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on Aug 31, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Of course, a school like Athenian that thought it was appropriate to have terrorist Angela Davis be an honored speaker and give advice to young, 6th grade children, also apparently thinks it is appropriate to breach a contract and try to steal young baseball players from a local club team. Why anyone would spend so much money and send their children to this type of school, while the local public schools are so excellent, is beyond me.
on Aug 31, 2010 at 3:52 pm
This is a joke, this guy has run a scam for years. The only way he could get away with it was that he had the field. Ask him about the tax deductible receipts he was handing out when you bought equipment from him. (Christ Kids Sports Ministries) Or if he had a permit to sell cooked food...or his tactic of springing the news on parents that it was their responsibility to sell his food and drag the fields the night before the season starts...Knowing that kids couldn't get on other teams if they refused...Also, tournaments that kids were told they would participate in but tournament fees were never paid so weekends ruined and games never played....or coaches that weren't paid...Danville Express there's a lot to follow up on here.....
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Maybe I am naive but why would coaches get paid for a brief summer Pony league? My kids went through little league, t-bird football and cheer programs and I always wanted to help pitch in on dragging a field, keeping score, or working in the snackshack...it was not only part of keeping the program going it was a fun time with other parents I had not met previously. that comes with the territory.
I do have a problem with the Christ Kids Sports Ministries....is that really true? Holy Cow (sorry could not resist) what is up with that?


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A New Year's Eve to Remember: A Rescue on Mt. Tamalpias from the viewpoint of victim Dennis H. Klein - 2013FreeWillPress (c)2013
On New Year's Eve 2012, after 41 years of running the Marin Headlands without mishap, I messed up. Rapid nightfall made it too dangerous to move and I had to be evacuated from the base of Mt Tam by a rescue team.
I promised the 30 wonderful men and women from all over Bay Area that I would repay them for so willingly blowing off their New Year's Eve to make sure it was not my last that I would submit a recap from my point of view of what happened that cold dark night as affirmation of the amazing performance and inspiring attitude of these most special Americans.
Having returned early from an East Coast holiday with our kids and with an 8 p.m. New Year's dinner invite ahead, I drove to Pantoll to do a run to Stinson I had contemplated for years but had never done. Because the only afternoon Marin Transit bus back up to my car was at 5 p.m., I started down a few minutes after 3 p.m. with the last part being a 1,500-foot 'schuss' leaping down a drop‐dead gorgeous, wide open, thick duff, high canopy redwood forest ridge line.
Things went so smooth, I hit bottom at 4:20 p.m. with 40 minutes left to go and less than a half mile to the bus. Just as I figured, the last leg was a stream bed. However, up until now, this close to the bottom, be it Muir Woods, Four Corners, Cascade Canyon, Blithedale Canyon or Big Rock Ridge, every stream I had ever encountered was an easy meandering thing between broad banks. Instead, this was a raging torrent squeezed between two tall near vertical cliff faces – not what I signed up for.
Anxious to stay dry on that unseasonal cold night, I went back up slope to go around the stream only to use up valuable time as it became too dark for that to work. So I returned to the stream as the one sure way to get out without getting lost. Trying to step along ledges, I was soon wet to the knees. Then it got so dark that when I put my hand out to steady myself, there was nothing there as I fell face first into the water. Knowing better now, I doubled my efforts to not do that again as I watched my hand pass to only touch anything so densely dark it just had to be solid.
This time I tumbled head over heels down a 15-foot cataract with thoughts that the next step could be a 20-foot drop to a lights-out cracked skull. Game Over. I pulled myself out of the water, sat down next to the roaring stream and decided that being stranded soaking wet, shivering violently all through one of the longest nights of the year until enough light made it possible to walk out was a better option than running the risk of packing it in altogether and really pissing off a whole bunch of people.
No way, with my iPhone underwater at least twice. (Without this device, none of what followed would have been possible. I pulled it out of my jeans (runner's body armor) just to make sure. Thank you Steve Jobs! It was still working with 30 percent battery left, kicking off a whole new chapter in this saga presented next blow by blow.
I called 911. I heard a flat voice seemingly impervious to my plight. I was referred to another jurisdiction. When no one picked up, I called 911 again. This time a different flat voice tells me they have absolutely no knowledge of the earlier call as we start all over again. After a protracted discourse, I am referred an agency who has no idea where Mt. Tam is.
After hearing some three minutes of my story, saying, 'Uh huh, uh huh," the person suddenly blurted, "ARE YOU IN A CAR?" I repeatedly tried telling everyone to look at any online map, zoom to Stinson Beach to see two residential areas east of the highway. I tell them repeatedly I am up a stream that outfalls into the upper north east corner of the southern residential area. I am not able to reference street names since none are present, this being THE last day of Apple Maps. The very next day, the roads are back on the phone, thanks to Apple and Google deciding to make nice again. [Death by AppleMap?!] Disappointingly, no one I talked to all night seemed to have any interactive mapping of any kind, at all.
I was asked where my car was. Later, when told they had a coordinate for my location, I find out it's at my car, five miles away, as though returning to your car on foot is the only allowed option. I am put on hold again with another wait too long. With the phone at 12 percent and the air getting colder, I called 911 again, got someone else entirely new, again with no record of prior calls. I hung up and call 411 and get Stinson Beach Fire Department on the line. A friendly voice of Fire Captain Toby Bisson comes on the line and immediately knows I am along a high volume stream not far upslope from the houses.
