Team
Gauss
Friday, June 30th, 2010
In what book would you find a boy that "bunted" a frog and then he ran around the bases before being tagged out.
Answer: Maniac McGee
Have you read this one yet?
All books have a message or two.
District 5 Final Regular Season Junior Legion Standings
Newton
Shirley
Weston
Needham
Somerville
Malden
Wayland
We now play the 3rd seed in District 8 (North Andover) in Shirley on Saturday at 5:00.
The O'Bama administration will not enforce federal law. He is preventing a state from enforcing them too. Yikes.
If he does not like the law, then he should work to change it.
Why can't I buy 10 slot machines, rent some space in Pepperell, and have people come in and play my slot machines?
Why is that?
What is the problem?
Middlemarch, a book by George Eliot, has been sold for $3.00 to JD.
Proceeds will go to Shirley Legion Baseball
George Eliot also wrote Silas Marner. This is a shorter book. A must read too.
I am now selling 1 dozen farm fresh eggs for $3.00
These eggs come from hens who have the run of my backyard.
Proceeds will go to Shirley Legion Baseball.
If interested, email jimcanning@charter.net
$7.5 billion dollars to Pakistan? Brought to you by MA Senator John Kerry
Yikes.
Just think about that. That is a lot of money. I bet lighted baseball fields with running water and a consession stand and irrigation could be put all over America for this amount of cash.
Thank God for the Boston Herald. They are the ones who pointed out John
Kerry's recent tax scandal.Friday, June 30th, 2010
In what book would you find a boy that "bunted" a frog and then he ran around the bases before being tagged out.
Answer: Maniac McGee
Have you read this one yet?
All books have a message or two.
District 5 Final Regular Season Junior Legion Standings
Newton
Shirley
Weston
Needham
Somerville
Malden
Wayland
We now play the 3rd seed in District 8 (North Andover) in Shirley on Saturday at 5:00.
The O'Bama administration will not enforce federal law. He is preventing a state from enforcing them too. Yikes.
If he does not like the law, then he should work to change it.
Why can't I buy 10 slot machines, rent some space in Pepperell, and have people come in and play my slot machines?
Why is that?
What is the problem?
Middlemarch, a book by George Eliot, has been sold for $3.00 to JD.
Proceeds will go to Shirley Legion Baseball
George Eliot also wrote Silas Marner. This is a shorter book. A must read too.
I am now selling 1 dozen farm fresh eggs for $3.00
These eggs come from hens who have the run of my backyard.
Proceeds will go to Shirley Legion Baseball.
If interested, email jimcanning@charter.net
$7.5 billion dollars to Pakistan? Brought to you by MA Senator John Kerry
Yikes.
Just think about that. That is a lot of money. I bet lighted baseball fields with running water and a consession stand and irrigation could be put all over America for this amount of cash.
Where was the Boston Globe on this?
The Globe is an extreme left wing brainwashing machine.
It is likely that faculty at Cambridge Rindge and Latin read the Boston Globe as gospel.
96 days left. It is your chance to let your voice be heard.
All ballplayers should know the song of the Chickadee. It is the state bird of Massachusetts.
http://www.birdjam.com/birdsong.php?id=12
My local 4th grade expert tells me this reading list needs your attention.
Please start knocking them off. You can obtain the CD for most of them via your library.
| Maniac
Magee |
Because
of Winn Dixie |
The
BFG |
Shiloh |
The
Chronicles of Narnia |
| The
Houdini Box |
The
Lightning Thief |
Diary
of a Wimpy Kid |
Sideway
Stories from Wayside School |
My
America (poetry) |
Get going.
Al Gore + John Kerry
That's a pair that will beat a full-house.
Both advocate ideas that they do not follow themselves.
Here's another one:
The Massachusetts Democrat (John Kerry) was instrumental in developing the Afghan war policy and in securing a
$7.5 billion, five-year developmental aid package to Pakistan. The civilian aid was for such things as roads, hospitals, and electric plants.
$7.5 billion to Pakistan ... wonderful.
This money could have been put to use in a better way.
or better still ... lower our taxes.
