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Regardless of whether or not I'm a real estate lawyer lad, here's an article about a fairly recent similar New York appellate decision dealing with specific performance of a property sale dispute. Specific performance was not granted in the case, because there was never a true "meeting of the minds." In Orchard Park, there may have been a "meeting of the minds." While it's true that, as a practical matter, the current owner might be able to throw enough money at the plaintiffs to get them to dismiss the suit so that the owner can sell the house to Tre for a higher price, the decision about whether to accept cash rather than completing the existing purchase contract is not up to either the current owner or Tre White. https://fhnylaw.com/second-department-determines-that-potential-real-estate-buyer-is-not-entitled-to-specific-performance-because-there-was-no-enforcable-contract/

I can't speak for "most fans," but I am not disappointed with the team's "'overall" performance at all. We are currently 5-2, and leading the division. Maybe others expected better, but if you had asked me just before the season started if I would be satisfied with leading the division after 7 games with a 5-2 record, I would have said yes. Would you have said no?

Well, the situation did absolutely require a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.

The Bills and the NFL previously opposed an attempt to federally trademark a version of a Bills Mafia logo (called the "MAFIA and Buffalo Design"), which resulted in the application to register that trademark being abandoned in early 2016. Click the link to see the history of the opposition proceeding, which includes a copy of the written opposition filed on behalf of the Bills and the NFL: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pno=91225627&pty=OPP&eno=1

Thanks for the source, but I'm still skeptical. According to this article in Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-100-meter-dash/ the fastest sprinters in the world, not wearing football gear, hit a top end speed of about 27 mph. I couldn't find anything about how many steps it takes them to get to either 20 mph, or to their very top end speed. I also remember seeing espn highlights where they superimpose a ball carrier's speed on a video of him running, usually on long TD runs.. I've seen several of those that the ESPN announcer claims were the fastest in a given week's games, and I think they generally topped out at somewhere around 21 or 22 mph. So I don't have a link to prove it, but I still think nobody in football gear hits 20 mph in 4 steps. I agree, though, that if Henry can actually do that, he's pretty amazing.

Large powerful organizations have to be careful about using trademarks, even unregistered ones, that are already being used by smaller, less powerful folks. The first user of the trademark is called the "senior user," while the party that has only more recently begun using the trademark is known as the "junior user." Don't believe me? Here's proof: From the 1995 opinion of a federal judge in the Southern District of NY, found here: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/895/616/1570620/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ "Before proceeding to discuss the likelihood of consumer confusion, the court notes that the current matter is unlike the ordinary case in which a senior user, having generated considerable public awareness and recognition around its own trademark, complains that consumers will be led to believe that, as a result of a junior user's confusingly similar mark or trade dress, the senior user is the source of the junior user's goods. The variety of confusion thus described, also known as "forward confusion", represents the classical case where the junior user is said to trade on the good will built by the plaintiff in its own mark. Here, however, Sunenblick claims that defendants' use of the MCA/UPTOWN RECORDS trademark is likely to result in "reverse confusion", i.e., the phenomenon in which the junior user's advertising so greatly overshadows that of the senior user that consumers come to the mistaken conclusion that the junior user is in fact the source of the senior user's goods. 2 McCarthy, supra, at § 23.1(E). This Circuit has held that proof of a likelihood of reverse confusion supports a claim for infringement under the Lanham Act. See Banff, Ltd. v. Federated Dept. Stores, Inc., 841 F.2d 486, 490-91 (2d Cir.1988) ("[w]ere reverse confusion not a sufficient basis to obtain Lanham Act protection, a larger company could, with impunity, infringe the senior mark of a smaller one")." _____________________________________________________________________________________ A full analysis of all the considerations relevant to this issue are well beyond the scope of this post, but as the potential "junior user," the Buffalo Bills football team has to be wary of "reverse confusion" trademark infringement claims if it does not strike some sort of deal with a smaller, far less powerful, "senior user." At least, that's what my "other brother" Darryl says.

Interesting article about the computer simulation research of a guy who hypothesizes that life can arise from certain combinations of chemicals combined with energy inputs: https://getpocket.com/explore/item/first-support-for-a-physics-theory-of-life?utm_source=pocket-newtab Before y'all get carried away with the idea that this is some kind of proof that we now know how life originated, consider this excerpt: ___________________________ Eugene Shakhnovich, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard who supervised England’s undergraduate research, sharply emphasized the divide between his former student’s work and questions in biology. “He started his scientific career in my lab and I really know how capable he is,” Shakhnovich said, but “Jeremy’s work represents potentially interesting exercises in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of simple abstract systems.” Any claims that it has to do with biology or the origins of life, he added, are “pure and shameless speculations.” ___________________________ The research "prodigy" ran a computer simulation that predicts that you can get unexpected structure by applying energy to a soup containing a combination of chemicals. Yawn. Call me when somebody applies energy inputs to a soup of chemicals and creates actual life from non-life in a laboratory.

