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Hensick's take on No. 1 Michigan
Avalanche rookie T.J. Hensick isn't too caught up in his professional career to look back at what got him there. The former four-year Michigan star still bleeds Big Blue, and follows his remarkable No. 1-ranked Wolverines daily.
This week I spoke with Hensick outside the Avs locker room. I was waiting to speak with two other guys when Hensick walked by. For kicks, I thought I'd see what he thought about the 22-2 Wolverines, who _ much like Denver _ are tearing it up with a surprisingly sound young roster.
Granted, both programs are legendary and never short on talent, but they're a combined 40-8 after losing so many great players to graduation or NHL deals. Both teams have 13 freshmen or sophomores that have played in at least half their games, meaning their typical 20-player lineup has more youth than experience.
Turns out DU and Michigan have benefited from the high turnover, because the talented crop of freshmen bring fresh enthusiasm and a healthy work ethic. DU junior defenseman Chris Butler is convinced of that, and so is Hensick _ even though he was on the negative end of that equation.
"The freshmen are skilled, quick," Hensick said of the young Wolverines, who open a two-game series Friday against Michigan State. "Smaller group of guys, but they definitely bring the intensity and emotion that may have been lacking the last couple of years because of all the veteran guys, and things maybe were too comfortable."
Still, Hensick dubs Michigan's season "remarkable," adding, "They've been No. 1 for six, seven weeks in a row. When I was there we were No. 1 for a week at a time and we'd lose it. It's good to see the program back on top, following the tradition."
Michigan lost Hensick, who led the country last season with 69 points (23 goals, 46 assists) and sophomore Andrew Cogliano, who was third on the team with 24-26-50, plus sophomore defenseman Jack Johnson (16-23-39), and senior forward David Rohlfs (17-17-34) and senior blue-liner Matt Hunwick (6-21-27).
That's five of the top seven scorers from a team that finished 26-14-1. The holdovers were juniors Kevin Porter (24-34-58) and Chad Kolarik (18-27-45), who were second and fourth on the team and are currently first and second, respectively.
Porter leads the country with 22 goals and 39 points and is the favorite to win the Hobey Baker Award, which evaded Hensick last year after his notorious blow-up with a referee in the late stages of Michigan's loss to North Dakota in a West Regional semifinal at the Pepsi Center in March.
"You didn't expect that team to go 22-2 to start," Hensick said. "It's good to see. I'm happy for the coaching staff and the guys, especially a guy like Porter, who has been overshadowed by guys like myself, Hunwick, Johnson, Cogliano. He didn't have the spotlight as much. It's good to see him excel. He's got the 'C' on his sweater and he's taking advantage of the opportunity."
Here's some bits and pieces of the rest of my conversation with Hensick:
"I thought it was a question of what the freshman were going to do. We lost our top power play, our top offensive line and the top D-pairing. You just didn't know. I talked to Porter all summer about whether he was going to come back or not. We always talked about how the team was going to be. With the recruiting class, all the high draft picks, you just didn't know. They had potential. Besides the freshman, I think the key has been (defensemen Mark) Mitera and (Chris) Summers, two big guys on the blue line finally getting the ice time and responsibility they could have deserved last year, but they were playing behind Hunwick and Johnson. If you have two guys like that step in and replace guys like Hunwick and Johnson, you're on the right track."
On junior goalie Billy Sauer, an Avs draftee, that became the No. 1 guy last season, but had a difficult time (3.03 GAA, .896 saves percentage): "Coming in early age, and then battling with (Noah) Ruden his freshman year, and losing the job at the end of the year, kind of crushed his confidence. To see him back bounce this year is great to see."
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Tracking the movement of leatherbacks in the Atlantic: Why track turtles?Carlos Drews - far right - and the Panamanian team tag one of the first leatherbacks for the 2005 Atlantic leatherback tracking project
Bugged turtles reveal journey secrets
The evidence
The historical, opportunistic recoveries of flipper tags from leatherback turtles nesting in Costa Rica and French Guiana, for example, indicate a wide dispersion throughout the northern Atlantic Ocean, with individuals routinely sighted from the western to the eastern Atlantic, and from boreal to tropical latitudes.
Tags tell of distance travelled
Tag recoveries along the western coast of Africa of turtles from nesting beaches in South America include: 2 females tagged in French Guiana which were found along the Moroccan coast; and a female tagged in Surinam which was recaptured one year later in Ghana. The latter represents the longest known movement of a leatherback turtle, which travelled 5,900 km after nesting in Suriname, proving that transatlantic movements may lead turtles that nest in South America as far as the interior of the Gulf of Guinea. One female tagged in French Guiana was also recaptured near the Azores.
Recapture sites along the north-western Atlantic Ocean, of leatherbacks turtles previously tagged in the Guianas include: USA (South Carolina, Texas, New Jersey), Campeche (Mexico), and the Gulf of Venezuela.
Filling the information gaps
Tag recoveries, however, only provide information of the start and end points of movement. No information is disclosed on the whereabouts of turtles between these points. Now, new technologies make it possible to learn much more about what happens to turtles at sea:
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Satellite telemetry is such a technology, allowing the precise monitoring of post nesting movements of sea turtles and their behaviour at sea. The advantages of satellite telemetry over other tracking techniques is that it provides information over extended periods of time and does away with the need for a vessel.
What past turtle tracking experiments tell us
A pioneering study tracked for 24 days a female that had nested in French Guiana, during which the turtle travelled north for 820 km before transmission stopped.
Ever since, surprisingly little has been published on the biology of leatherback turtles at sea in the Atlantic Ocean. There are presently less than 10 scientific publications presenting the movements or behaviour of Atlantic leatherback turtles at sea using electronic technologies. However, most of these studies focused on the nesting season, when turtles remain close to the shore between two nesting events.
Going the distance
Movements of female leatherbacks after nesting in Puerto Rico, and the southern end of the Caribbean (Trinidad) have been successfully monitored, indicating that some of those nesting assemblage disperse to widely separated Atlantic regions. For example one turtle travelled over 4,500 km from Puerto Rico (Culebra and Fajardo Islands) to the Azores front; while turtles that left from Trinidad crossed the Atlantic and approached African waters (off the coast of Mauritania).
Similarly, female leatherbacks tracked after nesting in Grenada and in French Guiana dispersed widely in the North Atlantic. Some of their movements are associated with ocean fronts where the abundance of jelly fish is probably high. Most of their diving happens within 250 m of the surface, making the interaction with fisheries quite likely. However, leatherbacks are known to dive deeper than 1,200 m, as recorded in recent years by satellite telemetry.
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There is a game called Dyad that we at Kotaku are crazy about. And there is a man named Shawn McGrath who made Dyad. Is he just crazy?
Shawn will be here from 1pm-2pm ET to answer any good questions you ask him below.
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In Baltimore and Philadelphia, two German-inspired Christmas villages
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On the third day of Advent, I smelled something unusual at Baltimores Inner Harbor. Instead of a big whiff of fish or fried food, the odor that typically punches my nose, I inhaled the heady perfume of the winter holidays. The scent: eau de mulled wine, roasted nuts and bratwurst.