Where does Kerry get his $7.5 billion to give to Pakistan? From us.
How does raising taxes increase the chances that a small business person will succeed?
Get the government out of the way.
I found Anne of the Island on CD.
It is the 3rd book in the Anne of Green Gables series.
Leominster Library rocks. I found it in the children's section. A must read.
Shirley Jr. Legion Baseball
10-7 in league play.
Democratic US Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts , a man whose entire career has been devoted to increasing my taxes, has now proven to be a big tax dodger himself.
When asked about it, he was edgy and surly.
Just vote him out. Why do we keep voting him back in? Give somebody else a shot.
The $500,000 that he avoided could have helped Pepperell keep its libary going for awhile longer or
it could have improved the quality of the tennis courts behind Varnum Brook Middle School.
We can argue about taxes in general, but if we've got to pay them ... so should he.
Doesn't the excise tax on your vehicles irk you too?
Who invented that?
Who else? O'Bama's treasury secretary Tim Geithner also cheated on his taxes.
Q:
So Geithner underpaid taxes and was forced to pay back taxes with
interest. He paid them, so what's the problem?
A: The circumstances raise eyebrows. From 2001 to 2004, when he was mainly employed by the International Monetary Fund, taxes for Social Security and Medicare weren't deducted from his pay. Geithner signed a document saying that he was aware this was the case, but he never paid them until it was called to his attention later. Americans who work at the IMF are treated as self-employed for tax purposes, and Geithner was given a guidebook on how to address this tax matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m81tfkHmJTsA: The circumstances raise eyebrows. From 2001 to 2004, when he was mainly employed by the International Monetary Fund, taxes for Social Security and Medicare weren't deducted from his pay. Geithner signed a document saying that he was aware this was the case, but he never paid them until it was called to his attention later. Americans who work at the IMF are treated as self-employed for tax purposes, and Geithner was given a guidebook on how to address this tax matter.
Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/01/14/59703/were-geithners-unpaid-taxes-errors.html#ixzz0usojkEiL
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Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Pat it, and roll it, and mark it with B
And put it in the oven for Baby and me.
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One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut.
After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, 'I cannot accept money from you , I'm doing community service this week.' The florist was pleased and left the shop.
When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.
Later, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, 'I cannot accept money from you , I'm doing community service this week.'
The cop was happy and left the shop.
The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a 'thank you' card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.
Then a Congressman came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied,
'I cannot accept money from you. I'm doing community service this week.' The Congressman was very happy and left the shop.
The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.
And that, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it.
BOTH POLITICIANS AND DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
It is too bad that our country fights amongst itself so much these days. I see the O'Bama administration as fueling the race issue to drum up support for the upcoming November elections.
Only 100 days to go.
Between North Korea to our left and Venezuela to our south, and the Islamic extememist all over the place, our country should be coming together because there is trouble brewing for us.
Who is going to help us when trouble breaks out? Will it be France? Haiti? Spain? Turkey? India? Will Pakistan help?
Will Mexico help us out? I guess Iceland will help. How about Russia? Boznia will back us - don't you think? Greece - where will they sit?
Italy? Thailand? Japan? China? Think about it.
The USA is the greatest nation ever created. The freedom we've enjoyed over the past two hundred years has rarely been matched in history.
Yet, the O'Bama administration's policy is controlling and stifling.
Duval Patrick is trying like heck to increase the gas tax substantially. We will have the highest gas tax in the nation if he succeeds.
Once he is re-elected he will make it happen.
How is that increase in sales tax working for you? How about all of the sin taxes he has increased?
The package stores that border NH are getting hammered. What about the owners of these stores?
What do Duval Patrick and the Dems do with all of the money we send down to Boston?
It is not coming to Pepperell? Is it going to Townsend? to Ashby? Where then?
Heck, it still bothers me that I need to buy a license to fish. Stop the insansity.
Allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire is going to just add gasoline to the fire.
How is that stimulus package working out?
Does it make sense to you to spend, spend, spend?
Do not vote them back in.
The people in the background who fund and control O'Bama do not want us to have "private" jobs. They want one centralized controlling government.
