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(2/29/04 6:52 am)
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What EXACTLY does kriya yoga do to the physical body - brain function, blood flow etc? Has there been ANY scientific testing done on this?
ugizralrite
(2/29/04 8:03 pm)
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Good question. I did an archive search and found some links from back in November which I will post in the next box. If any of this spiritual stuff had made a huge impression it would be researched, but the spiritual seeker is such a rare bird that most of the world is completely oblivious to those things we regard so highly in our own seeking.
Etzchaim posted this:
Chuckle Chela,
I was wondering if you could recommend some books that you have found helpful in understanding the effects of meditation.
I've found a few sites that look interesting. The Dalai Lama is very interested in neuroscience, and Zen appears to have been studied frequently, so there is an emphasis on Buddhism.
Most of us will agree that meditation actually lessens the dullness of the mind, but it's rather fascinating to read about the actuall effects.
www.sciencentral.com/arti...=218392025
www.rcpsych.ac.uk/college...uality.pdf
mindis.com/MINDis.shtml
www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/d...?msg=22517
The last link is more about the actual conference. It seems to me that some of the skepticism on the part of scientists is "knee jerk modern", but then I'm pretty familiar with the Dalai Lama's approach. He's majorly oriented toward uniting science and mysticism, as his predecessor was also oriented toward modernity and saw no conflict between Buddhism and science.
Small amount of response from MIT conference:
'...panelists suggested that scientists are only now starting to see that expert meditators may be useful not only as guinea pigs, but also in offering insight about the mind. "Before I got into this, I thought we should be open-minded, but I didn't think it was likely we would be able to have a useful exchange," Nancy Kanwisher, an MIT psychologist and panelist, said after the first morning session of the two-day conference. But now, she said, "I feel like there is a common language, a common engagement of ideas. We've only scratched the surface."'
Edited by: etzchaim at: 11/24/03 6:50 am
(11/24/03 10:49 am)
Reply Re: Conclusion Thanks etzy for these great links. The last concerning the Dalai Lama touches on inner visualization with just a little detail. The third link points to, www.buddhanet.net/medpsych.htm which has tons of insight on the psychological aspects of meditation, a really comprehensive paper. I await Chuckle Chela's input.
chuckle chela
(11/24/03 9:53 pm)
Reply Re: Conclusion Etzy--
My first recommendation is to read some of Ken Wilber's stuff. Many thanks to One Taste for turning me on to Wilber. The two books I cited earlier--"The Eye of Spirit" and "Integral Psychology"--give some overview, as well as much valuable background material. Wilber has produced an amazing synthesis of East and West, ancient and modern.
Also, you might want to look at Michael Murphy's books. He is pretty dialed in.
Here's a few websites. The Noetic site has stuff by Murphy--well worth reading.
www.noetic.org/ions/medbiblio/biblio.htm
Very extensive bibiography. Hundreds of studies listed. No reviews.
www.noetic.org/ions/new.html
This features chapters from Michael Murphy's book, published by the Institute of Noetic Sciences, on the effects of meditation. A great resource! By the time you've finished with this website, your head will be swimming. Incidentally, This reviews data up to about 1996 (and since then the research field has grown even more dramatically). Michael Murphy has a very highly-regarded reputation in the transpersonal psychology field (he's also one of the founders of the Esalen Institute).
womensmindbodyhealth.info/mmresearch11.htm
A good listing of abstracts (good detail) outlining lots of research on vipassana meditation.
www.fifo.org.html/meditation
www.fifo.org/abstracts_of_psychological_lit.html#general
Lots more stuff. A good listing of fairly recent research.
www.wisespirit.com/medresrch.htm
Site gives very brief reviews of research in a number of areas. Don't trust these abstracts: if you really want to know whether the data from these studies is valid, check out the research journal articles themselves. No recent research is reviewed.
unstress4less.org/transcendental_meditation-harmful-abstracts.htm
This is one YB would love (In fact, he might have cited it in his posting on the negative effects of meditation; I can't be bothered to check his post). Yes, there are data out there showing harmful effects. As I've mentioned before, when considering both positive and negative effects of mediation it is difficult, if not impossible, to ignore the "ecosystem" (if you will) that surrounds the act of meditation. By that I mean the cultures which surround the various practices of meditation, and all the other factors, inter- and extrapersonal, that can have an influence. My suspicion, based on some of the research I've seen, is that meditative practices can have detrimental effects when, for example, they are used in an unbalanced fashion, too excessively by an individual who isn't prepared for such use, and so on. Then, too, the TM people have been known to make what are almost outrageous claims, such as being able to levitate. These kind of claims, combined with such factors as being urged to practice in unnatural ways and to achieve possibly unrealistic goals can lead to problems, both physical and mental.
Finally, for a bit of fun here's stuff from Herbert Benson of Harvard, one of the granddaddies of meditation research.
www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.html
Well, you get the idea. There are now literally thousands upon thousands of studies that have been done on the effects of meditation. If you google the topic, you'll find enough stuff to keep you going for months. I think it's safe to say there's plenty of evidence showing positive effects. At the same time, I should mention again that, like in all scientific research, some is better than others in terms of producing data that is both valid and reliable (that is, able to be reproduced by other researchers). A study, for example, that is done on only 10 subjects just isn't going to yield any valid data--there's not enough people being studied to make the results meaningful. And that's just one factor to consider. However, in the last 10 years or so, the field has "tightened up" considerably.
Edited by: ugizralrite at: 2/29/04 8:13 pm
(3/1/04 9:08 am)
Reply See SRF Research department thread
Page two threads SRF Teaching and Ideals has a thread called SRF Research Department where scientific investigation of kriya yoga is discussed. pub78.ezboard.com/fsrfwal...ID=6.topic
Also I found a couple of posts on the kriya yoga discussion board that touch on this:
Date Posted: 10:42
Author: anil nerode-28Aug02
Subject: Re: Vedic Mathematics & Prof. Nerode?
