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A little bit of algebra explains this 'magic'. Ask a friend to pick 3 consecutive numbers and to tell you a multiple of 3. Then ask them to add the four numbers and multiply by 67, and to tell you. . . .
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table containing the results of the games was accidentally deleted.
What was the score in each match played?
The sums of the squares of three related numbers is also a perfect
square - can you explain why?
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number points and goals scored for and against each team. Fill in
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Are we really doing the industry a service?
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Originally posted by MindTrigger
To be honest, I think that is Cryptic's model for sure. A CM even posted that they figured on getting one/sixth (1/6) ONE/SIXTH of the people playing beta that would play STO. They undersized the servers because of this and had to put in a query system to get people into the game. I think at 1 time I was 972 out of about 2000. I just loged.
1/6??? 1/6??? If I had a product that only 1/6 of my potential customers were going to buy after they tried and knew about the product, I think I'd slit my throat. My business can't work on 1/6 of the people that try my products, but theirs can?
You all could be right. It may take a bunch of these games going the way of Tabula Rasa before we get any inovation, again. I'm 53 tho, I may not live that long. lol
Are we really doing the industry a service?
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Originally posted by TUX426
Tux, if you can stomach STO, you're a better man than me. However, I realise that you were the reb senator and PVP was a large part of your game. In the last incarnation of SWG, post C6CD thru GU-Whatever, as a LS jedi I lost the PVP ability. Blixtev's "LS = pve (tank)" junk. So that much of SWG went out the window for me, at least. However, all thru my years of SWG, I had 4 crafters and 1, very well built I must admit, combat toon, the jedi. Before GU-Whatever, I enjoyed PVP but after the lead designer said himself that LS jedi were not designed for all the spike damage the PVP aspect grew shorter and shorter. The tank was a tank in everything except spike damage riddled PVP. I did try it, with some sucess, but the only way a LS could compete was haveing 6 lines of buffs running at any given time. I had all those things, but my wife who started post NGE couldn't so I got to hear how it wasn't fair to her jedi that I had all these things that she couldn't get anymore. Bacta tank, elder crystals, etc, etc, etc. Carried so many buffs for awhile I had very little inventory space. Even wrote a toolbar changing macro to change toolbars, twice, to get em all on at once. Then, when they all hit cooldowns, wait till the cooldowns ended so I could have another 3 minutes of god-mode. Not my idea of good PVP there, to say the least. So crafting may have been a larger part of my gameplay than yours, to be sure. Which STO is severly lacking in. Clicky objects that you "trade" to an NPC for upgrades to droped items that are not as good as other droped items anyway.? I did not get the same feel for the instancing that you appearently got. The feel I got is easy, cheap, boring development. There are people asking for vehicles in STO. Why? you can run across the entire ground maps in STO in less than 30 seconds. And pretty much everything they developed in them is in a circle right in the middle of the map anyway. The rest is just waisted space and that's definatly saying something being that the maps are soooo small in the 1st place. Buildings in the maps you can't go into to. Nothing more that art deco, pretty much like a lava rock or a tree for that matter. I probably played STO a little longer than you also. Was there for closed beta, open beta, and launch. The shear repetition just finally got to me. Nothing to do to get away from pew, pew, pew in STO either. Either go mass murder stuff or log are about the only options I seen in that last 4 months in that game.
I'm not giving myself too much credit either. It isn't just me and really NEVER has been. CU ticked off how many players? 100K? NGE ticked off how many players, another 200K? C6CD-GU Whatever ticked off how many players? Another 60K to 80K? Then there are the guys, like are posting on the STO forums that they never liked SWG in the 1st place, Pre-CU, CU, NGE, or the new and improved C6CD post NGE. When you have as much as a 1/2 million running around saying not so nice things about 1 particular game, the industry has to take note. SOE CHANGED/destroyed our game and our principals are NOT going to let that slide. And for our message, the industry misread the entire thing to a certain extent, at least from what I can see. No more sandbox games. Only WoW clones. (If I wanted to play WoW, I would, not some cheaply made, fast developed, 1/2 baked clone of the original.) And STO is not the only one that fits in this catagory. EVERY game I have seen, come out here recently fits in that catagory.
