Our neighbor kindly shoveled our steps and a trench to the street, but Tracy and I are thinking we will stay inside today, save for walking Ruby. There’s over a foot on the ground here in Northeast Pennsylvania, and I’ll bet the skiers are on the slopes today in the Poconos and Catskills, not to mention the bigger mountains in Vermont and New Hampshire. If you’re on the east coast anywhere between Pennsylvania, New York and Maine, stay off the roads and stay safe. Winter is finally here!
How nice to be in a picture book town with kind neighbors. I had that, long ago, in Falls Village, CT. It felt like America decades ago. Hell, it was America decades ago.
(Do not shovel your own walk! Find a neighbor kid. The CT surgeon's wife.)
A chocolate factory/retailer/café in my nabe made hot chocolate that way. Every time it snowed I tried to drop in for a cup. The pandemic turned Jacques Torres into one more vacancy. But snow seems to have become just a memory too.
Looks picturesque, sounds snug. Enjoy! As I've aged, the kindness of strangers—and others under no obligation—has never ceased to amaze. Can only hope it comes back to them when it matters. … Bad news for NYC sledders: it's cold and wet here, but we were spared.
we were indeed. like every kid, I loved playing in the snow, mostly alone, for hours. then I started finding myself having to drive in (and on) heavy snow, and I suddenly wasn't so crazy about it anymore. now that I don't drive and can watch the dogs LOVING IT, and I like it all over again.
My son (visiting from California) and I (raised in northeast Pennsylvania) were in the local supermarket in Milford on Friday evening and he asked me why it was so crowded.
I told him these people are locals, they don’t trust the weatherman.
Most people I ever encountered in Milford Key Food is about five. ShopRite is a hive of activity compared to Key Food. Part of why I love it here. I can have it both ways.
There will also be golf to enjoy...from Hawaii! As my husband’s dementia was determined after death to be Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, I’ve boycotted football. He was a wrestler in college, but played football in high school. Who knows which sport’s blows were worse, but the outcome was the same...blocking his beautiful mind. Luckily, the temporal lobe was the affected part of his brain, so we didn’t go through the abuse and anger that others do. He remained his charming self. I like baseball and golf (PGA not Liv). Although ridiculous amounts of money, in the main, they aren’t paid to hurt someone.
I’m so sorry about the loss of your husband, Christina. I agree with you about football, especially for children. But I think we’re in the minority in this country. My husband and I love golf (he plays, I watch TV). I have a funny story about the Kapalua tournament--our family went to Maui many years ago just prior to the tournament. While I was getting seasick on a whale-watching boat, he was at Kapalua GC following Tiger Woods around on his practice round...and he was the only spectator. P.S. he got back to the hotel before I did and saw more whales from our terrace than I saw from the boat. Grr.
{Forget the film version, it's close to "unfilmable"}
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Golf in the Kingdom
Golf in the Kingdom is a 1971 novel by Michael Murphy. It has sold over a million copies and been translated into 19 languages.[1] Golf in the Kingdom tells the story of Michael Murphy, a young traveler who accidentally stumbles on a mystical golfing expert while in Scotland.
Murphy was inspired to write the book after his time at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He became interested in the similarities between descriptions of successful athletes and people who said they had achieved the state of Zen. The novel spawned the Shivas Irons Society, an organization whose members combine golf and meditation.[2][3] In 1997, Murphy wrote a sequel, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons.[4]
Plot
While on layover on his way to an ashram in India, Michael Murphy decides to play a round of golf at Burningbush, a famous local golf course. There he meets the mysterious and charismatic golf pro Shivas Irons who over a 24-hour period teaches him about golf and spirituality.
Film version
Clint Eastwood purchased the rights to the book, but abandoned the project after writing several unfinished scripts in the early 1990s.[5]
In 2009, Murphy, producer Mindy Affrime and director Susan Streitfeld began filming their version of the book. Shot on location at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, it stars David O'Hara and Mason Gamble and premiered in New York City on July 29, 2011.[1] Review aggregator Metacritic rates the film version 13 out of 100, indicating "overwhelming dislike", with all five critic reviews being negative.[6]
{ See what I mean! This is a "Classic of mysticism," it require zero knowledge of golf at all to be profoundly moved and even "enlightened" by the book. Murphy was a co-founder of the Esalen institute - forgive me if you know most of this already!}
References
Goodwin, Stephen (2010). Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes. Algonquin Books. pp. 312–20. ISBN 978-1-56512-981-8. Retrieved September 5, 2010.
