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The Arctic is a region of extremes: extreme cold, extreme seasonal changes in daylight, and extreme winds. It sits at the top of world, covered in sea ice--a seemingly unwelcome place for life.
Yet the Arctic is actually teeming with wildlife--from large mammals like walruses and polar bears to birds, fish, small plants, and even tiny ocean organisms called plankton.
The Arctic region covers much of Earth's northern pole. The outer edge of the Arctic--which includes areas of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia--is made up of glaciers and tundra (treeless plains with frozen ground called permafrost). The central part of the Arctic (around the North Pole) is surrounded with large areas of sea ice.
Because of its polar location and the tilt of the earth, the Arctic does not have the normal seasons that we are used to in the continental United States. An Arctic winter has days without sunlight and the summer has days where the sun never sets (which is why it is called the land of the "Midnight Sun").
Throughout the year, the temperature can widely range. A short growing season, permafrost and long, dark winters of extreme cold and strong winds mean that the Arctic is nearly treeless and only small plants can grow.
The Arctic is a unique ecosystem with a complex food web made up of organisms adapted to its extreme conditions. It is one of the most biologically productive ecosystems in the world, supporting many large fisheries and huge populations of migratory birds that come to the Arctic for the summer to breed.
Arctic wildlife have special adaptations that enable them to survive in their icy and changeable environment.
Although the Arctic is gaining in popularity worldwide as a tourism and wildlife watching destination, the region has always been vital to the identity, culture, and survival of its indigenous people. Tribes, such as the Gwich'in people of northeast Alaska and the northern Yukon and Northwest Territories in Canada, depend on the migratory caribou herds and the Arctic fisheries for food.
America's Arctic includes the 19.6 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Located in the northeast corner of Alaska, this protected area is home to more than 200 bird species, which migrate to the refuge to breed in the summers. As many as 300,000 snow geese visit the coastal plain each fall to feed on the tundra.
Other wildlife travelers on the Arctic Refuge include the 130,000 member Porcupine caribou herd. Each spring, the herd migrates more than 1,400 miles across Canada and Alaska to calve in the Refuge's coastal plain. It is estimated that an individual caribou may travel more than 3,000 miles over the course of a single year. The indigenous Gwich'in people rely on the resources of the coastal plain, especially the Porcupine caribou. Protecting the coastal plain is necessary to preserving the culture and lifestyle of the Gwich'in Nation. The coastal plain also provides critical habitat for the polar bear.
The stated mission of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is to, "preserve unique wildlife, wilderness and recreational values; to conserve caribou herds, polar bears, grizzly bears, muskox, Dall sheep, wolves, wolverines, snow geese, peregrine falcons, other migratory birds, Dolly Varden, and grayling; to provide opportunities for subsistence uses; and to ensure necessary water quantity and quality."
However, oil and gas companies consistently pressure politicians to open the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge to drilling--which would put the wildlife who live in this largest refuge in the United States at risk. The Obama administration has the opportunity to recommend wilderness protection for the coastal plain as part of the latest Comprehensive Conservation Plan for the Refuge, which is expected to be finalized soon. Only Congress can designate an area as wilderness, however, so it is up to our elected officials in the House and Senate to pass a bill to permanently protect this sensitive landscape for future generations.
Most of northwestern Alaska consists of the 23 million-acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPRA), the largest single tract of public land in the country. Managed by the Bureau of Land Management for both the protection of high fish and wildlife values and development of oil and gas, the Indiana-sized Reserve provides critical habitat for an incredible array of migratory waterfowl that use the four major U.S. flyways to reach all 50 states in addition to many other countries. Canada geese, tundra swans, white-fronted geese, pintail ducks and brant are among the hundreds of species of migratory birds that nest, feed, and molt in the NPRA each year.
The Reserve is also home to spectacular terrestrial and marine mammals, including grizzly and polar bears, caribou, wolves, and wolverine as well as beluga and bowhead whales, walrus, and several species of seals. The 490,000 animal Western Arctic Caribou Herd is the state's largest, and the Teshekpuk Lake Caribou Herd, numbering about 67,000 animals, is a primary source of subsistence for thousands of Alaska Native residents.
National Wildlife Federation is working to protect the key habitats that support the remarkable fish and wildlife that flourish in the Reserve. Thanks to this work, the Bureau of Land Management finalized a management plan that takes a balanced approach to identify the most important wildlife habitat while providing for oil and gas development where it can be done responsibly.
FACT SHEET: Conserving Wildlife Habitat in the Western Arctic
A large portion of the Arctic region includes the Arctic Ocean. This body of water is home to an amazing array of wildlife, including endangered bowhead whales, endangered polar bears, beluga whales, endangered ringed seals and the Pacific walrus.
The Arctic Ocean ecosystem is not only changing dramatically due to the rapid melting of sea ice, but the Obama administration is pushing forward plans to open this frontier area to drilling. More drilling will only exacerbate the challenges brought on by climate change in this region. The harshness and uncertainty of the Arctic coupled with the lack of science about our Arctic Ocean make this sensitive ecosystem no place to drill.
Average temperatures in the Arctic are rising almost twice as fast as the rest of the world and are changing the Arctic ecosystem in profound ways--especially the amount of sea ice that exists in the region.
The majority of the Arctic near the North Pole is covered in sea ice. The ice pack is in constant motion, drifting with ocean currents and prevailing winds. Ice is present year-round in the Arctic, expanding during the winter and retreating during the summer.
Sea ice is a special feature of the Arctic, and most wildlife there depend on it in some way. Polar bears use the ice as platforms from which to feed on seals. Walruses use the ice as a place to rest. There is even a kind of algae that actually lives in the ice!
Sea ice is melting much faster than previously predicted. The region is on track to become essentially ice-free environment in the summer, with a much-reduced ice freeze-up occurring in winter. Already, much of the "fast ice," or ice shelves attached to land, have broken up, including the 300-mile Ellesmere Ice Shelf along Ellesmere Island in northern Canada.
There is concern that melting Arctic glaciers and sea ice may raise sea levels around the globe and that, if enough freshwater is introduced to the North Atlantic, there could be a shift in ocean currents.
Arctic permafrost is also melting, changing tundra to wetlands and shrub lands. All of these changes have profound effects on wildlife, and the human communities that depend on wildlife for their survival.
The National Wildlife Federation is working hard to fight global warming and stop the loss of tundra and sea ice in the Arctic.
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DENVER (AP) — Authorities say the man who shot and wounded two suburban Denver police officers checking on him at his home was stopped by a third officer who arrived later and returned fire.
Lakewood police Sgt. Randy McNitt says the injured female and male officers, as well as the suspect, were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after Saturday night's shooting. He told The Associated Press that the officers' bulletproof vests "played a key role" in saving their lives.
The officers got to the suspect's Lakewood home west of Denver after the man's wife told police she was worried about him because he was despondent. The man, whose name hasn't been released, immediately opened fire on the officers.
A third officer who arrived a short time later injured the suspect.
The officers' names haven't been released.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
A man shot and wounded two suburban Denver police officers Saturday night when they went to his residence to check on his welfare, authorities said.
The injured female and male officers returned fire, wounding the gunman, and he was arrested following the shooting in Lakewood, a few miles west of downtown Denver.
Lakewood police spokesman Sgt. Randy McNitt said all three were hospitalized with nonlife-threatening injuries.
He told The Associated Press that the officers' bullet-proof vests "played a key role" in saving their lives.
The violence erupted around 10 p.m. MDT when the two were sent to a residence to check on the man, after his wife told police he was despondent and was worried about him.
McNitt said that as the police arrived, the suspect came outside and opened fire with a handgun.
There was no further information on the extent of the injuries following the exchange of gunfire. No names were released.
Station KMGH reported that police also searched the man's home to see if he had weapons other than the handgun.
The residence was located near the intersection of West Jewell Avenue and South Kipling Street.
