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ASU stuns No. 2 Arizona in double overtime
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Jermaine Marshall scored eight of his 29 points in the second overtime and Jordan Bachynski blocked T.J. McConnell's layup attempt with 6 seconds left, giving Arizona State a 69-66 upset victory over No. 2 Arizona on Friday night.
With both teams struggling offensively most of the night, ASU (19-6, 8-4 Pac-12) turned to Marshall when it counted. He went over 20 minutes without a field goal but hit consecutive 3-pointers and scored on a drive with 14 seconds left to put the Sun Devils up 67-66.
McConnell then tried to drive the lane, but Bachynski swatted his shot away, leading to Jahii Carson's breakaway dunk.
Arizona State's fans rushed the court, had to be cleared because there was 0.8 seconds left, then poured out of the stands again after Nick Johnson just missed a long 3-pointer at the buzzer.
McConnell led Arizona (23-2, 10-2) with 17 points and five rebounds. Kaleb Tarczewski had 13 points and 13 rebounds, and Aaron Gordon had 13 points and 10 rebounds for the Wildcats, who shot 35 percent and went 4 of 14 from 3-point range.
Carson finished with 17 points and six assists. Bachynski had 13 points, seven rebounds and blocked eight shots.
Arizona turned the first desert rivalry game into a rout, racing away from ASU for a 91-68 win in Tucson on Jan. 16.
A lot has changed in a month. The Wildcats lost one of their best players in their first loss of the season, as forward Brandon Ashley injured his right foot against California two weeks ago. They managed to win their first two games without the versatile sophomore, against the two Oregon schools last week, but had to rejigger their lineup to compensate for his absence.
Arizona State has been on a roll since that loss, winning five of its past six games to get back into the NCAA tournament picture. The Sun Devils also had Marshall, their second-leading scorer, back in the lineup after he missed the first game with a groin injury and Bachynski has been playing better after missing all three of his shots in Tucson.
ASU 69, Arizona 66 (2OT)
Marshall made a huge difference in the rematch after an ugly start that featured more combined fouls (11) than points (nine) the opening eight minutes.
Marshall scored 12 of the Sun Devils' 19 points in the first half, hitting 5 of 10 shots while the rest of the team 3 for 17.
Arizona led 26-21 at halftime after dominating the glass, outrebounding Arizona State 26-15, including 9-3 on the offensive end.
Marshall continued to carry the Sun Devils early in the second half, scoring on a three-point play on a turnaround shot in the lane and earning a chance at another on a hard drive before missing the free throw.
Then it was Carson's turn.
He had two points on 1-of-5 shooting in the first half, but started to assert himself more midway through the second half, scoring six straight points to put Arizona State up 47-41.
Arizona managed to keep the Sun Devils close despite struggling at the free-throw line, but Carson added a step-back jumper and Bachynski hit a free throw to make it 51-46.
The Wildcats fought back, though, with Aaron Gordon scoring on a three-point play and McConnell on a breakaway lead layup to tie it at 51-all with 49 seconds left.
Both teams had a chance to take the lead at the end of regulation, but got off poor shots to send the game to overtime.

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Car Deals
Green Car Deals: May 2013
In many cases, shoppers looking for a fuel-efficient new car think they have to pay more to save at the pump. But as our list of green car deals shows, that isn't always true. We've rounded up some of the top incentives and special offers available this month on new fuel-efficient cars, whether drivers are looking to buy or lease.
Chevrolet Volt
The Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in hybrid hatchback that can travel around 30 miles on electric power alone. In May, the Volt is no longer available with a low interest rate offer for drivers looking to buy. For lease shoppers, however, the Volt is available with one of the best deals Chevrolet has ever offered. Through the end of the month, qualified drivers can lease a Volt for 36 months for $269 per month. Taking advantage of that deal requires only $2,399 down. Best of all, the lease offer lets drivers travel up to 12,000 miles per year without penalty.
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Ford Focus Electric
The Focus Electric is a fully-electric 5-door hatchback based on the compact Ford Focus. Unlike the Chevrolet Volt, the Focus Electric doesn't have a range-extending gasoline engine. Its electric-only range is around 75 miles, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Through the end of May, the Focus Electric is available with a great deal for drivers looking to finance. Qualified buyers can get the hatchback with zero percent interest for up to 60 months, plus up to $2,000 cash back. And Ford is offering a further $1,000 cash back if drivers are coming out of a competitive model's lease to buy the Focus Electric.
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Nissan Leaf
The fully-electric Nissan Leaf hatchback offers nearly 100 miles of range. Updated for 2013, the Leaf is still among the very best deals in today's crop of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. Shoppers interested in financing a Leaf can get a good deal, as Nissan is offering zero percent interest for up to 36 months. But the best offer is on a 36-month lease. With $1,999 down, drivers can lease a base-level Leaf S for just $199 per month. That number is very enticing -- and it's even better when you consider that you no longer have to pay for typical expenses, such as fuel and oil changes.
Toyota Camry Hybrid
The Toyota Camry Hybrid offers a hybrid drivetrain in the popular midsize Toyota Camry sedan. It offers 43 mpg city and 39 mpg on the highway. Through the end of May, it's also available with incentives from Toyota. The best deal is a low-interest offer. Qualified buyers can get interest rates as low as zero percent for up to 48 months. Lease shoppers can get an incentive, too, as Toyota is offering a 36-month lease with $2,648 down and payments starting at just $249 per month.
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Volkswagen Jetta TDI
The Volkswagen Jetta TDI offers a fuel-efficient diesel powerplant in Volkswagen's popular Jetta sedan. Jetta models equipped with the 140-horsepower TDI engine return up to 30 mpg in the city and 42 mpg on the highway, according to the EPA. In May, the Jetta TDI is also available with a rare incentive: Through the end of the month, the sedan is available to qualified buyers with interest rates as low as 0.9 percent for up to 66 months. Volkswagen isn't offering any other special deals on the Jetta TDI, but that's a pretty good rate, considering the high demand for VW's diesel models.
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What it means to you: Our list of green car deals proves shoppers can save money at the pump without spending too much at the dealer.
Incentives can vary based on where you live, so residency restrictions may apply. Also, only buyers with very good credit will qualify for most of these deals. Not all incentives are available to all customers.


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Car News
2014 Kia Sorento SX: Brand Anxiety
I'm not embarrassed to admit that a curious thing happened when I took delivery of our 2014 Kia Sorento SX: I felt a touch of self-consciousness about driving a Kia. But before you accuse me of being a snob, allow me to indulge in explaining a little about myself. I've been a car nut for as long as I can remember, and as a kid I sang "Happy Birthday" to my Matchbox cars simply because it seemed like the right thing to do. I autocrossed in high school and eventually pursued my dream of writing about cars because nothing made me happier than driving, dreaming and obsessing about all things motorized.
Confessions of a Car Snob
Somewhere on the road of my automotive travels, I started gravitating toward European cars. BMWs and Mercedes-Benz beaters passed through my garage, and a few years ago I took great pleasure in buying a 1980s-era Porsche 911 in Florida and driving it cross-country. Though I tested and wrote about numerous modern Korean cars (and was generally impressed by their progress since the dark days when they entered the U.S. market with subpar cars decades ago), I still never considered myself a Kia driver. Until now.
The Great Experiment: First Impressions
It was no accident our 2014 Kia Sorento long-term tester came with a fully loaded equipment list. Can you blame the Korean automaker for putting its best foot forward? Off the bat, I was impressed by the Sorento's looks -- not surprising, since its design was overseen by Peter Schreyer, who had previously bolstered his reputation by introducing cleaner, more purposeful designs at Audi. The Sorento is by no means the sharpest looking car in the Kia lineup -- that distinction goes to the Optima sedan or Sportage crossover -- but its somewhat bulky exterior proportions are countered with a well put-together interior outfitted with nicely finished materials and comfortable leather seats.
