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Why do students who aren't really graduating beg to 'walk' at the graduation ceremony?
Do they think nobody will know? Do they think it counts anyway? Don't their consciences nag at them? (I imagine "pomp and circumstance" playing in the back of someone's mind for the rest of his life, like the telltale heart.)
I'd feel like a colossal fraud.
I could understand if a college made it a usual practice to 'walk' summer grads in spring, just so they could save on ceremonies. (High School Friend on Right Ocean 'walked' for his doctorate a full year in advance of actually receiving it, based on some very weird circumstances involving getting his adviser back in the right hemisphere. But that was for a reason.) Proprietary U insisted on running three full graduations a year, and made it mandatory for faculty to attend two (and deans to attend all three). It was a real pain, and not inexpensive. And even there, with graduations rolling around every few months, students would beg to walk immediately, even if they had to retake classes the following semester.
(A side note on graduation etiquette: since 9/11, they've all involved the national anthem. It seems rude to leave the mortarboard on during the anthem, but it seems ridiculous to put it over your heart like a baseball cap. What's the etiquette here? I've gone with the baseball cap method, on the theory that it's the less offensive, but it still strikes me as incongruous.)
Back when dinosaurs ruled the earth, graduations were relatively rare. You'd have one from high school, another from college, and one from grad school. Now you get them from preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, etc. I've heard of professors doing 'graduations' on the last day of each class. I see no good coming from graduation inflation. It debases the currency.
In a pinch, I suppose I could understand the kid who just found out two days before the ceremony that he didn't make it, but his family already bought the tickets to fly in from several time zones away. But that's rarely the case at a cc. These folks are local; I'd be surprised if many had to drive more than an hour. The students who claim they had no idea usually should have known months in advance, if not longer. And any kid who thinks he's fooling his family is in for a rude shock when the family gets a tuition bill for the following semester.
Wise and worldly readers – why do non-grads want to walk?
That's their cohort and they need the symbol of moving on with them, the ceremonial closure that comes with it. Even if they're not really done.
Then again, I've never really wanted to walk ever. I've tried to skip all of them but my parents keep buying plane tickets before I can tell them not to.
Second, and most disturbing is ignorance: Students actually believe that if they walk across the stage, we will give them their degree anyway. Our registrar tells of students who come to get their transcripts and can't understand why it doesn't say "Graduate" on it. "But I walked across the stage!" Her response, "yeah, but you flunked the two classes you registered for in the summer and needed to graduate.
To me, graduation is just a bit of hokey theater. Lee and I both skipped the bulk of our undergrad festivities (though we did do the diploma receiving ceremony). Neither of us attended the graduation ceremonies for our graduate degrees. Part of the reason why I felt no desire to attend graduation is that I took a long leave of absence in the middle of my schooling, and had no sense of connection with the group of people walking. That, and it's hokey theater.
But that hokey theater has got to be pretty meaningful for people who feel like they struggled to get to that point. I wonder how many people get themselves through rough spots by visualizing themselves in a mortarboard and gown.
According to Herff Jones (the graduation supply people):
"Should the cap be removed anytime during the graduation ceremony?
Only men should remove their caps and that should be during the playing of the National Anthem and the school song."
All of this is a long way of saying that at my university that is the protocol during the anthem - men remove them, women do not.
As for why walk when you're not done, I think a lot of it is that once you've got your whole family coming to graduation, it's horrible to have to say, "woops! not until 6 months from now!"
Especially in first-generation-to-go-to-college families, parties are planned and stuff well in advance of the event. It would cause a lot of conflict not to walk. So the student thinks, "why not just get the walking over with and I'll take those two classes in the next semester and make it official?"
Honestly, I don't really see the big deal about this - but perhaps I'm more sympathetic because I wasn't allowed to walk in my PhD graduation until nearly a full year after I defended, two years since I lived in PhD city, and an academic year after I'd already had a job and had received my degree in the mail. Yes, my parents forced me to walk. Yes, it was totally irritating. No, it did not make the ceremony more meaningful - in fact, it made it virtually meaningless.
The colleague I sat near this year kept removing his and then putting it back on through the whole ceremony. That seems especially odd.
As for the "why walk" question, first and foremost I agree with TFC. Graduation is about celebrating with friends, and these are the people they started with, so it only feels right to 'finish' with them.
The other answer is probably a financial/scheduling one. If the student only has a summer course left to finish, or is about to start a job, s/he probably doesn't want to/can't afford to wait around for the next ceremony. This is particularly true of international students or students from the other side of the country.
When I finished my master's degree I was at an institution that had a December ceremony. I finished in the fall semester and chose not to walk because it just didn't seem as "important" as the May ceremony. Less pomp. Less circumstance. Most of the campus didn't know about it or care. Based on that experience I like doing it once in May.
Anyhow, does the "social class" issue apply to a CC? I would expect that so many people are coming in and out, people going part-time, that friends may be spread all over the place and graduating at different times anyhow, and do CCs go out of their way to build the sort of class unity that a Fancy Pants U would? But I may be wrong there. Education appreciated.
Having said that, I've heard of students who did the "bogus walk" and apparently their visiting family NEVER knew they didn't graduate. It was a charade, which they attempted to try to keep going for that "one more semester" while taking those makeup classes.
The graduation ceremony is for people who are graduating. If a student KNOWS beforehand they will not be graduating, why should any official ALLOW them to participate?
Most of these cases are not the "Oops...I failed that final exam and didn't pass the class" thing.
For the same reason students (and even some depts I have seen) now put degrees on their resumes and CVs that they haven't yet received.*
A sense of entitlement.
A hope that if they can claim something not earned (we used to call this fraud) long enough, often enough, and publicly enough, they can badger officials into giving it.
My question is, Why do faculty and administrators condone it?
*I was told by students "Everyone/ my advisor/ my writing instructor says to do this" when in a senior 'career' seminar, I told them that the word "expected" and the date should appear no more than one line away from their claimed BS, MS, etc. I appear to be in the minority, at least within universities, in taking a dim view of those who claim unearned degrees at the top of the CV and then bury that status far, far down the page.
I see from several recent department grants and webpages that they now list all grad students as M.S., Ph.D, etc., when that is only what they are working toward.
