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They just have to make inside shots to open up Clarke, Dunham, Stigall on the outside
Smothered Chicken!
Right now I've got you guys going out against Marquette, but like you I wouldn't be shocked by anything.
Just in general this is probably one of the most, if not the most difficult time I can remember having with predicting a bracket. It has really been a *****.
My final 4 in the bracket I finished is Louisville, Wisconsin, Georgetown, and IU, but I honestly don't even know how I really got there. Especially with Gtown and Wiscy, they were just kind of there. So much inconsistency from teams or I guess you could just spin it as a lot more good teams that a lot of these picks are really tough.
Heck, I had no idea how bad Florida looks when you just draw them up on paper. Terrible rebounding team with no wins on the road or on a neutral court against top opponents. I have them losing in the first round right now just for ***** and giggles.
Butler's statistical secret weapon
Stuff like this is why this program and staff are so easy to like. They are innovative in their own way but more importantly within the context of being innovative still do the job the right way and treat people the right way.
Sure beats the "lets live on the ragged edge of the recruiting rules and recycle our 5-star kids who likely won't evolve as a human being in the least during their time on campus" way of doing things. AKA "The Kentucky Way" or the "The Syracuse Way".
Smothered Chicken!
Good win after shooting so horrendously. Obviously they can't shoot like that against a good team.
Barlow is so good defensively right now. Almost Aaron Craft good. If he could just hit a couple of open threes against Marquette that would open up so much for the Dawgs offense.
Smith was really good as well and will need to be for Butler to keep dancing.
Clarke was huge in the game. Also 25-28 at the line helps too
Smothered Chicken!
If we don't hit shots like we did against Bucknell, we won't beat Marquette. We have to get Clarke or Dunham going from outside because it makes this team so much better. Defense was outstanding however. I haven't seen anyone rotate that well in years.
Tomorrow's game will come down to the boards. We have a huge advantage against them rebounding-wise. Marshall, Smith, and Woods will be the keys. I'm optimistic because all 3 are playing way better than they did when we played them in November.
You guys will beat Marquette tomorrow. They are dying to be "upset."
The oustanding team defense and effort on the boards is a must but I also agree that in order to win today and keep dancing someone needs to step-up and hit a high % of perimeter shots. Clarke should be that guy. He is the senior and can figure out how to get open looks when he needs to. Smith could also surprise if the Marquette big men don't follow him out behind the arc. I don't see Dunham getting it done. His confidence is shot right now.
My gut feeling is that if the Dawgs can be within four at the 3-minute mark they will win today.
Defense just wasn't there in the second half and until the last 2-3 minutes it seemed like Marquette got every loose ball. The seniors basically let the team down at the end. Clarke forced things and Smith made mistakes.
In the second half of the year this team has really seemed to play tight against good competition. Probably because the talent wasn't as good as past teams and they felt the need to play perfect basketball.
Seniors didn't let anyone down. That team wouldn't have even been in the game had it not been for Rotnei putting the team on his back in the first half, and Smith's solid play (including some clutch late free throws).
This is one of the tougher losses we've had because we played well enough to win, and it looked like we were with two minutes left to play. Credit Marquette for battling back, but it seemed like the usual breaks that we got in terms of loose balls, fortunate bounces, etc. in prior tourney runs all seemed to go Marquette's way last night.
Despite all that, we still had a chance to tie or take the go-ahead with 2 seconds left, but I don't know what happened on that inbounds play...but it was awful.
Stevens said they switched on defense and they ran the zone play against a man defense. Just a simple misreading. Good job by Marquette.
I thought Hugo Chavez was dead so I was very surprised to see him coaching Marquette last night...
Nuntius was right for a while. I was wrong for a while. But ultimately I was right and Frank Vogel has been let go.
"A player who makes a team great is more valuable than a great player. Losing yourself in the group, for the good of the group, thats teamwork."
-John Wooden
Rotnei Clarke was getting double teamed in the second half. He forced the airball shot because he was the only one that was hitting shots. It's just as much on the other guys, as it's on him. Smith also hit some big free throws late and had a huge layup from a Kampen hail mary pass. I'm sorry I'm not buying this. The team won and lost as a team, had nothing to do with the seniors not stepping up late or wilting under crunch time.
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Stevens is staying put at Butler. Can't say enough about the guy and his loyalty. Loyalty is a forgotten thing in sports these days(all about money for most people) so this shows just how classy he is.
He has a chance to build something great at Butler University. You have one of the best cities in the country, one of the best basketball talent pools to recruit from in the Midwest, and the Fenway Park of College Basketball in Hinkle Fieldhouse to play in. It shows he's not about the money nor the prestige, he's about building something special himself.
Slug 'em Sabres!!!!!
I was never even considering that he might leave for UCLA. If he leaves it will be only for a perfect situation.
There's a chance Brandon Miller comes back as the assistant head coach. That would be huge for recruiting.


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Beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning, volunteer patients will start arriving at Marshall High School, located at 7731 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, to go through a mass smallpox vaccination clinic. During the next four hours bioterrorism medical action teams will screen, educate, register and simulate vaccinating these volunteer patients to test the clinic design and staffing plan. This clinic activation is being held as part of the statewide bioterrorism exercise being conducted Oct. 19-22.
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Unified PVR frontend (DVR/HTPC client GUI with EPG) and Addons API for PVR backends? - Printable Version
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Unified PVR frontend (DVR/HTPC client GUI with EPG) and Addons API for PVR backends? - Gamester17 - 2007-10-03 11:43
One common PVR front-end (client-side GUI) and a unified API for addons that control different PVR back-end TV-servers?
Please do not let the length of this post put you off, as this is really a great idea for truly 'taking XBMC to the next level' for sure!
Note that I have already tried to lobby this internally to Team-XBMC for quite a long time but unfortunately none of the developers on the team currently have both personal interest and time required to programming all this by themselves alone, (mostly due to time restraints), so I am now posting this idea as a public request, hoping that some new C/C++ programmer/developer will like this idea and take the initiative to make it happen (and submitting an initial code patch for it to help get us started).
As you may already know, more and more PVR/DVR devices (and also HTPC software applications) are nowdays redesigning/refactoring their applications to be split into a separate back-end and and a front-end, (meaning a separate server-side back-end which runs as a background service and takes care of the recording, storing, and sharing part, and a separate a client-side front-end that acts as the graphical user-interface and media-player viewer).
The basic concept of this design is that the back-end and the front-end have a two-way communication channel between them for sending commands and streaming video, using either their own protocols, (which though often proprietary usually have an openly documented command API), or they use an open internet standard protocol like UPnP, RTSP/RTP, HTTP, XML and/or SOAP. Also, many PVR/DVR devices and HTPC software that are not front-end/back-end based does still have a built-in web-interface (similar to what XBMC has) that can be used to fully remote-control that device/software, plus they often support streaming video via HTTP and RTSP/RTP or they have the option to share their recorded files via standard SMB over the network.
My idea here for is that XBMC could have a generic GUI front-end section in XBMC (which could maybe have the graphical EPG and scheduling stuff based on the XMLTV-GUI TV-Guide standard format for the EPG back-end?). This GUI front-end section should be designed to to able to command and control all types of PVR/DVR devices (and HTPC software) over a network. This GUI front-end should preferably be linked to a generic PVR framework infrastructure with a mapping/translation-layer that would offer a common uniform 'wrapper' API which developers can write separate plugins (eg. DLL libraries) for in order control specific PVR/DVR devices and HTPC software, (like MythTV, MediaPortal, and Dreambox as examples). Maybe even a few common DLL libraries that could be shared between the different plugins if they utilize similar functions/protocols, like UPnP, which could be customized via XML and RegEx or Python to fit different back-ends. All controlled from the same interface in XBMC, with the user all seeing the same generic GUI front-end no matter which back-end is used.
