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CrawfordHollow wrote:Lowlydog:
Have you ever heard of the four thoughs that turn the mind? It is part of the ngondro, a set of practices that I briefly described earlier that is practiced by all sects of Tibetan Buddhism. The ngondro does contain things such as prostrations, offerings, and chanting- practices that you seem to think conflict with the Buddha's teaching. For now, I would like to talk about the first part of the ngondro, the contemplation of the four thoughts. The four thoughts are contemplations on impermanence, karma, suffering, and the preciousness of human life. The contemplations on impermanence are very much like the meditation on the corpse that you described. I would like to know why you think that this is not so important these days. Sure, you can see blood and guts and corpses on TV, but how close to reality is that? Do the images we see on TV really make us think about our own mortality or are they just another distraction? I think that our ancestors of the past lived much closer to the reality of death than modern folks ever will. We do not embrace death, we deny it. Isn't it an insult just to say that you look old these days? Impermanence may seem elementary, but it is not something that is just for beginners, or something that you leave behind once you understand it. Impermanence is the essence of what the Buddha taught. There is so much out there to distract us, so much else we could be doing besides practicing and investigating our mind. Anything that encourages us to practice is essential. We are all going to die someday. Yes, we all know that, but how much do you think about it. Really? Most people try their best to forget about it. I just find it strange that you would say that this contemplation is somehow outdated.
And could you please explain exactly what these "rites and rituals" are that you keep referring to? Please be specific. Could you also please explain which sects of Buddhism practices the Dharma by worshipping statues as you describe in your post? I am really not trying to bash you, I honestly don't understand where you are coming from. I think that maybe you have a misconcieved notion of how Buddhism is practiced. You say that these are your personal observations. What have you observed? I've been practicing for a bit, not forevor, but I have lived in a monastary and I have never seen anyone- American or Tibetan- practicing in the way you describe. By the way, I also have a lot of respect for S.N. Goenka and his insight meditation.
"rites and rituals would be believing that anything external can liberate you.
Belief that a statue of buddha can liberate you.
offering treats and sweets to a statue.
Bowing to statues.
incense burning
wearing of specific coloured clothes
saying sadhu,sadhu, sadhu if done out of habit"
ow I did not say these things conflict with the buddhas teachings, I believe they can be a hindrence to progress if they are clung to to tightly, I believe they could aid in calming the mind and the developement of concentration if used appropriately but often I feel to much importance is placed on the ritual aspect of these practices and they are used in lue of mindfulness based practice.
As for the corpses, I do not feel it is necessary to look outwardly at another dead being to realise that I am going to decompose and wither away to dust,with the advancement of science and microscopes available today we all know that we are made up of subatomic particles, back in the buddhas time there were probably alot of people that would not know they had organs in their bodies and blood and that these things were changing.
Johnny Dangerous wrote:Charnel ground meditation is suggested in the Pali Canon.
CrawfordHollow wrote: Nothing external will liberate you, true. Realizing the true nature of what we see as external will liberate you, which is really what the Mahayana and Vajrayana are all about. Troy
lowlydog wrote:Rites and rituals would be believing that anything external can liberate you.
Belief that a statue of buddha can liberate you.
offering treats and sweets to a statue.
Bowing to statues.
incense burning
wearing of specific coloured clothes
saying sadhu,sadhu, sadhu if done out of habit
Now before I'm crucified, I'm not saying these things are unpleasant and should not be done. It's nice to smell incense look at pretty flowers in the temple, it adds colour to life. I often see many people using the temple as a church or community centre a gathering place for socialising and there are alot of people who call themselves buddhist and do not meditate or follow precepts. My teacher would say these people come to buddhism to recieve the seed of dharma, to be developed in a future birth, and that birth can come in this very lifetime. There is nothing wrong with these things and they can be pleasant, but I do not believe them to be liberative.
And then some!conebeckham wrote:...One's teacher, and the teachings themselves, were external to us, at least initially.
conebeckham wrote:Well, you do not really understand these rites and rituals. You pass judgement on them, and on chanting and prostrations, but quite frankly you don't understand these methods. You've dismissed them without a full understanding. That's fine, really. I'm guessing that you've been conditioned, by whatever life events or circumstances, to have an internal bias against things which are "religious" and your teacher therefore appeals to this bias. It's skillful means. Heck, we don't even have to call our technique "Buddhist"--that surely allows it to be less off-putting to those who are biased against religion, or against Buddhism, specifically.
conebeckam wrote:In the end, Lowlydog, all these "rites and rituals" you've dismissed can have a profound effect on the mind, and, in some cases, can be more effective and yield quicker results than the samadhi practices you've embraced. It is no doubt true that, for some people, these rites and rituals may be "pleas to another power," but even then, you shouldn't dismiss them as ineffective. After all, if there is no subject and object in reality, what does it matter whether the liberating power is seen to be internal or external?
conebeckam wrote:Finally, I think it's important to understand that, for ignorant sentient beings such as ourselves, there's no doubt that "external" factors are to be relied upon, at this stage of the path. One's teacher, and the teachings themselves, were external to us, at least initially.