But when it comes to the Kia brand, so far I still can't completely suppress my inner snob. When someone asks me what I drive, my answer usually sounds something like this: "I drive a Kia ... but it's really nice!" That defensive response is usually made even weaker when I rattle off a laundry list of the Sorento's generous features, including a backup camera, heated and ventilated seats and a panoramic sunroof. That the Sorento drives reasonably well and offers solid competition against its Japanese and European counterparts certainly conflicts with my trepidation.
The Verdict: Only Time Will Tell
If this old-school car snob can side with the Kia Sorento, anyone can -- but it's too early to tell if I'd spend my own money on a Kia. Stay tuned for future updates on how the Kia Sorento holds up, and whether this redesigned crossover is well-built, reliable and fun enough to drive to make me fall in love with Korean cars.


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The indie game developer, thatgamecompany, has created immersive games that deliver stunningly vibrant visuals, a totally Zen gameplay experience and a completely unique feel. As you glide through the underwater world or soar through fields of flowers, youll notice yourself relaxing into a mentally challenging, yet emotionally calming frame-of-mind with the help of amazing soundtracks to ease you even further. This Collectors Edition brings you Journey, Flower and flOw in one package, full of peaceful gameplay and exciting extras. Created by the acclaimed indie game developer, thatgamecompany, this series of games has transcended the label of video game and become a true entertainment experience. With additional content, such as a 30-minute documentary on the making of Journey and Creators Commentary play-throughs of all three games, youll be able to learn the ins and outs of the award-winning games included in this Collectors Edition. Whether youre exploring the vibrant landscape of Journey, tilting your controller to fly through the picturesque world of Flower or discovering the wonder of the underwater world in flOw, you will embark on a journey of the mind every time you pick up the controller.
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Teacher Education Program (B. Ed) in SAARC Countries
The objective of the study was to evaluate the present Pre-service Elementary Teacher Education Programs (B. Ed & equivalents) of SAARC Countries to reveal innovative ideas, which may be adopted and adapted in other countries including Pakistan. Reference books, journals, research papers, Encyclopedias of education, yearbooks, national educational policies, internet and such other resources were consulted to have an insight of these nations, their system of education and to retrieve salient features of a good Pre-service Elementary Teacher education program. Questionnaire named as "Questionnaire for Elementary Teacher Education program evaluation" was prepared, preened after pilot study at provincial capitals of Pakistan and presented to a team of local and foreign experts. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted to increase the quality and quantity of responses. In the light of high majority opinions criterion component were finalized. These components in the form of question were sent to the SAARC countries through the relevant Embassies, graduate facilitators, who on my behalf collected data. Collected data was sorted out and matched with the already developed criteria. Result revealed that Indian system of Teacher Education matches the criteria most. Pakistan has many mismatches but Elementary Teacher Education Program offered by the University of Education, Lahore and its associated colleges is bridging this gap successfully. Bhutan, Bangladesh and Maldives are showing improvements. The experiments of Sri Lanka & Nepal have many lessons to learn.
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Download this document from the Sasaki Archive See also: 1997 Letter to Joshu Sasaki
I began Zen practice in High School. I spent two weeks at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center between my freshman and sophomore years of college. Then I first met Denkyo Kyozan Joshu Roshi in 1980 when I was nineteen years old. I did my first sesshin a few months later, was ordained by him in 1983, and made an Osho by him in 1999. Between 1995 and 2007 I translated for well over 2,000 hours of public and private dharma talks and meetings. I probably spent more than that number of hours helping to transcribe and correct the translations. Since 2007 I have been in protest and not participating in Rinzai-ji, although I've had a few private meetings with Joshu Roshi. I am writing because I care about Joshu Roshi and the community. I would like to help in any way I can to bring about healing through honesty. To the best of my knowledge and ability, I will describe how Joshu Roshi, and the community that supports him, has tried to deal with his sexual activity with his female students, and how the inability to do that skillfully seems to have led to a diminishment of his teachings and the practice. This is a snapshot of my own failure to understand the situation I was (and to some degree am still) in, to care about it enough, and to act skillfully. I offer this to the collage of Rinzai-ji, and the bigger collage of Zen in the West at this time. I ask forgiveness for my failings. I feel that in order to keep the clear loving connection between Joshu Roshi and me I must confront him about this pattern of behavior that seems to cause him, and those around him, suffering.I believe Joshu Roshi is a great Zen teacher in many ways. I say this from my long personal experience with him, as well as my experiences with other Zen teachers. He holds up a beautiful liberating universally healing ideal. We all can experience living, transcending life, dying, and transcending death, fully. We all can experience salvation and liberation. Joshu Roshi could genuinely offer that ideal, that experience, because, I believe, he could, at times, truly manifest it, and he could recognize it in others. Joshu Roshi also has the ability to sometimes know exactly what a student is experiencing without having to be told. This is quite remarkable, and I believe gives his students a feeling they are in the presence of someone with extraordinary spiritual power. As a young man I sat in zazen and felt my hand spontaneously open on my outbreath, and felt my sphere of consciousness expand with it. Then on the next in breath my hand unwillingly closed to a fist. The next time I saw Joshu Roshi, I bowed in silence as usual, and sat up. At once he looked me in the eye, open and closed his hand, and said, "Now you can be a Zen teacher." How could I not feel this man knew me better than anyone could? I believed I could I trust him completely. And yet. Over a long period of time I have come to understand Joshu Roshi has many sexual encounters of various kinds with his students, many of whom are married. I hope this description is striking some sort of beautiful balance between not saying too little and not saying too much. But. I'll probably miss that balance. Especially important to me is to be clear that when I say "Osho" or "Inji" I am not implying that all Rinzai-ji Oshos or Injis acted similarly. That is very far from the truth. I would like to emphatically emphasize I am only speaking of my own experience with a relatively few people. I beg you to not paint all Oshos, senior students, or Injis with the same brush. Please, if you know someone associated with Rinzai-ji, or hear someone is, do not assume you know what he or she did or thought after reading this account. From many stories I was told by men and women, and from my long experience translating, I believe Joshu Roshi sometimes used the way he spoke in sanzen, and even in teisho, to coerce women into giving him sex. He implied that resisting his advances was resisting the cosmic activity itself. He also implied surrendering to his requests for sex may lead to the experience of absolute cosmic unity. He punished some women who would not capitulate to his demands by giving them little or no attention. He coerced women by saying, "This is the only way I can teach you," "You should overcome your ego," "If you don't have sex with me, you are not manifesting one true nature," "You say 'my body,' but that is the thought of your incomplete self," "You are the only one I ever touch," "You have the best energy." Joshu Roshi's Zen, in my experience, both affirmed the individual, imperfect self, and the manifestation of no-self, both. However, regarding this issue of his own sexual activity, he almost always demanded negation of the self, no boundaries between himself and his female students, and dismissed the other person's individuality. This also carried over into his demands of male students to not think about or talk about his having sexual relations with his students. The argument that his teishos were sometimes sexual coercion is harder to make, but I feel it is true. He went through a phase when he repeated often that following one's instinctual impulses is the same as following the Dharma activity. I don't think he really believed that deeply. He also would sometimes emphasize the idea that "resisting the unification of expansion and contraction was egotistical" so adamantly that I, knowing whom in the audience he was trying to persuade to allow his sexual advances, could no longer serve as his translator in good conscience. Some senior students and Oshos, although they knew about his pattern of trying to initiate some sort of sex with his students and especially his Injis, encouraged new students to become his Inji, telling them it was special, an honor and a great opportunity. Then when the new Inji complained about his sexual demands sometimes they were told they should give themselves to him completely. At this point I don't claim to have anywhere near a perfect picture of the facts. However, I have heard the experiences of forty two women, either from them directly or their husbands or boyfriends:
- Twenty-three of those are no longer practicing with Joshu Roshi and had negative experiences, and many of those have shared their bad experiences with other Buddhist sanghas.
