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Now & Then / Frontiers News - 20 March 2001
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Date: March 21, 2001 06:00AM
Now & Then / Frontiers News - 20 March 2001
Frontiers Records and Now & Then Productions are proud to announce their
latest world-wide mega-signing.
BOURGEOIS PIGS is a new band featuring an amazing line up. Participating
are: Richard Black (Shark Island) on vocals, Jake E. Lee (Ozzy
Osbourne, Badlands) and Michael Guy (House Of Lords) on guitar, Tony
Franklin (The Firm, Blue Murder) on bass and Linsday Vannoy (Alice
Cooper) on keyboards.
Guests in the recording sessions will include Matt Sorum (The Cult /
Guns'n'Roses) and Ken Mary (House Of Lords) supplying the drums, with
Kelly Hansen (Hurricane) to handle all backing vocals. The album is
being recorded in Michael Guy's studio in the Los Angeles, California
area and has been titled "Calamity of Vanities". Scheduled for
completion by the end of Summer 2001, the release is being slated later
in the year.
Michael Guy states: "The sound style will be quite adventurous, but will
remain firmly rooted in melodic hard rock."
Some of the song titles include "Calamity of Vanities" (to be included
in the upcoming Now & Then / Frontiers compilation "Union 4"), "Get Your
Dog Stoned" and "You Talk to Angels". There is a wide range of sounds
and attitudes to be revealed in this album that will show there are
still unexplored territories in the field of melodic hard rock.
When Michael Guy was asked, "Are we ready to rock?", he replied: "Asking
that question is like asking a lion if he's ready to take the head off a
Continuing their unrivalled tradition of discovering the hottest new
bands around, Now & Then / Frontiers Records can announce that a
licensing deal for Europe has been struck with Roastinghouse Productions
for the Finnish band URBAN TALE !
The band has been compared by some of the most reliable and competent
journalists in the independent melodic rock scene to the likes of
Journey and Toto. Following are excerpts from some of the reviews to
their debut single cd "One Day":
"Well, what can I say? Words fail me with this band, all I can say is
that Finland's newest hot shots Urban Tale are indeed HOT NEWS!!"
Nicky Baldrian - Strutter
"Urban Tale, from Finland, come up with quite a surprise on this single.
"One Day" is a fabulous ballad !"
Fred Monster - Majestic
"I normally don't write a review when there's only ONE song on the menu.
But this is such a good westcoast/AOR single, it has to be mentioned !"
Ola Granshagen - Midwestern Skies
""One Day" is an awesome ballad in the Journey vein, yet retains the
band's own identity."
Kimmo Lauttalammi - Loud & Clear
"Well, this is one band who can stop the rot single handedly. Superb.
Check 'em out!"
Matthew Honey - Hard Roxx
The band is composed of :
Kimmo Blom: Lead vocals
Erkka Korhonen: Guitar, background vocals
Tuomo Kovalainen: Bass, background vocals
Timo Pudas: Keyboards, background vocals
Kari Välimäki: Drums, background vocals
The release of the band's debut album is planned for late summer in
Europe. Get ready to catch them live.
The highly successful series of the UNION compilation reaches its fourth
chapter. On May 14th 2001, Now & Then and Frontiers Records will
celebrate the 4th year of their "Union" releasing a brand new
compilation which will feature tracks from all the recent hits of the
label's releases plus some exciting previews of what's coming next.
This is the list of the bands/artists which are going to be featured in
the double cd:
Bob Catley, Bailey's Comet, Iain Ashley Hersey, Prime Time, Brad Gillis,
Kip Winger, Heaven & Earth, Mark Boals, Into The Light, Millenium,
Praying Mantis, David Glen Eisley, Voodoo Hill, Teer, The Sign, Ten,
Kelly Keagy, Emerald Rain, Seventh Key, Stan Bush, Terry Brock, Under
Suspicion, Hurricane, Skin Tag, Johnny Lima, Robert Fleishmann,
Hardline, Bourgeois Pigs, Giant, Urban Tale.
There are still two more bands to be included which will be announced
shortly as contracts are in the final process of being signed !
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Exemplification Essay: An exemplification essay is often relevant and believable. Examples bring an issue to life. Example structure usually begins with a generalization, a topic sentence, a main idea or main point. Next, you move to a vivid explanation using examples to illustrate the main idea. Examples can work as the beginning or ending of many kinds of essays, especially those that need to be persuasive.
Types of Examples | |
Anecdotes | Facts |
Stories | Illustrations |
Person | Sample |
Place | One Item |
Group | Art |
Types of Examples:
How do examples improve your writing? They can:
Strategies for exemplification:
Exemplification is a type of analysis
Exemplification should not be general, it should be specific. Consider the following table comparing general with specific items.
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As the leader of our country, the president vetoed the proposed legislation. |
Despite public outrage, on July 19th, 2006, President Bush vetoed Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 (H.R. 810), which was a bill proposing to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem cell research. |
The coach yelled at us. |
Coach Williams assembled the Jets in a row, and went to B.B. Gant first. He started out cool as he told him to keep his eye on left field. Williams started to yell at Syd Coop to turn his body slightly to the right, and hit it to right field where there's less coverage. As he progressed down the line, he began to holler at players. By the time he got to the last kid, the spit and sweat flew everywhere. He looked like a bright-red lawn sprinkler. |
Which is the most specific?
Which of the following are most specific? | ||
Hammer | Tool | Hardware |
Gems | Diamonds | Jewelry |
Washing machine | Electrical appliance | Household convenience |
Difficulties of the first year in college | Problems in college | Overscheduling the first year of college |
Buying a carUndertaking a major financial commitment | Undertaking a major financial commitment | Being independent and on your own |
Rolls | Coins | Quarter |
general--> |
more specific--> |
most specific |
the street |
the main avenue |
Foothill Avenue |
a woman |
a female hero |
Margaret Sanger |
a man |
a male hero |
Mohatma Gandhi |
a tree |
an evergreen tree |
juniper |
the college |
the community college |
Floren College |
some people |
ten people |
ten college students |
most general |
<--more general |
<--specific |
As you think about using examples:
As you Read Example Essays:
How do examples communicate the message, argument, (premise, supposition)?

