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My friend will be very sad today.
Why, did his cat die?
He's a total Stargate Geek. For him, this whole thing was like an epic drama.
Why, did his cat die?
Yes. Didn't you read the summary: "Networking cords had been cut and left to hang...".
All that cat5... sad, really.
Love the ironic juxtaposition of your post and sig.
I was going to chide you fore being yet another windows basher on slashdot. But then I realized you were bashing Vista.
At first I thought the court had returned a stolen Stargate, not a stolen Stargate *MMO*. Which would have been much bigger news, that's for sure.
It might have been a lawsuit about a real stargate and the control software for it, disguised as a game that will never finish.
I'd say the secret is that DNF is the training program for employees of Xe (The Mercenary Company Formerly Known as Blackwater), focused as it is on wantonly brutalizing everything, engaging in wildly promiscuous and only theoretically consensual sexual conduct, using steroids to better smash opponents and generally being an epic-level asshole to everyone... but that would be much too obvious for a "secret".
At first I thought the court had returned a stolen Stargate, not a stolen Stargate *MMO*. Which would have been much bigger news, that's for sure.
They must have set a transponder on it and beamed it up.
Sci-Fi is worthy of historical landmarks or monuments. Too bad that Arizona gaming company couldn't do a big promotion, like putting a full-sized Stargate by the end of the London Bridge. Of course the remote wilderness of Lake Powell to the north feels ideal, as much like another planet as any place on Earth. A Stargate would look great out by Rainbow Bridge, an amazing natural arch.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lake_powell [wikimedia.org]
Someone filthy rich should build a town somewhere with different
Not sure what Fresh Start Software's motive was, but if it was to block development of a Stargate videogame, they achieved their goal.
Not sure what Fresh Start Software's motive was, but if it was to block development of a Stargate videogame, they achieved their goal.
If one of the quotes from TFA is to be believed then my hypothesis would be that they are offended by Stargate's treatment of religion:
Whiting then expressed optimism that Dark Comet would end up returning Cheyenne Mountain's assets to him. He compared his situation in the "hostile takeover" to that of Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark in the first Iron
If one of the quotes from TFA is to be believed then my hypothesis would be that they are offended by Stargate's treatment of religion:
Whiting then expressed optimism that Dark Comet would end up returning Cheyenne Mountain's assets to him. He compared his situation in the "hostile takeover" to that of Robert Downey Jr.'s Tony Stark in the first Iron Man movie, but said the motives for it were personal and even religious.
In this field, that could be anything from which operating system they were using to which version of a storyline is canonical.
No. There were allegations about Mr. Whiting that were made when things were getting rancorous. He's probably referring to those. Even if they were true, the people working for Cheyenne and who went on to form Fresh Start had much better reasons to leave long ago.
I know one engineer on the project who was a devote Christian and expressed some reservations about Stargate's idea of Ascension, but he acted sanely and left soon after they stopped paying him.
Stargate video game? No, no, no! It is a FARGATE!
Wormhole! Extreme!
I applaud "Fresh Start" software in its quest to turn that crippled pony into glue, as liquidation is the best thing for it. If you knew anything about the state of the project, you will know exactly why they did it, probably the only way to get their paychecks from the last few months.
You can't take someone's property just because they were managing it incompetently.
Which in some cases is a damn shame.
I was gone by then, but based on what I know of the people who started it, Fresh Start's goal was to continue supporting a game they believed in. While still at Cheyenne, they completed and released Resistance quickly under terrible circumstances (circumstances that I fled), only to be betrayed by Gary Whiting with a bankruptcy filing the instant they brought the company its first revenue ever. Then they managed to form a company to continue supporting the game. They kept the servers up and even released new maps and improved some of the graphics assets.
This article is 100% Mr. Whiting's side of the story. While at Cheyenne I formed the opinion that he is a very shady individual, but I was pretty low on the totem pole, so I don't know what was really going on.
What I know for sure, however, is that Resistance would never have come out without the people behind Fresh Start, and it probably would have been completely unsupported from the moment of release (possibly unplayable, with the servers down) without the formation of Fresh Start. So I'm going to give them a pretty fucking big benefit of the doubt.
Oh, and based on the financial situation when I left, the people working for Fresh Start were probably getting paid next to nothing, if that much. So obviously "stealing" pays big time.
+1 informative
Yeah I'd steal too if I wasn't getting paid for my work.
My first thought: What could the Founders possibly have to do with a Stargate?
Then the parsing agent caught up. What a disappointment.
Actually it was never disclosed but I believe the ring around DS9 was...in fact...A stargate. Sisko just never had Daniel Jackson to identify the last chevron. That and they already had a bad taste in their mouth from the things that came out of that darned wormhole.
I'm a huge B5 fan and was solidly against DS9 for their blatant plagiarism back in the day, but I'm going to have to ask for serious citation about the lawsuit Paramount supposedly lost and had sealed (!?) and showing B5 trailers at Trek conventions.
My memory is fuzzy after a decade so I've tried googling for this, but the closest I got was J. Michael Straczynski (B5's creator) quoted as declining to have Paramount sued, as it would draw too much attention and resources away from producing B5.
Star Trek was awesome in its day. Some will say that it still is. But what it had was not just a vision of the future, but a hope for the future. Star Wars gave us a new way look at things as well, but I can't say that it offered much more than intense entertainment. Stargate sought to engage the mind by tying old mysteries with new ones creating a galaxy and even a universe of awe and wonder that continued to expand beyond limits that were not imagined previously. Very few other sci-fi themes contained the qualities contained within Star Trek, Star Wars, Battle Star Galactica, Firefly and others, but Stargate, while it did seem to run its course, maintained those qualities in intense amounts. Had greed, politics and myopia had not taken its destructive toll, the potential of Stargate could have set a new standard for the genre.
I mourn the loss... but it was lost long ago. We're just seeing the aftermath of some really crappy people.
Very few other sci-fi themes contained the qualities contained within Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon5, Firefly and others,
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Very few other sci-fi themes contained the qualities contained within Raumpatrouille, Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon5, Firefly and others,
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Yes, Star Trek brought to us a vision of the future wherein no matter where one roams in the universe, 1) Everybody looks human, 2) Everybody speaks perfect English, despite never having been contacted before by humans, and 3) Sex with alien species is considered perfectly natural. All I can say is... Ewwwwwwwww!
Oh come on.
To be fair, Star Wars, BattleStar Galactica, Firefly, Babylon 5, Dr. Who, Space: 1999, and a host of other shows all featured those characteristics.
It's not because the shows' makers were unimaginative, it's because they are television shows.
It's difficult to find actors who don't look like humans; audiences in the countries where these shows were produced mainly understand only English (there are no native Klingon speakers, no matter how many nerds learn the Klingon language); and sex keeps stupid people watching the show, helping the ratings. Ok, Dr. Who hasn't featured much, if any, sex, but that's because it was a BBC production aimed at families.
There was sex in Stargate? Heck, even Vala's pregnancy was through some manner of immaculate conception (Adria's birth was probably not a virgin birth, though).
The closest thing would have been the original pilot (full frontal nudity), but the directors/producers never quite liked that scene and chopped it from the re-cut version.
Data and Tasha Yar getting it on was far more blatant as far as 'sex' goes.
There was sex in Stargate?
yea, basically everyone was getting it on..
O'Neill and Sam were doing it since the first season
Sam was naked in several episodes
Rodney kept having sex fantasies about Sam
Daniel kept falling in love with bush babes on nearly every planet
Teal'c had a wife, left her then hooked up with Ishta
Vala was trying to hump anything that moved
On Atlantis Rodney was boinking Dr Keller
Teyla got knocked up out of wedlock
I think there was a lot of sex on Stargate...
what.. all of that is -sex- now?
I think that means I had sex at least a dozen times today. I've also been exposed to others' acts of sex at least 500 times.
I know SG-1 very well, and Atlantis somewhat, and although I find little flaw in the descriptions of the examples you propose.. they're just not examples of sex to me.
So a person is pregnant. Yes, that (usually, see: Vala) implies sex was had. But I don't remember any of the characters referencing this act.. nevermind -showing- it.. which is what sex
Sex doesn't only mean intercourse. Sex is also simply sexual.
While I agree that sex isn't limited to intercourse, I disagree that anything 'sexual' is sex. One could argue that a character saying "you're looking GOOD in that dress" is a sexual come-on. But to then say there was sex in that show.. to me, that's absurd.
Dr. Who didn't have out-and-out sex, but name one of his assistants that wasn't "hot". To juxtapose, try to imagine Mrs. Marple being the Dr.'s sidekick.
I can think of one [wikipedia.org] - but then again I guess it's what "floats your boat".
There are a few instances in the new series where aliens seem to either speak or write in English with no TARDIS present to translate.
Yes, Star Trek brought to us a vision of the future wherein no matter where one roams in the universe, 1) Everybody looks human, 2) Everybody speaks perfect English, despite never having been contacted before by humans, and 3) Sex with alien species is considered perfectly natural. All I can say is... Ewwwwwwwww!
And Stargate (SG1 anyway) was different how?
1)They sort of handwaved this with The Chase, but in most cases it was just hat/nose of the week.
2)U.T., though that doesn't excuse it working right away.
3)Why not?
1)Frankly panspermia seems more likely than humans evolving independently twice.
2)No excuse at all, but it could be argued that subject races would probably speak the Goa'uld tongue.
3)Most of the aliens are either non-humanoid or genderless so this doesn't really apply.
Personally, the series that tried the "hardest" on aliens being alien was Farscape.
1) Bi-pedal humanoid seemed common, but a) the makeup for those bipedal humanoids sometimes got rather intense. b) they weren't always humanoid (Pilot for instance) and c) motivations weren't always similar (just 'cause it looked mostly "human" didn't mean it was, and vice-versa). (well, and d) explaining why the most human aliens DID look that way, and that was part of the plot
2) They explained it away in Episode 1 (think Babel-Fish), and even came back to the idea a few times (with 'us' the audience seeing how things sounded "naturally").
3) Sex is one thing, procreation is another.
1) Explained in TNG that a single humanoid race had "seeded" the galaxy with its likeness IIRC.
2) Universal translator, duh. Have you even seen the shows?
3) Isn't that just racism (speciesism?) on your part? Since, as you have already observed, the aliens are almost all physiologically similar to humans.
You wonder why the aliens looked human and spoke English?
Come on, think of the process:
You go to the casting call, read for the part.....
How many ugly non English speakers would make it past that?
As for the sex, well, some aliens will do anything to get on stage.
Stargate blew. All of its plots refer to ancient structures and cultures, saying "aliens did it". When one gets old and tired, they get out a new culture, and label it with "aliens did it," and move on, as if they've done something clever. And the things they refer to? They aren't "mysteries." We know who built the pyramids, and why, and when, and largely how.
What it was was bland, generic scifi fit for mass consumption. It lacked the campy retro appeal of the original run of Star Trek, lacked the talented
Long story short, Stargate SG1 held longer than any singlø run of Star Trek. They eventually succumbed to their own inflation of the stakes, nothing external. After defeating "gods" there is very little left to achieve....
Had greed, politics and myopia had not taken its destructive toll, the potential of Stargate could have set a new standard for the genre.
I can't speak to the "greed and greed", but Stargate did set a "new standard" for the genre, to some degree. The show ran for a decade with (mostly) the same cast throughout. They were able to sustain essentially the same format for that entire time, without degrading the quality too substantially, and introduce new content throughout.
Granted, this only really works with episodic fiction, but they still managed to maintain a degree of continuity and character progression from season to season (and episode t
What I liked a lot about Stargate SG-1 (and really the whole franchise) is that it showed Earth growing from the pre-spaceflight era into a major power. Along the way, we even learned to cooperate among ourselves. The Stargate program became an international effort. It was a like a Roddenberry hope for the future... but with more action.
In the very first episode, the Stargate is a forgotten relic under a tarp in a military facility... by the last episode Earth forces are fighting off alien demigods in sh
First, I'd never heard of somebody so literally stealing intellectual property.
Second, why is it that whenever I read of a flagrant disregard of the basic protocols of human interaction and the law, it seems to involve the phrase, "Maricopa County".
Finally, "they left the network cords to hang" (spins up and Hulks out): "WHAT KIND OF A MAN LYNCHES AN ETHERNET CABLE!"
Second, why is it that whenever I read of a flagrant disregard of the basic protocols of human interaction and the law, it seems to involve the phrase, "Maricopa County".
Maybe because the head lawman of that county, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is himself a notorious criminal...
Breaking in, stealing components, gutting computers. Who's the CEO over? Joe Arpaio's little brother?
They won a court decision and got something from someone else. Is there a limit on the number of characters in their keyboard? Is it too much trouble to even research the story to find out what is going on? It is like watching the last 5 minutes of "Iron Man" and going WTF? Who is the good guy, Stark because he won, or because he blows up stuff?
This is why I hate to read the article, I am hoping some
Have you read the linked articles? The whole affair is a clusterfuck of people, companies, real and intellectual property, law suits and whatnot. I dare you to make any sense of it!
When I read the summary, I was like "Oh nice, a Stargate MMO, let's find out more about it and the story!". After having RTFA and another it linked to, I was like "WTF, I need a dozen organigrams and flowcharts just to keep up with what's going on! I don't even care anymore!"
Clusterfuck is a very good term for it. I knew some people who worked there and it was just insane. Towards the end employees went months without getting paid, some left for greener pastures which was complicated by the economic meltdown occurring at the time. Others kept grinding away on a project they had already put so many hours into, supported by savings or spouses employed elsewhere.
Once again the Stargate IP continues to prove it's cursed.
Have you read the linked articles? The whole affair is a clusterfuck of people, companies, real and intellectual property, law suits and whatnot. I dare you to make any sense of it!
Whereas it's a journalist's job to make sense of it. Not just say, here's a bunch of links, go knock yourself out, I'm off to the pub.
From reading the linked articles it seems like Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment was in Chap 11. Then someone (maybe a group of investors?) illegally sold the assets of the company to the new gaming companies for $100,000. It appears the court said that action was illegal both in terms of procedure and perhaps value as well. The motives are where the real dirt is, and I suspect you're not going to get a straight answer on that until after all the lawsuits are settled.
It's even stranger, in that Gary Whiting, had ANOTHER company, Garvick Properties, LLC that went bankrupt. Due to Whiting's shenanigans, "Cheyenne Mountain Games, Inc" (a subsidiary of "Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, Inc") got dragged into the bankruptcy. As near as I can tell, that caused the subsidiary to go bankrupt too.
Meanwhile, Tim Jensen, one time president of Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment got caught by the SEC trying to move assets between two OTHER companies he owned/controlled. He's the on
I was in the early alpha and beta testing of Worlds, as I had a friend at Cheyenne Mountain. It was the first MMO I actually liked. It was a little buggy, but the game was almost done when bankruptcy hit. This was complicated by some freeze being put on the accounts where, even though the money was there, they were not able to pay their employees. Shoot, the game was in Beta, there were just a few bugs to work out, the server farms were going online - the game was pretty much READY - and the inside word was that they were weeks (about two months) from going live. Quite sad what became of it.
After being featured in WarGames: The Dead Code, there's no way in hell I'd buy this game. Hint to developers: make sure if you sign a product placement deal, the movie won't suck shit.
Employee wages are a priority claim in a bankruptcy, second only to Secured claims. IANAL, but they could well have been cooking their books somewhat. Had I been an employee with them, I would have taken a sharp eye to the bankruptcy court. As a creditor, you'd have that right.
OTOH, "two months from going live" might have been the same sort of readiness that Stargate: Resistance had, when it was shoved out the door bare weeks before bankruptcy was declared. IE "two months and holding".
Glad, though, to k
Though I'm not sure what a Changeling wants with an MMO anyway when they have half the galaxy to play with.
Oh wait, wrong "Star" series...
Forget that old plagaristic Stargate MMO lame-ass-ity - Fringeworthy MMO FTW!!!
It's coming bi'ches!!
Seriously though a free MMO where Gates lead to new persistent server worlds - where user content servers are allowed - and could even contain parallel universes or lead back/forward in time - THAT is the future WoW Killer!
(and hardcore role-players could opt-in to allowing characters to permanently die - and worlds permanently change - based on real player actions)
I say - Make it So!
Then, why not just make a Rifts [palladiumbooks.com] MMORPG and call it a day?
I would just like to see SG-1 or Atlantis back on air..
TFA uses 'it' so many times between 3 companies I have no idea what's going on. It sounds like a kindergarten argument over possession of a sandbox - where the sandbox is assets and IP.
The cut network cords were simply where the server racks were removed. They weren't actually cut, just pulled out of punch down blocks. The reason for the apparent gutting was because the landlord was going to lock the company out of the building, so Dark Comet was trying to save as many assets before that happened. There wasn't enough space for all the computers, so the hard drives were taken to prevent the data from being misused by whomever the landlord brought in to sell off the equipment. Everythin
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President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Justice to continue negotiating with the Philippines to conduct a joint investigation into the fatal shooting of 65-year-old Taiwanese fisherman Hung Shih-cheng (洪石成) by Philippine Coast Guard personnel, calling for both sides to adopt a pragmatic attitude to unveil the truth behind the incident.
"President Ma believes that the incident requires both sides to cooperate with each other on the investigation pragmatically, and only by doing so can the truth be revealed," Presidential Office spokesperson Lee Chia-fei (李佳霏) told a press conference last night after the conclusion of a meeting on national security that Ma had attended.
Taiwan and the Philippines have been engaged in a diplomatic tussle since a joint patrol of the Philippine Coast Guard and the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources shot at the unarmed Taiwanese fishing boat the Kuang Ta Hsing No. 28 while it operated in the two countries' overlapping economic zones s on May 9.
A Taiwanese investigative team returned from Manila yesterday after making little headway in its probe. The delegation — consisting of prosecutors and officials from the justice and foreign ministries, and Taiwan's Fisheries Agency — had arrived in Manila on Thursday.
They tried to work with Philippine government officials to set up a joint investigation into the incident, but failed to reach a consensus.
After the Taiwanese team returned yesterday without having made any progress, Ma called for the continuation of talks between the two nations, saying that the incident was an opportunity for Taiwan and the Philippines to implement the mutual legal assistance agreement they signed earlier this year.
Lee said that Ma had asked the foreign and justice ministries to seek a consensus with Manila based on the principle of reciprocity.
She stressed that the negotiations had not failed and said the government's investigation team would continue its efforts to find the truth when the Philippines is "ready."
Yesterday's national security meeting was the third one held since last week.
Earlier yesterday, at a news conference at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport held shortly after the delegation's return, Chen Wen-chi (陳文琪), head of the Ministry of Justice's Department of International and Cross-Strait Legal Affairs, said the delegation had made some progress on initiating a judicial investigation with the Philippine Department of Justice, but that further negotiations were needed.
In addition, citing the navigational record of the Kuang Ta Hsing No. 28, Chen said that the incident had occurred while the boat was in Taiwan's exclusive economic zone and that it had not entered the Philippines' territorial waters.
Taiwanese investigators' findings contradict the Philippines' claims that the shots were fired in self-defense after the Taiwanese boat tried to ram it, she added.
Chen said Taiwan has expressed to the Philippines that it hopes to put the people thought to be responsible for the shooting on trial. If the Philippines is disinclined to grant this request, Taipei has asked it to severely punish the perpetrators.
Before the delegation returned to Taiwan, Chen had told an international news conference in Manila that the Philippines' attitude on a joint investigation was "capricious" and "dishonest."
Reading a prepared statement, Chen said that Philippine Representative to Taiwan Antonio Basilio had expressed Manila's willingness to conduct a joint investigation into the incident and that Taiwan had made requests for mutual judicial assistance to the Philippines before the team had departed for Manila.

