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Perhaps surprisingly, many…

Perhaps surprisingly, many of the big department stores in Tokyo have great food "courts" (of a kind) on their top floors.  Often many different shops each with their own speciality kind of food (Italian, pork cutlet, soba, udon, tempura, etc.)

Places like:
     Isetan, Seibu, Tobu, Parco, Takashimaya, Mitsukoshi, etc.

Also, don't sleep on their basement food levels as well - a huge variety of foods are displayed and on sale - sometimes (Japanese) sweets and snacks, sometimes specialities from around the country (famous types of seaweed or pickled vegetables, etc.), or full on restaurants. 

I love to just go and look at all the different possibilities available in the department store basements!  😅

https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/shopping/your-ultimate-guide-to-tokyos-department-stores

Also near Osaka: 

Osamu…

Also near Osaka: 

Osamu Tezuka (God of Japanese comics) museum:
            https://www.japan.travel/en/spot/1031/

Takarazuka dance review (very famous, haven't been, not sure it is my cup of tea :^):
            https://kageki.hankyu.co.jp/english/index.html

And Osaka castle (ferro cement rebuild after it was destroyed in WWII, but still pretty impressive):
             https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4000.html

Great tips, especially on…

Great tips, especially on train travel and the sushi at Tsukiji!

Possibly a reason you had trouble with orientating coming out of train stations is that the maps on the streets just outside the stations have one big difference from American maps - ours ALWAYS have North to the TOP.  There is NO such convention for Tokyo maps.  They can be any orientation you like.  So be sure to check that first.  I'm not sure the pattern but I think they usually orient in the most convenient line of sight.

Lived in Japan 1995-97, go…

Lived in Japan 1995-97, go back every year b/c my wife is from there and both boys (now teenagers) were adopted from there as infants.

I know Tokyo a lot better than Kyoto.  But do recommend Kyoto a LOT, just haven't spent much time there.

I'm a temples, festivals, culture, secondhand markets kind of guy.  My favorite resource from the Japan National Tourist Office (see especially the monthly Events Calendars (they come out a week or two before the month actually starts, you can see examples) are their "Travel Brochures".  They cover the whole country, usually with Kanto (East Japan where Tokyo is) at the top and other regions to follow (Kansai is Western Japan where Kyoto is), so just scroll down to the region you recognize/want:
             https://www.japan.travel/brochures/eng/index.php?publisher[]=1

I think that one of the most unique thing about Japan are the festivals.  I'm not sure you can experience anything quite like them outside of Japan.  If you can catch any one of those listed in the Event Calendars at the above link, they are more than well worth it.

I recommend Hiroshima as others above have said (Okonomiyaki building for food, peace memorial park, peace museum, nuke dome, etc.).  Also the nearby super famous Miyajima Island (has the huge bright red/orange tori gate out in the water (as long as it's not low tide :^)).  You take a ferry there. You can hike around the mountain, which is ok, but if time is short nothing earthshaking, I don't think (maybe see wild monkeys - it's just if you've been in a lot of urban Japan, it's nice to get out hiking in the wilderness a little, to clear the head a bit).  Got surprise head-butted in the rear by a male deer there (who I guess thought I was hitting on his girl?!), so minor PTSD from that, is all.

Regarding Kyoto, I like all the well known temples and think they're all worth a visit at least once.  

Definitely see kinkaji (golden temple) but then as a nice compare/contrast also see "ginkakuji" = silver temple, very zen, smaller in scale and much less crowded.  Tons of great temples (Kiyomizudera - the street that you take a long walk on up to the temple is lined with all kinds of small shops - great to pick up a souvenir - kitschy or otherwise, maybe a traditional metal furin [little wind bell/chime that you hang in the summer time], etc.) and old imperial (or former private) gardens, if you are into that sort of thing.  Kyoto has volunteer tour guides who will do a tour in English for you (they want to practice their English).  Some of them can be quite knowledgeable and good.

I like this temple in Kyoto:
         https://www.kanpai-japan.com/kyoto/sanjusangendo
           
Near Kyoto you can also spend a night & eat a meal in a Bhuddist temple (someone mentioned it above I think).  There are some mountain hikes to get to  some.

I also didn't like the deer in Nara, but the temples are good - with a Daibutsu (giant Bhudda amongst others) and lots of traditional old wooden architecture (often little shops with nice traditional items - I got a great pair of small carved painted wooden dolls for my mom there).  Nara was an ancient capitol, then Kyoto, then Kamakura, then eventually Tokyo as the current capitol.

