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Cool... B)
I'll just "leach" of your sig line for the rest of the season if you don't mind...
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That sounds like the XAct unit.
Thanks Jack... Where did you get the channel listings (Sig line)?... I have the game alert feature but, it usually takes to long time (few minutes) to kick in... Since I am usually hunting around anyway!
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Ohh... That brings me up to a Bills point and home announcers... Does anybody have any gripe about John Murphy not announcing the proper "spot" of the ball... It is really annoying... Last week, he is such a "homer"... That he practically jumped out of his seat leaving a quiet void... I think "The Pill", AVP, jokingly said he thought he was gonna have to finish the play-by-play.
I guess it is not so bad, since the Bills are winning... I enjoy listening to radio, it just gets annoying when you can't accurate visualize where the ball is...
I liked Van.
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Most units are FM modulated and can work certain FM freqs with any FM radio... I have had extremely good luck with this root in my car, since I don't have an AUX input... Some people complain about static since strong broadcast "walk" over your radio reception. There are remedies to FM noise.
1. The Sportster has an external FM out wire that aids in transmitting to your radios antenna. I use it and it works great. When traveling, I sometimes have to switch choice freqs due to strong signals.
2. You can unplug your car antenna and never listen to FM again... This will get rid of any strong surrounding signals... The receivers transmit up to about 15 feet... So it won't be a problem.
3. Get an antenna switch... It will hook up to the FM out (see #1) and then wire to your antenna... When you use the sat tuner... It will switch your antenna staff off and give the sat tuner a bee-line to your head unit (Better and less hassle when traveling.).
4. Use a cassette adpater and attach it to the tuner hardwire output (also on the back of the cadle.
5. Hardwire it to the back AUX inputs (I do this on the home cradle).
Don't worry, when transporting, the Sportster doesn't require you to shut off the FM mod if you then decide to use hardwire... It just might cause some interference elsewhere.
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XM has the walkman type with 5 hours record (MyFi)... Sirius will be coming out with one soon...?
I have had the Sportster since mid-September. It cost me $149.00 for for the receiver and car cradle. I bought the home cradle for 49 bucks and the boombox for 99 (I had a 25 dollar Best Buy gift card that i used towards the boombox... So the price was about $74.00)... Subcription is $12.95/month and you get all NFL games (2 broadcasts each... home announcers vs. away team announcers) If you want to add up to 3 more receivers, they are 6.95 each/month extra. Once you subscribe, you get free online streaming... You can try it online FREE for three days but, you can't get the NFL (People would absuse the system and only listen to the NFL for free... I guess??).
The thing works great... I can't live without... I take it from my car (FM modulated, the modulator is built in and can play to any FM radio) to my house (wired out to my AUX port of my stereo) everyday... I listen to the games at work with the boombox.
So, I guess the cheapest to get it up in running in your house or car is about 150... I think there are rebates offered now ($30.00???)
Go to SiriusBackStage.com... They have a forum there... I am registered under Thamus...
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I played football until I realized that everyone else was bigger than 5'6" and I realized that was out, I enjoy golf, but on Long Island there is way too much waiting around to play 9 holes for 4 hours, it's just not worth taking that much time out of the day.
Now my biggest sport is skiing, I am a professional ski instructor (I'm certified level II), Although I am in semi retirement as I havent been working at my resort (Mount Snow VT) in 5 years. I still maintain my cert level and hope to go back to teaching when the kids get older and less dependant.
As Exhiled In Illinois stated, it's a great sport for families, It can get expensive, but what other sport can the whole family do together as a group? I find even when the kids go off in one direction and explore, my wife and I will take our daughter and go another way, we will meet up at the end of the day and swap stories. My sons 18 and 16 are still trying to finally topple the old man (44), but I still have an edge on the race course and on the all mountain tour. Although they may on occasion get to the bottom first, It's usually reckless behavior that gets em there.
That's awesome Guffalo! That is exactly what I meant. Like you said, it can get a little expensive but, considering that you are using a multi-million dollar facility for 8 hours... Weigh in all the other intangibles, it is a great way to spend the winter months with the family.
If I was a little closer to some bigger hills (500' +) I 'd think think about pursuing a career. With my job, there is always a chance that it will go back to be seasonal, that would be great now that I am more financially stable. Go figure? I REALLY, REALLY, just wish I was a few hours closer to bigger hills. Anyway, it is a great learning enviro here for my kids...
