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Metallica's James Hetfield Calls Out KISS, Scorpions Over 'Farewell' Tours
The members of Metallica are entering their 50s, and while there's no immediate threat of the band calling it a career, the topic of how and when to say goodbye is becoming a more common theme in interview questioning. In a new interview with Kerrang, frontman James Hetfield reveals that he knows how he doesn't want to go out.
Hetfield stated that he's not a fan of the "farewell tour," especially when bands reconsider midway through. He explained, "I don't think that's fair to anyone. KISS' farewell tour for the 10th time? Scorpions were done and then they tour? You can't say that and then not do it. I don't know what's in store for us. I don't want to go on the history of how other bands have done it. We're unique in our own path and unique in how our path ends."
Drummer Lars Ulrich also addressed the idea of the end, adding, "I feel there's a time I could step away from it. I was very ready to step away from it right there in '01 and '02 when all that s–t was going down with 'Some Kind of Monster.' I have thousands of other things that I can entertain myself with that would be creatively stimulating."
The drummer adds, "Obviously, Metallica's my love, my priority and first thing, but I'm not afraid of what I'm going to do with my life if this all goes away. I don't think I want to do music once Metallica ends. Hopefully, it will last forever."
As previously stated, there's no need for too much concern about Metallica's immediate future as the band is working toward their follow-up to 2008's 'Death Magnetic' album.
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Sofosbuvir Plus Ribavirin Works Well for Hard-to-Treat Inner-City Hepatitis C Patients
March 21, 2013
Researchers recently reported that a simple 24-week oral regimen of Gilead Sciences' nucleotide analogue hepatitis C virus (HCV) polymerase inhibitor sofosbuvir and full-dose ribavirin cured approximately 70 percent of previously untreated individuals with HCV genotype 1. Many of the participants had factors predictive of poor response. Anu Osiniusi of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and colleagues tested a two-drug, interferon-free treatment regimen in a small phase IIa study of difficult-to-treat patients in inner-city neighborhoods of Washington, D.C.
The SPARE study, which began in 2011, evaluated sofosbuvir plus ribavirin. The study was conducted in two parts. In Part 1, researchers treated 10 people with absent to-moderate liver fibrosis (stage F0F2) for 24 weeks with 400 milligrams once-daily of sofosbuvir plus weight-based ribavirin at 1,000 milligrams per day (mg/day) if weight was less than 75 kilograms (kg), or 1,200 mg/day if 75 kg or more. In part 2, researchers randomly assigned 50 people with all stages of liver disease to sofosbuvir with either weight-based ribavirin or a lower fixed dose of 600 mg/day regardless of weight. Seventy percent of the subjects chosen for the second part of the study were men; the median age was 54 years; and 80 percent of the subjects were African-American. African Americans usually respond poorly to interferon. Approximately 70 percent of participants had the more difficult-to-treat HCV sub-type 1a, and approximately 60 percent had a high baseline viral load.
In Part 1, there was a 90-percent sustained virological response rate at 12 weeks post-treatment, rising to 100 percent in a modified analysis of all participants treated for at least 8 weeks. In Part 2, HCV RNA declined rapidly with almost all participants reaching undetectable viral load by the fourth week. Response rate remained high at 24 weeks of treatment. Some participants started to relapse soon after stopping treatment, especially in the low-dose ribavirin group. Sustained response rates at the fourth week post-treatment (SVR 4) were 72 and 56 percent, respectively. A few later relapses occurred resulting in SVR 12 rates of 68 and 48 percent. Viral decline after starting treatment was slower among people who eventually relapsed compared with sustained responders, with clearance occurring in 3.6 vs 5.6 days on average. Host and viral factors associated with relapse included lower baseline viral load, male sex, and using low-dose rather than weight-based ribavirin. Having worse fibrosis or cirrhosis seemed to predict poorer response.
Sofosbuvir plus ribavirin was generally safe and well tolerated, with no serious adverse events, drop-outs due to side-effects, or deaths in either group. Laboratory abnormalities differed according to ribavirin dose. The researchers concluded that, in an inner-city population of HCV genotype 1 subjects with negative treatment predictors, an interferon-free regimen of sofosbuvir with weight-based ribavirin was effective in achieving high SVR rates.
This study was presented at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta, Georgia.
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The Bohemian style is free-spirited, earthy, and totally chic! Many celebrities such as Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Kate Moss and Rachel Zoe create their unique styles based of the boho-chic look. Whether you are ready to delve into the bohemian style or would like to add touches of earthly flare to your ensembles, embrace your inner free-spirit! Check out how you can get your Designer Swimwear look to have a bohemian edge!
Designer and stylist, Rachel Zoe is one of the most influential forces in fashion today. Her white maxi dress is the perfect bohemian choice that makes her look like an absolute goddess! The Call Me Maybe suit has the same ivory hue that compliments earthy accessories flawlessly. This Luxury Swimwear suit has brown stone and gold hardware that would look great with neutral colored bangles or earrings. Maybe even consider a long bohemian -inspired necklace like the one Rachel Zoe pairs with her flowy maxi dress!
The Olsen Twins are taking hold of the fashion industry with their cute clothing line and incredibly unique styles. Influenced by the ever-popular Bohemian look, they use neutral tones to give their ensembles a relaxed appeal. Mary-Kate Olsen is all about tunics! Tunics are an easy and comfortable piece that can be paired with accessories to glam it up. Our Irresistible tunic has a blue and white snake print with brown tie straps at the center bust. It would look adorable with a brown boho sling bag just like Mary-Kate!
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Sometimes my computer sounds like a chicken. You know that cluckety, gurgly sound a Rhode Island Red might make scratching around the barnyard looking for a kernel of corn or ill-fated June bug.
It could be my computer preparing to crash again, but don't get me started on that. Electronic malfunctions seem to be my lot in life. But this chicken thing, assuming the computer doesn't implode and forget the sounds that issue from its inner workings, will be a most enjoyable substitute to the nerdy sounds it used to make.
I grew up with chickens, you see. And that computer-generated chicken sound reminded me of a simpler time when most everyone who lived in the country had a bit of livestock on their places. We most always had a flock of chickens, bantams (banties, we called them), some game hens and roosters (but not for fighting. We deplored violence if we weren't directly involved.) and a few white chickens of questionable ancestry we got from the local feed store to grow out to fryer size, decapitate and put in the freezer.