The seasonal bouquet permeates the air of the Christmas Villages in Baltimore and Philadelphia, a pair of German-inflected colonies featuring crafts, local and Deutschland foods, toe-warming beverages and decorative lights as bright as a diamond tiara. The special events, which run through Christmas Eve and New Years Day, respectively, transport the glee and the glühwein of the German Christmas markets to the East Coast.
Its the spirit of the traditional Christkindlesmarkt, said founder Thomas Bauer, a native of Nuremberg, which holds one of the largest and most celebrated markets in Germany.
Over Thanksgiving weekend, Christkind the Christmas Angel even flew in from Nuremberg to officiate over the festivities, which are in their sixth year for Philadelphia and the first for Baltimore. Bauer chose the City of Brotherly Love as his original site because of the regions German heritage and significant Amish population. Baltimore was more of a pragmatic choice: The Inner Harbor turns fallow during the colder months and could really use a holiday cheering squad.
Both villages center on a compact collection of twee timber huts the color of gingerbread, with white lights icing the edges. In Philadelphia, the elfin structures occupied by more than 60 retailers encircle the 38-foot-tall Christmas tree in Love Park. The Baltimore venue sits on the lip of the harbor, within earshot of the trumpet blare of the ferry. A few of the 42 vendors brave the outdoors, including a purveyor of South American woolens, a mulled wine stand and a Nepalese shop of felt objects. But most are tucked inside a big-top tent illuminated by a Milky Way of lights.
To wrap my mittens around the German traditions, I started my journey in Philadelphias wondrous land of Käthe Wohlfahrt, a Rothenburg-based company founded by a post-World War II toy peddler. It specializes in handcrafted holiday pieces steeped in centuries-old practices. Every item is gift-wrapped in a story.
Gather round, for example, for the tale of the Christmas pyramids.
An employee explained that ore miners in the Erzgebirge, or Ore Mountains, region of southeastern Germany couldnt afford Christmas trees. So as a cheaper alternative, they collected fallen boughs, then assembled the branches into tiers, adding layers each year and placing candles at the tips. The forest-floor constructions evolved over time into condo-style carved wooden carousels depicting such dollhouse scenes as singing and instrument-playing angels, barreling skiers and sledders, and other apple-cheeked slices of village life. Propellers at the top, fueled by the heat of candles at the base of the pyramid, slowly rotate the displays.
Across the aisle, the Schwibbogens bio could melt a piece of coal. The candlelit wooden arches, which provide a stage for lively dioramas (a pretzel bakery, or a woodworking shop), represent the lanterns that the miners would hang over the mine entrance as each worker safely exited. The townfolk would start their Christmas Eve celebrations only once theyd received a thumbs up of glowing orbs. Today, Schwibbogens appear on window sills and mantels, a flickering beacon of home and family.
Germans go, Mmm, I remember that from my childhood, said Randee Stevens, a sales associate who stood amid a sea of grim-faced nutcrackers and O-mouthed smokers.
Pickles and chocolate
At the Baltimore outpost, a vibrant mural of the medieval town of Rothenburg enlivens the back wall. On a nearby Christmas tree, the staff hides a pickle ornament, following a puckish holiday custom: The first child to discover the green veggie wins a prize. (The market doesnt fully uphold the tradition: If you find the ornament, you dont earn a free gift.) I sussed out the pickle through reconnaissance: I overheard Bauer boast about discovering it. It was behind a roly-poly Santa.
This is the real stuff, said Hans Mayer, a Cologne-born Baltimore resident whose grandchildren search for the pickle in his tree.
For straight-off-Lufthansa authenticity, I stopped by Karl Uebels nut stand. For the past five years, the Schweinfurter has moved his family of five to Philadelphia for the Christmas season, where they sell such Old World specialties such as roasted almonds sweetened with sugar and cinnamon. Per tradition, he wraps the snacks in paper cones as colorful as party hats. At a separate counter, he presents such classic treats as gingerbread, three kinds of stollen (cranberry is the Yankeefied version) and pfeffernüsse, which he said are very important. Based on the gravity of his tone, I imagined Santa shunning homes that dont stock the spiced cookies.
You cant bring the whole tradition to the States; its not possible, Uebel said. But you can bring just a little bit.
Heres a tradition straight from chocolate Santas mouth (as explained by the Wawi Chocolates guys): On the night of Dec. 5, German children put their boots outside their doors, hoping to awaken on St. Nicholas Day to a shoeful of chocolate. But not all kids get their cocoa fix.
Only if theyve been a good kid and the boot isnt too smelly, joked Maren Durrschmid, the German marketing manager.
And if you do receive the father of all sweets, where do you take the first bite?
Eat the head first, then it looks sad and you have to eat the whole thing, she said.
Though the villages wave a German flag, some vendors put their own citizenship stamp on the pennant.
Artisan Exchange sells such standards as knackwurst and a German-style smoked salami perfectly shaped for a long-toed stocking. But the farmers-and-foodie collective from West Chester, Pa., sneaks into Italy with a pizza topped with mozzarella, sauerkraut and smoked knackwurst. Nearby, the woman pouring mulled wine into a Christmas Village collectors mug said that she uses a local Chadds Ford red spiced with cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and allspice a zingy apple pie flavor, she added. (In Baltimore, you can buy premixed Augsburger glühwein in white or red, by the mug or bottle.)
Dennis Krone bakes his fruit-filled strudels in an improvised kitchen at Helmuts Original Austrian Style Strudel. The apple version, if you may recall, appears in the Sound of Music; its rhymed with schnitzel with noodles in the song My Favorite Things. But I couldnt imagine the von Trapp children harmonizing over the spinach-and-cheese version.
For his Baltimore stand, Allen Blankenship, of Vinces Tasty Creations, invented the new national cuisine of Germtimore by inserting a crab cake into a pretzel roll. He also sells bratapfel but tailored the baked apple dish (slices, not whole fruit) to mobile American diners. The whoopie pie, however, is his top seller. Hes working the Amish connection, or the cupcake backlash.
For the bulk of their gifts and crafts, the villages spin the globe. Throw a sausage missile in the air and you could hit Janettes Designs (in both locations), which stocks wool and alpaca sweaters, hats, mittens and ponchos from Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. Or you might bowl over a nesting doll from Gifts From Afar (ditto), whose Russian souvenirs appeal to Lady Gagas Little Monsters as well as to Cold War-era families (Russian leaders on one side of the room, U.S. presidents on the other).
Silk Road Traders, in Philly, specializes in exotica from that legendary trade route. Owner Mark Metzelaar transformed his cube into an Eastern trading post, with Turkish rugs covering the floor and gem-colored lanterns filling the air space. The under-the-tree options included cotton Turkish towels (very absorbent and not prone to mildewing, Metzelaar claimed), scented soaps and hand-painted pottery by women from Kutahya in western Turkey.
This is my Christmas gift from my husband, exclaimed a woman as she handed Metzelaar a votive lantern.
