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Why Can't the Media Report Truthfully About the Safe Neighborhoods Act Controversy?
By J. D. Obenberger, Attorney at Law
© 1999 J. D. Obenberger, All Rights Reserved
A small diversion from the law of Sex this month. Instead, I will throw caution to the wind, and jump head-first into the controversy arising from the Supreme Court's decision in early December to invalidate the so-called Safe Neighborhoods Act. I am concerned that a media campaign has so distorted the issues in the public consciousness to the extent that well-intentioned, intelligent citizens cannot properly understand what the controversy is all about. Our Governor's statements on the issue have been misleading and disingenuous in the extreme. The mainstream media has followed the party-line of the most rabid elements of the anti-gun lobby.
You will recall that immediately after the Supreme Court declared that the so-called Safe Neighborhoods violated our State Constitution's One Subject Rule, the Governor called the legislature into special session in the week before Christmas and in the week after Christmas. You would think that a real emergency existed.
From our Governor and the Chicago Media, one would get the impression that unless the provision in question is re-enacted, the law is powerless to deal with gun-carrying criminals. That impression is simply wrong, and seriously wrong. In fact, the State Senate refused to concur in passing the law again, the provision has not been re-enacted, and crime has not suddenly gone out of control.
I have been reading the Trib and the Sun-Times carefully, and listening to WBBM with both ears. I haven't read or seen one piece that actually explains the actual issues being fought in Springfield between our Governor and Senate President concerning the UUW Statute.
In fact, this was a stupid law that brands otherwise law-abiding citizens concerned with their own self defense as Convicted Felons and is totally unnecessary to defend society from violent and predatory criminals.
The propaganda campaign is the usual one waged by the anti-handgun lobby. First, they try to make their opponents look silly or like cranks. To this end, the Governor is heard on a WBBM soundbite calling it preposterous that the State Senate President would assert that hunters have anything to fear from this law because no hunter has ever been prosecuted. Well, if that were the position of the opponents of the law, it would be silly. But that's not the issue, that's a strawman argument set up just to knock down: The real issue is self-defense. Second, WBBM soundbites next focus on an emergency room physician emotionally describing the horrible injuries which guns bring to his emergency room. That's surely true, but if the guy on the operating table got there because he got shot while trying to rob a cab driver or a deliveryman, I don't think he is a proper object lesson against handgun violence. Better him than his victims!
What's it really all about? Well, lets begin at the beginning.
Any police officer or criminal lawyer can tell you that the law already has some very strong teeth to deal with criminals who commit crimes with guns. There is, for example, the Armed Violence Statute, which turns a whole litany of lesser crimes into very serious Class X Felonies, with mandatory minimum 20 year prison terms, without the possibility of probation, if the offender had a gun in his possession. I read a recent case sustaining the conviction and mandatory sentence of a defendant who was sleeping at home in his bed, with a gun under his home pillow, and a very large quantity of drugs in the home as well. The Police came in to execute a search warrant, found him asleep with the gun, woke him up, charged him with Armed Violence, and had him sentenced and convicted. He won't be sleeping there again for many years. ("Armed Violence" is a misleading term that was used to obtain the support of legislators and citizens for passage of the Act. After all, who could possibly oppose laws to seriously punish armed violence? However, in reality, the law escalates many completely non-violent crimes into the terrible Class X arena, such as drug offenses. More about misleading names for laws later in this article.)
Other features of our Criminal Code that are now in force, provide for serious mandatory prison terms whenever a weapon is fired in the commission of an offense (twenty years) or where someone is injured by the weapon during a crime (life in prison). Finally, it is also a Class A misdemeanor to own a weapon - even without carrying it - unless you have a Firearm Owner's Identification Card. (I'll bet that you could fit all of the active gangbangers carrying a gun in the City who have a FOID card into a very small room.)
So, with all of these very serious laws in place, carrying massive penalties, to protect the public against violence from firearms, what is the Governor so concerned about? Why has he called the legislators back, at a cost to us of over $50,000 per day? Why were Mayor Daley and our Police Chief talking to the press about it every day during the Christmas season?
What is at stake is the felony punishment provision of the so-called "Unlawful Use of a Weapon" Statute. Now this is a curiously-named law, and neither the Mayor, the Police Chief, the Trib, the Sun-Times, nor WBBM did much to enlighten the public at just what conduct is targeted by this law. There is precious-little "use" in Unlawful "Use" of a Weapon. It is a criminal statute that punishes the mere possession of firearms in some circumstances, just about anywhere except in your home or at your fixed place of business. You face one to three years in prison for carrying a pistol for self defense if it is concealed on your person, or even out in the open on the front seat of your car. Even if it is for self-defense. Even if you are a 100-pound female parking her car at night in a parking structure in the South Loop. Even if you are an elderly person who walks home through a dangerous neighborhood from public transportation. Even if you are a cab driver who must carry his fares anywhere they want to go, even into the projects or desolate areas.
Have you ever seen what's left of a cab driver after they get done robbing him?
Have you ever spent time with a young woman right after she was brutally assaulted by a stranger who lurked in the shadows?
