Collegiate Sports Majors Instead of Traditional Majors Where One Also Plays Sports

I understand that some people prefer to play sports in addition to their major, and I am not knocking that.  What I am seeking is for universities to recognize collegiate level sports as a major, such that graduation from such a program results in say a Bachelors Degree in Baseball.

Let’s face it, African Americans often find school difficult, but it seems to everyone that there are other ways of measuring intelligence other than IQ, and even the various standard assessments that I am aware of today.  For example, one person might be calculating the mathematical way to hit a 3 pointer in a basket ball game, while someone else might be entirely able to put the ball in the bucket and get the job done.  In that way, including sports as majors will no doubt help the Africa American community.

My radical suggestion would be to make collegiate sports to be a major.  For example, majoring in sports would mean that someone could choose basketball or baseball or even football as a major.  This is as opposed to traditional majors, such as biology, French, and engineering.

There are several reasons for this, but one of the greatest is my hope to inspire young athletes at the grade school to pursue health and wellness for a lifetime.  The problem is that America is getting fat, and that much needs to change or else there will be consequences to our poor eating habits.

The evidence is out there that putting sports on the television does not help folks, but I would beg to disagree.  Those polled were probably adults.  When I was in elementary school, nearly every kid playing squirts wanted to be a professional ball player.  And, though while we should not have delusions of grandeur that we are better than we really are, I believe that professional sports inspires youngsters to exercise.  That much is good for our bodies, and I believe that will translate into a strong America.

One of the major faults of America is that we need to focus more on sports more at the minor league level.  Our minor leaguers should be an inspiration for our youth.  I am lucky to live on Cape Cod where we have the Cape Cod Baseball League, CCBL, which is really at about the AA level.  When our local kids watch these players, many of which are headed for the big league, I indeed feel that it is inspirational to the youth, especially since so many kids can’t afford to attend major league sports.  The minor leagues are very affordable for almost anyone.  Likewise, I feel that broadening the scope of professional sports to include enough teams such that it would make sense for a student to attend College primarily for the aspect of achieving a degree in sports is beneficial to America. 

***** Samsung A157 Go Phone: Unbeatable Price – Go For This Phone

This phone is totally awesome.  It is excellent for text based internet, like Facebook.  I totally love the T9Eab function, such that I find it more useful and quicker to use once (once you get used to it).  So for, cell phones that have a keyboard, generally I feel that once you get used to T9Eab, you will never want to go back.  Additionally, as a bonus with this function, you can add words to the T9Eab vocabulary.

It does have a small screen.  That can either be a bonus or a bane.  For me, personally, it's a bonus.

The A157 is also perfect for checking one's email.  I use Gmail, and here and there during most days, I use this phone to read my email.

Be warned though, there are some features of websites that this phone can't handle, such as buying at amazon.com.  If you use Amazon, then I recommend connecting with a computer with a larger screen.  Thus, though this phone can't buy via Amazon.com, it would probably not be good enough as a computer to use Amazon's functions anyway, and that is neither plus nor negative.   The reason being, size.  If you want a small phone, that is well constructed, and has some internet function capabilities, go for this phone!

I personally use my phone as an emergency phone, usually paying just $15.  I spend $5 for internet, and roughly $9 in emergency calls.  That is unbeatable!

The one thing I feel that is actually lacking with respect to the A157, is that it can't interface with say a laptop or a desktop to be a source of internet capability.  Yet, for $20, I still feel that you really can't beat the price of this phone for the functionality of it.

The Physics of Binge Eating

I believe that I know what binge eaters are so likely to turn to the comfort of food when they are feeling emotions.  Food adds fat to their body, such that it enables a greater amount of resistance to having an emotional meltdown.  The exact physical equation I am commenting on is Voltage equal Current times Resistance.  It is such that feeling lots of emotions increase the amount of thoughts, such people need to feel the resistance to their emotions primarily by adding fat to their diet.  That is of all properties of foods, fat is the one that is most resistant to current, meaning that as resistance works against the circuitry of emotions via providing relief.

Clearly, binge eating is not an optimal answer to controlling one’s emotions.  However, the way I see it is that it is important not to talk someone out of eating.  That is, though overeating is unhealthy, it can also be protective and necessary, such that it can help prevent an emotional breakdown.  However, I am in definite agreement that overeating is not the best way to handle emotions.

The best way is to reorient one’s thinking such that emotional responses are decreased even when the same stimulus is given.  Thus, the optimal way of combating binge eating is not encouraging people not to eat, but changing how they feel about certain things, or even avoiding problem situations that cause emotional instability.