For a gift that will prompt conversation, or a foreign policy debate, I suggest the mother-of-pearl inlaid wood boxes from Syria. The few on display predate the countrys civil war, and new orders are on hold. Our supplier is busy trying to survive, Metzelaar said solemnly.
I first came across the goggle-protected chickens at the Christmas market in New Yorks Grand Central Station last season. This year, theyve flown south to Baltimore. The vendor at Glass Haus described the inspiration behind the spec-wearing fowl ornaments. While gazing at the chicken coop outside his studio window, Swiss designer Rene Burri wondered what the birds do when no ones looking. The answer: They goof off, riding bikes, brooms and swings. Unique Store (both locations) also sells avian-themed ornaments, such as penguins, despite the fact that There is no Christmas in Egypt, said the booths owner, Emad Makhail.
As the clock ticked toward closing time, I raced through Estonia for red-capped trolls and patterned socks, and Nepal for felt jewelry and figurines. I paused at a bag of giant pretzels resting on a counter, returning to Germany before the staff locked the doors of the tent.
The villages shuttered at 7 p.m., but the holiday wasnt ready to call it a night. Standing near the darkened harbor, I could still smell Christmas in the air.


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K, so this guy posts something really immature, and comes back a year later
Great minds think alike.
Do NOT post in battle threads unless if it is for these reasons:1. You're posting a move2. You are joining a battle3. The battle is over
I know many of you are wondering "Why can't we talk Shad? We are sociable squids and must blurfgh with eachother!" Well allow me to answer my friend, it gets in the way of my work. This btw means ANY post. Like "Can I join this Battle?" "Sure" or "Wait do I have an escape amulet?"I don't mind if you post AFTER the battle though.
someone make a thread called 'ALL GENERALS REPORT HERE'
I'm a grunt plz do it for me will i thought we are cool
diddypig is an extremely nooby name
in one language my name is diddy and my fav animal is a pig so atleast my name means something
It still is extremely nooby
Why are you jelous that he makes better games then you?
Amdri just got TOLD
So one day I was walking down this island and then I tripped my ass over. My initial reaction was a bunch of swears mostly containing the swear "damn."I then get up to standing formation and decided that my ass hurt and I needed to relax. I spotted a bathroom or correctly defined by many as an "outhouse". I stumble my way to the toilet and suddenly it started talking to me. I was amazed that the toilet was talking to me but it really was.I couldn't understand it, it just kept shouting the same things alike spamming on a board."Toilet papers are a priority""Toilet papers are a priority""Toilet papers are a priority"So, I decide to threaten the toilet. I tell it that its job to just sit there and take whatever I bring to it, and I threaten to flush it (Not realizing how that affects the toilet).So I flush the toilet, and instead of water flushing inside the toilet, it flushes outside of it and suddenly, a paper comes out.It has a link and a picture of me falling on my ass earlier.And that's why I switched to Kleenex.
That was the title of the thread.
Hello I'm the mature sivershadows nice to meat you.
Be my pork.
Good. Now we can all have fun... Together... Uhh?
I like this thread...:3.
Can I add this picture too make it look more wrong?
I REALLY like this thread... :333
and this children is why we have ravicale chat c:where you can swear and talk about toilets all you want **magical rainbow**
A "ravicale" chat is not allowed on Sploder, ask a moderator.
whoever makes me a thread will get suggested immediately oncei get back in the barracks
Oh deer there's no one above me to kill be nice to.
I like the way you type on your keyboard.
stop posting in the quote keeper you idiotic unfunny pieces of trash jesus. i may be stupid all the time but at least i dont post in this purposely to come across completely assassnine. splodeing kitty, yall dumbsplodes, splodeing idiots go suck a splode splodefaces
someone make me a thread plz plz plz plz plz plz plz imabouttocryomgcmonguisestopbeingmeanlikereallyim12andneedfriendsmakemethreadillgive20goldawards
I just realized I I can delete posts. lol.
If I was General I would've banned him 2 days ago I would take being a General and a moderator serious.
Let this be known, from this day forth.I am mature.I deserve Soldier.Don't cry guys, I'll growing up.You too are getting older.So it's timeto grow up.
Thank god i'm not hungry.....
Whatever you mean by that.....
It means you're just a nub posing as a Lt.Lemme guess, you're experiencing Downtime? -____-
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Learn how to use your keyboard in a fun and entertaining way for absolutely free. Rapid Typing Tutor is designed to teach adults and kids to use their computer keyboard more efficiently than ever. Learning to type can be easy and fun!
Typing Tutor Features:
Touch typing improves typing speed and accuracy. A touch typist never looks at the keyboard. The fingers hit the right keys by force of habit. The typist is entirely focused on the text being typed, reading the words and phrases as the fingers type the text reflexively. Touch typing can be learned by performing special exercises.
Stage one of the process begins with learning the home row of the keyboard (the row beginning with the Caps Lock key). Looking at the keyboard is strictly forbidden. This is followed by learning the lower and upper rows, the numbers row, upper-case letters and special symbols.
Stage two involves memorizing frequently used syllables and typing words containing these syllables.
Stage three involves typing actual text to perfect the skills acquired.
Great Application for those that want to start typing and or want to improve their typing skills! and the best thing is that its free to download! I give it a 10
The USAID-funded Technology for Improved Learning Outcomes (TILO) project is recommending Rapid Typing to teachers and students in Egyptian schools, as we believe that is supports our project objectives to improve teaching and learning through the use of technology. Thank you for creating Rapid Typing and for making it freely available to support teaching and learning globally.
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Ginny Woolley
This is a great typing tutor, and it's free! Rapid Typing is FAR better than 99.9% of the typing tutors i've bought and tested. Keep up the good work!
It's hard for me to afford anything in this economy. And honestly, this is the best typing tutor that I've ever had. Whenever I graduate college and start my career, I'm gonna start donating constantly. *(Thank you so much)*
Ivan Zambrano (Arizona)
This has improved my typing and I have tried many typing tutors. This is the only one that has stretched me and improved my accuracy
I absolutely love this software ....the best of its kind i have ever used ..it has helped me a lot ....it is relatively simple to use at the same time makes learning fun
thanks a lot for making this software free for download...
Wow!!! What a gem of a software! I just stumbled onto your site while browsing the web. Your program is amazingly simple, beautiful, useful, and fun to use at the same time--a very rare quality in modern software programs.It puts the commercial programs out there to shame.
Thanks a million for sharing it with the whole world. You are the best!!!
Okba Chowdhury
This is really the best typing software ever made. The greatness of this software is it's Keyboard Hand display features. If one follows for one week by the heart the hand movement by typing then he/she will improve his/her typing speed very easily. So I recommend all the readers of my review please download it, if you haven't. It will surely be your one of the greatest download ever. Your typing speed will increase like Magic.
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Rahul Haldar
I have got an experience of speed typing. And I do my typing speed practice with Rapid Typing Tutor. It make my typing speed better and more comfortable on key-board. I hope I will learn more about speed typing skills with it.