Paul William Kroll (May 1977). "Karate Can Heal the Mind-Body Split in Western Sports". Black Belt. p. 27. ISSN 0277-3066.
Boulware, Jack (2000). San Francisco Bizarro. Macmillan. p. 20. ISBN 0-312-20671-2.
Jackie Krentzman (January–February 1998). "In Murphy's Kingdom". Stanford Magazine. Archived from the original on May 4, 2006. Retrieved September 5, 2010.
Strachan, Graeme (November 2, 2020). "Sir Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood and the Fife golf movie that never was". The Courier. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
In this episode, Alan Shipnuck, Geoff Ogilvy and Michael Bamberger sit and listen in awe as Michael Murphy, the wildly alert 90-something writer, takes over the show.
Murphy is the man who invented golf’s most original player-philosopher, Shivas Irons, from his landmark novel/treatise, “Golf in the Kingdom.” Ogilvy, who has read the book innumerable times, looks like he is talking to a golfing god as he listens to Murphy.
Shipnuck and Bamberger, who once had the privilege of walking the Pebble Beach dunes with Murphy, ask Murphy about Woods and Hogan and why the game has such a hold on us, and explore why his slender book captures more about the game’s complex beauty than any other golfing treatise ever written.
Murphy is an utter inspiration and he is spellbinding in this podcast. Need a good listen? Allow us to offer, “Need A 4th?!”
Since reading Steve Almond's book Against Football, and realizing there's no way it's going to be banned, I look for pressure to drastically - and I mean DRASTICALLY - tighten up the rules against illegal blocking and tackling tactics, as well as mandating the significantly safer and "more expensive," helmets that are custom-fit for the players.
Quotes around "more expensive," you can work out why for yourself based on the sad experience you recount, Christina - it would even save lives, literally, as well as diminishing the CTE risks and other problems with the game as it is now.
American football has evolved since the players wore NO HELMETS at all, since the "Flying Wedge" was banned (a play that leveraged a large running wedge of offensive players crashing full speed into the defense), and in many other ways, to make it safer - there's no reason except inertia, indifference, and not enough tort suits and legal pressure it can't evolve further.
One of the reasons, perhaps the primary reason, Americans worship football is the violence. It’s a proxy for war, and no one under 18 should be allowed to play, in my view. I find it to be a primitive expression of male aggression. Fathers encouraging or demanding their young sons play are guilty of child abuse. Fancier, more protective, helmets are necessary, but why not just play soccer instead.
The game should not be played by the young. And coaches should be liable for the actions of college and pro players who “hit” viciously. Our son, who was a big, strong kid both in height and girth, played soccer. Because of his size, he was a goalie, which even limited heading the ball. Throwing and kicking were the actions. I am so glad, particularly now that he knows what his dad went through, because of “head down and rush” in football for 4 years, then having his head slammed into a wrestling mat for 8 years. At this juncture, there’s no cure for CTE, and certainly others have had it far more severely than he, but I grieved for years while pieces of him disappeared.
Yes - sure, it's still POSSIBLE to get badly injured in numerous sports, but tackle football, rugby, Australian Rules Football - maybe a couple more than escape my memory right now - feature the "collisions" the fans have grown to love, but they can damn well learn to appreciate a game as you describe and with a bunch of other changes to emphasize finesse and skills beyond the sheer deployment of girth and leverage, again, those "custom fit helmets" are maybe #1 doable RIGHT NOW, let me see if my search words coming to mind work: "Iowa football custom helmets Russell company" that might work: --- ok RIDDELL, not "Russell," -
IOWA CITY, Iowa — When Iowa Hawkeye football starts up the 2018 season in September, they'll make history in the process - thanks to state-of-the-art, Precision-Fit helmets from Riddell.
Iowa football equipment manager Greg Morris has been working with the company for years.
"I had been insistent from Day 1...we wanna be the first team in the country that can put a custom-made, precision-fit helmet on every player's head," Morris said on Thursday.
Aside from the incoming freshmen, that's exactly what the Hawkeyes will be doing this fall.
"The helmets that are not precision-fit are good football helmets. They meet and exceed all the testing, Morris said. "But with a custom-fit helmet, now it's a step greater."
More than a dozen players took part in a two-year pilot program for Iowa. The reviews were raving - and, for rising junior Noah Fant, resistant to release.
