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Tuesday, July 16, 2013

United Nations Drug War 2013

           In 2011, the most recent year for which figures are available, drug-law enforcers seized over 60 tons of meth amphetamines worldwide,[1] and globally, synthetic stimulants represented the greatest increase in the use of prohibited drugs.[2]
            According to UN reports, cannabis remained the most widely used prohibited substance with between 199 million and 224 million persons age 15-64 using it at least once in the previous year.[3]  Amphetamine-type stimulants were the second most widely used prohibited substance with between 14 and 52.5 million people using the drug at least once in 2010.[4]  In that year, the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) estimated that between 153 million to 300 million people ages 15-64 used a prohibited substance at least once in the previous year.[5]
            These stats and others – often reporting increased production, use and trafficking of cannabis, heroin, cocaine and new synthetic illegal drugs (49 new ones in 2011 in European Member States alone)[6] – depressingly dominated the reports of the Secretariat of the Governing Bodies of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) and the CND.  The Secretariat reports were directed to the CND for use during its annual weeklong March session held at Commission headquarters in Vienna, Austria. The reports, reading much like an annual rainfall maps, reflected increases and decreases in drug use and seizures, by region, and by drug.
As a former Cook County drug prosecutor generally opposed to drug use, I travelled to Vienna to attend the 56thSession of the CND on behalf of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), an international, nonprofit educational organization comprised of former drug cops, judges, and other law-enforcement officers who all formerly waged the war on drugs but who now universally oppose it.
Last year, I attended the 55th Session and learned first-hand that the United Nations is the fountainhead of drug prohibition for the world.  By the terms of three international conventions (treaties) of 1961, 1971 and 1988, long and growing lists of drugs are criminalized.
As an example of the broad and sweeping prohibition flavor of the treaties, the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs provides in Article 36 that “…each Party [country] shall adopt such measures as ensure the cultivation, production, manufacture, extraction, preparation, possession, offering, offering for sale, distribution, purchase, sale, delivery on any terms whatsoever, brokerage, dispatch, dispatch in transit, transport, importation and exportation of drugs contrary to the provisions of this Convention… shall be  punishable offences when committed intentionally, and that serious offences shall be liable to adequate punishment particularly by imprisonment and other penalties of deprivation of liberty.”[Italics added][7]
These UN treaties deprive mankind of liberty and foster wholesale incarceration worldwide with some 10 million people behind bars, 25% of them in the USA, the so-called “Land of the Free.”  Too many people are deprived of liberty for merely possessing or using an outlawed drug and others for cultivating, distributing or selling marijuana, two of the most obnoxious examples of drug-policy abuse.
LEAP recognizes what people the world over recognize after 52 years of treaty-dictated, drug-prohibition failure: zero-tolerance drug war does not work.  According to the UN’s own documents, 300 million people consumed drugs in violation of UN treaties last year.  Aware of the robust, UN-drug-policy failure, weeks before the 2013 CND session convened, LEAP sent a letter to world leaders of each Member State of the three, UN drug-prohibition Conventions. The letter called upon world leaders to authorize their representatives “to openly and freely discuss the most fundamental drug-policy questions” at the Vienna CND session.
            LEAP posited five such questions for discussion:
·         Does the UN policy of drug prohibition do more harm than good?
·         Does drug-prohibition policy itself cause increased drug availability, potency, use, abuse, addiction, disease and death?
·         Does drug prohibition also cause turf-war crime, violence, corruption, addict crime and injustice; does it erode freedom, liberty and human rights; and does it tear at the moral fabric of mankind worldwide?
·         Has massive drug-war spending compromised the role of the responsible elements of society (police, military, intelligence agencies, government, business, academia, media and international organizations) and aligned those elements with the interests of irresponsible drug purveyors and drug cartels, both sides supporting the continuation of drug prohibition for economic gain?
·         What drug policy should replace the UN/Al Capone-style drug-prohibition paradigm?
Unfortunately though not surprisingly, the CND took up none of these questions.  (Encouragingly, Latin American leaders did at the June 2013 meeting of the OAS General Assembly in Guatemala did to a degree.)  Instead, as Cindy S.J. Fazey, a former high-ranking CDN official noted of CDN proceeding ten years ago, meetings of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) are no forum for debate and change.  “…UN conferences are like plays where all roles are carefully defined and the scripts written in advance. They are not places for debate but for statements of position, where any potential conflict has been headed off months before through a series of preliminary discussions and preparatory meetings.”[8]
Fazey explained that “In the Commission…no votes are taken.  Everything is settled by consensus.  This is because in the original charter for the UN only those countries that are fully paid-up members can vote.  Since the USA is behind with its dues, there is an informal agreement that nobody votes.”[9]  Although the USA paid a part of its debt to the UN in 1999 pursuant to the Helms-Biden legislation, the USA still owes the UN over $1.3 billion. Of this, $612 million is payable under Helms-Biden. The remaining $700 million result from various legislative and policy withholdings; at present, there are no plans to pay these amounts.[10]
The Commission (CND) comprises 53 UN Member States and most of the funding for the Commission comes from 17 major donors who for practical purposes, Fazey writes, have “decisive influence over both the CND and the UNDCP [United Nations Drug Control Program].”[11]  The Commission annually adopts resolutions regarding drug policy.  “If any member of the Commission were against a particular resolution, it would not go through,”[12] Fazey writes.
   Analyzing why the Commission is unable to extricate itself from the status quo (deep drug prohibition ruts), Fazey commented on the nature of the delegates to the Commission.  She said, “[The] preponderance of diplomats and law enforcement representatives militates against change and helps to perpetuate inertia within the Commission…..   Any changes achieved have never occurred through debates on the floor of the Commission.”[13]
Finally, Fazey observed that “The majority of UN Member States have long opposed any change of the Conventions….  [T]he three most vociferous opponents of change and slackening of the interpretation of the Conventions are the USA, Sweden and Japan.  Other countries that support this approach fall roughly into two categories: previous USSR states and dictatorships.”[14]
A more optimistic view of UN drug work is offered by the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury Fedotov, the former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for International Organizations.
At the outset of the CND March session, Fedotov said: "UNODC is building a coherent response to drugs, crime and terrorism, which views them as global phenomena needing global solutions. To achieve this we are introducing integrated programmes that deliver effective assistance. As we continue with this strategy we will use our core strengths in analysis, technical assistance and helping to build capacities to support the Member States who confront these challenges."[15]
Sounds good, but LEAP and other drug policy reformers disagree.  The global, top-down, one-size-fits-all UN drug-prohibition policy is a drug cartel’s prayer and a street gang’s dream. UN drug policy, like that championed by the US, is an utter and irredeemable failure and inimical to the health, safety and welfare of the world’s children and adults, too.
While in Vienna LEAP members met with drug czars and delegates and pushed the need for Member States to follow Bolivia’s lead (Bolivia quitting the 1961 Single Convention over the criminalization of the coca leaf) and call for the UN drug treaties to be amended with two basic changes.  First, each nation of the world should reclaim its national sovereignty and retake control of its own drug laws and regulations.  This would enable drug policy to be tailored to fit the unique problems and circumstances of each nation.  Policies and programs that succeeded could then be exported and shared with other nations.  Second, the international drug-prohibition blanket must be replaced with a drug legalization and control model that reduces the harm of drugs, alleviates the inherent evils of prohibition like corruption, and importantly disengages the prohibition economic engine that puts more dangerous drugs, uncontrolled and unregulated, everywhere.
If the UN and its CND fail to amend its drug treaties to accomplish these two fundamental changes, then the Member States should withdraw from the UN treaties, reclaim national sovereignty and restore domestic peace, harmony and sanity regarding drug laws.
 Now, returning home from Vienna, the representatives of the nations of the world each must contend with the realities of what drug prohibition means to them.
For me, returning home to catch up on a week of Chicago news underscores the need for world reform of drug prohibition.  I read that a gang shooting has murdered a 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins during a diaper change, the story supplanting the horrible news of the mistaken gangland murder of 14-year-old Hadiya Pendleton days after the president Obama’s inauguration and Hadiya’s participation in it.
During the week, a columnist suggested that Chicago police should use drones to police street gangs, over 100,000 members strong and flush with prohibition drug riches.  A South Side drug kingpin was sentenced to prison despite the “no-snitching” code of the streets and the fear of his “the killing crew.”
Before the annual spring outbreak of the worst of Chicago gang violence, the Cook County Jail is already overflowing with drug and gang defendants, the fact providing fun fodder for a cartoonist.  A dog detects 30 pounds of opium at O’Hare Airport valued at $500,000.  A Schaumburg chief of police resigns his post without accusation of misfeasance after three of his Schaumburg police officers were arrested and charged with ripping off drug dealers and selling their wares, and the executive director of Ceasefire, an anti-violence group of reformed gangbangers contracted to the City of Chicago to stop the violence, claimed that “We’re making progress,” although the shootings continue in the nation’s murder capital, appropriately the home of international celebrity Al Capone.
Drug-prohibition drugs, violence, corruption, disease, and death flourish around the globe like a Biblical plague but USA state, national and local leaders say nothing, do nothing and accomplish nothing.  Like the UN and its CND, American leaders acquiesce as bad drug policy causees what it was designed to prevent.  The cowardly inaction is a despicable complacency in time of crisis, a time when the answer is as easy and obvious as it was at the end of alcohol Prohibition.
James E. Gierach
LEAP Executive Board Member

