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Using the "4-C's"
Do you know how to critique an image? No, not –
"WOW! I like that!".
That's not a critique. That's a Flickr comment.
Supportive but not useful if better photography is the ultimate goal.
Even the most well-intentioned critiques can be hard to take – ego's need to be put aside.
One of the most common reasons given by newbies for not entering club competitions is fear/embarrassment because of criticisms.
A typical image has both good and bad points. Both should be recognized – the good acknowledged and constructive criticism offered for the bad. To be useful, the praise and criticism must be specific, not general – even more specific than
"There's a problem with the focus"
What & where specifically and why do you think this happened so the maker can avoid the problem in the future
"The background is more in focus than the subject's eyes. Your focal point was wrong for the shallow depth of field you used."
Knowing how to critique images is a key step toward becoming a better photographer.
If you don't know what makes an image good – and bad – how can you hope to make good images?
If you can't recognize problems when viewing a displayed image, how do expect to see them when looking through your viewfinder?
The most important critique is self-critique of your own images
I use a structured method for critiquing images built around what I call the 4-C's.
Take a look at this blog's subtitle at the top of the page
The subtitle is there because I firmly believe that
Mastery of these four elements is key to Photography Improvement.
The 4-C's
- CRAFTSMANSHIP – Using your camera to control exposure, focus and color for a technically perfect image or for the creative image that you want. Key message- putting you in control of the camera & not vice-versa.
- COMPOSITION – Making aesthetically pleasing two-dimensional images
- CREATIVITY – Making your images YOUR images (and not like everyone else's) by building on craftsmanship and composition skills
- COMMUNICATION – Inserting emotion and feeling into your images. Great artists believed that art sprang from emotion. (A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. Paul Cezanne)
The list above is in the order that the C's should be applied in an a critique.
The list begins with the most basic skills and progresses to the most difficult to master
Good craftsmanship should be a given even for a relative beginner – especially with today's cameras
Communication on the other hand is very difficult – especially since it's so viewer dependent
In another sense the list progresses from "objective" criteria through to "subjective"
Craftsmanship elements, color for example, are very objective. Unless the maker is making some artistic statement (see creativity & communication) we all know what color the bride's skin and gown should be – it's not a subjective thing.
Communication, on the other hand, is nearly 100% subjective. What "sings" to me may be "nails on a blackboard" to you.
To round out the story, the list is exactly in the opposite order I use when making an image rather than critiquing one.
Making an image begins with Cezanne's quote – A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. If I can see the potential for an image that sings to me, I'm 90% of the way home toward making a good image.
We can't begin with an everyday scene, craft & compose it in a creative way – and then "glue emotion" to it at the last minute. It doesn't happen that way.
Note – "good image" here means one that is good for me. I really don't care about what others think. Depending on where you are in your photography development journey, you may (or should) care.
Now that I've found my singing image, the rest is straight forward. Starting with creativity I try not to make the presentation of my "song" routine & predictable – I want to be creative. My ingredients for creativity are the first 2-C's (and treating them as the "RULES" of composition and craftsmanship probably won't get the creative job done – but you do have to know them before you can break them).
The final two steps are relatively easy.
Usually the most difficult composition task is simplifying the image.
Craftsmanship is easy (or it damn well should be else it's back to the drawing board for you). You HAVE TO reach the point where craftsmanship (using your tools – camera/lens) is instinctive and your camera is an extension of YOU.
If you have to think about it, even for 5 seconds, you're not ready to be the best photographer you can be. This where practice, practice, practice comes in….
Craftsmanship errors are inexcusable
This is one reason that Craftsmanship comes first in a critique (especially in judging where 75% of all entries must be eliminated; if you can't do the basics, there's little reason to go further)
Craftsmanship is essential in terms of making your camera do what your vision requires for this singing image, including bending & breaking rules in the name of creativity


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Three major premieres tonight, and all three reflect the current TV tendency to solve crime. Whether this is because we like the comfort of watching square-jawed heroes catch bad guys before we shuffle off to bed or because we like to unwind puzzles or because there's something in the SAG contract guaranteeing the opportunity to play both a cop and a criminal to each and every union member, a large percentage of shows on every night focus on crime solving. Tuesday's new offerings don't offer much new–although they will claim they do–but they do offer some intriguing actors.
"You could watch Kelly Osborne do a bad salsa on Dancing with the Stars, or you could watch a star the likes of Linda Hunt–she alone makes NCIS: Boba Milk worth checking out."
NCIS offers a cleverly named spin-off, NCIS: Los Angeles, which shall shortly be the recipient of a rude, fast food-based nickname. The NCIS franchise is a police procedural, but they're Navy cops in some fashion, so that's different. The cast is intriguing, however, anchored by unfortunate Robin Chris O'Donnell (less interesting) and LL Cool J (more interesting–as Mama told him to knock you out, I assume he'll be delivering Mark Harmon-approved head slaps) and flavored by Oscar winner Linda Hunt (perhaps better known on TV for The Practice and Carnivale). You could watch Kelly Osborne do a bad salsa on Dancing with the Stars, or you could watch a star the likes of Linda Hunt–she alone makes NCIS: Boba Milk worth checking out.
ABC hands the DwtS lead in audience to the forgotten (yes, they're avoiding capital letters), a show from the Bruckheimer stable in which a team of dedicated crimesolvers follows up on cold cases where "the forgotten" are unidentified murder victims who will be buried in a potter's field unless they are identified. What makes the forgotten different from other, similar shows focusing on cold cases, like, I don't know, Cold Case? The crimesolvers are civilians. Sure, that'll make all the difference (and will likely make it so much easier to get information and evidence! In TV Land, that is). Said civilians are led into combat by Christian Slater, who, after his split-personality spy show My Own Worst Enemy failed, may have found he liked TV work. I'm not sure I want him on my TV every week, but I'm willing to be persuaded.
CBS volleys the Christian Slater serve with The Good Wife, a show that is much, much different than our previous two entries because it solves crime from the law side of the ledger rather than the order side. In addition, its lead character (played by Julianna Marguiles of ER fame), is not just a lawyer, she's a politician's wife. A dirty politician's wife. Oh, and a district attorney, which means she may as well just wave across the aisle at Sam Waterston [edited: my bad; I read bad intell–she's defending people pro bono! Maybe George Michael will start singing soon.]. Presumably this means we'll be getting more detail about the intrepid crimefighers' personal lives here, but do we want that detail in our tidy procedurals? The Good Wife may not be blazing new ground, but it's bringing a lot of firepower with a cast that is, at first glance, at least, more intriguing than the forgotten's : in addition to Marguiles, we'll be treated to Josh Charles (Sports Night–yay!). Christine Baranski (Cybill, Welcome to New York), Matt Czuchry (Gilmore Girls, Friday Night Lights), Chris Noth (Law & Order, Sex and the City), and by far my favorite, Christine Willes. Yes, Dead Like Me's Delores Herbig ("her big brown eyes") and Reaper's DMV demon Gladys is likely to bring more pep to these proceedings than the entire case docket. I'd tune in just for her. NCIS: West Coast Style on CBS at 9pm Eastern followed by The Good Wife at 10; the forgotten (still missing its caps) airs on ABC at 10pm Eastern.

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Wendy Lecker: White House changes course on education
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and will never be." Thomas Jefferson
From our nation's founding, people of vision have recognized that a successful education system is the most important investment we can make for our children and our future. Education provides people with the skills and knowledge to help themselves, their children and society.
As this election season heats up, the candidates at the national and state level must clearly lay out their agenda for ensuring that we will do more to help our public schools succeed. Parents in particular are tired of the empty rhetoric and false promises. They understand that if we don't invest in our schools, a generation of Americans will be put at risk.
Last week, President Obama highlighted a key element of this debate. In conjunction with a new White House report on education, he issued a clear warning about the impact of state budget cuts on the quality of public education across the nation. As a result of the recession and continued economic downturn, states are consistently cutting their education budgets, and as a result, significant numbers of teachers are being laid off.
The president noted that these cuts, "force our kids into crowded classrooms, cancel programs for preschoolers and kindergarteners, and shorten the school week and the school year. That's the opposite of what we should be doing as a country. States should be making education a priority in their budgets, even in tough fiscal times."
