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Hamilton's speed, if times can be believed, means an extra half-step over the course of 90 feet over fast runners and a quarter step over the fastest runners in mlb. (He's a quarter-step to a half-step faster than Mike Trout, for example, and a little more than that over Drew Stubbs, if you can dig it.) In short, he doesn't have to bunt remarkably well in order to be successful at it. He does, however, need to be better than anyone the Reds have had as a bunter since Norris Hopper.
Stubbs and Heisey are both technically abysmal bunters. Hamilton's already better than either of them.
He still needs to get better, though. And should. Guys that really focus on bunting tend to get better at it. (Butler's a prime example, as is Hopper, for that matter.) If Hamilton can learn the drag bunt to the 2B area and drop near-perfect bunts down both lines, he'll end up with a career batting average around .300. This ability should also affect his obp, as pitchers will nibble more often for fear of allowing that bunt. This could lead to more walks. (As his patience at the plate is already apparent.)
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I started my Time article about the quant meltdown of August, 2007 with "Looks like Wall Street's mad scientists have blown up the lab again." Articles on Wall Street's mad scientist blowing up the lab seem to come out every month in one major publication or another. The New York Times has a story along these lines today and had a similar story in January.
There is a constant theme in these articles, invariably including a quote from Nassim Taleb, that quants generally, and quantitative risk managers specifically, missed the boat by thinking, despite all evidence to the contrary, that security returns can be modeled by a Normal distribution.
This is a straw man argument. It is an attack on something that no one believes.
Is there is anyone well trained in quantitative methods working on Wall Street who does not know that security returns have fat tails? It is discussed in most every investment text book. Fat tails are apparent – even if we ignore periods of crisis – in daily return series. And historically, every year there is some market or other that has suffered a ten standard deviation move.
Is there any risk manager who does not understand that VaR will not capture the risk of market crises and regime changes? The conventional VaR methods are based on historical data, and so will only be an accurate view of risk if tomorrow is drawn from the same population as the sample it uses. VaR is not perfect, it cannot do everything. But if we understand its flaws – and every professional risk manager does – then it is a useful guide for day-to-day market risk. If you want to add fat tails, fine. But as I will explain below, that is not the solution.
So, then, why is there so much currency given to a criticism of something that no one believes in the first place?
It is because quant methods sometimes fail. We can quibble with whether 'sometimes' should be replaced with 'often' or 'frequently' or 'every now and again', but we all know they are not perfect. We are not, after all, talking about physics, about timeless and universal laws of the universe when we deal with securities. And the place where the imperfection is most telling is in risk management.
When the risk manager misses the equivalent of a force five hurricane, we start to ask what is wrong with his methods. By definition, what he missed was a ten or twenty standard deviation event, so we tell him he ignored fat tails. There you have it, you failed because you did not incorporate fat tails. This is tautological. If I miss a large risk – which will occur on occasion even if I am fully competent; that is why they are called risks – I will have failed to account for a fat tailed event. I can tell you that ahead of time. I can tell you now – as can everyone in risk management – that I will miss something. If after the fact you want to castigate me for not incorporating sufficiently fat tailed events, let the flogging begin.
I remember a cartoon that showed a man sitting behind a desk with a name plate that read 'risk manager'. The man sitting in front of the desk said, "Be careful? That's all you can tell me, is to be careful?" Observing that extreme events can occur in the markets is about as useful as saying "be careful". We all know they will occur. And once they have occurred, we will all kick ourselves, and our risk managers and our models, and ask "how could we have missed that?"
The flaw comes in the way we answer that question, a question that can be stated more analytically as "what are the dynamics of the market that we failed to incorporate." If we answer by throwing our hands into the air and saying, "well, who knows, I guess that was one of them there ten standard deviation events", or "what do you expect; that's fat tails for you", we will be in the same place when the next crisis arrives. If instead we build our models with fatter and fatter tailed distributions, so that after the event we can say, "see, what did I tell you, there was one of those fat tailed events that I postulated in my model", or "see, I told you to be careful", does that count for progress?
So, to recap, we all know that there are fat tails; it doesn't do any good to state the mantra over and over again that securities do not follow a Normal distribution. Really, we all get it. We should be constructive in trying to move risk management beyond the point of simply noting that there are fat tails, beyond admonitions like "hey, you know, shit happens, so be careful." And that means understanding the dynamics that create the fat tails, in particular, that lead to market crisis and sudden linkages between markets.
