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Brought up in a tough neighbourhood, the sporty siblings saw tennis as their way to the top. But
allegations about their father and the murder of their sister have rocked the duo. Venus was born on
17 June 1980 in Lynwood, California, and Serena on 26 September 1981 in Saginaw, Michigan.
Ranked in the top five in the world for the past two years, the prodigal Williams sisters have stunned
the world. The key to their game is fast serves and strong returns that exhaust their opponents on the
court. The sisters' path into professional tennis was plotted before their birth. Their father, Richard,
loved to watch tennis on TV, and dreamed he would one day watch his yet-to-be-born children play on
screen. His first three daughters were not destined to be tennis stars, but Venus and Serena took to
the game immediately. For six hours a day they would play with tatty rackets and dud balls against a
wall or on a pot-holed court, while their father shouted instructions from a tennis manual. The pair both
began to compete before they were five. They had not yet hit puberty when invitations to national
training camps were dropping through their post box in Compton, LA.
As young teenagers, Richard Williams withdrew his daughters from the junior circuit and turned them
both professional; he justified his actions to critics by saying the girls should concentrate on school
where they were both A grade students. Too young to compete in World Tennis Association events,
the teenagers played in private events and their games improved dramatically. Of age, Venus was the
first to reach a major final, but lost the US Open to Martina Hingis. Serena then won the US Open in
1999. The following year she won Wimbledon. For the moment, Serena remains the more successful
player. Both sisters had a tough start to the millennium as they both had injuries, with Venus even
stating she was considering retiring from professional tennis. However, she came back and won
Wimbledon in 2000 after beating her sister Serena in the semi-final. They both went on to take the
doubles title at the tournament. They also represented the US in the Sydney Olympics, with Venus
becoming the first woman since Helen Wilis Moody to win a gold medal in both the singles and
doubles games.
Serena had an up and down season in 2001 but triumphantly made her way to the final of the US
Open, where she met her sister. This was the first time since 1884 that two sisters had faced each
other in a grand slam final. Venus's maturity won out and she took the title. In 2002 and 2003, the
sisters met in four consecutive grand slam finals with Serena winning each time. She has won a grand
total of 13 single grand slams and 12 doubles, ranking her the sixth best player in history. Serena has
also been ranked the women's world number one five times, with the most recent being 2 November
2009. She lost this title in 2010 after standing on a piece of broken glass for which she received 18
stitches in her foot, which prevented her from finishing the season. This turned out to be a serious
injury requiring surgery as it led to a blood clot. She finished 2010 ranked fourth in the world, before
making her return to the tennis world in 2011.
Venus on the other hand has won seven single grand slams and 12 in doubles and has been ranked
the world number one on three separate occasions. In 2011, she was diagnosed with Sjorgen's
Syndrome, an autoimmune disease, which has affected her tennis ability. She is planning to make a
return to the circuit in 2012.
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Lama Kunzang Palden (Rodney P. Devenish)
Lama Kunzang Rinpoche (Rodney P. Devenish) is an elder Lama in the Namgyal lineage (rnam-rgyal snyan-rgyud) of the Ka'gyu Buddhist school of Tibet, a nine hundred year old school of Buddhist spiritual practice, yoga, and meditation. He was a direct student of the late great Karma Tenzin Dorje Namgyal Rinpoche (1931-2003) and continues the non-sectarian, distinctly Western spirit of his teacher's universalist approach to Buddhist meditation.
Lama's involvement in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition began in Scotland in 1964 with the Vajracarya Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (1939-1987). As a young English student of the Vajracarya Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche over a six year period, living in the same house with him until Trungpa Rinpoche's departure for America, provided an exceptionally deep experience of the rich Ka'gyu tradition of meditation. During the time that he was with Trungpa Rinpoche, Lama Rodney also received intensive training in other Asian traditions of meditation including Mahamudra in the Sechen tradition with Akong Tulku; specialized Vajrayana practice from Benchen Lama Chime Rinpoche; Vipassana Meditation from the Theravada-master Chao Khun Sobhana Dhammasudhi, a Thai monk; and Zen practice under the guidance of Sochu-san, a monk from Kyoto, Japan.
In the winter of 1969-70, Lama began his apprenticeship as a teacher of meditation in Toronto at the direction of the Venerable Kyabje Namgyal Rinpoche. Later in 1970, in Ontario, he was installed as a Lama by the Venerable Benchen Chime Rinpoche in the presence of his beloved root master, Namgyal Rinpoche. In 1972 the Venerable Kalu Rinpoche, along with Lama Gyaltsen granted him the authority to begin teaching Mahamudra.
Lama lived as an ordained Buddhist monk for ten years, spending considerable time in many isolated, wilderness meditation retreats, alone amidst forest and mountains – often during winters, isolated for three to four months at a time by depth of snow. He has travelled in India, Nepal and other places throughout Asia, studying Buddhism, yoga and meditation. Lama Rodney is today a respected elder and spiritual guide for a number of younger meditation teachers and yoga instructors.
During the 90's, Lama and his wife led a meditation center in San Francisco at the behest and on behalf of another of his spiritual teachers, the great Dzogchen-master Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche. During the years that he studied with Khenchen, Lama received teachings and practices pertaining to the Nyingma school of Tibet, particularly those of the eighteenth-century wisdom-master Kunkhyen Jigme Lingpa. These practices were combined with translation work and study of both the Ka'gyu and Nyingma tantras.
Lama Rodney is the author of three books on the subject of Buddhist Meditation and is known as a skilled teacher of meditation as taught within the Karma-Ka'gyu yoga tradition. Lama has been teaching at the Hermitage for more than ten years now and is revered and loved by his many students.
Lama Rodney is a true jewel in our midst, a man with presence like no one I have known. He is the mainstay of the Denman Hermitage, and I would unreservedly recommend this humble individual to anyone, Westerner or otherwise, who is ready to develop a serious meditation practice in order to achieve spiritual awakening. ~ B. R.
There are very few truly wise meditation masters in the West. Author, Tibetan scholar, humanitarian, and exceptional meditation teacher, Rodney Devenish, is one of them. I wish you every opportunity to learn from him whenever you can. ~ C. M.
Lama Dorje Wangmo (Connie Mitchell)
Connie Mitchell (Lama Dorje Wangmo) is a skilled teacher of yoga and meditation who facilitates seekers around the globe. Connie is a recognized Lama in the Namgyal Lineage of the Ka'gyu school. She teaches with warmth, humour and profound insight across a range of settings, which include the School of Natural Mind Meditation (naturalmindmeditation.com).
Lama Connie was installed to teach Mahamudra and Natural Mind Yoga (Tib: Trulkhor Nyi-da Kha-jor) by her "root guru" (Lama Kunzang Rinpoche). Natural Mind Yoga is an accessible 12-posture method quietly practiced in Tibet for over 1200-years. This consciousness-evolving yoga method is as effective for the tentative beginner as it is for the accomplished yogin.
Connie is the Executive Director of the School of Natural Mind Meditation. She holds a Masters degree in International and Intercultural Communications, is a certified yoga instructor, reflexologist and Zero Balancing practitioner and is a recognized sensei in the Japanese Wado-Kai karate tradition. Connie lives in Victoria, British Columbia alongside her husband, John Sumner.
"Connie Mitchell is an incredible teacher of meditation and yoga. I feel that Connie has changed my understanding and my interest in Yoga in a profound way. She has helped me immensely." K.S.
