Albany is taking it to Cornell, and the Albany goalie just had a once in a lifetime goal.
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Albany is taking it to Cornell, and the Albany goalie just had a once in a lifetime goal.
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Germy Shoemangler
Holy Ceiling Cat!
Just saw this clip of David Lynch giving a lecture in Germany.
The guy he introduces to talk about a new TM school …. “Invincible Germany” “Hitler was unsuccessful… unfortunately”
The German audience almost chased them all off the stage.
rikyrah
Illinois Supreme Court rules landmark pension law unconstitutional
The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday unanimously ruled unconstitutional a landmark state pension law that aimed to scale back government worker benefits to erase a massive $105 billion retirement system debt, sending lawmakers and the new governor back to the negotiating table to try to solve the pressing financial issue.
The ruling also reverberated at City Hall, imperiling a similar law Mayor Rahm Emanuel pushed through to shore up two of the four city worker retirement funds and making it more difficult for him to find fixes for police, fire and teacher pension funds that are short billions of dollars.
At issue was a December 2013 state law signed by then-Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn that stopped automatic, compounded yearly cost-of-living increases for retirees, extended retirement ages for current state workers and limited the amount of salary used to calculate pension benefits.
Employee unions sued, arguing that the state constitution holds that pension benefits amount to a contractual agreement and once they’re bestowed, they cannot be “diminished or impaired.” A circuit court judge in Springfield agreed with that assessment in November. State government appealed that decision to the Illinois Supreme Court, arguing that economic necessity forced curbing retirement benefits.
On Friday the justices rejected that argument, saying the law clearly violated what’s known as the pension protection clause in the 1970 Illinois Constitution.
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“It is our obligation, however, just as it is theirs, to ensure that the law is followed. That is true at all times. It is especially important in times of crisis when, as this case demonstrates, even clear principles and long-standing precedent are threatened. Crisis is not an excuse to abandon the rule of law. It is a summons to defend it,” he wrote.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinois-pension-law-court-ruling-20150508-story.html#page=1
tybee
@rikyrah:
outstanding.
PurpleGirl
@Germy Shoemangler: A TM school?
Germy Shoemangler
@PurpleGirl: I guess they’re promoting something called “invincible defense” around the world. I just stumbled on the clip, and the German audience didn’t like what Lynch’s guest speaker said about “alien influences” and an “invincible Germany.”
rikyrah
uh huh
uh huh
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Former CPS CEO Brizard: SUPES owner ‘instrumental’ in bringing Byrd-Bennett to district
Posted: 05/07/2015, 08:41pm |
Lauren FitzPatrick, Dan Mihalopoulos and Fran Spielman
The man whose company is at the center of a federal investigation of Chicago Public Schools was “instrumental” in bringing Barbara Byrd-Bennett into a high-ranking job at CPS and in her promotion as CEO there, according to former CPS chief Jean-Claude Brizard.
Gary Solomon, an owner of SUPES Academy, whose no-bid $20.5 million CPS contract is under investigation, played a significant role in recommending Byrd-Bennett for the job of chief education officer and later to replace Brizard as CEO in 2012, Brizard said in an interview Thursday.
“Gary was instrumental in bringing her name forward,” Brizard said.
The revelation from Brizard shows in the most detail yet how close Byrd-Bennett and Solomon were professionally. Byrd-Bennett worked for two of Solomon’s companies, including SUPES. She then joined CPS as a top official under Brizard and replaced him.
Byrd-Bennett first arrived at CPS as SUPES’ lead coach for high-ranking administrator Noemi Donoso, said Brizard, who left CPS in the wake of Chicago’s historic 2012 teachers strike.
http://chicago.suntimes.com/education/7/71/587670/former-cps-ceo-brizard-supes-owner-instrumental-getting-byrd-bennett-district
rikyrah
State pension ruling deals Emanuel triple blow on Chicago’s finances
by Hal Dardick, John Byrne and Bill Ruthhart
Chicago Tribune
The Illinois Supreme Court’s decision to toss out the state’s pension reform law dealt a triple blow to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s difficult task of shoring up Chicago’s shaky finances.
