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Kavanagh Named Head Men's Lacrosse Coach
June 17, 2011
The University of Mount Union has named P.J. Kavanagh head men's lacrosse coach.
Kavanagh will be the first-ever varsity men's lacrosse coach at Mount Union. The sport has been a club team on a couple of occasions in the past and will be restarted as a club team in 2011-12 then begin as a varsity sport in the 2012-13 academic year.
"Coach Kavanagh's experience, drive and dedication to his student-athletes and the community made him the perfect choice to start our program," commented search committee chair Jeff Wojtowicz. "All of us at Mount Union look forward to working with him to build our men's lacrosse program."
Kavanagh has spent the last seven seasons, two as an assistant coach and the last five as head coach, at SUNY-Plattsburgh in Plattsburgh, NY.
He posted a 47-34 (.580) mark in five seasons as head coach that included the three best seasons in team history, while his teams set single-season records for scoring four different times and each of the last three seasons received votes in the USILA Top-20 Coaches Poll. He coached two All-Americans, two North-South Senior All-Star Game selections and Senior Male Athlete of the Year.
As impressive as his teams have been on the field, off the field he has had numerous Academic All-SUNY selections and his team's have logged over 1,400 community service hours and raised over $15,000 for charity.
Prior to his time at Plattsburgh, Kavanagh had 10 years of coaching at New England prep schools, Bridgeport Barrage of professional Major League Lacrosse (MLL) and Henninger High School, his prep alma mater, in Syracuse, N.Y.
Kavanagh attended and played NCAA Division I lacrosse at Colgate University as he was a goalie then the long stick defensive midfielder who was a team captain his senior season. He earned a bachelor's degree in geology with a minor in geography and later went on to earn a master's degree in leadership and administration from SUNY-Plattsburgh.
"The University of Mount Union and athletics department have been synonymous with success and I see that success in the academic commitment of the student-athletes as well as with the athletic teams," stated Kavanagh. "The quality of the academic programs and the beautiful facilities give Mount Union potential for significant achievement in men's lacrosse here and I am excited to have been offered the opportunity to lead the Purple Raiders in this endeavor."
Kavanagh and his wife Elizabeth are the proud parents of three sons -- Sean (6), Aidan (3) and Ryan (2).


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Vadnagar is in Mehsana district of Gujarat. 110 kms from Ahmedabad, this place is also the birth place of India's current Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This historical town has many attractions like temples, lakes, govt. library and much more to see! This place is perfect for a one day trip.
The 6th largest Indian state located to the west of the country, Gujarat is one of the most popular travel destinations of the country. Gujarat shares its state border with the neghboring states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, and offers a wide variety of visual wonders to the travellers. From being the only spot for Asiatic lions in the World to the incredible White Rann of Kutch, it has a lot to offer to mesmerize travellers. With Amitabh Bachchan as the brand Ambassador of the Gujarat State Tourism board, Gujarat rightly tops as one of the most visited states with plenty of tourist places of historical and cultural importance. Rani ka Vav, Hills of Saputara, the Sabarmati (Gandhi) Ashram, the 11th century Modhera Sun temple, the Mandvi beach, Laxmi Vilas Palace, Somnath temple – are just a few among the top tourist places in Gujarat.
Gujarati cuisine is essentially vegetarian. A minor section of Gujratis are non vegetarian and include fish and meat in their menu. The main Gujrati cuisine comprises of different kinds of rotis, pickles, kadhis, vegetables in mild spices – all with high nutritional value with a dominant sweet sour flavour in most dishes.
The most common ingredients in Gujarati food is the use of everyday vegetables, a wide variety of mild Indian spices, lemon, tomato and sugar. These aside, they also regularly use lentils, besan or gram flour, curd and sesame seed. The food helps stay hydrated in their dry weather.
The typical Gujarati meal consists of Daal Bhaat Rotli Shaak, or rice, chapatti, lentil and vegetables – wholesome and nutritious. Some of the most popular traditional Gujrati dishes include Khandvi, Undhiyu, Gujrati Kadhi, Dhokla, Puran Poli, Bajri no Roti, Bardoli ki Khichdi, Thepla, Dhokla, Handvo, Khaman, Gujrati Samosa, Khakhra, Chakli and Patra. All these are typical Gujrati vegetarian dishes. While travelling you may opt for Thepla and Bateta nu shaak which can stay fresh for a long time and easy to pack and preserve on overnight long journeys.
The common Gujrati snaks include Chakri, Fafda, Khakhra, Mathia, Dhokla, Ghanthia, Mamra and khajli. Famous Gujrati sweets are Sukhadi, Sutarfeni, Shrikhand, Jalebi, Kansar, Adadiya, Basundi, Ghoogra, Ghebar, Keri no ras, Mohanthar and so on.
The most important Gujrati festival is Navaratri, and their most common celebration is through their famous Dandiya dance. Navaratri is an ancient religious festival that continues through nine nights to honour the divine power personified as the Mother Goddess. Its a colourful and musical festival celebrated with song and dance including the entire family. Garba and Dandiya dance are the special attraction of Navaratri celebrations.
The International Kite Festival in Gujarat is another famed festivity celebrated on the of January to mark the end of Winter. Feasts and kite flying through the day marks the celebration and devotees also visit temples to pay homage to the various Gods who are believed to awaken from deep slumber on this day. This day sees kites of various colours, forms and shapes being flown in the sky, many are specially designed for this day.
Among the unique Gujrat festivals is the Kutch Mahotsava that is celebrated in a big way in the desert district of Kutch in Western Gujarat. The barren Rann of Kutch turns into a paradise in those couple of months – with lights, colours, luxury tents; and the festivity invites travellers from all over the world.
Gujratis also celebrate the Deepavali, Modhera Dance Festival, Holi and Janmashtami with equal enthusiasm.
Gujarat is a culturally and geographically diverse state in India with rich traditions and heritage dating back to the Harappan civilization. Multiculturalism is at the core of Gujarat with examples of Hindu craftsmanship to Islamic architecture in various parts of the state. The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and Sir Vallabhbhai Patel, Ahmedabad and Sabarmati are widely popular for the Gandhi Ashram. The Modhera Sun Temple is another popular spot as well as an architectural landmark as the earliest Solanki temple of Gujarat. Visitors also flock to Sankeshwar and the Baucharaji temples en route to Modhera.
The little Rann of Kutch is a unique experience of cultural diversity in Bhuj, Gujarat. As many as eighteen different tribes peacefully coexist here, each with their own set of language, customs and culture. The tribal villages and the Wild Ass Sanctuary are special attractions of the Little Rann of Kutch.
The Jain temples in Girnar are exquisite examples of architectural marvel as well as places of spiritual interest. Patan and Sidhpur are places of historical as well as religious importance with sites such as Rani Ka Vav, Sahasra Linga Talav, Bindu Sarovar. Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation arranges a Heritage walk from Kalupur Swaminarayan temple to Juma mosque everyday that covers architecture, archeology, forts, palaces, gravesites as well as Buddhist footprints.
Under ecotourism, Gujarat has 25 national parks and wildlife sanctuaries for wildlife enthusiasts, and is the only spot that breeds Asiatic lions in the World.
Music and folk dance are an integral part of the Gujrati culture. Garba, Dandiya Raas, Padhar, Tippani, Danga and Siddi are popular folk dance forms.
Gujarat's handicraft have a distinct mark of the Arabs, Portuguese, Dutch, British and Parsis. Gujarati women are deft with intricate thread and needle work. The famous Gujarat handicraft includes Bandhani work, Kuttchi work, Khadi, bamboo handicraft, patolas, pottery, wood and metal craft. When in Gujrat, buy Patola sarees, fabric with Bandhani work and block prints, mirror work garments and clothing, Kutchi handicraft, luxury quilts, embroidered jackets and heavy jewellery.
Saurashtra and Kutch are the best places to shop the typical handicrafts of Gujarat. Colourful glass pellets used in fabric, garments, bed cover, wall and door hangings, torans and a range of home decorating items and accessories can be bought as a special souvenir for Gujarat.
Gujarati is the language of the people of Gujarat. Adapted from the Devanagari script, any non-Gujrati greets a native with a Kem chho that stands for how are you and responds with a maja ma chhu. Padhaaro is for welcome, and avjo is for goodbye. And if you must know, I love you locally translates into hum tane prem karu chhu.
By Road: GSRTC buses connect Vadnagar to all the major cities in Gujarat including Mehsana, Ahmedabad and others.
By Train: –Vadnagar has its own railway station. It's well connected to Mehsana, Taranga Hill and other cities.
By Air: Ahmedabad is 111 kms away and the nearest airport to Vadnagar. It's well connected to Guwahati, Kolkata, Vizag, Hyderabad and other cities.GET DIRECTION
The place doesn't have too many eateries. However, Himalaya international ltd is a fast food joint and quite well known in Sultanpura village of Vadnagar.
From October till April are the ideal months to explore this place!
Sharmistha Lake, Govt. museum and library, Hatkeshwar Mahadev temple, different Jain temples, Gauri Kund and scores of different shrines are the prime attractions of this place!
Mehsana: A small town yet many scenic spots in and around!

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PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has arrived in Colorado Springs to visit military installations.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command says Hagel arrived at Peterson Air Force Base Thursday afternoon.
He's visiting the headquarters of NORAD and U.S. Northern Command at Peterson on Thursday. On Friday, he plans to visit the underground complex at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station and meet with soldiers at Fort Carson.
