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Urge incontinence occurs when you have a strong, sudden need to urinate. The bladder then squeezes, or spasms, and you lose urine.
Alternative Names
Overactive bladder; Detrusor instability; Detrusor hyperreflexia; Irritable bladder; Spasmodic bladder; Unstable bladder; Incontinence - urge; Bladder spasms
As your bladder fills with urine from the kidneys, it stretches to allow urine. You should feel the first urge to urinate when there is a bit less than 1 cup of urine in your bladder. Most people can hold more than 2 cups of urine in the bladder.
Two muscles help prevent the flow of urine:
- The sphincter is a muscle around the opening of the bladder. It squeezes to prevent urine from leaking into the urethra. This is the tube that urine passes through from your bladder to the outside.
- The bladder wall muscle relaxes so the bladder can expand.
When you urinate, the bladder wall muscle squeezes to force urine out of the bladder. As this happens, the sphincter muscle relaxes to allow the urine to pass through.
All of these systems must work together to control urination:
- Your bladder muscles and other parts of your urinary tract
- The nerves controlling your urinary system
- Your ability to feel and respond to the urge to urinate
The bladder may contract too often from nervous system problems or bladder irritation.
With urge incontinence, you leak urine because the bladder muscles squeeze, or contract, at the wrong times. Often these contractions occur no matter how much urine is in the bladder.
Urge incontinence may result from:
Bladder cancer
- Bladder inflammation
Something blocking urine from leaving the bladder Bladder stones
- Infection
- Brain or nerve problems, such as multiple sclerosis or stroke
- Nerve injury, such as from a spinal cord injury
In men, urge incontinence also may be due to:
- Bladder changes caused by an enlarged prostate, called
benign prostatic hyperplasia(BPH)
- An enlarged prostate blocking urine from flowing from the bladder
In most cases of urge incontinence, no cause can be found.
Although urge incontinence may occur in anyone at any age, it is more common in women and older adults.
- Not being able to control when you pass urine
- Having to urinate often during the day and night
- Needing to
urinate suddenly and urgently
Exams and Tests
During a physical exam, your health care provider will look at your belly and rectum.
- Women will have a pelvic exam.
- Men will have a genital exam.
In most cases, the physical exam will not find any problems. If there are nervous system causes, other problems also may be found.
Tests include the following:
Cystoscopyto view the inside of your bladder
- Pad test. You exercise while wearing a sanitary pad. Then the pad is weighed to find out how much urine you lost.
- Pelvic or
abdominal ultrasound
- Post void residual to measure the amount of urine left after you urinate
Urinalysisto check for infection
- Urinary stress test (you stand with a full bladder and cough)
- Urine cytology to rule out bladder cancer
- Urodynamic studies to measure pressure and urine flow
- X-rays with contrast dye to look at your kidneys and bladder
Treatment depends on how bad your symptoms are and how they affect your life.
There arefour main treatment approaches for urge incontinence:
- Bladder and pelvic floor muscle training
- Lifestyle changes
- Medication
- Surgery
Managing urge incontinence usually begins with bladder retraining. This helps you become aware of when you lose urine because of bladder spasms. Then you relearn the skills you need to hold and release urine.
- You set a schedule of times when you should try to urinate. You try to hold in urination between these times.
- One method is to force yourself to wait 1 to 1 1/2 hours between trips to the bathroom, even if you have any leakage or an urge to urinate in between these times.
- As you become better at waiting, gradually increase the time by 1/2 hour until you are urinating every 3 - 4 hours.
Sometimes, Kegel exercises, biofeedback, or electrical stimulation may be used with bladder retraining. These methods help strengthen the muscles of your pelvic floor:
Kegel exercises. These are mainly used to treat people with stress incontinence. However, these exercises may also help relieve the symptoms of urge incontinence.
- You squeeze your pelvic floor muscles like you are trying to stop the flow of urine.
- Do this for 10 seconds, and then relax for 10 seconds.
- Repeat 10 times, three times a day.
Vaginal cones. This is a weighted cone that is inserted into the vagina to strengthen pelvic floor muscles.
- You place the cone into the vagina.
- Then you try to squeeze your pelvic floor muscles to hold the cone in place.
- You can wear the cone for up to 15 minutes at a time, two times a day.
Biofeedback. This method can help you learn to identify and control your pelvic floor muscles.
- Some therapists place a sensor in the vagina (for women) or the anus (for men) so they can tell when they are squeezing the pelvic floor muscles.
- A monitor will display a graph showing which muscles are squeezing and which are at rest.
- The therapist can help you find the right muscles for performing Kegel exercises.
Electrical stimulation. This uses a gentle electrical current to contract your bladder muscles.
- The current is delivered using an anal or vaginal probe.
- This therapy may be done at the health care providers office or at home.
- Treatment sessions usually last 20 minutes and may be done every 1 - 4 days.
Pay attention to how much water you drink and when you drink.
- Drinking enough water will help keep odors away.
- Drink a little bit of fluid at a time throughout the day, so your bladder does not need to handle a large amount of urine at one time. Drink less than 8 ounces at one time.
- Do not drink large amounts of fluids with meals.
- Sip small amounts of fluids between meals.
- Stop drinking fluids about 2 hours before bedtime.
- Avoid carbonated drinks.
It also may help to stop eating foods that may irritate the bladder, such as:
- Caffeine
- Highly acidic foods, such as citrus fruits and juices
- Spicy foods
Avoid activities that irritate the urethra and bladder. This includes taking bubble baths or using harsh soaps.
Medications used to treat urge incontinence relax bladder contractions and help improve bladder function. There are several types of medications that may be used alone or together:
- Anticholinergic medicines help relax the muscles of the bladder. They include oxybutynin (Oxytrol, Ditropan), tolterodine (Detrol), darifenacin (Enablex), trospium (Sanctura), and solifenacin (Vesicare).
