Hi steve, I see you graduated 2 years after I started my 23 year long battle with the IRS. I hope you choose to stay out of their way – they play dirty.
Have we run into each other before?
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Steve O’Dell started the forum topic For you cyclists out there in the group 12th Man Training Table: 4 hours, 42 minutes ago
Google Maps adds bike route support for 150 cities.
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Steve O’Dell started the forum topic St Patrick's Day starter set in the group 12th Man Training Table: 6 hours, 36 minutes ago
Soda bread, Irish stew, cheddar scones, corned beef, and a tip of the hat to Guinness for being the original light beer.
http://trainingtable.blogspot.com/2010/03/beannacht-la-fheile-padraig.html
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Steve O’Dell posted on the forum topic The Hurt Locker Wins in the group Film Forum: 12 hours, 33 minutes ago
Forgot to post this:
Math and the Oscars (Lesson Plans)
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/mathematics/
Math formula for calculating how boring the Oscars were:
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/03/were_these_the_most_boring_osc.html
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Steve O’Dell started the forum topic Yet another engineer joke in the group Branch – Engineer: 12 hours, 50 minutes ago
A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer are given the task of finding how high a particular red rubber ball will bounce when dropped from a given height onto a given surface.
The mathematician derives the elasticity of the ball from its chemical makeup, derives the equations to determine how high it will bounce and [...]
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Steve O’Dell started the forum topic Yet another engineer joke in the group Humor: 12 hours, 51 minutes ago
A mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer are given the task of finding how high a particular red rubber ball will bounce when dropped from a given height onto a given surface.
The mathematician derives the elasticity of the ball from its chemical makeup, derives the equations to determine how high it will bounce and [...]
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On May 28, 2009 Sterling Wayne Wyatt said:
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On April 23, 2009 David Hemmert said:
Steve,
Re: hard science percentages
Actually, you can do the math with only the Director’s percentages quoted. You don’t need to know actual total numbers, although it helps conceptually. It is simply a linear relation of ratios. (0.4*N/0.8*T)=(X*N/T) solve for X where N is the total number of new hard science degreed 2LT’s and T is the total number of new 2LT’s. ans. = 0.5. Knowing the actual numbers is important for a different reason, however. For instance, using the Director’s percentages, and assuming 5000 total new 2LT’s (1000 USMA), if there are a total of 10 hard science degrees (6 USMA, 4 non-USMA), then the army only loses 5 or 0.1%, but if there are 1000 hard science degrees (600 USMA, 400 non-USMA) then the army loses 500 or 10% of its hard science degrees. In the former case, the difference is insignificant and could easily be made up with some sort of incentive or bonus, but the later case has a much greater impact and is much more difficult to overcome. Of course in a discussion, a 50% loss sounds much more impressive than 10% or 0.1%. It’s all relative until you can understand the real numbers. Maybe there needs to be a “Take Boards” forum topic on your “Teachers” group. -
On March 25, 2009 Scott Melendez said:
How is Zo now?
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On March 6, 2009 Richard Cantwell said:
How has life been for you?
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On February 26, 2009 Steve O'Dell said:
The things we do in return for unconditional love… my buddy Zo, my pal of nine years, man’s best best friend, and the biggest pain in my backside, woke me up this morning to his howls, and not of delight. Projectile diarrhea, which is bad in any dog but of biblical proportions when it’s a 170 pound Great Dane. So took him to the vet, and his gut has more bugs than Microsoft Vista and my wallet is now auditioning for an AFTER picture for NutraSystems.