First, the ruling could nullify pension deals the mayor struck last year with unions representing the city’s laborers and municipal workers, sending Emanuel back to the bargaining table.
Second, the decision weakens Emanuel’s negotiating position as he seeks pension concessions from Chicago police and fire unions, since the court made clear that public employees’ retirement benefits cannot be diminished once they’ve been granted.
And third, the ruling adds another major problem to a stack that’s already piled high at the Capitol, leaving less political oxygen as Emanuel tries to breathe life into his wish list of multiple fixes for City Hall and Chicago Public Schools pensions that includes a city-owned casino.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinois-pension-rahm-emanuel-met-20150508-story.html#page=1
ruemara
Covered California is an amazing disgrace. Both the website, and the phone offices are appalling in tech, piss poor agents and possibly one of the most frustrating experiences you can have trying to do anything with any agency. I can say this, I’ve been hung up on 3x, spent 60 minutes just listening to poor menu choices (god forbid you allow people to skip the blather or to just go directly to an operator) and connected 3x online chat but then suddenly, the agent never responds past Hi, my name is. Wow. bloody awful. I’m ready to punch someone. Might not be fruitful to talk to the actual insurance provider. Wow. And this is an improvement.
ruemara
@rikyrah: Fan-fucking-tastic. Mood slightly alleviated.
The Thin Black Duke
What?
You mean the good guys in Illinois actually won?
BFD, man.
Amir Khalid
@Germy Shoemangler:
I wouldn’t take seriously any supporter of transcendental meditation. I guess it’s fortunate that David Lynch isn’t in charge of anything more serious than making Twin Peaks and weird movies.
But yikes. Lynch’s friend in the long dress is German. He, of all people, should have known better than to talk to an audience of Germans about unbesiegbares Deutschland, and to call Hitler’s failure to bring such a thing about unfortunate. A German who doesn’t get these things isn’t in touch with reality, one would think.
Major Major Major Major
@Amir Khalid: what’s wrong with TM? People can get wacky about it but it has demonstrated health benefits and the fmri studies showing it similar to psychedelics are interesting.
It’s my birthday!
What else. I know it’s a blessing that I’m not used to punching things, but since I started Krav Maga I’ve been reminded that I have lats and obliques and ow. Haven’t been this in shape since college though.
Germy Shoemangler
@Amir Khalid: That was my reaction as well. Yikes!
Ajabu
Well, BJers:
We gave it a hell of a shot and I’ve essentially gone down in flames on my Kickstarter. Less than 90 minutes to go and I’m $14,378 short of my $15,000 goal. Ain’t Gonna Happen.
I’m a wonderful musician (and too old to be humble) but as a fundraiser I’m pretty much equivalent to the fastest runner in the paraplegic ward – doesn’t mean a hell of a lot.
So, I’m going to lick my wounds and figure out a better way to do this. I WILL do it again.
Thanks to all of you who made a commitment to the project. It’s still my 50th year in music so we have another half year to get it done.
Right now & for the immediate future I’m going to try to convince more of you to join in the next time out the gate. By continually posting music and hoping you can see the value in helping get this done.
Here’s a little blast from my past: Sacramento, CA 1990 (dark hair & a working band, the good old days) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUR4NyuNzuE
Enjoy!
And thanks again to everybody who made an effort.
burnspbesq
Almost certainly going to Denver for the quarterfinals next Saturday. Probably Albany -ND and Duke – Denver.
You up for it, Cole?
PurpleGirl
@Germy Shoemangler:
@Amir Khalid:
Ah, transcendental mediation. Is that still kicking around as a thing? I tried to play the vimeo clip but couldn’t. Further down the page I saw that it’s from 2007. Rampant cluelessness.
Amir Khalid
@Major Major Major Major:
This remains open to question.
shell
Transcendental Meditation is just your basic mantra meditation. There was nothing secret/special about it, unlike they way they tried to portray. You were given your own ‘special’ mantra simply by how old you were.
