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Most college basketball coaches must work to drum up fan interest in their programs. The Southeastern Conference has seen coaches wear plaid jackets or attend a women's game bare-chested. Former LSU coach Dale Brown was in a category all his own when it came to promotional stunts: a mascot descending a rope from the ceiling, Mike the Tiger caged (thankfully) and wheeled around the court, references to Hitler, the Kremlin and masturbation.
Then there's Kentucky Coach John Calipari.
Before speaking at the annual UK Basketball Tip-Off Dinner in Louisville on Thursday, Calipari noted the enviable position he's in.
"We're all striving for this," he said of the bottomless well of fan interest in UK basketball. "Every coach in college basketball wants this environment."
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As Memphis coach, Calipari's duties included selling 3,000 to 5,000 tickets to help fill the arena each year. "You had to," he said. "You had no choice."
As Kentucky coach, Calipari has athletic staffers who do much of the non-coaching chores.
Yet, the UK job places plenty of demands on its coach.
"It's like a coat," Calipari said as the minds of listeners no doubt conjured constrictive winter wear. "It's 24/7. You're at another school, when it's the off-season, there is an off-season.
"I'm aging right before my eyes. I see lines and gray hair I never had before."
Not that Calipari was complaining. He's traveled the state again this season. As the Tip-Off Dinner ended, he volunteered to sign copies of his book, Bounce Back, or any one alternative item. But only one. "I want to get home to my wife before midnight," he said before what became a long line of fans began stretching across the Louisville International Convention Center ballroom.
Earlier in the week, Michigan State football coach Mark Dantonio suffered a heart attack after his team beat Notre Dame. This led a reporter to ask Calipari how he handled the stresses associated with his job.
Calipari turned to David Scott, his Tonto of the Internet, and asked, "Should I get into my faith?"
Scott, who tweets for the UK coach and runs his Coachcal.com Web site, frowned and shook his head from side to side.
"Don't do it, huh?" Calipari said before adding, "I exercise. I spend time with myself in the morning. I'm spending a lot of time with my wife right now."
But Calipari, who said he attends Mass each morning, will not slow his pace.
"My mind races," he said. "I'm one of those people. My mind is always racing."
Krebs writes book
Former UK player Mark Krebs has written a book titled Beyond A Dream. The book, which will be in bookstores Friday, chronicles the adversity he and his family faced the last few years.
Most poignantly, his mother, Terri, battled breast cancer, undergoing 390 chemo treatments and seven surgeries before dying on June 30.
UK Coach John Calipari called within a half-hour after Krebs' mother died. The former UK player also heard from former UK coach Billy Gillispie, each of Gillispie's assistant UK coaches here and various athletic department personnel.
"Even though she passed away, (the book is about) how much she taught me," Krebs said. "Pretty much my mom's and my stories go down parallel lines. I fed off her to get to Kentucky. She fed off us to live and fight through all the chemo."
Krebs' basketball adversity included summoning the courage to try to walk on the UK team. After making it, he played for three coaches in four years.
His mother's cancer diagnosis meant a financial burden as well as an emotional blow. How would the family fund her treatment? How could Krebs pay his way to college?
"Within three months, my whole life turned upside down," Krebs said.
To help others facing soul-shaking difficulties, the former UK player set up the Terri Krebs Dream Foundation.
As for the book, family friend James Gerner put the idea of a book in Krebs' head.
Krebs put off beginning a working career.
"I think I'm in that position now to help people out on a direct level," he said. "There are very few times in people's lives to make a difference."
Krebs acknowledged how much he misses the basketball atmosphere.
"I'm busy," he said, "but it's not the same as far as that type of brotherhood. The team unity is what I miss."
Jeter cheater?
John Adams, the supervisor of referees for college basketball, happened to watch Derek Jeter fake being hit by a pitch and getting awarded first base. He was not amused.
"It's possible to fool every now and then," Adams said when asked to put the Jeter ploy in a basketball context. "I don't think it's very smart for the player who fooled the ref to tell everybody he did it."
Why was that not a smart thing to do?
"Jeter's going to see those umpires again," Adams said.
Asked after the game, Jeter was asked where the ball had hit him. He smiled and said, "The bat."
Jeter saw no alternative to pretending to be hit by the pitch.
"What can I do?" he said. "My job is to get on. (Umpire Lance Barksdale) said it hit me."
Adams suggested the "let-sleeping-dogs-lie theory" was Jeter's best course of action.
"Refs are going to miss plays as long as sports go on," Adams said. "It happens so fast and your mind doesn't process information fast enough." UK basketball has had instances of miscarriages of justice. Replacing the player fouled with a better free-throw shooter has worked against the Cats (see: Tennessee, Ernie Grunfeld) and for the Cats (see: Travis Ford directing Jared Prickett to the line at Vanderbilt).
Then-UK coach Rick Pitino was not amused. He reprimanded the guilty players and said the switcheroo was beyond so-called gamesmanship.
"That's the way I'd expect him to handle it," Adams said. "He's upfront about everything. I know he had nothing to do with it."
As for players who try to influence calls by flopping or pointing to suggest their team should be awarded possession, Adams said, "That's part of the game. It's up to us to stay on top of the game and get it right."
When asked recently what people were major influences in his life, C.M. Newton first mentioned his father, who overcame alcoholism. He also cited his high school coach.
Then he named Adolph Rupp.
"I came to Kentucky wanting to study veterinary medicine," Newton said. "I grew up on a farm."
After signing up for zoology, biology and other "ologies" as an incoming freshman, Newton took his schedule to assistant coach Harry Lancaster for approval. Lancaster suggested Newton speak with Rupp.
Rupp took a look at the schedule and said, "Hell, Newton, we didn't get you here to be a student. We brought you here to play basketball."
Newton became a physical education major.
Political science
During an appearance at the Kentucky Association of Basketball Coaches last weekend, Bobby Keith recalled leading Clay County in the state finals.
Keith gave instructions to star guard Richie Farmer late in a close game. "Call a color to (tell teammates) to clear the right side," Keith told Farmer. "Call a fruit to clear the left side."
Farmer called orange."Why did you call orange?" Keith asked.
"I wanted both wings clear," Farmer said.
Recalling this exchange, Keith said, "That's why he'll be the next lieutenant governor."
'Average fan'
Loyola Marymount Coach Max Good enjoyed speaking to the KABC audience.
"Only coaches understand other coaches," he said. "I hate to talk basketball with anyone other than a coach. The average fan will blame the players, blame the coach and 30 minutes after the game half of them can't find their car."
ESPN picked Kentucky as one of the sites to showcase on its Midnight Madness show on Oct. 15. So how does the network decide which Madness festivities to attend?
"ESPN has many variables that factor into who we pick for the Midnight Madness event," senior publicist Rachel Margolis wrote in an e-mail. "It is a combination of strong story lines and big stories of teams that are expected to do well, mixed with great environments.
"We like to try and mix geographical locations as well."
Free speech?
Earlier this month, Mississippi State Coach Rick Stansbury made SEC history. He became the league's first basketball coach to pay a fine imposed for publicly making critical comments about the officiating.
He — correctly — noted that the referees missed a violation by UK's John Wall. Wall broke too soon into the lane to try to rebound Eric Bledsoe's intentionally missed free throw in the final seconds. DeMarcus Cousins scored at the buzzer to send the game into overtime. Kentucky won in OT.
Poof went a victory in the SEC Tournament finals and Mississippi State's only chance at an NCAA Tournament bid.
That the missed call came three weeks after another UK overtime victory over State spiced with curious officiating led Stansbury to speak his mind.
The Mississippi State coach's exercise in free speech led SEC Commissioner Mike Slive to levy a $30,000 fine.
When asked to comment on paying the fine, Stansbury declined.
"I've said enough already," he said.
Happy birthday
To former UK wing Rodrick Rhodes. He turned 37 on Friday.
Has any player had a more interesting UK career than Rhodes? It started in unprecedented fashion. As a top-five national prospect, he and his family were in position to ask Rick Pitino to publicly declare his intention to remain UK coach before making a commitment.
It ended with his transfer to Southern California as a senior, which coincidentally or not freed up a scholarship for Ron Mercer and sparked wisecracks about Pitino working the waiver wire.
Those bookends bracketed a three-year UK career that saw Rhodes score 1,209 points, exasperate and excite Pitino and suffer an emotional meltdown after missing two free throws in the final seconds against Arkansas in the SEC Tournament.
