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The Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Convention of Canada is a Baptist organization serving the Ukrainian Baptists in the country of Canada.

History
Ukrainian Baptists became established in Canada early in the 20th century from two independent sources. A group of Ukrainian immigrant families laid down the foundation and established the first Ukrainian Baptist church in Canada, electing Rev. Ivan Shakotko to be the pastor in Winnipeg in 1903. Around the turn of the 20th century, English-speaking Baptists sent a missionary to labour among the growing Ukrainian population in western Canada. From this work, a church was organized in Overstone, Manitoba in 1904. Around this same time, Baptist work among Ukrainian Canadians was started in Toronto, and in Saskatchewan. John Kolesnikoff, a missionary, moved to Canada from eastern Ukraine in 1907. These churches were successful in attracting Mennonite, Shtundist, and Eastern Orthodox emigrants from Imperial Russia. The first annual conference of Ukrainian Baptists in Canada was organized by Rev. Shakotko and Rev. Kolesnikoff in Canora, Saskatchewan in 1908. It was originally called the "Russian-Galician Evangelical Convention" and gradually changed to "Russian-Ukrainian" as the name Ukrainian was popularized. For a number of years afterwards the body operated as the "Federation of Ukrainian Baptist Churches in Canada". In 1961, they incorporated under the current name.

See also
 Baptists in Ukraine
 Brotherhood of Independent Baptist Churches and Ministries of Ukraine
 All-Ukrainian Union of Churches of Evangelical Christian Baptists
 Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada
 List of Baptist denominations
 Union of Slavic Churches of Evangelical Christians and Slavic Baptists of Canada

References
 Profiles in Beliefs: the Religious Bodies in the United States and Canada (Vol. II), by Arthur Carl Piepkorn
 100th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Evangelical Baptist Church, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Historical Review: 1903-2003. John Tkachuk, October 19, 2003. Retrieved 27 December 2022.
 The Stories of Michael Stepanovich Shakotko. Retrieved 27 December 2022.

Christian organizations established in 1908
Baptist denominations in North America
Ukrainian Canadian religion
Ukrainian Baptists
Evangelical denominations in North America
1908 establishments in Canada
Baptist Christianity in Canada

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11 Foot 8 Bridge, Notorious Spot for Truck Wrecks, Gets Raised by 8 Inches
Wounded War Vet Plows Snow in His Nebraska Neighborhood With a Modified Wheelchair
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There are few people in this world who have given as much back to their community as Iraq War veteran Justin Anderson. After losing his leg in the war, the Bellevue, Nebraska man came home and was diagnosed with brain cancer. Being a true hero, Justin never gave up and he beat the cancer, but he wasn't satisfied.
That's when the disabled veteran decided to use his off-road wheelchair, which was donated by The Independence Fund, as more than just a way to get around. In 2015, Anderson outfitted the wheelchair with a snow blade, and, now, every winter for each snowfall, he clears the sidewalks in his neighborhood with his makeshift snow plow.
Read More: Snow Plow Know-How: This Genius Inventor Came up With a Sweet Snow Plowing Invention
"I don't want kids or parents having to go through the snow and possibly trip or hurt themselves," Anderson told WOWT 6 News in 2016. "I had a half-dozen people stop to take a picture because they hadn't seen a chair like this before."
"The chair has on-the-fly tilt so I can adjust the height of the blade as I push snow."
Anderson says that he appreciates the support from his Bellevue neighbors, but their gratitude is just an added bonus. For the wounded war veteran, doing what he does in his modified wheelchair every winter is his duty.
"The community has supported me immensely with my struggles and tough times as I had a leg amputated and my fight with brain cancer. This is my way of giving back," Anderson said.
"It's very gratifying. It's nice to know you're appreciated. But even if I didn't get any response from anyone – or nobody said 'Thank You' – I'd still do it."
Read More: Watered Down Gas Cost These Omaha, Nebraska Residents Hundreds in Car Repairs
About the author: Richard Thompson