In reply to: Eponymous-28Aug02 's message, "Re: Vedic Mathematics & Prof. Nerode?" on 10:41
Yoga at the highest level is a spiritual quest, not a science. But before commencing any quest we try to equip ourselves with knowledge and training. In Yoga a portion of that knowledge and training is about physiological phenomena which allow us to develop concentration and meditation skills of a high order. These are definitely capable of scientific analysis, though many who have tried experiments are not good scientists and have not framed simple hypotehses to test. Dhirananda was a "scientific" yogi, with a very strong background, electroencephalography with a master's from the University of Calcultta. Otherwise, when he decided to stop teaching in 1933, he could not immediately have gone on to a PhD in the subject, and become a lifelong research professor at the University of Michigan Medical school with 50-100 published papers. He tried with the science of his time to analyze exactly what physiological effects each of the exercises had, and how they contributed to concentration and meditation. Such studies can reveal a lot, and can help distinguish which parts of Yoga are physiological training which makes meditation and concentration more effective, but have absolutely no spiritual content, and those parts which are about attainment of spiritual goals. These are easily confused. This is like confusing a box with its contents, and leads to emphasis on technique and ritual rather than on spirituality. So science has a role, by no means exhausted, in the study and practice of Yoga.
Author: Eponymous - 10Dec01
Subject: Re: An SRF research department
In reply to: ketch - 9 Dec 2001 's message, "Re: An SRF research department" on 19:23
I really wonder, Ketch, whether anyone who practices kriya (or any other spiritual discipline) does so with the belief that the "spiritual advancement" attained thereby has no manifestation other than in "the depth of his bliss in meditation"; when motivated to show that there really is something to this meditation thing, kriya practitioners will frequently point to alleged physical phenomena (corporeal incorruptibility, transmigration, breath/heartbeat/pulse cessation, materialization, etc.) that, as they see it, demonstrate spiritual advancement.
Now, these are straightforward, empirical phenomena, open to rigorous scrutiny by anyone who would care to apply it; for any type of event that admits of regular, ocular observation, a test should be cheap and easy to design. [n.1] And since almost all of the phenomena routinely trotted out as putative evidence for a given yogi's spiritual excellence are so observable, the sober kriya investigator should have no trouble [n.2] finding out whether the ostensibly distinctive effects of their favored spiritual discipline exist outside the netherworld of meditational bliss. [n.3]
1. Example - a proposed research protocol for investigating whether breath cessation is an authentic phenomenon: Immerse a putative master of breath cessation under water for, say, an hour. (No need for complicated blood oxygen measurments or atmospheric monitoring equipment, that way.) To control for secreted methods of oxygen intake (i.e., fraud): make sure to video tape the subject, and make sure the subject's entire facial area is clearly visible to the camera during the test.
2. Of course there may be the issue of getting a claimant's cooperation for a test. But then where a claimant is averse to a test, we should accordingly discount his claim.
3. My guess, though, is that most kriya practitioners will shy away from inquiring into questions that can be answered. I think the ethos driving this taste for the inscrutable was summed up well by Burt Reynold's character in the film "Mystery, Alaska": "Two things we�ve always had in Mystery - our dignity; and our illusions. I suggest we cling to both."
SatoriElixir
(12/21/05 2:50 am)
ne thing all the yogic breathing and kriya yoga meditation actually FEED DARK FORCES(DF)...more energy.
The astral attachment or DF is vampiring off of you and the more you meditate with that yogic stuff the more they feed on it. One of the results to this type of relationship is that the energy vampire pulls energy from sources around you...like LIGHTS.
This type of possession is real common among NEW AGERs who channel, do yogic or some time of "altering their energy field breathing" and opening themselves up willingly by activating their chakras.
THIS IS VERY DANGEROUS. It's not recommended to people that they meditate without proper guidance and instruction and don't recommend yogic breathing as that is one thing the astral entities LOVE...
I steer people away from SRF, and kriya yoga, and TM meditation and any kind of meditation that is done without "setting up the proper protection."
Kriyas are an "ASTRAL ENERGY" event. They like other breathing and nervous sytem practices... alter the nervous system and open up the chakras so that the human reality is now anchored more with the astral reality.
THAT SPELLS TROUBLE WITH A CAPITAL T
MEDITATION IS TROUBLE......
Many people get possessed through meditation.
A practice that should NOT HAVE BEEN given to the masses. You can't give kriya to beginning Disciple level. Trouble is....the people at SRF have no idea WHO people are, they have no REAL discernment except what you write them, or in brief interviews or even the monks that live at the ashram...they're all still stuck in Disciple level. Tens of thousands of newagers are going around meditating when they have no idea what they are doing, they do the SRF exercises...without any discernment or protection....its a mess.
The dark forces use ALL THESE techniques....they readily use Kriya, they use meditation, they use ANYTHING that affects your nervous system. All these techniques do are open you up to the astral worlds and astral energy.
Something INDIA was big on doing ....but has caused a lot of trouble for the INDIAN people and now people in the west.
Astral powers are NOT to be messed around with. You don't have to do yogic breathing to gain your freedom. All that does is tap you into the astral worlds and energy, it doesn't set you free. What happens once you start tapping into astral energies (meditation, yoga, breathing) depends on "who and what is waiting for you on the other side of the veil of energy." To achieve freedom you need to isolate yourself from astral influences by ascending beyond it - NOT WELCOME THEM IN.
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Re: KRIYA YOGA MEDITATION
Looks like a cross post!
Spot the Looney
stermejo
Satori may be under the influence of certain unnamed Sikh teachers who preach strongly against any form of pranayama and more strongly against the Astral plane.
DANGER, DANGER, Will Robinson!
Satori claims to be a regular astral traveller! Of course as always...Satori must be an advanced individual, Astral travelling, etc..
What is it Satori? Is meditation safe or not? Can we have it both ways?