What are these dynamics?
One of them, which I have written about repeatedly, is the liquidity crisis cycle. An exogenous shock occurs in highly leveraged market, and the resulting forced selling leads to a cascading cycle downward in prices. This then propagates to other markets as those who need to liquidate find the market that is under pressure no longer can support their liquidity needs. Thus there is contagion based not on economic linkages, but based on who is under pressure and what else they are holding.
It is not easy to trace the risk of these potential liquidity crisis cycles. To do so with high accuracy, we need to know the leverage and positions of the market participants. In my previous post, "Mapping the Market Genome", I argued that this should be the role of a market regulatory. But even absent that level of detail, perhaps we can get some information indirectly from looking at market flows.
No doubt there are other dynamics that lead to the fat tailed events currently frustrating our efforts to manage risk in the face of market crises. We need to move beyond the fat-tail critiques and the 'be careful' mantra to discover and analyze them.
Originally published at the Rick Bookstaber weblog and reproduced here with the author's permisssion.
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Anonymous • March 10th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
The question is not whether people believe in the normal distribution but whether they actually use the normal distribution.Additionally the advice be careful is actually useful. If you are careful you don't take as much leverage.
Anonymous • March 10th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
>> It is because quant methods sometimes fail.Shouldn't this be "quant methods will eventually fail". Its like playing Russian roulette but with an unknowable number of chambers instead of six. If you bet with enough leverage eventually you'll blow up the firm. If you are lucky you'll blow up the entire financial universe and get a bailout.
Anonymous • March 11th, 2009 at 3:26 am
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So, which is the American Airlines flight with a "fat tail" that I should not book for my upcoming trip from New York to Los Angeles?
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Beth Wolf, Stillwater public works secretary, is coordinating the sales at $10 a pop, and she said most residents who have been purchasing the signs have indicated they were giving them as gifts.
One family bought Lydia Circle and Owen Street -- the names of their daughter and son.
About 75 signs have been sold so far, Wolf said.
The money raised from the sales of the old signs will go back into the city's budget to pay for the new signs, said Shawn Sanders, public works director.
The new federal regulations require that signs have reflective coating to make them easier to read at night. Signs also must include 6-inch lettering, Sanders said.
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The Visitor is a simmering drama about a college professor and recent widower, Walter Vale, who discovers a pair of illegal aliens who were the victims of a real-estate scam living in his New York apartment. After the mix-up is resolved, Vale invites the couple—a young, Syrian musician named Tarek and his Senegalese girlfriend — to stay with him. An unlikely friendship develops and all goes well until Tarek is hauled in by immigration authorities. —IMDb
Tom McCarthy's first film, The Station Agent, won the dramatic Audience Award and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, a BAFTA for best original screenplay, and two Independent Spirit Awards, including the John Cassavetes Award. The Visitor screened at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival, and was acclaimed one of the top 10 independent films of the year by the National Board of Review. The film earned McCarthy the Independent Spirit Award for best director. He is also an actor whose credits include Duplicity, The Lovely Bones, Good Night and Good Luck, Syriana and Meet the Parents. –Sundance Film Festival
Just because this is good-feel doesn't automatically make it any good in my book. I find the directing, acting, editing, mostly anything about this film truly mediocre at best. The characters are the most unbelievable that I may have ever seen in any movie. Though one could wish the world to be like this and smile from the idea of it, the seriousness of the matters should not be taken this ridiculously lightly imo.
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Le film de McCarthy pourrait être une jolie étude de caractère entre ce professeur d'université fatigué par la vie et ces émigrants clandestins ballotés… read review
When I first saw the trailer for the new film The Visitor I knew I wanted to see it solely on the basis that Richard Jenkins was going to be the star. I've loved this guy in everything he has done… read review
A look at how individuals can become alienated in our modern society as well as an insight into the immigrant experience in the US. A really great movie, thanks in large part to the amazing performance… read review


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HTC ChaCha People do reply, even after 2 am!
MRP: Rs 16,000
Street Price: Rs 14,800 (Saholic.com; Flipkart.com); Rs 15,500 (Letsbuy.com)
Androids are hot, and so is Facebook. Combine them both and you get a recipe for success in the mobile world. ChaCha has these ingredients, plus HTC's expertise in UI customisation. This sounds good enough to lure buyers. However, how well this "Facebook phone" performs in other departments remains to be seen.