He asks the name of the steam. I could think of none. Nearly every creek in all of the Marin Headlands has a name except the ones down slope from the Bolinas ridge. Soon a helicopter was overhead. I climbed up some 60 feet from the deep trough of the stream bed to be better seen. I flashed my Search Light App up but was apparently not seen. In seconds the phone was dead. I sat down. It was so dark that one second I am shifting my weight to get more comfortable and the next I am falling uncontrollably and blindly down a 60-foot cliff face to the stream, this time lacerating my hand and other bodily bumps and grinds. Game ends again.
I pull my soaked sweatshirt over my head and made like a tent to trap my breath. Shortly my upper body was becoming comfortable but my lower body was shaking violently. It got colder. Concerned about losing a toe, I warmed my hands in my armpits, took off my soaked shoes and socks and massaged my toes, or at least an assembly of dead nerve endings at the far end of my foot. I repeatedly warmed my hands and massaged my feet until my toes came back to life. I continued to shake violently my upper and lower body with an occasional respite.
It got colder. I repeated the hand-foot cycle every 15 minutes for six hours, capable of only two thoughts: 'Will I make it through the night?' mixed with 'Is anyone coming to get me?' and this latter I was able to even invoke reason as long as it was the same argument that went like this: I had told them on the phone before the big fall that I was old and that I was not hurt, so when no one came, my thinking was that with or without seeing me from the helicopter, I could last until morning and walk out on my own, and if not, since there was so little shelf life left, I did not matter all that much if I did not walk out.
One more round of this comforting self pity is interrupted right in the middle by tiny wiggly head lights coming toward me up the stream. It was Ken and Kevin and Charles and Teal, the sweetest, toughest medevac team just in from the center of a perfect world. Teal, a certified teacher who could not find work, opted for a paramedic career, unlike two of my certified teacher children who had to leave the state to find work. Education is always tyranny's first target, but something that had too many friends to get chopped, the Roman tenant that 'The safety of the People is the highest law' remained sacred enough that from where I sat, there was enough funding to keep our security apparatus in top condition.
Everyone was excited. I was not going to die and, and FINALLY the rescue party has a live body to save rather than training dummies. This was not a drill. Stinson Beach Fire Protection District's few and finest were joined by volunteers answering this New Years Eve call to action from Sonoma, Contra Costa and Solano counties. Teal soon had my pulse retreating from a shaking-induced high of 65 vs my 41 runners pulse. Soon I am in the stretcher on my way out assisted by of all manner of zip lines and lanyards competing for the real‐time proven best practice award.
All around me relationships enriched, networks tightened and leadership tested and perfected, giving them strength they did not have before to handle something much worse much better. With the average carry or slide being about 6 feet a minute, the 250 yards to the road was crossed in around four hours of relentless competent toil. For all of my days, memory of their energy, physical fitness, gentleness, patience (with me and each other), intelligence and humility will make them the one group on earth with whom I would rather spend New Year's Eve, ever.
Four hours later I am in a ultra warm ambulance ready to take me to Kaiser for my lacerated hand.Thanks to my amazing rescuers, I felt so good that a fully staffed ambulance ride to Kaiser at the other end of the county for a hand that had long stopped bleeding should best be saved for a more worthy enterprises. After being driven up to the top of the ridge to my car, I signed a release waiving the ambulance and drove myself to Kaiser.
So why this attempt to immortalize a debacle? It's to thank the volunteers. I learned that night how the survival of just one single person is somewhat the same as the survival of an entire culture Without enough committed to 'We are all in this together,' neither is possible. On New Year's Eve '12, I got to meet some of 'in this together' priesthood. Since the stretcher work was done in shifts, I got a good look at nearly every face. What I saw in each was … 'I gave up my New Year's Eve plans just to keep someone from dying and all I get in return is this euphoric feeling lighting up my body that may never end.'
My praise for these 30 Californians who made sure I did not perish from this earth cannot be enough. And if it is too over the top, give the rest of the praise to the millions of volunteers everywhere who continuously commit their time and talent, with near no recognition or thanks, to not considering anything okay until the whole thing is okay.
Also, perhaps that night was pay‐back for some volunteering I did once, in '68, on the Korean DMZ as an Engineer Officer in a ground war between the Pueblo's seizure and the crew's return. With the Tet Offensive so deep in the crapper, a news blackout prevented this second front from being known at home. So in return for the 2nd Infantry Division's clear victory in preventing a North Korean invading Seoul, there was no thanks, no appreciation, not even any recognition.
Perhaps some of the praise overflow for my rescuers is better directed at the 12,500 GIs of the 2nd Infantry Division for their rescue of this nation from still one more embarrassing Nam-era defeat. While near a hundred GIs did not make it home, I did not get hurt out there for only one reason on this green earth – just like NewYear's Eve '12, the person next to me was that good!
I have no suggestion for the rescue squad. They were perfect in every way, an accolade I cannot assign to the run‐up of their arrival. Subsequent to the rescue, I have learned that all 911 calls from a cell phone are randomly assigned to CHP dispatch centers all over the state. Worse, they have no protocol or systems for logging in a call. Perhaps each call needs a incident number tied to the name of the caller as a simple means of avoiding starting all over again.
Meanwhile, for all calls going out of the Bay Area, to assure they go to "our" command post, instead of 911, dial 415-472-0911. This is the fastest way to get your plight known to the Marin County Sheriff, in my case, Lt. Doug Pittman who oversaw the entire operation.