- There was one report to a crisis hotline, one police report, and once I witnessed a woman confronting Joshu Roshi in front of his wife, saying "Try touching me now when your wife is here!"
- Fourteen of the forty-two would probably say they are still Roshi's students, nine of them obviously are.
- Of those, two told me their sexual encounters with Roshi were fantastically helpful, healing some sexual problems.
- Five others say only positive, though not so effusively glorious things.
- Six other women still practicing with Roshi (or at least saying they are his student) express more of an "I've put up with a lot" attitude.
- Five others had very short, one time encounters, all of whom said they rebuffed Roshi's advances with a slap, a laugh, or by changing the subject.
- Eleven out of the forty-two told me in detail how Roshi repeatedly grabbed at them despite their saying "No," sometimes dozens of times in one day, over many months, and sometimes many years. Two of those told me they were pushed to the ground.
I have also had extensive conversations with two Japanese monks who, for their own reasons had researched Joshu's history in Japan. They told me Joshu Roshi has biological children in Japan who were not openly acknowledged as his when they were children. I have since met one of them, and I read an email from another. The monk told me that in Japan his sexual activity was a big concern within Myoshin-ji. This is an extremely unscientific "survey," for which all of the information was randomly and freely given, and 90 percent of the information was obtained after 1997. It is very clear that nobody really knows anything close to everything, and the people who know the most aren't talking in public. It is hard to say exactly what happened because there has not, as of yet, been an open, honest, caring and respectful investigation into what has happened over these 50 years of Joshu Roshi teaching in North America. Any attempt to extrapolate from my description and guess at the full extent of the activity must factor in many things. It is very common for women to remain silent about these difficult experiences, even with their close friends. Almost all of my information comes from Roshi's later years, when his activity had decreased significantly. It makes it very difficult to guess, if not impossible. Each individual story is important for the people involved, and some stories are very complicated. A woman can honestly say she experienced great learning from having sex with him. Some can honestly say they experienced Joshu Roshi as an eccentric but charming old man who flirted a lot. Everyone's experience is true for them. This doesn't mean that everyone who had an experience with Joshu Roshi has a clear view of the bigger picture.It took me a long time to become conscious of these things. Although I had one or two experiences in my early years of practice that, if I had been more able to hear, could have brought Joshu Roshi's sexual patterns into the light clearly, I was firmly in denial for a long time, and I never talked about it. When I think back on my experience standing on the Mount Baldy main path in the early 80s, when I was shoji, listening to a woman ask for advice about Joshu Roshi fondling her in sanzen – it is like my mind was a vacuum. I don't remember saying one word in response. I had at least one other experience like that. It was not until years later, in the summer of 1997, as some women I knew well started telling me about it when I started to hear it. That is when I first suggested to Joshu Roshi that he have a monitor present in sanzen and no longer have female Injis. He was furious. He slammed his teacup on the table so hard the cup broke, and later called for his Inji to come check his blood pressure. That fall a small group of residents of Mount Baldy, none of us Oshos at the time, got together and talked, and wrote a letter to Joshu Roshi about his sexual conduct. I think there were about 12 of us who worked on the letter. In the final version my ideas of sanzen monitors and no female Injis were taken out, because the majority felt we should take a more respectful, less demanding stance. My intent then was to have Joshu Roshi and the community face the problem, so we could all keep practicing together in a healthier way. I did not have the intent of closing down Rinzai-ji, or forcing Joshu Roshi to stop teaching. I thought it possible for him and us to face his problem, and for him to keep teaching – with some modifications and outside help. He was very angry upon getting even the much toned down letter, and presented his students with a simple choice, "Either I admit these things and then of course I would have to resign, or I can keep teaching you." The vast majority of students took that seriously and rallied around him to keep teaching. I still regret I could not persuade people to call his bluff. After that, even though he still had private sanzen time and female Injis, things did change at Mount Baldy. Some monks were much more open with women students about Joshu Roshi having a tendency to act sexually towards his students. For a time they no longer tried to claim it was teaching, or deny it, but instead counseled people on how to deal with it. Monks would take women aside, even before they had ever met Joshu Roshi in sanzen, and explain he had some sort of sexual touching problem. "We couldn't stop it, but here's what you can do if it happens. Firmly saying "No" right off the bat has worked for many women…" Things like that. This seemed absurd, but on the other hand it was probably helpful to some extent. I still tried further to convince him to change his behavior. I had several long conversations with him about it. I think it is accurate to say I spent more than five hours, over quite a few meetings, pleading and arguing with him to get help with his sex problem, as I called it. I wanted very badly to figure out some way to stay. I loved Joshu Roshi as a teacher, and had studied Japanese hoping to someday translate for him. I had always been happy about my choices to become a monk, translator, and part of this community. Then it was as though the feeling I was part of something beautiful was crumbling. When I tried to talk with him about my concerns he seemed truly unreasonable. This man I considered not just sane, but a wise elder, began presenting me with something that seemed somewhere close to insane, and now felt I could not continue in good conscience. During our conversations he said all sorts of things. "I am like a doctor. You wouldn't be angry if I touched your wife's breasts or vagina if I were a doctor examining her." "Ok, maybe I have a sickness, but I will be the leader of all those with the same sickness!" "My hand just moves. It's will-less (ishinashini)." He tried to explain the origin of his sexual patterns: "When I was young I didn't know anything about sex, and I was a virgin for a long time. Everyone respected me then. The first woman I was with had to show me how to do everything. I didn't even know women had a good feeling when their breasts were touched. It was seeing the American soldiers walking with Japanese women after the end of World War II that piqued my curiosity. I wanted that too! Then, after I started, I couldn't stop. I wanted more and more." I feel my experience during this period, when Joshu Roshi and I were often vehemently disagreeing, is evidence that unquestioning obedience to and reverence towards a spiritual teacher are not requisites for a productive relationship with that teacher. In fact it may be harmful to the student and the teacher's development. Outside of sanzen and my translating for him we were often fighting. I think it is accurate to say we both strived to improve our work in sanzen and during teisho, and the content of both did not suffer. Finally, a few days after I had talked with him for many hours in a hotel room in Austria, he said, "Your idea is right. Thank you for showing me my way is sometimes not good. Thank you for getting angry." We came to agree his sexual behavior is a "bad habit," (kuse in Japanese), and he said he would stop. He also talked about bad habits in teisho, and about how we sometimes hurt people because of them, without admitting in detail what he was referring to. He publicly chanted the sange (repentance) chants several times during teisho, although he didn't specify in public why he was doing sange. I was content to stay and continue translating for him. There was a feeling in part of the community that we who confronted him had succeeded in changing his behavior. A few people thanked me. People said his behavior changed in sanzen, and privately he convinced me he had changed. Even now I still believe he made an effort at that time to change his behavior. Ten years later, in 2007, more women came forward and said Joshu Roshi had been sexually pressuring them during the period I thought this behavior had ended. I was told by his Injis that Joshu Roshi had never stopped, only slowed down. I was told, "He played you. He tricked you." (When I heard the new accounts I realized I actually suspected Joshu Roshi had never completely stopped. There had been evidence, for instance, women re-adjusting their robes while leaving the sanzen room. I simply didn't allow the evidence to come to full consciousness.) The trust I had felt was damaged. I tried to defend my position to my friends and family. I told them I believed he was a very good Zen teacher, but I did not think he was trustworthy about anything to do with his own personal behavior in the realm of sex. It was a hard sell. In 2007 Gentei Osho initiated a discussion about this issue. Eshin Osho also wrote a very strong letter to Roshi about it. This culminated in a meeting of the Osho Council of Rinzai-ji in December. I felt I had been very naive in the first 1997 attempt; specifically only working with a small group of students and directly with him. In 2007 we tried to involve the community of Oshos, and even, albeit informally, the board of directors. Instead of being more successful there was a lot more anger expressed towards Gentei and me. People were told not to speak openly because of fear of legal repercussions. Three women wrote very balanced eloquent letters about their confusion caused by Joshu Roshi's sexual pressuring, and these were supposed to be discussed by the Osho Council. The letters, however, never got an official response from the Oshos. There was no movement towards openly acknowledging the pattern of behavior. At that time I still felt Joshu Roshi should continue to teach and not resign. I felt he should change his behavior, with professional help, and, as was my suggestion in 1997, have no female Injis, and a monitor in sanzen. However, in a nearly identical way as happened then, Joshu Roshi gave the same choice, either I will resign or I will go forward unconstrained. After the meeting Joshu Roshi began calling people who wanted to discuss his sexual activity his "enemies (taiteki in Japanese). It seemed he was helping to form a party line; to criticize Joshu Roshi is blasphemy. To say he has a serious sexual problem means you don't understand his teaching. If you are working to have Joshu Roshi face his problem and change then you don't love him and should leave. The sentiment I remember hearing the most from other Oshos was some version of, "We must weigh the good of Joshu Roshi's teaching against the bad. The good is incredibly good. He is probably the most enlightened person alive in this world. There is no way to stop the bad, only contain it. He will never change. The good, however, far outweighs the bad. If we try to guide Joshu Roshi towards changing his behavior he will resign and stop teaching, and all the good will be lost." I gave up trying to sway the community of Oshos. I am open to criticism about how I tried. I know I simply angered many people, which didn't help. In the end I ran out of creative ways to be pushy. I then, in protest, stopped all participation with Rinzai-ji.
