardless of the context. I guess, correctly said, "a technical thing with the lights." There we were again, using magical thinking to lure more clients and us, brain dead, repeating his stories without prior critical thinking. At least, my tragic comedy.
- January 8, 2010 at 10:25 AM
Can you spell F-L-I-M F-L-A-M?
Pretty funny that Angels show up in a beer house!
- January 8, 2010 at 11:54 AM
- KLIM said...
I just learned a new word! Thank you! Chuck has quite a large extended family!
- January 8, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- KLIM said...
to the Anon who commented on Son of Chucky's experience: note that unfortunately events such as Ravishankar's Silver Jubilee do not do justice to India. For anyone visiting India for the first time, damage is done. It is a pity cause Ravishankar is not good representation nor good ambassador of India nor its Indian culture. Many first time visitors and new "followers" left disappointed.
- January 8, 2010 at 12:09 PM
My wife and I attended the silver jubilee in 2006. There were minor problems with accommodation (all the rooms were full, we had to share our room with two others), but things were pretty spiffy otherwise, considering there were about a frooglepoopillion people around.
The event itself was less than remarkable. There was a lot of pomp and show, political heavyweights kissing up, lots of forced smiles and "jai gurudev"s, and a tremendous amount of dust and mud.
I was hoping for some deep spiritual insights by guruji, meditations, long kriya, or just anything "special" at all, but came away disappointed. It was simply a huge birthday bash for him, plenty of marketing ops, very little real stuff and even the kriya had to be shortened because of all the dust, people were coughing and choking :)
Still, I was amazed at how orderly the whole thing was, I'd expected much more chaos. Even the traffic was remarkably sane after the event finished. I expected to be stuck on the highway till late at night, but we kept moving along quite fine.
- March 8, 2010 at 2:22 PM
"Exactly how successful or unsuccessful devotees were in their "SSRS day" attempts can be gauged from http://www.srisri.org/biography/awards-and-honours. Gullible cities are listed under "His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Day" and "International Honours". "
-Art of Leaving
I checked and around 21 days allotted for SSRS, but interesting to note that not one of them is outside of USA or CANADA.
Was this exercise by the AOL volunteers only limited to North America? No Indian city anywhere, Or that no one else brought this crap…, whatsoever very amusing indeed…
- April 7, 2010 at 1:47 AM
two comments:
a) regarding the silver jubiliee execution.
I have some knowledge with some authority that , SSRS called representatives of a large volunteer organization who have the ability to handle this kind of event(large gathering) and asked them to take control. THis was after realizing that the crowd could not be handled well by the AOL groups.
THey were also asked to be in AOL uniform(even though they have their own uniform)to make it appear that they are from the AOL org.
b) regarding delcaring AOL day in the cities.
It is very easy task. The city mayor/counsellors are politicians and all it takes is to get hold oa large dononr(mostly doctors) and this gets the job done.
I know of another swamy who has gotten similar thing at the statem level(AZ) and at Big city level (LA)
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BOSTON, Mass. – Vice Chancellor for Athletics and Recreation, Special Projects and Programs Charlie Titus has named Jake Beverlin of Somerville as the new men's soccer head coach at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Beverlin becomes just the sixth coach in the program's history. Having coached and competed at all levels both in the United States and in Europe, Beverlin will be tasked with making the men's soccer program one of the top teams in both the Little East Conference and Division III.
"Jake Beverlin is a young man taking on his first college head coaching responsibility. He has prepared himself well as the very successful assistant head coach at Bunker Hill Community College over the last several years. Jake brings great energy, skill, and competiveness to the UMass Boston soccer program. He has displayed outstanding recruiting skills that I believe will serve him well. Coach Beverlin is up to the challenge and worthy of the assignment to be UMass Boston's men's soccer head coach," said Vice Chancellor Titus.
Beverlin, will begin his coaching responsibilities immediately in preparation for the 2013 fall season, replacing head coach Myles Berry, who resigned at the end of the 2012 season after an illustrious ten year career.
"I am excited to see what Jake will be able to do this fall with the men's program. He has a great mindset as a college coach and brings a ton of energy to the program," said Berry.
The men's soccer assistant head coach at Bunker Hill Community College in Charlestown since 2009, Beverlin comes to UMass Boston with tremendous experience and knowledge of the game of soccer.
