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For All Students
Academic Year: 2009 – 2010
Basic Entrance Requirements & General Academic Information
English language proficiency
Students whose native language is not English and who have not earned at least an associate's degree from an accredited U.S. college or university must submit an official score report documenting their performance on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or another equivalent exam approved by the university.
Undergraduates Applicants whose native language is not English must submit official international TOEFL scores (or the approved equivalent exam). A TOEFL score of not less than 500 (paper based) or 61 (Internet based) fulfills the English proficiency requirement for undergraduate admission. Those who earned an associate degree in the United States with a GPA of 2.00 or better on a 4.00 scale are not required to submit international TOEFL scores.
Master's Degree Students Applicants whose native language is not English must submit official international TOEFL scores (or the approved equivalent exam) . A TOEFL score of not less than 550 (paper based or 79 (Internet based) fulfills the English proficiency requirement for admission to master's-level study at UIS. Applicants who hold a U.S. bachelor's degree with a GPA of 2.50 or higher (on a 4.00 scale) are not required to submit TOEFL scores. Note: Some programs require a GPA of 3.00 to waive TOEFL. See individual program statements for any additional proficiency requirements.
Doctoral Students Applicants whose native language is not English must submit official international TOEFL scores (or the approved equivalent exam). A score of at least 575 (paper based or 88 (Internet based) fulfills the English proficiency requirement for admission to doctoral study at UIS.
All students, including those on the Peoria campus, born January 1, 1957, or after, are required by Illinois law and the University of Illinois at Springfield to provide proof of immunity to measles, mumps, rubella, and tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis. This documentation must be submitted on the UIS immunization form before a student's first registration at UIS. The purpose of this requirement is to prevent the induction and spread of vaccine-preventable diseases among students and the surrounding community.
Students are exempt from this requirement if they were born before 1957 or if they are taking only online classes. Students may request an exemption based on religious grounds. General philosophical or moral objection to immunization is NOT sufficient for an exemption on religious grounds.
Immunization forms must be completed and on file in the Health Services office before 5 p.m. on the 5th day of summer session and the 10th day for fall and spring semesters to avoid a non-refundable processing fee. Students not in compliance by the time they register for their second semester at UIS will not be allowed to register. Questions about this policy should be directed to the Health Services office at 217/206-6676. The Health Services Office website contains information regarding immunization policies. Students who are currently registered can check their immunization status online.
International students please note: All students who are not U.S. citizens must have a tuberculin skin test done at the Health Services office on arrival before registration. There are no exemptions from the tuberculin skin test for students who are not citizens of the U.S. Students who have a positive tuberculin skin test will be required to have a chest x-ray. Those who have not obtained their chest x-ray 10 days from the date of the positive test will be administratively withdrawn from all classes. Students who have been treated for tuberculosis or who have been treated because of a positive tuberculin skin test in the past must bring those medical records with them. All medical records must be accompanied by a certified English translation.
U of I Residency Status for Admission and Assessment of Tuition
The University of Illinois' definition of the term "resident" may be different from the definitions developed by other, non-university agencies. Thus, a person who is an Illinois resident for tax or voting purposes, for example, is not necessarily a resident for University of Illinois tuition and admission purposes. The university's definition of resident status applies both to payment of tuition and admission to the University of Illinois.
Principal elements that determine residency are domicile in Illinois and actions that evidence the intent to make Illinois the person's permanent residence for a period of 12 months prior to the first day of class. A person has but one domicile at any time. Mere physical presence in Illinois, regardless of how prolonged, is insufficient to establish residency without the existence of action and intent to make the place a permanent residence and principal home. In order to establish bona fide residency under this policy, a person must be independent and demonstrate presence and intent to reside permanently in Illinois for reasons other than educational objectives.
The burden of establishing that a student is domiciled in Illinois for other than educational purposes is on the student. The regulations, factors, and procedures enumerated in this policy will be considered by the university in determining the residency status of students.
The Director of Admissions, or a designee, shall determine the initial residence classification of each student at the time the student enters or reenters the university.
A student who is not satisfied with the determination concerning his/her residence classification may request that the responsible official reconsider the determination. For the purposes of admission, the written request must be received by the Office of Admissions within 20 calendar days from the date of notification of residency status. For the purposes of assessment of tuition, the written request must be received by the Office of Admissions within 20 days of the date of assessment of tuition or the first scheduled day of classes for the term for which the tuition is payable, whichever is later.
The request should include the Petition for Determination of Residency Status and all other materials applicable to the claim. The request and accompanying documentation will not be returned, and the student is advised to maintain a copy for his/her records.
If the student is still not satisfied with the determination after it has been reconsidered, he or she may appeal the decision to the director, University Office for Academic Policy Analysis. The appeal shall be in writing and shall include reasons for the appeal. The appeal must be received by the Director of Admissions within 20 days of the notice of the ruling. It will then be referred to the director, University Office for Academic Policy Analysis. A student who fails to file an appeal within 20 days of the notice of the ruling waives all claims to reconsideration for that academic session. Filing deadlines cannot be extended or waived and applications and appeals not filed in a timely manner will not be reviewed. The decision of the director, University Office for Academic Policy Analysis, shall be final in all cases.
For detailed information on regulations and statutes used to determine residency, contact the Office of Admissions.
Financial Assistance
The UIS Office of Financial Assistance coordinates federal, state, institutional, and private financial aid programs for all students. Assistance is available in the form of grants, tuition waivers, assistantships, scholarships, loans, part-time employment, and veterans' benefits. For detailed information, see the "Financial Assistance for ALL Students" section of the current catalog.
As an institution in which excellence in teaching is an overriding goal, UIS takes seriously its obligation to look carefully and systematically at what students learn — in other words, to assess student learning outcomes. Information about UIS' assessment activities can be found at the assessment website at www.uis.edu/assessment.
In Fall 2009, UIS will begin administering the MAPP test, an instrument that measures critical thinking, reading, writing, and mathematics. Each year, a sample of first-time, first-year students will be assessed in the fall and a sample of seniors will be assessed in the spring.
Catalog Requirements
Students may choose to meet the academic program requirements of the Guide to Programs in force at the time of their admission to the campus as a degree candidate or of any Guide in force during a subsequent period, not to exceed seven years for bachelor's candidates, six years for master's candidates, and eight years for doctoral candidates. Students who are unable to complete graduation requirements within the specified time, may, at the discretion of the academic program, be held responsible for requirements of the Guide in force during their graduation year, or may be required to re-take courses. In the event a student elects to graduate under requirements specified in a Guide to Programs subsequent to the one under which he or she entered UIS, the student must submit a Student Petition and have it approved by the advisor and the department chair.
Obtaining a Second Degree
Bachelor's Degrees
Students who have already earned a baccalaureate degree and seek a second one from UIS must complete all hours toward the major that are required by the academic program. A minimum of 30 semester hours toward the second degree must be completed at UIS. If the first degree was earned at another institution, the student must meet requirements in the Engaged Citizenship Common Experience. Credit from a previous degree may not be used for the degree in process.
Master's Degrees
All program and campus requirements for the master's degree are in effect even for those students who have previously earned an advanced degree. Credit from a previous degree may not be used for the degree in process.
All program and campus requirements for the doctoral degree are in effect even for students who have previously earned an advanced degree. Credit from a previous degree may not be used for the degree in process.
Academic Advising
UIS is committed to advising students at all phases of their education. The Undergraduate Academic Advising Center serves all freshmen, sophomores, undeclared majors at any stage of degree completion, and students in transition between majors or other academic programs. Undergraduate advisors help ensure that students meet all requirements of the UIS General Education Curriculum and the Engaged Citizenship Common Experience. Students may contact the Undergraduate Academic Advising Center by phone at (217) 206-7471 or by e-mail at email@example.com. The Advising website contains useful information for undergraduates at all stages of the baccalaureate degree.
