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Proposition 30 – Yes: Reinvesting in California's future
With Election Day approaching, California voters are turning their attention to the various propositions on the statewide ballot. One measure – Proposition 30, put forth by Gov. Jerry Brown – provides voters with a clear choice about the state's future. A vote for Proposition 30 would support reinvestment in education and other building blocks of a strong economy and broadly shared prosperity.
In recent years, serious budget shortfalls have undermined the state's ability to invest in public services and systems that are essential to all Californians. Faced with large budget gaps, lawmakers have made deep cuts to virtually all areas of the state budget. These cuts mean that our public schools have fewer teachers and larger classes and that fewer families can afford to send their children to a community college or a UC or CSU institution. In addition, the cuts have frayed the state's social safety net and reduced key services – like child care – for families struggling to find or keep jobs in a weak economy.
How did California's budget challenges come about? The Great Recession was, of course, a major factor. The downturn caused a big drop in employment, incomes, and spending, leading to a steep decline in state revenues. But recent budget gaps also reflect years of significant tax cuts, including permanent corporate tax breaks enacted during the depths of the recession. In fact, tax cuts made during the past two decades will cost the state about $13 billion in the current fiscal year. Meanwhile, the two-thirds vote required for the Legislature to pass any tax increase makes it difficult – if not impossible – for lawmakers to restore this lost revenue and avoid a "cuts only" approach to closing the budget gap.
By providing new revenues that help balance the state budget, Proposition 30 would boost local economies and improve the quality of life in communities across California. That's because the state budget is really a local budget. Most state spending – over 70 cents of every dollar – flows to local communities. This state support ranges from funding for public schools and colleges, to assistance for low-income seniors and people with disabilities, to veterans services, to payments to doctors providing care through the Medi-Cal program.
Given the day-to-day importance of state dollars to local communities, it is not surprising that most Californians understand what's at stake in closing the budget gap. According to a statewide survey by the Public Policy Institute of California, more than nine out of 10 adults say the budget situation is a problem for the people of California.
Proposition 30 would allow California to move beyond the year-after-year predicament of having to balance the budget through deep cuts to vital services and systems. The measure's temporary tax increases – a personal income tax increase for very-high-income Californians and a quarter-cent increase in the state's sales tax rate – would raise about $6 billion a year on average. These funds would help close the state's budget gap while boosting state spending on K-12 schools and community colleges.
Proposition 30 is the only measure on the November ballot that achieves both these critical goals: increasing support for education and stabilizing the state's finances. According to estimates from the Department of Finance, Proposition 30 revenues would close the budget gap for the foreseeable future.
Most of these new revenues would come from the wealthiest Californians. In fact, almost 80 percent of the revenues would come from the top 1 percent, who have incomes of more than a half-million dollars a year. This is a group whose average annual income skyrocketed during the past two decades, while that for low- and middle-income Californians actually lost purchasing power. In other words, Proposition 30 asks those who have benefitted most from economic growth over the past generation to help lay the groundwork for the state's future prosperity.
Without the revenues from Proposition 30, California faces the prospect of budget shortfalls well into the future. And in the near term, its defeat would trigger almost $6 billion in cuts this year, primarily to education – likely meaning a shortened school year for many K-12 students, fewer slots at community colleges, and higher tuition and fees at public universities. By approving Proposition 30, California voters can choose a different path forward, one that allows the state to stabilize its finances and strengthen investment in schools, colleges, and other institutions and services that are the foundation of a strong economy and a bright future for our state.


text: Hordeoverseer 157 Posted January 26, 2013 I know Only War is built on the premise that you're part of this massive Regiment and you have the constant support of your squad members, but this unfortunately makes it encumbering to manage socially when most of squad mates are around in case well..fighting breaks out, which is probably always around the corner as a guardsman, if it's not in front of you already. Though you can't have an RPG without the RP elements into it where you play the character, rather than a guy with awesome combat stats and gear. Has anyone had success in putting RP opportunities in, not just inter-regiment or squad relations but outside as well? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites

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Lindenwood University has named Elizabeth King director of alumni relations. A two-time alumna of the university, King previously served as an advancement associate at Lindenwood, a position she started in August 2011.
King earned her BA in mass communication in 2000 and her MA in communications in 2001. From 2008 to 2011 she worked as the community events manager at Baue Funeral Homes. She replaces Lauren Clancy, who has moved to the research department of the university's Institutional Advancement Office.
King serves on the boards for the Nurses & Company Foundation and the Festival of the Little Hills in St. Charles.
"We are thrilled that Elizabeth has accepted this position," said Susan Mangels, vice president for institutional advancement. "She's a dedicated alumna herself and a proven relationship-building and event manager."
King said she is pleased to be a part of an institution with such a rich history and many wonderful alumni.
"I am so honored to be working at Lindenwood," King said. "I truly believe in this school and its programs and am so proud to be a part of what this school has become. I look forward to connecting to people across the country and around the world who have experienced Lindenwood as well."
Lindenwood University, founded in 1827, is an independent liberal arts university offering more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in diverse areas of study¬ in traditional and accelerated formats. Lindenwood operates a residential campus in historic St. Charles, as well numerous extension sites throughout the St. Louis Metropolitan Area.


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If the rest of "Rid of Me" were as good as star Katie O'Grady, it would be a breakout indie hit. Instead, it's only occasionally cruelly funny, showing plenty of promise, but takes a good half-hour to get going.
Writer-director James Westby makes clear his sensibilties in an opening scene in which we watching a 30-something punk-ish woman sneeringly stalking a buxom blonde fembot through the aisles of a supermarket. When they finally square off, the the predator… well, suffice to say the predator does about as foul a thing as one woman can do to another in public.
Meris (O'Grady) and Mitch Canfield (John Keyser) are a pair of newlyweds roadtripping to his old hometown, where he's taken a job working for an old high-school buddy. The Canfields are by all appearances a happily married coupe, but when they meet Mitch's old crew - three other married couples that are a collection of suffocatingly fratty bros and catty shrews - it doesn't bode well for Meris.
Mitch's old friends put Meris through the ringer, with a clinic in how senselessly mean and racist adults can be, ultimately driving a wedge between the Canfields. Meris is saved from her ensuing spiral of self-pity, by Trudy (Orianna Herman), her hard-drinking colleague who drapes herself in leather, studs and eyeliner. Meris quickly starts aping her new friend's style and lifestyle.
O'Grady almost singlehandedly carries this film, with a role that takes her from mousy alternative wallflower to angry punk to a happy medium. She's kinda amazing to watch, she's got one of those faces, not unlike Kristen Wiig, that she can transform from homely to pretty right before your eyes.
Unfortunately, Westby spends too much time establishing what a bunch of pricks Mitch and his friends are—a fact that is abundantly clear. It's a shame, because it's not until Meris gets kicked to the curb that the film really hits its stride, but by then "Rid of Me" is half over.
Tribeca Review: "Rid of Me"
If the rest of "Rid of Me" were as good as star Katie O'Grady, it would be a breakout indie hit. Instead, it's only occasionally cruelly funny, showing plenty of promise, but takes a good half-hour to get going.