I just really don't know if all my "principals" are getting in the way of having a new game to play. The wife still plays SWG. She was always more forgiving than I was. Her desk sits directly across the room from mine. I can hear her giggling with friends, look over at the screen and see her in Thead, ME, Musti, etc and look back over to my screen and see a forum somewhere, or the solataire game that comes with windows 7. Last year I spent over $3,000.00 on an Alienware Area 51 set up. Dual quad processors, 12 gigs of RAM, dual top of the line 1 gig video cards, 7200 RPM hard drive. All that to play solitare? I just don't know if this is right anymore. I guess my principals are starting to stick me right in the boring dept.
Are we really doing the industry a service?
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
I tried STO. Wanted to like that game, waited on it, bought a lifetime hoping that it could CHANGE. But, sadly, I asked for my lifetime to be refunded last Monday. Pew, pew, pew, no crafting, no housing, no interiors, small worlds, highly instanced, no open anything, a loading screen every 30 seconds, no end game not even a WoW raid in at launch. Did I mention highly instanced? All it did was show me what I missed about SWG. There are even forum threads over there about SWG in comparison to STO in which (forgive me), I took up for SWG against the not even to WoW standards of STO development.
Let me premise this by saying, I doubt if anyone here has been as vocal against SOE for The Chapter 6 Combat downgrade and GU-Whatever "mini" NGE that was perpatrated against even the NGE playerbase. CHANGEING the game for a 3rd time to try and draw a playerbase, that they didn't have, and only existed in the minds of SOE. I understand the long-term , even hatred, of SOE due to CU/NGE and have held a little of that, myself, for the CHANGES I brought above. I've even gave Fisher static for "enableing SOE" by retaining his sub.
However, as we tell the truth about how SOE mismanaged SWG, have we have taught the industry, appearantly, to stay away from sandbox MMOs in their entirity. A MMORPG.com writer just said that sandbox MMOs may be dead as far as a AAA studio producing another one. He did say that there might be a independant studio or 2 out there for sandbox, tho. With an independant studio, there is always cost as a factor. In the world we now live in for investors, would they even be able to finance a sandbox MMO now?
My 64 dollar question is; by boycotting SWG, even in it's current CHANGED state, are we screaming to industry research that the great experiment that Koster made is gone and failed? Are we telling the industry that there is no market for a sandbox MMO to be tried again? After all, we all pretty much know that the sub numbers for SWG current is rather dismal and some here, myself included, have taken satisfaction in some of that. How can another AAA studio even contemplate making another sandbox with the only real sandbox out there in such bad shape?
Meanwhile, all we get for new games is yet another game in the WoW mold and not even as diverse as that with the one I mentioned 1st. Level up, pew, pew, pew, get an alt and do it all over again, this time with the same content you did before. At least WoW has other storylines in which to level. The new games, AoC, War, STO, CO, most do not even have that. It seems to me that new game development is getting worse, not better. They all want WoW but they are on the cheap so bad that they put in the bare minimum and launch. Hopeing for the big bucks to come out of the box sales and worry about fixing the mess, later.
In short, Are we cutting off our own noses to spite our own faces?
A rather good game, thank you, Cryptic! // (My biased review)
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Sorry, but the game is just bad.
Played Closed beta (bought the key by 6 month of CO, didn't last 1 week), Open Beta, Pre-launch, and now launch. I tried to like it. I bought the lifetime thinking that it could possible improve. I tried to like it. Kept giving it chance after chance after chance.
The repetition finally got to me. How many quests can 1 person stand of go click 5 glowing things, go kill 5-6 rounds of ships, go kill 5-6 rounds of ground npcs? Now, they XP nerfed the clicky explore quests (XP NERF = no XP), explore missions at LtC 9 have been lowered from 100+ to 50+. Looks like Cryptic gave STO is very own version of SWGs Chapter 6 Combat Downgrade in a patch late last Sat night. Now, 3 frigates blow thru shields like they were nothing, while your crusier "wallows around like a garbage scow next to a warp driven starship". (Scotty said that in TOS) Turn rate stealth NERF included therein. Cryptic touted for a couple years that the player would be able to "skill-box" everything only to find they took the cheap and easy way out and put in a skill cap, right before launch, so they wouldn't have to create new skills as they added content.
