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my wife just came home early and caught me and my best friend jerking off to this video
Oh Lela Starr is so sexy in those white panties and such wonderfully sized breasts. OMG you drive me crasy teasing my cock with your panties stripping. OMG Lela knows how to excite my cock. oh baby it feels so damn good. omg what a fabulous goregous pussy, love how she fingers her clit and suck on her fingers. the closeup of her pussy is wonderful, what a juicy hot pussy. OMG Lela is such a sensual erotic woman! She is fabulous!
dio che pezzo di femmina...e pure troia
Your so sexy i like your pussy so nice come in france
she ruined her tits AND her lips ;)
you are too sexy!!!!!
Quick, someone get her a sandwich!
vien je te trou ta chat appel moi et vien a orteaux tu va me vir salope c dans le 20 putin ta une belle chat
Oh what a pleasure it would be to explore your tight, feminine body. Girl you are very sexy.
Lela you can tease your pussy for me forever
you are the perfect women ever! i would you fuck all day at you is all perfect body pussy ass and so choclate
love your star tatoo , but I like that tight little body more. Your clip was very revealing. Great job.
Man she is so sexy. I love her body and that nice pussy. She looks like Kim Kardashian a bit but She is more Sexy and Hot.
why do people like her? she's soo skanky and dead skinny, YUCK
shes one hot babe
I wanna have sex with you, right now!
geil wichsen
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I wanna fucck this babe so bad, like that really nice pussy and getting a bj from her would be so good
id love to fuck that gorgeous puss
The backs of her hands aren't sexy.
I love ur pussy itz nice nd juicey
Que hermosa mujer recien llegó la mama de un amigo mio y me encontró en mi mejor momento masturbando con el video cuando ella me vio me manoteo el pene Se lo puso todo en la boca hasta que termine en su linda bolita ella nunca me dijo nada yo
I am a grli I love you sexy
really travis,sounds queer to me!
ti amo
Eine perfekte Fotze, nicht nur zum Wichsen
please fuck me babe,love to eat you out first
sexxxy. sweet. stunning. yeah... she's my dreamgirl.
I'd love to be the Guy she let's tease her clit with my tung and mouth tell she cream's on my face
geile Schnecke *lach*
I want that pussy
OH MY GOD! She looks AMAZING! I love the way she rubs herself so good. MMM so fucking hot. I'd give anything to have her rub me that way. I'm so wet now. Need to pleasure myself to this over and over again. LOVE HER PUSSY!
Looks like kim kardashian
i love you baby!!!!
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u r fucken hot
Hot and horny, very nice pussy. Wish I could fuck it.
I'd love be between those legs .. because damn..
quite a lovely lady!
shes not even hot
So good
Sexy tits real sexxxxxyyyyy ;-) and a sexy women too
Big beautiful boobs and the nicest girl in the world!
wow, i want to lick her cute wet snatch :-) -
Damn! She is Beautiful, nice shoes too!
A real sexy rendition.
Que buceta carnuda. Como faço p ter vc mulher? ela goza de verdade, sem fazer cena. É a mulher e a mais gostosas de todas
wow i came twice watching her...
Lela you are a star.
Who is she? Sexy as hell
Damn this girl can work and shes got some nice ass titties
good video that made me come without manociarme
A sperm symphony for you
I just filled my belly button...
she had the best tits ever WHY DID SHE DO THIS
That is Stellar! Great mood, and Eye contact Playful, Soft, Sweet, Passive/Aggressive, appeal :) Gorgeous Baby!
Chocolate Perfection
I love your boobs but, i won't a girl that's black sorry
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Show your feet please!
ohhhh yeHHHH I WANT TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU ALL NIGHT LONG AND I WANT TO FUCK YOU ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT AND I WANT TO DO IT WITH YOU
I would fuck u soooo hard...
im so horny
please make a solo vid showing off your feet.
geile schow wo sie angefangen hat mit dem strip habe ich meinen schwanz gestreichelt wo sie angefangen hat ihre musch zu wichsen habe ich auch gewichst und habe mit ihr zusammen abgespritzt geil oder?
watched 48 videos and finally cummed on her in less than a minute
I just wish she had takebn off her shoes for at least part of this video... She has Super Sexy Feet, but you hardly ever see her barefoot??? Crime against Us Foot Fetish Guys!!!
i want to fuck her....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great body, beautiful pussy, nice act and a mouth made to suck cock.
What a sexy woman i wanna have so much fun with her realy sexy
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i LOVE UR FEET
Lela Starr she had the sexy hips like to make love to her very sexy pussy and hot hips she can cum on me all over, and she can ROCK me to sleep
love looking at her
your body is just perfect, I love you ever would like to sleep with you
dio, che gnocca! adoro la sua stella
do yuo like sex
those tits i would love to cum on
hay mamasita pasame tus pechos en mi boca te amo
Not better than Brianna Frost! : D
i cummmed
bella labbrona che tettone co quer gattopardo la de sotto!!!
hear head is really big xD
she is the best!
I want to fuck you!
She ruined her tits...a serious downgrade but who am I to complain ^_^
Her natural tits are way better..
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2008 Women's Soccer
Allison White named Player of Week in HCAC
Allison White named Player of the Week in Heartland Conference
October 20, 2008
BLUFFTON, Ohio - Senior Allison White (Lima/Shawnee) has been named women's soccer Player of the Week in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference for the week ending Oct. 19, 2008.
White scored all three Bluffton goals in the Beavers' 3-0 shutout of Franklin College on Saturday, Oct. 18, for her first career hat trick. She finished the match with seven shots, including four on target, as Bluffton completed a pair of shutouts over Heartland Conference foes Defiance and Franklin last week. White, along with teammates Alex Jess and Kourtney Lewis, is tied for 10th place in the HCAC with five goals.
The Beavers improved to 5-7-1 on the season and 3-2 in the HCAC following the win over the Grizzlies. The three wins in the HCAC are the most by a Bluffton women's team since joining the conference in 1998.
The Beavers will return to action on Tuesday, Oct. 21, when they host Manchester College at 2 p.m.

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Embedr: Put Video Playlists on Your Site
You've scoured the Web looking for the best Super Bowl commercials of all time, and you've put together a top-10 list, complete with video, that you want to share with your blog readers. Instead of posting ten separate videos from different video hosting sites, try Embedr, a free service that allows you to build a video playlist using videos from all over the Web. The service even allows you to play them all in the order you choose, or allow your visitors to skip around using a Cover Flow-style interface.
Some of the popular playlists currently shared from Embedr are "best of" collections, like one user's favorite moments from the TV series Lost, and another user's favorite Strong Bad e-mails. They're not all roundups of favorite TV shows or Web videos, some users have some of their favorite sports plays wrapped into one playlist, and others have created playlists from videos they've made themselves.
If you're curious how others are using the service before you sign up and make your own playlists, you can click the "explore playlists" tab at the top of the page to see what other people are using the service to create. Some are using the service to make playlists of their own video podcasts; others are using them to spice up their personal Web sites with a playlist of their favorite music videos. Once you see how others are using the service to add content to their sites or blogs, you'll want to try it as well.
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From RDF Working Group Wiki
Workshop results
Suggestions called "Graph Identification" from Stanford Workshop are reproduced below.
- widely used by the community
- part of SPARQL already
- numerous use cases
- clarify confusion in implementation
- adds complication and may not solve the issue nevertheless
- complicates the RDF model (potentially)
- risks with backward compatibility should be assessed (e.g., syntax)
- does it need standardization?
- Named graphs, provenance and trust , Jeremy Carroll, Christian Bizer, Patrick Hayes, Patrick Stickler, WWW 2005, http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/p613.pdf, http://www4.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/bizer/SWTSGuide/carroll-ISWC2004.pdf
- Quadstores in general
- ODM RDF Metamodel (see http://www.omg.org/spec/ODM/1.0/, section 10.5, derived from Carroll et al.)
- Michel Chein and Marie-Laure Mugnier. Positive nested conceptual graphs. In Proceedings of ICCS '97, volume 1257 of LNAI, pages 95-109, Springer, 1997. (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.30.3644) ; Nested Graphs: A Graph-based Knowledge Representation Model with FOL Semantics (1998) ( http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.37.5256 )
- SPARQL Specifications (RDF Datasets) and related to that, Axel's proposal to base the work on RDF Datasets (see IRC)
- Notation 3, Tim Berners-Lee, 1998 http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3
- ideas from the Topic Maps work (see also SWBPD WG note, http://www.w3.org/TR/rdftm-survey/)
- "Triplesets: Tagging and Grouping in RDF Datasets", http://www.w3.org/2009/12/rdf-ws/papers/ws24, Atanas Kiryakov, Vassil Momtchev
- hypergraphs (as a general mathematical domain)
Technical Issues
- mutual roles of quads vs. singleton named graphs vs. named graphs
- extension the RDF(S) semantics?
- new RDF(S) terms? rdf:Graph, rdf:subGraphOf, rdf:equivalentGraph, etc.
