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Last weekend, I watched Alien for the first time. My reaction? "How quaint."
I'll be the first person to admit that it was not an ideal viewing situation. It was immediately after a rough loss by all that is sacred and good to the forces of evil, at three o'clock in the afternoon, and I was one stiff drink short of Christopher Hitchens. Moreover, I am not Alien's target audience. I prefer my sci-fi on the cerebral or actiony side, or better yet, one of the great sci-fi television franchises that can throw some horror in the mix from time to time but explore other themes and genres at the same time. Long story short, with the exception of fake-blood-by-the-hogshead slasher flicks, horror is not necessarily a turn-off so much as not what I'm there to see. Horror is like Brussels sprouts. I'll eat them if they're put in front of me but I'm not going to look for them on a menu.
But that's not why I was disappointed in Alien. And it's not Alien's fault that it comes off quaint to my eyes. Rather, it has been a victim of its own success, both in the expectations it has set and in the entire generation of sci-fi/horror it has inspired.
Thus spake Tycho: (read the comic first, if you haven't yet)
I'm horrified when I think about the shit I got up to online, as young as thirteen. My mother let me do things I'd never let my son do in a million fucking years, but those things were deeply formative, so I honestly don't know who is in the right. My "peer group" then consisted largely of childless adult proto-nerds, real Mark-I models, the almost exclusively male cloister that would eventually pass the mantle to us.
I'm horrified when I think about the shit I got up to online, as young as thirteen. My mother let me do things I'd never let my son do in a million fucking years, but those things were deeply formative, so I honestly don't know who is in the right. My "peer group" then consisted largely of childless adult proto-nerds, real Mark-I models, the almost exclusively male cloister that would eventually pass the mantle to us.
I have seriously been concerned about this, namely, what degree and type of internet freedom should we offer our own progeny when the situation arises? I was pretty much untethered and unsupervised, online, as a kid; mostly, this is because my parents were still roughly at the "How do you copy-paste?" level of technological aptitude until after I departed for college, and had no idea what was "out there." I largely stayed out of trouble (in that, I did not get caught or in any way suffer consequences for the illegal shit I may have done) but that seems as much luck as skill.
Well, almost perfect. There was one clunky scene which should have had its cameo removed, been re-written to use an existing character, and trimmed. But that did not come close to derailing, I'm going to say it, the best movie ever made by humans.
It is not "like" one of those ideas you and your friends come up with after a really inspired 3AM bull session and wake up to realize could never actually be made. It is that idea. They made it. They crushed it. It exists now.
Yes, I am the target audience. It doesn't matter. If you cannot love this film, then you need some kind of intervention. No, New York Post critic guy, it's not weird. You're weird. I don't like you any more. Fuck off.
Go see this movie if you have a soul. Your soul will have an orgasm.
Derbendammerung was a bigger moment for the media than I would have guessed. News wonks knew about him so they gave their take on his broken career. Some were good, most were lazy. One rang my bell.
There are, for example, no black Fields Medal winners. Derbyshire calls this fact "civilizationally consequential." Really? If you follow Derbyshire's link, you'll find that the Fields Medal is awarded for outstanding discoveries in mathematics. It has been given to 10 people in this century and to another dozen or so since the first cohort of post-desegregation students reached the age at which top-level math achievement could be assessed.
That's an absurdly small sample on which to base any claim about the mathematical ability of a minority population. (If every Fields Medal were awarded to an American, on a proportional basis you'd expect one black recipient in this century rather than zero.) The list of Fields Medal winners tells you nothing about blacks. But it tells you a lot about Derbyshire.
True. That is one of Derb's many questionable "measures" of the success of races of people. Hell, all of those words should have scare quotes, but I don't do cocaine so my arms get tired.
No black people in your lifetime won a Fields Medal? To most of us that would be as much a measurement as no citizens of Okinawa have ever won Miss Vermont. When were those chances generated in the cosmic lottery? By whom? The medal is for science. The medal is not science.
Which brings me to Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Astrophysicist, educator, Great American. Planet-killer.*
Walk away. Leave the helmet. No one gets hurt.
Tyson, once, in the course of making several great points, said a really dumb thing. Right here (8:30):
Nobel prizes won by Jews vs. Nobel prizes won by Muslims. Ow. What. Jewish people are disproportionate Nobel winners for so many reasons that have nothing to do with Islamic mysticism. Some of them great. Like a tenacious culture of education and ambition fostered across the Middle East and Europe and now America. Some of them awful. Like the relative odds of surviving as a Jewish person of middle-intelligence and quiet, average temperament in the centuries between Masada and Shoa. Safe people get to be more average. This might say something about how to um, impact groups so that they achieve high per-survivor yields of Nobel Prizes, but is probably not what Tyson wants to mean.
Also, as a result of these and a hundred other trends, there were a lot of Jewish people in Western Europe and California when they happened to be giving out Nobels. I don't think you could say in 1205 that they had a cultural plan to be there and do a lot of math, or that their Muslim governors had a cultural plan to not.
And what does any of this have to do with whether Baghdad deserved or did not deserve to be burned to the ground by middle Asians in the 12th century, just after Tyson's thesis event? Would there even be a Nobel Prize if one man had not died in Mongolia forty years later? And what does that have to do with Egyptians under British rule not winning a Scandinavian academic award, another iteration of which was saved for the enlightened and world-improving Henry Kissinger?
Objectively, among all people, we are the greatest advocates for peace.
Awards are not given by gods. They are given by people in places. They are given expecting something back. They are given to build particular communities. I don't doubt that the Fields and Nobel committees evaluate the real science. But to achieve visibility to them in the first place, it is helpful to be born on land that was Mongol-free in 1305 or redcoat-free in 1805, or conversely, a place which was redcoat-full in 1805, but is not so now. I'd claim Abu Al-Ghazali and liberal Jewish theology have very little to tell us about those things. That evaluating these broad ideas in some kind of cosmic horse race by counting Swedeish trophies is dumb enough to give me whiplash in an otherwise cool lecture.
Is this recent? The shiny psudeomeasurements? Cute facts about obvious things that Reveal Big Trends? The huckster tricks employed by Malcolm Gladwell or David Brooks? Maybe Tyson saw too many people rewarded for comparing sumo wrestlers to bagels.
Too bad. Most of the time you can't tell something about, say, the "essential character" of "Indonesians" by what matchbooks they buy or what sports they excel at. Sports are largely geography and matchbooks are accidents of commerce. You could count them. But what are you counting?
Tyson and Derbyshire share acres of mental real estate (however much Derb twists his vision to never find that out). The amateur and the professional are both men of science, skepticism, curiosity, and a concern with the future of those traits in our people. Each in his own way wants to be rigorous. Each wants to state only things he can know, and demonstrate.
Each still, in weak or rambling moments, reaches for the god prize. The shiny thing given by someone else which will settle all arguments.
If they, especially Tyson, can't always resist this, what hope is there for the rest of us? Can we ever stop wanting to know for sure? To be approved of? To ask the cosmic chicken guts to pass judgment?
Probaby only a little.
Do you remember those pivotal films we watched growing up? Full of heroes and important life lessons. Well Dutch and I do. And the kids these days have new ones! They'll turn out as well as we did.
You know the titles of these classics, right? Of course you do. They're in your wide-eyed, fuzzy little soul.
(Answers after the fold.)
1) "Prep school sports star hunts and kills orphan"
2) "Natural disaster triggers local woman's murder fantasy re: disliked neighbor"
3) "Teenage siblings spend days together in closet, emerge feeling more grown up"
4) "Woman enters polyamorous living arrangement, falls into coma"
5) "Journalist releases wildlife to massacre troubled youths."
6) "High-functioning sociopaths refuse to share shopping space."