The negative consequences of teacher layoffs are becoming increasingly evident. One of the greatest impacts is that fewer teachers means larger class sizes. The new report cites the substantial evidence showing smaller class sizes -- especially in the early years -- produce better outcomes for students.
The report further reveals that larger class sizes lead to "lowering high-school graduation rates, reducing the chance that students take college entrance exams ... and lowering the chance of college enrollment and completion."
One of the most interesting facts is that this new White House report is a striking contrast to the Obama administration's education policies to date.
First, it advocates a course of action based on solid research. The reliance on evidence marks a departure from the president's 2010 Blueprint for Reform, which outlined the administration's education agenda. That agenda, including the reforms now dominating policies across the country -- such as teacher evaluation based on test scores, the Common Core State Standards and school turnarounds -- was not supported by the evidence.
The Blueprint relied primarily on think tank advocacy pieces, anecdotes and media reports, rather than research, to support these policies.
The new report also advocates policies parents and teachers want, rather than policies that pit factions against each other. As parents and teachers know, class size matters. A Philadelphia teacher recently took Governor Romney to task for dismissing the importance of class size. He noted, "I can't think of any teacher in the whole time I have been teaching, 13 years, who would say that more students [in the classroom] would benefit. And I can't think of a parent that would say I would like my teacher to be in a room with a lot of kids and only one teacher."
The evidence-based policies the new White House report cites, like lowering class sizes, are policies that cost money. But parents already know this. A newly released PDK/Gallup poll indicated that Americans believe the biggest problem facing our public schools is the lack of financial support. The poll further found that Americans are willing to pay higher taxes to improve the quality of urban schools.
Connecticut's high-poverty schools consistently struggle with larger class sizes than its wealthier schools. This gap is but one of the deprivations suffered because Connecticut underfunds its schools by billions of dollars.
Unfortunately, Connecticut's recent education reform law failed to address the problems associated with increasing class sizes, nor did it provide a substantive increase in resources. Instead, the law imposed ideologically based, evidence-free reforms: test-based teacher evaluations and school turnarounds.
Instead of heeding the wisdom of the new White House report, just this week, Connecticut's governor admonished our state's superintendents to proceed full-speed ahead with these unproven measures. These proposals will likely shift resources away from instruction, making a bad situation worse.
The 2012 election is in two months. There is still time for candidates to explain what they will do to properly fund and support public education.
Wendy Lecker is a columnist for Hearst Connecticut Media Group and is a former president of the Stamford Parent Teacher Council. She was staff attorney at the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, plaintiffs in a school funding lawsuit in New York.


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Perfect, Tess.
I can sooo relate :)
Love this, Tess... I did musical chairs, too!ReplyDelete
I do this and then beat myself up for not having more depth. Sigh.ReplyDelete
so true---I chastise myself constantly..one thing at a time..focus..thank you for the reminder;-)ReplyDelete
"with plenty of chutzpah and ambiguity, like Facebook or Mother Goose"
I almost snorted coffee at that, listening as I was with my eyes closed to R.A.D. read. Fantastic...I so relate!
Unread books stalk me
Follow me about the house
Undead unread books
You really are magnificent.
I think I'm a grab-and-skedaddle type person.ReplyDelete
I have the opposite problem. I like BIG BOOKS and I cannot lie....LOL! I'm reading the new Stephen King novel at 849 pages and I don't want it to ever end....xoReplyDelete
I'm a pacer and a magazine reader. A book stacker--you should see the leaning tower of Pisa beside my bed!
Thanks for this, Tess. Haunting image, too.
some vivid and beautiful imagery implied in your piece.
enjoyed it.
I just finished a book and papers and magazines have piled up once again...waiting for me. Too much to read, too little time.ReplyDelete
Michael...the dreaded undead unread books...(!)ReplyDelete
Kay, I have five leaning stacks of books around my head, as we speak!ReplyDelete
Very clever. I think that restlessness is also part of the digital age. So many choices/distractions. So much mind candy! But you handle very well. K.ReplyDelete
Wonderful, wonderful poem.
I can remember Musical Chairs causing me great anxiety as a child. I was usually the kid who fell on the floor hardest!
Musical chairs - love it!ReplyDelete
Stacks of books, you say? I wrote my dissertation while living in a third-floor loft...awesome view, great light for painting, fireplace...near perfect setting, really, except I came to fear that the whole apartment building would come crashing down thanks to the sheer weight of my stacks of books! Well, back to musical chairs...love the prompt!ReplyDelete
I'm right there fidgeting and pacing with you! Where, oh where, did my concentration go?ReplyDelete
Michael, the beautiful library at Indiana University is sinking inches every year, supposedly because the architects didn't consider the weight of the books when designing the structure!ReplyDelete
This is sooooo good. I have books waiting too and I tend to flick through magazines in the pharmacy! It may say "Please do Not Read' but I do not associate reading with flicking! And when I have a full basket (which is the only time I flick!) I feel safe if the sales assistants dare to glare at me.ReplyDelete
Bee, I flick through magazines at the grocery store check-out...that's what they're there for, right? Only I call it "flip" through...ReplyDelete
any thing stab worthy....nice....
yes i feel like this these days...
I like the image of an actual library sinking under the weight of its own books...c'mon everyone! Check the suckers out!ReplyDelete
I tell my children: "Focus Pocus!" :) The two-year-old loves Mother Goose, too. When her big brother learned to play "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on his clarinet, no one was more pleased.ReplyDelete
I guess we could add Twitter
and Dr. Seuss to the list of
ambiguous reading preferences;
great sense of restless poetic
rambling here, picking the
thanksgiving carcass of poetics,
snagging the choice bits, like
a magpie, or a crow, at the
road kill diner; wary of vehicles,
or larger predators, but in need
of sustenance.
One Day,All Novels Will Be Twitter-Length?ReplyDelete
You describe a fate all too familiar to us all. I read "The Shallows" last year and found it very interesting. Although the author takes some liberties when interpreting various studies, it does speak to and about a common experience of what prolonged Internet usage seems to do to a certain way of thinking, often making prolonged concentration difficult.
All that aside, I LOVE this piece. Thanks!
Very unexpected take, but simply beautiful and very relatable...ReplyDelete
who said brevity is the soul of wit.
or maybe nit-wit.
i do hope Twitter novels is a fantasy
But i must say i feel very restless right now in this change of season. flighty and jumping from this to that.
thanks for your poem
"like Facebook and Mother Goose"!
TOO wonderful, Tess.
Kay, Alberta, Canada
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Standing or seated, I like the idea of musical chairs, Kincaid style.ReplyDelete
I always ended up on the floor!ReplyDelete
this is fine writing. a wonderfully imaginative take on the prompt!ReplyDelete
Musical chairs.....love this Tess!
I wonder if everyone's attention span is getting shorter...
I still like a big thick book to read but I'm trying to write shorter paragraphs in the ones I write.
Absolutely killer ending!ReplyDelete
I am becoming less this way as I grow older. But it used to fit me perfectly.
And the reading was wonderful, especially the way he said "stab-worthy."
What a treat.
Enjoyed…. Have been doing the same lately…ReplyDelete
Sue, yeah, I love the way Stainforth put the stab into "stab-worthy"...but my favorite part of this reading is his "magazine reader"...ReplyDelete
I suspect you've got a lot of company! I can hardly sit through a movie at all anymore.ReplyDelete
I love the image. It reveals much.ReplyDelete
Your poem's a wonderful match for the image.ReplyDelete
love the word, "chutzpah"ReplyDelete
perfect for the image tess - love these lines:
a reader of poetry,
of grab-and-skedaddle,
Your grab-and-skedadle and anything stab-worthy are super expressions that lift my soul...I relate to these more often than is good for me.ReplyDelete
Yes you would get terrible cramps from those shoes- even a broken ankle in the grass.ThanksReplyDelete
I too must get organized...tomorrow! What a list...ReplyDelete
it's a perfect poem for that photo - i love that you saw a kind of metaphorical musical chairs in it :)ReplyDelete
I agree with Sukipoet. This time of year makes me jittery...which chair to pick? Remember entering the classroom for the first time in September to establish your spot? Which seat, which book, which project, 'tis the season of "pickiness" The musical chairs of life...how wonderfully wonderful!ReplyDelete
anything stab-worthy
with plenty of chutzpah...i like and oh i can feel this..wishing me into a red wooden house in sweden with snow and a fire burning and just time to read...whole books..smiles
What a delight, the photo and your write.ReplyDelete
And never enough time. Books began, waiting, for my return. Loved the prompt.ReplyDelete
ambiguity ... sucks me in every timeReplyDelete
Loved hearing the reading of this. Great take on the pic.ReplyDelete
Very satisfying reading. Thank you.ReplyDelete
"a reader of poetry,
of grab-and-skedaddle,"
You said it and I relate but it isn't how you really feel, Tess Kincaid!