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ArcEm is a portable open-source emulator for the Acorn Archimedes. It's capable of running multiple operating systems including RISC OS and ARM Linux.
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This is an online course using the UH System Laulima web site, the HCC server, or a combination.
DVDs are mailed to the students.
DVDs are mailed to the students.
Course Restrictions:
FIRE majors only.
Course Requirements:
Before the first day of instruction, email your intructor that you have registered for the course. The starting point for the class is
Course Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: FIRE 101 and FIRE 102
Course Description:
An overview of fire service management theories and application principles in the fire service. Management by objective. Current fire safety education, problem identification and program development strategies are introduced. Fireground management functions, management of financial resources, physical resources, and facilities. May be taken on a CR/N basis.
Books may be purchased at the Honolulu CC bookstore or ordered online at http://www.bookstore.hawaii.edu/hcc/home.aspx. If you do not have access to the Internet or unable to travel to the bookstore, you may also order by phone at 1-800-UHBOOKS
Technical Requirements:
The Internet allows students to take a course at home using a personal computer. Familiarity with using a computer and basic Internet skills (browsing, sending e-mail, saving/sending files) is required. Students must have a computer with Internet access. Depending on the online course, students may be required to log in at a specific day and time or at anytime. Students taking an online course should always contact their instructor after registration or prior to the first day of class to get detailed information regarding the course.
Minimum Computer Hardware/Software Requirements:
It is also required that you obtain a UH Email account. Please go to the following URL for more information: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/563
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It is also required that you obtain a UH Email account. Please go to the following URL for more information: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/563
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Texas Schools Teaching Boston Tea Party as Terrorist Act
Texas Schools Teaching Boston Tea Party as Terrorist Act « CBS Houston
The most historical instance of protesting against taxation without representation is now being taught in Texas schools as a terrorist act.
As recently as January of this year, the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative included a lesson plan that depicted the Boston Tea Party, an event that helped ignite the American Revolution, as an act of terrorism. TheBlaze reports that in a lesson promoted on the TESCCC site as recently as January, a world history/social studies class plan depicted the Boston Tea Party as being anything but patriotic, causing many people to become upset with the lack of transparency and review for lessons.


