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Or a kind Arhat or some Arya Bodhisattvas
They might be here with us, but AFAIK (I may be incorrect) the only newly enlightened ones in the time of No Dharma will be the self-cultivated Praktyekabuddhas.
Or a kind Arhat or some Arya Bodhisattvas
Sherab Dorje wrote:I have a Turkish Bonpo Dharma brother that acts as a "tour guide" for Turkish Sufi groups travelling to India to visit their teachers. He fully recommends these guys here. They are a very open and, at the same time, very serious Sufi group.
By entering into a dialogue of conflict with fanatics you (not you personally, but...) are playing straight into their hands. You are lending weight to their words. You are justifying their stance.JKhedrup wrote:Greg, how has any action I have advocated in any of threads I have posted proved the words of fanatics true, and how would it contribute to terrorists being seen as martyrs? Did you miss the part of my posts where I advocated the withdrawal of Western forces from Muslim areas and critiqued Isreal's human rights record? Or are you simply angry because I refuse to follow politically correct and liberal paradigms of bludgeoning the West and Isreal while at the same time excusing the disgusting abuse of women, homesexuals, non-Muslims and people who choose to convert from Islam in the middle East?
I have heard that at one time the Blessed One was staying in Savatthi at Jeta's Grove, Anathapindika's monastery. Then a certain deva, in the far extreme of the night, her extreme radiance lighting up the entirety of Jeta's Grove, approached the Blessed One. On approaching, having bowed down to the Blessed One, she stood to one side. As she stood to one side, she addressed him with a verse.
Many devas and human beings
give thought to protection,
desiring well-being.
Tell, then, the highest protection.
The Buddha:
Not consorting with fools,
consorting with the wise,
paying homage to those worthy of homage:
This is the highest protection.
Living in a civilized land,
having made merit in the past,
directing oneself rightly:
This is the highest protection.
Broad knowledge, skill,
well-mastered discipline,
well-spoken words:
This is the highest protection.
Support for one's parents,
assistance to one's wife and children,
consistency in one's work:
This is the highest protection.
Giving, living in rectitude,
assistance to one's relatives,
deeds that are blameless:
This is the highest protection.
Avoiding, abstaining from evil;
refraining from intoxicants,
being heedful of the qualities of the mind:
This is the highest protection.
Respect, humility,
contentment, gratitude,
hearing the Dhamma on timely occasions:
This is the highest protection.
Patience, compliance,
seeing contemplatives,
discussing the Dhamma on timely occasions:
This is the highest protection.
Austerity, celibacy,
seeing the Noble Truths,
realizing Unbinding:
This is the highest protection.
A mind that, when touched
by the ways of the world,
is unshaken, sorrowless, dustless, at rest:
This is the highest protection.
Everywhere undefeated
when acting in this way,
people go everywhere in well-being:
This is their highest protection.
What would work better is to enter into a criticism of the actions of our fellow Buddhists. This would show to everybody that we are not willing to support their vicious and unjustified actions. That we support the "rule of law". That we support religious freedom. Etc... What would work better is to support and nurture moderate voices within Islam. What would work better is to show, through the example of your own actions, that Muslims and Buddhists can peacefully coexist.
That we support the "rule of law". That we support religious freedom
JKhedrup wrote:Their unwillingness to speak out against these atrocities leads to the suffering and fear of thousands in Islamic regimes every day."
broad-minded; especially : not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or traditional forms
I am saying that the best way to convince somebody of the veracity of your view is by example
Fundamentally, I am not really willing to judge all Muslims as guilty because of the actions of a few fanatics. Just like I am not willing to judge all Buddhists as guilty because of the actions of a few fanatics.
Anyway, you better get used to Islam and Muslims, because as the second largest (1,570 million) and fasting growing (twice the growth rate of any other religion) religion in the world, it's going to around for a long time yet.
A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found relatively widespread popular support for death penalty as a punishment for apostasy in Egypt (84% of respondents in favor of death penalty), Jordan (86% in favor), Indonesia (30% in favor), Pakistan (76% favor) and Nigeria (51% in favor)
Apostasy in Islam (Arabic: ردة riddah, literally means: "relapse" or "regress" but usually translates to "apostasy", or ارتداد irtidād) is commonly defined in Islam as the rejection in word or deed of one's former religion (apostasy) by a person who was previously a follower of Islam. Islamic scholarship differs on its punishment, ranging from execution – based on an interpretation of certain hadiths – to no punishment at all as long as they do not rebel against the Islamic society or religion.[1] The majority of Muslim scholars hold to the traditional view that apostasy is punishable by death or imprisonment until repentance, at least for adult men of sound mind.[2][3][4] Several contemporary Muslim scholars, including influential Islamic reformers have rejected this, arguing for religious freedom instead.[3][5][6][7] Converts from Islam to Christianity have likewise criticized the traditional position.[8] According to Islamic law apostasy is identified by a list of actions such as conversion to another religion, denying the existence of God, rejecting the prophets, mocking God or the prophets, idol worship, rejecting the sharia, or permitting behavior that is forbidden by the sharia, such as adultery or the eating of forbidden foods or drinking of alcoholic beverages
Contemporary Islamic Shafi`i jurists such as the Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa,[62][63] Shi'a jurists such as Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri,[64] and some jurists, scholars and writers of other Islamic sects, have argued or issued fatwas that either the changing of religion is not punishable or is only punishable under restricted circumstances, but these minority opinions have not found broad acceptance among the majority of Islamic scholars
I didn't chalk anything up to impermanence. I don't need to. It is the way things are, whether one acknowledges it or not.JKhedrup wrote:I agree dharma and the antidotes to the 8 Worldly concerns are the solution on the ultimate level. That is why I would like to take (peaceful) steps to make sure it is still around. It saddens me that people are willing to chalk it up to impermanence and do nothing, rather than recognize our actions do have a great impact on whether the teachings remain in the world or not.
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Posted on: 07 December, 2012
East Central University's Education Department is offering a new teacher certification program designed to improve mathematics and teaching skills.