This betrays the fact that you are still being heavily influenced by the very thing that sickened you. The superiority of personal views. You do not want to be judged through the prism of the view of others, yet you are quite happy to judge them.I am my own master, I decide what is dharma and what is not.
gregkavarnos wrote:For me though the crux of your above confession comes to a screeching halt here:This betrays the fact that you are still being heavily influenced by the very thing that sickened you. The superiority of personal views. You do not want to be judged through the prism of the view of others, yet you are quite happy to judge them.I am my own master, I decide what is dharma and what is not.
greg wrote:It is not that people here are telling you to not follow your path, nor are they telling you to follow their path (eg take up rites and rituals). Nobody is trying to impose their view on you. They are merely pointing out that their view (or method) differs from yours, and yet works for them. You come across as judgemental and proselytising. Preaching your god to the ignorant heathens. You are acting in exactly the same manner as those you profess to be sickened by. You are trying to twist peoples "spiritual' legs until they crack.
greg']You do this by comparing your god to the god of others on a scale of one to ten with your god at number one. This is pride. This pride then expresses itself as anger and an attempt to bludgeon others until they accept accept the dominance of your position. This is hypocrisy, because on the one hand you talk about not being a "closed book" yet on the other hand you agressively try to press your view.[/quote]
I am an open book, in the sense that I have no trouble listening to others views of dharma, the part of me that use to cringe when I heard people discussing god or gurus is gone. This does not mean that I accept what others are saying as truth, because some things they are saying are not my truth. Some times I hear someone talking about something and I think wow this person is out to lunch but then I retranslate what they were saying in a way that makes sense to me in my little world and then I'm able to accept it. Until that happens it stays on the back burner.
[quote="greg wrote:Okay, we all have our flaws, we all make mistakes. Question is: do we learn from our mistakes?
You have no idea what you are talking about.lowlydog wrote:...it means not to turn another into a guru or god, to find liberation within oneself.
This is a lie.... you have decided that his teachings are not dharma, talk about judgemental.
You abide by the terms of Service you remain, you do not... This applies to all members.I come here professing that an individuals teachings have helped me to experience peace and have introduced god back into my life and I'm told this is not dharma. This is the crossroads for us if I am to stay a part of this community, because I will not be silenced with regard to anything on my spiritual path. I am not saying this is better, it is dharma.
This is also a lie.I'm not comparing different religions...
lowlydog wrote:Remember this is not a forum to discuss the teachings of Gotama the buddha alone this is a forum to discuss buddhism, the teachings of all liberated beings.
justsit wrote:lowlydog wrote:Remember this is not a forum to discuss the teachings of Gotama the buddha alone this is a forum to discuss buddhism, the teachings of all liberated beings.
Actually, if you read the subtitle, this is a "Buddhist discussion forum on Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism."
Goenka is a secular meditation teacher.
...his teaching has a profound appeal to people of all backgrounds, of every religion and no religion...
So much for the secular nature of Goenka Vipassana.Global Vipassana Pagoda
One of Goenka's wishes was fulfilled in November 2008 when the construction of the Global Vipassana Pagoda was completed on the outskirts of Mumbai. He hopes that this monument will act as a bridge between different communities, different sects, different countries and different races to make the world a more harmonious and peaceful place.
The Pagoda contains the world's largest pillar-less stone dome structure and is expected to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world wanting to learn more about it and Vipassana meditation. Architecturally, this building is by far the largest single-span stone dome in the world, twice as big as the Basilica of St. Peter at the Vatican. At its centre is a circular meditation hall, 280 feet in diameter, which has a seating capacity of 8,000. At 325 feet height, it is almost as tall as a 30-story building. Approximately 2.5 million tons of stone was used in the construction.
The pagoda is seen by its creators as an expression of gratitude towards the Buddha and his teachings. It is also an expression of gratitude to the teachers who preserved the Buddha's teaching to this day, especially to Ba Khin. By choosing the form of a Burmese pagoda, it is also a sign of gratitude to the country of Myanmar which kept the tradition alive for over 2000 years.
lowlydog wrote:The technique which S. N.Goenka teaches represents a tradition that is traced back to the Buddha. The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal. In the same tradition, Mr. Goenka's approach is totally non-sectarian. For this reason, his teaching has a profound appeal to people of all backgrounds, of every religion and no religion, and from every part of the world.
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Please stop with the negativity already. The ASPCA does amazing things for animals...we should all be positive and help them to help animals. God loves all beings. Thank you...
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Students from grades 7-12 will have an opportunity to rub elbows with individuals from all around the world at this year's seventh annual Piano Institute at Kent State University presented by the Piano Division at Kent State's Hugh A. Glauser School of Music.
Held July 15-25, the Piano Institute offers a unique combination of lessons, master classes and performance opportunities. Students will interact at Kent State for 11 days of inspiration, learning and sharing. Applications are currently being accepted for this highly intensive festival for talented piano students in grades 7-12.