So which new end-user features would this then enable in XBMC?:
- Watch Live TV
- Channel selection during Live TV over full screen window
- Info screen during Live TV with Program Descriptions)
- Record Live TV (on the server-side back-end running on a PC)
- Basic cut and rework recordings (trim the beginning and end)
- Watch that recorded TV
- Electronic Program Guide (EPG) GUI
- View Program Listings (and Program Descriptions on demand)
- Schedule recordings
- Info about what is currently recording or next scheduled recording
- Pause Live TV (time-shift)
- Listen to AM/FM and Satellite Radio
- Teletext (Text TV)
I guess that the requirements for a such API as this will be that it has to be well specified and documented, (or at the very least use doxygen for semi-automatic code documentation?), so that independent plugin developers can jump right in and get started quickly, ei. writing a 'plugin' for the API should not require any knowledge of XBMC GUI internals or the actual workings inside this 'PVR front-end API', right? Maybe start by looking at the existing XBMC's visualization API as a framework reference? As an option we could maybe also add an alternative method for those back-end devices/software that have a web-interface, for those we could possible let the users write 'simple' XML plugins made with RegExp similar to the scrapers and/or Python to enable scraping and web-interface control, or we could even possibly extend XBMC's existing HTTP API to be more flexible in these areas and be accessible from this API as well(?), noted though that those 'simple' plugins could only work if the back-end is capable of streaming using a standard protocol such as UPnP or RTSP/RTP.
Suggested plugins (if a the framework API described in the concept above will ever become available in XBMC):
- MythTV (HTPC software for Linux and Mac OS X) front-end to control MythTV back-end (maybe via MVPMC's libCMyth, or UPnP?).
* XMLTV's .XML download to XBMC's TV-Guide from MythTV EPG and possible schedule control via the TV-Guide too.
- Linux VDR (Video Disk Recorder) front-end to control LinVDR server (maybe via UPnP or existing VDR plugin like streamdev?).
* XMLTV's .XML download to XBMC's XMLTV TV-Guide from VDR EPG and possible sheduele control via the TV-Guide too.
- HTS TVheadend front-end to control HTS's TVheadend as a back-end] (maybe via TVheadend's existing XBMSP-server and Web UI API?).
* XMLTV's .XML download to XBMC's XMLTV TV-Guide and possible schedule control via that TV-Guide too.
- Dreambox/Dbox2 front-end to fully control Dreambox/Dbox2 boxes (maybe via Tuxbox Client for Enigma?).
* XMLTV's .XML download to XBMC's TV-Guide from Dreambox/Dbox2 EPG and possible schedule control via the TV-Guide too.
- HDHomeRun front-end to fully control HDHomeRun boxes.
* XBMC's XMLTV TV-Guide from HDHomeRun EPG and possible sheduele control via the TV-Guide too.
- MediaPortal front-end to control MediaPortal TVserver back-end (maybe via UPnP?, or RTSP?) now they've newly released TvEngine
* XMLTV's .XML download to XBMC's TV-Guide from MediaPortal EPG and possible schedule control via the TV-Guide too.
- MeediOS front-end to control MeediOS back-end (maybe via UPnP?, or RTSP?) they use a derivative of MediaPortal's TV Engine.
* There is also a project on SourceForge called "VistaMCEClient for TVE3 Server" which does the same for Windows Vista MCE.
* XMLTV .XML download to XBMC's TV-Guide from MeediOS EPG and possible schedule control via the TV-Guide too.
- Windows Media Center Extender front-end to control Microsoft Windows MCE as the back-end (maybe via WebGuide for the control?)
* XMLTV's .XML download to XBMC's TV-Guide from Windows MCE EPG and possible schedule control via the TV-Guide too.
- ProgDVB front-end to control ProgDVB as a back-end] (maybe via UPnP or existing ProgDVB plugins API?).
* XMLTV's .XML download to XBMC's XMLTV TV-Guide and possible schedule control via that TV-Guide too.
- v4l and v4l2 (Video4Linux framework) - v4l comes built-into Linux 2.6.x kernel and later, plus a library for v4l2.
What do you all think? Comments, suggestions, ideas?
Any volunteers for the API and/or any or the plugin ideas?
Note! Please understand that since I'm not a programmer myself I probably didn't get all the technical terms correct in this first concept draft.
- t029248 - 2007-10-03 21:56
This would be great, especially with all the plugins to control the different backends there are. I hope people are going to share there backends also trough encrypted P2P. I'm definitely are going to move to XBMC Linux soon and with the option to use powerful backends, the hardware for the front-end can stay moderate.
I also hope the front end stays simple, no XMLTV crap at least simplified like the rest of XBMC, XMLTV is the reason why i stay away from Media Portal, i really dislike, no i hate XMLTV.
In my opinion it would be better to develop a standard package (blackbox) for XMLTV maintained by people who like. This package contains everything, and a user can simpley select, Country, City, Provider to set up the guide. Of course i'm not against a advanced and flexible mode for the power users, but the noobs should be able to get it work within a minute.
- Gamester17 - 2007-11-14 12:30
t029248 Wrote:I also hope the front end stays simple, no XMLTV crap at least simplified like the rest of XBMC, XMLTV is the reason why i stay away from Media Portal, i really dislike, no i hate XMLTV.That is the idea, it should use the XMLTV format in the background (invisible to the end-user) and the XMLTV 'grabbers'/'scrapers' would be written in Python and RegEx to scrape HTTP websites for TV-Guide information, making them easy to share and maintain.
- joolzg - 2007-11-14 15:15
I would like also to find out which is the best way for getting the EPG data into the xbox, as we now have the MM100 moving along I was going to add in a pvr function which can be controlled from the xbox, now we would have to also get an epg on the xbox.
As this box is based on a live source we have a live 7 day epg (UK), dont know about the rest of the worlds DTV service, but whatever you have we can broadcast this live to the xbox and hence have a live epg!!!!
any ideas.
- DrDDT - 2007-11-19 10:18
joolzg Wrote:I would like also to find out which is the best way for getting the EPG data into the xbox, as we now have the MM100 moving along I was going to add in a pvr function which can be controlled from the xbox, now we would have to also get an epg on the xbox.
The MyTV script?
Check http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=110740
- EvilDude - 2007-12-11 08:02
I really like this idea, although I personally don't even have a controllable TV tuner (yet!)
Has any progress been made on an API etc?
- Gamester17 - 2007-12-11 15:09
EvilDude Wrote:Has any progress been made on an API etc?Unfortunately no developer/programmer has volunteered (yet)
- topfs2 - 2007-12-22 13:57
Oh my god YES! this would be fantastic!! This would really make XBMC on linux usable.
But I'm a bit confused on what you'd like to get done first, make it a server/client based or to write plugin that can communicate with other PVR servers? I'm kind of new to XBMC and just started using it as it made it Linux move and I wonder how it's built up. Is it plugin based with precompiled libs or is the plugin system limited to the python scripts?