There are no "concealed carry" permits in Illinois. (Unlike Indiana and roughly 20 other states that allow ordinary citizens to carry a weapon for self defense, many of which experienced plummeting declines in violent crime after enacting such laws, and all of which showed at least some decrease.) Unless you're a cop or a private detective, you are committing a felony under the UUW Statute when you carry a concealed weapon. So, it's easy for the Police Chief to stand up in favor of turning ordinary citizens into convicted felons for daring to tempt the law by preparing for personal defense in a life-and-death situation: He gets to carry a gun everywhere, and I suspect, so do most of his social friends. Similarly, it's no burden to Mayor Daley. He and the Aldermen can lawfully carry a gun (Mayors and Aldermen are "conservators of the peace" under the Municipal Code, and probably have all of the rights and privileges police officers), and the Mayor travels with a police security detail. What about the rest of us?
This felony UUW provision is used when there simply is no other crime to charge the person with, and it targets people who break no other criminal law. If there are drugs involved, if there is a robbery or a burglary, or a sexual assault, the prosecutor can easily have the offender indicted for Class X Armed Violence and send him away for many years. No, this provision is not aimed, nor is it particularly used, against gang members, organized criminals, terrorists, or the like. It is meant for turning ordinary citizens into convicted felons.
I have represented several clients in recent years for UUW. In each case, they were arrested after a routine traffic stop involving license plate registration. They each worked on the road, and their jobs took each of them into dangerous neighborhoods routinely. In each case the weapon was found during a search of the car, and there was no suggestion in either case that it had been nor ever would be used for any purpose other than self-defense from violent criminals. Neither man was a gangbanger, neither had any significant criminal history, and one was over the age of thirty. And they were charged with this felony.
In other words, they were guys just like you and me. They were dangerous to nobody. In the second case, the Assistant State's Attorney prosecuting my client told me that, per orders from his big boss downtown, no "deal" would be made in any case under this law in exchange for a guilty plea unless it involved a jail term.
Why haven't the mainstream media sources that we customarily rely upon for news about public matters been frank, why haven't they told the public that the only people targeted by this law is people like themselves, who are guilty of no other crime? Why haven't any of them simply told the public that the "use" involved in UUW is just possession in a vehicle or concealed on the person? Simple: Those who dominate the media in this City, and who shape public opinion by the way that they report news and define issues, have the suppression of all guns as part of their public agenda. And if, (God Forbid!) the public actually knew what this debate was all about, perhaps they would actually contact their legislators to oppose re-enactment. Maybe, just maybe, the public would oppose an action that turns their natural desire for self-protection from criminals into a feloniously criminal act itself.
In the last term of the State Legislatures, both houses concurred in an amendment to reduce that provision of the Safe Neighborhoods Act back to a misdemeanor for the first offense, but the Governor vetoed the bill, it failed to get 2/3 in each house, and the veto stood. The isolated provision we are concerned with here has never really been popular with the people, the legislature knows that, the media knows it, and that's why there is a campaign of deception and partial truth: That's why the media doesn't explain the actual content of the bill before the legislature.
What can you do? Write a letter, make a call, send an e-mail to your State Senator and your State Representative. Do it NOW because the pressure is on your representatives to re-enact this law. Tell them that you will not be fooled or lied to. You know that there are laws a-plenty to deal with criminals who commit crimes with guns, and that you know that this provision is aimed at self-defense weapons carried by good citizens. Tell them that you don't want these good citizens to lose the right to vote, to hold public office, to obtain a liquor license, to engage in a profession licensed by the State, or to have their good names destroyed by a felony conviction just because they prepared themselves to defend against forcible felonies.
This article is written to generally inform the public and does not provide legal advice nor does it establish an attorney-client relationship. If you have a legal issue or question, contact a lawyer. If you are arrested, make no statement and contact a lawyer immediately.
Joe Obenberger is a Chicago Loop lawyer concentrating in the law of free expression and liberty under the United States Constitution, and his firm has represented many owners, employees, and customers of adult-oriented businesses, both online and in the real world. He can be reached in the office at 312 558-6420 or paged in any emergency at 312 250-4118. His e-mail address is email@example.com


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My sentiments exactly, I found myself thinking, "wow, Northwestern High School has a really nice gym."
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OT: Worst Basketball Arena?
I grew up not too far from NU, and there are probably HS gyms with capacities close to 8100 in the immediate area (I'm looking at you, New Trier).
While looking this up, however, I just found out that a friend of mine from HS (and recent Wisconsin grad) won a Rhodes Scholarship. So there it is: justingoblue has done keg stands with a Rhodes Scholar.
High school grad in 2005 (wow, weird) and the Gym wasn't all that big. we did graduation at NU to have more space. New trier was built in like 1900, so the bball gym isn't that huge.
That's surprising to me. I would have guessed you guys, Stevenson, and one or two others would be at the top of the list.
I can't find the capacity for my HS (HD Jacobs in Algonquin), but I wouldn't be surprised if it was 4500+, and it's not a huge school. Interestingly enough, we also did our graduation off-site, but we held it at the Sears Centre.
NT's current enrollment is 4300+ students, I graduated with just over 900 in 2005, but the 2006 freshmen were like, 1200 students in that class. Between the 2 campuses and everything it's a huge school. But the Gym (at least at East) wasn't that huge, I'd guess it seats abour 2,500. and the gym at west probably only 2000.