"Without a doubt, the most life altering experience I've had! Taking the Natural Mind Meditation course from Connie Mitchell has completely altered my perception of who I am and the world I live in!" Y.Y
Lama Tsultrim Rinpoche (Sidney McQueen-Smith)
Lama Karma Tsultrim Rinpoche (aka Sidney McQueen-Smith, M.D., or as he is affectionately known to his friends, 'Lama Sid') was first ordained as a monk of the Theravada order at Wat Mahatat in Thailand in 1968. His teachers at that time included the renowned vipassana-master Chao Khun Rajasiddhimuni. Following his ordination Lama Tsultrim studied and practiced the strict discipline of a monk in Thailand for two years, learning the Pali language, and engaging in an intense daily regime of vipassana meditation practice. His lengthy practice of meditation bore fruit, but upon his return to his homeland in 1970, he found it necessary to give back his robes and re-enter lay life as there was no support for Buddhist monastics in Canada at that time. Fortunately, prior to his return, while in Calcutta, India, he had met and become a student of His Holiness the Sixteenth Karmapa, spiritual head of the Ka'gyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Thanks to the guidance he'd received from His Holiness, he was able to continue practice, applying techniques of yoga and tantric practice designed specifically for people of lay status. It was thus that he learned of the value of many practices unique to Tibetan Buddhism.
After settling down in Canada, Lama Tsultrim studied to become a medical doctor, graduating with an MD degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1977. Throughout the years to come, Lama Tsultrim combined the life of a doctor with that of a siritual practicioner. Lama retired from medical practice in 2008.
Lama Tsultrim was installed as a Lama by his root master Namgyal Rinpoche in Ontario in the late seventies, and is a holder of the Namgyal lineage. Lama has received innumerable empowerments from a long list of eminent masters, including His Holiness the 17th Karmapa, His Eminence Tai Situ Rinpoche, Kyabje Namgyal Rinpoche, Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, Mingyur Rinpoche and Ayang Rinpoche. Upon his retirement from medical practice in 2008, he dedicated himself to teaching the Dharma in Nanaimo, B.C., Canada, where he lived for a number of years prior to coming to the Hermitage on Denman Island. Wishing to return to monastic life, he received full Bhikshu re-ordination in 2011 from his root master, His Eminence Tai Situ Kentin Rinpoche at Sherab Ling Monastery in India. Shortly thereafter Lama Tsultrim received the title of "Rinpoche" (lit., precious one) from the latter in recognition of his position in the Ka'gyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.
Lama Tsultrim now lives in semi-retirement on the Hermitage property, and continues to teach Buddha-Dharma to all who come in search of his knowledge and guidance.
Venerable Bhikshu Karma Tinley Govinda
Bhikshu Karma Tinley is a learned Western Buddhist monk (bhikshu/gelong) in the Karma-Kagyu tradition. Bhikshu was drawn to Buddhism as a young man. Deeply immersed in the spiritual, cultural, and intellectual expansion that blossomed in California during the heady days of the '60s and '70s, Bhikshu became acquainted with many remarkable thinkers who were then living in California – Dane Rudhyar, Manley Palmer Hall, Professor Szekely, and Boris de Zirkoff, to name merely a few. He attended lectures given by Jiddu Krishnamurti, and immersed himself in the writings of Dr. Carl Jung, the Armenian mystic George Ivanaovitch Gurdjieff, Aldous Huxley, and many others. It was at that time, in the 60s, that he began his lifelong practice of Yoga and the martial art Taij, and became a lifelong vegetarian. He has dedicated himself to the search for Truth ever since.
Between 1974 and 1980 Bhikshu immersed himself in Buddhist Abhidharma and Madhyamaka studies at the Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California, meeting with and learning from HH. Dudjom Rinpoche, Tarthang Tulku, and Professor Herbert Guenther. Bhikshu received the Black Crown empowerment from His Holiness the 16th Gyalwang Karmapa in 1974. From 1976 onwards, he formally studied under the Vajracarya Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, then very active in spreading the Buddha's message through North America. He received refuge and lay ordination from His Eminence Kalu Rinpoche, under whose personal guidance he studied Mahamudra meditation. In 1997 Bhikshu Karma Govinda engaged in several isolated meditation retreats under the intimate guidance of Lama Karma Kunzang Palden Rinpoche (Rodney P. Devenish). Through the latter he was introduced to the great Nyingma mystic and scholar, Khenchen Palden Sherab, from whom he received yet further instruction and guidance.
He was given his initial monk's ordination from the Venerable Tenzin Dorje Namgyal Rinpoche in the year 1999, and following extensive Vinaya-training, acquired full Bhikshu ordination under the very Venerable Kyabje Tenga Rinpoche (1932-2012) of Benchen Monastery, on the auspicious day of 17 February, 2003. Having studied Tibetan he become a translator of Tibetan texts. He has studied, meditated and practiced, until his retirement in 2017.
The Venerable Bhikshu Karma Tinley Govinda is a highly respected elder of Western Buddhism, having dedicated tremendous personal effort and financial to the founding of the Hermitage on Denman Island, and for which we are all eternally grateful. He now lives in retirement in San Francesco.
Lama Gyurme Dorje (Gerry Kopelow)
Lama Gyurme Dorje (aka Lama Gerry Kopelow) is the founder and resident teacher of the Dharma Centre of Winnipeg. He studied a variety of Buddhist practices over a period of thirty-five years with his main teacher, the Venerable Karma Tenzin Dorje Namgyal Rinpoche. Lama Gerry is a lineage-holder in direct succession to the latter in the Namgyal lineage of the Karma-Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. He has received lay ordination through the Kagyu school, and was authorized by Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche to give Empowerments in this tradition. The Dharma Centre of Winnipeg was established by Lama Gerry on instructions from Ven. Namgyal Rinpoche and has been in operation for twenty years. Three years ago Lama Gerry established the Rural Dharma Centre, a rustic retreat property, on sixty acres of poplar forest approximately thirty kilometers east of Winnipg. Recently Lama Gerry assisted his teacher, and fellow photography enthusiast, H.H. Tai Situ Rinpoche - the Karmapas's teacher - with his project to digitally document the extensive library of Buddhist paintings and iconography rescued by Ven. Tai Situpa from Tibet.
Lama Gerry is an internationally published author, lecturer, and photographer. As an artist, he received recognition and support from the National Film Board of Canada and the Canada Council of the Arts. As a commercial photographer, he operated an international practice with a long list of clients. Lama's writing and photography have appeared in many periodicals and magazines. His textbooks on photography are distributed world-wide. He has lectured and delivered workshops for a variety of institutions, including the University of Winnipeg, the University of Florida, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the American Institute of Architects. He has lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was invited to establish a continuing-education professional development program.
For more than a decade Lama Gerry donated his professional photography services to the United Way of Winnipeg for campaigns that raised millions of dollars for community service agencies. He has provided similar assistance to the Winnipeg Harvest Food Bank, the Winnipeg Health Sciences Research Foundation, UNICEF, and the Winnipeg Children's' Hospital Research Foundation.'
Devmurti Khalsa and Hari Amrit Khalsa
Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Devmurti Singh was 13 years old when he first met his Spiritual Teacher, Siri Singh Sahib Bhai Sahib Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji, better known as simply, Yogi Bhajan. The experience made a profound and lasting impact on his life, awakening deep spiritual yearnings and shaping his life to a remarkable degree. He began taking Kundalini Yoga classes and going to Sunday Lectures by Yogi Bhajan in Los Angeles during those earliest years when his teacher had first arrived in North America. After graduating with a degree in Anthropology from the University of California in Santa Cruz, California, he moved to Victoria and then on to Vancouver to live in the 3HO (Happy, Healthy, Holy Organisation) / Sikh Dharma Ashrams there where he began his life as a yogi and Kundalini Yoga teacher.