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Since receiving the canine version of an Amber Alert I have driven this route home each day. It is a very wooded area near Bradley Creek. I hope people living there are also keeping a look out for her. The yards are big, the roads are busy. My prayers are for her safe return soon!
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New Major Earthquake Rocks Southwest Pakistan
September 28, 2013
By Abdul Sattar, AP
QUETTA, Pakistan - A major earthquake rocked Pakistan's southwest Saturday, killing at least 15 and sending panicked people running into the street just days after another quake in the same region killed hundreds, officials said.
The U.S. Geological Survey said on its website that a 6.8 magnitude quake was felt in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province.
Pakistan's Meteorological Department measured the earthquake at 7.2 magnitude, saying its epicenter was about 150 kilometers (90 miles) west of the town of Khuzdar.
Baluchistan government spokesman Jan Mohammad Buledi said those killed Saturday died in the Mushkay area of Awaran. The death toll from Tuesday's disaster was 359, he added.
Little may have been left to damage after Tuesday's disaster. Few of the mud and homemade brick houses in the area survived Tuesday's 7.7 magnitude quake that leveled villages and buried people in the rubble. Since then tens of thousands of people have been sleeping under the open sky or in tents.
Local authorities said they had heard some reports of houses that survived the first quake collapsing from the second.
Chief Pakistani meteorologist Arif Mahmood told Pakistani television that Saturday's earthquake was an aftershock and such tremors could continue for weeks.
Pakistan television showed people at the main hospital in Awaran district fleeing into the street. In the provincial capital of Quetta, the tremor was so strong it prompted members of the local parliament to evacuate the building.
Baluchistan is Pakistan's largest but least populated province. The rough terrain and the lack of decent roads have made access difficult for rescue staff. The Pakistani Air Force has been air dropping supplies and using helicopters to ferry injured people for medical care.
But at least two of those helicopters have come under fire from separatist fighters, say Pakistani officials. The Pakistani military has been trying to suppress an uprising in the vast, arid province for years by rebels who want an independent state for the Baluch people.
To the north, Pakistan is dealing with militants who want to overthrow the central government and establish a hard-line Islamic state.
Newly-elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has vowed to pursue peace talks with the militants as a way to end the fighting. But the militants have given little indication they are interested in negotiations. They initially rejected talks with the government and later demanded Islamabad release prisoners and begin withdrawing troops from the group's tribal sanctuary before talks could begin. Recent attacks have also called into question their interest in negotiating.
On Saturday, a spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban criticized Sharif, saying his new government is not serious about holding peace talks. The spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid, did not explicitly reject the offer but his words gave little room for negotiations.
The comments appeared to have been sparked by an interview Sharif made with the Wall Street Journal during a trip to New York, in which he said militants must lay down their arms and follow the constitution. Previously Sharif had not given preconditions for the talks.
"By telling us that we will have to lay down arms and respect the constitution, the prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, showed that he is following the policy of America and its allies," the spokesman said. "We will hold talks with (the government) only when it gets the real power to take decisions."
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Story image: Pakistani villagers look for belongings amid the rubble of their destroyed homes following an earthquake in the remote district of Awaran, Baluchistan province, Pakistan, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)
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You know what seems like a sound strategy for getting robbed? Try taking $1,500 cash out of the bank and transporting it elsewhere by walking down the street at night and waving that money in everyone's faces. Oh yeah, do all that while completely unprotected.
It may not be perfectly analogous, but that's essentially what happened to an EVE Online player recently. Pilot Ozuwara Ozuwara outfitted his Ibis (a ship given to new players) with $1,500 worth of PLEX and set off on an ill-fated voyage. Before even leaving high-security space, a fellow pilot annihilated his ship and destroyed all the precious cargo.
To comprehend the ramifications of this, it's essential to understand PLEX. It's not as if PLEX were some ambiguous commodity arbitrarily valued by EVE's players. No, its sole use is as a license extension to play more EVE Online, and it can only be initially acquired by plunking down cash.
It's not necessarily on par with the battles where Titans valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars are lost, but it's not inconsequential either. It's further proof that some pilots just want to watch the world burn.
EVE Online player loses ship with $1,500 of PLEX inside; not a single PLEX survives [PC Games N via Polygon]
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Careful, I swear photographing there is addicting!
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I agree it could be, I enjoyed being there, I have a great love of mountains and rock formations. It really looked like a gem of a place to do some macro work too. Everything seemeed to have a soft layer of moss and other forms of living covering on it. I have a Nikon Macro for my N80 camera that I have not touched for some time and a macro tube for the Hassy I have never used before.
I might be talking myself into a close encounter :rolleyes:
So glad you enjoyed the visit. That is the pleasure of having these events, the excitement of everyone enjoying the hobby and people that are so close to us, each excelling in his own way.
My guess and hope is that there will be a Fall event, but no date or related events have been selected.
Hope you can come to the July event. No idea yet which day we will look at the museum, weather and the wishes of those attending will be a big factor. When you are host you see that people make plans to come. For some things happen and their plans change. Two who wanted to come last time had to cancel. Arrival and departure times for those who can come change. Being a guest at two of Bill Schwabs much larger gathering taught me that you can drive yourself nuts trying to schedule people who wont or cant be scheduled. That is why I put the statement in the boiler plate, We are trying to have a loose organizational shell under which all cats may be comfortably herded. The plan will evolve until the majority is happy and the protesters fall asleep.
Looking forward to seeing your prints soon and both of you in July if you can make it.
....and then Shawn has not even taunted you with Nelson Kennedy Ledges yet. When you see the roots hanging down a cliff edge thirty feet, or a giant four foot mushroom in a tree, you will be dazzled. As I said in earlier posts, it is like Angkor Wat Cambodia without the temples, dysentery, airfare or heat.
I have put this on my calendar and am looking forward to it.
With all this talk about the various ledges, perhaps that can be a destination that is part of the weekend.
I am also looking forward to being present for more of the print show and tell. Shawn, I hope you bring your photo box again. I have got some really nice color shots this spring on Ektar 100, so bring your sunglasses!
Thanks for sharing you lens preferences.
I see you have had the "XL" experience :)
I don't know if you are familiar with that Angulon 210mm but I totally overlooked it, thinking it was just a bigger version of the 90mm Angulon. I was way wrong, the 210 Angulon has a big 382mm image circle.