  1. Great read and i love LEAP. Since the UN is in control of our ability to change drug policy, we should keep the laws in place federally, but not enforce them at all, draft our state by state legalization, regulation and control policies and ignore the UN on these issues, clearly they are without conscience and to continue perpetueting these heartless attacks on individuals rights and freedom is despicable.

  2. How can LEAP exist? Seriously?

    I've been a member for over 5 years and still, I question, how can those who dedicated their lives to busting pot-heads and drug-addicts as criminals have a change of heart and conscience to suddenly want peace and harm reduction? What tilted me towards believing in LEAP is a NH prison warden who is a member of LEAP and was presented to me on NHPR.

    I'm skeptical as current law, even legalized cannabis lends towards the paranoid possibility that medical marijuana recipients will be herded like zombies into camps. They still are subject to federally mandated drug testing, they receive id cards worst than that of the Anti_Christ, the Beast, 666, in which a number is inscribed on your forehead.

    I grew up to trust the police. I learned in my late teens that's asking the military industrial complex to own you. Fact - don't rust the police. Yeah, you might get lucky, but like the guy in college who got a bag of weed ripped off of him at gunpoint, and told college officials and the police about it - okay, so the police treated it seriously and the pot was their least concern, but the victim, like most cannabis users didn't feel right about pressing charges, but was expulsed from college.

    Wow, so the police were more concerned about the thief, less concerned about the pot... but the young man's life is ruined because he was selling a plant. As he stated, 1 in 4 college students at one time or another use and or sell cannabis. It's an American stable. It's agriculture and medicine.

    Which brings me back to why would LEAP exist? Ex police who feel the War on Drugs is wrong, yet many spent their careers busting these people? I don't have the answer, but I suspect it's politics. I expect it's politics that needs to be remedied very quickly.

  3. Drugs don't break laws yet laws on drugs break people.

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text: Education - Theses 2015-05-17T12:58:46Z Transitions: From novice participation to expertise, pre-school 'matters' in an Irish pre-school community Transitions: From novice participation to expertise, pre-school 'matters' in an Irish pre-school community Clerkin, Frances Mary This in depth, qualitative, participant observer study tracks children's transition experiences from novice to experienced membership of their pre-school community. It also considers adult roles in mediating this process in the context of the recent introduction of a universal free-pre-school year for children growing up in Ireland. Participation and the space to negotiate a participatory identity is understood in this study as a key element of positive experiences of early years transitions, within pre-school and beyond. The underlying theoretical framework is socio-cultural. This approach shifts from a scientific positivist view of thinking and learning as an individual inside the head process and asserts the historical, social, cultural as well as the situated context of learning and meaning making All participants, including myself as researcher, are recognised, explored and valued as embedded in the cultural context studied. In a sense, this approach tilts the worlds being observed through participation in them and reflects them in new light. The aim is to interpret and reflect the multiple realities constructed in this context rather than seek a truth out there waiting to be found. Special efforts are made to be invited in to and acknowledge children's expertise in the cultural worlds they negotiate with peers and adults in pre-school. The aim is to better understand what children may find motivating, interesting or problematic as they interpret reproduce and transform meaning within their play and learning worlds. My aim is for an honest rendering of the voices of stakeholders in pre-school communities from teachers, parents, and policy makers to children themselves. It makes visible constraints; potentials and possibilities within everyday Irish pre-school practices in the situated context studied as well as the broader societal, legislative and macro policy influences it reflects. Casting light on the taken for granted opens the possibility of adaptation or transformation. Transition itself can act as a tool to meet the changing needs of children on their developmental pathways across the life cycle 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The double bind for non-traditional families in post-primary settings; to tell or not to tell their family identity The double bind for non-traditional families in post-primary settings; to tell or not to tell their family identity Desmond, Ann-Marie This thesis involved researching normative family discourses which are mediated through educational settings. The traditional family, consisting of father, mother and children all living together in one house is no longer reflective of the home situation of many Irish students (Lunn and Fahey, 2011). My study problematizes the dominant discourses which reflect how family differences are managed and recognised in schools. A framework using Foucauldian post structural critical analysis traces family stratification through the organisation of institutional and interpersonal relations at micro level in four post-primary schools. Standardising procedures such as the suppression of intimate relations between and among teacher and student, as well as the linear ordering of intergenerational relations, such as teacher/student and adult/child are critiqued. Normalising discourses operate in practices such as notes home which presume two parents together. Teacher assumptions about heterosexual two-parent families make it difficult for students to be open about a family setup that is constructed as different to the rest of the schools'. The management of family difference and deficit through pastoral care structures suggests a school-based politics of family adjustment. These practices beg the question whether families are better off not telling the school about their family identity. My thesis will be of interest to educational research and educational policy because it highlights how changing demographics such as family compositions are mis-conceptualised in schools, as well as revealing the changing forms of family governance through regimes such as pastoral care. This analysis allows for the existence of, and a valuing for, alternative modes of family existence, so that future curricular and legal discourses can be challenged in the interest of equity and social justice. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Beginning primary teachers’ perspectives on becoming a teacher in the workplace: Contextual, emotional, and temporo-spatial dimensions of identity shaping Beginning primary teachers’ perspectives on becoming a teacher in the workplace: Contextual, emotional, and temporo-spatial dimensions of identity shaping O'Sullivan, Daniel J. The issue, with international and national overtones, of direct relevance to the present study, relates to the shaping of beginning teachers’ identities in the workplace. As the shift from an initial teacher education programme into initial practice in schools is a period of identity change worthy of investigation, this study focuses on the transformative search by nine beginning primary teachers for their teaching identities, throughout the course of their initial year of occupational experience, post-graduation. The nine beginning teacher participants work in a variety of primary school settings, thus strengthening the representativeness of the research cohort. Privileging ‘insider’ perspectives, the research goal is to understand the complexities of lived experience from the viewpoints of the participating informants. The shaping of identity is conceived of in dimensional terms. Accordingly, a framework composed of three dimensions of beginning teacher experience is devised, namely: contextual; emotional; temporo-spatial. Data collection and analysis is informed by principles derived from sociocultural theories; activity theory; figured worlds theory; and, dialogical self theory. Individual, face-to-face semi-structured interviews, and the maintenance of solicited digital diaries, are the principal methods of data collection employed. The use of a dimensional model fragments the integrated learning experiences of beginning teachers into constituent parts for the purpose of analysis. While acknowledging that the actual journey articulated by each participant is a more complex whole than the sum of its parts, key empirically-based claims are presented as per the dimensional framework employed: contextuality; emotionality; temporo-spatiality. As a result of applying the foci of an international literature to an under-researched aspect of Irish education, this study is offered as a context-specific contribution to the knowledge base on beginning teaching. As the developmental needs of beginning teachers constitute an emerging area of intense policy focus in Ireland, this research undertaking is both relevant and timely. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas Davis's education policies: theory and practice Thomas Davis's education policies: theory and practice Conneally, John This thesis explores the education policies of Thomas Davis. On the eve of the Great Famine Ireland was economically impoverished and politically dependent. The Irish people had a subservient mentality, were mainly uneducated and were unaware of their potential. He believed that education would develop a self-reliant, self-sufficient people; it would create a new generation of leaders and citizens necessary to transform Ireland into a prosperous, independent nation. This thesis explores his education philosophy which was political in orientation; he called for reform of university education so that it would educate leaders who were knowledgeable, patriotic and responsible. He formulated a curriculum which consisted of knowledge that would have direct use and application in public life; his curriculum included moral philosophy, oratory, philological studies and history. His contribution to the debate on the Queens Colleges bill, 1845, is explored including his public disagreement with Daniel O’Connell on the principle of multi-denominational education. This work also examines his policies on learning methodologies and teaching methods. It provides details of his thoughts on learning by experience, by observation, book learning and learning in the home. It focuses on the deficiencies evident in the system of teaching and learning that operated in Trinity College Dublin and it provides an analysis of his preferred method of instruction: Lyceum teaching. This thesis also explores his national curriculum in history and Irish culture which was designed to forge a sense of national identity, to win support for repeal and to develop the principle of nationality. He formulated a national curriculum to counteract the absence of national knowledge in the state schools, to provide the people with a positive self-image and ultimately to empower them to reclaim Ireland and to develop it. Davis knew the power of education and he used it as an instrument of political and social change. 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z