Edited by: stermejo at: 12/30/05 12:42 pm
Secret Wind
(3/27/06 11:45 pm)
"The Futility of Kriya, Meditation, and Egomaniacs" by DeliberateP (4/16/05).
The futility of Kriya
Kriya yoga is a supposed meditation technique brought to civilised western society by Paramhansa Yogananda early last century. It comes from a MAD-MAN called Lahiri Mahasaya who had delusions of grandeur in that he believed he was God. Lahiri is supposed to have met a man named Babaji Maharaj (which is Indian speak for "revered Father" and is not even a name) who is said to have an immortal physical body and has been incarnate for around 2000 years, who gave him the technique of kriya yoga in a remote region of the Himalayas around the mid 1800's. Babaji is a Yogi. However, Yogananda calls Babaji a Maha-Yogi, which means "great yogi". (It is extraordinary that "yoga" means union with God and yet it seems as though Babaji is more special than other human beings).
What is Kriya yoga? Quite simply, it is a practice which involves intense imaginative prowess in an effort to achieve omnipotence and omniscience. The practitioner is taught how to make hissing sounds with their breathing while imagining the air that goes into their lungs to actually be going up and down their spine instead. The theory goes that if you can concentrate on this practice and develop it to a refined degree, you will actually achieve a state called Kumbhaka, which means cessation of the breathing process. Kumbhaka, however, is a myth. Part of the kriya routine of going up and down the spine is that once proficiency is attained a person ACTUALLY feels "energy-body" currents called prana and apana (for up and down). When prana and apana meet (somewhere..??!) then kumbhaka is achieved. Kumbhaka can be attained (as we are told) by a SCIENTIFIC process which includes abstaining from sex and meat and inducing self-relaxation methods with fasting. However, kriya has been packaged in such a way as to MAKE OUT as if it is scientific in the modern-day sense of the word while ignoring the true meaning of science. Science is based on objective facts which can be verified with a failure rate of ZERO. In other words, science is GUARANTEED to produce results. Kriya, on the other hand, apparently depends upon the grace of God. So while someone may practice the "scientific" technique of kriya for their WHOLE life and get nothing in return, other persons merely have to practice and get results straight away. How scientific is that?
Lahiri Mahasaya suffered from delusions, one of them being a massive delusion of grandeur in which he believed that he was God. In writings that have come down from close associates of the "Baba", we learn that he called himself the reincarnation of the saint Kabir, not to mention being God himself in the form of Indian deities.
Anyone want to play "spot the Ego"?
Since Param(a)hansa Yogananda's book, Autobiography of a Yogi, was published around the mid 20th century, lots of cultish followers have invented stories about Babaji. Lahiri's life story first appeared in the AOAY as well as Babaji. Suffice to say, none of these stories has any quality of SANITY to them.
So we are led to believe, innocent enough on our parts, that there is a spiritual technique of salvation called Kriya which accelerates human evolution so tremendously that Yogananda had the balls to say that it was, compared to slower methods of travel, the "airplane" route to God. However, evolution is NEVER in terms of an undefined spiritual soul substance which has to get to a stage where it leaves THIS PLANET in order to go back to God (or heaven). Evolution on this planet is ALWAYS about physical life-forms developing and growing in certain ways to survive. And apart from the idea that heaven exists as a place "out-there" where we go when we die in order to get off this planet, there are also a lot of religious folk that believe that heaven consists of retaining your physical bodily form on earth in a paradise. Then there are those that say heaven is on earth.
At the end of the day, Kriya is an attempt at auto-suggestion combined with hypnosis in an effort to achieve control over the involuntary functions of the human body (ie heartbeat and breathing). It has nothing to do with God, spiritual evolution, chakras, kundalini, or any other psychic phenomenon. Psychic would, of course, include ideas pertaining to an astral body and astral world. Even if such control over autonomic functions were possible by doing kriya, the usefulness of such a thing is in question. And since there are so FEW persons able to demonstrate that Kriya DOES, in fact, give persons control over these things, kriya (on the whole) amounts to virtually nothing.
Futility of meditation
Meditation is a means to peace, control over one's station in life. Apart from the eastern traditions, meditation has crept into the western psyche in the form of New Age teachings and practises. In the West, you will find that meditation merges with self-proclaimed psychic persons. That aside, let us examine the goal of meditation.
It appears that meditation is a means to producing mental peace. The goal, according to the schools of Yoga, is to achieve a state where the mind is at complete rest. You could compare it to a calm lake without surface ripples. What, if anything, does this calm lake do for people? We hear about states of bliss, indescribable states of intense joy and peace in the consciousness of the practitioner.
There are, of course, problems with such a paradigm.
One such problem is the apparent contradiction of obtaining a state of mind where there is not supposed to be a person experiencing it. We are told that the soul is the perceiver and not the mind. However, consciousness is not independent from the mind. So the faculty of perception doesn't even lie outside the mind, but within the mind. Hence, soul perception is an erroneous concept.
There are other problems too involved to mention here without soliciting responses from interested persons in an effort to further understanding.
So what does meditation actually do? Well, it certainly doesn't make the world a Utopia.
It also doesn't appear to be scientific in the main.
But most of all, meditation seems to be a hit or miss affair; you either got it or you don't got it. (reminds me of EVERY religion ever).
The Futility of Egomaniacs
What is the traits of an egomaniac? In one word, narcissism.
Whenever we hear about spiritual practices which are designed to produce self-realisation and God-consciousness, we invariably also hear from those that practice these things the same old, same old; they simply have not transcended their ego. Why do these people seem to be even LESS humble than regular persons? Why do these people seem to be even MORE suffering from delusions of Grandeur than regular persons?
The answer is that they are selling people a LIE. Whenever anyone makes a show of being humble, they have outwitted themselves. They have shown us their true colors. They have shown us that they are, in fact, not what they appear to be. In short, they are Egotists masquerading as sinless human beings.
And this leads me to comment on certain Kriya teachers.