7) "Tycoon's feud with performance artist causes massive public property damage"
8) "Pompous academic travels the world ruining cultural sites"
9) "Lonely man exploits anomaly in space-time to stalk coworker"
10) "Town vagabonds maimed by sadistic child."
11) "High school friends camp out, murder local immigrants."
12) "Needy friend sabotages young woman's relationships"
13) "Unfit narcissist denies high school star an education"
14) "Disgruntled young immigrants from persecuted religion attack New York with a WMD"
This weekend John Derbyshire, a little-followed freelancer for National Review and other, more obscure Conservative magazines, wrote a very special manifesto about the danger of the Lower Races of Man that, with a thin intellectual dusting, reads like it was pulled out of a time capsule buried during Jim Crow. For this embarrassment, he's joined his comrade Pat Buchanan in the dustbin of Respectable Media History. Like Buchanan, Derbyshire is a crowing reactionary but not a moron. Mostly. Like Buchanan, he embarrasses himself with his own honesty. But what gnaws at me is, I think he embarrasses his colleagues even more. By showing the thinness of the line they try to draw between these ornery old bastards and themselves.
I think I've read everything Derbyshire has ever published on the web. Lowry is right that he is often a very good writer with a very impressive breadth of experience. I want to read his novels and his nonfiction books on math.
So I hate the sanctimony directed at him by guys like Jonah Goldberg and Ramesh Ponnuru. For those who don't know, Goldberg is a Kardashian-grade scion of a 90s tabloid subject who has never written anything of substance. He wouldn't be delivering sandwiches at a political mag with a healthy culture. Ponnuru is a weasily theocon whom Derbyshire took head on (shades of his backhand for Ben Stein), in a piece I will remember for a dozen haunting phrases and thoughtful, devastating honesty.
Is it wrong to have concern for fetuses and for the vegetative, incapable, or incurable? Not at all. Do we need to do some hard thinking about the notion of personhood in a society with fast-advancing biological capabilities? We surely do. [...] Should we let a cult of theologians, monks, scolds, grad-school debaters, logic-choppers and schoolmarms tell us what to do with our wombs, or when we may give up the ghost, or when we should part with our loved ones? Absolutely not. Give me liberty, and give me death.
Between Ponnuru, Jean Teasdale, The Baby Turtle and Waterboard Igor, political Catholicism is a shifty, cruel, sad little movement these days. Which means so is NRO. I hate these toadies getting in free kicks when a better man destroys himself.
But of course Derbyshire did destroy himself. In more ways than one. You can track his slide down in the last five years, writing less and less about math and culture and international relations and life, and more and more about Those Niggers and Spics and Their Low Pants and Criminal Genetics. His pedestal as a cold-minded advocate from science took a crack every time he ran with what Charles Murray said and took it ten steps further. He made it a deterministic superstition: jumbling "statistics" unanchored from any context, ignoring all relevant criticism, building a private dogma of Race Science that explained all human problems as Nigger Problems because PSAT scores + Charles Pickering = Revealed Word. Personally I can pinpoint the exact moment I had to stop trusting his conclusions on any subject, especially when he dead-to-rights should have known better. A man who can analyze institutional credit risk for a living, then turn around and say the housing bubble was a buyer problem, because minorities, has stopped trying to notice things.
If the man has any brain cells left, he can maybe ponder this piece. Where he admirably, in an un-PC way, diagnosed a thinker who was eaten alive by The Jew Thing. It's a tiny bit Greek that you can flip through his own work like this, and watch a whole mind die of The Nigger Thing. But it was his mind to ruin.
Anyway, what really gets to me is how much of a smug liar Lowry is when he says "Derb has long danced around the line on these issues, but this column is so outlandish...". Oh what? Danced around like this? Or like this? Or the thousand other things said by NRO and Weekly Standard writers and NRO and Weekly Standard approved candidates (let's talk Newt Gingrich), that amount to the same or worse? "Derb" of course, is being fired for the ultimate Kinsley Gaffe. He said an awful thing outright which he has said quasi-politely for years, and which Rich Lowry is saying quasi-politely right now. He is expressing Rich's worldview, and the worldview of a great deal of Rich's writers and audience, without the weak ciphers they decide are "acceptable."
So here are my gut feelings about tribe and human nature. Derbyshire once wrote that he would be more of a peer to African mathematicans than white American convicts. This balances nothing. But in that same vein, I would still sit down and shake the hand of a Derbyshire or Buchannan before I would a Lowry or a Ponnuru or a Thiessen. I also feel (can't prove) that if the tribe of the American Right were filled out with intelligent, worldy, openly bigoted, self-accountable and fully human old bastards, we would be better off than we are today. The insinuating, smirking, unaccountable bastards are worse. They have nothing to teach us. They are not even wrong.
And I still want to read those math books.
For other reasons, I happen to know Contra Costa County is a ridiculous place. It didn't need the extra distinction of a mayor renouncing Veteran's Day "in favor of" Occupy Wall Street.
What a tangled up country this is. Could anyone explain to her that most of the people in that anti-establishment rally probably Support The Troops? That there are veterans in that rally, and that they are not protesting the war or the millitary? Probably not. A 60-something mayor of a small Southern California city is still marching against Johnson. Against the fucking army and the fucking office and the whole fucking power thing, man. While Newt Gingrich is still waddling around the world looking for fucking hippies to give haircuts and a goddamed job, already.
Those Occupy protesters who have jobs have very good jobs, probably. Those who don't (especially those who were in the army, and want an office) can't get one. They're in the street because the world between those realities is vanishing.
I joke in my last post about how bloodless and tired any political process looks, when that process produces shambling suits like Gingrich and Romney, and fires them off to fight the ghosts of 1968, again, while more and more people in every town can't find a way to live.
I guess the joke isn't very funny.
The enemy of this country is not its army. The enemy of this country is not its students. The enemy of this country is not even its bankers. Really.
The enemy is the idea that we can live apart any more. That America in 2012 can indulge the same intravarsity score-settling that made our parents' America so transformative.
We do not want to socialize the banks. We do not want to take your guns. We do not want to revoke the New Deal. We do not want to overturn Roe. We do not want to work for China.
And for the love of god, you lunatics, we do not want to build a flying highway between Alberta and Mexico City. What the hell would you do with that? Get there and turn back around? Pee over Kansas and watch the wind blow it to Oklahoma? Jump off? Would you people either take your medication or die, already?
Where was I.
I want the Republican party to be functional again because I want this country to be functional again. All of it.
I hope our parents will understand that stance, someday.
While we are on the subject, let's take a moment to note how sad this year's Republican primaries are, compared to the last batch.
Now, those were impossible to top. They were so thick with old white macho fantasy that we are still trapped in the comic book world they created. Sarah Palin sprang from their head fully armed, the nightmare fairy for a generation's rage against all things outside the cul-de-sac.
Now what? Now they have a bench of young governors and congressmen, well-oiled fundraising groups and a chance to tag the Alien Usurper with a recession. Now they don't have to campaign from under George W. Bush. Now they can really let fly. Who's coming out of the gates???
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ...
Dear lord.
At least the grabass radio host is having fun.
Let's be clear. Herman Cain is what happens when the elephants die and the monkeys run away and the ringmaster is drunk and the acrobats have herpes and the last clown relizes this is his chance. Before the audience leaves, he can do whatever he wants. No hope. No rules. No pants.
Good on him I guess.
For the rest of us, a ripoff.
I stand a little corrected. The soundbite pagents between people who don't have to say anything and won't be President have done some good.
In August of this year, Rick Perry was going to be the perfect canned Republican. Cocky, intimidating, Conservative, a distant cousin to George Clooney.
Then he was forced to speak in public. Again. And again. And again. For some reason, Republican insiders and media elites were not able to take whatever drugs got them through George W. and Sarah P. with a straight face.
