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TCSD Conversation by Craig Zelent
I recently had the pleasure of meeting TCSD member Lars Finanger. Lars is everything triathlon! But he's also a great, down to earth guy. I know you'll be entertained by reading of his many diverse experiences racing triathlons and making the sport we love his career.
Craig: What was your athletic background before you started doing triathlons?
Lars: When I was two years old my parents moved from Stavanger, Norway to the ARAMCO expat community of Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia. I spent the next 13 years in the Middle East where I participated in every sport imaginable, with the exception of American football. We only played what the rest of the world called football: soccer! My father was a Physical Education teacher as well as the school's cross country and track coach so I started running around at his practices at an early age. My first swim meet was at six years old and I swam competitively on and off through my freshman year of college.
However, baseball was my life. Saudi Arabia had a strong tradition of playing in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA as our all-star team consisted of Americans playing against Europeans and other teams with fewer opportunities. Unfortunately, my team was beaten by the American military kids living in Ramstein, Germany so we didn't make it to the LLWS. I played ball through college, at St. Olaf College, and was a varsity starter on three consecutive conference championship teams. As a first baseman and left-handed power hitter, I was always in the gym lifting weights and eating as much as possible to pack on more weight. My junior year of college I tipped the scales at 225-pounds! I still ran 45-60 minutes every day but it was typically to sweat off the beers consumed with my teammates from the previous night. After my junior year of college I realized I would likely not get drafted to play professionally so I signed up for Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, MN for a different kind of challenge. My weight came off quickly and I completed that first marathon at 200-pounds. I was hooked on running again, and I convinced the cross country coach to allow me to train and run with the team during my senior year. By the end of the season, I weighed 170-pounds but suffered from stress fractures due to overtraining!
Craig: What led you to do your first triathlon?
Lars: Being injured and unable to run with stress fractures prompted me to buy my first road bike. I had a daily paper route as a kid in Saudi Arabia and always rode my mountain bike to deliver the Arab News to subscribers throughout our town but had a bad spell of a few mountain bikes being stolen so made the decision to buy a road bike. I thought it lacked the cool factor and would be less likely to get stolen. My brother attended a boarding school in a town 20 miles away from the St. Olaf campus and I would ride over, visit him, and ride home, everyday. My first triathlon was the summer of my junior year of college and it was a 4th of July event in a rural Iowa town called Maquoketa. I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit it was not even a true triathlon but consisted of an 8-mile canoe paddle, 14-mile bike and 3.1-mile run! I was the only individual who used a rented, two-person canoe, and it was a disaster trying to keep the canoe level while moving forward in the water. I ended up placing second overall behind a guy who had an ultra-lite carbon fiber one-man canoe!
Craig: What motivated you to get serious about triathlon and race professionally?
Lars: I was hooked after that first event and jumped into triathlon head first as soon as my arms unlocked from the horrendous canoe paddling technique! I raced as many events as I could find in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin that summer. In 2002, after graduating from college, I took a job with Gear West in Minneapolis, Minnesota in their running store (they also owned a triathlon/bike store but I was too intimidated by my lack of cycling knowledge to ask about employment there) and worked odd jobs, anything that would keep me in the door. I caught my break when the triathlon store needed a sales catalog created to showcase their product lines and I jumped at the opportunity. Shortly after, I joined the shop team and was lucky to receive price breaks on equipment and race entries that allowed me cut my teeth in a competitive regional age-group triathlon scene. I got dusted by top national caliber age-groupers like David Thompson, Brian Bich, Tony Schiller and Jared Berg but I learned a lot from those guys about how to train and race. A few months later I got a job offer as a school intern at the International School of Brussels in Belgium and moved overseas. I spent most weekends that next year traveling by discount European airlines and by train to as many races across Europe as I could afford, including a particularly memorable trip to Nice, France to race the last ever edition of the prestigious Nice International Triathlon!
Craig: What triathlon racing accomplishment are you the most proud of and why?
Lars: I finished 5th place at Boulder 70.3 a few years ago behind the likes of Tim O'Donnell, Tyler Butterfield, Leon Griffin and David Thompson. I beat a few big names, including women's winner Julie Dibens! I particularly remember defending champ, Australian Simon Thompson, got off the bike something crazy like ten minutes behind me after serving a drafting penalty, and I ran scared the entire half-marathon. I asked everyone I saw on the course (including super swimmer Wolfgang Dittrich and 6x Ironman Kona winner Dave Scott, who are both still coaches in Boulder) how far back he was and they said to stop worrying. But Thomo was an Olympian and ran down O'Donnell in the final mile the previous year so I couldn't relax. I really earned my paycheck that day, which was also probably the only one I ever earned at an Ironman event!
Craig: You have done a lot of races all over the world. What is one of your most favorite destination races?
Lars: Ironman Lanzarote in the Canary Islands was incredible. The island sits only a few hundred kilometers off the coast of Africa but is Spanish owned so has a very unique culture. It is a volcanic island and the bike course winds along narrow roads in the south past lava fields through the Fire Mountains as well as over twisty alpine climbs in the north, including the remarkable Mirador del Rio, which offers a breathtaking view of the neighboring islands. The run is entirely along the ocean boardwalk and Spanish fans are crazy!
Craig: What was the dumbest thing you have ever done as a triathlete?
Lars: I was naive when I first started racing and was completely ignorant of anything technical with bicycles. I have always considered myself a student of the sport and I had read about the battles between Mark Allen and all his challengers – including the great Simon Lessing – at the Nice International Triathlon. In my mind, that event seemed every bit as prestigious as Ironman Hawaii, not to mention it was in Europe, which romanticized it's legendary status even more. I flew from the flatlands of Brussels to the Maritime Alps in Southern France and didn't think twice about needing any special equipment to traverse the mountainous course. After the 4km ocean swim, the bike started climbing up the Col de Vence, the first of three mountain passes on the course, and the climb used as the time-trial in the Paris-Nice ProTour cycling stage race. I stayed in the big ring and mashed away at the pedals and racers I passed kept saying something along the lines of, "Oh, strong like Jan Ullrich," which I understood later they were referring to the big gear and slow cadence I was pedaling. By the time I got to the top of that climb, I was wobbly-legged, cross-eyed and must have appeared inebriated as a Race Official demanded I remove my sunglasses to gauge by my eyes if I had departed planet Earth for La-La Land. Needless to say, I learned a few valuable lessons including it is not a sign of weakness to spin in the small chain ring up mountains and to always have a larger option than a 21-tooth cassette available.
Craig: We know this person is clearly not you. Please tell us about the best triathlete in your household.
Lars: I am constantly reminded at races that I am only the second best triathlete in our household. My wife, Emily Finanger, has been racing triathlons since she graduated from University of Minnesota and has won races on some very tough courses including Superfrog (3x) and Norseman Xtreme. Her collegiate swimming background makes her a shoe-in at most races to be at the pointy end of the field and she was an equally impressive cyclist. When we were dating, one of our early race trips took us back to Nice for Ironman France (WTC purchased the event and made it an Ironman in 2004). As an age-grouper in her first Ironman, she led out of the 2.4-mile swim and remained in second place overall, including all pros, through the bike leg and through the first half of the marathon. She had French TV crews mobbed around her and following her out on the course. She often gets extremely shy and each time we crossed paths on the course she told me she wished the other girls would hurry up and pass her so the video cameras would leave her alone. We got married in 2006 in Kona after we both raced the previous day. We don't often get a chance to train together, besides the occasional run pushing our baby daughter in the stroller, but I have learned from her how to still be competitive off high quality, low volume training.