Major Major Major Major
@Amir Khalid: looks to me like it can lower blood pressure and chill people out is all. If it’s functionally no different from sitting with your eyes closed in that regard, I’m still all for people being healthier. Fad diets are stupid too but they still improve health.
Ajabu
Then there’s the old joke about the Guru who went to a dentist to have a tooth pulled and refused Novocain because he wanted to Transcend Dental Medication. /rimshot…
Schlemazel
TM – It’s great to see we have something new to argue about, it was getting stale around here :)
I have relatives in Germany, a few remain that lived through the war but most are post war babies. They would love to have a few minutes of Mr. Lynches time to explain to him why that didn’t work out so great for them the first time. They might want to get his attention with a couple of 2x4s first. Then there are the gypsies, gays and, oh yeah, the Jews who might not think it was such a great deal.
Amir Khalid
@Major Major Major Major:
I’m sure you know the stone soup story.
Snarki, child of Loki
“make me one with everything”, the guru said to the hot-dog vendor…
Snarki, child of Loki
I want to hear more about that “once in a lifetime” goal! Link? Description?
MattR
@Snarki, child of Loki: http://screengrabber.deadspin.com/fat-guy-lacrosse-goalie-buzzer-beater-goal-1703337056
EDIT: Second goal by a goalie in NCAA lacrosse tournament history. The first was by Andrew Goldstein from Dartmouth in 2006, I believe. Goldstein is also known for being the first openly gay athlete to play for a male professional sports team.
Major Major Major Major
@Amir Khalid: The one where everybody gets delicious soup by sharing some of their resources, even though they’re being tricked? Yeah. I should point out that everybody gets delicious soup.
Amir Khalid
@Major Major Major Major:
Well, the TM people charge money for their soup stone.
Germy Shoemangler
Did anyone see the Guy Carawan obit in the NYTimes?
We Shall Overcome!
MattR
@MattR: Oops. Missed Ohio State’s Stefan Schroder did it to Cornell in the 2008 tournament. Seems like Cornell might want to practice defending that scenario a bit.
Major Major Major Major
@Amir Khalid: That doesn’t mean there’s anything inherently wrong with the practice, just the practitioners, I guess is all I was saying.
I mean yeah, it really is basically sitting still and doing breathing exercises with some basic zen thrown in. Lots of things people pay for could be achieved freely though, I mean nobody outside the MA community goes around shitting on Tae Kwan Do for being impractical.
Germy Shoemangler
This is why we need cameras. Delaware police officer charged for kicking suspect, knocking him out, AFTER he complied.
Roger Moore
@Snarki, child of Loki:
So the guru gives the vendor a $20 to pay for his hot dog, but the vendor doesn’t give him any money back. When he asks for his change, the vendor says, “Change must come from within.”
Major Major Major Major
@Roger Moore: Somebody tried telling that one to the Dalai Lama one time. Didn’t go over well.
Germy Shoemangler
@Roger Moore: I want my cat to teach me some of her relaxation techniques. She has some impressive poses. One arm over her face, other paw stretched out. Flat on back, back legs extended. Then she’ll stand up, give a few shiveringly long stretches, then assume another pose. She attains a deeply meditative state. (although a few times, her whiskers and paws twitched, and it was obvious she’d attained rapid eye movement sleep.)
scav
@Major Major Major Major: There’s also the basic issue of crediting Kleenex with all the benefits of handkerchiefs. TM isn’t the brand name or shorthand for all forms of meditation. The soldiers didn’t invent vegetable soup.
SFAW
Is there a live feed for the Lax games, anyplace other than ESPNU on cable/satellite? We don’t get that channel, and I don’t spot a Web feed any place.
MattR
@SFAW: Don’t know of any other than espn3.com but since it is on ESPNU that will probably require that you get ESPN as part of your cable package.
Maryland 8, Yale 7 – Maryland ball after calling their last time out with 2:19 left in the game
EDIT: Yale forces the turnover with 2:05 to go and they complete the clear. 1:30 to go, Yale with the ball looking to tie
Yale shoots and misses wide. Race to the end line and Yale barely keeps the ball with 31.8 seconds left. Timeout Yale. Shot clock is on and down to 21 seconds.