"'Best thing I've ever had on my head,' Morris quoted Fant as saying this past season. "I said, 'What if I took it off?' He said, 'You're not touching it.' And to a man, that's most of the remarks I got from those guys."
The helmets are just raising the standard in college football. At least one former Hawkeye has apparently made his NFL team follow in Iowa's footsteps.
According to Morris, San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle requested a Riddell Precision-Fit helmet from the team before his rookie season last year.
"'Greg, why would I put something else on?'" Kittle told Morris while visiting Iowa City earlier this year. "He was amazed at how many guys in the (NFL) had no idea."
The helmets carry a $1,000 price tag - but it's an investment that Morris says is worth making.
"At the end of the day," he said, "if we can better protect our guys and they get out of the University of Iowa in 4-5 years and they have not been concussed...that's a big deal. That's a big deal to me."
**** But this is from 2018! Change is slow when it costs these multi-billionaires MONEY!!!!
Plus, the profitable NCAA programs could subsidize the others, and once fans and alumini donors "get it," they would pitch in for sure.
I played peewee football long years ago in southern Ohio, and at that age, teams had both little kids and great big kids -- no surprise which kids got knocked down the most. I was sort of in-between but not a starter. I don't know if it's different now.
I remember watching college hockey at Bemidji college in 1969, 1970. The players did not wear helmets yet. Many players were from Canada (and many had at least one missing tooth). I had to stand at the rail above the bleachers, could not bear to sit. I was fascinated to see the crowd below me rise in a wave every time a fight broke out down on the ice.
That view is spectacular. The perfect day for baking bread or treats and making a hearty stew. It's winter in LA today too - Chicago level winds and cold enough for gloves.
We want our snow here in Minnesota! Winter! Freezing temps! For days on end! Blizzards!
They are using a massive array of snow machines for the slopes, had to cancel the John Beargrease mushing contest for the first time ever due to lack of snow, and Minneapolis had the warmest December ever recorded - and it's likely to get worse and worse, a disaster coming up for the crops next spring, etc.
Welcome to another ratcheting up of global heating, I guess.
Hey man! Thanks for reminding me of one more reason I am not drinking, period full stop and haven't felt better since like - the 1980s?!
But yeah we NEED the snow, the resorts are losing tens of millions of dollars as it is, the National Pond Hockey Championships - cancelled (especially miss that since I spent innumerable hours as a kid with younger brother on the Des Moines Waveland Park's ice rink seven-eight blocks up Kingman Blvd, trudging along every winter - when we were not at the Des Moines Ice Arena miles away where my father covered the International Hockey League team, the Oak Leafs - playing hockey, warming house and wild pick-up games were seemingly endless because kids!) so they have to freeze pavement instead of using Lake Nokomis, John Beargrease Sled Race - international mushing championship event - cancelled altogether, too dangerous for the dogs, the humans, the sleds - it just goes on and on, although snow machines plugging away are saving some events.
And that's not to mention the potential BILLIONS of crops messed up next year, watch that at the grocery store because it's a drought all over the place, not just the Midwest farm belt.
You couldn't PAY ME enough to move to any state without more serious seasons, Florida being the classic "nice place to visit," so I would only relocate to the Northeast, Colorado, etc.
Texas is my idea of total failure in life, that's my personal view "of course," if others thrive there, so much the better! I am happy for them...on the other hand, when the first Category 6 hurricane rips through there, well? *******
"This is the way world ends: will we soon see category 6 hurricanes?"
There is no such thing as a category 6 hurricane or tropical storm - yet. But a combination of warmer oceans and more water in the atmosphere could make the devastation of 2017 pale in comparison
Jeff Nesbit {THE GUARDIAN} Sat 15 Sep 2018 03.00 EDT
Last modified on Wed 25 Aug 2021 09.51 EDT
There is no such thing as a category 6 hurricane or tropical storm – yet. The highest level – the top of the scale for the most powerful, most devastating hurricane or tropical storm capable of destroying entire cities like New Orleans or New York – is a category 5 storm.
Meteorologists and scientists never imagined that there would be a need for a category 6 storm, with winds that exceed 200 miles per hour on a sustained basis, sweeping away everything in its path. Until now, such a storm wasn’t possible, so there was no need for a new category above category 5.