I LOVE this program! I've tried several typing programs and this one has the best combinations, for really giving you a thorough learning experience! I also like how you can enter in your own text to practice typing on!
I really like this program. I am only 12 and I am already typing much faster and without looking. I would recommend this to lots of people and especially to schools. As I saw in the "Downloads" section, you can download the portable version. Its useful to put on a pen drive and teach the students at school.
Rapid Typing is wonderful, and I have tried other typing tests such as Beacon, Microsoft, and others but I always find myself coming back to Rapid Typing Zone. It is easy to download. I never had any virus, spywares, or problems. It is person-centered for learning.
Respectfully and thankfully, I think individuals are very, very, very, fortunate to have free access to this site.
Hopefully, individuals will support Rapid Typing Zone in anyway possible to keep this unbelievable privilege and access in place and improve, as well as ungraded along with whatever business plans is necessary to do so...
I always wanted a typewriter but i never thought it would come in the form of a computer. I never thought i could touch type after a week. Thanks very much.
This typing lesson is so great!It helps me a lot.I really like it.It is very knowledgeable.The developers of this website are very good. I adore and admire u for doing such a good site. More powers and God bless!!!
Sissa Rae T. Baclayon
This program is the best! I still have the same WPM, but now I can type without looking at the keyboard! Thank you so much, Rapid Typing!!
Cindy Reopealdi
Its great fun learning. My daughter ( 8 years old) adopted it as game and now there is a sort of competition in the family to attain better scores. She is trying to make fun game with her classmates. Recommending to USE THIS PROGRAM… this is very useful skill VERY GOOD JOB... BEST LUCK DEVELOPERS!!!
Abhay Siddham
Wow! what a fantastic program, especially for one who has no experience as a typist. Thank you for presenting this awesome site, I am sure, many non and experience typist's will follow and use this site to practice, improve, and hopefully reach that 100 mark each time. Thank You.
This program is a godsend! I downloaded it a few years ago, and loved it so much! I was able to improve my typing, and have fun while doing so. I sold the computer the program was on, and couldn't remember the name of the program when I got my new laptop. I searched weeks before I could find it again. It was way worth it!
This program is really awesome! now typing without looking at the keyboard has become so much easier! Thanks for the free instructions!!! :)
Elizabeth Furphy
Thanks allot for your free useful software I took advantage so I am able to type by 10 fingers without looking at key board at the preset time.
the program is simply superb ya. i improved my typing speed in two days. i'm loving it .i recommended this program to my friend s who don't know typing.Thanks yaar
This is fantastic way to learn the typing. My typing speed has been increased threw this tutor.This is joyful and funny also.
I like this tutor because it has helped me and with me being a college student, I can now write my papers faster! Thank you rapidtyping.com
Ms. Marrie M.
This program helped me learn how to typer really fast without making mistakes. Thanks!
Typing has turned out to be a lot more fun since I have started using this website. Thanks for doing such a great job!
Rapid Typing is the best ever,since i started to this website i feel my speed is keep on increasing day after day. Thanks So Much!!!!!! .
I always wanted a typewriter but i never thought it would come in the form of a computer. I never thought i could touch type after a week. Thanks very much.
I think its a fun way to learn typing. Since I'm already pretty good at typing this just helps me with my speed. It's very helpful and i thank the person who ever that is that made this Rapid Typing Tutor. Its fun if you love to type and i love to type.
The best software i have ever found. It help a lot in my profession. Before that I am very bad in typing but now i am rapidly improving my typing speed. Its a great job. I love. Long live Rapid Typing Tutor Team.
Tahir Naseem
The best software i've ever found.Before finding Rapid Type i disliked typing 'cause i did not know how to do it fast without making mistakes! Now i am sure it will be useful for everyone like me.I enjoy practicing typing with it!
this is very good for new comer in typing and also for those who work in office. it improve our speed and accuracy. overall it is very useful for every one.
Thanks for creating Rapid Typing - It is a great program to learn touch typing and beats many commercial / shareware
Believe it or not it was the only program that kept me from switching earlier completely to Linux , but to my delight I have found that can be installed and executed without problems in (X)Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 using Wine.
Thank you for providing this FREE! downloadable typing software. I am preparing for a job interview and typing skills is a plus and part of the job. This program has reawakened my skills and given me the confidence to land the job.
Lorri Miller
I am so bad at typing, but this program allows me to learn to type and have fun at the same time. I love it. Thanks for making it.
Man this is good!! It is nicely animated and the finger demonstration at the bottom helps me a lot. I am an normal typer but this will help me become a professional. Thanks guys!!!
Great typing program. in literally 15 min, I was typing noticeably faster, and with greater accuracy. Thank you very much for this free program. It is suitable for a very basic beginner, right through to the advanced typist. I would recommend this to anyone who wishes to improve their typing skills. Thanks for a great program!
Amazing software to test your typing skills and to get motivated and keep interest in improving your typing skills,speed and accuracy... Well all I can say is Great Man!!!
Syed Nazeer
This service is excellent; from the on-line test to the off-line program. The software is very user-friendly and increases your accuracy. The drilling lessons are powerful and help you assess your weaknesses to work on them. I used to use a commercial software before but I can pretty much say this little software replaces it. Keep up the good work.
I love the program. I have been doing it consistently for a few weeks now and it has improved my typing abilities. I recommend this free program for anyone who is willing to learn fast and easy.
Hi, Rapid Typing is such a good work that my family, especially my kids, are all so excited when we use Rapid Typing. Thank you so much for all your effort.
Robert Lee
Excellent program! It's everything you could want in a typing tutor. Very easy to use with the intuitive layout. Rapid Typing is simple enough to be very effective for the novice, and yet it possesses a versatility that will satisfy the demands of the advanced typist looking to hone their skills. Very impressive FREE software.
I'll appreciate the hard work of "Rapid Typing". I love it and it becomes part of my life. It's free and at the same time the best and truly convenient software (super small usage of memory). Typing becomes fun after "Rapid Typing". And it also helps to relief stress during typing with "Rapid Typing". Thank you very much for the software and to let us be a professional typist forever. Cheers!
Much better than Mavis Beacon (isn't that how it always works?)
Shamefully, this freeware is much easier to use than Mavis Beacon, I don't miss the nags since it is FREEWARE.
In addition, seems to have a much simpler interface..... Is it me, or do freeware authors have the right idea, that keeping things simple makes it works better?
Somehow, all these digital lockdowns that many companies try to add get confusing, annoying, so intolerable that once you find a freeware like this, you ditch their annoyware once and for all!!!
Junk Buster
I have been a typical two finger plunker for more than forty years! I am so looking forward to diving into (no pun intended) these lessons and finally learning how to use awl ten fingers!
Stephen Anderson
Thank you for this I haven't typed since high school and I'm 65 years old. This has already increased my skill in two days.
Teaches the basics of typing.