"A great experience, good and bad," Rhodes said last week. "I wouldn't change it. My past was my past. ... I'm not a guy who lives with regret."
After playing in the NBA, Rhodes became a coach. He worked in the UMass office for former UK teammate Travis Ford and at Seton Hall. That led to an assistant coaching job at Idaho State. Now he works as an assistant coach at Texas-Pan American.
"It was my passion," he said of becoming a coach. "I played basketball all my life. The transition was easy. It was a way to give back."
Rhodes seeks to have an impact on players like Pitino, his high school coach Bob Hurley and Houston Rockets Coach Rudy Tomjanovich had on him. He wants to help his players be better athletically and as people.
One question hit him like a blind pick: How would Rodrick Rhodes the coach view Rodrick Rhodes the player?
"That's a loaded question," he said after a long pause. "It's a great question."
Perhaps it was the telephone call from Lexington or the reflection that comes with a birthday, but something made Rhodes think of his Kentucky days. He suggested a sportswriter (blush) be more conscious of the feelings of UK players when writing stories.
"These are kids," he said. "You have a lot of power in your hand with that pen. And it's sharp."
Rhodes has two daughters: Rodiera, 14, and Ravin, 11.


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D.C. UNITED vs TORONTO FC
RFK MEMORIAL STADIUM, Washington, D.C.
July 30, 2014 (WEEK 21, MLS Game #189)
7 p.m. ET (CSN-MA; SNet One)
D.C. United and Toronto FC meet for the third time this season in a crucial clash for both clubs in the Eastern Conference when they face off Wednesday evening at RFK Memorial Stadium. United have won three games in a row following a 3-1 home defeat of Chivas USA in their last league match. D.C. sits in second place in the division, eight points ahead of third-place TFC, who come off a 2-1 loss to Sporting Kansas City at BMO Field over the weekend. The teams have split their first two encounters this year, both played in Toronto.
REFEREE: Chris Penso. AR1 (bench): Corey Parker; AR2 (opposite): Matthew Nelson; 4th: Kevin Terry Jr.
MLS Career: 54 games; FC/gm: 23.3; Y/gm: 3.1; R: 16; pens: 18
SUSPENDED: TOR: Doneil Henry (caution accumulation; through July 30)
SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: DC: Perry Kitchen … TOR: Jackson
SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: DC: Fabian Espindola, Lewis Neal … TOR: Steven Caldwell, Justin Morrow, Dominic Oduro, Michael Bradley
DISABLED LIST: none
INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: none
ALL-TIME (20 meetings): United 11 wins, 37 goals … Toronto FC 6 wins, 27 goals … Ties 3
AT RFK STADIUM (9 meetings): United 4 wins, 24 goals … Toronto FC 2 wins, 17 goals … Ties 3
3/22: TOR 1, DC 0 (Defoe 60)
7/5: TOR 1, DC 2 (Moore 60 – DeLeon 54; Kitchen 69)
- The teams are meeting for the third time this season, each winning once previously. Nick DeLeon and Perry Kitchen scored second-half goals to lead United to a 2-1 win at BMO Field; on March 22, TFC's Jermain Defoe scored the game's only goal on the hour mark also at BMO Field.
- TFC gained a win and a draw on their two trips to RFK Stadium last year, the victory just the club's second all-time vs. United (first since 2010).
- TFC had a two-game winning streak at BMO Field in the series ended in the last meeting. Toronto FC had gone more than four seasons, from 2009-2013, without a home win vs. United.
- Coaches record: Ryan Nelsen vs. DC: P5 W3 L1 D1 … Ben Olsen vs. TOR: P12 W6 L4 D2
- United took the lead in the 54th minute. Nick DeLeon collected the ball on the right touchline, raced forward into the penalty area and after cutting back to put a defender to ground, curled a right-footed shot past TFC goalkeeper Joe Bendik.
- But TFC were level six minutes later. Jermain Defoe saw his shot from inside the area parried by United goalkeeper Bill Hamid, and Luke Moore was able to slide in and reach the ball first to push the rebound home for the equalizer.
- Yet United took the lead for good in the 69th minute. Substitute Lewis Neal swung in a corner from the right and Perry Kitchen carved out space to head home with ease for the eventual game-winner.
- TORONTO FC (4-4-2): Joseph Bendik - Mark Bloom, Nick Hagglund (ejected 88), Steven Caldwell, Justin Morrow - Bradley Orr (Dominic Oduro 46), Collen Warner, Michael Bradley (Jonathan Osorio 61), Jackson (Daniel Lovitz 77) - Luke Moore, Jermain Defoe.
- D.C. UNITED (4-4-2): Bill Hamid - Sean Franklin, Bobby Boswell, Steve Birnbaum, Chris Korb - Nick DeLeon (Conor Doyle 79), Perry Kitchen, Davy Arnaud, Chris Rolfe (Collin Martin 84) - Luis Silva (Lewis Neal 62), Eddie Johnson.
D.C. United collected their third victory on the trot, defeating Chivas USA 3-1 on July 20 at RFK Memorial Stadium. United are now in second place in the Eastern Conference with 34 points from 19 games.
- United were gifted the opener in the 25th minute. United's Chris Rolfe was awkwardly taken down by Oswaldo Minda at the top of the box, and referee Fotis Bazakos pointed to the spot without hesitation. Eddie Johnson smashed the ensuing penalty to goalkeeper Dan Kennedy's right for the opener.
- In the 59th minute, United doubled their lead on a restart. Rolfe struck a bending ball into the area from 30 yards out which Johnson coolly nodded into the path of an onrushing Perry Kitchen, who laced his effort low and toward the near post, leaving Kennedy no chance.
- Eleven minutes later it was 3-0 to United. Fullback Chris Korb played in Luis Silva on the left side of the box, and he opened himself up before putting a curling effort struck across the face of goal and into the far side netting to finish off a 14-pass movement.
- Chivas USA pulled a goal back six minutes from time after United center back Steve Birnbaum brought down midfielder Mauro Rosales in the box. Erick Torres calmly converted the ensuing penalty, his sixth consecutive game with a goal, but that was the last stand for the visitors.
- United head coach Ben Olsen made no changes to his team for a third consecutive match, keeping the group that defeated the San Jose Earthquakes 2-1 at Buck Shaw Stadium
- D.C. UNITED (4-4-1-1): Bill Hamid - Sean Franklin, Bobby Boswell, Steve Birnbaum, Chris Korb - Nick DeLeon, Perry Kitchen, Davy Arnaud (Jared Jeffrey 84), Chris Rolfe (Lewis Neal 67) - Luis Silva (Conor Doyle 74) - Eddie Johnson.
- D.C. United won their third game in a row with the victory against Chivas USA. United last won three games in a row from Sept. 15-23, 2012.
- Eddie Johnson scored a goal for a second consecutive game – both by penalty kick ñ netting vs. Chivas USA. Johnson played the full 90 minutes for the third time in the last four league matches.
- "In a lot of ways he's as good as it gets in this league. He has an ability to score, hold the ball up, he's technically sound, has good pace. He's as well rounded a forward as you can get in this league and now it's nice to see him touch the net a little bit," said Olsen. "He does a lot of scoring in the summer traditionally, and we hope the goals keep coming. I thought he's worked as hard as he's ever worked on the defensive end for us. Part of that's scoring goals, you score goals and you're a little bit more energized as a forward."
- Said Johnson: "I feel like the team and I, we're just getting familiar with our understanding on the field. I feel like it has been frustrating, now I'm trying to create that understanding and those partnerships on the field. ... You go one, two, three, four, five games without scoring and you start to put a lot more pressure on yourself. Once the World Cup was behind me, I've been really focused on my teammates and really trying to create something special."
- Luis Silva also scored for a second consecutive game. He now has five goals for the season, matching his single-season career-high recorded in 2012 with Toronto FC. All five goals have come in United's last five contests.
- Chris Rolfe recorded an assist for a second consecutive game and now has five for the season. "I thought we exploited them in a lot of different areas, wide, especially. … I thought Silva was good, Rolfe really was trouble for them inside and then our outside backs really gave them a host of trouble," Olsen said
- Perry Kitchen scored his second goal in the last three matches. "He's always been a force on the set piece stuff and he anticipates the second run very well. It's great, in a season you need that if you want to make playoffs," said Olsen. "You need contributions from guys other than Fabian, Eddie, Rolfe and DeLeon. Davy [Arnaud] needs to chip in a couple, you need backs to chip in, but Perry's proven he can help us out with that stuff."