Perfect - timely and universal!ReplyDelete
restless indeed.
I like this:
"anything stab-worthy
with plenty of chutzpah"
"grab-and-skedaddle": I'm smiling at that. Intriguing poem!ReplyDelete
The band played Aulde Lang syne
Like a cold wet blanket draped
and heavy
Nobody came to hear them play
Seats for ghosts
long past
I turned to remember
seeing they were
Lovely Tess, really lovely.
How appopriate that Facebook should be uttered in the same breath as Mother Goose!ReplyDelete
Superb. I really appreciated this - I'm fast going that way myself.ReplyDelete
What a new way of evaluating Musical Chairs, and how it translates into our "real" lives, as a sociological statement!
(btw, Musical Chairs scared the heck out of me when I was a kid!)
can so relate to this love reading and getting stuck into a book but so love also flipping through a trash magazine ...thanks xReplyDelete
Dear Tess: Par excellent! "I find myself restless" pretty well sums it up for me too! Hahah! Funny!ReplyDelete
I'm at both ends of the spectrum depending on what, I have no idea...
Nice one!
" Grab-and-skedaddle"…my kind of reader! My Magpie this week is Goldilocks.ReplyDelete
beautiful poem
can feel the underlying restlessness and yearning
sense the ambiguity
and the stunning picture
PBTG, thank you...coming from a talented poet such as yourself, that means so much...ReplyDelete
Thanks, again, everyone...you make sharing my poetry so very rewarding...you're the best!ReplyDelete
"anything stab-worthy with plenty of chutzpah
and ambiguity..."
Like this poem. Perfect, Tess. Thank you.
a perfect one yet again ... loved it.ReplyDelete


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ATLANTA, July 11 (UPI) -- The laboratories at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, are one of only a few places in the world allowed to handle dangerous pathogens like anthrax and smallpox, and one would think they'd take that responsibility very seriously.
But in a new report outlining protocol breaches, the CDC admitted to having improperly sent dangerous bacterium, viruses or other microorganisms five times over the last decade. That's one potentially deadly mistake every two years.
"These events should never have happened," CDC Director Tom Frieden told reporters this week.
"[The American people] may be wondering whether we're doing what we need to do to keep them safe and to keep our workers safe," Frieden continued. "I'm disappointed, and frankly I'm angry about it."
Frieden isn't the only one who's angry. Several dozen people have been put in harm's way as a result of the slip-ups, though no illnesses or injuries have resulted.
"Fortunately none of these incidents resulted in anyone becoming infected or getting sick," Frieden said. "The organisms involved were all safely disposed of."
The most recent of the five mistakes -- the one that prompted officials to further investigate the agency's safety track record -- occurred last month when at least 84 workers were reportedly exposed to live anthrax samples when employees unknowingly sent the bacteria from one CDC lab to another.
Only a few months prior, the CDC apparently improperly sent the "highly pathogenic" H5N1 influenza virus to a U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory in Georgia.
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By Tessa Raebeck
Prior to the November 13 vote when the community passed two bond propositions set forth by the Sag Harbor School District, school officials promised voters all capital project plans were "conceptual schematics" and the community would have ample opportunities for input concerning the final design plans before construction started.
At Monday's board of education (BOE) meeting, Dr. Carl Bonuso, interim superintendent of schools, made good on that promise, inviting members of the community to attend a bond implementation project designs group meeting on January 8, 2014.
Overwhelmingly approved by voters, the first proposition includes renovations and enhancements to the Pierson Middle/High School auditorium, reconfiguration of the Pierson shop and kitchen areas, construction of additional gymnasium storage at Sag Harbor Elementary School and the reconstruction of the Hampton Street parking lot at the elementary school and the Jermain Avenue and bus parking lots at Pierson. It also covers repairs and improvements to the air conditioning, heating, ventilation and plumbing and drainage systems.
The second proposition includes the installation of a synthetic turf athletic field and two-lane walking track behind Pierson, as well as a new scoreboard and concrete seating pavilion.
Interested parties can attend any or all of seven scheduled 45 minute workshops during the course of the school day, from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Residents will have an opportunity to review the plans, provide input and ask questions. Larry Salvesen, the district architect, and other representatives from the construction projects will be on hand, as will Dr. Bonuso and school administrators.
Each session will take place on site in the area it is covering, i.e. the auditorium conversation will take place in the auditorium. The complete schedule is available on the district website, sagharborschools.org.
"Whether we agree or disagree," Dr. Bonuso said Monday, "people who love their community inevitably come up with what is right for everybody because they're so driven to do the right thing."
Mary Anne Miller, a member of the BOE, expressed the need for school administrators to be involved in the final design conversations.
"We've been communicating constantly back and forth," Dr. Bonuso replied. "None of this would be headlines or new to our administration…literally [the bond projects are] a product of touching base with the administration and staff. All we're saying is our effort is going to be in having an inclusive conversation — and that includes the staff without a doubt and our administration very pointedly."
A group of village residents concerned about preserving green space and encouraging alternative modes of transportation aside from cars came forward prior to the bond vote with concerns regarding the proposed parking lot reconfigurations.
Parent Ken Dorph said the group was unhappy with the 2009 bond proposal, which did not pass — in large part, Dorph thinks, because of the parking plans.
The original parking plans included in the 2013 propositions were exactly the same as those proposed in 2009. Upon realizing this similarity, Dorph and others raised their concerns at a bond presentation October 21. Following that meeting, Dr. Bonuso — who was "amazing," according to Dorph — reached out to the group and promised they would work together in finalizing the parking plans. Dr. Bonuso repeatedly said the parking lot reconfigurations were about improving health and safety, not creating more parking spaces.
At Monday's meeting, Carol Williams presented photos to the board outlining, "what the hill looked like in 2001, what it looks like now and what it would look like unless we're careful."
In the aerial view of Pierson Hill from 2001, the parking lot along Division Street is significantly smaller. In the proposed plans from 2009 and 2013, originally, the Jermain Street parking lot is also expanded, which if enacted would result in significant loss of green space from 2001 to 2014.
"In Sag Harbor," Dorph said, "we have fallen behind Riverhead, East Hampton and Tuckahoe in getting people out of their cars. We have fewer kids walking, biking than when I started [as a district parent] — which is so depressing to me."
"There's lots of fine-tuning things we can do," said community member John Shaka. "I look forward to doing them with you."


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~ Two of my favorite things are knitting and reading, and the evidence of this often shows up in my photographs. I love seeing what other people are knitting and reading as well. So, what are you knitting or crocheting right now? What are you reading?~ from small things
Just before I left for the weekend, I finished knitting Gemini, but did not weave in the ends. They are all tucked away now and I hope to get it photographed soon! For my travel knitting I took Wingspan (aka My Wings of Hope) and I love it so much, even with the more muted colors. I would make this again and again and have 2 or 3 yarns in mind already that I think would be awesome in that pattern.
I finished reading Room – it was very very good. I came home from my trip to a birthday present from my favorite brother-in-law – knitting books! Teeny-Tiny Mochiland, Knitter's Book of Yarn, and The Fleece and Fiber Source Book. I have had my eye on each for a long while now, good resources and patterns (Mochiland & KBY). I am not sure what I will read next. As much as I love reading the knitting books, I find that I am more likely to pick them up here and there and not really settle in to read them, you know?


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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Seven points in 56 seconds. A blocked shot from out of nowhere. A waved off 3-pointer, another that danced around the rim like a pachinko ball before falling away.
The fourth-ranked Arizona Wildcats are fortunate to still be undefeated and they know it.