A nearby neighbor owned peafowl and I'd just as soon my computer not learn that language. The first time I heard one of them squawk I thought a human being was in mortal anguish. I can do without that while trying to compose intelligent communications.
I fondly remember chicken sounds, though. The arrogant self-aggrandizing crow of a rooster in the morning can't help but catch your attention. I also enjoyed the self-congratulatory cackles of successful hens announcing completion of their day's work.
And those cluckety, gurgly sounds hens make while scratching around for food was therapeutic. A dozen or so sounded like an off-melody church choir accompanied by a tinny piano.
My grandfather gave me a banty hen when I was just a boy. I think I named her HENrietta. (I was a bit full of myself even that far back.) She hatched out quite a few broods of bitties and provided quite a few scrambled egg breakfasts before she passed on.
I remember gathering eggs, especially at my grandparents' farm. They had lots of chickens and nests you had to find and then steal from when the hen was done. Grandmother would put a white, ceramic doorknob in the nest so the hen would think she still had an egg (the nest egg, you see) and wouldn't move her nest. I never said chickens were smart. They were just fun to observe and listen to.
I hadn't even thought much about chickens until my computer started this new farm animal impersonation thing. I had just gotten it back from the repair place and I wonder what they left inside. I probably don't want to know.
But I hope the chicken stays. I kinda miss hearing chickens clucking, crowing and cackling. I don't know that I've had eggs as good as the ones that came fresh from the nest. And I know a chicken that was running around the barnyard in the morning tastes better than any that come pre-packaged and already cut up from the local grocery.
I dispatched more than a few with a hatchet and a chopping block. After the headless chicken quit flopping around (like a chicken with its head cut off, come to think of it) mom would pour boiling water over it and we'd pluck off the feathers, then singe the pinfeathers with some flaming newspaper. The stink was awful. Mom would cut it up and fry it in a cast iron skillet coated with lard. Fried chicken, fresh beans from the garden and my mother's biscuits came as near to heavenly food as I'm likely to get.
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Welcome to our first installment of week in review, top picks. In this column I'll talk a little bit about the different video game announcements and news that I saw this week.
Early this week. Grand Theft Auto V announced a website update where you could visit the counties of Los Angeles and Blaine on interactive travelogue. . . . → Read More: TGR Week In Review – Top Game News for August 17th, 2013


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Important to focus on success
It might seem like strange advice from a professional money manager, but here is my own personal get-rich-quick scheme: Focus.
In the mid-1980s I started working for Xerox Canada. I was young, energetic and excited to be earning straight commission for the first time. It was a perfect arrangement: the harder I worked, the more money I would make. The world was my oyster.
At first I was scrambling around trying to be everything to everyone but somehow not quite making things happen. Fortunately, I had a highly effective sales manager who watched my behaviour, and told me what changes to make to improve my sales.
The single most important change was to set an income objective, a dollar amount that I wanted to earn each year. I printed that number out on a piece of paper, put it in my wallet, and looked at it daily. By focusing on that, I met my goal and soon was winning President's Club Awards for excellence in sales.
One of the wealthiest women I've interviewed told me that she learned her most important money lesson from her mother.
Jane's mom was a guidance counsellor, and so she was the natural person to review her daughter's CV. The first draft was all over the place, and her advice to Jane was to use a resume as a long-term strategic plan. Start focused, and keep that focus. Build on it, and examine each subsequent extracurricular activity or job in terms of how it would make that resume stronger as time went by.
That strategic focus ultimately translated into serious money.
The idea that the first step to financial success is to focus is hardly new. Earl Nightingale, an American radio star, motivational speaker and author, became famous for his 1960 phrase: "We become what we think about."
When he was 29, he read the 1937 book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill and he realized the power of thought.
"We become what we think about" was a plea for focus, following in the tradition of other thinkers, going back to the New Testament: "As ye sow, so shall ye reap."
Xerox was many years ago in my own career, but remembering the importance of focus still works for me today. Recently, I set a short-term goal to add a certain number of new clients and dollars to my assets under management. I won't tell you what that number was, but I set my target on March 26 of this year. By April 15, I had met my goal.
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Very soon, Matthew Perryman Jones and his shiny bag of fresh tunes will venture to uncharted territory, to a quiet little land that a handful of folks call home. The rest of the country simply calls it Delaware.
'A hodgepodge of everything'
As part of his fall tour, the indie singer-songwriter will make his Delaware debut at World Café Live at the Queen on Nov. 2. Jones will share the bill with Vermont singer-songwriter Zack duPont.
Most recognized for his shimmering 2008 hit "Save You," which landed him several high-profile song placements in TV shows such as ABC's "Kyle XY" and FOX's "Bones," Jones said it's likely he'll cluster that tune, one of his all-time favorites, into his setlist for his show at The Queen. He added the concert will also be an acoustic show centered around a good chunk of songs from his newest album, "Land of the Living," which dropped in May.
"I'll kind of incorporate a bit of every record I've done [into the show]," said Jones, 38, a native of Levittown, Pa., who has called Nashville, Tenn., his home for the last decade.
"I usually do a song or two off each record when I go out like this. It'll be a hodgepodge of everything, pretty much."
Jones would love to paint The Queen with the entire pallet of hues displayed in "Land of the Living," but it's not possible, due to the "sheer economics" of how much it'd cost to bring a full band on tour with him, he said. "Especially with 'Land of the Living' because it has a full band with full guitars and all that kind of stuff, this sort of version of [the show] will be a little stripped down and a lot scrappier."
'Grieving, denial and anger'
Compared to Jones' 2011 album, "Until the Dawn Appears," "Land of the Living" is a heavier record that's coated in emotions of "grieving, denial and anger, and acceptance and resolve," he said. A strong portion of the album was inspired by the loss of Jones' father, Alan, who passed away in 2009.
The title of the album comes from a letter Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother, Theo, in which Vincent recalls a period of feeling isolated, but then explains he has arrived at "the land of the living," a place he hadn't journeyed to for quite some time.