Police say the investigation will last through the night and the intersection will remain closed until morning.
The station said at least 14 police vehicles and 5 emergency vehicles, as well as vehicles from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, responded to the shooting.
Associated Press writer Bob Seavey in Phoenix contributed to this story.


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Price, Reds discuss callups during stretch run
CINCINNATI -- The Reds' front office has been meeting in recent days to discuss potential September callups from the Minor Leagues. Major League rosters can expand from 25 to 40 players on Monday.
"I think we're going to get somewhere in the neighborhood of seven to nine, I would say," Reds manager Bryan Price said. "I think that would be a reasonable assumption. There are some guys that we would really like to see. It kind of gives us a chance to take a better look at guys given that opportunity."
If that many names are on the list, it would mean that some new faces will be joining the familiar past callups from Triple-A Louisville, such as catcher Tucker Barnhart, outfielder Donald Lutz, infielder Neftali Soto and relievers J.J. Hoover and Curtis Partch.
"We've talked about a lot of guys, but we have some guys [who] haven't been here that are being discussed," Price said, without specifying names. "It will be interesting to see how much playing time they get, because a lot of that will be dictated by where we are in the standings. You can't really showcase your young players and give them a lot of opportunity if you're still chasing a postseason spot."
Only a handful of players on the 40-man roster have yet to play in the big leagues, including Double-A Pensacola outfielders Yorman Rodriguez and Juan Duran.
Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Bowden's Legendary Career Highlighted by Thrilling 2000 Sugar Bowl
By Stewart Mandel, SI.com
The 2000 Sugar Bowl was the first of four New Orleans bowl games I've covered, and it remains by far the most memorable. It was a dizzying back-and-forth shootout in which two of the nation's most talented players that season - Florida State receiver Peter Warrick and Virginia Tech quarterback Michael Vick -- spent most of the night one-upping each other with one big play after another.
The Seminoles and Hokies both finished the 1999 regular season 11-0, creating a rare, controversy-free BCS championship matchup. FSU, which was in the midst of a dynastic run under coach Bobby Bowden (14 straight top-four finishes from 1987-2000) and had been the No. 1 team in the country since the start of the season. Frank Beamer's Hokies had become increasingly respectable throughout the mid-to-late '90s, but the '99 season marked their ascendance to the national stage.
They did it in large part because of an exceptionally gifted redshirt freshman quarterback.
While the sport had seen its share of "mobile" quarterbacks over the years -- mostly those who ran the old wishbone offense -- Vick was unlike any before him. With blazing 4.3 speed, he routinely blew by defenders, often turning busted plays into long gains. He finished third in the Heisman voting that season, incredibly rare for a freshman, and saved the Hokies' season when, against West Virginia, he dashed 26 yards down the sideline to set up a game-winning field goal.
Because of Virginia Tech's relatively low profile, the Sugar Bowl marked many fans' first time seeing Vick play. They would not be disappointed. But first, they would be treated to a dazzling display from Warrick, Florida State's dynamic receiver who many felt would have won the Heisman that season if not for his two-game suspension mid-season. In the first half against Virginia Tech, Warrick caught a 64-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Chris Weinke and returned a punt 59 yards for another score to stake the Seminoles to a 28-7 lead.
That's when Vick went to work, breaking a 46-yard run en route to his own 3-yard touchdown run that cut the score to 28-14 just before halftime. Vick would wind up leading his team to 22 unanswered points, repeatedly mystifying Seminoles defenders with his feet. He would finish with a game-high 97 rushing yards to go with 225 passing yards. Two FSU defenders, Roland Seymour and Tommy Polley, suffered game-ending knee strains trying to tackle him. "I've never seen a better one," Bowden said of Vick's performance. "I knew he was good, but I didn't know he was that good."
Fortunately for Bowden, he had a talented quarterback of his own, 27-year-old former baseball player Chris Weinke, who would go on to win the Heisman the following season. With Virginia Tech leading 29-28 at the start of the fourth quarter, Weinke led the Seminoles 85 yards in 11 plays, capped with a 14-yard touchdown pass to Ron Dugans. An ensuing Vick fumble set up a Sebastian Janikowski field goal to go up 39-29.
With Florida State waiting to come back on the field during a long time out with 7:42 left, a loud cheer began to spread among the Seminoles fans in the Superdome: "Pet-er Warr-ick." At that same moment, on the sideline, the FSU star asked his teammates: "Y'all want me to finish them right here?" He did just that, catching a juggling, 43-yard touchdown despite a Virginia Tech defender draped all over him. The play capped an MVP performance in which Warrick finished with six catches for 163 yards and two touchdowns.
"Coming into the game, I was so concerned about Vick making big plays," said Bowden, "so I said, 'Pete, you're gonna have to make plays to counter his.'"
While the 46-29 final score may have indicated a blowout, I, like the rest of the 79,280 in attendance that night, will forever remember the game as a suspenseful affair in which the Hokies actually outgained the Seminoles 503 yards to 359. Most of all, I'll remember the big plays, particularly from Vick, whose transcendent performance greatly belied the fact he was just 19 at the time. "He didn't seem like a kid out there," Bowden said. "He played like a man all the way. He was super. He nearly beat us by himself."
The 2000 Sugar Bowl was an important moment for college football on several fronts. For one thing, it marked the crowning achievement of Bowden's Hall of Fame tenure at Florida State. While he'd won one previous national championship (the 1993 season) and played in three straight BCS championship games from 1999-2001, the 1999 team produced the only undefeated season of his career. And while the 'Noles returned to the Sugar Bowl once more in 2002, their recent teams have failed to replicate the rabid success of the '90s, in large part because they've lacked elite playmakers like Warrick.
Meanwhile, the game served as a national showcase for Virginia Tech, which had been an afterthought for most of its history prior to Beamer taking over at his alma mater in 1987. "It looked like a Florida State team playing another Florida State team out there," Seminoles linebacker Brian Allen said that night. "The way they get after people, it's like they were taking a play out of our book. They're a great team." Starting with that 1999 team, the Hokies have produced seven 10-win seasons. Since joining Florida State in the ACC in 2004, Virginia Tech has won that league's championship twice.
Finally, the most indelible image from that game remains that of Vick dashing through Florida State's defense. A little more than a year later, he became the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft. That night unofficially ushered in a new era of dual-threat QBs that have been wreaking havoc on defenses ever since, stars like Texas Heisman runner-up Vince Young, Indiana record-breaker Antwaan Randle El and West Virginia standout Pat White.
"I don't know that you can ever measure how much that helped us in recruiting, that the best player in college football was at Virginia Tech," Beamer said years later. "It's gigantic what that game meant even though we didn't get the win that night."


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Early lead gets away from Buehrle, Blue Jays
NEW YORK -- Left-hander Mark Buehrle likely won't look back on his first month in a Blue Jays uniform with the fondest of memories.
Toronto's No. 3 starter has struggled for most of April, and even when he's making the right pitch, in the right location, it hasn't resulted in a lot of positives.
That was the story again on Thursday night, when Buehrle surrendered three home runs -- including a three-run shot off the bat of Robinson Cano -- in a 5-3 loss to New York at Yankee Stadium.
"Went fastball in, got in, and he hit it out," said Buehrle, who also gave up solo shots to Vernon Wells and Francisco Cervelli. "He's a great hitter, and I think that's why this game is kind of frustrating at times. You make pitches and they get hits.
"I'd love to have it back now, but at the time, I got it in there, threw it where I wanted to, and he hit. Nothing I can do about it."
Buehrle's April hasn't exactly gone as planned. He finished the month with a 1-1 record but an ERA of 6.35 in five starts. Three of those outings lasted 5 1/3 innings or fewer, with at least five earned runs.
The first month of the season usually goes better than this for Buehrle, but throughout the course of his career, he has been prone to slow starts. His career ERA of 4.27 in March/April is the highest he has for any month, and the mark may be ugly thus far in 2013, but his teammates haven't necessarily done him very many favors, either.
