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Five takeaways from the Tuesday conference calls with Bill Belichick, Bill O'Brien and Nick Caserio
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Five takeaways from the Tuesday afternoon conference calls with Patriots coach Bill Belichick, offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien and director of player personnel Nick Caserio:
1. Both Belichick and Caserio talked about their predraft experiences/thoughts on Denver quarterback Tim Tebow. Belichick and Tebow had a well-documented dinner together in the North End as part of Tebow's predraft get-together with the Patriots.
'We brought Tim in and spent a whole day with him here, in addition to our other interactions with him,' recalled Belichick. 'He's an impressive young man. He had great success in college. I think all his attributes are pretty well documented. He's a strong guy, smart, works hard, a great leader, great football character. He made a lot of big plays for Florida and won two national championships.'
'I think any meeting you have with a draft prospect, you're just trying to get as much information as you possibly you can,' Caserio said. 'You look at the body of the work on the field, you look at their production, then spend some time with them off the field, just go through and talk through some different things, football related. Smart guy, works hard, was a productive player in Florida. I'd say it was a lot like most of the meetings that we have with a lot of the players when they come out.'
2. Traditionally, either backup quarterback Brian Hoyer or No. 3 signal-caller Ryan Mallett will play the role of scout team QB in helping the defense prepare for the opposing quarterback that week. However, because Tebow has such a unique skill set, the Patriots may look elsewhere when trying to find a scout team quarterback this week in practice.
'That's something we definitely have to talk about,' Belichick said. 'The most important thing for our defense is to get a good look at as close to what the actual plays are going to look like as we can replicate them. However we do that, whichever players we use to try to get that look ' we'll definitely talk about that and try to do it in the way that gives the defense the best look at it.'
3. O'Brien talked about his sideline flap with quarterback Tom Brady (check that out here). However, he also hit on a number of other topics, including the work of rookie offensive tackle Nate Solder, who has been asked to do more than your average rookie offensive lineman this season, including occasionally lining up as a tight end.
'You can't say enough about what Nate has done as a rookie,' O'Brien said. 'Again, being coached by Dante [Scarnecchia] is a big deal too because he came in and was able to be under Dante's guidance right away as a rookie. That's really important because we do put a lot on his plate and we ask him to know different parts of the game plan obviously. He's done a good job. He fits right into that group of the veterans that we have up there. Another guy is Brian Waters, who came in this year, new to the system and has had a really good year and obviously our veteran players that have been here for a while. It's a good, solid group of guys and Nate has done an excellent job of coming in here and contributing.'
4. Even setting aside Tebow's ability to run the ball, the Broncos remain the best team in the league when it comes to toting the rock. Denver averages 156.2 yards per game on the ground (the best average in the league), thanks in large part to the work of Tebow (94 carries, 517 yards, 5.5 yards per carry), Willis McGahee (199 carries, 920 yards, 4.6 yards per carry) and Lance Ball (72 carries, 302 yards, 4.2 yards per carry average). Belichick talked about what makes the Broncos so successful in the running game.
'They have a lot of confidence in it,' Belichick replied. 'They call them, they don't get discouraged with it, they hang with it. They try to get it worked out if a play is not going well. They hit you on a lot of different points of attack, different scheme runs. Of course the quarterback has put up quite a few yards himself. Also their option plays, the option, dive option program, that type of thing. There's a lot of different ways they get that rushing yardage in bursts.
'They really test your defense all the way across the board from the pass rush contain the quarterback standpoint, to playing the normal run-block type of plays to their kind of specialty plays, element of Wildcat, quarterback scrambling, things like that. They get you on a lot of different levels.'
5. Both Von Miller and Elvis Dumervil were also topics of conversation, with O'Brien saying both are 'explosive guys that have different rush techniques,' and are a large part of what O'Brien calls a 'fast defense.'
'We're going to have to do a good job, especially early in the game of getting used to the speed of the game as it relates definitely to those two guys and then the rest of the defense too,' O'Brien said of Miller and Dumervil, who have a combined 19 sacks this season. 'It's a real challenge, especially on the road with the crowd noise and all those different things that will go into the game plan.'
When it comes to Miller, even though he was taken second overall by Denver in the draft this past spring, Caserio said the Patriots still did their due diligence in checking him out. In fact, the Patriots had a chance to evaluate him a little closer than other teams because he went up against Solder as a collegian. (Both were in the Big 12 — Solder was at Colorado, while Miller attended Texas A&M.)
'We still evaluated him because you never know how a draft is going to work out,' Caserio said. 'Between he and Dumervil, they certainly pose as good a threat as anybody off the edge. Von has done a heck of a job this year. He's had a lot of production.
'They have a lot of playmakers on the defensive side of the ball. I'd say he's one of them, between D.J. Williams and Dumervil on the other side who is a problem and then [Brian] Dawkins and Champ Bailey who are experienced guys. [Andre] Goodman has some experience, he's played a lot of football for them. They've incorporated some of the younger players like Chris Harris and Quinton Carter into the mix. They have a lot of good players on defense, there's no question about it. Their performance is not that surprising when they have that many good players on the field defensively.'