text: Artist Richard Phillips will unveil a short film starring Lindsay Lohan at Art Basel in Switzerland next week. Called "First Point," the surfing movie was shot in Malibu, and — although Phillips says LiLo was steady on set — the hard-core hanging-10 was left to pro surfer and stunt double Kassia Meador. "Lindsay [was] very athletic and very eager to go surfing," Phillips told us. "She's a determined beginner. She [had] the necessary 'go for it' attitude." He said Lohan remained professional during the shoot last summer, despite her shaky rep at the time. "All the takes were done on the first shot," he said. "Her ability . . . exceeded my expectations." The two previously filmed a short, "Commercial Break," which screened at the Venice Biennale. This one's debuting through Gagosian Gallery in Basel's Art Unlimited section and features music by Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter.


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An appendix upon occasion of a late book published by Mr Joshua Sprigge,4242 Mr Sprigge, after having been educated at Oxford, took the degree of M. A. at Edinburgh. He became a preacher at St Mary, Aldermanbury, and subsequently at St Pancras, London. After the Restoration he purchased an estate, Crayford, in Kent, and lived there in retirement. He married in 1673, Frances, the daughter of Lord Wimbledon, and widow of Lord Say. He returned to London and died at Highgate. He was the author of some political works, "Anglia Rediviva," a folio volume, containing the history of the army under Fairfax, and published in 1647; and "Certain Considerations tendered to the Consideration of the High Court of Justice for Trial of the King," 1648. His theological works are chiefly sermons. It is rather strange that Owen never indicates the title of the work by Sprigge on which he is animadverting; and Mr Orme mentions that he had not ascertained to which of Sprigge's works our author refers. It was, however, a collection of five sermons which Sprigge had delivered at St Pancras, and which were published under the title of, "A Testimony to Approaching Glory." Anthony Wood affirms that they contained "several blasphemies;" and they drew forth some pamphlets, besides this Appendix of Owen, in exposure of their errors. Two of these pamphlets, published in 1652, bore the titles, "The Beacons Quenched," and "The Beacons Flaming." — Ed. containing erroneous doctrine.
I do earnestly entreat thy serious perusal of this short appendix. The total finishing and printing, not only of the body of the discourse, but also the preface, before occasion was given to those thoughts which I now desire to communicate, is the rise of this ataxy. This, being irrecoverable, will admit of no farther apology. In the third division of this treatise there are sundry chapters, namely, vii.–ix., etc., about the satisfaction of Christ, in which the doctrine is cleared and vindicated from the objections of some. The first aim I had therein was, to show the inconsistency of that with the general ransom, principally now opposed. In handling of it my eye was chiefly on the Socinians, the noted known opposers of the person, grace, and merit of Christ, the most wretched prevaricators in Christian religion which any age ever yet produced. In the manner of asserting it, I looked not beside the scriptural proposal of it, nor turned to any controversials, but only for the remarking some παρορᾶματα and (I fear wilful) failings and mistakes of Grotius,4343 Lib. de Satisfac. Christi. Vos. Def. Grot. alii. in stating this business. His wretched apostasy into the very dregs of the error by himself (in the judgment of some) strongly opposed, sufficiently authorizeth any to lay open his treacherous dealing in his first undertaking. If any doubt of this, let him but compare the exposition of sundry texts of Scripture in that book against Socinus with those which the same person hath since given in his so much admired (indeed, in very many things, so much to be abhorred) Annotations on the Bible; and, by their inconsistency he will quickly perceive the steadfastness of that man to his first principles. Great as he was, he was not big enough to contend with truth. Moreover, I had it in my thoughts to endeavour the removal of (as I then thought) a scruple from the minds of some well-meaning persons, who weakly apprehend that the eternal love of God to his elect was inconsistent with the satisfaction of Christ, and therefore began to apprehend, and instantly to divulge abroad (for that is the manner of our days, for every one to cast upon others the crudities of their own stomach, and scatter abroad undigested conceptions, waiting for some to lick their deformed issues, and to see what other 426capricious brains can make of that which themselves know not how to improve) that Christ came only to declare the love of the Father, and to make it manifest to us, that we, in the apprehension thereof, might be drawn to him; so that as for satisfaction and merit, they are but empty names, obscuring the gospel, which holds out no such things. Now, concerning this I know, —
1. That this new-named free grace, this glorious height and attainment, this varnished deity, was at first in its original "truncus ficulnus," — an old, rotten, overworn, Arminian objection, raised out of the obs. and sols. of the old schoolmen, to oppose the doctrine of effectual redemption by Christ, or else to overthrow the doctrine of eternal election; for they framed it to look both ways (either we are not so chosen, or not so redeemed), not caring which part of their work it did, so it were in any measure useful. This was the birth and rise of this glorious discovery.
2. That of its own accord it tends to the very bottom of Socinian folly, yea, indeed, is the very same opinion, for substance, with that whereby they have so long vexed the churches of God, and are themselves deservedly by them all esteemed accursed, for preaching another gospel. Doth not the sum of this discovery come hither, that there is no vindicative justice in God, no wrath or anger against sin, nothing requiring satisfaction for it; that Christ came to declare this, and to make known the way of going to the Father? And is not this that very Helena for which the Socinians have, with so much fraud and subtlety, with so many Sinonian arts, so long contended?
3. That it is extremely to the dishonour of Jesus Christ, destructive to the gospel faith and all solid consolation, and forces men either to a familistical contempt or sophistical corrupting of the word of God in its defence.
Upon these and the like considerations and apprehensions, I deemed it might not be in vain to disprove the main assertion, as also to manifest the miserable inconsequence, from the asserting of God's eternal love to the denial of satisfaction; which in what manner the Lord enabled me to perform, you must know, reader, in the place above mentioned. At that time I had only had one conference with one about it; and for books I had only seen some few, and those so exceedingly inconsiderable, and so fully familistical, forced with so much contempt of the word, that I was not willing to cast away the least moment on them.
But now, some few days ago (to come to the occasion of this appendix), there came to my hands a book written by Mr Sprigge who, both in his preface to the reader and in divers passages in the treatise itself, labours to commend to the world this glorious discovery, that Christ did not purchase, but only preach, peace unto us; that he came only to reveal and declare the love of God, not to procure it; that we only are reconciled to God by him, which he proves from Rom. v. 11; that no reconciliation with God is procured; that this discovery, and the like, are that which we have prayed for all this while. — Preface to the Reader. So also in many places of the treatise itself, pp. 65, 101. Indeed, everywhere it is his main scope. He bids us not think the heart of God was set upon the having a little blood (see Eph. v. 2) for the sins of his people, p. 59. These things are but pleasant tales and childish things to allure us withal, p. 46. In short, one main aim of the book is to make the whole ministration of Christ to be the discovery of a mystery nowhere revealed in the word.
It is not my purpose here to view the whole, or to separate the chaff from the wheat in it, to distinguish between the spiritual truths and smoky vapours that are interwoven in it, but only to cautionate the reader a little about that one thing I before intimated, with some brief expostulations about it.
Only let me inform thee a little, also, that my motive hereunto is not only from the book itself, but also from the pretended "imprimatur" annexed to it. The truth itself, in opposition to this dangerous notion (with a discovery of the whole 427fallacy), thou wilt find sufficiently confirmed from the Scripture in the foregoing treatise; and Christians will not easily, I hope, be shaken from the truth of the word by any pretended revelations whatsoever. Only, whereas 4444 The reverend licenser being informed of this book of Mr Sprigge, disclaimeth the licensing of any more thereof than that Sermon on Cant. i. 1.tantum nomen (as is that of the reverend and learned licenser) is (I know not whether duly) affixed to the treatise I speak of, until he shall have vindicated himself, lest it should insinuate itself by the help of his name into others (as upon that score, without farther view, it was left with commendation by myself in the hand wherein I first saw it), I desire to give thee these few observations here as a foretaste, reserving thee for full satisfaction unto what is held out from the word herein in the foregoing treatise.