Well Im gonna download the code and look at it a bit but I'm certainly not a really good C/C++ programer but I'd help as much as I can, I mostly write in C#.
- EvilDude - 2007-12-23 16:12
I think what is wanted is XBMC as a frontend to other PVR. Initially could just start with myth, and then also become compatible with mediaportal's tv server etc.
Basically, one standard interface in XBMC, to control mutliple backends.
These are just ideas/suggestions from a non-developer... - Gamester17 - 2007-12-28 16:50
Topfs2 Wrote:I'm a bit confused on what you'd like to get done first, make it a server/client based or to write plugin that can communicate with other PVR servers? I'm kind of new to XBMC and just started using it as it made it Linux move and I wonder how it's built up. Is it plugin based with precompiled libs or is the plugin system limited to the python scripts?No work on this has been done at all as of yet, (I'm not a programmer myself and no one who is has volunteered), so you would have to create it all from scratch.
EvilDude is right; the idea is to 'only' add a front-end GUI and client API to XBMC then access third-party back-ends/servers over the network (or if XBMC for Linux is used with the third-party back-ends/servers locally installed as a seperate application on the same computer, like MythTV).
Topfs2 Wrote:Is it plugin based with precompiled libs or is the plugin system limited to the python scripts?Like I said, nothing has been done so whoever volunteers to develop will have decide that themselves, however my idea is that the plugins could be precompiled library DLL files and/or python scripts (or even just regexp XML files), ...that all depends how the developer who volunteers decide to make the client API. My guess is that long as the back-end server has a web-server (or some other HTTP-interface) then simlest would be to make the plugins python based (or again; maybe even just regexp XML based similar to the scraper API in XBMC, which just formats links and text, and grab thumbnails/pictures for channel-icons of the internet or the back-end server web-server if available. I believe that an XMLTV grabber for EPG TV-Guide functions similar to that, like the XBMC scraper).
Could possible grab some ideas and code from these:
- topfs2 - 2008-01-24 11:18
Hi! Sry for the long reply delay but I didn't notice your reply
I've looked through XBMCTv source and well, it's quite dated and needs major fixes to compile but I might use the XMLTV code from though. May be usefull in the future when I get some progress in the rest.
I've downloaded the gmyth sources and will see if I can get some common ground on how a general pluginbase would look for TV.
My Idea is to have All comunication done in this and just send the URL to the DVDPlayer/Mplayer for it to play..
My work will be done on the linux port and therefor I wonder which network protocol's are currently support in the svn? the wiki just state's that it has limited support how limited?
Another source of inspiration... - Gamester17 - 2008-02-12 15:57
Maybe some interface/API ideas can be taken from the source code of the mvpmc (MediaMVP Media Center) project? mvpmc is an open source open source suite of libraries and a media player capable of acting as a front-end for multiple types of backends over the network:
Quote:The MediaMVP Media Center (mvpmc) is a media player written in C. It currently runs on the Hauppauge MediaMVP hardware. It can play video (including live TV), audio (including live radio), show pictures, and retrieve Yahoo! weather. mvpmc can access media from a MythTV, ReplayTV, Hauppauge, VLC, or SqueezeCenter (aka SlimServer) server. It can also access media via UPNP, HTTP, NFS and CIFS. There is a VNC viewer built in. It understands MPEG1 and MPEG2 video, MP3, OGG, WAV, AC3 and FLAC audio and JPG, BMP & PNG images.
Let's make this happen - alcoheca - 2008-02-24 18:51
Would this project be a suitable candidate for inclusion in XBMC's & Google's SoC 2008? Perhaps it's too big a task to qualify?
I'm only asking as I would love to tackle this, however realistically I'd need some guidance to get somewhere. I'm also unsure if any of the main developers are willing to mentor on this, as responses to requests for PVR functionality have always been fairly muted.
On the other hand, I'm of the opinion that this is the last big missing feature of XBMC and one that is sorely missed by many, many people. For example I think this project would be far more valuable to XBMC (cross platform) than this suggestion already on the XBMC SoC wiki entry:
"Native DVB television in XBMC for Linux via v4l/v4l2 library and FFmpeg".
For a start it's hard to know what this means, coding an entirely new PVR application for XBMC? Or could it just be having live TV support from local DVB cards? Even if somebody was going to have PVR recording sever in their XBMC/Linux box, it seems like that could easily be achieved by the idea set out above by Gamester17. (Running VDR/Mythtv/Freevo/whatever in the background instead).
Seperating the GUI from the PVR client part must be the smartest way to go on this, rather than targeting particular applications, that some people may not be able/want to use.
My 2 pence
- Nick8888 - 2008-03-10 14:57
One nice feature which I think would need to be included in this new "[live] TV Section" if it were created would be codes to put in the keymap which are linked to each channel.
I am currently setting up a universal remote and am wanting to add my mythtv channels to it...
something like <one<tv.mythtv.channels.abchd</one>
I would love to hear other peoples thoughts on this as well.
- Gamester17 - 2008-03-10 18:07
alcoheca Wrote:Would this project be a suitable candidate for inclusion in XBMC's & Google's SoC 2008? Perhaps it's too big a task to qualify?Just the front-end GUI (user interface) and maybe the XMLTV TV-Guide as well could be one GSoC project, then each backend could each be a separate project by themselves. I think that the two major goals of a such project would be writing the skinable GUI and coming up with an API so that it could command several backend-client plugins from the same GUI, making it seamless to the end-user (and the GUI skinners) no matter if the backend-server was MythTV, VDR, or MediaPortal.
PS! @alcoheca, checkout our qualification tasks and be sure to apply with Google to GSoC.


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I've been playing disc golf for 7 years or so, the last 5 RHBH. I've plateaued around 400' on disc golf lines. Ever since Breaking 350' I've struggled consistently with release angles. Anytime I throw above 60% power, I almost always release the disc 10-30 degrees off to the right. Sometimes, when I grip-lock and release right, it's more like 45...but that's a different issue...
However, all off my longest throws, with the most snap, all occur 10-30 degrees off to the right. In open fields I've thrown well beyond 400' but always off to the right. If I focus on releasing straight I lose 50-100' of distance. Obviously throwing a controlled shot will result in loss of distance compared to a pure distance throw, but I'm getting the lines out of the disc I want, just not in the right direction...
I've tried a number of things to remedy this: starting off the tee-pad to the right, changing grips, focusing on arm extension forward and not around...but nothing actually worked.
I took some video footage of me driving (which I unfortunately can't upload until I get a hold of a Firewire800 cable) and watched it and noticed a few things. My reach-back isn't so much of a reach-back as it is me slowly swinging the disc out and around from front to back. I'm relatively flat footed throughout.
Today I did some field work trying to stay on the balls of my feet and actually reach straight back with mixed results. However, I was still realeasing a lot of them off to the right or, oddly enough, too early (left) with unintentional hyzer. My wife was with me and said that my torso was coming through very early. So I intentionally tried to stop my torso rotation, while still leading with my hips once it was squared up during the beginning of the pull through to the hit.
It took some getting used to, but I had a couple of decent throws that I released right on line. I still wasn't getting the snap I had before, but I was close a couple of times, so I might just need more practice.
I'm not a very big guy, but from baseball and other sports I've learned to make use of my core and legs to generate power. But this means I need to have my technique down well because I can't just compensate by relying on upper-body strength.
My question is where should the torso be in terms of rotation at the hit? I know it should come through after the hips, but does the disc/hand lead it as well?