While at Bunker Hill, he played a major part in helping the men's team to a combined record of 36-4-3 over the last two seasons. In 2012, they achieved a second place NJCAA national ranking, the program's highest ranking ever. It was also in 2012 that Beverlin played a major part in leading the Bulldogs to the program's first-ever appearance in the final-four of the NJCAA National Tournament, as well as leading them to a new program best for wins in a season with a 19-3-1 record.
Under Beverlin, the Bulldogs set a new mark for fewest losses in a single season in 2011 as they produced a 17-1-2 campaign, which earned them an undefeated conference and regional record.
As a member of the coaching staff at Bunker Hill, Beverlin saw a total of 24 players earn NJCAA All-Region XXI honors. He also coached two NSCAA and three NJCAA All-Americans.
Beverlin also serves as the assistant coach with the professional team Boston Breakers and helped the squad to a WPSL regular season championship in 2012. Prior to that served as the Director of Soccer Operations at Division I Boston University. During his time with the Terriers, the program won two America East Conference titles.
A 2009 graduate of San Francisco State University, Beverlin earned his bachelor's in political science. While working at Bunker Hill, he received his master's degree in sports management from Southern New Hampshire University, and maintained a 3.54 grade point average. While at San Francisco State he was a member of the men's soccer program. He also currently holds an NSCAA Advanced, Advanced National, and Premier Diploma as well as a USSF "B" license.


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The Eternal Fascination of OK -Anatoly Liberman [Oxford University Press Blog]
The war in heaven (for linguists, anyway) rages on . A signifigant helping of hoo ha viz ok surrounds the pre -1839 existence of the phrase.
Linguist Allen Walker Read, who had written four major articles on OK for American Speech, and had been interviewed on the subject by the New Yorker, no less, cites The journal of Boston businessman William Richardson who describes a journey to New Orleans in 1815 allegedly thus; "Arrived in Princeton, a handsome little village, 15 miles from N Brunswick, ok & at Trenton, where we dined at 1 P.M."
The author of this article rightly mentions that this makes no godamn sense and then cites Frederic C. Cassidy (American Speech 56, 1981, p. 271) who had tracked down the actual diary and found it to be "not ok"
It seems that every major linguist who tackles the subject moulds a major portion of their thesis out of bullshit and heresay and then feigns being non- plussed that this hasn't yet occurred to anyone.......
It hasn't occured to anyone because of the difficulty of discovery of shit you just made up, you stupid fucking linguist.
I much prefer the portmanteau Yiddish expression "Nu?" or the equally expressive Jamaican "Seen?" to using OK (at least in the interrogative) . Why? Become pretentious like me , and then we'll both know, OK?
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How to reform the filibuster
Americans elect their leaders to stand up for what they believe in, not duck hard choices and hide behind closed doors. But when Senate Republicans repeatedly obstruct the nation's business with silent filibusters — where all they need to do is phone in an objection rather than speak on the Senate floor — they threaten the democratic process they have sworn to uphold. The Senate is designed to be a deliberative body, but senators shouldn't be able to hold back progress without explaining themselves.
Now, as the 113th Congress gets under way, we have a real opportunity to reform the filibuster so that we can get back to doing the work we were sent here to do. And as we consider reforms, we must implement the "talking filibuster" requirement in my "Mr. Smith" bill.
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My proposal is simple: A senator who wishes to filibuster must actually speak on the Senate floor. Once the filibustering senator stops speaking, the Senate can move to an immediate vote.
My bill protects minority rights — it doesn't change the number of votes needed to end a filibuster — while making sure nobody can grind the Senate to a halt for days while C-SPAN-2 viewers watch an empty Senate floor. Under my Mr. Smith bill, a senator wouldn't be able to hold up action while he or she goes out to dinner. If you want to filibuster, you should have to do it from Capitol Hill, not the Capital Grille.
For most of its existence, the filibuster was used sparingly as a way for senators to make their voices heard, not stop the Senate from functioning.
But since 2007, the minority has cast aside these norms, putting at risk the Senate's ability to conduct the nation's business. In fact, there have been about as many cloture motions filed (a rough, and likely low, estimate of filibusters) over the past six years as in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s combined. In the just-completed 112th Congress, the Senate passed just 2.8 percent of the bills introduced in the chamber — a record low, even when compared with previous eras of divided government.