It is evidence to all and sundry, that persons such as BBA, Yogananda, Mahasaya, All Indian Gurus, Sankara Saranam, etc etc, have MAJOR EGO PROBLEMS.
There are NO Indian gurus to have come to the West in the last century who don't have some baggage to attend to which MAKES THEM LESS OF A SAINT than ordinary persons. (mind, there is no need to debate what "ordinary" means, just like there is no need to hold a debate about the meaning of the word "Yellow"). What to speak of the Kriya Gurus? Are we to believe, despite all the bullshit we hear from them, that these people are truly HIGHER than all other persons? And what of Yoga? Doesn't Yoga mean that you become God? So if all are equal (which is clearly a fallacy), then why respect these people? Respect, in this case, is shown to persons who claim to have elevated their consciousness (!) above mundane persons?
Hmmmmmmmmm
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Dayton, Ohio must have been a very weird place to be in the late 1940s, especially if you worked for the U.S. Air Force and were stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. I say this because over the past few days I have been reading two very different accounts of UFO research activities at Wright-Patterson, and the contrasts are beyond bizarre...
Why would UFO research be done at all at a base in Dayton, Ohio, you might ask. It seems strange, but Wright-Patterson has always been associated with advanced aircraft testing, and so every time the Air Force gets its hands on a crashed UFO they bundle it up and ship it off to Dayton, where it will officially baffle and confuse our best and brightest aeronautical engineers. Which means that anyone hoping to find a salvaged UFO at Area 51 is going to be disappointed. They're all in Ohio! Ditto on the alien corpses.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, where the U.S. government probably maybe keeps its UFOs and aliens.
You would think that that would make Wright-Patterson a pretty cool place to be between 1948 and 1952, and you would be right. But, it was only cool for certain people working in certain offices.
Take the experience of June Crain, in whom who I have now taken a special interest. This woman worked as a secretary/office manager for several offices at Wright-Patterson between 1942 and 1952. For the last few years of her employment, she worked for Air Materiel Command, and had earned a SECRET Q security clearance, which could mean that she was cleared to know about anything starting with the letter Q, or could mean something different entirely. The point is, once a person goes beyond Super Triple Top Secret, as June Crain did, the security nomenclature starts to make very little sense at all.
Be that as it may, everyone at Wright-Patt with a SECRET Q security clearance knew everybody else at Wright-Patt with a SECRET Q security clearance, and since they couldn't talk about their work with anyone without a SECRET Q security clearance they all spent a lot of time talking with each other about SECRET Q-y-type things going on at the base. As it happened, a lot of those SECRET Q-y-type things had to do with crashed UFOs and alien corpses being delivered to the Air Material Commend offices, where Ms. Crain would have to sign for the deliveries and make sure all the corpses were accounted for. Actually, that's not true, but because of her security clearance, the people who really did handle UFO wreckage and alien corpses spoke freely in front of her and even to her about the strange things in the basement... and her testimony, given many years later to UFO researcher James Clarkson, rings true.
Which makes it all the more ironic that at the exact same time, at the exact same Air Force Base, the dedicated staff of Project Sign (which begat Project Grudge, which in turn begat Project Blue Book) were working night and day to convince the American public that there were no such things as flying saucers and aliens from space.
The chapters in J. Allen Hynek's book "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry" in which he describes his role in the Air Force's official UFO research group paint a picture of an understaffed, unmotivated, directionless team of low-ranking officers and functionaries who couldn't be bothered to do even the most rudimentary investigative work, and always came the same predetermined dismissal of every UFO sighting case that they looked at.
Did the two offices know of each others' existence? In one office, you have SECRET Q June Crain hearing about nighttime deliveries of alien corpses and being given glimpses of strange alien metal, and in another office, perhaps right down the hall, you've got low-ranking Air Force officers with YOU ARE NOT CLEARED FOR SHIT security clearance blithely telling the American public that every UFO report they read about in the papers was just some yokel who either misidentified the planet Venus or should be in a straitjacket at the local asylum, or both.
Somehow, it is all too easy to believe that the two offices had no clue the other existed...
Posted by Mark UFO'Connell at 10:40 AM
Labels: Air Materiel Command, Dayton, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, James Clarkson, June Crain, Ohio, Project Blue Book, Project Grudge, Project Sign, SECRET Q, Wright-Petterson Air Force Base
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Emmy Nominations 2015 Reactions – (Surprises, Squeals and Snubs)
Hello devoted readers (Mom & Dad)….I know I'm a day behind on the Emmy nominations and that on Twitter I promised a post yesterday but here's the deal, I had a work party yesterday so when I eventually made it home last night it just wasn't going to happen….soo deal with it or don't, I just want my headache to go away at this point.
Anyways yesterday the Emmy Nominations came out…yay!! I've put the main categories below but for a full list check out http://tvline.com/2015/07/16/emmy-nominations-the-full-list/.
There's a ton to say about these nominations but here are my initial reactions. As we get closer to the actual event I'll break down my thoughts on winners.
This is me squealing!!
Jim Parson – no nomination for Sheldon?! This is a SURPRISE AND A SNUB…but it shocked me so much it had to go under this category. This industry juggernaut has sort of become an automatic nomination in his category. Plus there a few people that got nominated that I don't 100% agree with…I'm looking at you Anthony Anderson.
Empire – I really don't know if this show was the best on TV which is why it's not under SNUBS…but with it's massive popularity its a surprise that the show didn't get nominated.
SQUEALS
"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" for Outstanding Comedy Series – this made me so happy!!! I don't even have the words I'm just going to say "Beyonce" to the Emmy voters and then just sing the theme song to myself all day.
Tatiana Maslany, "Orphan Black" for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – for anyone that is an fan of this show is crazy bananas that Maslany has yet to EVEN BE NOMINATED for this award after 3 amazing seasons of her playing (7…?) different people so seamlessly that you forget it's one person playing them all.