It is much safer for us to distribute out the control. Our founders knew that.
Youth sports has taught me that families worry, almost exclusively, about their own son.
We'll let's extend that. Worry about your son's future in a country where there will be far less freedom, far more regulation, a lot less creativity and invention.
Do not let one party control the whole shibang. It is not a good strategy. Not for Masachusetts and neither for our country.
Read: 1984, Brave New World, The Handmaid's Tale, and Darkness at Noon.
It will give you a taste of the direction we are going in. Four more years of O'Bama change is something will not be pleasant. He is not the answer. Let's move on.
I can barely listen to him speak anymore. It is so pathetic.
Read Atlas Shrugged.
None Dare Call it Conspiracy. I think you should read that too.
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1819 Ivanhoe |
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1726 Gulliver's Travels |
1820 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
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2008 Nothing to Lose |
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1945 Animal Farm |
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1957 Atlas Shrugged |
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1960 To Kill a Mockingbird |
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1964 Across Five Aprils |
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| 1895 The Red Badge of Courage |
1997 Bridge to Terabithia |
Life is filled with so much potential joy.
Crushing a baseball. Finishing War and Peace. Running 3 miles. Seeing your kids grow.
All ballplayers should know that there are three kinds of verbs: transitive, intransitivie, and linking. Examples of each are:
I ate the apple.
I swim.
I am in a state of euphoria.
Do not forget to get crackin on the Anne of Green Gables series.
Let's review.
Government has taken over health care.
Government has taken over student loans.
Government has taken over the car industry.
Government has taken over the financial industry.
The border issue is a mess.
The oil problem continues.
The general informs the world that our commander and chief does not have a clue.
Hugo Chavez O'bama
Fidel O'bama
Vladimir O'bama
November is almost here. Do not give him more power. Vote the democrats out.
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Is Atlas Shrugged on your reading list yet?
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My father fought in WWII. He died in 1990, two years before my son Matt was born.
Carol's father fought in WWII. He is 94 yrs old. He is in reasonably good health.
He farmed all of his life.
My step father Larry served in the navy for 20 years. He is one terrific guy.
"... when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. "
To score a minimum passing grade in the Marine Fitness Test, a 55 year old man needs to perform:
3 pull-ups, 40 sit ups in 2 minutes, and run 3 miles in 33:00 minutes.
In addition to the above, I would like to be able to do 30 push ups.
Now is the time.
Jim's Summer Goals and Best Summer Times
For me the summer ends on August 31st.
| 5 Miles 65:00 |
4 Miles 50:00 |
3.5 Miles 40:00 |
3 Miles 33:00 |
2.75 Miles 30:00 |
2.5 Miles 24:00 |
2.25 Miles 22:00 |
2 Miles 19:48 |
1.75 Miles 17:30 |
1.5 Miles 14:30 |
1.25 Miles 12.00 |
1
Mile 8:45 |
3/4 Mile 7:10 |
1/2
Mile 4:15 |
1/4
Mile 1:45 |
100 Meter Dash 20 seconds |
| 60:00 |
54:50* 51:08* |
41:51 (4.3
mph) |
27:00 |
19:40 |
21:00 |
16:22 |
12:30 |
9:40 |
7:30 |
5:00 |
2:27
Treadmill 1:58* |
28:33 28:22
Navy Seals Fitness Challenge
| 500 yard swim |
Push Ups |
Sit Ups |
Pull Ups |
1.5 Mile Run |
Jumping Jacks
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0:40 |
0:45 |
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Team Gauss 1 Mile Challenge
What is your current best time in the mile?
Send an email to jimcanning@charter.net to establish a time for Jim to meet you at the NMRHS Track.
Jim will time you. Your time will be posted on this website. You may use your own name or I will assign a code name to you.
You can walk a mile in about 16 minutes, so you can get started by just doing that.
You can email your time to me as well.
| Rank |
Time |
Runner's
Code Name |
Date |
Comment |
| 1 2 |
9:40 10:00 |
Edmond
Dantes John Galt |
June
7 June 4 |
Working
my way down to 8:59 Who is John Galt? |
Team Gauss Army Physical Fitness Test Challenge
The APFT consists of push ups, sit ups, and a 2-mile run. One right after the other.