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There is truly a leadership void afoot in this country. I believe that, for whatever reason, many people we have stupidly installed into leadership roles have lost their way.
I'm talking about leaders in business, politics (from all the parties), the car industry, Wall Street and the financial industry and, sadly, everywhere in government.
We don't have people that get it anymore.
And that's where Broward County tourism director Nicki Grossman comes to mind today. This story in The Miami Herald tells how Grossman, a long-time South Florida public servant and Dolphins season-ticket holder (she claims), is rooting against the Dolphins making it to the Super Bowl this year.
Now, suspend the argument about whether the Dolphins are good enough to get to the Super Bowl or not. That's not the point. The point is how anyone can bring themselves to root against their own team for selfish reasons.
And Grossman, by the way, has selfish reason. As head of the tourism folks, Grossman wants to see the Super Bowl fill every hotel room in her county come next January and early February. And, she figures, if the Dolphins are in the game, the hotel rooms won't be filled because local fans can sleep in their own beds at night.
So there would be no great influx of Super Bowl fans.
But this is where Grossman misses the mark. She obviously does not understand that Dolphins fans are everywhere. I have become intimately of this fact because in every stadium the Dolphins play, there are typically at least 2,000 Dolphins fans rooting for Miami. I am also aware that all my readers are not from South Florida. In fact, a majority are from outside South Florida.
You guys are Dolphins fans in Texas, the Carolinas, New York, Hawaii, everywhere. And I get the feeling many of you would come to South Florida to watch your team be in its first Super Bowl since 1984. Am I right?
Grossman also doesn't get the drift that a Super Bowl game is played by two teams. And the other team not being from South Florida will surely also bring fans.
So her vision, in rooting openly against the Dolphins, is myopic.
Leadership? Not so much.
So this is what I want you to do. Go to the comments section and tell me exactly where you are from in the country. Tell me if you would be inclined to come to a Dolphins Super Bowl celebration or not.
Now, I didn't ask if you'd be coming to the game. I know the tickets are expensive and hard to get. Grossman doesn't care about that anyway, she just needs folks that yearly come for the week of Super Bowl atmosphere and fun, filling the beds in local hotels. Whether those folks are in the stands on Super Bowl Sunday is moot.
Remember: Are you an out-of-town Dolphins fan? And would you trek to South Florida to join in the Dolphins Super Bowl celebration?
Is Grossman right to believe the Dolphins playing a home Super Bowl would be a nightmare? Or is she lacking vision?


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Forum:Looking for a tutor on Sindarin
Tolkien Gateway > Forums > Looking for a tutor on Sindarin
Dear friends, I'm looking for someone to teach me Sindarin. I've tried to learn it by myself but faced some problems related to grammar, pronunciation e.t.c. So, I'd like to offer exchange lessons by Skype- I can teach you Spanish or Russian or basic Polish(I'm a University lecturer specialized in linguistics). Looking forward to your reply, thank you. —Unsigned comment by Snowdrop15 (talk • contribs).


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The October 2012 Community Cinema film is As Goes Janesville with screenings and discussions in both Austin and Round Rock. All screenings will start at 7 pm, are free and open to the public.
As Goes Janesville by Brad Lichtenstein records two years in the lives of laid-off workers, business leaders, and elected officials trying to reinvent their lives and their Midwestern town amid the closure of their GM plant and America's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Screenings take place October 2 at Austin's Windsor Park Branch Library (5833 Westminster Dr.) and October 25 at Round Rock Public Library (216 E. Main Street).