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Looking for multi-functional slideshow - full screen, customizable appearance, etc.
Thread: Looking for multi-functional slideshow - full screen, customizable appearance, etc.
tnd1000
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Hey there. I love the scripts I've seen around here, but I'm currently looking for a slideshow to use on my site (mypetsonparade.com). Thus far, I've been using the Ultimate Fade-In Slideshow. It's great, but it doesn't have all the features my clients are looking for. However, there are several other DD slideshow scripts that have features my clients would like. I just don't yet have the coding knowledge to write a slideshow with the desired features, which are:
1. Ability to make the show full-screen
2. Ability to customize the appearance of the show (background-color/image of the player, etc.)
3. Capacity for a very large volume of pictures
4. Pictures can link to other pages
5. Pictures can have captions/descriptions
6. Show starts automatically, but has navigation buttons
djr33
What's missing from the Ultimate Fade-In Slideshow? I think all of those features should be available (if you look into how you can customize it), except for one:
That's going to be tough. Do you mean full-window? If so, that's fine. It may not be a feature in every slideshow, but a lot at least have something like a "lightbox" effect where the image is big in the center and there's a border around it.
But you can't actually make it full-screen using just DHTML as far as I know. This is possible using Flash. But I do think you'd actually need Flash to make that work. Is that an option? Personally I'd recommend against it.
In what sense? There aren't usually limits to the number of images, although it may take a long time to load. There's no way around the loading time. However, you can use different strategies such as pre-loading (or not!) to make it smoother when it's used. If you have a "lot" of images, you may want to look at either not preloading the images or doing some sort of background process preloading so that it will not make you wait for everything to work.
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1) the ability to make the show fullscreen
It is possible to combine the ultimate fade-in slideshow with something like slim box 2 like Daniel mentioned, and as detailed by this post by John (jscheuer1):
Originally Posted by jscheuer1
Why lightbox? Do you like how it looks? If that's the only issue use slimbox2, see:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/blog.php?b=247
However, if you're also having trouble implementing/integrating it with the slideshow, let me know.
Two (there are more) advantages with slimbox2 here are that it looks just like lightbox, and is compatible with jQuery. So for a simple integration you don't need to do anything with the slideshow script, just add slimbox2 and its styles to the page and this highlighted init for it:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/slimbox2.css" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/slimbox2.js"></script>
(function($){
if (!/android|iphone|ipod|series60|symbian|windows ce|blackberry/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
$('.gallerylayer a').live('click', function(e){
var t = this;
$.slimbox(t.href, 'Enlarged Image' || '', { /* Options */ });
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/fadeslideshow.js">
/***********************************************
* Ultimate Fade In Slideshow v2.0- (c) Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (www.dynamicdrive.com)
* This notice MUST stay intact for legal use
* Visit Dynamic Drive at http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for this script and 100s more
***********************************************/
wrapperid: "fadeshow1", //ID of blank DIV on page to house Slideshow
dimensions: [250, 180], //width/height of gallery in pixels. Should reflect dimensions of largest image
["http://i26.t . . .
Set the links in the imagearray as the paths to the larger images:
["http://i26.tinypic.com/11l7ls0.jpg", "images/image-1.jpg", "", "Nothing beats relaxing next to the pool when the weather is hot."],
["http://i29.tinypic.com/xp3hns.jpg", "images/image-2.jpg", "_new", "Some day I'd like to explore these caves!"],
["http://i30.tinypic.com/531q3n.jpg", "images/image-3.jpg"],
["http://i31.tinypic.com/119w28m.jpg", "images/image-4.jpg", "", "What a beautiful scene with everything changing colors."] //<--no trailing comma after very last image element!
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Daniel: The Ultimate Fade-In Slideshow does have a lot of the features I listed, but in particular I'm having a hard time customizing its appearance. My client would like it to either have a background-image or have no background at all, and I can't figure out how to edit the background at all.
As for the capacity, I just wasn't sure if some slideshows would malfunction with a large number of photos.
Bernie: Thanks for the link! I'm having some trouble loading the Slimbox site right now (I'm on dial-up), but I'll check it out when I can. If I can use that for the full-screen and then figure out how to customize the background, my client will be happy, haha.
You can change the background color as explained here:
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/forums/s...kground-colour
In theory, no. (Unless they have a limited number of spaces, eg, a gallery with 6 places for images, but not in the "slideshow" layout I don't think.)
But it could take a lot of memory and slow down the computer. That's not something inherent about the Javascript code, just about the browser dealing with all of those images. Generally I don't expect it to be a problem with reasonably sized images on relatively modern computers, but if you do run into trouble feel free to post about it here-- and one solution is to look into the best way to deal with it using preloading (or not).
Thank you both very much! Can't tell you how big of a help this has been!!! If the images become a problem, I'll definitely check into the matter of preloading.
Ok, good luck with it. Also, there's an obvious solution if you are thinking about hundreds or thousands of images: create several pages and different galleries. That will help users anyway, because they'll want to look at specific subsets of the images rather than all of them at one time. I can imagine that not working on certain very specific kinds of sites, but for the most part it's an option and would solve that. If you're only using 100 or less images, I think it will be fine. If more, consider splitting it into a few pages if you find it to slow down the browser.
If you're going to look at preloading, a good starting point would be:
http://perishablepress.com/3-ways-pr...vascript-ajax/
As it offers multiple methods of preloading.
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Recap: The Amazing Race 31, Episode 5 – "Suck the juice out of every experience."
Recap: The Amazing Race 31, Episode 5 – "I'm a Bird, I'm a Plane, I'm on The Amazing Race"
Teams fly to Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Once there, teams must hop into taxis to meet some rich young men with expensive cars in the desert. After enjoying some tea and dates, teams can retrieve the next clue inside the cars.
They must now make their way to the Dubai Frame. Rachel & Elissa are in first place, but their taxi driver has no idea where to go.
The other teams open the clue revealing the Detour: Fall or Find. In Fall, teams are told they would be jumping out of the Burj Kalifa. But it's actually only in virtual reality. What they also don't know is that they will have a quiz of what they see in the virtual Burj Kalifa spy mission. In Find, teams must head to the Dinosaur Park in Dubai Garden Glow where they will put on huge dinosaur costumes and search the park for five different colored eggs.
Leo & Jamal, Colin & Christie and Tyler & Korey choose Fall. Seeing everyone else at Find, Rachel convinces Elissa that they should switch since bungee jumping should be easy and fast despite only two teams able to make the "jump" at the same time.
None of the Fall teams pass the quiz on their first attempt. Meanwhile, Chris & Bret finish the eggs first and they must now make their way to Soho Garden.
All the teams get through their respective Detours except for Leo & Jamal and Rachel & Elissa who have trouble with one question each.
Over at Soho Garden, teams find the Road Block: Who can feel the beat?
For this Road Block, teams enter a silent rave where they must identify which of the partygoers are moving to the beat of the track being played by the DJ. (Apparently, an Amazing Race theme remix.)
Floyd finishes the Road Block first and he and Becca hurry over to take a zipline to the Pit Stop on the Dubai Marina. They win $5000 and Phil freestyles with them.
They are followed by Chris & Bret, Colin & Christie, Tyler & Korey, Nicole & Victor, Janelle & Britney and Leo & Jamal.
Rachel & Elissa accept they are in last place, but Phil tells them this is a Non-Elimination Leg.
Interesting Leg. The tasks certainly fit for a night Leg in Dubai. But it certainly wasn't the most inspiring Leg Design. Random rich Emiratis in the desert? Dinosaur costumes? Fake freefalls? Another night out with friends after karaoke in the last Leg?
It definitely felt more like a bridge kind of Leg to serve as the connecting point between Vietnam and wherever they're going in the next Leg. UAE is definitely a friendly country for TAR to visit as Dubai especially likes to promote tourism to their city. So it makes sense.
The copout with the VR freefall was so sketch. And the dinosaur egg task was really more of an Active Route Info task, honestly, rather than one side of a Detour. It was basically the Milwaukee Brewers Sausage Race. (Coincidentally both on the same day, today.)
The Road Block was okay on its own. But the best part of the Leg really was just hearing the TAR theme remix.
Ziplining to the Pit Stop definitely should only be on Non-Elimination Legs. Having a line to go to the Pit Stop is not good.
In this week's nitpicking, why was Becca & Floyd's ID always far-left aligned instead of the normal spot?
Anyway, a pretty meh Leg overall. But since it was paired with another Leg, it wasn't as noticeably bland as it would have been on its own.
My Subjective Team Rankings
Rachel & Elissa had some bad taxi luck on this Leg. But unlike other teams who have disappointed in the entertainment aspect, the Reillys delivered this Leg, especially in the end in the taxi. Rachel already resigned to the fact that she was about to be eliminated for the first time ever and then Elissa telling her to quit it. That was hilarious. I just wish they'd get some luck on their side while also kind of avoiding their little mistakes that add up.
Janelle & Britney are really just under-edited. They only pop up when they're frantic at something and then disappear for the rest of the Leg. I think that's a little bit of a disservice to them, especially as both are much more witty and interesting than the other teams. The deleted scenes TAR uploads on YouTube even show that.
Colin & Christie have been running what is probably the strongest Race so far. I don't really think their change in attitude has really been a huge factor since they've been doing very well so far with really no opportunities for them to even get frustrated.
Chris & Bret had another bit of a darkhorse kind of Leg. They're definitely making a case for themselves, though quietly. Nicole & Victor, again, are doing very well too. But not in the most exciting way. Leo & Jamal are definitely not the same Racers they were on even TAR24. That is, Racing-wise. They're still very annoying obviously. Which can also be said for Becca & Floyd and Tyler & Korey.
I would've much preferred the Leg placements to have been flipped. Would've been a great outcome.
Episode Quotes
Elissa: "It was harder than a DMV test, for sure."
Colin: "Suck the juice out of every experience."
recapThe Amazing Race 31
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Recap: <i>The Amazing Race 31</i>, Episode 6 - "It's basically a head-on collision."
The Amazing Race 32 Season Wrap-up
Recap: The Amazing Race 32, Episode 12 (Season Finale) – "What the heck was that?!"
Recap: The Amazing Race 32, Episode 11 – "The Race sucked."
Recap: The Amazing Race 32, Episode 10 – "I currently hate their guts."