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The package includes a charger with a detachable USB cable, earphones, and a 2 GB card. The phone measures 4.5" (l) x 2.5" (w) x 0.4" (d), and weighs 124 grammes. The device's back is composed of aluminium and high quality rubberised plastic that provides a comfortable grip.
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The well-spaced keys are laid out in four rows. The keyboard sports dedicated keys for frequently used punctuation marks. The arrow keys are unusually placed on the lower left side of the keyboard. A dedicated Facebook button is present below the fourth row.
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The device is powered by an 800 MHz CPU and 512 MB RAM. Other features include a 5 MP rear and front VGA camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, 3.5 mm jack, and 32 GB microSD card support.
The 2.6" touchscreen, encased by Gorilla Glass, has pixel dimensions of 480x320. It's reasonably bright, and displays a high contrast. The viewing angles aren't that bad, except for colour variations at extreme angles. Under sunny conditions, the screen looks washed out, but still remains fit for reading.
UI And Application
The phone runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) with HTC's Sense UI on top of it. The interface behaves much like the recently reviewed Sensation, though it has been modified to suit the device's landscape screen.
The ChaCha requires you to drag a ring to the screen's centre in order to unlock the phone. You can also drag shortcuts (placed above the ring) into the ring for quick access.
Overview mode can be triggered by the zoom-out gesture or tapping the Home button. It comes in handy for faster navigation and rearranging homescreens.
The Facebook button is not just for launching the app, but has been implemented throughout the UI. For example, you can upload any picture from the gallery to your Wall with a single press of the button; likewise for videos. Without a doubt, it's a godsend for FB addicts.
On the other hand, you can't chat with your online friends using the Facebook app. Although Fb Chat takes care of that, it's stupid to have two different apps to access a single site.
The phone sports a Gingerbread-based browser, but lacks full Flash support due to the relatively underpowered CPU. However, the YouTube app solves this problem to an extend. Except for these limitations, the browser remains snappy most of the time, and is good enough for normal browsing.


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I am a student from Poland and I would like to apply for a UK university through the UCAS system. I have checked the "League Tables" and there is given a number of points that is required by each university.
I have found information that applicants are normally expected to achieve three A Level passes or equivalent. I found somewhere that A level pass = 120 points in UCAS system and it is the best grade anyone can receive, but
3 A level passes give us 360 points only and many universities want more than that, for example University of Southampton requires 407 points. Does this mean I need to pass 3 of my exams with A level plus 1 exam with for example B level? Could you tell me how many points will give me A, B, C level passes on Polish "Matura Exam"?


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The Democratic Socialists of America National Convention was be held November 10- 12, 1995, in Washington DC, Member Don Taylor has been elected as a delegate by the national office; Paige Roberts, Marshall Gordon, and Arpad Toth were "also been nominated and are likely to be elected". Although "at large" delegates on paper, they were "in essence representing you, the New Hampshire members of DSA".[2]


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Ben Stone: Or he hasn't, and nobody caught him.
Don Cragen: What'd he say?
Mike Logan: He told us to go to Hell.
Don Cragen: Well, at least he's got a way with words.
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Czech Republic: Vzpomínáme (We Remember)
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so we all saw movie Loki vs movie hulk in the The Avengers it wus a stomp wus it cis/pis? how wold it go on cbr?
so we all saw movie Loki vs movie hulk in the The Avengers it wus a stomp wus it cis/pis? how wold it go on cbr?
Albert Oh choptop you're the kooky side of murder.
Wait Loki can't fly in the movie or is that a stample lack of ability from the comic as well?
Rogue and Bishop's daughter would be called Discharge, and she'd touch people and drain all or some of their bioelectrical energy out of them causing them to either die or fall unconscious. She could then use this energy to extend her own life, heal herself, enhance her physical abilities (speed, strength, stamina,) or discharge it as various energy beams.
Starting 100 feet away, with knowledge of the foe, makes it much harder for the relatively childlike Hulk to get his hands on the illusion casting, often invisible Loki. However, Loki without Gungnir seems to lack ranged feats for even seriously slowing someone with Hulk's durability (around Thor range, it would seem). I would guess that Hulk gets close eventually and manages to paste him. The other option is that Loki dances around at long range creating illusions until Hulk transforms back to Banner or dies of old age.
