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Judge refuses to dismiss Fla. redistricting case
Published: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 7:15 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 7:15 p.m.
TALLAHASSEE — A judge is refusing to dismiss a pair of challenges to the Florida Senate's redistricting map.
Circuit Judge Terry Lewis in Tallahassee on Thursday rejected the state's argument that only the Florida Supreme Court can decide legislative redistricting cases, saying that "flies in the face of case law."
Lawyers for the Legislature and Secretary of State Ken Detzner argued the case should be dismissed because the justices already have reviewed and upheld the map.
Democrats, the League of Women Voters of Florida and other plaintiffs say the high court conducted only a facial review. They contend the map "as applied" violates anti-gerrymandering restrictions in the Florida Constitution.
The ruling doesn't involve challenges to redistricting Florida's 27 congressional seats because the Supreme Court did not review that map.
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After hitting Gulfport, Miss., on the morning of Mon., Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hammered the Mississippi coastline for more than 17 hours. Winds of up to 150 mph and storm surge levels of up to 30 feet destroyed nearly all structures within a 1/2-mile radius of the city.
Cleanup and rebuilding efforts are still taking place
Being prepared for a natural disaster the size of a category-5 hurricane sounds like a paradox, but from an information services standpoint, Gulfport's public works department was as prepared as possible. In 2002, in an effort to improve its asset and work management system, the operation supplemented ArcGIS with Azteca System Inc.'sGIS-centric Cityworks software program.
"Katrina destroyed our infrastructure - water, sewer, storm drain - for about three to four blocks inland, all along our beachfront," says Ron Smith, assistant public works director for the city of 30,000 residents. "All the utilities that linked to all the businesses and homes in that area were completely wiped out." The recovery effort began midstorm amid chaos as workers labored to plug and cap holes and shut off valves to keep water tanks from completely draining. Much of the damaged lines were underwater or beneath rubble and debris, making their exact location difficult to pinpoint and access. The city's normal water pressure of 60 psi fell as low as 25 psi for a week after the storm hit land. In addition to the water system, debris had clogged and crippled the storm drain and sewer system, which only intensified flooding. "You couldn't have packed concrete into our storm drains any tighter," says Smith.
The GIS server, which had been taken offline and stored in a secure area as Hurricane Katrina approached, was back up and running five days after the storm had passed. In the meantime, though, public works couldn't give cleanup crews accurate location coordinates for its assets; and debris-removal contractors further destroyed waterlines, valves, gas meters, and fire hydrants with bulldozers and excavators. Each time a waterline or fire hydrant was broken, water pressure would once again drop and public works crews would be dispatched to make the necessary repairs. The problem ended when the department was able to provide contractors with GIS-based printed maps marking the locations of fire hydrants, valves, and waterlines.
"We immediately started entering and documenting all the waterline breaks, plugs, and caps," says Smith. "We were also very busy tracking, mapping, and documenting the damage done after the storm." With crews working around the clock, most major roads were cleared and water pressure was restored to 90% of the city within a week. The other 10% were damaged beyond repair. Public works lifted a "boil water" notice three weeks after the storm; by week four the sewer system and traffic signals were working. As cleanup and rebuilding progressed, it was determined that nearly 15,000 traffic signs needed to be replaced. The geodatabase helped managers justify replacement by identifying the attributes and original locations of the destroyed signs.
But that was a small task compared to the estimated 3 million cubic yards of debris that needed clearing from Gulfport's coastal area and the 50 miles of water, sewer, and drainage pipe that needed to be replaced. Early on, EPA had representatives in Gulfport to advise on environmental issues and concerns. Seven months into the recovery process, EPA brought in a team to analyze the storm's entire impact on infrastructure.
"We used our asset management system to show them all the areas in our lines that were destroyed and had water leaks and damage and where they had been fixed or needed repairs," says Smith. "When we looked at all the points on the map, it looked like a shotgun blast. From our GIS maps, the EPA representatives determined that there was no way we could just repair it. They recommended that we replace all our lines near the beach."
The GIS-centric software allowed Smith and his colleagues to generate a highly detailed map of the entire scope of damages. Based on the analysis, EPA recommended that the department receive funding to rebuild water, sewer, and storm drain infrastructure, which would necessitate new sidewalks, curbs, guttering, and asphalt roadwork, near the coastline. Ultimately, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) approved the multiyear project at an estimated overall cost of $100 million.
EPA's endorsement was a huge relief because, before the analysis, Gulfport was having difficulty justifying the need for federal relief.The system also served as expert witness, helping residents file insurance claims and receive federal funding for damage done to private property. The mapping functionality in its GIS was used to generate lists and identify the addresses that fell within flooded areas. Because accurate data for infrastructure assets existed before the hurricane, the system has helped show contractors and planners where new valves, hydrants, waterlines, and meters should be placed. "In construction, nothing ever goes exactly the way that you want it to go," says Smith. "Something always needs to be rerouted or redesigned, and when that happens, its new location, size, and material type is getting plotted."
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Three Big Questions | Bark Petitions, Pollies' Perks and Snooping Taxis
Jul 12, 2013 , 2:14 PM by Mick Murdoch
The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd rolled into the Territory this week to attend the 50th anniversary celebrations of the signing of the historic Yirrkala bark petitions that paved the way for Indigenous land rights.
Asked what the anniversary meant to him, Jack Ah Kit (Former Labor Minister) said, "It's very significant because if we look back at history, flowing on from that we had the Gurindji Wave Hill 'walk-off' and the 1967 referendum, certainly historic, life's a lot better but it's not great, we need to keep working at it."
Jack was part of the panel of Carol Phayer (Local Artist) and Tom Lewis (Military Historian) that also discussed the hefty pay rises that Queensland politicians awarded themselves, and the idea that taxis should record all conversations to help stamp out violence.
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The Canisius baseball team completed a four-game sweep of Norfolk State with two wins on Monday, defeating the Spartans 7-5 and 9-1. The Golden Griffins extend their winning streak to eight games, which is also the third-longest road winning streak in the country. The 10-3 start to the season for Canisius is the second best in program history, trailing the 2008 team that started 11-2.
Game 1 — Canisius 7, Norfolk State 5
The Spartans scored three runs in the bottom of the second before Canisius got on the board with a two-out RBI single from junior Jesse Puscheck. Norfolk State got that run back in the bottom of the third, but the Griffs made it a 4-3 game in the fourth when sophomore Brett Siddall scored on a wild pitch and senior Ronnie Bernick had a sacrifice fly. The Spartans plated one run in the fourth, but a two-out RBI single from senior Shane Zimmer made it a one-run game again.
Canisius rallied in the seventh, with Puscheck leading off with a single. After moving to second on a wild pitch, Puscheck advanced to third on an error. A four-pitch walk to Zimmer put runners at the corners. After Norfolk State changed pitchers, Siddall jumped on the first pitch he saw. The sophomore sent the ball over the right-field fence for his third homer of the season and put the Griffs ahead 7-5.
