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A Yahoo! User Nov 26, 2009 22:11 Flag
Is this how it should be?
I think so.
Nothing against immigration but if you choose to come to another country,another culture. How rude is it to try and fly in the face of that country's traditions and ways of life.
If you can't adapt your faith into a way that fits in with OUR society, then go and live in a country that embraces inequality to women etc.
Seems like common sense but still they come here, those with only intentions of making US change and are not prepared to change themselves.
Anyway, with no further ado, here it is
ENGLAND I think this really sums it all up.
After hearing that many cities did not want to offend other cultures by putting up Xmas lights, so DIDN'T!
After hearing that the Birmingham council changed its opinion and let a Muslim woman have her picture on her driver's licence with her face covered.
After hearing of a Primary School in Birmingham where a boy was told that for PE they could wear Football League shirts (Aston Villa, Birmingham, West Brom etc) but NOT an England shirt as it could offend others !
This prompted the editorial below written by a UK citizen.
Published in a British tabloid newspaper..
Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on London , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Brits.
However, the dust from the attacks has barely settled and the 'politically correct' crowd begin complaining about the possibility that our patriotism is offending others.
I am not against immigration, nor do I hold a grudge against anyone who is seeking a better life by coming to Britain . However, there are a few things that those who have recently come to our country, and apparently some born here, need to understand.
This idea of England being a multicultural centre for community has served only to dilute our sovereignty and our national identity. As Britons, we have our own culture, our own society, our own language and our own lifestyle. This culture has been developed over centuries of wars, struggles, trials and victories fought by the untold masses of men and women who laid down their lives and of the millions of men and women who have sought freedom.
We speak ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society, learn the language!
If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture... If St.George's cross offends you, then you should seriously consider a move to another part of this planet.
We are happy with our culture and have no desire to change, and we really don't care how you did things where you came from. This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this.
But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our National Motto, or Our Way of Life, I encourage you take advantage of one other great British freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.
We didn't force you to come here. If you don't like it GO HOME!!
You asked to be here.. So accept the country that acceptedYOU. Pretty easy really, when you think about it..Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
A Yahoo! User Nov 27, 2009 10:52 Flag
Of course, this #$%$ posted by condom_head was made up by another racist like him and his mate cartoon#$%$, and is not real.
It started in the US, as these spoofs often do, and was floated around waiting for some gullible fool to post it on a football forum.
There's one born every minute .... and you all found your way here .... amazing!
A Yahoo! User Nov 27, 2009 03:48 Flag
A message from the Australian Prime minister.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd - Australia
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks..
Separately, Rudd angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote:
'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It.. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks onBali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians. '
'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom'
'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!'
'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.'
'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.'
'This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.'
'If you aren't happy here, then LEAVE.
We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here.
So accept the country that has accepted you.'
Seem's fair enough to me, pity Gordon Brown hasn't got the same courage to speak out.
A Yahoo! User Nov 27, 2009 00:58 Flag
Sorry John, I'm not getting what you're saying here.
A Yahoo! User Nov 27, 2009 00:53 Flag
John im think you'll find it is NOT the people that are coming to this coun try that are complaing about xmas lights etc. i think you'll find its the ''do-gooders', British national liberals that are assuming xmas lights will cause offence. In other words, put that blame on your own doorstep, the do-gooders that do no good at all.
A Yahoo! User Nov 27, 2009 00:49 Flag
Even giving taxpayers cash to Muslim schools linked to extremists £113,00 from the pathfinder scheme,i wonder who controls that eh?, you couldn't make this up .
A Yahoo! User Nov 27, 2009 00:48 Flag
Oh come on Roy. A high percentage of ex-pats living abroad do work or get their pension sent there, i agrre with you on that point but there's a percentage of ex-pat Brits that do not. They steal, mug, rob, con, sell or traffic drugs, even murder, yes (shock horror) Brits out murdering other people, who'd have thought that with the Brits being so cultured and civilised?
If you were to work out the percentages of offenders from outside the UK offending in the UK against that of ex-pat Brits or British citizens offending in foreign countries, those percentages would not be far apart.