Crafting consists of clicky objects taken in trade by an NPC, which the items are not as good as drops anyway. Combat, in a crusier consists of turn in VERY slow circles while spamming weapons, No finding new races like they touted on their sight for a year+. Just WoW style combat and leveling and when your done with that, go combat an level an alt. Until your out of alts, then go to the C-store and buy yourself some more, so you can go combat and level all over again. Nothing but repetition, in quests, in gameplay, in how you play the game, and whats in the game to start with.
I tried. I really did. I waited for this game thru Perpetual and now Cryptic just to find it severly lacking in almost all detail outside of graphics.
Lifetime canceled and refund coming.
SoE Clone Wars game confirmed
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Originally posted by Rockgod99
There might be 2 chances of that happening with the "tween" browser based "Free Realms" type engine. Slim and None. OK, just 1 chance, NONE.
SoE Clone Wars game confirmed
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Originally posted by TUX426
Hate to agree to something this...odd, but there's no way I think it was an accident either. As you said, it's during the free month and it's on the page you actually subscribe to, there's no way it was an oversight lol. I'm not going to claim to know WHY they let it slip, but your "we're still here guys" is as good of a theory as I've heard. God knows SoE could use some positive press...this could be a way to shut up all the ToR fans and get some people talking about an MMO set it a more "familiar" time frame.
To those saying "it's a kids game", guys, 8 million people play Free Realms (or I should say, have signed up) - EIGHT MILLION. It may be a basic/casual game, but it's not just a kids game - I know plenty of adults that tried Free Realms too (though none will ever admit it). Think of a NEW Star Wars MMO set in the Clone Wars era. If a no name goofy MMO like Free Realms can get 8million subscribers, imagine the draw Star Wars would have.
This is why SWG is so neglected. SWG will never have 8 million subscribers...EVER!
Who here wouldn't try it for free? I will.
8 mil may have signed up. Why not? It's free. The 64 dollar questions are.......... How many are logging on? How many are actually using the micro transactions, expecially if they had to CHANGE the means of the micros already? How many servers do they have up? (that 1 ought to tell the tail) Remembering that SWG still has up 13 servers......................
Maybe they will get enough on the new "tween browser based game" to pay some IP fees, maybe not.
SoE Clone Wars game confirmed
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Told u, Tux. "Clone Wars" is the consolation prise for losing SWG at the release of TOR. No more of that stuff of LA "forgiving" licencing fees for the IP, anylonger, SOE. Pay up, Smed.
Looks Like There are Free SWG Vet Trials Available for Feb 1 - Mar 1
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Probably will be busy in ST:O.
Apparently SOE doesn't want to hear that your server is empty
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
$OE has always blamed ev1 else for the problems they've created. Smed has set it up for TOR to be the next blame-me child for the demise of SWG. Maybe they'll be happier with their tween based SW browser game.
Maybe it's greed; maybe it's something else?
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Originally posted by Yhishara
SOE tried that on yet another set of CHANGES, when they decided to CHANGE the game, back. The Chapter 6 Combat Downgrade thru GU-Whatever was another large CHANGE, just made in smaller patches over a years time. The delivery was as you state, above, and I believe SOE got the same thing out of NGE that you got out of it.
However, it was the CHANGES and not the delivery. At C6CD, SOE anounced in a interview with Smedley that SWG had 100K subs. At the end of that year of CHANGES, some of which were decent (even in my opinion as they also introduced Heroics) the result was the same. Aprox. 2/3rds of the population unsubed, same as NGE. This set of CHANGES put the death rattle in SWG as after this the population was no longer able to sustain 25 servers, anylonger.
It's just not the delivery of the CHANGES, it's the CHANGES itself.
Old vet..lost without an MMO to play
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
I thought for a long time that ST:O might be the replacement for SWG, for me at least. Then, Cryptic, pulled an SOE with the CO subs and closed beta deal. All for the Atari 20 mil sales bonus.
Looking at the resumes of the Cryptic principals, I find that the CEO of Cryptic is SOE trained and approved. It seems Smed's influence is bombing another gaming company.
I doubt if I'll trade my money for yet another round of get rich quick ideas coming from the top.
SWG gets a new Lead Designer
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Originally posted by Mathos
It's the IP that's gonna get em. It comes with that large check that has to written every year.
Ironic. It was the IP that made them believe they could get away with all the CHANGES, and now it's the IP that will make them close shop, maybe even prematurly per SOE, since it has been shown SOE will run a game without much community.