In 1982 he was invited to come work for Yogi Bhajan in Espanola, New Mexico at a spiritual community being created there. Devmurti Singh and his beloved wife, Hari Amrit Kaur, lived at Hacienda de Guru Ram Das, as the community was known, for over 25 years, thriving in the warm community of fellow Sikhs. Devmurti served as Yogi Bhajan's personal gardener at his home in the adjoining "Ranch," and later became Yogi Bhajan's property manager, and for a spell, his resident secretary. For decades he and Hari Amrit Kaur were blessed to attend twice-weekly meditation lectures and Sunday talks by Yogi Bhajan as well as interact with him daily. Yogi Bhajan told him that he would "save so many souls'" and "that working closely with the plants and animals was a part of this also."
Devmurti Singh and Hari Amrit Kaur have taught Kundalini Yoga and Meditation professionally for over 30 years and never tire of sharing stories of their Spiritual Guide and beloved Teacher. They lead a life of service to the spiritual teachings of Yogi Bhajan and have made their beautiful organic farm on Denman Island (adjacent to the Hermitage) a Kundalini Yoga Centre, sharing the teachings and their love of nature with all.
Hari Amrit Kaur, is a deeply respected Kundalini Yoga and Meditation teacher in her own right. Yogi Bhajan praised her for her deep intuitive ability to grasp the sacred teachings of Kundalini Yoga with ease, and to guide others. Hari Amrit Kaur is a completely heart-based practitioner of the spiritual path, a very personable counselor, a healer; a woman of extraordinary faith and devotion. She radiates peace and love to everything and everyone around her, so to be in her presence is sheer joy..
Spiritual teachings are best practiced daily. Devmurti and Hari Amrit are devout advocates of the early morning "Sadhana" as the surest and quickest way to make spiritual progress. In Sikh Dharma, everyone is encouraged to arise in the early morning before dawn, in the "Amrit Vela" to pray, to practice Kundalini Yoga, and to meditate. The rest of the day has a spiritual flow as a result. They love creating a "spiritual community" with those attending their weekly classes, meditation courses and Hermitage retreats. Their 5-day retreats at the Hermitage are a unique opportunity to immerse oneself in the daily lifestyle of a dharmic Kundalini Yogi and to learn the priceless teachings of their beloved teacher, Yogi Bhajan.
Cheryl Fraser, Ph.D
Dr. Cheryl Fraser has been studying Buddha-Dharma for 20 years and teaches in the Namgyal lineage tradition. Her root teachers are the Venerable Kyabje Namgyal Rinpoche and Lama Mark Webber (aka Karma Tenpai Lekshe Yongdu Rinpoche). She also studies with Phillip Moffit, former Esquire magazine editor-in-chief and C.E.O., who is now a Buddhist teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. As a registered clinical psychologist in private practice who specializes in couples, and long-time practitioner in both the Vajrayana and the Theravada Vipassana traditions, Doctor Cheryl draws extensively from Western science and psychology, skillfully applying even the more complex teachings of Buddha-Dharma and meditation to "real life."
Dr, Cheryl is the resident teacher for Island Dharma. Dr. Cheryl was the Mindfulness and Relationships columnist for Mindful Magazine and also wrote a column on relationships and sexuality for Best Health magazine. She has been teaching at the Hermitage for several years now and is much appreciated for her approachable, colorful and gently humorous style.
Cheryl is the author of Buddha's Bedroom – The Mindful Loving Path to Sexual Passion and Lifelong Intimacy – where she applies the teachings of Buddha Dharma and Mindfulness to Love relationships.
For more information on Cheryl's dharma teaching, visit http://www.islanddharma.com/
For more information on her work applying Dharma to Love relationships, and to sign up for weekly videos, visit http://www.drcherylfraser.com/
Dr. Sean Pritchard
Dr Sean Pritchard spent many years as a Buddhist monk in the Burmese Mahasi tradition under the guidance of the Venerable Chanmyay Sayadaw (U Janaka), one of the chief disciples of the great Mahasi Sayadaw. He traveled worldwide teaching vipassana and metta practices to practitioners of many different cultures and nationalities. He holds a PhD in clinical psychology and has a counselling practice in Vancouver BC. The practices taught at his retreat will provide a lifetime of tools and techniques to gain insight into the inner world and workings of the mind. Both beginners and seasoned meditators will benefit from the supportive and skillful guidance of this well-experienced teacher.
Sean started meditating at the age of 17, practicing Transcendental Meditation to begin with. He met Venerable Chanmyay Sayadaw U Janaka in 1991 and began intensive vipassana/metta practice with Sayadaw during the 1994 Vassa (rains retreat) at Rangoon, while on a one year sabbatical from work. Sean was drawn to the Buddha's doctrine as a spiritual path because of its profound, yet simple, practicality for everyday life, and to Sayadaw U Janaka as a teacher because of his clarity and deep knowledge of the Pali Canon and meditation. Sean's practice and understanding of the Buddha's teachings grew and improved dramatically under Sayadaw's guidance, and he continued to visit and practice with Sayadaw during subsequent Vassa retreats, culminating in a six-month intensive retreat at Chanmyay Yeiktha Hmawbi (Forest Retreat Centre near Rangoon) from March to August 2001. Sayadaw U Janaka subsequently invited Sean (now U Vansa) to travel with him throughout Asia, North America, and Europe, teaching vipasssana and metta meditation both as an assistant to Sayadaw and as the leader of his own retreats. For a period he was placed in charge of teaching at Dhammodaya Meditation Center (Nakhon Pathom, Thailand).
After returning to N America as a lay person in 2011 Sean undertook a PhD program in clinical psychology.
As a teacher, Sean is committed to convey the simple everyday usefulness of Buddha's teaching while inspiring those around him to explore and experience the Path to Freedom that the Buddha so clearly and elegantly lived.
Liam Gillen
Liam Gillen has dedicated much of the last decade to being deeply involved in meditation and spirituality, as a practitioner and educator of the Amrit Yoga Method of Yoga Nidra and as a Yoga Therapist.
Before that, Liam had an accomplished career, as a senior-level executive, consultant, and entrepreneur, with extensive experience in real estate, education and the hospitality industries. He successfully launched several businesses in the real estate and casino industries and lived and worked in many countries around the world. His drive to deliver the best environment for the customer and the employee saw the companies flourish.
He adheres to a value system based on integrity and driven by a philosophy incorporating the respect and dignity of every individual. He remains passionate about the importance of bridging the worlds of work and business, with a harmonious personal and inner life.
As CEO of Amrit Yoga Institute, he had the opportunity of bringing his business expertise to the Yoga environment implementing a vision to bring the deep teachings of Yogic philosophy to a broader audience. He oversaw the systematic growth of qualified teachers, increased annual programming and the upgrade of the facilities.
Liam continues as a valued Senior Trainer at the Amrit Yoga Institute delivering high-intensity programs around the country. He develops and delivers his own workshops and retreats focusing on wellness and balance in life, while also providing one on one sessions with private clients.
Liam is wholeheartedly invested in offering teachings and techniques helpful in creating and maintaining a mindful approach to living your best life possible.
• MBA, Masters of Business Administration - Summa cum Laude, NSU, Florida.
• BA, Human Resources - Magna cum Laude, TIU, Miami, Fl.
• Florida Real Estate Broker
• E-YRT 500 Teacher
• Certified in Yoga, Yoga Nidra and Yoga Therapy
Michael Taft
Michael W. Taft is a maverick meditation teacher, bestselling author, podcaster, and neuroscience junkie. As a mindfulness coach, he specializes in secular, science-based mindfulness training in retreats, groups, corporate settings, and one-on-one sessions. Michael is the author of several books, including the bestselling The Mindful Geek, Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept, and Ego (which he co-authored), as well as the editor of such books as Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson and The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young.
He has often taught meditation at Google, worked on curriculum development for SIYLI, and is currently core faculty at Wisdom Labs, in San Francisco. Michael is also a featured teacher on the Simple Habit app, and an official advisor to the Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab. He was previously editor-in-chief of Being Human, and was the long-time editorial director of Sounds True.