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my review:: jillian micheals 6 week 6 pack
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this is know for sure. the flu, the real flu you know influenza? it sucks...bad. my baby got it friday night and i got it saturday. i don't recall ever being so miserable in my life. my poor little guy was so miserable and sad. it breaks your heart to see your kids sick we are on days 3 and 4 and still not better. oh and did i tell you that the day after thanksgiving my oldest son came down with strep throat and wait for it.... scarlet fever?! i didn't even know that was possible to still get! we keep getting sick and i don't know how to stop it. it seems to be since my oldest started kindergarten.
i am in love with this locket from varabel etsy. husband if you are reading this i really want a locket for christmas or my birthday.
this is by far one of the tastiest soup recipes i have ever made. and i love soup. i have been dreaming about making it again. but right now meat sounds icky. actually all food sounds icky. except for a fresh lime from artic circle.
ps. every single recipe on that blog is delicious. it is my favorite food blog by far. try her chicken tiki masala.oh and her cream cheese filled pumpkin muffins, zephyr pancakes
sadly i haven't but up my christmas decorations yet. i wasn't going to do it until we finished painting. we are so close to being done. just part of the ceiling and one wall in the kitchen. but i can't stand it anymore. if i feel a tiny bit better tonight it will be a family home evening activity.
i would love to make these, seen on luvinthemommyhood
theraflu is nasty, really nasty
i watched lost for 7 years. lost ended about 8 months ago. i am still super mad over the ending. the episode itself was good but i am angry that they never answered my questions and then had the nerve to say all the mysteries weren't important. really! pretty sure that's how you got people to watch the show, it was a major draw. so mad right now!
that's it! i have been talked into trying body for life again. how amazing is her transformation? love that blog by the way. she has some great exercise routines.
my favorite oatmeal.
1/2 cup oats
1/2 cup skim milk
1/2 cup water
pinch of salt
ripe mashed banana
either- nuts and maple syrup or even better justins maple nut almond butter
Combine milk, water and salt in a medium saucepan; heat until almost boiling. Add oats and cook, stirring, until creamy, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in mashed banana and toppings.
another recipe from my mom.
speaking of justins nut butter have your tried it? delicious! but expensive. i tried making my own almond butter in my food processor. i think i added the maple syrup to soon because it got all sticky. it is still really good just not creamy. i went to winco last week and grinded my own almond butter and added pure maple syrup and sea salt, much better!
speaking of winco, do you shop there? i looooooooooooooooooove it. i drive 13 minutes to drive there i love it so much. the bulk section is the best. i always spend way less money than anywhere else.
have you tried popchips? they are yummy.
look a rug that matches my wallpaper! Love!
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World War II drama "The Pacific," upstart comedy "Glee" and drama favorite "Mad Men" were the big winners when the Emmy finalists were announced Thursday.
"The Pacific," a 10-part HBO miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks that gave an unflinching look at the war, led the way with 24 nods, while "Glee" the rookie show about high school misfits, and "Mad Men," the 1960s era drama about the advertising business, had 19 and 17 each.
Stalwarts Alec Baldwin and Steve Carell will face competition from Larry David of cult favorite "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and Matthew Morrison of "Glee" in the lead actor on a comedy series competition, where scandal-ridden Charlie Sheen dropped out.
For the complete list of nominees, go to emmys.com.
Edie Falco ("Nurse Jackie"), Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("The New Adventures of Old Christine") and Amy Poehler ("Parks and Recreation") are among the nominees battling frequent winner Tina Fey of "30 Rock" for best lead actress in a comedy.
"Glee" and fellow rookie "Modern Family" landed multiple nods for their supporting cast members. "Glee's" Chris Colfer and Jane Lynch were named, as were "Modern Family's" Sofia Vergara, Julie Bowen, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet and Ty Burrell.
Nominees for the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards were announced early Thursday by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, with help from Joel McHale of "Community" and Sofia Vergara of "Modern Family." Vergara's show, as well as fellow newcomer "Glee," could end the long-running domination by comedy stalwarts "30 Rock" and "Two and a Half Men."
Sheen's role on "Two and a Half Men" went unrecognized after a turbulent year that included his Christmas Day arrest on domestic violence charges and subsequent unraveling of his marriage to Brooke Mueller amid reports of substance abuse.
Bryan Cranston of "Breaking Bad," Matthew Fox of "Lost," Hugh Laurie of "House" and Jon Hamm of "Mad Men" were among the best actor in a drama nominees. Hamm picked up another nomination for his guest turn on "30 Rock," as Dr. Drew Baird. Other best guests in a comedy nominees included Neil Patrick Harris ("Glee"), "Will Arnett ("30 Rock") and Fred Willard ("Modern Family").
"Lost," in its final season, landed several nods, including Terry O'Quinn and Michael Emerson for supporting roles in a drama.
Arch-rivals Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno won't square off with dueling nods for their turns as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show," as only O'Brien was nominated. O'Brien's seven-month run at the helm of the show ended as ratings slid and Leno was brought back. Fellow late night talker David Letterman was not nominated after a turbulent year that saw him use his stage to discuss his affair with a staffer and a blackmail attempt against him.
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He also traveled to Egypt to cover the Arab Spring. Hartman enjoys his work as a radio reporter because it provides him the opportunity to "ask impertinent questions and exercise my curiosity to the max." Before his career with American Public Media, Hartman worked in human rights and refugee advocacy for the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First). He has also worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer, Cairo Today magazine, Middletown Press, New Haven Register and for Pacifica Radio, Monitor Radio, the BBC and the CBC. Hartman is a native of Teaneck, N.J., and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and a master's degree in Journalism from Columbia University in New York.


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To see all the hot picks posted so far, visit this link. I'll also publish a summary list for easy reference after this article goes up.
So here, last but not least, is the final hot pick for CHA Summer 2013 (aka Create-n-Connect)…
As time passes after a show, you get perspective on what you saw on the show floor. The reality distortion field fades, the blinding glare of "shiny and new" goes away, and you start to look with a more practical eye at what you've seen.
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Warming UpMonday, April 23rd, 2007
Finally warming up a little here in KY. The warm weather seems to have gotten everybody out and about. I've been running like crazy tilling gardens and even brush hoggin for folks. Between feeding, working, tilling, and mowing I haven't had much time to spend with the kids. Sunday they talked me into a trip to Marsh creek to fish and wade. They love to run around in the creek and splash.
Haven't done a lot on the farm because I've been doing for everybody else. I did get the animals delivered to the slaughter house. Every time I load pigs I tell myself I'm going to build a good loading chute for next time, but I just never find time. We had to use some redneck engineering to get the oinkers in the trailer again. I took livestock panels and t posts and built a temporary chute. Seems like everything on the place is held together with livestock panels and baling twine. Well it worked pretty good. The hard part was getting them to come out of their pen. I literally had to grab them one by one by the ears and drag them out. Once out of the pen they went on up the chute and into the trailer. I was proud of Garett, he got right in there and used his stick we got him at the farm show to make the pigs move. The beef wasn't any trouble to load. The only trouble I had with it was when I opened the trailer door after he was loaded to put in some water for him. He tried to force his way out. I don't know how, but I was able to get enough force on the door to keep him in.