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The Basketball Season So far…as told by basketball movie posters
So this was something I wanted to do since about the first MSU game, but a combination of grad classes and not wanting to jinx anything conspired to delay me until today. But with an NCAA Tournament-clinching win against the Waffling Webers and [insert OSU results], I figured it was high time to recognize the magical run by the most inspiring UM team since 1997 in the only way I knew how – through a schmaltzy montage of posters from basketball movies and TV shows. Call it a retroactive .
After last season's cosmic nad-kicking as the team well woefully short of expectations and lost both Manny Harris and Deshawn Sims to the professional ranks, hopes were not high for this year's Wolverines as they embarked on an offseason European tour. Not only had the team lost approximately 99% of its scoring from last year, but the best most pundits could say about this club was that they might be able to "grit" and "hustle" their way to double-digit wins if they could steal a couple of wins against the likes of Harvard and Oakland over the pre-conference schedule. That's right – credible thought was given to UM's prospects being tied to the unlikely scenario of slaying both Tommy and the Fightin' Amakers and the school I passed on my way to Meadow Brook to see "Weird Al" Yankovic in concert when I was in high school. So yeah, this was not expected to be a banner year for Beilein's crew.
But a funny thing seemed to happen over the summer. and all the sights – this team figured out how to play together. Darius Morris emerged as a legitimate leader at the point, role players like Novak returned with 100% more gruis, coeur, and zähigkeit, and a faint buzz could be heard surrounding this ho-hum 3* freshman with the famous father who once made a cameo on .
Of course, there is a big difference between playing international ball in exhibition games and competing against legitimate NCAA teams, and after a couple of cupcakes to start the season UM battled a Syracuse team in the Legends Classic. UM played them tight throughout, ultimately falling 53-50 after leading 31-29 at halftime. While some saw this close loss as proof that the team was better than preseason expectations, others argued it was an aberration against a disinterested opponent, a characterization that gained support from a subsequent loss to "meh" UTEP in the consolation game. And to make matters worse, UM was going to travel to NCAA tourney-quality Clemson as part of the ACC-Big 10 Challenge. The conditions were ripe for the wheels to come off, and yet they didn't.
Displaying the type of mental toughness and, um, s that belied their experience, the team took care of Clemson and followed up that with a 7-game surge that put them at 10-2 entering league play. Sure, the wins weren't against elite competition (though Oakland did make the tourney and Harvard probably should have), but considering how low expectations were coming in it was a pleasant surprise.
Of course, any optimism garnered from this hot start was extinguished by a 1-7 stretch to start the season, punctuated by shellackings at home to Purdue and at Wiscy. But those were top-10 teams the thinking went, so the losses were at least expected. But during this streak, there were also 19-point losses to the battling Jamie Macs…I mean and the Northwestern "Just as good as Brown" Wildcats. These were not juggernauts draining bucket after bucket against UM, and the general sentiment that the 10-2 start was a red herring and this was an NIT team if they could steal a couple of wins gained purchase with the UM faithful.
But part-and-parcel with all of this doom and gloom was a faint ember of hope kept alive by close losses to top-5 teams OSU and Kansas. A team like UM, playing without an established inside presence and streaky, young shooters, had no business taking the JayHawks to overtime or making OSU sweat for every bucket. And while the Wolverines shot pretty well against the Buckeyes, neither game would be thought of as a fluke in the classical sense – they were games where good teams find a way to stick around against elite squads and nearly steal a win. But as Jesse Ventura used to say "close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades", and 1-6 to start B10 play was close to the bottom of the B10 standings. If UM had any hope of postseason play, they needed to from this losing streak and right the ship immediately.
To do so, though, they would need to beat Tom Izzo's MSU squad at the Breslin Center, a veritable house of horrors for UM since its opening. Even though the Spartans had failed to live up to their preseason #2 ranking, in East Lansing was still thick with anticipation, smugness, and AXE body spray of another MSU victory against the Wolverines.
It has often been said that you don't see the true mettle of a team until it has overcome adversity, when it is has succeeded in the face of imposing odds, when it has emerged victorious of competition. On a day when nobody would have blamed the young Wolverines for folding in hostile territory, Darius Morris showed Sparty that to the tune of a 17-4-8 line while masterfully running the offense, and Zack Novak went all and scored a season-high 19 points to go along with 6 boards, in a 61-57 upset.
As UM basketball fans, we are all conditioned to be immensely reticent when it comes to the cagers; years of false starts and false hopes under Amaker and Ellerbe have conditioned us to remain stoic and, frankly, a little pessimistic regardless of the magnitude of the victory. Having lived through the car wreck that was the last few Ellerbe years and the growing pains of Amaker's first two years, I had watched this team devolve from a consistent NCAA tourney team to a squad that lost to Western Michigan two years in a row. Two years ago, upsets against top-10 squads Duke and UCLA were met with a "let's not blow it" mentality as the year progressed and the team slid into the NCAA tourney.
But it was impossible to underplay the importance of this win for both this season and this team. This might not have been a vintage MSU team, but UM still went into Breslin and beat MSU straight-up; no lucky bounces or last-minute tip-ins. UM was the better team that day, and gave a performance nobody expected coming off 6 straight losses. It was as if the Wolverines had pulled a on the Spartans, stealing the resolve and confidence that usually flowed from veteran squads and imbuing this team with it instead.
You know the rest of the story – UM went on a 7-3 tear, with two of those losses by a combined 3 points, and this team emerged as a legitimate NCAA-caliber team. Jordan Morgan showed he had the to compete down low against rugged competition, and the bench continued to evolve as Evan Smotrycz found a little bit of his shooting stroke. Novak, constantly undersized and outmuscled by PFs throughout the season, disproved the notion that by making the key defensive play against Minnesota and grabbing big rebounds amongst the trees every game. This was still a dangerously-shallow crew, but it played like a team and bought into Beilein's system in a way no other team had. And nobody grew more as a player than Hardaway, who scored in double figures in every game and was the catalyst for wins over Iowa, Indiana, and Minnesota, playing and being absolutely unconscious at times from beyond the arc.
Riding this wake of momentum, the Wolverines welcomed the Spartans to Crisler to end the regular season. Both teams were nursing legitimate NCAA hopes, and some viewed this matchup as a "bubble buster" for the loser. All the talk leading up to the game was the MSU that had been to two straight Final Fours would emerge, that the Wolverines had a nice run but that there was no way Sparty was going to lose twice to UM in the same season. Statistics, efficiency metrics, and even our own eyes be damned, the perception was that MSU would find a way to win this game.
Looking back, of course, all of this bluster and worry seemed foolish. UM raced out to a 33-25 lead, and while MSU made a couple of runs late in the second half, the Wolverines never relinquished the lead. Every time Kalin Lucas or Durrell Summers made a play, UM answered with a nice feed from Morris to Morgan for a dunk or Hardaway taking the ball into traffic and making MSU pay at the foul line. s Smotrycz and Vogrich provided a nice boost from the bench, and as the game wound down and Morris scored some nice
on a coast-to-coast layup as time expired, even the most jaded UM fans couldn't deny that this team was special. That still might not translate to an NCAA bid, though, and that was why the BTT was essential.
In the first game of the tourney, UM was pitted against a far more experienced and taller Illinois team, with both teams knowing that a victory would punch their respective tickets to the tourney. At the half Illinois held an 11-point lead, and there were some (me included) that thought maybe the magic had run out on the season one game too soon. But as they had done all year long, this team just kept battling. Led by an always-underrated defense, the Wolverines stormed back in the second half, outscoring the Illini by 16(!) to win 60-55. In the immortal words of Rasheed Wallace, , and it was saying UM was going to be in the NCAA tournament. A close loss to #1 overall seed OSU did little to damper this optimism, and the only surprise on Selection Sunday was UM earning an 8 seed as opposed to the 10 or 11 seed most expected.
It has been an amazing season so far by the Wolverines, one made sweeter by the low expectations and the realization that this team is positioned to continue this resurgence well into the future. A masterful coaching job by Beilein, he guided a young squad through myriad of potential landmines and is recruiting the type of high-end recruits that will be needed to sustain this success going forward. Any doubts about his coaching ability were laid to rest this year, and hopefully for good.
But perhaps the most important product of this magical run is that it let a large portion of the UM faithful, those scarred by the Ed Martin scandal and the subsequent dark years, to believe again in this team. That might sound sappy, but even the tourney bid in 2009 felt like a tease after the team stumbled through a mediocre season last year. But this team is different, this coach is different, and this program is different than it was since Steve Fisher walked the sidelines; it is a healthy program with a bright future, free of the cancers that plagued it for over a decade. I don't know how the team will fare against a schizophrenic Tennessee squad or a third-round clash with mighty Duke, but what I do know is that UM is back as a basketball school, and saying that after all these years is .
Thanks. I was worried you were going to plop this one down instead.
I'm surprised you didn't include this summer's biggest blockbuster.
I would like to upvote this twice. Since I can't I grant you +10 internets instead.
Very well done, thanks for taking the time to do this. Who knew there was so many damn basketball movies. I would have love to seen a "Blue Chips" poster in there somewhere though. Something like: Next year when our two(insert Blue Chips poster) arrive on campus etc etc.
Great job again though. All the posters fit in perfectly with the story.
I was thinking about Blue Chips, but I couldn't think of where to place it. But yeah, kind of an oversight on my part.
How does this not have a Eurotrip reference?
I thought they were all basketball movies, but after looking through them again there is two that definitely are not basketball movies. Eurotrip would have been a good one for the beginning part.
I thought all of them had some sort of basketball theme to them. Yes, Harvard Man and maybe Just Wright are a bit more tangential than others (I have seen neither beyond the trailers), but their synopsis/main charcters are involved in basketball to some extent.
Surprisingly, basketball movies are relatively few and far between when compared to sports like baseball and boxing, which seem to have a nice movie every year or two.
These movie poster diaries always put a smile on my face. Thank you, bronxblue.
Thanks for doing this, it definitely summarized the season with a differnet kind of twist.
Thanks for doing this, it summarized the season with a different kind of twist.
I read the Teen Wolf poster as "Zach Novak went all MICHAEL J. FOX..." and was very confused for a minute. Wasn't sure if I should be offended. Seems like Teen Wolf wanted to take all they could get from the MJF craze after Back to the Future.
I was wondering when Space Jam was going to show up. Nice diary.
you may even say:
Go together. (I'll stop. I'm not good at this)
Yeah, I tried to figure out how to use that as well (along with Blue Chips), but just couldn't find a good time. It is an awkward title. I had enough trouble with Space Jam and Just Wright!
how does this only have 6 upvotes?
Terrific work! Extremely clever and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I hope it was as much fun to put together as it is to read.