Right now, however, there is anywhere from 5 to 8% more water vapor circulating throughout the atmosphere than there was a generation ago. This, combined with warmer temperatures that are driving water up from the deep ocean in places where hurricanes typically form, has created the potential for superstorms that we haven’t seen before – and aren’t really prepared for.
This combination of warmer oceans and more water in the earth’s atmosphere – whipsawed by sustained periods of drier and wetter conditions in regions of the world that create superstorms – is now starting to create storms with conditions that look precisely what a category 6 hurricane would look like.
No one in America has ever experienced the wrath and fury of a category 6 hurricane, which now genuinely seems possible and realistic. We’ve been lucky. Unofficial category 6 hurricanes have appeared in other parts of the world, and we’re seeing much stronger storms on a regular basis. It’s only a matter of time before one hits the US. ******* Worth reading to be warned in case it's another "sooner than expected" wave of crises spurred by this.
EDIT! They are totally renovating this 7 story 71 unit building near Central & University and MY UNIT is up as of January 19, I get January 18- January 30 in this place:
snow is the more important form of precipitation since it sits and can soak into soil, preserving it for release for universal plant growth in the spring.
its runoff of course is anticipated and counted upon for farms and homes downstream.
of course its recreational value is counted upon by many ppl in many communities and businesses. theres even a ski resort in flat farmland southern Indiana that misses its annual benefits.
and yes, weather patterns will change with climate changes.
what i watch with concern is any deviation in the great atlantic conveyor. i suspect we are reaching a tipping point in its function. when that stops, all hotspots in the ocean will remain unconvected, getting hotter in place. that i feel will/could lead to massive lows and huge storms.
we are living in dangerous and morbidly fascinating times, arent we.
Yup, and you just mentioned another huge concern, the entire Atlantic conveyor and when it comes to that, the Pacific counterparts - naturally "we" will figure this out after some completely avoidable disasters and/or near disasters take place, just as the idiot Trump administration stopped funding the Obama preps for a pandemic, it's exactly "morbidly fascinating," I have some backup comprehensions that help me personally deal with it - and I am far from the only one, for sure - but for future generations and some already born especially, YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!
I am happy here in northern Minnesota (Hibbing) to finally have enough snow to hear snowblowers in the neighborhood. The sun is shining today but a few flakes are still falling and it is beautiful!
Well, for 24 to 36 hours, anyway. Maine weather stations are calling for near 50°F on Wednesday with plenty of rain and wind thrown in for good measure...and then another storm coming in for NEXT weekend. Busy weather week up here in Northern New England!
Watching the Patriots and Jets slog through a lot of snow. The kitties and we are snug inside the old house on the hill with the woodstove going, a bowl of Cub Scout popcorn, and a contented sigh. Life is sweet.
My sister lives in Gettysburg and sent me a picture of her yard with 6 inches of snow or so on it.We in north central Ohio dodged the snow bullet just getting a skiff.Old Man Winter’s season is here and he is coming alive.I am glad to be cozied up inside and glad you and Tracy can be too.
Snuggle up together with all of the kitties and Ruby. Have some hot chocolate and catch up on just breathing.
How nice to be in a picture book town with kind neighbors. I had that, long ago, in Falls Village, CT. It felt like America decades ago. Hell, it was America decades ago.
(Do not shovel your own walk! Find a neighbor kid. The CT surgeon's wife.)
Cool photo. Denomination?
Try Mexican Hot Chocolate with Cinnamon and hot chili peppers. Its raining in the Great Sonoran Desert .
What's left of it.
I loved the photo, too. I thought it certainly looked like a Methodist church which displays my prejudice. I went and checked tho and indeed it is.
No Crossroads
I wasn’t looking to get into an argument and maybe it’s called Crossroads, too. I’m only going by the photos I see online.
https://m.facebook.com/MilfordUMC
Mo argument
Just a comment
Thank you
😎
A chocolate factory/retailer/café in my nabe made hot chocolate that way. Every time it snowed I tried to drop in for a cup. The pandemic turned Jacques Torres into one more vacancy. But snow seems to have become just a memory too.
Looks picturesque, sounds snug. Enjoy! As I've aged, the kindness of strangers—and others under no obligation—has never ceased to amaze. Can only hope it comes back to them when it matters. … Bad news for NYC sledders: it's cold and wet here, but we were spared.
we were indeed. like every kid, I loved playing in the snow, mostly alone, for hours. then I started finding myself having to drive in (and on) heavy snow, and I suddenly wasn't so crazy about it anymore. now that I don't drive and can watch the dogs LOVING IT, and I like it all over again.