Invention – Multilingual Dictionary Program With All Definitions in English

This one occurred to me while I was playing Scrabble.  That is, I know of many words from other languages that I could often use to make a great play on a Scrabble board.  However, it is such that these kind of words are slowly entering the English language.  One year they may not be in an English dictionary, the next year they might be.  This creates quite a state of confusion for me as a Scrabble player, as the English language evolves to become inclusive of more and more words.  Therefore, I suggest making a multilingual dictionary computer program (if it has not already been done).  We need to face it, the end of adding new words or borrowing words to my language is seemingly without end.  It’s time we buck the trend rather than playing the guessing game so as to see if a word is a real word or not.  Thus, though it may be too big to put on a shelf as a paperback book, one could easily fit such a massive comprehensive dictionary into a reasonably sized computer program.

Reconsider Bothering to Take Lecture Based Classes If You Can Read

Some Professors and teachers go by the book and some don’t.  With regard to learning, attending lecture is a poorer way to learn that actually sitting down with the textbook reading it for yourself.  Yes, some are visual learners, some are auditory learners, and some learn through feeling, but actually reading the material is key.

At college, if you are a dedicated student, chances are that you don’t have a lot of extra time to spend on activities such as lecture, where the lecture is simply a reiteration of written material, which is either available or not available.  There is a better way to learn than the old fashioned way of listening to a Professor ramble on for roughly 90mins each class, and that is by reading the text book and asking questions.  Some professors lecture on material that might as well be written down, and shame should be placed on them for not making that material available in written for written form is a better way of learning than lecture.  I won’t go so far as to say that being able to listen is unimportant.  Indeed, being able to listen if one is a doctor of medicine is often paramount, such that he or she is able to absorb what a patient has to say.  However, instead of lecturing on material not in the test, I suggest that Professors get creative about ways students can collaborate socially with the material which might be facilitated by a Professor.  Essentially, what I am suggesting is that Professors stop lecturing, and start working on facilitating students how they may collaborate together to better understand the material.

By the time students get to college, students should all know how to read, and it is such that reading the material is more important because it opens up the logic and reasoning centers of the brain, while listening to someone lecture often causes those logic and reasoning centers to shut down, such that while a student may be able to remember them, a student will generally be unable to synthesize ideas if he or she has learned via teacher/professor or television.  This is also one reason why I feel it is so important for me to blog this material because people that can read may be able to not just become parrots of me in a professorial way, but that my readers are able to take what I have to say such that it becomes inspirational.

Alcohol Nearby the Sea – Few Alcohol Related Businesses Fail

There is a reason the company Samuel Adams is in Boston.

The MA state coast is a Mecca for alcohol production, use, and sales. In fact, I only know of one bar that stopped serving alcohol, all the while tons of bars and package stores are everywhere here on Cape Cod!

I suggest that influence of alcohol on one’s behavior logarithmically increases when traveling toward the sea.

The theory behind this is that folks near the ocean especially feel the need to thin their blood through use of alcohol. That is, alcohol is wetter than water due to its chemical properties. At first, it seems to have great power as a thirst quencher, but it leaves you with dryness and a headache in the morning.

I suggest that seamen, well noted throughout history for alcoholism absorb salt from the air into their blood supply via the lungs, and that influences their behavior. I live near the sea. I know the smell of salt in the air. That is, living in coastal areas thickens one’s blood content due to absorption of salt simply through breathing the air.

I live on Cape Cod. I estimate that 50% or more of the Cape’s residents become alcoholics. What I have heard is that at the local churches more people show up for AA (Alcoholics Anonymous) meetings, than those who show up for religious services. It is such that the pressure to consume alcoholic beverages in my area is so prevalent, that it is next to impossible to find friends that want to get together to do anything except consume alcoholic beverages. An alternative I have found is to play cards at hobby stores.

Am I talking about instituting the Prohibition again?, not at all, I strongly believe that alcohol should be legal. Alcohol consumption is a part of my religion, and yet I do not drink.

Electronic Dictionary Idea

Dear Merriam-Webster,

For as long as I can remember, that is even as a child, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary has had superior quality, and has been the very foundation of my word usage in English.  That old dictionary got tattered due to years of constant use, such that it came time to buy a dictionary again, this time it was Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate dictionary as both a book and a computer program for my computer.  For me this means that even if I can’t find the book, I know where it is.  All I have to do is boot my computer, and load the program.

This letter is a suggestion about a possible way that the computer program may be improved.  I am suggesting that one not only has the choice of searching via spelling, but also searching in word definitions.  My reasoning for this is that words often come in groups, such that when one is able to find the spelling of a word, it would be of assistance to be able to search for some words that essentially correlate to that word via searching within word definitions.  That is, I hope that this letter may be of assistance to Merriam-Webster.

Sincerely,

Craig Hamilton