First, then, observe that that absurd consequence, deduced from this position, that Christ is not the cause but the effect of love, — namely, ergo, he did not purchase life, peace, and salvation for us, — flows merely from ignorance of the love of God, and confounding those things which ought to be distinguished. Some look upon love in God as an unchangeable affection, when the truth is, as an affection or passion, it hath no place in God at all. All agree that love in spirits, yea partly in men, is in appetitu intellectivo, in the will, the intellectual appetite; and there defined to be θέλειν τινὶ τὸ ἀγαθόν, "to will good to any one." Certainly, then, in God his love is but a pure act of his will. That love which was the cause of sending his Son is, I say, an act of his will, his good pleasure, — not a natural affection to the creature. No such affection is there in God, as I have abundantly proved in this treatise. Now, this love, this act of God's will, was not purchased, not procured by Christ. Very true; who ever was so mad as to affirm it? Can a temporal thing be the cause of that which is eternal? This is not at all the sense of them who affirm that Christ procured the love of his Father for us. No; but the effects of this purpose, the fruits of this love, commonly called in the Scripture love, as affections are ascribed to God in respect of their effects. Now, that Christ purchased these for us, see afterward. This eternal act of God's will, this love, which was the rise of sending Jesus Christ, tended to his glory in these two acts:— first, The removing of wrath, death, curse, guilt, from them for whom he was sent, by satisfaction to his vindicative justice; secondly, The actual procuring of grace and glory for them, by merit and impetration. These things, though they are not the love of God, which is immanent in himself, yet they are those alone whereby we enjoy his love, and are purchased by Christ; which here I must not prove, lest I should actum agere.
Secondly, An eternal act of God's will, immanent in himself, puts no change of condition into the creature. See what the Scripture says of the elect notwithstanding this, Eph. ii. 3; John iii. 36. Let not the word be despised nor corrupted. Be not wise above what is written. "Though an angel," etc., Gal. i. 8. Until he draws us, the fruit of his death is kept for us in the justice and fidelity of God.
Thirdly, These things being premised, to clear the truth in this point, I desire a fair and candid answer to these queries:—
First, What is the meaning of that phrase, Heb. ii. 17, Εἰς τὸ ἱλάσκεσθαι τὰς ἁμαρτίας τοῦ λαοῦ, "To make reconciliation for the sins of the people," and this being done as a priest towards God, Heb. v. 1, — whether the meaning of it be declared love from God to man?
Secondly, Is not the end of sundry typical sacrifices to make an atonement with God on their behalf for whom they were sacrifices? Exod. xxix. 33, 36, xxx. 10, 15, 16; Lev. vi. 7; Numb. xvi. 46, and very many other places; — and whether this were to turn away the wrath of God, or to reconcile men to him?
Thirdly, Is not the death of Christ a proper sacrifice? Eph. v. 2; Heb. ix. 26, 28; John i. 29; the antitype of all sacrifices, in which they have their accomplishment? 428And did it not really effect what they carnally and typically figured? Heb. ix. 11–14, etc., x. 1–7, etc. And was it not offered to God?
Fourthly, Was not Jesus Christ a priest for his people, in their behalf to deal with God, Heb. ii. 17, v. 1, 2, vii. 26, 27; as well as a prophet, to deal with them in the behalf of God? and whether the acts of his priestly office do not all of them immediately tend towards God for the procuring good things for those in whose behalf he is a priest?
Fifthly, Whether Christ by his intercession doth appear before God to declare the love of God to his? or whether it be to procure farther fruits of love for his? Rom. viii. 34; Heb. vii. 25, ix. 24.
Sixthly, Did not Christ, by and in the oblation of himself, through the eternal Spirit, pay a ransom, or valuable price of redemption, into the hand of his Father for the sins of the people? Matt. xxvi. 28; Mark x. 45; 1 Tim. ii. 6; Eph. v. 2; Job xxxiii. 24. And whether a ransom be a price of deliverance, arguing a commutation? Exod. xxi. 30, xxx. 12. Or whether Christ paid a ransom to his Father for the souls and sins of his people, thereby to declare to his people that there was no need of any such thing? And what think you of the old saying of Tertullian, "Omnia in imagines vertunt, imaginarii ipsi Christiani?"
Seventhly, Did not Christ in his death bear our sins? John i. 29; 1 Pet. ii. 24; Isa. liii. 6, 11; 2 Cor. v. 21. And whether to bear sin in the Scripture be not to bear the punishment due to sin? Lev. v. 1, etc. And is not to undergo the punishment due to sin, to make satisfaction for sin?
Eighthly, Did not Christ, as our surety, undergo all that is anywhere threatened against sin, and by the justice of God is due unto it? Heb. vii. 22, iv. 15; Gal. iii. 13; 2 Cor. v. 21; Heb. v. 7; Luke xxii. 44, etc.
Ninthly, Is there not a purchase and procurement of good things assigned to the death of Christ? Isa. liii. 5; Heb. ix. 12; Acts xx. 28; 1 Thess. v. 9; Luke i. 74; Rom. v. 10; Eph. ii. 16, etc.
Tenthly, Seeing that place of Rom. v. 11, "By whom we have now received the atonement," is urged to disprove the purchase of peace and reconciliation with God for us, whether by "the atonement" there be meant our reconciliation to God? and whether it be proper to say we have received or accepted of our conversion or reconciliation?
Eleventhly, Whether to affirm that all that was done in and by Christ was but a sign and representation of what is done spiritually in us, be not to overthrow the first promise, Gen. iii. 15, yea, the whole gospel, and to make it, as it is called, a "childish thing?"
Twelfthly, Whether it be fair and allowable, for men professing the name of Christ, in the trial of truth, to decline the word of God? And whether such declension be not an invincible demonstration of a guilt of falsehood? Deut. iv. 2, xii. 32; Josh. i. 7; Ps. xix. 7; Prov. xxx. 6; Isa. viii. 20; Luke i. 4, xvi. 29; John v. 39, xx. 30, 31; Gal. i. 8, 9; 2 Thess. ii. 2; 1 Tim. vi. 20; 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17; 2 Pet. i. 19, etc.
Thus much, courteous reader, I thought good to premise unto thee, though something out of order, upon the discovery of a new opposition made to a precious truth of God, which thou wilt find explained and asserted in the foregoing treatise; and this liberty I hope I have assumed without the offence of any. It is not about trifles that I contend (I abhor such ways), but for the faith once delivered to the saints. Now, "Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen."
Coggeshall, April 25, 1648.
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ALL SET FOR NOVEMBER 11 12th JFAV PROTEST MARCH/RALLY IN HOLLYWOOD (tags)
They Served, they Deserved Benefits." The Justice for Filipino American Veterans (JFAV) and its allied organizations announced that they are all set for the biggest demonstration, the 12th JFAV Protest March/Rally in the entertainment capital of the world-Hollywood on Sunday, November 11, 2012 at 12;00 noo at Holywood and Vine intersection. For the first time, the JFAV march and rally in Hollywood and not in front of the Federal building in Downtown LA. as it usually does since 1997. Arturo Garcia, JFAV National coordinator explained the rationale for the change in venue : " The Federal Building in downtown LA is usually closed for the November 11 holiday so all the rallies there are symbolical. Now we will bring it to the eyes entire world an not an empty edifice." After the post-election victory of re-elected President, the JFAV wrote an appeal and demand letter asking the president to issue an executive order for full recognition of 43,000 Filipino World War II Veterans and their survivors who for more than 66 years were still unrecognized American veterans. Post Obama Election Protest Rally The JFAV stopped the lobby on the US Congress for HR 210 after the GOP controlled House of Representatives refused JFAV a hearing on HR 210 at the House Veterans Affairs Committee last August 2012 even with 96 co-sponsors for the bill.