Activities for Piano Institute participants include:
- Performing in a final gala performance at Severance Hall's Reinberger Chamber Hall
- Receiving four hours of one-on-one lessons with Kent State piano faculty
- Participating in master classes with esteemed guest artists, including Joela Jones, principal keyboardist with the Cleveland Orchestra
- Attending workshops on sight-reading, technique, practicing, and audition/competition preparation
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Jessie Doris Bandy was born July 16, 1921, in Montpelier, to the late Earl McGee Thompson and Thomas Jefferson Thompson. She started her working career as candy wrapper for Carter Candy Company. After the war she worked with her husband at Dairyland Feed and Seed until it burned in 1962. Next she put her skills to work filling vending machines for Bandy Candy at Babcock and Wilcox Company and other locations. Before retiring she kept books for D & B Auction and other auctioneers all over Mississippi and Alabama. To stay busy after retirement she worked with her daughter at D & B Furniture until she was 88. Mrs. Bandy was a member of First United Methodist Church. Doris Thompson "Dot" Bandy married Harry Leech Bandy on August 11, 1940, in West Point, he preceded her in death May 15, 1995.
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Survivors include three daughters, Brenda B. Hood of Houston, Texas, Bernice B. Isaacs (Gene) of Tucson, Ariz., Doris Ann Mitchell (Roy) of West Point, seven grandchildren, 12 great- grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her twin brother, Darrell Thompson and two sisters, Clara L. Simmons, and Othell Moseley.
Pallbearers are John D. Hood, Thomas Werstlein, John Isaacs, Kevin Mitchell, John Hall, and Steve Moseley.
Memorials may be made to Sally Kate Winters Family Services, P. O. Box 1233, West Point, MS 39773-1233.
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Something new, something blue!
That bracket could use a little Krylon.
If you take something off that is going back on clean it and paint it. No sense in doing it twice.
"Its cool to spool, but I'd rather be blown.." - JUS_GT_EYEZ
My FLickr <-- DUKEDLF
c'mon dude can we get somewhere with this thread bro?
in the time it took to do what you've done...i have lowered my bus,converted it to a 4 spd and also got 3 cars ready for paint!!!!!
lets go man!!!
Turtles have legs... this is more of chloroformed sloth status... with broken limbs...
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Can tell you this...your pump is gonna last about an hour,the lower end of the motor ain't much different with the sediment from the oil either...your fuel lines are gonna be dry toted or soft from the fuel turning into turpentine too.
This is where it gets fun and you start to realize this aintwhat it's cracked up to be.
Gave my bus To my buddy Skills,since he helped me with the build of the trans conversion and parts etc he had since sold it to a dude in jersey too.
No aircooled exp.+ 78 Champ. Ed. Bus= Confusedsheelos!!!
What were you expecting to see when you drained a bus thats been sitting in yard for who know how long?
Non running vehicles are that way for a reason and very rarely for the reasons the sellers say.
Time to decide what you want to have in the end and do with it takes to make it happen.
"Its cool to spool, but I'd rather be blown.." - JUS_GT_EYEZ
My FLickr <-- DUKEDLF
I vote for the VR swap like 98% of people have already voted.
To all the 98% voters!
Its about to go down!! * Kevin Hart voice*
You are nuts, but good luck
My wife hates when I read posts like this. It makes me want to bring my 71 super up and get it running. She hates anything older then the 90's
Vr has been detached from the mk3 shell!
wow 4 pages...A1,you seein' this
I do hope you realize the amount of cutting and reworking of the engine compartment that is going to be required to make that vr fit. Heck an aba swap won't fit back there without modifications to the firewall and gas tank. I'm not discouraging you I'm just saying I hope you are prepared to overcome the issues that are going to come up. This isn't going to be anything remotely close to a 4 banger counterflow swap in terms of the installation.
Engine mounts are not the place you want to "learn" how to weld on.
well i' not gonna rain on any parades here but as a guy who kinda has a grip on this kinda s--t
i' have painted two full blown cars,rebuilt 2 motors,run a business daily and even had time to f--k with mu hot rod and blast it out for a ride...
dude you need to light a fire under your a-- and get some s--t done!!!
seriously....not everything involves money just good old fashion hard work,gettin down and dirty and cleaning!!!
just sayin bro!!!!
They're just saying to turn the computer off and get your bitch ass in the garage... no one wants to see pictures of anything but the bus.
Just remember guys, hugs are fun.
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This huge victory is thanks to the hard work of a large coalition of interest groups and the actions of concerned citizens, like the dedicated members of the ASPCA Advocacy Brigade, who told their legislators that they want transparency and accountability when it comes to how farm animals are treated. With the defeats of these bills, we have shown the agriculture industry that suppressing investigations—and the hard truths they often uncover—is not an acceptable response to the real problem of abuse on factory farms.
Learn why ag-gag laws endanger both animal and human health.
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Great job!!!! Thanks for all involved!!!!!
The horrific abuse and suffering of factory farm animals is one of America's greatest animal-abuse "secrets" but it is becoming wider and wider known. I am grateful to all the fighters for animal rights, all the groups/individuals that came together to defeat these immoral "ag-gag" bills. Let's keep up the fight for the animals.
That's why I stopped eating meat. I will not give my money to an industry that abuses animals.
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MARK KEOHANE, in his Business Day column, rates the Springboks' first Test of the season.