- Goalkeeper Bill Hamid made his 101st career league appearance, the first Homegrown Player in MLS history to reach the century mark in appearances.
- "I just gained a lot of experience, just settled down in the goal and learned how to keep my head and learned how to organize. I just feel like I'm getting better game by game and I want to prove it to everybody and help my team do the best that we can," Hamid said.
- Said Olsen: "It's very rewarding for those of us that have been around to watch a guy like Bill Hamid grow from being a young kid to learning to be a pro. I know it means a lot for him to be on the All-Star team. You could see it when we told him, and he certainly deserves it."
- On Saturday, D.C. United fell 3-0 to English side Fulham FC in a friendly played in Jacksonville, Fla. Here's United's team: Dykstra (Hamid 52'); Kemp, Shanosky, Boswell (Birnbaum 52'); Porter, Jeffrey, Martin, Neal, Caskey; Seaton, Doyle
Toronto FC had their undefeated run put to an end after three games, falling 2-1 to Sporting Kansas City on Saturday evening at BMO Field. TFC sit in a tie for third place in the Eastern Conference, with 26 points from 18 matches.
- The home side took the lead in the 16th minute. Dominic Oduro took a lovely first touch out of the air past a defender, then slipped a through ball to find Jackson rushing into the box, and he rounded SKC 'keeper Andy Gruenebaum before slotting home with ease.
- But Sporting drew even just three minutes after the halftime break. After a scramble in the area saw the ball squirt out to the edge of the area, Graham Zusi latched onto it and curled the ball into an open net for the equalizer.
- TFC were given a big leg up in the 75th minute when Oduro burst past KC defender Matt Besler and forced him into making a foul, one that saw the defender pick up his second yellow card of the night from referee Ted Unkel.
- But SKC overcame the disadvantage to find the winner. A poor clearance attempt landed at the foot of Jacob Peterson, and he slotted home for the winner in the 80th minute.
- TFC head coach Ryan Nelsen made one changes to the team that came back for a 2-2 draw with the Houston Dynamo at BBVA Compass Stadium. Jackson came into the midfield in place of Jonathan Osorio.
- TORONTO FC (4-4-2): Joseph Bendik - Nick Hagglund, Bradley Orr (Dwayne De Rosario 82), Doneil Henry, Justin Morrow - Dominic Oduro, Collen Warner (Jonathan Osorio 80), Michael Bradley, Jackson - Luke Moore, Gilberto.
- The loss to Sporting KC concluded a run of four games out of five for Toronto FC at BMO Field ñ where they took just four of a possible 12 points. The trip to D.C. United now starts a run of four consecutive away matches for TFC.
- "I suppose in one way we can look at it, in where we have come from, for Toronto and the fans, the reigning champs come in here and it was a performance that was extremely good," said TFC head coach Ryan Nelsen. "Unfortunately two very soft goals."
- Said Michael Bradley: "It was a big game for us as we certainly had this one circled on our calendars. Knowing that we have games in hand and getting the best team in the conference, maybe in the whole league, at our home ground is a big chance to come away with a good win and make some ground up and set the tone for the second half of the season."
- Dominic Oduro has two goals and three assists in eight games for Toronto FC since coming to the club from Columbus at the beginning of June. He set up the lone TFC goal in the Sporting KC loss, making a second consecutive start.
- "We haven't got our balance right yet in that midfield and we were missing a couple of key players," Nelsen said. "But the balance wasn't right in those two goals, we were spectators, we were waiting for somebody to do their job. That was unfortunate."
- Dwayne De Rosario came on as a substitute for the final eight minutes, just his fifth substitute appearance (totaling 41 minutes), since his last MLS starts, which came April 5-12.
- "We got a good team, and it's hard to get into that team. And as you saw that front four, the two strikers and the wide guys, you can see why. I thought Dominic Oduro was absolutely brilliant," Nelsen said.
- Jackson scored his third goal of the season, his last one coming July 2. Each of his three goals have been the lone goal of the game scored by TFC (1-1 vs. Chicago on July 2; 1-2 vs. New England on May 3). Jackson has scored three goals or more in each of his last four seasons in MLS.
- "The strikers were dangerous, out wide, Jackson had a great goal and he was dangerous as well," said Nelsen. "So it's a tough team to get into not only for Dwayne [De Rosario], but for Andy Wiedeman and for all these guys. So they just got to keep going and working hard."

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Sunday, May 2, 2010
Enlightenment is the absence of the seeker
In spirituality we are focused on the experiences, reaching or achieving a special state, some rare experience. To achieve this goal we feel we must manipulate the world, the body or mind. This common belief is exactly the wrong direction.
THAT you are here and aware is the realization. So-called liberation isn't getting something new. It's a seeing-through of the very idea of the individual - that individual is itself bondage, limitation. It's noticing that the individual or sense of individual self is an idea, a thought, a story, a feeling, an objective experience.
You remain, as always, present and aware - aware of that experience - that experience of limited self. The experienc-er is limitless, because it isn't definable. It has no structure, no image, no quality other than it is obviously whole, complete and perfect already. It requires no manipulation. It is not in need of improvement to reach some pie-in-the-sky state of enlightenment.
That aware presence or presence-awareness IS itself the enlightenment which is sought after. And it's discovery isn't in the pursuit - it's found in the absence of pursuit or seeking.
It's found in the absence of the SEEKER. In fact, it's already here. Enlightenment isn't in need of finding. Looking for it creates the seeker.
And even that is perfect.
9 comments:
- No One In Particular said...
Straight, direct, simple and to the point.
- May 2, 2010 at 2:10 AM
- mellowg said...
I assume you mean enlightenment is the absence of the idea that there is a seeker. Otherwise you're saying we're all enlightened. And, after all, if a word applies to everything then what's the point of having a word for it?
- May 2, 2010 at 7:15 AM
- Josef said...
Thanks so much for your postings. One question occurs: A few weeks ago I had an accident. And there was much pain. And nothing helped. It was not possible to rest in the aware presence and to take refuge there. I mean, there is no seperation between presence and pain. So who could rest in awareness anyway. The presence was pain. Surely, somehow there was a knowing, that this is the dream happening. But the dream is awareness. And this knowing did not help to lessen the pain. Thoughts like: "There is no me who suffers" don´t help. The only help was the doctor, who gave me anesthesia. Could you say anything about that? Warm regards Josef
- May 2, 2010 at 9:19 AM
- Randall Friend said...
There is no point. That's the point. Enlightenment is an unnecessary concept. What is being sought after is already the case. Enlightenment or liberation can only apply to an individual.
- May 2, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- Randall Friend said...
Is pain and awareness of pain two things?
- May 2, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- Josef said...
Hello Randall:
No, no seperation. Its like the sound of a car and the hearing of the car. No difference. It is only imagination, only in thougt, that there is someone or something that hears the car, which is seperate vom the "car-sound". There is only the sound. Only the pain.
so, what? Do you mean, that there is no escape from pain in the body? I thougt or hoped, that it is possible to escape from pain. But who should escape?
- May 2, 2010 at 4:26 PM
- Josef said...
It is realy that simple, isn´t it? Without thinking about enlightment, or nonduality, or anything else, there is no seperation. There is something, but it can´t be named, because thougt can´t describe that, which is before thougt. It was only imagination, that "I" won´t have to feel pain in the body, when I am enlightend. Pain in the body will still arise. But pain is also only a word for this special sensation in the body, what you call raw data. And more precise, the pain is not in the imagined body. The pain appears in and as consciousness. Perhaps pain culd be hould with less suffering, when the story about the pain fades away - for no one. But there is no one here, who could accelerate or slow down that.
- May 2, 2010 at 4:44 PM
- Randall Friend said...
Pain is a thought. Be with pain without applying any condition. Listen to pain, so to speak. In this unconditional listening, pain reveals itself as it is. And the concept is allowed to surface, to come into the daylight and be seen for what it is.
Even the body is merely a thought, a way of thinking. In reality there is no body but a bundle of passing sensations which have been given a story. It is this story which receives the attention, which is the foundation for the additional story of pain.
There is nothing wrong with pain. So-called realization doesn't make pain go away for the individual. That is a bullshit story.
See once and for all what the body and pain really are. Pain doesn't go away but it is no longer an actuality. In other words, pain still exists yet it no longer exists...
Can you see the difference?