Craig: What was your endurance sports career path like before you arrived in San Diego?
Lars: I cut my teeth in the endurance sports industry when I moved from Belgium to Boulder, CO. I had read that all aspiring endurance athletes needed to make that pilgrimage and I was eager to spend time training in the mountains for a change of pace! I applied for a job at Inside Communications, the former owners of VeloNews and Inside Triathlon magazines, in their customer service department working with their seasonal VeloGear catalog. Most of my colleagues focused on selling Lance Armstrong posters and US Postal Service team beer koozies, but I asked every person I spoke with over the phone if they wanted a subscription to Inside Triathlon magazine and sold over 20 subscriptions in 1 month. Somehow the Ad Director at Inside Triathlon heard about it and asked me to take an Ad Sales position with the magazine. Over time I graduated to Associate Publisher and Ad Sales Director, positions I held with Competitor Group when I moved to San Diego.
Craig: What is your career focus now that you have arrived in San Diego?
Lars: My current career focus is delivering incredible race experiences for athletes. I am able to do this through Fearless Races, a unique race format and fun race series featuring double super sprint triathlons, and as Age-Group Race Director for the ITU San Diego event. My work with the ITU is exactly what I imagined it would be as they are the most professional race organization in the sport and I can only hope to offer a fraction of the tremendous production value they offer at our future Fearless Races events on October 25-26th and in the future.
Craig: You have shared with me that you read these interviews that I do of TCSD members long before you became a TCSD member. That's really cool. When and why did you start following the TCSD?
Lars: When I was still living in Colorado, I would travel to San Diego every other month in order to meet and visit with industry companies. I always picked up a Competitor Magazine and TCSD newsletter and read them cover to cover. Those two publications, coupled with the urging of guys like Emilio DeSoto, served as my guide book to San Diego and steered me towards La Jolla Cove for open water swims (my Colorado friends thought I was insane for swimming with sharks!), club aquathlons and local cycling group rides like Swami's and Camp Pendleton.
Craig: If you could waive a magic wand over the sport of triathlon, what would you like to change?
Lars: I think we are an Ironman-obsessed culture here in San Diego and in the US. Maybe it is because the weather and year-round training options are so abundant we want to stay outside and train long hours all of the time. With the Ironman craze, we have a higher rate of one-and-done athletes who leave the sport after ticking that event off their life's bucket list. I want to continue to support and promote events that showcase innovative new formats, making the sport more accessible to the masses and more appealing to the general public as a healthy, and not an extreme, lifestyle, and finally to continue to offer opportunities for more youth to get out and experience this great sport at an early age. I also believe draft-legal racing for age-groupers is going to make big waves over the next decade here in the US. These races are in every city throughout Europe and are a big reason athletes are able to learn and practice important bike-handling skills. Here in the US, the challenge is to showcase why draft-legal racing can be fun and does not have to be considered a form of cheating and only for elites. It opens up the opportunity to introduce fun and exciting new race dynamics and new spectator-friendly venues too.
Craig: Professional triathletes sometimes act as if they are above joining the local club, but not you. You actually pay for your membership. What is it that makes the TCSD special to you?
Lars: This club is chock-full of resources whether you are an out-of-town visitor looking to find the must-do group workout, a beginner in the sport looking for a training buddy, a discount offer on premium products offered by sponsors, or the intense effort from the summer club aquathlons! I don't believe there is another club in the world that offers a fraction of what TCSD offers their members.
Craig: Lars, thank you for sharing your story. You have quite a journey and I'm thrilled you and Emily have made San Diego your home. Our community and club are because of your contributions. Good luck with all of your future endeavors!
Craig Zelent is a USA Triathlon Level 1 Certified Coach. Craig can be reached at 760-214-0055 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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A restless personality, a touch of ADD mixed with a childhood amidst the 80's sugary-diets, TV parenting and general explosion of mass pop-culture shaped Askew during his formative years. His work draws greatly from New Zealand's geographical isolation and it's subsequent desire to feel inclusion through pop-cultural appropriation. He is particularly intrigued in how trends mutate and break beyond being a caricature of their source. He is currently focussed on helping re-define the New Zealand graffiti aesthetic along with his main contemporaries, members of TMD, RTR and GBAK crews. Steeped in the foundation and tradition of 'NYC Subway' influenced graffiti, Askew wishes to see writing thrive in New Zealand, evolve past mere imitation or what he terms 'Karaoke Painting'." – via Askew One
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Stranded by Askew
1xRun: When was the piece drawn/created?
Askew: May 3rd, 2012
1xRun: Tell us how the idea and execution came about?
Askew: The idea came about after being stranded in the US on this recent trip. I appreciate the way all of the most prolific aspects of American pop culture are born from completely dysfunctional influences. Usually I feel like I'm on the outside looking in – whilst in the US, I felt like I was in the dead center of it all.
1xRun: What is unique about this piece?
Askew: This piece features my unique style of hand painted typography.
1xRun: Why should people buy this print?
Askew: Why not?
1xRun: Describe the piece/print in one gut reaction word.
Askew: graphic.
1xRun: When did you first start making art?
Askew: From as soon as I could grasp something to make a mark.
1xRun: What was your first piece?
Askew: I really don't know.
1xRun: What artists inspired you early on?
Askew: I was mostly inspired by comic book artists early on, especially Batman and 2000ad artists.
1xRun: What artists inspire you now?
Askew: Shane Cotton, Chris Knox, Takashi Murikami, John Pule, Retna, Revok, Rime, Gregor Kregar and more…
RIME x MYLA x ASKEW x DABS x REVOK from Askew One on Vimeo.
1xRun: Do you listen to music while you work? If so what? If not then what is your environment like when you work?
Askew: I listen to a lot of music – I listen to every genre. Need music in my life.
1xRun: What was the first & last piece of art that you bought? Do you still have them?
Askew: I have only ever bought one piece of art – a wooden fish by Kozy & Dan. It's super awesome.
1xRun: What else do you have in the works?
Askew: Always keeping busy. Never not doing something.
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Outstanding among the many outpourings of generous relief for the victims of the hurricane Katrina disaster was the anonymous gift made by a Holocaust survivor.
A 90-year old man walked into a U.S. diplomatic office, presented an envelope containing 1,000 Euros (about $1,240) and declared that he was contributing this to the U.S. for hurricane relief as a way of repaying his debt to the Americans for liberating him from a concentration camp.
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Junior Kyle Gibbons (Westlake, Ohio) of the Canisius College hockey team collected third-team All-Atlantic Hockey honors, announced by the conference on Tuesday.
Gibbons leads the Griffs with 36 points, 18 goals and 18 assists this season. His 38 points are currently the seventh-most in the program's Division I record book, while his 18 goals are tied for fifth. Gibbons also ranks fifth in Atlantic Hockey in points and fourth in goals, while placing 50th nationally with 0.92 points per game and 25th with 0.46 goals per game.
The Westlake, Ohio native has been one of the hottest players in the country after a slow start to the season. The junior did not record a point until Nov. 10 but his 36 points since then rank ninth in the country with his 18 tallies placing seventh. In addition, Gibbons ranks second nationally with 28 points since the beginning of 2013.