``We've been lucky for a couple of weeks now,'' Arizona swingman Kevin Parrom said. ``The luck is going to run out soon. We have to play better.''
Arizona (14-0, 2-0) is off to its best start since winning the first 16 games in 1931-32 and is still among the top 5 teams in the country.
The Wildcats are big, athletic, deep, love to play defense and have one of the best coaches in the country, the kind of team that can make a deep run into March, maybe even into April.
But there's no doubting Arizona has gotten some good breaks to keep its perfect start rolling.
On Dec. 15, the Wildcats beat Florida in a matchup of top-10 teams by overcoming a six-point deficit in the final 56 seconds. Arizona pulled out the 1-point victory when senior Mark Lyons scored on a heavily contested layup with 7 seconds left.
The Wildcats pulled out another 1-point win over a Top 25 opponent at the Diamond Head Classic in Hawaii when sophomore guard Nick Johnson swooped in from the weak side and swatted away what looked to be an uncontested layup by San Diego State guard Chase Tapley.
Arizona grabbed a pair of hanging-by-a-thread victories last week.
The first, against Colorado on Jan. 3, came after a banked-in 3-pointer by the Buffaloes' Sabatino Chen at the end of regulation was waved off by the officials after a replay. The Wildcats dominated after the disputed ruling - some replays showed Chen got the shot off - and pulled away in overtime for a nine-point win.
Two day later, Arizona struggled defensively in the second half against Utah and had to watch as a potential tying 3-pointer by Utes guard Jarred DuBois hit the rim, bounced off the top of the backboard and hit the rim again before falling harmlessly to the floor.
Any one of those plays goes the other way and the Wildcats are no longer undefeated.
Thing is, all those plays went in Arizona's favor and they are undefeated, which few teams can say at this point in the season.
``If the objective is to win by the biggest margin we possibly can, then we're failing in that area,'' Arizona coach Sean Miller said. ``But I know that we're 14-0 and at 14-0 you have to be in a number of close games, and we've been on the positive end of them. I hope we can continue to do that.''
The Wildcats will need to clean a few things up to keep it up.
Arizona has struggled at times to get the ball into the low post and its freshmen big men have, as freshmen often tend to do, had some breakdowns defensively and disappeared on offense at times.
The Wildcats have struggled with turnovers all season and occasionally go into shooting funks from the perimeter. They've also struggled at defending the 3-point line and sometimes foul opponents or let them score late in the shot clock after playing good defense for 30 seconds.
Miller has pared down his rotation over the past month or so and has often gone with his veterans over the freshmen down the stretch of tight games. As the inconsistencies have continued to crop up, Miller has turned more and more to the players who will play the way he wants them to.
``If you're tentative, then you can be tentative on the bench,'' Miller said. ``We have a couple of guys right now who have to step up and defend, play hard, be responsible. Do the things that we recruited them to do, do the things we talk about. We're not going to keep making the same mistakes.''
It doesn't figure to get any easier for the Wildcats as they dive into the bulk of the Pac-12 season.
Arizona heads to the Northwest this week to face Oregon and Oregon State, somewhat surprising teams that have combined for 22 victories. After that, the Wildcats face rival Arizona State, which has made solid improvement this season with the addition of point guard Jahii Carson, and seven more weeks of games in a conference that includes athletic teams like Colorado, UCLA and Washington.
``We have a bull's eye on our back. We have to understand that,'' Parrom said. ``Games are going to be tough from here on out. We're (No. 4) in the nation, undefeated and we have to play harder. Nobody is giving us anything easy.''
At least the Wildcats are pulling out these close victories.
A year ago, one of the criticisms about Miller's team was that it couldn't pull out the close victories. That young team missed the NCAA tournament after reaching the regional final the season before.
This season, Arizona has a solid core of veteran players to lean on, including Parrom, Johnson, Jordin Mayes and senior forward Solomon Hill. The Wildcats also added Lyons, a graduate transfer from Xavier who has become their go-to guy in crunch time, including his shot against Florida and two big free throws against Utah.
``At the end of the game, we're good,'' Parrom said.
They've proven that. They're hoping not to have to keep doing it.


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The ending of Ano Natsu de Matteru was simply wonderful, giving the audience hope with one hand while taking it away with the other. Watching as Ichika is taken away from Kai as soon as they discover what they were after was painful to watch. However, the final scene of the series gave us a happy ending even though we never see what happens after their farewell. A wonderfully emotional finale to a brilliant series. Read more of this post


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Towards the end of summer Grammy and Papa had a Summer Tea Party for the younger girls. They of course made it perfect for the girls. They had a good time making trail mix, and doing crafts and of course eating outside under the tree. It was a fantastic day for everyone. One thing I learned (well I have always know it but this just reinforced my knowledge) was that my Mom has a wonderful talent for making ordinary things EXTRAORDINARY! She is amazing. It's all about the details. I LOVE IT! She makes everything so special. The girls definately felt it. The best part was after we had everything set up and Dad, Cortney and I went inside to eat while Grammy and the girls stayed outside, just watching the girls interact with their Grammy who they all ADORE! Laughing and just pure love and happiness on all of their faces. I wish I would have taken a picture of that. Thanks mom for making another day EXTRAORDINARY!
(just a little side note: Liberty is totally picking up on the fun things her Grammy does. It isn't odd for me to come to the dinner table that has been set by Lib with name cards, small dishes with little treats at each place setting, goblets, and random flowers as a center pieces. I must say that I LOVE THIS!)
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In my first installment of this series reporting on NCSE's first-ever summer evolution camp, I talked about how we arranged some of the necessary logistics to get our cool free summer camp up and rolling, and then almost immediately ran into creationist students.
What did I do when kids offered negative, creationist reactions to evolution? I wrote them down on the board with the other kids' comments. I didn't react negatively to the kids. I didn't argue with the children or tell them they were wrong. And what happened?
The kids in question got to see what other children in the camp thought without being marginalized or excluded. They got to see that when most other children thought of the word "evolution", the first words that came to mind were words like "change", "dinosaurs", and "DNA".
I and the other volunteers also spent time talking with kids in small groups about evolution. We were very impressed by the depth of content knowledge many of the children possessed, including that significant minority of creationist students in the camp. We had more than one kid in the camp who associated "lies" with evolution. We also had kids who primarily associated words like "Armageddon".
"I think, the end of the world," one boy whispered to me. "Because, if things change, they only get worse."
First reaction? That is super depressing. Second reaction? That is super interesting.
By refusing to act negatively or with hostility to our creationist students, by treating them the same as kids who were accepting of evolution, we got to hear more about their emotional reactions to evolution.
For most of these students, their education about evolution had gotten very tied up with fear. They had feelings that people who believed in evolution were mean or bad, that such people wanted to lie to them, and had, understandably, a child's idea about lies. They didn't conceive of the creationist/evolution debate as a conflict of belief vs. evidence, a debate over valid sources of knowledge, or a complex sociological issue. They saw it as truth and lies, and as we all know only mean people tell lies. In their minds, it seemed clear that "belief in evolution" was a cultural marker associated with outsiders, and that such outsiders were probably bad people who did not share any other values with insiders.
This, of course, is not true. By putting some humanity into these children's experience of evolution education, I think we were able to start them thinking about evolution a little differently. By refusing to fight about evolution, but instead calmly informing the students what scientists and experts thought, we failed to fulfill their expectations of outsider behavior. From the perspective of the kids, the volunteer camp leaders were definitely talking about evolution, but for some reason they were not mean or argumentative. Instead, they were nice and giving out sandwiches. Maybe they weren't outsiders, after all.
I did not focus on the creationist associations when we first talked about evolution with the campers. I just wrote them down with the other suggestions and then focused on what I thought would most productively drive discussion.
In this case, I wanted to talk about DNA. That's because after lunch we were going to visit one of the world's premiere producers of DNA for laboratory environments, Integrated DNA Technologies. We spent some time talking about DNA as the vehicle for evolutionary change with the children. This was a valuable strategy when working with creationist students. Most of these students had been taught arguments for refuting evolution as it related to organisms, but few had been taught arguments related to genetics. Without canned responses to give, the kids seemed interested to listen and learn.
