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Published: May 08, 2012 at 10:10 pm
This news item sums up the issue of a 19-year-old Nova Scotia schoolboy suspended, then reinstated because he wore regularly, a t-shirt saying, Life Is Wasted Without Jesus. After returning, his dad pulled him from school.
The articles I read about this matter focus on the t-shirt's message. Comments include: It is offensive; it is exclusionary; it's not personal like, "I believe in Jesus." However, I don't think the message on the t-shirt is the issue. Instead, I think it is our continuing drift to a tolerance level that tries to preclude people from expressing a view about Christianity. Often, I hear Christians classified as homophobic. Never have I heard Christian antagonists called Jesus-phobic or Christo-phobic; have you?
This incident is similar to changing the name of the Christmas tree to the holiday tree; moving to Happy Holidays, from Merry Christmas; preventing prayers in school, and so on.
Ryan Dobson wrote one of my favorite books: Be Intolerant Because Some Things Are Just Stupid. On page 24 he sums up this t-shirt incident:
"Our culture loves a victim. If you can show that you've been picked on, pushed around, inconvenienced, or even slightly embarrassed in gym one day, postmodern wisdom says that you have been pushed to the margins of society. You are a good person deserving of a break..."
I see many t-shirts with messages with which I disagree; some I find offensive. Still, I ignore them, because I am not a victim. I can control only my beliefs. Canadians have become so politically correct that expressing a long held moral belief might land me before a human rights body.
I wonder if this incident happened before the enhanced tolerance era, it would have been an issue? Did the young man act rudely, or otherwise behaved inappropriately? If he did, he should be scolded, and we deal with his behavior, instead of his t-shirt.
The t-shirt states precisely what I believe as a Christian. That's what Christians believe. Some ask why he has to flaunt his beliefs. They say he should keep them private. Why? The more important matter while wearing his t-shirt is this: As a Christian he should respect others, and treat each person as he would like to be treated. As I said before, if he behaved badly, we should deal with his behavior, but let him wear his t-shirt.
Maybe one reason our public education system is a mess is because we have forgotten that it should stress education instead of political correctness.