Senior Mike Tolsma (2-0) threw three scoreless innings to pick up the win. The lefty allowed four hits and struck out one. Junior Devon Stewart allowed five runs, four earned, on nine hits in four innings of work.
Siddall was 2-for-4 with two runs scored and three RBI. Puscheck went 3-for-4 with two runs scored while freshman Christ Conley and Bernick also had two-hit games.
Game 2 — Canisius 9, Norfolk State 1
The Griffs scored the first eight runs to take control of the final game of the series. Senior Ryan Coppinger led off with a single, moved to second on a walk to Puscheck and scored on an RBI single from Luppens. In the second, Coppinger had an RBI single, freshman Jake Lumley scored on a wild pitch and Luppens had a two-RBI single. The Griffs scored three more in the fifth on a two-RBI single from Conley and an RBI single from Lumley.
Freshman Josh Shepley picked up his first career win by throwing four shutout innings. Shepley allowed five hits, walked none and struck out three. Sophomore Iannick Remillard, junior Eric Stolzenburg and junior Brandon Bielecki each threw a scoreless inning of relief.
Luppens went 4-for-4 with three RBI while Conley and Lumley each recorded three hits. Coppinger and junior Connor Panas each had two hits.
Canisius returns to the field for four games in southwest Ohio next weekend, starting with Friday's game at Miami University. First pitch is set for 3 p.m.
Game Notes: The eight-game road winning streak only trails Norh Carolina State (13 games) and Vanderbilt (12 games)... The Griffs outscored the Spartans 45-12 in the four games and has outscored its opponents 104-49 on the season. Canisius ranks 13th in the country in scoring margin (+4.2)... The last at-bat win in the opener was the first of the year for the Griffs after posting 11 during the 2013 season... Canisius struck out 18 times in the series after striking out 75 times in the first nine games of the season... The Canisius pitching staff issued four walks in 30 innings in the series.


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She's facing serious consequences for allegedly trying to set up a drug deal with an undercover reporter and Tulisa Contostavlos showed up at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday morning (December 19) to answer for herself.
The "Sight of You" songstress looked pretty cranky as she strolled past some shutterbugs, sporting a cleavage-bearing black top with a black blazer and black trousers.
She's always on the go it seems, and yesterday (September 17) Tulisa Contostavlos showed up at Heathrow International Airport to catch an outbound flight.
The "Playing With Fire" songstress opted for an all-black outfit including a black knit hat with the word "DOPE" written across the front.
Making the most of her evening, Tulisa Contostavlos got all gussied up and hit the town in London, England on Tuesday night (August 6).
The "I Need You" songstress turned heads as she scurried over to Chelsee Healey's 25th birthday celebration at the DSTRKT nightclub, sporting a sexy black midriff-baring getup.
Bringing an end to her holiday in Ibiza, Tulisa Contostavlos showed up at the Manchester Airport in Manchester, England on Monday (July 15).
Joined by her gal pal Chelsee Healy, the 25-year-old singer was nicely tanned as she carried a bag full of duty-free cigarettes through the customs area and made her way across the terminal.
Spending her special day at the beach, Tulisa Contostavlos headed to Cala d'Hort in Ibiza, Spain on Saturday (July 13).
Celebrating her 25th birthday, the former "X Factor" UK judge sported a purple, pink, and blue patterned bikini with high-waisted bottoms as she guzzled from a bottle of booze in the sand.
Taking some time to cut loose and relax, Tulisa Contostavlos took to the Spanish island of Ibiza on Sunday afternoon (July 7).
The English singer/songwriter wore a short floral summer dress as she partied with gal pal Chelsee Healey at the Ocean Beach Club on the first day of their holiday.
After her involvement in an alleged drug trade, Tulisa Contostavlos was arrested earlier this afternoon (June 4).
According to reports, the former "X Factor" judge was the go-between in a deal to sell cocaine in the United Kingdom.
Looking for a few thrills, Tulisa Contostavlos showed up at the Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire, England today (April 17).
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Green Bay Opens Qualifying Rounds at ITA Midwest Regional
By: Ryan Hartwig (@RyanHartwig)
EAST LANSING, Mich. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - The Green Bay men's tennis team opened competition at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships on Thursday with the singles qualifying rounds at the Michigan State University Indoor Tennis Facility.
Senior Craig Cox (Surrey, England) went 2-0 on the day, defeating UIC's Maurizio Feoli 6-3, 6-1 before knocking off Detroit's Pablo Nunez 7-5, 6-4. Cox will face IPFW's Daniel Kang on Friday for the right qualify for the Main Draw.
Green Bay's Erik Finkenbrink (Duelmen, Germany) and Michael Tenzer (Neuried, Germany) are already in the Main Draw's field of 64 competitors, and will begin play in Friday. The first round of doubles matches also opens on Friday in East Lansing.
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"Take a lot of interesting classes. People tend to stick to the classes they need for their majors, and miss out on all of the other great classes the University offers. My advisor actually picked a philosophy course for me because I needed an elective. I absolutely loved it—so much so that I decided to major in that too. Try to experience a little of everything."
When Scott was looking at schools, he had a few criteria he was looking for—a smaller school that had rugby, ROTC and history as a major. RWU had all of them. "I decided not to go into the army and a concussion sidelined me from playing rugby, but I still have history!"
Scott says he applied Early Decision because he loved the campus so much. "I went to a small high school and I didn't want to go somewhere like a UMass where I'd be one of 5,000 students my professor would see in a day."
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Conservative Media Again Promote Inhofe's Faux-Scandal
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Conservative media are twisting comments made by an EPA administrator -- and circulated by Senator Inhofe (R-OK) -- to suggest that the Obama administration is trying to shut down the coal industry. But the official was referring to a rule that applies only to new coal plants, and which industry leaders have said "won't have much of an impact" on business.
In a speech at Yale University in March, Region 1 administrator Curt Spalding discussed the EPA's efforts to implement necessary environmental safeguards with minimal economic consequences. Referring to greenhouse gas performance standards for new power plants, Spalding said:
You can't imagine how tough that was. Because you got to remember, if you go to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and all those places, you have coal communities that depend on coal. And to say we just think those communities should just go away, we can't do that. But she had to do what the law and policy suggested. And it's painful. It's painful every step of the way.
The conservative media seized on these comments as proof of the Obama administration's "plan to destroy the coal industry in America."
The Daily Caller -- once again serving as Senator Inhofe's press office -- reported that Inhofe would take to the Senate floor to "highlight a little-known speech by an EPA regional administrator who admitted on video that the Obama administration's air regulations will kill the coal industry. Likewise, Fox Business' Lou Dobbs reported that Spalding was "caught on tape admitting the Obama administration's air regulations will kill the coal industry."
Fox Nation took that one step further, claiming that Spalding revealed that "the whole point of President Obama EPA's air regulations was to kill coal." And the Blaze reported that according to Spalding, the EPA aims to "drive an entire industry into the ground for no apparent reason."
In fact, Spalding said no such thing. And to suggest that the new greenhouse gas rule would "kill" the coal industry is absurd, as it applies only to new power plants. In announcing the rule, the EPA clearly stated that it "only concerns new generating units that will be built in the future, and does not apply to existing units already operating or units that will start construction over the next 12 months."
