On the left is Alyssa Zebrasky in a mug shot. On the right is Clark Kent, a mild mannered reporter for a metro newspaper.
Ms. Zebrasky has since sought treatment for addiction and some underlying mental health issues. She is also working with a program run by Removery, a tattoo removal company, to help her roll back some of the stigma-creating tattoos. Fortunately, she has turned her life around and made some positive strides.
I was surprised to see that yesterday there was no mention in DBD that it was National Waffle Day. Mid-summer doesn't seem like the optimal time for it, but its never a bad day for a good waffle.
that was gonna be my comment, until I saw TBB's reply below...plus, to me, 99% of the time, I'm at the Auburn Ikeda. a good dinner an hour after leaving Tahoe.
There are certain life choices that can only be explained by the use of hard drugs. Those tattoos fall into that bucket. Tweaker I would guess, to use the 90s word?
Not sure what's going on but I'm seeing multiple people (SGB, BK97, and DCT) post the usual categories. Maybe not everyone is getting auto comment updates?
I didn't see DCT's until I refreshed (and vice versa, probably). I usually get the comment updates automatically...except the rare occasion when I don't.
My sister and her husband are here for a couple days early next week. Then one of my brothers and his wife for a couple days before and after a DC-Pittsburgh bike ride they are doing.
My dad is flying out to visit in mid-September. I think Cal is undefeated in games we've watched together since I moved to MD, so that bodes well for the Notre Dame game.
I think the takers are going to go crazy in that game and Cal wins a nail-biter bringing us to the apogee of the season. Then a few head-scratching losses lead to the perigee. Still a bowl season though.
Had a couple. While I was driving to Nashville with No 2 and there for a few days, my uncle came, No 1 returned from Australia and his GF flew out for about 10 days (they leave on Sat), my uncle left and my mom's half-nephew (?) and his wife were over for a couple of nights.
Long time DBD readers may remember that in years past, the end of summer camp also meant the arrival of overseas counselors in our house as they worked the tourist trails of the east coast before going home. After a long hiatus, they have returned. We were collecting two Spanish girls at the airport last night from their flight from Miami - there were maybe 4 people at the baggage claim wearing masks and they were not among them, so I guess we're going to see if they're spreading viral mayhem in the house 😜
Oklahoma City Thunder rookie Chet Holmgren will miss the 2022-23 season because of a Lisfranc injury to his right foot, the team announced Thursday.
Holmgren, the No. 2 overall pick in this year's NBA draft, suffered the injury Saturday while defending LeBron James on a fast break during a pro-am game in Seattle.
I recognize that even for the DBD this is pretty niche, but: much to my delight, the Dutch Eredivisie ironed out whatever issues they were having over rights with ESPN+ so now I can go back to watching Ajax wallop FC Twente of a weekend.
Oakland won the series finale against the Marlins on Wednesday afternoon, beating Miami 3-2 in extras on the strength of the starting pitching.
It was a great matchup between a couple left-handed starters as both matched each other inning for inning for most of the game. Oakland broke through first for a couple runs but Miami charged back to tie it late and send it to extras. The A’s won it in the bottom of the 10th to make sure there would be no home sweep.
Anyone who tuned into this game was treated to a fantastic pitching duel through the first six innings.
There are few things in this world that I love more than breakfast baseball. Pour a cup of coffee. Flip your eggs. Do the crossword. Pour another cup of coffee, you sludge-loving heathen. Turn on the San Francisco Giants game.
But breakfast, while beautiful, can sometimes be ruined. Sometimes all you want is a parfait, and it’s only after you’ve cut the fruit and put the granola in the wine glass (oh you think you’re so fancy) that you realize the yogurt is moldy. Sometimes you make a hot cup of coffee and then remember it’s 105 degrees out. Sometimes the waffles just don’t come out quite right.
Over 162 games in a normal regular season, even the best teams in the sport will have particularly off nights, which will be more deflating than your typical loss. The important fact is what you do in between them and subsequently how often they occur.
Wednesday was not an off night for the Dodgers, who creamed the Brewers 12-6 in a game that wasn’t as close as the final score might appear.
Seldom in 2022 have we seen back-to-back disappointing games from the Dodgers, even more so during this run over the last month, mont and a half. With that in mind, go back in time to the end of Monday’s deflating shutout loss at the hands of Eric Lauer (always him, am I right), and the Milwaukee’s bullpen, and write up a checklist of the ideal end to this series.
Was driving a long a mountain back road in the Blue Ridge Parkway area. An adolescent black bear came bumbling through the trees, happily chewing on something and sat down blinking into the afternoon sun. It surprised me. Was perhaps only 10 feet away from it, but I was in a car.