Many people that have to come to the UK from abroad DO contribute, many more that are British by birth and have always lived here do NOT!
A Yahoo! User Nov 27, 2009 00:03 Flag
Derek, you're way, way off in your assumption, I'm not butch. I have travelled to many many countries throughout Europe, The Americas and Asia You ask in any country who are the worst people that come to their country and the answer is always the same, British.
A Yahoo! User Nov 26, 2009 23:41 Flag
This is not OUR country. It is A country in which WE live, whoever that we may be.
All this OUR country #$%$ is a cause of division and so war. I've said it before and i'll say it again here, let the cleansing begin, this planet is over populated with humans, most of them moronic, a massive event is needed to cull mankind. Then there will be no OUR country and THEIR country, no more OUR race and THEIR race, there will just be people living whereever they happen to live.
A Yahoo! User Nov 26, 2009 22:55 Flag
We have similar values on the island.
A Yahoo! User Nov 26, 2009 22:23 Flag
Racism is alive and well I see.
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A Yahoo! User Nov 27, 2009 00:53 Flag
Time to fuck off,a planes coming in with even more fantasists that are on here.
A Yahoo! User Nov 26, 2009 22:27 Flag
Can you explain just what is racist about this statement?
Also. Why the new ID?


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Uptown is changing as new developments start to go up and the Uptown Urban Center becomes a reality. A year-long planning effort is kicking off this Thursday, November 8th, with an Uptown Community Open House at the Seattle Center Pavillion (305 Thomas St).
Input received from residents, business owners, and community organizations will help design the Urban Design Framework (UDF) for the Uptown Urban Center. Thursday's open house is being hosted by the Department of Planning and Development and the Uptown Alliance, and they need your input, as well as your help in spreading the word about the meeting.
The Open House runs from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, and it's open to anyone with an interest in the future of Uptown. What issues are at hand? Success for local businesses, affordable housing for renters, cyclist and pedestrian safety, transit options, the arts, potential school and library locations, and everything else that makes up a walkable, vibrant, liveable neighborhood.
Here are some key questions that'll be on the agenda:
- What do you love about Uptown? What do you wish was different?
- How do you use the public spaces in Uptown?
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- What role does Seattle Center play in your Uptown experience? What uses and/or services are needed in the neighborhood? What questions are we missing?
You can check out the City's Uptown plan online and the Uptown Alliance's Facebook page to check out the key issues and background on the Urban Center plans.
Think about what you'd like to see in a future Uptown Urban Center, and bring those ideas to Thursday's meeting.
Interested in the SLU Rezone or Aegis's Latest Plans? Attend Monday's QACC LURC Meeting
If you're interested in what's happening with developments on Queen Anne, then the Queen Anne Community Council (QACC) Land Use Review Committee (LURC) is your go-to QACC meeting. The LURC meets tomorrow, Monday, October 15 to review two key agenda items, the South Lake Union Rezone and Aegis' plans for 3rd W and Florentia St.
The descriptions of each agenda item are below, followed by meeting details. As always, these meetings are open to the public, and I encourage you to attend if you have any questions, comments, or concerns!
South Lake Union Rezone: The QACC must forward their opinion on this legislation "very soon" – net: the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) has been working with the SLU Community to develop proposals for allowable heights and development density. The proposed South Lake Union rezoning allows for 12,000 new housing units and 22,000 jobs. More details and relevant materials are posted online.
Aegis at 2900 3rd Ave West: A review of the most recent Aegis plans at 3rd W & Florentia St; Aegis has been reviewing a potential trade of their current parking lot on the west side of 3rd W for an unused portion of Parks land between the field and the Aegis site. An update on progress will be provided at this week's meeting.