The album "Land of the Living" includes a minimalist, acoustic track titled "O Theo," a sorrowful tune without a chorus. Despite the song's unconventional composition, Jones admitted it's ironic the majority of fans he has come across on tour seem to favor that song more than any other off the new record, which is something he really digs.
"That probably seems to be a standout track to a lot of people, which is interesting, but it's definitely not a radio song. It's pretty… I don't know. It's not what I would expect people to catch on to," said Jones, who added he has been spearheading his pop-rock song "I Won't Let You Down Again" as the album's current single.
As for his fans' reaction towards the new record as a whole, Jones feels the reception has been splendid.
"Fortunately, it's had some really great responses," he explained. "The fans have been really excited about it and really responsive to it, and that's been great. And it's sort of [been received] in the way that you would hope. They've been spreading the word to other people and it seems a lot of people have been picking it up. I've been really encouraged by the response."
WHAT Matthew Perryman Jones and Zack duPont in concert
WHEN 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2
WHERE World Café Live at the Queen, 500 N. Market, St., Wilmington
INFO 994-1400 or worldcafelive.com
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Very soon, Matthew Perryman Jones and his shiny bag of fresh tunes will venture to uncharted territory, to a quiet little land that a handful of folks call home. The rest of the country simply calls it Delaware.


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Manna Needs School Supplies
Stores are starting to fill up with school supplies as parents get their children ready for the fall. But for many single or out-of-work parents, buying school supplies is nearly impossible. That's why Manna in Bangor is currently collecting donations of those supplies.
Manna's Executive Director Bill Rae says it's not easy for people to ask for help. But those who wish to sign their children up, can do it starting on Monday, August 5th.
"This is what makes it so hard, because Moms come in here and it's very humiliating to ask for help. But that's what makes a good parent to ask for help. They come in and say they have a child in a certain grade, we check with the school to find out what the child needs, we sign them up, and they come back about two days before school starts to pick up what we call 'the tools they need to start school'."
Rae says donations of all sorts of school supplies are needed including three ring binders, calculators, pens, pencils, colored pencils, and especially backpacks. All the donated items should be new.
All donations can be dropped off at Manna, 629 Main Street in Bangor. And again, parents who wish to receive the donated school supplies for their children can begin signing up at Manna on Monday. The children will receive their new school supplies at the end of the month.
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Using a universal power train, this cultivator can transition into other useful tools for around the home or farm.
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Having easy access to all of the controls on one comfortable handle makes it easy to complete tasks so the operator's hand never has to leave the handle.
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Werner H262002 Blue Armor 1000 Climbing/Positioning Harness, Tongue Buckle Legs (M/L)
List Price: $118.00
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Part Number: H262002 UPC: 0051751105872 Weight: 5.2975
• WebAlert inspectable webbing makes wear and damage visible and obvious, and with multiple impact indicators, makes inspection easier
• Large back pad with breathable, sweat absorbing foam helps keep harness untangled when donning
• Hip D-rings for positioning applications
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• Slotted pass through buckles on the chest strap fastens without twisting
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Werner Blue Armor 1000 harnesses deliver the right combination of safety features, comfort, and durability for the professional worker. Unique wear indicating webbing and impact indicators allow for easy inspection. They feature 5-point adjustments for optimal fit, lightweight hardware and pads, and bright colors for worker visibility on the jobsite. The back pad is large enough to protect the user's back, padded to absorb sweat and feel comfortable, and designed to prevent tangling when donning the harness. The rear dorsal D-ring is made from high quality forged alloy steel for strength and durability. Hip D-rings for positioning, chest D-ring for climbing applications. Slotted pass-through buckle on the chest strap and tongue buckle leg straps are simple, fast, easy, and ideal when more than one worker could use the same harness.


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Considering return to work options
If your employee has been away from work having treatment, it can be difficult to know when they are ready to return.
Macmillan's research into work and cancer found most employees surveyed received little or no worthwhile medical advice about returning to work at the right time.
Many people are left to make this decision alone, based on when they feel it's the right time to return.
Finding out your employee's needs
Many employees choose to share their cancer diagnosis with their employer. As a manager, you have no legal right to know the diagnosis or the clinical details of an employee's condition. In fact, employees have a right of confidentiality under the Human Rights Act 1998.
However, civil law and medical ethics recognise that managers may legitimately seek information relating directly to operational matters. For example, you could ask an occupational health provider for advice about the individual's health in relation to their ability to carry out their role. This conversation may cover:
- the likely duration of absence
- the likely effect health issues may have on return-to-work
- the likely duration of any health issues that may affect the individual's ability to carry out their role
- whether there are any adaptations needed in the workplace to help overcome any disadvantage the individual may suffer as a result of health issues
- the likely duration of any adaptations
- the potential impact of health issues on performance and/ or attendance
- the potential impact of health issues on health and safety
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Fast and comfortable—you get the best of both worlds with Trek's 7.5 FX! Its hydroformed aluminum frame provides an efficient, comfortable ride, while the Bontrager carbon fork is super light and damps road vibration for velvety smoothness. The wonderful ride continues with Bontrager's light wheels and flat-resistant Race Hard-Case tires, which are equally at home on roads, paths, and trails. Plus, the 20-speed, wide-ranging drivetrain gives you the right gears for any hill at any pace, and the linear-pull brakes offer complete control.
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I have the 2016 High Visibility Orange.....Owned for just under a year. Great machine. My brothers and I just finished The natchez Trace from Natchez MS to Nashville TN...Was extremely pleased with the bike!
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I like to ride fast but really dislike the down position of drop handle bars, so this bike is terrific. Really like the wide hand grips. Very comfortable and easy on the hands, even without gloves. Have broken 4 spokes in three months. The shop fixed the first two free of charge, gave me a new wheel when the third spoke broke, and now the new wheel has a broken spoke, all at no charge under the warrenty. Now the shop is trying to get me an upgraded wheel under the warrenty. I hope this all works out. For whatever it is worth, I am 6'1" and weigh about 195 lbs. I ride about 100 miles a week, year around. I had a 7.3 that I rode for several years and put well over 20,000 miles on it. I really like this bike a lot and will be a walking advertisement for Trek if we can get the dependability issues resolved.
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Took the bike on a 24 mile ride. The bike performed flawlessly and was comfortable the whole ride. Easily could have gone many more miles. Best bike I've owned.