The Blue Jays missed making a number of plays behind him in his outings. Buehrle is a ground-ball pitcher and so requires strong infield defense, and at times that has been missing. It happened again on Thursday night, when a pair of infield hits led to the Cano homer.
Even so, Buehrle was frustrated with himself despite not having any regrets about the location of the pitch to Cano.
"Right before that, two infield hits, and then a home run," Buehrle said. "That changes the game. We had come out quick and scored three runs. I give up hits and solo home runs, but any time guys are on base and it's a two-, three-run [homer] or a grand slam, that's what kind of kills us."
The downward turn was made even more disappointing because Buehrle had been staked to that rare lead early in the game. Toronto's offense has been struggling of late, but Edwin Encarnacion and Brett Lawrie ensured that things started on the right foot.
Encarnacion got everything rolling with a first-pitch homer in the first inning off Yankees right-hander Hiroki Kuroda. The two-run shot was his third home run in as many days and fifth of the season.
The first baseman got off to a slow start but appears to be heating up, as he is batting .310 with four homers and 10 RBIs in his past 12 games.
"The good thing for me and for my team is that I have been feeling better," Encarnacion said. "So that, for me, is going to help my team to win, because we need to keep playing better, better ball. I know they need me, and I know I've been feeling better, so we're going to get them tomorrow.
"I've been swinging at my pitch and looking for my pitch. I was swinging at a lot of pitches outside of the strike zone at the beginning, so now I try to look for my pitch."
Lawrie got into the action in the second, when he sent a solo homer over the wall in right. It was his first home run in 10 games this year after missing the beginning of the season with an injured oblique.
The early homers were a continuation of a recent power surge that started Wednesday night, when the Blue Jays hit four against the Orioles. But from that point on, Kuroda settled in and didn't allow another run the rest of the way.
Kuroda was charged with just those three runs on six hits while striking out three during his six strong innings.
"I think he started to take a little more time and throw pitches down," Cervelli said. "I started calling him a lot of breaking balls, too. Find a way to put him on the line, and he can throw his best pitch, the two-seam fastball. I always say he's a warrior. He tries to get more than five innings all the time."
The lack of offense has been a continuing trend. The Blue Jays have scored three runs or fewer in all but eight of their 22 games and now find themselves five games under .500.
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Rachael Taylor
Rachael has appeared in the U.S.-produced TV movies The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004) and Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure, as well as in the gore-fest flicks Man-Thing (2005) and See No Evil (2006). Following the cancellation of the Australian drama series Headland, she costarred in the box-office champ Transformers (2007).
Rachael Taylor BiographyRachael Taylor hails from the island of Tasmania, off the coast of mainland Australia. With her pretty, natural looks, she started out as a teenage model with the Skye-Jilly International agency, and also entered the Miss Teen Tasmania and Miss Universe/Miss World state finals.
At the urging of her college English professor/modeling agent, Rebecca Miller, Taylor relocated to Sydney to advance her modeling and acting careers. During this time, she entered the University of Sydney to study history and politics.
Taylor made her acting debut in 2004, appearing as Maryann Marinkovich in the Peter Bogdanovich-directed TV movie The Mystery of Natalie Wood, which was filmed in Sydney. In 2005, she was featured as Catherine Oxenberg in another U.S.-produced telefilm shot Down Under: Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure. That same year she costarred as Teri Richards in the gory sci-fi flick Man-Thing, made a guest appearance on the Aussie series McLeod's Daughters, and played the Sphinx in the TV movie Hercules.
Taylor left her studies after landing a regular role on the Australian soap opera Headland, which debuted in the fall of 2005. The part of Sasha Forbes afforded the actress her first opportunity to speak on-screen using her native accent. The series ended its run in February 2006, and despite the fact that the show was off the air for a couple of months, she earned a Logie Award as Most Popular New Female Talent that spring. In May, she appeared as Zoe in the horror movie See No Evil.
Taylor got her big break when she landed the role of Maggie Madsen in Michael Bay's Transformers, one of the most anticipated films of 2007. Despite mixed reviews, the action-packed flick cleaned up at the box office, helping to increase her profile immensely.
She was cast in the 2007 thriller The Tourist with Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman, and in a remake of the Thai horror movie Shutter (2008).
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New Photos of "Hershels Farm" Set...
Now, with their third full series of Walking Dead Minimates in stores, Diamond Select Toys and Skybound announce a new exclusive four-pack for this years Comic-Con.
This years Comic-Con exclusive Walking Dead Minimates box set is titled Hershels Farm, and it includes four different Minimates based on the famous farmhouse story arc. Included in the set are Hershel, his deceased son Zombie Shawn, Lookout Duty Rick and a Barn Zombie. The Minimates come in a blister-carded four-pack, and each stands 2 inches tall, with a variety of interchangeable parts and accessories, including a pitchfork and a blanket. The set will be limited to only 3000 produced.
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Topic: Newbie with Some Good News
Hi my name is Kendra. My boyfriend, Donny who is 30 years old, was just diagnosed with CC a week ago today. We have known he has cancer for less than a month, but it took getting the run around and finally going to Cancer Treatment Centers of America to get us the answers, and him the help he needs. Donny received his first chemo treatment last Friday. Everything has happened so quickly, and as you all know, watching his health decline so rabidly is shocking.
I have read plenty of stories, and facts and information of this horrible cancer to be terrified of what's in store. That being said, I have some good news too, that I hope will inspire you all to keep your spirits up and pray for good news in the future for yourselves and your loved ones. Donny saw an Occupational Therapist who informed him that it is extremely important to keep his strength up to succeed in beating the cancer as well as the side effects from chemo. She explained how every time he receives chemo, he will get knocked down again, and needs to exercise and keep his mental health in good standing while going through this. The day after he saw the OT, he met with a Physical Therapist (Wednesday of last week). (Donny had been in a wheel chair for a week at this point due to the pain in his liver). By the end of his hour long session, he not only had a great work out using a machine that was like a bike and an elliptical smushed together, he also left his session using a walker. We all got to come home on Saturday, and every morning since, Donny wakes up and does the exercises his PT gave him. He barely used his walker on Monday, and he didn't use his walker once yesterday! He is standing straight up, and able to lay flat on his back, which is a huge change in him. I do not believe this is purely from the medication and the chemo. I believe it is coming from his determination to get strong and beat this thing. Please remember determination is everything.