NORAD says Hagel will discuss homeland defense, integrated air and missile defense, military relations between the U.S. and Mexico and other topics with Gen. Charles Jacoby Jr., commander of both NORAD and Northern Command.
NORAD is a joint U.S.-Canada command responsible for defending the skies over both nations and monitoring sea approaches. Northern Command defends the U.S. mainland and supports civil authorities in emergencies.
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At some point in your genealogical research, you are going to find out that you have exhausted the online resources pertaining to your ancestor or ancestors. In talking to many researchers over the past year or so, I find that few of them know where to go next. It seems there is a huge gulf between looking online and moving on to research in books and other paper records. Of course, the main obstacle to paper research is the inconvenience of traveling to where the documents are stored. But there are intermediate places to continue your search without the time and expense of traveling.
The first resource is your own local library system. I find many people have a rather negative view of using a local city, county or state library for research, but I can say from my own experience, that these resources can be valuable. For example, I needed an obituary of my uncle. It was no where to be found online, but I found a microfilm copy in my local public library. I have also found the university libraries to be helpful with collections of historical documents. In one case, I found a diary of a neighbor of my Great-grandfather, that talked about my Great-grandfather and his family. This gem was in the Special Collections library of Northern Arizona University.
Many of the local libraries are now connected to online genealogical resources, such as NewsBank, that are unavailable in FamilySearch Centers and only available through the libraries unless you subscribe to GenealogyBank.com. One of our local libraries is presenting a series of classes on genealogy. You may find kindred spirits in your local library.
It is also a good idea to plan a trip to your local historical society or museum. You might be surprised at what you will find. If you don't live anywhere near where your ancestors did, you can try getting on the telephone and calling libraries and historical societies in the area to see if there are people locally who might help you with your research. You can also look online to find a professional researcher in the area you are interested in. Some of us do have resources to spend on genealogical research and you might find some valuable information by hiring a professional.
In the end, if you have a good idea about the records that might be available in a particular area, there is no substitute for travel to the location and doing the research. If can be very interesting and challenging to try to find documents in the field, but the challenge is often rewarded by valuable information. I remember sitting a cemetery office outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and asking for documents about my family buried in the cemetery. The lady in charge of the records insisted on producing them one page at a time, rather than letting me see the file and choose what I needed. She must have gone back into her storage area ten or more times before I got what I thought might be all the records.
Just recently, my daughter called me from the middle of a cemetery in Rhode Island to say hello and tell me the grave markers she could see around her. Genealogy may seem sedentary, but it can be an active and exciting pursuit. If you get off your chair and go looking for your ancestors.
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Eau Claire has always had a rich baseball history and now a new chapter has begun.
At a legislative session Tuesday, the City Council unanimously approved an amended lease to allow a Northwoods League baseball team to call Carson Park home.
The five-year lease will start next year and the league will pay the city an annual minimum of $8,000, in addition to $4,000 for concession rights.
Eau Claire Baseball, which will own the team, will also have the right to sell advertising in the stadium and keep the profits. The principal investor behind the team says they will start the search for the personnel and players as soon as possible.
"We intend for this to be a venue that a multitude of various people with various interests can enjoy a night at Carson Park," says Dr. Jeff Jones. "We have this jewel at Carson Park and we hope the whole community will be able to use it from now on."
Jones also says season tickets will be available in the fall, and a contest to name the team will soon be underway.


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Three people, including a husband and wife, were arrested May 2 following a month-long investigation into drug activity in Magnolia.
Three Magnolia residents, including a husband and wife, were arrested Thursday morning following a month-long drug investigation.
Members of the Delaware State Police Kent County Drug Task Force, consisting of members of the Kent County Drug Unit, with assistance from the Kent County Governor's Task Force and the DSP Special Operations Response Team, executed a search warrant at a home in the 100 block of Carnation Drive, said police spokesman Mast Cpl. Gary Fournier.
Daren M. Martin and his wife, Vanessa M. Martin, and Martin's brother, John Martin Jr., were all taken into custody without incident at the home. During a search of the home, detectives located 260 bags of heroin totaling approximately 6.5 grams, a large bag of fireworks, drug paraphernalia, and more than $2,800 in suspected drug proceeds. John Martin also was found to have four Percocet pills that were not prescribed to him.
All three were charged with possession of a controlled substance (heroin), possession with intent to deliver heroin, second-degree conspiracy, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of fireworks. John Martin also faces an additional charge of possession of a controlled substance without a prescription.
John and Daren Martin both were incarcerated at the John T. Vaughn Correctional Center on $123,300 and $122,300 cash bonds, respectively.
Vanessa Martin was released on a $42,300 unsecured bond.


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like a car looking for a parking place.
I'm not sure the analogy was ever meant to be a rigorous and exact model, but more of a kind of way of visualizing space-time. All analogies break down if you try to map them exactly to the phenomenon you're trying to explain. After all, it's an analogy, not a model.
I have never like it as an analogy either. In the classic classroom rubber-sheet demonstration the marble rolls toward the bowling ball because the EARTH's gravity causes it to roll down hill. This is nothing at all like the way general relativity works.
General relativity requires a curvature of space-time, not just space. The best analogy I've seen comes from Kip Thorne (I think); Imagine 2 ants on the surface of an orange, both walking towards the "north" pole. Walking is an analogy to moving forward in t
what exactly did the experimental physicists test? did they test the behavior of marbles on rubber sheets? science is awesome!
I like it as an analogy because it captures the "gravity well" idea pretty good. also, I don't understand that ant thing at all.
The dented rubber sheet (done in earth's gravity) is a not too bad analogy for Newtonian gravity.
Let me try the "ant" analogy in a bit more detail:
The "orange" is curved space time. here we have 1 space like dimension and one time like dimension, curved into 3d.
The "ants" walk forward. This walking is the analogy to moving forward in time.
On a big flat surface, two ants that started near each other walking on parallel paths (both moving forward in time and at rest relative to each other) would stay the same distance apart.
On the curved orange though as the ants walk forward, they wind up getting closer: Imagine they start at the equator and both head due north. The start out parallel, and both walk in as straight a line as is possible on the surface. After a while they find themselves closer together - as if some mysterious force (gravity) is attracting them. (this is as they get to the north pole.
The orange analogy isn't all that great either because the curvature isn't shaped right for GR. Unfortunately humans aren't good at imagining curved 4-dimensional space.
If the rubber-sheet demo is done without earth's gravity it isn't a terrible analogy, but I don't think I've ever seen it show that way. It seems to always be shown as this curved surface where the EARTH's gravity causes the marbles to roll to the center.
If the rubber-sheet demo is done without earth's gravity it isn't a terrible analogy, but I don't think I've ever seen it show that way. It seems to always be shown as this curved surface where the EARTH's gravity causes the marbles to roll to the center.
If it's done without the Earth's gravity then nothing happens, the ball just fucking sits there, and nothing makes a "dent" in the rubber because... there's no gravity.
It's an analogy, not a physical model. You're supposed to ignore the presence of Earth's gravity when you look at it, and understand that the way the balls deform the surface is in some respects similar to how an object deforms space-time.
I can't say this enough: An ANALOGY is not the same thing as a MODEL. It's not supposed to be a physically accurate representation, you should NOT expect to roll a ball across the surface and get results that match actual real-world physics. That's why we call it an ANALOGY.
I actually *really like* that analogy. You can imagine your left side struggling more than your right side, and this ultimately turning you.
Since I must be pedantic, I think in practice, to a degree, denser water would be easier to swim through, since it gives you more substance to push against. This is similar to how even if you lay on a low-friction surface (eg. a big skateboard) in air (considerably less dense than water), making the motions of swimming* doesn't get you nearly as far as it does underwa
The good thing about the rubber sheet analogy is it makes sense for Joe average - your example is obscure and makes no sense, it doesn't provide a readily understandable visual experience to give the viewer an idea of what's going on.
In the analogy of the rubber sheet, the earth's gravitational acceleration is the passage of time.
I have never like it as an analogy either. In the classic classroom rubber-sheet demonstration the marble rolls toward the bowling ball because the EARTH's gravity causes it to roll down hill. This is nothing at all like the way general relativity works.
General relativity requires a curvature of space-time, not just space. The best analogy I've seen comes from Kip Thorne (I think); Imagine 2 ants on the surface of an orange, both walking towards the "north" pole. Walking is an analogy to moving forward in time. After a while some "force" has brought them closer together (because they are near the pole).
And yet, to someone like me (a non-physicist) the rubber sheet analogy makes a lot of sense to me, while the orange analogy....well, I'm not exactly sure where you are going with that because it helps me understand nothing. Maybe you just didn't explain it fully or correctly, but I'm not finding it very useful
And yet, to someone like me (a non-physicist) the rubber sheet analogy makes a lot of sense to me, while the orange analogy....well, I'm not exactly sure where you are going with that because it helps me understand nothing. Maybe you just didn't explain it fully or correctly, but I'm not finding it very useful
I'm with you -- an ant walking on a sphere as metaphor for a 1d ant travelling in 3d is just a trick of plotting.
It adds nothing to the understanding of space/time -- "see, it's curved, just like space
I have never like it as an analogy either.
It was never meant as more than an illustration of 'curved space' and how that might affect motion, which would be easy for lay-people to follow intuitively.