Tituss Burgess, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" – this is a strong category so not sure of his chances but I just love him. #pinotnoir
UPDATE – totally forgot to mention Lily Tomlin for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for "Grace and Frankie", it's great to see this little talked about show getting some recognition.
SNUBS
"Jane the Virgin"…the shows, the actors…pretty much anyone and everyone involved with this show. This comedic & heartfelt series has quickly risen to one of my favorite shows on TV. You can't help but fall in love with Jane, her love triangle the Villanueva women & of course Rogelio, because as he would tell you he's kind of a big deal.
"The Americans"….for Best Drama and Best Actor & Actress. Don't get me wrong I'm very happy that the writing team got a nod (that episode is AMAZING!) as well as Margo Martindale for Guest Actress in a Drama (even though I think Lois Smith from the nominated episode should have gotten a guest starring nod as well). But this in my opinion is the Best Drama on TV and the acting from Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys is ridiculously good. The tooth pulling episode only should have earned them both nominations.
Ellie Kemper for the "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" – from squeals to snubs so quickly. I find it hard to believe the main character of a show who was nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series (whose name is in the freaking title!), didn't get nominated. That character could have easily become annoying but instead her constant excitement and confusion with the world is endearing.
Outstanding Drama Series
"Better Call Saul" (AMC)
"Downton Abbey" (PBS)
"Game Of Thrones" (HBO)
"Homeland" (Showtime)
"House Of Cards" (Netflix)
"Mad Men" (AMC)
"Orange Is The New Black" (Netflix)
Outstanding Comedy Series
"Louie" (FX)
"Modern Family" (ABC)
"Parks And Recreation" (NBC)
"Silicon Valley" (HBO)
"Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" (Netflix)
"Veep" (HBO)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Kyle Chandler, "Bloodline"
Jeff Daniels, "The Newsroom"
Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"
Bob Odenkirk, "Better Call Saul"
Liev Schreiber, "Ray Donovan"
Kevin Spacey, "House of Cards"
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Claire Danes, "Homeland"
Viola Davis, "How to Get Away With Murder"
Taraji P. Henson, "Empire"
Tatiana Maslany, "Orphan Black"
Elisabeth Moss, "Mad Men"
Robin Wright, "House of Cards"
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson, "black-ish"
Louis C.K., "Louie"
Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"
Will Forte, "Last Man on Earth"
Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes"
William H. Macy, "Shameless"
Jeffrey Tambor, "Transparent"
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"
Lisa Kudrow, "The Comeback"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"
Amy Poehler, "Parks and Recreation"
Amy Schumer, "Inside Amy Schumer"
Lily Tomlin, "Grace and Frankie"
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Jonathan Banks, "Better Call Saul"
Ben Mendelsohn, "Bloodline"
Jim Carter, "Downton Abbey"
Peter Dinklage, "Game of Thrones"
Michael Kelly, "House of Cards"
Alan Cumming, "The Good Wife"
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Joanne Froggatt, "Downton Abbey"
Lena Headey, "Game of Thrones"
Emilia Clarke, "Game of Thrones"
Christina Hendricks, "Mad Men"
Uzo Aduba, "Orange Is the New Black"
Christine Baranski, "The Good Wife"
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Niecy Nash, "Getting On"
Julie Bowen, "Modern Family"
Allison Janney, "Mom"
Kate McKinnon, "Saturday Night Live"
Mayim Bialik, "The Big Bang Theory"
Gaby Hoffmann, "Transparent"
Jane Krakowski, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"
Anna Chlumsky, "Veep"
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Andre Braugher, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"
Adam Driver, "Girls"
Keegan-Michael Key, "Key & Peele"
Ty Burrell, "Modern Family"
Tituss Burgess, "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt"
Tony Hale, "Veep"
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By C-Man, October 3, 2019 in Other Sports
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Season started tonight. Linda Cohn really likes the Stars in the following link. (She's not alone.) Go Stars!
The puck drops on the 2019-20 NHL season on Wednesday night, including the St. Louis Blues raising their championship banner and the San Jose Sharks visiting the Vegas Golden Knights for a renewal of their budding rivalry.
But we're looking way ahead, answering the big questions: Who will win the Stanley Cup? Who are the favorites for all the major awards? Here are our picks:
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Caps win 3-2 in OT.
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For the first time in my life, my team are the defending Stanley Cup champions. Life is good.
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I hope the Bruins lose.
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My sentiment towards the Penguins. Crosby is an incessant whiner and Malkin is a pussy posing as a tough guy. Both expect the league and zebras to fly cover for them.
Is it apparent that I'm a Caps fan?
Zepol87 2,014
In Columbus for work. Got a ticket off seat geek for 15 dollars. This town loves hockey. At first the arena seemed minor league to me but I kind of enjoy the non huge ticking place like other arenas I've been to.
Don Cherry went and got himself fired.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2019/11/11/don-cherry-fired-from-sportsnet-following-toxic-rant.html
Don Cherry is going off the air.
The long-time host of Coach's Corner will not be back on Hockey Night in Canada following inflammatory comments he made over the weekend regarding new Canadians.
Rogers Sportsnet confirmed the decision with a statement Monday afternoon.
"Following further discussions with Don Cherry after Saturday night's broadcast, it has been decided it is the right time for him to immediately step down," Sportsnet President Bart Yabsley said in a statement released on Twitter Monday afternoon. "During the broadcast, he made divisive remarks that do not represent our values or what we stand for.
"Don is synonymous with hockey and has played an integral role in growing the game over the past 40 years. We would like to thank Don for his contributions to hockey and sports broadcasting in Canada."
Ron MacLean
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I want to sincerely apologize to our viewers and Canadians. During last night's broadcast, Don made comments that were hurtful and prejudiced and I wish I had handled myself differently. It was a divisive moment and I am truly upset with myself for allowing it. (1/2)
I have worked with Don for 30 years, and we both love hockey. But last night, I know we failed you. I see hockey as part of what unites us. I have the honour of travelling across our country to celebrate Canada's game, and our diversity is one of our country's greatest strengths.