Hulk just smashes him repeatedly, I mean the Hulk can jump pretty high. In the movie he was jumping dozens of stories in the air and climbing to the top of skyscrapers, so I think Loki is screwed.
Though I did like Loki in the movie even though he was a douche, he was still funny.
Since Avengers Hulk is the *same* Hulk from 2008. He can do thunderclaps. That will clear out mobs of Loki clones/Loki himself.
It took out a fire/saved Betty and her dad.
His ground smash was more impressive though as it affected the Abomination.
CIS and PIS to the max!!!!!!
Hubris is the only reason Loki is even touched by anybody not named Thor.
-He has invisible cloaking powers but never uses it in battle against the Avengers
-He can catch an Arrow inflight, but lets it explode in his face instead of tossing it
-He can possess other people, but decides to confront dangerous guys like Hulk face to face.
I can go on and on, but if we turn the dreaded PIS off, Loki freezes him, mindjacks him, and sends him off to the abyss of Space.
Ah so we're spotting him cosmic artifacts that he doesn't normally carry around... oh wait that's not how things work here at all
But we are assuming he can mind control the Hulk given that we actually saw how that works in the mov... oh wait that doesn't work either
But surely he can teleport h... well damn that's out too
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Debatable. I laughed at the "Puny god" remark but then, a momeht later, I thought, "Wow, and it's amazing how Loki's powers all just mysteriously stopped working."
Well, not really. I mean, you could say he just got overconfident and got caught flatfooted. But in an arena fight, he's going to have his illusions. I think he had an energy blast in the Thor movie and I thought he had some reality warping powers. Also, everytime he fought Thor, he was durable enough to take a fair number of hits before he went down and Thor likewise was reasonably close to the Hulk even without the hammer.
I think the Hulk might still pull it off but I'm iffy on exactly what Loki did in the Thor movie.
It exploded in his face because he wasn't expecting a timed explosion.
Man my memory is bad. Was Loki mindjacking people in the Thor movie? He did it in this one with the spear which was not standard equipment though I suppose one could argue whether it was standard in *this* movie.


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Brooke County students Kimberlyn Merriner and Courtney Merriner recently served as honorary pages for state Sen. Jack Yost, D-Brooke, in Charleston. The two sisters toured the Capitol, worked in the senator's office and participated in the process of bills becoming law.
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The water temperature was a frigid 53 degrees. The young woman had been clinging to a tree limb in the surging Potomac River for more than half an hour. And now she could no longer feel her legs.Logs and limbs swept past her on the frothing brown torrent, and as a television helicopter camera beamed the dramatic scene live Monday afternoon, the huge, flooded river seemed ready to swallow her.
Suddenly, at 2:04 p.m., a blue Montgomery County swift-water rescue boat appeared, battling upstream against the raging current. "Hurry up!" the woman cried. "I need to get out of the water!"
As the boat approached, firefighter Peter Gillis, wearing a helmet and an orange "dry suit," leaned off the bow and swatted the tree branches aside. "Hang on," he said. "We're right behind you."Then he grabbed her. "I have you," he said. "Let go."
She seemed to hesitate, and he insisted: "Let go."
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College Football Bowl Projections: The Mysteries of October
One month down, two months to go.
With the turning of the calendar from September to October, the college football bowl committees swing into full speed with the initial autumn evaluations of who is the best candidate for their business interests.
The casual fan may ask, "How could this be? The bowl games are all set by BCS rankings and position inside a conference, right?"
The answer is yes, and no.
Officials with the Rose Bowl are left to simply cheer on certain favorites of the Pasadena committee. They have chosen their path long ago, defaulting to the champions of the Big Ten and Pac -10 conferences, taking whatever the regular season provides.
Likewise, the BCS title game has its participants chosen. The final BCS poll ranking in December produces the teams for this contest. A simple matter of the two highest ranked teams at the time.
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These bowls can play the "politics card" of who will bring a large following, provide television ratings, and do the best job of promoting the image of their cherished postseason affair.
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There is something about the month of October—something odd—about the separating of the wheat from the chaff.