During his career, Gibbons has totaled 85 points, 39 goals and 46 assists in 108 games. The junior places 11th in the program's record book with his 85 career points and eighth with his 39 career goals.
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A new survey found that an increasing number of Americans are spending a large portion of their indoors. Around 25 percent of Americans said they spend almost no time outdoors on any given day, going from home, to work and back home again, only seeing the outside during their commute. 85 percent of women and 67 percent of men surveyed indicated that they do chores around the house until they go to bed.
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I think I can provide a simpler answer: people pray to a magic man in the sky because they are profoundly fearful of death and the cruel vicissitudes of life. You can conjure up all the weasily, philosophical rationales you want: it all boils down to the desperate but futile attempt to find an escape clause to avoid your inevitable fate: a return to the muck from which you oozed.
I have found that in some cases prayer causes more dispair to the person that suffers from depression. If their prayers is not answered they become more negative because in a already negative state, they start questioning whether they are not worthy enough, or not religious enough, or are they to sinfull ect for god to answer their prayers. I do believe that Cognitive behavioural Therapy to be much more productive and therapeutic than prayer with a much better result. By enbabling the person to objectively through logic and reason find what is causing the emotion, how to deal with the emotion, find answers and a solution to the problem and teaching them how to turn their negative thought or circumstances into a positive, this might take from a few days to a few months but their will be reults through teaching a person to controle his mind and not have his mind controle him. Prayer does not remove the pain from losing a lost one, or fix your unemployment , relationship problems or bipolar or any of the problems that could cause depression it can make it worse as in most cases the person praying is waiting for some miracle to happen and fix this promblem , while the situation is getting worse. For instance a person suffering from Bipolar can pray all he wants when in depression but only through therapy and medication is he going to get better, so in choosing prayer as the fix for his/her dispair the situation worsens.
I do understand that for some people it can realease more endorphins to give the feeling of overall wellbeing the placebo affect of prayer. What I am saying is that also from reading psychology papers and talking to people their are people who become more depressed because of thier prayers not being answered. If the person suffering from depression, ( using an example) suffers from bipolar, the symptoms and chemical imbalance will effect, selfimage and selfesteem. In severe depression you find that people already question their selfworth, when prayer is not answered and the person starts questioning if they do not have enough faith,or is not worthy of gods mercy, they are not praying hard enough ect. This inturn does not have a positive spin off and does not release the endorphins that one wants to see released, but effects the person in a more negative manner and can worsen the state of depression. I do have to agree that some people do find comfort in prayer, the reality is that it does not always change the core of the problem that caused the symptom. It will give a sens of wellbeing for a period of time,just as medication gives relief to a lot of the symptoms of depression , but not always cure the cause. And in that sens therapy is the better solution, whether in combination with prayer or medication. People are emotional beings and whether guilt is included or excluded from religion it is an true and real emotion, and taking into account that when suffering from depression a persons perseption , of the self or the natural thought patern is not logical neither their respons to the long term thoughts that is in the mind. So prayer can be positive for some or create a more negative effect depending on the persons perseption of their own self.
I love how the human mind works, thought patern long term and short term , and automatic respons because of long term conditioning is so interesting. Amasing how the input effects the output, just like a computer and how the automated respons relies on the programming of the mind.
Well, I doubt a binary computer will ever actually have emotions, wants, self-awareness, etc. Behave as though it does...sure..but that's about it. I have been designing embedded computers for 25 years, and not a single one of them shows any gratitude at all.


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London, UK – The fuel cell technology has begun to go places. The humble hydrogen fuel cell keeps operations low cost, clean and reliable even in times of no power. Giving another push to the regenerative hydrogen fuel cell (RHFC) is SolarBotanic, a UK-based green energy company known for its radical innovations with concepts such as the 'energy tree'.
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Author: Jayme Smith, Student Staff Writer,
The News-Register Published Oct. 27, 2015
While most college students spend their summers with friends and family by the pool, at the movies or traveling, 19-year-old sophomore Maleen Kidwela was researching for NASA.
"It was summer and we needed something to do," said Kidwela, a geophysics major and tutor at the Math Learning Center at North Lake College.
Kidwela and his Californian colleague and chemical engineering major, Aaron Aliaga, submitted a concept into NASA's "Journey to Mars Challenge: Achieving Earth Independence" in July. They spent two months collaborating on ideas, mathematic models and satellite data, which they incorporated into a 30-page report describing how to maintain a permanent human presence on Mars."
Basically, it's about protecting the astronauts from galactic cosmic radiation, and also giving them renewable oxygen, food, water and an energy source," said Kidwela. "It's a broad concept, not just one idea. The crew wouldn't need resupply; the idea is to achieve Earth independence."
By September, NASA was contacting Kidwela and Aliaga that their entry, "Mars Settlement Concepts" was one of three chosen out of 771 submissions worldwide to win $5,000. Most of the contest entries were submitted by doctorate and masters graduates. Neither of which are Kidwela or Aliaga—at least, not yet.
"We thought it was a long shot," said Aliaga.
Kidwela said he received a message from the director of NASA who expressed his surprise witnessing two college-level students win.
"They contacted me through email," Kidwela said. "When I saw NASA.gov I knew we had won so I didn't even open it, but forwarded it to Aaron instead. We were thrilled!"
Kidwela and Aliaga met three years ago when Kidwela moved from his home country of Sri Lanka to Sun City, CA, where the two attended Paloma Valley High School together their senior year. They instantly hit it off.
"When we first met I told him, 'I'm studying to do research,'" Kidwela said. "Then Aaron said, 'Oh, I do research all the time with my dad,' and eventually we became best friends."
They began entering contests together. They were finalists in the California State Science Fair. Their "Project Tremor" won first place in the Riverside Inland Science and Engineering Fair after researching the use of minute precursors to pinpoint locations of earthquakes.
Despite Kidwela and Aliaga living miles apart, they communicate through Skype and Google Docs while researching and they contribute their success to teamwork, agreeing that one couldn't have won NASA's "Mars Challenge" without the other.
Aaron is more practical and offers a lot of mechanical knowledge—how to build anything electrical—and I offer more theory and the geophysics of Earth," said Kidwela.
Aliaga plans on using his half of the prize money to purchase a new laptop, school supplies and fuel, which he says are all necessary for college life. Kidwela plans to save his winnings. But the two innovators weren't motivated by the prize money, but rather the opportunity to be a part of something bigger than themselves.
"It is an honor knowing that our ideas may help shape the future of Mars colonization," said Aliaga. "It is sort of surreal. It's a positive feeling knowing that we may have a part in leading the future of human exploration."
So why is it important to invest in developing new technologies to pursue space exploration?
"The population is increasing greatly—doubling in size—and it will eventually exceed its limits here on Earth as resources begin to deplete," said Kidwela. "This is the reason why we're pursuing sustainable life on another planet."
Chemistry professor Christopher McAdams was pleased with Kidwela's submission to NASA.
"Maleen used some concepts from chemistry, but the scope of his proposal went far beyond the concepts that we cover in class," McAdams said. "It required a broad understanding of physics, chemistry and biology."
Kidwela's brilliance may derive from genetics as his father is an irrigation engineer or from spending his childhood in his parent's grand library.