Faculty advisors work with individual students to see that satisfactory progress is made toward the degree as well as toward personal and career goals. Students can change advisors at any time by contacting their program office. It is recommended that students arrange appointments with their advisors before registering for any given semester.
Freshmen are assigned an advisor prior to summer orientation. Undergraduate transfer and master's degree students will be formally assigned a faculty advisor during their first semester at UIS. Doctoral students are assigned an advisor when they are admitted to the doctoral program.
Student Classification
Undergraduate students are classified into categories based upon the number of hours earned. Freshmen are those students who have earned fewer than 30 hours of credit, Sophomores have earned 30 to 59.99 hours of credit, Juniors have earned 60 to 89.99 hours of credit, and Seniors have earned 90 or more hours. Graduate students are those working toward a master's or doctoral degree or certificate.
Course Numbering System
The three-letter prefix indicates that the course is in a particular academic program (e.g., SWK – Social Work, HIS – History) or is offered by a particular unit (e.g., CAP – Capital Scholars Honors; EXL – Experiential and Service Learning Programs). UNI – University courses are offered by a number of units across campus and are open to all students. CAP courses are open only to students enrolled in the Capital Scholars Honors Program.
The three-digit identifying number signifies who may enroll in the course for credit, as follows:
000-099 Open to all undergraduate students. An academic preparation course is generally appropriate for first-year students.
100-199 Open to all undergraduate students. An introductory course is generally appropriate for first-year students.
200-299 Open to any student who has completed the 100-level prerequisites, if any.
300-399 Generally intended for juniors and seniors, but others may register if they have completed 200-level prerequisites, if any.
400-499 Advanced undergraduate, as well as master's students.
500-599 Master's students and doctoral students (with permission of their advisors. Additional work and permission of instructor may be required for doctoral-level students to count the course toward their concentration.).
600-699 Doctoral students.
The following terminology is associated with UIS course numbers: Courses numbered 000 to 099 are considered academic preparation courses and cannot be used to meet degree requirements. Courses numbered 100 to 299 are considered lower-division undergraduate courses. Courses numbered 300 to 499 are considered upper-division undergraduate courses. Courses numbered 500-599 are considered master's courses. Courses numbered 600-699 are considered doctoral courses. Both master's and doctoral courses are considered graduate courses.
Tutorials are intended to supplement, not supplant, regular course offerings. Students interested in a tutorial must secure the consent of the faculty member concerned before registration and submit any required documentation to him or her.
Undergraduate Enrollment in Graduate Courses
An undergraduate student who wishes to enroll in 500-level courses for credit toward a bachelor's degree must get the approval of the student's faculty advisor and have the course instructor submit electronic approval. The student's work will be evaluated at the graduate level. Credits earned by undergraduates permitted to enroll in graduate courses can be counted toward the upper-division requirement.
Undergraduate/Graduate Concurrent Enrollment
An undergraduate student within 16 hours of completing all bachelor's degree requirements may enroll in undergraduate and graduate courses concurrently. Undergraduate students taking courses for graduate credit will be evaluated at the graduate level. Students must complete a Student Petition and have it signed by the instructor of the graduate course (if the course is at the 400 level), the graduate advisor, department chair, and dean. Graduate courses will be so designated when the bachelor's degree is granted, but this does not imply admission to the graduate program in which the course was taken.
Graduation Contract
All students who plan to earn a degree must file a completed graduation contract, whether they participate in the commencement ceremony or not. It is important to complete the contract as soon as possible, but no later than the posted deadline for the applicable semester. Signatures of the advisor and chair of the degree program are required. Upon receipt of the signed contract, each student will be charged the mandatory graduation contract fee.
Forms are available on the Office of Records and Registration's website; deadlines are posted each semester.
A commencement ceremony will be held each May for graduating students. The following groups of individuals may be eligible to participate in the spring commencement ceremony if they meet all of the listed guidelines. There will be no exceptions to the criteria listed below. Please note that students can only participate in the commencement ceremony in which they are first eligible. Students cannot participate in more than one ceremony for the same degree program.
Summer and fall graduates are automatically eligible to participate. Spring candidates are eligible to participate if their completed graduation contract (approved by the student's program) is on file in the Office of Records and Registration by the posted deadline and if they will complete all degree requirements by the end of the spring semester. Summer candidates are eligible if their completed graduation contract and an approved Student Petition form asking to participate in the ceremony have been approved by the student's program and are on file in the Office of Records and Registration by the posted deadline (note: generally, students cannot have any incomplete courses or more than 8 hours (undergraduate) or 4 hours (graduate) still to be taken during the summer term).
All students participating in the commencement ceremony must purchase a cap and gown through the UIS Bookstore. Information pertaining to graduation and commencement eligibility will be sent to students from the Office of Records and Registration in early spring. Students with questions regarding graduation or commencement eligibility should contact the Office of Records and Registration.
The Office of Records and Registration will issue official transcripts of a student's academic record at UIS only on written request and only to students who are in good financial standing with the University of Illinois. A fee is charged for each transcript at the time the request is made. Additional information about requesting and paying for transcripts can be found on the Office of Records and Registration's website.
Registration Procedures for ALL STUDENTS
The dates and times of registration are posted each semester on the Office of Records and Registration's website. This site also contains information regarding current courses and up-to-date information on registration procedures, tuition and fees, and relevant deadlines.
Grade Changes
Course grades are initially assigned by the instructor of record. Subsequent grade changes can only be initiated by the instructor of record who must sign and submit a Grade Change Form to the Office of Records and Registration. In the instructor's absence, the Dean of the college in which the course was taken may sign the Grade Change Form.
Grading Option Changes
Students may change the grading option for those courses offered with more than one grading option. Changes include standard letter to credit/no credit and vice versa, as well as changes to audit (note: changes to audit can only be made by contacting the Office of Records and Registration). Specific deadlines are published in the course schedule.
Credit/No Credit
Students wishing to select the credit/no credit grading option (when available for a particular course) must officially register their intent by selecting that option via the online registration system before the course is three-fourths completed. No changes are accepted after the designated date. Limits on the number of hours earned under the credit/no credit option may be established by individual programs.
Credit is awarded under this option to undergraduate work that represents a grade of C or better or to graduate work that represents a grade of B or better. For lesser work, a grade of NC is recorded on the transcript. Courses taken for credit/no credit are not included in calculating the grade-point average.
Students who audit courses are required to pay full tuition and fees. Courses audited successfully appear on the transcript with the grade of AU. Credit for audited courses may not be established under any circumstances.
A change from credit to audit may be made through the last day for authorized withdrawal. Full-time students must include audit courses as part of the maximum load requirement.
The instructor may determine that the audited course should not be placed on a student's transcript if he or she does not attend class regularly. When enrollment in a course is limited, students enrolling for credit are admitted before audits are allowed.
Students may terminate registration in a course by officially withdrawing by the deadlines posted each semester. All withdrawals from courses must be made officially according to procedures outlined in the current course schedule. Non-attendance or non-payment does NOT constitute an official withdrawal. Students are financially responsible for all courses not officially dropped according to the policy and deadlines indicated. Specific deadlines will be published each term in the online course schedule available on the Office of Records and Registration's website.
No withdrawals will be processed after the published deadlines. When the withdrawal occurs after 10 percent of a course has passed, a W appears on the transcript for the course from which the student withdrew. No notation appears on the transcript when the withdrawal occurs during the first 10 percent of a course. Students who fail to withdraw officially from a course at any point will be assigned an F grade.
See the current course schedule for more specific information about withdrawals. Please note that withdrawing from some or all courses may have academic and/or financial implications.