- syntax (TRIG, INRIA Member submission, Web, Graphs and Semantics , n3)
- graph inclusion, can named graphs share triples
- whether blank nodes can be shared among multiple graphs
- whether blank nodes can be used as graph names
- named graphs do not fully replace reification
- how would follow your nose apply to named graphs?
- relationships to SPARQL
- effects on the SW stack
- how does it influence the OWL semantics?


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I heard on Sirius NFL Radio that Cincy has over $35M in cap room..So if they want Nelson back the Jets are in major trouble..
Secondary: The biggest need position of all due to uncertainty with three key free agents cornerbacks Kelly Jennings and Adam Jones and safety Reggie Nelson. They need some experienced backups at both spots. One darkhorse to keep an eye on former UC standout Haruki Nakamura who brings value at safety and on special teams. New Bengals secondary coach Mark Carrier knows him well from Nakamuras first two seasons in Baltimore.
Priority unrestricted free agents to re-sign: S Reggie Nelson, DE Frostee Rucker, DE Jonathan Fanene.
F I WAS GM, MY SHOPPING LIST WOULD BE Let me preface this by saying that Mike Brown has said to me a couple times over the years on offseason plans, you have your ideas and we have ours.
Re-sign Reggie Nelson If you dont, you may have to greatly overpay for a veteran.


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Doris J. Slowey, a native East Hamptoner, died at Southampton Hospital, where she had been a patient for a month, on March 20. She was 90.
Mrs. Slowey was born in East Hampton on Aug. 8, 1921, a daughter of Mildred and Wilbur Bennett. She attended the East Hampton schools.
She had been married to James Slowey, who died in the early 1980s. The couple had lived in Southampton, but after her husband's death, Mrs. Slowey moved to the Oakview Highway trailer park in East Hampton. She later moved to an apartment at the Windmill Village senior citizens complex on Accabonac Road in East Hampton. Two siblings, who survive her, also live there. They are Stanley Bennett and Isabelle Morgan. Three other siblings, Floyd Bennett, Oliver Bennett, and Jessie Histand, died before her.
Mrs. Slowey enjoyed doing needlepoint, a niece, Theresa Cullum, said, and her creations were turned into pillowcases, table runners, and many other items.
Mrs. Slowey was cremated. Her ashes are to be buried in a private ceremony later today at Green River Cemetery in Springs.
The family has suggested memorial donations to East End Hospice, P.O. Box 1048, Westhampton Beach 11978.


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An attempt to scare some enthusiasm into Massachusetts voters.
And it's not just the fear of Texan outside agitators, there's a gender war a-comin':
At a Friday rally with former President Bill Clinton and again Saturday, Coakley ... raised the 4-wheel-drive factor, quipping that just because somebody drives a truck doesn't meant they're headed in the right direction.That's a quip because Scott Brown drives a truck.
But Coakley, who despite a modest background carries herself with a patrician bearing...Does she also bear herself with patrician carriage?
... has compounded the problem voters with a series of gaffes that suggest she's out of touch, most recently on Friday when she appeared on a Boston talk radio show and seemed not to have heard of former star Red Sox star pitcher Curt Schilling.Teamsters!
Some Democrats worry that there is something deeper at work.
"I think it's a man-woman thing," said Robert Cullinane, a Teamsters local leader in the Boston area.
Cullinane, speaking following the Clinton rally Friday, said some of his own members know that Brown opposes their agenda but are telling him, "'I'm not voting for that broad.'"Those louts! Those unnamed louts that Cullinane — does he have patrician bearing? — must stoop to represent. Those brutes say "broad"... at least as paraphrased by the union leader who surely has their interests at heart.
"Unbelievable," he said. "Here is someone who has voted against them on state issues yet they're going to vote against 'that broad.'""Here"? Where? Are you pointing at someone? Who is that horrible trucker?! Unbelievable!
Despite its liberal tradition, Massachusetts has never elected a female senator or governor.OMG! Liberals might be sexists! Sound the liberal alarm! Liberals, prove you are liberal by voting for a woman!
See how that article — by Jonathan Martin in Politico — tried to flip you? First, nonentities were presented as prejudiced against a woman, ready to vote against Coakley because she's a woman, and then, suddenly, liberals are supposed pushed to feel that they ought to vote for her because she's a woman.
Oh, no! It's men in trucks! Plowing in from Texas! Running down all the women! Rape!


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15 U.S. Code § 2701 - Congressional findings and purpose
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Congressional findings and purpose
(a) The Congress finds that—
existing automobile propulsion systems, on the average, fall short of meeting the long-term goals of the Nation with respect to environmental protection, and energy conservation;
advanced alternatives to existing automobile propulsion systems could, with sufficient research and development effort, meet these long-term goals, and have the potential to be mass produced at reasonable cost; and advanced automobile propulsion systems could operate with significantly less adverse environmental impact and fuel consumption than existing automobiles, while meeting all of the other requirements of Federal law;
insufficient resources are being devoted to both research on and development of advanced automobile propulsion system technology;
an expanded research and development effort with respect to advance automobile propulsion system technology would complement and stimulate corresponding efforts by the private sector and would encourage automobile manufacturers to consider seriously the incorporation of such advanced technology into automobiles and automobile components; and
the Nation's energy and environmental problems are urgent, and therefore advanced automobile propulsion system technology should be developed, tested, demonstrated, and prepared for manufacture within the shortest practicable time.
(b) It is therefore the purpose of the Congress, in this chapter to—
direct the Department of Energy to make contracts and grants for research and development leading to the development of advanced automobile propulsion systems within 5 years of February 25, 1978, or within the shortest practicable time consistent with appropriate research and development techniques, and (B) evaluate and disseminate information with respect to advanced automobile propulsion system technology;
preserve, enhance, and facilitate competition in research, development, and production with respect to existing and alternative automobile propulsion systems; and
(Pub. L. 95–238, title III, § 302, Feb. 25, 1978, 92 Stat. 78.)
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Pub. L. 95–238, title III, § 301, Feb. 25, 1978, 92 Stat. 78, provided that:
"This title [enacting this chapter and amending section 2451 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare] may be cited as the 'Automotive Propulsion Research and Development Act of 1978'."
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Why would ASIC be concerned about software-based traders? They know that, while it renders them somewhat inflexible, they are both far faster and substantially more power efficient by doing it in hardware...
That's highly inaccurate. The big HFTs no longer make much money, because like most technologies, it has been understood and adopted. Their margins have dramatically receded since the mid-2000's, because all the market-makers (i.e. the bank you place your order through) also have their own high speed machines.
Now, to the part about giving nothing of social value, well that's not really true (and in this context, social value applies only to stock market participant
Thing is that is a GOOD thing.
You are creating a fake surplus.
Lets say person one sells for X.
Person two wants to buy for Y.
In the normal world X and Y would meet at price Z somewhere in the middle. X walks away with a little less (or more) money. Y ends up paying a bit more (or less) than they wanted but not much.
Now lets put a middle man in the mix. The middle man will buy at X if X lessthan Y then turn around and sell at Y to the other guy and pocket the difference. So Y ends up paying more than the
What you describe is exactly what the world was like before HFT. Except the man in the middle was a broker or an investment bank. In fact, investment banks and brokers were among the earliest and most vocal of critics of HFT precisely because it took away the business model you just described. HFT reduces the bid/ask spread because it brings liquidity for whatever 1 and 2 are buying in from other sources besides just persons 1 and 2. That's why the investment bankers and brokers hate it. It cuts the
Welcome to the unregulated dark pools!
Dark pools are still required to match your orders within the national bid-ask spread. That is the regulation that matters the most for retail traders, IMHO. Also, note that (except for registered market makers) all trading on the primary exchanges is equally anonymous. You can trade with George Soros on a dark pool, or on the NASDAQ, and you're going to get crushed just the same either way.
I'd like to see HFT banned, or taxed, or slowed down in some way, just because the big traders use it and their millisecond advantage over the non-insiders to steal a small percentage on each trade. They amass billions by siphoning it away from the majority of people in the market, and in return give us nothing of social value.
You are simply wrong about what HFT does and how it works. HFT (and market makers in general) mean the small trader gets a better price on each trade when trading "at market price" - market makers make money through "time arbitrage" and sometimes inter-market arbitrage. That may seem counter-intuitive, but the benefit to the small trader comes from competition between money makers, and HFT is the ultimate competition.
HFT also makes money by being the first to trade on "news" such as merger announcements.
HFT comes in two major varieties: aggressive and passive. Passive is usually considered beneficial as it adds liquidity and is the reason the spreads in most symbols are only 1c almost all the time. This means that you and me investors can get our stocks within 1c of it's true value, excluding brokerage fees. Unfortunately the brokerage fees will be more than that - so I don't know why your mad at HFT. Further, without HFT the spreads would be much wider, e.g. 25c like the specialists used to keep them at,
Certainly compared to the trading that is done by a bunch of big dudes yelling at each other on a trading floor.