Then again, George and Sarah could approach a podium and read a canned answer with flair. They could read a prompter and enunciate. They could read.
Soooo, that's over. Which is good.
Meanwhile, the Cain and Gingrich candidicies drag on painfully until some humans finally touch a ballot and we can all throw out the year's worth of polling data that ran serious numerical analysis on people's responses to "if you had to express a preference of no consequence you could later reverse, who do you like more, Eyebrow or Glasses?".
After all, both Gingrich and Cain can wear a tie and look forward and pronounce a three syllable word without pissing in their shoes. Thus, for two more months, we must pretend they can be President.
Is there some room in Hell where they write these rules?
Exhibit One.
It's funny I went on about tonal discomfort two days before I used this book in a way no doctor would reccomend. I'm very lax in my Alan Moore knowlege. I've got Watchmen and some Lost Girls and now this. But even with that small sample, I'm ready to call out my favorite strength of his: godlike mastery of tonal discomfort.
It's one thing to write "I felt horribly interested at the same time I felt disgust." That's what Lovecraft, for instance, would say. He'd use four or five synonyms for "disgust" and twelve commas before he finished saying it.
Moore uses the story organically. Moore walks you to that state of mind. Then he makes you live there a while. He builds a story on the spot where you are processing sex and rape and jokes and death and discovery and horror all at the same time. Then he invites you to have tea.
In the end you have to be horrified at yourself, if you're horrified at all. Then you have to condone yourself to keep reading. Which you will.
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Happy Halloween.
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Google Docs added footnotes, a feature that would've been useful for those who write academic papers or books if it were implemented properly. You can insert a footnote by clicking on the Insert menu and selecting Footnote.
"Footnotes appear on-screen in the document margin and at the bottom of the page when printed. You'll be able to see how the footnotes will appear when printed by selecting Print (Ctrl+P) or Download file as... PDF from the File menu. There will also be a footnote marker within the actual document designated by a pound sign (#). You can drag and drop a footnote anywhere you'd like in the document by simply clicking on this pound sign and dragging," notes Google's help page.
Google did a good job at integrating footnotes in the interface, but they should be displayed at the bottom of the page and they should be numbered. Unfortunately, Google Docs still doesn't support pagination.
Another compatibility issue is that word processors will display footnotes as endnotes, at the end of your document.
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Another diatribe by the Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts, who always gets printed in the Aiken Standard.
Accusing any opposition to Obama's dictatorship as being racist, cranks and outliers suffering from Obama dementia, he is trading on his reputation and ignoring the facts of Obama's reign.
Far from being settled law, Obamacare has been revised illegally over 1,200 times by Obama when he granted exemptions to its implementation to his favorite cronies and complainers, including all members of Congress and their staffs.
In addition, the rollout of Obamacare has been a disaster inspite of more than 600 million dollars spent to create this malfunctioning software. Obama has flouted the Constitution and Bill of Rights whenever it suits him. No complaints from Leonard Pitts, no doubt because Obama's "intent" is always good.
Obama has used the IRS to harass his opponents and uses the National Security Agency to gather information against them ahead of the next election.
In addition, Obama has appointed 62 far left czars to goad every government department to carry out his policies, the Chicago Way, leaving no Obama fingerprints.
His opponents in Congress rightly use all the legal leverage available to them to combat Obama's, Reid's and Pelosi's tactics and policies, more power to them.
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last i heard was TC was making the nitride coated barrels. very good ones by the way--
over at that mall-ninja/ mall rat place someone mentioned that mossberg is making the 1-9" parked barrels.
this may be correct as i was wondering why there going for $110 with FSB and other parts when a stripped barrel elsewhere goes for $99. a barrel assembled with fsb and all often goes for $150.
this is also why some m4 top halfs are far cheaper than another @ DSA as the cheap ones have the mossie 4140 barrels. DSA is selling off the old stock--
i have heard that mossie makes the barrels that Hess/ak parts sells. except they toss in a few rejects every so often.
now DSA's 4150 1-7" barrels that are chrome lined have not been mentioned .
i have a few WAG's. i think with the 4150 1-7 barrels there ain't many making them and the few that do are known to make good ones. so it don't matter .
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Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin. Students will also be required to attend a 25 day teaching practicum and 3 x 3 hour intensives.
This unit will provide students with opportunities to teach observe interactions between teachers and children during the primary school years. It will give students the opportunity to apply the child development theories in Child Development 2 and compare development across a wider age range than previously experienced In a supervised practicum, students will observe, assess and engage with children, teachers and will be able to critically analyse and reflect on the components of quality environments and programmes. Students will be able to make critical connections between theory and practice, and incorporate their understandings about the National Curriculum and the Graduate Standards for Teachers in the context of their own competencies. The unit will provide opportunities to manage the behaviour of children in school contexts and reflect on the differences between working with children under the age of five in child care and preschool.
Task 1: Reflective journal, 40%, 1600 words
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Hurdle Requirement: Assessing the Professional experience
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Toledo SOUP returns June 22 with summer luau themeWritten by Danielle Stanton | | firstname.lastname@example.com
Toledo SOUP will serve up its fifth crowd-funding event from 5-8 p.m. June 22 at the Mad Ave. Collective, 1600 Madison Ave., this time with a "summer luau" theme.
For $5 at the door, participants eat soup made by local chefs and listen to presentations of community project proposals. Afterward, the audience votes on which project they liked best. The winner gets the proceeds to go toward funding their project.
Normally, about 200 people show up at the event, raising about $1,000 for projects aimed at improving the city, said attorney Eric Britton, one of the founders of Toledo SOUP.
"I love the idea," Britton said. "It gets people from the community involved in deciding who gets grant funding – it isn't just for bankers. And, it gets the people who are showing up and presenting a chance to hear what else is going on in the Toledo community. It helps get the word out there."
Since forming in 2012, Toledo SOUP has provided grants and brought awareness to five community initiatives, organizer Emily Rippe said.
For the June 22 event, proposals were accepted throughout May. The judges hailed from around the community, some from bigger organizations that may be interested in their own funding of the proposals. At least, that is one hope of the event, Britton said.
Four proposals will be selected for this next event. As of June 16, three had been selected and a fourth was in a tie.
"We had some real strong proposals. We typically have more we want to take on than we can find slots for," Britton said. "We have three clear winners and a fourth slot – we'll see if we can break the log jam."
The three selected so far are: Jean Schoen from the Cancer Connection of Northwest Ohio who wants to publish an educational book on cancer for children in the classroom and in after-school groups; Sonya Williams and Brandy Fuller who want to expand the late night basketball program at the Frederick Douglas Community Association to curb crime; and Viviana Esquivel, whose project, the East Side Art Studio, aims to offer free art classes at an East side child care center.
Prior Toledo SOUP winners include Derek Bunch of New Life Urban Agriculture; Elizabeth Harris and Unique Jones of Glass City Goat Girls; Maxwell Austin of Glass City Pedicabs; Genevieve Abalos of The Art of Hope; and Audrey Johnson of Art Around Town.
Harris, Jones and Abalos will be at the June 22 event to give an update on how they have used their grants.
"There is such a wide variety," Britton said. "What I look for is one that is going to improve the lives of kids and people struggling. I'm really happy when I see [proposals] like the East Side Arts program. That's oriented toward giving kids a completely different experience. I like to see those that reach out to people struggling in life."
The June 22 event will be the first "themed" event, organizers said. It's called "Summer Luau." Guest chefs will create tropical-inspired soups and a punch cocktail and a Hawaiian themed décor will adorn the space. Organizers are also planning an "icebreaker" event involving different colored leis.