From Zen temples in Japan to yogi caves in India, Michael has been meditating for over thirty five years and has extensive experience in both Buddhist Vipassana and Hindu Tantric practice. Michael is a senior facilitator in Shinzen Young's Unified Mindfulness system, and is a teacher of meditation groups around the Bay Area. He currently lives in Oakland, California, and is founding editor of the iconoclastic mindfulness meditation blog and podcast Deconstructing Yourself.
Lise Duncan
Lise Duncan has operated Equipoise Bodyworks, a health and fitness business, since 1999. A certified yoga and bodywork therapist and teacher, Lise teaches Yoga and Pilates in private and group settings, offers coaching/consulting services, and provides integrative healing massage and bodywork in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. With a background in fitness and passion for teaching, her approach in Yoga emphasizes correct alignment and safety while encouraging curiosity about the physical body, and embracing the myriad emotional and spiritual benefits this practice brings to our lives. Equipoise Bodyworks serves all ages, specializing in a mature clientele, with the goal to educate, motivate, and empower anyone desiring a richer and deeper life experience.
Lise's retreats invites participants to practice compassion through a different lens: with self-inquiry and reflection, using such tools as journaling, healing-sound therapies, Ayurvedic self-care bodywork techniques, guided breath-work, meditation, and specific yoga postures, we explore and experience a higher level of self-awareness and personal responsibility with the intention of better serving others. For without cultivation and nurturing of our own Divine Energy, we are unable to sustain the ongoing compassion towards others. Lise's twenty plus years of experience teaching, facilitating, coaching, and healing come together to make this an engaging, informative and deeply rewarding retreat.
Pierre Zakarauskas, Ph.D.
Pierre was drawn to practicing the Dharma as a way to line up his understanding of the world as a physicist with how it felt to be human. Science provided him with a particular understanding of the world, including the mind, but it had nothing to say on how to live a good life, a happy and full life. A meditator since 1995 and a daily practitioner since 2002, in 2004 Pierre decided to devote a substantial portion of his time meditating, both at home and on silent retreats. Pierre's main teachers were Ayya Khema and Leigh Brasington, in the Theravadin tradition, who taught the sutta jhanas as a way to cultivate the mind prior to and alongside insight practice.
Pierre has been leading sitting groups in Vancouver since 2008. He is working on a book whose working title is "Enlightenments are for Skeptics Too!" but is comfortable working with people having any belief system. Pierre lives in Vancouver, BC, with his wife, Jennifer.
Whit Hornsberger
Whit Hornsberger's experiences of intensive monastic meditation in Burma combined with his extensive studies and experiential application of both Theravada Buddhism and Classical Yoga has given him a unique ability to communicate to Westerners a classical approach to meditation, one that is deeply rooted in the profound Burmese tradition.
He and his wife Nicole co-founded Soul Arch Yoga, a yogic project dedicated to the cultivation of embodied well-being through international classes, workshops, retreats and an online platform (soularchyoga.ca) of study and practice.
They reside with their beloved dog, an Indian rescue named Naaya on Galiano Island, B.C.
Darlene Tataryn, Ph.D
In 1981 Darlene stepped fully into Buddha Dharma as a student of Theravadin lay monk Kema Ananda and since his passing has been a student of valued teachers in the Karma Kagyu Namgyal lineage in Canada. In the Zen tradition she has taken Jukai and in 2014 has been ordained as a Priest by 83rd Zen Patriarch Jun Po Denis Kelly into the Rinzai Zen Hollow Bones order and given the names Emyo Seien (Gift of Clarity/ Pure Circle). Over the years Darlene has woven Integral Theory into her life and practice. She has facilitated spiritually oriented groups and facilitated meditation programs, instructed Applied Counseling for Red River College Gimli Campus, maintains a private counseling and somatically based expressive psychotherapy practice, and enjoys being married with four wonderful, now adult, children.
Lama Brian
Brian McLeod was accepted as a student of the Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche in 1978 and following a five-year period of study and work at the Dharma Centre of Canada from 1984 to 1989 was instructed by Rinpoche to start teaching. He has been leading retreats in Canada and Germany for the past twenty years, and has been the lead teacher of the River and Bridge Dharma Group in Winnipeg since 2007.
Lama Brian's teaching is simple, respectful and clear, informed by his work and family life experience. Following his time at the Dharma Centre he lived in the eastern Arctic for seventeen years, working in business and as a senior manager for Inuit political and business organizations. He now lives in Winnipeg, working in mediation (one 't') and organizational development in partnership with his wife Lorraine Thomas. They have two teenage sons. Brian has a degree in Forestry from UBC (forest soils and ecology) and a Master's degree in dispute resolution from Osgoode Hall Law School.
Geshe YongDong
In 2015, GesheLa was nominated by the International Gratitude Tenshug Organizing Committee to be the Bon representative of Canada. He chaired a meeting in Toronto, Ontario Canada and began the organizing process to form a Canadian Tibetan Bon organization located in Toronto. Practitioners and families would benefit from a central location to hold future gatherings of the Canadian Bonpo community to develop spiritual practice and to connect with each other.
Since he arrived in Canada in 1999, Geshe YongDong has had a 'heart' connection with the First Nations People of Canada. He has attended and given teachings or talks at several of the larger International 'Gathering's'. He has met with several of the Chiefs and Elders to discuss the many similarities and concerns that both of their cultures have or are facing.
GesheLa was honored to meet and form a lasting 'brotherly' friendship with one of the Saskatchewan First Nation Elders. He was officially adopted into the Cree Nation in 2001 and given a special name of Kah pae, pae, Tah Koosit, which means 'the coming sound of Thunder Bird.'
Geshe YongDong has a dream and an objective to build a Tibetan Bon retreat centre on Vancouver Island, Canada. His plan is to invite monks from Tibet and India to teach classes and share their culture with western students. He also has a larger dream and commitment to introduce, teach and establish Yungdrung Bön Buddhism throughout Canada and the world.
More information on Geshe YongDong and the Canadian Yungdrung Bon centre can be found at: www.sherabchammaling.com
Mala Sikka, Terry Hagan
Mala Sikka started her career with a B.A in Theatre Design. Her interest in art and meditation led her to meet her first Zen meditation teacher, Roshi John Garrie, who later gave her his blessings to teach. In 1997 Mala deepened her Buddhist studies with the now late Namgyal Rinpoche. Since 2008 her main teachers are Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and Myingyur Rinpoche. Mala has also received teachings and transmissions from HH.Dalai Lama, HH. Sakya Trizen, and Tsoknyi RInpoche. Each year she spends several months in retreat.
Mala is a qualified Shiatsu/Seiki - Soho Practitioner and Amerta movement teacher, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerta_Movement,. She has led regular meditation and movement retreats for over thirty years. She always works with a basis of movement awareness, offering courses and retreats to all age groups. Mala's subtle approach to body work and postural awareness gives participants a keen understanding of how the 'mindbody' link is integral to perception, presence and meditation.
Terry Hagan met his root teacher, Ven Namgyal Rinpoche, in his early twenties and soon became his principle attendant. For the next 27 years he was constantly at Rinpoche's side as Rinpoche travelled the world giving teaching and empowerment. During this time Terry received intensive training in Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings and practices. As part of his training, Terry was also fortunate to have received empowerment and teaching from many eminent masters including HH16th Karmapa, HH Sakya Trizen, HE Choegye Trichen Rinpoche to name but a few. Terry continued to attend and study with Namgyal Rinpoche right up to Rinpoche's passing in 2003.
Shortly thereafter, Terry was requested to teach and he has continued to do so in a number of different locations and venues in various countries . He has been the co-resident teacher at the Dharma Centre of Canada for many years. Terry continues to deepen and refresh his studies and retreats, and since his root teachers passing he has taken empowerment and teachings from Mingyur Rinpoche and Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche culminating in a three retreat in India. He has also explored Amerta Movement, an integrative body movement meditatiion, working primarily with Suprapto Suryadharmo in many different parts of the world.