The Elementary Mathematics Specialist certification is an 18-hour program intended for current elementary or early childhood teachers.
Posted on: 07 December, 2012
East Central University senior Iva Asllani, a political science major from Tirana, Albania, won the award for Best Undergraduate Paper of the Year by the Oklahoma Political Science Association, it was announced recently at Cameron University in Lawton.
Asllani's paper titled 'The Use of Precedent in U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument' was inspired by her viewing U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments as the personal guest of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg last March.
Posted on: 07 December, 2012
A political science class from East Central University recently raised $725 and awareness for children's hunger.
Dr. Christine Pappas' Political Science 1113 classes did a service learning project where they purchased 200 orange bracelets that say 'No Child Should Go Hungry' and sold them on campus and at ECU football games.
On Nov. 20, approximately 40 students participated in a 'Day Without Food' and fasted for up to 30 hours to build understanding for hungry children.
ECU Professor Dr. Greenstreet Participates on Two Panels at National Communication Association ConventionPosted on: 30 November, 2012
East Central University Professor of Communication Studies Dr. Robert Greenstreet served on two panels at the annual National Communication Association Convention in Orlando, Fla. In his first panel, Greenstreet joined select representatives from other colleges and universities in discussing efforts to encourage highly apprehensive students in the basic communication courses at ECU. "Since highly apprehensive people avoid communication, it is very difficult for these students to complete the general education speech course required by their major area of study," Greenstreet said.
Posted on: 30 November, 2012
East Central University is going within the family to hire its new director of athletics.
"We received numerous qualified applications from all over," said ECU President John Hargrave. "But at the end of the day we decided that the best person for the job was right here on campus. We are very excited to have found such an outstanding person. He really encompasses everything we were looking for."
Dr. Jeff S. Williams, who has served as chair of ECU's Department of Kinesiology for the past two years, will assume the director of athletics post, beginning Jan. 1, 2013.
Posted on: 30 November, 2012
A scholarship, in memory of Jeremy Harrel, has been established for a Pauls Valley High School senior who plans to attend East Central University.
Harrel, who was an ECU sophomore majoring in business, died in a car wreck on Dec. 6, 2011 and, with the one-year anniversary of his passing approaching, friends, family and the ECU Foundation have established a memorial scholarship in his honor.
Posted on: 29 November, 2012
The East Central University Upward Bound Math/Science Center has received a $297,000 grant renewal from the U.S. Department of Education, it was recently announced.
The grant is designed to help Upward Bound students strengthen their math and science skills and prepare them for postsecondary educational programs that lead to careers in those fields.
The three priorities of the program are to:
Posted on: 27 November, 2012
Five East Central University senior students – Blake Hargrove, Jack Aday, Brandon Arnold, Candace Sweatt and Dinah Boydstun - are showcasing their art exhibits from now until early December at the Pogue Art Gallery inside the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center.

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This week's topic for Open Thread Thursday is:
A hallmark of genealogy research for many is the ability to collaborate with others, whether they are family members or fellow researchers. While online tools, applications and websites have made the process easier, collaboration is not new to genealogy.
Do you collaborate with others in terms of your own family history research, and if so, what methods do you use? Are you hesitant to share your data or photos with others? How do you use data shared by others – do you verify information?
Post your responses in the comments or at a post on your own genealogy blog and place the link here in the comments.
Today's podcast at Geni.com which I recorded via telephone yesterday got me to thinking about collaboration and genealogy (click here to view the podcast notes, the transcription and to listen to the podcast). If you listen, you'll hear me admit to being a "name collector" early in my genealogy ventures and not understanding the important of being selective in terms of the person with whom I choose to collaborate as well as the data I choose to incorporate into my own database.
In addition, while reading The Genealogy of David Putman and His Descendants, 1645 – 1916 which my 6th cousin 5 times removed, G.W. Putman wrote in 1916, I realized that he too collaborated with many Putman relatives, even those thousand miles away. In the preface, my cousin writes about how he would write a letter to the postmaster of small towns in upstate New York requesting the addresses of all Putmans in that town. Then he would write letters contacting them and asking for details on their own families to incorporate into his book.
I am a big fan of collaboration and I believe that if approached sensibly and with some caution, not only can you expand your own research efforts, but you can also give back to the genealogical community.
This is a great topic for this week's Open Thread Thursday! And please, if you have a topic you'd like to see discussed among your genealogy blogging colleagues, please contact us and we'll take it under consideration.
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Three are dead. Who is Number Four? D.J. Caruso (Eagle Eye, Disturbia) helms an action-packed thriller about an extraordinary teen, John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), who is a fugitive on the run from ruthless enemies sent to destroy him. Changing his identity, moving from town to town with his guardian Henri (Timothy Olyphant), John is always the new kid with no ties to his past. In the small Ohio town he now calls home, John encounters unexpected, life-changing events - his first love (Dianna Agron), powerful new abilities and a connection to the others who share his incredible destiny.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The star of the Texas A&M football team spoke Tuesday about his dreams of winning the Heisman and something he regrets.
Johnny Manziel, 19, was arrested in June. He was charged with disorderly conduct, failure to identify and presenting a false identification.
"You realize how many people you let down when you're sitting in jail. You affect your family, your group of teammates and all the coaches that care so much about you," Manziel said. "I made serious changes in my life and decided to surround myself with close friends and a great family. They keep me on the right path and definitely care about my well being."
On Monday, Manziel weighed in on his nickname, "Johnny Football," for the first time.
"I think a lot of people here in Aggieland enjoy it," he said. "But I find it extremely funny."
The success of Manziel and the Aggies is no joke. His 4,600 yards of total offense have helped No. 10 A&M to its first 10-win season since 1998, and has him among the top contenders for the Heisman Trophy.
Manziel has thrown for 3,419 yards and 24 touchdowns and ran for 1,181 yards and 19 more scores in a regular-season the Aggies capped with five straight wins including an upset of then top-ranked Alabama. He is second in the nation in total offense and broke Cam Newton's SEC record for total offense in a season on Saturday.
