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No, I have always been just me.
bcci.. please take a couple minutes to type out answers to a couple of questions that I have....'
Are you an investor in RLTR? If so, did you make or lose money on this investment?
Are you an investor in BCCI? If so, did you make or lose money on this investment?
HOLY CRAP! Couldn't pick last week and only 3 ppl scored better than me...woohoooo!
Do I get added to the "150 Club" (finally) ???
To all interested readers of this board....
Please be aware that Mr. Gonzalo Leon continues to work hard to keep past and potential future investors in RLTR up to date in what is going on "behind the scenes" with RLTR with his most recent posting on the website reeltimerentals.com .
http://www.reeltimerentals.com
Mr. James Hodge does not appear to be interested at all in countering the claims of Mr. Leon.
http://www.reeltime.com
There are clearly two "points of view" regarding this company regarding who exactly is in charge.
All posters on this board need reminded that until such time that the question of exactly who is the CEO of RLTR at this time is officially cleared up are asked to be respectful of this fact and to cease and desist from alleging that Mr. Leon is at any fault in his CEO claims to RLTR.
bcci... as you have seen, post 63650 shows that BH provided his title as CEO to the arresting officer.
Case closed.
Please drop this discussion and help us move forward to more pertinent issues regarding RLTR.
Thank you!
15-17-18-48 please
WTG NEWHAMPSHA !!!
What the heck do I stand to lose here? Using my all new ingenious calculation method here is what I'm a pickin'....
16-24-88-99
GULP!
It's almost election time! Let's fire things up here! Who thinks that Obama is going to win? Who thinks Romney will?
Me? Since I am the moderator I will remain neutral on this!
Share this post/board with all your IHUB friends and let's see how all the IHUBBERS feel about what is going on with this year's Presidential Election!
Moderator Comment: This new PR seems too vague to investors to really mean anything. It is devoid of any specifics in the announcement and should be considered in it's entirety as lacking any direct detailed information regarding any specific future direction of RLTR.
In the interest of fairness, I have added back to the iBox the link to the two different websites that both claim ownership of the website of RLTR. Regardless of recent news it is important for investor DD for people to have access to both websites that currently show an ownership interest in RLTR.
2-17-24-48.... hoping for a MIRACLE HERE~!
I think redfisher has it right! Give me 5-14-18-24... GLTA!
VERY KEWL! ASUS ROCKS~!
Does anyone know what ever happened to Jason Brola?
WOW... 2 weeks in a row now I made good picks... just afraid it's too little too late for me now...........GROAN!
CHEVY's to the MAX!~! Give me 5 - 14 - 24 - 48 please!
RIP Neil Armstrong...
Neil Armstrong, First Man on the Moon, Is Dead at 82
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Neil Armstrong, a quiet, self-described nerdy engineer who became a global hero when he made “one giant leap for mankind” with a small step on to the moon, died Saturday. He was 82.
Mr. Armstrong died after complications from cardiovascular procedures, according to a statement from his family. The statement did not say where he died. He lived in Cincinnati.
Mr. Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th century’s scientific expeditions. His first words after setting foot on the surface are etched in history books and the memories of those who heard them in a live broadcast.
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” Mr. Armstrong said.
In those first moments on the moon, during the climax of the heated space race with the Soviet Union, Mr. Armstrong stopped in what he called “a tender moment” and left a patch commemorating NASA astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts who had died in action.
“It was special and memorable, but it was only instantaneous because there was work to do,” he told an Australian television interviewer in 2012.
Mr. Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, who was known as Buzz, spent nearly three hours walking on the lunar surface, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs.
The moonwalk marked America’s victory in the cold war space race that began Oct. 4, 1957, with the launching of the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, a 184-pound satellite that sent shock waves around the world.
Although he had been a Navy fighter pilot, a test pilot for NASA’s forerunner and an astronaut, Mr. Armstrong never allowed himself to be caught up in the celebrity and glamour of the space program.
“I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer,” he said in February 2000 in a rare public appearance. “And I take a substantial amount of pride in the accomplishments of my profession.”
A man who kept away from cameras, Mr. Armstrong went public in 2010 with his concerns about President Obama’s space policy that shifted attention away from a return to the moon and emphasized private companies developing spaceships.
He testified before Congress, and in an e-mail to The Associated Press, Mr. Armstrong said he had “substantial reservations,” and along with more than two dozen Apollo-era veterans, he signed a letter calling the plan a “misguided proposal that forces NASA out of human space operations for the foreseeable future.”
When he appeared in Dayton, Ohio, in 2003 to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of powered flight, he bounded onto a stage. But he spoke for only a few seconds, did not mention the moon and quickly ducked out of the spotlight.
He later joined the former astronaut and senator John Glenn to lay wreaths on the graves of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Mr. Glenn introduced Mr. Armstrong and noted it was 34 years to the day of the moon walk.
“Thank you, John. Thirty-four years?” Armstrong quipped, as if he had not given it a thought.
Mr. Armstrong’s moonwalk capped a series of accomplishments that included piloting the X-15 rocket plane and making the first space docking during the Gemini 8 mission, which included a successful emergency splashdown.