This first full month of autumn often provides such a distinction between the "haves" and the "have-nots." Some separation can be attributed to scheduling, conference play, and travel.
Whatever the reason, there is no doubting these mysteries of October provide the great dividing point in the college football season.
The Sugar Bowl
Once considered the ultimate achievement for teams of the Southland, the wonderful old Sugar Bowl has been the scene of some less than enthralling matchups in the past few years.
Last year, undefeated Utah smashed a helpless Alabama squad. The year before, an equally overmatched Hawaii was destroyed by Georgia. Three years ago, LSU manhandled Notre Dame.
The performances of Alabama, Hawaii, and Notre Dame were ghastly and not worthy of the great old Sugar Bowl.
You get the point: The Crescent City is ripe for a classic Sugar Bowl; a matchup and game to uphold the old time tradition of greatness.
The Sugar Bowl Committee has an opportunity to lock in an SEC representative because as of today, three of the top four teams in the country are in the SEC.
All are capable of going to the BCS Title Game, and quite frankly, all three are capable of finishing outside the BCS Bowl selection process.
Two of the SEC heavyweights, LSU and Florida, have won two BCS titles in the past six years. Along with Southern California, LSU and Florida have dominated college football in this century, proving their reputation on the field, not in the newspapers.
If all three of this season's SEC heavy hitters are BCS Bowl eligible at Thanksgiving, expect the Sugar Bowl to make a play for the No. 2 team in the SEC West and have a "gentleman's agreement" before the SEC title game.
This agreement may indicate if the SEC West No. 1 wins the SEC title game, they will have a Sugar Bowl option if not chosen for the BCS title game. If they lose the SEC title, look for them to end up in the Cotton Bowl, and the west No. 2 will go to the Sugar, provided that school continues to remain "BCS eligible."
Expect New Orleans to be hesitant to invite another loser of the SEC title game after the embarrassing Alabama "performance" of last season.
While the "new Cotton Bowl" will be a spectacular situation and the Dallas money men are on the verge of returning the Cotton Bowl to major status (i.e. today's term-BCS) in the next three years, as of today, it is simply the most prestigious of the non-BCS Bowls (for the moment).
The opponent for the SEC representative in the Sugar Bowl will have a strong reputation—someone like Boise State. The Broncos are the winningest program in the 21st century with 102 wins in 119 games for an 86 percent winning rate.
Another possibility would be the runner-up of the Big 10. With the resurgence of Michigan and the superior performances of Iowa this season, one could certainly see an Ohio State vs. LSU, Penn State vs. Alabama, or Florida vs. Michigan as titanic clashes of national interests.
Expect the Sugar Bowl Committee to move mountains to put the best product on the field of any non-title bowl this season.
The Orange Bowl
The 2010 Orange Bowl could be resigned to a simple rematch of last year's game.
Although Georgia Tech, conquerors of the vaunted UNC and the highly-touted Clemson, may angrily deny it, the ACC Championship appears ready to run through Blacksburg for the third consecutive year. This leads to an automatic Orange Bowl bid.
The Big East Champion is provided a pass to one of the BCS Bowl sites. Because of the nature of locations and lack of recent national relevance of the "Beast of the East" there is often little interest in hosting their champion.
The one exception is West Virginia. The Mountaineers bring a free-wheeling group to grace the city of any bowl.
Unfortunately, the Mounties must go through defending champion Cincinnati. The Bearcats appear to have an inside track for the conference, which has no championship game to settle its title.
But, there is one unexpected wild card, the Pittsburgh Panthers.
With the teams available for the Miami classic, a rematch of the Hokies and the university from the Queen City seems somewhat attractive, just do not be surprised if the Pitt Panthers crash the party.
The Capital One Bowl
Bypassed in recent years by the resurrection of the glorious old Cotton Bowl as an SEC favorite locale, the high-paying Capital One (Citrus) Bowl of Orlando looks to snag a top flight SEC representative versus a top of the line Big 10 school.
Naturally, Florida would be the favorite, however, the Gators seem to have bigger fish to fry this season.
Although undefeated Auburn and highly-ranked Mississippi may have a large say in the matter, the Georgia Bulldogs seem the perfect choice for the Capital One Bowl as of today.
The Bulldogs will likely begin receiving feelers from Cap-Citrus representatives at any time, and with the reality of No. 1 Florida in front of them, expect the Bulldogs to be barking in Orlando this January.