The celebrity status has been shocking to Manziel, who will turn 20 two days before the Dec. 8 Heisman announcement. He's still surprised when people approach him at restaurants and other places around College Station to ask for photos and autographs, even though it's become a daily occurrence.
"I'm a small-town kid," he said. "I come from Kerrville, Texas and I still see myself that way. I don't see myself as Johnny Football, I still see myself as Jonathan Manziel, a small town guy from Kerrville who is extremely fortunate and extremely blessed to be able to play football here at A&M."
Manziel said winning the Heisman is something he dreamed about as a child, but that he hasn't spent a lot of time worrying about it or any other awards. No freshman has ever won the award given to college football's most outstanding player.
"I feel like that situation will play itself out, and whatever's meant to be will happen," he said. "I'm just doing whatever coach Sumlin and them ask me to do ... so we can take care of things in a bowl game."
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Some of our blog postings are starting to look like e-mail replies, with titles that start "Re:". For example, I have posts today called Re: Cloud - SOA = Zero, Re: NEW RELEASE: IBM Support Assistant v4.1, and Re: SOA for Dummies 2nd IBM Limited Edition Mini eBook. What are those?
These "Re:" posts are a new feature of the My developerWorks blogs. When you're a blogger on MydW and you comment on someone else's MydW blog, you also have an option to cross-post your comment as a posting on your own blog. So when I commented on Doug Tidwell's post, Cloud - SOA = Zero, my comment also appeared on my blog as Re: Cloud - SOA = Zero. Also, where my comment appears on Doug's blog posting, the comment has a Trackback link which connects to the posting of this comment on my blog. And the posting of the comment on my blog has a header with a link to the original post on his blog. It's all interconnected.
So if you're interested in what I have to say about stuff--and presumably you are since you're reading my blog--you can also easily find comments I've made on other people's blogs and easily jump to those original blog postings I commented on. And these links can daisy chain, with a comment on a comment on a posting, showing a conversation between two authors or several.
This is going to be a good way for me to show you postings on other blogs that I think you'll be interested in. For example, I commented on postings about SOA for Dummies and IBM Support Assistant for two reasons:
- To let readers of those blogs know that I've posted info about those topics in the past on my blog
- To let you, the readers of my blog, know that another blogger has new information on a topic I've discussed in the past
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The Michigan Policy Network is a student-led public education and research program to report and organize news and information about the political process surrounding Michigan state policy issues. It is run out of the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University, with participation by students from the College of Social Science, the College of Communication, and James Madison College.
The thoughts, opinions, and positions represented herein are solely those of the participating students and in no way represent an official position or policy recommendation of Michigan State University.
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Day of the Dead Celebration and Altar
Una Mano Amiga and the Utah Cultural Celebration Center will present the annual Day of the Dead altar display and community gathering.
When • Saturday-Tuesday, Nov. 3-6, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Day of the Dead Celebration and Altar
Una Mano Amiga and the Utah Cultural Celebration Center will present the annual Day of the Dead altar display and community gathering.
When • Saturday-Tuesday, Nov. 3-6, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Where • Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South , West Valley City
Tickets • Free
Mothers Without Borders Boutique
Mothers Without Borders will stage a charity boutique that showcases carvings, jewelry, quilts and nativity scenes handcrafted in Zambia. There will also be locally donated handmade merchandise.
When • Saturday, Nov. 3, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Where • Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 279 S. 300 West, Salt Lake City
Tickets • Free
Vespers Service and Reader Orthros Service
Orthodox Christian Vespers Service will be held Nov. 3 and Reader Orthros Service on Nov. 4.
When • Saturday, Nov. 3, 5 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 4, 9 a.m.
Where • Holy Apostles Orthodox Christian Church, 280 W. Center St., Orem
Tickets • Free
Lutheran Social Service of Utah Fundraiser a Forest of Service
Lutheran Social Service of Utah will hold a fundraiser that will include a silent auction, international foods and live music. Call 801-703-3274 for information.
When • Saturday, Nov. 3, 2-4:30 p.m.
Where • St. Mark' Episcopal Cathedral, 231 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City
Calvary Baptist Church Revival
Calvary Baptist Church will celebrate its 120th revival. The Rev. L.K. Curry, pastor emeritus of Chicago's Emmanuel Baptist Church, will be the guest speaker. Visit www.calvaryslc.com for information.
When • Sunday-Friday, Nov. 4-9, 7 p.m.
Where • Calvary Baptist Church, 1090 S. State St., Salt Lake City
Tickets • Free
Jazz Vespers Quartet
The Jazz Vespers Quartet will perform. Visit facebook.com/pages/Jazz-Vespers-Quartet/364277976994593 for information.
When • Sunday, Nov. 4, 7:30 a.m.
Where • First Unitarian Church, 1300 E. 569 South, Salt Lake City
Tickets • Free
Catholic Community Services Holiday Food Drive
Catholic Community Services will collect and donate holiday food items. Food may be donated at the Joyce Hansen Hall Food Bank, 2504 F Ave., or to United Way of Northern Utah.
When • Monday-Friday, Nov. 5-9, 8 a.m.- 3 p.m.
Where • Catholic Community Services-Ogden, 2504 F Ave., Ogden
Tickets • Free
Rumi Poetry Club
This club espouses spiritual poetry.
When • Thursday, Nov. 8, 7 p.m.
Where • Anderson-Foothill Branch Library, 1135 S. 2100 East, Salt Lake City
Tickets • Free
Men and Women of Faith LDS Women's Education, 1875-1896
Andrea Ventilla will present stories of 19th-century women's education.
When • Thursday, Nov. 8, 7-8:30 p.m.
Where • LDS Church Office Building, 50 E. North Temple , Salt Lake City
Tickets • Free
American Muslims and Citizenship: Beyond Minority Politics
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University, will discuss Muslim participation in politics.
When • Friday, Nov. 9, 7 p.m.