Academic Standards for ALL STUDENTS
Academic Load
One of the requirements to qualify for financial assistance is to be enrolled for at least six credit hours each semester. For additional information regarding what qualifies as full-time status for financial aid purposes at UIS, see the relevant section below.
Full-time students are enrolled for 12 or more semester hours during the fall or spring semesters or six semester hours in the summer term. Those enrolled for fewer hours are considered part-time students.
Most courses at UIS earn three or four semester hours of credit. A full-time undergraduate or graduate student is considered to be one taking 12 or more semester hours.
To enroll for more than 18 semester hours during the fall or spring semesters or more than eight semester hours during the summer term, a Student Petition requesting an overload must be approved by the appropriate individuals. Additional information regarding the required signatures can be found on the Office of Records and Registration's website.
A graduate assistant's normal load is 16 to 24 hours for an academic year, eight to 12 hours per semester. Graduate assistants who wish to enroll for more than 24 hours in any academic year must have the approval of the advisor, a department chair, and the appropriate dean. The graduate assistantship tuition waiver covers a maximum of 30 hours per academic year (fall, spring, and summer).
A graduate public service intern's normal load is 16-18 hours for the academic year, not to exceed 9 hours in the fall or spring semesters. Interns who wish to register for more than 9 hours for any given term must have the approval of the GPSI director. Graduate Public Service interns are not required to register for the summer term.
Academic Probation and Suspension
Students who have a UIS cumulative grade-point average of less than 2.00 (undergraduates) or 3.00 (master's and doctoral students) will be placed on academic probation. Courses taken for credit/no credit do not count in calculating this average. Students who accumulate 12 hours or more of incompletes are also subject to probation.
Degree-seeking students on academic probation may enroll for up to 12 credit hours in the subsequent fall or spring (six hours in the summer) with approval of the academic advisor. Non-degree-seeking students on academic probation must meet with the Registrar in the Office of Records and Registration and may also be required to meet with a representative of the academic program in which they are taking classes.
Students placed on academic probation for two successive terms will be academically suspended and must wait two semesters before petitioning for re-admission (summer is considered a semester). Appeal forms are available on the Office of Records and Registration's website. Students in exceptional circumstances may appeal immediately.
Complete details on UIS' academic probation and suspension policy are available from the Office of Records and Registration.
Grade-point Average
The grade-point average is determined by multiplying grade-point equivalents by the number of semester hours earned in a course, then dividing the total number of grade-points earned in all courses completed at UIS by the total number of hours represented by those courses (excluding courses with grades of ACR, AU, CR, DFR, I, NC, NR, R, or W).
Grade-point equivalents are:
Grades are released only to students in good financial standing with UIS. They are assigned according to the following scale.
A: Excellent
B: Good
C: Fair
D: Marginal, but passing
F: Unsatisfactory or unofficial withdrawal. Courses in which F grades are earned count in determining grade-point average, but cannot be used to meet degree requirements.
ACR: Academic Preparation Credit, represents credit earned in academic preparation courses that cannot be used to meet degree requirements.
AU: Audit, no grade or credit earned. The deadlines for changing enrollment from credit to audit are posted each term. Students who enroll as full-time must include any course they wish to audit as part of the maximum permitted load. For auditing students who do not attend class regularly, the course may not appear on the transcript. Credit for an audited course cannot be established under any circumstances. If enrollment in a course is limited, for-credit students are admitted before audits are allowed. Full tuition and fees are assessed for audited courses.
CR: Credit, represents a grade of C or better for undergraduates or B or better for graduate students.
DFR: Deferred, used only for courses of a continuing nature, such as graduate research. Continues to appear until the course work has been completed and a grade assigned. Re-registration is not necessary, except for graduate closure courses. Courses for which a DFR grade may be awarded will be designated in advance.
I: Incomplete, after a period not to exceed one year, the provisional grade becomes permanent unless a grade change was submitted. Re-registration is not necessary, unless required by the course instructor.
NC: No Credit, assigned to undergraduate students who earn grades below C or graduate students who earn grades below B under the credit/no credit option.
NR: Indicates a grade was not reported to the Office of Records and Registration by the course instructor.
R: Indicates the course has been repeated. The original grade does not count in determining the grade-point average.
W: Authorized Withdrawal, appears on the transcript for the course(s) from which the student officially withdraws.
Undergraduate Honors
Academic honors are bestowed as a means of recognizing and encouraging superior academic achievement among baccalaureate candidates. Only grades obtained at UIS will be considered. The grade-point average will be calculated on all graded, undergraduate credit received at UIS. At least 30 hours of graded credit must be accumulated at UIS to be considered for honors.
• Final grade-point average of 3.50-3.74 will receive a cum laude designation.
• Final grade-point average of 3.75-3.89 will receive a magna cum laude designation.
• Final grade-point average of 3.90-4.00 will receive a summa cum laude designation.
Honor recipients will be recognized at commencement based on work completed at the end of the semester immediately preceding commencement. Honor statements will appear on each student's diploma and transcript based on the final UIS grade-point average earned.
Deans' List
UIS recognizes superior academic achievement of undergraduate students at the end of each fall and spring semester. Students placed on the deans' list must have a semester grade-point average of 3.75 or higher and have completed at least eight graded semester hours (note: this does not include hours graded as credit/no credit) with no incompletes for the semester.
Grades Acceptable toward Graduate Degrees
Master's degree students may apply a maximum of eight hours of C grades toward a degree, provided that each hour of C is balanced by an hour of A and an approved Student Petition is on file with the Office of Records and Registration. Individual academic programs may determine whether Cs are acceptable toward their degrees. Credit for courses in which grades below C were earned will not count toward master's degree requirements.
Doctoral students are expected to do scholarly work of high caliber. The DPA Program requires a grade-point average of at least 3.00 and course grades no lower than B (including incoming transfer courses). All DPA courses must be taken with a standard letter grading option.
Graduation Grade-point Average
Undergraduate students must earn a UIS institutional grade point average of at least 2.00 as well as an overall grade point average (including both institutional and transfer credit) of at least 2.00 to receive a bachelor's degree.
Master's students must earn a UIS institutional grade point average of at least 3.00 as well as an overall grade point average (including both institutional and transfer credit) of at least 3.00 to receive a master's degree.
Doctoral students must earn a UIS institutional grade point average of at least 3.00 as well as an overall grade point average (including both institutional and transfer credit) of at least 3.00 to receive a doctoral degree. Grades of B or better must be earned in each class.
Incomplete Work
Students with extraordinary circumstances that prevent them from completing all requirements for a course on time may request a designation of "I" (Incomplete) from their instructor. The assignment of an incomplete is solely at the instructor's discretion, and requires that the student complete all course requirements within 12 months of the end of the term for which the Incomplete was assigned. When an Incomplete is assigned, the instructor also submits a "provisional grade" reflecting the grade that the student will receive if the course is not completed at the end of 12 months. Students who accumulate 12 or more hours of incomplete work will be placed on academic probation. Please note that re-registration in the course is not necessary, unless required by the instructor.
Repeating Courses
At the end of each semester, the Office of Records and Registration reviews academic history information and marks repeated courses according to the guidelines listed below for undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students. In order for one course to serve as a repeat of another, both courses must have the same course prefix, number, credit hours, and title. If any of these items differ, a Student Petition must be approved by the student's advisor and the department chair of the program in which the course was offered. Please note that when there is a credit variance of more than one hour between the original course and the course being repeated, the second course cannot serve as a repeat of the first under any circumstances. If a student feels that a particular repeat has not been appropriately marked or has questions about repeating courses, the student should contact the Office of Records and Registration.
Undergraduate students may have restrictions on the number of times a particular course may be repeated depending on a student's academic program. When a student repeats a course in which a grade was earned, the second grade will appear on the transcript; the first grade will be replaced with an "R" (repeat) designation and will not count in determining a grade-point average. Subsequent repeats will appear on the transcript and will be used in calculating the GPA.