Against whom?
Penn State is the most likely target of the central Florida vacation bureau types. Straight flight, good reputation, money flowing from a huge alumni and fanbase, and Joe Paterno on top of all that.
Not guaranteed to take any particular Big 10 team according to pecking order, the Capial One committee can simply reach out and choose who they want.
And they want Penn State.
The second choice is Michigan. The Wolverines have done well in traveling to the "other peninsula state" over the years and draw interest nationally through the media as well.
Penn State or Michigan vs. Georgia in the Capital One Bowl. The Bulldogs better strap it up, those are two teams who know how to bring the physicality.
The Liberty Bowl
The Memphis-based Liberty Bowl is licking its chops over the expected matchup between the champion of the Conference USA and an SEC opponent.
At this moment, Houston seems hands down the favorite to wrap up the C-USA title and move on to the Liberty Bowl as the host team.
There is money in Houston. If the fans bring it, they will be treated to one of the great cities in the country, and see a terrific game on Jan. 2.
As for the SEC representative, the past three seasons have seen South Carolina trim Houston, Mississippi State down Central Florida, and Kentucky pin East Carolina.
The high-scoring Cougars of 2009 promise to be a far greater obstacle to continued SEC dominance. If Southern Mississippi is the C-USA represenative, a low-scoring affair could result in lower attendance.
In the 50th anniversary of this great bowl of the mid-south, expect new President Kevin Kane to take a hard look at revitalized Auburn as his primary choice.
If the Volunteers of Tennessee or the Commodores of Vanderbilt can reach the six win barrier, a push for one of the home state teams could cloud the situation.
The Liberty Bowl began in Philadelphia in 1959. In the first game, Penn State defeated Alabama. By 1965, the Liberty had moved to Memphis, where it has been a fixture for 44 years.
During its time, the Liberty Bowl was host to the final game in the career of Bear Bryant, John McKay, and Ernie Davis.
This year's 50th celebration should do those great gentlemen proud.
The Sun Bowl
The 76th edition of the grand old Sun Bowl has one thing on its mind: Bring Notre Dame and California together for a battle of national interest and providing a huge influx of fans into west Texas.
They may not get their wish.
That being the case, there is a backup plan. The Sun Bowl matches the PAC-10 against the Big East with Notre Dame playing the role of a viable Big East team for selection process.
While Cal remains the choice of local leadership for many reasons (some personal as well as economic) the West Virginia Mountaineers remain the top choice of all opponents if the Irish opt for the sunny shores of Jacksonville or are provided an opportunity to go BCS bowling.
There you have it, Cal vs. Notre Dame or West Virginia. That's what you can expect at Sun Carnival time.
The Holiday Bowl
One of the most beloved of the traditional non-BCS bowls is San Diego's Holiday Bowl.
This fine contest matches the Big 12 against the PAC 10. It is normally followed closely by fans all over the country and has an exciting recent history for its often high-scoring contests.
Because of the teams available this season, fans are going to be in for another holiday season treat.
Texas has the second most appearances in the Holiday Bowl, trailing only Brigham Young.
If the Longhorns slip up in Dallas against the Sooners or fall beneath the pressure of a Big 12 title game and fall out of the BCS qualifiers, expect Texas to end up in San Diego for a fifth appearance.
A lot of fanbases talk the talk when it comes to traveling. The Longhorn community walks the walk and is embraced by cities all over the nation.
As a CBS executive once remarked, "We would broadcast Notre Dame vs. Texas each week if they would schedule it that way."
If not Texas, look for the huge Nebraska fanbase to make a case for San Diego. If the Longhorns stay on track for the BCS title game, the Cornhuskers could be your Big 12 team in southern California.
Since 2000, Oregon, Arizona State, and California have represented the PAC 10 a total of six times.
It is a good bet San Diego angles for one of them again.
An Oregon or California versus Nebraska clash would provide national interest and, more than likely, a typical high-scoring Holiday Bowl affair.
If it is the rugged Sun Devils and the Cornhuskers, look for a repeat of the 1975 Fiesta Bowl classic between the two teams, something around the 17-14 range.
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Christina Aguilera is firing back at rumors she's somehow responsible for a giant bruise on her son's face -- telling friends little Max simply had himself a little fall at the park ... chasing squirrels.