Also, all theories are 'fundamentally flawed'; we all know that. The best we can hope for, using the scientific method, is that we can discover more and more of the flaws and get rid of them. That is the fundamental insigt one needs to understand science: we knows we are wrong, but we have a method that brings us a little closer to the truth, if just we
I'm not sure the analogy was ever meant to be a rigorous and exact model, but more of a kind of way of visualizing space-time. All analogies break down if you try to map them exactly to the phenomenon you're trying to explain. After all, it's an analogy, not a model.
^this, many analogies in science are made to give a layperson a general/basic understanding of the concepts at work. They were never meant to be or expected to be working mathematical models.
^this, many analogies in science are made to give a layperson a general/basic understanding of the concepts at work. They were never meant to be or expected to be working mathematical models.
But how can we claim to be more smarter than the next person if we can't take a useful analogy and utterly destroy it by being overly pedantic?
The main way in which we acquire new knowledge is by relating it to old knowledge. We introduce concepts progressively, building on primitives and emerging with complex models. Geometry can be reduced to a finite set of axioms (with an optional postulate) yet results in a near-infinite number of complex interactions. When we describe how computers work, we discuss in terms of layers of abstraction, from transistors and resistors, to APIs and data flows.
Yet at every level and skill level, I can find people who scoff at those who continue to conceptualize things based on a earlier or lower level of abstraction. These people are what I call petty intellectuals: They aren't actually smart or gifted, they just read a lot of books and memorized a bunch of shit, and think this makes them "better" than others. The truly gifted will make you feel like you, too, can be gifted. This is the real lesson out of this article -- people who pick apart analogies for being "wrong" are usually simple-minded folk of average to below-average intelligence who desperately want to be "better" than you.
The rubber sheet analogy works because it gives us a way to visualize a natural phenomenon; Not everyone has an aptitude for complex math, or the patience for it. The essentials of the theory of relativity can be relayed without resorting to complex math -- ie, describing space time as a "rubber sheet". It may not be as accurate, but accuracy is not the goal: Understanding is. It is also why we talk about "strings" in string theory, despite them having not much to do with a ball of yarn. It's why Heisenburg's black cat is forever dying in internet memes. It's why quarks have some rather strange names
This is not a small problem in the scientific community either: Richard Feynman was laughed at for years for Feynman diagrams. He was told in no uncertain terms that visualizing these complex interactions couldn't be done, shouldn't be done, and was an abomination and a sin against those who practiced "proper" science. It wasn't supposed to be simple, dammit.
Today, the Feyman diagram is one of the most recognizable images in quantum physics. The pedantics lost... but it was a bitter fight.
Ah, so you too don't know the difference between a model and an analogy. In your car "model" of a Linux computer, what counts as the wheels?
Sure he does. The analogy is unsatisfying because an analogy is being drawn between gravity and gravity. It just removed one space dimension. A bunch of posters here have commented that they don't see how it explains gravity in a relativistic sense any more than it does in a Newtonian sense, since we're mapping time to time and not making it clear that it's part of the time-space continuum.
That analogy never really worked for me either (to be fair, nobody ever tried to formally present this to me; it's an a
It may be accurate, but you'll never find a theoretically ideal rubber sheet.
After all, it's an analogy, not a model.
Analogies are like glass: if you push them too far, they break.
The analogy is good enough to show the effects, but since it's a 2D effect visualized in 3D while the actual effect is in 3D it is bound to have errors. And the rubber itself isn't infinitely flexible but offers drag which in turn means that the rubber sheet presentation is just a rough approximation and not useful from a mathematical point of view.
I'm not sure the analogy was ever meant to be a rigorous and exact model, but more of a kind of way of visualizing space-time. All analogies break down if you try to map them exactly to the phenomenon you're trying to explain. After all, it's an analogy, not a model.
Could you explain this using a car analogy?
This was figured out more than 100 years ago. A rubber sheet can be mapped to a scalar theory of gravity. If you made it past the first two lectures of a class on General Relativity, you would know that Relativity is a tensor theory. That is why it is so horrendously complicated.
Thought experiments using analogues like the rubber sheet are often useful for visualization, organizing your thoughts, or providing a template to work on, but that doesn't mean that they necessarily provide a picture that is correct in all respects. The fact that they aren't accurate in all respects doesn't mean that they aren't useful representations.
The point being made is that if the rubber sheet image only makes sense as a description of gravity when there is gravity causing the motion, then it's not even a useful representation. Turn the sheet up side down to see how well it works if you think you're ignoring the external gravity acting on the ball.
At best it works as a 3-D graph of the Newtonian gravitational field strength, but it's not explaining anything *about* gravity and certainly not General Relativity.
Well, yes. I should hope so. Einstein did most of his best work imagining cows travelling near or at the speed of light. If relativity had to wait for NASA to modify a cow's digestive system to fuel a ramjet capable of near-light speeds, we would still be waiting. Not that it isn't fun to picture such a cow.
But, yeah, his thought experiments were definitely figurative descriptions, not mathematically precise models and it is not necessary for NASA to engineer a cow capable of making his figurative descripti
I always thought it was a terribly weak analogy to begin with, because the analogy itself relies on gravity - the very thing it's trying to be an analogy of - which must exist in the world of this hypothetical sheet of rubber in order to pull the marble around the orbit of the mass deforming the rubber.
I can't think of a worse kind of analogy that requires that the entity being described exist within the analogy itself.
... that anyone who had a grasp of high school phsyics, and who understood the analogy - of 3D matter flattened to represent a 2D metaphor for our real 3D world, which lives in 4D spacetime - or who understood that gravity attracted mass towards mass and not towards the "down" direction perpendicular to the sheet - would think for a second that such a demonstration would create the same exact trajectory as actual interaction between 3D objects in 4D spacetime.
I don't think the scientists did either- I think this was more of a 'fun' experiment to see what happens when you actualize the analogy.
Stop that.
Asimov's Lesser-Known Fourth Law: Individuals using market-speak or manager-speak no longer qualify as humans and are an immediate threat to all real intelligence. Deal with, as per third law.
a 2D metaphor for our real 3D world, which lives in 4D spacetime
The 'rubber sheet' model might have helped me a bit, but I think it was more confusion than clarity. It was one day, maybe 5 years ago, when I saw/read/heard(who knows?) it explained that the motion of a planet is a straight line in 4D spacetime that it all suddenly made sense to me.
No analogy is perfect. However relativity is sufficiently complex that I don't know if any analogy would be perfect at all. This analogy at least provides a general sense of the way it works, it may not be 100% accurate but's relatively (see what I did there) close enough to provide a general understanding.
All analogies are flawed in some way. They're analogies. They're not the actual thing. If the rubber sheet's characteristics match that of spacetime exactly, it probably is spacetime.
But even if it's not exact, I think it's still a useful way to illustrate to the general relativity-illiterate (yours truly being among them) what the theory is all about, and why it's significant. General relativistic effects are not something that can be demonstrated (easily) in the classroom. Putting a marble on a rubber sheet is.
Analogies are like rubber sheets in that they have to be deformed to match their models.
Next they are gonna to tell me my Fisher Price bath boats are not sufficient for planning naval invasions.
But the truth is that this work cannot diminish the extraordinary utility of this analogy. And so the public love affair with general relativity is safe. Long may it continue!
So what's the damn point?
Suppose that you had a big rubber sheet stretched out, and onto that sheet you place a ball. Now suppose that there's a force that pulls the ball down, creating a depression in the sheet. Well, gravity is a lot like that force. Really a lot like it.
So the analogy is fundamentally flawed. Shame!
The analogy is not fundamentally flawed. The Slashdot summary is. There is nothing wrong with doing this kind of test, it's kind of "mythbusters" semi-science. It's kinda nifty. The problem, as usual, is the over-reporting of science in an attempt to create pithy quotable summaries.
In other news, experts pointed out that rubber sheets provide a two-dimensional surface, while the real spacetime continuum provides three spatial dimensions and one of time. Experts also pointed out that rubber sheets have nonzero friction with rolling marbles, while empty space has zero friction; and that the rubber sheets do not provide the time dilation effects that gravity provides.
Experts also pointed out that the whole rubber sheet thing is what is known as an "analogy" and pretty much by definition is inexact.
Personally, I found the article interesting, but the tongue-in-cheek "Shame!" of the summary a bit over the top.
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But the truth is that this work cannot diminish the extraordinary utility of this analogy. And so the public love affair with general relativity is safe. Long may it continue!
The problem is that when physicists present the analogy, they act like the equations for the marble's motions agree with the observations of planetary motion. They make no caveats. They basically ram the analogy down our throats without explaining the shortcomings. Maybe they should start.
I think most of us grasped this intuitively on some level. If nothing else, a ball rolling on a sheet is always going to experience friction. It doesn't orbit. It spirals in. It's "like" relativity. Then if you get into serious physics you learn the equations that are not merely "like" but *are* relativity.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
You could of used irregardless in you're sig to embiggen it's affect.
Obligatory XKCD
http://xkcd.com/895/ [xkcd.com]
Obligatory Young Ones.
Neil: Alright, so most metaphor's don't bear close examination.
The Young Ones: Flood. [menvafan.net]
Woah... using an analogy containing an analogy of an analogy to explain why analogies are flawed.
Yo dawg.
... when we use analogies we're dealing with the most relevant information to communicate an idea. There is certainly nothing wrong with the analogy because it was never intended to communicate the whole complexity of the phenomenon, it was always meant as a starting point.
When we use analogy we're talking in ratio's and proportion, we're saying the phenomena is a X percent like this macroscopic phenomenon that everyone knows, but of course it is more complex then that, but that's a rough approximation of what is happening.