JJ Engelbrecht is the present and the future at outside centre for the Springboks. His pace is unmatched among international 13s. He has strength and his only vulnerability remains a defensive inexperience in the position.
I hope Bok coach Heyneke Meyer invests in him as a No 13 and doesn't move him back to the wing. He will be a good international winger but he has the potential to be a very good outside centre.
The cliché among coaches is you can't coach speed. It is also true. Fast runners can marginally improve their pace but express pace is something that very few outside centres have. Engelbrecht's pace gives the Boks an edge, especially if his inside backs work the space and width effectively and can fashion ball delivery that allows Engelbrecht to attack the outside shoulder of his opposite defender.
His distribution will improve the more he plays but Jacque Fourie's distribution in the early part of his international career was also an area that required work.
There are passers and runners in a team. Mistakes have been made in the past in wanting to make the runners passers and the passers runners.
Engelbrecht's strength is his running, so any assessment should focus primarily on whether he is running the right angles of attack and whether he is running with purpose and with impact on the gain line.
Engelbrecht, against Italy, ran excellent support running lines, he was strong in the tackle and his only defensive error was on occasion shooting up too quickly and disrupting the line of the defensive wall. Better opposition, in more intense Test match environments, only need one Bok defensive mistake to win the match.
Engelbrecht, not rated in Western Province and seen only as a back up Super Rugby wing, has evolved as a rugby player with the Bulls. He is not the first to have improved since making the move North and he won't be the last.
The Bulls are the most balanced South African team and their back play is most complete. Former Bok wing Pieter Rossouw, under the direction of head coach Frans Ludeke, has been influential in an attacking mindset change.
The Bulls play intelligent rugby and the group of Bok players Meyer is developing are good enough to improve their rugby intelligence.
Playing intelligently is the key to success in Test rugby. The very best teams play with intelligence, an appreciation for field position and the confidence to attack, regardless of field position, but they also play with recognition that to kick is not necessarily representative of a negative mindset. Intelligent kicking shows an understanding of the match situation.
I thought the Boks were intelligent in how they played the Italians. They got the explosive start and when forced to play without the ball for a good 20 minutes in the opening quarter of the second half they maintained composure and structure.
The Test showed an effectiveness on attack and also a doggedness in defence. Italy are always going to be more workmanlike than maverick and they won't score 14 points in two or three minutes.
There will be far greater examinations of the Bok defence and of their attacking game, but first up in 2013 the performance represented a decent outing.
Engelbrecht was the highlight for me. Bryan Habana showed his experience and at least ran with intent and not the restriction of being cautious for fear of making a mistake.
Scrumhalf Jano Vermaak's distribution was key to the pace of the Bok backs and Morne Steyn's attack benefited because of the quick delivery. It's a pity he got injured.
Willie le Roux was adventurous and eccentric. This needs to be encouraged but as Le Roux settles into Test rugby he also has to add more balance to his all-round game. His unpredictability can become a predictability against the better teams.
Le Roux's decision-making will improve with more game time, but a more accurate assessment of his fullback play will be made following a Rugby Championship campaign.
Le Roux does have X-factor, as does loose-forward Arno Botha. He got a break because of injury to Willem Alberts and it underlined the immense depth of quality loose-forwards in South Africa.
The experiment to convert Coenie Oosthuizen into a tighthead is going to take time, but because of the dearth of world class tighteads in the game it is an experiment that must be given the necessary time.
Adriaan Strauss was another who has grown internationally in Bismarck du Plessis's injury absence and sides like New Zealand and Australia would love to have the hooker depth available to the Bok coach.
I was again impressed with Steyn's control of the game at flyhalf and I don't share the view of the many on social media forums who continue to have an issue with every aspect of Pierre Spies's game. I thought he was as effective as he needed to be, which is consistent with the team's overall performance.


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Groovy gives us a wide variety of choices for meta-programming. We've looked at Categories and Interceptors, which change the behavior of objects within a selected block and current thread only, in other tutorials. In this tutorial, we'll learn about more ways of meta-programming in Groovy.
Intercepting Method Calls and Property Accesses
We can add a special method called 'invokeMethod' to a class definition that executes calls to undefined methods:
If our class implements GroovyInterceptable, invokeMethod is called for all method invocations whether they exist or not:
We can get and set properties using special method names:
When there's a field of some name, refering to that name still considers it to be a property unless the syntax .@ is used:
We can call methods and access properties directly, both statically and dynamically, from within the class using various syntaxes:
If we add such 'invokeMethod', 'getProperty', or 'setProperty' methods to an object using Expando or Category syntax, they act just like normal methods. Not many supplied classes have 'invokeMethod' and such defined. For such cases, we need to use MetaClasses.
We've seen how classes behave with the default MetaClass:
We can create our own MetaClass which wraps around the existing one. DelegatingMetaClass provides the infrastructure for this, so we only need extend it with our own logic. We can do so on an instance-by-instance basis:
Or we can do so on a class-wide basis:
Classes we define ourselves return a MetaClass when accessing the metaClass property, but many Groovy-supplied classes don't. There's only one instance of a MetaClass in such cases:
When we use Groovy-supplied classes without their own MetaClass, both already-created and newly-created classes are affected by changes to the MetaClass:
Other methods besides invokeMethod are available on the MetaClass:
For example, making the constructor return an instance of something other than what we called the constructor on:
There's some easy-to-use facilities available through the MetaClass, known as ExpandoMetaClass, to which we can add properties and methods easily:
We can also add properties and constructors:
We can also add methods for supplied Groovy classes, ones we don't define ourselves:
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NORFOLK-- After a doctor's review, a judge said Thursday Jamiel Graves is fit to stand trial.