In composite, Cal is behind Utah, Miami, and Stanford, just ahead of Virginia, ASU, & Duke.
Some will quibble with some of the ratings and weightings, and some of the exclusions, but
the quibbles won't move most schools up or down more than a few slots. Overall, its a very detailed look at a lot of issues, and provides insight into how a lot of decisionmakers look at things. A lot of work went into this. It's worth a bookmark to refer back to as things progress.
AV Club? You mean there's a club celebrating the brief existence of the AltaVista search engine? Or does AV club refer to the English premier league side, Aston Villa? Perhaps AV refers to the great architect Art Vandalay whose career was championed by his alter ego George Costanza.
It is happening right now in a parallel universe where a person posted a comment in a blog post asking others to imagine a world where people are Googling questions instead of Jeevesing questions. You had the unfortunate luck of being assigned to this universe instead of that one.
Timely, as there was an interesting discussion about this in today's NYT daily newsletter. (Is there a link to these?...I can't find one.)
The gist was that loan forgiveness is a giveback to wealthier folks (largely white and Asian), since they are more likely to go to and graduate from college. And since college grads make more money, it's giving money back to those investing in the future earnings.
As one who did college in the 80s – starting at DVC (community college), which was free the first semester and then went up to $50 per semester thereafter, and then Cal, which was like $1,500/year back then (housing, books, etc. costs not included) – my costs were low-ish, so I didn't have any debt. I also did a semester internship, which made me enough money to pay for the last year's tuition and housing.
I know it's not the same now, and more people are affected by student debt. But the article notes Biden's plan includes an income cap (which pushes the debt forgiveness more to poorer families). This naturally helps increase the share of debt forgiveness to Black borrowers, which could help with our historical imbalances.
i was lucky enough to go to Cal long enough ago that is was super cheap. i had a little bit of scholarship money that paid most of it and the parents took care of the rest.
graduate school in the sciences was the typical trade-labor-for-degree deal. there were plenty of grants and aid, just lucky not to have any loans.
when i see young(er) people in the workforce these days and one of their biggest financial burdens are student loans, i realize how fortunate i was in being able to start saving early and they most people are not in the situation
agreed...my 1989 Cal degree (following DVC) was relatively inexpensive. But (following up with my reference to the NYT article today), were you to have had debt, would it have hamstrung you? reading your posts (and others here) over the last few years, your Cal education seems to have got you into a well-paying career. So the debt would have been manageable?
You don't have to answer if it's too personal, but I'm just curious about data points related to whether the "us"-es of the world are hit by this problem.
Good point. Tuition was cheap when I was there. When I was 20 I was able to fund two years of tuition from my summer earnings working on a salmon fishing boat in Alaska.
I am not Asian but with help of random family members and work study jobs I got through undergrad with no debt. It was pretty interesting working those jobs, to see others’ situations. I remember one of my co-workers at the ASUC was working three jobs simultaneously. I don’t know how she made time for school, was nuts.
Eldest had about $30K from undergrad, had paid a good chunk of it (over minimum payments for a couple years) and this forgiveness will take most of the rest. Now she's going to have about $60K more for MBA. bleh.
I had to take out about $100k for law school but paid it back. I don’t disagree with the loan forgiveness stuff right now necessarily but it seems a bit random and kind of a one off band aid. What they really need to do is allow student loans to be dischargeable in BK, and to address the cost of school going forward for Gen Z and beyond. I think you have to use threats of taxes to force schools to lower costs, particularly schools with sizeable endowments. It is kind of crazy that anyone should have to pay tuition to go to Stanford for example given the size of their endowment. It’s obscene.
Many of the elite private schools do offer need based financial aide. When No 1 was going through it in 2012, Furd covered everything (room & board & tuition & I think books) for family incomes below 65K and free tuition for family incomes below 100K (and prorated above). I think Princetown and Georgetown were 125K. I think the Ivys + elite privates do something similar and the amounts have gone up over the years. I know that for No 2, Vandy covered the majority and over 4 years it's only been a total of maybe 25-30K.
So they do offer a lot of money for low to middle class. Others like Carnegie Mellon only do partial (unfortunately for No 2).
absolutely there needs to be some reform of the costs for higher education. A good start would be for CA to fund the UC and CSU systems to the same level they did in the 70s and 80s.
what is the cause of the increases? Prop 13 screwed public schools, but is the UC/CSU system funded by property taxes? Or is it just different (poor) priorities on the part of the state gov't?
In addition to transferring and graduating with little to no debt by starting at a community college, it also allows young adults the time to mature so that they can take 4-year seriously and perhaps have a better idea of what they'd like to study. Also, many CCs offer 2-year degrees and certificates for those who don't necessarily want to get a 4-year degree.
