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C’mon Jake, Lock ‘er up! |
Right, somethings going on with that O line. They need a mobile quarterback. I saw Chris Johnson get hit at least 3 times at the line or behind a line of scrimmage on run plays. |
@KIR: Jason Jones was the one getting penetration most of all, and he probably knows that O-Line well considering that he played in Tennessee before coming to Seattle. |
Seattle also has a very good run defense, and my understanding is that the Titans have a better pass protecting line than they do a run-blocking line. Please correct me if I am wrong about that, Titans fans. |
RGIII is the man, brother. |
My FF Team would appreciate you winning the job Jake. |
Sorry, not to diss Nashville it’s a great city (i;ve ate biscuits with the C and W finest’s at the Star Cafe), but Locker is the anti-christ when it comes to QB play! |
@hulkhogansays…..dude, nobody gives a damn about your -or anyone else’s- fantasy football team…get a life ! |
I would trade my boy RGIII for Locker any day brother ! |
I would trade my boy RGIII for Locker any day brother! |
The Oline is horrible! Either way, they’ll both be starting games this year. |
Actually they had one of the best pass blocking lines in the NFL last year. It was probably the reason Hass actually stayed relatively healthy last year & Locker didn’t become the starter then. Where they were deficient was in run blocking. Hence CJ1K. |
"Scottish Labour's saying is that it's down but not out" |
Rarely have the results of a local government election in Scotland been picked over so closely. All the parties are busy viewing the outcome through a Westminster constituency lens, leading the Scottish Conservatives to believe they could win as many as 15 seats next month and, perhaps even more ambitiously, Scottish L... |
Scotland's once-dominant party needs all the good news it can muster. Although it did badly last Thursday, it didn't do as badly as some 'pollsters and pundits' (Scottish Labour's term, not mine) had predicted. The party, therefore, is now stepping up its campaign to 'win back seats from the SNP'. |
And there are plenty to win back. At the last general election, Labour famously lost 40 MPs to the nationalists, holding just Edinburgh South, ironically one of the most middle-class constituencies in the whole country. But the party's number crunchers have been hard at work and reckon they're either ahead of the SNP o... |
To repeat, that's according to a breakdown of local government results, which of course were conducted under the single transferable vote rather than first past the post electoral system. This is an art rather than a science, although a similar analysis is probably on safer ground in predicting that Edinburgh South is ... |
It's "clearer now than ever before", claims Scottish Labour's election campaign manager James Kelly, that "only Labour" can defeat the SNP in "vast swathes" of Scotland. That, however, is hyperbole, as local government results, last year's Holyrood elections and general election polling clearly show the Conservatives r... |
Still, Labour can be forgiven its new bounce. Last week it got 20% of the vote to the Conservatives' 25%, a sign that a centre-left 'Unionist' vote still exists. So it's clearly making an effort: former prime minister Gordon Brown will be campaigning with former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott in Fife, while Lady S... |
Not everyone who opposes a second independence referendum is prepared to 'lend' their vote to Ruth Davidson just yet, and from that Kezia Dugdale has taken a degree of heart, as her party has from the result in Glasgow, where the SNP emerged as the largest party but not with overall control as it expected. At the same ... |
That's more hyperbole, not least because the SNP's share of the vote and number of councillors was actually up slightly on the 2012 result - no mean feat considering local government budget cuts in the interim. But what Scottish Labour's saying is that it's down but not out, which isn't a bad philosophy when it comes t... |
A teenager has been found shot dead in London. |
Scotland Yard said the 18-year-old, from Algeria, was found with a single gunshot wound to his neck in Broadwater Road, Haringey, at about 10.20pm on Saturday. |
His next of kin have been told and a post-mortem is due to be carried out on Monday. |
There have been no arrests and officers are keeping an open mind as to the motive, although it is not believed to be gang-related. |
One woman who lives in Broadwater Road said: 'I heard a helicopter, and saw the police outside. |
'I didn't know what had happened until I saw them out there this morning. |
Another said the shooting took place near The Elmhurst Hotel, although staff there said they did not believe customers were involved. |
There was a party at the venue last night. |
The teenager's death follows the fatal stabbing of another 18-year-old in Walthamstow, east London, on Friday night. |
Wahab Zaaki, of Old Church Road, Chingford, suffered multiple knife wounds to the chest and died on his way to hospital. |
Outside the capital, Tyler Peter Juett, 17, from Aspley, Nottingham, also died that day after being attacked with a knife in what appeared to be an attempted burglary. |
And in Hereford, police arrested four men over the murder of Darren Loader, 17, on a disused railway line on Thursday evening. |
currencies into more risky assets. |
had gained late on Friday as traders sold dollars. |
from the European Union helped sentiment. |
weakening," one Budapest-based currency dealer said. |
for the first time in more than three weeks. |
rebounded from three-month lows set on Friday. |
the bottom of its 1.5 to 3.5 percent target range. |
tightening, saying that its policy would hinge on data. |
terms in February, according to figures released on Monday. |
Takarekbank analyst Gergely Suppan said in a note. |
were range-bound and mixed, similar to government bonds. |
billion euros ($5.94 billion) this year and next. |
reserve period, at 3.26 percent. |
dApps, or decentralized apps, are open-source applications built on top of a blockchain. But here’s the thing – users usually can’t interact with these dApps unless they have tokens issued by these projects. For example, both Augur, a decentralized prediction market and REXMLS, a free global listing network for real es... |