I've got to find a good dependable farrier for the horses. The pony I picked up has some real issues with his feet. All the other horses need a good trimming and shoes too. The warm weather has me itching to find the time to saddle them up and ride. Thumper the colt has taken a real liking to BJ. She's been brushing him and got a lead rope on him. Once he's used to the rope some, I'm going to get him out of the barn and lead him around. Then will be the time to try to get a saddle on him. The mares I picked up last week need to be ridden too. They are only green broke.
I finally got the hemlock to finish the log house and to side the barn. Also picked up enough oak to build a tack room in the barn. Now if I can just get the contractor to come back and finish the job he's already been paid to do. Last we spoke he said the forecast was for rain the next 3 days but he would get to it as weather permitted. Today it's 80 and sunny, but no contractor. I can do the work myself, just don't know how I'd find the time. We decided the traffic in the yard had done so much damage to the grass that it wasn't going to come out of it. So I tilled up most of the front yard with the 6000 and mom sewed grass. A disc would have been better than the tiller, but I have not found the time to go shop for them.
The kids and I are planning a trip to the Big South Fork River and Recreation Area this weekend weather permitting. I scheduled vacation so we can attend the spring planting days demonstration. I want the kids to know what life was like before all the modern conveniences we have now. I think it will be good for them to watch draft animals work and see how folks subsided. Garett wants us to have family animal planet night this weekend too. We try to all pile up in my bed and watch animal planet when we get time. I'm lucky, it's the little things that don't cost money my kids enjoy like creeks and animal planet.
The chickenhouses continue to consume a lot of my time and energy even before they are built. Seems like everyday I am either on the phone or on the farm with someone discussing them. Seems everybody has a different idea about what's the best site or best way to go about building them. On a bright note the company I will grow for called to say they had raised the pay about $500 a month.
Bj has gotten moved into the double-wide and it's working good so far. This has a built-in recipe for disaster, but if it works out it will be great for the kids. Myself – I'm glad to have my room back in the cabin. Bj has even come out and helped around the farm.
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Research on accounting history appearing in doctoral disserta-tions seldom receives much coverage in the scholarly literature. This deficiency is no doubt caused by many factors, but lack of publication outlet should not be one of them. It is the purpose of this column to provide insight into research completed during the past two years which will be of benefit to accounting historians. The number of dissertations written in this area is relatively small in comparison with the current thrust of graduate research. Neverthe-less, sufficient material does exist to provide the historian with new sources, ideas, and research methods which, hopefully, will stimu-late additional study and enable one to be more efficient and thorough in approach. What follows are three recent works on or related to accounting history.
The Behavioral Implications of the Stewardship Concept and Its Effects on Financial Reporting (U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1973, 260 pp.) by Rosita Chen includes an historical review of the development and transformation of management's stewardship re-sponsibilities. Her research "reveals that the stewardship concept is closely related to the concepts of property and ownership . . ." and "has its religious origins in the imposition of responsibilities to society (primary) and to the corporate owners (secondary)." From research utilizing library and survey techniques, it is concluded that two sets of management reports are needed—social reports to satisfy primary responsibilities and financial reports to satisfy sec-ondary responsibilities.
Product Costing Under Conditions of Idle Plant Capacity (U. of Southern California, 1975, 236 pp.) by Edwin Bartenstein contains historical background material dealing with cost accounting in gen-eral and idle facilities costs in particular. Chapter five is of most in-terest as it traces the literary contributions in the field from 1887


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Turret Press Opens Window of Opportunity for Appliance Supplier
"We've been noted for years for our deep-draw capabilities," says Sprinkle, highlighting the company's equipment list, which includes a 1000-ton hydraulic press as well as two 500-ton hydraulic presses and several large-bed mechanical presses. Half of the S&S Porcelain 95,000-sq.-ft. facility houses metalforming operations, with the other half reserved for finishing lines. Nearly everything the company fabricates is either painted or porcelain-enameled.
Too Much Die Rework Leads to Soft-Tooled Fabrication
"We began noticing a few years ago a significant increase in the number of engineering changes from our customers, which then triggered a lot of costly die alterations," says Sprinkle. "Implementing die changes can be quite time-consuming and costly—including the inventory buildup of parts, tearing a die down and rebuilding it, then performing trial runs and making adjustments before getting back into production."
To avoid that costly process, Sprinkle noted a trend toward soft-tooled metal fabrication as a means to meet the rapidly evolving designs for appliances. It became clear to him that in order to remain a primary supplier in the appliance industry, he needed to broaden S&S's horizons. That brought an investment, in September 2007, in a new CNC turret punch press.
"Any engineering changes would take our stamping tooling out of production for anywhere from six to 12 weeks," Sprinkle says, "creating significant scheduling and inventory-control challenges. Customers began to hedge on investing a lot of money in hard tooling for parts that they knew would have a limited life cycle. Instead, they started to look to suppliers that offered soft-tooled metal fabrication for production.
"Some of our customers began asking for smaller lot sizes and wanted more variability in their part designs," continues Sprinkle. "We were beginning to get left out on some quotes where metal fabrication—turret presses and press brakes—started to be the preferred production method. But when we brought the turret press in to work in concert with the press brakes we already were operating, a lot of opportunities opened up for us."
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The new servo-motor-driven turret press, from Murata Machinery USA, Charlotte, NC, is a Motorum-2044EZ model. It features a 50 by 50-in. table with a 22-station turret, and a 20-ton electric punch drive that, according to Murata Machinery representatives, provides all of the advantages of hydraulics without the mess. It boasts what is reportedly the industry's first servo-motor-controlled ram drive, and was designed specifically to be the "extra machine" needed to take the load off of over-burdened lasers and serve as a prototype and low-volume machine for stamping houses such as S&S.
In the six months or so that S&S has been operating the new turret press, it's been able to book enough work to run the press at about a 60 percent uptime.
"This is work we would have lost to a fabricator," says Sprinkle, "because the part runs are too low for stamping. We found we were beginning to become just a metal finisher on some work, where fabricators were sending us punched and formed parts. So we had just a piece of the pie. Now, thanks to the turret press, we have the whole pie."
Asked to delineate how work routes to either stamping or fabrication operations, Sprinkle explains that any jobs requiring more than 50,000 pieces/yr. would likely be hard-tooled. The turret press, so far, has been running smaller parts such as brackets for appliance control panels at volumes in the neighborhood of 1000/month. Sprinkle has programmed about 20 different parts for the turret press.
"I do all of the programming, including nesting parts on the 4 by 8-ft. (typically 0.048-in.-thick) sheetmetal blanks," he says. To run a nested sheet, the machine operator on the plant floor simply enters the nest number into the CNC and loads a sheet onto the press bed. He runs one part and takes it to quality control for a dimensional check, then, with approval, goes ahead and runs the lot. Punched parts route to a hydraulic 8-ft. Cincinnati CNC press brake for forming.
