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The style of text around the sword is very commonly used these days. The B as the hilt isn't the worst thing in the world. Also, I don't think the marketing is targeted at us... we're too old for it.

That's incredible....

I actually do speed intervals. So I will run for about 2 minutes then walk for 1 minute and alternate. I started out at 90 seconds running and 1 minute resting. I will vary it around. Harder to do when on the road, but on the treadmills it's easy. It actually has 4 speed settings for the intervals, so I have my warm-up/cool-down walk speed, my interval walk speed, my run speed and then a sprint speed. I can't (and don't want to) run for an extended period of time. I hate running. But I can handle this..

The one thing that was immediately noticeable and has nothing to do with preseason... the speed with which he throws the football. It's moving. Haven't seen that in awhile.

In theory it's an appreciating asset. Additionally the Buffalo/Rochester housing markets are insulated. They don't fluctuate as greatly as other markets. However, the housing industry has been on an pretty steady increase over the past 9 years or so. The predictions are for it to drop again soon, potentially fairly dramatically. Rising interest rates are a big part of that as the higher the rate the less house you can afford and as such the value of a house goes down (or it goes unsold). Of course the thing about houses is that they require constant maintenance. So, while your asset may appreciate, the cost to maintain it to that level of appreciation should be considered. You'll understand that the first time you pay for a new roof. Ugh. I understand where you are coming from though. Did you blow any of that dust over here? ummm.. sorry. Leasing is such a devil deal. I'd never do it. I had to deal with a lease once (my in-laws gift to my wife as a college present was a leased car). Situation dictated she had to blow through the miles. So I had to buy the car at the end... basically paying waaaaay too much for a really crappy car.

If you are willing to work off insider information you will find the money. Even small amounts can add up pretty fast depending on which way you play it. I could probably make a good amount on my own companies stock if I was willing to care about it. I know which way things are going before they get reported to the Street. I'm just not willing to do it. But our stock is like $3/share so it wouldn't take a massive investment to get a return. Do it a few quarters by re-investing your earnings from the insider information and you'll have a decent amount to play with (or save) or whatever. Still... no thanks. I'm not into securities fraud and putting the financial safety of my family at risk. The girlfriend's family in the Collins case raided their 401k to invest. It was a sure bet... until they had to get out in a hurry, all of them. Now imagine what would have happened had the clinical trial been a success. No one would even know about the insider information at this point. They would be very well off and could sell the shares more slowly to reap the rewards.

Holy crap.. that had to be one hell of a collision! When it hurts to breathe... life really sucks. Hope it heals up sooner.

You are a CapEx guy. Some people are OpEx. I've basically budgeted a car payment into my financial planning. It's there, every month, just like a mortgage. Which, by the way, will eat at you even more than a car will. I was able to at least get 0% auto loans. You'll never get that with a house. The trade-off you are taking on is the trying to plan for when the unexpected repair will happen.

Ahhh yes... thanks for that. Found another quote about it. Dear god.. these are stupid people. Innate is not an especially large company. As a result, per the SEC: "The sales by Cameron Collins, his girlfriend, and her parents, including Stephen Zarsky, made up more than 53% of the stock's trading volume [on June 23] and exceeded Innate's 15-day average trading volume by more than 1,454%."

They're so good... New Era doesn't list them on their site.

Hah.. just read some more about this. So, just before the failed clinical trial was announced Collins kids and his sons girlfriends family sod 53% of the total shares in Innate. Like that would not attract attention... Jesus.. people are so dumb.