Over all of my years in Rinai-ji many people who I admired and who inspired me left the Rinzai-ji sangha. In certain instances I didn't learn until years later it was because of Joshu Roshi's sexual conduct. The choice I was, both implicitly and explicitly, forced to make, between silence and leaving the community, wore on me. I was also treated harshly by Joshu Roshi and his inner circle. Myoshin-ji style Rinzai Zen training, the tradition Joshu Roshi continues, IS often harsh. I was accustomed to that. In this instance I had to try to discern if the harshness was coming from compassion, or, as my common sense told me, fear and greed. When I "came out" and raised my concerns about Joshu Roshi's sexual conduct some Oshos told me I had no Zen understanding and should be beaten with sticks; I was an arrogant blind fool; I had "kindergarten understanding" and obviously had never passed even one koan. Joshu Roshi told me I would never get enlightened if I thought about these things. I was told by one Osho and one senior student I would be blamed for Joshu Roshi's death if I tried to make him change his behavior, and that I would be responsible for ruining his legacy. "You are killing him!" was shouted at me more than once. Another Osho told me that Joshu Roshi had demanded I do a special repentance ceremony if I ever wanted to practice with Joshu Roshi again. When I asked the Osho if he had argued my case to Joshu Roshi, or even asked for an explanation he said he hadn't. I was banned from coming on the property of one Zen Center, and banned from teaching at another. Joshu Roshi began calling me "attached to honesty," and "bakashoujiki" (meaning "stupidly honest") to others and to me. This same sort of thing happened to other people, too. In many private meetings, Joshu Roshi began calling another Osho who had attempted to discuss the situation "crazy." At the 2007 Osho meeting women who wrote letters about Joshu Roshi's sexual activity were discredited as "seeking attention" or not realizing he was trying to teach them. Women who complained or asked for guidance were told things like, "Maybe you're not ready for this practice," "Joshu Roshi's sexual touching is teaching," "Why not let the old man touch your breasts? What does it matter?" With some female students Joshu Roshi was more determined, aggressive, and angry. Those women were belittled by other women who had had an easier time keeping him at bay, "How can you not just repel him? He's so old!" Another woman who complained was discredited. An Osho said, "She's crazy. She takes antidepressants."It is important to point out the obvious, again. There is an amazingly wide range of behavior among Joshu Roshi's Oshos and students. Some people who have been around a long time really didn't know that much about Joshu Roshi's sexual activity. Some people knew a lot and were instrumental in silencing people and working to retain the status quo. Some people knew a lot, but were very distant from Bodhi Manda and Mount Baldy, the two major centers. The extremely decentralized "system" of Rinzai-ji made it possible for some people, most of the time, to not have to think about, or even know about, Joshu Roshi's sexual patterns. That much of the time we spend together is at silent retreats also contributes to the lack of knowledge. Each of us must decide how to take responsibility for our past actions. Each of us must decide how to make reparations. Each of us must try to understand why we acted the way we did. And, further, I also would like to emphasize how difficult this is. We who know about Joshu Roshi's sexual behavior and are longtime students, and almost always came to know about the sexual behavior slowly and circuitously, have a lot to digest. We all have found a wonderful teacher. Some of us feel Joshu Roshi had saved us from suicide, or some other very bad situation. Some of us feel Joshu Roshi's Zen is utterly unique. Rinzai-ji is our spiritual home. Anything that feels like an attack on that is naturally resisted with an instinctual fighting spirit. It's hard to give that up. It's hard to be put in the position, (even if that position is only known or felt on a subconscious level, and even if that position isn't really true), of either having to harm one's friend or lose one's teacher and spiritual family. In 1997 I finally felt no longer in denial. In 2007 I felt that way again. And, again now. Each time I have felt sharply remorseful for my previous lack of clear understanding, paucity of love, and weakness of action. Now I feel that for Rinzai-ji to ever be a healthy organization it must clearly and publicly acknowledge that in significant ways essentially excellent Zen teaching and practice has been mixed with a culture of great dependency on one person. This dependency, and double standard, is in many ways antithetical to Zen teaching. What can we do as members of this community, and the larger Zen community, to move forward and learn? I like Professor Batchelor's description of "stream entering" being an important milestone (http://sweepingzen.com/buddhism-and-sex-the-bigger-picture/). I believe if both teachers and students realize that after some point, once you have the experience of samadhi and insight to a certain rudimentary degree (and exactly what that is, that is an interesting question), your practice is very much up to yourself. Zen teachers often say a student should not be "attached to his own thinking." This is good teaching. To experience merging into the great natural activity (the dharma activity in Joshu-ese) we need to replace our own thinking with the sound of the wind, the floating cloud, the flower opening, the sun blaring, the moon slowly rising, our own heart beats, our breathing. Further, the strong demand in Joshu Roshi's Zen to do that completely and enter the Samadhi of no conflict, and further, to never be satisfied with the depth of our practice is commendable. There is a great humility in his sangha in some ways, at least as we face ourselves. However, we do not need to replace our thinking with someone else's thinking. We do not need to replace our past identity with a new identity as an obedient, good student to a Master. And, also, even as we know our thinking is incomplete, we must keep listening to our own voices. Our own is the only voice we have. Even when, for example, we judge a teacher to be good or choose a practice to do, we are listening to our own voice. Zen practice that over-emphasizes a sort of hostility towards our own thinking is fertile soil for "denial." Perhaps we Zen teachers need to find a way to underscore the wonderful preciousness of our own thoughts, even as we teach how to transcend them. If we watch carefully how we know our own thoughts, and unify with them, that unification is no different from our unification with the sound of the wind, the smell of the incense. Teachers with amazing spiritual gifts can also have serious psychological issues. We must, I believe, simply hold everyone to the same standards of not harming others, being honest, facing our problems, and so forth. The notion that a student should not question her teacher for fear of cutting off the spiritual connection between them is false. I still feel somewhat "in the bubble" as my monk friend refers to being enmeshed with Rinzai-ji. Darn it! I do think Joshu Roshi manifests a wonderfully unique Zen, when he's on his game. I do not want to rid myself of the simultaneous breathing, four phases, expansion and contraction, absolute large and small, up before 3am and yaza in the snow with the coyotes, manifestation of Zero – style Zen training I was raised on. On the other hand, the behavior of the inner circle of Rinzai-ji, including Joshu Roshi himself, where a culture of double standards and dependency was formed, partly around a pattern of sexual behavior people thought could not change, must, I believe, be called, (as Joshu Roshi liked to say), ge ge no ge. Lower than the lowest of the low. The thing that I hope will be considered carefully is how it is possible for those two things to come to exist with each other.