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Setlists during this tour included: Train Kept a Rollin', I Can't Quit You Baby, Dazed and Confused, You Shook Me, How Many More Times, Communication Breakdown
Press Review: Page Is 'Led Zeppelin' Helium
Never trust anyone over 20 — that was the obvious attitude of the crowd overflowing the Led Zeppelin concert at the Music Hall.
A shoeless microbopper, denied even standing room, braced a reporter at a side entrance: "Did you come to cover the riot?" he asked, waving a $5 ticket. "If I don't get in I may start one."
Tempers cooled, however, as the 5-million decibel strobe-lit warmup by Southwest FOB, a local rock group, began — 20 minutes late.
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After a long intermission, Zeppelin led off its half of the Sunday night concert with "Sweet Baby," a number obviously unfamiliar to the crowd. Sensing the terrain, the English group reverted to selections from its solo U.S.-released album.
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In "White Summer," the only solo performance of the evening, Page proved himself as provocative a new guitarist of the Gary Burdon group. Page, too, deserves an LP of his own. Free of the Zeppelin's rather restricting format, his guitar becomes a self-accompanied sitar, perfectly suited to his complex, amplified style.
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I can't remember a whole lot. I do remember getting blown away by them. I had bought there debut LP a few months prior and of course loved Dazed and Confused. I had no idea how (Jimmy) Page made the sounds that he did until I saw him live. It was the first time I saw anyone use a violin bow on an electric guitar. It was mesmerizing. The song seemed to go on forever yet you didn't want it to end. (Robert) Plant used his voice like an instrument and played off Page's amazing guitar sounds. (Drummer John) Bonham and (bassist John Paul) Jones were also incredible. Some bands did not carry over well from their studio to live performances. Zeppelin was a hundred times better live. You just knew if they stayed together this was going to be a rock super group. Given the incredible acoustics of the Music Hall and the sound system they had, my ears were ringing for several days, but I didn't care.
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27 Feb The College Greens: Healing Our Relationship with Food
Healing Our Relationship With Food
These days, it is typical to have a negative relationship with food. Society doesn't make it easy for us. We're constantly being bombarded with advertisements shamelessly persuading us to eat their products, foods that take advantage of our innate pleasure system, and contradicting messages about what is and isn't healthy. To make this worse, the media portrays certain body types as optimal, presenting skinny as synonymous with desirable or beautiful. And much too often, merely being thin is also equated with being healthy. Furthermore, companies are continuously trying to persuade us to buy their new diet pill or magic weight-loss quick fix. No wonder we're so stressed out! When you consider all of this, it's easy to see why many of us have had issues regarding eating, weight, and health.
The United States has an obesity epidemic, yet also has high rates of eating disorders like anorexia, bulimia, and orthorexia. We, more than any other nation in the world, are obsessed with health. Yet our feelings surrounding food and body image are so unhealthy. The Standard American Diet comes with this awful tug of war between eating foods you like and feeling guilty or self-conscious about what you're putting into your body, and if either one wins out, the result can be disastrous. We're left with all these negative thoughts circling in our minds. This can, and often does, lead to feelings of anxiety. Worrying about what you ate that day, or what you will eat later, or whether you ate too much of this or that. And this becomes especially troublesome if you are trying to be a perfectionist. Being fixated on perfection is not healthy for your mind or wellbeing. Perfection as we mean it here, however, is different than being "plant-perfect." What we mean is, there is no one right way to eat a whole food, plant-based diet. There's not one ratio of food groups or nutrients or caloric intake amount that everyone should compulsively strive to achieve. Even if you're eating plant-perfect, you don't need to worry about eating any exact way. You can eat whatever whole, plant-based, Dr. Esselstyn-approved foods that you want, and eat to your heart's content!
The sad thing is, what often spurs these feelings of anxiety is a desire to be healthy. We truly want to do what is best for our bodies and our health. But with all the convoluted messages we receive, our good intentions can easily turn astray. As a result, America is plagued with all of these negative experiences with food, such as yo-yo dieting, feeling victim to your tastebuds' pleasure trap desires, binging and then regretting it later, finally losing weight only to gain it all (and more) back a month later, hating carbs, hating fats, (loving carbs, loving fats)… like we said, society doesn't make it easy for us. But with a plant-based diet, our bodies and our brains like the exact same foods and it's just one big, all-inclusive, holistic, happy-go-lucky love fest between our complete selves, our dinner plates, our beautiful animal friends, and Mother Nature herself.
A plant-strong diet helps us to redefine our relationship with food in a positive and productive way. We're taking the guilt out of the pleasure of eating. Food is no longer a source of stress or anxiety, but rather, a source of pride and joy. By educating ourselves about how a plant strong diet is right for our bodies and our brains, we can reshape our attitudes about food, regain control, and start our relationship with food anew.
While some may see taking on the plant-strong lifestyle as restrictive eating, we see otherwise. Think about what other people do to lose weight or "get healthy". Replacing meals with protein bars or meticulously counting and limiting calorie intake—those are restrictive. When living a plant-strong lifestyle, on the other hand, we eat as much as we want. And we truly and deeply enjoy what we eat! In addition to their deliciousness, these foods keep us energized and help us achieve/maintain a healthy body weight. Plus, we're now eating a greater variety of foods than we ever have before. There is a myriad of diverse and delectable whole, plant-based foods. Our palates have expanded and we now enjoy a multitude of new tastes and textures. Eating is more exciting than ever!