Graves is charged in the death of Phylicia Robinson. Her remains were found in the closet of his Marlow Ave. home late in November, nearly two months after she was reported missing.
She was his neighbor, living in one of the two units of the duplex.
The 26-year-old, who has a 5-year-old son, disappeared on the night of Oct. 3. Her family says her purse, money, cell phone and car were still at her home.
Graves had a preliminary hearing on January 29, 2013 and the judge appointed a public defender for the case, despite the fact that Graves requested that he not be appointed an attorney.
Graves is also charged with the murder of his ex-girlfriend. The body of 29-year-old Mandi Myers was found at her home on Hiawatha Drive on November 26.
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Continental Basketball Association (1983-1986)
Born: March 1983 – The Maine Lumberjacks relocate to Brockton, MA.
Died: July 16, 1986 – The Bombardiers relocate to Pensacola, FL.
- 1983-1984: Brockton High School Gymnasium
- 1984-1986: Worcester Memorial Auditorium
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Owners: John Ligums
The Bay State Bombardiers were a short-lived minor league basketball club in the Continental Basketball Association (1978-2009). The CBA was the official developmental league of the NBA during the 1980's and 1990's, only one step removed but also million light years away from the bright lights of Madison Square Garden and the Forum.
The team originated in Bangor, Maine as the Maine Lumberjacks (1978-1983). The club moved south in March 1983 when Lumberjacks investor John Ligums relocated the team to Brockton, Massachusetts, twenty minutes south of his home in the tony Boston suburb of Milton. After a tumultuous first season in Brockton under the direction of former ABA star Johnny Neumann, Ligums moved the Bombardiers an hour west to Worcester, Massachusetts and hired recently retired Boston Celtics star and future Hall-of-Famer Dave Cowens to coach the team.
We'll pick up the story there, in the spring of 1984, with former Bombardiers General Manager Steve Warshaw.
Warshaw, who took over the Bombardiers business operations at the young age of 24, has since carved out a long career in professional sports, including stops at IMG, the Pittsburgh Penguins, Moscow's CSKA (Red Army) hockey team, and as a consultant for the NHL, AHL and KHL. The following are excerpts from our 2013 conversation with Steven Warshaw. You can download the full transcript here.
Tell me how you got involved with the Continental Basketball Association in the first place.
I saw a tiny little want ad in The Wall Street Journal and it said "challenging career in pro sports". Remember want ads, before the electronic boom? Anyway, I was working for Spalding at the time, so I was getting some good practical experience in selling as well as public relations and merchandising.
I was invited out to interview for the Deputy Commissioner position underneath Jim Drucker in the CBA league office. There were two guys that I was competing against. One was Rick Horrow, who has got a very successful sports business today. He was Joe Robbie's guy and was involved in the building of Joe Robbie Stadium down in Miami and had crazy credentials. The other guy was Tom Meschery, a former NBA All-Star who ended up getting the gig.
So I didn't get the job, but I met all twelve of the CBA owners. I had done very well in my interview. They told me later that I was the only guy that had told the owners to stop talking when I was trying to respond to questions. It was a big U-shaped, "Face The Nation"-type set up. Several of the owners were talking amongst themselves. I was just a 23-year old kid and I don't know what got into me, but I said "Excuse me, am I boring you guys?" It was really arrogant and they loved it, apparently, because part of Deputy Commissioner's job was trying to keep control of these guys.
One of the guys that liked my attitude was John Ligums, who owned the Bay State Bombardiers. We went out to dinner and had a bunch of laughs and he offered me a job to come sell for him as the team's business manager.
And what kind of condition were the Bombardiers in at the time?
Well, the team was in Brockton, Massachusetts at the time. A former ABA star named Johnny Neumann was the Head Coach and he had just been fired after he failed his drug test. That actually made Sports Illustrated. The Sports Illustrated writer asked him what happened and Johnny Neumann said "Well, I had been clean, but on the way to take the test, I got so stressed out that I smoked a joint."
John Ligums told me he was going to hire the former Boston Celtics All-Star Dave Cowens as the new coach. And then we moved to Worcester in a heart beat. I might have been in Brockton for a couple of weeks before we pulled up stakes for Worcester.
I was the General Manager of the Brockton Rox baseball team for a couple of years and our stadium was right next to Brockton High School where the Bombardiers played. I've been in that gym. I know the CBA wasn't glamorous by any stretch, but it's still hard to imagine a pro basketball team playing there.
I never saw one game there. Actually, no, I take that back. I went to see one game there towards the end of the season. And yeah, it was a joke. It was a high school. But I remember learning a few tricks of the minor league trade at that game. I remember watching the Bombardiers' game operations guy pouring so much salt into the popcorn that everyone had to buy extra cups of his crappy Coke that he poured out of two-liter bottles.