Online GIS. Mapping system implementation should be by simply training every call center to use the popular commodity systems offered free such as Google Maps, Bing Maps and Yahoo Maps.
Upon the caller citing their mapping system, dispatch selects the same so all are looking at the same thing. Even without a match system, zooming in on Stinson Beach returns the same basic display everywhere, no wiggle room.
Location Coordinate. I was asked for a coordinate repeatedly. Try as I may, I could not get the blue dot on the map do that. Out of remaining phone time worries, a visit to the App store was sidelined. Later, an intuitive query, GPS Coordinate, returned GPS Data in a matter of seconds that reports not only your latitude longitude but your elevation as well. Having said that, no one should venture out into the natural world ('going out is going in,' according to John Muir) without something like this on their phone. And if you do not have a phone, do not go out at all.
What did happen, in my call to the Stinson Fire Department, they were able get the reasonable coordinate on my phone before it went dead. That and knowing I was beside a stream, together enabled them to find me.
Clothing. I was given socks for gloves. Better a pairs of gloves are packed in. I was given warm up jackets that were great but my legs were wrapped only in thermal blankets. Perhaps pairs of pants be packed in as well.
Naming Streams. All over the Marin Headlands, every little trickle has a name until you get to the ocean side of the Bolinas Ridge. I urge that between the Fire Department, County sheriff and State Parks, names are assigned where needed and add all creek names to all maps so that they become well known and useful reference in times of emergencies.
A lesson offered that night is how can the natural world so benign and friendly and full of grace in daylight so quickly become a murky, damp, near freezing hell hole gorge riddled with precipices and pitfalls quite ready to cause my death. The answer is still rattling around in my head. More certain, the 8 hours of bone rattling shivering was a terrifying, painful ordeal and a judicious punishment for not being more careful. That brings us back to the 30-person Search and Rescue crew who relentlessly waded up creeks until they found the right one, who bandaged my wounds, monitored my vital signs, warmed me up and carried me out. This California 30 were dead‐on validation of a 'patience‐of‐Job' obsession that America is a successful country.
"[Your recap] was great reading. I've been involved in Search and Rescue for nearly 20 years and it's uncommon for us to have such a thorough narrative with constructive feedback we can put to good use. Thank you very much! I'm now a deputy sheriff over in Napa County. I coordinate our volunteer SAR team here... I'm glad you're well and will pass on your feedback to the team." --Bryan Sardoch, Deputy Sheriff, Search and Rescue Coordinator, Napa Sheriff's Department


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Cons: By default, the game starts in 3rd person. And, the toggle switch is kindof misplaced under camera zoom. The toggle switch is the = sign. And, it goes from 3rd person to close 3rd to 1st person. It does have a few graphical glitches, no biggee.
Summary: For the most part, you'll hide in shadows and crawl around.
And, you get to use one of the finest weapons ever invented - the Browning light machine gun ...
Summary: For the most part, you'll hide in shadows and crawl around.I just read the manual, and I finally found out how to use the sniper rifle and those binoculars.
And, you get to use one of the finest weapons ever invented - the Browning light machine gun - the B.A.R. I actually equip each member of my team with this weapon. But, it's primarily a sniper weapon. It has some shortcomings. You can only fire it from the prone position. And, you cannot crawl with it. You have to switch to another weapon to crawl.
In addition, you should avoid group commands. For, in a stealth game, it's far more effective to individually control each member of your team.
Let's look at game play.
You'll have to select a mission and create a team. You start by selecting an eight man squad and a cache of weapons and ammo. Then, you'll select a four man team from the eight. This team will go on the selected mission. And, each individual will be equipped from the weapons and ammo cache that you already created.
With team selection, you'll see the importance of a certain skill set - marksmanship, stealth, awareness. But, you shouldn't overlook the importance of strength, for it determines how much a soldier can carry. It's a trade-off. For, the best marksmen are usually physically weaker than the average soldier. For instance, my best marksman is equipped with the browning, 200 rounds of ammo, a pistol, 60 rounds of ammo, binoculars, a knife, a camera. This is not the average. For, the average soldier can carry the browning, 250-320 rounds of ammo, the enfield sniper rifle, 130 rounds of ammo, a pistol, 48 rounds of ammo, binoculars, a knife, and a camera. An exceptionally strong fellow will have all of the above items, and he'll add the sten submachine gun and 300 rounds of ammo, too.
The first mission involves crossing the enemy controlled bridge and establishing contact with an allied force.
The team has been airdropped to a remote area, relatively close to the bridge. I togggle to 1st person view; then, I move my first player up towards the objective, hidden amongst the trees. I reach a hidden area that allows me to observe the enemy while I'm still hidden amongst the tress. I lay down in the prone position. And, I take control of the next man to bring up. I begin to move up, and I hear gunfire. I look at the icon for each member, and I notice that the shots are coming from one of my men. By the time I gather all of my team into positon, I notice that two of the enemy soldiers are already dead. One lay near the train track, and one lay halfway between the bridge and a woodpile. I switch to my handgun, and I crawl towards a nearby boulder. I attempt to move towards the woodpile undetected, so I can verify that the camp is cleared out. I see an enemy near the woodpile. He doesn't see me, so I drop him. This is the only confirmed kill I make in the entire mission. I believe I made other kills, but they were mostly patterned shooting. I didn't actually see them. I only saw their bodies later on when we took control of that territory.