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by Steve Brawner
09:45 AM, Wednesday, August 20 2014 | 1469 views | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend | print
Let’s play a word association game. I write “health care reform.” What comes to mind?

Probably “Obamacare,” and probably, if you live in Arkansas, not in a positive light. You might next think, “private option,” the state program that uses federal dollars under Obamacare to buy private insurance for lower-income Arkansans.

Meanwhile, there’s another important health care reform effort underway. While Obamacare and the private option are mostly about expanding health coverage, the Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative is meant to address the biggest problems with the health care system today – costs and incentives.

The United States spends 18 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, far more than the rest of the industrialized world, and gets no better overall results. Too much of the care provided really doesn’t help the patients. These high costs and inefficient process occur largely because the system is based on what policymakers call “perverse incentives.” Medical providers are paid by the procedure, not the outcome – not for making us well and certainly not for keeping us from ever getting sick.

They don’t try to make us sick, of course, but the system’s incentives do influence their focus – how much effort they expend on preventive care, for example. As CHI-St. Vincent CEO Peter Banko told me, “Until you change how we’re being paid, you’re not going to see changes in the system.”

So Arkansas is changing the way they’re being paid.

As part of the Arkansas Payment Improvement Initiative, state agencies, insurance providers Blue Cross and Qualchoice, the Arkansas Hospital Association, and the Arkansas Medical Society collaborated to try to determine appropriate practices and acceptable ranges of costs for various “episodes of care.” They started with five situations: pregnancies; total hip/knee replacements; outpatient upper respiratory infections; congestive heart failures; and attention hyperactivity disorder.

For each of those episodes, a principal accountable provider now serves as the “quarterback,” meaning he or she is the main decision-maker responsible for coordinating all providers who are delivering care. That’s unlike a typical health care episode, where no one is in charge and patients are just handed off from provider to provider — each of whom runs their own tests for which they charge insurance companies and taxpayers. For hip and knee replacements, the quarterback is the orthopedic surgeon, who is responsible not only for the procedure but also for the 30 days prior and the 90 days afterwards.

After 12 months, the quarterbacks’ total insurance and Medicaid claims are totaled. Those whose costs are below “commendable” levels receive a bonus payment, and those whose costs are above “acceptable” levels pay back part of the excess cost.

Early results are promising. According to the Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, providers are performing more preventive tests for diabetes, HIV and other conditions in pregnant women. That makes sense, because they’ll be penalized if they don’t catch these health issues and costs rise later. Unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions for unspecified upper respiratory infections have dropped 19 percent. That’s important because antibiotics have no effect on, say, a cold virus, but the overuse of them leads to harmful effects, such as creating drug-resistant bacteria.

Again, incentives are the key. As Arkansas Surgeon General Dr. Joe Thompson, a pediatrician, explained, “It was easier for me to write the prescription for the mom whose kid had a cold than it was for me to spend the 10 minutes telling her why she really didn’t need the antibiotic.” Now that doctors face a financial penalty for prescribing a useless drug, they’re more likely to give that explanation.

One obvious concern is that providers will cut corners in order to shave costs, but that’s not been the intent. Providers still have plenty of incentives to provide effective care, including of course, their desire to serve patients. Keep in mind that more care is not necessarily better care and can be much worse for the patient. CHI-St. Vincent is participating in a similar pilot program through Medicare where the hospital and doctors are paid a set amount for joint replacement procedures and must control costs to make a profit. The result?

Hospital readmissions have been reduced by two-thirds.

I asked Banko why the hospital and doctors didn’t make those changes beforehand. He replied, very forthrightly, “There was no financial incentive to.”

Who knows if all this is going to work, but it seems promising. What America needs isn’t more health care – but better and more affordable care. That will only happen when the incentives change.
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Valid monthly permits must be properly displayed. Failing to display a valid monthly permit may result in a citation, and forgetting to display the permit is not a valid reason to appeal a citation. In addition, a permit that has expired due to the expiration of a credit card that a patron did not update on the Park Covina website is also not a valid reason for the appeal of a citation. Please check your email spam filter to ensure that you receive emails from the parking permit contractor notifying you of the pending expiration of your credit card.

To pay a parking citation, please visit  or call toll free (877) 236-2958.

To appeal a citation, please pick up a citation appeal form from the Records Bureau of the Covina Police Department, open from 7am to 9pm daily (626) 384-5656. Citation appeals must be submitted within twenty-one (21) days of the receipt of the citation.

To access the Covina Municipal Code to research a citation appeal, please visit Parking citations can be found in section 10.32.

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Parking laws are strictly enforced throughout the city.  The various parking lot and structures in the downtown area are part of these enforcement efforts.  Each parking lot or parking structure has specific parking time limits.  Information about each parking lots time limits is posted within each parking lot and vistiors to the area should be aware of this information before parking.  Payment stations, if required, are adjacent to each parking area for your use.

Should you receive a parking citation, payment can be made on-line, over the phone. or in person at the police station lobby.

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DeMarcus Cousins unhappy with criticism from Spurs’ TV analyst Sean Elliott

Updated: 9:30 am PT

Whether positive or negative, DeMarcus Cousins is pretty in tune to what’s said about him in the media.  So when color analyst Sean Elliott accused the Kings big man of disrespecting Tim Duncan during the Spurs’ telecast of last night’s game, word got back to Cousins.

According to Dan McCarney of the San Antonio Express-News, Elliott took offense to Cousins’ trash talk directed at the future Hall of Famer during the fourth quarter of Friday night’s contest between the Spurs and Kings.  The former Spurs forward proceeded to chide Cousins on the air after Duncan and his team took control of the game in the final minutes.