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As head of the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, Julie Shuster has heard every imaginable story about flying saucers, aliens and cover-ups. But one stands out.
She recalled standing near the ticket counter and hearing a visitor recount the tale of how the Army public information officer who first released details of a crashed "flying disk" had been permanently silenced.
As the anecdote progressed to conspiracies about the soldier's mysterious disappearance, Shuster felt compelled to interrupt. She repeatedly told the man his account was untrue.
He continued to claim he was right until the museum director uttered five words.
"That man was my father," she told him.
For decades after the discovery of what many think was an alien spaceship on a ranch about 40 miles outside Roswell, few people in town talked about it. In fact, Shuster didn't learn of it until 1980, when a book detailing the mysterious happenings was published that included her dad's account of what he had seen.
"At first, it was hard to believe," she said. Now, though, she is convinced something otherworldly did descend on her hometown.
"The focus of the museum is to provide information," she said. "We don't care whether you believe or disbelieve."
The museum, with an adjacent research facility for scholars, opened 20 years ago. Among its founders was Shuster's father, Walter Haut. In 1947, as public information officer for Roswell Army Air Field, he was dispatched to the crash site. Years later, he told of seeing nonhuman creatures among the wreckage.
According to his daughter, Haut started the museum because "people were curious. People wanted information."
Fellow museum founder Glenn Dennis was a Roswell undertaker at the time of the incident. He too had a personal connection.
"[Dennis] was contacted for 'small, youth-sized caskets,'" Shuster recalled. "When he asked if there had been an accident, they [military officers] said, 'Don't worry about it.'"
Attendance has soared from 1,400 visitors in 1991 to more than 153,000 in 2010. Shuster said that, on average, she welcomes guests from all 50 states and more than 30 foreign countries each month.
If you're looking for pictures of debris or government photos, you're apt to be disappointed. But what the museum does have are various newspaper and radio reports from July 1947, along with replicas of the debris and depositions from those involved.
One piece of the puzzle came from Homer Rowlette Jr., an Army sergeant who helped with cleanup at the crash site. His "confession" — as an exhibit describes it — came on his deathbed: "I saw three little people. They had large heads and at least one was alive."
Rancher Mack Brazel told reporters he discovered the wreckage and alien remains on the morning of July 5. The story, with details provided by Haut, broke in the Roswell Daily Record three days later. The following day, however, the military did an about-face.
The debris had been taken to an Army air field near Fort Worth, where a general issued a statement. The discovery was, according to an Associated Press article, "a harmless high-altitude weather balloon."
In a second, front-page story in the Daily Record, on display in the museum, rancher Brazel disputed that.
"I am sure what I found was not any weather observation balloon," he said.
What really happened is up to each guest to decide. What's certain — to spin a phrase from the "X-Files" — is that the truth is in there.


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Port Alfred is small enough that the entire town can easily be covered on foot. It is a pleasant walk from town along the west bank of the Kowie River to the beach (via Causeway and Beach Road). There are beaches on the eastern side of the Kowie River mouth as well but these are quite a bit further as you have to walk around the Royal Alfred Marina.
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Diving - The shores of the Sunshine Coast are host to the most unique diving experience in the Eastern Cape. This part of the coast is famous for soft coral reefs, numerous wrecks that dot the shores and the incredible "Lunar landing" where crayfish in the hundreds live and breed.
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Highlander - Typical British style pub. Good food too.
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2. Network dis-connects from server. Ok, I'm in Australia, but I would hope the system could reconnect rather than just failing (spinning circle at main-menu screen) and requiring a quit/restart sequence, with a need to check ps for processes which didn't quit properly, despite a proper GUI quit via the menu.
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She remained such a pleasant young woman, a software engineer from yet another midwestern city, with a slight smile and gentle optimism on her face at all times. That is what amazed me. She had been having a run of bad luck, so one might expect her to be a little bitter about life and such, but she wasn't.
A year ago her mother went to the operating room to have colon cancer treated, and she coded on the table and died a few days later. A few months after that her father passed away, as much from grief as from his own fight against cancer. So she moved from the midwest, along with her quietly devoted husband, here to Phoenix, hoping for a change of luck.