In the years afterward, he retreated to the quiet of the classroom and his southwest Ohio farm. Mr. Aldrin said in his book “Men from Earth” that Mr. Armstrong was one of the quietest, most private men he had ever met.
Derek Elliott, curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s U.S. Air and Space Museum from 1982 to 1992, said the moonwalk probably marked the high point of space exploration.
The manned lunar landing was a boon to the prestige of the United States, which had been locked in a space race with the former Soviet Union, and re-established the pre-eminence of the United States in science and technology, Mr. Elliott said.
“The fact that we were able to see it and be a part of it means that we are in our own way witnesses to history,” he said.
The 1969 landing met an audacious deadline that President John F. Kennedy had set in May 1961, shortly after Alan Shepard became the first American in space with a 15-minute suborbital flight. The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin had orbited the Earth and beaten the United States into space the previous month.
“I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth,” the president had said. "No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important to the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."
The end-of-decade goal was met with more than five months to spare. “Houston: Tranquility Base here,” Mr. Armstrong radioed after the spacecraft settled onto the moon. “The Eagle has landed.”
“Roger, Tranquility,” the Houston staff member radioed back. "We copy you on the ground. You’ve got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot."
The third astronaut on the mission, Michael Collins, circled the moon in the mother ship Columbia 60 miles overhead. In all, 12 American astronauts walked on the moon from 1969 and the last moon mission in 1972.
Neil Alden Armstrong was born Aug. 5, 1930, on a farm near Wapakoneta in western Ohio. He took his first airplane ride at age 6 and developed a fascination with aviation that prompted him to build model airplanes and conduct experiments in a homemade wind tunnel.
As a boy, he worked at a pharmacy and took flying lessons. He was licensed to fly at 16, before he got his driver’s license.
He enrolled in Purdue University to study aeronautical engineering but was called to duty with the Navy in 1949 and flew 78 combat missions in Korea.
After the war, Mr. Armstrong finished his degree from Purdue and later earned a master’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Southern California. He became a test pilot with what evolved into the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, flying more than 200 kinds of aircraft from gliders to jets.
Mr. Armstrong was accepted into NASA’s second astronaut class in 1962 — the first, including Mr. Glenn, was chosen in 1959 — and commanded the Gemini 8 mission in 1966. After the first space docking, he brought the capsule back in an emergency landing in the Pacific Ocean when a wildly firing thruster kicked it out of orbit.
He was backup commander for the historic Apollo 8 mission at Christmastime in 1968. In that flight, Commander Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell and Bill Anders circled the moon 10 times, and paving the way for the lunar landing seven months later.
An estimated 600 million people — a fifth of the world’s population — watched and listened to the landing, the largest audience for any single event in history.
Parents huddled with their children in front of the family television, mesmerized by what they were witnessing. Farmers abandoned their nightly milking duties, and motorists pulled off the highway and checked into motels just to see the moonwalk.
Television-less campers in California ran to their cars to catch the word on the radio. Boy Scouts at a camp in Michigan watched on a generator-powered television supplied by a parent.
Afterward, people walked out of their homes and gazed at the moon, in awe of what they had just seen. Others peeked through telescopes in hopes of spotting the astronauts.
The three astronauts were given ticker tape parades in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles and later made a 22-nation world tour. A homecoming in Wapakoneta drew 50,000 people to the city of 9,000.
In 1970, Mr. Armstrong was appointed deputy associate administrator for aeronautics at NASA but left the next year to teach aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati.
He remained there until 1979 and during that time bought a 310-acre farm near Lebanon, where he raised cattle and corn. He stayed out of public view, accepting few requests for interviews or speeches.
From 1982 to 1992, Mr. Armstrong was chairman of Computing Technologies for Aviation, a company in Charlottesville, Va. that supplies computer information management systems for business aircraft.
He then became chairman of AIL Systems Inc., an electronic systems company in Deer Park, N.Y.
He married Carol Knight in 1999, and had two sons from a previous marriage.
Those who knew him said he enjoyed golfing with friends, was active in the local YMCA and frequently ate lunch at the same restaurant.
In February 2000, when he agreed to announce the top 20 engineering achievements of the 20th century as voted by the National Academy of Engineering, Mr. Armstrong said there was one disappointment relating to his moonwalk.
“I can honestly say — and it’s a big surprise to me — that I have never had a dream about being on the moon,” he said.
Scary Obituary
In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The Obituary follows:
Born 1776, Died 2012
It doesn't hurt to read this several times.
Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning
the last Presidential election:
Number of States won by: Obama: 19 McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by: Obama: 580,000 McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Obama: 127 million McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Obama: 13.2 McCain: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low-income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years
I WILL PICK lol... for once I scored in the top 3 of pickers this week ... perhaps my luck is about to change!
I have to agree with ya Lacy.. not good to change the rules mid season.
I just got up... got bored waiting and fell asleep. Good Morning!
Stay up! You CAN DO IT! lol
BOOGITY BOOGITY BOOGITY!