- Flavoxate (Urispas) is a drug that calms muscle spasms. However, studies have shown that it is not always effective at controlling symptoms of urge incontinence.
- Tricyclic antidepressants (imipramine, doxepin) help "paralyze" the smooth muscle of the bladder.
These medicines may have side effects such as dizziness or dry mouth. Talk with your doctor if you notice bothersome side effects.
If you have an infection, your health care provider will prescribe antibiotics. Be sure to take the entire amount as directed.
Surgery can help your bladder store more urine. It can also help relieve the pressure on your bladder. Surgery is only used for people who have too many spasms and are not able to store much urine.
Augmentation cystoplasty is the surgery most often performed for severe urge incontinence. In this surgery, a part of the bowel is added to the bladder. This increases the bladder size and allows it to store more urine.
Possible complications include:
Blood clots Bowel obstruction
- Infection
- Pneumonia
- Slightly increased risk of tumors
There is a risk of forming tube-like passages from the bladder to other organs or your skin. These are called urinary fistulae. They can lead to:
- Urine draining out in an unusual way, such as from your vagina
- Urinary tract infection
- Difficulty urinating
Sacral nerve stimulation is a newer type of surgery.
- A small unit is implanted under your skin. This sends small electrical pulses to the sacral nerve (one of the nerves that comes out at the base of your spine)
- The electrical pulses can be adjusted to help relieve your symptoms.
Urinary incontinence is a long-term (chronic) problem. While treatments can cure your condition, you should still to see your health care provider to make sure you are doing well and check for possible problems.
Outlook (Prognosis)
How well you do depends on your symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment. Many patients must try different treatments (some at the same time) to reduce symptoms.
Getting better takes time, so try to be patient. A small number of people need surgery to control their symptoms.
Possible Complications
Physical complications are rare. The condition may get in the way of social activities, careers, and relationships. It can also make you feel bad about yourself.
Rarely, this condition can cause severe increases in bladder pressure, which can lead to kidney damage.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call your health care provider for an appointment if:
- Your symptoms are causing you problems
- You have pelvic discomfort or burning with urination
- Your symptoms occur daily
Starting bladder retraining techniques early may help relieve your symptoms.
Deng DY. Urinary incontinence in women. Med Clin North Am. 2011;95:101-109.
Gerber GS, Brendler CB. Evaluation of the urologic patient: History, physical examination, and urinalysis. In: Wein AJ, Kavoussi LR, Novick AC, Partin AW, Peters CA, eds. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 10th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 3.
Resnick NM. Incontinence. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 25.
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EMI Kills Off More Innovation: MP3Tunes Declares Bankruptcy Due To 'Withering' Legal Costs
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We keep hearing people insist that the record labels are adapting. And it's true that they've been pulled, kicking and screaming, into parts of the 21st century. But the second that anyone comes along doing anything remotely interesting and which provides real value, they freak out and sue. And it goes beyond that. As Robertson describes in his blog post about this, EMI apparently went to great lengths to destroy MP3Tunes, even if it was legitimate:
At every opportunity EMI dragged out the legal process making it costly and burdensome. One example is the interrogation of company employees in all-day inquisitions called depositions where attorneys try to trick people into making admissions. In our case, they deposed not just management but nearly everyone in the company all the way down to clerical help and customer support personnel. They even paid $25,000 to get an ex-employee to agree to a deposition. For management they deposed everyone - some multiple times with me getting deposed 3 separate times.As Robertson notes, fighting the legal battle was one thing, but blocking the company from partnering and building out its business was the really deadly part. Robertson, of course, has been outspoken in his criticism of the RIAA over the years, and has been through previous legal battles with them as well. In part, some of EMI's infatuation with this case appeared to be personally vindictive (they sued Robertson directly as well as the company). Whether or not MP3Tunes could have succeeded may be an open question. But it seems clear that the company had no chance at all given the barriers that EMI put in its place. Of course, during this same period we've witnessed the collapse and sale of EMI (in pieces) as well. Perhaps, instead of suing the innovations that would help move it into a modern digital era, it should have been looking for ways to embrace them.
The legal pressure was not just confined within MP3tunes. EMI sent legal demands to existing partners and potential partners were told they could not work with MP3tunes or risk losing their license to sell EMI music. More than one digital company told us they wanted to work with us, but were prohibited from doing so by EMI. They used their government-granted copyright monopoly to get MP3tunes blackballed in the industry.
EMI spent an estimated $10 million dollars with multiple law firms to arm their attack against MP3tunes in an attempt to thwart unlicensed personal lockers. They know it's difficult if not impossible for startups to fight long costly legal battles. Their hope is that the startup cannot fund a protracted legal battle and they win by default. This happened with the music search engine Seeqpod, Muxtape, Favtape and many others that have quietly faded away. They know that even if the digital upstart prevails in court, they will be terminally weakened. Veoh won multiple rounds of their copyright battle outright only to be forced into bankruptcy after spending $7 million on legal bills.


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|Statement by Zhang Dan at the Third Committee of the GA under Item 62 "Social Development"
|New York, 9 October 2007
Mr. Chairman,
At the outset, please allow me to congratulate you on your election as the chairman of our committee. I am convinced that under your guidance, the work of our committee at this session of the GA will be crowned with success. I want to assure you and other members of the bureau of my delegation's full cooperation and support. My delegation associates itself with the statement made by Pakistan on behalf of G-77 and China.
Mr. Chairman,
With a large population, China makes the expansion of employment an important element of its macro economic and social development policy. At the same time, the Chinese government pays great attention to vocational training and re-employment of laid-off workers and works continuously to improve the unemployment insurance system. Last year, about 25,000 employment training institutes provided training service to 19 million people and about 24,000 public employment agencies helped 18 million people find jobs. Thanks to our rapid economic growth, five million unemployed workers in China became re-employed in the course of last year. The registered unemployment rate in our cities and towns is 4.1%, lower than the world's average.