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Here's The Proposal The FCC Says Doesn't Exist To Move Network Diagnostics To Proprietary Servers
from the oh-look-at-that dept
Yesterday, Vint Cerf distributed an open letter regarding concerns about the Measuring Broadband America measurement infrastructure. We share the objectives of the letter writers that "Open data and an independent, transparent measurement framework must be the cornerstones of any scientifically credible broadband Internet access measurement program." Unfortunately, the letter claims: "Specifically, that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering a proposal to replace the Measurement Lab server infrastructure with closed infrastructure, run by the participating Internet service providers (ISPs) whose own speeds are being measured." This is false.It turns out his claim that "this is false" is... well... false. Attached below, we have the proposal that supposedly doesn't exist.
The FCC is not considering replacing the Measurement Labs infrastructure. As part of a consensus-based discussion in the Measurement Collaborative, a group of public interest, research and ISP representatives, we have discussed how to enhance the existing measurement infrastructure to ensure the validity of the measurement data. Any such enhancements would be implemented solely to provide additional resiliency for the measurement infrastructure, not to replace existing infrastructure. Any data gathered would be subject to the same standards of data access and openness.


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What Is The Future Of Virtual Storage In An SDDC?
What is the future of virtual storage in a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)? As more and more technology gets moved from hardware to software in the SDDC, we have to wonder which direction virtual storage will go. If we use networking as an example, the technology has evolved from setting up local virtual switches on each of the hosts to a virtual distributed switch (VDS) model where all the individual host-level virtual switches are abstracted into a single large VDS that spans multiple hosts at the Datacenter level. In this design, the data plane remains local to each VDS, but the management plane is centralized with VMware vCenter Server acting as the control point for all configured VDS instances.
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2009-03-22 - Posted by Miklos Vajna
The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.0, our tenth stable release. The version number 1.0 does not indicate anything really special, the new release will bring you as many new features and bugfixes as usual, but it's still a milestone in the development of the last five years.
No new features have been added since 1.0rc2, but 81 changes have been made to fix minor bugs. If you didn't follow the changes during the pre/rc releases, here are the most important changes since 0.9 in no particular order:
- Support for ASUS Eee PC models.
- New 'ppc' port (though security support will not be available for this architecture in this release cycle due to lack of resources).
- Support for having a 32-bit chroot on x86_64.
- Having '/boot' on a RAID1 device is now supported (we only supported having '/' on RAID1 previously).
- gService, a new graphical tool for enabling/disabling services.
- Java plugin on x86_64.
- Support for the ext4 filesystem.
Download for i686, x86_64 and ppc: See our mirror list. Don't forget to check the integrity of the install images before burning!
NOTE: Click here to read more about what media you need for the installation.
If you are upgrading to Anacreon from our previous stable release (Solaria), please read the upgrade part of our documentation.
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In our engagements with companies across sectors and regions, we continue to push for reforms to executive pay.
Setting the scene
In 2012, UK companies found themselves caught up in the so-called shareholder spring. Unhappy with what they perceived to be excessive amounts of executive pay or packages that were too complex or out of sync with the economic climate and value creation, shareholders started voicing their frustration by voting more frequently against remuneration reports at company AGMs.
The shareholder spring was perceived to be a game-changer. In the UK, it led to new legislation in 2013, resulting in a binding vote on a company's pay policy by shareholders at least every three years. Together with the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association, the BT Pension Scheme, Railpen Investments and the Universities Superannuation Scheme, Hermes EOS developed a set of remuneration principles for executives in the aftermath of the shareholder spring. 3
However, the impact of the 2012 shareholder spring turned out to be short-lived and executive pay has continued to increase, particularly in comparison with the rest of the workforce [see table]. Often this has led to higher levels of remuneration for average performance and reward for failure. To the ultimate beneficiary of institutional investors this trend has been difficult to justify and frustration about the widening pay gap and related divisions in society may have contributed to the decision made by UK voters to leave the EU.
The annual bonus and long-term incentive plans of executives typically pay many multiples of their base salary, even in years where companies underperform. Often the root cause of overly generous pay and reward for failure lies in the remuneration policies of companies which are supposed to align the remuneration of the CEO with the performance of the company he or she is leading. Executive pay plans have become increasingly – and unnecessarily – complex and difficult to understand even for members of remuneration committees. At the same time, remuneration committees have mostly failed to fulfil their responsibilities by using their discretion to reign in ever-increasing pay awards.
Voting season 2016
In the 2016 voting season, similar to 2012, a large number of shareholders opposed the pay policies and reports of companies and called for reforms, reflecting the public anger to high levels of pay. We at Hermes EOS played a part in this, by complementing our engagement on high pay with votes against management proposals on remuneration.
Although remuneration frameworks vary by country – most notably with regard to disclosure, pay caps and, crucially, the existence and legal effect of shareholder votes on pay policies and reports – and concerns differ accordingly, several trends have stood out this voting season.
First, we observed the misalignment of executive pay to the experience of shareholders and creation of long-term value. Due to the downturn in the commodities sector, this applied especially to extractives companies, such as Anglo American and BP, and those providing goods or services to the industry, such as Weir Group. Secondly, we witnessed the overuse of discretion upwards by remuneration committees when it should not be used or lack of discretion when it needed to be applied, for instance where quantum is already large. We, for example, opposed the pay package at Tullow Oil for failure to use discretion downwards in a year, which, in our view, displayed poor performance. In addition, we recommended voting against remuneration policies where the assessment and stress-testing of pay packages and policies by remuneration committees was in our view flawed and quantum was inappropriate and unacceptable to us.
One of the most controversial votes cast against in the 2016 voting season was at the AGM of UK multinational advertising agency WPP, with which we have a longstanding engagement on independent board leadership, succession planning and the responsibilities of its remuneration committee. The proposed £70 million pay package for 2015 has to date been the second-highest pay package ever received by a FTSE CEO. The large quantum could primarily be attributed to a legacy equity incentive plan introduced in 2009 which is to be phased out in 2017. However, while we appreciate that the quantum was primarily a result of the company's strong performance in recent years, we had historic concerns about board composition and the remuneration committee's apparent lack of vigour and stress-testing when the legacy plan was devised. We urged the chair of the remuneration committee to draw the right lessons from this controversy when developing a new remuneration policy in 2017 and, like last year, opposed the proposed pay package for assessment and quantum reasons. Another highlight of the voting season was the AGM of Deutsche Bank, where we commended the supervisory board for not paying any bonuses to the members of the management board in 2015. However, we were concerned about the significant increases in base salaries in recent years, the apparent lack of consultation on the proposed changes to the management board remuneration system, the inadequate transparency in relation to performance criteria and targets of the proposed division performance award, as well as the high level of discretion of the supervisory board with regard to variable remuneration. We were therefore part of the 51.9% of shareholders who opposed the new remuneration system.