Also, if you read the above, is there something else that might be causing the late release? I'm sorry I can't post the video, but if you have an idea let me know and I can look for it in the video.


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mayamevamhā alakkhikā mayaṃ appapuññā te mayaṃ evaṃ svākkhāte dhammavinaye pabbajitvā nāsakkhimhā yāvajīvaṃ paripuṇṇaṃ parisuddhaṃ brahmacariyaṃ caritu''nti
We were unlucky, we have little merit; for though we went forth into homelessness in such a well-proclaimed Dhamma, we were unable to live the perfect and pure holy life for the rest of our lives.
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Kentucky coach John Calipari does a lot of his work at a sprint these days. He just doesn't have the time he once did, and it's not because he's busy making speeches across the Commonwealth or recruiting the next generation of Wildcats or playing the ponies at Churchill Downs.
With so many of his players, he only gets one year to make a lasting impression.
"I've had to speed up things here," Calipari told Sporting News on Friday. "We've talked about social things here in our locker room twice a week: How fortunate we are, how as we develop fame we can impact people's lives. We have to jam it in. And I have the money talk with all these kids: You work for money? No, you have money work for you.
"In the old days, you could sprinkle it in and out over four years."
In the era of the NBA Draft age limit -- what so many have come to call the "one-and-done" rule -- Calipari and a lot of other college coaches no longer have the luxury of teaching over time. Calipari would have liked for the NBA to have succeeded in its quest to extend the age limit to 20 years but never expected it to happen.
"It's not moving. The only way that thing moves is if ownership gives something big to the players," Calipari said. "Do you see anything out there they can give to the players?"
With the NBA ratifying a 10-year collective bargaining agreement with the NBA Players Association on Thursday, the "B issue" of altering the age limit effectively was tabled for future discussion.
It will stay as it is until someone decides it's important to do something different.
Many owners would prefer the age limit give them two years to evaluate prospects after high school, whether it's in college, the D-League or even Europe. Many agents who have a powerful stake in the players association would prefer there be no age limit at all.
Thus, it's almost certain that the rule will remain as it is: 19 years old and one year removed from high school graduation.
One-and-done is now the enduring law of the land.
We can spend the next decade continuing to argue about this. Bob Knight can repeat his misguided declarations about how freshmen now can skip their entire second semesters and still play college ball -- as if there were anything restricting freshmen, or any other college players, from doing that before there was an age limit. A legion of sportswriters can continue to construe this as a civil rights issue, when in fact it's a collectively bargained issue both the NBA and its players agreed to in principle.
Or we can at last accept this for what it is: The best thing that's happened to the development process for American basketball players since the introduction of the Five-Star Camp.
It's not the best that it could be.
"If it's two years, the kids understand they've got to go to college," Calipari said. "I think we would have 100 percent graduation rate along with all these kids getting drafted. When a kid leaves after one year and he's 90 credits short, that's going to take seven or eight years.
"Two years is a good number. Kids can come in and do their thing, they can get close to graduating, you can have an impact on their lives."
But it's better than it was.
Calipari's objection to the 19-year limit is that too many kids in high school think they're one-and-done and too many college freshmen think the same. As in, not enough young players are focusing on the subject at hand: Their development as athletes and students.
However, the problem was even worse when there was no age limit at all. So many young players were tricked into believing -- or tricked themselves -- that they were ready for the NBA with essentially no training. The difference between high school basketball and the NBA is the difference between riding a bike with training wheels and trying to jump a motorbike more than 300 feet onto the top of a phony Arc de Triomphe.
Since the age limit went into effect, Kevin Durant developed at Texas and became the first freshman to win the Oscar Robertson Trophy as college player of the year and became the youngest scoring champion in NBA history. Derrick Rose developed at Memphis and led the Tigers to the 2008 NCAA championship game. He subsequently became the NBA's youngest MVP.
Kobe Bryant didn't top 25 points per game until he was 22. Durant did it at 20. LeBron James didn't win an MVP until he was 24. Rose did it at 22. If you think that's a coincidence, you're kidding yourself.
The league and the players association have allowed themselves wiggle room to revisit the age limit, and it would be wonderful for the game if they decided to move it up to 20 years. But Calipari is right: There's not much chance of that.
Instead, it seems we will have "one-and-done" for a decade. Unless somebody out there is interested in a movement to Occupy The NBA Draft Stage, it is time for peace.


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After a couple of weak closes and a brief pause, the market is en fuego once again. It was all bulls today with great breadth, good point gains and new highs. The convenient explanation for the strength was that this morning's mediocre jobs report was weak enough to keep the Fed "accommodative" but strong enough that the economy doesn't stall completely.
That is as good an explanation as any, but I believe that the strength was more a function of poor positioning and too many folks looking for a top. I'm growing weary of the lopsided action and I was hoping for some resets, but when even the bulls are rooting for pullbacks, you can be sure that the market beast will do its best to frustrate.
It is very easy to overthink a market like this and find reasons why it can't continue. The smart move has been to embrace the uptrend and stay with it. You'll hear a million reasons from the very astute bears why the market is doomed, but all that really matters is that the price action continues to be very positive.
I keep repeating that we need to stick with this market as long as the price action is good because it isn't that easy to do. Trying to time the twists and turns in the market is very appealing, but sticking with the trend tends to work much better.
I hear a number of folks calling today's action a "blow off" top, but that is wishful thinking. Keep in mind that markets that are hitting highs just don't collapse suddenly. The bulls have powerful momentum and that needs to be respected.
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The New Jersey governor is outlining a personal and political plan for addressing his weight on his terms -- in a more concentrated fashion than perhaps ever before. In a flurry of media attention this week, he's facing a political vulnerability in his indisputable quest to emerge as a key leader in the Republican Party.
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Earlier this week I did a post about a band a stumbled across called Kline Coma Xero (read). I decided to give the man behind the band, Tony Williams an old school phone call. We did chat for a while and I discovered he also owns a Roland SH3 and recently modified it to work with CV/Gate. I've been thinking about doing this for a while and he promised to post a video showing the mod so here it is above. The SH3 is a really nice sounding synth because it has a proper Moog filter in it (among other things). Moog sued Roland and in response Roland created the SH3-A which changed the filter design.
"A video overview of my Roland SH-3 which I modified using the KENTON SH-3a CV/Gate/Filter mod. I intentionally left off the filter mod due to the fact that the SH-3a has a different filter than the SH-3." – Tony Williams
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Treeson Spring Water
I don't usually promote other companies or products unless they're based in Vermont and related to our environmental mission at Vermont Woods Studios. But although Treeson is operated in Costa Rica, the company caught my eye because their founding principles are so similar to ours.
Cleaning Up Ocean Plastic Pollution
Owner Carlton Solle took his family on a trip to Costa Rica 5 years ago. Like me, he was alarmed at the plastic pollution littering that country's beautiful waters and coastlines. And like me, he learned that less than 20 percent of the 50 billion plastic water bottles sold in the United States are actually recycled (the remaining 40 billion end up in landfills, waterways and oceans, or in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch).
Our response to plastic pollution at Vermont Woods Studios was to partner with POLYWOOD in promoting and selling outdoor patio furniture made from recycled plastic bottles. Carlton's response was to create Treeson spring water which is packaged in an eco-friendly, biodegradable, collapsible water bottle that comes with a pre-paid USPS postage sticker. The empty bottle goes in the Mail box instead of the trash.