Nebraska's court is HIDEOUS!!! They're #1 in my book.
they rolled up the bleachers to be ready for 1st period PE
The worst is Bryce Jordan Center where Penn State plays. No one ever goes, it's outdated, and for some reason it's very dark.
Is it really outdated? It's only like 15 years old.
It's definitely too big for PSU basketball, in any event. Their games remind me of when the Pistons would play in the Silverdome.
...it's like watching basketball played in an art gallery.
Northwestern's football stadium is even worse. I find it surprising. Doesn't that school have money?
I found the basketball arena far more disappointing than the football stadium. Although, to be fair I had considerably more to drink before the football game.
Texas high schools have more impressive stadiums than Ryan Field, though it is kind of endearing in a "ohh look how small and cute it is!!" type of way.
That's what she said :(
When you have the smallest school you have the smallest alumni base. When you have a small alumni base you don't need a big stadium. Michigan already gets a 50/50 split when they play in Evanston any bigger of a stadium and all the excess are going to be opponents fans.
Which is made way, way worse by the fact that a majority of NU students aren't from the area, and will likely return to wherever they're from. Michigan wouldn't have the Big House if a plurality of the schools alums were in NYC, LA, and everywhere else but Ann Arbor.
...there is no point on investing in what is essentially another home field for whomever they happen to be playing there.
I don't have firsthand knowledge but I have heard that the Dean Dome (UNC) is one boring, sterile environment without a lot of character. I've heard it compared to an NBA venue, and not in a favorable manner.
Way too sterile for me. I've been there twice and did not like. I much preferred the old NC St facility (Reynolds Coliseum?). A positive, though, are the bathroom facilities. I had raging diarrhea while attending a UNC-NC St. game awhile back, so I was thankful for the modern bathrooms.
I went to the Michigan vs NW football game back in 05 and was able to check out the NW basketball Arena. Color me unimpressed. Now they have that purple inside the three point line....what the hell were they thinking?
Had the same reaction to the purple. I don't know how it looks in person but it's awful on TV.
I think on Twitter, TomVH said it looked like someone spilled grape jelly on the floor. I got a pretty good laugh out of it.
I like it. I think it's a helluva lot more unique than Value City Arena (and let's be honest - Crisler is ugly on the outside, too) and fits Northwestern basketball's needs - they don't have a large enough fanbase to support a 10K arena for every game.
I do agree about the back sweat and being off-campus, though. Both of those parts are pretty bad, although I think NW is in the process of doing a big time athletic facilities update.
That could be a cool venue. It's not that much bigger than Yost. NU just doesn't keep it in good shape (and can't fill it up).
Agreed. If Michigan was bad at hockey, Yost would be regarded as a dump. If NW was as good as Duke, that arena would be insane.
Miami U in Ohio has a terrible facility. One picture should do the trick...
Are you sure that's not the Southfield-Lathrup Chargers gym photo? That is, indeed, a very strange looking basketball arena....
I guess MAC schools are still technically D1 schools :-)
Definitely a multi-purpose gym. You can see the track running around the floor, which also suggests that the floor can be removed and replaced for volleyball, wrestling, gymnastics, etc.
Toledo is really the only MAC school with a good basketball arena (which is funny, because Toledo sucks at basketball since they had to fire Stan Joplin over point shaving allegations.)
Actually, Toledo's arena is nice for any school, not just a MAC school. Luxury boxes, students right on the floor. Plenty of amenities.
Great Venue. Right by my house and as Ira says the Eagles are improving.
I like the Convocation Center alot better than Bowen Field House except it has the same problem as Rynearson....namely it is roughly half full. I think the largest turnout I saw this year was at the State game and State fans vastly outnumbered EMU fans. Even then it was about three quarters full.
I would rank Bowen Fieldhouse as the all-time worst arena. It sure was fun when EMU had good teams, though.
Both EMU basketball teams seem to be on the right path, so we'll see.
BGSU also has a nice favility. The entire MAC sans Miami seems to be updated.
Only arena to come with it's own rap video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YxNJJgs08Xg#!
Maybe this is the hometown bias, but I've always enjoyed Read Fieldhouse. Solid sightlines, and it's connected to the Rec center. So after a run on the track or a workout you can hop over and catch a basketball game for free with your student ID.
Was built in the late 70's. This was when toledo had a great program under Nickles. The first game was against one of bobby knights better Indiana teams with Toledo winning by two: 59-57. When Nickles retired, they haven't been the same since.
And yes, I must admit that I was a student at UT when Sabin was the coach just before he escaped to coach in the EL
but where does the politburo sit?
That scoreboard looks so out of place in that picture (is it even structurally safe hanging from those rafters?!). There should be two scoreboards on each end of the gym, preferably with half the bulbs burned out so a few numbers are indecipherable. And a possession arrow that is manually flipped.