Send an email to jimcanning@charter.net to establish your score. Jim will meet you at the NMRHS Track and administer the test.
Your score will be posted on this website. You may use your own name or I will assign a code name to you.
Scores are adjusted by age.
Work to improve your score. Are you game? Get yourself on this board!
For a 55 year old man, a minimum passing score would be:
20 push ups 28 sit ups 19:48 two- mile run
| Rank |
Code Name |
Score |
Push
ups |
Sit
ups |
2
Mile Time |
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Edmond Dantes |
159 |
16 |
11 |
19:40 |
Who wants to improve their Arm Strength?
How fast can you throw a baseball now?
Can we improve your velocity over the next 3-6 months? Before next year's baseball season begins?
Let's take a measurement. Let's put you on a program. Then let's see if your throwing velocity improves.
Who's game for this?
Shirley American Legion Junior Baseball Click Here Scroll Down too. |
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When you teach a kid to hit a baseball do not use the phrase: "Squish the bug".
There isn't "any squishing of any bugs".
The heel of the back foot rolls upward and forward.
It does not spin backwards.
When you swing your bat, you must be free.
Free yourself up.
Do not lock yourself down, by keeping your weight back throughout the swing.
The phrase: "Keep your weight back" is, at best, confusing. At worst, it is wrong.
It is not your weight that you keep back, it is your hands.
It is hands back.
Let your weight flow into a stiff front leg.
This is not a lunge.
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I am now 3/4 way through Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
The Anatomy of Financial Trouble for our Country: One timeline.
Here are some facts.
| 1977 |
Under Jimmy Carter, the Community Reinvestment
Act was created. This law urged banks to make high-risk loans.
If they failed to do so, they would not receive favorable consideration
for new branches or mergers. |
| 1980 |
Under Jimmy Carter and the
democratically controlled congress, the Depository Institutions
Deregulation and Monetary Control Act was passed. The law removed the
power of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors under the
Glass-Steagall Act to set the interest rates of savings accounts. |
| 1995 |
In response to pressure from
community organizers, President Clinton made changes to Carter’s
Community Reinvestment Act that forced an increase in the number of
loans to low-income people and the aggregate dollar amount loaned.
Larger loans to people with less income happened. |
| 1999 |
President Clinton's signature
repealed the Glass-Steagall Act which had protected taxpayers since the
Great Depression. |
| 2001 |
The Bush Administration
identifies a potential problem with Frannie Mae and Freddie Mac: "could
cause strong repercussions in financial markets". His 2002 budget
request points this out. |
| 2003 |
The Bush Administration upgrades
its warning to "a systemic risk that could spread beyond the housing
sector." |
| 2003 |
The Bush Admininstration pushed
congress hard to create a new an agency to regulate and supervise
Franny Mae and Freddie Mac. |
| 2003 |
However, Barney Frank fought
against this and wanted Frannie Mae and Freddie Mac to increase their
high-risk lows. Barney Frank says, "There is no problem."
Barney Frank effectively blocked Bush's legislation and thereby allowed
Franny Mae and Freddic Mac to run free. Barney was fighting for more
affordable housing. |
| 2005 |
Alan Greenspan says there is
trouble with allowing Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac. "We are placing the
total financial system of the future at stubstantial risk." We need to
increase regulation. |
| 2005 |
Democratic Senator Charles
Shumer fought against regulation. "... FannieMae and Freddie Mac have
done a great job." |
| 2006 |
Senator John McCain pushed for
regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac. But democratics voted against
it and it was shot down. |
Dagney Taggart called them "looters".
If you take an individual's property away from him via force or threat of force you are a looter.
When a skillful, motivated person creates personal wealth through his own initiative that should be rewarded and encouraged. Not penalized.
Read - Write - Speak - Do Math - Play Catch
Encourage your children to read books. Lots of books. This is difficult to accomplish.
But those children who read alot, have a significant competitive advantage.
