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The dude in the daily mail article was my daughter’s golf coach for a bit. He is in really bad shape.
We mutually parted because he had to cancel a bunch. Loved doing it but he can’t function some days.

It essentially ate away inside of his ears so he has permanent vertigo now

the hyatt house and hyatt place on the northern end of king is usually the best rate I can find downtown.
Mount Pleasant is fine and we have had good luck by the airport/outlet mall.

Recs for your trip: (note I made this for some northern coworkers so just dumping it here)

GETTING AROUND
• King St, Meeting St, Bay St are the 3 main roads that run north and south on the island. All others move off of those and if you can find your way to those streets you can generally route to wherever you are heading. Tons of people around on each as well so later at night or early in the morning you wont wander off into a weird area (nothing dangerous, but there are some run down spots)
• Traffic sucks. Anything off the island plan for more time than you would think. 30-60 mins to any of the local beaches at best is typical, and there are great places to eat on the surrounding islands that you might also want to check out
• Walking the city is easy. Bikes are available as well as uber and bike courier things. You really don’t need a car much unless you go way north or you want to get off the main island

SHOPPING
• Shopping is abundant in Charleston. Tons of name brands and also a ton of local places with local flair.
• Most of the shopping is on King St. Fun day with the spouse to take your time and browse. Stop for lunch, maybe a coffee, maybe a drink. Start at one end and end at the other.
• Meeting st has a market that is in the old Charleston markets which was a slave market at one point (where they shopped). Cool market everyday and especially the weekend with local artisan type stuff. I suggest rolling through!
• The large grassy park right next to our hotel (hotel Bennett) often has a farmers market as well as food trucks. If it is popped up I would suggest popping in and checking it out.

BEACHES
• Really the main beaches are Folly, Sullivans Island and Isle of Palms. Sullivans is probably the nicest but it is a dry beach. Folly is an older, hippy vibe but there are some really cool areas to eat and it is fun.
• Kiawah is nice but further out and you may have to have a reason to enter the island via security

DINING- GONNA NAME STUFF AND GIVE A BRIEF. ALL ARE RECS FROM ME!
• Husk- southern food. Really great!!!
• Poogans Porch- southern with some BBQ. Good for lunch. Next to husk!
• 82 Queen- cool courtyard. Again I like for lunch. Great with a spouse! Right next to husk and poogans
• 167 Raw- popular local raw bar. No reservations so waiting in line is normal
• 167 Sushi- sushi offshoot of the raw bar. GREAT food and they take reservations
• Xaio Bao Biscuit- incredible Asian fusion. Casual. HIGH HIGH RECOMMEND
• Kwei Fei- Chinese. Off island.
• Rodney Scott’s BBQ
• Slightly North of Broad
• High Cotton
• Magnolia’s- a little stuffy but good
• Malagon- Tapas
• Bintu Atilier- African
• Chubby Fish
• Obstinate Daughter- out on Sullivan’s Island
• The Grocery
• Sullivan’s Fish Camp- Sullivans Island. Casual. Great for lunch
• Indaco- Italian. Fun brunch
• Melfi’s- good Italian on North King
• Wild Olive- out on John’s Island. Northerner that moved down and opened an Italian place
• Fig
• Wine & Co- great wine spot on meeting (northern end). The owner is a fun hang. Really knowledgeable
• Graft Wine Bar- near Melfi’s on northern king. Owner and som is from Africa I believe? Really knowledgeable and fun place
• Edmund’s Oast- local brewer. Love their beers

super interesting as well... prior years catchers that could "steal" strikes and effectively frame were getting pushed to the bigs. They were measuring for this.... and now thats a way less valuable skill.

not sure how they measure for it, but catchers successfully challenging ABS will now be something teams hunt for

Haven’t been to Spain but sitting in Rome right now. Been to Milan, Bologna, Florence, Siena, Lucca and Rome on this trip and it doesn’t feel different or dangerous and doesn’t feel changed from 9 years ago.

Didn’t think so about London or Paris either but Paris metro is super sketchy and you could get robbed.

I’ve also never been out clubbing which might be a super different scene over here admittedly.

I do agree that I would have to really trust my kids to do this trip on their own until they are out of my house

No this one in South Carolina

Great player. Not big on tackling but a great cover guy.
You may have to clamp him off the field based on arrests and talks of drug use.
Sounds like a freeze type player in the mold of the nkemdiche. If he is on the field he is great. Hopefully ole miss has better structure in place than freeze did to keep the locker room in good shape

This is correct, and the ACC didn’t put in tiebreakers to prevent this.
Other conferences use rankings to help determine the conference championship, and the acc didnt, so they are really the only conference that this could realistically happen to

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I heard the OWGR still doesn’t want to rank it

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They were missing like 6-8ish criteria to be considered by the OWGR so unless the governing bodies change their criteria LIV is still short of being considered even with the change

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I'm actually surprised Epic isn't completely connected across institutions. I use Baton Rouge Clinic for most of my healthcare but occasionally need to go into the Ochsner system for things. These systems don't seem connected in any way. Why aren't they connected? It seems like it would be pretty helpful for all of your files to be in one place, accessible by all of your healthcare providers.

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Been mentioned but Epic can be hosted by the hospital/provider or a 3rd party. Super expensive to maintain yourself, while 3rd party there are better options with redundancy but not one sole provider.

Without seeing what happened I would bet this was self hosted

not well known but one I experienced.
While with the Rangers had some older minor leaguers tell me this one:

Pitcher named Jose Reyes showed up to instructional league one fall at 19 years old. (small group of 30-40 younger players in a developmental setting)

Same guy shows up for spring training... he now says he is like 16 or 17 and his name is..... Edison Volquez

In the scenario you lay out the pitcher is throwing a fastball, so the ball is spinning backwards toward home. (Seams are rotating from the bottom of the ball toward the top at the batter.)
For a batter to tip it and it hit the backstop straight back, they almost certainly would have to tip the bottom of the ball. If you tip the top it’ll likely force the ball down more and at that speed it is hard to spin it enough to keep level AoA of the ball.
Therefore the batter tipping the ball would actually cause the ball to reverse its spin if anything, causing it to lose energy

Hope that makes sense