All the children were very excited to visit the labs. Our kids went on a tour of the facility where they saw awesome giant machines, learned about various careers, and met many different types of engineers and scientists. They also got to "do real science!", a phrase many of them gleefully exclaimed. After a brief lecture where more nice, calm, professional adults talked about what DNA was and how it related to evolution, professionals at IDT led the students in extracting DNA from strawberries using basic equipment and reagents.
The kids were so excited by this exercise. They felt very important and professional to get to wear gloves and handle sterile tubes. They were allowed to bring home vials of the DNA they extracted. Some of the kids carried these vials around all week as proof that they were now "real scientists". Not only was this super-adorable, it was very nice from an educational perspective. The kids had a discussion about DNA's crucial role in evolution, and then they got to physically hold DNA. DNA wasn't a lie or an idea. DNA was a thing they could see. DNA was a thing people could make and sell. DNA was the thing behind all the jobs they saw all the nice people doing. Good jobs, that paid for the good cars in the parking lot and the good clothes the people were wearing.
Kids notice that kind of thing even if we want to think they don't. One of the factors that convinced me to focus on my education as a kid was definitely looking at the kind of lives led by people who were highly educated. I wanted that kind of a life. Seeing that kind of a life, and seeing people do jobs that led to that kind of a life, helped me believe that such a life was something I could have.
The kind of career modeling we were able to do in our camp, combined with an open acceptance of evolution, is not what our pro-science community generally pictures when we think about how to deal with conflict with creationist students. However, I will freely admit it is 100% what I picture. This camp gave me a great opportunity to test another major strategy in my no-fighting approach to evolution education. I wanted to show the kids what accepting science could give them.
How did it work out? Keep reading, we'll have another installment up tomorrow.


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Cybex International, Medway, MA, announced today that its board of directors has authorized the company to enter into a "going private" merger agreement.
After the merger, Cybex will be wholly owned by UM Holdings Ltd., John Aglialoro, Cybex's chairman and CEO, and Aglialoro's wife, Joan Carter, a director of the company. UM is owned by Aglialoro and Carter. UM, Aglialoro and Carter own approximately 49.5 percent of the company's common stock.
Each of Cybex's outstanding shares of common stock will be converted into $2.55 per share payable in cash.
The merger price reflects an 89 percent premium over the closing price of the company's common stock on Oct. 16, 2012. Cybex's stock price closed today at $1.35 on the NASDAQ Stock Market.
Cybex anticipates that it will seek approval of the merger at a special shareholders meeting during the first quarter of 2013 and that the transaction will close shortly thereafter.
UM Holdings, Aglialoro and Carter have advised Cybex that they are interested only in pursuing the proposed merger transaction and that they are not interested in selling their stake in the company or considering any strategic transaction involving Cybex, other than the merger. They also have advised the company that they intend to vote their shares in favor of the merger.


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UNIONDALE, N.Y., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Swiss Olympian Reto Berra gave up a two-goal lead Thursday and then survived down the stretch to help bring Calgary a 4-2 win over the New York Islanders.
The Flames got off just 21 shots in a meeting of two of the worst teams in the NHL, but Matt Stajan snapped a third-period tie and Calgary won on the road for the 10th time this season.
Berra will join Jonas Hiller of the Anaheim Ducks as one of the goaltenders on the roster for Switzerland when the Olympic hockey tournament begins Wednesday.
Sean Monahan and Dennis Wideman staked Calgary to a 2-0 advantage with second-period goals, but Berra surrendered a score to Thomas Hickey in the final moments of the middle stanza.
Calvin de Haan then tied it for the Islanders 7:31 into the third.
Stajan put the Flames back in front with his 10th goal of the campaign, coming with 5:32 left in regulation, and Mikael Backlund added an empty-netter just before the final horn.
Berra finished with 27 saves while Evgeni Nabokov stopped 18 shots for the Islanders.


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I know about "you knows." I use that verbal crutch myself, a bad habit that develops from shyness and reticence about public speaking.Dowd goes on to discuss the issues raised about the Kennedy dynasty, her experience and more, but comes back to her speaking skills and notes:
People complain that the 51-year-old Harvard and Columbia Law School grad and author is not a glib, professional pol who knows how to artfully market herself, and is someone who hasn't spent her life glad-handing, backstabbing and logrolling. I say, thank God.Dowd's lending her voice (and platform) to defend Kennedy and does so in the same frustrated manner that millions of women do when they feel shut out of--or shut up in--public speaking situations from meetings to conventions. I hear it in hallways, on Twitter, and from my friends and training clients in private. At the same time, citizens have few other ways to evaluate political figures than to parse their speaking skills...and their opponents, particularly when faced with a political dynasty, may have few other chinks in the armor to attack. And, of course, most people define eloquence as the ability to speak extemporaneously in roll-off-the-tongue, smooth-sounding sentences--words that go beyond basics to flourishes and turns of phrase that make us pause and listen, and that move us to a place beyond our daily lives.
I'll be exploring the historic reasons that women have had few--and hard-won--opportunities to speak in public throughout history, even in our time, in other posts. But, putting that aside for a moment, let's look at the supposed stumbling block: using "you know," another version of "um." According to Um. . .: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean, these types of verbal blunders make up 5% to 8% of everyone's daily speech--that's everyone, not just those in the spotlight. "You know" may be, as Dowd suggests, a sign of hesitancy, but it also serves as "um" does, as a pause to think of what to say when you don't know what to say. Ums and their near equivalents can increase when your hands are immobilized (clasped, gripping a lectern or just in your pockets) and in general, suggest a need to anticipate questions and prepare answers--nothing more sinister, stupid or suggestive. (Photo of Kennedy by Kate Sherrill on Flickr)


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Can Roger Federer win another Grand Slam singles title? As time goes by it is going to be more and more difficult even for this ethereally skilful and supremely fit athlete to bring up title No 21. At 38, age seems to have finally caught up with the player widely regarded as the greatest of all time. With a record 20 Grand Slam singles titles he is certainly worthy of the exalted status. But then all great careers have to end someday. It is a credit to the affable Swiss that he has carried on for so long and even as one would hate to say it his time near the top could well be over.
Yes, one is aware that a great champion should never be written off. And in Federer's case he has fought back in the past. One recalls how his tennis obituary was written in 2016 when after a knee surgery which was followed by back injury he had to miss a good part of the season. The prolonged recovery hiatus saw him drop out of the top ten for the first time in 14 years. This combined with a Grand Slam drought spanning over four years led to many analysts believing that his outstanding career was finally coming to an end and he would never again win any major titles again.
The recovery was however just round the corner. At the start of the Australian Open in 2017 his ranking had slipped to No 17 the lowest in over 15 years. And who won the title that year? Yes, Federer by defeating Rafael Nadal in the final. Six months later he won an eighth Wimbledon title and then retained the Australian Open title in January 2018. All these unexpected achievements saw him claw back to No 1 in the rankings.
However that Australian Open is the last Grand Slam he has won. Since then he has performed creditably enough to be in the top three but the majors have eluded him. At Wimbledon last year he went down to Kevin Anderson in the quarterfinals. At the US Open he was upset by John Millman in the fourth round. This year at the Australian Open he was stunned by Stefanos Tsitsipas in the fourth round. He fared better at the French Open and Wimbledon going down to Nadal in straight sets in the semifinal in the former and losing to Novak Djokovic in the final in the latter after having two championship points. Now comes the latest defeat at the hands of a player ranked No 78 Grigor Dimitrov in the quarterfinals at the US Open. It was the Bulgarian's first win in eight meetings with Federer. More to the point before the fifth set Federer called for a rare for him medical time out and after a talk with his physio left the court for an apparent back problem.
As is well known as one goes older the recovery process takes longer. Federer came back once before but this time a comeback will be that much more difficult particularly with a number of young challengers climbing their way up the rankings and old rivals Nadal and Djokovic still around.
Former Pakistani all-rounder, Shahid Afridi has said that cricket relations between India and Pakistan are getting hampered because of only one person, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Afridi believes that Modi is pursuing some hidden agenda, full of hatred and vengeance for Pakistan.
"Till Modi is in power, I don't think we will get any response from India. We have all, including Indians, understood the way Modi thinks. His thinking is inclined towards negativity. Our relationships are getting damaged just because of one person. People from either side of the border want to travel to each other's country. I don't understand what Modi wants to do and what his agenda really is," Afridi said in an interview with Cricket Pakistan.