They will have a bigger context in their heads when they grapple with the troubles our generation will give to their generation.
In what books would you find these characters?
| Hester
Prynne |
Wang
Lung |
Edmond
Dantes |
Hank
Reardon |
Quasimodo |
Cedric
the Saxon |
Holden
Caulfeld |
| Sidney
Carton |
Jean
Valjean |
Tom
Joad |
Anne
Shirley |
Atticus
Finch |
Winston
Smith |
Snowball |
| Howard
Roark |
Starnsville, Massachusetts Are you near it?
Shirley American Legion Baseball appreciates those who are helping us.
Clara Barton Sponsor ( $35 each ) Helps to pay for medical supplies and health insurance. Total Health Insurance Cost: $340 Dr. Martin S. Spiller, D.M.D. Complete Family Dental Care 208 Main Street Townsend, MA 978-597-5541 http://www.doctorspiller.com McNabb Pharmacy 233 Main Street Townsend, MA 978-597-2392 http://www.mcnabbpharmarcy.com Dr. Arthur F. Eddy, D.M.D 228 Great Road Shirley, MA 978-425-9088 http://www.doctoreddy.com Dr. Manjula Battaluri, D.M.D Smile Center 11 Main Street Pepperell, MA 978-433-6344 Dr. Craig S. Gustafson, MD 233 Ayer Road, Suite 10 Harvard, MA Pepperell Family Pharmacy 74 Main Street Pepperell, MA 978-433-6130 Pepperell Veterinary http://www.pepevet.com 978-433-8613 Nashoba Family Dentists 246 Great Road Littleton www.nashobafamilydentists.com |
Know the Law Sponsor ($30,$60) Helps to pay for umpire fees. $120/home game Dr. S. Thomson Interpeople Inc. Mediation 311 Great Road Littleton, MA 01460 1-800-336-0956 http://www.interpeople-inc.com Thomas Gibbons, Atty. http://www.tgibbonslaw.com Ayer, MA State Rep. Jennifer Benson Democrat http://www.jenbenson.org Atty. Ernest H. Hyde Shirley, MA http://www.erniehyde.com Riddle & Associates 603 Massachusetts Ave Lunenburg, MA MA. State Senator James Eldridge Littleton, Shirley, Ayer Four Paws Academy Boxborough, MA |
have a team.
Town of Shirley Without them we would not have a home field. |
Bring
the Heat Sponsor
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Coach Bob Caswell Power Series Soughegan Street Wilton, NH 603-654-6740 He trains baseball players. He trains entire teams. If they awarded Ph.D's in baseball, Coach Caswell would hold one. He has four indoor cages for rent. $12/half-hour $20/hour |
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Cap Anson Sponsor Helps to buy a baseball cap $15/cap Dr. Martin Spiller, DMD Townsend, MA 978-597-5541 http://www.doctorspiller.com has sponsored Josh Mihill's baseball cap. North End Suburu Lunenburg, MA http://www.northendsuburu.com has sponsored Justin Roberts' baseball cap. North End Mazda Lunenburg, MA http://www.northendsuburu.com has sponsored TBD's baseball cap. Mary and Larry Whittier have sponsored Chris Canning's baseball cap. Mary and Larry Whittier have sponsored Mark Canning's baseball cap. Tina Stamulis has sponsored TBD.s baseball cap. Cap 6: Cap 7: Cap 8: Cap 9: Cap 10: Cap 11: Cap 12: Cap 13: Cap 14: Cap 15: Cap 16: Cap 17: Cap 18: |
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Home Game Sponsor ($150) Pays for Umps, Baseballs, and Lime Home Game 1 Anonymous Home Game 2 Lowell Five - Pepperell Branch Home Game 3 Walker Othodontics, P.C http://www.drwalkerortho.com Lunenburg, MA |
Audie Murphy Sponsor ($500 or more) Audie Murphy is the most decorated soldier in US History. All-Star Division AMPAC Enterprises Shirley. MA This sponsor has provided shirts, pants, and helmets for us. |
These local businesses have given Shirley Legion Baseball a gift certificate that we can raffle off. Thank You!
