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The UFC announced a short time ago that light heavyweight champion Jon Jones suffered a torn meniscus and a sprained ankle in training and is out of his UFC 178 main event title defense against Daniel Cormier. Stepping in as the new main event is the UFC 177 co-main event featuring flyweight champion Demetrious Johnson defending against Chris Cariaso. In ...Read More »
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But Black is seriously looking at the situation, if what the organization is doing is right. Black was a major league pitcher. He knows the position.
"We're thinking history is a great teacher and I think we have to be careful sometimes and look at what's worked over time," he says. "Is this just one of those years or do we tweak something during spring training or during the winter? I've had many conversations with Darren, Hutch (trainer Todd Hutcheson) and the doctors and I think we can go case by case and put an explanation behind each injury.
"We've racked our brains. I've talked to other managers, Hutch has talked to other trainers, the doctors talk all the time to other doctors. We're trying to get a handle on it."
What could be the problem is that most pitchers don't throw enough in-between starts. When Leo Mazzone had phenomenal success as Atlanta's pitching coach, his guys threw constantly and those pitchers rarely missed any time. Black watched Diamondbacks rookie Trevor Bauer throw long-toss across the outfield in-between starts and thought that could be an answer.
"I liked it," the skipper says. "It harkens back a couple generations, when it was survival of the fittest. These guys were able to throw a lot; they threw a lot as kids, playing good old-fashioned catch. I recall doing long toss as a kid. I think there may be something to it, although I think it's inherent in some throwers that they're just prone to staying healthy. In Atlanta they threw a lot but didn't throw hard; they did it at low-intensity, in-between starts.
"Johnny Sain was one of the first acknowledged pitching coaches and one of his things was to throw. We're thinking about a lot of different things. Maybe some guys need to throw more and some guys need to throw less. Maybe we should cut down the volume in spring training. Some guys want to throw as hard as they can on Feb. 17."
One thing's for sure. There's something wrong.
"Look at our best teams here," Black says. "Starting pitching held up. In 2010, we used seven starting pitchers, five up to September, and won 90 games. That's what's happening in San Francisco. All five guys are still in the rotation.
"Teams that have to scramble are in trouble."
The Padres have moved beyond trouble. Their sweet dreams in spring have been scrambled into cold-sweat summer nightmares.


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About 850 homeless men and women came to Golden Hall in downtown San Diego on Wednesday to receive free haircuts, warm clothes, medical screenings and possibly a new direction in life.
"I'm going to get some clothing, eat, probably get a haircut," said Ed McGillicuddy, one of the people who showed up for Project Homeless Connect.
McGillicuddy said his last haircut was in July, when he went to an outreach event at The Rock Church.
"I'm trying to move up the ladder a bit and not being around anything that's going to trigger old behavior," he said about his life in transitional housing. "I want to be a contributing member of society."
Project Homeless Connect began in San Francisco in 2004 as a way of bringing various social services together under one roof for one day. The Interfaith Shelter Network started offering a local version of the event eight years ago, and the San Diego Housing Commission took it over four years ago.
Rosemary Johnston, who recently retired as head of the Interfaith Shelter Network, said the one-day annual event is not about handouts.
"It's very important to offer opportunities to the homeless community," she said. "It's a process of engagement to get people off the street."
Johnston said homeless people who attend can learn about housing programs, mental-health services, substance-abuse counseling and other avenues that could lead to a new life. Even individuals who come seeking only free food and clothing will at least see that others care about their overall well-being, she said.
Everyone who came to Golden Hall on Wednesday was asked to fill out a questionnaire before meeting with service agencies inside.
Mathew Packard, who helped organize the event for the San Diego Housing Commission, said it will take a couple of years to make that information available on a countywide system for groups helping the homeless.
Interim San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, honorary chairman of Project Homeless Connect, said the event is an entry point for those seeking to get off the streets.
"We don't want to address just the symptoms," he said. "We want to create a pathway to ending homelessness."
A few people spent the night outside Golden Hall so they could be the first ones to get new clothes and a hearty breakfast. The event also provided HIV testing, legal advice and medical and dental checkups.
New services this year included children's books, pet exams conducted by veterinarians, California identification cards from the Department of Motor Vehicles and CPR training from American Medical Response.
"It's important for everybody to learn CPR," said paramedic Travis Hoberecht, who had talked to 120 people by noon with hopes that each one would then teach the technique to others living on the streets.
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NoEffet and Davee have removed the PSP Slim hardware check on NJ's Neo Geo and Capcom play system 1 and 2 emulators. So they will now work without needing to cache the ROMs. So your now using the full 64mb of on-board PSP-3000 ram.