Yeah....... Until I can see the 5 on 5 game play and see if they've updated ANY of the AI I am not going to bother. I have EA Access so I've been able to eventually play the last two NHL games (usually around April) and they still suffer from the same ridiculous AI. From what I've seen they keep adding different ways to play the same game. It's all cosmetics and nothing of substance. I love that they "learned" from their Star Wars Battlefield 2 debacle of pay to win. Get people to pay millions of dollars so they can wear a new t-shirt in their pond hockey game. It works, but it doesn't do anything to improve the actual game. So, the AI will continue to do the most ridiculous things on Earth (but only your teams AI, not the CPU AI). I love hockey.. and I still play them.. and next April when NHL 19 hits EA Access I will probably give it a shot. They destroyed the game in NHL 14, they made it WORSE in NHL 15, and they've not been able to get back to anything good yet. They just keep adding fluff. They're more focused on how many HUT packs I can get rather than worrying about the fact that a billion HUT packs won't change the fact that a 99 rated defenseman will stand there watching an offender bury a one-timer from 4 feet away never moving to cover him or that my defender will take the puck from behind the net and skate it INTO my goalie and the puck will go in my net or that my goalie will kick it into his own net or watch the puck flop around in front of him whereas the opposition goaltender (vs CPU) will drive 10 feet out of the crease to cover the same puck. Blah... I am sure you didn't want to know how I really feel.. ?

Let me try that again... <sarcasm>Big surprise.</sarcasm> I initially planned on using the following, but you said you didn't get the GIFs.. ?

Meh.. he's listed as a DH on the site I looked at for stats. Like I said.. baseball is irrelevant to me. The Yankees even more so. ISO = International Standards Organization or In Search Of?

That's accurate. It's always intended and should be JIF... ? I've never said it any other way.

At first I thought we'd all be spared some awful color commentary on football broadcasts... then I really read the thread title. Big surprise.

Nope. Because I don't pay attention to baseball. I was absolutely just using him as a bad example. I've stated why I hate the DH... because it only makes sense to allow it at every position.. why stop at 1? It's all good.. in the end.. it's baseball. ?

But it was just used it describe pitcher effectiveness... ?

Right.. Giancarlo Stanton is hitting .279, hasn't hit above .300 and makes $25M per year to be a hitter and only a hitter. What a waste... ?

Right, so why not apply that to everyone? Do you want your stud CF to tear his hammy running the bases? I'm assuming you are okay if your pitcher gets drilled while on the mound because that's his job... similar to a CF tearing his hammy catching a routine fly ball... I understand WHY people love the DH. I just don't understand why we don't apply it everywhere then. Not mandatory, but allow the defense and offense to be separated?

Just wanted to see if you understand this one. ?

Meh. It's the game. Get better at hitting. Also - Chris Davis makes $23M this season and is hitting .159. He's not a pitcher. Yep, I know, it's rare for that to happen. A fluke even... ? Bottom line.. I hate the DH. The game is played by the 9 guys you put in the field. Making exceptions for one of them leads me to question why you can't just make exceptions for all of them. Again.. meh. Also, it's baseball, so overall I don't even care.

Having read the article they do quote Amy Pfister... she's a smaller broker-owner. It's possible that it's less an overall staged article. Of course any real-estate journalist is going to have connections, especially to those who sell big ticket homes. If I really cared I woudl dig into it more to see if Howard Hanna had exclusive rights to selling those homes. There are a lot of co-development deals that work that way.

Except in those circumstances where it's not an instant out and it changes the game. So yeah, it's pretty cool. Can't stand the DH. I feel like if you support the DH then you should just support a game where you can field 9 players on defense and 9 players on offense and they don't have to be the same. Honestly, I'm kind of surprised it hasn't expanded more given the propensity for Americans to value scoring over actual game play.

Quite possibly the biggest problem is not knowing his long term intentions or him having stated that he wants to play in Tampa. The Senators are already on record this season for not wanting to trade in division (Hoffman) and it didn't work out for them. Add that to the fact that perhaps the only bidder is TBL and it makes it easy for Yzerman to low ball offers. The deadline return might actually be better because a GM might find his team in a better spot than he thought near the deadline and be willing to give up more to give his team a push in the playoffs. Right now there are a lot of GMs that hope their team plays to their expectations.