"My hobby was reading," said Kidwela. "I enjoyed science fiction and encyclopedias."
In 2012, he was a finalist in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) in Sri Lanka. And he's actually no stranger to NASA. Last year, he won third place with another colleague, sophomore Prabhasha Wattegedara, after they created an idea for an app in NASA's "Climate Resilience Data Challenge" that uses NASA satellite data to acquire your location and help you avoid stressful situations in urban cities and different areas of the world.
Calculus professor Rhaman Ghamasaee believes Kidwela's curiosity, perseverance, hard work and time management sets him apart from other students.
"He has demonstrated great potential and it is an honor for North Lake to have a student of this caliber," Ghamasaee said. "Try to maintain your competitive edge, Maleen."
This doesn't seem to be an issue for Kidwela who is in the process of working on a new project. "I'm always researching," he said.
Kidwela plans on transferring to a university next fall where he plans to earn his bachelor's degree and eventually pursue his masters and Ph.D.
"I plan to become a seismologist and work for NASA or U.S. Geological Survey," said Kidwela. "Or Aaron and I may contribute to a research organization."
And maybe in the distant future, Kidwela will be spending his summers sending mankind to Mars.
To read more news pieces from student writers at North Lake College,
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The formation of the DCCCD Retirees Association begin in 1984 through the insight of Dr. R. Jan LeCroy, DCCCD Chancellor from 1980-1988. It was his belief that our retirees, who have made lifelong friendships, should have an organization that would enable them to continue to keep their friendships and their interest in the District current. Dr. LeCroy asked Assistant Vice Chancellor for Planning and Development Affairs, Bill Tucker, to help in the formation of such an organization. Mr. Tucker and his assistant, Jan Brobst, invited retirees to the first-ever meeting at Eastfield College that Mr. Tucker chaired.
At this meeting, it was decided that there was a definite interest in the formation of a Retiree Association, and that a luncheon would be held inviting all retirees. It was from the discretionary funds of the Chancellor and the Vice Chancellor that this luncheon and early meetings were made possible.
There were eighty retirees at this time, and on Sept. 13, 1984, thirty-eight retirees met at the Lakewood Country Club for an organizational meeting.
At the luncheon, a nominating committee was named to establish the slate of officers for the Association. The committee, Marguerite Camp, Bill Sherman, Rita Nall, and Jim Hankerson, chose Charlene King, President; Robert Shofner, Vice President; Ted Carley, Treasurer; and Rita Nall, Secretary.
Our Association, the fund received its initial boost when retiree Ed Stoorza contributed $250 that first year. Our funding was set up through the District Foundation. Our financial year, at that time, was to run from Sept. to Aug. Old habits die hard.
Initially, meetings were held on various DCCCD campuses, and in the homes of members. We were small enough organization then. The association had annual picnics and holiday parties, dinners and outings to sporting and theater events. The potluck was the menu of choice when a member had the meeting in his or her home. On some occasions, members would meet at various restaurants; a favorite was Crackers on Oak Lawn, owned by Gus Katsigris, and then head of the Food Services Program at El Centro College.
Later, the association opened a checking account for conducting the financial business of the Association, and the Foundation fund became our scholarship fund.
In 1991, association dues were raised to $10 a year, and the financial year changed from Sept. - Aug. to Jan. - Dec., and in 1997, the name of our newsletter has been modified to Ret-Express. In 2005, the by-laws were changed so that terms for officers term to go two-year terms rather than a one-year term, and the Vice President was given the responsibility of Membership Chair. Other minor changes were made to bring the by-laws in line with practices.
In 2009, we had accrued enough money to be able to award a $500 scholarship to an exemplary student. We have continued to award such a scholarship each year since then, and the District Foundation is of great assistance in the administration of this scholarship.
Our retirees have always retained their enthusiasm and willingness to serve. It is through these attributes that we have continued to grow. In 2011, there are over 900 retirees and 245 are members of the Retiree Association of the DCCCD. We have two meetings a year: a spring luncheon at El Centro College and a Holiday Luncheon at Maggiano's in Northpark Center. There are groups of our retirees who regularly go to the theater, museums, and the racetrack.
The Human Resources department was and has continued to be our primary link to the district, and without their continued support, we would not be able to operate as efficiently as we do. Also, Dorothy Pool and the Archives team in District Archives provided us with much of the information that we have included here.
We have grown, but our function remains constant. The DCCCD Retirees Association is the continuation of academic life to which we have dedicated ourselves. Unlike so many who retire, we are not left without the basis that has been our lives and the people who helped us live it.
We thank Jan LeCroy, and the members who have lovingly and loyally served the Association through the years.
Donna GormlyApril 20, 2011
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Literacy Forum in Mission
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Mission, British Columbia
Thursday, December 1, 2005
Rhian, thank you again for the wonderful introduction and warm welcome. It's great to be in Mission tonight - "to be nestled in the rugged Coast Mountains across the Fraser River, so named after the first and largest mission in the Pacific Northwest, the Roman Catholic St. Mary's Indian Mission, founded in 1861." There's important First Nations history in your community.
Before we get started, I want to tell you about an award winning book Rhian recommended in January for Family Literacy Day (or any day for that matter) called "Hana's Suitcase: a True Story" by Karen Levine. As you may know, this captivating book is about Japanese children, visiting a Holocaust Centre in Tokyo, who are intrigued by a suitcase inscribed with the name Hana Brady. The curator of the Centre resolves to find out "what happened to Hana" for the children and travels to Europe on a search that eventually leads her to Canada. I must say that the book and backdrop to the story made me reflect on two things: 1) literacy is a human right it bears repeating, literacy is a human right and this means every child should be able to read "Hana's Suitcase" in any language; and 2) the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, to be built in Winnipeg, may be able to help keep Hana's story alive for millions of children (and grown-ups) around the globe.
When Rhian invited me to join you this evening, I was delighted to hear that the Mission AM and Mission Midday Rotary Clubs are involved in an event about literacy, sustainability and community development, the focus of my remarks. Obviously Rotarians "get it" when it comes to pushing the envelope on literacy. After watching the marvelous video, I want to commend Brenda and the Literacy Now team for such a superb effort. Literacy truly is all about learning and community development. Literacy truly is the ability to engage the world in ways that matter to you. And literacy truly starts with kids and ideally never stops. It's simply smart thinking for Literacy Now to be part of the 2010 Legacies Now action plan! I'm not surprised that this organization also supports community events like this one.
The literacy link to the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has not gone unnoticed by RBC, who was chosen by the Vancouver Organizing Committee as the premier national partner for banking. We believe in the Olympic Games because they demonstrate excellence, leadership and diversity - the same values to which we aspire. And we also believe the Games will benefit all of Canada from the perspective of economics, education, sustainability, cultural activity, and tourism. RBC supports legacies' programs - and that's why we're huge fans of what this province - your community - is doing to advance literacy and learning, Now.
As the video suggests, research shows that improved literacy pays off in economic activity, productivity, lower health care costs, better outcomes for children and safer, more cohesive communities. There's more statistics and research from the Movement for Canadian Literacy that's worth a closer look:
This is a call to literacy action. Governments, business and communities have a critical leadership role to play in changing the Canadian literacy landscape. In addition to the work of Literacy Now, what's happening across the country and right here in Mission to help address this priority issue?