SFAW
@MattR:
Matt –
Thanks. We get ESPN and ESPN2, but apparently not ESPNU. Just tried ESPN3, apparently I need to sign up for coverage through either Charter or DirecTV.
I seem to remember that all of the games were free/live in 2014, but maybe I’m mis-remembering.
I guess I’ll just have to wait for the re-runs. Assholes.
Anyway, thanks for the attempted help.
MattR
@MattR: Yale hits the post with 18 seconds to go. Maryland gets the rebound and is able to run out the clock for the victory.
@SFAW: I can’t remember which ESPN carried the first round games last year or maybe espn3 wasn’t so restrictive. I can’t remember when they made you start signing in to your cable account to verify what channels you receive. Very annoying, especially since I can never remember that password
satby
@Major Major Major Major: Happy Birthday!! Congrats on finding your muscles, I hope to before my birthday soon!
satby
@Ajabu: Aww, so sorry Ajabu! I gave and wish I could have given more. Wish these kinds of things didn’t come with such a heavy price tag!
Tommy
@SFAW: I don’t know when it happened, but I think 12-14 months ago, ESPN changed everything around. The ESPN app used to let you watch pretty much anything on their app for free. Then they made you start to login. I had gotten rid of cable at about that time, so that didn’t work for me.
After about a year, and I am a huge sports guy, I realized that ESPN had much more a death grip on sports then I realized and I picked up the Sling service for $20/month about 90 days ago.
So now I get ESPN and ESPN2. I tried to use my Sling (owned by Dish) login code to get ESPN3 and ESPN U and it won’t work.
I can’t believe, since Sony, Apple, and HBO are launching their own streaming services, that Disney, and therefore ABC, owns ESPN they have not realized there are a lot of people out there that would pay just to have all their channels streamed through one service.
Bet there are a lot of men and more than a handful of women that if they could ditch cable, but still get content through Hulu, Netflix (like I do) and also a Disney/ABC/ESPN service, they could make a ton of money.
Tommy
Got to go on an OT mini-rant here. At my size it is hard to get clothes that fit. I am 5’4 (on my tippy toes) and 128-132 pounds. Never bought a pair of pains or jeans that I didn’t have to have altered. Shorts are more of a problem because they are not as easy to alter as a pair of pants.
I found these shorts at a major retailer and got the 32-inch waist. I knew I needed 30, but I loved the shorts and would wear a belt with them most of the time, so I bought them. They were called hiking shorts (I am an avid hiker camper). But I wouldn’t call them that.
They were not “dressy” but also not “cargo” shorts with 150 pockets.
In the middle of the two, and most important (by far) they didn’t hang to or past my knees. They look like they fit!
I have the olive green but I keep going to their site wanting to order all four colors they offer, in a 30-inch waist. Going on a month all the shorts that size are out of stock. But they have all of them in stock at a 48-inch waist.
I want to spend money with them and they won’t let me. And maybe a lot of money, because as somebody that always finds it hard to get clothes that fit the way I like, if the 30-inch waste fit as well as they think, I might order two of each just to have them.
Yes, at times it is that hard for me to find clothes that fit so when I do I often buy more than one of each. Ugh!
waspuppet
Does playing lacrosse on a football field get disorienting? Is it hard to pick out the relevant lines from the irrelevant football-based ones? Or is the game so often played on football fields that you get used to it?
burnspbesq
@waspuppet:
The football lines aren’t much of a distraction. It’s harder, for players, officials, and fans, to play on a field like Villanova’s, which is lined for men’s and women’s lacrosse, soccer, and field hockey. You have to remember which color are your sidelines and end-line.
burnspbesq
Towson off to a great start against top seed Notre Dame.
Cckids
@ruemara: I will put Nevada’s site & personnel up against CAs for incompetence any time. Our policy’s been cancelled for nonpayment based on a January start date when we didn’t sign up till March. And after hours on the phone with both our provider and Healthcare.gov, seems there’s nothing to be done about it.