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News : Avaya Named Leader Position in Inaugural Report from Aragon Research
#contactcenterworld, @Avaya, @aragonresearch1
Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA, Jan 23, 2023 -- Avaya (NYSE:AVYA), a global provider in solutions to enhance and simplify communications and collaboration, announced it has been named as a Leader in the inaugural report: The Aragon Research Globe™ for Conversational AI in the Intelligent Contact Center (ICC) 2023 by Aragon Research, Inc.
According to the report, authored by Craig Kennedy, Sr. Director of Research at Aragon Research, the Avaya solution offers a "fully integrated technology stack including Unified Communication (UC), Contact Center (CC), and Workstream Collaboration (WSC), all extensible through Avaya Communications APIs and application library." The report also indicates Avaya's conversational AI solution is designed as "omni-channel, supporting text, voice, and visual interfaces."
Conversational AI technology enhances the user experience in the form of intelligent virtual agents (IVA) or chat bots. These IVAs are now working alongside human agents as co-agents, enabling the human agents to easily resolve issues. IVAs are also available to users independently for their issue resolution through self-service access delivering a seamless and simplified, omnichannel customer experience.
Avaya's workflow automation is an available solution for conversational AI. Its capabilities enable the creation of new virtual agents that can integrate Google, Nuance, and other conversational AI offerings into custom or pre-built solution virtual agents.
"Companies strive to make the customer experience personalized, effortless, and frictionless; the agent experience should be no different," said Ahmed Helmy, GVP of the Experience Platform Product Management, Avaya. "Conversational AI in the contact center can greatly enhance both the customer and agent experience. End customers want self-service access to address transactional needs quickly, but also want the flexibility to choose a human agent when a more complex issue arises. The Avaya Experience Platform can enable and augment agents to predict and react faster to real-time customer needs with the right level of access to information. Overall, this helps agents provide an upleveled experience by better contextually serving their customers and delivering an end-to-end omnichannel experience focused on the customer."
According to Kennedy, while conversational AI technologies continue to advance, organizations should be apprised of the most updated capabilities available.
"The bar has been raised for customer experience in the contact center. Today's consumers are routinely experiencing digital interactions with social media, ecommerce sites, virtual assistants, and other digital solutions that are seamless, intuitive, and easy to navigate, and they expect nothing less from their contact center interactions," said Sr. Director of Research, Craig Kennedy. "With a focus on intelligence and AI across its entire portfolio of offerings, Avaya is meeting these expectations by facilitating conversational AI powered customer journeys within its contact center over text, voice, and visual channels on the Avaya Experience Platform."
Avaya customer Mike Baker, VP of Enabling Technologies at C3i, a multi-channel customer engagement services provider, specializing in global, high-touch consumer, patient, and end-user management, said, "When we set out to find one solution technology partner, we really looked at it from the perspective of Avaya, the biggest contact center organization in the world. If we need help, in any country we can get Avaya support. That might not be the same, and it wasn't the same, for other vendors…At a time of rapid change, it's our goal to be that resource our customers can rely on to meet the growing needs of their customers. It is critically important to us that we apply AI in a meaningful and intentional way, and Avaya allows us to do this…[A] use case that we used conversational intelligence for was around a major digital and print company. One of our customers was trying to gauge if people were impacted by COVID with job loss…And then further wanting to cancel a subscription, one of those subscriptions or possibly both. So, we would leverage the Avaya Conversational Intelligence listening if they were thinking of cancelling and then offer alternate solutions real time, because that's the benefit of Conversational Intelligence. It doesn't do anything if it's post-call, but since it's real time, we can make a difference."
Source: https://www.businesswire.com
About Avaya:
Avaya is a recognized innovator, leading business communications for the digital age. Avaya delivers smart global solutions and technologies for customer and team engagement, unified communications and collaboration, contact center and customer experience management, and networking. We provide related services to large enterprises, midmarket companies, small businesses, and government organizations around the world.
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Aragon Research delivers high-impact visual research, consulting, and advisory services to provide enterprises the insight they need to make better technology and strategy decisions. Aragon Research serves business and IT leaders and has a proven team of veteran analysts.
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DEPRECATED.
The xUnit parameter type

Record Fields

Record Field	Description

            Appveyor

            Signature: bool

forces AppVeyor CI mode (normally auto-detected)

            ConfigFile

            Signature: string

The file name of the config file (optional).

            ErrorLevel

            Signature: XUnit2ErrorLevel

Test runner error level. Option which allows to specify if an xUnit error should break the build.

            ExcludeTraits

            Signature: (string * string) option

Exclude named traits with comma separated values

            HtmlOutput

            Signature: bool

output results to HTML file

            IncludeTraits

            Signature: (string * string) option

Include named traits with comma separated values

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maximum thread count for collection parallelization
0 - run with unbounded thread count

0 - limit task thread pool size to 'count'

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            Signature: string

output directory

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set parallelization based on option
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collections - only parallelize collections
assemblies - only parallelize assemblies
all - parallelize assemblies & collections

            ShadowCopy

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Shadow copy

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Output running test count

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forces TeamCity mode (normally auto-detected)

            TimeOut

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If the timeout is reached the xUnit task will be killed. Default is 5 minutes.

            ToolPath

            Signature: string

The path to the xunit.console.exe - FAKE will scan all subfolders to find it automatically.

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            WorkingDir

            Signature: string

The working directory (optional).

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output results to xUnit.net v1 style XML file

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We hereby invite you for the 1st Lighthouse Club function of 2012!
A special occasion for special guests: YOU!
"THANK YOU" Gala-Dinner as a start of this new year!
For ALL of those that REALLY matter to us!
This Gala event includes a FREE flow of draft beer (as long as stock last) plus 1/2 carafe of wine per guest.
Additional 1/2 carafes available at only THB 300.00 each!
The dinner-buffet is absolutely amazing and offers over 50 delicacies!
This 5-star Gala-Dinner is an absolute 'must to attend' event.
The LHC committee want to show its appreciation of your loyal attendance to so many of our network-events and 'grab' this opportunity to SHOW you what an IMPACT 2011 was for all of us!
Doors open of the fabulous Grand Ballroom of the Centara Hotel.
Official opening presentation and flash-back of achievements in 2011.
And YES; you MAY dance if you want!
All reservations are only accepted by prepayment!
As we only have limited seats available for this evening, we recommend you to make an early booking! Full = full!