I earned my M.A. years ago and am now a PhD candidate (and I bloody earned that status). Shall I list myself as a PhD? If I list myself as an M.A., what separates me from the first-semester graduate student also now listing him/herself as an MA/MS?
About women wearing hats: "Dance" is on the right track, but it dates all the way back to the Bible 1st Corinthians chapter 11 verses 4-5: "Any man who prays or prophesies with his head covered disgraces his head. But any woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered disgraces her head, for it is one and the same thing as having a shaved head." At least some modern Bible commentators believe that the head covering was a symbol of respect and that the modern equivalent is to dress modestly in church.
My wife and parents, on the other hand, who have been supportive throughout the ordeal, want me to walk, preferably some time yesterday, as it's really not my fault this hasn't happened yet and they seriously begrudge any delays in my appearance in silly costume.
So far as the anthem goes, holding one's hat over one's heart is incorrect, as protocol requires one to stand at attention (something that people are apparently unaware or incapable of) and place one's headgear at the left shoulder so that the hand is over one's heart (source: www.usflag.org). Having played football and understanding that certain kinds of headgear make this unwieldy, I would recommend finding a suitable place to lay your mortarboard during the anthem well in advance; just remember to pick it up (and since you're the dean, print the stuff about proper etiquette in the program; you're not there just to educate the students, you know).
tfc had it right. We spend years of our lives with a certain group of people, and whether we pass class X (or get our advisor to sign off in time) or not doesn't change that. Will there be bad apples, who think that they "deserve" their diploma anyway, even if they haven't finished? Sure. But there will be lots more people like me who are quite aware of what that blank sheet of paper means. The "fraudulent" walkers still have to come back and finish. That's punishment enough--to deny them the _one_ chance they will have to walk with the people they belong with strikes me as caring too much about rules and not enough about people.
It's one thing if all the requirements are finished and it's just a matter of certification. That strikes me as similar to the custom of addressing a Ph.D. candidate who has completed the final oral defense successfully as "doctor." The custom also holds that the candidate should not yet address himself or herself by that title. In those circumstances, walking at commencement seems in the spirit of the event.
It's another matter if there are still requirements left unmet, and not simply uncertified. I don't think that it is "caring too much about rules and not enough about people" to think that one shouldn't march at commencement if one hasn't finished the work for the degree. I think it's a matter of believing that the ceremony should really mean what it ostensibly means, that it should not just be another forum for social bonding.
As for the national anthem, I really wish it never got played. I don't care for the song, I don't care for the sentiments expressed. I try to remain as inconspicupus as possible.
"That's punishment enough--to deny them the _one_ chance they will have to walk with the people they belong with strikes me as caring too much about rules and not enough about people."
I am not surprised anonymous was insulted by being called out for what many of us feel to be inappropriate behavior. Nor am I surprised by the dismissive statement of "need to relax" as an elide for "shut up and mind your own business."
Anonymous, if you "walked" without having fulfilled all the requirements of your degree, you did not deserve that privelege [it's not a right] for the simple fact you hadn't earned your degree. Even one class left to take means you haven't completed the requirements.
I think you're just making excuses to justify your behavior. You chose to pretend you had your degree requirements met. As others have said, most schools have SEVERAL (usually 2) ceremonies, another of which you could attend. You speak as if there's ONE ceremony, and if you don't attend THAT ONE you never get another chance. Quite frankly, that's rarely the case.
To speak of not walking as punishment dismisses the true meaning of the ceremony itself. I think you need to consider that the Graduation Ceremony is supposed to be a ritual marker for the conclusion of education, not a big party for you to have with friends and family because you're ALMOST done.
In fact, I walked, but the University messed up my graduation requirements and I didn't figure it out until a semester later, so my official graduation date is almost a year after I walked. I think you're overreacting.
I agree that having students who haven't earned a degree is fostering the increasingly prevalent attitude among students that they're purchasing four years of structured socialization that comes with no responsibilities. Walking people who didn't bother to, say, actually graduates cheapens it for the people who had their shit together.
But who are we mere professors to have an opinion on the subject? After all, "they pay our salaries!" If a student wants to walk early with the boyfriend who'll soon dump her for his 1L study partner, that's her right as a customer of my university...
Imagine my shock and panic a few weeks later when I got the letter from my uni telling me when I needed to complete my course in order to be listed as graduating with my class. It turns out that my instructor made a typo...
Generally, I agree that walking ought to be reserved for those who believe they've completed the degree. Taking time off, failing courses etc.. has a cost, delay of graduation.
From there, if your school offers any choice in when to walk, it's a matter of picking the least fantastically inconvenient of those choices.
I like the esthetic sense of not having the ceremony until you actually have earned the degree, but I don't seriously expect students to finish their last term, go off into jobland, and then come back 6 months later to go through a graduation ceremony. So that brings us back to humoring the parental units by "walking" during that last term before it's over.
A word of praise from someone you respect means a lot more.
-- Cardinal Fang
It is unthinkable here to "walk". The whole purpose of the ceremony is to "admit" you to the degree of Bachelor or Master.
The graduation ceremony itself is actually a meeting of the university for the conferrment of degrees of admission/membership (i.e. a change in your status)at the university. We begin the ceremony as a graduand (i.e. someone who has met the requirements for admission to the degree), and then at the actual moment the chancellor shakes your hand, and hands you the certificate (and at some universities, puts a cap on your head), you become a graduate.
The ceremony is also known as "capping". So, walking up to the stage, we carrying the trenchers (mortarboard hats) and put them on after receiving the degree. Only at the moment your name is called out do you actually graduate to the degree.
Thereafter, you are entitled to wear the academic dress (black gown, and hood appropriate to the degree. It goes back to the medieval college tradition.
The first step, when you enrol is to "matriculate" which is to be accepted as a student (after which you can wear a black gown - no one does these days!). Then at "capping" you are admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Something (and wear the appropriate academic hood - pale blue for law, gold for commerce where I studied) So I'm entitled to wear it again, should I choose to!
So our ceremonies reflect centuries old traditions, rather than a celebration party
1. Classes in the program were admitted as cohorts that took all courses together over the two-year period. You develop a certain camaraderie when you spend two years together in grad hell, and my friends would have been just as disappointed as me if I hadn't walked with them.