So then we moved to Worcester and spent a couple of years there. Dave Cowens lasted the first year only and it's fair to say that John and Dave are certainly not on each other's Christmas lists.
What was John Ligums like? I've seen a few articles about the CBA and it seemed like he was always good for a sharp one-liner.
John is a really bright guy, an interesting guy. He went to Johns Hopkins. He was a wrestler. I think he always felt that he wanted to be a pro athlete. A lot of athletes who don't make it never really get over it and I think he was one of those guys. He was extremely competitive in business and rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. But with me he was very fair and I always enjoyed John and I still do. He's a very interesting character and I wish he had a little more money so we could buy another team!
I learned a lot from John. He was my first boss in the minors. One thing he was great to me about was that he really let me run the operation. My first year I brought in a lot of money from national advertising accounts such as Spalding, Nissan, Converse and the Army. Big, big accounts. He gave me the reigns to his team and he really let me do anything I wanted promotionally and in terms of media relations and PR. I've always respected owners that would let me do my job and not interfere and those guys are few and far between. From that standpoint, John was great.
He was also a great interview. Always said controversial things, got himself in trouble. He got a lot of media.
Was John Ligums the kind of owner that was more concerned about wins and losses and making the playoffs, or was he bottom line oriented?
John was bottom line. I had convinced him early on that winning is not everything in the minor leagues. It's more about the experience than actual wins and losses. But let's put it this way – he didn't like to lose.
I think the reason there was so much strain between John and Dave Cowens was because John's expectations were ridiculously high. To win in the CBA, you have to have a player personnel network that's crazy good. You really have to know where to get players. And with Dave, well, there's no way he should have known how to do that. He didn't have any experience at the time. The CBA was a very specialized player market. Dave was just really focused on the coaching and he didn't have the horses to win and to dominate in the playoffs. So that's why the friction occurred between John and Dave. Unrealistic expectations by the owner and a rookie coach, whowas a great coach, but didn't have the player personnel chops to unearth the talent.
Tell me about Captain PJ.
<Laughing> Captain P.J. was our mascot and probably one of the greatest parts of our team. He was this crazy local disc jockey. I think he still might have a show in Worcester. He ran around the auditorium in a flight suit. He slid across the court on his belly and choked himself with his aviator scarf. Captain P.J. was sort of like Chuck Yeager meets Rain Man.
Did you ever play any games at the Worcester Centrum, or was everything at the Worcester Auditorium?
No. Everything was at the Aud. We tried to go into the Centrum, but the GM at the time wanted no part of it. He didn't even want to let us play a game of the month there, or even one game. I remember I even brought Cowens to the meeting and that didn't help. I thought, Jesus, I've got Dave Cowens here and you won't even try one game with us. That's just hubris. We do one night with Cowens and he could bring in all of his Celtics buddies, but this guy wouldn't hear of it. It was just a really foolish attitude by the management of the Centrum at that point, so, no, we never played a game there.
What players stand out in your memory from the Bombardiers days?
We had probably one of the greatest players in the history of the CBA. A guy named "Awesome" Joe Dawson. He was clearly our John Henry, our mythical 6' 5" CBA god. But Joe could never make it in the bigs because he was a tweener. Joe played football and basketball at Southern Mississippi. He used to train with Walter Payton. He was a really interesting character.
He was just an absolute gentleman and yet on the court he was absolutely vicious. Vicious body, big sharp elbows, and tough. I mean, no one messed with Joe Dawson. There were a lot of brawls and nobody would go near this guy. I mean he looked like John Henry. Joe was my all-time favorite Bombardier.
We also had some wild guys like Kevin Williams, the former St. John's point guard who played in the NBA for a bunch of teams. He was actually a really nice guy, Kevin, but he was also a city kid from a very tough part of New York City. He was a brawler. Kevin started a couple of big brawls in the CBA. He also led our team in scoring. Kevin Williams was probably the best player I ever saw in the CBA.
And you also had Michael Adams for a little while also, correct?
Michael, in my opinion, was the most marketable, fantastic CBA All-Star and the league really didn't do anything with him. It was ridiculous.
His agents Frank Catapano and Larry Fleisher came to me. They worked on Michael together and represented him. I remember Frank said to me "Listen, I'll let you beat me up in the salary negotiation so you look good in your boss' eyes. I'll just need one favor" We signed Michael for $450 a week. That's what this future NBA All-Star was making in the minors.
Anyway, Frank says, "The only thing I'd ask you to do is call the NBA GM's for me every Friday when there's a point guard that goes down to injury and let them know about Michael." He gave me a list of all their phone numbers. I thought that was the greatest offer I'd ever gotten. I was a 24-year old in the minors and I got to talk to NBA GM's every week and send them stats.
Michael was just a great kid. We're the same age almost. We would actually go out dancing together at the Best Western in Worcester. I was the same age of a lot of these players, so it was a lot of fun for me.