Volunteers serve in many ways. Hospice & Palliative Care of Main Line Health HomeCare & Hospice depends on its Volunteers. Hospice Volunteers act as family members, assisting in various areas of patient and family care.
Hospice relies on its volunteers. Therefore, a commitment of their time is required. After completing the training, we request that our volunteers give at least three hours each week to our patients.
Volunteers are required to complete an initial 22 hours of training.
Volunteers may choose to support families through the bereavement period. There are additional classes that focus on this helpful, supportive service. Bereavement support may include telephone or personal contact with bereaved family members.
A Volunteer Coordinator is always available for encouragement and supervision. Peer group meetings are scheduled monthly, where volunteers meet with their colleagues to review cases, talk about issues and support one another.
To join our team as a hospice volunteer, contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Michele Whipple at 484.580.1555.


Situated in Ballycotton, the Rocket House is a charming cottage overlooking the Harbour, in the fishing village of Ballycotton. It is just 4.8 km from Ballymaloe Cookery School.
A short stroll through the Cookery School gardens leads to 11 Orchard Gardens. This is a new house built in a local holiday village located directly beside Ballymaloe Cookery School.


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Q: LinkedIn API: "Get My Connections" - is it still possible? There are plenty of threads on this that now seem to be depreciated.
LinkedIn appear to have a new API in place and I can't find if/how it's possible to get a list of my logged-in-user's connections. Is this no longer available? I'm not seeing anything in the ApiGee LinkedIn Console
If not, is there anything stopping me from creating a casperjs script that goes to this page and scrapes the connection data?

A: Scraping data from LinkedIn is specifically prohibited via their User Agreement:  https://www.linkedin.com/legal/user-agreement

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Amid a nationwide debate about the status of free speech on college campuses, a new undergraduate group has vowed to "test" the limits of those values and invite what some say are hateful speakers to campus.
Recently formed, the Open Campus Initiative espouses "support for freedom of thought, speech and association." So far, the group has invited widely criticized right-wing speakers to campus, though its president Conor Healy '19 said they hope to host liberal speakers as well.
Jordan Peterson, a psychology professor at the University of Toronto who claims that gender nonconformity threatens free speech, will come to campus next week.
The group has also invited Charles A. Murray '65, a conservative political scientist who has drawn criticism for his work alleging intellectual inequality among racial groups, to speak in the fall. Murray drew national attention earlier this year when a campus protest at Middlebury College disrupted his speaking appearance there and briefly turned violent.
Conor Healy '19, a Government concentrator, leads the recently created Open Campus Initiative.
Healy said the group values First Amendment principles.
"We're a group on campus that expresses support for freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of association. We think one of the great ways of doing, or rather promoting that on campus is by holding speaking events that other groups are unwilling to have," Healy said.
Already, though, students have started to criticize the Open Campus Initiative and its choice to invite Peterson to speak at Harvard, arguing that giving a platform to his stances constitutes hate speech.
"If you substituted any other protected class of people for the trans people he's talking about, it would be appalling, and the only reason it's not appaling is because we allow violence against trans people to be normalized," Lily M. Velona '18 said.
Helene Lovett '19 is organizing a group of students to create a response against the event, and although the group has not finalized any plans, they felt the event crossed a line.
"Personally I think a 'shut it down' attitude is just going to play right into this rhetoric, but I want to call this out, it's completely unacceptable," Lovett said.
After Peterson spoke at University of Toronto campus in October, several transgender and black students reported receiving threatening and hateful messages, which both Lovett and Velona said worries them.
"When you're inciting violence, whether intentional or not, it's not just an intellectual debate anymore," Lovett said.
"Some people see it as stirring the pot. I mean, the very fact that people see it that was is part of the reason why we these events are important, because we have fundamental disagreements, I suppose, with a lot of people about what it means to be a student on this campus," Healy said.
Former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68, who alleges the College's penalties on members of single-gender social groups violate students' freedom of association, serves as the faculty adviser to the group. Lewis did not comment on the group's selection of speakers.
Velona said they believed that freedom of speech was one thing and debating transgender people's humanity was another.
"It normalizes the idea that trans people are less than other humans; it normalizes the idea that we can refuse to acknowledge the personhood, by putting it up for debate, of an incredibly vulnerable group of people." Velona said.
A pamphlet providing information about transgender rights distributed by the College's Office for BGLTQ Student Life drew attention and criticism from various conservative and Christian websites over the past week.