- May 2, 2010 at 8:12 PM
- Josef said...
Thank you so much for your guidance, Randall!
The accident has happend a few weeks ago, so that the injury has healed in the meantime. That is why pain is no actual experience now.
Nevertheless I feel what you mean. And what you have said to me especially about pain in the body is contractible for all other so called "problems".
Currently I read your latest entries on the UGC. You said:
"Nothing is required means – nothing is required. Not even remembering – not even some mental understanding of nonduality. You already ARE what you are seeking."
Wonderful. No questions left after reading that. Every question is false and is already imagination. Instead of that there is a feeling of peace and ease now.
Thank you!
Warm regards
- May 3, 2010 at 3:54 PM


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Over the years I have tried so many makes of brushes especially when travelling and living abroad. The bottom line is I adore sable. And only the best which to me has to be Kolinsky.
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They could sell for more but my goal is to allow artists who know me to use the same brushes as I use but at a reasonable price. For this reason my favourite brush sizes are now available as a set at only £39 .50 per pair as an introductory offer. Everyone who has attended my workshops and demonsrations will know how much I love my brushes and I love using these. You can see them in my new DVD which will be out in April this year and watch how I enjoy working with them.
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As you grow and understand the world a little better, I think all of us have those fleeting thoughts about what kind of parents we want to be. The first thought on this subject usually is "I will not do that to my child", and then in your twenties it becomes, "This is something I want to do with my child". I want to be a mother some day and this is something I've known for sometime now and occasionally I allow myself to indulge in thoughts about how I want to raise my children. One of these thoughts is about the all important conversation around sex.
As an Indian girl I've received the talk on "Why I shouldn't get pregnant before marriage", as I'm sure many Indian girls have. (It bothers me that my brother has never received the version for boys, i.e., "Why you should not get a girl pregnant before marriage".) It's a warped way of talking about sex in India. You know they don't say it outright so this is a way around having to actually say "sex". Anyway, the reason I shouldn't get pregnant before my marriage, as per my mother is, because what will my dad tell people? What will be our social standing then? My dad will be so devastated that he may just end his life. I'm sure these reasons are important to them and it may stem from some past primary and/or secondary experiences. Now I will in turn tell my daughter (I hope I'm lucky enough to have one) that she shouldn't be an unmarried mother. But my method will be slightly different.
Here's a conversation I hope to have with my daughter one day when she's 18 years old:
"As difficult as it is to think of you as an adult, I have to accept the fact that you are independent and can make sound decisions on your own now. Including decisions about sex. However, as someone who wishes the best for you and is wiser than you, I want to give you some advice.
Be safe. First and foremost, be safe. Your safety is not something you should ever compromise. Not even if you're madly in love with him/her. Health is your everything. Do not ever think otherwise.
Make sure you know why you're doing it with this person. The first time is special. Not so much because it's with someone you love; it rarely is. It's special because this is the first time you're letting someone get so so very close to you and it's intimidating to share this intimate moment with someone. Some girls regret how their first time went while some don't. Make sure you are in the latter group. I don't want you to feel like you have to do it to please someone else. Do it only because you want to. I don't want you to feel pressured into doing anything sexual that you're not comfortable with. Stand up to the person and say NO. It's okay to say NO to the person you think you love. Just be aware of yourself, your desires, your reservations, and your feelings for the other person.
Don't get pregnant while you're still figuring out life. You're not emotionally there yet to raise a child. Being a mother is difficult. It's beautiful but comes with immense responsibility. You will be responsible for another human being's safety, education, health, character, existence. At this point in your life, you yourself have not fully taken responsibility of yourself. You're financially not in a position to support someone else and having kids is expensive. You have to be financially secure to feel that you can raise a child well. When you're in college or have just graduated, you're earnings are minimum. You can't do justice to yourself or your child. Soon you'll find yourself working multiple jobs just to put food on the table and a roof over your heads. As if being a mother wasn't exhausting enough. Some women who become mothers while they are teenagers go through a phase when they wonder what would have happened if they didn't get pregnant and pursued their career instead. I NEVER want you to wonder about an alternate scenario where you aren't a mother. Take time to build your career; you need it. And you will see that by showing your kids your passion for your career you are teaching them a valuable life lesson. Your grandparents worked very hard for a very long time to go from having nothing to having a lot just so that that my brother and I would feel empowered to dream big. Ensure that you give your child the best of yourself. And you can do that only when you become the best that you can be.
The other thing about getting pregnant at a young age is the horrible decision you have to make between giving birth and abortion. I think a part of me will die if my daughter had to decide between life and death for her child.
So that's why I don't want you to get pregnant while you're still so young.
Live life to the fullest and in a way that you will not regret later. At every point ask yourself if this is something you absolutely want to do and if you will be happier after that. Be safe and remember that your parents will always be by your side when you need us. Unless you murdered someone."


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Patients with endometrial (womb), cervical and ovarian cancers can be cared for at The Clatterbridge Clinic.
Endometrial cancer is often treated with a hysterectomy. Following surgery further treatment with radiotherapy, or sometimes chemotherapy, may be recommended.
Radiotherapy consists of external beam radiotherapy and may be followed by internal radiotherapy known as brachytherapy. For patients with low risk endometrial cancer, brachytherapy may be the only radiotherapy required.
Cervical cancer may be treated by hysterectomy or radiotherapy or a combination of both. Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) may be used to spare adjacent healthy tissue from side effects, especially the small bowel which can be sensitive to radiation.
Ovarian cancer is often treated with surgery to remove the uterus (womb), ovaries and any areas of cancer seen within the abdomen and pelvis. Chemotherapy is then usually used to delay or prevent the cancer returning after the operation.
Primary peritoneal cancer behaves like ovarian cancer but arises from the thin membrane that lines the abdominal cavity and its internal organs. It is treated in exactly the same way as ovarian cancer.
A whole spectrum of chemotherapy drugs for ovarian cancer are available at The Clatterbridge Clinic, as well as modern targeted therapies such as bevacizumab (Avastin™).


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Hope Psychological Services recognizes the complex needs of the whole person: physical, emotional, intellectual, relational, and spiritual. Those who experience difficulty in any of those areas of life can often be helped by well-trained and sensitive counselors. Our goal is to help people find wholeness in their lives, maximize their potential, and eliminate barriers to growth. Hope Psychological Services provides you the opportunity to be part of a team of mental health professionals, a strong and trusted referral network that has grown beyond the Greater Boston area, and to integrate your Christian faith with your clinical training.
Currently the practice serves primarily adults, adolescents and couples. As we are interested in broadening our scope of practice to work with children, this would be desired but not required. If you are interested in exploring employment with Hope Psychological Services please contact Dr. Chuck Slagen by phone, email or send a copy of your resume or curriculum vita to the address below.
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From The Sublimated To The Ridiculous
When you find yourself absorbed by some thing no longer do you control the musculature. The first real gun I ever saw close up was on a table in a Taco Bell during my first US tour. It belonged to a cop enjoying a mondo-sized cup of breakfast coffee. Scary and fascinating. He occasionally toyed with it, the pistol, holding it up to the light to lovingly caress its glistening muzzle, before finally returning it to its reassuring dark brown leather holster.
You can easily see why they are considered as potent phallic symbols. And yet in notable countries like the USA, along with others such as the Philippines, Indonesia, or Afghanistan, firearms have become so culturally embedded a curious reversal has occurred. The phalli have now themselves become gun symbols.
So you get guys holding their cocks, visualising. Sex is a trigger-happy sport. Uzi drive-bys. Nuthing But A G Thang. Dirty Harry shoot-out fantasy with a Magnum. Do you feel lucky, punk? A John Woo Mexican stand-off. Bang, bang, bang. Pissing is an exercise in target practice. Take aim, fire. A warm penis is an AK-47.
The tipping point between genital symbol and genital substitute is reached at a moment of sheer ubiquity (thanks to technological and cultural changes), or at the forming of a particularly close personal attachment, one which provides greater pleasure or succour. And the phenomenon appears the same for other objects such as guitars and mobile phones (the latter being the preferred choice of clitoral replacement).
Later on the aforementioned tour, in Colorado, I actually got to fire a .44 Special when taken out to the mountains by our host. The weapon was hastily wrested back after I popped a couple of frighteningly wayward rounds at a nearby tin can. The recoil nearly broke my wrist. And that was that.
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31 March 2016
Saving for your pension: what are the tax advantages?