Reform proposals
At the beginning of this year's AGM season, we issued additional guidance to clarify our expectations of remuneration committees. We highlighted that developing, thoroughly assessing and stresstesting, implementing and – if necessary – adjusting the outcomes of remuneration policies is the responsibility of remuneration committees – not of investors. (4)
To effectively discharge their stewardship role, remuneration committees must take a more robust view on pay.
They must improve their assessment and stress-testing of remuneration policies and the disclosure and communications of outcomes of different, even unlikely, scenarios. If their members are unable to do so, this suggests that remuneration policies have become far too complex and unnecessarily complicated. A simplification of remuneration policies and plans – which allows outcomes to be understood by investors, boards and executives – has thus become necessary. If remuneration committees do not understand the potential outcomes of a pay policy, or would struggle to rationalise proposed quantum, they should veto it. And if the actual outcomes of a policy cannot be explained convincingly to the average member of the public or implementation leads to results that contradict the underlying purpose of a remuneration policy, they should use their discretion to adjust them. At all times, they should use discretion to safeguard their company's reputation and social licence to operate in a given market.
Remuneration committees must also balance the desire to set some targets that can be controlled by executives with the need to ensure alignment of remuneration and long-term value creation. We have long argued that paying a significant part of remuneration to executives in shares and requiring them to hold these well beyond their tenure with companies is a natural starting point to ensure the desired alignment. In addition, remuneration committees must form a view on what they regard as appropriate and acceptable quantum for executives in different scenarios and clearly disclose and communicate this to shareholders. Shareholders can then take a view on this important matter.
Pay escalation is often linked to succession plans, as companies believe they can hold onto their CEO by paying excessive amounts to the individual. However, in our view the head of a company should not be purely incentivised by money, as this is neither in the interests of shareholders nor the company. At times this excuse has been used to increase pay when there was little chance of the CEO leaving. While we recognise that companies want to pay their CEOs more than their competitors, businesses need to realise that remuneration alone does not attract great talent. Ideally, some form of fairness test should be applied to explain CEO pay and how it compares to the rest of the workforce and why it is justified.
In short, the objective of remuneration policy is no longer to attract, retain and motivate an individual but to pay what is necessary while rewarding delivery of great performance.
We believe that there is a significant appetite for change and urge companies to consider how they might align pay more closely with the interests of their long-term owners in order to position themselves best for future success.
The ownership chain should endeavour to understand and reflect the views and interests of the ultimate beneficiaries, including with respect to the question of what executive remuneration levels are acceptable. In the absence of direct involvement of beneficiaries, boards or trustees of asset owners could develop a clearer view on executive remuneration, including on quantum, and instruct their fund managers to communicate this to companies and exercise voting rights accordingly.
The conflicts asset managers can face, specifically when they are listed or are part of a financial group, ought to be addressed, for example through better disclosure on how published policies on executive remuneration can be implemented through voting at AGMs.
Fresh thinking
To address inequalities and the rise in quantum, pay ratios, which will come into effect for US companies in 2018, should also be considered. Under the rule adopted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission as required by the Dodd-Frank Act, large companies will have to disclose how salaries at the top compare to their median compensation level for employees worldwide.
Furthermore, pay-for-performance ought to be disentangled, in other words it has to be clearly defined as to whether it is about individual or company performance.
Engagement and voting
However, engagement reinforced by voting is likely to be the most effective means of bringing about positive change when it comes to remuneration. With another round of binding shareholder votes on pay policies taking place in the UK in 2017, we will continue our intensive engagement on remuneration for the remainder of 2016.
We seek to support companies and their directors embracing change as we believe pay arrangements that reward long-term value creation instead of average performance – and are acceptable within the wider society – are in the interests of companies and their investors.
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4 https://www.hermes-investment.com/ukw/blog/2016/04/21/executive-remuneration-inthe-spotlight/
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Have you and your hubs lost that lovin' feeling? (Between the cycle of diaper blowouts, never-ending laundry and fixing dinner, we get it.)
This week we're bringing sexy back with daily tips for heating up your post-baby marriage or relationship. Today: small ways to get that just-in-love feeling back. Try this:
Make a Lunch Date: The planning of date night—booking the sitter, dealing with teary goodbyes, finding the energy to stay up past dessert—can be overwhelming. Take the fuss out of the equation by making a plan to meet for lunch instead. If your kids are in school, childcare won't be a problem—and if they aren't, make a plan to swap kid duties with another mom for an hour or two.
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Long French dispute with Wikipedia appears to end
PARIS (AP) — A long-running feud between French intelligence services and Wikipedia over an entry on "classified" information appears to be over after France's efforts to obscure details about a military installation backfired, instead turning it into an unexpected hit.
In June 2010, French intelligence services learned about the entry detailing a military installation in southern France that, according to the site, could be part of the chain of command for nuclear weapons orders. France's efforts to get the entry pulled — including interrogating the head of French Wikimedia twice — backfired. In April, the entry topped the French site's popularity ratings.
On Tuesday, Interior Minister Manuel Valls quietly released a statement on a parliamentary website saying there would be a government working group on the issue and praising Wikipedia's "lovely project."


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Smart Solutions: Under-Cabinet Lighting
If there's one thing you should have in your small kitchen (well, besides this and this), it's under-cabinet lighting. Small kitchens are a challenge to begin with, but especially when they have poor lighting. A few under-cabinet lights can go a long way towards making your cramped kitchen feel a little more cozy, not to mention way more functional and workable!
Here are five under-cabinet lighting solutions to try:
• 1 Utilitech 24 in. 60W Xenon Under Cabinet Light, $37.50 from Lowe's: these enhanced incandescents give off "a really beautiful light," warm and golden, as Faith wrote here. They are a pain to install and they run hot, but they're still a great option for the price.
• 2 LED Tape Lights, $30-$40/lineal foot from E2 Contemporary Lighting: more streamlined and minimal, LED tape lights are a great option for under-cabinet lights. The "color reads a bit cooler than a traditional incandescent," as Lauren wrote here, but she found it worked well in the kitchen. LEDs might be more expensive up front, but they'll last 25,000 hours!
• 3 INREDA LED Cabinet Light, $14.99 from IKEA: a more affordable LED option, this cabinet light is bulkier than LED tape, but still emits low amounts of heat and doesn't require hardwiring.
• 4 LED Puck Lights, $5.85/each from Pegasus Lighting: these battery-operated round puck lights provide small spot lighting. You won't get a continuous light source with these, but they are usually more affordable and easier to install than strip or tape lights.
• 5 Super Bright Flexible Strip, $10+ at Inspired LED: available in warm or cool white, red, green or blue, this LED strip light is built to your specifications, and comes with connectors soldered on each end.
Do you have under-cabinet lighting? What brand or type of lighting did you go with? Share your experiences!
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(Images: 1. Faith Durand; 2. Lauren Zerbey; all others as linked)


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An update from Liz, a junior, who participated in the Alternative Fall Breaks trip to Hartshorne, Oklahoma:
How I spent fall break of my junior year is not what people would typically imagine a college student doing. This year I was privileged enough to travel to Hartshorne, Oklahoma, with SMU Alternative Breaks and work to rebuild a home that the organization Rebuilding Together had sponsored.