I've been paying off my loan during the interest freeze, and now the forgiveness will wipe away the rest of it. Fortunately, I can get refunds on all the payments I've made since March 2020 so I'll request refunds on everything that would have been covered by the forgiveness.
August is a big month for me: It marks the final month in 120 months needed to qualify for public service loan forgiveness! Now I have to hope that in the transition from FedLoan to Mohela, they have an accurate payment count.
It is a cool 69 degrees in Asheville. It is really quiet here now that the kids have gone back to school. Just retirees hanging out here midweek. The trees have not started turning because summer is still going strong.
the family minivan (2015 Odyssey) has a busted sunroof and the XM radio has stopped working. Apparently the issue with both (assuming the sunroof problem isn't just from a blown fuse) is not the cost of the parts but the labor at dealers. I'm sure that will be fun.
Had fun working on No 2's 2010 Mazda 3 before our long drive. Changed coolant, Power steering, oil, plugs, filters. His car didn't have a radiator cap on the radiator itself. The overflow tank was pressurized. Never seen that before.
Polished up the headlights. Also polished and waxed it before we left so that it would be easier to clean the bugs off after. When we got there, I put in his dash cam along with the rear camera.
I'm finally replacing an old desktop PC that's been kicking since 2007. I used it extensively in grad school, then it got relegated to occasional CGB duties, then it became a storage box and music player. The graphics card appears to be dying again (it's on its third, and that's the only component that's failed in its 15 years). Rather than replace the card again, I'm going to replace the entire machine with something modern. End of an era...
There was a controversy at the LLWS about a faux-hawk made of some white stuffed animal stuffing some kids made on the head of a black player and was shown on TV. Thought to be a racist thing but I've seen that at least one white kid had it too. Some stories say they were mimicking either a Hawaii stud pitcher who has a white mohawk or Francisco Lindor.
He was one of several QBs who got worse thanks to the coaching of the previous regime (and getting injured because of the porous offensive line), good luck to him
Chet Holmgren out for the 22-23 season is maybe the least surprising NBA health outcome I can recall. Guy is tantalizingly skilled for a human of that size, but just to frail for the riggers of the NBA IMO.
The top fit score belongs to Cal with 87 points. It checks pretty much every box as a flagship state school and AAU member with a large enrollment and very good academics; it even does OK in the rivalries category because of its long tenure of matchups against UCLA and USC.
Overall, a very detailed look at a lot of factors. One can quibble with some of the assessments and weightings, and omissions, but they are just quibbles, and won't move most schools up or down a meaningful amount. Worth a bookmark to refer back to as/after things progress. It gives a good insight into how a lot of the decision makers look at a number of the issues.
It's more middle of the pack if you scroll down. It does weight football success and to a lesser success mbb more than the other sports. Truth is if we had a semi-functional mbb program to help our overall national brand, I think our case would be far less fringe-y. But Knowlton defaulted on the program waiting for all that free Pac-12 TV rights money that now will never come. And now we have a lousy product at a time when we most need a good one to make the strongest case to the B1G.
Not sure how much I buy that market score. It relies on a lot of assumptions from TV ratings that don't include Pac-12 Network games (thanks Larry Scott) and a New York Times map of college fandom done in 2014 (that would have been about the worst time to measure that for Cal).
I'm not saying Cal and Stanford are amazing at delivering TV ratings or anything, but having them that low while sitting in a dense, wealthy market is dubious.
I would say that Cal does get ratings and support when we give people a reason to care, it's just far to infrequent and even more rarely seldomly sustained. There's too much competition locally for the entertainment to earn blind loyalty (except for the Raiders). This separates us from Stanford. Locally no one cares about Stanford even when they are good. But when Cal is good, there is interest.
That's also my sense. Cal has a high(ish) ceiling, but we don't hit it all that often. The time period since 2014 would be a particularly bad one for measuring this.
Yeah the concept that we deliver the Bay Area market seems dubious. Not quite as bad as the concept that Rutgers delivers the NYC market, but in that general vicinity of badness. I just don’t think the Bay Area is that great of a college football market or even sports market generally. People’s interests are quite disparate.
"Delivering" the market for Rutgers really just meant they got the Big Ten Network on all the households in the NYC area, that's it. No one had any illusions that lots of people watch Rutgers games.
Yesterday I got the e-tix/creds to get in for a game at Fresno and made the hotel reservations. I get that the combination of Covid restrictions, and last year's reactions, when combined with all the scheduling and conference alignment and etc. have frustrated a lot of people who used to be college football lovers, but that's exactly why I'm really looking forward to the games this season. We have been through a lot that's not anyone's idea of fun, and we aren't done, but we deserve the fun of game days!