And since few companies plan to build new coal plants anyway given the low cost of natural gas, The Economist predicts that the new rules "will only formalise a shift that had already been under way, with little immediate economic impact." American Electric Power, one of the largest U.S. utilities, told the National Journal: "We don't have any plans to build new coal plants. So the rules won't have much of an impact." Duke Energy echoed this point, saying that the new rule "means nothing to us."
This is the second time in just over a month that Senator Inhofe has stirred up a faux-controversy over remarks by an EPA official that supposedly support the conservative narrative about Obama's "war" on fossil fuels. Region 6 administrator Al Armendariz resigned in April following a media firestorm over an analogy he made in 2010 comparing his environmental enforcement strategy to Roman crucifixion. Although he was clearly referring to the most egregious violators of clean air and water standards, the conservative media took his remarks out of context to suggest that the EPA is waging a "war on oil."
In fact, an Associated Press report found that "the number of enforcement actions against oil and gas producers dropped by 61 percent over the past decade," despite an increase in domestic production. It noted that "the EPA went after producers more often in the years of Republican President George W. Bush, a former Texas oilman, than under Obama."
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'The Sabres will play 15 games this month, second only to the 16 they'll play in March. They get two days off starting today, an extended break they won't see again until Santa Claus comes to town. It's a minimum of every other night till the Christmas break.'
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Well then , I will continue on and forward . Any reason not to put 9 frames in the box if there is plenty of room? Thanks for the input !!
NO...That isn't how it works! If you ordered 8 frame equipment and it's fitting 9 frames, something's very wrong. I run 8 frame equipment, while there is some "play" with all 8 frames installed and you split the difference and center them....a ninth frame does not fit!What's the measurements of your box?
Interesting...I know that there are some variances in measurements between different companies. I built my own equipment but my measurements matches kelleybess boxes. My short boards are 13 3/4, leaving an I.D. of 12 1/4. Again, I use the kelleybees N style frames, and can tell you, 9 of them will not fit in a box.Going with 1 1/4 equipment is a whole different discussion. :)Might be worth a call to Mann Lake to inquire as to why 8 frame equipment fits 9 frames? :?
I know that the hive boxes match the bottom board , upper cover and telescoping cover that they sent me , so I feel that is correct . I also can do the math and the frame widths which , from everything I have read are standard ( 1 3/8 inches) for correct bee space . My issue , which I admit might be totally due to my lack of experience , is why SO much oversize ? Maybe you need that much extra room when manipulating frames? It was my understanding that given that much extra room on the sides ( roughly 3/4 per side ) that the bees would fill it with burr comb. Maybe I should go with 10 1 1/4 inch frames in my 8 frame setup :-D


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Three women faculty from the University of St. Thomas have been selected to participate in the National Science Foundation ADVANCE project "Advancing the Careers of Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions through Professional Networks" (ASAP). The faculty are Dr. Maia Larios-Sanz, associate professor of biology, Dr. Birgit Mellis, assistant professor of physics, and Dr. Rosemarie Rosell, professor and chair of biology.
This five-year, $600,000 project, based out of Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., involves the creation of a mentoring network comprised of 70 women faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) from undergraduate schools nationwide.
Rosell said she and the others are honored to be accepted in the program. "We're excited about getting to network with other women scientists in our fields," Rosell said.
She said the program allows senior faculty to mentor those new in the sciences, and participants will also be able to network with faculty in their same field and career level.
Larios-Sanz said science today is about collaboration, and networking is important.
"That's an important part of our development as scientists and that directly impacts our success," Larios-Sanz said. "If we can pass that on to our students, especially female students, that's great."
The network will provide faculty peer-mentorship and cross-disciplinary support to help women faculty in STEM fields succeed and advance in their careers. Ultimately, the network is expected to encourage the entry of more women into STEM disciplines. By reducing the isolation of the participants, and building leadership skills, the project will positively influence the 70 participants who potentially may influence thousands of undergraduates at the participating institutions.
Each UST faculty member belongs to one of 14 groups of five women across the country. Mellis said the program is a unique opportunity, because in her field of physics, especially, there are so few women faculty.
"I hope to encourage more students to go into physics and engineering," Mellis said.
The project is an academic study, so the results will uncover some of the reasons for the historic underrepresentation of women in math-, science-, and engineering-based disciplines and will illustrate institutional practices that support women in STEM disciplines. The project also is expected to increase research opportunities for the participants, secure more recognition for their work, help advance their careers, and improve their student mentoring capabilities.
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I'd thought I'd open a new topic as my previous topic was on the "Observation of Teaching Prospects in Hong Kong. This is about my views and observations of actual teaching life in Hong Kong.
So, I've worked for two tuition centres since June 2010 and have been very fortunate to have experienced both, especially being a British Born Chinese citizen (first language English, second language Cantonese, no reading or writing skills in Chinese).
1st Tuition centre - Full time position - Long hours. I worked Wednesday to Sunday, 9am to 7pm, with a one hour lunch break. Probably carried out 30 mins over time each day. 2 days off (monday and tuesday) but the weekends were always hectic!.
Always speak to Parents in English, but if they struggle, then offer to speak in Cantonese. If you don't know Cantonese, advise a Cantonese speaking colleague to get the message across.
I was paid an average, honest working salary - HKD$8000 ... which I found to be quite low. Not only did I have to teach the kids, I also had to clean my teaching area which usually involved rubber gloves and scrubbing out the doodles the kids made on my table.
Although tough at times, the manager was strict and made sure that everything was organised. Tough, but she had her points and things just worked. There was a system which involved a lot of hard work to maintain, but a system that worked and got results.
However, really got on well with my colleagues, majority of kids remembered me and got on well with me, were very cheeky (but in a nice way). Never really got to use any holidays over the 3 months working there.
Tuition Centre 2 - I won't go too much into this as I'm working for them at the moment. If I ever leave, I will explain more.
Organisation? - Absolute chaos. We get the big guns taking messages from parents and I've come back to the office, expecting to have some time to sit down and work on my lessons plans, before suddenly having a parent come into the tuition centre, saying that they have a 3pm lesson (which isn't on my timetable!!!). On calling my boss, she tells me in a I-forgot-to-let-you-know-but-I-don't-care kind of attitude that it is a 3pm lesson in which I hurrily get a basic, and totally unprepared lesson ready for them. How parents still send their kids to this tuition centre like this, I will not know.
Long hours again, but this time working 6 days a week.
Points to mention when agreeing to the Job, although YOU will not be as stupid as me to accept a job without understanding the ins and outs:
p.s. I guess I accepted this job because...being a British Born Chinese, I was just really, really, REALLY struggling to get into a tuition centre...
1 - Apparently, during your 3 month probation, any public holidays that land in the 3 months are taken as paid leave... i.e. you don't come to work, but you pay them to take a public holiday off (wtf?!)