2. The uni held grad ceremonies once per year, and I had no way of knowing if I would even be in the same town by the following May. And as a single parent, likely new in a job, with limited income, I couldn't have traveled back for the ceremonies.
3. As the only HS grad in our family (and I missed my HS ceremonies due to illness) let alone the BSW and MSW, this was a very big deal for me.
4. There was no way I was going to miss my opportunity to walk publicly and have my kids in the audience watching mami graduate.
I made the best decision for me, I don't feel the least bit guilty, and I'd do it the same way all over again.
At any rate, we cannot *ever8, under any circumstance allow a student to walk. The reason is that it is actually the walking and the statements "Convocation is now in session" and "Chancelor, I present to you the recipients of the degree XX, conferred today by the Univesity..." that are the performative acts that bestow the degree. Those who do not attend are covered under the "In absentia" clause. The paper one receives in the mail (or upon turning in one's gown) can only be handed out *after* the conferral of degrees at the ceremony.
If one is permitted to walk, then one would also be receiving the degree. (Imagine switching either member of the marrying couple for a member of the bridal party, announcing the name, and having the pronouncement. The effect would be to have married the wrong persons to each other). As an alternate example, there was a minor kerfuffle at the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer because she mis-uttered his name, reversing his middle ones, effectively making her vow to someone other than Charles.
So there you have it: the reasons why we do not permit students to walk, and the reason why Charles and Diana were doomed! :P
But in the US ceremonies, is the ceremony only a symbolic moment, and not an exacting/performative one?
That explains why people were saying congratulations to me when I was talking about the kerfuffle I was having over the organisation of graduation.
(In the UK, graduation ceremonies and disability discrimination are a hot topic, and unfortunately being at an old uni, the attitudes are some what backwards).
This is hardly universal. I've taught at 4 schools in the US, and at each one we rushed to get spring grades submitted in time to establish graduation.
I agree. I walked for my high school graduation, which was fine, but my BA graduation was simply lurid -- held in the gymnasium (not outdoors in a stadium, even though the weather was fine), fluorescent lighting, tacky pennants hanging everywhere, ugh. I wish I hadn't done it. I didn't walk for my MA or PhD. Luckily, my family was okay with this.
I don't think, however, that if you're not really done, ore really close to done, that you should get to walk. Most people at SOECC take more than four years to graduate anyway, and there's always someone you know graduating. Thankfully, they are pretty strict about how 'done' one must be to walk, and be hooded.
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Uttaran - Synopsis
This is a story of Ichcha, born in the slums of a city but one who desires much more than what her destiny has in store for her. In the hope of giving her a better life, Ichcha's mother joins a rich household as a maid.
Ichcha befriends Tapasya (the daughter of the lady of the house), but soon learns the hard lesson that servants will never be considered as part of a family, no matter how much they sacrifice for them.
However things change when Mahindra, suitor of Tapasya, falls in love with good natured Ichcha. Can she dare to expect him to stand up for her & their love? Or can the poor never be allowed to be happy?
Uttaran - Characters
ICHCHA: played by Sparsh/Tina
Seven year old Ichcha belongs to the underprivileged section of the society. She is born in the slums and her mother earns her living by working as maid in a rich household. She doesn't have a father and lives with her mom who is everything to her.
Ichcha is petite, smart, pretty, very lovable kid and liked by all. She has never been to school and her days are spent hanging out at the traffic signal. She has a close group of friends comprising of Bajrang, Taku and Kuki who are her constant companions. All of them have accepted their fate and the life that have been bestowed, except Ichcha….she has big dreams and aspirations and wants to live a more meaningful life.
Strong willed Ichcha ignites others with her smartness, intelligence, curiosity and talkativeness. She knows what she wants from her life but is disillusioned that she doesn't have all the good things like the other kids of her age. She hopes to make it big someday and share her success with the people she loves.
An altruistic Ichcha is very caring and always ready to help others. The only downbeat about Ichcha is that she is quick-tempered as she cannot accept any wrong doings. A go-getter, Ichcha defies what destiny has given her. She is troubled by the fact that just because they are poor they are humiliated time and again. She aspires to break free of all this and re-write her fate.
DAMINI: played by Vaishali Thakkar
Damini is Ichcha's mother; she is around 30 years old and a widow. She earns a living by working as a maid in a rich household. She lives with Ichcha in a rented house in a Mumbai slum.
Damini is uneducated, pitiable and full of values. She is soft spoken, straight-forward and reserved. Ichcha is her only child whom she loves dearly and seek happiness for her. She lives with only one motive in life that is to provide her daughter every possible means to a superior livelihood.
She keeps her problems to herself and never lets Ichcha know their dreadful state of affairs. She encourages Ichcha to dream big and preserves Ichcha's spirits. She tries to fulfill every wish that Ichcha has like a doting mother.
She works hard to make ends meet and has been single handedly taking care of Ichcha after her husband's death. She has compromised with her situation and is contented with whatever she has. She keeps telling Ichcha to be happy and assertive given the situation they live in. But Ichcha is far from contended and hopes to secede from this life.
TAPASYA: played by Ishita/Rashmi
Seven year old Tapasya is the daughter and only child of affluent builder Jogi and Divya Thakur. Born with the proverbial golden-spoon, she gets everything she fancies. She has a doting father, over-possessive mother, a pampering Grandmother and an army of servants to take care of her demands.
Despite all this, Tapasya is modest and disciplined. She is has a good heart and respect elders. At times when her demands are not fulfilled, she throws tantrums. She has everything that she can dream of but is still sad as she has no one to play with her because she doesn't have any siblings. Being an only child, her mother pampers her which makes her claustrophobic at times.
Since she is the centre of attention for everyone, she surely knows how to get away with her demands with the entire family.
Ichcha comes into her life and fills the gap of a companion. She develops an instant liking for Ichcha and befriends her. She treats Ichcha with admiration as well as shares all her joys and sorrows with her. Soon a strong bond of closeness is created between the two girls.
DIVYA THAKUR: played by Pragati Mehra
Divya Thakur is a typical high-heeled woman who is very conscious of standing in the society. She is arrogant, sturdy, stylish and divergent from Jogi Thakur. She takes care of the Thakur household and illustrates arrogance and callous behavior.