Eating plant-strong helps people to heal their relationship with food. When you eat a whole food, plant-based diet, the focus isn't on what you don't eat, but rather, what you do! It's about choosing to eat the foods that fuel your body with the very best that nature has to offer. Plants provide optimal nutrition for personal health, spare the lives of animals, and save the planet! It gives you so much to feel good about. Food is not just a source of calories, something that equals another pound on your body. Food is a source of enjoyment, happiness, and compassion. We hold such appreciation for our food; where it came from and what it can do. Eating plant-strong nourishes both the body and soul.
This lifestyle is so liberating! Society, family, peers, and our own minds can put so much pressure on us to eat, think, act, and live a certain way. But being plant-strong helps to release all of these pressures, freeing us from the tension, anxiety, and stress. All of these negative feelings have the potential to take the reins on your brain and steer you in the wrong direction, but plants serve as a beacon toward a better path. Eating plant-strong helps to mend broken thoughts, feelings, emotions, images, and habits. Once you are educated about plant-based nutrition, you feel confident in what you are doing and in who you are. A plant-strong diet truly brings strength—strength of body, mind, and spirit.
Sadly, most Americans have a love-hate relationship with food. But plant-based foods love you back! What is popular is not always better. Even though the Standard American Diet may be the "in-crowd" of the food world, it is the plant-strong diet that brings true, loyal friends. Plant-strong foods empower us. They offer an abundance of colorful, delectable foods that brighten our mood, lift our energy, optimize our health, and make us happy! The food we eat makes us feel good about ourselves. These foods are our friends!! They support us unconditionally, and our life is better because they are in it.
When your diet is plant-strong, food is not the enemy; food is the hero.
Let love in. Eat plants.
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I'll say. Over the years, Barbie has plunged into more than a hundred careers, including football coach, dentist, doctor, surgeon, paratrooper, astronaut, police officer, bus driver, pet stylist, NASCAR driver, business executive, and president of the United States of America. She's also served in the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines.
The way I see it, about the only thing left for her to try is computer hacker and funeral director.
And yet, her voluptuousness and long, blond hair somehow work to "suppress a little girl's ambitions." That's the word from a recent study conducted in a psychology lab at Oregon State University, where 37 little girls played five minutes each with Barbie and with Mrs. Potato Head. According to the study, the little girls who played with Mrs. Potato Head believed they "could grow up to do pretty much anything a boy could do." But alas, those same girls who played with Barbie believed there were 1.5 fewer careers for them than there were for the boys.
Still to be answered — no doubt by yet another idiotic study: Exactly how did Mrs. Potato Head, with her lavender hat, hoop earrings, pouty red lips and white gloves, inspire such confidence in these girls?
Luckily, I was already a teenager when Barbie came along, so I never had my ambition "suppressed" by playing with her. Far as I know, the closest Barbie came to a journalism career was as News Anchor Barbie a few years ago.
Nonetheless, I would come into plenty of contact with my daughter's Barbies a few years later, especially the headless ones her younger brother liked to strew up and down the hallway.
I'll confess, most of my daughter's Barbies seemed to drift into fashion-model careers — that is until an elderly aunt mailed a package of homemade outfits straight out of "Little House on the Prairie."
Pioneer Barbie? Hey, why not.
The point is, whether she's wearing a bikini or overalls, Barbie is not the enemy here. Believe me, all you moms out there: If the worst thing your daughter ever does is play with Barbie in all her different incarnations, you are lucky beyond belief.


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POLICE called to the scene of an alleged murder in a pub toilet cubicle had to remove the door to get in because of the position of the body, jury members were told.
Inspector Kevin Steele said he and other officers arrived at The Cambrian Vaults in Wrexham and he saw there was a large amount of blood on the floor and on the door of the cubicle.
Officers were unable to gain access because of the body behind the door and he decided the door should be removed, he said.
Two armed response officers had the necessary equipment and resuscitation equipment with them and they removed the door within seconds, he told the jury at Mold Crown Court yesterday.
The person inside fell to the side once the door was removed and paramedics entered. But he was found to be dead.
The prosecution say amateur boxer Craig Harold Maddocks, 34, from Llay, died of shock and haemorrhaging after he received 52 stab wounds from a flick knife.
Francesco John Prevete, 46, of Weale Court in Wrexham, denies murdering Mr Maddocks in the early hours of June 26 last year.
The jury has heard that some were shallow puncture wounds, others deeply penetrating stab wounds.
One wound, to the right side of his neck, punctured the jugular vein which would have led to massive external bleeding.
Two wounds penetrated the chest, one in turn penetrating the heart, resulting in massive internal bleeding.
Another wound to the back of the neck, which had characteristics of both cutting and stabbing, "almost completely severed the underlying spinal cord."
Prevete denies murder and claims he is not the killer. The defence is also putting forward an alternative defence that if jury find that he did the act, he did it in the aftermath of an epileptic event and he was labouring under an insane automatism.
