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This video is cute but Nick's advice is pretty poor. It's worth what we all paid for it.

I voted for the Chiefs. The demise of the Chiefs is a bit premature because they still have the best HC and the best QB not to mention they still have at least as much talent as any of their rivals. They are a talented, experienced team under one of the great coaches in the game that knows how to win important games. The rest of the AFC West teams have added shiny new pieces but it remains to be seen if the new players and new coaches can perform up to the preseason hype.

My guess is that Kyler would probably be a better QB/leader if somebody on the Cards coaching staff (like the HC) had taken him in hand when he during his first three seasons. That's when he should have been introduced to the obviously alien idea that the NFL is a different animal than college football, and talent alone isn't enough for long-term success. Instead of redesigning their entire offense to suit Murray, the Cards should have also included plays that would have forced Murray to work at mastering them. I was a teacher for nearly ten years. Many students who could ace multiple choice tests -- or even fill-in-the-blank tests -- struggled when writing essays because they had to think. There were no crutches to help them out. I don't think that Kingsbury ever demanded that Murray demonstrate that he could do the football equivalent of writing an essay exam, so Kyler now figures that he can continue to slide by without putting in the effort that other starting QBs do. Unfortunately, I don't think Kyler is going to change his attitude toward his game prep unless -- until -- something bad happens.

It's an impressive waste of talent. I can't see how after 3 years in the league, Kyler is going to suddenly change his attitude towards his career. I think that the only way Murray gets the "attitude adjustment" he needs is if AZ were to cut him before the end of his contract or not re-sign him to a new contract. it may very well be too late then for him to re-establish himself as a starting QB with another team. My guess is that in twenty years Murray will be one of those ex-players that people will say could have been great if only ... Exactly. QBs like Brady, Rodgers, Allen, Mahomes, Stafford, etc probably regularly spend 8 to 10 hours a week voluntarily studying film. Many much less talented NFL QBs voluntarily spend far more than 4 hours a week studying film just trying to get better.

True, but without the players, there's no CBS interest.

Yeah, football was soooooo much better when players had to work other jobs during the off-season to make ends meet. It's the players who put their bodies and futures on the line to make the bucks for the billionaire team owners. Nobody is going to pay money to see Jerry Jones sit in his box and smirk or scowl, and ol' Jerry and his fellow owners aren't going to share the riches they make off the players' efforts unless they're forced to it.

Here's the link for hospice in Chautauqua County: Hospice Chautauqua

Good luck. It's always difficult to deal with an ill parent long distance.

It was an explosion in a transformer which is not an uncommon event on electric transmission lines. If a transformer on a pole near your home explodes, your neighborhood may be without power for several hours until it's fixed. I don't know how an explosion at a larger transformer at a major dam would impact electricity production.

I am so sorry for your mother's situation. I think that you may have to jump through a few hoops to legally get your mother home if you don't already have some of the pieces in place. It will help if your mother is considered legally competent, which it seems she still is. That should enable her to assert her desire to return to her home. The place to start is, I think, the Chautauqua County Office of the Aging. The number for the Jamestown office is 716-661-7582. For the Mayville office it's 716-753-4471. For the Dunkirk-Fredonia office, it's 716-679-3417. For the Sinclairville office, it's 716-962-8131. I think that Mayville is the main office, so you might get the best advice there. Another resource is Janell Sluga, Geriatric Care Manager for Senior Life Matters which is associated with the Lutheran Social Services in Jamestown, but SLM doesn't only help seniors at the LSS campus. When I retired, she helped me navigate Medicare Part D. Her email is janells@lutheran-jamestown.org and her phone is 716-720-9797. Hope this helps.

It's understandable. It's the very tail end of the off-season and we're all bored.

I think that one of the Buffalo tv stations may have broadcast the game live. In 1980, WNY was hockey-mad since the Sabres had been to the Stanley Cup finals about 3 or 4 years earlier plus with the games being in Lake Placid, the local stations had extra coverage. I remember coming home from work (I was a school teacher) and turning on the game while I was making dinner. Then again, maybe I am suffering from false memories.