At home in British Columbia your provincial government announced it would "provide $1.34 million for 50 adult literacy programs including new and continuing programs affecting more then 4,900 people in numerous communities across BC." Right here, the Mission Literacy Association has been a huge influence in the community over a number of years, with accomplishments that include: Books for Babies, the Riot of Reading annual event, Reading Buddies and adult tutoring with volunteers. The Rotary Club has sponsored the start up of 'Books for Breakfast' carried out by the School District. Books are regularly donated to the Family Place and the aboriginal Family Place. And a special book was produced for the Headstart program, while dual language books were bought for the Punjabi population. As I look around this room and applaud your achievements, there's a great deal to be proud of, yet still much work to be done in communities from coast to coast. All one has to do is absorb the research, step outside our comfort zone and read editorials like the one in the November 24th edition of the National Post, "The high cost of immigrant illiteracy" to come to grips with the fact that literacy is a journey, not a destination.
And this is just one more reason why business must continue to step up to the literacy support plate (and in greater numbers too), especially in terms of partnerships and sharing knowledge. There's a lot riding on literacy in the corporate community. CanWest Global gets with the program through its annual Raise-a-Reader campaign - a "unique project based on a model created in 1997 by the Vancouver Sun, to increase awareness and raise money for children's literacy programs in British Columbia."
On this note, I'm delighted to say that for the fifth consecutive
year, RBC supports the B.C. Library Association's Summer
Reading Club, a province-wide program that encourages
children to read throughout the summer. We take special pride
in providing medals for the children who have successfully
read a number of books in the Club that's organized by the
public libraries. It's great to know that the RBC team is
also on the push for literacy team.
"The United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012) aims to extend the use of literacy to those who do not currently have access to it. Over 861 million adults are in that position (two thirds of these people are women) and over 113 million children are not in school and therefore not gaining access to literacy either. Literacy efforts have so far failed to reach the poorest and most marginalized groups of people - the Decade will particularly address such populations, under the banner of Literacy for all: voice for all, learning for all."
There's no doubt that the Literacy Decade is part of a wider spectrum of international work in education and development, with literacy promotion being the heart of its goals. Since literacy is also being promoted on both provincial and national fronts in Canada, it will be interesting to see how the literacy profile unfolds during the federal election campaign and ultimately whether promises made are promises kept, regardless of the standings in the House of Commons or the governing Party.
Four days after our federal election, Canada will mark ABC
CANADA Family Literacy Day, a national initiative that promotes
the importance of reading and learning together as a family.
"Every year, on January 27, families and communities
across Canada celebrate this special day at literacy-themed
events coordinated by literacy organizations, schools and
libraries." And speaking of libraries, special thanks
to Rhian of the Coquitlam Library (who wears her Rotarian
and library hat tonight), for helping to organize this evening.
In closing, literacy, sustainability and community development can be likened to a learning partnership that starts with kids and ideally never stops. I'm convinced that the essence of our literacy journey is leadership and in the words of scientist John C. Polanyi: "Anybody who can do so much as read, has an obligation to those who cannot"! Let's make Family Literacy Day every day in Mission, British Columbia and Canada!
Thanks very much now let's hear from you.


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After a dozen years, the AL East is finally theirs. The Red Sox claimed the American League East division title on Friday night with their 5-2 win over the Twins and the Baltimore Orioles' 10-9 win over the Yankees about an hour later.
After a dozen years, the AL East is finally theirs. The Red Sox claimed the American League East division title on Friday night with their 5-2 win over the Twins and the Baltimore Orioles' 10-9 win over the Yankees about an hour later. The last time they won the division was 1995, and they saw the Yankees win 10 of the next 11 titles. "I'd rather do it on the field," said Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell, who was watching the Yankees and Orioles game in the clubhouse after the win. "It's a more satisfying feeling to get the last out on the field." At Camden Yards, Yankees closer Mariano Rivera coughed up a three-run lead in the ninth inning and the teams stood tied, 9-9, in the 10th inning. "I'm still going to party," said Lowell. The Sox moved within a win or a Yankees' loss of the division crown riding the right arm of Daisuke Matsuzaka, and that sound you hear was a giant sign coming from the Red Sox clubhouse. If the Sox are to go far into the playoffs, they're going to need efforts like Friday's from Matsuzaka. He pitched seven brilliant innings and one less-than-terrific inning, but all in all it was a positive performance. "I thought he was dialed in right from the bullpen," said Red Sox manager Terry Francona. "He had a good look in his eyes - confident - and it was awesome." For the first six innings and the eighth inning, Matsuzaka kept the Twins off the scoreboard, allowing just four hits. In the seventh, he was touched for two runs but kept the damage to a minimum. It was by far his best outing since Aug. 10 in Baltimore when he allowed one run on four hits in seven innings. Since then, he's gone 1-4 with two no-decisions and, frankly, hasn't looked like the $103 million pitcher to Sox hoped they signed. But he looked that way against the Twins. In eight innings, he allowed two runs on six hits and two walks. He struck out eight, and only in the seventh did the Twins send more than four batters to the plate. He threw 119 pitches, 77 for strikes. He consistently threw his fastball in the 93-94 range and he parlayed that with sharp breaking balls. "It was an important game so I really wanted to win today, and as I was pitching, I just kept telling myself that we were going to win today," said Matsuzaka. "From here, there are going to be many important games in a row and knowing that fact, I just wanted to set myself up and throw a good game. Hopefully, that will carry me into the playoffs." In the seventh, with the Red Sox leading, 4-0, Matsuzaka gave up a leadoff home run to Justin Morneau and a run-scoring groundout to Brian Buscher. But he left another run at third base when he got Nick Punto to fly to center to end the inning. "He kind of rose to the occasion," said Francona. "He understands the magnitude of these games. It's a good feeling. It was a little more adrenaline (than his May and June starats). He was ready to go. That was good to see." The Sox jumped on Twins starter Kevin Slowey early, scoring two runs in the first inning and one in the third. In the first, David Ortiz doubled with two outs and scored on Mike Lowell's single to right. J.D. Drew followed with a double down the left-field line to score Lowell. In the third, Dustin Pedroia led off with a single and was forced at second on Ramirez's groundball to short. Ramirez went to second on a wild pitch, third on a single to right by Ortiz and scored on Lowell's groundout to third. For Ortiz, the single marked his ninth straight hit and 11th straight time he reached base. The streak would end in the sixth when he grounded to second. The Sox made it 4-0 in the sixth when Lowell doubled with one out and scored on Kevin Youkilis' bloop single into right with two outs. Ortiz then started a new streak by hitting his 35th home run of the season, a solo shot into the Monster Seats in the eighth inning, for the Sox's final run. Enterprise


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David Duncan has many reasons to be thankful this holiday season. He recently celebrated the 15th anniversary of his kidney and pancreas transplants, and both organs are functioning with no signs of rejection. He no longer needs debilitating dialysis treatments thanks to the kidney transplant and is free from the insulin he had to take from the time he was diagnosed with diabetes at age 12 to age 39, when his pancreas transplant cured his unstable disease. But he is most thankful to the donor family who gave him a second chance at life.
"My surgeons left me with something else, too—a funny bone," he says, cracking one of his many jokes. David has made it his life's work as a minister, telling humorous, inspirational stories to children, and as a motivational speaker for LifeLink with the motto, "Any day above ground is a good day."