I'd be up for going to Nelson Ledges. I have actually never been there (other than to go to the race track of the same name ;) ).


text: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 | OSS Proxy - emulate OSS device using CUSE Copyright (C) 2008-2009 SUSE Linux Products GmbH Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Tejun Heo <firstname.lastname@example.com> 1. What is it? -------------- Well, first, OSS refers to Open Sound System. If it still doesn't ring a bell, think /dev/dsp, /dev/adsp and /dev/mixer. Currently, Linux supports two audio programming interface - ALSA and OSS. The latter one is deprecated and has been that way for a long time but there still are applications which still use them including UML (usermode Linux) host sound support. ALSA contains OSS emulation but sadly the emulation is behind multiplexing layer (which is in userland) which means that if your sound card doesn't support multiple audio streams, only either one of ALSA or OSS interface would be usable at any given moment. There have been also attempts to emulate OSS in userland using dynamic library preloading - aoss and more recently padsp. This works for many applications but it's just not easy to emulate everything using the technique. Things like polling, signals, forking, privilege changes make it very difficult to emulate things reliably. OSS Proxy uses CUSE (extension of FUSE allowing character devices to be implemented in userspace) to implement OSS interface - /dev/dsp, /dev/adsp and /dev/mixer. From the POV of the applications, these devices are proper character devices and behave exactly the same way so it can be made quite versatile. 2. Hmmm... So, how does the whole thing work? --------------------------------------------- The OSS Proxy daemon - osspd - should be started first. Note that osspd will fail to start if sound device number regions are already occupied. You'll need to turn off OSS or its emulation[1]. On startup, osspd creates /dev/dsp, /dev/adsp and /dev/mixer using CUSE. When an application access one of the devices, all IOs are redirected to osspd via CUSE. Upon receiving a new DSP open request, osspd creates a slave process which drops the root privilege and assumes the opening process's credentials. After handshaking, osspd forwards all relevant IOs to the slave which is responsible for actually playing the sound. Currently there's only one slave implemented - ossp-padsp, which as the name suggests forwards (again) the sound to pulseaudio. To sum up, the whole pipe looks like the following. App <-> /dev/dsp <-> CUSE <-> osspd <-> ossp-padsp <-> pulseaudio Which is a lot of forwarding, but on modern machines, it won't be too noticeable. 3. What works? -------------- Well, MIDI part isn't implemented and I doubt it will be in any near future but except that everything should work. Playing, recording, 5.1ch, A-V syncing, all should work. If not, it's a bug, so please report. The mixer behaves a bit differently tho. In the original OSS, /dev/mixer is the hardware mixer, so adjusting volumes there affects all audio streams. When using ossp, each process group gets its own mixer and the mixer always contains only two knobs - PCM and IGAIN. Combined with per-stream volume control of pulseaudio, this scheme works quite well for applications with embedded volume control although it makes standalone OSS mixer programs virtually useless[2]. 4. How do I use it? ------------------- First you need CUSE support in kernel which might land on 2.6.28 with sufficient luck[3] and then you also need libfuse which supports CUSE[4]. Once you have both, it should be easy. First build it by running `make'. You can set OSSPD_CFLAGS, OSSPD_LDFLAGS, OSSP_PADSP_CFLAGS and OSSP_PADSP_LDFLAGS if you have stuff at non-default locations. After build completes, there will be two executables - `osspd' and `ossp-padsp'. Just copy them to where other system executables live. Specific location doesn't matter as long as both files end up in the same directory. Execute `osspd'. It will create the device files and you're all set. `osspd' uses syslog with LOG_DAEMON facility, so if something doesn't work take a look at what osspd complains about. [1] As of this writing, turning on any sound support makes the soundcore module claim OSS device regions. Patch to make it claim OSS device regions only when OSS support or emulation is enabled is scheduled for 2.6.28. Even with the patch, soundcore will claim OSS device regions if OSS support or ALSA OSS emulation is enabled. Make sure they're turned off. [2] If you have a strong reason to use standalone OSS mixer program, you can play some shell tricks to put it into the same process group as the target audio application. e.g. To use aumix with mpg123 - `(mpg123 asdf.mp3 > /dev/null 2>&1 & aumix)', but seriously, just use PA or ALSA one. [3] For the time being, here's the git tree with all the necessary changes. This tree is base on top of 2.6.27-rc3. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git;a=shortlog;h=cuse git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git cuse [4] And libfuse with the modifications can be found at... http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/ossp/fuse-cuse.tar.gz |


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Out at Home
"I am extremely grateful that Major League Baseball has always judged me on my work and nothing else"In a "very quiet and understated way", 29-year veteran MLB umpire Dale Scott has become the first active official in any of the major US sports to come out as gay.
No Relation
It's easy to explain why you love a conventionally excellent player, but way, way more fun to try and explain the appeal of a top-flight athlete whose every step and twitch appeared to be bringing him dangerously close to death itself. You had this guy, St. Louis, and he was awesome and everything, but every time he hit a triple he'd pop up and have the saddest look on his face like everything he loved had died, and left him with the soul of an ancient, sad, and immortal Golem. It was like watching Buster Keaton play centerfield, and he was like that every time he played.SB Nation Reviews: Willie McGee
It would look A LOT like the NFL.
Bespectacled ballplayer trolls baseball
Major league baseball is doing something dumb. They asked fans to nominate a player from their team to be THE FACE OF MLB, whatever that means. Yankees fans picked Derek Jeter. Angels fans picked Mike Trout. Oakland A's fans picked a 4-eyed utility infielder named Eric Sogard. And he's winning.
"I imagine I'll probably have my vote stripped."
Dan LeBatard of ESPN gave away his baseball Hall of Fame vote to Deadspin, and talking heads had a lot to say about it.
The Schedule Makers
A 30 for 30 short tells the story of the husband and wife team who created MLB's schedule every year for two decades, using only pencil and paper.
When Logos Go Wrong
Mike Tanier of Sports on Earth discusses poorly designed sports team logos throughout history.
the sacrifice bunt should have vanished
Why Do Baseball Players Still Bunt So Damn Much?
It's the most maddening and demonstrably ineffective strategy in baseball and has been for quite some time. So why do teams keep doing it?
It's the most maddening and demonstrably ineffective strategy in baseball and has been for quite some time. So why do teams keep doing it?