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I am new to ArchLinux and have been using Gentoo since qutie a while. After installing nearly everything I need I am now struggling with the printer setup. I guess this is due to a problem with my parallel port, cause it does not show up in the selection box of cups. I can choose serial and usb ports, but no parallel ports. I have installed some modules like
lp & parport
I also have cups running of course and it connects. My question is the kernel (2.6.4) must be compiled with support for the parallel port by default, right? At least after loading these modules it should work. What am I missing?
Thanks already!!!
I guess this is due to a problem with my parallel port, cause it does not show up in the selection box of cups. I can choose serial and usb ports, but no parallel ports. I have installed some modules like
lp & parport
I also have cups running of course and it connects. My question is the kernel (2.6.4) must be compiled with support for the parallel port by default, right? At least after loading these modules it should work. What am I missing?
the 2.6. kernel is not compiled with parallel inside it, but the module exist
modprobe lp
should load it as you already said
is your /etc/modprobe.conf existent?
do you have a standard lp?
can you use it from another OS?
what says:
dmesg | grep lp
[damir@Asteraceae /]$ dmesg | grep lp
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
have you tried 2.4.25?
The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.
Check section 3.2 of http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CUPS%20setup
(and if you got it to work for the aprallel port, you may adjust the wiki accordingly ;-) )
Also, I was about to post what dp posted. To give us an idea what your system is like, post the output of
dmesg | grep lp
Seems like we also could communicate in german ;-)
Okay, dmesg says that is loading the module but does not find a port - which is wierd, because it is working under windows plus i have been running linux on this box since i got it and it always worked - with a 2.4 kernel though. So is there anything else that could cause this problem??
Try putting "parport_pc" in your rc.conf along with "lp" and I believe this might help. FWIW
Rule #1: There are NO RULES!
Thanks, that did it. Now I have my port at /dev/lp0.
No problem. Enjoy Arch, I think it's the best but then again I'm a little prejudiced.
Rule #1: There are NO RULES!
Thanks, that did it. Now I have my port at /dev/lp0.
All right, I can' resist. So forgive me ;-) ... it did come up very recently : a discussion about throwing RTFM's at newbies or not. So, i really mean this in a polite manner (seriously). The use of the parport_pc module was in the link I supplied. So, I really recommend reading documentation. We all know what we know because we did read documentation. Furthermore, when I read your repsonse that it still does not work, I assumed you did read up the documentation and I was quite puzzled why it still does not work and was awaiting more info.
As I said, I didn't want to make this a simple RTFM, but a friendly reminder. (pick some : :-) ;-) )
Believe me! Read everything. Still not connected.
A test print in both Cups and KDE control center report that test print was sent to printer successfully but, there is never a response.
Here is an extract from dmesg:
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98)
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 950C
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
Here is the message from dmesg | grep lp
[root@bill billb]# dmesg | grep lp
On node 0 totalpages: 196592
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
How is this "no devices found" consistent with "Printer, HEW*"
in dmesg.
Bill Barnes
How is this "no devices found" consistent with "Printer, HEW*"
in dmesg.
That is just a matter of the order in which the modules/drivers start up (and the same on my system). When lp0 starts it can't find a driver (yet). Then parport finds the actual parallel port, and later on lp0 is reporting "using parport". At that point, the parallel port printer device is there. Verify it and check
ls -l /dev/lp*
ls -l /dev/printers/*
However, I can't say why cups cannot talk to it. What do the following commands say :
lpstat -l -t
lpq -l
Thanks for looking.
The printer works in at least a half-dozen other distros, even (gasp) Windows.
Here is a command line attempt to print.
[root@bill /]# lp /etc/rc.conf
request id is lpr-12 (1 file(s))
[root@bill /]# ls -l /dev/lp*
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10 Mar 18 12:18 /dev/lp0 -> printers/0
[root@bill /]# ls -l /dev/printers/*
crw-rw-rw- 1 billb users 6, 0 Jan 1 1970 /dev/printers/0
[root@bill /]# lpstat -l -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: lpr
device for lpr: parallel:/dev/lp0
lpr accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
printer lpr is idle. enabled since Jan 01 00:00
Form mounted:
Content types: any
Printer types: unknown
Description: HP Deskjet 952C
Alerts: none
Location: local
Connection: direct
Interface: /etc/cups/ppd/lpr.ppd
On fault: no alert
After fault: continue
Users allowed:
Forms allowed:
Banner required
Charset sets:
Default pitch:
Default page size:
Default port settings:
[root@bill /]# lpq -l
lpr is ready
no entries
[root@bill /]#
Bill Barnes
Looks good so far.
Now, I would start digging through
and see if there is anything suspicious.
Good advice! Haven't solved it yet, but FWIW I can read the cups documentation. So I set the log to debug mode and here it is:
This log content follows
lp fstab
18/Mar/2004:18:13:15 +0000] AcceptClient() 5 from localhost:631.
ReadClient() 5 POST / HTTP/1.1
ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=1
CloseClient() 5
AcceptClient() 5 from localhost:631.
ReadClient() 5 POST / HTTP/1.1
ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=1
CloseClient() 5
AcceptClient() 5 from localhost:631.
ReadClient() 5 POST / HTTP/1.1
ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=0
ReadClient() 5 POST /printers/lpr HTTP/1.1
print_job: auto-typing file...
print_job: request file type is text/plain.
check_quotas: requesting-user-name = 'root'
print_job: requesting-user-name = 'root'
Adding start banner page "none" to job 16.
Adding end banner page "none" to job 16.
Job 16 queued on 'lpr' by 'root'.
Job 16 hold_until = 0
StartJob(16, 0x8093b70)
StartJob() id = 16, file = 0/1
banner_page = 0
StartJob: argv = "lpr","16","root","fstab","1","","/var/spool/cups/d00016-001"
StartJob: envp[0]="PATH=/usr/lib/cups/filter:/bin:/usr/bin"
StartJob: envp[1]="SOFTWARE=CUPS/1.1"
StartJob: envp[2]="USER=root"
StartJob: envp[3]="CHARSET=iso-8859-1"
StartJob: envp[4]="LANG=en"
StartJob: envp[5]="PPD=/etc/cups/ppd/lpr.ppd"
StartJob: envp[6]="CUPS_SERVERROOT=/etc/cups"
StartJob: envp[7]="RIP_MAX_CACHE=8m"
StartJob: envp[8]="TMPDIR=/var/spool/cups/tmp"
StartJob: envp[9]="CONTENT_TYPE=text/plain"
StartJob: envp[10]="DEVICE_URI=parallel:/dev/lp0"
StartJob: envp[11]="PRINTER=lpr"
StartJob: envp[12]="CUPS_DATADIR=/usr/share/cups"
StartJob: envp[13]="CUPS_FONTPATH=/usr/share/cups/fonts"
StartJob: envp[14]="CUPS_SERVER=localhost"
StartJob: envp[15]="IPP_PORT=631"
StartJob: statusfds = [ 7 8 ]
StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 9 -1 ]
StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops"
StartJob: filterfds[0] = [ 10 11 ]
start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops", 0xbffeff30, 0xbffef2a0, 9, 11, 8)
Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/texttops (PID 2486) for job 16.
StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops"
StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ 9 12 ]
start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops", 0xbffeff30, 0xbffef2a0, 10, 12, 8)
I [18/Mar/2004:18:13:15 +0000] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 2487) for job 16.
StartJob: filter = "/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip"
StartJob: filterfds[0] = [ 10 11 ]
start_process("/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip", 0xbffeff30, 0xbffef2a0, 9, 11, 8)
Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip (PID 2488) for job 16.
StartJob: backend = "/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel"
StartJob: filterfds[1] = [ -1 9 ]
start_process("/usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel", 0xbffeff30, 0xbffef2a0, 10, 9, 8)
Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 2489) for job 16.
ProcessIPPRequest: 5 status_code=0
This looks like the problem? Can't find status 22 explanation but must be the next line.
PID 2488 stopped with status 22!
[Job 16] /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip: No such file or directory
[Job 16] Page = 612x792; 0,0 to 612,792
[Job 16] ppd->num_fonts = 35
[Job 16] ppd->fonts[8] = Courier
[Job 16] Page = 612x792; 0,0 to 612,792
[Job 16] slowcollate=0, slowduplex=0, sloworder=0
[Job 16] 0 %%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
[Job 16] 0 %%Creator: texttops/CUPS v1.1.20
[Job 16] 0 %%CreationDate: Thu Mar 18 18:13:15 2004
[Job 16] 0 %%Title: fstab
[Job 16] 0 %%For: root
[Job 16] 0 %%Pages: (atend)
[Job 16] 0 %%DocumentNeededResources: font Courier-Bold
[Job 16] 0 %%+ font Courier
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You'd be surprised at how many people /can't/ read the cups documentation
[jchu@hercules jchu]$ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip
/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip is owned by foomatic-filters 3.0.1-1
Figured I'd swoop in and steal this one... though everyone else that worked on it deserve a lot more credit than me.
I have discovered that all of mans unhappiness derives from only one source, not being able to sit quietly in a room
- Blaise Pascal
Well, maybe I'm one of them after all. Meant to say that this experience has immersed me in cups documentation, but, obviously, I just scratched the surface.
Next problem follows:
>Targets: foomatic-filters-3.0.1-1
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts...
error: the following file conflicts were found:
/usr/bin/foomatic-gswrapper: exists in filesystem
/usr/man/man1/foomatic-gswrapper.1.gz: exists in filesystem
Now what?
Figure out which package owns that file. Most likely it's a different/older version of foomatic. Remove it.
I have discovered that all of mans unhappiness derives from only one source, not being able to sit quietly in a room
- Blaise Pascal
Got it! Thanks.
foomatic-gswrapper is installed by foomatic-filters.
Must have come from my earlier misuse of pacman.
Thanks to all for the help.
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A horse takes three steps to walk the same distance for which a pony takes four steps. Suppose that one step of the horse covers a half-metre. How many metres would the pony cover when taking twenty-four steps?
I keep tying myself in knots, getting nowhere. Any ideas for an intelligent start on this? TIA


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I have noticed that all the pass arounds that happen are always for a 240mm or 270mm gyuto or for a 270mm or 300mm sujihiki.
Why don't knife makers do pass arounds for cleavers, pettys, nakiris etc... I'm sure people would love to give a try to some other types of knives.
Just a thought and something Ive noticed!