But if you didn’t participate in the dApp’s ICO, getting these tokens isn’t easy. |
While some tokens trade on exchanges, you’d have to first buy Bitcoin or Ethereum (which still isn’t necessarily easy), send it to an exchange, convert it to the token, then send to token to the dApp. It’s a process, to say the least. |
So, enter Dharma, a company part of this summer’s Y Combinator batch. |
Dharma wants to let anyone get a small cryptocurrency loan in just a few minutes, so they can use a dApp without going through that long process to acquire a token. |
Right now these loans are only denominated in ether (which some dApps accept), but eventually Dharma wants to be able to support the borrowing and lending of any crypto asset. All loans are denominated in USD so neither side is exposed to the volatility risk associated with cryptocurrencies. |
Since Dharma is built as an open-source plugin, developers can essentially plug a line of credit directly into their dApp, so users can get tokens to use without ever leaving the platform. Dharma’s protocol can also be accessed without going through a dApp at all, if someone just wanted to borrow a cryptocurrency to us... |
Of course it’s a little lot more complicated than this on the backend. |
The loans themselves are peer-to-peer, meaning Dharma isn’t actually loaning you any money – they are just building the open-source protocol to facilitate the borrowing and lending off cryptocurrency. And all loans are represented by Dharma’s own newly issued ERC20-based token, which lives on the Ethereum blockchain. |
So how does Dharma make money? |
The startup is also handling the credit risk assessment / loan approval process – which is the only aspect of the protocol that is not decentralized. At launch Dharma will collect basic KYC (know your customer) information from borrowers and decide if the borrower is likely to pay back the loan. |
Since loans aren’t collateralized and there is no actual credit check, Dharma will likely limit first-time borrowers to small amounts of cryptocurrency. But over time as users generate solid repayment history they may increase the amount able to be borrowed, which is a model not so different from Affirm. In return for ... |
Right now Dharma is the only entity that is approved to decide a borrower’s creditworthiness and approve a loan. But eventually they want to permission other entities to step in and approve borrowers – for example, an African TelCo has a lot of information on its users that Dharma doesn’t have, that could be used when ... |
Dharma isn’t totally live yet – but you can try it out on Testnet, which is a faux version of Ethereum’s blockchain just used to test apps. On Testnet Dharma works with Metamask – a chrome plugin that lets you run Ethereum dApps right in your browser and 0x – a decentralized token exchange. But soon Dharma plans to lau... |
If you want to learn more about Dharma, you can check out their White Paper right here. |
Ohio Wesleyan University has announced its 2016 spring semester dean’s list. |
• Sabrina Amato of Delaware. |
• Ciara Cooperider of Delaware. |
• Alexis Graffice of Delaware. |
• Kristina Green of Delaware. |
• Krysta Iwanek of Delaware. |
• Tanisha Murphy of Delaware. |
• Brooke Zinader of Delaware. |
• Kevin Lauer of Galena. |
• Mackenzie Brunke of Lewis Center. |
• Sophia Burt of Powell. |
• Jackson Druckenbroad of Powell. |
• Robert Rauch of Powell. |
• Jacob Worrell of Powell. |
• Rachel Bush of Radnor. |
• Cassandra Oberle of Ostrander. |
• Mikayla Robinson of Marengo. |
• Jessica Barrios of Westerville. |
• Tyler Flaherty of Dublin. |
• Sarah Flint of Westerville. |
• Lillian Gresh of Westerville. |
• Tyler Iffland of Dublin. |
• Harrison Nickels of Westerville. |
• Selena Ross of Dublin. |
• Matthew Schultz of Westerville. |
• John Shadoan of Dublin. |
• John Sotos of Dublin. |
• Aaron Strausbaugh of Dublin. |
• William Sulcebarger of Westerville. |
• Ashley Vassar of Westerville. |
• Sophia Winegard of Westerville. |
To qualify, students must earn a grade-point average of 3.5 or better on a 4.0 scale in all applicable classes. |
THE speed of events caught Ethiopians off guard. When Abiy Ahmed took office as prime minister on April 2nd he did so as the head of a deeply divided ruling coalition. The inexperienced 42-year-old, who came from the Oromo wing of the ethnically based coalition, was viewed with deep suspicion by many of his establishme... |
The past few weeks have pleasantly surprised. After an inaugural address in which he called for unity and apologised for the government’s killing of protesters, the former army officer toured the country to muster support. At mass rallies and town-hall meetings he adopted a strikingly different tone from that of his tw... |
Exiled opponents have been invited home. Representatives of dissident media outlets based abroad have been encouraged to set up shop in Addis Ababa, the capital. Terrorism charges against dozens of activists have been dropped, including against a British citizen, Andargachew Tsige, who had been on death row. |
Mr Abiy says he plans to amend the constitution and introduce term limits for his position. On June 2nd his cabinet said the state of emergency would be lifted two months earlier than planned. Then, on June 5th, the politburo of the ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), said i... |
Until this week Mr Abiy appeared to be paying less attention to Ethiopia’s troubled economy. His few remarks suggested that he planned to leave untouched the state-led development model pursued by the EPRDF since it came to power in 1991. At a meeting with business leaders in April he said that the government would pre... |
So the news that the EPRDF would in fact liberalise swathes of the economy to boost growth and exports came as another shock. The plan, according to a statement released on June 5th, would see the government opening state-owned telecoms, electricity and logistics, as well as the highly profitable national airline, to f... |
Recent economic indicators seem to have jolted the government into action. A vast programme of public investment propelled annual GDP growth to around 10% for most of the past decade, albeit from a low base. But the IMF reckons that growth will slow by more than two percentage points this year (to a still respectable 8... |
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