The ski-bar thingy is the greatest idea that they ever came up with for getting very young kids innvolved. I have skiied my son all over resorts since he was three... Always felt comfortable getting him down any kind of slope! It really gets them innvolved, sliding, riding the chair without fear, and makes them feel accomplished and confident... It takes all the negative learning out of it... I still remember wallowing with the old plate bindings (man the snow would jam up on those bastards!), runaway straps and what not!
With ski technology (shapes, ect...) kids/beginners got it easy today!
Skiing is such a wonderful skill. BTW, I like the Yukon Cornelius avatar!
If you are ever in the area (WNY, NorthEast... What not, drop me a line/PM... My sister lives in Enosburg, VT... Outside Jay... I sometimes take some time off to be up there.).
I really, really need to get out of Illinois...
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Anybody mention kickers?:
Nick Mickamyer
Who was the place-kicker?... Jackowinko [spelling??... spelled phonetically, Jacque-a-veen-co]... I used to love saying his name!
And Punter:
Marv Bateman
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Think snow!
I would rather have it 20 and snowing than 40 and raining!
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Do what any other red-blooded American guy would do?... Blame it on the wife or significant other!
Or... just get mad and kick the cat!ONLY KIDDING! Channel it positively. My mother used to say:
"Life by the yard is hard, life by the inch is a cinch!"
Hang in there, the holiday times are a little bit more trying.
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I enjoy alpine skiing. I have been skiing since I was 6 years old, about 30 years know. It really isn't that expensive, It is just a matter of finding the time in an ever so short winter. Since you live in a warm climate, I guess it is out of the question... Unless you plan a trip once or twice a year... Then again it might get expensive (maybe not so much as a Disney World vacation, though?).
Here in the flat Mid-West (been here for 12 years) it gets tough... Lots of small hills though... (Being near Chicago, I prefer, Galena, IL (Chestnut)... Even though it is 3 hours away. The Lodging is on the Hill (500' vertical) and they always have snow since they are on a bluff along the Mississippi River and can make as much as the cold permits). My kids are both 6 and 2. I started my 6 year old boy when he was 3 and just started my daughter this year... Kids USUALLY SKI FREE under 6 or so (depending on the area). It really works great if you can get them skiing independently during the free ages. It is a great family sport, picnics, etc... Great winter activity.
Anybody else out there that loves to ski and has a young family? I strongly encourage you to look into these training devices from AppleRise Sports. They work great... You can usually tote a kid, as soon as the start walking, down any hill you are comfortable with... SLIDE TIME IS THE KEY!!!
Right now my son is independently holding a nice wedge down idermediate hills while I tote my daughter along my side with the Ski-Bar. The two most valuable things ever invented are:
and, Lift
Use the lift for effortless "hoisting" of the kid after a fall or while seating them on a chair lift.
It is such a wonderful family activity. If you have two strong skiers in your family, the quicker you can progress the kids. My wife holds her own down most of the intermediate hills yet, prefers me to use the bar.
Thanks to these new devices, skiing has really become a great family sport with little kids... And they (the kids) think it is a blast!
Here are some of last years pictures (At Chestnut) with my son. This year's pictures will have my daughter gracing them on hill!
Think SNOW!
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Too lasy to look this up... How did Carson Plamer's MRI come back... Is he playing?
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Just my gut opinion but, I think the Jets are GONNA TANK.
Everybody is counting them in... They can very easily finish 9-7!
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As a gov't employee, I can only except gifts of 20 bucks or less...
The answer is no. There are incentive bonuses at about mid-year though.
I did get a bottle of Southern Comfort that was left on the wall by a "snowbird" (yachts that stay here in the summer and head back to the Gulf for winter). Anyway, gotta clean up the garbage!
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I need a little more information. When the report card came out, was the the instrument returned yet? If it was (returned), I can't for the life of me figure out why the teacher would write that on the report card?
John, was it returned when the grades came out?
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Oh... Never had problems with Chrysler products. My 1994 LHS has 175 K on it and still runs like brand new.
It is all maintenance... You will get your share of problems with cars... Either earlier or later.
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You should get a Toyota. I saw the commercials for their trucks. They're being marketed as "Sturdier. Roomier. Versatilier."