Nobody of any intelligence should get pedantic about it because that was never the intent of the communicator to begin with. I hate these ignorant pedants that stupidly misunderstand the intent of the person who originally made the analogy. You're not being smart, you've proven you don't get anything at all about communication of complex ideas.
We 'layer' people in to understanding by giving them basic models to get across general rough approximations and then we ease them into the deeper complexities, contradictions and unknowns.
The point of the rubber sheet analogy is to discuss the SHAPE of the surface which is a stand in for forces of gravitation.
As such, even if following the analogy you shouldn't use an actual rubber sheet because it will be distorted by the marble itself. Rather, use a hard surface modeled on what a rubber sheet would do with that deformation.
Will that be perfect? Probably not but will be less of a failure then this spandex idea.
It was used only as a visual aid to be able to teach mere mortals about gravity.
Will someone please smack these researchers, they obviously have zero social skills or understand you have to find a simple way of explaining things to the normals without their eyes glossing over and wandering away.
Now physicists have tested this idea theoretically and experimentally and say it doesn't hold water.
In my experience, rubber sheets are actually very good at holding water. I'm guessing one of these guys has a wife who, due to the number of years her husband spent on his Ph.D., is feeling the old biological clock ticking and she's taken a needle to every rubber she can find.
I've seen models created out of hardened plastic that more realistically reflect the curvature of space. It still isn't perfect since you still have friction, but it does a decent job of demonstrating orbits.
The true advantage of stretched rubber sheets is that it is a cheap and easy demonstration to create. That was especially important in the days before computer simulations or even television.
All science is wrong!
Feel free to add other crap. Seriously, how many analogies are exact? An object makes a dent in time/space, and another object reacts to that dent.
Remember, the analogy is there to give an idea on how to understand space/time, not for people who already understand space
A flawed analogy can still be very useful. Very instructive. Even true.
An old planetary clockwork can still give you a very good idea of the movement of the planets, even though it's way off and in some ways misleading.
Anyway, the rubber sheet with the marble still beats "heaven above, hell below and Earth in the center of the universe", or "the stars represent the light of angels". Analogies are either better, or worse. More useful or less useful.
The only fundamental flaw is with the physicists level of seriousness in documenting this test.
The rubber sheet is used as an analogy to describe the quintessential elements of the space-time theory to people uncomfortable with mathematics. It's not intended to be directly equivalent to an astronomical system! Obviously other effects (like friction and fabric warping) are more dominant on the experiment scales than at astronomical scales.
Reading the paper, there are something like five other references on marbles and spandex to simulate space-time warping. I mean, really? This is probably a good teaching tool for graduate students, but we must have too many underfunded physicists in the world if they are wasting actual research time with spandex and marbles. There are more useful projects that can be investigated cheaply and experimentally.
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Tri-City club Peak Putters drive off-road trails
By Paula Horton, Herald staff writer
About a half-dozen four-wheeling enthusiasts perch at the top of a giant sand dune, staring down at other off-roaders.
Several jeeps and trucks line up at the bottom of the hill at Juniper Dunes, waiting to see if their rigs can climb the 80-foot dune.
Some make it nearly to the top, back down, and try again and again.
Others get stuck as they try to crest the top and a lucky few are able to claim bragging rights as their rigs catch air and clear the dune.
But in the end the outcome doesn't necessarily matter the challenge of trying and watching others try is all part of the fun.
"I'm just looking for a good hill to climb," said Dave Walters of Kennewick. "Up, down I like it all."
Walters is a member of Peak Putters, a Tri-Cities-based club for owners of four-wheel drive vehicles that's been around since 1966. There have been more than 110 member families over the years -- some members are even fourth-generation legacies.
The club provides an organized way for people to take to the trails for bumps, fun and adventure, while also encouraging responsible off-roading.
"There's something going on almost every weekend," said Danielle "Peanut" McGhan, 34, of Richland. "There's so many different areas we can go to."
The group recently organized a run out at Juniper Dunes in north Franklin County and invited a group from Yakima, the All Wheelers Off Road Club, to join them.
They met up at Smith Canyon, dropped the air pressure in their tires so they could glide over the sand, and set out for a day of playing.
"We try not to get more stuck than we gotta," Walters said as he set out in his red Ford F-150 Triton V8. "Sometimes that's easier said than done."
But, that's exactly why the off-roaders hit the trails as a group to be sure they are there to help out if someone gets stuck or breaks down.
"We just like to do it safely," Walters said as someone yelling "Yeehaw!" crackled over the CB radio.
"Those are famous last words," Walters said over the air.
"No, that's 'Look what I can do,' " another club member replied.
While drivers took turns waiting to climb hills or spin through the sand, 12-year-old Anjuli Herr excitedly jumped out of her dad's 1984 Cherokee to see if others saw their run up the dune.
"I sit in the back seat and just fly around," the Pasco girl said with a huge smile. "It's fun when we hit the jumps because I don't know what's going on.
"It's like a roller coaster, but better because you get to choose where you go."
Anjuli was one of several children who were out for a day of off-roading with adults acting like big kids in a giant sandbox.
That's another thing that makes four-wheeling great -- it's something the whole family can do together, said Clay Graham of Selah, manager of the All Wheelers Off Road Club.
"We enjoy the trail and you get to see wildlife out here. That's really great," Graham said. "In the dunes, when it's dry, it's so smooth. It's like flying -- or floating."
Graham and his wife, Lisa, have four kids between the ages of 3 to 9 and all have been off-roading since birth. Graham also has an adult son that joins them in his own Jeep.
"It's something to do that doesn't cost a lot," said Lisa Graham, who was knitting placemats while sitting in the front passenger seat of their Chevy Suburban. "The (kids) laugh and giggle every time we hit a hill and always say 'Go faster dad! Go faster!' "
And while the overall goal is to have fun and be safe while off-roading, the groups do a lot more than just play. They participate in community service events and fundraisers, and work with lawmakers on land-use issues.
Graham started the ORV Trail Watch program in September 2008 to try to ensure the trails stay open to off-road vehicles. He worked with the Yakima County Sheriff's Office and the Department of Natural Resources to get the program going.
The nearly 200 trail watch members in Washington, Oregon and Idaho have all signed on essentially to just make sure others stay on the designated trails and to report those who don't.
"We're trying to deter people from doing damage," Graham said. "We want to teach 'tread lightly.'
"Education's the first goal," he added. "A lot don't know (the rules), then there's the ones that don't care."
About a year ago, the Peak Putters helped remove a truck that was stuck in the gully below the Canyon Trail on Badger Mountain for about four mouths.
Vehicles aren't allowed on Badger, but a Kennewick man went out one night tearing up the side of the mountain and knocking large rocks off the walking trail.
Peak Putters members worked out a plan to tow the truck out without causing more damage to the mountain.
It was the right thing to do, they said, and a way to show that not all off-roaders are out there trying to tear things up.
During the run on Juniper Dunes, the group drove up on a scorched trash pile likely left behind by underage partiers.
"Horse riders and hikers see things like this and say 'Keep vehicles out of here' but we're not the ones doing it," said Walters, land-use coordinator for the Peak Putters. "It's public land. It's here for everybody, but you've got to treat it right.
"We're in enough trouble as it is, 80 percent of the trails are hikers only."
Without giving it a second thought, everyone jumped out of their rigs, pulled out garbage bags and started picking up the mess.
They found half of a dumb bell, beer cans, bottles, fast-food wrappers, mattress springs and a plate and fork.
The clubs do organize special cleanup runs for bigger messes, but they will often take a quick break from the fun to pick up some trash when they see it.
"We're so used to seeing it, we're happy when we don't see it," McGhan said. "We'd rather spend five minutes cleaning while we're wheeling than not have a place to wheel."
It's a constant battle to keep the trails open. That's why the Trail Watch program is so important, she said.
"It's just about letting people know you can still have fun, you just have to follow the rules," said Maria Mayes, 33, of West Richland.
For more information. about the Trail Watch program go to orvtrailwatch.org.
For more information, go to peakputters.com.
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From the outback to the Gold Coast, investment is pouring into indigenous tourism, with results so far proving popular with local and overseas visitors.
Is Australia finally getting serious about indigenous tourism? From the Red Centre to the theme parks of the Gold Coast, Aboriginal culture is experiencing a surge of exposure in tourism operations.
Mining royalties, government grants and the persistence of culturally minded tourism operators are bringing developments in what has always been a difficult arena.
Ayers Rock Resort now has a popular indigenous activities program, and the Wilpena Pound Resort in South Australia has come under indigenous ownership, with plans for Aboriginal touring and employment.
In the Top End, the indigenous-owned Wildman Wilderness Lodge is in its second season, while the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land have won an $825,000 grant to develop a tourism master plan for the region.
In Queensland, an impressive $20 million indigenous eco-tourism development has opened at Mossman Gorge, north of Cairns, with local Aboriginal people making up the majority of employees and tours including exclusive access to indigenous land.
Another development is taking place on the Gold Coast, with Dreamworld being awarded a $1 million grant for an indigenous experience at the park.
The federal government grant will help turn the park's existing "wildlife experience", which includes more than 800 native animals, into an Australian Aboriginal wildlife experience.
A theme park might seem an unlikely player in cultural tourism, but Dreamworld says it has been working with indigenous clans for the past two years and has a "reconciliation action plan" to increase cultural awareness at all levels of its operations.