These emulators come highly recommended by us. Basically you have perfect arcade emulation of Capcom CPS1 and CPS2 arcade games like 1941, Mercs, Dark Stalkers and Street fighter II and with MVSPSP, near perfect Neo Geo arcade emulation for games like Art of Fighting, Metal Slug 2 and Samurai Shodown etc
P.S The above youtube video I recorded doesn't do the emulators justice. Because remotejoy lite uses some 25% or more of the PSP's power to run the video output. On your PSP its as quick as the real thing. Apart from Metal Slug series which the real life SNK Max Gear Mega pro-spec arcade machines couldn't handle either….
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Statistics released to coincide with Vocations Sunday yesterday showed that nearly 100 men and women entered convents, seminaries and religious houses across England and Wales in 2013. Some 44 men entered seminaries and 22 men and 30 women entered religious life.
This is the first time that the number of entrants to priestly formation has increased since 2010, but is significantly lower than in the 1980s, when the number of men entering diocesan seminaries stood at around 160.
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All of his kicks have bad intentions, that's why they're used.
It's not a slight against any one fighter, I promise. Condit uses it and he is one of my very favorite fighters. I just don't agree with it continuing to be legal under current rules.
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Re: Twinview not working and nvidia-settings crashing on T61 (Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M)
Thanks mstralka!
After reading your post I did some more testing.
If I use nvidia-settings to switch to a clone setup using 1400x1050 for the external monitor (which actually has a default resolution of 1680x1050) everything works as expected! After that i can use nvidia-settings a second time and switch to 1680x1050, resulting in a working clone setup (LCD with 1680x1050 and external monitor with 1680x1050)!
Although this isn't a perfect solution it is a good work-around until nvidia will release a better/working driver!
To summarize the issue: Using nvidia-settings with the same resolution (1680x1050) for LCD and external monitor result in only one monitor working and Xserver crashing afterwards. Using 1400x1050 for the external monitor first, and then switching to the correct resolution of 1680x1050 brings up a working setup.
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Frozen pipe suggestions
Came home Sunday to no water. It looks like the service is frozen somewhere in the ~105 feet between the meter which is in the house and the shut-off valve at the curb. It's all underground about 5 feet or so.
The only local plumber that deals with such things estimated $400-1000 to thaw it with an electric welder. He wants to connect in the house and at a fire hydrant down the block. I'm not sure that's a good idea because I think most of the heat will be generated in the city's iron pipe instead of in my copper.
I don't think among all my friends put together we could come up with enough welding cable to do this job.:rofl
I read here https://www.ridgidforum.com/forum/t22013-2/#post202756 about inserting a smaller tube into the line and pumping in water to thaw the ice. Anybody have experience home brewing something like this? The main question is what kind of tubing to use.
My other option is to just wait a month or so for it to thaw. That's doable since I'm the only person here most of the time, but it wouldn't be much fun.:cry
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Fire hydrant in some newer areas are on different lines. Old area they would be the same.
Dad had the same problem with frozen in the ground line. Welder hooked up to the shut of valve by the street and the copper pipe in the basement. Mainline on the street should not be frozen. Half on hour later using the welder and water was on. This was in northern alberta.
Cure was to let the toilet dribble so water was always moving.
Doesn't sound like fun. Do you have a time frame before it splits and you find where the frozen section really is? Has it froze up before? Where are you? Heat tape on everything exposed in the house?
don't be using a welder unless you've done it before, know which welder and what settings to use. they make specific AC low voltage pipe thawers for this job. just loaned mine out to thaw out a tenant's mom.
got another one stashed somewhere .. have no idea how I ended up with two pipe thawer machines :D
EDIT/ADD: Sorry. Didn't see that you were looking for tubing suggestions. We used 1/4" PP (or maybe PE) tubing similar to this. Doesn't like to go around 90* bends, tho, so you'll have to make sure you've got a fairly straight run from where you start to thread it into the system. Good luck!
In my youth I dug up a fair number of those valves and I don't remember if there was a connection between the "wrench" pipe and the copper pipe.
I've always been nervous about going away and leaving water running. Maybe I need to reconsider.
It's never frozen up in the 14 years I've been here, but according to the DOT web site http://www.mrr.dot.state.mn.us/resea...haw_graphs.asp at a site south of Rochester ( about 20 miles from me) the frost depth is 55". In the time I've been in this house the previous low was about 52".
The pipe comes up through the basement floor. It goes across the house under the floor and across the yard, under the driveway and on out to the street. IF it travels near the sewer line the first ~65 ft. is ~9 ft. below grade. Under the driveway for ~15 ft. it is 5½ ft. deep and stays at that depth out to the street. The yard on the far side of the Drive has ~2 ft. of snow. The basement is at 60° now.
It seems to me the problem is under the driveway or in the street.