Where • Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 E. 400 South
Tickets • Free
Humanitarian Awards Dinner
The Catholic Community Services of Utah will hold it 2012 Humanitarian Awards Dinner. To RSVP, call or email Andy Robinson at 801-428-1231, firstname.lastname@example.com.
When • Wednesday, Nov. 7, 6 p.m.
Where • Little America Hotel, 500 S. Main St., Salt Lake City
Jewish Arts Festival with Keshet Chaim
The Jewish Arts Festival will feature the Israeli-American dance group, Keshet Chaim. Visit arttix.org for information.
When • Saturday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m.
Where • Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, 138 W. 300 South, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $43; visit slcjcc.org/community-events/latest-news-and-updates/item/445-2012-jewish-arts-festival
Making the Most of the Holidays
Mountain Life Church is teaming up with community leaders and professional counselors to provide a morning workshop on how to successfully navigate the intense holiday season. To register, call 435-647-5855 or RSVP to email@example.com.
When • Saturday, Nov. 10, 8:30-11 a.m.
Where • Mountain Life Church, 7375 N. Silver Creek Road, Park City
Tickets • Free
Fall and Holiday Boutique
The Women of the Word at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church will hold a fall and holiday boutique. There will be craft booths and a bake sale. Lunch will be available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
When • Saturday, Nov. 10, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Where • Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 8575 S. 700 East, Sandy
Tickets • Free
A Feast of Tabernacles
The Isaiah Institute will present "A Feast of Tabernacles." The pageant includes Psalms and hymns by the Mapleton Chorale Ensemble, dances by angels, daughters of Zion, wilderness families, and 12 tribes of Israel, and narrations from the prophecies of Isaiah and other Hebrew prophets. Visit josephandjudah.com.
When • Saturday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m.
Where • ScenicView Academy, 5455 N. River Run Drive, Provo
Tickets • $8; Tickets are sent via email and will be requested at the door
CD Release Concert for Otter Creek
Otter Creek will perform a concert for their recent CD release "Shiver Into Spark." All proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the music and arts programs at the Church. Kristin Erickson, an award winning Salt Lake based singer/songwriter will be opening for the duo.
When • Saturday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m.
Where • Holladay United Church of Christ, 2631 E. Murray Holladay Road, Salt Lake City
Tickets • Free


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So...who's ready for that Timberwolves game?
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So...who's ready for that Timberwolves game?
It was pretty predictable that he was going to throw deep every play and cause Luck to throw so many picks.
Reggie Wayne was obviously the heart of this team.
He also gave up a first rounder for a guy who looks to be worse than Donald Brown.
We've had three near-picks in this game, but nobody can catch the damn ball.
3rd and long? No problem! Call the Colts defense now!!!!!!! We've been consistently giving up those since ever.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
Don't be so sure about that. Tennessee could take this division.
The Colts have now been outscored 93-12 in the first half of the last four games.
Mathis set the NFL record for strip sacks, so there's that
Rams game mark 2 this team has gone so backwards after the broncos game it isnt funny.
we have quite a few needs on this roster but now we cant address them because we dont have a 1st round pick.
Counting down the days untill DJ Augustin's contract expires.
Fire everyone at the half Jim!
What a disaster this has been tonight. Wow.
True. That's two straight first rounders on guys who aren't looking good at all right now.
Power running team my ***. You can't run the ball when your crappy offense keeps punting and your crappy defense can't stop anyone resulting in massive early deficits.
Luck was a rookie. Of course he's going to throw picks. Taking the handcuffs off of Luck was a smart thing to do considering we are not much of a running team. (which Pep doesn't seem to grasp) I would rather take chances and live with a few more picks. Arians W/L record while he was coach speaks for itself.
It's like watching Curtis Painter and the 2011 Colts out there.
We saw RG3, Wilson, Tannehill, and Nick Foles have a lower INT% than Luck did in his rookie year. We can see EJ Manuel have a lower INT% this year as a rookie. Rookies do not have to throw an interception on almost 3% of their throws. That's the system, which is evident in how many more picks Carson Palmer has thrown this year even though he is on a much better team.
At least this will be good for pacers and their attendance knowing how fickle Indy Is
buck up, the Bulls are about to lose by 40
Because the coaching staff is stubborn/incompetent and has no understanding of its personnel.
God, our receivers suck.


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"In recent decades, we have observed important transformations in the marriage market," Ms. Bellou said. For one thing, more young people are seeking marriage partners on the Internet, and relying less on family and friends for such introductions.
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Nothing more satisfying than beating los Toros. ¡Bienvenido, Luis Scola!
I'd rather die standing up than live on my knees.
-Emiliano Zapata
I hate the Chicago Bulls team, I hate their fans, I hate their bias announcers, I hate that people picked them to win the Central over us when we CLEARLY are the better team. I HATE THEM. Thus it makes me SOOOOO happy to not just win but to BLOW THEM OUT OF THE WATER WEEEE GREAT WIN!!!!!!
Give me some Scola
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I watched so many ****** Pacer basketball seasons to finally see this!!!
"We've got to be very clear about this. We don't want our players hanging around with murderers," said Larry Bird, Pacers president.
This team knows how to close games.
I hate the terrible second quarters as much as the next guy, but I don't think we blow them out in the fourth without it.
Do you think getting extra rest in the second has allowed our starters to finish the fourth stronger?
That was incredible.
You could tell Thibs was gameplanning for PG. Deng defends him really well, but I thought it just opened up the team game that much more. With Paul playing well but not dominating, everybody else had to step up. This wasn't the Paul George Show, it was the Indiana Pacers Show. Great defense at every position, 5 players in double digits, blowout win against a team that many analysts said would be better than the Pacers this year. Fantastic.
All 5 of our wins so far have felt like playoff games. If it goes like this all year long, I don't know how we'll handle it.
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Hopefully that shut some people up on ESPN. Start giving the Pacers their deserved credit and due.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Best start in NBA history. I wonder what the bestt ABA start is.
Great win, man this team is way better than I thought and I thought the team was going to be good, is like they have another gear, they were down and still found a way to come back and win it.