The park is yet to release details of what the Aboriginal experience will include but has said the first stage is due for completion late next year, with the government grant to be matched by its own money. Also, the $825,000 grant awarded to the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land is expected to create up to 50 new indigenous-owned tourism businesses in the next 20 years.
The Lirrwi Yolngu Aboriginal Tourism Corporation expects to attract a further $2.25 million in corporate funding over three years to support the program.
The federal Minister for Tourism, Martin Ferguson, says he believes the potential of indigenous tourism has been "so far untapped".
"Indigenous tourism is a large part of what makes Australia unique as a destination," he says. "These products and experiences also address important issues, such as the creation of employment and improvement of business skills for indigenous people."
An indigenous tourism champion, Grant Hunt, who was recognised at this year's Australian Tourism Awards for his work in eco and cultural tourism, says mining royalties have been one of the biggest factors in boosting indigenous tourism.
"Increasingly, indigenous communities are benefiting from mining royalties on their land and they are able to make investments in tourism," he says. "I think the resources sector has really helped in that regard. It's broken a lot of the shackles."
Asked whether Australia is getting more serious about indigenous tourism, Hunt says there has been no lack of commitment in the past.
"It's just hard. It's so hard to get it up and running, especially in remote areas," he says. "Making a remote lodge or regional property stack up is hard enough without being in the niche of indigenous tourism."
Hunt is the chairman and founder of the Anthology group, which runs Wildman Wilderness Lodge and has been appointed to run the Wilpena Pound Resort on behalf of its new indigenous owners.
He says the key to successful indigenous tourism operations is having expertise in the "back end", such as finance and hotel operations.
"They [indigenous people] are really interested in the consumer-facing stuff," he says. "They want to talk to people about their culture and their land, but you need to do the other stuff as well."
Hunt says that although there are big plans for Wilpena Pound Resort, which has been bought by a joint venture of Indigenous Business Australia and the Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association, it is likely to be at least 12 months before there is anything to show for it.
With the "local" Aborigines now living away in regional centres, he expects finding people who are prepared to live at the resort to be one of the biggest challenges.
"We could do some window dressing [by bringing in Aboriginal faces from outside the area] but that's not sustainable," he says. "We need to be patient and set the structures up right."
Culture club
Ayers Rock Resort says about 70 per cent of guests take part in its new free indigenous activities program.
The resort says Australian and international visitors are equally involved in the activities, which run to a daily schedule and include cultural performances, spear and boomerang throwing, children's art classes, garden walks and indigenous art markets.
The resort is pleased with the take-up of the program, which started in May, and expects guest participation to continue to grow.


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San Jose Sharks defenseman Brad Stuart has received a three game suspension following his check on Rick Nash.
The game finished 9-2 to the Sharks but the result was marred by an injury to Nash following a clash with Stuart in the first quarter.
The hit, which occurred during Tuesday night's game between the San Jose Sharks and the New York Rangers, caught Nash on the head and forced him to leave the game in the second period.
Stuart, who was making his first appearance of the season, received a minor penalty for the infringement during the game.
Upon review, the check shows Stuart's shoulder catching the jaw of Nash and the NHL has decided that, although looking like the defenseman did a lot right, the upward movement that caused the danger.
The seeminlgy harsh penalty is a sign that the league is prepared to come down harder on dangerous tackles.
Along with a three game suspension Stuart has also been fined $55,384.62.
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You're just a jealous bitch, mom! You don't understand that Daniel and me are going to last FOREVER!! I HATE YOU!!! I HATE YOU!!
"Honey, he just wants to sleep with you to get your password. Just give him a blow job and leave him. That'll show him!"
Clearly her password is "omgi3>daniel"
Two coming of age talks:
1. The birds and the bees.
2. Internet security.
OK, you're 14 now, it is time for us to talk about a few things. If you have sex with someone, use a condom, and make sure you do not sign their public key unless you really trust them.
Why does this sound like an XKCD comic?
Real simple solution for this solution. Invite Daniel over for dinner. Begin peppering Daniel and your daughter about wedding plans and telling him how much you'll love having him in the family. They'll be split up in two weeks tops.
Wait, it's okay to share your Netflix password...?
I can think of at least three reasons why that's a bad idea.
It's a serious crime in TN! Don't get caught, lovers!
Wait, it's okay to share your Netflix password...?
I can think of at least three reasons why that's a bad idea.
Busty Trannies 1 (aka Dude looks like a lady)
Busty Trannies 2 (aka This time she's hung)
Busty Trannies 3 (aka The lady gets his man)
It isnt expunged when you turn 18. It is sealed but still exists and can be accessed depending on the circumstance.
Teens do a lot of dumb stuff
Yeah but there is a difference between normal teen stuff like having unprotected sex and stuff that can cause serious harm in their later life like sharing passwords.
When I was a Teen, and I shared my Password as a form of intimacy I would have gotten a response at best "Your such a Nerd!" (Back then a Nerd wasn't good)
Yeah. Offering Sysop access to my dialup BBS never got me laid.
Offering Sysop access to my dialup BBS never got me laid.
Then you were offering it to the wrong girls.
Yea, might have worked with the right guys.
Yes, thanks Forbes. I'm sure all five of your teen readers will heed your sage advice
Teens that read Forbes probably have neither the time nor the ability to forge an intimate enough relationship in the first place
Plus it's usually a thundering Terms of Service violation.
XKCD covered this years ago http://xkcd.com/215/
Why did you exchange passwords in the first place? There's never a good reason to share passwords. If it ever seems like a good idea to share a password, that's a symptom of a poorly developed user permissions system.
Maybe because they're married? My wife and I share a lot of our passwords. iTunes, so that we only have to worry about one account... Banking, so that we can both access the account to pay bills, transfer funds, etc. Unless you're one of those couples (like one of our couple-friends) who keeps their money separate, you almost *have* to share passwords on some accounts.
For teens, or unmarried dating adults, I don't see much of a case though.
How could a long string of words and symbols be hard to remember? I mean, most of us here are like your husband, but what kind of string are you talking about? What's an example?
All he has to do is remember the ASCII code of your password.
I'd much rather my kids be having sex than sharing passwords.
What, between themselves?
Remember kiddies, using your ex-boyfriend's social networking password can be a felony!
Heck, even using your current boyfriend's passwords with his permission may be a felony in certain circumstances, especially if a financial transaction, medical-history-information, or intentional deception of anyone is involved.
And in other news...divorce [divorcerate.org] continues skyrocketing,
Seriously kids, realize that your significant other can lock you out of your own accounts on breakup, and you can't recover everything via your phone #, pretty sure like... netflix, email providers that aren't google.
Years ago, a girl I loved dumped me after 7 years of relationship and a few months later, her sister's ex-boyfriend contacted me and gave me her e-mail address password.
Reading her e-mails was... informative. I found out that she'd been cheating on me and her other boyfriend with some other men (complicated, I know!), and other nice things related to her present job. She and her sister shared lots of... amazing things in e-mail exchanges.
It was an informative reading because it basically opened a somewhat s
'We all need an illusion of whatever scraps of privacy we have left, and your email is just that.'"
Because we sure as hell don't have any privacy left anymore.
Giving your significant other power over your socialization and friendships on this level just seems like it is going to give even more power to those who abusively control the other partner in their relationships. Not to mention the wonders that will occur if you break up with someone and don't change your password before they upload not-so-flattering pictures and send them to all your friends.
The problem there is you just posited a perfectly reasonable adult argument.
Teenager brains don't (typically) work that way. There still viewing the world through a flood of hormones and lack of experience.
In the perfect world, we would come up with a system to allow the teenager brain to interact with the real world without too many bad outcomes.
I trust my boss with work-related things, but that doesn't mean I give him the passwords to all the servers at work. Why? He doesn't need them.
When I explain new staff about our security policies, I explain them not to give anybody their password. They say OK. Then I say "Not even to me." They start to look a bit worried. Then I say "Not even to the CEO" and then they get confused.
When I say "Not even to the IT guy who is repairing your PC" they are completely baffled and stare at me as if I am sore sort of drugs.
Mmm. Perhaps I must try it out and ask after a week or so if they don't give me the password they are fired. See if they give it or not.
At least you can change the password... pretty hard to return virginity.
If the Feds have access to it, you might as well give your girlfriend access. At least that leaves nothing for the Feds to blackmail you with.
She wanted to monitor my email and everything. Very nosy. I refused and she bitched about not trusting me. Turns out she was a cheating whore and just assumed that I had to be getting some on the side as well. She needed to verify because she could not trust because she was herself untrustworthy and insecure about it. Sharing passwords does not show trust, it shows lack of trust.
I have learned this same lesson but not quite as painfully.
A thief thinks everyone else steals.
A manipulator thinks everyone else manipulates.
An adulterer thinks everyone else cheats.
I'm sure the reason is part rationalization, part acting out whatever misbehavior caused them to develop those harmful habits.
I was planning on reading Romeo and Juliet this winter.
Now it looks like I don't have to.
By the way, Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father, and Bruce Willis was dead for the whole movie.
Damnit, I was planning on watching Die Hard this weekend.
Now it looks like I don't have to.
My wife and I do this. I keep her passwords on a sheet of paper in the safe. She reads mine before going to bed every night (I believe she's on chapter 2, "Routers and Switches").