Phoenix has not been good to her.
They bought a house but before they could entirely settle in, it "burned down with them in it," as she said, though they were unhurt. They moved to an apartment in an affordable neighborhood, where she was shot in the lung in a random senseless drive-by assault.
"I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," she explained.
That was a couple-few months ago. After several weeks of hospitalization she was discharged, only to subsequently develop some complications that landed her right back in. More surgery, chest tubes, and thankfully a pain medicine pump.
Aside from handing her a few pills and helping her get around some, that was my job: to help keep the pain under control, which merrily it was. Without that, it would have been a completely different story, and a startlingly different patient too. With uncontrolled pain, even the nicest person can become a total bitch on wheels.
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I'm a Certified Nike Addict. I go crazy every time Nike comes out with a new shoe especially if it has a cool design. Even though I already have a lot of shoes, I still have that urge to get one. And I thought only women go crazy over shoes! 🙂 One of the new shoes that came out this year was the Nike Zoom Kobe IV. I've been admiring the design of the shoe ever since early designs of it started coming out in the net. When I finally saw the white/purple color (also called the 'inline home colorway') here in the Philippines (released a month earlier here compared to the States), I immediately grabbed the chance to buy a pair. My old basketball shoes just broke (during a game) so it was my excuse to get a new one. Plus, I'm a big fan of Kobe, so there's really no better time to get his new kicks. A very good choice indeed! I love the feel of the shoes and they're extremely light! To be technical about it, the shoe has Nike's Fly-Wire Technology that makes it light. The cushioning is great and the Zoom technology on the sole is just right when you play on them. Btw, after a week, the shoe has sold out here. Whew, I'm glad I got one immediately. So, what has this got to do with photography? Nothing! 🙂 I have been taking photos of my shoes but it's only during this time that I tried to use off-camera flash to photograph it. Hopefully, the photos look nice. Here's the setup:
- Black cardboard as the background
- Canon 580 EX-II on a Bogen/Manfrotto Justin Clamp (see photo below)
- Lastolite Tri-grip Diffuser
- Panasonic Lumix LX-3 (Yes, I didn't use an SLR)
- Flash Waves Trigger (to trigger the flash remotely)
So, here are some of the shoe photos. Enjoy!
What's in the box? It comes with an extra pair of shoe laces (below). The extra pair is longer than what's on the shoe. So, if you want to lace it up all the way till the last hole, you should use the extra laces. This is how Kobe laces his shoes. 🙂
The flywire technology is seen in the side of the shoe. Kobe's logo is on the tongue.
I also took the chance to photograph the shoe along with the 'Special Edition Sole Collector Kobe Magazine'. This is not my copy of the magazine. This magazine came from Paolo (Ekky's nephew). The magazine came free when he got the 'Carpe Diem' version of the Kobe IV. He also got a hard-bound copy that's a very limited edition (only 24 of these).
The cover of the Sole Collector Hard Cover Edition:
Finally, here's the setup of the flash. The flashwaves trigger is underneath the flash (the one with the antenna).


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WARD — "Pound for pound, these are better than steak," says Matt Bragg, chomping down on a wiggling grub as his boot nudges an upturned root, exposing even more of the writhing worms. "Go ahead, everybody grab one."
With his British accent, it's not hard for Bragg to conjure Bear Grylls, the televised survivalist whose fame is anchored in part on his unfettered willingness to eat just about anything, including grubs, dead critter eyeballs, raw snakes and spiders.
The unsure team follows Bragg's lead and begins nibbling the squirming larvae. So ends another lesson in the Bear Grylls Survival Academy, an intense 24-hour course that blasts through more than a dozen survival strategies. The success of the academy in Grylls' United Kingdom homeland as well as in Africa has led the star of Discovery Channel's "Man vs. Wild" to open his first U.S. academies this month in California, New York and Colorado.
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Students learn the skills of self rescue, such as foraging and trapping food, erecting shelters, filtering water, navigating through rough terrain using ropes and building fires. In Colorado, the Grylls team is basing their academy at the 600-acre Glacier View Ranch near Ward, where a square mile of jagged granite slabs, trickling creeks and dense forest form training ground for survival.