Well considering it involves programs and hardware being designed to work as fast as possible (to the point where you are hitting pesky physical limitations such as the latency on the speed of light through a fiber), I'd say it qualifies as news for nerds.
Certainly compared to the trading that is done by a bunch of big dudes yelling at each other on a trading floor.
Except nobody is talking about hardware or software! LOL!!!
I think the problem is that we tend to get news articles that focus on the politics of HFT, or legal decisions, etc. Almost nothing gets posted about the technical side.
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HFT isn't a system stability problem as much as it is an access problem. What it does is increase the cost of entry into the market -- those who don't engage in HFT wind up paying for those who do, and so it winds up penalizing people with smaller portfolios and shifting the costs of it onto them. What you need to understand about profit is that it is always at the expense of someone else. And HFT is the sublime example of how to nickle and dime the less fortunate to death. These fractions of a penny here and there add up because it gets compounded by interest rate. Over time, the spread between those who have it and those who don't will grow; As is the trend in any investment-based system.
I have heard the argument that the HF traders are actually taking money from the exchanges, rather than the other traders (because they reduce buy/sell price spreads, it's actually beneficial for the traders). That is why they've gotten so much publicity (because the exchanges have big lobbying budgets). There are other things which hurt the average trader a lot more than HFT but they're mostly unknown.
What you need to understand about profit is that it is always at the expense of someone else.
I agree with most of the rest of what you said, but I can't agree here. Despite typically being measured with currency, profit is often subjective; in fact, that's why we trade in the first place: I want an apple more than I want the money you're charging for it, and you'd rather the money than the apple. When we complete our transaction, we both think we've gained.
Now if I turn around and sell that apple for twice what I paid for it, I'll have no apple and more money than I started with. That's certainly a
I think the opposite would actually work better.
If the official rules stated "HFT is totally *un*regulated --- feel free to run your buggies, most insane, glitchy, and flawed HFT software" --- immediately all the other HFT software systems would be coded to watch for crazy non-justified buying&selling.
With all this regulation, if one bank's trading software starts going insane, the other banks start following them (and creat a positive feedback loop) under the assumption that in such a regulated industry the insane software must know something. If it were further de-regulated, the other software would assume the other software was poorly coded, and basically LOL at the bugs and profit from it until someone pulled the plug on the bad algorithm. And with that risk - I imagine a *lot* of interested would be in automating such plug-pulling checks so they happen in a very small number of miliseconds so the market can't crash too far before the kill switch hits.
If the official rules stated "HFT is totally *un*regulated --- feel free to run your buggies, most insane, glitchy, and flawed HFT software" --- immediately all the other HFT software systems would be coded to watch for crazy non-justified buying&selling.
I love magical thinking like this. It keeps me employed. In other news, "too big to fail." Businesses don't pay for their mistakes: You do. That's the reason for regulation... it's to assure a baseline level of sanity... so when they screwup, they don't do it so badly that they take the rest of us with them.
There is an example of a purely unregulated market; EVE Online.
You know what, it is a very stable market.
This is because everyone knows that a market price could have been manipulated, that there are scams. So everyone is distrustful and does their homework on the real cost of things.
But within EVE Online everyone is a professional trader, not some dude/mom/dad who just gambles some money on the stock market from behind his PC like it happens in the real world.
I suggest that everyone plays EVE Online so tha
There is an example of a purely unregulated market; EVE Online.
I play EVE. It's not a "very stable market". Goonsquad decided to attack miners in highsec. Mining is one of the main ways raw materials are generated for product generation, and when they did that, key resources to fuel starbases (oxygen isotopes, etc.) shot up massively in price. It would be the realworld equivalent of bombing oil pipelines and refineries.
As you get farther away from the main trade hubs and out into nullsec, prices can easily triple for commodities. And many alliances have policies to prevent anyone else from getting in on their lucrative cartels of freighter transports bringing needed supplies out.
But within EVE Online everyone is a professional trader, not some dude/mom/dad who just gambles some money on the stock market from behind his PC like it happens in the real world.
Like hell they are. Most people avoid serious trading because of the lack of easy access to information on sales volumes, pricing, etc, market volatility, and (unlike the real world) getting your products to one of the main trade hubs is risky. If blowing your ship to hell is cheaper than the cost of losing their ships to the police (concord), they'll blow it up. There's no jail in Eve -- in 15 minutes you're just like every other pilot again... and they'll loot your wreck and be on their merry.
I suggest that everyone plays EVE Online so that people learn about markets, about logistics, about profit per hour (just profit is for noobs).
And I'd suggest they play it to understand why government regulation and military protection of traders and merchants leads to vastly lower costs to society, and to see first hand how far the effects of market manipulation can travel.
And you're leaving out another critical component of Eve that isn't at all like the realworld: You're never sure who you're trading with. Identities can be traded, and because of this, and the interface mechanics, you can be buying supplies from your enemies one day, and selling arms to them the next.
And all of this "free market" love makes people incredibly distrustful, very manipulative, and economic power equates directly with military power. And what's more interesting... the distribution of wealth looks pretty much like it does in the United States: 1% controls over half the total wealth in the game... and that 1% can be very petty, self-centered, and short-sighted. Kings and kingdoms alike are created and destroyed every day -- there is no stability. In nullsec, you always have an exit strategy... a way to burn your assets and get out quick, because if the enemy doesn't fuck you over, your would-be kings claiming to be on your side will.
Eve is the wild-wild west, seen through the lens of a hundred spreadsheets. When it's a game, this can be fun. When it's real life... do you really want to go to bed one night and wake up the next with your house on fire and your neighbors looting each other, you, and everything else as the next Great New Power rolls in? Because this is a frequent occurrance in the game.
>> I love magical thinking like this. It keeps me employed. In other news, "too big to fail." Businesses don't pay for their mistakes: You do. That's the reason for regulation... it's to assure a baseline level of sanity... so when they screwup, they don't do it so badly that they take the rest of us with them.
That argument is the logical equivalent of justifying Crime B because somehow it balances out Crime A.
All well and good until Goldman-Sachs makes a mistake.
They will simply have their pet politicians say: 'Timeout, OK we're backing out all the trades (that would otherwise have sunk our sugar daddy). Too big to fail.'
Can people remember beyond 1 year? Is it cultural that some areas have less memory than others?
Rather than address the obvious fault in the parent's post, I'll suggest another problem:
War. Not necessarily all out war, but hacks or even directing large corporations under the control of the enemy could screw up such a system much easier than the old fashioned methods for undermining an enemy's economy.
Long term, it would be wise to join the Chamber of Commerce and help them in promoting the destruction of t
People keep saying that HFT needs to be regulated to avoid crazy spikes and crashes due to algorithms with stupid positive feedback loops.
There is no evidence that HFT causes spikes and crashes. Actual evidence says the opposite: by increasing liquidity, HFT reduces volatility. HFT was initially blamed for the "flash crash" in 2010, but when the investigation was complete, it was found that most HFTers had pulled out of the market during the crash, and HFT played no role in causing or exacerbating the crash. In fact, the crash would have been less severe if HFTers had better models which would have allowed them to stay active during the cr
There is no evidence that HFT causes spikes and crashes. Actual evidence says the opposite: by increasing liquidity, HFT reduces volatility.
Actual evidence from the guys who monitor these kind of things says nothing of the sort. I wish people would stop spouting this line about HFT and liquidity. Here [nanex.net] is a relatively recent GOOG flash crash (April 22 2013) likely due to HFT (based on timespan and number of trades, number of orders placed per trade and number of exchanges involved).
Liquidity IS volatility.
Lolwut? No, it's the opposite, *by definition*. See here [wiktionary.org]:
2. (economics, countable) An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.
(emphasis mine)
Ok now do volatility. Maybe you dont know what that word means.
In fact, the crash would have been less severe if HFTers had better models which would have allowed them to stay active during the crash.
This is pure speculation, not a fact.
In fact, the crash would have been less severe if HFTers had better models which would have allowed them to stay active during the crash.
This is pure speculation, not a fact.
It is enough of a fact to be accepted by the SEC. One of the recommendations of the 2010 investigation was to find a way to keep HFTers active during periods of volatility. Perhaps even requiring them to actively trade in order to keep markets liquid.
If there were a transaction tax on stock market trades, that would eliminate whatever advantage there is. These guys make money on low margin high volume trading. Just about any transaction tax will make those low margins disappear.
The disadvantage is trades might now take minutes instead of seconds due to decreased volume. But maybe that's not a bad thing.
Move from the current "income" and "gain" tax basis to a gross receipts tax. Every transaction is a taxable event - retail, wholesale, personal, business. It turns out that the rate would be exceptionally low - 2-3% tops. It would result in larger markups on long supply chains, make day trading very costly from a tax perspective, increase the cost of most items at the retail level, and burden corporations - especially holding companies and multi-layer shell corporations meant to shield/dodge local taxes an
If you have billions in capital, it is extremely hard to move around billions in assets without all the small traders taking notice, and piling on before you can reach your full position. That's why large traders like Buffet absolutely hate day traders, and has never split his stock, causing shares in his company to be valued at over $65000 per share last I checked. Being able to trade freely and quickly is one of the few great equalizers in large capital markets.