He is also of the opinion that organizing PSL in Pakistan would bring a lot of hope for young Pakistani players. He is also hopeful that other teams like Australia, South Africa, England, and New Zealand would soon be touring Pakistan.
Team India last played Pakistan in a bilateral series way back in 2012. Pakistan toured India for a two-match T20I series back then. India last played a game in Pakistan in 2008 during the Asia Cup and its been ages since these two sides played a Test match.
After a lot of drama and anticipation, the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League, is finally set to get underway from March 29 with a much-awaited opening battle between the top two franchises of last year. The defending champions Mumbai Indians will lock horns against the IPL 2019 runners up Chennai Super Kings at the iconic Wankhede Stadium.
Meanwhile, the official broadcaster of IPL 2020, Star Sports recently launched a new ad campaign ahead of the next edition. In the commercial, the broadcasters tried to take a dig at the big stars of the cash-rich league like MS Dhoni, Rohit Sharma, and Virat Kohli. The video left the fans splits and went viral in no time.
The official Twitter handle of IPL also shared the promotional video with fans and followers and wrote, "The stage is set and the banter is on. Ahead of the #VIVOIPL 2020, keep the banter coming and get set for March 29, jab #KhelBolega on @StarSportsIndia and Hotstar! The @Vivo_India IPL Carnival begins soon".
In the video, an old man can be seen asking if MS Dhoni will be able to play for CSK and when will Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore lift their maiden IPL trophy.
India have been served their first dish and it was not tasty. Far from it. After being on a high, having played against some iffy opponents at best, India were brought back to earth after New Zealand walked away with an emphatic ten-wicket win. Some might say, this is the way India always starts a tour, losing the first Test. While that might have been the case in the past, India cannot afford too many missteps, particularly with grand ambitions of longevity in world dominance.
To that end, the loss to New Zealand in the first Test has been a reality check and a reminder that the road to the World Test Championship final at Lord's in June 2021 might not necessarily be a cakewalk for India. While the itinerary has been questioned with India having won some easy points against West Indies and Bangladesh, they could not be blamed for the dismal showing put up by South Africa when they did show up. Furthermore, although India began the last year on the resounding note of having beaten Australia in Australia in seven decades, Australia's resurgence since the return of the disgraced duo of Steve Smith and David Warner has added spring in their step.
It could be said that after the mixed bag of the Twenty20 series and the one-day internationals prior to the commencement of the Test part of the tour, there were telling signs that India were not sharp on their game as they were expected to be. Still, weather and conditions might be factored in though it would not fully explain why India would hand over New Zealand such a comprehensive, confidence-boosting win. Some might say that Virat Kohli was attempting to soften the blow or taking on a more complacent garb in being effusive in praise of his counter, the New Zealand captain, Kane Williamson. If there is any truth to the matter, the Indian captain would have now sized up, and not very quickly, that New Zealand, despite their reputation for being mild-mannered off the field and gentlemanly on it, are no pushovers.
They will fight for every edge and this victory coming on the back of pulling back some of the early euphorias from the visitors will give them much impetus going into the next one. For India's part and particularly Virat Kohli whose batting needs to sing overseas, this defeat is going to give them a lot to think about and also, if brave enough, give them an opportunity to experiment a little, away from the rigid plans that haven't worked entirely on this tour. The only question is: who is going to be the scapegoat? And will it be Rishabh Pant is not such an unlikely scenario in what has become the bane of the young twenty-one-year-old?
Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan, who was ruled out of the series against New Zealand, has recovered ahead of the three-match ODI series versus South Africa. The 34-year-old left-hander recently announced his comeback on Instagram. Dhawan came up with a picture of himself in which he can be seen riding a horse.
Taking to his official Instagram handle, Dhawan wrote in the caption,"Kitne bowler they? #Gabbar is back."
Dhawan is currently undergoing rehab at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru and is gearing up to make a comeback in the Indian team.
He injured his shoulder while fielding against Australia in the three-match ODI series at home. As a result, Dhawan was left out from the Indian squad against New Zealand. In the absence of Shikhar Dhawan, talented batsman KL Rahul was given the responsibility to fill his boots in the T20I series against the Black Caps. Not so surprisingly, Rahul made the most of the given opportunity and performed exceptionally for his side.
Virat Kohli's troops are currently playing a two-match Test series against Kiwis.
India went down against New Zealand in the first Test of the two-match series in Wellington. The Kiwis outplayed the visitors in all three departments of the game.
After India faced a disappointing defeat against the Kiwis in the Test opener, the former New Zealand all-rounder Scott Styris has said that India should include Shubman Gill in the second Test in Christchurch. While calling him a 'special talent', Styris also stated that Gill could be the mainstay along with skipper Virat Kohli for the next 10 years.
"I am currently, as I have been for a year or two, flying the flag for Shubman Gill. I think he is a special talent who India are leaving out unnecessarily. I think he could be the mainstay along with Kohli for the next 10 years for this batting line-up for India. I am not sure if he feels the same way, I would get him into the side."
However, Styris also admitted that India might find it difficult to decide which position Gill should come out and bat.
"India and Australia usually bring their new players at no. 6 positions. So India have that option. They can say, 'Look Prithvi, we know you are young, we'll come back to you in another condition', maybe put Vihari up the top or put Shubman Gill at 6. Or of course, they can put him straight into the top of the order because that's where he usually bats."
India will play the second Test against Kiwis at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch from February 29.
English batsman Jason Roy has accused Wahab Riaz of ball-tampering in a Pakistan Super League match between Karachi Kings and Quetta Gladiators at the National Stadium in Karachi.
The incident took place during the first innings of the match when Gladiators were batting. Jason asked Wahab whether he had changed the condition of the ball in order to gain reverse swing. After this, the duo clashed as the pacer seemed visibly angry at the accusations leveled against him. The Gladiators' skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed had to intervene and take control of the situation.
"Roy asked Wahab whether he had made the ball properly to gain reverse swing. The Pakistani pacer reacted angrily and argued before Sarfaraz intervened to diffuse the situation," a source was quoted as saying by Hindustan Times.
Sarfaraz, the mediator insisted that the heated exchange of words between the players should not be blown out of proportion as it is part and parcel of the game.
"Look these things happen in cricket when there is intense competition between the players," the former Pakistan skipper said.
Interestingly, the Karachi Kings skipper Imad Wasim had reportedly named Wahab Riaz as one of the three players to have tampered the ball previously in the PSL.
Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli believes that he is in good touch with the bat and that it's not just reflecting in his scores.
"I am absolutely fine. I am batting really well. I feel that sometimes scores don't reflect the way you are batting and that's what can happen when you don't execute what you want to well," Kohli told media persons after India lost the first Test by 10 wickets.
New Zealand has been a rare overseas tour in recent times when Kohli could not live up to his high standards, scoring only one half-century so far in nine innings across three formats. His sequence of scores read 45, 11, 38, 11 (T20s); 51, 15, 9 (ODIs) and 2 and 19 (1st Test).
"Look when you play so much cricket and you play for so long, obviously you will have 3-4 innings that don't go your way. If you try and make too much out of it, it'll keep piling on," the skipper has his priorities clear.
The 31-year-old captain feels that it's not about scoring runs, rather winning matches is all that matters.
"It's never been about my performance on tour or about how many runs I score. It's all about if the team wins, even a 40 is good. If the team loses, then even a 100 is irrelevant for me, and I'm going to stay in that mindset," he stated.
Indian skipper Virat Kohli has said that he couldn't care less if people wanted to make a mountain out of a single defeat that India suffered in the opening match against New Zealand at Basin Reserve, Wellington.
"We know we haven't played well, but if people want to make a big deal out of it, make a mountain out of it, we can't help it as we don't think like that," Virat said at the post-match media interaction.
This was India's first defeat in the World Test Championship, coming after two inept batting efforts.
"Some people might want it to be the end of the world but it's not. For us, it's a game of cricket we lost and we move on and keep our heads high," Kohli added.
The Indian captain further went on to say that the team doesn't pay attention to the home away chatter, also known as the "outsider" issue. He further added that the team believes in itself and would make a strong comeback in the next game.
