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The Vizio hierarchy is
P Quantum
P Series
M Series
E Series
D Series
I have had a Vizio LED TV for 4 years and it has been flawless.
Since you haven't mentioned Costco I assume they may not be in your area.
Costco extends the manufacture warranty for 1 year for no extra cost, I am not sure if Sams club does as well as I am not a member.
Costco also uses Four Square for an extended warranty at a significantly less cost than the brick and mortar stores.
There are also guidelines for screen size based on the distance you are seated from the screen.
No matter which model you end up purchasing go to avsforum for suggestions on calibration settings.
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NFL - 2018
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Boiler Up
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My family room setup which my son watches everyday is a NON LED 56" DLP 1080p rear projection that I purchsed in 2004.
It is on its 5th metal halide lamp and still going strong.
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NFL - 2018
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13 hours ago, Ceptorman said:The coach said he was going for the win, and he would make that call 10 out of 10 times. At least he's aggressive.
I think the NFL overtime rules are not fair and difficult to understand.
I realize this was a conference opponent and the outcome more important but what a tie have accomplished at the end of the season?
I am sure there is a situation or 2 that would make a difference possibly.
But on Monday morning 1-2-1 is no different than 1-3 to a team that has been in every game until the final possession but the season is slipping away.
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The oiled oak is beautiful.
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The 1970 442 and 1972 Hurst/Olds Indy 500 pace cars are a couple I would enjoy to own.
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Wasn't you, it was me and I have no idea.
When I went to edit my post it showed up as an attachment and I dont know how to get rid of it.
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In 1964 the 389 GTO was the only game in town for GM.
In 1965 the new 400 cubed 442 and also the introduction of the 396 by Chevrolet was a better option to me.
Buick was still using a 401 nailhead labeled as a 400 in the Gran Sport.
The 1965 GTO was the best looking to me with the stacked headlights design.
I always thought GTO's had the best interiors as well.
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I was never impressed with the 389 Pontiac engine.
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Wise decision by Pontiac to drop the transaxle for the 1964 model year
Pontiac Cheif Engineer John DeLorean.
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Great accomplishment, those are some long hit balls even for the Mile high elevation.
Scooter Gennett for the Cincinnati Reds on June 6, 2017, Gennett hit four home runs (including a Grand Slam) and had a career-high 10 RBI against the Cards
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NFL - 2018
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Andrew Luck is looking like...well...Andrew Luck.
Go Colts
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This is the first I heard about this.
This article has quite a different slant.
Chair umpire Carlos Ramos managed to rob not one but two players in the women’s U.S. Open final. Nobody has ever seen anything like it: An umpire so wrecked a big occasion that both players, Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams alike, wound up distraught with tears streaming down their faces during the trophy presentation and an incensed crowd screamed boos at the court. Ramos took what began as a minor infraction and turned it into one of the nastiest and most emotional controversies in the history of tennis, all because he couldn’t take a woman speaking sharply to him.
Williams abused her racket, but Ramos did something far uglier: He abused his authority. Champions get heated — it’s their nature to burn. All good umpires in every sport understand that the heart of their job is to help temper the moment, to turn the dial down, not up, and to be quiet stewards of the event rather than to let their own temper play a role in determining the outcome. Instead, Ramos made himself the chief player in the women’s final. He marred Osaka’s first Grand Slam title and one of Williams’s last bids for all-time greatness. Over what? A tone of voice. Male players have sworn and cursed at the top of their lungs, hurled and blasted their equipment into shards, and never been penalized as Williams was in the second set of the U.S. Open final.
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“I just feel like the fact that I have to go through this is just an example for the next person that has emotions and that want to express themselves and wants to be a strong woman,” she said afterward.
It was pure pettiness from Ramos that started the ugly cascade in the first place, when he issued a warning over “coaching,” as if a signal from Patrick Mouratoglou in the grandstand has ever been the difference in a Serena Williams match. It was a technicality that could be called on any player in any match on any occasion and ludicrous in view of the power-on-power match that was taking place on the court between Williams and the 20-year-old Osaka. It was one more added stressor for Williams, still trying to come back from her maternity leave and fighting to regain her fitness and resume her pursuit of Margaret Court’s record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles. “I don’t cheat,” she told Ramos hotly.
OPINION: Serena's racket stole Osaka's moment
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When Williams, still seething, busted her racket over losing a crucial game, Ramos docked her a point. Breaking equipment is a violation, and because Ramos already had hit her with the coaching violation, it was a second offense and so ratcheted up the penalty.
The controversy should have ended there. At that moment, it was up to Ramos to de-escalate the situation, to stop inserting himself into the match and to let things play out on the court. In front of him were two players in a sweltering state, who were giving their everything, while he sat at a lordly height above them. Below him, Williams vented, “You stole a point from me. You’re a thief.”
There was absolutely nothing worthy of penalizing in the statement. It was pure vapor release. She said it in a tone of wrath, but it was compressed and controlled. All Ramos had to do was to continue to sit coolly above it, and Williams would have channeled herself back into the match. But he couldn’t take it. He wasn’t going to let a woman talk to him that way. A man, sure. Ramos has put up with worse from a man. At the French Open in 2017, Ramos leveled Rafael Nadal with a ticky-tacky penalty over a time delay, and Nadal told him he would see to it that Ramos never refereed one of his matches again.