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A Political Ecology of Youth and Crime
10 January 2013
A new way of thinking about youth crime that recognises young people live in an interrelated system of everyday worlds and social structures is the central premise of a new book co-authored by Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) Derrick Armstrong.
A Political Ecology of Youth and Crime (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) challenges dominant ideas about youth crime being a problem of individual behaviour, and is co-authored by Dr Dorothy Bottrell from the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, and Professor Alan France from the University of Auckland.
The book follows from Professor Armstrong's work as co-director of a research network in the United Kingdom that explores the experiences and perspectives of children and young people in relation to antisocial and criminal behaviour. It also results from co-author Bottrell's experience of and research into juvenile justice, youth and community work, and from Professor Alan France's writing, which has, for the past 20 years, focused on researching youth-related issues.
Political Ecology challenges current paradigms of research that focus on individual motivation as the rationale for "criminal behaviour". The book thus emerges from a critique of this narrow approach that is also advocated by developmental criminology, and argues for an analysis that recognises the important contribution young people themselves can make to the theorising and understanding of their relationship with crime.
Using the voices of a group of working class young people who are defined as "a social problem", the book's approach emphasises how criminal pathways are strongly influenced by the interactions embedded in social and political systems, and relationships.
Drawing upon the work of the social psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, this book explores young people's "nested" and "political" ecological relationships with crime.
The Political Ecology of Youth and Crime examines the impacts of these relationships by looking at the important places and spaces in young people's lives; in their social relationships with peers and family members; and within formal institutional systems such as education, youth justice and social care.
This book makes an important contribution to understanding the relationship between youth and crime in the contexts of sociology, criminology, social psychology and education.
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A new study finds that Americans living in rural areas are more likely to be obese than city dwellers. Published in the National Rural Health Association's Fall 2012 Journal of Rural Health, the study indicates that residential location may play an important role in the obesity epidemic.
Led by researchers at the University of Kansas, the study analyzed data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics and is the first in more than three decades to use measured heights and weights. Previous studies have relied on self-reported data, which typically underestimate the prevalence of obesity.
Christie Befort, Ph.D., assistant professor of preventive medicine and public health at the University of Kansas Medical Center, believes there may be two significant reasons why rural residents are more likely to be overweight: cultural diet and physical isolation.
"There is a definite cultural diet in rural America, full of rich, homemade foods including lots of meat and dessert," said Befort, who led the study. The study, which also examined demographic and lifestyle factors, found that rural Americans typically consume a diet higher in fat.
Rural residents also face challenges to accessing health care, prevention and lifestyle activities.
"Access is often about travel time in a rural area, but it can also be that there's no place to go -- literal physical isolation," said Befort. "It's tough to get to a gym if you live outside of a town without one."
The research demonstrated that the rural-urban obesity disparity existed in younger Americans, ages 20-39, but not in older age groups. Befort believes this can be partially attributed to increased mechanization of previously labor-intensive jobs.
"Physical activity is now needed to compensate for diet and technology," said Befort. "That requires cultural change because rural areas typically don't have a culture of physical activity as leisure time."
Befort examined several factors which are thought to affect obesity, including diet, physical activity, age, race, gender, and education. The researchers discovered that even when other contributing factors are held constant, rural residents were more likely to be obese.
"Living in a rural area isn't always recognized as a category for obesity-related health disparities but, according to our study, it should be," said Befort.
"We simply cannot ignore the link between obesity and poverty, and the disproportionate impact this is having on rural America," said Alan Morgan, the National Rural Health Association's CEO. "If we truly want to decrease health care costs and improve the nation's health status, we are going to have to start viewing obesity as a top-tier public health concern for rural Americans."
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Service for Nellie Henry, 103, of Sweetwater and formerly Lamesa, will be held on Saturday, June 2, 2012, at 2 p.m. at Mount Olive Baptist Church with Cora Brown officiating. Burial will follow in Lamesa Memorial Park under the direction of Branon Funeral Home. Visitation will be held on Friday, June 1, 2012, from 6-8 p.m. at Branon Funeral Home.Nellie was born on Oct. 20, 1908, in Milam County, TX, to Simon and Nellie Sledge. She married Jessie Henry on Sept. 21, 1929, in Milam County. He preceded her in death on Feb. 5, 1976. Nellie worked for the Lamesa General Hospital in the housekeeping department for many years. She was a member of Mount Olive Baptist Church in Lamesa and also attended the Greater Zion Baptist Church of Sweetwater.Nellie was preceded in death by her husband, Jessie; her parents; four sisters; and a brother.She is survived by her great-great-nephews and nieces, including her niece, Harriet Hill of Sweetwater and her children, Christopher Hill, Christy Hill and Christian Jenkins.The family suggests memorials be made to Mount Olive Baptist Church youth department, 1201 S.E. 11th St, Lamesa, TX, 79331 or to the Greater Zion Baptist Church youth department, 1112 E. Avenue B, Sweetwater, TX, 79556.To send condolences online, please visit www.branonfuneralhome.com.


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mid-15c., "to act upon or adjudicate" a legal case; 1590s in the theatrical sense, from Latin actus, past participle of agere (see act (n.)). To act up "be unruly" is from 1903. To act out "behave anti-socially" (1974) is from psychiatric sense of "expressing one's unconscious impulses or desires." Related: Acted; acting.
late 14c., "a thing done," from Old French acte "(official) document," and directly from Latin actus "a doing, a driving, impulse; a part in a play, act," and actum "a thing done," originally a legal term, both from agere "to do, set in motion, drive, urge, chase, stir up," from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move" (cf. Greek agein "to lead, guide, drive, carry off," agon "assembly, contest in the games," agogos "leader;" Sanskrit ajati "drives," ajirah "moving, active;" Old Norse aka "to drive;" Middle Irish ag "battle").
Theatrical ("part of a play," 1510s) and legislative (early 15c.) senses of the word also were in Latin. Meaning "display of exaggerated behavior" is from 1928. In the act "in the process" is from 1590s, perhaps originally from the 16c. sense of the act as "sexual intercourse." Act of God "uncontrollable natural force" recorded by 1726.
An act of God is an accident which arises from a cause which operates without interference or aid from man (1 Pars. on Cont. 635); the loss arising wherefrom cannot be guarded against by the ordinary exertions of human skill and prudence so as to prevent its effect. [William Wait, "General Principles of the Law," Albany, 1879]
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Apple Inc. looks like it has officially become a value stock — for now.
Last month, when the company hiked its dividend payment by 15%, boosted its stock buyback program, and then issued $17 billion in bonds to pay for it all, the writing was on the wall. Apple's AAPL, +0.64% slower earnings and revenue growth rates aren't helping either.
Now, only the most optimistic of investors are hoping its next product rollout will reignite the stock, which is still down 34% from its peak above the $700 mark last year — despite some notable gains over the past two weeks since the company juiced up its buyback and dividend programs.
Apple shares have typically traded on new product buzz, especially the iPhone, which has been a big catalyst for the stock in the past. But Bloomberg last week reported that an overhaul is in the works for the next version of its mobile operating system, iOS, which could possibly delay the launch of the next iPhone. Some of the changes Apple design guru Jony Ive is reportedly making to the operating system include changing the look of iOS, making it "flatter," and getting rid of its current icon display.
Ive is reportedly getting rid of Apple's current "skeumorphism" in the iPhone, a design term that refers to representations that echo the real world, such as the calendar icon on the iPhone or a legal pad for notes. This may all be great and good, but the report also noted that bigger improvements, like changes to email, will be further down the road. And these plans, if they come to fruition, are again more iterative on existing products, and not major new product lines or directions that could spark faster growth that Apple saw after it launched the iPhone.
An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
Barclays analyst Ben Reitzes noted on Monday when he raised his price target on Apple to $525, that he thinks its shares are currently "under-appreciated." "We detect a high amount of investor apathy still for the name — with many investors believing that the new product cycle will not matter," he wrote.
"The company needs to launch new product categories to attract growth investors back to its fold," said Mizuho Securities analyst Abhey Lamba, in a note last month. "Our checks indicate that any new product category is at least 9 to 12 months away. The product refresh in iPhones and iPads will be helpful in the near term but will likely be insufficient to drive growth investors back to the stock."
Lamba added, however, that the company's solid balance sheet, strong cash flows, "sticky" customer base and large application ecosystem, make Apple "a very attractive asset for value investors."
During Apple's earnings conference call last month, Chief Executive Tim Cook made a very brief and tantalizing allusion to forthcoming new products, but offered no details, as is typical with the ultra-secretive Apple.