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My Encounter with Ted Tevan
It was Spring of 2000, I was working my first professional radio gig, interning over at CFMB 1280 AM for a professional wrestling show. The bright eyed, pudgy faced Johnny Bertolo, known as 'Johnny Daminga' on the 'In the Ring' radio show would embark on a journey to the unknown.
It was my first taste of REAL radio, the BIG time (remember, this was my first gig). Growing up, I envisioned myself being the play-by-play announcer for the Montreal Canadiens. I would create my own radio shows using my parents old Sony boom-box and cassettes, press the record button, and let it roll. I mimicked my style after Dick Irvin, tell a story and the people will listen. I believed my internship over at CFMB was a step in the right direction.
I was right.
During my stay over at the ole 1280, I remember showing up early to the station one night before 'In the Ring' would hit the air. Upon my arrival, one of my former colleagues told me I was in for a treat. I had no idea what he was talking about. Like most 16-year olds, I was self-absorbed into my own life and antics that I rarely took the time to look at the world around me.
Just as the hours of Friday night bled into early Saturday morning, a figure emerged from the radio booth. I could sense an aura around this man. Wearing a light-blue buttoned-down shirt with a black tie, he wasn't a big man I noticed that there wasn't anything physically dominant about this man, just how he carried himself, brimming with confidence, yet fatigued after a long night. My colleague spoke with the man for a few moments before calling me over. "Johnny Bertolo…meet Ted Tevan."
I was standing face-to-face with the iconic Ted Tevan, and I had no idea who he was. I was shocked, speechless, I was without speech.
At the time, I only knew of Ted Tevan through stories from my older cousins, Dino and DiegoMazzone and my good friend, Larry Shapiro. They grew up listening to Mr. Tevan and of course were enthralled by his, shall we say, 'unique' radio style of temple-massaging, machine gunning and pot-stirring. The stories trickled down to yours truly but I never had a chance to truly appreciate him.
My encounter with the man changed that. After a long day at the office, I could tell that Mr. Tevan was looking for the fist 'Atlas Taxi' out of there. But he stuck around for a few moments to offer some friendly professional advice.
"How old are you Johnny?" Mr. Tevan bellowed in his signature raspy, baritone voice.
"Si..Six…Sixteen", I sheepishly replied.
"Remember kid" he continued, "…in this business, it's not 'what' you know, it's 'who' you know."
And that was it.
He made his way to his locker, collected his personal effects and out-the-backdoor he went.
Circa 11-years later I realize how important those words were. A thought had crossed my mind just as I started writing this piece. Maybe, just maybe he was not TOTALLY comfortable with his sports acumen, but that didn't matter. He took the time out of a long day to utter those words to me. For that, I am truly grateful. Love him, hate him, respect him or not, Mr. Tevan was the spark that lit the fire for modern-day radio in Montreal.
Callers wanted to be him, the 'broads' wanted to be around him, the up-and-comers wanted to learn from him.
I recently returned to the Team 990, and was very proud to work on the Ted Tevan tribute show, part of Mitch Melnick's, 'Melnick in the Afternoon' (you can hear segments of the tribute show by clicking here). Fans, followers, professional and personal friends came out in droves to share a story, a laugh and a few cries. The likes of Mitch Garber who repeatedly referred to Mr. Tevan as 'bombastic', Montreal-radio icon Aaron Rand who shared a story of Ted Tevan's savvy dealings in radio advertisement, Radio historian and writer Earl Zukerman, Writer and Film Producer Bill Brownstein, former Montreal Canadien Dickie Moore, Ron Fournier and Bill Lee all took part.
It was radio done right, the way Mr. Tevan would have wanted it and I am proud to have been apart of it.
Mr. Tevan, I hardly knew Ye, but your legacy lives on through our contemporary sports broadcasting heroes and I hope to champion those values when the time is right.
Thank you and "God rest ye, merry gentleman."


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|2013-01-18, 23:42
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We have seen...
1) An awful place of work, where harsh bullying goes on and people are completely cut off from the outside world (even including internet access).
2) People turning to online gurus like Talisman and Spooky Boogy for help.
3) An all-girl's school where the teachers and students don't appear any more or less happy than your typical teenage girl anime character attending an all-girl's school.
4) Kougami's old Professor, who didn't strike me as exactly thrilled with the Sibyl system.
5) The woman who interviewed the Cyborg Hunter. She struck me as about as happy as your average reporter is.
6) Akane's friends.
7) Yayoi as a musician, and her friend Rina.
At this point, we've actually had a fairly diverse sampling of the people living in the world of Psycho-Pass, including teenaged high school students, news reporters, former Professors, high school teachers, police officers, Detectives, factory workers, artists, musicians, directors/managers. Psycho-Pass hasn't covered everything, but it's covered a fair slice of the society of its world. And I'm not seeing significantly happier people than average, everyday people in real life. You have happy couples in real life too, of course.
I would argue that the Director is associating "happiness" with things like job security, basic employment, and lack of crime. And sure, all of that helps to some degree (and is probably why your average person in the world of Psycho-Pass just sort of passively goes along with the system without much complaint), but I don't think it helps as much as the Director thinks it does. Especially when you have places of work as bad as that one from the third episode.
People on this thread have argued that Urobuchi has gone to a great degree to cast Makishima in a negative light. Personally, I would say that Urobuchi has gone to a much greater degree to cast Sibyl in a negative light. We've seen all sorts of people in diverse places and/or professions fall through the cracks of this system. And I haven't seen many people that have benefited in a clear-cut way from this system. Someone like Akane would have excelled in almost any societal context, imo.
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You're making the assumption that the majority of people in the real world can somehow be happier (but how?), whereas I would think if the majority of people are happy like right now, then a Sibyl world wouldn't improve happiness for the main majority because they've already reached the maximum happiness their current lives will give them.
There wasn't anything implying they would be happier than the old world, just a greater number of "happy" people, achieving the most happiness that they could ever have in their life.
I would associate them similar to the characters in Special Victims Unit (except being a proactive task force rather than reactive), in that they deal with the scummiest of scums, and even start questioning their own morality from time to time.
How I viewed this episode in relation to all the previous episodes is that:
a) we just assume the positive aspects of Sibyl is correct (yes, I'm aware they're really only telling this rather than showing)
b) The CID are the support that ensures they are the only ones who see the heinous side of the world (both brought on by Sibyl and human nature).
I would say that the lack of showing the positive aspect of Sibyl to specific people helps prevent the viewers from associating the benefits to a specific person (which helps make us or the characters question on why they're trying to help this world because they don't see a specific person benefiting from it).
The fact it's shown as a thankless job makes it a bit more darker (and probably true in real life, anyway).