Sgt Christopher Jones told how Prevete signed a pocket notebook entry of a conversation he had with him at the pub.
In that conversation Prevete said he had left the other man in the toilet and had been waiting for him outside.
"I waited for what seemed to be quite a long time," he told the officer.
He did not remember seeing anyone else entering or leaving the toilet while he was waiting outside.
The officer said he spoke to him for about 15 to 20 minutes and then Prevete signed his pocket note book entry later while in a holding cell.
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President Bush enjoys pushing his ideas in a rather aggressive manner as was evident during the recent NATO meeting in Rumania. He pushed for admittance of the Ukraine and Georgia into NATO despite opposition from leading European nations to this move which they regarded as unnecesarily hostile to the Russian government. President Putin had on his pleasant face during the meeting even though he was furious at the American plan for missile bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. In one of his encounters with the American president, Putin commented, "do ou understand, George, the Ukraine is not even a state?" Putin hinted if the Ukraine joined NATO, the nation of the Ukraine might not continue existing as a viable state.
George Bush wanders through the world believing he is in full possession of information and this attitude more often than not eventually results in disaster. President Putin is perfectly capable of encouraging a secession element of Russians who live in the eastern area of the Ukraine which would divide the nation. If push comes to shove, the Russian leader might play his card of secession.


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That CCL second leg was played on artificial turf in the incredibly daunting atmosphere at Estadio Ricardo Saprissa, affectionately known as The Monster's Cave. Conditions will be similar for this Sunday's Western Conference Championship finale at Portland, with RSL again taking a two-goal lead into a second leg, again heading into a very tough atmosphere – the Timbers are 14-1-5 at JELD-WEN Field this year – and again playing on turf.
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The Georgia Bulldogs (7-6, 1-1) won an emotionally inspired game against #21 Missouri on Wednesday night, just a day after their head coach attended the funeral of his late father.
In my opinion, this win was by far the best road win of the Mark Fox Era – the next best being a road win at Starkville two years ago in which UGA upset then-ranked #20 Mississippi State.
Last night's game seems bigger, though.
UGA came into this contest 0-6 in contests away from Athens, and Mizzu held the nation's longest-running home win streak at 26 games, which Georgia snapped.
The Bulldogs played with more effort last night than we have seen all season, out-rebounding the Tigers 43-34 and limiting them to under 40% from the floor as a team. Mizzu's star point guard, Jordan Clarkson, came into the game netting more than 19 points per game – yet the Dawgs were able to hold him to just 12 points on a frustrating 4 of 14 shooting performance.
While Charles Mann led the way with 18 points, Coach Fox also got double-digit scoring efforts from Nemanja Djurisic, Kenny Gaines and Brandon Morris, who chipped in 16, 11, and 10, respectively.
Mann relentlessly attacked the basket all night, and he scored the go-ahead bucket in the lane with 39 second left in overtime, putting his team up 65-63. The Dawgs got a stop on the next possession, and they managed to hit enough free throws to escape Columbia with the 70-64 upset.
Neme, much like in the win over Western Carolina, seemingly took over on offense late in the game. After scoring 9 points on all three's in the first half, Djurisic went scoreless for the next 20 minutes. However, Neme came alive in overtime, scoring the Dawgs' first 7 points, including a monster three-pointer that tied the game at 63 apiece with a 1:44 remaining.
Probably the most amazing aspect of last night's win was the fact that UGA was able to overcome another atrocious performance from the free throw line, where the team made only 13 of 26 attempts. Had Georgia been more efficient from the charity stripe, they would have put this game away in regulation.
Regardless, this victory could not have come at a better time for a team that appeared to be fading towards the end of 2013.
Georgia gets Alabama at home on Saturday, and the biggest question now is whether they can match last night's effort on a consistent basis as they continue their march through the 2014 SEC schedule.
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Unbelievable! Shocking really. Go Dawgs!
I chose not to read this article after noting you don't even have their record correct. 7-6 (1-0). Just a heads up.
Don't be a jerk Brandon, I don't see you running a blog.
Incredible win!!!! I was shocked to see them up at the half. I then tuned in and was sure I was going to be let down but the boys came through!!! I'm hoping this is the catalyst to get the season turned around. It should give them massive confidence going into a winnable game at home Saturday. Mann just needs to shoot free throws the rest of the week. He can score 20/game if he can shoot 70-80 from the line. He's a great player. I've always liked Fox but I had lost hope….hope is beginning to return with this shocking win! I'm excited about Saturday!!!
Agree Hoop, CMF's best road win, if not his best win ever. I kept think we would fade at anytime, in OT for sure. I knew we had won when they fouled Gaines, our best free throw shooter. Amazing effort! How can this be the same team that played the first part of the season? Fox is a great person-would love for the season to turn around. He finally gave his best players the minutes. Free throws are still a problem, especially Thornton, after 4 years. We won it on rebounding. Hopeful again, after one good game.
Yep! I teared up! So happy I couldn't sleep. Watched first half, then had to listen to second half on radio until the 8 minute mark until I could get back from an errand. Wonderful to share Scott Howard's and Chuck Dowdle's urgent, believing-disbelieving, edge-of-their-seats announcing. Back home on the couch I was alternating between wild fist pumps and prayers for divine guidance! It wasn't always pretty, but it sure had heart. I agree, one of, if not the best Fox-era games!