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STORRS – So far, the Connecticut basketball season is playing out like a tightly written movie script authored by first-year coach Kevin Ollie. Title it "From Germany With Love." And although the second scene wasn't as scintillating as The Opening act, it still produced a victory and provided the type of consistency UConn's director has demanded from his actors.
Shabazz Napier scored all 13 of his points in the second half and led a balanced offense as No. 23 UConn (2-0) followed up its upset of Michigan State with a 67-49 win over Vermont (1-1) in the home opener before 7,962 at Gampel Pavilion Tuesday night.
Freshman Omar Calhoun added 12 points, R.J. Evans came off the bench to score 11 and guard Ryan Boatright and forward Tyler Olander each finished with nine points. There was no star on this night of team play. But it was Olander who personified the mantra Ollie has established for the Huskies - with nine rebounds, four assists and four steals in addition to the points.
"I just think he's doing a wonderful job," Ollie said of Olander. "He's not a step slow. Last year, he might have been a step slow. Now he's reacting better. I just think he's playing with confidence and he's understanding his role on this team. He's just coming out with that mentality that, 'I'm not going to give in, no matter what.' "
That's the perfect fit for Ollie's coaching philosophy. It's all about hard work. And playing Tuesday between trips to Germany and St. Thomas, Ollie didn't want to hear about jet lag or fatigue or anything else.
"No excuses," Ollie said after the game. "People were throwing that on my porch today. The newspaper. I wasn't subscribing to it. I wasn't subscribing to the excuses of jet lag, coming back and Germany. No. We're not subscribing to that. We subscribe to playing basketball the right way. That's how Connecticut has been doing it, throughout these years when I played here and it's going to be the same thing when I coach here."
Ollie became the first UConn coach to start his career 2-0 since Dee Rowe in 1969. Rowe started 5-0 that season. Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun began his UConn career with a win over UMass and then lost in overtime at Yale.
The Huskies played solid defense on the way to a 32-23 halftime lead. Through the first 17 minutes of the game, Vermont had only four field goals and the Catamounts were shooting 17 percent. UConn rattled Vermont early with tight man-to-man that led to five steals. The Huskies also had four blocked shots in the first half, two by Olander and two by Phillip Nolan.
Vermont finished the first half 6 of 26 (23.1 percent) from the floor and committed seven turnovers. The Huskies, who had only two turnovers at halftime, might have had a bigger lead but they shot 36.4 percent (12 of 33) and were outrebounded 23-19.
And then there was Napier, who scored 25 in the upset of Michigan State but was 0-for-3 from the field in 16 minutes of the first half. That prompted a little halftime meeting with Ollie.
"I don't really know what he said to me; I really don't," said Napier, who was 4-for-7 in the second half. "I think he said something like, 'Shabazz, play your game' or something of that nature. I wasn't. But I missed my first three shots and I wanted to get involved in some other way."
With the game tied at 7-7, Evans came off the bench to energize the Huskies – something that has become a regular event. The graduate student transfer from Holy Cross hit a pair of layups, the first in transition to give UConn an 11-10 lead. DeAndre Daniels (7 points) backed that up with a steal and a slam dunk that really pumped up the crowd with 11:38 remaining and the Huskies were off to the victory.
"Whenever I go in, I'm going to play my hardest," Evans said. "I'm a team player. It doesn't matter if I go in and play two minutes or play 30 minutes. I'm going to play hard and hope my team wins."
Evans, who was 5-for-5 from the field in his 17 minutes, is providing the experience and leadership that was expected of him when the coaching staff decided to bring him onboard for one season. And the younger players are feeding off that.
"Every day they ask me if I've signed up for AARP yet," Evans, 22, said.
Calhoun, who is still 18, had a pair of three-point shots in a 12-2 run by the Huskies and that extended UConn's lead to 25-15 with 6:28 left in the first half. They eventually led by 20 points midway through the second half, while shooting 56.5 percent after halftime.
"I'm a Connecticut kid and grew up idolizing this program and what coach [Jim] Calhoun has built here," Vermont coach John Becker said. "Coach Ollie is doing a great job carrying it on.
"They're physical. They have two special guards. I thought, for the most part, we did a good job on the two main guys – Napier and Boatright. But I thought Olander really hurt us inside, especially on the offensive glass."
Vermont didn't have one player score in double figures. Luke Apfeld led the way with nine and four others, including leader Brian Voelkel, had eight. Despite better shooting in the second half, the Catamounts were still 15 of 50 from the floor (30 percent) and foul trouble for forward Ethan O'Day (four points), a product of E.O. Smith and former teammate of Olander's, was problematic.
"We've learned that if we just play hard, good things will happen," Olander said. "This was a real effort game, a real focus game. Attention to detail – the little things – really made a difference."
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"These deficiencies cannot now be remedied by amendment or otherwise," the request states.
Little lost his council seat to challenger Seyram Selase in the Aug. 28 municipal election, according to vote totals that were certified by the city council earlier this month.
Little filed a contest of the election Sept. 10, within the required five days after certification of the election results, without naming a defendant in the case. Little's contest filing alleges that city workers were seen working inside polling places, ballots were mishandled by poll workers and voters were seen voting more than once. At the time of the filing, Little said he had not yet hired an attorney, and said the contest might be amended later.
Circuit Clerk Ted Hooks, who by state law sets the bond for the contest, had set the security at $5,000 for the case.
On Monday afternoon, Little declined to say whether he had yet paid the bond. The Circuit Clerk's office had not received a payment as of 4:15 p.m. Monday, according to Kim McCarson, who works at the office.
The lack of a defendant named in the election contest is grounds to dismiss the case, the city's request states.
"Because none of the parties who prevailed in the municipal elections Plaintiff seeks to challenge have been made parties to the election contest, this court lacks subject matter jurisdiction," the request states.
It quotes part of the state law, "the clerk must issue a summons, accompanied by a copy of the statement directed to the party whose election is contested, requiring the party, within five days after the service of the summons to appear and make answer to the statement."
Seyram Selase won the election on Aug. 28 by a vote of 517 to 308 according to the City Council certified results.
Selase said he has not been contacted by Little or his attorney about the case and unless it was sent by mail, hasn't received a summons in the case.
"I'm just expecting to take office on Nov. 5," Selase said.
In addition, the city's filing states that Little filed the contest but "neither gave good and sufficient security costs of the contest as required by Ala. Code 17-16-56 nor did the Plaintiff give good and sufficient security costs 'in form at least' as permitted by law."
Little did pay $301 in filing fees for the contest. But the city's request to dismiss argues that isn't good enough.
State law, the request states, requires the party contesting must file the paperwork and pay the security within five days of the certification of the election results.
"The time constraints imposed for filing of an election contest also apply to the requirement that good and sufficient security costs be given," the request states.
Judge John Thomason, who has been assigned the case, has not scheduled a hearing and could not be reached for comment Monday afternoon.
Little declined to answer any questions about the contest on Monday, saying only that "Everything is moving forward."