My son (visiting from California) and I (raised in northeast Pennsylvania) were in the local supermarket in Milford on Friday evening and he asked me why it was so crowded.
I told him these people are locals, they don’t trust the weatherman.
Must be the first time Key Foods was crowded this century.
We were at the ShopRite and Josh’s exact words were - why does it feel like New Year’s Eve in here.
Most people I ever encountered in Milford Key Food is about five. ShopRite is a hive of activity compared to Key Food. Part of why I love it here. I can have it both ways.
Good vibes as Josh puts it
haha
just read a local article on why Appalachians rush to the store on first hearing the four-letter word.
tis veritas.
Stay warm and safe. Watch lots of football. Snuggle with those wonderful kitties.
There will also be golf to enjoy...from Hawaii! As my husband’s dementia was determined after death to be Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, I’ve boycotted football. He was a wrestler in college, but played football in high school. Who knows which sport’s blows were worse, but the outcome was the same...blocking his beautiful mind. Luckily, the temporal lobe was the affected part of his brain, so we didn’t go through the abuse and anger that others do. He remained his charming self. I like baseball and golf (PGA not Liv). Although ridiculous amounts of money, in the main, they aren’t paid to hurt someone.
I’m so sorry about the loss of your husband, Christina. I agree with you about football, especially for children. But I think we’re in the minority in this country. My husband and I love golf (he plays, I watch TV). I have a funny story about the Kapalua tournament--our family went to Maui many years ago just prior to the tournament. While I was getting seasick on a whale-watching boat, he was at Kapalua GC following Tiger Woods around on his practice round...and he was the only spectator. P.S. he got back to the hotel before I did and saw more whales from our terrace than I saw from the boat. Grr.
Cool! One of my all-time favorite books, I have given away copies to everyone from philosophy professors to girlfriends - check this out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_in_the_Kingdom
{Forget the film version, it's close to "unfilmable"}
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Golf in the Kingdom
Golf in the Kingdom is a 1971 novel by Michael Murphy. It has sold over a million copies and been translated into 19 languages.[1] Golf in the Kingdom tells the story of Michael Murphy, a young traveler who accidentally stumbles on a mystical golfing expert while in Scotland.
Murphy was inspired to write the book after his time at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He became interested in the similarities between descriptions of successful athletes and people who said they had achieved the state of Zen. The novel spawned the Shivas Irons Society, an organization whose members combine golf and meditation.[2][3] In 1997, Murphy wrote a sequel, The Kingdom of Shivas Irons.[4]
Plot
While on layover on his way to an ashram in India, Michael Murphy decides to play a round of golf at Burningbush, a famous local golf course. There he meets the mysterious and charismatic golf pro Shivas Irons who over a 24-hour period teaches him about golf and spirituality.
Film version
Clint Eastwood purchased the rights to the book, but abandoned the project after writing several unfinished scripts in the early 1990s.[5]
In 2009, Murphy, producer Mindy Affrime and director Susan Streitfeld began filming their version of the book. Shot on location at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, it stars David O'Hara and Mason Gamble and premiered in New York City on July 29, 2011.[1] Review aggregator Metacritic rates the film version 13 out of 100, indicating "overwhelming dislike", with all five critic reviews being negative.[6]
{ See what I mean! This is a "Classic of mysticism," it require zero knowledge of golf at all to be profoundly moved and even "enlightened" by the book. Murphy was a co-founder of the Esalen institute - forgive me if you know most of this already!}
References
Goodwin, Stephen (2010). Dream Golf: The Making of Bandon Dunes. Algonquin Books. pp. 312–20. ISBN 978-1-56512-981-8. Retrieved September 5, 2010.
Paul William Kroll (May 1977). "Karate Can Heal the Mind-Body Split in Western Sports". Black Belt. p. 27. ISSN 0277-3066.
Boulware, Jack (2000). San Francisco Bizarro. Macmillan. p. 20. ISBN 0-312-20671-2.
Jackie Krentzman (January–February 1998). "In Murphy's Kingdom". Stanford Magazine. Archived from the original on May 4, 2006. Retrieved September 5, 2010.
Strachan, Graeme (November 2, 2020). "Sir Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood and the Fife golf movie that never was". The Courier. Retrieved February 21, 2021.