She only gets feeble before her husband, Jogi Thakur for whom she has great respect and regard. She fumbles when Jogi is around and usually hesitant to go against her husband's decision or opinion. Tapasya being her only child, she is over-protective towards her and cares for her. Only thing that bothers Divya is her inability to produce another kid and fulfill Tapasya wish of having another sibling.
Another thing that makes Divya feel guilty is not producing a male heir. In the past seven generations of the Thakurs, hers is the only girl child. But her husband, Jogi Thakur has been extremely supportive towards her and has been her pillar of strength.
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Williams was worried. So were her friends. "Everybody said, 'Go to the doctor,' because I probably had a stroke. But I could still stick my tongue out, so I thought, 'Probably not,'" Williams says. "I thought, 'Gee, do I really need to ask for several thousand dollars of tests to not find anything?'"
Lack of money kept Williams away from the hospital. She has no health insurance.
Williams did, however, reply to an ad she saw in SFR, suggesting "a new source of microwave radiation" in Santa Fe was causing agitation, nausea, palpitations and "other alarming health problems."
After responding to the ad, Williams became convinced her seizure resulted from a federal mandate requiring that broadcasters around the country switch from analog to digital television by June 12. In short, she thinks DTV made her sick.
"Most people think I'm sorta fruity," Williams says. "Even my son, in Hawaii—he thinks I'm nuts about the digital."
Williams may not be nuts, but she was misinformed.
The man who placed the ad, anti-wireless activist Arthur Firstenberg, says he got a "few dozen" calls in response. In a mass email, Firstenberg claimed he'd been inundated with calls about mysterious health problems—from sleeplessness and sore throats to "lethargic" dogs, cats and birds—in the days around the digital transition.
Since the transition, "the quality of life here has been permanently diminished," he wrote. "I would not be surprised if mortality temporarily rose in Santa Fe or nationwide during the past two weeks."
On the phone with SFR, Firstenberg backpedaled. Why did he tell people DTV might cause their illnesses? "I made a leap," Firstenberg says. "I don't have enough facts to back up what I'm saying."
Did it occur to him that Williams might have suffered a stroke?
"Of course that occurred to me, but I didn't say that. It wouldn't answer the question of what triggered the stroke," Firstenberg says. "And I had people call me who said it felt like they were having a heart attack. That's exactly how I felt on the night of May 31," when he believes the problems started.
Couldn't all the health problems Firstenberg heard about be coincidental? "You could go there," he says.
Let's go there.
Firstenberg's claims, spread chiefly online, are not supported by scientific research, although the specter of deadly DTV has drawn mockery even in conspiracy forums such as alien-ufos.com, as well as the website of British writer David Icke, who is famous for spreading the notion that the world is governed by a cabal of space lizards disguised as humans.
A letter by "German doctors," cited by Firstenberg, lists 20 symptoms, from headaches to drowsiness to "total apathy," supposedly caused by DTV. But those symptoms may have psychological as well as physical causes, including depression, generalized anxiety disorder, narcotic abuse and "dementia in head injury," according to WebMD.
Not only do Firstenberg's claims lack scientific backing, they don't make logical sense. People complaining of DTV-related health problems "don't understand the difference between digital and analog," Dave Thomas, founder of New Mexicans for Science and Reason, says.
Just like analog television, DTV travels over radio waves, although the picture and sound are now compressed into binary, the language of computers.
Furthermore, DTV is not a "new" source of radiation, as Firstenberg maintains. Most New Mexico broadcasters began digital broadcasts beginning in 2001 from their towers atop Sandia Crest.
"Everybody up there's been broadcasting for several years already in digital. The only thing we did [June 12] was turn off the analog, which reduced the emissions," KNME Chief Engineer Daniel Zillich says. "The digital transmissions run less power than the analog did, by about two-thirds."
Indeed, there are many more dangerous radiation sources in New Mexico, beginning with Los Alamos National Laboratory (see SFR Talk). Those worried about harmful rays should forget the lead suits and buy some SPF-30.
"The sun's going to give more radiation than you're getting from the transmitters," Zillich says.
Overexposure to the sun is proven to cause skin cancer. High-voltage power lines likely increase risk. And concerns remain, even within the US government, about the possible dangers of daily cell phone use. But radio towers are considered safe, unless one happens to be climbing them.
"This is why the bases of some transmitters are fenced—to keep people out of the only places close to an antenna where the signal levels may be higher than currently deemed acceptable," Thomas writes. "Even this exposure is nothing like what you would get by putting an animal inside a microwave oven."
The DTV transfer did change the frequency of many stations—but in a way that should comfort anyone worried about getting cooked.
"At the high frequencies of digital television, the heating effect is negligible," Thomas writes. "And new digital television signals are, if anything, at a higher frequency than the old analog counterparts."
Most complaints to the Federal Communications Commission about the digital transition concern reception problems, not real or imagined health effects.
In an email, FCC spokesman Mark Wigfield writes, "We are unaware of any health issues surrounding DTV, but any determination regarding that issue would be made by the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency." (Actually, the FCC does publish "maximum permissible exposure" limits for radio frequency emissions. Santa Fe is in the clear.)
This isn't the first time Firstenberg sounded an alarm before proof of harm. Last year, he and a group of followers lobbied the Santa Fe City Council to drop plans for wireless internet in public buildings. Councilors took the group's health concerns seriously enough to hold meetings on the issue and delay the implementation of Wi-Fi in the new convention center on Marcy Street.
Reports at the time missed a key detail: At one point, when the group complained of feeling ill effects from City Hall's Wi-Fi, "it was indeed off," city spokeswoman Laura Banish says.
On the bright side, Williams says Firstenberg did not ask her for money.
Ironically, though, misplaced radiation fears ignore a real environmental disaster resulting from the DTV transition: toxic waste.
Most televisions contain several pounds of lead, plus mercury, cadmium and a potentially harmful chemical flame retardant that infiltrates the dust on TV sets. The transition means that millions of old American TV sets will wind up in the trash, where they pose an ecological threat.