"I went into Emory for a kidney transplant, and there must have been a two-for-one sale. I ended up with a pancreas, too," quips David, who is 54. "I have a brand new life. The transplants lifted me out of the grave."
Before his transplants in 1996, he was in renal failure, on dialysis and at the point that his nephrologist in Macon said he might not survive much longer without a kidney transplant. He was on Emory's waiting list for six months before receiving a donor kidney and pancreas "from a pre-teenage girl who gave me a second chance."
He pauses and remembers the extraordinary gifts from his donor family, "My chair is filled, but the chair for that family is empty. But they changed my life and it's my mission to give hope to children of all ages," says David, who serves as a chaplain for homeless, orphaned abused or neglected children.
"David is the kind of guy you love to have around," wrote a former colleague, Pastor Bob Price, in a letter about David to the ETC. "He just makes you feel better. If someone asks him how he is doing, he might say something like, 'If I were any better, I'd be twins!'"
There are a couple of things that could've dampened David's positive attitude: He's also a double amputee. Complications from the diabetes had left him with foot ulcers and poor circulation in his legs, which led to the amputation of one leg six years ago and the other a year later.
David and his wife, Shirley, have three daughters and three grandsons. "I don't allow them to take care of me. I have no limitations. I'm active, watch my weight and take care of my own health—I am intentional about my meds and my life's purpose," he continues. "Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional."
David writes notes each year at this time to his surgeons, Drs. Chris Larsen and Thomas Pearson, to thank them for their care. He also takes time to thank all the others at Emory who have cared for him over the years, from the front desk receptionists who are always so friendly, to the nurses, phlebotomists and doctors.
"It's all about teamwork—they have no idea how inspiring they are," he says. "We can't take them for granted. Life is a gift, and it is up to each one of us to unwrap it and use it to serve others."


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I got Mellinkoff's article from the library. It is about "winged headgear" imagery in France, England and Germany, specifically wings on helmets and people being depicted with wings growing out of a person's head, and specifically about the 13th and 14th century. Wings are firmly anchored masses of feathers in a characteristic "wing" shape, one on each side of the head or helmet. She says nothing about isolated feathers shown stuck in the hair of a person, much less precisely seven of them.3. The significance of the feathers for Giotto is most likely explained in Ruth Mellinkoff, "Demonic Winged Headgear," Viator 16 (1985): 367–81
In Italy I am only familiar with the helmet type, similar to what is on the charioteer on some Chariot and World cards (as I recall). The seven feathers on the Giotto and PMB Fool are a different image.
Moreover, when Mellinkoff speaks of the "demonic" nature of "winged headgear," she is not making a hard and fast rule (or else, with her repeated "may have" on her first page she is speculating, the way we do on THF, when we say "the card maker may have ...). Here is an example (Mellinkoff p. 367)::
Well, I can't argue with a "may have"; yes some "may" have done that, and some "may not" have. Yes, it's possible some did. But in the Renaissance, paganism wasn't just "wicked"; it was valued as a precursor to Christianity. (Actually, that was true in the Middle Ages, too, just not to the same degree.) So when we see the head wings of a Mercury in the World card of Bologna, it is not a demonization; in fact, this Mercury is probably a stand-in for Christ, who also conveys souls between worlds. When we see the wings of a hero such as Perseus on the Bologna charioteer, it is also not a demonization. Military-type heroes were routinely portrayed with such helmets, in paintings, with no implication that they were evil. It seems to me that Ross gave some examples somehwere, perhaps on the "Bologna" thread (Unicorn Terrace). .A medieval artist may have abstracted and compacted the head wings of a Mercury or a Perseus into an all-purpose badge symbolizing wicked paganism; then affixing those wings to the heads of those designated evil in Christian thought would bring disgrace to those unbelievers.
The rest of Mellinkoff's article pursues the "demonization" theme with many examples--all of wings, of course, not isolated feathers. But she had defined her topic narrowly from the start, excluding the humanist point of view that became dominant in the Renaissance.
Besides Phaeded's reference to Mellinkoff, I have checked Moakley's reference to Frazer in the Golden Bough. It is onlne at https://books.google.com/books?id=dQdph ... rs&f=false. Here is the most relevant passage:
Tow, according to Google, is "the coarse and broken part of flax or hemp prepared for spinning". This description is fairly close to what we see on Giotto's Folly and the PMB's Matto. In Frazer other examples surround this one (for which I see no reference, but I see no reason to question it), ones where feathers are legs, or leg-like appendages, on an old lady.Thus in the Abruzzi they hang a puppet of tow, representing Lent, to a cord, which stretches across the street from one window to another. Seven feathers are attached to the figure, and in its hand it grasps a distaff and spindle. Every Saturday in Lent one of the feathers is plucked out, and on Holy Saturday, while the bells are ringing, a string of chestnuts is burnt for the purpose of sending Lent and its meager fare to the devil.
Clearly the seven feathers, whatever else they may signify, are in the Giotto and PMB connected to Lent.
If both the Carnival personification and the Lent personification are burnt, we have to ask, what is the difference? Simple answer: one is burned at the end of Carnival; the other is burned at the end of Lent. Their burning signifies the end of a particular season, first Carnival and then Lent.
Moakley says:
One is the personification of Carnival, the other is the personification of Lent, both Moakley and Frazer say. The penitent is not Giotto's Folly, unless perhaps his upward gaze is to God for forgiveness.The seven feathers in his hair, and the ragged penitential garments which he wears, show that he is the personification of Lent, which puts an end to the Carnival season.
But what is the significance of removing one feather per week, starting with seven and ending with none, beyond that of merely counting off the weeks? It must be related to the significance of Lent itself. I turn to Wikipedia:
But preparation for what?The purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer through prayer, doing penance, repentance of sins, almsgiving,
And:Since, presumably, the Apostles fasted as they mourned the death of Jesus, Christians have traditionally fasted during the annual commemoration of his burial.
If Lent starts with seven feathers and ends with none, the feathers would seem to have something to do with sinfulness, and their removal with purification.Converts to Catholicism followed a strict catechumenate or period of instruction and discipline prior to baptism. In Jerusalem near the close of the fourth century, classes were held throughout Lent for three hours each day. With the legalization of Christianity (by the Edict of Milan) and its later imposition as the state religion of the Roman Empire, its character was endangered by the great influx of new members. In response, the Lenten fast and practices of self-renunciation were required annually of all Christians, both to show solidarity with the catechumens, and for their own spiritual benefit.
Moakley again:
One is the personification of Carnival, the other is the personification of Lent, both Moakley and Frazer say. The penitent is not Giotto's Folly. It is more the "wayfarer" of Bosch. And the 7 weeks of Lent turned into the 7x3 cards of the tarot sequence.The seven feathers in his hair, and the ragged penitential garments which he wears, show that he is the personification of Lent, which puts an end to the Carnival season.
That much (except the last sentence) I think is implied by Moakley. But, yes, I want to go further.
That the puppet is burned on Holy Saturday has a special significance. Holy Saturday is when Christ goes to Limbo and frees the pre-Christian saints. Thereby the Serpent that achieved temporary victory in Eden is undone, its rule is ended, just like the Lent-doll. But the one who "goes to the Devil" after death is also Christ going to limbo.