 That’s why some humility is in order. You think you’re dominating Tim Duncan, you get it stuffed right back in your face. Timmy doesn’t like to talk trash. But if guys start talking mess to him, he’s going to respond. All that trash talking was premature. I’m not about to let these guys off the hook. Young ballclubs…should learn from this. Don’t start talking and flapping your gums against one of the greatest players ever. He’s going to make you pay. Tell me who got the best of this exchange.

The 22-year-old center wasn’t too pleased about Elliott’s comments, calling the Spurs analyst “immature” to media after the game.

“I mean me and Tim – we’re good,” Cousins said, pointing out that he meant nothing malicious with his trash talk. “Like I said, I have the utmost respect (for him).  But for the commentator to say the things that he said – that was immature.”

Below, video of Cousins voicing his displeasure of Elliott’s comments following last night’s loss at Sleep Train Arena.

About: Jonathan Santiago

Jonathan Santiago serves Cowbell Kingdom as senior editor specializing in writing, podcasting and video production. He also handles the majority of CK’s day-to-day beat coverage of the Kings.


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From PistonPowered: Prince for 5th Pick Trade Discussion

Friend of the website, Dan Feldman from Piston Powered, decided to kick around the idea of the Kings and Pistons swapping draft picks and veteran small forwards. He asked me to talk about the Kings end of the made-up trade:

“Tayshaun Prince seems to be the perfect mentor for guys like Donté Greene and Omri Casspi. A year under his tutelage could be invaluable. With the strides Donté Greene made between his rookie and sophomore years, being shown the ropes by Prince could help him go from very good role player to 10-year starter. For Omri, Prince could help curb some of the confidence in practice every day and make him learn how to be creative and crafty in the way he attacks the best defenders in the league.”

You can read the entire post here with more of my analysis and Dan’s words on the idea.

Also, here’s video of the Cousins-Favors workout from the Kings:


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 Other Frequently Asked Questions | CPSC.gov

Other Frequently Asked Questions

Why doesn't CPSC just recall the drywall?

CPSC cannot order a business to conduct a recall without a hearing. Any legal case on behalf of consumers would have to be supported by evidence demonstrating that the problem drywall was linked to health problems or electrical and fire safety issues in each home and thus presented a substantial product hazard warranting a recall. Current evidence does not support such a finding.

Why didn't CPSC catch this problem drywall before it was installed in homes?

CPSC does not have the legal authority to perform pre-market testing and approval of products. In addition, this is a unique situation, given that drywall has not presented such problems in the past.

Does problem drywall cause a safety hazard for electrical wiring in homes?

No. Our studies have found that although corrosion was present on electrical wiring, there was no reduction in the ability of the wiring to carry its rated current. We did not observe any safety hazards related to electrical wiring and problem drywall during our studies.

However, CPSC staff continues to recommend the removal and replacement of electrical distribution components when remediating the home, including receptacles, switches, and circuit breakers.

Does problem drywall cause a safety hazard for gas pipes in homes?

No. Our studies detected the presence of surface corrosion, but no significant change in the thickness of piping occurred, and there was no reduction in the ability of the gas piping to perform as intended. We did not observe any safety hazards related to gas piping and problem drywall during our studies.

How do I choose firms to test and remediate the problem drywall in my home?

The Federal Interagency Task Force has released guidance (pdf) to help consumers identify the presence of problem drywall in a home and to take action to remediate it (pdf).

Please be cautious of persons or businesses advertising both testing and remediation services─there may be unqualified or dishonest individuals seeking to take advantage of consumers struggling to address this issue.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned consumers to be alert for unscrupulous salespersons offering quick fixes or "federally approved testing kits." There are no federally approved testing kits.

You should consult your state and local authorities if you have any questions or concerns about contractors or testing companies promising solutions to these drywall matters.

Did CPSC testing show a microbiological cause to the sulfur gas emissions in problem drywall?

No. Studies conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey and by Environmental Health & Engineering found no evidence of microbiological activity or a microbiological source of sulfur-gas emissions from gypsum rock or problem drywall, including samples taken from affected homes.

What health symptoms have been associated with problem drywall?

The most frequently reported symptoms are irritated and itchy eyes and skin, difficulty breathing, persistent cough, bloody noses, runny noses, recurrent headaches, sinus infections, and asthma attacks. Because many consumers report that their symptoms lessen or go away when they are away from their home but return upon re-entry, it appears that these are short-term symptoms related to something within the home.

Staffs of the CPSC and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) agree that the levels of sulfur gases detected in the affected homes in the 51-home study (pdf) were at concentrations below the known irritant levels in the available scientific literature.  In its health consultation (pdf), CDC found that the additive or synergistic effects of these and other compounds could potentially cause irritant effects to consumers.

Have any deaths been caused by problem drywall?

No. A review provided to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) by the CDC found that there is no evidence linking exposure to problem drywall to any deaths.

How has the Chinese government responded?

CPSC had contacted the Chinese government repeatedly, directly and through various available channels, steadfastly requesting that Chinese companies do the right thing and stand behind their products. Neither the Chinese government, nor Chinese manufacturers, has been forthcoming about assistance with problem drywall.

Is CPSC's scientific investigation of problem drywall complete?

Yes. CPSC is confident that its extensive research and testing have been successful in defining the scope of the problem drywall issue, in producing identification and remediation protocols, and in providing homeowners with all the assistance possible within the agency's jurisdiction and appropriated funds authority.

As noted above, absent scientific proof linking the drywall and health problems to electrical and fire safety issues, CPSC is unable to take legal action. CPSC has worked with the gypsum industry through ASTM International, a voluntary standards-setting organization, to develop new standards for elemental sulfur in drywall and to implement tracking on drywall.  Going forward, CPSC will implement and enforce the Drywall Safety Act of 2012.

This document was prepared by CPSC staff, and has not been reviewed or approved by, and may not necessarily reflect the views of, the Commission.


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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

SOUND brand Tube amp in Boston for $250

Everyone is always confused about these SOUND brand amplifiers - these were made in Italy and imported via NJ but they were not made by Ampeg, harmony, Lectrolab, Sano or anyother USA based company. They seem to be hit or miss because by the early 1970's tube amp companies were using alot of cheaper parts and even doing PC board layouts etc. These usually used EL84 output tubes - sounds like this one has been gone over by a tech which gives a much better chance of being in good shape.

FYI: Notice that he is jumping the channel inputs inthe photo to increase the gain just like on an old tweed Fender and many other two channel tube amps.

rare VINTAGE TUBE AMP tremelo reverb 2 channel FENDER SPKR - $250 (ALLSTON)

Date: 2009-10-07, 5:15AM EDT
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recently serviced by BOSTON'S BEST TUBE AMP TECHNICIAN Stan Day...has 4 inputs, 2 channels...bass, mid, treble, tremelo, reverb, polarity changer...all tubes and lights work perfectly...the amp sounds cool and vintage...the brand is SOUND which Stan believes was an early creation of AMPEG...

he replaced the speaker with a vintage FENDER speaker...all original except the new power cord (the old one did not have a ground on it)

call MIKE at 781 864 5118 or email

  1. I may have original literature from this company, because I am from Long Island and owned one in the late 60's. If interested, I'm at Thanks - Benjamin

  2. Ben, Thanks. I would expect literature on these to be pretty rare. If you have time maybe you can scan it and post it online. I will try to have a specific area for that type of info on my expanded website when it premiers in a few months. Thanks again. - Jim C

  3. my amp...def not made in italy...says 'MADE IN USA' right on pretty sure it was made in miniola, shoot or early production of AMPEG...

    still for 781 864 5118 or email me at if interested in purchasing it in the NYC area...