I move towards the woodpile and confirm that the camp is safe. I move the rest of my team into position, behind the woodpile. Concealed behind the woodpile, we take patterned shots at the walkway that's located under the bridge. We aim at areas where we believe someone may hide. We don't waste ammo. We just take one shot at a time. Then, we move in towards the base of the bridge. I place two men on either side of the bridge. The train track is relatively active. A train comes through once every five minutes. My men begin to take patterned shots at the walkway that's located under the bridge. Then, I take control of a man and move towards the bridge entryway. To the right, there's an opening in the railing. It drops down to a platform. I usually run up to the edge; then, I turn around and step backwards over the edge. I do this because I set the options to have my men run automatically. So, it's easier to just take one step while you're moving backwards. I land on the platform; then, I move onto the walkway under the bridge. I lay down in the prone position, and I scan for any enemy activity. I switch to one of my other men, and I move the three remaining members onto the bridge. I place two men on the left side of the bridge. And, I place one man on the right side of the bridge. All of my men lay down in the prone position; in fact, we stay in the prone position until we take control of the other side of the bridge and its surrounding territory.
The men on the left side of the bridge lead the way. I switch to a sniper rifle, a handgun, or the sten before I advance. This allows me to crawl and remain relatively hidden. . Then, I switch back to my browning, and I switch to another player. We all take patterned shots at the building and surrounding area. I continue to advance in this fashion until I reach the end of the bridge. We crawl up to the house to find dead bodies. And, we walk away and complete the mission.
Updated on Jul 14, 2010
You activate the sniper scope by holding down the zoom button while you move the mouse forward, increasing the magnification. And, you decrease the magnification by holding down the zoom button while you move the mouse backward. The same technique will work for the binoculars.
This changes everything. I no longer need to make patterned shots. With the sniper weapon, I can actually see the guys I'm shooting at.
In addition, I would advise against selecting any soldier for your team who has less than a 65 strength rating. And, I designate a sniper as anyone who has an accuracy rating of 75 or better. For, I used a soldier with a 75 accuracy rating to make a head shot on an enemy soldier who was peering over a wooden barricade.
Now, I believe the sniper weapon is best for human use. And, the Browning is top for computer/ai use.
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Doctors use many tests to diagnose cancer and find out if it has metastasized (spread). Some tests may also determine which treatments may be the most effective. For most types of tumors, a biopsy is the only way to make a definitive diagnosis of cancer. If a biopsy is not possible, the doctor may suggest other tests that will help make a diagnosis. Imaging tests may be used to find out whether the cancer has metastasized. Your doctor may consider these factors when choosing a diagnostic test:
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Ultrasound [3]. An ultrasound uses sound waves to create a picture of the internal organs. In a transvaginal ultrasound, an ultrasound wand is inserted into the vagina and aimed at the uterus, to obtain the pictures.
Beta human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) blood test. Women who are pregnant produce high levels of the hormone beta hCG in their blood. High levels of beta hCG in a woman who is not pregnant could mean that a GTT is present.
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Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scan [4]. A CT scan creates a three-dimensional picture of the inside of the body with an x-ray machine. A computer then combines these images into a detailed, cross-sectional view that shows any abnormalities or tumors. Sometimes, a contrast medium (a special dye) is injected into a patient's vein to provide better detail.
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Unattached riders--Please join a club!!!
Wed, 11/24/2010 - 1:07am | by GFM
Of the 4685 riders listed as USCF licensed racers, over 25% are shown as unattached or no club affliation. Women unattached = 110 ; no club listed = 16 . Men unattached = 1039 ; no club listed = 62. That's a total of 1227 riders that have no club or team on their license and therefore should be racing in plain jerseys. Good thing NCNCA doesn't suggest charging an unattached rider fee like in did in the prehistoric days of 2001 and 2002. That would be a ton of revenue! All preventable by joining a club!!!


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Meet Matthias. He's a 28 year old monkey (old for a monkey of his kind). Like many old men, he's sluggish, irritable, and slow to respond.
His buddy Rudy, however, is a different story altogether:
Rudy is the picture of monkey vitality, although he is slightly older. Thin and feisty, Rudy stops grooming his smooth coat just long enough to pirouette toward a proffered piece of fruit. (which by the way, makes him very similar to my friend Dhrumil, especially when it comes to pirouettes and obsessive grooming - see picture).
The difference between monkey 1 and monkey 2? Quantity of food. Rudy eats 30% less than Matthias. Tell that to your momma the next time she makes you finish everything on your plate. The case for eating less seems to be building:
This approach, called calorie restriction, involves eating about 30 percent fewer calories than normal while still getting adequate amounts of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Aside from direct genetic manipulation, calorie restriction is the only strategy known to extend life consistently in a variety of animal species.
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PEORIA Ill -- Saturday, The New Millennium Institute held a panel discussion addressing violence, drugs and domestic issues plaguing African American families.
With recent shootings in Peoria, organizers are wondering if the church has lost it's impact.
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Wednesday, Jan 22, 2014 10:21PM
Rap mogul Jay Z continues to make headlines fresh into 2014 by reportedly teaming up with Hollywood actor Will Smith for an upcoming electronic music comedy.
If all goes accordingly, Jigga and Big Willy will link with Scottish producer DJ Calvin Harris for an HBO series.
Jay and Smith are co-producers of "Higher," a half-hour series currently in development at HBO. While it's without a plot, cast members, a director, or even an air date, Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh is currently penning the script alongside Harris. (Here's hoping there's plenty of storylines about rival DJs competing over the same Icelandic singer for their remix, or somebody mixing up the molly with Tic-Tacs during the visit of some famous label rep). In addition to HOV, Smith, and Harris, the show will be executive produced by Overbrook Entertainment and Three Six Zero Group. (Consequence of Sound)
The on-screen actor's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, is also onboard with the project.