"That's why we have been able to play this kind of cricket. If we would have paid attention to the outside chatter, we would again be at No. 7 or 8 in the rankings. We don't really bother about what people are saying on the outside," the skipper said.
Boult and Southee know how to make the best of New Zealand conditions and they were able to do so when Williamson won an influential toss on Friday and opted to make first use of the ball. India's powerful batting lineup struggled on a greenish pitch, it was bowled out for 165 and New Zealand took a grip on the match that it didn't release.
Williamson made 89 as New Zealand scored 348 in its first innings, building a commanding lead. It looked likely to be in an even stronger position when it passed India's total with only two wickets down but needed late order contributions from Colin de Grandhomme (43), Kyle Jamieson (44) and Boult (38) to achieve a substantial total.
New Zealand then took a major step towards victory when it removed Prithvi Shaw (14), Mayank Agarwal (58), Cheteshwar Pujara (11) and captain Virat Kohli (19) before stumps on Sunday, with Boult claiming three of those wickets,
Conditions in the second innings differed from the first. On the first day, the ball seemed a little on a moist pitch and swung a little in heavily overcast condition.
By Monday the pitch had dried, hardened and the New Zealand bowlers used to bounce and angle to worry the India batsmen.
Boult took the first wicket of the day, bowling around the wicket and from wide on the crease to dismiss Ajinkya Rahane (29), who played inside the line and edged to wicketkeeper B.J. Watling.
Southee dismissed Hanuma Vihari, who didn't add to his overnight score of 15. In a brilliantly-laid trap, Southee enticed Vihari with two outswingers before bowling an inswinger which ducked back past the inside edge.
Ravi Ashwin also fell to Southee, trapped lbw by a fuller, straighter ball which might have been a missing leg. Ashwin walked and didn't consider reviewing the decision.
Ishant Sharma made 12, hitting a boundary which took India into the lead and meant New Zealand had to bat again. He also received an lbw decision with equanimity, falling to de Grandhomme.
Southee and Boult combined to dismiss Rishabh Pant — Boult taking a good catch from Southee's bowling — and Southee completed his five-wicket bag with the dismissal of Jasprit Bumrah for 0.
"Day one it was probably the toss that turned out to be very important," Kohli said. "But as a batting unit we take a lot of pride in being competitive and we were just not competitive enough."
New Zealand have beaten top-ranked India by 10 wickets in the series-opening match, posting its 100th win in tests and inflicting India's first loss in eight matches in the ICC Test Championship.
India started play Monday at 144-4, 39 runs behind New Zealand after trailing by 183 on the first innings and was dismissed for 191, a lead of only eight runs. Trent Boult took 4-39 and Tim Southee snared 5-61, his 10th five-wicket haul in tests.
Southee completed match figures of 9-110, making a strong statement after his omission from the third test against Australia in January. New Zealand knocked off the winning runs in just eight balls before lunch, finishing 9-0 with Tom Latham on 7 and Tom Blundell on 2.
The win marked a massive turnaround for New Zealand after its humbling 3-0 series loss in Australia in December and January. Back on home soil, New Zealand showed some of the form that lifted it to No. 2 in the world test rankings prior to the Australian series.
"It was an outstanding effort over the space of four days," New Zealand captain Kane Williamson said. "We know how strong this Indian team is all around the world.
"The efforts that went into that first innings, to put the ball in the right areas for long periods of time (were crucial), and I think with the bat to get what was a very competitive total on a surface that I thought was a very good one, that offered right throughout the match."
Cheteshwar Pujara has been a pivotal force for the Indian cricket team and h importance in the Test side is huge. The 32-year-old may have endured a difficult first Test against New Zealand in the first Test of the two-match series, however, he will be aiming to make amends in the second Test.
India are currently topping the ICC World Test Championship with 360 points picked up from the three-Test series. They had won all the seven Tests played until the Test match against the Kiwis now.
India suffered their maiden loss which handed New Zealand 60 points. If the side is to do well and increase its tally, the second Test must be won and level the series.
Post this series, India are set to face Australia away in a four-Test series in 2020-21. That will be followed by a five-Test series against England at home. Therefore, things will be pivotal. India cannot leave it to a decider against England and rather seal the top two berths prior to that. With Australia and England expected to fight for the Championship, India will aim to have things under control.
Pujara has played a substantial role for India and his presence in the upcoming 10 Test matches will be highly influential. He was India's top performer in the 2018-19 Test series win in Australia after having scored in excess of 500 runs. India's major issues have been scoring significantly in SENA nations and against New Zealand that was visible.
Pujara himself didn't manage to get runs and looked ruffled up against the Kiwi pacers. His poor shot-making in the second innings saw him waste his hard work. Prior to that, he had consumed substantial time alongside Mayank Agarwal but failed to come out of his ultra-defensive approach.
Pujara has 5,762 runs from 76 Test matches at 48.83. However, the number drops significantly in away performances. He has amassed 2,291 runs in 35 Tests at 38.81. With someone like a Pujara, it is crucial to come in and consume deliveries and see off the struggling phase. His time and tenacity help someone like a Virat Kohli to come in and not get exposed to the new ball. Going forward, the right-handed batsman has to carry the side and show his mettle. He needs to score runs aplenty to help India draw plenty of character and steel.
His presence has been strong for the side of late and that value he brings cannot be written off. If India are to win, they need runs and partnerships. For that, nobody is better than someone like a Pujara, who has been a consistent force. If he manages to break free from the shackles and put up a defining show, then India can well challenge for the Championship.
I have often looked at the ICC Test rankings and wondered how India are perched at No 1. Obviously there is a method and a system behind the rankings and India have been at the top for a considerable time much longer than the previous phase when they were the No 1 from 2009 to 2011. But the fact remains that India have lost in South Africa, in England and in New Zealand these past few years while winning a series in Australia for the first time. Winning a series in Sri Lanka and West Indies is no big deal while at home, of course, India are unbeatable. Overall then there is always an element of doubt on whether India are deserving of the No 1 spot and such doubts gain further impetus following the ten-wicket defeat at Wellington on Monday.
One cannot overlook the fact that there is a negative factor in India's favor. Other teams too have been inconsistent in their overall performances in recent years and that makes India's showing in the final context still the best. For example, New Zealand lost badly in Australia, England shared the Ashes series at home but were beaten black and blue `Down Under'. Australia were beaten in South Africa who then were routed in India. South Africa also went down to a shock defeat at home to Sri Lanka besides losing to England. Australia have lost in India and Pakistan and England have fared no better in these two countries. Pakistan have been no match in New Zealand.
The point to note is that virtually every team is a poor traveler even while having an admirable record at home and that works out in India's favor with their formidable record in their own backyard. Sure there has been the odd upset result like when Sri Lanka shocked South Africa and New Zealand stunned Pakistan in the UAE. So it can be seen that every team has a rather inconsistent record. There is no invincible team around like the West Indies of the 80s and early 90s and Australia in the first decade of the new millennium.
That said India's capitulation at Wellington was something that hardly anyone could have envisaged even if the visitors have now won only one of their last 19 Tests in New Zealand. Already there are memories of the nightmarish series in 2002-03 when India lost both Tests in three days. On that occasion to the first Test was lost by ten wickets. Given India's indifferent record in New Zealand, it would take something extraordinary for the visitors to stage a comeback.
New Zealand edged closer to an unexpected victory over top-ranked India in the ICC Test Championship when it drove home the advantage of 183-run first-innings lead on the third day of the first test.
India has won its first seven matches in the championship but its unbeaten record hangs in the balance after it ended the day at 144-4, still 39 runs behind New Zealand with only six-second innings wickets in hand.
Ajinkya Rahane was 25 and Hanuma Vihari 15 at stumps which were drawn unusually late at 7.30 pm local time Sunday with long shadows draped across the Basin Reserve. But the strength of India's batting was in the pavilion as it attempts to overcome a substantial first-innings deficit.
New Zealand gained the upper hand when it replied with 348 to India's first innings of 165. It began the day only 51 runs ahead at 216-5 but solidified its position when its last three wickets produced 123 runs.
Colin de Grandhomme (43) and Kyle Jamieson (44) put on 71 for the eighth wicket, then Trent Boult smashed 38 at No. 11 to substantially increase New Zealand's lead.