At the same time, the Chinese government has made vigorous efforts to improve our social security system and incorporated in our Constitution for the first time in history "the establishment of a sound social security system corresponding to the level of economic development". In June this year, the Chinese Legislature adopted the Labor Contract Law. Up till 2006, 175 million people in China had pension insurance, 138 million had medical insurance, 106 million had unemployment insurance and 84.78 million had injury insurance. As part of its efforts to respond to the challenges of ageing and urbanization, the Chinese government will keep up its efforts to improve the social security system and increase investment with a view to establishing by the time around 2020 a social security system that will basically cover all its urban and rural residents. That means in the future 13 years, China will gradually build up the world's largest social security system covering more than 20% of the world's population. It will have a profound impact on the global cause of social security.
Mr. Chairman,
Ageing is an acute problem for China. Currently, the number of our people over the age of 60 has reached 143 million, which represents 11% of our total population, half of Asia's aged population and 20% of that of the whole world. For a developing country like China, with the ageing of the population accelerating and development not yet balanced throughout the country, how to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the elderly and promote the cause of ageing is a great challenge.
The Chinese government has always cared for and attached importance to the cause of ageing. Over the past two decades, it has promulgated about 200 laws, regulations and implementation programs relating to ageing, thus building up the initial framework of a comprehensive legal and policy system for the ageing people. We have also established monitoring and evaluation systems to monitor and promote the implementation of the relevant programs. We hope that the five year review of the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing will lay down a foundation for us to decide on our future actions and priorities areas.
Mr. Chairman,
We are pleased to note that more than 100 countries have signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It is our hope that the implementation of the Convention will be conducive to the comprehensive development of the cause of the disabled and promote the implementation of the World Program of Action Concerning Disabled Persons.
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What were our captains of industry and finance doing during their years in the hallowed halls of education when they were supposed to be learning history and its lessons? Cramming for a quiz on discounted cash flow or copying their fraternity brothers' accounting homework? Or maybe they were skipping class to buy a term paper to get through a useless liberal arts course like history. What does history teach about quarterly earnings and capital expenditures? Who wants to read all that nonsense about the French Revolution all over again? They had had their fill of it in high school.
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History does repeat itself, and it seems to do it with greater frequency in the financial world than elsewhere. Yet those who are in the executive suites of banks and lending institutions seem to have been elsewhere when their professors were lecturing.
Financial crises seem to occur with increasing regularity these days—a few years ago there was the dot-com bubble; in centuries past there was the tulip mania in the Netherlands—or maybe it's just the media talking about it too much and making it happen. Actually, all of us are at fault.
Gordon Gecko, the character in the film Wall Street, told us that greed was good, and nobody disputed him even though most Christian churches list greed as one of the seven deadly sins. We can't be satisfied with a 3-percent return on our savings, or a mix of investments in stocks and bonds that bring modest returns. We want that 10-percent-or-better return on our investment that smooth talkers like Bernie Madoff are delighted to offer and we are only too willing to swallow—hook, line and sinking 401(k).
But it's not only Ponzi scheme operators and overpaid bank executives that are at fault, although the scope of their avariciousness can be beyond astonishing. A $1,400 parchment trash can for former Merrill Lynch chief executive officer John Thain? Maybe we can put it near Tyco chief executive officer Dennis Kozlowski's $6,000 shower curtain and $15,000 umbrella stand.
We all seem to be indifferent to history and its lessons when it looks like we can make a few more bucks than the other guy. Surely, most of us have heard George Santayana's famed insight that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. We just haven't taken it to heart—wrapped our heads around it, as so many people are wont to say these days.
Ignorance of history might be attributed to an educational gap. Some inner-city schools have such gaps and kids don't learn to read well enough. They won't be left behind, though. That's the law. Hopefully, that shortfall can be repaired by literacy training. Even adults can learn. I've seen it.
Perhaps a crash course in history and its implications for modern life could be established and promoted. After all, we have weekend MBA programs. But learning not to repeat history's mistakes and failures isn't the only troubling issue. There is also a mindset of arrogance and indifference that many executives display toward their fellow citizens. In late January, as the economy was tumbling even further down the hill into the recessionary trough, one big pharmaceutical company announced it would buy another big drugmaker for billions of dollars. On the same day that New York-based Pfizer Inc. said it would slash thousands of jobs, a dozen other major companies, including Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, Ill., and Home Depot Inc., Atlanta, were announcing substantial employee cutbacks.
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What will these industries tell the multitudes that file out the doors of their plants and offices with a severance check and little hope for finding another job elsewhere? Let 'em eat Prozac! Marie Antoinette said much the same thing to the starving French peasants when they could no longer buy flour to make bread. Not too much later they lopped off her head.
I could argue that we are seeing a repetition of that in the financial industry. Where are those top executives who were taking home million-dollar salaries and even bigger bonuses and popping up on CNBC with unexpected regularity? Thankfully, their heads are still attached to their bodies, but they and many of their coworkers are now unemployed. The same financial kings and noblemen who promoted and encouraged acquisitions and financed management buyouts are jobless, although they're probably not feeling financial pains like the average unemployed Joe. Still, there are a lot of them out on the street looking for a dwindling number of jobs, much like many of the people that their merger-and-acquisition departments helped put out of work.
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and then Daisy notices a Mike doll
the Abbey doll is last seen a few months later, on the side of the highway, in tatters
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Osho [Hindi: ओशो] (11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), born Chandra Mohan Jain [चन्द्र मोहन जैन], and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who inspired a controversial spiritual movement in India, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, and many other countries. His syncretic teachings emphasise the importance of meditation, awareness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humour — qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialisation.
- One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.
- Walking in Zen, Sitting in Zen (1982) ISBN 0880506687
- I am the rich man's guru.