I'm still scared and afraid to get my hopes up, but I do my best to keep good energy when I'm with him, and find that I fall apart when I'm alone. I don't know if anyone else has experience such a drastic good change as I am seeing in Donny, but I'm praying that this is something good, and there isn't a huge decline coming (other than what is expected with chemo). I'm happy to have found all of you for support, understanding, questions and answers. I'm also so sorry that we are all being affected by CC one way or another. -Kendra


text: Herd looking for better results at home By Doug Smock January 29, 2014 Story Share HUNTINGTON - Per the new Conference USA scheduling format, Marshall is back at Cam Henderson Center home for two games this week. For the Thundering Herd to stop its plunge, that home has to become sweet again.Today, the obstacle is Florida International and the tip time is 7 p.m.Marshall's home record remains above water, 6-4. But when you remove the two games against non-Division I opponents, the mark is 4-4. The Thundering Herd has two sub-.500 seasons in the 33-year history of the Henderson Center, 1991-92 (4-9) and 2004-05 (4-8). Both were shaky, 20-loss teams.The homestand two weeks ago offered no help and, to some MU followers, little hope. First, the Herd was swamped early against North Texas; second, it fell face-first down the stretch against Tulsa. MU's last game, the 98-77 loss at Louisiana Tech, was about as forgettable.Tonight, the Herd (7-14, 1-5) will try to do something about its situation against the Panthers (11-9, 3-2)."Everybody's excited for these two home games," said MU forward Ryan Taylor, reigning C-USA freshman of the week. "Two winnable home games where we've just got to come out and play to the best of our ability all 40 minutes."The Panthers are enjoying a somewhat good start to their Conference USA basketball existence. They have defeated Rice, East Carolina and Florida Atlantic, but their two league losses are ugly - 85-51 at Louisiana Tech and 52-36 against Old Dominion. FIU is led by Tymell Murphy, a 6-foot-5, 210-pound senior who averages 16.4 points and 8.0 rebounds. A first-team all-Sun Belt selection last season, he is shooting 61 percent from the floor."He's really strong, left-handed," said MU coach Tom Herrion. "Scores in transition, he'll post, really drives it, makes enough [outside] shots to keep you somewhat honest. High-motor kid, rebounds it really well."Averaging 13.3 points and 9.1 rebounds is a name some Herd fans might remember - Rakeem Buckles. Think Louisville, to whom Marshall lost 80-66 on Nov. 27, 2010. Then a sophomore, Buckles started and scored 12 points with seven rebounds for the Cardinals. The 6-7 Buckles is now a fifth-year senior described as a good inside-out player with good length and athletic ability."He's a good player - skill and just [good at his] craft for his size," Taylor said. "Maybe I can take some stuff out of his game, put it into my game. ... I played against Rakeem Buckles when I was committed to Louisville; I'd go up and play with him in the summertime."With 10 different players making at least one start, the Panthers are a balanced bunch. Four are double-figure scorers - Murphy, Buckles, 5-6 point guard Raymond Taylor and 6-3 Dennis Mavien. Jerome Frink, a 6-6 forward, averages 8.9 points."They play about eight guys; they've got good balance," Herrion said. "Their starters play a heavy workload, but they've good balance. They're an inconsistent but streaky 3-point shooting team."In conference play, FIU is second in field-goal defense (.400) and blocked shots (4.8), but last in scoring offense (58.4) and 3-point shooting (.250), 15th in assist-to-turnover ratio (0.71) and offensive rebound percentage (.264) and 14th in free-throw shooting (.618). Herrion calls the Panthers "more athletic than big.""We've got pretty good matches. We're comparable in our makeup," Herrion said. "They may have a little more length than us, but I think we match up with them really well."After tonight, Marshall has another quick turnaround, facing Florida Atlantic at noon Saturday. That contest will air on Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast.nnBRIEFLY: Surprising stat in the state of the Herd: In six conference games, it is shooting 66.9 percent, sixth among the 14 C-USA teams. That has raised the season average to 61.9 percent. Still, the Herd leads the nation in missed free throws, 226 as of Sunday. ... Kareem Canty leads the Herd in league play with 17.5 points and 5.2 assists. But he is cold from 3-point range, going 8 of 41. Taylor averages 14.7 points and 8.3 rebounds. ... Marshall played FIU on Nov. 29, 2010, beating the Isiah Thomas-coached team 88-79. DeAndre Kane led the Herd with 25 points. ... Anthony Evans is FIU's first-year coach, replacing Richard Pitino. Pitino, son of Rick Pitino, briefly served as director of basketball operations for Herrion at College of Charleston. ... Prior to arriving at FIU, Evans spent six years at Norfolk State, where he was 99-94.Reach Doug Smock at 304-348-5130, email@example.com or follow him at twitter.com/dougsmock. 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2013 Public School Bond Referendum: Explanation of Projects to Be Funded
Fairfax County bonds are planned to fund specific projects—and by law, bonds may not be used for any purpose other than what is stated the referendum question. The explanation below offers more details on the public school's plans for the bond money if the referendum is approved by voters.
Brief Explanation
Virginia law permits the Fairfax County Government to borrow money to buy land and/or construct projects by issuing general obligation bonds. General obligation bonds are sold to investors, and the bonds are repaid over time with future county revenues. The money received from the sale of the bonds is used as a source of funding for many county facilities. Bond financing permits the costs of those county facilities to be repaid over a period of years. However, prior to incurring such a county general obligation debt, the voters of the county must authorize the county to borrow those funds.
The question being presented in this referendum asks the voters of the county whether the county government should be authorized to contract a debt and issue bonds in the maximum amount of $250,000,000 for a range of planned improvements to the county's public schools and support facilities. If this question is approved by a majority of the voters who vote on this question and bonds are sold, then the proceeds from the sale of such bonds must be used for the purposes set forth in the ballot question. These funds will be used to construct new schools, plan and design projects, supervise construction, add onto and renovate existing school facilities, and make other physical repairs and improvements. More specifically, the county's current plans for the use of the proceeds of bonds that may be authorized by this referendum are set forth below. The county may in the future alter these specific plans, but in such a case the county would have to use the bonds for a purpose described in the ballot question.
New Construction
Construction of two new elementary schools, construction and/or planning of additions and other modifications at one existing elementary and one existing high school and site acquisition funds in order to address enrollment increases in certain areas of the County and overcrowding at certain schools.
Planning and/or construction of renovations of 17 elementary schools, two middle schools, and three high schools.
Other Improvements
Includes funding for replacements and improvements to facility infrastructure such as: roofs, major mechanical systems, parking lots, security systems, technology systems, athletic infrastructure, and upgrades to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
This explanation was prepared in accordance with Virginia Code § 24.2-687.


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Topic: new to site and hoping for some answers
haven't got the cancer myself (as far as I know) but my boyfriend has it. He underwent surgery in December last year which included left hepatectomy. A biliary stent was placed.
What worries me most is that apart from a CT in June there have been no followup checks (no white count, tumor markers, any other checks) although he was having pain and there were indications of other problems associated with his cancer such as fatigue, painfull swelling on bones, coughing and respiratory problems.
The GP did not seem to take him serious and just handed out strong painkillers.
Finally after a lot of pressure from our side something is happening (in my opinion perhaps not enough). A scintigraphy will be done today and depending on the outcome there might be further investigations.
At the same time the stent was taken out but not replaced which is something I don't really understand. As far as I know biliary stents will be needed permanently to drain the bile produced in the remaining part of the liver into the intestines. They can become blocked and this is why they need to be replaced after a while. Has anybody heard of a situation when a stent was removed but not replaced? No explanation so far given by medical staff.
Did any of you have problems with getting detailed information? Or is that a problem only known in Scotland where GPs and other doctors don't seem to be willing to spend time and inform the patients properly?


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Good morning. I'm hoping someone has some info on a statue/sculpture of the Buddha I see often on various websites. Though I see this image often, and have done several searches for it, I can never find any actual info of the statue itself.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__VIqCxcAGEo/S ... am%20budda
Any info on this? Where it is located? Artist?


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Hello everybody, I'm new on this forum, been very interested in the Theravada branch of buddhism for the past couple of months, before I was mainly studying Advaita Vedanta.
Anyways I have a question, since I'm a complete beginner when it comes to Buddhism, but I've always wondered what happens to me when I die? I mean, I understand that there is no soul or self according to Buddhism! Let's assume I won't reach Nirvana in this lifetime but in the next! The next rebirth would not be me, since self is not persisting or existing, my next rebirth reaches Nirvana, but what happens in my current lifetime after I die??? In my next lifetime I won't be the same person, which means when I die it's game over for 'me', no?I don't quite understand, in Advaita for example, it is assumed that I have a soul which transmigrates but you all know that probably lol .
Sorry for my bad English btw . I hope you can help me finding an answer to my question(s). Thanks alot !


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Lower volumes from California and a slow start to the Michigan deal should keep asparagus markets strong through May, grower-shippers and officials say.
Through the end of April, it had been a "typical asparagus season" for Yakima, Wash.-based Rasmussen Marketing Inc., said Sharon Heer, general manager — excellent growing weather followed by cool, windy weather and threats of frost.
What hasn't been up and down is prices, Heer said.
