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Apr-17-10
 | | WannaBe: For my Euro football friends, what does it mean, when a football club have 10 points deducted, and entering administration? |
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| Apr-17-10 | | NakoSonorense: I'm not from across the pond, but I think I know the answer. To go into administration means that a club is insolvent and cannot pay its debts. A court then appoinst a special administration in hopes that it can save the club from liquidation. I believe the 10 points deduction is just a punishment for its poor administrative endeavours. |
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Apr-17-10
 | | WannaBe: We have the season's first no-hitter!! |
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| Apr-19-10 | | technical draw: Here's another golf rule...<"hitting any material around your ball during your backswing constitutes a violation of the rule against moving loose impediments, and is an immediate two-stroke penalty..."> Two strokes? Seems harsh. |
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| Apr-19-10 | | Jim Bartle: Maybe that rule applies only if you are inside a hazard. Otherwise you'd get a two-stroke penalty every time you're in the rough, because you touch grass on the backswing. |
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| Apr-19-10 | | technical draw: <JB> I got that rule from this article where Brian Davis called a penalty on himself: http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/ne... |
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| Apr-19-10 | | Jim Bartle: Ahhh. Seems the key is "loose" impediment. Grass is the rough wouldn't qualify. So if your ball is sitting on a bed of leaves, you can't even touch the leaves before hitting the ball. So we know Davis is not related to Thierry Henry of France, who blatantly stopped the ball with his hand before scoring the crucial goal vs. Ireland. |
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Apr-19-10
 | | WannaBe: Remember when Tiger got a bunch of big dudes from the crowd to move a 'pebble' for him? Can't remember how long ago it was, and which tournament... |
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| Apr-19-10 | | benjinathan: <Grass is the rough wouldn't qualify.> The rough is not a hazard. <So if your ball is sitting on a bed of leaves, you can't even touch the leaves before hitting the ball.> You can unless it is a hazard and so long as the ball does not move. Yesterday they pulled the grass that had been hit to ensure it was attached to the ground. Phoenix Open , about ten years ago. |
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| Apr-19-10 | | benjinathan: That should be <not> attached to the ground. |
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| Apr-19-10 | | benjinathan: Golf is a funny sport: they have all kinds of rules to prevent cheating but then depend on the players to call their own violations. |
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| Apr-19-10 | | Jim Bartle: Thanks, benjinathan. Sort of confirms my thought that the touch rule applies only in a hazard. And from the video I saw, Davis certainly appeared to be in a hazard.
Golf can go waaay too far with this rules stuff, though. A couple of years ago Michelle Wie dropped a ball from an unplayable lie (or something similar), finished her round, signed her scorecard, etc. Then that <night¡ someone watching on TV ( a Sports Illustrated reporter) called the tournament officials to tell them he thought she had dropped the ball too close to the hole, and that she should have taken a penalty. And the tournament officials agreed! They disqualified her for signing an incorrect scorecard! Absurd. |
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| Apr-19-10 | | benjinathan: <And from the video I saw, Davis certainly appeared to be in a hazard.> Probably this is more information than you desire but a "hazard" in golf is identified on the course, usually by red stakes. The thing about the Davis saga on Sunday is that a hazard has a special rule-which Wie-violated: the player can take a drop from the hazard no closer to the hole, at the spot the ball entered the hazard. In Davis' case, there was actually a special drop area which gave him a legitimate shot at chipping in for par. In other words, it wasn't clear that hitting out of the hazard was even the right play even if he hadn't violated the rules. I am no golf purist, but this tradition of integrity is important to the game. Without it you have chess: dependance on the decision of an arbiter who did not see what happened and you get the Kasparov/Polgar touch move incident and my kid crying on the weekend after his opponent moved his piece saw it was forked and took it back ;0. Not to mention the "foot wedge" that is the favorite club of a guy I play with;-). |
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| Apr-19-10 | | Jim Bartle: I agree about the integrity part. I remember Tom Watson calling a penalty on himself, and a couple of years ago a player called a penalty when he touched his ball and it moved when he was preparing to putt. Maybe the tradition started with Bobby Jones. I could see penalizing Wie at the time, but after a TV viewer calls in that night? Ridiculous. And, is a sand trap considered a hazard? |
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Apr-19-10
 | | WannaBe: Wei had another one this year, like 3 weeks ago, in a tournament. |
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| Apr-20-10 | | benjinathan: <And, is a sand trap considered a hazard?> Yes. The player cannot ground her club or move any loose impediment (the rule violated Sunday). Wie is too careless. Learn, she will. |