In Belgium, the authorities want to encourage citizens to save towards their pensions on an individual basis.
That is why you can benefit from tax advantages linked to different pension savings options, such as the pension savings fund, pension savings insurance or long-term savings.
What are the tax advantages for me?
Specifically, 30% of your yearly contributions to your pension savings plan is refunded to you through a reduction in your tax*. If you have saved 500 euros in a year, you will receive a reduction in your tax of 150 euros. You can deposit up to a maximum of 940 euros per year in your savings plan for a maximum tax saving of 282 euros. The amount of this tax saving is deducted from the amount of tax you have to pay.
If you do not pay tax, you do not therefore benefit from this reduction. Similarly, your tax reduction cannot exceed the amount of the taxes for which you are liable: if the tax relief from your pension savings amounts to 282 euros and you only pay 200 euros in tax, logically your tax reduction cannot exceed this amount of 200 euros.
Your tax relief is subject to several conditions, for example:
- Age: you must be at least 18 and under 65 when you take out your plan.
- Term: the minimum term for your plan is 10 years.
- Income: you must have a regular, taxable income.
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STEM 5th Grade teacher Craig Parsley recommends all parents/guardians of STEM students watch this video of Singapore Math in action. It shows Craig teaching at his former school, Schmitz Park Elementary. Schmitz Park was the first school in the Seattle School District to adopt Singapore Math.
You may want to read the following articles from Seattle Times Editorial Columnist Bruce Ramsey first, as they provide some background to the video.
The Secret of Schmitz Park Elementary School is Singapore Math 2/16/10


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Winston,Winston wrote:Yeah but they are getting laid with ugly hags that I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.
Come here. Let me take you to the night market with hundreds of hot girls with sexy legs. Let's see YOU approach any of them and try to breach their cold wall. I'll give you $200 if you can do it.
If you can't do it, then my point is proven.
So far, everyone has failed or been too scared. The cold wall is REAL. I am 100000000000 percent sure of it. And it makes approaching/flirting with them very uncomfortable.
Just for the heck of it, I've decided to take you up on your night market challenge. First I should verify: when you say $200, you're talking about US dollars, right? Because I don't think anyone's going to bother trying if it's 200NT (~$6).
Also, I'm a bit surprised that Taiwan heavyweights like Rock or even Monkro haven't taken you up on this. Rock has probably dated hundreds of Taiwanese girls over the years, and bedded a fair proportion of those. As for Monkro, he seems to be a veritable pickup machine, if Rock's reports are anything to go by.
Then there's plain old me. Nothing to write home about, no specialized Taiwan knowledge, not even a handsome guy. But something about your challenge speaks to me, so what the heck, YOLO.
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Few things come as naturally to Harper as epic mistakes. In the past year she was kicked off the swim team, earned a reputation as Carson High's easiest hook-up, and officially became the black sheep of her family. But her worst mistake was destroying her relationship with her best friend, Declan.
Now, after two semesters of silence, Declan is home from boarding school for the summer. Everything about him is different—he's taller, stronger…more handsome. Harper has changed, too, especially in the wake of her mom's cancer diagnosis.
While Declan wants nothing to do with Harper, he's still Declan, her Declan, and the only person she wants to talk to about what's really going on. But he's also the one person she's lost the right to seek comfort from.
As their mutual friends and shared histories draw them together again, Harper and Declan must decide which parts of their past are still salvageable, and which parts they'll have to let go of once and for all.
In this honest and affecting tale of friendship and first love, Emily Martin brings to vivid life the trials and struggles of high school and the ability to learn from past mistakes over the course of one steamy North Carolina summer.
Emily Martin grew up in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. She attended graduate school in North Carolina, where she fell in love with sweet potato pancakes, deep fried pickles, and the boy who later became her husband. Emily now lives and writes in Boston, Massachusetts. The Year We Fell Apart is her first novel. You can find Emily online at EmilyMartinWrites.com, or follow her on Twitter @ThatEmilyMartin.
I read this around two months ago and this book got me out of a book hole when I finished Tell Me Three Things. This book I remember was amazing! Its a wonderful romance about first love, friendship, forgiveness, and second chances.
This story also delete with the loss of a parent it didnt shy away from deadly illness etc. It showed a range of ways we deal with loss.
The character's have flaws which just make them feel and sound more real. If your looking for a book for teens about having another chance at first love then this is the one for you. The story was fast paced and just breathtaking. The author did a wonderful job about giving us their history a little at a time. It made you want to read the story faster and faster but also sad that it was going to end. Its just one that you pick up and don't put down until your done. Then you hug it and kiss it goodnight. Because you loved it so much!
This is the prefect story about second chances and forgiveness in the light of first love. If your looking for a teen romance then pick this one up.
And well if your looking for one with a little more graphic then check outby Penelope Douglas
Both of these books were amazing and very close in that second chance at first love story. Just where this one is more teen based Bully is um not. lol.
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SCENE IV. The DUKE'S palace
[Enter DUKE, VIOLA, CURIO, and others.]
DUKE.Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,That old and antique song we heard last night;Methought it did relieve my passion much,More than light airs and recollected termsOf these most brisk and giddy-paced times.Come, but one verse.
CURIO.He is not here, so please your lordship, that should sing it.
DUKE.Who was it?
CURIO.Feste, the jester, my lord; a fool that the lady Olivia's fathertook much delight in. He is about the house.
DUKE.Go seek him out, and play the tune the while.
[Exit CURIO. Music plays]
Come hither, boy. If ever thou shalt love,In the sweet pangs of it remember me;For such as I am all true lovers are,Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,Save in the constant image of the creatureThat is belov'd. How dost thou like this tune?
VIOLA.It gives a very echo to the seatWhere Love is thron'd.
DUKE.Thou dost speak masterly:My life upon 't, young though thou art, thine eyeHath stay'd upon some favour that it loves;Hath it not, boy?
VIOLA.A little, by your favour.
DUKE.What kind of woman is 't?
VIOLA.Of your complexion.
DUKE.She is not worth thee, then. What years, i' faith?
VIOLA.About your years, my lord.
DUKE.Too old, by heaven! let still the woman takeAn elder than herself; so wears she to him,So sways she level in her husband's heart:For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,Than women's are.
VIOLA.I think it well, my lord.
DUKE.Then let thy love be younger than thyself,Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;For women are as roses, whose fair flower,Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.
VIOLA.And so they are: alas, that they are so;To die, even when they to perfection grow!
[Re-enter CURIO and CLOWN.]
DUKE.O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;The spinsters and the knitters in the sun,And the free maids that weave their thread with bones,Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,And dallies with the innocence of love,Like the old age.
CLOWN.Are you ready, sir?
DUKE.Ay; prithee, sing.
CLOWN.Come away, come away, death,And in sad cypress let me be laid;Fly away, fly away, breath;I am slain by a fair cruel maid.My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,O, prepare it!My part of death, no one so trueDid share it.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet,On my black coffin let there be strown;Not a friend, not a friend greetMy poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown.A thousand thousand sighs to save,Lay me, O, whereSad true lover never find my grave,To weep there!
DUKE.There 's for thy pains.
CLOWN.No pains, sir; I take pleasure in singing, sir.
DUKE.I 'll pay thy pleasure, then.
CLOWN.Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid one time or another.
DUKE.Give me now leave to leave thee.
CLOWN.Now the melancholy god protect thee; and the tailor make thydoublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. Iwould have men of such constancy put to sea, that their businessmight be every thing, and their intent every where; for that 'sit that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell.
DUKE.Let all the rest give place.
[CURIO and ATTENDANTS retire.]
Once more, Cesario,Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty.Tell her my love, more noble than the world,Prizes not quantity of dirty lands;The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her,Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune;But 't is that miracle and queen of gemsThat Nature pranks her in attracts my soul.
VIOLA.But if she cannot love you, sir?
DUKE.I cannot be so answer'd.
VIOLA.Sooth, but you must.Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,Hath for your love as great a pang of heartAs you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;You tell her so; must she not, then, be answer'd?
DUKE.There is no woman's sidesCan bide the beating of so strong a passionAs love doth give my heart; no woman's heartSo big to hold so much; they lack retention.Alas, their love may be call'd appetite — No motion of the liver, but the palate — That suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt;But mine is all as hungry as the sea,And can digest as much. Make no compareBetween that love a woman can bear meAnd that I owe Olivia.
VIOLA.Ay, but I know —
DUKE.What dost thou know?