Variety has confirmed that HBO is developing a halfhour comedy with Calvin Harris that takes place in the world of electronic music. As first reported by Deadline, "Higher" has "Trainspotting" scribe Irvine Welsh on board as scribe, with a starry lineup of exec producers including Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, Jay-Z, James Lassiter, Tyran Smith, Miguel Melendez, Mark Gillespie and Dean Wilson, along with Harris. (Variety)
Back in 2011, Jada spoke on her daughter, Willow, throwing up the Roc with Jay.
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Renowned movie director Steven Spielberg's kids teamed up with Hov's Roc Nation company last year.
The DJ siblings released their EP Brother/Sister earlier in 2013 under the name Wardell and have signed with Roc Nation, the company founded by Jay Z, for management. Meanwhile, Sasha recently sold the pilot Girls Without Boys -- co-written with Emily Goldwyn (daughter of John), with Rashida Jones producing -- to ABC. "But music is still my passion," Sasha tells THR. "I am going to find a way to balance both." (Hollywood Reporter)
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Newburyport 1, Hamilton-Wenham 0
Marie Cahalane scored the goal for the Clippers (2-1-1). Lauren Singer had a shutout in goal.
Governor's Academy 3, Cushing 0
Elena Driscoll scored two goals for the Govs. Hannah Quin had one. Maria Krull made two saves.
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Pentucket 0, North Reading 0
Ashley Riter (4 saves) and Kassidy Kennefick combined on a shutout on net for the Sachems. Pentucket's defense of Gianna Rosenau, Paige Wesolowski, Rebecca Torrisi, and Grace Dore played well. Audrey Moolic, Sarah Wiles, and McKenna Kilian made an impact offensively, but the Sachems could not find the net.
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Here is another key matchup in Sunday's Vikings-Giants matchup:
Giants' defensive ends vs. Vikings' offensive tackles
OLT Bryant McKinnie has had a surprisingly solid season coming off a mysteriously bad year in 2009. He has the power to steer rushers away from danger, and he can clean out holes in the run game. ORT Phil Loadholt has his moments, but sometimes he locks on to defenders for holding calls and can be beaten across his face with quick countermoves. But if he gets out and makes contact in the run game, he can be a force.
The Giants have three, really four, quality ends. Osi Umenyiora moves around less than he used to, but he can fly by tackles with an occasional burst and has series where he's simply dominant, even if his motor runs a little hot and cold at times. Justin Tuck is a one-on-one mismatch who can drop, rush, stack against the run and fight through the occasional double-team. He will get out of his gap and freelance once in a while, but he's playing at a high level. Add in rookie Jason Pierre-Paul, who is on a flourish with four sacks in two games. He has exploded recently, making the most of his snaps with his superior athleticism in a pass-rush role. Dave Tollefson is a fine fourth end.
Whichever group can dominate will have a key to victory. The Giants love to attack quarterbacks and will sic their "D" on Brett Favre if he's healthy, and they feed off turnovers, mostly created by DL pressure. They attack from all angles and love to press the issue. The Vikings can dominate games when they run and play-action-pass effectively, and that starts with quality blocking on the edge, especially in the zone running game with Adrian Peterson.


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I am a parent of a kiddo with an autism spectrum disorder ("ASD"). We both love baseball, but picking him up and going to games was a little difficult at first. I'm writing with two goals in mind. The first is to help parents out there figure out how they can make going to baseball games "work" for a ASD child. The second is to give the Phillies some advice on how to make it friendlier for ASD kids and families. I'll address the latter point in a separate article.
A little background: My son's original diagnosis was "Asperger's Syndrome" though we all generally use ASD right now (autism spectrum disorder). There is a whole story in the diagnosis process as the ASD was separated out from the ADHD. There were trips to doctors all over the place and to CHoP at one point. He thought the brain scan was cool, and he wanted a picture to show his friends, but regrettably, he's a wiggler.
I'm not particularly sad or distraught over his diagnosis. I mean, it has been several years at this point, and honestly, we were more relief-stricken than grief-stricken, since it explained a lot of things. Also, it's not like he fell far from the tree in my family.
ASD folks vary fairly widely in the degree and type of symptoms that they have. It's like a Chinese buffet, where the food is always the same, but the people who go don't try all of it. The fact that they didn't try out the moo goo gai pan doesn't mean that they didn't go to the buffet, though. My son is not a flapper or spinner, but he has sensory issues. A result of this is that he hates crowds. Why? He hates people jostling up against him. But there is more to it than just that.
There are other aspects of the sensory issues. He hates the heat. He hates loud noises. He does not like to vary from established routines. If things go badly enough, he'll lock up and melt down, and there is just no reasoning with him till he can calm down. It's like all the neurons are firing in a neural version of the China Syndrome.
He's not just a kid with an ASD -- he's a kid, too. He also has all the issues that go with being a kid. Maturity and the lack of it. He gets bored. He hates it when the Phillies suck and lose -- that game where Matt Harvey and the Mets clubbed the Phillies 10 - 0 this summer with the rain delays? That was a banner day at the ballpark, folks. We ALL had fun!
Obviously, a baseball game at Citizens Bank Park is going to be a problem then, right? 40,000 people? Amplified music? Fat, sweaty Philadelphians? Yes and no. It can be managed.