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Apr-22-10
 | | WannaBe: Just got this in my in-box! Absolutely <AMAZING!!!> http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?... |
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Apr-22-10
 | | WannaBe: Raiders took an ILB from Alabama?? We need a QB, and some RB, and some WR, maybe HB, not to mention TE and we drafted ILB??? |
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| Apr-22-10 | | Travis Bickle: At least you had a pick in the 1st round The Bears traded 2 of theirs away for Cutler last year. |
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| Apr-25-10 | | whiteshark: Affected by relatives? http://content.pyzam.com/graphics/5... :D |
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| Apr-25-10 | | Jim Bartle: Wannabe: Raiders traded for a QB, Jason Campbell from Washington. I thought he was tremendous in college at Auburn, hasn't done much in the NFL. Of course, just average will be a hundred times better than Russell. |
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| Apr-25-10 | | Landman: The Slav is actually the Queen's Gambit Declined - Slav variation. 1.d4 d5 2.c4 is the Queen's Gambit. 2...dxc4 is QG Accepted, and the various ways of Declining have names. The Slav is 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6. Both players cooperate to reach the position, but really it's Black who chooses to make the QG a Slav. The Grunfeld is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5. Again both players cooperate but Black makes it a Grunfeld (the biggest alternative is 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7, which is the King's Indian). |
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Apr-27-10
 | | WannaBe: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100427... Don't like it?! Move! Move to New Mexico, Texas, California, Nevada, or Colorado! Or anywhere else... North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, New York, Vermont, Washington, even Canada!! This is <NOT> 1938, (where countries like U.S. refused to accept Jews, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St....) Oh, yeah, some Democrate, named FDR was in charge! I don't care what the left-wingers are saying. There is a reason for international-borders, and international law. If you are legal, and stopped, possibly harassed, sue! Sue the city/county/state for discrimination! Heck, sue Uncle Sam! What is stopping you? I do believe, <NakoSonorense> is now living in Arizona, and I would like to hear what he have to say, (good, or bad)... |
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| Apr-28-10 | | NakoSonorense: I usually opt out of discussions about immigration because my views on it have often earned me names such as “racist, hypocrite, traitor”, but since I am semi anonymous here on the internet, I will give it a try. Being Latino and an immigrant myself, I can’t help to feel some sympathy for people who come to the US. However, I am aware of the problems that uncontrolled immigration can bring. This is why I think that one of the first things that the government should do is protect the border better so that the influx of immigrants coming into the country can be under control. Now, I think I read that about 45% of those who are here illegally, entered the country with a visa, but decided to stay after it expired. Still, many choose not to see this and decide to group all of them as “fence jumpers.” Regarding the new Arizona law: I don’t think this is going to solve the problem at all. If I understand the law correctly, anyone who is suspicious of being illegal can be questioned and forced to provide proper documentation of their legal status. However, I don’t see how this can law can be put into effect impartially. Suppose the police stops a typical American person (white, whatever) and then stops another person who looks Mexican (whatever that means) – who do you think the police is more likely to ask for their documents? It will not take a genius to show statistically that the police will be biased against the Hispanic looking population. I give you my word on this. It is racial profiling, plain and simple. I understand the government needs to do something about immigration, but using fear tactics like the AZ law is not the way to go. Ignoring the problem will certainly not make it go away either. Giving amnesty to all 11 million undocumented immigrants is also not the way to go. But I do believe that providing a path to legalize the status of a fraction of those 11 million who meet a specified criterion should be worked out soon. Marginalizing them will not solve one thing. ___
Your suggestion of moving to another state is nice, but not viable. Just look at me, do you think I want to be living in the middle of the desert where people listen to country music (by choice) and where I feel there is nothing interesting to do? Heck no! But people sometimes move to where they have to, even though they may not like it. |
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| Apr-28-10 | | meloncio: <WannaBe> Hi friend. About the link you gave me I see it's just a disinfection system, only good for an emergency case. http://www.miox.com/miox-solutions/... As you can easily imagine, the methodology of water purification is much more complicated than that, and anyway just remember miracles do not exist :) That said I must to recognize that this not my main work area. I use to work on Development and Validation of Analysis Methods, mostly chromatograpic and spectrophotometric methods. |
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