"It's a very aggressive market," she said. "California has dropped off rather quick, and left a big gap. We have good quality and good sizes — there just isn't enough."
In addition, Michigan has been slow to start and Peru hasn't been a factor in the deal this spring, Heer said.
"We expect a very good month of May," she said.
On April 30, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported prices of $56.75-60.75 for 28-pound cartons and crates of bunched large asparagus from Washington, up from $44-46.75 last year at the same time.
Michigan won't likely see any major production until the third week of May, two to two-and-a-half weeks behind schedule, said John Bakker, executive director of the DeWitt-based Michigan Asparagus Advisory Board.
The good thing about being later, Bakker said, is that growers shouldn't have to worry about frost. And abundant moisture should lead to excellent quality and sizing.
Markets shouldn't be too shabby, either, he said.
"From a price standpoint, it should be favorable. We're looking forward to getting started."
Prices were topping $60 per box on some sizes at the end of April, said James Paul, asparagus and avocado salesman for The Giumarra Cos., Los Angeles.
"The current situation is pretty dire," he said. "We're in an extreme demand-exceeds situation. A lot of people are not getting covered with what they need."
Lower production in California at the end of the deal has been the result more of labor shortages than weather, Paul said. An early start to the California cherry season has lured many workers away from asparagus fields, he said.
Peru will likely start to ramp up shipments to take advantage of the strong U.S. markets, Heer said.
But Paul said it won't be until Central Mexico begins shipping, likely in the first week of June, that the market will see a significant boost in supplies.


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The journey toward the ultimate goal of earning a college degree will come to fruition this weekend for many of our student-athletes. This Saturday, 57 will graduate in a ceremony to be held in storied Memorial Stadium. I am looking forward to attending the graduation ceremony as well as the private student-athlete reception immediately following the school-wide ceremony, when our graduates will be joined by family members and friends to celebrate this momentous occasion.
More than 2,700 degrees will be awarded by the University this weekend, with graduate degrees conferred on Friday and baccalaureate degrees awarded on Saturday morning. It is believed to be the first time that a graduation ceremony will take place in Memorial Stadium since it was built in 1923. I'm told that in May of 1969, UNL's commencement was scheduled for Memorial Stadium and President Richard Nixon was to deliver the keynote address to mark the centennial of the charter of the University of Nebraska. Unfortunately, President Nixon had to cancel and the ceremony was moved to Pershing Auditorium. I am looking forward to the procession in academic dress, the distinctive Pomp and Circumstance music, seeing our student-athletes turn the tassel from right to left, and hearing former U.S. Senator and Nebraska Governor Ben Nelson deliver the commencement address.
The end is nothing; the road is all.
Willa Cather
Among those receiving a Ph.D. on Friday will be former Husker student-athlete and current Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach Brandon Rigoni. After walking on to our football program, Brandon lettered three years from 2004 to 2006, earned his undergraduate degree in 2006, his master's degree in 2010, and will receive his Ph.D. from the UNL Neuroscience Program on Friday. Congratulations Brandon, we're proud to have you as part of our team.
Nebraska Sweeps Wayne Duke Postgraduate Awards
Two of our student-athletes have been named the 2013 winners of the Wayne Duke Postgraduate Award. Congratulations to Nebraska natives Katie White of Broken Bow and Sean Fisher of Omaha, who were each awarded $10,000 scholarships for graduate studies as selected by the Indianapolis Big Ten Community Partnership. In the six-year history of this prestigious conference award, this is the first time that both winners have come from one institution. Wayne Duke served as the conference commissioner (1971-89) who led the charge for Big Ten schools to improve academic standards and graduation rates.
Katie, a cross country and track distance runner, has won multiple Academic All-Big Ten honors and Big Ten Distinguished Scholar Awards. Katie will graduate Saturday with a 4.0 GPA in Nutrition Science and plans to use her postgraduate scholarship at UNMC to become a Physical Therapist.
Sean, a two-time Academic All-America linebacker, will graduate this weekend with a degree in Business Administration. He is one of 37 student-athletes who posted perfect 4.0 semester GPAs in the fall term and will graduate with an unblemished 4.0 cumulative GPA on Saturday. He will use his postgraduate scholarship to pursue his dream of becoming a doctor at The University of Chicago Medicine.
Student-Athletes of the Year Mary Weatherholt and Björn Barrefors
I sincerely believe that UNL offers the best support services to student-athletes in the country, and credit must go to our Academics, Life Skills, Compliance staffs and many others. Two student-athletes who learned early on the benefits of what we have to offer are Mary Weatherholt and Björn Barrefors. Recently, Mary and Björn were named Nebraska's female and male Student-Athletes of the Year. They are not only outstanding students and elite athletes; they are captains of their respective teams, active on campus, and exemplary leaders in the community.
This week, Mary earned her second consecutive Big Ten Women's Tennis Athlete of the Year Award and was a repeat unanimous selection for first-team All-Big Ten honors. She was undefeated in Big Ten singles and doubles at the No. 1 positions. Mary is currently ranked No. 11, the highest of any female tennis player in school history, and will compete in NCAA first-round action next week right here on campus. From Overland Park, Kansas, Mary also has a promising professional career ahead of her, but can always fall back on her degree in Business Administration, earned in May of 2012 at the completion of her junior season. Mary won the Student-Athlete of the Year Award with a glowing recommendation from Dr. Carlos Asarta, Associate Professor of Practice in Economics in the College of Business Administration. Dr. Asarta noted that Mary is intelligent, applied, involved, personable and a polite leader.
Björn, from Stockholm, Sweden, is the defending Big Ten decathlon champion and is on target to become the first four-time Academic All-American in Nebraska history. Björn will graduate Saturday with a degree in Computer Science. A six-time All-American, Björn has been a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) since 2010, serving as President in 2010-11. Dr. Ying Lu, Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at UNL, taught Björn in two classes (Data Structures and Algorithms, and Distributed Operating Systems). Dr. Lu said Björn actively participated in class, has a unique perspective for different approaches and after expressing interest in research, applied and secured an award to work on a UCARE project that will focus on energy management of multiprocessor systems. Björn has been admitted to UNL's graduate program in Computer Science and awarded a research assistant position.
Nebraska has established itself as an academic leader, leading the nation in NCAA Today's Top Ten Award winners with 16; in Academic All-Americans with 302 (and counting!) and in National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Postgraduate Scholarships with 21. We are very proud of our student-athletes who are reaping the rewards of hard work, determination and planning.
Several Huskers earned their degrees a year before their athletic eligibility was completed. Among this year's class are Jason Ankrah (Football, Child, Youth and Family Studies), Brett Grieb (Track and Field/Cross Country, Biological Sciences), Zach Hirsch (Baseball, Finance); Stanley Jean-Baptiste, (Football, Sociology), Tim Onwiler (Track and Field, Fisheries and Wildlife), Brent Qvale (Football, Nutrition, Exercise and Health Science), Jeremiah Sirles (Football, Management), and Taylor Shapland (Track and Field, Construction Management).
I look forward to following their continued success in their chosen professions and will let them know that they are always welcome to come home to this wonderful place called Nebraska. As Pulitzer-Prize winning, 20th-century Nebraska-native Willa Cather penned, "The end is nothing; the road is all."
Please click here to view a complete listing of our Class of 2013 Husker Graduates.
Until next time, stay positive and Go Huskers!
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again." - Willa Cather
One of America's greatest literary voices, Willa Cather, tells stories of immigrant farmers in Nebraska and opens the window into the lives of those who were a large part of American settlement and struggle. Willa died in 1947 and left a will forbidding the adaptation of her works to theater or film and prohibiting the publication of her personal letters. But after the death of her nephew and the will's final executor two years ago, those prohibitions expired and more than 500 of her letters are now being published. Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout are the co-editors of the new book, The Selected Letters of Willa Cather. Jewell, an associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, is the editor of the Willa Cather Archive. Cather's memory lives on. In fact, the UNL Libraries are home to a collection of hundreds of Cather letters that were donated to her alma mater in 2007. We had a month-long celebration of Willa Cather coinciding with the release of the book and this week in New York, hundreds of Nebraskans and Nebraskans-in-spirit gathered for a celebratory reading by Jewell of some of the letters in the new edition.