  4. I have this identical amp and have used this as my main amp for about 30 years.

    I had the tubes replaced once. I love this amp. Best reverb I've ever used. Great very controlable feedback.

  5. i have a sound amp, single 12" speaker. i need to locate a wiring schematic of one, or atleast could somebody get me some good pictures of the chassis layout possibly? my email is

I appreciate your comments but please no commercial links or non guitar related conversations. Thank you. - JC

I am reposting items here that are listed on CRAIGSLIST throughout the USA. I am not selling any of these items and I cannot facilitate the sale of anything here - so please do not comment or post questions like "Is this still available?" or "I am interested in your guitar please call me, etc." You need to contact the seller directly by calling the phone number listed on the post or by going to the CL listing and emailing them. NEW FEATURE: Click on the title of the CL Listing inside my post to LINK thru to the original Post. If the original CL listing is deleted the item most likely is no longer available. Thanks for checking out my blog and GOOD LUCK!

Please don't call, contact, bother or harass these sellers long after their post is expired. Take for granted if the listing is over 30 days old that the guitar or amp is LONG GONE! Thank you.


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The Height of Fashion and The Latest Trend

Have you seen the “Deconstructed” line of furniture now available at Restoration Hardware?

They are carrying a ton of different styles in this line and they seem to be adding more all the time. I personally haven’t seen anything in this style in anyone’s home yet, but it must be the latest craze if Restoration Hardware says so.

Well, if you think that chair is impressive… Check this out!

That’s right. I happen to have an entire deconstructed wall!

And I’ve been holding out on you. My bedroom wall has been sporting this of-the-moment look for about 8 months now.

I Know. How selfish of me to keep all this stunning inspiration for myself.

Don’t worry. I’m not under the false impression that these pictures actually make things any better, they just have no where else to go right now. Our bedroom is a bit of a dumping ground for odds and ends lately.

As becoming as this look is, I’m actually hoping this wall will become a little more deconstructed sometime in the near future.

And then maybe a little re-construction wouldn’t hurt either.

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    That is too weird about that line of furniture, BUT I love the brick in your deconstructed wall. When we redid our attic and tore off the plaster all the brick and beams looked so cool. I wanted to keep it that way, but the boys would be freezing up there in the winter if I did :)

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    I think you may just be a trend setter, Courtenay! Now everyone will want a deconstructed wall! I can relate- we built our own home. Not all at once. Over the long years whenever we had money and time. Not everything is done even now. This summer we are putting in our final ceiling in our loft. Lived for years with deconstructed walls. The good news is, you will appreciate your new wall more than anyone ever could! xx

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    I’m not a fan of the deconstructed furniture and I actually would love to know how many they sell. Although I love a lot of what they have, I wouldn’t be getting those.

  4. says

    Brick walls are always nice, that furniture….not. But, it must appeal to someone. I always think most high design is completely out of touch with everyday homes. Thank you for joining me at Home Sweet Home!

  5. says

    Your deconstructed wall theme would pull together if you painted it all one uniform color… but you probably want a real wall in your bedroom :) My bedroom is a dumping ground as well…I try to not let it be, but it’s one room I can close the door and everything stays out of sight! Bags of scrapbooking stuff, flea market finds, etc… no kids allowed!

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    They have published the new trend and good furniture also we can be find and in this type attractive furniture and useable also. It May be helpful site shared and connected people also. So good efforts for the published in this site.

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    Every day many people are connected in this site and blogger also because in this post has been given the instruction fashion trend and good decorative design so that can be manage and interior our home.

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    Maximum people are very like it in this site and follow it in this interaction for the interior our home and good looking very well design the good supports for the published on the site and good also.

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Police: Man shot by contracted security officer at East Oak Cliff strip mall

A contracted security officer shot a man at the Lancaster Kiest Shopping Center on Tuesday afternoon, Dallas police said.

At 5:10 p.m., the security officer was involved in a physical altercation with another man at the East Oak Cliff strip mall in the 3200 block of S. Lancaster Road. During the fight, the security officer shot the man, said Officer Monica Cordova.

The man was taken to an area hospital and is in stable condition.

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Why I Took Video Each Day of the Year in 2014

A Screenshot from the 1SecondEveryDay App. From Jan 20th 2014 to the 31st.

At the start of  each new year we reflect and we talk about how it went for us. And when we talk about our year, we usually only talk about the big events: a job change, a new relationship, a heartbreak, this big stroke of luck or that big misfortune.

But the fact is, our lives are mostly filled with moments that aren’t particularly noteworthy at all. It’s not interesting to talk about the Vietnamese sandwich place you went to for lunch a couple times a month. It’s also not interesting to talk about that parking garage space that you rented when you started driving to work. Rainy days when you do nothing but stay inside reading or watching TV are not interesting, nor is that day you spent waiting at the DMV.

And yet, despite the fact that we don’t care to remember them, these moments constitute the bulk or our experiences. They provide background, context and depth to the “big” events that we do remember and talk about.

If I had read the above paragraphs in 2012, I think I would have nodded my head in agreement. However, since I wasn’t particularly diligent about journaling or keeping a record of my days in any way I don’t think I would have understood its meaning completely until I started taking videos each day using the 1 Second Every Day app to make a montage of the year.

This was the video I shared for 2013:

I admit that I did feel my ego inflate a little bit when friends started liking my video on Facebook and saying how “awesome” my year looked, despite the many days in that year where the most interesting second was a video of the the overcast sky out my apartment window, that programming book I was studying, or that video game that I got addicted to for a couple weeks. Still, I did the best to make my year look as interesting as possible, and many times I found myself seeking out novel situations and activities just so that I could show I was living an eventful and interesting life.

So yes, narcissism was likely one of the bigger motivations for first embarking on my 1 Second Everyday project in 2013. But after that quick swell of pride I experienced after people had liked or shared my video had subsided, I realized that I was still left with the richest chronicle of a period of my life that I could ever hope for. 2013 was one of the best years in living memory for me, but I think that because I had taken a second of video each day to chronicle it, it seemed far richer than any year before it. It was richer not because I experienced more, but simply because I remember more of it. This is why I continued to take video each day in 2014, and will most likely do so indefinitely.

And here is the video from 2014. Happy new year :)

3 Technological Innovations that Could Revolutionize Meditation Practice

Almost a century ago, H.G. Wells predicted that “It is quite possible that in contact with western science, and inspired by the spirit of history, the original teaching of Gautama [The Buddha], revived and purified, may yet play a large part in the direction of human destiny.” Today, we’re seeing this cross-fertilization between science and […]

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The 4 Types of Web Marketing Superheroes. Which One Are You?

