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Law and Romanettes : Blondes, Brunettes or Redheads? US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts Learns a New Word

Posted on December 11, 2008
You mean you are in law and do not know what a romanette is? OK, neither did we. Here is the answer from Wikipedia: 2008, United States Supreme Court oral argument, United States v. Hayes, Case no. 07-608, page 9, MS. SAHARSKY: . . . not looking at this Romanette (i) and (ii), but just looking at that sentence...

Hiring a Good Coach is Half the Battle: Buffalo Head Football Coach Turner Gill is on the Radar of Auburn and Syracuse

Posted on December 11, 2008
Here is the AP headline at ESPN: "Buffalo's Gill on wish list for Syracuse, Auburn after unlikely MAC title BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Buffalo coach Turner Gill, fresh off an improbable Mid-American Conference title, is a candidate for coaching vacancies at Syracuse and Auburn...

YPPSYS NCAA Division I-A FBS College Football Bowl Game Predictions and Ratings for the 2008 / 2009 Season

Posted on December 10, 2008
COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL GAME PREDICTIONS 2008/2009Our prediction record for the college football season is 653-212 in calling the game winners and 307-288-11 against the point spread. See our pre-bowl ratings and rankings. NCAA Division I-A FBS College Football 34-Game Bowl Schedule, Matchups and Predictions...

Underwater Megaliths at Atlit-Yam Israel Deciphered as Ancient Astronomy

Posted on December 10, 2008
I received an email recently alerting me to the fascinating megalithic underwater site of Atlit-Yam in Israel. The Israel Antiquities Authority writes: "The site of Atlit-Yam is situated some 200-400 m offshore, at a depth of 8-12 m and extends over an area of ca...

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THE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS PRE-BOWL COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS and RANKINGS for the 2008 SEASON on December 9, 2008: After 15th WEEK

Posted on December 08, 2008
THE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS PRE-BOWL COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS and RANKINGS for the 2008 SEASON on December 9, 2008 ________ THE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS after Week 15 of play. NAYPPA (net average yards per play advantage) is calculated according to CFBSTATS...

YPPSYS College Football Game Predictions and Results - 2008 Season - Week 15 - Week of Saturday, December 6, 2008

Posted on December 07, 2008
Update: Our record this week in Division I-A FBS football was 11-4 in calling the winner and 7-8 against the betting line. In the other divisions our record in calling the winner was 6-4. Our record for the season is therefore 653-212 in calling game winners and 307-288-11 against the spread...

EU Job Posting for Director General of OLAF in English, French and German Languages only Found to be Discriminatory by the Court of First Instance

Posted on December 04, 2008
The translators in Europe will be happy about a decision of the Court of First Instance of the European Union, just handed down in case in which the suit was brought by Italy, as joined by Spain and Latvia. The court decision nullified a European Commission policy, adopted in the year 2004, to publish job vacancy notices for senior positions in English, French and German languages only...

Which is the Best Team in the Land? It all Depends on Who Plays Whom : Offensive and Defensive Strengths and Weaknesses Result in Paradox Outcomes

Posted on December 04, 2008
Who is the best college football team in the land? and how can it be that team A beats team B, team B beats team C, and then team C beats team A? Maybe there is often no true national champion but simply a mix of top teams. A good example here is the triumvirate of games in the 2008 college football season between Texas, Oklahoma and Texas Tech, where Texas beat Oklahoma, Oklahoma beat Texas pa href="http://feeds...

College Football Teams Compared by 2008 Statistics taken from CFBSTATS.com

Posted on December 03, 2008
If we assign a ranking to various parameters for college football teams according to CFBSTATS.com, what do the accumulated rankings look like? The following analysis of the most important statistics in football shows that Florida and USC should be ranked 1st and 2nd and that Boise State is really getting the shaft if it is not selected to a BCS Bowl, since it ranks higher than Utah and Ohio State pa href="http://feeds...

Leaders Unite! A Worldwide Online Community for Leadership Research : SSRN (Social Science Research Network) announces MRN Leadership Research Network

Posted on December 02, 2008
In case you did not know it, the leading download at SSRN, referenced below, is 'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy, by Daniel J. Solove, George Washington University Law School. Join SSRN (for free) to download it. __________ We just received the announcement below from MRN, the Management Research Network at SSRN, the Social Science Research Network, concerning pa href="http://feeds...

College Football Teams 2008 Statistically Compared using cfbstats.com: Florida vs. Texas Tech

Posted on December 01, 2008
The current college football rating system by popular polls should be scrapped. A review of football statistics this season shows this clearly. Too much emphasis is being placed upon a team going undefeated against weak opposition, rather than on hard football facts...

College Football Teams 2008 Statistically Compared using cfbstats.com: Oklahoma vs. Texas

College Football Teams 2008 Statistically Compared using cfbstats.com: Alabama vs. USC

THE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS and RANKINGS for the 2008 SEASON on December 1, 2008: After the 14th WEEK of Play

Posted on December 01, 2008
THE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS and RANKINGS for the 2008 SEASON on December 1, 2008: After the 14th WEEK of PlayTHE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS after Week 14 of play.NAYPPA (net average yards per play advantage) is calculated according to CFBSTATS...

BCS Standings of December 1 Biased Ignoring Actual Football Performance : Oklahoma victor over 4 BCS ranks, Texas 3, Alabama & Florida only 1 each

Posted on December 01, 2008
The new BCS standings as of December 1, 2008(The BCS rating score is a calculation based on a formula relying on the Harris Interactive poll, the USA Today coaches poll and selected computer polls.)Take a look at that poll below anc consider the following stats:Oklahoma has beaten the teams ranked 7, 11, 13, and 14 and has lost to the team ranked 3rd...