Apple is hosting its Worldwide Developer Conference starting June 10, where it will give developers previews of its next operating systems, both iOS for its mobile devices and OS X for the Mac. Analysts then expect a new iPhone in either September or early October, based on its past product launches and the need to revamp products ahead of the back-to-school and holiday shopping seasons. The company may also include a cheaper iPhone in the mix.
But if the upcoming changes in the Apple software are mostly just cosmetic, it's quite feasible that the new software and the anticipated iPhone 5S won't be the big catalysts for the stock that previous iPhones have been in the past. Investors are more likely to get excited by new product lines, or even the oft-rumored lower-cost iPhone.
Other rumored products that Apple is reportedly working on, such as a smartwatch and Apple TV, represent new product categories that could represent more growth potential, as iPhone growth slows. But both are still unconfirmed rumors and not shoe-ins as future big revenue generators.
Former CEO and co-founder Steve Jobs was legendary for instilling fear in his employees, and inspiring them to do great work. Whether or not his successor Cook, and his design soul mate Ive have that same capability is still an open question. This June's developer conference may give some clues as to Apple's future product course.
Until then, investors may be treading water in the value pool, as they wonder whether Apple can be a growth stock again.


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An Oregon man who is also a volunteer firefighter was severely burned in an explosion and fire around 5 p.m. Monday at his home.
Thomas Jones, 25, suffered burns over 85 percent of his body, said Oregon Fire Chief Don Heller.
The Oregon Ambulance immediately transported Jones to Hawk Drive, a few blocks west of Jones' home, where the React helicopter landed and transported him to OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center in Rockford.
He was listed in critical condition on Tuesday.
While trying to help him, his girlfriend, Chelsy Janssen, 22, Oregon, suffered second degree burns to her hands, arms, and forehead, Heller said.
She was transported by Byron ambulance to Rockford Memorial Hospital, and later transferred to St. Anthony where a hospital spokesman said she was listed in fair condition.
The fire destroyed the garage and damaged Jones' nearby home.
Heller said the preliminary investigation indicates Jones was in the detached garage behind his home at 406 S. Eighth St., using a torch to cut underneath a demolition derby car when the gas tank exploded. The state fire marshal is assisting with the investigation.
Several neighbors heard the explosion, saw Jones in flames, and came to his assistance.
Fire department chaplain Michael Hoffman said Jeff Parsons, Oregon, who was visiting at Scott and Jodi Whitacre's home next door, grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around Jones to extinguish the flames.
Jodi Whitacre comforted Jones as he lay on the ground, while her daughter called 911, Hoffman said.
Heller, who lives three houses north of Jones, said he heard the explosion and people screaming.
"I got outside and I saw a big black mushroom cloud up above the house," he said.
The garage was fully engulfed when firefighters arrived. The explosion also ignited the house, about half of which sustained fire, water and smoke damage, Heller said.
Siding was damaged on the Whitacre's house to the south.
Jodi Whitacre said Janssen broke windows in the house and rescued two dogs inside.
Mt. Morris, Polo, Byron, and Stillman Valley Fire Departments assisted at the scene, while Franklin Grove firefighters manned Oregon's fire station.


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(CNN) -- Yes, it happens every year -- the snow and the cold.
After all, it is winter, or least late, pre-winter.
But how's this for a change in the weather?
Wednesday's official high in Dallas was 80. Thursday night brings freezing rain, sleet and a low in the 20s, according to the National Weather Service.
Yikes, talk about mood swings.
A particularly brutal batch of Arctic air has taken hold across the center of the country, bringing sub-zero temps to the north and sleet as far south as central Texas.
The wintry mix is expected to continue through Sunday and threatens two major events -- a downtown Dallas holiday parade on Saturday and the Dallas Marathon on Sunday. Marchers, runners and ice don't play well together, especially since the marathon typically attracts 25,000 runners, plus family and friends.
And it's not just Texas. Temperatures will be 10 to 30 degrees below average over the Plains into parts of the Mississippi Valley.
Winter advisories stretch from western New Mexico to southern Ohio. Major icing is forecast from the Southern Plains to the Ozarks and into the Ohio Valley.
Shuffle about 900 miles to the north of Dallas and you'll find folks who'd love to see temperatures anywhere close to the 20s.
Through the weekend, the highest high in Minneapolis is forecast at 10 degrees. The lowest low -- minus 10. If you throw in the wind chill, make it 20 below.
Hot Springs, North Dakota, is anything but. Wind chills there could hit a minus 26.
And there's snow too, just to add to the shivering misery across the upper Midwest
A winter storm warning covers eastern North Dakota and the northern half of Minnesota.
The Twin Cities area got up to 6 inches of snow on Wednesday. To the north in Two Harbors, Minnesota, residents were digging out from under 3 feet of powder.
Not great for driving, but perfect for snowmobiling -- a staple winter activity along the state's North Shore.
"It's been a while since we've had this much snow in December," Dixie Bar & Grill owner Deanna Larson at the Dixie Bar & Grill told CNN affiliate KARE.
No snow means no customers. So, 3 feet of the white stuff looks like a lot of green to her.
"Actually January, February, March, can be our largest months in business, if we have the right snow."
They like the snow in Colorado too, but the bitter cold is a different story.
"The thermometer in my truck said 7 degrees when I was driving over here, so it's cold," Boulder resident Mani Moniek told affilaite KPLC on Wednesday.
As cold as that is, it got a lot colder just before midnight, setting a record low for the day at 13 below.


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Flagger Force purchases former Arcus property for new HQ
Swatara Township-based Traffic Control Services has purchased the former Arcus staffing facility for its new headquarters, according to company officials and Dauphin County property records.
The company, which does business as Flagger Force, started in 2002 with three people as a part-time temporary traffic control provider. It has grown to be a nationally known company with more than 900 employees, including 850 field employees, said Michael Doner, the company's vice president and co-owner.
The $2.25 million purchase of the property at 8170 Adams Drive in Swatara Township was finalized Wednesday, property records show. The roughly 28,000-square-foot property had been listed for $2.5 million, according to a listing from Wormleysburg-based NAI CIR.
Doner is the manager of Doner Enterprises, a general partner of TCS Property Management LP. TCS took out a $1.8 million mortgage with Metro Bank to purchase the office facility from Arcus Holdings LP.
Last August, the Business Journal reported that Florida-based MDT Personnel, a national staffing firm acquired the U.S. operations of Arcus, a provider of information technology staffing and consulting solutions.
Arcus moved all operations to Costa Rica.
Doner said Traffic Control Services has received word it will be included in this year's Inc. 500 and Inc. 5000, rankings for the fastest-growing private companies in the country.
"We continue to invest in our people, facilities and equipment," he said via email.
The new headquarters will allow the company to continue its mission of becoming a national leader in safety and work zone education and services, Doner said.
The company plans to continue operating its facility on Stoneridge Drive as an operations and dispatch center, he said. It also will be repurposed as a company training facility.


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I bought this and only opened and looked at it.We're not gonna use it.I couldn't send it pack because it was opened and they want take dvds back opened.It is new.I'm asking 40.00 for it.I'll take care of shipping cost.
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If this is still available and a cd-rom set, I am interested. I guess even if it's the books, I am still interested.
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Whats next on the breaking news front, rain is wet?
Desperation is voting for Christie and hoping to out liberal the liberals.
Principle is voting for Cruz.
Won't matter either way, both will get crushed by Clinton IMO.
More lib/crypto-liberal nonsense about Santorum and suchlike, GOP rank and file see through the sham of self-centered Christie from his speech at the convention to his unnecessary tiptoeing through the tulips with the purple lipped rateared dogeater stabbing Romney in the back.
Exhibit A - Christie wasting $ to ensure his own short term political future and not necessarily boost the GOP with the expen$ive special election where the caretaker just appointed wont run. Giving away a Senate vote is moronic.
In general, GOPers are happy to have him run NJ as long as he likes but he is now persona non grata on a national level.
Booker? A semi-fresh face but has done little politically - Newark is still a by and large a rat's nest - machine politics and cultural decay business as usual in Essex and NJ - amazingly still more accomplished than B. Hussein and thats not saying much
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Whats next on the breaking news front, rain is wet?
Desperation is voting for Christie and hoping to out liberal the liberals.
Principle is voting for Cruz.
Won't matter either way, both will get crushed by Clinton IMO.
Christie - pro gay marriage, pro-illegal alien, pro-Obamacare (he needs teh $ to pay for FamilyCare) anti-2nd amendment + other inane positions, taking $ from lib donors....not a liberal!
Then you're not paying attention, and really....I doubt you're not paying attention Chiefy.I don't see how Christie is a liberal in any sense.
More likely, you simply do not see liberalism for what it is and because of who you are. N.E. "Conservativism" is Moderate-Liberalism in most red states. To win a place like NJ, an (R) needs to give in on so many conservative principles he's simply no longer a conservative in any real way.
Thats certainly up for debate. As is your "beat the Unions" claim. As is his position on a dozen policies and Govt. roles.he isn't a slimy BS'er like the vast majority of liberals are.