Key Details:
– What: QACC Land Use Committee meeting
– When: Monday, October 15, 7pm
– Where: Queen Anne Manor, 100 Crockett St
Queen Anne Community Council meeting tonight
The Queen Anne Community Council's monthly meeting is happening tonight, Wednesday, July 6 at 7:30 p.m. at Queen Anne Manor, at 100 Crockett Street. There is no scheduled guest for tonight, so the meeting should conclude earlier than usual. Take a look at what's on the agenda this month:
- 7:30 p.m. – Adoption of Agenda, Approval of Minutes, Treasurer's Report
- 7:35 p.m. – Open Forum – Comments
- 7:40 p.m. – NAC letter – Kirk
- 7:45 p.m. – Community Center report – Jim Cunningham
- 8 p.m. – Committee Reports
- Election – Nicole Pastarnack
- Transportation – Glenn Avery
- LURC/Planning – Craig Hanway
- Parks – Don Harper
- Communication – Michael Lapin
- District Council – Mike Warren
- NAC – Kirk Robbins, Jim Smith, Glenn Avery, Don Harper
- Social Issues – Kirk Robbins
- Police & Crime – Allen Panich
- 9 p.m. – New Business
- 9:30 p.m. – Adjournment
Here's a list of upcoming meetings happening in the community:
- Queen Anne/Magnolia District Council: July 11, 7 to 9 p.m. – Interbay P-Patch
- Parks Committee: July 12 7:30 p.m. – Queen Anne Manor
- LURC/Planning Committee: July 18, 7 p.m. – Queen Anne Manor
- NAC Committee: July 20, 4:30 p.m. – Port Headquarters
- Transportation Committee: July 27, 7:30 p.m. – Queen Anne Manor
- QACC: Sept 7, 7:30 p.m. – Queen Anne Manor
- QACC Election/Annual Meeting: Sept 21 – Queen Anne Manor
As usual, tonight's meeting will be taking place in the social room at the Manor. Attendees are reminded to please sign in at the front door upon arrival, and exit the building as quickly as possible after the meeting concludes so as not to disturb the residents. To get to the social room, take the elevator at the end of the hall down to the basement. The room will be at the left end of the hallway.
After school robotics program coming to John Hay
John Hay will be following in the footsteps of another Queen Anne school and adding a new after school robotics program in the upcoming 2011-2012 year. The new offering will be part of the same popular program at Coe Elementary – Coebotics, which took students to a national competition back in May. From the John Hay Daily Bulletin:
Our school will have two teams in the fall, a FLL team which will be ages 9-14 and a jrFLL which will be for ages 6-9. If you think you might be interested in providing this opportunity for your student I would encourage you to attend an informational meeting tomorrow night at Coe Elementary. Please read below for more information on the meeting. If you have any questions please contact Sara Mirabueno at 252-2100.
While there is little you need to do before school starts, there are some helpful things we have learned in the past two years, which if taken care of now, will allow you to hit the ground running in September and prepare for the competition season in WA State.
John Hay will be hosting an informal meeting for parents interested in signing their kids up for the new program at 7 p.m. tonight, Wednesday, June 8, at Coe Elementary School, located at 2424 7th Ave W. At the meeting parents and teachers will get the chance to talk with CoeBotics Coach Willem Scholten about how the CoeBotics team is organized, what they have learned throughout the program, and pose any questions they may have. Scholten encourages those interested to pass this invitation along to other schools and organizations that may also be interested in starting up their own program.
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Upcoming neighborhood forums on transportation
Seattle City Councilmember Mike O'Brien is hosting two upcoming community forums on transportation. These neighborhood discussions are being co-hosted by the Pacific Science Center, Seattle City Council and Streets For All Seattle.
These discussions are part of a series of events that gather community input on different aspects of the City Council's priority issue of carbon neutrality.
Interesting in taking part? Check out details on both events here:
- Tuesday, March 29, 6 to 8:30 p.m. – Lake City, Meadowbrook Community Center, 10517 35th Avenue NE, Seattle
Featured Speakers:
Ref Lindmark, King County Metro Transit
Kari Watkins, OneBusAway & UW Civil Engineering
Notable community representative
- Tuesday, April 12, 6 to 8:30 p.m. – Central District, Seattle Vocational Institute, 2120 S. Jackson St., Seattle
Featured Speakers:
Mark Hallenbeck, Director of the Washington State
Transportation Center at UW (TRAC)
Jennifer Wieland, Seattle Dept. of Transportation
Transit blogger Carla Saulter, a.k.a. "Bus Chick"
The forum will provide a light dinner and refreshments for attendees. There will also be educational activities provided by the Science Center's Science on Wheels program for children 5 years old and up whose parents and guardians are attending the forum.