My wife and I lived for a year in a craptastic house that had numerous poorly-thought-out additions over the years. The kitchen feed lines froze on us once. I learned from a plumber from a previous visit that the feed and drain lines ran together in an open shallow trench in the crawl space under the kitchen, so I got a big pot of hot water from the tub, heated it to boiling on the stove, and poured it down the kitchen drain. That put enough heat in the water lines to thaw them.
As a retired plumber-----I spent much time unthawing water lines underground.
We had a machine specific for the job and it worked well. We hooked on the pipe in the meter well always---not a fire hydrant and also to the pipe in the house--hopefully in a basement.
Good thing you have a metal water service---------nobody around here has metal pipe for a water service anymore-----everybody went to plastic.
Sometimes we just couldn't get one unthawed and found out somebody had made a repair to the line and spliced in a piece of plastic----------no worky.
God I hated doing that. Cold--cold--cold. Then the pipe would freeze up the next day again and the customer wouldn't pay the bill------said I didn't to a very good job. :eek1:eek1:eek1:eek1
fwiw,,, the frozen part will be where there is no snow cover. I've seen a welder work for thawing.
So is the access pipe down to the curbside valve physically connected to the valve or did you have to put something down to the valve to make a good contact?
It was only -20° today, so not that bad.:D
If you have a neighbor close by and a city that will work with your water bills, the easy way to work around the problem is to just use some potable water hose (RV hose) and connect to their hose bib and feed back into a hose bib on your house. KEEP THE WATER FLOWING in your house cuz if you freeze up the hose line you're fooked. You won't have great pressure, but you'll be able to have running hot and cold water.
A number of years ago I worked on the design of radios to attach to the water or gas meter so the reader just drives by you house to get the reading. Being from Minnesota we were AMAZED to find out that some places people had their water meters outside at the curb. Ours are all indoors with various types of remote reading devices.
I think when it's -20° you might need a LOT of flow to keep 100+ feet of hose from freezing. Maybe you could bury the hose in the snow.
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of all the new era mmos it was over the fastest. ive never had the displeasure of playing through more shallow and easy mode content in my life. broke the new mmo formula wide open in that regard.
LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
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Originally posted by pmiles
I take it you are current player then? I mean if not, how would you know about patches being screwed?
And after 8 months and all GW2 has done is the same thing it launched with, which is no sub fee and no trinity, how is that progress? Seems pretty static to me...
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Originally posted by Slampig
So I take it you think WoW's sub based pay model, trinity, raids, and gear grind new and refreshing or just a warm fuzzy comfort blanket?
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Originally posted by Praetalus
He's not even trying to make it sound epic. LOL
Pay attention to what he said and learn something or live in ignorance. It's YOUR choice.
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Originally posted by Volkon
Nah I know the deal, chains blahblah kill big thing at the end unlock a trader with nothing interesting hehe - Atleast I have never found a good reason I should do it.. no there was one time I needed to do it to get the last point for a 100% completion. Also as a Mesmer with not alot of dps, the pushing part takes forever without help. Well I am not done with GW2, I can enjoy the good parts.. and I want a total completion before I quit.
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Originally posted by Epicent
You are trying to tell me that the population is the same as it was at launch or even two months afterwards? It isn't. Not even close. You can spin it anyway that you want, but the reality of the matter is that the population is way less. I don't hate the game, and I still play it occasionally. But let's be real, it isn't growing.
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Originally posted by azmundai
LOL - this is the typical anti-GW2 comment - so funny!. How far did you get? lvl 10? just asking - try Orr or Southsun Coast solo an see if it is easy. JEEZ!!
Originally posted by Volkon
And then as soon as you are done, it recycles and the same thing happens again. Maybe if they only popped once or twice a day it might be fine, but most of them recycle so quickly that you see them happen so many times and begin to careless about if so and so needs and escort or if the centaurs control some bridge. There really aren't significant enough consequences for not doing them for it to matter.
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fully discovered orr, solo on a thief. sure i followed some zergs around as well, but there really wasn't anything interesting and the only reason it was challenging was because the mobs were packed in like sardines. luckily as a thief I could just train and stealth. id have probably quit way earlier if I had to actually clear through the hordes of meaningless mobs in that horrible zone. cleared most of the dungeons and even spent a few weeks in wvw ... uninstalled 2 months after purchase. boring, repetitive game with zero community and zero endgame ... even came back for the wvw revamp ... /lol yawn
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Originally posted by dlld
Anet hasn't released how many people have actually quit. But neither has Blizzard released any info so as to how many people pay $15 a month. Also people again assume that what China pay is less than a meagre sub of 8.99. We have no figures to support either claim. Also 3m was in the first week (s?) wasn't it? We don't know how many copies they ended up selling in the end.
My point is he is making an assumption that half of GW2's playerbase has quit based on no facts. However, you are also making an assumption about WoW's subs based on no facts.
@OP, the games are very different. In what ways? Do some research. It will probably take tages to type up all the differences as the games have almost nothing in common.