Over the last five years, he and I have both figured out to make it work for us. The following suggestions are essentially our experiences in a condensed version. I hope they are helpful for the rest of you as you consider how you can take your child to the ballpark. Don't assume that your child/niece/nephew/grandchild can't go to a game. They might surprise you if you give them a chance and if you approach it the right way.
By far, the best advice is to be realistic. Then, plan. Know your child, and anticipate the things that will be difficult. Then, expect things to go wrong, and don't freak out when they do.
I still remember our first game. My son was really happy to be going to a game, and that was a great starting point for us. If he did not want to go to the game, it would have been much harder. We had watched many games, and he was solidly a "baseball fan" before we ever went. I had no doubt that the subject matter was a winner for him. His interest in baseball and the Phillies made it more likely that he'd tolerate some adversity, so I had something of a head start. Going to an orchestral performance would have been harder, in comparison.
The issues I was concerned about were mostly the sensory issues, so I wanted to head those off as best I could. I started with basic parts of that by managing my expectations and doing what I could to make sure basic things, like being hungry, didn't torpedo his day.
First, I did not get fancy, expensive seats. I planned, more or less, that I would be able to go to a few innings, and that we would have to leave. I set my expectations for: "getting to the stadium after a two hour car ride, getting through the crowd to our seats, sitting for a couple of innings, and then leaving without a meltdown." This is good advice for anyone with young kids, but for an ASD kid especially. As much as you try to tell yourself that "I won't care that I spent $X.00 on seats, and we had to leave early" you will still care. Just don't do it. Think of it as "practice" for going to games in the future.
Talk to the child about what to expect. "It will be loud. There will be lots of people there. Is there anything that you want me to bring to make you more comfortable?" You ask that last part because you just do, not because you are likely to get helpful advice, just FYI.
I wanted to bring in familiar foods, so I did not have to struggle with him being hungry and miserable because he would not try new food along with being in a new, scary, loud environment. The less "new" the better. I looked very carefully at the rules the Phillies have for bringing things into the stadium to make sure I could pull this off. I did not want to try to bring in a food and get stopped at the door and forced to dump the Smarties or the root beer (in a closed, plastic bottle). That was a very wise use of time. Go here and look at "Bottles, Cans, and Coolers"
I had a pretty good handle on his sensory issues, and I planned around them. I knew noises were a big issue for him, so I brought in hearing protection. Those earmuffs people wear when they operate equipment? I had him try on a few pairs when we did wood projects, then we took the one he liked, and we brought it with us. If I had not let him pick it out, I ran the risk of the hearing protection being uncomfortable and being as much of an irritant as the loud noises. I let him control when he would wear these or take them off. It was a fabulous idea. Even now, when he is 12, the noise at the stadium bothers him, and we try to remember to bring them or sit in quieter areas. If I had it to do again, I would have gone to someplace like Gander Mountain to let him try on shooting earmuffs, since they tend to be softer, more comfortable, and more compact.
I took some things for him to fidget with. He had a book, a video iPod (with baseball games on it), and a couple of LEGO Bionicle guys, I think. I brought mini-binoculars for him to play with, though he mostly watched planes flying by during that first game (he'd never seen them close up, and he was fascinated by them after he realized they were not going to hit the stadium). I may also have let him borrow my Green Lantern power ring.
Seating is another issue -- at the ends of the rows, you constantly get up and fat, sweaty, drunk people brush past you. It's kind of gross. In the middle of rows, you don't have as much room. If you are in the upper levels, a seat by the railing is scary for many typical kids, and mine too. This is a series of trade offs. If you can swing it, getting an extra seat is a luxury that might be worth paying for at least for the first few games.
I also try to get covered seats to avoid rain or sun. We sat behind the Phillies dugout about 20 rows back for a day game in late June once. Of course, it was hotter than the surface of the sun. It did not help that the Phillies got hammered by the Blue Jays (it was the "Away at Home" series) and John Buck. Not a good day for us. Fortunately, we take an umbrella even on sunny days (just don't call it a parasol). A mister works, too. Just bring it in empty and fill it in the bathroom sink once you clear security, otherwise you won't get it in.
I have been in a bunch of sections to find the perfect one for us, and we finally kind of settled on anywhere in the Hall of Fame Club (good for day games especially, but only if the price is right) or Sections 208 - 212, but toward the back, in case of inclement weather. Section 212 is the best because it has almost no overhead speakers. You miss a little of the right field corner, but you get a good view of the scoreboard. It is also right at the top of the ramp to the 200 level, so there is less concourse walking involved.
Concourse walking sucks. On the way to our seats, we go around the outfield, since it seems to be less congested than the concourse behind home. We always take the ramps and walk up to our seats, since the escalators involve too many people in too little space. We walked once (I suggested it when the lines were long at the escalator, and he was getting edgy), and we have never gone back. I never really realized why until later when I started to think about writing this piece -- he sort of gravitated to a comfortable area for him, and it established his pattern.
I never realized why he would not let me stop for food in Ashburn Alley until I put my foot down and went to Campo's for a cheese steak last time. The whining was incessant. We talked about it back at our seats, and he basically told me that he did not like waiting in line because of...all the people. I recalled that he only agreed to stand in line at the Bull's one time because I promised him he'd get an autograph and that he'd get to look at a World Series ring. It was kind of a breakthrough for us in that he could identify the source of his discomfort and verbalize it. I never put two and two together before, but it all made sense in retrospect. Being a parent of an ASD child is like that fairly often -- once you "solve" the riddle of a seemingly inexplicable behavior, you get upset at yourself for not seeing the obvious much earlier and at a time when lots of strife could have been avoided.