But he wasn’t going to take it from a woman pointing a finger at him and speaking in a tone of aggression. So he gave Williams that third violation for “verbal abuse” and a whole game penalty, and now it was 5-3, and we will never know whether young Osaka really won the 2018 U.S. Open or had it handed to her by a man who was going to make Serena Williams feel his power. It was an offense far worse than any that Williams committed. Chris Evert spoke for the entire crowd and television audience when she said, “I’ve been in tennis a long time, and I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Competitive rage has long been Williams’s fuel, and it’s a situational personality. The whole world knows that about her, and so does Ramos. She has had instances where she ranted and deserved to be disciplined, but she has outlived all that. She has become a player of directed passion, done the admirable work of learning self-command and grown into one of the more courteous and generous champions in the game. If you doubted that, all you had to do was watch how she got a hold of herself once the match was over and how hard she tried to make it about Osaka.
Williams understood that she was the only person in the stadium who had the power to make that incensed crowd stop booing. And she did it beautifully. “Let’s make this the best moment we can,” she said.
The tumultuous emotions at the end of the match were complex and deep. Osaka didn’t want to be given anything and wept over the spoil. Williams was sickened by what had been taken from her and also palpably ill over her part in depriving a great new young player of her moment. The crowd was livid on behalf of both.
Ramos had rescued his ego and, in the act, taken something from Williams and Osaka that they can never get back. Perhaps the most important job of all for an umpire is to respect the ephemeral nature of the competitors and the contest. Osaka can never, ever recover this moment. It’s gone. Williams can never, ever recover this night. It’s gone. And so Williams was entirely right in calling him a “thief.”
sally.jenkins@washpost.com
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On 9/5/2018 at 12:26 AM, wvu80 said:
Thanks!
I live two hours east of Columbus, near Marietta, OH, in Parkersburg, WV.
Next time I ride the motorcycle over to the "Triple Nickel" Ohio State Highway 555 I will have to stop by and say hello.
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I finally watched the opening show.
I had to DVR it as it comes on past my bedtime.
For one this show has big shoes to fill plus all the hype leading up to it.
I agree with Carl it did not grab me from the first episode the way SoA did.
FX sound quality was poor, I tried all my surround options and settled on multichannel but as previously said the dialogue was hard to understand in some scenes due the recording and the accents.
This group of characters didn't seem to have the personalities of SoA but maybe that will come out in future episodes.
I do think the lead actor was a good choice.
Plots are as expected but the band of masked gypsies with the techno expertise living in the desert was a bit to out there for me.
I was a little bit disappointed but still optimistic.
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Just how many miles south would you say your neighborhood might extend?
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When we were in Hope last year and speaker wire was the topic of discussion Jim Hunter looked at me and said "I just use Romex".
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Jeff Beck was killer, I received the blu-ray Live From the Hollywood Bowl for Christmas so I had an idea how good it was going to be, but even then I was blown away.
The sound system there was a little better than mine.
I had seen this thread but never read it or noticed that @jimjimbohad started it.
For some reason I finally read it about 1:00pm Friday, so ok I wonder when the concert is?
Looked it up and found it was that evening.
Oh wow, so I shot Jim a text to see if he wanted to meet up before hand, I still had no intentions of going.
Come to find out Jim was just leaving and asked me if I was going. So i looked on Stub Hub and found some good seats for some great prices.
The problem was finding someone who would just sell me one ticket. Guess some people would rather eat 6 tickets then sell just one.
Then I managed to lock myself out of my Stub Hub account since i tried to many times with the wrong password. Just great, I didnt think I was now going to get to go.
So at 3:15pm I bought my ticket.
I got back with Jim and we made plans.
As I was leaving work I realized there was no way I could make it home and back to meet up in the amount of time I had.
So I stopped at Cabellas and bought a pair of shorts and a shirt off the clearance rack as it was 90 degrees and my work clothes was not going to cut it.
I typically would not have gone to a concert by myself but since my ticket was in the same section as Jim, and who would have ever thought @Ceptorman would be in the same row.
I am so glad I went, I had a great time and I always enjoy Jim's company.
It was nice to finally meet Ceptorman, we had talked about it but just never made it happen yet, we have many things in common.
Jim your pics are much better than mine.
As you can tell from the first pic we were a couple of VIP players. 😎
So to all of you, go out and enjoy live music and live life to the fullest.
I cant wait to do it again.
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2 minutes ago, Dave1290 said:
Perch is selling for $30 a pound deep fried up there.
That would be awesome.
I love lake perch.
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17 hours ago, Ceptorman said:
He will be "Back Home Again" soon, and he will love it 😀
Are we having a party?
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17 minutes ago, WillyBob said:
I say that about Indiana
Just sing a verse of "Back Home Again" and you will wish you were here 😁
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I did learn the reason behind making the battery no longer replaceable was to earn a IP68 rating for water ingress protection and not just to make the phone obsolete quicker.
Interesting that currently an S8 is very close in cost to a S9. I realize there is not much difference but why buy a year older phone for the same cost.
Hoping the S9 price will lower even further when the new Note9 debuts on August 9. If so, I may look into it.
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I have the Craftsman Professional polished wrenches.
They are excellent tools and the first ones I reach for.
Help buying new TV, old one died (TV bought!)
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I enjoy seeing others research and agonize things as thoroughly as I do. I could not impulse buy even a pack of gum.
The item doesn't have to be the very best, but I always want the best bang for the buck
One thing I noticed is the screen size in scale to the cubic feet of the big box store vs the screen size when it is located in your room at home.
A 65" may look small at Sams but at home it is a pretty large screen.