"While Toledo SOUP has always been about empowering community members to make and be the changes they want to see in Toledo, it's also a way to honor the city we live in and connect with other community members," organizer Emily Rippe said by email. "At the end of the day, it's a celebration of Toledo and all of its great ideas and people."
Admission is $5 for adults and $1 for children 12 and younger. For more information, visit toledosoup.com.
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The Perry County Central Lady Commodores hosted the Tim Short Classic this past weekend, opening with the Leslie County Lady Eagles.
Neither team was able to push a run across the plate for the majority of the game. At the end of the fifth inning the game was still scoreless, and time was running out.
Perry Central finally broke the ice in the sixth inning with a single run. Whitney Back got aboard with a single, and then stole second. Back would then score on a hit by Shaelyn Eversole. Leslie County would not score in the bottom of the frame, giving the Lady Commodores the win.
Perry Central stats: Whitney Back 1 hit and 1 run, Shaelyn Eversole 1 hit and 1 RBI and Katey Pigman 1 hit. Whitney Back 0 runs, 4 hits, 9 strikeouts and 2 walks.
In their second game, the Lady Commodores took on the Powell County Lady Pirates. The Lady Commodores struggled in this contest, and fell 11-5.
Both teams would get their first runs of the game in the second inning. However, it would be Powell County that would come out on top 4-3.
The Lady Pirates would inch further ahead in the third inning as they added another run (5-3). The Lady Commodores would tie the score in the sixth inning (five-all), but could not hold on as Powell County exploded for six runs in the sixth inning, slamming the door on the Lady Commodores 11-5.
Perry Central stats: Maddison Minks 1 hit and 1 RBI, Pam Sebastian 2 hits, 1 run and 1 RBI, Whitney Back 2 hits, 1 run and 1 RBI, Rachel Curry 2 hits, Hannah Johnson 1 run, Shelby Sheffield 1 hit and 1 run, and Lana Shepherd 1 hit, 1 run and 1 RBI. Shelby Sheffield 11 runs, 12 hits, 4 strikeouts and 2 walks.
Perry Central closed out the Tim Short Classic with the Lawrence County Lady Bulldogs. The Lady Commodores did not get their offense started until late, but by then it was too late to pull off the win.
Both teams broke into the scoring column in the third inning, with Lawrence County taking the 4-1 advantage. Neither scored again until the fifth inning, and again, it was the Lady Bulldogs with the advantage (5-3).
Lawrence County would score the only other run of the game, giving them the 6-3 win, and ending Perry Central's tournament.
Perry Central stats: Whitney Evans 1 hit, Pam Sebastian 1 run, Whitney Back 1 hit and 2 runs, Rachel Curry 1 hit, Shaelyn Eversole 1 hit, 1 run and 1 RBI, Hannah Johnson 2 hits and 1 run, and Shelby Sheffield 1 hit and 2 RBI. Shelby Sheffield 6 runs, 10 hits, 9 strikeouts and 2 walks.


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A shoe having an open interior, a plate positioned between the bottom of the shoe and a portion of the upper, and at least one opening extending from the bottom of the shoe into the midsole for providing air communication with the interior of the upper. In one embodiment, the opening has a height as measured from the bottom of the shoe along a vertical central axis that is greater than one-half the thickness of the rear sole. In another embodiment, the opening extends through the plate.
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a bottom, at least a portion of which is ground-engaging;
an upper having a forward region, an arch region, a heel region and an open interior;
a midsole secured below the upper, the midsole including a rear sole secured below the heel region of the upper, the rear sole having a thickness;
a flexible plate having an upper surface, a lower surface, an interior portion and peripheral portions, the plate being positioned between at least a portion of the bottom of the shoe and at least a portion of the heel region of the upper; and
at least one opening extending from the bottom of the shoe into the midsole, the at least one opening being in air communication with the interior of the upper, the opening having a height as measured from the bottom of the shoe along a vertical central axis that is greater than one-half the thickness of the rear sole.
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This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 10/447,003, filed May 28, 2003; which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 10/007,535, filed Dec. 4, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,604,300; which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/641,148, filed Aug. 17, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,324,772; which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/512,433, filed Feb. 25, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,195,916; which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/313,667, filed May 18, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,050,002; which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/723,857, filed Sep. 30, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,918,384; which is a CIP of Ser. No. 08/291,945, filed Aug. 17, 1994, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,560,126; which is a CIP of Ser. No. 08/108,065, filed Aug. 17,1993, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,615,497; all of which are incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to an improved rear sole for footwear and, more particularly, to a rear sole for an athletic shoe with an extended and more versatile life and better performance in terms of cushioning and spring.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Athletic shoes, such as those designed for running, tennis, basketball, cross-training, hiking, walking, and other forms of exercise, typically include a laminated sole attached to a soft and pliable upper. The laminated sole generally includes a resilient rubber outsole attached to a more resilient midsole usually made of polyurethane, ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), or a rubber compound. When laminated, the sole is attached to the upper as a one-piece structure, with the rear sole being integral with the forward sole.
One of the principal problems associated with athletic shoes is outsole wear. A user rarely has a choice of running surfaces, and asphalt and other abrasive surfaces take a tremendous toll on the outsole. This problem is exacerbated by the fact that most pronounced outsole wear, on running shoes in particular, occurs principally in two places: the outer periphery of the heel and the ball of the foot, with peripheral heel wear being, by far, a more acute problem. In fact, the heel typically wears out much faster than the rest of a running shoe, thus requiring replacement of the entire shoe even though the bulk of the shoe is still in satisfactory condition.
Midsole compression, particularly in the case of athletic shoes, is another acute problem. As previously noted, the midsole is generally made of a resilient material to provide cushioning for the user. However, after repeated use, the midsole becomes compressed due to the large forces exerted on it, thereby causing it to lose its cushioning effect. Midsole compression is the worst in the heel area, including the area directly under the user's heel bone and the area directly above the peripheral outsole wear spot.
Despite technological advancements in recent years in midsole design and construction, the benefits of such advancements can still be largely negated, particularly in the heel area, by two months of regular use. The problems become costly for the user since athletic shoes are becoming more expensive each year, with some top-of-the-line models priced at over $150.00 a pair. By contrast, with dress shoes, whose heels can be replaced at nominal cost over and over again, the heel area (midsole and outsole) of conventional athletic shoes cannot be. To date, there is nothing in the art that successfully addresses the problem of midsole compression in athletic shoes, and this problem remains especially severe in the heel area of such shoes.
Another problem is that purchasers of conventional athletic shoes cannot customize the cushioning or spring in the heel of a shoe to their own body weight, personal preference, or need. They are "stuck" with whatever a manufacturer happens to provide in their shoe size.
Finally, there appear to be relatively few, if any, footwear options available to those persons suffering from foot or leg irregularities, foot or leg injuries, and legs of different lengths, among other things, where there is a need for the left and right rear soles to be of a different height and/or different cushioning or spring properties. Presently, such options appear to include only custom-made shoes that are prohibitively expensive and rendered useless if the person's condition improves or deteriorates.
The present invention is directed to a shoe that substantially obviates one or more of the problems due to limitations and disadvantages of the related art.
Additional features and advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be apparent from the description, or may be learned by practice of the invention. The objectives and other advantages of the invention will be realized and attained by the shoes and shoe systems particularly pointed out in the written description and claims, as well as the appended drawings.
To achieve these and other advantages and in accordance with the purpose of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, the shoe includes an upper having a heel region, a rear sole secured below the heel region of the upper, and a rear sole support attached to the upper and configured to secure the rear sole below the heel region of the upper. The rear sole support includes a flexible region positioned below the heel region of the upper and above a portion of the rear sole. The flexible region is sufficiently stiff to support a user while still being sufficiently flexible to flex and spring when the user runs or walks vigorously. The flexible region has an interior portion which in its normal, unflexed state is spaced upwardly from the portion of the rear sole immediately below said interior portion, the interior portion being adapted to flex in a direction substantially perpendicular to the major longitudinal axis of the shoe as it is used.