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Filhos Cucina
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Sean
Patrick's Restaurant 494 Electric Avenue Lunenburg, MA 01462 http://www.seanpatricksrestaurant.com |
Ixtapa
Cantina 308 Massachusetts Avenue Lunenburg, MA 01462 http://www.ixtapacantina.com |
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The Essence of a
Hitter's Swing
Want to Crush a Baseball? Learn the Swing.
The goal is to crush a baseball.
Baseball is not much fun if you are not crushing. Get to the front-side and crush. This is not a lunge. This is rotational. |
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Coach
Caswell has created a terrific hitting DVD. He explains the proper approach to hitting. He demonstrates drills that encourage the proper hitting technique. If you wish a copy of this DVD email jimcannng@charter.net. I will sell you a copy for $25.00. This will benefit your hitter + it will be benefit Shirley Legion Basebll too. You will also become a Friend of Shirley Legion Baseball. Buying this hitting DVD is a great way to obtain accurate information about hitting. It will also benefit our team. Coach Caswell's indoor batting cage is located in Wilton, New Hampshire. It is called Power Series. Soughegan Street, Wilton, NH. 603-654-6740 He was Butch Hobson's hitting coach when Hobson coached the Nashua Pride. He has taught hitting professionally for many years. He was hitting coach for Merrimack College and for Southern New Hampshire University. |
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Karl Frederick Gauss would have been a big fan of Dagny Taggart.
Good ole Karl appreciated excellence.
Dagny is a heroine. How can you help but root for her?
I suspect that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi would work to suppress Dagny Taggart.
Encourage initiative.
Anne Shirley is a heroine.
I often hear, "Jim, what is a gauss? How come it is Team Gauss?"
Answer: Karl Frederick Gauss is the greatest mathematician of all time. Mathematicians, past and present, believe his work is
synonymous with excellence. Gauss's motto is translated into English as "Few, But Ripe". He published only 18 scholarly work.
Upon his death, his attic was filled with additional monumental works that he did not yet publish because he had not polished them yet.
There are two other mathematicians who also have a claim on the title "greatest". They are Archimedes and Newton. But, it is really Gauss.
These three stand above the rest. There is a fourth name that stands solidly in fourth place. His name is Euler. This guy was very solid too. Some will
argue that Euler belongs in the same class as the first three. Some will also defend Euler as the greatest.
Those people who think Archimedes, Newton, and Euler were better than Gauss generally rank Joe DiMaggio,
Duke Snider, and Mickey Mantle over Willie Mays. They are mistaken here again. It is Mays.
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My 2010 best score for the Army Fitness Test is: 164.
The test consists of push-ups, sit-ups, and the two-mile run.
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Futuristic books to add to your knowledge base are:
Anthem Brave New World Handmaid's Tale 1984
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Pull-ups & Chin-ups force you to lift your own body-weight.
They are the best strength training exercises you can do for upper-body strength & muscle mass.
Unfortunately Pull-ups & Chin-ups are hard. Very hard.
http://stronglifts.com/how-to-do-pull-ups-and-chin-ups-with-proper-technique/
Among his many noted "Woodenisms", he often says,
"A good coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment,"
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"A man may make mistakes, but he isn’t a failure until he starts blaming someone else."
"Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."
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Who has Played for Team Gauss?
128 ounces of water weighs 8.3 lbs. 1/4 Mile Run (treadmill) Goal: 2:50 Goal: 2:15
1/2 Mile Run (treadmill) Goal: 4:45
3/4 Mile Run Goal: 8:15 Goal: 8:00
1 Mile Run Goal: 12 minutes Goal: 10 minutes Goal: 9:30 (treadmill)
1.5 Mile Run (treadmill) Goal: 20:00 Goal: 16:00
2 Mile Run (treadmill) Goal: 24:66 Goal 22:00 Goal: 20:00 Goal: 19:48 Goal: 19:25
3 Mile Run (treadmill) Goal: 44:00 Goal: 40:00 Goal: 35:00
4 Mile Run (treadmill) Goal: 1 hour Goal: 52:30
One lap around a standard outdoor HS track. Prior to 1976 the distance was 440 yards not 400 meters. 100 meters
400 meters World Record: 43.18 seconds Michael Johnson Core Strength and Fitness Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0vSX9GlgQo&feature=related
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Novels To Read Not in any specific order. Just my list. 1.