Ginoza & Masaoka may have had a better relationship without Sibyl, but then there's a whole butterfly effect that goes on, with which crime gets commited and which didn't, how many more/less crimes goes on, etc.
|2013-01-19, 04:45
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Are you even reading other peoples posts -_-|||. There working for sybil cause they have all been conditioned to think its right. Do some comparing to real life events or put your self in the characters shoes.
How can some one born with out much freedom know that there freedom has been taken.
Sybil's benefits to society are lies but people trust sybil so much now it has become they're eyes ears and mouth to put quite frankly they are puppets really I am not getting how some one could miss this.
If they questioned Sybil they're psycho pass would go up like Gino father did until he accepted sybil that sounds alot like how Winston in 1984 was tortured and Held in prison till he was reprogrammed to only love big brother and serve it with out question alot less brutal here in psyho pass but you see the comparison.Eventually Masaoka gave into the propaganda and told him self hai theres less crime with sybil people are loving longer I guess I was the one who was wrong.
The problem I am seeing with people understanding psycho pass is instead of just ruleing threw fear and total brainwashing with propaganda, Or Ruleing threw Lies of prosperity and de education its ruling threw both.
Stories like this are supposed to make us think of were are government is going. Perfect example the new gun law trying to get passed the common person thinks if the government is saying a 10 round magazine is a lot it must be sure restrict the guns.Seeing as how it got passed here in N.Y. state I am going with people will accept anything. When this law is complete B.S. the only thing not banned by this are shot guns and large caliber revolvers most semi auto hand guns have a 8 and above clip size. Same for .22 caliber revolvers. And half the shootings that happen are with illegal guns you never see this kinda uproar about gang shootings but a common person will not do this kinda research they will go with what ever the government says.
We already had people flat out say sybil is bad the Avatars,Rina look how the people in the club for the avatars were treated...These enforcers are starting to seem more like dicks if this keeps up no matter how many people maki kills they are just as bad. They had better start questioning sybil or be made out to look like bad guys during Rina's arc to get some redemption.
Also if anyone taught like you or me in the enforcers situations we would probably be put down before we could rise up or go on the run.
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For the most part, I think life under Sibyl is duller. Getting a job you like isn't a triumph. It's just par for the course.
|2013-01-19, 10:41
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Enforcers are part of the Bureau. They are most likely scanned more than anyone else. No room for backlash there. And given what we know about the eventual fate of latents and what Kou said when recruiting Yayoi...it may be a survival of the fittest for them. Predator thinking if you will. IE they really have become what Sybil feared they would become thanks to Sybil.
|2013-01-19, 10:48
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No doubt. Just pointing out - our society's isn't a utopia where everyone's happy either. Plenty of people are sacrificed, even if it's not in as direct a way as "jailed for life for thoughtcrimes".
For one Kagari unjustly imprisoned, how many people who don't have to worry about getting mugged, or becoming hobos?
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Joining the conversation a tad late, but jumping right in anyway...
And at the same time, it is worth pointing out that the system is accomplishing only one thing in that society: it is forcibly suppressing those urge which lead people to mutual destruction. It hasn't evolved humanity in anyway, but in some came cases a devolution process is taking place, i.e. that homicidal girl's father who used to draw before becoming a vegetable. The incentive is that if one doesn't suppress those urge, one will be terminated. Has anyone yet wondered how many people has been killed so far by the Dominator since the Sibyl System came into place in that society?
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|2013-01-19, 14:58
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Here is another thought that has crossed my mind.... I wonder what the female boss's reading would have been if a Psycho Pass scan was ran on her? Was her Psycho Pass clouded when she talked about "erasing" the previous one in a million anomaly like Makishima?
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|2013-01-19, 15:42
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I appreciate that Sybil -- while finally acknowledged in-universe by those in the know to be imperfect -- is given a fairly reasonable defense: "Of course it's not perfect. What right could anyone have to expect it to be? It's the best we could do, and it's working almost perfectly as intended."
Considering what Urobuchi's own opinion of such a society-shaping construct would likely be, I think Sybil's been shown in a pretty good light when examined. It comes off as a (usually) reliable measure of "good" versus "evil", as it has been programmed to understand these concepts, and provides feedback based on dispassionate equations. Any authorial condemnation seems to be reserved for how humans have decided to respond to suddenly having access to all of this information at a moment's notice. In this scenario, Sybil itself is neutral and entirely rational, just inflexible.
Yet even so, they continue throwing out these observations that seem to hint at something shady about Sybil in general. This week Ginoza comes right out and says that it seems as though Masaoka's rejection of Sybil lead directly to Sybil rejecting him. It's hard to know how to feel about that.
Boss lady's observation that Sybil's blind spots are why humans are still hired to be detectives makes perfect sense until you remember that Bureau training no longer seems to prepare them for these eventualities. Exhibit A: Akane in episode 11.
It's funny, a few weeks ago I observed that if Sybil were making all the decisions, then they would just arm drones with dominators and disband the police force. The existence of the Bureau is a ray of hope that organized society still values the human element in its own enforcement. It's something of a relief to have it confirmed that this isn't entirely for cosmetic purposes.
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|2013-01-19, 17:09
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Yes, core aspects of Sybil are bad. Duh. But if your analysis stops there you'll miss out on a substantial portion of what the story has to offer. It's unrealistic to assume that the people in the Psychopass universe are all not as smart as we are and only abide by Sybil because they have yet to figure out what we geniuses have known all along: certain aspects of Sybil are bad. Come on guys. It's not like you just uncovered an easter egg. Anybody with half a brain will detect the gnarly portion of Sybil from miles away. Trust that the people in the Psychopass universe saw Sybil's flaws too but decided to go with it anyway because they found enough of an upside to it to compensate for its admittedly substantial dangers. You may not like the choice they made. But don't be so smug in assuming they only did it because they were dumb.
My last point on this thread: I'm sure nobody here is a fan of Sybil, and for those who still don't get it, nobody here is advocating anything like Sybil in the real world. But the system we have right now is not perfect either, and the the point of the exercise is to open minds and expand our discussion even into areas that we find distasteful and uncomfortable in the hope that this may lead to more creative solutions to real problems. Or a least, that's what I think.
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As we saw in an earlier episode when Akane was surprised of someone being unemployed in the time period they live in, there are obviously 'advantages' to the Cybil System. Like many fictional dystopias, Cybil-world is in many ways a utopia with a fatal flaw. The level of organization of their society (the efficiency + employment), and the careful management of everyone's psychological state to avoid stress, are things many people would pine for today. The problem is that they have sacrificed what we consider to be some fundamental aspects of the human experience in doing so through the 'soulless' and rigid system. In a minor sense, this may lead to less life fulfillment and a totally guided life experience that seems inherently undesirable to those influenced by modern Western ideas. In a more extreme sense, it leads to the imprisonment of 'potential' threats and the outright annihilation of those deemed unfit even for attempts at rehabilitation. The structure is rigid and cold in a frighteningly inhuman way, detracting, at an emotional and primal level, from the many advantages presented by their society.
Anyways, it had crossed my mind that Masaoka would be Ginoza's father, but I shook it off because their interactions never seemed to hint at such a relationship. I guess the parental bond has just cooled to such a degree that they don't even consider that connection in their day to day interaction. I certainly like the old school detective ethic of Masaoka more (he may be my favorite character), but I see Ginoza as a sympathetic figure with some misguided beliefs largely based on fear.
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Great episode as always. And certainly full of surprises:
Holy cow...totally did not see the Old Guy as Gino's dad. That came as a total shocker to me.