Having worked for two and a half years doing marketing for web startups, I quickly realized that while I excelled at connecting with influential people within a particular niche and creating valuable content which attracted a good number of backlinks, I found that other important marketing tasks, such as community building or doing in-depth data […]

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18 Little Known Facts To Challenge Your Views About Religion

Ever since I started practicing meditation about a year and a half ago, it has become a subject of regular study for me. After reading countless blogs, books, and listening to recorded talks on meditation, I had found that groups from every religion, not just Buddhism, practice some form of meditation or other. In fact, […]

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Looking Back: My First Year as a Meditation Practitioner

Ever since I started meditating regularly last year, one question I continued to ask myself was: “Am I happier?” For the first three months, my answer was “no.” Contrary to my expectations, I often felt more emotional turmoil than I had before. It seemed as though any event, no matter how trivial, would set off […]

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Tips on Networking from 125 years ago

As a networker, your goal is to establish contacts with people who you don’t yet know, as well as maintain and grow relationships with people you’ve already met, in the hopes that in the future you may be able to do business with them. Although it certainly depends on the openness of the network that […]

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Startup Idea: Adding Game Mechanics To Daily Deals

Working in the startup world, I come up with ideas for web apps all the time, and while it can be fun to cobble together a product in my head and imagine how it would succeed, to imagine myself bowing to imaginary applause, I know in my heart it’s really just, as Ze Frank had […]

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Just One Question

Let me ask you a question: What are you thinking about right now? Are you thinking about what you have to do? What you should have done already but you haven’t done yet? Are you thinking about something you did that you wish you hadn’t done or perhaps done differently? Are you debating whether you […]

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What I Learned From 10 Days of Silence and Meditation

The morning gong woke us at 4:00AM. We were to get up and sit: spine straight, chin tucked, hands in our laps and direct all of our attention to the breath flowing in and out of our nostrils for two hours until breakfast time. The first morning’s meditation was a struggle, not just because of […]

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A New Chapter

As of last Thursday, I am no longer working at TeachStreet.com. To make a long story short, they hired me to drive traffic to the site. For the first few months I did just that, and helped increase traffic by over 50%.  To do this, I reached out to influential bloggers to earn links, guest […]

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Workout of the Day: 26-Apr-2012

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Reminder: Our Inter-CrossFit party is this Saturday night (4/28) at Roots Cafe. Tickets are $15 for open bar 7:30pm-9pm and DJ till late. Proceeds to benefit Central Falls High School CrossFit program. See here for more details.

CrossFit WOD

Cold Thermogenesis

Front Squat 1×20
If you completed all 20 reps last week, increase weight by 5 lbs.  If you did not, stay at same weight as last week.

Intermediate and Beginner

DB Press
8-5-3-8-5-3, rest 90 sec

6 min AMRAP:
15 Power Snatch (75/45#)
30 Double Unders

Rest 3 Min

6 min AMRAP:
15 Power Clean (95/65#)
30 Double Unders

Total Reps

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2 Responses to “Workout of the Day: 26-Apr-2012”
  1. 04.26.2012

    great turn-out for 545. did 65# x 20 for front squat which was challenging. I was not feeling the love on the WOD. I felt off on all my pulls for both rounds. for some reason I felt rushed. I was off. maybe i was trying too hard and had too much weight. oh well I guess i will have to come back tomorrow.

  2. Kristen 007

    70# x 10 and then 70# x 13 on the front squats.

    2 rounds plus 15 snatches plus 55M row for 1st part of the WOD with 45#.

    2 rounds plus 15 power cleans with 65# for the second part.

    I also felt really off today; pulling to early, not feeling very strong, etc… Hoping to chalk it up to a bad day.

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If I were making Halo 5 – Part 2 [Campaign Design]

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In order for Halo to move forward, we need to understand its roots.

Welcome to part 2 of “If I were making Halo 5”! In part 1, I shared my thoughts on story and character development in the Halo series. Today, we’ll be looking at combat and level design in the campaign. Just like part 1, I’ll be using Halo 4 as a point of reference and moving forward from there.

* Note: Everything you are about to read is based on the experience of playing Halo on Heroic and/or Legendary difficulty settings. The lower difficulty settings water down many of the combat systems to the point where they are no longer noticeable. *

There are several core elements of Halo gameplay that 343 have successfully delivered with Halo 4. The raw movement, aiming, and hit detection are all solid. However, there are a few key areas that I believe 343 needs to focus on improving with Halo 5:

  • The “Combat Ladder”
  • Sandbox design
  • The “fun” equation

These are all elements that I feel are crucial to an enjoyable Halo campaign. Let’s go through them, starting with what I call the “Combat Ladder”

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Halo is a very thoughtful FPS. Long before the release of Halo CE, Bungie was working on a form of Real Time Strategy game. As development moved forward, the game shifted to a first person perspective with smaller-scale battles, and Halo as we know it was born. But despite Halo’s transition across genres, elements of its RTS roots are still present. There is a Rock/Paper/Scissor dynamic to the combat systems. Weapon X beats enemy Y, weapon Y beats enemy Z, and weapon Z beats enemy X. Fighting a group of enemies in a Halo game is a bit like a game of “connect the dots”. To defeat that Hunter, I’ll need the Elite’s Fuel Rod Gun, to defeat the Elite I’ll need the Grunt’s Needler. To take out the Grunt from a safe distance I’ll need the Jackal’s Carbine rifle. Ok, go! This series of “dots” is what I call the Combat Ladder.

The reason this system is so important is that it creates a level of strategic thought within Halo encounters that simply doesn’t exist in most shooters. You are always analyzing and prioritizing based on several factors, not just “which enemy is closest to me? I’ll shoot them first!”. It also encourages the player to use all the various tools in the sandbox. This keeps things fresh and exciting by avoiding repetitive use of any one weapon.

In Halo 4, 343 managed to capture this dynamic fairly well during combat with the Covenant. But when it came to designing their own original enemy class, they broke the ladder. Of the 3 classes of Forerunner enemies, only the Promethean Knights drop weapons that are significantly useful. And even those useful weapons are direct analogs to other Human or Covenant weapons in the game. You still need to prioritize your targets, but in a far more simplistic manner: which of the bad guys in front of me are causing the most trouble right now? In most cases, that’s about as complicated as it gets.

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There is the added dynamic of the Watchers and their defensive capabilities. Do I try to kill the Knight first, or do I take out the Watcher first so I don’t have to worry about his interference? The problem is that you only need to answer this question once. In virtually every single encounter that involves Knights and Watchers, attacking the Watchers first is the better strategy. Fighting the Forerunners requires far less thought than fighting the Covenant. To make matters worse, all 3 classes of Forerunner share the same weakness. A long range precision weapon (like the DMR, BR, or Light Rifle) is the most effective utility weapon against Knights, Watchers, and Crawlers. There is very little incentive to ever switch weapons, unless you run out of ammo or find a power weapon. This makes fighting the Forerunners feel very repetitive.

Proper implementation of the combat ladder is critically important for Halo 5. It is one of the key elements that has always made Halo games so much fun to replay. I had to force myself to complete a 2nd playthrough of Halo 4, in contrast with the dozens and dozens of times I’ve played through Halo CE, 2, 3, ODST, and Reach. A true Halo game requires just as much thought and planning as twitch reflexes.

Let’s move on to my 2nd element: sandbox design.

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Level design in the Halo series has always been based on a pattern of large, open “sandbox” areas connected by paths or hallways that are more linear and focused in nature. This creates a great balance; the narrow paths allow more controlled experiences, while the sandbox areas allow the player to ‘play’ with the many tools at their disposal. These areas have traditionally been where the real Halo magic happens. Players can approach an area in whatever way suits their mood at the time, and get a different experience each time they replay it.

In Halo 4, 343 got the basic flow of the landscape right, but faltered in how the many areas of each level are populated. The wide-open areas of Halo 4 rarely offer the player any form of choice other than “do I walk right or left”. Each location seems to be built with a very specific player approach in mind. That’s fine some of the time, but never do we get the opportunity to play with the entire sandbox at our disposal the way we could in previous games. Areas like the Scarab battles from Halo 3, the approach to the Control Room in Halo 2, or Tip of the Spear in Halo Reach allowed near-infinite replayability thanks to the array of different vehicles, weapons, and paths through the environment.

There are a few moments in Halo 4 where we can see the designers attempting to provide the player with options on the battlefield. However, these few moments of choice often clash with the encounter design within the mission. This is a very troubling trend in Halo 4′s design, and brings me to my 3rd point:

343 doesn’t seem to have a firm grasp on what makes Halo “fun”.