To Kill a
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2. My Antonia by Willa Cather 3. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 4. East of Eden by John Steinbeck 5. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 6. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 7. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 8. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 10. The Good Earth, Pearl S Buck 11. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo 12. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 13. Anne of Green Gables |
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Hall of Fame Carl Frederick Gauss (Greatest mathematician) William Felton Russell (Greatest basketball player) Atticus Finch (Best father in literature) John Wooden (Greatest college coach) Jean Valjean (Most heroic character in literature) Edwin Moses (Undefeated for a decade) Festus(Greatest supporting TV character) Dagney Taggart (Heroine in literature)
Weight Summer Low: 228.6 Short term goal: 230 227.5 Last Weigh In
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The army fitness test has 3 components: Sit ups (middle core) Push ups (upper body) 2 Mile Run (lower body) Army Fitness Test Calculator Army Fitness Test Goal: 120 points Goal: 135 points Goal: 170
Push Ups Goal: 20 Goal: 25
Bicep Curls 10 repetitions w/ dumbells 15 repetitions w/ dumbells 20 repetitions w/ dumbells
Max Squats Goal: 40 Goal: 75
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The marine fitness test has 3 components: Pull Ups or Chin Ups Crunches - Marine Sit ups 3 Mile Run Goal 1: Score 65 points on the Marine Fitness Test THE ARMSTRONG PULLUP PROGRAM Developed by Major Charles Lewis Armstrong, USMC, this program consists of two workouts per day, five days a week. Most people who stick with this program are able to do 20 pullups within 4 to 6 weeks. Every morning, do three maximum
effort sets of push-ups. Major Armstrong said that he would get
out of bed and hit the floor to do his first max set. He would
then go and shave, and return to do his next set. A few minutes
later, he would do his third maximum effort set. The push up is
one of the best exercises to develop arm strength for pull-ups.
The rest of the routine goes like this:
Monday
Do five max effort sets of pull-ups, resting one minute between each set
Tuesday Do a pyramid of repetitions, starting with one pull-up then 10 seconds of rest, 2 pull-ups and 20 seconds of rest, 3 pull-ups and 30 seconds of rest, and so on until you are unable to do more repetitions than your previous set. Wednesday Do three “training sets” of overhand pull-ups three sets of underhand pull-ups, and three sets of overhand pull-ups where the back of your neck touches the bar. A training set is dictated by your current level of strength. If you are advanced, it might be 5 or 6. Rest one minute between sets. The goal of the workout is to do the same number of repetitions per set, so start off conservatively, if you can only do 1, use one. Thursday Do training sets, resting one minute between each set, until you are unable to complete a set. Use the same number of repetitions that you used in your Wednesday sets. This will probably turn out to be your longest (and hardest) day. Friday Repeat the day that you had the most trouble with during the week. Take the weekends off. Your muscles will need this time to recover. Females can adapt the flexed arm hang to this program by simply replacing repetitions with hang times. The key to this program is regularity and COMMITMENT. If you follow the program consistently, you should see improvement within a few weeks. Chin Ups Goal: 1 It will be a great day when I can do 1 chin up.
Pull Ups Goal: 1 Marine Fitness Points: 0
A 55 year male who can score 65 points in the Marine Fitness test would earn a 3rd class classification. This would do it: 3 pull ups or chin cups 40 crunches 33:00 three mile run If he can score 100 points, he would earn a 2nd class classification. ******* The Air Force Fitness test has four components: Waist measurement (30%) 1.5 mile run (50%) Push ups (10%) Sit ups (10%)
An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. -------------------------------------------- That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F. The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed. Could not be any simpler than that. Jumping Jacks Goal: 2:00
Army Sit Ups Goal: 15
Marine Sit Ups Goal: 15 Wall Squat Goal: 45 seconds
Minimum Level Fitness Requirements to Begin P90X These exercises are to be done in one sitting. With 1-4 minutes of rest between excercises. When I can do all of these I will begin P90X.