Master's students may repeat graduate course work once (excluding master's project or thesis credit) without penalty unless the academic program does not permit course repeats. The grade and hours earned when the course is repeated will appear on the transcript. The first grade will be replaced with an "R" (repeat) designation and will not count in determining grade-point average. Subsequent repeats will appear on the transcript and will be used in calculating the GPA.
Doctoral students may repeat doctoral course work once (excluding dissertation credit) without penalty. The grade and hours earned when the course is repeated will appear on the transcript. The first grade will be replaced with an "R" (repeat) designation and will not count in determining the grade-point average. Subsequent repeats will appear on the transcript and will be used in calculating the GPA.
Academic Integrity
The UIS community of faculty, staff, students, and alumni are committed to academic excellence, which thrives on honesty, trust, and mutual respect. Academic integrity is at the heart of this commitment. Students are responsible for being aware of the UIS Academic Integrity Policy and for demonstrating behavior that is honest and ethical in their academic work.
Academic violations include plagiarism, cheating, misrepresentation, academic interference, unauthorized access, and facilitation. Violations of the Academic Integrity Policy may result in sanctions including failing the assignment, failing the course, transcript notation, or referral for Academic Hearing.


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Trying to come to term with the meaning of sankhāra and not being very comfortable in many cases with the stock answer of it being dependent on context, I have been trying to find some negative definitions of sankhāra in the canon. By negative definition I mean a statement that explicitly state something as NOT being sankhāra. By reasoning, and based on the many positive definitions in the canon I know of, I can only think of Nibbana and perhaps some of the other paramattha's as not sankhāra and pretty much everything else (from elephants, villages, thoughts, feelings, consciousness of in-breathing, speech, intention, beliefs, even kamma, etc... etc...) being sankhāra. But I am not certain about any of the paramatha's except for Nibbana, as I can't recall any such statements from my reading. That got me thinking and I thought that knowing what was not considered sankhāra would be useful in helping my understanding, hence my question.
Does anyone knows of any such statement in the canon?
Thanks for any help.

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The goals of the Alaska Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) are to provide financial resources to Alaskan communities for public facilities and planning activities which address issues detrimental to the health and safety of local residents and to reduce the costs of essential community services. The program may also fund Special Economic Development activities which result in the creation of jobs for low and moderate income persons.
CDBG competitive grants are single-purpose project grants; maximum of $850,000 per community. There are three basic funding categories: community development, planning and Special Economic Development.
CDBG programs utilize the resources of the Community Development Block Grant program funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Approximately $2 million is available for competitive grants for the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 17 grant cycle.
Any Alaskan municipal government (except Anchorage) is eligible to apply for the grants. Non-profits may apply as co-applicants for these pass-through funds. In a typical year, applications are distributed to municipalities in late fall, and awards are made the following spring. Federal regulations require 51 percent of the persons who benefit from a funded project must be low and moderate income persons as defined by HUD.
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Selena Gomez Spotted Out With Alfredo Flores on Grammy Night
Some say there is always a winner in every breakup, and if that's the case, Selena Gomez is beating the tar out of Justin Bieber in their breakup saga. Last night, Gomez was spotted leaving a Grammy party with none other than Alfredo Flores, one of Bieber's BFFs. Girrrl, that is cold blooded! Meanwhile, Bieber spent his Grammy night attempting to host a live chat and pretty much failing.
This isn't the first time these two have gotten cozy either. Remember the pictures that surfaced back in July of Gomez and Flores getting flirty on the beach while Selena and Justin were still an item? Could that have been the tipping point for their relationship? There's always a chance!
Let's not get carried away though, judging from the pictures of the two alleged lovebirds leaving the party in Los Angeles, Gomez was looking a wee bit tipsy. Flores could have been doing the gentlemanly thing and giving Selena an arm to grasp so she didn't lose her footing in her heels, which would have caused a much bigger media frenzy.
Dating or not, they seem like good friends and to that we say … Viva Selfredo!
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Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana
Address: 157 Wooster Street, New Haven CT 06510 (map)
Phone: 203-333-7373 (PEPE)
Website: pepespizzeria.com
Further reading: All Pepe's entries [The Slice Archives]
About Jane and Michael Stern
Jane and Michael Stern have written numerous books on road food; write the monthly column "Two for the Road" in Gourmet magazine; and run the website Roadfood.com, a review forum for one-of-a-kind places like Pepe's. We like Jane and Michael because their hunger for offbeat roadside eats knows no limit. Through their books and website, they've made it easy for the rest of us to find serious local eats, whether as a pit stop on a road trip or as destination in its own right.


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Climb Safe: Common Belay Screw-ups and What To Do About Them
How you hold the rope is just one aspect of the belay—no more or less important than vigilance, rope management, how and where you stand, and communication.
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COLUMBUS -- Health care advocates are praising Gov. John Kasich's biennial budget proposal for expanding medical eligibility for needy residents.
Business groups are backing the administration's plan to cut income tax rates on individuals and small businesses.
And oil and gas industry officials are criticizing it for hiking tax rates on eastern Ohio's growing shale oilfields.
Many others are still trying to get a handle on how the $63 billion spending plan will affect schools, road construction, university tuition and tax returns.
Ohio Consumers for Health Coverage called the governor's approach on Medicaid "thoughtful" and praised his "courage to face critics."
Co-chairs Col Owens and Cathy Levine said in a statement, "The Medicaid expansion will improve the health of hundreds of thousands of Ohioans. We know that when working families have health insurance, parents can go to work and children can go to school knowing they will be able to see a doctor if they need to. Instead of seeking routine care in emergency rooms, these Ohioans will be able to receive quality, consistent care in lower cost settings."
Other medical groups supporting the expansion include the Ohio Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, AARP Ohio, the Ohio Hospital Association and the Ohio Dental Association.
Even House Minority Leader Armond Budish, a Cleveland area Democrt, offered positive comments on the Medicaid expansion.
"Expanding Medicaid as provided for by the Affordable Care Act will have very significant benefits for Ohioans who are struggling to obtain basic healthcare coverage," he said in a released statement. "I'm pleased the governor has proposed this expansion. It will benefit the economy of Ohio, and it is also our moral duty to lift up those most in need."
The Ohio Manufacturers Association and other business groups are supporting Kasich's tax cut plan, saying it would "facilitate investment, growth and job creation in Ohio's manufacturing sector."
But the Ohio Petroleum Council is not backing Kasich's increase on oil and gas production from horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Senate Minority Leader Eric Kearney, a Democrat from Cincinnati, said Kasich's plan amounts to a "massive tax increase" that will benefit the state's wealthiest residents.
"While we agree with the governor that all Ohioans should benefit from development of the Utica Shale, the last thing a recovering economy needs is more taxes; and the last thing Ohio's economy needs is a hefty, tax increase that will harm job growth," Robert Eshenbaugh, the group's legislative analyst, said in a released statement. "Ohioans are already benefiting from shale energy development. We are an industry investing in putting people to work, paying high wages and already generating billions in revenue for the state. This proposal is ill-conceived and ill-timed."
The conservative Americans for Prosperity, Ohio chapter, called Kasich's budget a "mixed bag."
"The promise of tax reforms and reductions are positive but paying for them in part with increasing severance taxes on farmers with oil and gas under their land is a mistake," Seth Morgan, policy director, said in a released statement. "Additionally, increasing the number of Ohioans on the rolls of Medicaid is not real health care reform and will ultimately trap Ohioans in a system that badly needs patient-centered reform."