2 - Although your teaching schedule says your first lesson is at (for example) 5pm, you are expected to come in and stay in the office from when the tuition centre actually opens. In some ways, I wasn't too fussed. This just means that I'm not preparing lessons plans at home and will come in to do it.
3 - Low annual leave. And I mean LOW (a single digit figure...for the year!). And you are only entitled to a normal full year's annual leave AFTER you have worked for a year (... in some ways, this does make sense, so I understand their point).
4 - Sometimes, (looking at my schedule, 2 times a week) there is NO TIME to eat lunch, so you can order a take away and eat in class. How professional.
5 - Working environment - The system is an absolute mess. Lets just say that I came in one day, expecting to have 4 hours to prepare some lessons when I was suddenly informed that I had a lesson to teach mid way through, and no one told me!!! (and it wasn't written down). If I was a parent and I saw the way things were run in this place, I would not send my kids here.
Not expecting to last long in this job, but will see how things go.
... 6 - Pay's better than previous job...but there are times when I wonder whether the money is really worth earning.
... 7 - Very surprised that no criminal records check were carried out, not saying that I have any convictions! but I feel that this should of been standard.


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FROM INTERIM TO PERMANENT: Dr. Stephen Green this week loses the word "interim" from his title. He is officially named the new permanent superintendent of the Kansas City, MO School District
ELECTION DAY: Area voters go to the polls. We dissect the Kansas City School Board elections and why voters in Independence overwhelmingly reject a tax to support more police officers.
SEA LIFE AQUARIUM OPENS: 5,000 sea creatures find a new home in Kansas City including sharks and stingrays, as the new $15 million Sea Life Aquarium finally opens its doors today at Crown Center.
TEVA MOVES TO KANSAS: The business border battle continues as TEVA Pharmaceuticals announces its moving its headquarters and 400 employees from I-435 and Holmes Road to a brand new facility in Overland Park.
OCCUPY KC: Kansas City police and city workers evict members of the Occupy Kansas City movement from Penn Valley Park over the weekend. Occupy KC claims to be the longest continuous public occupation in the country.
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So I finally got a copy of Monster Hunter Ultimate 3 (or is it 3 Ultimate?) for the Wii U.
I pop it in, enjoy it immensely, then get to the quest, "Guts, It's What's For Dinner" and realize 1. I have to fight underwater and 2. I have to pay attention to my surroundings in case a specific big boss monster shows up every now and then and I have to swim to land and run out of the area as fast as I can if he spots me.
And looking it up...this quest is required.
Being underwater makes me feel helpless enough, but the boss is just big enough to freak me out.
It was at this time I realized I have the weirdest phobia ever.
I don't even know what to call it but, I think it IS a phobia of sorts because it really seems to scare me.
When I see a huge monster in a video game, and I mean my character is very little or itsy bitsy in comparison....I freak the frick out.
And not the fun, "Teehee, this is a fictional setting and all is awesome!" kinda freak out.
I mean I shake, I get scared to blink or go to sleep, I become paranoid...
Does anybody ANYBODY know what the heck is going on here?!
What kind of sane person gets so shaken up by graphics?!!
Also, noooo I just got this game and if I don't conquer this phobia I won't be able to enjoy it!!


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Long Island, N.Y. -- Junior Phillip Jones led the Vols in points on the second day of NCAA championship competition at the Nassau County Aquatic Center Friday by finishing second on the three-meter board. The Vols remain in eighth place with 125 points while Auburn leads the field with 435.
"This was a fantastic day for this underrated volunteer squad," UT head coach John Trembley said. "It is unprecedented to -- in one day at the NCAA Championships -- break three school records."
Jones, the 2003 NCAA titleholder on the three-meter, finished second in the event with 633.50 points. Freshman Jevon Tarantino finished ninth on the three-meter with 542.45 points. Tarantino narrowly missed the finals by only three points when he faulted on his last dive of the preliminaries. Joona Puhakka of Arizona State won the three-meter with a 647.30 score.
The 800-meter freestyle relay team of Brad Boswell, Bryan Goldberg, Casey Dauw and Evan Nylander led the Vols in the pool by finishing sixth in 7:11.52. The group also broke the school short-course meter record of 7:18.30 set in March 2000. Goldberg swam the fastest leg of the race in 1:47.27.
Dauw finished 12th in the 400-meter individual medley in 4:14.56. Dauw narrowly missed the finals by one place and a mere three-hundredths of a second while setting a school short-course meter record in the event in 4.13.60. He broke his own record previously set at the Nike Cup Invitational in January.
"We knew today was our strongest day," Dauw said. "It was important to separate ourselves from ninth and 10th place so we don't have to be praying for miracles tomorrow."
Goldberg finished 16th in the 200-meter freestyle in 1:47.31. Goldberg broke the school short-course meter record in 1:47.31 in the preliminaries while finishing 14th. Along with Goldberg, teammates Brad Boswell (1:48.47) and Tyler Gustafson (1:50.10) finished 28th and 46th, respectively.
Senior Andrew Bree brought home a top-10 finish in the 200-meter breaststroke. Bree finished 10th in 1:00.58.
The 200-meter medley relay team of Josh Fulton, Bree, Jamie Graves and Raymond Rosal finished tied for 15th in 1:39.11 in the consolation finals. The group finished 10th in the preliminaries in 4:13.60.
"If we take care of business tomorrow, there will be an airplane full of happy Tennessee Volunteers landing in Knoxville on Sunday," Trembley said.
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Ritchie, Eichler Receive All-Horizon League Accolades
By Justin Grones (@JustinGrones)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - In recognition of the stellar play of two of the most successful players in Green Bay women's basketball history, seniors Adrian Ritchie (De Pere, Wis.) and Sarah Eichler (Grafton, Wis.) have received postseason honors, the Horizon League office announced Monday afternoon. Ritchie was named to the All-Horizon League First Team, while Eichler was awarded Second Team honors. Both players were also named to the All-Defensive Team.
Ritchie concluded the 2012-13 regular season averaging 13.6 points and 5.0 rebounds per game on 44.7 percent shooting. A complete stat-stuffer, Ritchie leads the Phoenix in scoring, rebounding, free throw percentage, blocks and steals. She's connected on 36.7 percent of her attempts from downtown, recording a team-best 58 triples this season. She's also second on the team with 3.9 assists per game and ranks first in the Horizon League and 12th nationally with a 2.4 assist-to-turnover ratio.
On November 30th against Indianapolis, Ritchie became the 30th member of the Green Bay women's basketball 1,000-point club with a three from the corner. With 1,285 career points, she needs 87 to move into the top-10 in program history for career points. With five more 3-point attempts, she'll have attempted more triples than any player in Green Bay women's basketball history. Ritchie ranks third on the career list for 3-pointers made with 183 and needs three steals to move into the top-10 in program history. After averaging 18.0 points and 6.5 rebounds with a 75 percent effort from behind the arc in wins against Loyola and at Milwaukee, she was named Horizon League Player of the Week on March 11.