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Coffee with School Board's Michael DeBell Saturday
Seattle School Board District IV director Michael DeBell is holding a community coffee chat tomorrow, Saturday, March 19 from 9 to 11 a.m. at Caffe Appassionato Coffee Co, located at 4001 21st Ave W, just next to Fisherman's Terminal.
These regular meetings, which take place on the fourth Saturday of every month, are a chance for community members to drop in and have an informal discussion on public school issues and future opportunities.
District IV represents the following schools: Adams, Ballard, C. Blaine, The Center School, Coe, Lawton, McClure, Queen Anne Elementary, Salmon Bay, and West Woodland.
For more information on Michael DeBell and the Seattle School Board, check the SPS website. Can't make this month's coffee chat? DeBell will be hosting three more–on Saturday April 16, May 21, and June 18 (same time and place)–before the school year is out.

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FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. Allan Orrin Gover, 84, of Fayetteville, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the VA Medical Center.
He was born April 1, 1928, in Orange County in Vermont, the son of Murel Alton Gover and Reta Rose Freeguard Gover.
Survivors include three sons, Allan Orrin Gover Jr., of Wilmington, and Tony Gover and Charles Keith Gover, both of Fayetteville; three daughters, Donna G. Williams, of Wade, Allana Goodyear, of Fayetteville, and Wendy Upchurch, of Atlanta, Ga.; 11 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Roger Gover, of New York, and Ronnie Gover, of Vermont; and a sister, Brenda Galway, of Massachusetts.
A funeral Mass will be held Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at 11 a.m. at St. Anns Catholic Church. Interment will be at Lafayette Memorial Park.
Arrangements were with Rogers and Breece Funeral Home of Fayetteville.
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If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such spiritual exaltation, such spectacular religious ritual, or in the immense volume of song and poetry and literature and dance that humans have produced.
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There is a spiritual capacity in carbon as there is a carbon component functioning in our highest spiritual experience. If some scientists consider that all this is merely a material process, then what they call matter, I call mind, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Possibly it is a question of terminology, since scientists too on occasion use terms that express awe and mystery. Most often, perhaps, they use the expression that some of the natural forms they encounter seem to be "telling them something".
Source: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future, Pages: 25
Every person who has tasted the bittersweet emptiness of fulfilling his petty desires, knows that there is a deeper thirst that transcends them, a happiness that cannot be achieved with any object. That is the true happiness, of which ordinary pleasure is but a pale reflection. That happiness requires transcending and including the small preoccupations of the ego in the ultimate ambition Spirit.
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One of the most remarkable fruits of Hegel's work is his insight into the primal types of powers definitive of the different strata and modes of human subjectivity: (1) the self-cohesion of immediacy in its basal and passive ineptitude to objectify, define, conceptualize, or criticize anything (Ansichsein or being-in-itself); (2) the objectifying and alienative powers of conscious ego (Fursichsein or being-for-itself); and (3) the extraordinary powers of spirit to reconcile or synthesize modes (1) and (2) into a higher-order union (An-und-Fursichsein). You can readily see that this is a schema I make repeated use of, for its illuminating division of powers; but it implies of course also that, in circumstances where spirit is not feasible or active to mediate the lower-order modes, then immediacy and alienative consciousness are going to be repeatedly cycling through forms of warfare with one another. Personalities and cultures in the absence of mediational spirit are wracked by the abysmal and nearly ineffable violent intolerance that immediacy (naivete, faith, the differenceless resolution of all things into a lukewarm bath of unthinking subjective plasm) has for conscious ego (articulation, logic, formulated theories/concepts/ideologies), and vice versa: this Kulturkampf makes the whole society like a patient suffering from autoimmune conditions, one system in him having reacted biochemically with another (antigens generating antibodies). But all immediacy or soulish psyche is laced with the predisposition to develop into conscious ego regardless of also being liable to react against its fully formed character.