As the Basel Action Network, a Seattle-based environmental group, pointed out last week, most US electronics recyclers ship their waste overseas, where villagers pick it apart to salvage usable metals and burn the rest. The group estimates the digital transition means "56,000 tons of toxic lead alone would be transferred and dumped on some of the world's poorest communities."


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If the Mosel is the oldest center of wine production in Germany, dating to Roman times, then the Nahe is one of the youngest areas to develop significant plantings. That doesn't mean that vines are a recent addition to the landscape-- even through they were planted roughly six centuries after the first plantings in the Mosel region, this still places their arrival somewhere in the eighth century.
The Nahe region is named after the river that crosses the valleys of the forested Hunsrück Hills toward Bingen on the Rhine. The Nahe is geologically diverse, with three major distinct subregions plus many interesting outlying towns. Therefore, Nahe wines are capable of being diverse despite being produced from only a few grape varieties. At their best, Nahe Rieslings are incredibly complex, with distinct floral, fruit, and mineral elements. As befits the region's geographical location (southeast of the Mosel, but west of the vineyards in the Rhinegau and Rhinehessen), wines from the Nahe rest somewhere between these other two regions in style. We often find in these Rieslings the delicacy and acidity of wines from the Mosel married with the roundness and increased opulence of wines from the Rhine.
Like wines from the Rhine, you'll find Rieslings from the Nahe bottled in tall, brown flutes, compared to the green flutes of the Mosel-Saar Ruwer.
German vintners and Germany's wine law have often been their own worst enemies, and consumers understandably bemoan the unintelligibility of the labels as well as the mediocre quality of so many commercial-grade wines. It is a shame if this situation acts as a barrier to appreciating some of the world's most distinctive and versatile wines. In fact, an excellent case can be made that no other class of wine offers the stylistic diversity, nuanced expression of site and climate, and versatility at the table of German Riesling. These German wines can be adamantly dry, off-dry, or downright sweet. German Reisling wines can be complex and satisfyingly complete at a mere 7% alcohol, yet can also avoid coming off as heavy at over 14%.
The tradition of Riesling excellence in Germany makes two important presuppositions over and beyond the talents of the individual vintner. First, in a generally cool environment incorporating Europe's northernmost significant vineyards, the microclimatic conditions of a given vineyard site--its exposure to the sun, shelter from wind, proximity to water, geological underpinnings, and other environmental factors--are of paramount importance. Second, to get the most out of Riesling's potential in a good site, the grapes in any given parcel are generally harvested in multiple passes, at times weeks apart, in a process that often involves the selection of particular bunches or occasionally even of individual berries. These factors explain why most of the best German Rieslings preserve their vineyard identity and are labeled to reflect this. They also reflect the many pickings of a given vineyard through labeling with different designations of descriptions or taste.
The Riesling grape may scare away some wine novices. In Germany, where the grape reaches its finest expression, labels hew to a rigid, abstruse set of classifications, leaving newcomers with little idea what they may be looking at. Furthermore, many wine drinkers' early experiences with sweet wines from Germany (think Blue Nun), have not been especially rewarding. We say that it's your loss if you continue to fear the tall, flute-shaped bottles. Sweet does not necessarily equal cloying, and not all Rieslings are even sweet. Push aside these negative perceptions, and discover a complex, delicate, and elegant white wine that expresses the unique characteristics of its growing region.
Riesling originated in the Rhine Valley in Germany, and it continues to flourish here as well as in the neighboring Mosel region. German producers are selective about where they plant their Riesling. It accounts for only 20% of the total plantings in the country, but has priority on steep, slate hillsides, where the soil imparts steely minerality. Here, in Europe's northernmost vineyards of any significance, microclimatic conditions are especially influential to the final product, for the Riesling grape is especially transparent to terroir. In each vineyard, the exposure to the sun, shelter from wind, proximity to water, and other factors contribute to the distinct qualities of a given wine. The timing of the harvest is just as important to the finished wine: on any given site, producers will make multiple passes to collect grapes at differing degrees of ripeness. This allows Riesling to be bottled with different levels of residual sugar: from dry, to semi-dry, to sweet. The residual sugar content also determines the suitability of these wines for cellaring, as sugar and acidity both aid in their preservation.
As a general rule, wines from the Mosel are more expensive and sought-after than wines from the Rhine. But vineyard-to-vineyard distinctions are just as important as those between the regions, and outstanding (and expensive) wines can be found in both locales. Correspondingly, specific flavors will vary from site to site, with some bottlings showcasing varied citrus fruits and others delivering notes of red fruits or apples. Reliable producers include Joh. Jos. Prüm and Reinhold Haart. In the Rhine, look for Gunderloch and Josef Leitz.
For an indication of the transparency of the Riesling grape, move to warmer-weather Alsace. Here, increased (but not overpowering) heat and a longer growing season leads to grapes with less delicacy, lower acidity, and increased fresh fruit flavors. Even still, these wines are praised more for intensity of flavor or elegance, rather than sheer power or weight. In Alsace's grand cru vineyards, sites known to have especially strong ripening conditions and soil with enhanced minerality help craft wines with greater complexity and aging potential. Bottlings bearing the names of these grand crus (e.g. Schlossberg, Sommerberg) will of course demand higher prices. Consider wines from Domaine Zind-Humbrecht, Josmeyer, and Trimbach.
While Riesling is planted sporadically in other countries, including Austria and Australia, as well as Oregon, Washington, and New York's Finger Lakes region, it rarely achieves the stylishness and grace found in Germany or Alsace. That doesn't mean that these wines should be avoided, for they can be the source of good values-- for example, wines from the Clare Valley in Australia.
Because of its combination of sweetness and acidity, Riesling is an especially versatile wine with food. It works well with fish or pork and is one of the few wines that can hold its own again spicy cuisines like Indian, Chinese, and Thai.
2007 had 26 regions scored 95 or above. Chateauneuf de Pape (Southern Rhône) got the highest score, with a 98.
Other regions that scored 95 points or higher were Brunello di Montalcino (Tuscany), Napa, Western Australia, Carneros, Franken (Germany), Graves (Bordeaux), Mosel-Saar-Ruwer (Germany), Paso Robles, Port, Russian River Valley, Sonoma, Washington, Alsace, Anderson Valley (California), Barbaresco (Piedmont), Barolo (Piedmont), Bolgheri (Tuscany), Burgenland (Austria), Columbia Valley, Loire, Maipo (Chile), Piedmont, Santa Barbara, Sauternes, and Sonoma Coast.
