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Welcome to President's Day!
Washington's Birthday is a United States federal holiday celebrated on the third Monday of February, meaning it can occur the 15th through the 21st inclusive, in honor of George Washington, the first President of the United States, who was born on February 22, 1732. Colloquially, it is widely known as Presidents Day and is often an occasion to remember all the presidents, not just George Washington or Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday is also in February.[1][2] The term "Presidents Day" was coined in a deliberate attempt to change the holiday into one honoring multiple presidents.[3]
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Gehrig Dieter
Alabama Gains Star WR As Grad Transfer (rollbamaroll.com; CB969)
After the 2014 season, the Crimson Tide saw the departure of three of their top receivers. With several underclassmen filling up the depth chart, the team needed some experience and leadership at the position. That problem was solved with the addition of graduate-transfer Richard Mullaney from Oregon State. Alas, Bama fans would only get to enjoy the skills of Mullaney for one season. Now the Tide faces a similar situation. But catching the ball is not the only thing Mullaney is good at. He is a darn good recruiter too.
Bowling Green's Gehrig Dieter has announced via Twitter that he will grad-transfer to Alabama for 2016. And Bama fans have Mullaney to thank in part.
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Looking to the Future (Potential Opponents) for UAB Football (underdogdynasty.com; Jimenez)
Fans and alumni of the Blazers program this last week were excited as hell when the first National Signing Day of the resurrected program came to fruition before a national streaming audience. A class of 39 players, including many early enrollees and transfers, will make up the first class of UAB Blazers when the program resumes playing in 2017.
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That being said, here are some opponents that I think could fit the bill.
Power Five Opponents:
Illinois
The Illini have a lot of vacancies, with seven potential spots for UAB to land on between 2018-2021. Illinois has shown they are willing to pay teams to come play them as they recently agreed to a one-game contract with Central Michigan for the lofty sum of $1.5M. Factoring into this will be the Big Ten's requirements for non-conference scheduling, and UAB's willingness to travel so far north.
Vanderbilt
Vandy is in a similar situation to UAB, with a need to find opponents and quickly. Currently, they have 10 vacancies between 2018-2021, with three apiece in 2019 and 2020.They could prove to be a good opponent for UAB, as Vandy is an SEC foe, even if they don't have the greatest of gridiron reputations. A home-and-home could also be set up, as the 'Dores have been willing to schedule such games, having already done so with Wake Forest and Northern Illinois.
Syracuse
The Orange are practically begging for opponents. They have ten vacancies, with three apiece in 2020 and 2021, and two in 2018 and 2019. If UAB's 2017 wasn't already decided, they could also make a run for Syracuse's non-con that season as well. Being an ACC opponent, UAB would jump at a chance to show themselves outside of the Southeast, and Syracuse has shown a tendency to be upset-prone at home. Syracuse is also flexible in scheduling, currently boasting multiple home-and-homes and even a neutral field game.
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Gravitational Waves Are Produced by the Collision of Two Black Holes
How 3 Syracuse Professors Learned They Played a Role inn Proving Albert Einstein Was Right About Gravity Waves (DO; Sugiyama)
Duncan Brown was sitting at the breakfast table checking emails on his iPad when he found out that the research team he was a part of had discovered an Albert Einstein theory to be true.
Though the preliminary assessment showed the data was not affected by a glitch, Brown said he thought it was just a system test. Brown and his team researchers conducted a series of tests, such as instrumental checks and statistical and computational analyses on the data detected.
“Gradually, over that week I began to convince myself that it was real,” he said.
Brown is one of three Syracuse University professors who were among a group of scientists that successfully observed and recorded, for the first time in history, the sound of two black holes colliding, producing ripples known as gravitational waves. The discovery proves the last part of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, according to The New York Times.
Peter Saulson, Stefan Ballmer and Brown — all professors in the physics department at SU — collaborated with scientists around the world as part of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), a project involving hundreds of scientists that seeks to detect gravitational waves. LIGO is operated by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology.
SU has the oldest LIGO Scientific Collaboration lab group outside the LIGO labs at MIT and CalTech.
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Stefan Ballmer
Four days before the gravitational waves were originally detected, Stefan Ballmer flew to the LIGO Observatory in Hanford, Washington, to fine tune the LIGO interferometer, a machine built to detect gravitational waves, at the lab. He worked throughout the weekend.
Around midnight on Sept. 14, he left for the night and kept the machine running.
Around 2:51 a.m. PDT, the machine detected the gravitational waves.
He found out about the potential discovery when returned to the observatory in the morning.
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