I do tend to love the few old "barns" that still exist in college sports. But my penchant for nostalgia probably clouds reality. I just read an article in the local Madison paper about the old Field House (two words, both capitalized) that preceded Wisconsin's Kohl Center. I actually am not a big fan of the Kohl Center. Too sterile for me. I'd much prefer to watch hockey at Yost. Anyway, the Field House windows were often broken, and minimal snow would accumulate in the top rows during winter (home court advantage?). So sweating my balls off in Evanston or freezing my arse in Madison's old Field House probably wouldn't suit my current tastes.
This is why I love Yost Arena. A classic barn that has been updated enough to have some semblance of modern amenities, yet still retains the old charm...and is extremely loud. Stay strong, Yost.
The Field House was awesome. The upper deck was literally a series of overlapping planks with no backing. If you weren't careful and you pushed your coat (or your flask) too far back under your seat, it would fall to the lower deck below. That place was also incredibly loud, even though the teams playing there were usually incredibly bad.
I haven't been there in at least five years, are the windows at Yost still covered up? They used to be but I always thought the building would look awesome if the glass were put back in.
but a planned-and-now-Regent-approved renovation is supposed to open them up again with high-tech glass. Slightly fewer regular seats, more premium seats.
I actually love Welsh-Ryan. I like college basketball better when its played in gyms. Fans are right on the court. It sounds better. It feels better. I find the new style arenas like the Kohl Center and OSU's arena (and even Crisler, which is, to be fair, much less of a masoleum post-reno) terribly sterile and boring. The most famous locations for college basketball are much like Welsh-Ryan. Assembly Hall at Indiana, Cameron, the Palestra, Pauly Pavilion, etc. Name one arena that has the same rep.
If you want to watch a basketball game, Welsh-Ryan is good.
If you're more interested in being close to the bars or having flat screens in the crapper, probably not the place for you.
...but Breslin Center is constantly rated as one of the best venues/most difficult place for a visiting team. Gotta give Sparty credit for that place,
They have Nipsy, we have Cazzie and Campy. For the win!
The other day I drove by Breslin and for the first time noticed just how ugly it is from the outside.
but I have never liked Assembly Hall. Bloomington OR Champaign.
Northwestern is very high school...But they could indeed go full on Yost in there if anyone cared. I'm just glad Crisler is rocking again...or for the first time. I've heard reports that Crisler wasn't that electric in the fab 5 era...I wasn't there in the eighties...The crowd was nuts during Amaker's first NIT run...but over the course of a season Is this year the best Crisler has been ever?
Duke-UM during the Fab 5 frosh year was unbelievably electric. The house was rocking mad. But I'll admit that our home crowds did not seem as consistently rowdy as other schools...at least through non-scientifc means of watching a lot hoops on TV during that era!
Then again, we didn't have Heisman tropy candidates doing the "eating" celebration in the stands back when I was there in the 90s. The crowd for the Duke games in '95 and '97 were good in stretches, especially late. Unfortunately, the last game I went to as a student was in 1999 when all of EL came down to root on Sparty.
I was at the game as well and was trying to figure out if the video board was compatible with NES or just strictly Atari.
Definitely a terrible arena all-around, but lets keep in mind that that place (and the staff) have probably never had to accomodate a capacity crowd. When I called the ticket office the morning of the game they only had 16 tickets left (obstructed view and standing room)
I got into it with some old bitty at Yost last year about that. She was sitting behind me making all kinds of comments about how she'd heard so much about the "atmosphere" at Yost but was completely unimpressed. I ignored her after the first three or four comments, but then had to turn around and politely explain to her that the students were on break and the band was from Howell High School and they were being kind enough to fill in. She then started musing about how, with "Michigan being Michigan" we should rip the place down and build something new and grand. I said that "Michigan being Michigan" meant that we'd probably like to hang on to things that are unique and that this was a special old style hockey venue. The lady then says "this is nothing compared to the Kohl Center!" At which point my wife and I stood up, turned around and said "Ya! If you like watching hockey in a fucking basketball arena!"
She didn't come back after the first intermission.
I'll say it again loud and clear. The Kohl Center is a nice modern facility, but it absolutely cannot compare to the Yost environment. Not even close. I would've punched that woman, or at least hip-checked her into the Howell High Pep Band. You are a better person than me (kudos to your wife for dropping an f-bomb on her, though!).
I find myself sometimes bored watching hockey at the Kohl Center. I don't know why...I absolutely love hockey, but something about that place just makes me slump in my seat and want to fall asleep. The best part of the Kohl Center hockey experience is the "Enter Sandman" intro before Wisconsin takes the ice. It's all downhill from there. The students seem to have fun, but it just pales in comparison to Yost.
Yost Ice Arena was called Yost Field House until 1973, when it became home to Michigan Hockey.
It was home to Michigan basketball games until Crisler opened in 1967 and thus, for a good portion of its existence, was a "fucking basketball arena" that saw its share of excellent hoops, including the Cazzie Russell-led Final Four teams of the mid-1960s.
Cazzie never played in the "House that Cazzie Built."
I'm wondering how they expect to recruit top talent.
Considering Northwestern has NEVER been to the NCAA tournament, I don't think they have any expectation to recuiting top talent. As for their facilities, I think Tony Montana said it best, "In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
Indiana's Assembly Hall has this Soviet look about it, as if a Politburo of some kind should be meeting there.