Great win. I feel that by CMF not switching the players out as much gave them the time they needed to Get it a good rhythm on the floor during the 2nd half


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A trio of former University of Michigan All-Americans is spending the summer playing in the National Pro Fastpitch (NPF) league, the only domestic opportunity to play professional softball. Many leagues have come and gone over the past two generations, but the NPF has now survived for a decade and continues to fight for attention and air time in a crowded entertainment marketplace. MGoBlue.com caught up with the three players -- Dorian Shaw, Jordan Taylor and Nikki Nemitz -- to learn about life as a professional softball player. We will feature one player's story a week leading up to the NPF playoffs.
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By Michael Kasiborski
Professional softball pitcher and University of Michigan softball alum Jordan Taylor (2008-11) is living the dream of thousands of young girls right now. She travels the world pitching and earning a living from her rocket-powered right arm. She lives in interesting cities and meets dynamic people. She even appeared on an episode of "Mythbusters" in May.
But as a kid she imagined a life much different than this one. She pined for frilly dresses, a fancy palace and a charming prince.
"I definitely did a lot of research on how to be a Disney princess when I was growing up," says Taylor, reminiscing about her childhood fantasy.
This California kid grew up about 60 miles from Disneyland and its phalanx of princesses. While she could have seen herself following in Cinderella's footsteps, fortunately for the rest of us, she eventually picked up a softball.
These days she is just a short pumpkin-carriage ride away from the epicenter of Epcot Center and the Disney empire, pitching for the USSSA Pride in Orlando, Fla. The princess phase may have passed her by -- she's focused now on being the queen of the diamond.
Taylor is in her second stint with the Pride -- she pitched the last few weeks of the 2011 season following a successful summer with Team USA -- and is enjoying a return to the professional ranks after an encore season with Team USA in 2012, winning the World Cup of Softball. Since this is her first full season with the NPF, she gets some good-natured grief about not quite being a rookie, but not being a veteran either.
"I'm in limbo between being a rookie and a veteran," she says, admitting the harassment from her longer-tenured teammates is mild at best.
Taylor's journey back to National Pro Fastpitch began in January, when she was living and training in Ann Arbor, occasionally throwing to the Michigan softball team. Then she spent a few months in Japan playing professionally. If you have spotted a bit of "softball nomad" theme here, it did not let up in the Far East.
"We don't have a home stadium in Japan," she says. "How it works is that we travel all over to our fans. We play two teams each weekend. [The workload] is very different than here in America."
But the nomadic lifestyle here or abroad has not dissuaded her from following her own softball fairy tale. She'll return to Japan in late August to resume the season -- which is split into two parts -- and stay there until November. Meanwhile she's pitching for the Pride and looking for a full-time softball coaching job here stateside to finally lay down some roots.
But until then, there's plenty of softball to be played and tourist traps to get caught in around Orlando. Playing for the Pride puts her smack dab in a town that doubles as America's playground.
"Our owner (the United States Specialty Sports Association) is great and provides opportunities to check out Orlando, especially when we have family in town."
She is perusing Gatorland with a few teammates when we catch up with her -- maybe she has outgrown the fairy princess stuff -- and enjoying life as a 24-year-old making her way in the world.
"There's a lot to do here. Obviously we have Disney World and Universal Studios. We have great shopping here; the outlets make it hard to keep your paycheck in check," she says with a laugh.
She is expecting a visit from her mom, Marjorie, soon. Taylor calls her mom "her biggest supporter" and says she missed just one game during her senior season at Michigan despite living in California. Of course no matter how many games Marjorie makes, old habits are hard to break.
"She can't watch me pitch," Taylor says. "She looks down and just keeps score."
Lots of folks across the country had their eyes on Taylor in May when she had the chance to demonstrate the power behind her right arm on an episode of the popular Discovery Channel show "MythBusters." They wanted to know if men and women actually throw differently or if it is a misconception in society. And although they made Jordan throw overhand, she helped prove that throwing is a matter of training, not of gender.
"We had one day of shooting in an old gym and then the next day we went to ILM studios (to shoot)," she recounted. And then regrettably, "I found out that Brad Pitt and George Clooney were there the day before, and I wondered why we couldn't have overlapped with them?"
She spent two days shooting with the MythBusters crew, and although a lot of her material ended up on the cutting room floor she got the chance to educate the TV crew on softball vs. baseball.
"It was an awesome experience," she says, "but the hosts were a little clueless about softball. I think they thought it was slow-pitch softball."
Taylor credits her time at Michigan and coach Carol Hutchins for her ability to slide into new situations -- like shooting a TV show or living half the year in Japan or even facing down a gator at Gatorland -- with comfort and ease.
"Hutch teaches you to be a better person to yourself, a better friend and a better person to other people. I got to Michigan and realized how much more there is than softball. To me, there is no better program than Michigan softball."
She mowed down the opposition with a vengeance during her four years at Michigan, earning All-America honors three times and finishing her career in first on U-M's all-time list in wins, winning percentage, no-hitters, perfect games, innings pitched, complete games and strikeouts. And while those numbers might be her Michigan legacy, she took away something else.