Shogo is an anomaly and it's not the first time this has happened; I get the feeling that Shogo's going to pull an Aizen and troll the living shit out of everyone before this is overwith.
I was glad to see that Akane was dealing with things all right...though I still get the feeling that something isn't right with her. And it's going to be her relationship with Ko that factors into it.
The Sibyl System is starting to remind me of 1984...
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Daniela Rus, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named the next director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), effective May 23.
Rus succeeds Anant Agarwal, who was recently named president of edX, an online learning initiative of MIT and Harvard University. Rus served as associate director of CSAIL from 2008 to 2011, and has been co-director of CSAIL's Center for Robotics since 2005. She also directs CSAIL's Distributed Robotics Laboratory. Rus is the first woman to serve as director of CSAIL.
Rus, a renowned roboticist, is known for spearheading research in programmable matter and distributed robotics. Her research interests in distributed robotics and mobile computing have led to a range of novel projects in transportation, security, environmental modeling and monitoring, underwater exploration, and agriculture.
Rus' group has built robots that can tend a garden, bake cookies from scratch, cut a birthday cake, fly in swarms without human aid to perform surveillance functions — and dance with humans. (She orchestrated such a performance last summer with the Pilobolus dance company in New York.)
"I very much look forward to working with Daniela in this role," says Dean Ian A. Waitz of MIT's School of Engineering. "She is an exceptional scholar, and an excellent leader with a strong vision for the future of CSAIL."
Rus is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Award and is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2002 and is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the IEEE (formerly the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers). She serves on the scientific advisory board for the Max Planck Institute, on the editorial board for the Journal of Autonomous Robots, and on the long-term planning board for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Before coming to MIT in 2003, Rus was a professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, where she founded and directed two laboratories in robotics and mobile computing. Rus earned her PhD in computer science from Cornell University.
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Generation Xers may have tougher time with retirement savings
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Generation Xers are falling behind, saving only half of what they may need for retirement, according to some financial experts.
WISN 12 News' Patrick Paolantonio asked experts what steps to take now if you are halfway to retirement.
It takes a lot of work, to build your own business. When Melanie and Dave Sobelman started, it was just the two of them.
"I was the cook. She was the bartender," Dave Sobelman said.
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The Sobelmans spent the past 14 years, building their burger business and even longer, building their nest egg.
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The Sobelmans are in their 40s. While they plan to stay in the workforce come their golden years, others their age might not have a choice.
"Generation X has lower savings rates than older groups. They have lower wealth levels than older groups, and they have higher debt," said Erin Currier of the Pew Charitable Trusts.
The Pew Charitable Trusts took a look at the retirement security of different age groups.
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"It means that if they want to maintain the standard of living that they are enjoying now in terms of the income that they're bringing in, they won't be able to do that. Their savings and wealth levels will not support the same amount of income that they have while they're in the labor market," Currier said.
An eye-opener, but not all is doom and gloom, according to certified financial planner, Tony Drake.
"There are certainly steps you can take, you know? One of those big steps is certainly to try to reduce your debt," Drake said.
Drake said it's about paying off debt, reducing spending and sticking to a plan.
"If we can make some better choices, maybe the Toyota instead of the Lexus. If the budget's tight. We want to have that savings plan in place. We certainly recommend that people save enough to replace about 70 to 100 percent of their pre-retirement income for use in retirement, certainly," Drake said.
The Sobelmans said they started saving and planning ahead more than 20 years ago.
"I don't know what the next 20 years might be like, but I think that we're in a really good spot right now," Melanie Sobelman said.
"We're in a good spot," Dave Sobelman said.
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Sorry, all, but real life can be a pain. I have a small visit with a surgeon tomorrow, won't get home till sometime Friday, and between my normal 'nothing on weekends' and the expected recovery… I'll have something for Monday, and if I can I'll do a make up earlier.
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Take care of yourself and we'll be there when you come back ! 🙂
Good luck with the surgery, and best wishes on a swift recovery!
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Be well, Kirk. And have a pain-free Thanksgiving!
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A federal judge says two Omaha, Neb., men who are suing the city of Council Bluffs and two former police detectives for wrongful conviction, will get a joint trial instead of two separate ones.
Terry Harrington and Curtis McGhee have asked for separate trials in their civil lawsuit after the first trial ended in mistrial because jurors couldn't agree on a verdict.
The men seek millions of dollars in compensation for 25 years in prison. They were released in 2003 after the Iowa Supreme Court found prosecutors committed misconduct.
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The mystery of what the hell Matt Dillon was doing in Roman Polanski's adaptation of "God of Carnage" can be forgotten, as it was never quite true.
Instead, John C. Reilly will take the role of Michael, played on Broadway by James Gandolfini, a blue-collar success married to Veronica, an earnest woman hard at work on a book about Darfur, in Polanski's next film.
The film, based on Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning play of the same name, tells the story of two couples brought together one night to discuss a playground altercation that took place between their sons, leaving one boy serious hurt.
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There's been a lot of online chatter since Reilly's casting was announced about how great it will be to see him go back to doing drama after a long stretch of comedy, an insight that is ill-informed. "God of Carnage," while tackling some heavy issues about class, apologies, forgiveness and war, is very much a comedy, and an often broad one at that
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In a game of "One of these things is not like the others," Dillon would clearly be considered the outlier, despite having done some great work. Reilly is far better suited to the role--really, all you have to do is look at Gandolfini to know that.
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I love this Little layout, but there are a few details which disturb me:
- Fishing boats are hard-working vessels, and it deserves the same degree of weathering we see on the Deutz. Trouble is, a boat does not weather the same way as a locomotive, so you need to find some prototype photos..
- I do not think Bob would be comfortable sitting on the snow/ice-covered dock for more than a second
- In winter, the sun is hardly over the horizon (if at all) this far north, so sunlight should really be from the side with very long shadows. Or. more likely, try to go for an overcast day with diffuse lighting and no shadows. I know, easier said than done..


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I wanted to let everyone know about a Kickstarter campaign for a waterproof position and orientation data logger called the TRACE:
If you remember the ShadowBox, this looks like it might be a worthy successor at a fraction of the price, supported by people who've had some success in this market. The advantage to this gadget over something like the Xensr is that the unit itself is sealed, you don't have to take your phone on the water with you, and it will support both iOS and Android. Further, having the device mounted to the board should allow for deeper analytics than just height, perhaps something akin to ShadowBox Live. While kiteboarding isn't a target market for the Kickstarter campaign, there was a Reddit AMA yesterday with one of the founders who said it's on their list of sports to do next.
I have no affiliation with the company, I'm just looking for a device which might help my progression by giving some hard data. I was able to get some good answers to my questions yesterday, and I'm about ready to put forward the money. If they reach $175k (only $25k more than the $150k they're asking for), all backers will get 3 mounts instead of just the one; which would come in handy since we all know how kiters like to accumulate gear. If they get funded but miss the $175k mark, 2 extra mounts will be available to backers for $10 or so. If you decide to back the project, don't forget to include the extra funds for shipping to your region.
If we can help get this project funded and make our voices heard, hopefully they'll prioritize app support for kiteboarding. Even if they don't, between the raw data and the surfing app we could have a neat tool to help relive a session and derive some lessons from it.