In any event, moot point. He can't win. Nor can Cruz. We're an example why (R) is hosed, we're deeply divided IMO between establishment Big Govt. (R) and Conservative small Govt. (TP) factions who are as at-odds as (R) supposed is with (D).
(D) is not divided at all. They are a uniform, unified party of far-left thinking, socialist utopian collectivist ideals, and Big Govt-is-the-solution-to-all-problem policy making.
So (R) will lose in 2016. And probably in 2020 too, barring some major shift.
I consider myself much more libertarian/NE Republican than traditional conservative for sure. If that constitutes a moderate liberal in red states, so be it. I'm pro choice and I don't have much issue with Gays marrying. I strongly support Gun Rights but the idea of a background check like the ones we have here in NY State for gun purchases does not bother me all that much. I would be strongly against any sort of gun registry however and I happily cancelled my subscription to the Journal News when they printed the article "outing" gun permit holders.
You, me and Flushing, three nominal (R) voters.
You and I cannot agree at all on Christie, despite both of us claiming "libertarian" leanings in our (R) flavor.
Flushing loathes both os us as Cryto-Liberals.
Three (R) voters, not a single shared vote.
You really think cr, IntelligentJetsFan and Buster won't be unified in who THEY'LL be voting for in 2016?
The right is fractured hard, perhaps permanently. I see that only widening, as the core social issue divide only gets worse, and a portion of the Tea party (R) side moves further from the old school traditional (R) side.
In a perfect world, they're be three parties or more, not two. But at least for now, (D) stands unified, and (R) is fractured in two.
An election was not necessary. Christie could have appointed anyone he wanted to assume the Senate seat until the term of that seat ended.
That is exactly what happened in SC when Jim DeMint resigned and Nikki Haley appointed Tim Scott as Senator. In turn getting Mark Sanford the House seat.
To "appear" fair, Christie decided to hold an election now. That fairness insures his reelection as governor.
It also insures he is dead meat as a Republican national candidate. There is no chance that any state in the South would go for him. Nor many conservative states anywhere. He is already considered an Obama kiss up.
No one thought anyone in the Democratic party would be able to defeat Hillary a few years ago and looked what happened there.
Christie could be a legit candidate, if his own party doesn't destroy him first.
Hillary is essentially unbeatable. Two reasons. Her husband and she is a women. Last time she would have beaten anyone except Obama.
Repubs have nobody. Their only game plan is to hold the House pick up a little in the Senate and stalemate things to prevent TOO much damage.
For example, many on the other side think someone like Cruz would fill the "good politician" descriptor, and would say he provides "legitimate competition" on the (R) side.
You clearly don't, and wouldn't agree not because it may or may not be true, but because of your own political bias.
In the course of political debate here, it cannot be escaped that you would want to see the most liberal (R) possible run, a. because it means you have a better chance to win, and b. because if you were to lose you'd still have the most liberal, i.e. least objectionable, (R) in office.
So with that said, it certainly colors how observers should take your support for Christie IMO.
TLDR: you cannot give me a platform that could defeat a (D) come 2016.No one thought anyone in the Democratic party would be able to defeat Hillary a few years ago and looked what happened there.
Christie could be a legit candidate, if his own party doesn't destroy him first.
I'm all ears as to this magic policy platform that (R) can run on that will win. I've yet to hear anyone be able to explain it as yet.
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SEATTLE -- The U.S. Army said Wednesday it will seek the death penalty against the soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a predawn rampage in March.
The announcement followed a pretrial hearing last month for Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, 39, who faces premeditated murder and other charges in the attack on two villages in southern Afghanistan.
The slayings drew such angry protests that the U.S. temporarily halted combat operations in Afghanistan, and it was three weeks before American investigators could reach the crime scenes.
Prosecutors said Bales left his remote base in southern Afghanistan early on March 11, attacked one village, returned to the base, and then slipped away again to attack another nearby compound. Of the 16 people killed, nine were children.
No date has been set for his court martial, which will be held at Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle.
Bales' civilian lawyer, John Henry Browne, didn't immediately return an email seeking comment Wednesday. But on Tuesday, he told The Associated Press that he met with Army officials last week to argue his client shouldn't face the possibility of the death penalty, given that Bales was serving his fourth deployment in a war zone.
Bales' wife, Kari Bales, said in a statement Wednesday that she and their children have been enjoying their weekend visits with Bales at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and she hopes he receives an impartial trial. "I no longer know if a fair trial for Bob is possible, but it very much is my hope, and I will have faith," she said.
Bales' defense team has said the government's case is incomplete, and outside experts have said a key issue going forward will be to determine if Bales suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. Bales grew up in the Cincinnati suburb of Norwood, Ohio, and served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.
During last month's preliminary hearing, prosecutors built a strong eyewitness case against the veteran soldier, with troops recounting how they saw Bales return to the base alone, covered in blood.
Afghan witnesses questioned via a video link from a forward operating base near Kandahar City described the horror of that night. A teenage boy recalled how the gunman kept firing as children scrambled, yelling: "We are children! We are children!" A young girl in a bright headscarf recalled hiding behind her father as he was shot to death.
An Army criminal investigations command special agent testified earlier that Bales tested positive for steroids three days after the killings, and other soldiers testified that Bales had been drinking the evening of the massacre.
Prosecutors, in asking for a court-martial trial, have pointed to statements Bales made after he was apprehended, saying his comments demonstrated a "clear memory of what he had done, and consciousness of wrongdoing."
Several soldiers testified at a hearing that Bales returned to the base alone just before dawn, covered in blood, and that he made incriminating statements such as, "I thought I was doing the right thing."
The U.S. military has not executed anyone since 1961. There are five men currently facing military death sentences, all for murders committed stateside. Nidal Hasan, charged in the 2009 rampage that killed 13 and wounded more than two dozen others at Fort Hood in Texas, also could face the death penalty if convicted; no date has been set for his court martial.
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Issue Type: Improvement Created: 2008-05-07T04:28:19.000+0000 Last Updated: 2009-08-20T09:37:52.000+0000 Status: Resolved Fix version(s): - 1.9.2 (25/Aug/09)
Reporter: knoopx (knoopx) Assignee: Josh Butts (jimbojsb) Tags: - Zend_Db
Related issues: - ZF-3684
Attachments: - ZF-3216.patch
Correct me if I'm wrong but I found no possible way to catch MySQL error codes when using Zend_Db_Adapter_Mysqli. All exceptions are thrown without attaching error code.
Affected methods inside Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli are: public function _prepare() public function _execute()
An easy/dirty fix would be replacing: throw new Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli_Exception("Mysqli prepare error: " . $mysqli->error); ... with: throw new Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli_Exception("Mysqli prepare error: " . $mysqli->error, $mysqli->errno); ...
Posted by Mark Evans (sparky) on 2008-08-17T03:15:39.000+0000
Patch which adds a second parameter to Zend_Db_Statement_Mysqli_Exception to track error number as well as error message
Posted by Till Klampaeckel (till) on 2008-11-01T07:02:44.000+0000
Since the patch has not been applied, does that mean that "next minor release" status can be disregarded?
I'm desperately looking for this fix as well.
Posted by Wil Sinclair (wil) on 2009-01-06T14:34:28.000+0000
This issue has gone unaddressed for too long. I'm re-assigning to Ralph for re-evaluation and categorization.
Posted by Ralph Schindler (ralph) on 2009-01-10T12:25:55.000+0000
Will address this issue within 2 weeks. Find me on IRC within the next week.
Posted by Josh Butts (jimbojsb) on 2009-08-17T20:24:41.000+0000
The patch above addresses the issue when applied to the current ZF trunk. Also, I see no need to patch the exception class, as the base class is already expecting a numeric error code.
Posted by Ralph Schindler (ralph) on 2009-08-17T20:30:08.000+0000
Assigning to Josh Butts. Setting priority to "Minor". Setting "Nice to Have" in the "Next Mini Release"
Posted by Josh Butts (jimbojsb) on 2009-08-18T19:31:22.000+0000
Updated patch based on the original but doesn't patch the exception class
Posted by Josh Butts (jimbojsb) on 2009-08-18T19:31:45.000+0000
attached test case patch
Posted by Josh Butts (jimbojsb) on 2009-08-18T19:32:55.000+0000
Please review. If you approve I can go ahead and commit these revisions.
Posted by Ralph Schindler (ralph) on 2009-08-19T07:46:04.000+0000
Patch looks good. As noted in our discussion, add @group ZF-3216 to the docblock. Commit to trunk, merge to 1.9 branch.
