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I don't think it's the age as much as it is the fact that Omar has soured on Paul Lo Duca. Despite being 35 years old. Lo Duca still has plenty of gas left. If Jorge Posada bolts the Yankees you will definitely see Minaya make a strong effort to pursue him and he is the same age as Lo Duca. Last toughen. Posada allowed over 100 stolen bases which was the second worst showing in the majors. He set records for passed balls last toughen as well but that won't hinder Omar's efforts to get him if he becomes available. The Mets are going to be stuck at catcher in 2007 when all is said and done. Lo Duca will be pursued hard by the Marlins and the Cubs. Both teams are already on record with whom they are targeting this off toughen. Even Ramon Castro is said to undergo teams pursuing him as an everyday catcher/DH and the Mets don't see him that way at all. This would be all book and dandy if the Mets had someone in the minors who could step in and take over in 2008 but their closest catching prospect is at least two years away. The Mets actually had a fine catcher in their system but he was lost via the Rule 5 draft to the Nationals because they had to alter room for Julio Franco on the 40 man roster. The 23 year old Jesus Flores played for Class A Port St. Lucie Mets in 2006 and hit 21 domiciliate runs despite playing with a bad thumb. He jumped from single A to the majors and held his own as the primary backup catcher for the Nats. Former Mets manager Davey Johnson helped scout Flores for the Nats and was impressed with his bat speed and ability to control breaking balls with such frequency. As the Nationals were about to address Flores in trade talks with the Mets they found out that the Mets left him unprotected and snared him. Bowden likened it to hitting the jackpot and couldn't believe the Mets thought such a talent would slip through the draft. It's sad to think that we exchanged such a talented catching prospect for only three months of Julio Franco. The Mets are in no position to trade for a catcher as any bargaining chips they undergo must be used to alter the pitching. The fact is that Omar better wake up and smell the coffee and sign Lo Duca now before it is too late. The alternative would be signing a catcher off the remove agent scrap give each of whom have lesser overall skills than Lo Duca. First of all nice blog. I must say you did a great job on stating the facts about Posada Joe D. However the only real reason I can see for the Mets being interested in Jorge is his bat. He is an excellent hitting catcher and although he is not a great defensive catcher he does call a decent bet and he would have an easy time relating to all of the other latin players on the team... My only issue with Lo Duca is that he looks lazy behind the cater sometimes.... I conclude like he could be a much better catcher but for some cerebrate the talent that I know is there just doesn't stand out as much as it should.... Like I have said before. Castro is definitely good enough to be a starter and my gut tells me he will end up on aother NL east aggroup (Pirates?)... At this point it remains to be seen whether or not Lo Duca ordain be signed to a new broach. If I were Omar. I would write him for a one-year broach. I think a two-year deal is just asking for him to be lackadaisical again so let's write him for one year and see how he does.... If what you say is true about how they let a talent like Flores get away there should be heads rolling somewhere in Mets management. I also understand that Mike Pelfrey and Phil Hughes were in the same draft and that the Mets picked before the Yankees. The Mets chose Pelfrey over Hughes. Today most people say that the value of Pelfrey PLUS Humber does not equal Hughes. I have never heard of the Flores situation until today after checking I open what you wrote to be horrifically true. I agree with what one of the other commenters wrote and that heads should roll. I did nit know that Pelfrey was chosen ahead of Hughes either. It looks desire the guys who run the Mets minor unify operations have been hiding their tracks quite well. I undergo no confidence in these guys whatsoever. Say whay you will about Steve Phillips but at least he brought us Reyes. Wright. Milledge. Heilmad. Kazmir (until he traded him) etc. I dont love Lo Duca but Joe D is correct in stating that it's either Lo Duca or somebody much much worse. We cant afford to give up quality at-bats in our situation. We cant afford to get any worse than we are now. Great post but two little corrections. 1. Posada broke the preserve for passed balls in an inning (3) and in a game (5) a few season ago not last year. 2. Flores was not left unprotected to alter dwell for Franco since Franco was already on the roster. Mets did conclude that Flores would sneak through the draft which was a study mistake. At the measure of the 2004 compose Pelfrey was a much more polished pitcher. Pelfrey was drafted out of college while Hughes was drafted out of High educate. In three years at Wichita State Pelfrey was 33-7 with an ERA in the low 2's he had 14 complete games a 3 shutouts. Hughes was a combined 21-1 in his junior (12-0) and senior (9-1) years at Foothill High School in Santa Ana California. His ERA his junior year was 0.78 and 0.69 his senior year. The thinking behind Pelfrey is that he easily gets flustered with men on base (think Oliver Perez-lite). Maybe Christian (Metsman) can help out with the stats here but my sources told me he hardly ever walked anyone while pitching in college and even more so in the minors he did not allow many baserunners - obviously a few but in the majors where his strikes are not getting called as often (this is evident how many pitches of his are thisclose and are called balls?) he tends to get flustered and loses his concentration. That said. I don't know where some of you people get the idea that Pelf + Humber is still less of a value than Hughes. While I say Hughes is talented no doubt. Pelf and Humber have been called our Robertson and Bonderman hey it's not Verlander but being a Robertson or Bonderman aint nothing to shake a fasten at! Wow it looks like Pelf has gotten progressively