Ah, back to the good old 7am meetings. That'll seem like cake when I do my 11pm-11am shift on Black Friday.
34 thoughts on “November 12, 2011: Morning Meetings”
The wedding reception we're attending this evening is at Busch Stadium. Advance word is that the WS trophy isn't on display there yet. Bummer. Probably still on David Freese's kitchen table.
have you walked through the city garden, rhu-ru? There are a bunch of excellent sculptures, jim dine excepted. You may even encounter an OSTL protester while viewing the art.
Oh, yeah, I also sat next to one member of a jazz trio from StL on the way into dublin. Funny dude, his band was the _________ experience (I can't remember the namesake of the band)
Jimi Hendrix??? /tryingtobehelpful
nope. sorry doc. I also sat next to a member of the Irish national hurling team. Dude was smaller than I would have expected a professional hurler to be.
"professional hurler" always makes me giggle.
Oh yeah, I went through the sculpture garden back when they first installed it. And the 99%ers were moved after last night.
It's pretty amazing sitting in the Drury and looking out the window and seeing the Arch to the right and the old courthouse (where Dred Scott case was decided) to the left
Alex Footman worked as an unpaid intern for the award-winning film Black Swan. He and another former unpaid intern for the movie are suing the film's production company for back pay.
I mean, seriously? Does this guy EVER want a paying job?
Footman says he filed papers and ran errands alongside paid employees. Glatt worked as an accountant who kept financial records for the production. Their lawsuit is the first case on unpaid internships in over a decade.
The Department of Labor has said that this sort of work may be illegal for unpaid interns to do. In fact, the Supreme Court ruled over 50 years ago that only work done for training purposes could go unpaid. The Labor Department says companies began skirting the rule. Last year, it moved to issue a six-point test that for-profit internships must pass to comply with labor laws.
Ross Eisenbrey, vice president of the Economic Policy Institute, pushed for that test. His organization looks at life for working-class Americans. He says the test's "essential ingredient is that it has to be for the benefit of the intern, not for the benefit of the employer."
I'll stop here, because I'm about to go waaaaay over into the Forbidden Zone.
Wait, wait, wait. Isn't
Footman says he filed papers and ran errands alongside paid employees.
part of the dictionary definition of unpaid intern?
yes.
I'd be interested to see what else he did on the film. I can confirm that film companies try to get away with as many unpaid interns as they can, and they do skirt the rules.
Part of the reason it's so hard to get paid being on a film crew sometimes is that there's always some gomer who'll give it away for free.
Many thanks to my fellow Citizens for their Veterans Day wishes. It was a busy week here in Madison - two film screenings (one a premier), a social, an event at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, all culminating on Friday with UW-Madison's student veterans organization reading the 6,313 names of men and women fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan on the main mall/green space on campus.
Starting at 8am, it took until nearly 4pm to finish, with a national moment of silence at 1pm (nearly 200 universities across the country observed this, coast to coast, at the same time). I read 600 of those names, 200 which I had volunteered for (including the names of some friends), and two lists of no-shows. Other readers included the guys I teach with in the Vietnam War class, some siblings of servicemembers none of us had ever met, some ROTC cadets, and of course veterans (of three different wars - Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam).
After the reading a couple of us attended a flag retirement ceremony at the State Historical Society, then downed a few pitchers of beer before joining our other members at the Wisconsin vs. Minnesota hockey game, where the Athletic Department presented our organization with a stick signed by the coach. It was pretty sweet to see the Badgers, a very young team this year, knock out the Gophers, who were ranked #1 in the nation at the beginning of the week, even if I do feel a little conflicted about that.
Anyway, thanks again for thinking of all the vets here at the WGOM, and for those in your families and communities, wherever you live. It really does mean a great deal.
Anyone else have thoughts on the new Marlins unis?
I gotta say that I like them, though I do have some minor quibbles (which will hopefully be worked out). Uni-Watch complains about the drop-shadow on the numbers, but if there's any place that should have drop-shadows, it's Miami (I think the Dolphins have the biggest drop-shadows in American sports).
I like that the name breaks over the front between letters over the front rather than has to be applied like a big patch just cut down the middle. I do not like on the main wordmark that the drop-shadow on the M is teal, but on all the other letters is orange. Either Orange should be on the bottom of the M, or teal should be on the bottom of IAMI. The orange alt gets it right and should always be worn at home. (By which I mean, they should just ditch the white MIAMI and just wear orange.)