*******
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpxN96SbHtI
In this episode, Alan Shipnuck, Geoff Ogilvy and Michael Bamberger sit and listen in awe as Michael Murphy, the wildly alert 90-something writer, takes over the show.
Murphy is the man who invented golf’s most original player-philosopher, Shivas Irons, from his landmark novel/treatise, “Golf in the Kingdom.” Ogilvy, who has read the book innumerable times, looks like he is talking to a golfing god as he listens to Murphy.
Shipnuck and Bamberger, who once had the privilege of walking the Pebble Beach dunes with Murphy, ask Murphy about Woods and Hogan and why the game has such a hold on us, and explore why his slender book captures more about the game’s complex beauty than any other golfing treatise ever written.
Murphy is an utter inspiration and he is spellbinding in this podcast. Need a good listen? Allow us to offer, “Need A 4th?!”
I have just placed a hold on the book. Thank you.
Very funny. It is reminiscent of the incidents that all marriages go through at times. I hope you got to see some whales from terra firma.
Since reading Steve Almond's book Against Football, and realizing there's no way it's going to be banned, I look for pressure to drastically - and I mean DRASTICALLY - tighten up the rules against illegal blocking and tackling tactics, as well as mandating the significantly safer and "more expensive," helmets that are custom-fit for the players.
Quotes around "more expensive," you can work out why for yourself based on the sad experience you recount, Christina - it would even save lives, literally, as well as diminishing the CTE risks and other problems with the game as it is now.
American football has evolved since the players wore NO HELMETS at all, since the "Flying Wedge" was banned (a play that leveraged a large running wedge of offensive players crashing full speed into the defense), and in many other ways, to make it safer - there's no reason except inertia, indifference, and not enough tort suits and legal pressure it can't evolve further.
One of the reasons, perhaps the primary reason, Americans worship football is the violence. It’s a proxy for war, and no one under 18 should be allowed to play, in my view. I find it to be a primitive expression of male aggression. Fathers encouraging or demanding their young sons play are guilty of child abuse. Fancier, more protective, helmets are necessary, but why not just play soccer instead.
The game should not be played by the young. And coaches should be liable for the actions of college and pro players who “hit” viciously. Our son, who was a big, strong kid both in height and girth, played soccer. Because of his size, he was a goalie, which even limited heading the ball. Throwing and kicking were the actions. I am so glad, particularly now that he knows what his dad went through, because of “head down and rush” in football for 4 years, then having his head slammed into a wrestling mat for 8 years. At this juncture, there’s no cure for CTE, and certainly others have had it far more severely than he, but I grieved for years while pieces of him disappeared.
Yes - sure, it's still POSSIBLE to get badly injured in numerous sports, but tackle football, rugby, Australian Rules Football - maybe a couple more than escape my memory right now - feature the "collisions" the fans have grown to love, but they can damn well learn to appreciate a game as you describe and with a bunch of other changes to emphasize finesse and skills beyond the sheer deployment of girth and leverage, again, those "custom fit helmets" are maybe #1 doable RIGHT NOW, let me see if my search words coming to mind work: "Iowa football custom helmets Russell company" that might work: --- ok RIDDELL, not "Russell," -
IOWA CITY, Iowa — When Iowa Hawkeye football starts up the 2018 season in September, they'll make history in the process - thanks to state-of-the-art, Precision-Fit helmets from Riddell.
Iowa football equipment manager Greg Morris has been working with the company for years.
"I had been insistent from Day 1...we wanna be the first team in the country that can put a custom-made, precision-fit helmet on every player's head," Morris said on Thursday.
Aside from the incoming freshmen, that's exactly what the Hawkeyes will be doing this fall.
"The helmets that are not precision-fit are good football helmets. They meet and exceed all the testing, Morris said. "But with a custom-fit helmet, now it's a step greater."
More than a dozen players took part in a two-year pilot program for Iowa. The reviews were raving - and, for rising junior Noah Fant, resistant to release.
"'Best thing I've ever had on my head,' Morris quoted Fant as saying this past season. "I said, 'What if I took it off?' He said, 'You're not touching it.' And to a man, that's most of the remarks I got from those guys."
The helmets are just raising the standard in college football. At least one former Hawkeye has apparently made his NFL team follow in Iowa's footsteps.
According to Morris, San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle requested a Riddell Precision-Fit helmet from the team before his rookie season last year.