Eichler has blossomed from a driving forward to an outside threat this season, connecting on a team-best 39.3 percent of her attempts from behind the arc. She was named the Horizon League Player of the Week on Nov. 26 after turning in a 26-point, five-rebound performance against Richmond in the 2012 Cancun Challenge finale. In that effort, she connected on a career-high 5-6 attempts from long range. She averages 3.3 assists per game, including an impressive 6.1 during the last seven games.
In a Valentine's Day win over Cleveland State, Eichler finished with 14 points on 7-11 shooting, becoming the program's 31st member of the 1,000-point club in the process. With four more appearances, Eichler will have played in 132 games-more than any other player in Green Bay women's basketball history.
Both Ritchie and Eichler have caused nightmares for opposing teams with their lock-down defense. Ritchie finished second in the Horizon League in steals per game with 2.7, and set her career high with seven against Detroit on Jan. 8. She led the team in both blocks and rebounds, with 0.6 and 5.0 per game, respectively.
Eichler finished 12th in the Horizon League with 1.5 steals per game while adding 3.9 rebounds. On two occasions this season she had a career-high five steals and set a career high with eight boards at Youngstown State on Jan. 19. Eichler has long been known as Green Bay's source of toughness according to head coach Kevin Borseth.
Ritchie was a First Team selection in the 2012-13 Horizon League Preseason All-League list after earning Second Team honors last season, while Eichler was named to the Horizon League All-Newcomer team during her freshman season in 2009-10.
The two All-Horizon League selections and the rest of the Green Bay women's basketball team will open the 2013 Horizon League tournament on Wednesday at the Kress Center against the winner of the No. 8 vs. No. 9 play-in game. The Phoenix will host either No. 8 seed Valparaiso or ninth-seeded UIC.
2012-13 All-Horizon League Teams
All-League First Team
Brandi Brown, Youngstown State (Sr., F)
Shalonda Winton, Cleveland State (Sr., F)
Shareta Brown, Detroit (So., F)
Adrian Ritchie, Green Bay (Sr., G)
Simone Law, Loyola (So., F)
All-League Second Team
Kim Demmings, Wright State (So., G)
Tabitha Gerardot, Valparaiso (Jr., F)
Sarah Eichler, Green Bay (Sr., F)
Taylor Johnson, Loyola (Fr., G)
Katie Hannemann, UIC (Jr., C)
All-Newcomer Team
Taylor Johnson, Loyola (Fr., G)
Rachel Story, UIC (Jr., G)
Ivory James, Wright State (Jr., G)
Shar'Rae Davis, Youngstown State (Fr., G)
Rosanna Reynolds, Detroit (Fr., G)
All-Defensive Team
Shalonda Winton, Cleveland State (Sr., F)
Adrian Ritchie, Green Bay (Sr., G)
Taylor Johnson, Loyola (Fr., G)
Sarah Eichler, Green Bay (Sr., F)
Yar Shayok, Detroit (Sr., F)
Player of the Year: Brandi Brown, Youngstown State (Sr., F)
Coach of the Year: Bob Boldon, Youngstown State
Newcomer of ther Year: Taylor Johnson, Loyola (Fr., G)
Sixth Person of the Year: Yar Shayok, Detroit (Sr., F)
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Proud of Mel, on the Occasion of Winona's Denunciation
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Aaron Worthing at Patterico's Pontifications recently wrote a post about an interview in GQ with Winona Ryder — who is Jewish; who knew? — in which she offhandedly charged that, "like, fifteen years ago," she was at a Hollywood party, where she met a drunken Mel Gibson… and that, when she mentioned her religion, he jokingly referred to Jews as "oven dodgers." (Ryder also claims that Gibson "made a really horrible gay joke" to her gay friend.)
We couple this with the iconic antisemitic rant another drunken Mel Gibson made — rather, the same Gibson during a different debauchery — while being arrested for DUI, and the pattern is fairly clear: In his heart, Gibson is a raging antisemite.
And as a USDA-certified non-religious Jew, that makes me very, very proud of him.
We pause briefly to allow readers to finish caroming around the room, flapping their arms like emperor penguins trying to take to the air.
Settled again? Good; I can explain what in blazes I mean very concisely…
We all have demons; no one but a saint is so free of evil that he hasn't even a single moral blindness, a single skeleton in his skull. On those issues, the beast screams to be released to rend and eviscerate someone who, while he may be irritating or offensive or even thuggish, doesn't actually deserve the level of irrational vitriol or violence that we feel, in those moments, like dishing out.
How many of you — be honest — had flashes of rage following the 9/11attacks that induced fantasies of flattening the entire Arab world with nuclear Armageddon?
But wait, think a second time: Should we really kill hundreds of millions of people, the vast, vast majority innocent of that act of war, out of sick revenge at what, at most, half a hundred people plotted and maybe fifteen or twenty thousand actively applauded? All but the mad among us quickly suppressed that first idea and swallowed our rage, choosing instead to do as George W. Bush said: Find the people who knocked those buildings down and kill them personally, or capture them and hold them indefinitely, crushing every scrap of usable, actionable intel out of them. (Or at the very least, if we couldn't keep silent about our general fury at Arabs and Moslems in general, we confined those ravings of universal slaughter to close friends who wouldn't broadcast our intemperance to the world at large.)
And who here has never, ever, ever been so enraged by some nitwit driver that he hasn't screamed out loud, in his car, that he was going to ram the son of a bachelor and drive his car into a telephone poll? Sure, we yell it… but if we retain our sanity, we don't actually do it.
Civilization is largely a voluntary act of mass repression; and that's a good thing. An awful lot of thoughts and desires we experience throughout a given day should be repressed, jammed down so deep we barely feel them except for a burr in the brain — notwithstanding that stupid sixties philosophy of "let it all hang out" and "never repress what you feel."
Sometimes it takes a heroic effort to suppress saying or doing something that Seems Like a Good Idea at the Time™, but upon sober reflection would be a horrific and life-destroying indulgence. But that's one of the prices we pay for living in a society, surrounded by other people.
I'd say that the definition of a civilized human being is the ability to look past anger to a later time, when we will have calmed down, and imagine ourselves saying, "My God, what have I done? My life is ended!"… then to return to present time and not do it in the first place.
Those with the loudest demons have the greatest struggle; and quite evidently, Mel Gibson's demons are very loud and vile indeed. But the point is, when not in the madness of strong drink, he does manage to suppress them. He suppresses them so well that until that videotaped, besotted rant during his arrest, I daresay the vast majority of us had no idea he struggled with such internal Hell.
Some Gibson critics have tried to claim that his movie the Passion of the Christ was antisemitic; I believe they do so precisely because they realize that to condemn Gibson, they must show that he indulges his demon even when stone cold sober… as when he is writing and directing a movie.
Yet I watched that movie as a Jew (having been "primed" to believe it would be antisemitic); and while I was unmoved by the story, I certainly felt no stirrings of anxiety over religious persecution, as I did when watching Leni Riefenstahl's the Triumph of the Will, glorifying Adolf Hitler's 1934 Nuremberg rally.
In fact, in the twenty-one Gibson movies I've seen, including Passion and Apocalypto, both of which he only wrote and directed, I've never seen anything to indicate he was a deliberate Jew hater or "homophobe." Knowing as I now do how he must struggle against the irrational illnesses of racism and xenophobia, I am astonished at what a great job he does.