While Grylls has built a career of capturing the cringe-worthy torment and toil of surviving in the world's roughest terrain, his students will be spared most of that savagery. Most. Grylls warns students: "It may hurt a little."
The courses hardly are simple hikes. The goal is to challenge and empower, says Bragg, a British special forces veteran with an "England" heart tattoo on his bowling-ball bicep.
"Most survival is about mental strength, mental stamina and never giving up," he says.
The lessons begin the first minute, when the cadre of American and British bushcraft survival instructors stomp their wary students into a puddle. Everyone lathers their faces and limbs with mud, to blur the shape, shine and silhouette of pasty urbanites in the woods.
Then there's mock fighting, slapping and blocking blows. Five minutes in, every student is panting and filthy.
"Maybe some city people are afraid to get dirty. We just take that out of the equation first thing," says Alan Pratt, the director of the academy's U.S. operations in New York's Catskill Mountains and near California's Yosemite National Park. "Everything we do has a purpose. It all comes together in the end."
Rotating instructors deliver 20-minute lessons. The class learns how to navigate using the sun and shadows. The class traverses over a creek on suspended ropes, filters water through socks before adding chlorine tablets, scales rock walls, hikes to a summit and forages for edible plants.
Edible being the key aspect. Instructors detail basic warning signs for dangerous roots and leaves.
Every few steps an instructor peels from the group and points out something useful; tree moss for tinder, elk droppings indicating a game trail, water sources, currant bushes and those unappetizing grubs. It's a rapid pace, touted by instructors as a week's worth of information in 24 hours.
When night falls, students gut rabbits and learn astral navigation techniques before retiring in homemade shelters of leaning deadfall. The next morning they shimmy across a rope suspended over a turbid, rappel down a 100-foot cliff and wade their packs across a frigid lake.
Grylls has sold out every 24-hour and five-day course he's offered in the Scottish Highlands and along Africa's Zambezi River since launching his survival academies in late 2012. Longer courses involve more intense training culminating in a three-day improvised scenario, where students are dropped in the wild to have their new skills put to the test.
Grylls plans to open an academy in Texas in the fall. If the U.S. academies go well — they start at $299 per person for the 24-hour courses — Pratt says Grylls hopes to expand into the Pacific Northwest around Mount Rainier and into the desert of southern Utah.
The most popular courses are family courses, with moms and dads joining their 10- to 14-year-old kids on the 24-hour courses, Pratt says.
"It gives them an opportunity to really bond and get through tough situations," he says. "It applies to a lot of things in life. Just setting a goal and the steps to get to that goal."
Taylor Bond is clearing the forest floor at a base of a ponderosa pine. He has leaned a lodgepole against the trunk, preparing a shelter for the night.
"I love this stuff. This is like my fourth time doing this," says the 15-year-old.
His dad, Mark Bond, is helping. They do a lot together, but this will be their first time camping under the stars. An hour earlier, the pair had labored to spark a fire in a ball of leafy tinder using Grylls' branded Gerber survival knife and spark rod.
"He's teaching me some stuff, actually," Mark says.
The academy's mission is to demystify the wilderness. To help people feel comfortable enough in the woods to enjoy not just the sights and sounds, but the camaraderie of family and friends.
"Bear Grylls and his guys have real family values," said Steve Hamilton, executive director of the Christian Glacier View Ranch, which hosts 190 young campers every week in the summer. "They have a goal to get families out in the wild, enjoying it, not being afraid of it. That was one of the appeals of working with Bear."
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Greg Whittred's speech at the Spark 10 Year Anniversary & 2013 $100k Challenge Prize Giving.
On the 24th of October Spark celebrated it's 10 year anniversary. Economic Development Minister, Hon. Steven Joyce, plus an impressive line-up of additional speakers converged on Auckland University's to celebrate Sparks 10th year in operation and provide words of wisdom.
The event also involved networking with New Zealand's foremost entrepreneurs, investors and business leaders and the ability to talk to the inspiring new breed of innovative and business-savvy graduates whose entrepreneurial mind-set is re-shaping New Zealand.
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Dude, you totally forgot "Labyrinth".
When did talk come up of her being the best?
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I would fight to the death to make the point that there is no actress who is as attractive and as good an actress as Jennifer Connelly.
Naomi Watts.
Naomi Watts is way hotter