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Spirit's fundamental "activity" or "masculinity" is profoundly different from the activity or masculinity of merely finite individuals, because this activity must be infinite, overreaching and incorporating what is other than it: spirit from its side is not an "other" to ego, regardless of how ego may see or react to it. Spirit's activity has to be understood as always-absorptive, always-open to what is less active (unlike the masculinity and activity of mere conscious ego, which is finite or finitizing and thus bound to repel what is other than itself). Self-enclosing or self-hardening spirit is finitizing "spirit," i.e. ego somehow masked or mistaken for spirit.
The Feminine element achieves "domination" dialectically by means of submission (the very opposite of domination i.e.), thus becoming the vital factor by permitting the union or yoking of the two to take place, and the Masculine element likewise achieves its self-assertion only by grace of submitting to what the Feminine alone can do: they ascend to a new kind of life or activity "as a whole" through their passivization or subordination as subcomponents. They are "members one of another," wholes through their interactive (con-crete or grown-together) differences. Two forms of self-supersession take place, two dialectical ways of qualifying the one-sidedness of each principle: for each strives to be or become "the whole" and can only do so under the terms of the other's specific identity. Any relation in which one finite personality is merely subdued or absorbed by or reduced to another finite personality is not spiritual and is not love: it may be infatuation, it may be cult of personality or charisma, it may be domination (for the sake of or not for the sake of exploitation), but it lacks the full dialectical dynamics of spirit.
Most world-religions are far more soulish than spiritual; all that are spiritual (devoted to self-transcendence, to extraordinary insight and self-transfiguring forms of self-understanding and self-responsibility) are so to the extent they strive to raise worldly and "objective" consciousness up into the realm of spiritual significance and activity, not just repel or dissolve it as soul generally does. But what can spirit do for soul itself, in its myopia and pathos and subhistorical sloth? Buddhism is to some a questionable "religion," lacking any cult of divinity, but it is unquestionably a spiritual "faith" (in terms of all that ego or soul can comprehend about faith, Zen is really a faithless or contentless faith): Zen is entirely about trying to cure consciousness of its attitudinal and presuppositional entanglements with the thingly and habituated world, and to elevate consciousness into a more infinitized spirituality that is conscious of its own self-activity from a more comprehensive and less self-prepossessed point of view. Soul one might say is more imperfectly infinite than spirit, because soul tends to abolish the ego-consciousness that it absorbs or overwhelms, reducing its particularizing structure to pure sublime feeling (immediacy); but spirit is more successfully infinite than soul, even though also more difficult and abstruse, because it digests the functions of consciousness into itself and thus preserves and deploys the senses and intelligence of conscious ego to higher ends.
"The true bodhisattva spirit grows out of this personal sense of freedom. You discover that you don't feel so needy anymore. You don't crave another refueling - with shamatha or with other people's love and attention - because you know within yourself how to be free, how to be confident. With this sense of security and freedom, you begin to direct your attention to the needs of others. The compassion expands. This is my point about inner simplicity as the basis for living fearlessly in a complex world. This principle of fearless simplicity involves training in the two accumulations as a unity and experiencing the fruition of such training. We have found a true, effective remedy for ego-clinging, negative emotions, the twofold ignorance, and adversity. We have persevered in the two accumulations, and we have grown confident in liberation. We are now open and spacious, and from within that sense of fearless simplicity, we can accomadate all phenomena. We can naturally care for others unpretentiously; no one is a threat any longer."
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As a baby I gnawed on lemons with joy. I've never been kind to my taste buds. Chain-eating Warhead candies, nibbling habaneros, taking dares on wasabi globs. Short of the really inhumane—nuking your innards with genetic monstrosity Scoville-freak peppers, which some people do, voluntarily, on camera —I was feeling…
The NHL added a little wrinkle to its (very cool!) new All-Star Game structure. The four 3-on-3 squads representing each division will be coached by an actual NHL coach (Gerard Gallant, Lindy Ruff, Darryl Sutter, and Barry Trotz) as well as, uh, well, hmm, one of ... these guys above here?
Well, Ryan Adams must be in a good place, because he actually covered "Summer of '69," a song by Bryan Adams, the Canadian superstar with whom Ryan famously does not like being confused. I thought this day would never come.