Replanting the Rainforest
For every bottle of spring water sold, Treeson plants a tree. They are working closely with our friend Kevin Peterson at the Eco Preservation Society to replant the rainforest in Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica (this is the area we visited a few years ago and did volunteer work building furniture at a local school). So far over 38,000 trees have been planted.
Incidentally, Kevin is one of the people who influenced us at Vermont Woods Studios to plant a tree for every furniture sale.
Life Cycle of a Treeson Bottle: Cradle to Grave
Treeson water bottles are made from plant-based materials and filled with filtered spring water sourced close to each retail territory. Empty bottles are easily flattened and returned for free (by peeling off the label to reveal a return label) via the United States Postal Service. The used bottles are then recycled to produce clean energy (with a machine that converts the plant-based material into biogas) that is used to produce new bottles.
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You can help Treeson get their fledgling company off the ground by supporting their campaign at Kickstarter.com. There you'll find information and frequently asked questions about their mission, business plans and processes.
We wish them well. Can companies like Treeson and Vermont Woods Studios really change the world? Let us know your thoughts on Facebook.
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It is that time again to take stock of the new food trends that are being bandied about in the popular press. Let's check out what the World Wide Web reveals about 2014 hot food trends.
But why bother?
Before I even open up one of these stories, I can enumerate several so-called trends:
1. local food
2. natural
3. organic
4. food you've never heard of
5. more of #4
6. more of #2
7. more of #1
Yes, "food trends" are too predictable. But let's explore further.
National Restaurant Association - American Culinary Federation
From the NRA and ACF:
Top 10 food trends for 2014:
Locally sourced meats and seafood
Locally grown produce
Environmental sustainability
Healthful kids' meals
Gluten-free cuisine
Hyper-local sourcing (e.g. restaurant gardens)
Children's nutrition
Non-wheat noodles/pasta (e.g. quinoa, rice, buckwheat)
Sustainable seafood
Farm/estate branded items
CBS: Hot food trends to expect in 2014
Huffington Post: Food trends 2014: cauliflower is the new kale
From the story:
Vegetables continue to be centre of the plate, edging out meat.
"I would say that cauliflower is the new kale and will definitely surpass kale this year," says Christine Couvelier, executive chef and global culinary trendologist.
"Kale had that buzz and everybody loves kale chips and how many restaurants have we seen that have kale on the menu, but cauliflower is certainly the huge buzz this year. Bigger than ever."
The Daily Meal: Top Food Trend Predictions
Selected highlights:
16) Sunchokes Have Their Moment
Sunchokes, also known as Jerusalem artichokes, are nutty, healthy, versatile, easy to cook, and delicious. Expect to see them in far more dishes than you currently do in 2014.
9) Vegetarian Dishes in Non-Vegetarian Restaurants
As recently as a couple of years ago, if you wanted a meat-free dish at a restaurant that wasn't vegetarian you were stuck with a salad or boring appetizer. In 2014 you'll see chefs embracing more vegetable-forward menus, making grains and vegetables the stars of the dish and doing away with meat entirely.
1) More Chefs Owning Full-Scale Farms
The farm-to-table trend will reach its inevitable next step, as leading chefs and restaurateurs cut out the middleman entirely and buy their own farms on their quest to become completely vertically integrated. 1) More Chefs Owning Full-Scale Farms
The farm-to-table trend will reach its inevitable next step, as leading chefs and restaurateurs cut out the middleman entirely and buy their own farms on their quest to become completely vertically integrated.
Eatocracy: 2014 food trends - eat this list
From the list:
2. Heirloom beans, peanuts and field peas
Go ahead, get the elementary school jokes outta your system because more chefs are singing the praises of hearty, healthy, protein-rich legumes. Cranberry, lima and butterbeans, as well as blackeye and crowder peas and un-roasted peanuts are taking a star turn in main dishes and standalone sides, often without a speck of meat in sight. These heirloom varieties are packed with nutty flavor, and adapt well to stews, soups, salads, succotash and spreads, and take well to marinating, baking, mashing and even deep-frying.
And bonus: chefs and home cooks are rapidly discovering that heirloom legumes grow like gangbusters in many different climates and soil types, are GMO-free (a selling point for an increasingly conscientious dining public), dry gorgeously for use throughout the year and are an excellent alternative to pricey and potentially dubiously-raised meat.
Kitchen Daily: Experts predict food trends 2014
From the story:
Consumers already rely on their mobile phones when shopping for groceries, so Supermarket Guru takes it one step further by predicting a streamlined shopping experience. In the future, shoppers may be able to select a recipe, order ingredients and check out directly on their phone, and grocery stores might have drive-thru windows for pick-up.
Topping The Food Channel's list of top food trends is the Midwestern food movement, which is all about the simple and hearty cooking of root vegetables, steak and other locally sourced ingredients.
Innova Market Insights also predicts a revival of interest in heirloom varieties of vegetables like parsnip, artichoke, kale and salsify.
There you have it. I'll admit the food trends of 2014 have more substance than just "local" and "organic." Still, changing the pattern of consumer behavior is more easily written about than actually accomplished. That makes 2014 food trends just as overly ambitious as the 2013 edition.


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We have a law in Michigan called county right-of-way. That means everything in between the sidewalk and the road is not yours but the county's. You as a property owner have to maintain it, but the county has the right to do whatever it wants on that piece of land and you have no right to it.
This is where it gets strange. Last May, I was mowing the grass on the piece of county right-of-way land in the front of my property when the neighbor across the street took a picture of me. In August, a police report was filed, and Judge Jodi Debbrecht of the 51st District Court issued a warrant for trespassing for my arrest shortly after at the request of prosecutor Walter Bedell.
I have been in the 51st District Court many times since the issuing of the warrant. I never received a letter or a call from the prosecutor. I guess that's because he was too busy.
I was arrested in the courtroom while arguing another case in September.
Is this intimidation by the court, the prosecutor or by the well-connected friends of the prosecutor?
It's odd because after 10 months, the charges were dropped by the prosecutor.
There was enough evidence to issue a warrant, enough evidence to waste taxpayer money to charge, arrest and process, but then the charges were dropped for no reason.
We need a new prosecutor in Waterford and maybe he should be investigated by someone who has the power to sanction him. I urge anyone who has had problems with Bedell to call our township supervisor's office and let them know that we don't need people like Bedell in our town.


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Effective March 2014, new rules hit banks with over 50 employees
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The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) issued regulations on Aug. 27, 2013, which require federal contractors to establish annual goals and benchmarks for hiring military veterans and individuals with disabilities, much as they currently do for women and minorities. "Contractors" includes FDIC-insured banks with more than 50 employees.
The new rules greatly increase the outreach and recordkeeping burden for banks with Affirmative Action Programs.
These changes take effect while some are questioning whether banks should even be subject to the Executive Order.
Since 1965, several of the bases for classifying banks as federal contractors (for example, the sale of U.S. savings bonds) have disappeared, leaving only the "contract" with the FDIC. However, the OFCCP is steadfast in its enforcement efforts, so banks are advised to start planning for implementation of both new rules immediately.
Two protected classes share common ground
While the Final Rule for veterans protected under the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) differs slightly from the Final Rule for individuals with disabilities under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act, they share many features.