Before I delve into my attempt of a lofty and deserving reflection of this trip, I suppose I should first provide some background of Hartshorne and Rebuilding Together. Hartshorne is a small town located just outside McAlester, Oklahoma, and 1,800 people call it home. Around 26 percent of the population lives below the poverty line and is subject to the cyclical effects of such living conditions. You can find vacant buildings lining downtown and four Head Start centers within the town limits.
Due to the poverty that Hartshorne faces, Rebuilding Together has become active in helping those living in unsound housing throughout the community. Rebuilding Together is one of the largest nonprofit organizations in the country that "provides critical repairs and renovations to low-income homeowners across the United States." In comparison to Habitat for Humanity, Rebuilding Together works to repair homes that are in a dilapidated state rather than building homes from the beginning foundations.
In this small Oklahoma town, poverty knows no gender, race, or demographic. It has plagued the town for years, and yet, there is hope. There is hope from the neighboring community of McAlester, hope in the eyes of Alan and Phillip of Rebuilding Together, and while our group was there, hope that we made some kind of difference for at least a few people. This trip may have only been four days, but oh what a four-day alternative break it was.
After dropping off our bags at First United Methodist Church, our group immediately headed off for the build site. While we rocked down to Electric Ave. (thank you, Hartshorne for that freeway exit and Eddy Grant for that classic) I began to wonder what exactly we would be doing to help these Hartshorne residents. But once we unloaded the van and met Alan, who works for Rebuilding Together, I immediately realized we would be doing absolutely nothing that I expected.
Collectively we only had the construction experience of hanging a chandelier, and that experience was from our trip adviser Annie Bures. However, Rebuilding Together did not hold that against us, and immediately entrusted us with the level of responsibility of a somewhat experienced person in construction.
While we were there we repaired two rooms that were in drastic need of some TLC. To see a 'room' with no ceiling, no walls and a floor riddled with holes and be told that we were going to repair it is incomparable. The first order of business was to remove the rotten particle flooring and patch up the gaping holes. Not as easy as it sounds, but with a little help from a crowbar and a circle saw we were able to finish the flooring in one day. I could explain every detail of what we did and how we did it but I believe a list would suffice. With 11 people and 209 labor hours we were able to drywall, joint tape, and mud two rooms; we also built a floor and ceiling, insulated, and wired and installed sockets. All in all, we created a master bedroom and front room for an ever-deserving couple.
By the time Tuesday afternoon rolled around, 15 people were able to stand in a room that had previously been a challenge to navigate safely. I cannot put into words the feeling of not only accomplishment but also of gratitude and appreciation I had as we circled up to say our goodbyes to the homeowners and Rebuilding Together. That feeling of knowing that where you stood four days before was a hole leading to the ground will be ingrained in my memory forever.
After this break, I come back knowing more about what man is capable of doing than ever before. To witness the emotional, physical and spiritual strength of the homeowners as well as the alternative break program gives me hope in the future. This notion particularly resonated with me as I watched Vicki and Rick display a resilient attitude and high-spirited outlook on life, especially in the face of their situation. I have come back from this trip with new knowledge about home repair, life and the humanity in helping one another.
As John Wooden said, "You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you"; and this year, I had four perfect days of fall break thanks to SMU Alternative Breaks.


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Tia Mowry Approaches New Horizons
Tia Mowry bursts onto the phone, a ball of positive energy. From LA, she sounds bubbly, could even be glowing. Quite possibly, the 33-year-old mommy of Cree Taylor may still be over-the-moon about becoming an auntie.
"This is the hardest secret I have had to keep! But it's out!!!!! I am gonna be an auntie!!!!!!!!!! OMG! Cree is gonna have a cousin!" she wrote on Twitter.
Or maybe she's hooked on the high of Oh, Baby! an advice book about pregnancy and motherhood that hit shelves earlier this month. Within the pages, Mowry tells of her own baby-carrying journey, shares tips and pinpoints the forgotten details of when women gain baby bumps—style. It's a dream actualized for the lovable star. "You know how you always had a vision—well writing a book was always my vision," she explains. "I just didn't know what kind of book I was going to write."
Now heading out on a book promo tour, Tia anticipates an intensified schedule while joining a long list of women who have perfected the balancing act of work and home life. "I'm the type of woman that looks up to Kimora and women that do it all."
However, the mom-slash-wife-slash-actress kicked one main entrée off her plate: BET's The Game.
The popular show about the lives of football players navigating the world of fame has clipped two of its leading roles (Pooch Hall will not return next season either), allowing the now budding entrepreneur to focus on other individual feats as well as projects with her twin sis. In the meantime, she still heavily supports the TV spot that seems to have lost some faithful followers. "It has different angles, different lighting, but if you dive into the story and look at the story and not what it looks like, it is still a great show and the show that it needs to be."
She chats with Vixen about the certainty of her post-Game future, the changes in her personal style and what's in store for this season of Tia and Tamera.–-Niki McGloster
Photography & Makeup: D'Andre Michael/Maldonado Agency
Hair: Karmin Odoms/Margaret Maldonado Agency
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PARTICK Thistle have snapped up trialist Mark Kerr on a 12-month deal while securing defender Conrad Balatoni for another two years.
Former Dundee United and Aberdeen midfielder Kerr has spent the past month training with the Firhill side and becomes boss Alan Archibald's third close-season signing after the capture of goalkeeper Paul Gallacher and frontman John Baird.
Balatoni, meanwhile, had another year to run on his contract but has agreed a one-year extension that will see him remain with the Maryhill outfit until the summer of 2015.
Kerr started his career with Falkirk and as well as spells at Tannadice and Pittodrie, the former Scotland B cap has enjoyed stints at Dunfermline and Dundee.
The 31-year-old featured as a trialist in last night's 0-0 draw with Livingston and told the club's official website: "I've been here for nearly four weeks now so it will be good to get playing as an actual Partick Thistle player. I can now play at 100 per cent because you do tend to hold back a little.
"I do have that experience and hopefully I can start the season well and we can do well together. That's the way it goes - if I'm not playing well then I won't be in the team and I'll not be able to bring my experience to the team."
Meanwhile, Balatoni said he was delighted to sign on again with Thistle after helping the side win promotion and the Irn-Bru First Division championship last season.
"I've always been happy here and I'm happy to get it all sorted," the 22-year-old centre-back said.
"Partick Thistle are a huge club with a good fan base and it's a club that deserves to be in the SPL. Over the years a squad was built good enough to get to the SPL and hopefully that same squad will be good enough to stay in the SPL.
"Staying in the league is going to be even harder than getting there. It's going to be hard but everyone is looking forward to it and everyone wants to prove themselves. The boys can't wait to get going and it is now just a matter of weeks everyone is looking forward to it."


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Jail sentence for counterfeiter who made up to £850,000
A counterfeiter of luxury goods, music and movie DVDs in south east London has been sent to prison for 3 years following a hearing at Blackfriars Crown Court on 8 September.
Officers from Lewisham Council and Bromley Police, assisted by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and the BPI (formerly known as the British Phonographic Industry), carried out a three-year investigation into Neil Anthony Norton, after they discovered he was making illegal copies of music and films and selling the CDs and DVDs on the internet. He was also selling a variety of counterfeit luxury consumer goods, and "cracked" music software such as the ones distributed by Arbiter (distributor of music software brands sold by Dolphin, such as Arturia, Native Instruments, Steinberg, etc.) who gave precious information to court.