US Navy A 54 year male Navy recruit can earn probationary status by scoring 45 points on its fitness test. To do this the male recruit would need to do 29 situps 19 pushups 16:45 minutes in a 1.5 mile run. To pass basic training a 54 year old male recruit needs to do 37 situps 30 pushups 15:15 minutes in 1.5 mile run. Shoulder Flys 10 repetitions w/dumbells
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The Essence of a Hitter's Swing Want to Crush a Baseball? Learn the Swing.
This is not a lunge. This is not a linear approach. Please do not call it linear. This is what 99% of all major league hitters do. Remember! Hands, Weight, Foot ..... Foot, Weight, Hands Do not squish the bug. Your swing is not level with the ground. Your swing should deliver the bat "square" to the ball. Generate some lift. In order for this to work, you need to have the courage to come out. Remember. This is not a lunge to the front-side. Allow your back heel to roll upwards. Do not bury the back heel into the ground. Never! You must be free. Do not lock up. Find your rythym. C'mon Out. Get to the Front. C'mon out. Get out there! Do not let the pitcher beat you back. C'mon out! For heaven's sake - Get Out there! This is not a weight back, pivot the back foot strategy. This is not a lunge. Got it? |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic A whiteboard is a very useful tool for a college student. The bigger the better. College students should have their own whiteboard in their apartment or room. It helps you collect your thoughts. Work on problems. Organize ideas. Students need to doodle. It is an ideal gift. Drinking No on soda No on chocolate milk Water water everywhere Eating No on pizza No on brownies No on cookies Tuna is good. Apples are good. Grapes are good. Baked beans are good. Vitamins Vitamin D - 100 mg Vitamin E - 400 I.U. Aspirin - 325 mg Fish Oil - 1000 mg B-100 Ultra B-Complex Ginkgo Biloba - 60 mg Multi-vitamin Vitamin C - 500 mg Lutein - 20 mg Leominster Babe Ruth 14s All Stars 2009 Western Mass Champion 2009 District 3 Champion 8-2 overall Team Mark Canning, Chris Canning, Matt Russell, Brandon Cole, Cam Gouldrup, Liam Coughlin, Stephen Drury, Nick Bergeron, Stephen Ippolito, Sean Mullaney, Travis Thompson, Franny Fernandez, Mike Fuller, Matt Notaro, Mike Leblanc,
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2007 Pepperell Little League Champions What a terrific spring! These major league Braves went 19-1. Seven of these boys hit jacks over the fence. Front Row: Paul Sawyer, Dominic Ciccone, Chris Devito, Matt Wyllie, Mac Flynn Back Row: Brandon Cole, Kyle McDermott, Chris Canning, Mark Canning, Dylan Ricker, Matt White, Jim Flynn  |
2007 Massachusetts District 3 Champions (6-1 overall) What a terrific summer! 9 homers. Great Pitching. Big plays. Cam Gouldrup, Mark Canning, Brandon Cole, Josh Mihill, Jamie Breen, Mike Chase, Kyle McDermott, Joe Tierney, Chris Canning, Nick Chapas, Jamie Breen, Joshua Cushion  |
2008 Leominster Babe
Ruth Champions 25 wins - 0 losses This team outscored their opponents by 198 runs in 25 games. There was a mercy rule in effect. They crushed the ball on a regular basis. Hitter 1 through hitter 9. All season long. Nine times we went yard: Matt Canning (3), Matt Foley(2), Doug Baird(3), Matt Heisler(1). All batters were a threat to pound the ball. It did not matter if the pitcher was throwing heat or not. Time him up. These champions are: Kevin Quin, Zach Caraviello, Matt Canning, Josh Mihill, Matt Foley, Justin Roberts, Matt Heisler, Mark Canning, Nick Ravanis, Abe Mughal, Brandon Cole, Chris Canning, Michael Chase, Cameron Gouldrup, Doug Baird  |