Michael Adams was the most telegenic, the most interesting, thoughtful, caring guy that I knew in the CBA. The media loved him. He also got it done on the court. This guy was a phenomenal talent. His speed was even more obvious in the CBA. His first step was just so good. He absolutely dominated. It was a pleasure to see and he didn't last in the CBA too long. He played for us for one season and then he stuck in the NBA for good after that, becoming an NBA All-Star in the process.
After Dave Cowens departed in 1985, your new coach was a CBA institution. Mauro Panaggio.
A legend. A legend of the CBA. One of the league's winningest coaches. Remember I was talking before about the need to have a player personnel grapevine? He had that, unlike Dave Cowens. That was Mauro.
He was a bit of a monster in terms of practices. He really kept his distance from the players. He knew how to be successful in that league. He was old school and he was a winner.
He was a very nice guy away from the court. We went to the beach a couple of times, we hung out a couple of nights. Just a warm guy. But certainly the public persona of Maura Panaggio was more cut from the Bobby Knight cloth.
How did the Bombardiers come to an end?
We did as well as we could in Worcester for two years. It just couldn't work in Worcester. It didn't have its own television station. It didn't have it's own identity. It was always sort of in the penumbra of Boston and the Celtics were the kings there. They were always winning, winning, winning and the people in Worcester thought of themselves as a Boston suburb. Worcester is not a great sports city. Or rather it's not a great minor league city, I should say.
I remember Jim Drucker, the CBA Commissioner, came to me at the end of the second year and said "Can you squeeze any more blood out of this stone?"
And I said "Nope. Time to sell it and get the hell out of here."
But having said that, we are hoping to pull of a 30-year reunion for the Bombardiers someday soon!
John Ligums sold the Bombardiers to Pensacola, Florida interests in July 1986. The nomadic franchise became the Pensacola Tornados (1986-1991) and later played in Birmingham (AL), Rochester (MN) and Harrisburg (PA) before finally folding in 1995.
Pro basketball returned to Worcester in 1989 with the Worcester Counts, who lasted just one season in the World Basketball League. You can read the story of the Counts here.
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All government employees are protected by the U.S. Constitution against irrational discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. In addition, some measure of protection already exists under Title VII based on gender, which has been held to include gender identity and expression.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and several courts have interpreted Title VII to protect transgender employees, and the EEOC has interpreted Title VII to cover sexual orientation discrimination. The Supreme Court has held that the EEOC's interpretations of Title VII are entitled to "great deference."
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Paul Roos will host Grey PE in the Schoolboy Derby feature match of the weekend.
It's going to be an exciting clash in Stellenbosch. Both schools head into Saturday's fixture as two of the few unbeaten 1st XVs in the country, and both will be determined to hold on to that record by picking up a win on Saturday.
Paul Roos are arguably the top team from the Western Cape – some would even say in South Africa – this season. This comes after showing great form at the Grey PE Rugby Festival (winning all two of their matches) and Kearsney Easter Festival (winning two games and drawing one). Last weekend, Paul Roos edged a strong Boland Landbou outfit 17-15 thanks to a late penalty. They'll be looking for a more convincing showing in their next performance.
It will be a tough task, though, as Grey PE have emerged as the top school from the Eastern Cape. They have won all five of their matches this year, which includes a three-match winning streak at their rugby festival in March and a 60-31 thrashing of Nico Malan last weekend.
Grey PE 1st XV head coach Rory Duncan is expecting a physical game.
'It's going to be tough away from home, but the team is confident that we can do the job,' Duncan told Schoolboy Derby. 'Paul Roos have been really impressive. They boast a well-balanced team, with a strong pack. There will be a big battle up front.
'We'll be looking to play an expansive game, so we can get our speedy wings involved. But that's only if the conditions allow it. Otherwise, we'll play according to the match situation.'
Duncan added that he wants a stronger defensive showing from his charges.
'We haven't reached out full potential yet, and we hope to do so against Paul Roos. We will have to if we want to win. One area I really want to improve on is our defence – I'm not happy with the fact that we conceded 31 points against Nico Malan last weekend.'
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WILLIAMSON - After serving the residents of Mingo County as one of three magistrates for the past 1 1/2 years, Dallas Toler has made the decision to resign from his position in the midst of a federal investigation that has cast a cloud of doubt and confusion over many political offices. A resignation was tendered to the WV Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon that reads as follows:
"I, Dallas Toler, do hereby resign my position as Magistrate for Mingo County."
In an exclusive interview with the Williamson Daily News, Toler stated that he felt it was in the best interest of himself, his family and the citizens of the county that he proudly calls home, to resign from his position.
"The safety and well-being of my family is the most important thing to me. My position as magistrate takes a second seat to them and I feel the time has come to resign and concentrate on my family and remove this stress from their lives," stated Toler.
Toler was appointed to serve the remainder of the term of former Magistrate Eugene Crum, who resigned from the position to seek the office of Sheriff. Toler then became a candidate for that seat in 2012 and was sworn in on the first of this year, placing second in the vote count for the office of magistrate.
The question remains unanswered as of today whether Toler will be indicted by the federal grand jury during the investigation into Team Mingo, but according to information from the investigators in Charleston, that is expected to occur.