5:37 PM - Nov 10, 2019 · St. Catharines, Ontario
Though he has been branded xenophobic, his comments had not come back to hurt him until Saturday night when he went on a rant during his first-period intermission segment, saying he's seeing fewer people wearing poppies to honour fallen Canadian soldiers, singling out those he believes are immigrants in Toronto and Mississauga.
Don Cherry's comments 'were hurtful, discriminatory — flat out wrong,' Ron MacLean says during apology
Bruce Arthur: It really should be game over for Don Cherry this time after toxic 'you people' rant
"You know, I was talking to a veteran, and I said, I'm not going to run the (annual Remembrance Day montage) anymore, because what's the sense? I live in Mississauga, nobody wears, very few people wear a poppy," said Cherry. "Downtown Toronto, forget it, downtown Toronto, nobody wears a poppy. And I'm not going to, and he says, wait a minute. How about running it for the people that buy them?
"Now you go to the small cities and you know, the rows on rows, you people love — that come here, whatever it is — you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you can pay a couple bucks for a poppy or something like that. These guys paid for your way of life that you enjoy in Canada, these guys paid the biggest price. Anyhow, I'm going to run it for you great people and good Canadians that bought a poppy."
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2:07 PM - Nov 11, 2019
It quickly became controversial, with even his broadcast partner, Ron MacLean, apologizing during Sunday night's Rogers Hometown Hockey broadcast.
"I want to address what happened last night on Hockey Night in Canada," MacLean said. "Don Cherry made remarks which were hurtful, discriminatory — which were flat out wrong.
"So, I owe you an apology, too. That is the big thing that I want to empathize. I sat there. I did not catch it. Did not respond."
The NHL has also pushed back against Cherry's comments, calling them "offensive" and saying "Hockey is at its best when it brings people together."
EMAWesome 551
Kind of always felt he was going to have a Cosell exit but still, what a bunch of pussies.
Ghost of LL 1,623
47 minutes ago, EMAWesome said:
Huh. Ok--you want to defend his comments? Please go ahead. I can't wait to hear this.
For the record, we all always knew Don Cherry was a retrograde racist. He's like your retrograde racist uncle who is nonetheless fun and endearing. But you don't let him express his racism in front of you without comment. And you damned sure don't let him spout it at your place of business where his comments can be imputed to you.
cactusflinthead 1,228
He was a loudmouthed racist bastard with a bullhorn. I am not going to miss him. He never saw a Euro player he liked. He could have apologized, even halfheartedly, and might have kept his gig. But no that would have offended his ego. He would never back down from a statement, unless of course he contradicted himself in the very next broadcast.
He could have said a lot of things about honoring veterans and spending a couple of bucks to get a poppy, but nope he had to say it was YOU PEOPLE that ain't from around here that are messing up Toronto.
He made his own bed and shit in it.
Nice Guy Eddie 1,496
Give an old white man a mic and allow him to speak about "foreigners" will always end up bad. Asking him to speak about any grouping of people will most likely be insulting, but narrow that group to minorities or foreigners and someone will be looking for a new job.
First thing I thought of was the Bill Burr bit where he says you get what you ask for when you give an old man a microphone. Former Clippers owner and a few others he called out. Its true.
How about Babcock?
I know there are some Leafs fans on here.
texanbychoice 83
Let's go Islanders!
On 11/20/2019 at 9:54 PM, cactusflinthead said:
I've always liked the Leafs as my EC team. Sharpest uniform (all blue) in pro sports IMO. Surprised to see the firing but they've been pretty pedestrian this year and have high expectations.
7 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:
Watching the Stars-Blackhawks game on NBC Sports tonight and saw a quote from Akim with "Babcock" in it. Is he caught up in this Peters thing?
17 minutes ago, C-Man said:
I was reading r/hockey yesterday. This might take a while to get worked out.
spystud13 2,359
He gone.
https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/28188886/bill-peters-flames-coach-following-epithet-scandal
This fucking sucks for the youngster.
Philadelphia Flyers forward Oskar Lindblom has been diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer, and is expected to miss the rest of the 2019-20 season, the team announced Friday.
Lindblom, 23, will undergo further testing and evaluation next week and then begin treatment. The cancer was diagnosed by specialists at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ewing's sarcoma grows in the bones, or around the soft tissue around the bones. It primarily affects children and young adults.
The Flyers said they "will do everything possible to support Oskar and assist him in securing the best care available."
Lindblom has 11 goals and 7 assists in 30 games with the Flyers this season; he is tied with Travis Konecny for the team lead in goals. Lindblom missed the Flyers' last game with what the team called an upper body injury.
He had 17 goals and 16 assists last season, his first full campaign in the NHL. Lindblom, a native of Sweden, has 30 goals and 27 assists in 134 career games, all with the Flyers, who drafted him No. 138 overall in 2014.
Iceman 825
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Fuck Jeremy Roenick...meathead.
Former NHL forward Jeremy Roenick was suspended indefinitely by NBC Sports on Monday for his inappropriate comments about coworkers.
Roenick made a series of questionable remarks about fellow hockey broadcasters Kathryn Tappen, Patrick Sharp and Anson Carter during a recent appearance on the Spittin' Chiclets podcast. An NBC Sports spokesman said the suspension is without pay and the network would have no further comment at this time.
On the podcast, Roenick discussed a vacation to Portugal with his wife and Tappen. He made repeated references to the NBC Sports anchor's appearance and joked about the possibility of the three of them having sex together.
Roenick said they went on vacation together because his wife, Tracy, and Tappen are good friends. When another resort guest asked about the situation, he recalled, "I play it off like we're going to bed together every night, the three of us."
"If it really came to fruition, that would really be good, but it's never going to happen," Roenick said.
Roenick subsequently praised Tappen as "one of the most professional sports personalities I know."