I think that Pujols and Reyes would look great in these. (Well, not the black. A teal road alt is the way to go.)
I do reserve my right to change my mind.
yeah, i think i'm on record somewhere around here saying that i don't really mind them. if it works anywhere, it would be in miami.
I think they should have the silhouette of Ernest Hemingway on the front.
+1 Bone Spur
The swooping marlin is pretty gross. The marlin creates more visual weight on the already heavy M, and I agree that they shouldn't have messed with the color for the single M. If they needed to have that element I think a swoosh under the word mark would have been better. Other than those two huge flaws I like the way these unis look.
The logo looks decent on the uniform and it's a little different. The uniforms are otherwise pretty clean, which is nice. I think they'll work out fine, though I'm doubting sales of Marlins jerseys will skyrocket any time soon.
Depends upon if the back says "Pujols" is my guess.
I really, really like the orange cap. I'd almost consider buying one. It's really, really nice.
the Gophers are 27 point dogs today... sure looks like they deserved that so far. yeesh
They needed 3 more than that!
Boise St lost today because their field goal kicker shanked it (well before that, they fumbled it and TCU drove down the field and converted the 2 points)...second straight year that happened.
My personal rule for college football: never trust a kicker
Which saves the BCS title game for another year without having to admit an undeserving undefeated team over a deserving one-loss team. (Any of the undefeated teams left, if they remain undefeated, will be deserving of a berth.)
(Caveat: I haven't paid attention at all, maybe BSU would have been deserving enough this year, but a quick look at who they built their undefeated record on did not make me think so.)
Houston is undefeated and ranked something like 11th. They only score 65 points a game
LSU will probably lose...I hope the title game is Oklahoma State and Stanford
I didn't know that, so I looked them up. Big scores against middling teams.
Average score: 54.7-22.8. Even if you take out FCS Georgia State, they still average a score of 54.6-25.3
I don't know who's actually crappy this year, so I checked out Sagarin for rankings.
Sagarin puts Houston at 18th best before this week, but with the 112th-ranked schedule, slightly worse than South Dakota and South Dakota State. Only two other teams in the top 60 have weaker schedules: North Dakota and Northern Iowa. Only 11 teams in FCS have had weaker schedules to date, out of 120.
Houston hasn't played a game against another team in the top 30; every other team in the top 25 has. The best team they've played is #52 UCLA (season opener, won 38-34). They do play #45 SMU and at #22 Tulsa in their final two scheduled games (next two weeks). Using this week's ratings, Tulsa should be 0.6-point favorites in that game. I'm guessing that if Houston loses to Tulsa, they will fall out of the top 25 altogether, they've really built their ranking on demolishing horrible teams, so it's hard to see how to rank them. But once they lose to someone, it'll be more clear how to rank them: below whichever team just beat them.
In comparison, BSU had the 45th-strongest schedule, and beat #13 Georgia (as well as Tulsa), but after #31 TCU (sure to be in the top 30 next week), BSU plays #63 San Diego, #80 Wyoming, and #196 New Mexico (the worst team in FBS). Sagarin ranked BSU fifth.
playing in Conference USA will do that to schedule strength. SMU's rating will go down because they lost to Navy at home (Navy racked up over 300 yards rushing last time I tuned into that game)
One of the problems with college football is that the bigger profile programs rarely play the good outsider teams because there really is no incentive to do it (except if you are playing a neutral site game where the sponsor plays each team 10 million clams for you to show up like what Jerry Jones is starting to do).
Anywho, Im not saying Houston should play for the national title if they are undefeated, but it would be kind of sweet for them to play in a big money BCS game against a bigger school and see if the can roll 50
I'm starting to suspect that Stanford won't be in the national championship game...
If LSU loses a game, we could have Houston-Oklahoma State.
Nah, Houston won't beat out Alabama. Or Oregon. If it even comes to that.
Actually, I don't think Houston would stand a chance of jumping over a one-loss LSU, either.
another night of Gopher (7:30) and Wild (9:30) hockey. I dont like these 7:30 Big Ten Network start times. Also Stanford-Oregon college football and Versus has a really late game (Washington St I think)
Jealous of you and your remote, as I have to work tonight.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Copper thieves have struck at Abraham Lincoln's burial site in Springfield, Ill.