According to the chamber's Democratic caucus, "The governor's biennial budget plan calls for charging sales tax on cable TV, arts and entertainment, real estate services, scientific research, legal and accounting services and financial service fees. That means Ohioans will pay an additional $4.82 billion in non-auto sales taxes in [fiscal '14 and '15] as compared to the previous biennial budget."


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I've been throwing for about a year now, and have kind of hit a plateu in terms of distance-I'm able to reach about 380 when I'm throwing well, but day to day average is about 300 with accuracy.
This isn't bad, but what is killing me is consistency-I'm unable to find a repeatable grip that I feel comfortable with-I have very small hands for a full grown adult (about 7 inches from heel of the palm to the tip of my middle finger), and I have a hard time wrapping my fingers around the rim of most discs with a full four finger grip. What works well for me so far is throwing a beat up DX beast very hyzer (90 degrees to the ground on the pull through) with a two finger grip-however, counting on having a consistently beat DX disc in your bag is difficult.
When i throw something like a champion beast level, i get the flight pattern i should, but I still feel like my grip is off-after playing about 60 holes on Saturday, I've noticed a nice spot on the tip of my index finger that is rubbed raw, which has never happened before on a 60+ hole day for me. Also, I'm only rarely getting the "rip," and i'm pretty sure its coming from the grip-I do not feel at all like I'm holding the disc nearly firmly enough.
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I hope we see a more dependable player on the court.
looks like D.J. Augustin is going to get his spot back soon with or without Hansbrough ready to play, he looked good last night (4th quarter of play, 3-4 FG 7 pts 1 ast) and Vogel has said he has looked very good in practice and hasn't missed a shot since being demoted and is using better energy. Hope he can be the player we want him to be.


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Victoria Beckham's Most Posh Fashion Moments
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The Almanac has chosen 10 local nonprofit organizations to benefit from donations to the Holiday Fund. These organizations help the most vulnerable of our neighbors, be they children, the aged, homeless, hungry, sick or abused.
Starting with this issue and over the next several weeks, the Almanac will publish stories about these organizations.
The total amount donated is divided equally among the 10 organizations.
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- BSO Case Number: 08-1309-000897
- PIO Number: 13-9-25
- Date: Sept. 18, 2013
- Time: 9:56 a.m.
- Place of Occurrence: Intersection of U.S. 27 and Griffin Road, Southwest Ranches
- Jurisdiction: Southwest Ranches
- Maritza Medina, 48, female, 8/19/65, 19327 Seneca Ave., Weston (DECEASED)
- Name will be released by Miami-Dade P.D. (DECEASED)
Description of Incident:
The subject of an investigation in Miami-Dade County who was fleeing from police crashed into an innocent driver Wednesday morning in Southwest Ranches, killing her.
The male suspect, driving a dark blue Mercedes SUV was heading northbound on U.S. 27 just before 10 a.m. As he approached the intersection of Griffin Road at a high rate of speed, he broadsided a black sedan heading westbound, ejecting the female driver on impact. Once both vehicles came to rest, responding deputies and officers from other law enforcement agencies began to approach the suspect's vehicle. They heard at least one shot fired and retreated.
Special Weapons and Tactics units from the Broward Sheriff's Office, Miami-Dade, Davie and Pembroke Pines police departments arrived at the active shooter scene to extract the suspect from the vehicle. Once they were able to safely approach, they found the suspect dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Until deputies and SWAT were able to secure the scene, fire rescue units were unable to approach the female victim to render aid. A BSO sergeant and Miami-Dade police officer jumped into the sergeant's marked unit and shielded the victim from the suspect's car. They carefully pulled Maritza Medina, 48, into the car and drove her to a safe zone where she was pronounced dead.
At the time of this news release the northbound lanes of U.S. 27 at Griffin Road remained closed.
BSO Traffic Homicide detectives are investigating.
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Hey kids, wanna go back in time?
If you're looking for a "lean back" experience, we'd recommend the YouTube Time Machine.
But if you're looking for something a little more "lean forward," check out the jsTerm telnet emulator from Peter Nitsch. There are a bunch of bookmarks to choose from in the drop-down, so click around and visit some far-off locales.
The project is based on Flashterm, but Peter has hacked it together in HTML5. It uses Canvas to render the graphics, drawing a new image every time you press a key, plus WebSockets and Node.js to handle the client/server connection. You can dig into the source on github.
Not as hardcore as PuTTY, but it's a pretty unique use of HTML5 and Canvas, so it's obviously cooler.
I was a telnet kiddie back in the day — it's what we did in the 1980s before web browsers, and before you could read Wired magazine on a gopher server — so this really brings me back. It has me itching for some Doritos, a Mountain Dew and the first three Chili Peppers albums.
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Whole Wheat Sesame Noodles with Spicy Peanut Sauce
|Use whole wheat spaghetti to make these Whole Wheat Sesame Noodles with Spicy Peanut Sauce.
In a bowl big enough to hold all the noodles, mix together the Tamari or soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, and Sriracha.
As soon as noodles are done, rinse with cold water and drian well.
Toss until the noodles and veggies are coated with the spicy peanut sauce and enjoy!
And here's the original photo from 2008, which was not really too horrible I guess.
Whole Wheat Sesame Noodles with Spicy Peanut Sauce
(Makes about 4 servings, recipe adapted slightly from Rachel Ray's Hot and Cold Sesame Noodles, which were mentioned in this post on Everything Rachel Ray.
1/2 lb. whole wheat spaghetti
generous amount of salt, added to water for cooking pasta
1/4 cup Tamari (or Soy sauce of your choice)
1/4 cup natural (low sugar) peanut butter
2 T rice vinegar (not seasoned)
1 T sesame oil
1-2 tsp. Sriracha or other hot sauce (Or more, use as much as your mouth can handle.)
2 cups shredded napa cabbage or cabbage (original recipe used coleslaw mix, which would be great in this)
1 cup (or more) sliced sugar snap peas
1/4 red bell pepper, thinly sliced
3 scallions, cut in thin diagonal slices
2 T sesame seeds (I used black sesame seeds, but white ones would also be good)
While spaghetti cooks, combine Tamari or soy sauce, rice vinegar, sesame oil, and hot sauce in a large plastic bowl. Heat peanut butter in microwave for 10-15 seconds, then whisk it into the other sauce ingredients in the bowl.
Thinly slice cabbage (or remove 2 cups coleslaw mix if using that) and slice snap peas, red pepper strips, and green onions. Put sesame seeds in a small frying pan on the stove, ready to be toasted when the dish is done.
When spaghetti is well drained, add noodles and veggies to the bowl where you combined sauce ingredients, and toss to combine and coat noodles with sauce. Toast sesame seeds for 1 or 2 minutes over high heat (only 1 minute for black sesame seeds) and sprinkle over noodles.
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South Beach Suggestions:
Made with whole wheat spaghetti, this is a perfect dish for phase two or three of the South Beach Diet or any Low-Glycemic eating plan. (You could also use Dreamfields Low Carb Spaghetti, but the whole wheat spaghetti was really flavorful in this dish.)
Nutritional Information?
I chose the South Beach Diet to manage my weight partly so I wouldn't have to count calories, carbs, points, or fat grams, but if you want nutritional information for a recipe, I recommend entering the recipe into Calorie Count, which will calculate it for you.
More Tasty Ideas with Whole Wheat Pasta:
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly, check ingredients.)
Whole Wheat Pasta with Chicken Sauce and Portobello Tomato Sauce from Christine Cooks
Whole Wheat Pasta with Fried Kale, Tomato Sauce, and Goat Cheese from Kalyn's Kitchen
Whole Wheat Angel Hair with Browned Butter and Mizithra Cheese from Pinch My Salt
Baked Whole Wheat Spaghetti from Kalyn's Kitchen
Whole Wheat Pasta with Roasted Vegetables and Olives from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen
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NEVADA CITY — Candidate Benjamin "Ben" Emery said Tuesday he was dropping out of the 4th District state Senate race because of what he called a potential conflict of interest relating to another candidate, Assemblyman Dan Logue, R-Loma Rica.