"Hutch has her saying about leaving the program better than when you found it, but the truth is the program makes you a better person than when you arrived. That definitely helped me adapting to my life in Japan. I wasn't stuck in a bubble, I was able to adapt to the culture and the people."
Hers is a life of constant adaptation lately, a softball chameleon of sorts. With the Pride and NPF, she assumes yet another role: softball ambassador.
"Ten years ago this league didn't exist and women were working overtime to make it a reality," she says. "Everyone in this league has bought into making this league a substantial force."
The NPF is in its 10th year and seems to be gaining some traction in its fight to be a viable and successful league. The ESPN family of networks is broadcasting 16 games this season. The league is attracting stars -- like Taylor -- who might otherwise opt to stay in the USA Softball program.
"Maybe in 10 years we'll have 10 teams. We want girls coming up now to have this be a viable career option because it's a sport we all love so much."
So there are no tiaras or ball gowns in the NPF. It's unlikely that anyone will break into song while in the circle. And unless something strange has happened recently, none of the players can communicate with animals. That is all the stuff of Disney princesses.
Taylor wants to live in a world where growing up and becoming a professional softball player is not a fairy tale anymore. Who needs glass slippers when you can wear cleats?
Follow Taylor on Twitter @7ordan7aylor
The Pride will play a three-game set against the Chicago Bandits beginning today (Aug. 15) and going through Saturday (Aug. 17).
» Past Profiles: Dorian Shaw
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No sherry in me 109,021
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No sherries, but about six beers......
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17783 with no sherry, 17620 tanked.
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13225 first try
Musta been with no sherry.
I didn't see where to get more sherry. Gotta try again.
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There is no possible victory in defense.
The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either.
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1253! Wasn't that the year the Magna Carta was signed? Besides, turkeys around here don't go "boing" and hop around like that.
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37,877. Towards the end it felt like I was hunting turkey with an M16
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Tt eSports Shock One Gaming Headset Final Thoughts
After testing several headsets, DTS in general delivers less obvious directional audio than Dolby, but the "surround sound" feeling is stronger due to excellent voice positioning and processing, especially obvious when listening to music. DTS and Dolby are equally matched in their technologies however they seem to have focused on different areas. DTS's Surround Sound Sensation instantly creates an illusion that sound is playing "around" you, but unlike Dolby, its directional audio capabilities are much weaker. This is even true for content that supports 5.1+ surround sound. Thermaltake's partnership with DTS may seem interesting, and the results are decent, but in terms of features for a surround sound headset, if directional audio is poor then that's only half a surround sound headset.
Tt eSports Shock One Headset Conclusion
The Tt eSports Shock One headset is a different breed than existing Dolby surround sound headsets. It has better voice isolation, equally matched in terms of surround sound, but has weaker directional audio. The headset's directional audio performance in FPS games such as CoD: Black Ops and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 are both very poor. The Shock One's performance is somewhere between a surround sound headset and stereo headset. However, depending on preference, bass enhancement can be a big plus to audio experience.
The Shock One sports a hardcore gamer look and feel. Thermaltake goes with its most popular red and black color scheme. The exterior shell is a mix of matte and glossy plastic, along with metal mesh for the ear-pieces. The color scheme reminds me of some high-end laptop systems like Dell's Alienware and Toshiba's Qosmio lineup. This isn't a viable purchase for office settings like the more generic Corsair HS1, but if you want a flashier head accessory the Shock One delivers just that.
The construction of the Shock One is solid. All joints are tight and no squeaky sounds come from the plastic headband. The design of the headset's components shows great thought. The Shock One has the easiest mechanism for swapping ear-pieces and is truely portable. There's limited adjustability for the headset, which is one reason it may be a too tight for some people. Otherwise the Shock One's construction and design is one of the most impressive and has the least number of flaws.
Thermaltake built a great headset as mentioned above, but its functionality really comes down to their software department and DTS. The Shock One's configuration panel is simple, but a little lacking. For one, they should make bass enhancement an on-off feature since it detracts from quality in so many cases. Otherwise they could include a general bass and treble equalizer for easier configuration in addition to the traditional equalizer. On the DTS part, options are fairly limited and some of the features are not very useful. Further bass enhancement through DTS Surround Sensations yields horrible audio quality and constant static. The Shock One is a great headset with many physical features, but otherwise on the software side, other than basic equalizer and DTS Surround Sensation mode, the software does not include any extra functionality.
The Shock One is currently priced for $93 (Newegg) and $99 (Amazon), roughly $5 below the Corsair HS1, its closest competitor. In terms of performance the Corsair HS1 takes the lead in comfort and audio quality. But the Shock One has bass enhancement, portability, and flashier design. Based on its features and performance, the Shock One is priced in the correct price range.
The Tt eSports Shock One Gaming Headset is one of the first available DTS Surround Sensation headsets. The Shock One has a lot going for it thanks to Thermaltake's design team. However in this case partnering with DTS may not have been the best move. The Shock One will only be a good buy for some, as long as heavy bass and portability is what you want. But for the best audio quality and fully immersive surround sound experience, there are better choices.