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I really like this bike but have to be careful navigating hills. I've taken the bike for a drive/shifting tune-up as I've taken a couple of face plants into the handlebars when pumping up a challenging hill. The chain slips, and well, there you have it. Other than that, I love the bike!
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This bike didn't really motivate me to ride it. Honestly the bike is fine but it does nothing bad, nothing brilliant. I sold it at a loss and bought a 2015 Giant Comax 1. I'm happy now and look forward to riding.
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After 7 months & 750 miles I continue to ride at every opportunity (short 7 mi. To 40 mi trips). My requirements: lightweight, hybrid bike, easy on the back, firm but comfortable saddle. Easy to pedal on flats & rolling hills, able to add rear rack for extra gear. My test ride confirmed my expectations. I love the fast, smooth gear shifting and gear indicators on handlebar. Super Isobar grips.. It's An Awesome Bike!
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While Santa Claus is making his final preparations and working to crank out just a few more Sue Sylvester action figures before Christmas Eve, he asked us to help with his delivery schedule. We took a look at his list, checked it twice, and now we've found out who's naughty and who's nice.
Actually, we kind of already knew.
We were happy to see that our notes agreed with Santa's on almost every count. He must read AfterEllen.com during his free time.
Everyone say hi to Santa. (Hi, Santa!) We're sure he won't mind if we share the list with you.
2009's NAUGHTY LIST!
Rosie O'Donnell tells Howard Stern that she and Angelina Jolie almost happened
Rarely does a pop culture pronouncement cause the entire world to do a who-the-what-now double-take — but that's exactly what happened in October when Rosie O'Donnell told Howard Stern that before Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie liked Rosie. You know, liked her, liked her.
"She gave me her phone number," Rosie told Stern. "We talked on the phone two or three times, but that was that. There was a tentative plan to have dinner that never came through."
Then she took a turn to OvershareVille: "I was a little afraid of her," Rosie said. "She's scary in a sexual kind of way. I have dreams about her a lot still."
In the same interview, she stirred up old rumors that Oprah Winfrey and her BFF Gayle King are in the throes of (emotional) lesbianism:
Maybe Rosie O. doesn't deserve a lump of clean coal in her stocking, but we're certainly not going to buy her "Tomb Raider: Underworld" for PS3. If she plays that before bed, she'll never sleep again. (And we're pretty sure she's not getting anything from Oprah Claus either.)
Carrie Prejean becomes America's spokesperson for Opposite Marriage
We can't imagine what it's like to stand on a stage and share our opinions on the socio-political matters of the day with a packed theater and a TV audience of millions of people. Actually, that's a lie; we practice that very thing in front of our mirror every day. But who's to say that when the time comes that we'll be able to express ourselves confidently and articulately?
Of course, we've never had any formal training. We haven't entered any local competitions or won any statewide pageants that would suggest we should be skilled at public speaking. And besides, we didn't put Carrie Prejean on our coal-getting list because she sounded like a moron in the Miss USA Pageant; we put her on our list because of her platform on same-sex marriage.
When she was asked in the final round of the Miss USA Pageant if all states should legalize same-sex marriage, she said:
She lost the competition.
And then she went on a political rampage, telling any media outlet that would listen how the gays had cost her the crown.
God was testing her, she said.
We assume that God sides with Santa (and us) on this one. Test results for Carrie Prejean: Ultimate Fail.


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Vancouver Whitecaps FC have been announced as the winners of a 2013 ADchievement award in the Internet/Web-based advertising campaign category. The club was honoured for the 12% season ticket campaign which featured head coach Martin Rennie delivering "the offer".
The ADchievement awards are presented by the National Sports Forum to celebrate the best sports advertising campaigns from across North America. Whitecaps FC beat out competition from hundreds of applicants to win the award, including established franchises from the NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB.
The 'Caps were also announced as finalists in two categories, the Print category and the In-Stadium category.
Whitecaps FC director of marketing Mikkel Strøjer pointed to a team effort in delivering the campaign. "I want to thank everybody with Whitecaps FC who helped make this campaign a success. I would especially like to thank Martin Rennie for his patience and the marketing team for the hard work and late nights. This was the first campaign we made in-house without using an ad agency. I think that says everything."


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There's no telling what it's going to take for the Bruins to put forth a 60-minute effort to at least put themselves in a position to win a game, let alone actually earn two points.
Playing in front of a packed house against their archrival on Hockey Night in Canada after waking up as the last-place team in the Eastern Conference didn't do the trick.
The Bruins dug a 3-0 hole and couldn't recover en route to a 4-2 loss to Montreal tonight at the Bell Centre.
The Bruins are now 3-7-0, the worst 10-game start by a defending Stanley Cup champion since the 1994-95 New York Rangers went 4-5-1 (they were coached by Colin Campbell — how's that for a coincidence?).
Tyler Seguin scored a 6-on-5 goal and Milan Lucic also scored for the Bruins, who will be back in action Tuesday night at home against the surprising Ottawa Senators.


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BEIJING (AP) — China's notoriously opaque courts have suddenly embraced social media to provide a window into their proceedings, to boost a skeptical public's confidence in the country's Communist Party-controlled legal system.
Nearly 1,000 Chinese courts have set up microblog accounts. One in central China released a blow-by-blow of a murder appeal last week, complete with a photo of the convict signing his verdict in handcuffs.
Another court in the southwest has released transcripts of 39 cases on social media since May. A Beijing court held a rare online question-and-answer chat session last week about a high-profile rape trial. And perhaps most surprisingly, the long-awaited trial of fallen Politburo member Bo Xilai in August was largely tweeted directly from the courthouse.
China's courts are releasing information online to build an image of transparency and improve accessibility. Chinese legal scholars and lawyers applaud the moves but warn they may be more about propaganda than transparency. Courtroom audiences remain tightly controlled, and the courts can easily filter sensitive information as they release details via Twitter-like feeds. Lawyers are barred from discussing their cases online.
"If they are sincere, why not open the court trials to all on a first-come, first-serve basis and open up the docket after the trial for all to see?" asked Shanghai lawyer Wu Pengbin. "Why bother with microblogging?"
Legal experts also say there is no reason to believe that the changes are a step toward judicial independence, because the Communist Party remains firmly in control of the courts.