The interior portion of the flexible region preferably is elevated relative to its peripheral portion in a direction toward the heel region of the upper. In certain embodiments the flexible region is an integral part of the rear sole support. The rear sole support may include an integral arch extension extending below the upper from a position proximate the heel region of the upper through a substantial portion of the arch region of the upper to support the arch region.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the invention, as claimed.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate several embodiments of the invention and together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
Reference will now be made in detail to the present preferred embodiments of the invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference characters will be used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts.
Upper 120 may be composed of a soft, pliable material that covers the top and sides of the user's foot during use. Leather, nylon, and other synthetics are examples of the various types of materials known in the art for shoe uppers. The particular construction of the upper is not critical to the shoe of the present invention. It may even be constructed as a sandal or may be made of molded plastic, integral with the rear sole support, as in the case of ski boots or roller blade uppers.
Forward sole 160 is attached to upper 120 in a conventional manner, typically by injection molding, stitching, or gluing. Forward sole 160 typically includes two layers: an elastomeric midsole laminated to an abrasion-resistant outsole. The particular construction of the forward sole is not critical to the invention and various configurations may be used. For example, the midsole may be composed of material such as polyurethane or ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) and may include air bladders or gel-filled tubes encased therein, and the outsole may be composed of, by means of example only, an abrasion-resistant rubber compound.
Rear sole support 140 is also attached to the heel region of upper 120 in a conventional manner, such as injection molding, stitching, or gluing. Rear sole support 140 is substantially rigid and is configured to stabilize the heel region of upper 120 and secure rear sole 150 below the heel region. As shown in
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Shoe 100 also includes a rear sole 150 that is detachably secured to and/or rotatably positionable relative to rear sole support 140. Rear sole 150, as shown in
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The inside diameter of a circular recess 146, as measured between the inside surfaces of its sidewalls, or the distance between the inside surface of a medial sidewall and the inside surface of an opposite lateral sidewall in the case of a non-circular recess (not shown), may actually be greater than the width of the heel region of the shoe upper as measured from the exterior surface of the medial side of the heel region of the upper to the exterior surface of the lateral side of the heel region of the upper (i.e., the heel region of the upper at its widest point). This is possible because the material used to make the rear sole support 140 and side walls is sufficiently strong and durable to permit the side walls to "flare out" to a greater width than the heel region of the upper without risk of breakage. This in turn permits the use of a larger rear sole 150 with more ground-engaging surface and, hence, more stability. (As stated, the exterior walls of the lower portion of the rear sole generally align vertically with the exterior surface of the side walls forming the recess 146). It also permits the employment of a flexible region or member with a correspondingly larger diameter, width or length because its peripheral edges optimally should align vertically with the load-bearing side walls of the recess. Such a larger flexible region or member, with a diameter, width or length greater than the width of the heel region of the upper at its widest point, creates more cushioning and/or spring for the user's heel during the gait cycle. The observations and provisions contained in this paragraph are equally applicable to the embodiments described in
Rear sole 150 is preferably made from two different materials: an abrasion-resistant rubber compound for ground-engaging outsole 154; and a softer, more elastomeric material such as polyurethane or ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) for midsole 158. However, rear sole 150 could be comprised of a single homogenous material, or two materials (e.g., EVA enveloped by hard rubber), as well as a material comprising air encapsulating tubes, for example, disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,005,300. For each of the discussed rear sole embodiments, the outsole and midsole materials are preferably more resilient than materials used for the rear sole support or arch extension.
Detachability of rear sole 150 allows the user to change rear soles entirely when either the sole is worn to a significant degree or the user desires a different sole for desired performance characteristics for specific athletic endeavors or playing surfaces. The user can rotate the rear sole to relocate a worn section to a less critical area of the sole, and eventually replace the rear sole altogether when the sole is excessively worn. By periodically changing the position of the rear sole, more uniform wear and long life (both outsole and midsole) can be achieved. Additional longevity in wear may also be achieved by interchanging removable rear soles as between the right and left shoes, which typically exhibit opposite wear patterns.
In addition, some users will prefer to change the rear soles not because of adverse wear patterns, but because of a desire for different performance characteristics or playing surfaces. For example, it is contemplated that a person using this invention in a shoe marketed as a "cross-trainer" may desire one type of rear sole for one sport, such as basketball, and another type of rear sole for another, such as running. A basketball player might require a harder and firmer rear sole for stability where quick, lateral movement is essential, whereas a runner or jogger might tend to favor increased shock absorption features achievable from a softer, more cushioned heel. Similarly, a jogger planning a run outside on rough asphalt or cement might prefer a more resilient rear sole than the type that would be suitable to run on an already resilient indoor wooden track. Rear sole performance may also depend on the weight of the user or the amount or type of cushioning desired.
The present invention includes a shoe or shoe kit which includes or can accept a plurality of rear soles 150 having different characteristics and/or surface configurations, thereby providing a cross trainer shoe. As explained in more detail below, the shoe can also be designed to accept and use different flexible members in the rear sole area, to achieve optimal flex and cushioning, through the combination of a flexible member and rear sole selected to provide the most desirable flex, cushion, wear, support, and traction for a given application. In a preferred embodiment, both the rear sole and the flexible member are replaceable and a given rear sole can be locked in a plurality of separate positions relative to the recess in which it is held.
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Rotating the rear sole about an axis normal to the shoe's major axis to a position, for example, 180 degrees beyond its starting point, will locate the worn portion of the rear sole at or near the instep portion of the shoe. The instep portion is an area of less importance for tractioning, stability, cushioning and shock absorbing purposes. As long as the worn portion of the rear sole is rotated beyond the area of the initial heel strike, prolonged use of the rear sole is possible. The user can continue periodically to rotate the rear sole so that an unworn portion of the rear sole is located in the area of the first heel strike.
The shape of rear sole can be circular, polygonal, elliptical, "sand-dollar," elongated "sand-dollar," or otherwise. The shape of recess 146 is formed to be compatible with the shape of the rear sole. In all embodiments, the invention includes mechanical means for selectively locking the rear sole relative to the rear sole support and upper of the shoe. Preferably, the rear sole is shaped so that at least the rear edge of the outsole has a substantially identical profile at several, or preferably each rotated position. To allow for a plurality of rotatable positions, the shape of the outsole preferably should be symmetrical about its central axis. As shown in
While the above discussion is directed towards a rear sole that rotates or separates in its entirety, it is specifically contemplated that the same benefits of this invention can be achieved if only a portion of the rear sole is rotatable or removable. For example, a portion of the rear sole, e.g., the center area, may remain stationary while the periphery of the ground-engaging surface or outsole rotates and/or is detachable. As another example, the rear sole may not be removable but only rotatably positionable.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the shoe of the present invention includes a flexible region 200 that is positioned above the rear sole and has a central portion that in its normal unflexed state is spaced upwardly from the portion of the shoe (rear sole support, or rear sole) immediately below it. The flexible region 200 is designed to provide a preselected degree of flex, cushioning, and spring, to thereby reduce or eliminate heel-center midsole compression found in conventional materials. Flexible region 200 is made of stiff, but flexible, material. Examples of materials that may be used in the manufacture of flexible member 200 include the following: graphite; fiberglass; graphite (carbon) fibers set in a resin (i.e. acrylic resin) binder; fiberglass fibers set in a resin (i.e. acrylic resin) binder; a combination of graphite (carbon) fibers and fiberglass fibers set in a resin (i.e. acrylic resin) binder; nylon; glass-filled nylon; epoxy; polypropylene; polyethylene; acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS); other types of injection-molded thermoplastic engineering resins; spring steel; and stainless spring steel. The flexible region 200 can be incorporated into other elements of the shoe or can be a separate flexible member or plate.