Emery, a ranch manager from Nevada City, said he is on the board of directors of Hospitality House of the Foothills, a homeless shelter in Grass Valley.
That organization bought a new building with a state grant last year, he said. One of the group's committees has been working with Logue to resolve some issues with the state regarding the building.
At a meeting Monday night, Emery said, he was reminded of his organization's connection with Logue. He said it didn't seem right for him to be running against Logue when his organization was working with the assemblyman.
Unfortunately, Emery said, his name will appear on the ballot.
Emery, who did not state a party preference when he filed to run in the election, said he entered the campaign to give voters more choice.
He said the main issue that concerns him is the tremendous amount of money involved in political campaigns at the state and national levels.
Besides Logue, four other candidates remain in the race to fill the Senate seat left vacant when Doug LaMalfa resigned on Aug. 31.
They are former Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber; Jann Reed of Chico, a Chico Unified School District board of trustees member; Dan Levine of Chico, a graduate student; and Mickey Harrington, of Magalia, president of the Butte-Glenn Central Labor Council.
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Students Seek to Break World Records at Carnival
January 20, 2006—
Michigan Tech's Winter Carnival has long been famous for elaborate sculptures crafted from snow and ice. This year, students are putting the university's copious snowfall to a different use.
In a single day, they hope to break the world records for the largest snowball, the biggest snowball fight, and the highest number of snow angels made in a single event.
It all happens on Friday, Feb. 10. Michigan Tech students will roll up a six-foot snowball in the morning. Then, in the afternoon, they are inviting the general public, including area schoolchildren in grades 4 and up, to come to Sherman Field, the university's football stadium. They will line up in two teams for the snowball fight and then drop to the ground and make snow angels.
Students have contacted Guinness World Records and are working to get their anticipated three-record feat included in its roster. A crowd of more than 3,100 will be needed for the snowball fight and the group snow-angel fest. Everyone is invited to participate. Registration is set for noon-12:45 p.m. at Sherman Field, with the snowball fight and snow-angel event scheduled for 1 p.m. For more information, contact Travis Pierce, 906-487-3056, firstname.lastname@example.com
Winter Carnival Kicks Off Feb. 8
For nearly two weeks, Michigan Tech students have been laboring day and night building the ornate snow statues that are Winter Carnival's show-stoppers. They'll put in a final marathon effort throughout the night of Wednesday, Feb. 8, finishing for 8 a.m. judging on Feb. 9.
The thousands of visitors coming to view the statues should expect whimsy; this year's theme is "Cartoon Art for the Young at Heart."
Carnival, sponsored by the Blue Key National Honor Society, also features a queen contest, skits, ice bowling (in which students are both the bowlers and the bowling ball) and broomball, in which teams of students play a variant of hockey wearing shoes instead of skates and using brooms instead of sticks.
For more information, visit http://www.mtu.edu/carnival/ . Photos of last year's snow statues are available at http://www.mtu.edu/carnival/2005/statues.html
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Shipwrecks protected in newest underwater preserve
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A number of Lake Michigan shipwrecks are now being officially protected and promoted as Michigan's 13th underwater preserve.
Muskegon Chronicle
reports the West Michigan Underwater Preserve recently became official with the filing of paperwork with the state.
The new preserve covers about 345 square miles and features 13 identified shipwrecks and three other diving structures.
It's set for a ribbon-cutting ceremony Sunday at Pere Marquette Park. As part of the event, divers and snorkelers are to enter Lake Michigan after the ribbon is cut.
The preserve covers West Michigan's shoreline from a point between Grand Haven and Holland north to the northern boundary of Ludington State Park.
West Michigan Underwater Preserve board co-chair John Hanson says the shipwrecks represent "maritime history for the whole area."


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Frank Delicious wrote:One of those things should happen.
then I am not having the best experience with Flick4D
I believe the discs were shipped. I've done deals with him in the past and it's never been a problem.
I made a payment on Jan 3/12 but the discs aren't here. They are probably lost somewhere in the postal system.
We've had email exchanges. I've asked for either a replacement disc or a refund of my money. I've even offered to take less money back so that he isn't totally out of pocket on the deal either. The best I have been offered is that I can get a discount on future purchases but no refund. I don't think having to spend more money and getting a "discount" is reasonable. Having to spend more to recover the money I am out/plastic I haven't received doesn't seem right to me.
Anyway, as of now I am out money and plastic and he is not out anything and he's not interested in rectifying the situation...unless you count me giving him more money
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Blackbird Theater, Lipscomb University's theater-troupe-in-residence, concludes its fourth season with the first stage adaptation of "Roger's Version," the critically acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike, May 30-June 8, in Lipscomb's Shamblin Theatre.
Blackbird Artistic Director Wes Driver, a Lipscomb alumni, writes and directs this adaptation, having received special permission from the Updike estate. The story follows Roger Lambert, a bad-tempered divinity professor who finds his staid academic life and complacent faith challenged by the passionate ideas of Dale Kohler, a grad student who seeks to prove God's existence through computer technology.
"I've been wanting to turn Roger's Version into a play for years," says Driver. "The struggle between science and faith is so dynamically and dramatically realized and the dialogue so clever and compelling—it's perfect material for Blackbird and our mission to produce intellectually engaging theater."
Log onto http://blackbirdnashville.com to purchase tickets. Shows are performed at 7:30 p.m. on May 30-31, June 4 and June 6-8. The show performs at 2:30 p.m. on June 1. Tickets cost $20 for the public and $15 for students, faculty and Lipscomb staff.


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Brian Scott has signed a multi-year deal to compete in the Nationwide Series for Richard Childress Racing.
Scott, who has 109 career starts in the series with five top-five finishes, will replace Elliott Sadler in the No. 2 car. Sadler, who finished second in the series last year, has moved to Joe Gibbs Racing along with sponsor One Main Financial. Scott will team with Austin Dillon, who finished third in the series last year.
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Shore Lodge, owned by Scott's father's real estate company, will be the sponsor for Brian, who is the great grandson of the founder of the Albertsons supermarket chain.
Scott spent the previous two seasons at Joe Gibbs Racing. He finished eighth and ninth in the series standings in those two years.
"RCR has proven over the past 13 years that it can build and prepare winning cars in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and has for a variety of drivers," said Scott, who has two victories in the Camping World Truck Series.
"I just want to be the next name on that list. RCR has a rich tradition of winning races and championships at the highest level of our sport and I am excited about being a part of an organization like theirs that is committed to winning."
Phil Gould, car chief for the No. 2 team last year, has been elevated to car chief. Former Sadler crew chief Luke Lambert has moved to the RCR Cup program as crew chief for Jeff Burton.


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The Cain Madness and a Troubled Helix
Matt Cain and Jeremy Hellickson are similar pitchers, with a likeness that extends to stuff, mechanics, and stats. Both pitchers have fastballs that average 91-92 mph on the gun, with plus command of great off-speed stuff to keep opposing batters off-balance. Each uses a 77-mph curveball around 12 percent of the time, but while Hellickson uses an 80-mph changeup at a 30 percent clip, Cain is a 15 percent cambio guy whose off-speed pitch comes in at a heavy 86 mph on average. He also adds a slider with the same frequency and velocity as his change. I have touted both pitchers for their excellent balance and strong posture, the underlying ingredients of top-notch pitch repetition, although the hurlers also share an affinity toward slow momentum.