"It would be revolutionary if the gate is thrown wide open. Legal injustice will have nowhere to hide, but the corrupt and the powerful will obstruct the process to prevent their evil acts from being exposed," said He Bin, a law professor at the Chinese University of Political Science and Law.
Under Chinese law, legal cases that do not involve national security or minors should be open, but in reality, court proceedings and documents are often closed to the public and sometimes even to litigants and their attorneys.
Public attendance at high-profile trials is tightly controlled. The courts assign seats to trusted persons while turning down journalists and members of the public on grounds of limited courtroom space.
The opaqueness and the lack of independence of the Chinese courts have severely hurt their credibility among members of the public, and officials have taken note. In a sign of dissatisfaction, the annual work report by the Chinese Supreme Court received, embarrassingly, a record number of opposition and abstaining votes in the last National People's Congress.
He, the law professor, said the newly appointed Supreme Court president, Zhou Qiang, has been under pressure to improve the courts' reputation and has found a breakthrough in promoting openness. The Sina Weibo microblogging of Bo's trial was especially well-received, He said.
"Openness is the precondition of justice," He said. "The move has been welcomed by both the legal community and the public."
State media have reported that Zhou urged senior judges and media officers from local courts to catch up with new media, and said the courts should not only release information in a timely manner but also respond to questions and misunderstandings online. Chinese courts at various levels set up 955 accounts on Sina Weibo by September, according to state media.
In southwest province of Guangxi, a three-member team for a district court in the city of Wuzhou has released transcripts of 39 trials through Sina Weibo since May, covering disputes over medical costs, divorces and failures to repay debts. The team leader, who only gave her last name, Chen, said the presiding judges choose which cases get to be publicized based on whether they "provide lessons or have public interests."
While Wuzhou's court microblog remains in relative obscurity with about 5,600 followers, the Jinan court that tried Bo Xilai has 570,000 followers. The microblog account for Beijing courts has 470,000; that account has provided live Weibo feeds on the trial of a man who hurled a 2-year-old girl to her death, and the trial of a businesswoman accused of bribing a former railway minister.
A Beijing court also turned to the account in announcing the verdict for a gang-rape case involving a 17-year-old son of celebrity singers, while also holding a rare online question-and-answer session regarding the case.
State media have geared up to tout the efforts. Last Friday, the party-run People's Daily praised the new "responsive judiciary" and said it was bonding with the people's hearts.
"The court trials are clearly stepping into an open, responsive model of democratic discussion from a relatively enclosed system," the editorial read. "Responsive judiciary is a requirement of rule of law and of a democratic society."
Li Xuan, a law professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, said he welcomes any degree of openness.
"Selective openness is better than no openness," Li said. "It grants the public's right to know and helps ensure the watchdog role of the public opinion. We are certainly hopeful that it will gradually extend to all cases one day with progressive improvement in thinking."
But he noted a recent legal interpretation by China's Supreme Court that has barred lawyers from using their own microblogs to share court proceedings. "That is contradictory to broadcast trials on a court's microblog, while denying lawyers the right to microblog the case," Li said.
"We are concerned that the courts would only publicize cases when it is to their advantage," he said, adding that the courts also can censor details of trials that they mention on microblogs.
The court in the eastern city of Jinan that tried Bo released chunks of the courtroom transcript in near-real time by microblog, including a step-by-step narration of the proceedings, video and audio testimony from key witnesses and photos from inside the 110-seat chamber.
However, court officials meticulously scrubbed politics from their Weibo feed to avoid broader political implications, including details — initially included in a transcript but then deleted from the feed — that Bo told the court he followed directives from a higher-ranking politician in covering up a failed defection by a top aide. The Weibo feed for his verdict announcement also failed to mention that Bo protested the injustice aloud after the court convicted him of corruption charges and sent him to life in prison, according to a source with direct knowledge of the proceedings.
Critics have said the court's ostensible openness was only to provide a veneer of legitimacy to a political case whose verdict had long been determined by China's top leadership.
"The entire case has been done in darkness," human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang said. "How could the microblogging of the trial be any sign of judicial openness?"


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Interview with Dr. Larry Dossey MD
as interviewed by Daniel Redwood DC
Larry Dossey's journey of transition from mainstream physician to holistic medical philosopher was something he had no way of predicting, and still finds to be something of a mystery.
The first in his Texas family to graduate high school, Dossey says that when he finished his medical education, "I was as typical and orthodox a person as you could find, akin to stage three anesthesia. I was asleep."
He served as a battallion surgeon in Vietnam, which provided the early seeds of an awakening, as he witnessed the depths of the unconscious drives in the human psyche, and the emergence of his own shadow. Shaken to the core, he began to look more deeply at the world around him. In this he has persisted.
He later helped establish the Dallas Diagnostic Association, the largest group of internal medicine practitioners in the city, and served as Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital.
Practicing standard Western medicine, he became intrigued by patients who were blessed with "miracle cures," remissions that clinical medicine could not scientifically explain. Searching for an understanding of the interaction between mind, body and spirit, he developed a biofeedback department at the Dallas Diagnostic Association, and started to study religion, philosophy, meditation, oriental literature, parapsychology and quantum physics.
Dr. Dossey is the author of
Space, Time and Medicine; Beyond Illness; Recovering the Soul; and Healing Words.
He was the first physician ever invited to deliver the Annual Mahatma Gandhi Peace Foundation Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, India.
In this interview with Dr. Daniel Redwood, Dr. Dossey discusses fascinating medical research which demonstrates the healing effects of prayer. He also points out the differences between directed and non-directed prayer, and his belief that introverted people may need different strategies for prayer and affirmations than do extroverted people.
Dossey has retired from active medical practice, and devotes his time to writing and lecturing. He is the editor of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, a journal which debuted in 1995. He lives in New Mexico.
: What would you say was the major turning point in your medical career, or in your life, which has led you in the directions you have pursued in recent years?
: I don't think there was one key turning point. It was a gradual development of a different way of seeing, and a different way of being. It was an evolutionary path. When I got out of medical school, I was as typical and orthodox a person as you could find, akin to stage three anesthesia. I was asleep.