BTW, Hey Cosmo.
SWG gets a new Lead Designer
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Looks like there is another casualty; Posted on the O-Boards by ShelbyF
"Kristie is leaving.
Not much of a team left to do anything but keep the ship afloat now. Any new dev they hire will be green as grass and several months away from doing anything.
No matter how they swing this.. the SWG crew is phasing down to 'maintenance' mode.
Full updates.. as predicted.. probably out the window forever now. Tweaks are likely months away.. if not years... and bug fixes alone could keep this side of Dev team busy.
Its not encouraging."
Hmmm, TOR didn't even do anything this time. Maybe a personal bail.
SWG gets a new Lead Designer
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Originally posted by kobie173
No shit, sherlock. I think about 99% of the current players know that. Thanks for taking the bold stance.
BTW, haven't you been saying the "NGE is now dead" for about four years now?
Sorry Kobie. I, for 1, took no pleasure watching Kauri go down. Kind of a surreal moment and all I thought was that it didn't have to be. I actually re-subed my main account to see it go.
Concept: SoE run Origin/Classic Servers
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Originally posted by Fishermage
Four years ago he was flaming those of us who were advocating what he is advocating now.
As he did with all the CHANGES that hit SWG since the NGE, even. Badger and I had an about 2 hour IM over C6CD where he tried but just couldn't quite CHANGE my mind over the entire ordeal.
He's not dumb and probably sees the handwriting on the wall now, also. Just a little later than most of us did.
SWG gets a new Lead Designer
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Originally posted by Murashu
Whoa I missed the beta announcement. Got a link for that?
Announces beta sign ups, on the TOR website.
SWG gets a new Lead Designer
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
SW:TOR anounces beta. SWG loses another Dev.
12 Servers to shut down, TOR starts Beta.
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Originally posted by blueshadow
Yes, but was really a game with just one working template that everyone wanted to be, to be OP, a working game?
(I loved the sandbox so don't get me wrong, but that sandbox is still in the game. Its classes that have changed mostly).
Classes today are a lot more balanced. And the game is no longer basically an intense grind to become a jedi. And remember that the game started to loose lots of subscribers long before CU. CU was the first patch aimed at "saving" a game that had started going downhill.
And the fact that you now can respec and it will "remember" your old class. Say you go from being Jedi to crafter.. and then go back to jedi later, you are still your old level. I would call that an improvement.
If SWG in its current incarnation had been launched instead of the old SWG. The game would have been a lot bigger today. That is what I belive.
I mean.. if SWG back then. In 2005 had been so great. Would it not have had 11 million players ?.. or at least one million? Another game that was launched in 2004 proved that to be possible.
In my opinion what made problems for SWG was Jedi. I have heard rumours that it was a class not intended to be in the game. And Devs never found a good way to implement it. The game would have been awesome if it had been what it was without Jedi class. A virtual world with out jedis.
Jedis could have been there, but they should have been NPCS. But since Jedis already were there.. and damage had happened. Making them a class to choose from beginning like, TOR will have, was probably best thing they could do.
You have me confused with someone who actually played pre-CU, although I am right now, in fact, but that's another story. I started a couple of days into NGE so, up to recently I had heard all about pre-CU/CU but never really experienced it. So, my perspective is from the last 4 years and SOE has alienated me, also, with game-breaking CHANGES.
While you were gone, post NGE, they added expertise (which I liked), several CHANGES to professions/NERFS, which I weathered somewhat well. But, then, there was a producer, that had in his head he would re-make the game, yet again. Another basic NGE, this time done in increments instead of 1 large patch over the period of 1 year+. The Chapter 6 Combat Downgrade to GU-Whatever was yet another version of NGE without taking out professions, altho, LS jedi lost their entire ability to PVP without trying to outbuff the other professions to "balance" againt all the other professions. The design was and is currently "LS = pve (tank)", Quote from Blixtev, and if a LS jedi trys to play outside of those boundrys they are at a deficit. So, SWG went another year between C6CD and GU-? with monthly CHANGES and that is why your NGE population is way down. Smedley did release at C6CD that SWG had 100K subs. Now, players have estimated it at 10-30K on the O-boards. If we take the top number, it would seem that the "new" NGE (C6CD-GU-?) lost the same percentages of population as the original NGE did. 2/3rds, the loss in population just came in increments right along with the CHANGES.