Putting big numbers in perspective
Let's Eliminate Sports Welfare
"And a very pleasant evening to you wherever you may be..."
Today is the 85th birthday of Hall of Fame baseball announcer Vin Scully. He will be returning next year for his unprecedented 64th season calling games for the Dodgers, in a career reaching back to the team's Brooklyn days and their move to Los Angeles in 1958. The New York Yankees tried to pry him away in the 1960s, but he remained with the team and has become an LA institution. In the 21st Century, he has inspired blog names and tattoos and even dabbled in the online world himself during a game last season -- as an experiment, he asked fans to get a topic trending on Twitter about Dodger catcher A.J. Ellis, "a nice boy." Later in the broadcast he announced sheepishly that Ellis was trending across the U.S. This coming Monday, he will be taking over the team's Twitter feed to answer questions -- tag your tweets #askvin. [more inside]
I get bored with baseball too, but Adderall isn't the answer.
What do NASCAR's AJ Allmendinger, Joe Haden of the Cleveland Browns, New York Giants safety Tyler Sash, Carlos "Chooch" Ruiz of the Philadelphia Phillies, and many other athletes have in common?
They have all used a performance enhancing substance that is growing in popularity among athletes, one that is widely prescribed and which is taken by millions of children every day. The drug in question is Adderall: The combination of dextroamphetamine and amphetamine is used as part of a treatment program to control symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. [more inside]
The Top 25 NHL, NBA, MLB, and NFL Sports Uniforms
From Paul Lukas of Uni Watch, a list of the 25 best uniforms in the four major North American professional sports. [more inside]
Rarer Than a Perfect Game
Tonight, for only the third time in Major League Baseball history, a player (Kendrys Morales of the Los Angeles Angels) hit two home runs in the same inning, one from each side of the plate.
Morales' second home run of the inning was a grand slam, his first since the ill-fated events of 5/29/10, when he suffered a freak ankle injury jumping onto home plate in celebration of his game-winning hit, just as his career was really beginning to take off. Morales subsequently missed nearly two full seasons of baseball, returning just this year.
Pitching through pain. *All kinds*.
NYTimes: The Glory and Pain of Pitching. Bobby Ojeda, starting pitcher for one of the greatest games in the history of Major League Baseball, takes us into the mind of the career athlete and his relationship with a constant companion -- pain.
"Fenway is the essence of baseball"
Fenway Park, in Boston, is a lyric little bandbox of a ballpark. Everything is painted green and seems in curiously sharp focus, like the inside of an old-fashioned peeping-type Easter egg. It was built in 1912 and rebuilt in 1934, and offers, as do most Boston artifacts, a compromise between Man's Euclidean determinations and Nature's beguiling irregularities.
So wrote John Updike in his moving tribute to Red Sox legend Ted Williams -- an appropriately pedigreed account for this oldest and most fabled of ballfields that saw its first major league game played one century ago today.
As a team in flux hopes to recapture the magic with an old-school face-off against the New York Highlanders Yankees, it's hard to imagine the soul of the Sox faced the specter of demolition not too long ago. Now legally preserved, in a sport crowded with corporate-branded superdome behemoths, Fenway abides, bursting with history, idiosyncrasy, record crowds, and occasional song. [more inside]
Wake Me Up When September Ends
After beating the Texas Rangers on Sept. 3, the Boston Red Sox were 84-54. Although half a game behind the Yankees in the American League East, the Red Sox had a nine-game lead over the Tampa Bay Rays for the wild card and roughly a 99.6 percent chance of making the playoffs. Fast forward one excruciating month to a dead heat with Tampa coming into tonight's bitter imbroglio. Boston struggles ahead of laughingstock Baltimore by a single run until a rain delay clears the field, leaving them in the surreal position of rooting for the hated Yankees playing down in Florida. They can only watch from the sidelines as the rival Rays, tied with Boston in the pennant race but down 7-0 against New York, roar back to life with six runs in the eighth inning and a tie run on the final pitch at the bottom of the ninth. And then, after blowing two different strikes that would have salvaged the game, Boston loses to Baltimore, completing what is arguably the worst late-breaking collapse in the history of major league baseball.
Waiting For Manny
The recently retired Manny Ramirez was one of the most inscrutable players in recent history. Ben McGrath of the New Yorker attempted to figure out Ramirez's motivations in this 2007 piece.
The Financial Documents Baseball Doesn't Want You To See
Today, Deadspin leaked financial documents detailing the finances of several MLB teams, including a few that are getting revenue sharing money. They show that several of MLB's "poorest" franchises turned a profit due to these cash infusions. [more inside]
Wade Boggs is known to like his beer. Well, now a Tapper-style game where Boggs drinks beers, throws away girlie drinks, and eats burgers to sober up has been created. [more inside]
Nails Goes to Wall Street
Lenny Dykstra was lauded for his heroics with the Mets and Philles. After his career, Dykstra became well-known as a post-career athlete success story. Then the truth started coming out... [more inside]
Taking aim at ESPN
Sports Business Journal has a detailed look behind the buzz over "The Emperor's New Clothes: How ESPN's Multi-Platform Strategy Hasn't Improved Ratings," a sharply critical PowerPoint presentation making the rounds of sports league offices and advertising buyers in recent months. A good read for folks interested in the business of sports, decreasing TV ratings for many leagues, the blurriness of the ad/news line and the difficulty of measuring eyeballs across media. [via Romenesko]
When Sports Fans Go Mad
When Sports Fans Go Mad. Just in time for your NCAA Final Four weekend: a celebration of sports fans' best and worst pranks, taunts, and hijinks. This ain't no Brady Bunch episode. Some require the skills of a tattoo artist. Some are confusing. Some are about public humiliation. This one, however, really takes the cake.
Pennant Race Visualizer
Baseball Race. "[A]n online application that allows you to view any Major League Baseball season, split by league or division (even wild card races), as an animated, date-by-date race between the various teams you choose."
There are plenty of times when knowledge gets in the way of judgement...
There's an excellent two part dialog between Bill Simmons and Malcolm Gladwell on ESPN's Page 2 this week. The two cover a wide variety of topics such as writing, how a kid with no TV from the middle of nowhere in Canada can be a sports fan, the NFL, the economics of sports, and everyone's favorite NBA GM Isiah Thomas.