Gibon's conscious, intelligent mind realizes one of two things, the first more creditable than the second but both being acceptable marks of civilization:
- Either that his "feelings" are simply wrong, as feelings frequently are; and there is nothing inherently inferior about Jews, gays, or any other human, even if he believes that some of the things they do — deny Christ, engage in the "abomination" of homosexual acts — are sins. He may honestly believe he must hate the sin but love the sinner.
- Or at the very least, he must believe that he cannot live in this American society and express such loathing that is rejected by nearly everybody else here (Europe and the Orient are friendlier to Jew hatred); and Gibson must believe that the benefits of living in the United States outweigh any personal satisfaction he might derive from venting venom at Jews and gays. And that, as I said, is practically the definition of a civilized man.
I don't know which, but either way, Mel Gibson "gets it" — when he's sober. And he doesn't seem to be a habitual drunkard; such incidents are few enough and far enough apart that they still shock us.
Of course Gibson still has a drinking problem; anytime someone allows himself to get so drunk that he cannot control his inner demons, he is a menace to himself, and what is infinitely worse, to the rest of society. But I feel as proud (as a fellow civilized human being) of his personal achievement as I would of a kleptomaniac who controls himself and does not steal, or a drug addict who steers clear of the needle, or a believing Catholic who is gay, yet who lives a celebate life so as not to commit what he believes to be sin. It must take a mental effort of mind-over-glands more monumental than most of us can imagine — a true "triumph of the will" — for Gibson to bottle his imp of rage and hate and cast it into the sea, even if it does occasionally come bobbing back ashore when he's in his cups.
By contrast, I have heard many and many a man or woman of the Left openly, brazenly, almost tauntingly fling antisemitic, anti-gay, and racist ideas and epithets into the maelstrom of his political and ideological madness without having touched a drop of "the creature" all day. Which, by the way, is practically a textbook definition of barbaric savagery.
Even as a Jew, who would you rather luncheon with: Mel Gibson? Or Special Assistant to President Barack H. Obama Samantha Power, head of the Office of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights?
The defense rests.
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Since 1908 philosophers have been puzzling over the "problem of love in Thomas Aquinas." The problem lies in Aquinas' thought that happiness is the reason we do all that we do. That is, loving others is really for our own sake. Yet, he still claims we can love others for their own sake.
Jordan Olver, a doctoral candidate in the University of St. Thomas Center for Thomistic Studies program in Houston, has added his voice to the conversation in his dissertation in which he argues both ideas can coexist.
Olver publicly defended his dissertation on Feb. 21 before the University community and his dissertation board. It was accepted by the Center for Thomistic Studies, and in May he will be the 24th recipient of a doctorate in philosophy from the University of St. Thomas.
In his dissertation, "Bonum Nostrum: Eudaimonism and Love of Others for Their Own Sake According to Thomas Aquinas," Olver works to explain how to make rational sense of caring for someone else's good, given Aquinas' adherence to eudaimonism, happiness being the reason we do all that we do .
First Olver addressed love of God above oneself, utilizing the idea that it is natural for a part to love the whole more than itself, an idea he explained using the example of the hand's inclination to save the whole body by sacrificing itself to block an incoming blow. Using the "part-whole relation" argument, Olver asserts it is natural to prefer God to your own good because God is "whole" you belong to. After offering his interpretation of Aquinas' argument for love of God above self, Olver concluded his dissertation explaining other types of love in light of the principles discovered in his treatment of love of God. Ultimately, he argues that love of others is possible when the good being sought is a common good, a good that is both yours and another's. To conclude, he argues that to love others is to wish to share the good together with them.
"Like most philosophy, the value of doing it is that it makes things clear," Olver said. "It is not like you see new things necessarily. It is like being in a dim lit room, you can still see everything, but when more light is cast on it, you see the same things but just in a more clear way."
He credits his family – a wife and two children – for helping his doctoral pursuits run smoothly.
"It helped me work better," Olver said. "When you are out of the house, you have to make sure that your time is well spent."
Moving forward, Olver is applying to philosophy departments across the country while building on his dissertation by writing and publishing articles.
Olver's dissertation committee included Dr. Charles Sommer, associate professor of theology; Dr. Steven Jensen, professor of philosophy; Dr. John Hittinger, professor of theology; Dr. R. Edward Houser, professor and Bishop Nold Chair in graduate philosophy; Dr. Thomas Osborne, associate professor of philosophy; and external reader Dr. David Gallagher.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by alexa032, Jan 10, 2009.
when did this pouting nonsense supposedly occur? link pls
I left out a bunch of "mature" people. I'm not sure if they appreciate that or not. lol I missed that. Is it true? Was that on the Pistons broadcast? I watched most of the Denver broadcast...
That's speculation too. And Sheed. It has nothing to do with AI. I was the same person who was telling people they were nuts at the height of trade Sheed for Kaman, cardboard boxes, M&M's, etc. I don't see how that connects to AI. It would seem i have a problem with throwing out a player like yesterday's trash b/c we got a new one. Ok so should i wait to talk about this when/if we lose in the 2nd round? How has he earned this leeway exactly ? By missing practice, by never playing on a team that won a championship, by forcing his way out of PHI, by constantly clashing with his coaches? So is that what Rip needs to do? Or does he just need to be able to drop 30 by dominating the ball on his team regardless of shooting %. AI is a great player but he hasn't earned s___. --------- So now Ben and LB won us a championship, but it has nothing to do with the 2004 finals MVP or Rip torching Reggie Miller. If that's the case then can't Flip be responsible for us not winning the championship? Rip didn't choke in the PO's. I don't doubt the Pistons fandom or intelligence of the posters, but that doesn't mean opinions on other boards aren't just as valid. It's not like there are 12 year olds posting on all the other forums.
...and that Chris Marlowe is one heck of a HOMER. Even when Scottie would try to be impartial and bring his partner back down to Earth in the back of my mind I was wondering what Heinsohn and Gorman were up to...and if they wanted company.
Benched Iverson Seethes as Detroit Drops Another Early Sunday Game - NBA FanHouse I can't find the quote although i didn't try very hard to look, but it was basically something when he asked about being on the bench in the 4th quarter, he made it known he had a problem with it, but also said "If i start complaining about it when the team is winning, I look stupid" or something to that effect. If you need me to find it let me know. What are you talking about?!?! Can't he just laugh if he wants to? Why does everybody blame him for everything? Maybe he thought something was funny. Stop scrutinizing his every move!! Err wait I'm sorry i thought this post was about Allen Iverson. In that case, trade Rip. What a cancer. He obviously hates the team and is planning on killing Will Bynum.