Henry is fast, but I don't think anybody gets to 21 mph by their 4th step.

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To see how NFL Game Pass is supposed to work, read the complete NFL Game Pass description here: https://www.soda.com/video/watch/out-of-market-nfl-games/ "NFL Game Pass is the most complete method for out of market NFL streaming. This is the league’s official streaming service, and it offers football fans a way to watch ALL regular and postseason NFL games online, without cable TV! There are no local blackouts – you can watch literally any game from any team, from anywhere in the United States! NFL Game Pass is for on-demand viewing only. Live streaming is not available during the regular season." https://www.soda.com/video/watch/buffalo-bills/

I'm no expert on what's in-market, but that seems to me like you are far enough away from Buffalo that you would be considered out-of-market. I went back and looked at the NFL Game Pass website, and it appears that some sort of promotion is being run that allows you to stream games over the Internet "live" (i.e., without the roughly 3 hour delay) if you subscribe to BOTH Direct TV and NFL Game Pass. If you can figure out a way to contact a person (by phone or by email), tell them that you are NOT interested in the promotion that allows you to stream NFL games live, as they happen. You just want to be able to stream the games on a delayed basis. That doesn't require a Direct TV subscription. If you''re considered out-of-market for Bills games, you're supposed to be able to sign up to watch broadcasts of Bills games on NFL Game Pass on a roughly 3 hour delay over the Internet, without a Direct TV subscription, just like I've been doing. Good luck! Edit: you can sign up for Game Pass even if you are considered "in-market." See my post down-thread.

NFL game broadcasts are not in the public domain. From https://troypoint.com/beetv-apk/ _______________________________________________________________________ Is BeeTV legal? Yes. BeeTV is 100% legal to install and use. However, some content provided may be illegal. To ensure you are not illegally streaming, make sure to only watch Movies and TV Shows in the public domain.

I don't know the rules for in-market vs. out-of-market. I live farther away from Buffalo than you, but I have subscribed to NFL Game Pass for several years without problems and I have never had Direct TV. Maybe you live close enough to Buffalo that you are considered in-market, even if your local TV station chooses to broadcast other teams' games?

If you are not "in market" can't you just subscribe directly to NFL Game Pass: https://gamepass.nfl.com/packages?campaign=sp-el-gd-bm-gg-1800020&ef_id=EAIaIQobChMI3YKn_eHZ6wIVKBitBh3klwtFEAAYASAAEgIXTPD_BwE:G:s&s_kwcid=AL!5264!3!461558908768!e!!g!!nfl game pass&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3YKn_eHZ6wIVKBitBh3klwtFEAAYASAAEgIXTPD_BwE You can't watch the game "live," but you can start the replay as soon as the live game ends. It's pretty easy to ignore sports news broadcasts that I don't really care about anyway for three hours (so I don't hear the outcome) before I fire up the replay to watch the Bills. You get high quality video. There's a free 7 day trial if you want to check it out.

As I understand it, after Foster cleared waivers, he was free to sign on to the practice squad of any team that wanted him. It's certainly possible that the Bills didn't want him. It's also possible that both the Bills and GB wanted him, but he felt he would have a better chance of being later elevated to the 53 on the Packers rather than the Bills. With 2 of this year's WR draftees kept on the Bills' 53 while he was cut, I could understand Foster thinking he would have better future opportunities elsewhere.

Thanks.

Some of the roster discussion in this thread is interesting, but Is there some reason why a no-discussion thread can't also be pinned to simply list the cuts? Not everybody has time to read the last 34 pages of a 49 page thread to get the info (even if a full list is buried in those 34 pages somewhere).

Was coming out of the closet as traumatic as people say?

Foster has some good tape from a couple years ago. I could see a coach who watched Foster blow by his DBs 2 years ago offer a very late round pick for him. I suspect coaches tend to remember the WRs who hurt them. Speed kills.

There are a few ski resorts in the NC mountains. I haven't visited them, but if you're looking for towns at elevation for cooler summer weather you might want to check out the areas close to the ski resorts to see if any of them are big enough to satisfy you. Proximity to a ski resort might offer winter rental opportunities when you don't plan to be there anyway if that matters to you (sounds like it probably doesn't). Good luck with the search.

If QB runs are going to be a designed part of the offense this year, you've got to give Duke some credit for his blocking ability. All we know about the rookie WRs is what the media tell us, and they rarely mention blocking ability because most fans don't care about whether a WR can block (3 pages in, and nobody mentioned it). At least some coaches do. I suspect Duke won't make the 53. But knowing absolutely nothing at this point about whether the rookie WRs have the ability and willingness to block (especially Hodgin), Duke may have a better chance than some give him credit for. Duke is adequate enough as a catcher so that his entry into the game would not necessarily mean a run was coming.

"I squat, broken hearted" Opposite wall of the small cave is a bit smudged - - the legible part reads: "Tried to s**t, but only farted"

Would I have to give up my membership in "Big One" to use the new app?

They walk among you.