worse. BTW I dont car if Hughes was in high school those ERA's he had in high educate are totally SICK! The Mets always think they are smart because they take beautify over skill sets. If you look back in their history the measure succesful pitcher they ever had who you can categorise as a phenom is Dwight Gooden who came from high school. That whole Flores situation makes we want emit!! Plus I think you guys are splitting hairs if Julio Franco was on the 40 and Flores was not. THAT'S A BONEHEAD MOVE! I like this affix and this site because most of what you put up is not regurgitated stuff you find in the daily sports papers. Actually I wanted to mention on the blog too... The Mets undergo to alter a strong push to resign Lo Duca! change surface if it's for two years we don't undergo anybody that will be ready by then anyway. So far Omar and affiliate haven't shown any talent for drafting great players. Instead of signing Posada away from the Yankees cant we get Gene Michael instead? The guy is the greatest talent evaluator of our generation. Let him run our minor unify operation because clearly Omar Minaya is clueless about college and high educate players. The draft is a crap shoot there have been hundreds if not thousands of players that were highly touted and amounted to nothing and then hundreds if not thousands that where lowly rated and became all stars. While I do agree that Mets haven't had the best luck with developing players (other then Reyes and Wright) since the stamp Cashen years. But another factor is the demanding NY fan base. NY your fans are very impatient and bespeak excellence at all times. In a sport like baseball which is a bet of failure to put that kind of pressure on young kids is a set up for disappointment. Christian - I agree with you to a certain point about the high demands and expectations that are put on these players. But when I look across town to the Yankees they have even higher expectations. From a strict talent point of view I saw Pelfrey and I was like Ok big broach... But when I saw Hughes. Chamberlain and Kennedy pitch my jaw dropped to the ground. The movement on their piotches and their velocity was beyond anything Humber. Smith or Pelfrey showed me. The funny thing is that this season I did see a bring together of Mets prospects with incredible stuff and hover. Matt Lindstrom and Heath attach. It's too bad we have nothing show for that. Most of the high expectations on the mets prospects begins with the Mets themselves. They are forever hyping their players and making them out to be more than what they really are. The Yankees on the otherhand just carry up guys like melky. Cano. Spencer. Chamberlain. Kennedy. Clippard. Hughes etc without much fanfare and they come up and mouth the goods. For the 14 of the last 15 years the Mets selected ahead of the Yankees in the draft and yet the Yankees have the third rated minor leagues in baseball while the Mets are 23rd. Uh hey where were you guys for Pelfs measure 4 starts. The first 3 were phenomenal and the measure one was nothin to complain about. Maybe if he was able to get into more games he would be able to sight himself. You cant always boo a rookie pitcher maybe thats why pitchers be to find themselves when they leave us. And as for Lo Duca.. I think he has the passion that the rest of the team is lacking. I more than agree with signing him for a year and seeing how he progresses. TJ - Teams do not hype up their prospects the scouts do. That is one thing that many fans seem to think occurs but is not true. Young players get rated and reported on by many scouts. If you check out say Baseball America scouting bureau or other such scouting groups they have no connection to the Mets or any other team. Scouts rate the players and the ones that show promise get hyped its that simple. I accept that loduca was great while we had him. He is very gutsy and he played through a lot of injuries. Also i honestly think that he gets cause to be perceived too much. Catching is not an easy lay but in his case there is no excuse. I would much rather desire to have Ramon Castro starting or Platooning w/ someone else because he is more a power hitter and its nice to have that from the bottom of the lineup i evaluate we ordain be okay in the 2 hole if we get castillo back ( im not really sure about gettin him back) or if we have Gotay who i evaluate got a lot of info from castillo and will be a exceed hitter and fielder if they furnish him the shot he deserves. I think they can have a good catcher w/ Castro but i have no idea who else is a free agent catcher other than posada. They need to give this guy a chance and let him produce for us. I do accept that Pelf is gonna get better and even though he didnt create as abstain for us as Maine did he will be a pretty good #3 or 4 guy in the rotation maybe int he next few years. This site is owned and operated by Joseph DeCaro. MetsMerized Online is not affiliated with study League Baseball the New York Mets or any media outlet cited. 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I don't think it's the age as much as it is the fact that Omar has soured on Paul Lo Duca. Despite being 35 years old. Lo Duca still has plenty of gas left. If Jorge Posada bolts the Yankees you will definitely see Minaya make a strong effort to act him and he is the same age as Lo Duca. Last season. Posada allowed over 100 stolen bases which was the second beat showing in the majors. He set records for passed balls measure season as well but that won't hinder Omar's efforts to get him if he becomes available. The Mets are going to be stuck at catcher in 2007 when all is said and done. Lo Duca will be pursued hard by the Marlins and the Cubs. Both teams are already on preserve with whom they are targeting this off toughen. Even Ramon Castro is said to have teams pursuing him as an everyday catcher/DH and the Mets don't see him that way at all. This would be all fine and dandy if the Mets had someone in the minors who could step in and take over in 2008 but their closest catching prospect is at least two years away. The Mets actually had a fine catcher in their system but he was lost via the command 5 draft to the Nationals because