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Monk Gloats over yoga Championship

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"I am the serenest!" he says

LHASA, TIBET - Employing the brash style that first brought him to
prominence, SriDhananjai Bikram won the fifth annual International Yogi
Competition yesterday with a world-record point total of 873.6.

"I am the serenest!" Bikram shouted to the estimated crowd of 20,000 yoga
fans, vigorously pumping his fists. "No one is serener than Sri Dhananjai
Bikram-I am the greatest monk of all time!"

Bikram averaged 1.89 breaths a minute during the two-hour competition,
nearly .3 fewer than his nearest competitor, second-place finisher and
two-time champion Sri Salil "The Hammer" Gupta.

The heavily favored Gupta was upset after the loss. "I should be able to
beat that guy with one lung tied," Gupta said. "I'm beside myself right
now, and I don't mean trans-bodily."

Bikram got off to a fast start at the Lhasa meet, which like most major
competitions, is a six-event affair. In the first event, he attained total
consciousness (TC) in just 2 minutes, 34 seconds, and set the tone for the
rest of the meet by repeatedly shouting, "I'm blissful! You blissful?! I'm
blissful!" to the other yogis.

Bikram, 33, burst onto the international yoga scene with a gold-mandala
performance at the 1994 Bhutan Invitational. At that competition he
premiered his aggressive style, at one point in the flexibility event
sticking his middle toes out at the other yogis. While no prohibition
exists against such behavior, according to Yoga League Commissioner Swami
Prabhupada, such behavior is generally considered "unBuddhalike."

"I don't care what the critics say," Bikram said. "Sri Bikram is just gonna
go out there and do Sri Bikram's own yoga thing."

Before the Bhutan meet, Bikram had never placed better than fourth. Many
said he had forsaken rigorous training for the celebrity status accorded by
his Bhutan win, endorsing Nike's new line of prayer mats and supposedly
dating the Hindu goddess Shakti. But his performance this week will regain
for him the number one computer ranking and earn him new respect, as well
as for his coach Mahananda Vasti, the controversial guru some have called
Bikram's "guru."

"My special training diet for Bikram of one super-charged, carbo-loaded
grain of rice per day was essential to his win," Vasti said.

The defeated Gupta denied that Bikram's taunting was a factor in his
inability to attain TC. "I just wasn't myself today," Gupta commented. "I
wasn't any self today. I was an egoless particle of the universal no-soul."

In the second event, flexibility, Bikram maintained the lead by supporting
himself on his index fingers for the entire 15 minutes while touching the
back of his skull to his lower spine. The feat was matched by Gupta, who
first used the position at the 1990 Tokyo Zen-Off.

"That's my meditative position of spiritual ecstasy, not his," remarked
Gupta. "He stole my thunder."

Bikram denied the charge, saying, "Gupta's been talking like that ever
since he was a 3rd century Egyptian slave-owner."

Nevertheless, a strong showing by Gupta in the third event, the shotput,
placed him within a lotus petal of the lead at the competition's halfway
point.

But event number four, the contemplation of unanswerable riddles known as
koans, proved the key to victory for Bikram.

The koan had long been thought the weak point of his spiritual arsenal, but
his response to today's riddle-"Show me the face you had before you were
born "-was reportedly "extremely illuminative," according to Commissioner
Prabhupada.

While koan answers are kept secret from the public for fear of exposing the
uninitiated multitudes to the terror of universal truth, insiders claim his
answer had Prabhupada and the two other judges "highly enlightened."

With the event victory, Bikram built himself a nearly insurmountable lead,
one he sustained through the yak-milk churn and breathing events to come
away with the upset victory.
its a Zen-thing Phat….

Bruh, this is hilarious!!! Made my day, homie!! 'I'm the serenest'…classic!!

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After being knocked out of World Cup '06, Beckham and coach Erikson seemed to be blamed most for the loss. The management seemed to want to get rid of that "Swedish coach" and the "old poster boy".

In my opinion, it was a big mistake. Erikson was a fine coach and always got England far into the tournaments. And Beckham is the spiritual leader and "face" of England, even though he may be a little old and injured.

What do you guys think? Was new coach Mclaren and new captain Gerrard to blame for their not making to Euro 2008? In general, the team played very well (lots of 3-0 victories) but was just unable to make it. Bad luck? Or bad management?