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Part of our ongoing coverage of SMM leaders
With six sessions in a strategic meetings management track at its annual convention this month, the Global Business Travel Association is sticking with SMM as a focus of its time and education. The term "SMM" was coined by GBTA's Groups & Meetings Committee nearly a decade ago and has become synonymous with consolidating meeting planning and developing strategies, such as smarter negotiation and stricter meeting policies, to cut meeting spending.
Linda McNairy, vice president, strategic partner management, for Active Network/StarCite, was vice chair of the Groups & Meetings Committee when GBTA decided to rebrand the group as the Global Meetings Task Force. She now leads the task force, and we asked her about its evolving mission.
Corporate Meetings & Incentives: Could you talk about GBTA's shift from the Groups & Meetings Committee to the Global Meetings Task Force? How is the focus of the new entity different?
Linda McNairy: The Groups & Meetings Committee was established in the early 1990s and became one of the most prolific and trail-blazing committees at GBTA (then NBTA). As the meetings management industry grew more global, we felt the committee and its goals also needed to expand. The task force was formed in October 2011 to create a vision for what's next and to think about how to incorporate a global footprint for meetings management. Under the direction of GBTA executive director and COO Michael W. McCormick and the GBTA board of directors, the task force was established to take a look at these challenges, bring new thought leaders into the space, and assess where GBTA should be as the discipline of strategic meetings management forges ahead.
CMI: Have any elements of that "new vision" been determined yet?
McNairy: Absolutely! We're looking across the industry to see how GBTA's original vision of SMM is being used, how it is being interpreted, and what is not yet being addressed. The original, official definition focused mostly on procurement and financial issues. As the discipline matures, we realize that there are missing elements. Attendee engagement, persistent community, attendee ROI, and event ROI, are among the concepts that need to be addressed. And that's okay—the original vision brought structure to a previously unmanaged category of activity and spend.
CMI: Was the new task force also prompted by changing member needs? A change in your target audience? Or by what GBTA sees as the future of meetings management?
McNairy: The changes were based on a combination of all of these things. We were hearing from our members that they wanted a higher level of thought leadership and education. In terms of the target audience, we believe this continues to expand as SMM matures. In other words, more and more functional areas are getting involved in the discipline. While previously SMM was led by travel and meetings management, we now see sales and marketing organizations as an emerging audience, and there's an increased sophistication of understanding coming from procurement, finance, technology, and other key stakeholder groups.
SMM was the brainchild of the Groups and Meetings Committee; however, other organizations have made liberal use of the terminology without appropriate context, and it was time for GBTA to restructure and again take a leadership role in collaboration with affiliated organizations in the industry.
CMI: What is the place of meetings management in GBTA's educational focus? Is there still a trend toward members handling both travel and meetings?
McNairy: This is a great question as it highlights a fundamental challenge with SMM. The list of stakeholders is broad and ever-expanding. The task force has undertaken an analysis of how to identify these groups and determine the best way to deliver education, best practices, collaboration, and community for each. That said, there is absolutely a continued trend toward travel managers having responsibility for shaping the enterprise meeting strategy. Our focus is to help them understand the landscape and give them resources—education, tools, and collaboration—that will result in success.
CMI: What is the next phase for SMM?
McNairy: This is the exciting prospect before us. We believe that the definition of SMM currently in play occupies a relatively small space on a very large canvas. Our mission is to expand the work to create a larger picture and provide a solid plan for a new and sustainable committee within GBTA. Organizations are beginning to understand the value of managing meetings to create visibility, generate savings, provide duty of care to all attendees, and create efficiencies.
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It's no secret that people are holding on tight to their money these days. Businesses are no exception. Throughout 2010, IT professionals can expect that nearly all aspects of purchasing, operations and training will be governed by financial risk. Senior executives will be asking themselves, "How do we spend most efficiently to get the most in return?"
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Also available for : PS3, Xbox360<LINK REL="stylesheet" HREF="http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/uni/IGNE_style.css" TYPE="text/css">In 2012, most people don't care about music games anymore. At least not the beatmatching sort made popular last decade with five-button faux guitars and thwacky drums.