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Awesome. First time being put in Twitter Jail for the 2014 season.
Sneaky underrated turn of events: Ian sprained his ankle, leaving Roy out there for extra minutes. Had to help the D big time.
Really glad to see Lance pull through frustration. You are gonna have frustrating games, but you just have to play your game and not press.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
There is no other team in the league that I take greater pleasure in seeing the Pacers beat than the Bulls' overrated asses. That team is so close team should be 0 - 4 minus a desperation heave from Rose against the Knicks.
Quick thoughts:
1. I'll start off on a whiney note. Man, NBA officiating is bad. That sequence with the tech on Hinrich (...) and the blocking foul on Hibbert was a complete joke. As was most of the game. Also, replays...
2. I gave David West a hard time to start the season because he was basically following the Tyler Hansbrough plan on the boards, from midrange. But give the man credit. He turned it on. Have to think he and Scola really fed off each other today. PFs play like that, Pacers gonna be tough to stop, because of what it forces defenses into (or into conceding).
3. PG24 and Hibbert looked tired, and outside of the 2nd quarter, still played well. PG24 was feeling it a little too much, arguably, but hey, he's allowed to. Like to see Hibbert more efficient at the rim, but that's nothing new.
4. The improvement from Augustin/BHansbrough to Watson/Sloan is stunning. Just stunning. I think Sloan will get better, too. Still playing a bit raw.
5. I like Orlando Johnson, but not the smartest player on the team, that's for sure.
6. Refs hate Ian Mahinmi. Dude can't catch a break. I'm a Ian fan this year. Sorry to see him go out with an injury.
7. I'm cool with Lance starting off cold as long as his solution to get himself back into it is to drive, not to launch from distance. He'll make something happen for someone, eventually, going to the rim. That's his best recipe to heat up. Rough game for him, but he never plays scared, and you gotta have that guy on your team to win it all.
8. Outside of second quarter, effort on glass was tremendous.
9. Holding Jimmy Butler to 7 points is no joke. Obviously Rose is great (rusty, finding legs), but I love Butler and Gibson. To hold those guys under 30 combined is a winning strategy.
10. This team is deep, intense, disciplined, committed to winning and fun to watch. They just do things when they have to do them. Deep, balanced offense. Incredible defense. Pleasure to watch. Imagine if they played all 4 quarters!
Whaaaaaa? Two espn tweets in a game?
@espn: The @Pacers are 5-0 for the first time in 42 years.
Last season was no fluke.
They're still very much a force.
And how about that douche bag Bulls fan throwing a lighter onto the court?
Scola was feeling it tonight. If him and DWest could put up outputs like this every night, we could go undefeated lol.
Turner and Young are THE FUTURE!
I'm stupidly happy we made it look a lot worse than it was score wise. I don't know why. Probably because I'll end up telling a Bulls fan how we beat them by an average of XX in the regular season series. Like that matters, but needling Bulls fans is just fun, they're the worst.
When you win the Bulls and their whole dislikable bunch of players, dude it's so satisfying. Great win to stump in their throat. 5-0 baby.
Paul George had an ugly shooting night but he scored 21. Sign of becoming a star even on bad nights. His usual contribution on D was there as always.
West was atrocious in the first half, really good in the second half. CJ Watson is doing excellent job as a starter replacing GH. Good contribution by Sloand but the greatest came from Luis Scola. he changed the game towards our side and the momentum.
We are stacked and it feels great saying it.
What a great game to continue our lossless streak. Just solid effort at the end from our guys.
Too many heroes for this game, but I'll give it to West this time. And nice effort also from Scola, with his best game yet as a Pacer.


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My mother is now in hospice care at home, in her case chemotherapy was a BIG mistake (Gemzar and Xeloda - went 2 weeks with it, wound up in the hospital with severe anemia, some edema, cholangitis and very bad side effects that deteriorated her quality of life)
My question: she had had some edema in her feet and ankles, but yesterday it moved up to her knees, thighs and even her butt. Everything swelled up to TWICE their size. The hospice nurse told me that it may be a sign of the end, but I don't want to accept that, since she's doing so much better in other ways since I got her out of that horrible hospital. I just can't seem to find anything about this edema being a sign of end-stage liver disease. Anyone have any similar experiences? They tell me the edema may travel up her entire body as a result of liver malfunction but I don't know what would actually kill her - pulmonary thrombosis, other blood clot, ruptured varices? How long can you live with this kind of bloating? She has an appetite, has started walking again, and the jaundice is stable. Mentally she's in great shape.
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Whyteleafe chairman Mark Coote says he would rather take his team to Calais or Dieppe than Guernsey on August 13.
Leafe are one of four teams in Ryman Division One South with the unenviable task of travelling to the Channel Islands in mid-week.
The short notice has left manager John Fowler keeping his fingers crossed that his players can get the time off work, although his two right-hand men will not be travelling.
Coote and Fowler had been considering applying to the Ryman League to have the fixture moved, but decided against it.
Moreover, the chairman believes the FA made a mistake allowing Guernsey to join the English national football pyramid in 2011, saying it has forgotten what non-League football stands for.
He said: "The League is not going to change the fixture because we ask them to but they have got to consider the bigger picture.
"No one is saying that Guernsey don't belong at this level, but these fixtures really put visiting teams at a huge disadvantage.
"All of Guernsey's home games should be played on a Saturday, giving fans plenty of chance to get out there, and giving mangers the best chance of taking their strongest side."
He added: "The Ryman League has forgotten what non-League football is all about.
"It's about the volunteers who look after the ground, the fans who turn up week in week out, the players who get paid a pittance, and allowing Guernsey to join has affected them all.
"When Guernsey joined the English pyramid I don't think the FA gave it enough thought.
"They are lovely people in Guernsey, but their admittance should not affect the clubs at this level and I believe the spirit has been taken out of the game."
Ryman League rules regarding mid-week matches at Guernsey state the visiting club can request an earlier kick-off time, but Coote believes their request is likely to fall on deaf ears.