Halo 4 is filled with encounters that push the player into using tactics or strategies that aren’t fun. It starts with the geometric level design, and where enemies are placed within that geometry. For reference, let’s take a look at this video I made for my Halo 4 review:

Halo 4 will frequently dangle “options” in front of the player, only to punish them for attempting to take those options:

  • You might enter a door and see an Elite with his back to you, moving towards his parked Banshee. If you act fast, you just might be able to take him down before he enters his vehicle, and claim it for your own! You pulled it off? Great!!! Except you’ll get blown to pieces within 10 seconds of liftoff because you are directly within the crossfire of at least a dozen enemies.
  • Friendly forces have dropped off a Scorpion tank for you to use? Too bad you begin the encounter completely surrounded by Plasma Pistol-wielding Covenant troops: you barely have time to move before you’re EMP’d and defenseless against the approaching Wraith.
  • Remember how much fun it was to drive the Warthog around the grassy hills while taking on squads of enemies in the beginning of Halo CE and Halo 3? Well here’s a similar area for you to recreate those memories… except you have no gunner. You’ll have to get out of the Warthog and cover this massive open area on foot, or park your Warthog at a safe distance and use the turret from long range while the enemy AI breaks down completely.

Speaking of AI: The AI in Halo is fantastic. Very dynamic and adaptive. It only has one weakness: The majority of enemies in the Halo series have no idea what to do when you attack them from extreme long range. Yet Halo 4 constantly puts the player into situations where engaging from such distances is the only viable option. Huge amounts of time are spent unloading into enemy forces from long range while they dumbly shuffle from side to side, not moving to cover, not attempting to close the distance and engage. Never before have the enemies in a Halo game appeared so stupid.

In my opinion, the “fun” equation is the single most important element to the future of the Halo franchise, and something that needs significant improvement in Halo 5. 343 has shown that they understand which ingredients to use, just not how to mix them all together. Nothing exemplifies this better than the 5th mission of Halo 4. Take a Mammoth with rocket turrets and a compliment of Marines and Spartan 4s, add in a couple Warthogs, loads of enemy vehicles, and a battle that stretches across miles of desert terrain: but somehow you end up with a level that is both dull and frustratingly slow paced. All too often, the missions in Halo 4 are built on exciting foundations of fan service, but fail to execute in a way that lives up to the potential of that foundation.

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Looking towards the future, I believe an emphasis on the 3 elements I’ve outlined here is the key to making Halo 5 the game it needs to be. The great thing is these elements (The “Combat Ladder”, sandbox design, and the “fun” equation) allow room for change and innovation. 343 can add as many new weapons, vehicles, or mechanics as they like, without losing the “classic Halo feel”. I could ramble on forever (which I kind of already have) about all the different ways to make this happen, but I believe there is a very specific point to start:

Stop trying to recreate the great moments of past Halo games.

Halo 4′s campaign is so obviously the result of a emulation checklist: “we need a tank section like ‘the Ark’, we need the moving platforms from Halo 2, we need a space section, etc. So let’s just look at those sections from earlier games and copy them, then find places to cram them in to our campaign”. In Halo 5 I want to see 343 take the franchise into their own hands with real confidence and create experiences from the ground up, based on what they think is fun. Staying true to what Halo “is” does not mean cutting segments out of past games and sticking them in to your new one. It means understanding the core systems, then letting your imaginations run wild. If 343 can do that, then Halo 5 will be in great shape.

Thanks for reading! Stay tuned for part 3 of “What if I was making Halo 5″, where I’ll be discussing the future of Halo’s multiplayer!

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  2. lj2387 says:

    I’ve mentioned your analysis on the new Halo Waypoint. Hopefully it gets some attention. I can’t say enough how spot on your analysis is.

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  4. lj2387 says:

    Where is part 3? Been waiting for quite some time now for you to upload it.

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  6. RiffMasterC says:

    Once again a good read with great points (which I completely agree with). These points about what is lacking in the Halo 4 campaign are why I hardly play the game and haven’t completed it on Legendary yet. Which makes me sad because i played the crap out of Reach and still can go play it and have fun and new experiences every time.
    Can’t wait for part 3.

  7. ZealotSG says:

    That was a heavenly read! I wholeheartedly agree with everything!!!

  8. Bizargh says:

    I think you’ve pretty much summed up the problems I encountered with Halo 4’s Campaign.

    I did find the “backtrack prevention” to be utterly ridiculous (Aren’t continuous nav-points enough to guide the lost so those route-familiar need not lose their freedom?), and wondered how everyone was finding Halo 4 so difficult when I, after 3 Legendary Solo runs, wasn’t; Because of the next to none “Set-up/Fallback zones”. And even if they existed, I highly doubt I’d have much opportunity to fall back to them, considering the punishing movement & melee speed of the Elites and the Promethean’s persistance pretty much made most mistakes fatal. So how does all these features like waypoint to every single location and backtrack prevention help newcomers when they’re always thrown into the thick of it with rarely a chance to retreat? Not much I’d reckon. Bid farewell to those supplies in the last room you were gonna go back for because the door’s gonna shut on you and tell you “WRONG WAY NEWCOMER OR INSURBORDINATE TO LINEAR STRUCTURE”. Anything further about the Sandbox from me would just repeat what you’ve described.

    And that brings me to the AI, which I have little complement to provide. The Covenant AI feels “copy-pasted” from Reach. Bad? No. The Enemy AI was at it’s peak of diversity & intelligence in Reach and it allowed veteran players to apply their past knowledge & strategies more easily. But the AI’s received tweaks, as 343 seemed to believe they weren’t challenging enough. This is obvious in the Elites, as mentioned before, with their movement speed matching player sprint speed exactly, so you physically cannot outrun them or chase them down, and their near-instantaenous melee strike speed makes a defensive melee attack completely irrelevant. And add the slow down upon damage when sprinting & their unflinching response to damage, these are not traits that added challenge for me, but rather punished me for relying on my adaptability & stragetic creativity, most especially in close encounters.
    As for Friendly AI, they felt “copy-pasted” from Halo 3, only downgraded. I remember Halo 3’s Friendly AI very fond of shooting dead bodies, but in Halo 4 it’s all they just about shoot, even when being shot! And another example was that the Enemy AI would attack at twice, maybe even three times the range of that of the Friendly AI, so if I ever wanted to take my Warthog at a distance & pick ’em off, it was an impossibility as the Friendly AI wouldn’t do it unless I went straight into the thick of it, and just stand and stare as a Ghost riddled my Warthog or a Wraith shot beared down on top of us. I feel comfortable saying that they are the worst Friendly AI of the entire Halo franchise. If it was a means to uplift the player, I consider it a complete failure. To uplift me as a player, I need to be surrounded by AI that can demonstrate competance & provide adequate assistance, but still depend on my presence. AI that is so unreliable that depending on them actually gets you killed more often than leaving them to their useless devices doesn’t uplift me, it just makes me feel like I’m the only one with any actual sense or response.
    As for the Prometheans, I have no major problems with. Frustrating to fight, particularly with how persistant watchers are even when fleeing, the instantaeneous recharge of Promethean shields, epecially after teleporting, but the faults are more minor, and at least do complement them as an enemy of superior technology, strength & intelligence.

    Beyond all of that would only repeat what you described.

    So yes, 343 has quite the amount of work to do if they hope for Halo 5 to be in much better shape than “Now 60fps and near-1080p”. And they have the resources & clearly the knowledge of the franchise to be able to do so. Now that the Xbox One’s hardware gives them much more room to apply them (as it’s obvious the Xbox 360 did not, even in the graphics), I feel that is when we shall truly see what 343 is willing & capable of doing.

  9. Sandbox ladder? It’s more like a ‘chain’ isn’t it? :P
    But again, I pretty much agree with you.

    Just watching that first video you posted made it strike me how much the areas are designed SO UNLIKE a Halo game. If this were Call of Duty, running over to an outcropping and poking out and popping heads would be easy and standard procedure. In Halo, with the tougher, more mobile enemies – and especially with vehicles – it makes you feel nothing but utterly trapped and disempowered.