VIOLA.Too well what love women to men may owe;In faith, they are as true of heart as we.My father had a daughter lov'd a man,As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,I should your lordship.
DUKE.And what's her history?
VIOLA.A blank, my lord. She never told her love,But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,Feed on her damask cheek; she pin'd in thought,And with a green and yellow melancholy,She sat, like patience on a monument,Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?We men may say more, swear more; but indeedOur shows are more than will; for still we proveMuch in our vows, but little in our love.
DUKE.But died thy sister of her love, my boy?
VIOLA.I am all the daughters of my father's house,And all the brothers too; and yet I know not.Sir, shall I to this lady?
DUKE.Ay, that's the theme.To her in haste; give her this jewel; say,My love can give no place, bide no denay.
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I love action films. Ever since I was a kid watching reruns of James Bond movies on television or waiting for that rare weekend in the summer when HBO would have a free viewing weekend, I've been addicted to the over the top movies that include lots of explosions, beautiful women, and violence that an Inquisitor in the Spanish Inquisition wouldn't expect.
Yet like any genre movie, they can fall victim to monotony. Movie studios see a movie that works and try to apply that to other films in their film slate. For example, Die Hard in 1988 was revolutionary for being an action movie with a leading character that was an everyman. He wasn't the the typical hero of the day, a clean cut former military something or other with arms the size of tree trunks. He was a schlub of a guy who deserved to be getting divorced from his wife. When a terrorist event occurred at a party he attended, he did the only thing he could do. His job.
The impact Die Hard had on action films is lost on today's audiences because Hollywood went out of their way to make multiple copycat movies. "Die Hard On A…" whatever was it's own sub genre of action film for a while. While there were some good movies like Speed that followed the formula Die Hard set, soon fans of action movies became bored.
It happens. People want variety. If you had to eat pizza for a month, the first couple days you'd probably love it. By day twenty nine, you'd be praying to whatever deity would listen to make pizza disappear from the face of the Earth.
One action series that has seemed to buck the trend is the James Bond series from EON Productions. Yet upon examination, you see that the producers of those films were cognizant of the changing movie landscape. They shaped the movies to fit the times. A Roger Moore Bond movie would never work today. (A part from The Spy Who Loved Me but even that film would need revisions for today's audiences.) A Daniel Craig Bond movie would never have worked in the 70's. They were made to satisfy audiences of their time.
USA Today recently spoke about the changing face of action movies. Speaking with Paul Dergarabedian from comScore, he explained what the average action movie fan looks for.
It's a genre "where repetitiveness seems the traditional course by those on the creative side of the ledger," says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for comScore. Instead, "people want the chef to do a riff on PB&J while still staying true to what makes that appealing in the first place."
For the most part that is true. Action movie audiences don't expect a whole lot from their movies. Take a film like John Wick. If you think about it, that movie is more premise than story. The basic premise is "What happens when you take all hope away from a former assassin?" The result? Two hours of Keanu Reeves shooting people in the face. While the sequel failed to follow up on some of the more emotional connections of the first film, to me they succeeded by being simple. They took a number of conceits that action movies have had for close to a decade now and brought back the genre to a more pulse pounding, realistic feel you felt from action movies in the 70's and 80's.
Hollywood seems to finally be getting the hint that variety is the spice of life for action films. While you will continue to have your big budget fare like The Fate of the Furious making all the money in the world, movies like John Wick, Deadpool, and movies coming soon like Atomic Blonde and Baby Driver, seem to want to challenge the genre by creating content that is just as exciting yet more cost effective.
So what do you think? Do you feel action movies are changing to meet audience tastes? What era of action movies would you say defined the genre for you? Would you like to see more change in the genre? Sound off in the comments section below.
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The Walking Dead: Zombies Under the Street
The Walking Dead was the #1 show in America, the crown jewel of AMC. Season Four had drawn record audiences, but the program took a months-long hiatus in the middle of the season that slowed momentum. A lot was riding on its return to the airwaves. Adding to the pressure, the second-half launch would coincide with the start of the Winter Olympics. With only a week before airtime, AMC was looking for a big idea to resuscitate the show's faithful audience, on a limited budget.
To bring the excitement of the show back to life, we raised the dead. We created our own version of Season 4's iconic zombie pits under a sidewalk grate outside of Union Square Park in New York and filled it with 15 zombies in professional-grade makeup and costume. As hidden cameras rolled, we captured the reactions of passersby when our zombies snarled and grasped from below with rotten, undead hands. We got scores of phenomenal reactions from New Yorkers, which we carved down into a 90-second video. We worked with AMC to craft a distribution strategy to maximize content virality across their social and digital channels via paid, owned and earned media. The we pressed go. Greenlight to content launch was exactly one week.
The video garnered over 10 million views and 400 million media impressions within five days, becoming the most-viral piece of content in the show's history. The season 4.5 launch slayed the Olympics and tied the season premiere in ratings, keeping momentum strong for the zombie juggernaut.


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Brighton Fashion Week wasn't a good as I had hoped - we ending up seeing manky cast-offs from the 1920s courtesy of Brighton's vintage boutiques instead of amazing new collections. There weren't even that many stalls to look round.
I quite liked Ben Crane's outerwear, inspired by the Foals song 'Spanish Sahara' and Henry Hunt had some nice clothes - Jack Wills watch out!
A few high-street shops like Urban Outfitters, French Connection, L.K.Bennett and Warehouse displayed some of their ready to wear clothes in a catwalk show. My personal highlight was when a model walked off the wrong door!
I couldn't even get any decent photos because the lady next to me looked pretty pissed whenever the flash went off, so they're all blurry, but I'll put a couple on anyway. x
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Declaring war on livestock disease
South Dakota State Roundup
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Fearful of the potential impact on the state economy of foot-and-mouth and mad cow disease, Gov. Bill Janklow hosted a conference in Sioux Falls in May, predicting "total war" if the diseases threaten South Dakota animals. Quarantines, travel bans and martial law would be declared, said the governor, should the state's livestock appear to be endangered.
Janklow pulled together 600 farmers, veterinarians, health experts and tourism officials to discuss the potential for an outbreak in South Dakota and to announce his own battle plan should it occur.
Agriculture officials noted that cattle from 13 states move through the Sioux Falls Stockyards, which can handle up to 8,000 head a day during peak sales periods, presenting high risks of disease transmission. And tourism authorities are alert to the danger of European travelers bringing foot-and-mouth into rural areas. Janklow issued orders in March for travelers from Europe to stay away from farms or ranches for five days, the length of time the foot-and-mouth virus remains viable on human hosts.
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By Jennifer Jacobs and Andreo Calonzo (Bloomberg) U.S. President Donald Trump offered to help resolve territorial disputes in the South China Sea as he entered the final leg of his 11-day swing through Asia. Trump arrived in the Philippines on Sunday for a series of meetings on regional security affairs hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. A key discussion … [Read more...]
U.S. Shipyards Point Out Major Flaw in Trump's 350-Ship Navy Plan
By Mike Stone (Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants to build dozens of new warships in one of the biggest peace-time expansions of the U.S. Navy. But interviews with ship-builders, unions and a review of public and internal documents show major obstacles to that plan. The initiative could cost nearly $700 billion in government funding, take 30 years to complete … [Read more...]
Trump Picks Billionaire Shipowner For Cabinet
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select billionaire shipowner Wilbur Ross Jr as secretary of the Commerce Department, the Wall Street Journal reported today, citing two people familiar with the deliberations. The commerce secretary, a cabinet-level position that requires Senate confirmation, typically serves as the government's chief business … [Read more...]


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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Introducing The Marx Brothers Council of Britain
Why have I started a site devoted to discussion of the Marx Brothers, rather than post occasionally on Marx matters on a more generally-themed site?
Because the Marx Brothers are special.
So, first of all, just as it must be distinctly understood from the outset that Marley is dead, so it must be made clear now that if you ever catch me talking about 'a lesser Marx Brothers movie' or 'a disappointing Marx Brothers movie', or even, if I dare, 'a poor Marx Brothers movie' I mean BY THE STANDARDS OF OTHER MARX BROTHERS MOVIES.
As James Agee once observed, even the worst of their films is worth watching, more so than perhaps the majority of all other films made since the dawn of time.