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I played WoW for like 2-2,5 year and left for several reasons but was not fed-up of game.
I played GW2 like 4 months, got fed-up and left.
I don't know what is "WoW formula", but GW2 to me was a single player (or on-line non MMO) console-like game w/o deepness.
try before buy, even if it's a game to avoid bad surprises.
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Originally posted by stevebombsquad
They should have added raiding to eliminate the problem with repeating content! Am I right Steve?
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I really admire a lot about GW2 - and especially the sheer passion and talent that went into crafting that beautiful world and the amazingly smooth combat system.
Ultimately, however, I consider the overall design rather underwhelming.
It's the kind of concept that sounds absolutely brilliant in theory - if you're slightly drunk and you're sick of the standard MMO treadmill.
But a truly insightful game designer would have realised that simply removing all the "hassle" and pouring your heart and soul into making the game is not going to cut it.
You have to understand why certain things appeal to people - and that "grind" or "hard work" is the essence behind any reward system. It's about psychology.
There has to be a balance - and that balance is constantly changing. In the past, we had severe death penalties and hours of corpse running. That balance has changed.
But if you push it too quickly and without great care - you will take out the essence.
That's what I think GW2 did in a lot of ways.
NOT all ways - but a lot of ways.
Also, it repeats the mistakes of WoW. It fails to provide true roleplaying avenues of gameplay. It fails to give power to the players when it comes to end-game content. It fails to provide a PvP experience for people who enjoy PvP with severe consequences. These things CAN happen in a game that also provides things for everyone else. It just takes smart design.
So, in the end, GW2 was a great idea in theory and it's executed very well. But, in practice, the idea isn't as good as so many people keep insisting it is. It SHOULD be in their minds - but it's really not.
That's how I see it.
I agree the art work was exceptional.
LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
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Originally posted by Manolios
and why do people always try to compare games on this "if it's a sub" basis ... well it is not , deal with it.. every game can be compared but you have to look at the whole package.
ANet chose that model because it has proven good and they earned enough money from GW1 on that model to make GW2 and now in GW2 they're making more than enough money since they're constantly updating the game and giving players huge content packs for free. Can you imagine blizzard doing that with wow lately? I guess you just can't...
Also you have to take into consideration that GW2 sold mills of copies without china... WOW has 7 mill with china. If you're already pulling up the numbers you could put them in a decent perspective.
GW2 managed to get exciting and good combat system which works good without the trinity. They were creative enough to come up with it and they had the guts to do it so they're as far as they can be from wow here.
There are no quests, but there are renown hearts which help you while you're exploring the world and you just don't know where to start or go.. It's still not like quests but it does come a little bit close to it, ofcourse you don't have to do them in order to advance which is alot different than wow.
I already said about constant updates so I guess that's a plus on anets side as well...
The artwork is just amazing in GW2 and I really do like that, also music is J.S. and that kinda speaks for itself... So on the music aspect and artwork/graphics -> GW2.
What I like more about blizzard is their astonoshingly awesome trailers or short movies. That's something I always like to take a look at even if I'm planning on playing the next expansion or not.
I like how gw2 isn't dumbed down because it's "too hard" sometimes... That was something I liked about WOW as well in vanilla and BC until they ruined it.
Only interesting thing is that I didn't have that same feeling which i had when I first entered WOW. But it did come close to it.. I can't explain it tho xD weird
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Originally posted by stevebombsquad
My personal ancecdotal experience has been: huge launch spike, numbers taper off in the fall (MoP is released), huge numbers come back around Christmas. Numbers may be dropping off now, I have no way of knowing. But just yesterday I was answering questions from a new player in starting zone on an alt.
Accoridng to this article from two months ago (six months after launch) the game is still growing: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/07/how-guild-wars-2-plans-to-survive. Known facts do not match quoted assertion.
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Originally posted by fivoroth
It's less of an assumption and more of an educated guess, subbing to wow without owning the latest xpack is damn near useless so it's fair to say the number of sold copies of mop is very close to the sub number or lower (due to people just coming back a month or two to check/finish the xpack then leave til the next).
MoP sold 2,7 million in it's first week it's reasonable to assume it has hit 3mil now but doubtedly broken 4 (considering the relative lackluster initial sale of mop it would make sense to announce large milestones like that, they updated diablo sales multiple times didn't they). Either way at best the standard 15 a month western base makes up 50% (4,5mil) of the playerbase.
Chinese would need to play for 200 hours a month or average a bit over 6 and a half hours a day to spend the equivalent of todays 15 bucks unless they changed the rate of 0.45 yuan/hour i managed to google. Make of that what you will I suppose.