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It's that time of year: Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago! Tiffany Trump has joined the rest of her scandal-embroiled family, specifically her sister, Ivanka, and her three children, on Air Force One Tuesday night, as they landed in Palm Beach to head to their father's "Winter White House." The younger Trump wore head-to-toe millennial pink, save for a pair of gold shoes that still had the tag on the sole. Children of the president—they're just like us.
Earlier in the day, Tiffany, Ivanka, Jared Kushner, and the Kushner children—seven-year-old Arabella, five-year-old Joseph, and two-year-old Theodore,—attended the annual turkey pardoning at the White House, where Donald Trump pardoned a turkey named Peas.
Perhaps the two were too busy catching up for Ivanka to check the bottom of Tiffany's shoes for any rogue stickers. But really, what else are big sisters for?
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The Solomonesque solution that thankfully never happened
When the latest Matier and Ross column featuring Coliseum City and the A's dropped over the weekend, I wasn't sure if I should follow-up right away or wait for the proverbial other shoe to drop. Drop it did, with a press release coming from the A's early today. Frankly, I don't know what to make of any of it. BayIG (the combined investor/developer group) was supposed to contact the A's starting in mid-November. Now it's all a bunch of he-said/she-said. It's all meaningless in the grand scheme of things, so I won't bother wasting anymore words on it.
Instead I'll reference a nightmare scenario that happened almost 40 years ago. It involves a Charlie Finley anecdote that I hadn't fully heard until I read his 2010 biography some time ago. In the late 70's, Finley was fighting a personal two-front war, an acrimonious divorce on one side and skyrocketing salaries that threatened his ability to operate the A's on the other. (He also had other feuds with MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, the Coliseum Commission and numerous players and agents, but I digress.) Knowing his time in baseball was running out, Finley chose to put the team up for sale as soon as 1977. Numerous suitors surfaced, some offering to keep the team in Oakland and other looking to move the franchise out at the end of the 1977 season. The most famous buyer was oil billionaire Marvin Davis, whose family was said to be the model for the soap opera Dynasty. Davis also owned the 20th Century Fox studio for some time before selling it to some Australian named Rupert Murdoch.
The difficult part of the move was the generally ironclad lease the Coliseum had with the A's. It was a 20-year term, with an expensive buyout if the A's left. As the Coliseum filed a $35 million lawsuit against Finley, Finley worked with Kuhn and Giants owner Bob Lurie to figure out a solution. Wait, what did Bob Lurie have to do with this?
Kuhn had been convinced that, with both teams showing poor attendance, the Bay Area was only a one-team market. He spoke to pols in both San Francisco and Oakland to work on a compromise, but in the end the Bay Area would be left with only one team. Previously, Lurie had bought the team from Horace Stoneham, saving SF from the prospect of moving the Giants to Toronto. Lurie was brought into the talks to figure out what role the Giants would have in a one-team Bay Area.
The solution, as architected by Kuhn and others before the 1978 season, would've been to have the A's sold to Marvin Davis, which would've gotten rid of Kuhn's nemesis Finley. Then in order to compromise on the Coliseum lease, the Giants would've played some number of games at the Coliseum, 25-40 depending on how the final deal was drawn up. In San Francisco the team would've been called the San Francisco Giants, while in Oakland the team would've been called simply the Giants. Kuhn recalled:
For the next three weeks, the politicians, the baseball administration and the lawyers struggled to find solutions. At last, amazingly, parity was agreed to. The team name would be the San Francisco Giants except in Oakland, where it would be the Giants. Financial payments to the Oakland Coliseum were set at $3.25 million. The internal fight within baseball was difficult when Finley would put up no more than $1 million as his share of the Coliseum payment. Even that we were able to persuade the clubs to accept. But, when we asked him [Finley] to waive claims of any kind against baseball, he balked.
Even though Finley was leaving baseball – forever – he still wanted to keep his right to sue just in case he felt he got ripped off. Finley was no stranger to courtrooms, so this could be expected. Still, you'd think that after all that work (and his building desperation) he would've waived that one right in order to finish the deal. The sale fell apart and Finley went into full fire sale mode, finally selling the team to the Haas family in 1980.
Consider the ramifications:
The Giants would've become the San Francisco Giants/Giants, probably playing most of the Oakland games before football season.
The buyout would've funded improvements to the Coliseum that Al Davis was seeking, improvements that probably would've kept the Raiders in Oakland.
From that point forward, the Bay Area would've been a one-team town, with a young, growing city like San Jose pursuing an expansion franchise.
Eventually, the team-sharing situation would've created a race between SF and Oakland to build a permanent home when leases at both Candlestick Park and the Coliseum expired in the late 80's. Territorial rights would've included the "BART counties" plus Marin County.
Rickey Henderson, who was drafted in 1976, would've spent much of his career in Denver. The same could be said of Tony Armas and Dwayne Murphy, among others. Marvin Davis had the money to bolster the team's payroll, so the chances of keeping a talented young team intact were very good.
So this Christmas, thank the ghost of Charlie Finley for being so selfish that he had to be able to sue – just in case. Without that, the Oakland Athletics would've been a 10 year experiment, a blip on the radar, an historical anomaly.
(h/t Rob Neyer, who referenced the near-sale when the A's-to-China Basin reports surfaced. I didn't see his post until after I finished this one.)
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"It's all meaningless in the grand scheme of things…" Music to my ears! OT: Hopefully the Raiders can start enjoying some of that Niners "Magic" (or luck?) next season. Catch the @#$%! ball Douglas! 😉
xoot
Haas bought the team from Finley after people approached him and made the case for keeping the team in Oakland. The fact that he had a lawyer son-in-law with a lawyer buddy who both wanted to run a mlb team probably helped him make his decision. But fundamentally he bought the team to keep it in Oakland. Haas himself recounted that tale in a piece archived by the Bancroft Library oral history project.
One afternoon before a day game in Oakland, when Charlie Finley strolled out onto the field, who were the two A's players in the dugout who fired baseballs at his head?
Finally, on Candlestick, my first Giants game was on an August Sunday in 1978, when the dodgers and Giants were tied for first. I'd been following the Giants all that year, but I can mark my time as a Giants fan from that moment. If you've never seen a Giants-dodgers regular season game when both teams are in the hunt, you need to put it on your list. One of the best was the 1997 game catcher Brian Johnson won with a walkoff in the 12th. I was sitting way up in the CF seats for that one, surrounded by 50-some-thousand maniacs who refused to let the late afternoon wind chase them away. (Well, a few people fled the chill. But they weren't Giants or dodger fans.)
of course, the Stick holds a special spot in the hearts of A's fans. After all, there is the place where the A's won their last WS–two and a half decades ago.
@xoot,
Hey, I bet you that you and I were present at many a Giants Candlestick game back in the 70's and early 80's. Why? Because at that time I was still a fan OF BOTH BAY AREA TEAMS. Making Summer treks as a kid to both Candlestick and the Coliseum from San Jose. Heck, I still remember jumping up and down cheering that Johnson
homer back in 97.
Then I learned about the Giants territorial rights to my city back in the early 2000's. Who knows xoot, maybe one day I'll be able to forgive the Giants and once again become a fan of both teams…
Rayburn's Son
Charles O. Finley was obviously way, way ahead of his time. He had the lowest budget of any MLB team for scouting, yet consistently out-scouted the other teams. In one story I read he told a reporter that all he needed was 2 good scouts and about $50,000 and he could win the World Series in a few years. Charley O. The Mule, orange baseballs, white shoes, night-time World Series games, the designated hitter, the designated runner, the home plate rabbit which delivered baseballs to the home plate umpire, anti-free agency, paying players to grow facial hair, and of course his kid spy, Stanley Burrell.