My wife manages a teen drop-in center. Oh, the crap I hear about... Anyway, their relationships average about a week, and their definition of "trust" is "stay away from the opposite sex or I will go publicly and aggressively crazy." This illustrates a need for classes about how to avoid codependency and what abuse and manipulation in a relationship looks like. But all the middle and high schools are almost solely focused on studying their students up for the standardized tests, so once again, thank Bush for fucking up society.
You "trusting" your partner with your password because you do not mind sharing what you say is one thing. I'd suggest it's unwise, it's highly prone to misunderstandings and perhaps more an indication of lack of trust than actual trust (where sharing the password wouldn't be necessary). But, that's your prerogative.
But the thing is you're now breaching your trust with the people emailing you. You're sharing what THEY say, and you haven't even had the opportunity to make a judgement first.
Actually I'd say breaching your trust with others is about all you're doing. You know that you have given your partner access, so you're not going to write anything you would not want them to read. But other people emailing you do not necessarily know that, they think their correspondence is private. At an absolute minimum people trust you to use your judgement before you share their information with your partner.
Holy crap teens want to do something to establish intimacy! WHATEVER IT IS IT MUST STOP!!!1!
For realz all of my account password resets point at my email account! Like banking! And billpay! And paypal! And my credit cards! These teens are setting themselves up to ruin their HUGE and HIGHLY INVOLVED financial structures that they don't have.
Whatevs. TFA has no actual criticism other than your messy breakup might be messy. Whoa drama in teen romance LOOK OUT.
If sharing passwords creates the intimacy and allows teens to forgo ACTUALLY DANGEROUS behavior then go for it. Beats the hell out of getting a tattoo. Just change your password when you break up. Before your SO changes it out from under you...
Sharing email account passwords isn't nearly as big a deal as people here seem to think.
And I find the hostility to the idea of expressing trust and intimacy rather unsettling.
It takes seconds to create a new email account
And years to get all your contacts to use it.
And we're talking about teenagers, who've probably had an email account for only a few years at most, and generally don't have lists of business contacts.
Passwords are, it is said, like underwear.
http://www.umflint.edu/its/units/initiatives/publicity/password.htm [umflint.edu]
If you are willing to share your underwear with a partner, why not your password?
In my case, I was dating a woman who had been cheated on and had trust issues. I made sure she had access to my email and a tracking location on my phone. She says she never checked up on me, but I hope the gesture was appreciated.
Marvelous! The super-user's going to boot me! What a finely tuned response to the situation!


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The Power of Personalized Policy
- 09-25-2013
- By Jon Reidel
As a young staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 1980s, Eileen Burgin was fascinated by how members of Congress decided which issues to become actively involved in. It would become a prevalent theme in her academic research, which would shift over time, fittingly, for one of the same reasons she believes lawmakers change their legislative agendas to support specific causes.
"Based on my committee work in the House and interviews with members of Congress, I found that their own personal experience was one of the major factors affecting what causes they chose to get really involved in," says Burgin, associate professor of political science. "They may have a family member with an illness that moved them to back medical research or a personal connection they've made with people in their district about issues like immigration or gun violence. It can make for odd bedfellows, but the bonds that are created through these shared experiences can bring members of both parties together. Sometimes we forget that they are people first."
Burgin, whose early research focused on Congress' decision-making process related to foreign policy, made a significant shift in her own research agenda when her five-year-old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Burgin became interested in the role of the public in determining how their tax dollars were spent on specific illnesses. She even lobbied on Capitol Hill for more biomedical resaerch funding and had her son speak with members of Congress.
"You need to put a face on an issue for people to become passionate and really get behind it," says Burgin. "If you don't have someone championing an issue it won't even get taken up by Congress. Breast cancer wasn't even discussed on the floor of Congress until women started getting elected. It's interesting to me how my own personal experiences helped shape and inform my research just as the personal experiences of members of Congress affect the causes they choose to support."
The role of public policy in health care implementation
Burgin's most recent work is focused on a hot topic, the implementation of the Affordable Health Care Act and the compromises made in Congress to get it passed. Her article "Congress, Health Care Reform, and Reconciliation" in Congress & the Presidency, an interdisciplinary journal of political science and history, explores the role of reconciliation -- a legislative process intended to allow consideration of budgetary matters in the Senate and House -- in the passage of health care reform in the 111th Congress.
"I was trying to make the point that this landmark piece of legislation that people were decrying and saying went through some sleazy process actually went through Congress largely through conventional means," says Burgin, who teaches a course on Congressional process. "The legislation went through committees in both chambers. And virtually all health care reform that has happened since reconciliation was created has gone through the reconciliation process, including George Bush's changes to Medicare, COBRA and SCHIP, so I wanted to change that myth."
Burgin also wanted to show that, although counter-intuitive, the Senate losing its filibuster-proof super-majority when Republican Scott Brown was elected in Massachusetts actually made it possible for health care reform to pass, by facilitating the use of reconciliation.
"No longer could the Democrats possibly clear a merged bill through both chambers; in response to an inevitable GOP filibuster with a unified Republican minority, Senate Democrats lacked sufficient votes to invoke cloture," says Burgin. "Senator Brown's victory altered the political environment, engendering different inter-chamber dynamics, new relative power levels among individual Senate Democrats, fear within the Democratic party, a shift in the role of principal players, and reinforcement of the permanent campaign mentality for the GOP. These changes facilitated the use of reconciliation, encouraging a compromising mindset within the Democratic ranks, and highlighted that without reconciliation meaningful health care overhaul could not be enacted into law."
Burgin recently published another article with Jacqueline Bereznyak '11, a former student now working on civic engagement issues at Citizens Schools New York, in The Forum, the Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics. The article, "Compromising Partisans: Assessing Compromise in Health Care Reform," parallels Burgin's reconciliation piece by showing that in situations of unified government, especially in the current polarized era, that meaningful compromises to enact major legislation "may occur within heterogeneous parties instead of between polarized counterparts."
Weighing in on the effort to derail 'Obamcare'
Burgin, who considers the Affordable Care Act a personal issue for President Obama given the health care issues his mother faced prior to her death, sees the current effort by members of the Republican Party to defund Obamacare as posturing and pandering to the base. Their biggest fear, she says, is that once the law goes into effect people are going to like it. "Once you give people a benefit they like, you can't take it away." Burgin points to pieces of the law that have already been enacted, like children being able to stay on their parents' health insurance until age 26 and children with pre-existing conditions not allowed to be denied insurance, as examples. "If they repeal these provisions, are they all of a sudden going to tell these kids who are able to have insurance and may have a serious illness like leukemia, 'Sorry, you can't get care?'"
Both parties have tried to stop major pieces of legislation in the past, she says, but few efforts have gone so far as to hold other parts of the budget hostage. The likelihood of the Affordable Care Act not being implemented is slim since it won't pass the Senate and Obama can veto it, Burgin says.
"I think everyone knows they can't stop it," she says. "They are very limited in what they can do and won't be able to filibuster the thing to death. What's different is that Republicans are going further than anyone has ever gone before by holding things that are so important hostage to try and get rid of things that are already law -- and that the Supreme Court has deemed constitutional. They could cause a government shutdown, but polls show that this could backfire against them come elections."
Burgin acknowledges that the new health care law "has a bunch of flaws in it," but says that like most pieces of legislation, it's a place to start and can then be improved upon.
"One of the problems with the bill is because the House had to accept the Senate bill (because the Senate didn't have a filibuster-proof majority), they had to keep midnight compromises made in the Senate they never thought would become law," says Burgin, who plans to spend her spring sabbatical studying health care reform and the impact of process on policy outcomes and the problems with implementation. "But major social change has never come easy. Every bill has flaws. Look at the creation of Homeland Security or Social Security or Medicare. The process really affects the policy, and that's what I always try to teach my students. You have to understand process because the ramifications are huge."


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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Pedro Morales scored on a penalty kick in the 53rd minute to help the Vancouver Whitecaps tie FC Dallas 2-2 on Sunday.
Darren Mattocks opened the scoring for Vancouver (6-4-10) in the 11th minute with his fifth goal of the season and third in three game.
Blas Perez, off a scramble in front of the net, tied for Dallas (8-7-5) in the 29th minute, and Brazilian midfielder Michel added a goal on a penalty kick in the 39th.
Dallas is 3-0-3 in its last three games.
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THE future of TAFE in Bendigo was the topic of discussion in state parliament yesterday, with Higher Education and Skills Minister Peter Hall confirming the regional training provider would stay open.
Mr Hall quashed speculation the TAFE would close due to widespread budget cuts.
"Bendigo TAFE has the support of the Victorian Coalition government and will be around for many, many years to come," he said.
Mr Hall said the TAFE had increased its enrolments this year and would continue to grow despite losing $9 million from its budget.
"So far in 2012, there's been over 10,000 enrolments at the institute.
"That compares with 9600 in total for 2011. The Loddon-Mallee region is the only area in Victoria where growth through the TAFE sector has outstripped growth in training delivered by the private sector, and Bendigo TAFE has been prominent in that role."
Last week, Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews said there were real concerns about whether Bendigo TAFE would close due to funding cuts and campus feasibility reviews. Mr Hall described the opposition's questions as a "campaign of misinformation and scaremongering that does nothing but denigrate the role of TAFE."
Referring to a letter written by Bendigo TAFE CEO Maria Simpson published in the Bendigo Advertiser on October 20, Mr Hall quoted Ms Simpson, who said: "It does not help at all for people to think we are closing. We are not. We are open."
Ms Simpson said the viability of the local campuses was being reviewed.