Originally posted by eyelolled
Sure why not. It often takes my guild a few month or two to finish a raid all the way through. The events sure don't entertain us for that long. I still play GW2, but it really has some issues in the longevity department. While it entertains a few people, there are lots of people with the same complaint. The events were painted in a much better light than they were when actually experienced.
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Difference is that raiding is on a one week lockout. DE's are what every 30mins? Much higher frequency which means quicker consumption by the player base. I wish Anet delivered on what they promised when it comes to DE'S. Remember the 'zone wide changes! ' claim? :(
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how many times have you fallen off??
i've fallen 5 times... 3 times in two weeks once! what about you?
I've falled off 3 times. I'll give a little story behind them all :)
I was 8 and was taking lessons. I was riding this horse Thunder and he was terrified of water. So we were walking or trotting and there was a puddle coming up. I wanted him to go to the rail, but he had another plan. He went left, and i went right, right into the puddle of mud.
the second time i fell i off, i was riding this pony named Purdy, and we were doing a little jump. For some reason she was afraid of the jump (even though we had just jumped it) and she went right and i went even further right and fell.
The last time i fell off, i was riding my fiance's gelding, Gem and he, out of the blue, did a huge buck, and i slowly slide off. I caught that one on camera (well most of it)
There might have been a fall between purdy and Gem, but i can't remember
I honestly don't remember how many times I've fallen off :lol: Not like in the 100's but it has to be over 10. I'm kind of a klutz. I don't just fall off, I fall down a lot. If theres something to trip on I'll find it :lol:
I've fallen of hundreds of time. Most of the times I've fallen off was in one summer job riding problem auction mart horses. Thank goodness I'm pretty good about landing on my feet and have most of the time! :D I have not fallen off any of my horses so I'm sure my time is coming for them as well.. :wink:
I've fallen loads of times... about 20 or 30 times, I'd guess... thankfully, I've never been seriously hurt... just sore!
Huh.. I have no idea... hundreds, literally... when I got my first mare I fell off at least once everytime I rode her for the first year I owned her. Before that I had been riding for 6 years, and had plenty of falls then. I haven't had any lately though! (knock on wood)
this may seem weird but i have been ridind for 7 or 8 years i have only feel off once! i am very coutious!
I have fallen off a lot, but nothing major. ;) I haven't fallen off for almost a month now actually lol.
Wow once a month is a lot!
8 ish, 1st one i was trotting and was going to turn down the center line and the lesson horse bolted round the corner and i feel. another time i was trotting without stirups and at that time i wasnt to confident and i would pull up my legs and i slid off lol, this was when i was had just started about 6 years ago. i then had a few falls in one lesson and we were doing three jumps (one after the other, forgot what its called :oops:) and the lesson horse kept running out of the jump or stopping in front of it. i kept falling onto the jump, it was my fault, and by the end the horse and i had lost confidence.
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Fire over your questions to me at
firstname.lastname@example.com. I might not be able to answer them
all, but I promise they're all read. Any e-mails sent to this
address may be published or edited unless requested otherwise.
(Please put ASK CFN in the subject line, and PLEASE keep the
questions short ... it makes my life easier.)
What is the situation concerning sports writers and gambling
on the sports they cover? You would seem to have an advantage since you
are fully aware of each teams strengths considering your coverage
as compared to the average fan/gambler who may only know teams in his
favorite conference. Is it frowned upon at all, an ethical issue, or an
issue at all? GO HOGS!
A: You'd think there'd be an advantage, and there probably is, but when
it comes to me, any tidbits of inside info will be in the part of the
Fearless Predictions that I write. So for the most part, you'll know
what I know since my goal is for the picks I make to be as right as
possible for journalistic and respect purposes; not for gamblers to get
rich off of, and certainly not for my own financial gain.
For the most part, when it comes to picking college games, I'll average
out at about 60% against the spread long term, (anyone claiming to do
better than 65% on a long term basis is lying to you), but I despise
gambling. There's a reason the Las Vegas hotels are as posh as they are.
You always end up losing in the long run. Frowned upon? For a writer, it
is if you're gathering info just to place a bet. I'm not a big ethics
guy, but this is one area where I'll draw a line. With that said, you
probably don't want me in your bowl pool, NCAA tournament pool or
fantasy football league.
Settle an
argument for me … what's easier to gamble on, college or pro?
BTW, how is it that the oddsmakers are always so close? - TE
A: Preseason NFL football. Betting on the NFL is for suckers,
and the hard core, do-it-for-a-living guys usually stay away in
droves. It's not because of the Any Given Sunday cliché, it's
because the lines are usually more accurate.
Here's how it works. A bunch of guys in Vegas put together an
initial line on a game at the first second possible, and then it
gets floated out to the major players. The real degenerate
types. They then place their bets, and the line adjusts from
there to try to be as even as possible so half the people will
go one way, and half will go the other. Yeah, the oddsmakers
come close, but it's the market that makes the line.