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By Mitch Lawrence
Larry Bird flew the coop in Indiana and the Pacers' billionaire owner is partly to blame
Pacers owner Herb Simon turned down the NBA legend's request to add a scorer, even after the Pacers had problems generating offense against the Miami Heat in their second-round playoff loss.
The old Celtics players network was buzzing after Larry Bird stepped down as Indiana's president and not because Bird quit after nine seasons in the team's front office.
Bird told some old teammates that he was actually leaning toward staying on and had indicated that in a meeting in late June with owner Herb Simon when they met to assess the Pacers' needs. During the sit-down, Bird told Simon he liked the team a lot, but "we just need to add another piece.''
Nothing doing.
Simon turned down Bird's request to add a scorer, even after the Pacers had problems generating offense against the Miami Heat in their second-round playoff loss. Bird was thinking about getting into the Eric Gordon sweepstakes to make a run at the Hornets' restricted free agent and former Indiana University star.
Between health concerns about his shoulder and back and the fact that he doesn't see himself as a lifer like other execs, including his successor Donnie Walsh, Bird likely used Simon's rejection as an additional reason to hang it up, one old Celtic said.
Simon, the shopping mall czar, could have easily picked up another big deal, even as the Pacers decided to re-sign point guard George Hill for $40 million over five years, and are expected to match Portland's bloated $60 million offer sheet to retain starting center Roy Hibbert. According to Forbes, Simon, the chairman and director of the Simon Property Group, the largest publicly traded real estate investment trust in the U.S., had a net worth this past March of $1.8 billion.
But Simon is also known to oppose paying the NBA luxury tax. After leaving, Bird shed some light on what he had to put up with, when asked about making the Pacers better.
"Small market,'' he said. "It's tough.''
The NBA likes its icons, as it has been working behind the scenes with Michael Jordan to try to help get his Bobcats turned around. So it makes sense that the league would want Bird to come back in the future.
"It's got to be the right job, the right people,'' he said about running another franchise. "I've got some interest in some jobs out there but whether I do it again, who knows.''
Bird has indicated to former teammates that he's too old to be part of an ownership group, but it's not as if he's a geezer. He'll turn 56 in December.
We can see a return for Bird down the line, perhaps as a part-owner and the face of a franchise. The NBA will always welcome Larry Legend back, with open arms.


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clw_uk wrote:Luminous mind - I have come accross this term many times but never really figured out what is meant by it. Is it a mind without defilements or something else?
clw_uk wrote:Is this simila to mahayana buddha nature?
Individual wrote:clw_uk wrote:Is this simila to mahayana buddha nature?
It would not be appropriate to make such comparisons in a forum for "Classical Theravada". I think it would be better to ask Mahayana Buddhists that question elsewhere.
Lazy_eye wrote:I would be interested in hearing more about this. Could the moderator perhaps move this question to the appropriate forum?
Lazy_eye wrote:And if I may ask the obvious beginner's question, how is "luminous mind" differentiated from "atman" -- in other words, how is it not a case of sneaking an atman in through the back door? Is it that luminous mind is universal and non-differentiated, whereas atman always implies the idea of a self?
Sabbe dhamma anatta
Rui Sousa wrote:
I recommend this text from Venerable Thanissaro: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/notself.html
robertk wrote:Rui Sousa wrote:
I recommend this text from Venerable Thanissaro: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/notself.html
Umm, why?
pt1 wrote:Hi, I came across an explanation for light in meditation by Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw in his Knowing and seeing. For some reason I can't copy and paste the relevant section here - it's on page 194, question 4.10: "Could the Sayadaw please explain the light experienced in meditation scientifically?"
The gist of the explanation, which is very much in line with abhidhamma I think, is that cittas produce rupa kalapas (each rupa kalapa consists of at least 8 rupas taht arise together, of which color is one and temperature is another). The stronger the samatha and vipassana cittas, the brighter is the color rupa. Further, the temperature rupa in the citta-produced kalapa also produces further kalapas, which likewise include a color rupa. Since there are many of these two kinds of rupa kalapas produced continually by cittas, there comes the appearance of brightness and luminosity during strong samatha and vipassana. I hope I summarised this properly.
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[At Saavatthii the Ven. Kaccaayana asked the Blessed One:] "'Right view,[1] right view,' it is said, Lord. In what way, Lord, is there right view?'
Ajahn Pasanno & Ajahn Amaro wrote:Perhaps the finest expression of the causes of these two strands of wrong
view, eternalism and annihilationism, comes in a passage from the Itivuttaka.
This was said by the Lord...
"Bhikkhus, held by two kinds of views, some devas and human
beings hold back and some overreach; only those with vision
"And how, bhikkhus, do some hold back? Some devas and
humans enjoy being, delight in being, are satisfied with being.
When the Dhamma is taught to them for the cessation of being,
their minds do not enter into it or acquire confidence in it or
settle upon it or become resolved upon it. Thus, bhikkhus, do
some hold back.
"How, bhikkhus, do some overreach? Now some are troubled,
ashamed and disgusted by this very same quality of being and
they rejoice in [the idea of] non-being, asserting: 'Good sirs,
when the body perishes at death, this self is annihilated and
destroyed and does not exist any more – this is true peace, this is
excellent, this is reality!' Thus, bhikkhus, do some overreach.
"How, bhikkhus, do those with vision see? Herein one sees what
has come to be as having come to be. Having seen it thus, one
practises the course for turning away, for dispassion, for the
cessation of what has come to be. Thus, bhikkhus, do those with
vision see."
~ Iti 49 http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... ml#iti-049
It is important to note that the last paragraph more describes a method of
meditation practice than merely another philosophical position. These various
teachings point to the fact that the answer to the conundrum of being and non-being is
to be found in reshaping the issue, mostly by the way in which it is seen. The advice
given in the last passage closely matches the practice of vipassana (insight) meditation:
this is comprised of, firstly, the calm and attentive observation of the arising of all
patterns of experience.