Terry uses his extensive buddhist training, his deep exploration of body awareness, and his love of nature to bring a fresh and alive approach to meditation .
Mala Sikka and Terry Hagan have been Resident Teachers of the Dharma Centre of Canada since 2007. In 2011 they took a sabbatical to undertake a 3 year retreat in India under the guidance of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche. They completed their retreat in the foothills of the Himalayas in 2015. Mala and Terry are a married couple and often teach meditation and courses together.
With over 30 years as a student and practitioner of yoga, meditation, and the healing arts, Fiona's approach is holistic, embracing Body, Mind, and Spirit. Over the years she has trained in Yoga, Shiatsu, Reiki, Pranic Healing, Rebalancing, Trager, Esalen massage, and dance and movement therapy, among other methods. Fiona embodies a deep appreciation of nature and the lessons to be gained there, having spent years living in the remote wilderness of the northern Yukon.
In the 90's she developed The Art of Conscious Touch, a certified, 250-hour training program for holistic massage and bodywork. In addition to bodywork and yoga training, Fiona has spent her life exploring the self in group and private therapy, including Gestalt, Primal therapy, Encounter therapy, and breath-work, as well as the Hakomi Model of body-centered psychotherapy, which she studied under Ron Kurtz, John Eisman, Donna Martin, and Beth Faulk-Nelson. Her yoga teachers include Angela Farmer, Sama Fabian, Sandra San Martino, and Donna Martin. These days Fiona teaches yoga in her studio on Denman Island.
Lama Tashi Davidson
Studying traditional teachings and learning modern perspectives, Sharon Tashi has been teaching and leading meditation retreats, courses and classes since 2010. Sh.e offers an 8-week Mindful Living program, urban retreats, gives talks, and teaches with a Buddhist sangha in the Okanagan Valley of B.C. Sharon taught programs in Ontario before moving West and returns regularly to lead meditation retreats at the Dharma Centre of Canada. Sh.e holds a degree in Adult Education, a Career and Work Counselor diploma, and is a Certified Money Coach (CMC) ®. She completed professional training with Jon Kabat-Zinn of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at Massachusetts Medical and is a graduate of the Inter-Professional Certificate program in Applied Mindfulness Meditation from the University of Toronto's Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work with a specialty in the Mind at Work business stream. Sharon Tashi has received instruction from Meditation Masters such as Venerable Namgyal Rinpoche, Thich Nhat Hanh, 17th Karmapa, Sayadaw U Tila Wunta, Lama Sonam Gyatso, Lama Mark Webber and Dzogchen Masters Wangdor Rimpoche & Lama Lena (Yeshe Katyup) who authorized her to teach as Lama Tashi and whom sh.e continues to study with.
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Lama Lena
Lama Lena (Yeseh Katyup) is a teacher of Direct Mind Perception and a lineage holder of several Tibetan Buddhist traditions.
Her informal style is precise, direct and she is revered by students around the world for her exceptional ability to share profound teaching in a clear, poetic and humorous way.
Beginning in 1972, Lama Lena spent three years studying with Lama Thubten Yeshe in Nepal. She then spent seven years in a small cave practice retreat above Tso Pema under the tutelage
of her root teacher, Venerable Wangdor Rimpoche. She travelled extensively with him for many years as his translator and assistant.
At the request of H.E. Zigar Choktrul Rimpoche and Ven. Wangdor Rimpoche, as well as many Tibetan and Western Dharma students, she continues to travel and teach from the lineages she holds.
With the death of her beloved teacher in September of 2019, Lama Lena will continue to travel the world, in her great compassion, sharing the blessings of lineage and the precious liberation teachings she has received
The three words of Garab Dorje was the root teachings of all that Wangdor Rinpoche taught. The Hermitage is very grateful that she has included our centre in her 2020 teaching schedule.
Lama Kalzang Dorje
Ngakpa Lama Kalzang is a wellspring of sacred knowledge. His unique background in a rare and esoteric lineage within the Tibetan Nyingmapa tradition offers an rare glimpse into the spiritual and cultural landscape of the Tibetan plateau. Among his many accomplishments, Ngakpa has maintained a balance between the academic and mystical spheres; his talks can illuminate diverse topics within the ocean of Tibetan wisdom, from philosophy to literature, and from religious ceremony to sacred yogic practices. In 2002 he was awarded the Doctorate of Philosophy degree, recognizing his years of outstanding scholarship. Kalzang-la is fluent in the sacred arts of Tibet.
Lama Kalzang Dorje describes his lineage as follows:
"I come from a family lineage of Ngakpas (mystic yogis) that can be traced back to the time of Guru Padma Sambhava Rinpoche's twenty five direct disciples. One of Padma Sambhava's disciples, Langchen Pelkyi Sangye, was requested to come to my region of Tibet to help protect the area from negative forces. There he accomplished this feat and others. He settled in our area, Amdo, and gradually, from his family, the Tantric practice lineage was formed. More recently in this family lineage, there was Lang Gyalpo Rigzin Palden Tashi, a very renowned Lama in his time. He traveled to central Tibet and Kham and received countless teachings from many masters. Upon returning to Amdo, the Rekong Ngakpa Community (Rekong Ngakmang) was formed. To this day, this Ngakpa community exists and the practices of Kyirim, Dzogrim and Dzogchen remain in unbroken continuity. I am the seventh generation from him in this family Ngakpa lineage."
Lama Kalzang is an expert in the Sacred Rite of Chod-performance. This Tibetan contemplative practice combines drumming, dance, and shamanic experience with meditation to cut through the ego in one swift movement using a method of crazy-wisdom yoga, thereby awakening the miraculous in one's life. Ngakpa is knowledgeable in the Hermitage lineage of this practice, known as Longchen Nying-t'ig Chod, and has taught the practice to Western students on a number of occasions with wonderful results.
After the death of his teacher in Tibet, Lama Kelzang went to Nepal to continue studies with his current teacher, Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. In 1996 he entered the Shedrup Dojo Ling monastery in Nepal to take formal and strict study and practice from the guidance of Khetsun Sangpo Rinpoche. Lama Kalzang is the current Spiritual Teacher at Thubten Choling, a Buddhist Centre located in Duncan, BC., Canada.
Shelane Donoghue
Shelane Donoghue M.A., R.P. is a Registered Psychotherapist using Expressive Arts Therapy in private practice in Toronto and with First Nations children, youth, families and communities in Northern Ontario.
She has been exploring Dharma for over 20 years, and is a devoted student of the late Namgyal Rinpoche, Lama Mark Webber, Lho Ontul Rinpoche, Lho Ratna Rinpoche and Sayadow U Thila Wunta. She has also studied with his Holiness the Dalai Lama, the 17th Karmapa, Lama Sonam Gyatso and Karma Chime Wongmo.
Shelane's personal background is multi-racial with indigenous roots. She knows first-hand the importance of using creativity and meditation to grow, change and heal from life's challenges. All of us need a sacred place of refuge to continue to awaken to greater freedom, compassion and wisdom. With joy, she wishes to serve this aspiration by awakening and cultivating the wisdom mind in all.
About the Dharma Fellowship
The Dharma Fellowship of His Holiness the Gyalwang Karmapa is a group of Western Buddhist meditation and yoga practitioners following the spiritual direction of Ogyen Trinley Dorje, 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, and head of the Karma-Kagyu Order of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Headhunters can be extremely valuable in helping you transition into a new job. Also called corporate or executive recruiters, headhunters are third-party contractors that hire candidates for open positions before they're advertised to the public. When companies are looking to fill higher-level positions, they'll typically contract the task out to a headhunter to find a small group of excellent candidates. If you want an inside track to good jobs, working with a headhunter is a great choice. You can learn to find one to work with and how to work effectively to avoid common mistakes in the process.