Bonds testimony
Bonds said he unknowingly used steroids Following up on yesterday's article on Giambi's grand jury testimony, the SF Chronicle reports that Bonds admitted using steroids, but didn't know what they were at the time.
Gary Sheffield said something very similar in October, and was not penalized by baseball, nor by public opinion. Meanwhile, the Yankees are reportedly trying to void Giambi's contract. What will the fallout be from the Bonds story?
Red Sox Win
Underdog to NY Yankees --> "Who's YOUR Daddy?"
MLBFanStrike.com urges you to stay away from the ballpark on 7/11. I sympathize somewhat, but don't you think this will have little effect? And are they ripping a page out of the Charleston Riverdogs book?
This man
This man and this man will be working together next year. Think this man is feeling better about his decision to quit?
Baseball Owners Vote to Cut Two Teams
Baseball Owners Vote to Cut Two Teams Has the popularity of baseball peaked or will MLB just move these two to better markets?
Baseball player Curt Schilling's letter to America.
Baseball player Curt Schilling's letter to America. I think this is a great way to say we're shocked, we're grieving, and we're going back to work with the victims and their families in mind. Play ball!
No $250 million dollar crybabies here.
No $250 million dollar crybabies here. The Little League World Series has been much more engaging than the pro game to me - mostly because the kids are there to play baseball as opposed to the ego and salaries that permeate MLB. (the broadcast, on the other hand, is the usual commercial b.s. with things like the "Bubblicious Lineup")
Farewell to another free lunch...
Farewell to another free lunch... Streamed baseball radio is an interesting microcosm of the web's development. It started with a few forward-looking local stations taking the initiative and unilaterally offering a live stream; then it went under the auspices of Broadcast.com; now RealNetworks and MLB Inc. have tied up the subscription deal. A touchstone for other online content?
Reuters 09/22 6:34PM -- NBC, which in August bid for the exclusive right to host a presidential debate, said on Friday it would broadcast a baseball game instead of the first showdown between Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush. "We have a contract with major-league baseball. You don't seriously think we have any interest in democracy, do you?,'' said NBC spokeswoman Barbara Levin. "If we were offerred more than the value of the baseball contract, we would be televising it.''
Living the American Dream!
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Texas utility man Scott Sheldon becomes only the third player in major league history to play all nine positions in one game.
Texas utility man Scott Sheldon becomes only the third player in major league history to play all nine positions in one game.


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This article is an introduction to jQuery. It is for those people who heard off jQuery but never used it or don't know where to start from.
jQuery is a powerful JavaScript library, yes it is not a language.jQuery helps us to write clean and less code.
You may use jQuery functions and objects to find and manipulate HTML elements.
To use jQuery you have to include the jQuery library in .aspx page in the same way as we include external JavaScript files.
There are two ways to achieve this:

Now you can use the JQuery functions and objects.
There are two versions of jQuery library available for download.
Minified version (compressed) - Size is less, white spaces are removed, non-readable.Regular version (non-Compressed) - Size is comparatively more, readable.
As if for now the Visual Studio Intellisense documentation is available for JQuery 1.4.1 so we will use jQuery 1.4.1 version here although 1.4.2 version of jQuery is available. The procedure remains same for other versions of jQuery library.
For Visual Studio's Intellisense support for jQuery download the regular version of library here and Visual Studio Intellisense documentation for jQuery here.Keep both files (jquery-1.4.1.js and jquery-1.4.1-vsdoc.js) under the same folder in project solution. The Intellisense will pick up the documentation file and will provide support for jQuery.
If the intellisense doesn't work for jQuery please install this hotfix: KB958502 - JScript Editor support for "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense doc. files.
No, jQuery is easy to learn, below example will help to understand the syntax and the way to use jQuery in your website.
This example hides  element smoothly using jQuery on button's click event.
  <title>JQuery Demo</title>     <form id="form1" runat="server"> Bold Contents Here.
 <input type="button" id="Button" runat="server" value="Hide Contents" /></form>
Indicates it is a jQuery.
Id of an element (prefixed by #), HTML element itself, CSS class (prefixed by . (Period)) Etc.
$("#myButton") - selects html element with id "myButton".$("p") - selects html paragraphs.$(".myclass") - selects html elements which have their class "myclass"
A action (function) to be fired on that element.
Lets now intercept the code:
$(document).ready(function() { $("#Button").click(function() { $("b").hide(1000); }); });
The first line of code checks whether the document has finished loading and is ready for jQuery operations on HTML loaded.The third line attaches a functions which is to be fired on button's click. This function hides all  elements smoothly (1000 represents time in milliseconds for delay in hiding the element).
This was just an introduction to jQuery. jQuery has much more capabilities and features like CSS manipulations, AJAX and JavaScript animations and effects.
You can study jQuery library in depth here.
Hope this article provides help to jQuery beginners.
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
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Speaking with ESPN's Adam Teicher, Dorsey wouldn't directly answer the question about using the franchise tag on Houston. However he did say, "I don't foresee Justin going anywhere," indicating that the tag is an option if a deal can't be reached.
Houston led the NFL with 22 sacks in 2014.
If no deal can be reached, the Chiefs are expected to use the franchise tag on Houston. In 2014, Houston produced 22 sacks and 68 tackles.
Rodgers played all 16 regular-season games in 2014 for just the second time in the last five seasons, completing 65.6 percent of his passes while racking up 4,381 passing yards, 38 passing touchdowns and five interceptions. He also added two more touchdowns on the ground while gaining 269 rushing yards on 43 carries.
Several other awards were handed out at the ceremony Saturday, as follows.
AP Offensive Player of the Year: DeMarco Murray, Cowboys
AP Defensive Player of the Year: J.J. Watt, Texans
AP Offensive Rookie of the Year: Odell Beckham, Giants
AP Defensive Rookie of the Year: Aaron Donald, Rams
AP Comeback Player of the Year: Rob Gronkowski, Patriots
AP Coach of the Year: Bruce Arians, Cardinals
AP Assistant Coach of the Year: Todd Bowles, Cardinals
Walter Payton Man of Year: Thomas Davis, Panthers
Art Rooney Sportsmanship Award: Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinals
Salute to Service Award: Jared Allen, Bears
NFL.com Fantasy Player of the Year: Le'Veon Bell, Steelers
FedEx Air Player of the Year: Aaron Rodgers, Packers
FedEx Ground Player of the Year: Le'Veon Bell, Steelers
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(Former India wicketkeeper and selector Kiran More, IBN World Cup Cricket Expert, is contributing exclusively for Cricketnext. Catch him Live in pre- and post-match shows throughout the ICC World Cup 2015 only on CNN-IBN and IBN7) The start to our World Cup defence has been just brilliant. We are not...