So, I ended up coming here and telling these guys they were right, reluctantly at 1st. They CHANGED the game even on the NGE players, just like they did with pre-CU players, and CU players. They learned nothing except lip service promising to never repeat the mistakes of the past (video interview here (right before C6CD) on MMORPG.com while at the same exact time, planning the release of C6CD, which CHANGED the complete difficulty in game and the combat stats, what they meant, how they stacked, a combat "downgrade" in it's entirety.
If LA lets SWG live, post TOR (which I seriously doubt due to SOE not even playing it's IP fees now and for year(s)), there will be yet another Producer who gets it in his head he can CHANGE the game enough to "save it" and get those WoW type subscription numbers and you, (not I, this time) will endure another large patch or another year of patches that will CHANGE the game again for the 4th time for the 5th incarnation of SWG. If you want to go thru that again, more power to you. I'm tired of it.
And to tell you the truth, I look very much forward to unlocking my jedi via flightless birds.
12 Servers to shut down, TOR starts Beta.
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
Originally posted by blueshadow
You seem to be fixated on the ones that, you say, haven't played since Nov 05. There is probably very few here, that would fall into that catagory. Last year, and part of this one, SOE gave several different free "vet" trials. Most took them up on the offer and they seen 1st hand what the game is and what it has become since Nov 05. You skipped my post in it's entirety, probably due to the statment that I am currently subed with 1 account. BTW, Tux was a senator just a few short months ago.
So this is not all about "you all don't know what's going on anymore". Most here do know. But, the point your forgetting is, we all still remember our toons and the game of (insert a seperate incarnation of SWG here) and some of us happen to think that other "game" was much better. We get in game and remember what our LS jedi used to be able to do (now, "LS = pve (tank)"), remember our toon standing up rather well in PVP, remember when we still had some content to actualy do without running it for the 1000th time, remember when our crafters did 50 - 100 mil a week, and just somehow can not stomach the lower population, that you have in game today, and/or the CHANGED gameplay from whatever incarnation of the game that we actually liked.
I used to be like you. Thinking that SWG could recover. Then they CHANGED the game on me, yet again. They will get you again also. The only constant in SWG is: There will be less subs after the CHANGE than there were before the CHANGE!
Maybe it's greed; maybe it's something else?
SWG Veteran Refuge « Star Wars Galaxies
I would believe that we pretty much have the answers to these questions now. Rubinfields blog, and he has really no reason to lie anymore;
"So we were given the directive to make Galaxies better. Not just make Galaxies better, but make it succesful. Not the 200k subs it had, but really succesful. The idea was that we had the most valuable IP in the entire world, and we ****ed it up to the point of having 200k subs.", "So, when the NGE push came along, we were asked to reimagine the game." and "Not just small changes, but rebuild it."
per Rubinfield, was the motives for the NGE. (Direction form LA, SOE San Diego, or both?, he didn't tell us which.) Greed?
"And it was needed. When we were asked, we were bleeding subscribers. If I remember correctly, somewhere around 10k a month. LOSING 10,000 subs a month. WOW was out. SWG was niche and clunky. "
per Rubinfield, was the desperation.
"However, we made a mistake.
Somewhere during the discussions it was strongly recommended that we streamline our characters. People wanted something simpler, more direct, more accessible. We told them. If you do this, you will lose all 200k subscribers. It is that significant. It was explained that we would gain more due to the marketing push and relaunch. So, we pushed forward."
Looks like what Rubinfield thought was the stupidity.
"It was a misread at an organizational level. Marketing, Production, community. You name it. Epoch grade ****up."
But, here was the major problem with SWG in it's many incarnations. Rubinfield finally gets it.
"You cannot change it at runtime. BUT! The point, the ****up, the mistake that we made, was answering an unasked question. Can you change an MMO drastically after it launches? Categorically, NO. If we were to do it again, and wanted to make those types of changes, you have to make a new game. Relaunch with a new title. Or shut down Galaxies and relaunch for real."
I have to admit that I actually believe Rubinfield in his rants. He has no reason to spin, lie, or with-hold the truth anylonger (outside of NDAs which he probably violated in telling the world this much). I think he let his anger at the "vets" telling him he screwed up their game, be the motivation for letting the cat out of the bag. So to speak.