Because the info, in general, is so much better when it comes to
the NFL, the adjustment is usually more accurate. In college,
there's often such a wide disparity in talent and between teams,
there's more room for error. So to answer your question,
college, for the serious gambler, is the easier of the two.
For the real crazed gamers, right now is the prime season
because of the NFL preseason. An astute gambler can figure out
which team is going to play its starters longer, and which teams
will be experimenting with rookies and backups, and then get his
bet down before the line starts to adjust. For the most part,
people bet on the preseason based on teams like they'll be in
the regular season and not in a preseason situation, so for the
guys who do their homework, the lines are usually way, way off
early on, making for easy pickings.
Did you notice the "others receiving votes" in the USA Today's
Coaches Poll? Duke got one vote. One of the coaches
actually thought Duke should be ranked #25. Is this not the
most ringing indictment of the Coaches Poll to date? Seriosuly.
If one of the "experts" in a poll really thinks that Duke is
better than 94 teams in the country, I don't want that poll
involved in the BCS, that's for sure. – WH
A: That No. 25 Duke vote every year comes from Steve Spurrier as
a "Thank You" for hiring him several years ago.
I've noticed that on a lot of your all-time stuff you start
everything at 1970. Aren't you basically forgetting about most
of the history of the sport by doing that? – RT
A: I was born in 1970, so of course, that's when everything
relevant started to happen. Actually, there are a few reasons
for doing it like this. First, and most importantly, that's
around when the national champions were decided after the bowl
games, making the bowls more important. Famously, Richard Nixon
awarded the 1969 Texas team the national championship after
beating Arkansas on the last game of the regular season, even
though the Longhorns still had to play Notre Dame in the Cotton
Bowl (which they won in a 21-17 classic). Second, it's around
when college football was finally integrated. Some Barry Bonds
apologists like to point to past baseball records being skewed
because blacks weren't allowed to play until Jackie Robinson
broke through. I'm not going to go that far with college
football's record books, but things certainly did change after
1970. And finally, 1970 is a nice, easy delineation between
eras. There's a lot more info on the games after that point.
Which five BCS powers
are the most nationally respected teams? (a lot of people across the
country like to see win?) Which five BCS powers are the most vilified
teams? (a lot of people across the country like to see lose?) – JM
A: There's a difference between respect and love. There are plenty of
teams that fans respect, but don't like, and vice versa. Basically, from
what I've been able to gather after years of reader interaction is that
everyone has one team they're in love with, and then they have a
secondary team, always in a different conference, that they root for.
For the most part, Notre Dame, the New York Yankees of college football,
is both the most loved and hated team. There's almost no middle ground
when it comes to the Irish. Michigan also occupies a spot in both
It'd be an interesting poll question for the fans, but my guess is that
the top five most respected teams on a national scale will always
correspond to how good the teams are at the time combined with a
historical aspect. When it comes to fans' respect, right now I'd say
it's probably 1. USC, 2. Michigan, 3. Ohio State, 4. Texas, 5. Florida.
LSU and Oklahoma should probably be in there somewhere. When it comes
to the most hated, it's probably 1. Notre Dame, 2. Michigan, 3. USC, 4.
Oklahoma, 5. Miami. The five most loved on a national scale (basically,
these are the teams many fans grew up rooting for) would probably be 1.
Notre Dame, 2. Michigan, 3. USC, 4. Florida State, 5. Penn State, Ohio
State or Nebraska.
Your limited 4 team playoff, plus one format makes all the other bowl
games worthless. The plus one has to be either two teams that have just
won their bowl games, or two teams of the 4 that received a bye week
vacation at the location of the championship game. The results of the
other bowls have to count in the final BCS standings. That way Toledo
against Michigan State in the Motor City Bowl could make the difference
between Florida or Michigan in the championship game. The best thing
about college football is that every game matters. 1&2 get all the glory
and attention that the drive by media loves to bestow upon any big
event. 3&4 get the total screw of no bowl, just like a playoff system
would do to 40 teams each year. – JT
A: Then why not just have one extra week of the season instead of bowl
games? You already have your data at the end of the regular season and
the teams are seeded accordingly. To make what you're proposing fair,
all 119 teams would have to be in a bowl. Your way would create even
more problems and wouldn't solve anything. Again (forgive me for
continuing to pound this), the No. 1 conference champion should play the
No. 4 conference champion, the No. 2 conference champ should play the
No. 3, and then the two winners should meet. One extra game, no real
mess, no legitimate controversy.
I sat in Phoenix at the National Championship game and watched my
Buckeys get the snot beat out of them. How does a loss like this affect
long term national recruiting? – Mike
A: It doesn't matter nearly as much as the recruiting types would have
you believe. If a kid grew up wanting to play for Ohio State, then he's
going to go to Ohio State. Jim Tressel's recruiting pitch … yeah we
lost, but with you, the outcome might have been different. It might have
been ugly, but we were in the national championship game, and will be
again. Come to Ohio State and you'll be in the hunt for the national
title, and if you work hard enough, will be in a great position to go to
the next level.