He tried to trade for pitcher Bill Hands just so his fans could read in the paper that his starting pitchers in a double header were going to be "Fingers and Hands." (Fingers started games early in his career). That trade never materialized, but it was a fun idea.
Being in the insurance business Charley O was a frequent flier in the courtroom, and this litigious experience played an important role in his anti Bowie Kuhn positions….thank god.
I've often thought about this, but have never posed the question. A well thought out, well crafted, grass root Public Relations campaign designed to "Out" the inequitable position the Giants ownership has taken would have to have some effect on their public perception, and maybe a little economic sting.
Most casual fans don't have any idea of what the true issues are, the true threats that have been levied by the Giants, the true desires of the Giants, and their true motives.
Anyone up for this?
llpec
RS, I've always viewed that the South Bay's corporate/business community held the purse-strings clout to effectively put pressure on the Giants for them to withdraw their unfair and unjustly "territorial rights" claims to the more wealthier and populous parts of the Bay Area market. If only the corporate/business community were more openly willing to take action, such as withdrawing their sponsorship funding of the Giants, or to not renew their luxury suites and season tickets at AT&T Park. If these scenarios were to begin to happen, then and only then we just may be able to accomplish a fair and equitable resolution to finding a new Bay Area ballpark home for the A's. As of right now, the Giants have no incentive other than to maintain the status quo.
Wow what a neat story. I've never heard it until now. Thanks for sharing that.
Very interesting story.
But I highly doubt San Jose would have gotten an expansion franchise if the A's
moved to Denver.
I say this because mlb would never grant a city an expansion team without a large public subsidy for a ballpark.
San Jose I doubt would fork that kind of money over based on past history. The Giants failed twice for tax money and SJ isn't offering anything to the A's outside of land and basic infrastructure.
@Rayburn's son: The full story would make Wolff/Fisher look worse than the Giants owners. You write well, though. Let it rip.
As to Finley, I'm serious: who were the two A's players who tried to nail him in the head with baseballs they hurled before a game at the E Coli? Come on. A's experts know this stuff. And they know that white cleats and MC Hammer anecdotes tell only part of the story. What about Finley's desire to move the team to Salt Lake City (et al) toward the end of the 70s (thus igniting the action that resulted in Haas's purchase)? Context is all.
@xoot – Hard Facts Make Bad Law. I respectfully disagree. The full story, with real facts, will be revealed soon enough and it's not pretty for your beloved team – the PR spin that they will have to undertake will make The Clinton's proud. Unfortunately, Mr. Mice Nuts hasn't had the sack to make it public (primarily because he promised LW he could get a deal done), and the MLB dictatorship has the suppression order firmly collared around both ownership groups. When LW justifiably relied upon the promise he did absolutely nothing wrong, and continues to do nothing wrong. Notwithstanding your trite and sometimes inane quips, Mr. Bow Tie, Mr. Safeway, Mr. Santa Cruz Warriors, and Mr. Lap Dog all will be colorful deponents. I can't wait to read the transcripts.
@Rayburns son: uh huh. Your dim and uninspired response, after I lauded your writing talent, disappoints mightily. Wolff/Fisher bought the A's knowing that they couldn't build a ballpark in SV, but they tried to change the terms of the deal. So far, they've failed. They're continuing to negotiate. Meanwhile, the Giants owners have negotiated, too. It's bidness. And nobody important is going to get deposed. Really. Disappoints mightily.
dmoas
xoot, get this straight. They did NOT buy the club knowing they could build in the south bay. They bought it knowing that in order to do so, they would either need to placate the Giants or get a 3/4 vote of the owners. SF bought their team knowing full well that their T-Rights weren't written in stone and could be rescinded by that 3/4 vote. As for no one getting deposed, that remains to be seen. It's doubtful that'll come from the SJ lawsuits, but that doesn't mean it couldn't happen through other, more nuclear, options in the future.
@xoot – You seem to be basically a decent human being and maybe someday some form of therapy will bear me out on that. Additionally, you are probably an adequate attorney for the seemingly small potato type cases you work on, but obviously not partner material as I doubt a well-heeled, half-a-million a year partner would spend their free time on this blog; as they would be prudently slaving away at every free moment racking up those billables; say no more.
Notwithstanding the above your partisan analysis misses the proverbial mark once again. That you continue to allow your subjective alliances to cloud your judgement indicates a certain disconcertion on your part, which I put down to zeal, but heaven knows we all make mistakes. That's life—and baseball.
Whatever the purchase terms and conditions for the current ownership were went flying out the park like one of the juiced-up faux home runs that "Federal Prisoner #25" use to hit at ATT park. Counselor Xoot it changed when Mr. Mice Nuts told LW to commit to SJ and Mice Nuts would cut a deal with the Midgets. That was the Tipping Point as Mr. Gladwell might say. That is when things went haywire at 24 Willie Mays Plaza, that is when Mr. Bow Tie got his panties in a bunch and Mr. Lap Dog crapped his pants. That was the day that changed baseball in the Bay Area. Unfortunately we will have to wait a while longer but equilibrium will eventually take place and order will be restored with the two-team shared market that we all know should exist – in a fair and equal marketplace – thanks in part to U.S. v Lopez and some liberal minded progress the courts have made over the last couple of decades.
The Bad Actors will look back on their gambit and wonder why it backfired tragically. With bemusement they will not understand why their ploy was subsequently butchered; Operation Backfire so to speak.
Happy Holidays.
Lakeshore/Neil
@ ML It's the season, so thanks for the blog, and whatever you are into, Happy Holidays everyone.
Rayburn Athletics:1
Xoot Gnats: 0
Happy Holidays and go Niners! 🙂
Happy Festivus, Giants haters. May the new year bring less embarassing attendance numbers for the team that hasn't seen the WS in this millenium. May Rayburn's run-on sentences never cease to make stupid ad hominem attacks instead of intelligent points. May those of you who think the battle is between the Giants and the A's never break your fever. You're delightful–all of you who believe that (as Charlie Finley told you) the hideous shade of yellow you wear is actually "Fort Knox Gold." Happy Festivus, bitter A's fans.
Looks like xoot had a bad batch of eggnog. Sleep it off man.
@xoot Wow, man I hope you did not mean that toward everyone, I have enjoyed you, and we have never had a problem?
duffer
Yes, xoot, I am quite happy that I am not a giants fan – what an over- rated, over-hyped, greedy organization they are. Comparing the two franchises, the A's approved the giants rights to build a ballpark in San Jose (which, fortunately, the wise San Jose voters rejected)because the Haas ownership did not want the giants to move out of state.
Compare that to the greedy giants organization – which is attempting to block the A's move to San Jose (also the giants don't want the A's at the Coliseum City, or the HT site either – and want the A's to leave town) That, along with the A's four world series titles to the giants two – sums up the two franchises quite nicely.
comedic gold…
Larry E
Lmao.. Menudo for hangovers, xoot… Or pho
@xoot- I'm a lifelong Giants fan and I disagree you big time.
Team values have skyrocketed to the point where T-rights means zero at this point for both teams.
The A's are trying to move further away from the Giants but are being blocked?
It shows nothing but greed in what is a child's game. Their is no where to build in the east bay and Selig knows it.
San Jose will win in the 9th circuit, I've said from the start a lawsuit was the only way. They will also win in state court as icing on the cake.
Sj will embarrass MLB in court and you will see loud and clear what the Giabts are doing is flat out wrong.
The A's will be in San Jose…it's just a matter of time.
Do you think that the MLB owners Lodge would be foolish enough to risk losing their sacred ATE just so that the Giants could maintain their competitive advantage over the A's within their shared Bay Area market?
I actually agree with Sid on the T-rights issue. Maybe they made sense 20 or more years ago, but they no longer apply today with the revenue income that sports leagues enjoy today. To bad baseball is not run like the other big 3 sports when it comes to revenue sharing and salary cap.