The photo was taken yesterday afternoon at LAX -- with rumors circulating that Christina's "erratic behavior and alleged booze-filled outings" somehow contributed to Max's accident.
But sources tells us, that's total nonsense -- 3-year-old Max was out with his nanny last week, chasing around squirrels ... and the kid tripped over a rock and bruised his face.
According to our sources, Max was taken to the doctor immediately and everything was fine. No broken nose, no stitches. Just your average boyhood bruise.
As one source put it, "Christina is a great mom ... Max is her #1 priority."
oh yeah a great mom thats why he was with his NANNY if thats how a kid is her #1 priority i would hate to see her #2 priority.she has more money than she can spend but still has a nanny raise her kids she is nothing but an overweight self indulgent diva.
OMG! I have 2 year old daughter and she bumps into things and falls and gets scratched and hurt often. Thats what kids do. People have to get over themselves and leave her alone.
I was babysitting one time and the 2 yr old through a fit and smashed her head on the floor making a huge knot and bruise. I was petrified because I thought the parents would say I did it but when I told the mom what happened she said "oh yeah she does that all the time". I was pissed the idiot didn't warn me about the fits.
The question I have is why isn't she changing that nasty looking hairstyle that looks uber trashy.
that is one heck of a bruise.If Christina is such a great mom why is she leaving her child in the hands of a nanny who is not alert/doesn't pay attention.im willing to bet that this negligent nanny is the one taking care of the kid full time while Christina sits around all day packing on the pounds and jet-setting with her boytoy.
When I was little I tripped while running at the park with my babysitter and I slipped and fell flat on my face. It was an accident and my mom was at work when it happened, but that didn't stop some dumb neighbour from calling the cops on my mom and saying I was being "abused" when she saw the black eye I'd gotten from the fall. Kids are still learning coordination, and falling down and getting a bump or a bruise or a scrape is just part of growing up. I find it hard to believe that every person sitting in front of their computer judging Christina's parenting never accidentally fell down and hurt themselves when they were little.
Puhleez! Kids get scrapes, cuts and bruises all the time. I think she should fire back at the stylist who is bleaching her hair and burning her scalp. White is nice, for a 90 year old.
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Kids get bruises and cuts. Kids who have fun don't look clean and proper. A household that is alive with laughter and memories has toys on the floor.
I doubt she was responsible for his bruise. But she IS responsible for his hair! Jesus, at least bru*****. Oh wait, I'm expecting her to take care of hair?? Look at hers...ICK. White straw is so sexy.
damn that is one ugly looking kid....she better put a bag over that kids face..bruises or not hes fugly!
It sickens me to see how people want to bring her down and bash her for this. Max is boy who prob moves around alot and is very active for his age.Christina Aguilera hang in there and be a fighter girl stay strong.
When you are addicted to fame & also substances, alcohol included, your kids can & will get into scrapes & bruises mostly on their own but also in part because you were not preventive about their surroundings. Just singing dumb songs on your new album doesn't make up for the fact you are not home most of the time doing your tv stint or sleeping with men who aren't your husband & you are not part of the regular team who really know your kid. I think the most responsible thing Dirty Xtina is to hire other people to raise her kid.


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ALGIERS, Algeria — Algeria's prime minister said yesterday that at least 37 foreign hostages died during the four-day siege in his country, a steep increase from earlier estimates, and the U.S. government confirmed that three Americans were among them.
In his first official tally of the deadly scope of the crisis, Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal also said that five foreign hostages remained unaccounted for. Twenty-nine kidnappers were killed, including the leader of the group, he said, and three were captured alive during the ordeal, which terrorized a remote internationally run gas-field refining site in the desert.
Two of the attackers were Canadian, he said. Canada's government said it was investigating that assertion.
Algerian officials had been forecasting that the tally of the foreign dead would rise from a preliminary estimate of 23, a concern that was reinforced by reports that a significant number of hostages from Japan and the Philippines had been killed at the site. Yesterday, Sellal said the dead came from eight nations, without specifying which ones. He said one Algerian hostage had been killed.
Sellal was more specific about the attackers, saying at the news conference that they had come from Egypt, Canada, Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Tunisia, although it was unclear how he knew for sure. Algerian officials have been saying that few if any of the attackers were believed to have been Algerian.