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Young Alum Turns Business School Project into Professional Passion
Art on Board hoping to win national contest
- 06-20-2014
- By Jon Reidel
What started as an entrepreneurship class project is now a national effort to promote community-centered initiatives focused on positivity and youth involvement within the action sports and arts communities. Art on Board, co-founded by Ben Weigher '13, is embarking on a national tour with events in New York, Seattle, Denver and Burlington to raise funds for Burton's CHILL Foundation.
The Art on Board national tour kicks off on Thursday, July 31 at the Paper Box in Brooklyn with a silent auction for custom-designed Burton snowboards, raffle prizes and giveaways, food and drinks, a live DJ set, and live screen printing with the CHILL Foundation. The snowboards on auction have been crafted by select AoB artists, who will also showcase pieces from their personal collections at the event.
Weigher adopted the event format from the "Make a Difference Project" he completed with UVM classmates Tim Andreasen, who remains actively involved in AoB, Todd Kinneston, Michael Massa and Eric Laine in their Entrepreneurial Leadership course created by Pramodita Sharma, Sanders Professor for Family Business. A requirement of the course project was a fundraising strategy, which Weigher has extended beyond the national tour events by reaching out to potential donors and partners, and by participating in national contests like the one sponsored by KIND Snacks. AoB has entered a video in hopes of winning $10,000 in support from KIND Snacks. The video with the most votes by the end of June wins; vote for AoB on KIND Snacks' website.
"We knew we wanted to continue the project after graduation but initially weren't sure how to make it happen," said Weigher, who moved to New York City after graduation. "After making a winter trip to Burlington to get some advice from Professor Sharma, I decided it had to be all or nothing. Six months later, things are really starting to take off."
AoB supports action sports and arts activities for youth because, according to its website, both teach "lessons of persistence, healthy risk-taking, self-esteem, friendly competition, creative expression, and community building" and provide a "phenomenal environment of community, creativity, belonging, friendship and camaraderie."


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Software Carpentry
Architecture of Open Source Applications
Never Work in Theory
Sensible Adventures
Goodbye, Jeff
Seven Ways to Think Like a Programmer
A Base Case for Empirical Software Engineering Research
Book Club
Ten Simple Rules for Talking People Into Things
Carpentry For Everyone
What Kinds of Exercises Do You Use to Teach Programming?
Git, Graphs, and Software Engineering
Ten Simple Rules for Being a Good Research Partner
Numerical JavaScript
Them That's Got
Rules for Teaching
Why Teachers Don't Collaborate on Lesson Development
Zen and the Art of Assignment Operators
In My Better World
Why I Teach (Revisited)
Just Keep Swimming
Exaptation and the Future of Software Engineering
Daddy, Why Don't You Ever Laugh?
Goodbye, Dad
Announcing the Creation of the Software Carpentry Foundation
Is Learning at Scale Just Another Name for Ubiquitous Surveillance in the Classroom?
You Keep Using That Word
Correctness Isn't Compelling
Twenty Percent
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KEIZER, Ore. – Volcanoes Stadium erupted on Wednesday night as Portland's Jeff Melby lined out to Aaron Payne, securing freshman lefty Jordan Spencer's no-hitter as the No. 8 Ducks defeated Portland 3-0.
The Beaverton, Ore., native faced just two batters over the minimum in his career high nine innings on the mound, plunking a batter in the fifth, and the second reaching on an error in the seventh. Spencer (2-1) struck out a career-best five, as the lefty tossed the first complete game shutout of his career.
Oregon (26-10) was led at the plate by Aaron Payne's 3-for-4 performance, while Ryon Healy and Brett Thomas also recorded two hits apiece.
Oregon took the first lead of the game, 2-0, in the top of the third as Kevin Shepherd reached safely after being plunked. He moved all the way to third on errant pickoff attempt, before scoring Oregon's first run of the game on a wild pitch.
Oregon's lineup then produced three consecutive singles off starter Kody Watts as Healy drove in Connor Hofmann with a single to left as the Ducks led 2-0.
The Duck advantage increased to 3-0 in the top of the fifth when Payne led off the inning with a single to right, and moved all the way to third on Healy's single up the middle. Payne then came home as Keeler Brynetson's delivery was too wide of catcher Bo Cornish's reach.
In the start, Watts (2-1) took the loss after allowing two runs on four hits, one walk and three hit batters in three and 2/3 innings.
Brynteson, Brandon Snyder, Chad Kjehmus and Owen Jones each appeared in relief for Portland (20-12).
The Ducks return to action in a three-game series that begins at 6 pm on Friday at PK Park hosting Washington State.


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With modern technology, making a new friend can be a Facebook post or tweet away.
With modern technology, making a new friend can be a Facebook post or tweet away.
But one could say Choupic resident Michele Molaison and her special friend Beverley Lewis did it the hard way.
It was an old CB radio that brought the Canadian Lewis and Molaison together more than 35 years ago.
As an 11-year-old, Molaison said she and many others would use the radio and give their name and address to receive postcard from those listening in locales far away.
"It was just a fun thing to do," Molaison said. "The radio actually sounded like aliens, so you'd have to listen really close to get the information."
One night, Lewis, who was then a 16-year-old, received an address from her brother who had heard Molaison's call on the radio.
"He just gave me the information and said this would be someone you could write letters with," Lewis said.
She did and little did she know it would start a friendship that has flourished for 35 years though they are 2,000 miles apart.
Lewis visited Thibodaux last week from her native Nova Scotia. It's one of six times the two have met in person, but one couldn't tell from speaking with the giggly duo.
"At first I was shy, you know: 'I have a dog, I have a cat, I like doing this, what is your favorite color?' " Molaison said.
But what started out as shy letters between pen pals in different worlds quickly developed into a deep friendship that resulted in them talking regularly on the phone.
"We can talk about anything," Lewis said. "We both are just easy going with open hearts."
The two developed a relationship and after eight years of calls, the two first met in person when Lewis visited for Molaison's wedding.
"It was 1985, I could have been coming to a crack house, but (our parents) talked, and we came, and they were nice normal people," Lewis said.
The two really hit it off after meeting for the first time.
"A lot of people have pen pals, but they don't keep them up," Molaison said. "At first we were shy, but after we met each other it was like we knew each other forever."
The two speak as though they are best friends.
Molaison visited Lewis in her frigid home, noting the chilly temperature in the middle of July.
"We were using a wood heater in July," she said with a laugh.
Lewis has been to visit Molaison five times and like many visitors was quick to comment on the food.
"There is always more of me coming home than there is coming here. The food is so unique. Our food is not spicy at all, so I always take spices back home with me," Lewis said adding she has tried both alligator and squirrel.
"The people are so friendly and inquisitive here," she said with a smile.
Lewis always tries to visit on a special occasion so she can see more of Molaison's family who she has become good friends with.
The occasion this time was Molaison's daughter's 21st birthday, which they celebrated in New Orleans.
Lewis stays in contact with Molaison's family through Facebook, and the two still talk about all manner of things over the phone. They hope to stay friends forever but maybe get to see each other a little more often.
"I just hope the next time I'm down here it isn't with a walker," Lewis said with a laugh.


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Don't Forget Your Mother
With the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo coming up this weekend (Saturday and Sunday, respectively), it's easy to overlook that Mother's Day is right around the corner.
Exactly 11 days around the corner, that is.
So before the juleps and margaritas set in, and it slips your mind to get a card for the woman who birthed you, we recommend you check out the selection at Terrapin Stationers. Perhaps you want to thank Mom for her genes. Or maybe you just want to tell her that she doesn't suck. That's your call. We just suggest that you do it on handsome, 70lb, beautifully engraved stock.
That way, she'll have to forgive you for those angsty teenage years.


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GENEVA – Bands are invited to submit a demo tape to the Sunset Community Center, 710 Western Ave., Geneva, to enter the Geneva Park District's annual Battle of the Bands concert. The demo tapes are due by Friday, May 24.
The contest begins Monday, June 17. Starting at 4 p.m. on Third Street's main stage, rockers ages 12 to 19 will battle it out for prizes and the chance to move on to a regional competition in July. The winning act will perform during Swedish Days on Friday, June 21. Battle of the Bands is sponsored by Geneva Coalition for Youth and Sound Sculptor Recording Studio. The cost is $30 per band ($40 nonresident). Space is limited. Participants must send a demo CD to Sunset Community Center, Attn: Battle of the Bands at 710 Western Ave., Geneva, IL 60134. For information, call 630-232-4542 or visit www.genevaparks.org.


