Football

Last night's Sunday Night Football game was a good game in terms of action and, thus, excitement. The Saints apparently were hungrier than the Steelers, thus their win. Reading between the lines of the Steelers writeup afterwards leads me to suspect the writer saw the outcome the same way. To NO congrats on the win.

On the other hand, I think the Steelers could have won the game except for their offense. The Steeler offense, to my eye, has for a very long time had trouble with scoring even in games they win. For example, late in the game I watched a Steeler receiver catch the ball, carry it for great yardage twisting & turning only to have an opposition player knock the ball loose leading to a Saints score. In short, the Steelers have turnover issues.
From what I could also gather, the NO Saints had more men on the line than the Steelers had been facing for some while. Thus, the Steelers were having trouble making long plays. Did the Steelers make the necessary adjustments? To some degree.
For the Steelers sake I hope they learn the right lessons from their last loss fast. Two losses should not be fatal to their march to the Play Off season. However, that could mean they are tied, at best, for first place in their division (I haven't looked at the current standings yet).

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Safety in Pro American Football

I have just finished listening to Coach Tomlin's comments. They are fair as well as a good position to take.

I am not a doctor of medicine and am only coming from a common base that anyone can have.

Regarding comparing different types of injuries, ranking or whatever is as much a matter of opinion as anything.

While all injuries heal if allowed to does not necessarily mean that problems will not develop later on because the injury occurred. Many injuries can lead to arthritis or other motion limiting results in the long run they do not effect the brain negatively.

I  think, nevertheless, that head butting should be minimized if not eliminated, if at all possible. What concussions seem to lead to, in the long run, is debilitating in the extreme. In this case the negative results effect the brain. An example is the boxer M.Ali. Therefore, I support the NFL's efforts to minimize concussions by making head butting illegal and placing heavy fines on those who do it.

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Web Browsers

I had one that I liked but when I acquired a new computer for some reason I did not go back to it until yesterday. In the meantime I had changed ISP. My situation now is I can't use the mail portion of the browser the way I want so I have dropped it.
I would have to go into my ISP settings & make modifications. I am not prepared to do that now.
Consequently, I have set up Google's browser for handling my gmail account. That way it is always available. Also, I have advised everyone of my latest change.
I also have to review additional folder options for retaining any emails I may wish to hold onto long term. I would like to be able to save some to "My Documents" for long term retention.
I guess I am now into Cloud Computing.
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Rescue

This morning my local time I watched the last rescue worker come up from the mine. All the people who worked behind the scenes should be proud of their part of this magnificent effort. Those who were at the scene should also be very proud of their work as it was critical for them do do their jobs correctly as well. As for the 6 men who went below to help the trapped miners, God bless them for their courage as well as for their doing their assigned task in a professional. manner.
It was great to learn that the Chilean president never lost hope but, rather, pushed to find out the miners status and pushed for the rescue. Chile did itself proud. I, for one, wish them all well.
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Firmware issues

For awhile now I have been having connectivity issues degrading operations. It all started when Internet service was temporarily lost. I had reset the modem without success. I confirmed that the problem was not with my computer by going to a wi-fi hot spot where Internet speed was extremely fast w/o any hang-ups. I do not have the expertise to explain it but I finally followed the suggestion to turn my router off and on after several seconds had passed. Result, I am back to 4G connectivity! It never hurts to "zeroize" firmware and software.

Am. Football - Week 1

I am not following all the games but those who wish to certainly may.
Nevertheless, I do follow 1 team and they won today. I had other things that needed to be done before I was comfortable with watching it. Once I finished with those those things I checked to see if the game was being shown locally on TV. As it turned out it was not. Mind you I do not live near where my team is based.
I take advantage of being able to follow the game on my computer taking advantage of the graphic approach. I came in somewhere in the 3rd quarter and the game was tied. Eventually my team took the lead by 3 points, score now 3-9. Then the opposition scored, evening up the score. The next thing I know we are in overtime (OT). My team lost the toss and had to kick. Opposition was unable to score and finally had to give up the ball. With the kick the ball flew to the 50 yard line where the player catching the ball was tackled. In the next play my team moved the ball on a run that ended in the end zone. Mind you, that was the first touchdown of the game. Of course, by the rules the game was over and the extra point was therefore not kicked.
It was an interesting game that was low scoring and probably exciting to watch at times. Just the same, some low scoring games can be boring. I suspect this one was not.
I plan to check out the high lights tomorrow on NFL.com.
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Hurricane Earl

Today the sky is cloudy. The temp is in the low to mid 70's. The humidity is or at least feels high. The hurricane called Earl is off North Carolina. Projections indicate that where I am will not be very adversely effected. I am thankful for that. I am pleased that so much of the East coast will not be badly dealt with by it. However, I pray that the area north of me finds that the storm hitting them is, at most, a cat 1. We wish them well. By the way, I've already taken dog for his daily walk.