I discovered a body of knowledge in Eastern thought which influenced me tremendously. I grew up in the South, and when the forms of religious thought on which I was raised wore thin, I abandoned them, gradually replacing them with other concepts over the years. I was greatly influenced by the tenets of Buddhism, particularly Zen. I also discovered the mystical traditions of Christianity, and the medieval mystics, who for the life of me I have a hard time telling apart from the Zen masters.
I also had to come to terms with a personal health problem, classical migraine headaches. That led me into biofeedback therapy in the early 1970's, after nothing else worked personally for my problem.
This led me to explore further the mind-body connection, and I developed and managed a biofeedback laboratory in my practice. From a philosophical, spiritual and a personal level there were many influences in my life which pushed me in these directions, but no one specific wake-up call or single pivotal experience.
: Hearing you speak, I sometimes have the impression of your being a professor of philosophy or one of the other humanities. Did you always want to be a doctor?
: I haven't the slightest idea how I drifted into medicine. I signed up in college as an electrical engineer, which lasted six weeks. Because I had an identical twin brother who was in pharmacy school, I switched to pharmacy, and got a degree. He and I both decided to get pre-med degrees along with our pharmacy training, and I worked my way through medical school as a pharmacist.
There had never been a doctor in my family. No one in my family had ever gone past tenth grade until my brother and I did, so there's no tradition of either medicine or of scholarship in my family. I just thought that physiology, biology and chemistry were interesting. So I wound up in medicine without really knowing why. I don't know how these things happen. It almost makes you believe in past lives.
: Do you believe in past lives?
: If nonlocality is for real, which I think it is, then past lives make sense. So do future lives.
: Speaking of nonlocality, could you define what you call Era III Medicine, and how it differs from Eras I and II?
: Era I is good old everyday mechanical medicine, technical orthodox medicine. Drugs, surgery and radiation. Era II is involved any time we talk about mind/body events within the person. My mind affecting my brain affecting my body, for good or ill. It's confined to the present moment, it's "here and now" medicine, it's local.
Era III is mind/body medicine with a different slant. It's a collective mind, a mind not localized to the brain or the body. It's mind possibly affecting many bodies, across space. Mind that is not localized to the present moment, breaking time barriers, as in the recent studies where people received a message three days before it was sent. Temporal nonlocality.
: Could you tell us about that study?
: Sure. Era III is nonlocal medicine, with "nonlocal" meaning that minds are not confined to points in space (such as brains or bodies), or time (such as the present moment.) At the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory studies have been conducted for a decade by the ex-Dean of Engineering Dr. Robert Jahn and his colleague Brenda Dunne. There were many experiements, but the ones that shows this nonlocality of the mind are their remote-sensing experiments.
They had one person in Princeton attempting to mentally send a computer-selected image to a person 6000 miles away. Frequently, the receiver not only got the message in great detail, but received it in many instances up to three days before it was even sent! This is mind operating outside of space and time. Minds seemingly united, not totally confined to brains. This means it's broken through spatial locality, and it's also broken temporal locality with this inversion of the future and the present.
There is absolutely no way you can accommodate this kind of evidence with a local definition of the mind/brain/body relationship. So you are forced, if you take this information seriously, to make a model of reality and mind that accommodates it. You're driven to a nonlocal model.
: How would a grounded, rational scientist, one who would disclaim the possibility of nonlocality, reply to data like that?
: Let me tell you why I picked the term "nonlocality." Over the past several hundred years, many people have talked about the mind doing things like this. They have used terms like "one mind" and "universal mind." Jung talked about the "collective consciousness" and the "collective unconscious." I picked the term "nonlocal" because it doesn't have as much metaphysical baggage and history hanging on it.
Besides that, "nonlocality" is an accepted term in modern physics. There are books written in that field explaining that the nature of the world, at rock bottom, is nonlocal. Nick Herbert's book
Quantum Reality
clearly shows that whatever model you make of the world has to be a fundamentally nonlocal model. So physicists have made their peace with this already.
But doctors have had a serious case of physics envy for the past 150 years. Thus, in speaking to my fellow physicians, I have felt that the best term with which to describe the mind's phenomena is one already accepted in physics. If it's okay for physicists to talk about it, I figure it'll be okay for doctors to at least entertain the data and the concept.
: Why do doctors envy physics?
: A bad case of inferiority complex. In the 1860's, the decade when Lewis Thomas says medicine became a science, medicine wanted to embody the precision and predictability of the exact sciences, the most spectacular example of which is physics. This not only true of medicine, but also economics, education, psychology, and psychiatry, many of the "softer" sciences.
: How did your experience in Vietnam affect your growth?
: It was a phenomenal experience for me. I drifted into it, not in a fully conscious way. I'm not sure I would repeat that experience. I was naive politically about it. But after I got there, I learned a lot about the Warrior archetype. I'm not talking about the "Peaceful Warrior" concept. I'm talking about killing.
: Were you a doctor or a soldier?
: I was a doctor who had the worst assignment I ever heard of in Vietnam. I spent 200 hours in helicopters. I spent time on combat assault missions, carrying a rifle, a revolver, a knife and an aid bag. I volunteered for much of that. I got involved in warriorship in a huge way.
My way of rationalizing it morally was that as a batallion surgeon, I was not out to kill anybody, but rather to save lives. But I found myself volunteering for patrols, missions, combat assaults and so on. How did that affect me? It taught me a tremendous amount about the depth of the unconscious drives in the human psyche, which aren't always very nice. It taught me a lot about my own shadow and what lies inside my own psyche.
I found myself doing things that six months before I had sworn I would never, ever do. It showed me that people can be overtaken by deep, unconscious archetypal drives in certain situations, and that there are within us things that in our rational moments we would deny to the hilt, but which we are fully capable of. This is basic Jungian archetypal psychology. Vietnam taught me that those things are for real.
: You have spoken about science pervading everywhere. Does science pervade religion?
: There has been a battle between science and religion, because since Darwin, science has said that religion isn't science. In the schools it's the evolutionary biologists who have the upper hand, not the creationists. They don't give Nobel Prizes in religion. The honor goes to the thinkers, the intellectuals. Back in the Forties, C.P. Snow wrote about the two cultures, the literati on one hand and the scientists on the other, noting this deep division in our culture. I think that since then, science has become even more entrenched in the ways we think and operate. Look at the fascination during the Gulf War with the scientists who made those smart weapons that could go down chimneys. Scientists are adulated in this culture. If you don't practice scientific medicine, you are not considered worthy of being reimbursed. It's very pervasive.