Our athletic department was pleased to learn that Dr. Carlos Asarta, Associate Professor of Practice in Economics in UNL's College of Business Administration, won another Outstanding Educator of the Year Award from the Association of Students of the University of Nebraska (ASUN). Dr. Asarta was a standout on our Husker swim team and served as president of SAAC in 2000-2001 before earning three degrees at UNL. We salute one of our own and wish Dr. Asarta continued success.
Former SAAC President Wins Alumni Achievement Award
One of 17 accomplished alumni, to be honored with an Alumni Achievement Award, former Husker student-athlete and 1995-96 SAAC President, Kristin Whitted Fasbender accepted her award at the annual Nebraska Alumni Awards Banquet on May 2 at the Nebraska Champions Club. The Associate Director of Championships and Alliances for the NCAA in Indianapolis and a former cross country standout, Kristin graduated with high distinction from UNL in 1997. A Broadcast Journalism major, she now serves as the lead administrator for NCAA Division I championships in women's volleyball, men's ice hockey and men's tennis. Over her tenure at the NCAA, Kristin has worked with 13 different championships across three divisions. We welcome Kristin back to Lincoln along with her husband, Shawn, and their three children – Kaitlin, Megan and Will.
Congratulations to the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development (LPED), which won the 2013 Business Facilities Economic Development Excellence Award for national aggressiveness in pursuit of new job creation opportunities. Business Facilities, a national site selection publication, selected Lincoln as the winner for cities with populations between 200,000 and 500,000. Wendy Birdsall, president of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and LPED, views Lincoln as a city on the rise and we appreciate the Chamber's commitment to economic development.
Congratulations to Tatum Edwards, who was named Big Ten Pitcher of the Week and national pitcher of the week by CollegeSportsMadness.com. Edwards hurled a two-hit win in the series opener against a No. 9 Michigan team that came to Lincoln with a 22-game winning streak. Edwards came back Sunday to pick up another win with three scoreless innings of no-hit relief against the Big Ten defending champions. In addition, the junior right-hander from Murrieta, Calif., went 5-for-6 in the three-game series, including a double, a home run and three RBIs.
Kyle Kubat, a sophomore left-handed pitcher from Creighton Prep High School in Omaha, is 3-0 since returning to our rotation after missing the first 33 games of the season with a shoulder injury. His latest win, and his third in 13 days, came Sunday in Omaha's TD Ameritrade Classic. Kubat pitched eight innings and gave up just four hits in our win over Rutgers. Welcome back Kyle!


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Description The screenshot shows a PixelLight SciFi demo prototype I'am working on for some time now (whenever I'am in the mood to do some more coder art *g*).
Because I'am a software developer and no graphics artist, I have no other option then using graphics assets freely available in the internet
There's also a YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YuvFCcN4Fk
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video is pretty cool.
This is pretty impressive work!
By the way, is your PixelLight entry in the DevMaster database up-to-date?
Wow, same pictures - totally different feedback... I also posted the images on a German developer forum, and there was only critics... currently poor aliasing, too much bloom and DOF (had to hide poor graphics assets in the background , aliasing in the shadow maps, no fancy subsurface-scattering and special skin shader and so on. Seems to be a German property to criticise more then discuss or from time to time giving some complements. So, really thank's for the positive feedback, this motivates to get the image quality TODO points done. @Dia
Yes, the entry is up-to-date - although I find it a little bit hard to reduce the result of >8 years work and a feature list (http://developer.pixellight.org/files/latest/PLFeatures.pdf) with >20 pages to a few sentences.
Yeah, Germans are like that... j/k.
A lot of games go overboard with effects to the point of becoming blatantly unrealistic, but sometimes it adds a nice touch (we are trying to escape reality after all). Given your environment, I would say the composition is just about right.
Regarding your demo, I would definitely keep pushing it. Animating the character would be a huge plus. If you have difficulty animating humans, consider animating autonomous robots. Animations always make a demo shine because it's one of the hardest features to pull off well (unless you have a motion tracking studio). It would definitely breathe life into your demo.
BTW, there's nothing wrong with "coder art" I have tons of fun in Blender or using maths to create things. The new tools in Blender 2.5X beta are a dream to work with. There's tons of free stuff out there, but the real deal comes from your own creativity.


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By Jaideep Varma & Jatin Thakkar
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It is now clear that the Golden era of Indian cricket is coming to an end. Or more likely, it ended in 2011 itself; it has just taken us this long to confirm it.
By all accounts, that period began during the early days of Ganguly's captaincy and ended last year in South Africa – under Dhoni's leadership, with India still the official No. 1 Test side. The World Cup victory that immediately followed was the last hurrah.
Besides bowlers like Kumble, Harbhajan and Zaheer Khan, batsmen like Gambhir and wicketkeeper/captain Dhoni, the five people most responsible for this were the members of the famed batting line-up – Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman and Virender Sehwag.
Impact Index does a Test cricket analysis here to determine who contributed the most, in which period, how they combined with each other and what it all really means at the end of it. We examine certain truisms, identify some myths and confirm some facts.
We divide the entire analysis into 5 phases –
1) November 1989 to June 1996: when Tendulkar began and gradually became India's most important batsman.
2) June 1996 to November 2000: when Tendulkar, Ganguly and Dravid played alongside in the early days under Azharuddin's and Tendulkar's captaincy.
3) November 2000 to September 2005: India under Ganguly's leadership.
4) September 2005 to October 2008: India under Dravid and Kumble.
5) October 2008 to January 2012: India under Dhoni.
The Golden Age constitutes all of phases 3 and 4, and a good part of phase 5. But what came before it, and a little bit of what happened after, helps in understanding the contributions much better. Listing the 5 highest impact batting performances from each phase sharpens the picture even more.
PHASE 1 - November 1989 to June 1996
India Played 38 Won 11 Lost 8 Drew 19.
Notably beat England and New Zealand at home and Sri Lanka away. Lost away series in Australia, New Zealand, England and South Africa. Drew with West Indies at home and Pakistan away.
Tendulkar's early days coincided with the Indian team becoming a lion at home and lamb abroad. In a few years, he became India's most important batsman, along with Azharuddin. This is what he achieved (compared to what Azharuddin did in the same period), using both conventional figures and IMPACT numbers.
All IMPACT numbers on a scale of 0 to 5.
Batting IMPACT – The average impact his batting had on matches he played in, on a scale of 0 to 5.
SDs – Series-defining performances. The most important legacy of a cricketer, or at least, what should be.
Failure% - The percentage in this period the player could not achieve an IMPACT of even 1 in the matches he played.
Tendulkar's performance suggests the commencement of a significant career. An obdurate consistency was his hallmark – his failure rate significantly lower than the other Indian batting star of that era. However, contrary to popular assumption, he was not a world-beater yet – there were no series-defining performances yet. And none of his performances made it on a list of the 5 highest impact Indian batting performances of that period.
1. M Azharuddin – 182 v England, Calcutta 1993 – Batting IMPACT 5.33 (Series momentum-changing performance)
2. A Jadeja - 59 & 73 v New Zealand, Bangalore 1995 – Batting IMPACT 4.30
(Series defining performance)
3. RJ Shastri – 206 v Australia, Sydney 1992 – Batting IMPACT 8.38
4. V Kambli – 224 v England, Bombay 1993 – Batting IMPACT 6.92
5. SV Manjrekar – 51 & 66 v West Indies, Bombay 1994 – Batting IMPACT 6.55
Only two series-defining performances, and one of them against a relatively weaker side in home conditions. Tendulkar narrowly misses the list – his 1990 effort in England of 68 and 119 not out which saved a Test (his ninth) comes in at no. 6 here with an IMPACT of 6.15.