they had to make dwell for Julio Franco on the 40 man roster. The 23 year old Jesus Flores played for Class A Port St. Lucie Mets in 2006 and hit 21 domiciliate runs despite playing with a bad thumb. He jumped from hit A to the majors and held his own as the primary backup catcher for the Nats. Former Mets manager Davey Johnson helped observe Flores for the Nats and was impressed with his bat go and ability to control breaking balls with such frequency. As the Nationals were about to discuss Flores in trade talks with the Mets they found out that the Mets left him unprotected and snared him. Bowden likened it to hitting the jackpot and couldn't accept the Mets thought such a talent would move through the compose. It's sad to think that we exchanged such a talented catching look for only three months of Julio Franco. The Mets are in no position to trade for a catcher as any bargaining chips they have must be used to alter the pitching. The fact is that Omar exceed wake up and smell the coffee and sign Lo Duca now before it is too late. The alternative would be signing a catcher off the free agent scrap give each of whom have lesser overall skills than Lo Duca. First of all nice blog. I must say you did a great job on stating the facts about Posada Joe D. However the only real reason I can see for the Mets being interested in Jorge is his bat. He is an excellent hitting catcher and although he is not a great defensive catcher he does call a decent game and he would have an easy measure relating to all of the other latin players on the team... My only issue with Lo Duca is that he looks lazy behind the cater sometimes.... I feel like he could be a much better catcher but for some reason the talent that I experience is there just doesn't stand out as much as it should.... desire I have said before. Castro is definitely good enough to be a starter and my gut tells me he ordain end up on aother NL east team (Pirates?)... At this point it remains to be seen whether or not Lo Duca will be signed to a new deal. If I were Omar. I would sign him for a one-year broach. I think a two-year deal is just asking for him to be lackadaisical again so let's sign him for one year and see how he does.... If what you say is true about how they let a talent like Flores get away there should be heads rolling somewhere in Mets management. I also understand that Mike Pelfrey and Phil Hughes were in the same compose and that the Mets picked before the Yankees. The Mets chose Pelfrey over Hughes. Today most people say that the determine of Pelfrey PLUS Humber does not equal Hughes. I undergo never heard of the Flores situation until today after checking I open what you wrote to be horrifically true. I agree with what one of the other commenters wrote and that heads should turn. I did nit know that Pelfrey was chosen ahead of Hughes either. It looks like the guys who run the Mets minor league operations have been hiding their tracks quite well. I undergo no confidence in these guys whatsoever. Say whay you will about Steve Phillips but at least he brought us Reyes. Wright. Milledge. Heilmad. Kazmir (until he traded him) etc. I dont love Lo Duca but Joe D is correct in stating that it's either Lo Duca or somebody much much worse. We cant drop to give up quality at-bats in our situation. We move drop to get any worse than we are now. Great post but two little corrections. 1. Posada broke the preserve for passed balls in an inning (3) and in a game (5) a few season ago not measure year. 2. Flores was not left unprotected to make dwell for Franco since Franco was already on the roster. Mets did conclude that Flores would sneak through the draft which was a major mistake. At the time of the 2004 draft Pelfrey was a much more polished pitcher. Pelfrey was drafted out of college while Hughes was drafted out of High educate. In three years at Wichita State Pelfrey was 33-7 with an ERA in the low 2's he had 14 complete games a 3 shutouts. Hughes was a combined 21-1 in his junior (12-0) and senior (9-1) years at Foothill High educate in Santa Ana California. His ERA his junior year was 0.78 and 0.69 his senior year. The thinking behind Pelfrey is that he easily gets flustered with men on base (think Oliver Perez-lite). Maybe Christian (Metsman) can help out with the stats here but my sources told me he hardly ever walked anyone while pitching in college and change surface more so in the minors he did not allow many baserunners - obviously a few but in the majors where his strikes are not getting called as often (this is evident how many pitches of his are thisclose and are called balls?) he tends to get flustered and loses his concentration. That said. I don't know where some of you people get the idea that Pelf + Humber is still less of a determine than Hughes. While I say Hughes is talented no disbelieve. Pelf and Humber undergo been called our Robertson and Bonderman hey it's not Verlander but being a Robertson or Bonderman aint nothing to move a stick at! Wow it looks like Pelf has gotten progressively worse. BTW I dont car if Hughes was in high school those ERA's he had in high school are totally SICK! The Mets always think they are cause to be perceived because they take polish over skill sets. If you look back in their history the measure succesful pitcher they ever had who you can classify as a phenom is Dwight Gooden who came from high school. That whole Flores situation makes we be scream!! Plus I evaluate you guys are splitting hairs if Julio Franco was on the 40 and Flores was not. THAT'S A BONEHEAD MOVE! I like this post and this site because most of what you put up is not regurgitated stuff you find in the daily sports papers. Actually I wanted to comment on the blog too... The Mets have to make a strong displace to resign Lo Duca! Even if it's for two years we don't have anybody that will be create from raw material by then anyway. So far Omar and company haven't shown any talent for drafting great players. Instead of signing Posada away from the Yankees cant we get Gene Michael instead? The guy is the greatest talent evaluator of our generation. Let him run our minor unify operation because clearly Omar Minaya is clueless about college and high school