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The episode drew 3.29 million total viewers and 2.28 million adults 18 to 49, becoming the highest-rated, non-finale episode of the reality series.
In fact, the cable network Bravo recorded series highs for both "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" and its after show, "Watch What Happens: Live," delivering the highest Monday telecast in network history among all the key demographics, according to Nielsen Media Research.In Monday's episode, at a fashion show Jacqueline Laurita's daughter Ashley Holmes, 19, yanks out one of Danielle Staub's hair extensions. Staub is the reality show's resident villainess.
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The Sandy Hook Shooting: The 4 Public Health Topics We Will Be Discussing In 2013
Monday, December 31st, 2012
In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, we all struggle to figure out how we can try to prevent further rampages, particularly (but not exclusively) in schools. There are 4 topics which are receiving the most attention – and will be the center of many debates in 2013. Starting on January 2nd, I will take these on, from the lens of public health – meaning I will examine each in terms of the potential of making life safer for kids in school. The topics are:
Mental Health: One viewpoint is that increases in mental health awareness, improvements in diagnosis, and reducing barriers to treatment will be key in preventing further mass murders. While there is clearly a need to invest in mental health in our country, how central should mental health issues be in the debates following the Sandy Hook shooting? Is mental health the fundamental concern – or is it getting overplayed in lieu of taking on ….
Gun Regulation: Another viewpoint is that our primary objective should be immediate increases in gun regulation as the fundamental way of preventing future tragedies like the Sandy Hook shooting. The argument here is that the type of weapons that are available in this country facilitate the rapid execution of many youth. Those who disagree argue that mental health issues trump the access of firearms. So, from the public health perspective, is there an answer to be found?
School Safety: One thing is certain – we all feel the need to make our schools safer. Some schools in the country already had armed personnel in place prior to the Sandy Hook shooting. Should all schools do this? As a parent, would you feel better, or worse, seeing armed guards at your kid's school? And what impact might this have on the kids themselves?
Violent Video Games: Still on the radar is the issue of violent video games. Do they really make individuals more violent? Should they be banned? What is the scientific evidence?
First up: the Mental Health debate on January 2, 2013.
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At first glance, one would think Taylor Emody looked more like an inside linebacker than a designated hitter, upon him stepping into the batter's box.
Standing at 6-foot-5-inches tall and weighing 235 pounds, Emody, a 2010 Edison graduate, can be an intimidating specter with a wooden bat in his hands.
Plenty of pitchers in the Prospect League would agree.
Heading into Friday's game at Chillicothe, Emody leads the Lorain County Ironmen of the summer collegiate wooden bat league in RBIs (20), while ranking second on the squad in hits (43) and doubles (6). Recently, he registered a 15-game hitting streak, which came to an end on July 15.
Through 36 games, the fifth-year senior at Ohio University features a .312 batting average.
It's been a promising summer for guy that struggled to a .225 average in 39 games for the Bobcats in 2014, a year after battling back from a torn Patellar tendon in 2013.
For his efforts, Emody was selected to play for the East Division team in the Prospect League Mid-Season All-Star game on July 8 at Bob Wren Field at Sycamore Stadium on the campus of Indiana State University. In the game, Emody was 1 for 3 with a run-scoring single in the second inning in a 9-2 victory for the East.
"Right now, I'm just trying to be as consistent as possible," Emody said after helping the Ironmen to a 3-0 victory over Richmond at the Pipe Yard on July 11. "I'm just trying to get better for my school team, while having some fun helping the Ironmen out.
"The key for me is to stay consistent with my swing, to keep getting hits and keep doing what my team needs me to do," he added. "It seems like we're starting to play a little bit better baseball. Now, we just have to finish the summer out strong."
Against Richmond, Emody finished 1 for 4, tallying a game-high two RBIs on a hard-hit single to center field in the fifth inning.
This past Tuesday, he tied a season-high with three hits in Lorain County's 4-0 loss at Champion City.
Emody is one of 21 Ohio collegiate players on the Ironmen roster, which includes kids from as far away as California, Texas and Nova Scotia.
The Prospect League boasts teams from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, featuring athletes from schools like Ohio State University and the University of Mississippi to some of the nation's best small college programs.