- The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986) ISBN 0880502509
- I would like that what I am doing is not lost. So I am trying in every possible way to drop all those things which in the past have been barriers for the revolution to continue and grow. I don't want anybody to stand between the individual and existence. No prayer, no priest... you alone are enough to face the sunrise, you don't need somebody to interpret for you what a beautiful sunrise it is... And this is my attitude: you are here, every individual is here, the whole existence is available. All that you need is just to be silent and listen to existence. There is no need of any religion, there is no need of any God, there is no need of any priesthood, there is no need of any organization. I trust in the individual categorically. Nobody up to now has trusted in the individual in such a way.
- The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986)
- Buddha declared before his death that he would be coming again after twenty-five centuries, and that his name would be Maitreya. Maitreya means the friend. Buddhas don't come back; no enlightened person ever comes back, so it is just a way of saying... What he was saying is of tremendous importance. It has nothing to do with his coming back; he cannot come back. What he meant was that the ancient relationship between the Master and the disciple would become irrelevant in twenty-five centuries. It was his clarity of perception — he was not predicting anything — just his clarity to see that as things are changing, as they have changed in the past and as they go on changing, it would take at least twenty-five centuries for the Master and disciple relationship to become out of date. Then the enlightened Master will be only the friend. I had always wanted not to be a Master to anybody. But people want a Master, they want to be disciples; hence, I played the role. It is time that I should say to you that now many of you are ready to accept me as the friend. Those who are in tune with me continuously, without any break, are the only real friends...
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- I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women — and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.
- The Last Testament : Interviews with the World Press (1986)
- It was good of Friedrich Nietzsche to declare God dead — I declare that he has never been born. It is a created fiction, an invention, not a discovery. Do you understand the difference between invention and discovery? A discovery is about truth, an invention is manufactured by you. It is man-manufactured fiction. Certainly it has given consolation, but consolation is not the right thing! Consolation is opium. It keeps you unaware of the reality, and life is flowing past you so quickly — seventy years will be gone soon. Anybody who gives you a belief system is your enemy, because the belief system becomes the barrier for your eyes, you cannot see the truth. The very desire to find the truth disappears. But in the beginning it is bitter if all your belief systems are taken away from you. The fear and anxiety which you have been suppressing for millennia, which is there, very alive, will surface immediately. No God can destroy it, only the search for truth and the experience of truth — not a belief — is capable of healing all your wounds, of making you a whole being. And the whole person is the holy person to me.
- God is Dead, Now Zen is the Only Living Truth (1989) YouTube video of the lecture
- I believe and trust absolutely in existence. If there is any truth in what I am saying, it will survive. The people who remain interested in my work will be simply carrying the torch, but not imposing anything on anyone, either by sword or bread. I will remain a source of inspiration to my people and that is what most sannyasins will feel. I want them to grow on their own. Qualities like love, around which no church can be created, like awareness, qualities which are nobody's monopoly, like celebration, rejoicing, and maintaining childlike fresh eyes. I want people to know themselves, not to be according to someone else, and the way is in.
- Italian TV Interview (1989)
- Just a few days ago a man came to see me and he said, "I am a humble man. I am just like the dust on your feet. I have been trying for almost twenty years to achieve higher consciousness, but I have been a failure. Why can't I attain?" And on and on he went. Every sentence started with I. If the grammar allowed, every sentence would have ended with I. And if everything was allowed, every sentence would have consisted only of I's. "I etcetera, I etcetera, I etcetera," it went on and on. You are filled too much. There is no room, no space for God to enter in you. You are too crowded. A thousand I's milling inside — they don't leave any space for anything to enter in you.
- Just Like That: Talks on Sufism (1993) ISBN 3893381139
- Tao mystics never talk about God, reincarnation, heaven, hell. No, they don't talk about these things. These are all creations of human mind: explanations for something which can never be explained, explanations for the mystery. In fact, all explanations are against God because explanation de-mystifies existence. Existence is a mystery, and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation. No, explanation is not needed — only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.
- Never Born, Never Died (2002) ISBN 81-7621-121-4
- It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable — and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.
- Your Answers Questioned (2003)
- Whenever I meet prostitutes, they never speak of sex. They inquire about the soul, and about God. I also meet many ascetics and monks, and whenever we are alone they ask about nothing but sex. I was surprised to learn that ascetics, who are always preaching against sex, seem to be captivated by it. They are curious about it and disturbed by it; they have this mental complex about it, yet they sermonize about religion and about the animal instincts in man. And sex is so natural.
- From Sex to Superconsciousness
- I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
- From Darkness to Light
- Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels. And when love comes, there is no question of responsibility. You do things because you enjoy doing them for the person you love. You are not obliging the person, you are not even wanting anything in return, not even gratitude. On the contrary, you are grateful that the person has allowed you to do something for him. It was your joy, sheer joy. Love knows nothing of responsibility. It does many things, it is very creative; it shares all that it has, but it is not a responsibility, remember. Responsibility is an ugly word in comparison to love. Love is natural. Responsibility is created by the cunning priests, politicians who want to dominate you in the name of God, in the name of the nation, in the name of family, in the name of religion -- any fiction will do. But they don't talk about love. On the contrary, they are all against love, because love is unable to be controlled by them. A man of love acts out of his own heart, not according to any moral code. A man of love will not join the army because it is his responsibility to fight for his nation. A man of love will say there are no nations, and there is no question of any fight.
- Sat Chit Anand
- Any mundane activity can become meditative. Digging a hole in the garden, planting new roses in the garden — you can do it with such tremendous love and compassion, you can do it with the hands of a buddha. There is no contradiction … I say unto you, your every act should be a ceremony. If you can bring your consciousness, your awareness, your intelligence to the act, if you can be spontaneous, then there is no need for any other religion: life itself will be the religion.
- Hyakujo: The Everest of Zen
- Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.