Here are some highlights:
• Effective Date: Both rules go into effect March 24, 2014. Subject banks must bring their written plans into compliance by the start of the next Plan Year after the effective date. For example, banks with calendar year AAPs will need to comply by Jan. 1, 2015. However the recordkeeping provisions are immediately effective on March 24, 2014.
• Definitions: Veterans covered are those already protected by VEVRAA and all "active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans." The final rule under Section 503 borrows the expansive definitions of disability, impairment, etc., used in the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2009 (ADAA).
• Self-Identification: Applicants must be invited to self-identify as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities at the pre-offer stage, at the same point that gender and race data are collected. Employers may screen out internet applicants who do not meet basic qualifications for the job before the invitation to self-identify. Post-offer, veterans should be further invited to state which specific category (categories listed in the VETS-100 form) they belong to.
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In addition, current employees must be given the opportunity to self-identify on a regular basis.
• Outreach: Banks should document their outreach and recruitment efforts to attract veterans and individuals with disabilities. These records must be kept for three years. In addition, banks must conduct an annual evaluation of the effectiveness of their efforts to increase their veteran hires.
• Job listing, solicitations, and advertisements: The veterans' regulation mandates the listing of all job openings with the state's employment services delivery system (ESDS). Solicitations and advertisements should contain an updated "EEO/AAP employer" paragraph referring to veterans and individuals with disabilities, and there is now mandated language to be used in contracts and subcontracts citing the EO clause.
• Recordkeeping: There is a three-year document retention period
Benchmarks and goals
The most fundamental change in the new rules is the requirement that banks track:
• The number of veteran and disabled applicants
• The total number of applicants
• The number of job openings and jobs filled
• The number of veteran and disabled hires
• The total number of hires
From this and other data, banks will be able to assess whether they have met the benchmark for veteran hires and the goal for individuals with disabilities. The difference between "benchmark" and "goal" is unclear, but OFCCP insists on this terminology.
There are two alternate methods for establishing the benchmark for veteran hires. Banks can either take the percentage of veterans in the national civilian labor force (currently 8%) or they can establish an individual benchmark using five factors. Those five factors include: the percentage of veterans in the state's labor force; the number of veterans in the state ESDS' database; application and hiring ratios in the previous Plan Year; the assessment of outreach efforts; and any other special factors (for example, proximity of a military base).
The Section 503 regulation mandates "an aspirational utilization goal" for individuals with disabilities of 7% of the bank's total workforce.
OFCCP insists that failure to meet the benchmark or the goal will carry no penalty; compliance evaluations will focus on the bank's good faith efforts to identify and remedy any barriers to equal employment.
Don't delay
Next March will be here before you know it.
Now is the time to educate managers about these new obligations, and draft the procedures necessary for compliance.
ELC is participating in an ABA Telephone Briefing on Oct. 9 on the new regulations. We'll go into them in much greater depth than I can here. ABA will offer recordings of the briefing after the live event.
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Creative has been trying to one-up Apple for a while now in the portable digital audio player game. Usually one step behind the iPod with the Zen and Zen Micro, this time they took a step ahead of the iPod photo with the Zen Micro Photo. The device, which is 3.3" tall, offers a high intensity 262K color 1.5" OLED screen and up to 6 GB of storage to hold about 7,500 JPEGs or 3,000 MP3s. The Zen Micro Photo will come in two sizes, a 5GB for $299 and a 6GB for $349. This is a nice alternative for those who held off on the iPod photo because of it's size and price tag.
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Let's say, at the start of the year, I had abducted an investor with so-so knowledge on the markets; say I was really mean to this person, depriving them of all access to things business and finance. If I had just released this person back into the iPad-toting world, here is what they would see:
● The fourth-quarter earnings season trounced bottom-line analyst forecasts. (Yes, estimates were slashed going in -- but who cares gives a darn about earnings quality, right?)
● Investors haven't a care in the world, as reflected by the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). Guess there is something valid to the flow of money into riskier assets -- that is, stocks.
● There's tepid concern on bond-yield creep from both Spain and Italy, as opposed to the rampant fear of an entire financial system implosion that we saw circa 2011 to 2012.
● Most key leading indices -- for example, the S&P Railroad Index -- continue to perform quite convincingly relative to the S&P 500. The advance in the Utilities Sector SPDR (XLU) and degradation in the iShares Emerging Market Index (EEM) could therefore be shoved to the back burner for a later debate -- when stocks are heading down the drain.
● The relative strength reading on the S&P 500 seems to be comfy chilling above 60, and there is no outward indication that this number -- as it has in past periods -- is making folks hesitant to push the market higher. Investors are holding on to stock gains, scouring mutual fund holdings for new grand-slam ideas and looking to move money from lower-yielding assets into the seemingly fertile land of equities. I love that tame risk-free-rate assumption! (You would be surprised by the change in output for free cash flow and fair value with the even the tiniest of a riskier outlook.)
The lesson here is that there is nothing glaringly wrong with the market on this Valentine's Day. It's operating under the assumption that the ultimate future will be brighter than the first half, which promises to be dominated by fiscal drag. This is known as "price discovery," and it's precisely what a market is supposed to do. As a result, I have been hesitant to jump on the fee-collector bandwagon – the idea that it's wise to do something rash right now, even ahead of an impending correction that has yet to fully show its ugly head.
That said, I maintain the opinion that you should be more cautious at the moment. But, rather than a get-the-heck-out, smash-the-sell-button outburst, I suggest a moderately bearish stance: a short-term buying reprieve, and portfolio reevaluation. A number of developing factors call for such a measured approach, including a growing number of earnings warnings from consumer-cyclical names; a leveling in the upward march of leading stock indices; and valuations that are too sanguine on macroeconomic risk factors.
The way I see it right now, we stand to hit a hiccup in the February economic data that will unwind a bit of the enthusiasm for risk. Note that the January retail sales report was a minor bump worth remembering. The next area I plan to focus is on the Empire State survey.
Listen, Find a Better Company Than J.C. Penney
Am I potentially becoming interested in J.C. Penney (JCP) as a long recommendation? Perhaps. But hold your horses on executing a trade here. Ahead of the company's earnings report, due Feb. 27, you need to be aware of these thoughts following the recent news on an expanded credit agreement.
First, J.C. Penney's holiday quarter likely ended worse than what the already-dire market predictions foretell. The chief concern here is the cash-burn rate.
Second, the market will cast serious doubt on the six-month outlook for J.C. Penney, basically ignoring the recent glowing comments on the 2013 turnaround offered by CEO Ron Johnson.
Third, the company will likely need to tap incrementally more expensive credit in order to finish adding new shop-in-shops. That, in essence, reduces the long-term returns on these, especially if consumers continue to cast a "no" vote on the new pricing model. J.C. Penney needs traffic.
Finally, yes -- you should still be concerned about the company's credit ratings following the release of the holiday-quarter numbers.


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Antiseizure Medicines for Cluster Headaches
Antiseizure medicines are sometimes used to prevent the frequency or recurrence of cluster headaches, which are cycles of painful, one-sided headaches. Antiseizure medicines most often prescribed for cluster headaches include topiramate and valproate. These medicines are usually tried with another medicine to prevent cluster headaches.
It is not clear exactly how antiseizure medicines work to reduce cluster headaches or migraines. Antiseizure medicines are usually taken daily in small doses and then gradually increased until your symptoms subside or the side effects become intolerable.
Common side effects include:
- Weight gain.
- Drowsiness.