He said: "I cannot see Guernsey agreeing to it because it would put them at a disadvantage, why should they?"
In the 64 league games played on the Island since 2011, Guernsey have won 48, drawn eight and lost eight.
"If it was an earlier kick-off, we could make the trip in one day – although it is still a mad dash to get there," he added.
"Right now, I'd rather be playing in Calais or Dieppe because it takes a fraction of the time to get there.
"All the disadvantages are ours. We're especially disappointed that the fixture is so soon and that players and staff may not be able to get two days off work needed to travel to the game.
"If a player is married, he's had his family holiday, and if he's single he's been to Marbella – everyone is back for the football season.
"So to expect them to have two more days off work at such short notice is a tough ask."
Fowler said: "We have to play this game no matter what, and I've asked the players to try and get the time off.
"At the moment, about eight say they can make it, but that could well change.
"It's not a great situation. I firmly believe that Guernsey's home games should be played at weekend, end of."
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I have used the AMC library as suggested in the 'Reference design for Real time test' in this thread. The problem I am facing is that when I send a message from target to host, it takes a really long time (4-5 seconds approx) to reach the host. My time deterministic loop on target runs at around 1 ms. Hence, this performance is not acceptable at all.
Is this kind of performance expected with the AMC library?
Aditya Changavalli
LabVIEW 2009
Just to add to the above question, I did a few tests and the time taken for a message to reach the target from host is 10 ms approx while the time taken from host to target is 4500ms!!
I used the exact same VI design for both directions. Can someone please tell me why this is happening?
Aditya Changavalli
LabVIEW 2009
I'm not sure why it's happening. We have not seen that problem here. Have you tried using any of the sample projects to see if they exhibit the symptoms that you are seeing?
Hey Nate,
Thanks for replying. I am not sure where to find the sample AMC projects. I tried to use the examples that come with the library. But, I was facing some problems since I changed the type-def of the message (just removed the message attributes) as suggested in the AMC tutorial.
Besides, I tried to send just a simple UDP message (without AMC) across from Target to Host and its received almost instantaneously. I just cannot figure out where the delay is coming from!
Aditya Changavalli
The ones I am thinking of are the Reference Applications linked from the bottom of this page: A Reference Architecture for Local Machine Control
in the Machine Control Architecture Content diagram. Click on the "A Simple Machine Control Example".
You will also need to download and install a bunch of the other Reference Libraries.
I have already used the reference applications from this page: Reference Design for Real Time Test. This too had a bunch of other libraries. I modeled my use of AMC library exactly as given in this one.
I did some more test and the problem seems to come from the fact that my host computer has two network connections, while the target has one.
In fact, when I disable one network connection (not the one I connect to target), I stop getting any message from target. But when both are enabled, I get the same results:
Using AMC dispatcher
1. Host --> Target : 10 ms
2. Target --> Host : 4500 ms
Using standard UDP VIs (open, read and close) on host
Target --> Host : 10 ms
I am aware that the Open UDP VI (which is called inside the AMC dispatcher) has an input terminal to specify the network address. But the results don't change whether I wire the network address to it or leave it unwired.
I feel the critical issue is the presence of multiple network connections. Any idea what is the dependency of the AMC library in such cases?
I used Wireshark to tap the network messages and the problem gets stranger still. Using AMC dispatcher, though I get the message from the target instantaneously, there are some "Name Query" over NBNS (NetBIOS) protocol. This causes an error "Destination Unreachable - Port unreachable" for the next 4500 ms. The AMC dispatcher does not stop executing till that time and hence does nto update the message received.
This problem is completely absent when I use UDP VIs. There are no NBNS queries and consequently no error messages. Hence, I get the message immediately.
For now, I got around the problem by disabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP in the WINS tab of advanced TCP/IP properties dialog box. I had to do this for both the network connections. Now, even AMC dispatcher gives instantaneous results.
What I don't understand however is why the AMC dispatcher is sending NBNS queries to the target? I could not find anything like that in its code.
Its particularly serious as I want to protect future users of my developed Real time VIs to be protected against such unpredictable behaviour. I might have to re-consider using AMC. Please help!!
- Aditya Changavalli
LabVIEW 2009
Thank you for digging into this more and posting your results. I have not had a chance to test and reproduce this with a low level Ethetnet monitor, but I'm pretty sure that the NetBIOS call you see is initiated by the IP to String function in amc_Dispatch Read and Process UDP Messages.vi in the Dispatcher. This function is used to convert an IP address stored as a U32 to a string, either as Dot notation or as the name of the other device. For conversion to dot notation the function should not need to go out on the network, but it seems that it does. I will look into this more.
You can easily replace this function with a little LV code to do the conversion without this function and the associated network traffic.
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Thank you! It solves a big mystery, but it was fun trying to figure it out.
If it helps you, I have attached a screenshot of the trace monitored, along with the trace file (Wireshark format 'pcap').
Thanks again for the AMC Library. It works like a charm
PS - The NetBIOS problem is there in other LabVIEW palettes too, as I found out with the FTP transfer VI. But now I know why!
I am trying to install amc on my computer, but get the message "You must install LabVIEW 8.5 or later on the system before you can run this setup". I get the same message when I try to install some of the other required files, but not for all. I guess it maybe has to do with the fact that I have 64 bits LabVIEW (2010), because it worked when I had the 32 bits version. What should I do?


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The Charlotte Observer reported Friday night that NASCAR is strongly considering implementing eliminations during the 10-week Chase that would create a four-driver, winner-take-all season finale. The newspaper also said NASCAR would expand the 12-driver playoff field to 16 and that a win in the first 26 races would practically guarantee a playoff berth.
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NASCAR has been quietly mulling changes to the points system, Chase and race formats over the past year. It last tinkered with the Chase prior to the 2011 season when it added two wild-card spots to the Chase -- partly due to feedback from the annual preseason driver/owner meetings.