Territorial Rights are not entirely obsolete, but are pretty ridiculous as part of the modern business landscape. They really only directly impact one portion of the three ways a team makes money, and they negatively impact the Bay Area market's total impact to MLB indirectly. Which allows them to negatively impact the other way teams make money (1. Tickets/Stadium->2. Local Media Revenue-> 3. League wide revenue).
It's an archaic construct that is holding the entire league back, if only slightly. It's monopolistic canon, rather than the free enterprise principle, as many owners and ignorant fans proclaim. If it truly was about free enterprise, there would be 4 teams in NYC and none in Tampa Bay.
@Jeffrey, The intent of "territorial rights" is to maintain economic stability among the existing sports franchises within its league. Otherwise, you would have franchises arbitrarily moving into another franchise's market. As a result, causing havoc and potentially severely damaging the economic integrity of the sports league, not to mention the allegiances of fans with their respective teams. However, these concerns do not apply between two teams that already share the same market. The term "territory" and market should be treated as one and the same. In fact it is in all instances within the four major sports leagues, except the Bay Area market in MLB. That exception has to be corrected, since in reality both the A's and Giants are playing within the same territory.
T-Rights have a purpose important purpose, just not in how MLB maintains them. In most cases, especially true in the bay area, T-Rights are haphazardly drawn with no rhyme or reason. If they drew a 30-40 mile circle around the stadium for each team and said no one could move there, that would make sense. Even a 50-100 mile circle would make sense. Chopping up by a series of counties where the bay is split in two in such a way that the teams are 10 miles apart, but one team has rights 40+ miles away equi-distant doesn't. Especially when it's not even uniform across the league.
Dead Man, that's exactly what I meant.
The territorial rights issue doesn't even matter anymore. A's ain't movin', will sell the team to Investors in 2016. Where they move, after the sale, will depend on the investors.
Ivan: Wolff has continually said the team is not for sale.
Wall Street Journal Lists 5 Richest Cities in U.S. Guess which city didn't make the list?
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You are right @pjk, based on how much they have dedicated to 2016 and beyond, they sure look like a team ready to move to another city, not sell.
https://www.baseballprospectus.com/compensation/cots/al-west/oakland-athletics/
Actually, I change my mind . . . 2015 they will sell.
@lakeshoreneil–you know where I stand. But this place has deteriorated during the past year. I realize that the total post-season failure of the Beane era has been tough; and it's even tougher to be stuck watching the defeats in the E Coli. But blaming the Giants for the A's situation is ridiculous. I've always said that the Bay Area is a two-team market that should be shared. The problem is that I also point out how complicit the A's owners have been in creating the current imbalance, while raking in the dough. Such discussion is not welcome on lewballpark.org. Fine.
@Ivan,
You continue to be one funny guy! Thanks for providing humor to this site and Happy Holidays!
@Rayburn,
Now that's what I'm talking about! MLB isn't stupid; they know baseball in San Jose will be a money maker and will eventually do the right thing re A's to SJ and indemnification towards the Giants (even if they don't deserve squat IMHO)
Then why are you here?…
@ivan- you were pretty excited with the previous article you posted that said LW was talking to CC developers which of course was false. Now your claiming LW will sell- why would he sell- while this situation is frustrating he is making a good return on his investment and MLB will continue to give the A's welfare because of their indecision-
xoot may be right. He may also be an asshole. His position is a little more pro-Giants on other forums such as Fangraphs. Whatever, man. Do what you want.
I actually blame Selig/MLB for the current mess. They should simply make Giants ownership accept an indemnification package that is more than generous and doesn't cripple the A's organization moving forward. Kind of like what they did for the Orioles/Angelos in the Expos to DC deal. And if Baer and company decide to file a lawsuit against MLB's will; I say so what! Let the Black and Orange give themselves a huge black eye trying to destroy the cherished ATE. That'll look really good in front of the Lodge. Why does MLB need the ATE anyway? The NFL and NBA seem to be doing OK and are making billions without it. No current NFL team has been allowed to relocate to LA, yet the ATE doesn't exist for football (?). Anyhow, just a little rant before I enjoy my day..
"The problem is that I also point out how complicit the A's owners have been in creating the current imbalance, while raking in the dough."
@xoot, I gather that you are sick and tired that the A's are continuing on as recipients of those revenue sharing handouts. Well, the A's will gladly give them up, and begin to pay into the revenue sharing fund as their co-market rivals the Giants are doing. All MLB has to do is to treat the Bay Area market as one shared territory, and to thus allow the A's to move and build their new Bay Area ballpark at the site of their own choosing. If that were to happen, the A's would then be on equal footing with the Giants. In addition, the A's would also have to be responsible with both the risks and benefits to being a major market MLB franchise. All the A's want from MLB is to be given that opportunity. I don't think that it's asking too much.
jeff-athletic
@xoot
I don't get the frustration on your part.
The TR are holding back the A's from building their own stadium in wealthy Silicon Valley, where they would have a chance of getting some ROI, and get off of revenue sharing, and compete on equal footing with the Giants, and thrive as franchise (while the Giants continue to thrive as well). And you make posts defending the Giants stance on TR and then say the A's are complicate in this whole ordeal. And then you get (the very expected and understandable) backlash from A's fans here, and then you complain about said backlash.
Well, what the hell else did you expect??
One thing I do think is a legitimate criticism of Wolff/Fisher (as well as the Mark Davis for that matter), is the lack of willingness to do some improvements / fix ups of the Coli – i.e. – new scoreboards, better lighting in the lower concourse, covering of conduits, more A's/Raiders decorations, more food/beer vendors, etc. None of this stuff would be overly expensive, and the two franchises could easily afford it.
The objection is that neither team owns the place, they're renters, and it's up to the landlords to do that stuff. And why spend that money when you're going to be (or trying to) investing in a new stadium somewhere, and it's just a short term lease anyway?
The answer is simple: Because it improves the fan experience <> (rather than waiting for a new facility to be built), and thus can only improve attendance, revenue, reputation, brand value, and ultimately franchise value. Putting lipstick on the pig can only help their business, and at the very least give MLB, the fans, and media the impression that they are doing their very best with a difficult situation. And that can only help with media and MLB sympathy.
Instead they (both the A's and Raiders) just point fingers at the less than broke JPA/Oakland/Alameda County, saying "it's up to them, we're just tenants". Sorry, but that's not an excuse for not trying to provide the best possible customer experience. Yes, it costs money and it's on something they don't own. But it's worth every penny. Besides, both the A's and the Raiders have had, and continue to have, very favorable lease terms (they probably pay waaaay less than pretty much everyone else in their respective leagues). And of course, the JPA wouldn't stand in the A's/Raiders way on trying to improve the venue.
One thing I do give Giants ownership credit for was trying all kinds of stuff at horrible Candlestick, in an effort to improve the fan experience there.
@Tony
Happy Holidays bro, a Belgian Ale on me when A's are playing in something different than the Coliseum, where ever.
@ GoA's
I agree with you but if you look at the salaries they have dedicated, it doesn't look like a team thinking past 2015-2016. If you click the teams on the left (playoff teams), they have salaries dedicated into 2017 and beyond. The whole thing makes no sense. (sigh)
Damn you Bud!
calling someone an asshole on the blog where you censor is chickenshit amateurism. the lewballpark.org fix is in. and your represention of my posts elsewhere is either based on inability to understand context or on the weird a's fan inferiority simplex. gotta go now. we have tickets to tonight's game 12 rows behind the dubs bench.