Regarding Tokyo it's so big, so many possible things to see.  Good sources of local information for Tokyo include:
            https://metropolisjapan.com
             https://www.timeout.com/tokyo

Metropolis puts out a monthly English print magazine for Tokyo that is free - at tourist offices (@ Ueno & JNTO tour info desks at Narita and Haneda for sure, probably lots of others but those I have actually used).

"Timeout" has printed books you can find at the major english bookstores (Kinokunia, top floor, out south exit of Shinjuku station, past Takashimaya; Maruzen maybe near Tokyo station, I think).

If you're going now, try to see plum or cherry blossoms.  Here's the latest forecast, don't miss it if you can help it:
         https://livejapan.com/en/article-a0001033/
            

I love this place too:
            https://livejapan.com/en/in-tokyo/in-pref-tokyo/in-shinjuku/article-a0001595/
This is the world's best stores (17 or 18 & counting) for all kinds of manga (comics) cultural items - comics, plastic figures, robots, kaiju, toys, model kits, cosplay outfits, vintage and reproduction movie posters, vintage tin metal signs, tons & tons of vintage stuff, manga art cells, old Tomica cars/vehicles (Japan version of matchbox, but much better 😅), kamen rider, astroboy, vintage metal toys/robots/cars/trucks, etc.

In Tokyo, there are a zillion good art museums.  i like woodblock (ukiyo-e).  This is very small, but consistently great, but closed for renovations until April 3rd:
            http://www.ukiyoe-ota-muse.jp/eng

Also there is the Hokusai museum (of Wave off Kanazawa fame):
            https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3054_hokusai.html

It's not everyone's taste, but I highly recommend taking in at least one act of Kabuki (Japanese theater).  Best in the world is "Kabuki-Za" in Ginza in Tokyo.  This month there is an 11am show and then a different 4:30pm show.  They last 3-4 hours with 10-25 min breaks in-between various "acts".  You can get a ticket for just one act as well there, if you want to be cautious.  There are dramas, and dances.  I tend to like the dramas (b/c there's a stronger narrative story line than the dances).  If you go, get the English language ear phone guide (for 700 yen) which has a very useful, but not excessive or overbearing, narration of what is going in the various moments of the act;   
             https://www.kabukiweb.net/theatres/kabukiza/


Regarding temples in Tokyo - must see is Meiji Jingu (Harajuku station on Yamanote line). It's a loooooong walk to the buildings, but that's actually kind of one of the main points (green space in Tokyo occurs in three places - temples, schools/college campuses, and vertical spaces that are too difficult to build on :-).

Also must see (from my perspective 😅) is Yasukuni Jinja:  
            https://www.yasukuni.or.jp/english/
         
Actually probably not a lot to "see" unless there is a festival, it's famous as main Shinto shrine for WW 2 & WW 1 dead.   It is very controversial from a liberal/conservative/government point of view.  If you're in Japan during WWII surrender day (Aug 15) it's the place to go to see the current state of the power struggle in Japan.  It might also be interesting on Aug 6th or 9th as well (when the two bombs were dropped), but not sure.

IMHO it has an amazing museum about Japanese history/war history.  Worth the price and dozens of rooms.  The exhibit of old WW2 battle equipment (there is a plane and locomotive in the entrance to the museum, but there is a huge room deep inside the museum for a lot more) are neat as well as the rooms of official photos of soldiers after their training was done before they went off to die in the war.  Very powerful.  You could spend hours in it if you wanted.  Also, excellent gift museum, with lots of WWII type commemorative paraphenalia.

Watching sumo practice (someone else mentioned) is also excellent.  Just call ahead and schedule.  Watching real summo is even better, but is only in Tokyo in Jan, May, Sept.  I like to go early (like 10am or so when it opens) and watch all the 98 lb weakling teenagers who are just starting their journey, with hopes of becoming famous some day.  The big matches start much much later in the day:  
             https://boutiquejapan.com/sumo/

Pick up a Japan Times, local English language press (of the stature of the New York Times or Washington Post) (though it's not published on the weekends) at a station kiosk along the Yamanote or Chuo train lines.  The Japan News is the other major English language paper, but is definitely a step down from the JT in my opinion, although it can have really excellent articles on culture or history.