41-year-old Norton, of Ravensbourne Road in Bromley, used his home as a counterfeiting factory to make and store a huge range of counterfeit goods, music and films. He also used a tanning salon business in Lewisham as a base for some of his activities. Mr Norton, aka Neil Scott, used a false identity and several bank accounts to hide his money. He lived a lavish lifestyle, purchasing a £10,000 outdoor Jacuzzi for his home, a Porsche Cabriolet and a state-of-the-art sound system fitted in every room of his house.
It is estimated that Mr Norton's counterfeiting operation netted him between £450,000 and £850,000.
Following the investigation, Mr Norton was charged with two counts of conspiracy to defraud between January 1998 and October 2005. He pleaded guilty to both charges at an earlier hearing.
Councillor Susan Wise, Cabinet Member for Customer Services at Lewisham Council said, "That Mr Norton felt that there was nothing wrong in defrauding so many companies, beggars belief. The very large amount of money that he made from his actions is staggering.
"By working together, we have successfully brought an end to this man's illegal trading empire. Lewisham has made it clear that we will not tolerate any kind of counterfeit action in our borough, and we will always prosecute."
Kieron Sharp, FACT Director General, added, "Thanks to a well planned and executed multi-agency operation a major counterfeit 'business' has been taken out of action. The sentence handed out shows the gravity with which the courts will now treat this serious criminal activity. FACT looks forward to continued working with Lewisham Council and the Met Police."
BPI Chief Executive Geoff Taylor said: "Illegal downloading has created new challenges for the music business, but physical commercial music piracy remains a huge problem. Successful multi-agency enforcement operations significantly disrupt and deter this criminal trade, and we can thank the outstanding continued efforts of the authorities for preventing the problem from spiralling out of control.
"But we must collectively discourage consumers from fuelling this area of crime. Few musicians are wealthy, and rely on the income from music sales and the investment record companies make in them to earn a living. Everyone deserves to be paid for their work."
Mr Norton purchased counterfeit garments and other branded goods from suppliers in the Far East and then sold them as genuine through eBay and his website. Mr Norton bought blank optical discs which he used to illegally copy music, films, games and software. The counterfeit discs were then sold as wholesale and retail via his website and on the internet.
In sentencing, the judge, Mr Ian Karsten QC, said that Mr Norton had operated for almost 8 years and in that time had made a considerable amount of money. Coupled with that was the substantial loss to industry - people who were genuinely entitled to the income from their business and trademarks. The judge estimated that the loss to industry could have been as much as £1.5 to £2 million.
Mr Norton's assets will now be fully assessed and a confiscation hearing is set for January. Property seized includes Mr Norton's home in Bromley, 2 cars (a Porsche and a BMW), car number plates, cameras and computer equipment. At that time, Lewisham Council will also request a destruction order to destroy all the counterfeit goods that were seized when Mr Norton's home and business were raided.
Along with 5 commercial duplicators for copying discs, other evidence seized during the raids included:
- Designer label clothing, footwear, handbags, pens and sunglasses from brand names such as Christian Dior, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Nike, Prada, Diesel, Burberry, Timberland, Ben Sherman, Lacoste, Boss and Oakley.
- Fake Rolex watches and Mont Blanc pens (these can retail between £200 to £700)
- 356 counterfeit DVD films (plus 36,644 examples of artwork for producing CD/DVD covers on multiple hard drives on different computers)
- 267 MP3 music discs (plus 208,660 illegal MP3 audio files found on different computers)
- 61 counterfeit computer games
- 100 illegal software discs (such as Norton Anti-Virus, Photoshop and Nero Anti-Virus)
- 300 blank writable film discs.
- Just under £40,000 in cash, Euros and postal orders was also seized from Mr Norton's home, business address and safety deposit boxes.
Remember: You should never buy any "cracked" software or illegal CDs/ DVDs! Support fighting against piracy and only buy from legitimate dealers such as Dolphin...
About FACT:
The Federation Against Copyright Theft is the UK's leading trade organisation established to protect and represent the interests of the film and broadcasting industry against copyright and trademark infringements. Established in 1983, FACT works closely with statutory law enforcement agencies to combat the growth of pirate DVDs, film and other forms of broadcast material including the increasing threat from online/internet based piracy. FACT has been accepted as a prosecution authority and engages in criminal prosecutions in its own right.
The maximum penalty for offences of film piracy is 10 years' imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. Proceeds of Crime Act legislation now also enables confiscation of assets and goods obtained through criminal activity.
More information go to www.fact-uk.org.uk
About the BPI:
The BPI represents the British recorded music industry. Its membership comprises of over 400 music companies including the four 'major' record companies, indie labels, manufacturers, distributors and hundreds of independent music companies representing literally thousands of labels comprising over 90% of the UK's recorded music market.
A major area of the BPI's work is tackling music piracy, and the BPI combats commercial music piracy on behalf of the wider British music industry.
Piracy facts and figures:
16.5 million - estimate of album sales lost annually to piracy
£165 million - estimated annual value of lost sales to industry
45% - percentage of pirate purchases resulting in a lost sale
37m - estimated total number of fake CDs bought in UK in 2005
£2.48 - average price of a fake CD
£8.15 - average price of a genuine CD
7% - the percentage of the UK population who buy pirate CDs
10% - estimated UK music piracy rate
70% - estimated UK rate of Bollywood film and music piracy
80% - estimated percentage of music pirates illegally claiming benefits
For more information about the BPI go to www.bpi.co.uk


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Nashville, Tenn. - The Tennessee State volleyball team opens its second week of conference play with a trip to Belmont on Sept. 25 before hosting Eastern Illinois on Sept. 30.
TSU is 6-8 so far this season an is coming off of a 1-1 week that saw the team cruise to a 3-1 victory over eastern Kentucky, but also lose at Morehead State 0-3.
Senior libero Britani Hathorn was named OVC Defensive Player of the Week after accumulating a career-high 38 digs in the win at Eastern Kentucky followed by a seven dig performance at Morehead State. She has been the team's top defender on the young season and is ninth in the conference with 3.59 digs per set.
Offensively, sophomore outside hitter Naomi Wells continues to lead the OVC in points per set, but the team has also received strong performances by sophomore Sherryce Butler and freshman Lindsay Hornsby during the last few matches. The duo tied for the team lead in kills against Morehead State and Butler has 35 kills in her last three matches.
The Tigers' first opponent of the week will be city-rival Belmont. Belmont is currently 5-11 on the year and 1-1 in the team's first season of OVC play. Much like TSU, Belmont beat EKU last weekend, but fell to Morehead State 3-0.
Belmont's strength is on defense where the team is fourth in the OVC in digs. A major reason for the high ranking has been the play of Jamie Lundstrom who is third in the conference with 5.06 digs per set.
Tuesday's meeting will be the 22nd in the series with the Bruins holding a 16-5 advantage going into the contest.
The second opponent of the week for the Tigers will be Eastern Illinois who is 3-11 on the season and have lost the last six matches. The Panthers are also coming off of a week where they lost two OVC matches to SEMO and UT Martin.
One area that the Panthers excel in is serving, and the team ranks third in the conference in aces per set. Marah Bradbury is third in the OVC in aces per set with 0.42 as a freshman. Expect EIU to try and get early points in TSU's first home conference match of the season.
This week's action starts tomorrow, Sept. 25, at 6 p.m. in Belmont's Curb Center and continues the day after homecoming in Gentry Center at 12 p.m. against EIU.
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The Fungus That Ate My School
This is a delightful book which you will definitely enjoy reading to and with your child. My second grader loved this book and as he was reading it to me, he read was laughing and commenting on the pictures throughout the book! The story is cute and nonsensical about fungus taking over and eating the school! The artist, David Catrow did a wonderful job as his illustrations are most colorful, exagerrated, and funny! They are sure to keep your interst a...