Hellickson might be lower on the totem pole and several years Cain's junior, but the negative connotations associated with his profile are eerily reminiscent of those that Cain endured early in his own career. Armchair analysts who choose to focus solely on certain stats and eschew batted-ball numbers due to their inherent volatility have screamed "luck" in a reach to explain the consistently low BABIPs of both pitchers, with constant calls for regression to the league mean. Those same analysts can now be found basking under a cloud of smug, as both Hellickson and Cain are currently in the midst of the worst seasons of their respective careers.
Other than a home run rate that is nearly double his career mark, Cain's component stats fail to explain his bloated ERA. His strikeout and walk numbers are above his established levels, and the outlier BABIP that has been his trademark is below his career levels. His poor run-prevention may simply be the result of misfortune and few extra baseballs clearing the wall, but this evaluator is unsatisfied without digging a bit deeper into the forensic evidence.
Cain has had a penchant for the disaster inning this season, particularly when facing the Cardinals. St. Louis dropped a nine-spot on Cain in his second start of the year, with all of the runs scoring in the fourth inning. The Cards turned the trick again on June 1st, plating seven runners during the third frame of the first game of their doubleheader with the Giants. Cain has pitched a combined 9.7 innings versus St. Louis this season, blanking them for all but those two frames, and the 16 earned runs allowed during the implosions have added a full run-and-half to his ERA. Even more intriguing is the fact that not one of those runs was scored via the long ball.
Though it might seem trivial at first glance, the snowball effect has taken place numerous times this season, if at a less egregious pace. Cain has surrendered four or more earnies five times this season, and in each case the runs were scored in bunches, as there is not one single-run inning among those five ballgames. The issue is magnified when looking at Cain's stats when he is pitching from the stretch versus the windup.
Cain has an OPS split of 392 points when pitching with men on base versus when the bags are empty, including a massive gap in his BABIP. The strikeouts are down while the walks have escalated, and though he has shown these same trends throughout his career, the skyrocketing BABIP and homer rate are completely off the grid.
The results are more than a bit odd for a pitcher who is so highly regarded for his consistency, both statistically and mechanically, and without any further evidence we might conclude that this is a fluke. But the visual evidence from his blow-up in St. Louis sheds a little more light on the cause of his implosion.
Cain was not hit exceptionally hard, aside from perhaps Daniel Descalso's warning-track double that started the barrage, but nearly all of the knocks came on hittable pitches. The ongoing trend throughout the inning was that Cain was elevating his pitches just above Buster Posey's targets, allowing batters to hit the ball on a line to all fields. Not everything that went wrong that inning can be attributed to Cain; Allen Craig scooped a slider off the ground for a base knock, and Matt Carpenter went with an outside pitch for a solid opposite-field single, but the Giants hurler was just enough off the mark to give the Cardinal batters good pitches to hit. Cain was still devastating when he did line things up, including a gorgeous fastball on the low-outside edge that froze Matt Holliday for the backwards K.
All told, Cain struck out nine Cardinals against zero walks in the game, and the nine hits against him in the third inning included seven singles and two doubles. It was the fastball that got eaten alive, with seven of the nine hits coming against the heater, as pitches with little movement that found too much plate were vulnerable. He certainly pitched better than the runs-allowed column would suggest, but the seven-run outburst in the third left an indelible mark on the back of Cain's baseball card.
The root of the issue comes down to timing, though the difference is subtle. In both of the Cardinal games, the onslaught began after Cain had pitched from the stretch for the first time in the contest. His timing pattern is very different between windup and stretch, with momentum that earned a 35 grade with nobody on base but a faster pace with runners aboard, and sometimes he takes some time to adjust. When Cain is too quick into foot strike, he initiates his rotation a bit too late to achieve full extension at release point, resulting in pitches that rise above the intended location. The damage on June 1st demonstrated how even great pitchers can get hammered when their timing goes just slightly awry, and that sometimes it pays to miss a target by feet rather than inches.
Jeremy Hellickson has learned a similar lesson this season:
Hellickson's component stats also have some backwards trends, including an increased K rate in 2013 in addition to the lowest walk rate of his career. His home run frequency is a bit higher than normal, but the glaring outlier in this data set is a BABIP that has risen from one of the lowest marks in the game to one that is roughly league average. Some would argue that his previous BABIP levels were unsustainable and that he was due for a correction, and there is certainly some truth to the statement, but his dramatic jump is indicative of a more fundamental issue with his approach.
The similarities to Cain continue to mount when we look at the performance of Helix with runners aboard versus the bases empty this season:
Hellickson is his typical shutdown self when he pitches from the windup this year, but the wheels fall off the BUS when he gets into the stretch, in which opposing batters have enjoyed a 279-point OPS advantage. This has not always been the case, and in fact he displayed a reverse trend last season, while his numbers from his first two full years indicate that he had more success in minimizing opponents' power when runners were on base.
Hellickson gave up free passes at a higher frequency when bases were occupied in 2011-12, but he is hardly walking anyone from the stretch this year. Conventional wisdom might regard this as a good thing, but Hellickson is a pitcher who lives on the edges of the strike zone, refusing to give in to batter strengths while at the same time taking advantage of the ridiculous framing abilities of his batterymate Jose Molina. The numbers indicate that Hellickson, like Cain, is struggling to command his pitches within the strike zone, resulting in hard-hit balls when his stuff catches too much of the plate.
One need look no further than his June 13 start against the Royals, a game in which Hellickson surrendered a Cain-like eight earned runs in just a single inning. It was the sixth start of the season with at least five earned runs allowed for the right-hander, this after he had just three such blow-up starts in the first 64 games of his career. Hellickson had been cruising in this game, shutting out KC for the first five innings while facing just one batter over the minimum, but his pitch command flew out the window once he was forced into the stretch.
Nearly every one of the hits off of Hellickson came on a pitch that missed Molina's target and drifted over the plate. The final, fatal blow was a three-run jack from Elliot Johnson, who both started and finished the brutality against Hellickson, knocking him from a game that was suddenly 8-0. Several of Hellickson's pitches in the sixth inning veered away from the intended location and toward the middle of the dish, and those pitches that did avoid the hot zone were too far off the mark to yield swings. Take a look at the distribution of his pitches in that fateful frame:
Hellickson's only saving grace was the framing of Molina, who got strike calls on four different pitches that missed wide of the zone. Of the 12 no-doubt strikes, eight were converted into hits by the Kansas City offense.
Despite all of the similarities to Cain, the issues with Hellickson this season have a much different diagnosis than his Giants counterpart. With the exception of the first batter of the inning, every hit against Helix came while he was pitching from the stretch. The culprit is a major mechanical discrepancy when he gets taken out of the windup this year: the dreaded slide step.
Every pitch that came from the stretch in the sixth inning was executed with a slide step, even with runners like Salvador Perez squatting on the first-base bag, and any regular reader of Raising Aces knows that I abhor the technique. Helix has used the slide step from the stretch in the past, but never with such regularity, as his past trend was to mix in the strategy now and then while more often leaning toward his standard leg lift. For evidence, we need look no further than his August 20 start against these same Royals last season, and the following sequence of three consecutive batters from the sixth inning of that game:
Hellickson under-rotated the delivery that included a slide step, resulting in a pitch that missed wide to the arm-side for a walk. He had no trouble hitting his mark with a regular leg lift to the next batter, inducing a double-play ball that was botched on the back half of the play, but he hit the replay button with a sick changeup that gave the Rays infield a second crack at the DP to finish the inning.
I am a big fan of Hellickson's delivery from the stretch when he ditches the slide step, as the big leg-kick combined with an uptick of momentum gives him an advantage at release point. His regular stretch plays even better than his windup delivery due to his typically slow motion with nobody on base, but the slide-step strategy robs him of that advantage while compounding the flaws inherent in a shallow release point. I have written about this multiple times, including last season's Throwdown article with Hellickon and Zack Greinke, as well as within Hellickson's mechanics capsule for the 2013 SP Guide.