Since I'm a long way from SC, I don't tend to go to games unless they're on the east coast within driving distance - I think I've been to 2 home games since I graduated 30 years ago. I scratched the "in person" sports itch with MLS starting last summer
Got a couple of emails about the new Enhanced Gameday Experience in Memorial.
There will also be two private suites available on the seventh floor of the press box. All suites will welcome groups of up to 20 fans.
Further details about the stadium's new premium group seating areas, each of which comes with dedicated food and beverage service:
Seventh Floor Suites
Gridiron Suite: Spacious 600 square foot, seventh-floor south-side press box suite for groups up to 20, with 180-degree views, including private lounge area with views of the Bay
Champion Suite: Seventh-floor press box suite on the 35-yard line for groups up to 20
Open Air Suites
South Endzone Terrace: Four open-air suites at the optimum viewing level above the south endzone in sections M and MM for groups up to 20, with spacious private dining, bar and viewing areas
Strawberry Canyon Terrace: Two open-air suites on East Rim for groups up to 20, with spacious private dining, bar and viewing areas
Field Club South Loge
Eight open-air, table top seating for four, along the southwest corner of the field level
I was surprised to see that yesterday there was no mention in DBD that it was National Waffle Day. Mid-summer doesn't seem like the optimal time for it, but its never a bad day for a good waffle.
My coworker and I considered bringing waffle irons to work, but celebrated with cake (tonka bean) and pie (peach, from Ikeda's) instead.
#PieFail...gotta go marionberry cobbler!
Someone drove up to Ikeda's just for this?
that was gonna be my comment, until I saw TBB's reply below...plus, to me, 99% of the time, I'm at the Auburn Ikeda. a good dinner an hour after leaving Tahoe.
I drove through Davis on Sunday
and you didn't say hi?
Pie meetup next time?
:)
strong brand management, I'd expect nothing less
:)
I'm not sure I could have sex with her.
who?
Oh the woman with the face tattoos, I'd already forgotten about her
Impressive. Once seen, even just at a glance, that's have to un-see!
I'm pretty sure that sort of thing is never going to be a question to evaluate in my life.
There are certain life choices that can only be explained by the use of hard drugs. Those tattoos fall into that bucket. Tweaker I would guess, to use the 90s word?
Not sure what's going on but I'm seeing multiple people (SGB, BK97, and DCT) post the usual categories. Maybe not everyone is getting auto comment updates?
I didn't see DCT's until I refreshed (and vice versa, probably). I usually get the comment updates automatically...except the rare occasion when I don't.
I'm seeing WILDLY inconsistent notifications.
I'm also seeing that my posts take up to a minute to appear.
The site seems to be especially buggy today.
I didn't get the auto updates.
Welcome to the shit show
GUESTS
My sister and her husband are here for a couple days early next week. Then one of my brothers and his wife for a couple days before and after a DC-Pittsburgh bike ride they are doing.
are they doing the GAP and C&O Rail trail ride? That's on my general "maybe I should spend some time working up to that" list
Yes. Takes a week to do it I think.
My dad is flying out to visit in mid-September. I think Cal is undefeated in games we've watched together since I moved to MD, so that bodes well for the Notre Dame game.
I think the takers are going to go crazy in that game and Cal wins a nail-biter bringing us to the apogee of the season. Then a few head-scratching losses lead to the perigee. Still a bowl season though.
So basically he needs to live with you through the first weekend in Dec and then the first couple of weeks in Jan.
The last season I lived with him was the '04 season, and that one seemed to work out pretty well. I think you may be on to something...
Had a couple. While I was driving to Nashville with No 2 and there for a few days, my uncle came, No 1 returned from Australia and his GF flew out for about 10 days (they leave on Sat), my uncle left and my mom's half-nephew (?) and his wife were over for a couple of nights.
My sister is coming out at the end of August, from DC.
Long time DBD readers may remember that in years past, the end of summer camp also meant the arrival of overseas counselors in our house as they worked the tourist trails of the east coast before going home. After a long hiatus, they have returned. We were collecting two Spanish girls at the airport last night from their flight from Miami - there were maybe 4 people at the baggage claim wearing masks and they were not among them, so I guess we're going to see if they're spreading viral mayhem in the house 😜
PRO
Lakers looking to acquire Patrick Beverly from the Jazz for Talen Horton-Tucker and Stanley Johnson.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34455979/los-angeles-lakers-finalizing-deal-acquire-patrick-beverley-utah-jazz-sources-say
Heh...LeBron trying to capitalize on the last 2 years of Beverley's prediction.
https://twitter.com/rtnba/status/1188885494177906695
Did you guys see this? It makes me happy:
https://twitter.com/sebontweets/status/1561859974384406528?s=20&t=9J7M0JzzVOcd7jrRU2fDbQ
pltm
But she gets Magic Johnson right. And I guess MJ.