It is like the Scapegoat of Jewish Tradition. On the one hand, it is loaded down with evil, the sins of the people over the past year. On the other hand, it frees the people from those sins; it, with the people's own acts of penitence, is the people's savior.
As I say, I do not know if Giotto's Folly is mocking religion; there are signs to the contrary, his upward gaze and his pregnancy, but perhaps that is mockery, too. If so, he is not the embodiment of Lent; he is the one who is defeated at Lent. But then we are back to the question: what is the difference between him and the Carnival King? Surely fasting and penitence, the spirit of Lent, have not been defeated.
There are differences between Giotto's Folly and the PMB Matto to take into account. The Matto looks straight ahead, toward the viewer, not up in the sky. His gaze is also rather unfocused, and so inward more than outward ("responding to internal stimuli", as it is said in the trade), like that of Bembo saints.
The PMB Fool's goiter is reminiscent of the ailing Fisher King, an important figure in the romances that these nobles read. The salmon the Fisher King traditionally fished for had phallic connotations, and his personal history is one of sexual folly (as is Folly's, on one level). He is a symbol for the ails of the world. Yet as fisher he is also Christ, the "fisher of men", whose symbol was the fish, and whose castle was not of this world. It is like the city in a bubble of the PMB "second artist" last card, which the Fool follows, in Moakley's presentation of the imagined pageant that is the tarot sequence. Another analogy is to Oedipus, Greek for "swollen foot", also a euphemism for the phallus. His sexual folly, once he realizes it, casts him out of the city of which he was king, and he blinds himself in atonement to the god of light. It is another precursor to the King of Lent, whose allegiance is to the new god of light and purity. Yet Oedipus as a result becomes a wandering seer, with Apollo's gift of prophecy, as is clear in the next drama in the trilogy
This is me talking, not Moakley now. But I am merely trying to make sense of her contrast between Lent/Fool and Carnival/Bagatino. For the Fool, she only refers to his being "the spirit of Lent" and "the successful outsider":
He is the successful outsider, the man who has escaped from the demands of society, and no longer attempts to dress or act to please it. He is the prince above all princes, who dares to do as he pleases.
That of course hardly describes the spirit of Lent! And such freedom has both evil and good aspects. To do as one pleases is not to "love your neighbor as yourself." To mock society, even to mock religion, is not to be above society or religion, any more than Erasmus's quintessential Renaissance work Praise of Folly, which certainly mocked both, meant to be above either. Or the participants in the "Mass of Fools", which made fun of Christendom's most holy ritual, felt themselves above the Mass as performed the rest of the year.


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University College Hull was founded in 1927, the foundation stone was laid by the Duke of York (later George VI) in 1928, and the college opened in October with 39 students and 14 'one-man' departments. University College Hull was an outpost of the University of London and offered courses only in the arts and pure sciences. A Royal Charter was granted in 1954 and the University of Hull became a separate institution with the right to award its own degrees. It was Yorkshire's third university, and only the 14th in England.
In 2000, the university merged with University College Scarborough. The college (originally a teacher training institution) became the University of Hull's Scarborough Campus, offering specialist undergraduate programmes in the arts, business, coastal studies, education and internet computing.
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The West Side is the Best Side…Posted by rtmsf on June 9th, 2007
2Pac was right after all
Quite a bit was made last season of a renaissance in the quality of basketball in the Pac-10 conference, as it ended the season as a top three conference in both the RPI and Sagarin ratings in addition to earning a record six NCAA bids for the conference and enjoying the prestige as the only conference with multiple teams in the Elite Eight (Oregon and UCLA). There has always been a surplus of talent on the west coast, especially in the Seattle and SoCal areas, but it was largely characterized by players opting to play for an eastern school just as often as staying home to play for State U. This has been changing over the last five years, however, as new coaches such as Lorenzo Romar at Washington, Tim Floyd at USC, Tony Bennett at Wazzu and Ben Howland at UCLA have endeavored and succeeded in keeping as many of those talents as possible close to home. This is no more evident than in some of the recruiting wars over the last couple of years that resulted in top ten players such as Spencer Hawes (Washington), twins Brook & Robin Lopez (Stanford), Kevin Love (UCLA) and Brandon Jennings (Arizona) signing to play in the Pac-10 (notable exception: Lake Oswego's (OR) Kyle Singler to Duke).
Lavin's former conference is on the rise
Still, we were a little surprised when Rivals released its top ten players at each position for the 2007-08 season, and the Pac-10 claimed by far the most players, with thirteen of the top fifty. This is especially remarkable given that the league is losing all-conference performers Arron Afflalo (UCLA), Aaron Brooks (Oregon), Marcus Williams (Arizona) and Nick Young (USC) to the NBA next season, while it welcomes likely top fifty players Kevin Love and OJ Mayo (USC) to the league. With talent like this staying on the west coast, we should expect another great season from the Pac-10 conference next year. Somewhere Steve Lavin's hair gel is celebrating.
The ACC and Big East have seven players each on the list; the SEC has six, and the the Big 12 has five of the top fifty players. The Mountain West and Conference USA both have three of the top fifty, outperforming the Big 10 (again), who only has two. The Colonial (Eric Maynor – VCU), Horizon (AJ Graves – Butler), Missouri Valley (Randal Falker – S. Illinois) and Southern (Stephen Curry – Davidson) conferences each have one top fifty player returning. Below is the list including multiple-player conferences:
You probably noticed that we shaded the teams with three top fifty players returning next season – Stanford, UCLA, UNC, Kansas. It's certainly no coincidence that three of those will begin next year in the top five of the polls, and the fourth, Stanford, will probably be knocking on the door of the top ten.
Thoughts –
- Where is all the Big Ten talent? Having less players on this list than CUSA and the Mountain West is cause for alarm, and helps to explain why only one Big Ten team played into the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament last season. Where are the usual stables of talent at Michigan State and Illinois? Aside from the yeoman's work that Matta is putting into recruting at OSU, the rest of the Big Ten has signed only two top thirty prospects during the last three recruiting cycles – Joe Krabbenhoft of Wisconsin in 2005, and Eric Gordon of Indiana in 2007. An influx of coaching talent has entered the league (Tubby Smith at Minnesota and Kelvin Sampson at Indiana), but without the players to accompany those moves, the Big Ten is going nowhere fast.
- Nitpicks. We probably would have found a place for the following players: Derrick Low (Washington St.), Edgar Sosa (Louisville), Jerel McNeal (Marquette), and Patrick Beverley (Arkansas). Expect each of these players to be all-conference performers in their respective leagues next season. We also have a sneaky feeling that guys like DaJuan Summers (Georgetown), Deon Thompson (UNC), Derrick Caracter (Louisville) and JaJuan Smith (Tennessee) will make a solid case to be on this list next season.
- Surprises. NC State's future looks bright with two young big men, Brandon Costner and Ben McCauley, returning for Sidney Lowe's team. Alabama should be much improved next year as well, assuming Ronald Steele gets healthy (he was on many preseason all-american teams last year but struggled with tendinitis and ankle injuries that largely derailed Bama's season). Apologies to the Mountain West, but who are Stuart Creason and Luke Nevill? Their inclusion on this list shows that the depth of talent at the center position in the college game is ridiculously thin.