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We definitely leaked too many runs: Ravichandran Ashwin
January 9, 2015
Sydney: Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin admitted that the visiting bowlers were guilty of leaking too many runs in the final session of play to allow Australia a 348-run second innings lead on the fourth day of the final Test on Friday. India gave away 213 runs in post-tea session as the...
Shane Watson criticised for missing century
January 7, 2015
Sydney: Former Australian cricketer Tom Moody has taken a dig at struggling batsman Shane Watson for his shot selection that led to his dismissal on 81 runs on the second day of the fourth Test against India on Wednesday. Watson, under much pressure for a prolonged run drought, miscued a pull...
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December 29, 2014
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Batsmen will score big on Day 3, says Ravichandran Ashwin
December 27, 2014
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Indian spinners not too impressive: Brad Hogg
December 23, 2014
Melbourne: Former Australia spinner Brad Hogg feels that the absence of an attacking spin bowler in the Indian side is hurting the visiting team's chances in the ongoing four-Test series against Australia. Hogg said lack of quality in India's spin department is probably one of the key reasons why Australia have...
India are ahead in the game, says R Ashwin
December 18, 2014
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MS Dhoni has no fears for India on pacy Gabba pitch
December 16, 2014
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Karn Sharma has justified his selection: Stuart MacGill
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New Delhi: Former Australia leg-spinner Stuart MacGill said on Tuesday that even though Ravichandran Ashwin is India's premier spinner, Karn Sharma's inclusion in the playing XI for the first Test against Australia is justified. "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Ashwin has got a tremendous record in the...
Ravichandran Ashwin continues to be top Test allrounder
November 4, 2014
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October 31, 2014
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Ashwin should be part of playing XI: Bishen Singh Bedi
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May 4, 2014
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text: Bright Wisdom – Cultivation of the Heart Tim Chiu March 1st, 2008 English Tao Class Kuang Ming Saint Tao Temple Topics • Background on Bright Wisdom • Five W's of Cultivation • Importance of the Heart • Ways to cultivate our Heart – Be one with your True Self – Have an unattached and grateful heart • Form and formless • Embracing suffering • Good or Bad • Anger and inner peace • Summary 2 Background • Collection of teachings and wisdom from our Holy Teacher – 10 different chapters on various topics relating to Tao and cultivation • Relates to everyone – It reaches all people, independent of culture, background, education, etc. – Simple yet profound concepts that help us become awakened and enlightened • Wisdom that is applicable to our daily lives – Interacting with people, dealing with situations, and internal cultivation 3 What is Cultivation • Implies Change – "Cultivation is to correct the evil thoughts, and recover the inherent conscience and the intrinsic ethics." • We all have a set of intrinsic set of ethics and principles – Saving a drowning child • We also have an innate perfect wisdom – Find a different way to save the child if you can't swim. – Nurturing the seed of Enlightenment that is inside all of us • Like the pure lotus flower that grows in muddled water, it uses its environment to nurture itself, but is not tainted by it. • Use our environment to nurture our internal virtues • "Applying the teachings to our daily lives is cultivation" – Cultivation is not just about knowing the teachings, that's knowledge. – Cultivation is to be disciplined to apply the teachings in all aspects of our lives when appropriate and not only when it's it convenient 4 Why Cultivate? • To be a better person; to change for the better – To rid our bad habits • Humility to admit we're not perfect, but have the faith that we can change • To find the Truth that shows us the way – To be happy, free, and at peace in all that we do; Enlightened – Not here to hope or pray that all of our problems will go away, but to learn to overcome any problem that Life may throw our way. – Reveal the wisdom to overcome any difficulties that we may encounter • Help bring harmony to the world – Our actions and lack of affect one another and the world that we live in. • Improving ourselves, impact one another, and help change the world – "Don't be shy and not come to temple. By coming, we are helping one another" • Even if your initial motivation is for the delicious vegetarian food afterwards. • Opportunity to listen, lecture, cook, clean, share, bond, support • Remember to seize the opportunity to contribute to it so that we can all benefit together 5 Who is Cultivating? • "The biggest obstacle in cultivation now is that people only ask others to change instead of asking oneself. Before asking others, ask yourself first whether you have done it yourself. Also, you should ask and reflect on yourself first instead of blaming others or exterior factors." – We are very generous in our advice to others, but are not willing to follow our own advice – See other people's faults very clearly, but are not able to see our own – Let others be a mirror/reminder to ourselves of what we should or shouldn't do. – Encourage others to cultivate by first being role models ourselves – Reflect and see more our own faults instead of concentrating on the imperfection of others • Eating Candy – Woman and son visiting Ghandi, and asked him to please tell her son to stop eating candy. – "Come back in three days and I will grant your request" – Three days later, she came back with her son, and Ghandi knelt down beside the boy and advised him to stop eating candy. The boy then promised he would stop. – The woman asked Ghandi why he did not do this on their first visit, three days earlier. – Ghandi replied, "Three days ago, I had not stopped eating candy." 6 When and Where to Cultivate? • "Cultivation is everywhere and at all times, practicing and applying the teachings to all that we do. Cultivation is not in the temples or in front of people, but when you are alone and when you face every situation. It is part of your everyday life." – Come to temple to learn the Truth from the teachings and lectures. – Very few opportunities to cultivate in temple because people are on their best behavior – It is in the real world outside of temple that we are truly tested • Like gold, our impurities are shed in the constant flames of fire • Story of the Candles – A small candle is in a room full of other big candles and asks a Big candle "What is light?" – Because small candle is surrounded by many big candles in a room, there is constant light • Similar to a fish asking what is water, or us asking what is air – Big candle takes small candle to a dark room and says to small candle "When you see darkness, then you will know what is light." • When fish is out of water, or when we lack oxygen, we become aware of its existence – Being surrounded by big candles, the small candle can't see the light emitted by itself • Being surrounded by fellow sincere and senior Tao cultivators, we forgot we have a light inside too – Only when we are out in the world and are faced with obstacles are our true colors, or light, revealed • Cultivation is come to temple to learn the teachings but apply them