Boult then contributed with the ball, finishing with 3-27 as he dismissed Prithvi Shaw (14), Cheteshwar Pujar (11) and captain Virat Kohli (19) to strengthen New Zealand's position.
"Having them 39 runs behind and four down is a good position," Boult said. "I think all in all a good day and some good cricket played.
"I managed to get a few runs to extend the lead a little bit and it was nice to contribute a bit with the ball. It's turning into a very good wicket and if we can remain very aggressive with the ball, look to be as intimidating as we can and take a couple more wickets then who knows what's possible."
India struggled throughout the day Sunday to cope with unaccustomed conditions. Heavy overnight rain made the playing field damp at the start of the day and the Indian players froze in a cold southerly breeze.
When the sun came out and the day warmed, the pitch hardened and altered in character and the Indian players struggled to cope with the constant changes the conditions demanded.
Opener Mayank Argawal posted his fourth half-century in tests in an effort to anchor the India innings but he was out for 58 and while others batted for long periods, they did little to reduce the deficit.
Cheteshwar Pujara faced 81 balls for 11 runs and even Kohli labored for 43 deliveries for his 19 before he was caught by wicketkeeper B.J. Watling off Boult.
Earlier, Colin de Grandhomme and Kyle Jamieson put on 71 for the eighth wicket and Boult hit 38 from 24 balls as New Zealand's tail wagged to expand its first-innings lead.
New Zealand resumed Sunday at 216-5, just 51 runs ahead and lost wicketkeeper B.J. Watling (14) to the first ball of the day. Tim Southee (6) was out soon after as New Zealand, at 225-7, risked falling short of the lead it wanted after bowling out India for 165.
De Grandhomme made 43 and Jamieson 44 to swing the match back in New Zealand's favor. Jamieson continued a dream debut after taking 4-39 in India's first innings.
Boult blasted 38 from 24 balls at No. 11 to swell New Zealand's lead and increase the pressure on India when it came to batting.
"I think we talk in the lower order and anything we can contribute is always handy," Boult said. "We do take pride in adding to the total and that was nice to do so today."
Pakistan is making former West Indies captain Darren Sammy an honorary citizen for his role in restoring international cricket to the country.
Pakistan will also give Sammy its highest civilian award - Nishan-e-Pakistan - the Pakistan Cricket Board tweeted Saturday.
Sammy will be honored by Pakistan President Arif Alvi in a ceremony on March 23, a national holiday known as Pakistan Day.
Sammy is seen as having played a major role as a foreign player in helping the PCB bring international cricket back to Pakistan, following an attack by gunmen on the Sri Lanka team bus in 2009.
Sammy has been leading Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League since the domestic Twenty20 tournament began in 2016.
Peshawar won the second edition of the PSL in Lahore in 2017. It was the first time that the PCB had organized a PSL game in Pakistan after the first edition and all the second edition — except the final — were played in the United Arab Emirates.
Sammy is currently leading Peshawar in the fifth edition of the PSL. The tournament is being played in its entirety for the first time in Pakistan.
The former New Zealand all-rounder Scott Styris has praised the Indian pacer Ishant Sharma for his heroics against the Kiwis. The 31-year-old experienced bowler, who sustained an ankle injury during a Ranji Trophy game last month, kept India in the competition by taking five crucial wickets against the hosts.
While lauding the efforts of Ishant Sharma for his side, Styris said that he is a terrific performer who has the ability to bowl consistently. He also stated that the lanky pacer doesn't get the respect he deserves.
"He perhaps doesn't get the respect he deserves. Those are phenomenal numbers. He is a terrific performer. His ability to consistently bowl in one area is great. He is right in the face of the batsmen and you can see the rewards are slowly coming."
Earlier, Ishant was not feeling good during the game.
"I am not happy because I have not slept for two days and I was struggling a lot today (with my body). The way I would have liked to bowl, it did not happen. They asked me to play and I played. Anything, for the team."
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Don't be afraid, I won't take it personally, but your text is a little bit insulting. Don't know in what way you're involved in Sabayon, but you wrote your text as if I stepped on your toes.BlackNoxis wrote:Some advices for you Sisko43 :
1) Firstly understand the individualist theory : I, as a human, must solve my own problems in any ways possible and must learn everything that is at hand to solve them in the right, objective (straight to the point) and justfully way possible. What you've wrote up there was a total subjective ordering of ideas and problems, I didn't see no details of WHAT could POSSIBLY went wrong with your updates.
2) Sabayon includes Gentoo-OS. Starting with this basis and judging by the individualist theory (AGAIN), your interest for knowledge is at the lowest grade possible. Then I ask again : how could you possibly have no problems with Gentoo-OS and could have problems with Sabayon when you already have a Gentoo-OS in your Sabayon system ?
3) Judging by 1) and 2) basis, I will put again another question : those packages you had problem with, they work on Gentoo ? If yes, why didn't you emerge them to see if they work (if you say you're on and know Gentoo) ? The logical fact says that if they work on Gentoo, they should work on Gentoo binaries, and guess where all Gentoo binaries go ? Right, Sabayon.
As a conclusion, I cannot imagine you using Gentoo, you don't seem to know a lot of docs about Gentoo, if you knew some Gentoo, then Sabayon broken packages would be just a "what's with this ant ?" question. If you were a true Sabayon user, then you would've debugged them, see what could possibly go wrong, and feedback a.s.a.p. to Fabio or the devs. And as Raman said, those are not Sabayon-made packages, guilt is not Sabayon's. I resume myself to darthlukan 's theory about this. The things I say here, I hope you won't take them personally, it's just user-to-user reply, but I really hope you will learn more in the future about Linux system, you don't seem to shine, and definitely Sabayon nor Gentoo don't seem to be for you.
Good luck and sincerely thoughts, Steven
Furthermore you should have left your "Advices" to a better clairvoyant maybe Nostradamus. I wrote my first post in this thread 100% influenced by frustration. To read all this what you have written out of it, is a little bit adventurous.
1. As I wrote my first post everything was fine again with my Sabayon-Installation. Not a single word with "Help". I posted in the General Discussion. I started this thread NOT, because of the mentioned issues. But because of the culmination of issues after bigger updates via equo/sulfur over the past year. That's a fact. Search a little bit in the Sabayon-Forum and you will see it. that's the reponsibility of Sabayon-dev and not Upstream. Sabayon is Sabayon. And not Gentoo.
2. You wrote:
I posted several times in the bugzilla. Two examples:
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If you were a true Sabayon user, then you would've debugged them, see what could possibly go wrong, and feedback a.s.a.p. to Fabio or the devs.
- Buggy Lightscribe-packages.
contacted several times in this case. To this day lightscribe don't work in sabayon. The lightscribe overlay from Gentoo works just fine.
- No working flash in Opera.
Contacted Bugzilla. Simple answer: "Works here on my machine. You're talking nonsense"
A few month later I found this in the forum:
Make your own conclusions...
3. Sabayon is a precompiled binary Linux, Gentoo NOT . So how can you possibly predict what I have installed on my Gentoo Machine to make these very strange connection. On my Gentoo-system is nothing installed that is still in the Testing-Phase or Masked....
4. I would say "Everybody has still to learn in life" And therefore also Linux. But nonetheless as I wrote:
I use Linux permanently since 1997 with a great variety of Distributions. Sabayon was on my machine since version 4.0.
Other activities from me in the Knowledge-Case( a few examples):
https://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?titl ... elerra_4.3
RPM-Packaging Mandriva:
http://www.mandrivauser.de/forum/viewto ... 55&t=29569
http://www.mandrivauser.de/forum/viewto ... 55&t=29513
http://www.mandrivauser.de/forum/viewto ... 55&t=29560
I could continue.
So I refuse to tolerate sentence from you like:
Starting with this basis and judging by the individualist theory (AGAIN), your interest for knowledge is at the lowest grade possible.
Good luck my omniscient Stevenbut I really hope you will learn more in the future about Linux system, you don't seem to shine, and definitely Sabayon nor Gentoo don't seem to be for you.
Oh, dear!
Your quote:
Poor excuse!Most of the time it's just the user not READING equo/sulfur output at all, we ain't Windows.
stop writing FUD, you really have no clue at all.
Anyway I'm out of Sabayon rolling now with Arch...