: Do you see signs that there is going to be a major paradigm shift, or do we have two tracks in which we are developing science to its logical extreme, plus a simultaneously evolving alternative?
: I think the nature of the scientific endeavor is changing. I talked about Era III research, and this qualifies as an elegant science. We are beginning to focus on subject matter that science hasn't previously seen fit to explore, namely what the mind can do.
It's created a tremendous battle line being drawn within orthodox science. There's a famous statement from one scientist: "This is the sort of thing I wouldn't believe in even if it were true." So even though these new studies are scientific, they're so outrageous with regard to their implications for reality that many orthodox scientists won't have anything to do with them.
As science changes, looking at different subject matter, this creates incredible intellectual indigestion within traditional science. But it's data, it's good data, and it's not going to go away.
: You tell a striking story about a study in which prayer seemed to affect medical outcomes. What are the implications of that study?
: I'm not as enthusiastic about this study as I was when I first discovered it, but it's still worth mentioning. It was done by Randolph Byrd, in the cardiac care unit at the San Francisco General Hospital. It involved about 400 patients. Half were treated with routine standard care, as was the other half, but in addition the patients in the second half were prayed for. Their names were farmed out to various prayer groups.
The difference in the outcomes was really striking. For instance, there were no cardiac arrests or necessity to be put on an artificial ventilator in the prayed-for group, whereas there were twelve in the unprayed-for group. If this had been a new drug or surgical procedure being tested, it would have been hailed as a great therapeutic breakthrough.
Nobody among the nurses and doctors knew who was and who wasn't being prayed for, which prevented them from unconsciously giving preferential treatment to the prayed-for group. When the results were in, it appeared as if the group that was being prayed for was being slipped some kind of miracle drug. There were no deaths in the prayed-for group, while there were three deaths in the other group. Twelve people in the group not being prayed for had cardiac arrests and had to have CPR, or needed a mechanical ventilator, an artificial breathing machine. None of the prayed-for group had to have that done. Twelve to zero - those are pretty good odds. Most people don't read the
Southern Medical Journal,
where this was carried. But the late Dr.William Knowland, a physician who could always be depended on to weigh in and criticize any study smacked at all of the psychic, looked at this study and said, "This looks like an excellent study. I think it's going to stand up. It appears on the basis of this study that we physicians, when our patients are admitted to the emergency room and to the coronary care unit, in addition to our usual recommendations, should be writing orders that say "Pray for my patient three times daily.'"
Still, this wasn't the best study in the world. At a bare minimum, what you could say about the study is that it is very strongly suggestive that prayer has a phenomenal effect, that it has a life-and-death influence on people, even when they do not know they are being prayed for. This is good-old classic, Caycean action at a distance.
: What problems are there with this study?
: It was a randomized, double-blind study, but one of the weak points was that we don't really know the details on how often the praying people prayed, or whether in fact they did their job. Also, we don't know how often the people who were sick prayed for themselves. We can't control that. It's also possible that the "unprayed-for" group had relatives praying for them, unknown to the scientists doing the study. This gets really tricky once you think about it. At first, I thought that it was a really clean study, but the more I thought about it, that's not entirely true.
I suspect, however, that if the pharmaceutical companies in this country could figure out how to make money with a therapy that was this potent, it would be marketed immediately.
: Are there other studies which support these conclusions?
: One of the best-kept secrets I've come across in the past few years is an organization in Salem, Oregon called Spindrift. If you look up the term "spindrift" in the dictionary it comes from an old Scottish word referring to the fuzzy spray where a wave breaks and meets the air. It's the interface between something ethereal and something concrete, which is how they chose the name.
The people at Spindrift have performed experiments for over ten years, showing the ability of what they call "prayer practitioners" to make a difference in what happens in the development and metabolism of extremely simple biological systems, such as sprouting seeds and yeast cultures. They have measured the amount of carbon dioxide a yeast culture gives off to determine how active it is.
One reason they don't work with human beings is that plants are much simpler. You can count sprouting beans, and do it time and time again to see if it's replicable. Beans don't change as drastically as humans. It far easier to work with yeast, sprouting beans, wheat seeds and so on. So that's what they have done.
They have gone beyond showing that prayer works, and have examined the issue of which prayer strategy works best. They have tested two. The first is a directed prayer strategy, where not only do you provide God, Goddess or the Absolute with the diagnosis of the problem, but you provide the treatment too. You say, "John's got carcinoma of the lung, so make it go away." Or "Harry has a heart attack, we want to see it healed." This is the kind of petitionary prayer most of us grow up thinking is the only klind of prayer there is.
But then they tested what they call a nondirected prayer strategy, which is completely open ended, and does not attach a goal to the prayer. They have several of these nondirected prayer strategies. The most famous prayer of this type is "Thy will be done." Another one they used is from the Beatles tune, "Let it be." My all-time favorite nondirected prayer strategy is the caption on the back cover of the first Whole Earth Catalog, "You can't put it together. It is together."
One of the assumptions of this nondirected prayer strategy is that at some level, in some way, at some deep level of reality, things are just fine, perfect as they are. Over a decade, Spindrift has shown, and this is the bottom line, that both methods of prayer work. But working with these prayer pracitioners, they have shown that the nondirected prayer method is two to four times more powerful than the directed.
: How will this information affect those thousands, maybe millions, of people out there who are doing specific affirmations in order to attain their goals?
: One of the reasons I believe it's important to disseminate this information is that in our culture, people are being subjected to the idea that the only kind of prayer strategy that's worthwhile is the directed one. With all the books out there on imagery, visualization and prayer, you will be told by many that unless you make your imagery, prayer and visualization highly specific, you might as well save yourself the trouble, because it probably isn't going to work.
You will be told that you have to make your imagery and visualization physiologically specific, that you need to know what your T- and D-cells do, that you need to know the way your natural killer cells interact with other types of lymphocytes. You may conclude that you need to know all the ins and outs of the physiological process of the disease that you want to work with.
: So affirmations may not be the right approach for everyone?