Here's a long, thoughtful, and engaging essay about "Nashville" by Ray Sawhill (Salon, June 27, 2000):
It's midnight. You're snug in your Nashville bed, or maybe on the sofa with your lips wrapped around a crack pipe, I don't know, but whatever excuse you have for watching Jimmy Fallon, that's it.
Let's be honest: Cleveland wasn't The Decision's biggest victim. Terrell Owens was. Don't believe me? Just interrupt Terrell Owens from his driveway sit-ups regimen and ask Terrell Owens yourself. That's what 104.5 The Zone radio in Nashville did the other day. For its 3 Hour Lunch.


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Defense is not easy to quantify.
Yes, we can keep track of steals, blocks and personal fouls (though they could also be offensive). But, in a traditional boxscore, that's about it. Looking at the opponents' side of the boxscore is a better way to determine how well a team or an individual plays defense.
Advanced statistics can help. Still, when evaluating defense, it always helps to see things with your own eyes.
So in an attempt to determine The Numbers Game's selections for this season's All-Defense teams, a combination of team numbers, individual numbers and video were used.
It starts with team defensive efficiency. No matter how good an individual defender is, it's hard to give him league-wide recognition when his team ranks near the bottom of the league. So you will see no Grizzlies, Suns, Knicks or Warriors on the list below.
Next, even good defensive teams may be better when a particular guy is sitting on the bench. So guys like J.J. Redick and Nenad Krstic don't qualify, either.
The third statistical factor is the offensive numbers of the league's best players against particular teams. Some of the best scorers in the league were divided into four groups (point guards, wings, perimeter fours and low-post bigs) of five or six players to determine which teams defend certain types of player best.
For example, the wings group consists of the top five scorers in the league: Carmelo Anthony, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.
From there, Synergy Sports was used to watch video and determine which individuals were most responsible for shutting down the stars.
Here are the Numbers Game's first and second team All-Defensive selections, with their team's defensive efficiency (points allowed per 100 possessions) while they're on the floor.
Warning: This list is short on the stars you're used to seeing on All-Defensive Team selections.
Rajon Rondo -- Boston Celtics (99.4)
Rondo still isn't the most disciplined defender, but with some encouragement from Doc Rivers, he's done a better job of staying in front of his man. With long arms, strong hands, quick feet and great anticipation, he's always been a disruptive force in the backcourt.
The opposing point guards on our list shoot slightly below average against Boston, but the Celtics' biggest strength defensively is forcing turnovers. And the league leader in steals is responsible for a good amount of those.
Arron Afflalo -- Denver Nuggets (104.3)
The Nuggets are a slightly below-average defensive team. Their best defender is Kenyon Martin. But they've done a good job of keeping Bryant, James and Wade in check this season. And it's been Afflalo who's had the assignment of slowing down the opposing stars most of the time.
In what was perhaps the most underrated acquisition of last summer (and another knock on Joe Dumars), the Nuggets got Afflalo from Detroit for a second round pick. He was in and out of the Pistons' rotation last season, but he's been a starter in Denver since early November.
Kevin Garnett -- Boston Celtics (97.2)
The one defensive play by Garnett that stands out from this season is probably not one he'd like to be remembered for. Rashard Lewis drove baseline around Garnett for the game-winning bucket in the final seconds of the Magic's 96-94 win over the Celtics on Jan. 28 in Orlando, in front of a national TNT audience. For some observers, that play summarized how the Celtics have fallen off since they won the championship two years ago.
But Boston's problems are more about the other end of the floor. They're still an elite defensive team, and though his mobility has been limited, Garnett is still the biggest reason why. The Celtics have allowed just 97.2 points per 100 possessions with Garnett on the floor. That's the second lowest on-court efficiency in the league among players who have logged at least 1,200 minutes.
Shawn Marion -- Dallas Mavericks (101.8)
The Mavs are just the 12th ranked defense in the league, but that's up from 17th last season, with the big difference on the roster being Marion. More telling is that no team in the league defends the league's top five scorers better than the Mavs. In fact, Dallas (.452 true shooting percentage against) has a huge edge over Charlotte (.523), the second best team in defending the big five.