"I love it here," Emody said. "The weather up here is awesome in the summer. I'm used to being down south where the summer gets pretty brutal. So it's nice to get that refreshing Lake Erie breeze. And it's also cool just to be able to play with a lot of guys that are from around the area."
This is an important offseason for Emody.
Being healthy and playing at a high level were two things he was not a year ago.
"Obviously, I feel like I'm getting into the groove right now," Emody said. "Initially, at the beginning of last spring, it was difficult to get back in there after taking so many months off. Coach (Rob) Smith and the coaching staff put together a real tough schedule at the start of the year, so it was a challenge. It tested me mentally. It taught me I have to work hard everyday to avoid getting into hitting slumps."
In four seasons in Athens, Emody is a career .268 hitter.
However, this past season he posted only a .225 average in 39 games
Ohio University went 11-40 in Smith's second season on the job, taking over for Joe Carbone, who recruited Emody. Carbone retired as the university's all-time winningest coach, but didn't leave much in the cupboard, leaving the new coaching staff with an uphill battle to get the program back into Mid-American Conference contention.
Smith, who came to the Bobcats after six seasons as pitching coach at Creighton University, prefers an up-tempo, high intensity style, not common in a sport known for its leisurely pace. Everything, even workouts and practices are fast-paced and done with a lot of energy.
"We're a real young team, so there's definitely a transition period, which I believe was this past spring," Emody said. "We ran into a couple of losing streaks that nobody really wants to hit.
"But, at the same time, we gained so much experience from last year and we've really bought into coach (Smith's) program," he continued. "We played a lot better ball towards the end of the year, especially in early May. I think next year we'll be ready to come out and compete from Game 1. We know we can play and we know that we belong at that level."
As a freshman, Emody played in 48 games and made 44 starts in the infield, batting .299 and driving in 22 runs. He saw minimal playing time as a sophomore, but had a promising junior campaign come to an end running out a ground ball against Oakland University.
At the time, Emody was leading the Bobcats in several offensive categories, hitting .345 in seven starts as a designated hitter.
"This year, I'll be one of the oldest guys on the team, along with Garrett Black, another kid that got injured right around the same time that I did," Emody said. "We've grown pretty close and we're ready to take on that leadership role. It all starts with how we play on the field, so both of us want to get off to a hot start next spring, then build on that, while helping the younger kids along to make sure the team is heading in the right direction."
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How do I cope with morning sickness at work?
I've had morning sickness every day since I was six weeks pregnant. On some occasions it's been so bad that I've had to call in sick for work. My boss knows I'm pregnant and claims to understand -- but I suspect he really thinks less of me for calling in sick. What's the best way to deal with this? Should I go to work sick and run to the bathroom every ten minutes, or is my boss in the wrong?
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I'm about 7 weeks along with my first and feeling this way just started a few days ago. i came into work today feeling horrible, and after a 1 hr commute on the train. i couldnt eat my breakfast because i was feeling so queasy but knew i needed to eat something because i'd just feel worse if i didnt (even though the thought of food was not a happy one at the moment). i got a pack of saltine crackers and a small bottle of lemonade and it helped instantly. hopefully this lasts, given i have a long way to go! i'm also going to try the seasick bracelet to see if that works too.posted 06/11/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
What worked for me when I had to go to drill and was feeling like i was going to puke was Peppermint or just Mint gum. It is amazing how it dampens the discomfort. I tell everyone who has morning sickness about the magic of Pepper min gum!posted 04/16/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
Try mints. It realy helped with meposted 04/05/2012 by countrygal86
This is my first pregnancy. I have been sick the whole time! I am 38 weeks now and im still sick if I forget to take my medication. Before my doctor gave me the Zofran ( the medication to help with nausa) I was so sick I had to go into the hospital. It was hard for me to go to work, I work at a very busy medical office as a nurse and i couldn't do my job at all. Once I started taking Zofran (at night right before bed) I could get up in the morning and feel like a really person again. Once in awhile during the day i will still get sick but nothing like before.posted 10/03/2011 by emdunn18
aaand im a hairstylist so imagine what that was like to have to say excuse me I have to run to the bathroom every ten minutes and have to explain that i had morning sickness to clients during our consultation!!posted 09/25/2011 by hairstylinmommy1