In terms of dealing with his need for routine, we always, always park in the same section. This reduces his anxiety about remembering where the car is. We drive the same way to the park every time. We do the same things on the way to the game (listen to an old Phillies playoff game on the iPod). Other than the rare cheapo Hall of Fame tickets, we've kind of settled on "our section" as being 212, though he grudgingly accepts 211 - 208 as well if it means we get to go to more games.
I've never had to deal with anyone being an ass toward us, whether we deserved it or not. I recognize that everybody pays a bunch to go to games, and that nobody really wants to sit next to an agitated kid who is out of control. I have been fortunate that my son has always been pretty well behaved. Usually, if someone seems like they're being annoyed by us, it is because he is going on at length about the game or the players. After all, He. Does. Not. Turn. Off. Until the ride home, when he sleeps.
I'd like to think he is well-behaved or I am a good parent, but more than anything else, I think we've just been lucky. Most fans are pretty tolerant of kids, despite the reputation of Philadelphia fans as being boorish and unruly. If he gets off the rails, we try to head it off by moving around, or getting food, or something. The only major meltdown was at the Mets game this summer, and hardly any other fans were around by then, and most of them were probably melting down, too. It was that kind of game.
The bottom line is that parents and children going to baseball games together is something magical that can't really be broken down and analyzed very well. It just works. It is not as easy for some families as it is for others, but don't be afraid to try it. Your child should have the same opportunity to share that with you that a typical child has. Plan it. Manage your expectations. But don't be afraid.
I've read a million books on ASDs and children. One very useful one described parenting a child with an ASD as being like a vacation. You plan this vacation all your life, you save up for it, and you get on the plane. You are going to Rome to see Vatican City, the Forum, the Colosseum, and all the famous sights. Your plane lands, and you find that you are in Denmark because the tour company totally blew it. It's a vacation. It turns out to be the vacation of a lifetime. But it is not the one you planned.
Baseball is like that. The baseball game you go to with your ASD child will be like that. Life is like that. A child with an ASD is like that. Leave your expectations and your baggage at home. Roll with it. Be in the moment with the child. You'll both be fine.


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Nov26-12, 12:43 AM
Hi guys,
I'm a transfer student, and I've wanted to do electrical engineering. My only problem is i love the idea of circuit boards and hardware, but math really isnt my enjoyment, and i just kinda passed the classes without much understandment. Do electrical engineers actually need math like differential equations, multivariable calc, linear algebra or do we just do that to get our minds thinking and the juices flowing in our brains. I really want to work with hardware, and im wondering where i stand. I know what i've done, and i do regret just bsing through the math courses without learning much, but i did get accepted to a university for elec engineering, and im wondering does electrical engineering really need this math stuff or are we going to learn what these hardware items do? Like am i ever going to do infinite series, polar coordinates, or something from a differential eqn class or do i get a clean start, and learn electrical engineering from the ground up?
Nov26-12, 01:20 AM
If you pursue BSEE, it will be very hard for you to skip multi-var, ODE. I don't know you need linear algebra. You are not going to get by electromagnetics, and you short change yourself the chance of getting deep into RF and microwave.
Most of the advanced subject involves calculus, it is the language of the science. Go pick up some books for the upper division like EM, signal processing, RF etc. They are mostly written in language of calculus..........Yes, multi variable calculus ( more advance one called vector calculus) IS the back bone of electromagnetics study. You are not going to find straight explanation of this in English. If someone tries to explain to you in English, you better watch out. Vector calculus was partly developed to explain Maxwell's equation. It's the Maxwell's equations that explain RF and microwave. In fact, it is even useful to study PDE where you learn Fourier and Laplace transform.
I am writing this because I was in your shoe for the longest time. I managed to go very far as a design engineer, manager of EE in the last almost 30 years. I did what ever it take to avoid calculus. I only had one and half semester of calculus. I kept hitting the wall, I found ways to bypass and did a lot of designs. But I know how much I use instinct to design rather than sound theory.
6 years ago after I retired, I determined to fill the hole that I fell short. I stopped, I studied from page 1 of the calculus book, through multi variables, to ODE. Then I studied the EM. I still felt that's not good enough, I even stopped and spent months studying PDE. This is how strongly I feel about calculus.
It it that important. This is from my real life experience. You get so much more insight through the math. You have to think math. All the advanced Physics and electronics are math. Go pick up books and look at it. Unless you stay clear away from analog electronics and stay in digital hardware and programming, you can't get away. I suggest you to re-evaluate what you want if you really don't like calculus. You might be able to get away the first two years, but if you just "pass" the calculus class, you are going to really have problem later on. To me, it is even more important to get very good grades in calculus than the electronic classes. Particular if you enroll in some middle of the road state college, you better get very good grades like A!!!
I got away because I started my career 30 years ago where people don't look for a degree to hire. I was very good in design, pretty soon, people over look that I didn't have a degree in EE and just look at my experience. I don't think the situation is the same anymore and BSEE is dime a dozen( 10 dozen). Look at the job add, they are looking for MSEE or PHD!!!
I know this is exactly not what you want to hear, but this is life and I lived it. If I were to advice any college student, study calculus even though you don't know what major you want to get into. Calculus is the foundation of all science, it is so easy for you to switch from one science major to another one if you are good it calculus. If you are weak in calculus, you study EE and later you decide that it's not for you, you wasted all the time.........just like you go to trade school like Heald College and decide not to get into that career.