Signaled by the bubble bursting boom of umpteen Guitar Hero, Band Hero, DJ Hero and Rock Band releases, Activision eventually shuttered the Hero franchise and acclaimed Rock Band developer Harmonix was sold for $50. With the public's crush on the genre worn thin, publishers have since moved on and music games of the Hero ilk have withdrawn into the shadows, put away like so many dusty fake plastic instruments.

Memories of a simpler time.

Does an audience for music games still exist then? The answer is obviously yes. Companies have continued to release a variety of music-driven titles, like the lighthearted Rhythm Heaven Fever, the deep and alluring Auditorium, or addicting bite-sized entries like the BIT.TRIP series and the mesmerizing Pulse. Even the former category-leader Harmonix has re-imagined its Rock Band brand as an upcoming arcade game of sorts with Rock Band Blitz (shown below), sans instruments and all.

Developers and publishers know that most of us still like music, and playing with music is still fun, but almost none are ready to put a peripheral back in our hands.

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That brings us to the recently announced Bandfuse: Rock Legends, whose creators are clearly betting that we still have the performers itch.

Bandfuse looks like the beatmatching games of yore at first glance, but it changes the well-worn formula just so, boiling down the experience to a simple elevator pitch: play guitar on your consoles. Like, really play guitar. Sure, there's more to it than that, but that's the hook. Toward that end, the game eschews the make-believe instruments and hypnotizing note highways for real guitars (no special models or midi-guitars required; use any electric guitar you already own) and tablature, the undisputed universal shorthand language of guitar players. In concept, this is awesome.

There's an assortment of just-announced features that trim out the experience. Up to four players can jam together with any combination of guitars, bass or vocals (drums are not confirmed; what kind of band has no drummer? ) and there's a creation and sharing mode that allows you to either record your track from any of the songs that ship with the game (so far announced artists include Pearl Jam, Living Colour, Strokes, Slash, Judas Priest and more) or record your own tracks. You can then upload your recordings to Twitter, Facebook or YouTube.

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For me, someone who's played guitar off and on for 25 years, if all Bandfuse does is allow guitar aficionados and music lovers to play real guitar via a console, and it does it well, then I'm interested. Games like Power Gig: Rise of the Six String and the more recent Rocksmith promised something akin to the Bandfuse experience, but ultimately were marred either by horrible gameplay and guitar design (in Power Gig's case), and limitations and barriers that made simply jamming out a hassle with Rocksmith. It's worth noting that both Rocksmith and Rock Band 3 (in it's Pro Mode) dabbled with different uses of tablature, but favored proprietary note-highway-esque presentations instead, for whatever weird reason.

Is a guitar edutainment-type music game based on the real-world fundamental language of guitar the next natural progression of the currently defunct music category? If so, is this extension enough to make music games matter again?

It's possible.

But if this is the next step, here's a rundown of some crucial areas where a game like Bandfuse must succeed.

Killer Tone
To date, I've only heard four tones in Bandfuse, all of which are best defined with words like 'thin, tinny, brittle, janky, solid state, midi-sounding', etc. Yeah, it's not great right now. The developer seems totally aware of this. When asked, they've explained that these sounds are placeholder and they're working on a number of licensing deals. They've reassured us that this is at the top of their "must have" list. Still, if the tone doesn't deliver, the whole thing will be a wash. Seeing that this is a guitar-centric game, great tone is an absolute deal-breaker. Artists currently attached to the project like Slash and Five Finger Death Punch adamantly agreed about the need for righteous tones when I asked them during the game's unveiling event in Los Angeles earlier this year.

Yes, please.

Beginners and experts will agree, people will want great tone. Crushing Mesa Boogie, Krank, Hughes and Kettner and Bogner tones, alongside juicy Fender, Marshall and Orange sounds. I would also love to sample boutique flavors I'd never have access to (translation: Tophat amps!), all thrown in with the ability to swap between effects and cabinets. In my experience with Bandfuse, and knowing how difficult it is to simulate great tone via digital means for even the best amplifier manufacturers, this will be Bandfuse's greatest challenge. That, and having a...