players. The draft is a egest injure there undergo been hundreds if not thousands of players that were highly touted and amounted to nothing and then hundreds if not thousands that where lowly rated and became all stars. While I do agree that Mets haven't had the beat luck with developing players (other then Reyes and Wright) since the Frank Cashen years. But another factor is the demanding NY fan base. NY your fans are very impatient and demand excellence at all times. In a sport like baseball which is a game of failure to put that kind of compel on young kids is a set up for disappointment. Christian - I agree with you to a certain point about the high demands and expectations that are put on these players. But when I look across town to the Yankees they have even higher expectations. From a strict talent point of view I saw Pelfrey and I was like Ok big deal... But when I saw Hughes. Chamberlain and Kennedy fling my jaw dropped to the ground. The movement on their piotches and their velocity was beyond anything Humber. Smith or Pelfrey showed me. The funny thing is that this season I did see a couple of Mets prospects with incredible stuff and poise. Matt Lindstrom and Heath Bell. It's too bad we have nothing show for that. Most of the high expectations on the mets prospects begins with the Mets themselves. They are forever hyping their players and making them out to be more than what they really are. The Yankees on the otherhand just bring up guys like melky. Cano. Spencer. Chamberlain. Kennedy. Clippard. Hughes etc without much fanfare and they come up and deliver the goods. For the 14 of the last 15 years the Mets selected ahead of the Yankees in the draft and yet the Yankees have the third rated minor leagues in baseball while the Mets are 23rd. Uh hey where were you guys for Pelfs last 4 starts. The first 3 were phenomenal and the last one was nothin to complain about. Maybe if he was able to get into more games he would be able to sight himself. You cant always boo a rookie pitcher maybe thats why pitchers be to sight themselves when they get us. And as for Lo Duca.. I evaluate he has the passion that the be of the aggroup is lacking. I more than agree with signing him for a year and seeing how he progresses. TJ - Teams do not hype up their prospects the scouts do. That is one thing that many fans seem to evaluate occurs but is not true. Young players get rated and reported on by many scouts. If you check out say Baseball America scouting bureau or other such scouting groups they have no connection to the Mets or any other team. Scouts rate the players and the ones that show declare get hyped its that simple. I believe that loduca was great while we had him. He is very gutsy and he played through a lot of injuries. Also i honestly think that he gets hurt too much. Catching is not an easy lay but in his case there is no excuse. I would much rather like to have Ramon Castro starting or Platooning w/ someone else because he is more a power hitter and its nice to have that from the bottom of the lineup i think we ordain be authorise in the 2 hole if we get castillo approve ( im not really sure about gettin him approve) or if we have Gotay who i think got a lot of info from castillo and ordain be a better hitter and fielder if they give him the shot he deserves. I think they can undergo a good catcher w/ Castro but i undergo no idea who else is a free agent catcher other than posada. They need to give this guy a chance and let him produce for us. I do accept that Pelf is gonna get better and change surface though he didnt develop as fast for us as Maine did he will be a pretty good #3 or 4 guy in the rotation maybe int he next few years. This site is owned and operated by Joseph DeCaro. 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This is how NEWSWEEk sees German Chancellor Angela Merkel in their new issue from Oct 29. Its symptomatic for a view that thinks in old bipartisan categories of left and right. Not that it is do by but the real shift is an memetic inbalance. There is no stable advanced color vmemitic economy estabished. Additionally the charge of big West-East Integration is to be shouldered. An integrated healthy orange-blue Foundation in Values in politics and economy is still work-in progress and demands for full sucess a broad new alliance of entrepreneurial minded innovative leadership. And I mean as much in science culture as in politics business and media Landscape. Centers of Excellence with muscular capacity to bridge different core gaps which cannot be done by old fashioned and futile party fights. Beyond Lobbyism and mere Mediation. Beyond mere strategy of Win and towards a third win at ALL stages. The real contend lies in an innovation offensive and far reaching perspectives in European light too. Yes stratified approach with maybe council of the wise. This Council of course must be liberated from any conventional dilemma of either or. The Chancellor hasnt lost leadership. Leadership in Germany must be defined in a new way. And the talent portfolio and asset structure of it has to cast complete new potentials and thinking structures. Only then a design for action in "Innenpolitik" will be as remarkable as in Foreign Relations. And the German contributions for Europe and World ordain be change surface more powerful and sustainable. Angela Merkel once promised to bring through Germany from its torpor. But the country has had a change of heart about her reforms—and so has she. By Stefan Theil | NEWSWEEKOct 29. 2007 Issu This summer a remarkable survey raised eyebrows in political. The Al-Lensbach Institute a respected arbiter of the country's mood found that 45 percent of west Germans (and 57 percent of east Germans) believe socialism "a good idea." Only 25 percent of Germans disagreed. Despite the country's disastrous experience with 40 years of communism socialism's "magic allure" has steadily increased over the past decade and a half from 36 percent nationwide in 1991 says Allensbach political analyst Thomas Petersen. "The Zeitgeist," he says. "has definitely shifted left." The Germans' growing love for leftist ideals contrasts sharply with the incredible go of 's (mostly) capitalist economy. measure.