Understand what a headhunter does. Headhunters are not career counselors, job advisors, or life coaches. Their job is not to "find you a job," it's to recruit the best and brightest talent for on behalf of companies looking to fill open positions.
Headhunters are third-party recruiters, hired by companies, working on commission, meaning that there's little incentive in trying to hook up candidates with jobs they're unlikely to get. The headhunter's client is the company that's hiring, not the job-seeker, meaning that it's not in the headhunter's job description to find jobs for everyone who comes in asking.
Pick a headhunter in your field. Headhunters commonly work in healthcare, information technology, science and technology, finance, and medicine. Often, you won't have to find a headhunter, but an executive recruiter will get in touch with you, if you're an attractive-enough candidate for an open job. Headhunters can be found online and advertised in most job-finding resources.
To give yourself the best chance of getting in touch with a recruiter, try to stay as connected to business networking as possible. Start a LinkedIn page and keep in touch with business contacts as much as possible.
Prepare a specialized resume. Before you visit with a headhunter or write a letter of introduction, it's critical that you have prepared a detailed, professional, and specialized resume to consolidate your experience, references, and job descriptions. Again, it needs to be specialized, which means that it needs to be related skills, not part-time jobs or outdated study-abroad experiences.
Recruiters don't help you write resumes, so you'll need to have one ready. Again, it's your job to make it easy for the headhunter to match you with the right job openings, it's not the headhunter's job to guide you through the process. You should be ready to sell yourself the moment you get in touch with a headhunter.
Write a letter of introduction. Write a brief letter to the prospective headhunters stating what you are looking for and where you're looking. State in your closing that you would be happy to provide your resume should the recruiter feel your skill set matches their current needs.
Generally, headhunters won't keep resumes on file for the future, even if you're an attractive candidate. Again, it's not their job to worry about getting people jobs, they're worried about filling positions. If you get no response, don't' take it as a sign that you're not right. Wait an appropriate length of time and try again in the future.
Keep it brief. With no more than a half a page, it may be appropriate to provide bullet points give a brief summary of your experience. Most headhunters won't spend much, if any, time looking over letters, so get to the point and keep it extremely brief. Front-load with the most important information.
Call the recruiter directly. It's sometimes the most effective way of getting a quick answer about whether or not you might be an appropriate fit to consider for recent openings if you just call directly. Even if the answer is no, you won't have to wait around wondering and hoping for an answer. You'll just know.
Be as honest as possible. Remember: headhunters can't give you a job, which means it's not your job to go about the business of impressing them. It's your job to go about the business of proving that you fit the bill for the opening. You need to be upfront and frank with a headhunter when it comes to compensation requirements, your experience level, and the other qualifications for the job. There's little sense in wasting time with opportunities you're inappropriate for.
It is important to be well put-together for meetings with headhunters, since you're going to be representing them as much as you'll be representing yourself at the interview. If you look disheveled and like a poor candidate, the company will be less likely to go through that headhunter again.
Boil down your elevator pitch. The headhunter's goal is to match people and companies, and you have to have information to do that, but it needs to be summarized and condensed into a manageable and tiny chunk for the headhunter. This includes a good resume, a short blurb, and additional background information from a phone or in-person interview. Recruiters then have a better idea if you fit that client's culture as well as technical requirements. And sometimes the information that you give the recruiter may open up another position that will be an even better fit.
Don't expect recruiters to pour over your resume, or even be familiar with it. The average resume gets approximately 5-10 seconds of glance time.
Ask for inside information. Get your headhunter to give you as much information as possible before an interview regarding the company and the people you're interviewing with. Ask your headhunter to confirm how other candidates who have interviewed for the same job you are interviewing for have failed so that you avoid making the same mistakes. If the headhunter has worked with this company before, there may be some helpful information out there.
Don't expect a wealth of inside info. It'll be your job to get ahead and figure out how best to sell yourself in the interview. The headhunter can only show you to the river, but can't show you how to drink.
Ask for honesty. Lots of headhunters want to provide a variety of candidates for jobs, even if they're unlikely to get it. That's because companies will think more favorably of the headhunter who provides lots of great candidates, compared to someone who provides just one perfect candidate.
Stay organized. It's still your job to get the job you want. Again, headhunters aren't there to guide you through the process of applying or getting in touch with the company, figuring out what information you'll need to provide, or other materials. Some headhunters may offer some guidance, but you shouldn't expect it. Remember that it's your responsibility and stay focused on doing it alone. Treat any outside help you get as icing on the cake.
Don't expect a headhunter to do all the work. Their job is to fill the job with someone, not necessarily you. Use headhunters to supplement your job search.
It's also true that headhunters are generalists working in a field of specialists. The job of the headhunter is to match appropriate candidates with hiring parties, not to judge who makes the best candidate for the job. In other words, just because you're an experienced research scientist, you shouldn't expect that your headhunter will have any clue what you're researching.
Don't send recruiters too much information. Swamping a recruiter with huge portfolios of your work, super-long intro letters, your college transcript, and supplementary recommendations from your previous employers is a bad idea. Remember, it's not the headhunter's job to give you a job, and the headhunter probably isn't all that familiar with your line of work in the first place. Talking to a headhunter is about credentials. Provide those, and save the rest of the stuff for your interview with the company you're hoping to work for.
Don't quit your job before getting in touch with a headhunter. Traditionally, headhunters will not work with unemployed recruits, but with gainfully employed and attractive candidates looking to make a change in their employment. You're a more attractive candidate if companies think they're stealing you away from somewhere, plus you'll also be able to position yourself for more leverage when it comes to pay. Stay employed, even if you're unhappy with your current position, while you're talking with headhunters.
Don't pester your headhunter. Only follow up with a headhunter that responds to queries in the positive. Don't write again the next week hoping for a response, unless you want to get blacklisted for life. Headhunters are super-busy people who don't have a bunch of time to mess around answering emails from people who don't fit the bill. Know when to be quiet.
If you start working with a headhunter, it's also important to keep organized and focused, but don't blast off thirty emails a day to headhunters asking if they've found you anything yet. It's in their best interest to fill positions, meaning that you'll be the first person to know if you serve a role in the process. Be patient.
Watch out for scams. People may contact you claiming to be a headhunter with a great job for you, but they won't give you details of the job, and ask a lot of questions about your work history, and other personal questions. These are scam artists. Some may indeed be headhunters, but they are only asking about your job history and the names of contacts in companies you have worked for to get their foot in the door as a head hunter for those companies. Others may be identity thieves.
To avoid being scammed, insist on details of the job they are trying to fill. Ask where the company is located. Tell them that you already have a headhunter sending your resume to companies in that town, and in order to avoid duplicates insist they tell you the first letter of the name of the company. If you are familiar with the names of companies in that location, begin a guessing game with the person based on the letter they give you. If they refuse, stop all communications with them.
Headhunters are specialized. Pick the appropriate one for your area of interest, like healthcare IT, science and technology, healthcare and medicine.
Have an updated and professional looking resume ready before contacting a headhunter. Recruiters don't write resumes, so you'll need to have one ready.
Ask friends or contacts to review your resume and ask them to suggest improvements.
Don't expect a headhunter to get you a job. Their job is to fill the job with someone, not necessarily you. Use headhunters to supplement your job search.
Legitimate recruiters do not "collect" resumes to fill out their databases - what good does that do? The goal is to match people and companies, and you have to have information to do that. This includes a good resume that does the candidate justice (not a 1 page blurb) and additional background information from a phone or in-person interview. Recruiters then have a better idea if you fit that client's culture as well as technical requirements. And sometimes the information that you give the recruiter may open up another position that will be an even better fit.