    Halo NEEDs that bigger ‘set up’/’fall back’ area IMO that we were denied so often in Halo 4.

    On the AI being too passive and dumb at long range: nearly every Spartan Ops mission exemplifies this behaviour. Watch my no-death runs of it and nearly every level is ‘snipe with DMR until dead.’

    As I recall from Halo 1, many of the enemies would often stick fairly close to cover at long range. This meant you either had to be really quick with a sniper rifle to get them, or come into mid-range and expose yourself. I’m not sure why Halo has drifted away from this. It was frustrating for learners, to be sure, but it’s made the combat less interesting at higher difficulties.

    (and on LASO ridiculous shield buffs make anything but a backsmack nearly useless – but that’s a slightly different discussion)

    Good article again – I await the final part :)

    • CruelLEGACEY says:

      Thanks for reading and responding!
      I’m just guessing here, but I suspect that 343 didn’t use nearly as many behavioral conditions with their AI routines as Bungie did. In previous games, Bungie created many different behavior modes for each form of enemy, and the AI would switch between modes based on what was happening in-game. So Grunts would have a certain list of behaviors that they would use when they spawned, and that list of behaviors would change depending on things like:
      *Distance from the player
      *Presence of an Elite commander
      *Number of other Grunts in their vacinity

      While playing Halo 4, I see much less variation from AI characters. As far as I can tell, the Elites seem to switch between “standard behavior” and then “Shield down” behavior, and that’s about it. The enemies are all less dynamic than they used to be.

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Posted by: Nick Redfern on June 18th, 2013

Monsters of Texas

“The Old Alton Bridge is situated in the Texas town of Denton. It is roughly about an hour’s drive from where I live and has a very strange and monstrous legend attached to it. It concerns nothing less than a terror-inducing Goat Man, of the very type that have been reported from a whole variety of other locations across the United States for many a year. Probably the most infamous of all the Goat Men is that which allegedly surfaced in and around the town of Lake Worth, Texas back in the summer months of 1969. But, what of its nearby cousin of the supernatural kind in Denton?”

The words above are taken from my new Mysterious Universe article, which you can find right here…

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  1. HulkSmashNow responds:

    I wish someone would look further into the stories about the Goat-Man of Emhouse, Texas, as well.

  2. volmar responds:

    Look further into the Goat Man? Really? The Goat Man is half myth, half hoax. It is not a hidden animal, as in Cryptozoology, it does not belong along with Sasquatch, Yeti, Nessie and others. It is merely Folklore and belongs alongside Chupacabras, Devil Monkeys, Spring-Heeled Jack, Black-eyed children, Shadow People, Nephilim, Mermaids, Dragons, The Beast of Bray Road, etc.

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"The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained."

-Ben Bernanke in congressional testimony, 3/28/07

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"That is of course rather painful for those involved. One should not as a rule reveal one's secrets, since one does not know if and when one may need them again. The essential English leadership secret does not depend on particular intelligence. Rather, it depends on a remarkably stupid thick-headedness. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous." --- "The Churchill Lie Factory" by Joseph Goebbels

"All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true within itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying." --- Adolf Hitler, mein Kaumpf

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Surely someone in the room when that was said went, "*cough, cough* Bullshit! *cough, cough*"

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He has been saying that since 1972. ;)

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Playoff bracket released!

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Washington University reacts to making the tournament.

We wondered whether it would be a "winning percentage year" or a "strength of schedule year" for this particular Division III football committee. Some years the 9-1 team is favored, some years the 8-2 team with the great strength of schedule.

This year, well, it was ... strength of schedule, as St. John Fisher got in. And so did Washington University, as a Pool B. In fact, projections nailed all 32 bids, so the only quibbles are where teams might have ended up in the bracket.

Top seeds appear to be, in order: Mount Union, UW-Whitewater, Mary Hardin-Baylor and Bethel. That's based on their placement in the bracket -- it has been a few years since the NCAA has been willing to admit to the seedings they put on teams.

Who is left out? The same teams we told you about last night: Millsaps and Texas Lutheran were one-loss teams in Pool B who were not selected, while Wabash was the leading one-loss team in Pool C that was not chosen to continue.

Why not Wabash? Surely for the reasons we discussed last night in our projected bracket. Wabash did not have any wins against regionally ranked teams, and only played one overall. On the other hand, even though St. John Fisher had one more loss, they were 2-1 against regionally ranked opponents in our projection and had a much tougher strength of schedule.

What most surprises you about this year's bracket?
That strength of schedule was valued by the committee
Johns Hopkins plays Wesley
Franklin and Hampden-Sydney get home games
Mount Union and UWW on opposite sides of bracket

Worst first-round draw: Johns Hopkins. What did the Blue Jays do, as a No. 2 seed, to deserve Wesley coming to town? Framingham State should be going to Johns Hopkins and Wesley should be going to two-loss Ithaca.

Least surprising first-round draws: All the island teams. There was no way we were going to see anything other than PLU at Linfield and Redlands at UMHB, sorry.

Most surprising home game: Not sure why Hampden-Sydney and Franklin get home games. Considering where they were in the last non-secret regional rankings, it doesn't make sense. We managed to get semi-remote teams such as Washington U. and Maryville drivable opponents without giving home games to teams that were ranked ninth in last week's regional rankings. We gave those home games to Wartburg, who was eighth in a stacked West last week, and Lebanon Valley, which wouldn't be lower than sixth, thanks to all the losses in the East this week.

Most unusual second-round matchup: The Hampden-Sydney/Maryville winner is almost assuredly heading all the way across the country in the second round. Apparently the NWC survivor's reward for playing its second-round game the first weekend is to get to play its first-round game the second weekend.

These teams got separated: Mount Union and John Carroll cannot meet again before the Stagg Bowl. UW-Whitewater and UW-Platteville cannot meet again before the Stagg Bowl. St. John Fisher and Ithaca cannot meet before the Stagg Bowl. Illinois Wesleyan and North Central could meet in the quarterfinals. Linfield and Pacific Lutheran cannot meet again before ... Saturday.

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What play-types should 2k add to NBA 2K13

IF they play-type assignments do not go away next year what are some play-types you would like to see added or taken away. Any and all thoughts on PLAY TYPE are welcome here. I know there were some issues with Pick and Roll and POP being combined would you prefer having those seperated etc.

It will be most beneficial to me to keep this discussion just on the play-types. Thank you.

So if you have an opinion log in and leave your comments and I will take that feedback back to 2K for their consideration.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Fast Model Sports Technology Play of the Day CHA Horns Circle Part 2

Welcome back to part 2 of our @fastmodel play CHA Horns Circle. Today we build on the dribble entry branch by passing to the 5 man to initiate the play.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Fast Model Sports Technology Play of the Day CHA Horns Circle

What's happening family ? Back today with our @fastmodel play of the day. This is one option of a play ran for the Charlotte Hornets called CHA Horns Circle. Don't forget you can use directional lead passing to influence where the playing coming off the screen will catch the basketball.

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Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Fast Model Sports Technology Play of the Day BOS 14 Side POP

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Well after a few weeks off we have restarted our Play of the week for the good folks @fastmodel. I am a little late as this play went live monday. We have switched to using generic teams for these play diagrams, but this is a Celtics play.

I am using the C's in an association and use this play often. With Ray, Pierce and Garnet all great mid range shooters this play gives me lots of flexibility.

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What's happening family ?

I know it has been a few week's but I have been extremely busy with life and family. Thanks for sticking with us. Today I wanted to bring you a look at a play in the Lakers corner series offense.

I thought it would be cool to track a play the use over the course of a single game and see if and how the defense adjusted. Today show's how detrimental it is to the flow and difficulty of a basketball game to have the ability to dynamically branch it's play-calling system.

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