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"No one here had ever programmed or operated a turret press," says Sprinkle, asked to describe any specific challenges to getting the new press up and running, "but thanks to the ease of programming (of both the nesting software, SigmaNest from SigmaTek Systems, Cincinnati, OH, and the machine's CNC) we were able to get up and running in one month after installing the machine.
"The parts we're making on the turret press can be quite complex, requiring frequent tool changes by the turret," continues Sprinkle. "Many parts require 12 different punch tools, making holes in diameters from 0.094 to 2-plus in. Many parts also require very minute detailing—radiuses and angles. And while we're not doing any forming yet with the press, we're quoting a large oven-panel job that will require the press to form gusset beads.
"There are all kinds of opportunities for us to do more with this machine," Sprinkle continues, including working to develop more efficient sheet nests and tweak blank sizes to improve on material utilization. He also is working to program his nests so that during punching and nibbling operations, the parts will be more securely held in the sheet, and then broken out of the sheet by the operator at the end of the run.
"There are some nests we run that require us to slow the press down to prevent the parts from being shaken out. I need to go back and tweak the programming so that we can run faster," Sprinkle says.
With his two-year return-on-investment goal seemingly within easy reach, Sprinkle adds, "I'm very pleased with the press and how easy it has been for us to get up and running so quickly, and to bring in so much work for it in such a short time. I hope to purchase a second turret press later this summer." MF
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OK, pop quiz. Which of the following organizations asks its labor force to open personal checking accounts with the help of office superiors, submit individual financial budgets for workplace review and allow supervisors to monitor private, after-hours spending habits in the name of -- ahem -- "financial literacy?"
(A) The Central Intelligence Agency
(B) The Ohio State University football team
Pencils down. Believe it or not, the correct answer is "B." (Though "A" might have helped the CIA catch notorious mole Aldrich Ames a bit sooner.) According to a recent report in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Ohio State now "strongly encourages" student athletes to obtain bank accounts with the help of school officials, who in turn set budgets and keep an eye on spending. In fact, football players reportedly aren't even allowed to suit up unless they agree to let assistant coaches snoop on their personal finances.
And that's not the half of it.
In the wake of a tattoos-for-memorabilia scandal that violated National Collegiate Athletic Association amateurism rules and left this year's undefeated Buckeyes squad bowl-season ineligible, the school has increased its annual athletic department compliance budget to more than $1 million and upped the size of its corresponding department to 14 full-time employees -- four more people than are on the football squad's coaching staff. Where are the money and manpower going? Toward background checks on the 4,000-some people who receive free game tickets from football players, the better to sniff out agents and other undesirables. Toward investigating license plate numbers jotted down during regular surveillance walks through the players' parking lot. And toward hiring a former NCAA investigator whose job, according to the New York Times, is to "educate local businesses -- like barbershops, nightclubs and tattoo parlors -- on NCAA rules."
Rule No.1? Apparently, it's start snitchin'.
In fairness, Ohio State isn't alone. The school simply stands on the bleeding edge, and as the logical, inevitable extension, of contemporary college sports surveillance. Don't get me wrong: schools aren't the wiretap-happy National Security Agency. NCAA president Mark Emmert does not have a secret room where he can track the movements and conversations of Division I revenue-producing athletes while wearing a codpiece and a horned rubber helmet. Still, things are heading in a Big Brother-ish direction. Last fall, North Carolina university system president Thomas Ross told a college sports reform commission that a proposed $2,000 increase in athlete grants should be given out on debit cards, which would allow campus administrators to examine purchase receipts, instead of as cash.
As Time magazine, the New York Times and Deadspin have reported, more than a dozen schools -- including North Carolina, Ole Miss, Texas Tech and Auburn -- have hired independent watchdog companies to provide and maintain software that spies on athletes' social media accounts. One of those companies, UDiligence, installs cell phone apps that scans users' Facebook and Twitter pages for words (profanity, the words "party" and "assclown") and texting terms ("a$clown") that indicate possible unwanted activity, and then sends corresponding alerts to coaches and compliance staff. Utah State University takes matters one step further, requiring athletes to "grant full permission for the university and other third-party monitors to gain access to the 'friends only,' 'private,' and similarly designated areas" of their social-networking pages … all while touting a social-networking policy that "supports and encourages the individual's right of free speech."
Needless to say, all of this qualifies as awful. Revoltingly un-American. And also completely insane. Don't take my overheated word for it: Ask someone who works on privacy rights for a living.
"There's nothing else out there that I'm aware of that is this extreme," says Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union's Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. "There's tons of monitoring of workplace computers. But here, we're talking about people's private phones and financial activities. It wouldn't be acceptable for an employer to monitor an employee's life to that degree."
Perhaps unsurprisingly, college officials don't think they're doing anything unacceptable, let along downright wrong. To the contrary, they seem to believe they're doing athletes a favor. Benevolently carrying the Bureaucratic Man's Burden, in fact. Take Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith, who told The New York Times that football players simply are being taught how to balance checkbooks, draw up budgets and read the fine print of apartment leases. "This is about education," he told the newspaper. "It's not about Big Brother. It's about helping young people become managers of their assets. It's a financial literacy program." Oh, sure. There used to be a name for those kinds of programs: Home Ec. But let's be real. If Ohio State's banking watchdoggery was truly benign, harmless and designed to teach young people how to keep their fiscal houses in order, then wouldn't the school be offering the same program to its entire student body? Or mandating it? Wouldn't chemistry students be asked to share their checking account passwords with their lab instructors?
Heck, wouldn't students from every walk of campus life be volunteering for such a wonderful service?
Instead, Ohio State's monitoring is for athletes only. Athletes who are "strongly encouraged" to participate. (Cue Jon Stewart Mafioso-parody voice: Hey, it would be a real shame if something happened to your playing time.) The reasons for this are obvious. And ominous. Like all internal police -- both the KGB and NFL Security come to mind -- the emerging college sports security apparatus doesn't exist to protect the grateful population carrying on under its all-knowing gaze. It exists to protect the powerful. To enforce the rules. To uphold the status quo.
From a calculating, utterly self-interested standpoint, it's understandable why schools and athletic departments want to get out in front of amateurism violations, to nip potential scandals and public embarrassments in the bud.
It's cheaper that way.
Scandals cost money. Serious money. There are lawyers to pay, investigations to complete, reports to compile, public relations crisis management plans to implement. Did we mention the lawyers? There are staggering opportunity costs, too, the ones that come with postseason bans -- punishments, by the way, that are arguably unfair even within the NCAA's own private snow globe of ludicrous jurisprudence, because after all, said punishments generally fall upon coaches and players who had nothing to do with the rule-breaking in question.
Had undefeated Ohio State been eligible to play in the Rose Bowl this season, they would have earned a $22.3 million payout. That's far more than the school's $1.1 million compliance budget, even after Big Ten postseason revenue sharing. Moreover, big-time football teams essentially serve as marketing tools, a way to juice admissions, encourage alumni giving and generally contribute to a school's financial and psychic bottom line. Your favorite players are running, jumping billboards. Bad press damages the brand. As Ohio State board of trustees member Robert H. Schottenstein told the New York Times, "the biggest take-away from what happened with our football team is that the single most precious asset any institution has is our reputation. You cannot put too great a value on how important it is to protect that. Compliance is the tangible guardian of that reputation."