Except sign up again in November.
burnspbesq
@MattR:
Slow down the replay and take a look. The consensus in the chatroom where I am hanging out is that that hit the horizontal support, inside the goal, and should have counted.
PurpleGirl
@Tommy: Rant away. I know what that situation feels like. I’m 5’5″ with junior proportions (refers to the length of my torso). I’m also large. Manufacturers figure every large woman must also be tall or very short and have a long torso and a huge bust. I have problems finding things that fit, always have and when I find things that fit, I also buy several of the items.
SFAW
@Tommy:
Probably less than 12 months ago, because I (am reasonably sure that I) watched D1 and D2 Championship games last year, without time delay. I think they had both sky-cam (which was annoying as hell) and “normal” cam for the D1 game. Watched on the sky-cam for about 45 seconds, switched over to the usual mode.
Thanks, Obama!
Tommy
@waspuppet: Wondered the same.
@burnspbesq: I’ve played almost every sport you can imagine on a competitive level, including two at a DI level. I have a knack for picking up sports.
I’d never played Lacrosse. I might have played two country club sports at the highest level, golf and tennis, but we didn’t have any Lacrosse teams in high school where I lived.
Had a college frat brother on the Lacrosse team.
Figured I could pick it up pretty fast. I could not.
I mean I can place a tennis ball on my racket/strings, couldn’t I get a ball in my netting? I am used to swinging hard, or soft, at different paths in golf. This should be easy.
Again it was not. A sport I WISH I had been introduced to at a young age, because well I also like maybe “hitting” somebody a little :).
Tommy
@SFAW: Right, almost exactly at a year or a little less, because March of ’14 was when I got rid of cable and via the ESPN app I could watch almost everything, then it just stopped one day.
burnspbesq
@Tommy:
I picked up a stick for the first time in gym class as a high school sophomore. Strong hand (left) clicked pretty easily for me, but the off hand took dozens of hours to get even minimal competence. I never got to the point where I could dodge confidently to my right hand.
Wallball (just go find a wall someplace and play catch with yourself) is a huge part of developing stick skills.
MattR
@SFAW: I think they will still have championship weekend on ESPN or ESPN2, but the quarterfinals will probably be on ESPNU.
Tommy
@PurpleGirl: Oh that major retailer I mentioned is freaking Wal-mart. I honestly am asking don’t they have a “sweat shop” that can make shorts with a 30-inch waist?
In the late 80s and 90s I used to be almost a 100 pounds heavier. From like 1994 until 2014 I was 155. Now 130 average. At many times as an adult, I’ve had to rebuy a lot of clothes.
Trying to do that now and it is getting harder and harder.
I’ve joked here before I often go to the “junior” section to look for clothes. Where I got my last two belts.
Look I get the population at a whole might be “larger” but I see so many men and even more women my size, and to a large extent something like hiking shorts are kind of uni-sex, why can’t I get clothes that fit?
Tommy
@burnspbesq: If you are right handed and your “strong” hand is left? Interesting. Same thing in golf, well if you want to play well.
burnspbesq
@Tommy:
I’m left handed. I learned to play golf and guitar right handed because left handed equipment was rare (and carried a big price premium) at the time.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Ajabu:
FWIW, JMN (aka Tissue-Thin Pseudonym) started talking up his Kickstarter at least six months before he started it, and probably closer to a year. You should definitely give a LOT more notice before it’s even posted to get the best possible response. Good luck!
Tommy
@burnspbesq: I’ve heard that a lot, changing of a child’s dominant hand in many sports.
I ask because if you want to be good at golf, your off hand, for me my left, is where all the power and accuracy of the swing comes from. I assume you’ve seen a right handed person snap hook the ball to the right. Hit is a country mile but always to the right. That is their right over-riding their left hand.
Here is a secret. Want to correct this. Go to a driving range. When you grip the club, if you are right handed in everything you go, hold a golf ball between your thumb and forefinger in said hand.
Start to hit balls. In seconds it will change what you think you know about golf and your left side vs. your right side.
raven
Here’s a shot of us landing in the Cobra. It was a hell of an experience, we went straight up and straight down on “gun runs”. A buddy told me to take dramamine. I didn’t and I didn’t get sick but it was more serious and any roller coaster I’ve even been on.