I welcome, indeed ardently desire, good-natured dissent from any opinion I offer. However, it is only fair at the outset to let you know exactly where I stand on the Marx film canon. Here then is a list of our raw material - the films of the Marx Brothers - in my personal order of preference:
1. Animal Crackers (1930)
2. The Cocoanuts (1929)
3. Horse Feathers (1932)
4. Monkey Business (1931)
5. A Night at the Opera (1935)
6. Duck Soup (1933)
7. Room Service (1938)
8. A Night in Casablanca (1946)
9. A Day at the Races (1937)
10. At The Circus (1939)
11. The Big Store (1941)
12. Love Happy (1949)
13. Go West (1940)
As the site progresses, the specific reasons for my various prejudices will become clear, but here's a quick justification for what I suspect will prove the most contentious ones:
1. Animal Crackers and The Cocoanuts at the top.
I suspect the very best of the Marx Brothers is lost to us. It was that perfection of their unique talents in a unique cultural moment that happened when I'll Say She Is slaughtered them on Broadway. This Broadway period, when their roots in vaudeville synthesised perfectly with the smart New York humour of Kaufman and the Algonquin set, is captured in their first two Long Island movies, and never quite regained in Hollywood.
These two films seem to me to contain the longest, purest, least diluted chunks of their humour at its most free, fresh and funny. They have the best jokes.
Weirdly, the reasons most usually offered as to why they don't belong at the top of the pile are technical ones: they are shot theatrically, unimaginatively staged, there is little camera mobility, the sound recording is poor...
Since when did any of that matter a damn when you're watching a Marx Brothers movie? If you want camera mobility, watch Touch of Evil. If you want to see the Marx Brothers at their most uninhibitedly hilarious, watch The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers.
2. Duck Soup considerably beneath the other Paramounts.
Not a popular decision. But, I have to say that, though full of good things, this film really does seem to me the weakest, not the best, of their Paramount five. There are a few really good stretches where it finds the right rhythm, but there's way too much untypical visual humour not tailored to their special talents, and a zaniness more akin to Hellzapoppin' than the more cerebral comic invention of the four it followed.
3. A pretty low showing for Day at the Races, too.
Yep. Again, it's got good bits, and again, it's a Marx Brothers movie so I can watch it twenty times in a row and not get bored. But it is a good deal less inventive than Opera, it's the one where Thalberg's less happy innovations really start to show, and though generally of a higher standard than all the other MGM's, it is overall the beginning of the end, not the end of the beginning.
4. Yet Room Service scores preposterously high!
Don't you people like screwball comedy, then? Is it just me that would kill for the chance to have seen Groucho in Twentieth Century or Harpo in The Man Who Came To Dinner? These sophisticated Broadway farces are where the Marx Brothers style migrated to. It's wonderful to see them trying it out just once. Okay, it's not their typical personae, but there are at least ten other films if that's what you're after. They may be doing something different, but they do it really well, and the film has always struck me as extremely funny. So yes, high into the list it goes.
5. Go West worse even than Love Happy?
Yes, I think so. Love Happy never ever bores me. There are lots of good things about it; it has a nice atmosphere. Go West shows the Brothers at their most depressed. The material is by and large terrible and they don't even give it their best shot. Groucho in particular, with that awful wig on.
As I say, I will elaborate on all this as we work through the films chronologically in the Marx Brothers Annotated Film Guide, the point of which I will explain in my next post.
In the meantime, do please add your own lists, and reasons, in the comments section. And keep it clean.
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Also, in total agreement with you about "Duck Soup". What kills "Soup" are the unfunny songs. Kalmar and Ruby phoned 'em in this time instead of providing tunes on a par with "I'm Against It" and "Everyone Says I Love You."
Also in agreement that "Love Happy" is watchable and entertaining. The three worst MB films---"Circus", "West" and "Big Store" aren't worth sitting through.
Adamson also correctly points out that when the Marxes turn Cupid, as in "Night At The Opera" and beyond or when they give a damn about "saving" a sanitarium, they lose their anarchic edge and thus a lot of their humor.
- February 26, 2009 at 4:52 AM
- Lolita said...
Now I've read your first post! (Got a lot of them left, but I will read them all - for my personal satisfaction!)
I always found it weird that Room Service almost always is excluded from Marx DVD boxes, do you know why?
I can't believe that "J" thinks the songs in Duck Soup are boring! (Okay, "clock on the wall" isn't great, but MY GOD - isn't the text in "The laws of my Administration" hilarious? I could watch that one over and over. "If you think this country's bad off now, just wait 'til I get through with it!", wonderful political humor, in my opinion!)
I also disagree with Go West - it's obviously not their best one, but Groucho fires off so many inappropriate sexual jokes that you just get shocked! "Lulu, it's you! I didn't recognize you standing up!" Also like puns like "Break! The Break!" and Harpo breaks the break. Simple, but very funny.
But - as you said - it's only bad in contrast to other Marx films!
Hope I didn't quote too wrong, I'm quoting from memory!
- May 21, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- Matthew Coniam said...
I don't know why Room Service is excluded from box-sets; I mean, it's generally not liked much, but that wouldn't be the reason. It's in the Universal box-set over here, along with all the Paramounts, Love Happy and Groucho's film A Girl In Every Port.
As you say, and I cannot repeat enough, this is purely realtive, but I do find Duck Soup a little overrated, and Go West pretty dull in comparison with other Marx films. Compared to 'Night at the Museum 2' I dare say they shine like the pants of a blue serge suit.
On the Norman McLeod post you say you can't really put the films in order... you don't fancy doing your own list then???
- May 21, 2009 at 12:59 PM
- Lolita said...
I don't like making lists, actually. I think it's too difficult, and not fair. I can like two films equally much, but for different reasons. It's lke comparing a drama film to a comedy, you can never motivate in a satisfying way. Therefore I prefer just breaking the films down and go through the pieces I like, and those I don't like. Results in more interesting discussions, rather than "I don't agree with you", "You're wrong", etc.
Okay, feel sorry for me - here in Sweden Room Service, Love Happy and A Girl in Every Port doesn't even exist on DVD! Which leads me to confess that I actually haven't seen any of those yet! (The greatest embarrassment of my life, I believe.) One friendly soul gave me access to Room Service, at least, so I'm going to watch that one as soon as I can. But what is wrong with my country?! (I heard that being a Marxist in France isn't the easiest task, neither...)
- May 21, 2009 at 5:00 PM
- Matthew Coniam said...
Ah, there we differ then. I even make lists of my favourite lists.
- May 22, 2009 at 12:05 AM
- Roger the Saurus said...
What do you think to "Flywheel Shyster Flywheel"?
- February 19, 2010 at 3:25 PM
- Matthew Coniam said...
I'm a bit behind on it, actually. I enjoyed reading the scripts when they came out, however many years ago that was now. I only heard one of the recast radio shows and couldn't quite find my way into it, principally because while it's fairly easy for a good mimic to do Groucho, Chico's voice really was unique.
But then, didn't they finally find some of the original recordings a while back? See, I don't even know that.
That I would be very interested in, obviously.
The only radio I've actually heard, apart from guest spots, is the Hollywood Agents pilot, which is fascinating, but obviously not top drawer.
I'm a big Stanshall fan too, by the way. I live in his old stamping-ground (and signing-off ground), Muswell Hill.
- February 20, 2010 at 12:53 AM
- Azz said...
Room Service is poor. It's a big disappointment compared to their early work. Poor dialogue for Groucho, Chico suffers because of this. The only Brother consistently good in all of the films is Harpo. Great scenes in every film. Go West "I'll was about to thrash him within an inch of his life but I didn't have a tape measure". "...if I weren't taller than you I'd flog the daylights out of you...but I'm bigger than you...well that's another reason". "I can't stand the jerks in the coach". And the entire opening scene which you rate in your guide!. Quote any good lines from Room Service! My list is:
1. Animal Crackers
2. Horse Feathers
3. A Night at the Opera
4. Duck Soup
5. Monkey Business
6. Cocoanuts
7. A Day At The Races
8. A Night in Casablanca
9. Go West
10. At The Circus
11. The Big Store
12. Love Happy
13. Room Service
- April 26, 2010 at 1:55 PM
- Azz said...
Oh yeah, and Groucho's wig in The Big Store, well what about Harpo's hair in Love Happy, where's the wig? Bad decision that one.
He looked like a Paul Nicholas impersonator (from critically ashamed 80s sitcom Just Good Friends).
- April 26, 2010 at 2:02 PM
- Roger the Saurus said...
I quite like Room service but you're right, Harpo is the best thing in it. You have to say also that Frank albertson is one of the best straight men they had.