Secondly, it involves the seeing of all such patterns through the reflective lens
of anicca-dukkha-anatta (impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self). Lastly, in
the culmination of the process, there is the remainderless relinquishment of all
experience. There is a complete acceptance of all that arises and no confusion about
the fact that all patterns of experience are of the same dependent, insubstantial nature.
"Whatever form... feeling... perception... mental
formations ... consciousness there are: past, future or present;
internal or external; gross or subtle; inferior or superior; far or
near – all should be seen as they really are through true wisdom
thus: 'This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self.'"
~ MV 1.6, S 22.59, Anattalakkhana Sutta
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .nymo.html
The evidence for 'being' (the arising of things) is seen and seen through, the
evidence for 'non-being' (the cessation of things) is seen and seen through; both are
thus let go of through perfect understanding, and the heart experiences release.
Another of the highly significant expressions of this same balancing point of
the Middle Way comes in the Collection on Causation in the Saμyutta Nikaya:
[SN 12.15 Kaccaayanagotto Sutta]
At Sævatthi. Then the Venerable Kaccænagotta
approached the Blessed One, paid respects to him, sat down to
one side, and said to him, "Venerable sir, it is said, 'Right View,
Right View.' In what way, venerable sir, is there Right View?"
"This world, Kaccæyana, for the most part depends upon the
dualism of the notions of existence and non-existence. But for
one who sees the origin of the world as it really is with right
understanding, there is no notion of non-existence with regard to
the world. And for one who sees the cessation of the world as it
really is with right understanding, there is no notion of existence
with regard to the world.
"This world, Kaccæyana, is for the most part shackled by bias,
clinging, and insistence. But one such as this [with Right View],
instead of becoming engaged, instead of clinging – instead of
taking a stand about 'my self' through such a bias, clinging,
mental standpoint, adherance and underlying tendency – such a
one has no perplexity or doubt that what arises is only dukkha
arising, and what ceases is only dukkha ceasing. In this their
knowledge is independent of others. It is in this way, Kaccæyana,
that there is Right View.
"'All exists,' Kaccæyana, this is one extreme, 'All does not exist,'
this is the other extreme. Without veering towards either of these
extremes the Tathægata teaches the Dhamma by the Middle Way:
With ignorance as condition, volitional formations come to be;
with volitional formations as condition, consciousness comes to
be... Such is the origin of this whole mass of suffering.
"But with the remainderless fading away, cessation and nonarising
of ignorance there comes the cessation of volitional
formations; with the cessation of volitional formations, when
there are no volitional formations, there is the cessation of
consciousness, consciousness does not come to be... Such is the
cessation of this whole mass of suffering."
It has been proposed (by Kalupahana, in 'Nagarjuna: The Philosophy of the
Middle Way') that this humble sutta was the principal seed for the great, early Indian
Buddhist philosopher Acariya Nagarjuna's masterpiece, the Mulamadhyamaka-karika
– 'Treatise on the Root of the Middle Way.' It is certainly the only discourse of the
ancient Canon that is mentioned by name therein; in point of fact it is the only
discourse mentioned at all.
By way of expansion on this area, here are some of Acariya Nagarjuna's own
incisive insights on being, non-being and causality:
Investigation of Essences
1. It is unreasonable for an essence to arise from causes and
conditions. Whatever essence arose from causes and conditions
would be something that has been made.
. 2. How is it possible for there to be 'an essence' which has been
made? Essences are not contrived and not dependent on
anything else.
3. If an essence does not exist, how can the thingness of the
other exist. [For] the essence of the thingness of the other is said
to be the thingness of the other.
4. Apart from an essence and the thingness of the other, what
things are there? If essences and thingnesses of others existed,
things would be established.
5. If things were not established, non-things would not be
established. [When] a thing becomes something else, people say
that it is a non-thing.
6. Those who view essence, thingness of the other, things and
non-things do not see the suchness in the teaching of the awakened.
7. Through knowing things and non-things, the Buddha negated
both existence and non-existence in his 'Advice to Katyayana'
8. If [things] existed essentially, they would not come to nonexistence.
It is never the case that an essence could become
something else.
9. If essences did not exist, what could become something else?
Even if essences existed, what could become something else?
10. 'Existence' is the grasping at permanence; 'non-existence' is
the view of annihilation. Therefore, the wise do not dwell, in
existence or non-existence.
11. 'Since that which exists by its essence is non-existent' is [the
view of] permanence. 'That which arose before is now nonexistent,'
leads to [the view of] annihilation.
~ Acariya Nagarjuna, Mulamadhyamaka-karika, Ch.15. (Stephen
Batchelor trans.)
As with many of the instances where the Buddha invokes dependent
origination as the resolution for dualities such as self and other, eternalism and
annihilationism, etc. (a large proportion of these are found in the Nidana
Saμyutta, 'The Collection on Causation,' S 12), Nagarjuna employs the same
method throughout his treatise. He illustrates again and again how the
dependently originated quality of all things is the basis for their emptiness,
His exposition is a poetic exploration of the relationship between
emptiness, dependent origination and the Middle Way. It is a work of great
philosophical depth yet its language throughout is extremely spare, diamond-like
in its purity and sharpness; it is also a work that stands close to the central
teachings of the Buddha and is thus capable of usefully informing practitioners of
both Northern and Southern schools.
3. Natthitaa: "is-not-ness." The theory of "Annihilationism" (ucchedavaada). All forms of materialism come under this heading.
Notice that these various ancient and modern commentators all talk the meaning to be about errors in the notion of existence and the "world of experience".
In my opinion the Sutta says nothing about whether or not "things (rocks, bones, whatever) exist". That's a separate philosophical question that is unimportant to liberation. It's about errors in perception regarding the existence of "my world", "me".
Bhikku Bodhi:
"The world, Kaccana, for the most part depends upon a duality - upon the notion of existence and the notion of non-existence."
[Commentary] Spk: "For the most part" means: for the great multitude, with the exception of the noble individuals. The notion of existence is eternalism; the notion of nonexistence is annihilationalism. Spk-pt: The notion of existence is eternalism because it maintains that the entire world (of personal experience) exists forever. The notion of nonexistence if annihilationism because is maintains that the entire world does not exist (forever) but is cut off.