That means the reported points system changes could still be tweaked or changed when drivers and other key NASCAR partners give feedback on what they think the format should look like. The final changes could be announced during NASCAR's stop on the annual preseason media tour, which is Jan. 30.
At least one driver has indicated his excitement for the potential change.
Denny Hamlin, who's made the Chase six times and finished second in 2010, tweeted Saturday, "This points system change is going to be a really good thing. Trust in it."
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Today I had a discussion with a friend whether it's "okay" to sleep with people who are in a relationship. She argued that if the guy sleeps with another girl, it can take sexual pressure from the relationship and well – there is a point in that. Things can develop in different directions, so who knows whether sleeping with someone who is in a monogamic relationship will lead to suffering or to happiness?
Just now, i figure out that arguing that this bodily khamma, this action will have certain consequences is true – but i can't tell for sure which - there are too many factors to really know for sure and it always depends on the people involved. Does that mean that there there might be no unbeneficial consequences at all? No. Every action has an impact on the mind and in this case, the consequences can be seen. Actions like sex with others feed the sexual desires and cravings. Keeping sexual affairs a secret from a partner is a breeding ground for disharmony and mistrust. When there are no secrets and when there is no need to lie to a partner or willfully hide something – when there is just the truth and no skeletons in the closet, then this the most appreciable condition for a flourishing, loving and supporting relationship for the people involved.
Yet – instead of discussing problems with a partner, people want to believe that getting sexual relief with others is the solution to have a harmonious relationship.
"Maybe the secrets will not come out and maybe the partner will never find out about the things hidden in the closet" – so maybe there is no need for this ethical conduct one might still say.
But mutual trust, love and harmony in a relationship are qualities one should not easily endanger. Just like parents protect and care for their new born child, people in a relationship should protect and care for the good qualities and the value a good relationship can offer. People should protect and care for their relationship(s). They should care for developing the good qualities like trust, compassion and emotional support and avoid giving rise to bad qualities like distrust, doubt and hatred.
And i think that is the point. If one strongly cares about a relationship and the partner, there is no place for lightheartedly risking to hurt the partner or damaging the relationship.
What about the third party involved, the person who sleeps with someone in a relationship? "It's not my partnership, it's not my problem." - I can only imagine that upon experiencing how people in a relationship are so easily ready to abandon the qualities of partnership – that such a person will loose faith and respect for relationships and the potential they hold – and possibly lose trust in people in general, too. If you have no problem endangering other relationships, will you easily trust in your own? will you hold on to a relationship and work problems out or will you dump your partner rather sooner than later? How much can you care about your environment, the feelings of your loved ones, if you allow yourself to bring this amount of callousness to others? "It's not my partnership, it's not my problem."
Well. It is your compassion and kindness towards all living beings, it is your peace with yourself and the world, it is your mind free of remorse that is endangered by your actions. Family, friends and strangers alike should be treated in a way that does not give rise to remorse, carelessness, hatred and greed. People complain about how there is no goodness in this world, how bad people behave and yet – they trample down every seedling of goodness they see without thinking about it. Goodness and virtuosity must be cultivated, these qualities don't grow in the fires of carelessness.
Would i sleep with someone who is in a relationship if the opportunity comes up? No, because i don't want me or others to burn in these fires. I don't want to risk letting people suffer and bleed because of my actions and my carelessness.Instead of taking such a risk for "quick fun", i'll take the chance to stand out as a pillar of virtuosity, of trustworthiness and blamelessness. I'll take the chance for goodness and actions, that unite people and strengthen harmony. Let's give rise to goodness. That's how i see it.


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"Today, three companies process more than 70 percent of all U.S. beef, Tyson, Cargill and JBS," Nelson and Lappé wrote. "More than 90 percent of soybean seeds and 80 percent of corn seeds used in the United States are sold by just one company: Monsanto. Four companies are responsible for up to 90 percent of the global trade in grain. And one in four food dollars is spent at Walmart.
The Rainforest Action Network's press release stated that thousands of people from Brazil, Hungary, Ireland, Argentina and the U.S. would be participating in the Feb. 27 "day of action."
As part of the day of action, Occupy Our Food Supply protesters planned to create community gardens in unused bank-owned lots, host seed exchanges in front of stock exchanges, label products on grocery store shelves that have genetically engineered ingredients, build community alliances to support locally-owned grocery stores, and protest Monsanto and Cargill.
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SALINAS, Calif. — The Salinas Valley is best known for its lettuce and leafy greens. But just to the north, Gilroy is home to a year-round grower-shipper of bell peppers and chilies — Uesugi Farms.
"There aren't a lot of guys doing this," said Pete Aiello, co-owner of Uesugi Farms. "There are really only a handful of us at this level of volume and production in the bell pepper deal. Prime Time (International), Baloian (Farms) and Sun World are well known for their programs.
"I consider us one of the bigger players in the pepper deal. If we're not the biggest chili player in California, we're one of the biggest."
Uesugi has about 500 acres of bell peppers in production in Mexico this spring up to early July. A smaller desert deal starts in California's Coachella and Imperial valleys in late April.
The company, which offers several other commodities, grows about 1,300 acres of peppers in the Golden State. Most of it is in Bakersfield, Gilroy, Hollister and Brentwood.
Bakersfield peppers are cooled and shipped from Gilroy from mid-June to early August. Gilroy and Hollister run mid-July through October. Uesugi Farms offers red, yellow and green bells, plus all the chili varieties. The chilies include the notoriously hot ghost peppers, some of which are grown in a Salinas greenhouse. Ghosts start packing in June.
"It's a very risky crop and difficult to grow," Aiello said. "We don't like doing things the easy way."
By the first week of April, Uesugi had just finished planting its Bakersfield peppers.
"I expect production to be higher in all areas," Aiello said, attributing that to a mostly mild winter. "Last year we had some pretty tough sledding in the desert and Bakersfield. In Gilroy most of our fields were good but we had a couple stinkers with disease that really wiped our yield out. We haven't planted Gilroy yet but I'm eternally optimistic."
