Under the Burning Suns is my favourite Wesnoth mainline campaign. It has included RPG elements in the game. My favourite scenario is Across the Harsh Sands. It contains a number of surprises along the battle. It also keeps you on your toes with the ghosts that keep reappearing, although these ghosts sometimes ended up helping you fight against the enemies instead.
Two very important units will join your team in this scenario. First is the ultra cool Dust Devil and second is Elyssa the Fire Mage. You do not want to lose either of these two units.
Video replay of Across the Harsh Sands. I play the campaign in nightmare difficulty.
The next scenario A Stirring In The Night is probably the most difficult and epic scenario. It is also my next favourite scenario in this campaign. I barely complete this with the minimum of 6 camps still surviving. I have misunderstood the instruction and thought that as long as I control 6 camps at any time, it will be fine. This is not the case, as long as any enemy has captured the camp, the camp is considered lost even if you re-captured it later. I would have lost when the orcs capture my north-western camp, only the replay from the previous turn allow me to secure the camp.
I also needed to replay for Garak to survive the onslaught of Deathblade and Chocobone, and also for Dust Devil to survive. My Desert horseman Naru is the most luckiest unit in the whole campaign. Zyara, the Desert champion is the one that kept alive the north-western camp. He is killed by the Orcish ruler eventually.
As the Los Angeles Lakers prepared to defend their NBA championship against the Boston Celtics, their gifted leader confessed he has plagiarized almost everything in his patented basketball portfolio.
"I seriously have stolen all my moves from the greatest players," he admitted.
Watch a highlight reel of Kobe and you will witness Hall of
Fame hints of influence sprinkled throughout: the way he freezes
defenders and creates space in the mold of Oscar Robertson, or the
explosive pull-up jumper he copied from Jerry West, or the post-up
shake-and-go he took from Hakeem Olajuwon.
Bryant incorporated the skills of these legends into his game by breaking down their finest moments on film.
It's an obsession that began when Kobe was 10 years old and living with
his family in Italy, where his father, Joe "Jelly Bean" Bryant, played
pro basketball after an eight-year NBA career. Kobe's grandfather
routinely sent over tapes of NBA broadcasts, which had just begun
airing on TNT, and the young boy devoured them.
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Bryant sat down recently with ESPN to break down film of West, Robertson, Olajuwon, Elgin Baylor, Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, and revealed which part of their games he pilfered.
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Bryant's belief in film study has extended beyond his own locker.
After he views halftime clips prepared for him by the Lakers' video
staff, he occasionally waves coach Phil Jackson over to discuss a
rotation he's identified. He often corrals teammates, fires up the
laptop, and shows them precisely how they can carve out easier shots
for themselves.
"He mentions stuff to them before it happens," said video
coordinator Patrick O'Keefe. "They say, 'How did you know that?' It's
because he's studied it. He's better-prepared than anyone."
Deshan Xuanjian is a native of Jiannan in Sichuan province. His surname was Zhou, and he became a monk early in life. He was especially well-versed in teachings of the Diamond sutra and had composed a commentary on it. Thus he was also known as Diamond Zhou. When Deshan heard that the Southern school of Zen held that "mind itself is Buddha", he packed up his commentaries and headed south with the intention of refuting this false teaching.
On the way, he met an old lady selling buns. As he was hungry, he decided to buy some buns from her. old lady: What are you carrying?
Deshan: My Green Dragon commentary on the Diamond Sutra.
old lady: Let me ask you one question. If you can answer my question, I will give you free refreshments.
Deshan: All right!
old lady: The Diamond sutra says: "past mind is unattainable, present mind is unattainable, and future mind is unattainable." Which mind does the learned monk desire to refresh?
Deshan was not able to answer the old lady's question. Some time later, Deshan arrived at Longtan (literally means Dragon pond) temple and met with master Longtan Chongxin.
Deshan: Long have I heard of Longtan, but when I arrived here, there is neither a pond nor a dragon.
Chongxin: You have really arrived at Longtan.
One late evening, Chongxin said, "It is getting dark. You had better return to your room." When Deshan stepped outside, he found that the sky was very dark. So, the master lit a candle and gave it to Deshan, but just as Deshan held out his hand and was about to receive the candle, Chongxin blew out the flame. At that moment Deshan was enlightened and made a bow to the master.
The next day, Deshan took his Green Dragon commentary to the temple hall and burned it. Deshan: " Even if we have mastered the profound doctrine, it is only like placing a hair in a vast space. Even if we have exhausted the human knowledge of the world, it is only like letting a drop fall into a great abyss. "
commentary: Once dependence on others is gone, then only can one's potential be realized.
A student once asked him: "If I haven't anything in my mind, what shall I do?"
Zhaozhou: Throw it out.
student: What else is there to throw out?
Zhaozhou: Then carry it out.
commentary: One who says he is not attached to anything - even that idea of non-attachment must be abandoned. One who is attached to the idea of non-attachment will never know silence of mind.
Zhaozhou: ... but now I have to go to urinate. Think about it. Even for such a trifling thing I have to do it myself. Zhaozhou: May I ask whether you can do it on my behalf?
commentary: To understand matters of life and death, one has to rely on oneself. Others cannot do it for you. To rely on explanations from others is to be like a parrot learning to speak.
Zhaozhou: Practising the Tao concerns changing one's clothing ... and eating.
man: These are but mundane tasks. What kind of mind study can be considered practice of Zen?
Zhaozhou: What do you think I do everyday?
commentary: Practice of Zen comes from everyday conversation, washing your face, eating and that sort of things. One must do them with full awareness. Perception into the nature of things comes from doing such things wholeheartedly.