Anthony, Bryant, Durant, James and Wade all have sub-par numbers against Dallas. And while Jason Kidd, Josh Howard and Caron Butler have defended them at times, it's been mostly Marion doing the work. Further, the Mavs are 9-5 against the Nuggets, Lakers, Thunder, Cavs and Heat. So defending the stars well has paid dividends in the standings.
Andrea Bargnani -- Toronto Raptors (112.5)
Ha! It is April 1st, after all. But seriously ...
Dwight Howard -- Orlando Magic (99.3)
For the second straight season, Howard is the anchor of the No. 1 defense in the NBA. The Magic lead the league by allowing just 99.7 points per 100 possessions. They're also the best team at defending low-post bigs, allowing just a .492 true shooting percentage from the other five big men on the list.
With Howard patrolling the middle, the Magic allow the fewest points in the paint in the league. They also rank sixth in keeping their opponents off the free-throw line. Howard is a center who has learned how best to apply his size and athleticism, making it much easier for the rest of the team to defend the perimeter. Simply, Howard is the most important defensive presence in the league.
Kobe Bryant -- Los Angeles Lakers (99.5)
Like Afflalo, Bryant isn't the best defender on his team. That would be Ron Artest. But there are far more good defenders at forward than there are at guard. With Artest around, Bryant doesn't have to take on tough defensive assignments as much as he used to, and his defensive intensity still varies from game to game and possession to possession. But Bryant is also still one of the league's best lock-down defenders when he wants to be.
Thabo Sefolosha -- Oklahoma City Thunder (101.1)
By now the secret is out that the Thunder are one of the best defensive teams in the NBA. Nick Collison has the best on-court defensive efficiency in the league and Kevin Durant's defense has improved dramatically from last season, but Sefolosha is their designated stopper. He's done a particularly good job on Wade this season, holding him to 40 percent shooting in the Thunder's two wins over the Heat.
Gerald Wallace -- Charlotte Bobcats (100.0)
The Bobcats rank third in defensive efficiency, second in defending the top wing players in the league, and first in defending perimeter fours. That's all you need to know about Wallace, his team's best defender.
Anderson Varejao -- Cleveland Cavaliers (98.5)
Varejao ranks third in the league in raw plus-minus. The other players in the top five are James, Howard, Bryant and Deron Williams, all of whom have the ball in their hands a lot more than Varejao does. He ranks sixth in the league in on-court defensive efficiency and the Cavs rank third in defending low-post bigs.
Andrew Bogut -- Milwaukee Bucks (98.3)
Bogut ranks fourth in the league in on-court defensive efficiency. The Bucks have stormed up the standings with a lock-down defense, and there's no doubt who their most important defender is. They're a full six points per 100 possessions better defensively when Bogut is on the floor.
The following forwards deserve recognition more than a couple of the guards listed above, but they'll have to settle for honorable mention: Ron Artest, Tim Duncan, Nick Collison, Kenyon Martin and Luc Mbah a Moute.
At center, two more players deserve recognition: Miami's Jermaine O'Neal and Boston's Kendrick Perkins. The Heat rank second behind the Magic in defending low-post big men and only the Nuggets have defended Howard better than Miami. Perkins ranks fifth in the league in on-court defensive efficiency (98.4).
All stats are through Tuesday, March 30 and were compiled with the help of the NBA and StatsCube.
John Schuhmann is a staff writer for NBA.com. You can e-mail him here and follow him on twitter.
The views on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of the NBA, its clubs or Turner Broadcasting.
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Seriously? Obama made AGNC, right after W tried to kill ACAS.
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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - For many families living near Fort Campbell, the one Christmas gift they wished for won't be coming true: having soldiers home for the holidays.
The 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell is now serving its third deployment since 2003.
About 11,000 soldiers have been deployed since August and another 8,000 will deploy to Afghanistan after the first of the new year.
Some military families can't celebrate Christmas like others. When loved ones are putting their lives at risk every day, happiness doesn't come easily.
Northeast High School senior Tiffany Ludka says without her stepfather home, there's no point in celebrating Christmas this year.
But Maria Becker, whose husband is serving a second tour of duty in Iraq, said she keeps the traditions of Christmas for the sake of her two sons.
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