- Ancient Music in the Pines
- I do not ordinarily make prophecies, but about this I am absolutely prophetic: the coming hundred years are going to be more and more irrational, and more and more mystical. The second thing: After a hundred years people will be perfectly able to understand why I was misunderstood — because I am the beginning of the mystical, the irrational. I am a discontinuity with the past. The past cannot understand me; only the future will understand. The past can only condemn me. It cannot understand me, it cannot answer me, it cannot argue with me; it can only condemn me. Only the future … as man becomes more and more available to the mysterious, to the meaningless yet significant … After a hundred years they will understand. Because the more man becomes aware of the mysterious side of life, the less he is political; the less he is a Hindu, a Mohammedan, a Christian; the less is the possibility for his being a fanatic. A man in tune with the mysterious is humble, loving, caring, accepting the uniqueness of everybody. He is rejoicing in the freedom of each individual, because only with freedom can this garden of humanity be a rich place.
- The Osho Upanishad
- My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love. Meditate so that you can feel immense silence, and love so that your life can become a song, a dance, a celebration. You will have to move between the two, and if you can move easily, if you can move without any effort, you have learned the greatest thing in life.
- Come, Come, Yet Again Come
- Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is real hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against the nature. You are going upstream — that's what misery is.
- The Book of Wisdom
- Remain in wonder if you want mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. They end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.
- The Book of Wisdom
- All the Buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be — don't try to become. Within these two words — being and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
- The Book of Wisdom
- The longer a person has been dead the greater is the tradition … If Buddha is alive you can barely tolerate him. … You cannot believe this man has known the ultimate because he looks just like you … Hungry he needs food, sleepy he wants a bed, ill, he has to rest — just like you … That is why Jesus is worshipped now and yet he was crucified when he was alive. Alive, you crucify him; dead, you worship him.
- When the Shoe Fits
- You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.
- When the Shoe Fits
- When I am gone I hope there may still be courageous people in the world to criticize me, so that I don't become a hindrance on anybody's path. And those who will criticize me will not be my enemies; neither am I the enemy of those whom I have criticized. The working of the enlightened masters just has to be understood.
- Satyam Shivam Sundaram
- You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one's heart, the eye of the heart.
- Sufis, The People of the Path, Vol. 1
- I have withdrawn the red dress, the mala, because thousands of people wanted to be sannyasins but just because of the clothes and the mala they felt difficulties in the world — their job, their family, their wife, their parents, their friends — and it was too much of a trouble. I have withdrawn everything. Now whatsoever remains is something inner which neither the wife can detect nor the father nor the job nor the friends.
- The Last Testament, Vol. 3
- Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. More than this nature cannot do. It has done enough. It has given you life, it has given you opportunity; now how to use it, it has left up to you. Meditation is your freedom, not a biological necessity. You can learn in a certain period of time every day to strengthen meditation, to make it stronger — but carry the flavor of it the whole day.
- Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram
- If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.
- Come Follow To You, Vol. 2, Chapter 4; in Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (2000), Part 2.
The Discipline Of Transcendence (1978)[edit]
- Just before twenty-first March, 1953, seven days before, I stopped working on myself. A moment comes when you see the whole futility of effort. You have done all that you can do and nothing is happening. You have done all that is humanly possible. Then what else can you do? In sheer helplessness one drops all search. And the day the search stopped, the day I was not seeking for something, the day I was not expecting something to happen, it started happening. A new energy arose — out of nowhere. It was not coming from any source. It was coming from nowhere and everywhere. It was in the trees and in the rocks and the sky and the sun and the air — it was everywhere. And I was seeking so hard, and I was thinking it is very far away. And it was so near and so close.
- Near about twelve my eyes suddenly opened — I had not opened them. The sleep was broken by something else. I felt a great presence around me in the room. It was a very small room. I felt a throbbing life all around me, a great vibration — almost like a hurricane, a great storm of light, joy, ecstasy. I was drowning in it. It was so tremendously real that everything became unreal. The walls of the room became unreal, the house became unreal, my own body became unreal. Everything was unreal because now there was for the first time reality.
- The whole day was strange, stunning, and it was a shattering experience. The past was disappearing, as if it had never belonged to me, as if I had read about it somewhere, as if I had dreamed about it, as if it was somebody else's story I have heard and somebody told it to me. I was becoming loose from my past, I was being uprooted from my history, I was losing my autobiography. I was becoming a non-being, what Buddha calls anatta. Boundaries were disappearing, distinctions were disappearing.
Tantra: the Supreme Understanding (1984)[edit]
- Don't say this is good and that is bad. Drop all discrimination. Accept everything as it is.
- Liberation cannot be desired because desire is the bondage. When you are desireless, you are liberated.
- Tantra accepts everything, lives everything. That's why tantra never could become a very accepted ideology. It always remained a fringe ideology.
- Tantra is a great yea-sayer; it says yes to everything.
- Tantra says there is nobody above you whom you have to follow, through whom you have to get your pattern.
- The ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.
- The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.
- When you are no more, only then for the first time will you be.
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds (1995)[edit]
- Find moments when you are not, and those will be the moments when you will be for the first time...really. So I am the white cloud, and the whole effort is to make you also white clouds drifting in the sky. Nowhere to go, coming from nowhere, just being there this very moment — perfect. I don't teach you any ideals, I don't teach you any oughts. I don't say to you be this, become that. My whole teaching is simply this: Whatsoever you are, accept it so totally that nothing is left to be achieved, and you will become a white cloud.
- Look for the mysterious in life. Wherever you look — in the white clouds, in the stars in the night, in the flowers, in a flowing river — wherever you look, look for the mystery. And whenever you find that a mystery is there, meditate on it. Meditation means: dissolve yourself before that mystery, annihilate yourself before that mystery, disperse yourself before that mystery. Be no more, and let the mystery be so total that you are absorbed in it. And suddenly a new door opens, a new perception is achieved.