- Fatigue or lethargy.
- Headaches.
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- Orthostatic hypotension (low blood pressure upon standing).
Do not use valproate if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, or planning to get pregnant. If you need to use this medicine, talk to your doctor about how you can prevent pregnancy.
Women who use topiramate during pregnancy have a slightly higher chance of having a baby with birth defects. If you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant, you and your doctor must weigh the risks of using this medicine against the risks of not treating your condition.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning on antiseizure medicines and the risk of suicide and suicidal thoughts. The FDA does not recommend that people stop using these medicines. Instead, people who take antiseizure medicine should be watched closely for warning signs of suicide. People who take antiseizure medicine and who are worried about this side effect should talk to a doctor.
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From Sustaining Democracy to the State of the Civic: 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art & Politics
On its twentieth anniversary, the Vera List Center assesses the unique role art plays at the intersection of politics and civic life. This daylong conference addresses the changing cultural and political landscape shaped by new global social movements, and provokes responses and reflections from an international group of artists, activists, and scholars.While the last twenty years have been marked by a general interest in the convergence of art and politics, the current moment is being characterized by the construction of new systems and networks for imagining, discussing, and ultimately creating new cultural and political realities. In the wake of upheaval and creativity, generated by the Arab Spring and Occupy movements, this phenomenon has been referred to as the return of the civic. This contemporary shift directly affects how artists consider their practice today, for whom they make their work, and how they relate to society at large.The conference is organized as a series of roundtable call-and-responses from some of the most astute and insightful individuals analyzing these issues today. Eugène Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People(1830) provides a launching point. Created to celebrate the July 1830 revolution which toppled the monarchy of Charles X, the painting depicts the image of Lady Liberty leading the citizens to the battle for freedom and equality. The iconic depiction of the bare-breasted Grecian goddess continues to shape and reinforce notions of revolutionary moments and idealistic fervor, for better or worse. The aim of this conference, as with all of the center's programs, is to take a critical look at such relationships between art, politics, and civic engagement in relation to their representation, their own histories, and the present moment.
SCHEDULE10:00–10:15 a.m. Welcoming Remarks by David Van Zandt, President, The New School and Carin Kuoni, director/curator, Vera List Center10:15–11:45 a.m.Call & Response I: Art and ActivismWhat are the origins of the current moment of awareness in the social value of art? The social, economic, and political conditions in which we work have become increasingly visible frameworks for both the production and reception of art as well as ideas about its political efficacy.Wendy T. Ewald, photographer, 2000 Vera List Center Fellow, New York; Andrea Geyer, artist, 2006-07 Vera List Center Fellow, New York; Robert Sember, artist, 2009-11 Vera List Center Fellow, New York; David Scobey, executive dean, The New School for Public Engagement, New York. Moderated by NatoThompson, chief curator, Creative Time, Vera List Center Advisory Committee member, New York.12:00–1:30 p.m.Call & Response II: Identity Politics RevisitedThe height of the culture wars was twenty years ago. It was a time of rousing public debates about freedom of speech and society's investment in art. Today, globalism has ushered in an era of unheralded diversity in the arts. This coming together has raised new issues internationally, as practitioners struggle to create new models, and in the United States, in which disenfranchised groups have increasingly become a focus of interest of artists committed to social justice.Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University; Firelei Baez, artist, New York; Kobena Mercer, professor, Art History, Yale University, 1999 Vera List Center Fellow; Helen Molesworth, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, ICA Boston. Moderated by Jens Hoffmann, deputy director and Head of Exhibitions and Public Programs, The Jewish Museum, New York.1:30–2:30 p.m.Interlude by artist Reena Katz"Gradually, and with no small struggle against this realization, I came to see that oral propaganda is at best but a means of shaking people from their lethargy: it leaves no lasting impression."2:30–4:00 p.m.Call & Response III: The Political AestheticThe first decade of the 21st century has witnessed an explosion in the number of publications, conferences, and exhibitions devoted to defining and assessing socially and politically engaged creative practices. How has "the political" as a driving force in art making been affected by the 2011 global protests?Simon Critchley, professor of Philosophy, The New School; Julie Mehretu, artist, New York; Joao Ribas, curator, MIT List Center; Martha Rosler, artist, Vera List Center Advisory Committee member, New York. Moderated by David Joselit, professor, Art History, Yale University.4:15–5:20 p.m.Call & Response IV: The People's PanelIn homage to Komar & Melamid's People's Choice (1994-97), the People's Panel invited the public to activate the archives of the Vera List Center, asking them to vote for the event organized by the center in the past twenty years that they would most like to revisit today. The most popular event is creatively reenacted at the conference. Given history's holes and lacunae, the center is challenged to reflect on the complex and shifting roles of institutional history and remembrance. The People's Panel has been curated in collaboration with Paul Chan, artist, New York. Participants to be announced.5:20–5:30 p.m.Closing Remarks5:30–6:30 p.m.Reception Vera List CourtyardFrom "Sustaining Democracy" to the State of the Civic: 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics has been curated and organized by Carin Kuoni, Director and Curator of the Vera List Center, with Curatorial Associate Chelsea Haines. The conference has been made possible, in part, by the support ofthe Vera List Center Advisory Committee, in particular Frances Beatty and Allen Adler.
Please visit the Vera List Center's website for more information on this and other events.
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With each game, the Los Altos High boys basketball team looks more like the team to beat in the SCVAL De Anza Division. The Eagles' biggest obstacle may be the Eagles.
"We've got the opportunity in front of us and we can play with anybody," said coach Bob McFarlane, whose team is off to a 5-0 start in league. "It's just a matter of almost getting out of our own way at times and focusing on the team and what the team's trying to accomplish."
Last week's 53-38 rout of rival Mountain View exemplified that. After a ragged first half in which they led just 21-20, the Eagles pulled away with an 18-5 third-quarter run Jan. 22.
"In the first half, we were kind of trying to get our own shots and weren't really moving the ball," McFarlane said. "As soon as we came out in the second half, we had nice ball movement and executed our plays and all of a sudden we had shots. We kind of caught fire and defensively played as a team versus individually."
Mountain View scored first in the second half – on a putback by Joey Williams – but host Los Altos put up the next seven points. Joey Malgesini accounted for five of those points, starting with a top-of-the-key 3. The senior finished with a game-high 17 points.
"They run a zone (defense)," Malgesini said of the Spartans. "We had to adjust to that and find what looks we could get off of that because it's very different and we're not used to it. Once we did, we really started to execute and play our game – and it showed on the scoreboard."
After Mountain View scored on two free throws by Kevin Ives (team-high 13 points) to cut the deficit to 28-24, Los Altos went on a devastating 11-1 run to close the quarter. Daniel Rosenbaum poured in nine points during the spurt, making a baseline jumper, three drives and a free throw. The junior finished with 12 points.
Ahead 39-25 entering the fourth, the Eagles maintained a double-digit lead the rest of the way. Malgesini drained two 3-pointers – he made five in the game – and Lambie Lanman scored four of his seven points.
Steven Garverick totaled 15 points for Los Altos, seven of those coming in the first quarter.
The Eagles followed this win with another Friday: 53-43 at Homestead. Los Altos (13-5 overall) outscored the Mustangs 20-12 in the fourth quarter.
Malgesini tallied 19 points and Rosenbaum added 14.
The Eagles are slated to host Los Gatos – the only team they have yet to play in league – 7 p.m. today.