"I have enjoyed my time as magistrate," said Toler. "I have served the public to the best of my ability and have always prided myself in treating each and every defendant who appeared before me in a fair and just manner. No matter what the situation was or what crime was committed, they deserved no less than that."
"I want the public to know how very much I appreciate them voting for me and supporting me when I sought this office. I will always remain humbled by the faith you had in me to serve you."
"I hope that throughout this investigation and whatever the outcome may be, that you will remember a job well done by myself and my assistant."
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How Do You Backup Your Data?
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Re:Tape drives not on list? (Score:2, Informative)by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 28, 2013 @11:21PM (#42722607)
I ask that, because most people who are running tape for backups, have NEVER even tried to restore a whole server off tape.
Rule number one. If the data is important to you, back it up. If it's important enough to backup, it's important enough to run periodic restore tests - which will expose issues like this. Any well designed backup software package will have features that make sure data is kept in a form that is reasonably quick and easy to restore.
Slow restore times from tape indicate a system that hasn't been tested and tweaked. Speaking with my professional hat on (I do backup and recovery for a living), well over 90% of the restores I've been asked to do have been for single files that were accidentally deleted. In this context, full restore time doesn't matter. Over 80% of the remainder have been for sets of files - a subset of the full dataset on the server. The balance were all disaster recovery tests.
That said, there are circumstances where you simply can't restore quickly. Any system that has millions (if not billions) of tiny files represents a pathological case that no backup system will handle well. Best option in this case if full system recovery time is important is to backup the filesystem as an image, which brings its own issues - like not being able to restore individual files if necessary. And note that this applies no matter how the data is stored on the backend, whether it be tape, disk, optical media, punched cards, stone tablets
Finally, regarding "it was disasterous because we didn't have a exact copy of the hardware, and couldn't find it". Full system restores, especially in the Windows space, are notorious for this issue; it isn't specific to tape backup. Furthermore, I don't know of any backup/recovery system that allows for cross-architecture restores (where, by "cross architecture", I mean Windows to Unix, Unix to Windows, and such like. Plenty of systems will allow recovery of, say, HP-UX data to an AIX box. Of course, whether that data is useful depends on whether the application that handles the data is available for the new platform
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If you're using tape, it is bacause your time isn't worth anything or you don't have that much data. You're still better off burning to Archval quality DVDs
That shows a clear ignorance of the role of tape in the data centre. Is that role getting smaller? Yes. Definitely. I've seen customers using tape that would have been better off shovelling the data onto hard disks. But it's not non-existent, and it isn't going to go away completely. There are things that tape can do that disk simply can't do (like sitting around on a shelf, ready for access inside a couple of minutes, yet not needing any power while they're doing so.) And hey, "archval (sic) quality DVDs"? They only hold 9 GB of data. If you say BD, that brings it up to a whopping 50 GB. Call it 200 GB if you want. I have worked for companies where their main database was multiple terabytes in size; managing a half dozen tapes was far easier than shuffling around dozens of optical discs would have been. A lot cheaper, too - a 1.5 TB LTO5 cartridge (no compression) costs around $50, whereas a single BD-R (25 GB) costs $2.50. Per GB, the LTO5 cartridge is a third the price - and that's before considering the volume you have to cart around (60 discs versus a single cart? I know which I'd prefer.)
Tape drives are expensive? Guess what - so are BD recordable drives.
I definitely agree with you on disaster recovery and business continuity planning, though. That's something too many businesses don't think about. This, however, is somewhat orthogonal to the question of backups; although good backups can form a part of disaster recovery planning, they don't necessarily have to, and there are questions that need to be answered that aren't a part of backup system design. (like, for example, whether or not to have spare hardware sitting offside ready to run; power questions; and other such matters.)


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Michael Cheika sighed a huge sigh of relief as his team held on to beat the Chiefs in Sydney.
A see-saw match had the Waratahs lead 15 – 0 at half time, only for the Chiefs to make a massive comeback to lead with five minutes to play. The Waratahs held their nerve to score a late try to secure a 25 – 20 win.
It was the old cliché of a game of two halves, in which the Waratahs scored fifteen unanswered points in the first half, only for the Chiefs to comeback in the second, scoring 20 unanswered points to take the lead in the last ten minutes of the match. All the momentum was with the Chiefs late in the game, but the Waratahs put together one last attack to put John Ulugia over and secure a surprise victory.
In the process the Waratahs kept a record going of losing just one match in Super Rugby to the Chiefs, something they are quite proud of, considering the form of the Chiefs over the last few years.
It was a team effort that saw the Waratahs run out an early lead, even though they lost Drew Mitchell early in the match. For the Chiefs, Andrew Horrell was stretchered off after the first quarter, and can be described as a blessing in disguise. In his place, Gareth Anscombe came on and took the game by the horns.
He scored a try, almost scored a second not long after, all the while kicking ten points in playing catch-up rugby. It was all too much as they played their hearts out and still came up short.
The Waratahs are slowly building confidence, starting to catch up with the leading Australian teams in the Brumbies and the Reds, while the Chiefs are set to lose their number one status on the New Zealand log as the Blues pick up four points on their bye and go past them. Next up the Waratahs travel to South Africa to take on the Bulls while the Chiefs await the travelling Sharks.
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