Posted by Josh Butts (jimbojsb) on 2009-08-20T09:37:50.000+0000
Fixed in r17692, merged to 1.9 in r17693
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In most industries, a company would cater to customers paying $41,000 per year, but Harvard has been able to take its undergraduates for granted. (It was a radical innovation when Summers called attention to surveys measuring students' dissatisfaction.) Harvard has long known that the best students will keep coming, not for its classes but simply for its reputation. Smart students want to go where the other smart students go.Tierney puts his finger on the real complaint against Summers:
He dared to suggest that professors teach survey courses geared to undergraduates' needs — an onerous idea to academics accustomed to teaching whatever's in their latest book....Interesting. I had a reporter call me for comments the other day when Summers resigned. But I really hadn't followed the Summers story, other than the very conspicuous controversy over what he said last year about women and science. I never went to Harvard, so I'm normally content to let the old institution -- which the NYT can't stop talking about -- stew in its own juices. The reporter had to prod me with questions about how professors behave, how perhaps they disregard the interests of students and seek only to teach highly specialized courses focused on their own scholarly interests and narrow perspectives. I found myself saying, repeatedly, but I'm in the law school. You couldn't run a law school like that!
Senior professors can shunt off the more tedious jobs, like teaching freshmen or grading papers, to low-caste graduate students or visiting lecturers. Or they just neglect the jobs that don't appeal to them....
You might expect the Harvard history department to devote a course or two to the American Revolution or the Constitution, but those topics are too mundane. Instead, there's a course on the diaries of ordinary citizens during the Revolution, and another, "American Revolutions," that considers the American and Haitian Revolutions as "a continuous sequence of radical challenges to established authority."
Summers had some allies in his reform efforts, especially in the professional schools. The professors in the business, law and medical schools know their schools' reputations depend on properly training students for jobs in the outside world. The opposition to Summers was concentrated among the college professors who aren't accustomed to being judged by anyone except fellow academics.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 13th Aug 2013 11:48 UTC
Business magnate Larry Ellison thinks that without Steve Jobs -- "our Edison" and "our Picasso" -- Apple corporation is in trouble.
Larry Ellison was one of Jobs' closest friends. Then again, this is the same Ellison who presided over one of the most idiotic and - for Oracle - disastrous lawsuits in technology history.
Update: A few new tidbits from the interview: Google is "completely evil" because of Java, and the mass surveillance by the US government is "absolutely necessary". So, aside from being utterly delusional (the Google and Java thing), he also does not believe in civil rights, and would much rather everyone give up their privacy and right to free speech.
What a tool. No wonder nobody cares about Oracle.
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RE: Larry's right
by Delgarde on Tue 13th Aug 2013 23:23 UTC in reply to "Larry's right"
If Apple isn't careful, it'll become the next Oracle.
What, one of the most successful IT companies on the planet?
Because seriously - people worried about the Microsoft monopoly, but the Oracle one is *far* more concerning as a developer... they own a major hardware platform, the only serious enterprise database, Java, several Java app servers (Weblogic, Glassfish), etc. The list goes on...
When I started with my current employer ten years ago, none of our techstack was owned by Oracle. Now, almost all of it is - *and* they bought one of our competitors to add to their application suite...


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Bucks' intensity rewarded with victory
Most would consider the Milwaukee Bucks reaching the 2014 National Basketball Association Playoffs a pipe dream. … or something even beyond that.
That doesn't mean that the Bucks don't have what it takes to play – and win – a game with a playoff vibe and intensity against a defending division champion.
The proof came Feb. 4 as the Bucks knocked off the New York Knicks 101-98 on a 3-pointer by Brandon Knight with 1.4 seconds to play.
Word circulated before the game that Giannis Antetokounmpo's parents and younger brothers would be in attendance at the BMO Harris Bradley Center to see him play in the NBA for the first time. Their presence added to the buzz surrounding the rematch of the Bucks' Dec. 18 home game against New York, which the Knicks won 107-101 in overtime.
Forward Khris Middleton, who accompanied Knight in the deal that sent Brandon Jennings to the Detroit Pistons last summer, wasn't surprised to see his teammate step up and hit the big shot.
"That's his shot," Middleton said. "He loves that little step-back '3.' He works on that all the time. We all have confidence that he's going to make the shot in that kind of situation.
"Everyone was in the right spots and Brandon made sure of that so we could run the play."
Knight, who scored a team-high 25 points, rewound the play that unfolded into his game-winner.
"They'd been switching on pick-and-rolls all night," he said. "The shot clock was running down. I just didn't want to get in a situation where they could trap me or switch. It's happened a couple of times where I've gotten a screen and teams have switched or trapped and put us in a bad situation. I remembered that.
"It was better just to go one-on-one at that point. So I came down, got into a rhythm and was able to knock down the shot."
The humble hero was more interested in talking about his teammates and the significance of the victory to his team, which overcame a combined 66 points by Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith.
"My teammates did a great job tonight just persevering," Knight said. "They made a lot of big shots toward the end.
"Our past habits have been to drop our heads and start thinking, 'Here we go again.' But our team did a great job tonight of fighting and seeing it through to the end. That's why I'm happy for our team. We haven't seen that much, but if we can see it at this point of the season against a team that's playing pretty well, we're taking a step in the right direction."
Veteran center Zaza Pachulia, who missed 28 games while recovering from a fractured right foot, was playing in just his second game since returing to the lineup, but he delivered a critical 12 points, seven rebounds, two assists and a steal in an 18-minute, 25-second stint.
Pachulia embraced his long-awaited opportunity.
"It felt great," Pachulia said. "It was a special game. Having been out for some time and coming back and getting a feel for things has been hard, especially when you love the game a lot. I was with the team the whole time, but I was still missing being out there.
"I'm glad I'm able to help the team somehow. I'm just doing what I know. I'm not trying to do anything extra. This is a team. It's all about helping each other, whatever that takes. You bring anything you can to the table."
Pachulia's impact did not go unnoticed by his teammates.
"We kept fighting, and Zaza was a big part of that," Knight said. "He played a lot tonight. He was in our ears continuously, saying, 'Keep going, guys.'
"We got to a point where we believed we could win the game. In our first two games with the Knicks, we felt we gave away wins. Tonight we wanted to make sure we finished the game strong."
Middleton, who knocked down a season-high five 3-pointers and contributed 19 points to the victory, appreciated Pachulia's presence, too.
"He's a leader," Middleton said. "He's another coach on the floor for us. He was really important for us tonight. He did a lot of work on the defensive and offensive glass, and he was finding guys out there."
Pachulia sensed a different brand of intensity from his team, too.
"I have to give credit to Coach (Bob) Bender," Pachulia said. "He was our scout today. He wrote the words, 'playoff intensity' on the board in big letters. That meant something, and I think that's how we played it.
"Some of our guys don't have that experience, but they played hard. That's got to be every night. Once we start bringing this kind of intensity every night, we're going to start winning games."
There will never be another night quite like the one of Feb. 4 for Antetokounmpo, who staged a 15-point, three-rebound, two assist performance with his family looking on. He said afterward that it had been five months since he had seen his parents and younger brothers.
"It can't get better," Antetokounmpo said. "It was better that my parents were here. My brothers were here. We won. The crowd goes crazy. So I'm happy. I believe all the crowd was happy, and my parents are happy, so we're good."
The 19-year-old rookie forward said he had a meeting with Head Coach Larry Drew on the day of the game.
"I talked with my coach this morning and he told me I had to be more aggressive," Antetokounmpo said. "I tried to be more aggressive and it ended up well.
"I made some mistakes at the end that can cost us the game, but Brandon was there. The hero was there to knock down the shot, so we won."
And that -- for just the ninth time in 48 games this season -- was the bottom line.


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Paddy Barnes bowed out in Almaty claiming that blurred vision as a result of head clashes may have cost him a medal at the World Championships.
The Belfast boxer was beaten by Jasurbek Latipov of Uzbekistan in the flyweight division as Latipov advanced on a 28-29, 27-30, 28-29 scoreline.
Barnes bemoaned the lack of head-gear at the championships due to the fact that boxers might have to fight six times in ten days.
In a bout where both boxers received warnings for use of the head, Barnes believes that he had to fight all three rounds with blurred vision as a result of an early clash of heads.
Barnes tweeted: "That's it all over! Was out on my feet in the 1st round and didn't recover, blurred vision for 3 rds with head clashes! F*#k your no headgear!
"Fighting with no headgear is good, but to fight 6 times in 10 days without it is impossible, Dr Wu doesn't care he isn't the one fighting."
"The fella head-butted and he fell to the ground and his man landed on him with his knee on the side of his head." - Billy Walsh
And Irish coach Billy Walsh believes that the head-clash was the turning point in the fight as he felt that Barnes' focus was gone after the incident.
Speaking to former Olympic silver medallist Kenneth Egan after the day's boxing, where the Ireland team saw two fighters progress to the semi-finals, Walsh said: "The fight was going according to plan, he (Barnes) was closing your man down, working well, doing well the first minute and a half.
"The fella head-butted and he fell to the ground and his man landed on him with his knee on the side of his head.
"And after that he was scattered and he didn't really know a lot about what he was doing. So he didn't really know a lot about what was going on to be honest with you.
"So he lost his focus but he tried his heart out until the bell and he was just unfortunate. Only for that blow, I think we had a real opportunity to win that."