Lastly, if you want to get really adventurous and have a one of kind momento from Japan, at a big temple like Yasukuni or Meiji Jingu, ask for a "go shu-in" book (hon) (every temple has their own kind - buy one at the first temple you go to :^).  They are 1000-2000 yen or so, and then at each temple you visit ask at the desk where they are selling good luck charms and other things for a "go shu-in".  They will make a wonderful calligraphy of their temple name with bright red ink stamps and the date (all in Japanese, of course :^).  Costs maybe 300 or 500 yen for that calligraphy.  Very memorable and unique. Some temples have pre-made "go shuin" and just fill in the date, if you don't want to buy a book to get them in fresh that day.  It various with how busy they are and how big a temple they are.  
               https://en.japantravel.com/guide/goshuin-the-perfect-traditional-souvenir-from-japanese-shrines-and-temples/69653


 

 

I wonder if the Montessori…

I wonder if the Montessori approach to education would have helped you here?  On a birthday (if it is during the school year) there is a little celebration where the class sits in a big circle in the center of the room and together the class counts the number of trips around the sun for the child whose birthday it is (while parents bring and pass around a photograph taken during each one of those trips around the sun :^).

I thought it was a pretty cool tradition, educational activity, celebration/recognition.

It's Rossini's birthday, who…

It's Rossini's birthday, who wrote nearly forty operas from 1812 to 1829, including such stirring and famous works as:

     The Useless Precaution, otherwise known as The Barber of Seville,
     (La gazza ladra) The Thieving Magpie,
     
(ossia Ottone, re d'Italia) Otto, King of Italy,
     (ossia Il cambio della valigia
) The Exchanged Suitcase
     (Ugo, re d'Italia
) Hugo, King of Italy,
     and last but certainly not least:
                 Guillaume Tell, otherwise known as (The Lone Ranger Theme Song) William Tell,


But sadly, apparently he did not actually compose Duetto buffo di due gatti (The Cat Duet),
which some in the past had erroneously attributed to him.  😅

 

(thanks to Wiki)

My dad, who loved UM…

My dad, who loved UM football but never read or talked about Sports Illustrated at all, and never bought anything at all for us kids outside of birthdays and Christmas bought that one for me (or maybe...for himself to read too, now that I think about it?  :^).  Probably heard about it listening to WJR on his drive home from working in Grand Rapids.

Based on my experience this…

Based on my experience this year I'd feel a bit anxious.

I've used StubHub for UM tickets for many many years, but this year for the first time I got the exact same message as you.

 

I bought tickets in July for the Indiana game.  Guaranteed but didn't arrive and didn't arrive and didn't artive.  I emailed SH the monday of the game week & they said everything was fine.

 

Come Saturday at 10 am for a noon kickoff, still no tickets.  So I called their help phone # and got a very responsive & helpful guy.  He was able to get in touch with the seller, but then he did something that made no sense to me - he gave them 30 min to still transfer to me (it was now at least 10:30am).  Why not force the seller to transfer them to me immediately on the spot, since he was in contact with them??

 

Anyway I didn't feel I could wait until 11am to get them so I went on SH, bought four new tickets, & got an email after about 1 min that transferred those to me *right* away.  So we then went to the stadium for the warmups, etc.  As it was, we still missed the band/drum-line show at Riveli (sp?) Hall.  :-(

 

NEVER got the four originals I had initially purchased in July.  Felt super frustrated.  Complained via email the Monday after the game & was denied a refund for those original four tickets.  Felt even more frustrated.

 

Waited a week & then called the SH help phone # again, and *finally* that person helped me get it straightened out & I at last got my refund something like two weeks after that.

 

Anyway, super frustrating experience & I'm not sure I will ever use SH again going forward unless I see tickets are to be transferred right away.

 

I and my family would have missed that game (after driving 12 hours from a different state) if I hadn't bought four more tickets at the last moment (many were available b/c it was just IU - that might not be an easy option for such a huge & in demand event like the Rose Bowl).  As it was we got to the stadium much later than our usual routine & missed a bunch of activities that we usually always got to see.

 

For me money is pretty darn important, but in this case a guaranteed refund is no solace at all - I wanted to see the game.