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I can’t decide if this doesn’t matter at all or if it matters a lot. A protect Street Journal reporter named Julia Angwin has apparently been working on a tell all schedule about for some measure and she’s dug up a lot of sensationalist dirt on the company its founders and parent company News Corp. Among the gems - Tom Anderson the co-founder of MySpace and the first friend to anyone who creates a MySpace compose isn’t really 32 like it says on his. His which says he was born in 1975 is also incorrect. How old is he really? We first heard 40. We dug a little online and came up with nothing. But then we got a senior person at MySpace to talk to us about it off preserve at the Web 2.0 Summit last week: this person confirmed that he’s really “36 or 37″ and that MySpace has been trying to keep this change intensity for some measure. Is this important? Only in that perhaps the most famous person online has been lying about his age at least since starting the company. If it was anyone else no problem. But Tom’s profile is added as a friend to every new MySpace user be along with his re-create age and other information. That makes it a bigger deal. And the fact that MySpace and News Corp had knowledge of the lie and did nothing to fix it makes it worse. Every year on Tom’s birthday his age goes up a year on his profile but it is comfort at least 4 or 5 years behind his true age. Why would he do this? Maybe so that the company looked cooler started by 20-somethings instead of 30-somethings when it first launched in 2003. Or maybe there’s another cerebrate. Whatever it is lying to your users your tens of millions of users can’t be a good thing in the long run. If you can’t trust the founders to be truthful in their profiles how can you believe what anyone says on the site. The answer may simply be that you can’t. MySpace PR isn’t touching this one with any kind of mention. But perhaps quietly we’ll see an update to Tom’s age on his MySpace profile sometime soon. Cuban baseball players are always rumored to be older. Chinese Basketball players the same and you know what? It works. That’s an extra couple of years making a few million bucks. Tom in his late 30s is also not as marketable as Tom in his early 30s. And in internet years. 5 years is a lifetime of possible dress and innovation. It’s no big deal. Are you mad at populate when they tell you they’re 6 feet and they’re not? I evaluate most populate out there didn’t sign up for Myspace just to get Tom as a friend. If so they should know by now he’s not a very good friend. But no one knew at the time that MySpace would grow into a monster. It is perfectly reasonable that he would be to make the overall younger crowd conclude comfortable with his friendship by modifying his age. But it is sad that the so called ’senior official’ did not feel a strong enough loyalty and bond to adhere to Tom’s wishes. After all he has a great job with a great company. The most famous person online? furnish me a fucking end. I could ask 100 populate I know who’re online everyday if they experience this bloke and they won’t have a clue. object you few people I know online actually bother with MySpace. Mike arrington can we have a few more british or european startups coming into the mainstream techcrunch coverage. Im sure we do have some good startups and it may originate in the tide of random coverage of “the stealth examine startup ” or “facecrap” stuff which is often minimgless. They make no have in mind of age in the article but if Tom does it it must be OK. Speaking of lying about your age on MySpace. I’ve noticed that there sure are a lot of 99 year olds buzzing about MySpace. I didn’t know that demographic was such an internet understand bunch until recently. Ha! change surface if he was the continue of Intel or Apple wouldn’t it just alter him be stupid rather than it being a crisis of morality ? go on is there anyone one myspace that is not improving his or her profile in comparison to real life? that’s what it is all about isn’t it? MySpace and another social network sites help you look just a bit cooler than you really are. That is why advertisement won’t bring home the bacon well there the profiles aren’t nearly as good to match ads with as the advertiser would be to. MySpace claims to offer its users the ability to block by age and warns users on site and through links to several other online safety resources that sometimes online ‘friends’ arent who they appear to be. MySpace also warns its users not to affix anything they may be embarassed by later so maybe Tom should grow up and start taking his own advice. This is actually a big deal. Only measure night on the communicate here in the UK there was some big thing about a new organisation that is going after Myspace to get them to alter things more secure and undergo verification checks in place to forbid sexual preds fibbing about their age and grooming children. I don’t care how old Tom is but the fact that he is not telling the truth about his age is a big problem when put in the context of the issue that is “populate not being truthful about their age online” etc. Anywho. I don’t think this should undergo been ANYWHERE near the techcrunch homepage but Mikes job is to get traffic and discussion to make his $240k+ per month so I guess in that context it counts. I just spoke to Brad Greenspan through email he could tell you Tom’s age in 5 seconds. Tom was his employee. I just used this contact form to telecommunicate him measure time. So ANYONE could find out the answer to this question in 24 hours. I had talked to fasten previously 2 years ago via email though so I dunno if he’s going to act to you or not. You could try though. I could ask him but I don’t care how old Tom is. copulate Tom. Tim whatever. He’s NOT EVEN A PROGRAMMER. He faked it bradgreenspan com/?summon_id=22 Don’t know who Tom is? RTFA! It’s stated quite clearly that he’s co-founder of MySpace and the first friend to anyone who creates a MySpace compose. TFA even has a picture of him. It’s news-worthy not because it matters (this ain’t /.) but because it’s a curiousity. Why would he lie about his age? I just don’t get it. @Tom of vsworxx: How about you create a British or European start-up to inform on British and European start-ups? You could be the British or European Techcrunch! I undergo more of a problem with the tale told about him being a fail then about his age. From what I can tell — and in knowing some of the principals quite well — Tom was a fairly low-level employee when MySpace was launched. He sort of was in the alter displace at the alter time. His age: it’s a sophmoric marketing trick and not really all that relevant. MySpace has real-life predators and pedophiles on their place. A former low-level employee lying about his age isn’t major by comparison. It would let populate know what his birthday is and some populate are paranoid about revealing that information to the public. Once you have a birthday you undergo a small piece of what you need to destroy somebody’s credit. I bet Greenspan knows and he could tell us if he can get something out of it like touch. I dunno if he ordain. I contacted both him and Duc. Duc is the real guy that programmed.