But the prime minister said the leader of the militant band that seized the gas-field facility, an Algerian whom he identified as Bencheneb Mohamed Amine, was among the attackers killed.
The United States already had confirmed the death of one U.S. hostage, but yesterday the State Department announced that two additional Americans died during the siege, bringing the total to three. Victoria Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman, identified them as Victor Lynn Lovelady and Gordon Lee Rowan, without specifying their hometowns. On Friday, the State Department said Frederick Buttacio of Katy, Texas, had died.
Nuland also said seven Americans had survived the crisis, but she did not identify them.
Sellal asserted that the attackers had started out in northern Mali — a claim made by the attackers themselves but initially dismissed by the Algerian authorities as far-fetched because the Malian border is hundreds of miles away.
The prime minister added that the attackers had ultimately crossed into Algeria through its eastern border with Libya, which is much closer to the refining site.
He corroborated assertions made by other Algerian officials and accounts from freed hostages that the militants had intended to destroy the gas complex, had planted booby-traps throughout the site and had attached explosives to some of their captives.
Algerian officials have said that the militants demanded an end to France's armed intervention in Mali, and the prime minister said they sought the release of prisoners in Algeria. The Algerian government said from the outset that it would not negotiate.
In all, the prime minister said, 790 workers were on the site, including 134 foreigners of 26 nationalities, when it was first seized by a heavily armed militant band. It was one of the most brazen assaults in years.


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A.J. Hoffman, owner of Sodak Sports, holds two boxes of shotgun shells that differ in weight. The Fiocchi box is a lighter weight load, which hunters would have used earlier in the pheasant hunting season. The Winchester box is a heavier load, which hunters will use now as the birds' feathers have thickened with colder weather and the birds take flight sooner, making the hunter's shot longer. (American News Photo by John Davis / December 2, 2012) |
When hunting pheasants, the right type of ammunition can be the difference between bagging three roosters in an hour or spending the day watching birds fly away.
With a little more than a month left in pheasant season, which ends Jan. 6, the remaining birds are wild, have developed thicker feathers and tend to fly away from farther distances than at the start of the year, said A.J. Hoffman, 25, who owns SoDak Sports with his wife, Dani.
Bob Mattern, who has been hunting for more than 60 years and owns Mattern's Sporting Goods, said he recommends lead six shot or five shot when the season begins because the ammo is lighter and has more pellets to create a wider spread.
As the season progresses, Mattern said hunters switch to four shot or three shot loads because they can knock down birds from farther away and cut through the heavy winds.
People who aren't familiar with hunting might not be able to bag any roosters if they are using the same ammunition they used when the season started, Hoffman said.
"If you use a lighter load, you're probably not going to knock the bird down," Hoffman said. "You might still hit it, but it'll probably just keep flying. You need heavier shot to knock 'em down."
The higher shot number means there are more pellets are in each shell, but the load is lighter. Conversely, a lower shot number means fewer pellets and a heavier load.
The lighter ammunition is cheaper by about $10 and it doesn't make a lot of difference early in the season, though diehard hunters always buy the heavier loads, to ensure the knockdown at any range, Hoffman said.
SoDak has sold a lot of four shot and three shot load ammunition during the past few weeks, he said.
Hoffman said he started hunting when he was 14 years old and has gone pheasant hunting many times. He hasn't gone as often this season because he has been busy working at his store, he said.
Josh Hall, hunting manager at Dunham's Sporting Goods, said four and five shot loads are the mostly commonly sold type of shotgun ammunition.
Some of the most popular brands of ammunition include Fiocchi, Remington and Winchester, Hall said. The ideal brand of ammunition depends on the gun, he said.
Ammunition is commonly lead based, but it is illegal to use it on public hunting grounds because lead is toxic, according to the South Dakota Hunting and Trapping Handbook.
Those hunters almost always buy steel ammunition, which is lighter than lead shot, Mattern said. The best option for pheasant hunters using steel is to get a two shot 1-1/4 ounce load or a BB load, which is even heavier to compensate for the change in weight, he said.
A two shot load with steel ammunition is roughly the equivalent of a four shot lead load, Mattern said.
Hoffman, Hall and Mattern said 12-gauge shotguns are the most popular choice for pheasant hunting, followed by 20-gauge shotguns, which are typically used by younger hunters.


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