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Tell me about it...me too.
Sorry, doing too many things at the same time.
I respect Alvarez and Osborne and Haden and Manning, just for examples, but how the heck they're supposed to make an unemotional, unbiased decision is beyond me.
You're going to see some real screaming if one of their former teams just makes it in over an equally worthy contender.
These kind of lists/rankings are by their very nature subjective and arbitrary. I don't know what the answer is.
Look at NCAA basketball: 64 teams and there's still teams who gripe that they belong in.
I know very well who Barry Alvarez is, you missed my point.
He and the others on the list have strong ties to many top teams, and we're asking them to do the choosing.
Well, a person could ask similar questions about Barry Alvarez and Tom Osborne and every other person on the list.
How this will be more objective and less controversial than a computerized, mathematically-based system I don't know.
I don't have the slightest idea, very odd.
Actually they'll be the number one team, but we'll see.
Also interesting, because of all the complaints about the computerized rankings, they've gone to a 13-member expert committee: (check out the tenth name, bolding mine.)
Jeff Long (chair), Barry Alvarez, Mike Gould, Pat Haden, Tom Jernstedt, Oliver Luck, Archie Manning, Tom Osborne, Dan Radakovich, Condoleezza Rice, Mike Tranghese, Steve Wieberg and Tyrone Willingham.
OT: 2014 NCAA Preseason Football Rankings
http://espn.go.com/college-football/rankings
Also remember that the national title will be contested via a four-team bracket system, the College Football Playoff, which replaces the previous Bowl Championship Series.
The teams playing for the national championship are the winners of semifinal bowl games held January 1, 2015. The semifinal games are the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. The semifinal participants will be chosen and ranked 1-4 by the 13-member playoff selection committee, with 1 playing 4 and 2 playing 3
Also remember that the national title will be contested via a four-team bracket system, the College Football Playoff, which replaces the previous Bowl Championship Series.
The teams playing for the national championship are the winners of semifinal bowl games held January 1, 2015. The semifinal games are the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. The semifinal participants will be chosen and ranked 1-4 by the 13-member playoff selection committee, with 1 playing 4 and 2 playing 3
Buckeyes all the way.
Best of luck!
After successive debacles with HUSA & BAA, I'm going to stay away from natural resources stocks for awhile. Their company-provided numbers are often bogus (worse than even biotech!), and once they start falling there seems to be no bottom.
And refresh my memory: is this the absolute bottom, in bold capital letters?
Life decisions that we study, research, ponder and consult with others about are well-considered and rarely changed, if only because we put so much time and work into making them. Our second-guessed decisions are usually the ones we make in haste.
The problem is, for a stock trader 99% of the decisions are the latter type!
Nothing tin foil hat about it. Here's a good explanation:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/01/us-health-ebola-healthworkers-idUSKBN0G14FR20140801
OT: The best article I've read on Ebola in general (for a layperson) and this whole incredible public spectacle.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/ebola-outbreaks-science-versus-fear-mongering-and-quackery/
Often they're an old, well-known form of scam.
In most personal injury suits you pay no up-front attorney fees, instead they get a healthy percentage if you win. If you lose no cost to you.
In these stock class-action suits, they'll ask you to pay up front. As long as they never ask for any $$$$, you're cool.
I lost a good-sized chunk of change in this last month. I've never participated in one of those "class action lawsuits" you always see because 99.9% of the time they're additional scams for lawyers to make money. But if one of them was legitimate, I'd be part of it!
HUSA: Uh oh, look out below! SEC announces charges against Houston American Energy and its CEO.
August 4, 2014, 17:34 EDT
"The Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against a Houston-based oil-and-gas exploration and production company and its CEO for making fraudulent claims about the company’s oil reserves. An SEC enforcement investigation found that Houston American Energy Corp. and John F. Terwilliger fraudulently claimed that a Colombian exploration concession in which Houston American only owned a fractional interest held between 1B and 4B barrels of oil reserves, and that the reserves were worth more than $100 per share to Houston American’s investors. The estimates lacked any reasonable basis and were falsely attributed to the concession’s operator, whose actual estimates were much lower.
HUSA: Uh oh, look out below! SEC announces charges against Houston American Energy and its CEO.
August 4, 2014, 17:34 EDT
"The Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against a Houston-based oil-and-gas exploration and production company and its CEO for making fraudulent claims about the company’s oil reserves. An SEC enforcement investigation found that Houston American Energy Corp. and John F. Terwilliger fraudulently claimed that a Colombian exploration concession in which Houston American only owned a fractional interest held between 1B and 4B barrels of oil reserves, and that the reserves were worth more than $100 per share to Houston American’s investors. The estimates lacked any reasonable basis and were falsely attributed to the concession’s operator, whose actual estimates were much lower.
Yes, you are pissed off.