to our daily lives 7 Importance of Heart • "Should you not have the rightness of heart, rightness of body, rightness of speech, rightness of action, even the correct path will become a crooked one." – Even if we've received Tao and come to the temple every month, the path will be wrong if the our heart is not righteous. – Even though our actions may seem like the correct path, but if our heart is not genuine or sincere, then the path will be crooked • Coming to temple to take advantage of others or helping others in exchange for favors in the future -> greed and reciprocation • The path, or actions, does not dictate the righteousness of the heart, but rather it is the heart that determines the righteousness of the path. – The Path is correct only if the heart is correct AND our actions follow it – Cultivate our heart, and not only of our actions and appearances 8 True versus Human Heart • "Don't mislead your heart with form; don't use the human heart for cultivation. Instead, use the heart of Tao to cultivate the human heart." – Conduct normal activities with a holy heart -> holy affair • Sincerely and selflessly caring for family and friends – Conduct holy activities with a human heart -> worldly affair • "Caring" for Tao members with the expectation that others will help you or for recognition/compliments – "Worldly" implies personal desires, while "Holy" implies actions which are selfless and for the benefit of others. – Holy isn't necessarily temple-related, while Worldly doesn't exclude temple activities. 9 Be Thy True Self • "Behave and do things well, and your path will always be true." – Behave according to what your heart knows is true and good • Includes fulfilling your responsibilities in the role you're in – Not be guided or affected by what people may think or what society has sets as a standard because that will always change. • Be true to ourselves and our heart before we can be true to others – Not required to be an expert, but rather doing things to the best of your ability • "Be guided by the Tao that is in you and your path will be true." – Tao = true and selfless heart; Path = actions, or life; True = meaningful and bright – "Be guided by the true and selfless heart that is in you and your actions will be meaningful and bright." – Our path should be guided by our True and selfless heart, not our human heart 10 Be one with our Heart • "Your heart, mind, words, and deeds have to match and be consistent." – Consistent with our True heart – Story of the diligent monk and the layman • L: "Are you very diligent in your cultivation?" M says, "Of course" • L: "To what extent or extreme are you diligent in your cultivation?" • M: "When I am hungry, I will eat. When I am sleepy, I will sleep" • L: "Isn't that what a normal person does anyways?" • M: "Of course there is a difference. When a normal person eats, he is not eating as he is enslaved by his desires for better food and fortune. When he is sleeping, he is thinking about matters such as having a better house, better clothes, or better person to accompany him. That is a big difference" – Though the actions are the same, but the heart of a layman and a cultivator is very different 11 Unattached to Form: Greed/Desires • "Do not pursue fame and wealth as you will be trapped by them. Even if it is but one penny, you too will be confined. The more desires you have, the more you will pursue them as desires are limitless. Only when you let go of these desires will you be liberated. Then can you understand how to cultivate and know the essence of being free and at ease." – A child wanting toys, adult wanting more possessions and wealth. – Trapped by our endless desires because they begin to dictate our sense of purpose. • If I don't earn this much or have this item, then I will feel poor or inadequate. • People in history are not defined by their possessions but their actions. – Buddha's and Bodhisattva's gave up their worldly possessions to seek something more real and ever-lasting • Enlightenment and salvation, not how much wealth they had or didn't have – Having money in itself isn't a bad thing. Money has its function and purpose in our society. • How we utilize money to help ourselves and the lives of others. • Instead of being a slave to it and letting it dictate our sense of happiness and purpose. 12 Endless Desires • Stone cutter story – Stone cutter dissatisfied with himself and his position – Wealth merchant: fine possessions and important visitors. – Official: attendants and escorted by soldiers, and bowed to by everyone – Sun: looked up and saw the sun shine proudly in the sky, unaffected by his presence. – Clouds: Black cloud moved between him and the earth, so that his light could no longer shine on the people – Wind: Found that he was being pushed away by an even greater force and realized it was the wind – Stone: Ran up against something that would not move, no matter how forcefully he blew - a huge rock – Rock: Heard the sound of a hammer pounding a chisel and felt himself being changed. – "What could be more powerful than I, the rock?" he thought – He looked down and saw far below him the figure of a stone cutter. • Desires for possessions, fame, power are endless • Recognize and let go of our desires so that we are not trapped in its never-ending cycle. – To employ and use things, and not be employed by them – Master of our environment, instead of being a slave to our desires 13 Unattached to Formless • "People keep in their hearts the problems of the past, the imperfections of the present, and believe that the future is hopeless. These are called the 'Three hearts'. To be truly pure and tranquil in your mind and free from all the attachments, you must not dwell on the past, present, or future." – Unattached to results of the past, good and bad • Accept that what has happened and can not be changed. • Learn from it so that you don't make the same mistakes again – Like a farmer who has sown the land with some good and bad seed, he/she will learn from it and replant the field the next season with the more good ones. • Regrets are a form of attachment to the past – Instead of going on 10, went on the 60 freeway to avoid the traffic – The alternate result may or may not necessarily have a different or better result • Learn to accept and let go of what we can not change – Unattached to the challenges or problems of the present • Caught-up in the problems itself that we are not able to see the solution clearly • Attached to our biases and our narrow and singular perspectives – Think out of the box instead of limiting ourselves • Challenge is caused by our attachment/fear of the possibility of an undesirable result – Have faith that everything happens for the best; Story of the farmer and his horse 14 Unattached to Formless • Unattached to our expectations for the future – Worried about what may or may not happen • Not able to sleep at night because we are worried about giving a lecture/speech and forgetting some details. • It's OK if we do forget. – Probably a sign that it's not that important or that it was meant for the next time – Additional details might sometimes obscure the message we're trying to convey – People might not be paying attention when we are discussing it, etc. – Can't predict the future, so might as well go with the flow • Be one with it • A Taoist story of an old man who accidentally fell into the river rapids that led to a high and dangerous waterfall. Miraculously, he came out alive and unharmed downstream at the bottom of the falls. • "I accommodated myself to the water, not the water to me. Without thinking, I allowed myself to be shaped by it. Plunging into the swirl, I came out with the swirl. That is how I survived." • Not worried about if he will