@xoot – You no longer "may be" an asshole. You fully ARE an asshole. Run along. Lewballpark? You gonna do standup with that brilliant wit? Look, if you don't recognize why you're being offensive to an audience full of A's fans, you ARE AN ASSHOLE. Most people call those types trolls. I consider it something worse.
ASSHOLE.
xoot: Enjoy the foul shots and timeouts. That's pretty much most of the evening at an NBA game Takes a half hour to play the last 30 seconds.
Jeff I will definitely agree with you there. There are small improvements that wouldn't cost the A's much that they could make to the Coliseum but they choose not to. Likely because it doesn't help their preferred narrative that the Coliseum and the experience of going to the Coliseum are terrible. Which is understandable on one hand, but on the other as you say it does nothing for the fan experience. And some would say that any improvements would be a waste of time and money at this point, but frankly I also don't buy that.
The A's have 165 games minimum in the Coliseum over the next two seasons (162 reg season and 3 exhibition). And that assumes they don't even extend the lease a few years further beyond what they've currently got (remember Wolff wanted 5 yrs). It seems to me that's a lot of fan time in the Coliseum that could be improved by a few small tweaks (banners, a few more lights on the concourse, removing the damn view blocking fences, etc…)
Xoot – the gnats organization is one huge inferiority complex – built on a giant heap of b.s. and lies. If your giants are so "great" – why don't you spend more time at a giants blog instead of trolling at an A's site? We A's fans (along with many other non-giants MLB fans) don't care about your boring team.
well. that escalated.
doctorK
Just for xoot.
CampyFan
Wow. I don't think Xoot's behavior deserves this "a-hole" treatment by MarineLayer and doctorK. I know the pro-SJ guys that dominate this board like to rip pro-Oakland and pro-SF posters any chance they get, but common.
Stupid spell check. It should be come on.
good video – a good touch would be inserting a giants cap on the guy.
Jeff McD
A-hole? What's that old saying ? Takes one to know one???
@Jeff McD – Oh, I own and wear that, believe me. Rolls right off my back.
Wrong Campyfan: although Xoot is typically an acceptable troll – calling out A's fans as being associated with an "inferiority complex" is b.s. – also lumping together pro-Oakland and pro giants supporters is inaccurate. The giants organization's goal and fantasy is to squeeze the A's out of town. If the giants could block the A's from building a new stadium in Oakland, they would be doing that also (there is no way the giants could prevent a new A's ballpark being built in Oakland though)Most A's fans are likely not at all pro giants.
Two A's reports. Quan seems to think the A's will never leave
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/fans-paint-mural-urging-team-stay-oakland-support-183848965–mlb.html;_ylt=A0SO8zbR18BS61UAQWJXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0MDQxdTIwBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDM1MV8x
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/fight-land-mlb-39-39-154406254–mlb.html;_ylt=A0SO8zbR18BS61UAQGJXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0MDQxdTIwBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2dxMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDM1MV8x
excerpt: Meantime, Oakland's mayor is not letting the A's leave without a fight. Quan says the city has at least two sites the A's can use to build a new stadium or the current stadium can be repaired and remodeled to the A's satisfaction
…Remodel the current stadium? I think just says Quan knows Oakland can't get it done as far as building a new ballpark for the A's. Wonder what Selig thinks of this idea
Campyfan – xoot felt the need to refer to the Coliseum as the 'E Coli' (ha ha, very original). Good, honest discussion with Giants fans are welcome. From the beginning of this thread, xoot was in full-troll mode.
BayMetro
ML,
I'm a bit confused about this part. Didn't the Coliseum get luxury suites as early as 1983? I always thought Al Davis moved the Raiders because he wanted a new stadium (which then seemed very unreasonable given the Coliseum's still young age). Am I missing something?
BM, the Raiders moved after the 1981 season…
I've seen a few of the pro-SJ camp call it E Coli too, but that's okay on here.
I call it E.Coli all the time. It's a fitting name for the old pile of crap.
I understand that part; I was just wondering what prevented Oakland from giving the Raiders luxury suites when they gave the A's suites just two years later?
@BayMetro – The Coliseum ran very lean during that period, so there was no money for big improvements like luxury suites. Davis had wanted those since the mid/late 70's. The deal struck between Haas and the Coliseum Commission in the early 80's involved loaning the money for improvements, which the A's paid back over time. Since Oakland had already lost the Raiders, the political climate was much more friendly to such a deal than it had been only a few years earlier. Of course, that deal's success got the ball rolling on efforts to bring the Raiders back, which led to the Mt. Davis debacle.
pjk, I have no idea if Quan is delusional, trying to fool the public and run out the clock, until after (Hopefully for her) she is Reelected, or she knows something about the Raiders stay in Oakland (beyond 2014) that the general public is unaware of. Because how can she (or anyone for that matter), expect even a Major upgrade of the Coliseum to occur, while there are two teams playing there? If my name is Mark Davis, and the people in Oakland are stupid enough to return her to office, I would be packing my bags to LA or Santa Clara ASAP.
Cool, thanks for the clarification!
Well, if this is the final thread of 2013, just wanted to wish everyone a HAPPY NEW YEAR! And as I've done here since 2010, I'm predicting yet again that THIS COMING YEAR we'll finally get closure and hear something official from MLB re our A's future. If 2013 was any indication, it looks San Jose is (at least officially) no longer barred from being pursued by the A's. What's now needed is for Wolff/A's/city of SJ to bring more to the plate financially and for the Giants to finally stop acting like greedy A-holes; all while the SJ lawsuit keeps a little pressure on MLB/Giants. My stance has not and will not change: San Jose WILL happen for our A's! Happy New Years all!!
Re: Davis, there are a few issues.
1. Many surmise that Davis wanted to move to LA by hook or by crook, both for greater limelight for him and his football team, more money to be made with more seats, and that pay TV was thought to be coming to the NFL (not sure how that wouldn't be shared equally among NFL teams, but that was what he was saying at the time).
2. Davis had always refused to sign a lease for longer than 5 years, which wouldn't work for Oakland as they needed time to pay off the bonds needed to construct luxury boxes.
3. During negotiations, Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson threw out a proposal that the Raiders were OK with, and then took it back under political pressure. Davis took this as a snub and went into total eff you mode.
4. The city of Oakland asked neighboring businesses along Hegenberger whether they should let the A's buy their way out of their lease in exchange for the improvements the Raiders wanted were the Raiders to sign a long term lease (this was around '80). Most of the businesses saw more business from A's games than Raiders games, even though the A's drew flies and the Raiders sold out every game, due to the nature of baseball fans to patronize businesses before and after games and football fans to park, drink, watch the game, and go home.
5. Even with the boxes, the Coliseum would still have been too small and shitty for football.
Given the combination of these, it is debatable whether the buyout could have politically occurred, and whether it would've accomplished the goal of keeping the Raiders.
re: What's now needed is for Wolff/A's/city of SJ to bring more to the plate financially
…Won't happen. There are at least a half dozen people running for SJ mayor. One of them's already sent me a calendar. I doubt a single one of them is going to advocate spending taxpayer dollars for an A's stadium. Like I've said before: SJ's options likely boiled down to spending taxpayer money on a stadium or suing MLB to get the original deal agreed upon with Wolff (just provide some land and that's it). We already see which route SJ took.
Well Happy New Year everyone. I'm going to be the pessimist and assume we won't see any resolution in the coming year. Not until well after the new commish is in place and settled in. More than likely another year of this nonsense in store for all of us.
Merry New Years!
God bless the Oakland Athletics
God bless the Oakland Raiders
God Bless the San Jose Sharks
God Bless SJSU athletics!
God Bless The San Jose Earthquakes
God bless the Dallas Cowboys
Efff everything SF!
Now time for oysters and a nice stout.
Good night Los Angeles!!!!!!!!!
@Larry E And God bless you


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