No, I was not criticizing your thoughts, I was disagreeing with them. There's a difference.
What I was criticizing is your scattered and ineffective method of presenting your thoughts.
Anyway, now that I've effectively shot myself in the foot on this board, I want to wish you folks the best.
I respect your right to disagree. Yes, of course, the Palestinians have a right to a better life. That can begin to be acheived by first eliminating Hamas. Hamas is not interested in a better life here; they are like all religious nuts, their minds are on some mythical paradise.
Stephanie just called the incessant Hamas rocket attacks annoying, and you call them inconvenient. And the murder/kidnapping tunnels are just a way for the boys to let off a little steam? The bus bombs, the body parts in the street, they're just Arabs having a little fun? Are you both kidding?
Again, as I said in my previous post, I'm surprised. If one of the anti-science goofs that plague your board started ranting about how global warming can't be true because it was cold yesterday, you'd rightfully be scornful and rip him to shreds. But in this case you're letting your passion overcome your reason. A rational person should not deliberately decide to be logical about one thing and illogical about another.
It is a terrible situation for both sides. If you think that Israelis are dancing with joy over this, you are sadly mistaken. They too are terribly conflicted, they too hate what is happening, but they see no other way to stop Hamas. A two-state solution is the only viable answer; it must and will come eventually. But it cannot come with Hamas ruling Gaza.
Over and out on this.
Not exactly though they're related.
They're both the same general type of organism— microscopic phytoplankton, commonly called algae. They’re some of the oldest kinds of living things on earth, literally billions of years old, and there are thousands of different types. (Think of two insects: a ladybug and an African killer bee.)
In your fish tank, when the water gets too still or bunches of food or fish poop stagnate on the surface, these little buggers have a feast, proliferate, start to become visible—a bloom—because there are so many millions of them in one place. But that type of algal bloom is essentially harmless unless it gets so big that it consumes all the oxygen in the water.
Harmful algal blooms (called HABS) like the massive ones currently in Lake Erie, consist of far nastier forms of toxic algae that produce poisons.
Re Ebola: The ignorant posts on iHub and the entire net; the absurd things some elected officials say; a lot of downright ridiculous media coverage; the hundreds of hate-filled emails Emory University Hospital has received for letting Ebola into the country. Just incredible.
Isaac Asimov once said,"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Stephanie- I won't be posting any Google links with this (I'm starting to feel that the ability to google is now passing for wisdom!) Enough is enough.
Anyway: I'm an admirer of yours, and of all the other outspoken liberals on the Tornado Board and elsewhere. More and more it seems we're being pushed into the punishment corner and expected to sit silently, facing the wall. I won't and never have, you and others don't, and that takes courage.
Plus you've got some real chutzpah, like me: I always had to not only tell it like it is, but also rub their noses in it. My mean streak, I guess.
But....
I am very surprised and disappointed with your position, and that of some others on the board, on the latest horrors in Israel and Gaza.
Israel does have a right to defend their country. Rocket attacks, tunnels built for kidnapping and murder, bus bombs: what would you have them do? Instead of spending all their time and resources building tunnels to spread death, Hamas should put their money and work into improving the above-ground infrastructure.
Better still, the people of Gaza and Israel need to get rid of Hamas. Hamas does not want a two-state solution, a three-state solution, or a twenty-state solution. They want the destruction of Israel, and if possible, the cherry on their sundae would be the excruciating death of every Jewish person in the world.
Please...please..you and others, it is not necessary to inundate me with Google links. I have been a serious student of the Middle East for over 50 years, and I've traveled there extensively. I've read most of the primary source documents that many of those articles and blogs refer to, and I keep up daily with the reliable news media.
Again, the whole mess is just a horror. I have nothing but compassion for the everyday people of Gaza: I can't, none of us can imagine what they're going through.
Progressive liberals must stick together, must fight together, but on this issue I leave you, my friend.
LOL.
The photo made me think of something. One of the best books I've read in the past few years is Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time.It won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2005.
It's the largely unknown and untold story of the people who stayed in the Dust Bowl, actually many more than those who left. You just will not believe what they went through: the poverty, the starvation, the illness, the death of their loved ones. I always think about it when I hear someone complain about how long the line is at the grocery checkout!
Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is a great story, but this is the counterpoint.
Check out the mind-blowing California drought graphic from this article. If you're a visual-learner, this says it all.
http://sfist.com/2014/07/31/the_current_california_drought_illu.php
Also, for those ostriches that think global warming won't affect their "real" lives, from the article:
Lifestyles of the rich and religious: the lavish homes of American archbishops
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/08/us/american-archbishops-lavish-homes/?hpt=hp_t1
The earth does not belong to us, we belong to the earth.
We just don't seem to be able to accept that!
Here's one of my favorite quotes from the great 19th centurey naturalist Louis Agassiz:
"Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it."