"'Greg, why would I put something else on?'" Kittle told Morris while visiting Iowa City earlier this year. "He was amazed at how many guys in the (NFL) had no idea."
The helmets carry a $1,000 price tag - but it's an investment that Morris says is worth making.
"At the end of the day," he said, "if we can better protect our guys and they get out of the University of Iowa in 4-5 years and they have not been concussed...that's a big deal. That's a big deal to me."
**** But this is from 2018! Change is slow when it costs these multi-billionaires MONEY!!!!
Plus, the profitable NCAA programs could subsidize the others, and once fans and alumini donors "get it," they would pitch in for sure.
Way too much money to be made in the war game. Nationally "pastime" to switch to soccer.
I played peewee football long years ago in southern Ohio, and at that age, teams had both little kids and great big kids -- no surprise which kids got knocked down the most. I was sort of in-between but not a starter. I don't know if it's different now.
Golf in Hawaii should be illegal. Return the Island to the natives stolen by Missionaries.
I suck at golf therefore golf should be illegal.
Because Trump cheats
Foot ball and hockey should be illegal
I remember watching college hockey at Bemidji college in 1969, 1970. The players did not wear helmets yet. Many players were from Canada (and many had at least one missing tooth). I had to stand at the rail above the bleachers, could not bear to sit. I was fascinated to see the crowd below me rise in a wave every time a fight broke out down on the ice.
Why were you suprised.
Another version of Gladiatorialism
At 17 years old, I had never before seen it displayed so dramatically by a crowd.
I thought football was illegal?
That view is spectacular. The perfect day for baking bread or treats and making a hearty stew. It's winter in LA today too - Chicago level winds and cold enough for gloves.
Yikes. No escaping then.
Safe and warm with furry friends!
Perfect plan for this kind of day
We want our snow here in Minnesota! Winter! Freezing temps! For days on end! Blizzards!
They are using a massive array of snow machines for the slopes, had to cancel the John Beargrease mushing contest for the first time ever due to lack of snow, and Minneapolis had the warmest December ever recorded - and it's likely to get worse and worse, a disaster coming up for the crops next spring, etc.
Welcome to another ratcheting up of global heating, I guess.
you Minnesotans do like your snow. my buddy and i were commissioned from the west coast to do a snowsculpture there for a Let It Snow!
Festival. cant remember where or when but remember being introduced to Fireball by our client.
the hot cinnamon gave us the illusion of being warm insides but the drink was dilating our pores, and dehydrating us.
havent touched the stuff since.
and since then ive enjoyed Minnesota in the warmer seasons.
Hey man! Thanks for reminding me of one more reason I am not drinking, period full stop and haven't felt better since like - the 1980s?!
But yeah we NEED the snow, the resorts are losing tens of millions of dollars as it is, the National Pond Hockey Championships - cancelled (especially miss that since I spent innumerable hours as a kid with younger brother on the Des Moines Waveland Park's ice rink seven-eight blocks up Kingman Blvd, trudging along every winter - when we were not at the Des Moines Ice Arena miles away where my father covered the International Hockey League team, the Oak Leafs - playing hockey, warming house and wild pick-up games were seemingly endless because kids!) so they have to freeze pavement instead of using Lake Nokomis, John Beargrease Sled Race - international mushing championship event - cancelled altogether, too dangerous for the dogs, the humans, the sleds - it just goes on and on, although snow machines plugging away are saving some events.
And that's not to mention the potential BILLIONS of crops messed up next year, watch that at the grocery store because it's a drought all over the place, not just the Midwest farm belt.
You couldn't PAY ME enough to move to any state without more serious seasons, Florida being the classic "nice place to visit," so I would only relocate to the Northeast, Colorado, etc.
Texas is my idea of total failure in life, that's my personal view "of course," if others thrive there, so much the better! I am happy for them...on the other hand, when the first Category 6 hurricane rips through there, well? *******
"This is the way world ends: will we soon see category 6 hurricanes?"
There is no such thing as a category 6 hurricane or tropical storm - yet. But a combination of warmer oceans and more water in the atmosphere could make the devastation of 2017 pale in comparison
Jeff Nesbit {THE GUARDIAN} Sat 15 Sep 2018 03.00 EDT
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There is no such thing as a category 6 hurricane or tropical storm – yet. The highest level – the top of the scale for the most powerful, most devastating hurricane or tropical storm capable of destroying entire cities like New Orleans or New York – is a category 5 storm.