Later in the interview, Roenick called Sharp "so beautiful" and said: "I'd have to think about it if he asked me. ... I wouldn't say no right away." He then seemed to contrast Sharp's appearance with his and Carter's.
"It's good to have a beautiful face that talks well that knows the game because it's totally the opposite when me and Anson get on there," Roenick said.
He also called Sharp, a former teammate, "one of the greatest, greatest guys on the planet" and said, "I think he's been great for NBC."
Roenick played 20 NHL seasons with the Blackhawks, Coyotes, Flyers, Sharks and Kings before moving into television. He has been an analyst at NBC Sports since 2010.
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Ovechkin ... back to back hat tricks ... 8 goals in the final 9 periods before the AS break.


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I Am Smarter Than Nick Saban, And This Proves It
Eddie Lacy
University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban has a pretty sweet gig. After he won the national championship last January, his second BCS title in three years, Saban received a raise and contract extension worth $5.62 million a year. That means Saban is set to make $45 million over eight years in base salary and "talent fees."
The final BCS rankings for 2012 were released yesterday, with undefeated Notre Dame at No. 1 and once-beaten Alabama at No. 2. The two schools will meet for the national title on January 7 in Miami, and my bet is that Saban's Crimson Tide will steamroll the Fighting Irish, giving Alabama it's third championship in four years. In fact, I don't think the game will be close.
Saban already is adored by Alabama's far-flung fan base, which spreads in all directions, far beyond our state's borders. And college football cognoscenti regularly toss the noun "genius" in his direction.
Me? I'm adored by my wife--sort of. (OK, let's get real--she tolerates me, most days.) As for descriptive nouns, one of my blog readers called me a "twit" last week. Can't remember the last time anyone used the word "genius" and my name in the same sentence.
But I am smarter than Nick Saban--and we have evidence from Saturday's SEC Championship Game to prove it.
Alabama beat Georgia 32-28, in a game that was much more dramatic than it should have been. Georgia came within five yards, and a few seconds, of upsetting Alabama. My wife and I watched the closing moments from a seafood restaurant on Highway 280 in Birmingham. When Georgia's last play came up short of the goal line, and the final seconds ticked off, patrons and employees started whooping, hollering, and hugging each other.
Alabama had not won a national title in . . . oh, about 10 months . . . so you can understand the excitement.
We are regulars at this establishment and know that several of its staff members are from Athens (Greece, not Alabama--or Georgia, for that matter). The way these folks were carrying on, you would think they had been conceived in Tuscaloosa. Even people from the land of Socrates get carried away with Saban Mania. Heck, our guy Nick probably could get elected mayor of Thessaloniki.
But the Georgia game proved Nick Saban ain't all that. In fact, he's not even as smart as me--in at least one respect.
Here's the deal: Alabama outgained Georgia by a significant margin--512 yards to 394--and it should have won the game by two touchdowns, at least. Instead, it came down to the last gasp, and Georgia darned near pulled it out, all because Nick Saban isn't as smart as me.
Alabama had all sorts of screw ups in the game, including a blocked field goal that was returned for a touchdown. But the Crimson Tide's biggest blunder came earlier than that--and it can be laid directly at the feet of Saint Nick.
Midway through the second quarter, Alabama was trailing 7-0 when it drove to the Georgia 1-yard line. With bruising tailback Eddie Lacy chewing up yardage, the Crimson Tide was poised to tie a game that looked like it might settle into a defensive struggle. But when quarterback A.J. McCarron handed the ball to Lacy on second and goal, the Tide's star runner made a fundamental error that has become all too common in college football.
Upon meeting a wall of Georgia resistance, Lacy thought he saw a space where he could reach the football across the goal line. For reasons that escape me, football players at all levels have started doing this in recent years. I can't attach a date to the trend's origins, but it seems to be driven by TV color men who make it a point to repeatedly say, "If the ball crosses the plane of the end zone, it's a touchdown."
That seems to be an accurate description of the rules, and it applies all over the field. For example, stretching the ball out an arm's length might give you an important first down to continue a drive. The official spot goes where the ball reaches, not where the body lands.
But here's the rub: Players are taught at the junior-high level, if not earlier, that there is a right way and a wrong way to carry a football. It is to be cradled and tucked in close to the body. In heavy traffic, it's a good idea to wrap both arms around the football. Players also are taught at an early age that one of the biggest no-no's in the game is to fumble the football. Possession of the ball wins games, and ball security is a must.
So what happened to Eddie Lacy, who otherwise played a game for the ages? When he reached the ball toward the goal line, that gave a Georgia player the chance to swat it loose. The ball bounced backwards for about four yards before McCarron recovered it at the Georgia 5. On the next play, McCarron threw an ill-advised pass that was intercepted in the end zone.
Alabama came away with no points--not even a field goal--because Lacy failed to secure the football when trying to "break the plane" of the end zone.
As my wife and cats can tell you, I've been railing about this "breaking the plane" trend for years. It's terrible fundamental football. Yes, it's great to make a first down or score a touchdown. But possession is paramount, and that means the football must be secured at all times. Attempting to stretch the ball across "the plane" probably increases the chance of a fumble 10 fold. And fumbles are likely to be recovered by the defense, ensuring that you will get zero points on your drive.
This "breaking the plane" stuff is the sporting trend that won't go away. It's worse than the Macarena, I tell you.
In our state, I see Auburn players do it, UAB players do it. On a given Saturday, you can watch television for hours and see players from almost every conference do it.
If I can readily see that this is bad football, why can't coaches with their multi-year contracts and "talent fees" figure it out.
Here is what Nick Saban should have done way back in August, during preseason practice: After gathering all of his players, especially the ones likely to carry the ball, he should have spoken thusly: "If I catch any of you stretching the ball to 'break the plane,' I'm going to have the entire team running stadium steps while I watch Gone With the Wind in the shade. When Clark tells Scarlett, 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn,' you can stop running. I think that's about 3 hours and 35 minutes into the movie.