- Only a ripe fruit falls to the ground. Ripeness is all. An unripe ego cannot be thrown, cannot be destroyed. And if you struggle with an unripe ego to destroy and dissolve it, the whole effort is going to be a failure. Rather than destroying it, you will find it more strengthened in new subtle ways. This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity — only then can you dissolve it. A weak ego cannot be dissolved.
The Art of Dying[edit]
- Man has nothing else to do but surrender — in deep trust, in deep love. Don't be a doer, just surrender. Let there be a let-go.
- The Art of Dying (osho.com; retrieved August 2012), Chapter 6, 14.
Quotes about Rajneesh/Osho[edit]
- Never born, Never died: only visited this planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990.
- Epitaph, as quoted in Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins : Laughter in the History of Religion (1997) by Ingvild Sælid Gilhus, p. 143
- Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, given a hero's welcome by his Indian disciples after returning from a U.S. jail, denounced the United States Sunday and said the world must "put the monster America in its place."
"The real enemy is no more the Soviet Union, it is America," said the 53-year-old guru, who returned to New Delhi after pleading guilty to violating U.S. immigration laws by arranging sham marriages so his followers could stay in the U.S.
In his first press conference since he was arrested last month in Charlotte, N.C., Rajneesh declared, "Either America must be hushed up or America will be the end of the world."
- Quotes from an Associated Press report on Rajneesh return to India from the United States on 17 November 1985, published as "World must put U.S. 'monster' in its place, guru says" in the Chicago Tribune (18 November 1985), p. 5


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Michael Hutchinson (men), Julia Shaw (women) and Joe Perrett (juniors) turned in strong performances to win the UK national 25 mile championships in Norfolk on Sunday. Two weeks previously, the trio had taken the top honours in the national 10 in Newbury.
On a windy and at times wet day, Hutch secured his third 25 mile title, clocking 48:23 to win by more than a minute. The In Gear-Quickvit RT ace defended the title in style with a performance which used every ounce of his recent form. He beat former title holder Chris Newton (Rapha Condor) into second by 1:08, while another track ace, Halfords Bikehut rider Andrew Tennant, was third with 49:53.
Averaging just over 31mph, Hutchinson said afterwards: "I was happy enough with the ride. In the end you come here to win and that's what I've done so no problems.
"It was a cold, windy and wet day which wasn't fantastic, but it only started to rain about halfway through my ride and I was already up by then. It didn't start to rain heavily until the last four or five miles, but there are a couple of turns and a roundabout towards the end which were very wet by then so I had to take it easy.
"I went out quite quickly [25'10 to the halfway point, mostly into a headwind] and I got to the turn and got some checks. I couldn't quite back off but I stopped going for every second. Then I got held up at the roundabout at Attleborough both times across it so I lost a little there."
The course started and finished near Attleborough and was mostly up and down the A11 dual carriageway. There were a couple of right hand turns and a roundabout that needed to be tackled four times. That caused a few hold ups for the racers, including Hutchinson.
Asked what he thought of this year's 25 course, he said: "I'm not, to be honest, a fan of running this kind of event on this kind of course. That said I appreciate that it's hard to find courses, especially in this area.
"I liked last year's 25 course better because it's a very quiet bit of single carriageway and it's much fairer. But the thing is the traffic build up - the guys who are off at eight o'clock in the morning, they've got a two minute disadvantage over me. They aren't going to win it but it's a national so everyone should be able to see where they fit."
Hutchinson, whose day job is a freelance journalist, seems to be faster now than he was as a full timer: "I kind of retired a few years ago after the Commonwealth Games and started focusing on other things. I'm sort of doing what everybody else is doing, I'm just doing it faster. I think it's smarter training and better recovery and not being so hung up on it. I think not being full time is helping me because I'm less worried about it."
He has written a very readable book on his failed attempt at the hour record in 2003. Is he thinking of having another go at it? "Hah! Don't be bloody daft. I'm going well but the hour record is too much!"
Julia Shaw, women's winner
Like Hutchinson, Utag-Yamaha's Julia Shaw took her second title of the season. Shaw was a convincing winner of both Sunday's 25-mile title race and the 10-mile version a fortnight ago.
Shaw clocked 55:18 to win by almost two minutes from VC St Raphael ace Sarah Storey, while Lynne Taylor (Walsall Roads CC) was third, 2'43 behind.
"It was a better ride in a way than I did in the ten," said Shaw afterwards. "Because I didn't win the 25 last year I really wanted it this time.
"Everything went to plan – I was getting some positive time checks throughout, and finished trouble free. Over the last few miles I was wary of puncturing or cramping up, but it went to plan and I was pleased.
"It's a shame that Wendy [Houvenaghel] or Sharon [Laws] didn't ride which would've made it better, but it was still a good field. That would've given me a good gauge of my form, because I think it's improved along with the bike and my kit."
The juniors race was also a repeat of the national 10 two weeks ago. Joe Perrett (Glendene CC) clocked 53'07 to beat his clubmate Tom Yeatman by 1'09, with Jack Green third at 3'06.
The only junior women's competitor was Emily Davis, who clocked 1hr29'04 to win her event.
Joe Perrett, best junior
Williams wins Alf Jones Memorial 25
Elsewhere, there was a poignant end to the Chester Road Club's Alf Jones Memorial 25 in Shropshire on Sunday, following Dave Williams' victory on the Prees course.
Some of the riders and organisers went back out onto the course after the event and – in line with his wishes – scattered some of Mr Jones' ashes on the A41.
In the event, Wrexham Road Club rider Williams clocked 56:43 to win by 45 seconds from Alf Jones Cycles rider Mark Staden.
Wind and showers greeted the riders on an overcast day, with Williams also leading Wrexham to the team prize alongside clubmates Darren White and Luke Vallance who were joint eighth.