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AfriGeneas Genealogy and History Forum Archive
Re: MART & MARTHA OGLESBY - GA
In Response To: MART & MARTHA OGLESBY - GA ()
Hi. I looked at 1900 first and the index lists him as Mark and her as Mat. But I looked then at 1910 and I'm sure they are the same people. Anyway the handwriting in 1900 could be interpreted badly.
1910, Georgia, Oglethorpe, 234 Grove Creek
Mart Oglesby,head, 42, B, Marriage 1 or 2(probably 2, look at Martha's age and Lizzie's age), married 14 years
Martha Oglesby,wife, 31, B, Marriage 2, married 14 years, 1 birth, 1 living
1900, Georgia, Oglethorpe, Grove Creek, ED 95
Mark(but looks like Martin) Oglesby, head, 30, B, married 15 years
Interesting the number of births to "Mat" and "Martha" as compared to the presence of children in 1900.
There are also more Oglesbys on the same page in both years.
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Tensions between Victoria and Canberra have deepened, with the Napthine government accused of taking three months to clarify budget demands for Commonwealth infrastructure funding.
Federal Infrastructure Minister Warren Truss' spokesman said: ''We wrote to the Victorian government back in December and only received a response from them on the 28th of March.
''They requested changes to the parameters, which will add extra time. I can't see any way in which the Commonwealth has been sluggish.''
Those comments come against the backdrop of state Treasurer Michael O'Brien expressing frustration that he had to finalise his budget before the federal one, with Commonwealth funding for key infrastructure projects - including the second stage of the East West Link - still not locked in.
''I'd confidently predict if I have anything to do with it, this will be the last time that Victoria has its budget before the federal budget, because it just does make the forecasting … more difficult than it needs to be,'' he said.
Mr Truss' spokesman said any suggestions the Commonwealth was responsible for delays had come as a ''surprise''.
The comments highlight festering tensions between the two tiers of government.
After three years of relative austerity, the Napthine government is preparing to use its strong budget position to unleash an election-year budget designed to recapture the political high ground before the November 29 state election.
The second stage of the East West Link, the development of the Port of Hastings, the sale of the Port of Melbourne, an airport rail link and funding to begin building the Metro rail tunnel are all on the agenda.
At the same time, the Abbott government is set to hand down one of the toughest federal budgets in recent memory in an effort to repair its bottom line.
A state government spokesman denied Victoria had stalled clarifying its demands. He said Victoria had been in ''constructive and ongoing discussions with the Commonwealth over Victoria's infrastructure needs, and has been since December''.
In a further sign of tensions, Premier Denis Napthine has warned that almost $1 billion worth of programs for hospitals, the homeless and kindergartens are at risk , with a range of national partnership agreements due to expire within months.
In a letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Dr Napthine said failure to clarify the agreements could leave Victoria with a $940 million budget hole over the next four years, leading to cuts in family violence services, the closure of homeless shelters and hospital beds, or reductions in kindergarten hours.
Victoria remains the only state in Australia to be consistently predicting annual budget surpluses, with the government keen to deliver on its infrastructure agenda without resorting to new debt.
Victoria is believed to be demanding significantly more from the Abbott government for the second stage of the East West Link than the $1.5 billion contribution for the first stage.
''Our view is the cost of stage 2 of East West would be more than stage 1 and we would obviously like to see a commensurately greater contribution from Canberra,'' Mr O'Brien said.
Infrastructure Australia recently accused the state government of failing to submit a ''robust'' business case for independent scrutiny to justify the East West Link.
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Live Review: Built to Spill performing 'Perfect From Now On' at Slim's
Two years ago, when Santiago decided to learn and perform Built to Spill's album Perfect From Now On in its entirety, I would have never guessed that Built to Spill themselves would one day book a series of shows doing the same exact song-for-song tribute to their own masterpiece.
I also would have never guessed that through a series of events both deliberate and unpredictably farcical, Doug Martsch would ever hear a live audience recording of the show where we played Perfect From Now On; or that, years later, when Built to Spill took the album back on the road, that he'd track us down and personally invite us to the show.
It was one of those heart-stopping answering machine messages: "Look, Doug wants to put you and your band on the guest list for the show next week, so gimme a call back."
I was agog. I called back, and sure enough, Doug Martsch had heard the Santiago recording of Perfect From Now On. And he wanted to meet us.
"I can't believe you did it," Doug told us backstage, smiling. "It even took us a long time to re-learn some of those songs."
We said to him, fumbling over our words, I'm sure, how much we loved the album, and how grateful we were to him for making it, and what a satisfying project it was to learn it in its entirety. Nick explained that it took the better part of a month, "locked in my bedroom," to figure out the insanely complex guitar parts, which perked Doug's interest. "Did you learn any new formations?" he asked, unaware of how accurate his suggestion was.
The phenomenon we often encountered, I explained, was that we'd listen to the songs and imagine, in our heads, how they'd be played. But then, when we actually picked up our guitars, we realized that our fingers had to be arranged in completely different patterns in order to play the parts correctly. "So it was an amazing and indirect learning process," I said.
"If you've got time," Doug offered, "if there's some parts you couldn't figure out, I could get my guitar and show you some stuff."
Jesus Christ, we all thought. Is this for real? But by that point, after hanging out for a while, it was time for the show to start. The band walked by, up the stairs and to the stage, and Doug thanked us again before strolling behind to perform one of the greatest albums ever made.
As I've said before, the greatest asset Perfect From Now On so brilliantly brandishes is a complete sense of mystery. Learning it didn't change that, and seeing Built to Spill play it in its entirety didn't change it either. Even onstage, the album still emits, from just about every song, the themes that everyone ponders when they first spend a long night gazing up at the stars and talking to a good friend about life:
The universe is infinite. You are small, and your life is relatively insignificant. It's wrong to go through life acting otherwise. Imagination is useful. The world is noisy. Sympathy is a luxury. Beauty is random acts coming together. Other people can be cruel simply by thinking the thoughts that they think. No one knows for sure what happens when we die. When you feel the darkness shining through, what are you gonna do?
I dare any major label A&R rep to scout out an album like Perfect From Now On today. I further dare them to release it. Think about it: this was Built to Spill's major label debut, those three feeble words which give the record company carte blanche to respond with those five familiar words—"we don't hear a hit." Did someone at Warner Brothers in 1997 actually see the artistic value of Perfect From Now On?
The show was magical, hitting a stride with "Stop the Show," completely coming unhinged with "Velvet Waltz," and slicing through the previous 45 minutes with "Untrustable / Pt. 2." Cellist John McMahon, who played on the original album, added immensely to the sound; as did Brett Netson, who's rightfully been cited as Built to Spill's secret weapon. Songs became elastic, speeding up and slowing down with even more freedom than on the record, and the band's legendarily long jams were kept short but no less sprawling. There was a lot of open-mouthed gaping in the crowd.
They played three more songs: "Goin' Against Your Mind," "Car," and "Stab," and then the lights came up. We drove back to Santa Rosa in awe, and I stayed up until 4am thinking about the unbelievable circle of events that life sometimes throws us.
One thing especially sticks out from the night. I had tried not to be too interrogative with Doug Martsch backstage at the show, but I couldn't help but ask him a burning question. Did learning Perfect From Now On again, I suggested, bring up any old emotions for him?
"No," he said, calmly. "I don't really look at music that way. I just play it."
"In Its Entirety": Built to Spill and Liz Phair
The news hit like a one-two kiss of sloppy, wonderful indie-rock love: both Built to Spill and Liz Phair have announced that they'll perform their great masterpieces—Perfect From Now On and Exile In Guyville—in a series of shows around the country this year.
I've fielded countless questions about if I'm going to these shows, because of a truly million-to-one coincidence: I myself have actually performed both of these albums.
Okay, so maybe it's not a million-to-one shot, but it's pretty uncanny: in 2001 as part of a duo, and then again in 2006 with my band, Santiago, I learned and performed Perfect From Now On in its entirety. Earlier this year with my friends Dean and Steve, I learned and performed Exile In Guyville. And now, as if to answer our weird but urgent prayers, both albums are getting the 'In Its Entirety' treatment by the OGs.
I'm not claiming any kind of cosmic credit for altering the creative waves of the universe. Lets face it, Sonoma County's not that big. But I will gladly use the news as a reason to talk about what it was like to learn two of the best records of the 1990s.
As anyone familiar with Perfect From Now On and Exile In Guyville can imagine, they were incredibly daunting projects to take on, especially since I had to not only figure out some truly otherworldly guitar parts but also remember hundreds of lyrics. Yet each album compelled me. They're both crammed with mystery. I felt like if I could wrestle with them in the most direct way possible—figuring out how to play them, and then playing them in public—I could unlock some of that mystery.
When I first heard Perfect From Now On I hated it. All the songs were long and slow and repetitive, and it didn't grab me at all. Then Built to Spill put out Keep It Like A Secret, which I instantly loved. "Finally," I said, "I understand what all my friends have been crazy about!" So I went back and listened to Perfect From Now On. I still thought it was a boring formless piece of shit.
It was, however, a boring formless piece of shit that I kept coming back to, and I can't explain how it happened, except that one night I was sitting alone in my apartment half-drunk, pitifully alone and staring at the carpet, and "Velvet Waltz" came on, and Doug Martsch sang those lines:
And you'd better not be angry
And you'd better not be sad
You'd better just enjoy the luxury of sympathy
If that's a luxury you have
Suddenly, Perfect From Now On was the most incredible revelation in my entire life, bursting from its ruminations on the meaning of eternity to its sharp, final accusation: what are you gonna do? As a salve for one of my darkest hours, I listened to it every day and every night for a week, over and over. It was an enormous ocean, and I swam through it like a lost soul from a shipwreck, looking for an island.
I'd heard about a guy named Nick Jackson who played guitar and who knew how to play some Built to Spill songs, so I called him completely out of the blue. "Hi, Nick? Hey, my name's Gabe. Rob gave me your number, and he says you know some Built to Spill songs on the guitar. I've got a totally ridiculous idea for you, and feel free to say no, but do you want to learn Perfect From Now On with me and play it at a show?"
His classic response: "Uh, sure. What's Perfect From Now On?"
He went out and bought it and quickly and amazingly learned every single note, and we started practicing two weeks later. Just us and our guitars, with me singing. The show, at the Old Vic, went well, and afterwards I felt like I'd not only conquered the record in a way, but also made personal amends for talking so much shit about it all those years.
Fast-forward to 2006, and Santiago's just finished recording Rosenberg's After Dark, a sprawling concept album all about Santa Rosa. We needed to clean out our systems, so we started fucking around with There's Nothing Wrong With Love. But it didn't seem right, and we kept coming back to the songs from Perfect From Now On. It sure sounded a lot better with a full band. I called up Nick Jackson, who was down to fill in again on guitar, and we planned the ultimate joke: for our record release show, we'd play someone else's record.
It was such an excellent idea. Then my world fell apart. In the middle of rehearsing, my mom died in a terrible car accident. Suddenly Perfect From Now On took on an entirely new emotion for me, and all of its intertwining mystery came rushing back. There was a lot of pain and confusion and heartache going on, and just as the album had earlier given me a salve for my solitude, it sprang up again and offered me a cathartic way to say goodbye.
The show we played was a blur. I remember only one thing vividly about it: singing those lines from "Velvet Waltz"—the ones about about anger, sorrow, and the luxury of sympathy. Someone recorded the show, and when I hear myself singing those lines today, I realize that I'm not one step closer to understanding Perfect From Now On. It's still a vast ocean, and for as long as I spent swimming around in it, I never found the island. I like it that way.
Exile In Guyville is another story altogether.
I have an ex-girlfriend who listened to Exile in Guyville all the time when we were together. I'd heard about the album when a friend of mine saw Liz Phair on the cover of Rolling Stone, and at first I thought it was basically a wimpy soft-rock record with some token sex references thrown in for attention's sake. I couldn't understand why my girlfriend loved it so much, but how can you argue with a girlfriend who loves songs about sex? So I put up with it. She played it over and over.
Eventually, in a haze of prescription Vicodin and Seagram's gin and English ovals, Exile In Guyville sunk in. I realized that there's a lot of songs on the record (like "Explain it to Me") that drone in a really cool way and some ("Dance of the Seven Veils") that are just plain surreal, lyrically. Those are the ones that I really fell in love with. The eerie ones. My girlfriend kept on playing the ones about blowjobs, though. Years later, as our relationship soured, she kept turning to the blowjob songs for support, and I decided that I couldn't understand her anymore at all if she still, after all those years, found more solace in "Fuck and Run" than in "Shatter." So fuck her and fuck Liz Phair and fuck that record, I thought.
Songs don't disappear. I eventually bought Exile in Guyville again, cuing up my favorite songs first, of course, and then listening to the whole thing. A healthy dose of distance from the mitigating circumstances of its arrival into my life helped me appreciate it all over again. And again, I picked up the phone and called some people and somehow talked them into learning it and playing it in public.
This idea actually had its genesis in 1995, when I distinctly remember walking around a small town in Indiana, waiting for a flat tire to get fixed, singing "Fuck and Run" in my best Johnny Cash impersonation with Alyssa. How crazy would it be, I asked, to take on the ultimate indie-rock feminist statement and perform it from a male point of view?
13 years later, I had even more of a reason to learn and perform Exile in Guyville. Liz Phair had started completely embarrassing herself with teen-girl-whore pop bullshit, and I needed to remind myself and others that she was once great. Also, there was a serious element of reclamation involved; a personal creed, I suppose, that I could love a record on my own terms, and that it didn't belong to any one person, or to one ex-girlfriend, or to one gender, or to one line of thinking. Plus, a couple years after being stranded in Indiana together, Alyssa had died of a heroin overdose, and I always remembered that she thought it was a cool idea.
We learned the thing in about 4 or 5 practices, cramped into my small office room, and it was an amazing musical experience. Lots of unnerving surprises. I played piano on "Canary." The show went incredibly well—even the songs about blowjobs—and I think, somehow, we achieved our goals. If nothing else, it was intensely satisfying.
My favorite Exile in Guyville song is still "Shatter."
So anyway, the long and short of all this is that no, I don't think I'm going to see Built to Spill perform Perfect From Now On in its entirety, nor do I fathom I'll go see Liz Phair perform Exile in Guyville in its entirety. The purpose of going those kinds of shows is to commune, in the most direct way, with an album that you love, and I feel like I've already done that in the best way possible. Actually, I feel like I've inhabited those albums—and to paraphrase the song, I'm not sure I want to go back to the old house.