Thanks! Anxious to enjoy a nite of racing FUN! Been a long time coming for me!
START YOUR ENGINES!
Lookin like it's gonna be a race!
Lookin like it's gonna be a race!
Woohooo.. track is drying out...
Sorry for overexcitement here... glad to finally have a Saturday nite to be at home, make my picks and watch a race... all for the first time all year!
Thanks! Ok, I have the race on TV now... ready to boogity boogity boogity... nice to have my new laptop and be able to post again ....it's a really kewl laptop... by ASUS... check out the name.... it's the up and coming state of the art laptops!
2 18 24 48 what time is the race???
YIKES, YIKES lol... here am I!
Been busy at work as usual but ready to pick...
Analyzing now........
Stay tuned! HAHA
My laptop died last week, but I now am online with a BRAND NEW ONE! WOOHOOOO!
HAHAHAHA
HOLY CRAP lol... finally, by NOT picking I gained some ground! LUCKY ME!
INTERESTING!....
Analysis of Election Factors Points to Romney Win in U.S. Election
ScienceDaily (Aug. 22, 2012) — A University of Colorado analysis of state-by-state factors leading to the Electoral College selection of every U.S. president since 1980 forecasts that the 2012 winner will be Mitt Romney.
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The key is the economy, say political science professors Kenneth Bickers of CU-Boulder and Michael Berry of CU Denver. Their prediction model stresses economic data from the 50 states and the District of Columbia, including both state and national unemployment figures as well as changes in real per capita income, among other factors.
"Based on our forecasting model, it becomes clear that the president is in electoral trouble," said Bickers, also director of the CU in DC Internship Program.
According to their analysis, President Barack Obama will win 218 votes in the Electoral College, short of the 270 he needs. And though they chiefly focus on the Electoral College, the political scientists predict Romney will win 52.9 percent of the popular vote to Obama's 47.1 percent, when considering only the two major political parties.
"For the last eight presidential elections, this model has correctly predicted the winner," said Berry. "The economy has seen some improvement since President Obama took office. What remains to be seen is whether voters will consider the economy in relative or absolute terms. If it's the former, the president may receive credit for the economy's trajectory and win a second term. In the latter case, Romney should pick up a number of states Obama won in 2008."
Their model correctly predicted all elections since 1980, including two years when independent candidates ran strongly, 1980 and 1992. It also correctly predicted the outcome in 2000, when Al Gore received the most popular vote but George W. Bush won the election.
The study will be published this month in PS: Political Science & Politics, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Political Science Association. It will be among about a dozen election prediction models, but one of only two to focus on the Electoral College.
While many forecast models are based on the popular vote, the Electoral College model developed by Bickers and Berry is the only one of its type to include more than one state-level measure of economic conditions.
In addition to state and national unemployment rates, the authors looked at per capita income, which indicates the extent to which people have more or less disposable income. Research shows that these two factors affect the major parties differently: Voters hold Democrats more responsible for unemployment rates while Republicans are held more responsible for per capita income.
Accordingly -- and depending largely on which party is in the White House at the time -- each factor can either help or hurt the major parties disproportionately.
Their results show that "the apparent advantage of being a Democratic candidate and holding the White House disappears when the national unemployment rate hits 5.6 percent," Berry said. The results indicate, according to Bickers, "that the incumbency advantage enjoyed by President Obama, though statistically significant, is not great enough to offset high rates of unemployment currently experienced in many of the states."
In an examination of other factors, the authors found that none of the following had any statistically significant effect on whether a state ultimately went for a particular candidate: The location of a party's national convention; the home state of the vice president; or the partisanship of state governors.
In 2012, "What is striking about our state-level economic indicator forecast is the expectation that Obama will lose almost all of the states currently considered as swing states, including North Carolina, Virginia, New Hampshire, Colorado, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida," Bickers said.
In Colorado, which went for Obama in 2008, the model predicts that Romney will receive 51.9 percent of the vote to Obama's 48.1 percent, again with only the two major parties considered.
The authors also provided caveats. Factors they said may affect their prediction include the timeframe of the economic data used in the study and close tallies in certain states. The current data was taken five months in advance of the Nov. 6 election and they plan to update it with more current economic data in September. A second factor is that states very close to a 50-50 split may fall an unexpected direction.
"As scholars and pundits well know, each election has unique elements that could lead one or more states to behave in ways in a particular election that the model is unable to correctly predict," Berry said.
Election prediction models "suggest that presidential elections are about big things and the stewardship of the national economy," Bickers said. "It's not about gaffes, political commercials or day-to-day campaign tactics. I find that heartening for our democracy."
THANKS Rally! I'll do my best!
I have finally figured out what I was doing wrong in the ibox. I didn't have my browser set up to view the current ibox info on investorshub.
But I now see that my update had taken effect last night!
RLTR is clearly suffering from a very bad prior management team and I believe that Mr. Leon will continue to work very hard to help sort out the entire mess of a past of this company.
YVW! Nice to see you back!
Just to let everyone know... I have emailed IHUB ADMINS to ask why I am not able to update the IBOX.