I have no fuggin' clue what the fug 'versatilier' is...unless they've just decided to start making up words...but there you have it. If you want a truck that's 'versatilier,' that's your ride...
You know who we have to thank for that?
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Pet theory I have not yet researched but no body cares about that here
:NY and other large states in terms of population get consistently screwed in terms of the money they pay in federal taxes and the federal spending returned. The states are divided into creditor and debtor states. That is states that get back more than what they pay and those that get less.
Wouldn't NY and California and other more populous states be in better shape and their local and state taxes lower if more of their federal tax dollars come back to their own state? If that were so, shouldn't republican and democratic congressman from those states band together and use their votes to insure a more balanced distribution of revenue among the states? Why are so many of our own congressman voting to give our money to Wyoming?
I totally agree.
I like to hear a rebuttal to this.
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Interesting question. The short answer is no (my justification for that is: sanitoriums and such went out of style quite some time ago. The need to quarantine tubercular patients, for example, pretty much dispappeared with the advent of antibiotics - though the public health aspects of tuberculosis care didn't change much beyond that: there was still the need to track patients and trace and, if possible, interrupt courses of infection. It's just that quarantine became a less useful public health tool.) The long answer, I'll have to think about some...the interrelation between public health and modern privacy regs is an interesting one...
Really, the justification was the state budget: cutting public health expenditures is always very easy, since the benefits are often not visible. How do you explain to someone that an epidemiology lab reduces their health care costs? How do you distinguish to them their not being sick as a result of public health as opposed to not being sick as a result of the random chance of not catching anything? Hell, $5M spent on AIDS-related public health programs in 1982 would have cut the infection rate and death toll in half and saved us billions in health care costs over the next 30 years...but Reagan slashed federal public health services' budgets by 50% in '80-81, and the best individual health care in the world (the San Francisco gay community was wealthy, educated, and very health conscious, averaging something like four doctor's visits a year) didn't do a damned thing to stop that disaster. Public health is ALWAYS a tough sell and a primary source of budget cuts...primarily because very few people really understand it.
Read Laurie Garrett's "Betrayal of Trust" for an excellent treatment on the topic of public health; in addition to interesting chapters on Ebola in Kikwit, plague in India (how does a modern country have a plague epidemic??? Ridiculous...), and damn near everything in the USSR, she devotes several hundred pages to the cockeyed system in the US. Even if you don't agree with her proposed solutions (you will, I don't...as I recall, she supports universal health care), she does an excellent job outlining the problems. I also recommend Randy Shilts' "And The Band Played On" for a history of the early years of the AIDS epidemic, and an example of how horrible public health policy created a monster that no individual health care system would ever address...
Thanks.
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More like Butt-Wiper.
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How good are you at sports!!!!!
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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Point taken. I do think it was more cost prohibitive years ago though. Right now at smaller facilities an ALL DAY pass is in the 40-50 dollar range... That is usually all day and night (if night skiing is available). Nowadays we spend our income on a lot of other things we didn't have back then. Still, making less years ago, that 12-16 dollars was a lot! Times that by 2 for an eight hour pass and you still paid about 25-30 bucks! Of course now, the big name resorts are well over 50 bucks... It is still cheaper than playing some rounds of golf at certain courses... What do greens fees cost at big name resorts? My point was that for what you get and today's technology, it is relatively cheaper than before. Our disposable incomes are a lot more today. Kids also ski FREE at most resorts (age varies)... It is good to get them going at that point. Also, at minor areas, you can touch unlimited season pass for 300 bucks... Juniors are less... In Buffalo, If you are a UB alum, you get a lot of bang for your buck joing the club. Skiing is all start up. Equipment now has jumped leaps and bounds with the shapes and cuts... It is a lot easier to learn and be successful than at any other point in history... It is also cheaper to attain that equipment thanks to technology.
Technology in all facits of the sport has changed it. It is truly one of the only sports where technology filtered up from the recreational aspect to the pros. You can thank computer design a lot. Look at what the racer is are using now... they are racing gates on equipment that is 30 cm shorter than 20 years ago. Myself, I went form skiing on 205s to 190's when the shaped ski revolution took hold.
So... I respectfully disagree that the sport has got more expensive, it just looks like that since the dollar amounts appeared more appealing years ago.