I was there a loooong time…

I was there a loooong time ago (93 Rose Bowl when Wheatley went off against Washington - Yess! :^)

I was on foot with friends who lived in Pasadena.  In order to get good (free) seats on the street, we "camped out" on the parade route literally over night (took turns) just around the corner and block from some Grandstands.  It *was* cold!  But sat right on the curb for the show in the morning.  Great views - especially watching the large floats navigate onto our street.

But what I remember the most was the crazy atmosphere, ambiance, and theatrics the whole *night* while we camped out.  People were doing strange and funny things out in the street (i.e. parade route) most of the night.  Very entertaining, interesting, and...weird!

My friends dropped me off at the stadium and picked me up at the end.  I recall the stadium was in a canyon that felt a bit out in the middle of nowhere (but I was not driving so that was just my pedestrian impression).

Thank you!!   ^_^

Thank you!!   ^_^

 

So, one question:  how…

 

So, one question:  how can Chris Collins only be 14% on the Chris Collins Index?
                                shouldn't he be, like, 100%...?

 

 

From the article:

"I don't…

From the article:

"I don't ever like to depend on winning a game on a forward pass or a field goal.  If you have to do that, your chances of winning are slim."   - Bo Schembechler


Boy, we've come a long way since those days!  Thank God!!

 

Two is a PATTERN, baby!!!…

 

Two is a PATTERN, baby!!!

 

Two is a PATTERN, baby!!

 

Two is a PATTERN, baby!!

 

Fantastic article, Seth!  As…

Fantastic article, Seth!  As others have written, I really appreciate intense level of detail, the different color codings to guide the eye and mind/brain, the hilarious but equally informative word balloons, etc, etc.

 

But one question for you on the "double arc".  Was there someone who motioned across the formation before Roman Wilson, so he was the second arc on that play, or...?  Otherwise I don't think I understand the use of the word "second" for "second Arc".  Thanks!

 

Re: possibly testing (+) up…

Re: possibly testing (+) up to 12 weeks after having COVID.

Can confirm this.  My symptoms started 4th of July, PCR (+) on the 5th.  PCR on the 28th still (+).   :-(

Reminds me a little of a…

Reminds me a little of some of Nick Cave's (NTNC) sound suits (some of which are now on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago :^)

Now trying to rehabilitate…

Now trying to rehabilitate his name by coaching the Missouri State Bears in Springfield, MO.  No Joke!  And ranked as high as 5th in the nation in some poll (Athlon).  Truly bizarre.

I had the exact same mistake…

I had the exact same mistake!!

Oh no, the guy from "Spinal Tap", "Best in Show" and "Fernwood 2 Night".  (actually died a year ago this time)

I know a university history…

I know a university history professor, who came from Ukraine to California about 20 years ago when he was 11, and has been here in the US ever since.

He indicated that there are Ukrainians and Russians throughout the entire country, but in the east they tend to be more pro-Russia, and in the west they tend to be more pro-Ukraine.

So he suggested that in the most recent elections of Zelensky, in Eastern Ukraine he maybe got 40% of the vote, while in Western Ukraine he probably got about 60% of the vote. 

FWIW

What's an NFT?  So glad you…

What's an NFT?  So glad you asked.

 

(sorry for the ad at the front end).

This was awesome content,…

This was awesome content, thank you so much!

I know next to nothing about hockey strategy and really love the clips and stills and circles and clear player labeling so I can start to begin to follow what all is being noticed and pointed out by the writer!

Perhaps the OP would prefer…

Perhaps the OP would prefer this instead:
               https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qktpA02TxlA

 

Backstory here

 

^_^

 

p.s.   I am not so enthralled by
         Johnson either - something
         about his tone sets my teeth
         on edge.  I appreciate his
         enthusiasm, but prefer a more
         understated style, like Keith
         Jackson (sadly, no, he is still
        not with us anymore).

You are right, he was…

You are right, he was calling for JH's head last year at the end of the season.  The link in one of the early paragraphs above points to what he wrote last year about it after UM lost to PSU at the end of November:

Last year, when people like me declared that Harbaugh should be let go, Warde Manuel approached the offseason in the Michigan Way. Not flashy or bombastic, eager to find a 

 

You're also right that he doesn't seem to explicitly come out and admit it and say he is enjoying the cooked foul.  But it seems to me like this whole piece does point to the fact that he *is* admitting he was wrong, just in more nuanced and subtle manner than we might initially prefer.

""I called this formation…

""I called this formation Old Deuteronomy.
      <image>
   Because numbers, you see.""