- April 26, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Azz said...
Yes he was a good straight man out of an inconsistent bunch throughout their films and Lucille Ball was drastically underused in Room Service. Harpo's hair was natural in A Night In Casablanca not Love Happy, I couldn't sleep last night worrying about it!
- April 27, 2010 at 4:51 AM
- Matthew Coniam said...
I like Room Service a lot: it's not a proper Marx Brothers film and shouldn't be compared to the others as if it were (unlike Go West which tries and fails to be a proper Marx Brothers film: the 'jerks in the carriage' line in particular strikes me as one of the three or four classic examples of how MGM got the act wrong...) But RS has a good script; typical thirties screwball stuff from a funny original play, with good comedy situations. I like Groucho's character in it very much, and Chico's, though obviously he is a somewhat more mysterious figure...
As to Harpo's hair in A Night In Casablanca... there you open a can of worms.
I was going to hold off on this until I got to the film in the annotated guides, but I've never quite bought that story about it being his real hair. The only thing that stops me from dismissing the claim outright is that I can't see why anyone would have lied about it, or for what other reason anyone would have got it wrong.
It's now generally accepted that Groucho wears a (ludicrously obvious) wig in those two movies, but for a long time people used to say it was his hair crudely dyed (I think Mitchell says something like 'plus what looks like a toupee' but goes no further). This was traceable to a comment in The Groucho Letters where he says he was having his hair dyed in preparation for the film, but it was so long delayed the dye was growing out and he would have to have it reapplied.
I took this to be deliberate vanity on Groucho's part, an attempt to disguise the fact he was wearing a wig. I now see that what he probably meant was that he was having the hair on the sides of his head dyed to match the wig.
But when I was in that conspiracy theorist's frame of mind, I posited that maybe Harpo was beset by similar vanity and claimed he was having his own hair permed rather than using a wig... But this is stupid, because he always wore a wig anyway...
... I'm aware that I'm rambling...
But the fact is that Harpo was bald. His hair was really, really thin even in the thirties, and there's photos of him in Harpo Speaks at home in the early forties and he's as bald as an egg on top.
I don't know what the truth about that Night In Casablanca hairdo is, but until someone can produce the actual receipt from the studio hairdresser - charge Mr H Marx for perming of hair to resemble wig - I'm sticking to my guns. I think he's wearing a wig in A Night In Casablanca, albeit a weird, tight, unflattering peroxided one.
Anyone else agree? (Author waits, listening to sound of crickets chirping...)
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Butte County Superior Court Judge James Reilley informed Robert Frank McClintock, 53, that he was charged with a count of murder for the death of McClintock's sister-in-law, Nancy Taylor, 53.
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Second verse, same as the first. As I continue to read the New York Times coverage of the Maine vote, my mind drifted back to these lines from Daniel Okrent, the newspaper's former ombudsman, in his infamous 2004 column entitled "Is The New York Times a Liberal Newspaper?" News junkies will recall that his lede said bluntly, "Of course it is."
But on the subject of news "templates" or "maps," here is a thought for the second day of coverage, drawn from Okrent's survey of his newspaper's coverage in a host of sections:
... (For) now my concern is the flammable stuff that ignites the right. These are the social issues: gay rights, gun control, abortion and environmental regulation, among others. And if you think The Times plays it down the middle on any of them, you've been reading the paper with your eyes closed.
But if you're examining the paper's coverage of these subjects from a perspective that is neither urban nor Northeastern nor culturally seen-it-all; if you are among the groups The Times treats as strange objects to be examined on a laboratory slide (devout Catholics, gun owners, Orthodox Jews, Texans); if your value system wouldn't wear well on a composite New York Times journalist, then a walk through this paper can make you feel you're traveling in a strange and forbidding world.
And then on the specific issue of the day:
... (It's) one thing to make the paper's pages a congenial home for editorial polemicists, conceptual artists, the fashion-forward or other like-minded souls (European papers, aligned with specific political parties, have been doing it for centuries), and quite another to tell only the side of the story your co-religionists wish to hear. I don't think it's intentional when The Times does this. But negligence doesn't have to be intentional.
The gay marriage issue provides a perfect example. Set aside the editorial page, the columnists or the lengthy article in the magazine ... that compared the lawyers who won the Massachusetts same-sex marriage lawsuit to Thurgood Marshall and Martin Luther King. That's all fine, especially for those of us who believe that homosexual couples should have precisely the same civil rights as heterosexuals.
But for those who also believe the news pages cannot retain their credibility unless all aspects of an issue are subject to robust examination, it's disappointing to see The Times present the social and cultural aspects of same-sex marriage in a tone that approaches cheerleading.
The Gray Lady is also capable of coaching, as well as cheerleading.
This brings us to a post-election A1 piece that caught my eye. Just to be right up front about this, please note that (a) I know that this is an analysis piece and that (b) I believe that the piece is a valid part of the Times coverage. With those points in mind, check out the piece that ran under the headline, "Gay Rights Rebuke May Change Approach." Here's the top of the story:
They had far more money and volunteers, and geography was on their side, given that New England has been more accepting of same-sex marriage than any other region of the country. Yet gay rights supporters suffered a crushing loss when voters decided to repeal Maine's new law allowing gay men and lesbians to wed, setting back a movement that had made remarkable progress nationally this year.
Maine, with its libertarian leanings, had seemed to offer an excellent chance of reversing the national trend of voters rejecting marriage equality at the ballot box. Instead, it became the 31st state to block same-sex marriage through a public referendum. ...
State legislatures had been viewed as new allies in the fight for same-sex marriage after lawmakers in Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire approved such bills this year. But now, with Maine voters dealing a rebuke to their Legislature, it is far from clear whether elected officials -- including the president -- will risk political capital on gay rights. Tuesday's defeat is also likely to further splinter a movement that has been debating the best tactics for success.
Thus, the purpose of this analysis piece is to allow debate on which tactics would work best for the gay-rights cause, given the fact that voters seem determined to deliver the movement defeats at the ballot box.
By the way, one or two opponents of gay-marriage are quoted, primarily to offer commentary on the tactics of the left.
Like I said, it's a valid analysis piece. It's rather like a talking-points memo for the gay-rights cause, but that is part of this national news story right now.
Here's my question: Can anyone imagine this analysis piece being half of a package -- targeting a wider, national audience on this issue -- that includes a similar analysis, one that is the same length and is reported with the same care, only focusing on the debate inside the other camp on what to do next?
Can you imagine an A1 Times piece that offers a similar set of talking points for those who favor a traditional definition of marriage, perhaps a report that focuses on the ongoing divide on the cultural right between those who favor laws promoting civil, secular same-sex unions and those who oppose any concessions on this issue at all?
That's a valid story, too. Ask the Rev. Rick Warren.
Here's one more thought, since I am a pro-newspaper kind of guy. In these troubled times for the Times, would it make both journalistic sense to print this two-sided package, as well as economic sense in light of the newspaper's goals of maintaining or even growing its base as a national news product?
Just asking. Why not cover material that would address issues both sides? Might this balanced approach even make activists on both sides a bit uncomfortable?
Just a reminder: Do not debate the issues behind the Maine vote. The goal is to discuss the Times and the journalistic product if offered to its readers, following the vote.


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I've seen products that are similar to one another before. There's nothing really wrong with being unoriginal. When writing this Cloud Millionaire Review though, I suddenly realized that I had reviewed an almost identical product before.
I recommended that people should stay away from it, and I'm going to give the same recommendation to this one. It's just not worth your time.
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These products are always built around the same thing. They hype you up by repeating how much money you'll earn over and over again. In the case of Cloud Millionaire, you'll be earning $1,000 a day. Doing what? Well that's a good question.
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BELLE GLADE — West Technical Education Center, 2625 State Hwy 715 in Belle Glade, is now being accepting applications for Adult Education and Pre-Apprenticeship programs. They are offering ABE/GED, ESOL, carpentry, HVAC, electrical, welding, and plumbing. For information contact 561-829-4620.
Carpentry, HVAC, electrical, welding, and plumbing pre-registration dates will be accepted through Aug. 23 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Registration dates are Aug. 21-23 from 6-8 p.m. Classes begin Sept. 11.
ABE/GED and ESOL registration will be held through Aug. 24 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Pre-Testing will be held from through Aug. 24 by appointment. Classes begin Aug. 27.
For information, call 561-829-4620.