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The flexible member may also be permanently attached to the top or bottom of the rear sole support or detachably secured to the shoe upper and removable through a pocket formed in the material (not shown) typically located on the bottom surface of the upper, or it can be exposed and removed after removing the sock liner or after lifting the rear portion of the sock liner. Alternatively, it may be totally exposed as in the case of flexible member 200 shown in
Rear sole 150 may have a concave top surface 167, as shown in
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Rear sole 250 is attached to rear sole support 240 by unlocking the ends of ring 400 and positioning ring 400 around upper midsole portion 252 of the rear sole such that flange 412 engages groove 254. Ring 400 is then firmly locked onto the rear sole by mating end 416 with end 418. Flexible member 200 is inserted into the rear sole support so that it presses against upper rim 249. Ring 400, with rear sole 250 attached, is then screwed into the rear sole support by engaging threaded surface 410 of the ring with threaded surface 248 of wall 244. The ring is then screwed into the rear sole support until serrated edge 246 of wall 244 engages flange 412 of ring 400. Serrated edge 246 serves to prevent rotation of the ring during use and the top edge of ring 400 firmly supports flexible member 200.
The rear sole support sidewalls need not be continuous around the entire recess. Such sidewalls may be substantially eliminated on the lateral and medial sides of the rear sole support, or even at the rear and/or front of the rear sole support, exposing ring 400 when installed, even allowing it to protrude through the sidewalls where the openings are created. This has no effect whatsoever on the thread alignment on the inside surface of the remaining sidewalls. The advantage of doing this is that a ring with a slightly larger diameter than otherwise possible and, hence, a flexible member with a slightly larger diameter than otherwise possible may be employed.
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Other rear sole support/rear sole combinations for securing the rear sole to the shoe and for supporting the flexible member at or below the heel region of the upper are contemplated and fall within the spirit of this invention, as described and claimed. By means of example only, some such additional configurations are disclosed in commonly-owned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/291,945, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,560,126, which is incorporated herein by reference.
The flexible region of the present invention is not limited to a circular shape and can be adapted to conform to the shape of the rear sole. The flexible region also need not be used only in conjunction with a detachable rear sole, but can be used with permanently attached rear soles as well.
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Since it is contemplated that the flexible member will be composed of graphite or other stiff, but flexible, material, it is preferable to cushion the impact of the user's heel against the flexible member during use. As shown in
The cushioning member 650 described above can be incorporated into a shoe having any of the various flexible regions disclosed in this application and drawings, as well as other shoes falling within the scope of the claims.
If cushioning member 650 is used, the shoe sock liner, which generally provides cushioning, may be thinner in the heel area or may terminate at the forward edge of cushioning member 650. If cushioning member 650 is not used, the sock liner may extend to the rear of the shoe and may be shaped to conform to the user's heel on its top surface and the flexible member on its bottom surface. Its bottom surface may also compensate for gaps formed by the flexible member. For example, the sock liner may have a concave bottom surface in the heel area to correspond to those flexible members having convex upper surfaces.
In each of the above-described embodiments, the flexible member is illustrated as a separate component of the shoe which can be removed from the shoe and replaced by a similar or different flexible member, as desired. In each of the embodiments the central portion of the flexible member is raised relative to its outer perimeter so that when placed in the shoe, the interior portion in its normal state does not touch the rear sole support and/or rear sole. As a result, the interior of the flexible member will flex in response to the user's stride without first, if ever, contacting the rear sole support and/or rear sole. Such flexible member, therefore, can be used with rear soles that have a flat upper surface, as well as those that have a concave upper surface. The relative shape and positioning of the flexible member and the adjacent rear sole support or rear sole can be designed to provide the optimum flex, stiffness, and spring characteristics. However, each of the above-described flexible members may be made integral with the rear sole support, which not only decreases the number of loose parts and increases the efficiency of the manufacturing process, but also further limits the lateral displacement of the periphery of the flexible member upon deflection, potentially creating more spring in the center and/or permitting the use of thinner and/or lighter weight material.
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The flexible region may be incorporated into other rear sole support embodiments as well. As an alternative to using arch extension 180, rear sole support 440 shown in
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The rear sole 950 includes a rubber ground-engaging surface 954 containing, in this embodiment, three beveled segments or edges 956. As shown in
The upper midsole portion 964 includes a spiral groove 968, as shown in
It should be noted that the configuration of the midsole 958, i.e., the upper midsole portion having a diameter equal to or slightly larger than that of the recess defined by the rim and a lower midsole portion having a diameter substantially equal to the diameter defined by the circular wall 944, further eliminates any vertical gapping problems from occurring between the wall of the heel support and the peripheral surface of the rear sole.
To assist in removing the rear sole from the heel support, the two windows 974, 976 (
It is not necessary to include a spiral groove in the rear sole for attaching and removing the rear sole from the heel support. As shown in
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Alternatively, the rim 1048 of the heel support and the graphite insert 1000 can be "gear-shaped", as shown in
If additional cushioning is desired, the rear sole can be modified as shown in
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made in the system of the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. Thus, it is intended that the present invention cover the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the claims and their equivalents.
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If 30 years is a generation then Matsu has three. Great news for me hearing middle age is 100! Knew I liked this project of old vines; 70, 100 and 130 years. Hard to believe anyone really knows how old some vines are, but somebody's grandfather had to have planted them, and that's just how they relate to the vines. No surprise how the wines are named. El Picaro - the rascal - 70 year vines, El Recio - middle aged man - 100 year vines, and El Viejo - Old man -130 year old vines. Would be a gimmick if it wasn't the real deal staring at you. Heard of or tasted Numanthia or Termes from Toro? Toro is the wild west of Spain; arid, windy, remote. Matsu project has three perspectives to relate to the Toro region and the grape Tinto del Toro, aka Tempranillo. 2011 Picaro is a excellent example of pure and authentic Toro. There is a rustic element to Toro that makes it unique. A touch of savage found in the Rhone, say Vacqueyras, and yet the wine is vivid and bright, coming in part from the diurnal temperature changes. High altitude and cooler temps gives the wines energy, vibrance. Thats Toro. El Picaro brings such signature of Toro that its a must buy (92RAS, 95GPS, it really says where it comes from). 2009 El Recio is a bigger wine, more oak influenced and add 30 years of vine age and you get more concentration, deeper colors and a bigger wine (92RAS). 2009 El Viejo adds another 30 years vine age and a longer time in oak and an even more massive wine emerges (93RAS). There is something at Matsu for all ages.
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Chapter 3: Chair Interaction with and Responsibilities to StudentsAdvising
A chair advises students in the major and minor and common curriculum and may assign students to departmental advisors, as needed. Assistance in advising is available from Academic Advising, the Office of the Registrar, Career Services and Counseling Services.Grade Appeal
From time to time students will appeal a course grade. The Academic Catalog policy states, "Students who believe that they have been otherwise graded unfairly have the right to appeal to the department chair if discussion with the faculty member proves unsatisfactory." It is helpful for the department chairs to familiarize themselves with these policies as members of the department often turn to their department chair for advice. When this occurs, the procedures set out below should be followed:
- The student should first meet with the professor to appeal the grade. If a suitable resolution cannot be reached or the student does not feel comfortable discussing the situation with the faculty member, the appeal moves to the chair.
- The chair should meet with the instructor and the student to obtain input in the hopes of coming to a suitable resolution.
- Inform the student of your findings. If the student is not satisfied, then he or she should be directed to appeal to the assistant dean/director of Academic Advising.