Memorial Stadium, Assembly Hall. Why are they named the same. One is coincidence. Two is conspiracy.
Did anybody else start to feel a bit sorry for the Northwestern fans at the end of Tuesday's game? I know i did. They all had the same look my seven year old had last Christmas when it became brutually apparent to him he WASNT getting a pony despite all his letters to Santa. I have never felt pity for an opponent's fan base before but man, they kept putting this one guy with his kids and some students who literally made me feel bad for them. They were SO excited to finally get that "signature win" and then...poof....gone. They looked like they were going to break down and cry any minute.
But that second "foul" on Jordan Morgan pretty much negated any warm and fuzzy feelings I might have been harboring towards them.
Who said anything about the refs? They can rot in hell for all i'm concerned.
But Michigan outscored NW 53-27 when Morgan or Smotrycz were in the game. If they dont make that call, Michigan is up 13 at the half and nobody gets their hearts broken.
They can have their Christmas Day, New Year's Day, St Patrick's Day, and that day they lost their virginity - when they beat OSU. I will feel very happy for them. And us.
In my opinion, it's gotta be Ross-Ade stadium. It's outdated, ugly, never more than half full and seems to have a permanent stench of failure all about it.
I'd vote for Illinois's Memorial Statement. It's better updated, to be sure, but it's still ugly, is never full, is a wind tunnel, and, in addition to the stench of failure, also has the stench of nearby feed lots.
Definitely the ugliest B1G stadium I've seen, and certainly the worst gameday atmosphere I've witnessed. I mean, seriously, even Indiana had a better showing.
Fans and excitment are what make a facility great. A facility does not make excitment.
There is something sterile about many modern stadiums. I'm sure there is a reason why Camden yards, and Comerica and Yankee Stadium and Jacob Field were designed to be throwbacks, and not to be completely symmetrical. I'm not an architect or design guy, but when a stadium or arena is "perfect," something is . . . wrong. That's why 3 - Rivers Stadium and some of the other modern fields are already being demolished. No one likes them.
I never did like Crisler Arena, and am glad to hear that improvements are being made. There is something about an old building, with pipes, and bricks, and windows that open, that just feels right. That's part of the attractiveness of Yost. That's part of why I always liked going to the IM Building instead of the CCRB (don't know if they're still called the same thing.) Even though the new basketball practice facility is very modern, I think it was a great decision to have some windows at one end of the practice courts.
The best stadiums blend the old and the new seamlessly. That, I think, is what makes Michigan Stadium so good. The bones of the place are old, but the scoreboards and the high rent district luxury boxes are new, and beautiful, without being out of place.
There are definitely examples where bringing in something "new" failed badly. The Halo around Michigan Stadium was one example. Another is the monstrosity that is now Soldier Field.
There also are some old stadiums and fields that just don't have the space to really be successfully changed. I think that Wrigley Field and Fenway Park are examples of this. For all the fans who wax poetic about Wrigley, the players and coaches hate the place.
If Duke can succeed in Basketball, so can Northwestern. If NW had the right coach, and the kind of players at Duke, they could easily update Welsh-Ryan, and it would be a formidable location to play at.
Oh, and I don't like the purple floor. I don't dislike purple, but that floor doesn't do it for me.
Soldier Field reminds me of the spaceships that dock on the pyramids in Stargate. And not in a good way.
Why didn't you like Crisler? I've always thought it was underrated. Yeah, it used to be a little dark inside, but there's never been a bad seat in the house.
Speaking of stadiums, I find that the new generation of MLB stadiums is still very cookie-cutter: green seats, only one deck in the outfield, off-center scoreboard, "Pepsi Porch" (there are like five stadiums with one), view of the skyline behind center field, etc. The field dimensions (and the skyline behind the stadium) are really the only distinguishing factor for most of them.
...and my memory might be a bit sketchy because it's been 20 years since I've been to any of these places but I seem to recall that Central Michigan had a goofy basketball arena. On the other end of the spectrum, I remember going to Ferris State for a regional high school basketball game and it seemed like it was one of the coolest fieldhouses ever. Like straight out of Hoosiers cool.
NW Basketball - i like it, but they need a new scoreboard and updated concessions areas !!!!!
NW Football - The football stadium is a dump ! the videoboard is horrible, the one scoreboard didn't even work when we were their. and their concession stands suck, how do you run out of coca cola by halftime...
If they decide to renovate ryan field, they need lights, renovate the concession stands, 2 new scoreboards, both with video screens
I heard from soneone their talking new football stadium and basketball arena, but i don't think any drawings or pictures or anything has ever came up
Rutgers Athletic Center
New Jersey.
The Bob Devaney Center at Nebraska was pretty gross. The concourse was ok, but the seating area made me want a tetanus shot. The place was silent as a morgue, even with a decent crowd. However, I will say that my impression is somewhat colored by the possibly homeless guy sitting two rows in front of me who smelled like he had recently shit his pants.
Luckily, Nebraska just broke ground on a new arena.
MacArthur Court of Oregon is a dark horse candidate. All 9,000 seats of it.
Does Oregon play any games there anymore?
Patrick Gym for the University of Vermont has to take the prize as the worst (they are technically d1, america east)
Pull out bleachers, no video screen. no nothing
That's really really really depressing.