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Every few minutes the headset simply shuts off. That is, it uninstalls itself, and I have to find a DIFFERENT USB port every time to plug it into.
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Cheers, RN! Information which I'm sure will prove very useful over the forthcoming months...
As for mountains - that's pretty much all there'll be for the next two or three weeks. With possibly some desert and salt flats thrown in.
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The salt flats in northern Argentina are also impressive. I saw them yesterday. Another trip, another guide. This one a Belgian hippy. The tour took the route of the Train Of The Clouds. Which is, sadly, currently not functioning. Apparently, the former governer of Salta was also the owner of a tour company. One which runs a bus tour along the route of the train
In any event, another tour, more coloured mountains. More desert. Some vicuna. And salt flats. Vast expanses, stretching off into the distance. Eerie.
Salta, itself, is a very pleasant city. Colonial buildings. Cable car up to the nearby hill, to gain good views. And the park at the top of the hill has waterfalls. Well, small water features, but they're pleasant enough.
There do seem to be a lot of French people here, though. Some of them even have the termerity to speak French. This is a disgrace, and will be something I deal with in my forthcoming novel, "Dr Kiss's House Of Love" in which the eponymous hero travels to France to teach the natives to speak English, on the basis that their language will soon be dead. Go out and buy it. Once it's published.
One more thing. My hostel here - El Andaluz. It is probably the friendliest place I've stayed in since Quito. Helpful owners who organise events, invite you to the bar, and so on. If you're in Salta, stay here. Unless you want luxury.
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Telling family stories has been good for my two kids, particularly as we live far, far away from our dearest ones. They are learning where they come from, how achievement and failure, mistakes and forgiveness, loss and loyalty and love are already a part of them.
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Every family has at least one story about one of their own achieving the impossible, surviving colossal failure, crossing mighty waters, forgiving the unforgivable, finding courage they never knew they had, (or just monkeying around)—in big or small ways stretching their resources to make the world a better place for the generations to come.
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Aug 23, 2007 at 1:46 pm #1224736
I'm in the planning stages of making a summer weight ultra-budget down quilt. I made a down comforter last winter, so I have a tiny amount of experience with making down items.
I will be re-using down from an eddie bauer jacket (full length) that I bought today for $1.75. Not the best quality down, but not total crap either. I'll probably have to use another jacket to get enough down. I've used this recycling method before, so I'm quite aware of what I'm in for. And I will be using some breathable ripstop nylon (of the $1 wal-mart persuasion). I'm thinking the whole bag will end up costing less than $10. Maybe a little more after purchasing some no-see-um.
So…for my baffles; if I cut my baffles so that they taper at the ends, would it help keep the down from migrating to the sides? I was thinking 3" in the middle and having a rounded taper all the way to the edges. I have never owned a quilt, so I'm not sure if this is typical. So any thoughts on this? Am I totally off base? Will it make construction too difficult? Will it be warm enough?
Any MYOG-ers have other design ideas for summer quilts? I'd be interested in hearing about variations on the typical top-quilt I've seen on and around this site. Does a flat sheet quilt work well? Does any one use the sew-through method?
Thanks ahead of time.Aug 24, 2007 at 9:26 am #1399832
Hmm. Seems like my long-winded question didn't get any traction. How about this:
My 30* TNF beeline is much too warm for summer nights, and I'd like to make a cheap quilt. What summer-weight down sleeping bags/quilts are people using for warm weather and how are they constructed? What works and what doesn't?
Oh, and is there anything wrong with using breathable ripstop as baffles?Aug 24, 2007 at 10:06 am #1399838
Colleen ClemensMember
@tarbubbleLocale: dirtville, CA
not going silent on you, just busy summertime.
i LOVE your budget bag idea. it's great, and you're recycling, which is near & dear to my heart. my neighbors who recently moved tossed a whole down comforter into the dumpster; i was going to fish it out in the morning to salvage the down, but the trash truck beat me to it! (lesson: dumpster dive immediately when the opportunity is presented)
i have never used ripstop to make baffles, but i can't see why it wouldn't work decently well. if you taper, i'd suggest keeping the center of the baffles at full height for a greater portion of the length. for example, if you have a baffle that is 40" long, have at least 20" of that baffle at full height (although a 3" high baffle will result in a pretty warm quilt!).
sew-through is much easier than using baffles, but of course you know that will result in a much less warm quilt. even adding a 1" baffle will make the quilt much warmer. i sleep cold cold cold, so for me even a summer quilt still needs to be baffled about 2".Aug 24, 2007 at 10:32 am #1399845
I might make the baffles shorter, maybe 1" at their tallest. I will definitely make the baffles in the way you suggested, Seems like that will work well.
When I made the down comforter, I made 4" baffles, and it took LOADS of down to fill it. I used something like 8 jackets. The jackets were worn and weren't high quality, but inside the down was still beautiful. Despite the quantity of jackets it required, it was still a lot cheaper than buying one, and much much nicer. I don't think they even sell down comforters with baffle construction.