Note: It is important to keep careful notes of all discussions involving grade challenges.Academic Misconduct
The Academic Catalog contains information regarding the institution's policies regarding academic integrity. Note that the Academic Misconduct Policy includes a link entitled 'Academic Misconduct Form' that is the official form to be used to report a violation of our academic integrity policies. Faculty members and chairs are encouraged to seek counsel from the assistant dean/director of Academic Advising in case of Academic Misconduct.Transcript Evaluations
Students transferring credits from another institution must have an official transcript sent to the Registrar's Office. The Registrar's Office (or transfer evaluator in the Registrar's Office) evaluates the transcripts and lists courses that will be accepted by CSB/SJU for credit. The Major Transfer Evaluation form is sent to the chair of the student's intended major to determine if any accepted courses can be used to satisfy major requirements. The chair should complete and sign a Major Transfer Evaluation form listing the courses that will be accepted and the CSB/SJU major requirement they fulfill. This form should be returned to the Registrar's Office. It is the responsibility of the chair person to evaluate the transcripts of transfer students upon receipt from the registrar.
The chair should either schedule a meeting for advising purposes with the transfer student as soon as he or she arrives on campus or should assign the student to an advisor in the department and request that person schedule such a meeting.Student Records
In departments that are accountable to outside accreditation agencies other than the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association), it is the responsibility of the chair to ensure that the appropriate student records are maintained in a secure and confidential manner. They should contain up-to-date transcript information, Degree Works records and any other information that the accreditation agencies require. In addition, records of grade appeals, course substitutions, unusual records, etc. should be kept in these files. For assistance with data collection and storage needs, contact the Assessment and Program Review Facilitator.
For those departments not accountable to outside accreditation agencies, having the chair maintain files on all majors in addition to those kept by individual advisors in the department is unnecessary duplication. Only in extraordinary circumstances such as disciplinary problems, grade appeals, course substitutions, etc. should it be necessary for a chair to maintain files on those majors who are not his or her advisees.Parents
On all occasions involving parent contact, chairs must be cautious about giving out confidential information regarding students. This would include, but is not limited to, information concerning specific grades or GPAs. Only parents claiming students as dependents may receive this information. In cases in which the student claims him or herself on tax returns, the parent would not be entitled to the information, as would be the case for the parent in a divorce situation who does not claim the student for tax purposes. The Office of the Registrar has this information.
In the event the parent of a student contacts the chair person with a problem, the following procedures should be followed:
- Listen to the parent and take careful notes. (It is important in these conversations to remember that students sometimes misinform their parents and that both students and parents may be confused.) If the problem is not an academic one, help the parent to connect with the appropriate office. If the issue is academic, explain to the parent that the chair is the person who is responsible for gathering all relevant information, you need to do some fact finding and will be back in touch.
- Contact the Office of the Registrar to ascertain whether or not the parent is entitled to the student's confidential information. If the parent is not so entitled, request the Registrar's Office to contact the parent and relay this information. Otherwise, proceed as set out below.
- Once the necessary information has been gathered from all parties, the chair might seek advice from Counseling Services, Academic Advising, the Registrar and/or the Academic Dean's Office to help to establish a plan of action.
- Talk to the parent again, explain the findings and inform him or her of the intended steps to be taken.
- If the matter cannot be resolved at the chair's level, let the student and parent know that it is their right to appeal a chair person's decision to the assistant dean/director of Academic Advising
Student Support Team
CSB/SJU has an administrative committee called the Student Support Team (SST). The SST meets regularly during the academic year to review students who might be at-risk academically and/or behaviorally either on or off-campus and to develop a plan to assist those students as needed. The team is co-chaired by the CSB and SJU Deans of Students. The committee is composed of members of the Academic Advising Office, Student Development and the Campus Security/Life Safety. If you or a member of your department have concerns about a student, feel free to contact the staff members from these departments, they will assist you with your concerns and can share your concerns with the SST's at the next scheduled meeting. The Director of Counseling and the Disability Specialist also serve on this committee in an advisory capacity.
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Hard Core Member
Joined: 7/07/10
I want to like this game...
But, everytime I come back to it once or twice a year for a week out of a one month subscription, I just get frustrated.
Here is the latest fiasco....
I realize, I need to do the storyline/career missions to make more ISK and get to the Sisters of EVE...ok, I am doing good, so this looks like fun.
I get to the exploration agent and do the scanning data mission........arrrrgggghhhhh! Here is what happens to make me HATE EVE and not recommend it to anyone or stick with it:
1) I do as the mission says, I scan the freaking data containers from the anomoly I detect using my probes first and then my scanner. I then am asked to hack the container.
2) On the ones I hack successfully, the container blasts forth the loot I need to complete the mission, but no matter what I cannot open it and take loot in the 3 seconds it allows you before it disappears! WTF!?!?!
I gave up after several hours...I guess i am too dumb to figure out what the issue is and the Corp folks are no help....too busy talking about WoW to help.
A WASTED $15 again.
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Joined: 8/26/06
One lousy single mission has such an effect on your experience?
Or am I missing the point? Is that mission important?
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Joined: 10/29/11
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EVE is a very special breed... I never felt that the PvE aspect of EVE was the main thick of the game. I'm sure alot of folks will say this.
CCP has been making improvements to the PvE experience though from my understanding. It's still a very spreadsheet heavy, PvP centric, player interaction game. Not a bad thing, it's just when you have something that nears such a pristine balance in gameplay there's bound to be something that just doesn't hold up to par.
The next developer to take on such a grand experience will hopefully learn from EVE's few mistakes and make experiences in gameplay like those even more epic.
PM before you report at least or you could just block.
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Joined: 4/23/07
I honestly wouldn't worry about it man. You can make more money than the sisters of eve quests by ferrying goods along empire space easily. Though you will need some capital before that. If you can find a good buddy I would advise doing exploration/scanning. You can hit up some nice drone installations and kill everything while your buddy scoops up the loot and salvages stuff. Then you can split the money or possibly use the refined drone mats to craft stuff.
Or go join a better corp out in danger space and blow stuff up.
That's the least of the reasons EVE is unenjoyable, haha! The massive chunk of time you spent traveling to that mission which involved no gameplay (just time-wasting) is the much bigger failing of the game.
Thankfully there are enough gameplay-filled games out there that we needn't waste out time with an empty game experience.
"Joe stated his case logically and passionately, but his perceived effeminate voice only drew big gales of stupid laughter..." -Idiocracy
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Joined: 7/21/07
Believe it or not, I've just got bored after playing 5 or 6 years (with lots of breaks from time to time), and despite of that I could pay easily 2 accounts and still use new ships as long as I wanted.... the game just stopped being funny. The game is based in putting lots of effort to achieve goals, but once those goals, or mechanics, are not funny enough.... the entire game loses its attraction
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Joined: 7/15/10
Originally posted by Axehilt
Lol like what games? The industry is still terrible right now and writled with broken sandboxes and WoW clones. EVE is the only solid meaningful P2P game out there right now, bad players just wont see it.
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Joined: 5/08/13
Originally posted by Chrisbox
He just means it doesn't give you non-stop action ("gameplay") enough for his liking.
Joined: 3/06/09
Poacher killer.
Originally posted by MMORPGRIP
For me though, when I'm travelling from system to system (which is rarely something I'd describe as a "massive chunk of time"), I don't have enough time to manage my assets, my orders etc. with the efficiency I want to. There's always something to do while in travel. My guess is that Axehilt has not gotten deep enough (and we're not talking very deep) into EVE to even have basic "stuff" to manage.
If one were to describe mining as such, I wouldn't disagree; while I do find it enjoyable to mine semi AFK, it's not something that would have my eyes glued to the screen.