- Instant Impact Players in 2007-08. This list next season will be populated by the likes of OJ Mayo, Eric Gordon, Kevin Love, Michael Beasley (Kansas St.), Derrick Rose (Memphis) and Anthony Randolph (LSU).


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Microsoft Surface: to iPad or not to iPad, that is the Question
To a surprising amount of excitement, Microsoft announced the a pair of new tablets this week. Web reactions to the new Surface — as you'd expect — were split down party lines: "It's not an iPad! It's stupid!" and "It's not an iPad! It's the second coming!"
Reality, as usual, is somewhere in the middle. It's possible the Surface is a worthy iPad competitor something that, so far, we have not seen.
It all comes down to one, seemingly simple, thing...
CONTENT! Why am I the only person talking about this? If I don't have access to an iTunes/Amazon-size library of TV shows and movies, the Surface is an also-ran, just like every other crap tablet available on the market.
Let me explain.
This is Sound+Vision — I do not care what "work" oriented tasks a tablet can do. Do. Not. Care. If you do, good on ya, but that's not my beat. That the Surface has a USB input and SD card slot (*grumble* microSD) is cool, but not a huge leap for the entertainment aspect.
In my mind the single most important aspect of a tablet is what I can download to it. Netflix streaming doesn't do you any good 35,000 feet above the Atlantic. The fact is, iTunes and Amazon have vastly more content available than any of the other services (including Sony and Samsung). So to me, the iPad and Kindle Fire are the only tablets that matter.
The Surface Wrinkle
At the announcement event, there was no discussion of content (or pricing, or availability — what a surprise). There are two potentialities, one good, and one bad. Microsoft doesn't have the best track record of going with the option that's easiest for consumers, but let's give them the benefit of the doubt, as we have no proof either way.
Option #1: The Surface functions like any other computer. By this, I mean I can download iTunes and play whatever content I want. The basic Surface likely won't be able to do this, as it's running Windows RT. RT only runs apps available through the Windows Store, and what are the odds that Apple and Microsoft will cooperate in that happening?
The Pro version will run a full version of Windows 8. Now this is interesting. Unless there's some active lock against it, you should be able to use the Surface Pro as a complete laptop replacement. So you have access to all the content the iPad does, with none of the annoying Apple limitations on I/O, accessories, et al.
Option #2: There are locks against downloading from iTunes for either technological (because of RT) or business reasons (forcing you to download only from Microsoft, like the Xbox/Zune Marketplace). This — and to be honest, I feel this is the more likely option — will cripple the Surface. I've told you what my needs are in a tablet. On the current Surface website, there's a mention of "Discover new music, movies, and games in the Windows Store." This certainly points the finger slightly towards Option #2.
I'll ask the question again, but with a different twist: If you're spending all this money on a tablet, why wouldn't you get one that has access to all available content? They all do work stuff, so why limit yourself? Further, if you're looking at the Surface to replace a "computer," why (presuming Option #2) get one that locks you out of getting content. An ultrabook is practically the same size, but doesn't limit what you can do with it.
It's that latter part that tantilizes the most: a tablet without Apple's draconian limitations. I'm a PC guy, always have been, always will be. The idea of a tablet that's as open as Windows seems awesome to me. Here's hoping Microsoft doesn't screw it up.
Bottom Line
The Surface is undoubtedly a cool tablet. The cover-as-keyboard design is rather brilliant, and the USB, HDMI, and SD card slots make Apple look like dicks. If — and this is a big "if" — it functions like a "normal" computer, letting me install iTunes and download whatever music or movies I want, then it's a homerun and will be an epic product. I will replace my aging laptop immediately, enthusiastically, and marvel at the tablet-oriented future.
If, however, it doesn't do that, then it's just another hobbled, boring tablet, albeit one with a cool design. Snore.
We shall see.


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Saturday, February 28, 2009
A two sentence post on....being a Jays fan
Or maybe JP Ricciardi is the bipolar one - running his gums about being aggressive in the draft, then contemplating throwing away a first round pick for an aging stopgap solution at shortstop.
12 comments:
- The Ack said...
Yes, I know I'm not exactly nailing the definition of bipolar disorder, and yes, I know it's all just rumour and hypotheticals.
But, just....fuck.
Also, I've always wanted to find a way to work in some rad Motley Crue album art into a post. So I've got that going for me now, at least.
- February 28, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- Ian Hunter said...
It's very confusing Ack. After all this offseason talk, Blue Jays fans had fully prepare themselves to not expect any big free agent signings. And now this talk of Cabrera? Very bipolar, indeed.
- February 28, 2009 at 11:51 PM
- The Ack said...
Yeah dude, I mean, if this special request "sign and trade" deal I'm reading about is a possibility to avoid giving up the pick, that's one thing.
Plus, last I read, Cabrera wouldn't bite on the A's $5M offer, which is about $2.5M more than I'd be happy to see the Jays dole out.
I don't even like Cabrera - FUCK.
- March 1, 2009 at 12:16 AM
- Drew said...
I completely blanked on the throwing in League part. If Scott Rolen and Brandon League were in the same trade away from the Jays, I'd need a fucking holiday. Gone drinkin' sign on the blog, contemplate life as a Padres fan.
- March 1, 2009 at 1:52 AM
Well put. Emphasize draft one day and consider dropping picks the next. I hope they don't follow through on this one.
- March 1, 2009 at 2:13 AM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Signing Cabrera, trading Rolen, trading LEAGUE (BRANDON FUCKING LEAGUE)...
what the fucking fuck is going on?
- March 1, 2009 at 2:58 AM
At what point do the Jays not have to give up a draft pick to sign Cabrera?
Is it possible that they wait until the start of the season to sign him and not sacrifice any draft picks? At that point is it really a bad signing, assuming there is a reasonable deal agreed upon?
- March 1, 2009 at 3:09 AM
- March 1, 2009 at 10:05 AM
First, I think Blair is reaching. His reasoning for this rumour, at least according to his twitter, was that Rolen was put in two games early on in ST to try and show him off. But a bunch of guys played two quick games (Rios being one) and Rolen himself pushed up his first start so he could spend time with family later on.
Second, I like the idea of using our deep bullpen to improve somewhere else as long as we get someone back who is under contract for 2010. So, if we trade Rolen (Ugh. I know. I'm with Lloyd with thinking that watching Rolen is an actual treat) we can get an improvement at short as well as maybe an improvement somewhere else or a replacement 3B.
You're telling me we couldn't find someone interested in a Rolen/League/Campbell package?
But honestly, I don't think Rolen is going anywhere unless Blair got his info from a night out drinking with some Jays' staff and can't write about it...
- March 1, 2009 at 11:54 AM
- Torgen said...
If the Jays sign Cabrera after the draft, they don't have to give up a draft pick.
- March 1, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Theater of Pain = worst Crue album ever...
- March 5, 2009 at 1:08 PM
- February 11, 2012 at 10:14 PM


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Doctor, who?!
In Episode TWTT 8, we talk about Kill the Moon. The doctor takes Clara and Courtney to the moon – to make up for his mouth garbage. By many accounts and ours, it was a good story. Even Stan liked it. Some say that the moral of episode 7 is to choose life. Or is it about growing up?
You're never finished with anyone while they can still make you angry.
As always, we gladly shared some of the comments you left on YouTube for TWTT Episode 6, we played some previous submissions for the #SoftKitty song contest and, heck yes, we went deep.
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