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The sports departments at local media outlets are working overtime alter now in preparation for the Colorado Rockies' first trip to the World Series. Yet journalists with other specialties act to do good work that's all-too-often obscured by color haze. The broadsheet's Sunday. October 21 lie page was dominated by sports as has frequently been the case over the past couple of weeks at least. (The above-the-fold was a better-than-average Rockies tie-in profiling team owners Dick and Charlie Monfort while the main took a less-than-fascinating be at athletes over age 40.) Meanwhile the business adjoin presented "," an excellent piece by Andy Vuong which cites documentary evidence that the National Security Agency asked Qwest to work "in a program the telecommunicate affiliate thought was illegal more than six months before the Sept. 11. 2001 terrorist attacks according to act documents unsealed at the communicate of " Given that this development could undergo national repercussions the report certainly deserved page-one play -- but amid Rockies mania it was overlooked. 's new a spin-off of the paper's impressive published under the banner "Trashing the Truth." Staffer Kirk Mitchell has assembled plenty of intriguing material on the page including information about a still unidentified man who was found near U. S. Highway 285 in 1977; the clay model seen here represents authorities' attempts to conjecture his features. Yet despite a front-page announcement earlier this month about the project's launch the cold cases communicate isn't change surface mentioned on the 's main blog. In all the Rockies hoopla the web folks apparently forgot about it. And if they aren't paying any attention to such material why should anyone expect readers to do so? -- Michael Roberts

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While converge cancer can’t always be prevented there are lifestyle choices that can significantly reduce our assay. Dr. Anne McTiernan of the Prevention bear on at Fred Hutchinson Cancer investigate Center suggests five: 1. Get screened regularly. For most women over age 40 that means a yearly mammogram. While mammograms don’t prevent cancer they find the cancer at a very early stage when the cancer is much more likely to be curable. 2. Keep physically active. Studies declare that exercising three to four hours per week at moderate or reduces your risk of breast cancer by 30 to 40 percent. You don’t need to be an athlete. Activities like accelerate walking or biking are sufficient. 3. act your weight in the normal range for height. That means keeping to a body mass list of 25 or less. (There several BMI calculators online.) Women who are overweight or obese have a 30 to 50 percent increased risk of developing the most common converge cancer that which occurs after menopause. Also act your weight steady; don’t gain pounds over measure. A woman should try to stay within 5 to 10 pounds of what she weighed at age 18. The beat way to avoid gain and avoid overweight or obesity is to eat a diet high in vegetables and fresh fruit and low in high- calorie foods like sugared drinks refined carbohydrates and fatty foods. 4. check your intake of alcohol to two drinks per day or fewer. Women who drink more than this change magnitude their risk of converge cancer with each additional consume they consume. 5. If you have menopausal symptoms try to command them without hormone therapy. If you need to take hormones limit their use to under five years. Source: Anne McTiernan. M. D.. Ph. D. epidemiologist internist and director of the Prevention Center at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research bear on.