Royle breaks juvenile 10 record
Stockport-based youngster Alex Royle rode his way into the history books in East Yorkshire on Saturday when he broke the juvenile 10-mile competition record in the Yorkshire Cycling Federation event at South Cave.
Royle, the 15-year-old Coveryourcar.co.uk rider, sliced 17 seconds off the previous record, which was set by Ceri Pritchard in the year Royle was born, 1993.
He had shown great promise earlier in the week when he clocked 20:14 in the East Bradford CC event at Tadcaster to go to within one second of the record, but finally grabbed his place in the record books in Saturday's event.
He was just four seconds faster than senior rival Jason Young (City RC Hull), while Pedalsport team-mates Andy Jackson and Paul Kaye shared third spot, both having clocked 20:03.
Bason wins two in four days
Wrekinsport CC's Andy Bason secured his second victory in four days when he won the Mercia HBM CC 25-mile event at Fradley in Staffordshire on Sunday.
Bason won the event with a time of 54:36, a good time given the bad conditions which led to 21 riders choosing not to start. But many riders got away with staying dry, until a thunderstorm soaked some of the later riders.
Earlier in the week Bason had won the Oswestry Paragon's mid-week 10 by just nine seconds from Paramount CRT rival Dave Griffiths with his time of 21:19.
Road racing: Downing scores double in Rydale GP and Smithfield Nocturne
Russell Downing notched up another win in the Premier Calendar Road Race Series on Sunday, taking victory in the Ryedale Grand Prix in North Yorkshire to extend his lead in the season-long competition.
The Candi TV-Marshall's Pasta rider was content to sit in the bunch for much of the race as a break went clear virtually from the start of the 180-kilometre race.
But he attacked with a lap and a half of the course to go, catching the tiring leaders and sprinting to victory ahead of Burnley rival Ian Wilkinson, while Doncaster's Kevin Dawson (Sportscover) was third after being part of the break and holding on to claim a podium spot.
It was Downing's second win in 24 hours, having won the Smithfield Nocturne criterium in London on Saturday evening before driving north to take part in the Ryedale event.
|National 25-Mile Championship (Attleborough, Norfolk):
|1 Michael Hutchinson (In Gear-Quickvit RT)
|2 Chris Newton (Rapha Condor)
|3 Andrew Tennant (Halfords Bikehut)
|4 Matt Bottrill (I-Ride RT)
|5 Ben Instone (Scientific Coaching.com)
|6 John Tuckett (AW Cycles)
|7 Phill Sykes (VC St Raphael)
|8 Danny Axford (Arctic Premier RT)
|9 Pete Tadros (In Gear-Quickvit RT)
|10 Nik Bowdler (Farnborough & Camberley CC)
|Team: I-Ride RT (Matt Bottrill, Julian Ramsbottom, Geoff Platts)
|1 Julia Shaw (Utag Yamaha)
|2 Sarah Storey (VC St Raphael)
|3 Lynne Taylor (Walsall Roads CC)
|4 Ruth Eyles (Beacon Roads CC)
|5 Lynn Hamel (Team NCA)
|6 Michelle King (Wyre Forest CRC)
|1 Joe Perrett (Glendene CC)
|2 Tom Yeatman (Glendene CC)
|3 Jack Green (Westmead Team 88)
|Junior Women: Emily Davis (CC Breckland)
|Chester Road Club Alf Jones Memorial 25:
|1 Dave Williams (Wrexham RC)
|2 Mark Staden (Alf Jones Cycles)
|3 Alan Overson (VC Melyd)
|4 John Williamson (Warrington RC)
|5 Neil Higgins (Preston CC)
|6 Bryan Cliff (North Shropshire Wheelers)
|7 Tommy Murphy (Liverpool Century RC)
|8 Darren White (Wrexham RC)
|9 Luke Vallance (Wrexham RC)
|10 Craig Lawless (Wrexham RC)
|Team: Wrexham RC (David Williams, Darren White, Luke Vallance)
|Veterans on std: Jim Gresty (North Shropshire Wheelers)
|Women: Jill Hume (Port Sunlight Wheelers)
|Juniors: Ben Hastings (Chester RC)
|Yorkshire Cycling Federation 10 (South Cave, East Yorkshire):
|1 Alex Royle (Coveryourcar.co.uk)
|2 Jason Young (City RC Hull)
|3 Andy Jackson (Pedalsport CC)
|3 Paul Kaye (Pedalsport CC)
|5 Joel Wainman (Team Swift)
|6 Steve Gore-Brown (Team Swift)
|7 Steve Smales (Boneshakers)
|8 Doug Hart (Yorkshire Velo)
|9 Tony Nash (Scunthorpe Poly CC)
|10 Andy Askwith (Bridlington CC)
|Team: Team Swift (Joel Wainman, Steve Gore-Brown, Simon Beldon)
|Women: Trish Mellor (Holme Valley Wheelers)
|Women on handicap: Madeleine Smith (Otley CC)
|Handicap: Roy Connor (Seacroft Wheelers)
|Tandems: Mark and Elizabeth Johnson (Team Swift)
|Mercia HBC CC 25 (Fradley, Staffordshire):
|1 Andrew Bason (Wrekinsport CC)
|2 Nick Sparks (Sheffield Tri Club)
|3 Andrew Moore (Mammoth Lifestyle RT)
|4 Stuart Walker (Walsall Roads CC)
|5 Stefan Harrison (Stourbridge CC)
|6 Eddy Priddy (Solihull CC)
|7 Jason Evans (Hinckley CRC)
|8 Andrew Sparks (Hereford Wheelers)
|9 Michael Deamon (Hinckley CRC)
|10 Mark Wynn (Lyme RC)
|Handicap: Andrew Sparks
|Team: Hinckley CRC (Jason Evans, Michael Deamon, Dave Tedds)
|Tandems: Jeff Bowler & Dave Bates (South Pennine RC)
|Women: Lisa Jarvis (Stafford RC)


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Bands getting into fights with their fans
Or anyone really. I'm thinking Keef hitting that guy with his Telecaster, John Homme pushing that bloke off the stage. And now, a new one, with a righteous political theme:
Feel free to share any other incidents here, whether you've been there personally or otherwise.