Oklahoma City Thunder rookie Chet Holmgren to miss 2022-23 season with foot injury suffered in pro-am basketball game
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/34457655/oklahoma-city-thunder-rookie-chet-holmgren-miss-2022-23-nba-season-foot-injury-suffered-pro-game
Oklahoma City Thunder rookie Chet Holmgren will miss the 2022-23 season because of a Lisfranc injury to his right foot, the team announced Thursday.
Holmgren, the No. 2 overall pick in this year's NBA draft, suffered the injury Saturday while defending LeBron James on a fast break during a pro-am game in Seattle.
I recognize that even for the DBD this is pretty niche, but: much to my delight, the Dutch Eredivisie ironed out whatever issues they were having over rights with ESPN+ so now I can go back to watching Ajax wallop FC Twente of a weekend.
Game #125: A’s avoid sweep, beat Marlins 3-2 in finale
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2022/8/24/23320212/game-125-as-avoid-sweep-marlins-finale
Oakland won the series finale against the Marlins on Wednesday afternoon, beating Miami 3-2 in extras on the strength of the starting pitching.
It was a great matchup between a couple left-handed starters as both matched each other inning for inning for most of the game. Oakland broke through first for a couple runs but Miami charged back to tie it late and send it to extras. The A’s won it in the bottom of the 10th to make sure there would be no home sweep.
Anyone who tuned into this game was treated to a fantastic pitching duel through the first six innings.
Giants ruin breakfast
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2022/8/24/23320348/giants-tigers-recap-logan-webb
There are few things in this world that I love more than breakfast baseball. Pour a cup of coffee. Flip your eggs. Do the crossword. Pour another cup of coffee, you sludge-loving heathen. Turn on the San Francisco Giants game.
But breakfast, while beautiful, can sometimes be ruined. Sometimes all you want is a parfait, and it’s only after you’ve cut the fruit and put the granola in the wine glass (oh you think you’re so fancy) that you realize the yogurt is moldy. Sometimes you make a hot cup of coffee and then remember it’s 105 degrees out. Sometimes the waffles just don’t come out quite right.
Breakfast was bad for the Giants.
The Giants have ruined more than a few dinners and after-dinner snacks this year, so spoiling a breakfast is just sharing the pain.
Dodgers get double-digit runs from the offense, double-digit strikeouts from Andrew Heaney
https://www.truebluela.com/2022/8/24/23321170/dodgers-offense-austin-barnes-andrew-heaney-strikeouts-brewers
Over 162 games in a normal regular season, even the best teams in the sport will have particularly off nights, which will be more deflating than your typical loss. The important fact is what you do in between them and subsequently how often they occur.
Wednesday was not an off night for the Dodgers, who creamed the Brewers 12-6 in a game that wasn’t as close as the final score might appear.
Seldom in 2022 have we seen back-to-back disappointing games from the Dodgers, even more so during this run over the last month, mont and a half. With that in mind, go back in time to the end of Monday’s deflating shutout loss at the hands of Eric Lauer (always him, am I right), and the Milwaukee’s bullpen, and write up a checklist of the ideal end to this series.
CAL
Was driving a long a mountain back road in the Blue Ridge Parkway area. An adolescent black bear came bumbling through the trees, happily chewing on something and sat down blinking into the afternoon sun. It surprised me. Was perhaps only 10 feet away from it, but I was in a car.
go bears!
In composite, Cal is behind Utah, Miami, and Stanford, just ahead of Virginia, ASU, & Duke.
Some will quibble with some of the ratings and weightings, and some of the exclusions, but
the quibbles won't move most schools up or down more than a few slots. Overall, its a very detailed look at a lot of issues, and provides insight into how a lot of decisionmakers look at things. A lot of work went into this. It's worth a bookmark to refer back to as things progress.
DBD AV Club
AV Club? You mean there's a club celebrating the brief existence of the AltaVista search engine? Or does AV club refer to the English premier league side, Aston Villa? Perhaps AV refers to the great architect Art Vandalay whose career was championed by his alter ego George Costanza.
I liked Alta Vista. Remember Looksmart? Their office was right across Brannan street from ours. (2000)
Actually there was Lycos, Northern Light, Excite, Infoseek, Ask Jeeves, Webcrawler, and more...
Hotbot, Yahoo,...
I forgot go.com which was supposed to be the web's start page. At least Disney thought so.