He's right, in a narrow, pathetic sense; right in that it's better to not break NCAA rules and then get caught. And that's my first, less important objection to college sports surveillance: I'm unconvinced that the practice will actually work as intended. The point of what Time's Sean Gregory dubs "e-babysitting" is the point of all lawyer-designed remedies. Limiting risk. Minimizing exposure. Yet as Gregory astutely points out, snooping creates its own liability risks. Probable blowback. "What if the monitors miss a threatening tweet," he writes, "and an athlete harms someone?" Subsequent lawsuits could cost schools millions -- and if those schools are public universities, the bill could be footed by taxpayers. As sports law attorney Bradley Shear told Time, "the more information you're collecting, the more responsibility you have. Doing blanket monitoring is nuts."
Now consider why Ohio State is on probation in the first place. Because players traded memorabilia for cash and tattoos. And because former coach Jim Tressel tried to cover that up. Consider almost any college sports scandal not involving point-shaving, academic cheating or Joe Paterno. They invariably involve athletes receiving "impermissible benefits," everything from Reggie Bush's parents getting a house to Myck Kabongo getting a gratis workout with a basketball trainer. The horror. The horror. To believe that running campus athletics like Spy vs. Spy -- or, if you prefer, in the manner of Scott Pioli suffering a paranoid episode -- will somehow stop and/or slow college sports' well-lubricated, long-grooved underground economy seems to fundamentally misunderstand both human motivation and, well, common sense.
Regarding the latter, The Big Lead's Ty Duffy puts it best. "What student-athlete would be responsible enough to deposit cash slipped to him by a booster," he writes, "but dumb enough to deposit it in that [school-monitored] checking account?" Indeed. Remember those terrible, no-good, very-bad free Ohio State tattoos? They came courtesy of a barter system. There was no bank involved. College athletes aren't fools. Monitor the parking lot, and they'll likely park their prohibited "loaner" cars somewhere else; keep tabs on their bank accounts, and they'll make sure that "money handshakes" are cash-only.
As for the reason athletes accept goodies with open palms, Ohio State's Smith told the Chronicle of Higher Education that "some of our guys from low socioeconomic environments were getting a $3,000 Pell Grant, and all of a sudden they're spending it on an iPhone and whatever else today's bling is. Now, we're teaching them about their cars, their apartment leases, and how to have a budget … we want coaches saying, 'Help me understand why you have a [bank-imposed] hold on your account, why you're delinquent in paying your apartment lease.' It gives us a chance to see if they're going to get into financial problems, and that they don't go find another way to take care of it."
Translation? Jocks are too young, dumb and just plain poor to manage their meager stipends, and once they blow their money on silly, flashy things like iPhones -- really, what kind of wannabe Queen of Versailles college kid owns a phone that has, like, the Interwebs and stuff on it? The nerve! -- they have no choice but to take under-the-table payments. This, of course, is ludicrous. It's doubtful Smith believes it. Athletes don't take money because they haven't been properly trained in Excel and Quicken. They aren't a Suze Orman seminar away from happily complying with the NCAA's byzantine and infuriating restrictions. Athletes take money because, again, they're not idiots. They understand television contracts. And coaching salaries. And administrator salaries, too. They know the price of season tickets and replica jerseys.
They know they have value. Real, cash money market value. Only somebody somewhere decided that as college athletes they're not allowed to realize that value, not fully, because a bunch of elitist English rowers once said doing so would be morally wrong, a violation of amateur purity, even though no one else on campus or in America is held to the same arbitrary and capricious standard, a standard extolled and upheld by powerful adults who would dissolve in a puddle of incredulous giggles if asked to practice it in their own lines of work. (See Gee, Gordon, president of Ohio State University, $64,000 bow tie allowance. Exhibit A of college sports gold-plating. The prosecution rests.)
This, in turn, is the fundamental problem with college sports surveillance: It exists to protect amateurism. Not students. Amateurism. A philosophy rooted in shielding athletes from goodies and compensation that other people cheerfully and willingly want to give to them. Is this the purpose of higher education? (Note: rhetorical question.) Colleges have two basic missions, both of them paternal, neither of them suffocating. No. 1: Educate students. No. 1a: Protect them. Yet by policing Tweets and snooping on bank accounts and telling athletes what they may and may not earn, just because we say so, are schools advancing either goal?
Are they teaching players how to think for themselves? How to make mistakes and learn from them? How to function in an adult world where no one is going to tell you what you can and can't afford? How to recognize an absurd invasion of privacy that members of the student band probably wouldn't put up with? Recall Smith's quote:
… Some of our guys from low socioeconomic environments were getting a $3,000 Pell Grant, and all of a sudden they're spending it on an iPhone and whatever else today's bling is …
Here is the specific message spying sends, and the broader lesson amateurism teaches. College athletes, you can't be trusted. Not with a debit card. Not with a computer. Not with a salary. Not with bargaining power, and definitely not with legal representation, those no-goodnik agents, the same awful, exploitative pimps that represent coaches. Your school isn't interested in protecting you; your school is interested in protecting itself from you. You are being watched. Because your popularity and your very existence both threaten the same profit-hoovering false idol they make possible, the great and mighty amateur Oz.
More than once, I've likened college sports' stubborn defense of amateurism to the War on Drugs. Of course, there's one key difference: while prohibition is a mostly genuine (if wholly misguided) attempt to alleviate the serious public health problems of drug abuse and addiction, amateurism is designed to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist. There's nothing morally wrong or physically harmful about playing sports for money. Still, because both systems fight losing battles -- paddling ceaselessly against market forces while blithely wishing away human desire -- both require ever-expanding enforcement mechanisms. Both possess the self-perpetuating logic of a snowball rolling downhill. Prohibition led to the creation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. It greatly expanded the size and investigative scope of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an organization founded in 1908 with just 12 agents -- two fewer employees than Ohio State's current compliance department, in case you're keeping score.
Earlier this year, California and Delaware passed laws forbidding colleges to require or request that students divulge personal social media information. That's a start. It's hardly enough. If schools find that a little spying is good, they'll quickly conclude that a lot of spying is better; the more compliance officers learn about athletes' personal lives, the more they'll want to know. Forget "financial literacy." When it comes to covering one's rear, restraint is seldom a virtue. "Want to act like a college kid, and unwind at a local bar?" Time's Gregory writes. "Be careful about dropping too much cash. A coach might find out you stayed out late." This is college sports as campus security state, and the future likely is more. More invasiveness. More control. More icy economic self-interest masquerading as warm, caring paternalism. More doubling down on amateurism, and less reflection on a basic question: if administering the law means tying your professed values into grotesque, unrecognizable knots -- every linebacker coach a part-time forensic accountant! -- then is the law worth having in the first place?