I have to go with the Miracle on Ice at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. I can still see the hockey stick flying into the air after the buzzer . A lot of people don't remember that the win against the Russians wasn't the gold medal game. The US team had to beat Finland later in order to take the gold, which they did.

I don't remember this thread from three years ago at all. I was going to respond to a post on the first page of the thread when I realized it was started 4 years ago ... and went on for 27 pages of mostly the OP denying the possibility of his memory being faulty.

Why did somebody resurrect this thread after 3 years? The OP himself hasn't posted on TBD in 2 years.

Haboobs, the big walls of dust that are created when desert thunderstorms collapse, can be seen approaching from a long way away -- if you're in relatively flat terrain and happen to be looking in the right direction. Otherwise, they seem to come out of nowhere. My guess is that this was something similar to a haboob, only far removed from any real deserts because of the western drought. In the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, dust storms became fairly common on the Great Plains because of the extreme drought conditions at the time.

Skepticism is a good trait for any investor. You could use more of it since you seem to have bought into some significantly faulty information.

Contrary to the headline, these days $125k is a pretty paltry purse for a stakes races. On the same day as the Los Alamitos Derby, there were at least 7 stakes races run around the country worth at least $250k, topped by the $1 million Belmont Derby and the $700k Belmont Oaks Invitational (which are both run in New York where Baffert can't run his horses). On Sunday, Belmont ran 3 non-stakes races with purses over $90k each. Churchill Downs, which finished its meeting a week ago or so, has a purse structure similar to the big NY tracks Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga.

It's not social media that needs to be regulated but cryptocurrencies to limit the exposure of all investors to shady practices. Other than that, all the "good" information in the world isn't going to deter people who view investments as get-rich-quick schemes because those people only listen to what supports their schemes and dismiss warnings about the risks.

Glad you had a good time!

Thanks for the links. If I understood the article on asset backed cryptocurrencies correctly, they don't seem to be quite ready for prime time investing by John Q Public. While they offer more stability than other cryptos, they still have some significant problems that make them much riskier than more traditional investments. At present, the advantages of asset backed cryptos -- namely, the ability to buy tiny shares of expensive assets and the ease of liquidity -- can be had by individual investors using traditional investment vehicles like mutual funds that invest in assets like real estate or precious metals, so asset backed cryptos seem to be redundant and riskier.

^^^ Crypto mining techies aren't going to make quick fortunes investing in gold and silver. They will make big $$$ selling their versions of crypto to the "world economy is going to tank tomorrow" crowd who wouldn't be interested in "mainstream" crypto like Bitcoin.

My guess is that even more people are killed -- and certainly injured -- by horses, which were likely the second species that humans domesticated after the dog, sometime more than 5000 years ago, and have been used all that time as close partners to humans. Raising domestic bison for meat (and hides, I suppose) used to be popular. There was a big bison "ranch" out by Salamanca/Ellicottville in Catt County, and bison meat could be found in supermarkets. I visited with my stepmother. They used railroad ties as fence posts and industrial sized metal gates. I think they didn't herd them much but called them in with food. People never got into the pens with them (like they sometimes do with cows) but moved and/or separated them using chutes.

Large or venomous snakes, like many other exotic animals that some people think are "cool" to make into pets, should be left in their native habits because they can become dangerous as adults, primarily because of size and/or temperament. Once these animals become habituated to and dependent upon humans, they can rarely be returned to the wild and always have to live in captivity for their own safety and for the safety of people who cross their paths. Too often, when the animals become problems for their owners, they get dumped. Many exotic pets are collected illegally from the wild and smuggled into the US without regard for the animals' health or the possibility of spreading disease. The only way to truly stop this illegal trafficking is to dry up the market so that it's not worth it to smugglers to bring the animals into this country. Hopefully this snake is an escaped pet that can be reunited with its owner.

One attraction that hasn't been mentioned is the Erie County Fair in Hamburg for about 10 days in mid/late August. It's one of the largest county fairs in the US (I think that Los Angeles County Fair may be larger) and is larger than some state fairs. It has a massive midway, top grandstand shows, all kinds of shows, exhibits, and/or demonstrations -- conservation, historical, agricultural, and cultural.