PHASE 2 - June 1996 to November 2000
India P 38 W 7 L 15 D 16.
Notably beat Australia, South Africa and New Zealand at home. Lost away series in England, South Africa, West Indies, Zimbabwe, New Zealand and Australia. Lost home series to South Africa. Drew with Sri Lanka both home and away and Pakistan at home.
Ganguly and Dravid made their debuts in the same Test match in England in June 1996. It also coincided with Tendulkar rising to his peak – he gave the highest impact performance of his career then. After their sparkling debuts, both Ganguly and Dravid quickly found their feet in international cricket, while maintaining a promising consistency. Laxman joined them later in 1996 and did not make a mark particularly (had a high failure rate) except for a scintillating 167 in Sydney in 1999-2000 in a match India lost by an innings and a series India was hammered in (but it kept Laxman in the mix, which would change the history of Indian cricket a bit later). Tendulkar achieved one series momentum-changing performance against Australia in 1998 (the year he is widely regarded to have been at his peak) but on a collective level, the Indian team was not a force to reckon with in Test cricket, especially away.
Batting IMPACT – The average impact his batting had on matches he played in, on a scale of 0 to 5.
SDs – Series-defining performances. The most important legacy of a cricketer, or at least, what should be.
Failure% - The percentage in this period the player could not achieve an IMPACT of even 1 in the matches he played.
Tendulkar was quite simply at the height of his powers. Despite his team having mixed success, Tendulkar set about achieving excellence in his craft with a single-minded focus that was palpable.
Despite a marginally higher batting average (and having scored one less century), Dravid had a considerably higher impact as batsman than Ganguly, because of greater consistency and a lower failure rate.
1. M Azharuddin – 5 & 163 not out v South Africa, Kanpur 1996 – Batting IMPACT 7.23
(Series defining performance)
2. S Ramesh – 60 & 96 v Pakistan, Delhi 1999 – Batting IMPACT 6.51
(Series defining performance)
3. SR Tendulkar – 4 & 155 not out v Australia, Chennai 1998 – Batting IMPACT 5.12
(Series momentum-changing performance)
4. SR Tendulkar – 0 & 136 v Pakistan, Chennai 1999 – Batting IMPACT 8.04
5. M Azharuddin – 103 & 48 v New Zealand, Wellington 1998 – Batting IMPACT 5.17
Tendulkar comes in twice here (at nos. 3 and 4) with two of his most memorable innings – a third innings bludgeon (which shared impact with Sidhu, Dravid and Azharuddin) that took the wind out of the Australians in a high-profile series and a fourth innings classic against a strong Pakistan – which would have had even greater impact if India had won. Ironically, the performance ahead of these, at no. 2 is by Ramesh in the same series – his stellar performance all but forgotten in the very next low-scoring match at Delhi where Kumble took 10-74 (while Pakistan chased an impossible 420) and India drew the series 1-1.
PHASE 3 - November 2000 to September 2005
India P 54 W 23 L 15 D 16.
Notably beat Australia, West Indies, England and South Africa at home and Pakistan away. Drew with England and Australia away, Pakistan and New Zealand at home. Lost away series in Sri Lanka, West Indies, South Africa and New Zealand. Lost to Australia at home.
In the wake of the match-fixing scandal that threatened to destroy Indian cricket, Ganguly was made Indian captain. As it turned out, those murky days constituted the darkest hour before dawn. The first signs of a fresh, aggressive approach came immediately, during the ICC Champions Trophy in October 2000 (where India was a finalist). However, as a Test captain, it was only during the landmark India-Australia series of 2001 that this new Indian team established its credentials, after which there was no looking back. Ganguly brought out the best in his team – Dravid and Sehwag had the highest impact phase of their careers ever in this period. Tendulkar played an outstanding support role and Laxman produced some great performances. Sadly, it was Ganguly himself, whose batting fell away considerably. But his contribution as an aggressive, innovative captain made up for that to a great extent.
Batting IMPACT – The average impact his batting had on matches he played in, on a scale of 0 to 5.
SDs – Series-defining performances. The most important legacy of a cricketer, or at least, what should be.
Failure% - The percentage in this period the player could not achieve an IMPACT of even 1 in the matches he played.
Dravid's 5 Series-defining performances in a period of 5 years are the most any batsman has achieved in the history of Test cricket (not just Indian cricket). This is what made him an all-time great player in a very short time. All these performances re-wrote cricket history and took Indian cricket several steps forward.
Sehwag, a middle-order batsman in domestic cricket, established himself in this period as an opening batsman in spectacular fashion. The most interesting number in his columns is the last one – despite the popular assumption that he was (is) a flash player, his failure rate is the lowest along with Tendulkar's – astonishing for an opening batsman in Tests (who usually have higher rates of failure for obvious reasons).
1. VVS Laxman – 59 & 281 v Australia, Kolkata 2001 - Batting IMPACT 12.2
(Series defining performance)
2. R Dravid – 270 v Pakistan, Rawalpindi 2004 Batting IMPACT 10.24
(Series defining performance)
3. R Dravid – 25 & 180 v Australia, Kolkata 2001 - Batting IMPACT 7.84
(Series defining performance)
4. R Dravid – 233 & 72 not out v Australia, Adelaide 2003 - Batting IMPACT 7.81
(Series momentum-changing performance)
5. V Sehwag – 309 v Pakistan, Multan 2004 – Batting IMPACT 7.14
(Series momentum-changing performance)
(NOTE: Dravid captained this match as a stand-in for an injured Ganguly)
The commencement of the Golden Age – this is the phase where every performance on this list is a series-defining one – for the first time in Indian cricket history. Not surprisingly, Dravid features in most of them, either as the lead or the main support act. Laxman is on top with the greatest performance ever by an Indian batsman and Tendulkar is narrowly missing, as his 193 at Leeds in 2002 is at no. 6.
Notable omission: Dravid's 148, Leeds 2002. It was he who laid the foundation for India in tough conditions after Sehwag got out early – with a 170-run partnership with Bangar (who made 68) and made things easier for the batsmen to follow –and for the only time, Dravid, Ganguly and Tendulkar all got centuries together. Despite the IMPACT points Dravid got for absorbing pressure and stabilising the early innings, the weight of Tendulkar's extra runs edges him out very marginally (even though Dravid, perhaps rightly, got the Man-of-the-Match). Dravid's impact in that match also reduced slightly because Bangar shared some of the impact with him.
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She set off the fire alarm. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Hundreds of hotel guests were evacuated into the street at 11 at night while, at the same time, a senior vice president, also staying there, wandered into the lobby from his own night out. He asked one of the trainees what was going on and discovered the perpetrator had been someone from his company.
Security tapes were reviewed, people were questioned. The woman who sounded the alarm did not show up at training the next day -- or at her job except to clean out her desk.
Moral of the story? It can take only one really dumb decision to derail your career.
Major career meltdown moments aren't the only ways to sink a career though.
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A war of words has erupted between the owner and CEO of the Utah Jazz and the first-ballot Hall of Famer who fueled the team's golden era.
The latest salvo came Friday night in a blog post written by Greg Miller in which he called Karl Malone "too unreliable and too unstable" to help the team as an assistant coach and claimed the 14-time All-Star and two-time NBA MVP lied to a newspaper about having to use a scalper to purchase tickets to a Jazz game.
The blog followed a scathing Twitter post earlier Friday by Miller, the son of longtime Jazz owner Larry Miller, who died in 2009. "Hey Karl - you're lying," Miller wrote on Twitter. "You have my number. Next time you need a seat to a Jazz game, call me. You can have mine."