Seeing that Utah picked up a season opener at Michigan next
year got me wondering. Is it better for a "mid-major" to take a game
like that (and the $800,000 check) that comes with it for some national
exposure? Or is it better to stick with that home-and-home with
Washington State. – DL
A: For Utah, you always, always, always, always, always take your shot
at the biggest name possible whenever you can. That's how you can make
more of a name for yourself and get more exposure. Win that game, and
all of a sudden you're a player. As a fan, I want as many of these
Utah-Michigan matchups as possible. With that said, Michigan is nuts for
taking on this game. It's a no-win situation. It's a game the Wolverines
could lose if things aren't going quite right, and no one will really
think twice about it if they win.
I love college football, all conferences, not just the big boys. I
also play in a fantasy league, we draft college teams, looking for big
offenses and shutdown defenses. So, I need some depth, outside of the
big conferences...Can you give me 5 offenses that will light the
scoreboard up like a Christmas tree? And some defenses that will hold
their opponents in check. Some under the radar teams. Thanks! -
Ryan-Wisconsin-GO BUCKY!
A: Assuming everyone knows about the Hawaii and New Mexico State
offenses, under-the-radar offenses that'll finish high are 1. Central
Michigan, 2. San Diego State, 3. Toledo, 4. Ball State, 5. Colorado
State. Five under-the-radar non-BCS defenses that'll shut most teams
down (assuming you know about TCU and Boise State) are 1. New Mexico, 2.
Nevada, 3. Wyoming, 4. Colorado State, 5. Fresno State.


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I recently wrote -- whined -- about no longer being able to find the kind of sheets I want. Those crisp sheets woven so tightly your sleeping body barely leaves a dent. No soft stuff, ridiculous thread counts or "special" finish. Just sheets that feel baked in the sun on flat rocks somewhere very hot.
Sheets like my Nana had, I bemoaned in that column.
So many of you, men and women alike, responded with sympathy and suggestions. You understood my pain and I had some great chats on the phone with a number of fellow sheetophiles. My editor was stunned, but I knew my people were out there, suffering along with me.
In dozens of communications, one thread emerged as the most probable solution. And when Joan dropped off the catalog at my desk, I could see why.
"The Vermont Country Store" is a seller of things you either (A) never knew existed, or (B) completely forgot about, such as Fels Naptha laundry bar soap -- which I personally know to be magical for stain removal -- and Tangee lipstick. Rotary dial phones with the heft of the original Bakelite cases, that folding Bulova travel alarm your grandma packed for visits, Munsingwear men's briefs with the "kangaroo" pouch, which I will not go into here.
Christmas ribbon candy, the same "Mystery Date" game you giggled over in fifth grade and real maple sugar candy in the shape of maple leaves. Like the ones my friend Ann brought to my sixth-grade birthday party and I've drooled over the memory ever since.
OK, I am reining myself in now.
The Vermont-based company is a merchant of memories, a purveyor of nostalgia and marketer of "the good ol' days." And sheets, specifically its line of "Clothesline Crisp" sheets, right there on page 73 of the "Christmas Preview 2012" catalog.
These people have obviously been eavesdropping inside my brain. "Rediscover the cool, fresh joy of your grandmother's sheets," the catalog description says. "Why don't sheets feel crisp and cool they way they used to?"
But if no one makes them, how can this store sell such rare treasures as decent sheets?
The company hasn't stayed in business since 1946 by chance, company marketer Ben Nooney said. "We listen to what our customers want. We find an old formula, or we find a company that still makes it -- just because it's not in Walmart doesn't mean its not being made."
His father, Lyman Orton, is the "consummate merchant," noted Cabot Orton, proprietor of the company's physical store in Weston, Vt., and one of Lyman's three sons who work in the family business.
Lyman took over management of The Vermont Country Store in 1972 from his parents, Vrest and Mildred. His instinct for merchandise and marketing grew the New England company from its starts in 1945 as a 12-page catalogue of 36 items.
Today the business employees hundreds of people and has millions of customers, it says.
Those customers seem to appreciate his dad's ability to anticipate unmet needs, Cabot said from his Vermont office.
The Clothesline Crisp sheets are the perfect example, he told me, once we had decided together internet shopping is no substitute for the tactile pleasure of leafing through a catalog, thumbing back a few pages once a trigger has gone off in our brains.
"Anyone can go online or find 300 kinds of sheets at Bed Bath & Beyond, spending hundreds on imported sheets. But there is still a significant audience who want our sheets. "
In the global market, the biggest spenders get to decide what the rest of us will have to choose from. Somewhere along the line, some group fell for the "softer is better and higher thread counts matter" campaign. Yet the minority who don't want to sweat against their bedding is pretty darn big, Cabot said.