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SBA Announces Changes to Contracting Program For Women-Owned Small Businesses
"This is great news for our women-owned small businesses here in Oregon," said Acting District Director Robert DuCotè. "In FY11, there were $1.4 billion in federal contracting dollars spent in Oregon with $56.7 million going to women-owned small businesses in the state, this law will build upon that and expand opportunities for further growth."
"Women-owned businesses are a significant part of our economy and this law will help them continue to grow, succeed and create more jobs for Americans," said Regional Administrator Calvin Goings.
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The law also requires the SBA to conduct another study to identify and report industries underrepresented by women-owned small businesses. As a result, more eligible women-owned businesses may be able to participate in SBA's Women's Federal Contract Program and compete for and win federal contracts.
The SBA is working with the Office of Federal Procurement Policy under the President's Office of Management and Budget on the implementation including changes to the Federal Acquisition Regulations.
Every firm that wishes to participate in the WOSB program must meet the eligibility requirements and either self-certify or obtain third party certification. There are four approved third-party certifiers that perform eligibility exams: El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, National Women Business Owners Corporation, U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce, and the Women's Business Enterprise National Council. Additional information and links about approved third-party certifiers are available at www.sba.gov/wosb.
To qualify as a WOSB, a firm must be at least fifty-one percent owned and controlled by one or more women, and primarily managed by one or more women. The women must be U.S. citizens and the firm must be considered small according to SBA size standards. To be deemed "economically disadvantaged," a firm's owners must meet specific financial requirements set forth in the program regulations.
The WOSB Program identifies eighty-three four-digit North American Industry Classification Systems (NAICS) codes where WOSBs are underrepresented or substantially underrepresented. Contracting officers may set aside contracts in these industries if the contract can be awarded at a fair and reasonable price and the contracting officer has a reasonable expectation that two or more WOSBs or EDWOSBs will submit offers for the contract.
For more information on the Women-Owned Small Business Program or to access the instructions, applications or database, please visit www.sba.gov/wosb.


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BOSTON (AP) -- David Ortiz had two hits and three RBIs to extend his torrid start after a long layoff, and Felix Doubront overcame a wild first inning to pitch into the seventh as the Boston Red Sox beat the struggling Houston Astros 8-4 on Saturday night.
It was the 14th win in 19 games for the surging Red Sox (17-7). Boston can tie a club record for the most wins in April by completing a four-game sweep over Houston (7-17) on Sunday.
Boston matched its best start since 2002 with its fourth straight win.
Ortiz is hitting .519 (14 of 27) with two homers and nine RBIs since getting back into the lineup last Saturday. He missed the 71 of the final 72 games last season and all of spring training with a heel injury.
The Red Sox went 18-8 in April 1998 and 2003.
Dustin Pedroia, Daniel Nava, Jarrod Saltalamacchia and Will Middlebrooks all had two hits in Boston's 12-hit attack. Jacoby Ellsbury drove in two runs.
The Sox quickly erased a 2-0 Houston lead by scoring four runs in the second inning. A three-run seventh broke things open.
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Too often we are bombarded with negative news stories, how bad society has gotten and so on. There is good around us every day it just doesn't sell as well unfortunately.
As a member of the Norriton Fire Engine Company since 1984, I made a number of friends. I have not responded for years but think of my brothers and sisters when they are called upon.
I would like to recognize the men and women as well as the families of the Norriton Fire Company and everything they have been through recently. Fighting a fire is never easy and much more difficult during the winter months. Fighting two working house fires back to back during the night is incomprehensible for most. It requires great physical as well as emotional energy. Events like these will take an immense toll on anyone. Our firefighters are volunteers waking up in the middle of the night to go out in all weather to save East Norriton residents for free. They return back to the station with no fan fare. Having little or no sleep they get back to their normal lives; going to work and returning to their families.
I wanted to write a letter and thank the members of the Norriton Fire Engine Company as well as their families. Although I am not with them physically, I pray for them and respect what they do for us the residents of East Norriton Township and surrounding communities. I hope everyone recognizes what we have. Do not take it for granted when you call 911 in the middle of the night or anytime.


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NEW YORK - In about a week, the Columbia women's soccer program will kick-off the year under new regime for the first time since 1994. The 2014 season will be led by head coach Tracey Bartholomew combined with an exciting mix of veteran players and new talent.
Watch above as GoColumbialLions.com caught up with team captains Torie Goode, Coleen Rizzo and coach Bartholomew to grab some insight on the team's preparations and expectations for the upcoming year.
The Lions return a total of 19 players, including 10 seniors to a team that went 8-6-3 overall last season.
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ANDERSON, S.C. -- The No. 9 Anderson College Lady Trojans place five players in double figures on their way to a 92-66 rout of Coker in a CVAC game Monday night at the Abney Center.
Anderson, 18-2 overall and 9-1 in the CVAC, ran its winning to eight. The loss drops Coker to 6-12, 2-8.
Anderson, ranked No. 4 in the East Region poll, was led by LaShonda Chiles with 21 points, eight assists, six rebounds, and five steals. Chiles, a sophomore from Greenwood, S.C., needs just nine points to become the fourth Lady Trojan to reach 1,000 career points.
Stephanie Ponds added 19 points, 11 rebounds, and six blocks for Anderson to record her 10th double-double of the season. Deidra Langston recorded her fourth straight double-double and her seventh of the season with 17 points and 12 rebounds. Deanna Thompson chipped in 16 points and five assists and Latrice Thomas, who was 8-for-8 from the free throw line, contributed 12 points.
Michelle Glover scored 11 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead Coker and Shamae Hemingway added 18 points and five boards.
Midway through the first half, Coker led 18-17, but in the next 20 minutes, Anderson went on a 49-27 run for a 66-45 lead with 10:08 to play.
Anderson's largest lead of 30 points -- 92-62 -- came at the 2:04 mark on a basket by Thomas.
Turnovers were a major factor. Anderson scored 35 points off 27 Coker turnovers.
Anderson outscored Coker by 11 points at the free throw line and won the boards, 47-41.
Anderson shot 46 percent from the field to 39 percent for Coker.
In the last 36 games the Lady Trojans score 80 or more points, they are 36-0. During its current eight-game winning streak, Anderson has scored 90 or more points six times.
Anderson is now 11-0 this season against schools from the state of South Carolina.


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I think the whole reason behind this is application availability.
It's a known fact that Microsoft's closest competitor in the server market is Linux. One of the major advantages Linux has over Windows on ARM is the availability native and kind-of-highly-portable applications, that include most of it's software stack, from core OS functionality like GNU-Base to KDE/Gnome desktop to all the server tools we've all grown to know and love/hate. Most those are just a recompile away.
Windows on the other hand, and all things being as they are today, needs an emulation layer to run on ARM all the x86 binaries which comprise the vast majority of it's software stack. This will significantly reduce the benefit and viability of choosing Windows as a desktop or server platform on non x86 systems, but it's particularly bad for the server side of things. God knows how many companies are still running mid 90s versions of Oracle or Dbase or whatnot.
It's in Microsoft's best interest to see that Atom triumphs over ARM as the dominant server chip because it effectively denies the Linux/OSS portability advantage.
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With the Irish public growing more and more irate with Giovanni Trapattoni and his stale tactics, a replacement needs to be found.
Here I list several alternatives should the FAI finally decide to agree with the general public and give Trap the boot.
Neil Lennon
Already popular with Irish football fans by virtue of being the manager of Celtic. He has impressed this season with free-flowing, attacking football and sensible man management which brought the Glasgow giants to the Champions League knockout stages, and back-to-back SPL crowns.
The thought of him departing for the Ireland job would not anger the Celtic faithful too much but the possibility of sectarian violence may be enough to make him think twice about accepting the role.
Martin O'Neill
Another Northern Irishman who has endeared himself to Irish fans due to his exploits with Glasgow Celtic, he has proven himself time and time again performing minor miracles with limited budget and resources (Leicester and Aston Villa).
His determined and down to earth attitude would earn him the respect of both players and fans alike, he has also worked with Irish internationals including James McClean this combined with his no nonsense "tracksuit manager" approach could see him having success with this current crop of Irish talent.
Tony Pulis
His no nonsense approach epitomised by his long ball tactics which have been common place in the Irish teams of recent years, but he has done it with an edge and defiance which would set him apart from the Jack Charlton and Trapattoni eras.
His close working relationship with Irish internationals Jon Walters and Marc Wilson would help him gain respect from the players but the appointment of another foreigner could be met with animosity from the fans.
Roy Keane
A controversial figure at times but he is still without a doubt one of the greatest players to have ever put on the fabled green jersey.
A mixed bag of a managerial career so far, but when it comes to his commitment to the cause, it can never be in doubt, his head is definitely in the right place.
He could be the man who could rid the FAI of corruption and set it on the straight and narrow for once and for all.
His steely man-management style could be perfect to reenergise a squad whose morale and commitment is on the wane.
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The Chicago Blackhawks have sent their message loud and clear: Stanley Cup or bust.
Nobody -- and I mean nobody -- can tell me they saw this one coming.
That said, it came! It's the best start by a national hockey league team in history, and the Hawks have it all right now: depth, defense, goaltending, great coaching.
And even more important, their big stars have all come to play.
Stan Bowman and the whole organization deserve to take a bow.
There is still a long way to go, but first impressions have some merit. Patrick Kane is just making noise on the ice and captain Jonathan Toews is leading the charge.
The real beauty is the Hawks can play fast and quick or slow and deliberate. They can score 6 goals in one game and pitch a 1-0 shutout the next.