Just imagine if we were all Jeevesing questions instead of Googling questions. The world would feel so different.
Yeah, one of my relatives would be even wealthier than he is, and maybe he would be spreading it around.
It is happening right now in a parallel universe where a person posted a comment in a blog post asking others to imagine a world where people are Googling questions instead of Jeevesing questions. You had the unfortunate luck of being assigned to this universe instead of that one.
Student loans
Timely, as there was an interesting discussion about this in today's NYT daily newsletter. (Is there a link to these?...I can't find one.)
The gist was that loan forgiveness is a giveback to wealthier folks (largely white and Asian), since they are more likely to go to and graduate from college. And since college grads make more money, it's giving money back to those investing in the future earnings.
As one who did college in the 80s – starting at DVC (community college), which was free the first semester and then went up to $50 per semester thereafter, and then Cal, which was like $1,500/year back then (housing, books, etc. costs not included) – my costs were low-ish, so I didn't have any debt. I also did a semester internship, which made me enough money to pay for the last year's tuition and housing.
I know it's not the same now, and more people are affected by student debt. But the article notes Biden's plan includes an income cap (which pushes the debt forgiveness more to poorer families). This naturally helps increase the share of debt forgiveness to Black borrowers, which could help with our historical imbalances.
i was lucky enough to go to Cal long enough ago that is was super cheap. i had a little bit of scholarship money that paid most of it and the parents took care of the rest.
graduate school in the sciences was the typical trade-labor-for-degree deal. there were plenty of grants and aid, just lucky not to have any loans.
when i see young(er) people in the workforce these days and one of their biggest financial burdens are student loans, i realize how fortunate i was in being able to start saving early and they most people are not in the situation
agreed...my 1989 Cal degree (following DVC) was relatively inexpensive. But (following up with my reference to the NYT article today), were you to have had debt, would it have hamstrung you? reading your posts (and others here) over the last few years, your Cal education seems to have got you into a well-paying career. So the debt would have been manageable?
You don't have to answer if it's too personal, but I'm just curious about data points related to whether the "us"-es of the world are hit by this problem.
Good point. Tuition was cheap when I was there. When I was 20 I was able to fund two years of tuition from my summer earnings working on a salmon fishing boat in Alaska.
LPT. Best thing to saving early, don't get married and have kids right after graduating...
I was fortunate to be Asian and have parents pay for all tuition and living costs during college.
Only half Asian, but same. (And it was my white dad who mostly did the saving for college tuition.)
I am not Asian but with help of random family members and work study jobs I got through undergrad with no debt. It was pretty interesting working those jobs, to see others’ situations. I remember one of my co-workers at the ASUC was working three jobs simultaneously. I don’t know how she made time for school, was nuts.
I also graduated undergrad without debt. All of mine came from law school.
Eldest had about $30K from undergrad, had paid a good chunk of it (over minimum payments for a couple years) and this forgiveness will take most of the rest. Now she's going to have about $60K more for MBA. bleh.
I had to take out about $100k for law school but paid it back. I don’t disagree with the loan forgiveness stuff right now necessarily but it seems a bit random and kind of a one off band aid. What they really need to do is allow student loans to be dischargeable in BK, and to address the cost of school going forward for Gen Z and beyond. I think you have to use threats of taxes to force schools to lower costs, particularly schools with sizeable endowments. It is kind of crazy that anyone should have to pay tuition to go to Stanford for example given the size of their endowment. It’s obscene.
Your suggestions sounds a lot like this one:https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/24/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-00053608
Many of the elite private schools do offer need based financial aide. When No 1 was going through it in 2012, Furd covered everything (room & board & tuition & I think books) for family incomes below 65K and free tuition for family incomes below 100K (and prorated above). I think Princetown and Georgetown were 125K. I think the Ivys + elite privates do something similar and the amounts have gone up over the years. I know that for No 2, Vandy covered the majority and over 4 years it's only been a total of maybe 25-30K.
So they do offer a lot of money for low to middle class. Others like Carnegie Mellon only do partial (unfortunately for No 2).
Yes although I think the reason they started doing that was because the feds were making noise about pulling their non profit tax status
Yup. I remember those rumblings.
The private school endowment size race is about as big as the NCAA football arms race.
there's also an argument to be made for cutting off schools that have especially high default rates
absolutely there needs to be some reform of the costs for higher education. A good start would be for CA to fund the UC and CSU systems to the same level they did in the 70s and 80s.
what is the cause of the increases? Prop 13 screwed public schools, but is the UC/CSU system funded by property taxes? Or is it just different (poor) priorities on the part of the state gov't?
90% the state just cut the amount in the 90's, but never brought it up again when they had more $$$$ like they do now.
figured. can't see the benefits of investing in the future.
Yes agree. I do like Biden’s free community college thing. You do that 2 years and then finish up at UC, you can get by on little debt
In addition to transferring and graduating with little to no debt by starting at a community college, it also allows young adults the time to mature so that they can take 4-year seriously and perhaps have a better idea of what they'd like to study. Also, many CCs offer 2-year degrees and certificates for those who don't necessarily want to get a 4-year degree.
That's me! Had I gone to a 4-year school out of HS, which DEF would not have been Cal, I'm not sure my life would have gone well.
I've been paying off my loan during the interest freeze, and now the forgiveness will wipe away the rest of it. Fortunately, I can get refunds on all the payments I've made since March 2020 so I'll request refunds on everything that would have been covered by the forgiveness.
August is a big month for me: It marks the final month in 120 months needed to qualify for public service loan forgiveness! Now I have to hope that in the transition from FedLoan to Mohela, they have an accurate payment count.
I had one: total of $750 - paid it back!
Never took any out but worked most of the time while I was at Cal. Then I convinced my employer to fund my masters and doctorate.
Weather
Cool mornings and hot afternoons, ready for fall
Currently 71.8 F at our weather station. Been hot but not crazy this week.
It is a cool 69 degrees in Asheville. It is really quiet here now that the kids have gone back to school. Just retirees hanging out here midweek. The trees have not started turning because summer is still going strong.
DBD Auto
the family minivan (2015 Odyssey) has a busted sunroof and the XM radio has stopped working. Apparently the issue with both (assuming the sunroof problem isn't just from a blown fuse) is not the cost of the parts but the labor at dealers. I'm sure that will be fun.
ugh. cars are a pain.
A pain?!?!?!? Fun!!!!
Had fun working on No 2's 2010 Mazda 3 before our long drive. Changed coolant, Power steering, oil, plugs, filters. His car didn't have a radiator cap on the radiator itself. The overflow tank was pressurized. Never seen that before.
Polished up the headlights. Also polished and waxed it before we left so that it would be easier to clean the bugs off after. When we got there, I put in his dash cam along with the rear camera.
DBD Tech
I'm finally replacing an old desktop PC that's been kicking since 2007. I used it extensively in grad school, then it got relegated to occasional CGB duties, then it became a storage box and music player. The graphics card appears to be dying again (it's on its third, and that's the only component that's failed in its 15 years). Rather than replace the card again, I'm going to replace the entire machine with something modern. End of an era...
Space X Super heavy Starship with 33 engines rolled onto launch pad...
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-33-engines-launch-pad
DBD AV club
Stigmas
the "wrong" accents.
I once had a faux-hawk in HS. People treat you differently with a mohawk
There was a controversy at the LLWS about a faux-hawk made of some white stuffed animal stuffing some kids made on the head of a black player and was shown on TV. Thought to be a racist thing but I've seen that at least one white kid had it too. Some stories say they were mimicking either a Hawaii stud pitcher who has a white mohawk or Francisco Lindor.
Our stumbling, bumbling, crumbling democracy
Elsewhere in college
Kedon Slovis wins Pitt starting job...
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/pitt-names-kedon-slovis-starting-qb-usc-transfer-to-lead-panthers-against-west-virginia-in-backyard-brawl/
He was one of several QBs who got worse thanks to the coaching of the previous regime (and getting injured because of the porous offensive line), good luck to him
Liked his chances in Pittsburgh a lot better before Riley tampered with Jordan Addison...
there's no need for coaches to tamper when our new QB already knew Addison, we've got a whole new set of, um, incentives for the bagmen to work with
Pros
Chet Holmgren out for the 22-23 season is maybe the least surprising NBA health outcome I can recall. Guy is tantalizingly skilled for a human of that size, but just to frail for the riggers of the NBA IMO.
Ooof, so much of success is injury luck
A's won! Didn't watch the game though.
Walk off
Yeah, saw it was the 10th, at home - must have been.
Cal
538 says Cal should be a top target for the Big Ten's further expansion, as far as "fit" goes.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/where-should-the-big-ten-expand-next-we-crunched-the-numbers/
The top fit score belongs to Cal with 87 points. It checks pretty much every box as a flagship state school and AAU member with a large enrollment and very good academics; it even does OK in the rivalries category because of its long tenure of matchups against UCLA and USC.
Overall, a very detailed look at a lot of factors. One can quibble with some of the assessments and weightings, and omissions, but they are just quibbles, and won't move most schools up or down a meaningful amount. Worth a bookmark to refer back to as/after things progress. It gives a good insight into how a lot of the decision makers look at a number of the issues.
Good to hear. Usually every article fails to mention Cal.
Wow Cal's sports score is BAD.
It's more middle of the pack if you scroll down. It does weight football success and to a lesser success mbb more than the other sports. Truth is if we had a semi-functional mbb program to help our overall national brand, I think our case would be far less fringe-y. But Knowlton defaulted on the program waiting for all that free Pac-12 TV rights money that now will never come. And now we have a lousy product at a time when we most need a good one to make the strongest case to the B1G.
so is the market score, and to be honest - based on years of reading CGB and W4C - I'm inclined to believe it.
Not sure how much I buy that market score. It relies on a lot of assumptions from TV ratings that don't include Pac-12 Network games (thanks Larry Scott) and a New York Times map of college fandom done in 2014 (that would have been about the worst time to measure that for Cal).
I'm not saying Cal and Stanford are amazing at delivering TV ratings or anything, but having them that low while sitting in a dense, wealthy market is dubious.
I would say that Cal does get ratings and support when we give people a reason to care, it's just far to infrequent and even more rarely seldomly sustained. There's too much competition locally for the entertainment to earn blind loyalty (except for the Raiders). This separates us from Stanford. Locally no one cares about Stanford even when they are good. But when Cal is good, there is interest.
That's also my sense. Cal has a high(ish) ceiling, but we don't hit it all that often. The time period since 2014 would be a particularly bad one for measuring this.
Yeah the concept that we deliver the Bay Area market seems dubious. Not quite as bad as the concept that Rutgers delivers the NYC market, but in that general vicinity of badness. I just don’t think the Bay Area is that great of a college football market or even sports market generally. People’s interests are quite disparate.
It's a pro market almost exclusively. Rutgers delivering NYC is laughable.
"Delivering" the market for Rutgers really just meant they got the Big Ten Network on all the households in the NYC area, that's it. No one had any illusions that lots of people watch Rutgers games.
An absolute joke
Doom!
Interview with Joe Starkey:
https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/49ers-cal-legend-joe-starkey-fell-into-announcing-17395973.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
does he spend the whole time talking about his golf game?
Go Bears!!!
I'd like to remind everyone that the football season countdown is now in the single digits
I'm in the mood that I'm not that fired up about college football now, but give it a couple of weeks and I'll be howling at the screen like usual
Yesterday I got the e-tix/creds to get in for a game at Fresno and made the hotel reservations. I get that the combination of Covid restrictions, and last year's reactions, when combined with all the scheduling and conference alignment and etc. have frustrated a lot of people who used to be college football lovers, but that's exactly why I'm really looking forward to the games this season. We have been through a lot that's not anyone's idea of fun, and we aren't done, but we deserve the fun of game days!
Since I'm a long way from SC, I don't tend to go to games unless they're on the east coast within driving distance - I think I've been to 2 home games since I graduated 30 years ago. I scratched the "in person" sports itch with MLS starting last summer
Week Zero bitches!!!
Got a couple of emails about the new Enhanced Gameday Experience in Memorial.
There will also be two private suites available on the seventh floor of the press box. All suites will welcome groups of up to 20 fans.
Further details about the stadium's new premium group seating areas, each of which comes with dedicated food and beverage service:
Seventh Floor Suites
Gridiron Suite: Spacious 600 square foot, seventh-floor south-side press box suite for groups up to 20, with 180-degree views, including private lounge area with views of the Bay
Champion Suite: Seventh-floor press box suite on the 35-yard line for groups up to 20
Open Air Suites
South Endzone Terrace: Four open-air suites at the optimum viewing level above the south endzone in sections M and MM for groups up to 20, with spacious private dining, bar and viewing areas
Strawberry Canyon Terrace: Two open-air suites on East Rim for groups up to 20, with spacious private dining, bar and viewing areas
Field Club South Loge
Eight open-air, table top seating for four, along the southwest corner of the field level
Nice digs for some barnburner WAC conference games in 2023 😀
Isn't it 2024? I think Pac-12 is intact until after 2023.
Oh yeah I think you are right
Looks like the Big Ten realized that Northwestern-Nebraska was so unwatchable that they sent it 4000 miles away to Ireland.
as if the Irish haven't historically suffered enough
I understand ND playing games there but I don’t understand the tie of this match up. Seems random. Fitz I guess is the tie in?
Nebraska - once such a good program, seems doubtful they ever get back to that
Can't get here soon enough!
Looks like I'm starting this thing today. Can I get a Go Bears! on three? One, two, three....
C! A! L!
Ok.
Go Bears!!!
For me the Patriots - Raiders contest tomorrow at 4 pm is blacked out on NFL network. However it will be replayed at 9 pm Pacific time.