It's gotta be the breslin. That place is a dump, literally.
Don't kill me, but I hate Joe Louis arena. It's a dump, the men's bathroom is the smallest thing ever, the stairs make me feel like im going to break my neck if I have anything to drink and the parking is awful. This whole talk of a new stadium/mall downtown is a much needed change.
What's your name and address....
Agreed. I sometimes fear for my life when I go to JLA. Place is pretty old and rickety.
Seats haven't been replaced in the buildings entire existance. Out of town scoreboards don't work anymore. 1990s scoreboard with a bad screen.
Best franchise in professional sports deserves the best arena in professional sports.
Solution: New Olympia Stadium
My vote is for the Allstate Arena home to the DePaul Blue Demons. My main beef with this place is its location. It's located 15 miles off campus. Student are transported by bus to the arena (if they want to go). Judging by last week's game vs Louisville...not many student wanted to go. There were maybe 100 students sitting in folding chairs behind one of the baskets. Louisville fans came by the bus load and easily outnumbered DePaul fans. Lastly, I think it cheapens the accomplishments of the great DePaul teams from the Ray Meyer era when you have your Final Four banner hanging in the same rafters as banners for the Chicago Wolves (minor league hockey) and Chicago Rush (arena football).
It shocks me that Ferry Field once looked like this:
Maybe it's because I played Class D basketball in Michigan, but I kinda like smaller gyms. We played a team that played in an armory with no bleachers. They pulled out folding chairs for the fans and it was poorly heated. When we went out for warm ups, it was hard to warm up....
The B1G shares revenue among all of its members. What is NW doing with the money? Clearly not spending it on facilities.


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Combinatorics Notation: Population size Subpopulation size Ordered Sample 2 How many samples of size r can be formed from a population of size n? 1.Sampling with replacement and ordering 2.Sampling without replacement and with ordering
How many samples of size r can be formed from a population of size n? 3 3.Sampling without replacement and without ordering 4.Sampling with replacement and without ordering
Bernoulli Trials Independent trials that result in a success with probability p any failure probability 1- p. 4
Conditional Probabilities Given two events, E 1 & E 2, defined on the same probability space with corresponding probabilities P ( E 1 ) & P(E 2 ): 5
Example 4.5 An information source produces 0 and 1 with probabilities 0.3 and 0.7, respectively. The output of the source is transmitted via a channel that has a probability of error (turning a 1 into a 0 or a 0 into a 1) of 0.2. 1.What is the probability that at the output a 1 is observed? 2.What is the probability that a 1 was the output of the source if at the output of the channel a 1 is observed? 6
Random Variables Working with Sets has its limitations – Selecting events in Ω – Assigning P[ ] – Verification of 3 Axioms Would like to leave set theory and move into more advanced & widely used mathematics (i.e., Integration, Derivatives, Limits…) Random Variables: – Maps sets in Ω to R – Subsets of the real line of the form are called Borel sets. A collection of Borel sets is called a Borel σ-fields. – A function that will associate events in Ω with the Borel sets is called a Random Variable. 7
Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) CDF of a random variable X is defined as: or Properties: 8
Probability Density Function (PDF) PDF of a random variable X is defined as: Properties: For discrete random variables, this is known as the Probability Mass Function (PMF) 9
Example 4.6 A coin is flipped three times and the random variable X denotes the total number of heads that show up. The probability of a head in one flip of this coin is denoted by p. 1.What values can the random variable X take? 2.What is the PMF of the random variable X ? 3.Derive and plot the CDF of X. 4.What is the probability that X exceeds 1? 10
Uniform Random Variable This a continuous random variable taking values between a and b with equal probabilities over intervals of equal length. 11
Bernoulli Random Variable Only two outcomes (e.g., Heads or Tails) Probability Mass Function: Leads to binomial law (sampling w/o replacement & w/o ordering) Example: 10 independent, binary pulses per second arrive at a receiver. The error probability (that is, a zero received as a one or vice versa) is 0.001. What is the probability of at least one error/second? 12
Binomial Law Example Five missiles are fired against an aircraft carrier in the ocean. It takes at least two direct hits to sink the carrier. All five missiles are on the correct trajectory must get through the "point defense" guns of the carrier. It is known that the point defense guns can destroy a missile with probability P = 0.9. What is the probability that the carrier will still be afloat after the encounter? 13
Uniform Distribution Probability Density Function (pdf) Cumulative distribution function A resistor r is an RV uniform distribution between 900 and 1100 ohms. Find the probability that r is between 950 and 1050 ohms. 14
Gaussian (Normal) Random Variable A continuous random variable described by the density function: Properties: 15
Special Case: CDF for N(0,1) The CDF for the normalized Gaussian random variable with m = 0 and σ = 1 is: Pre-Normalized Gaussian: Another related function (complimentary error function) used for finding P( X > x ) is: Properties: 16
Gaussian Example A random variable is N(1000; 2500). Find the probability that x is between 900 and 1050. 17
Complimentary Error Function 18