Sam Vega wrote:I am a world because I am not and cannot be anything else.
Sam Vega wrote:3) Bhikkhu Bodhi's expression "errors in the notion of..." is also very hard for me to grasp. Normally, the only error in a notion would be that it did not concur with or describe reality. For "errors in the notion of existence", even more so. (What else could be wrong with a notion of existence, other than it is not true to that existence to which it points?)
retrofuturist wrote:... it's talking about eternalism and annihilationism with respect to loka/sabba/salayatana and not with respect to atman.
In practice, it may be all too easy to think, "Easy. I don't believe in a soul/atman, so eternalism and annihilationism has no relevance to me. I've got that sorted. I'm not stuck in that net (jala)."
But how do we view the world of the six-sense-spheres? ...
Sam Vega wrote:
I am a world because I am not and cannot be anything else.retrofuturist wrote:Yet the Buddha achieved the nirodha (cessation) of salayatana in this very life time, so "the world" ought not be regarded as a given. As per what I've said above... this would be to hold to the view that the world exists. Something else to contemplate...
SN 12.15 Kaccayanagotta Sutta: To Kaccayana Gotta (on Right View) Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu wrote:Dwelling at Savatthi... Then Ven. Kaccayana Gotta approached the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One: "Lord, 'Right view, right view,' it is said. To what extent is there right view?"
Mahasatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, DN22 wrote:Mendicants, Now what is upright perspective?
Mendicants, that which is knowledge about stress, knowledge about the origination of stress, knowledge about the destruction of stress, knowledge about the practice leading to the destruction of stress.
This, mendicants, is called upright perspective!
Mahācattārīsaka Sutta MN117 wrote:"There is what is given, offered and sacrificed, skilful and unskilled acts do have consequences or end result, this world, and the other world do exist, there are mothers, fathers, and spontaneously born beings, and there are also recluses and priests who have traversed the upright path until complete perfection, so by their own efforts, realizing this world and the world beyond, declare it."
SN 12.15 Kaccayanagotta Sutta: To Kaccayana Gotta (on Right View) Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu wrote:"By & large, Kaccayana, this world is supported by (takes as its object) a polarity, that of existence & non-existence. But when one sees the origination of the world as it actually is with right discernment, 'non-existence' with reference to the world does not occur to one. When one sees the cessation of the world as it actually is with right discernment, 'existence' with reference to the world does not occur to one.
Bāhiya sutta (excerpt) wrote:In what is seen, there is only as much as what can be seen, in what is heard, there is only as much as what can be heard, in what is smelt, tasted & touched, there is only as much as what can be smelt, tasted & touched, in what is known, there is only as much as what can be known.
SN 12.15 Kaccayanagotta Sutta: To Kaccayana Gotta (on Right View) Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu wrote:"By & large, Kaccayana, this world is in bondage to attachments, clingings (sustenances), & biases. But one such as this does not get involved with or cling to these attachments, clingings, fixations of awareness, biases, or obsessions; nor is he resolved on 'my self.' He has no uncertainty or doubt that just stress, when arising, is arising; stress, when passing away, is passing away. In this, his knowledge is independent of others. It's to this extent, Kaccayana, that there is right view.
SN 12.15 Kaccayanagotta Sutta: To Kaccayana Gotta (on Right View) Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu wrote:"'Everything exists': That is one extreme. 'Everything doesn't exist': That is a second extreme. Avoiding these two extremes, the Tathagata teaches the Dhamma via the middle: From ignorance as a requisite condition come fabrications. From fabrications as a requisite condition comes consciousness. From consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-form. From name-&-form as a requisite condition come the six sense media. From the six sense media as a requisite condition comes contact. From contact as a requisite condition comes feeling. From feeling as a requisite condition comes craving. From craving as a requisite condition comes clinging/sustenance. From clinging/sustenance as a requisite condition comes becoming. From becoming as a requisite condition comes birth. From birth as a requisite condition, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair come into play. Such is the origination of this entire mass of stress & suffering.
SN 12.15 Kaccayanagotta Sutta: To Kaccayana Gotta (on Right View) Translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu wrote:"Now from the remainderless fading & cessation of that very ignorance comes the cessation of fabrications. From the cessation of fabrications comes the cessation of consciousness. From the cessation of consciousness comes the cessation of name-&-form. From the cessation of name-&-form comes the cessation of the six sense media. From the cessation of the six sense media comes the cessation of contact. From the cessation of contact comes the cessation of feeling. From the cessation of feeling comes the cessation of craving. From the cessation of craving comes the cessation of clinging/sustenance. From the cessation of clinging/sustenance comes the cessation of becoming. From the cessation of becoming comes the cessation of birth. From the cessation of birth, then aging & death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair all cease. Such is the cessation of this entire mass of stress & suffering."
Dhamma-cakkappavattana Sutta - The Setting The Wheel of Dhamma in Motion Discourse wrote:"Mendicants, there are these two extremes that one who has gone forth should not associate oneself with, which is this, devotion to the pleasure & happiness found in sensuous pleasures, which is base, vulgar, belonging to ordinary beings, ignoble, connected with harm; and the devotion to self-mortification, which is stressful, ignoble connected with harm.
Mendicants, not swaying towards either of these two extremes, the middle mode of conduct was realised by the awakened one, which produces vision, produces knowledge, leading to calm, understanding, full awakening and Nibbānā.
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On the last point, at last I don't have to apologise to people and say they can only have WYSIWYG text entry with IE on a PC. I've used the editor on both the PC and my Linux box and it works identically in each.
Critics have knocked it on performance, which is where the FireBird derivative came it, but I'm running Mozilla on a 3 year old 500MHz PIII Toshiba laptop and it's as fast as IE. If you don't select the option to have part of it installed at start up then the initial open is slower than IE - but then with IE loading a lot of itself at startup with no choice in the matter what can you expect.
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Sorry - I can't join the Sunshine Sally brigade that's brushing this game off. Roy was the only one that seemed to know there was a game last nite. And if it wasn't for Copeland showing a little fire, this is a 30 point loss. I would have felt better with a close loss. Maybe the guys got a little full of themselves, watched SportsCenter, listened to the radio and heard all the talk about them.
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