 

Ha!!

Old Testament humor, love it!    Needs to be a new tag for articles.  ^_^

Interesting article in the…

Interesting article in the WP last week on small talk.

           https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/13/posteverything-small-talk-deeper-conversations/

tl;dr - In a dozen experiments with roughly 1,800 people, as varied as business executives and visitors in public parks, we found that our participants felt happier and more connected than they expected after relatively deep conversations with people they had just met.

How'd they do it:  sample prompts to use with mostly complete strangers:The prompts included: “For what in your life do you feel most grateful?”; “If you were going to become a close friend with the other participant, please share what would be important for him or her to know”; and “Can you describe a time you cried in front of another person?” We adapted these prompts from a procedure designed by psychologist Arthur Aron and his colleagues to create more intimate conversations between strangers. 

Tom Hemingway and Tom Slade…

Tom Hemingway and Tom Slade on WUOM for football on Fall Saturdays for the win!!

Is Hemingway still alive?  I haven't been able to find any info on him from the interwebs...  :(

Do you consider this useful…

Do you consider this useful data?  If not, why not?  If so, what do you think about it?

https://theconversation.com/cloth-masks-do-protect-the-wearer-breathing-in-less-coronavirus-means-you-get-less-sick-143726

 

Here is the same article with more detail:

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/07/418181/one-more-reason-wear-mask-youll-get-less-sick-covid-19

 

Summarizing the main idea:  more viral load leads to worse infection.  So reducing viral load (by wearing masks) will reduce infection (i.e. symptoms).  So if everyone masks up, it will still spread, but people will get a lot less sick (i.e. mostly asymptomatic cases).

 

Summarizing the data:

Hamster study - blowing air from infected hamsters to non-infected, with and without masks "filtering" the air.  With mask in place, fewer hamsters caught the disease, and those that did showed milder symptoms.

Cruise ship data:  Diamond princess, ~600 test positive, 18% asymptomatic, Argentinian (Australian?) cruise ship, ~128 test positive, 81% asymptomatic (b/c on the Argentinian line all were given N95 masks to wear when the first person got sick, but not so on Diamond).

Meat packing data (crowded, long hours, etc.) - (i) Oregon seafood, 128 test positive, 95% asymptomatic, (ii) Tyson Chicken, 481 test positive, 95% asymptomatic.  Both places, all workers required to wear N95 while at work.

 

Article conclusion - with N95 masking, covid-19 still spreads, but most cases are now asymptomatic.

There are at least five…

There are at least five pieces of evidence that masks are effective at:  (i) reducing spread, and (ii) reducing symptoms/sickness.

This leads to the inference that:  the more viral load you get, the more sick you get.  So, the less viral load you get (i.e. by everyone wearing masks) the less sick you get.

This article from July gives details: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/07/418181/one-more-reason-wear-mask-youll-get-less-sick-covid-19

The four pieces of evidence come from:  (i) two different cruise ships, (ii) two different meat packing plants, and (iii) experiments with hamsters (sorry dudes!).

The evidence suggests that if everyone masks up, people still get covid, but the % of asymptomatic cases is really high (greater than 80% compared to typically 30-40% asymptomatic in the general population), so many fewer need to even go to the hospital or ICU.

 

Super encouraging news from…

Super encouraging news from Italy.  Hope the trend continues. Both countries in total lockdown. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Encouraging news indeed. …

 

Encouraging news indeed.  Lockdown to peak number of new cases daily about 12 days in both China and Italy (so far - hope the trend continues!!).

 

 

 

 

 

Re: rental properties

You…

Re: rental properties

You probably already know this but just in case, the technical term is "rental real estate".  "rental property" means things like back-hoes, shovels, wheel barrows, etc.  ^_^

Took me three weeks (I'm not very bright) before I figured out the difference the first time I dealt with the issue.  :^D

Thank you!!  I had been…

Thank you!!  I had been meaning to write and request exactly this feature!!

I have one question.  Is there ever any difference between weak & backside (or strong & play side)?

I don't understand what the advantage would be, but I could imagine that it's possible a particular play will line up with the strong side to be to the boundary, but it seems like weak & backside or strong & play side are always synonymous.  What am I missing?

Or is it common for the ball to go to the weak side of the formation?