SFAW
@MattR:
Thanks, I hope you’re right.
@burnspbesq:
I grew up on Long Island, but never touched a stick until I went to college (which was not in LI or even NY). Loved playing and watching, but was only a mediocre player. But I continued to play summer league for about 10 years after college. I miss playing it, but still love watching it – when I don’t have to fork over a bunch of extra $$$ to ESPN. But I haven’t been nearly as diligent about keeping up with it for a number of years. Also had season tix to the Cannons a few years ago, but these days it’s a little far to Foxboro for me.
Thanks for mentioning Lyle Thompson, I was clueless about him. (I know – me? Clueless? Who’d’a thunk?)
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
I’m sitting in the Ft. Myers airport waiting for my flight. Fortunately, my gate is directly across from a Bacardi rum bar, so I’m enjoying a daiquiri and some mini churros before my flight starts boarding in about 20 minutes.
I paid an extra $99 for a window seat when I checked in — otherwise, I would have been in a middle seat from Ft. Myers to Charlotte to LA since it’s a direct flight with no plane change.
raven
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): One of the great challenges of stopping drinking 21 years ago was airports. I had always gone straight to the bar and it was quite a change to. . . change. Then there was birthdays, holidays, weekend days and any days. Ya drink if you win, you drink if you lose and you drink if you get rained out.
burnspbesq
@SFAW:
My HS didn’t have lax when I was there. I was a founding member of the lax club; we practiced at 7:00 a.m. and played summer league. Forty years later, they win state championships all the time (especially the girls), and there are about 20 ex-Maroons playing D1. I was back there about five years ago, and all the houses that had basketball hoops on the garage when I was growing up have lax goals in the driveway.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@raven:
I’ve never really been an airport drinker (or a heavy drinker at all) so it was very unusual for me to get a drink before a flight. But it’s been a rough week and it was right there, so I indulged.
raven
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I wasn’t a heavy drinker, I was really consistent!
schrodinger's cat
@Tommy: Try the websites for Old Navy or Gap. They have sizes that are usually hard to find in the stores, like tall sizes and petite sizes for women. You may be in luck for smaller men’s sizes over there.
ETA: For shorts, cut off your old pants and get the seams hemmed. You will have the best fitting shorts ever.
Brachiator
@Ajabu: Kickstarter seems to work best for geeky tech products and for arts projects where the creator is well known or the arts project is a revival of something that was popular with at least a strong niche market. Maybe you should reevaluate alternative methods of accomplishing your goal.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
Just spotted someone wearing a hat that would be popular with this crowd:
#cawlidge hawkey
srv
Oppressed by Obama, Scott goes Socalist:
SFAW
@burnspbesq:
Good!
Here in MA, I see a lot of goals, but my town is also big into soccer, so there’s some “competition.” The HS girls’ lacrosse team is pretty outstanding. (The boys do OK, but they’re not going to the States anytime soon.)
I don’t remember where you grew up – California?
SFAW
@srv:
Too bad he didn’t try that before the election, it would have been interesting. Of course, it looked like Crist could fuck up a free lunch, so maybe it wouldn’t have mattered.
Aleta
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): hope your flight is easy, your homecoming smooth, and some fun is on the way
PurpleGirl
@raven: Good picture. Glad you enjoyed yourself.
PurpleGirl
@srv: WTF… Ask the profit making hospitals, which should be non-profit in my view, to SHARE their profit with poorer hospitals that have more poor patients. Really! If they’re losing Federal money it’s because that criminal Rick Scott and the teatards don’t want to extend Medicaid to more people WHO NEED IT. These people cannot call themselves Christians, not by a long-shot, they’re evil and compassionless.
PurpleGirl
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Hope you have a good flight.
ETA: Once when I was changing planes in Cinninati, I went into a bar to get a drink and began talking with a man sitting there. He bought me my drink and a hot dog for being so nice to talk with him. I usually didn’t drink at a airport but that day, changing planes with a snow storm outside… well, I figured, why not.