CLDC Re-Do Or More WECRD Doo Doo?!?!?!?!

Hobby needs a hobby. You always bring so much to this forum. Wind advisory. Put on those big boy pants and see where it takes you. With any luck, it will be Florida.

-- Posted by OpinionMissy on Fri, Oct 22, 2010, at 10:08 PM

Bandwagon effect

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The bandwagon effect, also known as the "cromo effect" and closely related to opportunism, is a phenomenon--observed primarily within the fields of microeconomics, political science, and behaviorism--that people often do and believe things merely because many other people do and believe the same things. The effect is often called herd instinct, though strictly speaking, this effect is not a result of herd instinct. The bandwagon effect is the reason for the bandwagon fallacy's success.

The bandwagon effect is well-documented in behavioral science and has many applications. The general rule is that conduct or beliefs spread among people, as fads and trends clearly do, with "the probability of any individual adopting it increasing with the proportion who have already done so".[1] As more people come to believe in something, others also "hop on the bandwagon" regardless of the underlying evidence. The tendency to follow the actions or beliefs of others can occur because individuals directly prefer to conform, or because individuals derive information from others. Both explanations have been used for evidence of conformity in psychological experiments. For example, social pressure has been used to explain Asch's conformity experiments,[2] and information has been used to explain Sherif's autokinetic experiment.[3]

When individuals make rational choices based on the information they receive from others, economists have proposed that information cascades can quickly form in which people decide to ignore their personal information signals and follow the behavior of others.[4] Cascades explain why behavior is fragile--people understand that they are based on very limited information. As a result, fads form easily but are also easily dislodged. Such informational effects have been used to explain political bandwagons.[5]

-- Posted by MrMister on Fri, Oct 22, 2010, at 9:47 PM

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team (the batting team) take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins.

Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game and the related rounders were brought by British and Irish immigrants to North America, where the modern version of baseball developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball on the professional, amateur, and youth levels is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. The game is sometimes referred to as hardball, in contrast to the derivative game of softball.

In North America, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL). Each league has three divisions: East, West, and Central. Every year, the major league champion is determined by playoffs that culminate in the World Series. Four teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus one wild card team. Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League; Cuba's West League and East League. In the National and Central leagues, the pitcher is required to bat, per the traditional rules. In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher. Each top-level team has a farm system of one or more minor league teams. These teams allow younger players to develop as they gain on-field experience against opponents with similar levels of skill.

-- Posted by MrMister on Fri, Oct 22, 2010, at 9:38 PM

The origin of golf is unclear and open to debate. Some historians[3] trace the sport back to the Roman game of paganica, in which participants used a bent stick to hit a stuffed leather ball. One theory asserts that paganica spread throughout Europe as the Romans conquered most of the continent, during the first century B.C., and eventually evolved into the modern game.[4] Others cite chuiwan ("chui" means striking and "wan" means small ball) as the progenitor, a Chinese game played between the eighth and 14th centuries.[5] A Ming Dynasty scroll dating back to 1368 entitled "The Autumn Banquet", shows a member of the Chinese Imperial court swinging what appears to be a golf club at a small ball with the aim of sinking it into a hole. The game is thought to have been introduced into Europe during the Middle Ages. Another early game that resembled modern golf was known as cambuca in England and chambot in France.[6] This game was, in turn, exported to the Low Countries, Germany, and England (where it was called pall-mall, pronounced "pell mell"). Some observers, however, believe that golf descended from the Persian game, chaugán. In addition, kolven (a game involving a ball and curved bats) was played annually in Loenen, Netherlands, beginning in 1297, to commemorate the capture of the assassin of Floris V, a year earlier.

The modern game originated in Scotland, where the first written record of golf is James II's banning of the game in 1457, as an unwelcome distraction to learning archery.[7]

Golf course

A model of the 17th hole of the TPC at Sawgrass Stadium Course.Main article: Golf course

A golf course consists of a series of holes, each with a teeing area that is set off by two markers showing the bounds of the legal tee area, fairway, rough and other hazards, and the putting green surrounded by the fringe with the pin (flagstick) and cup. Different levels of grass are varied to increase difficulty, or to allow for putting in the case of the green. While many holes are designed with a direct line-of-sight from the tee-off point to the green, some of the holes may bend, either to the left or to the right. This is called a "dogleg", in reference to a dog's knee. The hole is called a "dogleg left" if the hole angles leftwards and vice versa; sometimes, a hole's direction can bend twice and is called a "double dogleg". A typical golf course consists of 18 holes but nine hole courses are common and can be played twice through for 18 holes.[8][9]

Early Scottish golf courses were primarily laid out on links land, soil covered sand dunes directly inland from beaches.[10] This gave rise to the term golf links, particularly applied to seaside courses and those built on naturally sandy soil inland.

The very first 18 hole golf course in America was located on a sheep farm in Downers Grove, Illinois in 1892. The golf course is still situated there.[11]

How is a person who sits on the board of anything in the city using a lawyer that is family and they're getting our tax dollars...Sounds like a conflict of interest to me. You know the garbage that goes on in our small town never ceases to amaze me. The guard depot on Hot Creek road has a full size baseball field that they graciously said could be used for the children, but guess what??? The city will not allow it to be irrigated, but I sit on my back porch and watch pivots run day in day out on the dairy farms but we cannot water a ballfield for our children?? There is always conflict to use city facilities and the mayor and everybody else are just sitting on their thumbs instead of acting on it. Our community needs to come togather to get rid of the WECRD and take that money and build a sports complex with fields that can host soccer/football/baseball, with a concession stand. We need a indoor pool as bad as we need more tumbleweeds.. Give the kids a place to congregate on Saturdays as a family, not a city run babysitting facility that the proposed facility will surely turn into.

Wow do people really want Mountain Home to be a boring retiree town? There is nothing here for anybody. Nothing but a Golf Course that only the rich people in this town use. I drive by it everyday, I dont see kids using it. Do people really wonder why this town has a drug problem? Its cause there is nothing else to do. This town needs this Recreation Center, the town pool is a joke, and used as a daycare. The Youth Center in this town is joke, the skate park in this town is a joke. People think this town is a rodeo town, and its really not. When is this town really going to step up and do something, we dont even have a big enough high school to fit all the students. Why is it that when something that could help this town out a little bit gets stomped to the ground? This town doesnt need an 18 year old and up dance club, it needs a nice rec. center that every one can use.

Mel hit it on the head! Voters do what's right, vote Tuesday.

i will say this i was at the original meeting.........the changes that have been made to the original concept and plans turned into what i fought against then.......empire building......the idea has merit and the concept had potential but some of us knew that if the wrong people got there hands on it they would do exactly what they have.. build and empire for there own egos.......the town and its residents have payed the price for this one.....especially the children .put people there who are thinking about children,the community, and cost....if they are sincere they will solve this problem within the confines of what we can do not what we would dream of doing......but some where along the line there is a group who think they know what we should do.......and they do what they want without consulting.......i visited there office several times never could talk to anyone......they were never there.......why??????......$40.000.00 for a study?????????? WHO DID THEY TALK TO FOR THAT KINDA MONEY........WE COULD PAY FOR A JANITOR AND A MEDIATOR AND HAVE A MEETING AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND GET SOMETHING DONE FOR A LOT LESS