The Central Limit Theorem Let be a set of random variables with the following properties: 1.The X k with k = 1, 2, …, n are statistically independent 2.The X k all have the same probability density function 3.Both the mean and the variance exist for each X k Let Y be a new random variable defined as The, according to the central limit theorem, the normalized random variable Approaches a Gaussian random variable with zero mean and unit variance as the number of random variables Increases without limit. 19
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Statistical Averages The expected value of the random variable X is defined as Special Cases: Characteristic Functions: Special Cases: 21
Multiple Random Variables The joint CDF of X and Y is and its joint PDF is Properties: 22
Expected Values Given g ( X, Y ) as a function of X and Y, the expected value is Special Cases: Correlation of X & Y Covariance of X & Y Conditional PDF X and Y are statistically independent if: 23
Example Two random variables X and Y are distributed according to 1.Find the value of the constant K. 2. Find the marginal density functions of X and Y. 3.Are X and Y independent? 24
Example 4.Find 5.Find 6.Find 25
Jointly Gaussian R.V.'s Definition: X and Y are jointly Gaussian if where ρ is the correlation coefficient between X and Y. If ρ = 0, then If jointly Gaussian, then the following are also Gaussian 26
n - Jointly Gaussian R.V.'s Definition: is jointly Gaussian if where and 27
Jointly Gaussian Properties 1.Any subset of is a vector of jointly Gaussian R.V.'s 2.Jointly Gaussian R.V.'s are completely characterized by 3.Any collection of R.V.'s are uncorrelated iff is diagonal. Also, independence implies their non- correlation. For jointly Gaussian R.V.'s, 4.A collection of uncorrelated R.V.'s, each of which is Gaussian, may not be jointly Gaussian. 5.If X is jointly Gaussian, then is also jointly Gaussian with: 28
Example Let A be a binary random variable that takes the values of +1 and -1 with equal probabilities. Let A and X are statistically independent. Let Y = A X. 1.Find the pdf 2.Find the covariance cov( X,Y ). 3.Find the covariance cov( X 2,Y 2 ). 4.Are X and Y jointly Gaussian? 29
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You've seen this play a thousand times hidden in endless sitcoms and Hollywood comedies. Two savvy and wise-cracking women get hit on by an swaggering, conceited pompous ass. This time, it's Sir John Falstaff. He thinks he's playing them, but the women play him as the arrogant stooge. Throw in a jealous husband, a whiny daughter, manipulative parents, site gags, bawdy jokes, funny foreigners and pounds of puns, and you've got everything that made legends out of stars from Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn to Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty in "The Flintstones."
By wrapping the show in a Catskills resort in the early 1960s, Panitch creates a fun and frolicking vehicle that drives this centuries-old play right into Boulder's famous outdoor theater. The explosion of middle-class culture at The Mount Winsdor Hotel in the Catskill Mountains is the perfect parallel to 17th century Windsor England. The cast trots out endless natural sight gags that work because retro kitsch is so cartoonish by nature. Panitch sets the tone by creating his Falstaff as a washed-up Las Vegas Strip comedian downsized to summer-resort venues. Michael Winters delivers the Jackie Gleason suave buffoon needed to pull the part off, but he missed the mark by adding the Peter O'Toole inebriation that makes you understand how anyone could be so full of themselves.
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One Of My Hobbies Is Trying To ID Vintage Modern Furniture And Whatnot. I Like To Think I'm Pretty Good At It But Really, I Just Don't Mind Spending Too Much Time Trying! Status: And Sometimes I Get Lucky.
The VERY FIRST e-mail I received from the new "Inquiries and IDs" e-mail address (above and to the right) was from a couple who I met at an estate sale last year. They had bought a good size Kent Coffey buffet and I offered to help them get it home since I had room in Frank and they weren't too far away. We all became fast acquaintances and they recently acquired a really neat chair and wondered if I might be able to help them ID it.
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(you may know them from the
comments as CC) contacted
me a little over a week ago
asking if I might be able to help
them identify this chair that they
had recently acquired. They
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good pictures from various
angles; Front 3/4, Back 3/4,
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so and asked if they'd be down
with me using the photographs
they sent me for a blog post.
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what the chair was and get to
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miserably and mine the
considerable brain power of
this blog's readership for an
Well, the Grete Jalk inspiration went nowhere. It's so not a Grete Jalk design, but in looking
around at Jalk chairs I stumbled upon a couple pics of Finn Juhl stuff and it looked pretty close.
So I did a Google Image search for Finn Juhl chairs and within just a few minutes I had found
the chair! Turns out it's a "Delegate" chair designed by Finn Juhl for Baker.
So then, after sending them the good news, I had to ask if it might be OK if I dropped by with
my camera to take pics for the blog and hang out for a bit. They were more than welcoming to
me and my obsessive compulsive photography habits. They also have a REALLY nice joint and
I'm hoping that I didn't wear out my welcome (oh yeah...I was there for like 2 hours...for a
dozen pics) because I'd love to have the opportunity to share a tour of their pad with you soon!
They have superb taste and some really nice stuff.
The Clueless Campers received this chair from a friend who pulled it from the trash. Yes, really.