College Football Teams 2008 Statistically Compared using cfbstats.com: Penn State vs. USC

College Football Teams 2008 Statistically Compared using cfbstats.com: Utah vs. Boise State

College Football Teams 2008 Statistically Compared using cfbstats.com: Florida vs. USC

BCS Bowl Matchups and the BCS Eligibility Provisions in the College Football Bowl Selection Procedure

Posted on November 30, 2008
Even in sports, also in college football, it all comes down to the legal paragraphs.TEN BCS TEAMS ARE SELECTED for the BCS Bowls by the eligibility provisions of the BCS Selection Procedures.The Eligibility Provisions of the BCS Selection Procedures read as follows (LawPundit has added emphasis where required and has also added the material in brackets in orange script to help in the explanation of the provisions):"Automatic Qualification, At-Large Eligibility and Selection Procedures, 2007-2010 GamesAutomatic Qualification1...

President-Elect Obama and the Battle for His BlackBerry : Keeping in Touch with People Outside of the Inner Circle at the White House

Posted on November 29, 2008
Obama is negotiating to have his BlackBerry returned, according to Molly McDonough at the ABA Journal Law News Now of Novebmer 26, 2008, citing to an ABC News interview with the Obamas by Barbara Walters.It seems that his BlackBerry had to be given up for security reasons, but that Obama finds he needs to be connected to the world outside of the "10 or 12 people who surround my office in the White House"...

Mirror mirror on the Wall, Who's the Best Team of them All? Not Alabama. Substantial Changes Need to be Made in the College Football Rating Systems

Posted on November 29, 2008
Not all is well in college football country as the football polls of the AP, USA Today, the Harris Poll and the BCS are wreaking havoc throughout the land. It is OK to follow such "polls" as long as one does not take them seriously. But really, who is truly best team in the land?Should an 11-0 Alabama team that has deftly slipped its way through a weak schedule be ranked Number One in the nation? No way - if we look at objective criteria...

A Useful Firefox Extension : URLbarExt Incorporates Some Time-Saving Features : Copy or Shorten a URL or Go to Home Root Page with One Click : & More

Posted on November 27, 2008
Via Shave Keystrokes Off Your Day With UrlbarExt at ReadWriteWeb we can confirm that UrlbarExt is a useful Mozilla Firefox extension.We quote from the Mozilla.org Firefox Add-ons webiste page about UrlbarExt:"UrlbarExt Extends Location Bar with set of icons to 1- Go up one level,or directly to the root of the current site(double click)...

Law Code of Hammurabi : Legal Principles Organized According to Calendration? : Evidence of Modernistic Trend Toward Separation of Church and State

Posted on November 26, 2008
N.S. Gill at About.com some time ago featured the Code of Hammurabi, one of the earliest legal codes.See Hammurabi's Code of Laws in the translation by L.W. King.As written at the Library of Congress in the Country Study of Iraq:"The Amorites established cities on the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and made Babylon, a town to the north, their capital...

THE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS and RANKINGS for the 2008 SEASON : After the 13th WEEK of Play

Posted on November 26, 2008
THE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS and RANKINGS for the 2008 SEASON(after the 13th week of play)THE YPPSYS DIVISION I-A FBS COLLEGE FOOTBALL RATINGS after Week 13 of play. NAYPPA (net average yards per play advantage) is calculated according to CFBSTATS...

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YPPSYS College Football Game Predictions and Results - 2008 Season - Week 14 - Week and Thanksgiving Weekend of Saturday, November 29, 2008

Posted on November 25, 2008
Last week we went 35-12 in calling the winner of the game and 26-19-2 against the point spread. Our record for the season is 592-187 in calling the winner and 282-259-9 against the spread. We are beating almost all systems listed at the College Football Prediction Tracker...

Welcome D3boards

Posted on November 24, 2008
We are getting quite a number of hits from d3boards.com, "Your Number One Source for Division III Sports Conversation."Welcome to LawPundit. Just plug in the search terms Mount Union or Larry Kehres in our website search box for some interesting D3 information...

Advertising Revenue and the Recession : The Changing Media Landscape

Posted on November 24, 2008
Erik Sass at MediaDailyNews reviews the development of total advertising revenue from the year 1950 to 2008 in light of the "reality" of the "predicted recession".Newspaper ad revenue has been declining linearly since 1950 and is now being overtaken by broadcast TV ad revenue, which is also falling...

In re Bilski : Patentable Subject Matter : Federal Circuit Overturns Pure Business Method Patents : Requires Machine Process / Physical Transformation

Posted on November 23, 2008
A LANDMARK DECISION IN US PATENT LAW : IN RE BILSKI (2008 WL 4757110 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 30, 2008) (en banc)). As written by Lewis R. Clayton of Paul | Weiss in his article ?Bilski?: Obtaining Business Method Patents Gets Harder in the New York Law Journal:"By a 9-3 vote, the en banc court affirmed the rejection of a business method patent application by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences...

Europeana the EU Multimillion-Euro Digital Library Crashes on Launch and Hopes to be Back by Mid-December in a More Robust Version

Posted on November 23, 2008
Not everything is as easy as it looks. On November 20, 2008 the European Union Digital Libraries Initiative launched Europeana, a multimillion-euro digital library intended as a friendly and cooperative European competitor to things like Google Book Search...

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