Miller's reactions came a week after Malone also called out the Jazz for their handling of the Deron Williams-Jerry Sloan feud. During a radio appearance Jan. 27, Malone said the Jazz gave Williams too much power, and ultimately it was their coach who paid the price. "I know for a fact that (Sloan) was overridden on practices sometime on the road because Deron was calling our GM (Kevin O'Connor) at that time," Malone said, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. " ... You give a guy that much power, and he's the kind of player you think he played hard all the time, but if he wanted to sulk he could sulk . . . I never went to (co-owner) Larry (Miller) to talk about Coach Sloan . . . It's not one time, in my gut and heart, that I would go over his head."
Miller, in his Friday blog post, alluded to a relationship with Malone that has a history of difficulties. "The fact is Karl is still as high-maintenance as he ever was, but now he has nothing to offer to offset the grief and aggravation that comes with him," Miller wrote.
Malone, elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010 after a 19-year career, helped lead the Jazz to two NBA Finals alongside John Stockton and ranks second in all-time points scored behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. That defining moment when (management and ownership) should have stood up for Jerry Sloan, they chose Deron Williams. And Coach Sloan, being the coach I know and love, said, 'You know what? We should part ways.'Williams and Sloan's relationship began deteriorating last season before Williams was dealt to the New Jersey Nets.
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It reached a boiling point on Feb. 9, when the pair got into a heated argument at halftime of a loss to the Chicago Bulls. Williams had gone against Sloan's play calls, and the coach wanted him disciplined, according to the Salt Lake Tribune, but Sloan received no support from the organization. Sloan announced his retirement the next day after 23 years in Utah.
"On the whole handling of that, I would have to give (them) a D or F, and I would lean more toward an F," Malone said in the radio interview, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. "That defining moment when (management and ownership) should have stood up for Jerry Sloan, they chose Deron Williams," Malone said. "And Coach Sloan, being the coach I know and love, said, 'You know what? We should part ways.' And he said what he said. And once Coach Sloan says something, it's history."
O'Connor later went on the radio to refute Malone's comments. "Karl wasn't in the room, I was in the room," O'Connor said, "and the only thing I can tell you is, I'd like you guys to go ask Jerry. Greg (Miller) was in there. He did everything possible with Jerry to make him stay, to have him finish off the season. (Sloan) had complete autonomy to do anything he wanted to do, as far as any kind of punishment.
"The next morning, we'd asked him to sleep on it, and (co-owner) Gail (Miller) came in and both Greg and Gail asked him. So, I can honestly say that there's nothing farther from the truth than those kinds of comments. "The minute (Sloan) said (he was quitting), we said, 'Don't do it.' . . .
What I know is, I was in every meeting. I heard every sentence, every word, and I can tell you what transpired. I would love for you to go speak to Jerry and to (assistant coach) Phil Johnson & and ask them these questions."


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vinasp wrote: I know it must sound crazy, I could not believe it myself when I first discovered it. One such sutta has already been quoted on the Sotapanna Issues thread : The Silavant Sutta SN 22. 122 PTS S iii 167. Here we see non-returners still training themselves to see no-self in the five clinging aggregates. I understand this to mean that they are still in the proccess of eliminating sakkaya ditthi. There are hundreds of such sutta's, but they do not use the term sakkaya ditthi. However they do show that a view of self is still being removed.
"A monk who has attained non-returning should attend in an appropriate way to these five clinging-aggregates as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a dissolution, an emptiness, not-self. For it is possible that a monk who has attained non-returning, attending in an appropriate way to these five clinging-aggregates as inconstant... not-self, would realize the fruit of arahantship."
"Then which things should an arahant attend to in an appropriate way?"
"An arahant should attend in an appropriate way to these five clinging-aggregates as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a dissolution, an emptiness, not-self. Although, for an arahant, there is nothing further to do, and nothing to add to what has been done, still these things — when developed & pursued — lead both to a pleasant abiding in the here-&-now and to mindfulness & alertness."
"In this community of monks there are monks who, with the total ending of [the first] three fetters, are stream-winners, steadfast, never again destined for states of woe, headed for self-awakening..."
vinasp wrote:Hi Mike,
So you are saying that an arahant still has the five clinging aggregates, which are inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction..... etc ?
vinasp wrote: Now it's my turn to be baffled, I thought everyone understood that the five clinging aggregates have ceased for an arahant. It just goes to show that one must be careful about ones asumptions !
"Now, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones, when touched with a feeling of pain, does not sorrow, grieve, or lament, does not beat his breast or become distraught. So he feels one pain: physical, but not mental. Just as if they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, did not shoot him with another one, so that he would feel the pain of only one arrow. In the same way, when touched with a feeling of pain, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones does not sorrow, grieve, or lament, does not beat his breast or become distraught. He feels one pain: physical, but not mental.
28. But when the Blessed One had entered upon the rainy season, there arose in him a severe illness, and sharp and deadly pains came upon him. And the Blessed One endured them mindfully, clearly comprehending and unperturbed.
Some writers on Buddhism who have not understood that the five khandha are just classificatory groupings, have conceived them as compact entities 'heaps', 'bundles', while actually, as stated above, the groups never exist as such, i.e. they never occur in a simultaneous totality of all their constituents. Also those single constituents of a group which are present in any given body-and-mind process, are of an evanescent nature, and so also their varying combinations. Feeling, perception and mental constructions are only different aspects and functions of a single unit of consciousness. They are to consciousness what redness, softness, sweetness, etc. are to an apple and have as little separate existence as those qualities.
vinasp wrote: Yes, it's book 3 The book of aggregates. Division I the root fifty. Section V. number 48 . Title : Aggregates. Page 886.
Steve- khandhas, upadaanakkhandhas & B.Bodhi's comments
Hi Steve,
Your Qu received the most detailed response!
Sarah: Qu regarding the obtaining an article of yours
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>My paper on "Aggregates and Clinging Aggregates" was published in a
defunct journal, The Pali Buddhist Review, in c. 1976. I don't have a copy
of the paper. My basic argument there was: (1) the only sutta that
explicitly distinguishes between khandhas and upadaanakkhandhas is SN 22:
48. There the latter are defined in the same way as the former *except*
that they are each said to be 'saasava upaadaaniya' ("with taints, subject
to clinging"). It would follow that there must then be aggregates that are
anaasava anupaadaaniya (without taints, not subject to clinging).
Intuitively, these would seem to be the aggregates of the arahant.
However, no such statement can be found in the Nikayas. I then turned to
the Dhammasangani enumeration of 'saasava dhammas' and 'anaasava dhammas',
and 'upaadaaniya dhammas' and 'na upaadaaniya dhammas'. I found that Dhs
classifies the arahant's ordinary cittas and cetasikas under 'saasava' and
'upaadaaniya'. The only khandhas considered 'anaasava' and 'na
upaadaaniya' are the mental khandhas (cittas and cetasikas) of the four
maggas and phalas. All rupas are tainted and subject to clinging. I then
went on to explore the significance of this for an understanding of the
Dhamma; but without the paper I can't recapitulate what I wrote over 25
years ago. The old "Pali Buddhist Review" subsequently merged with another
scholarly journal to become the "Buddhist Studies Review". If you can
track this down on the web, perhaps they have back issues available and
you can find that article. Or perhaps the paper itself is on the web. Just
look for the above title.<
p.s If there is anything anyone would particularly like me to bring to
BB's attention (preferably with no urgency), please post and indicate.
vinasp says: ...the higher path beyond the noble eightfold path, which I do not know if Bhikkhu Bodhi was/is aware of.
vinasp wrote:Are you saying that you do not accept those definitions ? Or that they are problematic ?
On Bhikkhu Bodhi's old article, I have some quotations from it if you are interested.
Maybe the focus belongs on asavas rather than on aggregates?vinasp wrote:That the Buddha needs to give two separate definitions here shows clearly that there are two sets of aggregates.
vinasp wrote:Lets call this clue number one.


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