Good Setlist
Put simply, please pick good music. For starters, give me Andrew WK. Please. The fact that no music game to date has featured uncle Andy is borderline criminal. Do this, and I'll suffer all the classic rock you can throw at me.

No Andy, no deal.

Actually let's skip a bunch of that too. How about some current music in addition to the expected Thin Lizzy, Joan Jett, Foghat and Rush? Give us Circa Survive, Say Anything, Periphery, The Dear Hunter, Revocation, Dance Gavin Dance, Emarosa, Tides of Man, Alexisonfire and more. For older tracks, how about some good Metallica (Justice or earlier, please), Ween, They Might Be Giants, Black Sabbath, Blink 182... heck, Steel Panther! Have the starter songs for scalability, for the kid who just bought his first guitar, and then some Protest the Hero for the more intermediate players. Or better yet, let us have...

Unlimited Music
Alright, I know this probably won't happen, but imagine playing with whatever music you subscribe to on Xbox live, ala Zune, Last.FM, Spotify or even our own iTunes catalog.

Wishful thinking.

The music is already there, tabs for all the music already exists, give the players accessibility and don't stick me with a limited and potential stale set of tracks that represent more what the publisher could afford, and less what I want to play. Whatever the tracks are, the key to pulling it all off though will be…

Zero Latency
In other words, there should be no lag between what I play on my guitar and what I hear coming out of my speakers. From what I have seen, Bandfuse does this reasonably well, though I've only seen it played with two instruments simultaneously. Will it hold up with a third, and vocals? Really though, all I want to do is…

Plug In and Play
The idea of playing my guitar through my PS3 or 360 is great. Like, really great. Let me do that fast. The game should start in a jam situation or studio, me plugged in, sound already coming out. If I want to go into the menu, play along with a song, set something up or do anything else, let me do that later.

The opposite of this.

Let other plugged-in instruments join instantly as well. Also, PLEASE don't shackle the best tones, guitar models, cabinet sounds, pedals, etc, behind invisible walls that need unlocking via progression in a career mode. This, of course, would all be made incredibly more awesome with...

Easy and Flexible Recording
With the newly announced recording features, gamers are said to have the ability to record something akin to real tracks, and in theory, use the Bandfuse software as a recording means. What we've seen so far is a very limited tool that only captures whatever input it receives (presumably the track you're playing or recording) and spits it out as one track. You can record multiple tracks that can be played back together, but there's no editing ability, mixing, editing of sounds, cutting, importing or even multi-track view akin to something like Garage Band.

Not this complicated, but you get the picture.

If we're going to record music with the intent of sharing it - and not embarrassing ourselves - give us the means to do it well. There's already enough bad content clogging the social arteries out there. Also, how about a drum machine and instrument cuts and loops? I imagine these are all on their list of things they want to include. If they're not, they should be.

The idea of recording and sharing music sounds novel, and there's other companies out there doing this already (see what Music Mastermind is doing with its Zya project). Let me do this well, but more importantly, don't add a frustrating and poorly implemented tool that will discourage would-be recording artists just to include a back of the box bullet point. Regardless, I still want a...

Pedal Peripheral
Developer Realta is publishing the game in the US with Mastiff, a peripheral company. Give me a pedal to switch between dirty and clean tones, add delay or reverb, all that. Again, the demo I saw had 4 preset tones, and they couldn't be swapped on the fly with any semblance of ease. Playing guitar is all about smart hands-free control.

A pedal, even an empty box with 4 switches mapped to selection controls, could easily and elegantly solve that. Plus, Rock Band promised pedals of some kind for years and we never got one. I'm tired of waiting.

Play those octaves!

Those are some of the things I'd love to see out of a game like Bandfuse. What about you? Are you totally over music games, or are you ready to ditch the old for something new? That comment section down there, that's for you. Tell us!

Casey Lynch is Editor-in-Chief of IGN.com, and a lifelong lover of music. Follow his non-sequitur ramblings about video games, '80s film and Protest the Hero on IGN and Twitter.

Full disclosure: Casey has previously worked with Harmonix Music Systems and MTV Games on the Rock Band franchise, and has a Guitar Hero character named after him. And yes, it's a girl character.

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