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Norway's Breivik wanted to kill PM, other ministers
Anders Behring Breivik, who admits killing 77 people in Norway last summer, was trying to kill the prime minister and other government ministers by bombing a building in Oslo, he testified Thursday.The blast killed eight people, but Breivik said he considered it a failure because the building did not collapse.
Breivik is on trial on charges of voluntary homicide and committing acts of terror in the July 22 attacks. He admits carrying out the Oslo bombing and then shooting 69 people dead on nearby Utoya Island.He boasts of being an ultranationalist who killed his victims to fight multiculturalism in Norway.He decided to carry out a gun attack on a Labour Party youth camp on the island of Utoya after his initial plan to target a journalists' conference did not work out, he said.
He also hoped to kill former Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and decapitate her with a knife or bayonet, he said. He planned to film the murder on his iPhone and upload the video to the Internet, he said.
He concentrated on killing people over the age of 18 on the island, he said, because he thought the killing of younger people would be harshly criticized.
Many of the victims were younger than 18, but he said Thursday he did not regret what he did.
"I would do it again," he said.
There was utter silence in the court as he testified, marked only by the sound of crying from some members of the public.
He used the video game "Modern Warfare 2" as training for his shooting spree, he testified. Players of the game, one of the "Call of Duty" series, work together as soldiers to shoot opponents.
Breivik also went through a period of playing the online fantasy game "World of Warcraft" up to 16 hours a day, he testified.
He initially planned to carry out three bomb attacks followed by a "gun-based action," he told the court, but eventually was only able to make enough explosives for one car bomb.
Asked about his intended bombing targets, Breivik said: "The first two were clear: the government quarter and the Labour Party headquarters. The third, I was not sure."
He said he at first had reservations about hitting the Labour Party headquarters because of the civilians and innocent people in offices around the building.
"But then I thought: There are not many better targets in Norway," he said.
Breivik said he had also considered bombing the Royal Palace -- but without harming the royal family -- City Hall and Aftenposten, a national newspaper.
Breivik joked about the psychiatrists who have labeled him insane and shrugged off a question about how he thinks victims' relatives feel when they see him smile in court.
"I think they react in a natural way," he said.
Breivik did not raise his fist in salute when he entered the court Thursday, respecting a request from the families of his victims.
The relatives were upset that he had been making the gesture each morning, his attorney, Geir Lippestad, said Wednesday.
Breivik said in court Wednesday that he should either get the death penalty or be acquitted, ridiculing the idea that he would be sent to prison or a mental hospital for his actions. Norway does not have the death penalty.
The trial is expected to last up to 10 weeks.
Breivik boasted Tuesday that he had carried out "the most sophisticated and spectacular political attack in Europe since World War II" when he went on his gun-and-bomb rampage.
He planned his killings as a suicide attack, he said.
"I didn't expect to survive that day," he said Tuesday.
Breivik testified Tuesday and Wednesday after declaring Monday that he had carried out the massacre but was not guilty because the killings had been necessary.
Lippestad said it was important to his client that people see him as sane.
"He thinks that it won't have any effect if he is considered insane," Lippestad said.
Experts have given different opinions about Breivik's sanity, which will be a factor in determining what punishment he receives if convicted. Sentencing options could include imprisonment or confining him to a mental facility.
His testimony is not being broadcast due to a court ruling.
Most of the victims' relatives did not want Breivik's remarks televised, and presiding Judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen rejected Breivik's claim that airing it was a human right.
Court papers indicated the five judges hearing the case did not want the trial to become a platform for Breivik to air his political views, or for them to distract from the legal issues involved.
Breivik has said his rampage was meant to save Norway from being taken over by multicultural forces and to prevent ethnic cleansing of Norwegians.
In a 1,500-page manifesto attributed to him, Breivik railed against Muslim immigration and European liberalism -- including the ruling Labour Party, which he said was allowing the "Islamification of Europe."


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|10 years ago :: Jan 08, 2008 - 7:54PM #1
Create a website to better explain our views on God, and why he is evil. I happen to own the domain name "maltheism.com", but I haven't uploaded any content to it. I also own the similar domain name http://www.dystheist.com which is currently being used as a fake Satanic site to piss off religious zealots. I'd love to do something with these domains, and I think other Maltheists are the perfect people to help.
Anyone interested?
I've also skimmed through the archives, and it appears this place had a forum at one point somewhere else. What's the story behind that?
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|10 years ago :: Jan 10, 2008 - 5:02AM #2
Paul Zimmerman is dead. He was killed by a hit and run driver. Craig Zimmerman is his son. Craig posts in the maltheism forum from time to time. You should e-mail him for more information. On one of these threads is a link to an archive of Paul's writtings on beliefnet. I think the website that you are thinking of is http://maltheism.blogspot.com. I am not sure, but I think Paul died before he could complete work on it.
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|10 years ago :: Jan 11, 2008 - 9:56PM #3
I sent Craig a message the other day. I have no idea if it went through, since this site is too damn complicated to figure out, especially now when I'm drunk. If it weren't for the red highlight thingy Firefox has, you wouldn't be able to read this at all. I told him to reply at my email address, so I hope he got it.
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|10 years ago :: Mar 02, 2008 - 1:05PM #4
ilu shelem!
turn page from El-God's henchmen of evil Satan too...the Baals and Sluts Goddesses! yess!
could have links to this place and mine and ...of Enlil and Ea of Babylon, of the dire ways of Yahwoh the bitch and Jesus who wanted to be King of the Jews but got killed instead and the flood of Noah and a heap of things!
so good look from the Baals!
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|10 years ago :: Mar 03, 2008 - 4:04PM #5
Your response confuses me...
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|10 years ago :: Mar 03, 2008 - 6:58PM #6
ilu shelem
I confused a phoenix or satanist?
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|10 years ago :: Mar 03, 2008 - 6:58PM #7
ilu shelem
I confused a phoenix or satanist?
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|10 years ago :: Mar 04, 2008 - 6:56AM #8
Um, you confused me.
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|10 years ago :: Mar 04, 2008 - 10:07PM #9
A maltheist website would be great. although it shouldnt be just limited to the basic ideas of maltheism. it should also include as much as can be found out about maltheistic ideas in all areas of liturature and other media too.
that and we should add anything that comes up in discussions that adds to the ideas about maltheism and perhaps have some sort of FAQ or something to answer the questions that will be asked about maltheism.
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The question then is where could Sanchez go? That is a harder mental exercise. Oak? KC? Arizona?
Brian Costello @BrianCoz
Rex said he probably will have a decision by Tuesday night going into practice Weds #nyj
The question then is where could Sanchez go? That is a harder mental exercise. Oak? KC? Arizona?
I think the fact that he did not name Sanchez today, leads me to believe he is starting McElroy.
I think the exact opposite. He should of just said Greg filled in well, we are going to stick with him. The fact he did not say that, leads me to believe he is going to go with sanchez.I think the fact that he did not name Sanchez today, leads me to believe he is starting McElroy.
All 3 teams will be picking ahead of the Jets and can address the qb position. There is not 1 team that would trade for sanchez. No one.Oak? KC? Arizona?
Come on we all know deep down there is no way we get rid of Sanchez that easy. We have at least another year of Sanchez meltdowns to look forward to till we MAY get rid of him.
Who knows, maybe he could go somewhere like Minnesota if Ponder keeps ****ting the bed. It would make sense to have a viable backup there in the event he still struggles for the rest of the year and next. Its not like the Vikes have a huge commitment to him, financially.
Not sayings its going to happen or even that its likely, but it is possible. By next year, if the Jets decide that they have a viable QB they want to pursue, it would be very difficult to have Sanchez on the team. If/when that happens, his value is higher elsewhere, as here he brings baggage. Another team would see the upside, we would only deal with the controversy.
Thats fine. But you sign those guys to free agent contracts under your own financial terms. You do not trade for that kind of player.I'm not suggesting as a starter, but is Sanchez's value as a veteran backup below Brady Quinn's? Orton? Henne?
see jason campell, brady quinn, orton and henne.
I think Rex in an effort to protect Marks fragile ego (look at the two of them after the game), has to make it look like this was a big time decision like he had to do some soul searching.
In the end, he knows full well who needs to start this week and its not Sanchez.
Rex grabbed Sparano as the punt team was running on the field and told him something
Sparano went right over to GMc and told him to get his helmet and warm up because he was comung in
Then the entire crowd rose to their feet cheering when they saw Greg start throwing. And pretty much stayed in that position for the rest of the game
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McElroy and Tebow will do conference calls with the media today #nyj
Conor Orr @ConorTOrr
Tebow + McElroy will both be on this conference call coming up. To quote George Costanza: "You wana get nuts? Let's get nuts!!" #jets
This is the NFL. There'll be some coach or organization out there who believes that they can fix what ails Sanchez and would trade for him if the price is right.
Think about it, even after all that we've seen from him this year, there are still people here claiming that the coaches ruined him and that "if only they had given him some weapons" ......