Nostalgia aside, your grandmother's original sheets aren't going to be the answer today. Those were made for thinner mattresses, the kind we all slept on before the bedding industry compelled us to buy the 17-inch, or higher, behemoths we have now.
A Vermont Country Store's purchasing agent, Danila, spent a year trying to find a seller of such crispy sheet wonders for modern beds, or a company willing to try to meet the need, he added. Lucky for people like me, Danila didn't stop until she had success.
These sheets are manufactured to echo yesterday but take advantage of modern technology. Unlike my grandmother's day, homemakers no longer spend an inordinate chunk of a week laundering bedding (or anything else, generally), running sopping sheets through a mangle, which left a wrinkled product needing devoted ironing.
Now, the price might make Grandma gasp -- a set of "Clothesline Crisp" fitting a queen bed runs a nickel under $100. However, my own investigation into the matter tells me that figure is but a drop in the laundry tub in this new world order of specialized bedding.
His father is adamant, Cabot said. "Our products have to solve a problem. We sell a lot of great gifts, but at the end of the day, most solve a problem."
The company sells thousands of these sheets sets a year, he added. "It's a cult following."
I'm thinking about becoming just such a member.
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I'm 29 weeks pregnant and I'm barely showing. I can't fit any of my post pregnancy pants. I'm feeling great now that I've reached my third trimester. Hardly no morning sickness and my fundal height is within range. I'm not a little woman and pre pregnancy I was about an 18 misses. I had gastric bypass surgery five years ago and lost a total of 180 lbs. I had a tummy tuck to follow so my stomach has always been tight and flat. I feel my baby kicking in me and she looks healthy and fine in the ultrasounds. I'm just concerned at 7 months why don't I have a huge basketball belly. Nobody can tell I'm pregnant and it's driving me crazy. I feel like some sort of freak show! Is anyone experiencing this issue. H-E-L-P any encouraging words would be appreciated.
Not showing at 29 Weeks
talk to your dr. I;m not sure but if you're feeling kicking, thats a good sign. best of luck!
Married to my amazing husband Chris since 8.26.06. EDD: 9.29.10 Expecting our 1st. It's a Boy!!!
Don't worry about it. As long as it's ok with the doctor you're good. Don't worry about what people think you should look like. My belly didn't start growing till late and everyone kept telling me "oh, you don't even look pregnant" and now everyone's telling me "I wish I looked like that whe I was 7months, I was HUGE." So even though it bothers you a little, just be glad that everyone else is jealous of your belly. I've gotten used to it. It definitely bothered me for awhile, but I figure I'm healthy, baby's healthy, why worry?
Thanks guys. I'm feeling a little better. I just hate the comments. It's like whatever yes I just look fat but I'm pregnant darn it! LOL
One day soon you'll wake up and you'll belly will have just popped out. I didn't look pregnant with my first child until after 7 months. With my second I looked preggers at 4-5 months.
DS 4/2007 �DD 3/2009 �mc 7/2010 at 6.5 weeks��Baby #3 due 5/27/2011!�
I didnt start showing with my first son till the very end, I popped out quick! This pregnancy Im 23 weeks and really showing.
Son Logan�5 yrs old
Aiden Archer Teague�7mths! Born on September 27, 2010 at 6:33pm
Wife to my firefighter/paramedic since 06/07/08. Special Education Teacher turned SAHM to our future little linebacker, Wesley, since 11/07/09.
I'm sorry, I don't understand the issue. If the baby is normal, then you should enjoy that you don't have a basketball belly like some of us
typos courtesy of curious baby
I was wearing size 14 and did not actually start showing until around 24 weeks. I just started looking like I had put on a few pounds. I wouldn't worry about it, if you feel prego. Maybe just wear tighter clothing, so you can show off a belly if that will make you feel better. Thats what I did.
Desiree + Chris
Zachary Ezra = 4 years old
DD for Tyler Jonathan = 07/25/10
My belly was never very big with either of my pregnancies. Even at the end if I wore an oversized sweatshirt you couldn't immediately tell I was expecting. Both my girls were average sized and healthy so don't worry about it too much :)
*Me & DH 1/5/02*
*DD 8 yrs*
*DD 6 yrs*
I was the same way with my first. Don't worry. You'll get fat with the next one.


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Phillies Fall To Dodgers, 5-3
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Phillies Fall To Dodgers, 4-3
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Magic Johnson Group To Buy Dodgers For Record $2B
A group that includes former Lakers star Magic Johnson and longtime baseball executive Stan Kasten agreed Tuesday night to buy the Dodgers from Frank McCourt for a record $2 billion.
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