Uesugi Farms also grows napa cabbage, pumpkins, strawberries, sweet corn and — for the processed market — dry beans. One bonus is that the napa cabbage and the grower-shipper's Japanese name seem to connect with Asian consumers in the nearby San Francisco Bay Area, Aiello said.
"It helps," he said. "We purchased the company in 1979 from George Uesugi and kept the name."
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This summer, Uesugi Farms also plans to start construction of a 1,200-square-foot retail store in Gilroy. It's expected to open in spring 2013 and operate during growing season. Besides Uesugi produce, other locally grown items will be on offer.
Toward the end of 2012, the company plans to start expanding its Gilroy packing facility.
"It looks like we'll construct an additional line for red and yellow bell peppers for next year," Aiello said. The plan is to double capacity on an existing 5,000-square-foot building.
Uesugi's green bells from Bakersfield are now packed in Gilroy, but reds and yellows are still field-packed.
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GOOD causes in Swindon received more than £775,055 of National Lottery funding in 2012, according to figures released this week.
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Sherry Cohen's Picks for The Best of 2012
It's always hard for me to come up with the best of anything in entertainment. With my backstage theatre background, I'm obsessed with detail, and I can't simply sit back and enjoy any show. As a writer, I'm obsessed with the words, the sentence, the grammar, etc., and I can never read strictly for pleasure. In the pressure cooker of coming up with the best picks for 2012, I have a mixed pot.
Best New Play: Harbor by Chad Beguelin. When I interviewed Beguelin about his play, I thought he was extremely well-bred. He is polite, pleasant and modest. His play is about a gay couple who have to decide whether or not to have a child. One partner's trashy sister turns the screws on the issue when she arrives unexpectedly with one illegitimate daughter and another on the way. She has already chosen the child's parents - guess who? The play has the surprise ending, with no one, except possibly the older daughter, satisfied. But, relationships are often complicated, and the cast of this premiere at the Westport Country Playhouse captured all the subtleties of the characters with credibility.
Best Performance: Maureen Anderman in The Year of Magical Thinking. This was a hard play to see, especially for this hospital-, doctor- and disease-phobe. (I was serious when I asked my obstetrician to let me have a drive-through C-section. I would rest better in a Percocet haze at home.) As everyone knows, Joan Didion went through the unthinkable tragedy of losing both her husband and daughter in about one year's time. Didion is waif-like. Anderman is lionesque in appearance and in her performance, dominating the sizeable stage at the Westport Country Playhouse. But that kind of strength is a prerequisite to surviving the grueling process of dealing with doctors who cannot understand, let alone treat, her daughter's mysterious and ultimately fatal disease, and then having the strength to write a compelling book and play about it.
Best Children's Musical: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat. Curtain Call produced this show before, but this year's exceptional cast and direction and musical staging by Debra Lee Failla made it definitive for a community theatre group. I saw Failla's production before at Curtain Call and thought it was great fun, but this year all the elements were in the right places, down to the more manageable number of children at the foot of the stage. Standout performances were by Michael Okulski as Joseph, Matt Victory as Pharaoh, George Alberts as Jacob and Potiphar, and Laura Blackwell and Claire Kenny alternating as the Narrator. Oh, and my very energetic five-year-old son, who usually can't sit still through a snack, was thoroughly engaged in the show.
Noble Attempt to Adapt a Play: The Killing of Sister George. OK, so no one liked it, even though they were excited that Kathleen Turner would star and direct the play. Jeffrey Hatcher's adaptation of Frank Marcus's controversial 1964 play should have had some serious updating. A radio soap opera when people are glued to Downton Abbey on PBS? And where are the emotional depths that Turner promised? News of a popular performer's sexual orientation does not a career destroy. Long before JoAnna Johnson revealed that, like her character on The Bold and The Beautiful, she is gay, Anne Heche went public with her relationship with Ellen Degeneres, and Cynthia Nixon announced that she is bisexual and in a relationship with Christine Marinoni. Johnson will return to The Bold and the Beautiful in January after concentrating on a successful career as a TV and movie writer and producer. Heche and Nixon are still employable. Maybe Johnson, Nixon and Heche can take a crack at Sister George? It's a play worth revisiting.
Most Interesting Shakespeare in A Park: The Merchant of Venice. Interesting means that it's different. Curtain Call's Shakespeare on the Green is arguably has of the best settings possible. The vast compound that includes a golf course and two restaurants is home each summer to an Elizabethan style-stage that resembles part of The Globe. Usually, the performers wear period clothing, but for The Merchant of Venice, they wore modern attire and carried smartphones. This might have worked more effectively with a different play, but it was the constant references to Shylock "the Jew" that seemed anachronistic. Yes, people talked that way back then, but these days we're supposed to be politically correct.
Best Movie Based On a Play or Show: Les Miserables. Usually I find myself disappointed after seeing a movie if I liked the play. (Proof comes to mind, even with a formidable cast.) I knew the movie would be even more powerful than the staged production. After all, it's hard to replicate on stage Jean Valjean's carrying Marius through the sewers of Paris. It could be suggested with a film running in the background as if it were a newsreel, but neither of the productions I saw had anything like that. And creating the barricade in the film was more effective as citizens of Paris threw furniture out the windows. Although film critics took a few swipes at the movie, especially at Russell Crowe's singing, I thought the movie was stirring and relevant, because of the seemingly unending Great Recession and the failure of the Occupy Anywhere movement. I was blown away by Hugh Jackson as Jean and Aaron Tveit as Enjolras. No surprise there. Jackman has more than proven himself as a Broadway performer and Tveit was fabulous in Catch Me If You Can and Next to Normal. Jackson subtly and credibly portrayed the tormented but decent hero and Tveit's charisma overshadowed Eddie Redmayne. (What were Cosette and Eponine thinking?)
I know what I'm thinking. There are people who never saw live theatre and they waited all these years to see Les Miz. Maybe this movie will inspire them to make more of an effort to travel, if they must, to see a touring show, or better still, make it to New York or London, or even Connecticut.


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