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NEW YORK (AP) — There will apparently be back-to-back Cinderella stories on Broadway in the coming seasons.
Producers announced Tuesday plans to bring a new musical based on the Drew Barrymore film "Ever After" in the 2013-14 season under the direction and choreography of Kathleen Marshall.
"Ever After" will feature music by Zina Goldrich and a book and lyrics by Marcy Heisle, who also are teaming up for "The Great American Mousical" at the Goodspeed Opera House.
The story is set in 16th century France, where a young noble woman learns to stand up to her scheming stepmother, befriends Leonardo Da Vinci and wins over a French prince.
It will follow a production of "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" on Broadway, which is slated for next season with an updated book by Douglas Carter Beane.


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I would ask her point blank, "What is it you want me to say?" When she tells you, you say, "I can't write that, I've never taught him/have no experience with him/know that's not true."Here's the thing: there may be no way to get out of this without being direct, but that doesn't mean it's not polite to do so. "I'm sorry, that won't be possible," "No," "I'm afraid I simply can't do that," are all fine. The problem, of course, is the "WHY???" that will follow, and it's up to you to decide how far you want to go with it.If it is someone for whom you think it might work, could you say, "I'm sorry, I can't put my professional reputation on the line writing a recommendation for someone I don't honestly feel merits it." If not, it wouldn't be rude at all to say, "I don't know him very well, but from everything I've heard, I don't think I can honestly recommend him."
I know this is a white lie but could you tell G's parents that you only write recommendations for people that you have taught? Repeat this every time they ask you until they simply give up. I should imagine that G's parents are hesitant to get a reference from his current teachers because they don't want the truth.
What kind of people are your IL? Can you tell them the truth that writing this JD a letter or recommendation would do great harm to your reputation and career so you will not do it? Would they back you up or would that cause a huge dust-up?
This wouldn't be a white lie. Theoretically, I could write a character reference for a student I haven't taught, but that's not the same as a letter of recommendation. In college admissions, I suspect that such letters don't hold a whole lot of weight, excepting perhaps, if it comes from Superfamous Scholar (which I'm not). And a netural letter like I described above is poison, because an admissions committee will read between the lines and realize "hey, she's know this kid for most of his life and she can't find one nice thing to say?"
And a netural letter like I described above is poison, because an admissions committee will read between the lines and realize "hey, she's know this kid for most of his life and she can't find one nice thing to say?"
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Madi Story's 31 paces Trojans past Bulldogs
Behind 31 points from CVAC player of the year Madi Story, Bandys advanced to the third round of the 2A playoffs with a 79-53 win against No. 5 Thomasville.
The Lady Trojans (26-2) shot 64 percent from the field (29-of-45) during Wednesday's game.
Guided by 16 points from Story in the first half, Bandys built an early lead, and the Trojans were ahead 40-24 at the half.
From there, the Trojans went on cruise control, scoring 39 points in the second half on their way to a victory and a third-round playoff appearance.
To go along with her game-high 31 points, Story also grabbed four steals.
Chelsey Queen added nine points and eight assists in the Bandys win, while Taylor Sigmon scored eight points and grabbed eight rebounds.
Alexis Lambert led Thomasville with 17 points, while Joslyn Spires added 15 points.
The fourth-seeded Lady Trojans meet No. 1 North Stanly on Friday in their first road playoff test.
The Comets (27-1) defeated Starmount (11-14) on Wednesday, 57-36.