Does anyone else reuse down in this way?Aug 24, 2007 at 10:43 am #1399849
Neil BenderMember
My summer quilt velcros to a 'coffin-cut' ridge-rest pad. This gets the full length pad down to 11 ounces. It's more like a top bag when used this way. The shell has 42" of girth at the shoulders and tapers to something like 27" of girth at the foot. The foot end is a 7" radius semi-circle with one sewn thru line to make 2 channels. At the shoulders is a horse shoe collar to seal at the neck. It is over filled with 11 ounces of 550 down and the loft of each 5 inch sewn through tube is about 2.5 inches (very plump). I've used it down to 38 F with extra clothing (down vest) layed over the top of me. The total weight without stuff sack is 15.5 ounces using 1.1 ounce ripstop inside and out. Sewn through is easy (half the stitching for each line) but if I did it again I'd use 1 inch heigh nano-seeum netting baffles to let the down loft freer and eliminate cold stitch lines. To get the thickness of mine the actual fill power of the down was reduced quite a bit. Loose down in a baffled design works better than compressed down in a sewn through design. I'm 150 pounds, 5' 9" and my design is tight, but with velcro holding the quilt to the pad I can side sleep without drafts.
I've built baffled bags before. I never bothered to taper the baffle to the edge, I just gather up the material when I sew it shut. Netting is so light that the extra material weight is negligable and it assures there is plenty of material for everything to mate up and stitch closed. Making baffles an arc-like curve might help the bag conform to your body better. For a future bag I plan to curve the baffles in an arc and stitch them to the shells in a chevron pattern to keep down from settling to the sides. I find warmth is really improved by good collars at the neck/shoulder opening.
Netting doesn't unravel and is a better baffle material than ripstop which should be seared to prevent unraveling or loose thread clumping up the down. Thru-hiker.com has the lightest nano-seeum netting.
I hope this helps.Aug 24, 2007 at 11:20 am #1399853
Thanks Neil. That helps a lot. I didn't think about the fraying of the nylon baffles trapping down.
A thought on weight savings; how will a sew through compare to a baffle design of similar loft? Initially, I thought sew through would be lighter, but I would probably need to use more weight in down since the stitching will compress a good portion of the down. Sounds like baffles are the way to go. I don't need the baffles to be puffy. If I make the tubes more narrow (using a greater number baffles), Will this reduce the amount of down required for each tube?
I really like your idea of the semi circle for the footbox.
How did you construct/attach the collar?
Another thing; I'm not a big fan velcro. Any idea for other methods of attaching the quilt to a pad. I know this probably depends on the pad. pad/attachment ensemble ideas would be appreciated. I'm thinking about purchasing one of the full-length insulating pad from gossamer gear.Aug 24, 2007 at 5:37 pm #1399904
Neil BenderMember
A baffled design will have more constant loft; the baffled designs I made were also differential cut; the shell was 4" more in circumference than the liner at the shoulder, less so at the foot. For something with 1" baffles, a differential cut may not be worth doing.
With sewn thru or with overstuffed baffles the crowning of the fabric also eats up some of the length. I tend to oversize the cut fabric and it always turns out just right or a little small and so I've never really figured out exactly how much to add.
My sense is that once you get close to or above 2 inches of loft in a layer, the baffle is more efficient. It allows the down to loft more, reduces thin spots, and baffle weight is offset by more efficient lofting of down. Efficiently lofted down won't feel spongy the way an overstuffed tube will but will be fully filled none the less. Another benefit to this is a smaller stuffed item or one that isn't stuffed a stightly when you pack it away.
I like my baffle spacing to be about twice the design thickness of the bag, which means 5" to 6" spacing for the 3 season designs I've made.
Getting back to my sewn thru summer quilt, the collar was just attched at the edge, so the attachment is a thin spot. But for a baffled bag that is differential cut the collar would be sewn inside-collar-piece to the liner and outside-collar-piece to the shell. Then a blocking baffle can be be stitched-in to the internal seam allowances on the shell and liner. The collar is filled from the ends and is narrow enough that other baffles in the collar isn't needed. Or you can stitch both parts of the collar to the liner with whatever thickness spacing you want and let it hang from the liner.
If you don't like velcro I think your best option is a single layer bottom which turns the quilt into a top bag and at least a half zip is handy. But my summer quilt also has a collar slit halfway between shuolder and foot(velcro closing, I use the non-snag velcro) so it can be worn as a vest/serape. The velcro from the torso mates with the velcro from the foot since non-snag velcro is unisex (hooks and loops in the same piece). It looks dorky in use and always gets a laugh out of grumpy camp-mates before they make their coffee.
You might be able to sew #3 separating zippers to a foam pad and attach the quilt that way. It will weigh more than velcro but will be easier to use and adjust venting. The velcro isn't very convenient. I've thought of that method for self inflating pads as they ususally have a seam of heat sealed edge that could have a zipper sewn to, but I haven't tried it yet.
A light bivy sack also solves the pad/quilt attachment draft problem.
Many people use straps to batten a quilt down to a pad. Maybe even light bungee cord would work.Aug 29, 2007 at 6:52 pm #1400448
Scott JonesMember
You can use rip stop nylon baffles. Holubar, once one of the best gearmakers in the business always used ripstop baffles. They are stronger. I would sew them in a chevron pattern to prevent down shift from side to side.
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