Rather than insist on all the details of the job, ask for the recruiter's website to see if they are legitimate. Recruiters are not going to reveal the name of the client company the first time they talk to you since they need to protect themselves.
Never give personal information like social security numbers, banking info, mother's maiden name, names of family members, or even the names of employees or bosses from past jobs to anyone claiming to be a headhunter or offering a job. That information should only need to be given in person at the company after they have hired you.
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Conflict forces thousands to flee in Darfur, UN humanitarian office reports
19 February 2015 – Some 41,000 people have been forced to flee conflict in Darfur so far this year, according to the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which warned that needs for the displaced have been significantly higher because relief agencies have been largely denied access to areas where some of the heaviest fighting is reportedly taking place.
"Humanitarian organizations continue to assess and verify reports of thousands of people forced to flee their homes following clashes between government forces and armed movements in North Darfur state and parts of the Jebel Marra area," OCHA reported in its weekly humanitarian update on Sudan.
"To date, aid organisations have assessed and verified the needs of 41,304 people displaced as a result of this conflict," according to the bulletin.
The number of people in need of assistance and protection may be significantly higher because humanitarian organizations have largely been denied access to parts of Jebel Marra where some of the heaviest fighting is reportedly taking place, a UN spokesperson told reporters at today's press briefing.
"OCHA continues to call on all parties to respect their obligations under international humanitarian law and to facilitate immediate access for humanitarian organizations to people in need," said Stéphane Dujarric.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP), the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) and other humanitarian partners are providing food, water, sanitation supplies and emergency household kits to displaced people in Um Baru and northern El Fasher.
Meanwhile, UNHCR reported that an estimated 120,800 South Sudanese refugees had sought refuge in Sudan after fighting started in South Sudan mid-December 2013 South Sudan between President Salva Kiir and his former Vice-President, Riek Machar.
Over 78,200 of these refugees have received some form of humanitarian assistance, the UN refugee agency reports.
Given the increased new arrivals and the establishment of two additional relocation sites in White Nile state, prompt establishment of temporary health services in these new locations is planned, according to UNHCR.
The South Sudan crisis has uprooted an estimated 1.9 million people inside their country, including nearly 100,000 who have fled to United Nations bases.
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Keystone XL oil pipeline clears significant hurdle
Matthew Daly, Associated Press
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U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) speaks after the vote on the Keystone XL pipeline failed to pass the Senate on Capitol Hill in Washington November 18, 2014. The measure fell just short of the 60 votes needed for passage despite frantic last-minute lobbying by supporters, including Landrieu, who faces a runoff election on December 6. She has staked her hopes of winning on the Keystone gambit. The tally was 59 to 41 on TransCanada Corp's $8 billion, 800,000 barrels-per-day project, with all 45 Republicans supporting it. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY ENVIRONMENT BUSINESS)
U.S.Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) speaks after the vote on the Keystone XL pipeline failed to pass the Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline cleared a major hurdle toward approval Friday, a serious blow to environmentalists' hopes that President Barack Obama will block the controversial project running more than 1,000 miles from Canada through the heart of the U.S.
The State Department reported no major environmental objections to the proposed $7 billion pipeline, which has become a symbol of the political debate over climate change. Republicans and some oil- and gas-producing states in the U.S. — as well as Canada's minister of natural resources — cheered the report, but it further rankled environmentalists already at odds with Obama and his energy policy.
The report stops short of recommending approval of the pipeline, but the review gives Obama new support if he chooses to endorse it in spite of opposition from many Democrats and environmental groups. Foes say the pipeline would carry "dirty oil" that contributes to global warming, and they also express concern about possible spills.
Pushing back on the notion that the pipeline is now headed for speedy approval, the White House said the report isn't the final step and noted that the report includes "a range of estimates of the project's climate impacts." Only after various U.S. agencies and the public have a chance to weigh the report and other data will a decision be made, said White House spokesman Matt Lehrich.
"The president has clearly stated that the project will be in the national interest only if it does not significantly exacerbate the problem of carbon pollution," Lehrich said.
Republicans and business and labor groups have urged Obama to approve the pipeline to create thousands of jobs and move further toward North American energy independence. The pipeline is also strongly supported by Democrats in oil and gas-producing states, including Sens. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pryor of Arkansas. All face re-election this year and could be politically damaged by rejection of the pipeline. Republican Mitt Romney carried all three states in the 2012 presidential election.
The 1,179-mile pipeline would travel through the heart of the United States, carrying oil derived from tar sands in western Canada to a hub in Nebraska, where it would connect with existing pipelines to carry more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. It would cross Montana and South Dakota before reaching Nebraska. An existing spur runs through Kansas and Oklahoma to Texas.
Canadian tar sands are likely to be developed regardless of U.S. action on the pipeline, the report said,
The report says oil derived from tar sands in Alberta generates about 17 percent more greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming than traditional crude. But the report makes clear that other methods of transporting the oil — including rail, trucks and barges — would release more greenhouse gases than the pipeline.
U.S. and Canadian accident investigators warned last week about the dangers of oil trains that transport crude oil from North Dakota and other states to refineries in the U.S. and Canada. The officials urged new safety rules, cautioning that a major loss of life could result from an accident involving the increasing use of trains to transport large amounts of crude oil.
An alternative that relies on shipping the oil by rail through the central U.S. to Gulf Coast refineries would generate 28 percent more greenhouse gases than a pipeline, the report said.
State Department approval is needed because the pipeline crosses a U.S. border. Other agencies will have 90 days to comment before Secretary of State John Kerry makes a recommendation to Obama on whether the project is in the national interest. A final decision is not expected before summer.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the report "once again confirms that there is no reason for the White House to continue stalling construction of the Keystone XL pipeline."
McConnell said: "Mr. President, no more stalling, no more excuses. Please pick up that pen you've been talking so much about and make this happen. Americans need these jobs. "
However, a top official at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, said the report gives Obama all the information he needs to reject the pipeline.
"Piping the dirtiest oil on the planet through the heart of America would endanger our farms, our communities, our fresh water and our climate," said Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, the NRDC's international program director. "That is absolutely not in our national interest."
The report said the pipeline was likely to have an adverse effect on the endangered American burying beetle, found in South Dakota and Nebraska. But it said that could be offset by a monitoring program and other requirements on the pipeline operator.
In Canada, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver welcomed the report and said officials there "await a timely decision" on the pipeline.
"The choice for the United States is clear: oil supply from a reliable, environmentally responsible friend and neighbor or from unstable sources with similar or higher greenhouse gas emissions and lesser environmental standards," he said.
The new report comes only days after Obama's State of the Union address, in which he reiterated his support for an "all-of-the-above" energy strategy that embraces a wide range of sources, from oil and natural gas to renewables such as wind and solar power. The remarks were a rebuff to some of his environmental allies who argued that Obama's support of expanded oil and gas production doesn't make sense for a president who wants to reduce pollution linked to global warming.
Obama blocked the Keystone XL pipeline in January 2012, saying he did not have enough time for a fair review before a deadline forced on him by congressional Republicans. That delayed the choice for him until after his re-election.
Obama's initial rejection went over badly in Canada, which relies on the U.S. for 97 percent of its energy exports. The pipeline is critical to Canada, which needs infrastructure in place to export its growing oil sands production
In response, Obama quickly suggested development of an Oklahoma-to-Texas line to alleviate an oil bottleneck at a Cushing, Okla., storage hub. Oil began moving on that segment of the pipeline last week.
The 485-mile southern section of the pipeline operated by Calgary-based TransCanada did not require presidential approval because it does not cross a U.S. border.
TransCanada chief executive Russ Girling said he was pleased at the latest environmental review, the fifth released on the project since 2010. "The conclusions haven't varied. They are the same as before," he said.