Meteorologists and scientists never imagined that there would be a need for a category 6 storm, with winds that exceed 200 miles per hour on a sustained basis, sweeping away everything in its path. Until now, such a storm wasn’t possible, so there was no need for a new category above category 5.
Right now, however, there is anywhere from 5 to 8% more water vapor circulating throughout the atmosphere than there was a generation ago. This, combined with warmer temperatures that are driving water up from the deep ocean in places where hurricanes typically form, has created the potential for superstorms that we haven’t seen before – and aren’t really prepared for.
This combination of warmer oceans and more water in the earth’s atmosphere – whipsawed by sustained periods of drier and wetter conditions in regions of the world that create superstorms – is now starting to create storms with conditions that look precisely what a category 6 hurricane would look like.
No one in America has ever experienced the wrath and fury of a category 6 hurricane, which now genuinely seems possible and realistic. We’ve been lucky. Unofficial category 6 hurricanes have appeared in other parts of the world, and we’re seeing much stronger storms on a regular basis. It’s only a matter of time before one hits the US. ******* Worth reading to be warned in case it's another "sooner than expected" wave of crises spurred by this.
EDIT! They are totally renovating this 7 story 71 unit building near Central & University and MY UNIT is up as of January 19, I get January 18- January 30 in this place:
https://www.reservations.com/hotel/residence-inn-minneapolis-at-the-depot-by-marriott?rmcid=dsa&utm_source=googleads&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAtOmsBhCnARIsAGPa5yZt83g4GzDh4qfDxBSrM4gAPNyFDPbwx05wJcSydyT69rYuXXs8dwoaAq6EEALw_wcB
but it's hectic to build banker's boxes for 1200 books etc...FORGOT THE LINK! to the Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/15/hurricane-category-6-this-is-how-world-ends-book-climate-change
yes, RT,J.D,
snow is the more important form of precipitation since it sits and can soak into soil, preserving it for release for universal plant growth in the spring.
its runoff of course is anticipated and counted upon for farms and homes downstream.
of course its recreational value is counted upon by many ppl in many communities and businesses. theres even a ski resort in flat farmland southern Indiana that misses its annual benefits.
and yes, weather patterns will change with climate changes.
what i watch with concern is any deviation in the great atlantic conveyor. i suspect we are reaching a tipping point in its function. when that stops, all hotspots in the ocean will remain unconvected, getting hotter in place. that i feel will/could lead to massive lows and huge storms.
we are living in dangerous and morbidly fascinating times, arent we.
Yup, and you just mentioned another huge concern, the entire Atlantic conveyor and when it comes to that, the Pacific counterparts - naturally "we" will figure this out after some completely avoidable disasters and/or near disasters take place, just as the idiot Trump administration stopped funding the Obama preps for a pandemic, it's exactly "morbidly fascinating," I have some backup comprehensions that help me personally deal with it - and I am far from the only one, for sure - but for future generations and some already born especially, YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for your share button. There isn't enough commentary on this subject.
I am happy here in northern Minnesota (Hibbing) to finally have enough snow to hear snowblowers in the neighborhood. The sun is shining today but a few flakes are still falling and it is beautiful!
Well, for 24 to 36 hours, anyway. Maine weather stations are calling for near 50°F on Wednesday with plenty of rain and wind thrown in for good measure...and then another storm coming in for NEXT weekend. Busy weather week up here in Northern New England!
nothing like enjoying a snowfall from inside a cozy, warm home. Now for a grilled cheese sandwich and a mug of tomato soup. Enjoy.....
You’ve just given me the dinner menu!
Me too, I can find the cheese around here or else head to Lunds...
Watching the Patriots and Jets slog through a lot of snow. The kitties and we are snug inside the old house on the hill with the woodstove going, a bowl of Cub Scout popcorn, and a contented sigh. Life is sweet.
Thanks for the beautiful photo. How great that you can see if from your desk. Stay safe and enjoy Tracy and the darling furry friends.
Looks like a good day to stay inside and enjoy being warm and safe!
I measured what we had here. On a good day in 21 minutes I could be in Montclair where I have my guitar lessons.
My sister lives in Gettysburg and sent me a picture of her yard with 6 inches of snow or so on it.We in north central Ohio dodged the snow bullet just getting a skiff.Old Man Winter’s season is here and he is coming alive.I am glad to be cozied up inside and glad you and Tracy can be too.