Mountain View, meanwhile, is scheduled to visit Saratoga at the same time.
The Spartans rebounded from the loss to Los Altos by topping host Palo Alto 35-31 Friday.
Mountain View held the Vikings to just eight points in the second half – and only two of those came in the final quarter.
Corey Fitz paced the Spartans with 10 points.
Mountain View improved to 2-3 in the De Anza Division and 6-11 overall.
"I think we're competitive – more competitive than we look on paper," Spartans assistant coach DJ Kobza said. "We're a pretty scrappy team. I think we can be in the mix in league."
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Just select the piece of jewellery you want from a range of cufflinks, charms, pendants and keyrings and you will automatically be sent an impression kit which is so simple to use. Read the enclosed instructions, take your print, either fingerprints, handprints or footprints (it's the same kit for all of these),return to us in the prepaid envelope and your jewellery will be dispatched 1-2 weeks later. Any personalisation you require such as names, dates or messages can be engraved professionally with no additional cost to you!
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In an effort to keep Jewish student leaders involved in Jewish community life following graduation, UJA of Greater Toronto's Community Connect launched a pilot program at the University of Western Ontario called CORE.
CORE – which stands for capacity, opportunity, return, engage – is a leadership development initiative that aims to transition Jewish student leaders into Jewish community leaders once they leave campus and enter the workforce.
The pilot program, which involves staff and students from Western Hillel and Israel on Campus (IOC), is also meant to reach out to students uninterested in or unaffiliated with organized Jewish campus life, said Western Hillel's executive director Naomi Mazer.
"When they came to us with the idea to have Western be the pilot campus for the launch of this leadership rollout, we were very excited about that," Mazer said.
She suspects Western was chosen as the site for the pilot because the campus is residential, meaning many students come from Toronto and live on campus.
Mazer said the strategy is to use the CORE objectives to implement a program called the Campus Entrepreneurs Initiative (CEI).
Through CEI, Hillel hires student interns with leadership skills – particularly Jewish students who are not involved in Jewish campus life – in the hope that they will connect with other Jewish students who operate beyond the Hillel bubble.
"We're going to use CORE to focus on the needs of those engagement interns, but we're going to open it up to other leadership students who are doing similar type of work in other clubs as well," Mazer explained.
"As interns they're responsible for creating 40 new relationships and having Jewish discussions and tracking the Jewish journeys of students and go through leadership development training along the way."
Monthly sessions will be provided to any student interested in Jewish leadership, with a focus on networking and relationship building.
Stephen Shedletzky, a consultant who worked with UJA's National Young Leadership assistant director Lior Cyngiser to help develop the program, said he would have wanted a program like this when he was a Western student.
"When I was at Western, I was involved in starting a Jewish fraternity there, Sigma Alpha Mu," Shedletzky said.
He said it was through his involvement with the Jewish fraternity that he formed relationships with Hillel staff, including Mazer.
Although he grew up in a family that he considers more traditionally Jewish than religious, he said when he attended Western, "I really resonated with Jewish values. When I came home, I didn't really have that outlet anymore. I had the outlet of friends and going out to Jew-dos and whatnot, but I didn't have a meaningful outlet to get involved in community or religion."
Once he graduated from Western's Richard Ivey School of Business in 2009 and entered the corporate world, he said he didn't feel a sense of fulfillment.
"So I decided to go it on my own."
He started a business coaching organization and, soon after, connected with UJA Federation to serve as a consultant for the pilot program.
"It was so appealing because I had such a rich and meaningful experience as a Jewish leader on campus… and I saw this as such a fantastic opportunity to approach a student like me and say, 'Hey, when you come back to Toronto and you're looking for a way to contribute to a meaningful cause, here's how you can develop yourself as a Jew and a leader.'"
In addition to focusing on relationship building, team dynamics is another priority.
"You operate both as an individual and as a team working together and also across other organizations… I think that's something the Jewish community in general can benefit from," Shedletzky said.
For more information, contact Mazer at email@example.com.


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For nearly three decades, Mike Novak's name was synonymous with entertainment in the Detroit area.
During his career the Troy-based attorney, a resident of Grosse Pointe Shores, represented the likes of artists such as Bob Seger and Kid Rock, media personalities Ken Calvert, Mike Stone and the team of Drew Lane and Mike Clark, and venues like the Magic Bag in Ferndale and Jeff Daniels' Purple Rose Theater in Chelsea.
"Mike got along with everybody, and that's what made him so successful," said Lee Wulfmeir, a close friend and colleague at the Troy firm of Giarmarco, Mullins & Horton, where Novak was of counsel. "I never heard anyone say a bad word about Mike, ever -- and rightfully so. He was one of the kindest, most endearing people, and he was always concerned about his clients."
Novak, 57, died on Sunday, Jan. 27, from a heart attack following a workout at home.
"Mike was a great man," Kid Rock said. "He loved what he did, loved music and loved Detroit. I will miss him."
Seger called Novak "one of my best friends" and likened him to a "little brother" since he started to work with the attorney early in his career. "You never met a better guy -- at least I didn't," Seger added. "I've met a lot of people, but I never met anybody better or nicer or kinder or more enthusiastic or more upbeat. Mike always found the positive. He was just a joy to be around."
WRIF's Lane noted that "Mike being a lawyer is kind of an oxymoron to me, just because he's such a kind, dependable, honest person."
"All the lawyer jokes don't fit him at all," Lane said. "He's one of those relentlessly positive people -- not in a sappy way, just someone who was really upbeat and did so many things for so many people."
Bloomfield Hills-based entertainment attorney Howard Hertz added, "Mike brought a keen sense of business, law and creativity to negotiations. I worked with Mike on many occasions over the years and always appreciated the knowledge and humor he brought to the table. He will be missed by many."
Novak's Facebook page was flooded with tributes as news of his death spread. Seger's wife, Nita, posted a note reading, "Words can't express our deep sadness and the tremendous sense of loss. Always a smile and always so upbeat. ... The world has lost a truly amazing guy."
Martin "Tino" Gross of the Howling Diablos called Novak "the sweetest guy in the world," while Jimmie Bones, keyboardist in Kid Rock's Twisted Brown Trucker Band, noted that Novak was "a treasure ... a talented musician, a passionate fan and most of all a beautiful human being."
Novak indulged his passion for the arts early, earning a bachelor of fine arts in film studies at New York University in 1977 before getting his law degree from Wayne State University in 1980. Licensed to practice in both Michigan and California, Novak was mentored by Detroit entertainment attorney T. Patrick Freydl and served as a senior vice president and general counsel for Brass Ring Productions from 1985 to 2002 before devoting full-time to his own practice.
Out of the office, and the courtroom, he could be found at clubs, in casinos or on the golf course, where his partners included Seger.
"He was a much better golfer in his mind than in real life," Wulfmeir noted. "But he was a ball to play with. He was never happier than when he was out there -- give him a beautiful day, a cigar, golf clubs and he was a happy man."
Novak is survived by his wife, Loretta, two brothers and one sister.
Visitation for Novak will be 2-9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, at Verhyden Funeral Home, 16300 Mack Ave., Grosse Pointe Park; and 9:30 to 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 1, at St. Paul on the Lake Catholic Church, 157 Lakeshore Drive, Grosse Pointe Farms. Mass will be at 10 a.m.
For more information on Mike Novak's practice, visit http://mnovaklaw.com/