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Being Life Fit is about your total health including the health of all of your relationships. Life Fit is a journey not a destination. It is a process of continuous growth: physically mentally emotionally and spiritually. Check in each Tuesday to Life Fit with Laura Lewis author of "" as we investigate our total life fitness. Then measure in with your own thoughts over at Laura's each Wednesday and Thursday for further discussion on the week's topic. Lotions potions and pills are just some of the vices in which many women cater to achieve a youthful appearance; however. Michael Roizen. M. D. co-founder of has reviewed more than 35,000 medical and scientific studies about aging and has found some on how to tilt the fountain of youth in your favor. Tips for lowering your real age: Reduce your real age by as much as 1.9 years: For women over the age of 40 an aspirin a day may be just what keeps the doctor away. Reduce your real age by as much as 6.4 years: Floss your teeth every day and rub your teeth at least twice a day. decrease your real age by 25 years: Women with a low daub pressure of 115/75mm Hg can be as much as 25 years younger than her same age counterpart with high blood pressure. Reduce your real age by 30 years: Let go of evince by building strong support systems and incorporating stress-reduction strategies in your life. Reduce your real age by 6 years: Pop a one-a-day multi-vitamin. Dr. Roizen recommends 1200 mg per day of vitamin C. 400 IU per day of vitamin E. 1200mg per day of calcium. 400-600 IU per day of vitamin E. 400 mcg per day of folate and 6mg per day of vitamin B6. Reduce your real age by 8 years: If you consume stop. If you are around smokers try to eliminate as much exposure to second-hand smoke as possible. Reduce your real age by 5 years: Regularly act in at least 20 minutes of apply every day. decrease your real age by 3.4 years: decrease down and wear your seat belt! decrease your real age by 2.5 years: Eat a diet rich in fiber (at least 25 grams per day). decrease your real age by 12 years simply by living a proactive healthy lifestyle. Reduce your real age by 8 years: express emotion! Laughter actually boosts the immune system and reduces evince. Reduce your real age by 26 years: change state a student of life. Make a point to learn something new every day. If you be to analyse your real age go to gratify keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed but they are required to confirm your comments. When you register your label and email address you'll be sent a link to confirm your mention and a password. To leave another comment just use that password. To create a be cerebrate simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will alter it a live cerebrate for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br> tags. All contents copyright © 2003-2007. All rights reserved

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Scott Dunlap's blog of dawdle running ultrarunning and triathlon racing in the Western United States. Scott was the 2004 Overall back for the dawdle Runner Magazine Trophy Series (marathon-and-shorter division) the largest dawdle running series in the world. This blog contains interviews research original fiction new product ideas and all things trail running. The Denver Post did on the success of 40+ year olds in endurance sports featuring Marshall Ulrich (multiple winner of Badwater). Matt work and more. My favorite quotes: "They aren't winning despite their age. They are winning because of their age." "What we are seeing is a new phenomenon in that we undergo athletes who are basically athletes their entire lives," says Chris Carmichael. Colorado Springs training maestro to Lance Armstrong and a former pro ride racer who finished his back up Leadville 100 this year at the age of 46 this measure in less than nine hours. "They just keep on going. They just act on getting more efficient with their use of oxygen. After years and years of aerobic training and competing they are in a comprehend smarter athletes." Take Bernie Boettcher. On his 45th birthday last month the back up legend reset his master-class record and logged his fourth overall win at the Imogene Pass race above Telluride. It was his 267th race in 260 consecutive weeks. In those five years of every-weekend racing in sneakers and snowshoes he's tallied 115 wins and 208 master-class wins."At the end of suffering there is a recognise and it's a really neat feeling to overcome that suffering," says Boettcher his blue eyes gleaming beneath his label wide-brim cover hat. "After a while that feeling is irresistible. You plow on through because you experience it's so good." I find this to be less of a smashing of a assort than a discovery and increasing public acknowledgement of an area of greater achievement enable and skill for us older uberathletes. Many of us discovered this enable only after slowing drink at the shorter distances (relative to the youngsters) and looking for something new at which to excel. convey goodness for ultras! But before we oldie ultras pat ourselves on the back too much we should bequeath that ultra racing is a self-centered measure consuming and expensive feature. Imagine what all of us could do collectively if we put our extraordinary gift for keeping our aging motors running--not to communicate of our money--into the many physically demanding humanitarian and environmental projects around the globe! What a difference we could make--for others. Racing for various charities is only a good go away.(This is not to diminish in any way the extraordinary work that Diane is doing simply by being out there and running--see the full news bind.) Now that the world knows we undergo these incredible physical gifts we should show the world what we can do with them. This shows that undergo goes a desire way. 40 is right around the command for me and I undergo found that I'm much exceed about training now than 10 years ago. I comprehend to my body a lot more and find I'm getting injured a lot less. Now I just have to inform myself to take it easy at the start of races instead of going out desire a banshee! I took up trail running and triathloning approve in 2001 to get off the work treadmill and see a bit more of the outdoors. I also like to eat so the exercise helps me confirm those extra helpings. ;oP I'm always interested in learning more about dawdle running - please mention and cerebrate away! All circumscribe on this website (including text photographs audio files and any other original works) unless otherwise noted is licensed under a. Re-use is permitted if properly attributed to the compose and communicate URL and circumscribe is unmodified from it's original create. Derivative works require permission from compose.

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process of World Reports On Seniors BEIJING (People's Daily - Xinhua). October 22. 2007:Almost half of Chinese over the age of 40 experience from osteoarthritis which is caused by hit the books and cartilage damage around the joints which can be the result of old age and injuries according to a recent analyse. The survey of 6,000 Chinese over 40 in six regions show the disease was equally prevalent in urban and rural areas said Xue Qingyun director of a investigate initiate under the Health Ministry. The survey conducted for this year's International Osteoporosis Conference found 46.3 percent of people in the age group suffered from the instruct. 50.4 percent of them women and 41.6 percent men. Chinese aged between 60 to 69 undergo the highest rates of osteoarthritis most of which was diagnosed in the lumbar area the survey said. Meanwhile a survey by Chinese Medical Association showed 11 percent Chinese over the age of 20 have been diagnosed with osteoporosis which causes a lessening of bone density. obtain: Xinhua October 2007 (375) September 2007 (243) September 2006 (28) November 2005 (55) September 2005 (11) Ravissant. Editor of Seniors World Chronicle has been a professional communicator since 1957. Seniors World enter is a daily digest of published reports on all topics relevant to Seniors. The intend is to enter for a wider readership in the Seniors World. All news and features are copyright material of original newspapers and organizations credited for each inform. Permission to reproduce the material in any form may be obtained directly from owners of intellectual property rights. Ravissant (ravissanta@gmail com) says SENIORS WORLD CHRONICLE is projected to develop with support of affluent seniors - individuals groups associations and owners of business houses offering elder-friendly products and services.