come out of it or not, or try to go against it 15 Grateful Heart • "Whenever we face difficulties in our daily life, remember to face it with a grateful heart. No matter what the problems are, whether you like it or loathe it, you should face it with a heart of gratitude." – Easiest to be grateful when we're not in the midst of our problems or when the result is what we want – Dislike dealing with difficult people at work? • Not wanting to wake up in the morning and go to work • An opportunity to learn and practice dealing with more difficult situations in the future • Get paid to make yourself better as a person and as an employee. – A grateful heart will help us see things in a different perspective • Difficult person see things in a way that we do not understand • Help us cultivate our wisdom and patience to embrace others and new ideas • Other things to be grateful for: – The opportunity and ability to help others, instead of always being helped • Story of the 2 spirits of the Underworld • Life where you are frequently receiving or frequently giving – What we don't have, as they remind us to cherish what we do have – Our imperfections, as they remind us of our humility and equality 16 Understand Suffering • "The most miserable suffering in life is not death, but rather being lost and attached." – There will be a time when we will lose people close to us that it seems unbearable – Reminder to cherish and be grateful of those around us. – The closer we hold them to our hearts, the more we seem to suffer it seems. – The suffering is heavily due to our attachment to the physical body and form, and not necessarily for the well-being of the person • Dying from cancer or in excruciating pain – We know our bodies won't last forever, so it is not a matter of if, but when • Why be attached to something that is only going through its natural process? – It is the fear of the unknown, of where we are headed after death • If we knew that the person was going to a better and everlasting place after death, wouldn't we be happy for them instead of asking them to stay with us? – Our own suffering is due to our attachment to the temporary, physical body and the fear of the unknown are the causes of this suffering. 17 Embrace Suffering with a Big Heart • To be a cup or to be a lake – There was once a Master Monk who was accompanied by a disgruntled student. – The Master asked his disciple to go buy a bag of salt and asked his unhappy student to grab a handful of salt and to put it in a cup of water and to drink it. – Then the master asks the student, "how does it taste?" – "Very bitter" said the student and he spit out the rest of the water from his mouth. – The master then proceeded to ask the student to pour the entire bag of salt into a nearby lake and to taste the water from the lake. – So the student does so and the master then asked, "how does it taste now?" – "Very Refreshing," replied the student. – The Master asks the student, "Did you taste the salt at all?" "Not at all," said the student – At that moment, the Master shared the following with the student: • "Life's sufferings are like the salt -- Not too many and not too little. In our lives, the amount of pain and suffering that we will encounter is the same. • BUT, the impact those sufferings depends solely on how large of the container or space we put it in." • Whenever you feel unhappy or feel like you're in suffering, open your heart so that it is not the size of a cup, but rather the size of a lake. 18 Anger • Anger only hurts you and the people in your surrounding and usually not the person that you're mad at. • Cause of anger is usually due to differences in opinion or expectation • "Argument implies a desire to win, which strengthens egotism and ties us to the belief in the notion of a Self." – Angry when our heart if full of Self, and we become attached to a particular point of view (My View) versus all the other (Wrong) views. – Story of Four at dawn and Three at dusk • Zoo keeper gives to the monkeys 4 bananas at dawn and 3 at dusk • Monkeys revolt when they are given 3 bananas at dawn and 4 at dusk – Is it any different in the end? • Two ways, or views, of the same thing: 7 bananas per day • The difference is in the point of view, and our attachment to them 19 Obtaining Inner Peace • "If your heart is unbalanced and not at peace, then you will be angered easily." – Getting cut-off in traffic • Unbalanced/Ego: Angry and upset at the crazy driver for almost getting HIM/HER into an accident! Tell others that they need to drive better. • Balanced/Peace: Grateful it didn't cause an accident and nobody was hurt – Remind him/herself that they've made the same mistake before unintentionally, and to avoid these actions in the future now that we know the other perspective – The same events may or may not anger us depending on the state of our heart – See things in a different perspective and reflect on own cultivation -> balance and peaceful heart – See things in your own perspective and dwell onto others' lack of cultivation -> unbalanced heart 20 Good or Bad • "Nothing is either good or bad, it all depends on your thought. So don't be attached to the notion of good or bad." – Giving money to the less fortunate • Be grateful that we are not in a similar position and have the good fortune to share with others – Helping homeless in Berkeley • Presumptuous to assume that I understood what he needed and not food/rest • Upset at the unexpected result -> did not accept our charity and was not grateful – Offer others what they need instead of what we want to offer; Help others in the way that they can accept instead of in the way that we are willing to offer • When they are cold, clothe them; hungry, feed them; down, lift them – Our notion of good or bad is often associated with our attachment to the result • Unexpected result -> disappointed or blame others for not fulfilling it as we wanted • Expected result -> Ego that you were the main cause of the "good" result – There isn't an absolute good or bad, it all depends on your perspective • Remember the story of the Farmer and the horse 21 No Absolute Good or Bad • Story of the monk and the lady near the river – Two traveling monks reached a river where they met a young woman. Wary of the current, she asked if they could carry her across. One of the monks hesitated, but the other quickly picked her up onto his shoulders, transported her across the water, and put her down on the other bank. She thanked him and departed. – As the monks continued on their way, one monk asks, "Brother, our spiritual training teaches us to avoid any contact with women, but you picked that her up on your shoulders and carried her!" – "Brother," the second monk replied, "I set her down on the other side a while ago, while you are still carrying her until now." • There is no absolute good or bad, but rather our attachment to the idea of good or bad in our heart. – Second Monk is only doing what his heart tells him he should do • Help others regardless if it's a man or woman, young or old, ugly or beautiful – Not attached to the form and acted true to his heart • Not advocating the discard of all rules and regulation, but rather we need to understand the meaning of the rules and apply them appropriately and wisely instead of always following them blindly 22 Cultivation in a Nutshell • Be sincere in our hearts, thoughts, words, and our actions so that we are one with our True Self on all occasions. • Don't be attached to our expectations, results, or point of view. • Have faith that everything happens for the best, even if we can't see it yet. • Maintain a cool, unattached heart to see all things and perspectives without bias • Have a warm heart of gratitude to embrace all beings 23