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|Slick design meats real-time audio feedback
|Small enough to fit under the swim cap
- Imagine how many strokes you take in a month or a year. If you swim frequently, it will be in 100s of thousands. Now, add a watch to your hand and only keep it on one of them without switching sides. Is swimming still a sport which works both sides of your body the same? The shoulder might suddenly not feel so good, especially if you have a flawed stroke to begin with. If you are a runner or a cyclist, would you weigh one shoe or paddle more than the other? Doubtful.
- Checking your watch for real-time data is just stupid as you cannot look at it while you swim and by the time you get to the wall, the moment to make a correction is over ;)
- You end up spending more time messing with the settings on your watch than actually swimming
- The metrics the standard swimming watches provide make swimmers focus on the wrong data at the wrong time when it comes to efficiency improvements. When you come home to review the historical data, you will hardly remember what has happened during the swim workout and even if you have a good memory, you are less likely to fix the problem as you will not know if you are doing it correctly the next time around.
- Watch just adds drag to your streamline
- Finally, who still wears a watch in this century. In my opinion, the wearable wristbands are just a quick over-marketed transition before something that will be a more permanent part of you.
|Upload your data and analyze at later time on Android, iOS and Windows mobile devices
- how many laps I have swam - this is a totally useless metric - focus on quality and not the quantity of what you do, so when you find yourself bragging I swam 30K this month, stop and think what that actually means. It tells everyone, you have no clue what you are doing and are competing with the wrong data.
- how many strokes I took per lap - this one is a bit more useful, but still does not tell you the whole story unless you are able to interpolate it with the time it took you to swim the lap, so don't let this be your only focus (check out SWOLF score - luckily most top watches have this)
- how many calories I burned - hmm, useless, no comment
- how fast I swim and what is my pace - sure this one is a classic and you can't do it without it, so start learning to read the pace clock around your swimming wall or get yourself your very own simple PaceWatch.
- what is my heart rate - this metric has its place, but many swimmers do not use it the right way (for example: it should also be used during recovery purposes to get your heart rate down back to normal level before starting a new set, especially if you are not such a good swimmer). Many triathletes try to monitor their heart rates in the same way they do in running or cycling (just keep it in the greenzone). The problem here is that more than likely you get enough of this type of exercise on the road while you bike or cycle and should focus on your technique instead of where you heart rate is. Of course, the more experienced swimmer you are, the more heart rate monitoring can help you judge how you are doing.
- drill logging - how is this helpful, except maybe making sure you at least do some drills in your workouts and can eliminate drill from your workout pace times? I think they just came up with this one to have some more stats to track. If the metric would be how efficient your drills are, then you have a golden ticket. I'd really like to know what a swimmer does with this information.
- breathing pattern measure - that's an interesting one, but only if it slaps you on the head when you breathe only to one side and breathe in and out of the walls.
|Looks like something from the future. Wait.. IT IS :).
|How Xmetrics is positioned among its competitors
Lastly, some food for thought, what would be very cool is to create sort of a hive of Xmetrics devices inside the pool and have them share the metrics with each other in real-time, so you can for example have a competition with your fellow lap swimmers on who can make the fastest turn or lap etc. How much fun would that be? Welcome to a truly digitized social swimming world.


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Some cooking schools are renowned around the world for the comprehensive, high- quality education they provide. At Cooking Schools 101 you can review several of the nation's top cooking schools, including the Culinary Institute of America, the New England Culinary Institute and the French Culinary Institute.
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FACETIME- Rare: Genius award winner gets hands-on with past
It's common for the secretly nominated winners of the $500,000 MacArthur Foundation award, a.k.a. the "genius" award, to express surprise that they've been chosen. Not so Terry Belanger.
The head of Rare Book School had an inkling he was a candidate in 2004– more than a year before he won– when a friend in Boston said, "I'm sorry you didn't get the MacArthur." Belanger quickly deduced that the letter of recommendation the friend wrote was for the 2005 awards, not 2004.
"By the summer of 2005, I knew 15 people who'd written letters," says Belanger.
And by the time he received official word that he had indeed won the prestigious prize in December 2005, "How could I be surprised?" he asks. "I'd been sitting around all week waiting for the call."
Nor does Belanger indulge in false modesty. "I am a genius," he declares. "I can prove it. I have the MacArthur Award that says so. It doesn't say what I'm a genius in." Here, he pauses before revealing, "Self promotion."
What's indisputable is that Belanger founded the Rare Book School in 1983 at Columbia University. When Columbia decided to drop its library science program, Belanger moved the nonprofit school to UVA. Along with being honorary curator of special collections, Belanger is a university professor, one of the 12 highest-ranked profs at UVA who report directly to the president.
And in the basement of Alderman Library, he's built a world dedicated to his mantra: "We have no right to deprive the future of the past." And the past– at least since the 15th century– is best found in books.
He shows a visitor part of his domain in the bowels of Alderman where books are filed by designer, and rare though they may be, students get to touch and examine examples of book design breathtakingly beautiful and no longer found in modern publishing.
"Rare Book School and the University of Virginia have been a match made in heaven" says Karin Wittenborg, university librarian. "He has single-handedly made a program that's continuing education for rare book dealers, collectors and librarians. People come from around the country and around the world."
"What we do at Rare Book School is try to train people to look after the past," explains Belanger. "By definition, that's janitorial."
The 275 students that get into the competitive, week-long classes at Rare Book School learn from a faculty that's "among the best in the world," boasts Belanger. "How else are they going to meet the chief of rare books at the Library of Congress, Mark Dimunation?"
Students pay $900 for a course that costs $2,000 to put on. "The MacArthur came in very handy, because this place eats money," says Belanger, whose $500K came with no strings attached.
After more than a quarter century nurturing Rare Book School, Belanger, 67, retires in June. Next on his agenda? "File," answers the genius curator. "I've got 35 years of papers to file."
Terry Belanger discusses "What Should Book Collectors Collect Now, and Why" at 4pm Friday, March 20, at UVA Harrison Institute/Small Special Collections.


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Apparently Excel does not offer a way to import data in Excel by using a DAX query on Analysis Services. The Data Connection Wizard seems to offers only the ability to create a PivotTable when you connect to Tabular, but not a Table (see the Table option disabled in the next picture).
However, the workaround is to create a connection file and changing it with an editor (such as Notepad) so that you can write your own DAX query (or MDX, too!) and import data in an Excel table.
You can write a step-by-step guide on the article Import Data from Tabular Model in Excel Using a DAX Query I published on SQLBI web site.
Umm, if you're in Excel 2013 there's a better way. See: http://www.powerpivotblog.nl/implementing-histograms-in-excel-2013-using-dax-query-tables-and-powerpivot
Chris, what do you mean? Kasper's article was about connecting to the embedded PowerPivot Data Model, not to a SSAS Tabular instance...
Sorry, ignore me - I didn't read the bit about Tabular models in the title...
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For all of you who have been eagerly waiting to see Levi Johnston in the buff, the time has finally come.
A 20-photo spread went up on Playgirl.com [NSFW] on Friday evening, featuring photos of Johnston giving his best bedroom eyes. All but six photos are in black and white, with several shots of Johnston posed on a Manhattan rooftop and in the shower, according to Gawker.com.
Johnston was reportedly paid upwards of $100,000 for the "Playgirl" shoot, a massive paycheck for the kid who shot to fame after fathering Bristol Palin's baby during conservative mom Sarah Palin's vice-presidential campaign.