See people are saying this now but i fout this since daii one……no disrespect to terry but he doesnt seem to have leadership qualities….if we were gonna have a new captain atleast shulda bin gerrard…..also becks is the onlii one who actually plays like he cares……he has so much pride in being english no matter how much people try and shunt him to one side it never works……mac tried to get rid of him (god knos why) but then we mess up && hes back…..he saves us big time && it looks like we mite qualify…….mac plays wright-phillips (no disrespect to him either)….and we mess up AGAIN but then becks is back && we get back into the game…..yeh we ended up losing but only him && crouchy looked bothered yesterdaii…..hargreaves shoulda come on…..woulda controled the midfield!!! Becks is the best player i ever seen play in my life………

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Anthony “Scott” Washington’s life reads like the pages of comeback-kid drama. This week, the 40-year old husband and father of four will take the Ohio bar exam. Rewind just 15 years and you will uncover an inspiring transformation that exemplifies the life-changing power that exists within the human spirit. For years, his life revolved around his gang, crack cocaine addiction, and habit-supporting crimes. Functionally illiterate with a rap sheet of 19 arrests, Scott Washington experienced a turning point on Easter Sunday morning in 1990. It resurrected his potential and changed the course of his life forever.

“I had been up for two to three days, drinking and smoking as much crack as I could,” recalls the Los Angeles native. “I had a five-week old baby, Scottie, and the baby’s mother, also a crack addict, walked out that weekend and never returned. Scottie would not stop crying and I began to fear that he was going to die.”

Holding the baby in his arms, he says, “I looked into his eyes, filled with tears and promised him I would never get high again. I apologized for tolerating his mother’s crack addiction during her pregnancy, collected my belongings and my beautiful baby boy, and headed for a life free of the burden of addiction, addicts, and social deviations.”

“I think what happened that day was a spiritual experience,” he says. “I don’t think it is just a coincidence that my turning point came on Easter Sunday.”

Estranged from his family, unemployed and unskilled, Scott called his mother. She had essentially disowned him years earlier after multiple attempts to help him get his life on track,. “My mother listened and then said that I could come home on the condition that I went through a rehabilitation program.” Scott joined Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), and every day for months, he attended meetings and he always carried Scottie with him. It took three to four years before the urge for crack subsided, he admits, but he hasn’t touched drugs since that rock bottom day in April 1990.

Kicking his drug habit was just the first step to getting his life together. It would be a steep, uphill climb to create the kind of life and stability he wanted for his little boy. He needed employment, but with a criminal record, landing a job would prove a challenge. His father, a veterinarian, got him a job cleaning cages at an animal research facility. It was hard, unpleasant work, but it paid $25,000 and it was a start. His next opportunity crossed his path during an AA meeting. Someone from a local junior college football team invited him to come out and watch practice. While there, the coach asked him if he wanted to participate in practice the next day. Impressed by his physical size and abilities, the coach invited him to join the team as a fullback. Of course, that also meant he had to enroll in school.

He was 26 years old and starting community college. He took two to three classes each semester while working full-time. “For the first three years, all of my classes were remedial courses,” he says. In my first college English course, I was the only English-speaking person in the class.”

As it turns out, Scott was functionally illiterate. Introduced to drugs in the 5th grade, school had not been a priority. Now he had to make up for lost time.

Undeterred by his lack of college preparation, he was determined and says he thoroughly enjoyed education. “I was positive. I was in school! I had spent the last 10 years as an absolute loser. I felt great at this point. I had a three year old, I had been off of drugs for nearly three years. I was working and going to school.” Around this time, he also met and married his wife. A 19-year old student with two jobs, she was serious about creating a bright future. Together, they’ve done just that.

After five years, he earned an Associate of Arts degree with a 3.5 grade point average. He continued his education at California State University at Northridge. Despite a full-time work schedule, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban Studies two years later, graduating with honors and a 3.9 grade point average. Scott didn’t stop there. He applied to several law schools and was accepted and offered a teaching assistantship at the University of Dayton. In 2000, he and his family, including his wife, four children and his wife’s grandmother, moved to Ohio. He graduated from the University of Dayton School of Law in 2003.

“I wouldn’t be where I am now without my wife,” he insists. When he finally made it to law school, she supported the family while Scott pursued his law degree. “It takes so much to go to law school that I simply would not have been able to do it if not for her. She worked and took care of seven people.”

Although he graduated from law school, his application to sit for the bar was twice denied because of a prior felony conviction during his crime and drug days. He enlisted the help of attorney David Greer and a committee appointed by the Ohio Supreme Court overwhelmingly approved for him to sit for the bar in 2004. He takes the bar exam this week and will have to await the results. If his determination and resolve of the last 15 years is any indication, Scott Washington has a great shot at realizing his dream.

Currently a staff attorney in the Montgomery County Common Pleas Court in Dayton, Ohio, he also spends much of his time counseling young felons whose lives are strikingly similar to the life he left behind. His vision is to use his life experiences to have a positive impact on the African-American community. He speaks and motivates ex-offenders who are trying to transform their lives and offers five lessons that he gleaned from his own transformation

CHEERS! APPLAUSE! KUDOS! YEEHAH!!! GOOD FOR HIM!

That's what I think.

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