An employee recently noticed that a copper statue atop the tomb was missing a 3-foot-long sword. The statue is of a Civil War artillery officer.
The sword was allegedly taken sometime between September and early November. It was broken at the handle.
Dave Blanchette is spokesman for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. He tells the (Springfield) State Journal-Register (http://bit.ly/sxWgJm ) that the theft is believed to be the first to state property stolen at the Lincoln Tomb Historic Site since the same sword was stolen more than a century ago.
State officials plan to repair the statue.
A guard used to be stationed at the tomb overnight, but Blanchette says the position was cut amid budget problems.
The company behind the film Atlas Shrugged Part 1 is replacing 100,000 title sheets from the film's newly released DVD and Blue Ray versions because the copy writer incorrectly described the late Ayn Rand's 1957 novel, Atlas Shrugged, as a story of "self-sacrifice."
The wedding reception we're attending this evening is at Busch Stadium. Advance word is that the WS trophy isn't on display there yet. Bummer. Probably still on David Freese's kitchen table.
have you walked through the city garden, rhu-ru? There are a bunch of excellent sculptures, jim dine excepted. You may even encounter an OSTL protester while viewing the art.
Oh, yeah, I also sat next to one member of a jazz trio from StL on the way into dublin. Funny dude, his band was the _________ experience (I can't remember the namesake of the band)
Jimi Hendrix??? /tryingtobehelpful
nope. sorry doc. I also sat next to a member of the Irish national hurling team. Dude was smaller than I would have expected a professional hurler to be.
"professional hurler" always makes me giggle.
Oh yeah, I went through the sculpture garden back when they first installed it. And the 99%ers were moved after last night.
It's pretty amazing sitting in the Drury and looking out the window and seeing the Arch to the right and the old courthouse (where Dred Scott case was decided) to the left
Ok, then.
I mean, seriously? Does this guy EVER want a paying job?
I'll stop here, because I'm about to go waaaaay over into the Forbidden Zone.
Wait, wait, wait. Isn't
part of the dictionary definition of unpaid intern?
yes.
I'd be interested to see what else he did on the film. I can confirm that film companies try to get away with as many unpaid interns as they can, and they do skirt the rules.
Part of the reason it's so hard to get paid being on a film crew sometimes is that there's always some gomer who'll give it away for free.
Many thanks to my fellow Citizens for their Veterans Day wishes. It was a busy week here in Madison - two film screenings (one a premier), a social, an event at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, all culminating on Friday with UW-Madison's student veterans organization reading the 6,313 names of men and women fallen in Iraq and Afghanistan on the main mall/green space on campus.
Starting at 8am, it took until nearly 4pm to finish, with a national moment of silence at 1pm (nearly 200 universities across the country observed this, coast to coast, at the same time). I read 600 of those names, 200 which I had volunteered for (including the names of some friends), and two lists of no-shows. Other readers included the guys I teach with in the Vietnam War class, some siblings of servicemembers none of us had ever met, some ROTC cadets, and of course veterans (of three different wars - Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam).
After the reading a couple of us attended a flag retirement ceremony at the State Historical Society, then downed a few pitchers of beer before joining our other members at the Wisconsin vs. Minnesota hockey game, where the Athletic Department presented our organization with a stick signed by the coach. It was pretty sweet to see the Badgers, a very young team this year, knock out the Gophers, who were ranked #1 in the nation at the beginning of the week, even if I do feel a little conflicted about that.
Anyway, thanks again for thinking of all the vets here at the WGOM, and for those in your families and communities, wherever you live. It really does mean a great deal.
Anyone else have thoughts on the new Marlins unis?
I gotta say that I like them, though I do have some minor quibbles (which will hopefully be worked out). Uni-Watch complains about the drop-shadow on the numbers, but if there's any place that should have drop-shadows, it's Miami (I think the Dolphins have the biggest drop-shadows in American sports).
I like that the name breaks over the front between letters over the front rather than has to be applied like a big patch just cut down the middle. I do not like on the main wordmark that the drop-shadow on the M is teal, but on all the other letters is orange. Either Orange should be on the bottom of the M, or teal should be on the bottom of IAMI. The orange alt gets it right and should always be worn at home. (By which I mean, they should just ditch the white MIAMI and just wear orange.)