If that didn't get their attention, Saban could have added this: "I don't care what you hear some announcer say on TV. I am Nick Saban, the smartest coach in football, and I say, 'Protect the damn ball at all times, in all areas of the field.' If you come up short of a touchdown or a first down, we'll make it on the next play or the next possession. But under no circumstances are you to try stretching the ball 'across the plane.' If one guy tries it one time, all of you will be running stadium steps--while I take in the glory of GWTW, probably in surround sound.
"It's your choice."
If Saban had gotten that message across, stressing ball security above all else, Alabama fans could have relaxed during the fourth quarter of the Georgia game. Instead, Roll Tiders--even the ones from Greece--were holding their collective breaths until the final seconds.
Nick Saban already is hailed by many as the sharpest mind in college football--and that bandwagon is likely to get even more crowded after Alabama crunches Notre Dame.
So why isn't Nick Saban smarter than me? More importantly, why don't I have an eight-year contract, with "talent fees"?
I posed that question to our cats as we watched a late game on Saturday night. They still have blank looks on their faces.
Redeye said...
Why doesn't Eddie Lacey have a multi million dollar contract and talent fees? :)
Anon at 8:32--
You nailed it. That's the way it should work. Lacy's the one who won the game.
I would say A.J. McCarron and Amari Cooper need big contracts and talent fees, too.
Spasmoda said...
Hey, don't forget those big hogs up front.
Nice piece, LS. Gave me some laughs.
As an Auburn fan, I'm convinced Alabama players receive plenty in "talent fees."
Hey Schnauzer, if you are smarter than Saban, how come he has a big-ass contract, and you are out of a job?
Can I get back to you on that one?
LMAO. Love it, LS!
What I can not understand why FOOLSBALL is a god to folks and we pay someone 45 million to run a stupid ball on the field like Forrest Gump and we have teachers losing jobs because of ZERO FUNDS Fireman getting laid off and police officers. Kids are barely making it out of high school. Our society is headed down the toilet when we care more about sports than academics.
In Alabama, many of our K-12 students go to school in trailers. Citizens are fine with that. But they would not tolerate less than cutting-edge facilities for UA football.
Got to agree with you, LS. That "breaking the plane" stuff drives me nuts. Can't imagine Bear Bryant letting players get away with that.
I love Eddie Lacy, but that one play could have cost Bama the game and a shot at national title. They had two more downs to give it to Lacy from about the 1/2 yard line. I guarantee he would have made it on one of those.
James Greek said...
Roger,
I KNOW you are smarter than Nick Saban and here's why:
You know the ugly truth behind Alabama football. The shady past of it's biggest booster. Yet, I am sure Nick knows it yet doesn't give a damn.
I wrote this mainly for laughs, but you raise a serious point, James. I wonder how much of Nick's "talent fees" and contract cash come from Paul Bryant Jr. And of the part that comes from PBJ, how much of it is the result of insurance fraud?
I have a number of friends who are big Tide fans, and I am happy for them. But there is a dark side to this picture, for those who care to look.
Get that Aubie out of here! You're about to hire Petrino, so you have no business questioning anyone's ethics! Roll Tide!
At last, someone else sees the stupidity in this. I've been throwing things at the TV for years. Coaches, wake up!
David in S. Alabama said...
The folks in the Nick Saban birther movement are claiming to have obtained his birth. certificate. It shows that he was born on Oct. 31, 1951 in Fairmont, WV. Is also lists his birth name as Nicholas Lou Satan.
A devil of a guy born on Halloween making an onscene salary who can't tell his players to keep the ball close to their chest.
As a Tennessee fan, I agree with the Auburn fan above.
Roger, lay off Coach Saban! With all of the corruption that I witness each day from our courts, please let me have Bama football! You may not believe it, but when times have been their darkest sometimes the only thing I would have to look forward to was watching the Tide take the field. The 2011 season gave me the only happiness I had that year. Once the corrupt judge taken what is/was most precious to me, I had a hard time finding a silver lining in anything. I found it in football.
And for those with unsubstantiated rumors of pay-for-play, see $cam Newton...
Tennessee program: Dumpster Fire
Auburn program: Port-O-Potty Fire
By the way, I hear Miami is nice this time of year. Happy to have tickets to the 'ship...again!
I hear you, and I'm glad many of our citizens enjoy Tide football. I'm neutral on the whole thing, as a Missouri grad, but even I enjoyed the SEC title game. Please know my being hard on Coach Saban is mostly tongue in cheek. He obviously is good at what he does. The "breaking the plane" deal has become one of my pet peeves, and I still don't know how it got started. I wish coaches would tell their players, "Protect the ball at all times, and don't worry about sticking it out there to break the plane." Glad that fumble didn't wind up costing UA the football game. Amazing how Alabama keeps churning out great running backs--from Mark Ingram to Trent Richardson to Eddie Lacy to T.J. Yeldon. That's quite a legacy.
I saw a great battle Saturday, but today I saw what will undoubtedly be a bigger fight in the Jefferson County Domestic Relations arena. The lawyers are afraid to discuss the matter. I did pick up bits and pieces, though. If any of your readers know what is brewing, please inform us.
Can you provide more details? Did this involve one specific case? Did involve the parties, the lawyers, the judge--all of the above? I welcome more info.
I assume Scott Vowell was involved at some level? If so, that means incompetence was present.
I agree with the Auburn Fan... ALSO I am just about willing to bet the referees receieve a big amount in their paychecks to call in favor of a certain team. A lot of things that AL does is overlooked and it is right in their face. I wonder if they get paid by the favors?
So spill it. You obviously want to! You know you do! Come on
Please tell
Your the DA did you even play FOOTBALL or even sit on bench I dought it
Ever heard of the phrase "tongue in cheek"? It applies to this post, and I think that's pretty clear to most folks.
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