: The great Swiss psychologist Carl Jung said that there is a watershed in human personality. On one side you have the extroverts, and on the other side the introverts. The extroverts are the people who don't mind at all being forward and outgoing. When they formulate visualizations, they don't mind telling God what to do. Introverts, on the other hand, don't feel very comfortable dictating the terms. My wife's definition is the best I've come across --"Extroverts are people who talk a lot at breakfast."
Most of the books being written in this culture on how to visualize, image and pray are being written by extroverts.
I think it's time somebody took up for the introverts. If you're someone who is introverted by nature, and you don't feel that comfortable telling God how to fix a problem, you've got a lot of scientific data on your side. There are people who, when they're sick, would just as soon commit to the Absolute, and go up like a jungle cat, crawl into a cave, and wait to see what happens. On the other hand, if you are someone who really needs to be aggressive, specific and energetic, you've got data on your side too. Both approaches are successful.
I have corresponded with the people at Spindrift for several years, and it's my hunch that they're all introverts. It wouldn't surprise me if that's the only kind of prayer practitioner they've tested. If they had tested extroverts rather than introverts, the data might have come out showing that directed, extroverted prayer is the one that works best.
Don't get hung up and think that there is a formula you must follow. That would be an abuse of this information, to attempt to prescribe how one should pray, image or visualize. You don't have to follow what any authority says. Do what's right for you! Turn inward and turn upward. My advice is that when you pick up a book that says "This is the way," that you close it, say thank you, and turn and flee in the other direction.
: I've heard it said that when a major paradigm shift spreads through a profession or a society, it's not so much a question of the old folks being convinced of the incorrectness of their thinking, but rather that they eventually pass from the scene, and a new generation comes up which accepts the new paradigm as a given. Do you have the sense that the current younger generation is any more open to the new paradigm than were their elders?
: Most of them are just like their fathers. However, there is a different element, a different type of younger scientist who doesn't have the same type of intellectual indigestion that his forebears had. Max Planck, the physicist who invented Planck's Constant in 1899, is famous for his saying that science changes funeral by funeral. The old generation that doesn't accept the new way of looking at things dies off, and the new generation comes along, looks back, and wonders what the problem was all about. That's my sense of what is happening.
I carry on a healthy correspondence with young medical students all over the country, and I've got a file cabinet full of their letters. They are carbon copies of each other. These letters say, "I am in medical school. It's painful, I can't stand it. Tell me where I can transfer to a school where the faculty teaches these kinds of concepts. I'm in pain, I'm in agony, and I want to do it differently." So they get it, and there's a huge switch. There's a complete lack of communication between them and their faculty. The faculty will never get it, but the faculty will eventually be replaced by people who do.
Change never comes as fast as we want it to. It seems agonizingly slow, but if you look back over the past ten to twenty years since I've been writing about this, the change seems immense. But when you cone down right on the moment, you can't see the change happening.
Daniel Redwood is a chiropractor, writer and musician who lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He is the author of
A Time to Heal: How to Reap the Benefits of Holistic Health
(A.R.E. Press), and is a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
He can be reached by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The numbers stilled earned a good profit. A lot of "C" games though, which takes a RODEO style of Balls to maximize profits. I need NHL to start to make some LOOT. Stay tuned if NHL starts.
Originally Posted by louris54: Does anyone have a w/l record of the a b and c games from last year? Or better yet from previous years? Thinking of doing a seperate 2 game chase of the just the b and c games when the a game loses.
Not a bad idea. Especially if your bankroll is limited.
Bettor2win our old friend... how you doing? im sure were all itching to put your system in full effect, but as last years lesson tells us...dont feel the need to rush it, post your plays when you feel the RPI is where it needs to be...
Cant wait!
I'm ready for the 2013 season.
GL to all
All right!! Good to see a lot of people liking baseball still. My FAV sport!! DIE HARD NINER fan, but over all, baseball is my game.
That's right Air1, the RPI, I have brought it to life LOL. j/k.
Hansi..amen! Glad you like betting baseball now!!
jattdoit:I wont post too early. I will start a new thread like last year. Im not interested in have a mile long thread like we have already LOL
louris54: I "pick & choose" different series throughout the season to bet heavier on. so even 2-3 losses does NOT set me back because the losing series usually are ones I did not place a lot of Loot on anyway. I will "pick" a series after I lose one and bet a little more to make up some losses.
Friday, pit is at LAD. LAD for most part last couple years have had pit's number. Pit did play LAD better in mid season last year tho.
louris....mainly on how good a team is playing vs how bad a team is playing.. Pitching matchups become a wash "almost" imo during the season. I pick and choose pitching matchups as long as the lineup the manager puts out that day is good, ie.,,,
SoCal...I always put the rules in on the front/opening page of the thread.
Originally Posted by bettor2win: Freaking SF!! We have 2 A Games today. NYY (4 Game series fyi)TOR (4 game series but I prob wont play it since LAA has shown life in thier offense)
Well, earlier on this pageyou said we are sticking with a proved system. Here your handicapping on the basis of angels scoring runs. If your abandoning it, whywould anyone want to listen to you handicapping? Hell I suck at handicapping ... I can loose on my own !
OK, Let's SLOW this thread down. And please listen to what I have to say!!!
First of al I screwed up and started the system too early COMPARED to previous seasons. The MLB season started a week later this year. I always just started it in May taking into no consideration of how many games/series were played. My bad! I'll still take the hit for the NYM loss. Oh well.
Second, I recieved an email back from ESPN this morning concerning the RPI. The will NOT give out information on how EXACTLY, PRECISELY the RPI is created. Only the basics. So in other words, YOU CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT. It's called a "Trade Secret". I had been emailing them off and on for the past couple months.
Third, Once we start a series, we don't stop (at least the system doesn't, but you can). That means even if a series falls OUT of the RPI number for a play, keep going. This happens quite frequently during the season.
Fourth and final, Last year was the best year for the RPI. Hell, we may have a bunch of losses this year...IDK.. I hope not. Because the last few years has been a LOCK. Hopefully, things start going as planned and not ruin all our BR.
Thanks for listening, and oh, Let's not clog this thread anymore, including me. If you have questions PM me. If you think I missed a play, post that to the thread. Otherwise, please just read, give a or something completely relevant to the thread.
Thanks guys!!!
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