Environmental groups criticized the State Department for publishing the report before the department's inspector general released findings of an inquiry into a contractor that worked on the review. Friends of the Earth and other groups say the contractor, Environmental Resources Management, has financial ties to TransCanada.
"We feel confident there are no issues related to this contractor," said Kerri Ann Jones, an assistant secretary of state who has overseen the Keystone review.
Associated Press writers Rob Gillies in Toronto and Josh Lederman in Washington contributed to this report.
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'Making a Murderer' resumes quest for justice with 'Part 2'
Jill Serjeant
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The documentary "Making a Murderer" captured attention in 2015 with its story of how two Wisconsin men were convicted of a brutal murder, throwing a harsh light on the U.S. justice system and triggering a spate of true-crime programming.
Now the Emmy-winning Netflix series is back as the two men - Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey - strive for freedom after 10 years behind bars.
"Making a Murderer" followed the 2005 killing of Teresa Halbach in rural Wisconsin that brought life sentences for scrap-car dealer Avery and his then 16-year-old nephew, Dassey.
Part 1, released in December 2015, left lingering questions and a public appetite for more, said filmmakers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos.
The 10-episode Part 2, to be released on Friday, shows viewers "what it's like for someone who has been convicted of a very serious crime and is sentenced to life in prison yet who is challenging that conviction," Ricciardi said in an interview.
"Making a Murderer" called into question the conduct of law enforcement officials and the rights of criminal defendants, particularly teens like Dassey, whose lawyers argued was coerced into confessing to the crime.
Ricciardi, a former lawyer, and Demos have been working on the story for more than 10 years but have not lost faith in the judicial system.
"We are firm believers in transparency and that progress will only come through visibility and debate - that's very encouraging," said Demos.
"Perhaps what you see when you shine a light on things can be depressing, but you have to face it before you make it any better," she added.
While Part 1 played out through court hearings and trials leading to the convictions, in the new series Avery gets a new attorney who re-investigates the murder and tracks Dassey's quest to bring his case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
"You are watching lawyers behind the scenes, trying to win their day in court. This is the preparation and the investigation to get there," said Demos.
"Making a Murderer" spawned a spate of TV shows and podcasts about true crime and stranger-than-fiction sagas, including documentaries "The Keepers" and "Wild Wild Country," and podcasts "Dirty John," "In the Dark" and "S-Town."
Long-form storytelling "allows you to spend time with characters that are not one-dimensional," Demos said. "You don't have to fit your story into a box."
Reporting by Jill Serjeant in New York; Editing by Matthew Lewis


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For years, Joseph Mikucionis had a deal with his wife, Lucille. He had stopped driving their family car any great distance, but every morning he opened the garage, warmed the car and backed it out to the bottom of the driveway -- a few feet away -- for the two of them to run errands together.
Mikucionis, who was in his early 80s, often regaled his wife with stories about what was happening at his company in Milford, although he'd been retired for years.
His accounts always had a lot of details. Who got along with who. Who was slipping up on the job. How he had to settle disagreements before they got out of control. The way he told it, it was as though it happened yesterday or the day before.
"He went on and on for days about the problems there," Fairfield Police Sgt.
James Perez recalls. "And she let him go on babbling, which is probably one of the worst things you can do with someone with Alzheimer's" because it helps keep him fixated on the subject.
One day Mikucionis backed the family car out of the driveway, and it was the last time his wife saw him alive.
It's stories like Mikucionis' -- an elderly Alzheimer's patient gone missing -- that are motivating Attorney General Richard Blumenthal to call on state lawmakers to enact "Silver Alert" legislation, similar to the much-acclaimed Amber Alert that has helped police find missing and abducted children.
Thirteen states -- including Rhode Island, Ohio, Florida, Missouri and Kentucky -- have Silver Alerts. And five others -- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illinois -- are considering them.
The Silver Alert emergency notification system allows law enforcement agencies to broadcast regional or statewide alerts for missing senior citizens and others with cognitive impairments, such as Alzheimer's, using radio, television, electronic highway signs and possibly Internet alerts on newspaper Web sites.
Thirty-seven million people, or 12 percent of the U.S. population, are 65 or older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau . In next two years, as the oldest baby boomers join the ranks of senior citizens, the bureau says this silver-haired set will grow at faster rate than any other demographic group in any state.
By 2015, Connecticut is projected to have 526,000 residents 65 and older. And 26 states are expected to double their age 65 and older population by 2030.
Perez welcomed the attorney general's Silver Alert push Tuesday before the General Assembly 's Committee on Aging .
"I don't know if anybody in Connecticut is prepared to deal with the host of issues that our state is going to be faced with very soon as our oldest baby boomers reach retirement age and beyond as senior citizens," he said.
"There are a host of health issues, along with other vulnerabilities that the elderly face. Scammers love to prey on them. So do thieves," who consider them easy marks for muggings or other crimes of violence.
Between 2001 and now, Fairfield police investigated at least 56 cases of missing senior citizens. Perez qualifies the department's statistics, saying the actual number is "probably much higher," because those 56 incidents represent only investigations in which 911 dispatchers specifically mentioned the missing person was elderly or suffered from Alzheimer's.
According to the National Association of State Units on Aging, which keeps statistics on states with Silver Alert programs, most of the cost associated with the program is minimal and the alerts have not been overused, as some state officials initially feared.
In North Carolina, where 151 alerts have been issued since 2007 -- the highest number anywhere in the country -- all but six people were found alive. Georgia has broadcast 68 alerts since July 2006, and every missing elderly person was found.
Florida, which has put out 27 alerts since October 2008, located all but six of its missing senior citizens.
Trumbull Police Chief Thomas H. Kiely says missing seniors in his town are few, perhaps only one or two a year, but he backs Blumenthal's Silver Alert proposal.
"I think it's a good idea whenever you have someone who is missing," Kiely says. "The best thing you can do is have more people out looking for a person who may have wandered off. You can put hundreds of cops on the road searching for them, and it does only so much good.
"But the second you broadcast this alert on TV, radio, the electronic highway signs and even the Internet, on a newspaper's Web site," Kiely says, "you exponentially increase the number of people looking out for this person -- and increasing the odds of finding him."
As for Mikucionis, who backed his car out of his garage on Oct. 8, 1999, everyone from his wife, family and the police expected he was headed to the place he once worked. He had talked non-stop for days about getting into his office, Perez said, to fix things there.
The route from his home on Wilton Road in Fairfield would have taken him north on the Merritt Parkway, and that's where it appears he intended to go.
But something distracted Mikucionis, and he ended up on Route 25 in Trumbull. Then he cruised north from where Route 25 ends as a three-lane expressway to where it narrows after Route 111 into a narrow one-lane road in each direction.
He traveled a couple of miles up the road, until his car crashed into a restaurant, killing him.


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Next Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan OVA for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure reveals visual, December theatrical release
Kishibe Rohan is back for a brand new Jojo's Bizarre Adventure OVA. It will be part of the Thus Spoke…
Kishibe Rohan is back for a brand new Jojo's Bizarre Adventure OVA. It will be part of the Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan series. Now, that new anime won't just have a home video release, but also a limited theatrical release as well! Pre-sales for tickets have now opened, and to celebrate, they released a new visual:
This will be the first of two new OVAs, and it will hit Japanese theatres on 8th December. It will will adapt the "Zange-shitsu" episode, while the second one, which premieres on 29 March 2020, adapts the "The Run" episode. Takahiro Sakurai, who voices Rohan in the anime, will be appearing in all of the screenings.
Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan follows Hirohiko Araki's fictional alter ego, Rohan Kishibe. There are 10 one-shot episodes in total, with the 10th one, "The Run," released in February 2018. Previously, David Production also released two Kishibe Rohan OVAs as well.
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