I wonder if this 2019…

I wonder if this 2019 research is related to a discovery from 2012:  many wild tomatoes when ripe (for taste-flavor) aren't solid red from top to bottom - their tops are still green.  The 2012 research suggested that the genes responsible for this "green shoulder" effect also contribute greatly to the taste of the tomato: so if you breed tomatoes to look nice and no longer have "green shoulders", you are actually also (accidentally) breeding away flavor.

     https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2012/06/how-tomatoes-lost-their-taste

     https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/06/28/155917345/how-the-taste-of-tomatoes-went-bad-and-kept-on-going

I wonder if this is related…

I wonder if this is related to Solomon leaving?

The TV broadcast had a blurb…

The TV broadcast had a blurb about how they had some common connections.  I couldn't remember the exact details but got them from this on-line article:

"The two head coaches first got to know each other when a former high school player of Martin’s ended up as an assistant on Beilein’s staff."

"Martin and Beilein were also assistants under Davidson’s Bob McKillop on the U.S. team that played in the 2013 World University Games in Kazan, Russia, where they spent 18 days rooming together in a dormitory in Russia."

Apparently they set up the home-and-home series during that 2013 dorm experience.

Or perhaps the surprise at them being "bros" is that they appear to have such different personalities/demeanors?   ^_^

 

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If you are into history,…

If you are into history, lots of great audio books by David McCullough: 1776, Wright Brothers (though the end is depressing), John Adams [I have listened to all of these; he was the reader on the first two!!]

Others on my list by him that I have not yet gotten to: The Path Between the Seas (building of Panama Canal), Truman, Mornings on Horseback (Teddy Roosevelt) 

Also:  Bo's Lasting Lessons!  ^_^

I had a similar thought.

I had a similar thought.

I found the complete…

I found the complete schedule of band activities for that week's game on the marching band's Facebook site.

I was not able to find it on their UM website.

100% co-sign!

Plus mowing…

100% co-sign!

Plus mowing uses a lot of gas.  Supposedly many mowers are poorly tuned and thus generate way more pollution than they ought to.  

A counter-argument is that where I live lawn care provides lots of jobs (people hire out, they don't do it themselves).

Do you think my neighbors or my city would mind if I just had bare dirt surrounding my house?  I'm foolishly debating trying that experiment...

^^

Underrated comment.

^^

Underrated comment.

Harbaugh video

Interesting way to describe how do it.

I figured I'd just have them watch the Harbaugh (smashing the overhead projector) coaches clinic video!

already have many futebol!!

Rounds ones are easier for me to figure out than the oblong kind...

loved Tom Hemingway

Grew up listening to his Saturday afternoon (and Rose Bowl!) football (with a rotating stable of side kicks, including Tom Slade), and trying to get to sleep to his late night basketball (that was a killer :^).

Was very bummed when WUOM stopped that and dumped all their music for all talk.  Used to help with Hazen Schumacher's Jazz Revisited Request Night when I was a student in the middle 80's.

avatar checks out

^_^

Love this live-blogging

Thanks so much for the running commentary and video embeds of goals.  

I enjoy reading/watching it all - it's also a great way to catch up on the action and get a feeling for the flow of the game.

anti-competitive?

The Ben Thompson article at Stratechery posted elsewhere in this thread:                         <https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/&gt;  

brought up a 2005 case involving Madison River Communication.  The idea is that "foreclosing a service that competes with an ISP’s own service is a clear antitrust violation" and the FCC can therefore fine and order a cease and desist to said company, which is what happened in that case.

So if I understand that right, it seems like regulations against anti-competitive procedures already exist and would proclude Comcast limiting your access to NetFlix to force you to use Hulu instead (since Hulu and Netflix are competing services).

 

Edit:  Reading more in the thread I see that a possible issue with this is that someone would still need lawyers to file the anti-trust case or complain to the FCC and that in general is probably not trivial or cheap.  Only those with sufficient resources are able to follow through with the possible legal recourse.

did that for Alex Smith?

I thought when he became the 49ers coach JH initially did that for Alex Smith (taking out most options and greatly simplifying the reads and always having a dump-off) which really helped AS rejuvinate his career (I guess he had a reputation for throwing interceptions?).

Maybe the coaches went as simple as they thought they could get away with and thought they needed this kind of complexity to keep the OSU defense off balance?

Thanks for live-blogging!

I really appreciate your detailed live-blogging and embedding videos of the UM goals!  Thanks so much!