Someone link to the vid of the Big Pink(?) singer
knocking out a heckler. That always gets some brilliantly black and white opinions going.
Which one? The singer or the heckler?
I love how strongly people feel about this either way.JaguarPirate this'd this
if anyone feels that guy is in the right
they're objectively a bellend in all walks of their lifeJaguarPirate this'd this
- Royter-Hatfood this'd this
This is exactly what i'm talking about.JaguarPirate, joeymahone, WhiteLightWhiteCity, no-class, PickledOeuf, rainmaker, and SCROTUM this'd this
- Kitchmo this'd this
that's what live music's all about really
no it isn't?calumlynn, badmanreturns, joeymahone, alcxxk, and Antelope this'd this
John Homme?
Bronhomme.IncaInk this'd this
You'd think I'd be used to typing that name out correctly.
j-ho yelling at that kid and calling him a faggot
was really ugly and 'orrible
lost a bit of respect for him after that
Eugene from Oxbow used to be notorious for this
He's toned it down a bit now though.
Another reason to love John Dwyer.
including fighting with himself:
GG Allin.
While I strongly anti-nazi
it does sound pretty full-on brutal what he did to that guy. I'd be surprised if he doesn't have a knock on his door from a couple of officers after that.
Jay Reatard
was always fighting people in the crowd wasn't he? I seem to remember a video of him kicking a lad in the face.
End of the video.
Fighting in Toronto with some dude during My Shadow
At 1.35 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzhCiEl4RK4
Promoter even gets in on the act at the 5min mark.
Maynard James Keenan from Tool
deals with stage invader pretty effectively...WhiteLightWhiteCity, Cementimental, Woodchuck, and Antelope this'd this
not quite a kicking
but isn't there a video of the drummer from million dead pulling a heckler out of the crowd and scaring the shit out of him?
There is!
If memory serves me right, the drummer dragged the offending youth onto the stage and said "lick this shit off my cymbal now" (or words to that effect) before he was kicked out by security. Anyone have a link?
that's the one!
it used to be on youtube but can't find the link now
Saw Evan Dando
Try to attack a guy in the audience after a solo gig in New Zealand. Suspect the guy had been heckling him, but still bit of an over-reaction.
Ha! I was there for that
Despite how ridiculous it sounds, it was genuinely ugly scenes as the hecklers mates and several Lemonheads fans did battle, with Dando flailing around in the middle.
not quite a fight but here's a video of Anthony Green (Circa Survive)
pushing a drunken fan off the stage
ejecting that dumb punk kid
calling tough guys ice cream eating motherfuckers
- Cementimental this'd this
- SCROTUM this'd this
Nothing like getting smashed over the head with a bass guitar
Kicks off abotu 2:30suedehead this'd this
- badmanreturns this'd this
James Dean Bradfield was apparently quite handy back in the day
I imagine hanging around Richey & Nicky in their 'wearing their aunties blouse' days could get quite interesting at times, there are a few stories around of people starting on one or the other and not realising that they had 5'5" of Welsh valleys nutter backing them up, Simon Price's book about the Manics mentions him once headbutting a guy clean off the stage who had made a beeline for Richey too.
Dude from Retox
laid into someone at their show at CAMP last year.NateWez this'd this
well let's not forget that karma got to the big pink
the 'creative' one left recently to concentrate on his own label so the little sucker punch one is now jobless
definitely because of that incident
rather than the mediocrity of their musiccalumlynn this'd this
I remember this purely because
it was referred to, in the US media at least, as 'Akon tossing off a fan'
Isaac Brock (Modest Mouse)
Not fighting the fan but trying to fight the security guard who was being heavy handed with fans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ComnfQQ7A4 you cant see much but you can hear an audible cheer at 26 seconds. He deserved it btw, he was being really rough with the crowd (I was at this gig)
There was a thread on here following a TODD gig at the Lexington that I went to,
Where a guy in the crowd was picked on at random and had his collarbone broken. It went beyond 'punk' into nasty.
Here it is.
There are a couple of posts missing from the band themselves - not sure why they've been deleted now though:
I asked the band at the time
on this, just because I asked them about it and they set me straight, they were genuinely mortified about the incident and had apologised profusely, they were/are very decent people. And, as the thread says, the long knife Craig used to brandish was indeed plastic.
Given I watched Craig Clause's other bank (Shit and Shine) be relentlessly torn into and interrupted by some little shit of a heckler one time, I think everyone at that show felt that would have been an acceptable time to smash that guy's face in, but Craig was amazingly restrained.
If I remember correctly,
the posts from the guy in the band were apologetic. I don't know why they were deleted though.
apparently this just happened..
nazis jump up to get beat down
sorry, i'm an idiot
next time i will read the ENTIRE original post.
What I have learnt from this thread
Is that it's alright to kick the shit out of your fans if you're in a cool band, but if you're in The Big Pink then that's shit not acceptable. Hmm.
Someone ended one of my sets by wrestling me to the ground in a large net
but they weren't a fan I guess so maybe doesn't count.
Don't ever throw a beer at Angus Young
He'll tweak you in the nose
That classic one where Kurt stage dives
and security gets heavy handed with him. He apparently supposedly didn't know it was him. Not sure how that could possibly happen...PinkyBrain this'd this


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Amsterdam. … With Italy eliminated from the WBC, Padres OF Chris
Denorfia will come back to camp on Friday or Saturday. Padres
manager Bud Black said he'll get a few days off afer playing so
much during the WBC. … Black expects CF Cameron Maybin (back) and
RF Will Venable (side) to play on Friday in one of two split-squad


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