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Only paid subscribers can see the full shoot, but two teaser photos of the 19-year-old Wasilla, Alaska, dad are available at UsMagazine.com. The first shot features a side view of Johnston staring at the camera with his hands up behind his head. In the second, Johnston looks up at the camera from a bed fitted with white sheets.
The first photo from Johnston's Playgirl shoot was released Tuesday, featuring a well-oiled Levi classically posed in the shower.
"Although Playgirl is ecstatic with the footage of the Levi Johnston shoot, and viewers are going to be pleased and surprised, Levi did not go completely full frontal, as was suggested by his camp a few weeks ago," Playgirl rep Daniel Nardicio told Us Magazine.
If this set of photos isn't to your liking, do not worry -- according to Us, more photos are set to be released next week.


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
Bart de Smet wrote a very interesting post about the possible creation of an Updateable LINQ provider, especially if it can be used for a SQL dbms (of course it would work with LINQ to SQL but it should be applicable to LINQ to Entities too). I like this approach very much.
However, a Microsoft word on this, especially defining the "official" LINQ extensions and interfaces to implement an updatable query provider, would be fundamental to write code that will be still valid when a different LINQ provider implementation will be used.
I have written a L2S-based implementation of something very similar. See http://blog.huagati.com/res/index.php/2008/11/05/architecture-linq-to-sql-and-set-based-operations-update-statements/
Nice work, Kristofer! As I said, it would be good if Microsoft would put a word (better, a specification) about this.
First, congradulations on you book. I assume you're planning something for the EF:)
As for the idea of an sql dml update within Linq (to sql) ,while desirable by many and expedient, I'm not sure if it's in the spirit of Linq. Here's Anders on the place
of sql in Linq:
Interview of Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Anders Hejlsberg
'Microsoft's Hejlsberg touts .Net, C-Omega technologies'
June 10, 2005
"..let's take C#, let's try and take SQL, let's try and take XML or XQuery and let's all sort of put them into one big bowl and stir and see what comes out of it"
And more specifically:
"So what we're looking at is really trying to much more deeply integrate the capabilities of query languages and data into the C# programming language. And I don't specifically mean SQL, and I emphatically don't mean just take SQL and slap it into C# and have SQL in there. But rather try to understand what is it expressively that you can do in SQL and add those same capabilities to C#."
So it shouldn't be surprising if MS isn't thinking along the lines of a dml update. My guess is they will come at such an update in a different way than sql (if at all). Isn't the spirit of Linq to be 'different':)
More thoughts on the fascinating subject of Linq I've expressed on this site:
Linq to Sql: the 'what' and 'why' of it
Linq to Sql vs. older 4GL attempts
Linq to Sql should be important to sql users
Linq to Sql as an opportunity to sql users


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This site is not only every single rental building on the island, but its also a database, kept up-to-date and accurate, of every no-fee availability on the island. This is pretty much all you need:
Great information on this forum! I've been looking for NY apts for a long time and this is the best website I found www.skipbrokers.com. You don't have to deal with any brokers.
This is a great resource for apartment searchers like me! I was wondering if anyone has names or a site for management companies in Queens. Unfortunately, I can'[t afford to live in Manhattan even without the broker's fee. :-(
Thanks in advance!
This is my first post. This list looks good, and I am a broker here in NYC.
Also, the websites that have good no fee info are quite a help.
Most of you have heard of .....
Urbansherpa (mentioned above)
NYCbits allows you to search buildings in a certain area...say the upper east side. You can search all the doorman buildings at once.
Hope this helps!
Personally, I have been through the no fee apartment search several times. It is a real pain in the neck, but worth it if you have the time to spare.
The biggest thing to watch out for is bait-and-switch schemes, whereby you show up to view an apartment, and are told that it was "just rented." Most agents are reliable and offer a lot of value, but there are some bad apples to be cautious of. Craigslist is the worst in this category, though it probably also has the biggest selection of no fee apartments. And many of them are not listed anywhere else.
Of the sites listed above, I found Urbansherpa to have the best selection.
If you would rather go directly to the buildings, Revaluate has the most complete list of no fee buildings that I am aware of.
The Listings Project, is not exactly "no fee" (the fee is paid by the person who lists it), though it is a really good resource for finding good deals outside Manhattan.


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The Central Connecticut men's track and field team completed day one at the 2014 NEC Outdoor Track and Field Championships in fourth place out of 10 teams on Saturday in Coraopolis, PA. Senior Craig Hunt opened the day's competition for CCSU earning the gold medal in the 10,000m.
Hunt raced the first event of the day that kicked off at 8:45 Saturday morning, crossing the finish line in 33:10.53, good for 10 team points. CCSU dominated the top five with junior Matt Walker taking the silver in 33:10.81 and freshman Colin Sauter claiming fifth in 33:42.57.
Junior Michael Ficorilli earned five points for CCSU on his own. He threw for a career-best 46.89 meters in the hammer throw, good for sixth place and three points. He added two more with his seventh-place finish in the shot put (14.20m).
The Blue Devils also scored in the 4x800m relay event. The squad of junior Joey Farrington, sophomore Malcolm Connor and freshmen Jamil Ferguson and Thomas Lupoli crossed the finish line fourth in a time of 7:56.35.
Central turned in eight performances that qualify for Sunday's finals. Defending champion Jamal Fruster finished first in the 400m dash prelims with his IC4A qualifying time of 48.35 seconds. The junior also qualified for the finals in the 200m dash with a career-best time of 21.96, good for seventh place overall.
In the 1,500m run prelims, junior Brian Biekert claimed second to advance to the finals. He crossed the line in 4:13.50, first in his heat, and was followed on the leader boards by classmate Patrick Hubbell. Hubbell finished seventh in 4:13.59 and will also compete for CCSU Sunday.
Junior Jordan Watkins finished third overall, second in his heat, in the 110m hurdle prelims. He crossed the line in 14.88 seconds to qualify for Sunday's competition.
Watkins also tallied a personal-best record in the 400m hurdles. He finished sixth in the prelims with his time of 55.78, followed by junior Ryan Budd who qualified with an eighth-place finish in 56.13 seconds.
CCSU will also be represented in tomorrow's 800m finals by Connor. The second-year Blue Devil crossed the finish line in 1:54.60 with his sixth-place finish, fourth in his heat.
After day one, Sacred Heart leads with 54 points followed by Wagner (36), Robert Morris (34), CCSU (32) and Saint Francis U (29).
The 2014 NEC Championships will resume tomorrow, Sunday, May 4. The men's events are scheduled to begin with the high jump at 9 a.m. Fans can follow all of the action live via live stats, follow @NECTrack on Twitter and find all NEC Championship information on the NEC Championship Central page.


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So, as you may have read from the title of this post which comes 2 months after my last post, it seems that the BluRay version of Canaan is only shipping if you ordered it from RightStuf. Amazon has stated that they didn't receive any copies and are put on a 2 month backorder until further notice. Many other people in this thread on ANN are stating they had the same or similar happen to them with other stores.
Just getting a warning out for those who happened to be waiting for a shipping confirmation from Amazon and didn't receive one. I myself hit them up wit ha question and got an answer back quickly, so that's how I know about the backorder. Just gonna cancel my Amazon order, pay the extra $6, and wait a a couple extra days I suppose to get it from RightStuf since at least they should ship it out accordingly.
Also, to those who are all "LOL, YOU MAD? I HAZ MUH COPY ON DUH DVD!" Fuck you and your toilet. Ok, not really, but I am still mad.
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