I think that Pujols and Reyes would look great in these. (Well, not the black. A teal road alt is the way to go.)
I do reserve my right to change my mind.
yeah, i think i'm on record somewhere around here saying that i don't really mind them. if it works anywhere, it would be in miami.
I think they should have the silhouette of Ernest Hemingway on the front.
+1 Bone Spur
The swooping marlin is pretty gross. The marlin creates more visual weight on the already heavy M, and I agree that they shouldn't have messed with the color for the single M. If they needed to have that element I think a swoosh under the word mark would have been better. Other than those two huge flaws I like the way these unis look.
The logo looks decent on the uniform and it's a little different. The uniforms are otherwise pretty clean, which is nice. I think they'll work out fine, though I'm doubting sales of Marlins jerseys will skyrocket any time soon.
Depends upon if the back says "Pujols" is my guess.
I really, really like the orange cap. I'd almost consider buying one. It's really, really nice.
the Gophers are 27 point dogs today... sure looks like they deserved that so far. yeesh
They needed 3 more than that!
Boise St lost today because their field goal kicker shanked it (well before that, they fumbled it and TCU drove down the field and converted the 2 points)...second straight year that happened.
My personal rule for college football: never trust a kicker
Which saves the BCS title game for another year without having to admit an undeserving undefeated team over a deserving one-loss team. (Any of the undefeated teams left, if they remain undefeated, will be deserving of a berth.)
(Caveat: I haven't paid attention at all, maybe BSU would have been deserving enough this year, but a quick look at who they built their undefeated record on did not make me think so.)
Houston is undefeated and ranked something like 11th. They only score 65 points a game
LSU will probably lose...I hope the title game is Oklahoma State and Stanford
I didn't know that, so I looked them up. Big scores against middling teams.
Average score: 54.7-22.8. Even if you take out FCS Georgia State, they still average a score of 54.6-25.3
I don't know who's actually crappy this year, so I checked out Sagarin for rankings.
Sagarin puts Houston at 18th best before this week, but with the 112th-ranked schedule, slightly worse than South Dakota and South Dakota State. Only two other teams in the top 60 have weaker schedules: North Dakota and Northern Iowa. Only 11 teams in FCS have had weaker schedules to date, out of 120.
Houston hasn't played a game against another team in the top 30; every other team in the top 25 has. The best team they've played is #52 UCLA (season opener, won 38-34). They do play #45 SMU and at #22 Tulsa in their final two scheduled games (next two weeks). Using this week's ratings, Tulsa should be 0.6-point favorites in that game. I'm guessing that if Houston loses to Tulsa, they will fall out of the top 25 altogether, they've really built their ranking on demolishing horrible teams, so it's hard to see how to rank them. But once they lose to someone, it'll be more clear how to rank them: below whichever team just beat them.
In comparison, BSU had the 45th-strongest schedule, and beat #13 Georgia (as well as Tulsa), but after #31 TCU (sure to be in the top 30 next week), BSU plays #63 San Diego, #80 Wyoming, and #196 New Mexico (the worst team in FBS). Sagarin ranked BSU fifth.
playing in Conference USA will do that to schedule strength. SMU's rating will go down because they lost to Navy at home (Navy racked up over 300 yards rushing last time I tuned into that game)
One of the problems with college football is that the bigger profile programs rarely play the good outsider teams because there really is no incentive to do it (except if you are playing a neutral site game where the sponsor plays each team 10 million clams for you to show up like what Jerry Jones is starting to do).
Anywho, Im not saying Houston should play for the national title if they are undefeated, but it would be kind of sweet for them to play in a big money BCS game against a bigger school and see if the can roll 50
I'm starting to suspect that Stanford won't be in the national championship game...
If LSU loses a game, we could have Houston-Oklahoma State.
Nah, Houston won't beat out Alabama. Or Oregon. If it even comes to that.
Actually, I don't think Houston would stand a chance of jumping over a one-loss LSU, either.
another night of Gopher (7:30) and Wild (9:30) hockey. I dont like these 7:30 Big Ten Network start times. Also Stanford-Oregon college football and Versus has a really late game (Washington St I think)
Jealous of you and your remote, as I have to work tonight.
Another sign of the coming apocalypse.
Hahahahaha!
Oh, that is rich.