No, I've had it. Wallace, Iverson save Pistons from another collapse | detnews.com | The Detroit News The original isn't as exciting as the retellings, that's for sure. :p
No, it's observation. I think we all know Sheed would come off the bench in a heart beat. If there is one Piston whose ego is so small that it appears he doesn't care at all, it's Sheed. You can talk about it whenever you want. It doesn't mean that is a good idea. Besides, how satisfying can basketball be if you're always picking your team to lose? I'm all for some healthy masochism (short of banging my head off of plaster) but really, a whole season of despair and low expectations? Doesn't sound like much fun. Like I said, for you it's about AI. You don't respect him even half as much as the guys who play beside him do. Rip is nowhere near the talent of an AI. And not just talent, but expressing it during games. If you can't see that, I can't help ya. AI is a difference maker. Rip is a guy whose team gets better when he doesn't start. Well I never mentioned 12 year olds. A lot of us visit other forums. I lurk at pistons.com and the Detnews. I know army and lee check out mlive. Slippy and webz surf RealGM. We don't exist in a bubble. All opinions are not valid though. Some are better than others. I think the difference here is that we are focused on the team and the franchise more than who plays for it any given year or what #s they put up.
As a 25 year plus fan of the Pistons. It is nice to have a few posters who remember the history and tradition of the franchise. Most posters are well informed and while I may not agree with ever poster everyone here at PF.com is treated with respect. No name calling no insulting just friendly back and forth banter. It is not about one player with must of us fans that have been following the Pistons many years. They come and go. It is about the team. I remember the Hawks beating us in a playoff series back in mid 80's and celebrating on our home court. Isiah Thomas vowed over his dead body would he allow the Atlanta Hawks to ever win a playoff series against us. The following year we destroyed them. I remember the Detroit/ Boston battles in the mid 80's. The battles with Robert Parrish and Bill Laimbeer back when big men really were physical. Who can forget the Bad Boys and the battles with the Bulls and the Lakers? I remember Isiah playing on one leg and nearly beating the Lakers for the NBA title in 1987. Us old school fans are used to our players going to the mat to win. The point I am making is with RIP's comments it appears he is puting himself above the team. AI is irrelevant to this conversation. Joe D. has that same old school mentality. He put a team together that would work hard and commit to whatever it takes to win. It seems Mr. Hamilton may have been reading his press clippings a bit too much and has gone rogue on Joe D. There have been rumblings for some time now that the chemistry is all wrong in the Pistons locker room and this was before AI was brought here. Perhaps RIP has his ring so stats and the fame are more important to him now. If that is the case maybe he might like to rot away on a Memphis squad and put up 30 a game and lose 50 games. It is not about what RIP wants. It is about what he is asked to do. If you are on your job you can't tell your boss what you are not going to do. So what makes RIP any different? He may not like it, but tough.
Not to change the subject here, but I agree that these are the real contendors, but think we all need to start giving some credit to Orlando and not just toss them under the bus as an also ran pretender. Yeah we handled them a week or so ago, but that is the only loss they have had in their past 10 games I believe. When it comes down to the playoffs, its all about a matchups and if one of these favorites just happens to be knocked off before the ultimate conference finals matchup, then some surprise team like the 04 Pistons win it all or some surprise team like the 07 Cavs showsup in the finals. I ask this question the other day, >>> how did Rip get injured and does anyone have any notes on how serious this injury is?? I recall Billups literally stretching his groin during the Orlando series last year, but he was out for no more than 2 games...yeah it was playoff time and he was needed back sooner, but what is the timetable for Rip's return? Is this injury being dragged out because Curry does not want to upset the current success or is Rip holding out because he knows his return may result in coming off the bench? If Stuckey is hurting tonight, does Rip all of sudden appear in a uniform tonight and start as if he was there was nothing wrong?? As many have interrupted their Saturday morning to state, if Rip ain't on the same page with team success, then ship him to a loser so he can really hit rock bottom..yeah he will start and be the man, but he will also have his first non post season play in 7 years because he didn't want to be team player.
That is crap reporting from a blogger. His rationale that Iverson was seething was that he passed up a shot to a teammate (in Detroit, we call that playing the right way) and then he didn't foul, when arguable 3 of the other 4 guys on the floor also didn't foul. AI has been getting yanked late during the win streak without Rip around, and he's certainly not seething. Also the "run ins with Curry" portion is completely unsubstantiated, unless I missed something. Again, all opinions are not equal. Tom Ziller is a blogger trying to be controversial. A half assed decent post, would have sourced what he claimed to see or know. DetroitBadBoys does a fantastic job of that, but then Matt Watson is a real journalist.
Rip used to be our most consistant player. I remember when he put up 20 points, 3-4 boards, 3-4 assists, shoot 45-50% and no one really cared. That is how consistent he was. Then last season he started getting out of sync. Now this season he has been injured, and mentally weak. One question though. Why does Rip or AI have to go to the bench? Stuckey could also go...
Yeah at 54, I sometimes I feel I am to old/mature to hang out with you young whipper snappers, but its lonely out here in the inland empire...I am the only Piston fan in area and I need you guys for salvation...
You're family Dre.
I don't know why but that short sentence just seems so right. I dunno. I'm one of the mature...NO...I'm just old...One of the old guys around here. I think back to guys like Lanier, Thunder & Lightning, Isiah, Lambs, Vinnie, Rodman, Big Ben,and even C.B. When I think of them, I think...Those guys made the Pistons what/Who they are today. But when I think of Rip, I think...The Pistons made him who he is today. I think they would do well to trade him for someone of some value who really wants to be a PISTON.
Dre, I was just telling my wife two days ago that the true beauty of this place is just that. Except I would change Piston fan to Detroit sports fan.
That is a great comparison.
So much of the Pistons offense was totally geared to getting Rip his shots where he shoots them best. It was totally unhealthy for an offense to be so predictable, and dependent upon one player. That and the fact that several teams have the Carlisle book on how to play Billups (Boston, Cleveland, San Antonio) necessitated changing things up. Stuckey is a second year player, starting regularly for the first time over the last 3 weeks and he's already won NBA player of the week honors. You really think he should sit for Rip?
Players got to do what's best for the team and what their coach tells 'em. There have been players who are far better than Rip in their respective sports who have been demoted to 2nd/3rd string lines or benched. Heck, McNabb was recently benched for a few games by Andy Reid. The current line-up MC has going is winning, why mess w/ the chemistry? Rip has gone off kilter since they traded his boo. Stuckey is the PG, and more importantly the future face of this team, the goal is give him a starter's minutes and continue developing him. If push comes to a shove then Joe may have to decide the fate of 1 of his 2 guards w/ a trade. AI and Stuckey on the floor give the Pistons something they have never had in a long time, 2 quick guards who can attack the paint, collapse the D and create their own shots. It's hard to focus on stopping one because the other can take over.
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Exploring the Word of the Buddha
Bhikkhu Bodhi
- Bhikkhu Bodhi gave an excellent series of talks on the Majjhima Nikaya an few years ago, which you can find here.
Below are links to Sutta Central which will lead to freely available on-line versions of the Suttas, many from the translation by Bhikkhu Nanamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi.
This list serves as an excellent thematic classification of the Majjhima Nikaya.