Nov27-12, 07:34 PM
In any engineering, you can do 98% by multiply or divide. Then 1% would have needed maths but you find some turnaround, like a dirty Excel sheet, or a coarse model of which you decide to ignore the accuracy. And then you have the last 1% which you must abandon if you lack the necessary maths.
To be fair, I should add the 900% that are unfeasible to anyone by math because our world is too complicated for us. End of parenthesis.
For that last 1% it is worth learning maths. More so in electrical engineering, where theories tend to work better than elsewhere. Just think of fluid mechanics: they would be very happy to have the stability theory of electrical engineering.
Nov27-12, 08:36 PM
Does Elec Engineering need calc (multi variable, diff equations, etc)
It's not about actual calculation. You can't understand EM without vector calculus. It is explained in calculus because it started as calculus. You cant' start to understand signal processing, transfer functions and communications without strong background of Fourier and Laplace transforms. People TRYING to explain in a simple way, but as you dig deeper into it, things get really confusing. Try reading some books that are supposed to be simple on RF and EM, you'll find really fast you get stuck. A lot of engineer just know how to do things, but can't explain it. There will be an invisible ceiling that most of them cannot go beyond and cook book approach that mostly solves common problem and designs.
Yes, you can find cook book and use method to solve problems, but you really don't understand. It's the feel that you don't get if you don't have the math background.
Case in point, in all EM books like Griffith or Cheng, there is a chapter after statistic electric field that start talking about boundary condition and image. I found I have new appreciation after studying PDE. It's all about boundary condition!!! People talk about E and H field propagation. But a lot of magic is from the boundary condition. The transformation of EM wave to current and voltage is all from the boundary condition. Also transmission and reflection of EM wave.
Yes, after you learn it, you don't use it much as there are simulation program. But it's the understanding that bring you to a different level of appreciation and that ultimately help you when you design circuit.
Also, and this is even more important. All the advanced books, articles on EM, communication and RF are written in calculus. You won't understand the stuff if you don't know calculus. I know, I did it the other way around for 30 years. I can tell you how much I feel I had missed after studying back all the math. Believe me, I don't like Math, I was in the same boat of the OP for 30 years. I just hit too many ceiling when I try to study more advanced books. I couldn't get away. I didn't spent almost 2 years studying math for my health!!!
Nov27-12, 10:24 PM
short answer from me is "yes, definitely".
Nov28-12, 05:35 PM
Enthalpy is correct about you really don't use calculus in real life job that often.....hardly. You have all the simulation programs to do that for you. Calculus should be treated as a language of science, much like English for business, law and everything else. You learn calculus, it's like learning a language of science where without it, you can't really understand the materials, it's like as if it's a foreign language!!!
People have kind of a miss conception that math is math, engineering is engineering, that math is something totally different, that it meant for punishing you!!!! Math is something that is "invented" or "developed" when there is a need in scientific application. Don't quote me on this, I read somewhere the subject of vector calculus was developed partly because of the Maxwell's equation. It was for clearing up and give better explanation for the Maxwell's eq. It is not the other way around that people stick the vector calculus in to make life harder.
A lot of scientific discovery is straightly from math, any simple explanation in English is mostly an interpretation of the calculus. You have to be careful because from my experience, this only work in relative simple stuff. I remember just few days ago when I watch the History channel about Einstein while he was working on the relativity thingy, they were saying that he could spent days thinking calculus in his head and they show some of the formulas of differential equations etc.
It is from math, calculus to real world result, not getting the result and then put in the calculus to make life difficult for people!!! I can really sympathize with the OP, I was like him. I spent over two years of my life studying calculus for the love of electronics, not that I like math at all!!!
Nov29-12, 01:04 AM
Nov29-12, 01:55 AM
Electrical Engineering, with all its varied disciplines, need concentrated amount of math especially calculus. In my university, we have 5 math courses that are required by the electrical engineering department. 4 of these courses are dedicated to calculus, from basic integration and differentiation all the way up to vector calculus, passing by double and triple integrals, series and sequences, and the rest of the stuff. The remaining math course is dedicated to differential equations.
Also, different disciplines in EE have different ratios of calculus use. For example, in digital design, you don't use anything related to calculus, you only use boolean algebra. However, in electromagnetics, you find youself trapped in calculus, especially in vector calculus. You go to communication systems, you find yourself needing fourier transforms, and that's how it goes. This gives an idea that if you want to make it to research level, you will use different ratios of calculus depending on your research topic, so things will get narrower as you go up, but also will get more complicated.
On another topcic, let's not forget complex analysis, We were given a course that's almost dedicated to complex analysis. However, I still don't know where it will be useful, things like residue integration.
Take a look at this calclus for electric circuits page
In a nutshell, there's nothing scary or difficult in all these math courses. They only need dedication and regular studying.
Nov29-12, 02:58 AM
There is a lot of use of complex numbers in EE, but to my knowledge, unless you go for really advanced Electrodynamics and study the Classical Electrodynamics by JD Jackson, I don't see the need of Complex Analysis.
For post grad, numeric analysis can get important as a lot of the problem cannot even be solved by conventional calculus. Bessel and Lagendre function are amount those. San Jose State U barely touch it in their PDE class. Also The Green's function is important for more advanced EM.
I do have Complex Analysis in mind as my ultimate goal is to study the JD Jackson book. that's is the Mt. Everest of EM.
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