And best of all, the Hawks aren't showing any signs of slowing down.
This is a finely tuned machine right now, and Joel Quenneville keeps the clubhouse relaxed and holds everyone accountable. That strike-shortened season looks pretty good right now.
Keep quiet, Reggie Rose:
Derrick Rose is a South Side Chicago kid, a true superstar who is coming back from injury. His manager/brother Reggie recently commented he was disappointed the Bulls didn't add more pieces or another player to the mix this year.
Wow! He's entitled to his opinion, but he should keep it to himself.
Hey Reggie, your brother isn't even playing.
Somehow Reggie forgot the No. 1 goal. Get baby bro healthy and back on the court.
Derrick is a very popular guy, but things can turn quickly when an uninformed family member who doesn't know how to run a pro basketball team chirps up.
No, Reggie, life is good so don't screw it up! Let Chicago Bulls vice president John Paxson run the team, and you worry about your brother's health.
Readers comments:
Readers responded to my Friday question: Who would you rather have on the Bulls -- Joakim Noah or Dwight Howard?
And Bulls fans answered resoundingly for Noah.
John Dagen wrote Noah because he is scrappy, hustles and shows up to play every night. William Hogan took Noah because he has worked to be better offensively and has improved his free-throw percentages to the mid-70s. Cathleen Lawson sums it up: Noah has heart, hustle and muscle. But Bernice Roome says go for Howard because the Bulls need a real center. Thanks to all who responded.
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Plans have been finalized for the Wayne County Democrat's Annual Dinner. This year's event will be held at the Central House in Beach Lake on Friday, October 12th.
The evening begins at 6 p.m. with a social gathering featuring hot and cold hors d'oeuvres and cash bar, followed by a family style roast beef dinner at 7.
Featured speakers will be John Murray, representing Auditor General Candidate Eugene DePasquale, US 10th Congressional Candidate Phil Scollo, 115th PA State Representative Candidate Frank Farina and 111th PA State Representative Candidate Jeffrey Dahlander.
Advance reservations are required and can be made by calling the Democratic Committee at 253-8788, forwarding an e-mail to
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Milan walked off the pitch after Kevin-Prince Boateng became the target of racist abuse during a friendly match on Thursday and the Italian FA (FIGC) later announced an immediate inquiry into the incident.
The Rossoneri had played just over 25 minutes of the game against fourth-tier side Pro Patria when the Ghanaian kicked the ball into opposition fans, took off his shirt and walked off the field.
A number of Pro Patria players tried to diffuse the situation but the ten remaining Milan players - plus the substitutes, coaches and club officials - followed the midfielder off the field and did not return.
FIGC president Giancarlo Abete branded the incident "unspeakable and intolerable" and claimed it was an offence to Italian football.
Massimo Ambrosini later emerged and spoke to reporters to explain the club's stance.
The captain said: "We came here to many people could come and see us play. We were committed to playing a good game. But we have made a signal against these ugly episodes as we could not continue to play in that atmosphere."
"We must put an end to these events. We are sorry to the public, because it has nothing to do with the majority of fans."
Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri told reporters: "We are disappointed and saddened by what has happened. Milan play for the right to respect all players. We need to stop these uncivilised gestures.
"We are sorry for all the other fans who came here for a beautiful day of sport. We promise to return, and we are sorry for the club and players of Pro Patria, but we could not make any other decision. I hope it can be an important signal.''
The match was goalless at the time, with Muntari having had a goal disallowed for offside. Later, anti-racism campaigners praised Boateng and Piara Powar, executive director of European anti-discrimination group FARE, called for FIGC to take strong action.
He said: "We salute Kevin-Prince Boateng for his actions and his team-mates for their support. This is the not the first time a player has walked off in Italy and if the situation continues it may not be the last."
"Italy, as much as any country in Europe, has a serious problem of racism to deal with. Football infrastructure is in need of renewal and at serious odds with the changing nature of Italian society. We look forward to strong action by the FIGC."
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If you have ever been to The Scoreboard on a Thursday night, then you know that Tony Beck is proud to be an America — after all, it's his signature song. Beck is an Army veteran, who served in Desert Storm, and provides a much needed boost of patriotism to the Newton establishment.
"I started off in the Iowa Guard and then in February '85, I started active duty in the regular army," Beck said.
Beck had originally signed up 1982 and explained what inspired him to join.
"Finances, mainly. I planned on getting married. Needless to say, that fell through," Beck said jokingly. "But I had fun in the military, believe me. One of the smartest things I did in high school was join the military."
Like many vets, Beck said the ability to travel was one of the best parts of service.
"Seeing the countryside," Beck said, "The scenery, I was seeing spots that I'll never see again in my lifetime."
Beck maintains a pretty sunny disposition and even carried it throughout boot camp.
"It wasn't so bad, other than the drill sergeant in your face" Beck said jokingly. "It was like going to PE for me. That's what it seemed like it. Between basic training and AIT (Advanced Individual Training), basic was a joke. AIT was a lot stricter."
"It's not as laid back (as basic)," Beck said. "You have to be there to do stuff, they are right on you. They want to make sure you get it done right for when you leave. You are putting those work skills to actual (use)."
Beck said he went to AIT to become a light and heavy welding mechanic and truck driver.
"Between basics and AIT, I would rather go through basics again," Beck said.
During his time in the service, the U.S. had conflicts in both Grenada and Panama. Beck said he was ready and willing to go to either, if necessary.
"I wasn't worried at all. If it was time for me to go, it was time for me to go," Beck said. "Our post was on standby. Then when I was stationed at Fort Lewis, (Wash.) our unit was on standby. We knew we were going, we just weren't for sure of the actual dates we were going."
Beck never went to Panama or Grenada, but was deployed.
"I went to Saudi Arabia. I think it was August of '90 when we shipped out," Beck said. "Hot, hot, it was 140 degrees in the shade. Just very hot, when we first got over there it would be like 70 or 80 degrees and we would just have sweat pouring off of us."
"After we got used to the climate change, that 70 degrees was cold, just cause of the temperature drop," Beck said. "You wouldn't think that 70 is cold, but in the desert it's cold. If you don't mind being in the desert (Saudi Arabia) it's a neat spot to be."
Other than the weather, Beck said a moment in January of '91 is what stuck with him about his time over there.
"I do remember, that a Patriot and a Scud missile took out each other," Beck said. "They took each other out right above our camp site. It was loud, very loud. They collided in mid-air and it looked like a big ol' firework in the sky."
"I think our whole company was in their MOPP (Mission Oriented Protective Posture) gear in five minutes," Beck said. "That was something you learned in basic training. It don't take too long to put that stuff on when you need to."
Another thing that stuck out to Beck was the fires that Iraqi forces started in the Kuwaiti oil fields.
"It was so black out," Beck said. "We had to have our headlights on in the day."
Beck said he left the military in 1991 and in that same year he joined the VFW.
"I got my lifetime membership in '92," Beck said. "I have been the (Newton) Post Commander the last two years. I still got some military in my life."
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There is NO SUCH THING as one of these contracts working out.
Can anyone name a player, who, upon their contract season, in any of the major sports, has one of their best seasons.
You would run out of room before you could finish answering that.
Now, go back over said list and check-off all the guys, once they have said big contract, go out and have BETTER seasons.....NONE.
A.J. Burnett in baseball has made a career out of having career seasons in contract years. Then, when someone buys the hype that he has finally pulled his tremendous talent together, he has 4-5 sub par years, until the next contract year. Both Blue Jay and Yankee fans can attest to this.
Buffalo was just plain dumb in giving Mario Williams that kind of contract. Notice Houston didn't seem to upset in letting him go?
As to being unsignable ... some franchise will sign him.
If it is over 12 million a year, I would prefer it is not the Jets and that he gets traded to an NFC team..
You are correct that there are no easy outs here. Danger is a lisfranc injury blows this up, or if you believe that Revis will decline rapidly like Asomugha. As much as Revis likes the money, he also has a passion to be the best player at his position to ever play the game. I think the risk is worth it, just my opinion. He is a once in a lifetime player. And the truth of it is that there is no player on offense that will command those dollars in the next few years, so there is a window to pay him. We will be building through the draft and the cap hits on those guys will be smaller.
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Buffalo paid that salary for him to have those results in Buffalo. The highest paid player is normally the guy who signed the latest contract, not the most productive player who may still be on a rookie deal or nearing the end of a 2nd deal. Brees is getting 25% more than Brady, but he is not 25% better, he was just the latest to sign.
How about Jim Kelly? His first season in the NFL turned out great after the fold of the USFL.
How about Lebron James? After he left Cleveland, he went to Miami for boo koo dollars and took the Heat to the finals.
How about Shaquille O'Neal? He went to the Lakers from Orlando and the rest is history.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not necessarily saying that I disagree with you here. I'm just saying that it only takes one contract to prove your point irrelevant. Every athlete in every situation is completely and totally unique. One situation does not prove validity in the next.
But different, at least in my opinion, is Darrelle Revis. This is a guy whose only claim to fame is EXCELLENCE, and nothing short of it. He is as sure a bet as death and taxes.
I believe the Jets should certainly resign Darrelle Revis to a blockbuster contract. He'll prove you right for paying him that amount each and every year. When he's on the field, it is like the defense having 12 men instead of 11. You never have to commit a Safety on his side of the field. Just leave him with the opponents best receiver and plan on that player being completely neutralized and removed from action.