You're not supposed to be drinking chamomile tea! doesn't anyone read anymore! eat crackers, drink water, always keep something in your stomach, take you vitamins at night, avoid acids and if u can afford it get a prescription med called dyclectin , I was sick for the first five months everyday and very often. my husband had to drive me to and from work everyday because I had to vomit so often it would take me forever to get to work if i had to pull over every ten minutes.posted 09/25/2011 by hairstylinmommy1
I use an herbal supplement takes care of queasiness I have due to pregnancy, sensitivity to food, migraines, traveling, anything! I've always used Ginger Root vitamins whenever I feel nauseated due to bad migraines, but these supplements seem to be much better since they also include Vitamin D, Red Raspberry Leaf, Mint Leaf, Lime Extract and Vitamin B6. I got them from doing a google search, and ended up at this website - morningsicknessinpregnancy.composted 09/25/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
If you want to keep your job and benefits I suggest you try and go into work. I had morning sickness the whole pregnancy term, threw up three or four times a day, even during labor and delivery. The key was getting the food in before my stomache was empty! Try small snacks and often... Lived on premium crackers and peanut butter. Good luck!posted 07/18/2011 by capturedhrt
I am so relieved to hear that others have been experiencing the same AWFUL NAUSEA as I have been feeling. This is my first pregnancy, and I'm 7 weeks along. I hadn't been able to keep anything down until I called the OBGYN and she prescribed me (thank God) generic Zofran. It has been the only thing that has helped me eat. It's expensive, but WELL worth it! I pray that 2nd trimester isn't nearly as bad, otherwise I'm in for a long pregnancy!posted 07/02/2011 by Melis0413
This is my first pregnancy and my morning sickness started at around 6 weeks. But it was at night & in the mornings so i feel like im getting a double dose. One thing i found to really help is taking a tums or 2 in the morning before even getting out of bed and always having crackers at all times also try the flinstone vitamins for a day or 2 instead of your prenatal because that could be causing your sickness to.posted 05/06/2011 by tabbybaby0115
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University standards for admission to graduate study will normally be a determining factor in granting a student Classified status in the program. Department admission requirements are higher than University criteria. Students with limited background in Communication Studies may be admitted on a Conditionally Classified basis until preparatory undergraduate coursework (to be determined in consultation with the Graduate Coordinator) has been completed. Any student who is admitted to the graduate program on a Conditionally Classified basis is required to meet all conditions for fully Classified status by the end of the student's first semester of enrollment in the graduate program.
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A minimum of 33 units of approved graduate work comprised of the following:
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COMS 600 Core Seminar in Communication (3)
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Paul Collingwood insists Kevin Pietersen's absence from the ICC World Twenty20 is not a distraction for England's squad.
The South Africa-born batsman was not included for the Sri Lanka showpiece despite revoking his retirement from international limited-overs cricket.
Pietersen retired from one-day cricket almost four months ago before reversing his decision.
Collingwood, who led his country to Twenty20 success two years ago, insists the decision has helped England plan for life without him.
"I don't think it's a distraction to the Twenty20 form of the game, because he made that decision to retire from one-day cricket - which he knew was then going to keep him out of the Twenty20 side," he said.
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There's better RF's out there.
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Bottom line is that the fat porker Jenks needs to get in shape.
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No you don't.
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Oops I forgot Dave Parker hits lefthanded. Maybe Dewey's available.
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Send Cameron to the old folks home for Dave Parker.
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Pretty much correct on all counts.
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Roll into Hope Falls, Colorado, where three women are seeking mates to help them establish a sawmill. Evelyn Thompson never dreamed their husbands-for-hire ad would bring so many bachelors to their tiny town. How will she ever figure out which feller to choose? Jacob Granger, a logger-turned-bounty hunter, is hot on the trail of his brother's killer. When a clue leads him to Hope Falls, he has no choice but to pretend to court Miss Thompson while waiting for the killer to show his hand. Will Jacob's unexpected adoration of this sweet cook prompt him to speak vows before getting vengeance?
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Kelly Eileen Hake received her first writing contract at the tender age of seventeen and arranged to wait three months until she was able to legally sign it. Since that first contract a decade ago, shes fulfilled twenty contracts ranging from short stories to novels. In her spare time, shes attained her BA in English literature and composition, earned her credential to teach English in secondary schools, and went on to complete her MA in writing popular fiction.
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