This series of lectures explores the direct teachings of the Buddha himself as preserved in some of the oldest records of his discourses. The first part of the series, covering fifty-two of the discourses (Parts I to IX), constitutes a systematic study program in the teachings of Early Buddhism. The later part of the series (Part X) takes selected discourses from the book in sequence, explaining their meaning and practical relevance.
The talks cover all the major teachings of Early Buddhism, including:
- Life of the Buddha
Fundamental Ethics
Meditation and Mind-training
Nature of True Wisdom
MN 26 Ariyapariyesana Sutta
MN 4 Bhayabherava Sutta
MN 36 Mahasaccaka Sutta
MN 36 Ariyapariyesana Sutta
II. Approaching the Dhamma
1. Making wise choices
AN 3.65 Kalama Sutta
MN 60 The Incontrovertible Teachings
2. Test the Buddha himself
MN 47 The Inquirer
3. Faith, practice, and attainment
MN 95 With Canki
III. The Ethical Life
1. Four ways of life
MN 46 Mahādhammasamādāna Sutta
2. Karma and its results
MN 57 Kukkuravatika Sutta
MN 135 Cūḷakammavibhanga Sutta
3. The path to a higher rebirth
MN 41 Sāleyyaka Sutta
4. Right speech and patience
MN 61 Ambalaṭṭhikārāhulovāda Sutta
MN 21 Kakacūpama Sutta
IV. Deepening One's Perspectives on the World
1. The faults of the worldly life
MN 13 Mahādukkhakkhanda Sutta
2. The shortcomings in sensual pleasures
MN 54 Potaliya Sutta
MN 75 Māgandiya Sutta
3. The misery of saṃsāra
MN 15 Anamataggasaṃyutta Sutta
4. Raṭṭhapāla and the call to renunciation
MN 82 Raṭṭhapāla Sutta
V. The Path to Liberation
1. The purpose of the spiritual life
MN 63 Cūḷamālunkya sutta
MN 29 Mahāsāropama Sutta
2. The gradual training
MN 27 Cūḷahatthipadopama Sutta
MN 39 Mahā-Assapura Sutta
3. What makes one a monk?
MN 40 Cūḷa-Assapura Sutta
4. The benefits of virtue
MN 6 Ākankheyya Sutta
5. Purifying the mind
MN 19 Dvedhāvitakka
MN 20 Vitakkasaṇṭhāna
MN 7 Vatthūpama Sutta
MN 8 Sallekha Sutta
6. Eliminating the taints
MN 2 Sabbāsava Sutta
VI. The Practice in Detail
1. The Noble Eightfold Path
MN 117 Mahācattārīsaka Sutta
2. The way of mindfulness
MN 10 Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta
3. Mindfulness of breathing
MN 118 Ānāpānasati Sutta
4. The aids to enlightenment, etc.
MN 77 Mahāsakuludāyi Sutta
VII. The Cultivation of Wisdom
1. Right view
MN 9 Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta
MN 11 Cūḷasīhanāda Sutta
MN 22 Alaggūpama Sutta
MN 38 Mahātaṇhāsankhaya Sutta
2. Penetrative insight
MN 148 Chachakka Sutta
MN 146 Nandakovāda Sutta
MN 149 Mahāsaḷāyatanika Sutta
MN 28 Mahāhatthipadopama Sutta
MN 64 Mahāmalunkya Sutta
3. Final realization
MN 52 Aṭṭhakanāgara Sutta
MN 140 Dhātuvibhanga Sutta
4. A typology of persons
MN 1 Mūlapariyāya Sutta
5. A typology of noble disciples
MN 70 Kīṭāgiri Sutta
VIII. The Tathagata
MN 12 Mahāsīhanāda Sutta
IX. Life in the Sangha
1. Monks living in harmony
MN 31 Cūḷagosinga Sutta
2. The ideal monk
MN 32 Mahagosinga Sutta
3. A recalcitrant monk
MN 65 Bhaddāli Sutta
4. Guidelines for future harmony
MN 104 Sāmagāma Sutta
5. After the Buddha's parinibbāna
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By Rachel Buck (@GBRachel)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – Unable to overcome a 15-2 run that spanned both halves by the visiting South Dakota State Jackrabbits, the Green Bay women's basketball team saw its 19 game home winning streak come to an end as it fell to SDSU, 54-66, on Saturday afternoon at the Kress Center.
The Jackrabbits (6-4) outscored the Phoenix 15-2 over a stretch of 6:48 to earn the program's first ever win over Green Bay. Meanwhile, the Phoenix (6-2) saw its home winning streak of 19 games, dating back to February 9, 2012 (vs. Detroit), come to an end.
Despite the losing effort, Green Bay sophomore Kaili Lukan (Barrie, Ontairo) recorded the first double-double of her career finishing with a game-high 14 points in addition to 10 rebounds, while senior Breannah Ranger (Skokie, Ill.) added 12 points and junior Megan Lukan (Barrie, Ontario) had 10 points.
South Dakota State scored the first points of the game and assumed an early 4-3 advantage before Green Bay found its stride. Setting up its offense in the lane, the Phoenix took the lead (6-4) for the first time in the contest on a Megan Lukan layup and-1 play. Green Bay continued to pound the ball into the paint, slowly building its advantage to seven points (14-7) with 12:39 remaining. Twelve of Green Bay's 14 points in the early going came in the lane, with the other two points coming on free throws after and-1 plays.
The Jackrabbits worked their way back into the contest, using a 7-0 run highlighted by five points from Tara Heiser to knot the score at 14-14 with 8:33 remaining. However, the Phoenix responded with an 11-3 run over the next four minutes to assume its largest lead of the game, 25-17, at the 4:43 mark. Five different players scored for the Phoenix during the run that started with a free throw by Ranger.
Another Jackrabbits run, this time a 10-2 scoring edge to close the half tied the game at 27-27 going into the break. SDSU shared the wealth during the run, with four different Jackrabbits registering a point as the team tied the game for the third time.
Green Bay outshot SDSU in the opening 20 minutes, shooting 44.0 percent (11-25) from the field compared to 36.7 percent (11-30) for its opponents. Both squads struggled from deep, as the Phoenix was just 1-for-9 (11.1%) and the Jackrabbits were 2-for-11 (18.2%).
Extending its scoring advantage, SDSU opened the second stanza with a 7-0 run to assume its largest lead of the game, 34-27 with 17:55 remaining, a lead it did not relinquish the rest of the way.
Green Bay worked its way back into the contest, using a 10-5 edge in scoring to pull back to within two points (44-42) with 11:02 remaining. However, it was all the closer the squad got in the contest as each time the Phoenix mounted a rally the Jackrabbits were able to respond.
Green Bay finished the game shooting just 34.0 percent (18-53) compared to 43.9 percent (25-57) from SDSU. The Jackrabbits also controlled the boards with a 44-33 difference, and utilized its bench with 24 points, while the Phoenix had just nine from its reserves.
SDSU was led by 13 points apiece from Tara Heiser and Mariah Clarin, who finished the game with a double-double adding a game-high 15 rebounds.
The Phoenix returns to action next Sunday as it hosts Wichita State at 1:00 p.m.
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