Somebody threw this out. Oh sure, it needs a tiny bit of help to be a nice vintage chair if that was
all it really was. Being that it's a bit more than just a nice vintage chair it maybe deserves a little
more attention...but how much more? We discussed this at length and all came to our own
conclusions. Should it be refinished and if so should it be done by a professional or would a
home / garage job be OK?
Is the upholstery original (we don't think so based on the screws holding the seat to the frame
but it might still be) and if so, should it be preserved? There are some "cat scratch" areas that
aren't too bad and could be cleaned up with a little clipping. The seat cushion has sorta collapsed
and the webbing could use a little tightening up.
Since the Clueless Campers are leaning towards keeping the Delegate Chair my thoughts were
to "skin" the seat and replace the cushion and webbing as needed, then pull the seat upholstery
back on. Take the "seat" off and give the wood a light refinish, maybe with some of the
Howard's products. Nothing too drastic but enough to help the chair shine like the jewel it
really is. A full restoration could always be done later if the time came to sell the chair. What
do you think?
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Restore with a pro, someone who knows the chair and appreciates it's beauty, then repost the chair for us to drool over! Your new friends are extremely lucky folk!
ReplyDeleteI personally would never attempt to refinish a piece by a major designer, even if I were going to keep it for my own use, because nothing causes the value to tank like an amateurish job of restoration.
There are sellers who are excellent refinishers, but my SIL and I conceded several months ago that we're not, so we either find pieces in great shape (which we prefer, since some purists insist on the original finish) or we pay a professional to restore them. In the longrun, that makes sense. As an example, we recently bought a serious piece for $2800, had it refinished for $250 and sold it for $8000...which is why professional refinishing can be a wise investment.
That said, a light rubdown with a little Restor-a-Finish won't hurt. We use that and teak oil all the time on our less expensive pieces. Where people go wrong is oversanding or using a stain that's not true to the original color. That can affect the resale price later on by hundreds of dollars.RepliesHi Dana. I think you and I (and the Clueless Campers!) are all pretty much on the same page. I tried to give them plenty of advice options since even the options can influence what one decides to do with a find like this. Are buyers really becoming like those collectors they talk about on Antiques Roadshow and Christy's Auctions demanding an original finish even if it's all ganked up from skin oils? As far as vintage modern is concerned, I'm with the French. Refinish it! Make mine Pretty!
If you were buying a big name designer piece for investment and/or resale I'd agree with Dana. Go to the pros.
If you're taking a piece that someone had in the trash, you're going to use it in your own home, and it's long term future is undecided I'd use restore a finish on it.
This piece is both.
I wouldn't let sandpaper in the same room with it, but some Howard's and a rag isn't going to hurt anything or cost much.
When its long term future is decided then make a long term decision.If it were me I would do the garage makeover for sure. Howards treatment with new foam and webbing. Give the fuzzy areas a hair cut and see how it looks. If then the green upholstery was bothering me, I would think about how to replace the upholstery.
PhilIt looks in almost perfect "vintage" condition as-is. I'd carefully trim the pills/fuzz on the upholstery, hit it with a little Feed-N-Wax, and call it a day. That is one gorgeous chair!
ReplyDeleteI'd just clean up the fabric and hit the frame with some maple/pine RAF. You'd be taking chances with this chair on a complete refinish and recover...
ReplyDeleteRepliesHi A Mod. If this had been given to me I'd be mighty tempted to drop it off at Custom Furniture Works. They did an impressive job on a chair that I sold a few months ago.
- AnonymousFebruary 26, 2012 at 4:33 PM
Thank you Mr. Modtomic (cool guy!) for featuring our chair, and for everyone's input on what to do next. Those are some great pictures! We feel that refinishing and upholstering this chair is beyond our level of expertise. We're not going to be the amateurs who ruin it! But we would still like to clean it up some. The green color goes well in our house, so we think that we will trim the fuzzies, and use some restore a finish, (it does look like "early american maple" colored walnut), sit in it, and enjoy a bottle of homebrew.
Thanks again to all! -cluelesscampers Just a little hint...Use a lighter tint than your chair to keep it as close to orginal as possible. It will still clean up most of the issues without affecting the color..
ReplyDeletewould it not be ok to keep it as is...vintage feel for the piece might be a draw for many
ReplyDelete- AnonymousFebruary 28, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Thanks for the link to your previous post. We agree that the job Custom Furniture Works did was awesome...and a neat choice of fabric. And quite the coincidence that the chair came from the same estate sale where we met you!! --cc (cluelesscampers)
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Hello to all.
I am using DOShack mxj object to get SYSTEMINFO from a Windows machine. In Max window I receive Product ID for the computer. How can I extract the number it displays inside Max? Is this a secure way to authenticate for each computer?
i can't tell you if it's a secure way to find a unique ID. if theres a print object thats where the messages come from. if not try mxj syscommand. it is a little bit different but has outputs to evaluate results of the external command.O.
I am still trying to find how to get the specific number I want, as whenever I send SYSTEMINFO the mxj object spits out dozens of lines. However I can't find how to extract only the number I want.
For example I use the same process in Mac using the shell object and I send the message:
ioreg -││grep IOPlatformSerialNumber
regexp "=(.*)"
Which gives me the result I want. However, I have tried many different combinations but I can't figure out how to extract the value.
Many thanks!
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