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Originally posted by Chrisbox
Almost every other game made (ever) has had a bigger focus on gameplay and less of a focus on downtime (travel, mining, etc) than EVE, so the list is rather large.
But to name a few: WOW, TF2, LoL, Sim City, and Civilization.
These games achieve a similar (or superior) depth compared to EVE, and they do it without excessive empty timesinks (periods where there is little to no interaction with the game; where there is no gameplay.)
"Joe stated his case logically and passionately, but his perceived effeminate voice only drew big gales of stupid laughter..." -Idiocracy
Originally posted by MMORPGRIP
Decisions (interactions) are gameplay.
A lack of decisions isn't.
An empty timesink isn't very interesting.
In games which aren't designed to be casual, decisions are core to what makes the experience interesting and fun. It's a system of rules to be mastered, and the greater the player's mastery the better they'll do. Whereas with EVE it's a lot of empty time-wasting between any important decision (and early on there aren't even good decisions to be found, between the big chunks of non-gameplay.)
"Joe stated his case logically and passionately, but his perceived effeminate voice only drew big gales of stupid laughter..." -Idiocracy
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Joined: 3/05/09
Hate is such a strong word OP....You must surely despise every line of code in this piece of programming. However I feel I should warn you that hate leads to the dark side.
Also if I understand correctly Eve isn't something that you go into and instantly excel at everything, and you need to dedicate a rather large chunk of time and getting to know the community and make some peers before you can enjoy it.
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Joined: 10/02/12
Originally posted by Axehilt
Well you named about ZERO games that are in anyway deeper than EVE. Congrats on that. There are things to do while traveling, such as managing assets, if you have the skills placing buy/sell orders, making sure Goons don't fucking obliterate you in Niarja/Uedama...etc etc. Maybe if you set a goal or two in the game you might have some fun while having something to look forward to. I myself and training for a Revelation (Amarr Dreadnought) for wormhole shenanigans. Currently I partake in Faction Warfare and Incursions on seperate toons for loadsamoney.jpg.
Originally posted by Dr_Shivinski
Setting goals in EVE doesn't magically turn it into a densely interesting experience. There's a lot of downtime, period.
"Joe stated his case logically and passionately, but his perceived effeminate voice only drew big gales of stupid laughter..." -Idiocracy
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Joined: 5/08/13
Originally posted by Axehilt
These are your opinions and personal feelings on the game, but to many who actually play Eve it is fun. Not everyone likes what you do. Besides....downtime (if you want to call it that, or "non-game play which you seem to fancy) is needed in EVE with the plethora of things you have to keep track of and do.
Load outs, which weapons are best to equip depending on your ship and intentions, quickest and fastest/safest routes to take for questing, transporting, or simply getting somewhere unscathed, etc, etc, etc...
Anyway....yeah, I have played Eve and know there is MUCH more to it than you either know...or want to acknowledge to reinforce your argument. But I can tell from the way you post that any lull what so ever in the action of a given game is not your thing, regardless if there is suppose to be or not. So of course Eve wouldn't be for you and you wouldn't look favorably on it.
And yes, I said I PLAYED Eve. I did so on and off for 2 years and it wasn't completely for me either...mainly because I wasn't big on PvP. Sure...there are things with it that could be better...but what game can't you say that about. But even though it wasn't my thing to stick with it doesn't mean it is a terrible game. I mean, it is niche and still thriving. CCP shows you don't have to be a huge company with millions and millions to be successful....and that you can be content and successful with moderate profit as well.
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Joined: 7/15/10
Originally posted by Axehilt
Thanks for confirming you have no clue what your talking about. Lol lets get started. its blatantly obvious you havent done anything legit in eve, prob just a high sec miner.
Those games you name, only one of them is an mmo, and requires retarded amounts of excessive boring time being sunk to be good so your killing your own arguement here.
Oh and none of those games come even slightly close to the depth of EVE. Anyone who actually plays could easily see that, thr amount of player interaction is amazing and is what drives the game.
I think the thing with EVE is that you need to make decisions, in all those games the decisions are made for you. If you want constant battling and treasures, you need the connections, and you gotta start somewhere so while your jumping systems pointlessly and mining did you ever once stop to think theres bigger things out there?
Originally posted by Chrisbox
If EVE involves an area of the game which is devoid of fun, and that's the area new players naturally gravitate towards and are introduced to in order to establish themselves, it's no surprise why new players reject the game (and even players like myself who gave it a try like 3-4 separate times.)
Whether the games are MMO or not is irrelevant. Players have game options out there where their play sessions can be filled with interesting, deep decision-making. EVE fails to provide that to the same degree.
EVE may involve plenty of player interaction, but it's not like the only game to magically do so. Any PVP game will involve more frequent interaction, and also eliminate some of the less interesting interactions (lopsided fights.) Which results in a more interesting skill-intensive (ie deep) game experience.
The decisions in the games I mention are by no means made for you. You make them constantly, and because they're deep games all those little decisions matter.
"Joe stated his case logically and passionately, but his perceived effeminate voice only drew big gales of stupid laughter..." -Idiocracy
Originally posted by MMORPGRIP
The root of what makes a game a game is interaction. Decisions. So when I say that's what gameplay is, it's not an opinion but simply how we define gameplay. Gameplay is, inherently, decisions.
Periods of no decision-making are periods of non-gameplay. While they may be justified in EVE's system in order to achieve the goal the game wants of having a lot of space and distance between things, that doesn't mean it's fun.
Empty timesinks being uninteresting is an opinion, but one which we can clearly assume is shared by the majority. Give players 10 minutes in two games: one where they're traveling for 10 minutes of empty nearly AFKable gameplay in EVE, and another where they're in constant combat choosing between several abilities (which can be optimized for) and dealing with several enemy abilities (which can be optimized against.) I assure you the overwhelming majority of players will be more interested in the game involving lots of gameplay.
"Joe stated his case logically and passionately, but his perceived effeminate voice only drew big gales of stupid laughter..." -Idiocracy
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Joined: 6/10/13
Originally posted by Axehilt
The last paragraph, what your comparing is non-comparable, your comparison should be (using the only mmo you linked) is WoW travelling between say ogrimmar and barrens.
So comparing the travel between Wow (see above fro flight paths) and Eve - do you still contend that EvE is less engaging, once you click flight, you then you have no choice but to watch animations for 1-10minutes depending where you going in WoW? compared to worst case scenario of hitting warp to and then 1-3minutes later being at jump gate able to change your flight path, what your planning, WoW you have to sit, gawd help you if you click the wrong city you want to fly too
In terms of deep, you have focussed on teh one aspect of EvE the fact is if you want to go from A - B then yes you have to fly, but not one person is forced to fly, I have a toon who is 5years old (in october) and in all that time has flown 7 jumps
He sits in station, trades, chats to players, and makes me craptons of money... So you see you dont need to fly, and whilst you fly if you choose to do nothing with your time, then your the one with the timesink not the game
The game does not force you to do nothing whilst you fly, you CHOOSE to do nothing, dont hate the game hate the player
This post is all my opinion, but I welcome debate on anything i have put, however, personal slander / name calling belongs in game :) were of course your welcome to call me names im often found lounging about in EvE online.
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Joined: 10/20/10
If you dont pvp Eve can get realy tedious and boring for alot of people.
Iam getting bored atm of Eve after playing it hardcore again for 7 months, there is a war going on and we are fighting to capture Fountain region against what seems evryone who hates us CFC ( all of eve i think ^^ )
But you need to realy like Eve Online OP, if you dont like it just play something else :)


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I am an associate professor in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Department at UC Santa Cruz. My research focuses on the formation of stars and galaxies, and on the physics of the interstellar medium. I approach these problems using a mix of analytic and numerical techniques.