Throwdown: "The occasional use of a slide step was not doing him any favors from the stretch, an issue that dinged Hellickson's overall grade for repetition despite the dearth of pitches thrown with runners on base. In addition to throwing a wrench into his timing, the slide step acted to shrink Hellickson's stride and further mute his release distance."
SP Guide: "Hellickson has a slow delivery when pitching from the windup but his momentum is far superior from the stretch, a factor which helps to explain his outlier performance with men on base."
What is most maddening is that Hellickson has no functional use for the slide step due to an excellent pick-off move. He allowed just seven steals in 10 attempts last season, and even if he could magically slide-step his way to a perfect 10-for-10, it would be foolish to alter his delivery for one-third of all of his pitches for an entire season just to catch an additional seven baserunners. I would prefer that he focus on generating outs at the plate, and I can imagine that the forward-thinking Rays would agree.
Doug Thorburn is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @doug_thorburn
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Hellickson is just experiencing his long awaited regression.
Jun 21, 2013 06:42 AM
One theory about Cain is that he is tipping his pitches when he's in the stretch, and that the Cardinals were particularly adept at detecting this because both Matheny and Bengie Molina had caught him while with the Giants. I think he was just missing his fastball location against a very good hitting team. Aside from those two innings, he's pitched quite well this year.
Jun 21, 2013 08:02 AM
I'm inclined to agree with your line of thinking. One would think that if Matheny and Bengie had noticed Cain tipping his pitches while they were catching him in SF then they would have alerted him to it at the time. And if Cain knew that he had a tendency to tip pitches then he would have addressed it long ago, or he would know to adjust in-game if the problem persists, and the current Giants staff would know to look out for it. It follows that they would be particularly sensitive to the issue when facing the Cardinals. All it takes is a trip to the mound.
Jun 22, 2013 03:38 AM
Brady Childs
I've never understood how home runs can be one of the three true outcomes but still prone to regression analysis with HR/FB splits, which even as a die hard stathead have always been somewhat skeptical of.
Jun 21, 2013 11:08 AM
Regression is often used as a cover for the elements that we cannot measure very well with our current statistical inputs. Regression is a very real phenomenon, of course, but I think that the analytic community sometimes gets a bit trigger-happy with its application.
Jun 22, 2013 03:43 AM
Is that an Evolution joke in the title? Appreciated.
Jun 21, 2013 14:49 PM
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40 Clove Garlic Chicken in Crockpot
Hubby loves garlic. I mean he REALLY loves garlic. He'd eat it raw if I let him. Because of that, I've been wanting to try one of the various 40 clove chicken recipes out there. Finally, I decided to make it in the crockpot so that I wouldn't have to fuss over it.
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40 Clove Garlic Chicken in Crockpot – from A Year of Crockpotting
3-4 pounds chicken – I used 1.5 lb thighs and 1.5 lb drumsticks
1 large onion, sliced
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon pepper
20-40 garlic cloves, peeled, but intact – I used 40 (3 full heads)
Place onion slices on the bottom of the stoneware insert. In a large mixing bowl, toss chicken parts with olive oil, salt, paprika, pepper, and all of the garlic cloves. Pour into crockpot, on top of the onion.
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Rays had Minor details about Sunday opponent
CHICAGO -- The Rays didn't know a whole lot about the pitcher they were facing on Sunday afternoon in Chicago, but they weren't exactly in the dark, either.
That's because 29-year-old Scott Carroll, who was making his Major League debut, had pitched against Tampa Bay's Triple-A affiliate in Durham.
"It helps a little bit, the fact that you're getting a little bit of advanced information," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "I guess he's a lifer. He's played for different teams. I really appreciate that guy that has struggled to get in and finally gets his moment. I think it's great for him."
Carroll, a third-round Draft pick by the Reds in 2007, has been with the White Sox organization since 2012. The righty was 3-1 with a 1.57 ERA in four Triple-A starts this season.
"From our perspective, we got a little info," Maddon said. "I guess he's a sinker guy, gets the ball on the ground a lot, a little bit of a slider pticher. We'll see."
Maddon's approach to Sunday's game was a simple one: Don't make mistakes, and make Carroll work.
"You really have to make them earn their outs," Maddon said. "You don't want to make any mistakes on the bases. When you're facing a first-timer -- or just a young pitcher in general -- to make outs on the bases really bothers me. So I want us to be aware of that and make him earn all his outs."
Tony Meale is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Richard Graham, an Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln in Love Library, has been assiduously putting together a digital archive of US government comics on a wide variety of topics, all available as downloadable pdfs from the UNL Libraries Image and Multimedia Collections.
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882P PVD Movement
The 882P PVD movement is one of the thinnest chronograph movements available at only 5.6 mm thick. As part of the very exclusive world of major watchmaking complications, the chronograph movement is distinguished by its flyback mechanism, a highly precise function which allows for the chronograph to be reset without interruption. By one simple push, the minute and central seconds hands "fly back" to zero and automatically begin a new cycle. The 882P chronograph movement is enhanced with two barrels, a balance with screws, a lever escapement and an oscillating weight decorated with the Piaget coat of arms in black PVD. It is also equipped with a second time zone (with 24-hour time display) placed at 9 o'clock. Its chronograph is governed by a column wheel, to coordinate all its phases, and a vertical clutch system assuring the utmost precision. The flat, overlapping surfaces of the two disks that make up the movement are directly driven, thus avoiding jumping needles and any unnecessary expenditure of the power reserve. To complete the movement's functions, the frequency has been increased for better precision. The circular Côtes de Genève, the circular-grained mainplate, the beveled bridges, the blued screws and the black oscillating weight engraved with the Piaget coat of arms round off this exceptional movement, while remaining true to the esthetic codes cherished by the Swiss watchmaking brand.
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Late summer is a very busy time for us at the mill. Really, we're pretty busy all year round. This time of year is one of our favorites, though. The end of summer means that most of us are finally finishing up major summer projects and reenergizing to start new ones.
Lately, employees have been generously bringing extra produce from their gardens to share, which sparks wonderful conversations of favorite dishes. Recipes are traded, secrets are shared and stories are told. Food has an amazing way of bringing back memories of days gone by and reminding us of where we came from.
For me, personally, I have been delighting in kale this summer and am sad to see it disappearing from market stands. Gently sauted in olive oil with garlic and onions and served over a bed of quinoa– delightful! It reminds me of cooking with my mother, laughing and sharing stories from the day.
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Mental Health
Separating Depression and Bipolar Disorder
Hi. I have been diagnosed with depression from an early age, and I have been on different medications but I have slowly drifted off them.
I am now 23 and I have talked to a wide variety of people, and before I go in and talk to my family doctor, I was wondering what or if there is a difference between depression and being bipolar. I ask because I've noticed a few trends that I don't really have any control over, and for the past few weeks my mood has really been affecting my job. My weight has been really sporatic, which is scary since I'm underweight as it is. My sleeping habbits have stayed the same, but they have never been good to start with, but what's been bothering me the most is that it seems that my mood is really easily influenced by people and my surroundings.
I would just like to get educated a little bit before I talk to my doctor. Any links, info, or reading material would greatly be appreciated. Thanks.
Get a measure of the severity of your depression symptoms using the PHQ-9 form. Complete that form and take it with you to your family doctor.
Also, print a copy of the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) and fill it out. The MDQ may help you and your doctor talk about whether you have bipolar disorder.
Unstable mood swings may be an indicator of bipolar type II. The distinction is important because bipolar disorder almost always requires mood stabilizers for effective management.
Try reading Getting your Life Back by Jesse Wright and Monica Basco for a summary of the many ways to treat depression.
Lawson Wulsin, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Family Medicine, Training Director of the Family Medicine Psychiatry Residency Program
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati