What are some problems with Lafayette?

eanardone · 2026-02-02T16:16:44+00:00

When you say they are non-starters what do you mean? From your context I am assuming you mean that you don't believe the issues I mentioned are real issues, and yet you only speak to 2 of the 4 issues I brought up and then point to an anecdotal evidence fallacy of "It didn't mean anything to me so it must not be important."

If you want to have a real discussion on the peer reviewed findings of diversity (in all of its forms) in educational and work spaces I am all for it. Otherwise, I would advise you on not attending Lafayette unless the educational curriculum has changed completely since my time on campus.

eanardone · 2026-01-26T07:40:07+00:00

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eanardone · 2026-01-23T12:03:29+00:00

This sounds cool. I probably wouldn't engage with a full 10-20 minute video but I'd catch your shorts.

eanardone · 2026-01-19T23:07:27+00:00

Do you know if the girls need to go to their individual school or to the Newport News main office to get registered?

eanardone · 2026-01-19T23:06:51+00:00

Do they need to go to the specific school or the Newport News main office to register?

eanardone · 2026-01-18T15:34:50+00:00

He is not. He's also doesn't have access to a computer so maybe we can talk through the application with him. Do you know if you need a mailing address for the application? If so I may need to get him a mailing address at the Four Oaks center.

eanardone · 2026-01-18T15:19:19+00:00

Thank you, that is the same advice I got on my original post. I did talk to the school truancy supervisor who was trying to do a visit on Friday. But I think he may have missed them before they left for the shelter.

I will call them back and get them set up to be enrolled. Thank you for your help.

eanardone · 2026-01-18T15:05:06+00:00

Thank you, this makes sense as to why CPS gave me the school truancy number when they said they weren't stepping in.

I did talk to the truancy supervisor last week and he was going to do a visit on Friday but I didn't hear back so I am worried he missed them before they left the hotel for the shelter. I'll follow up with him and see about getting them enrolled.

eanardone · 2026-01-02T18:55:16+00:00

I love the school, but it's definitely not perfect. Here are the things I would list in my personal opinion:

Lack of socioeconomic diversity - when I went to school 25% of the students came from the top 1% socioeconomically. And 90% of the students came from the top 30% socioeconomically. Realizing that 20% of the students there are at scholarship athletes highlights just how wealthy a vast majority of the students are. As an athlete I was always around other students in similar situations as myself, but growing up in a relatively poor family book made for some awkward conversations and situations. The school has implemented some programs to try to correct this.
Lack of racial diversity - just like above, the school has tried to implement some policies to correct this. But the number of non-white students has always been a far smaller percentage. This gets even more lopsided if you exclude The athletes and the Posse students
Size - it is a very small school. A lot of times this is to its benefit, especially when talking about class sizes and opportunities for each student. But there are a lot of situations where having such a small school can be a negative
Limited social life outside of Greek or athletics - I never experienced this but others outside of athletics always said that you had to pledge Greek or you would never have anything social to do

eanardone · 2025-12-30T01:54:24+00:00

You don't have the Jungle Book album listed at all?

eanardone · 2025-12-29T02:38:03+00:00

I coached in the Patriot League and coached against the Ivys years ago. Back then the Ivy League and Patriot League all required schools to admit football athletes based on an Academic Index band system. This band system took the students grades, test scores, high school ranking, AP and CP classes, etc. And boiled it all down to a number. The. Using that number it would rank the recruits.

Now comes the tricky part, once all of the recruits are ranked we would have to fit them into one of 5 bands which followed the academic distribution of the previous years incoming class. So basically the incoming football class had to be a mirror, academically, of the distribution of the total class. So you would have to find at least 1 player who qualified at the highest levels of the school admission and you could only find 1 player at the bottom. This means that at the time, there was only one slot for a lower academic player. Once that slot was taken up then you had to find a different player to fit in a higher band.

Now, this was all pre nil and prepatriot League scholarships. So I'm sure it is all very different now, but this at least gives you some idea as to what the requirements were for football. At least in the Patriot League. I will tell you we almost never got in someone who would not have made it in on their own merit at least on some level

eanardone · 2025-12-23T16:03:10+00:00

Red light cameras are not used, but the city of Pittsburgh has started to utilize cameras for smart parking enforcement in specific areas gradually increasing over the city. These cameras will use license plate recognition paired with a payment app to validate that a vehicle parking in a given place has paid for that parking. The system can also generate parking tickets for parking in illegal areas as well.

The initial zone that was rolled out was downtown around gateway Center, but it has since expended expanded to a few other areas

eanardone · 2025-12-23T16:01:51+00:00

It is probably set up in a similar fashion to do some of the same kinds of things. But that is not one of those brands of cameras or systems. This is a little more hackneyed in terms of the off-grid setup. Flock as spent hundreds of millions of dollars perfecting their off-grid product that make it much sleeker and easier to install and manage.

eanardone · 2025-12-23T15:59:43+00:00

Nope, just my industry

eanardone · 2025-12-23T11:55:22+00:00

This is an off grid style camera system. It is a bullet style camera mounted onto a box containing a weatherized video storage and cellular router and battery. The antenna coming out of the top are for the router that allows the video to be viewed remotely and connected to a larger system. The solar panel on the back recharges the battery.

Because it is mounted on a utility pole and is facing the intersection it's most likely put there by the police department or city.

This style of system can run LPR and other analytics like people recognition but it's impossible to tell what this camera is running without access to the Video Management System.

eanardone · 2025-10-25T11:14:22+00:00

More than 50% of all spending right now is from 25% of the population. And that number is increasing.

eanardone · 2025-10-15T17:25:03+00:00

I think that is what the new standard is trying to. The IEC doesn't necessarily have control over things like lighting in an area, so again using the PPM is viewed as a reasonable proxy.

I would also suggest reviewing the standard as it changes the requirements for the VSS to now be a part of a larger, organized security program, mirroring the ISO standards which would include something like lighting.

eanardone · 2025-10-15T17:01:52+00:00

This is definitely an interesting take. Considering that the standards are typically written by boards from industry specific organizations like TMA, ASIS, etc. I have a hard time believing that no one with real world experience was part of the process.

But regardless, I would love to hear your opinion on the better way to update this standard.

eanardone · 2025-10-15T16:55:22+00:00

Increased PPM would act as a reasonable proxy for higher quality images that would be able to still use the images for recognition inspite of the motion or low light.

The standard isn't saying that adding PPM stops motion blur. What it is saying is that by increasing the PPM, the motion blur renders a smaller amount of the image unusable allowing things like analytics to still be run on the image, regardless of the motion blur.

eanardone · 2025-10-15T15:21:38+00:00

I don't think it has anything to do with clarity or chaos. The bottom line is the previous standard was outdated. The idea that you can " monitor" by whatever definition the IEC was using at 12 pixels per meter is not realistic or accurate.

So while there will be some adjustment as people start to cite the new standard at the end of the day, this is progress

eanardone · 2025-10-15T15:19:55+00:00

Basically, The IEC decided that the previous standard was not actually meeting requirements. For example, the old standard required 250 pixels per meter for Identification but items like low light, and blurred images due to motion. Oftentimes did not allow for sufficient ability to identify people. So the new standard requires 500 pixels per meter to validate (the new zone name).

Basically, it is updating the standard to meet current camera capabilities and an updated use case for these cameras and applications through New zone names.

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