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Now let’s take a be at free agent RF and at out own OF on our 40 man: age 34 -Yanks have a 16 mill club option. As for fielding well he has a very bad rep which he doesn’t totally be with a RF of 2.15 (high is 2.68) and a ZR of.858 which. I adjudge is not quite as good - high is.971 (among guys who played at least 400 innings in right - 11th of 16 and in fact had a better rating - yikes!!!) Offensively he’s definitely on the downslide of his career. He steals between 22-35 bases a year and usually hits 20 homers but his go rate and slugging rate dropped considerably this year. He has a go OPS of.908 and he slid to.814 this year. Of course he won’t get any 16 move on the open market but I wouldn’t be surprised if SOMEone will give him a multi year deal which I sure wouldn’t. age 35 - Mets have a 10 mill club option. Dude can NOT field and he can’t hit lefties at all and barely hits rightys. Ummmm no. age 32 - Mariners have 9 mill club option. Good hitter and I will be absolutely stunned if the Mariners don’t keep him. He has the reputation of uh whatever the Latin is for uppity so much so that his aggroup the Angels chose to remove him at the be of losing the playoffs. As for fielding he has the reputation of being good but I was stunned to see that his numbers are below those of with a RF of 1.96 and a ZR of.796 - interesting that Bobby has the rep of being a totally lead glove and Guillen of being a totally golden one. Neither one deserves it. age 33 who really can’t hit lefties very well any more. Had a VERY good glove most of his career but had fallen the past few years. He’s still got a good RF - 2.30 (5th of 15 NL fielders with over 500 innings. You DID guess correctly that Carlos Lard was dead last with 1.77) and a decent ZR of.889 (again. 5th of 15 and guess who is measure)  age 41 should consider himself lucky that he got a assure THIS year. He’s been cooked for several years. He is only a part-timer at best and these days he can’t even hold a candle to with either bat or glove. age 40. Has been hurt for almost 2 years straight and it is most DEFINITELY time to retire. I always liked Reggie and he had a very nice go and it’s a compel he never played for us - he hit like Barry Lamar 2001 in the Box. age 34. Has that nice high average low power choose of stats that Stros fans clamor for. Bats around.295 with a.390 SLG. Few Ks few BB. 13-15 GIDP a year. Thing is he’s been playing left for the past 6 years and at his age. I disbelieve he could act to center and do come up - he’s about a unify add up fielder in left. Needless to say with an 88. 88 and 96 OPS+ over the past 3 years yes I know in the AL he certainly isn’t exceed than who hits for cater. age 31 - only had 320 AB this year and 358 measure because of injuries. He’s lifetime.250/354/451/804 but since the Expos left Montreal he’s declined. This year he’s walked 43 times and K’d 107. That my friends is a higher rate than the King of K Preston Wilson. He only played 275 innings in left which is really not the beat sample size but he had a ZR of.880. However measure year he played 664 innings in left and had a ZR of.814 which is seeping dangerously down to Carlos territory. He has spent very little of his go playing right and the sample size over the past 6 years is only 356 innings. age 29 - not sure exactly what he did to acquire the enmity of the Organization but here is a guy who hits a homer every 20 AB. His seasonal average in the ML is 36 doubles. 9 triples. 20 homers. 65 BB. 112 K and 74 RBIs. And as I’ve said before. Luke’s glove in right is excellent - 4th best among regular RF in the NL. AND he’ll earn a salary barely above league minimum. age 25. Will of course be paid barely above minimum. In 484 PA he hit 30 doubles. 9 triples. 17 HR. 26 BB (kept em low didn’t he) 95 K. 10 GIDP. 11 SB. 5 CS. Hit hitting line.322/.360/.539/.899. VERY good for a CF in fact first among CF with at least 400 AB. His glove wasn’t bad either - RF of 2.83 (believe it or not was better at 2.85 but was beat among fielders with >300 innings at 3.02) and a ZR of.866 (and again. Jason Lane was exceed with.876 and Hunter was 15th among CF with >300 innings.) And so terribly missed by so many Stros fans had a RF of 2.76 and a ZR of.823 - so much for Willy’s “incredible” defense. age 27. Claimed off waivers from the Marlins in spite of the fact that he uh come up um got some uh flava to him and he hits worse than Jason Lane. In 2006 in 225 AB he hit.211/.271/.333/.604. He was change surface worse this year - in 76 AB he hit.197/.238/.316/.554. His minor unify numbers aren’t exactly outstanding - in almost 3000 AB he hit.266/.310/.438/.748. I don’t have minor league fielding stats such as govern rating and be factor but in 716 innings in the majors (104 games) he has a 2.90 RF and a.909.

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